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“You all right?”

Although technically Americans and Britons speak the same language, we use it differently. On meeting one another, Americans tend to say, “Hi. How are you?” while Brits are likely to say, “You all right?” Concluding a trip to the UK, I noticed how often that question to me was almost immediately followed by, “How do you feel about your new president?”

On departing Boston, coincidentally on Inauguration Day, I’d promised myself 10 days free of politics and conversations about same. Yet wherever I traveled, that second question dogged me. Many probing conversations with Brits and later that week with Romans ensued. Of course I countered the former’s inquiries with my own about Brexit. But it wasn’t long before a common thread linked the topics, namely, surprise trending toward astonishment at the outcome of both votes and dismay at the potential implications. “How did this come to pass?” Pressing still deeper in these discussions, another concern emerged: the extreme polarization of those holding different views of the world and their country’s place in it. There was scant hope any reconciliation could take place and a feeling that events would just have to unravel to such an extent that the outcomes themselves would catalyze some change.

While my British friends focused on a shorter time frame, my Roman conversants took a much longer view. As one noted, “Rome has seen many governments and many rulers. Some have been tyrants, some moderate, some extreme, and a few others almost saintly philosophers. But we the Roman people are still here.”

In my nighttime reading, I reached back into our own history through John Avlon’s new book, Washington’s Farewell, and began to rekindle my admiration for our first president, who, after successfully leading the Revolution and serving our new country as its first executive, struggled till nearly the end of his life to reconcile one-time compatriots who now were engaged in such bitter and occasionally violent opposition that the new union was in danger of unraveling. For Washington, moderation was a source of strength: “A stable civil society depends on resisting intolerant extremes.” He recognized that partisan impulses needed to be restrained by a “... wise and vigilant citizenry.”

Walking back to my hotel on the final evening in Rome, I reflected on the significance of the inscription stamped into the pavement beneath my feet: SPQR (Senatus Populus que Romanus - the Senate and the Roman People).

Yes; it is our country and perhaps we should ask one another more often, “You all right?”

Stephen is executive director of Leadership New Hampshire. Email stepreno@gmail.com.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Program pairs veterans and farmers; in-home addiction help; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 22 THE ARTS: 24 ART Walk through Wonderland.

26 THEATER Mass Appeal.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 29 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

30 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

31 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

32 CAR TALK Automotive advice.

CAREERS: 34 ON THE JOB What it’s like to be a...

FOOD: 36 VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIALS Chocolate and wine tour; Mardi Gras Gala; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; Perishables.

POP CULTURE: 47 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz cuddles up for a relaxing cup of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and looks at some of the nine Oscar best picture hopefuls.

NITE: 52 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE Honest Millie; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more.

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

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NEWS & NOTES Cold case State investigators announced a major breakthrough in a decades-old cold case, linking a Manchester missing persons case with several murders, according to a press release. Prosecutors with the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said they believe Bob Evans, a drifter who went by four other names, is believed to be the serial killer who dumped the bodies of a woman and three female children in barrels in the woods of Allenstown. Evans died in prison using a different name in 2010 while serving a 15-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. He was the boyfriend of Denise Beaudin when the two went missing from their Manchester home along with Beaudin’s daughter in 1981. Investigators believe Evans also killed Beaudin but have not found any remains after searching their old house. DNA testing revealed that Evans was the father of the middle child found in Allenstown, and there is significant circumstantial evidence linking the man to those cases. According to the release, the breakthrough in the case came from Beaudin’s long-lost daughter, who is now married with three children. Evans, who is not related to the daughter, brought her with him across state lines and left her with a couple at a campground.

She was later adopted. As an adult, the daughter’s work to retrace her past helped investigators connect many of the dots in the case, though investigators still don’t know the identities of the bodies in Allenstown, the location of Beaudin’s remains or what Evans was up to in California for 12 years before being convicted of Jun’s murder.

Immigration protests Several Granite Staters and state leaders are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 120 days, keeping all refugees from entering the country for 90 days and placing an indefinite moratorium on Syrian refugees. NHPR reported a group of about 200 people protested the order in Peterborough. The state also joined 15 others whose attorneys general condemned the order, according to the article. According to press releases, Democratic elected leaders are also denouncing the

action. All 10 state Senate Democrats released a joint statement calling it an act of discrimination and saying that the action runs counter to “our fundamental values as Americans.” Emailed statements from U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen echo the sentiment.

Shaheen called the order “un-American and grossly inhumane.”

Air Force head Donald Trump’s pick for the new head of the Air Force is a New Hampshire native. Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, said in a recent press briefing that former Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson, a graduate of Keene High School, was his pick to lead the Air Force. Wilson was in the third graduating class of the Air Force Academy that included women and, if confirmed, would be the first Air Force Academy graduate to lead the Air Force. She earned her doctorate at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, according to WMUR, and served as National Security Council staff under President George H.W. Bush. Wilson is currently the president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Returning brigade The New Hampshire National Guard’s 197th Field Artillery Brigade returned to the state on Jan. 28 after a year-long deployment in the Middle East, NHPR reported. The more than 90 guardsmen had been training U.S. allies in the region on the use of field artillery and tactics to combat ISIS. The training is a part of Operations Spartan Shield and Inherent Resolve. There was a welcome home reception in the Manchester Armory, according to the article.

Family leave Advocates are pushing state lawmakers to consider supporting legislation that would provide paid family and medical leave and reduce the child-care cost burden. The AP reported doctors, parents and child advocacy groups are lobbying for two bills under the umbrella Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy. Most supporters in the legislature are Democrats but some Republicans have sponsored the bills as well. One bill would allow for up to 12 weeks of paid leave and another bill would allocate $15 mil-

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A racially charged flier was found at Concord High School titled “Lil Boat Ride to Africa.” The Concord Monitor reported it’s unclear how widely distributed the flier was, but it called on “all the Africans” to meet at a non-existent Spruce Street address. The school resource officer is investigating.

lion in state funds toward child care aid for low-income families. Gov. Chris Sununu said during a debate last year that he would support family and medical leave.

Incoming GOP chair Without anyone else in the running, former state Sen. Jeanie Forrester was voted in as the new chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party, the Concord Monitor reported. Forrester was the top Senate budget writer and a candidate for governor who lost to Chris Sununu in the primary last fall. During the party gathering on Jan. 28 in Derry, Forrester laid out her plan, called “Make New Hampshire Red Again.” The plan calls for expanding town committees, increasing funding from in-state sources and replacing the full-Democratic congressional delegation with Republicans. During the same meeting, members voted to make the party chair a paid position.

Climate report Michael Sununu, Gov. Chris Sununu’s brother, released a report with the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy that directly criticized some of the science behind December’s Coastal Risks and Hazard Report, which looks at the impact of climate change on the Seacoast. In his report, Sununu called the CRHR “alarmist hand wringing” that focuses on the unlikely worst-case scenario. He also said it would lead to wasteful spending of tax dollars.

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Amherst The interim school superintendent in Nashua, Cornelia Brown, Milford released her proposed 2017-2018 operating budget at a recent school board meeting. According to a press release, her recommended $105.9 budget represents a 1.2-percent increase over the last annual budget.

Bartlett stepping down After more than 40 years in child welfare and three years as director of the Division of Children, Youth and Families, Lorraine Bartlett will step down from that position by the end of March, according to a DCYF statement. The announcement comes in the wake of an independent review of the division following a number of high-profile child deaths. The report that

The Manchester Historic Association launched a smartphone app that provides an audio tour to visitors of the Millyard Museum. According to a press release, the audio tour is for the museum’s permanent exhibit “Woven in Time: 11,000 Years at Amoskeag Falls.” The tour marks Native Americans’ fishing in the falls as the early start of human industry in the area and charts the course of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., which would go on to become one of the largest textile producers in the world. The app is powered by OnCell.

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Farms need farmers and many disabled veterans need jobs; that’s why Rebecca Beaulieu and her husband Ken Beaulieu of Derry started Veterans Chapel Farm, a nonprofit organization that will provide free agricultural training to veterans and then provide land to use at Millcreek Dairy in Chester.

Right now, they have four veterans in the program, including Ken. One is using a plot of land to raise chickens and turkeys, another has a hop yard for growing hops and a third is making goat cheese from the milk the dairy produces.

“Whether it be vegetable production or livestock, we kind of cater to what it is they’re interested in,” CEO Rebecca Beaulieu said.

The Beaulieus started the program in partnership with Jeff Geary, co-owner of Millcreek Dairy with Ken Beaulieu.

The products that come out of the veterans’ work are sold at farmers markets and the Millcreek retail store. The participating veterans keep most of the profits with a portion going to the nonprofit.

Beaulieu said they can accommodate up to 12 participants at a time right now and hope to enroll four more within the next six months.

While there are a few more openings at Millcreek Dairy, Beaulieu is looking for additional partner farms who will be willing to take in veteran workers and their side ventures.

While Beaulieu says the program can introduce veterans to an industry that can prove healing and therapeutic for many, it can also benefit farms. Many family farmers are aging out of the business and don’t have someone else to take over for them

when they retire.

“We feel like veterans are uniquely equipped to farming, they have some of the characteristics that farmers really need, and what better place for a disabled veteran who maybe cannot return to the workforce and the capacity that they were in the military, to be able to heal here, be able to grow, to connect with other veterans … and giving back to the community in that way,” Beaulieu said.

Veterans Chapel Farm is teaming up with the University of New Hampshire agriculture program to train the vets. They then put together a business plan and after it’s workshopped and approved, they begin their business incubation. The idea is for them to spend about three years on Millcreek or future partnering farms before graduating and moving on.

While Beaulieu grew up on a farm, her husband Ken is a disabled Navy veteran who, after years of looking for a new career, decided to give farming a try. They received some training from UNH and connected with the Farmer Veteran Coalition in California.

After they moved to New Hampshire, they did some research and found that no similar program exists here. “[We] thought, well, if we don’t have one, we’re going to make one,” Beaulieu said.

Veterans Chapel Farm is partnering with a separate tiny house program in Lee organized by the Veterans Resort Chapel.

Rebecca Beaulieu hopes that in addition to the existing three tiny houses there, 10 more will be built within the next year. One of the current farm program participants is living in one of the tiny houses.

Veterans interested in participating in the Veterans Chapel Farm program are encouraged to email veteranschapelfarm@gmail. com or call Millcreek Dairy at 887-6455.

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New kind of in-home drug treatment underway in NH

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Getting the intensive care of an inpatient treatment program while living at home is now an option for addicts in New Hampshire.

Aware Recovery Care, a for-profit company, opened its Bedford location Dec. 1, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has contracted to cover the program, hails it as a game-changer. But state officials say it’s too soon to tell how big a difference it will make.

The traditional model

In order to best understand how it works, it’s important to look at the traditional addiction treatment models and how they differ.

“The old model of 25 days in a residential setting and then you go home and you have nothing has really been shown that that doesn’t solve the problem,” said Anthem Chief Medical Officer Dr. Richard Lafleur.

A press release from Anthem cites research that shows traditional treatment is a revolving door; some shows 87 percent of patients admitted to detox units in New England have previously been admitted and more than half have been there more than five times.

Data also show about 75 percent of patients in residential treatment programs have been in the programs multiple times.

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Matt Eacott, 33, is the vice president of Aware Recovery Care, a certified recovery advisor and a former patient in the program.

Before enrolling in the in-home treatment program, he had taken part in numerous treatment programs.

“In 10 years, I had gone to 15 treatment centers, I had violated probation seven times, I had gotten arrested probably eight or nine times and it would happen almost yearly or more often than that,” Eacott said.

Drugs had played a role in Eacott’s life since high school. It started with marijuana and mushrooms. When he got into Clark University in Massachusetts, he fell into a bad crowd and neglected his studies. After he was placed on academic probation, his drug use escalated.

Eacott was introduced to pills: Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin. He was soon addicted and began robbing people to feed his habit.

He eventually had to move back to Connecticut to live with his parents and participate in a court-mandated six-week IOP program.

It wasn’t until after he completed that program, around the early 2000s, that he started using heroin.

Over the course of a single year, Eacott’s usage ramped up from five bags of heroin a day (each bag is about .1 grams) to 85 bags a

day. He started to sell heroin to afford the hundreds of dollars required to pay for his daily diet of opioids and even devised a scheme to create counterfeit heroin to stretch his profits.

Whenever he was in traditional treatment programs, Eacott was enthusiastic about getting sober and engaged in the process. But within days or weeks of being released, he was back to using again.

“At least for me, I couldn’t transfer what I had learned to the real world,” Eacott said.

The problem, Eacott said, is he would have all kinds of support when he was in a controlled environment, but once he graduated from a program, drugs were more available and he didn’t have the same supports.

Finally, Eacott got to be part of an experimental new program that would become Aware Recovery Care. With the in-home treatment, a team of specialists is assigned to a patient and gets their family involved in the treatment and recovery process. Based on the visiting nurse model, the team includes an addiction psychiatrist, an addiction nurse, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and individual therapist and a certified recovery advisor.

And the program lasts for a whole year.

“Having a team of professionals basically following me and supporting me and at my disposal and guiding me, mentoring me all throughout the year, while I was experiencing triggering events and just basically life on life’s terms, made the difference for me,” Eacott said.

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Eacott said that since the home environment plays such a critical role in the program, some homes are more ideal than others.

“Our ideal client is someone who has a home environment that is somewhat stable,” Eacott said.

The state’s drug czar, James Vara, said since it’s only available right now to private payers and Anthem members, it’s not likely to make a huge dent in the addiction problem facing the state.

Eacott said right now there are about 12 to 15 patients in the state in Aware, which is available in the six southern counties. He said in-home treatment is so new, other insurers don’t recognize the model yet, but he hopes to change that. Right now the company is working to get covered by Medicaid.

Still, it’s unclear if this model would be possible for a larger population. While it saves overhead by not relying on its own residential facilities, it is labor-intensive and New Hampshire is struggling with a medical workforce shortage.

“Is it scalable? I think time will tell,” Lafleur said.

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Sure. I’ve worked in nonprofits, for-profits and a variety of different business models over the course of my career and have held mostly executive positions for probably over 20 to 30 years. … I was the COO at Easterseals New Hampshire [most recently]. … I actually come from a very poor background, frankly. I grew up right outside of Boston.

And that helped me to appreciate what it takes to make your way in life, I guess.

But [I] did move to New Hampshire back in 1985, so I’ve lived in New Hampshire longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. I love New Hampshire. So I know what it’s like to grow up in a household where you might have various struggles and challenges to overcome.

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Well, I think I had to be very independent. [I] came from a single-parent family and my mother worked often two or three jobs. So, as the youngest of three children, I had to be very independent and I think that that helped me to develop those sort of independent thinking skills. And I also developed a sense of empathy for the fact that things aren’t always easy and you don’t always know from whence somebody comes. You don’t always know the challenges that people are facing. So, I think I’m a very supportive leader, in that regard.

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What are the current strengths and weaknesses of the Spaulding Youth Center?

The Spaulding Youth Center is locatCourtesy photo. ed on a beautiful 500-acre campus that truly is just a gorgeous, representative-of-New-Hampshire type of environment. It’s on a small kind of hill/mountain and it has beautiful views. … And it’s a very healing and calming environment for our students and residents. Also, we’ve got a beautiful school, which for children with developmental challenges and neurological, emotional, behavioral learning challenges, it’s rare that you find a school specifically dedicated to serving the needs of those children.

And then our school itself is truly a beautiful school. It’s not even five years old.

It’s state of the art. … I think, like all nonprofits, we have very similar challenges in staffing, low unemployment, positions that we need to fill that are challenging to fill because of that. And funding. Funding for these kinds of programs are just not at the level that they need to be, which also makes it difficult for us to pay the wages that we’d like to pay.

What’s something you hope to change at the center?

We have a great opportunity to look at a diversification of programs, so not only continue to grow and evolve and … improve on the quality of the work that we do, which is already very high, but I think that we have a lot of opportunities around diversification of programs. … Because we’ve got all of this property and wonderful resources here … nestled between sort of the Lakes Region and Concord region, I just think that there are other things that we could be doing, other types of services that we could be exploring. And the board is very supportive of us doing that.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Women’s prison delays

The new women’s prison in Concord has already been delayed by cost overruns, but it may be delayed further by staffing issues, NHPR reported. Department of Corrections Commissioner Bill Wrenn told lawmakers before a House Finance Committee hearing that finding qualified staffers at the women’s prison in time for a fall opening, when the building is due to be ready, is unlikely given difficulty with recruiting efforts to date. The prison was originally due to open more than a year ago, but its opening was pushed back because construction costs rose to $50 million after $38 million was originally appropriated by the state’s capital budget.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Staffing issues have been a problem at all the state prisons.

Maple syrup flowing early

New Hampshire’s maple syrup production got a head start this year due to the unusually warm January weather. NHPR reported sugar houses are tapping their trees already across the southern part of the state, according to the New Hampshire Maple Syrup Producers Association. Producers usually don’t start tapping maple trees until mid-February. An unseasonably warm winter was the cause of early tapping last year as well. New Hampshire produces nearly 90,000 gallons of syrup each year.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Implications of climate change aside, QOL won’t complain about getting New Hampshire-made maple syrup a little early.

Manchester overdoses dropping

Manchester overdose numbers dropped to their lowest since Manchester Fire Department officials began keeping stats in August 2014, according to a story in the Union Leader. In January 2017, there were 29 suspected opiate-related overdoses, much lower than the 60 opiate-related overdose calls in January 2016, and the 55 in January 2015.

Some of the decrease could be due to the city’s Safe Station program, in which people with substance abuse can enter any Manchester fire station to seek help with addiction.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The Safe Station program is closing in on its busiest month ever, with more than 160 people coming in this month alone.

Derry gets a poet laureate

Robert Crawford was named Derry’s first poet laureate last week at a town council meeting, where he read “A Row of Stones” for the occasion, according to the Derry News. Crawford has been a longstanding supporter of the arts in town through his association with Robert Frost Farm, where he serves as a trustee and a co-founder of the Hyla Brook Poets. He’s heavily involved in the Frost Farm Conference for metrical poetry and the Hyla Brook Reading Series, and he helped initiate the Frost Farm Prize.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: QOL thinks you can’t have enough cultural programs like these. For more information on Robert Frost Farm, visit frostfarmpoetry.org.

QOL score: 55 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 57 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S LONGSHOTS

Falcons flying high for meeting with Pats

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The big game is just four days away, when the Patriots face the red-hot Atlanta Falcons in what will be a history-making day either way. If they win, it’ll be five Super Bowl wins for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, the most ever for any coach-quarterback tandem. But who out there knows if they lose the franchise goes under .500 in the big game overall and they tie Denver with a most-ever five SB losses?

I’ll bet you didn’t hear that from the sickeningly overconfident local media yakkers now peddling the “greatest franchise ever” line to gullible, self-esteem-needy and history-challenged fans. I’m not sure a 4-5 SB record stands up to 6-2 Pittsburgh, 5-1 San Francisco (owner of its own dynasty) or even the 4-1 New York football Giants. That may provide needed perspective to counter the drivel that having the greatest quarterback of all time (GOAT) makes them invincible. Sorry, just check out how it ended in 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, or 2015, when he was a goat of different kind in all except last year, and you will see that’s not the case. Not trying to pick on Brady.

It’s just that looking past the highest-scoring team in the NFL, who demolished the red-hot Packers to get to the SB, is foolish. Because as the seasons just mentioned demonstrate, things don’t always go according to plan.

Having said that, here’s why I think the Patriots will win a tougher game than many expect.

Patriots South Factor: While the Steelers brass again got undressed by Coach B, Houston was not, in part because with head man Bill O’Brien, DC Romeo Crennel and Mike Vrabel a defensive coach they had insider familiarity with how NE devises ways to attack teams. Hence, they saw press converge on the wideouts to disrupt their timing in the short passing game that gave their pass rushers’ time to twist and blitz up the middle

because they knew getting in Brady’s face messes him up most. Well, beware, because with GM Thomas Dimitroff, his special assistant Scott Pioli and assistant coach Steven Scarnecchia (Dante’s son) all on hand, Atlanta has similar institutional knowledge.

On Fire Explosive Offensive Factor: The Falcons looked unstoppable vs. Green Bay and Matt Ryan has had a spectacular season.

But it’s not like the brass haven’t seen a redhot QB or seemingly unstoppable offensive team before in the playoffs. That was why the Rams were 14-point favorites in the first SB win in 2001. Ditto for Peyton Manning in the 2003 and 2004 playoffs when they held him to 14 and 3 measly points as they went on to SB wins 2 and 3. They’ll have a plan for it.

Defense Wins: While Manning did get them in the 2006 AFC title game, for the most part defense wins in the big game. The best recent juxtaposition I can come up with is Denver coming into the 2013 game riding a 55-TD-pass season by Manning and getting thumped Seattle with a superior defense.

Then with Manning a game-managing shell of himself, the Denver D dominates and wins.

With this defense the best since the 2003-04 bunch, I expect more of the same on Sunday.

Game Key No. 1 – Contain the Running Backs: Most believe Julio Jones needs to be the guy to take away. But like in 2001 when they left the Rams’ dangerous passing attack to Ty Law and company, Malcolm Butler gets Jones one-on-one with safety help deep like with Antonio Brown. That lets them focus on negating damage done by running backs Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. They’re not Marshall Faulk, but they did combine for over 2,500 rushing and receiving yards while scoring 22 TDs. With Coleman averaging nearly 14 yards per catch the linebackers will need help in these matchups. Plus, taking them out renders their play action passing game much less potent.

Game Key No. 2 – Control Vic Beasley: Everyone knows the formula. Pressure Brady

up the middle and you throw him off his game. Beasley’s 15.5 sacks led the NFL and if he runs wild like Von Miller last year the Patriots will have a problem. So the line needs to control him because beyond him the Atlanta doesn’t have much of a pass run.

Game Key No. 3 – An Early Lead: This puts the pace of the game in the Patriots’ hands and it keeps them two-dimensional.

And after seeing the Falcons give up 200-plus to Philly on the ground and over 100 in every game coming down the stretch, except the 99 Green Bay got, they can be run on. That keeps the Atlanta offense off the field, takes time off the clock and makes their play action game much better. It’ll also be a good idea to not let it come down to the final possession, because Atlanta kicker Matt Bryant is 35 for 37 on FGs with a long of 59. I’m betting Coach B takes the ball if they win the coin flip.

Prediction: True, Atlanta just held Aaron Rodgers to 21 points. But against every other A-level QB (Rivers, Brees, Rodgers) they gave up 30-plus points. While many correctly say the Patriots D hasn’t faced any QB as good as Ryan, that doesn’t mean they can’t play against him. See Big Ben last week. Plus, all Coach B’s defensive game plans have kept the scoring down in Super Bowls. Even vs. the G-Men when less than superior defenses couldn’t shut down game-closing drives.

So I like the Pats, but know a few mistakes can change things dramatically. It’s just that this game reminds me of 1984, when after throwing for an astonishing 48 TD passes and (drew) breezing to the SB everyone thought Dan Marino was unstoppable. But guess what, he wasn’t and the 49ers blew out Miami 38-14.

I don’t know about blow-out, but I do know hot QBs can be stopped and think the Patriots will show that again on Sunday. Patriots 36 Falcons 24.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

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11 – saves by Dave Guimont as Bedford’s goalkeeper itched the shutout when B-town was a 6-0 winner over Trinity when Griffin Gagne led the way with a pair of goals.

15 – points SNHU trailed LeMoyne by early in the second half before roaring back to capture their 14th win against four losses as

princely (or should that be princessly?) price of a first- and a fourth-round pick in next year’s draft.

Bounceback of the Week: The Bedford Girls basketball team bounced back after suffering its first loss last week to Bishop Guertin, with a 50-25 thumping of Alvirne when Aly Fillion had a gamehigh 14 points. They followed that up with a 44-point (67-23) win over Salem when Jenoyce Lanlyan and Maddie Blake led the way with 11 and 10 respectively.

Sports 101 Answer: Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley was MVP when the Colts won in SB5, a game that was so bad, they probably didn’t want to give the award to anyone.

On This Date – Feb. 2: 1959 – Vince Lombardi signs a five-year contract to replace Saint Anselm football legend Scooter McLean as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. 1964 – the last pitcher to legally throw a spitball in the majors, Burleigh Grimes is elected to the Hall of Fame. 1970 – LSU’s Pete Maravich becomes first to score 3,000 career points in college basketball. 1997 – Detroit’s Scotty Bowman becomes first coach in NHL history to win 1,000 games.

all-name teamer Daquaise Andrews and Adam Gilligan (Island) led the way with 24 and 21 points respectively.

25 – game-high points by Alonzo Linton in leading North to the aforementioned win over South.

28 – paltry number of points scored by Tim Guers in St. Anselm’s 88-76 win over Adelphia on Wednes-

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Game of the Week: While the barn-burner in Nashua won by North over South was in the running, it goes to the Memorial-Central battle won by the Crusaders 68-65. It had a little of everything, including taking two OTs to get a winner, scary foul shooting by Memorial in going 21-40, which turned clutch when needed in the second OT by making five of their six tries, 41 combined points from Melanie Presseau (22) and Haleigh Shea (19) for the Crusaders and a 35-point night for Jenna Chrabolowski that kept the Green in the game throughout.

Sports 101: Who is the only player to be named Super Bowl MVP while playing for a losing team?

Knick of Tyme Award: To Sclyler (boy o) Boykin, who won the battle of Nashua with a layup at the buzzer following a mad court-long dash after a made free throw to give North a 57-55 win over South.

That Didn’t Take Long Moment of the Week: We told you last week Rachel Hill of Rollinsford and UConn had been taken a few days earlier in the National Women’s Soccer League draft by the Portland Thorns FC. But six days later she was on the move again after being traded to Orlando for the

day, at least in comparison to his previous four games, when he became the first person in school history to score over 30 points in four consecutive games.

31 – points scored by the Memorial boys in the third quarter as they ran away from Central in a 76-53 win when Jake Carrier had a game-high 23 for the Crusaders.

Sports Glossary

Thomas Dimitroff: Patriots director of college scouting from 2003 to 2007 before becoming Atlanta’s GM in ’08. Best draft gets during his time were 2003, Round 4, Asante Samuel and four other eventual starters; 2004, Vince Wilfork; 2005, Logan Mankins and college back-up Matt Cassel in the seventh round; 2006, Stephen Gostkowski. Biggest miss was Laurence Maroney in 2006, first round.

Scott Pioli: Coach B’s right-hand personnel man during the early days until becoming GM in KC. He went on to do the same for Dimitroff after things went south with the Chiefs, though it should be noted they won 11 games in Andy Reid’s first year with many of the groceries Pioli did the shopping for.

Steven Scarnecchia: On the film crew for the Pats in Jetland the day they got nabbed in what became spygate. Then went west with Josh McDaniel when he became head man in Denver, where he got busted for the same offense again and got fired two weeks ahead of McDaniel’s getting the axe.

Ty Law: Mostly Patriots cornerback who gets my vote in Saturday’s voting for the Hall of Fame class of 2017. Gets it for a 53-pick and 7-TD career littered with big game contributions during three SB-winning seasons while in Foxboro. In fact, after scoring the game’s first TD on a pick 6 vs. the Rams and being vital in shutting down the NFL’s most prolific offense ever, he got my vote for MVP of SB 36 as well.

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Lace up your skates and embrace the cold

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

One of the few perks to below-freezing weather is ice skating.

The sport sometimes takes a backseat to skiing, but it’s way more accessible than the downhill pastime. You can do it anywhere — on a pond, at a rink, in a park, Skate safe It takes a long time for ice to freeze, which is why you’ll typically see more people pond or lake skating in February than December.

Before you get out, visit wildlife.state. nh.us, which has a whole slew of information on ice safety, from how to measure ice thickness to what to do if you fall through.

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or, if you’re really ambitious, in your backyard — and it’s less expensive, sometimes even free.

For a lot of people, lacing up a pair of skates spurs nostalgia — the smell of the rink, the sound of your blade on the ice! — but if you missed out on skating lessons as a kid, there’s still time.

“It’s never too early or too late to start skating,” said Teri Nordle, coach and longtime member of the Southern New Hampshire Figure Skating Club. “If you can walk, you can skate.”

Whether you’re a veteran or a total beginner, the Granite State offers many ways to get in on the action, from hockey leagues and figure skating clubs to outdoor tournaments and quaint skating locales with firepits and warming huts.

If you’re skating outside, keep yourself safe by checking with Parks and Recre-

ation representatives on ice conditions or measure the ice thickness yourself before lacing up.

Start with skates

Nordle tells prospective students there’s “no such thing as weak ankles” — but there is such thing as weak skates. Most important is finding a pair with solid support.

“If you can bend your ankles side to side, then that’s not good support,” said Jen Hurley, skating director at the Granite State Figure Skating Club, who also runs The Inside Edge, a skate shop in Tri-Town Arena. “With a good leather boot, if you’re holding it from behind, you can’t squeeze [the sides] together.”

Figure skates should be leather and

lace-up with steel blades. No plastic, no buckles. Fit should be snug and secure without thick socks.

“You don’t want it to feel like you have one giant blade swimming around under your foot,” Hurley said. “It should fit like a glove with a thin silk sock. If you’re wearing 16 pairs of socks, you’re going to cut your circulation off.”

But you don’t want them too tight either — particularly with hockey skates.

“Skates have so much support these days, so you don’t need something that’s super-tight and glued to your foot. If you look at [hockey] skates nowadays, they’re made with high-performance carbon and are as stiff as a ski boot,” said Chad Gamache, assistant manager at Skaters Edge in Manchester.

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• Amherst: The town maintains rinks at Amherst Middle School (14 Cross Road) and at the Davis Lane tennis courts in Amherst Village, and resurfaces them a few times a week.

Hockey is allowed on the AMS rink only during set times; visit amherstnh.myrec.com for a schedule. It offers lights for night-time skating, benches and 6-inch nets for pond skating.

• Auburn: The basketball courts near Auburn’s safety complex (Pingree Hill Road) get flooded in the winter time and are maintained by the town. Included are lights and a nearby parking lot.

• Bedford: Bedford’s Parks Division of the Public Works Department maintains Anagnost Family Pond, which is located at the Bedford Village Common Park off Bell Hill Road behind the Bedford Public Library (which is at 3 Meetinghouse Road).

• Bow: The Bow Town Pond, located next to the community center (Bow Center Road) and the sledding hill, is cleared by the town.

• Brookline: The town maintains a manmade rink at the Brookline Ball Park, which is on Route 130 near the Frances Drive intersection. It’s about 130 by 70 feet and offers a warming hut full of skates to borrow and benches. There’s a Winter Festival with a family skate night and hockey tournament Friday, Feb. 17, through Sunday, Feb. 19; visit facebook.com/groups/BrooklineSkatingRink for details.

• Concord: The city maintains three outdoor rinks — White Park (White Street), the Beaver Meadows Golf Course (1 Beaver Meadows Drive) and Rollins Park (33 Bow St.). Skating is free. The largest patch of maintained ice is at White Park, where the city is working to develop a new skate house that will eventually offer skate rentals. White Park is also home to one of the most popular sledding hills in Concord. At the golf course there are groomed cross-country ski trails to explore after skating.

• Derry: The town maintains two patches of ice, at Hood Pond (at Hood Park, 4 Rollins St.) and Gallien’s Town Beach (39 Pond Road).

• Durham: Churchill Rink at Jackson’s Landing (10 Old Piscataqua Road, Durham, 868-3907) is probably the most extravagant “outdoor” rink you’ll find in the state; not only does it offer changing rooms, a snack bar, skate-sharpening, skate rentals and rest rooms, it also gets cleaned by a Zamboni and is covered by a roof. You can view the skating schedule at churchillrink.org. Public skating is $5 for children and $7 for adults.

• Hopkinton: The town maintains ice near the Kimball Lake Cabins (at about 185 Main St., located off a dirt road, near The Number 5 Tavern) for Winter Fun events; the next are weather-dependent but scheduled to occur Sunday, Feb. 12, and Sunday, Feb. 26, from noon to 3 p.m. At this time, visitors can borrow skates, drink hot cocoa and toast s’mores

on a fire. The events are free but donations are accepted. Outside these events, community members are encouraged to skate here (at their own risk) though they must clear the surfaces themselves. Visit hopkintonrec.com.

• Manchester: In the Queen City, the place to be is Dorrs Pond, adjacent to Livingston Park (Hooksett Road), which isn’t open yet but gets plowed and flooded when the weather cooperates, said Janet Horvath, recreation and enterprise manager with Manchester’s Parks, Recreation & Cemetery Commission; check facebook.com/CityOfManchesterNHParksRec for updates. Alongside the pond is a warming hut, and nearby is a one-mile trail you could walk before or after skating.

• Merrimack: The O’Gara Drive Recreation Arena houses a man-made rink every winter and is directly across the street from Mastricola Upper Elementary School (26 Baboosic Lake Road). It’s maintained by the Merrimack Public Works Department and volunteers.

Lights turn on after dark for evening skating from 4:30 to 10 p.m.; visit facebook.com/MerrimackParksandRecreation for updates.

• Milford: The town and local volunteers typically maintains two temporary rinks at Shepard Park (Nashua Street, between Shepard and Linden streets), but they’re currently closed; visit milford.nh.gov for information on their re-opening.

• Nashua: Right now the only rink ready to skate on in the Gate City is the flooded patch of ice at the Jeff Morin Field at Roby Park (Split Brook Road), which has general skating hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (no hockey) and stick and puck from 8 to 10 p.m. When the weather cooperates, both Labine Park (Cleveland Street) and Four Corners (Sargent Avenue) are maintained. You can check on the status at nashuanh.gov.

• Portsmouth: It’s all about Puddle Dock Pond at the Strawbery Banke Museum (14 Hancock St., strawberybanke.org, 4220600), a seasonal outdoor rink open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily that stays skate-ready longer than most due to a chiller beneath the ice’s surface. It offers pond hockey and learn-toskate hours in addition to public skating, plus adaptive ice (for skaters with accessibility/mobility concerns) and the Coffee Club on Wednesdays (at which time you can skate with a professional). There’s also an on-ice fire pit, nearby cafe and atmosphere reminiscent of a Currier and Ives scene, said Stephanie Seacord, the Strawbery Banke marketing director. Admission is $9 for children and $11 for adults at peak hours (with free skating Tuesdays 9 to 10 a.m. and 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 to 10:45 a.m.). It sees 20,000 guests each year.

• Stratham: Stratham Hill Park (270 Portsmouth Ave.) is the place to go in Stratham; whether it’s skateable or not depends on temperatures, and you can check the status at facebook.com/StrathamHillPark. It comprises two rinks — one natural, one constructed for hockey players. When open, it offers lights until 9 p.m. for night skating, a warming hut and firepit.

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12 sharpening after every 10 hours of ice time, maybe less if your style is more recreational. Serious skaters who’ve made investments in their footwear might want to consider purchasing a second pair of pond-only skates if they want to skate outside.

“Ponds have a lot of natural elements, like sand and pine needles, and all these things that are on ponds can disturb the edges of your skates,” Gamache said. “At the same time, if you’re a recreational skater skating on a backyard rink or pond once or twice a week, it’s not going to throw your skates off too much.”

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Ice skating is rooted in New Hampshire culture, hockey especially; practically every indoor rink in the state has an affiliated hockey program, and some of the state’s most popular ice events are hockey-related, from college and Monarchs games to the Black Ice Pond Hockey Tournament in Concord’s White Park and the Pond Hockey Classic on Lake Winnipesaukee.

“Ice hockey is part of the community here,” said Mike Gamache, a Goffstown resident (and Chad Gamache’s dad) who

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“I remember going to JFK watching the original Monarchs team play at the JFK Coliseum. I have memories of spending time there with my dad, cousins, friends.”

This is a common story in New Hampshire.

“It’s a sport for life,” said Paul Comeau, president of the New Hampshire Amateur Hockey Association. “You see guys who played in high school together now playing on men’s teams until they’re 50.”

Comeau said the sport has grown locally the past couple decades; about 6,000 members are now registered with USA Hockey through NHAHA. This is in part due to the effort by USA Hockey, and also because there are just more New Hampshire rinks to build programs around.

This is also why the state has more figure skating clubs today than in decades past. Hurley grew up in Merrimack but trained in Massachusetts as an amateur skater.

“We didn’t have the rinks up here like we do now,” Hurley said. “They were the dark ages. … It’s definitely picked up compared to 20 years ago. I’m 46, and when I was skating in the ’70s and ’80s, there was nothing here.”

Puddle Dock Pond. Courtesy of Strawbery Banke.

The classic way to ice skate is on a pond or lake.

“We didn’t have the rinks available like we do today. You drive by a pond today, and it’s kind of unusual to see kids playing pond hockey,” Comeau said.

But if you’re going to skate like this, it’s important to abide by some safety precautions.

“The key to ice safety is to realize ice doesn’t freeze the same — even on the same pond. It depends on the inlets coming in, and the vegetation [underneath] the ice,” said Lt. David Walsh of New Hampshire Fish and Game via phone. “If there’s an area with thick vegetation, that tends not to freeze well. … And ice can’t 16

FIGURE SKATING IN SOUTHERN NH

Hockey dominates New Hampshire rinks, but there are some southern New Hampshire figure skating clubs throughout the state where you can learn to jump and spin on ice, or watch others do it at upcoming exhibitions. All offer beginner group and private lessons via staff coaches.

• Central New Hampshire Skating Academy Where they skate: Merrill Fay Arena, Laconia Website: cnhskatingacademy.org Events: There’s an auction to raise money for the skating club’s ice time Thursday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m., at the Beane Conference Center (35 Blueberry Lane, Laconia), and the Thirteenth Annual Skating Benefit on Saturday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m., at the arena.

About: The club is currently run by a few skating moms and is geared toward beginner skaters.

Learn to Skate and group figure skating and private lessons. It houses about 40 members who hail from Hooksett and southern New Hampshire towns like Derry, Goffstown and Bedford.

• Great Bay Figure Skating Club Where they skate: Dover Ice Arena, Dover Website: greatbayfigureskating.org Events: Their annual spring exhibition, themed “Calendars,” is Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m.

About: The club is more than 40 years old and boasts about 50 members, including those in the learn-to-skate program. Members come from southern New Hampshire and Maine.

• Ice Skating Club of Exeter (I.C.E.) Where they skate: The Rinks at Exeter Website: therinksatexeter.com Events: There’s an 80’s-themed exhibition Saturday, May 6, at 4 p.m.

About: The club is just over a decade old • Gate City Figure Skating Club and is run by Mark Farrington, director of Where they skate: Conway Arena, Nashua skating at The Rinks of Exeter, which comWebsite: gatecityfsc.com prises two rinks, one reserved for hockey, Events: Scott Hamilton Skate to Eliminate one for figure skating and learn to skate Cancer on Saturday, April 8, and the spring programs. exhibition is scheduled to happen Saturday, June 3.

• Southern New Hampshire Figure SkatAbout: The Nashua-based club’s claim to ing Club fame is being the largest in the state with Where they skate: JFK Coliseum in Manabout 170 members. The nonprofit also per- chester, but it also offers ice times and forms charity work, holds regular holiday programs at the Sullivan Arena at Saint parties, facilitates off-ice training for mem- Anselm College and the Ice Den Arena bers and has four synchro teams.

Website: snhsc.com Events: Its annual ice revue, “The Enve• Granite State Figure Skating Club lope, Please!”, is Saturday, March 25, at 1 Where they skate: Tri-Town Ice Arena, and 7 p.m. at the JFK Coliseum, and has an Hooksett Academy Awards theme.

Website: granitestatefsc.com About: It’s New Hampshire’s longest-runEvents: Its “March to Victory” competi- ning skating organization, founded in 1964, tion is in April, and its annual exhibition is and some members have been with the club in June. almost as long. It hosts regular skate-aAbout: The club was founded in 2001 by cur- thons, learn-to-skate programs and private rent skating director Jen Hurley and offers lessons.

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Many towns maintain patches of outdoor ice (see box for an outdoor rink near you), but with a flat yard, a bit of money and, OK, a lot of work, you can create your own. It’s not that hard, said Mike Gamache, and is worth the effort if you’ve got kids at home.

“Other than the local sledding hill, [our] rink became the playground in the neighborhood,” he said. “I remember we’d have weekends where kids were playing here all day long.”

It involves creating a frame with wooden boards (his was 70 by 30 feet), and covering it with an enormous sheet of plastic, no less than six millimeters thick, which you’ll have to replace each year.

“It’s like filling up a swimming pool,” he said. “You can drape the plastic over the top [of the frame] and secure it how you want.”

Key to success is choosing a spot with little sun (though perhaps not directly under a tree, which might mean more debris on the surface). Maintenance includes regularly sweeping and squeegeeing precipitation before adding new coats via a spray hose.

About three to four inches creates a firm base.

“Ice is stronger if you add to it in small layers. Spray the entire surface of the rink with a coating of water, and the next time you go out it will be like glass,” Mike Gamache said.

MORE HOCKEY Pond hockey tournaments: The Pond Hockey Classic at Lake Winnipesaukee (“Lake WinnipeHockey”) is full but you can watch it Thursday, Feb. 2, through Sunday, Feb. 5; visit pondhockeyclassic.com. The Black Ice Pond Hockey Championships happens Feb. 10 through Feb. 12 at White Park in Concord; visit blackicepondhockey.com.

Organizations: Younger skaters can learn more about the New Hampshire Amateur Hockey Association at nhhockey.com, and older skaters can check out the Granite State Hockey League at granitestatehockeyleague.com, which is aimed at adult skaters.

SKATE INDOORS Here are some local rinks if you’d rather skate with a roof over your head. Some are home to figure skating clubs, and most offer public, learn to skate or hockey programs. Visit their sites for details.

• Everett Arena, 15 Loudon Road, Concord, 228-2784, concordnh.gov/skating • Conway Arena, 5 Stadium Drive, Nashua, 595-2400, conwayarena.com • The Rinks at Exeter, 40 Industrial Drive, Exeter, 775-7423, therinksatexeter.com • Tri-Town Ice Arena, 311 W. River Road, Hooksett, 485-1100, tri-townicearena.com • JFK Coliseum, 303 Beech St., Manchester, 624-6567, manchesternh.gov • Ice Den, 600 Quality Drive, Hooksett, 668-0795, theiceden.com • Dover Ice Arena, 110 Portland Ave., Dover, 516-6060, doverarena.com • Merrill Fay Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia, 528-0789, laconiaicearena.com • Icenter, 60 Lowell Road, Salem, 8934448, icentersalem.com • Cyclones Arena, 20 Constitution Drive, Hudson, 880-4424, northerncyclones.com • Rochester Ice Arena, 63 Lowell St., Rochester, 335-6749, rochesternh.net/ recreation-arena • West Side Ice Arena, 1 Electric St., Manchester, 624-6428, manchesternh.gov

The Super Bowl is a major TV-watching event every year, but once again the cheers will be a little louder and the watching a little more intense around here as the Patriots return to the Super Bowl for the seventh time under coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. This time they’ll take on the Atlanta Falcons; the game airs Sunday, Feb. 5, at 6:30 p.m. on Fox, with Lady Gaga performing at halftime. For anyone who plans to watch the game, the commercials or the halftime show, we have a few suggestions for where to get your game-day food — whether you want to watch the game at a bar or in the comfort of your own recliner. Plus, Hippo sports writer Dave Long gathered some predictions for the outcome of the game from a variety of local celebrities.

(Check out his usual sports columns on page 10 for more analysis.) Now break out your Pats gear and get ready to cheer on the home team!

Where to get your at-home eats If you want to bring food home for the Super Bowl, here are a few places to pick up gameday goodies.

• 110 Grill (27 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, 943-7443, 110grill.com) offers game-day takeout including bistro chicken wing platters, available in Buffalo and maple, sandwich platters and various appetizer platters. Call for cost details. Order at least 24 hours in advance, and pick up on Sunday, Feb. 5, before 6 p.m.

• Angela’s Pasta and Cheese Shop (815 Chestnut St., Manchester, 625-9544, angelaspastaandcheese.com) offers a variety of party platters including antipasto ($45 to $75), cheese and fruit ($45 to $75), crackers ($15 to $25), crudites ($40 to $60), black bean salsa and corn chips ($30), roasted eggplant and red pepper tapenade with bruschetta ($30), warm shrimp and spinach dip ($30), desserts and cookies ($14 to $50) and more. There is also a variety of other cold and hot hors d’oeuvres, salads and pasta salads, sandwiches and heat-and-serve dinners.

• Auburn Tavern (346 Hooksett Road, Auburn, 587-2057, auburntavernnh.com) will have a combo platter available for pickup for $49, which includes wings, potato skins, chili Buffalo dip and more.

• Belmont Hall & Restaurant (718 Grove St., Manchester, 625-8540, belmonthall.net) has a deal that includes 21 pieces of roasted fried chicken, a bucket of fries and a pint of coleslaw for $29.99.

• Billy’s Sports Bar and Grill (34 Tarrytown Road, Manchester, 622-3644, billyssportsbar. com) is offering 51 wings or tenders of any flavor for $51. Other discounts include clam chowder by the quart for $21.95, cheeseburger pasta by the quart for $23.95 and chili by the quart for $20.95.

• Brothers Butcher (8 Spit Brook Road, Nashua, 809-4180, brothers-butcher.com) offers wrap platters (serves 8 to 12 people, $49.99, or 12 to 18 people, $74.99) and deli platters (serving 15 to 20 people, $54.99, or 25 to 30 people, $74.99). Place orders by Saturday.

• Caroline’s Fine Food (132 Bedford Center Road, Bedford, 637-1615, carolinesfood.com) offers to-go game day platters, including wings (30 for $45, 75 for $115), meatballs stuffed with smoked mozzarella and house-made marinara ($30 for 10 people, $90 for 25 people), house-smoked pulled pork with slaw and barbecue sauce ($50 for 10 people, $100 for 25 people) and Sam Adams Patriot’s chili ( $45 for 10 people, $80 for 25 people).

• The Common Man (25 Water St., Concord, 228-3463; 304 Daniel Webster Highway, Mer-

rimack, 429-3463; 88 Range Road, Windham, 898-0088; 10 Pollard Road, Lincoln, 745-3463; 21 Water St., Claremont, 542-6171; 60 Main St., Ashland, 968-7030; thecman.com) offers gameday fare to-go including a cheese, cracker and dip platter ($15) and trays of buffalo chicken wings ($40), macaroni and cheese ($30), beef and bean chili ($15) and a pulled pork slider kit ($30). Order by Thursday, Feb. 2, at noon. Pick up on Saturday, Feb. 4, after 3 p.m., or anytime during business hours on Sunday, Feb. 5.

• Concord Food Co-op (24 S. Main St., Concord, 225-6840, concordfoodcoop.coop) has Buffalo wings at the hot bar that are $8.99 per pound, plus “grab and go” platters that include cheese and crackers, house-made tortilla chips and homemade salsa/guacamole/ seven-layer dip, which you can purchase without ordering ahead of time, Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, Amherst, 882-7725; 25 S. River Road, Bedford, 647-2253, pastry.net) has football-shaped cakes ($36.99), football jersey cakes ($49.99), touchdown cupcakes ($4.99 each) and football cookies ($3.75 a cookie). Pre-order by Friday night, but there will be walk-in retail Saturday as well.

• The Fresh Market (79 S. River Road, Unit 2, Bedford, 626-3420, thefreshmarket.com) will have sandwich, fruit, boule, cheese, cookie

and brownie platters, which range in price from about $20 to $64.

• Gabi’s Smoke Shack (217 Rockingham Road, Londonderry, 404-2871, gabismokeshack.com) has platters for $14.99 per person with a minimum of four people that include ribs, wings, potato salad, coleslaw and barbecue sauce plus plates and utensils. Orders must be in by Friday.

• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Bar (524 Nashua St., Milford, 673-3939; Pennichuck Square, Merrimack, 883-7333; 270 Granite St., Manchester, 232-3323, giorgios.com) offers party catering for pickup or delivery at all locations.

The menu includes cold appetizer platters like spicy hummus ($30 and $50), fresh veggies ($35 and $65) and shrimp cocktail ($60); hot appetizer platters like bacon-wrapped scallops ($60), crab and artichoke dip ($30 and $55) and garlic cheese bread ($24 and $48); various sandwich platters ($35), salads, entrees and desserts. Order at least 48 hours in advance.

• Homestead Grocery & Deli (432 Boston Post Road, Amherst, 249-8900, homesteadgroceryanddeli.com) offers Boar’s Head deli platters that feed 14 to 16 people for $49.99, plus a 20-piece Buffalo chicken tender platter for $19.99 and platters of chicken broccoli and ziti or stuffed shells and meatballs, each of which feed about 30 and cost $69.95. Orders need to HIPPO | FEBRUARY 2 - 8, 2017 | PAGE 7

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• The Puritan Backroom (245 Hooksett Road, Manchester, 669-6890, puritanbackroom. com) offers takeout for various party appetizer platters like deli ($75 and $110), fresh fruit ($35 and $60), assorted pastries ($22 and $36) and stuffed devilled eggs ($26); chicken tender party buckets, available in plain, spicy, Buffalo, coconut or assorted ($27 to $101); salad party bowls ($19 to $100), and party-sized sandwich platters ($2.50 to $4.50 per sandwich). Order anytime; takeout is available daily starting at 8 a.m.

• Queen City Cupcakes (790 Elm St., Manchester, 624-4999, qccupcakes.com) will offer a Big Game Day cupcake menu on Saturday, Feb. 4. The menu will be posted on the website.

• The River Casino & Sports Bar (53 High St., Nashua, 881-9060, therivercasino.com) offers a 51st Big Game party pack for $51 which includes two large pizzas, a quart of award-winning chili and 20 chicken wings or chicken fingers. Orders required by Saturday, Feb. 4.

• Riverside Barbeque Co. (53 Main St., Nashua, 204-5110, riversidebarbeque.com) offers carry out catering with meat trays including chicken wings and chicken tenders, pulled pork, brisket, ribs and more. There are also cornbread, garden salad and corn trays, deli and slider breads, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, barbecue baked beans and more. Items are available in pints, quarts or 9x11 trays. Prices vary.

• T-Bones Meats, Sweets & Catering (66 Union St., Manchester, 488-2828, wecatergreater.com) offers three game-day packages: the Touchdown Tip Pack includes nachos, Buffalo chicken wings, sirloin tips, cookies and brownie bites ($140); the Snack Action Pack includes nachos, Buffalo chicken tenders, baby back ribs, cookies and brownie bites ($160); and the Stick to Your Ribs Pack includes Buffalo wings, baked macaroni and cheese, baby back ribs, cookies and brownie bites ($160). Order before noon on Saturday, Feb. 4. Pickup is available Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Van Otis Chocolates (341 Elm St., Manchester, 627-1611, vanotis.com) offers game day chocolate and nut party platters, including platters with limited edition flavored cashews, available in salt and pepper, sour cream and onion, and cheddar.

• You You Japanese Bistro (150 Broad St., Nashua, 882-8337, youyoubistro.com) has sushi party platters available for takeout on game day.

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• KC’s Rib Shack (837 Second St., Manchester, 627-7427, ribshack.net) offers a full rack of ribs ($25), 30 jumbo wings (nine flavors, $36), smoked barbecue chili ($25, serves 12 to 15), a barbecue “feed bag” ($70, includes one full rack of ribs, ½ pound of pulled pork, ½ pound of pulled chicken, ½ pound of beef brisket, 1 smoked sausage, 1 pint of two different sides, four pieces of cornbread, feeds 3 to 6), and a barbecue sandwich pack ($100, one tray of pulled pork, 12 large rolls, 1 quart of beans or chili, 12 pieces of cornbread, 1 quart of slaw or mac salad).

• Margaritas Mexican Restaurant (1037 Elm St., Manchester, 647-7717; 1 Nashua Drive, Nashua, 883-0996; 1 Bicentennial Square, Concord, 224-2821; 1 Keeway Drive, Salem, 893-0110, margs.com) offers three catering packages, including Coin Toss ($20.95, one pint of margarita mix, salsa sampler), First Down ($62.95, take-home kit, Juan’s barbecue or buffalo wings, chicken baby chimis) and Touchdown ($83.95, take-home kit, Hector’s quesadilla’s, barbecue or buffalo chicken tenders, jalapeno baby chimis).

• McNulty & Foley Caterers (124 E. Hollis St., Nashua, 882-1921, mcnultycatering. com) offers Brady’s 5th Ring wings (25 for $24.99, 50 for $49.99), assorted sandwich platters (serves 10 to 12, $34.99), Edelman’s seven-layer Mexican dip with chips ($22.95, serves 10 to 12), Gronk’s Buffalo chicken dip with chips (half pan, $24.99), Blount’s pulled pork sliders with coleslaw and pickles (serves 12, $84), Dion’s Touchdown Chili ($15 per quart), McDaniel’s meatballs with slider rolls (feeds 12, $24.99), Gostkowski’s game-winning macaroni and cheese ($30-$60), Bennett’s Game Day sausage, peppers and onions (served with hoagie rolls, $6 per person) and Goodell’s dump cake (blueberry, cherry, lemon, serves 6-8, $15). Orders are due by Friday.

• Michelle’s Gourmet Pastries & Deli (819 Union St., Manchester, 647-7150, michellespastries.com) has Patriots-decorated gingerbread men cookies for $2.50 each.

• Mr. Mac’s Macaroni & Cheese (497 Hooksett Road, Manchester, 606-1760, mrmacs.com) features 10 percent off regular macaroni and cheese trays if ordered by Saturday, in two sizes (party tray feeds 8 to 12, banquet tray feeds 30 to 35). Prices vary depending on style but start at $40.

• Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen.com) will have an all-you-can-eat buffet for $12, featuring macaroni and cheese, Swedish and Italian meatballs, veggies and dip, cheese and crackers and more.

•Auburn Pitts (167 Rockingham Road, Auburn, 622-6564, auburnpitts.com) is having a free all-you-can-eat buffet beginning at 5:30 p.m., featuring steak, baked macaroni and cheese, salads, meatballs, pork tenderloin and more. Random prizes will also be given away throughout the big game. For all Patriots games, $5 domestic beer pitchers and 25 cent wings are available.

• Billy’s Sports Bar and Grill (34 Tarrytown Road, Manchester, 622-3644, billyssportsbar. com) will be throwing a pregame party from 4 to 6 p.m., with giveaways, prizes and more.

• Boston Billiard Club (55 Northeastern

Boulevard, Nashua, 943-5630, bostonbilliardclub.com) will be offering 50-cent wings, $1 hot dogs and $3 domestic draft beer.

• City Sports Grille & Spare Time (216 Maple St., Manchester, 625-9656, sparetimemanchester.com) will have a special of 14 wings and a 16-ounce draft beer for $5. A 43-inch LED HD TV will be given away to a lucky fan by the end of the third quarter of the big game.

Other festivities include a chili contest, in which participants can bring their favorite chili recipe for a chance to win $100.

• The Derryfield Restaurant (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-2880, derryfieldrestaurant.com) will have a wheel that will be spun every time the Patriots score, which lands on a special that can include anything from a $1 draft beer to a $3 mudslide.

• The Dugout & 1oak on Elm (1087 Elm St., Manchester, 206-5599, facebook.com/thedugoutnh) offers discounts on gourmet burgers, wing baskets, and domestic draft beers. Prizes and other giveaways are expected to be offered during each quarter of the big game.

• The Flight Center (97 Main St., Nashua, flightcenterbc.com) will be hosting a party beginning at noon on the day of the big game, featuring brews from several New Hampshire breweries.

• Generals Sports Bar and Grill (840 S. Stark Highway, Weare, 529-3663, facebook. com/generalssportsbarandgrill) will be offering specials on appetizers, beers and cocktails, as well as special giveaways, all beginning at kickoff at 6:30 p.m.

• J. Michael’s Sports Pub (57 Rockingham Road, Windham, 894-0066, jmichaelspub.com) will be offering 50-cent wings and $2 domestic draft beers. Pitcher and bucket specials will also be available.

• Killarney’s Irish Pub (9 Northeastern Boulevard, Nashua, 888-1551, facebook.com/ killarneys.irish.pub.nashua) will offer $2.50 Bud and Bud Light drafts and $5 Buffalo or barbecue chicken wings, Buffalo chicken dip, pub chips topped with chili and cheese, jalapeno poppers and traditional nachos.

• Kimball’s Cav’ern (351 Pembroke St., Pembroke, 485-7777, kimballscavern.com) will offer specials including $12 Bud Light aluminum bottle buckets (five bottles per bucket), $2 drafts of Bud and Bud Light, and $3 Harpoon drafts. There will also be raffle prizes and football squares.

• Murphy’s Taproom (494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535, murphystaproom.net) will have $2.50 Bud and Bud Light bottles and Harpoon IPA and UFO White draft beers and 25-cent wings.

• Nashua Garden (121 Main St., Nashua, 8867363, facebook.com/thenashuagarden603) will have $1 off all drafts upstairs during the game.

• New England Tap House Grille (1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 782-5137, taphousenh.com) will offer a $12 wings platter with 20 wings, a special beer selection TBA and a prize giveaway. The Tap House boasts 15 televisions in the bar.

• The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, thepeddlersdaughter.com) will be hosting a big party during the big game with the Bud Light Girls. Bud Light drafts will be $2.50 and food specials are TBA.

• The Pint Publik House (1111 Elm St., Manchester, 206-5463, pintpublikhouse.com) will have specials including $2 Bud Light and Miller Light drafts, 50-cent wings, $12 bottomless boneless wings and a special taco, which is different each week. Since the game is on a Sunday, there will also be $3 mimosas, margaritas and bloody marys.

• The River Casino & Sports Bar (53 High St., Nashua, 881-9060, therivercasino.com) will offer 50-cent bone-in wings, $2 Bud Lights and the G.O.A.T. Burger — two half-pound patties with goat cheese, lettuce, tomato and spicy mayonnaise, topped with onion rings and pierced with a steak knife. There will be prizes and giveaways throughout the game, and each G.O.A.T. Burger purchase enters you to win a halftime giveaway prize.

• Romano’s Pizza of Litchfield (27 Colby Road, Litchfield, 424-0500, romanosnh.com) will have $2 PBR drafts and Coors Light bottles and $5 appetizers. Visitors will get to play trivia and football squares with purchase and a chance to win prizes.

• Seasons Tickets Sports Bar (554 Front St., Manchester, 623-5757, seasonsticketsnh.com) will offer $2 drafts during the game.

• Shade Bar and Grill (11 Tara Boulevard, Nashua, 888-9970, shadebarandgrillnh. com) will have a few $5 appetizers, and $2.50 16-ounce domestic draft beers.

• Shaka’s Bar and Grill (11 Wilton Road, Milford, 554-1224, shakasbargrill.com) is hosting a tailgate party at 4 p.m., as well as an all-you-can-eat buffet. A variety of drink and food discounts will be available for the duration of the big game.

• The Tuckaway Tavern & Butchery (58 Route 27, Raymond, 244-2431, thetuckaway. com) will be selling $75 game-day meat packs which will include five pounds of house wings, two pounds of house steak tips, two pounds of chicken tips, six homemade sausages and a large buffalo dip. People sitting at the bar will be able to get two pounds of chicken tenders — called chicken toes — for $10. And for every 10 points scored by the Patriots, people at the bar will get one pound of free chicken.

• The Wild Rover (21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester, 669-7722, wildroverpub.com) will have $3 beers on draft, $3 bloody marys and game-time appetizer specials. When patrons purchase a Coors Light, they’re entered into a raffle to win a Tom Brady jersey.

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Don’t miss Victorian Valentines for Modern Times, a program hosted by the Amherst Town Library (14 Main St.) from 1 to 3 p.m.

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DRINK: seasonal brews Join Blue Latitudes (431 Central Ave., Dover) for a Harpoon seasonal beer dinner on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m., featuring seasonal beers from Harpoon Brewery. The cost is $55. Visit bluelatitudes.net.

Tuesday, Feb. 7

Color scientist Harold Boll will present There is More to Color than Meets the Eye at the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Emma B. French Auditorium (148 Concord St., Manchester). Topics to be discussed will include the dual wave and particle nature of light, as well as the factors that affect color perception.

The event is free and open to the public. Visit nhia.edu or call 836-2143.

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ARTS Walk through Wonderland Classic tale inspires Kimball Jenkins show

By Kelly Sennott

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This winter and spring, the Kimball Jenkins School of Art turns into Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, which kids (and adults) can see during self-led tours or its Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Series.

Rachel Young curated the show, which includes illustrations by art teacher Sylvia Brofos and an installation of items that help tell Alice’s story.

Young was inspired by the popularity of the school’s fairy house festival and her favorite childhood book. The hope is to attract both boys and girls.

“Personally, when I was a little girl, I would have absolutely loved it. My grandmother and I would have Alice in

Wonderland tea parties all the time,” Young said. “It’s easy for any little girl to come to a fairy tea party, but Alice in Wonderland is more universal.”

The show is like a visual walking tour of the book throughout four of the school’s rooms, starting with the rabbit hole at the entrance. Here, viewers will find a mish-mash of items hanging on the walls and ceiling, including framed paintings, photos, maps and an upside down chair, which Alice passes by as she falls.

Under the stairs is a long, shrinking SYLVIA BROFOS hallway lined with a black and white tiled floor and a variety of door knobs to choose from. The Red Queen’s room contains a mirror scattered with playing cards and a tree of white and red roses, and the Mad Hatter’s workshop houses Victorian-esque props, from quills to old books. To create the illusion of a disappearing Cheshire Cat, Kimball Jenkins staff member Eleanor Poirier drew him on a mirror.

The installation was put together after shopping trips at Showcase Consignments, the Concord Antique Gallery and the Concord Auction Center in New Hampshire, and the Winsmith Mill Market and Remarkable Estate Cleanouts in Massachusetts.

All four of the transformed rooms contain Brofos’s illustrations — 23 pen and ink, two color — which were inspired by the Alice in Wonderland originals by John Tenniel. They’ll be accompanied by text

The people who wrote this book and illustrated it were geniuses. I had a lot of fun doing it.

Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Series Where: Kimball Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St., Concord When: Sunday, Feb. 19, Sunday, March 19, and Sunday, May 14, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Admission: Pre-registration is required; tickets are $10 What: The tea parties will include refreshments, storytelling, crafts, hot cocoa; all children must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Or just see the show: Call 225-3932 before your visit.

Eleanor Poirier, Philanthropy Associate at Kimball Jenkins, installing part of the school’s Alice in Wonderland exhibit. Kelly Sennott photo.

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“The people who wrote this book and illustrated it were geniuses,” Brofos said via phone. “I had a lot of fun doing it.”

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• Cultural art: Vermont native Valerie Hird visits the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord, Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m., to talk about her artwork, which has close ties to the people and countries of the Middle East and Central Asia.

After working as an archaeological illustrator in the ’80s, Hird worked and traveled abroad for 25 years and illustrated the stories she heard from the cultures she visited.

She has participated in a number of exhibitions, including the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, MASSMoCA, the Portsmouth Museum of Art and the Tampa Art Museum. Admission to the event is $25. She also has work up at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord, from Feb. 21 through March 24, in a show, “How Did a White Girl Get Here: Living With the Nomads of the East,” with an opening reception on Saturday, March 4, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit mcgowanfineart.com or call 225-2515.

• Is your city pretty? The New Hampshire Institute of Art announced its new Creative Placemaking program last week, which will be offered this year in partnership with the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking, according to a press release. The fast-growing field integrates resources and ideas from urban planning, community development and design to help people strategically shape their communities and environments to improve quality of life, economic opportunity and the climate for creativity. The 10-month program is one of the few of its kind in North America. For more on the program, email placemaking@nhia.edu or visit nhia.edu/ creativeplacemaking.

Art Events • “ART OF WINE AND CHOCOLATE” Currier after hours event. Thurs., Feb. 2, 6-9 p.m. Cash bar, wine and chocolate tastings. Music with Manchester Community Music School Jazz Trio led by Carl Benevides. Free with museum admission. Visit currier.org, call 669-6144, ext.

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• MANCHESTER ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATION MEETING Presenter is Patrick McCay. Mon., Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. New Hampshire

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“Weaving a Kilim,” watercolor on basingwerk paper, by Valerie Hird. Courtesy image.

• Lectures and shows: The New Hampshire Institute of Art has a variety of events this week, starting with a lecture by Joe Fig on Thursday, Feb. 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Emma B. French Hall Auditorium, 148 Concord St., Manchester. He’ll talk about his book Inside the Artist’s Studio, which compiles information he collected from interviews with more than 100 leading contemporary artists, including Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Carroll Dunham, Petah Coyne, Mary Heilmann and Fred Tomaselli. He asked questions like, What was the your first artwork to receive recognition? How did you get your first gallery show? What advice would you give a young artist starting out? For more information email saraceaser@nhia.edu. Harold Boll, color scientist, presents another artist lecture, “There is More to Color Than Meets the Eye,” on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the auditorium. Both events are free.

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• ALZHEIMER’S CAFE Special event for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia to enjoy art and good company in safe space. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Wed., Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m. Free to attend, no RSVP required. Visit currier.org, call 669-6144.

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• ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL Saint Anselm College Abbey Players present evening of innovative works. Thurs., Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.

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The Peterborough Players have opened the theater for a winter season. Courtesy photo.

By Kelly Sennott

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The Peterborough Players theater has been winterized since the ’90s, and this season, the company is finally making use of it with its inaugural winter productions.

The first, The Santaland Diaries, went up in December; the next, Mass Appeal, runs Feb. 1 through Feb. 11.

“This is something we’ve been kicking around and trying to figure out how to do for a while,” said Keith Stevens, the show’s director. “When we asked people around [here] about what ... the Players could do besides the summer season, they all said they wanted something in the winter, because in February there’s not a lot to do.”

Company members had some reservations, but the success of the Arts on Screen program (which presents shows from the Metropolitan Opera, National Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet on the big screen) hinted it could work; most audience members, they learned, were locals, not summer residents.

“There are day-trippers who come to Peterborough in the summer, but it’s not like people rent a cabin for a week, or at least not nearly as much as in the more touristy regions,” Stevens said.

Many of the Players’ recent developments have also increased the efficiency and ease with which the company can produce shows, from the on-campus housing for out-of-area cast and crew members Mass Appeal

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Where: Peterborough Players Theater, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough When: Feb. 1 through Feb. 11; check website for times Admission; $39 Contact: peterboroughplayers.org, 924-7585

to the newly constructed storage facility, enabling the Players to save and reuse pieces from past shows.

“It’s not the sort of thing you can market test. You have to do it or not. We thought about it and decided that now we’re in a position to be able to pull it off,” Stevens said.

The Santaland Diaries exceeded expectations in ticket sales, and since then the company has been working on building sets for Mass Appeal and the final show of the winter season, Steel Magnolias, which runs Feb. 15 through Feb. 26. Summer plays happen with 25 or more cast and crew members. Right now, there are six. As such, design had to be strategic; the plays chosen required small casts and unit sets.

Mass Appeal by Bill. C. Davis is a twocharacter play that ran on Broadway from 1981 to 1982. It focuses on the relationship between Father Tim Farley (played by Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen), an established priest in an affluent suburban parish, and an idealistic young seminarian, Mark Dolan (played by Adam Sowers), who challenges the elder’s humorous sermons and some long-held traditions of the Church.

Stevens said he likes the story because it’s universal.

“In Mass Appeal, you have an established person in their field and a young, fiery person who wants to be in that field,” Stevens said. “This could be any business, any relationship, and that’s what I find interesting and fascinating about it.”

Kaikkonen said he thinks the story is surprising and relevant.

“I think it’s a really good play. It’s a surprising play. I don’t think anybody has a clue where the play is going when they start watching,” Kaikkonen said via phone. “I do think people will find echoes of our current situation in the country in this play. … It’s amazing how suddenly a piece of art means something else against the background of current events.”

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• Student-directed: The Saint Anselm Abbey Players present their One-Act Play Festival on Thursday, Feb. 2; Friday, Feb. 3, and Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., at the Dana Center for the Humanities, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. The Players will perform short plays that include They Walk Among Us by Nicholas O’Neill, about teenagers who die and return to Earth; Sylvia by A.R. Gurney, in which a dog completes an odd emotional love triangle; and Boy Meets Girl: A Young Love Story

by Sam Wolfson, about a complicated love story between two 5-year-olds. Tickets are $9. Visit anselm.edu/dana, email dana@ anselm.edu or call 641-7700.

• And the winners were: The 15th New Hampshire Theatre Awards were held at the Capitol Center for the Arts on Jan. 21, and the big winners were the Little Church Theater, who won Best Community Production of a Musical with The Musical of Musicals, the Musical!; M&D Productions, who won Best Community Production of a Drama/ Comedy with Equus, and the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, who won Best Professional Production of a Musical with Cabaret in addition to Best Professional Production of a Drama/ Comedy with The Waltz. The full list of winners can be viewed at nhtheatreawards.org.

• New studio space: Patrick Dorow Productions obtained new class space at 170

One of the plays in the Saint Anselm Abbey Players’ One-Act Play Festival is Sylvia, about a dog who enters a complicated love triangle. Courtesy photo.

West Road, Suite 15, Portsmouth, which is 9,800 square feet on two levels. According to a press release, the hope is this new space will help expand educational offerings of PDP to the public and enhance its ability to create and store the sets, props and costumes for its productions. Visit patrickdorowproductions.com.

• Stepping down: Last week, the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell announced its executive director since 2013, Elizabeth Kegley, is stepping down from her position. Her three years with the company saw the hiring of Artistic Director Sean Daniels, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, new strategic plans and new partnerships. “It has been a true joy to lead MRT for the past three and a half years with the support of such a phenomenal board, staff and community,” Kegley said in a press release. “I wish MRT and the community here all the best in the future.” The company is initiating a national search to identify a successor. Visit mrt. org. — Kelly Sennott

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Stories brought to life Story Pirates perform in Concord

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The Story Pirates may be adults, but the interactive stories — with names like “The Fish vs. My Brother” — that they’ll be performing when they come to Concord Feb. 8 are all the work of kids.

The “pirates” are professional actors and musicians who perform original sketch comedy shows and musicals using stories written by elementary school kids. The Harlem, N.Y.-based group has performed at hundreds of schools and performing arts centers across the country, and they’re making a stop in the Granite State for the first time as part of their national tour.

They will appear at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 10 a.m.

“The general concept behind Story Pirates is that we want to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, and that’s what we put out into the world,” Producing Director Jeremy Basescu said. “We always try to make the whole thing feel like a Broadway show that is in the voice of kids who wrote the stories.”

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thousands of pre-rehearsed stories submitted by kids over the years since 2003.

But each show also includes a segment at the end in which they perform something the kids in the audience come up with on the spot, and each of the skits usually actively engages the audience in some way.

“Some will have audience members actually yelling out at the characters to get them to do something,” he said, “and with others, some of our actors will run into the audience. … Some [shows] will vary from straight physical comedy to almost an entirely musical number.”

The improvised skit at the end will involve performers asking the

audience members to come up with a character and give them traits to build a story around. Basescu said that skit can turn out to be any kind of story, as long as the actors feel they can perform it on stage.

Kids as young as 3 years old through elementary school have enjoyed the performances, Basescu said.

“Basically any child with enough sense of how a story works [enjoys them],” he said. “Obviously as kids get older, they’re more likely to pick out the jokes and the physical comedy.”

Favorite performances have included “The Fish vs. My Brother,” which Basescu said is about a girl who is trying to teach her little brother how to feed their pet

fish but ends up banishing him from doing so when he does all the wrong things.

“In this case, you’d be getting the audience involved on one character’s side, as the girl is trying to get the audience to help her from preventing the brother from feeding the fish,” he said.

Basescu said dramatic moments will be built up during each show before coming to a big conclusion at the end that is usually musical in nature.

If you can’t make the show, Story Pirates has a free podcast, where stories are available to listen to through Sirius XM radio or by downloading on iTunes. They also frequently go on tour to promote children’s books.

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Family fun for the weekend

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Join the Manchester Monarchs for Youth Hockey Night on Saturday, Feb. 4, as they take on the South Carolina Stingrays at 6 p.m at the SNHU Arena (550 Elm St., Manchester). Four thousand young fans will be given free Jersey Rally Towels, and one youth hockey player will get the chance for a post-game meet and greet and locker room tour with his or her favorite Monarchs player. Visit manchestermonarchs.com or call 626-7825.

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Magical moments

Don’t miss a special performance at Lawrence Barn Community Center (28 Depot Road, Hollis) on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 3 to 4 p.m., by magician, balloon sculptor and flea circus ringmaster Ed Popielarczyk. The kids are the stars and make the magic happen at each of his shows. Participants will also get the chance to be a part of Ed’s big top circus.

The event is co-hosted by the Hollis Social Library. Admission is free. Visit hollislibrary. org or call 465-7721.

Simply stellar

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive, Concord) will host the next installment in its Super Stellar Fridays series on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. Events are held on the first Friday of each month and consist of specially themed planetarium shows, a free skywatch with the New Hampshire Astronomical Society, and a teen night.

This month’s show will center around meteors, asteroids and comets. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and students, and $7 for children. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Visit starhop.com or call 271-7827.

for a screening of The BFG on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 2 to 4 p.m., as the next event in its family film series. Based on the children’s novel

by Roald Dahl, the movie follows a developing friendship between a young orphan named Sophie and a giant. Admission is free, but children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4600.

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Do you want to talk about your favorite movies, games, books and more? Join the Hype Club at the Goffstown Public Library (2 High St.) as it holds its next meeting on Saturday, Feb. 4, from noon to 1 p.m. The meetings are open on the first Saturday of every month for kids and teens in grades 6 through 12. Snacks will be provided, and no registration is required. Visit goffstownlibrary.com or call 497-2102.

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Cinderella story

Cinderella visits Cowabunga’s Indoor Inflatable Playground (1328 Hooksett Road, Hooksett) on Friday, Feb. 3, from 5 to 8 p.m., during the next Friday Night Fun series.

All three gyms will also be open. The cost is Family film $10 per child and free for adults and babies.

Join the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St.) Visit mycowabungas.com or call 625-8008.

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IN/OUT THE GARDENING GUY

Time to start seedlings?

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A reader, Vicki, wrote recently asking if it’s time to start Brussels sprouts indoors, and if so, how? No, it’s not time for them yet. But I will start a few things. Here are some tips.

First, know that most vegetables and flowers only need to be planted eight to 12 weeks before you put them out. For me, frost-sensitive vegetable starts go outdoors in early to mid-June. Counting back eight weeks means planting in April, not January. But look at your seed catalogs or go online to see how long a particular plant takes to germinate and get ready to plant outdoors.

I find that the Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalog is one of the best sources of growing tips.

Go to johnnyseeds.com and click on grower’s library, then on vegetable library, and get two pages of good information for each veggie.

For another good source of information go to the Gardeners Supply Company’s vegetable encyclopedia: gardeners.com/gardening-encyclopedia. You will be able to get great information for about 40 kinds of vegetables. I helped write that years ago.

Professional growers don’t want to spend a lot of time babying seedlings – time is money – and recognize that smaller seedlings generally transplant better than large ones. Roots of small plants are not bound up, even in a small cell, so they transplant better.

Some gardeners like to start tomatoes 16 weeks ahead of planting, and then transplant seedlings from starter six-packs to individual 4-inch pots, allowing them to plant large tomatoes in the ground. But that’s a lot of time tending and watering.

Those same gardeners often try to get seedlings into the ground in May, even if the ground is chilly. I like to put mine out when the soil is 60 degrees or warmer. Then the plants take right off and are not stressed.

Warm-weather plants like tomatoes and peppers tend to sulk when put in cold, wet soil.

The reader, Vicki, asked if I thought she needed a heat mat for her Brussels sprouts.

Not necessarily. Heat mats are good for impatient gardeners who want to get things growing fast. Soil temperature is a safety feature for plants: cold soil means more cold weather is still coming. If the soil is truly warm, it’s safe for tender plants to germinate. So it may take two weeks or more for Brussels sprouts to germinate at 50 degrees, but only five to eight days at 75 to 85 degrees. Soil mats should be turned off once the plants have germinated.

Vicki was planning on growing her Brussels sprouts on a south-facing windowsill.

Don’t do it, Vicki. Invest in some lights.

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op strong bodies and thick stems. If there is not enough light, plants get tall fast and lean toward the source of light. They are flimsy and more prone to disease.

I tell wanna-be gardeners that they need to have six hours of direct sunshine outdoors to grow good tomatoes and other fruits, but that lettuces and kale can get by with four hours of direct sun. It’s hard to get six hours of sun indoors at this time of year.

I recommend fluorescent lights using T-8 bulbs. Those are tubes that are narrower in diameter than the old T-12 bulbs but more energy-efficient. Shop lights are relatively inexpensive, though special “Gro-Light” fluorescent tubes can be pricey. I use ordinary shop lights with no-frill tubes.

I built an A-frame plant stand that is perfect for shop lights and flats of seedlings.

You can see the directions to build it at dailyuv.com/gardeningguy. It will hold six flats of seedlings, and for around $50 you can get everything you need.

The height of the lights above the flats of seedlings needs to be adjustable so that the lights are always about six inches above the tops of the plants. I use jack chain, a lightweight chain available at hardware stores, and a hook at each end. As the plants grow, I shorten the chain.

Vicki asked me about fertilizing her Brussels sprouts seedlings. It depends on the soil mix you use. If you buy a commercial seedstarting mix, it is light and fluffy and good for developing roots, but it has little in the way of nutrients, and those present will wash away in a couple of weeks.

Me? I make a 50-50 mix of seed-starting mix and good compost. The minerals in the compost will not be so quickly depleted. In either case, a regular light dose of an organic liquid fertilizer such as Neptune’s Harvest fish and seaweed will keep your plants from suffering from lack of minerals. But don’t overdo it. More is not better.

So, Vicki, don’t start your Brussels sprouts until April, or even May. Onions and peppers and artichokes are things I start in late January, or even as late as mid-February.

Reach Henry at henry.homeyer@comcast. net; his website is Gardening-Guy.com.

IN/OUT TREASURE HUNT

Dear Donna, I found this in an old estate and am wondering if it still has any value to it.

I believe it’s an old egg scale. Any info would help.

Mary Dear Mary, What you have found is a 1940s Jiffy Way Egg scale. It was very common even into the 1950s and I’m sure heavily used by an egg farmer. This was meant to grade and weigh eggs. The better grade, the better the egg, the more money.

Yours seems to have been worn down to the point of someone repainting it.

Imagine it being so needed and used that someone would go through the effort of saving it. That is the part to me that has the value — all the stories it could tell.

How many eggs it weighed and graded.

The market value for them isn’t that much because they are not to hard to come by. And most collectors wouldn’t want the repaint on it or appreciate the love someone had to save it. So as far as financial value I would say it’s in the $20 range. But for the stories, it’s priceless.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is an antiques appraiser and instructor. To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@aol. com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 6248668).

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Do smog test before you buy the car Dear Car Talk: I am about to buy a 1998 Volvo S90 with 133,000 miles on it. The smog sticker is expired.

The seller tells me it’s only $40 to get a new one. Is it possible that

By Ray Magliozzi it won’t pass the test?

What would you recommend that I check for?

I am one of the sisters who’s ignorant about mechanics. What a shame. Thanks! — Ati The best way to find out if it will pass the smog test is to get a smog test, Ati — before you buy it.

It’s entirely possible that it won’t pass.

That may be why it’s sitting on Goober’s lawn with grass growing up to its side-view mirrors. And in fact, you really should have the whole car checked out by your own mechanic before you buy it. It could be parked because the transmission refused to go beyond second gear, or because it burns so much oil that it was used in a community mosquito-abatement program.

You can handle your pre-purchase inspection one of two ways. You can volunteer to take the car to be inspected yourself. The seller might want some sort of deposit to make sure you come back, so you can give

him a check for $100. But I’d make any deposit refundable, contingent upon it passing inspection.

If the seller doesn’t want to release the car to you, then have him take it to a mechanic of your choice to have it inspected. If you need help finding a trusted nearby mechanic, try searching at www.mechanicsfiles.com.

That mechanic will be working for you, Ati. So have him start with the smog test. If the car fails the smog test, you can tell him to stop there, and you can return the car. You’ll have wasted $40 but saved yourself a lot more than that in time, money and trouble.

If it passes the smog test, then he can check out the rest of the car and tell you what else is wrong with it, what needs to be fixed right away and what can wait. That’ll give you a much better idea of what, exactly, you’re buying, and what it’s going to actually cost you in the next six months to a year.

You also can use that information to negotiate with the seller.

But by all means, get it smog-tested before you buy it. The law may require you to pay another $40 to smog-test it once you register it in your name. But at least you’ll know it’s going to pass without a new $800 catalytic converter and two $300 oxygen sensors.

Good luck, sister.

Dear Car Talk: How do the newer, lighter SUVs (crossovers) stack up against classic Jeeps, Land Rovers and Chevy Suburbans for off-road use? While many tout the safety features and traction of all-wheel drive, they are never shown being driven anywhere except on paved city streets. At my job, many of the favored field vehicles are the older (‘80s-model) Suburbans and Ford Broncos, which are almost indestructible but drink gas like it’s water. With fuel economy still an important consideration, we are interested in the hybrid lines of small SUVs (such as the Ford Escape or the Toyota RAV4). But do they have the features necessary for off-road use, or are we better off having a separate “excursion” vehicle for exploring backcountry byways? Thank you! — Evan The crossovers that interest you are not really designed to go off-roading. The definition of “off-road” in a Ford Escape means you’ve turned off into the Whole Foods parking lot. Crossovers are designed with ground clearance and good traction, but that’s really for snow, slippery roads or modest off-road use: dirt, some mud, grass, sand or gravel.

So if you’re determined to drive over tree stumps, boulders and hibernating mammals, I think you’d be better off with a second, old-

er vehicle just for that purpose. Besides, that kind of real off-roading punishes a vehicle.

And do you want to do that to the family vehicle you plan to keep for years?

What we call “crossovers” are really carbased vehicles that have an SUV-ish body style; they’re not actually trucks. And that’s great, because most people don’t enjoy driving a truck every day. Trucks handle worse, are generally less comfortable, get much poorer gas mileage, are harder to get into and out of and tend to be less safe, in many instances (especially with on-demand four-wheel drive versus permanent all-wheel drive).

So you’ll be a lot happier driving, day to day, in a RAV4 Hybrid than in, say, a Toyota 4Runner, which is based on a pickup truck. And you’ll be happier parking your Ford Escape Hybrid in the Costco parking lot than you would be trying to fit your Ford Expedition into one of those “compact only” spaces. And you’ll be happier with either one of those every time you go to the gas station.

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IN/OUT

Positive energy

Winter Psychic Fair returns to Nashua

By Matt Ingersoll

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You might be looking for spiritual guidance, or you might be looking for crystal jewelry — you can find both at the Winter Psychic Fair in Nashua, says event organizer Angie D’Anjou.

The sixth annual event will include vendors selling unique jewelry, arts and crafts and more, plus readings from one of eight holistic healers. It’s happening Saturday, Feb. 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hampton Inn and is free to attend, though readings are $25. But anyone interested in stopping by to check out the vendors can do so without having to participate in a reading.

“It’s a nice balance to come to see the art and the holistic aspects of [the event],” D’Anjou said. “It’s not something that is hokey pokey or that will doom and gloom you. … We always have people who come for real spiritual guidance but then also people who are just looking for something to do and to get out of the winter blues.”

Visitors can come to the fair any time for a reading, and D’Anjou said the craft and jewelry vendors will be on hand throughout the day as well.

Some will be selling products, while others will create their own jewelry on site.

One local vendor is Lisa’s Wire Creations, which is based in Hudson. D’Anjou said owner Lisa Lanfair wraps crystals with wires to make jewelry pieces.

“The designs come to her, and all her pieces are very unique,” she said. “She’s never making the same pattern over and over again.”

Pyramid Creations in Derry, which works with orgonite crystals and other materials, is also expected to appear at the fair. New this year will be Boston-based metal sculptor Eric Harty of 2nd Chance Metal Art. “He uses art to make sculptures out of trash metals, so that will be a bit of a different thing,” D’Anjou said.

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D’Anjou said a larger event she is ANGIE D’ANJOU planning in April for Earth Day weekend at the Courtyard Marriott Event Center in Nashua — the first annual Web of Light Expo — will also focus on learning about holistic healing services. “[These events] are all about allowing people the opportunity to see what spiritual guidance is all about,” she said. “We also hope they give people a nice day to learn about what the vendors do and to promote the ones that are from the area.”

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CAREERS

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

It’s really just basic mechanic skills. … Diecutting technology is all Industrial Revolutionera stuff, so it’s all old technology. I wouldn’t say there’s any particular skill or intuitiveness. … I enjoy problem-solving, and building a lot of Mark Stevens and his wife Rose of Barrington are the owners of Piece Time the machinery required a Puzzles in Northwood. Using a roller press, they can create a custom-made jigsaw lot of that, as well as the puzzle to order out of almost any snapshot image in a variety of sizes. They also overall physical running carry puzzle books, rings and other brain teasers from more than 60 vendors. of the shop.

can do to fix it, and to stick to it.

What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of your career?

That goes back to asking yourself what you have to do to fix a problem … but I did feel like I learned something every day and I had some preparation [running a business] from an early age.

Mark Stevens

Custom jigsaw puzzle maker

Explain what your current job is.

We’re a retail puzzle shop and we also manufacture puzzles on custom order. … Rose does the printing, and I do the die-cutting with a roller press that I built. … We have one retail outlet, but we ship all over and we do have an online presence. … Most of the sales come largely through word of mouth and some searching online.

came on full time in 2002. Prior to then, I was a long-haul truck driver. … We actually got the die-cutting process up and running in 2005.

How did you get interested in this field?

We were selling puzzles at craft fairs with a tent and everything, but they were hard to buy at the time … and we wanted to get into manufacturing and puzzlemaking. It was something we enjoyed How long have you been in your and seemed to have a niche for. career?

Rose opened the shop in 1996, and I

What is your typical at-work uniform?

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We’re in a barn doing How did you find your physical work, so it’s current job? mostly jeans and sneakers in the summerAfter selling puzzles at craft fairs for a time and boots in the winter. while, we realized we’d do much better in a bigger space. … The barn we operate What was the first job you ever had? our shop out of is my brother’s property, I grew up in Portsmouth and made siland business grew as we used more and ver dollars for a dollar a day raking after more of that space.

Hurricane Carol hit in 1954.

— Matt Ingersoll What’s the best piece of work-related WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’RE advice anyone’s ever given you?

REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW? In running your own business, you’re hit with 100 problems every day, both I love gardening … and we’ve been getminor and major. … So it’s important to ting into more and more organic-style find the problem and go after what you gardening for our own use.

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FOOD Love bites

Find special eats for Valentine’s Day

By Angie Sykeny

News from the local food scene

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Here are a few of the places offering special menus, prix fixe meals, beer and wine pairings and more for Valentine’s Day. Seats fill up fast, so be sure to call for reservations ahead of time. If you know of another place offering Valentine’s Day food specials, let us know at food@hippopress.com and we’ll include it in next week’s Weekly Dish.

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• Best brunch: The Local Moose Cafe (124 Queen City Ave., Manchester, 2322669, thelocalmoosecafe.com) has been recognized by the Food Network in an article called “50 States of Brunch” as the best restaurant serving brunch in New Hampshire. The article highlighted the cafe’s coffee and Free Ranger Egg Sandwich, made with Vermont cheddar and served on a brioche bun made with locally sourced honey. Read it at foodnetwork.com.

• All about chocolate: Melissa Brooks, education director of the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, will present a free all-ages program on The Science of Chocolate at Daland Memorial Library (5 N. Main St., Mont Vernon) on Thursday Feb. 9, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Brooks will tell a Mayan legend about chocolate and will discuss where the cacao tree grows, how the beans are processed and what it means for cocoa to be organic and fair-trade. Participants will have the chance to take part in a chocolate-making demonstration and tasting. Space for the program is limited. Call 673-7888 or email dalandlibrary@comcast. net to reserve your spot. Brooks will also present the Science of Chocolate at Smyth Public Library (55 High St., Candia, 4838245, smythpl.org) on Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 6 to 7 p.m., and at Goffstown Public Library (2 High St., Goffstown, 497-2102, goffstownlibrary.com) on Saturday, March 4, from 11 a.m. to noon.

• Sweet class: The Nashua Senior Activity Center (70 Temple St., Nashua), in partnership with Courville Communities, will host a cooking class on Monday, Feb. 13, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., about how to make dishes with chocolate as a main ingredient.

The class will be taught by an award-winning chef of Courville Communities. It is open to the public, free for members and $10 for nonmembers. Call 889-6155 or visit nashuaseniorcenter.org for more information and to register.

• Harpoon dinner: Blue Latitudes (431 Central Ave., Dover, 750-4222, bluelatitudes.net) will host a Harpoon beer dinner on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. The five-course meal will feature food prepared by the restaurant’s Chef Art and paired with seasonal beers from Harpoon Brewing Company, including an opening toast with the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series; a homemade 42

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• 110 Grill (27 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, 943-7443, 110grill.com) will serve a special menu on Valentine’s Day from 4 to 10 p.m.

• Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., 753-6631, alansofboscawen.com) is taking reservations for Valentine’s Day sweetheart dinners for two. The special menu will include crunchy chicken with broccoli over fettuccini alfredo, tender pastry-stuffed chicken, broiled Maryland crab cakes, grilled center-cut swordfish, prime rib of beef au jus and more.

• Alpine Grove Banquet Facility (19 S. Depot Road, Hollis, 882-9051, alpinegrove. com) will host a Valentine Dinner & Dance on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 5 to 10 p.m., featuring a meal with red fruit and mozzarella salad, roasted tomato and feta orzo pasta, sour cherry chicken with stir-fried vegetables, bacon-wrapped beef Wellington and more, plus black bottom creme brulee and passion fruit sorbet for dessert and a cash bar. Tickets cost $35 per person or $300 for a table of 10.

Reservations required by Feb. 6.

• Angela’s Pasta and Cheese Shop (815 Chestnut St., Manchester, 625-9544, angelaspastaandcheese.com) offers a Valentine’s Day Dinner for Two takeout menu for couples who want to enjoy a gourmet meal at home. Choose from three entrees (beef Wellington with Cabernet demi-glace, roasted haddock fillet with seafood Newburg sauce or Dijon rosemary-crusted rack of lamb with pan ju), four wines (pinot noir, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon or pinot gris) and either a Caesar salad with Parmesan crisps or a Champagne and brie bisque. All meals include potato cakes, roasted tomatoes, rolls, tiramisu and limoncello mascarpone cake.

The cost is $59.95. Order by Feb. 9.

• Angelina’s Ristorante Italiano (11 Depot St., Concord, 228-3313, angelinasrestaurant.com) will serve a special six-course dinner on Valentine’s Day accompanied by live music. Dinner hours are 5 to 9 p.m.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn.com) will serve a Valentine’s Day dinner from 5 to 9:30 p.m., featuring a four-course prix fixe menu with an amuse bouche, various appetizers, salads, entrees including

giannone chicken breast, pan-roasted sea scallops, eggplant and roasted tomato crepes, veal loin medallions and more; and desserts including vanilla bean creme brulee, triple citrus sorbet, a chocolate tasting for two and more. The cost is $75 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Optional extras like a bottle of Champagne or wine delivered to the table, a rose to lay at the place setting and custom flower arrangements or centerpieces are also available. Reservations are required.

• Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-7359, birchwoodvineyards.com) will host Valentine’s Day at the Vineyard on Friday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour and four-course dinner. The menu features arugula and yuzu salad, bronzed sea scallops, filet mignon and molten chocolate lava cake. The cost is $65 and includes tax and gratuity. Purchase tickets online.

• The Bistro at LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) will serve a special Valentine’s menu with wine pairings from Friday, Feb. 10, through Tuesday, Feb. 14, with expanded hours from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The menu features beet carpaccio, green lentil soup, lobster bolognese, veal porterhouse, tenderloin oscar, free-range chicken breast, red velvet heart cake, a French macaroon assortment and wine pairing flights. Reservations are recommended.

• Buckley’s Great Steaks (438 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 424-0995, buckleysgreatsteaks.com) will serve its regular menu and Valentine’s specials on Monday, Feb. 13, and Tuesday, Feb. 14, from 4 to 9 p.m.

• Cask & Vine (1½ E. Broadway, Derry, 965-3454, caskandvine.com) will serve Valentine’s Day dinner with seatings at 4:30 or 5 to 7 p.m., and 7:30 to 10 p.m. Reservations are required.

• Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks, Hen-

niker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) offers a two-night Chocolate Lover’s Weekend from Friday, Feb. 10, through Sunday, Feb. 12, which includes a wine and cheese social hour with house-made chocolate truffles, chocolate cocktails and desserts, breakfast with Belgian hot chocolate and other chocolate treats, a chocolate cooking class, a fourcourse wine-pairing dinner and a chocolate gift to take home. The package costs $650 per couple, plus tax and gratuities.

• Copper Beech Winery (146 Londonderry Turnpike, Building 3, Unit 23, 400-2595, copperbeechwinery.com) will host a wine tasting and cupcake pairing with Queen City Cupcakes of Manchester on Saturday, Feb. 11. More details to come at facebook.com/ CopperBeechWinery.

• Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com) is taking reservations for a prix fixe Valentine’s Day dinner, served in lieu of the regular dinner menu, on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The menu features soups and salads like fresh berry salad and crab bisque; small plates and snacks like lobster tartlet and chicken rangoon; entrees including filet mignon, ginger haddock, coffee-rubbed pork loin, macadamia-crusted short rib, lobster ravioli and jumbo seared scallops; and desserts including almond and chocolate creme brulee, red velvet cupcake and chocolate fondue.

• Cotton (75 Arms St., Manchester, 6225488, cottonfood.com) will serve Valentine’s food and drink specials from Friday, Feb. 10, through Tuesday, Feb. 14. Early reservations are recommended.

• The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13, Brookline, 249-9111, thecozyteacart.com) will have a Valentine’s afternoon tea on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 1 to 3 p.m. The cost is $34.95 per person, including tax and gratuity.

Registration is required.

• Epoch Restaurant & Bar (90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) will

serve a special four-course prix fixe meal on Valentine’s Day from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The cost is $65, or $90 for a dinner with wine pairings. Call to reserve.

• The Farmer’s Dinner (thefarmersdinner.com, info@thefarmersdinner.com) will present Love at First Bite, a farm-to-table Valentine’s dinner, on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., at North End Bistro (1361 Elm St., Manchester). The seven-course menu will feature salmon rose and hummus, an oyster flight, seared torchon of foie gras, smokey mirrors, steak picasso and shades of chocolate.

Tickets cost $69.99. Purchase online.

• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) will serve its regular menu and specials from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

• Flag Hill Winery & Distillery (297 N. River Road, Route 155, Lee, flaghill.com) will have a Valentine’s dinner on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m., featuring a multi-course menu with maple bourbon bacon-wrapped scallops, Caesar salad, a choice of baconwrapped filet or lobster macaroni and cheese, and a dessert, along with wine and spirit pairings. Tickets cost $65 per person. Reservations are required.

• The Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille (40 Andover Road, New London, 526-6899, flyinggoose.com) will serve Valentine’s dinner specials all week including starters like red wine and sweet potato soup, oysters on the half shell and strawberry and spinach salad; entrees like seafood paella, bacon and three cheese lasagna and honey-lime chicken; a raspberry amour tarte for two for dessert, and chocolate milk stout.

• Fulchino Vineyard (187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis, 438-5984, fulchinovineyard.com) will host “It’s Amore!,” a Valentine’s wine pairing, on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., and from 3 to 5 p.m. The Vineyard will debut its first rose wine, called Amore. Wines will be paired with cheese, gelato and black and white petit fours including royal chocolate, carrot cake, coffee liqueur, French vanilla coffee, brownies in triple chocolate and cookies ‘n’ cream, and bonbons in white almond and milk chocolate. A special musical guest will be featured. Tickets cost $39. Purchase online.

• Gauchos Churrascaria Brazilian Steak House (62 Lowell St., Manchester, 6699460, gauchosbraziliansteakhouse.com) will have special festivities from Friday, Feb. 10, through Tuesday, Feb. 14, including live Brazilian music on Friday and Saturday, a brunch buffet (10 a.m.) and live jazz music on Sunday, $6 martinis on Monday, and more live jazz music on Tuesday. Dinner starts at 4 p.m. each night.

• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Bar (524 Nashua St., Milford, 673-3939; Pennichuck Square, Merrimack, 883-7333; 270 Granite St., Manchester, 232-3323, giorgios.com) will serve Valentine’s specials in addition to the regular menu from Thursday, Feb. 9, through Tuesday, Feb. 14. On Valentine’s Day, there will also be a special four-course prix fixe menu with appetizers, soups and salads, four entree options and dessert for $39.99 per person.

Items on the special menu can also be pur-

chased a la carte. Dinner hours are Thursday through Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m.; Sunday all day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Monday from 4 to 9 p.m., and extended hours on Valentine’s Day from 4 to 10 p.m.

• The Grazing Room at Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks, Henniker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) will serve a chef’s Valentine menu on Friday, Feb. 10, through Sunday, Feb. 12, Tuesday, Feb. 14, and Wednesday, Feb. 15.

Seatings are available from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

• Hanover Street Chophouse (149 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-2467, hanoverstreetchophouse.com) is taking reservations for its four-course Valentine’s Day dinner.

The menu features multiple appetizer, soup and salad, entree and dessert options. The cost is $195 per couple. Dinner hours are 5 to 9:30 p.m. Reserve early.

• Highland Wine Merchants will have a Valentine’s wine tasting on Friday, Feb. 10, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Angela’s Pasta and Cheese Shop (815 Chestnut St., Manchester).

• Hooked Seafood Restaurant and Ignite Bar & Grille (110 Hanover St., Manchester, 606-1189; 100 Hanover St., 644-0064, hookedonignite.com) are both taking reservations for Valentine’s Day dinner which will feature specials with Champagne, roses and balloons alongside its regular menu.

• IncrediBREW (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew. com) will host a couples wine tasting, “The Romance of Wine,” on Valentine’s Day from 6 to 8 p.m. Couples will enjoy a wine flight and hors d’oeuvres and will take home a bottle of chocolate raspberry port. The cost is $30 per couple. Space is limited, and registration is required.

• Mile Away Restaurant (52 Federal Hill Road, Milford, 673-3904, mileawayrestaurant.com) is taking reservations for Valentine’s Day dinner. Entree options include prime rib, grilled duck breast, maple salmon, a vegetable dish and more, and each comes with a choice of appetizer, salad, potato-based side, vegetable side and dessert.

• Mint Bistro (1105 Elm St., Manchester, 625-6468, mintbistronh.com) will serve its regular menu and specials, including shareable specials, on Valentine’s Day from 4 to 10 p.m.

• Molly’s Tavern and Restaurant (35 Mont Vernon Road, New Boston, 487-1362, facebook.com/MollysTavernAndRestaurant) is taking reservations for Valentine’s Day dinner, when a special menu will be served. The menu will feature chocolate-covered strawberries and Champagne, raw oysters on the half shell, shrimp cocktail, prime rib, swordfish and gorgonzola-stuffed chicken.

• MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar (212 Main St., Nashua, 595-9334, mtslocal.com) is accepting reservations for Valentine’s dinner from Friday, Feb. 10, through Tuesday, Feb. 14. Serving hours are Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m., and Sunday through Tuesday from 4 to 9 p.m.

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• Pasquale’s Ristorante (143 Raymond Road, Candia, 483-5005; 87 Nashua Road, Londonderry, 434-3093, pasqualeristorantenh.com) will serve a special menu on Valentine’s Day at both locations. Reservations are required.

• Piccola Italia Ristorante (815 Elm St., Manchester, 606-5100, piccolaitalianh.com) will offer menu specials on Valentine’s Day during regular hours, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

• Pipe Dream Brewing (49 Harvey Road, Londonderry, 404-0751, facebook.com/ pipedreambrewing) is teaming up with Londonderry restaurant Harold Square to host a five-course Sweetheart Dinner Pairing on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. The menu features grilled chorizo-wrapped shrimp with On Island Time IPA; strawberry-infused watermelon and goat cheese salad with Mango IPA; asparagus and braised pork belly with Bombshell Brown Ale; seared short rib and mushroom ragout with West to East IPA; and chocolate-dipped strawberry beignet with Coffee Coconut Porter. Tickets cost $60 per person. Space is limited, and registration is required.

• The Puritan Backroom (245 Hooksett Road, Manchester, 669-6890, puritanbackroom.com) will have Valentine’s Day specials during regular hours, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

• The Quill Restaurant at Southern New Hampshire University (2500 N. River Road, Manchester, 629-4608, snhu.edu/restaurant) will serve a Valentine’s Day romantic Italian dinner at 6 p.m. The menu features appetizers like squash ravioli, fried artichoke hearts

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• The Red Blazer (72 Manchester St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) will offer a special dinner menu on Valentine’s Day from 4 to 10 p.m.

• Restaurant Tek-Nique (170 Rt. 101, Bedford, 488-5629, restaurantteknique.com) will serve a 6-course choice menu and glass of sparkling wine on Valentine’s Day from 4 to 9 p.m. The cost is $100 per person. Wine flights will also be available for $30 per person. Call for reservations.

• Roots Cafe at Robie’s Country Store (9 Riverside St., Hooksett, 485-7761, rootsatrobies.com) will serve a Valentine’s farm-to-table dinner on Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. The four-course menu will include brie bites and jam, local mussels, salad served in endive cups with pomegranate, crab and avocado; seared salmon with goat cheese risotto and beet puree, braised local short ribs, mashed potatoes, white chocolate-covered cherry, chocolate bark and vegan coconut ice cream. The meal costs $45 per person. Reservations are required.

• Surf (207 Main St., Nashua, 595-9293, surfseafood.com) is accepting reservations for Valentine’s Day, when it will serve a special menu from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.

• Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St., Salem, 952-4875, tuscanbrands.com) will serve its regular menu and specials from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

dinner paired with seasonal beers from Harpoon Brewing Co. Fri., Feb. 3, 7 p.m. Blue Latitudes, 431 Central Ave. , Dover. $55. Visit bluelatitudes.net.

• ABE’S ALEFEST Brew six top-selling ales, which include Charlie Brown, New England Chestnut, English Pub, Mad Hatter #9, Fat Tyre, and Dos X Amber. No brewing experience necessary. Return two weeks later to bottle. Thurs., Feb. 9, 6 p.m.

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• SWEETHEART DINNER PAIRING Five-course dinner paired with five Pipe Dream beers. Thurs., Feb. 16, 6 to 8 p.m. Pipe Dream Brewing, 49 Harvey Road, Londonderry. $60. Visit facebook.com/pipedreambrewing.

• CONCORD HOSPITAL TRUST’S ANNUAL WINE TASTING Fri., March 3, general admission is from 7 to 9 p.m., V.I.P. admission is from 6 to 7 p.m. The Courtyard by Marriott Grappone Center, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord.

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Chef events/special meals • NIGHT AT THE QUILL Dinner at the student-run, finedining restaurant to benefit the Easter Seals programs. Wed., March 29, 5 to 8 p.m. The Quill Restaurant at SNHU, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. $65.

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Whether you’re unfamiliar with the wineries and chocolate makers in the area or you’re curious about how your favorite local wines or chocolates are made, you can get a closer look during the Wine and Chocolate Tour of Southern New Hampshire, the next of which is happening Saturday, Feb. 11.

“Since I do this for a living, I go to all these different places all over the country,” said Tammy Downing, tour director and owner of Out of the Box Tours, which is based in Manchester and hosts the Wine and Chocolate Tour. “But I live in southern New Hampshire, so I wanted to bring a tour here, too. You don’t always appreciate what is in your own backyard, but we have a lot to offer here.”

The tour will launch at 11 a.m., from the parking lot near Whole Foods Market in Bedford. It lasts around six hours, depending on how long the tourists stay at each stop. It usually includes four to six stops. Downing said she tries to keep things fresh by featuring some different stops for each tour, although that’s not always possible since she has to work within the businesses’ availability. The February tour and the next one, on March 11, will both feature the same four stops: Dancing Lion Chocolate in Manchester, Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry, LaBelle Winery in Amherst and Nelson’s Candies in Wilton, visited in that order.

These two tours will be the first to feature Nelson’s, which Downing only recently discovered. Exploring new places, she said, is a big part of what makes the tours fun, both for her and for the tourists.

“I had never heard of Nelson’s until my sister told me, and the reason she knew about them was because she lives around the corner from them,” she said. “Except for places like LaBelle, which everyone drives by on [Route] 101, a lot of these places are ones people have never heard of and didn’t even know existed. But after the tour, people know they’re there and can help support them.”

At each stop, someone from the business may show tourists around the facility, talk salad, cole slaw, bread, a drink and pie. First Sat., Oct. through May, 4:30 to 7 p.m. Main St. United Methodist, 154 Main St., Nashua. $9 for adults, $8 for seniors (60+), $4 for kids ages 6 to 12, kids under age 6 are free.

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about the history of their product and explain how it is made. Then, there will be a chocolate or wine tasting before the group departs.

The stop at LaBelle Winery will include time for tourists to grab lunch in the Bistro (not included in tour cost). At the end of the tour, everyone will be transported back to the Bedford parking lot.

Now in her second year hosting the Wine and Chocolate Tour, Downing said the feedback has been very positive and she plans on keeping the tour as one of her primary offerings.

“What is life without chocolate and without wine?” she said. “They are a lot of fun.

Put the two together and it’s appealing to the masses.”

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Experience a taste of New Orleans with Cajun- and Creole-inspired food at the Mardi Gras Gala, a black-tie-optional event happening Saturday, Feb. 4, that will feature a cash bar, hors d’oeuvres, salad and breads, three plated entrees and dessert.

“Generally speaking, at the restaurants that I have been to over the years, I’ve never seen any Cajun-inspired dishes on their menus other than blackened chicken or fish,” said Rosemary Hendrickx, director of development operations for Catholic Charities New Hampshire, which is hosting the event. “This event is really inspired by what they have in New Orleans. The food is very unique for this area, and especially unique for a gala.”

The event will be held at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.

The evening will begin with a cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres, including beer-poached Creole shrimp with orange mustard horseradish; fried oysters with Cajun mustard aioli; blue crab a la Remick in a puff pastry; and spinach artichoke dip in a phyllo cup.

Dinner will start with a salade nicoise, which has butter lettuce, tomato, French green beans, cooked egg and olives with lemon mustard vinaigrette; and breads like warm sweet potato biscuits and corn muffins, served with honey butter.

Hendrickx said the Grappone Conference Center and many other function venues don’t typically deviate from their standard catering menus for large events, but the Grappone makes an exception for the Mardi Gras Gala and contributes its own ingredients to the dinner; the lettuce for the salad is sourced from the center’s onsite hydroponic garden, and the honey butter for the bread is made from honey produced at the center’s onsite bee hives.

“The Grappone has been extremely generous and is always excited to go off of their standard menu for this event,” Hendrickx said. “Very often, they incorporate some [of the Mardi Gras dishes] into their

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Catholic Charities NH Mardi Gras Gala When: Saturday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m.

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Mardi Gras Gala. Photo by Matthew Lomanno Photography.

standard menu because they really like what we come up with.”

Following the salade nicoise and bread course will be the main entree. Guests can choose (in advance at the time of their ticket purchase) from three options: an 8-ounce filet mignon with Madeira mushroom sauce, potato gratin and green beans or roasted winter squash; bourbon-molasses glazed salmon filet served on garlic herb risotto with green beans; and mushroom ravioli and spinach-ricotta ravioli with creamy Parmesan sauce, sun-dried tomato pesto garnish, green beans and roasted winter squash.

After dinner, a dessert of caramel-filled chocolate gato (cake) with a whipped cream rosette will be served.

The Mardi Gras Gala has a different menu every year, developed by committee chairman Richard Bunker, whom Hendrickx said “has an educated palate” and is perfectly suited for the job.

“He’s very well-traveled. He’s been to New Orleans several times,” she said, “and he himself is an excellent cook. He really knows how to put food together.”

In addition to dinner, the event will have a silent auction with dining packages, overnight stays and more, and a live auction with trips to Hawaii, Santa Fe and New Orleans, and a chance to create and name an ice cream flavor that will be featured at The Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester for 30 days.

There will be a “spin the wheel” game with prizes like gift cards and items donated by local businesses; raffles, live jazz music, and a DJ and dancing after dinner.

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Prior to that, she had earned a master’s degree in business administration and was managing an air conditioning company. Wenzel said she has always loved to cook and when she saw that Jerome’s was for sale, she decided to merge her background in business with her passion for food. Jerome’s offers specialty soups, salads, sandwiches, breakfast items and catering services and is open Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Gluten awareness seems to be popular in this area. I have customers come in all the What is your favorite local restaurant? time and ask if something is gluten-free or if I like Surf in Nashua. I’m a seafood buff, we can modify a dish to make it gluten-free. and they have a lot of fresh, delicious sea- They don’t necessarily have gluten allergies, food, and it’s a great atmosphere. but they’ve read up on it and are trying to stay away from it and eat healthier.

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Guy Fieri. I love the fact that he has made an I love tacos — ground beef tacos with letart form out of visiting mom-and-pop places tuce, tomato and cheddar cheese. and driving business into those establishments.

I think it’d be cool if he stopped in for a bite.

What is your favorite meal to cook at home?

We actually eat a lot of pasta. There’s What is your favorite item on your menu? something to be said about a pot of sauce simI like “The Wise Guy.” It’s hot pastrami mering on the stove. We make it ourselves on garlic bread with grilled red onions and with red peppers and garlic and onions. Fresh Parmesan peppercorn dressing. It has a lot pasta is the best, but I have to buy the tortelliof flavor and not a lot of ingredients, but the nis to get my kids to eat it. — Angie Sykeny Stuffed Pepper Soup Courtesy of Jenn Wenzel 1 pound ground beef 12 cups beef stock 1 can of diced tomatoes or 4 fresh tomatoes put through a food processor (but still slightly chunky) 2 green peppers diced 1 red pepper diced 1 small onion diced 3 bulbs fresh garlic chopped 3 stalks celery diced

1 packet Sazon seasoning 1.5 tablespoons Adobo seasoning 2 tablespoons sugar ¼ teaspoon oregano Salt and pepper to taste Cooked rice Saute ground beef with a pinch of salt and pepper until no longer pink. Drain fat. In a stock pot add cooked ground beef and all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, then simmer for at least an hour. For more flavor, add additional Adobo seasoning. Add rice to bowl, then soup.

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Coconut milk Cow’s milk is not the only game in town. Hopefully you know this by now with options like almond, cashew, goat and soy milk readily available. While I am not opposed to dairy milk like many are these days, I’m opening my eyes to a host of other options available. In this column, I have espoused the benefits of almond milk, including its excellent supply of calcium.

Today, I write about coconut milk. It’s becoming a staple in my house because of its value in everything from smoothies to slowcooker dishes.

Coconut milk is from the grated white “meat” from the inside of the coconut.

Coconut water, on the other hand, is the liquid present inside the coconut when it is first opened. While coconut water recently came on the scene as a natural source of electrolytes, coconut milk was already at the center of many Asian dishes.

While coconut milk is available in cans, with a shelf life of over a year, it is also available in both powdered form and in cartons. I began this column with the idea that refrigerated coconut milk is best. It’s fresh, doesn’t have a long shelf life and is delicious so that must mean it’s the smartest choice, right? Wrong. As the “Perishables” column writer, I’m shocked. In my experience and Catch-All Coconut Curry 1 can coconut milk (full fat or use low fat and add a tbsp. of heavy cream) 2 large skinless, boneless chicken breasts sliced super thin (I used my food processor slicing function) 1-2 tablespoons curry powder or curry paste, depending on spiciness and flavor desired (I use Panang curry paste, available at my local Asian market) 1 red bell pepper, sliced (you can also add broccoli or other veggies)

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opinion, what comes from the perimeter of our grocery stores tends to be the best, most “whole” and less processed foods. Coconut milk is a perfect exception to this rule.

Compare the label of your favorite brand of canned coconut milk with your favorite refrigerated carton version and you’ll see what I am talking about. Canned coconut milk has, you guessed it, just canned coconut milk. The carton version’s ingredient list is a mile long. In short, the canned version actually contains coconut milk while the carton version has some but also tons of water and additives to keep it looking fresh. Ironic, isn’t it?

So here I am, tail between my legs, espousing the benefits of the thing I set out to discredit: the can. My only advice now: avoid BPA. Foods with high fat content (think peanut butter) further the leaching process, so choose brands like Trader Joe’s and Native Forest.

In the meantime, enjoy this recipe for curry that uses coconut milk. Now I’ve got to figure out what to do with my additive-filled carton of coconut milk.

— Allison Willson Dudas Optional: 1/3 cup peanuts or cashews Serve with your favorite rice Heat medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add coconut milk (hold the cream) and stir until hot. Add the curry, continuing to stir, and then add the chicken. Cover and let simmer for about 10 minutes. Add pepper and other vegetables, stirring and covering for another 3 to 4 minutes, until vegetables are soft but not mushy. If adding nuts, add at the last minute with cream to thicken. Serve hot over rice.

Classes/workshops • HEARTH-COOKING WORKSHOPS Two-hour, hands-on workshops teach participants open-heart cooking skills as they make and enjoy a traditional menu, served on redware pottery in the house dining room Sat., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Feb. 11, Feb. 25.

Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth. $65.

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• COOKING WITH THE COURVILLE CHEFS Interactive cooking class taught by

award winning chefs. Mon., Feb. 13, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Session covers cooking with chocolate. Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70 Temple St., Nashua. $10. Registration is required. Call 889-6155.

Fairs/festivals/expos • NEW HAMPSHIRE BEER, WINE AND CHEESE FESTIVAL Try samples from NH beer, wine and cheese producers. Sat., Feb. 25, 1 to 5 p.m. Atkinson Resort and Country Club, 85 Country Club Drive, Atkinson. $20. Visit Facebook.

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Wine is one of my favorite things, but my reasons for it are not as simple as taste or how it makes me feel. Sure, I enjoy having a glass of wine at the end of a long day, with friends and family, or while having a nice meal at a restaurant. But that isn’t what I mean. I don’t just enjoy drinking wine; that is such a small part of it. To me, wine means many things that goes beyond just the liquid in a bottle or glass.

When I was growing up, my grandparents made their own beer and wine. At the time, I was too young to drink it, and even when I got older I just didn’t have a taste for it yet. But there are times when the smell of an old cellar or a certain wine makes me feel like I am right back there with my grandfather in the wine cellar he built for my grandmother, or in their kitchen as she opens another bottle of wine. Looking back now, I wish I had been able to learn a lot more from them. In this way, wine is part of my childhood memories. I also feel like it is “in my blood,” so to speak, and I have a deep appreciation for it.

Wine is so much about knowledge that you could spend a lifetime learning about it and still feel like you had barely scratched the surface. I might know a little bit more than the average person, but I am more of an enthusiast than anything.

While the general winemaking process and practices may be the same, wine is affected by so many factors: environment, the winemaker’s tastes, aging, and the list goes on. Two common statements I have heard from locations around the state and the world are that wine is made in the vineyard, and you cannot make good wine from bad grapes.

Wine is a very social beverage, but it isn’t just about drinking it. Some of the best times I have had with friends in recent years have been during wine tastings, tours and events. This interest has led me to visit locations not only in New Hampshire, but in other states and countries as well. I have been lucky to meet several winemakers, and their passion and knowledge is so inspirational. Many of these people took a big leap of faith by opening their own winery and their hard work has really paid off. I now consider many of them friends.

There is kind of an inside joke with my friends and family because people always ask me for wine recommendations or about area wineries. Sharing this information is one of my favorite things.

Stefanie Phillips at a local vineyard. Courtesy photo.

I admit that sometimes when I am in a store and I see someone looking at wine, I am tempted to ask if he or she needs help.

I spend a lot of time in wine aisles looking at labels and varietals. I am always encouraging people to try new wines or attend wine tastings. I can’t help it; even though I will probably never make my own wine, I enjoy talking about it and continually learning.

Flag Hill Valentine’s Day Dinner

Here is another option if you are looking for something nice to do the weekend before Valentine’s Day. Flag Hill Winery & Distillery in Lee is holding a Valentine’s Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $65 per person and include a multiple course dinner (including a choice of bacon wrapped filet or lobster mac and cheese), and wine and spirit pairings. For more information and reservations, visit the Flag Hill website at flaghill.com or call 659-2949.

LaBelle Winery Winter Family Fun Fest

LaBelle Winery in Amherst will hold its fourth annual Winter Family Fun Fest on Saturday, Feb. 18. From 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. This free event isn’t just for wine fans, but includes activities for the whole family including snowshoeing in the vineyard, a bonfire and s’mores, music and a photo booth. For more information, visit labellewineryevents.com.

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More than likely you’ve already heard the feel-good home-run single “Purple,” the least daring thing on here. Don’t be surprised if this dude is Stewart’s next Frank Ocean. A — Eric W. Saeger

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• Wow, if Elbow’s PR people had any brains, they’d have sent me their new Little Fictions album so I could talk at length about how awesome it is in a full album review, instead of leaving me scrounging for some stupid single in the YouTube ghetto and mentioning it here in short-form snark-lish. So that’s what they get, those PR people, off I go to beg for a single on YouTube, just so I can stay hip to the Elbow world. Here we go, here it is, the first single “Magnificent (She Says).” Dang it, this is super cool as always, a nice understated guitar riff bubbling underneath Guy Garvey’s unhurried tenor. It’s like Minus the Bear beating Coldplay (softly) with a Negan bat. How did Elbow become so awesome? Why doesn’t everyone love this band?

• Wait, I know LeAnn Rimes, isn’t she the one who has a TV show that’s a trailer-park version of Full House or whatever, or is that Reba Whatsername? See that, I do try to keep up with all the hot country music for all you skinny jeans nerds and heavy metal mullets. Let’s catch up: along with writing children’s books, Ms. Rimes sued her dad, who ripped her off for millions. Don’t you wonder what parents who rip off their famous children spend their money on? Do they think their kids will never find out and just assume yachts and Ferraris occasionally fall from the sky? But enough interesting talk, let’s talk about this new LeAnn album, Remnants. The single is called “How to Kiss a Boy,” a piano ballad, and it’s kind of sad. She has a voice like Reba Whatserface.

Did Reba Whatserface’s dad steal from her too?

• Big Wreck is part of that new wave of bands that wants to relive the glory days of the early 1970s, when we were drafting people to fight in Vietnam. Those were awesome days, and there were only five bands you could listen to, in other words Led Zeppelin and who cares who else. This band’s new album Grace Street is due out imminently, featuring the song “Digging In,” a total ripoff of “Houses of the Holy,” which was Zep’s most boring song. But that’s only half the song, the other half is pretty cool.

Does that change your mind about new bands ripping off Zep? • Florida indie band Surfer Blood release their new LP Snowdonia. See what they did there? Snowden? Snowdonia? Hah? The single “Six Flags in F or G” is bouncy, rubbery and minimalist, like a B-side song from Wire. Wait, here’s a Captain Beefheart part, and then some Hendrix guitar. They’re weird, which is all anyone cares about nowadays, so it’s an epic win.

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Romance, passion — what a load of crap.

So say father-daughter author team Michael and Sarah Bennett in their new book, F*** Love: One Shrink’s Sensible Advice for Finding a Lasting Relationship, published Jan. 31 by Simon & Schuster, which they talk about at Gibson’s Bookstore Saturday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m.

It’s the follow-up to their first collaboration, F*** Feelings: One Shrink’s Practical Advice for Managing All Life’s Impossible Problems, published in September 2015.

Michael Bennett, a veteran psychiatrist and APA Distinguished Fellow educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, provided the expertise, and Sarah Bennett, a comedy writer who spent two years working for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York, edited his advice and translated it to the page.

This first book garnered positive reception and opened the door for more book possibilities.

“We thought we could take it further in one direction and address relationships, particularly at the way you’d search for a partner,” Michael Bennett said via phone.

F*** Love argues that finding a partner should be more like a business deal than a candlelight dinner, and it focuses on eight traits that people tend to seek out in relationships: charisma, beauty, chemistry, communication, a sense of humor, good family, intelligence and wealth. In the book, the Bennetts point out the influence of these traits and how to overcome being blinded by them.

“Almost any quality you look at, you have to be careful about it. There’s no one single quality that should eliminate all doubt,” Michael Bennett said. “You might be lonely, and you might be horny, but if you let your

feelings take over, including your love of romance, you’re likely to make bad choices. … If people could be more disciplined and pragmatic in the beginning, they could save themselves so much trouble.”

Michael Bennett lives in Boston with his wife, and Sarah Bennett lives in New York, but they both frequent New Hampshire regularly. They wrote the book via phone calls and emails.

The partnership worked because of how well they know each other. Sarah Bennett grew up listening to her parents talk about work (both are in the same field) and understands her father’s dark humor, even if it doesn’t come across on the first draft. She’s the one responsible for the flow charts and Cosmo-like quizzes dispersed throughout the pages.

Some of the topics: Where is your partner on the charisma scale? Should you go out with this person? And, is laughter distracting you from the warning signs?

“They’re tongue-in-cheek and kind of ridiculous but are meant to help people laugh and learn something at the same time,” she said.

They’d like to work on another book together, maybe aimed at kids, as Michael Bennett was trained as a child psychiatrist and Sarah Bennett said she’s still a kid at heart. In the meantime, they’re eager to hear responses to F*** Love — particularly this time of year.

“People really love books about relationship. Having this released on Valentine’s Day is our little fun joke — though the book is not a joke,” Sarah Bennett said.

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David Biello, a contributing editor at Scientific American, is an excellent reporter and an accomplished wordsmith.

The potentially catastrophic changes occurring on the planet are a compelling topic, worthy of attention.

So why does Biello’s new book on the subject make us want to bang our heads on the desk just to stay awake?

Perhaps it’s because there’s just no way to make the Anthropocene sexy, even if you manage to spell it right and pronounce it correctly. It’s the kind of word that acts as a stop sign for readers, diverting us to goat videos on the internet. But Biello has built a book around it, betting that that our smarter angels will carry us through a possibly important but interminable book. They won’t, unless they have a Ph.D. in one of the sciences. That said, for a small number of people — mostly geologists — this will be the best thing they read all year.

“The Anthropocene” is the term that’s been suggested for our current geological epoch. It would follow the official age, the Holocene, that’s been around for the past 11,700 years or so.

This is something on which you have no vote, unless you’re a member of the International Union of Geological Sciences, which decides on these things.

Proponents say a new epoch is necessary to mark the age in which humans began changing the planet, turning it into the titular “unnatural world.” Opponents say ages are defined by what’s in layers of rock, not by the pressing environmental concerns of the day.

There’s not even any consensus on when this new age would start — 250 years ago, when the coal-powered steam engine was invented? Or 50,000 years ago, when humans offed the last of the Neanderthals?

So there is no Anthropocene, not officially anyway, but it’s under review.

Biello, however, argues that it’s already here: “We have arrived at a new geologic epoch of our own making.” He proposes that the evidence is already in the strata, there for our distant descendants to analyze. Then he meanders around the globe, telling stories about how humans have mucked things up, and how they’re trying to fix them. The book is built on anecdotes, no detail of which is too small to exclude.

There is the marine biologist with the “effervescent mind” who is trying to do something about excess carbon dioxide by fertilizing plankton under the sea.

There’s the North Dakotan so troubled by extinct animals that he wants to bring the passenger pigeon back. (He comes

by his obsession honestly; his grandfather kept 250 canaries in his house.) And then there’s tech mogul Elon Musk, who seems to be something of an idol — a chapter is devoted to Tesla, SpaceX and other Musk endeavors, and Biello admits at the start of it, “The goal was to meet the great man himself, if I’m honest.”

It’s not that these stories aren’t engaging as isolated vignettes; they are. It’s not that the book’s not well-reported; it is. And even Biello’s frequent forays into moralizing don’t often come across as insulting. (“Be very wary of anyone who tells you what human nature is, including me. The only constant is change.”)

Biello establishes early on that he does have a dog in this fight — as we all do — and he has an agenda to advance, even if its goals sometimes seem contradictory.

To wit: He writes that “The city is humanity’s greatest invention, the hive mind from which other inventions spring.” But he soon after admits, “The older the city, the more strata of trash lie beneath it” and raises the question of whether a butterfly or a skyscraper has more value.

And yes, you will be smarter if you get through this book. You will learn things.

It is, after all, offered as an eTextbook on Amazon, alongside Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology and The Algorithm Design Manual. It shines next to peers like that, and it’s not without wit. (“Sewage is the evil twin of garbage,” Biello quips.)

But however elegant and informed, the stream of consciousness that comprises this book never answers a fundamental question: What, exactly, is this book about? Even having reached Biello’s suggestions for further reading (oh, please, no), hell if I know. C— Jennifer Graham

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Small bands of survivors exist. In the last few movies, these survivor groups have tended to include Claire (Ali Larter), who is Alice’s buddy and near equal when it comes to kicking butt. Bad guys include Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen) and Wesker (Shawn Roberts), both of whom, like Alice, have been given enhanced physical abilities.

That, generally, is the lay of the land when Alice is contacted by the Red Queen (Ever Anderson), a hologram of a little girl who is the embodiment of the computer that runs Umbrella Corporation.

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think. And she has to do it in two days or else the minuscule remaining amount of humans will perish, er, somehow.

Basically, Alice has a quest, the quest takes her back to the setting of the first movie, some bad guys are after her and eventually she runs in to Claire.

Something about the way the movie’s action scenes are shot makes this movie a perfect sleep aid. I did not fall asleep during my screening, but it was a constant struggle to stay awake.

Why, you ask? Stakes. There are basically none in these movies. Whenever groups of scrappy survivors go on missions with Alice and Claire, you know that most of them are going to die, probably one by one in set-piece booby traps.

There is always at least one occasion for Alice to unload two guns on an approaching thing that doesn’t die but also doesn’t kill her. The previous movies have ended in such a way that nothing is really resolved or changes. Even this movie seems to leave some wiggle room in the Final of Final Chapter.

So, meaningless action and an unchanging story — why even bother with Resident Evil? I’d put it in the same category as the Underworld or Expendables movies. They aren’t awesome, they aren’t terrible, they just are. You can watch them, you can watch half of them, you can watch 30-minute chunks of some of the movies. You don’t really need to know the “story” to understand “cool person kicking butt,” which is what most of these movies are dedicated to. These are comfort-food action movies, predictable

appears to be one thing about 80 percent of the way though and turns into something else in its final act ― both things are well-acted and engrossing. B+ Coming soon Nominations: best picture, best Opening Friday, Feb 3: The director, best adapted screenplay, Space Between Us (PG-13) best production design, best film A boy born on Mars comes to editing, best cinematography, best Earth because he is now a teensound editing, best sound mixager and there is a girl here; ing. Locally screening at theaters Rings (PG-13) If the trailer can including Carmike Londonderry, be believed, the spooky VHS has AMC Tyngsboro, Regal Conbeen replaced by a spooky email cord, Regal Fox Run and AMC attachment.

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If Resident Evil: The Final Chapter really is the end, I will actually a little bit miss the ladies-being-badasses friendship of Alice and Claire and the sheer fact that Jovovich is a 41-year-old female action hero. But that’s about it. C+ Rated R for sequences of violence throughout. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is an hour and 46 minutes long and distributed by Screen Gems.

forward. In show-don’t-tell fashion, her character has a lot to say about women and this particular woman, and her role as a wife and mother in late 1950s Pittsburgh. Washington, meanwhile, plays a man dealing with his sons and his own life disappointment and all the things that come with being an African-American at that point in history. Solid work all around. A- Nominations: best picture, best actor, best supporting actress, best adapted screenplay. Locally screening at theaters including Wilton Town Hall Theatre, Regal Fox Run and Showcase Cinemas Lowell.

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• Moving north: A Haverhill, Mass., nightclub expands to the Lakes Region. Eric Grant Band performs at the grand opening show, with Jodie Cunningham the next night. See Eric Grant Band on Friday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m., Whiskey Barrel, 546 Main St., Laconia. See facebook.com/whiskeybarrelnh.com.

• Dynamic duo: Taking a break from Grammy-nominated Della Mae, Celia Woodsmith joins ex-Girls, Guns & Glory member Chris Hersch for Woodsmith & Hersch. The project highlights her singer-songwriter chops and his ample skills on vocals and a myriad of string instruments.

As a duo, they’re a revelation; when they’re plugged in with a rhythm section, the roof comes off. Go Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m. at Riverwalk Cafe, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. See riverwalknashua.com.

• Pigskin metal: Former Mushroomhead vocalist Waylon Reavis’ new project A Killer’s Confession and Dead By Wednesday provide a heavy metal lead-in to the evening’s Super Bowl action. Dubbed “When Football and Metal Collide,” the afternoon show will include additional acts to be announced, and wrap up just in time for kickoff of the season’s final Patriots game. Go Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Tickets to the 18+ event are $10 at ticketfly.com.

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Honest Millie has harmony down six ways to Sunday. The interplay between Val Blachly and Ellen Carlson is just the beginning, topped off nicely by Lee Anne Ames’s singing. Things really begin to pop when Carlson and Ames stitch their fiddle and saxophone together on top of the three-part vocalizing.

Layer upon layer, they build magic, on songs like Louis Jordan’s “Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t (My Baby)” and “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,” a 1936 Boswell Sisters hit, and other standards from the pre-WWII era. Buoyant and brassy, it’s a fuller sound than Blachly and Carlson’s old band, Sweet, Hot & Sassy.

“Sassy tended to be a little spare,” Blachly said by phone recently. “We do a lot more jazz … it’s a much bigger sound.”

Given the band’s roots, this all adds up.

Ames, on sax and clarinet, played in the AfroCuban Jazz Orchestra and spent several years with the Lakes Region Big Band. Keyboardist Agnes Charlesworth is a sound designer with film and video scores on her resume.

Drummer Paul Wolf is currently a member of Jumbo Circus Peanuts, a 12-piece Seacoast ensemble with a penchant for 1920s music.

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He and Carlson played together in the bluegrass-centric EC & the Moonshiners, and he’s provided instrumental support for Sweet, Hot & Sassy’s annual holiday shows.

The band evolved out of Swing a Cat, a project Blachly started with Liza Constable in the mid-2000s.

“We were looking for an instrumentalist, because the music we were collecting called for that,” Blachly said.

Ben Baldwin, a musician friend from Maine, recommended Charlesworth. The music director at Plymouth State College found Ames for them.

“I wanted someone who could improvise … be right out front with leads and taking breaks. She said, ‘I’ve got a perfect girl for you.’ That was Leanne,” Blachly said.

When Carlson saw Swing a Cat perform in Concord a few years back, she loved them and offered her services. The pivot to Honest Millie was soon complete. In January 2016, they began a monthly residency at Stone Church in Newmarket that lasted much of the year and will resume March 25. They’re booking shows into the summer. In the near term they perform Feb. 4 at Portsmouth’s Book & Bar event, and a Feb. 10 show will be their first at the Capitol Center’s Spotlight Cafe.

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Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper / Like draggled fly’s legs, / What can you tell of the flaring moon / Through the oak leaves?

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Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Shall I give you white currants? / I do not know why, but I have a sudden fancy for this fruit. — “White Currants” Sure, why not?

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) We know that what we long for once achieved / Will cease to satisfy. Be still our fears; / If what we worship fail us, still the fire / Burns on, and it is much to have believed. — “Hero-Worship” Your longing may dim but you still have things to strive for.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Throw the blue ball above the little twigs of the treetops, / And cast the yellow ball straight at the buzzing stars. / All our life is a flinging of coloured balls / to impossible distances. / And in the end what have we? / A tired arm — a tip-tilted nose. / Ah! Well! Give me the purple one. / Wouldn’t it be a fine thing if I could make it stick / On top of the Methodist steeple? — “Balls” It would.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) I want no horns to rouse me up to-night, / And trumpets make too clamorous a ring / To fit my mood, it is so weary white / I have no wish for doing any thing. — “Nuit Blanche” Maybe not a great time for a party, at least not a loud one.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) The Poet came to a meadow. / Sifted through the grass were daisies, / Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the sun. / The Poet struck them with his cane. / The little heads flew off, and they lay / Dying, open-mouthed and wondering, / On the hard ground. / “They are useless.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) No other place to us were quite the same, / No other dreams so potent in their charm, / For this is ours! Every twist and turn / Of every narrow stair is known and loved; / Each nook and cranny is our very own; / The dear, old, sleepy place is full of spells / For us, by right of long inheritance. — “The Boston Athenaeum” Revisiting an old haunt may be useful.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) You glow in my heart / Like the flames of uncounted candles. / But when I go to warm my hands, / My clumsiness overturns the light, / And then I stumble / Against the tables and chairs. — “The Bungler” Embrace your klutziness.

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Aries (March 21 – April 19) Must all of worth be travailled for, and those / Life’s brightest stars rise from a troubled sea? — “In Darkness” You’ve got to work for what you want.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) As I would free the white almond from the green husk / So would I strip your trappings off, / Beloved. / And fingering the smooth and polished kernel / I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting. — “Aubade” Seek the gem beneath the trappings.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Hold your apron wide / That I may pour my gifts into it, / So that scarcely shall your two arms hinder them / From falling to the ground. / I would pour them upon you / And cover you, / For greatly do I feel this need / Of giving you something, / Even these poor things. / Dearest of my Heart! — “Obligation” Give.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) What torture lurks within a single thought / When grown too constant, and however kind, / However welcome still, the weary mind / Aches with its presence. — “A Fixed Idea” You might need

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Compelling explanation

In December, James Leslie Kelly, 52, and with a 37-conviction rap sheet dating to 1985, filed a federal lawsuit in Florida claiming that his latest brush with the law was Verizon’s fault and not his. Kelly was convicted of stealing the identity of another James Kelly and taking more than $300 in Verizon services. He bases his case on the Verizon sales representative’s having spent “an hour and a half” with him, surely enough time, he says, to have figured out that he was not the James Kelly he was pretending to be. He seeks $72 million.

Ironies

London’s The Guardian reported in January that “dozens” of people have been charged or jailed recently for “defaming” the new Myanmar government, which has been headed (in a prime-minister-like role) since April by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected after her release from house detention following two decades of persecution for criticizing the longtime military regime. For her struggle for free speech, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Said the wife of the latest arrestee, Myo Yan Naung Thein, on trial for “criminal defamation” of Suu Kyi’s regime, “This is not insulting this is just criticizing, with facts. This is freedom of speech.”

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High Finance: Sometime in 2006, a photographer on assignment roamed a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, snapping photos of customers. Leah Caldwell was one person photographed but says she refused to sign the photographer’s “release” and was surprised, nevertheless, to see a photo of herself in a Chipotle promotion in 2014 and again in 2015 (and on her table in the photo were “alcoholic beverages” she denied ever ordering). In January, Caldwell said the misuse of her image is Chipotle’s fault for ignoring her non-”release,” and thus that she is entitled to all of the profits Chipotle earned between 2006 and 2015: $2.237 billion.

Precocious

In December, Ashlynd Howell, age 6, of Little Rock, Arkansas, deftly mashed her sleeping mother’s thumbprint onto her phone to unlock the Amazon app and order $250 worth of Pokemon toys. Mom later noticed 13 email confirmations and asked Ashlynd if something was amiss.

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Ashlynd said, “No, Mommy, I was shopping.”

Leading economic indicators

• The British think tank High Pay Centre reported in January that the average CEO among the U.K.’s top 100 companies (in the Financial Times Stock Exchange index) earns the equivalent of around $1,600 an hour, meaning that a 12-hour-aday boss will earn, by mid-day Jan. 4, as much money as the typical worker at his firm will earn the entire year. (Around the same time, the anti-poverty organization Oxfam reported, to an astonished press, that eight men, six Americans, headed by Bill Gates have the same total “net worth” as the 3.6 billion people who comprise the poorest half of the planet.)

• An organization that tracks “high net worth” investors (Spectrem Group of Lake Forest, Illinois) reported recently that, of Americans worth $25 million or more, only about two-thirds donate $10,000 or more yearly to charity. And then there is Charles Feeney, 85, of New York City, who in December made his final gift to charity ($7 million to Cornell University), completing his pledge to give away almost everything he had: $8 billion. (He left his wife and himself $2 million to live

on, in their rental apartment in San Francisco.) A January New York Times profile noted that nothing is “named” for Feeney, that the gifts were mostly anonymous, and that Feeney assiduously cultivated his low profile.

• A “disturbingly large” (according to one report) number of smartphone apps are available devoted to calculating how much the user has “earned” per day and per year during restroom breaks answering nature’s calls while at work. Australia’s News Limited’s rough calculation estimated $1,227 for someone making $55,000 a year, but results might vary since there are so many apps: Poop Salary, ToiletPay, Log-Log, Paid 2 Poo, Pricy Poop, Poop Break and perhaps others.

People different from us

“Every major event in my life has been about insects,” Aaron Rodriques, 26, told The New York Times in December, home in New York City during a winter break from his doctoral research at Purdue University on the “sweet tergal secretions” of German cockroaches, and on his way to buy a supply of crickets and hornworms. (“Hornworms,” he said, have an “amazing defense” where they “eat tobacco for the nicotine, which they exhale as a gas to scare away predators.”) “When I’m feeling stressed out,” Rodriques said, he might take one out to “calm me down.” He met his first girlfriend when she was attracted to his pet giant African millipede (as long as a human forearm), but admits that “for the vast majority” of time in school, “I was alone.”

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See the full menu at www.flyinggoose.com 40 Andover Road, New London, NH 603.526.6899 112799

ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK

FRIDAY THE 3RD

THE SLAKAS

SATURDAY THE 4TH ERIC GRANT BAND

The Big Game Specials!

“SPIN THE WHEEL” Prizes & Giveaways!

Buffalo, Plain, BBQ or Honey Chipotle

5

COORS LIGHT OR BUD LIGHT

2

$ .99 Pitchers $ .25 Drafts

200 SEAT BANQUET FACILITY • OFF-SITE CATERING SPECIALIZING IN WEDDINGS & CORPORATE MEETINGS

FOR US HIPPO BEST

OF

625 Mammoth Rd., Manchester, NH • (603) 623-2880 • DerryfieldRestaurant.com

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.39¢ WINGS! ANY FLAVOR!

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