After exceeding her initial fundraising goal of $2,000, Mary Schmidt of Nashua has doubled her goal to $4,000 in the marathon she’s running for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She’s preparing with a number of other area residents with the Massachusetts chapter of the society’s Team In Training program (www.teamintraining.org), which helps athletes with both their fundraising and physical training.

• From the South of France: Bob Raiche, a longtime Manchester commercial and aerial photographer, is now showing more of his artistic side, since his debut gallery show at City Hall this year. “En Provence” includes photos he took of daily life in Côte d’Azure. The exhibit at Beliveau Gallery, Franco-American Centre, 52 Concord St., Manchester, has an artist’s reception Friday, July 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. It continues through Sept. 30, and the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show is also sponsored by the Consulate of France and Angela’s Pasta and Cheese Shop. Call 669-4045 or visit francoamericancentrenh.com for more information.

I think having an imaginative vocabulary is cool—no, make that captivating. It’s why, even though he generally was the very same boorish dolt he often described Maxwell Q. Klinger as, I enjoyed snobby Charles Emerson Winchester much more than loutish Frank Burns, who he followed on the great television series M*A*S*H.

For some people, the heat of summer means fried clams and lobster rolls.

People lined up in front of beach side shacks are not waiting for chicken tenders and hamburgers, but white hotdog buns filled with lobster meat lightly mixed with mayonnaise or fried clams served with a side of coleslaw and tarter sauce.

I will say this: though Marion Nestle takes some of the fun out of food she has the good sense to leave cheese alone.

Human Head turns the first-person shooter genre on its ear by doing just that; turning everything sideways. Yay, it’s annoying!

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