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• Hampton Rotary Club’s 17th Annual Golf Tournament Monday, Oct. 3, at the Portsmouth Country Club in Greenland, N.H. Registration and lunch start at 11:30 a.m., with the tournament starting at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $150 per player and includes 18 holes of golf, a full dinner, pro golf shirt and green fees with cart and complimentary tees and balls. There will also be a 50/50 raffle. For more on this fundraising event, visit hamptonrotary.org or call David at 603-929-0960. Register by Sept. 30th. The money raised from this event is all given back to the community. And as always, feel free to call me anytime at 603-935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad. Larry Marsolais is the general manager of the Seacoast Scene and the former president of the Hampton Rotary Club.
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Join the Reach the Beach post-race festivities at Hampton on Saturday, Sept. 17. Find out more about the race and the finish-line fun on p. 6.
A Walk in the Words Literature and Garden Festival in Lee, N.H., will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17, and Sunday, Sept. 18, with poetry slams, haikus, storytelling, jazz music and more. See p. 7 for more on this and other community events.
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If you’re serious about turning your brewing hobby into a business, don’t miss the weeklong Craft Brewery Startup Workshop: The Business of Beer. See details on p. 26. “Rock Paper Scissors: 50 Years of Exeter Fine Crafts” is on view now through Oct. 15 with a reception Friday, Sept. 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., and a gallery talk Saturday, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. See p. 32 for more about the 50th anniversary celebration.
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Come cheer runners at end-of-race celebration By Ashlyn Daniel-Nuboer ashlyn@seacoastscene.net
Known for traveling to the most breathtaking places in the world, Ragnar’s Reach the Beach Relay is making its way to Hampton Beach once again and is calling on the community to come out and celebrate the end of the race. Pre-registered teams will get together to compete on Friday, Sept. 16, until Saturday, Sept. 17, as the community comes out to show support for the runners at the finish line. “When we look for a course, we really want it to show off the area that we’re in,” co-founder of Reach the Beach Relays Mike Dionne said. The relay is not an easy run, making the cheers and support from the community even more important to the runners. The relay is meant to push the contestants’ limits. The two-day and one-night relay starts in Bretton Woods and consists of about 200 miles of perseverance, willpower and teamwork. Celebrating the 18th Reach the Beach Relay in Hampton, participants and spectators will not be disappointed. The race was originally inspired by a relay race Dionne ran on the West Coast; he sought to bring along
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something different that the East Coast did not have. Participants will run on just about everything, from sidewalks and back roads to dirt paths and, of course, the beach. Generally, teams comprise 12 people. Teammates can be family, friends, coworkers and sometimes random people who smaller teams are paired with and come to love. For the crazier runners out there, teams of six can be made to form an Ultra Team, using half as many members to run the same distance. “[Participants] have to train a little bit [pri-
or to the relay] because [participants] need to run approximately 15 or 16 miles over the two-day span, but it is broken up,” Dionne said. “Some of the segments are shorter, so if you’re not as experienced you can run a set of three legs that might add up to 10 or 11 miles and then there are some sets of three runs that might add up to 21 or 22 miles.” One participant runs at a time, totaling three “legs” per teammate for the normal teams. Participants can run 3 to 13 miles in one stretch depending on the section of course. Depending on what team members have decided on, each runner will generally run a total of about 17 miles, though shorter runner positions would likely be about 11 miles and longer positions about 24 miles. Ultra Teams will average a full marathon of at least 24 miles. “[Participants] can put together a team that has young runners … and also people that are marathoners that can handle the distance.” Dionne said. “The teams are very flexible that way.” Where are the other team members while one is running? Well, in the van, of course. Ultra teams get one van while normal teams
get two. The rest of the team members will be cheering on their team in uniquely decorated vans the teams design themselves. The normal teams will have one van waiting ahead at an exchange point where they will get ready to run their portion of the race. The van is a place for fun, laughter and, of course, cheering. Once one whole van has finished their miles for the day, the second van gets ready to deploy their runner. A major portion of the success of the relay lies within the community’s support. Families, friends and other community members can be found cheering along the sidelines for loved ones running and strangers. Community groups like Boy and Girl Scouts, local churches and local baseball teams often fundraise, perhaps by selling food and beverages to the runners as runners come in from their last leg. Local schools have also baked goods to hand to runners as they make their way to checkpoints. Most runners finished in 34 to 35 hours at last year’s event, so the finish line celebrations will likely start as early as 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17. The finish line closes at 8 p.m. For more details or to sign up for next year’s relay, head to runragnar.com.
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The Newburyport Harbor Light House at Plum Island Point (1 Plum Island, Ipswich Bay, Newburyport, Mass.) will hold a tour Sunday, Sept. 25, from 1 to 4 p.m. The free event includes free parking. Attendees must wear sneakers and be 5 years or older and 42 inches tall. The Newburyport Harbor Light at Plum Island Point will hold an open house and tour on Sunday, Sept. 25, from 1 to 4 p.m. There is a short ladder to climb at the end, and sneakers are required. Children must be at least 42 inches tall and at least 5 years old. Parking and admission are free but donations are appreciated. Call 978-973-6935 or visit newenglandlighthouses. net. The New Hampshire Creative Club (NHCC) will host a free tour of the Port City Makerspace from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept.
16 (68 Morning St., Portsmouth, N.H.). The Port City Makerspace describes itself as “The ultimate playground for those who tinker, design, build, fabricate, prototype, make and machine.” Although the event is free, donations will be suggested at the door. Visit nhcreativeclub.org or call 603-382-5530 for more information. Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, the Portsmouth Public Library (175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, N.H.) will hold a number of activities this month. To kick off the free events, the library will have opening celebrations beginning on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Alex the Jester will perform at 1 p.m., while Mayor Jack Blalock will speak following the performance. White Heron tea will disperse free beverages. The Hampton Arts Network
(HAN) 7th annual Art Walk will take place Saturday, Sept. 17, through Saturday, Sept. 24. Creative works will be displayed and available for purchase throughout the week at local restaurants and stores such as Breaking Bean Coffee and Baron Forrester. This year will offer a new free gift basket drawing at local restaurants. A Walk in the Words Literature and Garden Festival (45 High Road, Lee, N.H.) will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 18, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Bedrock Gardens. There will be poetry slams, haikus, storytelling, jazz music and more. Children are admitted free, though a $10 suggested donation will be asked of adults. For more information, visit bedrockgardens.org or call 603659-2993.
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Pancakes or waffles? Sausage or bacon? If breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, how do you find the perfect meal to start the day off right? The Seacoast Scene has created a list of a few spots worth visiting that will cure all manner of breakfast cravings, whether you’re hankering for a guilty pleasure — think French toast drenched in pure maple syrup — or healthier fare (smoothie, anyone?). According to a 2015 NPD study, the common breakfast essentials of bacon, eggs and pancakes are growing in popu-
larity, while the variety of breakfasts out there range from organic juiceries to holein-the-wall diners. It seems that breakfast has evolved into a large and diverse market. So where should you go get breakfast?
Health-conscious
The Seacoast is loaded with cafes that hold health as their No. 1 priority. The Juice Box (77 Lafayette Road in North Hampton, N.H.) is a small spot owned by Rye, N.H., natives Ryan and Tyler McGill, who sought to create a place along the seacoast that mirrored their own active and healthy lifestyle. Also the owners of Summer Sessions in Rye and Portsmouth, the
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brothers found that there were no quick and easy food options in the area that were also healthy. The Juice Box menu is all about quick and easy, with choices ranging from made-to-order smoothies and juices to “fresh eats” and bowls packed full of nutrients and fruits. The fresh eats menu includes unique options like the El Nino, which has egg, black beans, avocado, pico de gallo and pepper jack cheese in a wrap. Another is the Down to Earth wrap, which is similar to an omelet with egg, roasted potatoes, mushrooms, fresh spinach and feta cheese. The name of the cafe is not deceiving, as the quaint restaurant is quite small. The walls are decorated with ocean-inspired paintings and there are a couple of spots to sit inside facing the windows. There is also outdoor seating on the small porch, plus picnic tables along the grass. “Eat consciously. Live vibrantly” — that’s the motto of Laney & Lu Cafe located on 26 Water St. in Exeter, N.H. Founder Jennifer Desrosiers lived a corporate life for almost 20 years, where she struggled to find foods on the go without sacrificing calories and her overall health. Taking things into her own hands, Desrosiers began to study food and nutrition and the effects of yoga, which resulted in her becoming a yoga instructor, certified health coach and Laney & Lu cafe business owner. “At the end of the day, I wanted to create a coffee shop-smoothie shop that had great food options as well, and the restaurant has
evolved,” Desrosiers said. “The food selection is very purposeful in terms of having everything be as nutrient-dense as possible and purchasing the highest-quality superfruits we can find. … There is a lot of care that goes into some of the simplest foods on the menu.” Desrosiers strives for her cafe to do the predictable in an unpredictable way. The foods that someone may take the time to make at home can be found at Laney & Lu’s, but with a tasty and nutritious twist. The classic egg and cheese is transformed into the Epic Egg Sammie, which includes an organic egg fried in coconut oil, locally baked Leaven sourdough bread, spinach, sliced tomato, pesto, avocado and Brookford Farm grass-fed raw cheddar cheese. Looking for something a bit more adventurous? Laney & Lu has got you covered with the Huevos Rancheros. This hearty breakfast bursting with flavor includes two organic eggs over easy, black beans, quinoa, spinach, pico de gallo, sliced avocado, cilantro Seacoast Kettlebells: Jenny RD’s Accountables When: Thursday, Sept. 15, to Thursday, Oct. 20 Where: 25 Horne St., Dover, N.H. Time: 10 a.m. course or 6 p.m. course About: The whole food-based nutrition program offers a six-week course to help people learn about nutrition, goal-setting and overall healthy life management skills. Cost: $129 for the six-week course
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Brunch out
Like breakfast, brunch has evolved into a large part of many people’s weekends. Picking the proper brunch spot could make or break your Sunday. The people at Old Salt at Lamie’s Inn at 490 Lafayette Road in Hampton,
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N.H., believe that a chocolate fountain is a brunch must — specifically, 36 inches of sweet, creamy Belgian chocolate. The Old Salt’s buffet-style Sunday brunch starts at 9 a.m. for the earlier risers and ends at 1:30 p.m. for the ones who like to sleep in. The restaurant also has a table that rotates each week to a new theme. Sometimes it could be a taco bar or raw bar while other times it could be an indulgent ice cream station. Carving stations include fresh, juicy turkey and roast beef precisely shaved by a chef to your liking. “We sat at a table discussing brunch 15 years ago and I compared it to another brunch in the area that [was similar] to what we were thinking, and someone said to me … strive for second place,” Executive Chef Michael Higgins said. “So from there on I believe we’ve been in first place.” Omelettes customized to your liking and stuffed with fresh ingredients can be made to order right in front of you as others pamper themselves with made-to-order fluffy Belgian waffles, still steaming from the grill. To complement the breakfast options, bunches of fresh fruits take up an entire table with assorted grapes, berries and other tasty treats. Conveniently located at the chocolate fountain table, the fresh fruits can be dipped or more likely drenched with the sweet chocolate, a great pairing to the fruit-stuffed pancakes. “We [have a] family, colonial atmosphere here,” Higgins said. “We have a lot of employees that have been with us for up to 30 years. It’s a family atmosphere, not a corporate atmosphere.” All are welcome to enjoy sweet and savory brunch items while listening to the harmonic sounds of the piano player and sipping a good cup of coffee. With plenty of seating and a casual atmosphere, the Old Salt’s door is open for all, families, friends and everyone inbetween.
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The Ashworth Hotel’s Wharfside Cafe located on 295 Ocean Blvd. in Hampton, N.H., is another great brunch stop, serving breakfast meal items every day from 6:30 a.m. to noon. To soothe the sweet tooth, the Wharfside Cafe has plenty of options ranging from the classic cinnamon French toast to the Wharfside pancakes, which include fresh seasonal berries and are topped with a fluffy mound of whipped cream. For the brunchers with a larger appetite, the cafe also features the Wharfside Lobster Beach Bennie. The classic eggs Benedict is no match for the load of fresh lobster meat and bacon sitting atop a steamy biscuit. Perhaps something savory is more your style. The cafe also offers the Wharfside sausage, gravy and biscuit plate, which is topped with two fried eggs and your choice of baked beans or homefries. “Wharfside has been a coastal breakfast favorite for years serving up made-to-order specialties,” the Wharfside website says. “We're casual and family friendly … so come as you are.”
Diner delights
Diners come in many different shapes and sizes. Some have the classic 1950s theme while others simply serve great breakfast foods. While good food is mandatory, the Scene wanted to check out some of the classic themed diners in the Seacoast area. Awarded the Best of N.H.’s 2007 Best 50’s Style Diner, Fast Eddie’s Diner at 320 Lafayette Road in Hampton, N.H.,
was transformed from a Pizza Hut to Fast Eddie’s 12 years ago. All its menu items are made from scratch and it has a little something for everyone. The menu has lots of options for meatlovers, sweet-lovers and everyone in between. Egg and cheese plates are of course a staple option, but Fast Eddie’s also offers some more unique and creative options. Vegetarians beware: The Halsie is a meat-lover’s dream, featuring practically every meat in the book. The sandwich has grilled sirloin, kielbasa, sausage, bacon, and ham along with two eggs and toast of your choice. The Miss Meghan meal is an overeasy egg served on cinnamon raisin toast with a side of juicy Granny Smith apple slices spread with crunchy peanut butter. On the super sweet side, there’s the diner’s Best Ever Stuffed French Toast, which uses two thick slices of ciabatta bread topped with freshly sliced strawberries, bananas and blueberries. The loaded French toast is topped with sour cream, brown sugar and a maple yogurt drizzle. The diner is open six days a week during with summer hours from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. The Roundabout Diner and Lounge is located at 580 Route 1 Bypass in Portsmouth, N.H., and has won Best of New Hampshire’s 2016 Best Seacoast Diner award, the TripAdvisor 2016 Certificate of Excellence, and A-List Voter’s Best Diner of 2016. Open from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11
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p.m. Friday and Saturday, the diner serves breakfast all day long. After six and a half years of business, the Roundabout Diner does not disappoint in food or aesthetics. “The diner has a really retro feel,” Roundabout Diner owner Dan Posternak said. “We have the ’50s music playing in the background, a giant map on the wall, neon, and funky lights…. Everything we try to do here is different and unique.” The space is large, with about 200 seats, so the wait often goes by quickly. If venturing to the diner on Sundays, be prepared for people to be huddled around the entrance next to the hostess stand, where there is a full bloody mary bar. “Every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. we have all these house infused vodkas with 10 to 15 different hot sauces and condiments and we bring celery and cucumbers in from our garden and shrimp and quail eggs and all different things so that people can dress up their vodka after it’s poured…,” Posternak said, describing the bloody mary bar. “It has become a great hit.” According to Posternak, at least 99 percent of the menu is homemade and is
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And then there are some breakfast places that just don’t fit the mold. Street offers a bit of everything from practically every continent. Perhaps you noticed the restaurant on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives — host Guy Fieri has visited. Street has a full brunch menu that provides something new for everyone to try and enjoy. Locally sourced food is a big deal to Street owners, who opened it about five and a half years ago, having gone from the food truck industry to a cafe before going the restaurant route with Street. Today the restaurant can be found with Sriracha-red walls displaying a mural and local art, with other art creations featured on the tables. If you are wanting to try something new, Street has just the food combinations to please even the most stubborn of tastebuds. “Instead of just an egg Benedict or egg Florentine we have things like the K*Town Bennie, which is Koreatown Bennie,” coowner Michelle Lozuaway said. “Instead of grilled English muffins, the base is sticky rice and then [there is also] poached eggs … hollandaise and gochujang sauce,
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which is a Korean sauce. It has Korean barbecue beef and sauteed spinach and a little kimchee. It’s pretty amazing.” Street has a large brunch menu offering items such as the Sweet Home Alabruncha and French Toast Especiale. The kids can also enjoy the food with their own menu featuring pancakes with a bacon smile and fruity face. The restaurant has your morning cocktails covered too, offering two types of bloody marys and four unique mimosas. “The environment is definitely hip, interesting, colorful, artistic, eclectic.” Lozuaway said. “It is not your standard restaurant.” Street is located at 801 Islington St., in Portsmouth, N.H., serving brunch on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Library Restaurant at 401 State St. in Portsmouth, N.H., is located in the Rockingham House and serves brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. You will likely spend a pretty penny at the fine dining restaurant, but the food and historic decor will be worth it. Tables with white
tablecloths are set up next to shelves of books. Mahogany wood runs throughout the restaurant with ornate wood ceilings. Whether you are craving a hearty 8-ounce filet mignon or a Florentine frittata, you can treat yourself to great service and great food at the Library Restaurant. “I’m old-school. … [Brunch] doesn’t get any better than a good egg Benedict,” owner Bruce Belanger said. Along with the classic egg bennie, the Library Restaurant also serves a salmon Benedict including two poached eggs, salmon, and a dill hollandaise sauce to complement the salmon, along with home fries. Also MICHELLE LOZUAWAY offering the usual eggs and bacon plate, the restaurant also includes soups, salads, entrees and steaks, and of course great coffee, bloodies and mimosas. “I use the same butcher that every great steak house in Boston uses.” Belanger said. Most diners come around noontime, so if you would like to beat the rush, head out a bit earlier and reserve a seat next to a bookshelf in this large, memorable dining room.
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As the summer unwinds into colorful fall, we turn our sights to hearth and home — trying new recipes, searching for knitwear and fleece and trying to make our living spaces as cozy as possible. To help you out with all of that, come down to the eighth annual Hampton Falls Craft Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rain or shine, approximately 75 juried New England craftspeople showcase their American-made works on the Hampton Falls town common (4 Lincoln Ave.), including everything from fine jewelry and photography to embroidery and floral design and, yes, knitwear and fleece. On the culinary side, there will be fudge, jam, maple, dill dips and garlic mashes. The festival offers everything you need to accompany a Sunday waffle breakfast or to organize and beautify your bookshelf. “It’s a really nice, high-quality shopping event. It’s also important to us to include demonstrations. People like to see the artists at work. We have weaving, woodworking, and we always have artists painting, especially watercolorists,” said Terry Mullen, owner and event coordinator of Castleberry Fairs, a family-owned company that hosts approximately 24 shows and festivals each year. Everything has to be American made, Mullen said, and it’s a juried event, which means everything also has to be high quality and made specifically by the seller. “There’s gourd art, folk art, and primitive art,” she said. “There’s something about the Hampton Falls show especially, there’s always lots of vintage-chic recycled parts, local maple, honey dips, jams, jellies.” More festivals Check out these local events for more artisans showcasing their craft and talents. Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, various pubs and outdoor locations in Portsmouth. All day. Free. Visit newenglandfolknetwork.org/ pmff. Apple Harvest Day, Oct. 1, downtown Dover, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit dovernh.org. Harvest Craft Fair, Oct. 22, Somersworth High School, Somersworth, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit nhfestivals.org.
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Artists are selected through an online application process, and the number of artists in each category is limited. “For instance, 10 percent photography or 15 percent jewelry. And even within those categories the wares have to be varied, so we don’t have artists producing the same things,” Mullen said. The draw of craft shows and fairs in New England seems to be as traditional as apple pie. “You know what, it’s that you can buy a handcrafted item, like we have beautiful ornaments for $5, or you can spend $500 on an original painting. I love this fair in particular. The town really supports it because it’s right there in their own town. They come out to support their community and the arts of the area,” Mullen added. According to Mullen, about 3,500 people pass through over the course of the weekend. “People are much more aware of what they buy these days. They don’t want to buy junk that ends up getting dumped in a landfill. They want customized, wellmade items they can keep for a long time, maybe pass on to family members. Something they can put in their homes and be proud of,” said Mullen. Keeping up with the demand for fine crafts, the team at Castleberry Fairs is busy. “Still, the Hampton Falls show is close to my heart because it’s close to home, and it offers everything I like,” said Mullen. “It’s more of a community event, it’s a small town, and we have nearly a 90-percent return rate of people really wanting to come down to support the artists,” said Mullen. And while technology happily increases in the modern world and newfangled gad-
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gets and services come to market, it hasn’t changed the draw of handmade items and supporting local, small businesses. “It’s a hard business to be in,” said Mullen. “Most artists who show at these events work in another profession all day and then do their art on the weekends. The shows are a big commitment as well. There’s the applications, the booth setup, the travel expenses.” It stands to reason, then, that the artists who participate are serious about their work.
“These are professionals; they know what they’re doing,” Mullen said. “They know what customers want, and they know their market. Take a woodworker, he could make a wooden tennis racket but who would buy it? Instead, he makes something there’s a demand for, something people will love. Especially in New Hampshire, I find that people want not just something beautiful but also something that functions — we call that functional art — it adds to its beauty if it can actually be used.” Always the practical farmers and fishermen, New Englanders like shelves and cabinetry and tools that fit into the country farmhouse as easily as a Portsmouth flat. “I have noticed that there are not too many young people entering the field. There are young mothers who do pottery and glassblowing, say, but oftentimes I tend to see people don’t stick with it because it’s so time-consuming. Again, it’s a hard business and everyone here is at a professional level; there are no hobbyists at the show,” said Mullen. The fair helps benefit the Hampton Falls Recreation Commission, and food sales support the Hampton Falls Fire Department. For more information, call 603-3322616 or visit castleberryfairs.com.
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How long have you owned your business? I’m celebrating my 30th year in operation, but Exeter Bowling Lanes has been in operation for 70 years. What is it like to own a business that has been in business so long? It’s great. When this place was built in 1946, there were lanes 1 through 6 with pin boys. When the other six lanes were added in the late 1950s, the machines were added for all of them. Those machines are still here today. We don’t have electronic scoring either. We have pads. We are old-school and people like that about us. What’s also neat is the guy I bought it from, John DiCicco, still works for me today. [At first] he came to work for me three months after I bought the place. The man is my guardian angel. We refaced the building together. We have done every project there together. He maintains the bowling machines and is with me five days a week at 6:30 in the morning. Bowling machines require a lot of love and care, and he takes great care of them.
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Did he just not like the ownership aspect of the place? The whole marketing and business end of things is very difficult. The paperwork is difficult, too. He loves socializing with people, so I think he has had the best of both worlds. He grew up in the business. He bowled there as a kid. He has been in town his whole life. I grew up in the business, too. My dad’s mom and dad built a bowling lane center in Peabody, Massachusetts. We had 48 lanes and sold it when I was 17. I was a professional bowler at one point, too — bowling is in my blood.
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When I bought the place, we had 22 leagues. We now have five leagues. Obviously for anyone that does marketing, it’s easier to just sit back once a league has been established. When you have 22 leagues, that’s cool. You know what you are doing until April. In this climate, marketing and exposure is an everyday job. That’s why some nearby bowling centers have closed this year.
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What’s your biggest business challenge? The game is transitioning from a league-bowler based business to becoming family and friend recreation based.
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How is your business? We had the best summer in 20 years. I’m really excited about it. I really have a great staff. My assistant ROB FICARA manager, Kaley Baxter, has been with me 15 years. I’m very fortunate to have the staff I do. They are dedicated and committed — they are the face of this business. I’m very lucky. What the best part about owning Exeter Bowling Lanes? This is about the community and the
people — it’s the great thing about owning this business. ... As important as mechanics and accountants are, it’s still very important to have face-to-face fun with family and friends without technology. People are coming to us to have fun. It’s awesome we provide that. One of the big things about the Lanes is we use them for a lot of fundraisers. For the Chamber Children’s Fund that is coming up, we have been able to raise $10,000 each of the last three years. Womenade and American Cancer Society are two organizations out of many others we have worked with, too. I also have Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts come by and I take them back to the bowling machines in small groups and show them how they work. It’s fun.
Any changes on the horizon for you? Our strength has been staying traditional, which doesn’t mean not doing anything. I’m not going to put electronic scoring in — not having that is part of our experience here. I want to keep things looking clean and fresh. I don’t foresee any major changes. We are just looking to stay clean and friendly — nothing earth-shattering. What we have been doing works.
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The heart wants what it wants Dear Car Talk: I own a 1955 Ford Fairlane Victoria hardtop (two-door). The car is almost entirely original and runs very well, except for the blast of furnace heat I get from By Ray Magliozzi the engine when sitting in the driver’s seat. (It’s great in the cold weather, though.) I enjoy driving this vehicle, and get many compliments for it. But I bought it in its present condition, and I’m not a mechanic. I haven’t worked on cars for 40 years. Perhaps owning this car is just an expression of my love of vintage cars, or trying to recapture my youth. My question: Given my lack of mechanical skills and limited resources to repair this vehicle, is keeping this car, if only for sentimental reasons, a good idea? Or, put another way, are there other old guys who can’t change a tire but who own these types of cars and still love just the sight of them in their garage, hoping they never break down? Thank you. — Vince Vince, love is everything. If that car makes you happy when you see it and when you drive it, it’s a great idea to keep it. In fact, I insist!
But you’ll need two things: (1) a backup car — like a 2008 Hyundai Elantra — so that when your ‘55 Ford breaks down, your life will still go on until you get it fixed. And (2) an old mechanic — someone who still knows how to adjust valves and clean carburetors. When you go into a prospective shop, ask the oldest mechanic in there to smile. If he still has more than four teeth, he’s not the guy for you, Vince. Actually, the best way to find someone like that is to find your local old-car club. There are plenty of wackos — I mean people — like you who have an unnatural affection for these inanimate objects. They probably get together on a regular basis to admire each other’s cars ... and compare the deals on reverse mortgages. You need to find those guys near you and sign up. You may find that some of the owners are pretty good mechanics themselves, and are willing to work on your car. Or they’ll certainly know mechanics in the area who do work on vintage cars. Since you can’t do the work yourself, having a good mechanic is essential. At the very least, you want to make sure the car is safe — and that the furnace blast from the firewall isn’t actually fire. And when you find a good mechanic,
it’s best to formally adopt him. Bring him home for dinner and introduce him to your wife first, then you can add him to the will. Good luck, Vince. Dear Car Talk: I have a 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo with a 3.4-liter engine. I want to do a tuneup, and I need spark plugs, plug wires and coil packs. When I started shopping around, the price for this set of items came to anywhere between $299 and $699. The originalequipment stuff from the manufacturers is at the high end, and the aftermarket stuff, like NGK and MSD, is lower. Should I use the original-equipment stuff? Are aftermarket parts OK? And if so, which ones should I use? — Robert Well, you certainly can’t go wrong using the original equipment parts from the manufacturer (OEM parts). And if you haven’t done so, you should call your dealer’s parts department and ask for the prices. Prices vary tremendously from part to part. And while the dealer’s prices often are more expensive than aftermarket sellers’, they’re not always. It’s also worth searching online for the OEM parts. You often can find them at steep discounts. The downside is that you
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have to wait a few days for delivery. But since you’re doing the work yourself, and the car is currently running, that’s not a problem. On the other hand, aftermarket parts are a perfectly good option, too. Your car is 16 years old — it’s old enough to get a license and drive itself, Robert. So I also wouldn’t have any reservations about using goodquality aftermarket parts. In our shop, in addition to originalequipment parts, we use Bosch, NGK and Nippon-Denso tuneup parts. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of those — they’re all good quality. In fact, those companies often make the “original equipment” parts for the manufacturers, including Chevrolet. I’m sure there are other good-quality aftermarket parts, but those are the ones we’ve had excellent experiences with. So get the best prices you can on any of those, or the original-equipment parts, and do your tuneup. And don’t be afraid to mix and match brands, Robert. They’ll work well together. It’s not like putting on a suit jacket with a bathing suit. Visit Cartalk.com.
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Those interested in opening their own brewery can get a comprehensive look at what it takes in a new, unique workshop offered by the University of New Hampshire later this month. The Craft Brewery Startup Workshop is an intensive five-day program taught by brewery owners and staff on site at eight seacoast breweries. The workshop was proposed by the director of professional development and training at UNH, Chris LaBelle, who had launched similar programs a few years ago at Oregon State University that were very popular and had students who went on to open successful breweries. “The intention is to provide participants with a greater awareness of what it takes to start a brewery and expose them to the full set of considerations,” LaBelle said. “I think many people don’t realize until they get experience or spend time with brewers or take a workshop like this
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that, yes, there’s the science to understand, but you have to know about the business side as well.” The program is geared toward people of all levels of experience and interest, including established brewers who want to deepen their knowledge of the business, hobbyists thinking about taking their passion to the next level, or young adults looking to get an internship or a foot in the door. Participants will be visiting Throwback Brewery, Redhook Brewery, 7th Settlement, Garrison City Beerworks, Smuttynose Brewing Co., Earth Eagle Brewing, Liars Bench Beer Co. and Tributary Brewing Co. in Kittery, Maine. “We wanted to cover the full spectrum of brewery types, so we have ones like Liar’s Bench which is just coming out of the nano phase and then ones like Redhook which is producing and distributing in high volume and then breweries in between,” LaBelle said. “It’s really a nice mix of resources.” A big part of the workshop will be hearing the brewery’s stories and experiences about what worked for them and what didn’t. Discussion and lecture topics will cover how to get started (writing a business plan, choosing a location, defining a style, constructing a facility), community engagement (obtaining permits, zoning, planning boards), finances (obtaining
funding, startup costs, budgeting basics, etc.), legal issues (licensing, labeling, state and federal regulations, inspections, safety), internal affairs (staffing, training, payroll, insurance) and business strategies (branding, public relations, marketing tools, event planning, etc.). Students will have the opportunity to start developing a personalized business plan with guidance and feedback from brewery owners. There will also be more beer-focused topics like developing recipes, ingredients (purchasing, storing, disposing, water testing), brewing basics, beer packaging, on-site serving and running a tap room, distributing and beer analytics. Other speciality topics will include innovative brewing, starting a brew pub, food pairing and brewery collaborations. Students who are interested in learning more about starting a brewery after the workshop are encouraged to check out UNH’s new craft brewing minor program, which will be offered starting next year. “Being savvy about product quality … that’s the real driver of success and the piece I always hear brewers coming back to,” LaBelle said. “I think there are still opportunities in the market if you prioritize quality, are methodical and can find your unique place in the market.”
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from owner Ron Boucher’s cooking school, and the head chef is one of Boucher’s former students. The bistro offers specials, a small-plates menu and a regular menu. The Scene talked food with the bistro’s bookkeeper, David Greer, and got a sneak peek at the kitchen, where Chef Aaron Duvall shared his favorite dish.
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How long has Savory Square Bistro open? Since February of 2012, four years. What do you think sets Savory Square Bistro apart from other dining options? Well, the food. It’s fine dinning in a casual environment. Everything we serve we make right here. There [are] no prepared foods. Everything is fresh and local. What is an essential skill that keeps Savory Square Bistro running smoothly? Top-notch customer service. Do you know how Savory Square Bistro originated? Yes. The owner, Ron Boucher, had been running the cooking school here for a number of years and decided to open the restaurant here as a complementary endeavour, hoping that some students
from the cooking school may be apprentices or work in the kitchen or restaurant. The restaurant would then bring interest to the cooking school, so it’s a synergistic idea. If you could serve any type of celebrity or political figure that is alive or dead, who would it be? I think it would be Jaques Pepin because he’s a French chef, so I’d like to see what he thinks of our food. Can we expect any menu changes with the changing of the seasons? Yes. We’re going to be putting out a new fall menu ... in the middle of September. We also have a small-plates menu that changes every month. What has been the best-selling menu item of the summer? I would say it’s the steak au poivre. It’s kind of a toss-up between the steak
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Exeter Fine Crafts celebrates its 50th anniversary at Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Gallery with “Rock Paper Scissors: 50 Years of Exeter Fine Crafts,” on view now through Oct. 15 with a reception Friday, Sept. 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., and a gallery talk Saturday, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. The show features more than 150 pieces by 60 member artists in a traditional gallery setting, a five-minute walk from EFC’s shop and classroom space on Water Street. Lamont Gallery Director and Curator Lauren K. O’Neal, also a new EFC board member, arranged the pieces by aesthetic themes — color palettes, shapes, gestures — with the help of volunteers. It’s caused her to see the art in a new way. “I knew I loved the work, because I had seen it at the shop, but you look at it differently when you start to arrange it in a show. You look at it closely, or you see it in a new light,” O’Neal said during an interview at the gallery, a day before it was set to open. “[At the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair], there are a lot of artists, a lot of tents, but down here, people can really look at the objects individually.” Lit by gallery lights, along the walls, in cases and on shelves, are every kind of fine craft imaginable: scarves, jewelry, ceramics, woven baskets, prints, multimedia collages, framed pressed botanicals, sculptures, pillows and stoneware arches. Many of the featured craftspeople, O’Neal said, pay close attention to materials; for instance, Sharon Dugan’s baskets contain wood from New Hampshire forests. Joan Szoke’s pressed botanical designs are made from florals she grew herself, and Terri Talas created pictural animal carvings from shedded caribou antlers. Others capture local scenes — like William Mitchell’s white mountain and birch tree prints and Doug Johnson’s framed beaded depiction of Phillips Exeter Academy. Plenty are utilitarian, but a large portion are purely decorative. “I don’t think people are as worried about what is fine craft and what is fine art. I think those things are merging together,” O’Neal said. “Having the show in a gallery like this, they can branch out and show some of their other pieces.” EFC is actually older than 50 years; when it first began, it was Exeter Home Industries Group and encouraged one-person businesses, promoting self-sufficiency during the Great Depression. A volunteer staff ran the cooperative organization, EFC store Manager Janice Earley said during an interview at the
shop, and community members learned new skills and sold their work, from baked goods to crafts. In 1966, EFC became a satellite gallery for the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen (though at the time it was called the Exeter Craft Center, the sign for which still hangs in EFC’s downstairs classroom studio space). It had 280 members and opened with a $750 grant from a charitable trust and $400 from the League in the Masonic building on Water Street. The shop featured work by League members, and local craftspeople accepted into the shop via a jury began offering classes in jewelry making, pottery, weaving, basket making, stained glass art and chip carving. But some of the most defining changes happened the past 20 years. In 2001, it began running as an independent arts and crafts gallery separate from the League, which at the time was beginning to standardize its practices and statewide shops. The goal was to sell more local crafts, not just statewide juried products. “Our board was going in one direction, their board was going in another,” Earley said. “We wanted to get bigger, and we wanted some control over what we could have in here.” EFC members created their own jurying system, one that’s a little less stringent than the League’s, and the store expanded to twice its size the year following. The result, Earley said, is that the gallery and shop are more accessible to beginning artists. In 2012, it became a nonprofit. Today it boasts about 200 juried members, some who’ve been around almost as long as EFC itself; Earley pointed to Dave and Cathy Robinson, Weare ceramicists who’ve been EFC members 49 years. Their royal blue pottery sits in the shop and in the gallery show. O’Neal said the Lamont Gallery’s mission is educational, as it sees members of the public and students from all over the state, in addition to those at Phillips Exeter. The space is often curated to contain artwork and pieces that students and gallery patrons wouldn’t necessarily see otherwise. “I think it’s also important for our students, and the adults who come to the gallery, to know there are these amazing artists and craftspeople living and working today in our midst,” O’Neal said. Earley said she feels lucky EFC has lasted so long. “Fifty years in any business these days is amazing. But to have the community support for an arts business, especially over the last 10 years, when arts businesses have been folding left and right … we were lucky to survive, so we’re very happy. It’s a big celebration for us,” Earley said.
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Memoirs written by parents of children with life-threatening illnesses are never easy to read. In many cases, the child dies and the parents are left trying to find some kind of goodness from the horrible, soul-crushing experience. Often, in an effort to create reason from madness, the parents will start a charity, create a new law, or even raise money toward a cure. In the end, however, the parents of a sick child simply stumble toward hope and pray for a continued direction forward. Falling: A daughter, a father, and a journey back is the memoir of Elisha Cooper, a father who discovers a lump on his 5-year-old daughter’s side when they are at a baseball game. After tests, he and his wife find out that the lump is cancer. Cooper is a children’s book author and illustrator. He is a stay-at-home dad while his wife works in academia. He is the one who picks up his two daughters from school and then takes them to the park to teach them how to throw a ball. He is the one who teaches them with stories. He is the one who feels he has betrayed his family. Falling tells of the three-year journey of surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and endless hours of worry that becomes the new norm. Although the story reflects on Zoe’s cancer, it more squarely sits in the seat of a young father who is trying his hardest to protect his family and who ultimately realizes that when it comes to cancer, all bets are off the table. You can’t protect loved ones from that disease. You can only manage your lives if it comes to visit. This is a memoir of extreme pain and confusion — pain at the thought of losing what has become most precious to Cooper, and confusion at trying to pretend his life is normal. “It’s going to be okay,” the oncologist says before we leave the last time, giving me a hearty handshake. Is it? What is “it”? This unspoken it. But we know what it is. It is everything, and it is all in the biology, and it is what we have become, and we would think more about it but we have a birthday party to plan.” Falling is an unflinching and sometimes darkly humorous account of a father’s absolute love for his family. Fully aware that nothing is under control, Cooper chronicles the times he loses selfcontrol, when he lashes out at others when the unfairness of his daughter’s cancer overcomes him. He smashes a car mirror. He yells at people and then he hides when he realizes he has lost it and doesn’t even
know who he is anymore. His daughter’s illness has changed him forever. But ultimately that’s really what Falling in its truest essence is about. It’s about change and the loss of control felt when you live in a world where you were convinced you would be always able to protect your children — if you just babyproofed enough, if you just made them wear helmets, if you just held them close to you long enough. At one point little Zoe falls and breaks her wrist. “It’s so unfair,” cries the mother. “Enough.” But that’s just it — things like accidents and cancer aren’t fair. Pain and disease can and do happen to anyone. Life doesn’t play by the rules. Cooper manages to get his daughter to a place where she is safe; she makes it to her three-year post-surgery/therapy mark. It’s a very good spot for her to be. But Cooper realizes that the worry of the cancer’s return will never really go away. Not only has Zoe’s life been altered by her cancer, but Cooper’s and the family’s have also been forever changed. There is no more safety. Even so, Cooper does not give in to his fears and instead decides to move forward with humor and inner strength. “Humor is not always pretty, or even funny. Humor may not even be humor. It may just be saying something true. But we use it to shake our fists at all that scares us, and with our laughter the world regains its balance. I’m not sure if we can laugh at all the sadness the inevitably comes into our lives, but do we have a better response?” A — Wendy E.N. Thomas
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Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m., J. Dennis Robinson, will be at the Hampton Falls Free Library (7 Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, N.H., 603-9263682, hamptonfallslibrary. org) to speak about his newest publication, Mystery on the Isles of Shoals: Closing the Case on the Smuttynose Murders of 1873. The event is free and open to the community. The Hampton Falls Free Library (7 Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, N.H., 603-9263682, hamptonfallslibrary.org) will be hosting its annual book sale and craft fair on Sunday, Sept. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A wide variety of hardcovers, paperbacks, audiobooks and more will be available to purchase at prices ranging from 50 cents to $5. The craft fair will be held on the library lawn and will feature talented artisans selling their work.
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Exeter Fine Crafts hosts another show this month down the street at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy (11
Tan Lane, Exeter, 777-3461, exeter.edu/lamontgaller y), “Rock, Paper, Scissors: 50 Years of Exeter Fine Crafts,” which is on view now through Oct. 15, with a reception on Friday, Sept. 16, from 5 to 7 p.m., and a gallery talk on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of Exeter Fine Crafts and features more than 150 pieces representing all kinds of crafts, from metal work and printmaking to glass art and woodworking. Exeter Fine Crafts (61 Water St., Exeter, 778-8282, exeterfinecrafts.com) highlights art by Sibel Alpaslan, its September artist of the month, on view during regular hours (Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., or Sunday noon to 4 p.m.) and an opening reception Saturday, Sept. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m. The show contains pottery by Alpaslan that pays homage to her native country, Turkey, full of color, texture and whimsy. Alpaslan is a juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and lives in Newburyport, Mass.
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Friday, Sept. 16, the Telluride by the Sea Film Festival hosted by the Portsmouth Music Hall (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603-4362400, themusichall.org) begins. Film screenings will begin on Friday at 5:30 p.m. and continue until Sunday, Sept. 18, until 6:45 p.m. A weekend pass for all the films cost $90. Individual film tickets cost $15. A patron pass costs $210 and includes primary seating for all films. Seating is general admission, though patron passholders will be admitted first, weekend passholders next, and finally individual film ticket-holders. The Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester, N.H., 603-335-1992, RochesterOperaHouse.com) invites the community to attend a preview party for the new Performance and Arts Center on Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. The center is expected to be completed by 2017. Complimentary refreshments will be served as the public’s questions are answered about the new center to house all things art- and
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performance-related. The Music Hall’s Historic Theater (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603-4362400, the musichall.org) shows the new comedy film Thank God for Jokes, starring Mike Birbiglia, on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. Directed by Seth Barrish, this film is a portrayal of Birbiglia’s comedy career and how far one can go when telling a joke. Tickets cost $39.50. The Rochester Opera House (City Hall, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, N.H., 603-3351992, RochesterOperaHouse.
com) presents Your Husband is an Idiot! on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. The comedic show will star people like Jimmy Dunn from CBS’ The McCarthys, Tony V, who has been on Conan, Seinfeld, Louie, and Ghostbusters, and Kelly MacFarland, who has been on Comedy Central Premium Blend and The View. The proceeds will benefit the Working Dog Foundation, which focuses on the training and care of police K-9s. The Players’ Ring’s 25th season begins with Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, with
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a Boston comedy scene when he and some friends began doing shows at Cambridge’s Ding Ho Chinese restaurant in the early 1980s. “We were rock stars. The best time of my life,” he said. Clarke was a key resource for Fran Solomita’s 2003 film. “I’m kind of a comedy historian,” he said. “Back then, I had guys like Rodney Dangerfield and George Carlin on my speed dial, when those were a thing.” There is an item lingering on Clarke’s bucket list. “I’d like to get one more syndicated television series,” he said. “Then I can ride off into the sunset and be the Marlon Brando of Martha’s Vineyard.” Since his 1991 breakout hit Lenny,
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The upscale clothier Barneys New York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” (from the high-end brand Golden Goose) that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbledtogether, as if they were shoes recovered from a Dumpster. The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim. Critics were in abundance, accusing Barneys of mocking poverty.
News that sounds like a joke
(1) The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging (through Oct. 30) a tribute to the late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. (2) A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of a brain-eating amoeba that he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County.
Government in action
• The Drug Enforcement Administration has schemed for several years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so that the DEA can interview them with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect”
that the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed that the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge results, almost never get all their money back (and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two actually resulted in charges). One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA. • Update: In August, the Defense Department’s inspector general affirmed once again (following on 2013 disclosures) that the agency has little knowledge of where its money goes this time admitting that the Department of the Army had made $6.5 trillion in accounting “adjustments” that appeared simply to be made up out of thin air, just to get the books balanced for 2015. (In part, the problem was laid to 16,000 financial data files that simply disappeared with no trace.) “As a result,” reported Fortune magazine, “there has been no way to know how the Defense Department, far and away the biggest chunk of Congress’s annual budget, spends the public’s money.”
to have a customer service program titled “Thanks.” Citigroup had pointed out that it holds trademarks for customer service titles “thankyou,” “citi thankyou,” “thankyou from citi” and “thankyou your way,” and had tried to block the program name “AT&T Thanks.” • The July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement. Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout offered only a maximum of $30,000 for the worstoff victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’s attack, ruled for the theater, making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s expenses defending against the lawsuit ($699,000).
room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery, a procedure that took 40 minutes. (The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement but insisted that, no matter his purpose at the hospital, he in fact had hemorrhoids, and they were removed.) • Evidently, many Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty in confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee (a New York Times dispatch said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars”), the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate the mistress’s life” and ultimately convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.
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Flooding from rains in August tore down a basement wall of the Connellsville (Pennsylvania) Church of God, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the first-floor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage is not covered, as rain is an “act of God.” (Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.) Visit weirduniverse.net.
• Misunderstandings: (1) “Mr. L,” 31, a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. (2) In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, awaiting his wife’s childbirth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse to wave him into a
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