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How to get your dream job
By Heidi Masek hmasek@hippopress.com

Not everyone starts out doing what they love for a living.

But for everyone who has ever “always wanted” to be a chef, produce a play on Broadway or make their own wine, a few people actually make those dreams happen. I talked to Granite Staters who discovered their passions fairly early in life but took years to fulfill their dreams. Most won’t get rich, but they are enjoying their lives.

Mark Schoenfeld’s advice for breaking into the entertainment industry is apt for many dream jobs: you need talent, passion and fearlessness. So what’s your dream job?

PEOPLE: Sweet success
Dominican star of baseball movie Sugar is on tour
By Jeff Mucciarone jmucciarone@hippopress.com

Algenis Perez Soto, 25, had a dream he’d one day come to the United States to make a name for himself on the baseball diamond. The dream didn’t play out exactly as Soto planned, but he is in the U.S. and he did have to bring his glove with him. The native of the Dominican Republic is the star of the film Sugar, which debuts in New Hampshire at Red River Theatres on Friday, May 29. It’s the story of a Dominican pitcher dealing with the adjustment of moving to the U.S. and working his way up the professional baseball ranks. Soto will be at Red River following the two evening screenings on Saturday, May 30; showtimes are 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Tickets to screenings with the discussion cost $10 ($8 for Red River members).

THEATER: This one time at theater camp...
Find summer programs for your performer or artist
By Heidi Masek hmasek@hippopress.com

If you have a budding thespian in your midst, there are lots of theater camps around the area to consider this summer. For the most part, they conclude with a performance for friends and family. Some camps include a visit or ticket to a performance at that venue.

LONGSHOTS: First-place Sox are making the grade
by Dave Long

Not that it matters, but I’m probably not like most baseball fans around here. Baseball’s a warm-weather thing to me. Thus I’m not into the renewal-of-life thing that many rhapsodize about as opening day approaches, which I barely even notice.

FOOD: A south end tradition continues in Concord
Cimo’s is born in former Ordway’s spot
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum food@hippopress.com

For more than 80 years there was a small market in Concord’s south end residential neighborhood. That tradition seemed in jeopardy when Ordway’s market closed in December. Instead it will continue with the new Cimo’s South End Deli, thanks to new owner John Cimikoski.

WINE: A pinot is still a pinot
Even in a new vineyard, some grapes stay the same
By Tim Protzman food@hippopress.com

If chardonnay is the gateway drug of wine then pinot noir must be the crystal meth.

At some point all wine drinkers reach pinot.