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While it may be the world’s oldest profession, prostitution is still illegal in most of the U.S. and in many countries around the world.

So that’s why it was a surprise to hear that New England Patriots owner and billionaire Robert Kraft has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of first-degree solicitation, according to ESPN.com and other media reports. CNN and others have reported that a spokesperson for Kraft denies he engaged in any illegal activity.

Even more surprising were the details: In a story on Feb. 22, the New York Times described the spa where the alleged activity took place as a “small storefront business in a strip mall” in Jupiter, Florida. A Feb. 22 story on NBCNews.com reports that police say the average fees for services range between $59 and $79. (A New York Times story from Feb. 24 reported that the sheriff whose office opened the investigation said men paid between $100 and $200 for sex.)

Kraft is far from the only man to get into trouble over allegations of crimes related to sex. The New York Times story said that multiple people were charged or arrested in relation to this specific investigation. Elsewhere, we see what seems like a constant stream of stories about men being arrested for solicitation, including right here in New Hampshire.

Some men claim that there isn’t a victim in prostitution so it should be legalized. The rationale is that two consenting adults should be able to make a fair market transaction.

Theoretically, no one gets hurt.

But is it true that no one gets hurt? The New York Times describes the investigation into the spas in Florida as one looking at suspected human trafficking. A story that ran in the Times on Feb. 24 describes how a health inspector suspected that the women working at the spa were living there and the story said that officials believe some of the women had their passports confiscated and were duped into coming to the United States for what they thought was legitimate work and then forced into prostitution. If that is the case, then this is not a victimless crime.

So, what is the proper punishment for engaging in this activity? The punishment for this misdemeanor is likely to be small (a CNN.com story from Feb. 25 reports that a conviction of first-degree solicitation can get someone up to “one year in jail, a $5,000 civil penalty and a mandatory 100 hours of community service and an educational program”). But the personal consequences may be life-altering, especially if you are someone like Bob Kraft.

Fred Bramante is past chairman and member of the NH State Board of Education. He speaks and consults on education redesign to regional, state, and national organizations.

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ALSO ON THE COVER, there’s still time to vote for your local favorites in the Hippo’s annual Best of Readers’ Poll! Tell us where you go for the best chicken tenders, where you take your kids on a rainy day and your favorite local band. The poll is now open; for details on how to vote, see p. 29.

And if you’re looking for a fun art experience, check out an exhibit of handmade collages that created the 2-D stop-motion animated film Night Hunter, p. 20.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Addressing the shortage of health care workers; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 ART Animated art.

22 THEATER Curtain Call; listings for events around town.

22 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 24 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

25 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

25 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

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POP CULTURE: 36 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz feels like there should have been more PG offerings for vacation week than just How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World but would take tweens and up to Fighting With My Family.

NITE: 40 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE JJ Grey; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more.

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

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Health care website

A study conducted by the University of Michigan found that New Hampshire’s HealthCost website brought down the price of some common health care services. The site was launched by the New Hampshire Insurance Department to improve the price transparency of health care services offered in the state. The site includes cost estimates for over 100 medical and dental procedures and information on the quality of New Hampshire hospitals. The study stook a narrow view of available data, looking at claims for medical imaging procedures between 2005 to 2011.

Researchers found that the site led to significant savings on X-ray, CT and MRI scans, cutting costs by $7.9 million for patients and $36 million for insurers.

Zach Brown, assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan, wrote in a statement that “there is some evidence that prices decreased for procedures featured on the website, benefiting patients even if they did not use the tool.” He added that savings will likely increase as more people use the site. The Insurance Department reported that the HealthCost website had 165,000 visits in 2018, up from 18,000 visitors in 2011.

Victims survey

The Attorney General’s office released the New Hampshire Victims Needs Assessment Online Survey and a separate survey for “stakeholder groups,” according to a news release. Both surveys are intended to collect data from victims of physical, sexual, financial or emotional crimes, as well

as organizations that provide services to these individuals. The office clarified that the victims survey is open to anyone who is a victim of a crime, even if they haven’t reported that crime.

According to the office, Congress recently lifted the distribution limit on Victims of Crime Act funds, providing New Hampshire with “substantial increases in funding.” In a statement, Attorney General Gordon MacDonald wrote that the surveys will help the state “assess how we are currently serving victims of crime, how we can improve what we are doing and how we should be planning for the years ahead.”

Both surveys will be available online until until Friday, March 15. Visit NHCrimesurvey.com for the victim’s needs survey and NHStakeholdersurvey.com for the stakeholder survey.

Redistricting commission

In a unanimous, bipartisan vote, the House Election Law Committee approved HB 706 to support independent redistricting for New Hampshire elections, according to the House Majority Office. The Election Law Committee includes 12 Democrats and eight Republicans. According to the bill’s text, it would establish an independent commission that would meet every 10 years, beginning in 2020. The commission will draw the state’s election districts based on total population. According to the bill, districts would be required to have “single boundaries” and not be “bisected or otherwise divided by other districts.” Additionally, districts must “respect the integrity of communities of interest,” including areas with similar

4 The Warner Historical Society announced that Rebecca Courser will retire as executive director at the end of the month. Courser became the society’s first executive director in 2008 and first joined the group as a volunteer 40 years ago.

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“racial, ethnic, economic, social, cultural, geographic or historic identities.”

Student loans

The New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation was one of nine federal student loan service companies included in an audit overseen by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General. According to the office’s report, the audit “regularly identified instances of servicers’ not servicing federally held student loans in accordance with Federal requirements.”

The report cited calls with student debt holders that didn’t meet federal regulations or didn’t provide borrowers with sufficient information about repayment options. The New Hampshire corporation had a one-percent failure rate in both months of calls examined by the department, lower than the monthly averages of 4.3 and 2.5 percent. The department reported that as of Sept. 30, 2017, it is responsible for about $1.1 trillion of federal student loan debt. About $76 billion of this amount, or roughly 7 percent, was assigned to New Hampshire and four other service providers.

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With one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, several industries in New Hampshire have reported difficulties finding qualified workers. Advocacy groups cite an aging population as a need to focus specifically on recruiting and retaining health care providers.

“A lack of clinicians and direct care providers limits Granite Staters’ access to services, causing a rationing of needed care and added health care costs systemwide,” the New Hampshire Health Care Workforce Coalition wrote in a recent statement.

The group includes 40 local and regional health care service providers and associations.

Based on data from these groups, the coalition claims there are over 2,000 health care worker vacancies across New Hampshire.

“We started meeting over the summer to figure out how to address [the worker shortage] in a systematic way,” said Kristine Stoddard, New Hampshire director of public policy for the Bi-State Primary Care Association in Bow. “We developed a coalition to work on a legislative proposal that addresses the whole picture.”

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In the next several years, health care is actually expected to be one of the state’s fastest growing industries. New Hampshire Employment Security projects that “health care and social assistance” employment will increase 15.7 percent from 2016 to 2026, the highest growth rate of any industry.

However, this may be largely due to non-industry factors. Annette Nielsen, an economist with Employment Security, said the projections are due in large part to a combination of New Hampshire’s aging population and overall population growth in general.

“There’s both a growth component and a replacement component,” said Nielsen. “As people get older, people working in these jobs are retiring or working fewer hours, which puts more pressure on replacing these workers.”

That presents a specific issue for hiring qualified nurses. Joan Widmer, executive director of the New Hampshire Nurses Association, said 47 percent of nurses in New Hampshire will be at retirement age in the next 10 to 15 years.

“It’s a significant problem, especially since the population is aging,” said Widmer. “As we age, we need more care, and nursing is at the heart of that.”

Nielsen added that low unemployment is causing a cycle of worker shortages “in many parts of the economy.” In health care specifically, she said, certifications and education required for some positions might be a specific roadblock for the industry.

“You can’t just say take anyone you want,” said Nielsen. “Employers have to compete for

people who already have the certifications and training to do these kinds of jobs.”

Focused approach

Stoddard said the Health Care Workforce Coalition has rallied behind SB 308 to tackle these issues. Unlike in previous sessions, primary sponsor Sen. Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua) said stakeholders collaborated on a single, overarching bill rather than tackling specific issues separately.

The bill has eight main focuses, with Stoddard highlighting the state’s “workforce pipeline” as a key starting point. According to the workforce coalition, over half of New Hampshire’s high school graduates attend a four-year college out of state, the highest rate in the country. Stoddard said more education on college and career options in New Hampshire will help encourage more students to stay.

“What we envision in this bill is getting into middle and high school and getting students interested in participating in the health care workforce,” said Stoddard. “We need to do everything we can to keep them in the state.”

To help current health care workers saddled with debt, the bill will invest $2.5 million into the State Loan Repayment Program in each of the next two fiscal years. The program provides funds to health care workers who take jobs in “medically underserved” areas for at least three years. Stoddard said 83 percent of participants end up staying with the program long-term.

“A lot of programs that are included in SB 308 have been around for a long time, and they are programs people in the industry have identified as working,” said Stoddard.

One of the bill’s most popular provisions is transitioning the state’s criminal background checks for health workers to an online system.

Stoddard said some employers have reported up to 15-day wait times with the state’s current system. In states with online background checks, the process usually takes up to 48 hours. “[Employers] will have a candidate they want to hire, but it takes so long to get the background check to return, that clinician will often find a job in another state,” said Stoddard.

To address the issue moving forward, Widmer highlighted a new basic, mandatory survey of health care workers when they’re licensed or re-licensed in New Hampshire. She said this will help gather data to better identify underserved areas and understaffed professions.

“This is a sector that’s so important to our health and our economy, and there needs to be some state involvement,” said Rosenwald. “We can build more beds, but if we don’t have people to staff them, patients still won’t get care.”

Rosenwald said the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee would discuss the bill during its meeting on Wednesday, March 6, and expected it would come to a vote.

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Safety service State commissioner to retire

John Barthelmes will retire as commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Safety in March. He spent nearly 12 years heading the agency and was previously director of the State Police.

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should be to serve Why did you decide to retire the citizens of this year?

New Hampshire.

I’ve really enjoyed the varied Customer service career I’ve had in public safety. in the Department I guess the short answer would be the oldof Safety is No. 1. er you get, and I’m going to be turning 66, time becomes a more valuable commodity. … This job is seven days a week, 24 During your hours a day, and that’s a large commitment tenure, what if you’re going to do it right. … We’ve got John Barthelmes was the biggest a great team here, and I think it’s a perfect advancement time for me to go to the next stage of my made by the State Police? life.

The whole public safety communications infrastructure has improved dramatically.

What interested you about a career in When I first came on [as a state trooper], public safety? there was no such thing as 911. … Now, My dad had a management job for IBM, when you call 911, dispatchers have emerand for whatever reason, I thought back then gency medical training to be able to help I didn’t want to sit behind a desk wearing you immediately … and also to get public a white shirt like my dad did. That’s what safety response. … The second is part is just I’m doing now, which is ironic. I wanted the ability to communicate in an interoperto do something that was interesting, that able way across agencies. When I came in, was public service oriented and something New Hampshire State Police did not have challenging. … I set as my goal that I want- even something as basic as portable radios. ed to be a trooper, and I was hired with the … Public safety communication has made it New Hampshire State Police once I got easier for first responders, and it’s certainly out of college. From Day 1 … even on the helped us provide better public safety serworst days during some tough times, I’ve vices in a more timely way. never had a bad day. I’ve been blessed with a great career and met a lot of great people.

What is the state’s biggest safety concern The reward of doing service for the public going forward? … you make a difference in people’s lives.

When I left the State Police in 1999, there … To be involved to the degree that I have were 40 overdose deaths [a year] in the state. been in ... keeping New Hampshire citizens I came back eight years later, and we were safe, I couldn’t have asked for a better way up to 166. … For the last number of years, to make a living. it’s been hovering right under 500 overdose deaths a year. The impact that it’s had on our What was your proudest career moment priorities and the commitment of resourcwith the Department of Safety? es we are asked to provide to deal with the As an actual trooper, the work I did as epidemic, that’s a game-changer. … If you a homicide investigator. … When families look at traditionally the type of drug use and lose a loved one to homicide, it’s horrific. abuse that we have, it’s all been plant-based. … You can’t bring the individual back, but It’s been marijuana, it’s been cocaine from to be able to bring closure to that family, the coca plant, heroin from the opium poppy. there’s a lot of satisfaction in there. To be There are production costs, there are growable to solve that type of case, that’s very ing seasons, there are logistics of getting rewarding. As a manager in this position, it out of the fields. The game-changer has my greatest satisfaction is bringing trans- been fentanyl, which is a pure chemical. It’s formational change to the Department of cheap and easy to produce, and it’s powerSafety. … What I’m talking about is chang- ful in very, very small quantities. … Moving ing the culture. Changing the culture in away from plant-based drugs to chemicals state government can be challenging. I and methamphetamine … that’s a challenge think our team has been able to do that. … for the State Police and first responders. …

Everything we do, and the reason we exist, The other area that we have an epidemic is untreated mental health.. … There’s a lot of What are you into right now? positive change happening in the state in that regard, but that’s a challenge law enforceI am an avid biker … and I expect this ment and State Police are facing today. My summer I’ll enter a number of century rides. hope is that ... we’re going to get a handle I look forward to doing the Mt. Washingon that. ton Century and spending a lot of time on — Scott Murphy the bike.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Hometown talent

Matt Renner, a New Hampshire native, had a good night on Sunday, Feb. 24. Renner is an executive producer for Free Solo, the documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold and his attempt to free solo climb El Capitan, a roughly 2,952-foot vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park. During the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, the film won the Oscar for best documentary feature, beating out fellow nominees including RBG and Minding the Gap, according to IMDb. Renner, who is vice president of production for National Geographic, grew up in Durham and attended Oyster River High School, according to WMUR and other media reports.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Free Solo is available for purchase through iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and YouTube. Visit nationalgeographic.com/films/ free-solo.

Warmer winters

Global warming may be having a larger impact in New Hampshire than in other parts of the country, according to research from Climate Central. Using data from the Applied Climate Information System, the nonprofit looked at the coldest annual temperatures from 1970 to 2018 in various U.S. cities. The coldest annual temps have increased 5.6 degrees in Manchester and 12.8 degrees in Concord. The national average was a 6-degree increase.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: According to the nonprofit, warmer winters can lead to longer allergy season and extended seasons for ticks and mosquitoes.

Additionally, the group reported that there have been twice as many record highs as record lows so far this decade, the largest imbalance in this century.

Online sales taxes

A new report on online sales taxes from the National Conference of State Legislatures indicates New Hampshire businesses will have their hands full. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair allowed states to collect taxes on purchases made by residents from out-of-state businesses. According to the report, 29 states have passed laws requiring online sales tax collection, with some of these laws in effect since Jan. 1, 2019. States had varying estimates for the annual revenue from these collections, ranging from $6 million to $190 million.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Four states besides New Hampshire have no statewide sales tax, leaving 17 states that could potentially pass a collection requirement. Rhode Island is the only New England state with a sales tax that is not currently requiring online collection, according to the report.

Quantity of life

New Hampshire residents once again placed highly on 24/7 Wall St.’s annual report on life expectancy. The report is based on data from 2010 to 2015 from the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In New Hampshire the average life expectancy at birth was 79.9 years, ranking 10th nationally. The study credited the state’s low poverty, which it said has been linked to better overall health.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: In New England, Connecticut had the longest life expectancy at 80.8 years, tied with Minnesota for third-highest nationally.

Maine had the shortest life expectancy in the region at 79 years, ranking 26th overall.

QOL Score: 50 Net change: 0 QOL this week: 50 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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There were a lot of interesting and varied stories to ponder last week.

News Item: Don Nelson Going to Pot In the week when legalizing marijuana in New Hampshire passed a major hurdle through a majority vote in the legislature’s criminal justice committee, the NBA’s winningest coach, Don Nelson, endorsed that concept, sorta. He didn’t actually comment on the New Hampshire vote, but when asked what he’s been doing since retiring in a press conference prior to a Warriors game last week the 78-year-old Nelson said, “I’ve been smoking some pot … never did it when I was playing or coaching, so it’s something new to me. It’s more legal now than it’s ever been so I’m enjoying it.” He previously told the New York Times singer Willie Nelson initially turned him on to weed.

News Item: Opposition to MLB Putting Pitchers on the Clock There’s a lot of grumbling going on among pitchers as baseball tests putting hurlers on a 20-second clock this spring. No surprise one of the grumblers is David Price, who basically says pitching coaches have told him his whole life to take his time, and boy did he listen. Yankees lefty J.A. Happ is another whiner who simply does not get there’s too much dead time in baseball and they need to pick up the pace. Yes, it disturbs the routine they’re used to. But that won’t last long. And it’s the same thing many said when the NBA implemented the 24-second shot clock. All that did was save the NBA in being the most transformative-for-the-better rule change in sports history. OK, it’s tied with juicing the baseball in 1920, which was hated by John McGraw, Ty Cobb and others in the “we like baseball when it’s played a base at a time” crowd.

News Item: Rule Change II Also put me down for the proposed rule change requiring that new pitchers enter-

ing a game must face at least three batters.

That cuts down on mound visits, times we must endure another reliever walking in from the pen and the seven warm-up pitches they should have taken in the bullpen in the first place, gets rid of specialists who can only pitch to lefty batters, and most of all cuts down on endless and unnecessary micro-managing in the dugout by putting games where they belong – in the players’ hands.

News Item: Guerrero Plan Faces Media Sniping The Blue Jays are taking heat in the media for a plan to keep Vlad Guerrero Jr. in AAA for a month to delay accruing service time to keep him away from free agency for an extra year. The choice seems simple: Would you rather have Vlad play 162 as a rookie in a going-nowhere rebuilding year, or have him miss 25 games now to get an extra 162 when he’s in his prime and the Jays are contenders?

New Item: Can Sox Survive Without an Official Closer?

For those kvetching about the Red Sox not having a defined closer, my guess is that has more to do with the impending free agency of Chris Sale, Xander Bogaerts after 2019 and Mookie Betts in 2020 than Craig Kimbrel’s ridiculous asking price. Sorry, there really is only so much money to go around, even on a team with the highest payroll.

So, if you think they must have Kimbrel, who was awful in last year’s playoffs, who do you give up – Bogie, Sale or Mookie?

As for the closer issue, providing you have enough reliable bullpen arms who can pitch to match-ups, an official closer isn’t necessary. However, after losing Kimbrel and the maddeningly inconsistent Joe Kelly, asking if they have enough solid bullpen arms is legitimate. Time will tell on that.

News Item: WAR takes a Torpedo to the Hull Not that the dopes who believe WAR is baseball’s most important stat will change their thinking. They’re too far gone for that.

But for clear-thinking people everywhere, who think WAR is an utterly contrived nonsense stat, no better example for that surfaced in a tweet WAR inventor Bill James sent out after the great Frank Robinson died a few weeks ago. It reminded all that while Robby won the Triple Crown, won the MVP unanimously and led Baltimore to a sweep of the Dodgers in the Series as he totally dominated baseball in 1996, the WAR leader was actually Earl Wilson, who won a whopping 13 games for third-place Detroit.

If that doesn’t show you the emperor has no clothes, you’re hopeless too.

News Item: Looking Not So Krafty After Florida Sting Innocent, as he claimed, or not, the haters have jumped all over the predicament Bob Kraft put himself in being nabbed in a Florida prostitution sting. They want Roger Goodell to tie it to Spy-Gate and the over-inflated Deflate-Gate nonsense to dock the Patriots’ draft choices at the least.

That’s no surprise. Given this week’s incredible news of papal admission from Rome, not to mention revelation over the last 20 years regarding the Catholic Church, I’m not really sure exactly how bad in comparison allegedly soliciting a “willing” prostitute actually is in the grand scheme of things.

Yes, it’s pathetic for a 77-year-old man to do.

However, if he’s guilty, the alleged actions are against the law and he should pay the price for that, as well as for embarrassing his organization, its fans and NFL partner owners. The larger problem, though, is, how “willing” could they have been, since the sting was about alleged human trafficking/slavery. The forced exploitation of those women is serious and a much different story.

Because should they be viewed as just two stupid alleged acts, helping to enable a truly heinous alleged crime? Made worse by a history of making what may be “do as I say, not as I do” financial contribution to help fight human trafficking.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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11 SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

Where are they now?

BG gets big win

The Big Story: After a pair of 2-0 weeks the top seeds were set on Thursday for the Girls D-I basketball playoffs.

Top seed goes to three-time defending champion Bishop Guertin with wins over Portsmouth and Goffstown to finish the year undefeated at 18-0. After allowing just 15 points in a 61-15 win over Alvirne and taking a 46-29 win over Nashua South behind a 25-point night for Brooke Kane, Pinkerton finished at 17-1 to earn the 2-seed.

Sports 101: Who had the highest batting average by a rookie in major league history?

Double Dip Win of the Week: In case you ain’t been paying attention they’re having banner years at St. Anselm in both men’s and women’s basketball. That continued with Thursday’s double-header win vs. SNHU. The women got a crucial 71-62 win over SNHU behind 19 points from Peyton Steinman and 15 from Shannon Ryan. The men rode a late rally for a 71-68 comeback win as Tim Guers had 10 of his game-high 23 points in the surge.

It moved the women to 17-7, dropped SNHU to 16-10, while the men clinched the Northeast 10 title with their 20th win.

Showdown Game of the Week: It went to Bedford in a 4-0 win over defending

The Numbers

5 – consecutive wins for the Trinity boys hockey team as it has resurrected its season heading into the playoffs in a 7-2 win over Nashua North/Souhegan when seven different players scored goals.

27 – game-high points for Josie Zelensky in leading Nashua North to a 50-40 win over Trinity.

Division I hockey champ Hanover. They got there after two Owen Roberto goals gave them a quick 2-0 lead before turning it over to a defense that allowed just 19 shots, all stopped by Shea Guimont.

It got the recently stumbling 13-3-1 Bulldogs back on track, while the Marauders slipped to 12-4-1.

Obituary: To the late great Brooklyn Dodgers fireballer Don Newcombe, who died last week at 92. Before going to the majors in 1949 he played for the Class B Nashua Dodgers, where he won 33 games when he teamed with fellow baseball pioneer Roy Campanella.

Sports 101 Answer: The highest batting average by a rookie was recorded by Shoeless Joe Jackson when he hit .408 for Cleveland in 1911, On This Day – Feb. 28: 1959 –The Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to the L.A. Rams for an astounding nine players. 1966 – winners of 49 of the Dodgers’ 97 wins in 1965, hurlers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale stage a joint holdout ending with Koufax becoming baseball’s highest-paid player at $125,000 and Double D getting $110,000. 1967 – Wilt Chamberlain connects on his NBA-record 35th consecutive field goal.

29 & 16 – game-high points and rebounds for SNHU’s Kylie Lorenzen in the just-mentioned 71-62 loss to St. Anselm.

38 – high points scored by anyone in the week by Scott Lampron as Concord thumped Keene 62-43 in Division I basketball action.

53 – saves on the week for (north) Dakota Robinson and the stingy

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The Boys Club was a wonder to Nick and older brother Arthur after their dad brought them there while attending Maynard Elementary School. The immediate attraction was basketball and other assorted games in the gym. Nick’s first step toward responsibility was the nerve-wracking task of keeping track of the membership tag that let him check out pool cues and ping pong paddles. Losing his tag then is likened to losing his driver’s license now, because it was “gold.” Nick also enjoyed playing flag football — which was the fore runner to playing football in high school at Central, and later at Plymouth State. This love of football lead him to coaching high school teams later on in Manchester. Nick fit that in as he was building an array of medical related businesses, most notably with BASC Surgical Centers and a chain of Apple Therapy physical therapy centers; while continuing as an avid vocal and financing backer of the Boys & Girls Club mission today.

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Pinkerton defense in the 16-2 Astros’ 2-1 win in OT over Windham and a 7-0 rout of Memorial.

207 – career steals after Bishop Brady alum Jourdain Bell picked up a pair in his final game for Colby-Sawyer in tournament loss to Emmanuel to finish his career as the Chargers’ all-time leader in steals and a seventh-best 1,476 points.

Sports Glossary

Ty Cobb: Behind Ruth and Gehrig the third-greatest hitter ever, who hit .367 lifetime, won 12 batting titles, stole home 54 times, stole second, third and home five times after getting to first base and somehow knocked in a ninth-best-all-time 1,944 runs despite playing in the dead ball era.

Don Newcombe: African-American baseball pioneer who went 14-4 and 19-6 with the Nashua Dodgers in 1946 and 1947. He was 17-8 as a rookie in Brooklyn in 1949 and 149-90 overall before alcoholism derailed his career. The best was 1,956 while going 27-7 and being the first Cy Young winner.

Roy Campanella: Hall of Famer who got to the majors at 27 in 1948 and spent 11 years in the Negro Leagues. He played just eight years with Brooklyn before a 1957 car accident left him in a wheelchair for life. Still, he was a three-time NL-MVP while hitting 242 homers with 856 RBI and a lifetime .272 average. The best was 1953’s 41 homers, 142 RBI with a .312. average.

Shoeless Joe Jackson: Had a rookie record 233 hits and is the only rookie in history to hit .400. Banned from baseball for life due in the infamous Black Sox scandal. Despite beating the rap in court, eight Chicago White Sox players were stilled barred for throwing the 1919 World Series. That Jackson hit .375 in the series didn’t matter, and he was out at age 32 with a thirdbest-in-history .356 batting average.

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PETS

If you love animals but don’t have the resources to own a pet — maybe you lack time, space or money — there are plenty of ways to share your love on a

part-time basis. Find out how to take shelter dogs for walks, sponsor a sanctuary animal or temporarily foster a kitten or a puppy in your home.

The daily trot

Volunteer dog walking in New Hampshire

By Matt Ingersoll

mingersoll@hippopress.com

If you’d like a four-legged companion to accompany you on your next walk or run, several animal shelters and other nonprofits across the Granite State offer opportunities for you to spend quality time with a dog by taking them out for a walk — and they are always looking for new volunteers.

Each shelter has its own guidelines and requirements for dog walkers.

At Canine Commitment of New England, which has two locations out of volunteers’ homes in New Boston and Manchester, volunteer applications can be filled out on the website and harnesses and collars are provided to all walkers, according to founder and executive director Ross Norwood.

She said walking shifts are typically one hour per week. Most of the larger dogs are walked within the loop of trails behind each property, but Norwood added that more experienced walkers have been taken to other locations like the nearby Pulpit Rock Conservation Area in Bedford, and the Uncanoonuc Trails in Goffstown.

“Over the years, I’ve had the whole spectrum [of walkers],” she said, “the vast majority of which are people that just love dogs but may not yet have a feel for the level of responsibility with owning their own. … Then for the dogs, the walks are great to get out of a kennel setting and learn some new smells and that kind of thing.”

Over at the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire in Bedford, two trails that run along

the back of the shelter is available for dog walking, but volunteers can receive additional training to walk dogs off the property.

“All volunteers have to go through an orientation, and there are different levels of dog walking,” said Kate Ostertag, volunteer and community engagement coordinator. “Each volunteer decides which program is for them.”

Other shelters, like the Humane Society for Greater Nashua, require that dogs are walked

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only within paths on the property, and volunteer dog walkers must be at least 18 years old.

“We have volunteers who are 18 all the way to people in their 70s,” said Laurie Dufault, director of development. “It’s a real mix of people who maybe can’t have a dog but love dogs and want to be around them, to people who are newly retired and looking for a way to spend 20 hours a week.”

During a 30-minute orientation, volunteers

are given an overview of the policies and procedures of the shelter, then participate in three classes with a dog trainer to learn about the protocols of dog walking, she said.

Manchester Animal Shelter also requires that volunteers be at least 18 years old and participate in an orientation twice a month.

“We have a walking path that goes down a quarter of a mile each way on Dunbarton Road,” event coordinator Laura Gilman said.

Local shelters All of these shelters offer dog walking oppor- site to fill out an application. tunities for volunteers. Most also offer fostering • Greater Derry Humane Society (PO Box opportunities (see story on page 15). Call or vis- 142, East Derry, 434-1512, derryhumanesociit their websites for details. ety.com) has a volunteer application you can fill out under the “We Need Volunteers” tab on the • Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire website.

(545 Route 101, Bedford, 472-3647, rescueleague.

• Humane Society for Greater Nashua (24 org) has dog walking opportunities for volunteers. Ferry Road, Nashua, 889-2275, hsfn.org) has dog Fill out an application by clicking on “Volunteer- walking within paths on the property. Clicking on ing” under the “Join Us” tab on the website.

“Get Involved” tab on the website.

• Animal Rescue Network of New England • Manchester Animal Shelter (490 (PO Box 1053, Pelham, 233-4801, arnne.org) Dunbarton Road, Manchester, 628-3544, manaccepts dog walking volunteers. Click on “Vol- chesteranimalshelter.org) requires volunteers unteer Form” under the “How to Help” tab on the performing a variety of activities, including dog website. walking, to be at least 18 years of age. Because the • Canine Commitment of New England shelter is a stray facility, new volunteers must com(Locations in New Boston and Manchester, plete 10 hours of training. Paths stretching about a caninecommit.org) has volunteer dog walking quarter of a mile within the property are available opportunities. Click the “Volunteer” tab on the to walk the dogs. Click on “General Volunteer” website and check off the “Dog Walking” box. under the “Volunteer” tab on the website.

• Mary’s Dogs Rescue and Adoption (984 1st • Cocheco Valley Humane Society (262 County Farm Road, Dover, 749-5322, cvhsonline.org) New Hampshire Turnpike, Northwood, 608-3374, has opportunities for volunteers to walk the dogs marysdogs.com) has a volunteer application that for 20 to 40 minutes around the area surrounding can be accessed by clicking on the “How to Help” the shelter. Click the “Volunteer” tab on the web- tab on the website.

• New Hampshire Humane Society (1305 Meredith Center Road, Laconia, 524-3252, nhhumane.org) has volunteer dog walking positions available on a daily basis. Download the application by clicking on the “Volunteer” tab on the website.

• New Hampshire SPCA (104 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, 772-2921, nhspca.org) has dog walking opportunities daily. Click on the “Get Involved” tab on the website for more details.

• Peace and Paws Dog Rescue (PO Box 1155, Hillsborough, peaceandpaws.org) has dog walking opportunities. Click on the “Get Involved” tab on the website for more details.

• Pope Memorial SPCA (94 Silk Farm Road, Concord, 856-8756, popememorialspca.org) has volunteer applications that can be filled out by clicking on the “Volunteer” tab on the website.

• Salem Animal Rescue League (4 SARL Drive, Salem, 893-3210, sarlnh.org) has both day and evening shifts available for dog walking. Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age and are asked to commit to a minimum of six hours per month. Click on the “Volunteer” tab on the website to fill out an application.

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UpReach has 19 horses that provide therapeutic riding to individuals with disabilities.

Sponsors can pay $125 a month to help the nonprofit purchase supplies for a specific horse.

According to McCarthy, sponsors can call and make an appointment to visit their horse at the barn. If they complete the nonprofit’s Taking the Lead training program, they can also assist with daily care tasks and take the horse for a walk on the property.

As a nonprofit, McCarthy said, UpReach depends on sponsorship, donations and volunteers to keep offering its programs.

Emily Aho, executive director of Newfoundland Pony Conservancy Center in Jaffrey, said each of their ponies costs $2,000 a year to care for.

The center’s funding is sourced entirely from donations, which help support one of the world’s rarest horse breeds. Aho said there are only 500 Newfoundland Ponies in the world and fewer than 50 in the U.S., about half of which are in Jaffrey.

Sponsors can pay $25 to help support one of the center’s ponies. Aho said sponsors can call ahead to plan a visit during the week or stop by on Saturdays during the center’s weekly open house time.

“This is their pony to come hang out with, have a picnic with, whatever they want to do,” said Aho. “It’s a great way to have a pony, and it costs only $25. You can barely get a riding lesson for that.”

Other than special events, neither UpReach nor the Pony Conservancy offer horse riding to volunteers. McCarthy said UpReach’s programming is specifically for therapeutic riding, while Aho said the center’s focus is more on teaching conservation and “coexistence” rather than horse riding.

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Along with horses, Live and Let Live Farm’s Rescue and Sanctuary in Chichester has “every kind of animal you can think of,” according to founder Teresa Paradis. She said the farm will

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Farms and nature centers in New Hampshire house a variety of animals, ranging from injured squirrels to an endangered breed of horses.

Sponsorship programs at these local sanctuaries allow people to help their favorite animals while oftentimes having the chance to visit them onsite.

“We have many people who come into our facility and they fall in love with a specific horse,” said Sara McCarthy, development director for UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Goffstown. “People who want to support them … get to see firsthand where their dollars are going.”

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“We have older horses that don’t get adopted, blind animals that come in and ones with injuries that just live their lives out with us,” said Paradis. “They especially can use sponsors.”

Sponsorship for ponies, horses and mules ranges from $75 to $125 per month. Paradis said any animal on site can be sponsored, and sponsors trained as volunteers can visit with their animal anytime.

Millstone Wildlife Center in Windham is a home-based wildlife rehab licensed by the state, which helped 404 injured or orphaned animals last year. According to Executive Director Frannie Greenberg, 99 percent of rehab centers in New Hampshire are home-based.

The center offers a more long-distance sponsorship option. Packages start at $50, and sponsors can choose which animal they’d like their donation to support. Since Millstone’s goal is to release its animals back into the wild, Greenberg tries to limit their contact with people.

“If we have people coming in on a regular basis, animals get used to that,” said Greenberg.

“The last thing we want to do is have a squirrel run to each person they see and say, ‘Ah, you provide food.’”

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Groups like the New Hampshire Audubon care for animals no longer able to survive in the wild. Sean Gillery, director of membership and development for the Audubon, said the nonprofit has 39 different wildlife sanctuaries in every county of the state. He said sponsors can direct their donations to a specific species or location, and higher sponsorship packages offer a private visit with an employee and that animal.

“We have several different species at our center, and people often connect with one of the animals,” said Jane Kolias, membership coordinator for the Audubon. “People want to support that animal … versus just giving us a general donation for animal care.”

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eagles, owls and more. Donors can also purchase packages that allow them to meet their sponsored species. Amanda Gillen, marketing manager for the center, said that includes the saw-whet owl, which is typically only exhibited at special presentations.

Gillery said these types of programs offer a “unique experience for experiential learning.”

He added that the money also helps support the Audubon’s mission of addressing the needs of animals and the environment in New Hampshire.

“These are the animals in our backyard, sometimes quite literally,” said Greenberg of Millstone Wildlife Center. “Making sure that our environment and our state continues to be able to host a variety of species is of the most importance.”

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Live and Let Live Farm’s Rescue and Sanctuary Rescues abused and unwanted animals, including horses, dogs, cats, cows, goats, rabbits, birds and more.

Where: 20 Paradise Lane, Chichester Hours: Sunday, 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Sponsorship: General visitation and ability to work with sponsored animal.

Cost: $75 to $125 per month for ponies, horses and mules; other animals also available Visit: liveandletlivefarm.org

New Hampshire Audubon Rehabilitates injured or orphaned wildlife, including owls, raptors, birds, turtles, frogs, squirrels and more.

Where: Massabesic Center (26 Audubon Way, Auburn); McLane Center (84 Silk Farm Road, Concord) Massabesic Hours: Wednesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

McLane Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sponsorship: Sponsorship certificate; species profile; name publicly displayed as sponsor; plush animal toy; private visit with a naturalist and resident animal(s). Perks depend on donation amount.

Cost: $25 to $150 Visit: nhaudubon.org Squam Lakes Natural Science Center Rehabilitates injured or orphaned wildlife, including black bears, bobcats, coyotes, fishers, foxes, mountain lions, river otters, mice, deer, owls, raptors, birds, turtles and more Where: 23 Science Center Road, Holderness Hours: Animal exhibit trail open May 1 through Nov. 1, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Offices open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. year-round; Guided snowshoe tours on select weekends Sponsorships: Stainless steel water bottle; plush toy of sponsored species; thank you letter and photo of animal; animal fact sheet; Sponsor a Species certificate; subscription to quarterly Tracks & Trails newsletter; recognition on the Science Center’s website, Annual Report and Trailhead Gallery; private interpretive trail walk for up to 10 people; private animal program with your species for up to 10 people. Perks depend on donation amount.

Cost: $50 to $1,000 Visit: nhnature.org

Millstone Wildlife Center Rehabilitates injured or orphaned wildlife, including squirrels, raccoons, opossum, porcupine, fisher cats, skunks, turtles and more.

Where: Windham Hours: Closed to the public Sponsorship: Digital photo of sponsored animal; Millstone Wildlife Center sticker and tote bag; periodic updates on animal’s progress.

Perks depend on donation amount.

Cost: $50 to $500 UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Visit: millstonewildlifecenter.wordpress.com Center Keeps horses to offer therapeutic riding serNewfoundland Pony Conservancy vices. Where: 153 Paige Hill Road, Goffstown Center Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to Rescues and breeds Newfoundland ponies.

4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 Where: 488 Dublin Road, Jaffrey p.m.

Hours: Open most Saturdays; Tours available Sponsorships: Ability to visit with your horse; by appointment option to complete Taking the Lead training to Sponsorships: Visit with your pony on Sat- assist with some daily care and take the horse urdays; training as a volunteer and caretaker; for a walk; certificate of sponsorship; duplicate T-shirt with pony’s photo. certificate displayed in the barn; recognition on Cost: $25 per month; $100 one-time donation horse’s page on UpReach’s website. for T-shirt Cost: $125 per month Visit: newfoundlandponies.org Visit: upreachtec.org

Almost home

Foster an animal while it awaits adoption

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

There are many reasons a person may not be prepared for the commitment of owning a new pet.

“It may be that they travel a lot and can’t take on an animal full-time,” Lisa Caputo, director of operations at New Hampshire Humane Society, said.

“Maybe they don’t feel like they have enough experience with animals to own an animal, or they’re still sad from their last animal that passed and aren’t ready to get another one.”

For anyone who wants a pet but can’t offer a forever home, fostering an animal from a local shelter may be a good alternative.

Fostering means caring for an animal at your home temporarily until it gets adopted or can return to the shelter. It’s often used for animals, usually cats and dogs, who have too much anxiety living in the shelter, are too young to be adopted — kittens and puppies must be at least eight weeks old, a healthy weight and spayed and neutered before they are eligible for adoption — require hospice care or have special medical or behavioral needs.

The fostering period may be anywhere from a week to a few months, depending on the animal’s situation.

“Some people can only give a month of their time while other people say, ‘I’ll do it as long as you need me to,’” Caputo said. “We discuss it with the person and try to accommodate them with the right animal based on how long they can help.”

Most shelters have an application process for fostering that includes a meeting and a home inspection to determine whether the person and their home are a good match for the program, and to help set them up with an animal that is well-suited for their lifestyle. If the person already owns a pet, additional meetings may be necessary to ensure that the foster animal and the person’s pet are compatible.

Some experience with animals is helpful but not required, as long as the animal doesn’t have special needs.

“You just need to have a basic knowledge. You don’t need experience,” Mariah Lariviere, shelter manager at Cocheco Valley Humane Society, said.

“It’s actually a good way to gain experience, and the shelter is always there

Photo courtesy of the New Hampshire Humane Society.

as a resource if you have questions or need help.”

Ideally, the foster caretaker will have a secure space in their home where they can confine the animal, particularly if they aren’t home or have children or other pets. They should also be able to dedicate a significant amount of time and attention to the animal.

“You can usually still work a 9-to-5, depending on the animal and the situation, but if you’re gone 14 hours a day or have an inconsistent schedule or trav-

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A person’s financial situation will not affect their ability to foster an animal as the shelter is responsible for food, supplies, vaccinations and medical expenses.

“The animal is still our property in every aspect,” Lariviere said. “Fostering costs a person nothing but their time.”

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Fostering an animal can be time-consuming and messy and require “a good amount of patience and understanding,” Lariviere said, particularly for young or special needs animals or animals that struggle with acclimating to new environments, but by volunteering your time and resources, you can significantly improve the animal’s quality of life as it waits for a permanent home.

“It’s a rewarding feeling, knowing that you are essentially giving an animal a life and helping it thrive by giving it socialization and training and making sure it’s healthy,” she said. “Even if you can’t commit long-term, you’re setting the animal up for success and preparing it for a permanent, loving home.”

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• It’s OK if you don’t have much experience with animals. Be up front with the shelter about your experience with animals so that they can match you up with an animal that you will be able to handle, and don’t hesitate to contact the shelter with questions — that’s what they’re there for.

• It won’t cost you any money.

Because the animal still belongs to the shelter, the shelter will supply all of the animal’s food, supplies and medical needs. If there is anything else that you think will help the animal thrive in your home, just ask; the shelter is usually more than happy to provide it.

• You can work a regular job. Let the shelter know your work situation so that they can match you with an animal that can be left alone for part of the day. Make sure you have a secure area to contain the animal while you are away.

• Everyone needs to be on board. First, if you’re renting your home, make sure to

get your landlord’s approval. Then, make sure everyone in your household, including the children, is OK with having a new animal in the house. Finally, make sure the animals already in your home will be compatible with a new animal, or that you’ll be able to keep them separated.

• There may be some sleepless nights.

Animals who haven’t lived in a home for a while or young animals who have been separated from their mother or litter may cry at night and require extra attention and care as they get acclimated to their new environment.

• Kittens and puppies require special care. If you decide to take on kittens or puppies, it’s helpful to have some experience with young animals. You’ll need to designate a secure room or small area of the home for them and dedicate some time every day to engage with them and give them socialization.

• Prepare to get attached. “Foster failures,” when the foster caretaker decides to adopt the foster animal, are very common and are great for the animal, but if you know that there is no way you can keep the animal, make sure you know your limitations and regularly remind yourself that you will have to let the animal go eventually.

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Tickets cost $30 and include food from Madear’s Restaurant at what is billed as a Masquerade Ball (costumes are not required but encouraged, according to the website). See facnh.com. Madear’s (175 Hanover St. in Manchester; madears603.com) will hold a Mardi Gras celebration with a special menu (featuring a crawfish boil, charbroiled oysters, king cakes and Louisiana cocktails) starting at 5 p.m. on March 5. Call 206-5827 for information and reservations. Have your own celebration with a king cake. Call The Bakeshop on Kelley Street (171 Kelly St. in Manchester; thebakeshoponkelleystreet.com, 624-3500) now to put in an order for a king cake, available in three sizes (with or without the traditional baby).

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Catch the Americana band Dead Winter Carpenters tonight from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Riverwalk Cafe (35 Railroad Square in Nashua; riverwalknashua.com, 578-0200).

Tickets cost $10 in advance, $13 at the door. See deadwintercarpenters.com. Find more live music at area bars and restaurants in our Music This Week listing, which starts on page 42.

DRINK: Beer, wine, spirits or mocktails The Concord Hospital’s annual fundraiser for the Breast Care Center is branching out from wine. The newly renamed Crafts, Drafts and Barrels on Friday, March 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. will feature a tasting of beer, wine and spirits as well as food from area restaurants at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord). Tickets cost $50 for general admission, $75 for VIP admission (which includes entry at 6 p.m., access to higher-end wine and spirits and a take-home glass) and $125 for Libation Education Club membership (which includes early entry, a session about pairing beer with sweet and savory foods, a rum tasting, take-home items and the VIP perks). Go to giveto.concordhospital.org.

The NH Philharmonic presents the music of Mendelssohn, Debussy, Britten, Smetana and Cohen at “Drawn to the Music: The Beauty of the Earth,” a concert that will also feature images created by area elementary school students who listened to recordings of the music and then created pieces, according to the website.

The concert takes place tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m. at the Seifert Performing Arts Center (44 Geremonty Drive in Salem). Tickets cost $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $8 for students. See nhphil.org.

BE MERRY: With hockey The Manchester Monarchs have two home games on the schedule this weekend. Catch them Friday, March 1, at 7 p.m. or Saturday, March 2, at 6 p.m.; both games are against the Adirondack Thunder at SNHU Arena (555 Elm St. in Manchester). Saturday is Marvel Night, presented by Double Midnight Comics.

The Monarchs will wear Black Panther-inspired jerseys. See manchestermonarchs.com (where information about the night includes “dress up as your favorite Marvel superhero for your chance to win suite tickets to an upcoming game”) for tickets to either game and details.

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ARTS Frame by frame

Artist exhibits animated film made with collages

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

More than 4,000 handmade collages on paper went into the making of Colorado artist Stacey Steers’ two-dimensional stop-motion animated film Night Hunter, exhibited Feb. 28 through March 30 at the McIninch Art Gallery at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

Steers creates the collages for her films using fragments of printed stills from silentera cinema and 19th-century engravings and illustrations. Then, she photographs the collages in sequence on an Oxberry animation stand with a Mitchell 35mm camera. There are around eight collages shown in each second of the film.

Night Hunter depicts a surrealist dreamscape in which a woman, portrayed with reappropriated imagery of silent film actress Lillian Gish, tries to care for bird eggs in a house filled with insects and snakes.

While silent films often presented female characters as damsels in distress who are secondary to the male protagonist, Steers places the actresses in alternate narratives as characters who are more empowered and independent.

“I try to undercut the cultural biases represented in film and the historic portrayals of women,” she said. “I’m taking them out of that film history and changing the trajecto-

inch miniature black house resembling the house in the film. It has 10 rooms, visible through the windows, furnished with objects relating to the film and tiny video screens playing scenes from the film on a loop. The second sculptural piece is a miniature cottage that is essentially a smaller version of the house. Both were designed by Steers in collaboration with a woodworker.

“The houses are the focus of the exhibit,” Steers said. “People love miniatures. It has a magical quality to it. They love looking through all the little windows and seeing all the little dollhouse furniture.”

The Night Hunter installation will be shown in conjunction with an installation by Philadelphia artist Didier William. Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, William layers etchings, paper and paint on wooden panels, creating eye patterns in figurative forms The house and a scene from Night Hunter. Courtesy photos. that capture the history and identity of Haiti. ry of how they were originally perceived.” thing. There are a lot of ways to read it, and Both artists will be at an opening reception Steers said she was “thinking about a lot everyone has their own take.” and artist talk on Friday, March 1. of different things” while making the film, Steers started teaching herself animation including allegory, myth and archetype sur- in the 1980s, but only in the last few years Stacey Steers: Night Hunter rounding the creative process, aging and has she been creating other kinds of art to other themes. complement her films. The installation at When: Feb. 28 through March 30, with an “It’s definitely not the kind of art where SNHU features a screening of the 16-minute opening reception and artist talk on Friday, you don’t know what you’re looking at or film, plus four shadow boxes with materiMarch 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. how to understand it. It presents itself in a als used in the film or relating to the film, a Where: McIninch Art Gallery at Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 River way that you can engage with,” she said. series of preparatory collages and two sculpRoad, Manchester “It’s all about what the images in the film tural pieces.

Visit: snhu.edu, staceysteers.com bring up for [the viewer]; it’s a personal The first sculptural piece is a 60x36x36-

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Art Events • COMMUNITY MURAL The public is invited to participate in a community mural in the galleries. The 7-by-24-foot mural will reflect the natural and urban spaces of Manchester, engaging aspects of the city’s mill history and aspirations for the future.

Visitors can represent their experiences and vision through collage, colored and patterned papers, large and small crayons, pencils and glue. Through March 4. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

Open calls • 33RD ANNUAL OMER T. LASSONDE JURIED EXHIBITION This year’s theme is “Fresh View — A New Perspective.” It’s open to NHAA members and non-members, and to art of all media. The cash prizes will be awarded for the top three submissions. Submission deadline

is Sun., Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. The exhibit will run April 3 through April 27 at NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, with an opening reception on Friday, April 5, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Visit nhartassociation.org.

Openings • “THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES: PARTY DRESSES PIECING IT TOGETHER” OPENING RECEPTION Multimedia exhibit by the High Season Artists. Fri., March 1, 5 to 7 p.m. Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom . Visit epsomlibrary.com.

• “DIDIER WILLIAM AND STACEY STEERS: NIGHT HUNTER” OPENING RECEPTION Didier William weaves together a wide range of art-making techniques to push the limits of his materials. Stacey Steers is known for her process driven animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Fri., March 1, 5 to 7 p.m. McIninch Art Gallery, SNHU, 2500 North River Road, Manchester. Visit snhu.edu.

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Workshops/classes/ demonstrations • FABRIC COLLAGE Participants will use hand-dyed cottons and batiks to make papers and vintage fabrics in their fabric collages. Sat., March 2, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $68 tuition, plus a $15 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

• BEYOND BASICS - ZENTANGLE RENAISSANCE STYLE Participants will learn about how to create zentangle images with a Renaissance look and feel. Sat., March 9, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $25 tuition, plus a $10 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

In the Galleries • ARTIST OF THE MONTH: TOM BURNS Having designed pendants, bracelets, rings and earrings for 40 years, Tom’s signature

style focuses on creating settings that enhance the individual beauty of each stone. On view during February. Exeter Fine Crafts , 61 Water St., Exeter. Call 778-8282.

• MARGARET FEMIA Femia uses graphite pencils to create shapes and shadows using only black, gray and white gradations.

On view through Feb. 28. Leach Public Library , 276 Mammoth Road, Londonderry. Call 8821493.

• KIMBERLY COOPER Watercolor paintings inspired by life on the NH seacoast region. During February. Seacoast Artist Association, 130 Water St., Exeter. Visit seacoastartist.org.

• “NEW HAMPSHIRE LANDSCAPES IN MOTION” Oil landscapes by Daryl D. Johnson.

On view Jan. 3 through March 21. Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “THREE CENTURIES OF MIRRORS: REFLECTIONS THROUGH THE AGES” New Hampshire Antique Co-op presents exhibit that showcases a

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Includes symphony and orchestral performances.

To get listed, e-mail arts@hippopress.com. curated collection of period and vintage mirrors from the late 1700s Rococo styles to the 1950s mid-century modern era. On view through March 31. Tower Gallery, 323 Elm St., Milford.

Visit nhantiquecoop.com.

• “IMAGES FROM A LONG VIEW OF THE EARTH” Featuring Professor Emeritus Ronnie McClure, who creates semi-abstract aerial photographs of the American landscape, taken through interpretive processes such as digital drawing, painting and color manipulation. On view through Feb. 28. Art Gallery in Memorial Hall at Rivier University, 435 S. Main St., Nashua.

Call 897-8280 or visit rivier.edu.

• “TELL A STORY AND NEVER SAY A WORD” Featuring the work of two New Hampshire Art Association members - a fine art photographer and a portrait artist and illustrator. On view Jan. 3 through March 21.

2 Pillsbury St., Concord. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES: SEEN AND LOST”

Features works by Rachelle Beaudoin, Lynn Duryea, Daniel Espinoza, Mark Elliott Johnson and Youdhi Maharjan. On view Feb. 7 through March 22. Kelley Stelling Contemporary, 221 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• STUDENT AND STAFF ART SHOW Featuring the work of students and staff made in classes offered at Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center over the past year. On view through March 10.

Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center, 30 Ash St. , Hollis . Visit wildsalamander.com.

• JOAN TIERNEY Tierney, art teacher and member of the New Hampshire Art Association, exhibits her work, which includes mostly New Hampshire landscapes, seascapes and barns, though recently she has been experimenting with more abstract styles. On view during February.

Creative Ventures Gallery, 411 Nashua St., Milford. Visit creativeventuresfineart.com or call 672-2500.

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• Floral art: Creative Ventures Gallery (411 Nashua St., Milford) will feature Hollis artist Jen McCalmont at its monthly First Friday Art Talk on Friday, March 1, at 6:30 p.m. McCalmont is a classical representational oil painter whose paintings of flowers, gardens and landscapes express joy and happiness. Her paintings are inspired by New Hampshire landscapes as well as her travels to other parts of the country and beyond.

She will be demonstrating her floral painting skills and technique. McCalmont’s work will hang in the gallery during March. The event is free and open to all, and light refreshments will be served. Visit creativeventuresfineart. com or call 672-2500.

• A sense of place: Sullivan Framing & Fine Art Gallery (15 N. Amherst Road, Bedford) presents an exhibition, “Fieldwork,” now through April 6. It features the new oil paintings of Strafford artist Molly Doe Wensberg. Her work is inspired by rural New Hampshire and focuses on the emotion of a place and the patchwork quality of distance and space. She creates color, texture and atmosphere with a signature style of soft brushwork and rough blocks of color applied with a palette knife. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Call 471-1888 or visit sullivanframing.com.

• Call for sculptures: The City of Concord and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce are inviting professional sculp-

• “THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES: PARTY DRESSES PIECING IT TOGETHER” Multimedia exhibit by the High Season Artists. On view through April 13. Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom . Visit epsomlibrary.com.

• THE ARTWORK OF PAUL PAT MORSE On view during February. Red River Theaters, 11 S. Main St., Concord. Visit Rusticator.com.

• “ODD COUPLES” Exhibit pairs a dozen various artists and multiple media together to show how each artist interprets their choice of subject in unique different ways. On view during February. Main Street Art, 75 Main St., Newfields. Visit mainstreetart.org.

• “SHINE” Exhibit showcases Bow High School artists’ work, including a vibrant arrangement of ink drawings, fabric art, canvas painting, beautiful fashion and watercolor. On view Feb. 9 through March 15. Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen. Visit twiggsgallery.wordpress.com.

Jen McCalmont art. Courtesy photo.

tors to submit entries for Concord’s Second Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, “Art on Main,” which will be installed May 20 through June 7 and on display year-round.

Sculptors age 18 and older may submit up to two original works for consideration. The deadline for entries is March 31, and artists will be notified of their acceptance by April 30. Selected artists will receive a $500 stipend, and all works will be for sale to the public. Visit ConcordNHChamber.com/ CreativeConcord.

• Music and art: The New Hampshire Art Association presents an exhibit, “Rhythm & Hues,” now through March 31 at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery (136 State St., Portsmouth). It features art by members that reflects on music, movement, patterns and colors. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., with live music provided by guitarist Dave Graf and claw hammer banjo player Joshua Cooper.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Visit nhartassociation.org.

— Angie Sykeny

• “WILD AND WOOLY” Exhibit features 2-D art, fiber art, felted wood paintings, sculpture, ceramics, reliefs, pottery and other free-standing art inspired by wild weather, wild locales, wildlife, wooly creatures and more. On view during February.

ArtHub, 30 Temple St., Nashua. Call 405-698-1951 or visit naaa-arthub.org.

• “FRIENDS, FRUITS & FLOWERS” Amy Stodola of Harrisville will show her paintings. On view Feb. 16 through March 27. Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., Hancock.

Visit hancocktownlibrarynh. wordpress.com.

• “DIDIER WILLIAM AND STACEY STEERS: NIGHT HUNTER” Didier William weaves together a wide range of art-making techniques to push the limits of his materials. Stacey Steers is known for her process driven animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. On view Feb. 28 through March 30. McIninch

Art Gallery, SNHU, 2500 North River Road, Manchester. Visit snhu.edu.

Theater Productions • BILLY ELLIOT The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents. Feb. 8 through March 9, with showtimes on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.

125 Bow St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $16 to $44. Visit seacoastrep. org or call 433-4472.

• ON THE COUCH Feb. 15 through March 3. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $25 for adults, $23 for seniors, students and military.

Call 978-683-7745.

• TALK RADIO Players’ Ring presents. Feb. 15 through March 3. 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. $18. Visit playersring.org.

• PROOF The New England College Theatre Department presents. Feb. 21 through Feb. 24.

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Notes from the theater scene

• Mobster dinner theater: The Majestic Theatre presents its third dinner theater show of its 2019 season, Bullets for Broadway, at the Executive Court Banquet Facility (1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester) on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 3, at 1:30 p.m. A sequel to The Altos, the musical looks at what would happen if The Sopranos met The Producers. Gangster Tony Alto needs to “clean” some money and his wife Toffee wants to be a Broadway star, so Tony hires two producers to mount a hit musical, The Mafia Queen, starring Toffee. The show, including dinner, costs $42 on Friday and Saturday and $40 on Sunday. Visit majestictheatre.net or call 669-7469.

• Original political drama: Cue Zero Theatre Company presents its first 2019 mainstage production, NuSpace, on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m. at Kreiva Academy (479 Pine St., Manchester). The play, written by the company’s 2019 artist-in-residence, Margerie Boyer, is a political drama set in a world where a company has developed the technology to rewrite and control every aspect of internet media. Tickets cost $15. Visit cztheatre.com.

• Churchill comes alive: Randy Otto portrays Winston Churchill in The Blitz at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord) on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m.

From his study at Chartwell, Churchill recounts his 1930s journey from historical

for seniors. Visit nectheatre.com/ box-office.html.

• SHIPWRECKED: AN ENTERTAINMENT - THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT (as Told by Himself) Theatre KAPOW presents.

Feb. 22 through March 2. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. Visit tkapow.com.

• CABARET Feb. 22 through March 17. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• BULLETS FOR BROADWAY Majestic Theatre presents. Fri., March 1, and Sat., March 2, 7 p.m., and Sun., March 3, 1:30 p.m. Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester. $42 Friday and Saturday, $40 Sunday. Visit majestictheatre.net.

• NUSPACE Cue Zero Theatre Company presents. Fri., March 1, and Sat., March 2, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 3, 2 p.m. Kreiva Academy, 70 Pine St., Manchester. $15. Visit CZTheatre.com.

Randy Otto portrays Winston Churchill in The Blitz. Courtesy photo.

footnote to one of the most notable leaders and statesmen in recorded history, according to a press release. The show will conclude with an interactive opportunity for the audience to ask Churchill questions. Tickets cost $15 to $25. Visit ccanh.com.

• O’Keeffe in Hawaii: Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise comes to the Hatbox Theatre (270 Loudon Road, Concord) on Saturday, March 2, at 4 p.m., and the Congregational Church of Henniker (43 Maple St., Henniker) the same day at 7 p.m. The award-winning musical by William Ogmundson of New London and Tom Dunn of Henniker is based on the 2011 book Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai’i, co-authored 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. Tickets for the Hatbox show cost $17 for adults and $14 for students and seniors. Visit hatboxnh. com or call 715-2315. The show at the church is admission by donation. Reservations can be made by calling 568-5102 or emailing dunn.t@comcast.net.

— Angie Sykeny

• JAKE’S WOMEN Milford Area Players present. March 8 through March 17. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. Visit milfordareaplayers.weebly.com.

• SEUSSICAL Peacock Players present. March 8 through March 17. Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St., Nashua. Tickets are $12 to $19. Visit peacockplayers. org.

• VICTORIA VALENTINE: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR Ghost Ship Radio presents.

Sun., March 24 and May 26, 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hatboxnh.com.

Workshops/other • PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE Cue Zero Theatre Company hosts a monthly Playwright’s Circle for local playwrights looking to improve their craft. Playwrights of all ages and experience levels are invited to bring 10 pages

of an original work, which the circle will read aloud and offer feedback on while discussing the process and philosophy of playwriting. Bring at least one copy of your scene for every character.

Every third Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jupiter Hall, 89 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit facebook.com/ CZTheatre.

Classical Music • DRAWN TO THE MUSIC: THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH NH Philharmonic presents music by Mendelssohn, Debussy, Britten, Smetana and Cohen. Sat., March 2, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 3, 2 p.m. Seifert Performing Arts Center, 44 Geremonty Drive, Salem. $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $8 for students. Visit nhphil.org.

• GREGORY BEAULIEU Solo pianist performs. Sun., March 10, 2 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

Visit nashualibrary.org.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE French focus

New Hampshire celebrates its Franco heritage

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

Every year in March, New Hampshire joins French communities around the world in celebrating the International Month of the Francophonie with special events and activities surrounding French language, history and culture.

The Club Richelieu of Nashua, The Franco-American Centre and Saint Anselm College have planned a variety of festivities, mostly in Nashua, including an art exhibition, a movie screening, educational programs, a book signing and more.

“It’s not a well-known fact, but 30 to 40 percent of the population in major cities in New England were French-Canadian during the Industrial Revolution. It’s an interesting history, and I don’t think we talk about it enough,” Eric Drouart, president of Club Richelieu of Nashua, said. “Today in New Hampshire, I would guess about one-third of people have French-Canadian heritage.

Hopefully, these events will make them want to learn more about where their ancestors came from.”

An opening ceremony will be held on Friday, March 1, at Nashua City Hall, with a Francophonie flag raising; speeches by Mayor Donchess, Quebec Delegation, Consulat de France, Consulat de Haiti, Consulate of Canada, Mrs. Adele Baker and Honorary Consul of France for NH; anthems of America, Canada, France, Congo and Haiti; and a light buffet.

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Children & Teens Events • PARENTING NH INTERACTIVE SUMMER CAMP FAIR This event allows parents and their children the opportunity to speak one-on-one with representatives of summer camps and programs in New Hampshire. Camp categories include adventure and travel, educational, arts and crafts, performing arts, science and nature and more. Sat., March 2, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Courtyard by Marriott, 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua. Free.

Visit parentingnh.com/nh-summer-camps.

Clubs

Garden • NASHUA GARDEN CLUB MARCH PROGRAM: EPIMEDIUMS, JEWELS OF THE SHADE Karen Perkins, proprietor of the Massachusetts-based Garden Vision Epimediums,

Flag raising at last year’s Month of the Francophonie opening ceremony. Courtesy photo.

Celebration and Masquerade Ball at Jupiter Hall in Manchester, featuring Cajun food, games, a costume contest, prizes, music, masks and beads.

Many events will take place at the Nashua Public Library, including an art exhibition, “Pli,” by French-born Rhode Island artist Pascale Lord, on display Friday, March 3, through Saturday, March 30, with an artist reception on Thursday, March 14.

A French language conversation group will meet on Tuesday, March 12, and Tuesday, March 26, with a choral performance of “Ode a la Joie” by students of the World Academy School on March 12. The Franco-American Centre’s French language conversation group, Prêt-à-Parler, will have a meeting on Thursday, March 21, fol-

lowed by a presentation on the dialects of the French-Canadian language spoken in Quebec, and an additional meeting at Saint Anselm College on Tuesday, March 5.

On Saturday, March 23, Marie-Josee Duquette of the Quebec Delegation of Boston will present and sign two of her latest books: Une Québécoise à Boston, in which she shares her discoveries around Boston from a foreigner’s perspective, and Histoire d’une vie trop courte, a memoir about losing the father of her child to Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Also at the library, there will be a showing of the French-Canadian film Hochelaga Terre des Ames (Hochelaga Land of the Souls) on Wednesday, March 13. Another French film (title to be determined) will be shown at Saint Anselm College on Thursday,

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will be the featured guest speakers. She will share her expertise of epimediums and companion shade perennials. Wed., March 6, 7 p.m. First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St., Nashua. Free for Nashua Garden Club members and $5 for non-members. Visit nashuagardenclub.com.

Toastmasters • FIND YOUR VOICE: TOASTMASTERS OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION This program will include timed speeches, word of the day and table-topics where club members speak extemporaneously. Guests will get a chance to learn about and observe the Toastmasters’ experience. Thurs., Feb. 28, 6 to 8 p.m. New England College - Concord Campus, 62 N. Main St., Concord. Free. Contact Catherine Ryan at c_ryan16@ yahoo.com or Grace Cohen at gcohen@anthorne.com.

Continuing Education Open houses • UNH MANCHESTER OPEN HOUSE Tour the campus, meet with an admissions counselor and learn about the financial aid options available at UNH Manchester. Sat., March 2, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (check-in begins at 8:30 a.m.). UNH Manchester, 88 Commercial St., Manchester. Visit manchester.unh.edu.

• GATE CITY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS INFORMATION SESSION The session will include a presentation about the school, followed by a tour during which families will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet staff members.

Mon., March 4, 6 to 7 p.m. Gate City Charter School for the Arts, 7 Henry Clay Drive, Merrimack.

Free. Visit gatecitycharterschool. org or call 943-5273.

Crafts One-time sewing workshops • FABRIC COLLAGE Participants will use hand-dyed cottons and batiks to make papers and vintage fabrics in their fabric collages. Sat., March 2, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $68 tuition, plus a $15 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts. org or call 595-8233.

Dance Special folk dances • FIRST SATURDAY CONTRA DANCE Featuring Luke Donforth calling with the band Anadama.

Sat., March 2, 8 p.m. Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove St., Peterborough. $10 admission for adults and $7 for students and seniors.

Visit monadnockfolk.org or call 762-0235.

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Other events at Saint Anselm will include a French Mass on Tuesday, March 12; a panel discussion on the French language spoken in Quebec on Wednesday, March 20; a concert featuring works by Lully, Bach, Rachmaninoff and more from the era of Louis XIV, performed by members of the Music Performance Faculty on Wednesday, March 27, and a presentation on the Haitian Revolution on Thursday, March 28.

Greater Nashua High School students will participate in the Nashua Richelieu Club’s French Speech Contest on Sunday, March 24, at Rivier University. The theme is “Choose a Francophone writer or poet from the 20th century and tell us why you like him or her.” Students with the best speeches will return on Saturday, March 30, for the regional contest with students from other Richelieu Club branches in New England.

Drouart said the events are not only for people with French heritage, but for anyone with an interest or connection to French language, history and culture.

“Even if your only connection is that you’ve learned and spoken some French in the past or have traveled to France, this is a month to recognize and celebrate that here in New Hampshire,” he said.

Month of the Francophonie When: Events held throughout March Where: Various locations in Nashua and Manchester Visit: facnh.com/events-3/ celebrate-francophonie-month 26 Car Talk Ray gives you car advice.

Festivals & Fairs Events • PSYCHIC FAIR The fair will feature mediums offering tarot, psychometry, palms, aura interpretation and more. Sun., March 3, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hunt Memorial Building, 6 Main St., Nashua.

Readings tart at $25 for 15 minutes. Visit cityartsnashua.org.

Misc Antique events • NEW ENGLAND VINTAGE ELECTRONICS EXPO II Known as “The Biggest Vintage Electronics Show on the entire East Coast,” with more than 100 indoor tables and 60 sellers. Sun., March 3, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., with guest speakers from 1:30 to 4 p.m. The Event Center at the Courtyard by Marriott, 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua. $10 admission for adults from 8 to 11 a.m.; free for everyone after 11 a.m. Visit nevee. org or call 772-7516.

Religion-related events • SERVICE OF HEALING AND HOLY COMMUNION For people in or seeking recovery from addiction, and those who care for them. Sat., March 2, 4 p.m.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 102 Main St., Manchester. Email revsandi@allsaintsnh.org.

Workshops • STEPS TO HOME OWNERSHIP Wed., March 6, 6:30 p.m.

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

Nature & Gardening • HOOT ‘N’ SCOOT Meet ambassador owls and look at owl artifacts.

End the program with a walk in the woods to listen for owls. Thurs., March 7, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $20 for non-members. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 668-2045.

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Plenty to learn

Reflections on Around the World in 80 Trees

By Henry Homeyer listings@hippopress.com

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I love trees, and find them endlessly fascinating. Each is unique, much as we are. One winter I attempted (and failed) to read all of Michael Dirr’s authoritative Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs — all 950 pages of it.

I only read about trees that are hardy here and still only found time to read about half of it.

Recently I found a more manageable project, reading Jonathan Drori’s Around the World in 80 Trees. At just over 200 pages, and nearly half of that illustrations, it gave me the satisfaction of a project easily completed.

And it provided countless bits of information that I didn’t know.

For example, I never knew that the great violin builders Stradivarius and Guarneri used Norway spruce for their sounding boards. Apparently Norway spruce, particularly old ones that grew on the mountains of Switzerland, are very dense but lightweight — perfect for violins.

And alders were important for the development of Venice, Italy. Apparently it is highly resistant to rot if submerged in water. Their engineers drove stakes of alder (nine per square meter) and filled in around them and over them with rocks and broken bricks. Then they built bridges and buildings on them, many of which still are solidly in place, up to 700 years later.

Also the Venetians used alders to make the best charcoal for gunpowder, allowing them to advance militarily. Even today the best gunpowders use charcoal from alders. And I thought alders were junk.

I recently bought some shampoo that touted that it contained “argan oil.” Huh? I’d never heard of argan, and it sounds to me like something from a factory along I-95 in New Jersey.

Nope. It is a tree that grows in North Africa.

Argan produces a fruit the size of a plum with a nut inside with one or two hard, oil-rich seeds.

Traditionally women in Algeria and Morocco harvest the seeds and grind them to a pulp and extract the oil. Amazingly, three million people depend on the oil for their income. It is used as cooking oil and in cosmetics. And goats love the fruit, often climbing the trees to get at it, despite the numerous thorns on the branches.

Then I read about the tree that produces quinine, Cinchona spp. Originally from Ecuador and Peru, it produces alkaloids that kill malaria parasites in humans, despite the fact that those two countries had no indigenous malaria. But quinine allowed explorers of tropical malarial zones to survive the ravages of this terrible fever.

And of course, quinine is key to the development of the gin and tonic, invented by the British in India. My grandfather got malaria living near the swamps of East Boston in the

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early 1900s and probably resorted to quinine when it recurred, which may have given him an excuse for a gin and tonic from time to time.

I was fascinated to learn that the quaking aspen trees spread largely by root, and that huge forests of this aspen are all connected by roots, and are essentially one tree. The largest living thing in the world, by this definition, is a single quaking aspen that has 45,000 stems and covers 100 acres of ground. The tree, though not any individual stem, is thought to be 80,000 years old. It is the most widely distributed tree in North America so you probably have one.

As a teen I read a book by Betty Smith called A Tree Grows in Brooklyn about a family there.

She used the tree as a metaphor for the immigrants struggling to grow in poor conditions, as the tree does. The tree in the title is the invasive Tree of Heaven.

Originally from China, Tree of Heaven was introduced to New York State in 1820. It grows fast, grows most anywhere, and is nearly impossible to get rid of. Cut one down, and the roots send up new shoots all over, even through a crack in the sidewalk. It is hardy to Zone 4 (minus 30 degrees in winter) but I have never seen one here in New Hampshire.

We all know the Eastern White Pine, but I did not know that it sucks up nitrogen from the soil and saves it for use later. And that in so doing, the pine helps to discourage other trees from competing with it.

I also learned that our sugar maples, when grown in Europe, do not have the bright red leaves we love in autumn. Their fall climate is gray and cool, and maples need bright sun and cold nights to get those red colors. Maybe that is why some years our maples are less impressive — if we’ve had a rainy fall.

I visited a friend in Florida this winter, and went to a mangrove swamp. I learned from this book that the red mangrove gives birth to live young while they are still attached to the mother tree. The seeds germinate and grow, eventually dropping off as seedlings. Amazing.

So if you’d like an entertaining read, get a copy of Around the World in 80 Trees. There is plenty more to learn.

Henry is the author of four gardening books.

His email is henry.homeyer@comcast.net.

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Family fun for the weekend

Finish vacation week with big fun

Meet the reptiles and amphibians of the Amoskeag Fishways Learning & Visitors Center (4 Fletcher St. in Manchester; amoskeagfishways. org, 626-3474 ) daily through Friday, March 1, at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. This “Critter Meet & Greet” will include fun facts and crafts. Admission is free and no registration is required (donations accepted).

At the Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St. in Manchester; currier.org, 669-6144), Thursday, Feb. 28, is “Free Night at the Currier: A Family Affair.” From 5 to 8 p.m., enjoy evening of art activities, the community mural project, games, raffles, film shorts and a children’s performer, according to the press release. The museum is also featuring special vacation week pricing through Friday, March 1, when admission is free for anyone under age 17 and $5 for adults.

At the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road in Londonderry; nhahs. org, 669-4820), they are opening an extra day — Thursday, Feb. 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in addition to their regular schedule of Fridays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission costs $5 for adults, $4 for seniors over 60, $2.50 for children and teens ages 12 to 16, free for children under 12, with a INSIDE/OUTSIDE TREASURE HUNT

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Dear Donna, Found this small poster during a house cleanout. Not sure if it’s old or not but thought you might be the one to ask. It’s 11”x 14” and in good condition.

Bob from Goffstown Dear Bob, Your poster by A.G. Witherby is a modern reprint but probably not new. Posters have been reproduced for many years. People can now order reprints online. Originals can be very expensive so copies are a way to enjoy them without the full cost.

A.G. Witherby was very involved with Vanity Fair in the late 1800s. You can see his style looks similar to other ones done by Vanity Fair. The

$15 maximum per family. The new exhibit “Rob Holland Experience” uses virtual reality to show visitors what it’s like to be a world champion aerobatics pilot, according to the website.

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord; starhop.com, 2717827) is open daily, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Sunday, March 3, (the center’s usual school-year schedule is Friday through Sunday, 10:30 am. to 4 p.m.). Admission is $11.50 for adults, $8.50 for children ages 3 to 12 and $10.50 for students (13 through college). Planetarium tickets are an additional $5 per person per show.

The SEE Science Center (200 Bedford St. in Manchester; see-sciencecenter.org, 669-0400) is open Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $9 per person ages 3 and up. Check out the recently installed permanent exhibit “BiologYou” about human biology as well as favorites such as the Lego Millyard.

Thursday, Feb. 28, is Floating Fun Day at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St. in Dover; childrens-museum.org, 742-2002). Activities include making a boat to take home, a scavenger hunt and more, according to the website. From Friday, March 1, through Sunday, March 3, celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with Dr. Seuss Pajama Party, with storytimes throughout the day, a scavenger hunt and more, according to the website. The events are part of admission, which is $10 for everyone over 1 ($9 for seniors age 65+). The museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. signature on yours is not the way original ones were signed by him but still gives credit to him.

Your poster could have been done in the 1950s to 1970s or possibly even later; it’s tough to tell just from a photo. To verify you would need someone to look at it closely. But as I said from the research I did, I think it’s safe to say it’s a copy. With that the value would be under $50.

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New cars want the power

Dear Car Talk: I recently purchased a 2017 Hyundai Elantra, which I love. Heading eastbound (downwind), I have been known to get 50 mpg on the highway. But there’s one thing

By Ray Magliozzi about it I don’t understand. While sitting in the driveway listening to the last 10 minutes of your radio show, Car Talk, I get a “low battery” warning, and I am directed to restart the engine.

Thirty years ago we could sit through a double feature at the drive-in, listening on the radio with the ignition switch on “accessory” and still start the car later. What’s changed?

— David What’s changed is that you now have a computer in your car that can remind you when you’re running down your battery. And the computer can take preventive action and shut down your car if you don’t respond to its warning.

Next time you see this warning, try ignoring it. What you’ll probably find is that after a few more minutes, the car will shut itself off.

It’ll probably give you another warning first, and say something like, “Shutting down soon, David. I mean it.”

As a side benefit, when it does shut down,

our show will be cut off and you won’t have to listen to rest of it.

Why would the car’s computer be programmed to do that? Well, here’s one scenario: Your car has keyless ignition. Let’s say you park the car but you accidentally hit the “startstop” button twice when getting out. So instead of shutting off the car, you’ve left it in accessory mode.

So the car sits there for 10 or 15 minutes, and then says, “Hey, David, you still here?” If you’re there and just listening to the radio waiting for your wife to clean out the shoe rack at Target, you can restart the car for 30 seconds and keep listening.

But if you’re not there ... if you’re already inside watching Geraldo while nursing a growler of Shark Spit Lager, your lack of response will cause the car to shut itself off to save the battery.

And while listening to the radio for 10 or 15 minutes would never run down your battery, it’s possible that if you left the car in accessory mode from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. you might. So it’s the car looking out for its own best interests, David. It’s the Hyundai Elantra Selfish Edition.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2009 GMC Envoy. It looks and runs fabulous and has less than 40,000 miles on it.

On a recent long driving trip, the air condition-

ing blew lots of cold air at first. But it would become less cold as the miles wore on. If I stopped to buy gas for 15 minutes, when I started driving again, it would blow lots of cold air.

If I drove for a long enough period, it would not just blow less cold air, but would sometimes start blowing mist out the vents. I could get the mist to stop by turning the temperature all the way to hot, but that wasn’t so comfortable.

The dealer could find nothing wrong. What do you think? — Charles I think you should stash a half dozen Axe Deodorant sticks in the glove box, Charles.

I suspect you have a failing air conditioning compressor clutch. The compressor clutch is the electro-mechanical device that turns your AC compressor on and off. The AC compressor will normally cycle on and off while it’s in use, depending on the demand for cool air. And the clutch is what starts and stops it.

So if the compressor clutch is faulty and failing when it gets hot (like after a multi-hour drive), it would essentially turn off your AC. That would pretty well explain the lack of cold air, huh, Charles?

Plus, while the AC’s not working, warm, moist air enters the cabin and builds up around the AC evaporator under the dash.

Then, when the clutch DOES kick back (randomly, or after a rest), that warm, moist air will hit the newly cold evaporator and make

fog. Just like what happens around the Golden Gate Bridge most evenings.

If your Envoy had come with the theme music package, Tony Bennett would’ve come on the radio singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” as the fog poured out.

Your dealer found nothing wrong because he didn’t drive it for five hours like you did and really heat up the compressor clutch, Charles. And since he’s unlikely to be willing to take a five-hour test drive in your 10-yearold AC-less truck, your best bet is to diagnose this yourself.

Bring your mechanic a cup of coffee and a couple of donuts one morning and ask him to show you where the AC compressor clutch is. Then, by turning the AC on and off, he can show you what the clutch looks like when it’s engaged, and what it looks like when it’s not engaged. Take a little video on your phone for reference.

Then, next time you’re crossing Death Valley and you feel warm air coming out of the vents, hop out, open the hood and see if the compressor clutch is engaged or not. If it’s not, you’ve diagnosed your own problem, Charles.

That’ll make you feel so good about yourself that your five-hour drive back home without AC will feel like a mere four and a half hours.

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Tom DiMaggio Dog Mushing Trainer

Tom DiMaggio of Candia is president of the New Hampshire Mushers Association.

He’s been involved with dog sled racing for over 40 years.

Can you explain what your current job is?

We are presently training 10 sled dogs for the season. … Usually, training starts in the fall, as soon as the temperatures drop to 50 or below. We have what we call a rig, which is a wheeled vehicle that’s not motorized that we use. … The first couple of runs, we’ll do about a mile to a mile and a half, and then we’ll gradually, as the dogs get fitter and more powerful, we’ll increase the mileage. … I have mentored a number of different people. Two of them have gone and raced in the Junior Iditarod in Alaska … and one of them is now over in Europe racing. … Now I’m training my grandaughter. She’s got a good team.

How long have you worked there?

Forty-four years.

How did you get interested in this field?

It started off as a hobby. We bought one Siberian Husky years ago. The woman we bought it from offered us some other dogs to race with. From there, I just got hooked. We ended up with six dogs back then, and my kids got involved and they grew up in the sport. … It was the gratification of working with the dogs, getting… to understand the dogs and to understand each individual dog and what makes them tick and how to make them work as a team.

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

long have you been in the sport?”

A lot of it was picked up here and I said two years. He said, and there from different mush“Come back and see me when ers over the years. A lot of it you’ve been in it 10 years.” I was self-taught, trial-and-error.

If something worked, you stuck didn’t understand what he meant at the time, but then 10 years latwith it, and if it didn’t work, you er, I knew what he meant. It takes made a change and tried to get that long ... to learn correctly and better. … When we got into the Tom DiMaggio. in-depth how to get the most out sport, a lot of the things they did back then you wouldn’t do today at all. of the dogs and how to work with them.

It was a matter of evolving in the sport and What do you wish you’d known at the teaching yourself. beginning of your career?

I wish I knew more about the thinking How did you find your current job?

The New Hampshire Mushers Association aspect of the dogs, and how to better pick out was started because of a demand to have … their attitudes and abilities at a younger age. a uniform group of sled dog people, known as mushers, that the state could rely on and What is your typical at-work uniform?

Generally, I have a pair of jeans. … I have answer to. … Even though I was representing the sled dog community on the [state’s] what they call “snow sneakers,” which seem Trails Advisory Committee, there was no to be about the warmest on my feet that I’ve such statewide association. … There’s a found. Then some sort of polar fleece with number of clubs … but they’re strictly rac- wind block on it and a regular knitted hat. ing clubs. … We saw trails being lost due to demand or mushers not knowing what to do What was the first job you ever had?

I was a mechanical designer for a compaor how to talk to landowners or how to get ny over in Keene. along with snowmobilers.

— Scott Murphy What’s the best piece of work-related advice anyone’s ever given you?

What are you into right now?

When we were first getting into the sport, we went to a … top-notch racing kennel. … I’ve designed a sled for disabled people We went up and said, “Yeah, we’re mushers. that we’re hoping to get off the ground. …

Instead of standing on it, they sit in it …

We race sled dogs.” [The owner] said, “How and the brakes are hand-operated.

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FOOD Cheesecake dream

Mr. Baker Cheesecake Co. opens retail store in Manchester

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News from the local food scene

By Matt Ingersoll

food@hippopress.com • Fast and fresh: Greenhouse officially opened its doors on Feb. 17 in the former space of Cheddar & Rye (889 Elm St., Manchester).

Owner Andrew Thistle said the new restaurant was born out of the response among customers of the new whiskey bar that opened next door in October in the former Tiya’s Restaurant. The menu of customizable grilled cheese sandwiches is now available next door, while the new menu at Greenhouse features healthy options made fast, like build-your-own rice and quinoa bowls, breakfast bowls, smoothies, homemade toast spreads and more. Bowls include the Greenhouse, with rice, quinoa, kale, black beans, sweet potato, corn, walnuts and a housemade squash sauce; the Buddha, which has noodles, edamame, cabbage, carrot, mushroom, tofu, sesame and a house-made peanut and beet sauce; and the Dark Horse, with rice, mushroom, cabbage, corn, fried egg and a house mushroom teriyaki sauce. Greenhouse is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit greenhousemanchester.com or call 232-3872.

• Hershey talk: Join the Smyth Public Library (55 High St., Candia) for a Hershey’s Chocolate presentation on Monday, March 4, at 6 p.m. In this illustrated lecture, presenter Laura Keyes will tell the story of how Milton S. Hershey made his chocolate company successful and how the Hershey family would go on to become a household name. Admission is free. Visit smythpl.org/events or call 483-8245.

• Get fruitful: Learn how to grow fruit in small spaces at a free talk at the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St.) on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. D. Emerson Quigley of King Street Vineyards and the New Hampshire State Fruit Nursery will guide attendees through the process of growing fruit in even the smallest nook or cranny on your property. This event is rescheduled from Feb. 21 and is open to the public, no registration required. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.

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With specialty cheesecake flavors like white chocolate blueberry, coffee brownie, banana split and pumpkin caramel, a new full-service bakery in Manchester is proving that the sweet dessert has no limitations.

In fact, more than 500 flavors of cheesecake can be made to order at Mr. Baker Cheesecake Co., which is scheduled to open its retail shop March 1 in the former space of Kay’s Bakery in Manchester. But that’s not including the dozens of combinations available by creating your own cheesecake with at least three flavors and optional sauces and toppings.

Owner Dante Baker has been dabbling in innovative cheesecakes since 2010, with his product available at various locations across the Queen City like Whiskey’s 20 and the former Milly’s Tavern. He said cheesecake was a vehicle for him to be creative and make something his own.

“You can come out with any crazy combination that you want to, and I’ll make it,” Baker said. “I don’t care if we have to be in the test kitchen and do it 50 times before I make it right. I will figure it out.”

Around 10 flavors of cheesecake on any given day will be available to purchase in slices out of a display case, while full nine-inch cheesecakes can be pre-ordered online and available for pickup within 24 hours or less, depending on how extravagant the flavors are.

Baker divides the cheesecake menu into traditional and specialty flavors. If you

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want to stick with something more familiar, traditional flavors include chocolate chip, strawberry swirl, caramel swirl, Oreo, Key lime and lemon. But if you’re feeling adventurous, you can try one of the specialty flavors, like chocolate-covered strawberry, chocolate crème brûlée swirl, coconut mango, passionfruit, butterscotch almond, orange dreamsicle and peanut butter and jelly. Baker even makes what he calls “over 21” cheesecakes, like strawberry daiquiri, chocolate mudslide and white Russian and salted caramel, as well as more than 30 sweet cereal cheesecakes, using popular sugar cereals like Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Puffs.

The create-your-own cheesecake menu features a minimum of three flavors of your choice, with the option of more flavors, plus any toppings or sauces, at an additional cost.

Customizable cheesecakes for birthday parties, weddings and other events can also be

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The new shop is Baker’s first solo operating space, allowing him to expand the menu beyond cheesecake to a variety of other made-from-scratch baked goods like cookies, muffins, breads and croissants. He’s also working with New England Coffee to offer self-serve coffees and teas.

“I’m hoping that within the next month we’ll start to do some local deliveries for the cheesecakes,” he said. “We ship all across the country too.”

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Around the sun

Sun Asian Bistro on the way in Derry

By Matt Ingersoll

Everyone has his own style.

When you have found it, you should stick to it. — Audrey Hepburn

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Beef, chicken, seafood or vegetable pho, barbecue bánh mì sandwiches, tom yum soup and bubble tea are a few of the many dishes that will be available at Sun Asian Bistro, a new restaurant opening in Derry in the coming weeks.

The eatery, which will be opening in the former space of the Heritage Restaurant on West Broadway, is integrating a variety of Asian foods and styles into its menu.

“The concept we want to create … is [to serve] contemporary Asian food, but also in a calm, cozy place and not just a place for people to get takeout,” said owner Hanh Nguyen, who is originally from Vietnam but now lives in Windham with her husband, David Tanis, and the couple’s three young children. “I’ve been lucky, because I have traveled across Vietnam and some other Asian countries and learned a lot about different flavors and foods.”

Sun Asian Bistro will be open for lunch and dinner, with around 50 to 60 seats in addition to another five in a small bar area, Nguyen said.

The appetizer menu will feature authentic Vietnamese items like summer rolls wrapped in fresh rice paper, stuffed with either pork, shrimp or chicken and served with a peanut sauce, as well as a few Japanese options, like steamed edamame with sprinkled salt; gyoza (pan fried dumplings) stuffed with a mixture of ground pork, scallions and cabbage; and Chinese options like a wonton soup in a chicken broth.

Almost all of the entree items are either Vietnamese or Thai. Vietnamese options include a beef stew served with a French baguette and a side of fresh lime, scallion and basil; the bánh mì sandwich, which is also served on a French baguette and with your choice of barbecue pork, chicken or beef, homemade mayonnaise and fresh vegetables; and crisp rice crepes that are filled with pork, shrimp and bean sprouts and a side of vegetables and homemade fish sauce.

Featured Thai entrees will be pad Thai (stir-fried rice noodles with your choice of pork, beef, chicken or shrimp) and tom yum, a soup with lemongrass, garlic, lime, coconut milk and chile in a chicken stock base that Nguyen said is one of the country’s most famous dishes.

Pho — a classic Vietnamese noodle soup — will also be a main staple of the menu.

Nguyen said protein options will include beef, pork and wontons, seafood (a mix of scallops, shrimp and squid), chicken and

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deep-fried tofu in a vegetarian broth. A small dessert menu of homemade brownies with ice cream and a crème brûlée will be available as well.

Among the staples of the drink offerings will be bubble tea, which is served cold and combined with your choice of flavoring, like strawberry or mango. Nguyen said the chewy tapioca balls, placed at the bottom of the cup before the liquid is added, are optional. There will also be Vietnamese hot or iced coffees, coconut juice and fresh lemonade, plus a menu of beers, wines and house cocktails in the works.

Nguyen, who has a marketing background, said she has been planning to open her restaurant for a few years, and she created the website and took pictures of the foods herself, adding short descriptions for each item.

“Asian food, especially Vietnamese food, is something that I feel like people are still starting to adapt to here,” she said, “and so I tried to get a picture in there of everything we’re going to have, so that people can say, ‘well what does this look like?’ I tried to explain as much as I can so that people can get the idea of what it is.”

The name “Sun,” she said, is meant to be reflective of the bright and colorful foods and atmosphere she hopes to bring to the space.

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I think it’s the very concepts that the place is The Gyro Spot [in Manchester], but going out to eat, I like supporting … cafe was born out of, which are healthy downtown, whether it’s Mint [Bistro], The grains and plant-based diets.

Birch [on Elm] or Cotton.

What is your favorite thing to cook at What celebrity would you like to see home?

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Continued from page 30 • Champagne brunch: The Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way) is hosting its next Champagne brunch in the Great Hall on Sunday, March 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The brunch will include unlimited mimosas; a raw bar with seafood items like Cape Cod oysters and clams off the half shell and white wine poached shrimp; a chef-attended omelet station; a Belgian waffle station with toppings like strawberries, whipped cream, powdered sugar, and local honey and maple syrup; a cheese and charcuterie display; and lunch options like Atlantic salmon with haricot vert, and penne pasta with roasted

squash, mushrooms and baby arugula. The cost is $65 and tickets are limited. Visit bedfordvillageinn.com or call 472-2001.

• Tastes of Indonesia: Learn about various Indonesian cultures by tasting a variety of food samples at the Hello 2019 Indonesian Bazaar, happening on Saturday, March 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the cafeteria of Idlehurst Elementary School (46 Stackpole Road, Somersworth). The event will also feature a variety of arts and crafts vendors and live performances related to Indonesian culture. Visit indonesianconnect.org.

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perishables Tasty food from fresh ingredients

Taco bowls with veggies I’m always on a quest to eat more veggies.

For a long time, vegetables were not the main part of my diet, carbohydrates were. While I don’t think carbs are evil, they shouldn’t be the main component of a diet. I always come back to Michael Pollan’s first line in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.

He writes, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” This “mostly plants” business can be really tricky in our culture, where bread and its friends take center stage. I’m constantly on the hunt for meals that center on vegetables that won’t leave me feel wanting.

I’ve been a fan of tacos for my whole life because I am a sane human being. We make them weekly at my house because they are delicious and easy to prepare. With three kids, I need simple and healthy. Yet, tacos aren’t the healthiest as they don’t follow Michael Pollan’s thesis. As I mentioned, I really want to eat meals that strongly feature vegetables, so I’ve made a subtle tweak: I add coleslaw. While it seems odd, I swear it’s delicious! I make a taco bowl but if that

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sounds crazy to you, just throw this awesome mixture into a tortilla for something a little more traditional.

A note about seasoning: I would encourage you to skip the seasoning packets or mixes. Using a few spices, you can make some seriously awesome taco seasoning without using so much salt and anti-caking agents. While packages seem convenient, making your own is better. Once you figure out what you like, it’s pretty easy and inexpensive to make your own mixture. Follow mine below but add in extra spices if you’re feeling fun.

— Allison Willson Dudas

Taco Bowls with Veggies 1 pound ground beef 1 sweet onion, chopped 1 tablespoon dried oregano 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 teaspoons adobo seasoning 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional) 1 package coleslaw or 4 cups coleslaw Toppings: Sour cream, shredded cheese,

Trader Joe’s Green Dragon Hot Sauce, salsa, avocado, shredded lettuce Brown and drain ground beef in large frying pan. Add the onions and seasoning, stirring occasionally. Add the coleslaw and mix, cooking until tender. Serve hot with toppings galore! Toss in a tortilla or keep it carb-free.

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• PIE & BAKED GOODS SALE The sale will feature a variety of pies and baked goods, like whoopie pies, cookies, fudges and other homemade assorted desserts. Sat., March 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Union Congregational Church, 80 Main St., Union. Call Betty at 473-2727.

• THE FARMERS DINNER PRESENTS: CRAVE Chefs George Bezanson of Earth’s Harvest Kitchen & Juicery in Dover, Keith Sarasin of The Farmers Dinner and acclaimed Boston-based pastry chef Kate Holowchik will prepare this multi-course menu inspired by craveable comfort foods. Sun., March 17, 6 to 9 p.m. Earth’s

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Church & charity suppers/ bake sales • CHOWDER LUNCHEONS The Women’s Alliance of the Community Congregational Church of Greenland will be hosting these chowder luncheons.

Each lunch will feature fish chowder and corn chowder served with homemade bread, coffee or tea, and a choice of homemade pie slices for dessert. Take-out is also available. Tuesdays, March 12 and March 26, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Community Congregational Church of Greenland, 2 Post Road, Greenland. $8 per person.

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If you’re like me, you’ve probably had your fair share of stouts and porters over the last few months. The bitter cold calls for a brew with some richness and some malty complexity — think notes of chocolate and coffee.

I’m certainly not saying you or I are sick of stouts — hardly — but we are thinking about branching out as winter lingers on. Am I right?

Of course I am. Now is the perfect time to explore the world of barrel-aged brews, which are sort of like your crazy uncle in their utter unpredictability. That is to say, some are a “bit much.”

There aren’t necessarily any restrictions on what brews to barrel-age, but since it’s still winter, I really want to focus on barrel-aged stouts. There is (rightly) much fanfare over brews like Founders Brewing Co. Kentucky Bourbon Stout (KBS) and the Goose Island Bourbon County Stout — brews so big and rich I can hardly stand it — but they are not alone.

Most barrel-aged brews feature big flavors, as the aging process both intensifies existing notes and creates additional layers of flavors.

The barrel-aging process isn’t necessarily complicated. Brewers often take a staple brew, frequently a stout, and age it in a used bourbon barrel. Some will add additional ingredients, such as vanilla beans. But really, it’s about letting brews sit in barrels soaking up the flavor from the wood as existing flavors enhance and concentrate.

The resulting brew is intensely flavorful; I don’t know that I’ve ever tried a barrel-aged brew that didn’t stand out for its big flavor.

Even if I ultimately didn’t prefer the brew, it wasn’t due to lack of flavor.

Barrel-aged brews tend to have higher alcohol contents and the alcohol is more “apparent” in these brews. You can taste it.

Particularly in the case of bourbon barrels, the intense flavor of bourbon can very nearly preside over brews.

Between higher alcohol contents, big flavors and a robust body, barrel-aged brews can be a lot to handle. I love these boozy giants but I often find them best enjoyed by sharing them. The brews are sometimes so bold, I often don’t want more than six to eight ounces.

Let’s explore some barrel-aged options, including a few New Hampshire brews.

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Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stout by Concord Craft Brewing (Concord) This has a little bit of sweetness but what hit me in the face most were big bourbon notes, rich coffee and subtle vanilla. According to the brewery, bottles of the 2018 edition are still available at the brewery.

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L’étalon Stout by Smuttynose Brewing Co. (Hampton) This American imperial stout is aged in Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. I’ll be on a quest to try this.

Oak-aged Yeti by Great Divide Brewing Co. (Denver) I love the coffee flavor on this brew, which is quite dry and smoky. A lot of barrel-aged brews are extra sweet, and that can be perfectly fine, but this one is not and I found myself liking that — a lot. Great Divide also makes an espresso-aged version of this brew.

Bourbon County Stout by Goose Island (Chicago) OK, I couldn’t ignore this one. For me, this was the barrel-aged brew that effectively woke me up to this intriguing style. I remember a cascade of vanilla and creaminess the first time I tried one of these. It was a revelation. This beer is the epitome of this style: bold, sweet and rich, with more bourbon flavor than you can imagine.

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• Lioness, Pride & Joy A • Gang of Four, Happy Now A BOOKS

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36 PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases

MUSIC, BOOKS, GAMES, COMICS, MOVIES, DVDS, TV AND MORE Lioness, Pride & Joy (Posi-Tone Records)

Timed for release on International Women’s Day (March 8), this is in fact a jazz record featuring an all-female cast, with three sax players in the sextet.

Curated by Posi-Tone chief Marc Free as the 20-year-old label’s third release of the year, it’s not the most aggressive thing I’ve heard, but it certainly is as playful as advertised. All the songs were written by women, including Carla Bley’s understated “Ida Lupino,” which moves along in its lonely-sax-on-the-citybridgeway; its tempo is the best match for the relative sparseness present on the whole album, not that the latter third doesn’t build to the fireworks one would expect. Speaking of explosive pieces, the lively, spidery “Down for the Count,” written by the band’s baritone saxophonist (and I’d assume de facto leader), Lauren Sevian, is an instant classic based on Coltrane’s “Countdown,” and undoubtedly the most ambitious jam on board. Not for nothing, but yep, this crew can play. A — Eric W. Saeger Gang of Four, Happy Now (Pledge Music)

It’s argued that this Leeds, U.K.-based band invented postpunk, and it’s almost true, so if you’re in an indie band, you need to get clued in to these guys about 10 years ago. At 60, guitarist Andy Gill is still involved, thus it’s still officially Gang of Four, and the adjective “angular” is an essential component of any review, but this isn’t like Pink-era Wire (who actually did invent post-punk), more like ’90’s Wire. But whatever, who cares who invented the genre this decade so desperately needs, this is awesome stuff, beginning with “Toreador,” a sneakily sexy track that sounds like a cross between INXS and, well, Gang of Four. “Alpha Male” nods at Trent Reznor while bursting with old-school dance appeal. Lots of carefree “la la la” segues on this one; it’s as though they’ve given up on humanity but not on themselves as a band. Or maybe not, with regard to the former; “Ivanka – My Name’s On It” delivers its (spoiler) anti-Donald message with some pretty filthy noise-IDM. A — Eric W. Saeger

• I still think of Queensrÿche as the Creed of ’80s hard-rock, but so many people like them that I have to hide my true feelings, like a person with a hidden Voldemort face I can’t allow anyone to see.

The Verdict, due out March 1, is their 16th full-length, but wait, fans, bummer, old singer Geoff Tate was bought out, so he’s not on here, and neither is the band’s original guitar dude Chris DeGarmo, of course, because he bagged the group in 1998. DeGarmo also wrote all the good songs, which may be one reason why they’re not a Top 40 band that gets played on your local bling-hop station between Disney product Ariana Grande and whomever she’s throwing shade at this week, Cardi B’s mom or Drake or whatever. The moral is that like so many other ’80s-metal bands, the ‘Rÿche is a musical K-Mart, ready to go out of business any minute, tossing everything against the wall, I’d imagine, not that I’ve kept abreast of Q Rÿche doings; I can’t even imagine what they’re doing now, maybe metalized Sha Na Na covers, but we’ll all know in a second, as I visit the stupid YouTube so you don’t have to. Right, here’s a top cut from this barnburner, called “Man the Machine.” It starts out by ripping off Metallica’s “Creeping Death.”

The lyrics make no sense, of course, like, what does “Dissent is a cry for the dead!” even mean, OK, let’s continue.

• Shrimp on the barbie, my little croc hunters, let’s see what Australian psychedelic rock band Pond is cooking for March 1, when their eighth album, Tasmania, “drops” or whatever I’m supposed to call it in order to sound like I’m “with it” or “hip” or whatever. The LP is said to comprise bummer meditations on how hopeless the world is right now, which is something I bet a lot of other bands had thought of, you know? Wow, the single “Daisy” is really cool, like a cross between Sigur Ros and Bryan Adams if you can believe that. I could grow to like this band if I had any hope remaining for rock music.

• Hawksley Workman is a fedora-topped Canadian who has fused glam and cabaret-rock nicely enough that his songs have backgrounded TV shows like Scrubs and Queer as Folk; as well, in 2013 he formed a B-list superband with the guy from Hot Hot Heat and someone from Lamblifter, which lasted about 15 minutes. Anyway, shut up, he’s OK, and his new album, Median Age Wasteland, is on trucks right now headed to your Walmarts and things, and it includes the tune “Lazy,” a soaring, powerful, yelly, slow power-rock joint of sorts, sort of like middle-years U2 I’d say. It won’t make you barf, I guarantee it.

• Gary Clark, Jr. is our second stupid-hat-wearer for today, a blues rocker who’s young and cool enough that old stegosauruses like Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow and all those people let him play with them on their royal, gold-trimmed stages. This Land is his new record, and the title track is a swear-filled, hip-hop-infused, Jimi Hendrix-ish, anti-racist rant that’s definitely got some awesomeness to it.

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After Daphne tries to ask for the yearbook back from her neighbor Geneva’s clutches, she turns around and takes Geneva all the way back to Pickering, New Hampshire, for the 50th reunion of the Class of ’68.

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Others argue that criticism is racist because Kondo is a legitimate expert on the subject. But Elinor Lipman couldn’t have predicted that so many think pieces were going to be written about the American luxury of space and hoarding in the year 2019 when she first started writing Good Riddance. Instead, Lipman considered, what if the controversy didn’t come from the personal struggle of throwing away your belongings, but rather from someone else discovering some salacious family gossip from your discarded trash?

When protagonist Daphne Maritch inherited her mother’s yearbook from the Class of 1968, it did not spark joy. June Maritch annotated this yearbook from one of her first years of teaching with predictions about her students’ futures, and later filled it in with gossip about how the students turned out. Daphne knew her mother attended their reunions with an almost religious devotion, but she never knew why June had a soft spot for the Class of ’68. She also had no idea why her mother specifically willed this relic to her. “Apparently [she] didn’t want, nor would miss, this testimony to the unsympathetic snarky side of [her] mother’s character.” So she tossed it without remorse — at first. Little did she know that she had a neighbor with aspirations to become a documentary filmmaker and a habit of snooping through the trash.

Lipman writes with a humorous tone that never strays too serious. Daphne is the straight man in a series of increasingly absurd situations that could have been fraught with secondhand embarrassment — or worse, melodrama — but instead Lipman undercuts the scenes with just the right amount of levity for an overall pleasant reading experience.

Daphne is the kind of sympathetic protagonist any reader would like to imagine themselves as. Who wouldn’t want to move to New York to start life anew as a chocolatier after discovering their marriage was a money-grabbing sham? The contrast between Daphne’s desire to leave her old life behind and her mother’s haunting commentary is a naturally tense narrative, but Lipman never makes the tone outright uncomfortable.

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• A handbook for dying: The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., Portsmouth) welcomes bestselling author Katy Butler on Wednesday, March 6, at 7 p.m., as part of its Innovation and Leadership series. Butler will present her new book The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life. The book is a handbook for the elderly and terminally ill patients to navigate the seven phases of late life: resilience, slowing down, adaptation, awareness of mortality, house of cards, preparing for a good death, and active dying. “This event is a must for those caring for aging parents,” moderator and chief financial officer at The Music Hall Tina Sawtelle said in a press release. “Any of us contemplating our own advancing years, too, can find guidance from Katy in managing the later stages of life with dignity and meaning.” The event features an author presentation and Q&A, plus a post-event book signing and meet-and-greet.

Tickets cost $41 and include a hardcover copy of the book and a bar beverage. Visit themusichall.org or call 436-2400.

• Local children’s author recognized: Manchester author Kathy Brodsky was recently selected by the Children’s Book Council to participate in Children’s Book Week’s 100th anniversary celebration held in New York City at the end of February. Brodsky will be featured in a video series for the event in which she will discuss her children’s book My Bent Tree and how the book’s main character, a young tree who is struck by lightning, was inspired by her own battle with a serious illness as a child. “I’d like kids to understand that no matter what happens in their lives, if they work hard, if others believe in them and they believe in themselves, there’s no limit to what they can do,” Brodsky said in a press release.

Brodsky has published 12 children’s books and one collection of 65 poems reflecting on her observations and insights about life. Visit kathybrodsky.com.

— Angie Sykeny Books Author Events • CAROL LEONARD Author presents Bad Beaver Tales: Love and Life in Downeast Maine.

Thurs., Feb. 28, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• KATY BUTLER Author presents The Art of Dying Well. Wed., March 6. Music Hall Loft , 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. Visit themusichall.org.

• CHERYL RICHARDSON Author presents Waking Up in Winter: In Search of What Really Matters at Midlife. Thurs., March 7, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• DIANE LES BECQUETS Author presents The Last Woman in the Forest. Tues., March 12, 6 p.m.

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• CHRISTOPHER KLEIN Author presents When the Irish Invaded Canada. Thurs., March 14, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• CHRISTOPHER KLEIN Author presents When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom. Thurs., March 14, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• ANDY GRIFFITHS Author presents The 104-Story Treehouse.

Wed., March 20, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• DANA BISCOTTI MYSKOWSKI Author presents I Cannot Play With You. Thurs., March 28, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• DAVID ELLIOTT Author presents Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc. Fri., March 29, 6 p.m.

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• JULIE BERRY Author presents Lovely War. Tues., April 2, 6 p.m.

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• ANDREW YANG Author presents The War of Normal People.

Wed., April 3, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com.

Other • “WINTER HODGEPODGE: IMAGINATIVE WORKS IN MANY GENRES” Exhibit featuring works by Berwick, Maine, author, artist, and musician Ross Alan Bachelder. On view Feb. 1 through March 1. A Freethinker’s Corner, 652 Central Ave., Suite A, Dover. Visit freethinkerscorner.com.

• SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR 13TH NEW HAMPSHIRE LITERARY AWARDS To be eligible, a work must be written by a New Hampshire native or resident and published between April 1 and Dec. 31 of 2018.

Nominations will be accepted for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s picture books and middle grade/young adult. The entries will be read and evaluated by a panel of judges assembled by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

Nominations must include three print copies of the work, $50 for the nomination fee and a completed nomination form, mailed to the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

Additionally, the Readers’ Choice Awards begin in August and invite readers to vote for their favorite nominees in each category. Winners will be announced at a reception at the New Hampshire Institute of Art on Oct. 5. Nomination deadline is March 31. Visit nhwritersproject.org.

Poetry events • MACGREGOR POETRY CONTEST Looking for poets to compete in its second annual MacGregor Poetry Contest. All poems will be judged anonymously by Derry Poet Laureate Robert Crawford and staff members of the library. The first-place winner will receive $250 in cash. Poets can submit up to two poems, no more than two pages each. There are no restrictions on form or subject matter. Submissions can be emailed to macgregorpoetrycontest@derrypl.org, mailed to the library (address to “Derry Public Library Poetry Contest”) or dropped off at the library. Do not include anything in your poem that indicates your identity. Winners will be contacted by phone or email. Submissions will be accepted now through March 15, with contest results announced in April. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Call 432-6140 or visit derrypl.org.

• SLAM FREE OR DIE Weekly poetry open mike and slam.

Thursday, 8 p.m. Stark Brewing Co., 500 N. Commercial St., Manchester. $3. Visit facebook. com/slamfreeordie.

POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Fighting With My Family (PG-13)

A girl from England follows her dreams in the sweet Fighting with My Family.

In the case of Saraya, called Britani in the ring and later Paige (Florence Pugh) by the WWE, the dream of her whole family, including brothers Zak (Jack Lowden) and Roy (James Burrows), is to make it big as pro-wrestlers. The family, complete with stage names and crowd-frothing storylines, has wrestled together for years and they run an after-school pro-wrestling camp.

When the WWE invites Paige and Zak to try out, parents Julia (Lena Headey) and Ricky (Nick Frost) are delighted. Zak is particularly over the moon — his girlfriend Courtney (Hannah Rae) is pregnant and he has big plans for what a WWE career will do for their lives.

Paige seems uncertain about her potential but she is the one that WWE scout and coach Hutch (Vince Vaughn) ultimately picks to go to Florida for the next level of training and tryout. Zak is devastated but he and her parents push her to go and give it her all.

A metal/goth-looking girl, Paige thinks herself a bit of an outcast at the training camp, where the other girls are blond, tan former models and cheerleaders. But blond former models have problems too! A nice message of this movie is that everybody has their stuff; probably the girls you think are talking about you aren’t actually a hive of meanies but are just humans with their own difficulties. It’s a nice bit of teen-friendly, don’tget-in-your-own-way advice. This lightweight story isn’t nuanced but it sweetly illustrates how part of figuring out how to succeed at whatever your dreams are is figuring out how to deal with your insecurities.

Other feel-good messages: you don’t have to be Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (who is an executive producer and also pops up a few times in front of the camera) to make a difference in the world and have a happy life. Family supports each other through hard times and successes (and sometimes one member’s success can be the other member’s hard time). This movie doesn’t surprise you with either its tone or its general structure but its overall approach is so good-natured that it’s hard to dislike it even when it gets a little heavy-handed.

I don’t know how much of a wrestling nerd writer/director Stephen Merchant is but I liked how the movie conveys an appreciation for the art and performance of pro-wrestling. This movie’s process-y stuff was detailed enough to make me want to see more of at least the real-life WWE star Paige. Even more, Fighting With My Fam-

MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX ​​RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Green Book (PG-13, 2018) Thurs., Feb. 28, 2:05 and 5:25 p.m.

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Fighting With My Family

ily makes me want to seek out The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family, the British documentary (which Wikipedia says this movie is based on) about her family, clips of whom appear in the film’s credits.

While there’s a bit of PG-13 humor here but I might even recommend this movie to a slightly younger audience, maybe 11 or so and up. I feel like anything that promotes believing in yourself and working hard for your dreams is worth a few mid-level swears and what the MPAA calls “some violence and drug content.” B Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual material, language throughout, some violence and drug content. Written and directed by Stephen Merchant, Fighting with My Family is an hour and 48 minutes long and distributed

by MGM Pictures.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (PG)

The tale of Hiccup and his dragon Toothless comes to an end, maybe, in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Young chief Hiccup (voice of Jay Baruchel) is now some kind of grown-up with the beginnings of a beard and the constant pressure of elders to marry girlfriend Astrid (voice of America Ferrera) already.

Successful rescuers of captured dragons, the vikings of his village of Berk find their home overrun with these giant refugees. Hiccup is worried that the dragon trackers will bring the fight to their island, especially once new baddie Grimmel (voice of F. Murray Abraham) shows up hoping to capture and kill Toothless, a rare Night Fury dragon. Grimmel has a needlessly elaborate plan for a villain who can sneak into Hiccup’s house and calmly monologue —

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• Cold War (R, 2018) Thurs., Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

• They Shall Not Grow Old (R, 2018) Thurs., Feb. 28, 2, 5:30 and 8:05 p.m.; Fri., March 1, and Sat., March 2, 12:25, 3:05, 5:45 and 8:25 p.m.; Sun., March 3, 12:25, 3:05 and 5:45 p.m.; Mon., March 4, Wed., March 6, and Thurs., March 7, 2, 5:30 and 8:05

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• Arctic (PG-13, 2018) Fri., March 1, and Sat., March 2, 1, 3:15, 5:30 and 7:50 p.m.; Sun.,

it involves giving the village a head start when they set off to search for the legendary “Hidden World” (the ancestral home of all dragons).

Grimmel also plans to befuddle Toothless with a female, pearlescent version of his species that Astrid calls a Light Fury.

Toothless is indeed caught in a love fog, way more interested in the Light Fury than Hiccup seems to be in Astrid. Hiccup, who had hoped that the Berkians and their dragons could live together in the Hidden World, worries that this new relationship could lead his dragon-buddy to follow his heart away from the humans.

I’m not sure why but this series has never resonated with me. I like Jay Baruchel fine in other things. I like dragons. I like silliness. But the

characters never clicked, everything reads as a notch too shrill or too emptily goofy. There are elements here about how friends can grow and change and move physically apart and still be friends that feel like solid underpinnings to a kid adventure. But there is also a lot of dragon-viking business (and what has always felt to me like whining passed off as character arc) that weighs the endeavor down.

But, when this movie wasn’t annoying me with its overall half-baked-ness, it was dazzling me with some truly beautiful visuals. Hidden World does beautiful things with how it renders water; the ocean shots made me want to freeze-frame and just marvel. Some of the shots of dragons flying through the clouds are equally eye-grabbing — mixing realism with fantasy artistry, particularly when it comes to the use of color. The Hidden World setting was also an impressive visual creation. Everything about it, from its waterfall entrance to its colors and dragon perches, is lovely to look at.

Unremarkable story and characters, absolutely beautiful visuals. Where does that put us? A C+? A B-?

Rated PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor, according to the MPAA. Directed by Dan DeBlois with a screenplay by Dan DeBlois (based on the books of Cressida Cowell), How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is an hour and 44 minutes long and distributed by Universal Studios.

Oscar wrap-up Did you hear? If Beale Street Could Talk won best picture!

OK, yes, that was at the Independent Spirit Awards, which took place Saturday, Feb. 23.

The Oscars, handed out on Sunday, Feb. 24, went a different way with Green Book taking the best picture prize.

I correctly guessed 10 out of the 24 categories, putting me at something like 42 percent, lower than usual, which doesn’t surprise me in this weird year. Overall, the Academy Awards broadcast itself (less a host) was fine if brisk — putting the winners forward.

The list of nominees and winners does provide an excellent guide to 2018 films if you’re looking for something to watch some cold late-winter evening. Most of the nominated movies are now available for home viewing, either via streaming or to rent or buy. Of the winners, might I recommend a few of my favorites including best animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (available for purchase and in some area theaters), best documentary short Period. End of Sentence (absolutely charming and available now on Netflix), best ani-

March 3, 1, 3:15 and 5:30 p.m.; and Mon., March 4, through Thurs., March 7, 2:05, 5:25 and 7:50 p.m.

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The Favourite

mated short Bao (available for purchase), Roma (available on Netflix and winner in directing, cinematography and foreign language film categories), The Favourite (Olivia Colman won for best actress; the movie is available for purchase), If Beale Street Could Talk (scheduled to be available for purchase March 12; Regina King won best supporting actress), A Star Is Born (which won for best original song and is available for rent and purchase) and, of course, Black Panther (available for purchase, rent and currently streaming on Netflix), which won for costume design, original score and production design.

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JJ Grey & Mofro return to the region

By Michael Witthaus

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• At the hop: Craft beer is to other beverages what vinyl is to MP3s, so it makes sense that To Share Brewing, a new downtown microbrewery, has a massive album collection that includes everything from the full Cars catalog to Shamu the Whale’s greatest hits. Occasionally they invite other discophiles to bring in favorites for a record party – first come, first played. Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m., To Share Brewing Co., 720 Union St, Manchester. For more, go to tosharebrewing.com.

• Hootenany: High Street Coffee House’s open-mike night includes a full set from Heather Pierson Trio. Its three musicians come from different musical backgrounds, but their command of “the sounds of the streets of New Orleans and the valleys of Appalachia and everywhere in between” is solid enough to push their debut 2018 album to the top of folk radio and record charts. Friday, March 1, 7 p.m., Congregational Church, 12 High St., Boscawen; call 848-2410.

• String weekend: Concord Community Music School’s three-day March Mandolin Festival includes a kickoff show at Newmarket’s Stone Church and a Concord appearance

by Canadian picker Andrew Collins playing folk, bluegrass, blues, Celtic and classical music. He’s joined by Alan Epstein, Flynn Cohen and the duo of David Surette and singer-guitarist Susie Burke. Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. Recital Hall, 23 Wall St., Concord. Tickets $15 and $20 at ccmusicschool.org, • Come back: A quintet formed in Limerick’s Irish World Academy, Goitse has won multiple awards for their blend of originals and standards rooted in Celtic bloodlines, recognized as leading a new generation of traditional Irish ensembles. The band’s name is informal Gaelic for “come here.” Their local date makes up for a show last year canceled by weather. Monday, March 4, 7 p.m., Stockbridge Theatre, 44 N. Main St., Derry. Tickets $15 to $25 at stockbridgetheatre.com.

Were it not for brutal Florida weather, JJ Grey might have brought a new album with him during his stint at Tupelo Music Hall in early March. But Hurricane Matthew slapped his North Florida home hard in October 2016.

Since then, the singer-songwriter has been in an ongoing state of reconstruction, in between touring. During a recent phone interview, Grey described a house suspended nearly six feet off the ground.

“Everything had to be rebuilt,” he said, though fun stuff will come later. “I’m going to build a new studio in the back of this place — matter of fact I’m looking right out the window at where it’s gonna be, but I have a few other hoops to jump through before I can get to that.

I’ve got to overcome the enormity of how much time, effort and money has gone into fixing this place.”

Grey’s creative juices are flowing, however, and after a two week Eastern run with his band Mofro wraps up, he’ll have three months to focus on writing.

“It’s one of those things where I can go sit in front of the microphone, set up a little recording rig and ... go over these ideas. See if the rabbit shows up,” he said. “If he does, I’ll chase him for a while.”

There’s plenty of material already, a fortuitous and uncommon occurrence for Grey.

“I just wait on song ideas, they pop in my head and then I mess around awhile,” he said.

“Normally, going into a record I’ll be lucky if I’ve got 15 song ideas and maybe one or two songs that are already finished. Right now, I’ve probably got five or six songs that are finished, and maybe 60 or 70 song ideas.”

JJ Grey & Mofro have seven studio albums, beginning with 2001’s Blackwater; the latest, Ol’ Glory, arrived four years ago. Each exudes swampy soulfulness — imagine Van Morrison recording at Muscle Shoals — but there’s a happier mood on more recent work. The singer who

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lamented, “brighter days, where did they go?” on his debut now celebrates “the grace you give, given back, loving every minute you live.”

This positivity is no accident; rather it’s the result of a conscious decision Grey made a few years back.

“It comes down to... what narrative are you gonna build in your mind and how much are you gonna believe,” he said. “At some point in your life you say, I don’t believe anything I think anymore.”

Back when, if a cell phone call went straight to voicemail, he’d wrongly assume the worst — “That sumbitch don’t want to talk to me?

Goddamn!” — and be wrong.

“You only feel like a heel for about two seconds, but you keep taking advice from that idiot that raises hell and tries to find fault with everything.” Nowadays, he’s self-deprecatingly blunt, like on “Light A Candle,” an Ol’ Glory gem that evokes Delbert McClinton fronting The Band: “Is anybody out there as full of s*** as me?”

At shows, he’ll continue to play the old, darker songs with no apologies, however.

“I don’t need the anger, but I feel like what I do need is to remember,” he said. “When I was young, life was about pretending everything

isn’t great, by willfully ignoring wonderful things going on around you. People offering a helping hand, trying to connect and do good things, and me not paying attention to it, only seeing the bad things in anybody or anything.”

It was a tempting trap, until he saw its mirror image.

“You believe it’s normal for people to queue up in a line according to who got there first, and then make way for old people who might need help or a lady with a bunch of kids,” he said.

“That’s not normal. These are wonderful things that people do day in and out and we just take for granted. Your mind can dismiss all these things, and just look for the time a person didn’t hold a door for you.”

Grey ends philosophically.

“It’s mastering the art of war within yourself to the point where you don’t ever have to go to war again. You can keep your sword sheathed, and take on a real inheritance of seeing the world as a beautiful place.”

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Salem Black Water Grill 43 Pelham Road 328-9013 Colloseum 264 North Broadway 898-1190 Jocelyn’s Lounge 355 South Broadway 870-0045 Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032 Seabrook Castaways 209 Ocean Blvd 760-7500 Chop Shop 920 Lafayette Rd. 760-7706 Somersworth Iron Horse Pub 2 Main St. 841-7415 Old Rail Pizza 400 High St. 841-7152 Suncook Olympus Pizza 42 Allenstown Rd. 4855288 Warner Schoodacs Cafe 1 East Main St. 456-3400 The Local 2 East Main St. 456-6066 Weare Stark House Tavern 487 South Stark Highway 529-0901 Wilton Local’s Café 65 Main St. 782-7819 Windham Common Man 88 Range Road 898-0088 Old School Bar & Grill 49 Range Road 458-6051

Exeter Sea Dog Brewing: Alli Beaudry Gilford Patrick’s: Dueling Pianos ft: Gardner Berry vs Matt Langley Schuster’s: Dan The Muzak Man Goffstown Village Trestle: Rose Kula Open Hampton CR’s: Steve Schwartz (TJOS) Mardi Gras Celebration Logan’s Run: Family Affair (Pete & Mica Peterson) The Goat: Dan Brearly Tinos Greek Kitchen: Barry Brearley Wally’s Pub: Fast Times (80s Tribute) Henniker Country Spirit: Dragonfly Sled Pub: Marc Wydom Hooksett Asian Breeze: DJ Albin

Laconia Pitman’s Freight Room: Bruce Marshall & the Shadow Riders Whiskey Barrel: Jon Langston with Jodie Cunningham Londonderry Coach Stop: Triana Wilson Long Blue Cat Brewing: Charlie Chronopoulos Manchester Bonfire: Isaiah Bennett Bungalow: Notorious B.I.G. Tribute Night Club ManchVegas: Gone By Sunrise Derryfield: Duke Foundry: April Cushman Fratello’s: Stacey Kelleher Jewel: Mike Leslie Of Candlebox Murphy’s Taproom: 21st & 1st Penuche’s Music Hall: Launch Pad: DJ Myth + Big Night Out Shaskeen: After Image Strange Brew: GA-20 Whiskey’s 20: DJs Jason Spivak & Sammy Smoove Merrimack Homestead: Chris Gardner Jade Dragon: DJ John Paul Milford Pasta Loft: Sista Dee & The Dis & Dat Band Tiebreakers: Robert Allwarden Moultonborough Castle in the Clouds: Eric Grant Band Nashua CodeX B.A.R.: Piano Phil DeVille Country Tavern: Tom Keating Fody’s: Tumbletoads feat. The Humans Being Fratello’s Italian Grille: RC Thomas Haluwa: Strictly Overtime Margaritas: Wooden Soul Millyard Brewery: Dragon Bone Jam O’Shea’s: Jim Nicotera Peddler’s Daughter: Down A Fifth Riverwalk Cafe: Grant Gordy & Joe K. Walsh w. Lyle Brewer + Dead Winter Carpenters w. The Dirty Double Crossers New Boston Molly’s: Ken Budka/Brian Stevens

Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: DJ Music / Sexy Saturday Dover Brickhouse: Rock The Mic Fury’s Publick House: Long Arm Northwood Umami: Poor Howard w/ Chris Rex Thirsty Moose: Munk Duane O’Neill Thompson’s 2nd Alarm: Dueling Pianos Peterborough Harlow’s: Cabin Culture Epping Telly’s: April Renzella Duo Pittsfield Main Street Grill: Chris Bonoli Epsom Circle 9: Country Dancing Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Nick Black w/ Exeter Armies & Kenya Hall Sea Dog Brewing: Dave Drouin Grill 28: Erinn Brown Martingale Wharf: Almost (Cold Engines)/Elijah Clark (7p) Famous Portsmouth Book & Bar: Dom- Gilford Patrick’s: Julia Velie inic Lavoie Portsmouth Gaslight: Rick Wat- Schuster’s: Dan The Muzak Man son/Max Sullivan Press Room: Zoo Logic/Yung Goffstown Abner/Glass Arrowhead + Lone- Village Trestle: Brickyard some Lunch w/Dave Talmage Hampton Ri Ra: The Middle Men Old Salt: Pete Peterson Rudi’s: Duke The Goat: Norman Bishop The Goat: Rob Benton Wally’s Pub: Jodie Cunningham Thirsty Moose: BearFight Band Rochester Radloff’s: Dancing Madly Back- Henniker Sled Pub: NOB wards Duo ReFresh Lounge: Free Flow FriHudson day Open Jam Revolution Taproom: Gabby The Bar: Maddi Ryan Martin Londonderry Coach Stop: Stephen Decuire Seabrook Long Blue Cat Brewing: Ted Chop Shop: Terminal Velocity Solovicious (Mystical Magic Duo) Stumble Inn: Souled Out Show Somersworth Iron Horse Pub: Hempcats Duo Band Twins Smoke Shop: Phil Jacques Saturday, March 2 Loudon Alton Hungry Buffalo: Scofield Road JP China: Steve Canty Newmarket Stone Church: Album Release Party - Plains/March Mandolin Festival

Manchester Bonfire: The EXP Band Derryfield: Nimbus 9 Fratello’s: Paul Luff Bedford Jewel: Marianne Toilet/Scrimmy/ Murphy’s: Steve Chagnon Jonee Earthquake/Lobotomobile/ Frenzy Bridgewater Bridgewater Inn: Express Reviv- Murphy’s: Almost Famous al (Galen Marsh Life Celebration Penuche’s Music Hall: The Spot w/Chris Drake x Donald Bump Shaskeen: 61 Ghosts Concord Area 23: C Rock/Crazy Steve/ Strange Brew: Tim O’ Connor and Friends Quincer Whiskey’s 20: DJ Hizzy/Shawn Hermanos: Gerry Beaudoin White Makris: Alan Roux Pit Road Lounge: Dark Roots Merrimack Tandy’s: DJ Iceman Streetz Big Kahuna’s Cafe: Melissa Morin and Greg Kieffer Derry Drae: Joel Cage Auburn Auburn Tavern: Barry Brearley

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46 NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK

Homestead: Paul Gormley Jade Dragon: DJ Laura Milford Pasta Loft: Leaving Eden

Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Roberto Tropical Saturday Boston Billiard Club: DJ Anthem Throwback CodeX B.A.R.: Piano Phil DeVille Country Tavern: Charlie Chronopoulos Dolly Shakers: Boneshakerz Fratello’s Italian Grille: Amanda Cote Haluwa: Strictly Overtime Killarney’s: McMurphy’s O’Shea’s: V&P (Voss/Pelletier) Peddler’s Daughter: The Ruckus R’evolution: Savage Night w/ Jay Samurai Riverside Barbecue: 21st & 1st Duo Riverwalk Cafe: The Evoke Ensemble

Dover Peterborough Harlow’s: Folksoul Band Mardi Cara: Irish Session w/ Carol Coronis & Ramona Connelly Gras Sonny’s: Sonny’s Jazz Plaistow Goffstown Crow’s Nest: Road Salt Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues Band & Jam Portsmouth Cafe Nostimo: Austin Pratt/LU Hampton Clipper Tavern: Brad Bosse Portsmouth Book & Bar: Eliza- CR’s: Jazz Brunch - Steve Sibulkin beth & Ben Anderson Portsmouth Gaslight: Amanda Hudson Dane/Grace Rapetti River’s Pub: Acoustic Jam Press Room: Tarbox Ramblers Rudi’s: Dimitri Manchester Thirsty Moose: Closing Time Shaskeen: Rap night, Industry night Rochester Strange Brew: Jam Magrilla’s: Mica Peterson Duo Radloff’s: Chris Cyrus (Slack Manchester Tide) Wild Rover: DJ Dance Night Sunday, March 3 Meredith Ashland Common Man: Chris White Solo Giuseppe’s: Open Stage with Lou Porrazzo Acoustic

Barrington New Boston Nippo Lake: Bolt Hill Bluegrass Molly’s: Wooden Soul/Dan Mur- Band phy Bedford Newmarket Copper Door: Phil Jacques Stone Church: Mardi Gras: Party Gras 2019 w/ Truffle Concord Hermanos: John Hunter Northwood Makris: Alan Roux Umami: Nate Cozzolino Penuche’s Ale House: Open w/ Steve Naylor

Portsmouth Beara Irish Brewing: Irish Music Press Room: Anglo-Celtic traditional folk/roots session Ri Ra: Irish Sessions Rudi’s: Jazz Brunch w/John Franzosa The Goat: Rob Pagnano Rochester Lilac City Grille: Brunch Music @9:30 ReFresh Lounge: Peter Laine Open Salem Copper Door: Chuck Alaimo Seabrook Chop Shop: Acoustic Afternoon Warner Schoodacs: Dirty Double Crossers Monday, March 4 Concord Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais

Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Rich - Smokin’ Hampton Sunday Sea Ketch: Ray Zerkle/Triana Pig Tale: Soulful Sunday Wilson -N North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Great Bay Sailor Northwood Umami: Bluegrass Brunch w/ Cecil Abels

Manchester Central Ale House: Jonny Friday Duo Fratello’s: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques Meredith Giuseppe’s: Lou Porrazzo

Gilford Patrick’s: Paul Luff hosts Goffstown Village Trestle: Manchuka - Fat Tuesday Party

Manchester Fratello’s: Justin Cohn Merrimack Penuche’s Music Hall: Battle in Able Ebenezer: Ale Room Music the Basement Homestead: Chris Cavanaugh Shaskeen: James Keyes Strange Brew: David Rousseau Nashua Whiskey’s 20: Sammy Smoove & Fratello’s Italian Grille: Kim DJ Gera Riley Meredith Portsmouth Giuseppe’s: Michael Bourgeois Dolphin Striker: Old School Earth Eagle Brewings: Chelsea Merrimack Paolini Homestead: Justin Jordon Ri Ra: Oran Mor Nashua Tuesday, March 5 Fratello’s: Mark Lapointe Concord Hermanos: Krimson Krewe Newmarket Stone Church: Acoustic Jam Dover hosted by Eli Elkus Fury’s Publick House: Tim North Hampton Theriault and Friends Sonny’s: Soggy Po’ Boys Barley House: Traditional Irish Session

Get the crowds at your gig Want to get your show listed in the Music This Week? Let us know all about your upcoming show, comedy show, open mike night or multi-band event by sending all the information to music@hippopress.com. Send information by 9 a.m. on Friday to have the event considered for the next Thursday’s paper.

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Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Hiss Golden Messenger solo w/ Erin Rae Press Room: Hoot Night w/Dave Talmage + Larry Garland Jazz Jam w/River City Jazz The Goat: Isaiah Bennett Seabrook Chop Shop: Two Roads Tuesday - Lil’Heaven Wednesday, March 6 Concord Hermanos: Paul Donahue Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: Rock the Mic w/ DJ Coach Cara: Derek Russell Fimbel Fury’s Publick House: Victim Of Circumstance

Dublin DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session Hillsborough Turismo: Blues Jam w Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen Londonderry Coach Stop: Phil Jacques Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic) Pipe Dream Brewing: Roots of a Rebellion (Reggae) Manchester Fratello’s: Stephen Decuire Manchester Gaucho’s: Ukeladies Penuche’s Music Hall: Bill Connors: The Elton Experience Strange Brew: Jesse’s Open Extravaganza

Merrimack Homestead: Clint Lapointe Nashua Fratello’s Italian Grille: Mark Huzar Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Sir Babygirl w/ Sunspeaker Clipper Tavern: Jon Hollywood Dolphin Striker: Pete Peterson, Ben B. & Brian P. Open Ri Ra: Erin’s Guild The Goat: Rob Benton Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault - Ladies Night Magrilla’s: Hempcats Revolution Taproom: Hump Day Blues w/ Jeff Hayford Seabrook Chop Shop: Guitar-a-oke & Cocktails

NITE CONCERTS Capitol Center for the Performing Arts & Spotlight Cafe 44 S. Main St., Concord 225-1111, ccanh.com The Colonial Theatre 95 Main St., Keene 352-2033, thecolonial.org Dana Humanities Center 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester 641-7700, anselm.edu/dana The Flying Monkey 39 S. Main St., Plymouth David Clark’s Songs in the Attic (Billy Joel) Thursday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre Damn the Torpedoes (Tom Petty Tribute) Friday, March 1, 8 p.m.

Tupelo Derry Rodney Atkins Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Rock Again Part Two – Fabulous 50s (CJ Poole) Sunday, March 3, 8 p.m. Cap Center JJ Grey & MoFro Sunday, March 3, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Musical Box (Genesis Tribute) Wednesday, March 6, 8 p.m. Tupelo Foreigners Journey Friday, March 8, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet/ Subdudes Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre

536-2551, flyingmonkeynh.com Franklin Opera House 316 Central St., Franklin 934-1901, franklinoperahouse.org The Music Hall 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth 436-2400, themusichall.org The Music Hall Loft 131 Congress St., Portsmouth 436-2400, themusichall.org Palace Theatre 80 Hanover St., Manchester 668-5588, palacetheatre.org

Rochester Opera House 31 Wakefield St., Rochester 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com SNHU Arena 555 Elm St., Manchester 644-5000, snhuarena.com Stockbridge Theatre Pinkerton Academy, Route 28, Derry 437-5210, stockbridgetheatre.com Tupelo Music Hall 10 A St., Derry 437-5100, tupelomusichall.com

Cheryl Wheeler Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m. Franklin Opera House Y&T Sunday, March 10, 8 p.m.

Tupelo Derry Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy Thursday, March 14, 8 p.m.

Cap Center Christopher Cross Thursday, March 14, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Howie Day Saturday, March 16, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Glengharry Boys Sunday, March 17, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Marc Broussard Friday, March 22, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Fabulous Thunderbirds Saturday, March 23, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Richard Marx Sunday, March 24, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry

Music of Cream Thursday, March 28, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Celtic Woman Friday, March 29, 8 p.m. Cap Center Rumours (Fleetwood Mac Tribute) Friday, March 29, 8 p.m.

Colonial Theatre Blind Melon Saturday, March 30, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Sean Rowe Sunday, March 31, 7:30 p.m. Cap Center Classic Stones Live Saturday, April 6, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Jon Anderson (Yes) Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Dave Davies (Kinks) Wednesday, April 10, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Million Dollar Quartet Thursday, April 11, 8 p.m. Cap Center

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“Double Up” — the middle two from all five Across 1 “Downton Abbey” countess 5 Pokémon protagonist 8 Fix, as the end of a pool cue 13 Strong cards 14 “SmackDown!” org.

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by Megan McDonald, born Feb. 28, 1959. the refrigerator. Three hairy peaches, green cheese, and an art project. It’s time Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) I decided for lasagna. it was time for me to step in and make an Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) I didn’t want RFD — Real Family Dinner? … I mean, Mom to be a goofy chef on TV … but I how hard could it be to cook? But I wasn’t could tell it meant a lot to her. So what did about to do it all by myself. Even if it’s easy I do? I remembered my role as the middle it’s nice to have help. sister, the glue, and I rushed in to save the Aries (March 21 – April 19) Alex came day. Glue is useful in small amounts. home on cloud nine with flowers in her Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) The hair. No lie. She wore a braided crown of best view is from a window right in our flowers (weeds, actually) around her head shower. No lie. When you get up in the in public on the bus home and at the library morning and look out, the first thing you and at the grocery store. Flowers, weeds — see are the Cascades, with three snowwho’s to say? capped peaks. A nice view is a good way Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I was more to start your day. than ready to get back to school on MonSagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) day. After the Macaroni Disaster, even Then everything started to happen all cafeteria food was starting to look good at once. Mom yelled, ‘I’m home!’ Dad to me. Only one problem. I had nothing to yelled, ‘What’s that smell?’ Alex made wear. ‘Nothing to wear,’ I said out loud to an appearance (better late than never), my closet. It’s only a problem if the clos- peeking under pot lids and snitching caret talks back. rots from the bowl. Some help. Take one Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Why do thing at a time. teachers think that telling you not to be shy Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) Joey will make you not feel shy? Guess what, Ms. was running around, collecting all the Carter-Dunne, Queen-of-Reading-Aloud- dirty dishes and pots and pans and putting in-Front-of-the-Whole-World? It just makes them in the sink to soak. She squeezed like it worse! This is true. five million gallons of dishwashing liquid Cancer (June 21 – July 22) The best in there. I know she was trying to help, but part about plays is sitting in the dark. You it looked more like she was building the have hundreds of people around you, but Eiffel Tower in the kitchen sink. The Eifthe dark makes it seem like it’s just you. fel Tower is not built out of dirty dishes.

Alone. You and the play. You get to laugh Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) And and cry and feel stuff and forget everything North Sister reminds me of Alex. You nevelse, like homework, and fondue fiascoes, er know when she’s going to erupt (the and sisters being mad at you. Go see a play. sister, not the volcano!), especially lateLeo (July 23 – Aug. 22) What I didn’t ly. She’s been auditioning for some play at know was that I had to dress like Big Bird, school, and I swear she’s gotten bossier by get poked with a broomstick, and hang like the minute. Acting bossy isn’t the same as a beehive in the wind. Roll with it. being the boss.

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Valentine’s Day is complicated in Japan. On Feb. 14, women traditionally give men chocolates: “giri choco,” or “obligation chocolates,” to their male colleagues, and “honmei choco,” or “true feelings chocolate,” to their boyfriends or husbands. (Men return the favor on White Day, March 14.) But according to Japan Today, Japanese women are rebelling against giri choco; 40 percent of workers see the custom “as a form of power harassment,” and some companies have banned the practice. Women find giving chocolates to associates stressful: “Before the office ban, we had to worry about things like how much is appropriate to spend on each chocolate and where we draw the line in who we give the chocolates to,” said one worker.

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You think things are wild in the U.S. Congress? In Albania, Edi Paloka, an opposition lawmaker, was asked to leave the parliament hall on Feb. 14 and suspended for 10 days after throwing ink at Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama. It all started when Rama scolded a fellow lawmaker for making accusations of corruption against the leftist government, according to Xinhua. A statement from the center-right Democratic party explained, “The action of ink-throwing is a rejection of the bullying exerted by the PM, which is witnessed by the public opinion.” Apparently, Rama had repeatedly mocked Paloka during previous sessions of parliament.

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brother and 61-year-old mother argued over the salty snacks, Wyatt went outside, locked his family inside, poured gasoline on the front steps and started a fire, according to WGCL-TV. Wyatt’s brother was able to lower the mother down from a second-story window, and both escaped without injury. Wyatt, who had reportedly been enjoying adult beverages with his Cheez-Its, was taken into custody at the scene and charged with arson and criminal damage to property.

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• On Jan. 31, Julian R. Mitchell, 20, allegedly tried to use a debit card from a wallet he had stolen at a Nashville, Tennessee, bar, according to WZTV. But a fraud alert tipped off bar employees that the card had been lost or stolen, so they asked for photo ID. Mitchell fished out the Tennessee driver’s license from the wallet, which, according to the Davidson County arrest affidavit, made it “plainly obvious” that the photo was not of him because of the difference in height.

Mitchell, who strangely resembles a Ken doll, with blond hair, a red beard and black eyebrows, was charged with identity theft; officers found several other cards belonging to the same victim in the wallet.

At Towson University in Maryland, an unidentified woman was reported wandering around campus just before Valentine’s Day, showing coeds a photo of her son and asking if they’d like to go on a date with him. Awkward!

The woman, thought to be in her 50s, staked out the Cook Library and the Center for the Arts in hopes of securing a love connection for her son, reported the Baltimore Sun. Towson police are The continuing crisis Passengers on an 12-hour Air France flight hoping to identify her, not so they can arrest her, on Feb. 18 became alarmed when a man seatbut to ask her to stop. ed in the bulkhead row boarded the plane, then removed his pants and socks, settling into his Least competent criminals • The moral of the story? If you’re going to seat in just his boxers and a T-shirt. Sitting across rob a bank in February, target Florida or Tex- the aisle from him, passenger Lizzie Thompson as. Jason Mackenrodt, 37, was making his took photos and posted on Twitter throughgetaway after allegedly robbing the Bangor Sav- out the flight, reported The Sun. “Alerted the ings Bank in Waterville, Maine, on Feb. 12. He flight attendant. He offered to move me ... but scrambled across four lanes of traffic and into a just shrugged when I suggested he ask the man restaurant parking lot — where he slipped on the to put his pants back on,” she wrote. Thompson ice and sprawled on the ground, right in front of also wrote that six hours into the flight from ParMaine State Police Special Agent Glenn Lang, is to Los Angeles, the scantily clad passenger got who was sitting in his parked car. Lang didn’t cold, “so PUT ON HIS PUFFY JACKET.” The know the bank had been robbed, but he became man put his pants and socks back on after landsuspicious when “the money and the gun he ing, much to Thompson’s relief. “Nothing bonds had stashed in his jacket pocket spilled onto the a group of passengers like a man half naked in parking lot,” Police Chief Joseph Massey told your section,” Thompson wrote.

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