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NEWS

FEATURE

Dominique Salice, deputy field director in the southern region for the national AFL-CIO, discusses canvassing strategy with volunteers at the Labor 2016 mobilization kick-off.

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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS Union members launch largest organized labor mobilization in state history BY RYAN PITKIN

TANDING AT 5 feet 4 inches, the petite MaryBe McMillan doesn’t look like your stereotypical union boss, and for her, that in itself is part of the message she’s trying to send. “There are a lot of myths and stereotypes out there,” the secretary-treasurer of the NC State AFL-CIO says. “I always joke with folks 10 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

like, ‘Look at me, I’m the big union boss and I’m not big. I don’t smoke cigars. I’m not male.’ It challenges some of the stereotypes.” She says spreading the message that the nearly 120,000 union members that make up North Carolina’s 200 unions are just normal, everyday people will be a part of a canvassing campaign that started on September 10, but that’s just a small part of it. The real goal

will be to get the word out about candidates her organization has endorsed, especially in three races that members see as most crucial to worker’s rights: the presidential, gubernatorial race and senatorial race here in North Carolina. Recently, as the latter two races have become more heated and the gaps between the incumbents and challengers have

tightened, the national AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, recognized that North Carolina will be an important battleground in November. The organization re-prioritized the state by giving it a Tier 1 status, meaning a flood of money and resources will be shifted to organizers within the state in an attempt to lobby for the election of their endorsed

candidates — namely Hillary Clinton, Roy Cooper and Deborah Ross — and a flood of union members will be hitting the streets to inform folks about each candidate’s records regarding workers’ rights. The money, new technology and hiring of 100 full-time organizers in North Carolina will make up the largest organized labor mobilization in the state’s history, and organizers are hopeful it will jumpstart the organized labor movement here in one of the country’s least unionized states. “It will help us build a better mobilization structure so that we can hopefully eventually change some of the anti-union and antiworker laws that we have in this state,” McMillan says. The national AFL-CIO will also send a large team of lawyers to North Carolina once voting begins to monitor polling places and protect against voter suppression in a year when right-wing rhetoric has encouraged residents to be militant against the voter fraud myth and local election boards have worked to cut early voting hours. “We’ll be working closely with organizations like Democracy North Carolina to promote the voter protection hotline and to educate working people about their rights under the law, including the availability of same day registration, expanded early voting, and that they won’t need to show a photo ID to cast their ballot,” said Jeremy Sprinkle with the NC State AFL-CIO. Creative Loafing met with McMillan at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 379 union hall in west Charlotte just a day before more than 100 members would come together there to launch the new campaign, joining thousands of others across the country for a national day of action. She explained how this year will be different from past organized labor campaigns in North Carolina in that efforts will not just target other union members but the population as a whole. Canvassers, phone bank volunteers and mailers will be targeted at some non-union voters chosen by an algorithm that considers someone’s past voting patterns and other data. “We’ve traditionally just done a memberto-member program, so union members calling other union members and knocking on other union members’ doors, and that’s still our primary focus, but because of these additional resources we can also knock on the doors of the general public as well,” McMillan says. She hopes the efforts will help set North Carolina’s organized labor movement up for success beyond the election, to help boost the state’s poor reputation as one of the country’s least unionized, “constantly flipflopping with South Carolina for last place,” as she puts it.

IT WOULD BE tough to tell that North

Carolina had any problem with unionizing from looking at the large group of highspirited people who showed up on Saturday to kick-off this new campaign with four hours of canvassing through Charlotte neighborhoods. Organized labor leaders from around the state and country were in attendance and some addressed the crowd inside IBEW Local 379 before taking to the streets. Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the national AFL-CIO, addressed the crowd before walking through Charlotte’s Wilmore neighborhood to connect with neighbors, targeting houses with an app used by all the canvassers, some on iPhones provided by AFL-CIO. A day before joining him on that walk, CL spoke with Gebre over the phone from his office in Washington D.C. about the importance of North Carolina’s upcoming elections. He made it clear that the North Carolina General Assembly inspired him and other AFL-CIO officials to look a little more closely at the state. “Your state legislature would be how North Carolina was put on the top of the list,” Gebre says. “With some of the draconian stuff that the state legislature and the Governor has been trying to do, including suppressing the vote, that has been a concern of ours for a long, long time before this week.” Just as with organized labor efforts across the country, organizers will also be stumping for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement and support for a higher minimum wage has gained her the support of most unions. And while Donald Trump’s anti-worker practices within the existing companies and properties he manages is bothersome to many union members across the country, for Gebre, an immigrant from Ethiopia, it’s a more personal concern. “As an immigrant myself — the first immigrant elected to the national AFL-CIO as an officer — the rhetoric of this national election personally for me has been very scary and very nerve-wracking,” he says. “This country cannot afford someone like Donald Trump in the White House. If we win North Carolina, that pretty much assures us that Donald Trump stays away from the White House.” But as far as canvassing here in Charlotte, Gebre is ready to talk about any of the races that make up what he calls “the triple whammy” of winnable races for proworker candidates in our state. Most folks in North Carolina — and now, unfortunately, in the United States — are familiar with McCrory’s missteps during his first term

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Tefere Gebre canvasses in the Charlotte’s Wilmore neighborhood with Jerry Hodge of UAW Local 3520 in Cleveland, North Carolina. as governor, especially in regards to House Bill 2. Canvassers will be informing folks of the lesser knowns effects HB2 has had on workers’ rights. While McCrory has become somewhat of a pariah in Charlotte following the passing of HB2, Deborah Ross’s campaign to unseat Sen. Richard Burr from the spot he’s held since 2005 is not brought up as often around North Carolina’s water coolers. At just the second house Gebre visited on Saturday, a west Charlotte man quickly made it clear how he felt about Donald Trump (“That man just ain’t hitting”), but said he hadn’t heard about Deborah Ross or her campaign. After a short talk with Gebere, he said he would definitely be going to vote and would vote for Ross. “[Deborah Ross] is a priority because we think the Senate can switch [to a Democratic majority],” Gebre says. “In order for that to happen, we have to put our heart and soul into North Carolina and helping Ross win that state. We’re going to do everything we can to get Ross across the line and to victory.” Tim Rorie, president of the Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council, one of eight divisions within the NC State AFLCIO, met with Ross earlier this year. He says he reached out to both Ross and Burr to converse about workers’ rights and got more than he bargained for from Ross. “We had a conversation and she asked me

to tell her about my life as a letter carrier,” Rorie recalls. “So I explained it to her, and it wasn’t about just the issues but she wanted to know about the workforce, what the job entails, what has changed. So I explained it all in detail.” And Sen. Burr? “I haven’t heard from him,” Rorie says. Gebre says it’s his wish that more Republicans would work with the labor movement, but it’s been his experience that nobody on the right is interested. “We wish we had some other friends on the other side of the aisle to talk to us and work with us, but we have not had any luck in getting that to happen,” he says. Once Election Day does come to pass, whatever the results, McMillan is confident that the new energy being pumped into North Carolina will be just what the state’s organizers need to light a fire that will stay lit long past November. For the union boss that’s not your average union boss, it might also help shine a new light on who it is that could be knocking on your door next. “Hopefully by knocking on the general public’s doors folks will be able to see that union members aren’t these scary thugs and mobsters,” McMillan says. We’re their neighbors, we’re the folks that deliver the mail and put out the fires. We’re average, everyday people who are just looking to build better lives for ourselves and our families.” RPITKIN@CLCLT.COM

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NEWS

BLOTTER

BY RYAN PITKIN

FLYING COACH We’re all familiar with

airplane clichés; it’s everyone’s nightmare to get stuck on a long flight sitting next to an annoying stranger, a crying baby or Hillary Clinton in a coughing fit. But one 22-yearold woman flying from Miami to Charlotte last week got perhaps the worst type of neighbor: the pickpocket. When the woman arrived in Charlotte she told police that someone had stolen her wallet containing $200 in cash and her passport. She said a man kept bumping into her while standing behind her in the aisle and then sat next to her for the entire flight, at which time she believes he stole her belongings.

TOSS SALAD What’s a juvenile delinquent

to do when there’s no car in the driveway to vandalize? Why, vandalize the driveway of course. In what has long been a typical south Charlotte crime report, a 48-year-old man living in the Providence Plantation neighborhood called police after some young miscreants damaged his property. Officers responded and found that someone had poured cooking oil onto the man’s driveway, causing stains. Then the suspect(s) dumped a carton of eggs and a bottle of ranch dressing onto his porch and discarded the containers in his driveway before departing.

LOAVES & FISHES A thief who missed church on Sunday last week decided he needed to get his communion. The man broke into Sarang Church of Charlotte in northeast Charlotte at around midnight on Monday morning and stole nothing but bread and juice. No word on whether it had yet been turned into Christ’s body and blood or how that works in this situation. PISSED OFF An east Charlotte man made

it known last week that he does not like to be disturbed while using the restroom … in public. A CMPD officer wrote in a report that the suspect exposed himself in public in the presence of multiple police officers in order to urinate on a sidewalk. When he was told to put it away, he threatened one officer, stating that he would punch him in the face. He followed through on that threat, punching one officer in the left cheek. He then resisted being handcuffed and, during the ensuing struggle, allegedly assaulted yet another officer by placing her in a chokehold.

NOT QUICK ENOUGH Hanging around for a tip may have cost one delivery driver in north Charlotte last week. A Domino’s pizza guy called police after he says someone rummaged through his car while it sat in a customer’s driveway in the short time it took him to deliver a pizza to the door. The quick crook made off with a $250 Samsung Note 4 cellphone. 12 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

SCRIBBLE SWEET NOTHINGS A

40-year-old woman turned to police last week after being left a love note by some misguided Cupid. Police responded to a stalking call in east Charlotte after the woman came out to her car after eating at an IHOP only to find that someone had left her a note “professing his affection for her,” according to the report. The woman told police she called them because she is married and “was disturbed by the letter.”

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN A thief who

broke into a north Charlotte hair salon last week didn’t get what they came for, but they made sure they’d get a meal ticket out of their heist. According to the report, someone broke into Elom’s African Hair Braiding one evening and made off with only $1 in cash, as well as a leftover plate of seafood that was in the store.

GENDER BINARY While most women

are rightfully weary of walking alone on city streets at night, one woman set out last week to break the glass ceiling and flip the script on an unexpecting man. The 41-year-old victim told police he was walking down The Plaza just after 11:30 p.m. when the woman, who was coming in the opposite direction, suddenly pulled out a knife and demanded his money. He handed the money over and watched as she made her escape on foot.

EMERGENCY EXIT A teenager learned his

lesson about taking the stairs last weekend after his alternative route didn’t work out. Officers responded to a Medic call for service just outside of Uptown to find a 16-year-old boy with an injured finger. The boy told police and Medic that he had hurt his finger while jumping from the second floor balcony in an attempt to exit the building.

FOR HARAMBE A 54-year-old woman

called police after someone had apparently decided to cool off last week by taking everything off. The south Charlotte woman told police that she heard something on her deck and when she went to check it out, she saw a naked man jump off her patio steps and run off into the woods. And here y’all are looking for some clowns.

GO TO YOUR ROOMS Two guys in

northwest Charlotte will hopefully be rethinking where they sleep after both were robbed blind early in the morning last week while trying to get some shut-eye. A 21-year-old man and his 17-year-old brother told police that they were both asleep in the driveway of their residence when some unknown suspect must have stolen each of their phones. Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

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THESE SHOES WEREN’T MADE FOR WALKIN’ The upscale clothier Barneys New

York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” from the high-end brand Golden Goose that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbledtogether, as if they were shoes recovered from a dumpster. The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim. Critics were in abundance, accusing Barneys of mocking poverty.

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE (1)

The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging a tribute to late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. (2) A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of an amoeba — a brain-eating amoeba — which he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County. [Editor’s note: We are all well aware of the brain-eating amoeba here in Charlotte, Chuck.]

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION The Drug

Enforcement Administration has schemed for years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so that the DEA can interview them with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect” that the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed that the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge results, almost never get all their money back — and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two resulted in charges. One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA.

NOTW UPDATE In August, the Defense

Department’s inspector general affirmed once again, following up on 2013 disclosures, that the agency has little knowledge of where its money goes — this time admitting that the Department of the Army had made $6.5 trillion in accounting “adjustments” that appeared simply to be made up out of thin air just to get the books balanced for 2015. In part, the problem was laid to 16,000 financial data files that simply disappeared with no trace. “As a result,” reported Fortune Magazine, “there has been no way to know how the Defense Department — far and away the biggest chunk of Congress’s annual budget — spends the public’s money.”

YOU’RE WELCOME In August, the banking

giant Citigroup and the communications giant AT&T agreed to end their two-monthlong legal hostilities over AT&T’s right to

have a customer service program titled “Thanks.” Citigroup had pointed out that it holds trademarks for customer service titles “thankyou,” “citi thankyou,” “thankyou from citi” and “thankyou your way,” and had tried to block the program name “AT&T Thanks.”

PREDATOR Eric Aniva was finally arrested in the African nation of Malawi in July — but not before he had been employed by village families more than 100 times to have ritual sex to “cleanse” recent widows — and girls immediately after their first menstruation. Aniva is one of several such sex workers known as “hyenas” (because they operate stealthily, at night), but Malawi president Peter Mutharika took action after reading devastating dispatches reporting hyenas’ underage victims and Aniva’s HIV-positive status in The New York Times and London’s The Guardian, among other news services. SCREW CINEMARK The July 2012

Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement. Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout offered only a maximum of $30,000 for the worst-off victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’s attack, ruled for the theater — making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s expenses defending against the lawsuit ($699,000).

MISUNDERSTANDINGS (1) “Mr. L,” 31,

a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet, but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. (2) In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, awaiting his wife’s childbirth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse to wave him into a room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery — a procedure that took 40 minutes. The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement — but insisted that, no matter his purpose at the hospital, he in fact had hemorrhoids, and they were removed.

MORE FROM CHINA Evidently, many

Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee — a New York Times dispatch said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars” — the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate

the mistress’s life” and ultimately convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.

IN HIS HANDS Flooding from rains in

August tore down a basement wall of the Connellsville (Pennsylvania) Church of God, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the first-floor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage is not covered, as rain is an “act of God.” Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.

GOOD GUYS FINISH LAST In 2005, India enacted a landmark anti-poverty program, obligating the government to furnish 100 days’ minimum-wage work to unskilled laborers — potentially, 70 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people. Programs often fail in India because of rampant corruption, but a recent study by a Cambridge University researcher concluded that the 2005 law is failing for the opposite reason: anticorruption measures in the program. Its requirement of extreme transparency has created an exponential increase in paperwork to minimize opportunities for corruption, severely delaying the availability of jobs. THE PASSING PARADE (1) Vegetarian

Deb Dusseau of Portland, Maine, celebrating her 10-year anniversary of “all vegetables, all the time,” reported to a tattoo artist in August and now sports, on her right arm, wrist to shoulder, an eggplant, peppers, mushrooms, peas, greens, onions, a radish and multiple tomatoes — drawn in an “old seed catalog” motif. (2) Pro baseball player Brandon Thomas of the independent Frontier League’s Gateway Grizzlies in St. Louis, Missouri hit a grand slam on Aug. 21 — over the fence, into the adjacent parking lot, where the ball smashed the windshield ... of his own car.

NOTW CLASSIC (October 2012) Horse

showjumping is a long-time Olympic sport, but since 2002, equestrians have been performing in “horseless” showjumping, in which horse courses are run by “riders” on foot. According to an October (2012) Wall Street Journal report, an international association headed by retired pro equestrian Jessica Newman produces at least 15 shows a year, with from 40 to 130 competitors, galloping over jumps that vary from 2 to 4 feet high (5 feet in “Grand Prix” events), with the “riders” graded as if they were on horses (timed, with points off for contacting the rails). Explained Newman, about the shows’ success, “It’s just fun to be a horse.”

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THE FRAYED FABRIC OF TIME Sexual assault survivor attempts to help others like him through film BY RYAN PITKIN

EVEN FOR A stranger who chances upon Devan Penegar’s “I Dream of Goats” essay, to read the recollections of what he’s gone through can be a dark and even shattering experience. Yet these are experiences that Penegar kept to himself for 11 years, left to seethe under the surface until they almost cost him his life. “I Dream of Goats” includes a first-hand account of Penegar’s own sexual assault at just 15 years old. He describes how his psychiatrist drugged him and showed him a snuff film involving a woman being sodomized with a power drill until Penegar lost all control of his faculties, at which time he says he remembers being raped. The next 11 years were like a new torture to Penegar, who fell into the grips of alcohol abuse and attempted suicide multiple times. Things began to change for him when he told his story to friend Camille Dalke backstage at a Charlotte comedy show one night. Dalke had been editing a collection of essays Penegar had written, though they danced around his darkest issue. After he opened up to her, Dalke eventually convinced him to confront his trauma in writing, leading to the publication of “I Dream of Goats.” In January 2015, Penegar joined the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) Speakers Bureau and speaks at the organization’s events when he can, including a speech at UNC Charlotte’s “Take Back the Night” event in April 2015. It was around that time, he and Dalke began work on Frayed Fabric, a documentary that gives sexual assault survivors — most of whom live in Charlotte — a platform to tell their stories. Penegar and Dalke hopes the film will inspire others who haven’t confronted their trauma to do so. Creative Loafing recently sat down with Penegar and Dalke to discuss what led them to this point and the process of filming their first documentary. For space, only Penegar’s answers are included in print. Check www. clclt.com for a more complete transcript. Creative Loafing: How can you describe what you went through for those 11 years before meeting Camille? Devan Penegar: The best way I can sum it up was that I had memories in my head and 14 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

I thought, “I can’t live with these in my head so the only way to get them out of my head is suicide.” I tried to numb that feeling with an insane amount of alcohol on a daily basis. That wasn’t enough after a while and I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. It put certain images in my mind. It took a while, but just having that first conversation, I think people underestimate how important that is. That changed something. “OK, maybe I can live with these memories a few more months.” Then it turned into years and then you start a project like [Frayed Fabric] and it’s like, “Oh shit, this is how I live with it. I can create art based around it that can help people.” Then eventually it’s not even at the forefront of your mind and enough time has passed where it’s not as horrific because you know you’re doing this other shit to help other people. What can you say about living with PTSD in comparison to the stereotypes you might see on television? It’s similar to that. Some of the stereotypes are true. I slept with a butcher knife under my pillow for years, just in case. There was a fear that if I woke up and someone’s there I could hack them up. For a while — not now, I’ve gotten past it — I used to have terrible dental hygiene. A lot of the images of [my attacker] were like penises in my mouth. Putting a brush back and forth in your mouth, that thought would trigger shit for a while. There were long stretches of time where I would just use mouthwash and not even brush, and I know that sounds gross, but just because it’s a phallic-shaped object in your mouth and it would trigger things. I would floss sometimes instead of brushing my teeth because I thought, “Well, this isn’t phallic.” But I would space out still thinking about it and when I came to I had flossed until there was a lot of blood in the sink. It got weird. What was the feeling like once you finally did tell Camille? I felt like I couldn’t stop talking for a while. It was 11 years worth of stuff. It felt like having a double life, and one life was phony and no one knows the real you, and it’s like, “Well, I’m telling someone the entire real me now.” What inspired you to make a film? I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker. Mark Duplass gave a speech at the South by Southwest festival. It was very influential to me. To sum up a 45-minute speech in a few sentences, he said, “Stop waiting on people to give you money. Nobody’s going to give you money. Nobody gives a fuck what you’re working on except you, so just use what you have.” He said, “The cavalry’s not coming, you are the cavalry.” Hearing that, a lot of stuff in my head clicked all at once. If your goal isn’t to get it in theaters, if your goal is internet distribution, then anything is possible.

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Camille Dalke (left) is executive producer of Frayed Fabric and carries out the interviews. Devan Penegar will direct, edit and produce the film. What will the movie consist of? I view it as each person is a chapter in a book. Each survivor, their segment is their chapter. The film will be divided up in chapters. It’s just conversations really. There might be a few art house-type montages and things, but 95 percent of it is Camille having conversations with people. It’s not like a rigid Q&A. We film them for two hours, if needed. We want them to feel comfortable and it’s a very back-and-forth, honest conversation. Why Frayed Fabric? I don’t remember where I read it, and I think it was quoted as an anonymous person anyway, but somewhere out there there’s a quote that says, “Trauma frays the fabric of time.” It was used to describe someone who had been in war. I thought, “Well, the majority of people in America who have PTSD have not been to war, they’re actually sexual assault survivors.” So that’s where we got the title. What obstacles have you run into during this process? It’s hard enough honestly just finding

[cisgender] white people and getting them to talk. It’s even harder when they’re minorities. I know 60 percent of transgender people have experienced sexual assault. If you’re a black transgender person it’s higher than 60 percent. We may or may not get a transgender person to talk on camera. A lot of them fear for their lives. One transgender woman was going to do it and she backed out and the reason was, “I don’t want someone to kill me because they see this film.” They face harassment more than probably any other minority in this country. But if someone does feel comfortable speaking out, we want to hear from them. Do you personally still deal with PTSD? I don’t know if it ever ends, but I don’t feel like I have it now. But, who knows? Maybe something a year from now will trigger something. I don’t know. If you would like to reach out to Penegar about his film, email him at escapegoatfilms@gmail. com. If you need help, support or information, call RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-4673.

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the street, backpacks overflow with books and papers, lastminute morning scrambles have begun. School’s back in session, but there’s more than Spanish verb conjugations and Important Historical Trends on the syllabus. In this foodie town of ours, plenty of eager learners are gobbling up knowledge about what’s on their plates. 16 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

Now, we all know about the big culinary schools, from Uptown’s Johnson & Wales University to the Community Culinary School on Monroe Road, but there are plenty of other opportunities for more casual students of food lore to pick up a wide variety of skills, whether it be deboning a chicken or choosing a cocktail. The faculty of this unofficial School of Dining is just as passionate as any chef instructor when it comes to sharing their knowledge ... and

instead of giving you a final grade, they’re more likely to give you dinner. Chef Clark Barlowe started offering classes about six months after opening the doors of Heirloom restaurant two years ago in the Coulwood neighborhood. Shifting from training new staff to teaching his customers was a natural evolution for him. “As a good chef, you should be a good teacher,” he says. “They go hand in hand.” He’s given lectures and taught classes

across the state on everything from foraging mushrooms to running a farm-to-table restaurant. Barlowe’s monthly courses hone in on specific techniques, such as making pasta or breaking down a whole chicken. “A lot of our classes are not intense cooking classes,” he says, explaining that no prior knowledge is needed to get the full benefit of his demonstration. And as much as skills, he hopes to share the importance of knowing

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Popular Charlotte mixologist Bob Peters guides his Mixology 101 class at Earl’s Grocery in the art of concocting the perfect cocktail. your ingredients’ origins. “The more people with that understanding, the better you’re going to eat,” he says. Inside South End’s Atherton Market, Alyssa Wilen also uses locally-sourced ingredients to give learners an even more

hands-on experience. Her two-hour Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen classes fit a more traditional mold, taking students through specific recipes in creating their own meals. She and two assistants teach everything from basic knife skills to ethnic and vegan menus,

CLASS IS IN SESSION, SO REGISTER NOW • Heirloom Restaurant: Go to heirloomrestaurantnc.com and click on “events.” Next up is a Muddy River Cocktail Class on Sept. 17.

• Heidi Billotto Food: A regular Charlotte food celebrity, she’s got new classes in the works for October and November. Go to heidibillottofood.com.

• Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen: chefalyssaskitchen. com/schedule

• Salud! Cooking school inside Whole Foods: Offers both hands-on and demonstration classes, including a wine and cheese workshop. Go to wholefoodsmarket.com/ service/salud-cooking-school-charlotte.

• Feast Food Tours: feastfoodtours.com • Bob Peters’ events page: bobpeters.net/ events

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Chef Alyssa Wilen cooking and demonstrating the whole process for folks who want to better their kitchen skills. even hosting week-long culinary camps for children. Still, like Barlowe, she aims to keep things simple. “I don’t want people to feel like they need the right utensil to do something,” she says, explaining that she encourages her students to adapt her recipes on their own. “It’s really important to me that people feel like it’s approachable and that they could do it at home.” And yes, both Barlowe’s and Wilen’s classes finish at the table. At Heirloom, guests sit down to a chef-prepared three-course meal; at Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen, the students prepare their own dinner. “Everything’s hands-on,” she explains. “You’re doing 100 percent of the menu.” For those who would rather restrict their culinary studies to the table, consider

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dives to creating his own drink menus. Along the way, he’s gained an appreciation for some of the unique products his home state offers, and a desire to share his discoveries. “Part of our job,” he says, “is to help educate the general consumer about what’s going on…to bring those things that are really wonderful to light.” Every second Saturday for the past two years, Charlotte’s lead mixologist has introduced attendees to three tasty spirits and demonstrated simple but remarkable cocktails that they can mix at home. “People might not bake pastries for their garnishes at a home party,” he says, “but I can teach them how to make a killer Negroni that they can [set up] before everybody gets there, so they can spend their time at the party instead of at the bar.” From the kitchen to the bar, these four experts are just a sampling of the educational delights awaiting your palate. As the holidays approach, expect even more learning opportunities to pop up. So break out the college-ruled paper, Charlotte, because you’re definitely going to want to take notes. BACKTALK@CLCLT.COM

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Jamarr Shular was on top of the world: he was a regaled chef at Apple’s Cupertino campus, and he had a resume that would leave any foodie drooling. So why did the Le Cordon Bleu-educated chef decide to leave it all and take a gamble on the Queen City? For Shular, it was all about chasing a dream: “Coming out of culinary school seven years ago, my goal was to have my own restaurant,” he says. He got the opportunity to bring that goal to fruition when his cousin found an empty space sitting vacant on the corner of North Caldwell and 6th streets. For Shular, securing the “turn-key” location was the only motivation he needed to make the leap from Cupertino to the Carolinas. A few months later, they opened the doors to NoCA Uptown (the name is a play on Shular’s native Northern California, and the restaurant’s location on North Caldwell); a west coast-inspired eatery with an open dining space and a unique menu to match. On Shular’s list of favorites: fried cheddar grit tots, crawfish croquettes and goudastuffed chicken on a bed of shaved brussel sprouts. “I think the people miss a lot in the food culture here,” Shular says, comparing Charlotte’s food scene with the Bay Area. “That’s why I’m here. I want to bring something different to the table.” Creative Loafing: You’ve described the food your grandmother cooked as “soul food.” How do you define soul food? Jamarr Shular: Me personally, I define soul food as the food that’s being cooked when all the family is over. You might have an aunt helping do this, an uncle doing that, a family member coming from out of town bringing a dish. When it’s interactive with the family and it’s just that good food that we all grew up eating, that’s how I define soul food. Being from a predominantly female family, I was always in the kitchen. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and when she was sick and couldn’t cook she’d tell me to cook. That’s how I really got involved with cooking in the kitchen. Just mom saying, “This is how you cook the rice, sauté the veggies, watch the meat, pull it out.” Things of that sort. That’s where the love of it came from.

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to incorporate in the menu? Coming from Apple, which is really diverse, I was able to cook a lot of different things. I’ve cooked for so many different types of people and been blessed to use the best ingredients, so I brought that diversity. When I wrote the menu, I was trying to be different. I looked at a lot of other restaurants in the area and put things on my menu that they didn’t have. We did some research and said, “I wanna get away from the steak and potatoes and veggies and fish and rice.” You come here and won’t get a mashed potato, you’ll get a parsnip puree. The menu will change seasonally, which is kind of a California thing… keep it seasonal, fresh produce, nothing frozen, everything is made from scratch. What’s the experience that you want people to have at NoCA? We’re going for a luxe, eclectic, California vibe. We’re a restaurant and we’re a lounge, so we want to start implementing the social dining experience. You come in with a friend or get sat with totally different people and network. My cousin and I feel like back home, everyone gets along. Nobody is tripping on age, gender, race; most people are cool and laid back. That’s what we want to bring here — the California vibe. We definitely want it to be more of a social lounge experience. We want people to get out of their shell. We want you to come here, enjoy a meal, enjoy a beverage, and socialize. That’s all we’re going for, bring the community together, and what better place to do that than here. MLEMIEUX@CLCLT.COM CLCLT.COM | EPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | 19

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What: It’s been a while since Hayes Carll brought his country-folk style to Charlotte. Last time around, he created his own after-show party at the Thirsty Beaver by playing a second set after his gig at the Stage Door Theater. A musician who loves performing and has the talent and songwriting to back it up is always worth watching. His fifth album, Lovers and Leavers, was released in April. Get there early for BJ Barham’s set. When: 8:45 p.m. Where: Visulite Theatre, 1615 Elizabeth Ave. More: $17-$22. 704-358-9200. visulite.com. — JEFF HAHNE

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MALCOLM HOLCOMBE

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TOP TEN What: With his guttural bottomof-a-well voice, Malcolm Holcombe sings about random violence, no-fuss fatalism and the resilience of struggling Americans. He’s also funny as hell. Holcombe once told a bluegrass crowd that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, since our lethargic response to the Syrian refugee crisis showed we didn’t believe a word of that “Give me… your huddled masses” jazz. He’s irascible, brilliant and big-hearted. When: 10 p.m. Where: Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St. More: $12. eveningmuse.com — PAT MORAN

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SOUL JUNCTION

AMIGO

What: This exhibit is about the power of perspective. It features work by experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon’s and an optical installation from Ethan Jackson. It’s also the debut of Sharon Dowell’s “A City on its Side,” a controversial mural (with a familiar face: CL contributor Lara Americo) created as a response to HB2. Jackson and Dowell will speak at the reception.

What: This West End festival brings a variety of soul, hip-hop and R&B groups to the campus of Johnson C. Smith University. There’s two days worth of entertainment and it includes the likes of Trumpet Mafia, Rudy Currence, LeAnn Eden, Shableek, Adrian Crutchfield and more. Plus, there’s also spoken word from Bluz and other Q.C. poets, food trucks and a fish fry in the mix.

When: Reception Sept. 16, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Exhibit runs through Nov. 30. Where: UNC-Charlotte Center City, 320 E. 9th St. More: Free. coaa.uncc.edu.

When: Sept. 16, 3 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sept. 17, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Where: Johnson C. Smith University (Liston Hall lawn), 100 Beatties Ford Road. More: Free. souljunctionclt.com.

What: Amigo’s uplifting blend of rockabilly rumble, gospel-tinged country and exhilarating Tex Mex made a splash with their 2013 debut Might Could, but they sealed the deal with their rollicking live shows. The Charlotte trio unleashes a new single, the Big Star-style jangler, “I Wanna Live (‘Cause I Don’t Wanna Die)” on a split seveninch with Greenville’s The Long Canes who shares the bill. Both bands cover each other’s tunes on the vinyl, available at the gig.

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When: 10 p.m. Where: Snug Harbor, 1228 Gordon St. More: $8-$10. snugrock.com. — MORAN

JOHN GELLMAN

Arc Iris SUNDAY

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NEWS ARTS FOOD MUSIC ODDS

Amigo SATURDAY

Malcolm Holcombe FRIDAY

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKING LOT

What: In its third year, this festival focuses on southeast Asian countries and the many ethnic and cultural groups that come from that part of the globe. There’s music and dance performances, raffles and auctions, but the real draw is the street food. There’s even a pho eating contest for the serious sodium, noodle nibbling junkies who aren’t afraid of those extra carbs.

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WEDNESDAY

SEAC STREET FOOD FESTIVAL

When: 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Where: Midwood International & Cultural Center, 1817 Central Ave. More: Free. 704-531-3853. seacnc. org.

SUNDAY

SCHOOLBOY Q

ARC IRIS

BUILT TO SPILL

What: The ladies of Chickspeare are presenting one of Bard’s silliest comedies, Comedy of Errors. It’s all about identical twins who are separated at birth and end up in the same place, causing a series of mistaken identities and subsequent retailiation against folks who are uninformed of who is actually who. Grab a beer and relax. This makes your sibling problems seem minor.

What: If you’re only as good as the company you keep, Schoolboy Q should be more of a household name by now. His album guest spots read like an all-star hip-hop list — Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Ab-Soul, ASAP Rocky, Raekwon, Tyler the Creator, and the list goes on. His fourth album, Blank Face LP, was released in July and is the followup to his stellar 2014 major label debut, Oxymoron.

When: Sept. 17, 7 p.m.; Sept. 18, 2 p.m.; Sept. 24, 7 p.m.; Sept. 25, 2 p.m. Where: NoDa Brewing Company, 2921 N. Tryon St. More: $20. eventbrite.com.

What: A blend of Bjork, St. Vincent and the Flaming Lips, perhaps, Arc Iris falls into one of those hard-todescribe, art-inspired indie-rock groups that pushes boundaries and intrigues listeners by presenting itself from outside any boxes. The trio, led by former Low Anthem member Jocie Adams, is driven by her vocals and shows little of her folk background, sonically. The band is touring in support of its sophomore album, Moon Saloon.

What: After more than two decades as a band, Built To Spill was faced with a serious case of burnout when they hit the studios in 2012. The solution? Two of the band members left and frontman Doug Martsch filled their shoes with two eager musicians — Jason Albertini stepped up on bass and fellow Boise native Steve Gere on drums. The new lineup resulted in 2015’s Untethered Moon, a revitalized followup to the band’s 2009 disc.

When: 8 p.m. Where: The Fillmore, 1000 N.C. Music Factory Blvd. More: $38.50. fillmorecharlottenc. com.

When: 8 p.m. Where: Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St. More: $10-$12. eveningmuse.com.

When: 8 p.m. Where: Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St. More: $20-$25. 704-942-7997. neighborhoodtheatre.com.

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THE BEE GEES LOSE THEIR FALSETTOS Reviews of Saturday Night Fever and 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche BY PERRY TANNENBAUM

OHN TRAVOLTA AT

his peak: has there ever been anyone like him? The ruggedness, the grace, the strut, the conceit, and the boyish charisma — all of these studmuffin assets uniquely tinged with a robust Brooklynese vulgarity that took America by storm from the moment Welcome Back, Kotter hit the airwaves in 1975. But the full bloom of Travolta-mania didn’t happen until 1977, when Saturday Night Fever hit the big screen. Surely the music of the Bee Gees was a prime component in the mystique of that breakthrough film. Yet the Bee Gees’ film score underpinning Travolta’s disco exploits was exquisitely subordinated to the heart of Tony Manero’s halting, confusing, and sometimes comical progress toward manhood in Norman Wexler’s screenplay. Bring the song hits more to the fore, as the Broadway musical version of 1999 attempted to do, and the narrow emotional range of disco is cruelly exposed. “More Than a Woman” is unquestionably less than a woman to me, “Tragedy” is barely morose, and the answer to “How Deep Is Your Love?” is not very deep at all. I’d say that the Gibbs Brothers chose wisely in never attempting to write music for the Broadway stage. We can only guess why director Ron Law, kicking off Theatre Charlotte’s 89th season, passed on the original Broadway adaptation by Nan Knighton in favor of a newer 2015 adaptation by Sean Cercone and David Abbinanti that has never been on Broadway — or even a national tour. Either way, Law faced an uphill battle with his core of teenage performers. After playing the somewhat delicate boy protagonist in Caroline, or Change earlier this year in the Theatre Charlotte lobby, Rixey Terry attempts a huge leap forward from that concert production in tackling the iconic Travolta role of Tony. While the welter of tunes launched at us — the worst are 22 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

Susannah Upchurch as Stephanie Mangano and Rixey Terry as Tony Manero and in Theatre Charlotte’s Saturday Night Fever. those newly penned by Abbinanti — dilute the impact of the drama, they don’t obscure the complexity of Tony’s character or his double lives. By day, Tony works a dead-end job at a Brooklyn paint store, coming home to parents who adulate his older brother Frank, a priest, while belittling his talents. A huge chunk of Tony’s paint store paycheck — and some elaborate rehearsals and primping rituals — go into Saturday nights, when he reigns as king of the dance floor at the 2001 Odyssey club. Local girls long to be his partner, thrilling to the privilege of even mopping his brow after a dance. So at work and at home, Tony is meek, querulous, and downtrodden, but out on the street or at the club among his friends and admirers, he’s self-absorbed, arrogant, and cruel. He ignores and snaps at his good friend Bobby, who leans on him for advice, and he forcefully rejects all advances from Annette, the best dancing partner in the neighborhood. From the moment he first sees Stephanie Mangano at the club, Tony’s world turns

upside-down. Classically trained, Stephanie’s moves are easily a match for Tony’s — and her savoir-faire is miles ahead. She has a job in Manhattan! Suddenly, Tony is the supplicant and the pursuer, hoping Stephanie will be his partner for an upcoming prize competition. Yeah, the story has been slightly altered. Terry wraps his arms around the meek, downtrodden, and needy aspects of Tony a lot more readily than his imperial arrogance. Terry’s ordinariness carries over to Tony’s first few turns on the dance floor, where he just doesn’t look masterful. So the true turning point on opening night last week came when we reached Terry’s solo on “You Should Be Dancing” at the end of Act 1. Adding acrobatic break dancing moves never seen in the iconic film, choreographer Lisa Blanton unleashed the beast in Terry. In less than a minute, Rixey proved that, even among triple-threats, he possesses unique gifts. Whether or not Stephanie is intended to have more confidence and dancing polish than Tony, Susannah Upchurch definitely brings it. The way things are between Tony

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and his groupies doesn’t always come off precisely as they should, but when Upchurch is around, Tony’s shortcomings and vulnerabilities snap sharply into focus. Her Stephanie is almost unattainable, not quite. Meanwhile Ava Smith is acting up a frenetic whirlwind as Annette, almost convincing us that Tony is the dreamboat we never quite see. Vic Sayegh and Mara Rosenberg make Tony’s parents a rather squalid couple, contributing mightily to the Brooklyn ambiance, and Jay Masanotti brings out all of the older brother’s cryptic contradictions. The fabled three-piece suit from the film isn’t quite equaled by costume designer Jamey Varnadore, whose budget was likely too strict for all the clotheshorses and wannabes he’s called upon to outfit. Zachary Tarlton leads a tight five-piece band, but the real heat is mostly generated by Blanton’s choreography — and Dani Burke’s solos as Candy, the 2001 chanteuse. Burke’s “Dance Inferno,” not a Bee Gees song, is the chief showstopper among the vocals. With so many three-part harmonies discarded, it’s

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Performances of Saturday Night Fever continue through Sept. 25 at Theatre Charlotte.

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER $27. Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 16-17, 8 p.m.; Sept. 18, 2:30 p.m.; Sept. 20-22, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 23-24, 8 p.m.; Sept. 25, 2:30 p.m. Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road. 704-376-3777. theatrecharlotte.org.

5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE $15-$20. Sept. 15-17, 8 p.m.; Sept. 18, 2 p.m. The Warehouse Performing Arts Center, 9216 Westmoreland Road, Suite A. 704-619-0429. warehousepac.com.

hard to pick a lowlight among the songs that the Gibbs Brothers made famous. Not one falsetto all evening long! I’ll go with “Stayin’ Alive” as the nadir. For decades, I’ve despaired of explaining how tone-deaf most renditions of “If I Were a Rich Man” sound to Yiddish-speaking Jews when Christian singers navigate the vocalise, non-verbal sections of the lyrics. Now I can finally point to an equivalent.

AT FIRST, I could hardly believe how over-the-top director Sarah Provencal was wanting her cast to act in 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, currently at the Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius. This was the customarily sophisticated Lane Morris as Wren, one of our five quiche bake-off hostesses? The effusive audience interaction, from the time we enter the Westmoreland Road storefront, makes Pump Boys and Dinettes seem funereal by

comparison. But after a while we realize just how strange this script by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood truly is. For this eggworshipping black comedy takes us back to a 1950s dystopia in an alternate universe. Only the desperation of our hostesses’ plight can prod them into coming proudly out of the closet, a delicious juxtaposition with their ‘50s primness. Actually, Morris with her “victory curls” looks more like a throwback to the ‘40s and the Andrews Sisters (yes, these Daughters of Susan B. Anthony and Gertrude Stein have a club song). It’s Joanna Gerdy as Vern who’s the outright lesbian of this quiche quintet from the start, flinging away her customary sophistication even further from the norm in a comedy performance to relish. Ginny, played by Stephanie DiPaolo, is a diffident Brit who almost seems catatonic at times. Vying with her for the distinction of being the most repressed in the house is Nikki Stepanek as Dale, who hasn’t spoken to a man since the age of three. She’s definitely the youngest, which is why she becomes the chosen vessel — for a while, anyway — to save mankind. Every one of us in the audience must come out and admit that, yes, we are also lesbians, a quite unique moment in the annals of theatre. The only remaining holdout is Pam Coble Coffman as club president Lulie, a veritable Betty Crocker of propriety and discipline. Lulie hits us with the startling revelation that sends this 73-minute production into its unnecessary break. My wife Sue balked at this intermission, but the folks taking hits from the boxes of wine on the buffet seemed to be okay with it. So real men and real women don’t eat quiche? Please forget I said that.

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FILM

Tom Hanks in Sully.

Warner Bros.

PLANE AND SIMPLE Sully is understated and effective

HE LATE, GREAT Akira Kurosawa was 83 years old when he directed his final feature film. Ingmar Bergman was 85, while Sidney Lumet was 82. (By comparison, Alfred Hitchcock was only 76, a mere pup.) It’s doubtful Clint Eastwood — or anyone, for that matter — will break the record of oldest working director set by Portugal’s Manoel de Oliveira (a whopping 103 years old when he helmed his final feature!), but at 86, the American icon has long outlived his critics and will probably end up outliving 24 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

us all (although it should be noted that, at 81, Woody Allen is right behind him). Long considered one of the few reasonably sane right-wingers in this country (Clint on gay marriage: “I don’t give a fuck who wants to get married to anyone else!”), Eastwood has unfortunately started to slip into Angry Old Man senility (chatting with empty chairs, supporting Trump’s racist vitriol). Yet even as he’s comfortably ensconced in his “Get off my lawn!” lifestyle, his work as a director largely — and thankfully — remains concise and clear-headed. Even the so-so American Sniper, which attempted to turn sadistic

killer Chris Kyle into an NRA-sanctioned Gandhi (cue the film clip from Weird Al’s UHF), stopped well short of seeming as it was overseen by Leni Riefenstahl. With Sully (*** out of four) Eastwood is on sturdier ground. It’s unlikely there will be anyone who objects to the hagiographic treatment of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot whose quick thinking and deft maneuvers saved the lives of all 155 people aboard Flight 1549, that fateful NYCto-CLT voyage that ended with Sully landing the bird (damaged by actual birds flying into the engines) in the Hudson River shortly

after takeoff. According to this picture, Sully is decent, reserved, compassionate, and a true American hero. For once, real-life facts tend to corroborate a reel-life depiction of saintliness. Of course, most films need some semblance of villainy to provide dramatic tension, and here it comes in the form of a panel of National Transportation Safety Board investigators determined to prove that a water landing wasn’t necessary and Sully could easily have made it back to LaGuardia. (For their part, NTSB members have objected to the film’s interpretation, with one telling

CBS News that “We’re not the KGB. We’re not the Gestapo.”) Thus, while the film offers a restaging of the dramatic landing, it spends just as much time on the investigation, with Sully and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart, funny and loose) repeatedly forced to defend their decisions. At a scant 96 minutes — one would have to go back to 2002’s Blood Work, 12 films ago!, to find another Clint-helmed project running under two hours — Sully would on paper seem far too short to successfully tackle such a monumental tale; instead, the opposite holds true. Despite the marquee moniker, this isn’t a biopic about the life and times of Chesley Sullenberger (the obligatory scenes of a young Sully taking to the skies are brief and unnecessary) but rather a look at this one particular incidence. As such, Eastwood and scripter Todd Komarnicki (working from the

book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow) find themselves with time to kill, and thus throw in sequences involving either Sully’s wife (a wasted Laura Linney, whose principal co-star is the cell phone in her hand) or... groan... predictable dream sequences in which Sully sees his plane crashing into New York skyscrapers (thus invoking memories not of the “Miracle on the Hudson” but of 9/11). These bits serve mainly as padding, but they’re easily forgotten whenever the film reverts back to either the flight or the investigation. In all these scenes, Hanks demonstrates his willingness to underplay (a perpetual plus when it comes to this fine actor), and he brings quiet strength and dignity to the proceedings. It’s a grounded performance in service of a man whose heroism took flight at the right moment.

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COMEDY Charles Mack Citizen Center The Chuckleheads present the “The Happy Birthday Dad Comedy Improv Musical Variety Extravaganza.” Sept. 17, 8-9:30 p.m. 215 N. Main St., Mooresville. planetimprov.com The Comedy Zone Charlotte John Crist. $18. Sept. 15, 8 p.m. Sinbad. $25-$30. Sept. 16, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 17, 7 and 9:30 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 18, 7 p.m. Comedy Stand-Up Comedy Class Graduation. $10. Sept. 19, 8 p.m. Fight Night Comedy Competition, Season 10 Finale. $15. Sept. 20, 8 p.m. Spanky Brown. $10-$15. Sept. 21, 8 p.m. 900 N.C. Music Factory Blvd., Suite B3. 980-321-4702. cltcomedyzone. com. Wet Willie’s Charlotte Comedy Theater. For more information, visit charlottecomedytheater. com. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. $10. 900 N.C. Music Factory Blvd., Suite C-1. 704-716-5650. wetwillies.com.

THEATER/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE ART Comedy of Errors Chickspeare presents one of Shakespeare’s most farcical comedies about two sets of twins separated at birth who undergo a serious series of mistaken identity. For more information, visit chickspeare.com. Sept. 17, 7 p.m.; Sept. 18, 2 p.m.; Sept. 24, 7 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 25, 2 p.m. NoDa Brewing Company, 2921 N Davidson St. nodabrewing.com. If I Could Turn Back The Hands of Time A journey of deceit and love. It’s a rollercoaster of rage, love and betrayal, $25.Sept. 17, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Stage Door Theater, Corner of 5th Street and N. College Street. 704-372-1000. blumenthalarts.org. 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. Will they be able to keep their cool when Communists threaten their idyllic town?. $15-$20. Through Sept. 24. Warehouse Performing Arts Center, 9216 Westmoreland Road, Suite A, Cornelius. 704-859-5930. warehousepac.com. Saturday Night Fever Get out your “Boogie Shoes” as this mega-hit musical hits the 26 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

Theatre Charlotte stage. Featuring songs by The Bee Gees, David Abbinanti, David Shire, Walter Murphy and Kool and the Gang. Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 16-17, 8 p.m.; Sept. 20-22, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 23-24, 8 p.m.; Sept. 25, 2:30 p.m. Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road. 704-3763777. theatrecharlotte.org.

MORE EVENTS Cabarrus County Fair The fair features rides, along with food and family-friendly activities. $3.25-$7.50; Free for children five years old and under. Sept. 15, 4-11 p.m.; Sept. 16, 4-11 p.m.; Sept. 17, 1-11 p.m. Cabarrus Arena & Events Center, 4751 Highway 49 North, Concord. Canines & Cocktails Join WP Kitchen + Bar for this pet friendly patio. Enjoy complimentary small bites and homemade dog treats from the kitchen, while sipping craft cocktails and local beer. Reservations at 704-295-0101. WP Kitchen + Bar, 6706 Phillips Place Court. Charlotte Fashion Week There will be fashion shows and fashion designers in attendance at Charlotte Seen’s five-day extravaganza. Sept. 20-24. Hilton Charlotte Center City, 222 E. 3rd St. charlotteseen.com CLTRG All-Stars vs. Appalachian Roller Girls All-Stars Roller derby bout. $7-$16. Sept. 17. Grady Cole Center, 310 N. Kings Drive. charlotterollergirls.com. 5th Annual C2 Survival Race Adults and kids ages 10 years and up can take on the more than three mile obstacle trail run with over 20 obstacles. Kids can also enjoy a modified challenge by participating in the Youth OneMile Obstacle Fun Run, suitable for 5-14 year olds. There’s also post race music, southern eats from the Meat & Fish Co and YMCA Camp Thunderbird activities. Proceeds benefit the Steele Creek YMCA Annual Campaign to provide developmental programming to local youth. $20-$50 depending on age and registration date. Sept. 17. Camp Thunderbird, 1 Thunderbird Lane, Fort Mill. Festival of India In its 22nd year, the festival continues to showcase Indian culture through live performances, arts and crafts, costumes and cuisine from the various regions of India. $6 online, $7 at door. Kids under 10 free. $6-$7. Sept. 17, noon-8 p.m.; Sept. 18, noon-7 p.m. Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St. http://indiafestival. iacofcarolinas.org.

LGBTQ Swing/Shag/Salsa Lessons OUTSTep presents free LGBTQ shag/swing/salsa lessons by professional dance instructor Stephan. Register first/last name and phone number to OUTStepCharlotte@gmail.com. Straight allies welcome. Come alone and there will be a dance partner for you. Free. Sept. 15, 7:30-8:30 p.m. L4 Lounge, 2906 Central Ave. Lowcountry on the Green Communities In Schools’ 8th annual Lowcountry on the Green benefits local students in need. Featuring a casual and fun indoor/outdoor setting where you’ll enjoy outstanding lowcountry cuisine, local craft brews, live bluegrass music by Asheville’s The Greenliners. There’s also a silent auction. Order tickets atcischarlotte. org. $100 per person. Sept. 17, 7-10 p.m. Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, 4150 Yancey Road. Glow Party DJs Inferno and Mishigan of ReggaeBoyz Sound will provide the music. Dresscode: Wear something that glows There will also be body painters, artists, hookah, music on the back patio and fresh food being grilled. $10-$15. Sept. 17, 9 p.m.-4 a.m. Crystal On The Plaza, 3018 The Plaza. properglow. eventbrite.com New Frequencies at McColl Center / Reading: Robert Lopez + Samuel Ligon Robert Lopez is the acclaimed and innovative author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River. Samuel Ligon is the author of several celebrated story collections and novels, most recently Among the Dead and Dreaming. $5-$7. Sept. 15, 8-9:30 p.m. McColl Center for Art + Innovation, 721 N. Tryon St. mccollcenter. org. Amazing Maize Maze Historic Rural Hill presents its Amazing Maize Maze with other two miles of interconnecting paths on the 265-acre spread. Get lost and then found again or creep yourself out during nighttime maze hours on select nights. $8-$16. Through Nov. 6. Historic Rural Hill Farm, 4431 Neck Road, Huntersville. 704-875-3113. ruralhill.net. Open Mic/Feature Show Every first and third Thursday, Bella Love Inc. is featuring a lineup of local talent from the Lake Norman and greater Charlotte region. From bands and singer/songwriters to comedians, poets and even visual artists. $5 general admission, $3 for performers. Sept. 15, 8-11:30 p.m. Oak Street Mill, 19725 Oak St. bellalove.com.

POW! Woman-owned Business Retreat Create-ster’s POW! Woman-owned business retreat is for start-ups (or those thinking about starting a business) and small businesses alike who are looking to grow, manage and promote their business. This is a chance to learn from other business owners and professionals within our Charlotte community, and to network with like-minded individuals. Tickets at https:// goo.gl/bTRNSy. Sept. 16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Advent Coworking, 933 Louise Ave. SCarowinds Carowinds is turning into a haunted “scream park” and setting up over 16 different spooky attractions throughout the park. Sept. 16-Oct. 30. Carowinds, 14523 Carowinds Blvd. 704-588-2600. carowinds. com. Shake.Sip.Stir.Socialize Craft Cocktail Class - The After Hours Edition Join Liberate Your Palate and bar consultant Emily Bowditch for this hands-on cocktail class where you will learn essential cocktail making techniques for the at-home bartending. During this two and a half hour class you will mix three different cocktails, learn about simple syrups infusions and master the art of muddling and layering cocktails, as well as shaking and garnishing techniques. Paired light bites by NoCa. $55. Sept. 15, 7:30-10:30 p.m. NoCA Uptown, 505 E. 6th St. liberateyourpalate.com/events/. What’s New, What’s Next? The Mint Museum’s 80th Anniversary Season Jon Stuhlman, Mint Museum senior curator will present a sneak peek at the exhibitions and events scheduled for the museum’s 80th anniversary season. Sponsored by Friends of the Mint, the program is open to the public and free after museum admission. Coffee is served at 10 a.m. and the program is at 10:30. Free after museum admission. Sept. 16, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Mint Museum Randolph, 2730 Randolph Road. mintmuseum.org. Wylie LakeFest 2016 Wylie LakeFest will feature food, donated by local Lake Wylie restaurants, including Christopher’s and Q2U BBQ PIT, Hogzilla NC BBQ in Gastonia, beverages, including beer and wine, and entertainment by Agape DJ. Additionally, a silent auction, featuring items donated from local business, will be held. $30. Sept. 17, 6-9:30 p.m. Red Fez Shrine Club, 16600 Red Fez Club Road. wylielakefest.org.

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Christian Sedelmyer and Rachel Baiman of 10 String Symphony.

10 STRING SYMPHONY CREATES A WORLD OF SOUND Fiddle duo thinks outside the box BY PAT MORAN

ORMER ILLINOIS STATE Old Time Fiddle

Champion Rachel Baiman knew she wasn’t cut out to be a classical violinist. “When I went to college (as an anthropology major at Vanderbilt), I took a secondary degree in music,” says Baiman, 28 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

one half of alternative folk duo 10 String Symphony. “They had core requirements, one of which was orchestra. I’d sit at the very back of the second violin section, hoping no one would notice me, but my teacher (would start) saying, ‘You in the back, you’re doing it wrong!’”

Baiman laughs at the recollection. “It was struggle for me, but it was probably worse for the orchestra.” Annoyed orchestra instructors aside, Baiman has been forging a new path for fiddle playing ever since — exploring the outer edge of what the instrument can do and coaxing new sounds from it. Luckily

Baiman found a partner in experimentation — Christian Sedelmyer, a classically trained fiddler and touring member of Country Music outfit The Jerry Douglas Band. “Christian lived in a house in Nashville with a bunch of musicians. I was still finishing school, but I was at the house all the time. There was always a big jam going

10 STRING SYMPHONY $8-$10. Sept. 17, 8 p.m. The Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St. 376-3737. eveningmuse.com.

10 String Symphony performs at The Evening Muse on Sept. 17.

on. I like to say that (Christian and I) were the only two people willing to play as much fiddle as the other.” Fueling Baiman and Sedelmyer’s shared love of playing was their discovery of the five-string fiddle, an instrument favored by famed fiddlers like Brittany Haas and Darol Anger. “We had both recently acquired fivestrings, and were obsessing over what they could do,” Baiman recalls. The duo started exploring the possibilities offered by their instrument of choice — a lower, almost guttural range, and an expanded rhythmic palette due to the five-string’s thick, percussive chop. Bouncing ideas, riffs and rhythms off each other, Baiman and Sedelmyer came up with the concept for 10 String Symphony, a duo creating a full band sound with just a pair of fiddles. “One thing that’s really nice about a duo is that you become incredibly in tune with each other’s playing. You’re playing stronger, because you only have one other person to link to. You become a part of each other’s style,” she says. The pair’s tight, almost telepathic playing, and their whirlwind flights based on the five-string’s expanded

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range and rhythmic capabilities can be heard on Weight of the World, 10 String Symphony’s sophomore album released last October. With their knotted, conjoined fiddles — ocassionally joined by Baiman’s cantering Appalachian banjo — the duo builds compositions around spare bagpipe drones, primitive percussive scratching and smoldering ostinatos that swarm like angry hornets. Baiman and Sedelmyer’s entwined

“We did things that were outside the box — things that were a little less pretty than what you’d expect — and making it part of our sound,” Baiman says. “We wanted to do something original that reflects every part of our collective experience — not just traditional folk music.” Baiman based the lyrics of Weight of the World’s title track on a scene from Charles Frazier’s North Carolina and Civil War-set novel Cold Mountain, where a bear charges the main character W.P. Inman. Inman doesn’t want to harm the mother bear so he steps aside as the animal comes at him, but the bear runs off a cliff and falls to her death. “Inman is left with this little bear cub that is going to die, so he shoots it. He realizes he can’t waste it, so he eats it.” As he eats, consumed with remorse, Inman can’t quite place the flavor of the young bear’s flesh, Baiman says. “He’s trying to figure which sin it tastes like, but he can’t decide. So he invents a new one, which is the sin of regret.” “I liked that idea about regret,” Baiman explains, intrigued that some of the most terrible things a person can do are often undertaken without bad intentions. “Like

“ONE THING THAT’S REALLY NICE ABOUT A DUO IS THAT YOU BECOME INCREDIBLY IN TUNE WITH EACH OTHER’S PLAYING. YOU’RE PLAYING STRONGER, BECAUSE YOU ONLY HAVE ONE OTHER PERSON TO LINK TO. YOU BECOME A PART OF EACH OTHER’S STYLE.” — RACHEL BAIMAN vocals weave throughout the mix, sometimes harmonizing with their instruments and at other times climbing free or dropping in a free fall. It’s an alluring yet disquieting collection that blows away preconceptions of what fiddle music should sound like.

I say in the song, regret is the one sin you can’t take back.” Baiman, who writes or co-writes seven of the album’s ten tunes, always starts a song with the lyrics. “I feel that if (a song) doesn’t say

something, then it doesn’t matter how great the music is. Generally I’ll compose the lyrics first and then work out the melody. With this band, (songwriting) is really fun because the songs are so heavily based on the arrangements. A lot of the composition happens in the arrangement process — where we figure out how to make a song work with two fiddles.” “We take the melody and start throwing out ideas — playing a crazy riff or a rhythmic chop – and we record everything. Every once in a while, something sounds really cool. That’s when we press stop, go back on the recorder, and figure out what we did. Those are the pieces we keep for the final arrangement.” Baiman admits that the duo’s songwriting process is time consuming and inefficient, but she feels the results are worth the painstaking effort. Once the songs are written and recorded, performing them live presents a new set of challenges and rewards. To replicate the acoustic sound of their fiddles in a concert hall, 10 String Symphony “used to use all these microphones and pickups and pre-amp boxes,” Baiman explains. “We tried to control every input.” The duo finally fixed their live sound woes by going old school — switching to a single microphone set-up. That adjustment wasn’t easy though. The fiddles would often drown out the vocals when both were the same distance from the mic. “We had to work on microphone technique, understanding how and where to stand so that both the fiddles and the vocals are loud enough.” According to Baiman, the laborious adjustments have paid unexpected dividends in increasing the interaction, and instrumental give-and-take between her and Sedelmyer. “It makes our show so much more dynamic and musical.” Though Weight of the World has garnered rave reviews in Americana, folk and bluegrass quarters, Baiman maintains that 10 String Symphony has finally hit their stride not in the studio, but onstage. “We feel our live show has actually surpassed our recorded material.”

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SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS THE ELECTRIC PINECONES Kudzo; Release date: Sept. 16

Anyone who ever had the chance to see Southern Culture on the Skids’ alter ego, The Pinecones, perform will get their memory jogged on SCOTS’ new album, The Electric Pinecones. In the past, the band opened sets for themsevles under the moniker, delivering a swampy, and more ‘60s surf pop rock feel. That’s become a source of inspiration for the group and the by-product is The Electric Pinecones, the band’s fifth on their independent label, Kudzo. There’s still rockabilly, folk-rock and Americana elements with narly duets between Rick Miller (guitarist/singer) and Mary Huff (bassist/singer), along with steady repetitive drumbeats and swirling, tremolo effects on guitar. The disc breaks out with “Freak Flag,” a beachy pop anthem that stresses the importance of being proud of who you are. Tracks three, “Baby I Like You” and four, “I Ain’t Gonna Hang Around,” are quick and upbeat despite going from lyrical content that revolves around love bugs to love duds. Later on, on “Midnight Caller,” we get a backwoods wallop with Huff giving fair warning to the ladies about the dangers of picking up that dial when there’s just a booty call on the other line. Organ tones and woo-hoo’s set the tone for this hillbilly hoopla. “Grey Skies,” has a slower psych vibe that conjures images of surfers riding waves in the Summer of Love. It’s a chill, dreamy melody that sticks. Meanwhile, “Swamp Fox — The Original” presents a zesty NoLa take on the classic. Other songs like “Rice and Beans” take a common man’s approach to the hardships of affording accommodation. Stressing money concerns and cheap eats, it could be an advertisement jingle and it’s complete with what sounds like someone tapping on a tin can. Another track, “Downward Mobility,” is bluesy and sounds like something that you’d hear playing on the edge of a swamp. There’s jingly piano and Howlin’ Wolf guitar-esque riffs. The album’s last two tracks “Given to Me” and “Slowly Losing My Mind,” are slower numbers. All in all, this disc, a follow-up to SCOTS’ Dig This: Ditch Diggin’ V.2, is a pleasant surprise. There’s a kind of endless summer vibe to the record, and it’s well worth clinging to as fall approaches. — ANITA OVERCASH 30 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

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SEPT. 15 *Alive After Five w/ Simplified (Rooftop 210) Live Latin Thursdays (BluNotes)

*Player Made feat. Goldyard (Snug Harbor) Watsky X Infinity Tour feat. Witt Lowry, Daye Jack 7 Chukwudi Hodge (Neighborhood Theatre)

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*The Jazz Room: Adrian Crutchfield plays Grover Washington Jr. (Stage Door Theater)

COUNTRY/FOLK Beavergrass Bluegrass Jam f. Jim Garrett (Thirsty Beaver) The Honeycutters (Double Door Inn) River Jam Series w/ Sol Driven Train (U.S. National Whitewater Center) Whitey Morgan & Cody Jinks (Neighborhood Theatre)

Another Lost Year w/ Artifas & Skyfold (Amos’ Southend) Hayes Carll w/ BJ Barham (Visulite Theatre) *Heart w/ Joan Jett and Cheap Trick (PNC Music Pavilion) Old Scratch, Suppressive Fire, Chateau, Written in Grey & KRVSADE (Milestone) Pineville Rockin’ and Reelin’ Concert Series w/ Matt Stratford Band (Belle Johnston Park, Pineville) Taco Pony (Tin Roof)

Zac Brown Band (PNC Music Pavilion)

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Ashley Wineland (Tin Roof) Dropin Pickup & The Halves (The Evening Muse) Lisa DeNovo Band (RiRa Irish Pub) The Lonely Biscuits w/ Mineral Girls (Milestone) Mike Strauss (Comet Grill) *Shiprocked (Snug Harbor) Sons, AM/FMs, Tiny City & Blaine Deboo Band (Milestone) Union Street Live Concert Series w/ Too Much Sylvia (Downtown Concord)

SEPT. 16 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Baked Goods & Amasa Hines (The Evening Muse) The Jazz Room: Piano Night (Stage Door Theater) Stonecrest Summer Concert Series w/ Leslie & Friends (Stonecrest Shopping Center)

COUNTRY/FOLK Carolina Gator Gumbo & David Childers (Petra’s) The Lenny Federal Band (Comet Grill) Low Willie (Puckett’s Farm Equipment) *Malcom Holcombe & Yes the Raven (The Evening Muse) *Miss Tess & the Talkbacks (Double Door Inn) Thirsty Horses (Tin Roof) 32 | SEPT. 15 - SEPT. 21, 2016 | CLCLT.COM

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Damien Escobar (McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square) Grooves, Booze & Jazz w/ Buff Dillard (BluNotes) Stonecrest Summer Concert Series w/ Leslie & Friends (Stonecrest Shopping Center)

COUNTRY/FOLK *10 String Symphony & Famous October (The Evening Muse) Brad Paisley w/ Tyler Farr & Maddie and Tae (PNC Music Pavilion) *The Burrito Brothers (Don Gibson Theatre, Shelby) Jerry Jacobs (Tin Roof) Lightning Foot Jenkins (Puckett’s Farm Equipment) Truckstop Preachers (Comet Grill) Ziggy Pockets (RiRa Irish Pub)

DJ/ELECTRONIC Off White Party Underworld w/ DJ Neon Glowgobear (Visulite Theatre) *St. Lucia w/ The Unlikely Candidates, The Moth & The Flame (The Fillmore Charlotte)

POP/ROCK *Amigo w/ The Long Canes, Bark (Snug Harbor) **Corinne Bailey Rae (Neighborhood Theatre) If These Trees Could Talk, Driftoff, Spotlights, One Another & Camori (Milestone) Matt Schneider (Tin Roof)

Melt Album Release feat. Modern Primitives, *Faye & Cuzco (Petra’s) Nickel & Dime Local Music Showcase feat. The Fetish, Genius Music, TiME & Black Jack Suicide (Amos’ Southend) River Jam Series w/ Dank (U.S. National Whitewater Center)

SEPT. 18 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Concerts on the Green Series w/ Davidson *College Symphony & Jazz Ensemble (Davidson Village Green, Davidson)

COUNTRY/FOLK Cody Canada & The Departed w/ Mike McClure Band (Puckett’s Farm Equipment)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B *Schoolboy Q (The Fillmore Charlotte)

POP/ROCK *Arc Iris (The Evening Muse) Liars Tongue, Dismal Dream & Easy Money (Milestone) *Liz Longley & Brian Dunne (Double Door Inn) Matt Schneider (Tin Roof) Omari and the Hellraisers (Comet Grill) Sense of Purpose f. Paul Agee, Chris Allen, Joe Lindsay, Jody Gholson (Tyber Creek Pub)

SEPT. 19 HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Knocturnal (Snug Harbor)

POP/ROCK *Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds (Belk Theater) Locals Live: The Best in Local Live Music & Local Craft Beers (Tin Roof) The Monday Night Allstars (Double Door Inn) Wicked Powers (Comet Grill)

SEPT. 20 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH

DJ/ELECTRONIC Bring Your Own Vinyl Night w/ DJ Aswell (Petra’s)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Bad Boy Family Reunion feat. Puff Daddy, Lil Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, Mario Winans, 112 Total, Carl Thomas, The Lox & French Montana (Time Warner Cable Arena)

POP/ROCK Amos Lee (Ovens Auditorium) Fairplay & Special Guests (Lucky Lou’s Tavern)

SEPT. 21 COUNTRY/FOLK Andrew Duhon (Puckett’s Farm Equipment) Jettison Five Duo (RiRa Irish Pub) Joe Purdy & Amy Vachal (Double Door Inn)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Ladies Flirt w/ Shableek (BluNotes)

POP/ROCK Blank Range, The Wild Reeds & Thomas Waddill (The Evening Muse) *Built to Spill, Hop Along & Alex G (Neighborhood Theatre) *The Cult (The Fillmore Charlotte) Earphunk w/ Atlas Road Crew (Visulite Theatre) Modern Heritage Weekly Mix Tape (Snug Harbor) *Sevendust w/ Crobot, Wilson & AuxiliA (Amos’ Southend)

COMING SOON  I Love the 90s Tour (Sept. 23; Time Warner Cable Arena) Kishi Bashi (Sept. 28; Visulite Theatre) Lauryn Hill (Sept. 29; CMCU Amphitheater) Korn w/ Breaking Benjamin (Oct. 5; PNC Music Pavilion) Bad Religion & AgainstMe! (Oct. 8, The Fillmore) Wednesday 13 (Oct. 10; Amos Southend) * - CL Recommends

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48 Bore false witness 49 Tiny, to a tot 52 Tesla Motors CEO Musk 54 New staffer 55 Tennis stat 58 Carmen with fruit hats 60 Puget Sound city, in an address 62 Pink-slipping 64 Gal in the family 65 Home for the sick 67 Threshold 68 Joking Johnson 69 Amtrak sight 70 Baby’s cry 71 Comic King 72 Beat-keeping Beatle 75 One in utero 76 John of tractor fame 77 Beneficial thing 79 Portioned 81 Dye in blue jeans 82 1942 horror classic 85 John or John Quincy 86 “U R funny!” 88 Cut-covering cloth 91 Pancake alternatives 93 Take it on the -- (flee) 95 Ren’s cartoon pal 96 “For -- a jolly good fellow” 97 At a distance 99 Fertile areas in deserts 100 Open, as a pill bottle 101 Amtrak sights 103 NYSE event 106 Apple on a desk, maybe 107 Towering 108 Accordingly 110 Small stream 111 Middle of many a sig. 112 Offshore 114 Kwik-E-Mart storekeeper 116 Swerve 117 Put in writing

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ARIES: A relationship or friendship that began with gusto in late March arrives at a point of evaluation. The question of permanence may always be an issue in this situation. The relationship may be fine, but perhaps one of you is looking for some fresh excitement. A long weekend or rest and relaxation could make the difference. TAURUS: Your moods may go up, down,

and sideways this week with the eclipse. Don’t take anything seriously yet. Mercury is retrograding in your fifth house of children and lovers. You may not have all the information or your imagination could be running away with you. Do not make important decisions or promises until the end of September.

GEMINI: Past work on a significant project related to your home pays off now. It has demanded major attention to the details, but they are now integrating well. Contracts may be signed that favor you monetarily. The financial powers-that-be are in your favor. Take a deep breath. You’ve done a great job. CANCER: People of the past may resurface.

You could have a tendency during this period to slide into old and outmoded patterns of emotional behavior. Somehow they are associated with old wounds in your life and you would just as soon let those memories go back to the ethers. Don’t let the old habits capture you for long.

LEO: This week is about finding healing on either the physical or emotional levels. You may be the healer or the healee. It is possible that alternative medicine may play a role. If a friendship or a more significant relationship needs mending, now is the time to do so. The willingness to open your heart and mind to give and to receive is yours at this time. VIRGO: You may be thinking about the

people of your past. If you feel so inclined, pick up the phone. It is probable that others are thinking about you, too. Green lights light up the areas of love life, play, and children.

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LIBRA: Your attitude about yourself is not altogether accurate right now. You may think way too much of your ideas, or alternately, you may see yourself as lower than scum. Neither is accurate and you should probably not make decisions of any importance this week. Spiritual pursuits are given a “go” signal. SCORPIO: One or more acquaintances from the past may cross your radar this week. This person or group may have information or a reminder that can help you on your path. The eclipse may bring you enlightenment concerning children or a lover. Finances have been a problem but you have an opportunity this week to earn some pocket change.

SAGITTARIUS: After what seems an aeon, you have a happy development that is the result of your personal effort and creativity. There may also be a green light in relation to a lover or a child. While Mercury retrogrades, whatever you can fully accomplish before the end of September will be well. But don’t count on anything that requires more than a month to finish.

CAPRICORN: Travel is highlighted, especially if you are returning to a place that you have been in the past. You may need to re-write or edit a paper, announcement, or public relations piece. People who live at a distance may come back to pay you a call. If you are researching an item, make sure you get info from two sources before you use it.

AQUARIUS: The full moon eclipse described above may bring financial information to light. If there are errors, they will show up. This may or may not be in your favor. It depends upon what you have done with finances in the past.

PISCES: The last thing in the world you want to do right now is follow routine. Give yourself some slack and take a breather. If you don’t, you will resent it and that uses more energy than it is worth. Let your imagination flow and consider adding something beautiful, maybe inspirational, to your everyday surroundings. It will perk up your attitude.

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