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Soundtrack to summer
Concerts, CDs and festivals for your listening pleasure

Like hot dogs and lemonade, music just seems to go with summer.

Whether it’s the songs you listen to as you cruise down city streets with the windows open or the concerts you enjoy while sitting on a picnic blanket in the sun, summer definitely has a soundtrack.

Here are the festivals, the concerts and the albums that are going to provide the soundtrack to summer 2009. And, thanks to a few outdoor concerts, some of that soundtrack is even free.

PEOPLE: Audubon achiever
EPA New England honors Carol Foss
By Jeff Mucciarone jmucciarone@hippopress.com

After more than 30 years at New Hampshire Audubon, Carol Foss was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Environmental Protection Agency’s New England office. Foss is currently the conservation director for the Audubon, but she’s also served as education director and director of wildlife programs. “New Hampshire has been a rural state and we have had the luxury of taking ecological services for granted and we need to stop taking them for granted,” Foss said. “...And if we want to continue to survive as a species, we’ve got to learn to be sustainable.”

THEATER: Keeping jobs
State arts organizations hope for a little federal help
By Heidi Masek hmasek@hippopress.com

Federal stimulus funding isn’t just for roads and bridges: some state arts organizations are unofficially (at press time) eligible for $10,000 or $20,000 one-time job preservation grants. It’s called “Arts Jobs: Putting New Hampshire to Work.”

LONGSHOTS: The Mt. Rushmores of the Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry
by Dave Long

With the upcoming series with the Yanks at Fenway still five days away, I’m caught between a rock and a hard place. If I write this now, most will see it with the Rangers series going on so it won’t be timed quite right. But if I wait until next issue, chances are many will see this after they leave town. What to do? OK — we’ll go today with the latest offering from my ongoing fascination with the “Mt. Rushmore of sports” concept, with this entry being the Mt. Rushmore of All Things Red Sox–Yankees.

FOOD: It’s a stretch
Watch the cheese guru at work
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum food@hippopress.com

Mozzarella is the crowning touch for most pizzas and lasagna, and a caprice salad wouldn’t be complete without it. On Saturday, June 6, Butter’s Fine Food and Wine in Concord will hold a mozzarella-stretching demonstration by cheese expert Adam Prizio. This will allow visitors to see the technique that makes fresh mozzarella a culinary delight.

POP CULTURE: Dork vs. Dork: Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell is no Spencer Milligan
By Glenn Given production@hippopress.com & Dan Szczesny dszczesny@hippopress.com

OK, my memories of Land of the Lost are murky hallucination (a hazy blur of time, not of the usual Sid and Marty Krofft pharma-reasons). In fact I was under the impression that Will Marshall was originally portrayed by Patrick Duffy (of Step by Step and Dallas fame).