WELL HEY, UPPER VALLEY!
That was some wind last night, huh? Depending on how you feel about cold, it's going to be a nice day out there. Sunny and climbing a whopping eight or nine degrees (from today's low at 8 am) into the low teens. Wind's from the northwest, and it'll bite. Down below zero tonight, with temps possibly dropping into the negative teens in the coldest hollows. Snow moving in late tomorrow, totals uncertain, but higher the farther south you go.CCBA has a new director. Kerry Artman, volunteer coordinator for the Hanover schools, former Co-op Food Stores board member, and spinning instructor at the Lebanon fitness center, will start on Feb. 3. Artman was chosen from among 58 applicants, and replaces Shelby Day, who stepped down last fall. (VN)Dartmouth students develop mental-health social media app. Dartmouth Unmasked founder Sanat Mohapatra, a senior, first had the idea as a freshman, when he noticed students using the now-defunct messaging app Yik Yak to post about their struggles. Yik Yak was a troll's paradise, but Mohapatra set out to build a moderated, safe version. It went live Monday, and in the first 24 hours 246 users signed up, discussing self-harm, rape, severe anxiety, OCD, hypochondria, and other challenges."Why is DHMC spending $130 million on a building that looks like a cheesy Holiday Inn Express?" That's sometime architecture critic Don Kreis, responding to news that the Lebanon Planning Board approved D-H's plans for a new patient tower. "The original DHMC campus in West Lebanon, and the initial series of expansions there, were clearly designed as if people mattered. But somewhere along the line something changed," he writes in a letter to Daybreak. More at the link. UVAC phenom sets sights on Manhattan, English Channel. Vera Rivard, the Springfield NH teen who at 14 became the youngest swimmer to complete the 25-mile Search of Memphre open-water race, is planning to swim both the "20 Bridges around Manhattan Island" and the English Channel this August as part of her quest for an open-water "triple crown." "I feel it is what I am meant to do," the 16-year-old says in an Aquatic Center press release. "I feel completely 'me' when I am in the open water.”“I’d like to bring back sledding,” says Glen Norton of his toboggans. Norton, whose day job is laying flooring, was out with his father a few years back when he noticed a toboggan selling for $300. “I don’t think this would be too hard to build,” he commented. It turned out that it was — he put in hundreds of hours learning how to steam-bend the boards without cracking them. But the result is his W. Fairlee company, Norton's Vermont Toboggans, which now sells his handmade work locally and online — for $175-$200, writes Kelly Burch. "Life is too short not to be thrilled with your drink." That's the return policy at Wolf Tree, the snug cocktail lounge wedged next to Rio Blanco Salon in WRJ. Junction Mag's Isaac Lorton profiles the bar—which attracts "steady crowds on weeknights and masses on the weekends"—and its "mad-scientist" moving spirit, Max Overstrom-Coleman, a former underwater researcher and ecology grad student at Dartmouth. Wolf trees? "Usually you see them kind of standing out in the field alone...What they end up being is community centers for not only pasture animals but all of the pasture community."Hood tintypes "reframe" Native American history. Photographers Will Wilson and Kali Spitzer spent last week posing Native American students and community members in front of their vintage cameras as part of a project to "reframe our historical understanding," in the words of associate curator of Native American art Jami Powell. The tintypes are linked to video to create a hybrid, "marrying a 19th-century photographic process with 21st-century augmented reality," writes Charlotte Albright.In case you want to put this weekend's storm in national context... It's already affecting the Midwest. Accuweather has the maps. Also, they say, "Motorists with travel plans along the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts turnpikes, as well as the New York Thruway and Southern Tier Expressway and interstates 64, 66, 68, 70, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93 and 95 should be prepared for wintry conditions and travel delays." There you have it.Vermont joins 14-state suit to stop Trump admin plan to cut food stamps for unemployed. The USDA finalized the rule in December; it would eliminate states’ discretion to extend benefits for adults in distressed economic areas, and cost some 700,000 people access to food benefits. The states, along with New York City and the District of Columbia, argue that the rule contradicts congressional intent and will raise health care and homelessness costs. Middlebury adds summer immersion program in Abenaki. The two-week-long pilot course will be run by Jesse Bowman Bruchac, a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki and longtime teacher of the Abenaki language. "I think there's nothing more important as far as connecting us to this place than to understand its original people," he says. "I don't try and speak Abenaki to have new words, I try and speak Abenaki to understand the culture and my connection to it."Want to learn what makes beer taste good? I mean, really learn. The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium is hosting a three-class "Chemistry of Beer" workshop next month with John Lenzini, co-founder of Littleton NH's Schilling Beer Co. It'll be hands-on, and among other things cover hops and malts, yeast, fermentation, and other idiosyncrasies of the craft.
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It's a space for people to actually listen to music, with plenty of baked goods and hot drinks. Tonight: Ford Daley's been "singing and picking music" for a half century in the Upper Valley; he and his daughter, Graham, are Chip and the Old Block, and they're on at 7:30. At 8:15, two-part harmonizers and UV performing veterans Dave Clark and Rob Oxford; and at 9:00, Sierra Partlan and Andrew Aghababian with original songs from Plum Island, MA. In the back of the Leb Congregational Church.
Arnowitt's a celebrated classical and jazz pianist who has performed all over the world and collaborated tirelessly with other musicians to stage fundraisers (for Balkan and Syrian refugees) and bring music into schools, libraries, and concert halls around the region. ImproVisions includes NYC musicians Dave Smith (trumpet) and Rick Rosato (bass) as well as Vermonters Dan Silverman (trombone) and Caleb Bronz (drums). 7:30.
EDM and hip-hop,
four
DJs, light show, flow artists and hula hoopers Nikki Royce and Julie Elizabeth, contest for best-dressed alien and best-dressed cowboy (or maybe it's vice-versa)... Starts at 8 and you
know
you need to make a night of it.
Or heck, maybe you just need to sit in a dark theater and watch the big screen.
In case you
juuust
missed them:
The Lighthouse is at the Loew (Hop) at 7:30.
Ford v. Ferrari is in Spaulding (also Hop) at 7:30.
Knives Out is at Woodstock Town Hall at 7:30.
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