Get on the green
The beginner’s guide to golf in southern New Hampshire
By Alec O’Meara aomeara@hippopress.com

Even for the very best players in the world, the game of golf can be woefully unfair.

Played correctly, 18 holes can take four hours, and beginning players probably won’t be playing correctly. But a true golfer will keep at it. Why? Because he remembers that one time on a perfect summer day standing 120 yards away from the green when his swing felt exactly right, and the ball did exactly what it was supposed to, landing feet from the flagstick and making an impossible game feel easy, if only for a moment.

People: Two wheels on the trail
Bob Clegg — Harley enthusiast, House candidate
By Alec O'Meara aomeara@hippopress.com

Senator Bob Clegg has served 14 years in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and six years in the Senate. All but four of those years, Clegg served in some sort of leadership capacity, including a stint as Senate majority leader. Clegg worked his way from shoveling concrete to owning and managing his own concrete business. Clegg believes that his life experience combined with his work in Concord makes him the right choice for New Hampshire’s Second District in the House of Representatives.

Theater: The Bard, condensed
By Heidi Masek hmasek@hippopress.com

It’s a reverse field trip.

Acting Loft has put together a cast of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), hoping to tour area schools.

Food: Noshing and shopping
By Linda A. Odum food@hippopress.com

The 14th annual Taste of Downtown Nashua will be held on Wednesday, June 4, at 6:30 p.m.

This event, the second-longest-running food event in New Hampshire, pairs restaurants with downtown retailers for a night of great food and fun shopping.

Longshots: Sox Line-ups, Celtics and ESPN investigations are in the mail bag
by Dave Long

Time to go to the “mail bag” to see what inquiring minds want to know.

Dear Dave: What did you think of ESPN’s ambush of Miguel (you say tomata, I say) Tejada? Edward Aremurrow, 1940 Good Night and Good Luck Street, London, England.
Dear Ed: Boy, ESPN really blew the lid off a huge story, didn’t they? Brings me back to when I thought about going into investigative journalism after Woodward and Bernstein helped unravel the Watergate caper. I’ll paraphrase Captain Renault in Casablanca after he discovers gambling is going on at Rick’s Cafe ? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!! that some “journalist” would mislead someone with sleazy gotcha tactics to bring attention to themselves. But except for the people interested in his next contract, who cares? What’s next, a story on how old Satchel Paige really was when he pitched for the Kansas City A’s in a gimmick promo in the 1960s?

Techie: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
By John “jaQ” Andrews  jandrews@hippopress.com

Used to be you paid a premium for miniaturization.

In contrast to the desktop PC world, where a big monitor costs you big bucks, prices for notebook computers actually go up when screen size goes down. It’s not so much the screen itself as the engineering that goes into making the rest of the notebook fit in such a small package. It wasn’t so long ago that a laptop with even a 12.1” screen would routinely set one back over $1,500.

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