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For as long as I can remember, I’ve had negative feelings about walls.

Perhaps it’s what the wall meant in my elementary school, the place where misbehaving students stood during recess, forfeiting their playtime due to bad behaviors. As a relatively good student, I was not threatened by the wall and viewed it simply as something that affected “those” kids.

My third-grade year, I got a taste of what it felt like to stand at that wall during recess.

That was the year when a student in my class continuously acted out and, no matter the punishment, continued to do so. In an effort to use peer pressure to her advantage, my teacher told the whole class to stand at the wall if he acted out. I remember, even at that young age, how unfair it was to have the majority of us punished due to his acts. I questioned the teacher’s judgment, I resented the student, and I was angry about being punished for something I had little control over.

More than 20 years later, I had the great fortune of crossing paths with an African-American Muslim man who was participating in Leadership NH. In sharing his tale of coming to America, he talked about how his mother’s only gift to him was a pen, as it was all she could afford, before he went away to school. It is in those moments that you realize how many things we take for granted in this country and how fortunate we are to live in the United States.

You quickly realize that those who are coming here aren’t trying to change America into their home country. Some are coming to fulfill the American dream while others are seeking a safer life for their families.

None of us would have seen our fortune had we not shared in his experiences.

Walls, bans — all actions meant to divide, not unite, people. We may not realize it now but stripping our nation of the culture and experiences that come with refugees and immigrants will affect us all. Putting all of us at the wall in order to address the actions of a few is both ineffective and unfair. My third-grade teacher realized this lesson just a few weeks into her experiment and she ended the effort. I challenge each of us get to know one another. Save us the costs of protecting our nation against innocent people and, instead, reach out to gain new insights about your new neighbor. Share your viewpoints and listen as they share theirs. You may find a deeper appreciation for them and learn that there is far more good than bad in this world.

Allyson Ryder is associate director at Leadership NH. She teaches and speaks about role of community leadership and civic engagement. Contact her at almryder@outlook.com.

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ON THE COVER 14 UPGRADE YOUR VALENTINE’S DAY Sick of doing the same thing for Valentine’s Day every year? We have a few ideas that will elevate the whole experience. There are all kinds of live shows, for example — comedy, theater and concerts — that could upstage any movie showing at the local Cineplex. We also have suggestions for upgrading your meal, your drinks and your flowers.

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with pet owners since they aren’t An independent review of the their patients. They also say vetericare delivered at the state mental narians are not prescribing the major hospital triggered by a suicide last opioid painkillers that humans use. summer concluded with a list of recommended changes. According Obamacare to a press release from Gov. Chris Republican Senate Majority Sununu’s office, the Independent Leader Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro Sentinel Review Team submitted praised New Hampshire’s expanded its confidential report to the state Medicaid as a successful program at health commissioner earlier in Jan- a recent speaking event in Concord, uary. Given the high-profile case but he said the program can still be and some political outcry, the health improved. NHPR reported Braddepartment promised to make the ley, a key architect of the program, recommendations in the report which provides health coverpublic. The nine key recommenda- age for about 50,000 low-income tions included training staff on the residents in the state, said replacneed for collaboration and com- ing the Affordable Care Act could munication, writing policies for enhance the program. Since Medicindividuals to raise concerns about aid expansion was part of the ACA, a discharge, and reassigning staff so simple repeal would mean those patients work with the same clini- thousands of patients would lose cians between multiple admissions. coverage. If it continues in a new On July 27, 63-year-old Joy Sil- form established by Republicans va of Nashua lept to her death from in Congress, Bradley hopes to add her apartment building hours after work requirements for recipients, being discharged from New Hamp- something that the Obama adminisshire Hospital. That event met the tration has not allowed. definition of a sentinel event, which requires an investigation.

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Former Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte will have a leading role in shepherding President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch through the Senate.

WMUR reported Ayotte, who is a former New Hampshire attorney general familiar with the courts and the U.S. Senate, is working with the Trump administration to ensure Gorsuch gets confirmed by the Senate.

Ayotte will personally introduce the nominee to members of the Senate and escort him to meetings and the confirmation hearing. Press Secretary Sean Spicer told WMUR that Ayotte has “extensive bipartisan support” that will help her get past political opposition from Democrats.

Bill Binnie, the president of Carlisle Capital Corporation in Portsmouth, media mogul and the developer of 875 Elm St. in Manchester, bought three more buildings in the city’s millyard area. According to a press release, Binnie purchased 150, 100 and 89 Dow St., which totals more than 600,000 square feet of commercial and retail space and more than 700 parking spaces.

Tech company Dyn and engineering firm Hoyle, Tanner & Associates are located in 150 Dow St. and the other buildings include Fit Lab and Fortitude Health. In a press release, Binnie said Carlisle now owns nearly 1 million square feet of space in the city.

Pot decrim A bill that would make possessVet exemption ing small amounts of marijuana a A bill that would exempt veteri- violation instead of a crime received narians from the prescription drug strong support in a recent hearmonitoring program was approved ing. NHPR reported the bill would by a legislative committee, NHPR change one ounce of possession reported. The bill removes require- from being punishable as a misdements that the board of veterinary meanor with up to a year of jail time medicine adopt opioid prescrib- and a $2,000 fine to only a $100 ing rules and that veterinarians fine. Speaking in support of the bill, check the PDMP when prescribing Devon Chaffee of the New Hampdrugs for pets. Advocates of the bill shire Civil Liberties Union said the say veterinarians don’t want to get state spends about $6.5 million each involved with any privacy concerns year prosecuting these cases. Every HIPPO | FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2017 | PAGE 4

New England state besides New Hampshire has already decriminalized small amounts of marijuana.

Similar bills have passed the House seven times in the past several years but died in the Senate. With support from Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and several new faces in the state Senate, advocates believe this may be the year it becomes law.

A vigil was held Feb. 3 at the Statehouse in Concord where more than 100 people protested the Trump administration’s Muslim ban and stood in solidarity with refugees, NHPR reported.

Speakers at the rally included refugees who resettled to the state, members of the clergy and immigration activists.

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Death penalty

A House bill would add the homicide of a minor to the list of offenses qualifying the perpetrator for the death penalty, NHPR reported. The bill’s prime sponsor, Republican state Rep. Werner Horn of Franklin, wants to expand the death penalty law, which hasn’t been used to execute anyone since 1939. Werner told NHPR he believes anyone willing to kill someone as young as 18 years or younger “should be repaid in kind.” New Hampshire is the only New England state that still has capital punishment; it has one person on death row.

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A community greenhouse project is due to getGoffstown started at the Hollis Brookline Middle School in Hollis, the Telegraph of Nashua reported. Rimol Greenhouse Systems of Hooksett will build the greenhouse on school Bedford property, and it will be used to teach students gardening skills and grow food.

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Sex ed

The House passed two bills related to parental control in education, according to the state government website. One bill would require school districts to give parents two weeks notice before delivering any lessons related to sex while another would allow parents to opt their children out of statewide assessment tests. NHPR reported opponents of the sex ed bill said the notification requirement presents an additional strain on a burdened system but supporters, mostly Republicans, say it gives parents the ability to choose when

SIG SAUER

The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness plans to ask the city’s zoning board for permission to build a cold weather shelter. The Concord

One of New Hampshire’s largest manufacturers landed a critical government contract.

NHPR reported Sig Sauer won a 10-year $580 million contract with the Army to make their standard-issue sidearms. The Sig Sauer P320 will be replacing the Beretta M9. The Army has used the Beretta since 1985. The contract calls for 280,000 of the new pistols, which will be called M17s by the Army. While Sig Sauer has been mum on the issue, it has said even though it’s building a new factory in Alaska, all the M17s will be made at its Newington plant.

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Londonderry The Town Council in Merrimack is set to hold a public hearing on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. to consider proposed milfoil control measures.

The Telegraph of Nashua reported more NASHUA than $40,000 in state and town funds would be used for herbicide treatment against the invasive species on Horseshoe Pond and suction harvesting in Naticook Lake.

and how their kids are exposed to sex education. The bills head to the Senate for approval next. Similar bills have passed before but were vetoed by former Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat.

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Residents in Weare approved a significant spending cut and the select board now has to find a way to cut more than $109,000 from its proposed budget before town meeting. The Concord Monitor reported the proposed budget would have been a 1.7-percent tax increase before the change.

Monitor reported the shelter would be located as an additional building behind the organization’s existing location at 238 N. Main St. If the plan is approved, it would house up to 40 people overnight. St. Peter’s Church has been used as a shelter, but church owners expect that property to be sold soon. It is estimated to cost $500,000 for the organization to buy the property and build the shelter.

PRISON PROTEST

Inmates protested the Department of Corrections’ new rules for intimate contact with visitors, an effort to curb drug smuggling in state prisons. According to a press release from the DOC, inmates in some parts of the New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin protested by participating in a food boycott after the new rules began Jan. 31. Some inmates expressed their dissatisfaction with the rules verbally. The situation was monitored until operations returned to normal Feb. 2. The new rules prohibit kissing in the visiting room and allow hugs for three seconds. Inmates can hold hands with visitors only on top of tables, not below them. All board games and vending machines were also removed from the visiting rooms.

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Opioid users cardiologist Jonathan Eddinger.

Over the past several months, CMC has worked to ensure its patients get addiction treatment parallel to their medical treatment in order to make sure they remain healthy once they’re discharged from the hospital.

To that end, CMC has assembled a team of clinicians, ethicists, nurses, surgeons, cardiologists and more to manage these cases.

“It just behooves us to set these people up with a successful program so they don’t use again,” Eddinger said.

For the first time, on Feb. 1, Eddinger went to speak to a recovery support group at HOPE for New Hampshire Recovery in Manchester about the risks of endocarditis.

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Inpatient endocarditis cases at CMC Endocarditis patients with known opioid use are driving up the total number of cases, becoming a growing majority in the past three years.

The rise in often-deadly infections caused by intravenous heroin and fentanyl use, first reported by the Hippo in the Aug. 80 18, 2016, issue, has continued unabated.

Between 2006 and 2015, there were four deaths caused by endocarditis, a bacterial infection of the heart’s valves; in 2016 60 alone, there were 11.

Of the 11 cases in 2016, six were female and five were male. Five were between the ages 20 to 29, two were aged 30 to 39 and 40 four were aged 40 to 49.

Endocarditis is fatal if left untreated.

Treatment entails four to six weeks of intravenous antibiotics, but clinicians say many 20 addicts either won’t seek treatment or stay for the full regimen of antibiotics. If the bacteria isn’t fully killed off, it resurfaces again.

0 In the most advanced cases, the bacteria can damage the heart valves enough to require surgery to replace them with artifi- Source: Catholic Medical Center. cial valves.

Having an artificial valve is itself a risk and if drug users return to using unsafe neefactor for future endocarditis infections, dles and reinfect themselves, doctors may not be able to safely replace the valves a Other risk factors for endocarditis second time.

Numbers provided by Catholic Medical Immunosuppression: this can be caused Center in Manchester show that total endoby anything from medications to malnucarditis cases have risen 250 percent over trition and general unhealthiness. the past five years — and that the rise has Prosthetic implants: artificial heart been driven by opioid drug use. In 2011, valves or pacemakers can provide a safe only three of the total 25 inpatient endocarhaven for bacteria.

Dental cleaning: bacteria from the ditis cases involved people using opioids. mouth can enter the bloodstream through By 2016, 51 of the total 87 cases involved bleeding gums. opioid use, the vast majority.

Any open wounds: just like with drug Where heart valve surgeries for druginjections, serious cuts can provide bacterelated endocarditis once happened once or ria with a direct entry to the bloodstream twice a year, they are now as common as and heart. once or twice a month, according to CMC

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Manchester Police Chief Nick Willard released the department’s preliminary 2016 crime statistics on Feb. 1. They show overall crime went down by 21 percent from 2015 to the lowest levels since at least 2008. But Willard is troubled by the trend of increasing violent crimes in the city, as well as a rise in gun-related crimes, which appear to be driven by drugs.

Violent crime

Nearly every category of major Part 1 crimes tracked by police and compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation saw decreases in the Queen City last year. One notable exception is aggravated assaults — that violent crime category saw a 9-percent increase over the year before.

Aggravated assault in New Hampshire includes crimes that cause serious bodily harm as well as hate crimes, domestic violence and choking.

There were 397 aggravated assaults in 2015 and 434 in 2016. This is a continu-

ation of a trend; there were 349 in 2014.

Willard suspects the increase is at least partly due to changes in state law that include more domestic violence and strangulation cases in the aggravated assault category. He also pointed to proactive efforts by the department’s domestic violence unit and violence against women initiative.

About 40 percent of the assaults are domestic cases, which is similar to 38 percent in 2015. Willard said 16 percent are by acquaintances and 18 percent are by strangers.

Aggravated assaults can include pursesnatching, pushing a loss prevention officer at a store while running out the door or even firing a gun straight up into the air.

“We had a group of teenagers this past summer who were riding their bikes up to people who were on their cell phones and stealing their cell phones. That technically is an aggravated assault,” Willard said.

Robberies, which count as a violent crime, leveled off with only about a dozen fewer cases, totaling 210 in 2016. Willard said he’s disappointed his historical-datadriven policing models didn’t push that number down further.

He says the increase in violent crime and decrease in property crime is part of a national trend and Manchester’s numbers are more positive than the national numbers.

“The violent crime numbers are still unacceptable. In 2017, we’re going to do everything we can do drive those numbers down,” Willard said.

Drug and gun crimes

Unlike the more serious Part 1 crimes like aggravated assault and burglary, drug and weapon offenses are tracked under the Part 2 crime category.

While the exact Part 2 crime stats are not yet available, information released by police showed drug arrests were up in 2016 to 409, compared to 348 in 2015.

And gun crimes seemed to be on the rise between these two years, according to Willard.

The number of guns seized went from 24 in 2015 to 47 in 2016. To respond to this, Willard assigned a detective to be embedded with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, dedicated to investigating only gun crimes.

Manchester police noted a correlation between a rise in gun crimes and a rise in overdoses over the past six years.

Opioids seized by police reflect a shift in the drugs hitting the streets. Heroin was the majority over fentanyl in 2015 when measured by grams. That flipped in 2016.

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All Part 1 property crimes decreased, with burglaries seeing the steepest decline of 32 percent, from 676 cases to 463, less than half of the record high seen in 2013.

Willard credits that success to a shift in how those cases were being investigated.

The key has been aggressive fingerprinting at each burglarized residence and quickly arresting suspects with matching prints. He said they arrested 20 people in 2016 using that model. And since each burglar tends to be a repeat offender, that has an exponential effect on the crime stats.

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And since fentanyl is far more powerful than heroin, one gram of it doesn’t equate to a gram of heroin.

Manchester police seized nearly 6,800 grams of fentanyl last year and more than 5,400 grams of heroin.

“And that’s not taking into account the amount of drugs being seized by our task force officers who are embedded with the DEA and the FBI,” Willard said.

A new feature of the drug stats released

by Manchester police this year was the inclusion of hotspot maps showing the parts of the city that experienced the most drug crimes, drug arrests, gun crimes, gun arrests and overdoses.

It shows the most troubled areas related to drug crimes are parts of the East Side inner city centered on Lake Avenue and Spruce Street to as far north as Prospect Street and as far south as Valley Street.

The worst parts of the West Side appear to be centered around West High School.

Willard said there has long been a correlation of crime and poverty in these quarters.

“There’s nothing surprising about it.

There are a lot of societal factors that will go into this: lower rents, a lot of tenement buildings, easy access to social services.

It’s usually all intertwined,” Willard said.

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Did you train for subsequent Tough Mudders, and if so, what did that entail?

I kept running. I kept doing local races and things like that but I really started to incorporate carrying a heavy backpack as Courtesy photo. well as doing some hiking, more long-distance walking than running. Just trying to condition my body to the extremes of the miles that Tough Mudder has, as well as working my upper body, because you really need upper body strength for some What was the biggest thing you learned of the obstacles. while on deployment?

I guess the biggest thing I learned ... [was] What advice do you have for others who just who I am on a morally, ethically belief- are healing from a TBI and/or PTSD? I think getting back into the militaristic system, who I am as a person, as a human being. War definitely changes your point of frame of mind, being part of a team, trying to accomplish a mission, it definitely helps settle view on a lot of things. some of that post-traumatic stress or even the TBI symptoms, because you get out there and What did you learn about who you are?

I’m a lot stronger than I ever thought I you have purpose. You’re not just trying to get was. I’m very compassionate toward human through the challenge yourself, you’re trying beings. I’m tough, I guess I would say. I have to get those who are with you to get through a tough skin. … It changed me a little bit. the challenge. And anybody who’s sufferIt made me a little more aware of the world ing from post-traumatic stress or TBI or any around me. I’m very hypervigilant, which is issues from serving in the military, it’s good ... to be around people who are sympathetic to not always a good thing. us as well as those who have served, so they When did you first decide to run in the understand the challenge that you go through every day.

Tough Mudder?

I actually was running races before Tough How does it feel getting featured in a docMudder and one of my teammates that I was running with had happened to mention that umentary-style TV special?

I had a really powerful experience at the they were going to do the Tough Mudder. I’d always wanted to do it and I was … terrified. Tough Mudder tri-state. I was running with So, my cousin … and I — she’s a Navy vet an entire team of civilians and veterans. One — we decided let’s just do it. And I wasn’t of them, he was in a wheelchair, so we had conditioned, and I wasn’t training, I was ter- to push him and pull him through the entire rified and I ended up doing the first Tough muddy course. And it was just really overMudder at Gunstock. It was 90-something powering for me and emotional because … degrees, it was horrible, but it was one of the I was put in a situation where I really had best experiences I ever had in my life because to push myself because I didn’t want to let I finished. I didn’t give up on myself. I just myself down and I also didn’t want to let my kept pushing myself forward through the pain team down. I answered [the event’s] survey and through the heat. and told them about my experience and at the end of the survey it says, “Do you want to be What are you really into right featured in Tough Mudder communications now? or news” … and I said sure. And then, a few I just became a peer support group leadyears later, I get a phone call from their team. er [with the Wounded Warrior Project]. …

“We’re doing a documentary and we’d like to So, I’ll be a facilitator of a support group feature you.” … It’s just been crazy. It’s like a for veterans in the area. whirlwind. — Ryan Lessard

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NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Overdoses down

Drug overdoses in Manchester and Nashua dropped significantly in the month of January 2017, which corresponds with an increase in Safe Station admissions. According to a press release from the office of Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas, there were 30 overdoses and five fatalities related to opioids last month, the lowest monthly number since September 2014, a 50-percent decrease since January 2016 and a decrease of 25 percent from December 2016. At the same time, safe station visits totalled 173 last month. Meanwhile, in Nashua, where officials started a similar Safe Station program in November, there were 19 overdoses and 65 Safe Station visits in January, the Telegraph of Nashua reported. That’s the lowest overdose number in the Gate City since July 2015.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Fatal overdoses in 2016 are still expected to exceed 2015.

As of Feb. 2, the Medical Examiner’s office had recorded 434 overdose deaths with 43 more cases pending toxicology. There were 439 overdose deaths in 2015.

Perfluorochemical reports

The blood tests are in from residents who had been drinking well water near and around the Saint-Gobain plastics plant in Merrimack where PFCs used to make Teflon-like substances had contaminated groundwater as well as from residents who lived and worked around the Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth. According to a press release from the state Department of Environmental Services, the 147 participants from southern New Hampshire had high levels of a type of PFC called PFOA with levels placing them in the 95th percentile of the national population. But they still had lower levels than those found in residents affected by exposure cases in Bennington, Vermont, and Hoosick Falls, New York. The 175 test participants from Pease also had above-average levels in their systems but not as high as other out-of-state cases.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Not much is known about the health effects of PFC exposure in humans still, so there is no predetermined “safe” level.

Anonymous donation

The New Hampshire Food Bank received an anonymous $1 million donation, according to nhfoodbank.org, 80 percent of which will be directed to the food bank’s 430 partner agencies (food pantries, soup kitchens, after-school programs, senior centers, etc.) throughout New Hampshire.

According to the report, increased budgets will allow these agencies to acquire more food for their clients and increase their capabilities through things like freezer, refrigerator, scale and vehicle purchases.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: About $100,000 will support the New Hampshire Food Bank’s culinary job training program and six mobile food pantries, and the last $100,000 is designated to further the nonprofit’s programs at its discretion.

Another win in the books

Well, they did it again — the New England Patriots won Super Bowl LI 34-28 in the championship’s first overtime ever. It’s the fifth win with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, who is now the most decorated quarterback in Super Bowl history. The day after the big win, Gov. Chris Sununu proclaimed the week of Feb. 5, 2017, New England Patriots Appreciation Week.

QOL Score: +5 (for 5 rings, of course!)

Comment: “There remains no doubt that the New England Patriots are the greatest football team of all time,” Sununu said in a press release.

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QOL score: 57 Net change: +6 QOL this week: 63 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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After Sunday’s astonishing 34-28 comeback win over the Falcons in OT, I can finally say now I’ve seen everything.

Just two weeks ago in a column on the 15th anniversary of their famed “tuck rule” win over the Raiders in the 2001 playoffs I said two things. First was that they needed to win the 2016 SB to bookend the one in 2001 to make them a dynasty, by my definition of that word.

Mission accomplished on that, as they are officially a dynasty after doing it in incredible fashion in Sunday’s heart-pounding win. I added that they could play 1,000 more games and they’ll never top the one vs. Oakland from that snowy night in Foxboro as the greatest win in team history.

Guess what? It took just two more games to prove me wrong. In coming back from down 28-3 with just 17 minutes to go to win the first overtime game in Super Bowl history, Sunday’s was even better for three reasons.

First, after Atlanta scored their fourth TD early in the third quarter it was an even more improbable win than beating Oakland in the snow. Second, they demonstrated over the final 22 minutes why they are who they’ve become under Coach B: a smart, gritty, mentally and physically tough, resilient team of winners that never can be counted out. Finally, after two years of the deflate-gate cheater nonsense, they delivered the greatest sports up yours since Reggie Jackson hit three Game 6 homers to clinch the 1977 World Series for the Yanks, to Patriots haters around the country, similar types inside the NFL and ESPN First Take hater Max the Moron. Not to mention Brady and the P’s turned what looked to be an embarrassing rout into an exhilarating win that won’t be forgotten by Marshall Faulk and the rest of his ilk for two generations.

But I can tell you this: It wasn’t easy to do on the field or to watch on TV. After the Patriots found themselves down 14-0 to the supposed pushover Falcons, who had their NFL’s highest-scoring offense clicking, I said “they’re in trouble.” After Robert Alford’s pick 6 made it 21-0, I said (a) they’re in deep trouble and (b) after watching him saunter his last 15 yards to the goal in a selfish look-at-me-me-me moment, where’s Steve Tasker when you need him?

When Matt Ryan hit Tevin Coleman to make it 28-3 I was ready to head to the exit with Mark Wahlberg, which in my case meant flipping off the TV (literally and figuratively) and going to bed.

During those first excruciating 43 minutes, I was first all over Josh McDaniel for continually leaving Brady in long-distance situations on second and third down by calling so many deep first-down passes.

It seemed a repeat of his horrid play-calling vs. the G-Men in 2007 that never changed as the pass rush was killing Brady. Then when he finally did call a run on first down, the O-line got overpowered and I was all over them for that. As it went on, it was just looking like one of those days.

But I didn’t go to bed. In part because I knew I’d just toss and turn and not get to sleep anyway. Also because it was only about 8:45 p.m. and who goes to bed then?

Plus, something told me they don’t give up and I shouldn’t either. And then it started to happen out of nowhere. James White scored on a five-yard pass from Brady after a 13-play, 75-yard drive, although when Steve Gostkowski doinked yet another PAT off the upright I wasn’t brimming with confidence. He redeemed himself with a FG soon after to make it 28-12.

The play of the game came next when a blitzing Dont’a Hightower knocked the ball loose from Ryan leading to Danny Amendola’s short-field TD five plays later and we had a ball game at 28-20. Then after play-calling as dumb as Pete Carroll in

2014 that took them out of field goal range that could have made it a two-score game, Brady led the drive that should supplant Johnny Elway’s vs. Cleveland from 30 years ago as The Drive in NFL annals: 91 yards in 10 plays in 2 minutes, 33 seconds, culminating with White’s second TD on a one-yard run. A Brady-to-Amendola twopoint conversion sent it to OT, where the last real suspense was who’d get the ball first. The Pats did and marched right down field on the gassed Falcons to finish off the incredible win with White’s third TD. It was a win for the ages that put many people on the SB honor roll: White, Amendola, Julian Edelman, Hightower, Trey Flowers and the entire defense. It exorcised Brady’s bogus deflate-gate suspension; David Tyree, with a catch by Edelman that was almost as unbelievable as his, and the argument over who is the greatest quarterback once and for all. Not to mention that it forced Roger Goodell to hand the Lombardi Trophy over to Bob Kraft in front of a salivating Patriots Nation.

But in the end, it was most about Brady.

He gets the G.O.A.T. title, not for winning his fifth ring or fourth Super Bowl MVP or even throwing for a record 466 yards, but because at the moment of truth, with his team in dire straits, he brought his team back from 25 points down with 17 minutes to play, clearly showing all what makes him so great — great skill, intelligence, resilience, clutch play, toughness and leadership, something that lets his teammates feel he’s invincible in the biggest moments and that it’s time to climb on his back when they arrive. Plus, he did it all on center stage in front of the villainous Roger the Dodger. If that’s not a vindication by a knockout nothing is.

Trust me, folks. It doesn’t get any better than Sunday night.

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f every Valentine’s Day seems like it brings the same old same old — dinner and a movie, a drink at a bar, red roses — it might be time for an upgrade. Instead of going out for dinner, why not have a personal chef come right to your home and cook for you? Instead of a movie, go see a live show, maybe some comedy or a play or a concert. Going out for a drink is fun, but going to a winery for a tasting and a tour is a whole new experience. And while flowers will always be appreciated, you can elevate your bouquet, perhaps by making one yourself with the blooms that your loved one likes the most. If you’re looking for fresh ideas, check out this guide and get ready to upgrade your Valentine’s Day.

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Instead of going out for a gourmet meal on Valentine’s Day, you could enjoy the same at home — without so much as setting foot in your kitchen.

“I never go out on Valentine’s because it’s always crowded and the food isn’t always good,” said Oonagh Williams, a personal chef and owner of Gluten Free Cooking with Oonagh, based in Merrimack.

Many personal chefs offer their services for special occasions like Valentine’s Day. Having a chef come to your home and make the food that night means you can get exactly what you want, says Gabrielle Leone, the More lovely meals If you’d rather go out, many restaurants offer special meals for Valentine’s Day. Visit hippopress.com, click “past issues,” click the icon for the Feb. 2 paper and flip to “Love Bites,” starting on p. 36, for suggestions.

owner and main chef of Olive Branch Personal Chef Service, based in Hampton.

“It’s a very customized service,” Leone said.

Clients work with the personal chefs to narrow down what foods they like and what foods they must avoid. The chef will float a few options by the clients until they settle on the meals they want. Leone said her services always include a three-course meal, with an appetizer, entree and dessert.

Beyond taste and dietary restrictions, Williams suggests thinking ahead when settling on a menu item for Valentine’s Day to account for how you feel afterward.

“If you have too rich a dinner, nothing much is going to happen afterward,” Williams said. “Don’t have every course full of cream because it really is going to overload your stomach.”

The table setting and ambience can be arranged by the personal chefs for an additional fee of about $25, Leone said.

“Usually … for the romantic dinners, the couples have chosen to set their own table,

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but it’s definitely something we’re capable of taking care of for them,” she said.

Williams said how much is done by a chef versus a client varies.

“It really depends on your relationship with the client,” Williams said.

Another feature of having a personal chef is being able to interact with the chef and learn from them.

While some clients are content to stay outside the kitchen while the chef works, others

may want to learn a thing or two from a professional.

“They can just watch the chef if they want,” Leone said. “It’s entertainment as well.”

Leone estimates the beginning price for a romantic dinner to be about $300. That’s about $100 for the food and $200 for the service. The average is about $350 to $400, she estimates.

Williams said she expects her romantic dinner service to cost about $200.

FIND A CHEF Here are a few personal chefs who serve the southern New Hampshire area. Contact them to schedule a meal service on or around Valentine’s Day, or any time you want a special meal experience.

• Olive Branch Personal Chef Service, Gabrielle Leone, 978-270-6862, olivebranchfoods.com, cooks romantic meals for two and has openings for Valentine’s Day as of press time.

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• Gluten Free Cooking with Oonagh, Oonagh Williams, oonagh@royaltemptations. com, roytaltemptations.com and Facebook, cooks for private dinner parties and couples but is booked for Valentine’s Day.

• Dining By Design, Randy Brisson, 4981634, diningbydesign.com, does dinner party catering and other special events. Call to discuss available dates.

• My Turn to Cook, Jennifer Buck, 746• Anastasia’s Table, Patti Anastasia, 818-9991, 6659, nhpersonalchef.com, cooks weekly anastasiastable.com, cooks and packages meals meals and caters special events. Call to in advance for a week or a special occasion (not discuss available dates. available on Valentine’s Day).

• Welcome Home Chef Service, Sarah Hipple, 738-7701, sites.google.com/site/ welcomehomechef, caters all kinds of special events (booked for Valentine’s Day; call to discuss available dates).

• MLC Catering, Darlene Towle, 767-5646, mlccatering.com, caters all kinds of special events; she’s booked for Valentine’s Day, but call for other available dates.

Comedy, theater and music to love

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Instead of just seeing a movie this Valentine’s Day, elevate your night out with a live comedy show, theatrical performance or concert.

If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Dayspecific event, try “The Love Project,” an original show of standup, improv and sketch comedy written and performed by members of the Laughta in New Hampsha comedy school in Concord.

“The hour-and-a-half show is going to have some improv, some music and some parody, and it’s going to be jam-packed with fun things that couples can relate to,” said Doris Ballard, executive director of Concord Community TV and organizer of the show. “We have a team of 10 fledgling writers who are all parts of couples and it will be the first time people will get to see what they’ve come up with.”

Production for the show started out as quick sketches Ballard said are similar in length and structure to those of Saturday Night Live, but the writers ended up including elements of improv as well. Audience members will also have a chance to win prizes.

“It will be a bunch of little vignettes that

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last anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes,” she said. “We’ll have a Dating Game parody and a Newlywed parody, and our writers will be pulling in members of the audience for some of these sketches as well. … We don’t want to stick to the script completely.”

Stand-up comedians Bob Sheehy of Derry and Greg Boggis of Milford will both perform. Boggis has his own half-hour comedy show on Concord Community TV, called “The Boggis Hour.”

“They will be bringing their own sense of comedy to the team,” she said.

Better than a movie Check out these shows happening on and around Valentine’s Day. Comedy Mike Koutrobis When: Saturday, Feb. 11, 9 p.m.

Where: Chunky’s Cinema and Pub, 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua Tickets: $15 Visit: chunkys.com Jody Sloane & Mark Scalia: Funny Valentine Live Comedy Night When: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m.

Where: Chunky’s Cinema and Pub, 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua Tickets: $30 per couple; includes a $10 off dinner voucher to be used toward food purchases at the theater Visit: chunkys.com Sloane and Scalia will include their unique views on relationships and love during their comedy routines.

Laughta in New Hampsha presents “The Love Project” When: Friday, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Where: New England College’s Concord building, 62 N. Main St. Tickets: $10 per person in advance; tickets

can be reserved by contacting Doris Ballard at 496-4966 or contact@nodoproductions. com. All proceeds will benefit scholarships for Concord Community TV’s Youth Video Camp program.

Visit: nodoproductions.com Music Bria Skonberg When: Thursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

Where: Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry Tickets: $20 Visit: stockbridgetheatre.com An award-winning jazz-based trumpeter, vocalist and composer.

Smokey Joe’s Cafe When: Thursday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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Theater Guys and Dolls When: Thursday, Feb. 9, through Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2:30 p.m.

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Visit: svbgc.org/amato-center This musical follows gambler Nathan Detroit as he looks for a place to run an undercover dice game while convincing his fiancee of 14 years to get married.

Marjorie Prime When: Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 17, and Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m.

Where: Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord Tickets: $16.50 Visit: hatboxnh.com Based on the award-winning play by Jordan Harrison, the play follows 85-year-old Marjorie and her artificial intelligence companion.

Noises Off! When: Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.

Where: Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord Tickets: $14-$16 Visit: communityplayersofconcord.com Presented by the Community Players of Concord and based on the 1982 English play.

A Dog’s Life When: Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12, at 1:30 p.m.

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Spend Valentine’s Day at a local winery

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Instead of just going out for a drink this Valentine’s Day, take your date up a notch with a trip to the winery where it was made.

There are more than 20 wineries on the New Hampshire Winery Association’s Wine Trail map where you can take a tour, meet the winemakers, sample various wines and more.

“I think for Valentine’s Day it’d be an awesome thing to do,” said Lewis Eaton, president of the New Hampshire Winery Association and the owner and winemaker of Sweet Baby Vineyards in Hampstead.

“It’s original, it’s unique, it’s informative, and it can be a good jumping-off point for something else happening that night, like if you’re going out to dinner.”

LaBelle Winery tasting room. Courtesy photo.

At many wineries, you can take a guided tour, available either by appointment or at scheduled times, or a self-guided tour to see

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• Appolo Vineyards One-hour wine tastings and tours offered by appointment on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Full flight is $10, half flight is $5. 49 Lawrence Road, Derry. Call 421-6052 or visit appolovineyards.com.

• Candia Vineyards Call to schedule a visit. 702 High St., Candia. Call 867-9751 or visit candiavineyards.com.

• Copper Beech Winery Tasting room is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 146 Londonderry Turnpike, Building 3, Unit 23, Hooksett. Call 400-2595 or visit copperbeechwinery.com.

• Flag Hill Winery Tasting room and gift shop are open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last call for tastings is at 4:30 p.m. The cost is $5 for five tastings. Public tours lasting 30 to 45 minutes are offered on Saturday and Sunday at noon for $5. 297 N. River Road (Route 155), Lee. Call 659-2949 or visit flaghill.com.

• Fulchino Vineyard Open for tastings January through March on Saturday and Sunday; April through October daily; and November and December, Thursday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., each day. 187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis. Call 438-5984 or visit fulchinovineyard.com.

• Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard Open for wine flights and tastings on Sunday, 1:30 to 5 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., from Memorial Day to Columbus Day, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Columbus Day to Memorial Day. Last call for tastings is a half hour before closing.

There are flights with three or six wines, with or without crackers and cheese ($5 to $18), and a guided tasting with five wines ($12).

528 Meadow Pond Road, Gilmanton. Call 267-8251 or visit gilmantonwinery.com.

• Grape Time Winery An extension of Incredibrew. Open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 8 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. Call 891-2477 or visit grapetimewinery.com.

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• 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.

• 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 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 and cream, and bonbons in white almond and milk chocolate. A special musical guest will be featured.

Tickets cost $39. Purchase online.

• Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard (528 Meadow Pond Road, Gilmanton, 2678251, gilmantonwinery.com) will serve a five-course Valentine’s Dinner in its onsite restaurant on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m. The menu features caramelized onion and portobello mushroom soup, Caesar salad, entree options including Coquilles St. Jacques and lamb lollipops with rosemary mint dipping sauce, and chocolate fondue for dessert. The cost is $45 per person. Sleigh rides will be offered at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. for $15. For an additional $50, guests can have a more intimate dinner in the wine cellar, with wine served in hand-painted glasses that they can take home. Call for reservations.

• 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. Enjoy a wine flight and hors d’oeuvres and take home a bottle of chocolate raspberry port. Cost is $30 per couple.

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• Jewell Towne Vineyards (183 Whitehall Road, South Hampton, 394-0600, jewelltownevineyards.com) will have a Valentine’s Day wine and chocolate pairing featuring Lindt Chocolate on Sunday, Feb. 12, from noon to 4 p.m.

• 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, freerange chicken breast, red velvet heart cake, a French macaroon assortment and wine pairing flights. Reservations are recommended.

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the winemaking equipment and learn about the winemaking process. Guided tours may include opportunities to watch the winemakers in action and ask them questions.

Eaton said that at his winery and most others, there are usually several wines on hand for tastings and flights so that visitors can experience a wider range of what the winery has to offer than a single glass of wine can provide.

“Try things you don’t normally try, and get out of your comfort zone,” he said. “Our staff will guide you, point you in the right direction according to your taste.”

The New Hampshire Wine Trail maps can be found at any of the state’s Welcome and Information Centers, at the wineries included on the map and online at visitnh.gov.

Beyond the regular tours and tastings, some wineries are hosting special Valentine’s Day tasting events and wine pairing dinners.

Space is limited, so call for ticket availability and reserve your spot soon.

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• Jewell Towne Vineyards Open for tours and tastings Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 183 Whitehall Road, South Hampton. Call 394-0600 or visit jewelltownevineyards.com.

• LaBelle Winery Gift shop, tasting room and self-guided tours available Monday and Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday

through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tastings cost $8 for five wines and $13 for 10 wines. Half-hour guided tours are offered Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., every hour on the hour. 345 Route 101, Amherst. Call 672-9898 or visit labellewinerynh.com.

• Sweet Baby Vineyard Open for tastings and wine sales Thursday and Friday, noon to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Tastings cost $3 to $5 and include up to six wines. 260 Stage Road, Hampstead. Call 347-1738 or visit sweetbabyvineyard.com.

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Floral arrangements and Valentine’s Day go hand in hand, but you don’t have to rely on what’s packaged at the supermarket (or gift store, or flower shop) for your special someone.

The Hippo talked with Judy Pyszka from Chalifour’s Flowers of Manchester and Cara Sandford of Apotheca Flower Shoppe in Goffstown about how to make your own personal arrangement, from choosing colors and textures to maintaining your florals so they last past Feb. 14.

Why flowers

Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest holidays for florists each year, and as such, most shops will expand their selections dramatically to fill the need.

Sandford said she thinks flowers are so popular this time of year because they express a message through various senses.

“Flowers are tangible, and yet they emote so much expression. They’re physical — you can touch them, and you can smell them, and they’re beautiful,” Sandford said. “It’s an allencompassing expression.”

Choosing flowers

Red roses mean “I love you.” Yellow means “friendship.” Pink means “fun and happiness,” lavender means “love at first sight,” and orange or peach convey enthusiasm or desire.

At least, these are Chalifour’s definitions; Pyszka said you can find many interpretations, and the colors don’t matter quite as much as how you arrange them.

“The different textures in the arrangement is really what adds to it,” Pyszka said.

Most shops offer custom arrangements to incorporate certain colors or themes, but many also offer the opportunity for customers

to pick their own combinations. Chalifour’s has a whole fridge full of loose flowers, and so does Apotheca.

“People have the option to pick individual stems, and I think people like having that kind of freedom, to use the flower selection like an art project,” Sandford said. “People have the option of using us to guide them through their decisions, or they can just pick whatever they want.”

Putting it together

Trending, Sandford said, are looser, bohemian arrangements.

“It’s starting to catch on in New Hampshire, but I think we’re a little slower than areas closer to the city,” Sandford said.

More important than what you choose is how and when you put it together. Stems should be back in water within one hour of purchasing.

“It’s not something you can just leave in your car as you go back into work. It’s a fresh product,” Pyszka said.

During a recent visit, Pyszka was crafting a Valentine’s Day-themed arrangement full of greens (like seeded eucalyptus, salal and lemon leaf) and a variety of pink and red flowers.

Before adding them to the vase, she wrapped lily grass around the bottom (which would hide the stems) and filled it to the top with water. She formed a grid with thin waterproof tape at the vase’s ridge to keep things in place and added the rest of the greens.

“The greenery gives it some fullness, depending on the type of container you’re working in,” Pyszka said “The most important thing about them is that they’re going to complement the flowers. Greens have really nice textures.”

After that, in went the blossoms — roses, gerbera daisies, alstroemerias, stocks, hydrangeas, caspias and lilies.

“One other trick is to work in odds,” Pysz-

Make it last

You can expect flowers to last between five days and a week if you care for them, changing water daily and snipping the ends regularly.

“When you put your flowers in water, bacteria starts to build, and that is going to block where it is drinking the water. So when you give it a cut, it gives it a new, clean drinking area,” Pyszka said.

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She advised using a straight blade and cutting at an angle — scissors tend to squish the ends, though woody stems might require snips instead.

In addition, keep arrangements away from heat sources.

“Don’t put them on a TV. If you have sunlight coming in through the window, don’t put them there; it will deteriorate your flower by building bacteria in the water,” Pyszka said.

MAKE YOUR OWN BOUQUET Here are some local venues where you can buy flowers by the stem to make your own arrangement. Call each for details.

• Anne’s Florals & Gifts, 142 Lowell Road, Hudson, 889-9903, annesfloralsgifts.com • Apotheca, 24 Main St., Goffstown, 4974940, apothecaflowershoppe.com • Backmann Florist, 15 W. Broadway, Derry, 432-2371, backmannflorist.com • Celeste’s Flower Barn, 300 Varney St., Manchester, 623-5835, celesteflowerbarn.com • Chalifour’s Flowers, 46 Elm St., Manchester, 623-8844, chalifours.com • Cheryl’s Ultimate Bouquet Flower Shop, 64 Freetown Road, Raymond, 895-2599 • Cobblestone Design Company, 89 Fort Eddy Road, Concord, 228-5980, cobblestoneflorist.com • Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord, 229-0655, colegardens.com • Collins Flowers, Inc., 9 Main St., Nashua, 882-2723, collinsflowers.com • Countryside Florist, 4 Orchard View Drive, Londonderry, 432-4110, countrysideflorist.biz • Crystal Orchid Florist, 45 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, 627-1925 • Delahunty Nurseries & Florist, 41 Range Road, Windham, 893-7155, delahuntys.com • Dixieland Florist & Gift Shop, 414 Donald St., Bedford, 669-2998, dixielandflorist.net • D McLeod Inc., 49 S. State St., Concord, 225-3721, dmflowers.com • Farm & Flower Market, 15 Webster St., Manchester, 625-6700 • Flower Stop, 187 Elm St., Milford, 12 Main St., Brookline, 732-0004, flowerstopmilfordnh.com • Ford Flower Co., 83 S. Broadway, Salem,

893-9955, fordflower.com • Forget Me Not Flowers & Gifts, 1009 Upper City Road, Pittsfield, 435-5111, forgetmenotflowerspittsfield.com • Fortin Gage Flowers & Gifts, 86 W. Pearl St., Nashua, 882-3371, fortingage.com • Harrington Flowers, 539 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 437-4030, harringtonflowers.com • J. Stewart’s Flower Shoppe, 224 N. Broadway, Salem, 893-4578, jstewartsflowershoppe.com • Jacques Flower Shop, 712 Mast Road, Manchester, 625-5155, jacquesflowers.com • Kreative Flowers & Gifts, 114 Dover Road, Chichester, 961-0188, • Labow Florist & Gift Shop, 391 Spruce St., Manchester, 627-9592, labowflorist.net • Leith Flower, Plant & Gift Shop, 100 Plaistow Road, Plaistow, 382-8837, leithflowershop.com • Manchester Flower Studio, 388 Wilson St., Manchester, 669-6060, manchesterflowerstudio.com • Marshall’s Florist & Gifts, 151 King St., Boscawen, 796-2272 • Nicole’s Greenhouse & Florist, 91 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke, 228-8294, nicolesgreenhouseandflorist.com • Paisley Floral Design Studio, 2107 River Road, Manchester, 493-8386, paisleyfloraldesign.com • PJ’s Flowers & Weddings, 176 Route 101, Unit B3, Bedford, 471-3411, pjsflowers.net • Rimmon Heights Florist, 150 Kelley St., Manchester, 935-9485, rimmonheightsflorist.com • The Garden Party Floral Boutique, 111 Union Square, Milford, 249-9809, gardenparty.florist • Wisteria Flower Shoppe, 22 E. Broadway, Derry, 434-4600, wisteriaflowershoppe.com

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ka said, snipping the stems and excess foliage before adding each flower to the arrangement. “Visually, it’s more pleasing to the eye for this type of design.”

Your flower choices might be influenced by the kind of vase you want to put them in — if you have a tall, linear vase, you want flowers to match. In general, arrangements should be one and a half times taller than the vase.

“If your container is six inches tall, then you want to make it nine inches taller than the container,” Pyszka said.

After that, it’s trial and error.

“There’s no real pattern to arranging,” Pyszka said. “Floral arranging is an art.”

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Friday, Feb. 10

The Lego Batman Movie, a spinoff of the 2014 film The Lego Movie, hits theaters. The film features Will Arnett as the voice of Batman, Michael Cera as the voice of Robin, and Zach Galifianakis as the voice of The Joker.

Join the Quarrybrook Experiential Education Center (39 Roulston Road, Windham) for a community snowshoe hike from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Staff educators will lead participants through the woods around the center and will lead in identifying trees and non-hibernating animals and how they have adapted to the winter. Admission is free and the hike is suitable for all ages. Visit quarrybrook.org or call 890-1222.

EAT: chocolate Enjoy chocolate-making demonstrations and history lessons during “The Science of Chocolate,” a program presented by the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough. Education director Melissa Brooks will appear at two local events this week, at the Daland Memorial Library (5 N. Main St., Mont Vernon) on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. and at the Smyth Public Library (55 High St., Candia) on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 6 p.m. Admission is free but registration is encouraged. Visit mariposamuseum.org for more details.

Monday, Feb. 13

“Sleeping well as you age” is the theme of the next senior education workshop at the Nashua Senior Activity Center (70 Temple St.). Presented by Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum, M.D. of Southern New Hampshire Health, the workshop will cover normal sleep patterns, the effects of diet on sleep, sleep disorders and more. The workshop begins at 1 p.m. and admission is free. Visit nashuaseniorcenter.org or call 889-6155.

DRINK: ale Join IncrediBREW (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) for the annual Abe’s Ale Fest on Thursday, Feb. 9, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Learn to brew the top-selling red, pale and brown ales like Charlie Brown, New England Chestnut, English Pub and more. No brewing experience is necessary. The cost is $30 for returning brewers and $40 for new brewers. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

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Concord Pilates (2½ Beacon St.) will host a foam rolling technique class from 8:30 to 9:20 a.m. The foam roller helps to break up knots and adhesions and helps increase the efficiency of your workouts and maximize your body’s performance. The cost is $15 for the session.

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ARTS Relieve your cabin fever Canterbury hosts artisan tour this weekend

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Got cabin fever? You’re in luck.

Artists, businesses and artisan food and drink producers from Canterbury, Boscawen and Loudon are opening their doors this Saturday, Feb. 11, and Sunday, Feb. 12, for the inaugural Canterbury Cabin Fever Reliever.

The event allows visitors to enjoy samples at places like Cold Garden Spirits and Canterbury Aleworks or view live demonstrations by local craftspeople at venues like Twiggs Gallery or The Woolen Pear nearby. Participants range from cheesemakers and graphic artists to painters and calligraphers.

The man behind the endeavor is Dave Emerson, owner of Old Ways Traditions, which houses wooden accessories, turned bowls, plates, antiques and antique machinery. He’s a regular at events like the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair and Old Canterbury Cabin Fever Reliever When: Saturday, Feb. 11, and Sunday, Feb. 12; hours differ by location Contact: Contact Dave Emerson at 7834403 or efurnitr@comcast.net

Old Ways Traditions will have antique machinery available to try during Cabin Fever Reliever. Courtesy photo.

Home Days in Dunbarton and felt February needed more action.

“Canterbury has done New Hampshire Open Doors for the spring and fall. For years, we’ve had a high concentration [of craftspeople], so it seemed like a good thing to do again,” Emerson said via phone.

This weekend, his shop will also house handmade soap by Janet King, hand-carved spoons by Mark Kneeland and rabbit fur accessories by Linda Ray. Visitors can check out their products, or they can try out some

of his antique machinery, including 14 lathes.

Emerson’s business typically sees about 100 visitors during an Open Doors weekend, which happens every November and is organized by the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. But the rest of the year, the town’s pretty quiet.

“Most [participating] places are open while [Open Doors] is actually occurring, but few have regular hours throughout the year,” Emerson said.

The winter is particularly quiet in Canterbury. Usually, artists like Adele Sanborn, who

owns Twiggs gallery, are working to build up inventory for the spring, summer and fall selling seasons.

“Twiggs, really, is closed for January, February and March. It’s too difficult to run classes with the snow,” Sanborn said via phone. “During these months, I put my nose to the grindstone and work, work, work. It’s hard as an artist. We all work on our own, and it’s fun to be able to open your doors and have the public come in and see how you do your things. I’m excited about the opportunity to open my doors at a time of year when people are just plain sick and tired of winter.”

Sanborn said she’ll have hands-on rubber stamp and calligraphy demonstrations plus “make-and-take” valentines. On view in her gallery is a retrospective of her art the past 30 years and pieces by artists Bev Norton and Shawne Randlett. Liz Kantz will perform live tunes.

Pam Bartlett, owner of The Woolen Pear & Red Horse Rugs, said the weekend presents visitors a “chance to get out of big box stores and come to the little box stores.” She’ll demonstrate rug hooking in her shop, which will be decorated with students’ and her work.

They’re not alone in their excitement.

“I’ve never organized anything with more enthusiasm,” Emerson said.

Participants Road, Canterbury, Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.5 p.m.

• Old Ways Traditions: Wooden accessories, turned bowls, plates, antiques and antique machinery (features soap, paintings by Janet King; hand-carved spoons by Mark Kneeland; rabbit fur accessories by Linda Ray) 418 Shaker Road, Canterbury, Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Canterbury Aleworks: Handcrafted beers, 305 Baptist Hill Road, Canterbury, SaturdaySunday, 1-5 p.m.

• Fox Country Smokehouse: Smoked meats and cheeses, 164 Briar Bush Road, Canter-

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• Hackleboro Pottery and Quilts: Quilts and braided rugs, 376 Hackleboro Road, Canterbury, Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Canterbury Country Store: Local food, crafts, sweets, 3 Center Road, Canterbury, Saturday 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Canterbury Center Bed and Breakfast: 2 Baptist Road, Canterbury, Saturday 9 a.m.5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (includes work

by Kathie Fife, fine art photographer; Jolene Cochrane, spoon carver; Teresa Wyman, fiddle player) Jane Balshaw studio: Hand-painted quilted

textile art, 12 Cogswell Hill Road, Canterbury, Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Marsh Meadow Bison: Bison meat cuts, 16 Scales Road, Canterbury, Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday noon-4 p.m.

• Riverland on the Merrimack Bed and Breakfast: 32 Oxbow Pond Road, Canterbury, Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Cornerstone Design at Twiggs Gallery: Local, regional art displays, classes and workshops, gifts and calligraphy, 254 King St., Boscawen, Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (includes art by Bev Norton and Shawne Randlett)

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• Loudon Station: Locally made products, crafts and gifts, 563 Route 106, Loudon, Saturday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

• The Woolen Pear & Red Horse Rugs: Fiber arts studio, 563 Route 106, Loudon, Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Eggshell Restaurant: Breakfast and lunch, 563 Route 106, Loudon, Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

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• Beauties and beasts: If you can’t wait for the March 17 release of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on the big screen, Wild Salamander, 30 Ash St., Hollis, has an art show to appease you until then, “Beauty and the Beast,” which is on view Feb. 10 through March 17. It features artwork by New Hampshire artists Mary Ellen Brown and William Turner, with an opening reception Friday, Feb. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. Visit wildsalamander.com.

• Lifetime achievement: Furniture master Jeffrey S. Roberts of Unity was recently awarded the 2017 Cartouche Award for lifetime achievement in period furniture, presented by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers at a ceremony in Williamsburg, Virginia. The award is given to someone who has, over a lifetime, demonstrated love for American period furniture, a mastery of skills and techniques and devotion to advancing the craft, as described in the press release. For more on the artist, visit jsrobertsfurniture.com.

• For free: Exeter Fine Crafts, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, is offering a variety of youth craft classes the week of Feb. 27 to March 3, including clay, beadweaving, puppet making, drawing, paper arts and more. All will be held at the craft center, 61 Water St., Exeter. Call 778-8282 or email info@exeterfinecrafts.com.

Art Events • SECOND SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Listen to jazz musicians while you eat breakfast at the museum cafe. Sun., Feb. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Reservations required; email jazzbrunch@currier.org. Prices vary. Visit currier.org.

• FREE NEW HAMPSHIRE SECOND SATURDAY Free admission. Sat., Feb. 11, 10 a.m.-noon. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Visit currier.org.

• FEBRUARY PAINT SOCIAL with Positive Street Art. Thurs., Feb. 16, at 6:30 p.m.

17 Main St., Nashua. BYOB. $25. Visit positivestreetart.org.

• “611 MILES: AN INTERROGATION OF POLITICAL, NATURAL AND INTERIOR BORDERS” Presentation by Lucinda Bliss. Sun., Feb. 19, at 3 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 New Hampshire 101, Amherst. $5.

Visit labellewineryevents.com.

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“Trickster” by William Turner. Courtesy image.

• Chance to win Vivian Beer artwork: The Currier Museum of Art hosts a raffle whose prize is an original by Vivian Beer, a Manchester artist who won Ellen’s Design Challenge last year as part of her “Anchored Candy” series. The piece is valued at $10,500. The winning ticket will be drawn Saturday, April 22, at the finale of the Heart of the Arts gala fundraiser (though tickets don’t include entrance to the gala, and you don’t need to be present to win). However, all ticket-holders are invited to attend an exclusive event with the artist at the museum May 11. Visit currier. org/raffle.

Also at the museum, 150 Ash St., Manchester, this weekend is a focus tour, “Art and Race,” Saturday, Feb. 11, at 11:30 a.m., through which participants can travel with a docent educator through the museum to see artwork that highlights topics like civil rights and racial identity in America, past and present; the tour is free with museum admission ($15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students, $5 for youth ages 13 to 17). — Kelly Sennott

MUNITY ART JAM Featuring local artists selling/presenting work. Monthly event with music by local DJs. Wed., Feb. 22, at 6:30 p.m. Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Free.

Visit the Facebook page (Eclective Avenue Community Art Jam @ Jewel) for details.

• LONDONDERRY ARTS CAFE Music, art for sale Sat., Feb. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Londonderry Senior Center, 535 Mammoth Road, Londonderry.

Free. Call 213-1236.

Openings • “AT LARGE” Women’s Caucus for Art exhibit; includes paintings, prints, mixed media works. On view Jan. 26-March 23. Reception Thurs., Feb. 9, 5-7 p.m. Great Bay Community College, 320 Corporate Drive, Durham. Visit greatbay.edu.

• “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” Art show featuring work by pastel artist Mary Ellen Brown and oil painter William Turner. On view Feb. 10 through March 17. Opening Fri., Feb. 10,

6-8 p.m. Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Visit wildsalamander. com. Call 465-WILD. • “FROM TELLING TO KNOWING” Exhibit of paintings by artist Nan Hockenbury on view Feb. 3-April 28 at Mandarin Asian Bistro, 24 Market St., Lowell, Mass. Reception Sun., Feb. 19, 4-6 p.m. with refreshments.

• DON JALBERT Art show featuring landscapes and seascapes of Southern NH and beyond, plus wildlife. On view through April 14. Opening reception Fri., Feb. 10, at 5 p.m. Harvey Mitchell Memorial Library, 151 Main St., Epping. Visit eppinglibrary.com.

• “CANNOT BE DETERMINED IN WORDS” Sitespecific work installed by artist Debra Weisberg in McIninch Art Gallery. On view Feb. 23-April 2. Reception Thurs., Feb. 23, 5-7 p.m. Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. Free. Visit snhu.edu.

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Peter Pan prequel

Peacock Players present Peter and the Starcatcher

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

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Even if you’ve seen Peter and the Starcatcher before, chances are good you haven’t seen it like the Peacock Players’ rendition at the Janice B. Streeter Theater — mostly because the play’s young characters are actually played by kids.

“I think we have a luxury in the fact that our leading characters are actually the ages they’re supposed to be,” said Artistic Director Keith Weirich before a recent rehearsal. “In the script, there are two 13-year-olds onstage who are sharing their first kiss, and it’s incredibly endearing when they’re actually 13-year-olds, as opposed to 20-somethingyear-olds pretending to be 13.”

Peter and the Starcatcher is like a prequel to the famous story by J.M. Barrie, explaining how Peter Pan became a lost boy in Neverland who could fly, and how Captain Hook got his name. It’s written by Rick Elice and was on Broadway April 2012 to January 2013, but it’s based on the 2006 novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

Weirich said Peter and the Starcatcher is to Peter Pan what Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz. “It reminds me a lot of the humor in Wicked because you already know ... where the result is headed,” said Weirich, who saw both the Broadway and Winnipesaukee Playhouse renditions of Peter and the Starcatcher.“I was blown away with it. It’s so clever, so funny.

Theatrically, it’s very inventive.”

They play requires audience members to use their imaginations, starting with the set, which comprises “nautical rubble” — ropes, ladders, umbrellas, fishing nets, boards, life preservers, crates — that the 18 teen actors manipulate to create the scenes. In fact, cast members are never offstage. If they’re not in character, they’re

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standing in place to represent more complicated structures or inanimate objects.

“We don’t really have a set,” said Jakov Schwartzberg, who plays Black Stache (who eventually becomes Captain Hook). “I’ll play a door in one scene, and then in the next scene I’ll play my character Black Stache or a sailor on one of the ships. … That’s the fun part and also the most difficult part of the show because it’s nonstop. In most shows, when you’re done your scene, you get a break, but in this show, when I’m not in my [major] scene, I’m in another scene as a different character.”

Together, the kids KEITH WEIRICH perform as 100 different characters, all of whom are aware of the fact they’re in a play. Everyone narrates.

“The characters will snap out of the show and say to the audience, ‘Pretend this cat is flying!’ And it is clearly just being held up by a string. It breaks through the fourth wall a lot,” said Aren Truex, who plays Peter.

This presents difficulties for the direction, too.

“I have a fairly healthy ego about directing some days, and this one has been a humbling experience,” Weirich said. “It’s difficult to pre-visualize and even more difficult to actualize. … The real challenge to is it there are so many locations, so many characters.”

The kids said it’s very funny; Schwartzberg said he was really enjoying playing Black Stache.

“Black Stache in this show has a very particular mix of both absurd humor and also strangely intellectual humor,” Schwartzberg said. “He spends the entire show not being able to pronounce simple words. He calls a ‘beach’ a ‘butch.’ He calls a ‘stage’ a ‘stooge.’

And then he references Philip Glass, saying, ‘It’s as elusive as the melody of a Philip Glass opera.’”

I have a fairly healthy ego about directing some days, and this one has been a humbling experience.

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The cast of Peter and the Starcatcher. Courtesy photo.

Where: Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua When: Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11, at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 18, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m.

Admission: $12-$17 Contact: peacockplayers.org, 886-7000

Workshops/classes/ demonstrations • HEARTS DESIRE StudioVerne workshop. Choose personal style heart shape to make piece of fused glass for loved one. Thurs., Feb. 9, at 6 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, 10 a.m.-noon or 1-3 p.m. StudioVerne, 81 Hanover St., Manchester. $60.

Call 490-4321.

• CREATIVE STUDIO: VALENTINE CREATIONS Sat., Feb. 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org.

• BUTTERFLY DISHES StudioVerne workshop. Make fused glass butterfly dish. Wed., Feb. 15, at 6 p.m.; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 6 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 18, 10 a.m.noon or 1-3 p.m. StudioVerne, 81 Hanover St., Manchester. $75. Call 490-4321.

• RUSSIAN TEA PARTY Hosted by artist Marina Forbes, includes information about her annual cultural tour of Russia.

Sat., Feb. 18, at 1 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Call 332-2255, email marina@anylanguage.org.

• COMMUNITY EDUCATION For adults, teens, and children at NH Institute of Art. Disciplines include ceramics, creative writing, drawing, metalsmithing, photography, printmaking, fibers, and more. NH Institute of Art, 148 Concord St.,

Manchester. Prices vary depending on type of class and materials needed. Call 623-0313. Visit nhia.edu.

Theater Productions • MASS APPEAL Peterborough Players production, part of inaugural winter season. Feb. 1 through Feb. 11. Peterborough Players Theatre, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $39. Visit peterboroughplayers.org.

• DRIVING MISS DAISY Seacoast Repertory Theatre production. Jan. 27-Feb. 19. Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. $20-$38. Visit seacoastrep.org.

• SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE Palace Theatre mainstage production. Jan. 20 through Feb. 11.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25-$45. Visit palacetheatre.org, call 668-5588.

• GUYS & DOLLS Riverbend Youth Company production.

Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 2:30 p.m. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. $12. Visit amatocenter.org.

• PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Peacock Players production. Fri., Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.;

Fri., Feb. 17, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 18, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 19, 2 p.m. Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St., Nashua. $12$15. Visit peacockplayers.org.

• MARJORIE PRIME By Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison. NH premiere. Produced by Lend Me a Theater. Feb. 3-Feb. 19. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit lendmeatheater.org or hatboxnh. com. Call 715-2315 for tickets.

• SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL Rochester Opera House production. Fri., Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com. Call 335-1992 for ticket prices.

• NOISES OFF Community Players of Concord production.

Fri., Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $14-$16. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org.

• THE MAIDS Fearon Productions. Jan. 27-Feb. 12, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. $15. Call 436-8123, visit playersring.org.

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• Farce about theater: The Community Players of Concord present Noises Off

by Michael Frayn, directed by Pat Delzell, on Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. The fast farce follows a troupe of traveling second-rate actors attempting a stage play called Nothing On, which features slamming doors, pretty women running around in lingerie and old men dropping their trousers. The three acts show the performance at the beginning, middle and end of the show’s 10-week run.

Tickets for the PG-13 production cost $16 to $18. Visit communityplayersofconcord. org or call 344-4747.

• Classical concerts: To add some loveliness to your lunch hour, check out the Bach’s Lunch Series concert Thursday, Feb. 9, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., at the Concord Community Music School’s Recital Hall, 23 Wall St., Concord, featuring Peggo Horstmann Hodes and Kent Allyn, who will play love songs and “take audience members to the moon and back,” with selections like “Blue Moon,” “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Dancin’ in the Moonlight,” among others.

Call 228-1196, visit ccmusicschool.org. If you can’t make this one, try the concert featuring pianist Frederick Moyer at Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River

Theatre, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. Feb. 15-March 12. Tickets $26-$70. Visit mrt. org, call 978-654-4678.

• STEEL MAGNOLIAS Peterborough Players production.

Feb. 15-Feb. 26. Peterborough Players Theatre, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $39. Visit peterboroughplayers.org.

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Auditions/open calls • AUDITIONS: GREASE Peacock Players production. For ages 14-18. Tues., Feb. 14, and Wed., Feb. 15, 6-9 p.m. Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua. To schedule audition, email name, age, phone number, shows auditioning for and preferred audition date to keithw@ peacockplayers.org.

• AUDITIONS: OTHER DESERT CITIES Community Players of Concord production. Sun., Feb. 19, and Mon., Feb. 20. Players’ Studio, 435 Josiah Bartlett Road, Concord. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org.

• AUDITIONS:SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Nashua Actorsing-

The Community Players of Concord present Noises Off this weekend. Courtesy photo.

Road, Manchester, Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. Call 668-1249 or visit snhu.edu. Both concerts are free to attend.

• Pup love: The Majestic Theatre presents A Dog’s Life, a dinner theater presentation at the Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. (both dinner events $42); and Sunday, Feb. 12, at 1:30 p.m. ($38).

The play, with book and lyrics by Sean Grennan, music by Leah Okimoto, is about a man who becomes the reluctant owner of a pup named Jack in the hopes to win his girlfriend back. Advance reservations are required at least 24 hours before the performance, and limited tickets are available up to three hours prior to the event’s start.

Tickets include food, with a menu that features chicken marsala with a chef’s choice of vegetable and starch, plus a chocolate seduction cake for dessert. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre.net.

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ers production. Sun., Feb. 19, and Mon., Feb. 20, 7-9 p.m.

Nashua Actorsingers Studio, 219 Lake St., Nashua. Visit actorsingers.org.

• AUDITIONS: ANNIE Leddy Center Production. Sat., Feb. 25.

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Workshops • YES, AND ... I LOVE YOU! Improv workshop for couples.

Tues., Feb. 14, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

New Hampshire Theatre Project, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $50 per couple. Visit nhtheatreproject.org.

Classical Music Events • “BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON: VALENTINES BY MOONLIGHT” February Bach’s Lunch Series.

Thurs., Feb. 9, 12:10-12:50 p.m. at the Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Concert featuring music

by Peggo Horstmann Hodes and Kent Allyn. Free. Call 228-1196, visit ccmusicschool.org.

• FACULTY COMPOSERS CONCERT Bratton Recital Hall, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham. Fri., Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. Free. Call 8622404 or visit unh.edu/music.

• SYMPHONY NH: FANFARE Gala with music, dancing, auction, wine from WineNot Boutique. Fri., Feb. 10, at 5:30 p.m. Crowne Plaza, Nashua. $75. Visit symphonynh.org.

• 2ND ANNUAL VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT With Dustin Hill Chamber Players.

Sun., Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Free. Visit mainstreetbookends.com. Call 456-2700.

• MUCHACHOS ALL-AGE DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS hosts annual open house and new member recruiting drive Sun., Feb. 12, 1-5 p.m. BradySullivan Tower, 1750 Elm St., Manchester. Open to anyone 14 and older. Call 228-3971 visit muchachos.org.

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Fun for kids during February vacation Where: 116 Goffstown Back Road, and more. For grades K through 8.

Goffstown Concord Family YMCA (228-9622, conWhen: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3 Media camps cordymca.org) Cost: Call for details Computer Science Camp (742-2002, childWhere: 15 N. State St., Concord Campers enjoy swimming, gymnastics, When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, arts and crafts and sports games. For grades K rens-museum.org) Where: Children’s Museum of New Hampfrom 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through 8. shire, 6 Washington St., Dover Cost: $50 per day, $168 for full week for When: Tuesday, Feb. 28, to Friday, March 3, members, $60/$188 for non-members.

YMCA of Downtown Manchester (232from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Each day will feature fun activities like 8670, graniteymca.org) Cost: $195 for members and $215 for archery, rock wall climbing, swimming and Where: 30 Mechanic St., Manchester field trips. For grades K to 6.

When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3 non-members Campers will learn the basics of computCost: Call for details Creative Movers Mini Camp (856-8103, er science and programming. Using tiny and Campers will enjoy sports, swimming time, theriverguild.com) a scavenger hunt and cooperative team-building versatile Ozobot robots, campers will write programs to guide them through mazes, make up Where: The River Guild, 254 N. State St., games. For grades K through 8. their own games to play and more. For ages 9 Concord When: Tuesday, Feb. 28, to Thursday, March 2 YMCA of Greater Londonderry (437- to 12; no previous programming experience is necessary.

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(669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org) Cost: Call for details Where: SEE Science Center, 200 Bedford Campers will enjoy arts and crafts, dance, New Hampshire SPCA (772-2921, nhspca.org) sports and more. Special themed days are also St., Manchester Where: NHSPCA Learning Center, 104 planned, like Sports Day and Inside Out Day, When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, Portsmouth Ave., Stratham from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and the camp will include travel to Legoland Cost: $100 for the week When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Wednesday, Discovery Center, the Concord Sports Center March 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Campers will work in groups to prototype, and Funspot. For grades K through 8.

Cost: $60 per day design, build and release a location-based Camp features games, activities and crafts as YMCA of the Seacoast (431-2334, ext. mobile adventure game. For students in grades well as time to visit with the animals. For ages 6 2556, graniteymca.org) 6 to 8. to 12. Campers can attend one, two or all three Where: Camp Gundalow, 176 Tuttle Lane, days.

Youth Video Production Camp (225-8690, Greenland concordnh.gov) When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3 Winter Workshop (422-7541, strawberyWhere: Concord TV studio at Heights ComCost: Call for details banke.org) munity Center, 14 Canterbury Road, Concord Campers can enjoy swimming, gym games, Where: Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Han- fitness fun, arts and crafts, outdoor play and When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, cock St., Portsmouth 12:30 to 5 p.m. more.

When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Thursday, March Cost: $100 for Concord residents, $110 for 2; sessions are available from 9 a.m. to noon, non-residents YMCA of Strafford County (332-7334, noon to 1 p.m., and 1 to 4 p.m.

Campers will learn the basics of video prograniteymca.org) Cost: $35 per session, or $50 for the whole day Where: Horne Street School, 78 Horne St., duction and have opportunities to create their Campers will become immersed in the past Dover, and 35 Industrial Way, Stafford own videos and short films. Topics to be covered through hands-on crafts, historic cooking, oldWhen: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3 include creating studio shows, green screens, fashioned games and dress-up. For grades 1 to 5. scriptwriting and more. For ages 9 to 14.

Cost: Call for details YMCA Allard Center of Goffstown (497Campers can enjoy bowling, laser tag, indoor 4663, ext. 2103, graniteymca.org) rock climbing, a visit from Wildlife Encounters

General interest camps

By Matt Ingersoll

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There are plenty of ways to spend February school vacation week this year, from creating your own arts and crafts and video projects to getting some air on the slopes and more.

Art camps Art Center Vacation Camp (669-6144, ext.

122, currier.org/art-center) Where: Currier Museum Art Center, 180 Pearl St., Manchester When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3; morning session from 9 a.m. to noon, afternoon session from 1 to 4 p.m.

Cost: $285 for the week with both sessions; after-camp care is available from 4 to 5:30 p.m. for an additional $30 This year’s morning session is themed “Rock, Paper, Scissors!” Participants will use clay, paper, scissors and paint to make their own creations. The afternoon session is themed “Clay, Pencils, Paint!” and offers opportunities for campers to go south for “winter vacation” to Patagonia and Peru, creating exotic animals, plants, cultures and more that inspire them.

Travel the World with Art/Teen & Tween Wheel Throwing (232-5597, 550arts.com) Where: Studio 550 Art Center, 550 Elm St., Manchester When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3; Travel the World through Art is from 9:15 a.m. to noon; Teen & Tween Wheel Throwing is from 12:30 to 3:15 p.m.

Cost: $155 For kids ages 6 to 8, Travel the World with Art will offer opportunities to learn about different world cultures and creating art inspired by them. For ages 9 and up, participants in the wheel throwing program will learn how to use a basic potter’s wheel, making cups and bowls from a variety of basic decorating techniques.

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The Massabesic Audubon Center (26 Audubon Way, Auburn) will host the second annual Raven’s Race and Winter Festival on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event includes three different race courses, live animal presentations, a bonfire, tracking activities and more. There will be a Raven’s Race 5K course, a “Loon Loop” one-mile family course, and a “bunny blitz” snowshoe race for kids with multiple start times from 11 a.m. to noon and chances to win fun prizes. The first 100 entrants will also receive free goodie bags. The cost to register is $25 per person in advance and $35 on the day of the event, or $50 per family in advance and $70 that day. Bunny blitz cost is $5 per child; bring or borrow snowshoes. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

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Award-winning children’s musician Laurie Berkner will perform at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord) on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. as part of her

Greatest Hits Solo Tour. Berkner has been a longtime fixture of TV’s Nick Jr. and Sprout channels and is a leader behind the “kindie rock” movement. Her tour features performing popular hits like “Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz),” “Victor Vito,” “We Are the Dinosaurs” and more. Tickets are $35-$50. Visit ccanh.com or call 225-1111.

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Join the Canvas Roadshow (25 S. River Road, Bedford) for a Valentine’s Party on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 2 to 4 p.m. The event, meant for kids and adults, will feature painting on an 8x10 canvas with instructor Crystal Beland, karaoke singing, face painting, juice, treats and more. All ages are welcome. The cost is $18 per person and includes all painting materials and aprons. Visit thecanvasroadshow.com or call 943-2103 to register.

Free family films

The Hampstead Public Library (9 Mary E. Clark Drive) will screen Disney’s Frozen on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Admission is free. Visit hampsteadlibrary.org or call 329-6411.

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For the birds

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Recently a blue jay turned to me and said, “Thanks, Henry, for planting those hemlocks and pine trees back in 1972!” Well, perhaps I’m presenting alternative facts here, but I know that the birds really do appreciate those trees. Particularly now, in the cold of winter.

Most of us feed the birds, not only to help them, but also to enjoy watching them all winter. The food we provide is helpful, but most would survive just fine without it. But helping birds by providing shelter out of the wind and safety (away from cats and other predators) and nesting places is equally important.

Forty-five years ago I planted a row of evergreens as screening for my backyard and it has been a real haven for birds.

According to a wonderful book called Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Attracting Birds

by Richard M. DeGraaf, 46 species of birds use the eastern white pine for either food, cover or nesting and it is one of the most beneficial trees for birds.

I dug up half a dozen small evergreens including a 5-foot-tall white pine seedling in the summer of 1972. All were “volunteers” growing in a meadow near my house. They have done well, growing to mature size and blocking the view of my back yard from the road.

According to the list of birds using white pine, the seeds are the favorite food of the

northern bobwhite, red-bellied woodpecker, and spruce grouse, none of which I have seen in it. But it is also a favorite for some of my good bird buddies: black-capped chickadee, nuthatches, northern cardinal and juncoes.

They go from the bird feeder on my deck to the pine and back, and enjoy resting out of the wind and away from Winnie and Sammy, my two resident cats.

Here are a few tips for growing white pines.

First, don’t plant them near a paved road, as road salt is very injurious for them. I’d guess that if you are 20 feet or more back from the road with your planting, you should be all right, though even farther away would be better, especially if downhill from the road.

Next, remember that white pine trees get to be big, particularly if they are planted away from competing trees. They will grow 10 feet in 10 years, though under ideal conditions they will grow twice that or more. A mature white pine can reach 100 feet in size, though mine are about half that; their width can reach 20 to 40 feet. They have long needles, five to a cluster.

In recent years I’ve had many questions about white pine trees with needles that brown and drop off. It is normal for the trees to replace some needles every year, and every 4 to 6 years to lose quite a few in the autumn.

But if you are seeing widespread needle browning at other times of the year, you may have a problem.

Pines grow best in rich soil that drains well

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and is not generally soggy. Soils that are compacted by cars parked near them will suffer root damage. White pines prefer acidic soils with a pH of around 5.2. So you may be able to help your pine trees by applying some agricultural sulfur around them, just as you do your blueberries.

Leaving the dropped needles under the trees will help, too. The needles will serve as a mulch, preventing the soil from drying out too much in dry times, and will help to acidify the soil as they decompose.

Eastern hemlock is another great plant for birds. De Graf lists 26 birds that use hemlock on a regular basis. It is an easy tree to grow as it will do so in full sun or full shade,

and everything in between. It is fast growing in most conditions other than heavy clay. It can grow a foot or more per year. It is easy to identify as it has soft, short needles, just half an inch long.

One worry I’d have about buying a Canadian hemlock is an insect pest that can devastate them: the wooly adelgid. This mite is an aphid-like insect that can kill a mature hemlock in 4 to 10 years. A native of Asia, it has no native controls. It covers itself with waxy filaments, the wool, which tends to keep off predatory insects. They are being monitored closely throughout New England, and few outbreaks have been recorded in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine — though it is working its way north.

If planting hemlocks, choose well-drained acid soils. It is susceptible to drought, particularly in the first few years after planting. But generally it is an easy tree to grow.

Obviously now is not the time to plant trees, but it’s a good time to imagine what they might add to your landscape after 10 or 20 years. Don’t make the mistake of planting either of these trees too close to the house — 25 feet away would be a minimum for either.

And if you want a hedge, hemlocks can be pruned quite nicely — though if you miss a few years of pruning they will get too tall.

And that almost always happens!

You can read Henry’s blog at https://dailyuv.com/gardeningguy or write him at P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746.

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Nature camps February Fun Vacation Camp (224-9909, nhaudubon.org) Where: McLane Audubon Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord; Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $42 per day for members, $52 per day for non-members Campers will participate in outdoor excursions, play games, do crafts, hear stories, and see live animals. After-hours care is available for a $10 additional charge, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Trek 4 Tots/Seaside Safari (436-8043, seacoastsciencecenter.org) Where: Seacoast Science Center, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye When: Monday, Feb. 20, to Friday, Feb. 24; or Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: $64 per day, $320 for full week Camps incorporate outdoor learning at Odiorne Point State Park and the center’s live animal and interactive exhibits. Treks 4 Tots is for ages 3½ to 5, and a half-day option is available; SeaHIPPO | FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2017 | PAGE 30

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WildQuest Winter Camp (366-5695, prescottfarm.org) Where: Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: $47 per day, $235 for full week Campers will enjoy a week of animal tracking, snowshoeing, sledding, games, exploring, crafts, maple sugaring, campfire stories and more. For ages 6 to 12. Extended care available.

Sports camps Camp on the Slopes (428-3245, patspeak. com) Where: Pats Peak Ski Area, 686 Flanders Road, Henniker When: Monday, Feb. 20, to Wednesday, Feb. 22; or Monday, Feb. 27, to Wednesday, March 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Cost: $330, $426 with rental equipment, $270 for season pass holders Campers will spend time on the slopes in a group setting. For ages 6 to 14, all abilities.

Gymnastics Camp (749-5678, tristargymnh.com) Where: Tri-Star Gymnastics & Dance, 66 Third St., Dover When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Monday, March 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: $35 per day, $135 for full week Campers will participate in gymnastics, crafts, games and open gym playtime. For grade 1 through age 13. Extended care available.

Junior Fitness Camp (624-9300, ehsc.com) Where: Executive Health & Sports Center, 1 Highlander Way, Manchester When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $310. Daily drop-off rates are available at $60 for members, $80 for non-members.

Activities include team games, swimming, racquetball, arts and crafts, basketball, dodgeball, Zumba and group personal training.

Monkey Play Camp (verticaldreams.com) Where: Vertical Dreams Indoor Climbing Gym, 250 Commercial St., Manchester, (6256919); 25 E. Otterson St., Nashua, (943-7571) When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Cost: $30 per day; signups for more than one day available; pre-registration encouraged.

Campers will get an introduction to the basics of rock climbing. For ages 6 to 12.

Spartans Basketball February Vacation Clinic (537-9663, nhsportszone.com) Where: NH SportsZone, 7 A St., Derry When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Thursday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost: $50 per day, $125 for all four days Campers will learn basketball skills from Spartans founder and director Chris Coates. For boys and girls in grades 2 through 8.

Theater camps Palace Theatre Vacation Camp (668-5588, palacetheatre.org) Where: Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester When: Monday, Feb. 27, to Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; production is Saturday, March 4, at 10 a.m.

Cost: $225 Students will learn about all aspects of theater, with a production of Annie at the end of the week. For grades 2 through 12.

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Electric cars are indeed net Earth-friendly plant’s) than it is to do those things for a million smokestacks (all of our tailpipes).

And even if you’re charging your car from the dirtiest power plant, running on 100 percent coal, electric-car expert (and, to be fair, advocate) Jim Motavalli says you’d still reduce climate emissions by 30 to 40 percent over individual gasoline-powered cars.

And, of course, not all of our power plants are run on coal: We have a mix of coal, natural gas, nuclear and, increasingly, wind and solar now. Plus, our power plants have slowly been getting cleaner. And if the whole electric grid continues to move toward cleaner fuels, that will only make the argument for electrification stronger.

As far as the rare Earth metals go, I’m sure there are some ugly things being done as companies dig lithium out of the ground in China, Chile and Australia. But what your friend failed to mention is that all of the batteries that are used in hybrids and EVs today are recycled when they reach the end of their lives.

Those components are still very valuable. So the manufacturer will give you a huge credit for returning the old battery pack when you buy a new one. And it will reuse everything it can.

Then, Paul, there are smaller environmental benefits, like not having someone’s exhaust blowing into your passenger compartment while you sit behind him in traffic. And not breathing gasoline vapors at the pump every time you refuel.

So I think you are a net positive for the environment. Not to mention that you’re paying a third of the price per mile for electricity that your buddies are paying for gas.

So we would encourage you to feel rightly smug about your electric-car purchase, Paul. Give it a shot.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2004 Saturn Vue. Recently I took it in for new tires. While my car was on the lift, it was discovered to have a totally worn-out mid-driveshaft bearing.

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When I asked the service manager if the shaft turns all the time, he replied, “Yes.” But now I have had time to analyze it a bit myself, and I think since it is an all-wheeldrive car, the shaft turns only when it goes into all-wheel-drive mode. For me, that is almost never. Can you tell me the true sto-

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The bearing for that driveshaft lives inside a rubber housing. So it’s designed to be able to flex a little bit. But if it’s truly worn out, as the mechanic says, you’d feel a wicked vibration at high speeds.

Do you ever drive at high speeds, Douglas? I wouldn’t blame you if you refused to in this car. But next time you do, see if you lose any fillings. Because a worn-out driveshaft bearing would rattle the car very noticeably at highway speeds.

If you don’t notice a vibration at high speeds, then you probably don’t need to do anything. Maybe the mechanic mistook the built-in flex for a worn-out bearing — a half-inch is probably about right. Or maybe it really is wearing out but isn’t bad enough to replace yet. Or perhaps the guy just had a boat payment due that week.

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Give snowmobiling, cross-country skiing or fat biking a try, or stay warm inside with arts and crafts, face painting and cookie decorating — it’s all part of the Derry Frost Festival, and almost everything’s free.

The 18th annual event will be held from Friday, Feb. 10, through Sunday, Feb. 12, at several locations across Derry and includes outdoor activities like sledding and ice skating and indoor fun, like the Frost Ball, which Frost Festival Committee Chair Linda Benson said is back by popular demand.

It starts Friday with sculptures and a movie.

“We’ve moved the ice sculpture demonstrations to Friday evening in front of the Adams Memorial Opera House,” Benson said. “This Is My Derry will be screening The Lion King then as well, so we’re going to be kind of combining those two efforts.”

Tickets to the screening are available at facebook.com/thisismyderry and free popcorn will also be served.

Friday’s events also include the annual spaghetti dinner sponsored by the Derry Village Rotary Club, at Pinkerton Academy’s cafeteria at 5 p.m., with a game of Bingo beginning at 4 p.m. Tickets are $1 and are available for purchase through the Derry Parks & Recreation office, but free tickets are available if you bring a nonperishable can of food for donation.

On Saturday, the Derry Public Library will host a family puppet show with two shows, titled “Little Owl Lost” and “Lil Rabbit Who Likes to Moo,” beginning at 11 a.m. During the intermission, enjoy a game of Twister and a free animal demonstration from Wildlife Encounters.

Stop by Orange Leaf Yogurt inside Derry’s Hood Commons, which will be hosting a coloring contest, a balloon artist, face painting, giveaways and prizes, crafts and more from 1 to 3 p.m.

The Frost Ball will take place on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. at Birch Wood Vineyards.

Tickets are $50 per person and include dancing, a cash bar, and meal choices like prime rib and chicken piccata.

Most of Sunday’s festivities will take place at Hoodkroft Country Club, Alexander-Carr Playground or Gallien’s Town Beach.

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will be offering free snowmobile rides, complete with demonstrations and safety information, at the Hoodkroft golf course from noon to 4 p.m.

Also at Hoodkroft will be opportunities to try out cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and fat bikes, courtesy of Benson’s Ski & Sport. The Culinary Playground will be offering a free cookie decorating workshop indoors from 1 to 3 p.m. at the club.

At Alexander-Carr, enjoy sledding from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the annual bonfire coordinated by the Derry Fire Department at noon.

Grab your skates for open skating on Beaver Lake with Pinkerton Academy’s hockey team. A special ice fishing demonstration will take place at noon. And from noon to 3 p.m., there will be a chili contest; bring a food donation and vote on your favorite chili prepared by Beaver Lake Association members.

Benson said events at Gallien’s Beach and Hoodkroft might be cancelled for weather reasons, but Alexander-Carr events will likely happen no matter the weather. For event updates, visit derrynh.org.

Schedule of events Ice Sculpture demonstrations: Friday, Feb. 10, noon; Adams Memorial Opera House, 29 W. Broadway Family Spaghetti Supper: Friday, Feb. 10, 5 p.m.; Senior Cafeteria at Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St. The Lion King movie screening: Friday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m.; Adams Memorial Opera House, 29 W. Broadway Family puppet show: Saturday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Veterans Hall, 31 W. Broadway Kids’ activities at Orange Leaf Yogurt: Saturday, Feb. 11, 1 to 3 p.m.; 55 Crystal Ave., No. 23 Frost Ball: Saturday, Feb. 11, 6 p.m.; Birch Wood Vineyards, 199 Rockingham Road Snowmobiling, skiing, snowshoeing and fat bike rides: Sunday, Feb. 12, noon to 4 p.m.; Hoodkroft Country Club, 121 E. Broadway Cookie decorating workshop: Sunday, Feb. 12, 1 to 3 p.m.; Hoodkroft Country Club, 121 E. Broadway Open sledding: Sunday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Alexander-Carr Playground, 28 Pierce Ave. Derry Fire Department-sponsored bonfire: Sunday, Feb. 12, noon; Alexander-Carr Playground, 28 Pierce Ave. Open hockey and ice skating: Sunday, Feb. 12, noon to 3 p.m.; Gallien’s Town Beach, 39 Pond Road Ice fishing demonstration: Sunday, Feb. 12, noon; Gallien’s Town Beach, 39 Pond Road Chili contest: Sunday, Feb. 12, noon to 3 p.m.; Gallien’s Town Beach, 39 Pond Road

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[I] did some more bee work and ended up traveling all the way to Australia for my Ph.D. research, again on bees.

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Sandra Rehan of Dover is an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New Hampshire and oversees the UNH Bee Lab, where researchers recently discovered the White Mountain National Forest is home to 140 species of bees.

Explain what your current job group. I also teach at the university. I teach evolution, which is an undergrad course, I’m an assistant professor in and I teach a new course that I created, the biology department, and that actually, called genes and behavior. means I have both a teaching and research program. Primarily, I’m the director of the How long have you worked there?

Bee Lab here and so I run a team of about I have been at UNH for just over three 10 or 12 people and we conduct research years now. on wild bees — a wide variety of projHow did you get interested in this field? ects, from behavior to ecology to genetics and conservation. I work with undergrads, I actually started studying bees as an graduate students and post-docs to conduct undergrad. I grew up in Canada, where I did research and biological surveys and vari- my undergrad at Brock University in Ontarous studies to document wild bee diversity, io. And there I got involved in bee research sustainability and various questions in my just as a summer job. And from there I conis.

Natural beauty.

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

I did a bachelor of science just in general biology and then got a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution. … I did do post-doctor- Courtesy photo. al research and then I got a faculty position here at the University of New Hampshire.

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Hard work pays off.

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I don’t think I would have done anything differently. Advice to a former self would have been, “Keep going, you can do it.” … I think for a while my parents were a bit worried. They didn’t necessarily see a career in bees.

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It’s pretty casual here. … I like to think How did you find your current job? business casual but probably more on the I guess about four years ago now, I … casual side. … If I’m in the field, it’s field wanted to do research and teach, so to be clothes and hiking boots. a professor was the natural next step. I looked to see what was available for jobs What was the first job you ever had? and UNH was hiring actually for a behavI had a paper route as a kid. ioral genetics person and that’s a large part — Ryan Lessard of what I do. So I applied. … The bees I study live across eastern North America so What’s something you’re really [they] are readily available in the wild here interested in right now? in New Hampshire … so that was a very I really enjoy art and photography. appealing thing.

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FOOD From Louisiana to Manchester Queen City gets a new Cajun-style restaurant

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Madear’s, a new restaurant featuring Cajun flavors, is projected to open on Hanover Street in Manchester on Feb. 28 — which is, fittingly, Mardi Gras.

Named after the southern term of endearment for a mother or matriarch, Madear’s will serve Cajun cuisine and southern comfort food with a focus on tapas and shareable plates.

The restaurant is a collaboration between two friends: Chef Robb Curry, originally from Baton Rouge, and Kyle Davis, an engineer born and raised in Hudson.

Curry brings over 20 years of culinary experience and a deep knowledge of Cajun cuisine developed from his own upbringing. The restaurant pays homage to the Ma’dear in his own life, his grandmother, who inspired in him a passion for cooking from a young age.

“I wanted to stick to my roots,” he said.

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• CSA market days: February is CSA Month at the Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Market. The markets on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Exeter High School (1 Blue Hawk Drive, Exeter) and Saturday, Feb. 25, at Wentworth Greenhouses (141 Rollins Road, Rollinsford) will be CSA Information Days, when market visitors will have the chance to meet over a dozen local farmers offering CSA shares and sign up on the spot. Everyone who signs up for a CSA program at the market on these days will receive a free CSA cookbook. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 888-6000128, email info@seacoasteatlocal.org or visit seacoasteatlocal.org.

• Mix and match wine: Incredibrew (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) has a Mixn-Match Winemaking and Tasting Event on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. In this hands-on wine experience, participants will taste, make and take home six varieties 42 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

that ‘wow’ factor.”

Davis had always enjoyed home baking for his family and has done some competition-style baking as a hobby, so when Curry proposed taking his Boston-based catering company (also called Madear’s) to the next level with a restaurant in Manchester, he invited Davis to be a co-owner and the restaurant’s dessert and pastry chef.

The Madear’s planned menu will feature primarily tapas and small plates starting at $3, including things like catfish nuggets, pulled pork egg rolls, crab neapolitan and jambalaya arancini.

There are salads, a meat and cheese board and six varieties of rice bowls such as red bean, gumbo and Cajun rice.

“Robb and I love the small plate ROBB CURRY style,” Davis said.

“It’s a more communal way of eating, and with Cajun cuisine especially, since it’s new to Manchester, it lets you try several different things. It’s like having a buffet right at the table where everyone can enjoy it together.”

There will be a small selection of entree plates: country grits with cheese, fish or shrimp, fried pork chops, a roasted or fried half-pound chicken and an allnatural beef burger. The desserts, which are all $5, are also small-plate style and include bread pudding, pecan pie, ice cream, German chocolate cake and red velvet cake.

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al and comfortable with wood tables, warm lighting and a lounge area with reclining chairs “It’s a very southern feel. We want you to feel like you’re going to your grandmother’s house, and she’s about the feed you,” Curry said. “We don’t want anyone to feel intimidated.”

Curry and Davis said they’re excited to be a part of “a rejuvenation of the restaurant industry,” as Curry calls it, happening in Manchester, and to bring something new to the area.

“There are a lot of places in Manchester with good food and good service, but I think what we’re offering with the family setting and what Robb is doing with these traditional recipes is something that’s unique,” Davis said.

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Downtown Concord just welcomed its first microbrewery thanks to a married couple from Hopkinton with a passion for craft beer.

Dennis Molnar and Beth Mayland have been homebrewing together for years and have traveled just to explore new microbreweries and brewpubs. Throughout the course of their visits, particularly to breweries in a downtown setting, it occurred to them that their neighboring city of Concord was lacking a brewery in the downtown area.

“It became our vision to bring a microbrewery there,” Molnar said. “Our goal isn’t to sell six-packs at a supermarket. It’s to sell kegs to downtown restaurants and bars and have a tasting room here where people can come taste our beer first, then go to a restaurant for a full pint and a meal.”

Finding a downtown location that could accommodate bulky brewing equipment, adequate storage space and an onsite tasting room wasn’t easy, but in March of last year, after months of looking, they settled on a mill building on Storrs Street just a couple blocks off North Main Street. On Jan. 20 they opened the doors to Concord Craft Brewing Co. The front section of the building is occupied by the tasting room, which features a 16-foot bar seating up to 23 people and will eventually have eight beers on tap. The tasting room, as well as a brewery retail store, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. Behind it sits the 15-barrel, steam-powered brewery, of which there are guided tours at 3 p.m. every day that the tasting room is open.

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“Of the people who have come in so far, one of the first things I’ve heard them say is, ‘Concord has needed something like this,’” Molnar said. “People have been really excited about it.”

By two weeks after its opening, the brewery had five beers on the lineup: a flagship traditional English IPA, a Kolsch German golden ale, a classic porter, a red ale and a session IPA. Rather than specializing in a certain style of beer, Molnar said the brewery’s “style” is to offer a variety of beers that are “balanced — full-flavored, but not over the top.”

“We try to brew without being too onedimensional,” he said. “Beer drinkers have very different tastes, so our goal is to make a broad range of styles with something that every beer drinker will like.”

Beyond that, he said, the brewery’s driving focus is a commitment to freshness. It’s one of the biggest reasons he and Mayland were adamant about opening the brewery in downtown; brewing in small batches, partnering with neighboring bars and restaurants and having an accessible, on-site tasting room at the brewery helps to reduce the amount of time between when the beer leaves the tanks and when it’s poured into the glass.

“A lot of people just pick up a six-pack sitting on a shelf … but beer is perishable,” Molnar said. “They say it’s best consumed within three to six months, but to be honest, it’s best on the day it’s brewed. It changes every day after that. People are always surprised at how crisp and clean the flavors are when they try a beer that’s fresh.”

Concord Craft Brewing Co. beers are available in various forms at the brewery store, on tap in the tasting room, at select retail stores and at a growing number of bars and restaurants in downtown Concord. Beer release dates and a list of establishments where the beers can be found are posted on the brewery website.

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The cook-off was created by the Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce but adopted by the Brookline Economic Development Committee three years ago. Valerie Rearick, Brookline Town Planner and coordinator of the cook-off, said the committee was happy to give the cook-off a new home and to host an event that would bring some fun and excitement to the Brookline community during the quieter winter months.

“We have a large event center here, which is a perfect location for us to do it,” Rearick said. “It seems like cooking competitions often take place in the summer while there’s less stuff organized in the winter, so this is a good way for people to get together in the winter and do something different from just going to a restaurant.”

Judging will commence at noon with an official judges panel, comprised of three town committee members, and people’s choice voting ballots, which will be given to tasters upon arrival.

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wouldn’t expect,” Rearick said. “The lemon soup was surprising because most people think of soup as vegetable-based, so that was a little different, but excellent.”

In addition to the chili, chowder and soup dishes, the cook-off will feature a cash bar with beer and wine; live music by the Brookline Acoustic Jammers; cookies and brownies provided by Friends of the Brookline Library; and raffle tickets for all attendees, with a chance to win gift certificates and other prizes from local restaurants and businesses. The raffle drawing and the cook-off winners will be announced at 2:45 p.m.

The Brookline cook-off grew from 100 attendees its first year to 300 attendees and running out of food its second year. Judging from the buzz about the cook-off circulating on social media and the increased interest from local restaurants looking to participate, Rearick said, there is no doubt that attendance will continue to grow.

“More and more people are talking about it, and now we have people coming not just from Brookline but from all over,” she said.

“Everyone really seems to enjoy it.”

Those interested in entering a dish for the cook-off should contact Rearick at valerie@brookline.nh.us or 673-8855 as soon as possible. There is no fee to sign up, and participants are welcome to compete in up to two categories. Those looking to attend the event as a taster can purchase tickets at the door the day of the event.

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oven, and preheat the broiler. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook the pasta according to the package instructions.

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make the cheese sauce from scratch. But the effort was well worth the results. The finished product was creamy, cheesy and delicious. A combination of Swiss, Parmesan and mozzarella cheeses makes up the sauce, along with butter, milk, a bit of garlic, sour cream and salt and pepper to taste.

Baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and of course the macaroni round out the dish. The spinach and artichoke hearts pack the dish with protein, and adding whole wheat noodles boosts the healthy factor.

I was worried my daughter was going to shun the dish because she could see the spinach, but the creamy and cheesy dish won her over. The recipe ended up being a big hit with my parents and sister too, as they all had second helpings. Plus, I was able to whip up the recipe using ingredients my parents had on hand, somehow including the artichoke hearts.

The richness of the dish adds a comfort-food quality, while the off-the-charts amount of protein in the recipe makes it nearly guilt-free. With rave reviews from my family, this spinach and artichoke macaroni and cheese is a meal I’ll be making again, and soon.

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Last week I packed up the kids and headed to my parents for a surprise week-long visit. I opted for the element of surprise so my mom didn’t spend countless hours cleaning, cooking and prepping for our arrival. While I saved my mom the stress of getting ready, I forgot about how much I would then have to do once we arrived.

My daughter is, like most toddlers, a picky eater. So when we’re out of our comfort zone and away from our stocked pantry with kid-friendly foods, getting her to eat a meal is tough. My mom tries her best, but when you have a granddaughter who won’t even eat mashed potatoes, you tend to get frustrated quickly.

In searching for something I could make that would feed my vegetarian-leaning parents, my always-hungry sister and my picky 2-year-old, I found a recipe for spinach and artichoke macaroni and cheese.

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Since Valentine’s Day falls on a weekday this year, many people will celebrate this coming weekend. However you are celebrating (with a significant other, with friends or in anti-Valentine’s Day fashion), I have a few wine suggestions. This is a great weekend to visit a local winery or wine shop near you, as many are offering special events and tastings. It is usually my vote for a Valentine’s Day activity.

I have to mention Champagne, only because I feel like New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day are its most cliché yet celebrated occasions. Of course, the only wine that can truly be called Champagne comes from its namesake region in France, while others are only sparkling wine. The main thing to look for when selecting a Champagne is whether it is dry or sweet. A quick look at the label should give you an idea, as the sweetness will range depending upon the type: doux (sweet), demi-sec (half-dry), sec (dry), and extra sec (extra dry) to brut (dry-dry), extra brut or brut naturel (the driest), according to Good Food’s Ultimate Guide to Bubbly. If you are typically a sweet wine drinker already, you will want to choose on the sweeter end of the spectrum, while dry wine drinkers (red or white) will want to choose a drier Champagne.

If you aren’t a Champagne fan but still want to enjoy some bubbles, there are plenty of other options. Cava is a Spanish sparkling wine made using the Champagne method and named after the cellars where it is produced. Cava follows a similar scale in terms of sweetness versus dryness, but will be listed as extra brut (driest), brut, extra seco, seco, semi-seco and dulce (being the sweetest). You can find cava in many New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets and many bottles are under $20.

Rosa Regale, an Italian sparkling wine, is a nice option for Valentine’s Day because it has a nice pink color and fruit-forward sweetness. Made from Brachetto grapes, it is a semi-dry red sparkling wine with flavors of strawberries and raspberries. It can be enjoyed in a variety of cocktails (see the Rosa Regale website for ideas), with desserts or simply with dark chocolate. Look for Banfi Rosa Regale in stores. It’s a pretty bottle with an image

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Moscato is another option as it typically has some slight effervescence. Some are very sweet, but others are better-balanced.

My favorites are Ecco Domani and Sequin Delicately Bubbled Moscato. If you want to be extra festive, try Barefoot Cellars Pink or Red Moscato. Barefoot also makes some other sparklers, like the their Berry, Orange, Peach and Pineapple Bubbly, which are like wine cocktails in a bottle.

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The Seacoast Wine Trail is offering its second annual Barrel Tasting tour during the weekend of Feb. 25 and Feb. 26 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days. Participating wineries include Sweet Baby Vineyard in Hampstead; Flag Hill Winery & Distillery in Lee; Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown; Jewell Towne Vineyards in South Hampton, and Appolo Vineyards in Derry. Purchase a glass for $10 at any of the participating wineries and you can taste wine at all of the locations during the weekend. There will also be opportunities to taste wines right from the barrels and interact with the winemakers.

Events like these are my favorite for several reasons: (1) you get to taste wines you don’t always have the chance to on a regular basis, (2) you get to see and hear about the winemaking process more closely, and (3) they’re just a lot of fun. I hope the weather holds out for this event, but either way, I am sure it will not deter wine enthusiasts from making trips to these local wineries. If you have never been to some of these places, this weekend is the perfect opportunity to do so.

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MUSIC, BOOKS, GAMES, COMICS, MOVIES, DVDS, TV AND MORE Summer Moon, With You Tonight (self-released)

This side project from Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture could never be mistaken as a proper Strokes album, which is part of the good news. It’s certainly steeped in 1980s nostalgia, essentially a cross between early U2 and Joy Division with some woozy Beach Boys sonics going on in the vocal department, right on cue for this millennium (sort of – isn’t that Beach Boys vibe starting to smell a little moldy to you people?). But, again, the roots are definitively ’80s; if you told me this was a local band slugging it out with Mission of Burma from back in the Pleistocene age, I would have bought that bridge without hesitation, that is until the squashed-gltich intro for “Chemical,” which, although marginally cheesy, evinces a modicum of familiarity with your Pro Tools and whatnot. (Heh, there’s a Mister Roboto part in there.) Melodically decent overall, no ground broken. B — Eric W. Saeger Fleece, Voyager (Fleece Music)

When last we left this Montreal foursome (2013’s Scavenger album), they were trying to be all things to all people. The opening track was neo-stoner stuff a la Band of Skulls, and then the ingredients started to pile on, one by one: 1970s brass-pop, Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Warlocks and wobbly hipster things jostled for position (politely of course). They certainly look like annoying vegans, but that wasn’t the point – they just wanted to rock out, to a degree, and, thank God, they’re not the token leaning-to-heavy act on Arts & Crafts Records (yet). This time out, bandleader Matthew Rogers’s lyrics are comprised of time-traveling nuggets of advice to his own closeted teen self, so there’s a slightly conceptual premise to the thing, which helps. Turns out the record doesn’t need much help, though, not if you’re a fan of Flaming Lips at their most commercially accessible – yeah, yeah, I know, but really, not only does it find some real melodic sweet spots, the songs fit together more cohesively, even when it shifts from psychedelic torch (“Under the Light”) to Beatles-infused rhumba (“On My Mind”) to spacey Winston Giles arena-indie. Very good stuff. A — Eric W. Saeger

• In a way, Lupe Fiasco is the Ice-T of this generation, being that he’s not only a rapper but also a frontman for a heavy-ish band called Japanese Cartoon, in which he mostly bellows in a cockney accent. But onward to DROGAS Light, his new album, due out Feb. 10, even though he “quit hip-hop” last December after getting a ration of poop for some anti-Semitic lines in his “N.E.R.D” freestyle. Yes, it’s still coming out, as far as anyone knows, and it will include the song “Made in the USA,” which consists of some interesting electro jolts but mostly governmentissue crunk, if you want to get real. Is it OK to get real these days, or has that become passé?

• English experimental math-dance wingnuts Tall Ships are right now releasing their second full-length album, Impressions, which will spotlight the recent addition of ex-Tubelord keyboardist/producer/whatnot James Elliot Field. Is this earth-shattering news to someone out there? Anyone? No? Fine, let’s go listen to some experimental dance-math-punk, I can hardly contain my excitement another second here. Ah, here’s a song from this album, titled “Day By Day.” Wait, there’s a Starbucks commercial first. Now I want coffee, some nice decaf, because I outgrew the “high octane” stuff in my 30s. That made me want some, so let’s drink this Keurig Starbucks decaf, which is only found at Target, and subject ourselves to this math-dance-punk or whatever it is. Wait, this sounds like early Wire but more mellow. Why don’t they call themselves “We Sound Like Wire” so I could have saved a K-cup and just said they’re awesome? Ahem, they’re awesome.

• Country-fried indie-rock Canadians The Sadies have amassed quite the massive discography over the years, mostly owing to their perennial backing band status, including stints as decorative backup-band fixtures for such marginally huge artists as Neko Case and Andre Williams. Northern Passages, their newest LP, will be out in a couple days or so, and one of the tunes is “It’s Easy (Like Walking),” guested by Pavement-worshipping wombat Kurt Vile. Nicely written intricate song, Vile sounds like Neil Young except nerdy.

• Teen Daze is the nom-de-band of one guy, whose name is Jamison. He has no other names, because he’s ironic. Themes for Dying Earth is his new album. The single “Flora” starts off heavenly and trippy, then tables some boring Postal Service oatmeal, then becomes cool again. Sort of like Animal Collective except with lots of quirk and backward-masking. It’s very “eh” but not despicable. — Eric W. Saeger

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It can be hard to make yourself get outside this time of year, but more often than not, you’ll be happy you did.

Florence Williams discusses a variety of the benefits at an upcoming event, part of The Music Hall’s Innovation and Leadership series, promoting her new book, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m.

The idea for The Nature Fix began in 2012, when Williams moved from the outdoorsy city of Boulder, Colorado, to Washington, D.C., where her husband had taken a job. She’d lived in the Rocky Mountain region more than 20 years and felt disoriented, overwhelmed and had trouble focusing in her new home.

“I really felt like I was experiencing what I’d heard of as Nature Deficit Disorder. It kind of threw me, in terms of my emotional and psychological state of mind and my nervous system. I was having trouble with the noise and feeling upset and anxious,” Williams said via phone.

Was NDD a real thing, she wondered? She got the opportunity to explore the idea, coined

by Richard Louv in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, through magazine assignments with Outside Magazine and National Geographic. One of her stories, “This is Your Brain on Nature,” commemorating the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, looked at ways people were using the outdoors to boost psychological health around the world, from forest bathing in Japan to wilderness trips in South Korea.

“Researchers believe something really profound happens to our brains after three days in nature — that we can really be helped while recovering from grief or trauma,” she said. “[The assignments] afforded me this great opportunity to find out what was happening in forests and with health policies in places like Japan, South Korea, Finland, Denmark, Scotland and Singapore. Some of those places are pretty far ahead in terms of research, and in terms of this idea, of using nature as medicine.”

For example, in Finland, where many struggle from high rates of depression, alcoholism and suicide, it’s recommended you get five hours of nature a month.

Using nature as medicine or for psychological well-being is not a new idea. The book’s introduction references great minds who did

some of their best thinking with fresh air and greenery, like Aristotle, Darwin, Tesla, Einstein, Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir.

“But it’s only been in recent years that we’ve been able to apply new and better technology to [research], things like portable brainwave monitors, brain scanners and big data,” she said. “There are a lot of tools in the toolbox to allow researchers to take this to a new level.”

Williams said her book looks at some of the most recent findings and the people involved — those who are uncovering this data, and those benefitting from it, like vets with PTSD and kids with ADHD. She realized she was too stringent with her original definition of nature; you don’t need to be on a mountainside to get the positive effects. You could be by the ocean.

“The ocean facilitates a sense of awe, wonder and self-reflection,” she said. “There’s something about the view, the sound and the smell that help open up all our senses.”

And you can still attain benefits by being in the city, through walks outside, no matter the weather, or by looking out your window.

“Even when it’s miserable outside, we still see benefits, especially in things like working with memory, our attention span and our mood,” she said. “You can find great nature in a city park, and there are even beneficial effects from houseplants and pets.”

Williams has been writing about environmental health for ages. She’s a contributing editor to Outside Magazine and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic, among other publications. Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, looked at the effects a polluted environment has on breast milk.

Williams thinks the idea of using nature as “medicine” can appeal to most readers, but particularly those living in cities or suburban neighborhoods. She’d love to see the writing and scientific findings inspire change in policies within health, education and planning departments, so that people can find more greenery in their lives.

“We’re busy, and we have all these indoor temptations. But my hope is to kind of remind people that it really is still worthwhile to get outside,” she said.

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Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child (Delacorte Press, 369 pages) “You’re reading an action thriller?” my son asked when he saw the cover of Lee Child’s newest Jack Reacher book, Night School. It’s true that rugged-male action thrillers are typically not my cup of tea.

But the answer to my son’s question was, “You betcha. Not only am I reading it, but I’m pretty much devouring it.” The Jack Reacher books tend to be like that. You sit down, start reading and when you finally look up a few hours have passed and you’ve forgotten where you are or what it was you were supposed to have been doing.

In Night School an Iranian spy working for the CIA in Hamburg, Germany, has learned that Middle Eastern extremists are about to make a major purchase from an unidentified American. Reacher, along with representatives from the CIA and FBI, is sent to “school,” which, of course, is a cover for this highly time-sensitive critical investigation. That’s it, an impossible situation (no answers to who, what, when, where or why) and yet somehow Reacher manages to intuit enough to not only make progress on the case but also catch a lot of “bad people” along the way.

Jack Reacher is not your average action hero. He’s smart, observant, analytical, witty and knows what he’s doing, and Child gives us a front seat to his thought processes at all times. Much of this is done through snappy dialogue and acerbic observation.

It was Orozco, calling from a cellar somewhere, judging by the sound.

Orozco said, “Are we in trouble?”

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Night School is the 21st Jack Reacher book (Killing Floor was the first, published in 1998.) It brings Reacher back to his beginnings. In Night School Jack is still in the military working as an M.P. It’s a way for Child to flesh out his beloved character more, this man who travels with no baggage (although in later books he does carry a toothbrush) and who if he needs clean clothing simply goes out and buys what he needs. Who wouldn’t want to be that free, that smart and that confident?

Who wouldn’t want to call out substandard work for what it really is? And who wouldn’t want to buck the system in order to get the job done?

Reacher is an animal who runs on instinct. Highly skeptical of idiocy, he does his own thing and because he’s so good at what he does (hunches and decisions) he’s allowed to get away with behavior most others wouldn’t. It’s what endears him to us. Highly patriotic, he nevertheless calls out those in authority. Authority is meaningless without respect.

His behavior might be obnoxious and it might be too much, except that Reacher is so damn good at his job that he’s absolutely needed. He’s the Hawkeye Pierce of any investigation — braggadocious, a pain in the butt, but someone you want on your side because no one else even comes close.

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• E.C. AMBROSE Author talks about Elisha Mancer, book 4 in Dark Apostle series. Sat., Feb. 11, at 3 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford.

Visit thedarkapostle.com. Second event Thurs., March 9, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit thedar-

Other • BOOK SALE Thurs., Feb. 16, 2-8 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 17, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 18, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Meredith Public Library, 91 Main St., Meredith, 279-4303, meredithlibrary.org.

• BOOK APPRAISALS With Ken Gloss from Brattle Book Shop in Boston. All welcome to bring books to get appraised.

Mon., Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. Cheskapostle.com. ter Public Library, 3 Chester St., • JENNIFER B. MONAHAN Chester. Call 887-3404.

Author talks about This Trip Will Change Your Life: A ShaPoetry man’s Story of Spirit Evolution • NANCY JEAN HILL AND Sat., Feb. 11, at 1 p.m. Barnes & TIM MAYO Poetry reading with Noble, 1741 S. Willow St., ManPoetry Society of NH. Wed., Feb. chester. Call 668-5557.

15, at 7 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, • PETER SIMETI Author talks 45 S. Main St., Concord. Folabout The Chair. Barnes & lowed by open mike. Call 224Noble, 235 DW Highway, Nash0562 visit gibsonsbookstore.com. ua. Sun., Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. Call 888-0533.

• KATHY WALSH Author talks about A Guide to Mindful Parenting. Sat., Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. GibLooking for more book, son’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., film and pop culture Concord. events? Check out Hip• DAVID ELLIOTT Author po Scout, available via talks about Lines. MainStreet the Apple App Store, BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., WarGoogle Play and online ner. Sun., Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. Visit at hipposcout.com mainstreetbookends.com.

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• Writing hard stories: Nashua memoirist Melanie Brooks had trouble writing a memoir about her father’s death from a secret HIV infection — so she decided to travel the country and interview other memoirists whose books confronted scary subjects head-on. The result is Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, which she talks about at a number of upcoming New Hampshire events. The first is Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 6:30 p.m., at RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth; the second is Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6:30 p.m., at the Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford; and the third is Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 5:30 p.m., at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit melaniebrooks.com.

• Say it aloud: Poetry Out Loud semi-finals begin this week in New Hampshire. The national high school program encourages students to learn about poetry through memorization and recitation, master public speaking skills and build self-confidence. It’s organized nationally by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation and managed locally by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. This year, 8,000 Granite Staters from 40 high schools competed, and the semi-finals comprise these finalists. Top finishers will compete in the state championship March 10 at the Statehouse. The state winner receives $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip with an adult chaperone to Washington, D.C., to compete at the national championship, and the state winner’s school receives a $500 stipend to purchase poetry books.

Semi-final events occur at Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester, Monday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m.; Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Paper Mill Drive, Lincoln, Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m.; New England College, 98 Bridge St., Henniker, Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m.; and the Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, Thursday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. Visit nh.gov/nharts.

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• FLORENCE WILLIAMS Author talks about The Nature Fix. Wed., Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. $41. Includes copy of book, bar beverage, book signing meet-and-greet. Visit themusichall.org. Call 436-2400.

• BRUNONIA BARRY Author talks about The Fifth Petal. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Thurs., Feb. 16, at 5:30 p.m.Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

Second event Thurs., Feb. 23, at 6:30 p.m. Kimball Library, 5 Academy Ave., Atkinson. Visit kimballlibrary.com, call 3625234.

• DIANE LES BECQUETS Author talks about Breaking Wild. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Sun., Feb. 26, at 2 p.m. Visit mainstreetbookends.com.

• ERICA ARMSTRONG DUNBAR Author talks about Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Thurs., March 2, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com.

• KRISTA TIPPETT Author talks about Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. Part of Writers on a New England Stage series.

Thurs., March 2, at 7 p.m. The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. $13.75; to secure copy of book, purchase voucher in advance ($17). Visit the musichall.org. Call 436-2400.

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Shorts!

The Oscar nominated short films hit area screens

By Amy Diaz

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Three of the categories at the 89th Academy Awards on Feb. 26 are for short films — live action, animation and documentaries.

Though lesser-known categories, the shorts make for fun viewing, offering a chance to see a lot of kinds of movies and stories at once.

All three categories of shorts will be available for local viewing starting Friday, Feb. 10, at Red River Theatres in Concord (redrivertheatres.org, running through March 2) and Colonial Theatre in Keene (thecolonial.org, through Feb. 23) as well as at the Music Hall in Portsmouth (themusichall.org; animated on Feb. 17 at 7 p.m., live action on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m., documentary on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.).

The live action and animated shorts will also screen at Wilton Town Hall Theater (wiltontownhalltheatre.com) and the Flying Monkey in Plymouth (flyingmonkeynh.com, animated on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12 at 3:30 p.m., live action on Feb. 10 and Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m.), according to shorts.tv. The shorts will also be available online and through VOD starting Feb. 21, according to shorts.tv.

Documentaries

Of the five documentary short nominees, four are accessible right now. 4.1 Miles is at nytimes.com. Joe’s Violin is available at newyorker.com. Extremis and The White Helmets are both on Netflix.

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All five documentaries are worth a watch.

They are not, I will say, carefree entertainment. All are harrowing in their own ways, but don’t let that scare you away.

4.1 Miles focuses on a ship’s captain whose day regularly involves pulling people out of the sea off a Greek island. Scenes of children being pulled from the ocean and rescuers desperately attempting to revive them are gut-wrenching, as are scenes of the captain occasionally giving in to the emotion of the situation.

Watani: My Homeland (the only doc I had to request a screener for) tells the story of a Syrian family who, after the father is kidnapped and believed killed by ISIS, apply for refugee status in Germany. We watch as the three girls, one son and their (probably) widowed mother go from the stresses of a war zone to peaceful life in Germany.

In The White Helmets, we meet men who have stayed in Syria and made it their mission to save the lives of as many people as possible. The White Helmets come to the scene of a bombed building after an air raid and dig people out of the rubble, sometimes alive, sometimes not.

Joe’s Violin calls to mind a different war and a different refugee situation: a man originally from Poland who purchased a violin in a displaced persons camp after World War II ends up donating it in the present day to a New York City classical music radio station that is gathering instruments for use by area music students. All these decades later, the violin becomes the special prize for a 12-year-old

Though the movie is overstuffed with plot, this offers a very compelling subject: the African-American women who worked on the space Coming soon Opening Friday, Feb 10: Fifty program in the late 1950s and Shades Darker (R) The sequel early 1960s. As they deal with to the comically unsexy movie both racism and sexism, we about a woman and her some- watch one woman work on figuring out the launch and what S&M-y relationship; The LEGO Batman Movie landing coordinates for Project (PG) Will Arnett returns as the Mercury, one woman struggle voice of LEGO Batman; John to become an engineer and one woman make it her mission Wick: Chapter 2 (R) Keanu to learn NASA’s new computReeves returns! er system. B+ Nominations: Oscar nominees Best picture, best supporting actress, best adapted screenHere are some of the movies nominated for Oscars in the top play. Screening locally at categories. Listings of theaters Merrimack Cinemagic, Cinare as of Feb. 6 and subject to emagic Hooksett, Cinemagic change. Home viewing release Portsmouth, Regal Hooksett, dates are from Amazon.

Derry Cinemas, Carmike Londonderry, Chunky’s Nashua, AMC Tyngsboro, Chunky’s *Hidden Figures (PG) Pelham, Regal Concord, AMC Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Methuen, O’Neil Cinemas at Spencer. * Movies worth seeing. Find reviews of many films listed here at hippopress.com.

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La La Land (PG-13) Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling.

Though not as charming as it thinks it is, La La Land is a sweet, brightly colored fairy tale of life at the edge of the entertainment industry in L.A. Stone plays a girl who wants to leave her job as a barista at the Warner Brothers lot coffee shop and join the actresses in the neighboring sound stages. Gosling is a musician whose fondest wish is to own an old-fashioned jazz club. Their romance is genuinely romantic even if it has its moments of preciousness.

B+ Nominations: Best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best original screenplay, best costume design, best original song (two nomina-

girl from the Bronx who has shown musical promise.

Extremis is the one short not related to war but it does tackle the difficult subject of the end of life. Specifically, how the end of life is handled in intensive care units, where medical intervention can prolong what is technically life but not necessarily improve the person’s outcome or quality of life. The movie really shows you the weight of the struggle, borne by both doctors and family members, of trying to balance the desire not to cause their patient/loved one to suffer unnecessarily while still giving them a chance at recovery.

Animation

In the animated block, four of the five films — Piper, Pearl, Blind Vaysha and Borrowed Time — are relatively short with one longer piece, Pear Cider and Cigarettes. And, as with all animation, just because it’s illustrated doesn’t mean it’s for kids (Pear Cider and Cigarettes definitely is not).

Piper, a Pixar short I first saw before Finding Dory in theaters, is sweet and beautiful but could easily stand out based solely on the way it renders water. I would call it photorealistic except it’s more hyper-photorealistic; it both looks real and shows you facets of the water (how it ebbs and flows on the sand, for example) that you’d never notice in a video of real water. (The film is available for pur-

tions), best original score, best production design, best film editing, best cinematography, best sound editing, best sound mixing. Playing at Merrimack Cinemagic, Cinemagic Hooksett, Cinemagic Portsmouth, Regal Hooksett, Derry Cinema, Carmike Londonderry, AMC Tyngsboro, Regal Concord, AMC Methuen, O’Neil Cinemas at Brickyard Square, Showcase Cinemas Lowell and Chunky’s Nashua.

Lion (PG-13) Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman.

Saroo, a young boy from a rural town in western India, is accidentally trapped on a train that takes him about a thousand miles away from his home to Calcutta, where he doesn’t even speak the dominant language. Years later, the twentysomething Saroo (Patel), who was adopted by

chase now from some outlets, including via the OnDemand feature on Comcast.)

Pearl is also a charmer. It follows a musician as viewed in his increasingly aging car and his adventures with his daughter, who is a little girl in early frames but quickly grows older (as they do). The film could also be a music video, scored with the song the dad starts singing at the beginning. (This movie I found on YouTube, thanks to an article on Time.com about where to see Oscar nominated films.)

Borrowed Time also features what I’m pretty sure is a father and child, this one in the Old West with the son revisiting one moment he deeply regrets. These movies are all beautiful, though stylistically very different from each other. This one makes particularly nice use of color on the landscape.

Blind Vaysha is a parable about girl born “blind” to the present. She can see the past out of one eye and the future out of the other — so when men come to court her, she can see only a little boy and an old man. The story has a woodcut look to it, which together with the narration gives the movie a grownup fairy tale quality.

Pear Cider and Cigarettes makes good use of its nearly 35 minutes. It gives us the story of a man’s entertaining but troubled childhood friend. They meet while playing soccer and the narrator ends up trying to help his friend survive a CONT. ON BOTTOM OF 51

a white couple and grew up in relative comfort in Tasmania, uses Google Earth to search for the village and, he hopes, for the mother and older brother he was separated from. As with a few late 2016 movies, Lion takes a really interesting story and makes a very OK movie. A romance (between Patel’s character and an American played by Rooney Mara) give the movie’s second half a filler-y feel. The most affecting part of the movie are scenes right before the credits (something I feel like I’ve written in several recent reviews) of the real-life Saroo.

Full disclosure: I missed the first five or so minutes of this movie. I doubt they were magical enough to elevate this beyond a B. Nominations: Best picture, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best adapted screenplay, best

cinematography. Playing locally at Cinemagic Hooksett, Merrimack Cinemagic, AMC Tyngsboro, Red River Theatres, AMC Methuen, Regal Fox Run in Newington and Cinemagic Portsmouth. *Manchester by the Sea (R) Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler.

Affleck plays a broken man trying to take care of his teenage nephew after the death of his brother in this well-made if deeply sad movie. A Nominations: Best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best original screenplay. Screening locally at Wilton Town Hall Theater, AMC Methuen, O’Neil Cinemas at Brickyard Square, Showcase Cinemas Lowell and Regal Fox Run in Newington. Available for purchase on Feb. 7 at iTunes.

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Rings (PG-13)

AMY DIAZ

The videotape of doom and its accompanying creepy-girl ghost returns in Rings, yet another movie from the early 2000s getting a 2017 franchise sequel.

You watch the tape and seven days later you die — that and the long-haired ghoulgirl are kind of all I remember from The Ring. This movie later also reminds us of the loophole: copy the VHS of creepy Samara and her curio of spooky images and make someone else watch it and then they, not you, will die comically, I mean horribly.

The central action of this movie starts when Professor Gabriel Brown (Johnny Galecki), a character who seems like he’s going to be important but turns out not to be, decides to buy a VCR at a flea market.

There’s no good reason for him to buy this VCR or to watch the tape labeled “watch me” that’s stuck inside. But, I guess if he just threw it and the VCR away, like a normal person would, we won’t have a movie.

So he watches it, it happens to be the spooky death movie and thus begins a kind of experiment, wherein he gets his students to watch the tape (now a digital video file) and then has them make a copy and get other people to watch it so they’ll cheat Samara-death.

Again, no good reason for this (there’s some talk about it proving the existence of the soul, but even the movie doesn’t waste a lot of time fleshing that out) but the “experiment” angle allows student Holt (Alex Roe) and then his girlfriend Julia (Matilda Lutz) to be infected with videotape-itis. But when Julia makes a copy, she gets the director’s cut, with bonus scenes involving a church and birds and other random stuff. She decides to

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na. Pen-and-ink-style drawings also make good spot use of color.

Live action

This year’s live action shorts are primarily in languages other than English, which can make the live action block feel like you’re attending a mini foreign film festival.

In Timecode, spoken language is actually less important than the language of dance. A security guard at a parking garage is asked to search through security camera footage to find evidence of a minor accident but instead sees her colleague letting out his inner Gene Kelly. Her response is sweet and the movie ends with the perfect bit of dialogue.

Also infused with a bit of sweetness is La Femme et le TGV, a tale about a woman who spends her days in her crumbling bakery but her mornings joyfully waving a flag at the train that speeds by her house. The movie manages to capture romance, humor, wistfulness and surprise.

Rings

do further investigation into the images and into Samara — the little girl who was creepy in life and then generated the deadly chain letter video after she was murdered.

This movie is strangely earnest and seems as though it is unaware of the nearly two decades of movies that have come between the first U.S. version of The Ring and now (years where quite a few horror movies riffed on The Ring’s general look and tone). It still treats the idea of a creepy thing coming out of an unplugged TV as a shocker and doesn’t add anything new to either the story’s basic premise or how it works in the present. The movie also doesn’t deviate from its playing-it-down-the-center serious tone, but has just enough strangeness about it (everything about Johnny Galecki’s performance, for example) that there are moments (though not nearly enough) of unintentional comedy.

Rings is, ultimately, just kinda goofy. CRated PG-13 for violence/terror, thematic elements, some sexuality and brief drug material. Directed by F. Javier Gutierrez and a screenplay by David Loucka and Jacob Estes and Akiva Goldsman, Rings is an hour and 42 minutes long and distributed

by Paramount Pictures.

Sing, which features primarily child characters, is also sweet but has elements that felt slyly political in 2017. Children in a choir manage to both act like children and demonstrate how to deal with unjust authority.

More directly political is Enemis Interieurs (“Enemies Within”), which shows the hoops an Algerian man must jump through to become an official French citizen. Despite living in France for years and considering himself “French,” the citizenship seeker’s meeting with a government official quickly goes from formality to interrogation. The movie does a good job capturing his despair and the quicksand-like course of the conversation.

In Silent Nights, an African refugee struggles with homelessness and racism as he attempts to earn money in Denmark to send back to his family in Ghana. He frequently ends up in a shelter staffed by a Danish woman who has her own troubles (including a mother who drinks herself into a blackout and then sleeps most of the day). Their relationship is interesting to watch develop.

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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Hell or High Water (R, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:40 p.m.

• Jackie (R, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 2, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 10, at 1:10, 3:25, 5:40 & 8 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 1:10, 3:25, 5:40 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 1:10, 3:25 & 5:40 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 13, at 2, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., Feb. 14, at 2, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 15, at 2, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 2, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.

• Lion (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 10, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 1, 3:30 & 6 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 13, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Tues., Feb. 14, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 15, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8 p.m.

• Oscar-nominated Shorts: Animated (NR, 2016) Fri., Feb. 10, at 1:05, 3, & 7:45 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 4, & 6:05 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 1:05 & 3 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 13, at 2:10 p.m.; Tues., Feb. 14, at 2:10 & 5:35 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 15, at 2:10 p.m.; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 2:10 & 5:35 p.m.

• Oscar-nominated Shorts: Live Action (NR, 2016) Fri., Feb. 10, at 5 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 8:05 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 5 p.m.; Tues., Feb. 14, at 7:15 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 15, at 8 p.m; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 7:15 p.m.

• Oscar-nominated Shorts: Documentary (NR, 2016) Sat., Feb. 11, at 12:45 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 13, at 5:45 p.m.

WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Fences (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 10, through Sun., Feb. 12, at 4:30 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 13, through Thurs., Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m.

• Manchester by the Sea (R, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.

• Hacksaw Ridge (R, 2016) Fri., Feb. 10, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 11, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.

• Moonlight (R, 2016) Fri., Feb. 10, through Thurs., Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Feb. 12, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• The Notebook (2004) Sat., Feb. 11, at 4:30 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us; some films at the West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560 • Now You See Me (PG-13, 2016) Wed., Feb. 15, at 1 p.m.

• The Secret Life of Pets (PG, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 16, at 1 p.m.

PELHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY 24 Village Green, Pelham, pelhamweb.com • Film screening Sat., Feb. 11, at 10:30 a.m.

NEW HAMPSHIRE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 31 College Drive, Sweeney Auditorium, 03301, 271-6484, ext. 4115, nhti.edu, nhstudentfilm.com • The Thoughts That Once We Had (NR, 2015) Fri., Feb. 17, at 7 p.m.

NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • Trolls (PG, 2016) Sat., Feb. 11, at 2 p.m.

• Southside With You (PG-13, 2016) Tues., Feb. 14, at 7 p.m.

• James and the Giant Peach (PG, 1996) Sat., Feb. 18, at 2 p.m.

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

KELLEY LIBRARY 234 Main St., Salem, NH 03079, 898-7064, kelleylibrary.org, features a movie night the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

• Movie night Fri., Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m.

PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY THEATRE 6 School St., Peterborough, pctmovies.com • Hidden Figures (PG, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7 p.m.

• La La Land (PG-13, 2016) Feb. 10-Feb. 16, Wed., Sat., Sun. at 2:30 & 7 p.m., Thurs. & Fri. at 7 p.m.

THE MUSIC HALL 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org, Some films are screened at Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth • Things to Come (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7 p.m.

• Peter and the Farm (2016) Thurs., Feb. 9, at 7 p.m.

• Fire at Sea (2016) Fri., Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 12, at 4 p.m.; Tues., Feb. 14, at 7 p.m.

• An Affair to Remember (NR, 1957) Sat., Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m.

• Piscataqua Flicks Mon., Feb. 13, at 6 p.m.

• Elle (R, 2016) Tues., Feb. 14, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 15, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Feb. 16, at 7 p.m.

• Oscar-nominated Shorts: Animated Fri., Feb. 17, at 7 p.m.

THE FLYING MONKEY 39 S. Main St., Plymouth, 5362551, flyingmonkeynh.com • Oscar-nominated shorts: Animated Sat., Feb. 11, and Sun., Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m.

• Oscar-nominated shorts: Live Action Fri., Feb. 10, and Sun., Feb. 12, at 6:30 p.m.

• 50 Years of Firsts (documentary) celebration of 50th anniversary of Waterville Valley, Sat., Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m.

• The Clinging Vine (1926) Thurs., Feb. 16, at 6:30 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis

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• Get funky: With 10 members including a four-piece horn section, West End Blend brings a big sound to the stage, reworking songs like the Grateful Dead’s “Throwing Stones,” adding a hip-hop break to give it a modern urgency. Originals like “Smile” are also excellent. Go Thursday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m., Riverwalk Cafe, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua.

Tickets $5. See riverwalknashua.com.

• Country girl: With a rock-edged repertoire of covers and originals, Jodie Cunningham and her band appeal to fans of Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown and Sugarland.

Go Friday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m., Club ManchVegas, 50 Old Granite St., Manchester. See jodiecunningham.net.

• Cross Canadian: Enter the Haggis has built a big following over two decades plus.

Their latest release is Broken Arm, an EP drawn from 2015’s 22-song retrospective Cheers and Echoes. Go Saturday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road, Londonderry. Tickets are $25 to $35 at tupelohall.com.

• Song and dance: Riverdance meets The Pogues for Rockin’ Road to Dublin, an evening of Irish traditional dancing melded to high-energy Celtic rock. Go Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m., Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Tickets $36 to $48 at rochesteroperhouse.com.

• Meet sweet: For those feeling the sting of solitude, the Dynamic Introductions Valentine’s Day Party is a chance to meet and mingle with other singletons while enjoying dance and karaoke music from DJ Laura. Go Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. $19 tickets are available at dynamicintroductions.com.

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A truly unique event, International Guitar Night is a summit of strings, a multicultural meeting of musical minds.

Finger-style guitarist Brian Gore launched the event in 2000, as an acoustic concert starring four masters of the instrument playing solo, in duos and as a quartet.

Diversity is a mainstay during the annual tour, and this year’s gathering of luminaries won’t disappoint in that regard. Luca Stricagnoli is an Italian with a percussive playing style, while Chystian Dozza is part of Brazil’s new generation of instrumentalists. Indian-born Debashish Bhattacharya has a sitar-like playing style. Gore is on touring hiatus, so German Lulo Reinhardt, an IGN veteran, will lead the ensemble.

Though Lulo Reinhardt is a grand-nephew of guitar legend Django Reinhardt, he doesn’t play Gypsy jazz, as one might expect. Reinhardt calls his flamencobased sound Latin Swing.

“My right hand is Gypsy swing, and I play flamenco with a pick instead of fingernails,” he said in a recent Skype interview. “It’s a new style.”

Reinhardt explained that although Spain claims it, flamenco’s roots date back 1,000 years, to the European Gypsy diaspora, a International Guitar Night Starring Lulo Reinhardt, Luca Stricagnoli, Chystian Dozza and Debashish Bhattacharya When: Friday, Feb 10, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Dana Center, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester Tickets: $33.75 reserved

Lulo Reinhardt. Courtesy photo.

journey that went from India to Egypt, then throughout Europe after the Gypsies split into Sinti and Roma tribes; members of both migrated to Morocco and Spain.

“The music style of the Gypsies changed because of Egypt,” Reinhardt said. “If you listen to flamenco it is like Arabian music ... it has nothing to do with Spanish music.”

Since it all began in India, Reinhardt — descended from the Sinti tribe — is very keen to duet with Bhattacharya.

“Flamenco is exactly Arabian and Indian with the scales,” he said. “This is so interesting for me; especially now playing with this Indian guitarist.”

The two will perform “Ayshi,” a Rein-

hardt original, and one of Bhattacharya’s songs. Though none of the four guitarists had met one another prior to a single rehearsal on the eve of the first show, all were well-prepared when the tour kicked off mid-January in Canada.

“We just send MP3 songs, then we start learning by doing,” Reinhardt said. “It’s a system ... that always works, every single night. It’s always great. I’m excited.”

Reinhardt first joined IGN for the 10th anniversary tour in 2010, after being contacted three years in advance by a booking agent.

“That was a shock,” he said.

The tour marked a pair of firsts – one for the tour and another for Reinhardt.

“They had never had a Gypsy before ... and I had never played solo, just videos on YouTube,” he said.

When he took up guitar as a youngster, Reinhardt followed the path of his legendary relative, touring Germany with his father’s band, playing rhythm and bass guitar. After 25 years, he craved change.

“I made my own sound, which was not easy in the beginning,” he said. “Everyone thought you’d play Django.”

A moment of epiphany came when an elderly woman, who had met Django and seen him perform in the 1950s, requested “Minor Swing” at a show in Sydney, Australia. When he told her he didn’t play that famous number, she was incredulous. He promised to perform one of the master’s songs that she’d never heard before.

Reinhardt then kicked into a Gypsy swing version of a song of his own, called “Que Pasa.” His trick worked.

“She came to me and said, ‘That’s great!

I never heard that song from Django,’” Reinhardt said with a laugh. “I told her, ‘Yeah, that’s my song.’ She took it well.”

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Rochester Gary’s 38 Milton Rd 335-4279 Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St. 3323984 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Radloff’s 38 N. Main St. 948-1073 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington 330-3100 Salem Barking Bean 163 Main St. 458-2885 Black Water Grill 43 Pelham Rd 328-9013 Jocelyn’s Lounge 355 S Broadway 870-0045 Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032

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Rochester Opera House 31 Wakefield St., Rochester 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com SNHU Arena 555 Elm St., Manchester 644-5000, snhuarena.com Stockbridge Theatre Pinkerton Academy, Route 28, Derry 437-5210, stockbridgetheatre.com Tupelo Music Hall 2 Young Road, Londonderry 437-5100, tupelohall.com

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Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Do not sleep with hair frizzled, or braided. Do not make chilAquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) If you find dren cross-eyed, by having hair hang about your pickles soft and insipid, it is owing to the their foreheads, where they see it continually. weakness of the vinegar. Throw away the vin- Who would do that? egar, (or keep it to clean your brass kettles,) Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) As substitutes then cover your pickles with strong, scalding for coffee, some use dry brown bread crusts, vinegar, into which a little allspice, ginger, and roast them; others soak rye grain in rum, horseradish and alum have been thrown. By and roast it; others roast peas in the same no means omit a pretty large bit of alum. Pick- way as coffee. None of these are very good; les attended to in this way, will keep for years, and peas so used are considered unhealthy. and be better and better every year. You must ... the best economy is to go without. Peas are deal decisively with soft and insipid pickles. not coffee.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) If you are Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Rise early. Eat about to furnish a house, do not spend all simple food. Take plenty of exercise. Nevyour money, be it much or little. Do not let er fear a little fatigue. Let not children be the beauty of this thing, and the cheapness of dressed in tight clothes; it is necessary their that, tempt you to buy unnecessary articles. limbs and muscles should have full play, if Save for the important things. you wish for either health or beauty. Leave Aries (March 21 – April 19) New Eng- yourself room to move. land rum, constantly used to wash the hair, Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) It is more difkeeps it very clean, and free from disease, and ficult to give rules for making bread than for promotes its growth a great deal more than anything else; it depends so much on judgMacassar oil. Brandy is very strengthening to ment and experience. Start practicing. the roots of the hair; but it has a hot, drying Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Leave the tendency, which N.E. rum has not. You might affections to nature and to truth, and all will benefit from a change of shampoo. end well. How many can I at this moment recTaurus (April 20 – May 20) An oint- ollect, who have made themselves unhappy ment made from the common ground-worms, by marrying for the sake of the name of being which boys dig to bait fishes, rubbed on with married! Follow your heart and resist peer the hand, is said to be excellent, when the sin- pressure. ews are drawn up by any disease or accident.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) ‘Everything Make sure to warm up before working out is so cheap,’ say the ladies, ‘that it is inexcusyour sinews. able not to dress well.’ But do they reflect why Gemini (May 21 – June 20) See that things are so cheap? Do they know how much the vegetables are neither sprouting nor wealth has been sacrificed, how many famidecaying: if they are so, remove them to a lies ruined, to produce this boasted result? ... drier place, and spread them. Spread your Luxuries are cheaper now than necessaries vegetables! were a few years since; yet it is a lamentable Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Potato fact, that it costs more to live now than it did cheese is much sought after in various parts formerly. Don’t confuse cheap with valuable.

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• “Retiring” the Herd: Settlement of a class-action lawsuit against a group of dairy co-ops was announced in January with milk producers agreeing to pay $52 million on charges they had conspired to fix the dairy supply for years to get top-dollar prices. Among the producers’ primary tactics, allegedly, was using what the industry calls “herd retirement,” which is “retirement” only in the sense that 500,000 healthy young cows were slaughtered just to drive up prices by eliminating otherwise-available milk. The $52 million will be for consumers in 15 states and Washington, D.C. • Wrist-Slapping: (1) Rutgers University Athletic Director Pat Hobbs, responding to the NCAA’s announcement of violations against the school’s sports programs (including failure to penalize 16 football players who tested positive for drugs), told the Asbury Park Press in January that he would immediately dismiss from teams any player testing positive for hard drugs upon the fourth violation (if for marijuana only, upon the fifth). (2) In January, the Russian parliament voted 380 to 3 to amend its assault law to allow a spouse one punishment-by-”ticketing” (i.e., not criminal) for domestic violence against his partner provided the bodily harm was not “substantial” and that it happens no more than once a year.

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“Field work is always challenging,” explained Courtney Marneweck of South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal in a recent journal article, but studying the sociology of a white rhino’s dung meant developing a “pattern-recognition algorithm” to figure out “smell profiles” of 150 animals’ feces after tracking them individually to observe them in the act. Wrote Marneweck, “I think my record for waiting for a rhino to poo was 7 1/2 hours.” Conclusion: Rhinos use feces to send distinct social signals on genetically compatible herds, mating access and predator dangers.

(Or, in the Los Angeles Times “clickbait” version of the story, rhino dung “has a lot in common with a Facebook post.”)

• Surgery on a 16-year-old Japanese girl, reported in January by New Scientist, revealed that her ovary contained a miniature skull and brain. Doctors say that finding rogue brain cells in ovaries is not that uncommon, but that an already-organized brain, capable of transmitting electric impulses, is almost unheard-of.

• The neonatal intensive care unit of Texas Health Fort Worth disclosed in January that the secret to keeping the most fragile

prematurely born babies alive is to quickly stick them into Ziploc freezer bags to create, according to a clinician, a “hot house effect.” (It turns out that merely raising the temperature in the delivery room had only marginal effect.)

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Right to Be Grumpy: Trader Joe’s has gained popularity among grocery shoppers in large part by having relentlessly sunny employees, but now that the firm has expanded from mellower California to more brusque New York City, it is learning that cheerfulness is harder to find. The company fired Thomas Nagle recently because, though he said he frequently smiled, he was told his smile was insufficiently “genuine,” and, backed by several colleagues, he has filed an unfair labor practice charge (and union organizers have taken notice). The National Labor Relations Board has already ruled (against another employer) that workers cannot be forced to convey that all-important “positive work environment” because they are entitled to have grievances.

Doughnut lovers have legitimately mused for years how U.S. law could condemn, say, marijuana, yet permit Krispy Kreme to openly sell its seemingly addictive sugary delights on America’s streets. Sonia Garcia, 51, realized a while back that residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, so much needed Krispy Kreme fixes that she earns a handsome living running a black market from El Paso, Texas, bringing in 40 boxes at a time and re-selling from the trunk of her car at a 60 percent markup, pointing out to a Los Angeles Times reporter in January that her trafficking has already put one son through engineering school. (Mexico City The passing parade now has Krispy Kremes, but apparently the (1) Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania (pop. company’s distribution system cannot yet 4,300), rarely makes the news, thus vanquish Sonia Garcia’s car.) allowing it to avoid questions about its awkward name (since it is (a) landlocked and (b) 100 miles from New Jersey). (In Least competent criminals Driver Joshua Concepcion-West, 27, was January, local residents were disturbed arrested in Apopka, Florida, with an inge- about the odor of a farm’s prematurely ripnious license-plate cover that he could raise ening radishes.) (2) Scientists at Spain’s and lower remotely from his key chain University of Barcelona announced they (thus avoiding identification by cameras as had reduced the fear of death in some of he passed through turnpike checkpoints). their 32 research participants by exposing On Jan. 11 at a $1.25 toll plaza, he had them (using artificial intelligence Oculus neglected to check his rear-view mirror Rift headsets) to out-of-body experiences before lowering the cover and failed to so that they could see and feel themselves notice that right behind him was a Florida “alive” even when they are not actually Highway Patrol car with a trooper watching present.

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