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Over the last two days, I have responded to four telephone surveys, two in-person canvassers at my front door, and three online surveys. Clear evidence that politics are alive and well in the Granite State.

Yes, several of these inquiries have come at inopportune moments in my day (or evening). Yes, some of them have masqueraded as independent pollsters while touting their candidate. Yes, it’s time-consuming and frequently tedious to feel obligated to engage in conversation when one knows from the outset that you have a very different starting place than your interviewer.

But it’s those young fresh faces that appear at the front door or on the porch in the cold and press their views that keep me engaged. Long after I am gone, it is they who may well be making policy for our communities or our nation. The time spent with them now may well be mutually beneficial: encouragement to them and reassurance to me that the political process that brings us together will go on and will do so in a civil and respectful manner.

But even the most casual observer of the campaigns currently underway here in New Hampshire would agree that civility and respect are in short supply. That reality is for many justification for withdrawing from the political conversation altogether and for retreating into a “my mind’s made up” mode, period. Add to that the polarization around such key issues as national security, immigration, race relations, policing, gun rights/gun control, foreign policy, economic/ social imbalance, and minority rights — all complex matters that have been reduced to aggressive and strident slogans over the past few months — and it’s understandable that one’s patience may be exhausted.

This morning, I had a 20-minute conversation with a young man out knocking on doors in support of a candidate I shall not vote for. Our discussion was civil, factual, respectful. In the end, we agreed to disagree. As he left, he turned and thanked me for taking the time to talk rather than to shut the door in his face as had happened frequently that morning. In turn, I thanked him for spending his time acting on his convictions. But we both acknowledged the democratic process that our conversation itself sustained. Closing the door, I recalled a quote from Parker Palmer’s Healing the Heart of Democracy: “America’s founders realized that generation after generation of citizens would need to stay in the action lest the political movement they planted wither and die.” That young man and I are intergenerational trust-holders of democracy.

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ABC drops UL from debate ABC says it’s kicking the Union Leader out of the sole GOP primary debate in New Hampshire because of publisher Joe McQuaid’s war of words with billionaire Donald Trump and his endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

McQuaid criticized the decision, the UL reported, saying the paper has long endorsed candidates and this never proved to be a conflict in the past.

Muslim kicked out of rally A Muslim woman wearing a traditional hijab over her head and a T-shirt that read “Salam, I come in peace” stood silently in the crowd at a recent Trump rally in South Carolina before being asked to leave. The 56-year-old flight attendant was escorted through a gauntlet of Trump supporters, some of whom booed at her. Protesters were told before the rally began to stay in a space outside the venue. During the rally, Trump reiterated calls to block Syrian refugees from entering the country, saying they “probably are ISIS.” Clinton endorsements The past week saw several notable surrogates touring the state and speaking on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Daughter Chelsea Clinton made her debut appearance in the 2016 race at three events on Jan. 12, the AP reported. Earlier, NHPR reported TV personality Lena Dunham and women’s soccer star Abby Wambach also stumped for Clinton. And for the first time ever, Planned Parenthood made a presidential endorsement by backing Clinton at an official event at Southern New Hampshire University, WMUR reported.

Carson PAC loses NH staff There are more cracks in the organization supporting retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in his bid for the White House. WMUR reported all five paid staff members of the super PAC “2016 Committee,” which supports Carson, quit and collectively joined the campaign for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as volunteers.

Jerry Sickles, staff spokesperson, said they respect Carson but grew frustrated by how little he campaigned in New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire House is back in session. NHPR reported it spent its first day back (Jan. 6) debating about a dozen bills.

But before voting began, Republican Speaker Shawn Jasper had some harsh words for several of the House members engaged in a Facebook spat over a controversial bill that would ban female toplessness.

Democratic State Rep. Amanda Bouldin posted that she thought the bill should either be thrown out or be amended to exclude breastfeeding. Republican State Rep. Josh Moore, the bill’s sponsor, replied saying “If it’s a woman’s natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that, than [sic] you should have no problem with a mans inclantion [sic] to stare at it and grab it.” Others, like Republican Al Baldasaro, also weighed in.

The exchange later made the rounds in national media outlets when the Huffington Post picked up on it.

The bill already includes a breastfeeding exemption, as Bouldin later acknowledged.

Keeping with recent tradition, among the first bills voted on related to guns. The House passed a bill, 206 to 146, that would eliminate the need for concealed-carry licenses. A similar bill was vetoed by Gov. Maggie Hassan last year. The House also passed bills that would remove several minimum sentencing requirements and require state police to wear body cameras when interacting with the public.

Both bills were sent to the House Finance Committee.

The following day, the House voted on about a dozen more bills and played host to a number of presidential candidates. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore gave the first speech, followed later in the afternoon by former HewlettPackard CEO Carly Fiorina.

The House passed bills to regulate the use of private drones and place money seized by police as contraband into state coffers. The drone bill heads to the House Criminal Justice Committee while the seized money bill goes to the Senate.

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the leaders of a nearby Catholic college up in arms. NHPR reported the president of Thomas More College is threatening legal action should the town approve plans that would install a dispensary in a former credit union across the street from the school on Daniel Webster Highway.

The college’s President William Fahey said he feared a dispensary would harm the sense of safety and wholesomeness associated with the school and expects a drop in applications as a result.

Leaders of the nonprofit Prime ATC, which would operate the dispensary, say no cannabis use would take place on site. State law requires dispensaries be at least 1,000 feet from a school, but town officials say that doesn’t apply to private colleges.

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A new partnership between UNH Manchester and White Mountain Community College will allow for some students to transfer with associate’s degrees to the Manchester school but continue to pay community college tuition rates. NHPR reported the program is only available to students who earn associate’s degrees in criminal justice or Internet technology from the community college in Berlin. The hope is to meet critical staffing shortages in law enforcement and modernize the workforce with more IT grads. The partnership, which is on top of existing transfer and dual admission programs, is funded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

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The FIRST Robotics competition kicked off in Manchester at the Southern New Hampshire University gymnasium on Jan. 9. The Union Leader reported thousands of high school students swarmed the unveiling of this year’s challenge, which has a Middle Ages theme of storming castle defenses.

CONCORD An Andover selectman and the former police chief in Nashua died on Jan. 7 of smoke inhalation outside his home, the Concord Monitor reported. Earlier reports blamed a propane explosion, but fire investigators said it was an accident involving “ignitable liquids in close proximity to an open flame.”

A coyote has been sighted in Pembroke with a clear plastic jar stuck around its head. The Concord Monitor Hooksett reported Fish and Game officers almost caught the coyote before it darted off into the woods. The Goffstown public is advised to call Fish and Game if they locate the animal and not to attempt to MANCHESTER help it themselves.

Bedford A man arrested in a Salem hotel last summer for possession of 20 pounds of marijuana saysAmherst police coerced him into letting them search his room.Milford The Union Leader reported on Jan. 5 the defense of Charles Barcus argued in court papers that police promised to help find Barcus’ missing dog, Max, if he let them search his room.

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Federal regulators are calling for an investigation into how prices are set for the transmission of electricity in New England. The Union Leader reported the price to transmit energy in New England is much higher than in other parts of the country.

In an order issued by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Dec. 28, commissioners write that

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the rates appear to be “unjust” or discriminatory. Experts say the majority of electric bills used to be the cost of energy generation. Now, about 60 percent is transmission and distribution costs. The process set in motion by the order could result in a settlement with the grid operator, ISO-New England, or in a lengthy process of hearings and legal arguments.

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One of the Secret Service agents working Hillary Clinton’s security detail was seriously injured in a Wakefield car crash last month.

Friends say he’s been paralyzed from the upper chest down. NHPR reported the agent, 31-year-old Garrett Fitzgerald, sustained major spinal cord injuries in the crash. The driver of the other vehicle, a known heroin addict named Bruce Danforth, perished in the collision. Fitzgerald remains at Mass General Hospital in Boston and will soon transfer to a spinal cord injury rehab center. An online fundraising page has raised more than $212,000 at press time.

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Candidate Q & A Democrat Martin O’Malley Martin O’Malley was governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015.

He spoke to the Hippo by phone on Oct. 18 soon after the first Democratic debate.

Do you have a unique plan that stands apart?

Yes, and I did it as mayor. It’s called CitiStat. It went horizontal, and it was embraced by mayors across the United States. And I did it as governor and it was called StateStat. And I intend to do it as your next president and it will be called FedStat. It’s the most performance-managed entrepreneurial way of getting things done. … What it essentially involves is this: In order to accomplish meaningful and important things that allow our children to be winners in a changing economy ... you have to know what your big goals are, you have to itemize leading actions that drive you to goal and you have to create a compelling scoreboard that every citizen can see so we all know whether or not we’re doing better this week in getting to our goal than we were last week. For the first time in human history we can actually do that thanks to geographic information systems and thanks to the Internet. And we need to embrace that. A lot of politicians think that openness and transparency is a political threat, and as someone who was elected to turn around the worst violent crime MARTIN O’MALLEY and addiction problem of any big city in America, I recognized it as a tremendous help. We put Baltimore on a better path, and because of that, I was reelected with 88 percent of the vote and then went on to bring it to state government as well.

The biggest overarching concern that I hear people express is the fear that their children won’t enjoy better lives than they’ve enjoyed.

I gather a lot was riding on the first Democratic debate on CNN. But initial polls seem to indicate that not much has changed and you are still at about 1 percent. Are you considering a change in strategy?

No, I’m not considering a change in strategy. I’m glad that the Democratic presidential primary finally was allowed to begin with this first debate. Eight years ago we had already had nine [debates] by this time. I was very pleased with the first Democratic presidential debate and also how we did. Our goal in that debate was for people to tune in and come away saying to themselves, ‘I like that guy, I like what he had to say and I’d like to learn more about him.’ So, I saw that first presidential debate not as a closer but as the opener.

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You’re the youngest Democratic candidate running this time around. Assuming you don’t win this time, how likely are you to run in four or eight years?

I don’t know, man. I don’t think about that.

I intend to win this time. I believe I’m going to win this time and the history of both Iowa and New Hampshire’s election process tells me that whoever is peaking in October is not the candidate that is peaking in January and February. [O’Malley has the support of 1 percent of likely Democratic voters according to a Dec. 9 state poll by UNH. Bernie Sanders has the support of 50 percent, while Hillary Clinton has 40 percent of the vote. A RealClear Politics poll average gives O’Malley 2 percent.]

What are the concerns that New Hampshire residents, in particular, are voicing to you when you visit the state?

The biggest overarching concern that I hear people express is the fear that their children won’t enjoy better lives than they’ve enjoyed.

In other words, the fear that we might be the last generation of Americans to give our children more opportunity rather than less. …

It’s fueled, I think, by a couple of realities.

[One is] the rapid change we’re seeing in the earth’s atmosphere and the environment and climate and sea levels. And it’s also being fueled by the fact that 70 percent of us for the first time since World War II are earning the same amount that we were 12 years ago.

People extrapolate out both of these things Do you have a song you listen to or a in their own imaginations and it makes them mantra you tell yourself to get in the zone very, very concerned about the country and before a major speech or debate? the sort of planet that they’re leaving to their Yea, lately, I’ve been listening to the Dropkids and their grandkids. kick Murphys, “[I’m] Shipping up to Boston.” … That’s become our kind of get-in-the-zone, Do you have a plan to address climate walk-on music. — Ryan Lessard change?

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I do. In fact, I’m the only candidate in either

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I’ve heard you talk a lot about national service.

Why is that important to you?

I believe that the future of our country is going to be found in the hearts of our young people, and I believe that there is a tremendous desire, especially among Americans under 30, for connection and for work that is worth doing and for the sort of service in life that actually makes us stronger as a people. So, that’s why I think that the time has come and the time is now for making universal national service an option for every kid in America. You can almost see it in the millions of kids we turn away, young Americans who actually want to give back to their country, who want to help. Whether it’s health or education or healing this planet of ours. I think we need to tap into that, because we’re going through a very rough period in our nation’s history of polarization and division and fear and anger. Fear and anger have never built a great country, so we need to speak over the horizon and we need to tap into the energy that is coming from our young people. If you ever have any doubt about where our nation’s headed, just talk to our young people, they’ll tell you. And that tells me that we’re heading to a better place, but we have to tap into it if we’re going to advance its coming.

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Who they are: Founded in 2007 during the last open presidential election, the national group has about 1,600 members in New Hampshire across hundreds of locations. It sets up a presence in New Hampshire during presidential elections and has been in the state for the last three.

ServiceNation has been in the Granite State during this election season since summer of 2015. Though they usually have a state director leading volunteers, this year they are entirely volunteer led.

What they want: To ultimately establish a full year of national service available to young people from all walks of life, to provide them with invaluable experience and skills while resourcing areas of need and sending response teams to natural disasters.

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VIPs: Executive Director Zach Maurin, Managing Director Amy Baker and Director of Grassroots Movement Building Erin Finucane. There’s been support expressed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former N.H. Sen. Judd Gregg and current Senators Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen. Retired Maj. Gen. Kenneth Clark of the N.H. Air National Guard is also a supporter.

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Campaign impact: According to Executive Director Zach Maurin, the issue of expanding national service is not just about helping young people succeed, it’s about uniting the nation’s diverse groups.

“We’re seeing in the news, probably on a daily basis, how division across race or ethnicity or socioeconomic class or political affiliation are creating a lot of divisions that are really sort of depressing and dangerous in some cases for our community and our country,” Maurin said.

He said instituting a year of national service for all is a “transformative” idea that has the power to bring people together in common cause for the country.

He says volunteers have been energized in bringing this issue up with presidential candidates.

“We want this to be something the candidates can’t get away from. So, we’ll go to every and all events that we can and do our best to get a question asked and it’s been… successful,” Maurin said.

And so far, Maurin says, it’s elicited responses from several candidates from both political parties.

“We’ve had great answers from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Chris Christie and John Kasich. And Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley have put out plans,” Maurin said. “Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie have discussed expanding it as a way… to defray the cost of higher education.”

He says the issue should be seen as a bipartisan one.

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Hampshire, which is in the Monadnock region. [I] lived there, went out of the state for Nonprofits play a a little while for college and some early career greater role in proexperiences but have been employed in the viding social services state since [about 1995]. ... New Hampshire in New Hampshire is a great place to work. A lot of our busicompared to other ness leaders and community leaders are very states like MassachuCourtesy photo. well-connected. You can really make things setts. Do you see that happen in New Hampshire. dynamic changing in the near future?

I think New Hampshire will continue to What’s something from your past that rely on its nonprofits to deliver vital servicshaped how you view the world today? es, and I think that is true across the country.

I grew up in a family business. My dad Nonprofits are a very interesting business owned a grocery store in Greenfield, and it model in that they are so vital to our commuhad been owned by my grandfather as well. nities and yet I think that we’re needing to The store was both part of our family — I evolve how we sustain the nonprofit organigrew up working in the store — and it was zation in today’s economy. ... I do think you’ll sort of a hub of the community. We got to continue to see evolution, you’ll continue to know a lot of people. People would come in see innovation and creativity by our nonprofand you’d have those sort of conversations it leaders in order to deliver their services, to about what’s going on in the community. continue to be impactful in their community, So, I think both the work ethic of being in a to collaborate, whether that’s with other nonfamily business as well as being part of that profits or with government. community were very formative in my life.

New Hampshire is often cited as the least When you encounter challenges, how do charitable state in the nation. Do you think that’s true, in your experience? you generally approach them?

I think that New Hampshire residents I think that with any challenge, I always try to stop and reflect on, what is the underlying are very generous, and I think those numcause of that challenge? Is it an opportunity bers can be distorted when you look across to grow and expand my thinking or develop- national figures because of the impact of ment? Is it a personal challenge or is it more religious giving, which is a lot higher in othof a difficulty to overcome? … I think that er parts of the country. So, whenever you many challenges are opportunities and things look at any statistic or number, you have to dig a little bit deeper into that. Also, I think that I like to kind of dig into and embrace. a lot of those statistics come from what peoWhat’s the advice you’d give young peo- ple actually declare … on their tax returns. ple at a high school on how to succeed in I think there’s a fair amount of giving that New Hampshire? happens in this state that may not get itemI think success is all about what you put into ized in that way. things. You get out what you put in, whether that’s a relationship, whether that’s an academGiven the rebounding economy, do you ic endeavor, whether that’s sports. No matter hope to find more resources for nonprofits what you do, it’s what you put into it that moving forward? creates your success. And taking that responIn terms of the economy rebounding, I sibility for being your own advocate for what think that some nonprofits are not seeing that as much as others. … There continues to be a Five favorites great need and demand for their services. …

I understand that some giving numbers have Favorite Book: All the Light We Cannot just recently been announced as going up in See by Anthony Doerr 2014, but again, I think we have to kind of dig Favorite Movie: The Blind Side down underneath that. I certainly hope that Favorite Musician: Billy Joel we will continue to inspire people to support Favorite Food: Homemade soup Favorite Thing about NH: The natural the things that are so important to our combeauty of the state munities. — Ryan Lessard

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In 2014, that would have bought 167 gallons of fuel oil. Today, it buys about 320 gallons. That’s because the price of fuel oil has dropped by about half over the past two years, to about $2.06 per gallon. The price of propane is also down. And thanks to the unusually warm December, about 1,000 fewer applications for fuel assistance were sent in compared to this time last year.

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Solar glare and distracted drivers were to blame for five separate crashes Monday morning on the Spaulding Turnpike in Newington, according to WMUR. The first crash involved five vehicles, the second three, and the third, fourth and fifth involved two each. Solar glare was also the likely cause of an accident Monday morning on I-93 South near Bow Junction, according to New Hampshire Department of Transportation tweets, and QOL heard there was another accident at the same time in the same place the week before.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: And when it’s not solar glare, it’s snow. Gotta love New England driving.

QOL score: 52 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 54 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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QOL Score: +1 Comment: This would be an important connection for the statewide Granite State Rail Trail initiative which, when finished, will travel from Salem to Lebanon.

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The Patriots begin Phase 2 of the quest to repeat as Super Bowl winners for the second time in the BradyBelichick era. While I was bullish on that happening as the season started, I now go into the playoffs with the lowest set of expectations since that era took hold. It’s not that I don’t think they can win, it’s just that are dealing with the worst issue they could have outside of not having a QB named Tom Brady.

It’s brought on by closing the season losing four of their last six amid a rash of injuries while coughing up home field advantage through the playoffs when they needed just one win in the final two weeks. But it’s more how they lost those games, amid as weak an offensive output as they’ve had since 2000, when they were especially inept converting on third down. And for those still complaining, that’s the reason Coach B gave the Jets the ball at the start of OT in Week 16. It was the right decision, but when was the last time he put his faith in the D over Brady and the O? I mentioned the injuries as one reason, but they’ve overcome them before. Like in 2004 when they lost both starting cornerbacks and still won the Super Bowl. When, on the way, they held Peyton Manning and the potent Colts offense to just three points in a 20-3 playoff win with Randall Gay and Earthwind (and fire) Moreland in the secondary mix with Asante Samuel after he was elevated from the slot guy roll. But now they’ve got problems in the worst place for this team to have, along the offensive line, and just got the toughest match-up they could have gotten in the Kansas City Chiefs.

But as we all know, they’ll need to be ready come Saturday night, so let’s look at the factors likely to determine the outcome in this one.

The Opponent: They are as red hot as the uniforms they wear after winning 11 straight

including rolling over hapless Houston 30-0 on Saturday. They have a rugged defense that is second in the NFL in sacks with 47, takeaways with 29, and preventing thirddown conversions 67 percent of the time.

And while quarterback Alex Smith doesn’t bring Joe Montana to mind, he doesn’t do a lot of turnovers and after Saturday he’s the first QB since Joe Cool to lead KC to a playoff win.

The Big Problem: Making Olivier Vernon look like Deacon Jones in the Miami loss showed how much in tatters the offensive line is in. With little time to find receivers and getting knocked around a lot, Brady is paying the price and dodged a major bullet getting “just” a sprained ankle after Ndamukong Suh landed on it. And now come the best defenses. They’ve fixed this problem on the fly before, when Brian Stork and Ryan Wendell came back from injuries to fix it in 2014. But that was September and this is January on a line missing three key guys from last year. In their place are backup practice squaders and rookies who have delivered at best uneven performances as Brady’s getting killed. That makes Sebastian Vollmer Sunday’s most important returnee because if instability on the line isn’t fixed they’ll be one and done.

Bad Karma: Hard to forget the last time these teams met. It was the Week 4 Monday Night beat-down at KC last year when the makeshift Patriots line was overwhelmed by KC’s front seven leading to mass panic gripping the hub. They admirably moved on to Cincy then, but now they’re back.

The Bright Side: First, the game’s in Foxboro, not hostile KC. Second, they get back Vollmer, Chandler Jones, Donta’ Hightower, Sebastian Vollmer, Devin McCourty and Julian Edelman, which is what I call major reinforcements. Plus Rob Ninkovich, Danny Amendola, Pat Chung, Gronk, Brady and others among the walking wounded had 13 days to recover from their various ailments. That’s an obvious plus, but

the x-factor is how cohesive so many guys coming back at once after missing significant time will be.

Turnovers: KC just got five in the win over Houston and was second best in the NFL at +29. And while they came against the overmatched Brian Hoyer and not a Brady-caliber QB, the Pats got none on the similarly struggling Ryan Tannehill in Week 17. And while the defensive personnel is probably the best it’s been since 2004, for whatever reason it hasn’t turned other teams over at nearly the rate other Patriots defenses have this decade. The bright side is it’s scored two TDs in the last three weeks, so maybe the tide is turning on that. It had better, because most playoff games turn on turnovers.

The Pass Rush Winner: Brady isn’t Brady if he doesn’t have time to throw. It’s not just sacks, it’s time to find his receivers, which as I stated above is my biggest concern about this game. Conversely, turnovers happen when QBs are forced to make quicker decisions than they like. Thus, the Patriots need a big game from Chandler Jones, Jamie Collins and the rest of the front seven to put the pressure on Smith.

The Offensive Approach: It’s January in New England and you need to run the ball some for two reasons. Winning the physical battle up front is the best way to keep drives moving as it leads to converting third and short into first down. Second, running the ball is the best way to protect fourth-quarter leads because it keeps the clock running — both of which which bring us back to the offensive line.

As I said, it’s not that I don’t think they can win, it’s that I don’t have that sense of confidence they will I usually do. But the Vegas wise guys apparently do have it, as they have the Pats a five-point favorite.

And since they’re almost always right, that’s probably a good sign for Patriots Nation.

Enjoy.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

Central wheels Doc a win Win One for the Gipper Award: To the Central boys for rallying to beat Memorial 78-70 in Coach Doc Wheeler’s first game back on the sidelines after two heart-related health scares. The Green were led by Evan MacDonald with a game-high 26 points, 24 on eight bombs from international waters. Jaylen Leroy chipped in with 17 for Central while Jack Carrier and Brandon Scott had 22 and 18 respectively for the Crusaders.

Sports 101: Tom Coughlin just stepped down as coach of the New York football Giants as one of the 13 coaches who’ve won two or more Super Bowls. How many of the other 12 can you name?

Kevin Garnett–Russell Westbrook Award: To the Nashua South duo of DJ Frechette and Kevin Geano for torching Bedford by scoring 39 and 28 points in South’s 79-64 win over the Bulldogs.

Nick of Tyme Award: To Central’s MacDonald for burying a three with four seconds left to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the Green’s 54-52 win over Keene on Tuesday.

Out-of-Town Scores: It’s hard to believe the Keene State women’s basketball team

The Numbers

2 – number of goals and assists recorded each by Zach Pelletier and Brendan Johnson in leading the Memorial pucksters to a 6-3 win over Nashua South.

14 – game-high points scored by Bedford’s Ali Glennon when she and Candace Andrews combined for 27 in leading Saint Anselm to a 69-44 rout of Pace.

20 – game-high points from Jenna Chrabolowski

has only two New Hampshire residents on its team. But it does. However, the two, Hudson’s Sandi Purcell and Valerie Martin of Derry, are having a big impact as the Owls were off to a best-ever 11-0 start before suffering their first loss on Saturday to Southern Maine. Purcell’s 14.6 points a game is second high on the team, while the freshman Martin is averaging 8.7 points a game and shooting a whopping 56 percent from downtown.

Sports 101 Answer: Vince Lombardi, Don Shula, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, Tom Flores, Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, Joe Gibbs, George Seifert, Jimmy Johnson, Mike Shanahan and Bill Belichick are the other two-time (at least) winning Super Bowl coaches.

On This Date – Jan. 14: 1968 – Green Bay win its second straight Super Bowl with a 33-14 defeat over Oakland in Super Bowl II as Bart Starr is named MVP again.

1973 – The Dolphins complete their undefeated season by beating Washington 14-7 in Super Bowl 7. 1998 – Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge after chucking an obnoxious fan through a plate glass window.

in Central’s 60-43 win over Memorial on Friday when Hannah Gardner chipped in with 14 and Amanda Gaudreault added 13 more, which reversed the order from the Green’s 55-33 win over Keene when Gaudreault had the game-high 20 and Chrabolowski was second-highest with 10 more.

21 – shots turned back by Greg Amato as the Merrimack defense pitched a 2-0 shutout at Goffstown in NHI-

AA hockey action when the Tomahawk goals came from Jeff Gerhard.

25 & 11 – points and rebounds for Brandon Scott in leading Memorial to a 87-76 win over Alvirne.

43 – combined points from the West trio of Emily Keefe (15), Taylor Ricard (14) and Mikayla Kaul (14) to lead the Blue Knights to a 54-42 win over Goffstown where Molly McQueeney had a game-high 11 for G-Town.

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Sports Glossary

Kevin Durant-Russell Westbrook Award: Newly rechristened, formerly named for the ’60s L.A. Lakers’ 1-2 scoring punch of Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, award given in honor of a basketball team 1-2 punch that crushes others with its joint unstoppable scoring prowess.

Jerry West: Averaged 30 points per game four times in a 14-year NBA career, which included winning one title while playing on L.A.’s all-time best 33-straight-game-winning-streak team and a logo to designed look like him. He also won five titles as Lakers GM in the ’80s and is the personnel “consultant” who help put the Golden State Warriors together.

Elgin Baylor: The NBA’s original high flyer who averaged over 30 a game three times, with a high of 38 in 1961-62, and once scored a then record 61 points in a playoff game vs. Russell and the Celtics machine.

Deacon Jones: Rampaging Hall of Famer who put the fearsome in the late 1960s famed L.A. Rams “Fearsome Foursome” defensive line. The favorite move of the greatest pass rusher of his time (maybe ever) was the then legal slap to the head off his opposite number. It was actually more like a full sledgehammer punch to the head.

Not what you’d expect from a guy taken in the 14th round of the 1961 draft. Since sack stats weren’t kept then, we don’t know how many he actually had, but he’s got the ultimate sack stat since he first coined the phrase for throwing QBs for a loss as a “sack.”

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Even winter-haters can find fun in the snow

hour sessions for $20.

• McIntyre Ski Area (50 Chalet Court, Manchester, mcintyreskiarea.com/mountain/ tubing) Thrill Hill has eight tubing lanes to choose from. Two-hour sessions costs $19.

By Allie Ginwala

aginwala@hippopress.com

Sure, the winter weather may bring constantly cold fingers and the ever-present chance of difficult driving, but it also offers new ways to have fun outdoors. Whether you’re feeling artsy or active, here are a handful of ways to get into the snow this season — figuratively or literally.

FEELING SOCIAL? Try a bonfire with friends

FEELING ACTIVE?

If you’re not into skiing or snowboarding...

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Eastern Mountain Sports offers a winter hiking series (see emsoutdoors.com/hikingsnowshoeing) that explores local trails and helps people hike safely in the snow. Guides will help you suit up with the right gear (snowshoes or microspikes, depending on the weather) and lead you over the river and up the mountain. This winter, EMS will lead two winter treks at Mt. Monadnock on Tuesday, Feb. 23, and Wednesday, March 2, for $75 per person each time. EMS will provide the snowshoes or microspikes and hiking poles, but check out the website for the full necessary gear list. If you’re looking for more HIPPO | JANUARY 14 - 20, 2016 | PAGE 12

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About 100 communities in the state give residents the option to purchase a fire permit for $3 online, according to Forest Ranger Captain Bryan Nowell. Keep in mind that large fires (4 feet in diameter) must be 50 feet away from any structure and can only be burned after 5 p.m. while small fires (2 feet in diameter) need to be 25 feet away from any structure and can burn any time of day.

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Once you’ve built a proper and permitted bonfire, turn your attention to the snacks.

Baker, chef and culinary instructor Bonne Cavanagh said in an email that while you can’t go wrong with the classic s’mores, it can be fun to mix up the flavors with coconut or chocolate marshmallows and chocolate or salted caramel graham crackers.

“A big trend right now is filling sugar cones with mini marshmallows, chocolate chips and s’more type items, wrapping in foil and using an indirect heating method,” she said. (Find an easy recipe for campfire cones at centercutcook.com/campfire-cones).

For savory items, Cavanagh recommends cheese and crackers or marinated artichokes, peppers and sausage pieces to skewer over the fire.

“A huge hit with us are walking tacos,” she said, noting that they’re easy to do fireside.

Make crockpot taco meat or chili and assemble a lineup of shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole and beans. Toss your ingredients into a snack-size package of Doritos and eat it right out of the bag.

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Enjoy the cold air and snowy trees at a leisurely pace Stephen Priest, blogger at outdooradventurers.blogspot.com and author most recently of Outdoor Play: Fun 4 4 Seasons Volume II, said that there are plenty of ways to get the benefits of being outside in the winter without exerting lots of energy.

“There’s a lot you can do without being too athletic, not to participate but to watch,” he said in a phone interview.

For example, Pulpit Rock in Bedford has a canyon at the end of the trail where ice climbers like to practice.

“I’ve gone in there on snowshoes simply to watch people climbing the ice,” he said.

“That’s a neat thing you don’t see very often.”

Other spots for scenic views and outdoor walks he recommends are Horse Hill Nature Preserve in Merrimack, Peabody Mill Environmental Center in Amherst, Earl Legacy Park in Bedford and Benedictine Preserve in Bedford.

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When it comes to upping your snow-building game, The Myth Makers duo Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein (who compete in professional snow-carving competitions) said in an email that snow sculpture is really no different than building a snowman.

“In a competitive setting they preload the snow into forms and let it settle overnight,” they wrote in the email. “An ambitious home carver could pile snow the night before.”

Whether or not you preload the snow, Dodson and Moerlein said that the steps for making a snow sculpture are straightforward — rough out the form with a garden shovel, saw or ax, then refine the details with home tools like spatulas, spoons, wooden chisels and knives.

“Be creative,” the Myth Makers suggest.

“All implements respond according to the snow type. Harder snow holds better detail, softer snow packs and holds, but is less carvable.”

If you’re looking for a figure to take on as a first-time snow sculptor, think of something in a basic snowman shape: large at the bottom and getting smaller toward the top.

One final tip: “Plan for disasters. We do this work as The Myth Makers in professional competitions and the variability of the snow is a given. Pieces fall off [and] that makes for fast decisions.”

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While most of the deals are in Florida, Mexico or the Caribbean, there is an option over on the west coast folks may not have considered.

“What people might not think about right now is San Diego. In January, there are flights from $272 round trip from Manchester to San Diego, which, for a coast-to-coast flight, that’s pretty good,” Bason said. “San Diego is a great place that many people don’t think of in the winter. It’s gonna be 60, 65 degrees or warmer every day, you usually have sunshine and what I love about San Diego is there’s a ton of stuff to do.”

Plus, Bason said, it’s the “dead season” for hotels over there, so the rates will be cheap.

If you want a deal on flights, hotels and rental cars, Bason says bundles are the way to go.

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Bason says families can get discounts for avoiding major hotel chains and patronizing an independently owned hotel by getting a coupon code for 15 percent off from Orbitz.

Another option is avoiding hotels altogether.

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A buddy can be instrumental in making workouts more fun, particularly if you enjoy spending time with that person.

“Finding other people you enjoy being around that you can exercise with, that’s going to make it more entertaining,” Eric Marsh, Fun Intelligent Training owner, said via phone. “And it can add more accountability. If somebody expects you to be there at a certain time, you’re going to do it. … A small percentage of the population is self-motivated … so finding little tricks, ways to hold yourself accountable is really super important.”

It also gives you someone to share your accomplishments with.

“If you meet a goal, they’re cheering you on for it. You have a witness here,” Marsh said.

Sarah Nadeau, health educator and fitness trainer at Derry Medical Center, agrees.

“Knowing you’re not doing it alone, that somebody else is doing it with you, that’s really important,” Nadeau said.

Find someone with a similar fitness level and you may also find this person helps foster friendly competition — but keep the emphasis on the friendly.

“Within reason, competitiveness can be awesome. It gets people really fired up,” Marsh said.

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Or join a sports team, or a workout group or a running club. In Nadeau’s experience, people have the most success when they find a program that meets their fitness abilities and enjoyment. It takes away the monotony of your standby workouts.

“Find ways to get out there and be active, but do something you enjoy doing — going out birding, or taking your dog out for a walk, or going out with a group of people and going kayaking,” Nadeau said.

You may even find this produces better results.

“I’m a creature of habit, but I find I get the best results if I choose several different things to do,” said Marsh, whose current favorite workouts revolve around basketball, kettlebell weight exercises and jujitsu.

“And it becomes something to look forward to.”

Sometimes doing this means trying something you’ve never done before. From many clients, Nadeau had heard many times, “I hate doing winter things,” until she introduced them to snowshoeing.

Of course, there’s also the concept that, if you’re paying to be part of something like a sports team or swim class, you’re more likely to go to not waste your money.

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Whether you’re the host or the attendee, check out these tips to help you navigate any party this year with confidence and poise.

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Being a good host starts long before the guests are at your door; the invita18 more attainable,” Marsh said.

It’s OK to have a dream goal. But you need to break it down into steps. Don’t think you’ll be able to run a marathon anytime soon if you can’t complete a 5K. It can be as simple as going 10,000 steps today, 10,500 tomorrow. Or maybe it could be something like completing a road race (ideally with a group, so it’s more fun and you can’t back out).

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tion sets the tone of the party and lets your guests know what to expect. In addition to the basic info, state if your party is “open house,” meaning it’s a casual atmosphere where guests can arrive and leave at any point and, unless otherwise noted, bring a plus one. If it’s not open house, specify your expectations. You should send invitations at least three weeks in advance, and while mail is the preferred method, electronic invites aren’t off limits.

“If you don’t want to mail them, you can substitute a paper invitation with an e-vite,” Geiger said. “E-vites are a very commonplace and accepted form now.”

On party day, make sure your house is prepared to accommodate guests. 22 class, group or sporting event, it’s harder to keep going, but it’s possible.

Nadeau suggests you surround yourself with your favorite music. Take a walk or jog while listening to an audiobook or podcast on your phone, or squeeze in the exercises while you’re not exercising.

“When I’m vacuuming around the house, I’m doing lunges. When I’ve got the music on, I’m dancing to it,” Nadeau said.

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“I’ll grab a kettlebell and bang out 50 to 100 swings, which takes about 1 to 2 minutes, then go back to the task at hand,” Marsh said. “If you do 10 reps of something 10 times a day, you just did 100. If you do that five times a week, that’s 500 over the course of the week. And that’s a lot,” Marsh said.

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“Having everything completed is the most important thing,” she said. “If your guests see you’re still putting out the ice bucket or the napkins, they’ll feel like they didn’t come at the right time.”

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Look closely at the invitation to determine the style of the party. If it’s addressed solely to you and doesn’t mention anything about bringing a plus one, you should attend alone, even if you have a spouse or significant other. The invite will usually give an indication of what to wear. Typically, attire for outdoor or afternoon parties

is casual, while evening parties are dressier. When in doubt, it’s better to overdress than underdress.

“You can always take off your suit jacket or pearl necklace when you get there if it’s not as fancy as you thought,” Geiger said.

Regardless of how formal the party is, you should never show up empty-handed. Bring a host gift like gourmet cookies or candy, wine, a box of notecards, a nice napkin set or a jar of quality jam. Don’t forget to attach a small “thank you” card so the host knows it’s intended as a host gift.

When you enter the general party space, socialize a bit before having any food or drink. Start with either one person standing alone or a group of three or more.

“A larger group may seem intimidating, but their conversation is usually more casual, so it’s easier to break into,” Geiger said. “Don’t go up to two people because they could be having a more private conversation.”

If you’re approaching people you don’t know, introduce yourself (and your date, if you have one) and ask how they know the host.

“That’s always a great question to ask,” Geiger said, “because the host is what brought everyone together. [Knowing] the host is something everyone has in common.”

Small talk should consist primarily of inquiries about the other person, not facts about yourself. You can artfully conclude a conversation by asking if they have tried the refreshments yet or, if they are already holding a snack or drink, where the refreshments are located. Then, make your exit with something like, “Well, it was very nice meeting you. I think I’m going to get a drink. Can I get you anything?”

Finally, be sure your phone ringer is off, and never take out your phone during a conversation.

If you aren’t sure how to act in a certain social situation, just remember the Golden Rule.

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From five wine personalities at the first Winter Wine Spectacular to more than 60 attending this year, New Hampshire Wine Week has become one of the state’s — and the region’s — premier wine events.

The 11th annual New Hampshire Wine Week will be held from Monday, Jan. 25, to Sunday, Jan. 31. Here’s a rundown of what you can expect from the week’s bottle signings, tastings, wine dinners and Winter Wine Spectacular, plus Cellar Notes, which highlights this year’s theme: Old World wine vs.

New World wine.

Nicole Brassard Jordan, director of marketing, merchandising and warehousing for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, keeps an eye on what varietals are trending with consumers at tastings throughout the year to see what they’d like to know more about. From that, she was inspired to develop this year’s theme.

“Consumers maybe not understanding the difference between Old World and New World and what kind of palate they have is something I wanted to bring to light,” she said.

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ter on Wednesday, Jan. 27, the night before the Winter Wine Spectacular. The seminarstyle discussion and tasting is limited to 75 guests who will hear from five wine experts who represent both the New World and Old World of wine.

“It’s very intimate in terms of the interaction with the winemakers,” Christine Pederson, director of events and corporate relations for Easter Seals, said in a phone interview. “When we get into the panel discussion all five personalities are on stage with a microphone and guests get to ask questions.

They're sharing their passion with the guests.”

Serge Dore, owner of Serge Dore Selections, and Antonio Zaccheo Jr., owner and winemaker for Carpineto Grandi Vini di Toscana, represent the Old World, while Maria Helm Sinskey, co-owner and culinary director of Robert Sinskey Winery, Laura Sorge, winemaker of Columbia Crest, and Joseph Spellman, master sommelier of Justin Vineyard and Winery, will represent the New World.

“I think it’s an enlightening experience for consumers to hear from five really great professionals … as to, ‘Wow, there really is something to New World versus Old World and here’s the difference and here’s what I prefer,’” Jordan said.

“What's great about this is there's a cocktail hour where people are rubbing elbows with these wine [personalities],” Pederson added.

Predating New Hampshire Wine Week as a whole, the Winter Wine Spectacular returns to the Radisson Hotel in Manchester on Thursday, Jan. 28, for its 13th year, featuring over 1,500 wines to sample, plus hors d’oeuvres and appetizers from 25 local restaurants.

The grand tasting, held in the ballroom and armory of the Radisson, gives access to 170 wine and food tables, “great for people who want to explore all different wines,” Pederson said. “We have sommeliers, mead makers, owners of the vineyards, it’s just wonderful to see that we have all of these people in the industry come to New Hampshire.”

Lamberto Frescobaldi, vice president of Marchesi de' Frescobaldi in Tuscany, Italy, is one of the notable returnees this year. He particularly appreciates the atmosphere of the Winter Wine Spectacular and that those who attend are genuinely interested in the stories behind the bottles.

“You [can talk] about where the wine was made and where you come from,” he said in

a phone interview. “I have to say that people really care about you and want to know more about you as a person, and that is a good feeling.”

While many professionals from across the country and beyond make their way to New Hampshire, others represent local wineries, like Lewis Eaton, owner and winemaker at Sweet Baby Vineyard in Hampstead.

“One of the big reasons we do it is to reach out to the New Hampshire people,” Eaton said in a phone interview. “I will be pouring and talking the whole time, and that’s what I like doing. I get to interact with everybody.”

The Winter Wine Spectacular provides exposure to an array of wines that vary in price from $10 to high-end bottles, though most will be in the $30 to $40 range.

Eaton recalls the first time Sweet Baby Vineyard participated in the Winter Wine Spectacular three years ago and how surprised he was by the scale of the event.

“I was blown away by the attendance,” he said. “It is huge; there are hundreds of tables.”

Pederson said many first-timers are as surprised as Eaton was.

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UNCORKED Two featured wine personalities from this the tradition and apply the science or technolyear’s Cellar Notes discuss their backgrounds, ogy that goes with. You need all of it. To make experiences with Wine Week and how Old wines today, you need all of it anyway.

World tradition and New World innovation converge to create today’s world of wine.

What is your favorite varietal and why?

It depends on the moment where you are, Serge Dore, owner of the occasion. Have you ever been to Europe?

Serge Dore Selections in If you come back over here and try to find the Chappaqua, N.Y. same wine, you buy and open the bottle and 99 percent chance it’s not the same. Why? You’re How were you first intro- not on vacation anymore. duced to the wine industry?

Growing up, my mother Are there certain processes or techniques was a chef and used to own in terms of winemaking you see as essential a small inn in Quebec. I was waiting tables to produce the best quality? when I was 7 years old.

Age of the vine is the most important.

And of course ... the soil they are in makes a What about the wine industry appealed to difference. you?

We should sit down and talk about this over How about a recent innovation that has lunch, because that is a long and beautiful story. impressed or surprised you?

Food and wine is the only way you get peoIt’s biodynamics … that is the balance of the ple all together. When you sit down, it’s family, planet and people are working with it. Soil that it’s friends, it’s people around the table and to has been polluted by chemicals … some peocheers all of that, you use wine. And wine is all ple are trying to revive those soils. You have around you … because it is the only living prod- some people that believe in it and some peouct that you can put your hands on. It changes. ple that don’t. You suffer a little bit [at first] but The wine is not the same in the bottle after time. after that it’s like, whoa.

When you talk about a cellar...why do you cellar the wine? It’s like having a child. It grows up.

What has your experience been participatIt’s something to get passion about. It changes ing in New Hampshire Wine Week? every day. Every bottle you open is different.

I see how the consumer changed. One way to gauge that [is] ... I see a lot of people comYou’re one of the featured guests for this ing back and the way they talk about the wine year’s Cellar Notes 2016: Old World vs. New is different. I see in the restaurants that ...

World Cabernet & Merlot. What do you see wine lists have changed a lot. So all the piecas your role or place in the worlds of wine? es [come] together. I have friends from New I’m trying to use the experience that I have York that go and vacation every summer to to find the best product I have to deliver to the New Hampshire and this year they sent me a consumer. I try to bring wine that has authen- text telling me the choice of wine they had in ticity and character. The wine is as good as the New Hampshire was incredible. land it comes from. If you don’t have good land you’ll never be able to produce a good wine. Wine is very basic; it’s one of the oldest Maria Helm Sinskey, products you have on the planet. We make it co-owner and culinary sometimes very complicated. director at Robert Sinskey Vineyards in Napa, Calif.

What defines or separates the Old World wine from New World wine?

How were you first introOld World wine … [it] means using tradition duced to the wine industry? and terroir. The New World wine is science or Through marriage, technology and the winemaker, if you’re look- actually. I got into the wine industry when I ing to define both of them. Tradition is the way married my husband. of making wine. … Use what you have from

What about the wine industry appealed to you?

First of all, you can never stop learning. ...

You’re continually changing, you’re working with nature. ... You can only make wine once a year so it’s finite and determined by what you grow and that I find very intoxicating, that you’re taking what nature gives you once a year and making it into something. It is high stakes.

If you use science and keep the cellar clean, test your wine for bacterial contamination. … You need to have science in winemaking but don’t have to use science to make wine.

It shouldn’t be the end all, and so when people talk about ‘I like European wine because they’re slightly funky or not perfect,’ our New World wines are defined usually by their cleanliness. They’re just very clean, and that’s a sweeping generalization. They don’t have some of the characteristics from some of the You’re one of the featured guests for this small producers from the Old World. year’s Cellar Notes 2016: Old World vs. New What aspect of old wine tradition do you World Cabernet & Merlot. What do you see see as most essential or most appealing to as your role or place in the worlds of wine?

This is going to be such a meaty panel dis- you?

When I say Old World palate, it’s really about cussion for me because I have an Old World palate. My husband has an Old World palate. what goes with food. When I say Old World, I So when people look at Napa wines they’re think of wines that are higher acid, lower alcolooking for big blockbuster cabs and merlots hol, and these are the wines that appeal to me … [and] we are the exact opposite of it. … mostly because they are food friendly.

We farm biodynamic and organic because we Do you have specific topics or anecdotes wanted to make the wine in the vineyard. …

We really wanted to let the land speak versus you plan to share during the Cellar Notes the winemaker’s hand. The philosophy is grow discussion?

I really hope we can dispel some of the it well and don’t mess it up in the cellar. So it’s myths between the Old World and New World. all about being hands off. ... Some people think New World are better What defines or separates the Old World than Old World [or vice versa] … but you can find terrible on both sides. So, there is a lot of wine from New World wine?

In Europe you’re not allowed to add acid misinformation about wines and maybe we to wine unless you have a special pardon … can clear some of this up. but you can add sugar. So they’re very much What is your favorite varietal of wine and governed by rules in Europe. In the U.S. you can add acid, but you can’t add sugar. You can why?

Pinot noir, because pinot noir is hard to grow, add, blend, add rectified grape must [thick syrup]. ... We can definitely manipulate and have hard to make. If you mistreat it it will kick you. the desire more again because of the science in It’s thin skinned and prone to mold and mildew, the U.S. We’re more freethinking in that way, but if you let it be and let it speak it can be the whereas in the Old World they will manip- most beautiful and elegant wine in the world. ulate to the extent they can, but many times What has your experience been participattheir hands are tied by regulations. And we’re not rooted in history. We’re not rooted in the ing in New Hampshire Wine Week?

It’s been really fun. ... I feel like the state of agrarian culture of the Old World where grapes were grown where they can grow. In the Old New Hampshire really wants to please the peoWorld it was more learned from the father and ple so they have such a huge variety of wine. not science, so there was a history of doing it It’s so funny because my family lives in New the way your father did and that works only for Hampshire, my parents and two of my brothers, so long and now they’re getting more into the they relocated there, and I get to see them. But science of winemaking, which has advanced I’m like, why am I going to New Hampshire in the dead of winter? It’s smart because no one is so quickly in the Old World. doing a wine festival then. It’s the perfect time What technology or innovation do you think to capture winemakers and vintners because has improved or built upon old wine tradition? we’re kind of just waiting for bottling.

MORE WINE ON THE COAST Can’t get enough wine? The 12th annual Winter Wine Festival hosted by Wentworth by the Sea (588 Wentworth Road, New Castle) takes place this year from Friday, Jan. 22, to Sunday, Feb. 21, featuring special dinners, tastings, wine luminaries and more. The festival is priced per event, so visit winterwinefestival.com for full details.

• Big Tastings Friday, Jan. 22, and Friday, Feb. 12, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Enjoy an array of wine stations, passed hors d’oeuvres and live entertainment. SALT Kitchen & Bar staff will prepare MediterraHIPPO | JANUARY 14 - 20, 2016 | PAGE 26

nean-influenced cuisine. Tickets cost $49.95 per person.

• Grand Vintner’s Dinners from 6 to 10 p.m. The event begins with a meet and greet wine reception and passed hors d’oeuvres followed by a four-course dinner at 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $104.95 per person. Saturday, Jan. 23, featuring Ferrari Carano Winery ambassador Cathy Harrison. Saturday, Jan. 30, featuring John Anthony Family of Wines with winemaker Geoff Whitman. Saturday, Feb. 6, featuring Kendall-Jackson Family Wines with winemaker Randy Ullom. Sat-

urday, Feb. 13, featuring Domaine Chandon and Newton Vineyard with winery ambassador Megan Libby. Saturday, Feb. 20, featuring Esporão with winery ambassador Pedro Viero.

• Bubbles & Jazz Brunches Hosted in the Grand Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with ice sculptures, raw bars, chef stations, pastries, music and more. Tickets cost $49.95 each. Sunday, Jan. 24, featured wine is Poema Cava. Sunday, Jan. 31, featured wine is Maschio Prosecco. Sunday, Feb. 7, featured wine is Sophia Sparkling. Sunday, Feb. 14, and

Feb. 21, featured wine is Domaine Chandon.

• Flight Nights Every Monday through Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. in SALT Lounge.

Each evening’s featured flight will range in price from $10 to $16. Ask any questions to the winery representative on hand. No tickets required; drop-ins welcome.

• Shell Shocked: An Oyster and Wine Celebration Fridays, Jan. 29 and Feb. 19, from 5 to 10 p.m. Spend the evening indulging oysters served raw on the half shell, grilled, roasted and more, paired with wines. No tickets required; drop-ins welcome.

24 many wine and food tables there are.”

Jordan also enjoys chatting with the guests and taking stock of the crowd.

“It’s really old and new,” she said. “You have a lot of people that have been multiple years, but you have a lot of people that are newbies that come out just to check it out because word of mouth has gotten out.”

For those interested in a more private and high-end tasting experience, the Bellman's Cellar Select gives 200 guests access to wines that range from $30 up to $400 a bottle.

“It really caters to both those who tend to purchase or those who really want to try wines that are that expensive,” Pederson said. “And the goal as a whole is to help people explore and immerse themselves in the craft of winemaking.”

Those with tickets to the Bellman’s Cellar Select have full access for the evening, so they can go between the very active grand tasting room and the Cellar Select with highend wines to sample, along with food from six local restaurants.

With all of the wines ready to sample at the Winter Wine Spectacular, it's easy to get overwhelmed. But the beauty of a wine tasting, Pederson said, is you’re not in a store committing to an entire bottle without knowing how it tastes.

Instead of going in determined to sip only from your favorite vineyards, try one you’ve never experienced before.

“I always encourage people to taste outside their comfort zone, because [otherwise] you’re never going to expand your palate and understand the world of wine and what it has to offer,” Jordan said. “And the world of wine has a lot to offer.”

Jordan recommends walking into the grand tasting with a plan in mind.

“When you’re talking about hundreds of wines … you do get palate fatigue,” Jordan said. “ And for those who aren’t professionals, constantly changing varietals can be difficult.”

You could set a goal of trying different varietals from one county, or map out options

Frescobaldi called himself a “little bit of a strange animal” given his background in northern California and with Mondavi Winery leaning toward a New World approach while he has respect for Old World tradition.

“I think that now I am somewhat in between,” he said. “I think there is no tradition without innovation, because if you are not innovative with tradition ... one day ... you’re going to be writing a book or going to Rhode Island and see the lovely Great Gatsby homes and look at them like museums.”

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from whites into reds.

“Or you pick varietals like the Old World versus New World and you say, ‘Well I’m going to try cabernet tonight, that’s all I’m going to taste,’” she said. “And say, ‘Let’s just see what we figure out,’ because there is going to be a huge difference between where you’re tasting it from.”

While it doesn’t have a direct presence in the grand tasting, the Old World wine and New World wine theme could be used to guide tastings throughout the Winter Wine Spectacular or even the entire week.

“I think a lot of consumers will say, OK,what does this mean? What does this mean for me and how should I determine what I’m going to be tasting at the Winter Wine Spectacular to experience both and understand the difference?’” Jordan said.

Seek out wines that suit your palate by chatting with the winemakers, owners and representatives to learn where they are on the scale of Old World to New World.

Eaton, for example, said Sweet Baby Vineyard follows an Old World tradition but incorporates some New World style too.

“I think we're Old World style where we don’t manipulate the grape or fruit too much; we’re pretty much an all natural process,” he said. “We do [use] a bit of a scientific approach ... because we definitely want to create consistency as well.”

Has Wine Week impacted the wine culture for consumers in the state? More than they may realize, Jordan suspects.

“When you get access to people that are in the field and you learn from them directly every year … our consumers have that front line experience with these people,” she said. “And it’s not only the visits during Wine Week — they come throughout the year.

People have expanded their knowledge and it just keeps growing and growing from there.”

Another mark of New Hampshire’s progress as a destination for both wine professionals and consumers is the wine personalities that make the trek to the Granite State each January. Frescobaldi came to Wine Week for the first time several years ago during a snowstorm in which he had to rent a car and drive from New York instead of flying.

“And to be honest, I had no idea what it was,” he said. “I was very much interested in seeing this, for me, new market.”

After barely making it in time for the night’s wine dinner, Frescobaldi said, he was happy to see the energy and interest in wine from those who attend the week’s events.

“When I got there it really made me feel good about all the driving I did,” he said.

In the years since, he has noticed an increase in local consumers’ wine experiences.

“People are interested in getting to know more, new stories and different stories and differences,” he said. “People are becoming much more knowledgeable and sophisticated, but sophisticated in the terms of … getting to know more about the wine itself.”

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Executive Chef Peter Agostinelli’s insight and inspiration for pairing food with wine Once again the Bedford Village Inn will be hosting events during New Hampshire Wine Week. In addition to a traditional wine dinner with Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines in Chianti, Italy, BVI Executive Chef Peter Agostinelli will mix it up with a meet and greet and wine flight pairing with Wendy Lange of Lange Estate Winery and Vineyard in Dundee, Oregon.

“What we want to do is try something a little different,” Agostinelli said.

The Lange wines will be paired with either small plates or composed dishes, served in a more social and casual setting.

“During Wine Week … if you’re going to plan on two to three dinners doing the same thing, you want to do something different,” he said. “I love wine, but the last thing I would want to do is three wine dinners in one week.”

When it comes to pairing a specific selection of wine with a dinner, Agostinelli said his planning process always starts with researching flavor profiles.

“Then you kind of figure out what order you’re going to pair the wines with,” he said. “Once you have that determined ...

I have notes written down, and then we’ll start tasting them. [I] pick out one or two core flavors and design a dish around that.”

Wine Week dinners are particularly challenging to pair for, given the lack of readily available local products.

“No one wants to eat a big heirloom tomato salad this time of year, even if it goes well with a pinot noir,” he said, so instead he’ll utilize the flavors, but in a different format.

His biggest piece of advice for those dipping their toes into food and wine pairings is not to get hung up on the traditional guidelines, like no red wine with fish.

“I kind of threw that all out the window a long time ago,” he said.

Not a big white wine drinker but a big fish eater, Agostinelli learned to pair lighter reds and pinot noir with salmon or tuna.

“It’s what you like,” he said. “If you taste it and the food and the wine taste good … who’s anyone to tell you it’s not right?”

WINE EVENTS Visit nhwineweek.com to learn more about New Hampshire Wine Week programming and events.

Tuesday, Jan. 26

NH Liquor and Wine Outlet events Bottle signings and tastings

• Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 2 to 3 p.m. (I-93 North, Hooksett) • Matias Garces of Amaya Wines 3 to 5 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem)

• Julio Bouchon Jr. of J. Bouchon Vineyards 3 to 5 p.m.

(10 Benning Drive, Lebanon) • Joe Spellman of Justin Vineyards 3 to 5 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 3:15 to 4 p.m. (25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Peter Merriam of Merriam Vineyards 4 to 5:30 p.m. (19 Wilton Road, Peterborough) • Maria Helm Sinskey of Robert Sinskey Wines 4:30 to 5:45 p.m.

(Portsmouth Traffic Circle) • Steve & Lori Felten of Klinker Brick 5 to 7 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua)

Tastings

• Carolina Rivera of Mayu Winery 1 to 3 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Carolina Rivera of Mayu Winery 4 to 6 p.m. (269 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua) • Mandie Silver of Firesteed 4 to 6 p.m. (Portsmouth Traffic Circle)

Wine dinners

• With Peter Merriam at Waterhouse Bistro (18 Depot St., Peterborough, waterhousenh.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Merriam Vineyards wines. Tickets cost $55.

• With Lisa Evich at Common Man Windham (88 Range Road,

Windham, thecman.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Simi wines. Tickets cost $65.

• With Cara Morrison at 401 Tavern (401 Lafayette Road, Hampton, the401tavern.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Sonoma-Cutrer wines. Tickets cost $85.

• With Geoff Whitman at Demeters Steakhouse (3612 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, demeterssteakhouse.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring John Anthony Family wines. Ticket price to be determined.

• With Julio Bouchon & Felipe Varela at the Hanover Inn (2 East Wheelock St., Hanover, hanoverinn.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring J.

Bouchon and Casa Silva wines.

Tickets cost $80.

• With Chris Benziger at Pig Tale (449 Amherst St., Nashua, pigtalepizza.com) 6 to 9 p.m., Benziger Family Wines. Tickets $85.

• With Alessandra Marino at Patty B’s (34 Dover Pt Road, Dover, pattybs.com) 6 to 9 p.m. featuring Cesari wines. Tickets cost $85.

• With Maria Helm Sinskey at Louie’s (86 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, louiesportsmouth.com) 6:30 to 8 p.m. featuring Robert Sinskey wines. Tickets cost $75.

Meet and greet

• With Wendy Lange at Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, bedfordvillageinn.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring a wine pairing with Lange Estate Winery.

Tickets cost $20.

Wednesday, Jan. 27

NH Liquor and Wine Outlet events

Bottle signings and tastings

• Alessandra Marino of Cesari 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford) • Matias Garces of Amaya Wines 2 to 4 p.m. (Portsmouth

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Traffic Circle) • Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem) • Antonio Zaccheo Jr. of Carpineto 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (I-93 North, Hooksett) • Diane & Victoria Wilson of Wilson Winery 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 11 a.m. to noon (137 Rockingham Road, Londonderry).

• Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (80 Storrs St., Concord) • Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 12:30 to 2 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 1 to 2:30 p.m.

(417 South Broadway, Salem) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 1 to 2 p.m. (80 Storrs St., Concord) • Felipe Varela of Casa Silva 2 to 4 p.m. (Southgate Mall, 269 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua) • Julio Bouchon Jr. from 2 to 4 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 2 to 3 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Diane & Victoria Wilson of Wilson Winery 2 to 3:30 p.m. (32 Plaistow Road, 2A, Plaistow) • Lamberto Frescobaldi of Frescobaldi Wines 2 to 3:30 p.m.

(25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua)

• Antonio Zaccheo Jr. of Carpineto 2:30 to 4 p.m. (1100 Bicentennial Drive, Manchester) • Julio Bouchon Jr. of Bouchon 3 to 5 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford) • David Stephen of DIVA Wines USA 3 to 4:30 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Cristina Mariani-May of Banfi Vintners from 3 to 4:30 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 3 to 4 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines 3:30 to 5 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford) • Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 3:30 to 5 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Chris Benziger of Benziger Wines 3:30 to 5 p.m. (269 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua) • Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

(32 Plaistow Road, 2A, Plaistow) • Giuseppe LoCascio of Winebow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

(Portsmouth Traffic Circle) • Peter Merriam of Merriam Vineyards 4 to 5:30 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Maria Helm Sinskey of Robert Sinskey Winery 4 to 5 p.m.

(9 Leavy Drive, Bedford) • Gianni Abate of Morgan Wines 4 to 5:30 p.m. (10 Benning Drive, Rt. 12A, West Lebanon) • Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 4

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to 5 p.m. (Portsmouth Plaza, 738 Islington St., Portsmouth) • Rob McDonald of Art+Farm Wines 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. (71 Rte 104, Meredith) • Deb Juergenson of Apothic Wines 5 to 7 p.m. (68 Elm St., Manchester) • Bill Bishop of Steele Wines 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (10 Benning Drive, West Lebanon) Tastings

• Mandie Silver of Firesteed 4 to 5:30 p.m. (Portsmouth Traffic Circle) Bottle signings

• Chris Benziger of Benziger Wines 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

(25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Cristina Mariani-May of Banfi Vintners 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

(25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Antonio Zaccheo Jr. of Carpineto 1 to 2 p.m. (25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Chris Benziger of Benziger Wines 1 to 2:30 p.m. (I-93 North, Hooksett) • Alessandra Marino of Cesari 2 to 3 p.m. (I-95 South, Hampton) • Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines 2 to 3 p.m. (25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Alessandra Marino of Cesari 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (I-95 North, Hampton)

Wine seminars

• Chris Benziger of Benziger Winery from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua). Organic & Biodynamic Wine Seminar costs $10.

• Cellar Notes 2016: Old World vs. New World Cabernet & Merlot from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Puritan Conference & Event Center (245 Hooksett Road, Manchester). Seminar-style event features interactive wine tasting with five wine experts. Reception features hors d’oeuvres and chance to mingle with experts.

Tickets cost $45.

Wine Dinners

• With Dennis Hill at Co-op Test Kitchen (12 Centerra Parkway, Lebanon, coopfoodstore.coop) 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. featuring Cannonball Wines. Tickets $20 for members, $40 for non-members.

• With Pablo Piccolo at Restaurant Tek-Nique (170 Rt. 101, Bedford, restaurantteknique.com) at 6 p.m. featuring Bodega Catena Zapata wines. Tickets cost $85.

• With Steve & Lori Felten at Granite Restaurant & Bar (96 Pleasant St., Concord, graniterestaurant.com) at 6 p.m. featuring Klinker Brick wines. Tickets cost $65.

• With Lisa Evich at Cafe Mediterraneo (119 Congress St., Portsmouth, cafe-mediterraneo.com) 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. featuring Simi

wines. Tickets cost $60.

• With Cristina Mariana-May at Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St., Salem, tuscanbrands.com) 6 to 8:30 p.m. featuring Castello Banfi wines. Tickets cost $125.

• With Mandie Silver at Black Trumpet (29 Ceres St., Portsmouth, blacktrumpetbistro.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Firesteed wines. Ticket cost TBD. • With Gianni Abate at Bistro Nouveau (6 Clubhouse Lane, Gratham, bistronouveau.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Morgan Winery wines. Tickets cost $65.

• With Elizabeth van der Deen at Three Tomatoes Wood Fired Trattoria (1 Court St., Lebanon, threetomatoestrattoria.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Corvo wines.

Tickets $60.

• With Anna Abbona at Sky Meadow Country Club (6 Mountain Laurels Dr., Nashua, skymeadow.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Marchesi di Barolo wines.

Tickets cost $85.

• With Guillaume Touton & Enrico Farello at The Foundry (50 Commercial St., Manchester, foundrynh.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Monsieur Touton Selections’ wines. Tickets cost $65.

• With Michael Honig at Mombo Restaurant (66 Marcy St., Portsmouth, momborestaurant.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Honig Family wines. Tickets cost $85.

• With Lamberto Frescobaldi

members-only dinner at Manchester Country Club (180 South River Road, Bedford, manchestercountryclub.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Frescobaldi wines.

Ticket price to be determined.

• With Steve Lohr at the Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, copperdoorrestaurant.com) from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring J. Lohr wines. Ticket price to be determined.

• With Blake Kuhn at Firefly American Bistro (22 Concord St., Manchester, fireflynh.com) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Clayhouse/Adobe Wines. Ticket price TBD. • With Joseph Carr at O Steaks and Seafood (11 S. Main St., Concord, magicfoodsrestaurantgroup. com/osteaks) 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Joseph Carr wines. Tickets $95.

• With Giuseppe LoCascio at Martingale Wharf (99 Bow St., Portsmouth, martingalewharf. com) from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Leonardo LoCascio wines. Tickets cost $65.

• With Andrea Cecchi at Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, bedfordvillageinn. com) 6:30 to 9 p.m. featuring Cecchi wines. Tickets cost $85.

• With David Stephan at Fitzwilliam Inn (62 NH 119 W. Fitzwilliam, fitzwilliaminn.com) 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring DIVA wines.

Tickets cost $55.

• With Matias Garces Silva & Carolina Rivera at Brazo (75

JANUARY 25 - JANUARY 30 LANGE WINE PAIRINGS Enjoy a sample pairing of three wines from Lange with three appetizers. $20 per person plus tax/gratuity. Tuesdays evening, January 26th Lange’s winemaker will make a special appearance to engage and educate guests about Lange wines.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27 CECCHI WINE DINNER Please join us in our Overlook Room for a special four-course Cecchi Wine Dinner with a reception from 6:30-7pm. $95 per person plus tax/gratuity. Seating is limited so reservations are suggested 866.350.1660.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 FROM 6-9PM WINTER WINE SPECTACULAR RADISSON HOTEL MANCHESTER The Bedford Village Inn will be participating in the 2016 Winter Wine Spectacular at the Radisson Hotel Manchester. Over 1,500 wines will be available for sampling as well as scrumptious local fare (be sure to stop at the BVI table!), a silent auction, and raffle. $125 per person. All proceeds directly support Easter Seals New Hampshire.

Visit www.bedfordvillageinn.com to check out the newest happenings at the BVI.

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Thursday, Jan. 28 • 13th annual Winter Wine Spectacular 6 to 9 p.m. at Radisson Hotel (700 Elm St., Manchester). Over 1,500 wine tastings with winemakers from across the world and food samples from area restaurants. Tickets $65, $125 for full access to both the Grand Tasting and Bellman’s Cellar Select.

VIsit nhwineweek.com.

NH Liquor and Wine Outlet events Bottle signings & tastings

• Alessandra Marino of Cesari 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (32 Plaistow Road 2A, Plaistow) • Diane & Victoria Wilson of Wilson Winery 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford)

• Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 11 a.m. to noon (1100 Bicentennial Drive, Manchester) • Lamberto Frescobaldi of Frescobaldi Wines 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (69 Lafayette Road, North Hampton) • Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem) • Chris Benziger of Benziger Wines noon to 1:30 p.m. (Portsmouth Traffic Circle) • Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 12:15 to 1 p.m. (25 Springer Road, Hooksett) • Rob Stuart of R. Stuart Winery/Big Fire 1 to 3 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Matias Garces of Amaya Wines 1 to 3 p.m. (Portsmouth Traffic Circle • Felipe Varela of Casa Silva 1 to 3 p.m. (269 DW Hwy., Nashua) • Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 1 to 2 p.m. (1100 Bicentennial Drive, Manchester) • Diane & Victoria Wilson of Wilson Winery 1 to 2:30 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Alessandra Marino of Cesari 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. (24 Calef Highway, Epping) • Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Wines 2 to 3:30 p.m. (32 Plaistow Road 2A, Plaistow) • Antonio Zaccheo Jr. of Carpineto 2 to 4 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford) • Chris Benziger of Benziger Wines 2 to 3:30 p.m. (738 Islington St., Portsmouth) • Wendy Lange of Lange Winery 2 to 3:30 p.m. (Portsmouth Traffic Circle) • Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 2:30 to 4 p.m. (68 Elm St., Manchester) • Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 2:30 to 4 p.m. (269 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua) • Lamberto Frescobaldi of Frescobaldi Wines 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (417 S. Broadway, Salem) • Alessandra Marino of Cesari

3 to 4:30 p.m. (137 Rockingham Road, Londonderry).

• Diane & Victoria Wilson of Wilson Winery 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

(25 Springer Road, Hooksett) Bottle signings

• Ana Diogo-Draper of Artesa 11 a.m. to noon (Portsmouth Traffic Circle) • Cara Morrison of SonomaCutrer 11 a.m. to noon (I-93 North Hooksett) • Cristina Mariani-May of Banfi Vintners 11 a.m. to noon (I-95 South Hampton) • Cristina Mariani-May of Banfi Vintners 1 to 2:30 p.m. (Village Shopping Center, 69 Lafayette Road, North Hampton).

• Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 1 to 2 p.m.

(Interstate 93 North, Hooksett).

• Geoff Whitman of John Anthony Wines 2:15 to 3 p.m. (25 Springer Road, Hooksett).

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Pleasant St., Portsmouth, brazorestaurant.com) 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring Boy and Mayu wines. Tickets cost $77.

• With Jon Emmerich at CR’s The Restaurant (287 Exeter Road, Hampton, crstherestaurant.com) 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring Silverado Vineyard Wines. Tickets $92.50.

• With Eduardo Hildago at Luca’s Mediterranean Cafe (10 Central Square, Keene, lucascafe. com) from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring Bodegas Ranacer wines. Tickets cost $50.

• With Alessandra Marino at Louie’s (86 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, louiesportsmouth.com) 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring Cesari wines. Tickets cost $35.

• With Rob McDonald at The Lakehouse Grille (281 Daniel Webster Hwy., US 3, Meredith, thecman.com) 7 to 10 p.m. featuring Art+Farm wines. Tickets $75.

• Wine flight with Robbie LaBlanc at 900 Degrees (50 Dow St., Manchester, 900degrees.com) from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring Bogle Wine Flights.

• Wine flight with Monica Belavic at 900 Degrees (24 Brickyard Sq., Epping, 900degrees. com) from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring Sterling Wine Flights

Experience Wine Country at the Cabonnay Emporium:

Hours: Friday 12-8pm, Saturday 12-8pm, Sunday 12-6pm 8 Mohawk Drive, Londonderry NH | 844-946-3473 | cabonnay.com

Tastings

• Carolina Rivera of Mayu Winery 1 to 3 p.m. (9 Leavy Drive, Bedford).

Friday, January 29

NH Liquor and Wine Outlet events Bottle signings

• Matias Garces of Amaya Wines from noon to 2 p.m. (I-95 North, North Hampton) • Julio Bouchon Jr. of J. Bouchon Vineyards from noon to 2 p.m. Nashua (I-93 South) Bottle signings & tastings

• Rob Stuart of R. Stuart/Big Fire Wines from 3 to 5 p.m. (25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua) • Peter Merriam of Merriam Vineyards from 4 to 6 p.m. (417 South Broadway, Salem) Saturday, Jan. 30

NH Liquor and Wine Outlet events Bottle signing and tasting

• Rob Stuart of R. Stuart Winery/Big Fire 1 to 3 p.m. (6 Ash Brook Court, Keene)

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Friday, Jan. 15

The Suncook Valley Chorale presents its winter program “Music That Moves You” on Friday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 16, at 3 p.m., at First Congregational Church of Pembroke (301 Pembroke St.). The concert features songs for dancing and about dancing in various styles, from traditional waltzes to pop music. Scott Lounsbury directs and Calvin Herst accompanies the choir of over 60 singers of all ages. Tickets are available at the door and cost $15, $12 for students and seniors. Visit facebook.com/suncookvalleychorale.

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Saturday, Jan. 16

The Manchester Monarchs face off against the Norfolk Admirals for their annual L.A. Kings Night game on Saturday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. Celebrate the Monarchs’ parent club, the Los Angeles Kings, and the former Monarchs who are playing there. There will be a commemorative poster giveaway to the first 4,000 fans through the door. The Monarchs will play the Admirals again on Sunday, Jan. 17, at 3 p.m. Games are held at the Verizon Wireless Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester), and tickets start at $9. Visit manchestermonarchs.com.

Sunday, Jan. 17

Be sure to catch the 21st Annual Critics Choice Awards, which will be broadcast live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica at 8 p.m. on cable channels A&E, Lifetime and LMN. This year, film and television categories will be combined for a single three-hour event. Top contenders include Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol and The Revenant for movies and Fargo, The Leftovers and Transparent for television. Actor and comedian T.J. Miller will host. Visit criticschoice.com.

Eat: Artisan bread Learn how to make artisan bread at Finesse Pastries (968 Elm St., Manchester) on Friday, Jan. 15, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. The class will teach the basics of bread-making including leavening, kneading and shaping.

Students will make their own classic French baguette, hearty country loaf, & herb focaccia completely from scratch. The cost is $75.

Visit finessepastries.com to reserve your spot.

Monday, Jan. 18

The Martin Luther King Coalition presents its 34th annual Martin Luther King Day Community Celebration at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral (650 Hanover St., Manchester), beginning at 2 p.m. with a potluck meal. At 3 p.m. there will be a program with guest speaker Rev. Dr. Arthur Hilson, Gov. Maggie Hassan, a performance by the Central High School Jazz Band and an awards ceremony to honor students and community members who continue MLK’s legacy of social justice and peace. Admission is free and open to all. Visit mlknh.org.

Drink: Beer and cider Stop by the Portsmouth Brewery’s Jimmy Lapanza Lounge (56 Market St., Portsmouth) on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m., for the John Barleycorn vs. Johnny Appleseed Beer Social. This event includes a showcase of beer-brewing and cider-making as well as food pairings for each course with one house-brewed beer and one cider from North Country Hard Cider. Attendees will choose the winning beverage for each course. Tickets cost $40. Visit portsmouthbrewery.com.

Thursday, Jan. 21

Head to XO on Elm restaurant (827 Elm St., Manchester) for Ladies Night Out: A Celebration of Women’s Health and Beauty. From 5:30 to 8 p.m., local businesses will display their products and services for attendees to sample and shop. There will be an array of local organic food as well as samplings from XO’s new farm-to-table menu and tastings from XO’s new juice bar. Admission is a $10 suggested donation at the door. Visit greaterbedfordwomenade.org.

Be merry: With snowshoeing Beaver Brook Nature Center (117 Ridge Road, Hollis) will host a Martin Luther King Day guided snowshoe hike on Monday, Jan. 18, from 9 to 11 a.m. Beaver Brook naturalist Gail Coffey will lead the hike and point out what’s happening in the forest and fields during wintertime. Snowshoes or crampons will be provided if weather conditions permit; otherwise, it will be a regular, on-foot hike. The cost is $10. Register at beaverbrook.org.

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ARTS Political farce

Londonderry playwright’s Candid Candidate hits Epping

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton appears in Londonderry playwright Donald Tongue’s new play, Candid Candidate, hitting the Leddy Center stage next weekend, but fictional news reporters from some local papers — including the Hippo — do.

The media, and the New Hampshire media in particular, plays a big role in Candid Candidate, which Tongue said is a farce about the things that fuddle with campaigns, from scandal to less-than-flattering candidate coverage. He mentioned Howard Dean’s scream after winning the Iowa caucus and the images of Michael Dukakis enjoying a ride on a tank.

“This is definitely a political farce poking fun at modern-day campaigning,” said Tongue, who’s also directing. “It’s about how the media kind of focuses on these silly things. … It makes mountains out of molehills out of certain things, and it can cause campaigns to spin their wheels, trying to do damage control from these moments.”

Tongue has spent the better part of a year working on the piece. It hits the stage about a year after his last play, Scene Changes, made its world premiere, also at the Leddy See Candid Candidate by Donald Tongue Where: Leddy Center, 38C Ladd’s Lane, Epping When: 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.; Sunday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m.

Admission: $20 Contact: leddycenter.org, info@leddycenter.org, 679-2781

Jane Paradis Button and Larry Pizza play Bob and Celia Roberts. Courtesy photo.

Center. It did very well, Executive Director Elaine Gatchell said via phone. When Tongue gave her the early, rough script of Candid Candidate this fall, was delighted to see potential in this story, too.

Candid Candidate happens over two acts, three days, following two candidates, Bob Roberts and John McCoy. The play starts with Iowa caucus victory speeches, as the candidates are preparing to head east for the next round in the election season — the New Hampshire primary. All seems to be going well, until an unscripted candid moment leaves them fighting for more than political survival.

“Something happens that has nothing to do with the campaigns or politics, but it just sort of throws everything into a tailspin,” Tongue said.

Characters are over-the-top, sets are minimal, costumes modern. Most scenes occur in hotel lobbies, but sprinkled throughout are New Hampshire references. (When

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John McCoy arrives in New Hampshire at the Manchester airport, he says, “It’s nice to be here in the King City.”)

Gatchell didn’t get the final draft of the script until November, but she wasn’t the only one waiting. All the actors had committed to the show last spring, when they agreed to be part of Tongue’s 13-episode Web series introducing the characters and previewing the play. The two- to 10-minute snippets follow the candidates at the beginning of their trail, going door-todoor, making campaign ads, getting carsick in rental cars and kidnapped by hillbillies. Filming began last spring, and Tongue started posting episodes online (accessible at Facebook.com/CandidCandidate) in September. The last ones would hit the Internet just before showtime.

“It gave us a taste. You don’t rehearse long for a Web series. You have the script, you do it a couple times while the camera’s on, but you don’t have that much time to

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think about what the characters’ motivations are,” said Deirdre Hickok Bridge, who plays candidate wife Judith McCoy. Other actors include Chris Demers, Larry Pizza, Jane Paradis-Button, Jackie Coffin, Aaron Compagna, Jake Lamontagne and Christina Kostoulakos. They didn’t get the final script, complete with a surprising twist, until just before rehearsals, which began three weeks before Christmas.

“He told us up front, ‘I haven’t finished it yet. This is a play I’m working on, and I think it would be fun to do a Web series.’ I signed on before I had ever read the play.

I’d read a couple episodes of the Web series, but that’s it,” Bridge said. “It’s a little scary. You say, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it,’ but you don’t even know where the story goes. It’s a little bit nerve-racking. … In November, we finally got to read the finished script. I had read the first half of it and was dying to know how it ends. There was a lot of anticipation to see where he went with the storyline.”

Bridge had acted in Tongue’s Scene Changes, and another of his plays, called The Truth Will Spring Yuh, which was performed at the New Hampshire Community Theater Association Festival in 2014. She likes Tongue’s meaty female characters and being part of something new.

“It’s fun to be part of a collaborative process. When you’re working with the playwright, things change as you’re going along. And it’s sort of fun to see the transformation,” Bridge said.

Tongue had a busy fall. He directed Mary Poppins for Kids Coop Theatre, and pressure was on to finish this play in time.

Luckily, rehearsals have been going well, and actors have been falling into their characters smoothly.

“It’s been a very fun rehearsal process,” Tongue said.

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

• ELF: THE MUSICAL, JR. Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Fri., Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; Sat.,

Jan. 16, at noon. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $11 for children, $14 adults. Call 6685588. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• BROADWAY DANCE REVIEW Evening of Broadwayinspired dance selections. Choreography by Madison Calabria and Meg King. Fri., Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 2:30 p.m.

Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. svbgc.org/amato-center.

• ELF: THE MUSICAL, JR. Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. Fri., Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at noon. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $11 for children, $14 adults. Call 6685588. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• THE CRUCIBLE NH Theatre Project production. Jan. 15-31, Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $26. 431-6644, reservations@nhtheatreproject.org.

• RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Dance show highlighting Audi's 10 resident dance companies, 150 dancers. Sat., Jan. 16, at 7 p.m.

Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $10. Call 344-4747.

• SHREK: THE MUSICAL Jan. 20-23 at 7 p.m., Jan. 23-24 at 2 p.m. Silver Center for the Arts, 17 High St., Plymouth. $20-$29.

Call 535-2787. Visit silver.plymouth.edu.

• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Performed by STEPS.

Thurs., Jan. 21, at 7 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 22, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $15. Visit derryoperahouse.com.

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

Art Events • EAGLE PARADE PROJECT LAUNCH Launch for fundrais-

ing project for Veterans Count, program of Easter Seals, in which local artists are invited to create 4.5-foot tall eagle sculptures which will be auctioned off Veterans Day 2016. Thurs., Jan. 14, 5-8 p.m. McKinnon's Supermarket, 2454 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth. Visit vetscounteagles.org.

• CURRIER MUSEUM, STORYTIME IN THE GALLERY Hear local librarian read An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Alston. Then create your

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• No more cramped legs: The Palace Theatre is replacing its balcony seats, and installation began last week, Tina Kelly, director of individual development and executive assistant at the theater, wrote in an email. The Bedford High School soccer team helped employees carry more than 300 boxes of new seats up to the balcony for the installation, which was scheduled to happen Monday, and staff removed old chairs and were in the process of waxing, cleaning and repairing the balcony floors. The theater also has 16 new love seats from England that sit in the reception room.

• New artistic director: After a fivemonth search, the Seacoast Wind Ensemble has a new artistic director, Dr. Mark Stickney, who is also director of bands at Plymouth State University. Stickney is a native of Rhode Island and has experience conducting multiple age groups across the country, according to the press release. The 50-piece concert band is also moving its home base to Kittery, Maine, and will perform its first concert of the year on Valentine’s Day in Plaistow. Visit seacoastwindensemble.org.

• Looking for singers: Many local vocal groups are looking for new singers.

The New Hampshire Gay Men’s Chorus has one final open auditions night Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m., followed by a rehearsal for NHGMC’s spring 2016 concert own print. Recommended for ages 2-5, but all welcome. Mon., Jan. 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free with admission. currier.org, 669-6144.

Playing at Cinemagic in Hooksett January 25 at 7:30PM Tickets must be purchased in advance -- $12 (because this is a special screening you need to buy your ticket in advance. If less than 84 tickets are sold the screening will be canceled and you will not be charged for the ticket).

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Openings • 15TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL JURIED ENAMEL EXHIBITION Featuring best contemporary enameled works produced the past 2 years. Featuring work from artists around the world. On view Jan. 15 through March 18. Reception Fri., Jan. 15, 5-7 p.m. League of NH Craftsmen, 49 S. Main St., Suite 100, Concord. Visit nhcrafts.org.

• CAMERA COMMONS Platinum and alternative prints by Tillman Crane, Jay Goldsmith, Norman Defosses, David Speltz.

On view Jan. 17 through April 2.

Reception Sun., Jan. 17, 1-4 p.m.

Side Gallery, 652 Central Ave., Dover. Call 799-1941. Email vanloon42@gmail.com.

• "ART & BLOOM" Concord Garden Club, facilitates creating floral arrangements inspired by art. On view Jan. 21 through Jan.

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series, “Dudes and Divas,” from 7 to 9:30 p.m., at the First Congregational Church of Manchester, 508 Union St., Manchester.

Auditions are “quick, private and painless,” with no need to have music or material prepared, as described in the press release.

The Souhegan Valley Chorus also seeks interested singers for its 36th concert season, with weekly rehearsals starting Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Milford Middle School chorus room, 33 Osgood Road, Milford. The first two rehearsals are open for new members to come and check out the chorus — no auditions required — and high school and adult singers are both welcome to join. Visit souheganvalleychorus.org or visit the Facebook page for more information.

Finally, the Manchester Choral Society hosts an open rehearsal on Monday, Jan. 25, from 7 to 9 p.m., at St. Catherine of Siena School, 206 North St., Manchester; call 893-8501 or email canobieque@aol.com to sign up, or visit mcsnh.org or email lsheil@ ymail.com or megan.c.carrier@gmail.com for more information.

— Kelly Sennott

23. Opening reception Thurs., Jan. 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m. McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord.

Call 225-2515, email gallery@ mcgowanfineart.com.

• "BIG ART" Exhibition and sale of larger-format paintings and felt sculpture. Featuring work

by Tamara Gonda, Christopher Volpe, Lynda Petropulos. On view Jan. 22 through Feb. 19. Reception Fri., Jan. 22, 6-8 p.m. Wild Salamander, 30 Ash St., Hollis.

Call 305-1520. Email marketing@wildsalamander.com.

• ANDRE BERTOLINO Art show. On view through February.

Reception Sat., Jan. 23, 5-7 p.m.

The Place, 9 N. Main St., Concord. Call 227-6148.

Classical Music Events • SUNCOOK VALLEY CHORALE WINTER PROGRAM "Music That Moves You," featuring songs all about dance. Fri., Jan. 15, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 3 p.m. First Congregational Church of Pembroke, 301 Pembroke St., Pembroke. $15. Visit facebook. com/suncookvalleychorale.

• MODERN-DAY PERFORMANCE OF THE ODYSSEY Storyteller Odds Bodkin puts together three-part performance in salon setting with Celtic harp and 12-string guitars. Sun., Jan. 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.

• SYMPHONY NH CONCERT Program of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev. Fri., Jan. 22, at 8 p.m. Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St. $18-$49. Visit symphonynh.org, call 595-9156.

There’s another concert Sat., Jan. 23, at 8 p.m. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua.

Presentation by Robert Hoffman, prelude to Jan. 23 concert, Thurs., Jan. 21, at 5:30 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St.. Free. nashualibrary.org. 589-4610.

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

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For sculptor Gary Haven Smith, it all starts with the materials — particularly granite, which he uses most for his pieces and gets from New Hampshire quarries.

He thinks of the boulders as “time capsules,” remnants from the state’s last ice age 12,000 years ago.

“They were part of the legacy of the White Mountains,” he said during a break from installing sculptures and paintings in his latest show at Southern New Hampshire University. “For me, they come with all this heritage.”

The Northwood artist’s exhibition, “Gary Haven Smith: A Celebration of Sculpture,” is on view at the school’s McIninch Art Gallery Jan. 14 through Feb. 20, with a reception on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The art decorates the gallery, and two sculptures stand in front of Belknap Hall nearby. While many of them showcase smooth curvature, for the most part, they also take on organic, natural shapes. What Smith does with a piece depends on the qualities already present.

“You start with a boulder, and it comes to the party with certain information — shape, size, color. It’s up to me to say, what can I do with that? What can I do to this to really make this boulder come alive? Certain boulders lend themselves to different techniques. … But I always leave an element of the original piece,” Smith said.

Gallery Director Debbie Disston said she admires Smith’s reverence for his materials.

“But there’s also innovation. The technique Gary employs is really curious to me because he’s figured out a way to work with this massive object and not have any assistance. He does everything himself. That’s very different, especially in contemporary sculpture,” Disston said.

Indeed, some of the things Smith has done with stone — make it curve, layer and form different pictures and textures — is only possible with one-of-a-kind tools and machinery he developed personally.

“Along the way, I kept pushing boundaries. I developed equipment. You’ll see some of [my] pieces are paper-thin. You can’t carve that. You can only do that by the pro-

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cess I developed to be able to articulate these very thin pieces of stone,” Smith said.

Disston said she invited Smith to highlight an artist who’s a “fixture in the New England sculpture world” while at the same time celebrate the SNHU sculpture park’s fifth year. Right now, it’s made of 14 pieces scattered around the campus grounds.

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• A taste of spring: McGowan Fine Art hosts its 13th annual show with the Concord Garden Club, “Art and Bloom,” featuring floral arrangements inspired by artwork, Jan. 21 through Jan. 23, with a reception on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. This year’s exhibition contains 16 arrangements, with fine art by artists represented by McGowan, and floral art by members of the Concord Garden Club. Call 225-2515, email gallery@mcgowanfineart. com or visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• For Valentine’s Day, Random Acts of Kindness Day: Studio 550 is holding an exhibit of mail art envelopes from Feb. 5 through Feb. 27. Artists can submit envelopes transformed into canvas for art, doodles or sketches, with all media welcome. All submissions received by the deadline will be displayed, and there’s no cost to submit to the show. All submissions will also be available for purchase and usable, as artists are required to leave blank spaces on the envelope for addresses.

Mail art, according to a press release, dates back to the 1950s, when the postal service was viewed as a cheap, non-commercialized way to share small-scale works of art without a gallery or museum — unlike today, when most mail art is shared and exhibited digitally.

“We are hoping to harken back to the days before email and fill the gallery with tangible envelopes ready to be taken home and mailed,” Studio 550 owner Monica

Leap wrote in the press release. (Timing, she said, is perfect, with Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14 and Random Acts of Kindness Day on Feb. 17.) Finished submissions should be dropped off at Studio 550 no later than 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4. There will be a gallery reception held on Friday, Feb. 5.

For full details, visit 550arts.com, call 2325597 or email info@550arts.com.

• Arts in Early Learning conference: There’s an Arts in Early Learning conference called “Me, My Friends and Family” on Saturday, Jan. 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Plymouth Elementary School, 43 Old Ward Bridge Road, Plymouth ($35), which is aimed at individuals who want to learn how young children express their experiences and learn to understand their similarities and differences through art.

There’s another with the same theme Saturday, Feb. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Preschool in the Village, 11 Church St., Amherst ($40). For both events, you can get professional development credits and should bring a bagged lunch, though morning snacks will be provided. Visit aannh. org, email programs@aanh.org or call 3237302. — Kelly Sennott

33 at UNH, back in 1973 — he said a lot of what he knows he taught himself. The major was new at the time, and in lots of his classes, he was granted plenty of freedom.

“The sculpture teacher at the time was less formal and very open,” Smith said. “For example, I think he said things like, ‘These are cutting torches. This is how it works.

We’ve got some chisels, and you can weld.

Come back at the end of the semester with 10 sculptures.’”

Smith gravitated, very early on, toward abstract art.

“Abstraction was always more like a blank page, where you could find your own voice. It wasn’t like I was reproducing something that already existed, that you could take a picture of. That just never really motivated me that much,” Smith said.

He stuck around Durham two more years to work as a university sculpture technician, which allowed him time to figure things out.

Like, how do you get your name out there?

“I didn’t even know what a portfolio

was. Nowadays, most art schools, they really focus on that. What are you going to do?

How are you going to present yourself? It’s so different,” Smith said.

While Smith had sold a few pieces while in school, he also became a carpenter shortly after graduating. With the money he made there, he bought five acres of land in Northwood, built a tiny house and studio, and worked on his art whenever it rained or he was between jobs.

To survive as an artist, he saved money by learning to do everything himself — plumbing, electric, building and, for his art career, networking, marketing and photography, to help sell work.

He said his art has evolved over the years.

He’s constantly trying to do the unexpected with the materials at hand, and in some of his pieces, Disston thinks the result is an apparent weightlessness. The challenge still captivates him. “[The material] is what motivated me and made me fall in love with it, really,” he said.

From “Art and Bloom” 2015. Courtesy photo.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE Taking action

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Find out about the current status of New Hampshire wildlife and what you can do to help protect it at New Hampshire Audubon Nashaway Chapter’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Nashua Public Library.

Presenter John Kanter, supervisor of New Hampshire Fish & Game’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program, will discuss the newly updated New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan — a 1,600-page document profiling the state’s 169 species of greatest conservation need, the 27 habitats that support them and 117 ways the public can participate in conservation efforts.

As of 2005, all states receiving federal funding for wildlife conservation are required to develop a wildlife action plan and update it every 10 years.

“We just completed our 10-year revision,” Kanter said. “So basically, I’ll be talking about what we set out to do when we developed the first plan in 2005, what we’ve accomplished, how we’re moving forward with the new informaNH Wildlife Action Plan talk

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The endangered Blanding’s turtle. Credit Mike Marchand of NH Fish & Game.

tion we have, what our priorities are now and where we’re going to focus our attention in the next 10 years.”

While New Hampshire Fish & Game spearheads the plan, its development is a statewide effort; UNH Cooperative Extension as well as many conservation organizations, land trusts, town conservation commissions and individuals all collaborate with New Hampshire Fish & Game on the plan.

“We know not everything is going to be set aside for wildlife, so it’s more about [increasing] under-

standing of how we interact with the land,” Kanter said, “whether it’s through forestry or development of residential or commercial areas, and providing towns with assistance to help them protect the wildlife habitats and natural resources in their planning.”

Kanter will discuss the plan’s role in the significant progress that has been made toward the recovery of two New Hampshire endangered species. It was recently determined that the New England cottontail rabbit doesn’t need to be listed on the federal endangered species

list due to promising conservation practices already in play. Karner blue butterflies, which are currently being raised in a lab, have grown to a population between 1,000 and 2,000, and Kanter says if growth continues at this rate, they will soon be self-sustaining again.

The presentation will also address several other species taking priority in the next 10 years, including the wood turtle and the Blanding’s turtle. The turtles, Kanter said, are especially susceptible to population decline because they can’t reproduce until around 14 to 20 years old and they face numerous threats like road mortality, habitat destruction or alteration, human collection and subsidized predators.

So how can you help protect New Hampshire wildlife? Kanter will share several things you can do, such as making your backyard more habitable by planting some native shrubs or wildflowers for pollinators; reducing pollution by making eco-friendly lifestyle changes; and taking care not to disturb wild animals and their habitats when you’re out in nature. But one of the public’s most vital roles, he said, is reporting what they see.

“We have what’s called New Hampshire Wildlife Sightings [nhwildlifesightings.unh.edu] where people can go online and report their observations and sightings,” he said.

“That gives us info on the species, where they are and how well they’re doing. Sometimes, that’s the only information we have to determine the health of various populations, so we really rely on the volunteers who do that.”

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studio day on Saturday, Jan. 16, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Follow step-by-step instructions to create an original acrylic painting of a whimsical Eiffel Tower on an 11” x 14” canvas.

This project is recommended for children ages 6 and up. The cost is $25, and pre-registration is required. Visit paintpartynh.com or Make some noise Stop by Hampstead Public Library (9 Mary call 898-8800.

E. Clark Drive) on Saturday, Jan. 16, at 10 a.m., for an Introduction to Guitar work- Dino delight shop. Kids and adults of all ages are invited If you haven’t seen the SEE Science to this one-hour class with Let’s Play! gui- Center’s (200 Bedford St., Manchester) tar program director Daniel Saunders. Learn DINOSAURS exhibit yet, there’s still time. about the basics of playing guitar, then try one The center recently announced that the exhibout for yourself. Visit hampstead.lib.nh.us or it, which was due to close in mid-January, call 329-6411. will now remain open through Jan. 31 due to its popularity. The exhibit is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.

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If you’ve ever wondered how acupressure works or how to use herbs as medicine, now you have a chance to learn as the Holistic Self Care Center in Nashua is offering a series of free workshops and introductory classes about various holistic health topics throughout the month of January.

“Many people are frustrated with the medical community and want to [seek out] more natural healthcare … but don’t know where to go and don’t want to spend their money on something they aren’t sure about,” HSCC founder and owner Barb Tremlett said. “So this is an opportunity for them to dabble and see what’s missing in their life.”

There will be a dozen one-hour programs held on select weekday evenings between Jan. 12 and Jan. 28. Some, like Herbology 101 and Intro to Detoxification, will be lecture/discussion-based while others, such as Intro to Mini Zentangles and Yoga 101, will involve more hands-on engagement.

HSCC’s classes and workshops are taught by either Tremlett herself or outside specialists. Between all of the ongoing and one-time programs offered last year, Tremlett said the center welcomed around 30 different instructors.

While one purpose of the free programs is to give people a chance to explore different facets of holistic health, there is also a secondary objective; HSCC decides what ongoing programs to offer based on which free classes and workshops are the most popular and receive the most positive feedback. About half of this January’s freebies have never been offered at the center before, including Intro to Acupressure and Reflexology, Learning to Read Angel Cards and Learning to Move Like a Kid Again.

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I wonder why it is that so many of us make resolutions at this time of year: lose weight, keep a clean desk, be nicer to people working for political candidates that call us during dinner time and so on. As a gardener, I don’t tend to think so much about resolutions but more about what I hope to do in my gardens come spring.

What plants shall I try? What new gardens might I develop?

I recently got a catalog from a wholesale plant nursery, Van Berkum’s of Deerfield, and spent an evening drooling over their catalog and thinking about all the plants I wanted. I made three kinds of notations: a star for everything I simply must have, a check for everything I’d like to have, and a dot for everything that sounds interesting.

Needless to say, there were way too many marks to buy them all – I just don’t have room. Here are some of the starred plants.

Meehan’s Mint (Meehania cordata).

I’ve never seen this, so I’m intrigued. It is for shade or part shade, likes moist soil, and spreads slowly by stolons (roots). It has showy lavender-blue flowers in May-June, and is a native wildflower that comes originally from Appalachia. I know where to plant this: under some old apple trees where my primroses bloom in pinks, whites and magenta. The foliage is just a couple of inches tall, and the blossoms stand 3 to 4 inches above it.

Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea). Browsing the online photos that are not included in Van Berkum’s printed catalog, the photo caught my eye. Nothing like the clovers I know, it stands 24 to 30 inches tall, and has showy cylindrical cones covered with tiny magenta flowers.

The blossoms remind me of teasel flowers in that only part of the cone is blooming at any given time. Native to Missouri, it is hardy to Zone 3 (minus 30 degrees) and needs full sun.

White Cloud Calamint (Calamintha nepeta). I’ve seen this and even planted it for one of my gardening clients. I love it, and although it is listed as a Zone 5 plant, the one I planted wintered over last year, even with a cold winter. It forms a globeshaped plant loaded with tiny white flowers, reminiscent of baby’s breath. I need one (or more)! Full sun, it tolerates dry soil.

“Miss Manners” Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana). I love an obedient plant, but it is not obedient at all. It’s a thug!

Tall, with wonderful pink flowers, it is great in a vase. But my goodness, getting it out of

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my garden was a struggle. But I miss it, and am tempted by this plant which is, allegedly, “not invasive.” Only 18 to 24 inches tall, it has white flowers and loves moist soil, and I have plenty of that. I’ll keep a sharp eye on it, and it if takes off, yank it!

Geum rivale Flames of Passion. This is a small perennial that does best in part shade and takes drought. I want it, largely, because it was introduced by one of my garden heroes, Piet Oudolf. One winter when I was passing through Holland I visited him at his home in the countryside; I loved the fact that he had commissioned someone to carve life-size stone sheep and had them “grazing” around his property.

Feather Reed Grass, “Karl Foerster.”

I’ve got to try this tall grass, having heard it lauded by gardening great Bill Noble when I interviewed him recently. It’s his favorite plant. It grows 36 to 60 inches tall in a big clump, and is lovely from early in the season till late. Full sun.

I love delphiniums, but hate staking them up. There is a new group of them, the New Millennium Hybrids, that “shouldn’t need staking” if planted in full sun. I’ll give one or two a try, and see how they do.

Lastly, I absolutely must get an Itoh peony. This is a cross between a tree peony and an herbaceous peony, and at maturity can produce up to 50 blossoms over the course of a month. Expensive, but I’ve decided it‘s worth it. They come in a variety of colors, and I will buy mine when in bloom, so I will know exactly what I’m getting. I just need to figure out where to plant it. But, hey! I’ve got all winter to do that.

So make your gardening resolutions, or create a wish list for what you hope to plant. You can see photos of the flowers I mention at vanberkumnursery.com. They are strictly wholesale, but their website has a list of retailers that carry their plants.

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Dear Donna, We have an item that might interest you and that perhaps you can educate us on. We have been told it is a chocolate pot. It has been in my family for 75 to 100 years. Many years ago I was told it is very valuable because it is black, and that’s rare. It is about 22 to 24 inch$8.00 Admission es tall. If you look closely at the base of the ren under theofage 12 FREE | Sunday Ladies pay only $2 handle on one the of pictures, there appears to be a signature that spells ARLLO. On the underneath of the vase is imprinted Limoges, France. The letters PL are stamped on it.

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All are signed by different artists. It wasn’t James uncommon for Limoges to ship the blanks here to have them done.

Dear James, I am not sure that because it is black, What a nice piece of Limoges porcelain. I that would make it rare. To me it would be do not believe it is a chocolate pot, judging by the design and quality of the art work on it, the shape and that it would have had a cover. plus how many were done and by whom and But sometimes it’s tough from pictures to see whether it survived in good condition. the whole story.

I found a few pieces that matched yours Even though Limoges dates back to the while doing a search for you, and they seem 1700s, I think your piece is from the late to be in the $300 to $500 range for a piece 1800s to turn of the century. The PL mark your size and design. I would think that valrepresents La Porcelaine Limousine factory ue would be to a collector who would love to in Limoges, France. The signature you see on have it in their collection.

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By Ray Magliozzi tends to be about the time I get to the recommended fluid-change interval. I also have a 2005 Lexus ES 330 with 188,000 miles. The owner’s manual suggests continuing to change the fluid on a regular basis, regardless of the age of the car. Some mechanics, including the local dealer, suggest NOT changing it: “That could cause more problems.” I assume that means scale would be loosened and could clog up the moving parts. What do you suggest — continuing to change the oil and flush the entire system? You probably can guess that I like keeping vehicles a long time, so proper maintenance is important — as soon as I figure out what it is! — Leroy We’ve heard one or two stories like that over the years. The story goes like this: A guy has an ancient car, and decides to change the transmission fluid.

A few days later, the transmission buys the farm and the car is toast. That’s how these “old mechanics tales” get started.

But here’s what really happened: The guy with the 1966 Rambler with 180,000 miles on it noticed that his transmission was misbehaving. And that’s why he decided to change the transmission fluid in the first place!

So the transmission was already on its last legs. And when, shortly after the fluid change, the transmission dies, the guy blames it on the fluid change -- instead of the 180,000 miles he had on the car, and the drag racing and donuts his 16-yearold kid does with it every Friday night.

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The purpose of hydraulic transmission fluid is threefold: It transfers the power from the engine to the wheels; it lubricates all the parts of the transmission; and it keeps those parts cool. And for every one of those tasks, new, clean fluid is better than old, crusty fluid with old pieces of broken-off transmission in it.

So not changing the fluid after a certain mileage is like telling your 96-year-old grandfather, “We’re not going to feed you anymore, Pappy, because it might cause more problems.”

Good maintenance includes changing the fluids at the mileage intervals that the manufacturer recommends — no matter how old the car is. And you’re more likely to drive it into old age if you drive it gently and follow the maintenance schedule.

Dear Car Talk: It used to be that we were told to keep our gas tanks at least half-full to prevent water condensation. Is this still good advice, or have there been changes made to newer vehicles that allow us to drive on empty? — Sabrina Well, we know there haven’t been any changes made to water. But yes, there have been changes made to the vehicles.

Back in the Pleistocene Epoch — back when I had hair — gas tanks were vented directly into the atmosphere. The gas cap actually had a little pinhole in it. And as the engine sucked gasoline out of the tank, air would come in through that hole and fill that space that had been occupied by gasoline. Otherwise, your gas tank would crumple up and implode.

That outside air could get into the tank at all times, even when the car was parked. And it often had moisture in it.

The fear was that the moisture would condense, and either you’d build up so much water that the car wouldn’t run, or you’d cause the gas tank to rust.

But those are no longer concerns. First of all, as the fuel pump pushes fuel out of a modern car’s tank, air to replace that volume is provided via an internal canister that’s part of the evaporative emissions system.

And, even though that stored air might contain a little bit of moisture, it lets in air only when it is needed. So the tank just isn’t exposed to nearly as much moisture.

Second, most modern gasolines are blended with alcohol, which holds water in suspension and allows it to be combusted along with the gasoline (what we used to call gas-line antifreeze, or “dry gas,” is just alcohol). So there’s little chance of water affecting performance.

And finally, most gas tanks are now plastic, so they don’t rust.

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Head route setter/head team coach at Evo Rock + Fitness Sydney McNair discovered her passion for rock climbing while growing up in Washington. She joined her first competitive climbing team at age 12 and has competed in national and international competitions in youth and adult divisions. She began coaching in 2004 and is currently working at Evo Rock + Fitness in Concord as head route setter and head coach for the competitive and recreational teams.

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Organizing and coordinating anything that involves the climbing walls in our gym or our climbing teams and their competitions and daily practices.

I started climbing with family when I was really young, about 5. Then when I was 12, a commercial climbing gym opened up by my house, and a friend took me down there and I joined their climbing team. All our coaches were also route setters, and sometimes I’d get to watch them work, so that’s how I got interested.

What is your typical atHow did you find your work uniform? current job?

Pretty much anything I was actually sought comfortable, so pants and out by the founder. She a tank top or T-shirt. Whatknew of me because of ever will let you move my background in comfreely without feeling petitive climbing when I restricted. was younger and coach- Courtesy photo. ing competitive climbing What was the first job teams at [two gyms] in Seattle. I was going to Plymouth State at the you ever had?

I think it was data entry for my dad time, and she got in contact with me and asked if, when she opened the gym, I’d be when I was maybe 10 or 11. He used to interested in route setting and coaching. do fisheries research, so I’d take all the notes and put them in a spreadsheet.

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[With route setting], always remember that it’s temporary. It doesn’t have to be Five favorites a masterpiece. Sometimes route setters Favorite book: Little Sister by Kara try to get their climb so perfect, but at a Dalkey commercial rock gym it’s temporary, so Favorite movie: Gladiator you can’t get sucked into making some- Favorite type of music or musician: thing perfect when it’ll only be up for a Really, anything. There’s no music I dislike. few months.

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I’ve been here for three years, since the What kind of education or training gym opened. did you need for this job?

There’s not any formal education per What do you wish you’d known at the How did you get interested in this field? se. It’s more of a trade. You learn and beginning of your career?

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FOOD Say cheese

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See how your treasured macaroni and cheese recipe holds up or just spend an afternoon indulging in the ultimate winter comfort food during Granite State Dairy Promotion’s sixth annual Macaroni and Cheese Bake Off on Saturday, Jan. 16.

“It actually was the brainchild of one of my dairy producers,” said Amy Hall, director of Granite State Dairy Promotion. “We worked together and hashed it out and came up with macaroni and cheese.”

The idea behind the event is to help consumers “garner a larger appreciation for where their food comes from,” Hall said.

“We tend to be disconnected with the idea that we can just go to the store and get butter, milk and cheese. … We wanted to use this as a catalyst, as a jumping point, that you can’t have macaroni and cheese if you don’t have your community’s own dairy farmers,” she said.

New Hampshire dairy farmers will play a role in the competition, with the judging panels consisting of a dairy farmer plus a restaurateur, member of the press or radio personality for each of the three categories: traditional, creative/exotic and New Hampshire made. There will also be a separate competition for restaurants.

The criteria to win a best macaroni and cheese title include texture, creaminess and overall flavor, Hall said, though she didn’t set specific guidelines on which to judge.

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• Beer evenings: To honor the Seacoast’s history of both brewing beer and making cider, The Portsmouth Brewery (56 Market St., Portsmouth, 431-1115, portsmouthbrewery.com) is hosting John Barleycorn vs. Johnny Appleseed Beer Social on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Jimmy Lapanza Lounge. For the dinner, each course will be paired with a house-brewed beer and a North Country Hard Cider beverage and guests will have the chance to vote on which pairing they preferred per course to ultimately name a champion for the evening. Brewers and cider-makers will be on hand to discuss what they do. Tickets for the social cost $40. Make a handful of dark, thick and heavy beers at IncrediBREW’s (112 Daniel Webster Hwy., Nashua, incredibrew. com) Dark and Stormy Night Brew Fest on Thursday, Jan. 21, or Friday, Jan. 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The selection includes Black Satin, Big Boy Stout, Smoked Porter, Russian Imperial Stout, Irish Dry Stout, Imperial Black IPA and Robust Porter. Not for the entry-level beer drinker, this class is for those who want their beer opaque and flavorful. Return in two weeks to bottle and bring home your beer. Two shares costs $60, bottles not included.

• Cookbook club kickoff: Pelham Public Library (24 Village Green, Pelham, 635-7581, pelhampubliclibrary.org) will host the inaugural meeting of The Cookbook Explorers on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and again from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The group is dedicated to exploring new and fun ways to enjoy all types of food. Each month will feature a new cuisine or diet around which attendees can share their triumphs, challenges and recipes. Monthly group is free and open to the public.

• Brewery expansion: It looks like the expansion to Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack is going to be larger than originally thought, according to the Union Leader.

The Merrimack Planning Board conditionally approved three additions to the main building last spring, but last week town planners approved a plan that includes four additions to the brewery site. “We hope to start construction on phase one in the spring of this year, and hopefully complete it by the end of the year,” Tom Zajac, civ48

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New Hampshire’s Own Macaroni and Cheese Bake Off When: Saturday, Jan. 16, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Where: Courtyard Marriott/ Grappone Conference Center, 1 Constitution Ave., Concord Visit: nhdairypromo.org Tickets: Cost $16 for adults, free for children 10 and under (all you can eat, with beverages included). Register to compete or purchase tickets by Jan. 14.

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goodness that everyone is after in a mac and cheese,” she said.

As of the first week of January, 28 bakers had already registered to compete. They’re required to bring two large chafing pans from which to serve two-ounce samples to judges and guests.

“It’s a fun idea to be able to brag to your friends and family that ‘I am the grand champion of macaroni and cheese in New Hampshire,’” Hall said. “[Competition] brings out the people who have always been told at parties, ‘Your mac and cheese is the best I’ve ever had,’” Hall said.

That’s exactly how Kit Dutcher of Loudon got involved with the bake off for the first time this year.

“All of my kids and my nephews and nieces love my mac and cheese, and I decided I’ll give it a whirl,” she said.

Originally she was going to enter the New Hampshire-made category (which requires that all cheese and milk be from the state’s dairy farmers) but opted for the traditional category so she could use Cabot cheese.

Hall said that the traditional category typically includes classic kinds of macaroni and cheese reminiscent of what your grandmother used to make — simple and delicious with cheese and a crumb topping.

The sauce is the most important part of

the process for Dutcher, who uses cornstarch instead of flour for thickening.

“Flour takes a little bit longer to process for thickening and depending on what kind of flour you get, where it comes from will change the flavor of the cheese,” she said.

Plus, she likes the “shimmery look” cornstarch gives to creamy sauces, noting that presentation is another important part of the process.

Dutcher said she’s open to trying her hand in the creative category in the future, once she sees how things go this year. She has ideas for recipe variations like a macaroni and cheese with ham from the pigs she raises, broccoli and a topping of dried tomatoes and bread crumbs or French’s fried onions.

“I always try to make sure that even though I have [a good recipe] that I try to be a little creative, [to] wake your taste buds up,” she said.

The creative/exotic category is filled with all kinds of flavor creations, Hall said, like lobster, bacon, apple crisp, lamb curry and even a cold blueberry cheesecake macaroni and cheese with mascarpone and cream cheese.

“Sometimes you’ll get a recipe that comes through and [think], ‘Oh no that does not sound good,’” Hall said. “It’s taught me to never judge a recipe by its cover.”

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Learn how to make butternut squash ravioli, Italian breads and margherita piz-

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and also debunking some of the preconceived notions surrounding artisanal Italian fare.

“Bread, everyone gets a little daunted [by it], so this is a nice intro course on how to make bread and it’s not as scary as it sounds. And pizza is something everyone enjoys making,” Tarbox said.

“They’re nice and hearty dishes too and quite unique.”

Novice to advanced cooks are welcome to attend, with no prior experience necessary. Even the age demographic ranges in the classes, Tarbox said, from 12-yearolds to adults.

“After cooking up a storm [for the holidays] it’s nice to learn something new and get out of the cold and put on an apron and learn how to make some Italian food,” she said.

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“People know about pizza, pasta and gelato, but they don't know about the history behind it,” she said.

Tuscan Market starts the new year of classes by showing guests how to make cappellacci di zucca, butternut squash ravioli.

“It’s not something you find every day here in the U.S.,” she said.

The class begins in typical fashion: Everyone puts on an apron and enjoys a crostini and prosecco tasting before the chefs leading the class introduce themselves and get folks started at their work stations. It’s a fully hands-on workshop, and participants will not only make and assemble the pasta and filling, but also enjoy a three-course meal featuring their creation after the class.

“It’s fun to watch them make cappellacci because everyone’s looks a little different,” Tarbox said.

For the bread class on Jan. 25 the group will make cinnamon bread and semolina bread, and for the pizza class on Feb. 8 it’s all about the traditional margherita. There will be food to bring home after all three classes.

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No food made in a Fryolater, no CocaCola products served at the bar and plenty of superfoods on the menu — those are just a few of the changes patrons can expect to find when they visit Manchester’s XO on Elm after the debut of its new clean eating concept in February.

“The goal is to have an additive-, preservative-, chemical-free restaurant,” said owner Rosa Paolini.

She’s been preparing for this big shift for the past three years, making the decision to completely overhaul the restaurant’s concept after researching the restaurant industry and realizing that many consumers aren’t aware of the ingredients going into their food.

“We pay all this money to eat [foods that might cause] cancer,” she said. “People are adults and have the freedom to choose where to eat. As a business owner, I have the right to choose what I’m selling.”

XO on Elm has been open for six years (she’s been in the business for 18 years) and has established a regular clientele, “but it gets to the point where it’s time to start educating our customers,” she said.

Paolini’s goal for XO is to be as local, sustainable and organic as possible, an ideal that isn’t without its challenges when it comes to New Hampshire. “Local” won’t be defined as products grown only in the state’s soil but through partnerships with local farms and businesses, like Four Seasons Aquaponics and A Market, that align with the clean eating concept.

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The redesign of XO on Elm will take form in a few key ways, one of which is a farm-toglass cocktail and juice bar. Its name is Green Glass Gourmet or “The 3 G’s,” a juice bar that’s its own entity housed within XO. Alcoholic beverages behind the bar will include locally produced wine, beer and spirits and mixers made with organic cola. The cocktails will have interesting twists like a kale-ito, a mojito made with kale and coconut sugar instead of mint and regular sugar, or a pomegranate martini.

“You want your normal drinks? Elm Street is full of that,” Paolini said. “When you come to XO, you’re going for an experience.”

To give an idea of the types of ingredients that will grace the new menus, Paolini gathered a box of colorfully labelled products: wheatgrass shots, goji berry and blueberry superfruit for salads, pomegranate powder, matcha green tea powder, coconut water, car-

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Running an all-natural, all-organic bar during a New Hampshire winter is tricky; for the time being, she’s sourcing organic powdered vegetables and fruits to create the desired flavors. The ultimate goal is to preserve local fruits and vegetables in the summer to use year round.

“In my hometown it was a lifestyle,” she said — her grandfather owned a large farm in the south of Italy, so coming back to a cycle of preserving and utilizing is very familiar for Paolini. “Whatever we produce in the summer, then you produce that to have it in the winter.”

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Not all of the original concept of XO on Elm will be lost come February. Certain menu items, like the lamb shank, will remain but might be prepared differently. But if it can’t be altered in a healthy way, it’s gone, like the crab rangoon Paolini is struggling to let go of — Fryolators and deep-fried foods won’t have a place in the new XO. “It’s going to hurt, but I’m doing people a favor,” she said. “When they try a new food they are going to fall in love.”

One of the new foods people can try is bone broth, a nutrient-dense dish that Paolini calls “liquid gold.”

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“I want to teach people to eat well, feel well and show them that eating healthy is not boring; it’s beautiful,” she said. “Delicious dishes can be made with good ingredients.”

One of the biggest obstacles she encountered along the multi-year process was finding professionals well-versed in clean cooking and eating. She remedied that issue by inviting her mother to come to New Hampshire for three months starting at the end of January to help train the staff.

“She’s an amazing cook, she knows how to make olive oil, cheese, wine — you name it she knows how to make it,” Paolini said.

“My mom grew up on a farm, old school. …

She never used bouillon cubes, never owned a microwave [or] a Fryolater.”

Aware of the big leap she’s taking, Paolini hopes the community responds to the changes at XO and that her risk encourages other area restaurants to step up as well.

“If I don’t get the response from people, they don’t accept eating healthy is a beautiful thing, I promise you I will never be in the restaurant business again,” she said. “Now that I know the truth, I’m not going to … [serve] something that is going to kill you.”

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Folks can get bone broth (chicken, beef, fish or vegan options) in a to-go cup or to sip at a table.

Other standout dishes she’s particularly excited about are ceviche, a citrus flashcooked fish, zucchini noodles, black bean pasta, red lentil pasta, quinoa pasta and “flatza,” a mix between a pizza and a flatbread with a chia and honey crust. They’re going to use coconut oil for cooking, and mostly will use slow cooking methods to maintain nutrients.

“When you don’t put any chemicals or preservatives or additives in your system, you are happier,” she said. “Your mood changes, you lose weight, you have a lot more energy.

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• Let them make cake: Children can explore their sweet and creative sides and learn to decorate a cake at a Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, Amherst, pastry.net) cake-decorating class on Monday, Jan. 18, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The Winter Wonderland theme begins with an eight-inch rich chocolate or golden vanilla cake to cover in buttercream frosting and top with seasonal decorations like penguins, snowmen, icicles, snowballs, snowflakes and more. Kids must be accompanied by an adult, wear rubber-soled shoes and keep long hair tied back. Class costs $65. Register online or call 882-7725.

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While I tend to eat chicken breasts more often than other forms of chicken, thighs are an excellent option in the winter when the oven should be your best friend.

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Church & charity suppers/ bake sales • WESTERN HOEDOWN AND SPAGHETTI SUPPER Enjoy DJ, dancing, games, prizes and dinner. Proceeds benefit YMCA's Dance in Motion competitive dance team. Fri., Jan. 29, from 3:30 to 9 p.m. YMCA of Greater Nashua, 24 Stadium Drive, Nashua. Tickets cost $8, $20 for families. nmymca.org.

• POTTER'S BOWL To benefit Community Caregivers. Choose a handmade pottery bowl (to take home) and enjoy all-you-can-eat soup, plus bread and dessert from local restaurants and businesses.

Silent auction includes 50 pieces of fine art and NH crafts. Sat., Jan. 30, from 5 to 8 p.m. Pinkerton Academy freshman cafeteria, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. Entry fee

Classes/workshops • 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.

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• 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. finessepastries.com.

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• 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.

Get 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.

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It’s officially winter. In case we had any illusions about skipping over the cold part of the year, last week was a rude awakening. The weather affects us all deeply.

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My keys to perfecting winter cuisine are these: roast, one-pot and leftovers. I love to make big meals in the oven that last. If I make a healthy, simple meal in the oven and my family can eat it for two meals, then I set us all up for success. My life is easier and my body is healthier — win-win.

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I recently saw a very entertaining article from Vinepair called “The 14 types of wine drinkers who will drive you nuts.” Having been to a few wineries and tastings, I have definitely come across some of these personalities. In case you didn’t see the article, here are some of my favorites and my own take on them.

The “heavy red or it isn’t wine” drinker. While the authors say some of us know these people as our parents, I have definitely met a few of these people in my time who were not my parents. I even had one person tell me that New Hampshire offered only “women’s wines” and just super sweet ones. “I like a nice man’s wine, you know the kinda big red.” Not only were those comments sexist but they are not true.

The “think pink” drinker. We all know someone who thinks that Gallo or Beringer white zinfandel is the best wine out there.

Part of me cringes at the thought (although, hey, I can’t say I have never had it when there was nothing else available), but part of me says people should just drink what they like. So if white zinfandel is their favorite, who am I to say it is one of the worst wines out there? No judgment.

The butter lover. While the authors say this wine drinker is Aunt Susan with a bad attitude, this is my dad in our family. My least favorite wine out there is an oaky, buttery chardonnay — which also happens to be my dad’s favorite. When there is nothing — and I mean no other wine to drink — I may choke down a glass, but I much prefer anything else (even white zinfandel).

The box believer. I am going to disagree with the authors on this one, as boxed wine has come a long way over the years. For some people, it makes sense to put a box of wine in the fridge and pour from it as needed.

The traveler. The authors basically describe this person as a wine snob who will only drink a wine from a foreign place while telling you about the time they visited the village where it was made. I guess I can relate to this on a much smaller scale, because I enjoy telling people about our local New Hampshire wineries. I try really hard not to be a snob about it, though.

The “who needs a glass” drinker. This one reminds me of my college days when a bottle of Boone’s Farm seemed like a great idea. These days, I always use a glass. It may be a full one, but it still is a glass!

The wine purist. This is the wine drinker that prefers an expensive bottle of wine

from his or her wine cellar versus anything you bought at the local grocery store. This is one of my least favorite wine personalities because he or she criticizes everyone else’s tastes, firmly believing that his or hers is the best. The truth is, you do not need to drink an expensive wine to enjoy it.

Just enjoy whatever you like.

The pushy wine taster. This is my own submission, but it is one I encounter often.

There is nothing worse than being at a busy winery and having a pushy person bump into other people while carrying a giant purse with no regard for others’ space. Wineries get busy and everyone is waiting on another pour, so please just enjoy your time there and wait your turn politely. And then when it is your turn, do not ask the employees annoying, irrelevant questions to make yourself sound smart. If your question is about the wine, that’s fine, but asking the amount of residual sugar is annoying for everyone else around you.

The “I am pretending to like wine” wine taster. This is another one of my submissions. Not everyone likes wine, and that’s OK. But if you really don’t, then please don’t go to a winery only to complain and tell everyone how much you dislike everything that is put into your glass. It really ruins the experience for the rest of us.

So there you have it — some of the wine drinkers that drive all of us nuts. There are probably many more but I only have so much room.

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This is an electro venture here, but I can’t help but be reminded of Die Form, the goth duo whose warped S&M imagery would be cartoonish if it weren’t so fuzzily rendered. On the other hand, these two guys (La Dame Noir’s artistic director Phred Noir and Meant Records’ mononymed chief Remain) cauterize their unhurried bedroom-hair electro with such things as Nintendo loops, dextromethorphan-addled female vocals (“Silver and Lust”) and faraway wub-wubs (“Third Thrill”), so it’s intelligible enough without being overly indie. Six years in and these guys are still into it, which does show, even if half of this EP’s four songs are covers. B — Eric W. Saeger

PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases • Generation Gap Dept.: This time of year, thoughts turn to the state of music, especially after stumbling upon an article by Jim Fusilli, music writer for the Wall Street Journal, in which he accuses people of generally being closed-minded about newer music. I’d have no problem amusing myself reading some misguided rant from the latest corporate-owned fuddy-duddy, and Fusilli does understand that, culturally, people in general tend to stick with “the oldies” from their own generation, but he opines that the reason for this is the myriad stresses of getting old, i.e. that between getting the kids to soccer practice and doing the bills, there’s no time for Boomers/Xers/ Millennials to investigate new music. That’s partly true, but there are other obstacles to advancing one’s musical range past “Whole Lotta Love” or “Steal My Sunshine,” and guys like Fusilli represent one of those obstacles. For example, his year-end best-of list reads like a “Books I Read This Summer” essay written by some aging hack who stole the list off the Internet. There’s the new Bjork LP, of course, because where would Middle America be without that overrated human Rorschach test bemoaning-or-something the loss of her relationship with whatsisname, and Kendrick Lamar, whose rap/jazz-opera (featuring genuine jazz musicians!) gave privileged whites yet another opportunity to study non-Sudanese black life and tsk-tsk about it while not lifting a finger to help. Like all his brethren, Fusilli’s a dunce with no interest in beauty, history or musical structure. He just knows Bjork is cool, because, well, she is, you know, and weird, disjointed melodies are important. Would it be dangerous to play a Charles Mingus record for these guys? Would they collapse in a heap?

As a fuddy-duddy secretly fearful of becoming irrelevant and who actually believes working parents only like blues-rock, Fusilli suggests bands like Floating Points, probably because uninspired noise-techno is high in fiber. That has to be his excuse, because, if we follow his personal lead, the only other option is digging on nostalgia throwbacks like Alabama Shakes. Yes, the only way to get people to evolve past 1960s-rock is with – spoiler! – more 1960s-rock. He could have recited the Aughts-era Warp Records catalog and been done with it.

Yes, people who are older don’t have a lot of time to get into Pandora’s or Spotify’s guts and fiddle with it until they find something they like. But there’s another part of it, which is the comfort that all people, non-musicians and actual musicians alike, get from listening to their go-to albums for first dates or the music they partied to when they weren’t dealing with careers and kids and whatnot. And since the current political environment outright refuses to pass an infrastructure-jobs bill or unleash the alternative energy industry so that we don’t have to worry so much about keeping our stupid jobs and can make new happy, unstressed memories, no, lots of people have every right to say “take this Bjork and shove it.” If you have the time and inclination to investigate streaming music, great. But if you don’t, the overlords still have use for you, don’t worry.

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The first people to see Chris Bohjalian’s novels are usually his wife, photographer Victoria Blewer, and his daughter, Grace Experience Blewer, who’s been reviewing his rough drafts since she was 13. Both, he said via phone, are “brilliant readers.”

And it’s perhaps because of them that many of Bohjalian’s titles are told from the female perspective. His last book, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, for instance, is centered around a homeless teen, Emily, who lives in an igloo made of ice, trash bags and frozen leaves after a nuclear plant meltdown kills her parents. His latest book, released in January, The Guest Room, tells of a bachelor party gone horribly wrong, and in which a young sex slave, Alexandra, is running for her life.

“I tend to write about things that worry me the most,” Bohjalian said via phone New Year’s Day from his Vermont home.

“So that means writing about women in jeopardy and women in trouble. My fears, my worst fears, are for my wife and my daughter.”

Just the same, he enjoys writing across gender and has done it for about half his books. His daughter even went so far as to say he found his niche with Emily.

“When my daughter, Grace, read Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, she said, ‘Dad, please take this as a compliment, because I mean it that way, but I think your sweet spot as a novelist is with seriously messedup young women.’”

Grace Experience Blewer, a New York actress and recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is also the audiobook actress for both that title and The Guest Room, among others for Penguin Random House Audio.

“She’s really good. I steer very clear, very far from the studio when she’s recording.

Because first of all, she’s a professional,” Bohjalian said. “And I don’t want to hear her voice some of the things her character has endured. … I will listen to a few chapters I know are safe for me to listen to, but I will steer clear from listening to the most heart-wrenching, heartbreaking scenes in the books.”

Bohjalian does all his own research, and having written a column for the Burlington Free Press for years, he’s become accustomed to and enjoys talking with people for interviews. His life as a journalist taught him how to ask the right questions, the importance of doing your homework and to be concise.

“It teaches you to write scenes quickly and get to the point,” Bohjalian said. “I fear I’m the kind of novelist if, unencumbered, I could spend 50 words describing a scene.”

But he performs interviews differently as a novelist, with more leisure and different expectations. Often, they’re done to fact-check, to confirm his characters and scenarios are realistic and relatable.

It sometimes takes longer, but his subjects usually find it easier, knowing they can have complete anonymity if they want to.

Living in Vermont also helps. Even when he wasn’t a big name, a little more than 20 years ago, he always found people willing to talk because everyone knows each other.

For The Guest Room, there was also a lot of reading — an important title was Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery — and a lot of playing around with the idea. This one came from an experience he had while staying in Yerevan, Armenia. His daughter’s friend had come along with the family for the trip, and while he waited in the hotel lobby to take her to the airport, Bohjalian saw a young woman, clearly an escort around 19 or so, paying off the bellman to go upstairs. It was heartbreaking.

The first chapter he wrote for The Guest Room was one of the last chapters in the book, told in Alexandra’s voice.

“That was a good indication to me this was a book I wanted to write, because I knew Alexandra’s voice. I had fun writing in Alexandra’s voice, and it felt authentic to me,” Bohjalian said. “I go through a number of dead ends before I figure out what my next book is going to be, and that’s fine.

I wanted to explore this, even if I wasn’t precisely sure what ‘this’ meant.”

When he’s not on a book tour, he wakes at about 6 a.m. and writes until lunch, with the goal of producing about 1,000 words.

Besides spending time with his wife and daughter, he said there’s little he enjoys more. When he was in college, a writerin-residence told him to “be a banker.” He ignored her and ventured forward anyway.

“I have written some truly terrible stuff in my life — I’ve written the worst first novel ever published, so maybe she was on to something at the time, and maybe my writing at the time really was a trainwreck,” Bohjalian said. “But I [kept at it] because I just loved to write.”

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Cassie and Gina did not grow up in Lily The old writer’s platitude “Write what House, but in the modest home a mile you know” only works if the writer knows away, described in the novel’s opening. It about things that are interesting. Armsden had a fabulous water view and a few ornate does, and her life experience combines to touches, such as the portraits of ancestors create a skillfully plotted New England “who seemed to ask her with a thin-lipped novel with a satisfying sense of place. It’s grimness whether the aristocratic likes of not a throbbing page-turner, but a leisurethem could expect a more dignified future ly, philosophical analysis of a life, overlaid beyond this humble home.” It is the home with the power of a physical dwelling which the adult Gina shuns because of place, not only while we live there but after traumatic memories from childhood, but we leave it. despite them, the house has a hold on her, Blueprints for houses can be corrected to and she is determined to figure out why. (In prevent errors, but, “There were no blueone vivid piece of imagery, Gina imagines prints for a human life, no architect to pore memories, “nested wasp-like in these walls, over details that would ensure a sound and ready to swarm.) enduring structure,” Gina observes in the She begins sketching the house, and the novel. “…When it came to human lives, process summons cobwebby recollections corrections were only occasionally made; that are interspersed with the real-time nar- life grew around a secret like skin around a rative to slowly reveal not only the whole splinter.” It has a lackluster title, but Dream of Gina’s life, but that of her parents, as House is smarter than it looks, and Armswell as their true motivations. The family den is a promising writer. B+ spells dysfunction with a capital D. It com— Jennifer Graham

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• Poetic snapshots: UNH professor and writer Andrew Merton visits RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth, on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 6:30 p.m., to sign and read from his new collection of poetry, Lost and Found. In the collection, Merton has condensed his life into potent, minimalist snapshots, chronologically arranged and driven by “honest and subtle tenderness,” as described in the press release. For more information, call 431-2100, email info@riverrunbookstore.com or visit riverrunbookstore.com.

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• ANDREW MERTON Author talks about Lost and Found.

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• LARRY CULTRERA Author talks about his book, New Hampshire Diners. Sat., Jan. 16, at 11 a.m. Toadstool Bookstore, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough.

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• LIYUEN BUESING Author discusses new cookbook, Dining With Liyuen. Sun., Jan. 17, at 4 p.m. RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth. Call 4312100. Email info@riverrunbookstore.com.

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

Tues., Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. Visit themusichall.org.

• DAN SZCZESNY Author presents program, "Living the Traveling Life." Covering most common travel issues. Tues., Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. Dover Public Library, 73 Locust St., Dover. Call 5166050.

• 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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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio gets beaten up by a bear in The Revenant, a really long movie about walking through a snowy landscape.

Bring a sweater and maybe skip the iced soda — this movie makes you cold.

Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) and his son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) are working as guides for a company of trappers in the American Midwest some decades pre-Civil War. The company is attacked by a group of Native Americans from the Arikara tribe who are looking for the chief’s daughter who was abducted by two unknown white men. Hugh and his son are able to get a few men to safety, including company captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), the young buddy of Hawk’s Bridger (Will Poulter) and Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), a man with complaints. Fitzgerald’s many constant complaints include: • that the Glasses couldn’t prevent or predict the attack.

• that the Glasses are untrustworthy because Hawk is half Pawnee.

• that they had to leave behind (hidden, for later reclamation) the bales of furs the men gathered.

• that they have to carry a few of the bales and that they are heavy.

• that Henry chose to walk over the mountains to the military fort, even though everybody points out that if they had taken the boat they would surely be killed by the Arikara.

• and finally, Fitzgerald is annoyed about how much money he’s not likely to make from this endeavor now that it’s gone wrong.

An aside: In these movies, it is always this guy, the complainy guy, who is either evil or incompetent or both. After the thousandth complaint, you wonder why any trust is given to the guy who obviously has some nefarious intent.

As the men climb a mountain range to make it to the military fort, still under threat of being found by the Arikara, Glass has a chance encounter with a large bear. He’s left barely alive, with significant lacerations to his neck, chest and back. Though the few

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remaining men barely have the strength to drag themselves and a few bales of furs over the mountain, they make a stretcher and carry Glass as well. Eventually, they decide they can go no farther with Glass, so Hawk, Bridger and Fitzgerald stay behind to care for Glass until he dies and give him a proper burial. All go along with this for a bit but then Fitzgerald gets itchy to be done with Glass duty and catch up with the remaining rest of the company. He attempts to hurry Glass to his eternal rest but Hawk catches him. Fitzgerald kills Hawk in front of the immobile, notable-to-talk Glass. When Bridger, who has been fishing in the river, returns, Fitzgerald suggests that Hawk has wandered off. Later, Fitzgerald hurries Bridger away from the dying but still not dead Glass, claiming that the Arikara are just minutes away. Bridger reluctantly leaves, giving Glass a canteen filled with water.

Thus begins the endless middle section of the movie, which features multiple groups slowly walking — occasionally riding horses — across a snowy, icy landscape. There are the company remnants, Bridger and Fitzgerald, the Arikara still seeking the chief’s daughter and an injured but revenge-hungry Glass. Occasionally, we bump into others:

a Pawnee man who has lost his family to a recent skirmish with the Sioux, a group of French trappers who seem to be allied with the Arikara but are eventually shown to be equal-opportunity scavengers.

There’s a lot to like in this section of the movie. The wilderness where the story takes place (Wikipedia says it was filmed primarily in Canada, meant to stand in for an area that in the real-life story on which this was all based is roughly South Dakota) is beautiful in a way that is both striking and terrifying — endless plains and giant mountains being both lovely and a kind of hell when it is sleet-snowing and a person’s only protection is a bear skin.

Watching Glass crawl and hobble and eventually hike through all this unforgiving land with horrible injuries, relying on survival knowledge and very rare help/stealable provisions from others, is kind of fascinating.

Like, half of it is fascinating. The other half is repetitive. And then we get some dream sequence-y stuff about Glass’s Pawnee wife and Hawk’s childhood that is a little too selfconsciously artsy and capital “I” Important to have the impact I think it’s meant to have. The Revenant clocks in at two hours and 36 minutes and, as I complained with The Hateful Eight, longer does not equal better. Slowing a

well-paced movie way down to let you look at something or consider something can really give impact to the thing you’re getting a moment to focus on. Snail-pacing an entire movie does not achieve the same thing. In this case, I felt impatient with the umpteenth shot of Henry and his company looking around on a ridge or Fitzgerald urging Bridger to go forward. Because the movie dragged its feet like a preschooler refusing to put on a jacket, I felt increasing frustration with the story’s slowpokery, and likely missed little moments.

Putting the lovely cinematography and frustrating pacing aside, the rest of The Revenant is, like, fine. Fine, OK, not-bad I guess.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance was a lot about the make-up and the wheezing and limping from the “bear” injuries, but on balance it was more watchable than not.

Speaking of the bear, the bear mauling scene only once, maybe twice, made me think of an animatronic bear at a children’s arcade, which is not bad for an animal scene. Whatever the bear was — CGI, stunt bear, some combination of that — it was probably as well done as it could have been.

Tom Hardy’s whole deal was a little more mannered and a little less natural (than both the bear and DiCaprio). I feel like he could have taken down the “mountain man villain” thing a few notches and made his Fitzgerald a little more nuanced. Also, as mentioned previously, his sullen-teenager-on-a-car-trip list of complaints and the delivery of same was the equivalent of giving him an “I’m the guy you’re supposed to hate” sign to wear around his neck.

I disagree with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which awarded this movie “Best Motion Picture — Drama” last Sunday over the far superior Spotlight. The Revanant is overly-long and self-important and ultimately not compelling enough for me to want to put it at the top of even my truncated list of best movies. I will give it that it offers an interesting slice of life on the American frontier, even if that slice should have been a good half hour thinner. BRated R for strong frontier combat and violence including gory images, a sexual assault,

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language and brief nudity. Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu with a screenplay by Mark L. Smith & Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Michael Punke), The Revenant is two hours and 36 minutes long and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The Forest (PG-13)

Natalie Dormer goes searching for Natalie Dormer in Aokigahara, also known as the suicide forest in Japan, in The Forest, a not-terrible-I-guess idea for a horror movie that is executed so poorly even Natalie Dormer can’t save it.

Natalie Dormer is fun! I liked her Anne Boleyn in The Tudors, her Moriarty in Elementary, her propaganda-director person in The Hunger Games and her Boleyn redux Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones. She adds a nice mix of gravitas and humor and general spark to even doofier roles. If your movie has Natalie Dormer and you can’t make that movie work, your movie is total suckage.

A-hem, The Forest.

Responsible Sara (Dormer with blonde hair) learns that her wilder twin sister Jess (Dormer with dark hair), who is a teacher in Japan, has gone missing in the Aokigahara forest, a place known for being the forest people go to if they are thinking about offing themselves. Sara heads to Japan to start the search for Jess. Beware the forest, assorted people tell her, it can do screwy things to your head and it is full of ghosts. Luckily, maybe, Sara happens to meet Aiden (Taylor Kinney), an American travel writer. He is headed into the forest with a forest ranger, Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa), doing a look-forsuicide-victims hike. He offers Sara the chance to come along, especially if she’ll let him write about her search for her sister.

As they head into the forest, Michi warns Sara that she may see bad things but they probably aren’t real. Searching turns up some bodies and some creepiness but no Jess. Toward the end of the day, however, the group does find her tent. Jess is alive probably, Sara insists, and she decides to stay in her tent and wait for her to come back. Don’t stay in the forest at night, Michi warns. Natural-

ly, Sara brushes that off and, because this is a movie, Aiden agrees to stay with her.

Cue the creepy nighttime sounds! Is that screaming a person? Or a bird or a monkey?

Or could it be an angry ghost?

I think it’s a foley artist.

In the X-Files episode “Field Trip” (and yes, I had to look that up), Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a couple found in a remote wilderness and are themselves poisoned by hallucinogenic mushrooms that cause people to basically go nuts and never leave the mushroom habitat, allowing the mushrooms to feast on their mushroom-goosoluble parts. There was a part in The Forest when I thought we might be heading in that direction — an unknown something in the forest makes people hallucinate scary things and gets them all turned around. Or maybe it was going to be a “power of suggestion” thing, with the legends of spookiness plus the suicides causing people to be even more prone to turning every shadow and bird call into a an angry demon ghost. Or something where we’re kept wondering what’s real and what’s genuine supernaturalness. But the movie seems to lose interest pretty quickly in doing anything clever or nuanced when it comes to the scary scariness of the scary forest. Instead we get a suspicious schoolgirl showing up to say things to Sara that make no sense and not only the movie but I also lose interest in the mystery at the heart of The Forest. With the legends and the whole “twin telepathy” that the movie sets up, there was an opportunity to have some silly fun with the horror concepts of this movie. But the movie makes no attempt to truly mess with the perceptions of the audience. Nor does it even find a way to make good use of Dormer — both Sara and Jess are played as very flat “horror movie girl” characters that aren’t particularly interesting and don’t get us invested in their survival. CRated PG-13 for disturbing thematic content and images. Directed by Jason Zada and written by Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell and Ben Ketai, The Forest is an hour and 33 minutes long and is distributed by Gramercy Pictures.

POP CULTURE FILMS O’Neil Cinema 12 Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry, 434-8633 Regal Concord 282 Loudon Road, Concord, 226-3800 Regal Hooksett 8 100 Technology Drive, Hooksett Showcase Cinemas Lowell 32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass., 978-551-0055

MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Carol (R, 2015) Thurs., Jan. 14, at 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 15, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 1, 3:30 & 6 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 18, at 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 19, at 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 20, at 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Thurs., Jan. 21, at 2, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.

• The Danish Girl (R, 2015) Thurs., Jan. 14, at 2:05 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 15, at 12:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 12:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 12:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 18, at 2:05 & 5:25 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 19, at 2:05 & 5:25 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 20, at 2:05 p.m.; & Thurs., Jan. 21, at 2:05 p.m.

• Hitchcock/Truffaut (PG-13, 2015) Thurs., Jan. 14, at 2:10 & 7:15 p.m.

• An Evening With Ty Burr Thurs., Jan. 14, at 6 p.m.

• Spotlight (R, 2015) Fri., Jan. 15, at 3 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 3 & 8:15 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 3 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 18, at 8 p.m.; Tues., Jan 19, at 8 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 20, at 8 p.m.; Thurs., Jan. 21, at 6 p.m.

• Mustang (PG-13, 2015) Fri., Jan. 15, at 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 16, at 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 17, at 1:30 & 6:20 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 18, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:30 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 19, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:30 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 20, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., Jan. 21, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:30 p.m.

• Pay or Die (NR, 1960) Sun., Jan. 17, at 4 p.m.

• Labyrinth (PG, 1986) Wed., Jan. 20, at 6 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us • Mr. Holmes (PG, 2015) Fri., Jan. 15, at 3 p.m.

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CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 45 Green St., Concord, onconcord.com/library, 225-9670, call 230-3682 for titles • Family film Tues., Jan. 19, at 2 p.m.

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• String thing: Irish sessions take the week off for fiddler extraordinaire Laura Cortese, whose post-folk excursions draw critical raves and comparisons to everything from ELO to the Lomax field recordings. American Songwriter called her latest album, Into the Dark, “a fiddle-drenched Americana gem.” She appears with her band The Dance Cards on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m., at Stone Church, 5 Granite St., Newmarket.

Tickets $15 day of show or $12 in advance at stonechurchrocks.com.

• Music meld: The first in a series of Fusion Friday events features artists who combine distinct musical elements into a larger whole. It begins with Jenova 7, a Boston multimedia artist known for his Dusted Jazz instrumental series, and Les Rhoda, who mixes DJ and VJ work with saxophone playing. The effort is hosted by Shawn “DJ SP1” Spaulding. Happening Friday, Jan. 15, at 9 p.m., at Tin Roof Tavern, 333 Valley St., Manchester. See on.fb.me/1PRXTaQ. • Countrified: Rising star Sam Grow convinced his father to buy him a guitar by learning a few songs deemed “substantial” by dad. From a list including Elvis and Waylon, Sam Cooke’s “Bring it on Home to Me” did the trick. A few years later, Grow has sold 30,000 copies of two albums, quite a feat for an independent artist with no record deal. He appears Saturday, Jan. 16, at 8 p.m. at Country Strong Saloon (Pasta Loft), 241 Union Square, Milford. See facebook.com/samgrowfans.

• Sunday strum: Youthful guitar wizard Delanie Pickering launches an acoustic brunch series at a Warner coffee shop that also specializes in homemade soups and unique baked items. In addition to fine fretwork and slide skills, Pickering is an evocative singer.

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Joshua Davis performs at Tupelo

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Though Season 8 of The Voice ended with Joshua Davis in third place, he came away a winner. On the final night, he did something unprecedented in the show’s history when he performed his original song “Workingman’s Hymn.”

Finalists customarily debut a new work, but an established writer always provides it. That didn’t sit well with Davis, a veteran singersongwriter who’d released multiple albums before Team Adam Levine picked him.

“Songwriting is what I do,” he said in a recent phone interview.

Davis began to gently lobby for his own material; with each rise in the rankings, he made a more forceful case.

“Finally, I put my foot down and said, ‘I’m not going to do somebody else’s song and call it an original.’ I gave them five or six to pick from. I said, ‘That’s going to be it.’ There was a lot of … it was a really rough week. There are a lot of hands in the pot.”

He won the day, and in the end everyone seemed happy with the outcome.

“I think it turned out really well,” Davis said. “Hopefully, [Voice producers] will continue to do that.”

But he concedes his radical idea may not happen again. In a strange twist, the song unwittingly put Davis in the company of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen as a musician inspiring a politician for the wrong reasons.

Jeb Bush liked “Workingman’s Hymn” so much he began playing it at rallies. The candidate heard a hopeful chorus — “I know that we can turn it around” — but somehow missed the meaning of a pro-union song written in 2008 as a disapproving retort to his brother’s presidency.

Davis is a purposeful songwriter.

Joshua Davis When: Wednesday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.

Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road, Londonderry Tickets: $20 at tupelohall.com Night Life Music, Comedy & Parties • BANGKOK DISCO at Concord Community Music School (23 Wall Street , Concord 228-1196) on Thursday, Jan. 14, 12 p.m. Bach's Lunch: Get in the Groove: Funk, Boogaloo, & Jazz - featuring Jazz Department faculty member Tom Robinson on piano, Music School alumnus Scott Kiefner on bass, and guest artist Jared Steer on drums.

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“I try my best to line up my work with my values,” he said. His most recent album, 2013’s A Miracle of Birds, is an unflinching musical exploration of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, drawn from firsthand experience.

Commissioned by nonprofit organization On The Ground, it came after Davis ran a fiveday, 129-mile ultra marathon race across the length of the West Bank. Davis was a cultural emissary, hosting musical events at each stop.

For Davis, a Jew, it was an eye-opening experience. His family legacy collided with jarring reality, like the sight of young Palestinians being tear-gassed by soldiers while trying to plant olive trees. The resulting 12-song record provides no easy answers.

“I had conflicting views … it’s so divisive,” he said. “A lot of it was just trying to not tell people what to think, but to take a very personal standpoint.”

Currently at work on a new album, Davis finds himself in a different place artistically.

“I’ve been writing a lot of love songs. I’ve never written much of them before; my songs in the past have been historical, story songs — more socially conscious,” he said. “I feel this kind of urgency to just enjoy what we have [and] write songs that give hope to people; and I have a new son [his second child], and so I have been writing songs for my kids.”

Davis’s activist bent isn’t entirely gone, though.

at Grange Hall (State Route 11 & Chase Hill Road, East Andover 7355135) on Friday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m.

Warner-based quartet The DoBros are featured at the monthly "Third Friday" concert, which is open to the public at no charge; donations are accepted.

• LEAVING EDEN at VWF Post 8546 (42 North Broadway, Salem 8987924) on Friday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. $8 - Come on out and support American Veterans with nationally touring band - all roceeds going to veteran services.

“Even throughout the love songs there’s a spirit of struggle, and hope through struggle,” he said. “That is kind of a consistent current.”

The Michigan native grew up steeped in folk and blues traditions, attending a lot of music festivals with his parents in the Detroit area.

“The attitude there focused on passing the torch to the next generation,” Davis said. “I would go up with my guitar at 13 years old and talk to John Hartford, Greg Brown, John Hiatt, Spider John Koerner, people that were larger than life in my mind. That they would sit down with a kid and talk to them for a while … [which] really inspired me.”

Though an unlikely contestant, Davis is grateful for his reality television talent show experience.

“Going into The Voice, I was really concerned about what the culture was going to be like,” he said. “Competition is not something that I’m comfortable with. I’m into collaboration. … I worried that it would be cutthroat, but it was like a big family.”

Moreover, the experience helped him grow as a singer.

“I had never had any vocal or technique coaching [so] to go through that boot camp … the process of looking at my voice in addition to my guitar helped me in a huge way,” he said. “I sing a lot differently now [and] I see it more as another instrument that I can use. That has been really inspiring.”

• DECATUR CREEK at Spireside Coffee Housee (6 Stark Highway North, Dunbarton 744-4601) on Saturday, Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation - Their influences run from roots to Americana, country, singer/ songwriter, folk, and rock, always with the focus on the songs. Doors & Open Mic signups at 7.

• OPEN MIC NIGHT at Apotheca Flower Shoppe (24c Main St., Goffstown 497-2102) on Friday, January 22, 7 p.m. All forms of creative expression

are welcomed. Relax, and enjoy an unpredictable evening of local talent.

• CHRISTINE LAVIN & DON WHITE at Peterborough Folk Society (55 Hadley Road, Peterborough 3189196) on Friday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m. $22 Since 2008 these two veteran performers have brought their unique brand of clean and hilarious musical comedy to audiences across the US proving night after night that comedy can be smart, friendly, and breathtakingly funny without being vulgar or pejorative.

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Moultonborough Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road 478-5900

Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq. 943-7443 5 Dragons 29 Railroad Sq. 578-0702 Arena 53 High St. 881-9060 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Mason Highway Marty’s Driving Range 888-4880 96 Old Turnpike Rd Country Tavern 878-1324 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers Meredith 38 East Hollis St. Giuseppe’s Ristorante 577-1718 312 DW Hwy 279-3313 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Merrimack Fratello’s Italian Grille Homestead 194 Main St. 641 DW Hwy 429-2022 889-2022 Jade Dragon Haluwa Lounge 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 Nashua Mall 883-6662 Pacific Fusion Killarney’s Irish Pub 356 DW Hwy 424-6320 9 Northeastern Blvd.

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Manchester Central Ale: Jonny Friday Blues City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Fratello's: Jazz Night Funktion: Charlie Chronopolous

Nashua Plaistow Arena: College Night with DJ Racks: Blues Jam w/ Steve Hizzy Devine Country Tavern: Olde Salt Fratello's: Justin Cohn Portsmouth Riverwalk Cafe: Big Ben Birdseye: Steve Roy & Friends Hillman Fat Belly's: DJ Flex Shorty's: Kieran McNally Red Door: Green Lion Crew Thirsty Moose: Dub Train Newmarket Stone Church: Laura Cortese Weare and the Dance Cards Stark House: Lisa Guyer Solo

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British Beer Company 103 Hanover St. 5010515 Cafe Nostimo 72 Mirona Rd. 436-3100 Demeters Steakhouse 3612 Lafayette Rd. 766-0001 Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. 431-5222 Fat Belly’s 2 Bow St. 610-4227 Grill 28 200 Grafton Road 433-1331 Hilton Garden Inn 100 High St. 431-1499 Lazy Jacks 58 Ceres St. 294-0111 Martingale Wharf 99 Bow St. 431-0901 Oar House 55 Ceres St. 436-4025 Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. 427-9197 Portsmouth Gas Light 64 Market St. 430-9122 Press Room 77 Daniel St. 431-5186 Red Door 107 State St. 373-6827 Redhook Brewery 1 Redhook Way 430-8600 Ri Ra Irish Pub 22 Market Sq 319-1680 Rudi’s 20 High St. 430-7834 Rusty Hammer 49 Pleasant St. 319-6981 Thirsty Moose 21 Congress St. 427-8645

Windham Common Man: Tristan Omand Friday, Jan. 15 Bedford Shorty's: Rob & Jody Belmont Lakes Region Casino: DJ Mark Boscawen Alan's: Jim Hollis Concord Makris: Downtown Dave & The Deep Pockets Pit Road Lounge: Classics 5 Red Blazer: Chafed Tandy's Top Shelf: DJ Iceman Streetz (105.5 JYY) True Brew: Delmore; special guests The Rebel Collective Contoocook Covered Bridge: Paul Hubert Dover Cara: Club Night w/ DJ Shawnny O Fury's Publick House: Whiskey Kill/Molenes Top of the Chop: Funkadelic Fridays

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Merrimack Homestead: Lachlan Maclearn Milford Aden China: DJ Brian J's Tavern: MickLoud Thunder & Friends

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Leddy Center 38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 679-2781, leddycenter.org Lowell Boarding House Park 40 French St., Lowell, Mass., lowellsummermusic.org Lowell Memorial Auditorium East Merrimack Street, Lowell, Mass., 978-454-2299, lowellauditorium.com The Middle Arts & Entertainment Center 316 Central St., Franklin, 934-1901, themiddlenh.org The Music Hall 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org The Old Meeting House, 1 New Boston Road, Francestown Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org

Prescott Park Arts Festival 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, prescottpark.org, 436-2848 Rochester Opera House 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com Stockbridge Theatre Pinkerton Academy, Route 28, Derry, 437-5210, stockbridgetheatre.com Tupelo Music Hall 2 Young Road, Londonderry, 437-5100, tupelohall.com Verizon Wireless Arena 555 Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000, verizonwirelessarena.com Whittemore Center Arena, UNH 128 Main St., Durham, 8624000, whittcenter.com

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Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) There were fascinating and delightful sights and sounds around Aunt Marth’s house too. She had a great big spinning wheel in her living room, and I was quite taken with it. … That wheel seemed as big to me then as a Ferris wheel would now. You will encounter fascinating and delightful things.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) When I was a teenager, a carnival came to town with one sideshow that advertised the “Alligator Girl from the Nile.” … There in a tank, actually a cheap backyard swimming pool, was my own cousin…. She was wearing a swimsuit, and it looked like they had glued green-dyed cornflakes onto her skin to give her that “crocodile” look. Beware cousins wearing cornflakes.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) The second man to walk on the moon left footprints every bit as deep as Neil Armstrong’s, and yet how many of us know his name? It’s the footprints that matter, not the name.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Chet [Atkins] is always ready with a joke. So are a lot of people, but one big difference about Chet is that he laughs just as hard if the joke is on him as he does when it’s on you. You will give yourself a good laugh.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Go for it, Myrtle. Dreams may be as fragile as soggy cornflakes,, but chase them anyway, and store away as many of them as you can in that special place that makes you you. You’ll want a good storage place for your fragile yet soggy dreams.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) There was one problem. The recording studio was in Louisiana. I was in Tennessee. I was twelve years old. The question for you is, how do you get from here to there?

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• Among the activists denouncing a proposed solar-panel farm at a December Woodland (North Carolina) Town Council meeting were a husband and wife certain that vegetation near the panels would die because the panels would (the husband said) “suck up all the energy from the sun.”

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• Paul Stenstrom of Tarpon Springs, Florida, is among the most recent Americans to have discovered the brightest side of federal bankruptcy law, having lived in his mortgaged home basically free of charge from 2002 until 2013 by using the law to stave off foreclosure. Even though none of his 15 petitions was ever approved, he followed each one immediately with another petition, and it was not until 2013 that one judge finally declared Stenstrom a “serially abusive filer,” barring further petitions for two years, at which point his bank was able to conclude the foreclosure. Upon expiration of the two-year period in September 2015, Stenstrom quickly filed another bankruptcy petition to keep from being evicted from the townhouse on whose rent he is four months behind.

• In December, Carlos Aguilera, 27, became the most recent brain-surgery patient to assist doctors by remaining conscious during the 12-hour operation and playing his saxophone to help assure surgeons that their removal of a tumor was not affecting his speech, hearing or movement.

The operation, at Spain’s Malaga Regional Hospital, was supposedly Europe’s first, but News of the Weird has reported two in the United States, including on a guitarstrumming man in 2013 at UCLA Medical Center.

• Though New York City’s waiting list for subsidized housing stands at over 300,000, the agency still has only nominal ability to evict a tenant who once qualified but subsequently became wealthier, and the latest “beneficiary” of those rules, according to a November WPIX-TV report, is a household that reported earning $497,911 in a recent year. Initially, one housing authority official declared it beneficial that such a mixture of income levels occupy subsi-

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• Nurse’s aide Candace McCray, 36, is the most recent theft suspect to have worn some of the purloined jewelry when meeting police detectives investigating the theft.

An assisted-living resident in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, had described her missing gems, and McCray was questioned as someone with access to the woman’s room.

• Joshua Jording, 26, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, became the most recent burglary suspect caught on surveillance video during the crime wearing a shirt with his name on it (which was later found in Jording’s home, along with a stash from the Dec. 2 burglary).

• Albert Luna, 19, was arrested in Coachella, California, in December and charged with swiping the keys while a Federal Express driver was unloading a package.

The driver reported that Luna later walked away when he could not figure out how to drive the truck. (Bonus: The arrest report noted that during the entire episode, Luna was naked.)

• Kyle Blair, 25, was arrested in Surrey, British Columbia, in November when he approached a car at an intersection and attempted to pull the driver out. For one thing, the two men in the car were later described as “big, burly” guys, but more important, they were plainclothes police officers on a stakeout.

Mendel Epstein (Lakewood, New Jersey) is not the only rabbi suspected of being over-

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• Another way to tell if you’re really, really drunk: Her passengers had run away, leaving Elena Bartman-Wallman, 23, behind the wheel but oblivious on a December afternoon in Aleknagik, Alaska, and her car’s tires had started to smoke. She had lodged her foot against the accelerator, facing the wrong way on the road, with her wheels spinning continuously, and by the time police arrived (to discover Bartman-Wallman passed out), the front tires had melted down to the rims.

Wrongful deaths

• When a woman leaped to her death on Dec. 12 from an apartment building in New York City, she of course landed on top of another woman, 71, who was left in critical condition.

• In December, Russia’s independent RT news site, culling a story from the country’s rural far eastern coast, reported the most recent case of a “declared dead” man awakening in a morgue. After a harrowing few hours, the man returned to the site of the party to find his friends “still drinking but [by] this time commemorating him.”

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