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There are telltale signs of spring in many parts of New Hampshire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the snow is melting away, the trees are beginning to blossom, and my television has plenty of commercials promoting the upcoming Masters golf tournament.

For me, the last item is the most hopeful sign that we are coming out of the grips of winter.

I picked up the game of golf in my early 20s and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a source of great joy for over a decade now. Avid golfers can understand some of my more â&#x20AC;&#x153;obsessiveâ&#x20AC;? behaviors about this sport. I plan vacation locations around being able to play a round or two, I am out on the driving range working on my game, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m often gone for up to six hours on a weekend as I play an 18-hole round.

Although I have absolutely had my moments of frustration on the course overall, the game gives me two to four hours of time to just escape and forget about work and life. Golf is the kind of game you can play competitively or just go out and have fun with friends.

Most importantly for me, golf has introduced me to some of the most important people in my life. I find it to be a great game for uniting folks. There are few other ways we can be paired up with a total stranger and by the end of the round have a potential new friend. I have seen and experienced this time and time again on the course.

Although golf is a game that brings people together, it has a reputation as an exclusive game. Despite having courses across the globe, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still often too expensive for many people to play. Additionally, the game has a reputation as a game only for the elite, especially rich white males.

Unfortunately, this notion, along with the universal time squeeze, has led to the declining popularity of the game, and many courses are struggling to remain open and relevant in this changing environment.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to say that golf is and can be a game for all. There are many golf courses across the state that offer affordable afternoon rates, or you can simply opt to play nine holes instead of 18. There are often decent sets of used golf clubs for sale in classified ads or at your local yard sales. A small upfront investment has the potential to offer you a lifetime of friendships and enjoyment.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever considered playing, I encourage you to give it a try. Spring is here, and with it is a chance to try your hand at something new.

Allyson Ryder is associate director of Leadership New Hampshire. She can be reached at Allyson.ryder@leadershipnh. org.

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8 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 16 THE ARTS: 18 THEATER A Chorus Line.

20 ART Local Color; listings for events around town.

21 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

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A bill that will repeal the state’s death penalty is headed to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk. The New Hampshire Senate passed HB455, which calls for repeal of the state’s death penalty, with a 17-6 vote, according to legislative records. The House passed the bill on March 3 by a vote of 279-88.

Sununu has been publicly opposed to the repeal, but both votes are “veto-proof’’ because they passed by the necessary two-thirds margin to overrule the governor’s veto.

The bill repeals the death penalty as a punishment for capital murder, changing the language to life in prison without parole. New Hampshire is the last New England state to have the death penalty, which hasn’t been used to execute anyone since 1939.

last in a series of public meetings on Tuesday, April 23, in Concord to review the results of a state study focused on arsenic and uranium in groundwater and concerns about well water contamination, according to a press release. The New Hampshire Biomonitoring Programs Targeted Arsenic and Uranium Public Health Study was conducted to determine whether there are unsafe levels of these two metals in well water and whether those metals are present in New Hampshire residents, the release states. Unsafe levels can cause health effects such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and affect brain development and kidney function, according to the release. The Concord meeting will start at 6 p.m. in the New Hampshire Arsenic and uranium The New Hampshire Division of Department of Health and Human Public Health Services will hold the Services auditorium at 29 Hazen Drive.

Heading west

Southern New Hampshire University is expanding to Arizona. SNHU, located in Manchester, is opening a new operations center in Tucson to support online students across the country, according to a SNHU press release. The center, which is expected to open in early 2020, will provide additional student-support staff, including academic advisors, student financial services staff, admissions and IT support. The new center will provide live student services to online students in the Pacific Standard Time zone, who have a three-hour time difference from students in the Eastern Standard Time zone.

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bethwarren.com) lists a watch party for the town hall at 720 Union St. in Manchester starting at 7:45 p.m.

• Beto O’Rourke: O’Rourke’s schedule puts him in the state Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19. On Thursday he will be at events including meet-and-greets at The Grind Rail Trail Cafe in Derry at 8:30 a.m. and Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord at 3:30 p.m., according to betoorourke.com.

The site also lists a town hall meeting on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Nashua Community College and a meet-and-greet Friday at 8:15 a.m. at the Teatotaller in Somersworth.

• Pete Buttigieg: Buttigieg will return to New Hampshire on Friday, April 19, with stops at Stonyfield Yogurt and in Nashua, according to a campaign release. On Saturday, April 20, he will attend a Bedford house party and hold a town hall meeting at Plymouth State University. See peteforamerica.com.

• Elizabeth Warren: Warren will be in New Hampshire on Saturday, April 20, according to a campaign press release. She’ll be in Keene at Keene State College at 10:30 a.m. (doors open at 9:30 a.m.) and at a Weare Meet & Greet at Weare Town Hall at 2:30 p.m. (doors open at 1:30 p.m.). See elizabethwarren.com to RSVP to these events, admission to which is first come first served, according to the releases.

• Kamala Harris: Harris will hold a town hall at Dartmouth College on Tuesday, April 23, according to her kamalaharris.org. The doors open at 3:15 p.m.; see the website to sign up.

Find out where to see presidential primary candidates — as well as maybe-candidates, former candidates and people who want to talk about candidates — each week in this, our new Politics This Week listing. If you know of a candidate meet-up or other event, let us know at politics@hippopress.com.

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M3 Challenge this year drew more than 4,000 11th- and 12th-grade participants in 875 teams from across the nation, according to the release. Using mathematical modeling, the students had 14 hours in late February to come up with a solution to a real issue, substance abuse in the United States, the release stated. The Nashua students will compete against five other finalist teams.

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• Town Hall Monday: CNN will hold five back-to-back town halls with Democratic presidential candidates, broadcast from Saint Anselm College on Monday, April 22. The lineup is Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 7 p.m. (moderated by Chris Cuomo), Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 8 p.m. (moderated by Anderson Cooper), Sen. Bernie Sanders at 9 p.m. (moderated by Cuomo), Sen. Kamala Harris at 10 p.m. (moderated by Don Lemon) and Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 11 p.m. (moderated by Cooper), according to cnn.com.

The town halls will focus “on issues of importance to young voters,” according to a press release from the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, which is co-hosting the event with the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. The audience will be made up of 500 young voters, the release said. (The event itself is a closed college event with no public tickets, the release said.) Warren’s website (eliza-

Gov. Chris Sununu and Joe Carelli, president and CEO of Citizens Bank NH, launched the 2019 Nothing Campaign at the Shaw’s supermarket in Hooksett to raise awareness and funds to support the thousands of New Hampshire residents who have nothing to eat. The campaign urges CONCORD patrons of 97 participating New Hampshire supermarkets to purchase cans of “nothing” for $5 each throughout April and May.

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Spring and fall are the seasons that pose the greatest risk of wildfires across New Hampshire, with fires that can scorch hundreds of acres, cost thousands of dollars and potentially become “catastrophic’’ events, according to Shelly Angers, spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Natural & Cultural Resources.

“Wildfires of any size can easily result in potential injury or property damage and have the potential to become catastrophic in certain conditions,” Angers said. “Protecting the state’s forests and timberlands from wildfires has a significant positive effect on recreation, tourism and the forest-products industry [logging], which together contribute billions of dollars annually to the economy.”

To promote awareness and education about wildfires, New Hampshire has designated April 14 to April 20 as Wildlife Awareness Week.

New Hampshire Forest Ranger Captain Douglas Miner said that in the spring, before everything starts to blossom and provide shade, the sunlight turns dead leaves and grass into the perfect kindling for a spark to balloon into a wildfire.

To predict the severity of the upcoming fire seasons, New Hampshire forestry officials use a number of tools, including the Predictive Services report from the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, said Miner, who is also the state Wildfire Prevention Program coordinator for the NH Division of Forests & Lands.

“This spring’s report indicates that the northeastern states, including New Hampshire, are expected to see normal precipitation and an average fire season through at least June 1,’’ he said.

Temperatures are expected to be slightly above normal, but any lingering drought from last summer has been “erased’’ and groundwater levels are back to normal, he said.

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Earlier this month, the National Weather Service issued a Class 3 high fire danger alert for Rockingham, Strafford, Merrimack, Hillsborough and Cheshire counties, as well as one day with a “red flag’’ warning for extreme fire danger due to hot temperatures and dry conditions, Miner said.

New Hampshire experiences an average of about 250 wildfires that burn an average of 250 acres per year, Miner said.

Wildfires are defined as significant, unplanned and uncontrolled fires occurring on the landscape, according to Faith Berry of the National Fire Prevention Association. They are also called brush fires, grass fires and forest fires, she said.

In 2016, New Hampshire had 351 fires

across the state scorching 1,090 acres, according to Miner. New Hampshire has more than 5.9 million acres of land, of which 83 percent is forest.

The NH Division of Forests and Lands, Forest Protection Bureau has 10 forest rangers who work with local fire departments on wildfire prevention, firefighting training and wildfire detection and suppression, Miner said. Those 10 rangers also enforce laws pertaining to open burning, logging and related environmental laws.

The cost of fighting these fires varies depending on the severity of the fire. The type of equipment, such as using helicopters for water drops, and the amount of personnel needed can have a major impact on cost. In 2017, Miner said, New Hampshire had 65 fires that burned 134 acres. The cost of fire suppression was more than $91,000, he said.

“In years when the number of fires and acres burned are much higher, the cost of suppression for a single, large wildfire could easily surpass the amount experienced for all of 2017,’’ he said.

Human error

While fires are a natural part of the ecosystem and can be triggered by such events as lightning strikes, about 83 percent of all wildfires are caused by people, Berry said.

A poorly doused camp fire or brush pile is the top cause of accidental wildfires, followed by improperly disposed smoking material, malfunctioning power lines, lightning strike, playing with matches, land management burns, fireworks and shop tools, according to a 2011-2015 survey by the National Fire Protection Association.

“Most outdoor fires happen because someone is careless,” Berry said.

Burning debris in a trash barrel may seem like a safe way to remove yard debris and trash, she said, but embers from the fire can be blown away by the wind and ignite somewhere else.

“The biggest misconception is that someone who has a burn permit [issued by a local fire department] to burn brush thinks the fire is out because it is a pile of white ash,” Miner said.

“But then the wind blows away the ash and there are embers underneath.’’

To extinguish an outdoor fire, the key is to pour water on the fire, then mix up the ashes and embers, scrape away the burned portions of wood, then poor more water on the pile, he said. Repeat this process until the pile is cool to the touch.

To protect your home, Berry suggests making sure leaves, pine needles and other debris are a safe distance from your home. A flame has an easy jump from dead leaves up against your foundation up the side of a house, she said.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX NH 10th greenest state

The Granite State is doing right by Mother Earth as WalletHub lists New Hampshire as the 10th-greenest state after taking the pulse of New Hampshire’s environment and the residents’ environmental friendliness. New Hampshire ranked second in terms of air quality, fifth for the percentage of recycled municipal solid waste, seventh for water quality, 10th for renewable energy consumption and energy consumption per capita, and 28th for LEED-certified [energy-efficient] buildings per capita.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: As Earth Day (Monday, April 22) approaches it is fitting to recognize the strides the Granite State has made to be a green state.

Pathways to science

The Nashua High School North Biotechnology Career Technical Education program was one of only eight programs across the country to receive the Excellence in Action award, according to the Telegraph. The program is open to students from Nashua, Hollis-Brookline, Hudson and Merrimack high schools. Unlike many New Hampshire schools that struggle with dropout rates, last school year this program had 100 percent of its students graduate and 100 percent enroll in post-secondary education. The program, which is made up of 25 percent minorities and 12 percent students with disabilities, provides clear pathways into learning experiences for future careers. During this two-year biotechnology program, students learn about microbiology, cellular and molecular biology, DNA and protein science, the newspaper reports.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Students in this program are some of New Hampshire’s future scientists, engineers and doctors.

UNH research on lightning ...

Despite 250 years of research, how lightning begins has been a mystery until now. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center documented a unique event that occurs in clouds before a lightning flash happens, according to a UNH press release. Their observation, called “fast negative breakdown,” documents a new possible way for lightning to form, the release states. This theory is opposite the current scientific view of how air carries electricity in thunderstorms.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The UNH findings will be published in the journal Nature Communications. Ultimately, this provides scientists with a new view of what’s possible inside a storm cloud.

… and on fighting outbreaks

UNH’s Veterinary Diagnostic Lab received the New Hampshire Antimicrobial Stewardship Award from the state Division of Public Health Services for developing a way to quickly identify infections in animals before bacteria can change, multiply and become resistant to antibiotics or other agents designed to cure or prevent infections, according to a UNH press release.

When the state has an outbreak of an infectious disease in animals, the time it takes to identify the disease can be a serious drawback in trying to treat the outbreak. In 2017 the lab reduced what could take days down to minutes after acquiring Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry instrumentation. With thousands of organisms in the database, after the germs are grown, the time for bacteria identification is minutes compared to days, the release states.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The majority of infectious diseases in people can be transferred from animals. Being able to diagnose diseases quickly will have a significant impact on the response time of an outbreak, the release states.

QOL Score: 59 Net change: +4 QOL this week: 63

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Time to clear out the random thoughts that have been cluttering up the sports brain all winter.

Not really a huge Tiger fan, but hard not to be rooting for him on Sunday as he won that fifth Masters title after a rash of back injuries left him mortal for nearly 10 years. He proved me wrong, as I never thought he’d win another major. Suddenly Jack’s 18 majors look back in play.

Celtics Playoff Update: (1) I hate, hate, HATE the black uniforms because they look awful and I spent Sunday thinking Indiana was Boston because they were wearing home white. (2) They were down eight when I left to watch Tiger finish off his Masters win and up 10 when I flipped back 15 minutes later. Maybe I’m bad luck. (3) That was Kyrie’s first playoff win without LeBron as a teammate.

Call me crazy, but I think Marcus Smart’s injury will help the C’s. Not a knock on Smart, whose toughness and intangibles I love. But I’ve said all year one of their major problems was having too many guys for the available minutes. In this most inconsistent season, one consistent theme has been that they’ve played best when someone was out hurt, regardless of who – like being 11-3 without Kyrie, or Jaylen Brown missing much of their longest winning streak (nine).

It’s incredible it took 14 games into 2019 before Eduardo Rodriguez became the first Red Sox starter to get a win.

Mother Francona was at it again on April 4, lifting Trevor Bauer with a no-hitter in progress after seven innings. There’ve been over 250 no-hitters including one by Bob Feller on opening day in 1940. So, Tito, if Bauer’s health was so at stake, how did the other 250 manage to make it through their no-no’s without an arm falling off that day, through the rest of their season or careers?

Let alone Harvey Haddix going 12 perfect

innings in 1959. The no-no is one of the coolest things in sports and it’s under assault from the overly cautious micro-managers like Tito and Dave Roberts. What I wouldn’t give to have someone at every park ready to shoot these bozos with tranquilizer darts when active no-hitters reach the seventh inning.

With guys like that around, Johnny Vander Meer’s great feat is certainly safe.

Got to love last week’s Paw Sox promotion celebrating A-Rod and Jennifer Lopez’s engagement. It let anyone named Jennifer into the park free, as well as anyone who wore a Jason Varitek or Bronson Arroyo jersey. Check the glossary for why.

That the Alliance of America Football Conference went under just eight games in is incredible. It blamed not having a development agreement allowing NFL taxi squad players to play in the AAFC as the culprit.

But if that was so essential, why wasn’t that in place before the investors put up their money? Of course, if you invest in a spring league of taxi squad level players you have to wonder how they made that money in the first place. Spring football has interest in some big-time college towns – for one game – but it has no shot in the crowded sports calendar in America.

That’s why return of the WFL in 2020 also has no shot.

I’m OK that NFL replays will now cover pass interference. Officials get that call wrong several times a game anyway. But the missed call in the NFC championship game inspiring the change was simply incompetence. How could they possibly have missed that call in such wide open space? Seems to me it would’ve been better to just get rid of their bad refs and get better ones.

Father-son comparisons between electric QB Patrick Mahomes and his ex-MLB dad are going overboard; I saw a headline saying young Mahomes got the clutch gene from pop. Really? In 11 years dad was 42-39 with a lifetime 5.72 ERA. He was 8-0 with the Mets in 1999 and 3-0 over two years with the Sox in the mid-’90s. I don’t mean to be disrespect-

ful, but that does not shout “clutch.”

It took 10 months, but LeBron now looks ready to hire the coach he always wanted. L.A. is interviewing Philly’s Monty Williams too, but I’m betting he’s a decoy to cover LeBron’s intentions before hiring Tyronn Lue. One-time SI columnist Rick Reilly is out with a new book about Donald Trump the golfer called Commander in Cheat – How Golf Explains Trump. That the ethically challenged president is a compulsive cheater at golf (too) is hardly a surprise. It is, however, a hoot, with lots of funny lines like “he’s got a nose so long he can putt with it” about his score-keeping habits, and that caddies at Winged Foot Golf Club just outside NYC called him “Pele” for how often he kicked it into the fairway to improve his, ah, lie. I’ll give him a break there, because who doesn’t do that? But it does make the endless bragging about being a 2 handicap to out to be, yup, fake news.

I don’t know about you but I like resilient teams. So bravo to Virginia for its 2004 Red Sox-like return from being the first top seed ever to lose to a 16 seed in 2018 to winning the NCAA Tournament over Texas Tech in 2019.

If someone had to get nailed in an alleged pot bust during the tournament in a state where weed is still illegal, Virginia Tech’s Tyler Outlaw was the perfect name.

I have no problem with Mariano Rivera being a unanimous Hall of Fame choice.

But I do find it nuts that someone who rarely played more than an inning every other day and for just 70 innings per season is the first to do that, while Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Junior Griffey and many others weren’t. How can that be?

Finally, unless it’s for a fifth-round choice or less, Coach B, please vote no on a deal for Josh Rosen with Arizona. He’s a mouthy malcontent who thinks he’s better than he is.

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McQuarrie goes west Horace Greeley Award: It goes to Weare’s Parker McQuarrie for taking the advice of the famed journalist who hailed from Amherst to go west to play his college football. He accepted a scholarship and is off to play for local lad Chip Kelly at UCLA. The 6’7” junior QB will have a little time to tack a little more muscle on his 208 pounds to play in the PAC 10 as he plays his senior season at St. Paul’s School next fall.

Sports 101: Only three players have won the Masters Golf Championship in back-toback years. Name them.

Walk-off Homer of the Week: Lindsey Murphy for her two-out eighth-inning two-run walk-off homer to give Windham a 9-8 win over Merrimack in a wild game that had five lead changes.

Home Run Derby Award: The homers were flying out on opening day of the high school softball season as Shannon Gifford hit two bombs in Goffstown’s 10-7 win

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6 – combined hits from Caroline O’Donnell, who also knocked in four runs, and winning pitcher Maddie Fraitz in Bedford’s aforementioned 9-1 win over Keene.

7 – goals scored by Lucy Licata while Olivia Strong chipped in three more as Derryfield downed Pembroke 11-3 in the lacrosse opener for both clubs.

8 – combined goals from Ben Abladian (5) and Sean Cameron (3), who also had five assists as Bishop Guertin won early lacrosse bragging rights with a 17-8

over Alvirne and Erica Barley hit a pair as Bedford downed Keene 9-1.

Stat Sheet Filler of the Week: To John Stark’s Brett Patnode, who had two steals, four runs scored and three hits in three at-bats as John Stark rolled over Milford 13-2.

Sports 101 Answer: The three back-toback Masters winners are Jack Nicklaus (1966-67), Nick Faldo (1989-90) and Tiger Woods (2001-02).

On This Day – April 18: 1898 – the second Boston Marathon is won by (I kid you not) Ronald McDonald of Canada in 2 hours 42 minutes. Amazingly, the record going in to the 2019 race was 39 minutes less at 2:03:02 by Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai in 2011. 1966 – Bill Russell becomes the first African American head coach in modern American professional sports when he’s named Player-Coach to replace Red Auerbach. 1998 – Peyton Manning is selected first overall by the Colts in the NFL draft.

win over rival Bedford.

9 – different Pinkerton players to score in the Astros’ 13-7 lacrosse win over Exeter, led by Lauren Lisauskas, who had three goals and two assists.

13 – strikeouts by Jake Walkinshaw as he improved to 5-0 on the year by going the distance while allowing a run and seven hits in SNHU’s 2-1 win over LeMoyne, which moved the seventh-ranked-nationally Penmen’s record to 24-7.

18 – hits by Manchester Central in its softball season opener in a 12-7 win over Londonderry when Matara Tamzarian and

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Alyssa Gerardi each blasted a three-run homer.

54 – major-league record consecutive at-bats without a hit over the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 for Orioles DH Chris Davis before breaking it with a two-run single vs. the Red Sox on Saturday. The gory details include striking out a whopping (even for him) 27 times in the streak and the hit raised the average to .029.

100 – career goals scored by senior Alexis Felt of Manchester in a recent 22-19 lacrosse loss to 17th-ranked Assumption College.

Harvey Haddix: Lefty hurler best known for his 1959 pitch-count-be-damned perfect game over 12 innings lost in the 13th on an error, two walks and a Joe Adcock grand slam that didn’t count after he passed Hank Aaron on the bases, who had stopped to make sure it went out. The Braves’ Lew Burdette won it 2-0 for his 13-inning complete game shutout.

Johnny Vandermeer: Reds lefty who threw back-to-back no-hitters in June 1938 vs. the Boston Bees (Braves) and Brooklyn Dodgers.

This Marriage Has No Chance Promotion: Free admission to those wearing Jason Varitek or Bronson Arroyo jerseys to honor major 2004 events in Alex Rodriguez’ inglorious career vs. Boston: Tek mashing his glove into the groom’s face during their famous home plate brawl, and knocking the ball from Arroyo’s glove with his purse in the ALCS. The Blessed J-Lo – A-Rod Union: A major probably-pre-nup-covered union between a thrice married bride (with the disastrous Bennifer engagement a near fourth) and a groom with alleged serial marital cheating on the resume. Vegas has over-under at the DiMaggio-Monroe nine-month barrier.

DiMaggio-Monroe nine-month barrier: Length of the enduring 1953 nuptials between Hollywood’s reigning hubba-hubba star and baseball’s biggest name. Marilyn was asked to entertain military throngs in Korea during their Far East honeymoon, later reportedly saying, “Joe, you never heard such cheering,” to which the winner of nine titles playing in front of 66,000 at Yankee Stadium reportedly replied, “Yes, I have.”

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ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM LOCAL VOICES AT LOCAL VENUES Hunter Stamas of the local band Hunter. Photo by Brian Boshar.

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There was a 1970s rock concert vibe on a recent Thursday night in downtown Manchester, but it wasn’t at the SNHU Arena; instead, the music was filling Bookery, a bookstore and cafe with a weekly live music series. Yet the spirit was the same when Patrik Gochez, front man and lead singer for The Hats, stepped up to microphone.

“We’ve just finished a new album,” he said, “and we’d like to play it for you if that’s all right.”

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cal Drippers, a fan-funded project that’s months from actual release. Farther down Elm Street, though, it might not have been so easy for the band to not just play a new record, but play their own music at all.

Along with the challenges of getting paid for recorded music well enough to earn a living (Google “Spotify royalties” for proof) many up and coming acts struggle to find venues that aren’t interested in unfamiliar songs. One of the best bands in the state is Conniption Fits. Based in the Upper Valley, the power trio makes infectious pop rock that’s singular, hook-filled, radio-ready. In the club scene, however, they play covers for steady work.

They’re not the only ones, but more

than a few swim against the tide, playing their own songs on their own terms. Chris O’Neill is the founder of Amorphous Band, a jammy quartet that’s been around since the early 2000s. He’s also the booker at Umami, a farm-to-table restaurant in Northwood that brings in some of the best acts every weekend.

O’Neill is optimistic about the future of bands like his, but warns them to keep a thick skin.

“I think it’s always a good time to be an original musician, even if it might be more of a tragic story sometimes,” he said. “But it’s definitely always what you make of it.

You have to have some entrepreneurial spirit, and you gotta roll with technology and

maintain some integrity towards what you are trying to do.”

He also thinks his home state does a good job of nurturing talent.

“A lot of people decide, hey, I like New Hampshire. Actually, that’s a big part of why I’m staying in this area. ... So how do I fit music into that? Turns out, it’s actually pretty good when you talk to people from across the country.”

Here are a few bands with the fortitude to persevere, and some venues willing to give them space to be heard. It’s a list intended to be representative, not comprehensive; a bit of searching will inevitably lead to more.

Any who care about a creative community should take that plunge.

THE BANDS

Harsh Armadillo

What they’re about: Beginning in the early 2000s, this four-piece amalgamation of soul, jazz, funk and reggae has provided a steady anchor to the local scene. Mixing in a few hand-picked vocal covers with original instrumentals, their live shows are popular throughout New England. Current lineup is what founder Chris O’Neill playfully calls “the three Chrises,” him on guitar, Chris Noyes on bass and Chris Sink on keys, with drummer George Laliotis.

Where they’ve played: Strange Brew, Penuche’s Concord, Stone Church, Umami Next show: May 25 at the Press Room in Portsmouth

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Amorphous Band

Red Sky Mary

What they’re about: Zeppelin-esque hard-rocking quartet; they’ve opened for many big names, like LA Guns and Greta Van Fleet, in addition to being the kind of band many clubs book for both Friday and Saturday nights. A powerhouse playing live, with self-explanatory songs like “All Hell’s Breakin’ Loose” and their single “Gone” from 2015’s River Child. The latter hardcharging song garnered radio airplay and acted as a harbinger of bigger things to come.

Where they’ve played: Fury’s Publick House, Pit Road Lounge, Lilac City Grille Next shows: East Side Club in Manchester on April 27; Dover Brickhouse on May 3; Village Trestle in Goffstown on May 18 Sarah Blacker & New England Groove Collective

What they’re about: After starting out as a “sundress rock” singer-songwriter, Blacker switched things up, finding her funkier side. A debut LP is in the planning stages, to be done at 37’ Productions in Rockland, Mass., close to the home she shares with fiance and fellow musician Aaron Katz. “I believe there’s a stigma in the music scene with girls that sing,” Blacker said in 2017. “They get pigeonholed into folk, but there are a lot of genuinely soulful female singers in all sorts of genres.”

Where they’ve played: Cisco, Riverwalk, Umami Next show: Portsmouth Book & Bar on April 26

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What they’re about: Funk powerhouse formed at UNH. A follow-up to last year’s EP Bite and the 2018 full-length Blame Bad Habits is in the works. “This new record has the same grooves you can move to as our previous music, but we are exploring some of our softer moments,” said lead singer Andrea Belaidi. “Pushing ourselves to new ideas while staying excited about the material.”

Where they’ve played: Press Room, 3S ArtSpace, Riverwalk, Stone Church, Book & Bar, Next show: Jewel in Manchester on May 9 What they’re about: Jammy “freak folk” band co-led by Freewheelin’ Franklin lookalike Eli Elkus and fellow songwriter Andrew Polakow, they’re in constant motion – the bumper on Elkus’ van reads “Home Sweet Road” – hitting venues all over the state and touring the country as well. Elkus is a magnet for other musicians, hosting a weekly hoot at Stone Church. “Why Say Why,” a standout song from their most recent album Dancing on the Dead, sums up their raucous spirit. An as yet untitled follow-up is in the works as festival season approaches.

Where they’ve played: Fury’s, Earth Eagle Brewings, Stone Church, Penuche’s Next shows: April 18 at Riverwalk in Nashua, April 26 at Press Room in Portsmouth

Truffle

What they’re about: Formed as Savoy Truffle (after the Beatles song) in 1986, Truffle is perhaps the longest-running band in New Hampshire, and a constant mainstay on the club scene. The secret? “We keep writing music and bring back things we haven’t done in a while,” bandleader Dave Gerard said on the band’s 30th anniversary a few years back. “We’re always blowing the rust off of something and changing up the set list.”

Where they’ve played: Stone Church, Press Room, Riverwalk, Shaskeen, Area 23 Next show: Fury’s in Dover June 1

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What they’re about: Currently celebrating their 10-year silver anniversary, this proto metal band owes a lot to early Black Sabbath, but balances between doom rock and a more hopeful vision of the world. “Everybody thought we were a black metal band, and we’re really not that,” founder Andre Dumont said. They’re touring this summer and performing at metal festivals in Maine and upstate New York, and filling in with local shows near their home base of Nashua.

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What they’re about: Busy year for this power pop quartet, who are working on a follow-up to their debut album. The single “Mandy Desmaris,” filled with references to the band’s Manchester hometown, received airplay on Sirius/XM’s Little Steven’s Underground Garage. Fun fact: band includes troubadour Tristan Omand, a singer-songwriter with a wonderfully original vision who plays venues throughout the region.

Where they’ve played: Shaskeen, Penuche’s Ale House Next show: Fisher Cats stadium in Manchester on July 4

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What they’re about: The core trio of ebullient and emotive singer Hunter Stamas, producer/drummer Cameron Gillooly and guitar player Connor Coburn released an eponymous debut album in 2015 that won them a New England Music Award for Best New Band, along with several other accolades. The richly varied debut was cheeky, hard-charging, reflective and rowdy all at once. They followed it last year with Listen to Hunter, which showed Stamas’s songwriting maturity very well.

Where they’ve played: Fody’s, Riverwalk, Dolly Shakers, Shaskeen Next shows: Portsmouth Book & Bar on July 6 – check their Facebook as this band loves pop-up shows.

The Hats

What they’re about: Formerly known as Pat & The Hats, they are inventive and original, drawing from the history of pop and rock. This five-piece band is the vision of singer-songwriter Patrik Gochez fleshed out with fantastic harmonies from his sister Britney and newest member Joey Pierog, who adds guitar flash and and occasional lead vocal, anchored by a rhythm section of original members Brenden Harisiades and Bobby Rice, who also both sing. A new fan-funded LP called Chemical Drippers is finished, in final mixing and due for release soon.

Where they’ve played: Bookery, Area 23, Shaskeen, Penuche’s Concord Next shows: Concord Market Days in Concord on June 20, and a few more dates are close to being finalized

THE VENUES

Stone Church

5 Granite St., Newmarket, 659-7700 Venerable venue under new management in the recent past – run by fans of the music working hard to maintain it as a vital forum.

Upcoming: April 18 Clandestine w/ Marvel Prone, April 21 George Brown unplugged, April 23 Eli Elkus Root Tootin’ Acoustic Hoot, April 26 Armies w/ Ghosts of Jupiter Umami

284 First NH Turnpike, Northwood, 942-6427 Farm-to-table restaurant went all in on live music, hiring Amorphous Band founder and uber-connected performer Chris O’Neill to book talent.

Upcoming: April 18 Dan Blakeslee, April 20 Tony DePalma, April 26 Senie Hunt w/ Chris O’Neill, April 27 Scott Solsky w/ Jared Steer Portsmouth Book & Bar

40 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, 427-9197 From the jump, when this quirky bookstore/coffee bar/craft beer bar opened it had music in mind, booking big names from around the country and lots of local acts.

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State Street, Concord, 881-9060 It’s not the easiest place to locate, but it’s more than worth the search. Saturdays are packed, with an open mic that always goes above and beyond, an acoustic act during the dinner hour and usually a band partying until closing time.

Upcoming: GS Blues Challenge May 5, Lamont Smooth May 10, Jam every Saturday afternoon Penuche’s Ale House

6 Pleasant St., Concord, 228-9833 Concord’s Cavern Club is a cellarful of noise, with the heart of the music community representing every Thursday and Saturday night (sometimes Friday), with a great original open mic on Sunday afternoon.

Riverwalk Cafe

35 Railroad Square, Nashua, 578-0200 Owner Ben Ruddock launched an all-original open mic when Riverwalk was a coffee shop. He later more than doubled the space and turned it into a premier listening room, arguably the region’s best. Back in the 1970s, people bought records based on a label’s reputation. Riverwalk is a lot like that; if an act is booked there, it’s probably worth checking out.

Upcoming: April 18 People Like You w/ Mamma’s Marmalade, April 19 Alex Minasian, April 20 Goldenoak w/ Liz Beebe, April 24 Local Talent Showcase w/ Delaney, St. Paul’s Funeral Band, Louse, April 25 Shokazoba

The One Offs Along with nightclubs offering multiple events Sutphin May 2, Divergent Strings May 9 and every week, there are venues that host origi- Chris Cavanaugh May 16. nal music once a week.

Schoodacs (1 E. Main St., Warner, 456-3400) Bookery (844 Elm St., Manchester, 836- is an old-school coffeehouse with original acts 6600) hosts original performers every every Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. The series is Thursday at 6:30 p.m., setting them up in the curated by Brad Myrick, a Hopkinton musician front corner of its capacious downtown store. and entrepreneur who recently launched NH More often than not, it’s acoustic music, befit- Music Collective. “We aim to be full-service ting the sandwich, coffee and craft beer vibe ... everything from artist development to bookof the place. Occasionally, as with the afore- ing,” Myrick explained, “photo, video, record mentioned Hats, bands plug in. Upcoming ing and production, lessons, gear, financial shows include singer-songwriter Joel Cage advice, web development and social media April 18, Dean Harlem April 25, Cameron management — and much more.”

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Upcoming: April 18 Magnatar, InAeona, and Bone Church, April 19 Folk Hogan, Scrimmy the Dirtbag, and Paul Jarvis, April 25 Deranged Youth, May 3 Meatsaw

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Lace up for the NHTI/Northeast Delta Dental 5K on Friday, April 19, at 6 p.m. at NHTI (31 College Drive in Concord). Registration costs $25 on race day. See nhti. edu/5k.

EAT: Chocolate Get tickets now for the “Everything Chocolate & More: Great New England Spring Craft & Artisan Show” on Saturday, May 4 (from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and Sunday, May 5 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), at the Hampshire Dome (34 Emerson Road in Milford). Admission costs $5 (children under 12 get in free). The show will sell a variety of chocolate items (from eats to chocolate-scented candles and chocolate-themed home goods) and there will be a people’s choice award for “best chocolate product in the show,” according to the website. A libations station (featuring drinks like hot cocoa, chocolate martini and chocolate craft brews) will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. The event will also feature live music, face painting, cookie decorating, slime making and other activities, the website said. See gnecraftartisanshows.com.

Catch some hockey with the Manchester Monarchs in Round 1, Game 4 of the Kelly Cup Playoffs against the Adirondack Thunder today at 7 p.m. (and Saturday, April 20, at 6 p.m. for Game 5 if necessary), at SNHU Arena (555 Elm St. in Manchester). See manchestermonarchs.com for ticket information.

DRINK: By the fire LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101 in Amherst; labellewinerynh.com) will hold a Burning of the Vines Family Bonfire on Friday, April 26, at 6 p.m. The event will feature a burning of pruned grape vines. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase by the bonfire and the Bistro at LaBelle Winery will offer fire-inspired specials along with the springtime menu, according to the website, which recommends wearing boots as well as weather-appropriate layers.

Catch short films “by, for, about women” at Lunafest held by Equality Health Center today at 6:30 p.m. at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St. in Concord; redrivertheatres.org). Tickets cost $20 in advance ($15 for students) and $25 on the day of the event.

The event is recommended for viewers high school age or older, based on the content, according to the website. Find more about the films and Lunafest at lunafest.org.

BE MERRY: With country dance A contra dance featuring caller Tony Parkes and music by the Dead Sea Squirrels will take place Saturday, April 20, from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Boscawen Town Hall (12 High St. in Boscawen). Admission costs $9 for adults, $5 for ages 15 to 25 and free for 14 and under (beginners, singles and families are welcome). See concordnhcontra.wordpress.com or call 2254917. An English Country Dance will be presented by the Monadnock Folklore Society with the theme “Dance Around Monadnock.”

Instructor Mary Jones will teach dances and music will be provided by the band Peregrine Road on Sunday, April 21, 2 to 5 p.m. at Dublin Town Hall (1120 Main St. in Dublin).

Admission costs $10. Visit monadnockfolk. org or call 876-4211.

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ARTS Broadway dreams

Palace Theatre actors talk A Chorus Line

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

For the first time in five years, A Chorus Line opens at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on April 19. The Tony Award-winning musical debuted on Broadway in 1975 and is one of the longest-running Broadway shows.

Set in a Broadway theater, it centers on 17 dancers auditioning for spots on the chorus line in a new musical. Among the characters are Zach (played by Ben Stasny), the director of the musical who is running the audition, and Cassie (played by Katie Ann Harvey), an out-of-work dancer and Zach’s former lover who returns to audition for the musical. Palace actors Stasny and Harvey The Palace Theatre presents A Chorus Line. Courtesy photo. share their thoughts on the production and How have you prepared for your role? resonates with me. As an actor working in the characters they are playing.

Harvey: Cassie’s story really begins to New York, I’ve been really blessed to have Why did you decide to audition for A the career I’ve had and to be working consis- unfold in Act 2, so I try to read Act 2 every tently, but I’ve never been able to break into day. When I wake up, I make my coffee and Chorus Line?

Harvey: The show is an iconic show and Broadway. That’s something I’ve been bat- re-read it. It’s so well-written and so smart a special show for a lot of dancers. Usual- tling internal insecurities about, like, ‘Am I and does a great job of showing the dynamic ly dancers in musicals are in the background good enough for Broadway?’ Cassie’s dream relationship [between Cassie and Zach] with as part of an ensemble, supporting the lead, is to come back [to the industry] and do what so many different layers. I find something but in this show, each dancer gets the spot- she loves to do. In her story arc, she chang- different every time I read it.

Stasny: I don’t have any experience as a light and gets their own moment to shine on es what success means to her, and that’s what stage. As someone who grew up as a danc- I’m striving to do: change my definition of director, but I get to watch the real-life [Paler first before getting into musical theater, I success and just do what I love as much as I ace Theatre] director Carl [Rajotte] work, and I can pull from what he does. I watch can for as long as I can. think that’s really special. how he works with people and how specifStasny: Zach has a strong passion for his Stasny: I remember seeing the show in ic he gets with the dance moves and body work and career.

I’ve wanted to be an actor college. I don’t have a strong dance background, so it was [a production] I thought I’d since I was 5, and I’m thrilled to be working angles and [delivery of] the lines, and I see never do, but my role [as Zach, the director] as a professional actor; it’s what I love to do. his notes after rehearsals. Just watching him doesn’t have a lot of dancing. It’s a meaty Zach has a real commitment to his craft and is like an acting exercise for me. acting piece … more about his relation- doesn’t settle for anything mediocre. He’s What is challenging about your role? ships with the dancers. I’m finding it to be always pushing himself to see things in a Harvey: For me, it is definitely the physical different way and thinks critically about his an amazing challenge. relationships with people. Though I’m not a stamina it takes to get through it, especially Does your character resonate with you in director … I take inspiration from how seri- for Cassie’s big number “The Music and the Mirror,” which I’m doing the original choously he takes the craft. any way? reography for. It’s a 12-minute number. It’s Harvey: There is a lot about Cassie that

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Includes listings, shows, auditions, workshops and more.

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Theater Productions • LITTLE BITS OF LIGHT April 11 through April 20, with showtimes on Thursday at 10 a.m., Friday at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Rochester Performance and Arts Center, 32 N. Main St., Rochester. Tickets cost $15. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

• A CHORUS LINE April 19 through May 12, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and an additional show on Thursday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St.,

Manchester. Tickets cost $39 to $46 for adults and $25 for children ages 6 through 12. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• A DOLL’S HOUSE Fearon Productions presents. April 19 through May 5, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Players’ Ring Theatre, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for seniors and students. Visit playersring.org.

• THE TREASURE OF CIRQUE FOU Fulltime Fools present. April 23 through May 5, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre,

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everything you want it to be and more, but it is no joke; it’s physically taxing. Also, there’s singing after the dance, and then it goes right into a scene with Zach. I’m excited about it, because it’s so good, but man, is it tiring.

Stasny: For me, it’s looking at everything through the eyes of a director, which I’m not used to and don’t have experience with. …

Also, for the parts when [Zach] sees Cassie and becomes distracted by her while he is trying to focus on casting the show, I have to access my emotional sides and think about how seeing Cassie affects him.

What are your thoughts on the music?

Harvey: [Each character] gets their own song or musical moment for us to see their stories and their personalities and what makes them special. Every song is different and specific to each individual character, so it’s not just the same songs over and over.

Stasny: I think everything is so well-written not only musically, but lyrically. It’s such a down-to-earth musical. The music isn’t about fantastical things. It’s about things that are very relatable to us as actors, dancers and singers, but also relatable to the audience.

The musical is about how people deal with being in a stressful situation, and I think the music and lyrics really capture that.

A Chorus Line Where: Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester When: April 19 through May 12, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and an additional show on Thursday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $39 to $46 for adults and $25 for children ages 6 through 12 Visit: palacetheatre.org

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Includes listings for gallery events, ongoing exhibits and classes. To Includes symphony and orchestral performances. get listed, e-mail arts@hippopress.com.

To get listed, e-mail arts@hippopress.com.

270 Loudon Road, Concord.

Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hatboxnh. com.

• GUYS AND DOLLS The Windham Actors Guild presents.

Fri., April 26, and Sat., April 27, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 28, 2 p.m. Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham.

Visit windhamactorsguild.com.

• ANNE OF GREEN GABLES Tues., April 30, 10 a.m. Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $7 for students. Visit stockbridgetheatre.com.

• FOOTLOOSE May 2 through May 19, with showtimes on

Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m., with an additional show on Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Tickets cost $18 to $24. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

• MAMMA MIA The Actorsingers present. May 3 through May 5. Keefe Center For The Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Tickets are $18 to $20. Visit actorsingers. org.

• SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! The Riverbend Youth Company presents. Fri., May 3, through Sun., May 5. Amato Center for the Performing Arts,

56 Mont Vernon St., Milford.

Visit amatocenter.org.

• STEEL MAGNOLIAS The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents. May 9 through June 1, 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.

• BO-NITA Thalia-Bridge Productions presents. May 9 through May 19, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hat-

boxnh.com.

• NEWSIES The Peacock Players present. May 10 through May 19, with showtimes on Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St. , Nashua. Tickets cost $12 to $19.

Visit peacockplayers.org.

• BABY WITH THE BATHWATER Veterans in Performing Arts presents. May 10 through May 26, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Players’ Ring Theatre, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth.

Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for seniors and students.

Visit playersring.org.

ARTS

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• Mozart music and movie: Symphony NH and Red River Theatres will present a film and live music event on Thursday, April 18, in Concord. It starts at 5 p.m. at Hotel Concord (11 S. Main St.), with drinks, food and a performance of Mozart music by the Symphony NH string quartet. Then, at 6:30 p.m., at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St.) there will be a screening of Amadeus (R, 1984). Tickets cost $10 for adults and are free for youth under age 18. Visit symphonynh.org or call 595-9156.

• Local composer recognized: William Ogmundson, New London composer and lyricist and composer-in-residence of The Alchemists’ Workshop, recently won an award for best musical score for his work in the original musical Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise, on which he collaborated with librettist and The Alchemists’ Workshop artistic director Tom Dunn of Henniker.

He received the award at the Winterfest New Play Festival at the off-Broadway Hudson Guild Theatre in New York City, where the musical was one of around 100 new musicals featured. Ogmundson previously won an award for best lyrics for the same musical at the off-off-Broadway Midtown International Theatre Festival at the Jewel Box Theater. The musical 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

• FINDING NEVERLAND Fri., May 17, 8 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord.

Tickets cost $45 to $110. Visit ccanh.com.

• SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL The Kids Coop Theatre presents. Fri., May 24, and Sat., May 25. Derry Opera House , 29 W. Broadway , Derry. Visit kids-coop-theatre.org.

Art Events • 12TH ANNUAL NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Three international sculptors will be spending three weeks at The Picker Artists, each creating a large granite or metal outdoor sculpture to be given to the City and installed in a public place for all to enjoy. May 13 through May 30. 3 Pine St. , Nashua.

Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

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Players’ Ring Theatre presents A Doll’s House. Courtesy photo.

in 1938 to produce paintings for a Dole Pineapple Co. national advertising campaign.

Ogmundson and Dunn are currently collaborating on a new musical about Huntress Hall at Keene State College, called The Story of a Ghost. Visit alchemistsworkshop.org.

• Theater worth a drive: Fearon Productions presents Henrik Ibsen’s drama A Doll’s House at the Players’ Ring Theatre (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) April 19 through May 5, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for seniors and students. Visit playersring.org.

The Rochester Performance and Arts Center (32 N. Main St., Rochester) presents Little Bits of Light on Thursday, April 18, at 10 a.m., Friday, April 19, at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 20, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. The play is an adaptation of the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly, which interweaves poems and artwork from children at the concentration camp Terezin with major historical events and the playwright Amanda Faye Martin’s own family history. Tickets cost $15. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

— Angie Sykeny

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Opening • 12TH ANNUAL NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM OPENING RECEPTION Three international sculptors will be spending three weeks at The Picker Artists, each creating a large granite or metal outdoor sculpture to be given to the City and installed in a public place for all to enjoy. Thurs., May 9, 6 to 8 p.m. Hunt Community Great Room, 10 Allds St., Nashua. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

In the Galleries • “THE POETIC MOMENT: LAND, SEA & SKY” Hollis artist Christopher Volpe exhibits oil paintings, including large and

small landscapes, seascapes and nature-inspired abstract pieces, as well as a number of monochromatic tar paintings from his Moby Dick-inspired series, “Loomings.” March 22 through May 18.

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

• “UBUHLE WOMEN: BEADWORK AND THE ART OF INDEPENDENCE” The exhibition features a contemporary form of bead art called ndwango, developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The multidimensional pieces are created by applying Czech glass beads onto plain black cloth and can take more than 10 months to complete. Open March 23 through June 10. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

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• Group shows galore: The Manchester Artists Association has a group art exhibition at the Massabesic Audubon Center (26 Audubon Way, Auburn) now through April 20. Members of the Association are presenting three original works for a raffle to benefit the Audubon Center and the Association’s scholarship fund.

Visit nhaudubon.org.

Argh Gallery (416 Chestnut St., Manchester) presents a group show, “Equinox,” featuring spring-inspired art by five artists, now through April 19. The gallery is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 3 to 7 p.m. and by appointment.

Visit arghgallery.com or call 682-0797.

Kelley Stelling Contemporary (221 Hanover St., Manchester) has a group art exhibition, “Neon Wilderness,” on view now through April 26, featuring the work of three artists. Megan Bogonovich is a ceramics artist who uses antique porcelain molds and colorful glazes to create fanciful sculptures. Preta Wolzak is presenting a series of silk scarves with images of plastic dolls that she has augmented and photographed. Michael Andrew Phillips does large-scale mixed media paintings inspired by the abstract expressionist style. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday from noon to 3 p.m., and by appointment. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• Decoding art: Amherst Town Library (14 Main St., Amherst) presents a two-part program, “Hidden Meaning: Symbolism and Allusion in Art,” with educator and presenter Nancy Baker on Tuesdays, April 23 and April 30, at 7 p.m. Baker will

Preta Wolzak art featured in “Neon Wilderness” exhibition. Courtesy photo.

discuss the history of symbolism, myth, metaphor and allusion in art from ancient times to the present, as well as the history of western art. Participants will explore how the use of flowers, fruits, animals, objects, religious and social iconography and natural cycles creates deeper meaning. The program is free, but registration is required. Call 673-2288 or visit amherstlibrary.org.

• Exhibit at the winery: Sullivan Framing & Fine Art Gallery of Bedford has recently taken over management of the art gallery at LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst). Its first exhibition, “Wild at Heart,” is on view now through June 9. It features recent works by Weare artist Rosemary Conroy, who does vibrant and colorful acrylic paintings of wildlife using many different techniques and tools to create unique textures and layering effects. “My paintings are my way of honoring and thanking these wild beings for being part of our world,” she said in a press release. “This work comes straight from my heart.” There will be a closing reception with a talk by Conroy at the winery on Sunday, June 9, at 11 a.m. Call 471-1888 or visit sullivanframing.com.

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Call 224-2508 or visit nhartassociation.org.

• “BUSTING OUT - POWERFUL WOMEN” The N.H. Women’s Caucus for Art is collaborating with Twiggs Gallery to feature an exhibition of art bra pieces that are thought-provoking and visually challenging. Each piece is guaranteed to feature a bra, corset or bustier as their canvas and will address such

themes as feminist history, heroines, role models among others.

On view March 30 through May 5. Twiggs Gallery , 254 King St., Boscawen. Visit twiggsgallery. wordpress.com.

• JOHN BAUMANN Artist of the month exhibits. During April.

Seacoast Artists Association, 130 Water St., Exeter. Visit seacoastartist.org.

• “UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL” Theme show of the month.

During April. Seacoast Artists Association, 130 Water St., Exeter. Visit seacoastartist.org.

• COMMUNITY ARTS EXHIBIT The exhibit will feature a variety of area artists in a range of 2D and 3D mediums and styles. On view April 12 through April 21. Exeter Town Hall Gallery, 10 Front St., Exeter. Visit

seacoastartist.org.

• VICKIE ELLEN WOLPER Wolper teaches complex computer graphic programs using an easy-to-follow building-block teaching style and owns and operates a successful photograph restoration business in Manchester. On view through April.

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

• “BEYOND FIRST GLANCE” Two members of the New Hampshire Art Association are featured. The exhibition reflects each artist’s personal view and love of landscapes. Chris Reid, a pastel artist, is known for intense colors, masterful use of light and powerful abstract elements in her landscapes and still life paint-

VISUAL POETRY Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center (30 Ash St., Hollis) presents “The Poetic Moment: Land, Sea & Sky,” a solo exhibition by Hollis artist Christopher Volpe, now through May 18. The exhibition features oil paintings, including large and small landscapes, seascapes and nature-inspired abstract pieces, as well as a number of monochromatic tar paintings from Volpe’s Moby Dick-inspired series, “Loomings.”

Volpe studied poetry at the University of New Hampshire and says his art and process is inspired by poetry.

“The way I approach painting is that it’s like a container for experience, much the way a poem is a cage for ideas,” he told the Hippo in March. “I see landscapes and the natural world as a mirror for the internal states of who we are as people and what our inner worlds feel like, so I’m less concerned about making [the painting] look like a place than I am with using it as a metaphor for experience.” Visit wildsalamander.com or christophervolpe.com. To read the full story about Volpe and the exhibition, visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the March 21 issue pdf and look for the story on p. 22. ings. She is a juried associate of the Pastel Society of America and a member of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire. Her work is also exhibited at The Stan Fry Gallery in Peterborough and the Shaker Style in Chesham. Dan Soucy is a self-taught landscape photographer with more than 20 years of experience. His work features landscapes throughout New England and the Southwest.

He works with software programs to develop and print the photographs, then puts them in frames he makes himself from old barn

boards, old windows and other materials. Through June 20. 2 Pillsbury St. , Concord. Visit nhartassociation.org.

Classical Music Events • “POP! GO THE CLASSICS” Showcases celebrated concert pianist and arranger Mac Frampton, accompanied by the ThreePenny Symphony, bringing to the stage fresh and original interpretations of revered classical works. Tues., April 23. Nashua High School North, 8 Titan Way, Nashua. $25.

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Stonyfield Farms and Millennium Running host 5K race and fair

baby cow; and Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs will bring chickens.

“The animals are always a hit,” Burger said. “The kids love that.”

The fair will also feature live music, a beer tent, face painting and games like cornhole, cup stack, cow toss and more. Kids can make their own pollinator seed plantings in Stonyfield yogurt cups to take home.

Attendees not participating in the races can still get some exercise at the event; in addition to the races, Millennium Running is organizing a 1.5-mile self-led nature hike in the wooded areas around the soccer fields, which is open to all.

By Angie Sykeny

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The Stonyfield Earth Day 5K and Fair returns Saturday, April 20, to a new location at the Londonderry West Soccer Fields, and with a new partnership between Stonyfield Farm and Millennium Running. Now in its ninth year, the event will feature a 5K race and a kids fun run (sold out), a nature hike and a fair with live music, food, games, vendors and more.

“It started small, as a fun way for [Stonyfield] employees and the community to get together, and it’s grown through the years,” Alison Burger, Stonyfield community marketing manager, said. “Now, the community looks forward to it. It has that fun, neighborhood block party-type feel.”

Although the 5K race and kids fun run are sold out, Burger said there will still be plenty of activities for families at the fair.

“A lot of people come just for the fair,” Burger said. “Even if you don’t walk or run, the fair has all kinds of fun activities for everyone. It’s fun to just come and hang out with others in the community.”

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Clubs Garden • SANDOWN GARDEN CLUB EARTH DAY CELEBRATION There will be a special free planting project for children to plant a flower in a pot and then take home to plant in their own gardens. Sat., April 20, 10 a.m. to noon. Sandown Public Library, 305 Main St., Sandown. Free. Visit sandowngardenclub.org.

• MERRIMACK GARDEN CLUB APRIL PROGRAM Danielle Beaudette from The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline will present a lecture on the basics of demys-

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Stonyfield Earth Day 5K and Fair. Courtesy photo.

Food vendors will include Rustic Crust, GrandyOats, New England Coffee and, of course, Stonyfield Farm, which will be sampling its yogurt. Other exhibitors will include nonprofits and community organizations such as Girls on the Run, New Hampshire Fish & Game, New Hampshire Audubon,

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Burger said the The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will have its animal transport van filled with stuffed animals that kids can “adopt” for a $5 donation; Charmingfare Farm will bring farm animals, including goats, pigs and a

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Crafts Fairs Toastmasters • 2ND ANNUAL SPRING • CONCORD TOASTMAS- CRAFT FAIR The event will TERS OPEN HOUSE The event feature personalized glassware, showcases great public speakers abstract art, baby clothes, rustic and impromptu speaking, along home decor and more. Sat., April with tips about how to organize a 27, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. St. James speech, effectively move an audi- United Methodist Church, 646 ence, and to think on your feet. Daniel Webster Highway, MerriWed., April 24, 6 to 8 p.m. New mack. Contact Samantha Searles England College, 62 N. Main St., at samanthasearles1298@gmail.

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One-time sewing workshops • RED, WHITE & DENIM: UPCYCLING JEANS (PART 1) This class will teach participants how to upcycle a tired old pair of blue jeans into a picnic placemat, wine tote or lunch bag.

Materials required include a sewing machine, thread and two to four pairs of jeans. Sat., April 20, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $38 tuition, plus a $7 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 5958233.

Where: Londonderry West Soccer Fields, 90 West Road, Londonderry When: Saturday, April 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 5K starts at 10 a.m., and kids fun run starts at 11:15 a.m.

Cost: Free admission for the fair.

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Dance Special folk dances • CONTRA DANCE Featuring caller Tony Parkes with music provided by the Dead Sea Squirrels. All dances taught. Beginners, singles and families are welcome. Sat., April 20, 8 to 11 p.m. Boscawen Town Hall, 12 High St., Boscawen. $9 for adults, $5 for ages 15 to 25 and free for ages 14 and under. Visit concordnhcontra.wordpress.com or call 225-4917.

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And if you’re still looking to get some Easter egg hunting, Easter Bunny-meeting fun in, check out our listing of holiday happenings in last week’s (April 11) issue on page 21. Events on Saturday, April 20, include Charmingfare Farm’s Egg-Citing Egg Hunt, Kimball Jenkins’ Eggstravaganza in Concord and Milford’s town egg hunt.

Teens’ night out

Musically inclined teens (and their “Beauty School Dropout”-singing parents) might want to kick off weekend fun early with a screening of 1978’s Grease starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta (and Stockard Channing!) on Thursday, April 18, at 8 p.m. at Cinemagic in Merrimack (11 Executive Park Drive; cinemagicmovies.com, 423-0240). Tickets cost $8.75.

The great outdoors

The NH Audubon Massabesic Center (26 Audubon Way in Auburn; nhaudubon.org, 668-2045) will hold a full moon hike on Friday, April 19, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The cost is $15 per person or $40 for families. The evening will feature a hike from the center to Battery Point as well as a campfire, hot cocoa, marshmallows and moon- and star-gazing, according to the website. Call or go online to register in advance, which is required.

Or if daytime is more your speed, head to the Massabesic Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, for the Family Bird Walk. Learn how to use binoculars and some basics of bird identification, and set out to see which feathered friends (including some early migratory birds who have returned) may be in the area, according to the website. Registration (which is required in advance) costs $12 per person or $25 for families.

It’s Youth Fishing Day at Merrill Park (27 Eastman St. in Concord) on Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kids

under 16 years old can fish in a stocked trout pond (tackle and bait are provided or you can bring your own). The event is free and will feature fly-casting and fly tying demonstrations, and refreshments will be available. For more on why this season is a good season to get kids into fishing, check out last week’s story by Jeff Mucciarone.

Go to hippopress.com and click on “Read the Entire Paper: See Our Flip Book on Issuu,” where you’ll find complete issues that can be read on any device. The story starts on page 12 of the April 11 issue.

Island Pond Baptist Church (16 N. Salem Road in Hampstead; islandpondbc. com/spring) will hold a kids’ spring festival on Saturday, April 20, from 1 to 3 p.m. featuring games, candy, a bounce house, food trucks and more.

Game time

In addition to the Manchester Monarchs playoffs (see item on page 16 or go to manchestermonarchs.com), sports fans can find some baseball this weekend. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats will face off against the Hartford Yard Goats on Thursday, April 18 (at 6:35 p.m.); Friday, April 19 (6:35 p.m.), and Saturday, April 20 (6:35 p.m.). Friday and Saturday games will feature post-game fireworks. Looking for some mid-week fun? The Fisher Cats will face the Trenton Thunder on Monday, April 22, and Tuesday, April 23, games start at 6:35 p.m. both days. Monday’s game will celebrate Earth Day and Tuesday’s game is billed as “Reverse Night.”

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The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord; starhop.com) is open every day through Sunday, April 28 (except for Sunday, April 21, when the center is closed for Easter) from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission costs $11.50 for adults, $8.50 for children ages 3 to 12, $10.50 for seniors and students and $8.50 for people in groups of 15 or more (children 2 and under get in free). Planetarium show tickets cost an additional $5 per person; children 2 and under are free.

The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St. in Manchester; currier.org, 669-6144) will hold a storytime in the galleries on

Monday, April 22, at noon, featuring We the Kids by David Catrow and a craft. On Wednesday, April 24, the creative studio will feature “icon melty art” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the website.

On Thursday, April 25, the museum will hold “drawing in the galleries” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. That night from 5 to 8 p.m. it’s “Free Night at the Currier: A Family Affair” with art activities, games, raffles, a children’s performer and more, according to the website. On Friday, April 26, it’s “Invention Convention” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The museum is featuring special vacation week pricing from Monday, April 22, through Friday, April 26, when admission is free for anyone under age 17 and $5 for adults. The museum is open Sunday (closed for Easter) and Monday and Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St. in Dover; childrens-museum.org, 742-2002) is holding an Earth Day celebration on Monday, April 22, with crafts, activities and giveaway bags while supplies last, according to the website. The events are part of admission to the museum, which costs $10 per person for everyone over 1 year old ($9 for seniors age 65+). The museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (plus the special Earth Day Monday) and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. (closed for Easter).

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.

The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road in Londonderry; nhahs.org, 669-4820) is opening an extra day for spring vacation — Thursday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in addition to its 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 children under 12, with a $15 maximum per family.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE GARDENING GUY

Early spring chores What you can and cannot do right now

By Henry Homeyer

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With sunny warm days upon us, we all want to start gardening — but beware. If you leave footprints in the soil, or feel it go squish, it’s not time to be doing anything. Plants get their oxygen from their roots, not their leaves. If you compact the soil, you can seriously harm your plants by damaging soil texture and tilth.

Even your lawn is susceptible to compaction. If you must go across it, don’t hurry across it and keep your feet flat, to maximize the surface area of your shoes.

And don’t follow the same path each time you cross the lawn. Game trails in the forest can be created by animals as small as house cats if they follow the same path each time they go visit the neighbors.

Compaction kills plants.

Raking the lawn seems like a good activity now, but again, depending on where you live, your lawn might not be ready for you. Wait until the lawn has “greened up.” If you rake a dormant lawn vigorously, it is easy to pull up plants, roots and all.

The plow guys dump a lot of sand and gravel on my lawn. I can clean it up now because I can stand in the road and rake it toward me without compacting the soil.

I like to use a lawn rake with bamboo or plastic tines for that job, to be gentler on the lawn. Metal lawn rakes are great, but not at this time of year.

If your lawn feels fairly dry and you don’t leave footprints, perhaps you can get to your flower beds to do a little spring cleanup. I don’t generally rake leaves out of my flower beds in the fall, as I like the extra protection against erosion and cold temperatures they provide. But

that means that bulb plants are covered now, and the ground is insulated from the spring sun. I want the soil to warm up.

So I try to clean up places where I know there are spring bulbs as early as possible. If the daffodils are poking through, I use my fingers to pull back the leaves.

I fear that a rake will damage the tender stems and flower buds. In other places where bulbs are not up yet, I use a rake and gently rake off the leaves. Sometimes I will bring along a scrap of plywood or a 6-inch plank to stand on as I work, minimizing compaction.

What else can you do? I’ve been cutting branches from early spring-blooming shrubs. This is one of my favorite spring tasks. I’ve had forsythia blooming in the house for over a week now. As an early bloomer, it doesn’t take long in a vase to get blossoms. Select stems that have fat buds and put them in a sunny window until they open. Then move them to a cooler place to prolong the show.

Another spring favorite of mine is called February Daphne. I suppose it blooms somewhere in February — Virginia, perhaps. Here it generally blooms for me in late April, but in 2012 it bloomed in late March. The blossoms are bright pink-magenta, and are fragrant. I like it so much that I named my corgi after this shrub.

I’ve had my February Daphne for 15 years or more and it is still a nice compact shrub about 4 feet tall and wide. It is originally from Japan, and I watched it closely when I first got it, as I was worried it might be invasive. I had seen it growing wild on the roadside, so worried it might take over the understory. Nope.

I have never seen a single offspring elsewhere on my land.

Daphne is not blooming outdoors yet this year. Photo by Henry Homeyer.

Forsythia forces easily indoors now. Photo by Henry Homeyer.

Pussy willows are opening in the swamps, and I shall go out with my “cutand-hold” pole pruner to get some soon.

This pruner cuts through a stem, and grabs it at the same time. That is particularly nice when gathering branches in a swamp. The one I have is made by the Wildflower Seed and Tool Co. of Napa Valley. It is telescoping and has a pistol grip that I can work with one hand, while directing the pole with the other.

If you don’t have any pussy willows, you should, especially if you have an area that stays wet or damp most of the year.

They are very easy to propagate, particularly in the spring before they leaf out.

Just cut 12-inch-long stems and push most of each stem into the soil. It will send out roots in the ground and leaves above ground.

If the pussy willows you cut are for display in a vase, you don’t need to add water to the vase. They will stay “frozen in time” seemingly forever. If they hav-

en’t fully opened, put them in water until they are cute and fuzzy, then drain the water.

I recently picked a stem of hobblebush, a native viburnum, and put it in a vase, where it is blooming beautifully. All viburnums would probably force well.

Lilacs are early, but I’ve never found them as dramatic when forced as when I let them develop on the bush.

Last spring chore? Clean out your garden shed or barn. Throw away garden gloves with holes in them. Get some steel wool and light sewing machine oil or WD-40, and get the rust off your tools.

Sharpen shovels and pruners. Summer will be along soon enough. Enjoy the spring before the bugs come along.

Henry can be reached at henry.homeyer@comcast.net or P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746. Please include a SASE if asking for a reply by mail.

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Dear Donna, We have a collection of 15 of these seltzer bottles and have been wondering what the value of them are these days? Is it a good time for selling them or should we hang on to them? Any information you can give us is appreciated.

David and Sarah from Salem Dear David and Sarah, I bet that collection looks nice on display.

These bottles have been around since the late 1700s for clean carbonated water. Bottles can be plain and just have an acid etching on them with the name of the producer and the water’s flavor.

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There are some that are made of colored glass as well. Common colors are clear, turquoise, green and cobalt blue. Then they have a few that are very collectible and bring a higher value.

No matter what you have for a color assortment, the bottles are a nice piece of history. They still seem to bring in approximately $50 each for common ones and higher for rare colored glass ones. So you have yourselves a nice collection if all are in good condition with no damage to the glass.

Here’s a tip: If you want to make the etching stand out again after years of fading on the glass, use a tiny bit of white shoe polish and rub over the etch-

ing softly and it will restore the etching.

Thanks so much for sharing this nice collection. I hope you hold on to it.

Donna Welch has spent more than 30 years in the antiques and collectibles field, appraising and instructing, and recently closed the physical location of From Out Of The Woods Antique Center (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com) but is still doing some buying and selling. She is a member of The New Hampshire Antiques Dealer Association. If you have questions about an antique or collectible send a clear photo and information to Donna at footwdw@ aol.com, or call her at 391-6550 or 6248668.

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Putting diesel fuel in a gas engine is a nonstarter Dear Car Talk: What happens if you put 5 gallons of diesel fuel in a gasoline engine’s fuel tank, but you don’t try to start the vehicle? — Anthony

most of the remaining diesel. He might even rinse it with fresh gas more than once.

If there’s no drain on your gas tank, your mechanic will have to remove the gas tank and empty it for you. We call that “dropping the tank,” even though we don’t actually drop it. Well, once in a while we drop it. Anyway, once he dumps out the existing fuel, your mechanic will do the same thing with some fresh gasoline, swishing it around in there to help remove whatever diesel remains. That should get rid of 99.98% of that diesel fuel.

Once you’ve drained and cleaned the fuel tank, there’s nothing else you really need to do. Since you never started the car, don’t get talked into replacing any fuel lines, filters, converters, seals or injectors. It won’t be necessary.

Even if you have a little bit of diesel residue in the tank — the stuff that’s still clinging to the walls — when mixed with enough gasoline, it should just get burned up in the cylinders and go out the tailpipe. By residue, I mean ounces, not pints or gallons.

I’d warn you to be careful to not do this again, but I’m sure that after you have to spend a couple of hundred bucks

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Let me guess, Anthony. Asking for a friend?

If you haven’t tried to start the car, you haven’t done any serious damage yet. Once you start the car, the fuel pump sends that diesel fuel into the fuel lines and through the injectors. And that makes a pretty good mess. But if all the diesel fuel is still in the tank, this is not going to require a home equity loan to fix.

The first step is to have the car towed to your mechanic. Obviously, you don’t want to drive it to him. He’ll drain your gas tank. Some cars actually have removable drains on their gas tanks.

If yours is one of those, you’re in fat city. He’ll just open the drain over an approved container and let the entire contents of the fuel tank come out.

Then close it up, add some fresh gasoline, and drain that mixture to get out

removing the tank, you won’t need any further reminders. Good luck, Anthony.

Dear Car Talk: Is it OK to raise up my windshield wipers in the winter? I see people doing that sometimes, to prevent the wipers from freezing to the windshield. Will it weaken the springs over time? — Fred This is a trick that people use in the Great Frozen North, Fred.

When there’s a snow, sleet or ice storm coming, some people will raise their wiper arms away from the windshield the night before. That way, if the windshield ices up, the blades will be out of the way, making it easier to get to the windshield with your pick axe the next morning.

It also saves you the trouble of having to separate the iced-over wiper blades from the frozen windshield.

I suppose it’s one of those small pleasures we Northerners take. “Hey, I may have to dig my car out of 4 feet of wet snow and chip ice off my windshield an eighth of a centimeter at a time until I can’t feel my fingers, but at least I don’t have to clean my windshield wipers!”

Most people do this a handful of times

per winter. And that’s not going to harm the springs, which are pretty robust. If you’re doing this every night, Fred, then forget about your wiper springs, relocate to Honolulu.

Those springs are responsible for keeping the wipers pushed up against the windshield, so they’re being worked all the time anyway. And if, for some reason, the springs on your wiper arms do weaken over time, and you get chattering or poor wiper to windshield contact, you can always replace the arms. On the average car, replacements will cost you 25 or 30 bucks a piece. So it’s not a big deal.

There are also other ways to reduce the amount of work you have to do on snowy mornings. There’s the heated garage, of course. But if you don’t have one of those, you can put a tarp over the windshield, and just pull it (and the snow covering it) off before you drive away. Or get one big enough to cover the roof and hang down over all your windows.

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with Jacqueline soon after that. … Apart from the sort of informal lessons I took as a kid, there wasn’t much musical training involved, but I studied theatre in college, and that training actually comes in handy on a daily basis.

ing people, I’m sure in that case it is probably [true that] you could spend more of your time on the music and the performance, but when you are an independent musician and you are handling all that off-stage stuff yourself, 80 Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki. Photo by or 90 percent of my work energy How did you find current job? Nathen Ekis Photography. is spent on administrative things It just sort of happened. I don’t remember there that are vital to a successful career but which realbeing a specific point when I decided to become ly have nothing to do with music. a full-time musician for the rest of my life. People started offering me more and more work in What is your typical at work uniform? this field and I was enjoying it and wanted to see If I’m booking, I might be in my sweatpants As the leader of the Jordan TW Trio, Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki is a fiddle player and singer where it would go. So I started taking more and on my computer in my living room. On stage it is who tours the region with his bandmates performing traditional Celtic music. His work more work. … Gradually, it just got to the point generally some combination of flannel shirt and can be heard nightly as the new theme music of WMUR’s New Hampshire Chronicle. where I didn’t have to be doing anything else. jeans and a cap. The cap is very important!

CAREERS

Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Fiddler

Can you explain your job?

Primarily, I’m a performer. I’m an entertainer. I also compose music.

What I am trying to do these days is keep the traditional Celtic music alive and relevant for modern audiences … These days I am performing approximately 200 shows a year with a variety of different bands and solo artists, but primarily with my own group, the Jordan TW Trio. .... I [also] do a fair amount of studio work.

If someone is making a CD, I’m often the one called in to play the fiddle. ... And I teach [private lessons] part time.

more focus on this and eventually my other jobs What is the best piece of work-related advice became less and less of what I was doing. anyone has ever given you ?

A musician I really look up to and respect How did you get interested in this field? once told me to remember how lucky we are to I think I was 8 when I fell in love with fid- be doing this for a living. There are so many taldle music. I can’t say exactly what it was that ented musicians who want to be playing music drew me into it, initially — [it] just seemed like for a living and aren’t able to. We should always an interesting and warm, exciting community that remember to be grateful that we are among the was all built around this love of this old music. few who actually get to call this our job.

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

There were two fiddlers, Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman, [who] came to my school when I How long have you [done this]? was in first grade and played some music and had My first paid gig was when I was like 9 or 10. us do an old-time barn dance. I just thought it was ... Shortly after college I started to put more and the coolest thing ever, so I started taking lessons

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

I think that one of the things I had no idea of was how little time was going to be spent on the music itself. If you are a hugely famous musician with a team of managers, promoters and book-

What was the first job you ever had?

I distinctly remember [at age 8] after playing for a few months, my teacher brought me out to a maple sugaring-off party at a sugar house.

I played some tunes. I remember they gave me a maple milkshake on the house. As it was handed to me, my teacher said, “Remember this day — this is the first payment you’ve received for playing music.” — Lisa Redmond This interview has been edited and condensed.

What are you into right now?

I had a blast sitting at home with my daughter [age 3] and my partner, just hanging out with our trees and boiling sap to make maple syrup.

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• Last winter market: The Winter Farmers Market at Cole Gardens (430 Loudon Road, Concord) is holding its last market of the season on Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

An Easter-themed market, it will have a variety of locally grown and raised meats, fruits, vegetables and more, plus live music and children’s activities. Farms, bakeries and small companies specializing in gourmet foods all participate. Visit colegardens.com or call 229-0655 for a full list of this week’s market vendors.

• No Easter brunch at Stonebridge: Due to a lack of staffing, Stonebridge Country Club (161 Gorham Pond Road, Goffstown) will not be holding its previously scheduled Easter brunch on Sunday, April 21, the club confirmed. You can view a full list of other restaurants and country clubs offering Easter brunch buffets, dinners and menu specials by downloading the April 11 edition of The Hippo. The listings start on page 28.

• Easter weekend at Assumption church: Join Assumption Greek Orthodox Church (111 Island Pond Road, Manchester) for an Easter bake sale sponsored by its Ladies Philoptochos Society, which is happening on Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A variety of baked goods will be available for sale, like spinach pita, Easter bread, koulourakia (Greek cookies) and baklava. Then on Sunday, April 21, at noon, the church will hold its annual Palm Sunday fish dinner. Admission is $15 for adults and $7 for children. Visit assumptionnh.org or call the church office at 623-2045.

• Lithuanian crepes: The Rodgers Memorial Library (194 Derry Road, Hudson) will hold its next Lithuanian cooking demonstration on Saturday, April 20, at 11 a.m., featuring Chef Oonagh Williams, an award-winning local television chef and cooking instructor who regularly appears on WMUR’s Cook’s Corner and specializes in gluten-free recipes. Williams will be preparing sweet crepes with fruit and cheese fillings, and savory crepes with meat fillings.

Attendees will also get a chance to try their hand at crepe-making themselves. Admission is free, but registration is requested so that Williams knows how much food to prepare. Visit rodgerslibrary.org or call 886-6030.

• Gin tasting: Join the Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way) for a gin cocktail tasting on Wednesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in the Corks Wine Bar on the second floor. The 21+-only event will feature five samples of cocktails, each made with a different specialty gin. Featured gins will include Bimini (handcrafted with grapefruit zest, hops and coriander seed); No. 3 London Dry (made with orange peel, grapefruit, corian- 32 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

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NH Veg Fest. Courtesy photo.

NH Veg Fest. Courtesy photo.

By Matt Ingersoll

mingersoll@hippopress.com

Plant-based diets and vegan products are at the heart of NH Veg Fest, returning to Manchester on Saturday, April 20. Now in its seventh year, the event features dozens of local and regional vegan food vendors selling and providing free samples of vegan products, plus lectures and demonstrations related to veganism.

“It’s an event we started … to not only support vegans, but for people who may just be vegan-curious or have questions about a plant-based lifestyle,” said Veg Fest coordinator Kathy DesRoches, who founded the event in 2013 with Norma Koski of Susty’s Cafe in Northwood.

This year’s festival will feature the most vendors of any in the event’s history — so many that the vendor space sold out for the very first time, according to DesRoches. A majority of them come from New Hampshire and neighboring states like Maine and Massachusetts, but some come from Connecticut, New Jersey and even Canada to attend the festival.

Vendors will include Heiwa Tofu, a family-owned company out of Rockport, Maine, that sells homemade tofu; Devon’s Edibles, a vegan baker based in Belmont that makes its products with CBD oil; Nuttin Ordi-

Food & Drink Author events/lectures • MARY ANN ESPOSITO Esposito will be signing copies of her newest book, Ciao Italia: My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy. Wed., May 1, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit ciaoitalia. com.

nary out of Peterborough, which produces plant-based cashew cheeses; Andy’s Edible Gardens of Eliot, Maine, a producer of specialty herbs, microgreens and edible flowers; and Chrissy’s Crumble of Watertown, Mass., which makes gluten-free and dairy-free products like cookies, energy bites, scones and savory crackers.

Outside, there will also be several food trucks, like The Smoothie Bus of Manchester; Falafel Mafia of Portland, Maine; and Like No Udder, a vegan ice cream truck from Providence, Rhode Island.

Non-food vendors will include producers of vegan soaps or jewelry, as well as a few nonprofits and animal rights groups.

“The interesting thing is that we don’t have any huge corporate sponsors or big companies contributing,” DesRoches said. “These are all small businesses or nonprofits.”

Veg Fest will feature free lectures throughout the day in several classrooms of the college from both local and nationally known speakers, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Topics will include the benefits of living a plant-based diet, how to become vegan and more, with lectures given by doctors, dietitians, vegan food bloggers and farmers.

“There will be a lot of discussions about how veganism affects your health, how to navigate ordering at restaurants as a vegan, and general misconceptions about vegan-

Beer & wine making classes • S’MORES STOUT SPLIT-A-BATCH BREWING EVENT The S’mores stout is brewed with graham crackers, chocolate, marshmallow and smoked malt.

No brewing experience is necessary. Fri., April 26, 6 p.m. Incredibrew, 112 Daniel

Webster Highway, Nashua. $30 for returning brewers (bring your own bottles) and $40 for new brewers (bottles provided). Visit incredibrew. com or call 891-2477.

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ism,” DesRoches said. “For example, people out there might think you’re limited to just soy or tofu, or you can only eat salads. So these lectures are there to help expand people’s knowledge of all the different kinds of things you can eat.”

Other festival happenings will include hour-long drum circle workshops at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; a raffle with products donated by the vendors; and a book swap in which people are encouraged to bring vegan or vegetarian cookbooks.

DesRoches said Veg Fest is most importantly about creating a friendly environment among all who attend.

“Being vegan … can feel isolating for some people, and a lot of times they don’t know what’s out there and are left to maneuver a large landscape,” she said, “so this gives them an opportunity to meet a larger community of people.”

NH Veg Fest When: Saturday, April 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Manchester Community College, 1066 Front St., Manchester Cost: Free admission, parking and attendance to lectures. Foods and other products will be priced per item.

Visit: nhvegfest.com

The event will celebrate the rebirth and rejuvenation of spring. Upon arrival, guests will be given a vine cutting and a blank card on which they can write something they wish to leave behind, or a positive affirmation for the spring and summer seasons.

Guests will then be invited to throw their cutting and

card into the bonfire. On the evening of the event, The Bistro will offer fire-inspired specials along with its new spring menu. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase by the bonfire. Fri., April 26, 6 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst.

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A new eatery coming to Londonderry will offer a healthy alternative to breakfast and lunch in a quick-service environment, with completely customizable options for its menu items, which will include smoothies and fresh-pressed juices, grain bowls, grilled wraps, tostillas and breakfast scrambles.

Troy’s Fresh Kitchen & Juice Bar is opening soon in the town’s Apple Tree Mall shopping plaza, and Londonderry native Troy Ward Jr. has big plans for the space. He and his father, Troy Ward Sr., have been experimenting with recipes to create a menu using fresh, all-natural ingredients. In fact, Troy’s Fresh Kitchen & Juice Bar will be 100 percent dairy-free, he said, and with the exception of the cagefree eggs they will use for the breakfast scrambles and some of the bowls, almost every single item is plant-based.

“I’ve been living in Londonderry since I was 8 years old, and I have a hard time finding something I want to grab that’s really healthy and fast and not too expensive,” Ward said. “What’s cool too about having my dad as my business partner is that he taught me how to cook. That’s how we bonded when I was little.”

The grain bowls are among some of the food options Ward said he is most excited about serving. He’ll have quinoa and brown rice, plus a lower-carb cauliflower rice, as options for the base. Then you can customize your bowl by choosing a homemade sauce, a protein like eggs or grilled tofu, and up to four vegetables. Breakfast options will include scrambled eggs, a mix

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of vegetables and spices, and crispy hash browns, which you could also order as a wrap. There will also be burrito paninis, as well as variations of an avocado toast, like a recipe topped with eggs.

The juice bar side of the business will feature coffees and teas; cold-pressed juices using a mix of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables; homemade smoothies, like a blueberry pancake smoothie with oats and New Hampshire maple syrup; and six different smoothie bowl recipes, including the açaí bowls.

Ward said he hopes the eatery will be a welcome destination for breakfast and lunch due to its high traffic area and easy access from the main road. Online ordering and deliveries are also expected to be implemented soon after business begins.

“The biggest things I want to do to make us stand apart are … serving foods that will give you the most nutrition but also the most bang for your buck,” he said. “We want to create a place where you can enjoy eating there and not feel guilty about it, so whether it’s gluten-free, low-carb, vegan, vegetarian or whatever people’s dietary goals are, we want to accommodate everyone.”

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Nipaporn Holman and her husband Desmond of Chester are the owners of Daw Kun Thai (2626 Brown Ave., Manchester, 232-0699, dawkunthai.com), an authentic Thai restaurant that opened its doors in May 2017.

Named after the national flower of Thailand, Daw Kun features a menu of appetizers, like Thai-style crab rangoons, spring egg rolls with shrimp and deep fried tofu with ground peanuts and a sweet sauce; more than a Photo by Matt Ingersoll. dozen lunch options like curries, vegetable dishes, fried rice and noodle plates, with beef, chicken or pork; and house specials, like choo chee salmon, with coconut milk, lime leaf, fresh chili sauce and jasmine rice, and Daw Kun spicy ribs, which are served in a spicy curry sauce with black pepper, steamed veggies and rice. Holman came to the United States from northeastern Thailand about 10 years ago and worked as a cook at Thai Chili in Salem prior to opening Daw Kun.

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What is your favorite thing on your The most important thing I need is the wok. menu?

When I [created] the menu, I picked everyWhat would you have for your last meal? thing that I like. So I don’t have a favorite. It The num tok is wonderful. It is a spicy depends on how I feel every day. beef dish. [It has] a lot of flavor, like sour, spicy and salty all together.

What is the biggest food trend in New Hampshire right now?

Thai food … is one of the fastest-growing What is your favorite local restaurant?

We like the sushi at Masa [Sushi & Hiba- industries as far as restaurants. chi Grill in Manchester].

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

Nothing. We don’t cook at home. If we are ing in your restaurant?

Mark DellaGrotte. He’s a UFC trainer. at home, we have a salad or take-out.

— Matt Ingersoll He lived in Thailand for eight years and he speaks the language fluently.

Salmon salad Courtesy of Nipaporn Holman of Daw Kun Thai in Manchester (quantities are dependent on preference) 1 bag summer salad mix Sauteed salmon Thai dressing ingredients 1 fresh chili pepper (or 2 if more spice is desired) Fresh ginger Fresh garlic Thai basil Lime juice

Palm sugar Crushed roasted peanuts Salt Melt the palm sugar in a pot of boiling water, then add to remaining dressing ingredients, mixing to taste. Add the sauce to the vegetable mix and salmon (can be switched out for another protein such as chicken, beef or pork).

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The new Fabrizia Italian Style Lemonade is a premium hand-crafted drink made with freshly squeezed lemonade, Fabrizia’s limoncello and vodka. It’s the second canned cocktail to be produced by the company, on the heels of the success of the Italian margarita, which was introduced last year. Like its predecessor, the new lemonade is a cocktail made with Sicilian lemons, Fabrizia Spirits co-owner and founder Phil Mastroianni said in the press release. The cocktail is available for purchase in retail locations across New Hampshire.

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BAKING 101 Easy cinnamon rolls It was my husband’s birthday recently and our children were incredulous that he had to go to work. “You have to work on your birthday?!” Sadly, as adults, life doesn’t stop for our birthdays. This feels even truer now that we have kids. I realized that my husband would be solo parenting most of the day because I had a yoga class to teach in the morning and an important meeting I couldn’t miss in the evening. So, I set out to make his day a little bit brighter by making him a sweet treat for his birthday morning. I know how much he likes cinnamon rolls and sticky buns so I decided to bake some from scratch.

The only problem was that I decided to do this at around 3 p.m. the day before his birthday with all three of my small children around. Eek. The labor-intensive sticky buns my sister-in-law makes at Christmas with potato dough were out; I didn’t have any potatoes and I didn’t want a two-part process. Traditional cinnamon rolls were out because I didn’t have time to proof and proof and proof — I needed something easier and faster. Thank God for the internet!

I found a recipe for “Easy Cinnamon Rolls” and got started. Things were going along really well until I ran out of baking powder. What would Mary Berry do? I went back online to find some solutions. Could I just use baking soda instead? How are they different?

Baking soda is a base and is much stronger

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Cinnamon Rolls. Photo by Allison Willson Dudas.

than baking powder. They are both leaveners but baking powder actually contains two ingredients that will react together on their own. Baking soda is just the base side of the reaction. Baking powder actually contains baking soda but also contains an acid, cream of tartar. So, if you’re out of baking powder, fear not! Just add some baking soda (not a ton, as it has 3 to 4 times the potency, according to Bon Appétit magazine). I didn’t have cream of tartar but I did have plain yogurt, which apparently works just fine in its place. Use one part baking soda to two parts acid (yogurt, in my case) to sub. It’s absolutely not exact and I would only do it if you’re completely stuck. I was and the cinnamon rolls still turned out great. Phew.

— Allison Willson Dudas

Filling 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting (optional) 1 cup confectioners sugar 4 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup butter, softened 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In one bowl, combine milk and egg. In another bowl,

Easy Vegetarian Spaghetti and “Meatballs” Serves: 7 Ingredients: 2 cups canned Hannaford Low Sodium Garbanzo Beans, drained and liquid reserved 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1/2 cup 4c® 100% Whole Wheat Seasoned Bread Crumbs 1 tsp. Hannaford Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 tsp. McCormick® Garlic Powder 2 tsp. McCormick® Onion Powder 2 tsp. McCormick® Perfect Pinch® Italian Seasoning 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper 13.25 oz. box Hannaford Whole Wheat Spaghetti 24 oz. jar Classico® Riserva Marinara Sauce 1/2 cup Cabot® Shredded Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese

Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 450°F.

Easy Cinnamon Rolls Courtesy of allrecipes.com Dough 2 cups all-purpose flour (you may need a little more) 2 tablespoons white sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder (hopefully you have this; if not, use my substitute and hope for the best!)

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2. Blend drained chickpeas in a blender until broken down. Pour mixture into a large bowl.

whisk flour, 2 tablespoons white sugar, baking powder and salt. Using your hands, combine the 3 tablespoons softened butter.

Combine both together and mix with a rubber spatula. A very sticky dough will emerge — I added about 2 tablespoons more flour to make it workable.

Roll dough into a big rectangle, about ¼ inch thick (but I think mine was thicker and it was fine).

In another bowl, combine cinnamon, brown sugar and ½ cup white sugar. Sprinkle this mixture onto bottom of 8x8 glass baking dish. Brush surface of rectangular dough with 2 tablespoons melted butter and then sprinkle on the remaining sugar mixture. Roll up into a nice long log and then slice into about 12 2-inch sections. Arrange sections in pan, snuggled up nice and night.

Bake for about 20 minutes.

While rolls are baking, make the frosting by beating together confectioner’s sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Can you skip the frosting? Sure. Should you? No way. Once the rolls are down, lather the frosting right onto them so it’s deliciously melty. Enjoy!

3. Add eggs, bread crumbs, olive oil, spices and herbs to chickpeas, and stir until well combined. If mixture is too sticky, add additional breadcrumbs one teaspoon at a time. If mixture appears too dry, add chickpea liquid one teaspoon at a time.

Mixture should be easy to roll into balls without sticking to your hands.

4. With your hands, form chickpea mixture into 1 1/2-inch round balls, and place onto a parchment-lined baking dish.

5. Bake meatballs for 20 to 25 minutes, turning over halfway through.

6. While meatballs are baking, pour jar of marinara sauce into a small sauce pan.

Heat on low until warmed through.

7. Cook spaghetti according to package directions.

8. To serve, top spaghetti with meatballs, a spoonful of sauce and a sprinkle of shredded mozzarella cheese. Enjoy.

Dietitian’s Tip: Try substituting whole wheat spaghetti for spaghetti squash or zucchini noodles to pack more vegetables and less carbohydrates into your meal.

Nutritional Information Amount per serving: Calories 390; Total Fat 10 g; Saturated Fat 2.5 g; Cholesterol 55 mg; Sodium 600 mg; Carbohydrate 61 g; Fiber 12 g; Protein 17 g; Sugar 5 g Recipe adapted from karissasvegankitchen.com Thank you to our sponsors for partnering with Hannaford to offer free dietitian services. Our dietitians communicate their own nutrition expertise, views and advice, using carefully selected products in recipes and demonstrations to share information on healthful eating 124015

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Spring is here — the calendar says so! We all know spring is late in coming to New England, but there are signs of spring. The days are getting longer. Robins have been sighted. A little snowdrop has just popped its white Photos by Fred Matuszewski. bloom through the wet ground of the garden. The Tom turkeys, with ruffled mates of the Mediterranean. Ross Andrew feathers, look like they are strutting muscle The Huntsman Cabernet Sauvignon, origibeach trying to attract the hens. And it’s time nally priced at $19.99 and reduced to $15.99 for Easter and Passover family gatherings. at the New Hampshire state liquor stores, is a What kind of wines celebrate spring? Spring blend of 96 percent cabernet sauvignon and is a time to barbecue that young lamb, or savor 4 percent petit verdot. The vineyards sourced a baked Easter ham, or celebrate Passover with for this wine are a mix of Washington’s finest a delicious brisket that has been slowly braised AVA’s: Red Mountain, Horse Heaven Hills, and for hours. Spring is a time to turn to rosé wines, the Columbia Valley. Per the website of Ross so let us begin with the rosés. Not all rosés Andrew Winery, Woodinville, Washington, the are created equal! Provence, France, produces petit verdot darkens the cabernet sauvignon among the best rosés. It is the grapes! Excellent “just enough” and adds incredible aromatic rosés are derived from a blend of grenache, cin- subtlety. The wine has a very deep red-blue colsault and syrah grapes. or, good tannin structure, with aromas of black Chateau Beauchêne Le Pavillon, Côtes currant, dark spices and cedar wood, or a little du Rhône 2014 is an excellent place to start. “leather.” This wine will definitely hold up to Originally priced at $13.99, this rosé has been that wonderful barbecued spring lamb. reduced to $8.99 at the New Hampshire state Looking for a kosher wine? Try the Alate liquor stores. It is a blend of 40 percent cinsault, Tempranillo, priced at $16.99 at the New 40 percent grenache, 15 percent mourvèdre, Hampshire state liquor stores. This wine hails and 5 percent syrah. It has a style that is clos- from the Navarre region of Spain. The fierceer to Provence than to the “Rhône” carried on ly independent Kingdom of Navarre is in the its label. It has a pale salmon pink-orange col- northern reaches of Spain; its capital is Pamor, and very delicate red-fruited flavors. It is plona, home to one of Spain’s most famous bright and fresh on the palate and a definitive- and wildest festivals! Even when the bulls ly dry, savory finish. According to the Chateau aren’t thundering down the cobblestone streets, Beauchêne website, this refreshment factor is Navarre is a fascinating place to explore. partly thanks to blocked malolactic conversion Students of history know of a strong Jewto retain acidity, as well as stainless-steel fer- ish culture in Spain under Moorish rule. That mentation at 16 degrees C (60.8 F) to avoid culture was all but obliterated by the Inquilosing any of those precious red-fruit flavors. sition, but independent Navarre still retains This wine compares very favorably to more Jewish cultural roots planted in the 10th cenexpensive rosés! tury. Tempranillo has been called Spain’s Chateau Barbebelle Rosé, originally priced answer to cabernet sauvignon. Its style can at $19.99 and reduced to $17.99 at the New vary significantly depending on terroir and the Hampshire state liquor stores, is a blend of wine-making techniques used. Coming from 50 percent grenache, 30 percent syrah and 20 cooler climates, it can have notes of strawberpercent cinsault. This wine has a powder pink ries and cherries. From warmer climates the color and its nose is full of white peaches and wine tends to take on plumper “jammy” notes, raspberries. On the palate are floral notes of along with chocolate and tobacco. Tempranillo roses, more raspberries, and pear. This is a very is the backbone of the wines of Rioja and has elegant rosé from one of the oldest vineyards spread to Portugal, where it is called tinta roriz. of Aix en Provence. The estate of 300 hectares This wine, with its plum and ripe cherry fruit, (740 acres) cultivates 45 hectares (111 acres) in is a perfect pairing to that slow-braised brisket. vineyards. The current vineyard owners, into Just be sure to pick up enough, as it will quickfour generations of ownership, take advantage ly be exhausted in the four ceremonial cups of of their location and its cool north-northwester- the Seder! ly winds that slow the ripening of the fruit.

Fred Matuszewski is a local architect and A pairing to barbecued lamb is typically a foodie and wine geek, interested in the cula deep red, “chewy” wine from the south of tivation of the multiple strains and varieties of France, or even Tuscany, Italy, but Columbia grapes and the industry of wine production and River Valley, Washington, can produce wines sales. Chief among his travels is an annual trip as full and complex as those of the warm cli- to the wine-producing areas of California.

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A peek into the ground floor of this Seattle band, launched after its leader, Jay Louis, hatted out from New Jersey for greener power-indie-pop pastures. If throwback-grunge is your thing, this debut LP will have you thinking of Nirvana, but what makes it interesting is Louis’ apparent penchant for, well, Oasis, which ends up being quite the smart complement to the low-slung-guitar strumming; at first listen, this stuff comes off like a grunge version of the Beatles, mainly owing to Louis’ bratty nasal-sprayed tenor. They bill themselves as a power-pop unit, which of course automatically makes people think of your Hoobastanks and other sensitive dweebs who can’t get girls, but it’s far from that, even if the classification might entice a few SoundCloud searchers to venture into their web. In the end, it’s a vehicle for Louis’ Cobain-esque songwriting, and could succeed as such. As for knuckleballs, “Skyline” has a swirling groove no one could hate; “I’m Movin’ On” adds some goth keyboards to good effect. A- — Eric W. Saeger

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If you couldn’t guess by her name alone, Tuttle is an Americana singer-instrumentalist, known as much for her Doc Watson-like flatpicking guitar style (wherein the pick is angled in order to “roll” over the strings) as the self-revelatory nature of her lyrics. It’s widely predicted that she’ll be a Big Thing, this after her debut EP led to her being selected as Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards. I’d tell you the same thing, though; from the first few sweet arpeggios of intro track “Million Miles,” I was a believer in this prodigy. Her flatpicking approach creates almost no noise aside from the notes themselves, so there’s no clicking and such to distract from tuneage or message. I suppose if I had to table a RIYL comparison, it’d be Abigail Washburn; in fact Tuttle does use a banjo-picking technique on “Take the Journey,” instantly invoking scenes of back-swamp shacks and all that stuff. Brilliant. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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• April 19 is coming, another awesome Friday of great musical CD releases, from bands, singers and pug dogs that can bark the theme song to Batman! I suppose we should start with Kentucky band Cage the Elephant’s forthcoming fifth album, Social Cues, because they’re sort of popular for some reason. No, I don’t know why; all I know is that I got their first album, reviewed it, and left it in the big stack of rejects my cat is in the habit of knocking over and barfing on (“Who’s my good boy!”). Anyway, whatever, some of you who are too lazy to add similar-but-better bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Foo Fighters to your Spotifies, so you like this band, so we’ll talk about this album, sure.

Here you go, it’s their new single, “Night Running,” which features wombat-rock enthusiast Beck. There’s a hip-hop element on board in the vocal area; in fact for the most part it’ll make you think of Flaming Lips trying to be Backstreet Boys. Wiki tells me they’ve been trying to create their own sound, and I can report that they indeed have — but it’s really not good.

• If you’re old enough to have gotten into the habit of paying careful attention to pharmaceutical ads just so that you won’t die of side effects, you probably know of the O’Jays, whose quote-unquote “final album,” The Last Word, is on its way right this minute! These guys were just a juggernaut back in the ’70s, and they totally deserved it, like if your radio was on and it wasn’t an O’Jays song, you were bummed.

Everything they did was awesome, so I’m expecting to hear some awesomeness from this album, meaning I’m about to be disappointed as I swivel the speakers toward my face and surf over to the dreaded YouTube, looking for a decent single. Ah, here’s a single called “I Got You.” Will it be as awesome as “Love Train” or “Back Stabbers”? Let’s find out and share our disappointment and tears together. Ah, cut it out, they’re still awesome, even if this almost sounds like a bunch of 70-year-olds playing happy, clean vintage disco. Oh wait. (If there’s any luck in the universe, this won’t inspire some Hollywood idiot to make a reboot of The Love Boat with Steve Harvey as Captain Stubing, a notion so horrifying that the earth would crack open with a giant horror-sound.)

• Years ago, I’d considered launching a pop-metal band in which we’d all dress up in black with lots of day-glo neon and call ourselves Pink Bunny Slippers, but today, if I were a millennial trying to escape unpaid internships and gorillions of dollars in student loan debt, I would definitely want to be part of the London-based post-punk band called Fat White Family, because how could it fail? I know that their first album Champagne Holocaust was an amalgam of drone, noise and Spacemen 3, but now that their new album Serfs Up is on (10-hut, salute the flag, music nerds) Domino Records, maybe they got overconfident and decided to suck? Wait, here’s the new single, “Feet!”

Oh for Pete’s sake, this is awesome, like Clinic meets mellow INXS, it destroys, download it now.

• Houston rapper-singer lady Lizzo is awesome, coming at us with plenty of indie hip-hop cred. The title track from Cuz I Love You, her new album, is all hook, a giant brass band dropping the beat while she sing-raps about growing up and whatnot. You’ll freaking love this. — Eric W. Saeger

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“The Art of Storytelling” is the theme of the 31st annual 603: Writers’ Conference, happening Saturday, April 27, at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. The conference, hosted by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and formerly known as Writers’ Day, will feature classes, panels, book signings and networking opportunities for writers.

“In the past, people have walked away [from the conference] feeling loved, nurtured, supported and inspired, and I want them to feel the same way this year,” Masheri Chappelle, chair of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, said. “I want them to feel like they’ve grown and gained insight and wisdom about themselves and their writing.”

Chappelle said the theme “The Art of Storytelling” was inspired by this year’s keynote speaker, Gregory Maguire. Maguire is a New York Times bestselling author and author of titles such as Wicked (1995, on which the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical was based), Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999), After Alice (2015) and Hiddensee (2017). Many of his books are retellings of classic fairytales and folktales.

“He has retold stories and created stories on his own. Who better to talk about storytelling than him?” Chappelle said. “I think people are really going to be inspired by his insight into how we look at and tell stories.”

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will have seven to nine classes from which to choose, taught by published authors and industry professionals and covering a variety of topics. In the three-part “So You Want to Write a Novel” class, beginner writers can learn how to turn an idea into a solid foundation for a novel, how to develop the characters and plot and how to manage pacing and scene structure. Other classes will be focused on different aspects of the craft, such as dialogue, characters and setting; and on different genres and styles of writing, including memoir, middle grade and young adult, picture books, graphic novels, fiction and nonfiction. There will also be industry classes on pitching, publishing, working with an editor and boosting productivity.

Additionally, there will be two panels: one discussing the differences between self, independent and traditional publishing, and one that is an open Q&A, during which

attendees will have a chance to ask the panelists any questions they have about the writing craft and industry.

“We put [in the conference] a series for novice writers so they don’t feel intimidated, master classes for experienced writers, something for all writers,” Chappelle said.

“Whether they’re a novice, intermediate or advanced, everyone can benefit and get something from the day.”

There will be an hour break for lunch in the afternoon and a social hour to close the event, which Chappelle said are good opportunities to “socialize, network and exchange information.”

“The agents and publishers and other writers will be sitting everywhere [with the attendees], not hiding in a special room somewhere,” she said. “Everyone is accessible, so if you want to make the most of the day, just say ‘Hello.’”

603: The Writers’ Conference When: Saturday, April 27, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Where: Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester Cost: $165 for NHWP members, $185 for nonmembers and $95 for students.

Visit: nhwritersproject. org/603-writers-conference

ing Middle Grade” with Adi Rule and Erin Moulton • “Writing Self and Character through Place” with Pamela Petro • “Five Things to Think About When Writing Picture Books” with Cynthia Plat • “Exercises in Style” with Stephanie Reents

Corey • “Five Things to Consider When Writing YA” with Adi Rule and Erin Moulton

Session 3 • “Stack Up to the Big Dogs: Turn Pro with Your Self-Publishing” with Jeff Deck • “So You Want to Write a Novel, Part 3: Making a Scene” with Elaine Isaak Session 2 Classes Choose your classes when you register for the • “What Graphic Novels Reveal about Narra- • “Character-Driven Pitch Plotting” with Kate Conway conference online. tive Voice” with Pamela Petro • “So You Want to Write a Novel, Part 2: No • “The Fearless Writer: Learning to OverSession 1 Plot, No Problem!” with Elaine Isaak come the Common Myths of the Industry to • “So You Want to Write a Novel, Part 1: Become a More Authentic and Productive • “Setting” with Hester Kaplan Planting the Seeds” with Elaine Isaak Writer” with Dan Szczesny • “Tiny Fictions” with Stephanie Reents • “Blurring the Lines Between Fiction and • “Crash Course on Indie Publishing” with Nonfiction” with Adam Braver (Full) Devin Wilkie • “Memoir Workshop” with Deborah Joy • “Creating Dramatic Characters” with Lila Rose Kaplan • “Working With An Editor” with Robin Corey • “Submissions 101” with Cynthia Platt (Full) Baskerville • “The Scene” with Hester Kaplan (Full) • Panel - “The Old Fashion Q&A” with Amy • “Blurring the Lines Between Fiction and • “Writing Dramatic Dialogue” with Lila Nonfiction” with Adam Braver Ray, Cynthia Platt, Michael Joachim and Rose Kaplan David Elliott • “Five Things to Consider When Writ• “Memoir Workshop” with Deborah Joy

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Merton is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire, and Final Exam is his third book of poetry, after 2016’s Lost and Found and the brilliantly titled Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs of 2012.

The thin volume deceives, as do some of its cheeky titles: “Why Elmer Fudd Does Not Appear in a Poem About Rabbits” and “A Warning from the Chipmunk of Doom.” But while Merton has a sharp wit and frolics in the absurd, this is no book of light verse. He skips lightly across a deep, reflective pond, pausing on both pebbles and boulders. The boulders: suicide, a lost gift from a dead mother, climate change, depression. The pebbles: Chickens. Walruses. Unicorns emerging from beards.

In short, nothing is predictable in the smart, charming book of verse. “Umlaut” is about the quirky diacritic (Rendered aloud, it twists your lips / into the kiss you plant / on the cheek of your least favorite aunt); and “The Unreliable Narrator Stacks a Cord of Wood” finds a writer wrestling with point of view: Your wife said to put down some two-byfours first because the ground was muddy.

Perhaps it was not your wife who said this, but an old man wearing a checkered flannel shirt and a feed cap in a bait shop up in Maine. Perhaps the man said something different: Ayuh, the bluefish ah runnin’ somethin’ fee-yus the summah.

Final Exam makes room for both the solemn and the blasphemous: (Ninety generations / of fathers, sons, / and holy goats) and a weirdly mesmerizing explanation of why the chicken crossed the

road, “The Chicken Conundrum,” which has to do with a chicken that roosted in Christ’s cross “from the time the cross was anchored in the ground until Jesus drew his last breath” but was covered up by militant Druids.

I loved “Three Clergyman of a Certain Age” in which “A rabbi, a priest, and a minister walk into a poem” and find Mae West, Ella Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker sitting there, and learn that men are not permitted in the poem.

In “Sympathy for the Devil,” God “has had enough” and announces his intention to resign at a news conference at the Cleveland Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. (“He said He plans to resign / to pursue other interests: / French cooking, stock car racing, yoga / and, of course, putting together a band.”

“Satchmo” finds the jazz great among a roving pack of angels searching for a pin head on which they can all dance. (Unable, they decide to dance on the head of a railroad spike instead.)

“Feral Pianos” invokes two Dickinson lines, “Not all Pianos in the Woods / Had power to mangle me,” and counters with “eighty-eight gleaming teeth / their massive bellies / thundering with hunger.”

And Dickinson herself would have loved the simple “The Lid”: I intend to become / the first garter snake / to master the piano. / It should not be difficult / once I figure out / how to open the lid.

Merton, possibly inadvertently, inserts his own warning in “B Poem,” a sardonic take on the caricatures of B movies: “If it’s controlled refinement you’re after, you’re on the wrong page.” But anyone who loves words and their antics will love this collection, one part droll and two parts searing. A — Jennifer Graham

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• MATT OSGOOD Author presents Write Now: The Guide to Making It in Freelance Writing. Tues., April 23, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• JULIE DOBROW Author presents Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet.

Thurs., April 25, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• MARY BETH STEVENS Author presents Tippy Finds a Home. Sat., April 27, 10 a.m. Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter. Visit waterstreetbooks.com.

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• BARBARA FINAMORE Author presents Will China Save the Planet? Tues., April 30, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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Sun., May 12, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Peterborough Community Center, 25 Elm St. , Peterborough. Visit peterboroughpoetryproject.org.

Poetry events • POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MEETING Headliners are Mark DeCarteret and Anders Carlson-Wee. Wed., May 22, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. , Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

Book discussion groups • ANIME & MANGA CLUB A new club seeks members to join.

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• BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Second Thurs., 7 p.m. Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester. Visit manchester.lib.nh.us.

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• BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB Book discussion group. Last Tuesday, 12:15 p.m. Manchester City Library , 405 Pine St. , Manchester.

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• NASHUA NOVEL READERS Monthly book discussion. Second Thursday, 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org.

Writers groups • 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.

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• Mystery night: The Derry Public Library (64 E. Broadway, Derry) presents a program, “Sisters in Crime,” on Wednesday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. Mystery authors Linda Matchett and Ursula Wong will discuss the creative process, generating ideas, research, their daily writing schedules, and how they combine personal experience and events from news headlines to create compelling mystery stories. Call 4326140 or visit derrypl.org.

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Missing Link (PG)

Those original two movies — Hellboy in 2004 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army in 2008 — were written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and now I want to go rewatch them. Del Toro has such a specific viewpoint and visual style, and while echos of that are still in this movie (the monsters have a del Toro feel to them), I feel like this movie has lost something in not having more of his sensibility.

Not that every Hellboy movie has to be del Toro and Ron Perlman, any more than every Batman movie has to be Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale. But this Hellboy had me remembering how much I like the character even though this movie itself has the ploppy feel of goo not quite set in its mold yet.

Here, Hellboy (David Harbour), a human-helping nice-guy demon, is still a moody guy who hunts down or fights supernatural creatures and other stuff for a secret government agency. And he’s often sulkily mad at his adoptive dad, Professor Broom (Ian McShane). On a mission to England, he finds himself tangled up in one of those “and thus we face the End of the World” situations that seem to forever dog supernatural investigator types.

In this case, the Blood Queen, Nimue (Milla Jovovich), a one-time foe of King Arthur, is attempting to rise again and take over with the help of a giant and some other CGI monster-y things. Hellboy tries to stop her with the help of Alice (Sasha Lane), a young woman who can talk to the dead and see the future, and Major Ben Daimio (Daniel Dae Kim), a London paranormal law enforcement type who is wrestling with his own magical issues. Nimue’s rise is dangerous not just because of the destruction she brings but because she plays a part in Hellboy’s own maybe-destiny to bring about an apocalypse.

Just as I already have my ticket to Avengers: Endgame, I also believe there is the place for the “sure, this is OK” action movie, and that’s basically where this Hellboy winds up for me. It’s all satisfactory. (Or at times a notch below; my brain may, a few days after seeing it, be blocking out some of the truly cheesy bits of the ultimately forgettable jumble of monsters and stuff. It took stumbling on an Entertainment Weekly review blurb to remind me of how goofily metal-album-parody the movie’s visuals can be.) I would probably like this movie less but also be less disappointed if I didn’t have the previous movies to remind me of how fun Hellboy can be and what a possibility-filled universe he lives in. These parts are greater than this movie’s sum — the dialogue has moments of humor but doesn’t crackle, the story works fine for what it is but it frequently gets bogged down in side plots, the character gets to grow a little but there’s too much time wasted on nothing-special action. C

Those movies serve as a good age guide as well. Common Sense Media gave this movie an age 8-plus rating and I took my younger-than-that daughter. She was OK with most of it, though didn’t like some of the more intense action scenes, especially those involving various bad guys chasing after Susan and Frost. Personally, I thought the amount of peril involving guns was a little higher than necessary so I would agree that 8 or maybe older, depending on your kid, is a good guide.

Frost (voice of Hugh Jackman), a Victorian era-ish British explorer with an unflappable calm, an unshakable sense of his own rightness and a desperate desire to be accepted among the more traditional explorers, searches for the world’s most legendary creatures. When a trip to Loch Ness ends with his photo of the famous monster destroyed, he finds himself once again shunned by the fancy men of the royal somethingorother society. To prove himself to them, he answers a letter that claims to have information about a bigfoot in the American Northwest. When Frost arrives in the forest, what he finds instead is Susan (voice of Zach Galifianakis), as the creature eventually calls himself, a kind-hearted, soft-voiced bigfoot who can read and write and wants the help of the explorer in going to the Himalayas to seek the Yeti, creatures that he believes are similar to him and will provide this lonely bigfoot with the family he longs for.

Frost agrees to help if he can also collect proof of Susan’s existence to show the wider world. They head first to Adelina (voice of Zoe Saldana), the widow of one of Frost’s fellow explorers and the one in possession of a map to the Yeti homeland. She and Frost have a past and, hungry for her own adventure, she decides to come along with Frost and Susan. It’s probably just as well that there are three people, as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice of Stephen Fry), one of the fancy men who not only scorn Frost’s efforts but fear his discoveries and newness in general, has sent a hitman after Frost. Willard Stenk (voice of Timothy Olyphant) is determined to take down Frost and to bag himself a bigfoot in the process.

Emma Thompson also shows up doing some very nice voice work and overall I feel like the performances really match the visuals in this quirky tale. Quirky and perhaps a little darker than I was expecting, what with the hitman angle. But Missing Link has a sweet heart and that heart is Galifianakis’ Susan, who is a charming character. He is kind but not a pushover, often deflating Frost’s arrogance but with

The big red demon with filed-down horns investigates world-imperiling supernatural stuff in Hellboy, a reboot that started life as a sequel to the 2008 movie, if Wikipedia can be believed.

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Explorer Sir Lionel Frost and Sasquatch Susan search for the home of the Yeti in Missing Link, a stop-motion animated film from Laika, the studio that did Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings.

Hellboy

Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore throughout and language, according to the MPAA. Directed by Neil Marshall with a screenplay by Andrew Cosby, Hellboy is two hours long and distributed by Summit Entertainment.

Little (PG-13)

A bully boss who was once a bullied kid returns to her pre-teen state in Little, a twist on Big that is both better than it could have been based on the concept and not as good as it should have been based on its talent.

Tracy Oliver, screenwriter of Girls Trip, has a “story by” credit. Regina Hall, awesome in so many things but let me take this opportunity to support last year’s Support the Girls again, plays Jordan Sander, one-time nerd-kid who made herself a stylish bully boss as an adult. Issa Rae, star and creator of HBO’s Insecure, plays April Williams, Jordan’s put-upon but talented assistant. Marsai Martin, whom I know from her role as Diane on ABC’s blackish, plays little Jordan — both the girl she was in her actual childhood and the girl she turns into when she is cursed for being an unnecessary meanie. Black-ish’s Tracee Ellis Ross also shows up as the voice of an Alexa-like personal assistant called HomeGirl.

That’s a solid line-up of on-camera and behind-the-scenes talent.

When Big Jordan is mean to Stevie (Marley Taylor), the young daughter of the doughnut truck driver who visits Jordan’s office (despite her strict rules against carbs), Stevie waves a magic wand and curses her to be “little” again, so she could see what it’s like to be pushed around. Of course, young Jordan frequently was pushed around, which is why she’s defensive and guarded, even around Trevor (Luke James), the man grown-up Jordan sees but resists calling her boyfriend. Less clear is why successful app developer Jordan is so brutal at work, where she terrorizes her staff, The Devil Wears Prada-style. When an important client (Mikey Day) tells her he plans to go elsewhere, she refuses to listen to the app idea April’s been working on or have much patience for her oth-

er employees, even as she’s yelling at them to have a brilliant idea in 48 hours or they’re all fired.

But then she wakes up as her middle-school self. Because she can’t navigate the adult world, she calls on April to help her — for which April is hoping to get a promotion. After a neighbor calls child services, Little Jordan finds herself forced to go to the middle school that was the bane of her young existence, causing her to reckon with both her painful past and the person she’s become. April, meanwhile, is trying to find her footing as a boss and be a more outspoken advocate for herself.

Martin does a good job pulling off Little Jordan’s total inability and unwillingness to act her be-cursed age. And the movie mostly does a good job keeping her grown-up-ness in the spirit of fun, even when the jokes veer into the potentially icky territory of a 14-yearold actress playing a 30-something woman in a tween-something body giving the eye to 30-something men. It’s not an easy thing to pull off and you can see the ways it could have gone wrong.

Actually, I feel like there are a lot of ways Little could have gone wrong or been flat or felt too hokey and it mostly avoids this. It has a stellar cast, some moments of great comic chemistry between Rae’s April and both iterations of Jordan and some solid blends of goofy and physical comedy with smarter observational stuff. But the movie doesn’t completely click. I felt like in every scene I was waiting for it to notch the comedy or even the dramady up just a little higher or for the jokes to be just a little sharper. It’s like the movie laid out the path for being a stand-out comedy but never quite made it all the way.

This doesn’t mean Little was a failure. It is a perfectly fine comedy for when you need low-pressure laughs, even if they’re delivered by people who can clearly do more. BRated PG-13 for some suggestive content, according to the MPAA. Directed by Tina Gordon Chism with a screenplay by Tracy Oliver and Tina Gordon Chism, Little is an hour and 49 minutes long and distributed by Universal Studios.

earnestness not snark. He is the source of a lot of the visual and physical humor but without becoming so big he crowds out the story or so goofy that the character is all blunders and jokes.

What really makes Missing Link shine, of course, are the visuals. There is a whimsical (in the good way) storybook quality to the way things look, their angles and their exaggerated features, but a real-thing-

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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX ​ ED RIVER THEATRES R 11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600, redrivertheatres.org • Apollo 11 (G, 2019) Thurs., April 18, 5:25 p.m.; Fri., April 19, through Sun., April 21, 1:45 and 5:45 p.m.; and Mon., April 22, through Thurs., April 25, 5:30 p.m.

• The Aftermath (R, 2019) Thurs., April 18, 2 and 7:35 p.m.

• Gloria Bell (R, 2019) Thurs., April 18, 2:05 p.m.

• The Hummingbird Project (R, 2019) Thurs., April 18, 2:10, 5:35 and 7:50 p.m.

• Amadeus (R, 1984) Thurs., April 18, 6:30 p.m.

• Babi Yar (New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival) Sun., June 23, 3:30 p.m.

• The Mustang (R, 2019) Fri., April 19, and Sat., April 20, 1:40, 3:50, 6 and 8:10 p.m.; Sun., April 21, 1:40, 3:50 and 6 p.m.; Mon., April 22, Tues., April 23, and Thurs., April 25, 2, 5:40 and 7:50 p.m.; and Wed., April 24, 2 and 7:35 p.m.

• Amazing Grace (G, 2019) Fri., April 19, and Sat., April 20, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 21, 1:30, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.; Mon., April 22, Tues., April 23 and Thurs., April 25, 2:05, 5:35 and 7:35 p.m.; and Wed., April 24, 2:05 and 5:35 p.m.

• Screwball (NR, 2019) Fri., April 19, and Sat., April 20, 3:40 and 7:40 p.m.; Sun., April 21, 3:40 p.m.; and Mon., April 22, through Thurs., April 25, 2:10 and 7:30 p.m.

WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Hotel Mumbai (R, 2018) Thurs., April 18, 7:30 p.m.

• Cold War (R, 2018) Thurs., April 18, 7:30 p.m.

• The Chaperone (2018) Fri., April 19, through Thurs., April 25, 7:30

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• The Robe (1953) Sat., April 20, 4:30 p.m.

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• RiffTrax Live: Octaman (PG-13, 2019) Wed., April 24, 7:30 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY Main Branch, 405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550; West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560, manchester.lib.nh.us • Christopher Robin (PG, 2018) Wed., April 24, 1 p.m. (main) NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • The Princess Bride (PG, 1987) Sat., April 20, 2 p.m.

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(Loft) • At Eternity’s Gate (PG-13, 2018) Thurs., April 18, and Fri., April 19, 7 p.m. (Loft)

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STRAND BALLROOM 20 Third St., Dover, 343-1899, thestrandballroom.com • Coming to America (R, 1988) Fri., April 19, 7 p.m.

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• Sing out: Enjoy singer-songwriter and ex-Asbury Juke Joel Cage in a setting befitting his original songs. Folk music and bookstores have long been connected in spirit if not intent and both are facing new challenges in the internet age. Cage, whose most recent album is 2013’s Eponymous, writes insightful songs, as multiple awards attest, and is a solid vocalist and guitar player. Go Thursday, April 18, 6:30 p.m., Bookery, 844 Elm St., Manchester. To listen, go to joelcage.com.

• Rock out: After scoring on MTV and rock radio in the late ’80s, Junkyard waited 26 years to make a new album, 2017’s High Water. Back when music videos outnumbered reality shows and grunge hadn’t yet swept away Headbanger’s Ball, the band had big hits with “Hollywood” and “Simple Man” while sharing a label (and more than a few style comparisons) with Guns N’ Roses. Go Friday, April 19, 8 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Tickets $15 at ticketfly.com.

• Laugh out: Enjoy a night of funny people as Comedy Night at The Brewery offers a lineup of New England’s top comics, led by Carolyn Plummer and Steve Guilmette. Beer and jokes are natural companions, which is one reason why this monthly event routinely sells out. Rounding out the bill are Corey Manning, Dale Cover and host Steve Ondus.

Go Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m., Millyard Brewery, 25 East Otterson St., Nashua. Tickets are $20 – go to laughnewengland.com.

• Femme forum: A women’s social club hosts All Girls Open Mic. Led by Brenna Lilly, it invites all forms of expression, be it interpretive dance, poetry, comedy, live painting, music or whatever. The private group describes itself as “the manifestation of the dream that [women] are better together ... strongest and most beautiful when they hold each other up.” Go Sunday, April 21, 5:30 p.m, Avalon North, 1 Washington St., Suite 4162, Dover. See facebook.com/patriarchynothanks.

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Scott Joss has spent his career adding texture to great music, first with Merle Haggard, who encouraged Joss as a teenage fiddler and invited him on tour in the early 1980s. He later rose in national prominence with Dwight Yoakam, and was an integral part of his breakthrough hits. Joss returned to Haggard’s band The Strangers in 2003.

When Haggard died in 2016, The Strangers were without a leader. Then Kris Kristofferson, who toured with Haggard just before his death, asked the group to back him. The formula works, Joss said in a recent interview from his home in northern California, because of reverence for great material and the artistic vision that brought it to life.

“To get the opportunity to play with someone like Dwight, who wrote the songs — that’s incredible,” Joss said. “Being with Merle ... and now being with Kris, who wrote all of these monstrous songs, that’s really a treasure. You get a perspective from the actual guy, instead of just covering somebody else’s tunes and not really getting it.”

The Strangers lineup includes Haggard’s sons Ben and Noel on guitars, Doug Colosio playing keyboards, drummer Jim Christie, and Taras Prodaniuk on bass. In addition to Kristofferson’s voluminous catalog of gems like “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Me and Bobby McGee,” a few of Merle’s songs are sprinkled into sets; Joss often takes the lead on “Okie From Muskogee.”

“Kris thought it would be cool,” Joss said. “Luckily, I can sing a little bit and Doug can sing really well, and Merle’s last couple of kids are out there with us, so it kind of loops it all together. But it’s predominately Kris’s set; they’re [really]

good about letting us do a couple, and then it’s got to go right back to Kris.”

Joss was destined to be a fiddler from an early age. While in elementary school in Redding, California, he was taught by Jana Jae, the first female member of Buck Owens & the Buckaroos (and Owens’ ex-wife). Jae wanted to start classes in all of the elementary schools in the area. Seeing her perform at a school assembly was a transformative experience for him.

“She played all by herself,” he said.

“That was the moment — one of those ‘a-ha’ moments they called them. ...

Everyone else just kind of faded away and there she was playing to me. It was definitely one of those God things where it’s like, OK, I know what I want to do now.”

Redding is 450 miles north on Interstate 5 from Bakersfield and its iconic sound.

At 15, while playing primarily bluegrass and old time fiddle music in local bands, Joss heard Haggard’s “Every Fool Has A Rainbow” on a guitar-playing friend’s eight-track player and was drawn in.

Eventually, he’d join the house band at Haggard’s bar in Palm Springs — where he’d meet Yoakam.

“That song and that voice at that moment is what started me,” Joss said. “I proceeded to go out and find every album that was available to me at that time. We still had record stores back then, no internet... because of that, I found out about Buck Owens, Wynn Stewart. Everybody who has come before in that whole Bakersfield thing became open to me, and I found it fascinating.”

There aren’t many musical parallels to backing both Haggard and Kristofferson, but for Joss, the experience is the same.

“Probably the only thing that really remains is the guy that stands up there who writes and sings these songs,” Joss said.

“Here’s two very talented human beings

Kris Kristofferson. Courtesy photo.

that were given this great gift of being able to write wonderful songs with a great melody, given the platform to put them out there and get a whole lot of people to hear them.”

Joss is clear-eyed about his job, which he says is “to be of service at this point [and] be part of something that helps this guy’s legacy,” he said of Kristofferson. “Without us doing what we’re doing, I don’t know if he’d still be out there now. ... There have been a lot of different bands, and it gets hard carrying all those personalities. We’ve stripped it right back down to the music now. That’s what’s important — that guy, and those songs, in that order.”

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British Beer Company Kingston 1071 S. Willow St. Saddle Up Saloon 92 New Hampshire 125 232-0677 Bungalow Bar & Grille 369-6962 333 Valley St. 792-1110 Cafe la Reine Laconia 915 Elm St 232-0332 405 Pub Central Ale House 405 Union Ave Farmer’s Market 23 Central St. 660-2241 524-8405 Town Center 369-1790 City Sports Grille Broken Spoke Saloon 216 Maple St. 625-9656 1072 Watson Rd Deerfield Club ManchVegas 866-754-2526 Nine Lions Tavern Granite State Music Hall 50 Old Granite St. 4 North Road 463-7374 546 Main St. 884-9536 222-1677 Derryfield Naswa Derry Country Club 1086 Weirs Blvd.

Coffee Factory 625 Mammoth Road 366-4341 55 Crystal Ave 432-6006 623-2880 Paradise Beach Club Drae Element Lounge 322 Lakeside Ave. 14 E Broadway 1055 Elm St. 627-2922 366-2665 216-2713 Foundry Patio Garden Lakeside Ave. No Phone 50 Commercial St. Dover Pitman’s Freight Room 836-1925 603 Bar & Lounge Fratello’s 94 New Salem St. 368 Central Ave. 155 Dow St. 624-2022 527-0043 742-9283 Great North Ale Works Tower Hill Tavern Cara Hillsboro 1050 Holt Ave. Unit #14 264 Lakeside Ave. 11 Fourth St. 343-4390 Farmington Brick House 858-5789 366-9100 Dover Brickhouse Hawg’s Pen 125 West Main St. Ignite Bar & Grille 2 Orchard St. 749-3838 1114 NH Route 11 680-4146 100 Hanover St. Londonderry Falls Grill & Tavern 755-3301 494-6225 Coach Stop 421 Central Ave. Hillsborough Jewel 176 Mammoth Rd 749-0995 Francestown Mama McDonough’s 61 Canal St. 836-1152 437-2022 Flight Coffee Toll Booth Tavern 5 Depot St. 680-4148 KC’s Rib Shack Harold Square 478 Central Ave. 740 2nd NH Tpke N Turismo 226 Rockingham Road 837 Second St. 842-5325 588-1800 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 432-7144 627-RIBS Fury’s Publick House Long Blue Cat Brewing Murphy’s Taproom 1 Washington St. Gilford Hooksett 298 Rockingham Road 494 Elm St. 644-3535 617-3633 Patrick’s Penuche’s Music Hall 816-8068 Garrison City Beerworks 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Asian Breeze 1328 Hooksett Rd 1087 Elm St. 206-5599 Pipe Dream Brewing 455 Central Ave. Schuster’s Salona 40 Harvey Road 343-4231 680 Cherry Valley Road 621-9298 128 Maple St. 624-4020 Chantilly’s 404-0751 Sonny’s 293-2600 Shaskeen 1112 Hooksett Road Stumble Inn 328 Central Ave. 625-0012 20 Rockingham Road 909 Elm St. 625-0246 343-4332 Goffstown Shorty’s Granite Tapas 432-3210 Thirsty Moose Village Trestle 1050 Bicentennial Drive 1461 Hooksett Rd Twins Smoke Shop 83 Washington St. 25 Main St. 497-8230 625-1730 232-1421 128 Rockingham Rd 842-5229 Stark Brewing Co. No Phone Top of the Chop Hampton 500 N. Commercial St. Hudson 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Bernie’s Beach Bar 625-4444 Loudon 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 Backstreet Bar Strange Brew Tavern Hungry Buffalo Dublin Boardwalk Inn & Cafe 76 Derry St. 578-1811 Nan King 58 New Hampshire 129 88 Market St. 666-4292 DelRossi’s Trattoria 139 Ocean Blvd.

Sweeney Post 222 Central St. 798-3737 73 Brush Brook Rd (Rt 929-7400 251 Maple St. 623-9145 882-1911 137) 563-7195 Cloud 9 Whiskey’s 20 River’s Pub Manchester 225 Ocean Blvd.

20 Old Granite St. 76 Derry St. 943-7832 Backyard Brewery East Hampstead 601-6102 The Bar 1211 S. Mammoth Road 641-2583 Pasta Loft CR’s Wild Rover 2B Burnham Rd 623-3545 220 E. Main St. 378-0092 287 Exeter Road 21 Kosciuszko St. 943-5250 Bonfire 929-7972 669-7722 Town Tavern 950 Elm St. 663-7678 Epping Logan’s Run 142 Lowell Road 889- Bookery Holy Grail 816 Lafayette Road 9900 844 Elm St. 836-6600 64 Main St. 679-9559 926-4343

British Beer: Jodee Frawlee Central Ale House: Jonny Friday Blues City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Hillsborough Club Manchvegas: Adam Fithian Turismo: Line Dancing Foundry: Clint Lapointe Fratello’s: Jazz Night Laconia Granite State Music Hall: Djdi- Penuche’s Music Hall: Bass Weekly rectdrive Shaskeen: Magnatar Epping Shorty’s: Austin Pratt Telly’s: Tim Theriault Londonderry Strange Brew: Town & Country Coach Stop: Ryan Williamson Whiskey’s 20: DJs Shawn White/ Exeter Ryan Nichols/Mike Mazz Sea Dog Brewing: Artty Fran- Loudon coeur Hungry Buffalo: Jennifer MitchMeredith Station 19: Thursday Night Live ell Giuseppe’s: Paul Hubert Gilford Manchester Patrick’s: Acoustic Bookery: Joel Cage

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Millie’s Tavern 17 L St. 967-4777 North Beach Bar & Grill 931 Ocean Blvd.

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Hampton CR’s: Mica Sev Project

Merrimack Homestead: Kieran McNally Milford Rivermill Tavern: Brad Bosse

Mason Marty’s Driving Range 96 Old Turnpike Road 878-1324 Meredith Camp 300 DW Highway 279-3003 Giuseppe’s 312 DW Hwy 279-3313 Merrimack Able Ebenezer 31 Columbia Circle 223-2253 Big Kahuna’s Cafe 380 DW Highway 494-4975 Homestead 641 DW Highway 429-2022 Jade Dragon 515 DW Highway 424-2280 Merrimack Biergarten 221 DW Hwy 595-1282 Paradise North 583 DW Hwy 262-5866 Milford J’s Tavern 63 Union Sq. 554-1433 Pasta Loft 241 Union Sq. 672-2270 Rivermill Tavern 11 Wilton Road 554-1224 Tiebreakers at Hampshire Hills 50 Emerson Road 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. 42 South St. 554-8879 Moultonborough Buckey’s 240 Governor Wentworth Hwy 476-5485 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road 478-5900 Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Square 943-7443 Agave Azul 94-96 Main St. 943-7240 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

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Peterborough Harlow’s: Bluegrass Night w/ Nashua John Meehan CodeX B.A.R.: Piano Phil DeV- La Mia Casa: Soul Repair ille Country Tavern: John Cucchi Portsmouth Fody’s: Girls Night Out 3S Artspace: 3S Artspace and Fratello’s Italian Grille: Josh 92.5 The River Present: Ryan Foster Montbleau Band O’Shea’s: Mando & The Goat Beara Irish Brewing: Weekly Riverwalk Cafe: People Like You Irish Music w. Mamma’s Marmalade Clipper Tavern: Mike Lewis Shorty’s: Eric Grant Band Portsmouth Book & Bar: Beat Night

Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 East Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille 194 Main St. 889-2022 Haluwa Lounge Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub 9 Northeastern Blvd.

888-1551 Margaritas 1 Nashua Dr. 883-0996 Millyard Brewery 25 E Otterson St, 505-5079 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Peddler’s Daughter 48 Main St. 821-7535 Penuche’s Ale House 4 Canal St. 595-9381 Pig Tale 449 Amherst St. 864-8740 R’evolution Sports Bar 8 Temple St. 244-3022 Riverside Barbecue 53 Main St. 204-5110 Riverwalk Cafe 35 Railroad Sq. 578-0200 Shorty’s 48 Gusabel Ave 882-4070 Stella Blu 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 White Birch Brewing 460 Amherst St. 402-4444 New Boston Molly’s Tavern 35 Mont Vernon Rd 487-2011

New London Flying Goose 40 Andover Road 5266899 Newmarket Stone Church 5 Granite St. 659-7700 North Hampton Barley House Seacoast 43 Lafayette Rd 3799161 Throwback Brewery 7 Hobbs Road 379-2317 Northwood Umami 284 1st NH Tpk 942-6427 Peterborough Harlow’s Pub 3 School St. 924-6365 La Mia Casa Pizzeria 1 Jaffrey Road 924-6262 Pittsfield Main Street Grill & Bar 32 Main Street 436-0005 Plaistow Crow’s Nest 181 Plaistow Rd 974-1686 Racks Bar & Grill 20 Plaistow Road 974-2406 Portsmouth 3S Artspace 319 Vaughan St. 766-3330 Beara Irish Brewing 2800 Lafayette Road 342-3272 British Beer Company 103 Hanover St. 501-0515 Cafe Nostimo 72 Mirona Road 436-3100 Cisco Brewers 1 Redhook Way 430-8600

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Clipper Tavern 75 Pleasant St. 501-0109 Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. 431-5222 Earth Eagle Brewings 165 High S. 502-2244 Grill 28 200 Grafton Road (Pease Golf Course) 433-1331 Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. 427-9197 Portsmouth Gas Light 64 Market St. 430-9122 Press Room 77 Daniel St. 431-5186 Ri Ra Irish Pub 22 Market Square 319-1680 Rudi’s 20 High St. 430-7834 Thirsty Moose 21 Congress St 427-8645 White Heron Tea 601 Islington St 501-6266 Raymond Cork n’ Keg 4 Essex Drive 244-1573 Rochester Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St 332-3984 Magrilla’s 19 Hanson Road 330-1964 Radloff’s 38 North Main St. 948-1073 ReFresh Lounge 45 North Main St. 402-4136 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington Rd 330-3100

Pit Road Lounge: Crave Tandy’s: DJ Iceman Streetz (105.5 JYY) Deerfield Nine Lions Tavern: Barry Brearley Derry Coffee Factory: Dave LaCroix Drae: Joel Cage Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: DJ Music / Frisky Friday Dover Brickhouse: Bass Face Music Productions Thirsty Moose: Amanda McCarthy Thompson’s 2nd Alarm: Mitch Alden

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Gilford Schuster’s: Dan The Muzik Man Goffstown Village Trestle: Dan Morgan Band Hampton CR’s: Steve Sibulkin Logan’s Run: George Chivairas & Michael Troy Old Salt: Pete Peterson The Goat: Rob Pagnano Wally’s Pub: The Bars Hillsborough Mama McDonough’s: Mosey Down Hooksett Asian Breeze: DJ Albin Hudson Backstreet Bar: Granite State Rhythm Soho: Randy & Brad Duo The Bar: Dan Carter Town Tavern: Under Wraps

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Merrimack Able Ebenezer: Ale Room Music - Stephen Decuire Homestead: Doug Thompson

Newmarket Stone Church: Rootin’ Tootin’ Acoustic Hoot hosted by Eli Elkus

Londonderry Coach Stop: Mark Huzar Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic)

Nashua Fratello’s Italian Grille: Ryan Williamson

North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Traditional Irish Session

Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Old School Earth Eagle Brewings: Walker Smith Ri Ra: Oran Mor

Peterborough Harlow’s: Celtic Music Jam

Manchester Fratello’s: Stephen Decuire Jewel: Enuff Z’Nuff Strange Brew: Jesse’s Open Extravaganza

Dover Fury’s Publick House: Tim Theriault and Friends Sonny’s: Soggy Po’ Boys Gilford Patrick’s: Paul Luff hosts Manchester Fratello’s: Amanda McCarthy Shaskeen: Tristan Omand Strange Brew: Ken Clark Whiskey’s 20: Sammy Smoove & DJ Gera Meredith Giuseppe’s: Joel Cage Merrimack Homestead: Justin Jordan Nashua Fratello’s Italian Grille: Brad Bosse

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Merrimack Homestead: Ted Solovicos Nashua Country Tavern: Brad Bosse Dixie Blues: Dueling Pianos Fratello’s Italian Grille: Clint Lapointe Riverwalk Cafe: Local Talent Showcase: Delaney - St. Paul’s Funeral Band - Louse Portsmouth Clipper Tavern: Freddy Dame, Jr. Dolphin Striker: George Belli Solo/Duo Ri Ra: Erin’s Guild The Goat: Beneath The Sheets Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault - Ladies Night Revolution Taproom: Hump Day Blues w/ Jeff Hayford Seabrook Chop Shop: Guitar-a-oke & Cocktails

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that makes her so happy,” Alioto told the San denied the charges and said, “Basically it has to do with a commercial dispute. ... It’s very In Raleigh, North Carolina, residents of Mateo Daily Journal. complicated and I’d rather not get into it.”

The Dakota apartment complex are stepHe’s scheduled to appear in court on April 18. ping out a little more confidently after People different from us • Lauren Jenai, 47, co-founder (with her management engaged the services of a comKaz James, 37, from Salford, Greater Manpany called PawzLife. The Raleigh News and chester, England, has known since he was a ex-husband) of CrossFit, has struck up a Observer reported on March 22 that residents child that he was different from other people. new romance with an old flame: Franklin were growing disgusted with the amount of “I didn’t ever feel like a human. I always felt Tyrone Tucker, also 47, who resides at the dog feces on the sidewalks and green spaces like a dog that was really out of place,” James Stock Island Detention Center in Florida, around the complex. So management turned told Metro News. He first started to under- where he awaits trial for first-degree murder to a high-tech solution: Residents who own stand his peculiarity when he gained access to and armed robbery. Jenai sold her Crossdogs are required to bring them to a “pup par- the internet at 17 years old. “I was known by Fit shares for $20 million after her divorce ty,” where PawzLife collects their DNA with my friends for ... grabbing hold of the collar and now lives in Portland, Oregon. She and a simple saliva swipe and creates a “unique of their shirt in my teeth and biting or lick- Tucker, childhood friends, reconnected on DNA profile” for each dog. The compa- ing them, very canine-type behaviors,” James Facebook before Tucker’s arrest, and she has ny then visits the neighborhood to pick up said. Today he eats out of a dog bowl and risen to his defense, offering to put up his $1 any stray poop, and owners whose dogs are owns three custom-made dog suits — one a million bond (which was denied in January) a match with the poop DNA are fined $100 $2,600 fur suit shipped from Canada. “(M)y and hiring private investigators for his case. per offense. PawzLife owner Matthew Malec behaviors were quite dog-like in childhood, She has not been able to see Tucker in persaid, “We are just trying to make the Earth a probably from the age of 6,” he said. “No one son. Tucker and Jenai are scheduled to wed little bit better to live on.” ever talked about it. It was never mentioned.” in prison, and she told the Daily Mail she won’t ask him to sign a prenup: It feels “a little inappropriate. ... I trust him. I love him.

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Traffic on a street in the Koreatown neigh• When you purchase a new home, you borhood of Los Angeles came to a virtual stop as two cars engaged in a legendary standoff over a parking space on April 1. Fox News reported that Mariah Flores, who was positioned across the street, documented the entire two-hour dispute on Twitter, as the “black car” and the “silver car” jockeyed to parallel park in one open spot along the sidewalk. As horns honked and tensions mounted, a “plot twist” changed the whole dynamic: The owner of a third vehicle, parked in front of the empty space, left, leaving room for both black and silver to park. The drivers quickly settled their vehicles in the spaces but then sat in their cars for some time. “Like are they afraid of each other or is it just awkward now?” Flores wondered. Finally, the driver of the silver car emerged, prompting Flores’ comment, “SILVER takes the gold.”

Too much money

A wealthy San Francisco philanthropist, Florence Fang, 84, is being sued by the city of Hillsborough over the “Flintstones” home and grounds she has created in the suburb.

The oddly shaped house was built in 1976, and Fang bought it in 2017. Today it’s painted purple and red, features a large “Yabba Dabba Do” sign near the driveway, and Fang has added dinosaur and mushroom figurines, along with Fred Flintstone himself, to the yard. “We don’t like it when people build things first, then come in and demand or ask for permission later,” huffed Assistant City Attorney Mark Hudak, who told KTVU Fang built without the proper permits and the property is subject to code violations along with offending the neighbors’ aesthetic sensibilities. But Angela Alioto, Fang’s attorney, said the home is Fang’s “happy place.” Fang doesn’t live in the home but uses it for entertainment and charitable events. “She’s had an incredible life, and I think it’s wonderful that, at 84 years old, she has found something

need new stuff to put in it. So it was for Andrew Francis Lippi, 59, of Key Haven, Florida. Lippi purchased an $8 million private island, Thompson Island, off Key West in early April, which includes a large estate previously owned by philanthropist Edward B. Knight. But on April 6, Lippi was charged with felony grand theft for stealing $300 worth of home goods from Kmart, including two coffeemakers, eight lightbulbs and a bed skirt. His method was clever: He bought the items, then returned their boxes with other things packed inside, according to the Miami Herald. (For example, a basketball was in the Keurig box.) Lippi, speaking to the Herald,

What’s in a name?

The Smuggler’s Inn on Canada View Drive in Blaine, Washington, sits just a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. Fittingly, on April 4, a Canadian court charged its owner, Robert Joseph Boule, 69, with 21 counts of “inducing, aiding or abetting” seven people who tried to illegally enter Canada between May 2018 and March 2019. Boule had remarked to CBC News in the past that it wasn’t unusual to see people with night-vision goggles sneaking across the border at night. He remains in custody in Canada.

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