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Political outsiders running for president are making more noise than at any time in my memory. Is the stage being set for something to occur that is unlike anything any of us have ever seen? While my crystal ball may not yet be clear, I believe that if you think that this election cycle has been really different, “We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!”

Here’s the scenario: Donald Trump goes to the Republican convention in Cleveland with more delegates than any other candidate, but not enough to put him over the top.

The “establishment” Republicans refuse to give Trump the nomination. Trump, to avoid being called “a loser,” refuses to allow any of his rivals to beat him. Behind closed doors a deal is cut to nominate a non-candidate, either Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan. I think they’d go to Romney, but it could be someone else.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is indicted by the FBI on her email problem. The feeling is that she cannot win being under indictment. Hillary drops out of the race. Party insiders are scared to death that America will never elect a selfavowed socialist like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and that the country still doesn’t know former Maryland governor, Martin O’Malley so they, too, go to a non-candidate, either Joe Biden or John Kerry. I think they’d go to Biden.

While this scenario, in which both parties resort to nominating non-candidates, has never happened in American history, if it were ever to happen, I believe that the political landscape in today’s world is such that something this crazy could actually happen.

The last time the Republicans had a brokered convention was 1940, when the “secret kingmakers” went to work to undermine the overwhelming favorite, Thomas Dewey, who had gotten nearly 50 percent of the votes cast in the primaries over his three opponents. Through slick maneuvering and backdoor dealings they nominated Wendell Willkie, a lawyer who had never held office and had been a Democrat.

Willkie was one of Dewey’s three opponents but had not won one primary. It took six ballots but Willkie became the Republican nominee (John Gizzi, 2012).

Could a scenario even crazier than 1940 actually happen 76 years later? I believe that it’s more likely than anytime in our history.

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ON THE COVER 12 FOR THE LOVE OF EGGNOG Some people start drinking it from the moment it hits shelves in the fall, some sip one savory cup during the holiday season, and some don’t understand eggnog at all. The Hippo took a look at the history of eggnog, the myths that surround its safety and the fun things you can do to jazz up your cup — or your food.

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8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 CLASSICAL An operatic new year.

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NEWS & NOTES MPAL building

About two weeks after Building on Hope announced its plans to renovate the Michael Briggs Center, which houses the Manchester Police Athletic League, the city has signed off on a $500,000 bond to back a fundraising effort. The Union Leader reported MPAL and Building on Hope have already raised $130,000.

The 16,000-square-foot building needs upgrades to its electric and heating systems and new flooring appropriate for the boxing, judo and aikido programs offered, and a commercial kitchen is being considered.

The 80-year-old building, formerly St. Cecilia’s Social Hall, once belonged to the French-language St. Augustin Parish. MPAL moved in 1999 and now offers programs for about 8,600 at-risk youth living within one mile of the building.

of Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in April. Rice previously worked as a law professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and as a trial lawyer and a lawyer with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.

Ed funding

If a judge rules in favor of the City of Dover in a lawsuit claiming a growth cap on state education funding is unconstitutional, the legislature may have to turn up $10 million from the state’s operating budget. The Union Leader reported that while Dover is the only city suing the state, it is not the only community affected by the cap that will seek restitution.

Earlier this year, the Attorney General’s Office said it would argue against paying restitution but, in a controversial move, decided it would not defend the cap’s constitutionaliRice confirmed The full U.S. Senate has con- ty. Several bills retained from the last firmed the nomination of Emily session would bring this issue to a Gray Rice to the office of U.S. vote in the legislature.

Attorney for New Hampshire. Rice was recommended by Sen. Jeanne Northern Pass Shaheen, nominated by President The New Hampshire Site EvaluObama and supported by Sen. Kelly ation Committee formally accepted Ayotte. Rice steps in for acting U.S. the Northern Pass permit applicaAttorney Donald Feith, who has tion. The Union Leader reported this been in the role since John Kaca- begins the permitting process for the vas stepped down to take on the role power line project, which aims to GIFT GUIDE ADDITION The Hippo’s 2015 Gift Guide, published Dec. 10, inadvertently excluded the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley in our charitable giving story. Executive Director Susan Taylor provided us with the following information: Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley 56 Mont Vernon Street, Milford, 672-1002, svbgc.org What it’s all about: For over 20 years, the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley has served the young people in our community through its mission to enable young people to be great today and reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens tomorrow. The club serves about 900 kids from the towns of Amherst, Milford, Mont Vernon, Wilton and surrounding communities. It is the only Boys & Girls Clubs in New Hampshire with a professional theater and youth performing company. The club also provides before-school, after-school and vacation programs. Children participate in

homework help, arts and recreational enrichments, STEM programs, and service and leadership clubs. In addition, Community Action for Safe Teens provides alcohol and drug misuse prevention programs. Ages range from 3 to 18; the club also has a statelicensed preschool and kindergarten program, plus a teen center.

What monetary donations are used for: Scholarship assistance to ensure all children have access to club programs, annual gifts to support general operations, support for free snacks, homework help and tutoring, transportation and STEM programming. We are also seeking donations to support improvements for the Amato Center for the Performing Arts.

They could also use: Digital cameras, iPads and gifts cards to Michaels, Staples and Walmart to help with program supplies.

Other ways to help: Volunteer to usher at theater events, help with fundraising committees and art and recreational programs and provide homework help.

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bring hydroelectric power through the state from Canada. There will be five information sessions held, in each of the five counties affected by the project, over the course of the next 45 days, though dates have yet to be set. That’s in addition to public hearings that will take place over the next 90 days.

The Manchester Public Works director is waiving the city’s overnight winter parking ban (odd/even parking) from Wednesday, Dec. 23, through Sunday, Dec. 27.

CONCORD

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According to statistics released

by Eversource, the past year had the fewest power loss problems on record, following several years of severe outages from major precipitation events. The Union Leader reported power losses were less frequent and repaired more quickly than in each of the previous years tracked. Outage events appear to have decreased by 18 percent since 2012, while the time it takes to restore power has decreased by 26 percent. Eversource invested about $325 million in reliability upgrades in 2015. The company is replacing 3,000 distribution poles each year and aggressively trimming tree branches to prevent them from pulling down lines when weighed down with snow or ice.

N.H. saint?

A late Catholic servant with New Hampshire roots is one step closer to sainthood. CNA Daily News reported Pope Francis authorized the “Heroic Virtue” of Brother William Gagnon, giving him the title of Venerable. That’s the second of four steps toward his getting canonized.

Gagnon spent his life caring for the sick and wounded. After his death in 1972, many people visited his grave.

Gagnon was born in Dover.

The New Hampshire Safety Agency will reimburse the Derry police department more than $24,000 for hours spent performing DWI patrols. The Union Leader reported police have responded to 77 DWI incidents so far this year.

Hooksett Concerns were aired in Temple over the health effects of a proposed natural gas pipeline to be built and operated byGoffstown Kinder Morgan. The Union Leader reported health experts cited nosebleeds, headaches and vomiting among MANCHESTER children living within 1 mile of a compressor station.

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The much-anticipated Broad Street Milford Parkway opened in Nashua after decades of planning. The Union Leader reported the 1.8-mile roadway, which provides another crossing over the Nashua River, is expected to bring major development opportunities.

Lead petition

While advocates were able to supply the Environmental Protection Agency with an Internet petition of 20,000 names demanding Brady Sullivan Properties be held responsible for allegedly exposing residents to lead at its Mill West apartments in Manchester, only 200 signatures came from New Hampshire residents. The Union Leader reported the petition also

THE FIGHT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE The Granite State is getting a $400,000 grant to help combat domestic violence. The AP reported the grant, awarded by the Office of Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice, will be used specifically for the prosecution of domestic assault cases. New Hampshire will use the money to participate in a pilot program designed to strengthen law enforcement efforts to curb domestic violence, make offenders accountable and provide more supports for victims by partnering with service providers.

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asked the EPA to audit all the properties owned and operated by Brady Sullivan. It was delivered by Public Citizen, Clean Water Action and the New England Regional Council of Carpenters. Lawyers representing 40 tenants are suing Brady Sullivan for damages and a no-cost exit from their lease agreements due to lead exposure resulting from sandblasting operations in other floors of the building.

HOMELESSNESS IN NH A recent report by the New Hampshire Coalition to End Homelessness points to the link between high rents, low vacancies and homelessness in the Granite State. The Concord Monitor reported the number of homeless people counted statewide in January of this year had not changed from 2014. Merrimack County in particular appears to be struggling with homelessness, as it has a higher number of homeless people than Rockingham County, even though Rockingham has a larger population. This is despite a recent 19-percent decline in homelessness in Merrimack County over the past two years. Merrimack County also saw the highest increase in the percentage of total income spent on rent.

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Scheduled Secretary of State Bill Gardner officially set the date of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary to be Feb. 9, the AP reported. The timing is expected, given the lack of pressure from other states to push the date up, as had happened in years past.

Dem debate The Democratic presidential debate took place at Saint Anselm College in Manchester on Dec. 19. The discussion centered largely on national security. Hillary Clinton claimed that videos of Donald Trump’s statements advocating to keep Muslim refugees from entering the country had been used by ISIS recruiters. PolitiFact found that there was no evidence that had actually occurred, though experts have been quoted saying it is likely to happen. Sanders apologized for the unauthorized access his campaign allegedly exploited to view Clinton’s voter information database and said he would fire any staff responsible.

Graham drops out Wrapping up a marathon retail politics campaign, with the most days in New Hampshire of any candidate (63, according to WMUR), South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has decided to throw in the towel. The hawkish foreign policy of the senator has been central to his campaign message. In a video announcing the decision, Graham said his campaign made “enormous progress” in the effort to curb the tide of isolationism he says is rising in the Republican party. Though frequently seen campaigning with former Republican presidential nominee John McCain, Graham failed to improve his poll numbers, which languished at or below 1 percent.

Bernie endorsements Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has gained the endorsement of the Communication Workers of America and Democracy for America.

The CWA, a union with 700,000 members, called Sanders’ ideas “real solutions” to make the economy fair again, according to the Union Leader. Democracy for America is a grassroots organization founded by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

Christie bus tour In a final push to gain ground among New Hampshire voters in the seven weeks ahead of primary day, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie launched a bus tour on Dec. 19 in Exeter. The Union Leader reported 300 people attended the kickoff event, including about 120 from New Jersey. Meanwhile, NPR reported the super PAC that supports Christie, America Leads, has been collecting data from people attending campaign events, including events for his Republican opponents. They do this through Facebook ads and links to “check in” to an event.

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Rand Paul is serving the end of his first term as a U.S. Senator from Kentucky. He’s the son of former Texas Congressman Ron Paul and an eye doctor. Paul is running for reelection in the Senate at the same time he runs for president of the United States. He spoke to the Hippo in his Manchester campaign office on Oct. 16.

What concerns have you heard from New Hampshire people the most?

We do hear about the heroin problem. We have the same sort of news being reported in KenPhoto by Ryan Lessard. tucky as well, particularly in northern Kentucky. One of the bills that I’ve signed on to ... is allowing doctors to see more addicts. Like so many things in government, there’s some stupid rule that says a doctor can only see 100 addicts. There aren’t that many doctors who want to be seeing addicts to begin with. I’ve signed onto this bill with [Sen.] Ed Markey from Massachusetts that would allow doctors to see more, nurse practitioners to see more and also trained health professionals that are interested in substance abuse to see more addicts. Also, I think that incarceration is not really the answer to most drug problems. I’d rather see rehabilitation. There’s a ton of money in the incarceration business that some of it could be spent on rehabilitation and I think we’d still save money.

In New Hampshire it seems that voters have not coalesced behind you as much as they did with your dad, Ron Paul, in 2012. Why do you think that is?

Well, it’s a different race. There are more candidates. And there’s currently, I guess, more of a celebrity skew to it. You know, you got, in a recent poll Trump getting 30, 32 percent. And I think that skewed the race in a way that the previous races weren’t skewed.

I do think that the polls — and a lot people don’t look at the details of these polls — but still most of these polls are polls of undecided people. So when they ask, and they have 200 people who are in that poll, one of the questions they ask them is have they decided who they are voting for, and I still think it’s only like 15 percent of the people in the actual poll have decided. So then they ask them, if they’re undecided, who would you vote for if you were to make a choice? So these are polls of undecided people who are being pushed to make a choice. And they’re like ‘Oh, Trump.

I see him non-stop on the news all day long.’

I don’t think people have fully settled in. …

Now, if these were the polls in January, that’s really, really a problem.

With which Republican candidate are you furthest apart on policy or ideology?

I think a better way to put it is, as far as drawing differences, I think I’m the only conservative in the race. How can I say that? I think to be conservative you have to conserve all spending. If you are conservative only on domestic welfare and domestic spending but you’re liberal with military spending, you’re not really a conservative, you’re just conservative with some spending and liberal with other spending. Same goes for the reverse. …

So I would argue that there’s no one in the race that’s truly a conservative across the board, other than myself. … I’m also different in the sense that I don’t want the government to collect your phone records, I don’t want the government to put you in jail for marijuana and I don’t want the government to send you to another war in the Middle East. I think those are unique enough that they will allow me to stand out over time.

Is there one candidate that comes to mind as being the least conservative of the pack?

No, I think that there’s, in all of them, a certain semblance of the, ‘They’re conservative with domestic spending but not conservative with military spending.’

I’d say that would apply to all of them.

we’re on TV as much as we can [be], we travel the state to try to meet voters one on one. We’re trying to meet everyone in New Hampshire like 10 times. … We do a lot of retail politics. I bet you I’ve been to 20 or 30 cities in New Hampshire.

You’re a doctor and you’ve given a lot of your time to service low income people.

If Obamacare is successfully repealed, what specific plan would you put in place to make sure that healthcare is affordable to low-income people?

The first thing I’d do, whether we repeal Obamacare or not, is I would legalize the sale of inexpensive insurance. A lot people don’t realize this, but that’s one of the things Obamacare did, is they made it illegal to sell inexpensive insurance. … I would encourage health savings accounts, which is an expansion of the tax-free accounts that you can set up. … Then, what do you have? You have a marketplace. Right now, nobody cares about the price of anything because your insurance covers it.

I think I’m the only conservative in the race. ... I think to be conservative you have to conserve all spending.

Your communication strategy does a lot with online platforms like Vine and Snapchat and other things that appear to be appealing to younger voters. What are you doing to appeal to older voters, which are a big chunk of New Hampshire?

Our big strategy, and we just thought of this about an hour ago, is the smiling emojis. I think that’s gonna be big. If we can just get more smiling emojis out there. … No, but I think that … you’re right, different age groups are watching and gathering their news from different areas. We’ve tried very hard to have our message out there for younger people. …

I think that, as far as getting to other folks,

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What is something odd about running for president that you think most people don’t realize?

Just how much fun it is and how we’re smiling all the time.

I’m sensing sarcasm here.

Haha, good, good. No, I guess, I don’t know. It’s not really that glamorous. A lot of time [is spent] in airports and in cars.

But there are moments that shine through on it. I think most people don’t do it because they love the process of it. I think they are, most people, looking to fix some sort of problem they think the country has or trying to do something better that’s not being done now. I think there are some people who do it just for a career kind of thing, but I already have my career and I’m doing it because I think something’s broken that needs to be fixed.

— Ryan Lessard This interview was edited and condensed.

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What was it like being born and raised in Syria?

I love Syria. ... [But] like any other place in the world, it has difficulties. ... I grew up there and I went all around the Middle East. ... I enjoyed being there more than I enjoyed being anywhere else. ... Economically, Syria’s condition has always been tough ... because of population increase, economic sanctions and corruption and lack of governmental development.

Culturally, people are more into work and business. They love their country and they love enjoying life. ... Syria has its own shape of diversity. There’s many cultures. ... It mostly comes from different religions. You can see that every block is different. ... I grew up in Damascus mostly. ... The culture there is really unique and I’ve always found it fascinating. ... I mean, my partner is Christian, for example. It’s not like there’s a separation in the community, because our common culture is very similar. We’re Syrians and we speak the same language at the end of the day.

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What do you think about the position some Republican candidates for president, and Gov. Maggie Hassan, have taken to block the entry of Syrian refugees? And some who have called for accepting Christians and not Muslims?

When you talk about religion, as a Syrian, I feel for everybody. Whether they’re Christian [or not], I have all different friends. If something happened to any of them, it would hurt me. All of my friends now are out of the country. They are from different religions, different sects of Islam. It’s really a big mistake to view this whole issue from a religious perspective. … It’s sad to hear that. … [Extremists in Syria] have arisen from ignorance, I think, but that doesn’t mean the whole Muslim community agrees with that. … But talking about other politicians who are thinking of this as a matter of threat, I think particularly the United States has a [stricter] security process for refugees. I mean, first of all, refugees are not coming to the United States the same way they’re coming to Europe, which is what caused extremists to flow through refugees.

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If you had a chance to talk to a candidate like Donald Trump in an elevator, what would you tell him?

I would ... say, “Hello, my name is Ahmad.

I am a Muslim and I love you. I’m not going to kill you. I’m not a terrorist.” [The political rhetoric is] really unfortunate. … I don’t like taking sides. At the end of the day, I’m a business owner. It’s just sad what they think of us. They should know more about us so they can have better judgment about Syrians, about Muslims. I mean, honestly, we Muslims suffer from the acts of the terrorists I think more than any others. Just the other day, there was a bomb [that destroyed] Syrian homes. Those people are also suffering. They’re Muslims as well. As a Muslim, I don’t think ISIS is a Muslim group. I think they’re just criminals. I hate to call them Muslims. People should understand, we strongly disagree with what they do.

Has a Syrian community already taken root in New Hampshire?

I’ve heard that there is a family or two... but I haven’t met any. I have been working and working. I also go to college, so my time is very limited to be out there.

Do you think New Hampshire would be a good place to host a Syrian community?

Why not? I find it a wonderful place and I was able to do what I’m doing now. It’s been great. I think adding more diversity to the community would help in one way or another.

What’s something unique about Syrian culture that Americans may not know?

At the end of the day we’re all very similar.

We come together for food. We come together for celebrations. … Everybody ... you talk to today, they view Syria from a conflict perspective. But just average people would probably present a different picture.

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QOL Score: -1 Comment: About 10 percent of cities nationwide had perfect scores, including St. Louis, Dallas and Louisville.

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According to the monthly report released by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, 2015 is shaping up to be a booming sales year for homes. The Union Leader reported sales of single-family homes and condos are expected to be as good as they were in 2006. There was a 10.5-percent increase over 2014 with a total of 1,137 sales. Analysts report that future sales growth will be tempered by increasing mortgage rates and there is still concern over inventory and affordability. The median price of the homes sold was $233,975, which is 3 percent higher than last year.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S LONGSHOTS

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With the big day on Friday, it’s time for our annual handing out of Christmas presents to deserving folks in the sports world. But first we’ll start with who gets coal in the stocking: Roger Goodell: For following up his callous handling of the Ray Rice and Greg Hardy domestic violence disasters with the dishonesty and shabby tactics that turned Deflate-gate into a far greater fiasco thancards. it should have been, comically customer. Offer expires 11/29/14. No credit trying to convince everyone that daily fanr, NH (Next to city hall) | 625-8442 | 800-457-6539 | PearsonsJewelry.com tasy sports betting isn’t gambling because they’re dropping huge coin with NFL teams and the TV networks, and then doing little about the refereeing nightmare in the NFL. Greg Hardy: To paraphrase Dean Wormer, dangerous, unlikable and clueer expires 11/29/14. No credit cards. less about what you did to your fiancée and how you acted about in the aftermath all) | 625-8442 | 800-457-6539 | PearsonsJewelry.com is no way to go through life, son.

Colts GM (for now) Ryan Grigson: A little backbone to settle a problem directly rather than tattling to the teacher, which will help when you’re out looking for a job after getting bounced in two weeks.

Johnny Manziel: A course in the lives of Ryan Leaf, Roy Tarpley, Vince Young, because like you they were in position to One per customer. have it all but let it slip away because they Offer good for either were bad guys, thought they were Thursday, December 24th better than they were, or were too dumb to see what they were blowing.

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LeBron James: A pat on the back for a job well done for the thrill given to 17-year-old cerebral palsy-stricken Aaron Miller via handshake and head rub when the Cavs were at the Garden last week, when he was being honored by the C’s as a “Hero Among Us.” Pete Rose: A change in him to overcome whatever demons have prevented him from coming clean about everything he did and an ability to show real remorse for those sins before he passes on, because Pete the player earned it and it’s obvious Pete the guy would deeply relish the honor of going into the Hall.

Barry Bonds: I get why you might not like the press, but a little humility this time around in your second chance as hitting coach in Miami.

Potential Famers in the Steroid Era: To learn from Rose you have to take your lumps if you did it rather than slide by while Bonds, McGwire and Clemens take the rap for everyone. People respect honesty and contrition and maybe that’ll provide some clarity to voters that since almost everyone was doing it the playing field was more level than they think.

Bill Parcells: A softening among vengeful voters, because even with the border war sins he’s the guy who changed it all around here. Plus if he doesn’t get hired Bob Kraft doesn’t get tight with Bill Belichick and thus after the flunk-out in Cleveland he most likely isn’t the one to replace Pete Carrol, thus no dynasty. So Tuna belongs in the Patriots Hall of Fame.

Jordan Spieth: A free pass to the new Star Wars movie so that, unlike a past precocious champ who became really Now for the presents: Tom Brady: A healthier offensive line unlikeable as he evolved into a golf superbecause amid the recent chaos in the star for the ages, you understand how best trenches he’s been getting croaked lately, to use your force for good instead of for

building an evil empire.

American Pharoah: Enjoyment in a life almost every American sports-loving guy dreams about as you go out to stud in retirement.

Abby Wambach: I’m not qualified to pick the greatest U.S. women’s soccer player, but with two World Cups, Olympic gold and an all-time record 184 goals in international play she’s got to be on the short list. So with all due respect to Serena Williams’ great year, a recount in the SI Sportsperson of the Year so Abby gets it for her lifetime achievements as both player and force in the continued growth of women’s sports as she goes into retirement.

Celtic Nation: A little luck in the lottery finally where the Brooklyn pick turns up first overall so they can take the player being hyped as the next LeBron James, or is it Magic Johnson?, LSU 6’10” freshman from Down Under with point guard skills Ben Simmons.

The Carolina Panthers: The courage not to listen to the cowards whining from under the desk about injuries and the Super Bowl being the only goal. Along with the wisdom to know the SB’s been won 49 times already, no one’s ever gone 19-0 and to follow the path of Coach B, who went for it, and Tom Coughlin, who tried to prevent it in 2007 with no benefit for his team, because chasing greatness is admirable and when you’re staring history in the face you have to go for it.

Malcolm Butler: Another moment like one that saved the 2015 Super Bowl, because who around here doesn’t want another Super Bowl title? OK, that’s actually a gift for Patriots Nation, but it wouldn’t hurt Malcom’s rep either, though admittedly it wouldn’t do much for Carolina’s aforementioned quest.

Happy holidays to all.

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Bedford beats Londonderry It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over Game of the Week: First Bedford led 22-4 after one quarter. Then, after going to a full court press led to a 22-8 third period, Londonderry surged back into the game — which was sent into OT on a shot by a Cam Reddy. The Lancers got their first lead at 57-56 on a Jake Coleman three but they didn’t score again while Bedford made four clutch free throws down the stretch to win 60-57. Coleman and Bedford’s Colby Gendron each had 20 points, while the 6’7” Gendron had 12 boards as well.

Sports 101: Name the only player in NFL history with at least 60 interceptions and 20 sacks.

Bragging Rights Game of the Week: Go for now to Bedford in their rivalry with Londonderry. They earned them after turning to their stingy defense for a third straight game to hold the Lancers to 8 points over the last 11 minutes as they scored 28. It added up to a 45-32 win as Bri Purcell and Jenoyce Laniyan led the offense with nine points apiece.

Triple Threat of the Week: To Trinity’s Maddy Haynes, who followed up Tues-

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3 – goals from Justin Pearson, whose hat trick led the way for BG in a dominating 8-1 hockey win over Central.

5 – goals scored in a six-minute third-period explosion by Pinkerton in its hockey opener as Brandon Banks got the first one and was followed in short order by two from Shamus Doherty and one each

day’s 15-point, six-rebound, three-steal submission in a 54-29 win over Concord with a 16-point, four-board, five-assist and four-steal effort when the Pioneers took out Exeter 58-48.

Nick of Time Award: To Memorial’s Zach Pelletier, who, after having the game-winning score called off by the refs, got the real game-winner with 11 seconds left with his first career penalty shot to give the Crusaders a 2-1 win over Hanover at JFK, when he had the first Memorial goal as well.

Sports 101 Answer: The only player with 60 picks and 20 sacks is the soon-to-retireafter-18-seasons Charles Woodson.

On This Date – Dec. 24: 1914 – Jacob Ruppert purchases the Yankees for the then shocking price of $460,000. 1967 – Bart Starr sneaks in for the winning score on the frozen tundra in Green Bay with time running down and no timeouts left in their famous 21-17 “Ice Bowl” win over Dallas that sent the Pack to the first ever Super Bowl. 1972 – Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash on a humanitarian mission to earthquake-shattered Nicaragua.

from Eddie Welch and Nick Trask.

21 – points scored when Abbey (was in the Gym) Morrison to light Memorial’s fire in a 50-40 win over Salem when Melanie Presseau and Ashley Mathieu-LaFrance added 12 each to help the Crusaders cause.

34 – game-high points from Nate Hall as he led Nashua North to a thrilling

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75-73 win over Salem in OT. 38 – high point game in NHIAA action during the opening week for Concord’s Matt Giroux in a 71-53 losing effort to Bishop Guertin.

104 – consecutive game unbeaten streak (91-0-13) that ended for the U.S. women on Wednesday in New Orleans when they lost 1-0 to China in Abby Wambach’s final game on the national team.

Dean Wormer: Dean at Faber College and nemesis of Delta House fraternity in the classic 1978 college film farce Animal House.

Next Four Best Animal House Quotes: (1) After the Delts are kicked off campus by Wormer, Bluto says, “Oh, no — seven years of college down the drain.” (2) Otter says to Flounder after they wreck his brother’s Lincoln on the road trip, “ You [expletive] up — you trusted us.” (3) D-Day says, “The war’s over, Wormer dropped the bomb,” (4) to which Bluto says, “Over! Was it over after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

The Pete Rose Dishonesty Trail: First he said he didn’t bet on baseball while manager of the Reds — but then he accepted a lifetime suspension anyway. Which the Giamatti camp said was because they had him dead to rights. Then he admitted he did bet on baseball 10 years later. Why? Because he needed to juice sales for a new book — but that was it. Now ESPN said on Outside the Lines that he bet on baseball while playing for the Reds.

Arthur Ashe: Winner of 33 tennis titles worldwide and the first African-American male named to the Davis Cup team. He’s also the AA male winner at Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens. He was a crusader on the front line during the U.S. civil rights struggle during the ’60s and worldwide against South African apartheid in the ’80s. He died of AIDS in 1993 contracted from tainted blood in a transfusion after earlier heart surgery.

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How to add extra oomph to the holiday drink

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Eggnog is only available for a short time — normally from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Eve — so you’d best get it while you can.

True Brew Barista owner Stephanie Zinser thinks it’s a nice holiday treat.

“Because eggnog is thicker than regular milk, or even heavy cream, it’s a special drink, not really something you’d have every day. But it’s delicious, and it reminds you of the holidays,” Zinser said via phone.

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ommends using delicate flavors — vanilla, caramel and toffee.

“We thought about offering a mocha eggnog, but [the dark chocolate] seemed to take away from the flavor of the eggnog,” Simple Eggnog Courtesy of Peaches and Jeffrey Paige at Cotton Restaurant 2 organic yellow eggs 1 cup milk ½ cup heavy cream ¼ cup sugar Pinch Kosher salt ¼ cup brandy (optional) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Freshly grated nutmeg to taste

Zinser said. “We also tried to add coconut to it, but it was too overwhelming.”

The exception to Zinser’s rule is coffee.

For simpler tastes, she likes to add a fresh shot of espresso to steamed eggnog, which In a stainless steel mixing bowl, whisk the yolks until pale yellow. Stir in the milk, heavy cream, sugar, kosher salt and brandy (optional). Place the bowl over a saucepan of low simmering water. Cook the mixture, stirring often, until mixture reaches 160 degrees. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla, and season with freshly grated nutmeg. Place mixture in a bowl filled with ice water (ice bath) to cool, stirring often.

Refrigerate and serve within 2 days. Yields approximately 1½ cups.

is “thick and delicious and wonderful,” she said.

This is easier to do if you have latte and espresso makers at home, but she said you could also make it by warming eggnog in a pan and mixing it with regular coffee (though she prefers espresso because the flavor’s more dense and the eggnog’s so thick).

Rookies should be careful not to overcook. Remember, there’s egg in there.

“You have to be careful not to heat it too much or your eggs will start to congeal,” Zinser said.

If you decide to heat it via microwave, do so in short intervals to ensure it doesn’t get too hot.

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3 ounces eggnog - See recipe on p. 12 sprinkle of cinnamon on top

2 ounces bourbon or spiced rum

You can serve this on the rocks or straight up in a martini glass.

Spiked eggnog Courtesy of True Brew Barista 2 ounces espresso 8 ounces eggnog - See recipe on p. 12

1½ ounces whiskey Warm eggnog on the stove and make coffee (espresso) separately. Then mix all three together.

Vanilla Eggnog Shake From the kitchen of Susan McLean 2 cups French vanilla ice cream 1 cup eggnog

A couple of candy canes, crushed for rim (For an adult version, add a shot of Bailey’s, Fireball, bourbon, brandy or rum)

Peppermint Eggnog Shake From the kitchen of Susan McLean 2 cups French vanilla ice cream 1 cup eggnog

1 teaspoon peppermint extract A couple of candy canes, crushed for rim (For an adult version, replace extract with peppermint liqueur)

Cappuccino Latte Eggnog Shake From the kitchen of Susan McLean 2 cups coffee gelato 1 cup eggnog About ¼ cup crushed dark chocolate espresso beans or hazelnuts, for rim (For an adult version, add a shot of Bailey’s or Kahlua) In blender, whip ice cream, eggnog and

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“Vodka is pretty much a clean slate, and that’s why people love vodka — because it will taste like whatever you’re mixing it with … but it has nothing to complement the eggnog. It will just dilute the taste of it,” Paige said.

For better flavors, go for local, fresh ingredients, especially if you’re making the eggnog yourself.

“It definitely has a shelf life. The fresher it is, the better, just like with anything else,” Paige said.

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Cotton eggnog Courtesy of Peaches and Jeffrey Paige at Cotton Restaurant

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“It’s pretty high in calories compared to what we normally do, so it’s definitely not for the person who doesn’t like it super sweet,” Zinser said.

Monica Poulin, who works at Republic Cafe, recommends pairing eggnog with things like kahlua, pineapple-infused vodka or maple syrup, while Peaches Paige from Cotton Restaurant recommends putting it with flavors that already exist within the drink, like cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg. She especially likes it with Cotton’s custom blend bourbon, created in Versailles, Kentucky.

“Our bourbon in particular has vanilla notes, some orange notes. [The flavor] is almost like a cookie dough — really fun, buttery,” Paige said.

Darker spirits in general, she said, have hints of vanilla, like Captain Morgan, Gosling’s Rum or whiskey. She also said to think about what recipes use eggs, and to go after those notes.

“Eggs are something you use in cooking and baking, so when you think about eggs and the flavor eggs have … you think of baking pie and cookies,” Paige said.

She said to be wary of the lighter spirits, gin especially, which has botanicals you wouldn’t want to pair with eggnog. Paige also advises against combining it with most

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From humble roots to luxury and back to common again

By Ryan Lessard

news@hippopress.com

Eggnog, a drink that owes its origins to common folk living in medieval Britain, has had many iterations both in its homeland and in North America over the centuries.

Formerly known as posset

Associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire Nicoletta Gullace says the first known versions of eggnog appeared as far back as 900 years ago.

“It was a milky drink called a ‘posset’ that was popular in the middle ages,” Gullace said. “It was hot milk mixed with ale or wine of some sort.”

It was started in East Anglia, and Gullace said that around the 1200s or 1300s, monks began to add egg to the mixture in order to lend the drink its frothy texture.

It’s believed the drink was common among regular, working peasants, though it’s unclear how often they could have afforded it.

A few hundred years later, eggnog’s status took a dramatic turn.

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“Where it started to become really popular and take its modern form was in the 1600s, where they mixed milk and eggs not just with ale but with more expensive kinds of alcohol. That actually helped preserve the milk and the eggs in the days before refrigeration,” Gullace said.

The drink then became an aristocratic mainstay among the landowning classes.

And as lords required more and more agricultural produce from their increasingly dependent peasants, eggs and milk became luxury items for commoners.

“It really became a sort of fancy beverage at that period of time,” Gullace said.

Lords and kings would add expensive spices imported from the East like nutmeg and cinnamon.

“It was known not as eggnog but as ‘egg flip,’ because it was poured from one jug to another to get that kind of frothiness in it,” Gullace said. “It was a recipe very similar to the recipe for custard, but the alcohol would have prevented it from setting.”

Commoners could create cheaper versions of the drink using bread as a thickener instead of egg, and the most luxurious possets would have milk, cream and sugar.

While it was easily available to the wealthy, the preservative nature of the alcohol probably made it a drink consumed year-round rather than on a seasonal basis.

Emancipated eggs

The next major shift in the storied past of eggnog occurs during the colonial era of North America.

“When eggnog arrived in the American colonies in the 1700s, it was democratized because lots of family farms had milk and eggs, and these weren’t the sort of luxury items they were in Britain,” Gullace said.

Not only were the eggs and milk more plentiful and accessible, but there was a change in the type of liquor used.

“In the colonies, they started mixing it with rum, instead of expensive things like madeira and brandy,” Gullace said.

Like milk, rum was plentiful in the colonies. This however, reveals the dark side of American eggnog. The availability of rum, produced mainly in the Caribbean, was the byproduct of the infamous “Triangular Trade” between Western Europe, Africa and the Americas. In other words, the shipping of rum north to places like

Boston or Portsmouth was part and parcel of the slave trade.

Still, eggnog was not attached in the cultural psyche to Christmas.

“People drank this pretty regularly. Not as a seasonal drink but as a year-round drink, until the time of the American Revolution,” Gullace said.

During the Revolutionary War, rum grew more scarce due to the British presence in the colonies, Gullace said. But, ever the enterprising booze-drinkers, Americans improvised.

“Americans started sneaking moonshine into their eggnog,” Gullace said.

But they couldn’t produce as much moonshine. Others replaced rum with whiskey.

There is evidence that Americans during this time were pretty loose with what types of liquor could go in eggnog. Even George Washington had an eggnog recipe, which included several types of liquor.

“Apparently, he served it up at Mount Vernon and it not only had eggs and cream, but brandy, rye whiskey, rum and sherry in it,” Gullace said.

Washington’s eggnog is believed to have

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Christmas tradition was being violated, so they sneaked whiskey across the Hudson river to put in their eggnog,” Gullace said.

About 70 cadets were implicated, including Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederate States of America, and about 20 were court-martialed.

In a name

The name ‘eggnog’ is a matter of much debate among historians, according to Gullace.

Some believe that the “nog” in eggnog comes from the word “noggin.”

“Apparently, noggin was the wooden cup that people used to drink alcoholic beverages, so one theory is that it was an egg drunk out of a nog, thus eggnog,” Gullace said.

Others think that’s just a coincidence.

“I think that maybe a more plausible explanation is that ‘grog’ was a slang word for rum in the American colonies so it was ‘egg grog’ that gradually evolved into eggnog,” Gullace said.

Bring holiday flavor to your food

By Allie Ginwala

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It’s Christmas morning and although you’ve indulged in candy canes, hot cocoa and sugar cookies galore, you still want to keep the holiday spirit going. You look in the fridge and spot a partially empty carton of eggnog. Drinking a glass at breakfast may be a bit much — but you could pour it into a batch of French toast. That’s exactly how Susan McLean, blogger at laptop2tabletop.com, started cooking with eggnog.

“It was breakfast, [I] needed something festive, and that seemed to bring that festive flavor to traditional French toast,” she Savory eggnog French toast bake From the kitchen of Susan McLean ½ Vidalia onion, chopped 1-2 tablespoons butter 6 eggs 2 cups eggnog 2 tablespoons honey mustard 1 cup chopped ham 1 loaf French or challah bread (depending on size of baking dish, up to two loaves of French bread may be used) 1½ cups shredded Gruyère (or other good melting cheese, like Fontina) Freshly ground sea salt and black pepper Spray shallow 1½ quart baking dish. In sauté pan, melt butter and cook onion until softened, about 5 minutes. Set aside. In mixing bowl, whisk eggs, eggnog, mustard

said in a phone interview. “It was so simple. [I] just replaced the milk, added a little cinnamon.”

Cooking with eggnog is easy — if a recipe calls for milk just replace it with the same amount of eggnog, McLean said.

Since basic eggnog recipes consist of eggs, cream or milk, and sugar, it’s a well-suited alternative.

“I would stick with the eggnog as a liquid to get the real flavor,” she said.

Thus far McLean has only used premade eggnog in her recipes and hasn’t altered the cooking times or noticed any changes in the finished dishes.

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Arrange half of bread in bottom of prepared baking dish, overlapping slices to fit. Sprinkle with ham. Pour half of egg mixture over bread. Sprinkle about 1 cup cheese over egg mixture. Layer remaining bread and pour remaining egg mixture on top. Gently press down so bread slices absorb egg mixture. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Season with salt and pepper.

Cover and refrigerate overnight. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove cover and bake about 1 hour, or until golden. At about 45 minutes, check by inserting knife in center; it should come out clean. If not done, and if top is browning quickly, cover with foil and cook about 15 minutes. You don’t want to burn the top. Remove from oven and let sit about 10 minutes to allow custard to set.

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Still, the war changed how often the drink was consumed.

“Historians believe it was around that time it becomes a seasonal drink, just because it’s harder to get all of the ingredients, it’s more of a treat and it has to be limited more,” Gullace said.

She says historians suspect Americans began attaching eggnog to the Christmas season around the late 1700s to the early 1800s.

The clearest evidence of this occurred in 1826 at the United States Military Academy at West Point during what was later termed the Eggnog Riot. It was really more of a drunken party among cadets, but scandalized by the fact that alcohol was made illegal on school grounds by superintendent Sylvanus Thayer.

The prohibition threw a wrench in the works of a planned Christmas party, which at the time necessitated the consumption of eggnog.

“The West Point cadets felt that their

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10 common beliefs about eggnog safety explained safe to drink.

Fact: “The eggnog you buy in the store is pasteurized, which means the eggs used were heated to 160 degrees, and that heat kills the salmonella. There’s no danger if it’s been pasteurized.”

By Angie Sykeny

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You’re at a family holiday gathering when someone hands you a cup of “grandma’s famous eggnog,” and you can’t help but wonder: Is this safe to drink? With reports of salmonella outbreaks and food experts urging people not to consume raw eggs, how is a beverage with raw egg as a primary ingredient OK? The Hippo talked with Alice Mullen, a Food Safety Field Specialist with UNH Cooperative Extension, to set the record straight on 10 common beliefs about salmonella and eggnog safety, and to share tips for enjoying this favorite seasonal treat without risking a trip to the hospital.

Fact or Myth?

It is possible to get salmonella poisoning from eggnog.

Fact: “Many eggnog recipes are made with raw eggs, which can be a source of salmonella enteritidis, a bacteria that causes foodborne illness [associated with] nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and sometimes fever. It’s definitely something you

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You can make your own safe-todrink eggnog at home.

Fact: “If somebody wants to make eggnog the traditional way with their own eggs … they can do a [pasteurized] recipe. Basically, you take an egg/milk mixture, heat it to 160 degrees and stir continuously [so] the eggs [don’t] curdle. The biggest thing is to use a food thermometer to make sure it reaches 160 degrees. … And remember, whenever you’re handling raw eggs, always wash your hands with hot, soapy water, and keep your kitchen nice and clean.” don’t want to have around, and it can really ruin your holiday.”

A considerable number of people get salmonella poisoning from eggnog each year.

Myth: “I don’t think it’s quite as common nowadays because there are so many commercial brands of eggnog available,

so most people just purchase their eggnog [as opposed to making their own]. But it certainly can happen. The USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] advises everyone to not eat raw eggs or food that contains raw eggs, and that’s the way eggnog is traditionally made.”

Eggnog from the grocery store is

Sterilizing the outside of an egg will ensure it’s salmonella-free.

Myth: “Eggs from the grocery store are required by law to be washed and sanitized, but salmonella can also be transferred from the hen right to the inside of the egg through the reproductive system before the shell is even formed around the yolk and white.”

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Myth: “It doesn’t matter if they are organic or cage-free or commercially raised, the chance is still there. It exists inside the chickens and their intestinal tracts… and it doesn’t make [them] sick, so you don’t know if it’s there or not.”

Eggnog opened after the “sell by” date can still be OK to drink.

Fact: “The date on the carton for any kind of dairy product is the latest date the store can actually sell it. It doesn’t mean the product goes bad or becomes sour after that date. Milk products usually last about a week after the ‘sell by’ date. … The recommended shelf life for commercial eggnog is two to five days [after opening]. If you make your own eggnog and have leftovers, put some kind of cover on it or put it in a tupperware container, keep it refrigerated at 40 degrees or lower and drink it within two to four days.”

Pregnant women, young children and the elderly should not drink eggnog.

Safe-to-drink homemade eggnog From the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service 1 quart of 2-percent milk 6 eggs ¼ teaspoon of salt ½ cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1 cup of whipping cream, whipped ground nutmeg Heat milk in large saucepan until hot (do not boil or scald). While milk is heating, beat together eggs and salt in a large bowl, gradually adding sugar.

15 she said. “I haven't braved making my own, but I’m going to try.”

When deciding what dish to add a little eggnog to, it makes sense to think of the sweet side of the spectrum first.

“Eggnog has a sugar content to it that automatically lends itself to being incorporated into sweet dishes,” she said, noting that it would be good for crepes, pancakes, frozen shakes, banana bread, ice cream and panna cotta.

However, it can also add a nice twist in the flavor profile of a savory dishes like a bread pudding with sausage or bacon, complementing the saltiness.

“One of the farmers from the Salem farmers market has a sea salt and sage sausage,” McLean said. “[Adding] that will change the dish to be so savory, and then toss in some cheese and that will create a more fulfilling dish [with] a nice green salad on the side.”

Keep in mind that cinnamon and nutmeg

Myth: “As long as it’s pasteurized, it’s safe to drink. Young children, older adults and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to salmonella infection, so if those types of people are coming to your family party, that’s definitely more reason not to serve [unpasteurized] raw-egg eggnog.”

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Adding alcohol to eggnog will kill any salmonella bacteria it may contain.

Myth: “Alcohol can kill some types of bacteria, but unfortunately, it does not kill salmonella. The only thing that will kill salmonella is heat.”

If you have an unfinished glass of eggnog or eggnog that has been sitting out for a while, it’s best to just throw it away.

Fact: “When you drink any kind of beverage, your saliva bacteria gets into it, and if eggnog is left out at room temperature, that increases the chance of bacteria and foodborne illness, so just pour a fresh cup.

If you [put out] a punchbowl of eggnog at a party, only fill it halfway and replenish it with cold eggnog [as it runs out]. If it’s been more than two hours and there’s still eggnog left, throw it out.”

Gradually add the hot milk mixture to the egg mixture while continually stirring.

Transfer the mixture back to the large saucepan and cook on medium-low heat.

Stir constantly with a whisk until the mixture thickens and just coats a spoon. The food thermometer should register 160 degrees. Stir in vanilla.

Cool quickly by setting pan in a bowl of ice or cold water and stirring for about 10 minutes.

Cover and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, several hours or overnight.

Pour into a bowl or pitcher. Fold in whipped cream. Then dust with ground nutmeg and enjoy.

will bring a dish back to its sweet roots, so try some other spices in savory dishes. Also, just because you’re using eggnog instead of milk doesn’t mean you can omit the eggs from a recipe. The eggnog should only replace the liquid in a recipe, whether it be milk, cream or even water.

“I’ve even replaced water in oatmeal; just add some eggnog to it and get a different flavor,” she said. “It’s been especially good in pumpkin oatmeal.”

So be creative in terms of finding ways to add eggnog to your dishes, as some ingredient combinations will appeal even to non-eggnog drinkers.

“I think eggnog straight up in a glass is very thick and creamy and maybe a bit too filling for many,” McLean said. “By incorporating it into something else, the diner isn’t focused on the eggnog itself but the other outcome, [like] when it’s in a French toast or something else where it helps take on other flavors.”

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After appearing on America’s Got Talent and at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Recycled Percussion is returning to the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) with a brand new show. The New Hampshire drumming group uses industrial junk, power tools, buckets and cans to create a visual and musical experience for all ages. Shows are Thursday, Dec. 31, at 7 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 1, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 2, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Jan. 3, at 2 p.m.

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ARTS Opera New Year

Piccola Opera throws arts extravaganza at the Audi

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

In Vienna, New Year’s Eve means an intersection of the arts — ballet, symphony, waltz and opera, all of which come together at a traditional ball.

New Hampshire’s Piccola Opera artistic director, Jane Cormier, spent a year singing in the city, and she remembers its magnificence. In her opinion, we could use a lot more of that here.

Her solution: Piccola Opera’s upcoming New Year’s Eve Opera Ball at the Concord City Auditorium, a black tie event with long gloves, ball gowns, fancy jewelry and tuxedos (though attendees can dress up as much or little as they please).

One of her goals is to create an occasion for elegance.

“Because how many times do people have the opportunity to go back in time Piccola Opera New Year’s Eve Opera Ball Where: Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord When: Thursday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Admission: $40 per person, $75 per couple More information: Call 491-1571 or visit piccolaopera.net

and dress up in a ball gown and dance to a Viennese waltz?” Cormier said. “There’s an awful lot of elegance to the music and programming [in Vienna], compared to America. … And I don’t know if, in my 56 years, I’ve ever seen such a need for elegance and grace. … My fear is we’re losing a lot of elegance in our everyday life.”

Another goal was to bring together some of New Hampshire’s arts.

“It’s not necessarily just for dressing up for a fun event. If we don’t start promoting things that are bigger than us, including opera, symphony, ballet, visual art, we will wake up one day and it will not be there.

And that, to me, would be a big sin,” Cormier said. “We’ll do our little part and see if we can’t bring some light and life and great music.”

The event includes dance performances by the Northeastern Ballet Theatre — small vignettes from The Nutcracker, Paquita and La fille mal gardée — and between numbers, there will be waltz lessons and dancing, for performers and guests onstage.

A grand piano will accompany singers — Cormier, Landis, Ashley Noelle Therrein, Joshua Collier, Catherine Martinez and music director Carlos Martinez — who will sing a medley of famous opera and musical theater tunes. In between, there will be food and a silent auction. Visitors will be announced as they arrive.

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Piccola Opera holds its first-ever New Year’s Eve Opera Ball in Concord Dec. 31. Courtesy photo.

Newly appointed executive director Johanna Landis is spearheading the effort.

The singer, who studied at the Berklee College of Music, had a brief music career before becoming a New Hampshire dentist.

She rediscovered her love of singing about five years ago and fell hard for opera. When she met Cormier this summer, they hit it off

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right away.

“For Jane and [me], it was kind of love at first sight. I met her when I went up to audition for The Magic Flute this summer.

By the time I heard about it, all the roles had been cast. I ended up being in the chorus in the children’s production! But I did it, and [Cormier] saw I wasn’t afraid to get my hands dirty,” Landis said.

Cormier had been looking for an executive director for some time. Between offering her own voice lessons and starting up and working as Piccola Opera’s artistic director, she was finding less and less time for office work and managerial tasks for the nonprofit. Landis was happy to step in.

“Jane kind of lives in the moment and does one million and one things. She has all this energy. She kept telling me, ‘I want you to come to a board meeting.’ When I finally did, she asked if I could step up as executive director,” Landis said. “And I love being on stage performing, but I really love being backstage, too. I saw Jane needed someone to come alongside her and be her wingman.”

Both Landis and Cormier hope this becomes an annual tradition for the New Hampshire arts scene.

“To be in a beautiful setting and enjoy the very best of what art can be about — that’s what I’m doing this for,” Cormier said.

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Classical Music Events • GARY SREDZIENSKI Accordion concert. Sun., Jan. 10, 4-5 p.m. Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst.

Free. Registration required.

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• MODERN-DAY PERFORMANCE OF THE ODYSSEY Storyteller Odds Bodkin puts together three-part performance in salon setting with Celtic harp and 12-string guitars. Sun., Jan. 10, at 4 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 4 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 24, at 4 p.m.

Schoodacs, 1 E. Main St., Warner. $50 for the series. Call 4563400, email info@schoodacs. com.

• HECTOR OLIVERA Organ concert. Sun., Jan. 17, at 2 p.m.

First Congregational Church, 115 S. Main St., Wolfeboro. $20. Visit wfriendsofmusic.org.

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• SYMPHONY NH CONCERT Program of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev.

Fri., Jan. 22, at 8 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $18-$49. Visit symphonynh.org, call 595-9156.

• DRAWN TO THE MUSIC NH Philharmonic concert, with art by children from NH schools inspired by the music. Sat., Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. $12-$50.

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• SYMPHONY NH CONCERT Program of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev.

Sat., Jan. 23, at 8 p.m. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. $18-$49. Visit symphonynh.org, call 595-9156.

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McPhee. Fri., Feb. 5, at 5:30 p.m. Crowne Plaza, 2 Somerset Parkway, Nashua. $75. Visit symphonynh.org, call 595-9156.

• SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UKULELE GROUP LUAU Featuring performances

by Southern New Hampshire Ukulele Group, Falmouth Library Uke Ensemble, solo artists. Fri., Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. Best Western Hotel, US, 580 US-1 BYP, Portsmouth. $30, includes desserts. Proceeds benefit Ukulele Kids Club, which helps provide ukuleles for music therapy programs. Visit facebook.com/ SNHUG. • FREDERIC CHUI: CLASSICAL SMACKDOWN Piano concert. Prokofiev vs. Debussy.

Sat., Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $18. Visit concordcommunityconcerts.org, call 344-4747.

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TER CLASS Pre-concert lecture and demonstration on stage fright. Open to all musicians.

Sat., Feb. 20, at 10:30 a.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Free. Visit concordcommunityconcerts.org, call 344-4747.

• R.P. HALE, MASTER MUSICIAN Concert. Performance and lecture highlighting his handmade harpsichord and hammered dulcimer. Wed., March 2, at 7:30 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Free. Visit walkerlecture. org.

Open calls/workshops/ other • CONCORD CHORALE OPEN SING Meet director, learn about membership, sing through some of Mozart's "Requiem" movements, schedule audition. Wed., Jan. 6, at 7:15 p.m. Concord High School

Band Room, 170 Warren St., Concord. Visit concordchorale. org, call 731-2244.

Theater Productions • PANTO Winnipesaukee Playhouse professional production.

Dec. 18 through Jan. 2. Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 50 Reservoir Road, Meredith. $12-$16.

• DISCOVERING MAGIC Andrew Pinard performance.

Sat., Dec. 26, at 2, 5 and 8 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 27, at 2 and 5 p.m. Players' Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. $15. Visit playersring.org, call 436-8123.

• THE NUTCRACKER New Hampshire School of Ballet production. Sun., Dec. 27, at 2 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $18. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• THE WHITE CHIP Merrimack Rep production. Jan. 6 through Jan. 31. Merrimack

Repertory Theatre, 132 Warren St., Lowell. $23-$60. Visit mrt. org, call 978-654-4678.

• ELF: THE MUSICAL, JR. Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Fri., Jan. 8, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 9, at noon; Fri., Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at noon. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $11 for children, $14 adults. Call 668-5588. Visit palacetheatre. org.

• MUMMENSCHANZ Theater artist performance. Wed., Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Free. Part of Gile Series.

Call 225-1111, visit ccanh.com.

• CHICAGO: THE MUSICAL Rochester Opera House production. Thurs., Jan. 14, through Sun., Jan. 31. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. $18-$26. Call 335-1992.

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Blazon began the trade 30 years ago while living near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her Working with her hands, particularly with- location in the Southwest was due to her husin Manchester’s mill buildings, is in jewelry band’s job, and she felt inspired by its craft artist Annette Blazon’s blood. culture. She started making bright, threadBlazon is best-known for her asymmet- woven earrings with colorful dangling beads, rical and book-geek but her intention wasn’t designs showcasing titles to make a living of it. like The Catcher in the “It was a hobby. But Rye, Jane Eyre and A people kept commentTree Grows in Brooklyn, ing on them all the time,” which she creates in her Blazon said. “I’d run into top-floor mill art studio, Native American people decorated with jewelry, that were like, you need crafts, tools and, in one to sell those.” corner, an old turquoise When she finally did typewriter. start selling, she sold But before her, her everything. Soon she was father, uncles and weaving dreamcatcher grandfather were New Earrings by Annette Blazon. Courtesy photo. earrings with gold lamé Hampshire woodworkers, thread — “thousands and and her mother’s relatives had moved to the thousands of these,” she said — and when the Queen City to become mill workers. So it couple moved to Florida, she found an equalmade sense that, despite her inefficiency with ly large audience of tourists and locals. a paintbrush, the self-taught artist thrives in But in 2007, her art had to take a break making whimsical earrings and necklaces by when her husband died and, a year later, her hand. doctor diagnosed her with lupus. Blazon was “It’s something in you, to be able to work in extreme pain all the time, unable to move. with your hands and have that eye,” she said “I ended up in the emergency room, half during an interview at the studio last Tuesday dead in the hospital,” Blazon said. “They had afternoon. “I think [my roots] have an influ- to do chemotherapy on me, and I was really ence in what I’m doing. … I almost feel like down. I couldn’t work for about a year after it was meant to be.” everything happened.”

The holidays approaching meant she was She moved back to New Hampshire, where on high drive trying to complete orders in she grew up and where she had family, and time for Christmas, which had snowballed eventually found jewelry-making again. But ever since Jane Austen publishers posted her something had to change. Her hands couldn’t earrings on their Facebook page in 2012. Her move and weave the same way they used to. style is eclectic and mismatched, but her litSo she turned to her materials for inspiraerary ear decor sports a standard design. On tion and found laser-cut wooden typewriter one ear hangs a typewriter key, followed by keys purchased from Etsy. Having sold work plastic book cover image on one side, author out of what was Log Cabin Antiques in headshot on the other. On the other ear dan- Hooksett, she knew vintage typewriters were gles another typewriter key and typewriter hot and created earrings inspired by To Kill a image, with a book quote scrawled across: Mockingbird and other titles. The Huffington “People never notice anything,” and “It’s a Post featured her work in 2010. sin to kill a mockingbird,” and “I saw that my Today, the artist gets requests from authors life was a vast glowing empty page.” themselves, asking her to create earrings from Most recent days have been spent produc- their own covers and quotes, and from reging or packaging; she has so many orders she ulars who want everything under the sun can barely keep up.

— earrings promoting Bernie Sanders, non“I’m waiting for next week when things slow profit organizations, their pets (complete with down. It’s crazy,” said Blazon, wearing a pair of photos), hiking, Seattle and breakfast foods. A her own earrings — orange and dangling to her lot of designs are inspired by her own Native collarbone, with a gold slipper on one side, an American roots.

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• NHIA MFA residency events: The New Hampshire Institute of Art hosts a lineup of events showcasing work by its Master of Fine Arts residency students starting in early January. All events occur in the French Auditorium, 148 Concord St., Manchester, unless noted.

On Monday, Jan. 4, from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., graduating MFA students will discuss the development of their work through the MFA program; on Tuesday, Jan. 5, from 2 to 4 p.m., and on Thursday, Jan. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m., there will be MFA Stage and Screen Script readings at the Sharon Arts Center Gallery, 30 Grove St., Peterborough; on Wednesday, Jan. 6, from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m., there will be creative writing readings, and from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Leslie Jamison will talk about her book, The Empathy Exams; on Thursday, Jan. 7, from 1:30 to 5 p.m., students interested in learning about NHIA’s MFA program can attend an overview event with a chance to sit in on seminars, take a campus tour and enjoy a wine and cheese reception with current students, and from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., there will be student readings at Fuller Hall, 156 Hanover St., Manchester; and on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 6 to 7 p.m., there’s an MFA graduating student exhibition opening at 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

• New director for NH Made: The NH Made Board of Trustees announced last week that Alice Pearce of North Woodstock has joined the team to serve as executive director. In this new role, Pearce will work • THE CRUCIBLE NH Theatre Project production. Jan. 15-31, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. New Hampshire Theatre Project, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $26.

Call 431-6644, ext. 5. Email reservations@nhtheatreproject. org.

• BROADWAY DANCE REVIEW Evening of Broadway-inspired dance selections.

Choreography by Madison Calabria and Meg King. Fri., Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 2:30 p.m. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. Visit svbgc.org/amato-center.

• RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Dance show highlighting Audi's 10 resident dance companies, 150 dancers. Sat., Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $10. Call

You can see and hear work by NHIA’s MFA students and check out the school’s programming in early January.

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to deepen the organization’s financial base, strengthen programs and partnerships, and develop new marketing opportunities, as described in a press release. She previously served as executive director for the New Hampshire Granite State Ambassadors, and prior to that was president of Ski NH for 21 years. She’s also a graduate of Leadership NH and has served on several state and local boards, including the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Travel and Tourism, the New Hampshire Travel Council and the New Hampshire Public Television Board of Governors. Visit nhmade.com.

• Clay for kids: Studio 550 (550 Elm St., Manchester) hosts a program, Clay for Kids, in which portions of adult art class registrations help build funds to bring art to deserving kids. Nominations are open to Manchester nonprofits that work with underserved children who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to work with clay, according to the release. Send the name of the nonprofit plus a contact person within the organization and how the organization works with kids in need by the end of January. Email info@550arts.com, visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597.

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Thurs., Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 22, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 24, at 2 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. Leddy Center for the Performing Arts, 38C Ladd's Lane, Epping. $20. Call 6792781.

• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Performed by STEPS. Thurs., Jan. 21, at 7 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 22, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $15.

Visit derryoperahouse.com.

• NUNSENSE A-MEN Palace Theatre production. Jan. 22 through Feb. 13. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25-$45. Call 668-5588.

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• 14TH ANNUAL NEW HAMPSHIRE THEATRE AWARDS Gala night, performances by original cast members; awards announced.

Sat., Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $38.50-$50. Visit ccanh.com, call 225-1111.

• ARSENIC & OLD LACE Presented by The Majestic Academy of Teens, with Derry Arts Council. Fri., Jan. 29, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 30, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $10-$15. Visit majestictheatre.net.

• CALENDAR GIRLS Community Players of Concord production. Sat., Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $16-$18. Visit com-

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• New vaudeville: For the eighth year in a row, Pontine Theatre presents a host of “New Vaudeville” performers at its annual WEST-FEST: New Vaudeville Festival, a family-friendly event, which this year occurs Dec. 26 through Dec. 30 at the West End Studio Theatre (959 Islington St., Portsmouth, pontine.org, info@pontine.org, 436-6660).

Michael Tratuman’s “King Pong” is Saturday, Dec. 26, at 2 p.m., and Monday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m.; Roderick Russell’s “Almost Psychic” event is Saturday, Dec. 26, at 7 p.m.; Leland Faulkner’s “World of Wonders” is Sunday, Dec. 27, at 2 p.m.; and John and Rebecca Higby’s “The YoYo Show” is Monday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m., and Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 per show and can be purchased online or at the door starting a half hour before showtime.

• James Bond meets Saturday Night Fever: If you’re looking for theater on New Year’s Eve, your best bet is the Majestic Theatre’s production of The Last Dance of Dr. Disco by Eileen Moushey, happening at the Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, on Thursday, Dec. 31, at 7 p.m., and Friday, Jan. 1, at noon.

In this audience participatory show, Dr. Disco has hatched a plot to take over the world by putting a subliminal message into disco music. His nurse, Ilsa Hump, is in on the scheme, but his whiny daughter Margie and the disco king, Tony Menudo, are clueless.

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• AIDA Opera NH production.

Fully-staged with 37 orchestra members, cast and chorus. Sun., Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $20$75. Call 668-5588. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• STONES IN HIS POCKETS Theatre KAPOW production.

Olivier Award-winning play by Marie Jones. Fri., Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. $20. Visit tkapow.com.

• THE GREAT AMERICAN MAGIC, COMEDY AND VAUDEVILLE SHOW Starring Alexander Feldman as Alex the Jester. Sat., Feb. 27, at 7 p.m.

Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $15. Call 344-4747.

• ROCK OF AGES Palace Theatre production. March 4 through March 26. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25$45. Visit palacetheatre.org. Call 668-5588.

John and Rebecca Higby perform in WEST-FEST: New Vaudeville Festival in Portsmouth this weekend. Courtesy photo.

plot in this play, which is “James Bond meets Saturday Night Fever with a little Austin Powers,” according to the theater company’s website description.

The show comes with food, too. The New Year’s Eve menu includes baked stuffed chicken breast with a roasted apple and dried cherry dressing on a pool of sage veloute, served with a chef’s choice of vegetable and starch. On New Year’s Day, the menu includes roast turkey with gravy, stuffing, potatoes and vegetables. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are available with 48-hour notice.

Tickets are $50 for Dec. 31, $35 for Jan. 31, and are all-inclusive and include entry into a raffle with about 30 different prizes. Visit majestictheatre.net or call 669-7469.

• Lowell Folk Festival grants: The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service recently announced $35,000 will go to the Lowell Festival Foundation for the 2016 Lowell Folk Festival through a new grant initiative, “Imagine Your Parks.” The festival is slated to happen at the end of July and features an international array of traditional folk music, ethnic foods and folk craft demonstrations. — Kelly Sennott

Auditions/open calls • ONE-ACT PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP AND FESTIVAL: AUDITIONS Studentwritten, directed and acted. Kids ages 11 to 18 welcome to audition. Sun., Jan. 3, 1-4 p.m. Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. Email tobytarnow@yahoo.com.

Workshops/other • DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING SERVICE DAY, Hosted

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Art Events • NOON YEAR'S EVE Artmaking activities, face painting, magic show, dance party, kidfriendly food. Tues., Dec. 29, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. $10-$19. Visit currier.org.

• NEPAL: PAY IT FORWARD Part of "Exotic Destinations" series. Presentation by photographer Ken Harvey. Thurs., Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free. Registration not required. Call 5894610. Visit nashualibrary.org/ visit/directons.

• "MAXFIELD PARRISH: THE POWER OF PRINT" Highlight of work by Parrish displayed in the form of vintage art prints, calendar illustrations, advertisements, magazine covers, etc. On view Oct. 9 through Jan. 10. Last chance tour Sat., Jan. 9, at 11:30 a.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org.

• ART TALK: VIVIAN BEER Beer talks about the connection between high heels and her sculptural bench at the Scheier Gallery. Sun., Jan. 10, at 2 p.m.

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Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John St., Lowell. Call 978970-5241.

• "HOUSES & HOMES" Juried exhibition. On view Dec. 12 through Jan. 24. Reception Sat., Jan. 16, at 2 p.m. The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, 256 Market St., Lowell. Visit thebrush.org.

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• "ART & BLOOM" Concord Garden Club, facilitates creating floral arrangements inspired by art. On view Jan. 21 through Jan. 23. Opening reception Thurs., Jan. 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord. Call 225-2515, email gallery@mcgowanfineart. com.

• BECKY FIELD Photography show by artist, "Cultural Diversity." On view Jan. 2 through Jan. 29. Reception Sun., Jan. 24, 2-4 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org, call 589-4626.

Open calls • CALL FOR ARTISTS: THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX Looking for designs to go on traffic boxes in downtown Manchester. Includes $400 stipend to cover time and materials.

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• "BRANCHES: A MIXED MEDIA SHOWCASE" Featuring sculpture by Nancy A. French, paintings by Tamara Gonda. On view through November and December.

Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashu. Visit nashualibrary. org, call 589-4600.

• ROGER IRWIN Photography show. On view through Dec. 31.

Susan N. McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord. Call 224-9909. Visit nhaudubon.org.

• RUNKUN CARA SONG Showcase of calligraphy artwork. On view through December. Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth.

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• "RENEWING ENERGIES: FAIRY TALES, HEROES AND THE WISDOM OF STORIES" Brings to life some of the world's tales with help from puppets, costumes and folk art artifacts. On view June 1 through Dec. 31. Mariposa Museum, 26 Main St., Peterborough. Visit mariposamuseum. org, call 924-4555.

• "STAMP TREKS" Photography exhibition by Dave Thompson. Featuring works that celebrate the famous people, places and events on our nation's postage stamps. Focusing on subjects with New England ties.

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Call 225-2515. Visit mcgowanfineart.com.

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• "INSIDE/OUTSIDE" Art 3 Gallery exhibition. On view Oct. 13 through Jan. 9. Art 3 Gallery Fine Art, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester. Call 668-6650, visit art3gallery.com.

• "REMINISCENT: TEXTURE AND PLACE" Featuring artwork by Stacey Durand and Erik Nohalty. On view Nov. 16 through Jan. 15. Derryfield School Lyceum Gallery, 2108 River Road, Manchester. Visit derryfield.org.

• WHISTLER HOUSE MUSEUM INVITATIONAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION Works by members of Lowell Art Association Inc. On view Nov. 18 through Jan. 16. Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell. Call 978452-7641. Email sbogosian@ whistlerhouse.org.

• "SEASCAPE SERIES," "PEOPLE OF THE DAWN SERIES" Art exhibitions featuring work by Ron Plante, showcasing Maine and NH coastal scenes, plus a 6-year study of Northeast Native Americans. On view Dec. 12 through Feb. 19.

Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. Visit nhaudubon.org.

• "COVER STORY: THE ART OF BOOK BINDING" Libraryfocus exhibition displaying book bindings and coverings the past 300 years. On view now Sept. 9 through Feb. 19. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

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LISTINGS 29 Children & Teens Games, clubs, fun...

31 Dance Ballroom, folk...

31 Health & Wellness Workshops, exercises...

31 Miscellaneous Fairs, festivals, yard sales...

32 Nature & Gardening Hikes, animal events...

32 Over 50 Social outings, sports...

32 Sports & Rec. Spectator sports, runs...

FEATURES 29 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

30 The Gardening Guy Advice on your outdoors.

31 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

34 Car Talk Click and Clack give you car advice.

35 Techie Get the details on the latest and greatest tech.

Get Listed From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activities for the kids, Hippo’s weekly listing offers a rundown of all area events and classes.

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You don’t have to travel to Times Square or even stay awake till midnight to party it up this New Year’s Eve. With family-friendly events like Noon Year’s Eve at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, kids can ring in the new year with music, dancing, countdowns and more — and still make it home before bedtime.

Noon Year’s Eve, happening Tuesday, Dec. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is the largest kids’ New Year’s event in northern New England, bringing around 600 guests to the museum.

“We started doing it in 2012, and every year it’s been hugely popular,” said Steve Konick, Currier director of PR and marketing. “I think there was a hole in the community for family-friendly New Year’s Eve events, so we’ve become a destination spot for families [looking to have] a New Year’s experience.”

The celebration will take place throughout the museum, which will be closed to the general public during the event. Kids can get their faces painted, take photos in the photo booth, participate in art projects like making their own noisemakers and enjoy healthy snacks like veggies and hummus.

There will be music and a dance party hosted by WZID in one of the rooms. Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth and other community groups will be running their own fun activities as well.

This year’s live entertainment is a magic show, with half-hour shows at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. (guests select a showtime when they buy tickets).

Noon Year’s Eve 2015 Where: Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester When: Tuesday, Dec. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: Advance tickets are $19 for adults, $10 for children and $9 for all Currier members. Door tickets are $22/$13/$12.

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Hundreds of balloons are released as families flood a floor of bubble wrap at the Currier’s Noon Year’s Eve celebration. Courtesy photo.

The official countdown and big finish will be held around 2:30 p.m., with a huge balloon drop and bubble wrap “fireworks.”

“It gets insane here,” Konick said. “When we hit zero, the kids rush down and smash the heck out of the bubble wrap all over the floor, there’s hundreds of balloons, and it’s really an explosive, somewhat ear-piercing thing. It’s so much fun.”

More kid-friendly New Year’s events

• Don’t miss the Family New Year’s Eve Celebration at Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover, childrens-museum.org) on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with countdowns at 11 a.m., 12:30 and 2 p.m. Get a free noisemaker and make your own party hat, then gather around the glitter ball hung in the middle of the museum and count down as it descends.

When the clock strikes “midnight,” there will be confetti, “Auld Lang Syne” and a ginger ale toast. Free with museum admission ($9, $8 for

seniors and free for babies).

• Join Imagination Celebrations party planning business for their launch party and New Year’s Eve Countdown to Noon event on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Marion Gerrish Community Center (39 W. Broadway, Derry). There will be music, dancing, crafts, prizes and more for all ages. Visit imagination-celebrations.com to buy tickets. $10 per child. Sales end Monday, Dec. 28.

• Bounce into 2016 at the New Year’s Eve Party at Cowabunga’s! indoor inflatable playground (1328 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, mycowabungas.com) on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be games throughout the day as well as confetti countdowns at noon and 2 p.m. $10 for kids, free for adults and babies.

• Head to Goffstown Public Library (2 High St., goffstownlibrary.com) on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 11 a.m. to noon, for the New Year’s at Noon party, open to kids grade 3 and under. Registration required.

• Bring your noisemakers, party hat and dancing shoes to the all-

ages Noon Year’s Eve Celebration & Dance Party at Derry Public Library (64 E. Broadway, derrypl. org) on Thursday, Dec. 31, beginning at 11 a.m., and ending with a balloon drop and ginger ale toast at noon. No registration required.

• Ring in the new year with noisemakers, balloons and confetti at Manchester City Library’s (405 Pine St., manchester.lib.nh.us) New Year’s Party on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for ages 1 to 7. Registration required.

• Join Hooksett Public Library (31 Mount St Mary’s Way, hooksettlibrary.org) for games, activities and more at the all-ages Countdown to Noon party on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 11 a.m. to noon.

• If you missed the other New Year’s celebrations, head to the New Year’s Party Again at Kimball Library (5 Academy Ave., Atkinson, kimballlibrary.com) on Saturday, Jan. 2, from 11 a.m. to noon. Make something sparkly, something noisy, something tasty and learn how New Year’s is celebrated around the world. Smaller children will need adult help. Registration required.

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Swing by Nashua Public Library (2 Court St.) on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 2 p.m., for a family film showing of Wreck-It Ralph. Tired of always playing the bad guy, arcade-game villain Wreck-It Ralph journeys to other games to prove he can be a hero, but when he accidentally unleashes a dangerous enemy into the arcade, the battle of good vs. evil becomes more than just a game. This movie is rated PG and runs 101 minutes. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4600.

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Drop in at any point. Wed., Dec. 30, 1 to 3 p.m. Nesmith Library, 8 Fellows Road, Windham. Free.

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• KIDS' HOLIDAY MOVIE Catch a kids’ holiday movie at the library. Tues., Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. Bedford Public Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford.

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Pack everyone in the car and head to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1122 Route 106 North, Loudon) for the Gift of Lights drive-through Christmas light park. The course spans almost 3 miles and features more than 60 holiday scenes and 400 light displays. Stop by Santa’s Workshop afterwards for fun family activities, photo opportunities with Frosty the Snowman and a fire pit outside for s’mores-making. Gift of Lights is open from 4:30 to 9 p.m., every day except Christmas, through Jan. 2. Tickets can be purchased online or onsite and cost $15 per car on weekdays, $20 on weekends.

Visit nhms.com/events/gift_of_lights.

There’s still time to experience this year’s Lighted Winter Wonderland at Charmingfare Farm (774 High St., Candia). Check-in times for its final weekend are Saturday, Dec. 26, and Sunday, Dec. 27, from 5 to 9 p.m. Travel through beautiful lights, holiday scenes and animated costumed characters on your way to the North Pole, where Santa himself will be waiting to greet you. Admission costs $25 per person and is free for children under 23 months old. Visit visitthefarm.com or call 483-5623.

Dec. 30, from 2 to 3 p.m. Concord Public Library , 45 Green St. , Concord. Seating is limited, so free tickets are required and are available now. Call 2303682.

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After a cold snap recently, we had three days of cold rain. By the second day, with no relief in sight, I went out to my garden and dug up the last of my root crops – carrots, watermelon radishes and purple daikon radishes. I figured that I’d better get them out of the ground while the getting was good. I came back wet and muddy but feeling much more cheerful than before I went to the garden.

By Day 3, I was positively squirrely. I needed to do something outdoors. So I got dressed for an extended time in the garden: I layered on some Ibex brand wool long johns, two layers on top and one on the bottom. Then I put on rain pants and an LL Bean Gore-Tex raincoat that keeps me dry and helps keep me warm. Rubber-palmed stretchy garden gloves protected my hands. Finally, I put on wool socks and my insulated Muck brand boots. I was ready.

I often warn gardeners not to walk on the garden soil when it is wet for fear of compacting it and ruining its structure. But I had some raised beds in the vegetable garden where I had harvested root crops – but not the lateseason weeds that were there. I figured that so long as I worked carefully and never stepped off the walkways I’d be fine.

I used a garden fork to loosen the soil near tap-rooted dandelions, then carefully tugged them out. How had so many escaped my notice? Well, I guess it was the “late-season weed blindness” that many of us suffer from.

It is often spring before I notice certain weeds – because they’re blooming.

I did know, however, that I had a fair amount of chickweed in my garden, as that weed grows whenever the ground is not frozen – including early and late in the growing year. I once interviewed author David Mas Masumoto (author of Epitaph for a Peach), who told me that chickweed is a ”good weed.”

It’s good because it blooms early and beneficial insects like ladybugs depend on its nectar for food before the aphids turn up as lunch.

Chickweed is a low-growing annual that has very small pointed leaves, each only a quarter to half an inch in length. The flowers – and mine are present now – are small and white; on cold rainy days, the flowers are just like me – buttoned up tightly. With a hand lens or field scope you can see that it has fine hairs on only one side of the stem in a single band. It pulls easily, and best of all, it is edible in salads! I think it tastes like mache or miner’s lettuce – OK to mix in, but not as a prime salad ingredient.

After about 15 minutes my hands were cold, so I went in and found my Ibex glove liners, which solved the problem. Wool is warm, even if wet. And I put on another lay-

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I buy composted cow manure by the truckload, and still have a supply left from last spring’s delivery. So after weeding out two small beds I brought down a couple of wheelbarrows of compost, spread it on top of the beds and gently stirred it into the top few inches with a long-handled potato fork.

I grow my vegetables in beds that are mounded up, or occasionally boxed in with planks. In either case, plants take out soil ingredients, and every time you pull a weed (or carrot) some soil goes with the roots, no matter how careful you are. So beds need new soil or compost added each year to keep their size.

Once the beds were all prepared for spring, I found some lawn that had been covered with late-falling leaves – oaks. Oaks are among the last to shed their leaves, and so had escaped earlier raking. I gathered them up and used them to cover the beds.

During this period of cold, cloudy, dark, damp, dismal miserable weather I collected some greenery to use in vases this winter.

Pachysandra is a common shade groundcover that will look good all winter in a vase of water. In fact, it will even set out roots into the water. Just keep the leaves out of the water, and change the water from time to time. It doesn’t need to be on a sunny window, and can complement any flower arrangement you buy at the store. So I picked some and brought it in.

What else did I do during the week of wet weather? I did a little pruning – nothing major, no ladders, I just tuned up a few shrubs and a small tree. I have a common ninebark, one called Diablo, which looks as neat as an unmade bed right now. But I resisted the urge to prune it as I know it blooms early in the summer, and pruning it now would remove the flower buds. Lilacs, forsythia, and rhododendrons: all these and more have their buds ready for spring. Some flowers I can sacrifice, others not.

So if you get tired of being indoors, go ahead, dress up warmly and get out there – even if it’s raining. It’s very restorative.

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Folk dances • NEW ENGLAND CONTRA DANCE Enjoy old and new contra dances. No partner necessary. All dances taught, with a welcoming review at 7:30 pm. Dance to the English, Scottish, Irish and other New England traditions, in a friendly and welcoming gathering. Wear comfortable, clean-soled shoes.

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Blood drives • AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org/donating-blood for dates, times and locations and to schedule an appointment.

Weekly/monthly screenings • BLOOD PRESSURE AND NURSE CONSULTS Offered through Parish Nurse Program, which provides access to registered nurses for health and wellness consultations at local churches. Parish of the Transfiguration, 107 Alsace St., Manchester. See catholicmedicalcenter.org.

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Andrew Pinard and Absolutely Magic present “Discovering Magic” at the Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 2, 5 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 27, at 2 and 5 p.m. His show promises not just sleight of hand tricks and con games, but also psychology, history, science, comedy, politics and more. Even if you’ve seen this selfdescribed “perceptual engineer” before, he’s put together an entirely new show for the holiday season.

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• COMMUNITY HU CHANT A spiritual exercise and quiet contemplation. Dover Location: Second Sun. of the month at 10 a.m.; Exeter Location: Fourth Wed. of the month at 7 p.m.; Keene Location: Second Thurs. of the month at 7 p.m.; Manchester Location: Third Thurs. of the month at 7:30 p.m. Holiday Inn, 2280 Brown Ave., Manchester. Keene Public Library , 60 Winter St., Keene. Comfort Inn , 10 Hotel Drive, Dover. Exeter Public Library, 4 Chestnut St., Exeter. Free. Call 800-713-8944. eckankar-nh.org.

Nature & Gardening Birding events • NASHUA-HOLLIS CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT The Nashaway Chapter of NH Audubon invites the public on its next field trip, which will be the annual Nashua-Hollis Christmas Bird Count. If you are familiar with bird identification and would like to participate, join the effort either in the field or at home as a feeder counter. Individuals or groups will be assigned specific

areas to cover. There will be birdcounting during the day, then tallying sightings over dinner at 5 p.m. Sat., Dec. 26. Lawrence Barn, 28 Depot Road, Nashua.

Small fee collected for evening tally/dinner. Visit nhaudubon.org/ birding/christmas-bird-count or contact Richard Bielawski 4292537 or rbielawski@mac.com.

Nature centers • FISHWAYS OPEN HOUSE Amoskeag Fishways will celebrate the year with an open house. See the presentations “Active Winter Birds" and "Bald Eagles and Peregrine Falcons," do fun crafts, eat yummy treats and win door prizes. Tues., Dec. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Amoskeag Fishways, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. Free and open to all ages. Visit amoskeagfishways. org.

Nature hikes & walks • NATURE WALKS Maintained by the Audubon Society of NH’s Nashaway Chapter, the public is invited to join for morning adventure walks. Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Rhodora Dr., Route 122, Amherst. Bring binoculars, bug spray, and shoes you don’t mind getting wet. Free outing starts at bog entrance off Stearns Road, which runs between Boston Post Road and Route 122, just north of Route 101A in Amherst. Contact 2249909 or membership@nhaudubon.org for chapter activities.

See nhaudubon.org/locations/ sanctuaries.

• STORY WALKS Children and families invited to take self-guided tours and read featured stories page-by-page posted along Gregg and Dutton Brook trail.

Trails open 30 minutes after sunrise and closes 30 minutes before sunset. Story walks conclude at the first snow. See 547-3311, info@crotchedmountain.org.

Crotched Mountain rehabilitation Center, 1 Verney Dr., Greenfield.

• WINTER TRAIL ADVENTURES Six trails to hike or snowshoe in the winter. All ages and fitness levels welcome.

Offered through Concord Parks and Rec. Contact 225-8690, concordnh.gov/trail. Concord, NH, 03301 Concord.,

Over 50 Sports & Recreation • SENIOR/VETERAN CRIBBAGE LEAGUE Weekly Monday and Wednesday leagues.

Open to all levels of players.

Mon. games, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Wed. games, 6:30 to 9 p.m.; Tournaments on Jan 17, Feb. 21, and Mar. 20. Henry J. Sweeney Post No. 2, American Legion, 251 Maple St. , Manchester. $5 admission fee with cash prizes and gift certificates paid each day. For more information, contact Ray Valliere Sr., league director, at 218-9211.

Sports & Recreation Ice Skating • ICE SKATING LESSONS Hosted by Concord Parks and Rec for ages 4 to adult, basic beginner to intermediate levels offered. Session 2 Jan. 3 to Feb. 7. Everett Arena, 15 Loudon Road, Concord. Cost is $79 for residents for 6 week session.

Offers Muay Thai, self defense, boxing, mixed martial arts, and kickboxing for adults and children. Kid’s program includes martial arts and mixed martial arts classes. 3 N. Main St., Concord. See online application page to register. Call 223-0300. Visit averillsmartialarts.com.

Runs/walks/races MILLENNIUM MILE • ROAD RACE Fri., Jan. 1, 2 p.m. in front of Londonderry High School , Mammoth Road, Londonderry.

Pre-registration costs $18, race-day $20. Kids 11 and under pay $10. Register at millenniumrunning.com/millenniummile.

• GREAT BAY SERVICES NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION 5K Fri., Jan. 1, 11 a.m. Portsmouth Middle School , 155 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth. Cost is $25 ($15 age 13 and under). Register at active.com.

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“It’s neat to watch community members who have lived in Concord their whole lives look at a police staff photo from the ’50s or an old map of the city and have recollections of what was there 20 or 40 years ago,” Murdoch said. “People are always sharing their memories.”

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Where: Grappone Conference Center’s Grand Ballroom, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord Cost: $75 per person, or $750 for a table of 10. Tickets are limited and expected to sell out, so buying early is recommended.

Purchase tickets in person at the Concord Family YMCA (15 N. State St.) or online at concordymca.org/nyegala.

Event info: Visit concord250.org.

Accommodations: Courtyard by Marriott Concord (attached to the Grappone Conference Center) is offering special room rates of $99 + tax to gala ticketholders for New Year’s Eve night.

Childcare: Flipz Gymnastics (14 Chenell Drive, Concord, flipzgymnastics.com) will be hosting a kids’ New Year’s Eve party with a sleepover option, open to ages 6 and up. Drop-off is at 7:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve night and pick-up is at 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Kids will enjoy games, movies, open gym playtime and more. The cost is $35 per child.

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After 12 months of parades, collaborative art projects, history talks, a documentary premiere, the unearthing and burying of a time capsule and even a beard-growing competition, Concord’s 250th anniversary year will conclude the same way it began: with a New Year’s Eve gala.

At the end of 2014, Concord 250 and Concord Family YMCA presented Cheers to 250 Years! New Year’s Eve Gala as the opener for Concord’s year-long celebration in 2015. Now, they will close out the celebration with a follow-up event, Cheers to the Next 250 Years! New Year’s Eve Gala, on Thursday, Dec. 31, at 7:30 p.m., in the Grappone Conference Center’s Grand Ballroom.

Concord 250 project manager Kim Murdoch said it was always the plan to have the galas as the “bookends” for the city’s milestone year. “[Concord’s 250th anniversary] is such a momentous occasion that we wanted to mark the beginning and end in grand style, and in a way that provided an opportunity for the community to come together in celebration,” she said.

The Freese Brothers Big Band Combo will kick off the evening with live swing music, followed by DJ Nazzy from WLNH, who will keep the fun going on the dance floor and lead the official countdown to 2016.

Guests will enjoy a dinner of prime rib, pecan-crusted chicken or vegetable lasagna, a dessert and candy bar and a complimentary Champagne toast. A cash bar will be available as well.

There will be a few presentations throughout the night from the Concord 250 president, Concord Family YMCA director and others, to review the highlights of Concord’s 250th year.

Attendees are encouraged, as they were at the first gala, to arrive in costumes depicting the fashions of various eras.

Prizes will be awarded for the best 1920s, ’50s, ’70s, ’80s and modern/future garb.

“We had some fantastic costumes last year,” Murdoch said. “A lot of folks who dress up for the ’70s and ’80s eras are just hitting the back of their closet, so it’s fun for them to take a walk down memory lane.”

This year’s gala will also include a photo booth with props for guests to capture the fun of the evening.

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Can Ray help her car get its groove back?

Dear Car Talk: I have a 1991 Honda Civic Wagon with almost 180,000 miles. It runs fine, except that it has an intermittent hesitation problem that is happening more frequently.

By Ray Magliozzi It happens only at low speeds or after stopping at a light. Sometimes I will notice some sputtering while I am stopped, and then when I step on the gas to go, the accelerator will not respond unless I push it halfway down, and then it takes a few seconds to respond before it jumps to life. It sometimes is accompanied by a low groaning sound when I press down hard on the accelerator. I’ve asked my mechanic, but he said it is hard to diagnose unless it is doing it all the time. Do you have any ideas? — Lynnette Well, the sound could be the groans of your embarrassed kids, Lynnette.

I assume your check engine light has not come on. Otherwise, your mechanic would have checked for a fault code, and you wouldn’t be suffering the indignity of writing to us today.

But you might want to make sure the check engine light still works. When you turn your key to the “run” position, just before you

start the car, all of your dashboard warning lights should light up, to confirm that they’re functioning. If you don’t see the little orange engine icon, start by getting a new bulb for that baby.

The hesitation could be caused by a lot of things, Lynnette, but I’d start with the most likely and least expensive. Start by asking your mechanic to change your fuel filter — especially if it hasn’t been changed since, say, the Bush administration. A dirty fuel filter could easily cause stumbling and hesitation when you start off.

A weak fuel pump or really dirty injectors also could make that happen. So your mechanic can test your fuel-pump pressure to see if it’s up to spec.

And if he suspects that the injectors are dirty, he can try adding a can of fuel-system cleaner, like Chevron Techron, to a tank of gas. If you notice some improvement after he does that, try another can!

You also could have a misfire. If one of your four cylinders is not firing regularly, that could cause this type of behavior, too.

The first steps you’d take to correct a misfire would be to check the distributor cap for cracks and replace any ancient secondary ignition components, like the cap, the rotor and the spark plugs and wires.

There are other possibilities, like a bad throttle-position switch, a failing transmission or abduction by aliens. But ask your mechanic to start with the simple things, and see if your Honda can get its groove back, Lynnette. Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: I have a job (insurance adjuster) that requires me to sit in my vehicle with the engine running at idle with the AC on. I’m currently driving an early-model Toyota Tundra that is getting old. I would like to buy a more-efficient vehicle, but its ability to sit and idle for long periods of time is hugely important. I like the Subaru Forester, because I can get all 6 feet 3 inches of me into it comfortably, and I can get a ladder on the rack. But that car’s head gasket issues scare me. Do you have any recommendations? — Richard I recommend Starbucks, Richard. I assume you’re sitting in your car to fill out your paperwork after making a client visit. Wouldn’t you rather do that over a Frappuccino?

I’m not excited about encouraging anyone to sit in his idling car and let the AC run for long periods of time. Of course you’re wasting gas when you do that. But you’re also

sending unnecessary heat and pollution into the atmosphere.

It’d be as if every worker in every cubicle across America plugged in his or her own window air conditioner and hung it over the side of the cubicle. It’s not a great practice.

But setting my environmental preferences aside, you can let any car idle with the AC on for a long time without doing any harm. As long as the cooling system is working properly, you should be able to sit in any modern car you buy and let it idle indefinitely. Or at least until you run out of gas. Or need to pee.

Hey, another advantage of Starbucks!

Subaru has had head gasket issues for years, and we replace a lot of them at around 100,000 miles. We still like Subarus, for a lot of other reasons, and recommend them.

But their head gaskets have been an issue, and we don’t know if Subaru has fixed them in the cars they’re selling now. Only time will tell, as our customers get 100,000 miles on their newer Subarus and we see what happens.

But if your primary criterion is finding a car that can idle with the air conditioner on for long periods of time, you can pick any car that appeals to you, Richard.

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Now you will pay

The walletless wallet has arrived, kinda

throughout the season

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In mobile industry terms, contactless payment is not terribly new. As far back as 2012, the unfortunately named Isis was enabling smartphone users to wave their devices in front of wireless terminals to buy stuff. Transit systems in Europe have used cards requiring only a quick tap to deduct funds from an account for years.

The technology is here. Getting everyone using it is hard.

Part of the problem is that payment processing can be so, so profitable. Just a tiny cut of every transaction everywhere adds up real fast. Dozens of companies want to be that middleman between your wallet and your purchases.

Do retailers want to accept dozens of different payment methods? Heck no. The setup is complicated and the hardware is expensive. If there isn’t one solution (or very few) for all payments, then customers will need a backup method anyway, and that’s just asking for lost business.

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to other phone functionality. Isis, which became Softcard, actually began as a joint project of Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. It only lasted until early 2015, though, and the carriers haven’t regrouped sufficiently yet.

Operating systems are where the real power is, so Android Pay and Apple Pay are the current heavy hitters. Android has actually supported NFC contactless payment for years through Google Wallet, but many phones didn’t have the right chip, retailer support was spotty, and they didn’t put much marketing muscle behind it. After Apple Pay became available on iPhones, Google purchased Softcard and created Android Pay as a credible competitor.

Windows Phone and BlackBerry support NFC payments as well, so in theory a single terminal could have the hardware to Banks issue credit cards, and they’re accept money from just about anyone’s getting directly into mobile contactless smartphone. payments too. The Capital One Wallet app recently added instant payment capability Phone manufacturers aren’t lying using a phone’s Near Field Communication down, of course. The biggest maker of (NFC) chip, and a number of foreign banks Android phones, Samsung, has its own do the same overseas. solution, creatively dubbed Samsung Pay. While it only works on select recent Online payment tools are another nat- Samsung devices, it’s a smart bet that the ural fit for this market. The big heavy is Korean company will incorporate it into PayPal, but dozens of alternatives like many more. Since it’s not exclusively an WePay, ProPay, and Dwolla could break Android shop, building phones running in with NFC payments as well. Makers of Windows and its own Tizen operating sysphysical smart payment cards, like Swyp, tem, Samsung has a definite interest in not Coin, Plastc and Stratos, could shift toward simply buying into Android Pay. apps too.

What does all this mean to you? Pay with Wireless carriers also have skin in the your phone when you can, if you want, game. They like to think they’re essential but keep those cards and cash handy for a to everyone’s mobile phone experience, while. and while that’s true for voice calls, they’re The only real currency is retweets of @ increasingly marginalized when it comes CitizenjaQ on Twitter.

Credit card companies have been masters of this domain for decades, pulling in processing fees from merchants as well as interest from cardholders. Even in this competitive space, VISA and MasterCard own most of the business. It’s no surprise, then, that they remain an inextricable part of attempts to modernize and secure payment systems. In addition to being the actual accounts we load into our mobile wallet apps, they have their own apps as well.

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How did you get interested in Kristen Treacy is working with the Manchester Health Department to provide this field?

In between my undergrad and resources and education to city residents grad school work, I did two years as part of an effort to prevent violence.

Explain your current job.

The Weed and Seed strategy is essentially a coalition of social service providers who work together in Manchester and focus on violence prevention. For those folks, that takes many forms.

These providers do everything from education to basic resources, prevention work, financial responsibility and using all those factors as tools to prevent violence.

How long have you worked there?

As of January, I will have worked here three years. … Weed and Seed was a federal program that started about 15 years ago, and the city of Manchester received a federal grant to implement Weed and Seed for five years. They worked very hard and reached all of their goals and received five more years of funding as a graduated site. … Since then, the city has been piecing funding together for a little bit, and as of me coming on three years ago, my position became part of the Health Department’s budget.

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of AmeriCorps VISTA service. For me, it was a really big turning point in my life [because] I had never worked with nonprofits or commuWhat’s the best piece of worknity groups or at-risk populations related advice anyone’s ever given and it really struck a chord with me Kristen Treacy you? and it really lit that fire of being very Don’t take it personal. … Things conscious of what happens in communities happen, projects don’t go as you plan, you and also looking at some social justice pieces. might not get the grant that you had applied So, as my career continued and I eventually for, and it’s so easy to internalize that. But at went to grad school and had some other posi- the end of the day you just have to remember tions, I always wanted to focus on that very that you’re doing the best you can and what basic community needs piece. … Being able you do get done is what needs to be done. to do that on the city government side, it’s a very interesting twist that we have this robust What do you wish you’d known at the system of government but we’re using it to beginning of your career? leverage our neighbors into helping them help I wish I had known that it’s OK to not know themselves and to help us help them as well. things. The more you ask questions, the more you know. … It’s the only way you can learn.

What kind of education or training did you need for this job?

What is your typical at-work uniform?

My education is a little funky. My underI’m a business-casual type of person. grad degree is in art education and my When, I’m in the office, it’s office attire, and master’s is in leadership studies with a focus when I’m out with residents, I look like a resion nonprofit management. … I really love dent. I am a resident of Manchester. So, when that creative thinking ... but I like it to have a I’m out doing cleanups or I’m hanging out purpose and to have a really rational explana- with kiddos at a program, I am a reflection of tion. So that idea of being a creative problem my community. solver but having a real base to use those options. … So much of working with comWhat was the first job you ever had? munities is trying to think outside of the box The first job I ever had was a cashier at and trying to figure out what haven’t we tried, Market Basket. And I worked there for a very what haven’t we looked at, what could we do, long time. what might work, and really just going for it.

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FOOD Dine out New Year’s Eve Ring in the new year with a special dinner

By Allie Ginwala

News from the local food scene

aginwala@hippopress.com

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From buffets and dancing to Champagne toasts and special menus, celebrate the new year at a local restaurant. Check out the Nite section for other restaurants and bars open with comedy, nightlife, live music and more.

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• Say cheese: Think your homemade macaroni and cheese recipe is second to none? Test its merits and enter that cheesy goodness in this year’s NH Macaroni and Cheese Bake Off, held on Saturday, Jan. 16, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Courtyard Marriott Grappone Conference Center (70 Constitution Ave., Concord). Home cooks can enter the “best traditional mac,” “best creative/exotic mac” or “best NH made mac” categories. The first-place winner of each category, plus people’s choice, will have the chance to win the overall 2016 grand champion of macaroni and cheese title. Entry fee is $10; restaurants and catering companies will compete separately. See nhdairypromo.org for rules and to register. Just want to taste your way through the afternoon?

All-you-can-eat tickets (includes a beverage) cost $16 for adults, free for children 10 and under. Tickets must be purchased in advance. See nhdairypromo.org.

• Into the kitchen: Row 34 (5 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, 319-5011, row34nh. com) will host weekly pop-up dinner sessions this winter that give guest chefs the chance to showcase their culinary style.

According to a press release, a different chef will join Row 34’s team each Tuesday for three months and prepare a la carte dishes to serve alongside the restaurant’s regular dinner menu. David Vargas of Vida Cantina will kick off the series on Jan. 5, followed by Matt Jennings of Townsman in Boston, Jamie Bissonnette of Toro / Coppa, Ben Hasty of Thistle Pig in South Berwick, Maine, and Sam Ostrow of Block 6 in Portsmouth. Available during dinner service from 5 to 10 p.m.

• Holidays at the bistro: Applecrest Farm Bistro (Applecrest Farm Orchards, 133 Exeter Road, Hampton Falls, farmbistro.com) recently kicked off a Holiday Series featuring special menus and drink pairings, in addition to the dinner menu. Enjoy a different four-course menu paired with a beer, wine and hard cider on Tuesday, Dec. 29, and Tuesday, Jan. 5. December’s menu has selections that include Tamarack farm lamb sausage “Merguez,” crispy potato and braised kale salad, duck breast, Maine potato gnocchi and raspberry panna cotta. Cost is $50 per person.

• Last chance for gingerbread: If you haven’t visited two of the state’s pop- 41 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

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• Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen. com) is taking reservations for its New Year’s Eve Gala buffet from 4 to 10 p.m. featuring fresh smoked salmon, chicken picatta, tortellini alfredo, prime rib, desserts and more (or choose from the special New Year’s Eve menu). Call for details about live music from DJ Tom McFall and a Champagne toast.

• Bartlett’s at Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks St., Henniker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) is offering a three-course dinner as part of its New Year’s Eve getaway package, which also includes lodging, in-room champagne and truffles, breakfast and afternoon coffee, tea, cocoa and cookies. Packages start at $499 per couple. Call 428-3281 for reservations.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn. com) will serve a four course prix fixe menu featuring seven entree selections (like grilled filet mignon and bouillabaisse) and four dessert selections (like creme fraiche cheesecake and triple chocolate mousse cake). Cost is $75. A limited a la carte menu will be available in the Tavern and Corks.

• Campo Enoteca (969 Elm St., Manchester, 625-0256, campoenoteca.com) will serve dinner specials lobster ravioli, Little Brook Farm strip steak and tuxedo pasta scampi along with the regular menu. Reservations start from 5 p.m.

• Cask & Vine (1½ East Broadway, Derry, 965-3454, caskandvine.com) will celebrate its third anniversary on New Year’s Eve with food, beer and wine. Tap list includes White Birch Phoenix Ale, Dogfish Head Higher Math and Founders Harvest Ale. Reservations recommended.

• Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com) will serve a New Year’s Eve prix fixe dinner menu in lieu of the regular menu starting at 4 p.m. (last reservations at 9 p.m.; restaurant closes at 11 p.m.). Menu includes a selection for first course (crispy coconut shrimp, herbed ricotta gnocchi), second course (fish chowder, spinach salad), entree (wood fired haddock, roasted rack of lamb) and grand finale (croquembouche for two, turtle cheesecake, winter fruit crumble). Options for two-course ($69), three-course ($79) and four-course

meals ($89). Enjoy live music by The Kim Riley Duo from 4 to 7 p.m. Call or go online for reservations.

• Cotton (75 Arms St., Manchester, 6225488, cottonfood.com) will serve a special three-course menu with choice of four starters, six entrees and three desserts. Cost ranges from $36 to $56 per person. Reservations required.

• Epoch Restaurant & Bar at The Exeter Inn (90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) with serve New Year’s Eve specials along with the regular dinner menu from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Reservations recommended.

• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) will serve the full dinner menu along with high end chef’s specials. Taking reservations from 4 p.m. until the kitchen closes around 11 p.m.

• Fratello’s Italian Grille (155 Dow St., Manchester, 624-2022, fratellos.com, eventsinthemillyard.com) will host a New Year’s Eve celebration in the Amoskeag Ballroom from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. with dancing, music from Joey Dion of Main Event, passed hors d’oeuvres, a dinner buffet and chef stations, a dessert station and cash bar.

Champagne toast and festive party favors at midnight. Cost is $69.95 per person, reservations required (attire excludes jeans).

• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Meze Bar (524 Nashua St., Milford, 673-3939, giorgios.com) will hold a New Year’s Eve Bash serving from its winter menu with creative specials, party favors and a Champagne toast after 10 p.m. There will be a DJ from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Reservations recommended.

• Granite Restaurant & Bar (96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000, graniterestaurant. com) will have a New Year’s Eve celebration featuring a four-course menu for $65.

• Hanover Street Chophouse (149 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-2467, hanoverstreetchophouse.com) is taking reservations for a four course prix fixe New Year’s Eve

menu from 5 to 9 p.m. $185 per couple.

• The Homestead Restaurant (641 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack, 429-2022, homesteadnh.com) will serve from a special menu until 10 p.m. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

• Hooked Seafood & Ignite Bar & Grille (110 Hanover St., Manchester, 606-1189; 100 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-0064, hookedonignite.com) is accepting reservations at Hooked from 4 to 10 p.m. and at Ignite until 11 p.m. Dinner specials will be served along with the regular menu and there will be three Champagne toasts.

• Lakehouse Grille (281 Daniel Webster Hwy., Meredith, 279-5221, thecman.com) will serve a prix fixe menu from 5 to 9 p.m. featuring appetizers like crispy pork belly and deviled eggs, entrees NY sirloin and chicken roulade, and desserts cherries jubilee and eggnog mousse. Options for three courses ($45) or four courses ($55) per person.

• Mile Away Restaurant (52 Federal Hill Road, Milford, 673-3904, mileawayrestaurant.com) is taking reservations for New Year’s Eve dinner, which includes choice of appetizer (like shrimp bisques, Swedish meatballs), salad, entree (like duck grand marnier, seafood sophia, chicken marsala, rack of lamb) and dessert (like chocolate mousse cake, bourbon bread pudding, sorbet).

• Mint Bistro (1105 Elm St., Manchester, 625-6468, mintbistronh.com) will offer select tapas and favorite entrees from the menu with seatings from 4:30 to 5 p.m., 7 to 7:30 p.m., and 9 to 9:30 p.m. straight through to when the ball drops. Reservations required.

• O Steaks and Seafood (11 S. Main St., Concord, 856-7925, magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/osteaks) will serve a special five-course prix fixe menu and drink specials from 5 to 11 p.m. with a champagne toast at mignight. Reservations encouraged.

• The Red Blazer (72 Manchester St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) will serve New Year’s Eve specials along with its

son. Reservations required.

• Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St., Salem, 952-4875, tuscanbrands.com) is taking reservations for a New Year’s Eve special menu starting at 4 p.m. The menu features a freshshucked Wellfleet oyster bar, jumbo shrimp cocktail, baked stuffed lobster, pan roasted veal chop and semifreddo.

• UnWine’d Key West Cafe & Grill (865 Second St., Manchester, 625-9463, unwined. net) will serve a special three-course dinner (surf and turf, with scallops and slow-cooked, braised beef short ribs) alongside the regular dinner menu. Taking reservations for regular hours (5 to 10 p.m.)

• The Windham Restaurant (59 Range Road, Windham, 870-9270, windhamrestaurant.com) will serve a special menu along with the regular menu. Full menu will be served until 10 p.m. Reservations are highly recommended.

• The Yard (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, theyardrestaurant. com) offers a New Year’s Eve package for $70 per person, which includes a holiday buffet dinner plus carving station (doors open at 6:30 p.m., dinner buffet from 7 to 8:30 p.m.), comedy show, live DJ music and a Champagne toast at midnight.

• Zampa (8 Exeter Road, Epping, 6798772, zampa.com) will serve its four-course New Year’s Eve dinner with one seating at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $65. Space is limited; make reservations early.

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• Sunny’s Table (11 Depot St., Concord, 225-8181, sunnystable.com) is taking reservations for a special New Year’s Eve prix-fixe menu.

• Surf (207 Main St., Nashua, 595-9293, surfseafood.com) will serve specials alongside the regular menu from 4:30 to 10 p.m.

Reservations recommended (taking reservations for parties of any size).

• Tandy’s Pub (1 Eagle Square, Concord, 856-7614, tandyspub.com) will host First Night, serving the grand buffet with a Caribbean twist from 5 to 9 p.m. Menu features curried coconut shrimp, sweet chili pork on basmati rice, Caribbean jerk skewers, baconwrapped scallops and more. Cost is $16.99 per person (dinner only, reservations strongly suggested) or $23.99 per person (includes Black & White Party). The Black & White Party is held from 9 p.m. to close; dress attire required.

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WINTER MARKETS Just because the snow is on its way doesn’t mean you can’t have fresh produce to fill your soups and casseroles with (plus plenty of other fun snacks and wares). Five winter markets meet on the weekends now through April, like the Winter Farmers’ Market at Cole Gardens (430 Loudon Road, Concord) on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Vendors include Blackwater Mustard, Groovin’ Granola and Lewis Farm. Contoocook Farmers’ Market features produce, all natural soaps, woodcraft and alpaca scarves at Hopkinton Town Hall (330 Main St., Contoocook) Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. See facebook.com/ContoocookFarmersMarket. The year round Salem Farmers Market meets Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the winter at Mary Fisk School (14 Main St., Salem) with vendors like Bagel Alley, Hurd Farm, Victory Aquaponics and White Cedar Farm.

Bring cash or purchase tokens at the information booth. See salemnhfarmersmarket.org. Milford Farmers’ Market meets in Milford Town Hall (Third Floor Auditorium, 1 Union Sq.) Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with vendors Butternut Farm, La Petit Cuisine, Laurel Hill Jams and Jellies and The Root Seller. See milfordnhfarmersmarket.com. On the second and fourth Saturday of the month, the Wolfeboro Area Farmers Market meets at First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro (115 South Main St.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy vendors 143 Chocolate, Carriage Hill Honey, Rollin’ in the Dough and Lindon Garlic Farm. See wolfeboroareafarmersmarket.com.

Food Chef events/special meals • APPLECREST FARM BISTRO HOLIDAY SERIES Featuring a special menu (in addition to the dinner menu) of four course paired with beer, then wine, then cider. Special menu changes each week. Tues., Dec. 29, and Tues., Jan. 5. Applecrest Farm Orchards, 133 Exeter Road, Hampton Falls. Special menu with pairings costs $50 per person. See farmbistro.com.

• GUEST CHEF SERIES At Row 43. Each week, a guest chef will prepare a la carte dishes that represent their culinary style alongside the regular menu. Tuesdays, Jan. 5, Jan. 12, Jan. 19, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, during dinner service from 5 to 10 p.m. Row 34, 5 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth. See row34nh.com.

• PARFAIT BAR SUNDAY Create your own parfait with granola, dried and fresh fruit, yogurt, fruit coulis and more.

Sun. from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Concord Food Co-op, 24 S. Main St., Concord. Cost is $5.99 per pound. See concordfoodcoop.com.

• CONCORD FOOD CO-OP BRUNCH Brunch buffet at The Co-op’s Celery Stick Café with build-your-own omelet station.

Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Concord Food Co-op, 24 S. Main St., Concord. Call 4103099, or visit concordfoodcoop. coop.

Fairs/festivals/expos • GINGERBREAD HOUSE DISPLAY 25th annual contest, part of Vintage Christmas in

Portsmouth. See the houses daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thurs., Dec. 24. Extended hours Fridays and Saturdays (until 8 p.m.). Discover Portsmouth, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth. Exhibit is free and open to the public.

See portsmouthhistory.org or vintagechristmasnh.org.

• GINGERBREAD VILLAGE See this year's game board themed gingerbread village.

Visit the display during business hours or see it lit up through the window through the first week of Jan. Frederick's Pastries, 109 Route 101A, Amherst. See pastry.net.

Classes/workshops • MACARON Learn how to make the French macaron from scratch with filling. Class features raspberry, orange, lemon and pistachio flavors. Tues., Jan 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester. Cost $60. Workshops fill up fast; register in advance. Visit finessepastries.com or call 2326592.

• ARTISAN BREADS II Learn the basics of bread baking while making the classic French baguette, hearty country loaf and herb focaccia. Fri., Jan. 15, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester. Cost is $75 per class. Visit finessepastries.com.

• CAPPELLACCI DI ZUCCA Part of La Scuola Culinaria.

Learn to make cappellacci di zucca (butternut squash ravioli) hands-on, followed by a tasting and three course dinner. Mon., Jan 18, at 6 p.m. Tuscan Mar-

ket, 63 Main St., Salem. Cost is $125. Visit tuscanbrands.com.

• PUFF PASTRY Learn to make a blitz version of puff pastry. Mix, envelope and turn your own dough, then shape and bake your own pastries. Fri., Jan. 22, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester.

Cost is $75. Call to reserve a space. Visit finessepastries.com.

• IL SEGRETO DEL PANE Part of La Scuola Culinaria.

Learn to make Italian artisan bread hands-on. Mon., Jan 25, at 6 p.m. Tuscan Market, 63 Main St., Salem. Cost is $85. Visit tuscanbrands.com.

• GROWING SHOOTS AND SPROUTS AT HOME With Co-op farm manager Stacey Cooper. Sample varieties and take home a tray of shoots and a jar of sprouts to grow. Tues., Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. Concord Food Co-op, 24 S. Main St., Concord.

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• INTRODUCTION TO CHOCOLATE Learn the history of fine chocolate, grind beans and make chocolate like the Mayans and taste 4 chocolates and a bonbon. Wed., Jan. 27, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Dancing Lion Chocolate, 917 Elm St., Manchester. Cost is $45 per person. Call 625-4043 to register.

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• CROISSANT & BRIOCHE Two week consecutive course.

Make dough from scratch then shape and bake croissants and cinnamon rolls. Fri., Jan. 29, and Fri., Feb. 5, from 6 to 9:30 (must attend both classes). Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester. Cost is $150. Call to reserve

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Continued from page 38 ular annual gingerbread house displays yet, now is the time to check them out.

Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, Amherst, pastry.net) annual gingerbread village will be on display until the first week of January. Stop by during business hours to see this year’s game board themed houses or see it lit up through a space. Visit finessepastries.com.

• LA STORIA DELLA PIZZA ITALIANA Part of La Scuola Culinaria. Learn to make pizza hands-on, followed by a tasting.

Mon., Feb. 8, at 6 p.m. Tuscan Market, 63 Main St., Salem. Cost is $65. Visit tuscanbrands.com.

• ARTISAN BREADS I Learn the basics of bread baking while making sweet Jewish Challah bread, herb ciabatta and cheesy Gruyere rolls. Wed., Feb 10, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester. Cost is $75 per class. Visit finessepastries.com.

• BEAT THOSE WINTER BLUES NATURALLY With Ruth Goldstein, MS, RD. Walk away with diet and lifestyle recommendations and sample recipes. Thurs., Feb. 11, at 6 p.m.

Concord City Council Chambers, 37 Green St., Concord. Free. See

the window after hours. Discover Portsmouth’s gingerbread house display, part of Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth, is open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Thursday, Dec. 24, at 10 Middle St. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

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• EATING HEALTHY ON A BUDGET With Dr. Madalyn Otto. Tues., Feb. 16, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Concord Fire Department, Training Room, 24 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord. Free.

See concordfoodcoop.coop.

• BROWN BAG LUNCH MONDAYS Join for a consideration of quotes from different teachers and masters. Mondays from noon to 1 p.m. WSW Center, 111 Water St., Second floor, Exeter. Cost is $10.

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Author events/lectures • COOKBOOK EXPLORERS Monthly group meetings include discussion of a new cuisine or diet. Share cooking trials and triumphs and leave with new recipes. Wed., Jan. 20, at 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Pelham Public Library, 24 Village Green, Pelham. Free

Local food from local farms Gifts, Dairy, Vegetables, Baked Goods, Meats, Fish, Live Music & so much more!

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Part wine tasting, part cooking class and part couple’s evening out: Have your dinner — and make it too — at Chez Boucher Cooking School New Year’s Early Celebration on Sunday, Dec. 27.

“People seemed to be fascinated by it, and I think it’s a nice night out for couples and it’s in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere,” owner and operator Ron Boucher said in a phone interview. “They get to go in a social atmosphere and work with these people side by side and by the end … everybody is like best of friends.”

The multifaceted class begins with the group enjoying cocktails at the restaurant’s bar while Boucher goes over the menu and preparation techniques they’ll be using.

This month’s dinner is based around Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery wines from Washington state, inspiring Boucher to plan a Pacific coast-style menu. It features sweet chili lime shrimp with cilantro over fried jicama chips, citrus-rubbed salmon over an herb and baby green salad, stuffed flank steak roulade with poblano and orange zest stuffing and chocolate mole sauce, and lavNew Year’s Early Celebration: Wine Pairing Cooking Class Dinner

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“Food and wine pairing is as much science as it is art,” he said. “The bottom line is we’re looking for similarities in flavor profile and differences, so sometimes contrasting flavors can be supportive if the food is missing a particular flavor.”

For example, the roasted flank steak entree was originally going to have a pepperoncini and orange zest stuffing, but he thought it needed more heat so he switched it to a poblano stuffing to pair the dish with Chateau Ste. Michelle “Indian Wells” Red Blend.

“The whole menu has that kind of a fusion flavor profile, but obviously speaks to the Pacific coast,” he said.

Before the meal, guests will head to the kitchen and divide into groups to work on each course.

“We might have four things going on all at the same time,” he said. “And then of course I’m explaining everything as we do it to the rest of the people that aren’t cooking,” since only 12 people work at a time.

Around 5 p.m. the group will head to the dining room, where a wine representative will describe the wine chosen for each course and how it complements the food before everyone gets to taste it, about 2 to 4 ounces for each person.

“It’s like going out to dinner, but you’re getting so much more than that,” Boucher said, noting that the couples class started as an occasional dinner and morphed into a popular regular event.

“We tried doing beer pairing dinners as well, and that never seemed to kick off as well as the wine pairing did,” he said.

“This is something I’ve been working on perfecting my whole life. Finally it came together.”

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Crispy potatoes with fennel I’ll say it: I hate cooking during the holidays. There is too much pressure for everything to be picture perfect. Is the ham glazed? Are the green beans crunchy but cooked? Will the rolls still be hot by the time the potatoes are finished? But this year, I’ve realized it does not matter.

If my ham is a bit dry or the green beans are bit soggy, if the rolls are cold or the potatoes are slightly undercooked, it does not matter. The meals tick by in quick succession every year. A Christmas Eve dinner, and then a Christmas Day brunch followed

by Christmas dinner, so much preparation goes into each meal, but the next day, I don’t remember the food — I remember the fun.

That’s why this year I’ve vowed not to let the pressure of cooking the perfect holiday meal burden me. I’ll focus on who is around my dining room table instead of what is on it, and I bet I’ll enjoy the holidays a lot more. But that doesn’t mean I won’t look for great, simple and pantryfriendly recipes to serve.

There are a lot of great resources available for meal planning, especially around the holidays. One of my favorites is Southern Living, which offers a variety of menus for all occasions. From “Fun Holiday Luncheon” to “Delightful Dinner for Company,” the compilation of menus and recipes is divine.

Crispy potatoes with fennel Recipe courtesy of Southern Living 1 fennel bulb 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 pounds red potatoes, thinly sliced 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Rinse fennel Portsmouth Brewery, 56 Market St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $40.

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I found this recipe for potatoes with fennel under the menu for “Fresh and Elegant Holiday Dinner,” and it fit the bill. Both simple and pantry-friendly, this dish is so delicious it seems too good to be true.

Fennel has become one of my favorite herbs to use around the holidays. It adds freshness to recipes that can quickly become too heavy as the butter, cream and sauces I gravitate toward during the winter overtake most of my dinner menus. But this recipe is sauce- and butter-free, making it the perfect, light complement to a hearty holiday meal.

Another great thing about this recipe: It’s delicious even if served at room temperature. Forget trying to time everything perfectly. You pop this dish in the oven for 50 minutes, and if it cools a bit before the other sides are finished, no harm done.

Depending on your palate, you can always choose to use more or less fennel than the recipe calls for. I’m slightly obsessed with the aromatic herb at the moment, so I chose to layer it in generously with the potatoes, opting to use a bit less thyme than the recipe called for.

Overall, this recipe was delicious, and I can already tell it will help de-stress my holiday dinner (and future weeknight dinners) with its simple, quick preparation.

— Lauren Mifsud thoroughly before trimming and discarding root end of fennel bulb. Trim stalks from bulb, reserving fronds for another use (such as garnish, if desired). Thinly slice bulb. Add olive oil to a 9-inch cast-iron skillet. Arrange half of potato slices in skillet. Layer with fennel slices and remaining potatoes. Sprinkle with thyme, salt and pepper. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes. Uncover and bake 15 more minutes or until potatoes are browned.

• BANFI WINE DINNER Enjoy a four-course meal and wine pairings with wine director Joseph Comforti and special guest Cristine Mariani-May, proprietor of Castello Banfi vineyard estate in Tuscany and co-CEO of Banfi Vintners. Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. Tuscan Kitchen, 67 Main St., Salem. Cost is $125 per

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The United States’ most recognized wine producer is California. Napa Valley is known as the “go to” place for wine enthusiasts. I have not been yet, but it is on my bucket list. That being said, it isn’t the only place in the country where you can try some fantastic wine and visit multiple wineries.

Reportedly, every state in the country now has a winery. I have now been wine tasting in multiple states including Texas, upstate New York, Maine and North Carolina.

But while I am on the topic of wine regions, I want to talk about two near California that are often overshadowed but are producing some fantastic wines. Visiting them is also on my bucket list. I am talking about Oregon and Washington state. Last year before New Hampshire’s Wine Week, I had the opportunity to speak with Howard Rossbach, owner of Firesteed Cellars in Rickreall, Oregon, and that only intensified my enthusiasm for these locations.

Oregon has several wine regions, including North Willamette Valley, Southern, South Willamette Valley, Eastern, Umpqua and Rogue Valley and Applegate Valley (paired together into one). It shares three appellations, or defined geographic viticultural areas, with Washington: Columbia Gorge, Walla Walla Valley and Oregon’s Columbia Valley. It also shares Snake River Valley with Idaho. The state had 676 wineries in 2014, according to Wines Northwest.

Washington has its own wine regions, with 13 official appellations and three additional unofficial ones. Winemaking there dates back to 1825, when the first grapes were reportedly planted, but commercial-scale planting didn’t happen until the 1960s.

I point out these different regions because where grapes are grown has an effect on the wines they produce. A great example of this is Italy, where wine and food go hand in hand due to the country’s varying climate — ocean influences and seafood by Sardinia, contrasted by fuller-bodied wines and heavier cuisine with German influences to the north.

In the northwest regions of Oregon, coolclimate grapes like pinot gris, riesling, chardonnay and pinot noir flourish. This is where some of my favorite wines come from. When I asked Rossbach what made Oregon a great place to grow grapes, he praised the climate, noting its location at 45 degrees north latitude gives it long daylight hours in the summer, long cool nights and rainfall in the majority of the seasons with

the exception of summer. There’s also great soil, no humidity and no thunderstorms.

“It’s a special place,” he said. “As we say in Oregon, the wine is really made in the vineyard.” This ideal location led Howard to grow grapes on what is now 300 acres total.

The southern and eastern parts of the state have their own micro climates, which gives winemakers the ability to grow a wide variety of grapes, including Bordeaux and Rhone grape varieties and even French Burgundian varieties as well.

In 2014, the ratio of red to white wines was 68 to 31 percent, with the major varieties being pinot noir, pinot gris, chardonnay, syrah, cabernet, riesling and merlot, among many others.

Washington state’s wine production has increased by a whopping 400 percent in the last decade, according to Wines Northwest.

Coincidentally, it is located at approximately the same latitude as some of France’s own Bordeaux and Burgundy regions. The majority of the state’s wine growing takes place on the east side of the Cascades. In total, Washington’s wine regions reportedly produce more wine grapes than any other state except California. The state had 850 plus wineries according to 2015 data, with riesling, chardonnay, pinot gris, sauvignon blanc, merlot, cabernet, syrah, cabernet France and malbec listed under its most popular varietals.

Here in New Hampshire, we typically have access to more wines from Oregon than from Washington, but I like to keep an eye out for them. Firesteed wines are among my personal favorites, but I always like to try new ones as well.

New Hampshire’s annual Wine Week will be held Jan. 24 to Jan. 30, and this is a great time to learn more about the wine regions of the world and try something new. Stay tuned for more details and keep checking nhwineweek.com.

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• The Cult, Hidden City A

The Cult, Hidden City (Cooking Vinyl Records) Despite singer Ian Astbury’s many threats about bagging this band, or releasing only EPs, or going digital only, it’s, yes, another album from the British foursome, whose 1985 Love album yielded “She Sells Sanctuary” and five or six better songs than that hit, all wrapped in a goth-rooted psych-metal mystique topped with a Native American headdress. In fact, Astbury had cobbled such a sexyquasi-Indian-dude aura that he was the first choice to play Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s Doors movie. Maybe you remember those days, maybe you weren’t there, but Love was a buzzy, trippy anomaly in a time that needed more Siouxsieish knuckleballs. Then along came Rick Rubin with a label-issued warrant to screw up everything and make them into an AC/DC bar-rock band of sorts, and before you know it, every problem a band could possibly have was dug in deep. Anyway, 30 years along, we get the album that might have made a nice segue between Love and the Rubin-helmed Electric, if not from the get-go. Opening tune “Dark Energy” is a little too ZZ Top-ish, watered-down blues chugging along in search of a melodic peak, a rat-trap that’s native to these guys, but its slightly muted tone heralds the better parts of this record, specifically the snake-charming, heavily syncopated “No Love Lost” and the borderline Simple Minds-like “Dance the Night.” Not bad. A — Eric W. Saeger

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Secrets of the Moon, Sun (Prophecy Productions) If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, so it’s high time I at least pretended to take blackmetal seriously. OK, at least I think that’s what I’m doing here. This German quartet, mainly comprised of guys who are in other bands (Eudaimony and Vorkreist, to name but two), bill themselves as a black metal unit, and, much more importantly, they use vaguely Luciferian stage names like “Thrawn” and “LSK,” but their storm-slashed bummer-dude math chords remind me more of those old Earache Records releases from the mid-Aughts, from bands like Cult of Luna, the intents and purposes of which never struck me. I’ll say this about SotM, though — its singer, “sK,” is muscular after a pub-oi fashion, projecting a lot of rawboned Dillinger Escape Plan-level anger (thankfully sans the mud-monster stuff), all of which was lacking in this space 10 years ago. But I suppose if I were a capitalist wolf breaking this corporation up to sell it for parts, I’d send the singer over to Pelican and tell the remaining guys to speed up the songs lest they get fired. B- — Eric W. Saeger

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• As you know if you’ve paid any attention at all, and I wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t, this year the record companies decided that Fridays would be the new weekday for new album releases. Apparently Tuesdays aren’t drunk enough for buying albums, so I suppose it’s a good move, but as you also know, next Friday is New Year’s Day, the Super Bowl of hangover days. Will the stores even be open, on that solemn national holiday of barfing? Of course they will! And there’s always your criminal Pirate Bay websites, and Amazon and whatever. OK, then why have I only found one record slated to come out that day? Yes, I’ll keep looking, because otherwise this is going to end up being a giant rant about lousy TV shows. But let’s get to the new EP from KSI, Keep Up, which is actually coming out on Jan. 1. The title single features JME, who adds some government-issue tough-guy flows over KSI’s disposable grimy, crunky, haunted beats. Lots of soccer stuff in the video. Nice workout music if you know of a muscle-head who donated his brain to science ahead of schedule.

• OK, I was wrong, the “street date” thing for next week has actually been moved to the drunkest day of the year, New Year’s Eve itself! AraabMuzik is a Providence, Rhode Island-based producer who has worked with 50 Cent and Judakiss, and his shtick is making all his beats on an MPC (Music Production Center) drum machine. Naturally, because he is such a hip-hop god, he enjoys ruining nice chill-tech songs, such as the single here, “Day Dreams,” whose only redeeming feature is the sample of Moonbeam’s “You Win Me.” But who cares, drink up and enjoy the trap drums while they’re still relevant!

• Freaking dang it all, it’s a k-pop boy band; why do I do this again? Your skinny-jeans heroes BIGBANG have been out of the picture for three years, meaning they are basically bizarre fossils from the Pleistocene Age, little 98-pound trilobites frozen in primordial ooze that turned to rock as the months went by. But these Korean love-boys are back, doing their thang, with a new album, called M.A.D.E., in stores on New Year’s Eve. Should we go listen to this band, to see if they’ve improved on the formula they used on their big 2007 hit “Lies,” where they tried spazzy electronic Disney Channel-ready music on for size? Haha, of course not, I am in horror already.

• I don’t mind Portland, Oregon-based Chromatics at all.

They’re sort of like what you’d get if a shoegaze band got trapped on a desert island with nothing but a boombox and some Giorgio Moroder CDs. This isn’t to say I love this band more than life itself, au contraire, but if I were Emperor Diocletian I wouldn’t immediately throw them into my lions’ cafeteria. Dear Tommy is their new album, featuring the single “I Can Never Be Myself When You’re Around,” a tortured, windy mess of skronky guitars, gloom and sexy-girl singing. The hook is boring, but at least they tried. — Eric W. Saeger

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If you’re still on the lookout for a New Year’s resolution, consider going on a vision quest — which you can learn how to do in Hannah Papp’s book, The Mystical Backpacker: How to Discover Your Destiny in the Modern World. She talks about it at Gibson’s Bookstore on Friday, Jan. 8, at 5:30 p.m.

The book combines memoir with details of the five months Papp spent backpacking around Europe in her mid-20s. It includes directions for how to go on your own modern-day vision quest, which is what this journey turned out to be. (In Native American cultures, young adult men went on vision quests to discover what they wanted to do with their lives.)

“Part of the story includes my own travel experience — and the important thing was that I traveled alone. … It really facilitated an inner journey, because I was by myself. It was almost like having two travel experiences at once, where I was traveling internally and externally at the same time,” she said. “It’s also a guide book or manual for how the reader can activate this inner journey in their own life as well. … So it’s not just my story, it’s also a call to action.”

When Papp decided to take this backpacking adventure, she had been working full-time (and overtime) at an English language publication in Budapest, Hungary, where she’d studied history. She had an art nouveau apartment with high ceilings and mosaic tile floors, and she took cobblestone streets and one of the best train rides in Europe to work every day. From the outside, it looked like she led a pretty charmed life.

“But I wasn’t happy. I didn’t feel I was in the right place, didn’t feel what I was doing was meaningful or fulfilling,” Papp said.

After a nightmare day at the office, she decided to make a change. She gave her landlady notice, bought a railway ticket, and within a week, she was gone. She backpacked through Greece, France and Italy.

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When she ran out of money in Spain, she got a job as a steward on a yacht.

Papp said her own travel had been unplanned, happening spontaneously and organically, which was both scary and liberating.

“I was terrified. I was uneasy, and I had no safety net. I was not at that point anymore in my life where I could call my parents to come bail me out,” Papp said.

“I was really afraid of traveling by myself, but I realized it’s not scary. It’s liberating.

So much of travel is negotiation. … Where are we going to eat? What are we going to do today? Which train to take? Everything, when you’re traveling with people, is a single event, a discussion. When you travel alone, you only please yourself. And all of a sudden you will find yourself doing something you’d never go to do with people.”

Being alone, she said, helped her discover what she really wanted out of life. She was able to do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, and it eventually helped her decide what her driving desires were.

“One of the things I talk about in the book is how most religions in the world afford this opportunity for people coming into adulthood. They all have a variation of it. But it’s missing from our modern culture. Most modern spirituality is conformist. It doesn’t support the individual,” Papp said. “What’s interesting is that what my odyssey yielded was essentially a list of the things that were my personal dreams that I wished to fulfill — the things that I understood that, at the end of the trip, would bring my spirit happiness.”

Since her quest 15 years ago, she’s done many of those things. She’s become a writer, started her own video production business, based in D.C., and got married and had kids.

The goal of writing this book, she said, was to help other people stuck in ruts. To coincide with the text, she created a website in the hope of building an online network of mystical backpackers who can talk and learn from one another. (It also has information like what to include in a backpacking journey, from travel towels and scarves with hidden pockets to inflatable neck pillows and versatile items like sarongs.) Since writing, she’s received lots of emails and messages from strangers and seen bumper stickers with her logo plastered on cars.

But that’s not to say hers is the only way to learn what it is you want to do.

“There are so many of us on this Earth.

It is not possible to say there’s one solution for everybody. But it’s something that’s been celebrated by so many cultures, all around the world,” Papp said.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG-13)

New rebel fighters and reluctant heroes join Leia, Han and other old favorites from the original Lucas trilogy in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a solid return to the galaxy far, far away.

Be warned: I’m going to try to keep it to a minimum with the spoilers but maybe check back with the review later if you want to be completely surprised by all details in this movie.

It’s about 30 years since the rebellion blew up the second Death Star, but the fight between the light and dark sides of the Force continues. Luke Skywalker’s (Mark Hamill) attempts at building a new band of Jedi has not been successful and now he is in a self-imposed exile. Now-General Leia (Carrie Fisher) is desperate to find him to help the still-fledgling Republic and the group that acts as its army (I guess?), the resistance, fight the First Order, a group of space Nazis that has inherited the storm troopers, ships and snazzy uniforms from the Empire.

On the desert planet of Jakku, Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) gets a vital piece of information in the search for Luke from an ally. But before this resistance pilot can make his getaway, the First Order shows up, all stormtroopers and explosions. He tries to take off in his fighter jet, but the fire from the troops is too heavy, so he slips the information into his puppycute droid, the orange and white BB-8 that beeps and is currently out of stock on Amazon. Get away from here and I will come and find you, Poe tells the BB-8, who sells for $149.95 and can be guided with your smartphone or tablet.

As with Princess Leia oh so many years ago, Poe is captured after sending the droid off. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), a big deal with the First Order who wears a snazzy update of the Darth Vader look, takes Poe up to the Star Destroyer-y ship that is his home base, where he tries to Forcesqueeze the information out of Poe’s brain.

This results in Kylo learning about the droid but not, luckily for the resistance, the exact details of the map. Before Kylo can go digging around in Poe’s brain any more, though, a stormtrooper shows up to take Poe somewhere. Luke Skywalker, here to rescue him? No, but similar, it’s Finn (John Boyega), as Poe eventually nicknames the FNnumbersnumbers stormtrooper who had an uncharacteristic crisis of conscience back on Jakku. While he watched Ren murder a bunch of villagers and saw some of his own stormtrooper brethren die, Finn decided that cannon fodder for an evil army was not the life for him. The men get away, but a firefight with Tie-Fighters leads them to crash-land back on Jakku. Finn soon finds HIPPO | DECEMBER 24 - 30, 2015 | PAGE 52

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himself shipless and stranded in the desert with only Poe’s supercool-looking jacket.

The jacket helps the BB identify Finn as somebody who knows about Poe. Well, at first he thinks Finn probably stole the jacket from Poe, which is why the BB has Rey (Daisy Ridley, who reminded me of a chipper Keira Knightley — in a good way) tackle Finn on first meeting. Rey is a cando scavenger the BB met on its way through the desert. She was stranded on Jakku by her family as a girl and now she gets by yanking parts out of old Imperial ships and selling them for food. Finn and Rey meet just as stormtroopers show up looking for the BB. They make their way toward a fast ship to get the heck off the planet. When that ship is blown up, they head to the hunk of junk sitting next to it and — hey, it’s the Millennium Falcon!

Thus begins the journey of unlikely allies.

Rey and Finn, who is passing himself off as a member of the resistance to Rey, plan to get the BB to the resistance. Along the way, they run into Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Rey and Finn must decide if, like a certain smuggler decades earlier, they are just in this trip for their own personal goals or if they too want to join in the fight against the dark side.

The scene where Rey and Finn meet Han and Chewbacca pretty perfectly captures the spirit of this movie. Rey and Finn, who have each heard near mythical stories about Han and the Rebellion, fanboy out a bit — you’re the general? The guy who made the Kessel Run in 14 parsecs? Rey and Finn are starstruck but also not particularly certain they want to get involved in whatever sketchy business Han’s into now, just as they aren’t certain they want to get tangled up in the whole Resistance versus First Order fight. Rey is still hoping that if she sticks around Jakku, her family might show up. Finn just wants to get as far as possible from war. They are kids, just like the whiny, itching-to-leave-Tatooine Luke

in the first movie, and Rey and Finn figuring out who they are and what their part will be in this bigger struggle give the movie its energy and sense of adventure.

In many ways, what J.J. Abrams does here is similar to what he did with his reboot of Star Trek. Like a kid building his own creation out of a Lego set, he takes pieces of the original Star Wars (which I am too old to train myself to call A New Hope) and reassembles them to make something that is different from the thing it started as but with enough similarities that he isn’t whole-scale reinventing anything. Once again, there’s a rebel, information stored in an adorable droid, a person on a dusty planet, the hunk of junk that is the Millennium Falcon, a quest to bring the droid to the rebel headquarters, a destiny, an old man with some back story, a villain trying to prove himself and a princess. We get callbacks, reimaginings, echos and the occasional moment of blatant but cute fan service — such as a moment when, as the gang is jostling around the Falcon, Finn finds the training laser ball thing that Luke used in the first movie. He gives it a “what is this?” look then chucks it away. That one’s for you, forty-something movie-goer, the movie seems to say. We even get hints of the original dialogue and what’s shocking is that dialogue from a Lucas movie is more or less organically fit into natural-sounding conversations.

(An aside: Abrams stays far away from anything that smacks of the clunky, CGInonsense-filled prequel films of the late 1990s and early aughts. But for serious prequel fun, check out Belated Media and their “What if it was good?” take on the prequel trilogy. It reimagines the story of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and, with the power of one exited geek’s narration and really charming storyboards, crafts a fun alternate universe.)

So, in many ways, this is the sequel you’re looking for. It’s gritty — I’m sure

there’s green screen happening here but it doesn’t scream at you the way the allgreen-screen, all-the-time prequel movies did. It’s populated primarily with human characters (with a few exceptions, including, of course, a Wookie) and one cutesy droid. It gives us a few heroes making a journey. It gives us a glimpse at some of our favorite characters from the old movie.

It gives us a universe that looks like it could be part of the same universe of the original trilogy and it is infused with the same spirit of old-fashioned action-adventure. Because Abrams is at the helm, it also has a bit of humor and a dash of lightness that Lucas never managed. There is something in the reactions of these characters — particularly Rey and Finn — to their sudden plunge into the war between Light and Dark that recalls the sassiest bits of the first movie’s Leia.

That said, this isn’t a perfect movie. The Force Awakens is most definitely an episode, not a complete story. There’s a lot of telegraphing of future things, how characters relate to each other and who will need to fight whom, that feels very much like waving around the gun now that’s going to go off in 2019.

If this movie were my introduction to the Star Wars universe, I’d probably say that every scene with that Leia lady, anything about this Luke dude and a good amount of stuff with that sourpuss Han guy is skippable. Whereas Leonard Nimoy’s Spock really helped to sell the reboot of Star Trek, a lot of the original trilogy characters and their tribulations feels secondary to the point of being almost unnecessary to the more interesting stories of Rey, Finn and cocky pilot Poe, whose scenes with Finn are goofily charming. Han comes the closest to the “old Spock” effect; his character has the most to do but it still feels slightly more like fan service than story necessity.

And then there are the villains. Domhnall Gleeson plays General Hux, this movie’s version of a Grand Moff Tarkin. From what I gather, Hux, all spiffy black suit and perfect coif, is the take-no-nonsense Nazi. He thinks Kylo Ren (who I kept thinking of as “Rilo Kiley”), with his mask and his black cape and his harping on the Force, is too much showmanship, not enough evil-military discipline. When Hux and Kylo go to speak with their big boss, Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), everything Hux says regarding Kylo could also be conveyed with an eyeroll. “Ugh, again with the Force,” Hux seems to want to say.

And I kind of agree with Hux. Kylo Ren should be a terrifying figure of a reborn evil.

Instead, he a bit feels like an exhausting figure of suburban angst. Like, you get the sense Kylo listens to a lot of Morrissey and writes angry/sad poetry. At one point, Kylo removes his mask and my first impulse was to laugh.

I gather that some of this is intended — just

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will not come to your house for coffee and gal-chat, but you can hang with them via Sisters, a comedy wherein they play the titular siblings tasked with cleaning out their childhood rooms.

Maura (Poehler) is the younger sister, but when her mother (Dianne Wiest) and father (James Brolin) decide to sell the home she grew up in they tell her to tell older sister Kate (Fey) the news. Kate, you see, has a tendency to overreact, sometimes to the point of tantrum. Perhaps it’s this quality that has led her to quit/get fired from a string of jobs and left her couch-surfing and running her hairstyling business out of her friend’s bathroom. When her teenage daughter Haley (Madison Davenport) comes home from a trip to find her mother’s situation thus, she takes off again, basically saying she doesn’t want to live her mother’s irresponsible life anymore.

So when Maura calls Kate and tells her to come home to Orlando for a visit, Kate agrees to if for no other reason than that it is a place to stay. When the women get there they find that their parents have already sold their childhood home and moved out. The new owners are set to move in shortly and all that’s left for Maura and Kate to do is pack up the Xanadu posters and Care Bear shirts and other memorabilia from their early years. But the trip home, complete with reading of their diaries — Kate’s full of ill-advised romantic hook-ups, Maura’s full of nerdi-

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I finally got around to watching Trainwreck recently and I found my feelings toward that movie are very similar to my feelings toward this movie. Both movies would seem to be made for me, especially Sisters with its late 1980s/early 1990s nostalgia, but I ultimately liked them more for individual moments than as an overall story.

Both movies feature smart women making smart comedy, but both movies needed a tighter edit and a narrower focus. Take any five minutes of Trainwreck and you’re likely to get at least one good laugh. But as a just-more-than-two-hour movie, it was exhausting, like sitting through two hours of the same improv sketch. While Sisters isn’t quite as directionless, it also feels like a bunch of funny ideas more than like one good story. Kate and Maura are good characters fleshed out by smart actresses, but the story doesn’t really give them a lot to do.

Likewise, some equally excellent talent shows up in the supporting roster but no one really gets a chance to shine. Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Samantha Bee, all playing old friends and/or frenemies who show up at the party, basically get one joke to tell a few times. The men fare a bit better — between this movie and Trainwreck, John Cena, who plays a drug dealer here, is finding his inner “The Rock” and crushing the comic abilities honed in the WWE. And then there’s Ike Barinholtz, who proves his comic abilities are not limited to playing The Mindy Project’s Morgan Tookers (who on that show, like bacon, makes everything he’s in just a little bit better).

I liked Sisters more than I didn’t like it.

I did, in fact, laugh so hard at one point that I briefly had some trouble with the intake of air. But I know I’m grading on a curve. So much of what makes this movie work is the chemistry between Fey and Poehler and the basically limitless admiration I have for each. So, perhaps this movie deserves to be something like a C or C+, a notch above mediocre. But, because it’s them, I can’t help but say B. Rated R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and for drug use.

Directed by Jason Moore with a screenplay by Paula Pell, Sisters is an hour and 58 minutes long and distributed by Universal Pictures.

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as Rey and Finn aren’t sure of their roles, evil’s assistant manager Kylo still feels the call of the Light Side of the Force. But the way Driver plays him suggests to me more poutiness than hardcore villainy. While not at Hayden Christensen levels of poutery, this definitely feels poutier than you’d expect from your Big Scary Bad. These flaws are not at all fatal, however. The Force Awakens succeeds both at the low-bar standard of being better than the much-maligned prequel trilogy and at being good enough to pique our (the collective “our” of Star Wars fandom of all levels, from casual movie-watchers to Expanded Universe devotees) interest in a new trilogy. It does this and provides a solid and fun adventure story in its own right. That its new characters are more exciting than its old might be the very thing this franchise needs to give us all a new hope. B+ Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence (and, let’s face it, because what else was it going to be rated?). Directed by J.J. Abrams with a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt (from characters by George Lucas), Star Wars: The Force Awakens is two hours and 15 minutes long and distributed by Walt Disney Studios.

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NITE Ring it in Local music news & events

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• Hum not humbug: For a last-minute injection of holiday spirit, enjoy Nate Comp playing Christmas jazz songs while partaking in a special prix fixe menu with a two-, three- or four-course option. If a dessert of gingerbread bread pudding doesn’t shake off the Scrooge demons, maybe a rum cake martini or a smooth rendition of “Silver Bells” will do the trick. Thursday, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m., at Copper Door, 15 Leavy Drive, Bedford.

See copperdoorrestaurant.com.

• Back home again: Fun-loving family band Zanois hasn’t played in Manchester for a while, traveling south to Florida, Georgia and North Carolina and ranging northward as far as Quebec. For a show at the local steampunk bar, the trio shares the stage with Rhode Island band Two Brothers and Kenneth Fox, a trombone player who’s worked with BlueEyed Sun. The show is Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9 p.m., at Tin Roof Tavern, 333 Valley St., Manchester. See http://on.fb.me/1NFyEFQ. • Brand new digs: The all-ages Monday’s Muse jam hosted by Lisa Guyer has a new home. The singer who put the Mama in Mama Kicks brings a rhythm section of John Medeiros and Geoff Bates, and keyboard player Steve Bates. Anyone with a song to sing is welcome to join the band and give it a try — leave your inhibitions at the door, and embrace the spirit of music. Monday, Dec. 28, at 8 p.m. at Dolly Shakers, 38 E. Hollis St., Nashua. See facebook.com/ DollyShakers.

• Traveling man: Few musical projects are as honestly Americana as the latest from Stephen Kellogg, a four-part album sampling the regional sounds of America. Each section was recorded in a different U.S. city — South in Nashville and Atlanta, West in Boulder, CO, North (out on Christmas Day) in Woodstock, N.Y., and East (due next month) in Washington, D.C. Kellogg plays Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 8 p.m. at Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road, Londonderry. Tickets $25 at tupelohall.com.

• Midweek mirth: Denver comic Kristin Rand headlines 2015’s final night of comedy at the Shaskeen. Rand’s hometown loves the comic — “one of the most gloriously authentic, irrepressible personalities in the city,” wrote one critic, while another called her “endlessly charming.” She’s now based in L.A., a regular part of the Southern California ensemble scene. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 9 p.m. at Shaskeen Pub, 909 Elm St., Manchester. See facebook.com/ShaskeenComedy.

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New Year’s Eve offers music and more

By Michael Witthaus

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For First Night fun, there is a range of choices, from a unique disco-themed murder mystery dinner to junk rock to the return of the Grateful Dead (it’s a tribute). Most places offer party hats, noisemakers and a flute of bubbly at midnight. Here are a few to consider.

• 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, 766-3330) DJ Ryan Obermiller and Brian Capobianchi of DATACET perform. $40 online, $50 at the door, includes passed hors d’oeuvres from 8:30 to 10 p.m., drink specials by Deep Eddy Vodka, Champagne toast at midnight, photobooth and more.

• Aden China (437 Nashua St., Milford, 672-2388) DJ Brian hosts a karaoke party.

• Alan’s (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 7536631) Grande Dinner Buffet starting at 4 p.m, with DJ Tom McFall at 9 p.m. No cover.

• American Legion Post 47 (551 Foundry St., Rollinsford, 742-5833) presents Acoustic Radio & Fab Watermans Reunion with all the trimmings for $12.

• Arena (53 High St., Nashua, 881-9060) Comedy on Purpose show: $39.99 for dinner, admission to the club to ring in the new year with complimentary Champagne toast, party hats and noisemakers.

• Ashworth by the Sea (295 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton, 926-6762) Uptown Celebration plays at 9 p.m., Grand Ballroom doors open at 7 p.m. featuring hors d’oeuvres and cash bar reception until 8 p.m.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001) Prix fixe New Year’s Eve menu and toasting beverages to carry you through to 2016. Adults $75 (plus tax and gratuity) and a limited a la carte tavern menu available in Tavern and Corks only.

• Birdseye Lounge (41 Vaughan Mall, Portsmouth, 766-3333) Celebrate with Nth Power, a band that redefines all conventions of what a band can be, playing jazz and jam fusion. $30 in advance, $35 day of show.

• Blue Mermaid (409 The Hill, Portsmouth, 427-2583) Boom Lava performs funky reggae, funk, hip-hop and rhymes. $5 cover.

• Blue Ocean Music Hall (4 Oceanfront Blvd., Salisbury, Mass., 978-462-5888) The Fools and Psychedelic Relics with 7 p.m. buffet dinner (optional) $25 & $50 (dinner and show).

• Breezeway Pub (14 Pearl St., Manchester, 621-9111) There’s a drag show, a DJ, noisemakers and no cover.

• Bridgewater Inn & Motel (367 Mayhew

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Turnpike, Bridgewater, 744-3518) Classic rock band Stray Dogs in the tavern with DJ playing all night long, party hats and tiaras, noisemakers, beads, glow bracelets and Champagne toast all for only $10 a person.

All-you-can-eat prime rib buffet is $29.95.

• Central Ale House (23 Central St., Manchester, 660-2241) There’s a party at this unique taproom but no one knows exactly what that means at press time — maybe Jonny Friday Blues.

• Chop Shop (920 Lafayette Road, Seabrook, 760-7706) $40-at-the-door big party with three bands — Doubleshot Boston and American Ride perform. Dinner and breakfast buffet, party hats, horns and shenanigans. Champagne toast at midnight.

• City Sports Grille (216 Maple St., Manchester, 625-9656) Galactic party is $35 per couple with unlimited bowling and Outta Bounds playing rock covers in the lounge.

• Club ManchVegas (50 Old Granite St., Manchester, 222-1677) Without Paris performs, $20 ticket includes a prime rib and chicken dinner buffet from 7 to 9 p.m. and a Champagne toast at midnight.

• Coach Stop Tavern (176 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 437-2022) Steve Tolley performs folk rock in the main lounge.

• Common Man (21 Water St., Claremont, 542-6171) Karen Grenier performs covers and originals.

• Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677) The Cranks Duo featuring Haley Gowland performs in the lounge.

• Cork n’ Keg (4 Essex Drive, Raymond, 244-1573) Joe Sambo & the Goonz play reggae music.

• Country Tavern (452 Amherst St., Nashua, 889-5871) Kim Riley performs selections from her (as a certain candidate might say)

huuuuge catalog of cover songs.

• Crow’s Nest Pub & Grill (181 Plaistow Road, Plaistow) Rock ’n’ roll party band Bite Bullet leads the festivities.

• Daniels Hall (186 Old Turnpike Road, Nottingham, 942-8525) DJ dance party, friendly crowd for a fun inexpensive night ($15). Bring your own liquor and party favors.

• Derryfield Country Club (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-2880) Mugsy rocks the house; $10 admission includes Champagne toast and party favors.

• Dolly Shakers (38 E. Hollis St., Nashua, 577-1718) Among the Living plays a bash. $20 per person, $35 per couple, admission includes prime rib dinner and Champagne toast.

• Dolphin Striker (15 Bow St., Portsmouth, 431-5222) Rhythm Method featuring local favorite Pete Peterson plays funk, soul and R&B. • Dover Brickhouse (2 Orchard St., Dover, 749-3838) Cocktails for a Cause is hosted by area favorites Gazpacho.

• Drae (14 E. Broadway, Derry, 216-2713) Alan Roux plays blues as a wide array of food specials are on offer.

• Executive Court Banquet Facility (1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 6697469) Majestic Theatre Presents The Last Dance of Dr. Disco, a unique audience-participation murder mystery dinner theater.

All-inclusive tickets $35.

• Fireside Inn (25 Airport Road, Lebanon, 298-5900) Conniption Fits plays for the second year in a row, with multiple ticketing options including $129 for dinner, show and overnight stay.

• Fody’s Tavern (9 Clinton St., Nashua, 577-9015) No-cover party features many food specials, with Sitting Ducks playing rock covers upstairs and Comedy On Purpose hosting a sex ed party down below.

• Fratello’s Italian Grille (194 Main St., Nashua, 889-2022) Justin Cohn plays early; the restaurant closes at 10:30 p.m.

• Funktion (931 Elm St., Manchester, 782-5365) Dinner and dessert specials but no music, and they close at 10 p.m.

• Fury’s Publick House (1 Washington St., Dover, 617-3633) Amulus teams up with Canopy for an event with dramatic sounds and sights that will surely be shocking and awe-inspiring.

• Giorgio’s (524 Nashua St., Milford, 6733939) DJ music anchors the annual party.

• Giuseppe’s (312 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith, 279-3313) Tim Theriault performs rock covers.

• Goosefeathers Pub (Mount Sunapee Resort, Newbury, 763-3500) DJ plays dance music. Fireworks display at 9 p.m. on the

Eggbeater trail outside the pub.

• Governor’s Inn (78 Wakefield St., Rochester, 332-0107) Comedy ball with headliner Harrison Stebbins, prime rib buffet and dancing into the new year. Tickets are $70 including tax and gratuity.

• Granite (96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000) CJ Poole & The Sophisticated Approach with four-course menu.

• Gunstock Mountain Resort (719 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford, 293-4341) Classic rockers Sum X perform, with DJ Christine from 8 p.m. to midnight. Unlimited skiing $44-$59.

• Haluwa Lounge (Nashua Mall, Nashua, 883-6662) Close Range plays new country, rock and dance music.

• Hermanos (11 Hills Ave., Concord, 2245669) Live jazz music with Brad Myrick from 6:30 to 9 p.m. — full dinner, full bar and no cover.

• Hilltop Pizzeria (1724 Dover Road, Epsom) has Lazy Boy Rockers at 5 p.m. followed by DJ dancing from 9 p.m to 1 a.m.

Free shuttle bus for locals.

• Holy Grail Lakes (12 Veterans Square, Laconia, 737-3000) Nicole Knox Murphy plays upbeat country rock.

• Holiday Inn (172 N. Main St., Concord, 224-9534) The annual bash includes dinner, comedy with Tom Clark and Matt Barry, DJ dancing and a toast at midnight. $79 (reservation required).

• Homestead (641 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-2022) Brad Bosse plays an early set at this restaurant.

• Karma Hookah & Cigar Bar (Elm Street, Manchester, 647-6653) DJ Midas, SP1 & Reed on drums is scheduled, but call to confirm.

• Lakes Region Casino (1265 Laconia Road, Belmont) Karaoke/DJ dance party, raffle giveaways, dinner specials, no cover.

• Lowell Cathedral (741 Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass., 384-1132) Hunter plays a Gatsby-style dance party with era fashion encouraged; tickets $25-$125.

• Milly’s Tavern (500 Commercial St., Manchester, 625-4444) It’s a DJ/karaoke dance party as the Mill District brewpub prepares to end an era of live music (the final show is Saturday, Jan. 2, with Ian Richardson, Edgewize and Eden’s Lie).

• Mountain Meadow Events Center (478 Route 4, Canaan, 769-4093) 4Play rocks covers from the great hair bands of the ’80s and more, with appetizer station and party favors. $15 and up.

• Murphy’s Taproom (494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535) Molly Maguires, a Boston band that’s been seen a lot in the area lately, plays rock covers.

• New Socials (2 Pleasant St., Claremont, 287-4416) Following a pre-party at Revolution Cantina across the square, it’s the sixth annual New Year’s Eve blowout with DJ Mr. Big. There will be prize giveaways, dancing, food and drink specials, Champagne toast at

midnight. This year’s theme is the ’80s.

• Old Salt Tavern (409 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 926-8322) Jimmy D plays rock covers with room packages at Lamie’s Inn available for $279 per couple.

• Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588) Recycled Percussion kicks off a five-show run through Jan. 3, tickets $29.50.

• Pasta Loft (241 Union Square, Milford, 672-2270) Tom Dixon is coming up from Nashville to play the first ever New Year’s Eve at The Country Strong Saloon, $25.

• Pat’s Peak Ski Area (686 Flanders Road, Henniker, 428-3245) Family celebration with dancing to The McMurphys, comedy show featuring Mark Scalia, Mitch Stinson and Joe Espi, fireworks and lots of food. Party and skiing $50-$90, party only $35-$70, skiing only $41.

• Patrick’s (18 Weirs Road, Gilford, 2930841) No-hassle, no-frills New Year’s party, just like last year.

• Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535) Musical stylings of DJ B Laws with dinner service from 5 to 10 p.m., Champagne toast and party favors at midnight.

• Penuche’s (96 Hanover St., Manchester, 666-3667) Midnight Jump plays ’80s and ’90s covers with Champagne toast at midnight.

• Penuche’s Ale House (6 Pleasant St., Concord, 228-9833) Night Of Jams IV with Pythons in the Mist, an all-star band featuring favorite Concord musicians, and The Grebes. $10.

• Pit Road Lounge (388 Loudon Road, Concord, 226-0533) DJ Meeks plays dance music with a $5 cover that includes midnight Champagne toast and party favors.

• Pitman’s Freight Room (94 New Salem St., Laconia, 527-0043) Racky Thomas Blues Band: A New Year’s Eve Gala is $45 BYOB. Ring in the new year with a dance and delightful hors d’oeuvres buffet.

• Press Room (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 431-5186) High-octane string band Rockspring plays kick-ass rock-grass with an after party at the traffic circle Holiday Inn. $10.

• Queen’s Pub & Grille (641 Elm St., Manchester) Midnight Crisis plays at this British-themed bar/restaurant’s first ever New Year’s Eve party.

• Red Door (107 State St., Portsmouth, 373-6827) Party with Red Door resident DJ Tom Bartlett, also from SITH and Dusk Til Done in Boston.

• Ri Ra Irish Pub (22 Market Square, Portsmouth, 319-1680) Red Sky Mary caps a productive year at this downtown Portsmouth hub.

• Riverwalk Cafe (35 Railroad Square, Nashua, 578-0200) It’s Americana night as Girls Guns & Glory pays tribute to Hank Williams while Patrick Coman gives a nod to Townes Van Zandt.

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• Tandy’s Top Shelf (1 Eagle Square, Concord, 856-7614) Island Buffet & the Tropical Sounds of Frenchie followed by black & white party with DJ Iceman Streetz in the main bar playing favorites from 9 p.m. into the new year. Grand buffet 5 to 9 p.m. $16.99 per person dinner only, $23.99 per person includes party ticket.

• The Yard (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545) Main Event DJ and comedian Tom Hayes provide the entertainment, with plenty of food and drink specials.

• Thirsty Moose (21 Congress St., Portsmouth, 427-8645) Local favorites Jamsterdam play plenty of danceable music.

• Tin Roof Tavern (333 Valley St., Manchester) $50 includes open bar, buffet, Champagne toast and door-to-door pickup and dropoff if you’re in the Manchester area.

• Toll Booth Tavern (740 2nd NH Turnpike North, Francestown, 588-1800) Dance Hall Epidemic keeps the floor full.

• Turismo (55 Henniker St., Hillsborough, 680-4440) The Whiteboards perform country rock, blues, ’60s psychedelia and originals.

• Village Trestle (25 Main St., Goffstown, 497-8230) Roxanne & the Voodoo Rockers entertain with a rock ’n’ roll revue.

• Wally’s Pub (144 Ashworth Ave., Hampton, 926-6954) The Bars play a nocover party with free Champagne toast.

• Wentworth by the Sea (588 Wentworth Road, New Castle, 422-7322) It’s a masquerade ball — enjoy the evening with the eight-piece show band Boss, and celebrate the new year with a Champagne toast at midnight, mask in hand.

• Whiskey’s 20 (20 Old Granite St., Manchester, 641-2583) The renamed Drynk has DJs Shawn White, Ryan Nichols and Mike Mazz providing the music, with tickets $10 to $1,000 for a seat in the owner’s booth.

• Wild Rover (21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester, 669-7722) DJ Dan hosts an oldschool party.

• Wolfeboro Inn (90 N Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016) Free Downloads performs rock covers. Tickets are $30 per person with dancing, favors, Champagne toast.

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• Salt hill Pub Lebanon (2 W. Park St., Lebanon, 448-4532) 13th annual celebration features The Party Crashers. $10 admission includes New Year’s Eve menu, Champagne toast and complimentary late-night buffet.

• Salt hill Pub Newport (58 Main St., Newport, 863-7774) The ninth annual New Year’s Eve party features FLEW-Z playing rock music.

• Salt hill Pub Sunapee (1407 Route 103, Newbury, 763-2667) Wanda & the Sound Junkies, one of the Sunapee region’s most popular bands, rings in 2016 at the Shanty.

• Savory Square Bistro (32 Depot Square, Hampton, 926-2202) Mel & John perform rock covers.

• Shaskeen (909 Elm St., Manchester, 625-0246) The Shaskeen’s Epic New Year’s Eve Bash is reprised with limited $60 tickets sold until gone, covering a food buffet, midnight Champagne toast, giveaways, DJ music and open bar. The club will be closed to anyone without tickets (21+ only).

• Sheraton Harborside (250 Market St., Portsmouth, 431-2300) Comedy with Tony V, Mike Koutrobis and three more comics, followed by DJ Mikey K and midnight Champagne toast. Tickets are $85 at livefreeordielaughing.com.

• Sonny’s Tavern (83 Washington St., Dover, 742-4226) Sonny’s Karaoke is happening a day early this week to make it a real New Year’s Eve Party.

• Stark House Tavern (487 S. Stark Highway, Weare, 529-0901) Lisa Guyer solo but it’s special since it’s New Year’s, her first at the renamed roadhouse.

• Stone Church (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 659-7700) DeadBeat reprises a Grateful Dead New Year, a longtime tradition for that band.

• Strange Brew Tavern (88 Market St., Manchester, 666-4292) Howard Randall & Friends play an end-of-year party.

• Sweeney Post (251 Maple St,, Manchester) Rico Barr Band performs. Cocktails and

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Barry perform at Concord’s Holiday Inn, Tom Hayes works The Yard in Londonderry and Rochester’s Governor’s Inn welcomes Harrison Stebbins. There are also Headliners shows in Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont.

Billed as the largest New Year’s Eve event in New Hampshire, the Headliner’s gala at Manchester’s Radisson Hotel operates in four separate rooms with five separate options. One offering entertainment and a room is already sold out, but still available is a package led by Dueling Pianos with Bill Connors and Ane Guigui, including a cocktail hour, three-course meal and DJ dancing until midnight.

You can skip drinks and dinner for $35 less, or you can opt for the last packages, which cover two comedy shows, at 8:30 and 9 p.m. Each of these events features the same group of comics – headliner Brad Mastrangelo, Mike Prior, Jody Sloane and Paul Landwehr.

For Landwehr, the night is a dream coming true.

“I’ve always wanted to play New Year’s Eve in my hometown,” he said in a recent interview. It caps a year marked by growth for Landwehr – he played more shows than ever, including two nights in a row opening for national act Gilbert Gottfried.

“That was huge, the biggest show I’ve done,” Landwehr said. “He’s a very nice guy but so quiet, and I know I made him laugh once because I was telling him how I got the gig and I know I was funny because I can bench press 225 and be his bodyguard also.”

Landwehr added that he felt a real burst of success a few months earlier when Headliners mogul Rob Steen sent him a text message offering him some gigs.

“There were 12 dates on it, and then I saw money next to them,” he said. “When I saw a wage for all these dates … I thought, ‘Wow, I’m finally doing this.”

It’s amazing leap for Landwehr, who describes himself as the opposite of a natural comic.

“I dropped out of college courses because I was so scared of oral presentations,” he said.

Landwehr decided to sign up for classes after hearing Doug Blay talk about a comedy workshop he ran on New Hampshire Chronicle.

“I was very nervous speaking in front of people, but I’ve always made people laugh,” he said. “I thought, maybe this is what I’ve got to do.”

Overcoming those fears fueled his act.

“Someone will come up to me at almost every single show and say, ‘Thank you for talking about the anxiety and making it funny,’” Landwehr said. “I’ve learned to make distress a funny topic … and I have literally heard people say they feel less alone because of it.”

Steady gigging has seasoned Landwehr, who’s built his act from 5 to 25 solid minutes.

He’s also steeled his nerves to an inevitably

More New Year’s Eve comedy Live Free or Die Laughing marks its seventh year celebrating First Night at Portsmouth’s Sheraton Hotel with a lineup led by Boston favorite Tony V and New Hampshire’s Mike Koutrobis, dinner and a midnight Champagne toast.

Pat’s Peak Ski Area in Henniker mixes music, comedy and skiing – the snowmaking equipment is in overdrive, and Mark Scalia, Mitch Stinson and Joe Espi are doing standup.

Arena Nightclub in Nashua welcomes back Comedy on Purpose, while across town Alana Susko, the organization’s CEO (Comic Executive Officer?), works a humorous Sex Ed Party in Fody’s Tavern downstairs function room, part of a full-tilt New Year’s Eve bash that includes a live band upstairs.

“It’s a laugh-out-loud adult party where the guests become a part of the show,” Susko said recently, adding that her comedy alter ego Princess Goddess will present a “demonstration of romance enhancement products from mild to wild.”

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Peterborough Harlow's: Duncan Pelletier

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BEANTOWN’S BEST Stand up comedy returns to the Seacoast Rep (125 Bow St., Portsmouth) on Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m. as Al Park, Jody Sloane, and Steven Bjork bring the laughs. Park, winner of the Boston Comedy Festival and more is returning to the Rep after a successful and nearly sold out show last summer, this time with promising contestants in tow. “Based on what I’ve seen, this will be one of the funniest nights we’ll have had here in a while, and that’s saying something,” said Seacoast Rep Executive Director Kathleen Cavalaro. Tickets are $15-$20 at 433-4472 and seacoastrep.org.

Night Life Music, Comedy & Parties • WEST FEST NEW VAUDEVILLE at Pontine Theatre (959 Islington St., Portsmouth 4366660) on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2 p.m. $15 - Michael Trautman performs his original production, King Pong.

Variously identified as a visual comic, performance artist, new vaudevillian, mime (gasp), physical comedian, storyteller, magician, and fool, he claims only to be a clown...and not a very traditional clown at that.

• COLLEEN GREEN W/ CASSIE RAMONE at 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth 766-3330) on Sunday, Dec. 27, 9 p.m. $7 - LAbased songwriter, who has come to be known for her homemade recordings and merchandise.

• RESOLUTION BALLROOM DANCE PARTY at Lion's Club Hall (246 Mammoth Road, Londonderry 622-1500) on Saturday, Jan. 2, 6 p.m. $12 - Silver Waltz pre-dance lesson. Hardwood floor, recorded music, friendly crowd, smoke and alcohol free. Singles and couples welcome. Potluck. Door prizes. Please bring a change of shoes.

• PAUL RISHELL, ANNIE RAINES, AND FRIENDS at Simple Gifts Coffeehouse (UU Church 58 Lowell St., Nashua 320-7751) on Saturday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m. $15 - Paul and Annie are equally passionate about their craft. Paul brings his masterful guitar, soulful, dedicated, and authentic and Annie "... plays so good it hurts!" (blues legend Pinetop Perkins) • SEARSON at St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts (155 Emery St., Berlin 752-1028) on Saturday, Jan. 9, 7 p.m. $15High energy Celtic duo has been touring for over a decade

throughout Canada, the United States, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the Caribbean.

• ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE at I.B.E.W. Hall (48 Airport Rd., Concord 397-0042) on Sunday, Jan. 10, 6 p.m. $10 - English Country Dance to live music No partner needed, all dances are taught and called Soft soled shoes (non street shoes preferred) to be kind to the floor. Casual dress.

Open Mic • AUBURN PITTS (167 Rockingham Road, Auburn 6226564) Blues Jam/Open Mic with Tom Ballerini Thursdays at 7 • BACK ROOM AT THE MILL (2 Central St., Bristol 744-0405) Fridays - Music Open Mic • BEARA IRISH BREWING COMPANY (2800 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth) Irish Sessions Saturday/Sunday 2 p.m.

• BLACK SWAN INN (354 West Main St., Tilton 286-4524) Sundays - Open mic with Meg Josalen & guests • BLUE MERMAID ISLAND GRILL (409 The Hill, Portsmouth 427-2583) Wednesdays • CARA IRISH PUB (11 Fourth St., Dover 343-4390) Irish Sunday, Bluegrass Tuesday • CHAPANGA'S (168 Elm St., Milford 249-5214) Thursdays Open Mic w/Joe McDonald • COVERED BRIDGE (Cedar St., Contoocook 746-5191) Wednesdays - Open mic with Derek Astles • DANIEL STREET TAVERN (111 Daniel St., Portsmouth 430-1011) Wednesdays - Open Mic Jam Night • DOLLY SHAKERS (38 E Hollis Street, Nashua) Wednesdays – 1st & 3rd Acoustic, 2nd and 4th Electric • FRATELLO'S (155 Dow

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Get the crowds at your gig Want to get your show listed in the Music This Week? Let us know all about your upcoming show, comedy show, open mike night or multi-band event by sending all the information to music@hippopress.com. Send information by 9 a.m. on Friday to have the event considered for the next Thursday’s paper.

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Rochester Opera House 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com Stockbridge Theatre Pinkerton Academy, Route 28, Derry, 437-5210, stockbridgetheatre.com Tupelo Music Hall 2 Young Road, Londonderry, 437-5100, tupelohall.com Verizon Wireless Arena 555 Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000, verizonwirelessarena.com Whittemore Center Arena, UNH 128 Main St., Durham, 8624000, whittcenter.com

• Juston McKinney's Last Laugh 2015 Saturday, Dec. 26, 8 p.m. Music Hall • Stephen Kellogg Tuesday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Adam Ezra Group Thursday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Manchuka Dinner/Dance Saturday, Jan. 2, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Beatlejuice Saturday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Recycled Percussion (2 shows) Saturday, Jan. 9, 2:30/ & 8:30 p.m. Flying Monkey • Cherry Poppin' Daddies Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Get the Led Out Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. Cap Center • John Cafferty & Beaver Brown Band Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Through The Doors Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey • Joshua Davis Wednesday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Ryan Montbleau Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. Tupelo • David Bromberg Quintet Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey • The Stampede Feat. Donna The Buffalo And Ben Cohen Thursday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey • Eric Martin & Mr. Big Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Draw the Line Aerosmith Tribute Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

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day, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Frank Santos Jr. R-Rated Hypnotist Friday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House • Candlebox Acoustic Friday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Revisit Steppenwolf Saturday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Jeff Dunham Saturday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Verizon Wireless Arena • Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes Saturday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey • Ana Popovic Wednesday, Feb. 17, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Felix Cavaliere's Rascals Friday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey • Jonatha Brooke Friday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Spirit of Johnny Cash Saturday, Feb. 20, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House • Marcia Ball Sunday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Johnny Winter Legacy Band Feat. Paul Nelson And James Montgomery Thursday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Tupelo • La Santa Cecilia Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House • Pink Floyd Experience Thursday, Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m. Cap Center • Richard Shindell Thursday, Mar. 3, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Geoff Tate's Operation Mindcrime Saturday, Mar. 5, 8

p.m. Tupelo • Rave On - Buddy Holly Experience Thursday, Mar. 10, 8 p.m.

Rochester Opera House • Jesse Cook Thursday, Mar. 10, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Alternate Routes Saturday, Mar. 12, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Glengharry Boys Sunday, Mar. 13, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Dervish Wednesday, Mar. 16, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Bob Marley (2 shows) Saturday, Mar. 19, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Flying Monkey • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Saturday, Mar. 19, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre • Jon Pousette-Dart Band Friday, Mar. 25, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Ultimate Guitar Experience Thursday, Mar. 31, 8 p.m.

Tupelo • The Hit Men Friday, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House • John Gorka Friday, Apr. 15, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Jimmie Vaughan & the TiltA-Whirl Band Thursday, Apr. 21, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Willy Porter Sunday, Apr. 24, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Nils Lofgren Tuesday, Apr. 26, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Nils Lofgren Wednesday, Apr. 27, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Chris Smither Friday, May. 13, 8 p.m. Tupelo • Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy Sunday, Jun. 5, 8 p.m. Tupelo

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“Two-Way Streets” — hey, look where you’re going!

Across 1 Widescreen medium 5 DJ Kool ___ (hip-hop pioneer born Clive Campbell) 9 College football coach Amos Alonzo ___ 14 Blarney Stone land

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23 Part of TMZ 24 More than just clean 25 Storm warnings 28 Macy Gray hit from the album “On How Life Is” 29 “Cold Mountain” star Zellweger 30 Amos with the album “Little Earthquakes” 31 Beach bucket 35 “Look out, bad generic street, my show’s on the air!”

38 Lindsay Lohan’s mom 39 Hose problem 40 Chair designer Charles 41 Incandescent light bulb depiction (because I have yet to see a CFL bulb depict one) 42 Philadelphia hockey team

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12 “Diary of a Madman” writer Nikolai 13 $1,000 bill, slangily 21 Device needed for Wi-Fi 22 Heart chambers 25 Street ___ 26 Jeans manufacturer Strauss 27 “Come ___!”

28 Ancient Greek region 30 Signs of a quick peel-out 31 Just go with it 32 “Paris, Je T’___” (2006 film) 33 “Skinny Love” band Bon ___ 34 Word in an express checkout lane which annoys grammarians 36 ___ Ababa, Ethiopia 37 Nellie of toast fame 41 “There was no choice” Down 42 Sweated the details 1 ___ index 43 Go blue 2 “The Flintstones” pet 44 “So much,” on a musical score 3 Harness race pace 4 Home to the world’s tallest 45 “Here we are as in ___ days ...”

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SIGNS OF LIFE from dawn to dusk without caffeine? Look beyond the drama.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Since this hooey was exactly what Lafayette wanted to hear, he happily chose to believe it. Resist the hooey.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) In the ample inventory of kudos racked up by the two Adamses of Massachusetts, I can’t imagine “world’s greatest roommate” made the list.

Be a good roommate.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) In the [Quaker] meeting, I found myself wishing for something interesting to listen to that might also drown out the ambient sneezes, as well as something we could all look at to avoid the awkward eye contact. I left when I realized that sort of communal spiritual experience does exist. It’s called the movies. You will have a nice time at the movies.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Nowadays, this clash is remembered, if it’s remembered, for its commanders’ mistakes…. Which is one reason I was so keen on catching the afternoon’s reenactment festivities promising “Battles! Music! 18th-century celebrities!” I was curious how area boosters would splice together a celebration out of this particular clip from the patriot blooper reel. You may end up on the blooper reel. Remember, everyone appreciates a good sport.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Ben Franklin’s mission was to secure France’s formal commitment as an ally. To him, it wasn’t enough for the French to hate the British. The old flirt wanted them to fall in love with Americans. Take it easy, Romeo.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) In his reply to Lafayette, Washington expressed “sentiments of the purest affection.” Which is about as gushy as a George Washington interoffice memo gets. Don’t read too much into that memo.

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All quotes are from Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, by Sarah Vowell, born Dec. 27, 1969.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) Unlike George Washington, I have a good map.

Don’t rely solely on your sense of direction.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) It’s possible that over the course of the revolution, the greatest threat to the stability of the Continental Congress wasn’t the rift about the morality of slavery but rather the long and grating nights the delegates spent in York, hearing each other snore. It’s the little things.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Moreover, at least a third of the patriot soldiers were shoeless — and one of the top two components of boots on the ground is the aforementioned boots. Not that they were exactly bundled up above the knees either. Bundle up.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) I’m not bothered that the present intrudes on the past, what with the combination Pizza Hut-Taco Bell looming near the road once crammed with redcoats; or that Fuzzy Butts Dog Daycare is situated a stone’s throw from the old Quaker house where Lafayette reportedly spent the night before the battle. You have no choice but to live in the now. It’s anybody’s guess how big the now is.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) These actors in period garb are not the upbeat butter churners I had dreaded. They are livid and loud. I am enjoying it. If you’re going to churn butter, do it with gusto.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) While the melodrama of hucking crates of tea into Boston Harbor continues to inspire civic-minded hotheads to this day, it’s worth remembering the hordes of stoic colonial women who simply swore off tea and steeped basil leaves in boiling water to make the same point. What’s more valiant: littering from a wharf or years of doing chores and looking after children

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Are we safe?

As if 2015 wasn’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security (e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its Transportation Security Administration failed to stop 67 of 70 guns passing through airport screeners), a U.S. congressman revealed in December that, based on a congressional staff investigation, 72 DHS employees currently appear on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. He admitted to Boston Public Radio that DHS’s record makes him squeamish about our ability to vet Syrian refugees. (Being on the FBI list is not a prohibited category for buying guns, either, and in fact, the Government Accountability Office reported that 91 percent of listees’ attempts to purchase guns in the last 10 years succeeded.)

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The vice president of human resources at the Washington Post issued a formal memo in December to reassure female employees in its sleek new office building that people in the seventh floor’s central “hub” could definitely not see up their skirts as they walked on the indoor eighth-floor balcony overhang, even through the clear glass barriers. The memo cited HR’s “multiple” futile attempts, from many viewing angles, to see no-no’s, and thus concluded that the ladies are safe. Nonetheless, the memo encouraged all employees, when in the seventh floor “hub,” not to look up.

Leading economic indicators

• Dr. Raymond Schinazi was a federal government employee when he led the team that discovered sofosbuvir, which completely cures hepatitis C patients with an 84-pill regimen, but, as he recently told CBS News, he only worked for the government “7/8th’s” of the time and, conveniently, it was during the other 1/8th that he found sofosbuvir. He admits now that he made $400 million selling his sofosbuvir company in 2012 to Gilead Sciences, which famously set sofosbuvir’s price for 84 pills to $84,000. Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs, with 233,000 war vets with hep-C, tells Congress that it needs much more money, even though Gilead has “cut” the VA’s price in half (to $42,000 per treatment, or $9.66 billion). (In a 2013 medical journal, Dr. Schinazi revealed that sofosbuvir could be manufactured for about $17 a pill, or $1,400 for an entire treatment.)

Famously, no central characters from big banks went to jail for crashing the economy and causing thousands to lose their homes and jobs, but the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission seem rather proud that at least they pressured several banks to pay the government billions of dollars in civil-case settlements.

However, the activist group U.S. PIRG revealed in December that of the 10 largest such federal settlements, where banks and corporations paid a total of $80 billion, more than half were characterized as taxdeductible. (In addition, of course, all of the $80 billion was ultimately paid by the banks’ and corporations’ stockholders rather than by wrongdoing employees.)

Cliche come to life

The Angelina County Sheriff’s Office (Lufkin, Texas) reported responding to a 911 call about shots fired at a home on Nov. 8, but made no arrest. The male resident was sitting in his pickup, admittedly drunk, and having listened to a “sad song” on his favorite station, he of course pulled his .22-caliber pistol and shot the radio. According to the report, “Suspect’s wife took possession of the handgun and Questionable judgments • “It may be the most confusing traffic suspect.” light you’ve ever seen,” wrote The Boston Globe in December, describing a pedestri- Ironies an crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• As deputy leader of Scotland’s South If the three clusters of three lights each are Lanarkshire Council, Jackie Burns was dark, drivers proceed. If a pedestrian comes instrumental in the budgetary closing of all along, one light will blink yellow, then sol- 24 public toilets in the area. In November, id yellow, then two solid yellows, then two Burns was fined (the equivalent of about reds, until two flashing red lights in each $60) after he, out on the town, could hold it cluster appear and in Cambridge (and only in no longer and urinated in the street.

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• Hector Segura, 29, in town for a Washgo (unless pedestrians are actually pres- ington, D.C., conference on drug policy ent). The city has prepared a 12-diagram reform (with most attendees certain that the pamphlet to explain the whole thing, and “war on drugs” has failed) was found by officials say they have statistical proof police naked in a flower bed in a neighborfrom tests that the system enhances safety. hood near his hotel in Arlington, Virginia, • It was Nick Silvestri, 19, of Seaford, with (according to police) “bath salts” the Long Island, who, seated in the orches- culprit. It required two Taser shots to subtra section of the Broadway comedy Hand due him as he pounded on a squad car. to God on July 2, left his seat to plug his iPhone into an “electrical outlet” on the Speaking of bath salts stage set. Actors, patrons, and manageBrandon Terry and Ms. Casey Fowler ment went nuts, but Silvestri ultimately were detained after calling 911 five times to was allowed to stay, and the show resumed. report possums jumping out of their refrigThe set designer Beowulf Boritt said later erator and microwave, worms from their he was proud that he had created a stage set floor, and midgets in camouflage. They so realistic that the electrical outlet (which denied any drug use, but police said it was of course was attached to nothing) looked likely “bath salts.” so authentic.

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