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Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan announced Jan. 22 that they helped reach a bipartisan deal to reopen the government after it shut down Jan. 20.

The deal will fund the government through Feb. 8. Ahead of that key Senate vote that failed to continue funding the government, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu released a statement calling for Shaheen and Hassan to vote for the continuing resolution. Sununu said doing so would reauthorize CHIP, a children’s health insurance program, for six years, which would impact over 14,700 children in New Hampshire. Democrats in the Senate were resolved to vote against any funding measures that did not include a permanent solution to the legal status of about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.

GOP leaders attached the six-year CHIP reauthorization measure in an effort to entice Democrats to vote for the funding resolution. Republican leaders have promised to open debate on immigration in the coming weeks.

Northern Pass

According to the AP, supporters of the $1.6 billion hydroelectric power transmission project known as Northern Pass filed a final brief with the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee, in which they say the project is essential for the state’s economic development. The SEC will begin deliberations Jan. 30.

Amazon bid

After Amazon announced it had narrowed the list of places it’s considering for the location of its second headquarters to 20, which

did not include New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu released a statement saying “we always knew that our bid was considered a long shot” but praised the state’s Amazon bid as a comprehensive marketing plan that is already serving as a template to attract other businesses to the state, according to a press release.

“The Amazon experience has given New Hampshire a national soapbox for our message,” Sununu said.

Boston was one of the finalists.

Medical bills

Lawmakers held hearings for two bills aimed at protecting residents from “balance billing,” the practice of sending patients bills for services rendered by out-of-network providers while being treated at an in-network hospital. The AP reported that a similar bill failed to pass in 2016, but a study committee has narrowed the focus to anesthesiology, radiology, emergency medicine and pathology.

School safety projects

About $10 million in grants for school safety projects were approved by lawmakers, NHPR reported. The money comes from a budget surplus and will fund 170 projects in the state, including improved surveillance cameras, locks and alarm systems. According to the story, the grants represent the first school infrastructure spending from the state since it paused school building aid in 2009.

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He said the bill, which mandates lead testing for children age 1 and 2, along with making standards stricter, will give families the opportunity to make sure kids are as healthy as possible, regardless of their means.

The state Senate failed to approve a constitutional amendment that would raise the mandatory retirement age of judges from 70 to 75, the AP reported. While a majority approved the measure (13-11), it fell short of the required three-fifths threshold to pass an amendment.

The current retirement age was established in 1791.

Moose tagged

Researchers have tagged an additional 50 moose in the state as part of an ongoing study on how moose populations and productivity are affected by forestry, climate and ticks. The AP reported this is the last year for tagging. The study began in 2014 and will continue through 2020. Moose populations experienced growth partly thanks to a decrease in tick populations caused by drought conditions in 2016.

The Senate passed a childhood lead poisoning protection bill after arriving at a compromise with the House, and Gov. Chris Sununu said he looks forward to signing it into

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The dean of the UNH College of Liberal Arts informed the lecturers they will be out of the job this spring in a letter. The president of the UNH lecturers union, Catherine Moran, said the move was “radical and dramatic,” according to the story. Half the lecturers teach English as a second language.

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Two New Hampshire teenagers have been selected to represent the state in the United States Senate Youth Program, the AP reported. Meera Kurup of Nashua and Cameron Magner of Plaistow will be the representatives from the Granite State and part of 104 students nationwide who will be participating in the program this year. The students will attend the 56th annual Washington Week events in March and receive $10,000 in college scholarships.

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An uptick in cases of endocarditis, a bacterial infection of heart valves, is a secondary effect of a regional opioid addiction epidemic. While it can be caused by other things, frequent use of unsanitary needles can result in an explosion of cases. That’s what happened in New Hampshire in recent years as places like Catholic Medical Center saw their drug-related endocarditis patients jump from five in 2013 to 51 in 2016.

If left untreated, the infection proves fatal. Deaths resulting from drug-related endocarditis apparently increased, with 11 deaths in 2016.

There were only four such deaths in the previous nine years.

While the public health officials don’t track endocarditis cases statewide, data from CMC, Elliot Hospital, the Medical Examiner’s office and anecdotal information from Dartmouth-Hitchcock can provide a window into the situation. And the picture for 2017 is mixed.

Kim Fallon, the chief forensic investigator at the Medical Examiner’s office, checked their database to see how many deaths were caused by drug-related endocarditis in calendar year 2017. There were seven in the records, though Fallon said this may not present a complete picture since some endocarditis-related deaths could be marked as “natural” or the ME’s office could decline jurisdiction to perform the autopsy.

In many cases, patients get treated and discharged without proper support systems to treat their addiction.

“And they immediately relapse, get infected, come back and die. And this is something, unfortunately, we see not uncommonly, said Dr. Bryan Marsh, the chief of the section on infectious diseases

at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

One case from the 2017 death toll demonstrates how complications of endocarditis can haunt addicts even after they enter recovery from their addiction. A teenage girl died from what the certificate states were complications of bacterial endocarditis after a tricuspid valve replacement and after a pacemaker was inserted. While she was documented to have been a chronic heroin user in the past, there were no illicit drugs in her system when she died. The drugs that were found were antidepressants and methadone, since she was in a medication-assisted treatment program.

The numbers from the ME’s office seems to show a slight decline. Data from CMC show a small increase, but at a slower rate than past years. In 2016, the hospital had 87 endocarditis patients, 51 of whom were infected from intravenous drug use.

In 2017, it had 55 drug-related cases out of 90.

“Our numbers have plateaued in terms of the … opiate cases that we see,” said Dr. Jonathan Eddinger, a CMC cardiologist.

Elliot Hospital sees fewer endocarditis patients than JONATHAN EDDINGER CMC, generally, as it doesn’t offer valve replacement surgery. It noted a jump from nine overall cases in fiscal year 2015 to 17 in fiscal year 2016. But in fiscal year 2017, there was a slight drop to 13.

It’s unclear whether that pattern will continue, however. Six months into fiscal year 2018, Elliot has already recorded nine cases, putting it on track to reach 18 by the end of June.

Marsh said he and the staff who treat endocarditis patients have the strong impression that cases increased significantly in 2017 compared to 2016. And he said drug use is the primary driver of that increase. Dartmouth sees patients from all over New Hampshire and a significant portion of Vermont.

Marsh said the hospital does not track which cases are caused by intravenous drug use and did not have data available by press time for overall cases.

“On any given week we see probably an average of two new patients with several bacterial complications of injecting drug use. And the majority of those are endocarditis,” Marsh said.

Our numbers have plateaued in terms of the ... opiate cases that we see.

At any given time in 2017, there was an average of about half a dozen patients in the hospital getting treated for the condition, which he said is an increase over the previous year.

Treatment involves four to six weeks of intravenous antibiotics. And since addicts are more likely to reinfect themselves or use their antibiotics IV to inject drugs, they are kept at the hospital for the duration of their treatment.

Turning a corner?

Eddinger and Marsh are of two minds when it comes to interpreting the limited data on this issue.

Eddinger believes the plateauing numbers are likely a sign that things are moving in the right direction. The state’s treatment and recovery infrastructure has improved in recent years, and attitudes have changed around medication-assisted treatment, Eddinger said, which may point to some success at stemming the tide of addiction in small ways.

One possible sign of this is the projected number of overdose deaths in 2017, which is expected to be the first decrease since the epidemic began, though the death toll will still be in the 400s.

At CMC, a push to ensure patients don’t reinfect themselves after being discharged has led to a stronger partnership with Hope for NH Recovery. Eddinger said peer recovery coaches from the organization will come in and help patients who want treatment navigate the resources available.

“I do think we’re making a dent in it,” Eddinger said.

At CMC, there were six valve replacements due to drug-related endocarditis in 2017, down from 16 in 2016.

While this may be attributable to a slowdown of cases, doctors may also be opting to do fewer surgeries if they think patients are less likely to survive the operation, which Eddinger calls “selection bias.”

“It’s possible there’s less surgeries because of selection bias,” Eddinger said.

While Eddinger is optimistic that we will soon see a future with fewer endocarditis cases, Marsh is less sanguine about that prospect.

From his perspective, Marsh does not yet see a light at the end of the tunnel.

“It’s not a surprise that the number of cases have gone up [at Dartmouth] in that all the evidence we have in the region is that the opiate epidemic is continuing to worsen. We haven’t done a good job as a society yet in starting to turn that around,” Marsh said.

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Jennifer Frizzell is leaving Planned Parenthood of Northern New England after taking point on political and policy issues for the organization for 15 years.

Can you tell us about your background?

I’m originally from Bedford, New Hampshire, and I went to the University of New Hampshire. I worked in Washington, D.C., on the Hill a little bit between college and law school. I returned to the state to go to what was then Franklin Pierce Law Center and is now UNH School of Law. While in law school, and maybe even in undergrad, I had an interest in political science but also in a variety of social policy issues that were connected to political science. My first job out of law school, I was a lawyer with New Hampshire Legal Assistance as a legal aid attorney. Most of my clients were women and children. I did a lot of work on domestic violence, Medicaid.

I rose within the organization to do policy work rather than individual casework. I think something that always stuck with me was the role that unintended pregnancy and mistimed pregnancy played in the lives of women in short-changing opportunities and preventing them from fulfilling their educational opportunities. So when I saw an opportunity to take my legal aid and policy advocacy world and migrate to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England … in 1999, it felt like a great step upstream in the world of policy and legislative advocacy to help secure the right and access to health and contraception for the kinds of women I got to know on my case load when I was a legal aid attorney.

What did you do for Planned Parenthood?

I tried to keep the doors open so that as many patients who were in need of services could come in for affordable and high-quality access. At the time, Planned Parenthood had six — now it has five — health centers in different parts of the state. Its largest flagship health center is … in the city of Manchester. So that day-to-day workload may entail working on regulatory matters, making sure our professionals are licensed, or working with different state agencies to compete for different kinds of public funding and grants that were available to support the core work WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTERESTED IN RIGHT NOW?

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of Planned Parenthood. … The family planning, the well women visits, the STI testing and cancer screenings. And an important but nonetheless small part of Planned Parenthood is ensuring that women have access Courtesy photo. to safe and legal abortion. I think that while it may be less than 10 percent of what we do, it’s the source of more than 50 percent of the controversy and the political energy that someone in my role is required to navigate.

What are some of the biggest myths you encountered about abortion?

[Myths can include] that we’re an organization that predominantly exists to provide abortion, that we somehow aren’t fully respectful of women’s autonomy, whatever choice they want to make about their pregnancy.

What have you seen change in the issue of women’s health over the past 15 years?

I think most fundamentally the growth in the innovative methods and expanded methods of birth control, and the policy victories that we’ve had in removing barriers and obstacles like the no cost sharing that now applies to women [and] removes the barrier for them to get the most effective methods. …

We’ve seen tremendous decrease in the teen pregnancy rate, unintended pregnancy rate and the abortion rate because of those more modern methods and because of improved access. I’m particularly proud that all the years I was in New Hampshire, we had the lowest rate of unintended and teen pregnancy in the nation, and that means we’re doing something right.

What’s next for you?

I have made this change largely motivated out of the personal need to step back from a job that’s demanding and 24/7 and focus on my teenagers who, I increasingly recognize, are only in my nest for a little bit longer. …

I think that I will be recharging my batteries both physically and professionally and taking a look at what kind of new challenges might await me in 2019, but I have called this a sabbatical year … because I want to be really thoughtful and take some time, and perhaps volunteer in my community, serve on a board, do other things that would keep me connected to the issues that I care about.

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NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Black history nonprofit expands The Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, previously part of The Portsmouth Historical Society, has joined a newly formed statewide nonprofit organization where it can continue to grow, according to a press release. The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire launched in 2017 with the mission of telling the little-known stories about blacks in New Hampshire. Permanent brass plaques mark 27 sites of black history in Portsmouth.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire hosts a variety of programs beginning each year in February, including lectures and conferences, trail tours, film screenings and more.

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Too warm for hockey The annual Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship originally scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 25, through Sunday, Jan. 28, at White Park in Concord has been postponed, the Concord Monitor reported. The impending wet and warm weather has forced organizers to bump the event two weeks ahead, to Thursday, Feb. 8, to Sunday, Feb. 11.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: The event was also postponed two weeks last year, and several games were cancelled in 2012 due to warm weather.

Victim bill of rights A constitutional amendment called Marsy’s Law enjoys broad bipartisan support in New Hampshire, NHPR reported. The amendment would establish a list of rights for victims of crimes, including the right to be notified of all court proceedings and the right to be heard on sentencing and parole matters. Thirty-five other states have already codified Marsy’s Law, named after a murder victim in California and the victim’s bill of rights that passed there in 2008. In a press release, Gov. Chris Sununu said victims of crimes deserve the same constitutional rights as defendants. “Let’s get this done,” Sununu said.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: If it passes the House and Senate, voters will need to pass it with a two-thirds majority in November.

White worms make cheap fish food According to researchers at the University of New Hampshire, native white worms provide high-quality food for aquarium fish, and at a low cost. White worms grow easily in terrestrial systems and can survive in both fresh water and full-strength seawater. This makes them well-suited for the ornamental aquaculture industry.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: White worm farming could be a new commercial industry for New England if they can figure out a low-cost way to deliver the product.

QOL score: 52 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 54 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

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It’s not supposed to be this way, you know.

Four teams have never been to the Super Bowl.

Cleveland went 52 years without a championship in any sport and the Indians last won a World Series in 1948. After being the Patriots of the late ’40s and early ’50s by going to 10 straight championship games in the AFC and NFL, winning seven times, the Browns haven’t won a title since 1964. And if you missed the news, they went 0-16 in 2017 and 1-31 the past two seasons.

Then there are your New England Patriots. Thanks to the latest stirring comeback win in a remarkable 17-year run, they’re now going to their eighth Super Bowl in the Brady-Belichick era. This time after the Jacksonville Jaguars won the battle over the first three quarters but lost the war to a 14-point fourth-quarter Tom Brady blitz in a rousing 24-20 win for the AFC Championship.

For those who’ve watched intently during their reign the why is obvious. And it has nothing to do with the notion of cheating the haters hold on to so tightly. Like in the fourth quarter and OT in last year’s Super Bowl win, Sunday’s final eight minutes tell the story of why they’re on the cusp of being the greatest of all the dynasties in NFL history.

First, there’s Next Man Up. Yes, that seems so trite. But after watching Danny Amendola step into a spotlight previously occupied by Troy Brown, David Patten, Deion Branch, Kevin Faulk, Adam V, Matt Cassell, Randall Gay, Shane Vereen, Martellus Bennett and many others, it doesn’t seem so trite any more. Because on Sunday with no Julian Edelman, no Gronk and down 10 in the fourth quarter, it was no problem again when Dola delivered in a major way.

That forces me to first say, once again, Bill was right and I was wrong. This time for giving the money to Amendola over Wes Welker

in 2013. Because with Welker roping steers someplace and the receiving core riddled with injuries, this pint-sized guy with well-known durability issues missed just one early game while delivering 11 big catches last week vs.

Tennessee and eight more Sunday, including the two fourth-quarter TDs that won the game. The question is, did he just never have the opportunity to show this in St. Louis? Or was it brought out here being around all the winning and playing with Brady?

Next comes Coach B. Even the haters grudgingly acknowledge how good he is. But a week after Mike Tomlin panicked for the botched on-sides kick that handed the Jags the field goal that ultimately beat his team, Coach B patiently played for field position over fourth-down tries with the clock ticking down. That kept pinning the Jags deep in their end, where he correctly figured they’d play it ultra-safe. And that’s why Amendola fielded the ball at just mid-field before his gigantic punt return let Brady start the game-winning drive at Jacksonville’s 30.

There also consistency. While rivals like Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, Indy, the G-Men and the Jets for a short time under Rex have come at them for a while before falling back, they’re always good. Even the two times they missed the playoffs, they still tied for the most wins in the Conference, but lost out on tie-breakers.

And then there is not-so-young Mr. Brady, who is the only one to be here since it started. There he was on Sunday with between four and 212 stitches in his throwing hand, down 10 before stepping into the phone booth to lead his 54th fourth-quarter comeback. This time by throwing lasers down field after abandoning the dink and dunk to the flat game plan that wasn’t working. The best being the third-and-18 dart to Amendola for 21 and a first down.

If you think the Jags weren’t aware then they were facing the great Brady, you’re mistaken. Do not for a second under-sell

intimidation. It’s a powerful force, which grew stronger on Jacksonville once Brady got the momentum going. How do I know that?

First, because Jacksonville’s mouthy defense had stopped yapping. That’s always a telltale sign of fear. Second, whether it’s covering Michael Jordan, or knowing Tiger was lurking out there in his prime on the final day, it makes you do things you normally wouldn’t.

That leads to mistakes or playing it too safe and if any mere mortal player or coach tries to pretend that’s not so they’re lying.

Given the Ps’ well-earned aura, that Belichick was pulling the strings and Brady was under center, that was definitely at play on Sunday. It’s why the Jags went so conservative, as they didn’t want to give Brady a short field off a turnover. Which happened anyway on the Amendola punt return of a bad punt after being pinned deep in their territory. And also probably why Kyle Shanahan went for the TD over the sure FG in the Super Bowl last year, because he was afraid of what Brady might do. And that’ll probably continue until Brady retires in 2033 or so, because I’m starting to think he may be not just the G.O.A.T., but the best player at any position in any sport.

Making the bottom line: Ain’t it great to be a Patriots fan?

Because they get to see Brady shove all the nonsense back down Max the Moron’s throat, even if all true, show how irrelevant Seth Wickersham’s ESPN gossip piece actually was, and let the Nation take on the idiotic haters like the crazed female Chiefs fan who called WEEI to say Brady had cheated again by using stick’em to make the bandage over his stitches stay more secure.

So my advice is to one and all is this drink all this in. Savor it, wallow in it, enjoy it and most of all appreciate it. Because it can’t last forever.

At least I don’t think it can.

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Bedford take rematch with BG The Big Story: Early bragging rights went to Bedford after downing rival Bishop Guertin 48-43 in the only regularseason meeting between the teams who faced each other in the last two Division I State Finals. It lived up to the billing by going to the wire as a one-possession game in the final minute. First, Bedford seemingly took control with a 7-0 run to close the third period. But the Cardinals tied it at 38 all by running off 11 straight mid-way through the fourth period. But an Alexa Dyer runner and two more hoops from Clare Driscoll took back the lead for good at 46-41 and it was wrapped by a pair of Ali Morgan free throws for the 48-43 final. Dyer had a game high 13 for the Bulldogs while Bri Wilcox (12) and Ava Owens (9) had a combined 22 for BG. Bedford moved to 8-0 while the Cardinals dropped to 5-1.

Sports 101: Name the only two undrafted quarterbacks to start in a Super Bowl game.

Local Pro Football Rumor of the Week: Word is leaking out that ex-Central/UNH quarterback and current Ohio State coOffensive Coordinator Ryan Day is on the short list to be OC for Patriot great Mike Vrabel as he takes over as headman for the Tennessee Titans.

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10 – season-high rebounds for Londonderry’s Aliza Simpson in a 52-49 UNH win over Vermont when Kat Fogerty had a game-high two points as state U moved to 13-5 with their third straight win.

al girls basketball team, who moved to 8-0 with a 56-37 win on the road over Keene on Friday as Mel Presseau had a game high 18 points and Lyric Grumblatt chipped in with 11 more.

Knick of Tyme Award: Goes to the one and only Gob Gob in New Hampshire basketball who ended West’s six-game losing streak with a bucket with 2.3 seconds left in a 64-62 win in OT over Bishop Brady. The Green Giants’ Bryce Johnson was game high with 29, while Isaac Nimley and Gob had 20 and 19 respectively for the Blue Knights.

Sports 101 Answer: The two undrafted Super Bowl free agents QBs faced the Patriots in their first two SB wins: Kurt Warner for St. Louis and Jake Delhomme for Carolina.

On This Date – Jan. 25 in 1987 – Most misremember Super Bowl 21 in the Rose Bowl was a runaway from the start. But the Broncos led the Giants 10-7 after the first period. But, like vs. the Patriots in the 2011 game, a safety by Bill Belichick’s defense got the G-Men rolling before it was Katiebar-the-door from an offense that scored 31 straight for a 33-10 lead before turning out the lights at 39-20. Behind a record 22 for 25, 268-yard, three-TD day Phil Simms was MVP as Bill Parcells got his first of two Super Bowl titles.

11 – shots made from international waters by Memorial in a 86-54 runaway over Salem when Jake Santiago had four three-pointers and 20 points overall for the Crusaders.

27 – points scored by Pinkerton’s Brooke Kane

to lead all scorers in a 63-28 win over Central as the Astros moved to 5-1.

38 – combined points by Jeff Pratt (25) and Max Byron (13) in Derryfield’s 67-36 win over Moultonborough, which kept them undefeated at 8-0.

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Sports Glossary

Max the Moron: ESPN yakker and sky-is-falling Tom Brady conspiracy theorist now in a neck-and-neck race with Sean Hannity of Fox News to be considered the single dumbest person on TV. Sean Hannity: IQ-optional central casting choice by Fox News boss Roger Ailes for the nightly Hannity & Colmes political debate show in the early days to make the optics for viewers that conservatives are handsome rock-jawed John Wayne types with liberals wimpy Don Knotts/Barney Fife clones like Alan Colmes.

In Contention for Greatest of Them All: Michael Jordan (six NBA titles), Muhammad Ali (heavyweight champ three times), Jack Nicklaus (18 majors, 19 second-place finishes), Barry Bonds (seven MVPs), Babe Ruth (has more records than Liberace) and Tom Brady (G.O.A.T.).

All American Football Conference: Rival conference to the still struggling NFL in the days following World War II. An eight-team league with clubs in Brooklyn (Dodgers), New York (Yankees), Buffalo (Bills), L.A. (Dons), Chicago (Hornets), along with Cleveland (Browns), Baltimore (Colts) and San Francisco (49ers), who later joined the NFL. It was dominated by Cleveland led by QB Otto Graham and coach Paul Brown, who won the league title all four years, before winning the NFL title their first year as a member in 1950.

They won again in ’54 and ’55, while losing in the title game in ’51, ’52 and ’53 as well.

Graham retired after the 1955 season and they’ve only won once (1964) since.

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Events worth braving the elements for + Advice on how to have the most fun outdoors Resist the urge to hibernate.

Sure, going for a run or a hike in January requires a little more effort than it does in August. But whether you’re sledding with the kids or heading off for some fresh (cool) air on cross-country skis, getting out in winter can help you enjoy the season (and keep your exercise routine from getting monotonous).

For our final week of our annual Look Good, Feel Great series, we look at some active outdoor fun, from events worth bundling up for to some advice on how to prepare for and thus truly enjoy your time outdoors. As with all exercise or diet changes, be sure to talk with your doctor before embarking on any new routines. And, don’t forget your hat.

Events worth heading outside for From family festivals to nature explorations, there are oodles of events happening outdoors in winter — and not just at sled and ski hills. If you’ve already hit the slopes a few times or pulled out the sled, here are some more ways to enjoy the great, big, chilly outdoors.

Birding events

• Join an Amoskeag Fishways instructor and search for bald eagles along the Merrimack River in Manchester. The program begins with an orientation at the center, followed by a quest to spot the first eagle of the day. Expect to carpool, dress warmly, and bring your binoculars if possible. Saturday, Jan. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon. Amoskeag Fishways, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. $3 per person, $6 per family. Visit amoskeagfishways.org.

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Walks, a guided walk on the live animal exhibit trail to see the center’s animal ambassadors dressed in their winter coats and discuss how these native animals are welladapted for winter in New Hampshire on Saturday, Jan. 27, 1 to 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m.; Saturday, Feb. 10, at 1 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 17, at 10 a.m.; Saturday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m.; Friday, March 2, at 10 a.m.; Sunday, March 4, at 1 p.m.; Saturday, March 10, at 1 p.m., and Saturday, March 17, at 1 p.m. at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. $8 for members or $10 for non-members.

Visit nhnature.org or call 968-7194.

• Junior Explorers: Songs in the Sky, Signs in the Snow: Led by Kelly Dwyer, New Hampshire Audubon’s director of education, and Paula Chouinard, Massabesic Audubon Center naturalist. Learn to identify common birds by their songs, as well as

learning what their winter plumage and distinct footprint patterns in the snow look like.

Classes are for ages 7 to 12 and parents are encouraged to participate. Please dress to be outside. Wednesday, Jan. 31, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $12 for members or $15 for non-members. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

• Join Beaver Brook naturalists for a full moon night hike or snowshoe around the trails of Beaver Brook. Dress in layers. Beaver Brook will be supplying the snowshoes, or you can bring your own if you like. Return to Maple Hill farm for warm beverages and cookies. Saturday, Feb. 3, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Beaver Brook Association, 117 Ridge Road, Hollis. $15 for non-members or $13.50 for members. Visit beaverbrook.org or call 465-7787.

• Join the Nashaway Chapter to look for

short-eared and snowy owls at Salisbury Beach State Park and across the river in Parker River Wildlife Refuge. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free.

Nature fun

• Led by New Hampshire Audubon naturalist Kim Murphy. Participants will explore the world of evergreens and discover which animals rely on them for survival, during this “wee wonders” family program. Please dress to be outside and wear appropriate footwear. Wednesday, Jan. 31, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $12 for members and $15 for non-members. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

• Learn to identify trees and shrubs in winter at the Massabesic Audubon Center (26 Audubon Way, Auburn, nhaudubon.org, 668-2045) on Saturday, Feb. 3, from 14

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What are some important safety tips for snowmobiling?

One, they need to know the capabilities of the machine and the mechanics of the machine so that they can kind of selfrescue if the machine breaks down — that type of thing. And also, the proper equipment, riding equipment; helmets, the safety gear, not only for safety but also for the weather, be it the type of snow pants and boots — pac boots — to the type of helmet to wear.

Why should people consider hiking in the winter?

No. 1, it’s great exercise and, No. 2, it gets them out to see New Hampshire at a different time of the year that they don’t normally get to see. And we have some great areas to hike, not only in the summer

but in the winter as well. If you’re going to brave the winter, and you want to get some exercise and get out, you might as well do it in a place other than your backyard — get out and see the state. New Hampshire’s a beautiful state and we have a lot of hiking opportunities.

How do you prepare differently for a winter hike as opposed to a summer hike?

Preparing for the unexpected. The weather … and the temperature is the big thing. The weather can change in an instant. Unlike a lot of summer hiking, you may actually have to turn back depending on the weather when you’re out hiking.

For example, when you’re going to do one of our 4,000-footers or above and you’re halfway up and the weather is drastically different than it was down below when you started — which is not uncommon in New Hampshire — you have to be prepared with the right equipment or clothes or be able to make the decision to turn back. … Always have an extra layer of clothes, water, a headlamp … always leave your plans with someone. … Try to hike with somebody else and not alone.

How would you convince a skeptic that they might actually enjoy ice fishing?

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Snowmobiling event Fish and Game is holding the Tri-state Reciprocal Snowmobile Weekend Jan. 26 through Jan. 28. The New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine event gives snowmobile enthusiasts a chance to explore new trails in northern New England.

During the weekend, all legally registered snowmobiles in New Hampshire will be allowed to ride in Vermont and Maine. Operators must also comply with out-of-state laws. For example, riders in Vermont must have liability insurance.

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What’s a good way to try snowmobiling to see if it’s something you’d enjoy?

We offer free safety classes [at Fish and Game] so they get to learn a little bit about … everything from basic mechanics and operation of the snow machine, to proper gear and safety. And then, there are various rental agencies up north that will rent a snowmobile to you and they also do snowmobiling tours, so you’re not alone and it’s usually somebody that’s familiar with the area and familiar with the machines. So, if you go out on a tour, you don’t have any chance of getting stranded or that type of thing.

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What’s the best outdoor activity for someone who usually hates winter?

I would suggest snowmobiling because, if they dress properly, it can be a lot of fun.

You get to get out and see parts of New Hampshire that you normally wouldn’t get to see. And, although it can be cold, it’s not typically as cold as ice fishing, and it’s not typically as dangerous as winter hiking. I guess winter hiking could be divided into two things: just a casual hike or an above-tree-line excursion. So, casual winter hiking would be very similar to snowmobiling, as far as getting out and seeing things. But, snowmobiling adds to that level of excitement and travel that they wouldn’t normally get.

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Fishing can be fun. … A lot of people make a day of it. They have the hot cocoa and the food, they have a big family event out there with everybody and it can be a lot of fun.

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How does ice fishing work? Can you explain the basics for a beginner?

The first thing you want to do is test the ice to make sure it’s safe, so you have a chisel or an auger where you drill a hole.

You start off at the shoreline where you come on, test the ice thickness, and then every 50 to 100 yards as you go out, you want to test it again because ice doesn’t freeze the same [everywhere]. … Then you take your auger and you drill holes, scoop the ice out of them, and set up your ice fishing devices, your ‘traps’ as they call them.

You want to check with your law digest to make sure you [follow the regulations].

What’s the biggest misunderstanding about ice fishing?

A lot of people think that it’s cold and miserable and not very fun, but … there are

12 10:30 a.m. To noon. Register online or by phone in advance; cost is $10 per person and $25 for families.

• Hike or snowshoe by the light of the full moon on Saturday, Feb. 3, from 6:30 to o 8:30 p.m. on the trails of Beaver Brook (117 Ridge Road, Hollis, beaverbrook.org). Dress in layers; they supply the snowshoes if needed (as well as warm beverages and cookies post-hike). Register online; cost is $15 per person.

• The Saturday Nature Seekers at the Amoskeag Fishways runs most Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon at the Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St., Manchester, amoskeagfishways.org). No registration is required; a donation of $5 per family is encouraged. In February, the program runs Feb. 3, Feb. 10 and Feb. 24 and the theme is Winter Wildlife Watching. In March, the program runs March 17 and March 31 and the theme is Mud, Muck & Soil.

• Learn about the animals “Burrowing through the Snow” at the Massabesic Audubon Center (25 Audubon Way, Aubrun, nhaudobon.org, 668-2045) Wednesday, Feb. 14, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The class is for ages 4 to 6 and includes indoor and outdoor time; call or go online to register. Cost is $15 per child-parent pair.

• Join a Beaver Brook naturalist for a walk along the Nissitissit River in Hollis and to the Great Meadow beaver pond along the Potanipo Rail Trail. The association will pro-

plenty of days where there is no wind and it’s 30 degrees and sunny and it’s a great day to be out, and people love it.

Should first-timers go fishing with an experienced ice-fisher at the start? Is it usually a social event?

It doesn’t have to be a social event. But for a beginner, I would recommend it, because there’s also a learning curve — what bait to use, how to put the bait on the hook, the depth that you want depending on what species you’re targeting. … If you’re with someone who’s knowledgeable, they can save you a lot of time and effort … on how to be successful.

What are some of the best locations for ice fishing?

Any what we call ‘warm water ponds,’ which are kind of the shallow ponds that have the bass, pickerel the perch. … That’s where the most action is. … The pickerel are very voracious eaters and … it’s not slow fishing. If you have those warmer species in the pond then you can do pretty well and you can usually have a very busy day ‘chasing flags’ as they say, which is what happens with a fish … [on a hook]. Whereas, you go to trout ponds … where there’s not a lot of fish species, you’re just looking at trout, it can be very slow fishing.

vide snowshoes or ice treads according to the conditions. Saturday, Feb. 24, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Beaver Brook Association Great Meadow Trail Head, West Hollis Road, Hollis.

Free. Visit beaverbrook.org or call 465-7787.

Fishing and plunging

• Take a quick dip to benefit the Special Olympics of New Hampshire at the Hampton Beach Penguin Plunge, followed by a post-plunge party at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, noon. Hampton Beach, Ocean Boulevard, Hampton. Registration starts at $50. Visit sonh.org.

• The Country Pond Fish & Game Club Ice Fishing Derby will feature up to $500 in cash prizes. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Clubhouse. Sunday, Feb. 4, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Country Pond Fish & Game Club, 82 Pond St., Newton. $10 registration fee; door prizes will also be available for children under 12. Call 793-0038 or visit cpfgc.com.

• Learn how to ice fish with staff and volunteers of New Hampshire Fish and Game during this two-part series. Friday will cover ice safety, fish ecology, equipment and more.

Parents and participants over 16 do not need a fishing license during the organized field trip. All gear will be provided. Bring lunch and wear proper outdoor clothing for Saturday. Ages 8 and up. Registration required.

Friday, Feb. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. Amoskeag Fishways, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. 18

Where to go to make your own fun Many towns and cities in southern New Hampshire have public ponds for skating, hills for sledding and trails for snowshoeing.

Here are a few suggestions for where to go, courtesy of Parks & Rec directors and town websites. Make sure you check for signs posted at town ponds to be sure the ice is safe for skating.

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Where to sled

• Alexander-Carr Park (behind Parkland Medical Center, 28 Pierce Ave., Derry, 4326136, derrynh.org) is open during the winter months for the use of its sledding hill.

• Bragdon Farm (next to LaBelle Winery, Route 101, Amherst) is the site of a former ski area where a smaller hill is still open for sledding.

• Derryfield Country Club (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 669-0235, derryfieldgolf.com) has a popular sledding hill next to the golf course.

• Greeley Park (100 Concord St., Nashua, 589-3370, nashuanh.gov) has a sledding hill popular with littler kids, according to Nick Caggiano, Nashua Parks & Recreation department superintendent.

• Jeff Morin Fields (Roby Park, Spit Brook Road, Nashua, 589-3360, nashuanh. gov) has a sledding hill.

• Laconia Sledding Hill (at the end of South Street, off Academy Street, Laconia, 524-0521, laconianh.gov) is usually available for sledding until dusk.

• Mack’s Apples (230 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 434-7619, macksapples.com) has a popular sledding hill on its property.

• Wasserman Park (116 Naticook Road, Merrimack, 882-1046, merrimackparksandrec.org) has a popular sledding hill adjacent to the playground, according to Matt Casparius of the Merrimack Parks & Recreation department.

• Weston Park (49 Turkey Hill Road, Merrimack, 882-1046, merrimackparksandrec.org) also has a sledding hill that is slightly steeper than the one at Wasserman Park, said Matt Casparius of the Merrimack Parks & Recreation department.

• White Park (1 White St., Concord, 2258690, concordnh.gov) also has a popular sledding hill on its grounds.

Where to go cross-country skiing or snowshoeing

• Adams Pond Trail (Pillsbury and Adams roads, Londonderry, 437-2675, londonderrynh.org) is open for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

• Beaver Meadow Golf Course (1 Beaver Meadow Drive, Concord, 228-8954, 16

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• Beaver Meadow Golf Course (1 Beaver Meadow Drive, Concord, 228-8954, bmgc. golf) has a small pond area where public ice skating is available, weather permitting.

• Bedford Village Common (15 Bell Hill Road, Bedford, 228-1231, bedfordlandtrust. org) has a town-owned skating pond where public ice skating is available, weather permitting.

• Bow Town Pond (Bow Center Road, Bow, 228-2222, bownh.gov) is adjacent to the Bow Community Center and is open to public ice skating when the weather cooperates. The pond is maintained by the town’s Parks & Recreation department.

• Dorrs Pond (next to Livingston Park, Hooksett Road, Manchester, 624-6444, manchesternh.gov) is open for public ice skating and regularly plowed and flooded after winter storms. Check facebook.com/cityofmanchesternhparksandrec for updates on when the pond is ready for skating after each storm.

• Jeff Morin Fields (Roby Park, Spit Brook Road, Nashua, 589-3360, nashuanh.gov) has an ice rink that is lit and usually open for skating from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

• Labine Park (off Cleveland Street, Nashua, 589-3360, nashuanh.gov). The area is lit and usually available from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

• North Common Field (off Sargent Avenue, Nashua, 589-3360, nashuanh.gov) is regularly flooded by the city’s Parks & Recreation area.

• O’Gara Drive Recreation Arena (O’Gara Drive and Baboosic Lake Road, Merrimack, 882-1046, merrimackparksandrec.org) has an ice skating rink that is free to use, seven days a week until 10 p.m.

• Rollins Park (33 Bow St., Concord, 2268690, concordnh.gov) is open for free public ice skating seven days a week, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., weather permitting.

• White Park (1 White St., Concord, 2258690, concordnh.gov) is open for free public ice skating seven days a week, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., weather permitting.

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Feb. 6-May 29

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Feb. 6-May 29

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Feb. 6-May 29

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Feb. 6-April 17

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Feb. 6-May 29

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Chemistry with Lab

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Brigitte Gray

Brigitte Gray is the manager, running coach and running group leader at Runner’s Alley in Manchester. Her winter running group Winter Warriors meets at the store on Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m.

How do you choose a good winter route?

Try to run where the city or your neighbors have already shoveled the walkways.

If that’s not an option, try a two-lane oneway street, because cars have a lane to move over for you. The beauty of running is that you can run anywhere, as long as you’re wearing the proper traction; that’s the most important thing. If you wear something like a Kahtoola Nanospike, which has spikes on the back, and you can literally run on ice.

When is the best time to run in the winter?

You have to watch the weather. It’s not like summer where you can go every morning or every evening. If tomorrow morning is going to be way colder than it is this evening, get your run in now. If you’re running

15 bmgc.golf) also has groomed trails for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing that are maintained by the Concord Parks & Recreation department.

• Benedictine Park (341 Wallace Road, Bedford, 228-1231, bedfordlandtrust.org) has trails that are available for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing that are owned by the town.

• Carter Hill Apple Orchard (73 Carter Hill Road, Concord, 225-2625, carterhillapples.com) has trails for cross-country skiing maintained by the Capital Ski and Outing Club seven days a week through March.

• Horse Hill Nature Preserve (184 Amherst Road, Merrimack, 882-1046, merrimackparksandrec.org) has a variety of conservation trails, some of which lead from Wasserman Park, according to Matt Casparius of the Merrimack Parks & Recreation department.

• Mine Falls Park (Whipple Street, Nashua, 589-3400, nashuanh.gov) has trails where cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are available.

• Southwest Park (at Yudicky Farm, off Main Dunstable Road, Nashua, 589-3400, nashuanh.gov) has trails where crossy-country skiing and snowshoeing are available.

at night, be sure to wear a blinker or reflective vest, and definitely avoid the times that plows will be clearing the roads, because they will have trouble seeing you.

How do you dress for the elements?

The right gear makes winter running way more doable. Go with lined items; a thin fleece lining is good. The biggest tip is to dress like it’s 15 degrees warmer than it is.

If you’re comfortable when you head out, you’re overdressed. Cotton socks will make your feet cold, so try wicking socks or a good pair of wool socks, or two if it’s really cold. A balaclava is a good idea, because it covers your neck, nose, cheeks and ears.

Wear sunglasses that don’t fog up to protect your eyes from the wind and elements, and to cut the glare, which gives you better depth perception.

How do you stay motivated in the winter weather?

Group runs all the way. You’re more likely to go if you know your friends are going to show up, and it’s more fun. … Also, remember that you don’t need to put as much pressure on your performance in the winter or take things so seriously. If it’s cold and a blizzard outside, just be proud that you got out at all. As long as you keep running, you’ll have a good foundation for the spring.

Snowshoe rentals Need to rent your own pair of snowshoes?

Check out these local places that are offering rentals this season.

Beaver Brook Association (117 Ridge Road, Hollis) offers snowshoe rentals for $10 per day per pair for the general public, or $8 for members. Rentals are available Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Members may also rent a pair for the weekend for $20, but they must be picked up on Friday before 4 p.m. and returned by Monday morning. A credit card or security deposit of $40 per pair is required for all rentals.

Visit beaverbrook.org or call 465-7787.

Massabesic Audubon Center (26 Audubon Way, Auburn) is offering snowshoe rentals every Tuesday through Saturday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., now through Feb. 28. The cost per pair per day for a rental is $8 for New Hampshire Audubon members and $10 for non-members, to be used on site only with a minimum snow cover of 6 inches. Limited pairs for smaller children are also available. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

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• The next run in the Gate City Striders’ Freeze Your Buns 5K series is happening on Sunday, Feb. 4, at 9 a.m. The race kicks off at Conway Arena (West Hollis and Riverside streets, Nashua) and is open to the public. The cost is $5 for ages 19 and up and $3 for ages 18 and under. The series will also include races on Feb. 18 and March 4, and a makeup race on March 11. Visit gatecity.org.

• 23rd Annual Boston Prep 16-Miler & 5-Miler is organized by the Greater Derry Track Club and is designed for runners training for the Boston Marathon, or any other upcoming spring marathon. Runners who are looking for a mid-winter challenge but aren’t ready for the full marathon yet can run the “BP-Lite,” a five-mile taste of the Boston Prep experience. Sunday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m.

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• The Winter Wilder Pats Peak 4 Miler starts and finishes at the main lodge of Pats Peak. Saturday, Feb. 3, 7 a.m. Pats Peak, 686 Flanders Road, Henniker. $25 race-day registration and $20 pre-race day for ages 20 and up; $10 for ages 15 to 19 and free for ages 14 and under. Visit winterwild.com.

• 4th Down and 4-Miler is organized by NHTI’s cross-country team. Prizes will be awarded to the top three overall male and female finishers. Sunday, Feb. 4, 11 a.m.

Northeast Delta Dental, 2 Delta Drive, Concord. Registration by donation. Visit nhti.edu.

• 4th Annual Super Bowl Chili 5K Race starts at Stark Brewing Co. at 10:30 a.m.

All participants get one handcrafted beer (21+ only) and a free warm cup of chili at the post-race party at the brewery, and prizes will be also be awarded to the top three male and female overall finishers. Sunday, Feb. 4, 10:30 a.m. Stark Brewing Co., 500 N. Commercial St., Manchester. $30 race-day registration for adults; $20 for kids 12 and under. Visit starkbrewingcompany.com.

• Ameriprise Financial Mardi Gras 5K Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Park, 889 Elm St., Manchester. $25 for adults over 21 and $20 for kids and adults under 21.

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Celebrations of snow & ice

• The 8th Annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship is now scheduled for Friday, Feb. 8, through Sunday, Feb. 11.

White Park, 1 White St., Concord. Free.

Visit blackicepondhockey.com. This event was postponed from January due to weather so check the website for updates.

• Derry’s annual Frost Festival will run Friday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb. 11, at locations throughout the town including Hoodcroft Golf Course, Alexander-Carr Park and Gallien’s Town Beach. See derrynh.org.

• Head to Amherst for the Winter Carnival Saturday, Feb. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Peabody Mill Environmental Center (66 Brook Road, Amherst, amherstrec.org).

The day will include indoor nature programs and crafts (as well as treats and hot cider and cocoa), guided hikes and scavenger hunt, campfire stories and s’mores and winter shelter making.

• Lowell’s annual Winterfest runs Friday, Feb. 23, and Saturday, Feb. 24, at locations throughout downtown Lowell, Mass. Events include a craft beer showcase, live music and a fire show on Friday and, on Saturday, a soup competition, a chocolate festival, live music, carriage rides through the downtown and a kids’ fun zone. Winterfest will also feature an ice rink. See lowellwinterfest.com.

• The Merrimack Parks & Recreation department is holding its 26th annual Winter Carnival on Saturday, Feb. 24, from noon to 3 p.m. at Wasserman Park (116 Naticook Road, Merrimack). The event features a cardboard sledding contest, an ice fishing derby, s’mores making, carnival games, arts and crafts, snowshoeing demonstrations, ice carving demonstrations and much more. Admission is free. Visit merrimackparksandrec.org or call 882-1046.

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• Celebrate January’s second full moon with a nighttime snowshoe hike to Battery Point. Join Jake King with Thrive Outdoors and Massabesic naturalist Angie Krysiak for the hike, a campfire, hot cocoa, marshmallows and a telescope for some moon and star-gazing before the hike.

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Motorcycle-themed wedding held in Bedford backyard

By Matt Ingersoll

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Heather Carroll-Wiggin of New Boston knew all along she wanted to have a small wedding — after all, she and her husband’s family and friends all knew each other well. So when her father-in-law came forward to offer up his backyard in Bedford, she took the opportunity.

She and her husband Sam were married on Oct. 7 during their 12th anniversary weekend as a couple. Despite limiting the wedding to just 82 people, she had big plans to make it one to remember.

“Originally, my husband and I met because we race motorcycles,” CarrollWiggin, 42, said. “I actually race sidecars with my dad. The Loudon track is our home track … [and] my husband is a motocross racer, so we had the same sort of circle of friends. … We wanted [the wedHIPPO | JANUARY 25 - 31, 2018 | PAGE 20

Brian Carroll brings daughter Heather Carroll-Wiggin down the aisle in her motorcycle sidecar, the same one she rides with him in at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Photo by NH Images Photography & Video (nhimages.com).

ding] to have a motorcycle theme to it and I started to think, ‘How do we do this in a

backyard?’”

Carroll-Wiggin recruited the help of

professional wedding planner Tracy Dapp of the Salem-based Inked Events, whom she had met through her mother-in-law.

The idea was for her father to bring her down the aisle while riding the motorcycle with her seated in the sidecar in her wedding dress.

“Tracy was able to take all of the crazy ideas I had on paper and make them happen,” she said.

“What happened was that we had to make it look like there wasn’t a path, so essentially it was kept a secret … [and] we were hidden in the garage until it was time [to walk down].”

Her father-in-law’s backyard was decorated with vintage motorcycle helmets, gas tanks and place cards with a checkered theme. Additionally, her gift to her groomsmen was a picture of a vintage motorcycle printed on all of their ties.

“We basically turned the backyard into a semi-formal event,” she said. “People

were saying, ‘Wow, I can’t believe this is Steve’s [my father-in-law’s] backyard.”

Choosing the type of food to serve was a no-brainer to her — she wanted it to be wood-fired-oven-style pizza. Not only does her four-year-old son Wyatt love pizza, but it was the very same food she and Sam ate when they went out on their first date.

Tim Woff of Stone Oven Catering in Exeter was brought in to serve fresh pizzas at the wedding and even entertain some guests by throwing around his pies while he made them. But that wasn’t all for food caterers.

“There was an unforeseen issue that popped up and for a short time we actually had a lot of trouble getting partial catering,” Carroll-Wiggin said, “but we

eventually managed to find Caroline’s Fine Food in Bedford. They do items a la carte and ended up being the perfect accompaniment.”

She said Caroline’s provided a charcuterie table filled with cured meats, olives, cheeses and other hors d’oeuvres.

For dessert, Carroll-Wiggin took the unusual step of not serving a wedding cake to her guests, and instead opting for a variety of sweets and pastries

courtesy of the Black Forest Cafe & Bakery in Amherst.

“We had apple cider donuts, whoopie pies and giant chocolate chip cookies,” she said. “I just thought the whole wedding cake thing was cliche and it seemed like an expense we could do away with.”

She also hired DJ Greg Kassapis from NRG Entertainment in Tilton to provide EDM tunes, and Peter Clayman of NH Images in

Nashua to take photos. Her wedding dress was from Marry & Tux Bridal, and chosen carefully with the help of Dapp.

“It was Tracy’s job to actually help me get on and off the sidecar … in a way that was comfortable to hold on while also being able to maneuver in my dress,” Carroll-Wiggin said. “She didn’t blink.”

Carroll-Wiggin said holding a wedding in the backyard of one of her own family members ended up lending itself to a great opportunity for getting creative while not having to worry about any time commitments or other obligations.

“We could stay as long as we wanted … [and] it was creating that illusion that you were stepping into someplace else that was really fun,” she said.

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Route 101, Amherst, 672-0500, theblackforestcafe.com) offers a variety of dessert catering Inked Events (Salem, 401-9938, inkedoptions that include 6-inch or 9-inch pies, events.com) is an award-winning wedding cookies, donuts, scones and more, as well as and social event planning company that sandwich trays, fruit trays, cheese trays, salads serves all of New England. Services include and baked pastas, like butternut squash lasa- either partial or full planning, as well as wedgna and chicken and sun-dried tomato penne. ding day management and coordination.

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Couple turns to vineyard for their magical day

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By Angie Sykeny

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When Katie and Dan Fornash got engaged in October 2016, their first thought was to have a summer wedding, but the summer of 2017 felt too soon, and the summer of 2018 felt too far away. As a selfproclaimed “Christmas nerd,” Katie proposed a December wedding that would incorporate winter and holiday themes.

The couple decided against hiring a wedding planner to save money and took on the challenge of planning their own wedding, starting with the venue. They initially envisioned a rustic barn, but after exploring those kinds of venues, they decided to go in a slightly different direction with Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown. It features a barn-like event center with wooden beams and panels, a fireplace, a Christmas tree and a balcony and staircase leading down from the bridal suite.

“We realized the rustic barns weren’t what we were looking for at all,” Katie said. “From the moment we walked in [to Zorvino], we knew it was the right venue for us. It had that rustic feel that we wanted but was a little classier than the typical rustic barn.”

They held both the ceremony and the reception in Zorvino’s event center.

For the ceremony, the majority of the guests sat at tables toward the back of the room that would also be used for the reception, while chairs were set up in the front of the room for about two dozen of the couple’s closest family and friends.

Their floral centerpieces, which they got from Ford Flower Co. in Salem, reflected the winter theme with red roses, white hydrangeas, greenery and pine cones.

The Fornashes also incorporated their passion for hiking into the wedding. They used an image of the first mountain they hiked together as the background for their

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The Fornashes used several local vendors ray.com) to make their day special.

• Hilton Garden Inn (101 South Commercial St., Manchester, 669-2222, • Ford Flower Co. (83 S. Broadway, hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com) Salem, 893-9955, fordflower.com) • First Student (51 Lowell Road, Salem, • Chickadee Hill Cakes (343 Main St., 893-1631, firststudentinc.com) Sandown, 887-2253, chickadeehillcakes. • Black Tie Limousine (25 Bond St., com) Haverhill, Mass., 800-624-9990, blacktie• Main Event Entertainment (Lonlimo.com) donderry, 833-8293, amainevent.com) • Marry & Tux Bridal (100 Daniel • Arthur Murray Dance Studio (99 Elm Webster Highway, Nashua, 883-6999, marryandtuxbridal.com) St., Manchester, 624-6857, arthurmur-

invitations, which were designed by a family member; they used that same image with the text “I love you to the mountains and back” for the labels stuck to the candles they gave out as wedding favors, and they named each guest table after one of the mountains they had hiked together.

“We love hiking and thought it would be a unique thing to include that,” Katie said.

Food included standard hors d’oeuvres during the cocktail hour, prime rib and chicken options for dinner, and a late-night mac-and-cheese bar open during the final hour of the reception, all catered by the venue. The cake, which came from Chickadee Hill Cakes in Sandown, was three tiers, the top and bottom tiers being spice cake with McIntosh apple filling, and the middle tier being butter vanilla cake with berries and cream filling.

“We never expected to leave the tasting with a flavor combination like that. We thought we were going to pick something basic like a vanilla cake with lemon or raspberry filling,” Katie said, “but the spice cake was perfect for our winter theme.”

Music was provided by DJ Joey Dion of Main Event Entertainment based in Londonderry. Katie walked down the aisle to a Trans Siberian Orchestra version of the Canon in D wedding theme. Their first dance as husband and wife was “You Make Me Feel So Young” by Frank Sinatra, for which they took eight months of private dance lessons at Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Manchester.

“Neither one of us are dancers, but we wanted something memorable that would stick with us,” Katie said. “We flubbed at the beginning, but we knew how to pick it back up, and we ended right on key, so I guess those lessons paid off.”

With no hotels in close proximity to Zorvino, the Fornashes were concerned about guests drinking and driving, so they rented a charter school bus from First Student in Salem to transport guests to and from the Hilton Garden Inn in Manchester. The

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Vineyard venues If a winery or vineyard sounds like the perfect setting, here are a few in southern New Hampshire.

• Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-7359, birchwoodvineyards.com) • Flag Hill Distillery & Winery (297 N. River Road, Lee, 659-2949, flaghill.com) • Fulchino Vineyard (187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis, 438-5984, fulchinovineyard.com) • Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard (528 Meadow Pond Road, Gilmanton, 2678251, gilmantonwinery.com) • LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) • Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown, 887-8463, zorvino.com)

wedding party was transported via limousine from Black Tie Limousine, based in Haverhill, Mass.

“I’m very happy with every vendor I chose,” Katie said “I think everything came together perfectly.”

Big community, small overhead

By Ryan Lessard

news@hippopress.com

Hannah and Rob Barr took a largely traditional route in getting married but weren’t afraid to go off-road to save a buck (and hurt feelings) along the way.

The venue

Hannah, 20, and Rob, 28, both of Manchester, tied the knot on Aug. 12, 2017, at Calvary Bible Church in Derry. The ceremony was held in the chapel and the reception was held in the gym, which

doubles as a worship center.

“The venue was kind of chosen because we are Christians and go to Calvary,” Hannah said.

She and her husband are active members of the church, which entitles them to certain benefits, including free use of the facilities and its furnishings for their wedding.

They briefly considered having an outdoor wedding at Odiorne State Park beach in Rye but the cost was estimated to be around $10,000 for the use of the land, a tent rental, an officer detail (required when serving alcohol), 24

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23 catering and bar. That figure did not include decorations or other details such as the bride’s dress.

Hannah said the use of the church is also available to non-members but they must pay a small fee of around $200.

Both the chapel and the reception hall was large enough to seat the estimated 130 guests who attended their wedding.

The couple opted not to have a wedding party since the alternative would have been having a very large party or a party of a more manageable size with some close friends feeling left out.

Plus, this way the couple were able to keep things simple and make the happy time about their commitment to one another.

“We still had other people involved, just not in the ceremony,” Hannah said.

In the end, they spent an estimated $5,580 on their wedding, with the help of family.

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All told, she estimates the decorations cost about $1,000. That included about $200 spent on about 180 roses purchased in bulk from Costco.

“We were able to get a screamin’ deal,” Rob said.

They got a mix of pink and white roses and assembled them in vases with ribbons to form centerpieces.

“It wasn’t a crazy theme of anything, but the thing I kept saying was ‘elegant but simple,’” Hannah said.

She did her best to avoid the rustic wedding aesthetic that has grown popular in recent years. And to that end, she

avoided getting ideas from rustic-wedding-heavy Pinterest.

Some of the key colors they adhered to were blush pink and light teal. Rob’s tie was teal, as were the cupcakes.

They had cupcakes made by Rob’s mother and sister, who also made a larger wedding topper for the ceremonial cake cutting. His mother has a cupcake side business called Bebecakes.

Their photographer was Brennan McCarthy (brennanmccarthy.co), who was a friend who offered to shoot the wedding at a rate discounted from his usual $1,000 rate, and they had a friend cater for them (K&M Catering) at a discounted price of $2,500.

Hannah’s wedding dress was purchased at David’s Bridal in Nashua. She was able to get a discount, which made the dress $500. Rob went to Men’s Wearhouse in Manchester and ordered a custom suit for $550.

While the couple did not pay for a limousine or any other sort of unique transportation rental, they did ride in style.

Rob, a sports car enthusiast, drove his own Subaru WRX to and from his wedding.

Tips for keep costs down Tracy Dapp, wedding planner and owner of Inked Events, knows how to keep a couple within their budget.

Here are a few tips from Dapp for planning a low-cost wedding.

• Keep the guest list low. This is a biggie. Each person counts for one entree and catering is one of the biggest costs, not to mention the cost of a larger venue to fit a big guest list.

• Find a venue that throws in extras for its regular fee. Some places include catering, furniture rentals, cake or flowers.

• Try alternative catering options like food trucks.

• Go paperless with your wedding invitations. There are a number of digital services available online.

• Check out discounts stores or Facebook groups that are selling things like used decor or clothes.

• Keep the decor simple. You can nix the guestbook and favors.

• Purchase a dress at a designer’s trunk show or purchase a sample dress at a bridal shop.

• Schedule your wedding in the off season.

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The nine movies nominated for the 2018 Oscars (which will be handed out March 4) were announced this week and most are screening in (or very near to) southern New Hampshire. Get Out (for which Jordan Peele was also nominated for best director — only the fifth black director to receive a director’s nomination in Oscar history) was released last winter and is available for home viewing as is Dunkirk, which was released this summer. Lady Bird (which also got director Greta Gerwig a nomination — the fifth ever for a female director) is currently screening at Red River Theatres in Concord, Wilton Town Hall Theater and AMC Methuen. Call Me By Your Name is at AMC Methuen. Darkest Hour is at the Cinemagic theaters in Merrimack and Hooksett, Red River Theatres, AMC Methuen and O’Neil Cinemas at Brickyard Square in Epping. Phantom Thread is playing at AMC theaters in Tyngsboro and Methuen. The Post is at Chunky’s in Manchester and Nashua, Cinemagic theaters in Merrimack and Hooksett, Derry Five Star Cinema and O’Neil Cinemas in Epping. The Shape of Water is at Cinemagic theaters in Merrimack and Hooksett, Derry Five Star Cinemas, Wilton Town Hall Theater and Red River Theatres. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is at the Cinemagic in Hooksett and the O’Neil Cinemas in Epping. This theater line-up will likely change Friday, check listings for your favorite theater.

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Find more comedy happenings this weekend on page 56.

Rock of Ages, the 1980s rock jukebox musical, continues its run at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester, palacetheatre.org) with shows this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and next Thursday through Saturday. Today, catch one of two matinee showings this weekend (the play runs at 2 p.m. today and Sunday and this 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday). Tickets for adults start at $39. Go to hippopress.com and click on “past issues” to find Hippo’s story on the production on page 24 of the Jan. 11 issue.

EAT: Locally made baked goods, breads, cheeses, mustard and more on sale this and every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Winter Farmers’ Market held weekly at Cole Gardens (430 London Road in Concord, 229-0655, colegardens.com).

Saturday, Jan. 27

For $40 get a handcrafted bowl as well as soup, bread and desserts at the 13th Annual Potter’s Bowl benefit for Community Caregivers of Greater Derry today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Pinkerton Academy in Derry.

Admission is $10 for kids under 12. In addition to soups from more than a dozen restaurants, the evening will feature live music, a silent auction and pottery wheel demonstrations. Call 432-0877, ext. 1, for tickets.

DRINK: At the Winter Wine Spectacular. As of Monday, tickets are still available to Easterseals NH’s annual wine tasting at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Manchester, Thursday, Jan. 25, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets cost $65 for the grand tasting, $135 for a tasting that includes access to the Bellman’s Cellar Select room. See nhwineweek.com for tickets and go to hippopress.com and click on “past issues” to find Hippo’s story on this and all wine week events (including tastings, wine dinners and bottle signings) in the Jan. 11 issue.

Sunday, Jan. 28

If holiday productions of The Nutcracker gave you the ballet bug, check out the State Ballet Theater of Russia’s presentation of Sleeping Beauty today at 3 p.m. at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St. in Concord, ccanh. com, 225-1111). Tickets run $20 to $58.

BE MERRY: At the Bedford Village Inn’s annual ice bar featuring live music, martini bars, specialty cocktails and a whiskey bar, according to the inn’s website. This year’s Reyka Vodka Ice Bar runs Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 10 p.m. each night outside the Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way in Bedford, bedfordvillageinn.com). Tickets cost $20 per person and must be purchased in advance.

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ARTS Kids go classic

The Majestic Theatre youth take on Bye, Bye, Birdie

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

The Majestic Theatre travels back to the ’50s with its youth production of Bye, Bye, Birdie, opening Friday, Jan. 26, at the Derry Opera House.

The Broadway classic is set in 1958 in the small town of Sweet Apple, Ohio, and centers around an Elvis-like rock ’n’ roll star named Conrad Birdie who, to the dismay of his enamored fans, is drafted into the Army.

As a publicity stunt, Birdie’s agent and songwriter arranges for Birdie to appear on a television program, where he will perform a new song called “One Last Kiss” and give one lucky girl from his fan club a real last kiss before reporting for duty.

Nothing goes as planned, however, when the boyfriend of the chosen girl becomes jealous, among other complications.

The Majestic Theatre will perform the “Young Performers’ Edition” of the musical, which is adapted for youth theater.

“Some junior versions [of plays and musicals] are better than others, but the Bye, Bye, Birdie one is really well done,” Musical Director Rob Dionne said. “[The adaptation developers] cut it back without compromising the story line, and they kept a good feel to the show while putting it at a level that kids and teens can perform.”

Unlike many musicals that keep to Bye, Bye, Birdie: Young Performers’ Edition Where: Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry When: Friday, Jan. 26, and Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 28, at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $15 for adults, $13 for seniors 65+, and $10 for children age 17 and under More info: majestictheatre.net, 669-7469

The Majestic Theatre presents Bye, Bye Birdie. Courtesy photos.

one musical style throughout the score, Dionne said, Bye, Bye, Birdie showcases the diversity of musical styles represented in the ’50s and ’60s, “from Calypso and Latin music to pop ballads and classic rock and roll.”

“Nearly every one of the numbers is a crowd-pleaser,” Director Jocelyn Duford said. “They’re high-energy, silly and have a lot of heart, which audiences love.”

“You leave the show humming the songs,” Dionne added. “That’s the way classic Broadway music was written, and this show is classic Broadway at its best.”

With many of the musical numbers involving ensemble chorus parts and choreography, the show calls for a relatively large cast; it consists of 36 kids, ages 7 through 15, with a mix of well-seasoned and newbie performers.

Dionne and Duford decided to keep the production as close to the original as possible and refrain from doing any alter-

Nearly every one of the numbers is a crowd-pleaser. They’re high-energy, silly and have a lot of heart...

JOCELYN DUFORD native interpretations.

“Just the fact that you have kids and teens doing a show written for adults puts a spin on it and gives it a different feel,” Dionne said. “There’s a certain innocence that kids bring to the show that you don’t get from adult actors.”

Having youth actors play adult charac-

ters does pose some challenges, however, particularly with the characters involved in romantic subplots.

“Anytime you do a show like this with kids, you have to do it in a way that’s comfortable for them,” Dionne said. “You have to do it in a way that they won’t feel silly, and that can be difficult.”

While many Bye, Bye, Birdie productions feature “humongous, over-the-top and hyperrealistic sets,” Duford said, The Majestic Theatre will use a minimalistic set with just a few key pieces to indicate when a scene changes.

“We want to keep the focus on the actors rather than a big distracting set. We want to have them bring the scenes to life, and leave some of it up to the audience’s imagination,” she said. “It’s a good challenge for the kids. They have to think, ‘There isn’t much of a set, so we really need to feel where we are [in the scene] and bring that out for audience.”

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• Orchestral opera: The New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera New Hampshire present an orchestral production of George Bizet’s Carmen! on Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 28, at 2 p.m. at the Stockbridge Theatre (5 Pinkerton St., Derry). The opera will be performed with soloists and chorus, and with projected graphics to indicate scene changes and set the mood. Visit nhphil.org.

• Three days of one-acts: The annual One-Act Play Festival returns to the Dana Center (100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester) Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. each night. The Saint Anselm Abbey Players will present one-act experimental plays directed by students. The cost is $9 for adults and $8 for children, students and seniors. Visit anselm.edu.

• Murder mystery: The MicroSociety Academy Charter School of Nashua presents Cafe Murder at the Nashua Country Club (25 Fairway St., Nashua) on Friday, Feb. 2, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Enjoy mystery, mayhem and laughs during this whodunnit murder mystery dinner theater show. Tickets cost $75. Visit macsnh.org.

Theater Productions • ROCK OF AGES The Palace Theatre presents. Jan. 12 through Feb. 3. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25 for children ages 6 through 12, $39 to $46 for adults. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: THE MUSICAL The Rochester Opera House presents. Jan. 18 through Feb. 4. 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Tickets start at $16. Visit RochesterOperaHouse.com.

• THE ODD COUPLE FEMALE VERSION A New

E. Ann Poole Justice of the Peace The Alchemists’ Workshop presents Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise. Courtesy photo.

• Choosing the plays: The Actorsingers (219 Lake St., Nashua) will host a play reading open house on Friday, Jan. 26, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Listen to proposed options for the 2018-2019 season of mainstage shows and express your own ideas.

Visit actorsingers.org or call 889-9691.

• O’Keeffe in Hawaii: The Alchemists’ Workshop presents Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise at Manchester City Library (405 Pine St., Manchester) on Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. The musical is based on the 2011 book Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai’i, coauthored by Patricia Jennings, who, as the 12-year-old daughter of a pineapple planter, served as O’Keeffe’s guide for 10 days during O’Keeffe’s nine-week stay in Hawaii in 1938 to produce paintings for a Dole Pineapple Co. national advertising campaign.

Donations will be accepted. Visit alchemistsworkshop.org. — Angie Sykeny

Hampshire Theatre Project production. Jan. 12 through Jan. 28.

959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $28 for general admission, $24 for seniors, students and veterans. Visit nhtheatreproject.org.

• A NEW BRAIN Thurs., Jan. 25, through Sat., Jan. 27. Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. $20 to $25. Visit seacoastrep.org.

• EVERY BRILLIANT THING The Peterborough Players present. Feb. 1 through Feb. 11. 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $39.

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“What is left when we leave a space?”

That’s the question explored in Kelley Stelling Contemporary’s latest exhibition, “Things I have No Words For,” on view at the Manchester gallery now through Feb. 18.

The exhibition features three painters and one printmaker whose work focuses on interior spaces and the objects within them.

“It goes beyond what’s visually there [in a space],” gallery owner Karina Kelley said. “It’s about the feeling that you get from a space, our connection with the spaces and objects we live with, and how we interact with them. What’s in a space when there’s no one in it, and what does that mean to us?”

New Hampshire Institute of Art graduate Mike Howat is one of the featured artists.

His paintings challenge the traditional landscape form, with subjects like abandoned buildings and Hampton Beach scenes during the off-season.

“A harborside with boats or a sunset over a mountain is not my cup of tea,” he said. “I try to paint things that are more interesting, that tell a narrative and have more emotional context, rather than just a pretty picture.”

Howat’s work also looks at how particular objects relate to the environments in which they are set. His piece “No Signal,” which can be seen in the exhibition, depicts a radio sitting on a window sill, with a forest landscape behind it.

“The things that catch my eye are lonely figures, isolated in a space, that become bigger or more important than the things around them,” he said.

Three other artists will accompany Howat: Abba Cudney creates through a unique process of direct to screen watercolor monotype. Her art represents specific moments in time within an interior space, combining solid, representational objects with objects painted with loose, quick strokes. Amy Brnger does cheerful and colorful representational paintings, often pairing interiors and still life with landscapes using a voy“Things I Have No Words For” Where: Kelley Stelling Contemporary, 221 Hanover St., Manchester When: On view now through Feb. 18.

Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and by appointment.

More info: kelleystellingcontemporary. com, 345-1779

“No Signal” by Mike Howat. Courtesy photo.

euristic viewpoint, with windows looking outside and inside. Jarid del Deo’s work includes representational and observational paintings depicting objects and places that are familiar or feel like home, with a focus on patterns, textures and small details.

This is the fourth exhibition hosted

by Kelley Stelling Contemporary, which opened on Hanover Street in October.

The gallery highlights emerging, contemporary artists whose work pushes the boundaries of traditional art in New Hampshire, and “Things I have No Words For” does exactly that.

“These artists look at the world and at space a little differently,” Kelley said. “The views, the angles and the subjects are very unorthodox and diverge from what you typically see in landscape and architectural paintings. They’re taking traditional mediums and using them in a unique way that people haven’t seen before.”

For contemporary artists like Howat, who left his day job four months ago to pursue painting full time, Kelley Stelling Contemporary is one of the only local galleries where they can showcase their work, uninhibited. Howat said he used his place in the exhibition as an opportunity to “push things a bit” and “play around with different ideas” in his artwork.

“Some of my still life [pieces in the exhibition] are odd and poignant and not as marketable as the work I did previously.

Any working creative knows that they have to bend a little to what they can market; it’s the unfortunate truth,” he said, “But this [exhibition] is a platform to create the way I want and make it work in a gallery that’s receptive to it.”

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Openings • “LOVE, LUST & DESIRE” OPENING Group exhibition featuring work from more than 60 artists, including paintings, prints, photography and mixed media. Fri., Feb. 2, 5 to 7 p.m.

McGowan Fine Art, 2 Phenix Ave. , Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• FACULTY ART EXHIBITION RECEPTION Features painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and graphic design by Fine Arts faculty. Thurs., Feb. 1, 5 to 7 p.m.

Colby-Sawyer College, 541 Main St., New London. Visit colby-sawyer.edu.

• “PRINTS OF THE YEAR” RECEPTION Exhibition showcases prints by regional printmakers working in lithography, intaglio, and printmaking techniques, both new and old.

Fri., Feb. 2, 5 to 8 p.m. NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

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Alyssa Mees art featured in “Love, Lust and Desire X.” Courtesy photo.

on view now through Jan. 30 in the Tower Gallery. It showcases original paintings from the 1800s to the present, hung in the style of traditional 19th-century French salon exhibitions. There are more than 50 oil paintings and watercolors in a variety of styles including landscape, impressionist, abstract and realist, by artists such as Leon Kroll, Lucy Hariot Booth, Stefanos Sideris, Frederick Rhodes Sisson, David Dodge, Christopher Myott and others. Art will range in price from $30 to $995. The exhibit is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit nhantiquecoop.com.

• Lecture at the winery: New Hampshire Institute of Art will present a lecture, “A Sense of Place,” at LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst) on Sunday, Jan. 28, at 3 p.m. NHIA BFA and MFA Faculty Yoav Horesh will speak about photography, history and multiculturalism and how a sense of place runs through his work and relates to time, space and history. Enjoy artisan cheeses and world-class wine during the lecture. The cost is $5. Call 6230313 or visit nhia.edu. — Angie Sykeny

• GREGORY B. SEARLE OPENING Digital computer artist presents work. Sat., Feb. 3, noon to 2 p.m. ArtHub, 30 Temple St., Nashua. Call 405-6981951 or visit naaa-arthub.org.

Classical Music • GUITAR TRIPTYCH II: DAVID WILLIAM ROSS Classical and contemporary acoustic guitar. Thurs., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students. Visit hatboxnh.com.

• WORDS ON MUSIC: A SYMPHONY NH TALK Symphony NH bassist Robert Hoffman discusses and plays recorded excerpts of the pieces featured in the orchestra’s upcoming show “All Beethoven” on Jan. 27.

Thurs., Jan, 25, 5:30 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org.

• JAZZ IN JANUARY The Wall Street Jazz Ensemble performs.

Fri., Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. Concord

Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. $20 adults and $15 students and seniors. Call 2281196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.

• “ALL BEETHOVEN” Symphony NH performs. Sat., Jan. 27, 8 p.m. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. $10 to $49. Visit symphonynh.org.

• COFFEE AND CANDID CANTATA Eight-person orchestra plays baroque period instruments. Part of High Mowing School’s Music on the Hill series.

Sun., Jan. 28, 4 p.m. Pine Hill School Auditorium, 77 Pine Hill Drive, Wilton. Suggested donation $25; children younger than 12 admitted free. Visit highmowing.org/concertseries.

• “JUST THE CLASSICS” Presented by Nashua North Choirs with Sinfonietta Strings, featuring works by Schubert, Morley, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Elgar, di Lasso, and more. Wed., Jan. 31, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nashua High School North, 8 Titan Way, Nashua. Visit sinfoniettastringsofgreaternashua.com.

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• Envelope art: Studio 550 Art Center (550 Elm St., Manchester) presents its third annual embellished envelope art exhibition, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered… I’m Yours,” on view Jan. 27 through Feb. 28. The goal of the exhibition is to encourage people to send more handwritten letters and to reflect on modern methods of communication. It features envelopes created by artists, students, hobbyists, scrapbookers and others, using paint, collage, drawings, calligraphy and more. All envelopes will be available for purchase, ranging from $2 to $12 each. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 6 to 7 p.m., with small postcards and postage for visitors to decorate and mail to a loved one.

Studio 550 is also accepting submissions for the exhibition now through Friday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m. Anyone can submit an envelope, and there is no application fee. Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597.

• A lovely exhibition: McGowan Fine Art (2 Phenix Ave., Concord) presents “Love, Lust and Desire X,” on view Jan. 30 through Feb. 16, with an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. The annual group exhibition features the work of 60 different artists, including paintings, prints, photography and mixed media. Call 225-2515 or visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• Last call for antique art: Don’t miss the New Hampshire Antique Co-op’s (323 Elm St., Milford) exhibition, “Art: Salon-style,”

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LISTINGS 32 Children & Teens Games, clubs, fun...

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Skating on thick ice Avoid the elements at an indoor rink

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32 Continued Education Classes, seminars, lectures...

32 Festivals & Fairs Community, expos...

32 Health & Wellness Workshops, exercises...

37 Marketing & Business Networking, classes....

37 Miscellaneous Fairs, festivals, yard sales...

37 Nature & Gardening Walks, workshops...

FEATURES 33 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

34 The Gardening Guy Advice on your outdoors.

35 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

36 Car Talk Click and Clack give you car advice.

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

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The winter season is upon us, and for many that means ice skating. If you don’t want to wait for perfect conditions at the local pond, visit these indoor rinks offering public skate sessions throughout the week.

Tri-Town Ice Arena (311 W. River Road, Hooksett) has twohour-long public ice skating sessions daily. The arena has 78,000 square feet of space, with two official National Hockey League-size rinks. Public skating is $6 for adults and children, with rentals for $4.

Walkers for beginners can be rented for $4 with a $5 refundable security deposit. Public skating punch cards are available for $50 and include 10 admissions. Check tri-townicearena.com for public skate times or call 485-1100.

The JFK Memorial Coliseum (303 Beech St., Manchester) ice rink is open to public skating on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. The skating surface is 185 feet by 85 feet. Ice skate rentals are $5 and available only on weekends, school vacations and holidays. The handicapped accessible rink has four changing rooms and a concession stand. Visit manchesternh.gov/Departments/ Parks-and-Recreation/Parks-Facilities/JFK-Memorial-Coliseum or call 624-6444.

Conway Arena (5 Stadium Drive, Nashua) offers public skating

Children & Teens Children events • FAMILY GAME NIGHT Join Derry Public Library for its inaugural Family Game Night. Bring the family or join other patrons and play against other families. Games are provided and guests can bring their own. Mon., Jan. 29, 6:30 p.m.

Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Visit derrypl.org or call 432-6140.

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year-round for families and friends looking for a fun indoor activity or for someone who just wants to dust off their rusty skates. Public skate is Friday through Wednesday at varying times. Admission is $5 per skater and $4 per rental skate.

A 10-session pass book for public skating is $40. The arena also offers ice skating lessons that cater to the needs of both the recreational and the competitive skaters. Check conwayarena.com or call 595-2400 for current public skate times.

The Douglas N. Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord) offers public skating, stick practice and lessons from mid-September to mid-March. Skating hours are Monday through Friday from 11:30

draw from her 20 plus years of gardening experience to teach participants about the 20 types of flowering houseplants, growing tips how to fertilize for optimum growth and bloom. Wed., Feb. 7, 7 p.m. First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St., Nashua. Members free, non-members $5. Visit nashuagardenclub.com.

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a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Sunday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5, free for kids age 3 and under. Ice skate rentals are available in the pro shop for $5.Visit concordnh.gov/ arena or call 225-8690.

The Ice Center (60 Lowell Road, Salem) is open for public ice skating on Fridays from 9 to 10 p.m., Saturdays from 2:40 to 4 p.m., and Sundays from 1:40 to 3 p.m. Public skate is $6, free for kids age 4 and under. Ice skate rentals are $5. Visit icentersalem. com or call 893-4448.

The Rinks at Exeter (40 Industrial Drive, Exeter) have two public ice skating rinks open daily at varying times. Admission is $6 and

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offers access to both rinks. Skate rentals are $4. A booklet of 10 public skate passes is $50. The rink offers support bars for kids age 3 to 5 to help them learn to skate.

Visit therinksatexeter.com or call 775-7423.

The Dover Ice Arena (110 Portland Avenue, Dover) has public ice skating times throughout the season Monday through Friday from noon to 1:50 p.m., and Sundays from 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. Adults ages 18 to 61 are $7, kids age 4 to 17 are $5 and seniors ages 62 and older are $5. Tots 3 and under are free. Skate rentals are $4 and skate sharpening is $5. Visit dover.nh.gov/government/city-operations/recreation/ arena or call 516-6060.

This signature event showcases New England agricultural life and the historical practices, crafts, trades, traditions and pastimes that have been passed down through generations. Sat., Feb. 3, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. $10 for kids and adults ages 11 and up, $5 for ages 5 to 10, and free for ages 4 and under. Visit remickmuseum. org or call 323-7591.

Festivals & Fairs • NH FARM & FOREST Events EXPO An industry trade show • 15TH ANNUAL ICE HAR- with nearly 100 exhibitors, free VEST & WINTER CARNIVAL educational workshops for all,

unique New Hampshire made products, a Kidzone for the kids, demonstrations, fuzzy and furry animals, networking and more.

Fri., Feb. 2, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sat., Feb. 3, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. $7 general admission per person, and and free for kids ages 16 and under. Visit nhfarmandforestexpo.org.

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Fun at libraries

Load up on books at the Manchester City Library’s book sale. Get a bag of books for $10 Saturday, Jan. 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Winchell Roam on the lower level of the Main Library (405 Pine St. in Manchester, manchesterlibrary.org).

Bring an average-size grocery bag to fill with books (for children, young adults and adults) as well as CDs, DVDs and musical scores, according to the library website.

Get little ones moving (and out of the house) at drop-in yoga for babies (9:15 to 10 a.m.), for crawlers and walkers (11:15 a.m. to noon) and for kids (ages 4 to 7, 1 to 2 p.m.) all in the Discovery Room of the Hooksett Public Library (31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way in Hooksett, hooksettlibrary. org). These drop-in sessions don’t require registration but are for Hooksett Library card holders (call 485-6092 to find out how to get one).

At the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St. in Nashua, nashualibrary.org, 589-4600) come on Friday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. to see Deep (rated PG, 2017), an animated mov-

ie about the adventures of an octopus and his friends.

Come back on Sunday, Jan. 28, for open story time and puppet shows held in the Children’s Room from 2 to 2:4 p.m.

Make it a museum day

Fight cabin fever with a few trips to area kid-friendly learning centers.

At the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord, 271-7827, starhop.com), current exhibits include “True or False!” (an interactive exhibit examining the natural world and the scientific method), which is on display until April 29. And you can catch one of the planetarium shows, which run about 35 to 45 minutes, according to the center’s website. On weekends, the center is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the museum costs $11.50 for adults and $8.50 for children ages 3 to 12 (there are discounts for older students, seniors and groups) and planetarium shows cost an extra $5 per person. See the website for a show schedule.

Build an animal home with Lego in the STEAM Lab at the Children’s Museum of NH (6 Washington St. in Dover, 742-2002, childrens-museum.org) from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 27. The museum is open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission costs $10 per person.

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IN/OUT THE GARDENING GUY

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Each winter, just as I am about to give up on life in the North Country and move to an island in the Caribbean, I am saved by the arrival of the spring flower shows. If you think that life is nothing but shoveling walks and wearing so many layers of wool that the Pillsbury Dough Boy looks scrawny in comparison, you will be delighted with the flower shows. Read on … and mark your calendars!

The first — and smallest — of the shows is New Hampshire Orchid Society Show from Feb. 9 to Feb. 11 at the Courtyard Marriot Hotel in Nashua. This is a specialty show, but has been happening for 27 years and is a delight for both novices and orchid geeks. There will be lectures, displays and vendors. Admission is $10 or less, and kids under 12 are free. Get those grandkids and bring them along.

Of the big shows, the first is the Connecticut Flower and Garden Show in Hartford at the Connecticut Convention Center Feb. 22 to Feb. 25. This show used to compete with the Rhode Island Flower Show that was held the same weekend. Sadly, that one ran out of steam and disappeared like some of those Zone 6 perennials I planted in my Zone 4 garden. I used to try to see both shows, but now I don’t have to race from one to the other.

The Connecticut Show is a four-day event with plenty of displays and speakers. I always recommend going on Thursday or Friday while the crowds are smaller and the flowers fresher. The theme for this year’s show is “Breath of Spring.”

The next show is the biggest of the season, the Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 3 to March 11. The theme this year is “The Wonder of Water.” When you enter you will pass through a rainforest environment with a 25-foot waterfall and a jungle of tropical flowers. Other exhibits will focus on other environments, from jungle to desert.

I called the show offices and learned that the show covers 10 acres of indoor displays and involves about 40 floral and landscape displays. The Marketplace will have over 100 vendors selling just about everything related to gardening from seeds and bulbs to umbrellas and scarves with floral patterns.

Next comes the Boston Flower and Garden Show at the Seaport Convention Center March 14 to March 18. The theme this year is “Savor Spring.” Like the Philly show, it has lots of displays and workshops. If I go, I’ll want to hear an editor of Fine Gardening magazine talk about “Plants Every Northeast Garden Should Have” to see if there are any I don’t have. Or perhaps I’ll attend “Garden Design 101 Class:

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Creating an Ever-Blooming, Low-Maintenance Garden” with Kerry Mendez.

The following week is the Portland, Maine, Flower Show from March 22 to March 25.

The theme this year is “Rooted in Maine.”

There will be 14 display gardens, 115 exhibits of plants, hardscape, arbor and garden supplies, and many workshops and seminars.

A show I only recently heard about is near Albany in Troy, N.Y. In its 31st year, it is called the Capital District Garden and Flower Show and will be held March 23 to March 25 at Hudson Valley Community College. From their photos and write-up, I imagine it will be similar in size and scope to the Vermont Flower Show, which is now an every-otheryear show not occurring this year.

Bangor, Maine, has an annual flower show, though I’ve never attended. This year it will be held in the Alfond Arena in Orono, Maine, on April 20 to April 22. If you go, please contact me so I’ll learn more about it.

Last year I crossed one more item off my bucket list. My partner Cindy Heath and I flew to London and attended the Chelsea Flower Show. It is in a league by itself, both in size and scope. Mostly outdoors, it includes displays with full-sized trees planted for the week. Under a big tent are displays of flowers of every ilk: hellebores, alliums, iris, narcissus, tulips, vegetables, carnivorous plants and much, much more. To see my article about the show and see a dozen photos, go to https:// dailyuv.com/feed/905682.

The Chelsea Show is held May 22 to May 26. Join the Royal Horticulture Society to get reduced prices and access before the rest of the world (the first two days are just for RHS members). One member can bring in three guests. The Brits love their flowers and know how to celebrate them. Bring a flowered dress or vest and bowtie, and walk around drinking Champagne if you wish.

My friend Jill Nooney of Bedrock Gardens in Lee has exhibited at the Boston Show seven times, winning many awards for her garden designs. I asked her, why go to the flower shows? “Nobody can resist the smell of humid mulch-filled air in the middle of March,” she said. I agree.

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IN/OUT TREASURE HUNT

Dear Donna, While cleaning out my brother’s estate I found this tiny painting. I am wondering if there could be any value to it? It’s 3” x 3” and doesn’t have any signature or information on the back.

Terry

not for you I think you could find a nice home for your tiny piece of art.

Note: When having art framed, bring it to an expert in framing to have it done in the right way that will help preserve it the longest.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is an antiques appraiser and instructor. To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 624-8668).

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Dear Terry, It’s tough to determine anything with no information.

First of all, I think it’s a watercolor.

It’s tough to give you any other definite information because usually we look for the name of the artist, age and subject.

This time, though, all we have to go on is the subject. The fact that it is a miniature makes it interesting.

Not knowing if the watercolor was done yesterday (meaning modern) or way back when (meaning antique) makes it very tough to put a value on it. But let’s just go by subject and condition: The subject looks pleasing and the condition looks good. Miniature things always seem to be special.

As far as a value goes, I would get it into a frame to improve the presentation of it, and then I would put it in the $80 range. If

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Diminished mileage has many possible causes Dear Car Talk: I am the second owner of a 2003 Ford Explorer. The first owner was a little old lady who drove it only on weekends. Seriously, she said she was a geologist who

By Ray Magliozzi went into the Colorado wilderness to collect rock and soil samples!

She took good care of the car, which is why I have had it longer than any I have previously owned. It’s been a great vehicle for six years, but I have noticed a distinct loss of highway mpg in the past eight months: Where I once eked out 20 mpg, it seems the best I can do now is just short of 16. One service representative suggested a fuel line problem and put a new filter and some kind of “booster” in the line, but it didn’t seem to help. I don’t want to sell or trade it, and it’s too old to be worth much. Will you name some possible causes, solutions and costs? Thanks. — Steve Well, let’s go from least expensive to most expensive so you’ll be completely depressed by the time you finish reading today.

The least expensive possibility is that you’ve lost compression in your cylinders.

You may have had 150 pounds of pressure in each cylinder six years ago, and now,

through wear and tear, you’re down to 110.

That would require an engine rebuild to fix.

But since this is a 2003 Explorer, you’re not going to bother rebuilding the engine, so this is going to cost you nothing. You’ll just keep driving and fill up more often.

Also cheap would be a slipping transmission, because again, you wouldn’t bother fixing that either.

The next-most-expensive possibility is really low tire pressure. If that’s what’s causing your low mileage, that’ll cost you a handful of quarters at the gas station air pump. That’d be pretty good, huh?

Next on the list, and it may be the most likely, is a bad thermostat. If the thermostat is stuck open or partially open, the engine is never getting to full operating temperature, where it operates most efficiently. That could explain a 20 percent drop in mileage, especially in the winter. Getting the thermostat replaced is going to cost you about $75.

Continuing upscale, you could have a sticking brake caliper. You can imagine that driving around with your brakes on all the time will take a bite out of your gas mileage. That might cost you a few hundred bucks to fix.

You also could have a partially plugged up catalytic converter, or an obstruction in your muffler or some other part of your exhaust

system. A muffler is a few hundred bucks; a converter probably is $500 or more.

Finally, there’s one problem whose fix could actually earn you money: You could have a teenage son who’s stealing a gallon here and a gallon there to go out and drive around with his friends. If that’s the cause of your diminished mileage, you can punish him by not paying for his cellphone anymore. That’ll net you at least $50 a month, Steve. Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2014 Subaru Forester that I love more than anything in the world. I look at her the way I imagine some people look at their children. Even though she’s built to go off road, I’m super, super careful on dirt roads.

But how gingerly do I need to drive my sweet baby car, and how much can a car actually take? — Laura I’d avoid tree stumps, Laura.

Not all “off road” vehicles are equal.

SUVs like Jeep Wranglers and Range Rovers and the like have big, metal skid plates underneath them to keep the transmission and engine’s oil pan from being dented or torn off by boulders and petrified wild boar.

Your Forester isn’t that heavily armored.

I think it’s fair to say that the Forester is

designed more to get you through snow or a muddy dirt road. Or to the ski lodge when you’re playing hooky from work during a blizzard. It’s got more traction than cars with two-wheel drive, and it’s got more ground clearance. But it doesn’t have the heavy-duty parts that would allow you to retrace Lewis and Clark’s expeditionary route.

Plus — and this is true for any car — the more gently you drive it and the less you bang it around, the longer it will last, and the less frequently it’ll break. So if you follow that Car Talk dictum, you’d drive it gently all the time — avoiding jackrabbit starts and hard stops and turns — and you wouldn’t seek out rutted dirt roads. And when you needed to go truly “off road” for any reason, you’d drive slowly and carefully.

It’s not that the Forester is particularly delicate; it’s a fairly durable car. But if you really love this Forester more than anything in the world, and look at it like you would your children (which, frankly, I find a little disturbing, Laura), then minimizing off-road use and driving gently when you do encounter unpaved roads is going to be your best bet.

And whatever you do, Laura, I hope you two are very happy together ... in sickness and in health, ‘til head gasket do you part.

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WILDCAT TALK Join the Hooksett Public Library (31 Mount St. Mary’s Way, Hooksett) for a presentation on bobcats and other wildcats of New Hampshire on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 6:30 p.m. Doug Whitfield of the Wildlife Steward with New Hampshire Fish & Game will be at the library to give an informative presentation about the different wildcats that can be found in the Granite State and the most likely areas and times of year you are bound to see them. He will also answer any questions people have about them at the end of the presentation.

Admission is free and no registration is required. Visit hooksettlibrary.org or call 485-6092 for more details.

Boyce, AFPA, RYT, NASM as the speaker. Thurs., Feb. 1, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Family Physical Therapy Services, 207 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. Free. Call 644-8334 or email info@familyptservices.com.

• AN EVENING OF MEN’S HEALTH Parkland Medical Center will lead this workshop.

Enjoy food and drinks on them while learning about important health information including prostate health, behavioral health, cardiology and more.

Spouses, loved ones and friends are welcome, but you must be age 21 or older to attend. Tues., Feb. 6, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Pipe Dream Brewing, 49 Harvey Road, Londonderry. Free; reservations are required. Visit parklandmedicalcenter.com/calendar or call 642-2362.

• RED WINE, DARK CHOCOLATE & HEART HEALTH Featuring dark chocolate from Lindt and wine sampling by Soleravino, this event is being organized by Derry Medical Center and Derry Imaging Center to raise awareness about heart health, including the new blood pressure guidelines, recognizing the different heart attack symptoms for women, and the link between diabetes and heart diseases. Thurs., Feb. 8, 4 to 7 p.m. Overlook Medical Park, 6 Tsienneto Road, Derry. Free.

Visit derrymedicalservices.com or call 537-1300.

Marketing & Business Networking groups • SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN BUSINESS Mingle and get inspired by other local, female business owners. Each business gets a 1 minute promotion and a 10 minute spotlight. Thurs., Jan. 25, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Abigail White Co., 612 Howe St., Manchester. Visit facebook.com/ SWIBusiness.

Other • CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE 10-WEEK BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE In this 10-week business planning course, partici-

pants will explore and assess the financial and market viability of their business concept, learn how to market their business to target customers, and explore options for funding the ongoing costs of operating a business. Thursdays, Feb. 8 to April 12, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Center for Women and Enterprise, 30 Temple St., Nashua. $450. Contact at Alexandra Bishop at 318-7583 or abishop@cweonline.org.

Miscellaneous Trips & travel events • TRAVEL SHOWCASE Learn about vacation destinations. Hear about Service Volunteers a program to recognize volunteers and the organizations they serve. Thurs., Jan. 25, 4 to 7 p.m. Derryfield Country Club, 625 Mammoth Road, Manchester. Visit milnetravel.com or call 669-0235.

Yard sales/fundraisers/ auctions • JUMBLE SALE Sat., Jan. 27.

First Church Congregational, 63 S. Main St., Rochester. Free admission. Visit first-ucc.net or call 332-1121.

Nature & Gardening Animals/insects • LIVE REPTILE & AMPHIBIAN SHOW Learn about some of the Center’s live turtles, frogs and snakes. Learn which species live natively in New Hampshire, how to identify them, and what strategies they use to survive the winter. Sat., Feb. 17, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $8 per person or $20 per family. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

Birding events • EAGLES ALONG THE MERRIMACK Join an Amoskeag Fishways instructor and search for bald eagles along the Merrimack River in Manchester.

The program begins with an orientation at the center, followed by a quest to spot the first eagle of the day. Expect to carpool, dress warmly, and bring your

binoculars if possible. Saturday, Jan. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Amoskeag Fishway, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. $3 per person, $6 per family. Visit amoskeagfishways.org.

• JUNIOR EXPLORERS: SONGS IN THE SKY, SIGNS IN THE SNOW Led by Kelly Dwyer, New Hampshire Audubon’s director of education, and Paula Chouinard, Massabesic Audubon Center naturalist.

Learn to identify common birds by their songs, as well as learning what their winter plumage and distinct footprint patterns in the snow look like. Classes are for ages 7 to 12 and parents are encouraged to participate. Please dress to be outside. Wed., Jan. 31, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $12 for members or $15 for non-members. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

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CAREERS

did that for, I believe six years, on garbage, and that was a fun gig. … After I got off the garbage, I became a pipe-layer on the sewer gang, and then the truck driver opened up.

I said … I’m going to try something different. It’s great overtime in the winter, a few extra bucks.

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Donnie Dionne of Manchester is a driver for Manchester Public Works.

Explain what your current job is.

[I’m] a truck driver for the City of Manchester. And the operations of what I do would be anything from hauling asphalt, hauling snow, plowing the city … hauling equipment. In the wintertime, there’s sanding involved, there’s salting involved, a lot of plowing, a lot of hours put in. Those are the things that a truck driver would do. You are responsible for the vehicle that you step into on a day-to-day [basis].

Like a lot of kids, looking out the window, you see the trash truck driver go by and you see them working on the sidewalk, just getting your hands dirty. I’ve always [been] a hands-on type of guy. I just wanted to do that stuff growing up, laboring. I like that.

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

You have to have your CDL [Commercial Driver’s License]. They give you a six-month period to get your CDL when I first started. … You have to take a written test and then you have to go do a pre-trip How long have you worked there? to get that. It’s challenging for some people Ten completed years. … but to drive those trucks you need that How did you get interested in this field? endorsement. … There’s one guy who stays

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later on after we punch out and he trains these guys to get their commercial license.

How did you find your current job?

I was in the detail car business all through high school. I’ve always been into cleaning cars and detailing them, making them look nice. When I got out of high school, I was going to get into corrections; my father is in corrections. And I said, I don’t really know if that’s … me. And he said, ‘Listen. Take a year off from college, if you want to go.

But I’m going to get you a job in the city.’

So he was my push to get in here and said ‘I think you’ll like it.’ I never left. I fell in love with it. … I came in and the first day on the job, I was on the back of a garbage truck. I was kind of blown away because I didn’t figure I’d be a garbage man. But I

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Just work hard and you get appreciated.

They see that. I keep quiet, I do my job, sign my paperwork in every day. … I work well with others. Just do a good job, that’s what I like.

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

Probably more things like paving … or maybe even more [knowledge of] plowing. I was shown things but I kind of taught myself a lot of the skills.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

It would be Carhartt pants, a pair of boots and … either shirt, sweatshirt, jacket with a high-vis reflector on it, like a vest.

What was the first job you ever had?

First job I had was a dishwasher [and host]. … That was in a pub in Litchfield called Crofters Pub. — Ryan Lessard

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FOOD Slices of creativity

Off Main Pizzeria set to open in Concord

By Matt Ingersoll

News from the local food scene

mingersoll@hippopress.com

By Matt Ingersoll

For Concord resident and longtime Domino’s Pizza franchise owner Jon Devens, opening his own pizzeria means a new opportunity for people in the Capital City to grab a quick slice of pizza or a salad for lunch downtown — while he gets to cook up his own signature pizza creations.

Pizzas, salads, paninis, house-made desserts and more are going to be available at Off Main Pizzeria, which is on track to open by either late January or early February, according to Devens. He said the vision of the 25-seat pizzeria — which is just off the corner of Main and Pleasant streets — was that of a simple place to either sit down and enjoy a few slices of pizza or grab some on your lunch break.

“I’m not delivering or doing that huge menu that some other pizza places do. No pasta, no fried clam dinners, nothing like that,” Devens said. “I wanted to be sort of on the other side of the fence.”

Devens constructed the menu to include options of ordering pizzas either by the slice or as two sizes of full pies. Pizzas are going to be made with hand-stretched thin crusts, and gluten-free options will also be available. You can either build your own pizza with a variety of sauces, meats, vegetables or cheeses, or choose from nearly two dozen specialty toppings.

There are several familiar favorites — like Buffalo chicken with scallions, cheddar, mozzarella and provolone, or an Italian meat lover’s with pepperoni, sau-

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• Smuttynose up for sale: One of the largest craft breweries in the Granite State is going to auction. A bank auction for Smuttynose Brewing Co. in Hampton is scheduled for March 9, according to a recent press release. The company, which says it’s in immediate need of a buyer, is expected to be sold at the auction. The sale also includes the adjacent Hayseed Restaurant. Smuttynose owner Peter Egelston said in a statement that the decision to sell the brewery was made due to the “explosion of microbreweries” in the region leading to changes in the marketplace. Smuttynose was founded in 1994 and generates more than $10 million in revenue annually. Egelston and his partner Joanne Francis also own the Portsmouth Brewery, which is not part of the sale.

• Chili & ice cream: Join the Amherst Lions Club for Fire & Ice, its third annual chili cook-off and all-you-can-eat ice cream sundaes event on Friday, Feb. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Amherst Middle School (14 Cross Road, Amherst). In addition to chili and ice cream, there will be corn bread, salads and hot dogs. The cost to attend is $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 6 to 12 and free for kids under 6, and tickets can be purchased either in advance or at the door. There’s also still time to enter your best chili recipe — visit amherst.nhlions. org or email Danielle Pray at amherstlionsclub@gmail.com by Jan. 30 to sign up.

• Anniversary brews: The Flight Center Beer Cafe (97 Main St., Nashua) is celebrating its first anniversary on Friday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. with barrel-aged beers from Founders Brewing Co., as well as pourings from several local breweries, including Lithermans Limited Brewery in Concord, Martha’s Exchange Restaurant & Brewery in Nashua, Out.Haus Ales in Northwood, Backyard Brewery & Kitchen in Manchester, Oddball Brewing Co. in Suncook and Kelsen Brewing Co. in Derry. Visit flightcenterbc.com or call 417-6184 for more details.

• A revival for Revival: Revival Kitchen & Bar (11 Depot St., Concord) recently finished renovating its space and now has new floors, booths and more, the restaurant announced in a Jan. 10 Facebook post. The restaurant was closed for about a week to allow the renovations to take place. New menu items are also on the way in time for Revival’s first anniversary of opening in the Capital City. Visit revivalkitchennh.com or call 715-5723.

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Off Main Pizzeria An opening date is expected in either late January or early February. Visit the Facebook page or call for updates.

Where: 26 Pleasant St., Concord Anticipated hours: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Takeout will also be available) Visit: facebook.com/offmainpizzeria or call 227-6661

Off Main Pizzeria will offer specialty pies like these, or you can build your own. Photos by Matt Ingersoll.

sage, ham, bacon and beef — but Devens is also adding to the menu other unique innovative toppings he has made for himself over the years.

“These are all basically pies that I’ve made a variation of at Domino’s Pizza stores for 25 years, for the crew,” he said.

Examples include a pastrami Reuben pizza, made with Russian dressing, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, mozzarella and provolone cheeses; the Jamaican jerk chicken pizza, which will have jerk sauce, grilled chicken, red onions, scallions and roasted red peppers; and a sweet Thai chili pizza which can be ordered with either chicken or steak.

“The jerk chicken one is a pizza I think people will take a bite and be like, ‘Wow, this is good,’” Devens said. “It’s spicy and it’s got a real kind of kick. ... We’re also going to have a Southwest pizza with black beans on it that really makes it.”

Devens said there will be room for even more experimentation with pizza toppings in the future; once the pizzeria opens, you might see recurring specials available that don’t appear in the regular menu.

“I want to do some stuff with some things that are great on pizzas, you know, like asparagus or sweet potatoes,” he said.

“Brussels sprouts are also great on pizza. I made a Brussels sprouts and sausage pizza with a little maple drizzle on it that was just awesome.”

In addition to the pizzas, Off Main Pizzeria will also offer Pepsi products for drinks, a small menu of salads like gar-

den, Greek and chicken Caesar, and paninis that are made to order and served on ciabatta rolls. Panini varieties include smoked turkey, bacon and Swiss cheese, roast beef and cheddar, a grilled cheese with applewood smoked bacon, a Philly cheese steak with red onions and green peppers, a Greek veggie panini with garlic hummus, baby spinach, tomatoes, red pepper mayonnaise and more.

“I did paninis too because I thought that pizza and salad alone might have been a little too limiting,” Devens said, “and I also wanted something else I could serve hot.”

Even a rotating selection of a few housemade desserts will be available, like double fudge brownie, gingerbread molasses blondies, butterscotch blondies, raspberry crumble bars and more.

Devens grew up in New York and worked up in the ranks in the pizza business through his college career and beyond, eventually coming to the Granite State to buy his own Domino’s store in the early ’90s in Rochester. He also owned the Milford store for about 15 years before moving up to Concord in 2015.

Last August, he broke ground on the property that would become Off Main Pizzeria, which he said was vacant for at least four years and once housed a small church long before that.

“The whole point of the place was to have a cool, fun, funky vibe. I wanted it to be a little upscale, but I also want it to be a fun place to hang out,” he said, “and it came out exactly how I had envisioned it.”

Crafty foods

New Hampshire-based startup highlights artisan foods from across New England

By Matt Ingersoll

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A new Granite State-based subscription service is bringing local artisan jams, sauc-

es, coffees, syrups and more right to your doorstep.

New England’s Finest is a new startup business that delivers themed boxes with four to six hand-selected items from all six New England states. Chief curation officer

and co-founder Matt Gianino launched the Madbury-based service last May as an initiative to benefit both small businesses and their potential new customers.

“We wanted to support local [people] … that are doing really high-quality work

and are producing amazing food,” Gianino said, “but secondly, we’re meeting a niche need for people who are interested in certain products but aren’t able to go to the country store every day.”

When signing up for New England’s Finest, you have the option of choosing either one-, three-, six- or 12-month subscriptions, and each box is mailed on or around the 15th of each month with a different theme depending on the time of the year. Single boxes can also be purchased.

The sources of the products often rotate throughout the year but normally include one from each New England state, according to Gianino.

Several of his partners are also based in the Granite State, like Hope Bars in Brookline, which has contributed quinoa-based energy bars. Wayward Gourmet in Manchester has had its barbecue rubs and spices in some boxes, and Blackwater Mustard Co. in Contoocook contributes handmade mustard batches, which include flavors like hot and sweet chocolate stout. There is also a wide spectrum of products that come from each of the other five New England states.

“These individuals are students of their craft and are trying to [make their products] like no one else is doing,” Gianino said. “It’s all about quality over quantity and taking great care in every step.”

The theme of each box is usually in line with the time of year, Gianino said. For example, there was a “backyard barbecue” themed box over the summer with various rubs and sauces, and a fall harvest box that followed it a few months later with products like an apple-infused maple syrup and a cider donut pancake mix.

While the boxes themselves won’t ever repeat each year, the themes will likely remain the same or be modified in some way to make them different.

Gianino said the idea for New England’s Finest was born out of his admiration for

Food & Drink Author events/lectures • AUTHOR’S NIGHT AT ZORVINO VINEYARDS More than 60 local and nationally known authors will visit the vineyards, including television chef Mary Ann Esposito, who will be there to sign her books.

There is also going to be a cash bar, an open winery for sampling, and food available for purchase.

Fri., Feb. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. Zorvino Vineyards, 226 Main St., Sandown. Free admission. Visit zorvino.com or call 887-8463.

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entrepreneurial activity in the region and a desire to provide an easy and convenient way to share those original products.

“A lot of people are trying to make it on their own and are carving out their own individual niches,” he said, “and so I did some research and started attending fairs, farmers markets and food expos and proactively reached out to these folks to build relationships.”

He said the best way for customers to find out more information about the businesses that participate in New England’s Finest is to sign up for the email list.

“Once you do that, you’ll get a newsletter from us twice a month,” he said. “The first one is an introduction to that month’s theme … [and] the second one comes after everyone receives their box, and that will give people a taste of what’s coming up.”

black satin, big boy stout, smoked porter, black widow IPA, Irish dry stout, and the robust porter.

Thurs., Jan. 25, 6 p.m. Incredibrew, 112 D.W. Highway, Nashua. $30 for returning brewers and $40 for new brewers. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

Tastings • 13TH ANNUAL POTTER’S BOWL FUNDRAISER For $40, patrons are able to pick a handcrafted pottery bowl donated by local New Hampshire artists, and enjoy more than a dozen different soups donated from local restaurants in the Derry area as well as delicious breads and desserts. Sat., Jan. 27, 5 to 8 p.m. Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton Road, Derry. $40 for

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• 3RD ANNUAL AMHERST LIONS CLUB FIRE & ICE This event is a chili cook-off that will also feature all-youcan-eat sundaes. Chili cooks wishing to enter their chili recipe (two-gallon minimum) for one year’s bragging rights can contact Danielle Pray at amherstlionsclub@gmail.com for more details. The deadline to register is Jan. 30. In addition to chili, there will be cornbread, salad with all the fixings, drinks and hot dogs. Fri., Feb. 2, 5 to 7 p.m. Amherst Middle School, 14 Cross Road, Amherst. $10 for adults and $5 for kids ages 6 through 12.

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[World-Wide] Mustard Competition at the National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin.

What would you choose to have for your What is the biggest food trend in New last meal?

Venison and pork pasty with some of Hampshire right now?

I’m so glad that supporting local food Gould Hill Farm’s apple cider. producers that use homemade products is What is your favorite local restaurant? starting to catch on. It’s taken a long time I’d have to say the Appleseed [Res- for that to happen. taurant] in Bradford. I usually like to get What is your favorite recipe item using whatever they have for specials. your mustard?

The breaded pork chops. There are What celebrity would you like to see so many good ways to use our mustard, using or buying your product?

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2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley Flour 2 raw beaten eggs Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Stir together panko, olive oil, oregano, parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt and pepper. Transfer to one-gallon zip-lock bag. Coat chops with flour, then place in breadcrumb mixture. Shake to coat well. Bake on rack for 15 minutes, then turn over and bake for 10 more minutes. Let them stand for 5 minutes. Melt butter in medium skillet over medium heat.

Add shallot and saute for 3 minutes. Increase heat to medium high, then add broth. Boil for 1 minute. Stir in mustard, cream and lemon juice occasionally for 2 to 3 minutes, or until sauce thickens. Stir in chopped parsley. Serve immediately with pork chops. will host a macaroni and cheese cook-off on Saturday, Feb. 3, from noon to 2 p.m. Enter your best recipe to compete for a cash prize and awards. There is a $25 registration fee for recipe entries and the deadline to enter is Jan. 29. The tasting is $3 for ages 13 and up, $2 for kids ages 5 to 12, and free for kids under 5.

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The active time it takes to make the cinnamon roll isn’t outrageous, but waiting for this monster to cook was a near-death experience.

Plus, being patient enough for the dough to rise, and then for the cinnamon roll to proof, was painful — I couldn’t wait to dig in.

The finished cinnamon roll was just about the most beautiful breakfast I’ve ever seen, not to mention the most delicious start to a day. I was worried the middle wouldn’t be cooked or the outer edges would be dry because of how large it was and the long cook time, but I couldn’t have been more pleased with the final product. Each bite was quintessential cinnamon roll: chewy, gooey and packed with flavor. Plus, the cream cheese frosting granted slightly more depth of flavor than a cloyingly sweet all-sugar frosting.

I will absolutely be making this recipe again, but with one change: I plan on making the roll the night before, and letting it proof slowly in the refrigerator before baking it the next morning. This should prevent the overall process from seeming too time-consuming — and it will cut the overall time from when I wake up to when I get to dig in.

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If you’re into pastries the size of your head, this recipe is for you. It’s a bit more laborintensive than my usual fare, but each sweet, gooey, frosting-filled bite was worth every second in the kitchen.

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When it’s cold, I want a dark beer. It’s that simple. Especially on a freezing cold night — and we’ve had plenty of those — I want something with some richness, some complexity and some heft.

In the summertime, the heat nudges you toward lighter, crisper beers, while the darkness of winter nudges you toward malty beers that invite you to sip and savor.

Here are three beers I’ve enjoyed recently to help you through the darkest and coldest nights in January and February.

Northern Lights Double Black IPA, a collaborative effort by Great North Aleworks in Manchester and New Realm Brewing Co. in Atlanta: Black IPAs can be hit or miss. It’s challenging to make a beer with the complexity of a dark beer and the hoppiness of an IPA — and to make it work. Allagash Brewing Co. in Maine used to brew a wonderful Belgian-style black IPA, but on the whole it can be a tough brew to master. It’s always confounded me because I love IPAs and I love darker beers, so I should love the melding of the two. Well, I do love Northern Lights, which is remarkably well-balanced: not too hoppy and not too malty.

The pour is dark; it looks like a stout. The hops stand out on the nose with a lively hop aroma but there’s an obvious richness that’s missing from your typical IPA. The nose on this beer is fascinating. Still, this isn’t an overly heavy beer and the malt does not take over.

Pour this with your favorite steak or roast. And then send me a thank-you note.

Paradigm Brown Ale by Kelsen Brewing Co. in Derry: This is everything an American brown ale should be: roasty, nutty, complex and velvety smooth. Take your time and savor this brew, which pours almost black and features sweet notes of delicious chocolate, toasted nuts and rich coffee. I love all brown ales but sometimes they can be a little too light, lacking a bit of backbone. I want my brown ales robust.

What’s in My Fridge Alchemist Brewery Focal Banger American IPA : Hops, hops and more hops — dare I say a hop-lover’s dream? The hops are literally oozing out of the glass or the can, as the folks at Alchemist recommend drinking straight from the can.

The Alchemist has long been at the heart of the craft beer movement and specifically the IPA movement. The Focal Banger is the very best of the style. Cheers!

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Paradigm delivers.

At 7.0 ABV this is a big brown, and the warmth from the alcohol is pleasing in late January. But this beer isn’t heavy like a porter or stout. It’s not going to fill you up, but you shouldn’t rush through it either. Savor this one in all its glory.

I have some difficulty pairing brown ales with food, as the flavor is particularly unique. It worked really well for me with a couple handfuls of toasted almonds as I watched the Patriots.

Imperial Stout by Moat Mountain Smoke House & Brewing Co. in North Conway: My wife wrote, “So good; like heaven in a glass” on the piece of scrap paper on which I was writing notes. Also, she underlined “so good” twice, so yeah.

She’s definitely not wrong. This beer is tremendous. The pour is black with a thick and rich mocha head. At 9.0 ABV this is a big beer with big flavor but it’s so smooth, it doesn’t drink like a high-alcohol beer.

I love the rich coffee notes, coupled with notes of dark chocolate and dark fruit. The lingering finish begs you to take another sip. Too much hyperbole? Maybe, but this is a terrific example of the imperial stout style.

Imperial stouts are meant to be enjoyed over a period of time. Sip this over a lazy afternoon or evening or as you enjoy dessert.

I’ll take a handwritten thank-you note for this one.

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This is a New York band that isn’t just going through a set of forced motions to sound country-ish or garage-ish or whatnot but truly, honestly urban. Over the past decade or so, most bands of this ilk would have stuck with their Spacemen 3-ishness or concentrated on their twee side, all without adding any layers of electronic substance or much else to keep critics guessing (or even awake). This one begins with “Verdant,” a sluggy Pink Floyd-ish bit that becomes a sweeping, swirling vision of life riding subways and the daydreams that bloom from it, magnificent synth lines creeping in before you even know they were there. “Cut to the quick,” on the other hand, is a Belle & Sebastian bit that eventually becomes a Guster-like alt-folk behemoth, again sneaking in wide-screen greatness right under your nose. The sum effect is oddly satisfying, like hearing great songs coming together at loose rehearsals.

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From Halifax, Nova Scotia, comes this jagged, jumping punk band, whose sound is more no-wave than DIY, not that there’s even supposed to be a difference, but these guys can be … I dunno, gentle in an odd way, even when they’re covering Gang Green (they released a redo of “Sold Out” in November as a single, which, these days, comes off as an honest homage rather than a lousy calculation). The song lengths are bang on, topping out at two minutes (not counting the seven minutes of “Oh Yeah,” which just sounds like a drunken band practice where no one would shut up). Gloriously bad production here: “Weekend Rockers” is a sloppy mishmash of off-the-cuff Black Flag ferocity and vocals that are so heavily sodden with reverb that they’re just white noise. “Doin’ the Pyre” is thoroughly no-wave, though, like Half Japanese on angel dust, which only points out the possibility that today’s DIY punks are cursed with good equipment. More please. A — Eric W. Saeger

• Jan. 26 sees several releases, starting off with some guy who used to be in Kaiser Chiefs, Nick J.D. Hodgson, with his LP Tell Your Friends! Why did this guy quit Kaiser Chiefs, you may wonder? Well, wouldn’t you? They sort of fell into a not-quiteindie and not-quite-rockout-band niche, a Never Never Land of milquetoasty who-cares-ness, sort of like those lonely pink-frosted doughnuts you see at Dunkin’ Donuts, the ones that are liked by only one person you’ve ever known, and Kaiser Chiefs were the same thing, except a rock band, like you’d hear a song and think “this is awesome” and then it would suddenly kind of suck and you’d shut it off and delete it from your Spotify, but really jam your thumb down hard on the “Get Rid Of This Stupid Song” button when you deleted it, as revenge for being disappointed

by Kaiser Chiefs. You may or may not be disappointed by “Suitable,” the single from this album, because it’s basically a ripoff of a Kate Havnevik song but with stupid falsetto vocals, as if it’s still 2004.

• German composer Nils Frahm likes combining acoustic piano with 1980s synths and obscure keyboards, and what this has earned him after 20-plus years is the distinction of soundtracking a trailer for an Assassin’s Creed game. All Melody, his new album, streets Jan. 26, and the trailer shows us that he’s into selfindulgent, endlessly long synth ringouts, a sort of soundscaping that might be good for Jennifer Aniston rom-coms when everyone is being serious for once, because she’s really thinking hard about dumping her boyfriend, even though, spoiler, they’ll be getting back together.

• Rick Springfield was the guy from General Hospital who started making albums because he was hot, but no matter, all the girls who drooled over him are grandmothers now. For those grandmothers, he is releasing The Snake King, a new album of music songs for grandmothers in denial. OMG, the single “Little Demon” is so funny, like a Bon Jovi B-side from 1989, when he started thinking he was a cowboy Rascal Flatt dude, like it sort of rocks in a way, right, and you start beating on your air drums for a second, but then the chorus comes in and there’s no substance and the guitar sound gets wimpy then you put down your air drumsticks and go get a soda.

• Laguna Beach native Ty Segall grew up on Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper, and he has been doing garage-grunge for 10 years now. Freedom’s Goblin, his new album, sports the single “My Lady’s on Fire,” which of course sounds like Gerry Rafferty from 1978, makeout music for cab drivers who smoke cigars.

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Most of us would prefer jellyfish not to be part of our adventures, particularly if we’ve ever been stung by one.

But in Spineless, Juli Berwald, an ocean scientist improbably based in Austin, Texas, embarks on what she terms a jellyfish adventure, plunging into the watery world of gelatinous orbs and their role on the planet. It’s a role that’s bigger than one might think, and it’s possibly growing even larger.

While landlubbers go about their ordinary lives, people with advanced degrees in marine science are debating whether or not jellyfish populations are exploding. The jury is still out, but if jellyfish are, in fact, growing more plentiful, one reason could be that increasing levels of carbon dioxide are making the ocean more acidic and less hospitable to sea creatures with shells while more nurturing of algae, worms and jellyfish.

We hear a lot about algae blooms these days, but there are also jellyfish blooms that occur all over the world, and masses of jellyfish have caused technological failures when they are sucked up into coastal power plants and gum up the works. Most famously for U.S. interests, a jellyfish bloom temporarily incapacitated the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan on its first voyage in 2006. As jellyfish problems go, that puts a couple of hours of angry welts on your leg in perspective.

Berwald doesn’t just examine the problems caused by jellyfish, however. Having become engrossed with them about the time her children entered grade school (giving her “a blessed seven and a half hours of tuition-free time to catch my breath”), she is a font of jellyfish trivia, the sort that will enable you to bore people for hours at your next cocktail party.

Jellies, as people in the know call them, don’t float aimlessly through the water looking for a leg on which to attach; they are efficient swimmers and power themselves like water sucked through a straw. A serving of jellyfish — yes, people eat them, as do sea turtles and sunfish — contains 25 calories, 6 grams of protein and no fat. Some species can reproduce without a mate.

In the course of the book, Berwald not only studies jellyfish, but she cooks them and acquires them as pets, then travels the globe in search of jellyfish knowledge, from the laboratories of Woods Hole, Mass., to a tidal stream in Hiroshima, along the way becoming not just a jellyfish enthusiast but an apologist for the planet, and specifically “the wild ocean” and marine-protected areas, or MPAs. Just 3 percent of the ocean is protected, she notes, arguing for an expansion of 10 percent or more.

With all this information about jellyfish, you’d think Berwald would have the solution to the more immediate problem that concerns most beach-goers: what to do about jellyfish strings, which occur roughly 150 million times a year.

Unfortunately, she writes that there’s little consensus about the best treatment, in part because there are so many different types of jellyfish with different types of toxins. But for now, it appears that applying hot water to the sting is the best bet. Vinegar works, too.

“If you are stung, your best bet is to pluck off any visible tentacles using tweezers if you have them,” she writes. “Then douse your sting in vinegar and then hot water. Cold water will make the sting worse.” You can forget about the old-school remedies of alcohol, baking soda and urine.

The subtitle of Spineless promises an examination of “the science of jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone,” but it delivers more on the former than the latter. Mercifully, the book is more science than memoir, because the usually graceful narrative is hobbled at times by the awkward injection of autobiography that strays too far off topic.

Animal lovers should also note that Spineless regards jellyfish more as object than as creature, even as Berwald makes the case for their importance in the ecosystem. She writes about an incident at the dawn of her jellyfish consciousness, in which she encounters a massive specimen washed up on a shore in Alabama where her family is vacationing.

The creature was three feet wide, so big that children were tugging it about in a wagon, and when the accumulating children take to stabbing it with sand shovels, “splaying open its clear jelly innards,” Berwald stands by impassively and later explains away the savagery as curiosity, the desire “to know what it was made of, to explore the inside of this alien creature.”

Well, that’s one way to look at it, I suppose. Another is a view expressed by one of the more colorful scientists that Berwald encounters, a guy named Monty who says at one point, “What’s of most concern to people is not actually jellyfish. What’s of most concern is how jellyfish affect people.”

Spineless is not your typical memoir about animals in exactly that way; it’s ostensibly about an animal, but the animal itself is incidental, having a primitive central nervous system and no pain receptors or brain, which is why an otherwise compassionate mother can stand on a beach smiling as her child joyfully stabs one.

Was it alive, or dead, to begin with? This is not noted, as if it didn’t matter. As Monty explained, jellyfish themselves are not our concern, just how they affect our lives. B — Jennifer Graham

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Oh, wait, is this not 2003? Have we already lived through nearly two decades of anti-hero cops and conflicted robbers? Huh, then I’m not sure who this movie is for.

Obnoxious tough-guy wannabe and allaround terrible human being Nick Flanagan (Gerard Butler) is head of the Rumpled Leather Jackets Unit at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. When an empty armored car is stolen during a shoot-up, he believes the incident is part of a plan by Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber), a high-achieving bank robber who is known for leading a disciplined crew of guys like Levi Enson (50 Cent), who you think is going to be important to the movie but ultimately who I think is just there for one scene of comic relief.

Nick’s crew of police dudes, all dressed like they’re doing some kind of NYPD Blue/ The Shield cosplay, decide to try to flip the weak link of Merrimen’s crew, who they decide is Donnie (O’Shea Jackson Jr., the spot-on Ice Cube, his real-life dad, in Straight Outta Compton). Donnie is a driver who tells Nick he knows nothing about the robberies themselves. Nick’s plan is to keep Donnie as part of Merrimen’s crew to learn the details of the next heist, which may have something to do with Donnie’s newest side gig, delivering Chinese food to downtown offices including the Federal Reserve.

This movie contains not a single character I rooted for or cared one kernel of popcorn about. Characters either get so little development that I was never all that invested in their outcome or such stupid development that I found myself just waiting for them to die or be arrested.

Big Nick is, in particular, one of the laziest characters that has ever been pulled from the Big Book Of Cop Caricatures and slapped into a movie. And Butler plays him so hamfistedly that it borders on camp and would feel derivative even if we were still back in the early aughts being captivated by antiheroes. Enough with the chest-puffing, Big Nick; go back to Denis Leary’s notebook of rejected ideas for Rescue Me. The movie ends with — and of course it does, so SPOILER ALERT but also who cares — a massive shootout that is exasperatingly dumb. Our gang of bad boy cops sprays bullets at the gang of overly clever robbers in the middle of a civilian-filled traffic jam. At a gang of robbers who have just committed a bloodless, injury-free burglary. Does nobody in Nick’s crew of wannabe gangsters think this kind of response might be overkill? Like a lot of overkill, involving dead civilians sitting in cars?

Exhausting weirdo Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) makes elegant if somewhat matronly dresses in 1950s London.

He runs his fashion house with Cyril (Lesley Manville), his sister, who also seems to be his principal life companion. As the movie begins we get a taste of what his romantic life has probably long been: he falls for a woman mostly as a muse and model for his dresses and sort of secondarily as a lover. Eventually he loses interest in both aspects and essentially stops interacting with the woman, leaving his sister to do the breaking up.

After one such situation, he heads out to a country house for a little relaxation and meets Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress at a local restaurant. She agrees to go to dinner with him and quickly finds herself installed in his house, where she is muse, lover and also works making the dresses.

Alma seems to understand that Reynolds is an exhausting weirdo what with his complaints about how loudly she butters her toast and his seeming inability to get through an evening without his sister but seems to decide he’s her exhausting weirdo.

Where other women have clearly given up, she leans in and matches Reynolds’ controlling nuttiness with some crazy of her own.

Seldom have I thought, during a two-plushour movie, this movie needs more extended scenes of sewing. But, it does! The sewing — Reynolds carefully fitting bespoke dresses, his white-lab-coat-wearing staff smoothing and cutting fabric, his little habit of sewing messages into the clothes — is by far the most interesting part of the movie. You get the sense of the craft and of the attention to detail and (sometimes) the care of clients that helps explain why Reynolds’ idiosyncrasies might be tolerated.

Otherwise you’ve got a movie that seems to exemplify the phenomenon Linda Holmes, of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, frequently talks about as “most acting” versus best acting. Day-Lewis here is doing a lot of performance, creating an ornate jewelry box of a person with secret compartments and oddball mementos. It isn’t a bad performance. I’d file it with Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game) — all interesting performances in shrug-meh movies 2017.

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Gerard Butler, 50 Cent and Ice Cube’s more-talented-than-this son play cops and robbers in Den of Thieves, a movie for all those fans of The Shield waiting for the new season.

Daniel Day-Lewis is another one of those difficult “geniuses” prestige movies love so much in Phantom Thread, another marathon award season movie — two hours and 10 minutes and you feel every minute of it.

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Actually, this is not the very end of the movie — that is an act of “ha, made you look!” nonsense that almost makes me feel embarrassed for the people in the movie.

Maybe not Butler — he could have insisted that they write in a character note that would have eliminated the need for that accent he uses. But definitely for Jackson, who has promise and deserves better. DRated R for violence, language and some sexuality/nudity. Written and directed by Christian Gudegast, Den of Thieves is two hours and 20 minutes long and distributed by STX Entertainment.

I, Tonya (R)

Tonya Harding’s skating skill isn’t enough to help her overcome the disdain sports officialdom and the public have for her background in I, Tonya, a funny but complicated bio-pic.

With interviews-to-camera style narration by several characters, this movie presents the life of Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), who is portrayed here as a strong and talented athlete who is emotionally and physically abused by her demanding mother, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney), and by her dimwitted husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan). While LaVona’s berating of Tonya might have occasionally spurred her to work hard to achieve out on the ice, it also pushes Tonya into a tooyoung marriage with Jeff.

This tumultuous background (and her lack of money for fancy costumes and the right ice skater look) hurts Tonya’s attempts at skating superstardom — a judge even tells her that she is not the type of person the sport wants as its representative to the world at the Olympics. But she also falls back on “it’s not my fault”-isms when she has skating (and life) mishaps.

She has some bright spots, though, notably 1991 when she performs the difficult triple axel and has some of the best skating competitions of her life. Even after 1992 Olympics disappointments, she works hard and trains to compete in 1994. But, at least in the movie, the attempt to portray a happy family life

with Jeff let him and his even stupider friend Shawn (Paul Walter Hauser) into her life, leading to what they all call “the incident” involving some very inept criminals and an attack on Tonya’s competitor Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver).

I don’t entirely know how I feel about this movie’s subject matter. I don’t know enough to feel entirely comfortable with Tonya Harding being portrayed as a working-class hero.

Or feminist hero. Or (mostly) the victim. Or, alternate view of what this movie is saying, the Olympian America Deserves. And Nancy Kerrigan is, in the absence of any real character definition, definitely getting the Princess Edit, which doesn’t feel fair either.

If you can put that aside, there is some fun, some of it uneasy fun, to be had here. Robbie and Janey turn in solid performances. These actresses and their characters’ toxic mother-daughter relationship are fighting it out in the same award space as Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird. This is by far a more exaggerated cartoonish version (Metcalf’s character is not a villain; Janey’s clearly is). But both women here bring a kind of hard-edged cynicism that works with these characters.

The movie also does a good job of underlining just how merit-based achievement at this level of sports isn’t. Talent, the kind of talent that requires extreme dedication and discipline to turn into anything, might be a ticket to success but that ticket isn’t free. And, in exchange for requiring money and a certain kind of socioeconomic background, athletics at this level seems to bring just as much potential for suffering as it does for achievement.

I, Tonya is funny but this is a bleak and cynical movie. Sure, as someone with living memory of this, I found something interesting about seeing a version, however truthful this might be, of events. I laughed, but I don’t particularly feel good about laughing. BRated R for pervasive language, violence and some sexual content/nudity. Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers, I, Tonya is two hours long and distributed

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Ultimately, Phantom Thread is an interesting if draggy showcase for some solid acting. B Rated R for language. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread is two hours and 10 minutes long and distributed by Focus Features.

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Cinematically beautiful and beautifully choreographed in terms of use of language — characters slide in and out of French, Italian and English — Call Me By Your Name is also skillfully languid, taking its time for a purpose.

That purpose is to show us a blossoming romance between Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer). Elio is the 17-year-old son of Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), a professor of language or arts or some other ancient and lovely thing, and Annella (Amira Casar), who is French and/or Italian and is elegantly middle-aged in a way that only European ladies ever get to be in movies. Oliver is a grad-student-aged American, staying with the family at their lovely Italian estate for the summer to work for Perlman and also write some paper of his own.

Though Elio is chasing local girl Marzia (Esther Garrel) it’s pretty clear early on that he has strong feelings for Oliver as well — perhaps even more obvious to his parents (especially his mother, who conveys, with just a look, that she knows the score on all sorts of things) than to himself. How Oliver feels is initially less clear.

Or, I mean, I guess it would be less clear if you somehow went to this movie without reading anything about it or seeing the trailer or the movie poster.

Is this a good point to talk about how beautiful Armie Hammer is here? It’s not news that he’s good-looking but this movie gives the full-on appreciative-gaze-treatment to Hammer, turning him almost into a piece of art similar to the ancient statues that Perlman is studying. It’s a nice touch, the way the movie shows us Hammer’s Oliver the way the people in the movie — Elio, the Italian girls in the neighborhood — see him.

As I said, this movie has a lot of thoughtful touches about its approach to everything from the setting (have overgrown ponds ever seemed so romantic?) and the music (from

the period-appropriate dance music to the Sufjan Stevens songs that we can all look forward to hearing at the Oscars) and the way the movie uses language. Yes, this is another one of those over-two-hour prestige movies, but I’ll give this movie credit for using its runtime wisely, taking its time without (mostly) feeling like it is padding.

This movie also benefits from some really smart performance choices, often with characters revealing depths suddenly and in small doses. Stuhlbarg’s role shines brightest in one scene — one scene that he acts the heck out of and gives us, in the course of just a few minutes, a whole inner life and history for his character. Hammer’s character is presented as one kind of person — confident, personable American — and then slowly revealed to have these surprising vulnerabilities. I also like how Chalamet gets to be, not goofy exactly, but awkward in the specific way someone can be awkward when they are young and in love and as unguarded as Elio eventually becomes.

(On the age difference: Oliver is mid20-something; Elio is 17. Are the ages of the characters, in this cultural moment, a thing?

I’d say, yes, to some degree, it’s a thing I thought about with some uncomfortableness, possibly in part because of how the movie gazes at Chalamet. The movie comes down, I think, on the side of the two being equal partners in the relationship with neither one being more powerful or pressuring. Oliver is not portrayed as predatory and Elio isn’t portrayed as without agency.)

Interestingly, as I considered this movie hours after seeing it, some inconsistencies in story beats — if he believes X at this point, as he later explains, why did he respond like this — started to stick out to me, as did some inconsistencies in how the characters are drawn. You could probably chalk this up to the ambiguous nature of relationships; this movie is good enough to allow for that kind of suspension of constant nitpicking, at least while you’re watching it. But there are also moments when the dialogue feels like it still has some book left in it. These aren’t fatal flaws — in fact one of the most egregious examples of “that’s not how people talk” is in that standout scene with Stuhlbarg. His performance up until that point and the way he sells the scene make it all work but I suspect if you saw that dialogue on paper it would have a slightly stagy feel.

Which is to say Call Me By Your Name isn’t perfect, it is at times a bit much (“a bit much” in the way that young romance can often seem a bit much). But it is a beautifully made movie about a bittersweet romance that is well-crafted and well-acted. B+ Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language. Directed by Luca Guadagnino with a screenplay by James Ivory, Call Me

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• Funk fete: Female-fronted funk powerhouse Harsh Armadillo performs at an ACLU-sponsored celebration of the 45th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The brassy band was formed out of UNH basement party jam sessions. Go Thursday, Jan. 25, 5:30 p.m., Grappone Conference Center, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord. See bit.ly/2DUHd1g.

• Blues man: After moving west for five years to hone his guitar chops, Chris Fitz came home in 1994 and has been a fixture on Boston blues scene since. Fitz appears with soulful keyboard player Ben Knight now in his band. Go Friday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m., Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem St, Laconia.

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• Celtic song: A merging of diverse backgrounds produced Night Tree, an acoustic band rooted in Celtic traditions that borrows from a wide range of influences. Solas leader Séamus Egan produced their debut album, which features cello, cajón, baritone saxophone, eerie accordion and dueling fiddles.

It’s a worldly, captivating sound. Go Sunday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m., Riverwalk Cafe, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua. Tickets are $7 at riverwalknashua.com (or $10 at the door).

• Spin cycle: The Tuesday Wave residency of Jay Samurai continues with an assist from DJ Haley, offering a range of EDM sounds.

The DJ specializes in remixed Moombahton, a house and reggaeton fusion, along with trap and dubstep. The host is part of next month’s Allstar Under Twenty1 showcase at nearby Whiskey’s 20. Go Tuesday, Jan. 30, 9 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. See facebook.com/iamjaysamurai.

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So many movies exist about Sept. 11, 2001 that they’re a genre. Few, however, have the soul of American Folk. Starring musicians Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth, it explores life on the ground, among real people, and the way a country came together in the wake of devastation. Written and directed by David Heinz, it’s won glowing reviews at film festivals and will see a theatrical release on Jan. 26.

The power of music to soothe and heal is the film’s heart; American Folk is a bit like Once — but in a minibus.

The film centers around Purdy and Rubarth’s characters Eliot and Joni. The two meet as strangers on a Los Angelesto-New York flight that’s grounded when news of the attacks arrives. Both of them urgently need to make the trip east, so in a borrowed van (that’s been garaged since Watergate — a nice touch), they head crosscountry. Along the way, they connect with fellow citizens, and finally, with each other.

When Purdy sings a bit of “Red River Valley” and Rubarth joins in, their musical chemistry is clear. The moment sets the rest of American Folk in motion.

This onscreen harmony mirrored real life, Rubarth explained in a recent interview.

“The first time I sang with Joe, sitting on the couch learning a song that we both loved, I felt a very natural connection,” she said. “We just land in the same places; it’s natural and effortless. We seem to align.”

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Amber Rubarth & Joe Purdy. Photo by David Whetstone.

Rubarth and Purdy connected several years ago at a benefit concert in upstate New York, where Rubarth lives. They’ve performed together off and on ever since.

To celebrate the theatrical release of the movie, the two are on a brief tour that ends Feb. 3 at Tupelo Music Hall.

Each wrote two originals for the soundtrack, which also includes traditional folk duets and a song each from John Prine and Jerry Garcia & David Grisman.

Heinz cast the two solely for their musical talents; neither has acted before. Rubarth’s work includes critically acclaimed albums, collaborations with Jason Mraz and Dixie Chicks spinoff Court Yard Hounds.

Asked how acting compares to being a musician, Rubarth said, “There’s an overlap, I think. It felt like a challenge in presence; you have to dig into the character, familiarize yourself with it and really figure out where it personally connects.”

It’s a fictional work that plays like a documentary; the two really did drive across 14 states, and their dilapidated vehicle broke down for real midway.

“We didn’t actually do anything in the studio,” Rubarth said. “We traveled across the country and were meeting people on the road [and] so many things that normally

actors would have to act, we actually did.”

Rubarth didn’t have many personal memories of 9/11 to draw from for her role.

When the attacks happened, she was living in the Nevada desert, making chainsaw art.

“I grew up without a TV and I really wasn’t even familiar with what New York City was like,” she said. “I definitely didn’t have that connection with the city as a whole. ... I understood that it was a huge deal, the weight of it, but it felt like watching a movie.”

In looking back, director Heinz tries to look forward, Rubarth said.

“One of the very first things that David said to me was, ‘I want to tell this story ... to see if we can be reminded of the unity that we felt and see if we can find it again without having to wait for another huge tragedy,” she said. “Like right now we’re also in a national trauma, in a different way. ... It’s been interesting being at film festivals and seeing how the movie opens a discussion about it.”

Rubarth approached starring in a featurelength film as a novice with little hesitation; she was captivated by Heinz’s vision.

“I really didn’t know much about the project when I first met David, but what he said to me was so pure and so full of heart,” she said. “He wanted to honor ... the stories of all these people [and show] that it wasn’t just a tragedy, it was a really beautiful moment.”

The commonality of song — what Rubarth’s character at one point calls “putting the folk back in” — is the other driving force of the film.

“The real power of the music,” she said.

“Since the start of time, it’s been used as a community and a healing force. ... Its origins are really about everybody coming together, sharing messages and belonging to a community together. It just felt really pure.”

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Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Don Severance Ri Ra: Irish Sessions Salem Copper Door: Amanda Cote Monday, Jan. 29 Concord Hermanos: John Franzosa Hanover Salt hill Pub: Hootenanny

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NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK

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42 Shirt sleeves 43 Journalist Cokie who appears on ABC and NPR 44 Afternoon break 45 Part of FWIW 46 Congo basin animal 50 Solar system center 51 Surprised sounds

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30 Drill piece 31 Island strings, for short 32 Diploma equivalent 34 Power in old movies 35 ___ about (roughly) 36 Show sorrow 37 Eye surgery acronym 38 Outlaw 39 Notable period 40 Current measure 41 Utmost degree 45 Put gas in 47 Holiday procession 48 Intense fear 49 Short play length 50 What a two-letter abbreviation may denote 51 “August: ___ County” (2013 Streep film) 52 Show interest in, in a way 53 Figure out 55 Laundry 56 “Alice’s Restaurant” chronicler Guthrie 57 Affirmative votes 58 Bismarck’s home (abbr.)

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Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) In the earAquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) It seemed right that the entrance to the forbidden ly morning we were very glad of our little country should not be too easy. If you don’t glasses of hot tea. So shall you be.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Solitude, I want interruptions, put on headphones.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Shah Riza reflected, is the one deep necessity of the is really a maker of quilts, but he looks like human spirit to which adequate recognition a philosopher, which, in his way, he is. His is never given in our codes. It is looked upon philosophy is one of passive resistance to the as a discipline or a penance, but hardly ever slings and arrows of fortune as they hurtle as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it round him: he sits among them looking as if is to ordinary life, and from this want of reche thought of something else, but ready, in ognition come half our domestic troubles. If his quiet way, to make the most of any lull you have to lock yourself in the bathroom to in the general perversity of things. You can get away from the kids, so be it. make a quilt and be a philosopher.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “One can’t travAries (March 21 – April 19) It does not el like this in the middle of the wilderness,” do in this crowded world ever to suppose said the policeman, turning on our guide. that one is first anywhere…. Keep this in “Why are you off the road?” This question mind. has never been solved. Nor need it be.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Meanwhile Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Here, I they sat plotting late into the night, plying thought, all difficulty was over: I had now poor Shah Rize with conflicting advice, so but to look around me, to learn, and to enjoy. that he looked more like a philosopher than And so it would have been … had not these ever, bewildered among the diversities of virtues of Responsibility and Purpose met me truth. Things are complex. at every step with the embarrassing enquiry: Gemini (May 21 – June 20) The map … “Why are you here alone?” and: “What do left much to be desired. … The only moun- you intend to do?” Sometimes you have to tains marked were in the wrong place, and tell Responsibility to mind its own business. after trying over and over again to induce my Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) An imagcompass to bring them into harmony, I came inative aunt, who, for my ninth birthday, sadly to the conclusion that the Indian Survey sent a copy of the Arabian Nights, was, I had filled this bit of country in by hearsay — a suppose, the original cause of trouble. Imagmelancholy fact, wince it made me uncertain ination wins. of my triangulation points at starting. HearCapricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) But as a say is not the best way to make a map. matter of fact there was little enough chance Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Here, owing of sleep for anyone, for the moon went into to the fact that I had not yet discovered the eclipse, and a beating of tins from every roof, depths of my Philosopher’s incompetence, a wailing of women and frenzy of dogs, and and still expected him to do things, we spent occasional high yelp of jackal made chaos three weary days, relieved only by The Pil- of the night. You might want some earplugs.

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“While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut,” DeSpain noted, “you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with a scissors.” Shabani said the snip was an accident, and his charge was later reduced to a ticket for disorderly conduct.

Bright ideas

• Polk County (Florida) Sheriff’s officers responded to an unusual 911 call on New Year’s Eve: Michael Lester, 39, of Winter Haven, started off by telling the dispatcher, “Umm, I’m drunk. I don’t know where I’m at. I’m just drunk driving.” The dispatcher urged Lester to pull over and park, but he explained that he was driving on the wrong side of the road near a Publix and wondered where the police were. WTVT reported that officers finally caught up with Lester, who helpfully explained he’d had several beers, hadn’t slept much and had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day; he was jailed on a DUI charge. Officers later posted on their Facebook page that “in this particular incident, nobody was hurt, so we couldn’t help but LOTO (that means we Laughed Our Tasers Off).”

• Disgruntled driver Matthew Middleton, 49, of Peterlee, England, spotted a speed camera near Hartlepool Rugby Club in October and decided to take a stand. He got out of his car and stood in front of the camera, blocking it, until police arrested him. Middleton further antagonized the officer by calling him a “pig” and giving his name as Elvis Presley. “They acted like what I did was the crime of the century,” Middleton told Metro News. “I know I shouldn’t have done it. People have just been laughing about it ... well, apart from my wife.” Middleton was fined about $54 plus court costs for his antics.

Awesome!

Bertha Vickers of Morgantown, Mississippi, turned 100 on Jan. 9. To celebrate, she bagged a deer. “I was sort of shaking until I got ready to shoot,” Vickers told the Clarion Ledger. “I didn’t think it was all going to go right.” Vickers still lives in her home and mows her own lawn, tends a garden and hunts for squirrels. “I don’t know why everybody is making such a big deal about it,” she

said. “It was just a doe. I would love to kill a buck.”

Least competent criminal

When Dustin Johnson, 22, of Minot, North Dakota, tried to steal $4,000 worth of merchandise from a local Hobby Lobby, he failed to take into account that shopping carts don’t have snow tires. The Grand Forks Herald reported that over a seven-hour period on Jan. 3, Johnson filled a cart then fled the store where the cart became stuck in snow in the parking lot and flipped over. Johnson fell down, then got up to run, leaving behind his wallet with photo ID matching the shoplifter’s description. Minot police caught up with Johnson at his home.

Extreme climate news

It may be cold where you are, but it’s hot in Broadford, a small town about an hour from Melbourne, Australia, where on Jan. 5, the highway began melting. Temperatures of 100 degrees and higher reactivated an ingredient in the road surface, turning it into a sticky mess on the Hume Freeway, 9News reported.

Motorists were warned by Victoria police to avoid the right lane and expect delays over a 10km stretch. Officials also put in place a fire ban and urged people to stay indoors until the heat abated.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em

Christians in a Portuguese village carry on a curious tradition during Epiphany: They encourage their young children to smoke cigarettes. Vale de Salgueiro locals told Fox News that nobody is sure what the smoking symbolizes, but the centuries-old tradition persists. And Portuguese authorities don’t intervene, despite the fact that the legal age to purchase tobacco in Portugal is 18. Writer Jose Ribeirinha researched the tradition and said that since Roman times, villagers in the region have done things that were out of the norm during winter solstice celebrations.

The litigious society

Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles of California, and Brittany Crittenden of New York, saw their complaints go up in steam on Jan. 5 when U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed their lawsuit against Starbucks for underfilling its lattes and mochas. According to Reuters, the judge cited lack of evidence brought by the plaintiffs, who accused the coffee chain of fraud by making its cups too small and instructing baristas to skimp on ingredients and adhere to low “fill-to” lines on milk pitchers. The suit also claimed milk foam should not be counted toward advertised volumes, an opinion Rogers said reasonable customers do not hold.

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