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While last week’s predictions required a few unlikely things to happen, this week I’m trying my hand at a more serious prediction — politics in 2016. I probably have the same chance of getting this right as I did last week’s.

2016 is going to be dominated by politics, and that means division. I doubt politics was ever about inclusion but more and more winning in politics means pitting one group against the other. From Bernie Sanders pitting people against Wall Street to Donald Trump pitting people against immigrants, we’re only going to see it get worse this year, unfortunately.

Donald Trump will not win the Iowa caucuses nor our primary. The reason? He’s not on a television show. Getting people to the polls is the key to winning, especially in Iowa. The Donald won’t be able to execute. I’m guessing he finishes fourth in Iowa and freaks. Expect him to call voters dummies and continue his downward spiral in New Hampshire, where he finishes with about 15 percent of the vote — good enough to best most in the crowded field, but still not impressive. He’ll finish third or fourth behind Governors Chris Christie and Jeb Bush, Ben Carson and even Senator Marco Rubio. The losses will keep piling up as Senator Ted Cruz takes the outsider mantle.

Trump’s increasingly visible frustration with not winning will push his support even lower until he’s no longer a factor.

The Donald will not be a factor in the Republican presidential loss. Yes. That’s right, the Republicans will again lose the White House. Hillary Clinton will rather easily cruise to victory with a coalition of urban areas, immigrants and AfricanAmericans. She’ll win Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado (with the help of her vice president running mate Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper). Even if the Donald runs, he would only get about 15 percent of the vote, and most of those would come from states that Republicans would still win (like Kentucky).

Because New Hampshire will go with Clinton in the presidential race, Democrats will sweep the Senate race and the House race. Both Kelly Ayotte and Frank Guinta will lose.

2016 will be a very tough year for Republicans. It didn’t need to be. You can’t be the party of old white dudes and expect to win national elections. The numbers just aren’t there any more. It’s simple math. White men make up just 31 percent of the population. And when you account for white men over 50, it drops to less than 10 percent of the population. You just can’t win national elections with such a small niche.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Dismas House; Primary Update; Political Groupies; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 32 THE ARTS: 34 THEATER Majestic Theatre buys Ted Herbert Music School.

34 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

36 ART ARTventures.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 39 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

40 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

41 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

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FOOD: 46 UNITY CAFE Cabonnay; guest chef series; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; From the Pantry.

POP CULTURE: 54 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz continues to wrap up 2015 with The Hateful Eight and The Big Short.

NITE: 61 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE O-Town; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more.

62 ROCK AND ROLL CROSSWORD A puzzle for the music-lover.

63 MUSIC THIS WEEK Live music at your favorite bars and restaurants.

ODDS & ENDS: 68 CROSSWORD 69 SIGNS OF LIFE 69 SUDOKU 70 NEWS OF THE WEIRD 70 THIS MODERN WORLD

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NEWS & NOTES Legislative agenda

In addition to the typical issues the New Hampshire legislature perennially takes up, such as expanded gambling, marijuana and abortion, there are a number of unusual bills sure to make heads turn as they each get a hearing in their respective committees.

The Union Leader reported the off-the-beaten-path bills include bans on bestiality, possession of flamethrowers and shark fins and the use of “conversion therapy” on homosexual youths. Rep. Katherine Rogers of Concord proposed the flamethrower and bestiality bans in two separate bills. The bestiality bill has the backing of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and was submitted at the behest of the Humane Society of the U.S. The bill would make the act a felony and require a psychological assessment.

Republican Rep. Eric Schleien of Hudson sponsored the ban on conversion therapy, the practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation. Schleien points to scientific studies that suggest the practice drives some young people to suicide and risky sexual behaviors.

The ban on possessing shark fins, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Efstathia Booras of Nashua, is mirrored after a similar ban in Massachusetts meant to curb the coastal import of the Asian delicacy.

Lawmakers expect to take up a lot of bills related to the drug crisis this session. Besides a bill to create a drug dealer registry, other drug-related bills include one that would prohibit the sale of synthetic urine, used to falsify drug tests. The registry bill is Clarification In the Dec. 31 round up of 2016 races, a section took a look at Dan Innis, the candidate poised to run against incumbent Frank Guinta in the GOP primary. For the record, on the Democratic side, Carol Shea-Porter and entrepreneur Shawn O’Connor have declared their candidacy.The deadline to declare candidacy is June 10.

Citizens are seeking to change

the zoning code in Chichesreached 18,406 signatures as of ter to allow the lighting of a New Year’s Day. There was a 2 giant American flag now flying percent uptick in the last weeks above Camping World. The of 2015. The organization credConcord Monitor reported the A 250-year-old tree in Dunordinance is up for a vote in its targeted Facebook ads for the barton that stood in the March. recent growth. However, not all town cemetery was cut down the day before Christmas those who pledged are likely to Pipeline bills over concerns the root sysCONCORD Another area lawmakers are make the move. About 2,000 tem might disturb graves going to focus on this session have moved to the state already. or branches might fall and will be proposed regulations that damage headstones. The Concord Monitor reported would make it harder for a pro- Panhandle veto the wood is going to be used On Dec. 29, Nashua’s outposed natural gas pipeline to get by a local furniture maker built along southern New Hamp- going Mayor Donnalee Lozeau to make a commemorative Hooksett shire. NHPR reported there are vetoed an anti-panhandling bill, table. more than a dozen bills on the claiming it did nothing to solve issue, several that focus on emi- the problem. The Union LeadGoffstown nent domain and others that er reported that Lozeau feared create prohibitive restrictions the ordinance would have been on Kinder Morgan, the company overturned by courts scrutinizMore than 200 hikers took MANCHESTER that wants to build the pipeline. ing similar rules on grounds of part in the First Day Hike in Hollis at Silver Lake One bill would ban the charging free speech infringement. She State Park. The Telegraph of of New Hampshire ratepayers also said the city could use existA veteran in a sleep study in Nashua reported Silver Bedford Lake to pay for the project, making ing state public safety laws to Manchester’s VA Medical is the newest of four locait harder for the company to enforce the issue. Lozeau vetoed Center during Christmas tions where the tradition is Derry awoke Merrimack Christmas morning to find Amherst finance it. Other bills create tax- a similar ordinance in October. observed in New Hampshire. presents under a Christmas es for exports, requirements for Mayor-elect Jim Donchess will tree.Londonderry The Union Leader reportMilford burying the line, requirements be sworn into office on Jan. 10. ed the medical staff pitched in for insurance bonds for emerfor gifts. gencies and the use of electricity Gatsas inauguration (rather than natural gas) to powNASHUA As of Jan. 5, Ted Gatsas will er compressor stations. be serving his fourth term as Manchester’s mayor. Police Prostitution bill Chief Nick Willard was set to State Rep. Brian Gallagh- administer the oath of office at er of Sanbornton is sponsoring the Palace Theatre. Dignitaries a bill that would raise the pen- scheduled to attend includ Gov. more than 20,000 cast, the nar- ed Hassan nominated Jeffrey alties for soliciting sex from Maggie Hassan and former may- rowest margin he’s won by to Meyers, the current DHHS intergovernmental affairs director. a person under the age of 18. ors Ray Wieczorek, Bob Baines date.

Meyers is seen regularly at the The Laconia Daily Sun report- and Frank Guinta. The Union Statehouse, weighing in on state ed Gallagher claimed Laconia Leader reported several presi- DHHS nomination Motorcycle Week and races dential candidates have inquired Gov. Maggie Hassan has budget and policy issues. Execat the New Hampshire Motor about the event and some were selected her nominee to replace utive Councilors voted Jan. 4 Speedway are events that attract expected to attend. Gatsas has outgoing Commissioner Nick to approve Hassan’s request to prostitution and human traf- yet to endorse a candidate. He Toumpas to head the state’s allow Meyers to serve as actficking activities. Current law defeated Democratic Alderman Department of Health and ing commissioner from Jan. 8 to charges “johns” with either a Joyce Craig by 64 votes out of Human Services. NHPR report- Feb. 1. prostitution misdemeanor or a Class B felony for endangering the welfare of a child when the incident involves minors. GalNATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS SPEEDERS AND HUNTERS lagher’s bill would make the About 120 New Hampshire Army NationFees went up across the state as the new year prostitution charge for “johns” a al Guard members returned to New Hampstarted, and hunters, fishermen and traffic viClass B felony as well. shire on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2. They were met with olators will see some of the biggest chang-

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hugs, kisses and cheers by family members after a tour in the Middle East. The AP reported members of the 3rd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Regiment arrived Jan. 1 at the Manchester Armory while another 100 soldiers returned the day after. They were deployed as part of Operation Spartan Shield, a training mission led by the U.S. Army. This was the first time a National Guard field artillery battalion from any state was used to support the mission.

es. Licenses for hunting and fishing have increased by $10. The AP reported that’s the first time the license fees have increased in a dozen years. A fishing license for state residents is now $45, a hunting license is $32 and it’s $56 to get them both together. For drivers who fail to yield for emergency vehicles, the fine went up from $100 to $150, according to Citizen.com. Drivers going 1 to 5 mph faster than the speed limit on the highway will now be charged $65. The ticket charges go up incrementally to a high of $400 for 20 mph over the limit.

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Pataki drops out Republican candidate for president and former New York Gov. George Pataki formally dropped out of the race weeks before primary day in New Hampshire. Pataki made the announcement in a “fireside chat” video broadcast on 12 NBC affiliates in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, according to the campaign. Pataki called out the rhetoric of Donald Trump as “divisive” and said the future president needs to do three things: “Confront and defeat radical Islam, shrink the size and power of Washington and unite us again in our belief in this great country.” Pataki struggled to get traction in the polls and cited a lack of resources.

Carson loses staff On New Year’s Eve, presidential candidate Ben Carson lost 20 campaign staffers, including Campaign Manager Barry Bennett, who, according to Reuters, quit over differences with top advisor Armstrong Williams, whom Bennett blamed for gaffes during media interviews. Communications Director Doug Watts resigned due to similar issues with Williams.

Lamontagne chairs Fiorina camp On the heels of news that Ovide Lamontagne (New Hampshire’s 2012 Republican gubernatorial nominee) returned from his Washington, D.C., job to work with Bernstein Shur in Manchester, the Carly Fiorina campaign announced he would chair her state campaign. According to a press release, Lamontagne said Fiorina is the “most conservative candidate who can win.”

UL hits Trump The Union Leader endorsed Chris Christie, and now publisher Joe McQuaid has the Donald in his crosshairs. In a recent op-ed, McQuaid said “Trump has shown himself to be a crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy.” He compared Trump to Back to the for You, Your Home andtheir picFuture II villain “Biff” and printed Thoughtful Gifting. tures side by side.

Trump responded on Twitter, calling McQuaid “dumb” and “stinky.”

New chapters

Why a new nonprofit is helping former female inmates

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When Jack and Julie McCarthy ventured out to start the Dismas Home in Manchester, the original plan was to serve men getting released from the state prison system who were at risk of re-offending. The idea was to try to give them a low-cost chance to become self-sufficient and re-acquainted with life on the outside. But partway through the planning process, the McCarthys realized that it’s women being released from prison who have an even more pressing need for support.

parole fee, they have to pay for the bracelet they’re wearing that the Department of Corrections keeps track of them with. They have to pay child support if they have children, and many of the women that get out are single mothers. They have to pay restitution, and they have to pay rent and feed themselves,” McCarthy said.

That’s all while likely working a minimum wage job.

“That, frankly, forces many of them to just throw the towel in and quit and go back to doing what they were doing in the streets,” McCarthy said.

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Revolving door

The key problem the McCarthys, a retired couple from North Sutton, are trying to solve is recidivism — the tendency for inmates released from prison to return soon after.

“They get out with little or no money, no real ID, no driver’s license, no car, and because they have their record of being a felon, getting a job is a very, very difficult task,” Jack McCarthy said. “So, the rate of recidivism was almost 60 percent.”

Besides a peak to about 56 percent among women in the early 2000s, overall recidivism rates have been hovering around 40 to 45 percent.

According to the Department of Corrections, the newest report is being finalized now. Preliminary numbers show that inmates from the 2010 release cohort had a 41.4 percent recidivism rate over the course of 2010, 2011 and 2012. That’s a slight decrease from the three-year period prior.

Among those who were released from prison in 2010, the recidivism rate for men was 42.2 percent and 34.1 percent for women.

McCarthy says the deck is stacked against these individuals.

“When they get out, they have to pay a

McCarthy and his wife are no strangers to the inmate population of the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. For years, they’ve ministered to them through faith-based programs such as Kairos, which is an ecumenical men’s retreat, and AIM: Assistance for Incarcerated Marriages.

The idea to start Dismas Home struck them when Julie was reading the Valley News and came across an article about Vermont’s fourth such house opening.

Dismas houses are independent faithbased halfway houses for paroled inmates.

Named after the penitent thief Christ was crucified beside in the Bible, the first such house was started in Tennessee, according to McCarthy. Vermont now has four while Massachusetts has two houses and one farm that uses this model.

Other Dismas houses have used college interns as staff, so the McCarthys met with officials from Saint Anselm College. But when they talked to Dan Forbes, the director of the Meelia Center for Community Engagement, and Elaine Rizzo, a criminal justice professor, they got more than they bargained for.

“During that process, they kept talking about women inmates, and we kept talking

about men. And I said, ‘Wait a minute, guys.

We’re doing this for the men,’” McCarthy said.

The Saint Anselm folks said they would be willing to help with either group, but having intimate knowledge of the women’s prison population and its struggles, they invited the McCarthys to learn more.

Rizzo, it turned out, was on the Citizens Advisory Board of the women’s prison and Forbes was the coach of its softball team.

They gave the McCarthys a tour of the women’s prison and brought them to an advisory board meeting.

What they learned, they said, was that women had inordinately fewer supports than men had upon getting cast back into the outside world.

“When a woman goes into prison, family or the husband disappears. When men go into prison, there are a lot of women that stick by him. So they have more support when they come out,” Julie McCarthy said.

As McCarthy tells it, Forbes, Rizzo and the advisory board didn’t make a hard sell, but it was hard to say no after all they had learned.

“They didn’t make the case. They opened the door for us to discover the issues that are faced by the women. The decision to do it for the women was a unanimous vote on the part of our board. We could have gone either way,” McCarthy said.

The McCarthys are hoping to someday open a similar home for men but would also like to expand the capacity for women. It’s too early to say which will happen first, since they still need to raise $150,000 to launch their first home, which will have eight beds.

Women will double up in a total of four bedrooms, which are now being renovated.

The house, located at 102 4th St. in Manchester, was made available with the help of Catholic Charities of New Hampshire and is slated to open in early 2016.

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League of Women Voters New Hampshire Who they are: The national organization League of Women Voters was founded immediately after women achieved the right to vote in 1920. “Now that women had the right to vote, they had to learn what to do with that vote,” LWVNH president Liz Tentarelli said. The New Hampshire branch of the LWV actually got started with a constitution that passed a few months before the national organization was founded as women’s suffrage activists decided early on to reorganize after women became enfranchised. There is no full-time staff in the state, but there is a nine-member state board that is elected by members during the state convention.

Four local league organizations are also operating in various regions of the Granite State. LWV relies on volunteers to set up and moderate candidate forums (but not presidential candidates) and get-outthe-vote activities.

What they want: To encourage people to vote, to become better-informed voters and educate the voting public on voting logistics. The group does not advocate exclusively for women’s issues and it does not endorse any party or candidates for elected office. It’s actively involved in the legislative process, however, and takes positions on certain bills.

Current goal: To make sure everyone understands their rights to vote in the primary and what kind of ballot they’ll get based on their registration. They are also educating voters on polling times and photo ID requirements.

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“We have a number of informational fliers and brochures on our website that are being picked up by a lot of other organizations, particularly organizations that work with low-income people,” Tentarelli said.

The brochures are available in Spanish and Portuguese.

“As far as we can tell, we’re the only organization that offers it in those two languages for new citizens,” Tentarelli said.

On primary day, Tentarelli and other board members and volunteers will be manning a phone bank in their Concord office to answer questions folks may have about how to vote in their area.

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What gave you the idea to install a war memorial in Raymond?

I always liked history and I thought about historic markers around town, but the town already pretty much had that covered. So, I looked into wars that the town didn’t have recognized and there were four: the Mexican-American War, the War of 1812, the Revolution and the French and Indian War. Of those, I picked the French and Indian [War] because it was the first one and someone else can come in and do the rest of them in order, and it also had five [names] and that was easier to put on the monument the size I was looking for. The [Revolution] had 88 names, the Mexican-American War had only one name. And in the War of 1812, it had this weird technicality where… five really served but they drafted three to sit in Portsmouth for a month and nothing ever came of that.

What was the construction and installation process like?

It’s atop a concrete pad, which I, with a group of Scouts, put in November 2013. We poured it and we laid the rebar. That was a whole day event. I had Anthony Dickerson 20-something helpers.

The bench itself was made by Seacoast Memorials out of Brentwood and they had it engraved. [It was made with] Vermont granite. They couldn’t find New Hampshire granite. It was delivered on Aug. 8 of this year. … I did three fundraisers. A pot roast supper and book sale at the Congregational church in February and then, in March, I did two soup and sandwich lunches and book sales at the Methodist church. … Overall, I raised Can you describe what the memorial about $1,000, and that’s about how much looks like and the thinking that went into I needed. the design?

Looking back, would you describe the It’s actually a memorial bench. It’s made of granite, four feet long, about 18 inches process as easy or hard? wide and it comes to about two and a half I would say pretty difficult. Actually, the feet off the ground. … On it, it states, “In most difficult part was, when I was doublememory of the men of Freetown, present- checking the names of Raymond’s French day Raymond, who served in the French and and Indian War veterans, I found out that Indian War from 1754 to 1760.” And I have there were some inaccuracies that were in the names, “Curtis Bean, Nathaniel Eth- the list in the town history book. That hisridge, James Fullonton, Ithiel Gordon and tory book was made by Joseph Thornton in Ezekiel Morse.” Raymond has had some 1870. … So, I went to the state library and issues in the past with vandals messing with checked the roster rolls for the French and our war memorials. For example, the Civil Indian War and two of them served out of War monument we have in town common, other towns and I found two more that had the cannonballs are being constantly ripped served from Raymond that were not listed. off and they have to be replaced. But I What did the experience teach you? noticed that there was another granite bench It taught me a lot. It involved a lot of planin town and it was not being vandalized at all. It was actually being utilized by pret- ning, and things don’t always go quite how ty much everyone in town. … So, I figured you expect them to. I had a few bumps along the town would appreciate another place the road and setbacks, mostly in timing. for people to sit and enjoy the common. It Things didn’t quite go along schedule. The would also serve the dual purpose of recog- monument was a little late, but it came out really nice. The town needed extra permisnizing those who served in the war. sion that I didn’t realize before.

Five favorites

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Favorite Book: Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon Favorite Movie: Holiday Inn (1942) Favorite Musician: The Beach Boys Favorite Food: Watermelon Favorite Thing about NH: My town, Raymond. We’re just a quirky town.

What’s next for you?

Well, I turn 18 in June, so that will be the end of my youth career in Scouting. I’d like to continue with the Boy Scouts as an adult leader. I’ll probably be going to college probably next year, but I’m not 100 percent sure when I’m going. — Ryan Lessard

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX

Wages to go up

Economists expect wages in New Hampshire to go up in 2016, according to the Union Leader. Analysts at New Hampshire Employment designers and engineers added more space, utility, Security say that low unemployment levels are creating conditions for an employee’s market of an employer’s state’s econnced safety andinstead security features.market Driveasitthetoday. omy enters a labor shortage. The Federal Reserve counts anything less than 4.7 percent unemployment as a labor shortage, and New Hampshire’s rate was 3.2 percent in December. The national unemployment numbers are expected to reach optimal levels in 2016 as the Granite State is also expected to face greater competition from neighboring Vermont and Massachusetts, where minimum wage rates increased on Jan. 1.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Wal-Mart plans to raise wages in New Hampshire on Feb. 1 to an average of $14.29 per hour for full-timers and $10.95 per hour for part-timers.

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Robberies spreading

While the number of robberies doesn’t appear to be changing significantly over last year in Manchester, criminals are hitting new places that have thus far been spared the largely addiction-driven boom in property crime. The Union Leader reported Gosselin’s Superette on Somerville Street hadn’t been robbed in more than 20 years, but in recent weeks it has been robbed twice, once with a gun. Manchester police say about 215 robberies took place in the weeks before the end of 2015. There were about 20 fewer robberies in 2014.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Police say most robberies are driven by opioid addicts trying to get money to feed their habit. Others include folks out of a job and desperate to make ends meet.

More lobster into the winter

Good news for regional fishermen and local eaters of lobster: the mild weather until now means there was an abundance of lobsters in the Gulf of Maine, causing many lobstermen to continue fishing well into December, when, in years past, freezing weather and stormy seas sent most into shore, according to NHPR. The Ellsworth American reported that fishermen and lobster dealers expected to see “record lobster landings” for December.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The fishing hasn’t much affected the price of lobster, which is selling for about $10 per pound in Maine; however, it has increased the price of scallops because fewer fishermen are catching scallops in favor of lobster, causing retailers’ stocks to be low.

Foreclosures below 2007 levels

Statewide foreclosures have decreased but are still higher than those pre-recession, according to a story in the Concord Monitor. Through July, New Hampshire saw 927 foreclosure deeds filed, and they’re on target to total under 2,000 for the year. This would be slightly fewer than 2007 — the year the subprime mortgage crisis really hit New Hampshire — according to the New Hampshire Finance Authority. Unlike in the 1990s, when foreclosures were much higher and hit first-time home buyers, about half from 2007 to 2011 involved refinanced mortgages, indicating that long-term occupants were being affected.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: There’s still a long way to go to get back to 2005 levels, according to the article.

QOL score: 50 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 52

What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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With the regular season now over, Black Monday happening in real time as I write this and the playoffs ahead this weekend, there is a lot to talk about in the NFL. The big news on Elm Street was the abrupt firing of local lad Chip Kelly. We’ll discuss when the right time is to fire any coach in a few weeks when we have a little more space. But for now, from the outside looking in it, it looks like the same people skills thing that got Bill Belichick way back when in Cleveland is what got Chip in Philly. It appears he lost the locker room (or never had it, as chatter from guys not there may indicate) and he didn’t build a particularly strong relationship with owner Jeffrey Lurie. Plus the media piling on (the always understated New York Post called him a “tyrant”) shows, like Coach B, he didn’t have many media believers. And after several controversial off-season moves he was taking on water with the worst fingerpointing, never happy, impatient, crybaby fans in all of sports as he went 6-9, so it really isn’t that surprising.

Don’t want to tell you I told you so, but remember I said the Patriots were in trouble entering December because the offensive line play was bad — now close to horrible — and they weren’t turning people over enough. They’ve got defensive TDs in the two previous weeks but none again against the Dolphins. I know they’ve admirably been fighting injuries since Week 6. But if they don’t get those things fixed, they’ll be one and done.

It took till Week 17 for Ryan Fitzpatrick to do what everyone said he’d do — throw the giant interception at the wrong time, which he did in the end zone with the Jets driving for the late score that would’ve put them in the playoffs. Having said that, nice first year for our Rookie Coach of the Year Todd Bowles.

AJ McCarron is a little too cocky for me and there’s the whole girlfriend thing. But I’ve got a feeling he had something to do with those two national titles he won at Alabama.

Yes they had superior talent everywhere. But winners win, so I think Cincy has a better shot than most give them if he’s the playoff QB. Guess after coming off the bench to lead Denver to the AFC top seed Peyton Manning isn’t dead and buried after all.

Manning’s usual ESPN lapdogs discrediting the HGH story on its face supports what I said about Deflate-gate. If it were Tony Dungy’s team and not Belichick’s it would have been over by March 1 with a small fine. It’s been attacked for flimsy sources and questionable motives by Al Jazeera TV, which isn’t too different than what Mort, the Colts, Jim Kensil and Indy media lapdogs had in Deflate-gate. Not saying he did it or not, just if Brady wasn’t getting a free pass from the media he shouldn’t either.

But my overall attitude is so what. In a brutal sport where catastrophic injuries put careers in jeopardy every week there should be a distinction between looking for an onfield edge and rehabbing to continue your livelihood.

Please don’t give me Roger the Dodger’s favorite “integrity of the game” spiel.

Because after the NFL treating players as disposable commodities for 75 years hearing him utter that makes me want to puke.

Because after trying to discredit every medical professional saying concussion’s long-term effects were serious, the current safety offensive only happened after its legal exposure became a financial threat.

Thus my Stat of the Year is San Francisco’s NaVorro Bowman leading the NFL in tackles after needing two years to recover from suffering a catastrophic knee injury in the Super Bowl. Hope he used HGH to get back.

The Johnny Manziel Vegas story can’t be true, can it? If he actually was there after being ruled out with a concussion for Cleve-

land’s final game, here are two thoughts.

First: He’s on doing the impossible, making Ryan Leaf look like a rocket scientist by comparison, because if he’s just trying to get to Dallas, he’ll get there on a make good deal at 10 cents on the dollar. Second: If not, cut him now, because he’s too dumb to salvage.

But if you’re Dallas, which Texas-bred QB disaster story do you want for your backup, Manziel or the soon to be available RGIII? Speaking of Cleveland, word is they’re hot after Chipper. But since he can sit back collecting $5 million on his Philly contract, I’d steer clear of Cleveland at all costs. No QB, and an owner who in four seasons fired the coach there when he took over, the first guys he hired as coach and GM after one year and the most recent tandem after just two years.

Not to mention he and his brother (who oh by the way is the governor of Tennessee) were forced to pay $92 million after cheating their customers out of rebates they earned. Does that sound like a guy you’d trust?

MVP: (1) Cam Newton, (2) Carson Palmer, (3) vacated after Tom Brady candidacy evaporated in December.

Comeback Player: (1) Palmer, (2) as much as I hate to say it, Adrian Peterson.

Coach of the Year: (1) Andy Reid, who kept a 1-5 team together after losing their best players to rally to 11-5. (2) Ron Rivera,who did a lot without much on offense besides Newton.

Here’s my most likely to win it all seeding going into the tournament, as Bill Parcells used to call it. (1) Arizona, (2) Carolina, (3) Kansas City, (4) Seattle, (5) Denver, (6) Cincinnati, (7) Pittsburgh, (8) Patriots, (9) Washington, (10) Minnesota, (11) Houston, (12) Green Bay. Finally, got no problem with the Patriots not trying to win against Miami for health reasons, but then why in god’s name did Bill play Brady and Gronk? Especially after Brady tweaked his ankle.

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Bedford takes Bauer The Big Story: Delayed by the year’s first storm, the Bauer Hockey Christmas Classic final finally came off at the start of the week with Bedford earning its first ever Classic title via a 3-0 win over Concord. Defense was the story for B-town as Alec Lindberg and Eric Voloshin led the way in the shutout by making 21 stops. The goals came from Jacob Rioux, Alex Abad and Danato Tempesta.

Sports 101: What four players are tied at 9 for the most interceptions in NFL playoff history?

Coming and Going: It was an up and down week for New Hampshire alums as the aforementioned Kelly was fired as coach of the Eagles and Nashua’s Tim Neverett agreed to be the guy to replace Rye’s Dave O’Brien in the Red Sox radio booth next to Joe Castiglione.

Political Correctness Run Amok Oddity of the Week: The aforementioned Lindberg was named MVP of the Classic but did not make the All-Tournament team at goalie, which went to teammate Eric Voloshin.

Collateral Damage/Alumni News Note of the Week: The one who gets a raw deal in the Chip Kelly firing is ex-Central QB Ryan Day, who left his job as offen-

sive coordinator at BC to join Kelly with the Eagles as QB coach this year and now most likely will be out after just one year.

Of course given the year BC had, not sure how secure that job would have been either.

Sports 101 Answer: The four players with a record 9 interceptions in NFL playoff history are Charlie Waters, as a safety for Dallas in the ’70s; Bill Simpson, who played for his head coach Chuck Knox with the ’70s Rams and ’80s Bills; Ronnie Lott, mostly with the 49ers, and the great Ed Reed, who got all of them with the Ravens.

On This Date – Jan. 7: 1945 – Ill-fated home rown Red Sox star Tony Conigliaro is born in Lynn, Mass. 1961 – In one of the dumbest sports ideas ever the Lions beat the Browns 17-16 in the first ever (and very anti-climactic) NFL Runner-up Bowl played a week after the championship was already decided. 1972 – The L.A. Lakers extend their best ever NBA winning streak to 33 straight with a 134-90 rout of Atlanta. It ends two days later in Milwaukee in a game that includes a wild brawl where Kareem Abdul Jabbar sucker-punches L.A. forward (not so) Happy Hairston while on his knees.

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5 – consecutive games without allowing a goal for Bedford net minder Alec Lindberg after he pitched a 5-0 shutout at Hanover on Saturday.

15 – national rank for the Saint Anselm men’s basketball team, which was fortified with Sunday’s 91-72 win over Bridgeport

when Mike McCahey had 24 points.

19 – game-high points scored by Chris Walter as SNHU moved to 8-4 with a 74-66 win over St. Mike’s on the road over the weekend.

26 – number worn by Wade Boggs during his 10 years in Boston, finally being retired 20 years after he left the team as a free

agent for the Yankees after being a four-time All-Star, five-time batting champ while hitting a third best in franchise history .338 during his time with the Sox. 83.3 – first-half shooting percentage for Londonderry as they made 15 of their 18 shots vs. Windham on their way to a 57-30 win over Windham at the Pinkerton Christmas Tournament.

Sports Glossary

Bill Parcells: Sarcastic, tough guy, revered for his way with the G-Men, P-Men of NE, J-Men and Cowboys in Dallas. He was a team-builder as opposed to a guy like Phil Jackson looking to take over a team with talent to prop up the record rather than build it from scratch, which Tuna did with his last three teams. He got all to the playoffs in two years with all three after taking over dysfunctional teams. Only knock on him is that while he won two SBs in Jersey with the Giants, he never won one, or even got to one, without having Bill Belichick on his staff.

The AJ McCarron Girlfriend Thing: It came about when ABC’s Brent Musburger spent the rest of a game drooling over comely Katherine Webb after she was shown during cutaway shots as boyfriend McCarron was the QB at Alabama. As is the 21stcentury custom, that led to a social media assault on the creepy actions of Brent and building the national profile of the former Miss Al-La-Bama.

Ryan Leaf: Nasty, doofus ex-NFL quarterback and the cautionary tale not followed by the likes of Vince Young and Johnny Manziel for how not to act after being a high NFL draft pick. For him it was No. 2 to San Diego behind Peyton Manning in 1998, where he was bounced out after making 18 starts in three seasons. After that there were short stints in Tampa Bay, Dallas, Seattle and jail.

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Winter Harvest from 110 Grill. Courtesy photo.

GET IN THE SPIRIT

In the spirits world, this time of year is typically ruled by bourbon, whiskey and scotch, but Julia Dale, 110 Grill mixologist, said the key to making winter cocktails is finding something that warms your soul.

“You can basically use anything, it just depends on what you mix it with,” she said.

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ith this first paper of 2016, the Hippo is kicking off its four-part Year of Awesome series to celebrate everything that’s awesome about New Hampshire, plus ways to make this year your most awesome one yet. For this first issue, we’ve tracked down some of the coolest things to see and do in the first few months of this new year, from local art exhibits and concerts to TV shows and theater productions.

Coming up next week, we look at the best ways to feel awesome no matter where you are: On a trip, in the snow, at a party or at the gym. Part 3 will include a slew of awesome fixes for all kinds of little problems, from your hair and wardrobe to your relationship and resume. And in the final installment of the Year of Awesome series, we’ll profile some of the Granite State’s most awesome people, so you can be inspired to be awesome too!

This week’s list of the awesome essentials of 2016 was compiled

by Allie Ginwala, Ryan Lessard, Kelly Sennott and Angie Sykeny.

MIX IT UP

Mixers — juice, soda, fruit and spices — help give a cocktail its flair and Dale said the latest trend in the cocktail world is shrubs. “You cook down … different spices and different fruits into apple cider vinegar and let it sit for 24 hours and strain it and that’s your mixer,” she said. The appeal is that you can get much more flavor into one mixer with a shrub instead of using a handful of juices, plus you can get more creative.

experiment with flavor and presentation.

For example, 110 Grill served a mulled winter sangria that didn’t go over well — until they served it cold. Now they warm it over the stove with the mulling spices, chill with red wine and serve over ice. Take something you typically enjoy and turn it on its head, like sparkling wine in a cocktail. “If you have a bottle of Champagne and a couple liquors you can mix something up [that’s] lying around the house,”

she said, or pop in the fridge for some fresh ingredients.

KNOW YOUR LIMITS

Dale recommends saving the recipes that call for complex or unique liquors for when you go out. “I would say leave that to the restaurants and make the more simple cocktails with more well-known liquors at home,” she said.

— Allie Ginwala

TWO TO TRY From the bar at 110 Grill

ar mixture. Strain the cocktail into the glass. Garnish with a ginger candy.

Whether it’s a cosmo or hot cider, fill your cocktail with flavors that match the season, like cinnamon, ginger and cranberry. You can even make your own simple syrups, Dale said. “You can basically put anything with sugar and water so that’s really easy to do at home,” she said, like melting down peppermint candy for an athome peppermint syrup.

Winter Harvest 2 ounces Tito’s Vodka 1.5 ounces apple/ginger shrub* .5 ounce lemon juice Cinnamon/sugar, for rim of martini glass *House-made shrub incorporates fresh ginger, apples, allspice, berries, cloves, star anise, cinnamon and apple cider

New Cuban .5 ounce Sailor Jerry rum .25 ounce fresh lime juice .5 ounce simple syrup 2 dashes Angostura bitters Prosecco 1 mint leaf, smacked

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

Combine all ingredients over ice in a shaker. Shake well for 10 seconds until chilled.

Dip a martini glass into the cinnamon/sug-

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Pour Sailor Jerry rum, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, and bitters into a Champagne flute. Fill glass with prosecco. Garnish with a smacked mint leaf.

Now that the holidays are over, local theater companies are free to jump into the new year with lesser-seen work, including quite a few New Hampshire premieres.

Here’s a small taste of what you can expect this winter and early spring.

First on the list of locally-written shows is the Leddy Center for the Performing Arts’ (38 C Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 679-2781, leddycenter.org) Candid Candidate by Donald Tongue of Londonderry, which happens Thursday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. The story is topical, revolving around two candidates, Bob Roberts and John McCoy, who emerge as the winners of the Iowa Caucuses and eagerly head east for the next round in the presidential election season — the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary — until an unscripted candid moment leaves them fighting for political survival.

The show features Chris Demers, Deirdre Hickok Bridge, Larry Pizza, Jane ParadisButton, Jackie Coffin, Aaron Compagna, Jake Lamontagne and Christina Kostoulakos. Tickets are $20, available online, by calling or at the door.

The 14th Annual New Hampshire Theatre Awards — i.e., the Tony Awards for the Granite State — is at the Capitol Center for the Arts, (44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. Special award winners include Elaine and Bruce Gatchell of the Leddy Center for the Performing Arts (Francis Grover Cleveland Award for Lifetime Achievement); Shelly Hudson (“Matty” Award for Vision and Tenacity); and Palace Youth Theatre (Children’s and Youth Theatre Award). The rest of the awards — Best Actor, Best Costume Designer, Best Director, Best Musical, etc. — will be announced the night of the event, during which attendees will sport award-worthy garb. Visit nhtheatreawards. org for updates, including nominees.

The Community Players of Concord has Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, directed by Steve Lajoie, on its schedule for Friday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. This show is The Full Monty for women, centering around two friends, Annie and Chris, who want to raise money for a new settee for a local hospital waiting room. They decide to do this by persuad-

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ing four friends to pose nude with them for an “alternative calendar” with a little help from the hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. Before they know it, word spreads, and soon crowds of press descend on the small English village.

Tickets are $14 to $16. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org.

This winter and spring also mean a host of Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester, palacetheatre.org, 668-5588) premieres for its mainstage season. First up is Nunsense A-Men, which hits the stage Jan. 22 through Feb. 13, and afterward is Rock of Ages, which runs from March 4 through March 26. Mainstage tickets are $25 to $45.

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Theatre KAPOW’s winter show is Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones, and it’s at the Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry, on Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. The show is an Olivier Award-winning play that tells of a movie location shoot in Ireland. Two actors, Rich Hurley and Peter Josephson, will play 15 roles. Tickets are $20; visit tkapow.com.

The New Hampshire Theatre Factory also produces an original play, Lost in Wonderland, with music, book and lyrics by Joel Mercier. The show is a musical adaptation of the famous Wonderland books and will be performed by New Hampshire Theatre Factory youth (the company’s Stage Setters) at the Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry, on Friday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, March 26, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Visit nhtheatrefactory.org.

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Honoring those who came before: During the winter months, Symphony NH is bursting with activity. In the first concerts of 2016, Jonathan McPhee will direct pieces by Stravinsky (“Pulcinella Suite”), Prokofiev (“Classical Symphony”), Ravel (“Le Tombeau de Couperin”) and Tchaikovsky (“Serenade for Strings”), all of which were written in the style of composers who came before. (For example, “Serenade for Strings” is an homage to Mozart, and “Le Tombeau de Couperin” is a nod to Francois Couperin.) The first concert is at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord, on Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m. (and that day there’s a free dis-

cussion at the Concord Public Library, 45 Green St., Concord, at 4 p.m., led by longtime symphony bassist Robert Hoffman).

There’s another concert Saturday, Jan. 23, at 8 p.m., at the Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Tickets range from $18 to $49 for both shows. Call 595-9156 or visit symphonynh.org.

Music drawings: The New Hampshire Philharmonic continues its 2015-2016 season at the Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry, with its annual Drawn to the Music concert, this year on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. Children from throughout New Hampshire have been asked to illustrate what they think’s happening in chosen pieces — like Brahms “Symphony No. 2” and Strauss’s “Serenade for Winds, op. 7” — and audiences will see those images projected overhead while the musicians play under music director Mark Latham. Ticket are $12 to $50 and $10 for students. Visit nhphil.org.

Classical smackdown: The first concert of 2016 in the Concord Community Concerts series happens Saturday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium.

Pianist Frederic Chui will heat the winter season with a recital that pits Prokofiev against Debussy in a classical smackdown — audiences will judge who the winner is. Tickets are $18 at the UPS Store, at Gibson’s Bookstore or at the door. Call 344-4747 or visit concordcommunityconcerts.org.

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Catch the senate-staffers-turned-comedy-troupe Capitol Steps for an evening of musical political satire. They will be performing at The Music Hall’s Historic Theater (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth) on Saturday, Feb. 7, with showtimes at 5 and 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35 to $45. Visit themusichall.org.

You can also see them at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord) on Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $13 to $29. Visit ccanh.com.

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Popular comedian-ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will be at the Verizon Wireless Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 5 p.m., as part of his Perfectly Unbalanced Tour. Tickets cost $50.50. Visit verizonwirelessarena.com.

Comedy legends Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy have joined forces for the We’ve Been Thinking tour and will be making a stop at the Verizon Wireless Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $59.50. Visit verizonwirelessarena.com.

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Want a night out? These performances could be just the ticket.

Eric Martin of the 1980s L.A. hard rock band Mr. Big will perform at the Tupelo Music Hall (2 Young Road, Londonderry) on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. This will be a full band show featuring Jeff Young, formerly of Megadeth, on guitar. Tickets cost $35 to $45.

Visit tupelohalllondonderry.com.

Don’t miss country artist Jason Aldean on his We Were Here tour at the Verizon Wireless Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. Aldean is a three-time ACM “Male Vocalist of the Year” winner and has sold more than 10 million albums. He’ll be performing with Thomas Rhett and A Thousand Horses. Tickets cost $34.75 to $64.75. Visit verizonwirelessarena.com.

See adult-contemporary singer-songwriter Jim Brickman on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester). Now celebrating his 20th year as a performing artist, Brickman will showcase some new music as well as his hits like “Valentine” and “Rock it to the Moon.”

Tickets cost $45 to $75.50. Visit palacetheatre.org.

The Lone Bellow will be at The Music Hall’s Historic Theater (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth) on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. The Brooklyn-based folk trio is known for its introspective songs and vocal harmonies and has performed alongside artists like Brandi Carlile, Robert Plant and the Civil Wars. Tickets cost $20 to $29. Visit themusichall.org.

The Deer Tick “Acoustic” Tour will hit 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth) on Tuesday, March 15, with doors at 7 p.m., and showtime at 8 p.m. The alternative rock band will be performing with special guest Mutual Benefit. Tickets are $25. Visit 3sarts. org.

Get out of the cold and into some galleries this winter and early spring — you’ll find celebrated artists, new and old, plus some hot shoes and Shakespeare’s First Folio.

providing the viewer with a sense of space and emotion. The show, which is free to the public, has an opening reception on Friday, Jan. 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit nhia.edu.

Celebrating Gary Haven Smith: Southern New Hampshire University celebrates Gary Haven Smith of Northwood in a show, “Gary Haven Smith: A Celebration of Sculpture,” which is on view Jan. 14 through Feb. 20 at the McIninch Art Gallery, Robert Frost Hall, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester.

The exhibition “captures the iconic work” of the New Hampshire sculptor and also marks the fifth anniversary of the SNHU Sculpture Park and the 15th anniversary of the gallery, which is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Thursday, 5 to 8 p.m.

There’s a reception with the artist on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit snhu.edu.

Call 629-4622 or email m.gallery@snhu.edu.

Blooming again: McGowan Fine Art (10 Hills Ave., Concord, 225-2515, mcgowanfineart.com) again presents flowers and greenery in winter with “Art & Bloom,” on view Jan. 21 through Jan. 23. Every year, the Concord Garden Club partners with the gallery to facilitate a show of floral designs inspired by artwork. There’s a reception on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (and the Concord Garden Club ladies really know how to throw a party, Marissa Rattee of McGowan said via email). In addition to its annual “Love, Lust & Desire” exhibition, on view Feb. 1 through Feb. 12, the gallery also hosts recent New Hampshire Institute of Art graduate Catherine Graffam, a transgender artist whose portraits of LGBTQIA couples and individuals will decorate the walls from March 22 through April 22.

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Another college show: The New Hampshire Institute of Art hosts a show, “The Artist and the Land,” at the Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., Peterborough, from Jan. 15 through Feb. 20. The show is themed about landscape paintings, from photo-realism to complete abstraction, according to the school’s website, each piece

Oh my gosh, shoes: The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester, 669-6144, currier.org) is spicing winter up with “Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe,” which is on view Feb. 6 through May 15.

Make it a sugary sweet weekend at Charmingfare Farm’s (774 High St., Candia) Maple Express, open between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on any Saturday or Sunday from March 5 to March 20. Take a horse-drawn carriage ride to an authentic sugar shack where a professional sugar maker will give a tour and talk about the process. Then, see how trees are tapped for syrup and try the syrup on pancakes. Don’t forget to stop by the barn and visit with the animals. Maple syrup and other

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The Winter Carnival at White Park (1 White St., Concord) will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. Bring the family for a day of winter activities including ice skating, sledding, a bonfire and a parade. Visit onconcord.com.

The Merrimack Parks & Recreation Department presents the 24th Annual Winter Carnival at Wasserman Park (116 Naticook Road, Merrimack) on Saturday, Feb. 20, from noon to 3 p.m. Enjoy an afternoon of all-ages winter fun including food, arts and crafts, carnival games, snowshoeing, raffles, storytimes, a youth ice fishing derby, snowmobile rides, a campfire with s’mores and the 2nd Annual Cardboard Box Sledding Contest. Visit merrimacknh.gov/ parks-and-recreation.

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Spend Valentine’s and President’s Day weekend in Portsmouth at the Fire & Ice Festival. From Wednesday, Feb. 10, to Monday, Feb. 15, there will be winter fun for the whole family, including food, theater performances, live music, ice skating, ice sculpting demonstrations, dog sled rides and more. For adult-only fun, there’s the Fire & Ice Bar Crawl on Saturday, Feb. 13. The dog sled rides require tickets, and tickets sell out fast, so buy them early at bit.ly/DogSledRides. Visit goportsmouthnh.com for a full schedule of events.

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Don’t miss out on the Japanese Martial Arts & Cultural Festival hosted by Portsmouth Aikido (620 Peverly Hill Road, Portsmouth) on Saturday, March 14. Kids’ activities will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and include calligraphy, Kamishibai Japanese traditional storytelling, origami and aikido demonstrations. Adult activities will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. and include various martial arts demonstrations, tai chi classes, tea-tasting, calligraphy and a party. All events are free. Visit portsmouthaikido.org.

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For Shakespeare fanatics: This is also at the Currier and is an equally big deal. From April 9 through May 1, the museum will host “First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” which is the text that saved

many of the bard’s greatest plays from being forever lost (including Macbeth, Julius Caeser, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and As You Like It). It’s one of the few remaining copies, as many of his works were written to be performed and were not published during his lifetime, comprising 36 plays. It came out in 1623, seven years after his death, and represents the first collected edition of his plays, compiled by two of his fellow actors. Currier librarian and archivist Meghan Petersen said a climate-controlled case will be sent with the folio. Saint Anselm College, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and UNH Durham and Manchester, worked together to secure the treasure’s visit to Manchester.

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According to the museum website, the show will present 300 years of footwear, including about 100 contemporary and 50 historical high heels, some by noted designers Prada, Alexander McQueen, Miu Miu, Christian Louboutin, Ferragamo, Manolo Blahnik, etc.

The show is drawn from the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, and it also includes six films created specifically for the show by artists.

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Laconia will host the 87th annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby from Friday, Feb. 12, to Sunday, Feb. 14, with races beginning at 10 a.m., each day. The event is managed by the Lakes Region Sled Dog Club and sanctioned by the International Sled Dog Racing Association. Races will include a 15-mile unlimited race and six-mile sixdog, three-dog and one-dog races. Teams compete for trophies and cash prizes, and an awards ceremony will be held on Sunday at 4 p.m., at Laconia Country Club (607 Elm St.).

Visit lrsdc.org for the map and full schedule.

Don’t miss the 6th Annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship, held at White Park (at the intersection of White and Washington Streets, Concord) from Friday, Jan. 29, to Sunday, Jan. 31. Divisions include men’s and women’s open and open-recreational, men’s 35+ and men’s 50+. Games will be held in 4-on-4 Round Robin style on eight different rinks. This year, there will also be live scoring available via mobile device and online. There will be food and drink vendors at the event as well as a shuttle bus service that will run to and from the park while stopping at various downtown restaurants. More information and a full schedule will be posted on blackicepondhockey.com.

Don’t be afraid to take the Plunge! On Sunday, Feb. 7, at noon, participants in the Penguin Plunge will run into the icy cold Atlantic Ocean at Hampton Beach to benefit Special Olympics New Hampshire. This year’s theme is U.S.A. Registration costs $50, and participants are asked to raise at least $350. Visit sonh.org.

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On Saturday, Feb. 13, and Sunday, Feb. 14, thousands of fishers from all over the country will convene at Meredith Bay on

Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith and water bodies around the state for New Hampshire’s largest fishing event, The Great Rotary Ice Fishing Derby, presented by the Meredith Rotary Club. Prizes will be awarded for the best catch in various categories. The ice on Meredith Bay will be transformed into a family-friendly carnival-like atmosphere with vendors and bob houses. Tickets cost $30.

Visit meredithrotary.com for official derby rules and a list of eligible fish.

Do something different this Valentine’s Day and embark on a snowy adventure at the Massabesic Audubon (26 Audubon Way, Auburn). The inaugural Raven’s Race 5K Snowshoeing Event will take place Sunday, Feb. 14, at 10 a.m., in the fields and woods on the center’s property. You can go it alone or bring your Valentine to compete in the Couples Division. Awards will be given to the top finishers. Stick around for some hot chili after the race. The entry fee is $20 before Jan. 20, $25 from Jan. 21 to Feb. 10 and $30 after Feb. 10. For more information or to register, visit nhaudubon.org/ events-and-news/ravens-race-5k.

The Queen City will become a green city when the 21st Annual Manchester St. Patrick’s Day Parade makes its way downtown on Sunday, March 20. The parade kicks off rain or shine at noon from the Brady Sullivan Tower on Elm Street and proceeds down Elm to Veterans Park. Visit saintpatsnh.com.

If you’re looking to get your green on before the parade arrives, join in the Northeast Delta Dental Shamrock Shuffle happening downtown earlier that day. The two-mile race begins at 11:15 a.m. in front of Veterans Park. The 100-yard Kids’ Leprechaun Runs for kids 8 and under will be held at 10:30 a.m. Online registration costs $25 for adults 21+, $20 for youth 12 to 20 and $10 for kids 11 and under. Race-day registration costs $30/$25/$10. Be sure to show your St. Patty’s pride by wearing green. Visit millenniumrunning.com/shamrock.

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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson Expected publication: January Plot: Sequel to Notes From a Small Island, his love letter to his adopted country, England Anticipated by: Sarah St. Martin, Manchester City Library. “I’m sure that this sequel … will be just as humorous and insightful!”

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places, from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner Expected publication: January Plot: Travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas.

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Leaders by Brady Carlson Expected publication: February Plot: New Hampshire Public Radio host takes readers to presidential gravesites, monuments and memorials to tell death stories of our greatest leaders, mixing biography with travelogue and answering questions like, did William Henry Harrison really die of a cold? Why were Zachary Taylor’s remains exhumed 140 years after his death? Was it really an assassin’s bullet that killed James A. Garfield? And why do people still play “Hooverball” in Iowa?

Anticipated by: Michael Herrmann, Gibson’s Bookstore Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage by László Krasznahorka Expected publication: February Plot: A series of reports from traveling through China Anticipated by: Monica Bilson, New Hampshire Institute of Art creative writing department chair, who quoted New York Times book reviewer Larry Rohter in her

email: “If gloom, menace and entropy are your thing, then László is your man.”

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The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian Expected publication: January Plot: A tale of a party gone horribly wrong, with two men lying dead in a suburban living room, two women on the run from the police and a marriage ripped apart Anticipated by: Michael Herrmann

Mr. Splitfoot, by Samantha Hunt Expected publication: January Plot: Contemporary gothic novel, tracking two women in two time periods as they move to the same point of crisis Anticipated by: Mat Bose. “Described as surreal, spellbinding, and genre-defying, this novel is about the intertwined lives of a 19th-century medium and her modern-day descendant.”

Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor Expected publication: January Plot: A freelancer gets an assignment that might just change her life.

Tim Anticipated by: Horvath, New Hampshire Institute of Art writing faculty.

“Cantor's novel is about translation, a subject I'm obsessed with, but it sounds as though it takes it in some unusual directions, where minding the gap between language and reality becomes a springboard for examining the life and world around the translator.”

The Unfinished World: And Other Stories by Amber Sparks Expected publication: January Plot: Collection of short stories populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, warriors and more Anticipated by: Tim Horvath. “Sparks manages to find the uncanny middle-slice of some Venn Diagram where fabulism meets Andrea Barrett-like explorations of science and history.”

Morning Star by Pierce Brown Expected publication: February Plot: Book 3 in the Red Rising trilogy Anticipated by: Meryle Zusman, Derry Public Library Also anticipated by: Mat Bose, Hooksett Library. “The final installment in a thrilling dystopian trilogy spanning our solar system. Not to be missed!”

PICTURE BOOKS

Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet by Nick Bruel Expected publication: January Plot: Kitty’s family finally manages to get their clawing, angry pet into the doctor’s office, and what’s waiting for her there is a shot and an eye-opening dream.

Anticipated by: Sarah St. Martin, Manchester City Library. “This is the ninth book in the Bad Kitty series, so be prepared for more hilarious dilemmas from the baddest kitty around!”

Let's Play by Hervé Tullet Expected publication: March Plot: The adventures of the dot continue.

Anticipated by: Grace Larochelle, Hooksett Public Library. “Acclaimed author of Press Here uses our beloved character (the dot) in a new adventure.”

The Thank You Book by Mo Willems Expected publication: May Plot: The very last Gerald and Piggie book Anticipated by: Grace Larochelle.

“Fans of the previous Gerald and Piggie books will be sad to see them go.”

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Escaping Peril by Tui T. Sutherland

Expected publication: January Plot: Book 8 in the Wings of Fire series, centered around seven dragon tribes that have been at war for generations over an ancient, lost treasure Anticipated by: Heather Weirich Roy, Gibson’s Bookstore. “A strong dragon series popular with both boys and girls in middle grade.”

The Extra Yard by Mike Lupica Expected publication: January Plot: Book 2 from Lupica’s Home Team series. A young football player learns that sometimes bridging the distance in your family can be harder than stretching for an Courtesy photo. extra yard on the field.

Anticipated by: Hannah Weirich Roy. “Great sports writing and heart.”

The Stolen Chapters by James Riley Expected publication: January Plot: Book 2 in the Story Thieves series, about a boy whose best friend is half-fictional, having climbed out of a book in the library.

Anticipated by: Heather Weirich Roy. “A half-fictional girl leads her classmates on an adventure to find her fictional father.”

Pax by Sara Pennypacker Expected publication: February Plot: A young boy and his pet fox struggle to reunite.

Anticipated by: Hannah Weirich Roy. “Beautiful coming-of-age novel.”

Firelight by Kazu Kibuishi Expected publication: February Plot: Book 7 in the Amulet graphic novel series, in which its characters visit Algos Island, an island of lost memories Anticipated by: Grace Larochelle

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The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig Expected publication: February Plot: A teen has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her father’s time-traveling ship, but it may all come to an end when he gambles with her existence.

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The year is shaping up to be chock full of blockbuster sci-fi and fantasy epics and family animations. While most of the major comic book movies will take place in the summer and holiday season, the first major event from that genre (Batman v Superman) will trump the others with a relatively early release in March. Pixar’s Finding Dory will likely see big box-office success later in the year, but until then, we have three family animations promising laughs and fuzzy feelings for all.

Anomalisa (R), due out in January While the release date is unknown, Red River Theatres expects to carry this stop-motion animation, which follows in the drama-comedy-mixture tradition that writer and director Charlie Kaufman has become known for.

The 5th Wave (PG-13), Jan. 22 A big-budget alien invasion movie starring the young Chloe Grace Moretz and Liev Schreiber, based on the book by Rick Yancey. Moretz plays 16-year-old Cassie who is desperately trying to save her younger brother while alien invaders are preparing for their final wave of attack against Earth.

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Kung Fu Panda 3 (PG), Jan. 29 Loveable martial-arts trained panda Po returns in this third installment to meet his long-lost panda family. When the villain Kai threatens to kill off all the kung fu masters, Po must train his village of pandas to defend themselves.

Hail, Caesar! (PG-13), Feb. 5 A star-studded cast including George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansen and

more appear in this comedy romp by Joel and Ethan Cohen set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Brolin plays a Hollywood fixer in over his head when Clooney, who plays the leading man in a big-budget picture, gets abducted by a mysterious group.

Deadpool (R), Feb. 12 Wise-cracking and fourth-wall-breaking masked mercenary Deadpool gets his own movie. In this action movie produced by 20th Century Fox, the Marvel Comics character will be played by Ryan Reynolds, the same actor who played him in a less faithful iteration in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Whether you’re looking forward to the return of your favorite paranormal investigators, Mulder and Skully, or a live musical rendition of the 1970s classic Grease, the first few months of 2016 have a lot to offer on the small screen. Here’s a look at some of the biggest deals on television.

Tune in to the 21st Annual Critics Choice Awards at 8 p.m. on Jan. 17. It will be simulcast on cable channels A&E, Lifetime and LMN. Unlike in previous years where the film and television categories were separate, they will be combined this year in a single three-hour event. The television and movie awards event will be hosted by comedian and actor T.J. Miller.

Want to believe? Follow former federal agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully down the rabbit hole of government conspiracies, monsters and extraterrestrial encounters with a six-episode series event marking the return of the X-Files. The original series aired from 1993 to 2002 with more than 200 episodes. Original actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles and the show’s creator, Chris Carter, is taking the helm. The first episode will air on Fox

immediately following the NFC Championship Game, but following episodes will air Mondays at 8 p.m. starting Jan. 24.

Watch a young ensemble cast bring the story of Grease back to life with a live musical television event on the Fox network on Jan. 31. Julianne Hough plays Rydell High’s newcomer, Sandy, while Aaron Tveit plays bad boy Danny Zuko and Vanessa Hudgens plays troublemaker Rizzo. Grease: Live is based on the 1971 musical Grease.

It’s Super Bowl 50, happening Sunday, Feb. 7, and airing on CBS. This Super Bowl will decide the top NFL team at the San Francisco 49ers Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The stadium was chosen since it is the league’s “golden anniversary.” Also, since the the roman numeral of 50 is an awkwardly solitary “L,” the branding will break from tradition and go with the Arabic numerals this year.

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Between the end of the football season and the beginning of baseball season, there’s plenty of local basketball and hockey, at the professional minor-league, college or high school level, to enjoy in southern New Hampshire.

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hy is it called “The Hippo”?

That is probably the question I get asked the most when it comes to the paper, even now, 15 years after the first print issue hit the streets.

That happened on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2001, 15 years ago. The first cover story was called “Morning in Manchester” and the issue was 16 pages.

Why start a newspaper

The Hippo became a printed newspaper 15 years ago this week, but the idea for it took root about a year earlier. It was the winter of 2000 and I was a reporter for the Union Leader. Like all the correspondents, I covered the New Hampshire presidential primary in addition to my normal beat, which was Nashua and surrounding towns. Being a reporter can have its moments, but many of them are monotonous. I spent many hours at public meetings and even more that year listening to stump speeches by Al Gore, John McCain, George W. Bush and many other guys that I have long since forgotten about. These stump speeches were mostly the same from day to day, American Legion to American Legion. I was a little bored.

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By Jody Reese

jreese@hippopress.com

The publisher/founder looks back on a decade and a half of newspapering With the first issue of 2016, Hippo officially hits its 15th anniversary as a printed paper. To celebrate, Hippo publisher and founder Jody Reese takes a look back at the early years and how the paper became the Hippo you know today. Also, some of the longest-serving Hippo staffers talk about some of their favorite covers over the years and explain what they liked about some of our most striking cover images.

Jan. 4, 2001 “Morning in Manchester” “Our first cover was a painting we commissioned to have done of Manchester by artist Dawn LaRose. We felt that Manchester was on the move — that it was morning in Manchester, playing off President Ronald Reagan’s campaign slogan ‘Morning in America.’ The painting had just the right tone and demonstrated that we were going to be a different kind of paper.” — Jody Reese, publisher and founder me to write the more analytical, behindthe-scenes articles that interested me, I started a website called reporternotebook.com (long since abandoned) to serve as an outlet for those stories. The stories were real inside-baseball reporter stuff, and I wanted to reach a larger audience. So after the primary was over I started hippopress.com with the idea of being like salon.com, where a friend had recently started working.

I recruited friends in the business to write additional articles. I brought on Amy Diaz and Dan Szczesny, fellow Union Leader reporters. Shortly thereafter, Amy left the state, eventually going to work for a paper in California, but she kept writing about movies and pop culture. Dan stayed and became my editor.

In the late summer of 2000, I knew that we’d never make it as just a website.

The tech boom was imploding. Though I was still working for the Union Leader, I worked a second job for a web company (and was laid off because business was so bad). Radio host and friend Arnie Arnesen put me in contact with Jeff Rapsis, who, though unknown to me, was Mr. New Hampshire Journalism. He had worked at the Keene Sentinel (10 years before I had), the Claremont Eagle Times, The Concord Monitor, The Union

Leader, NH.com, the Telegraph and the Little Papers (now called Neighborhood News, owned by the Union Leader). And Jeff had something Dan and I didn’t — money. Not a lot of it, but enough to take our website and turn it into a printed paper.

Our first issue came out the first Thursday of 2001 and we printed 5,000 copies.

After the beginning

Those first few months were really tough. Most of the other newspaper people in New Hampshire predicted we’d fail. The odds were stacked against us.

All previous weeklies in Manchester and the New Hampshire Times, a statewide weekly published in the 1970s, had failed.

My research showed Manchester and the rest of southern New Hampshire was changing; incomes were dramatically increasing, up 30 percent in Manchester. And, we had help, lots of it. A loyal group of volunteers helped write stories and deliver papers: John Fladd, my roommate at the time who is now a teacher in Deerfield, wrote stories, delivered papers and put up with my late rent checks. Lisa Parsons, who is our copy editor, wrote a column called Goo about being a new mother and delivered papers

(with her son strapped in the back). And there were others. We just wouldn’t have made it without those people’s help.

We also got huge support from the arts community: the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester Historic Association, the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College, now defunct New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, UNH Manchester and others. Weekly newspapers rarely have their own newsprint presses so they usually contract with local daily newspapers to do the printing. We printed with the Concord Monitor and they helped us out enormously in the early days. To this day, we still print with them.

And then...

Everything in the early days was by the seat of our pants. We had almost no paid staff. Once we were able to afford to hire someone I called my friend Amy Diaz to see if she wanted to come join us. She did, and after working for us for about a year, she became the paper’s editor, a role she has held for about 13 years.

She’s the architect of the modern Hippo (and my life — she’s my wife). She really figured out our model by zeroing in on the stories that reflected southern New Hampshire’s quality of life. We almost never write about things that have 28

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Jan. 11, 2001 “Whatever Happened to Our Manners?”

Photograph by Al Belote. “Our second issue! No one had thought beyond Issue No. 1, so I volunteered to put something together for the next one. (You mean we have to do this again?!) The “Top 10 Most Polite Cities” in the U.S. had just been released, so I investigated what it would take for Manchester to make this list. I talked to the southern lady who compiled the list, and used her comments to set up several tests to see how Manchester would fare. The most elaborate test was inspired by her comment that the city should be welcoming to strangers, especially foreigners, which prompted photographer Al Belote and I to pretend we were non-English-speaking diplomats arriving at Manchester airport. The mission: to see if a Queen City taxi driver would cheat clueless foreigners. So when we arrived at our destination (1000 Elm St.), I held out five $100 bills to see what he would do. (He calmly made change for the $15 fare.)”

— Jeff Rapsis, associate publisher, with the Hippo since 2000

Nov. 28, 2002 “The Big Night: A Queen City Restaurant is Born”

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“Done over three days leading up the opening of the Siam Orchid on Second Street (now the Muse Thai Bistro), this story was truly a stroke of luck. We stumbled on to this family drama taking place in real time and on our deadline.

Really got into all the excitement that comes in the days leading up to opening the doors. Nice food art on the cover.”

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Photograph by Kriss Soterion of model Michelle Gagnon. “If Hippo’s going to do a story about redevelopment or civic improvement, we’re going to do it the fun way. Step 1: Don’t use the words ‘redevelopment’ or ‘civic improvement’ on the cover. This cover is a fun image but it also focuses on something that has always been a key issue for the Hippo — the quality of life in and around New Hampshire’s biggest city.” — Amy Diaz, editor, with the Hippo since 2000

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In the early days, Hippo was more of a classical counter-culture city newsweekly — sometimes called an alternative newspaper, similar to the now defunct Boston Phoenix. As we matured and wanted to reach beyond just downtown Manchester, we became less political and more family- and food-oriented. Our circulation kept growing from 10,000 to 15,000 to 20,000; today it’s over 40,000 and larger than the state’s largest newspaper, the Union Leader.

People ask how have things changed over the years. My answer surprises people because it’s “not a whole lot.” When we started, the web was already a big thing — heck, we started as a website, we all had cell phones and we could see phones becoming smarter and more connected. The sames rules apply now as then: if you produce content that people want to read or view, people will show up.

Our content and our weekly publishing cycle work well in the static print environment. Our circulation has increased 42 percent in the past three years. The same can’t be said for daily newspapers.

The big changes have really come on the daily news side of newspapers. Daily news doesn’t fit the static environment of print. Because of its breaking nature, it fits best on mobile devices. Today, 69

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Feb. 5, 2004 “Anatomy of a Shutdown: The Closure of JacPac”

Good Mike Flint original art, plus a meaty story that connected the dots to show how Manchester ultimately suffered (and lost 500 jobs) when a oncelocal employer got caught in industry consolidation and takeover madness.

This one won first place for investigative reporting and business writing at the New Hampshire Press Association awards. But its real value was how it helped explain and provide context to an important event that had a wide-ranging effect on the city and the region. It was a story that headline-driven news coverage couldn’t tell, but which Manchester needed to understand. — Jeff Rapsis

percent of our readers never open a dai- Hippo would do that, and on a practical ly newspaper. level it wasn’t already being used as a Southern New Hampshire from a sports team and didn’t come with a lot of business point of view has changed a preconceived notions. Also I thought the lot. When we started, many Elm Street hippo character would work well for an buildings were vacant — most of the online publication. mills were empty or still being used My original name for the website was for manufacturing or storHippoFreePress — but age: today it’s a bustling, the shorter URL hippovibrant downtown and Milpress.com was available, lyard filled with tons of so I bought it. When we restaurants. At our annual first came in print, we Hippo de Mayo Taco Tour called ourselves Hippoin downtown Manchester, PressManchester. But we more than 40 restaurants quickly shortened our participate, and that isn’t name to HippoPress. Even close to all the restaurants though HippoPress is still downtown. our web address and our In the 15 years I’ve run legal name, we shortened Hippo, I’ve learned a lot it even more as people — and grown up a lot. The started calling us the Hipbiggest lesson I learned is Original Hippo Logo. po. (Today most people you need great people to don’t use the “the.” I’m make a great company. It’s fine with that — the “the” important to have a good idea and a good seems like a wasted article.) strategy but without great people you Today we reach 210,000 readers won’t be able to make any of that hap- throughout New Hampshire and northpen. The Hippo has been able to do what ern Massachusetts and have 29 people it’s done because of the hard work, cre- on staff with others contributing. After ativity and ingenuity of people like Doug 15 years, I want to thank every one of Ladd, Charlene Cesarini, Amy Diaz, Jeff you for continuing to pick us up. We’re Rapsis and the rest of the staff. Thank happy to have brought you what we call you, everyone, for your hard work. “quality of life” coverage — food, arts, music, outdoor activities, family fun, movies, books and did we mention food?

So, about ‘Hippo’...

When it comes to the name, I’m not — for the last 15 years and we’re excitsure anyone believes me, but I actually ed to keep bringing you the stories and did a lot of research into names before information you need to enjoy life here.

So, no, “Hippo” wasn’t my childhood choosing Hippo. I wanted a name that sled or the name of my first pet. It was a instantly set us apart from traditional daily and weekly newspapers with names fun, unforgettable name for a paper looklike Telegraph, Times, Herald and News. ing to connect readers with more fun and I liked several names already in use — unforgettable experiences in this bustling, Phoenix, the Other Paper, the Bee — and ever-changing but still uniquely New wanted ours to be irreverent. I thought Hampshire place we all call home.

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“Glendi, the Greek food and culture fest held each year by St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester, has always been a big deal for the Hippo.

Some years we’ve featured it on the cover, and the challenge is always to find new facets of the event to focus on. In 2008, reporter Jeff Mucciarone looked at not just this food festival but the Greek community in New Hampshire as a whole. I’ve always liked this cover not just for taking a deeper dive into a part of our local culture but also for this exuberant photograph.” — Amy Diaz

April 16, 2009 “50 Favorite Restaurants”

Photo by Sid Ceaser at Piccola Italia Ristorante. “Every year as part of our readers’ poll, we ask Hippo readers to pick the ‘best restaurant overall.’ In 2009, we started, in addition to announcing the winners in that and all the other categories in March, running the list of the top 50 vote getters in that category.

And, make no mistake, way way more than 50 restaurants get voted for in that category. That year, Piccola was one of the restaurants on the list, making it one of the lucky few in an area of hundreds of restaurants to get this recognition.

I’ve always liked this cover because it was our first year of running the list and because it’s one of many examples of Hippo’s coverage of the local food scene.

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“This is an illustration by our long-time illustrator Peter Noonan with strategic font added after the fact. What really makes this for me is the addition of the words ‘Birds’ and the use of them to make them look like birds close up and in the distance. It’s an innovative use of font.”

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Everything called out to the reader. The art was cool, fonts were well thought out and it all tied in well with the theme of the story.”— Doug Ladd, circulation manager, with the Hippo since 2004

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The Gate City Striders’ Freeze Your Buns 5K Race Series begins Sunday, Jan. 10, and will continue every other Sunday through March 6. The races are open to everyone and will begin at 9 a.m. at the Conway Arena (5 Stadium Drive, Nashua). There will be prizes for top runners in each age group. Hot beverages and refreshments will be available after the race. The cost is $5 per race for adults 19+, $3 for kids and teens 18 and under.

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Be Merry: With poetry Stop by Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m., for the traditional January poetry open mic hosted by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Simply bring a poem of 39 lines or less to perform. It can be original or written by someone else. All are welcome to participate, and newcomers are encouraged. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

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ARTS Continuing the tradition

Majestic Theatre purchases Ted Herbert Music School

By Kelly Sennott

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A couple months ago, twins Mark and Marlene Herbert went to Rob Dionne with a proposition: They wanted the Ted Herbert Music School to become part of the Majestic Theatre.

The siblings had been approached multiple times over the past several years with requests to purchase the school, but they declined them all. Their dad, Manchester resident Ted Herbert, had started the Ted Herbert Music Mart in 1958 and music lessons in 1959. The pair had been working there since their teens and took over as their father grew older. They wanted to move on, but it felt wrong to give the school up to just anyone.

“My father was very big in education,” Mark Herbert said via phone. “He had a great legacy in the town, and we wanted it to continue, and for [the school] to be in the proper hands.”

They found Dionne in their own building at 922 Elm St. in Manchester. The Majestic Theatre founder had been renting top-floor office and studio space since 2011, when the community theater was forced out of its previous Ste. Marie School home.

Dionne had a long history with Ted Herbert’s. His mother and sister had taken clarinet lessons at the school, and late instructor Peter Marino taught him how to play the flute and how to love music.

Dionne eventually inherited Marino’s piano, which now sits inside his office, and he Learn more Ted Herbert Music School, 922 Elm St., Suite 201, Manchester, tedherbert.com, 669-9191 Majestic Theatre, 922 Elm St., Suite 315, Manchester, majestictheatre.net, 669-7469

went on to teach there from 1995 to 2007.

Many of the Majestic’s policies, in fact, are based on Ted Herbert’s.

“We knew [Dionne] when he was a little kid, taking lessons. He had always been coming in there, buying stuff, chatting,” Mark Herbert said. “And he’s pretty familiar with our operation. … He knew our history, and we thought he could keep it going and bring it to a different level. He’s a go-getter. Things happen with him. … We thought he was a better fit than any of these other people who approached us. We made a deal almost on a handshake.”

A handshake, and also several months of heavy negotiation. Dionne had some important questions. The Majestic, after all, is a nonprofit, not a money-maker, and he didn’t have thousands to spend. The last thing he wanted was to jump into something without thinking it through.

“But the more we talked about it, we realized it was actually quite attainable to create a business model that not only sustains the music school and gives the Herberts their due, but also sustains the Majestic,” Dionne said. “The board was very careful of exploring each option open to us, because the last thing we wanted was to take over and either, one, bury the Majestic or, two, not be able to do the Ted Herbert’s name its justice. … But the philosophy of the music school really fits with our mission, which is to support the arts in the community.”

Finally, they came to an agreement, and as of Jan. 1, it’s official. But not much will change. The name will remain, and prices will stay low.

“The Ted Herbert name is really rich,” Dionne said. “They’ve been giving lessons 50-plus years. We’re smart to keep that. It’s just that Ted Herbert’s will be one of our divisions. … But we’re not going to go up in price. We want to keep it affordable for

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Rob Dionne. Kelly Sennott photo.

families, as we do at the Majestic Theatre.”

Dionne went into the agreement only after talking with each of the 15 Ted Herbert instructors individually. Of those, 12 decided to stay, two decided to retire, and only one is moving on to something else.

One of those instructors staying is Jeff Samataro, who’s played drums at Majestic shows and took music lessons at Ted Herbert’s. He came back to teach after studying at the Berklee College of Music.

“Ted’s has had a reputation in southern New Hampshire now for decades. For a while it was really the place to go for music lessons and for instrument sales,” Samataro said. “It’s nice to know there’s new life going into it. … Everyone who’s been there cares so much about the school. A lot of the teachers have been there such a long time.”

Jim Snarski, for example, has been a Ted Herbert’s instructor for 42 years. John

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Chouinard, who teaches “anything with strings on it,” has been there on and off since 1973. Chouinard was happy for the partnership because, after all, what goes better with music than theater?

“There’s a synergy, I think, that exists between theater and music, and dancing for that matter, and I’m excited for the opportunity I think theater can bring to the school, and vice versa. But there’s always been a symbiotic relationship between the two. I have at least one student at the theater right now,” Chouinard said.

Dionne was excited about the possibilities, too. For the Majestic’s production of Guys and Dolls this spring, for instance, maybe pit musicians could be Ted Herbert students. Or maybe, during weekends the company rents the Derry Opera House, instructors could use the space to hold daytime recitals.

Mark Herbert said the building is in the process of being sold separately, and when that happens, the Majestic may have to renegotiate rent rates with the new landlord.

Dionne said he wanted to show the community the Ted Herbert Music School is going strong — it’s a common misconception that it’s not, he said. Music & Arts had bought the store about 12 years ago, and last year it moved to South Willow Street.

The school, however, always remained in place.

“I happened to come into the building late Saturday night, and as I was coming into the building, somebody walked by and said, ‘Oh, it’s so sad that Ted Herbert’s is gone,’” Dionne said. “I know she meant the store. But a lot of people don’t realize that, though the Ted Herbert’s music store is gone, the lessons have continued on these past 12 years. This is our opportunity to say, hey, Ted Herbert’s never went anywhere. They’re still here, 50-plus years later.”

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• Uptown funk: This January’s lecture and concert, part of the Concord Community Music School’s Bach’s Lunch Series, combine the groovy sounds of jazz, funk and boogaloo. On Thursday, Jan. 7, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., jazz department faculty member Matt Langley gives a lecture, “Funk ‘n’ Boogalo? Who Knew,” which will explore what funk and boogaloo is all about. The next week, on Thursday, Jan. 14, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., the jazz trio Bangkok Disco, featuring music school jazz department faculty member Tom Robinson on piano, alumnus Scott Kiefner on bass and guest artist Jared Steer on drums, performs a concert called, “Get in the Groove: Funk, Boogaloo & Jazz,” which will highlight music from classic soul-funk artists like Grant Green, Rusty Bryant, Charles Earland, Medeski-Martin-Wood and David Tronzo. Both events occur at the Concord Community Music School’s recital hall at 23 Wall St., Concord, and are free and open to the public. Call 228-1196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.

• Singing loud for all to hear: If you’re still in the holiday spirit and want to see some new theater, Elf: The Musical, Jr. is being performed through special arrangement with Music Theatre International at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester, on Friday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 9, at noon; Friday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, Jan. 16, at noon.

The story is the same as in the Will Ferrell movie, following a guy named Buddy who mistakenly crawled into Santa’s bag of gifts as a baby and was transported to the North Pole. The would-be elf is unaware he’s human until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth and embark

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on a journey to New York City to find his true identity — despite the harsh discovery that his birth father is on the naughty list this year. Tickets are $11 for kids and $14 for adults. Call 668-5588 or visit palacetheatre.org.

• Youth auditions: For the kids who want to act, sing and dance this spring, the Palace Theatre is looking for kids to perform in Hairspray, Jr., with auditions on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. or noon, and Monday, Jan. 11, at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., at the theater. Participants who want to be considered for a large role must sing “Good Morning Baltimore,” “Welcome to the ’60s,” or “It Takes Two,” and be prepared to learn a dance. They must also schedule an audition time (otherwise they might not be seen) by calling 668-5588. Visit palacetheatre.org.

The Majestic Academy of Dramatic Arts also holds auditions this week for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr., on Monday, Jan. 11, at 6:30 p.m., and Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 6:30 p.m., at the company rehearsal studio, 922 Elm St., Suite 315, Manchester. The show is directed by Collette Fortin with assistance by Anna Proulx. Visit majestictheatre.net for audition requirements, a schedule and character list, or call 669-7469.

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City Arts Nashua is no stranger to public art.

It’s facilitated more outdoor displays than perhaps any other art organization in New Hampshire, from the Nashua International Sculpture Symposium, bringing in handfuls of sculptures downtown every year, to the Vivian’s Dream and restored Yankee Diner murals, the latter of which was refinished by former New Hampshire Artist Laureate James Aponovich this fall.

But all these projects have been permanent, artist-commissioned work. Very few were participatory projects.

That’s where Jerry Beck comes in.

Beck has a 30-year resume in producing participatory, temporary public art projects. He founded The Revolving Museum (TRM) in 1984 and has transformed railroad cars, Civil War forts, textile mill factories, baseball fields, movie theaters, ice cream trucks and old warehouses into venues for visual, theatrical, literary and public art projects in Boston, Lowell and Fitchburg, Mass., where he’s currently the city’s director of economic development and chief marketing officer.

But for the past several months, he’s been working on Nashua.

If you attended Nashua’s Winter Holiday Stroll this November, you probably saw some of his work.This fall, City Arts Nashua hired Jerry Beck to help build ARTventures: Nashua, a program created to bring more public art downtown via community participation. He facilitated the creation of six large sculptures built with recycled materials. He estimated about 400 took part, with lots of help from the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua, the YMCA of Greater Nashua, the Gate City Charter School for the Arts and Nashua High School South.

The six sculptures — a dragon, an enchanted castle, a boat, a bird, a star and, soon, a candelabra — were the first project part of the initiative. They were up and displayed at the Stroll, though City Arts Nashua President Kathy Hersh said they’ll make reappearances starting at the end of January, popping up outside of plays, music Get involved

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The City Arts Nashua Facebook page is posting ARTventures: Nashua activity and updates, and Hersh said there will soon be a specific ARTventures: Nashua page as well. Visit cityartsnashua.org, therevolvingmuseum.org or jerrybeckartist.com for more information.

shows and other Nashua community events.

Beck’s official role is consultant for City Arts Nashua, who was able to hire Beck due to its contract with the City of Nashua.

The nonprofit had come into contact with the “creative mediator,” as Beck calls himself, last spring, when Beck reached out to Tom Galligani, City of Nashua’s economic development director, in honor of TRM’s 30th anniversary. (Galligani had been economic development director in Lowell while Beck was there.)

“I was in Lowell for 10 years, and I had gone to Nashua a lot [then]. And I had always loved Nashua. I said to Tom, ‘I’d really love to do something in your downtown.’ … So he set up a meeting with me and Kathy Hersh,” Beck said.

Beck and Hersh hit it off immediately.

Beck was blown away by Nashua’s public art collection, while Hersh liked what she saw in Beck’s past projects.

“I just thought it was fascinating, that the work he’s doing is really very much interactive and participatory,” Hersh said. “The idea of being able to help create art and then have that art displayed is not something we’ve done a lot of.”

The next ARTventures: Nashua project is Totem Poems, short written pieces displayed in public spaces around Main Street.

Beck was inspired by the cluttered wayfinding signs you’ll find downtown and Native American totem poles.

Totem Poems planning is still under development, and exactly when and how people can take part is to be determined.

Ideally, community members will write short poems and send them via email or postcard to City Arts Nashua. Hersh said the art wouldn’t hit the streets till June.

Beck likes the temporary nature of these kinds of public art projects.

“I find that when you move things, and you keep evolving them, it makes it fresh and maintains people’s curiosity. We put everything on wheels for that purpose — to be transitory and mobile,” Beck said.

Though he hasn’t been working in Nashua for long, Beck has had a strong impact on the downtown art culture, Hersh said.

“I definitely think Jerry’s personality is engaging. He loves to work with people. He especially likes to work with kids, and he likes to pull people in. I got a lot of good feedback about the sculptures at the stroll,” Hersh said.

Beck said his aim is to get people to think of art not just as something you’ll see in a museum, but as part of everyday life. History says he’s pretty convincing.

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The event is free to attend and open to the public. Visit nashualibrary.org/visit/ directions. Email carol.eyman@nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.

• Protect yourself: Copyright registration is one of the easiest things you can do as an artist to protect yourself, and to learn how, you can attend the next event part of McGowan Fine Art’s legal series on Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., called Copyright Registration: A Practicum, taught by Kimberly Peaslee, Intellectual Property lawyer at Upton & Hatfield. Peaslee will walk participants through copyright registration using the online e-CO and lead a discussion about some strategies surrounding registration, including timing, costs and enforcement using accountants, bankers and lawyers, according to the press release. The presentation ends at 6:30 p.m., leaving 30 minutes for questions. The event is free, open to the public and occurs at the gallery, 10 Hills Ave., Concord; however, seating is limited and RSVP is required by Jan. 19. Call 225-2515 or visit mcgowanfineart.com.

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It’s out with the old and in with the new at an upcoming workshop at Jeca Yoga in Manchester. On Saturday, Jan. 9, from 3 to 5:30 p.m., studio owner and instructor Jessica Labbe will lead “The Art of Letting Go” with a yoga session, discussion and clothing swap.

She was inspired to develop the workshop after recently graduating from an advanced, 300-hour certification program for Comprehensive Yoga Therapy.

“I think, as humans, we have a tendency to hold on to things, whether that be grudges, old patterns or our ideas of how things should be,” Labbe said. “The idea behind Comprehensive Yoga Therapy … and this workshop is self-realization and self-exploration, because through that, you can begin to recognize things in your life that might be unhealthy or hindering you from A yoga class at Jeca Yoga. Courtesy photo. living to your full potential.”

The workshop is open to all and does not require any previous expe- hour-long yoga session with poses rience. It will start out with an that can be modified to accommodate everyone, from the seasoned The Art of Letting Go yogis to the first-timers.

Where: Jeca Yoga, 55 S. ComThe poses don’t specifically cormercial St., Ste. 204, Manchester relate with the practice of letting When: Saturday, Jan. 9, from 3 to go. Rather, it’s the nature of yoga 5:30 p.m. itself and the self-awareness it genCost: $20. Register online. erates that are applicable to the Swap info: Limit number of workshop objective. swap items to 15 articles of cloth“We hold emotional tension in ing and five accessories/pairs of our physical body, and sometimes, shoes. There will be an option between our jobs and families and to donate any leftover items to a other external things, we start to local charity. tune out our own needs, and that Visit: jecayoga.com Dance Events • FREESTYLE FRIDAY: ECSTATIC DANCE A barefoot boogie for all ages and sizes.

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Health & Wellness Exercise & fitness • GET FIT & STRONG! WOMEN'S SMALL GROUP EXERCISE CLASS Classes are limited to 5 participants for the session and include strength, core/mobility, and cardio training for a total body workout. Four-week session starts Feb. 1. Morning classes offered Mon., Wed., and Fri., at 8 a.m.

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tension can get stuck,” Labbe said.

“When people practice yoga, they become aware of what’s going on inside their physical bodies, and it allows some of those emotions to come to the surface.”

After the yoga session, there will be a discussion time for participants to share and process any new personal insights they attained during the session. Then, through a series of guided exercises, each person will explore what is holding them back from reaching their full potential and how they can learn to let go

Athletic Complex include a total body workout and start at 5:55 a.m. on Mon., Wed., and Fri. 345 Cilley Road, Manchester. SNHU, 2500 N River Road, Hooksett. $120. Visit thpnh.com or call 402-9196.

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At the end of the workshop, there will be a clothing swap, partially just for fun, but mainly as a way to practice not only letting go of the old, but also inviting in the new.

“We’re letting go so we can create space for our hearts’ desires, our goals, our intentions and the positive things we want to surround ourselves with,” Labbe said. “I hope people leave feeling inspired and excited about the future and all the possibilities there are when they let go of the old.”

Nature & Gardening 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 224-9909 or membership@ nhaudubon.org for chapter activities. See nhaudubon.org/locations/ sanctuaries.

• WINTER TRAIL ADVENTURES Six trails to hike or snowshoe with Concord Parks & Rec. All ages and fitness levels. Contact 225-8690, concordnh.gov/trail.

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Get snapping at the Sandown Public Library’s (305 Main St.) Snap Circuits hour on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 1 to 2 p.m. Kids will have fun with building projects like a sound-activated switch, a musical doorbell, a voice-controlled lamp, a flying saucer and a police siren. This activity is for kids in grades 3 through 7, and registration is required. Visit sandownlibrary.us or call 887-3428.

Keep the Christmas cheer alive and bring the family to the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) for Elf Jr., a theatrical take on Elf the movie, performed by the Palace Youth Theater. The show will be held on Friday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9 at noon, and the Paint the day away following weekend at the same times. Tickets It’s a family open studio weekend at Paint Pitchfork cost $11 for children and $14 for adults.

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That means getting every last seed out of the shells, which can be tedious. And it is hard to get all the bits of the outer hulls separated from the beans. Winnowing outdoors on a windy day is the easiest way to do so.

Invited to a solstice potluck, I decided to make a pot of baked beans just using my own ingredients — or as close to it as possible.

The beans were a big success, so I’m sharing the recipe with you. And, obviously, you can buy the beans or anything else you lack from your own garden.

Henry is the author of five books. His website is Gardening-guy.com. onions, and cooked at low heat until translucent. If making vegetarian beans, use olive oil to sauté the onions.

To the onions and bacon I added the beans and immediately covered with water. I added the chopped tomatoes that I had frozen whole last summer, the tomato paste, the maple syrup, spices and garlic, and continued cooking at low heat. The beans should be covered with liquid at all times.

Dried pears or other fruit add a nice sweetness to the beans, but you can add more maple syrup instead. I chopped my pears into small pieces, and added them with the dried cherry tomatoes to the pot.

I cooked the beans on the stove top for an hour, tasting often to see if I needed more hot peppers, other spices or maple syrup. Then I transferred everything into a ceramic bean pot and put it in the oven, covered, for another two to three hours at 300 degrees. Watch out for juices bubbling over; I always keep a cookie sheet under the pot. Add water if the beans get too dry.

For me, at least, eating something wonderful created from my own veggies and fruits is a real treat. I know that it has no toxic chemicals and that the ingredients have been grown with love.

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Car’s angle may affect its ability to start Dear Car Talk: I have an ‘06 Pontiac Vibe. It’s a stick shift that I lovingly refer to as “The Ponticorn,” since stick shifts these days are so rare. If I park in my driveway,

By Ray Magliozzi which has a steep-ish downhill grade, my car starts without a problem every time. If I park in front of my house on the street, which is flatter, the engine won’t budge one out of three tries.

It behaves as though I am not pushing in the clutch (which you have to do in order to start the car). So I release the clutch and push it in again. Most times, it will then start. Sometimes it takes a third attempt.

Why in the world would this be happening? — The Pontiprincess Sounds like you’ve got some Ponti-paranormal activity going on there, Princess.

My guess would be that you’re on the right track in focusing on the clutch pedal. There’s a switch called an “interlock” that prevents the car from starting unless you have the clutch pedal pressed all the way in.

It’s a safety feature. If the car is in first gear, for instance, they don’t want you

to turn the key and lurch the car through your garage door. Or worse, over someone standing between the car and the garage door.

The clutch interlock switch itself is not affected by gravity or angle. But you are.

And if it’s just starting to fail and not making a good connection, it could be that when the car is angled down the driveway, gravity is working with your body weight to put a little more force on the clutch pedal when you step on it, and that’s enough — right now — to engage the switch. But when you’re on flat ground, on the street, without that extra force, the switch works sometimes and doesn’t work other times.

Before you do anything else, check to make sure nothing is in the way of the clutch pedal. We’ve had customers come in with similar complaints, and sometimes we were able to solve the problem by simply removing a floor mat that had gotten bunched up under the pedals. We only charge $300 for that service.

But if there’s nothing preventing the pedal from reaching the floor, you can ask your mechanic to “jump” the clutch interlock temporarily, as a test. That means, basically, leave it out of the circuit.

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If that doesn’t fix the problem, these cars are also known for starter-motor solenoids that fail. So if it’s not the clutch interlock, you probably need a starter motor, Your Highness. Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: My husband and I own a 2002 Class C Motorhome with a Ford E450 chassis and a V-10 engine. It runs fine, but the problem is that so much heat comes from under the dashboard on the passenger side that it’s hard to sit there — even with the air conditioning on. I’ve been complaining about this since we bought the RV in 2003, but since it doesn’t affect my husband’s side of the vehicle, nothing has been done about it. This is a problem only on my side (he does almost all of the driving). Can you make any suggestions about what to do about this? Thanks. — Nadine I’m guessing the previous owner’s wife forced him to sell it, and that’s how you guys got it.

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You need to do a little more detective work and figure out where exactly the heat is coming from. If it’s coming from a ventilation duct, then you may have a blend door that’s stuck and needs to be fixed.

More likely, though, on this vehicle, is that the heat is coming through the floor.

The right side of the exhaust manifold is very close to the passenger floor where you sit, and it generates a ton of heat. The so-called “doghouse” — the engine cover between the seats — also is a source of heat.

So my suggestion would be to insulate both of those as best you can. Have a mechanic remove the carpeting, and add a couple of layers of insulation between the floor and the carpet. You even might want to try to find something called a heat mat, which is specifically designed to block heat. I’d run that insulation up the outside of the engine cover, too.

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2016 is shaping up to be a year of firsts for the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. The Manchester school recently announced that, for the upcoming winter session, it will offer its first online class as well as a new Digital Audio Production class.

“When the school started in 1999, we had three classes. … Since then, we’ve expanded to 16 … mostly [as a result of] suggestions from students and instructors,” David Tirrell-Wysocki, executive director, said. “We’re open to anything that will help us adapt.”

The winter session classes will be held on Wednesday evenings for six weeks, from Jan. 13 to Feb. 17, and because the school is a nonprofit, all of them are free.

The online class, Editorial Cartooning, will be instructed by graphic designer and illustrator Ron Plante. Plante has taught the class in person at the Loeb School for years but had also developed and offered it as an online class on his own. This year, he proposed the online alternative to the Loeb School as a way for students to complete the class on their own time and at their own speed, without having to travel to the classroom.

“I said, ‘Let’s try it,’” Tirrell-Wysocki said. “So this will be our first attempt at an online class … and we’ll see how it goes.

If there’s a call for more online versions of classes down the road, we’re certainly open to that.”

The Editorial Cartooning curriculum is designed to help students develop their creativity and visual conceptualization skills through political and social commentary.

Plante will provide students with weekly lessons, assignments, feedback and tips through the online program.

The new class, Digital Audio Production, entails using digital software to record, edit and mix audio for various media, including web, podcast, radio and video.

Tirrell-Wysocki said the Loeb School has always wanted to offer a radio or audio production class.

“But we couldn’t before because we didn’t have the radio or editing equipment,” he said.

Now, it’s easier to access inexpensive or even free audio editing programs from a laptop. Complex equipment is no longer necessary; students only need a microphone, a USB flash drive and a laptop with the editing software downloaded onto it.

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On a recent Monday afternoon, Keri Laman walked through the in-progress space of her newest cafe. A team was installing wrought iron light fixtures in the dining area as Laman motioned to each corner of the room, describing her vision for the garden atmosphere of Unity Cafe, set to open later this month.

Located in Manchester’s Sundial Center, next to the Mount Washington College entrance, it used to be home to Hesser’s “Barney purple and lemon yellow” colored cafeteria.

“There was a huge salad bar and a cafeteria line and a soda fountain,” she said.

“Think of a hospital cafeteria; [it was] the same thing.”

Laman is president and owner of the Tidewater Catering family, and Unity Cafe joins her other Manchester establishments — Waterworks Cafe and Riverside Room in the millyard’s Waumbec Building and Bayona Cafe in the Jefferson Building.

Starting with a wheelbarrow full of menus when guests first walk in, Laman wants guests to feel like they’re stepping outdoors onto an upscale garden terrace when they come into the cafe.

Wrought iron window boxes that match the light fixtures will line the wall of windows, and trees wrapped with lights will reach up into concave indents in the ceiling.

Interior awnings, a mounted counter with stools surrounding one of the trees, bamboo fans and a spectacular waterfall will complete the look.

“This water feature was going to be the death of me, because my father gave me so much baloney for not having a water feature at Bayona,” Laman said with a laugh.

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• Puritan changes hands: The Puritan Backroom’s Chuck Stergiou is selling his ownership stake in the restaurant, marking a transition into the fourth generation of ownership, according to the Union Leader.

“This transition is about continuity and not change,” Chris Pappas, fourth-generation part-owner and New Hampshire executive councilor, told the UL. “It’s about making sure the Puritan as a local institution is going to be around for another generation and hopefully, a lot more beyond that.” The article stated that the ownership group will now consist of Arthur Pappas, his son Chris Pappas and his son-in-law Eric Zink.

• New at NHLC: The New Hampshire Liquor Commission announced that Nicole Brassard Jordan, a 27-year employee who served previously as wine marketing specialist for 13 years, has been named director of marketing, merchandising and warehousing, which makes her the first woman to take on the role. “Throughout my career I have always sought to create an outstanding experience for NH Liquor & Wine Outlet customers,” Jordan said in a press release. “As I transition into this new role, I am committed to improving our marketing, merchandising and sales strategies to better serve our more than 11 million annual customers, while helping to secure record revenue for the state.” Jordan played a key role in establishing New Hampshire Wine Week, which draws the world’s leading winemakers to the state each January to participate in wine dinners, tastings, bottle signings and the Winter Wine Spectacular.

• Happy noodle year: The Culinary Playground (16 Manning St., Suite 105, Derry, 339-1664) kicks off its 2016 mini chefs cooking classes for preschoolers with New Year’s Noodles on Friday, Jan. 15, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 16, at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The one-hour class for 3- to 6-year-olds features a single recipe, plus a time to make a craft or read a book while the food cooks. In January, the budding chefs will make an Asian-inspired cold noodle salad to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Class costs $16. See culinaryplayground.com to register.

• Spot for the co-op: The Manchester Food Co-op announced in a press release that it has found a site to house its physical location. The co-op’s board of 49

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Unity Cafe Where: 3 Sundial Ave, Manchester The cafe is scheduled to open around Jan. 20.

Unity, coming soon. Allie Ginwala photo.

“I said, ‘Dad, I promise you one day I’ll put in a water feature.’ Although I ‘poo poo’ his ideas on the phone, somehow he gets what he wants.”

The original plan for Unity Cafe was to have a noodle bar where patrons could assemble their own dishes, but once Laman realized the duct work and space required to pull it off properly, she decided to go another route. Instead, eight noodle bowls will be on the menu, two each of chicken, beef, seafood and vegetable.

Culinary director Johnny Wallace wants to keep most of the menu a surprise for the cafe’s opening, so he gave Laman a list of “menu tidbits” to preview, which includes smoothies, grilled pressed sandwiches, upscale superfood salads and the mysteriously intriguing “crazy burgers.”

“He wanted me to leave it at that,” she said, smiling.

Over time, Laman wants to add a Tidewater favorites feature to each cafe’s menu, so folks dining at Unity could try the Waterworks hummus plate or perhaps one of Bayona’s flatbreads, while those in the mills could have a Unity noodle bowl.

“Unity is the third child, but don’t forget about my older siblings,” she said.

One of the quirky things coming to Uni-

ty Cafe is homemade fried chips in a brown paper bag, served instead of chips and salsa or a pasta salad side. The service style at Unity Cafe will be the same as at Bayona and Waterworks, open for weekday breakfast and lunch, but with the addition of Saturdays.

With the majority of her establishments located in the millyard, there’s no question that Laman has a particular affection for that section of the Queen City.

“The millyard is like a child to me, but it’s also getting crowded,” she said. “I really was very excited about being in kind of an underdog area.”

Though she’s opening less than a year after Bayona Cafe, Laman said the chance to be at Sundial couldn’t be passed up.

“In the coming years this whole area ... this is going to be [the next big thing],” she said. “I feel it.”

No stranger to opening a cafe in an underappreciated area, she opened Waterworks in the Waumbec when it was largely vacant, and in the years since then it’s blossomed.

“I think you need some people with a little bit of vision,” she said. “I hope I have some of that and can provide a little bit of spunk to this area.”

Wine country moves east Emporium opens, with wine house in the works

By Allie Ginwala

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Cabonnay Emporium is bringing the essence of wine country to Londonderry.

The recently opened one-stop shop offers specialty foods, glasses, wine totes and wine-related home decor — and a selection of wines you can’t easily find in New Hampshire.

“We’re really trying to bring in the

different cultures of wine that aren’t inundated,” said Kimberly Schuerhoff, director of media and marketing. “There’s always the Italians and we’ll carry those too, and there’s always the French wines so we’ll have those, but we always look for that

Inside Cabonnay Emporium. Courtesy photo.

unique story.”

Cabonnay carries a number of wines from South Africa, an example of a place with a wine industry that’s not represented in New Hampshire, Schuerhoff said, along with some from vineyards in California’s Temecula Valley.

“Temecula is this little hidden gem, and there’s not a lot of wines around here coming out of Temecula,” she said. “We’ll be working … to bring in a very low quantity, but different, cool, unique wines.”

Since the emporium opened in early November, she and owner Cornelis de Jong have hosted weekend wine tastings and welcomed guests into the emporium to shop and learn more about what’s next for Cabonnay.

The wine emporium is only the first part of Cabonnay’s concept — it will also feature a wine house with a full-service restaurant, art gallery and sprawling gardens. “[Cornelis] noticed that the area didn’t have exactly what they were looking for as far as a dining experience, wine culture was lacking, there wasn’t really anything like Cabonnay, so he embarked on this vision to bring it to Londonderry, and it really kind of unfolded from there,” Schuerhoff said. “[It’s] something you typically would not see on commercial property at all. His idea with that was just to create this beautiful oasis environment.”

Typically wine houses are located at vineyards, so guests can come to try the wine, eat, shop and take in the natural beauty. Cabonnay will provide the same tranquil atmosphere, Schuerhoff said, except instead of tasting wine from one winery, there are many options.

“People can come and relax and unwind and enjoy delicious, unique wines that kind of pull from all over the world and give you that worldly sense when you’re here,” she said.

Schuerhoff said de Jong, a Windham resident, chose Londonderry not only because the property fit exactly what he had in mind, but also because the area is ripe for a boost in wine culture.

“Londonderry is a booming town. It’s a happening place,” she said. “The need is here, the people are here and now the industry just needs to follow.”

Weather permitting, the goal is to break ground in March and open the wine house in August. It’s still in the early stages, but Schuerhoff said the art gallery on the second floor will have pieces sourced from around the world and the restaurant's menu will echo the international vibe, though the focus will be on wine pairing.

“We’re really looking for that worldly chef, too, that isn’t so niche, because we don’t want to be an Italian restaurant, we don't want to be Mediterranean,” she said.

“We want to be everything, all-encompassing if that’s possible.”

The original plan was to open Cabonnay as one entity, but instead they chose a “slow launch” to give them time to settle into the industry and test the market.

“It’s giving people an opportunity to come in, meet Cornelis. … It’s really working as a wonderful platform to get what we’re doing out to the public,” Schuerhoff said. “It makes most sense to do it this way, and I think once the wine house is here the emporium will just flow. You drink the wine, you like the wine, you come buy the wine.”

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Food Chef events/special meals • SECOND SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Brunch, plus local jazz. Sun., Jan. 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. $19.95 or $8.95 for kids 10 and younger and for continental only. Visit

8 mussels ½ lobster Crusty bread In a big pan, heat up olive oil. Flour the shrimp, scallops and haddock, then place in pan to sear and cook. About halfway through, drain excess oil and add garlic butter, wine, crushed tomatoes with some juice, chicken stock, red pepper flakes and herbs. Let cook for a few minutes, then add mussels and half lobster. Cover and let cook for about 5 minutes, or until shells open. Serve in a deep dish. Garnish with a basil sprig and side of crusty bread for dipping into broth.

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• GUEST CHEF SERIES At Row 34. Each week, a guest chef will prepare a la carte dishes that represent their culinary style alongside the regular menu.

Tuesdays, Jan. 12, through March during dinner service

from 5 to 10 p.m. Row 34, 5 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth. See row34nh.com.

• ALZHEIMER'S CAFE Opportunity for people with Alzheimer's and dementia, plus their caregivers, to enjoy art and good company in safe environment. Wed., Jan. 13, 2-4 p.m.

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Continued from page 46 directors will share the location details and the general manager at the next meeting on Monday, Jan. 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Waterworks Cafe (250 Commercial St., Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free. Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext. 108.

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.

• HEALTHY RENEWAL Learn Mediterranean-style nutrition for improved health. Tues., Jan 12, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Derry Medical Center, 14 A Tsienneto Road, St. 300, Derry.

Free. See derrymedicalcenter. com.

• FIRE IN THE BELLY Discover ways to improve digestive health. Thurs., Jan. 14, from 6 to 7 p.m. Derry Medical Center, 14 A Tsienneto Road, St. 300, Derry. Free. See derrymedicalcenter.com.

• 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

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• CLEAR CHANGE METABOLIC DETOX Through nutrition. The 28-day "food reboot."

Mon., Jan. 18, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Derry Medical Center, 14 A Tsienneto Road, St. 300, Derry.

Free. See derrymedicalcenter. 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 Market, 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.

• HEARTHSIDE DINNER Hands-on class about the technique of open-hearth cooking.

Each guest receives a keepsake recipe booklet to take home.

Sat., Jan. 23, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. $50 per person, age 16 (with parent) and up. Call 323-7591 to register.

See remickmuseum.org.

• 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.

See concordfoodcoop.com.

• 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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• COUPLES COOKING Three hour class teaches how to create a meal from start to finish. Bring tupperware for leftovers. Event is BYOB. Thurs., Jan. 28, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. (classic Italian dinner); Fri., Feb. 12, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. (MidWinter's Meal); Fri., March 11, and Sat., March 12, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. (Flavorful Feast). The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. Cost is $155 per couple. Visit culinaryplayground.com.

• 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 a space. Visit finessepastries. com.

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With the cold winter months settling in and fewer tourists meandering about, the staff at Row 34 in Portsmouth is mixing things up by inviting guest chefs to come cook in their kitchen. The pop-up dinner series will feature a different chef from a New Hampshire, Maine or Massachusetts restaurant each Tuesday night through March preparing creative specials alongside the restaurant’s regular dinner menu.

“It’s something that we’ve done in Boston as well, and it’s just a great opportunity to share the space,” Row 34 General Manager Molly Woodhouse said in a phone interview. “The community where we are is so close and for us to invite friends in is a lot of fun.”

The variation on the theme in Boston was a bagel pop-up, “something fun to keep things fresh,” she said. Given the open concept kitchen in Portsmouth set close to the dining area, diners will have the chance to see the staff and guest chef in action and perhaps even interact with them.

The series kicked off with David Vargas from Vida Cantina on Jan. 5 and continues on Jan. 12 with Matt Jennings from Townsman in Boston. Other upcoming guest chefs include Ben Hasty of Thistle Pig in South Berwick, Maine; Sam Ostrow of Block 6 in Portsmouth; Gary Kim of Anju in Portsmouth; Jamie Bissonnette of Toro NYC, Toro Boston and Coppa in Boston; and Brett Cavanna of Louie’s in Portsmouth.

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Where: Row 34, 5 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth When: Tuesdays through March during dinner service See facebook.com/Row34NH or row34nh.com for an updated chef schedule and menu details or call 319-5011. a recipe and food-themed story or craft. Fri., Jan. 15, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. Cost is $16 per child. Visit culinary-playground. com.

• KIDS CAKE DECORATING Start with an 8-inch chocolate or vanilla cake, frost and decorate with penguins, snowmen, icicles, snowballs and more.

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about food and doing neat things in their own kitchens to come and have free rein at Row 34’s space.

“I think a lot has to do with people we’ve worked with or, socially, people we’re close with … former colleagues. It’s a great opportunity for intermingling,” she said.

Each guest chef will prepare two appetizers and two entrees (highlighted on the menu) based purely on their own inspiration and expertise.

“Their creativity is the only requirement,” Woodhouse said.

Since the chefs are creating their own menus, they won’t be finalized until about a week before the scheduled date, though they’ll be treated as part of the night’s menu, so diners can mix and match.

“What I really enjoy about the pop-up series is it’s a one-night event, so [that food is] something I would be inclined to focus on,” Woodhouse said. “It’s a one-nightonly show, so it’s pretty special.”

Depending on how the series is received, Woodhouse said they’d like to do similar series in the future.

“It’s a really great opportunity to share the space with friends and have a good time,” she said.

an adult. Mon., Jan. 18, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Frederick's Pastries, 109 Route 101A, Amherst. Cost is $65. See pastry.net for registration details.

• SWEET SATURDAYS For kids ages 6 to 10. Make banana chocolate chip and orange cranberry muffins in January, raspberry cheesecake bites in February, an Easter bunny cake in March and glazed lemon ricotta cookies in April. Sat., Jan. 23, Feb. 20, March 26, April 23,

from 10 a.m. to noon. The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. Cost is $40 per class. Visit culinaryplayground.com.

• VALENTINE HEART PIES Kids ages 3 to 6 make Valentine heart pies in the one hour class that includes a recipe and foodthemed story or craft. Fri., Feb. 12, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 13, at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105,

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Pasta nests In the past few years, social media has exploded as a source of recipes, tips and tricks for the home cook. Opting to not become a cautionary tale of “fails,” I typically avoid trying to replicate the recipes and instructional videos that appear on my social media accounts.

But recently I’ve been seeing videos

by Tasty, an online platform launched by Buzzfeed in 2015. With videos topping out at about 1 minute, Tasty offers quick, visually appealing recipe tutorials. From the fancy, such as pastry-wrapped holiday ham, to the fanciful, such as gingerbread Wookie cookies, the site seems to offer something for everyone.

One video recipe in particular caught my attention a few days ago — one for spaghetti nests. I’m always looking for pantry-friendly uses for leftovers, and recipes for leftover spaghetti are no exception.

My parents would always fry up leftovers, top with a bit of garlic salt and Parmesan cheese, and voila, dinner on a dime and in an instant. But sometimes I’m looking for something with a bit more pizazz, and this recipe has it.

The pasta nests come together using Pasta nests Recipe courtesy of Tasty 1 egg Cooked spaghetti ¼ cup marinara sauce 1 cup Parmesan cheese Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large

Derry. Cost is $16 per child.

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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 and open to the public. See pelhampubliclibrary.org.

• (COOK)BOOK GROUP Discuss tips, tricks, troubles and treats with a new cookbook each meeting. Members make something from the book to share. First Fri. of each month from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. See derrypl.org.

cooked pasta, an egg, Parmesan cheese and marinara sauce. However, most sauces, including something such as an alfredo or a vodka sauce, would work equally as well.

My favorite thing about the pasta nests, besides how easy they are to make, is what a great vehicle they are for other dinner fare.

The video shows a meatball being nestled into the bed of pasta, but I’ve now made these nests and topped and filled them with cooked zucchini and a few slices of chicken — both were delicious.

The crispy pasta nests, which can be made with fresh or leftover spaghetti, are visually interesting and make for a fun focal point of any meal. Depending on what you’re serving, they could also act as large appetizers for a dinner party or even amp up a potluck dish of slow-cooker meatballs.

This easy dish is the ultimate way to jazz up simple spaghetti. Top with extra sauce and meat or veggies, and these pasta nests become a complete meal in minutes.

— Lauren Mifsud bowl, beat egg. To the egg, add the cooked spaghetti, marinara sauce and Parmesan cheese; stir until combined and the pasta is coated evenly. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Divide the pasta evenly among the cups. Using a small spoon, approximately the size of a teaspoon, press down the middle of each pasta cup until a small indentation appears to form the “nest.” Bake for 15 minutes or until crispy.

Drink Beer, wine & liquor dinners • JOHN BARLEYCORN VERSUS JOHNNY APPLESEED: BEER SOCIAL A showcase of beer brewing and cider making, including food pairings for each course with one house-brewed beer and one cider from North Country Hard Cider. Attendees will choose the winning beverage per course.

Wed., Jan. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Portsmouth Brewery, 56 Market St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $40. See portsmouthbrewery.com.

• SIMI WINE DINNER With winemaker Lisa Evich. Tues., Jan. 26, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The Common Man Windham, 88 Range Road, Windham. Cost is

$65. Reservations required. See thecman.com.

• BANFI WINE DINNER Enjoy a four-course meal and wine pairings with wine director Joseph Comforti and special guest Cristina Mariani-May, proprietor of Castello Banfi vineyard estate in Tuscany and co-CEO of Banfi Vintners.

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The very first Seacoast barrel tasting event will be held on Jan. 23 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Participating wineries include Jewell Towne Vineyards in South Hampton, Flag Hill Winery & Distillery in Lee, Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown and Sweet Baby Vineyard in Hampstead.

All you have to do to participate in this event is purchase a tasting glass for $10 at one of the wineries and then bring it with you to each stop. The wineries will have special wines for you to taste — some young, from the barrel and not fully aged yet. This is a great way to learn more about the winemaking process and meet the winemakers.

This seacoast barrel tasting event leads right in to one of the most exciting weeks of the year: New Hampshire Wine Week!

This annual event includes wine seminars and dinners and culminates with the Winter Wine Spectacular on Thursday, Jan. 28.

This is the 11th year that the New Hampshire Liquor Commission will hold New Hampshire Wine Week. According to the event website, “The week-long celebration of wine features bottle signings, wine tastings, and the largest wine event in Northern New England, the Winter Wine Spectacular, as well as dozens of intimate wine dinners all over the state pairing delicious food with fantastic wines. On a scale unlike any other wine event in the country, New Hampshire Wine Week affords wine lovers the unique opportunity to interact one-on-one with over 60 wine industry titans, boutique vineyard owners and local producers. Anyone who enjoys wine, from casual fans to wine aficionados, simply

cannot miss this fantastic week of events.”

An esteemed group of wine experts will participate in wine week, including Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines; Steve and Lori Felten, Klinker Brick Winery; Steve Lohr, J. Lohr Winery; Cristina Mariani-May, Castello Banfi; and Laura Sorge of Columbia Crest, among many others.

Some of our local New Hampshire winemakers are participating as well: Lewis Eaton of Sweet Baby Vineyard; Brian Ferguson of Flag Hill Winery & Distillery; Amy LaBelle and Cesar Arboleda of LaBelle Winery; Peter Oldak, MD, of Jewell Towne Vineyards; Eric Wiswall of Haunting Whisper Vineyards; Tom Zack of Zorvino Vineyards and Bob Dobrowski of Candia Vineyards. They will be participating in bottle signings, wine dinners and other events. Events are held all over the state at restaurants and New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets, so look for one near you.

I will be speaking with some of these celebrated wine experts and look forward to learning more about their stories and wineries. Stay tuned for those interviews in upcoming columns leading up to New Hampshire Wine Week.

The week culminates with the Winter Wine Spectacular to benefit Easter Seals.

Held at the Raddison Hotel in Manchester, this event offers guests the chance to access more than 1,500 wines with winemakers from all over the world, in addition to cuisine from local restaurants. This event is reportedly New England’s largest tasting and is the biggest one I have ever attended. I highly recommend attending if you can, as you will have the chance to taste wines you may not find anywhere else.

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• Pusha T, King Push —

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• Serial punctuation-mark-abusing YouTube-emo knotheads

Pusha T, King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude (GOOD Music / Def Jam)

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This Virginia hip-hopper’s knack for sinister ’90s-reborn flows landed him an audience with Kanye West, whose GOOD Music imprint put him in the company of Mos Def and Teyana Taylor, among others. This album finds him descending deeper into the murky darkness and posting up some really good stuff all while his public persona demands Album of the Year awards.

After tabling an intro that finds Pusha showing off the spittings that got him a ton of love for his 2013 LP “My Name Is My Name,” he sample-checks Biggie Smalls for a few seconds of the Timbaland-crafted “Untouchable,” lifting the tune’s title from Biggie’s guest-drawl on Pudgee’s “Think Big.” That sample makes the song more believable, if not better, but I dunno, it kinda seems like a reach. I know, “whatever,” and don’t get me wrong, the more disembodied freakbeats like the one on “Crutches Crosses Caskets” are winners, but Kanye comes in to bling it up and wreck my mellow on “M.P.A.,” a shame-on-us brag-fest contrivance that feels phoned in (especially the New Jack City references, not that those will ever cease being the lifeblood of this genre). B — Eric W. Saeger

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After seven years without a full-length album, you’d imagine this Chicago hipster-techno outfit would have some catching up to do, at least insofar as the pervasive reach of dubstep and its offshoots, if nothing else. But, quirky and lo-fi-meets-hi-fi as they are, they’re essentially a sound unto themselves, or, if you have to compare them to something, they’re a jazz reaction to The Orb. I don’t know whether they’re making fun of the McDonald’s “bah da ba da da” signature melody on “Ox Duke,” but the whole thing is built around it, all while a lot goes on around it, like the amniotic fiddlings of an android’s limbic system. A downtempo-noise cover of David Essex’s “Rock On” is bizarre, yes, but if you’ve stuck around until that point it’s a comfort, really, like a visit from the ghost of pop culture past, beckoning you to continue on this earbud trip and just let your head flow wherever it needs to. In another genre-check, the minute-and-a-halflong “Gopher Island” is their idea of punk rock … or maybe Judas Priest. Brilliant stuff everywhere here. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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Panic! At the Disco are famous for being a slightly techno version of Fall Out Boy, which, translated for anyone over 30, means it sounds like turtle-poop fricassee. But the title track of their new LP Death of a Bachelor finds these guys moving away from stealing from the 1960s and ’70s and toward stealing from the ’50s.

It’s a mellow throwback-torch-jazz thing that makes like Harry Connick Jr. ripping off “I’ll Never Smile Again” while some trap drumbeats come in and out of the mix just to remind people that trap exists. It’s not bad to listen to, but it’s hard to imagine the musical low-bar getting lower than this.

• London kind-of-shoegaze hipsters Daughter release their second LP, Not to Disappear. Their Florence and The Machineish sound does have a knack for stumbling upon haunting vibes, such as this album’s first single, “Doing the Right Thing,” a ghostly track whose bummer video follows an old man around as he goes about his day and visits his Alzheimer’s-suffering wife in the rest home. Gick, I know, but it’s hard to take your eyes off it.

• Fired Monday Night Football-theme-singin’ musician turned drooling moron Hank Williams Jr. releases It’s About Time, his eleventy-billionth album. It will feature a bluegrass-ified version of Neil Young’s “Are You Ready for the Country,” which probably means that Neil Young will make a fuss about it, because of their political differences, at which point the aliens will know it’s totally safe to invade this dump of a planet, which the aliens will use as a casino where alien families can win bobble-head dolls, doggy-barking ESPN analyst humans and Egyptian pyramid bricks.

• In the MGMT-wannabe headlines, Vancouver electro-goop artiste Jett Pace, better known as Old Man Canyon, “unleashes” his new album Delirium. He was in Boston for a show at Brighton Music Hall on Dec. 3, but it’s obviously too late to see that show, so you’ll have to settle for this new album, which includes the single “Hollow Tree,” a chilldown that will remind some people of Gorillaz, while some people will think of Bon Iver, while still others find themselves running off to barf, due to the “worst vibes of the ’70s” ambiance of the stupid thing. — Eric W. Saeger

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cannibals, cyclops, dragons, deadly whirlpools and the Sirens, who cause sailors’ boats to sink by luring them toward rocks with enchanting music.

Bodkin has performed these Greek tales “hundreds” of times. He knows their essence by heart, but because they’re recited, they come out different every time.

His is the first series of its kind at the new Warner venue. Schoodacs owner Darryl Parker had sought Bodkin personally in an attempt to bring to the coffee shop what he felt was an under-utilized medium in the area. There will be space for a crowd of 30, and seats were filling fast at the time of Parker’s interview. (Though if you miss this series, you can check out Bodkin’s performance of The Iliad at Riverwalk later this month.)

Bodkin tells stories all over the place — at libraries, at schools, from kindergarten to college, and at festivals and workshops, like this April’s New Hampshire Writers’ Day. He’s got about 100 tales up his sleeve, including an anti-bullying show called Golden Rule, and in addition to his stringed instruments, he uses a recorder and thumb piano to accompany the words. Some of his stories are re-tellings, some are original, but most are oral, with the exception of his book, The Water Mage’s Daughter, about the first young girl in the world to possess magic.

While he tells, he’ll sport dark clothes — black slacks and perhaps a black turtleneck — and at the end, a smile.

“I do it because it’s my job. And it’s fun,” Bodkin said.

See Odds Bodkin perform The Odyssey Where: Schoodacs Coffee & Tea, 1 E. Main St., Warner, 456-3400, schoodacs.com When: Sunday, Jan. 10, 4 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 17, 4 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m Admission: $50 for the series The Iliad Where: Riverwalk Cafe, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua, riverwalknashua.com, 578-0200 When: Sunday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.

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When Odds Bodkin tells a story, it’s like a movie for your ears.

For his live, three-part performances of The Odyssey at Schoodacs Coffee & Tea in Warner this month — Sundays, Jan. 10 through Jan. 24, at 4 p.m. — he’ll project 37 different character voices and sound effects that mimic the wind, explosions, galloping horses, dripping water and stormy weather. And with a 12-string guitar and celtic harp, he’ll present a musical score that sets the mood — for example, when Odysseus thinks about his wife he hasn’t seen for 20 years, Bodkin will play a low, dissonant sound. When the story bursts with action, the music will become urgent.

“It just flows out. The characters all have their various personas and accents,” Bodkin said, offering a glimpse via phone with a couple words in the deep, fierce voice of Cyclops Polyphemus. “A lot of it’s improvised. …

I’m kind of like the humble projector, and the audience’s imaginations are the screen.”

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, the other being The Iliad, which Bodkin also performs in Nashua at the end of the month.

Together, they are the oldest works of Western literature. While The Iliad focuses on the final weeks of the 10-year Trojan War, The Odyssey follows Greek hero Odysseus and his 10-year trek back home to Ithaca afterward.

On the journey, he meets Greek gods and goddesses, the nymph Calypso, the witchgoddess Circe, the Cyclops Polyphemus and deathly obstacles. All the while, everyone in Ithaca has assumed he’s died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors.

Bodkin’s goal is to make the classic tale approachable for audiences unwilling to sit down and read the epic poem, which Bodkin thinks is dense and filled with words and descriptions modern readers find difficult to get into. But what’s remarkable about Homer’s stories, he said, is their timelessness.

“The Iliad is probably the most intense war story that has ever been recorded. Even though it takes place in the Bronze Age, people were just as smart back then as they are today. And they behaved in exactly the same ways. They were just as jealous, murderous, loyal, altruistic,” he said. “And The Odyssey is a giant metaphor for a warrior coming home. … what it takes to go to war, and to see all these terrifying things, and then to come home and become normal again. … There’s a psychological journey that has to take place.”

Plus, The Odyssey is a “honking good” adventure story, Bodkin said, with monsters,

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The story begins at Frankie Presto’s funeral in Villarreal, Spain, the town of his birth (a place he had sworn to never return to).

Considered one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, Frankie has died during a performance. His death, although public, is a mystery.

As we discover from the many people who attend Frankie’s funeral, it turns out that no one really knows who Frankie was.

He came into lives, made a difference and then moved on. In the end, Frankie is simply a collection of meaningful life events strung together. Or is he?

The narrator “Music” (it works) tells us that Frankie grabbed at the gift of music when he was first born. Learning lessons by surviving life’s adversities and attending to excellent teachers, Frankie uses his musical gift in order to create good in the world.

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• JAY ATKINSON Author talks about Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America.

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• DAVID ROSENFELT Bestselling author. Release, plus signing of Blackoout. Tues., Jan. 12, at 6:30 p.m. Plaistow Public Library, 85 Main St., Plaistow. Call 3826011. Visit plaistowlibrary.com.

• DENIS LIPMAN Author talks about A Yank Back to England.

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that a woman can escape; he brings an overdue paycheck to musicians only to give the money away to someone who needs it more; and he steps in as a substitute for Elvis and saves the concert while giving Elvis the credit.

Frankie’s life is indeed a magical thing.

Although it might sound a bit on the saccharine side, because of Albom’s skill as a writer we are treated to a modern fairy tale where magic coincides so often with the book’s “reality” that you accept the story as is and read on. Quickly paced and filled with vivid scenes and dialog, the story will capture you.

You don’t have to be a musician to appreciate this book, though it certainly helps.

There are quite a few mentions of musicians from “days gone by,” but that’s not a dealbreaker. If you like a mystery (what exactly was so strange about his death?), if you like a tale filled with magic (Frankie was found in a river by a hairless dog seconds before the blankets that had been holding him up began to sink), and if you like the idea that we can touch others with whatever gift we have been given, then The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto will be a most satisfying read. A — Wendy Thomas

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• AMY CUDDY Pre-event book signing (actual event sold out) of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.

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• ASHLEY DAVIS BUSH Author talks about Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss. Fri., Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter.

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• DIANE P. FREEDMAN Author talks about Midlife with Thoreau. Wed., Jan. 27, at 7 p.m.

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• BETTEY FINNEY TOBEY, ELIZABETH JEWELL Author event to talk about Concord Through Time. Fri., Jan. 29, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

Poetry events • FERGUSON READING SERIES: S STEPHANIE, NANCY JEAN HILL Readings, plus open mike. Wed., Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m. Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter. Call 7789731.

Lectures & discussions • 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 589-4610.

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• MODERN-DAYPERFORMANCE OFTHE 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 456-3400, email info@ schoodacs.com.

• WOMEN AND MONEY Presentation about the importance of having a financial plan (he says more women than men are in charge of taking care of family finances), by Doug Wright. Tues., Jan. 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St.,

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• FOREIGN POLICY COURSE Presented by Steven Butzel. Tuesdays, Jan. 12 through March 1, 10-11:15 a.m. Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth. Free. Call 766-1720, visit greatdecisions.org.

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• HIKING THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL Part of "Exotic Destinations" series. Presentation by hiker Allison Driscoll. Thurs., Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free. Registration not required. Call 589-4610.

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• "THE FAMILY BUSINESS: MEMOIRS OF A BOSTON PRIVATE EYE" Presentation by John P. DiNatale. Thurs., Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst. Free, registration required. Call 673-2288. Visit amherstlibrary.org.

• HIKING CAMINO DE SANTIAGO Presentation by Theresa Fersch about her 500-mile pilgrimage. Thurs., Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. Hollis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis. Visit hollislibrary. org. Call 465-7721. Registration required to attend.

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• JAZZ: IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS SATCHMO Mardi Gras special presentation by educator and jazz performer Nanette Perrotte. Tues., Feb. 2, at 7 p.m.

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• THE ART OF THE CON: THE MOST NOTORIOUS FAKES, FRAUDS AND FORGERIES IN THE ART WORLD Part of adult series, True Crime and Not So True Crime. Presented by Anthony Amore, director of security at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Thurs., Feb. 4, at 7 p.m.

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The Hateful Eight (R)

Two bounty hunters, one criminal and a handful of unknowns get trapped in a cabin together during a blizzard in post-Civil War Wyoming in The Hateful Eight, a Quentin Tarantino western that clocks in at nearly three hours long.

Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is bringing Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) into Red Rock for her trial and likely hanging. Though Ruth tends to pick the “alive” part of the “wanted: dead or alive” bounty hunter instruction, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) tends to play it safer and bring his fugitives in dead, which is why we meet him on the road to Red Rock with several dead and frozen-looking men in a pile on the road. He had been taking them by horse, but his horse had died and now he’s looking for somewhere to wait out the coming blizzard and find new transportation into Red Rock. Skeptically, reluctantly, Ruth lets Warren come aboard — professional courtesy and all. (Ruth and Warren even know each other casually.)

When another man shows up on the road, however, Ruth demands that Warren handcuff himself, lest the two men be working together to steal Daisy and her $10,000 bounty away. The other man, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), refuses to be handcuffed and demands a ride. He says that he is the sheriff of Red Rock and if either man wants to be paid for their fugitives, they must bring him along.

Because the blizzard is too bad for them to make it all the way to Red Rock, the two bounty hunters, the maybe sheriff, Daisy the criminal and OB (James Parks), the stage coach driver, plan to spend the next few snowy days at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a sort of general store weigh-station on the road to Red Rock. When the bunch gets to the store, Minnie isn’t there but a Mexican named Bob (Demian Bichir) says he has been left in charge. Also at Minnie’s are an old Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a quiet cowboy (Michael Madsen) and a chatty British guy who says he’s Red Rock’s hangman (Tim Roth). Both Ruth and Warren are pretty certain not all is right at Minnie’s and that at least one of the men is there to help Daisy break free.

Somewhere in the nearly three self-indulgent hours of film, there is probably a fun 90-minute B-movie western about characters who are varying shades of villain in a locked-room mystery. Sure, that movie would probably still be violent and overly liberal with the use of the n-word, both in a way that is actually more lazy than daring, but that movie would be an enjoyable movie to watch. As it is, The Hateful Eight feels too shaggy and self-conscious in its assumed artsiness to be really fun. This isn’t just a movie that shows you the math, it also shows you HIPPO | JANUARY 7 - 13, 2016 | PAGE 58

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the trees being cut down to turn into paper and pencil. It shows you the moment of conception of the math teacher. It is so caught up with its own story-telling details, so in love with making sure we laugh at the same joke a couple of times or notice the particular blerb of blood, that the forward momentum of the story is regularly stalled.

There is also a weird sense in this movie that we in the audience are only a few years away from having seen and thrilled to Pulp Fiction. Immaturity? Is that what it is? I’m not sure that’s exactly the right word for the way Tarantino uses violence and race in this movie, but overall I was left with the feeling that this movie’s approach to both feels almost cutesy, like Tarantino is still the indie director trying to show off how daring he is.

(Actually, I call BS on the idea that this movie is really saying anything about race, for all that it has its characters talk about the Civil War or call Jackson’s character the n-word.

Like the violence and the blood spatter, anything race-related seems all about shock value without a single smarter or deeper aspect.)

This is not to say that The Hateful Eight is a failure as a movie or even as a piece of entertainment. It does have its moments. I could totally watch a movie that is just called Walton Goggins Says Things. There isn’t one part of this movie that is even as good as his weakest scenes in Justified but he’s still a good time generally. Once, I might have said the same thing about Samuel L. Jackson, but in this movie he demonstrates that you really can watch an actor do the same fun thing too many times. Just as less movie would have been a better movie, less of Samuel L. Jackson doing a version of his Jules Winnfield Pulp Fiction character would have made this feel a little fresher. And while plenty of what happens here is not just telegraphed well in advance but printed in a fully illustrated book and read to the audience with cookies and milk in advance, there are a few plot twists that give the movie a bit of nar-

rative zest.

And for all that not nearly enough thought appears to be given about the necessity of each scene or stretch of dialogue, Tarantino clearly puts an impressive amount of thought into nearly every visual, every design choice, every bit of font in the movie’s opening credits, the score. I wish more in the movie was as deliberate.

There’s a lot in this movie I could live without — Tarantino’s late-movie narration, the chapter divisions, the stilted acting choices some of the actors made and, of course, at least a good hour of the movie itself. But, for Tarantino fans, the excesses are, on the balance, probably worth sitting through to get to this unevenly cooked roast’s tastier cuts.

C+ Rated R for strong bloody violence, a scene of violent sexual content, language and some graphic nudity. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight is about 2 hours and 55 minutes long (when viewed without the intermission) and is distributed by The Weinstein Company.

The Big Short (R)

A smattering of investors across the country discover the looming financial crisis that is inflated home prices and subprime mortgages and figure out how to capitalize on it in The Big Short, a fun, funny, angry movie about the housing bubble and its 2008 collapse based on the book

by Michael Lewis.

The movie starts in 2005, with Michael Burry (Christian Bale), the not-terriblysocial manager of an investment fund out in California. Studying the details of mortgagebacked securities, he sees all the signs of a housing bubble and an approaching calamitous collapse. He decides to get big banks to sell him credit default swaps — essentially, bets that the bubble will in fact burst and all the financial instruments backed by subprime mortgages will go bust.

And, yes, this movie does get naked ladies and a grinning Anthony Bourdain to explain various financial terms and yes, it probably oversimplifies and I’m now oversimplifying that oversimplification but stick with me.

The banks do this willingly, delightedly actually, because they are absolutely certain that he will lose this bet he’s making and in the meantime they will be collecting fees from him. Meanwhile, Burry’s investors and boss thinks he’s lost his mind and, as they wait and wait for the crash he says is coming, get more anxious, even to the point of suing him.

But Burry isn’t the only person who is interested in credit default swaps. Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), a kind of charmingly jerk-y investor in New York, decides to get into the credit default market himself.

Eventually, he has a chance meeting with fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and his team (played by Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater and Jeremy Strong). Baum is a grumpy, suspicious investor who believes pretty much everybody is out to cheat him and the public in general. He likes Vennett’s idea because it is dependent on the banks being both incompetent and, he eventually decides, fraudulent. But he isn’t willing to take Vennett’s information at face value. He sends members of his team to Florida to look into the actual mortgages behind the securities and finds the neighborhoods of empty and foreclosed homes, the homes owned on paper by dogs, the strippers who have multiple properties purchased with almost no money down and other terrifying signs of a less than rock-solid market.

Meanwhile, young investors Charlie Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) are trying to get a big bank to back them to make serious “big boy” investments. They happen upon Vennett’s idea and decide to get involved in the credit default swap game themselves. To help them, they rope in Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) a former investor who knows the ropes but quit because of his serious moral qualms with the whole banking industry.

As the quarters tick by, these outsider investors see the default rate go up but strangely neither banks nor rating agencies nor the government itself seem to be acknowledging the quickly approaching crash. Though the investors all see the potential to make big money if their shorts pay off, they also see how this part market, so interconnected with the financial markets as a whole, will likely cause massive worldwide turmoil when it all falls apart.

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It’s entertaining and it is one of many times people onscreen are or are appearing to look directly into the camera, directly at you, drawing you the viewer into the story.

Which, of course, is appropriate for the way the movie makes the story about not just the jerky rich guys but all of us — a banker builds an investment instrument using a shady loan made by a too-slick broker to a guy who put his dog’s name on the mortgage and as a result a guy who has been dutifully paying his rent to the dog’s owner, his landlord, is in danger of having his family tossed out of their house. The Big Short connects the dots from the bottom of the economy to the top in a way that also reminded me of the famous “The Giant Pool of Money” episode from 2008 of the radio show This American Life.

The movie sells all of this — anger, tension, the minutiae of finance — in large part because of the central performances, which are individually solid if not excellent but are together perfectly fitting with the tone and pace of the movie. Gosling provides much of the movie’s narration — not a thing I’m usually a fan of, but it works in part because he is an amoral presence. He doesn’t tsk, he doesn’t cheer. Carell and the actors who play his team bring the rage the movie clearly feels toward the things Wall Street did to cause the crisis. Bale brings a mostly unemotional fixation on the numbers; his character isn’t partying with the bankers, he’s just reading the signs. Pitt brings a world-weariness to the mentor who explains to the brash young traders the human cost of their success. It’s a nice mix.

Tinged with black comedy and some even darker strains of anger, The Big Short is also another in a collection of solid process movies from 2015. B+ Rated R for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity. Directed by Adam McKay with a screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay (from the book by Michael Lewis), The Big Short is two hours and 10 minutes long and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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The Big Short feels a bit like what The Wolf of Wall Street might have been if it had had more audience surrogates, more Wall Street guys gasping at the horrors. Pretty much all of the investors we follow are appalled at what they find when they dig into the subprime mortgage market. They meet guys like the mortgage brokers played

by Max Greenfield (Schmidt!) and Billy Magnussen, who talk about the much bigger bonuses they get if they get someone a subprime mortgage instead of a traditional fixed rate, 30-year mortgage. Magnussen’s character even brags that he was a bartender not long before he became a broker — and now he has a boat! When Baum hears this, he’s shocked that the men would admit to such a combination of incompetence and bad-faith lending. Neither Baum nor the movie are particularly subtle when it comes to underlining all the wrongs that went into the financial crisis. There are a few moments that are even, I think, too on the nose: we see an SEC employee on vacation at a convention where investment bankers congregate, trying to get a job with a private bank and also winding up, we can infer, literally in bed with a Goldman Sachs employee. We also see someone at a ratings agency who is literally wearing what look like blinders — she’s just back from the eye doctor, she tells the disgusted Baum.

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• Spotlight (R, 2015) Fri., Jan. 8, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 9, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 10, at 3 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 12, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 13, at 7 p.m.

• All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (NR, 2015) Fri., Jan. 8, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 10, at 7 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 12, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 13, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Jan. 14, at 7 p.m.

BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, 472-2300, bedfordnhlibrary.org • Thursday Theater Thurs., Jan. 14, at 2 and 6:30 p.m.

NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG, 2012) Sat., Jan. 9, at 2 p.m.

• Le Cinema Francais: La Gloire de Mon Pere Tues., Jan. 12, at 3 p.m.

• The Martian (PG-13, 2015) Tues., Jan. 12, at 6:30 p.m.

• He Named Me Malala (PG-13, 2015) Wed., Jan. 13, at 2 p.m.

• Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG, 2015) Sat., Jan. 16, at 2 p.m.

• The Intern (PG-13, 2015) Tues., Jan. 19, at 7 p.m.

AVIATION MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, 669-4820, aviationmuseumofnh.org • The McConnell Story Sat., Jan. 9, at 11 a.m.

RODGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 194 Derry Road, Route 102, Hudson, rodgerslibrary.org. 8866030 • Cinema Celebration second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

EXETER TOWN HALL 9 Front St., Exeter • Metropolis (1927) Fri., Jan. 29, at 7 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis

ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, rochesteroperahouse.com, 3322211, 335-1992 • Short Film Night Sat., Jan. 9, at 7 p.m.

3S ARTSPACE 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, 3sarts.org • Portsmouth Short Film Night Sun., Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m.

THE FLYING MONKEY 39 S. Main St., Plymouth, 5362551, flyingmonkeynh.com • The Birth of a Nation (1915) Thurs., Jan. 14, at 6:30 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis

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NITE Boys to men Local music news & events

By Michael Witthaus

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• Bleat this: There’s a lot more to Jim Breuer than Goat Boy, but the fan-pleasing comic reliably trots out his mid-90s Saturday Night Live character for most sets. Breuer is a hardcore metal head — he appeared with Metallica during the band’s 30th-anniversary show — and an even bigger New York Mets fan, hosting a podcast devoted to the team.

He performs Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m., at Lebanon Opera House, 51 N. Park St., Lebanon. Tickets are $25.50-$49.50 at lebanonoperahouse.org.

• Torch songs: Based in St. Louis, Sweetie & the Toothaches live 700 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans; musically, the two cities are kindred spirits in many ways.

The vocal duet of Emilie Richard and Chase Garrett will fit nicely at a downtown eatery inspired by Bourbon Street. Their musical inspirations include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ruth Brown. They perform Friday, Jan. 8, at 8 p.m., at N’awlins Grille, 860 Elm St., Manchester. See nawlinsgrille.com.

• Tune traveler: After devoting an album to his Seacoast home, Mike Dunbar headed out in search of America, traveling to musical meccas from Austin to Woodstock and writing songs for Suitcase and Guitar in Hand, one of last year’s best records. Dunbar heads to Concord to debut a new band that includes members of his former group Black Agnes on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 p.m. at True Brew Barista, 3 Bicentennial Square, Concord. See facebook.com/suitcaseandguitar.

• Artful eating: Enjoy a stack of apple cinnamon pancakes or smoked salmon with capers and crème fraîche as guitarist John Chouinard plays at the Currier’s Second Sunday Jazz Brunch. The menu features a buffet and madeto-order dishes. After dining and music, there’s time to stroll around and take in the final day of a splendid Maxfield Parrish exhibit, “The Power of the Print.” Sunday, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m., Winter Garden Café, Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, currier.org.

• Sit down: An Artist in the Round series debuts with Pat & the Hats front man Patrik Gochez playing and chatting with radio host and music writer Rob Azevedo; Gochez also fields questions from audience members. It’s a chance to learn about the rising star’s songwriting style, influences and perhaps a few tidbits about his band’s soon to be released EP. Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. at New England College Performance Center, 62 N. Main St., Concord. See nec.edu.

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O-Town grown up, reunited

By Michael Witthaus

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Long before The Voice or American Idol lit up U.S. living room screens, Making The Band invented the formula for reality television talent competitions. Launched in 1999, the MTV show gave the Real World treatment to eight aspiring pop stars, five of whom became the platinum selling group O-Town.

For three seasons, film crews chronicled O-Town’s formation, rise and ultimate decline as the boy band craze waned.

Making The Band was so new that many things now taken for granted didn’t occur to the show’s producers.

“We had to tape over our shirt logos and rip off labels from water bottles … because they couldn’t pay a license fee,” O-Town member Jacob Underwood said in a recent phone interview. “They didn’t even know how to create product placement for a reality show, and now that’s all they are.”

MTB’s first season ended with O-Town signed to Clive Davis’s J Records. When they completed the deal at the industry legend’s New York City home, an English A&R man with TV dreams of his own also sat in the room.

“It was Simon Cowell, and he just kept talking to us about the show,” said Underwood. “He said, ‘I don’t understand this, tell me a bit about that.’ He took the best parts and created American Idol, and we just happened to be there.”

Alas, fame, sold-out shows and a No. 1 record didn’t translate into fortune for band members. Business naiveté cost them plenty, and manager Lou Pearlman stole the rest, Underwood said. The boy band mogul launched and fleeced both Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, according to numerous media reports, before getting his hooks into O-Town. Pearlman is now in federal prison for a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Rather than stew in bitterness, the experience spurred Underwood’s intellectual curiosity. After O-Town disbanded in 2004, he began work on an MBA. “Because we had so much money stolen from us, I realized you can be the best musicians that you hope to be, but if you don’t know the business, you’re just the artist,” he said. “If you want to be successful, you’ve got to know both.”

O-Town with Todd Carey When: Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.

Where: Jewel Nightclub, 61 Canal St., Manchester Tickets: $25 at ticketfly.com (21+)

O-Town. Courtesy photo.

In the years following the breakup, fans clamored for a reunion. In 2014, four of O-Town’s five members — Underwood, Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller and Trevor Penick — returned with a new single, “Skydive.” Its positive reception led to a follow-up, “Chasing After You.” The song’s name-check rap outro served as an update of their first big hit, “Liquid Dreams.” Finally, they released the summer comeback album, Lines & Circles.

It’s a surprisingly good record, with more grit and funk than anything from their boy band days.

Bringing it to fans, along with hits like “We Fit Together” and the chart-topping “All Or Nothing,” is more hands-on, and happier, than life in a reality television fishbowl, asserts Underwood.

“I’ve taken over the management side, and our responsibilities are divvied up,” he said, adding that Miller has a graphic design degree and does both website design and merchandising. “It’s a lot more gratifying when you can go out there and book and promote the show, set up your merch and you’re selling out. Not the 10to 20-thousand-seat arenas, but it’s still so much better because we did the work, and

the fans showing up are excited and singing back to us. It’s a lot more satisfying.”

Underwood, however, did wax nostalgic for a few niceties from O-Town’s days of high-flying fame.

“I miss the responsibility of being signed to someone like Clive Davis. I loved having those kind of people to learn from,” he said.

That perspective was something that changed as he grew up.

“As a kid, I thought, ‘Who is the old guy telling me what to do or what to sound like?’ As JACOB UNDERWOOD an adult, I can’t be more thankful for having ‘the old guy’ tell me what to do and what to sing and how to listen for a hit song and how to put writers in that complement each other. I think as adults we know how to appreciate what we were blessed with.”

What the band doesn’t miss is the frenetic schedule of its early years. These days, everyone except Underwood has wives and kids to think about.

“We go out for one to two weeks a month max, and then we are home for family time,” Underwood said. “Back in the day, it was 320 or more shows a year. … I don’t want to be back in that again. We have a good balance now.”

I miss the responsibility of being signed to someone like Clive Davis.

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Rochester Radloff's: Dancing Madly Backwards Duo Smokey's Tavern: Tom Schena Weare Stark House Tavern: Delanie Pickering Saturday, Jan. 9 Bedford Shorty's: Steve Tolley Bow Chen Yang Li: Dance Hall Epidemic Concord Hermanos: Phil Sargent Pit Road Lounge: Talkin' Smack Tandy's Top Shelf: DJ Iceman Streetz (105.5 JYY) True Brew: Mike Dunbar Band Contoocook Covered Bridge: Will Hatch

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Sunday, Jan. 10 Bedford Copper Door: Marc Apostolides

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Newmarket Stone Church: Bluegrass Jam w/ Dave Talmage

Portsmouth Cormac Dolphin Striker: McCarthy Press Room: Jazz Jam w/ Larry Garland & Friends Wednesday, Jan. 13 Concord Hermanos: Dave Gerard Gilford Patrick's: DJ Megan

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All quotes are from The Last Dragon- steer the large Rolls-Royce very carefully slayer, by Jasper Fforde, born Jan. 11, 1961. between tree stumps and fallen branches.

Twice I had to back up and try a new way Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) More through, but soon the forest thinned out and sorcerers and magicians had arrived, and I found myself looking onto a large, flat a late-night party seemed to be going on. meadow next to a street. I drove across the All the retired magicians of the land were short grass as grazing sheep moved lazily making their way to the small kingdom, fol- out of my way, then crested a low rise and lowing an instinct to lend whatever power stopped, not believing what I saw. Expect they had to the Big Magic. Your power can the unexpected.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) I thought I had make a difference.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Sorcer- always been in control of my temper, but ers like money as much as the next person, perhaps I’d been holding back long-forgotbut they like honor and their calling better. ten childhood tantrums. It’s never a good Ask a wizard if they’d swap their powers time for a tantrum. for a sack of cash, and they’ll choose magVirgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) I drove back to the marker stones to find that the avaic every time. Choose wisely.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Tiger ricious spell had broken. Everyone was looked around the room nervously. “Wait a packing up to leave, wondering why they moment while I unpack.” He took from his had sat on a hillside for five days drinkpocket a folded necktie and placed it in one ing stewed tea and eating stale cake. Don’t of the drawers. “I’m done.” That is how even try to understand. you should pack.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Magic Aries (March 21 – April 19) I didn’t returned to the planet with added vigor. do magic, I managed it, and there’s a big Every one of the sorcerers at Zambini Towdifference. ers found that their powers had increased; You need a good manager. in future, it would be much easier to hire Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Patrick of out their talents. Your talents are likely to Ludlow was … amiable if a little simple, and be in great demand. quite odd-looking. Like most sorcerers who Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) The footmade their living using passive levitation, man looked at me coldly. “The king doesn’t he had muscles mainly where he shouldn’t make jokes, Miss Strange. On the rare — grouped around his ankles, wrists, toes, occasion that he does, he circulates a memo fingers, and the back of his head. Try to beforehand to avoid any misunderstandkeep your workout well-rounded. ings. He has sent his own car.” You might Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Confusing have missed a memo. events were beginning to mount up, and I’m Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Had I been not a person well disposed to being con- beguiled by the dragon? Did Shandar have fused. If events were unfolding, I needed to another agenda? Was I smart enough to see be with them and not behind them. Don’t through the possible lies? Thoroughly conlet things pile up. fused, I set off into the Dragonlands. Despite Cancer (June 21 – July 22) I had to your confusion, you have things to do.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

Unclear on the concept

Thee, Not Me: American “millennials” (those aged 18 to 29) continue a “long-standing tradition,” The Washington Post wrote in December, describing a Harvard Institute of Politics poll on their views on war. Following the recent Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 percent of U.S. millennials said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 percent answered, in the next question, that no, they themselves were “probably” or “definitely” not joining the military.

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you need to be,” for example, grocery shopping an offer “of genuine compassion for our fellow human beings.” (The offer was subsequently rescinded by the Minneapolis church’s executive ministry, reasoning that they are “not a personal security service.”)

Wrong place, wrong time

In November, a 62-year-old customer at Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida, was hit in the lower abdomen area by another shooter, 71, because the victim was standing behind the target (“for some reason,” was all a fire-rescue spokesman would say). The shooter thought the man was Exceptional Floridians • Police in St. Petersburg reported the elsewhere on the property.

December arrest of a 12-year-old boy whose rap sheet listed “more than 20” arrests since Least competent criminals age 9. He, on a bicycle, had told an 89-year• Jasper Harrison, 47, working inside the old driver at a gas station that the man’s tire storage unit in Edgewater, Florida, where he was low, and when the man got out to check, grows his marijuana, heard a helicopter overthe boy hopped in the car and took off. head on Dec. 9, panicked, and called 911 to • A driver accidentally plowed through two turn himself in to pre-empt what he presumed small businesses in Pensacola in December, was a SWAT raid. Actually, the helicopcreating such destruction that the manager of ter belonged to a local news station headed one said it looked like a bomb had hit (forc- elsewhere, but police later arrested Harrison ing both a tax service and a casket company based on the 911 call. to relocate). The driver told police he was • Lloyd Franklin, 34 and suspected in a attempting to “travel through time.”

North Carolina double murder, fatally shot himself in a Bensalem, Pennsylvania, motel room in November when police knocked on Compelling explanations Breen Peck, 52, an air traffic controller the door. However, cops actually had come who has been having career troubles in recent to arrest another man in the room on a parole years, was arrested during a traffic stop on violation.

New York’s Long Island in December when officers found illegal drugs in his car. “That’s The continuing crisis meth,” he said. “I’m an air traffic controller. I • Elaine Williams, 47, was arrested in smoke it to stay awake.”

December in North Forsyth, Georgia, and charged with trying to buy a baby for her daughter, 14, via an ad on Craigslist. Williams Ironies • Christopher Manney was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department in 2014 after shooting a black suspect to death in a case bearing some similarity to 2015 shootings that produced “Black Lives Matter” protests not fired for the shooting (adjudged “not excessive force”) but for improper actions that preceded the shooting (not announcing a valid reason for a pat down and conducting a not-by-the-book pat down). Two days before the firing, he had filed a disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder from the shooting and aftermath, and in November 2015 the city’s Annuity and Pension Board, following city law, approved the claim. Thus, Manney, despite having been subsequently fired, retired with full disability, with basically the same take-home pay he was receiving when fired.

• In November, as anti-Muslim tensions arose in several U.S. cities following the Paris terrorist attack, two chapters of the Satanic Temple church (San Jose, California, and Minneapolis) offered to protect Muslims who feared a backlash. The Minneapolis group offered “just big dudes walking you to where

said her daughter said she “wanted a baby and would get one with or without (my) help.”

• Easily Disrespected: Two foreign students at the liberal arts Oberlin College complained in a recent school publication that the cafeteria selections supposedly “inclusive” of world cultures were actually denigrating other cultures by offering inferior versions of national dishes. Vietnamese student Diep Nguyen wrote that the correct “banh mi” sandwich should be a “crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables and fresh herbs” and not, he complained, “ciabatta bread, pulled pork and coleslaw.” Said Japanese student Tomoyo Joshi, sushi with “undercooked rice and lack of fresh fish is disrespectful.” (Cafeteria managers told The Washington Post they were proud of their commitments to other cultures, to local farming, sustainable foods and animal-treatment concerns.)

Update

The “Bridge to Nowhere” played an outsize role in politics a decade ago as an example of uncontrolled government spending (before Congress killed it). (Ketchikan, Alaska, planned a sleek international airport on nearby, uninhabited Gravina Island, but needed a sleek $450 million bridge to get there.) These days, reported Alaska Dispatch News in November, the original 3.2-mile, $28 million access road on Gravina Island, built to access the bridge, now just ends in a “scrub forest.” One optimistic state official said the road gets “more use all the time” boaters come for “hunting and fishing, berry picking, things like that. It’s actually a nice road.”

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