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on the cover 10 To get through the holiday season, with all its parties and gatherings and family dinners. John Fladd presents to you 54 recipes — from cookies and ice creams to potatoes au gratin and scallion pancakes. And, for the nights when you just can’t with cooking — drinks! Photo at right and on the cover by John Fladd. Also on the cover Mya Blanchard looks at the paper ornaments at the League of NH Craftsmen gallery in Nashua. Henry Homeyer considers the garden chores of November. Michael Witthaus talks to Panorama, which will pay tribute to The Cars at a Tupelo Music Hall show also featuring Bikini Whale and its take on The B-52s.

Inside this week NEWS & NoteS 4 news in brief 6 Q&A 7 Sports 8 Quality of Life Index 9 this week

the Arts 22 New at the Nashua Fine Craft Gallery 23 arts roundup Inside/Outside 24 Gardening Guy Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors. 26 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic. 26 Kiddie Pool Family fun events this weekend. 28 Car Talk Automotive advice. Food 30 Weekly Specials 815 reopens in Manchester; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Drinks with John Fladd Pop Culture 34 Reviews CDs, books and more. Amy Diaz basically enjoyed The Marvels and suggests all MCU movies have more Flerkens. NITE 37 Bands, clubs, nightlife Nite Roundup, concert & comedy listings and more. 38 Music this Week Live music at your favorite bars and restaurants. 42 Comedy this Week Where to find laughs 42 Concerts Big ticket shows. 42 Trivia Nights Find some friendly competition. Odds & Ends 43 Jonesin’ Crossword 43 ken ken, word roundup 44 Rock N’ Roll Crossword 44 sudoku 45 Signs of Life 45 7 little words 46 News of the Weird

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NEWS & NOTES Livable NH

AARP has unveiled the 10 top-scoring livable communities in New Hampshire according to its new AARP Livability Index. According to a press release, this index evaluates factors crucial for aging populations, such as housing, transportation, neighborhood elements, environment, health and community engagement. The highest-ranking communities in New Hampshire are Hanover, Lebanon, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Concord, Keene, Littleton, Goffstown, Peterborough and Manchester. While these communities have shown progress in job availability, environmental aspects and civic involvement, they all require improvements, particularly in housing affordability and access, as well as proximity to key destinations. The AARP Livability Index is a comprehensive tool that scores communities across the U.S. based on services and amenities impacting aging individuals, aiming to bridge the gap between current community provisions and the needs of older adults. The platform, accessible online at aarp. org/livabilityindex, allows users to search for scores by address, ZIP code or community and includes new features like the “Community Finder Quiz” and climate data for each location.

Organic rules

The organic certification process in New Hampshire is facing significant changes. According to a press release from the Free State Food Network, the National Organic Program, a federal standard for

crops and livestock, has grown into a $50 billion industry but is now challenged by issues such as funding, potential corruption and lack of transparency. The New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food (NHDAMF), the current accrediting agent for organic certification in the state, is considering relinquishing its role due to staffing challenges, rigorous program standards, and an outdated fee structure. While this move might end state enforcement of organic certification, it wouldn’t halt the issuance of certifications, as other agents could step in to fill the gap. Two legislative service requests are in place to address this issue: LSR 2024-2473 advocates for an agreement with the USDA for organic certification, while LSR 2024-2167 proposes removing the responsibility from the NHDAMF. Concerns have been raised about the National Organic Program’s governance, suggesting it now leans more toward commercial interests rather than the ethical and safety standards initially intended.

Future workforce

ApprenticeshipNH, a workforce program of the Community College System of New Hampshire, is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week from Nov. 13 through Nov. 19. According to a press release, the program, focusing on high-demand fields like advanced manufacturing, health care, IT and more, combines classroom instruction with on-the-job training in an “earn-while-you-learn” model. The highlight of the week is the first-ever ApprenticeshipNH

Summit on Nov. 17, aimed at strengthening New Hampshire’s workforce by connecting employers, career seekers and community organizations. The summit will feature interactive workshops, networking opportunities and Champion Recognitions for businesses and individuals leading in apprenticeship initiatives. Funded primarily by U.S. Department of Labor grants, ApprenticeshipNH has established more than 100 apprenticeship programs and supported 1,300 apprentices since its inception in 2017.

The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) has been honored for the eighth consecutive year by StateWays Magazine in the Control State Best Practices Awards, according to a press release. Recognized for its alcohol responsibility programming and retail innovations, NHLC won awards for “Best On-Premise Partnership” for its New Hampshire Mocktail Month program and “Best Retail Innovation” for the ‘Tis the Season marketing campaign. New Hampshire Mocktail Month, initiated in 2020 in partnership with Brown-Forman, involves the state’s restaurant community in promoting alcohol-free “mocktails” to encourage responsible drinking. The ‘Tis the Season campaign, conducted during the 2022 holiday season, effectively used various media platforms to enhance customer engagement and sales.

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Capital trip

On Tuesday, Nov. 14, more than 50 small business owners from across the country, including a group from New Hampshire, visited Washington, D.C., to address challenges regarding access to affordable capital, according to a press release. In response to the Federal Reserve’s consideration of the Basel III Endgame regulation, which is expected to increase the cost of business loans and credit lines, these business owners met with more than 40 lawmakers and senior Federal Reserve officials. They aimed to highlight the

negative impact of this regulation on small businesses and presented a comment letter signed by more than 3,000 small business owners nationwide, with 44 signatories from New Hampshire. New Hampshire representatives included Dina Akel of Vieira Luxe, Shira Nafshi of The Trainer’s Loft, Danya Landis of Machina Kitchen & ArtBar, Celeste Burns of Burns Automotive Services, and Toutou Marsden of Dell-Lea Weddings & Events. Their efforts were part of a larger initiative to advocate for small businesses in the current high interest rate environment.

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Mark Nalbandian of Bedford is a Navy veteran and caregiver at 360 SHS, a Bedford-based organization that offers home care and pairs senior caregivers with elderly clients in need. He delves into his journey from serving in the military to providing care for fellow veterans and shares his experiences and insights on how this transition has shaped his personal growth and impacted the broader community’s perspective on veteran care.

How has meaningful and we can your expeconverse for hours. I rience as a love it. I worked for Navy Airman a few concepts before shaped your approach discovering 360 SHS, to caregiving? and five years later I I spent six years in know this is the last job the Navy and during that I will ever work. I don’t do it for the monthat time I learned ey. I do it because it is quite a few great life important and I pride skills, such as commumyself on being able nication, consistency to support my fellow and the importance of showing up ready to veterans. work every day. I have XXMark Nalbandian. Courtesy photo. How has your work had the privilege to at 360 SHS impacted care for three seniors who are Korean conflict veterans. I am the community’s understanding of vetcurrently caring for one of these clients eran care? still. It means the world for me to be 360 SHS was doing a great job of carable to support fellow veterans as they ing for veterans before I was brought on five years ago. However, I can bring age in place. a different perspective, being a veterWhat were some challenges you an myself, and have been able to build faced transitioning from military ser- great relationships with senior veterans throughout the community. 360 SHS vice to a caregiving role? After my time in the Navy, I spent understands the importance of matching 25 years in commercial concrete, fol- veteran caregivers with veteran clients lowed by a building contractor and real as they are able to create meaningful estate career. I began working with [360 relationships. It feels good to help vetSHS owner] Judy Loubier about five erans — and other seniors — age in years ago. I got sick in 2008-2009 with place without having to get dragged out stage 4 head and neck cancer. I faced to a nursing home. I feel better knowing some harsh treatments and needed con- that they get to stay in their home and stant care while I was recovering. Once I not have to leave their life behind after recovered, I saw my dad in the hospital. bravely serving our country. When he was picked up by an ambuWhat advice would you give to vetlance to bring him to the care facility, I inquired about the profession and what erans considering a caregiving career an average day looks like and it inspired post-service? Do it! It is a lot more meaningful than me to try something new. Now, communication, companionship and everyday when I was building bridges in my prechores are a big part of my job. It’s real- vious career. I never saw myself doing ly meaningful to help keep seniors and this job, but I love it and know I will do this until the day I retire. 360 SHS helps veterans safe and prevent falls. hire active reservists, knowing they What personal significance does car- might have to up and leave. They proing for fellow veterans hold for you, vide services for veterans who can get and how has it influenced your growth paired with 360 SHS through the VA. 360 SHS offers a lot of recognition and since your military service? I am in my mid to late 60s and the appreciation during Veterans Day and veteran clients like the commonality of outreach to all veteran clients and careand mutual understanding of being vet- givers. — Angie Sykeny erans. The related experiences are so

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The week that was The Big Story – Pats Elevator Going Down: During the first run of the TV show Frasier, when things were really going bad for Frasier Crane he would pretend he was in an elevator and say, “going down.” Well, after the Patriots’ latest disaster, this time in Germany, the elevator on Coach B’s time in New England is descending so rapidly it’s like the cable snapped and the safety protocols aren’t working either. The latest in a series of debacles came in the form of a 10-6 baseball-like score vs. Indianapolis on Sunday, sending them into the bye at a surreal 2-8. Talk radio will be ablaze with (1) will Coach B still be on the sidelines when they return in two weeks? (2) Mac Jones has punched his ticket out of town, and (3) with no chance of pulling out of their nosedive should they just tank to enter the Caleb Williams sweepstakes? Given all that, no sports radio for me, because none of it will be about finding solutions. Just pointing the finger of blame. Sports 101: Who has committed the most fumbles in NFL history? News Item – Pritchard’s Shooting Woes: Earth to Joe Mazzulla: Payton Pritchard may be short, but he’s not a point guard. The reason he’s shooting under 30 percent is that he can’t shake defenders for room to shoot. If you want points off the bench, let Jayson Tatum play point forward and spot up Pritchard behind the line, because what he is is a catch-and-shoot guy. News Item – Rookies on Record Paces: Since Gale Sayers set an all-time NFL record with 22 TDs it will be tough to become the best NFL rookie ever. But Houston’s CJ Stroud and L.A. Ram wideout Puka Nacua are giving it the old college try. Stroud is on pace for 4,958 passing yards, which would obliterate Andrew Luck’s record 4,374 from 2012. And he has a shot at Justin Herbert’s record of 31 TD passes, though he’ll need to pick it up a bit as he’s on track for 28. As for Puka, he’s at 60 catches and 800 yards, which will give 120 catches and 1,562 receiving yards in 17 games and take him by Jaylen Waddle’s and Ja’Marr Chase’s 104 and 1,455 respective records. News Item – 76ers Minus Harden: It was just one game, but what was evident when Philly beat the Celtics last week was that they are better without James Harden. And not just because he dominates the

ball and can’t cover my grandmother. With Harden’s dominating days over, the emerging Tyrese Maxey is just better. The Numbers: 11 – a not bad losing margin by the basketball team at the U when they lost to Syracuse in the Dome 83-72. 28 – Not so much for Dartmouth when they got smoked by Duke in a 92-64 loss the same day. 520 – million dollars over 10 years ESPN.com projects Shohei Ohtani will get in free agency this winter despite his injury-riddled career. … Of the Week Awards What A Stupid I Yam: To me for omitting in last week’s Sports 101 that Russell Westbrook joins Harden and Bob McAdoo as MVPs who’ve been traded four times. Thumbs Down – Barf-Inducing Moment: I can take bad extra uniforms to juice merchandise sales, an in-season tournament I don’t get, even Tatum wearing hot pink sneaks, but I draw the line at having a non-parquet floor in the Garden at any time, like for the NBA’s new in-season tournament games. Come on, Adam Silver, that’s like tearing down the wall at Fenway for the All-Star game. Boooo. Barf. Booo. Sports 101 Answer: Brett Favre is the all-time leader with 166, which means that since he’s also the interception leader with 336 he turned it over more than 500 times in his career. In case you’re interested, Tom Brady is sixth with 138, while it’s astonishing Peyton Manning is ranked 59th with just 75. Final Thought – Injured List: Those who said they were willing to include Rob Williams (which I was not) in the Celtics deal for Jrue Holiday because he’s injury-prone were right on the money last week. Lob It To Rob didn’t even make it out of the year’s first week before being lost for the season after knee surgery. My fret was over lack of depth and that they were giving up the eventual replacement to Horford. But with the injury-prone Malcolm Brogdon now out with hamstring issues too, if they’d stayed the C’s depth would be even worse. Ironically the injury news came on the same day Al Horford sat out to avoid playing back-to-back games. But the C’s won anyway when Pritchard and Sam Hauser had 28 bench points in a win over Brooklyn. So, as Casey Stengel used to say, you never know. Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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The 2023 “State of Lung Cancer” report by the American Lung Association highlights New Hampshire’s notable performance in managing lung cancer. The state ranks 5th nationally in surgical treatment rates for lung cancer and 9th in survival, with a 28.9 percent survival rate, surpassing the national average of 26.6 percent. In early diagnosis, New Hampshire is 10th in the nation with 28.4 percent of cases diagnosed early, compared to the national average of 26.6 percent. The state also ranks 14th in lung cancer screening, with a 7 percent screening rate, significantly higher than the national rate of 4.5 percent. QOL score: +1 Comment: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the state and nationally, and New Hampshire ranks 36th for the rate of new lung cancer cases, with 61 cases per 100,000 people.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire has announced an initiative to improve access to behavioral health care by reducing member copays for both in-person and virtual behavioral health visits, effective Jan. 1, 2024. According to a press release, these reduced copays will be equal to or lower than those for primary care visits. The company has also expanded its network with new providers who offer bundled services at a single monthly copay, instead of billing separately, making multiple or concurrent treatments more accessible and affordable for members. The reduced copay initiative applies to all of Anthem’s health plans in the fully insured large group, small group and individual markets in New Hampshire, and is also offered to self-funded plans. QOL score: +1 Comment: “Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health and high cost shares should not be a barrier to getting on the path to recovery and good health,” Maria Proulx, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, said in the release.

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Eversource is alerting customers to be wary of scammers during the holiday season, when scam activities often rise. Scammers, posing as Eversource representatives, are using advanced tactics to extort money and personal information through threatening calls, emails, and fake websites. Eversource emphasizes that its representatives never demand payment through prepaid debit cards or Bitcoin ATMs or by arranging meetings at stores, and they do not solicit for third-party energy suppliers. Customers should verify any suspicious Eversource representative, as legitimate employees have photo IDs and wear company-branded clothing. Disconnection notices are always sent in writing. If uncertain about the legitimacy of a call or visit, customers should contact Eversource directly, using contact information available on their bills. QOL score: -2 Comment: For additional safety tips, customers can visit the Utilities United Against Scams website at utilitiesunited.org. QOL score: 88 Net change: 0 QOL this week: 88 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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The 2023 Feztival of Trees runs today through Sunday, Nov. 26, at the Bektash Shriners of New Hampshire Shrine Center (189 Pembroke Road in Concord; bektashshriners.org, 225-5372). Except for Thanksgiving, the event will be open daily: Saturday, Nov. 18, and Sunday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Monday, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 21, and Wednesday, Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 24, and Saturday, Nov. 25, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to enjoying the holiday sights, checking out the Candy Cane Cafe and taking a photo with Santa Claus, attendees

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Recipes Delicious dishes for your parties, your family or just yourself this holiday season

Blend all ingredients in your blender. pinch of salt Chill the mixture for several hours or 1 bunch (about 90 grams) cilantro leaves overnight. and stems, roughly chopped Ooh, that recipe looks good; I wonder Churn according to your ice cream 4 egg yolks what’s in it. machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. click This is excellent and very sesame-y, but Heat the milk, salt, sugar and half the OK, this looks like the right recipe. even better when you mix in: cream (¾ cup/188 grams) to just below boilUh, huh. Yes, I’m sure your Uncle Oswald ing, about 175ºF. was very fond of this recipe. I might like to Remove from heat. Steep the cilantro, covSesame Brittle make it myself. ered, for 1 hour. ¾ cup (160 grams) white scroll, scroll Strain to remove the spent cilantro. sugar Yes, that’s a very nice photo of the finished Add the egg yolks to the now green mix¼ cup (85 grams) rose jam dish— ture and, stirring constantly, bring back to pinch of coarse sea salt scroll, scroll 175º. ½ teaspoon ground sumac and of your Uncle Oswald. Or — Bring the mixture back to 175º, then 1 Tablespoon water scroll, scroll temper in the egg yolks. 1 ¾ cups (125 grams) sesame seeds No, I don’t want to buy all the ingredients Strain the mixture into the remaining 1 Tablespoon coconut oil for the recipe. You haven’t even told me what cream. Stir, then chill for several hours or ¼ teaspoon baking soda they are yet. overnight. 1 teaspoon rose water scroll, scroll Churn according to your ice cream Yes, I’m glad your family likes it, too. Cook the sugar, jam, salt, sumac, water machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. Especially your picky 8-year-old. and sesame seeds over medium heat, stirring scroll, scroll often. Everything should melt together. Cook Fortune Cookie Yes, I’m sure he’s very precious to you, until it reaches 305ºF. Brickle for Topping and I’m glad he’s gotten over his night terrors. Quickly stir in the remaining ingredients Ice Cream With scroll, scroll — the oil, baking soda and rose water. 2 cups (106 grams) lightly OH, COME ON!!! Pour onto an oiled silicone baking mat This has happened to all of us. We want a or parchment paper. Smooth out so it’s very crushed fortune cookies with the wrappers and fortunes removed recipe and end up having to wade through a thin. 3 Tablespoons melted butter lot of non-recipe exposition to get to it. It’s Let cool, then break into small pieces. ¼ cup sugar very frustrating. Because it’s a couple of weeks before the This is a delicious, nutty and floral hard Mix all ingredients together. holidays (possibly the most recipe-inten- candy that will last about one week in an airBake on a baking sheet for 20 to 25 minsive time of year) here are 54 recipes — for tight container. If you have one of those little breads, desserts, main dishes, feed-a-crowd “Do Not Eat” dehydration envelopes, put it in utes at 275º F. Cool, and store in an airtight container for food, tastiness for when you in this season the container with the sesame brittle. It will just need tastiness — with virtually no (addi- help keep it from getting too sticky. Even bet- several days. tional) exposition. ter, break it into smaller pieces and mix it in

By John Fladd

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Sesame Crunch Ice Cream

1½ cups (190 grams) tahini paste. I like Krinos brand. 1 scant cup (180 grams) white sugar 3 cups (660 grams) half-and-half, or nondairy cream large pinch coarse sea salt 1 Tablespoon dark sesame oil Hippo | November 16 - 22, 2023 | Page 10

with your sesame ice cream before hardening it in your freezer.

Totally Delicious, YesI’m-Serious, Cilantro Ice Cream for the Brave of Heart

¾ cup (188 grams) whole milk 1¾ cups (113 grams) white sugar 1½ cups (376 grams) heavy cream

Line a springform pan with parchment paper. Blend all the ingredients in your blender for 5 minutes. Pour into your lined springform pan, and bake for 45 to 50 minutes. It will be very brown. Don’t let that shake you. Remove from oven and cool thoroughly before de-panning.

This is delicious, rustic and not too sweet. It is excellent with a large glass of very cold milk.

Marzipan Sorbet

⅔ cup (180 grams) almond butter ⅗ cup (180 grams) white

sugar 3 cups (660 grams) unsweetened almond creamer. You could use half-and-half for this, but the almond-based creamer will make this even almondier. 4 Tablespoons/2 ounces (72 grams) orgeat (almond syrup) ½ loaf (99 grams) marzipan, cubed. (Marzipan is a sweetened almond paste. You can find it in the baking section of your supermarket, or online.)

Rustic Basque Cheesecake

3 8-ounce packages of cream cheese, or 24 ounces of soft goat

cheese 1 cup (200 grams) white sugar 5 whole eggs (minus, you know, the shells) ¾ cup (170 grams) heavy cream ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt Preheat your oven to 500ºF.

Rustic Basque Cheesecake. Photo by John Fladd.

sugar 7 egg yolks 2 teaspoons vanilla

Combine the cream and sugar, then heat over medium heat until just before boiling (175ºF/80ºC), then temper in the egg yolks. Or — Heat the cream, sugar and egg yolks to 175ºF, whisking constantly. Orange Crinkle Cookies. Photo by John Fladd. Strain, to make sure there aren’t any bits of cooked egg, then add the vanilla and chill. Blend all the ingredients except the This is delicious on anything British, or on marzipan. Apple Bundt Cake. Chill for several hours or overnight. Churn according to your ice cream machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. During the final minute of churning, add the cubes of marzipan.

Orange Crinkle Cookies (18 vegan cookies)

These are excellent, and espeIf you are not yet a fan of marzipan, you cially good if you are baking for a classroom, will be after trying this. It is especially good Girl Scout troop, etc., and don’t know who is with a slice of banana bread. dairy-intolerant or allergic to eggs. 1 Tablespoon flax meal or egg replacer, Apple Bundt Cake mixed with 3 Tablespoons water 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled 1 box orange cake mix and diced (about 440 grams) ½ teaspoon orange extract 3 cups (360 grams) all-pur½ cup orange soda pose flour ½ cup (70 grams) chopped, candied orange 1 teaspoon baking soda slices. Trader Joe’s has excellent ones. 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon powdered sugar ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg. If you’ve never grated your own nutmeg, try Preheat the oven to 350ºF. it. You’ll never go back to pre-ground again. Prepare the egg substitute. ½ teaspoon salt Mix all ingredients together. 1½ cups (360 grams) sour cream Chill in the freezer for 30 minutes. 1½ cups (275 grams) white sugar Roll 1-Tablespoon balls of dough in pow½ cup (64 grams) brown sugar dered sugar, and place six to a baking sheet 3 eggs with a silicone mat or parchment paper. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Heat your oven to 325ºF. Cool briefly, then transfer to a cooling Butter and flour your Bundt pan. rack. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Delicious. Orangey. Crinkly. In another bowl, mix the sugars and sour cream. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Cheese Crumb Mix in the diced apples by hand. Pudding from an Pour mixture into your pre-gunked Bundt Obscure Antique pan. Lift the pan and bonk it on your counter 10 times. Cookbook Bake for 70 minutes or until it reaches an 2 cups (110 grams) bread crumbs (I feel internal temperature of 200º F. like you could blitz Triscuits in the food proRemove from the oven. Let it cool for 20 cessor in lieu of fresh bread crumbs) minutes, then remove from the pan. 2 cups (250 grams) shredded, smoked cheddar – I went with an Australian brand This is an outstanding Bundt cake. The called Old Croc, and I was not disappointed apples are tart and still a tiny bit crunchy. The ½ teaspoon dry mustard cake itself is rich but not too sweet. The nut½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper meg and cinnamon shine through. This is 3 Tablespoon jarred salsa (this is playing especially good with Custard Sauce. pinch hitter for pimientos) 2 eggs 1 cup (225 grams) whole milk ¼ teaspoon paprika

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Heat oven to 375º. Generously butter a 9x9” baking dish. Mix the mustard, pepper and paprika together in a small dish. Spread 1/3 of your crumbs over the bottom of the baking dish. Look at them critically. Do they look cold and lonely? Cover them with a blanket of cheddar — half the cheddar. Sprinkle half the seasoning on top of the blanket. You know, like a blessing. Repeat with another layer of crumbs, the rest of the cheddar and the rest of the seasoning. Top with a final layer of crumbs. Mix the milk, eggs and salsa; gently pour over the top of the guys you already have in the baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Remove to a plate and cover with a tea towel, then rebutter your ring/can and make another. Once you have gotten good at this, you might cook two or more crumpets at a time, but because this recipe only makes six, you might want to focus on them individually. These are buttery and salty and chewy. They make excellent Sunday morning treats, or housewarming gifts. Everyone you give them to will insist on putting butter and or jam on them, and they are delicious that way, but also a treat as is.

Sourdough Starter – Yes, for Sourdough Bread, But We’ll Worry About That Another Time

Equal amounts, by weight or volume, of flour and yeast

Imagine very good macaroni and cheese, intensified, and with the macaroni mysteriIn a large container — I use a 1-quart plasously absent. This is extremely decadent, one tic takeout container — thoroughly mix the of the few dishes that will satisfy everyone, flour and water. including picky children and fathers-in-law. Cover it and set it aside for 24 hours. As you do this, tiny yeast cells from the air in your kitchen and clinging to tiny flour parCrumpets – Sort of ticles will start to wake up and do what they Like a Cross do best: give off gas and multiply. Between English The mixture won’t look much different Muffins and than it did the day before. Buttered Toast Pour out half the mixture, then add the 1 cup + 1 Tablespoon (235 grams) warm same amount of flour and water as the prewater vious day. 1½ teaspoons (6 grams) white sugar Stir thoroughly, then set aside for anoth1 Tablespoon (4 grams) yeast er day. 1½ cups (180 grams) all-purpose flour Repeat this every day for a week or so. You 1 teaspoon (4 grams) coarse sea salt will start to notice a yeastiness to the mixture. 1 teaspoon (4 grams) baking powder At that point you can use it in sourdough-y lots of butter recipes, like sourdough biscuits. The longer you keep your starter — feeding it regularCombine the water, sugar and yeast. Let sit ly — the more sour and delicious it will get. for 5 to 10 minutes to give the yeast a head Once it is thoroughly established, you can start. reduce the feedings to three per week. If you Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a are going away on vacation, you can store medium-sized bowl, preferably a metal one. it without feeding for several weeks in the Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones refrigerator. and whisk thoroughly to combine. Leave the batter to rise in a warm-water Sourdough Biscuits bath for 45 minutes. 1 teaspoon white sugar Heat a frying pan or skillet to about 375º ¾ cup (130 grams) all-pur— about as hot as you would for pancakes. pose flour Butter the inside of a pastry ring or a small 1½ teaspoons (7 grams) baking powder can with the top and bottom removed. Place ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt it on the hot skillet. ½ cup (1 stick) butter Add a dollop of butter, then three large 1 cup (264 grams) sourdough starter spoonfuls of batter into the ring/can. Using pancake-making skills, fry the proFreeze the butter in your freezer for at least to-crumpet in the browning butter, until it is 1 hour. ready to flip over. I usually wait until there are Preheat your oven to 425º. a few non-popping bubbles on the surface. Combine the sugar, flour, salt and baking Remove the ring/can — if you buttered it powder. liberally enough, it should slide right off. Using a box grater, grate the butter into Flip your crumpet and cook in more but- the flour mixture. If it starts getting melty on ter, until it is golden brown on the other side.

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your hands, roll it around in the flour. With your hands, toss the butter in the flour mixture until it is thoroughly combined. (This is the technique I’ve been using for my pie crusts lately, and it works very nicely.) Add the sourdough starter, and mix to combine. You will end up with a very shaggy dough. Turn it out onto a floured countertop. Pat the dough into a 5x7” rectangle, about the same size as a postcard. Flip it over so that both sides are floury and not too sticky. Fold the dough in half, then pat it out to postcard-size. Flip it around in the flour as necessary. Fold, pat and flip the dough a total of eight times. As you do this, you are building up layers in the dough. Each time you do this, it will become a little smoother and biscuit-doughy. Pat the dough out into a 7x9” rectangle. Using a large knife or a bench scraper, cut the edges off. As you’ve been patting the dough out, you’ve been pinching the edges a little. Cutting the edges off will allow the biscuits to rise, with lots of layers. Cut the dough to make six biscuits. Use the off-cuts to make spiral-shaped, wonky biscuits. These will not rise as well or look as pretty, but they will also be delicious. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. This will vary, depending on how accurate your oven is. Watch very carefully the first time you do this to get your specific time. In my kitchen, it is 17 minutes. Nobody from the South will believe you, but these might be the best biscuits you ever have.

Strawberry Ice Cream

2⅔ cups (450 grams) frozen strawberries, thawed (The freezing makes the berries give up more juice. Plus, the frozen ones are less expensive than fresh.) ½ cup (175 grams) strawberry preserves 1 generous cup (240 grams) heavy cream 1 Tablespoon (18 grams) lemon juice More strawberry preserves for layering in

Sourdough Starter. Photo by John Fladd.

Biscuits. Photo by John Fladd.

Blend all the ingredients in your blender. Strain — otherwise the ice cream might be a little too seedy. Churn according to your ice cream machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. Layer the soft ice cream with more strawberry preserves before freezing.

This is extra strawberry-y and not too sweet. It’s totally worth making once per week, especially in the winter, when you are feeling sun-deprived.

Potatoes au Gratin

12-ounce can evaporated milk 2 cloves garlic 2 Tablespoons butter 1½ pounds (700 grams) potatoes – waxy red potatoes would work well for this, but there really are no wrong potatoes for this dish – peeled and sliced thin 2 cups (200 grams) grated cheese – I like the pre-grated, bagged cheese from the supermarket, but again, there really is no wrong cheese for this salt and pepper

Preheat your oven to 425º. Warm the evaporated milk and one crushed clove of garlic, and leave it to steep for 30 minutes. Rub the inside of a casserole dish with the other clove of garlic, then butter it thoroughly with 2 Tablespoons of the butter. Put down the potatoes and cheese in three layers, salting and peppering each one. Strain the warm milk mixture over the potatoes. Dot the top with the remaining Tablespoon butter. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. The top should be golden brown.

You’ve got your french fries, your Tater Tots, even your mashed potatoes, but this may be the prince of potato dishes.

the paprika at your discretion. You really want a rich, smoky flavor in the background, though. Cook for another five minutes or so. Add the milk. If you are using fresh sweet corn, chop the cobs in half and use them, too. They will make the chowder extra-corny. Bring to a simmer, then cook on low heat for 60 minutes. Season to taste and serve with bread and butter. This is probably the easiest soup you will ever make from scratch. If you wanted, you could make this entirely from frozen vegetables and still impress picky chowder purists.

Coffee Ice Cream

½ cup (170 grams) sourdough starter 2 Tablespoons (28 grams)

2 cups (454 grams) heavy water ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt cream 1 teaspoon baking powder 1½ cups (375 grams) 2 or 3 scallions, finely chopped half-and-half a large handful of fresh herbs, chopped – I ½ cup (100 grams) white sugar like chives and basil; cilantro is always good pinch of coarse sea salt 1 teaspoon sesame oil ¾ cup (50 grams) ground coffee oil for frying 1 Tablespoon vanilla Set aside 1¼ cups of heavy cream, and the vanilla. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a small saucepan, and heat to hot-but-not-boiling (about 150º). Remove from heat and let it steep, covered, for about an hour. Strain the coffee mixture into the rest of the cream. Add the vanilla. Chill for several hours or overnight. Churn according to your ice cream machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. This is outstanding coffee ice cream, but be warned that two scoops of it before bed kept me awake until 4 a.m.

Corn Chowder

1 stick (8 ounces) butter 1 small or ½ large white or yellow onion, chopped 4 ears sweet corn, cut from the cob; alternatively, one small bag of frozen corn 1 hatch/poblano chili, chopped ½ gallon milk 1 large baking potato, peeled and diced salt, pepper and smoked paprika to taste Melt the butter in a large soup pan. (If you are a bacon-eater, half a package of bacon, chopped, fried and rendered, will work well too.) Add the onion and corn. Sauté until they have some color. Add the pepper, potatoes and smoked paprika. If you are using bacon, you can skip

Heat the oil in a frying pan until shimmering. Combine all the ingredients, reserving half the scallions. Fry the batter in 3 to 5 batches, sprinkling the reserved scallions on top. Fry on both sides, drain and serve. The more quickly you eat these, the crisper they will be.

Paneer – Fresh Indian Cheese 1 gallon whole milk ⅓ cup vinegar

Heat the milk in a large soup pot, stirring occasionally to keep it from bonding too firmly to the bottom. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat immediately. Stir in the vinegar. Stir for another minute or so, until the milk solids separate from the watery liquid. (This is whey, as in “Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet.”) Line a large colander with a tea towel. Strain the clumpy milk mixture into the towel. After a minute or so, squeeze some of the moisture out of the towel. Set the towel aside to drain for another hour or so. You just made cheese. Cut it into cubes, and store it in your refrigerator to make curries with, like a Paneer-Pistachio Curry.

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Paneer-Pistachio Curry

½ cup (75 grams) cashews 1 bag frozen onions and

peppers 8 to 10 cardamom pods, crushed and placed in a tea strainer 2 or 3 serrano chilies, stemmed, seeded and chopped 1½ teaspoons coarse sea salt 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper ½ cup (75 grams) salted, roasted, shelled pistachios 8 ounces paneer cubes 1 bunch of cilantro leaves and stems, rinsed and chopped Peppermint Stick Ice Cream. Photo by John Fladd. Boil the cashews, peppers/onions, serraThis is a salty, spicy, lightly sweet granola nos and cardamom in 2 cups of water for 10 that will make itself remembered. minutes. Remove the tea strainer, then puree the Peppermint Stick mixture with an immersion blender or in your regular blender. Return to the pot. Ice Cream Stir in the pistachios, paneer, salt and cay3 cups (680 grams) enne. Warm for five minutes. half-and-half Stir in the cilantro and serve with naan. pinch of salt ⅓ cup (65 grams) white sugar This is spicy, nutty, hearty curry. If you 4 crushed candy canes (about 70 grams) think you don’t like curries because you 1 Tablespoons cornstarch don’t like curry powder, this may change Another 4 (70 grams) crushed candy canes your mind. This is a gateway drug to Indian cooking. Combine cream, salt, sugar, the first batch of candy canes, and cornstarch in a medium saucepan. Heat until the candy canes have Granola 2½ cups (225 grams) rolled completely melted and the mixture has thickened. It should look like pink hot chocolate. oats Chill for several hours or overnight. ¼ to ½ cup (75 grams) Churn according to your ice cream coarsely chopped nuts ¼ to ½ cup (70 grams) poppy seeds, sesa- machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. About five minutes before the mixture is me seeds, or a mixture of both done churning, add the second batch of pep3 Tablespoons brown sugar permint candy. ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon This is an outstandingly pepperminty ¼ teaspoon black pepper ice cream and an excellent way to use up ¼ teaspoon cayenne late-season leftover candy canes. ¼ cup (50 grams) vegetable oil ⅓ cup (112 grams) honey 2 Tablespoons vanilla Peanut Butter and

Preheat your oven to 305º. Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly. You might be able to do this with a spatula; you will probably end up using your hands. Drop the mixture onto a silicone sheet or parchment paper on a large baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and stir with a wooden spoon or spatula. Press the mixture down, especially in the corners of the pan. Return to oven and bake for another 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool before breaking into clumps. Hippo | November 16 - 22, 2023 | Page 14

Preheat your oven to 350°. Prepare a Bundt pan — lavishly butter the inside surface with butter, then dust it with crushed peanuts. Measure or weigh out the sour cream, brown sugar and peanut butter in the bowl of your stand mixer, or the bowl that you’re going to finish the cake batter in. Now leave it alone until you are ready for it. Combine all your dry ingredients in a separate bowl. If you worry about such things, go ahead and sift them together; otherwise just stir them together with a spoon. Beat the sour cream, sugar and peanut butter together into a fine goop. When your goop is as light and fluffy as it is going to get, continue beating, adding the eggs one at a time, followed by a glug of vanilla. At this point your mixture is pretty soupy. You’ll be happy to know that it’s time to add the dry ingredients, alternating with the half-and-half. Scrape the sides of your bowl down to make sure that everything has gotten mixed together, then pour a little more than half of your batter into your Bundt pan. Bonk the Bundt pan firmly on the top of the counter twice. This is to make sure that there are no air pockets. If you want to, you could wait until you’ve added all the ingredients. In this particular recipe it might also drive your jam and cherries downward, to what will be the top of the cake, and make visible jam inclusions. In any other cake this would be a bug. In this cake it would be a feature. Gently spoon the jam in a ring around the Bundt pan, on top of the batter you just poured in. Place the cherries in a ring on top of the jam. Pour the rest of the batter into your pan, making sure to cover the jam and cherries. Don’t worry about being particularly neat; the batter will level itself out. Bake at 350° for about half an hour. If you are worried about whether it is completely baked, stab it with a probe thermometer. If it reads over 200° F, you’re fine. Don’t worry about it being overbaked; that’s what the sour cream is there for. It has your back. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 to 20 minutes, then invert it onto a plate. I find that I rise up onto my toes as I make the flip, then come down hard on my heels. I don’t know if that does anything productive, but I like to think that it lets the finished cake know that I mean business.

Roasted Banana Sorbet

3 tired bananas, the type you might find in the sale rack at a supermarket or by the cash register at a convenience store, the type that has seen too much of life – these are the sweet, flavorful ones ⅓ cup (70 grams) brown sugar 1 Tablespoon coconut oil 1⅔ cups (375 grams) non-dairy half-and-half 2 Tablespoons white sugar 1 Tablespoon créme de banana 1½ teaspoons lemon juice ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt

Preheat your oven to 400º. Slice your bananas, and mix with brown sugar and coconut oil. Transfer to an oven-proof pan or dish, and roast for 40 minutes, stirring halfway through. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Combine all ingredients, including the banana mixture, in your blender and blend thoroughly. Chill for several hours or overnight. Churn according to your ice cream machine’s manufacturer’s instructions.

Your kitchen will smell amazing while you roast the bananas. If you have a child who complains about not liking bananas, sympathize with them and eat it all yourself.

Blackberry Syrup

1 bag frozen blackberries An equal amount (by weight) of white sugar 1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Combine the sugar and frozen berries in a medium saucepan over medium heat. At this point you will be extremely skeptical: This mixture looks far too dry to ever turn into syrup. Have patience. Keep stirring the mixture occasionally. As the berries thaw, they are going to give up a surprising amount of liquid. When they froze, ice crystals pierced all the cell walls, and now Jelly Bundt Cake you get all that juice, with very little work. Butter for generously greasKeep stirring, crushing berries wherever ing your Bundt pan possible. Bring to a boil. ⅓ cup (75 grams) finely chopped dry-roastLet the syrup boil for five or six seconds ed peanuts to make sure that the sugar has all been dis½ cup (114 grams) sour cream solved, then remove from the heat. 1¼ cup (213 grams) brown sugar Pour the hot syrup through a fine-mesh ½ cup (135 grams) peanut butter strainer to remove all the seeds. There will be 1¾ cup (210 grams) all-purpose flour a lot of them. ¾ teaspoon baking powder Stir in the lemon juice. ½ teaspoon fine sea salt Let the syrup cool, bottle it and store it in ¼ teaspoon baking soda This is a moist, not too sweet snack cake, your refrigerator for a month or so. 3 eggs ideal for sharing with a special friend over ⅓ cup (76 grams) half-and-half This is an excellent topping for ice cream coffee. 1 Tablespoon vanilla or pancakes, but also a surprisingly wonder¾ cup (255 grams) strawberry jam ful ingredient for cocktails. 11 (60 grams) maraschino cherries, stems

Rich and Decadent Peanut Butter Soufflé

2 large eggs, separated ½ cup + 1 Tablespoon (120 grams) brown sugar ¼ cup minus 1 teaspoon (55 grams) peanut butter Small glug of vanilla, about 1 teaspoon pinch of salt Preheat your oven to 350°. Separate your eggs. Do this over the bowl of your stand mixer, or the bowl you will be beating the egg whites in. Everyone has their own method for separating eggs. My preference is to break the shell on a flat surface, like a countertop. (This pretty much eliminates small pieces of shell in the bowl that I have to fish out.) I crack the egg open and pour it into my open hand. I keep my fingers just far apart enough that the egg white will eventually release its hold on the yolk and slip through them into the bowl. Remember to wash your hands before and after doing this. Place the egg yolks in a separate large bowl. Add the brown sugar and peanut butter. Mix well with a spoon. The mixture will be really stiff, so it will be more a matter of mashing than mixing. Add the salt and vanilla to the egg whites, then whisk them to medium peaks. Have you ever seen a cooking show or competition where a baker beats their egg whites, then holds the bowl over their (or a competitor’s) head to show that they are stiff enough? This is what bakers call stiff peaks. That’s a little stiffer than we want for this recipe. We want them to be the consistency where the TV baker starts giggling and it is just enough to make the egg whites slowly glop onto somebody’s head. With a silicone spatula, scoop out about a third of your egg whites and mix them into the peanut butter mixture. This is what professionals call loosening up a stiff base. Go ahead and mix everything together. As the mixture becomes more liquidy and stir-able, the doubt you’ve been feeling about your ability to pull this whole soufflé off will ease up by about 15 percent. This next step is the closest thing to tricky. Use the spatula to scoop out about half the remaining egg whites and put them in the peanut butter bowl. Run the edge of the spatula through the middle of the mess, then sweep it around the edge of the bowl. A tiny bit of the whites will mix together with the base. This is called folding in the egg whites. Even though you can’t see it easily with the naked eye, beaten egg whites are made up of a gazillion tiny bubbles, held together by the sticky proteins in the egg white itself. Remember when your hands felt sticky and gross after separating the eggs? That stickiness is what’s holding those tiny bubbles together. Those

bubbles are what’s going to lighten your soufflé and give it lift. By folding the egg whites into the mixture, instead of just stirring it, you are preserving as many of the bubbles as possible. Keep folding until the whites are mostly incorporated with the base. At this point, your peanut butter mixture should be looking a lot lighter. Your soufflé stress will also lighten up, probably another 15 percent. Fold the rest of the egg whites into the mixture. Gently spoon the mixture into two large ramekins and put them into your preheated oven. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. Your oven and mine are probably different by a few degrees, so you might have to make this recipe a couple of times before you perfect the timing. The good news is that even sub-optimal soufflés are awfully good. Pull the puffed-up soufflés from the oven and serve immediately. The now-baked bubble matrix is proud and puffy, but it will collapse within the next 10 minutes. Serve with something fruity, like Rhubarb Compote.

Rhubarb Compote and Rhubarb Syrup

This recipe is very much like the one for Blackberry Syrup, but at the end of the process you get syrup and compote. rhubarb – cleaned and chopped the same amount of white sugar, by weight juice of half a lemon Freeze the chopped rhubarb for several hours or overnight. This will allow ice crystals to pierce all the cell walls. Heat the frozen rhubarb and sugar in a saucepan. As it thaws, the rhubarb will give off quite a bit of liquid. If you want to help the process along, you can crush the rhubarb with a potato masher. Bring the mixture to a boil to ensure that the sugar has dissolved completely. Remove from heat. Stir in the lemon juice. Strain the mixture with a fine-meshed strainer. The liquid is your rhubarb syrup, which makes a delightful Rhubarb Margarita, and the solids are a very nice compote that is delicious on toast or with a Peanut Butter Soufflé. Both will last for two or three weeks in your refrigerator.

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pickled jalapeños canned water chestnuts roasted, salted pecans a tiny amount of sesame oil salt and pepper Chop the egg, onion, jalapeños and water chestnuts. Place in a medium-sized bowl. Add the mayo, sesame oil and pecans to taste. Season to taste.

Carrot Pie. Photo by John Fladd.

Combine all three ingredients with ice in a Sweet Lemon Buns. Photo by John Fladd. cocktail shaker. Shake until the shaker becomes painful to hold. will make a gloppy mess. Strain into a cocktail glass, and drink while Add the flour and salt. Knead with the listening to flamenco music. bread hook on your stand mixer, or by hand for five to 10 minutes. Pull the still-sticky dough into a tight ball, Carrot Pie then place in an oiled bowl to rise. purée of two large carrots – Let the dough rise for one to two hours, about 1½ cups, or 300 grams until it has doubled in size. ½ teaspoon ground ginger Preheat your oven to 350º. ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon With a large knife or bench scraper, divide ½ teaspoon kosher salt the dough into 12 portions. ½ cup (99 grams) sugar Form the portions into proto-buns and 2 whole eggs leave to rise a second time on parchment ½ cups (1 can) evaporated milk paper or a silicone baking sheet, about 20 zest of 1 large orange minutes. 1 pie crust Bake for 20 minutes. Eat, warm from the oven, with too much Preheat the oven to 450º F. Whisk all ingredients together in a medi- butter, or with Egg Foo Yung Salad. um-sized bowl. Pour into the pie crust. Much as with a Egg Foo Yung Salad pumpkin pie, the crust does not need to be I am passionately fond of blind-baked. eggs, but not hard-boiled ones, Bake at 450º for 15 minutes, then lower or, as I like to call them, “sulthe temperature to 325º and bake for a further fur-flavored Jell-O.” This is an excellent 50 to 55 minutes or until the blade of a knife work-around egg salad. comes out more or less clean. 1 order takeout egg foo yung, minus the Sweet Lemon Buns sauce mayonnaise 1 cup (227 grams) whole pickled red onion milk 1½ Tablespoons butter ¼ cup (50 grams) white sugar 1 Tablespoon yeast zest of 2 lemons (about 7 grams) juice of ½ lemon (40 grams) ½ cup (85 grams) golden raisins 1 egg 3 cups (360 grams) all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt

In a small saucepan, heat the milk, butter and sugar, until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat. Stir in the yeast, then leave the mixture to proof for 10 to 15 minutes. In a large bowl, combine the yeast mixture, lemon rind, lemon juice, raisins and egg. This Boston Brown Bread. Photo by John Fladd. Hippo | November 16 - 22, 2023 | Page 16

There are no specific amounts of any ingredient in this recipe, because egg salad, like tuna or potato salad, is entirely dependent on individual preferences. About once per month I stop for takeout egg foo yung Flame-Grilled Vegetables. Photo by John Fladd. just to make this.

Boston Brown Bread

Flame-Grilled Vegetables

2 red potatoes, peeled and diced generous ½ cup (60 grams) 1 large onion, diced whole wheat flour 1 yellow or red bell pepper, diced generous ½ cup (67 grams) rye flour 1 can artichoke bottoms, diced – artichoke generous ½ cup (75 grams) fine corn flour hearts are fine, but if you can find the botor masa harina toms, they will be a revelation; they taste the ½ teaspoon baking powder same, but with a meaty texture ½ teaspoon salt 1 can jumbo black olives, strained ½ teaspoon ground allspice 1 package haloumi cheese, diced ½ cup (85 grams) golden raisins or dried ½ bottle balsamic vinaigrette salad blueberries dressing 1 cup (227 grams) buttermilk salt and pepper 1 teaspoon vanilla ½ cup (170 grams) molasses Several hours before you want to eat, boil the potatoes until they are just al dente Heat your oven to 325º. — maybe five minutes from being perfectGenerously butter a loaf pan or large cofly cooked. fee can. Add the potatoes and all the other ingrediCombine all dry ingredients in one bowl, ents to a gallon-sized zip-lock bag. Squeeze and the wet ingredients in another. as much air out as possible. Leave the bag on Combine the contents of the two bowls. the kitchen counter to let the vegetables marPour the batter into the loaf pan or coffee inate for two to three hours. can. Cover the top with foil and tie it with Half an hour before dinner, start the chartwine. coal in your grill. Put the pan or can in a large roasting pan When you have a good set of coals, march or Dutch oven, and fill 1/3 of the way up with outside with a determined expression, a grill boiling water. pan, a pair of tongs and a cold beer. Cover the roasting pan or Dutch oven, and Place the grill pan — it looks like a metbake for two hours and 15 minutes. Check al basket with a lot of holes in it — over the in on the water level from time to time, and coals, then pour the contents of the bag into it. refill as necessary. The bread will be ready There will be a huge hiss, but don’t worry, when a toothpick comes out clean. the coals have not gone out. Cool for 10 minutes before serving with a Grill the vegetables until the onions and truly inordinate amount of butter. haloumi have some good color. Move them around with the tongs from time to time. You Use any leftovers the next day for Brown will probably have to change position from Bread French Toast. time to time to escape the worst of the smoke. This is the price you pay for delicious grilled Boston Brown Bread vegetables. French Toast Sneak a piece of potato or pepper occaMake French toast from sionally. You will know when everything has your leftover Boston Brown cooked. Bread. Finish your beer, then make way too big a production of bringing the hot grill pan back into the kitchen for service.

chocolate. Dark chocolate chips do very nicely.

Homemade Hummus. Photo by John Fladd.

Homemade Hummus

Fill a small, microwave-safe bowl with chunks of chocolate. Microwave for 20 to 30 seconds. Stir. At this point the chunks are probably just a little melted around the edges. Microwave for 15 more seconds. Stir. More melty… Let’s go 10 more seconds, then really stir. The warm chocolate will melt the rest of the pieces. When you have a bowlful of melted chocolate, pour it into the molds. Make sure that you jab at it with your spoon or craft stick a little to get into any crevices. Cool for an hour or so in your refrigerator, then de-mold. Bask in the admiration of friends and co-workers.

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2 15.5-ounce cans of chickAnd as long as you’re melting chocpeas, sometimes labeled as olate, you might as well make some garbanzo beans Chocolate-Covered Cherries. 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 clove fresh garlic Chocolate-Covered ½ cup (117 grams) tahini paste, sort of like a peanut butter made from sesame seeds Cherries 1 lemon, squeezed melted chocolate (see olive oil and paprika to garnish (optional) above) maraschino cherries, stems removed. Using a colander, drain and rinse the chickpeas to wash away any metallic taste from the One at a time, drop cherries into the melted cans. chocolate, and roll them around with a fork In a blender or food processor, combine until they are completely covered. the chickpeas, salt, garlic and a generous cup Transfer to wax paper or parchment paper of water. Blend or process on low speed for to set. two minutes or so. The mixture will be a tan Eat them, or use them to woo an attractive, color and look a little grainy. dark-eyed stranger. Add the tahini and lemon juice, then blend or process again for three to four minutes. World’s Greatest Pour into a serving dish. Garnish with a Breakfast Sandwich splash of olive oil and a sprinkling of paprika, 1 slice of ordinary sandwich then surround the bowl with olives, pickled bread (seriously, don’t try to turnips and torn or sliced pieces of flatbread. get fancy with this), toasted peanut butter Homemade pickled jalapeños Chocolates 1 egg, scrambled (I cook mine in the You’ve probably watched a cooking competition and been scared off from ever trying to mold your own chocolates because the judges kept going on about properly “tempering” your chocolate and made it seem like glass-blowing or something. Buy some silicone chocolate molds, or soap molds, or even ice cube trays from a craft store, or online.

Ingredients: chocolate That’s it. You can, of course add pretzel pieces or crushed peppermint, or white chocolate chips, but all you really need is Homemade Chocolates. Photo by John Fladd.

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microwave oven for 67 seconds) salt and pepper to taste

ter, white sugar, then the eggs. Mix in flour a little bit at a time until a soft dough forms. Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet. Use your finger or an instrument of similar size to make a well in the center of each cookie. Fill the hole with 1/2 teaspoon of jam. Bake for 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown on the bottom. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

OK, go ahead. Be skeptical, but once you’ve tried this you will make it again: Toast, peanut butter, jalapeños, scrambled egg, salt and pepper.

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So, the key to an extended family get-together, like on Christmas Eve, or Eid al Fitr, is feeding everyone generously, and keeping grumbling to a minimum. One of the best ways to do that is with tacos. Everyone likes some sort of tacos, so set up a taco bar in the kitchen with crispy shells, traditional grilled tortillas, and a variety of different ingredients. Here are a few ingredients that you probably haven’t thought of: Pan-Fried Hominy – Drain a couple cans of hominy (alkali-treated corn that you can find in the canned vegetable section of the supermarket, near the beans), and fry them in butter until they are golden brown. They have a chewy texture and carb-y flavor that adds a whole new dimension to a taco. Pulled Chicken – Buy a rotisserie chicken at the supermarket and pull it apart into tacosized chunks. Half the work, all the flavor. You can set some golden-brown skin aside for a relative you actually like. Plant-Based Hamburger Substitute – It is highly likely that you have at least one member of your extended family who is vegetarian or vegan and generally sulky about being left out at family gatherings. It is just as easy to make hamburger taco filling from Impossible or Beyond Burger. You wouldn’t even need to tell any of the huffier members of the family; just whisper in the ear of your relative-arian, and let them know that you have their back.

Cranberry Cobra. Photo by John Fladd.

(without ice). Capsaicin, the fiery chemical in chiles, is alcohol-soluble, so dry-shaking it will allow the rum and vodka to strip out more heat and flavor from the serrano. Add the lemon juice, cranberry syrup, cranberry juice and ice, then shake again, as vigorously as you see fit. Strain into a tall Collins glass, over fresh ice. Top with tonic and stir gently.

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Cranberry Syrup

1 part sugar 1 part 100% cranberry juice – NOT cranberry juice

Bring both ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan and cook until the sugar dissolves completely, about two minutes. Actually that’s it. You will probably want to let it cool before actually using it in a cocktail.

Failure Cookies, aka Blank Canvas Cookies

This recipe was adapted from another 100-year-old newspaper clipping, and something was definitely lost in the translation. The filling burned and the dough turned out to be impossible to roll out. And yet — think of this as a Blank Canvas cookie. It has a mild, shortcake-like flavor that lends itself to modification. Add some peppermint oil? It would work beautifully. Lemon zest and lemon oil? Please. Bourbon? Why not? 1 cup (227 grams) whole milk 1 cup (198 grams) sugar ½ cup (1 stick) butter 3½ cups (420 grams) all-purpose flour 1 egg pinch salt 1 Tablespoon baking powder

Failure Cookie Trifle. Photo by John Fladd.

In a large, or whatever size you have, glass dish, layer Failure Cookies, maple whipped cream, and marinated cherries. Repeat as many times as you have ingredients and room in the bowl. Dust the top with nutmeg or chocolate shavings.

Chocolate-Orange Cookies, Also From a 1923 Newspaper Clipping

2 egg whites 1 cup (114 grams) powdered sugar 6 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 4 teaspoons melted butter ¾ teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup (about 1½ slices, 68 grams) fresh Preheat your oven to 375º soft bread crumbs – a food processor or In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, salt blender will crumb bread very nicely and baking powder together. Set aside. ½ cup (85 grams) chopped candied orange Cream the butter and sugar in your stand slices – Trader Joe’s has very good ones mixer until light and fluffy. 2 teaspoons vanilla Add the milk and the egg. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix Mix the cocoa and butter into a stiff paste. until it has been incorporated. Set aside.

So, right now, if you are a thoughtful reader, you are asking why you can’t just use cranberry juice and simple syrup in the Beat the egg whites to medium peaks. Cranberry Cobra and skip the syrup-makDrop 1-Tablespoon dollops of the batter Slowly mix in the powdered sugar… ing altogether. Seven words for you: Apple. onto parchment paper or a silicone baking Then the salt and cocoa paste… Pie. Ala. Mode. With. Cranberry. Syrup. sheet, six at a time. Mix in the cinnamon, bread crumbs, Bake for 10 minutes. Cool briefly before chopped orange pieces and vanilla, until Another Cocktail – A Thumbprint Cookies eating, or making a Trifle. combined. Cranberry Cobra, 1½ cups (3 sticks) butter, Chill the dough for 30 minutes. Made with softened Failure Cookie Trifle Heat your oven to 350º. 1 cup (198 grams) white The amount of each ingreCranberry Syrup Bake 1-Tablespoon balls for 10 minutes. sugar dient will be determined by Cool and eat. 2 whole eggs the size of your trifle dish. The Cranberry Cobra 1 Tablespoon vanilla ½ ounce lemon juice Browned Butter ½ teaspoon salt Failure Cookies ¾ ounce golden rum Cookie Bars 3½ cups (163 grams) all-purpose flour heavy cream ½ serrano chile 1 cup (2 sticks) butter 1 cup fruit preserves, any flavor – the key maple syrup 1½ ounces blisteringly cold vodka 1 cup (213 grams) packed here is to find some sort of really unusual frozen cherries 1 ounce cranberry syrup (see below) brown sugar jam that people won’t be expecting: ginger amaretto ½ ounce unsweetened cranberry juice ½ cup (99 grams) white sugar preserves, hot pepper jelly, rose jam, lime 1 bottle Fever Tree Aromatic Tonic ½ teaspoon salt marmalade — these are all excellent choices Thaw and drain frozen cherries. Soak ⅓ cup (76 grams) whole milk overnight in amaretto. Muddle the serrano in the bottom of a 2 teaspoons vanilla Preheat your oven to 350º Whip the cream until stiff with maple syrcocktail shaker. 2½ cups (300 grams) all-purpose flour In a medium bowl, cream together the but- up as a sweetener. Add the rum and vodka, and dry-shake

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parchment paper. Beat ½ cup (1 stick) of the butter with your mixer. Add the white sugar, baking powder, and half the salt. Beat until light and fluffy. Add one egg and 1 Tablespoon of the rum. Keep mixing. Beat in the flour until everything is combined. Smush this dough into the bottom of the baking pan. Make an even layer, including the corners. Clean out the mixing bowl, then beat the remaining butter and the cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add the rest of the ingredients, being careful to add the eggs one at a time. Pour the batter on top of the crust in the Switches and Coal. Photo by John Fladd. baking pan. 1 cup (170 grams) chocolate chips Bake 30 to 35 minutes. 4 ounces (about 1 large bar) dark chocoCool, cut and eat gleefully. late, chopped 2 Tablespoons heavy cream 1970s-era Nuts & 2 teaspoons light corn syrup Bolts (Chex Mix) sea salt flakes ½ cup salted butter (1 stick) 2 Tablespoons full-sodium Grease and line a 13x9” baking pan with soy sauce parchment paper. 1¼ teaspoons seasoned salt In a small saucepan, melt the butter, and ¼ teaspoon garlic salt (if there was any cook until it turns light brown and smells nutway to cram more salt into this, we didn’t ty. Pour into a bowl to cool. know about it in the ’70s) Add both sugars and the salt to the browned 2¾ cups Corn Chex butter until completely combined. 2¾ cups Rice Chex Beat in the milk and vanilla, then the flour 2¾ cups Wheat Chex and chocolate chips. 1½ cups cocktail peanuts (oh, wait – apparWhen this has turned into cookie dough, ently there is a way) transfer it to the baking dish and smash it 1½ cups sesame sticks down flat with a spatula, making sure to fill the corners. Put this in the refrigerator to chill Preheat oven to 275 degrees F. while you play with melted chocolate. Melt butter in a shallow pan. Stir in soy In a small saucepan, maybe the one you sauce, seasoned salt and garlic salt. used to brown the butter, heat the dark chocAdd cereal, peanuts and sesame sticks. olate, cream and corn syrup. When it has Mix until all pieces are coated. turned to a melted saucy consistency, take the Place on a shallow baking pan with sides. cookie dough from the refrigerator and pour Bake for 40 minutes, stirring every 10 the chocolate onto it. Tilt the pan to comminutes. pletely cover the dough. Sprinkle the top with sea salt. Switches and Coal, Chill overnight, then cut into bars.

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1½ ounces very cold gin ¼ ounce créme de violette ¾ ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice ½ ounce simple syrup 3 drops orange blossom water A “slip” of blue curaçao Combine all ingredients except the blue curaçao with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake until frost forms on the shaker and Lady in Blue. Photo by John Fladd. your hands become uncomfortably cold. Greyhound. Photo by John Fladd. Strain into a martini glass. This is one Lime Syrup Drink, while complaining to your husband occasion where you should not frost the glass juice of 3 or 4 limes about your day. first; you will want to show this cocktail off. An equal amount (by The frosted glass would mess with that. weight) of white sugar Greyhound – A Retro Pour a small slip of blue curaçao down one zest of 2 limes side of the glass. It is denser than the rest of Cocktail that Will the drink and will pool in the bottom of the In a small saucepan, bring the lime juice Make You Feel glass. and sugar to a boil. Stir until the sugar is comBetter About Things pletely dissolved, about 10 to 15 seconds, in General Existential Luau – A once it’s boiling. 2 2-inch slices of grapefruit rind (just the Remove from heat and add lime zest. Let it Tiki Drink That thin outer layer – the grapefruit will bring steep for 30 minutes. Brings Up Difficult enough bitterness without using any of the Strain the zest from the syrup, so it doesn’t white pith under the surface) Questions get bitter. 1½ ounces good gin – I like Death’s Door 1 ounce lime syrup (see below) Label your jar so you won’t have an awk1 ounce St. Germain, an elderflower 1 ounce Campari ward moment a week from now, when your liqueur 2 ounces gin (I like Death’s Door) wife wants to know what’s in that jar in the 2 ounces unsweetened ruby grapefruit 4 ounces pineapple juice door of the fridge. juice cracked ice or tiny ice cubes

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Fill the large half of a cocktail shaker to the top with ice. Pour the ice into a clean tea towel. Wrap the ice in the towel, then beat it brutally with something heavy (I use the billy-club-sized pestle from my largest mortar and pestle for this). Beat the towel until you have a variety of ice shards, from half cubes to pebbles to legitimate snow. Pour this ice back into your cocktail shaker. It will take up significantly less room than before. Add the rums, honey syrup and citrus juices to the shaker, and shake thoroughly. Add the carbonated water, then stir gently with a bar spoon. Pour the entire contents into a glass. Does it have to be a Tiki mug? It could be; again, who’s going to judge you? But frankly, any large-ish glass, mug or mason jar will do. Squeeze the remaining half lime into the glass, then drop the carcass in to class the joint up a little. Finish it off with the fresh mint.

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Muddle the grapefruit peel thoroughly in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. This will release citrus oil and add an extra layer of grapefruitiness to the finished drink. Feel free to really smash the peel. Add the other ingredients and four or five ice cubes to the shaker, and shake thoroughly. Strain over ice in a rocks glass. Sip while thinking about that one time when you met that guy with that crazy idea.

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and have been friends since, exploring various art forms over the years. With a shared familiarity with paper — Desmarais a retired graphic designer — it eventually became their preferred medium. “The real appeal for us is we get to work with beautiful papers and create beautiful things,” Whitney said. “We get to visit each other a couple of days a week.” The three classic ornament shapes that they create are triskele, an orb shape made from three strips of intertwined paper; pleated ornaments configured into a diamond-like shape; and the traditional German bell. Without many unique options available domestically, they often use paper imported from other countries. “Some of the Florentine papers that we use on the pleated ornaments are very ornate, they’re often five, six, seven colors,” Desmarais said. “They often have metallics in them and the patterns have been around since the Renaissance period.” “Of all the beautiful handmade papers that we can find around the world … some are too soft to hold a crease or [they] absorb the glue too quickly or they have other characteristics that make them unus-

nausa.org/craft-fair) will hold its annual craft fair at Nashua High School North (8 Titan Way) on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free. • DEERFIELD Deerfield’s Holiday Craft Fair will take place Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Deerfield Community Church (15 Church St.), according to deerchurch.org. • MILFORD St. Patrick Church (34 Amherst St. in Milford) will hold a craft fair Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. In

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addition to crafts, the event will include a silent auction, a raffle, a bake sale and food concessions, according to saintpatrickmilfordnh.org. • DERRY The First Parish Church (47 E. Derry Road in Derry; 434-0628) will hold its annual Sugar Plum Fair Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to fpc-ucc.org. The day will include live music, lunch, a white elephant sale, raffles and a cookie walk, according to a church Facebook post.

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able for the type of work we’re doing,” Whitney adds. “[With] these Italian papers, there’s quite a bit of variety available and we’re able to find the papers we need for each of the three ornaments. They require different papers because of the structure of them.” While Whitney was living out of state, Whitney and Desmarais got together during holiday breaks and school vacations. She eventually moved back to • BOW The 44th annual Bow PTO Craft Fair is on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bow High School (55 Falcon Way, Bow). The event will host more than 150 artists. Admission is $5. Visit bowpto.org/craft-fair. • HAMPSTEAD The Hampstead Christmas Fair is on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at PhanZone Sports Center (142 Route 111, Hampstead). The event will feature more than

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Amherst and the two were able to work on their ornaments more regularly, eventually getting involved with craft fairs, where their ornaments were well-received. Once the pair felt they had perfected their craft, they went ahead with the jurying process and became members of the league this past summer. “Eventually you just have so many beautiful ornaments, you need an outlet for them,” Whitney said.

100 vendors. Visit facebook. com/stareventsnh. • SALEM The Salem Holiday Psychic and Craft Fair is on Sunday, Nov. 19, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Derry-Salem Elks No. 2226 (39 Shadow Lake Road, Salem). The event will feature more than 30 vendors, including readers, crafters and artists. Discover unique hand-crafted gifts, psychic readings, healing, aura photography and more. Visit facebook.com/ CAYAHealing.

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• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST through Sunday, Nov. 19, from the Peacock Players (14 Court St., Nashua, peacockplayers. org). Showtimes are on Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. • YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN DEAD from Lend Me a Theater (lendmeatheater.org). An audience participating mystery-comedy, it runs Saturday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 19, at 5:30 p.m. Tupelo

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• New exhibit in Manchester: “The Power of Art,” a show featuring paintings, sculpture, photographs and mixed media, is on display now at Art 3 Gallery (44 W. Brook St. in Manchester; art3gallery.com, 668-6650). The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and evenings and weekends by appointment. • New exhibit in Concord: “The Balm for the Wounds We Bear,” an exhibit of paintings from artist Kathleen H. Peters, is on display through Wednesday, Dec. 20, at the New Hampshire Audubon’s McLane Center (84 Silk Farm Road in Concord; 224-9909, nhaudubon.org). The center is open Tuesdays through Fridays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. See mhfiber.com/home for a look at Peters’ work. • At the Chapel: The Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College (100 Saint Anselm Drive in Manchester; anselm.edu) is currently featuring “The Ten Essays Project” featuring reflections by faculty and staff on works in the permanent collection, according to a press release. The exhibit is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 8. • Opening reception: Sullivan Framing & Fine Art Gallery (15 N. Amherst Road in Bedford; 471-1888, sullivanframing.com) will hold a reception for its exhibit of new works by Marcia Blakeman on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. Sullivan is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Holiday spirit: The Majestic Theatre (880 Page St. in Manchester; majestictheatre.net, 669-7649) presents In-Laws, Outlaws and Other People (That Should Be Shot), a Christmas Eve-set comedy, Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for 65+ and 17 and under. • Attention, young writers: The Center for the Arts (PO Box 872 in New London; 5nh-ARTS, centerfortheartsnh.org) is Music Hall (10 A St. in Derry, Tupelomusichall.com; tickets cost $50 for dinner and a show). • LUNGS at Hatbox Theatre (Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Road in Concord; hatboxnh. com, 715-2315) through Sunday, Nov. 19. Shows are on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for adults and $22 for seniors and students. • THE SOUND OF MUSIC from the Community Players of Concord at the Concord City Auditorium (2 Prince St., Concord). The show will run Friday, Nov. 17, and Saturday, Nov. 18,

at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org. • THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL from Kids Coop Theatre Friday, Nov. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 19, at the Derry Opera House (29 W. Broadway, Derry). Visit kids-coop-theatre.org.

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accepting submissions for its 4th annual teen writers contest through Friday, Dec. 15. Winners will be picked in poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction and receive prizes from local businesses (as well as publication in the Teen Writers Journal), according to a press release. The entries will be judged by Megan Baxter, a local author and Colby-Sawyer professor, the release said. The contest is open to all writers ages 12 through 18 who live in Andover, Bradford, Danbury, Grantham, New London, Newbury, Newport, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Warner or Wilmot, the release said. Find all the rules at centerfortheartsnh.org/ teen-writers. • Craft fair in Salem: North Salem United Methodist Church (389 N. Main St. in Salem) will hold a craft fair Saturday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring handmade knitted and crocheted items, crafts, jewelry, homemade soups, baked goods, a silent auction, white elephant table and more, according to a press release. • Pan-Latin sounds: The Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center (26 Main St. in Peterborough; mariposamuseum.org, 924-4555) will host Sol y Canto in concert on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. The ensemble features Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist, singer and composer Brian Amador, according to a press release. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $10 for children. • Season opener: The Nashua Chamber Orchestra will present its season opener, “Beethoven and Schubert,” on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Nashua Community College (505 Amherst St. in Judd Gregg Hall, Nashua) and Sunday, Nov. 19, at 3 p.m. at Milford United Methodist Church (327 N. River Road in Milford). Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and college students (students under 18 get in for free). See nco-music.org for tickets. • Choral show: Amare Cantare, an auditioned chamber chorus, will present its fall concert “More Love” on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Middle Street Baptist Church (18 Court St. in Portsmouth) and Sunday, Nov. 19, at 3 p.m. at Oyster River Middle School Concert Hall (1 Coe Drive in Durham). Tickets cost $18 in advance and can be purchased at amarecantarge.org; limited tickets may be available at the door, according to a press release.

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For many of us November is a drab and dreary month: days are short, gray skies the norm. Flowers are largely gone, the soil is soggy and a drizzle or a downpour is common. Soon snow will not be unusual — we’ve already seen a wintry mix. But there are things you can do when the sun comes out — or with rain gear on. If you planted trees in the past few years, you should look at them carefully. Most planting tags on purchased trees tell you to plant them at the depth they are in the pot. Unfortunately, many trees are grown on huge farms and slapped into pots without regard to the “trunk flare” — that part of the tree that should be above ground. Look at a mature tree planted by mother nature — or a squirrel. You will see that the base of the tree widens out, and often roots are seen snaking across the soil near the tree for a while before diving down to seek nutrients and moisture. When planting a tree it is essential that the trunk flare be above ground. If it’s not, soil fungi will rot the bark and eventually kill the cambium layer below it. This will kill the tree in six to 10 years. Even if the bark looks flaky and damaged, it probably will recover if you take action now. If the tree you planted comes straight out of the ground like a telephone pole, or if there is mulch piled up against the tree, you must remove the material that will cause problems. Mulch is easy to fix. Take your hand and pull it back, creating a doughnut hole

for the trunk, at least 4 inches all around. Mulch has its place; it will keep down weeds and help prevent the soil from drying out in times of drought. But more than 4 inches of mulch can also prevent light rains from reaching the roots. Don’t overdo it. No mulch volcanoes. I’ve been seen removing mulch from trees in public spaces! If there is soil over the trunk flare, use a hand tool to loosen the soil and pull it back, too. You may find little roots there, but cut them off. Re-grade the area for a foot or more around the tree in all directions. For a larger tree that was sold in a burlap wrapping, it is not uncommon to find 3 to 6 inches of soil over the trunk flare. The burlap wrapping — now often made of plastic materials — should have been removed at planting time. If not, your tree is doomed. Plastic wrapping will never degrade, so you need to dig up the tree and remove it now. Burlap will degrade in time, but often not for years. What else is there to do in the garden now? This is a good time to move shrubs or small trees that are not doing well where they are. Roots do most of their growth between the time leaves drop and the time the ground freezes, which makes this a good time for moving them. Cool temperatures and rainy days help plants you move now, too. I was visiting long-time friends in Ohio recently, and they had three fothergilla shrubs that had been in the ground five years and done almost nothing. I took a garden fork, thrust it into the soil nearby and tipped it back. Out popped the root ball, as if it had been planted the day before. I picked it up and took a look. Clearly the shrub had been in a one-gallon pot for a long time before they planted

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it. The roots had grown around and around the pot, keeping them from extending out into neighboring soil for moisture and minerals. After soaking the root ball in a pail of water, I used my fingers, a small folding saw and a CobraHead weeder to tease the roots apart. I broke or cut some, but it didn’t matter. The shrubs were doomed unless I could get the roots pointed out and away from the tangled mess they’d been in. I replanted them in places with more sunshine and less competition from big perennials in beds where they should grow and be happy. It may take a year or two before they really start to thrive. It’s tough to know just where to plant a tree or shrub for optimal growth. I like to observe the same species in another garden or ask a friend if they’ve had luck with the same species. The internet can help if you consult a university or arboretum website. I like books, too, especially any written by Michael Dirr. He seems to know more than anyone else. So do your homework, and think about moving any unhappy woody plants. By the way, it’s not too late to plant

spring bulbs, garlic or bulbs for forcing in pots. I particularly like forcing spring bulbs (daffodils, tulips, crocus and more) by potting them up now and keeping them in a cold place where they won’t freeze. Then in February and March I bring them into the warmth of the house, and they bloom early. I pot up enough to give some away to ailing or aged friends. This is a good time to dig out invasive shrubs like burning bush or barberry that have been planted by birds. Their distinctive leaf color will help you find them now in your woods. On the next to last day of October this year I plugged in my blue “fairy lights” in my Merrill magnolia and a nice pear tree. It was a gloomy, wet day, and the blue lights looked great against the yellow leaves. Some people call these Christmas or holiday lights, but I consider them just a cheerful boost to my spirits when gardening is nearly done and weather keeps me from doing my final chores.

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• Bottle signing with Robert Irvine: Celebrity chef Robert Irvine will be at the NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Bedford (9 Leavy Drive) on Friday, Nov. 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. for a bottle signing. Featured products include Irvine’s Precision Vodka and Irvine’s American Dry Gin. Visit eventbrite to reserve your spot. • Tour of French wines: Tour the flavors of France and learn about the history and culture of French wine making with wine expert Elizabeth Schneider and Serge from Serge Dore Selections on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Nashua (Willow Spring Plaza, 294 Daniel Webster Hwy.). Tickets are $12 and can be purchased via eventbrite. • Italian feast: The Hills Restaurant at Hampshire Hills Athletic Club (50 Emerson Road, Milford) is hosting an Italian feast on Wednesday, Nov. 22, serving your choice of Caesar salad or Italian wedding soup, with entrees being eggplant Parmesan or chicken Parmesan over linguine, meatballs and Italian sausage with linguine, and fettuccine alfredo. For dessert, choose tiramisu or limoncello cake. The cost is $30 for adults and $15 for kids under 12. Visit hampshirehills.com. • Holiday tree lighting and supper: Enjoy dinner, a tree lighting and a cash bar at The Barn at Pickering House (116 S. Main St., Wolfeboro) for their 6th annual holiday tree lighting innkeepers supper, featuring chef Krisztina Perron of the Wooden Spoon Catering Co., on Saturday, Nov. 25. Doors and the cash bar open at 5:30 p.m. with the tree lighting taking place at 6:30 p.m. 32

815 Cocktails and Provisions in Manchester reopened its doors this September after closing to undergo renovations, now having officially retired its speakeasy style for a modern approach with a more functional open space and the same classic cocktails. After a combined 30-plus years of bartending experience, Sarah Maillet and Ryan McCabe originally opened 815 back in 2015. “We wanted it to be more of a relaxing place where people could come, enjoy and have classic cocktails,” Maillet said. “It has always been in our mind an ode to where bartending began and where it is today.” The duo spent months researching the market and classic cocktails while trying all kinds of spirits they had never heard of, to create their own cocktail menu that now consists of drinks like Starr Gazer, with Bacardi rum, raspberry liqueur, lychee, lime, demerara and grapefruit bitters, and 815 Old Fashioned with Nebco bourbon, demerara, bitters, orange peel and luxardo cherry. Provisions include flatbreads, such as tomato burrata and pimento pork, salads, tacos, like mushroom carnitas and Brooklyn bodega, a charcuterie and cheese board and more. “We decided to go back to the old speakeasy theme,” Maillet said. “The entrance was a little bit secretive, there was a phone booth in the hall and there were sliding fake brick walls so it didn’t look like there was an actual restaurant or bar behind it.” Patrons

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would enter the phone booth, press the button and be asked for that week’s password, which would be posted on 815’s social media pages. After about four years, the password system proved to be a hassle. “There were always techy kinds of issues,” Maillet said. “I started to feel like, as far as locals go, it wasn’t appealing for them to wander into their local restaurant or bar if they had to jump through hoops to look up a password every week.” They decided to do away with the password on weekdays, saving it exclusively for weekends. This worked for a while, the speakeasy aspect making 815 a weekend destination theme, but with the arrival of Covid things were complicated further. “I told Ryan, if there’s ever a time when we can change something and not have to explain it to anybody, now’s the time,” Maillet said. “So at that point we decided to get rid of the password speakeasy aspect of 815, and not just [for] the fact that we were changing and evolving, but it would have been an absolute nightmare … if we had to go into the phone booth … and clean and sanitize it.”

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When they first established 815, the pair made do with the layout of the bar and worked with what they had. After occupying the space for several years, they had a better idea of what would ideally work best for them. With the bar needing new subfloors, they decided to take this as an opportunity to renovate, revamp and rebrand 815 entirely, building a bigger kitchen and more comfortable bar, adorning the walls with pictures and murals, removing bulky furniture and doing away altogether with the speakeasy aspect. Despite the changes, 815 is still the same at its core, continuing to serve cocktails that are both classic and creative. “I’ve never really let go of that creativity,” Maillet said. “I have an idea of what I like the cocktail menu to look like and keeping it balanced … and I like to think that I have a decent amount of experience under my belt to make a balanced menu and things that people enjoy, that are fun, unique, … approachable, … adventurous, whatever the case may be.”

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Kitchen

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What is your must-have kitchen item? A comfy pair of shoes. When you’re on What is your favorite thing on your your feet for 10-plus hours a day, they are menu? My personal favorite is the short rib essential. risotto. It definitely hits the spot on some What would you have for your last of the colder nights. meal? A homemade Hawaiian pizza. What is the biggest food trend in New Hampshire right now? The use of micro greens as garnish for What is your favorite local eatery? If I had to pick one it would definitely food. be Hong Asian Noodle Bar in Dover. What is your favorite thing to cook at Name a celebrity you would like to see home? Chicken pot pie, mostly because it’s my eating in your restaurant? I would definitely enjoy seeing Mat- wife’s favorite and I enjoy cooking for her. thew Lillard eating something I’ve made.

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pumpkin bisque with LaBelle riesling wine, Yule Ball grilled pork chop with LaBelle Red Alchemy wine, and sticky toffee pudding paired with a Butterbeer cocktail. General admission tickets are $114.48 and you must be 21 years or older to attend. Get your tickets before they sell out on eventbrite.com. • Brunch and crafts: Paint your own New Hampshire-themed ornament with Sarah from S. Fenerty Art at Northwoods Brewing Co. (1334 First New Hampshire Turnpike, Northwood) on Sunday, Dec. 3. While your ornament dries, enjoy a breakfast buffet made in house, including quiche, scones, cinnamon rolls, crullers, sausage, bacon and more. Tickets start at $65 and can be purchased on eventbrite.com.

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Drinks with John Fladd El Diablo This is a classic tequila drink. This time, I’ve substituted mezcal for tequila, because I have a really nice bottle of Siete Misterios that is making me very happy. Mezcal is in the same family as tequila and works nicely in this particular cocktail. In place of the traditional crème de cassis, I’ve used sloe gin. All of this is slightly beside the point, because the star player here, the lynchpin that holds everything together and keeps it from dissolving into a puddle of entropy, is the ginger beer. If you are new to the world of ginger beer, you could be forgiven for supposing that it is more or less the same as ginger ale. “Beer/ale,” you might say to yourself, “Tomato/tomahto.” This would be a mistake. Ginger ale is what your mom brought you when you were sick, to help calm your stomach. It’s what you drink when you want a soda that doesn’t make any demands on you. It might be lovely, but it will always be mild and unassuming. That’s sort of its whole point. A good ginger beer, on the other hand, is anything but mild. If you ever popped open a bottle of ginger beer thinking it was ginger ale and took a big gulp of it to cure your hiccups, you’d definitely get rid of them, and maybe make your heart seize up for a second. Ginger beer is all about the ginger. “OK,” I hear you say, “I like ginger snaps and gingerbread; I really don’t think this is a big deal.” All right, the next time you go to a juice bar, ask the juice barista (or whatever the technical name for a juice jockey is) to give you a straight shot of ginger juice. She will raise her eyebrow but will do her thing behind the counter and hand you a shot glass with a milky, beige liquid in it. Don’t sip it. Throw that baby down your throat. It will change your point of view so profoundly that you might quit your job and become a matador. (It’s delicious and very spicy.) Really good Caribbean ginger beers will often add a little cayenne to intensify the experience a little bit. Do yourself a favor and go to a bodega and pick up a couple bottles of the good stuff for this drink. You’ll be glad you did.

El Diablo. Photo by John Fladd.

1½ ounces good tequila or mezcal – right now I’m really enjoying Siete Misterios ½ ounce sloe gin ½ ounce fresh squeezed lime juice 3 to 4 ounces excellent ginger beer Mix the mezcal, lime juice and sloe gin in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake for about 30 seconds, then strain into a Collins glass, over fresh ice. Top off with excellent, just opened ginger beer. Stir with a chopstick. The ginger beer really is the star of this show, with the mezcal or tequila playing a strong supporting role. The spiciness of the ginger stands up to the smokiness and bite of the tequila. The lime juice brings the acidity that this combination needs. The sloe gin adds color and the faintest hint of fruitiness. This is the drink that you would be drinking all the time, if you had made some different life choices at a couple of critical times in your youth. John Fladd is a veteran Hippo writer, a father, writer and cocktail enthusiast, living in New Hampshire.

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Brandishing not just post-rock but indeed post-apocalyptic sound adventures a la That F-king Tank, the meanderings of this Vancouver, B.C., six-piece outfit are mostly loud and sinister, nicking from Jimi Hendrix, 1970s-spaghetti-crime flicks, Primus and really anything they can wrap their instruments around. Slotted into the fusion jazz category for reasons of convenience, this bunch is led by guitarist Cole Schmidt and includes trumpeter JP Carter (who’s collaborated with Destroyer), as well as a violin guy and a cellist; all six of them are terrific improvisers when they’re called upon to put in two cents toward realizing the noise-stomp-meets-Ennio Morricone ideas put forth. Par for the course for any outstanding group of this sort, static-noise jams give way to passages of beauty and vice versa; there are hard riffs, proto-emo chill-outs (“CJ Blues”) and other related-or-not things that complete a picture of a very interesting instrumental group that’ll be around a while with any modicum of luck. A+ —Eric W. Saeger

Art Feynman, Be Good The Crazy Boys (Western Vinyl Records)

Art Feynman is an alter ego of producer Luke Temple, and it’s a lucky thing I even found that out when I skimmed the press release for this LP; anyone who reads this column knows that I’ve had a soft spot for the Salem, Mass., native since I first heard him years ago and likened him to another artist you’ve never heard of, one Winston Giles (I’m waiting for just one reader to finally get into Giles and express their eternal gratitude in sonnet form in my Facebook messages). This one was recorded live in the studio with a full band, a first for Temple; the record’s nervous but basically carefree feel recalls Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, which was a touchstone in the writing process. The tunes are meant to touch on “the part of the modern collective consciousness that’s struggling to maintain balance in a toxic, chaotic world,” but it’s a lot lighter-hearted than that; “In CD” feels like a Vampire Weekend demo intended for approval by B-52s. Infectious, massively accessible, genius-level stuff. A+ —Eric W. Saeger

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Saturday, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m. • SARAH JANE NELSON, music historian, will discuss her book Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter at Toadstool Bookshop (12 Depot Square in Peterborough; toadbooks.com) on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 1 p.m. • BILL FULTON, co-author of Survive and Thrive: How to Prepare for Any Disaster Without Ammo, Camo, or Eating Your Neighbor, will talk about the book at Barnes & Noble (1741 S. Willow St., Manchester, 6658-5557, bn.com) on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. Book events • STORYTIME! SMALL BUSI-

such as “avoid your own reflection” (this includes things like taking selfies and Googling yourself) and refraining from making constant judgments about the world. Perhaps most helpful, particularly as we head into the holiday season, is their advice on family conflict. Families can be morass of unmet expectations and simmering resentments even when there aren’t larger problems like a “values breach,” which is the rejection of other family members’ deeply held beliefs. People often try to ignore conflicts like these, assuming they will age out of them, but in most cases these points of contention become more fixed over time. The authors recommend regular conversations to try to work out small conflicts before they become large, accepting others’ values, and they say, “don’t treat your family like emotional ATMs.” They also warn against “chronic negativity,” which requires a degree of emotional separation to overcome. Finally, Brooks and Winfrey offer tips on categorizing friends as “real” or “deal” and cultivating friendships that contribute to happier-ness because they are “deeply real.” Meaningful work — “work that is love made visible” — and spirituality round out what is needed for happier-ness. It is unclear how much of Build the Life You Want is Brooks and how much is Winfrey, although the scattered “A Note from Oprah” pages throughout the book suggest Winfrey mostly lent her name to the project. Some passages, the authors acknowledge, have already been published in The Atlantic. There’s nothing groundbreaking here for anyone familiar with the authors, but also nothing that isn’t worth a reminder. Then again, with such star power, it’s a bit disappointing that it doesn’t dazzle more than it does. B- —Jennifer Graham

NESS SATURDAY EDITION at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord, 224-0562, gibsonsbookstore. com) on Saturday, Nov. 25, at 11 a.m. featuring authors reading from their new children’s books: Deborah Buss with Where Is Little Stripe’s Daddy?, Matt Forrest Ensewine with The Thing to Remember About Stargazing and Kari Allen with Maddie and Mabel Make a Plan. • PUBLISHERS PICKS NIGHT with book publisher representatives and refreshments at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord, 2240562, gibsonsbookstore.com) on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 6:30 p.m.

History, stories & lectures • BEER FOR HISTORY UNH’s Brewing Science Lab will showcase some of their brews on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Folsom Tavern (164 Water St., Exeter, 772-2622), as part of the Independence Museum’s Beer for History series of events. Admission is $10, free for those under 21. Purchase tickets at independencemuseum.org. • NEW HAMPSHIRE NATURE with “The Brilliant Beaver” with Willa Coroka and “An Uncommon Look at the Common Loon” by Ian Clark on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium (2 Prince St. in Concord). Doors open at 7 p.m. See walkerlecture.org.

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Build the Life You Want, by Arthur C. by emotions. They frame this Brooks and Oprah Winfrey (Portfolio/ within the concept of metaPenguin, 208 pages) cognition — “thinking about thinking” — viewing emoTrying to make sense of the career path tions as something to control, of Arthur C. Brooks can make your head rather than letting them conhurt. Brooks started out as a classical trol you. To do this requires French hornist and for a while played for practice, Brooks and Wina Baltimore brass quintet before joining an frey write, offering four ways orchestra in Barcelona. From there, he was to develop the ability: becoma music teacher in Florida before deciding ing more observant of your to study economics. A master’s degree and feelings, writing about them Ph.D. later, he became head of a conserva- in a journal, tapping into haptive think-tank, then a Harvard professor, py memories and looking for “meaning and and he’s now written a book with Oprah learning in the hard parts of life.” Winfrey. Their next recommendation, choosing The only connective tissue in all of this is better emotions, is a bit trickier, but they that Brooks, in his own life and profession- maintain this can be done. How? Practically, is a master of the pursuit of happiness, ing gratitude (more journaling required), which qualifies him to teach the subject at finding ways to laugh, and choosing hope Harvard and to write about it for The Atlan- over optimism. The latter are not synonyms, tic. It is through his column there that Oprah they argue, saying “Hope involves personWinfrey attached herself to his train. Their al agency, meaning it gives you a sense of collaboration, Build the Life You Want, is a power and motivation.” Like an earlier seccompendium of Brooks’ research on happi- tion, in which they insist that enjoyment and ness, presented O magazine style. pleasure are different things, this assertion They begin with by recounting the last can send you down a rabbit hole of disagreedays of Brooks’ mother-in-law, who had a ment unrelated to their general point. Best challenging life and was confined to a bed not go there. at age 93 yet insisted she was happier than You can also get bogged down in their she’d ever been. Brooks questioned her and descriptions of how sympathy differs from learned that her happiness came in part from empathy, which is different from compasher sense of agency, and her cultivation of sion. But their point is that compassion relationships, work and religious faith. combines empathy with a stoic tolerance Happiness, Brooks and Winfrey contend, of uncomfortable feelings associated with in the many sections of the book that teeter another person’s pain. “To be a more comdangerously toward platitude, is not a desti- passionate (and thus happier) person, start nation but a direction. by working on your toughness. To be tough“You can’t be happy — but you can be er in the face of another’s pain doesn’t mean happier,” they write. This requires nurtur- feeling it less. Rather, you should learn to ing the three components of happier-ness: feel the pain without being impaired to act.” enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose, all of Brooks and Winfrey challenge the comwhich require some degree of struggle. It is mon assumption that difficult times call throwing off the idea of happiness being an for more “self-care.” Research has, in fact, achievable, sustainable state that allows us shown that focusing on ourselves excesto be happier, to their way of thinking. sively does less to improve our sense of They delve into arguments that feel a little well-being than focusing on others. They tired, such as the importance of not being led offer suggestions for breaking this cycle,

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I came to this movie slightly more prepared than usual with these Marvel movies that have TV series tie-ins, having seen — and absolutely loved — the Ms. Marvel series all about high schooler Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a comics-making, Avengers-loving Pakistani-American girl from Jersey City. I did not see the Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)-centric Secret Invasion or WandaVision, where I gather we meet the grown-up Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris). But it’s fine; the movie recaps enough about who everybody is and their relationships to each other — like, for example, that Monica still thinks of Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) as Aunt Carol Danvers, best friend of her mother, the late Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), who died during the five years Monica was Blipped away. Monica has superpowers now and works for Nick Fury at the S.H.I.E.L.D.-in-spacelike S.A.B.E.R. Carol/Captain Marvel is still traveling the universe looking to help people, basically alone except for her cat, Goose, who is a tentacle-mouthed Flerken. Kamala is still in Jersey, still in high school, still making comics when she should be doing homework — as her loving and rightfully suspicious mother Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) reminds her. Muneeba, Kamala’s dad Yusuf (Mohan Kapur) and Kamala’s older brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh) are deeply confused when, after a crashing noise upstairs, Captain Marvel comes down from Kamala’s room. At the same time Kamala finds herself floating in space, where Fury, watching from a space station, had expected to see Monica, who is suddenly on the strange planet where we had just seen Carol. It seems that some kind of space-time-portal-thingies have entangled Carol, Kamala and Monica and whenever Film

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• Killers of the Flower Moon (R, 2023) will screen at Red River Theatres in Concord (redrivertheatres.org) through Thursday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m. • What Happens Later (R, 2023) will screen at Red River Theatres in Concord (redrivertheatres.org) through Thursday, Nov. 16, at 3:30 p.m. • The Holdovers (R, 2023) will screen at Red River Theatres in Concord (redrivertheatres.org) through Thursday, Nov. 16, at 4 and 7 p.m. • X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, The Met: Live in HD’s presentation, will screen on Saturday, Nov. 18, at

The Marvels

they use their powers, they change places. This phenomenon has something to do with the bangle (one identical to the one Kamala wears) that Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton), our antagonist, has dug up and put on. Dar-Benn, a Kree warrior/leader person, is trying to use the power she gains from the bangle to transport, via wormhole, resources from other planets to her people’s dying homeworld, Hala. From a Skrull planet, she steals the atmosphere. From another planet, she attempts to steal the water. From Earth’s solar system, she intends to steal the sun. (OK, so — Skrull, Kree, Flerken, Blip? Translation: The first two are warring aliens who appeared in Captain Marvel and other MCU properties, a Flerken is a cat that’s really an alien and the Blip was the whole Thanos thing. And, Thanos? Look, I don’t feel like this is anybody’s MCU entry point but if it is maybe just take notes for post-film Wikipedia-ing. It took catching a bit of Captain Marvel for me to remember “oh, yeah, Hala is a thing we know.” Meanwhile, we are introduced to a brand new planet, Aladna, and an alien people who communicate largely through song and I feel like, if we want to pile on the lore, why not go with new, delightfully weird lore like that?) Monica and Carol haven’t reconnected since Monica was a child and of course everybody seems a little uneasy about bringing teenage Kamala to intergalactic battles. But the three women eventually realize that their tangled powers mean they need to

12:55 p.m. with an encore on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 1 p.m. at O’neil Cinemas in Epping and Regal Fox Run in Newington. See fathomevents.com. It will also screen on Saturday, Nov. 18, at Bank of NH Stage (ccanh.com). • The Magic Flute, recorded live in 2006 at the Metropolitan Opera, will screen on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 12:55 p.m. at Regal Fox Run in Newington. See fathomevents.com. • The Polar Express (G, 2004) will screen at all three area Chunky’s in Pelham, Manchester & Nashua (chunkys.com) Friday, Dec. 8, through Thursday, Dec. 14, with at least one

work together. The movie has some fun with the powers-tangling concept. The scene that sort of introduces the three superheroines to each other features a prolonged fight with the three swapping places throughout, occasionally pulling bad guys with them, which is how the Khan family ends up fighting Kree and how Goose ends up at the family home, at one point eating some Khan family knick-knacks. It’s choreographed for maximum fun, with the three characters figuring out the rules and what their powers are and who they’re fighting. Later we get a training montage of the three learning how to use the position swaps so they can mount a fight against Dar-Benn. I also appreciate that the movie pulls the Khans into the adventure, as Kamala’s family was so central to her story. Plus Shroff’s Muneeba is great and I found myself wishing that the movie had given her some superhero-ing of her own. Muneeba’s “you’re not allowed to go on a space adventure” protectiveness also helps to root Kamala’s character in her teenagerness. The chemistry between the three women is nice too. We don’t get some antagonism-for-the-sake-of-antagonism shoved into the relationships. Instead, we get Carol and Monica reckoning with their past and all three of them learning to work together and value each other’s contributions. It’s a small thing but it keeps the movie relatively light and fun. The Marvels mostly keeps its head above the Kree/Skrull-ness MCU soup but it does feel like a struggle. The whole business of Dar-Benn’s planet and Captain Marvel’s past feels like it gets in the way of really setting this movie free to be the buddy-adventure it wants to be. B Rated PG-13 for action/violence and brief language, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Nia DaCosta with a screenplay by Nia DaCosta and Megan McDonnell and Elissa Karasik, The Marvels is an hour and 45 minutes long and distributed by Walt Disney Studios in theaters.

screening daily and three on Saturday, Dec. 9, and Sunday, Dec. 10. Buy a “Milk & Cookies Movie Ticket” to get a box with milk, cookies and a bell during the movies. “Dinner with Santa,” where guests will be greeted by Santa before and after the show, with opportunities to take photos with him, will take place at Nashua on Monday, Dec. 11, at 5:30 p.m., at Manchester on Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 5:30 p.m., and at Pelham on Wednesday, Dec. 13, and Thursday, Dec. 14, at 5:30 p.m. • Florencian en el Amazonas, a live in HD The Met broadcast, will screen on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 12:55 p.m. with

an encore on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 1 p.m. at O’neil Cinemas in Epping and Regal Fox Run in Newington. See fathomevents.com. It will also screen on Dec. 9 only at the Bank of NH Stage in Concord. See ccanh.com • A Christmas Story (PG, 1983), a 40th anniversary presentation, will screen on Sunday, Dec. 10, at AMC Londonderry (4 p.m.), Cinemark in Salem (4 p.m.), O’neil Cinemas in Epping (4 and 7 p.m.) and Regal Fox Run in Newington (4 and 7 p.m.), and on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at all four of those locations at 7 p.m. See fathomevents.com.

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Cars tribute act hits Tupelo

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• Purple like: Get funky with LoVeSeXy, New England’s top Prince tribute act. The six-piece band also covers Prince-adjacent acts Morris Day & the Time and Sheila E. Backing vocalist Jodee Frawlee does a great job with the latter, as well as with Prince’s duet partner Sheena Easton, on “You Got the Look” and “Love Bizarre.” Thursday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m., LaBelle Winery, 14 Route 111, Derry, $40 at labellewinery.com. • Storyteller: A common thread running through 1970s rock, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter plays a solo concert that will include reminiscing about being a founding member of Steely Dan; he played on their first three albums before leaving to join the Doobie Brothers in 1974. Baxter got his start in Boston with psychedelic rockers Ultimate Spinach, and his session work includes Joni Mitchell and Rod Stewart. Friday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst St., Manchester, $39 and up at palacetheatre.org. • Tail-wagger: Whether covering oldschool soul or doing an original like “Without You,” Fox & the Flamingos can get a party started. Fronted by fluffy-tailed singer Maizy Rae (she often sports one, along with furry ears), the group charms with vintage favorites like “Tell Me Something Good” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” Their reinvention of The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” is a revved-up delight. Saturday, Nov. 18, 9:30 pm., Peddler’s Daughter, 48 Main St., Nashua (21+); see linktr.ee/foxandtheflamingos. • Soft rock: Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock formed Air Supply after touring together in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1975. They topped the Australian charts soon after the musical closed; big hits include “Lost in Love” and “All Out of Love.” Sunday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord, $68.25 and up at ccanh.com. • Indie songs: Judging by the musicians she’s collaborated with, singer-songwriter Leslie Mendelson is truly special. Her most recent studio album was produced by Peter Asher, who guided Linda Ronstadt into superstardom, with a band including Jim Keltner and The Section’s Leland Sklar and Waddy Wachtel. Sunday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., The Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, $15 to $20 at eventbrite.com (21+).

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original group, as it employs prerecorded multitracking and layered vocals to emulate The Cars’ album sound. The best thing about playing in a Cars “We want to make it note for note tribute act is it never gets boring. The as perfect as we can,” Marchione said. Boston band broke out in the late 1970s “Because in a lot of ways they really with a string of hits that ran the gamut were a studio band.” from edgy jangle pop to swirling, etheMarchione and keyboard player Darreal rock, and no song exactly resembled ren Muise, who are also in the J. Geils another. Band tribute act Whammer Jammer, “The Cars had such a diverse palette came up with the idea for Panorama in of musical tastes, you listen to some of 2019. The two were already Cars fans. their music and sometimes wonder if Muise went to Berklee College of Music, it’s the same band,” Ken Marchione said where he latched onto Cars keys man recently. PanoraGreg Hawkes, ma, the band he particularly liking co-founded, will his synthesizer bring its pristine work. Marchione The Cars had such a diverse Cars reproduction picked up the guito Tupelo Music tar at age 6 and palette of musical tastes, you Hall on Nov. 18, a was smitten since co-bill with B-52s “Just What I listen to some of their music sound-alike BikiNeeded” hit ni Whale. “Their and sometimes wonder if it is on WBCN and music will live WRKO. the same band. on, and even after He marvels at all these years guitarist Elliot they still sound Easton. “His solos Ken Marchione fresh.” … are songs withThat said, anyin songs that can one looking to tackle The Cars’ catalog, be hummed; the average listener gravifrom their eponymous debut to 1984’s tates to that,” he said. “That’s why I think Heartbeat City (the last-gasp Door to he’s been so successful as a soloist and Door three years later doesn’t really a writer because he makes these intricate count), should be more than a fan. The arrangements for the guitar that everyvariety and complexity of songs like “My body can latch on to.” Best Friend’s Girl” and “Hello Again” The first piece in putting the band can challenge the most talented musician. together was singer-guitarist Darin Ames, The five members of Panorama are up who answered Marchione and Muise’s to the task. In fact, their stage act often Craigslist ad. Drummer Gary Agresti improves on, or at least cleans up, the came next, bringing additional skills as a

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sound man — he runs the mix at BankNH Pavilion in Gilford during the shed season. Bass player Jeff Ares came in last, replacing one who’d only played one gig. Ares was a find. “It was fate — he knew about 25 songs when he walked through the door,” Marchione recalled, adding they did a full rehearsal with him the same day. “He just stepped in, he knows every song, he’s a great bass player, he looks the part and he loves The Cars. It was just an absolute perfect fit, and that completed the band.” The doppelganger band opens its show with a brief Cars history video and uses career-spanning visual imagery throughout the set. They perform a couple of times a month and recently completed a well-received jaunt to Wisconsin. They’ve even received acknowledgement from the objects of their tribute. At a recent benefit concert, Ares and Ames sat in with Eliot Easton for a pair of songs. At the show, Marchione had a chance to speak with his musical hero Easton. “I got to ask him a bunch of questions about a lot of the solos that I’ve been playing for years now,” Marchione recalled. “He was fantastic, and a super nice guy. He knew that we had a tribute to The Cars, and he wasn’t in any way upset; he was flattered. That was a bucket list item for me.”

Panorama (The Cars tribute) w/ Bikini Whale (B-52s tribute) When: Saturday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry Tickets: $30 at tupelohall.com Hippo | November 16 - 22, 2023 | Page 37

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Pizza Man 850 E. Tortilla Flat 595 Daniel Industrial Park Drive, Webster Hwy., 424-4479 623-5550 Milford Backyard Brewery Salona Bar & Grill 128 The Pasta Loft 241 Union Square, 672-2270 1211 S. Mammoth Maple St., 624-4020 Road, 623-3545 Shaskeen Pub 909 Elm Riley’s Place 29 Mont Vernon St., 380-3480 Bonfire 950 Elm St., St., 625-0246 663-7678 South Side Tavern 1279 Stonecutters Pub 63 Union Square, 213-5979 Currier Museum of S. Willow St., 935-9947 Art 150 Ash St., 6696144 Stark Brewing Co. 500 Moultonborough Commercial St., 625- Buckey’s 240 Governor Wentworth Hwy., 476Derryfield Country 4444 5485 Club 625 Mammoth Road, 623-2880 Strange Brew 88 MarNashua ket St., 666-4292 Casey Magee’s Irish The Foundry 50 ComTo Share Brewing 720 Pub 8 Temple St., 484mercial St., 836-1925 7400 Union St., 836-6947 Fratello’s 155 Dow St., Wild Rover 21 Kos- Fody’s Tavern 9 Clin624-2022 ciuszko St., 669-7722 ton St., 577-9015 The Goat 50 Old GranPeddler’s Daughter 48 ite St. Meredith Giuseppe’s 312 Daniel Main St., 821-7535 Great North Aleworks Webster Hwy., 279-3313 Shorty’s Mexican 1050 Holt Ave., 8585789 Twin Barns Brewing Roadhouse 48 Gusabel 194 Daniel Webster Ave., 882-4070 KC’s Rib Shack 837 Hwy., 279-0876 New Boston Second St., 627-RIBS Molly’s Tavern & Merrimack Olympus Pizza 506 Homestead 641 Daniel Restaurant 35 Mont Webster Hwy., 429-2022 Vernon Road, 487-1362 Valley St., 644-5559

Foundry: Joel Begin, 5 p.m. Mitchell, 6 p.m. Goffstown Village Trestle: Jennifer Mitchell, Fratello’s: Jack Plante, 5:30 p.m. Red’s: Mica Peterson, 8 p.m. Goat: Cox Karaoke, 8 p.m. 6 p.m. Strange Brew: Lisa Marie, 8 p.m. Somersworth Bedford Hampton Earth Eagle: open mic w/Dave Copper Door: Jordan Quinn, 7 CR’s: Just The Two of Us, 6 p.m. Meredith Giuseppe’s: Joel Cage, 5:45 p.m. Ogden, 6 p.m. p.m. L Street: karaoke, 9 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 16

Auburn Auburn Pitts: open jam, 7 p.m.

Whym: music bingo, 6:30 p.m. Brookline Alamo: open mic with Travis Hudson Rollo, 6 p.m. Luk’s: Chris Cyrus of Slack Tide, 7 p.m. Candia Lynn’s 102: karaoke w/George Town Cabin: Taylor Marie, 6 Bisson, 8 p.m. p.m.

Merrimack Windham Homestead: Joanie Cicatelli, Common Man: Malcolm Salls, 5:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Tortilla Flat: Caylin Costello, 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17 Bedford Milford Murphy’s: Bella Perrotta, 6 p.m. Pasta Loft: music bingo, 6:30 p.m. Kingston Concord Brookline Saddle Up Saloon: karaoke w/DJ Riley’s Place: open mic, 7 p.m. Hermanos: Craig Jaster, 6:30 p.m. Jason, 7 p.m. Alamo: Mike Preston, 6 p.m. Nashua Lithermans: Chris Lester, 5:30 Casey Magee’s: open mic, 7:30 Concord p.m. Laconia Hermanos: Craig Fahey, 6:30 p.m. Fratello’s: Duke Snyder, 5:30 p.m. p.m. Fody’s: DJ Rich Karaoke, 9:30 Derry p.m. Fody’s: music bingo, 8 p.m. Londonderry Stumble Inn: Chad LaMarsh, 7 Shorty’s: Freddie Catalfo, 6 p.m. Epping p.m. Northwood Telly’s: Tim Theriault, 7 p.m. Northwoods Brewing: Colin Manchester Epsom Currier: Max Sullivan Band, 5 Hart, 5:30 p.m. Hill Top: music bingo, 7 p.m. p.m. Pittsfield Over the Moon: open mic, 6 p.m.

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These listings for live music are compiled from press releases, restaurants’ websites and social media and artists’ websites and social media. Call the venue to check on special rules and reservation instructions. Get your gigs listed by sending information to adiaz@hippopress.com. Hippo | November 16 - 22, 2023 | Page 38

Salem Copper Door: Jon Paul Royer, 7 p.m. T-Bones: Bella Perrotta, 5 p.m. Seabrook Backyard Burgers:

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Pittsfield Over the Moon 1253 Upper City Road, 2162162 Portsmouth The Gas Light 64 Market St., 430-9122 The Goat 142 Congress St., 590-4628 Press Room 77 Daniel St., 431-5186 Thirsty Moose Taphouse 21 Congress St., 427-8645 Rochester Mitchell Hill BBQ Grill & Brew 50 N. Main St., 332-2537 Porter’s 19 Hanson St., 330-1964

Lynn’s 102: karaoke w/George Epping Holy Grail: April Renzella, 7 Bisson, 8 p.m. p.m. Telly’s: Swipe Right Duo, 8 p.m. Laconia Defiant Records: Dan Fallon, 5:30 p.m. Epsom Hill Top: Jennifer Mitchell, 7 Fratello’s: Kyle Dumais, 5:30 p.m. p.m.

Londonderry Goffstown Village Trestle: Jordan and Clint, Coach Stop: Joe McDonald, 6 p.m. 5 p.m. Stumble Inn: All That ’90s Band, 8 p.m. Hampton

CR’s: Steve Sibulkin, 6 p.m. The Goat: Mike Forgette, 9 p.m. Manchester Backyard Brewery: Ken Budka, L Street: karaoke, 9 p.m. Whym: Clint Lapointe, 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Derryfield: Jimmy’s Down, 8 p.m. Hudson Foundry: Kimayo, 6 p.m. Luk’s: Joanie Cicatelli, 7 p.m. Fratello’s: Liz Ridgely, 6 p.m.

BIG EASY LAUGHS Comedian Mark Normand honed his tight 10 at bars in his native New Orleans. Fifteen years later, he’s headlined comedy festivals around the country, appeared on Conan six times and recorded the hour-long special Don’t Be Yourself. He touches down at the Chubb Theatre (Chubb Theatre, 44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. Tickets range from $43.75 to $170.50, plus fees.

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Great North Aleworks: open mic, 6 p.m. Pizza Man: NKM, 6 p.m. Olympus Pizza: Ryan Williamson, 7 p.m. Shaskeen: Kool Keith, 9 p.m. South Side Tavern: Cox Karaoke, 9 p.m. Strange Brew: Amorphous Band, 9 p.m. To Share: The Regular Gents, 6:30 p.m.

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Duo, 6 p.m. Portsmouth Gas Light: Colin Hart, 9:30 p.m. Thirsty Moose: Mad House, 9 Hampton The Goat: Chris Toler, 9 p.m. p.m. L Street: karaoke, 9 p.m. Whym: Chris Cavanaugh, 6:30 Rochester Mitchell Hill: High & Dry, 6 p.m. p.m. Salem Luna Bistro: Rebecca Turmel, 7 p.m. Smuttynose: music bingo, 6 p.m.

Hudson Luk’s Bar: Matt Bergeron, 7 p.m. Lynn’s 102: Whiskey Tango, 8:30 p.m.

Meredith Seabrook Twin Barns: Paul Driscoll, 5 p.m. Chop Shop: DaaD, 8:15 p.m. Red’s: Max Sullivan, 8 p.m. Merrimack Homestead: Jessica Olson, 6 Saturday, Nov. 18 p.m. Bedford Murphy’s: Dani Sveb, 6 p.m. Milford Pasta Loft: Whiskey Horse, 8:30 Bow p.m. Chen Yang Li: Clint LaPointe, Riley’s: Glass Onion, 8 p.m. 7 p.m. Stonecutters Pub: DJ Dave O karaoke, 9 p.m. Brookline Alamo: Ramez Gurung, 6 p.m. Moultonborough Buckey’s: Eric & Cliff, 6:30 p.m. Candia Town Cabin: Andy Laliotis, 6 Nashua p.m. Casey Magee’s: karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Concord Downtown Farmers Market: New Boston Mary Fagan, 9 a.m. Molly’s: Lewis Goodwin, 6:30 Hermanos: Reid Parsons, 6:30 p.m. p.m.

Laconia Fratello’s: Richard Cumming, 5:30 p.m. Londonderry Coach Stop: Paul Lussier, 6 p.m. Stumble Inn: Off The Record, 8 p.m. Manchester Backyard Brewery: Tyler Levs, 6 p.m. Derryfield: Down By Ten, 8 p.m. Foundry: Hank Osborne, 6 p.m. Fratello’s: Jordan Quinn, 6 p.m. The Goat: musical brunch with Brooks Hubbard, 10 a.m. Great North Aleworks: Paul Nelson, 4 p.m. Shaskeen: Evanoff, 8 p.m. To Share: Upright Dogs, 4 p.m. Wild Rover: Lewis Goodwin, 5 p.m.

Meredith Twin Barns: Rebecca Turmel Northfield Contoocook Duo, 5 p.m. Boonedoxz Pub: karaoke night, Cider Co.: Ryan Williamson, 1 7 p.m. p.m. Merrimack Homestead: Justin Jordan, 6 p.m. Northwood Epping Northwoods Brewing: Mike Telly’s: Brian Johnson, 8 p.m. Milford Maurice, 6 p.m. Pasta Loft: Dead Beat, 8:30 p.m. Epsom Riley’s: Down By Ten, 8 p.m. Penacook Hill Top: Whatsername, 7 p.m. American Legion Post 31: JenNashua nifer Mitchell, 7 p.m. Goffstown Casey Magee’s: Nuisance NeighVillage Trestle: Brian James

Since their formation in 2005, Toubab Krewe have swirled boundaries with their hypnotic blend of jam band funk, folk rock and Afropop. They stop into Angel City Music Hall (179 Elm St., Manchester, 931-3654, angelcitymusichall.com) on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $20 plus fees.

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Bedford Copper Door: Phil Jacques, 7 p.m. Concord Hermanos: Kid Pinky, 6:30 p.m. Tandy’s: karaoke, 8 p.m. Uno Pizzeria: Scott King, 6 p.m. Derry Fody’s: karaoke, 7 p.m. Epping Telly’s: 603’s, 7 p.m. Hampton L Street: karaoke, 9 p.m. Hudson Lynn’s 102: Rock Junkies, 7 p.m.

Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Musical Bingo Nation, 7 p.m.

Laconia Fratello’s: Richard Cumming, 5:30 p.m. Londonderry Stumble Inn: The Slakas, 8 p.m.

Manchester Angel City: Not Fade Away Concord Band, 6 p.m. Hermanos: Kid Pinky, 6:30 p.m. Bonfire: Nikki Briar, 9 p.m. Tandy’s: open mic, 8 p.m. Derryfield: D-Comp Trio, 8 p.m. Fratello’s: Jeff Mrozek, 5:30 p.m. Hampton Shaskeen: DJ Myth, 8:55 p.m. L Street: karaoke, 9 p.m. Stark Brewing: Cox karaoke, 8 Shane’s: music bingo, 7 p.m. p.m. Wally’s: music bingo, 7 p.m. Strange Brew: open mic w/ Will Bemiss, 8 p.m. Laconia To Share: Back to the ’80s party Fratello’s: Duke Snyder, 5:30 with DJ Shamblez, 6 p.m. p.m.

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NITE MUSIC & EVENTS Trivia

Events • Friendsgiving 21+ trivia night (about the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends) Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. at Chunky’s in Manchester (707 Huse Road in Manchester; chunkys.com). • Harry Potter Thanksgiving Trivia with Autumn & Jace on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. at Northwoods Brewing (1334 1st NH Turnpike, Northwood; northwoodsbrewingcompany.com, 942-6400). Weekly • Thursday trivia with Game Time Trivia at Mitchell BBQ (50 N. Main St., Rochester, 332-2537, mitchellhillbbq.com) at 6 p.m. • Thursday trivia at Station 101

(193 Union Sq., Milford, 2495416) at 6:30 p.m. • Thursday music trivia at Day of the Dead Taqueria (454 Charles Bancroft Hwy. in Litchfield, 3777664) at 6:30 p.m. • Thursday trivia at Great North Aleworks (1050 Holt Ave., Manchester, 858-5789, greatnorthaleworks.com) from 7 to 8 p.m. • Thursday trivia with Game Time Trivia at Hart’s Turkey Farm (223 Daniel Webster Hwy., Meredith, 279-6212, hartsturkeyfarm. com) from 7 to 9:30 p.m. • Thursday trivia at Yankee Lanes (216 Maple St., Manchester, 6259656, yankeelanesentertainment. com) at 7 p.m. • Thursday Opinionation by Sporcle trivia at Uno Pizzeria & Grill (15 Fort Eddy Road in Con-

Concerts

• Ndlovu Youth Choir Thursday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m., Chubb Theatre (44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) • Maya de Vitry Thursday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m., Word Barn (66 Newfields Road, Exeter, 244-0202, thewordbarn.com) • Eldorado Slim Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Jimmy’s (135 Congress St., Portsmouth, 888603-JAZZ, jimmysoncongress. com) • Eric Gales Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Flying Monkey (39 Main St., Plymouth, 536-2551, flyingmonkeynh.com) • Fantastic Cat Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Music Hall Lounge (131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org) • LoVeSeXy (Prince tribute) Thursday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m, LaBelle Derry (14 Route 111, Derry, 672-9898, labellewinery. com) • Chris Robley Friday, Nov. 17, 4 p.m., Cisco Brewers (35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, ciscobrewersportsmouth.com) • Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters Friday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., Jimmy’s (135 Congress St., Portsmouth, 888-603-JAZZ, jimmysoncongress.com) • Jeff “Skunk” Baxter Friday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., Rex (23 Amherst St., Manchester, 6685588, palacetheatre.org) • MUSE: A Salute to Divas of the 90s Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Music Hall Lounge (131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org) • Jim Messina Friday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., Flying Monkey (39 Main St., Plymouth, 536-2551, flyingmonkeynh.com) • Spencer & the Walrus (Beatles tribute) Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Bank of NH Stage (16 S.

Skunk Baxter Main St., Concord, 225-1111, banknhstage.com) • Skunk Sessions/Matt Chase Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Stone Church (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 659-7700, stonechurchrocks. com) • Panorama/Bikini Whale (Cars/B-52’s tribute) Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Tupelo (10 A St., Derry, 437-5100, tupelomusichall.com) • Al Di Meola Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Nashua Center for the Arts (201 Main St., Nashua, 800-6578774, nashuacenterforthearts. com) • Bearly Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 3351992, rochesteroperahouse.com) • Alice Howe Band featuring Freebo Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m., Park Theatre (19 Main St., Jaffrey, 532-9300, theparktheatre. org) • The Regular Gents Saturday, Nov. 18, noon, Cisco Brewers (35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, ciscobrewersportsmouth.com) • Tim Parent Saturday, Nov. 18, 4 p.m., Cisco Brewers (35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, ciscobrewersportsmouth.com) • Toubab Krewe Saturday, Nov. 18, 6 p.m., Angel City (179 Elm St. in Manchester, 931-3654, angelcitymusichall.com) • High Range Saturday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Press Room (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 431-5186, pressroomnh.com) • Zachariah Hickman’s Power

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Friends cord; 226-8667) at 7 p.m. • Thursday Kings trivia at Game Changer Sports Bar (4 Orchard View Dr., Londonderry; 2161396, gamechangersportsbar.com) from 8 to 10 p.m. • First Thursday of every month trivia at Fody’s (9 Clinton St., Nashua; fodystavern.com) at 8 p.m. • Friday Team Trivia at Cheers (17 Depot St., Concord, 228-0180, cheersnh.com) from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the lounge. Outage Saturday, Nov. 18, and Sunday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Word Barn (66 Newfields Road, Exeter, 244-0202, thewordbarn. com) • Moondance (Van Morrison tribute) Saturday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Rex (23 Amherst St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org) • Andy McKee Sunday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Jimmy’s (135 Congress St., Portsmouth, 888-603JAZZ, jimmysoncongress.com) • Mac McAnally Saturday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Dana Center (Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, anselm.edu) • Jimmy Kenny Band (covers of Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown Band) Saturday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Flying Monkey (39 Main St., Plymouth, 536-2551, flyingmonkeynh.com) • Peter Mulvey & Bettysoo Saturday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m., Music Hall Lounge (131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org) • Blizzard of Ozz: A Tribute to Ozzy/Stormbringer: A Tribute to Deep Purple Saturday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m., Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com) • Jim Brickman Sunday, Nov. 19, 2 p.m., Palace (80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org) • Trumpet Kings Sunday, Nov. 19, 5 p.m., Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com) • Air Supply Sunday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Chubb Theatre (44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) • Leslie Mendelson Sunday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Press Room

• Friday trivia at Gibb’s Garage Bar (3612 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, gibbsgaragebar.com) from 8 to 10 p.m. • Monday Trivia at the Tavern at Red’s (530 Lafayette Road, Seabrook, 760-0030, redskitchenandtavern.com), signup at 8:30 p.m., from 9 to 11 p.m. Hosted by DJ Zati. • Tuesday trivia at Reed’s North (2 E. Main St. in Warner, 4562143, reedsnorth.com) from 6 to 8 p.m. • Tuesday trivia at Fody’s (187 Rockingham Road, Derry, 4046946, fodystavern.com) at 7 p.m. • Tuesday trivia at Lynn’s 102 Tavern (76 Derry Road, Hudson, 943-7832, lynns102.com), at 7 p.m. • Tuesday Geeks Who Drink trivia at Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535,

thepeddlersdaughter.com), from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at Community Oven (845 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 601-6311, thecommunityoven.com) at 6 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at Smuttynose (105 Towle Farm Road, Hampton, 436-4026, smuttynose.com) at 6 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at Spyglass Brewing Co. (306 Innovative Way, Nashua, 546-2965, spyglassbrewing.com) at 6 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at Main Street Grill and Bar (32 Main St., Pittsfield; 435-0005, mainstreetgrillandbar.com) at 6:30 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at Popovers (11 Brickyard Sq., Epping, 7344724, popoversonthesquare.com) from 6:30 to 8 p.m. • Wednesday The Greatest Trivia in the World at Revolution

Taproom and Grill (61 N. Main St., Rochester, 244-3042, revolutiontaproomandgrill.com/upcoming-events) at 6:30 p.m. • Wednesday Kings Trivia at KC’s Rib Shack (837 Second St., Manchester, 627-7427, ribshack. net), sponsored by Mi Campo, in Manchester 7 to 9 p.m.. • Wednesday trivia at Millyard Brewery (125 E. Otterson St., Nashua; 722-0104, millyardbrewery.com) at 7 p.m. • Wednesday trivia with Game Time Trivia at The Thirsty Moose (21 Congress St., Portsmouth, 427-8645, thirstymoosetaphouse. com) at 7 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at The Bar (2b Burnham Road, Hudson, 9435250) at 7 p.m. • Wednesday trivia at City Hall Pub (8 Hanover St.; Manchester, 232-3751, snhhg.com) at 7 p.m.

(77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 4315186, pressroomnh.com) • The Free Range Revue Sunday, Nov. 19, 9 p.m., Bank of NH Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, banknhstage. com) • Soggy Po’Boys Tuesday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m., Press Room (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 431-5186, pressroomnh.com) • Dancing Madly Backwards (Dave Matthews Band tribute) Wednesday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m., Stripe Nine Brewing (8 Somersworth Plaza, Somersworth, 8417175, stripeninebrewing.com) • Quinn Sullivan Wednesday, Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m., Jimmy’s (135 Congress St., Portsmouth, 888-603-JAZZ, jimmysoncongress.com) • Not Fade Away (Grateful Dead tribute) Wednesday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m., Angel City (179 Elm St. in Manchester, 931-3654, angelcitymusichall.com) • Dueling Pianos Wednesday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., Bank of NH Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord,

225-1111, banknhstage.com) • Eric Grant Band Wednesday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., Lakeport Opera House (781 Union Ave., Laconia, 519-7506, lakeportopera.com) • Bulkheads/Good Trees River Band Wednesday, Nov. 22, 9 p.m., Press Room (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 431-5186, pressroomnh.com) • Mattson Friday, (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 431-5186, pressroomnh.com) Nov. 24, 4 p.m., Cisco Brewers (35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, ciscobrewersportsmouth.com) • Trans Siberian Orchestra Friday, Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m., SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000, snhuarena.com) • Joanne Shaw Taylor Friday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m., Chubb Theatre • Truffle Friday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m., Stone Church (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 659-7700, stonechurchrocks.com) • Model Airplane’s Funksgiving Friday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m., 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, 766-3330, 3sarts.

org) • Souled Out Show Band Friday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m., Tupelo (10 A St., Derry, 437-5100, tupelomusichall.com) • The Coalboilers Saturday, Nov. 25, noon, Cisco Brewers • Mattson Saturday, Nov. 25, 4 p.m., Cisco Brewers (35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, ciscobrewersportsmouth.com) • The Boy Band Project Saturday, Nov. 25, 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Rex (23 Amherst St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org) • A Sinatra Christmas with Rich Poster Saturday, Nov. 25, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Music Hall Lounge (131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org) • A Band of Killers Saturday, Nov. 25, 6 p.m., Stone Church (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 6597700, stonechurchrocks.com) • Halley Neal and Sam Roberts Saturday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m., Word Barn • The Cookers Saturday, Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m., Jimmy’s

COMEDY THIS WEEK and beyond • Tupelo night of Comedy — Steve Sweeney, Ryan Gartley and Jen Dwyer, Tupelo Derry (tupelomuischall.com) • Stephanie Peters Chunky’s Manchester (chunkys.com), Friday, Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m. • Mark Normand Cap Center in Concord (ccanh.com), Saturday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. • Spectacle Live Laughs Nashua Center for the Arts (nashuacenterforthearts), Saturday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. • Jody Sloane Headliners in Manchester (headlinerscomedyclub), Saturday, Nov. 18, 8:30 p.m. • Lenny Clarke Chunky’s Manchester (chunkys.com), Saturday, Nov. 18, 8:30 p.m.

• Amy Tee/Alex Giampapa Music Hall Lounge in Portsmouth (themusichall.org), Wednesday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m. • Emily Rukowski Rex in Manchester (palacetheatre.org), Friday, Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m. • Marty Caproni Chunky’s Manchester (chunkys.com), Friday, Nov. 24, and Saturday, Nov. 25, 8:30 p.m. • Juston McKinney Flying Monkey in Plymouth (flyingmonkeynh.com), Saturday, Nov. 25, 5 p.m and 8 p.m. • Amy Tee/Dave Decker Main Street Grill in Hillsborough (mainstreetgrillandbar.com), Saturday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m. • Ace Aceto Headliners in Manchester (headlinerscomedyclub.

Jody Sloane. com), Saturday, Nov. 25, 8:30 p.m. • R-Rated Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr Chunky’s Manchester (chunkys.com), Saturday, Nov. 25, 9 p.m. • Tait Winston Ruby Room at the Shaskeen in Manchester (rubyroomcomedy.com), Wednesday, Nov. 29, 9 p.m. • Bob Marley Amato Center in Milford, Thursday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. (bmarley.com)

Jonesin’ crossword by matt jones

“Free-Flowing”— it’s that time again!

41. Big name on a cup? 42. Genetic blueprint 43. In trouble, perhaps 45. Expresses disapproval 46. “See ya” 48. Lack 50. “Euphoria” network 51. Nickname of an ex in a big

Down 2. Neighborhood near Dodger Stadium 3. “Movin’ Out” choreographer Twyla 4. Lead, for one 5. Linear 6. What poblano peppers passably pack 7. Some mushroom payoffs, in most Mario games 8. 2003 NBA Rookie of the Year Amar’e 9. Commander’s superiors? 10. Full-grown animals 11. Sought, as an office 12. Sci. locale with microscopes 14. Tore 21. Footnote material 25. Action film adventurer Williams 26. Returns something late, maybe 27. Call routing systems 28. Five-in-a-row board game created in 1978 31. Often-imitated 1976 movie

character 32. Docs that use endoscopes 34. Check beneficiary 35. Silica gel pack warning 37. Actress Phylicia of “Creed” 38. In order to 39. Lacking the know-how 40. Crazy Horse, for one 44. Cringe-inducing things, in

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● Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

Across 1. Way to travel from Victor Hugo to Voltaire 6. 1962 Crystals hit “___ a Rebel” 9. Toast site 12. ___ Frisé (poofy breed) 13. Bus. numbers 15. ___ B. Wells (civil rights icon) 16. Suck it up? 17. Superior to 18. ___ & Bradstreet (credit-rating firm) 19. Like scratch-and-sniff stickers 20. The “real me”, maybe 22. Arctic reindeer herder 23. Append 24. “Ugly Betty” actress Ortiz 25. Ice cream stripe 29. Outdated name in a Beatles title 30. Summer 2023 phenomenon that takes about five hours to complete 33. “You’ve changed my mind” 36. Vocal range featured by The King’s Singers 38. Sit and mope

2023 memoir 52. Like some Navy rescues 53. Key below X 54. Good thing to feel? 55. Zombielike 56. Rooibos or oolong 57. Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen 58. Harassed

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Rock and roll Crosswords by todd santos

She’s in the class Across 1. Hope you don’t have one on your nose, when singing 5. Company Sony acquired in ‘88 8. Canadians The Tragically __ 11. Santana ‘Oye __ Va’ 12. Shania Twain “In my __ am the driver” 13. Continent band may tour 15. They can grow in their heads with stardom 16. ‘Perfectly Good Guitar’ John 18. It is thrown at hotel penthouse after epic show 19. ‘98 Aerosmith #1 ‘I __ Thing’ 22. Residencies are in Las Vegas or

“City Of” this 23. James “Can’t catch love with __ or a gun” 24. ‘87 hit/band ‘Living __ Box’ 27. ‘When The Heart Rules The Mind’ band 29. Concrete Blonde ‘Heal __’ with a bandaid 31. Devildriver ‘Head On To Heartache (Let Them __)’ 32. ‘Oh! Darling’ coverer Gaines 35. Red Flag song about angel headwear? 37. The Police drummer 42. Go with “oohs” 43. Bob Dylan/The Band ‘Clothes

Line __’ 44. UK mag for new music (abbr) 45. Like perfect condition of The Cure’s ‘Car’ 47. Cars ‘Drive’ singer Benjamin 49. Approving vote word for new manager 50. Singer/Pianist Amos 52. ‘My Way’ Vicious 54. Primus covered this ‘77 Rush album on ‘22 tour 62. The Weeknd’s real first name 63. Robert Palmer ‘I Didn’t Mean To Turn __’ 64. ‘Let’s Go Trippin’ surf guitarist Dick 65. Deana Carter ‘__ Shave My Legs For This?’ 66. They are stacked against struggling artists 67. Ed Sheeran “__ fire burning the trees” 68. Breeders song for unknown John to police 69. Larry Williams ‘Hootchy-__’ 70. ‘Juliet (Keep That In Mind)’ Gilmore

Down 1. Like freezing parking lot cooler beer 2. “You don’t have __ home but you can’t stay here” 3. Repeated shout in Counting Crows ‘Accidentally In Love’ 4. Awards shows need them for emceeing 5. Bad English keyman Jonathan 6. Green Day song for sitter’s headache 7. Harvey Danger ‘Flagpole __’ 8. Janes Addiction ‘Ritual De Lo __’ 9. Coldplay ‘Your Guess __ Good As Mine’ 10. Ed Sheeran “I’m not a rapper I’m a singer, I just take the __” 12. One who chants 14. ‘Sun Always Shines On TV’ band that said “Gotcha!”, perhaps 17. ‘Mickey’ one-hitter Basil 20. Onstage hair costume 21. Offspring ‘Spare __ Details’ 24. Taxing Chuck Berry enemy 25. Marina & The Diamonds ‘I Am __ Robot’

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Jonesin’ answer from pg 39 of 11/9

26. Ed Sheeran debut ‘11 hit ‘The __’ 28. Pearl Jam rodent song on ‘Vs.’ 30. Dandy Warhols song for the first proposed idea 33. Label founded in 1901 34. Rolling Stones “Tongue & lips”, e.g. 36. Stereophonics ‘Step __ Old Size Nines’ 38. Sammy Hagar might tell a ‘Little’ one 39. ‘__ Capped Romance’ had 36 Crazyfists on a mountaintop 40. Drummer Longineu W __ III of Yellowcard 41. Randy Rhoads ‘Blizzard Of Oz’ instr. 46. Phish guitar god Anastasio 48. Triumph’s Emmett 51. Blink-182 ‘Every Time __ For You’ 53. ‘01 Dave Matthews ‘Everyday’ hit ‘I __’ 54. Trendy genre can be called a short-lived this 55. Placed on Ebay for rare concert t-shirt 56. Make over, in studio 57. ‘Hum Along’ band 58. Impressions ‘All I Want __ Is Make Love To You’ 59. Johnny that could ‘See Clearly Now’ 60. Singing club 61. Oasis spot him out on ‘I Can __ Liar’ © 2023 Todd Santos

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NITE SUDOKU

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. See last week's puzzle answers on pg 41.

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Puzzle A

Puzzle B

Puzzle C

signs of life All quotes are from Wake Up Happy: tions appropriately. Gemini (May 21 – June 20) The physiThe Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life, by Michael Strahan, cal training paid off. Keep going! Cancer (June 21 – July 22) If by chance born Nov. 21, 1971. you — the reader — and I ever work togethScorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) I always er, trust me on this: I don’t want to hear have big plans. But what I’ve learned is that about how you spent the weekend doing 99 percent of happiness isn’t about achiev- Civil War reenactments. Think before you ing more in the future. It’s about being more speak. Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Just as there is in the present. Did someone say presents?! Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Home no manual for parenting, nobody tells you game or away, I used the same routine to how to be a first-year rookie on an NFL pro transform my mind before the game, to team. You learn as you go. Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) I knew I gather my strength…. I’d start out by listening to R&B, artists like Alicia Keys, wasn’t an every-down player going in, Dave Hollister, Mary J. Blige, and Keith but my goal was to … get stronger, so that Sweat. … Everybody thought I was lis- eventually I would play every down. Goals. Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) One aftertening to gangster rap, but it was mellow noon at a game, I made what I remember R&B…. Listen. Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) May- was that most amazing play of my Pee Wee be greater happiness and more prosperity career. … I learned something huge about for you is a matter of pivoting, not quitting. myself that day. I loved making the play, … When the first U.S. Census was tak- but I did not like the attention. At least you en, there were 322 job titles listed. On the learned something. most recent U.S. Census, there were 31,000 types of jobs to choose from. Pivot! Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) The thing that’s so genius about music is that it makes you move. Shake your booty. Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) I wasn’t changing bad habits; I was making new ones. Try to add to your repertoire. Aries (March 21 – April 19) Unfortunately (or fortunately), we don’t begin every day in a huddle with our best friends and favorite family members cheering us on to have an awesome day. But why not? Taurus (April 20 – May 20) There was a lot of horsing around, but at the end of the day it was all hard work, and increasingly no one expected more out of me than Last Week’s Answers: I did. Calibrate your expecta-

Sudoku Answers from pg 40 of 11/9 Puzzle A

Puzzle B

Puzzle C

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ican person, making it subject to certain federal laws. So they contacted the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies deposited the skull with the medical examiner’s office, and while Florida law prohibits selling human remains, they don’t believe Meyer did anything wrong. She said she was “unaware of the skull being a Native American. I put such a high price on it that I figured no one would buy it.” Washington Post, Nov. 6

Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman accompanied the mayor on Nov. 6 at a news conference where they presented a resolution to help curb reckless driving in the city, The Washington Post reported, saying the city needs to “change the daily behavior” of dangerous drivers. But after the event, as soon as Norman hit the road in his SUV, a dump truck rear-ended him, injuring both Norman and another officer. “We did not need this type of reminder that all drivers need to slow down and increase caution The Entrepreneurial Spirit on our roadways,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson In the Chinese province of Hunan, the said. Washington Post, Nov. 7 Shiniuzhai Scenic Area offers stunning landscapes of sheer cliffs — perfect for climbers. And who doesn’t get a little Surprise, Surprise! When antique dealer Beth Meyer thirsty on the way up a grueling vertibought the contents of a storage unit in cal mountain face? CNN reported that September 2022, she was disappointed perched at 394 feet above the ground, a that there were no rocks inside; rocks are 2-square-meter “convenience store” offers her specialty. However, The Washington free water bottles and other sustenance to Post reported, she did find a human skull hungry and parched climbers. The generamong the items. This October, she put a al manager of Shiniuzhai, Song Huizhou, $4,000 price tag on the skull and used it in said staff members are tasked with haula Halloween display in the store she helps ing goods up to the store every day in their run in North Fort Myers, Florida — until backpacks. And you thought your coman anthropologist walked through and saw mute was brutal. CNN, Nov. 5 it. While Meyer already knew the skull was real, the scientist thought it was very Meanwhile, at the Mall ... old and possibly from a Native AmerA man who had been living in a Shang-

hai shopping center stairwell for about six months was finally evicted on Oct. 30, the Daily Star reported. One security guard discovered his cozy setup, which included a tent, an ergonomic chair, a desk and a computer, but allowed him to stay while he studied for exams — until a second guard found the makeshift home. The unnamed man used the mall’s electrical outlets to charge his devices. Daily Star, Nov. 7

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Washington native Ben Miller is a painter of landscapes, focusing on river scenes to raise awareness about conservation. Oddity Central reported that it’s his painting method that makes him stand alone: He applies paint to fishing flies that he makes himself, then flings them at a piece of plexiglass positioned several feet away. Having learned fly fishing from his dad, Miller hits the precise mark he’s aiming for every time. He said he sometimes gets approached by police because people assume he’s fishing out of season, but they’ve always been understanding. Oddity Central, Nov. 8

tralia, a woman who seemingly missed her flight ran past security and onto the tarmac, trying to attract the attention of the pilot, 9News reported. The QantasLink flight was headed to Adelaide. Witness Dennis Bilic said it was “weird” that no one stopped her: “People were a bit flat-footed ... that was the weird part.” Another witness said the pilot was “warned or spotted her and killed the engine.” Flights were delayed for about 10 minutes after the incident. 9News, Nov. 2

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Fashion icon Dior has launched a new scent made for babies, the Mirror reported. Bonne Etoile, priced at 230 British pounds (about $281), will provide a “gentle reminder of sweet memories of early childhood,” the brand gushed, with its “light notes of fruit, pillowy cotton and velvety petals.” (Do I detect a hint of spit-up?) It contains 98% natural-original ingredients. Parents can also indulge in hydrating body milks and bath cleansing foams. But everybody knows that babies smell amazing without the pricey perfumes! Mirror, Nov. 9 Sources according to uexpress.com. From the editors at Andrews McMeel Syndication. It Doesn’t Work That Way On Nov. 1, at Canberra Airport in Aus- See uexpress.com/contact

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