Winner of the 2007 People’s Choice award at the Nashua Rotary’s Rock ’n’ Ribfest, Troy Hamele, by day manager of the Nashua Longhorn Steakhouse and by night T-Roys Barbecue, is an unlikely ribber. He began smoking ribs only six years ago and since then has purchased the professional smoker and hit the local ribfest circuit hard, winning fans, trophies and accolades. He’s competing again in this year’s Ribfest this weekend (see story about the Ribfest on page 13).

Since the 1930s, summer stock theaters have run in the north and western areas of New Hampshire. There’s a variety of professional productions to see if you are willing to make the drive. Most pull in actors from New York or elsewhere around the country, and many boast alumni who made it to Broadway, film or TV.

Since we’re in my dead zone period that messes with us being current, between the loss in Game Five, filing this story before Game Six and its publication a day after that game … let’s go to the mail bag to see what inquiring minds want to know about things up to Game Five.

Looking for meat to put on the grill? Why not try some of the locally raised variety?

Would you believe any spy movie spoof could beat Top Secret!?

Some things, no matter how perfect they might seem on paper, were just never meant to be. Britney and Kevin. Peanut butter and cole slaw. Star Trek and network television.