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NEWS

EDITOR’S NOTE

COMING BACK TO CHARLOTTE Allow me to introduce myself I HAVE ALWAYS loved Charlotte. Even

For my first cover story back at CL, I wanted to ensure that I talked to as many when I hated it, I loved it. Running back and forth, living with one people as possible and gathered as much foot in Ohio and another in North Carolina information as I could about the problems that Charlotte’s laborers are facing today — over the last six years was pretty difficult. My parents moved our family to Charlotte problems that occur despite the sacrifices in 2012, right before my last year of high that strikers made nearly 100 years ago to school, and I couldn’t wait to get out. But as I prevent harmful practices in the workplace. I wanted to know what was being done spent more and more time in the Queen City, to address these issues and hopefully see the I began to fall in love. When I finished my internship at Creative new labor movement make headway. Recently, I had the opportunity to see the Loafing at the end of summer 2016, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, I was ready community in action. In a church annex on Monroe Road, about to go back to Ohio University and start my last 35 people gathered for the first part of a year of college. On the other, I had learned so much from three-part course about the long history of then-editor Anita Overcash and I wanted economic inequality in America and how it to stay in Charlotte. I had grown to love affects our workers. Using Les Leopold’s Runaway the city even more as I discovered its Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to history, its people, its culture and the Economic Justice, community communities in which all of those organizers and leaders things are fostered. began the lesson with a But it was not in the look into the successful cards for me to return to movements of our past. Charlotte immediately Union organizing, after graduation. I went to women’s suffrage, Columbus, began settling labor strikes, Freedom myself down and started Summer, Black Power working. and women’s and gay and Recently, when I was lesbian liberation all had COURTNEY presented the opportunity to the same thing in common return to CL — this time as MIHOCIK when they were at the height an associate editor — I dropped of their power. everything I had in Ohio and left. Unity. Solidarity. Resistance. Readers may not have heard of me It is with these words in mind that I saw yet in the rumble-tumble of the different scenes on which we report. I’ve been in how powerful Charlotte’s people can be if we the background for the past month, quietly make a promise to respect, support and listen toiling away on this week’s cover story in to one another. When our community unites under a which I delve into the history of labor unions, Labor Day and the plight of the working class common mission to enrich and better the lives of our neighbors, friends and coworkers, in Charlotte. So now that I have a minute, I’d like to amazing change can happen. I invite anyone and everyone to reach out formally introduce myself. I’m Courtney Mihocik, and I’m here to to me and help me become aware of other issues that our community is facing and serve our community. It’s hard to express how excited I am to be the groups that are fighting against these back in Charlotte, rediscovering everything problems. And to reiterate what Pitkin wrote in about the city in my two-year absence. With editor-in-chief Ryan Pitkin, I hope his editor’s note in our issue on August 9, to shed light on the issues that Charlotte’s tell me about the the artists, musicians, residents face and shine a light on the musicians, artisans, songwriters, activists, advocates artists, activists, restaurateurs, brewers and and organizers that deserve their voice to be heard throughout the community. other people making waves of change. There’s a lot for me to learn, but I am It’s so critical in this country’s dark period of lies, put-downs and division that we also enthusiastic to see what Charlotte has for me cultivate truth, support and unity in our to discover and to see how the community grows in culture, unity and strength. communities. If you see me around town, come up and I know that as journalists, we have a duty to write the truth and to include everyone in say “Hello.” I can’t wait to meet you. CMIHOCIK@CLCLT.COM Charlotte’s narrative. 6 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

NEWS

BLOTTER

BY COURTNEY MIHOCIK

HERE’S A TIP We all expect food deliveries to be a simple transaction: pay the amount, get the food, shut the door and eat. One 23-year-old man in the University area experienced what could only be described as a horrific experience when his Wing Zone delivery driver threatened him during the transaction. Per the police report, the driver arrived at the victim’s residence a little too late for his taste. Because the order was 90 minutes late, the victim stated he would not be tipping the driver. Upon hearing this, the driver punched the customer in the face, left the residence, then texted the customer “If you ever slam the door in my face again, I will beat the fuck out of you, bitch.” Talk about customer service with a smile. MOE CHICKEN, MOE PROBLEMS An unrelated incident involved another fastfood-related altercations, but this time the employee ran into trouble during a customer interaction. At a Moe’s Southwest Grill on East Boulevard, the 20-year-old man denied a customer’s request for more chicken — presumably in an attempt to get mo’ protein free of charge — which ruffled the customer’s feathers. According to the report, the suspect started verbally abusing the employee, and when the victim tried to confront the customer, the customer punched him in the head. INSTANT GIVEAWAY Two people in Uptown Charlotte were able to track down the person that damaged their vehicle due to the suspect’s complete lack of online awareness. The 23-year-old woman and 20-year-old man had parked their rental BMW on a street in Second Ward, where it was vandalized to the tune of about $1,000. No suspect was on the scene when the couple returned to the car, but finding out who did it was not difficult, as the female suspect admitted to it on social media, which eventually got back around to the victim, who then told police. RUDE AWAKENING Early last week, a hotel and its guests got a not-so-hot visitor. Staff at Candlewood Suites Hotel in the University area had to deal with a “heavily intoxicated” man in the lobby at around 11:25 p.m. When the employees denied access to the fired-up drunk man, he pulled the lever of the fire alarm, forcing an evacuation of the hotel’s guests. FREQUENT FLIER Rule No. 1 of traveling:

secure your valuables and never leave your shit unattended. One 41-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Florida, does not seem like a frequent flier because she contacted police to file a report after she lost her passport in the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Normally, this wouldn’t be worth reporting,

but in this instance, it was a flight attendant with American Airlines who made the rookie mistake. Now, we don’t know exactly how she lost her passport, but maybe if she avoided the layover bloody mary cocktails, she wouldn’t have misplaced it.

OVERT OPERATIONS Last week, a report

was filed with police for a not-so-clever attempt of shoplifting. The staff at Target on Albermarle Road in east Charlotte called police when a suspect tried to abscond with some DVDs. Must’ve been a pretty big T-shirt, becuase according to the report, it was over $100 worth of movies. No matter, it wasn’t sneaky enough, since police were called. If he had just waited until those titles came out on Netflix, maybe he wouldn’t be in jail. In another baffling display of crime, police were called to the Dollar Tree in the same plaza the next day. According to the separate report filed with CharlotteMecklenburg police, around 10:15 a.m., a suspect attempted to leave the store with an absurd amount of toothpaste. The suspect was somehow able to fit approximately 30 boxes of toothpaste in his sweatpants and before attempting to leave the business. An employee noticed the boxy shapes in the man’s pants and confronted the suspect. The audacity of the suspect leaves us with many questions. Not the least of which being: Is that 30 boxes of toothpaste in your pants, or are you just happy to see the police?

PARTY ON, WAYNE One party-hardy

person in Dilworth neighborhood presumably tried to keep the party going after-hours last week. Dilworth Neighborhood Grille reported that early in the morning, between 6 and 6:30 a.m. an unknown suspect broke into the business and absconded with an assortment of liquor. Among the items stolen were bottles of Grey Goose, Absolut, Tanqueray and 1800 Silver. Of course, since every liquor shot needs a chaser, the suspect also decided to snag a bottle of Sprite.

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Medication and healthcare is expensive nowadays, but that doesn’t mean you need to put someone else out. One 53-year-old man in the Belmont neighborhood called police to a medical resource non-profit last week when he discovered that his backpack was stolen. Among the miscellaneous clothing and electronics he had stored in his bag were also a copious amount of diabetes supplies and medication. Insulin pens, lancets and his glucose meter along with various medicines used to treat other illnesses and diesases were gone. Whoever did this is a sick person, both figuratively and maybe literally.

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Approximately a thousand workers protesting during the Loray Mill Strike in 1929.

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COVERSTORY

AN ORGANIZED EFFORT A look at labor conditions and the New South’s historic ties to organization BY COURTNEY MIHOCIK

T’S 1929, AND workers in the Loray Mill in Gastonia have unanimously decided to strike after work conditions in the mill have gotten worse over time, thanks to management’s efforts to reduce operating costs. Wanting livable wages, better hours, union recognition and to rid the mill of the stretchout system that was crushing their ability to effectively complete their jobs, 1,800 workers walked out on their jobs on April 1. Although the ferocity of the strike waned over the next few months, sparks flew again that year on September 14 when Ella May Wiggins, a union leader and single mother of four from Bessemer City, was shot and killed on her way to a protest rally in Gastonia. All of the men accused of her murder were tied to the Loray Mill and the ManvilleJenckes Company that ran it, and all were acquitted by a grand jury on Oct. 25. Wiggins’ murder left a profound effect on 8 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

the strikers and their efforts. Eventually, the National Textile Workers Union and national political organizations were able to pressure Gastonia mill factory owners to reduce work hours and improve conditions in the mills. Decades later, Wiggins’ great-granddaughter Kristina Horton wrote a book titled The Martyr of Loray Mill. Horton begins the book with a reflection on the death of her ancestor. “My great-grandmother was murdered, killed while trying to improve the lives of her children,” Horton wrote. “No one was convicted for her murder, nor was anyone convicted for the numerous other crimes committed against textile strikers that year in the South.” Now skip five years past Wiggins’ death to 1934. On the night before a large textile strike, over 1,000 union delegates gathered in Charlotte on September 2. Joseph Shaplen reported on the meeting for The New York Times. He observed that the attendees grew increasingly passionate, turning it into an

“old-time Southern camp meeting with shouts and prayers that they would keep the workers out until the strike demands were granted.” Inflamed with a sense of injustice, laborers and representatives threw their fists in the air with enthusiasm while the space filled with the voices of leadership. One of these leaders, R. R. Lawrence, was the president of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, and he gave the crowd a call to action. “The hour has arrived when the fight must go forward. We fight for the Lord and for our families,” he said. “Many sacrifices will be required of you in this fight. No fight can be won without sacrifices. I know you are ready to make them.” The next day, 65,000 workers walked out of their jobs. Over 200 mills in the Carolinas were closed and 60,000 operatives sat idle. Those who rose up in the Southern textile mills and risked everything for better conditions paved the way for the rights we have

as workers today. But the fight hasn’t ended. Today, 84 years after that textile strike, many people are still facing difficulty when it comes to working conditions, wages and benefits. Isael Mejia, economic mobility center manager with the Latin American Coalition, works with the Latinx community in and around Charlotte regarding work issues and wages. He sees many of the same problems being presented to him from people coming to the coalition for help. “I can only speak from our experience here, but unfortunately wage theft is the most common [issue] …” he said. “Or we see a lot of folks here who are just misclassified. It’s a way that employers can make you work without paying you the appropriate amount or without covering you whenever you’re injured.” Injury is a huge risk for vulnerable workers, especially in the construction industry. There have been two incidents in which construction workers have died in

The Gastonia Loray Cotton Mill hosted about 57,000 spindles.

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“THERE REALLY IS NO JUSTICE WHEN IT TAKES FIVE OR 10 YEARS FOR AN UNJUSTLY FIRED WORKER TO GET THEIR JOB BACK.” MARYBE MCMILLAN, PRESIDENT, NC STATE AFL-CIO

Charlotte in the past year, including a worker who fell to his death and another killed when an elevator malfunctioned. The Build a Better South report, released by the Workers Defense Project in 2017, states that every nine hours, a construction worker in America is killed on the job. It also states that only 11 percent of the construction workers in Charlotte have received formal training. Mejia also described cases where people are coerced into working or threatened with deportation if they pursue withheld wages. So, why aren’t people speaking up when they’re subject to these kinds of working conditions? Beyond the fear of deportation, much of it stems from a fear of retaliation — by being fired, harassed, or subject to more dangerous working conditions. Much like what the strikers and laborers in the 1920s and ’30s faced when they began to organize. MaryBe McMillan is the president of the North Carolina State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization. The AFL-CIO is a national organization that advocates for workers in pursuit of improving their working conditions and workplace rights. McMillan, the first female president of the North Carolina chapter, said that even taking legal action against employers does not always wield timely outcomes. “The worst thing is when [employers] fire workers who they know are trying to organize and rally their coworkers into a union,” McMillan said. “And it’s illegal to fire a worker for trying to organize, but our system is so broken that it takes years for these cases to go through the National Labor Relations Board and the court system. And there really is no justice when it takes five or 10 years for

a unjustly fired worker to get their job back.” The result of this lack of accountability is a weakened working class, which weakens the city’s economy. The ripples of economic injustice are felt by families across the community.

MCMILLAN CALLED THE current

minimum wage, $7.25 an hour in North Carolina, a “poverty wage,” and said she believes that all workers should earn a living wage to support themselves and their families

and they’re going to pay more in taxes. That means more tax revenue for government. It’s good all around for the economy when working people have more in their pocket.” There’s already a movement in fullswing that fights for workers to earn a living wage. Ashley Hawkins, an organizer for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 379, participates in the Raising Wages NC coalition. The group works to bring awareness to the issue and

The local United Automobile Workers union 3520 in the 2017 Charlotte Labor Day Parade without public assistance. “It would be good not just for those workers to earn more money, but it’s good for our economy,” she said. “Because when workers earn more, they’re going to spend more at businesses

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strengthen workers’ political power in hopes of raising the minimum wage. She echoed McMillan’s sentiment on wages, addressing the gap between what workers make and what they need to live and support

themselves — let alone a family — in Charlotte. “A living wage for a single person in North Carolina is [$11.36 an hour],” Hawkins said. “But a living wage for a person with one child, like a single parent, is [$23.80 an hour]. So there’s a huge discrepancy.” When workers make $7.25 an hour, it puts a strain on the working class and on the economy, while preventing people from achieving upward mobility, Hawkins said. This reflects what workers in the ’20s and ’30s faced when they united against the long hours, low pay and disrespect they experienced in the textile mills and factories. Mill owners reaped huge monetary rewards off the backs of overworked and underpaid laborers, who could not move past poverty into a more financially sustainable life. Scott Thrower, president of IBEW 379, recalls a time three years ago when he traveled to Raleigh with IBEW’s business manager, Tommy Hill. The two met with a representative of Hill’s district. During their conversation, Thrower and Hill revealed they were there to talk about raising the minimum wage. Thrower remembers the representative leaning back in his hair and asking the two, “Well, you do know I am a Republican?” “I didn’t get it,” Thrower said. “Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, what does that have to do with raising the minimum wage? It’s about people, it’s not about party.” In May, Hawkins and Raising Wages NC traveled to Raleigh to pursue the same goal. While some legislators agreed with them, she also met pushback from Republicans. Thrower said he believes that labor unions help all workers — whether Republican or Democrat, whether unionized or not. “The union does affect the non-union worker because whatever our wages are, the non-union has to match that or their people will come to work for the union,” Thrower claimed. “So when we get a raise it does help other non-union electrical contractors. People actually get more increase in their wages even though they’re not part of the union.” On the other hand, Mejia said that labor unions may not be for everyone. It ultimately depends on the state of their employment and the industry that they work in. In his line of work, he sees people who may not benefit directly from joining a union, but that there still needs to be changes made to improve working class conditions. “I don’t think it’s necessarily the right fit for everybody, and especially not the folks that we work with, just based on different situations for all those workers that wouldn’t allow them to work in that aspect,” Mejia said. “But I do believe that when we’re able to educate the population at large about some of the things that occur, hopefully it makes them more inclined to help affect those necessary changes in the state.” CLCLT.COM | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | 9

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COVERSTORY

COURTESY OF MILLICAN PICTORIAL HISTORY MUSEUM Ella May Wiggins, the second woman from the left, was shot and killed on her way to a protest in 1929. EVERY YEAR SINCE 1999, the Charlotte the year that we actually take time out and Labor Day Parade Committee (CLDPC), celebrate what labor has done for us. So I comprised of different labor leaders in and hope we continue to have it for next 100 years around the community, organizes a parade and it doesn’t go away.” Lee thought back to the working conditions that meanders through Uptown. It’s a parade that is organized, funded and executed by that past laborers fought for — the 40-hour labor, and Charlotte is one of the only cities in workweek, healthcare and vacations. It was the state that still hosts a parade on Labor Day. not an easy fight. That’s why Labor Day is an But just because a worker may not be in a important day for us to remember the sacrifices union, does not mean that Labor Day and its people made in pursuit of better conditions for their families and future generations, he said. parade is not for them. “To organize, it takes some personal “I think it’s for everyone. It’s a chance to celebrate what labor does for the community,” strength to risk what you got to organize a Thrower said. “Just like Memorial Day — I’m union or workers group … You’re going to not a veteran but I still celebrate what they’ve have to band together and use your personal done. And white collar workers and blue collar fortitude if you’re going to risk what you got workers are all workers, they just do a little to organize. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is,” Lee said. different job.” That includes the Southern laborers who Ben Lee, vice-general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and rose up and fought tooth-and-nail for better Trainmen and chairman of the CLDPC, said conditions. Whether a worker is in a union or he wants everyone to join him and his fellow not, it’s important to remember the people who risk their lives and their livelihood to secure the laborers for the parade. “We want everybody to come out to the laws and regulations that we have today. Now, it’s important to keep the celebration Labor Day parade. We want to use it as a day to commemorate the sacrifices and of Labor Day alive in an effort to never forget accomplishments of American labor, North what people such as Ella May Wiggins fought Carolina labor and Mecklenburg County and died for. McMillan has faith in the future of labor labor. Past, present and future,” he declared. However, this year may be the last time laws and workers’ rights, with the recent the committee will organize a parade. With upswing of coalitions, faith groups and more people participating comes a rise in fees organizations that are working to raise wages, due to the police department and the city’s educate workers and advocate for those who can’t advocate for themselves. Department of Transportation. “I’m hopeful. I think that young people Thrower fears that the loss of a dedicated Labor Day parade could hurt the city and are fired up and more women than ever are remove the working population’s chance running for public office,” McMillan said. to openly celebrate and commemorate the “Working people want things to change in this country and in this state. And I believe history of labor and organizers. “It’s important to us, and I do believe that we’re going to see significant changes as it’s important to the people who aren’t in a result of this election.” CMIHOCIK@CLCLT.COM a union,” he said. “This is the one day of

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AWESOME! Retirees Marli and Paulo

Ciquinel of Meleiro in southern Brazil discovered a fetishist’s dream in the vegetable garden behind their home: a 17-and-a-halfpound potato that has grown into the shape of a huge human foot (with six toes). The “toes” descend in size, much as human toes do, and the largest has roots that look like hair. The “foot” portion of the tuber reaches up almost to knee-height. Marli told the Mirror, “We have never seen anything like it.” Paulo said he was “a little bit scared when we harvested that potato.” The couple don’t plan to eat it.

IRONY Tania Singer, 48, a renowned

neuroscientist who is one of the world’s top researchers on human empathy, has been accused by co-workers of being ... a bully. “Whenever anyone had a meeting with her, there was at least an even chance they would come out in tears,” one colleague told Science magazine. Others said the daily working environment included threats and emotional abuse, The Washington Post reported on Aug. 12. For her part, Singer denied the most serious charges and said, “(T)he workload and pressure increasing led to stress and strain that in turn sometimes caused inadequate communication with my staff in problem situations.” The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, where Singer has her lab, granted Singer a sabbatical in 2017 and said in a statement that when she returns, “it is envisioned that Prof. Singer will head, at her own request, a considerably smaller working group for social neuroscience.”

BOLD MOVE In Columbus, Ohio, workers repairing a street on Aug. 8 hit an unmarked water main, causing homes along the road to lose water. One man couldn’t be deterred from finishing his shower, though: WCMH TV reported that after screaming from his porch, “I was in the fucking shower!” the unidentified resident finished his morning toilette on the street, in the geyser from the pipe. Facebook user Cody Vickers took a picture of two astonished crewmembers as Mr. Clean rinsed off nearby. SOLVING THE WRONG PROBLEM In Paris, the designer of a recently installed “urinoir,” a sidewalk urinal, on the Ile SaintLouis, says the new device offers “an eco solution to public peeing.” But Reuters reports that nearby residents and business owners are unhappy about the urinals, saying they are “immodest and ugly” and will “incite exhibitionism.” The “Uritrottoir,” a mashup of the French words for urinal and sidewalk, looks much like a plastic trash receptacle, and local mayor Ariel Weil says they’re necessary: “If we don’t do anything, then men are just going to pee in the streets.”

OOPS! Colorado Mesa University in Grand

Junction, Colorado, is footing the bill for a possible $46,000 reprint job after a recent graduate found a typo on his diploma. Alec Williams, former editor of the school’s newspaper, was examining his sheepskin when he found a line reading “Coard of Trustees,” instead of “Board of Trustees” under one of the signatures. “There was this moment of laughing at it ... and the more I thought about it, the more frustrated I got, because I’m sitting on $30,000 worth of debt and they can’t take the time to use spellcheck,” he said. CMU President Tim Foster told The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel that the school will send out corrected diplomas to 2018 grads — but the typo goes back to 2012 diplomas. Those graduates can request a new diploma if they want to. “This mistake is all ours,” he said.

STEP ASIDE, CAT LADIES Agents

of Columbus (Ohio) Humane executed a warrant on a home in the Clintonville neighborhood on Aug. 14 in response to complaints about birds inhabiting the home. Columbus Humane CEO Rachel Finney told The Columbus Dispatch that concerns about the birds’ well-being were warranted: Officials found more than 600 birds inside, including macaws, African gray parrots, Amazon parrots and other species. “It’s pretty overwhelming to step into the house,” Finney said. Removal took all day, and Columbus Humane was undertaking the task of examining each bird from beak to tail. Finney said the agency would decide which birds might be adoptable after assessments are complete. As for the owner, she said, “We’re confident we’ll have charges; it’s just a matter of which charges and how many.”

EWWWW! Dr. Jay Curt Stager and his

colleagues, researchers at Paul Smith’s College, have released results from a study showing that Walden Pond, made famous by naturalist Henry David Thoreau in the mid-1800s, is an ecological disaster, thanks to human urine. The pond was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and the site in Concord, Massachusetts, draws hordes of tourists each year. But NBC News reports that swimmers urinating in the water for generations is the most likely cause of high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in the pond that cause algae to spread and block the sun’s rays, devastating the fish population. The study authors suggest building a swimming pool nearby to take pressure off the pond. Here’s an idea: More restrooms?

OBSESSION Chen San-yuan, 69, of New

Taipei City, Taiwan, has taken his gaming obsession to another level. “Uncle Pokemon,” as the Feng Shui master is known around

town, has mounted 11 smartphones on the handlebars of his bicycle so that he can better play Pokemon Go. United Press International reported that Chen sometimes stays out until 4 a.m. playing the virtual game. His habit costs him $1,300 per month, but he’s not daunted: He hopes to expand his phone lineup to 15.

NOT-SO-SECRET ADMIRER German

police took a baby squirrel into custody on Aug. 9 following an incident in which it chased a grown man down the street. The Guardian reported that an unnamed man summoned Karlsruhe police when he could not shake the tiny squirrel. But when officers arrived, the squirrel suddenly lay down and went to sleep. Officers felt sorry for the exhausted little rodent, who apparently had been separated from its mom and was looking for a replacement in the terrified man. Police named their new mascot KarlFriedrich, then took him to an animal rescue center, where he was doing very well. (UPDATE: Workers at the rescue center later determined the squirrel was a girl and renamed her Pippilotta. They expect to return her to the wild in September.)

LITTER BIRDS At the Puy de Fou historical

theme park in Vendee, France, cleaning up litter is always a problem. But less so now that six “particularly intelligent” crows are being trained to pick up litter, according to Sky News. Nicolas de Villiers, president of the park, said that each time a crow drops a cigarette butt or piece of trash into a bin, it will be rewarded with a small nugget of food. The birds were set to begin their duties on Aug. 17.

EXTREME MEASURES Your city may not

have the dubious pleasure of pay-per-minute electric scooters yet, but in some places, the handy people transports have overstayed their welcome. The Los Angeles Times reported on Aug. 10 that angry residents are throwing Bird scooters off balconies, heaving them into the ocean, stuffing them in trashcans and setting them afire. Robert Johnson Bey, a Venice Beach maintenance worker, said: “Sunday, I was finding kickstands everywhere. Looked like they were snapped off.” What’s worse, the perpetrators are documenting their destruction on social media; Instagram has a Bird Graveyard account devoted to chronicles of scooter desecration. Culver City resident Hassan Galedary, 32, has a visceral reaction to the scooters: “I hate Birds more than anyone,” he said. “They suck. People who ride them suck.” However, he has stopped defacing them: “I can’t put bad energy into the world. I don’t even kick them over anymore.” COPYRIGHT 2017 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION CLCLT.COM | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | 11

FOOD

FEATURE

AN INSTANT CLASSIC The real way to ramen ARI LEVAUX

N THE FIFTH floor of the apartment building where I grew up, my young culinary horizons were broadened by a Korean family down the hall. By second grade, I could hold a bowl of rice to my mouth and shovel it in with chopsticks, thanks to the diligent coaching of Christina, Wendy and Karen, who were about my age. The Park girls also taught me how to carefully pull noodles, one by one, from a bowl of high-end Japanese instant ramen. Sometimes their parents doctored the ramen with the likes of seaweed, green onion and egg. It hampered the noodle games, but by college I had some valuable life skills, along with disdain for my dormies and their cases of Top Ramen, to which they proudly added hot dogs and canned chicken. Today, I doctor with produce from the farmers market, but I still use the Park family’s instant ramen of choice: a Japanese brand called Sapporo Ichiban. Japan is the undisputed birthplace of ramen, but nearby Korea never developed a culture of ramen bars, those storied humble kitchens where fresh noodles are served in slowly-simmered broth. Without that background, most Korean eaters, like their American counterparts, first experienced ramen in packaged, instant form. Since my early education, ramen is having an extended moment, and Korea has been a leader in this worldwide phenomenon. The land that gave us K-pop produces some of the most over-the-top versions of packaged ramen, with multiple flavoring packs delivering spices, oils and freeze-dried proteins and vegetables. But the favored brand among South Koreans, since about the mid-1980s, is Shin Ramyun, a simple, spicy beef broth-based formulation that’s become an iconic South Korean comfort food. During these hot days of summer, piquancy is an unexpected asset to a hot bowl of brothy ramen, as temperatureheat and spicy-heat combine like a double negative to create their polar opposite. Your face gets steamed as the hydrating liquids warm your belly, while the chile heat lights a refreshing kind of fire inside, making you sweat profusely, which cools you off dramatically. While chilled soups get a lot of attention in the sweltering heat, they aren’t eating gazpacho in the infernos of Bangkok, Saigon, Chengdu and other hot Asian places where the soups are hot, spicy and brothy, not to mention full of noodles. 12 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

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In addition to cooling off, I like to use spicy ramen as a way to absorb seasonal vegetables as they appear. Wild dandelion and nettle ramen during mud season, pea and zucchini ramen in spring, which, in turn, give way to the umami rich tomatoes and corn. In this country, most fresh ramen — the kind served at the places where hipsters wait in lines around the block — includes a choice of miso, soy base, or tonkatsu (aka pork bone) broth. When it comes to instant, I actually prefer the chicken or regular flavors of Sapporo Ichiban. But regardless of noodle brand and even flavor, I like to carry on the tonkatsu tradition of adding bacon and eggs to the ramen, but a Korean may use beef ribs instead of bacon, and that’s totally fine. Different ingredients must be added at different times, depending on how long they need to cook. I start with bacon (just a basic flavor, no honey or maple — I like pancetta). Cook slowly on low to make it a little crispy, and leave yourself time to remember ingredients you want to add. Then, anything else that may benefit from some time simmering in bacon grease. Mushrooms are one option, though I think you would want to add butter, which is just fine in ramen. Zucchini, radish and garlic are also good early additions. Tomatoes can be added then, so they have time to spill their juices, along

houses. So let your inhibitions go and dive in. Heck, I won’t even complain if you add some mayo. Just remember to bring a towel. And if you’re not interested in making all

that effort, check out the list below for some great places to find ramen and similar dishes in Charlotte. BACKTALK@CLCLT.COM

QUEEN CITY’S RAMEN RADAR Yama Izakaya 1324 Central Ave. yamaizakaya.com Following the traditional style of Japanese taverns — called izakaya — Yama Izakaya invites guests to come hang out for a drink and some health-conscious food after work. The menu boasts creative sushi rolls and of course, steaming bowls of ramen. Along three styles of ramen to choose from: tonkatsu, shio and miso, there’s also plenty of add-ons to make your ramen experience unique to your palate.

Futo Buta

222 E. Bland St. futobuta.com

with half an onion, which can add flavor but be easily avoided later on. Toasted sesame oil adds a great flavor to most ramen, and now is as good a time as any to add it. Stir it around to even out the brown, and place the dry brick of noodles atop everything else in the pan, and cover. This gets the noodles cooking, ever so slightly, in the steam of the simmering veggies. Meanwhile, start a kettle of water on the stove. When the water boils, add the last round of ingredients to the pan. In my case, that includes a cracked egg and maybe some tofu. Sprinkle the flavor packet onto the stuff in the pan, along with an appropriate amount of chile powder, if using, and pour in the water. I like it brothy, so I add a cup or more than I’m supposed to. The water will continue to boil as you add it to the pan, and will create a bit of a steam. Now you can add anything that needs just a bit of cooking, such as peas, corn or pieces of cabbage. Pea shoots will get tangled up in the noodles, which is fun. You can also add mustard greens, frozen shrimp or scallops, meat from a rotisserie chicken, or anything else that could use a little cooking, or add to the broth. Make sure noodles are submerged. It should take about two minutes of the noodles to cook, then kill the heat. Taste the broth and add seasoning sauces. I like a dash of fish sauce, a splash of soy, a tablespoon of oyster sauce, but it changes depending on the soup base. If I’m using beef-flavored seasoning I add hoisin sauce. Sometimes a little black pepper is nice. Cook for a minute, covered, and serve alongside a garnish plate of raw veggies to add on top. These garnish veggies include fresh herbs, radicchio, green onions, seaweed, fresh cucumber slices, iceberg lettuce and

Focusing mostly on ramen bowls, Futo Buta’s limited menu leaves nothing to be desired. Just perusing through the options of shoyu, miso, niwa and chizu ramen combinations is mouth-watering enough to head over for a delicious meal. That doesn’t mean they don’t know about Southern palates, as they also offer pecan smoked pork options in their ramen menu.

Musashi

10110 Johnston Rd. musashi-nc.com Although Musashi only offers three different styles of ramen, they also back it up with a menu of udon and soba options that lands them on our Ramen Radar. Make the trip out to South Charlotte and branch out from traditional ramen bowls to try something enticing — perhaps tempura soba with fresh seaweed and sesame dressing.

Soul Gastrolounge 1500 Central Ave.

soulgastrolounge.com This cozy Plaza Midwood eatery dabbles in a variety of cuisines. And while they boast traditional menu options such as sashimi and sushi rolls, Soul Gastrolounge’s twist on a traditional ramen bowl gives it a spot on this list. Garlic cream, braised veal cheeks, goat cheese, fried mushrooms and caramelized onions come together to deliver a ramen bowl like you’ve never had before. even slices or wedges of low-acid heirloom tomatoes like brandywine. These veggies may wilt a bit in the heat, but will still provide a fresh crunch. The Koreans, of course, like to add kim chi. Last but not least, the spices. I recommend sliced jalapeños and a squirt of sriracha, but there are many ways to add heat to a bowl of noodles; chile powder (added already), for example, or adding your favorite hot sauce while eating. As the sweat drips and the back of your neck begins feeling pleasantly cool, remember that loud slurping is a sign of respect to the chef in authentic ramen

Nikko Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 325 Arlington Ave. nikkosushibar.net Black pork belly and all the fixings go into Nikko’s traditional ramen bowls, but that doesn’t mean its an underdog on our Ramen Radar. With a DJ on some weekend nights, the place gets jumping and becomes a go-to stop for some ramen, udon and soba to fuel you up on a Friday or Saturday night.

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THURSDAY

FALL VEGETABLE GARDENING WORKSHOP What: Although it seems difficult to nurture and mature a veggie garden in the city, you can grow your green thumb with the right education on fall vegetable planting strategies. Learn about the best food to plant and grow for the Carolinia climate and you could have fresh collard greens by New Year’s. Get down and dirty to learn soil care techniques, which will help you reap healthier harvests, even in the winter months in Charlotte. When: 10 a.m. Where: UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, 9090 Craver Rd More: Registration required; gardens.uncc.edu

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THURSDAY

THINGS TO DO

TOP TEN

Belk College Kickoff Fan Fest SATURDAY

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARLOTTE SPORTS FOUNDATION

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

ULTRAFAUX

AMERICAN IDOL AUDITIONS

ALAN WALKER

BEARDEN BIRTHDAY BASH

What: Gypsy jazz, a swinging confluence of flamenco, Parisian street songs and eastern European folk melodies, was invented by genius guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s, but it remains influential today. Fronted by guitarist Michael Joseph Harris, Baltimore’s Ultrafaux keeps Django’s legacy alive and expands on it with a repertoire of alloriginal compositions. The acoustic power trio brings the insouciant swing of Gypsy jazz to tunes that encompass everything from hard bop and folk to funk and blues.

What: Have you ever dreamt about being on American Idol? Do you at least want to try out and see if you have what it takes? Or can you just not believe that this is still a show that people watch? Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie are making a stop in Charlotte to host the myriad of musicians vying for the title of America’s best karaoke artist. Stretch out your vocal chords and practice your “do re mi” scales. Just don’t sing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

What: Formerly known as DJ Walkzz, Alan Walker became the top YouTuber in Norway this year with 15 million subscribers. Now he’s setting his sights on the United States. And before he takes over the world, he has to start at World in the Music Factory. Walker is a gamer and hacker enthusiast, and his tendency to cover his face in pictures and appearances was inspired by the activist hacker outfit Anonymous, which fits with the electronic sound of hits like “Faded” and “Ignite.”

What: What better place to hold a birthday celebration for one of the most influential artists to ever come out of the Queen City than in the park that bears his name? If he were still alive, Romare Bearden would be turning 107 on September 2. On the day before that date, saxophonist Shableek and Ken “The King of Strings” Ford will play at Romare Bearden Park in Third Ward to pay honor to the artist, who passed away in 1988.

When: 5 a.m. - 5 p.m. Where: Mint Museum Uptown, 500 South Tryon Street More: Free; americanidol.com/ auditions

When: 10 p.m. Where: World, 900 NC Music Factory Blvd. More: $25-40. worldnightclubclt.com

When: 7-10 p.m. Where: Romare Bearden Park, 300 S. Church St. More: Free. tinyurl.com/RomareBDay

When: 7 p.m. Where: Evening Muse, 3227 N Davidson St. More: $8-10. eveningmuse.com

Alan Walker FRIDAY

Ken Ford at Bearden Birthday Bash SATURDAY

Canniversary Can Festival SATURDAY

NEWS ARTS FOOD MUSIC ODDS

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALAN WALKER

SATURDAY

RC TURNS ONE MUSIC & BEER FEST What: Resident Culture Brewing Company is turning a year old in style. Throughout Saturday and Sunday, different bands will play, ranging from local rock groups like Ancient Cities to funk bands like Yo Momma’s Big Fat Booty Band. DJ Aswell will spin for a breakdancing competition at some point. For more committed beer nerds, a private Canniversary pouring will feature cans from some of RC’s favorite breweries in the country. When: Sept. 1-2, Noon-7 p.m. Where: Resident Culture Brewing Company, 2101 Central Ave. More: $85-225. residentculturebrewing.com

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN FORD

WEDNESDAY

MONDAY

BELK COLLEGE KICKOFF

LABOR DAY CELEBRATION

JAZZ UNDER THE STARS

What: College football is back in the Queen City with a showdown between two Appalachian powerhouses: the Tennessee Volunteers and the West By-God Virginia Mountaineers. The former comes into the game unranked, with the Mountaineers at No. 17. If you’re more into country music than Southern football, kick off the weekend before the Kickoff game kicks off at Memorial Stadium on Friday night to see Brad Paisley, Kane Brown and the Davisson Brothers.

What: USNWC starts its Labor Day celebration bright and early with trail runs, SUP yoga and “Fun Flow Yoga.” Follow up with a triathalon or the solo climbing competition. If you’re not the “bright and early” or active type, but more of a “drink beer and hang out outside” type, there’s more relaxed and laid-back things to do at the Whitewater Center. Live performances from Great Peacock and Dr. Dog start at 6 p.m. and the night ends with a fireworks show. Whether you’re getting fit or getting lit, head to USNWC for all-day fun.

What: Jazz Around Town is teaming up with Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens to present a night of cool jazz, wine and picnics. Soul-jazz flutist Althea Rene headlines this night of music, so bring your favorite snacks and your listening ears and meander around the garden property with glass in hand before the show begins. You can enjoy sipping and strolling the Rose Pavilion and the Orchid Conservatory then sit back, relax and take in some snazzy, jazzy tunes as the sun sets.

What: There would be no SoCal punk without X, but when they burst onto the L.A. scene in 1977, they sounded like no other punk act. Dual vocalists John Doe and Exene Cervenka weaved harmonies that harkened back to high lonesome country. Guitarist Billy Zoom rumbled and rattled like a Chevy V8 engine and drummer DJ Bonebrake brought a sense of swing to punk’s jackhammer muscle. X’s mix of edgy rock and traditional roots music is still distinctive today.

When: 9 a.m. Where: USNWC, 5000 Whitewater Center Parkway More: Free; uswnc.org

When: 6 p.m. Where: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens, 6500 S. New Hope Rd. More: $40; dsbg.org

When: 3:30 p.m. Where: Bank of America Stadium, 800 S. Mint St. More: $75 and up. belkcollegekickoff. com

When: 8 p.m. Where: Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E 36th St. More: $27-30. neighborhoodtheatre.com

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“I USUALLY LET THE BAND MEMBERS COME UP WITH THEIR OWN PARTS. I’M JUST FRAMING IT AND SETTING IT UP FOR THEM TO SEE WHERE THEY’LL TAKE IT.” JAY GARRIGAN

PHOTO BY CHRIS EDWARDS

The Eyebrows: (L-R) Shawn Lynch, Darrin Gray, Jay Garrigan

FEATURE

MUSIC

IT’S ALL IN THE EYES With a new outlook and album, The Eyebrows set their sights high BY PAT MORAN

HE EYEBROWS ARE INTERESTING body parts,”

Jay Garrigan says. “They’re the windows to the soul and they frame everything.” They also give their name to Garrigan’s spikey yet melodic rock trio The Eyebrows, and nowadays they’re framing a bright and expanding picture for guitarist and singersongwriter Garrigan, drummer Shawn Lynch and bassist Darrin Gray. The Charlotte trio has completed their latest album Volume, 18 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

ten punchy and emotional tunes that recall the snarky smarts and wiry grooves of new wave performers like Nick Lowe and Athens, Georgia’s Pylon. But don’t take our word for it. Volume, which gets a physical CD and vinyl release party at Snug Harbor on September 1, has garnered effusive praise from publications like No Depression, Magnet Magazine and The Big Takeover. All the positive attention for Volume is a little bit disorienting to Garrigan and Lynch,

who have been playing together off and on in various rock combos — including Poprocket and Bruce Hazel’s transcendent Temperance League — since 1999. What distinguishes this Eyebrows record from previous releases is a new strategy, according to Garrgian. “This record is not a last hurrah,” he continues. “It’s about, ‘Let’s do things differently.’” For starters, Garrigan and crew made a conscious decision to work with seasoned indie rock veterans. Volume was produced by Mitch Easter at Fidelitorium

Recording Studio in Kernersville, North Carolina and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York City. If you swap the now-shuttered Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte for Fidelitorium, this is the team and facilities that produced and mastered R.E.M.’s classic debut album, Murmur. Originally Garrigan and crew were going to host a listening party for the new album and call it a day, but instead they decided to approach Athens-based public relations firm Team Clermont.

THE EYEBROWS LP RELEASE PARTY $5; Sept. 1, 9 p.m.; Snug Harbor, 1228 Gordon St.; snugrock.com

The Eyebrows’‘Volume’

Jay Garrigan “Shawn and I grew up a little bit and realized it’s not just about sitting in the basement writing songs and having fun in the studio,” Garrigan explains. “You have to get with the right people who want to call attention to the record.” The partnership with Team Clermont has exceeded The Eyebrows’ expectations. On only the second week of the PR firm’s radio campaign, the band has gotten play on 22 stations, a figure that is likely to expand exponentially, Garrigan says. “It’s like a dream come true,” he continues. It’s a far cry from six years ago when Garrigan’s career was stymied by a bad record deal, and then things went from bad to worse when Garrigan nearly lost his eyesight due to a botched Lasik surgery. In intense pain, Garrigan lost all sense of joy. He dropped out of making music entirely, but in the end it was music, and Garrigan’s musician friends, that brought him back from the brink, he maintains. But now, the future looks bright for The Eyebrows

PHOTO BY DANIEL COSTON

“I can’t believe that people actually like [the record], because we’re so used to people not paying attention.” It may surprise people who have seen Garrigan gyrating and whooping it up during his band’s sets, but offstage he’s a shy and retiring guy. It’s a characteristic that stems from his childhood. “I was left alone a lot and I would wander over to the piano in the family room,” he remembers. His mother noted his interest and taught him how to read music. By the time he was 3, Garrigan was playing music. He was a school band kid, picking up the drums in sixth grade and the trumpet a few years later. When he was 17, Garrigan’s father taught him to play guitar. It’s been his main instrument for playing and composition ever since. In eleventh grade Garrigan was the weird artsy guy hanging with all the heavy metal kids in the high school jazz band, but his most enduring and meaningful musical partnership began a few years later when he joined forces with Lynch. Both men had been

ALBUM COVER BY SHAWN LYNCH

knocking around the 1990s Charlotte music scene, and had caught each other’s notice. “We admired each other,” Garrigan recalls, praising Lynch’s drumming with Charlotte’s proto-Americana band Lou Ford. “They had this cool blend of roots music coupled with a real rock ’n’ roll rhythm section. There was a raunchiness to it.” Garrigan and Lynch hit it off. They started jamming and hanging out together. Lynch was impressed with Garrigan’s prolific songwriting. “Shawn once told me that the reason he keeps playing with me is that I never stop writing,” Garrigan reveals. Then one day, Lynch told Garrigan that he would be his drummer for life. Garrigan reciprocated, saying he’d be Lynch’s guitarist for life. The two friends have kept that vow. Since 2000, they’ve played together in Poprocket, Temperance League, and starting in 2014, The Eyebrows. Lynch was also in what is arguably Garrigan’s career nadir, a band also called Garrigan. “That was a bad experience,” Garrigan says of his deal with Spectra Records. “I thought our agreement was one thing but I got trapped into another.” The record company promised Garrigan the moon, he remembers, but he wound up getting little in return. The band Garrigan was a deal based on the bandleader’s songs and songwriting, Garrigan recalls, but he feels the material for the outfit was not his best. “The songs were overwritten, overwrought and overthought,” he says. Garrigan concludes that the songs he wrote for his ill-fated self-named band were tunes for the head. In contrast, the material for Volume is aimed straight for the heart. He describes his current working method as being a catalyst for the rest of The Eyebrows. Garrigan usually hears something in his head and has to run to a guitar or a piano to get it down before it’s lost, he says. Then he records the demo and brings it to the band. “I usually let the band members come up with their own parts,” he explains. “I’m just framing it and setting it up for them to see where they’ll take it.” This creative process ground to a halt in 2012 when Garrigan went in for what was supposed to be routine Lasik eye surgery. To this day, Garrigan believes the eye surgeon, who is no longer practicing, knew that Garrigan was not a good candidate for the procedure. The botched operation resulted in life-altering chronic corneal erosion. Garrigan was in excruciating pain

and his vision was variable at best. He quit his band, bailed from his record deal with Spectra and dropped out of music. Garrigan was struggling, trying to figure out how to keep his day job and pay his mortgage. Then music came to his rescue. “Shawn and Bruce Hazel [of Temperance League] came to me and said, ‘You’re not doing anything, why don’t you come by and play bass?’ I thought why not give it a shot?” Within a month, Garrigan had gone from feeling he would never make music again to playing with Temperance League at Time Warner Cable [now Spectrum] Arena opening for Bob Seeger in 2013. Able to better manage his eye pain, Garrigan was set to launch The Eyebrows. He started writing much of the material that appears on Volume. Some of the tunes are even unused material for the band Garrigan, and one song, “She Can’t Stand Me,” refers to Garrigan’s medical condition with the lyrics, “because you want to slash my eyes.” Garrigan says the line is both an ode to Salvador Dalí and Luis Bunuel’s 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou, where a man slices a woman’s eye with a razor, and the song “Debaser” by the rock band Pixies, but it is also about his life. The outlook for Garrigan’s life, and for The Eyebrows future, is very positive now, Garrigan says. Volume was recorded with bassist Jon Lock, but Lock stepped aside a few months ago to make room for a longtime friend of Garrigan and Lynch’s, Darrin Gray. Gray was Garrigan’s first choice for The Eyebrow’s bassist but prior commitments kept Gray from joining, Garrigan explains. “It’s great getting him in the band,” Garrigan says, adding that Gray’s compatibility with the other band members makes band-related decisions and touring much easier. “You learn the most about yourself and your band when you’re on the road,” he adds. “It’s much easier when people are more alike than different. It’s a lesson I’ve had to learn throughout the course of my entire life.” Though the average age of The Eyebrows is 48, the band is psyched to tour the new record, but they’re going to be smart about it, Garrigan maintains. The plan is to take short trips to cities where the album has been getting airplay. “I’d like to be a regional band playing within a couple hours or so of Charlotte,” Garrigan says. “That’s because we have day jobs and we have to keep our wives happy.” It’s also an opportunity to solidify longstanding relationships between people who share the love of making music and friends who came to Garrigan’s aid when all was dark. “It’s kind of a romantic story,” Garrigan says with a chuckle. “In a bro-mantic sort of way.” PMORAN@CLCLT.COM

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Rhiannon Giddens

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HERE AS FOLK Rhiannon Giddens to curate special program for N.C. Folk Festival Shots from last year’s N.C. Folk Festival.

NORTH CAROLINA FOLK Festival organizers recently announced that guestcurator Rhiannon Giddens will be curating her own program as part of the 2018 North Carolina Folk Festival — a three-day weekend celebration of America’s roots and heritage in downtown Greensboro that takes place between Sept. 7 and 9. Giddens, a singer and multiinstrumentalist of The Basement Tapes and Carolina Chocolate Drops fame, is originally from Greensboro. An untiring explorer of and advocate for traditional music, Giddens first achieved national prominence as a founding member of the African-American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig earned the group a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. Giddens has since gone on to record additional solo albums including Tomorrow is My Turn, which was produced by T Bone Burnett and released in 2014. In 2017, Giddens 20 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in recognition of her ongoing work to reclaim African-American contributions to folk and country music and bring to light new connections between music from the past and the present. The North Carolina Folk Festival invited Giddens to curate several specific programs for the festival. Amy Grossmann, North Carolina Folk Festival director, said that, “Rhiannon is an exemplary performer and ambassador for African-American string and vocal traditions, with a passion for researching and sharing the complex history of the people who carry on these living traditions. I think she sees her role with the festival as another artistic opportunity to lend her voice to the story of African-American string music, while fostering an ongoing appreciation for these traditions. “We are thrilled that she accepted our invitation as a guest-curator for this year’s

festival and we’re incredibly excited about the performers and specialists she is bringing to Greensboro. The program is outstanding.” Giddens’ program includes a discussion with percussionist at Guilford County Public School on Friday afternoon, followed by “an evening of jazz, spoken word and tap dance, featuring Turrisi, poet and singer Lalenja Harrington and tap dancer Robyn Watson. On Saturday morning, Giddens will host a symposium titled “Banjo Cultures and Community, Transformations through Time,” for which she will be joined by musician Amythyst Kiah; Greg Adams, an expert on the history of the banjo with American Folklife Center at the US Library of Congress; banjo maker, researcher and musician Pete Ross; Michael Newton, leading scholar of ScottishGaelic heritage; and Kristina Gaddy, author and banjo scholar. Later that day, Adams will facilitate a banjo workshop alongside Giddens, Kiah, Ross, Gaddy and Karlie Keepfer of the Cabin

Creek Boys. Later still on Saturday, Giddens will take part in a workshop titled, “Roots of American Dance: from Flat Footing to Tap,” that will feature dancers like Watson, Matthew Olwell and Emily Oleson with Jason Sypher on bass and Eric Robertson on the mandolin. Giddens will perform on Saturday night on the Blue Cross Blue Shield NC City Stage. She’ll be performing songs from her albums Freedom Highway and Tomorrow Is My Turn along with Turrisi, Sypher, Ric RObertson and Isaac Eady. On Sunday afternoon, Giddens wraps things up on the Wells Fargo Lawn Stage with a final workshop called, “Historic Dance Offs: An Improv Interplay between Banjo and Dance,” in which she will explore the relationship between banjo and dance, including the popularity of dance-offs. For more infomration on the North Carolina Folk Festival, visit ncfolkfest.com.

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MUSIC

SOUNDBOARD AUGUST 30 Ultrafaux (Evening Muse)

(Petra’s) Satori Session Five: Melodious Funk, Joe Sweeney, Michael Fritts, MAC (Crown Station Coffeehouse and Pub)

COUNTRY/FOLK

POP/ROCK

CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH

Mountain Heart (U.S. National Whitewater Center)

DJ/ELECTRONIC Dende (Salud Cerveceria) DJ Karz (Tin Roof) Le Bang (Snug Harbor)

POP/ROCK Musicians Open Mic (Crown Station Coffeehouse and Pub) Appetite for Destruction (Rooftop 210) Act 2 (RiRa Irish Pub) Instant Treeline, Featherpocket, Paper Windmills & Chris Thomas (Milestone) Karaoke (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Music Bingo with Dr. Music (Heist Brewery) Phillip Michael Parsons (Tin Roof) Shana Blake and Friends (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) Soften the Glare, Locals, Venus Invictus, Raimee, Motion,,Rosewave (The Rabbit Hole) Swim in the Wild, Little Bird (Evening Muse) Uncle Buck, Lawndrys, RHTS (Petra’s) The Vel Crows (Summit Coffee Co., Davidson)

AUGUST 31 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Pizazz Smooth Jazz Festival: Kenny G., Dave Koz, Bob James (Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre) Jazzy Fridays (Freshwaters Restaurant)

COUNTRY/FOLK Brad Paisley & Kane Brown Belk College Tailgate Concert (American Legion Memorial Stadium) The Company Stores (Free Range Brewing Company) Sounds on the Square: Aaron Burdett (Spirit Square) The Lenny Federal Band (Comet Grill)

DJ/ELECTRONIC DJ Dirty (RiRa Irish Pub) Alan Walker (World) DJ Red (RiRa Irish Pub) DJ T-Nice (Tin Roof) Mirror Moves - Underground Dance Party 22 | AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

Bloodworth Project (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) Hectorina, Julian Calendar, Lassyu, Pullover (Milestone) Houndmouth, Liz Cooper & The Stampede (Neighborhood Theatre) Music Bingo/Trivia with DJ ShayNanigans (Three Spirits Brewery) Pluto for Planet (Tin Roof) The Powell Brothers, Brooks Hubbard Band (Evening Muse) Scott Moss Band (U.S. National Whitewater Center) StellaRising (Cabarrus Brewing Company, Concord) Thanks to You, Real Work (Snug Harbor) Wicked Powers (RiRa Irish Pub)

SEPTEMBER 1 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Romare Bearden Birthday Bash: Shableek, Ken Ford (Romare Bearden Park)

DJ/ELECTRONIC DJ Method (RiRa Irish Pub) DJ Stephen Craig (Tin Roof)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B AJ Ghent (U.S. National Whitewater Center)

POP/ROCK Summer Concert Series (Blakeney Shopping Center) 9 Day Trio (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) The Bleeps, Come Clean, Chaser, Over Thinker (Skylark Social Club) Blue Monday (Tin Roof) Evan Button (Primal Brewing, Huntersville) The Eyebrows, Battleship, DJ Shawn Lynch, DJ Rocturnal Emission (Snug Harbor) Heroes At Last (RiRa Irish Pub) The Human Circuit (Evening Muse) Leebo & Friends (Comet Grill) Nefarious, Glow, Softspoken, Foxbat, Battle Axe (Milestone) SIRSY (Evening Muse) SSK, Sibannac, Forsaken Profits, Pleasures, Odd Squad (Tommy’s Pub)

SOUNDBOARD The Mystics’ Ball - Masquerade (Visulite Theatre)

The Song Cycles of Beachy Head (Davidson College Tyler-Tallman Recital Hall)

SEPTEMBER 2

COUNTRY/FOLK

BLUES/ROOTS/INTERNATIONAL

Red Rockin’ Chair (Comet Grill)

Travis Hyll (RiRa Irish Pub)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B

Solo/Duo Competition: Jake Haldenvang, Sidewalk Bob & Suitcase Slim, The Long View, Blazin’ Blues Bob (Rabbit Hole)

DJ/ELECTRONIC Bone Snugs-N-Harmony: Bryan Pierce (Snug Harbor) DJ Payne (Tin Roof) Hazy Sunday - End of Summer Edition (Petra’s) More Fyah - Grown & Sexy Vibes (Crown Station Coffeehouse and Pub)

POP/ROCK Andy Frasco & The U.N., Akita, Litz (Heist Brewery) Bergenline, Julian Calendar, Post Hunk, Fun Isn’t Fair (Tommy’s Pub) Great Peacock, Dr. Dog (U.S. National Whitewater Center) Holy Angels Benefit (Comet Grill) Thirsty Horses (Tin Roof) Sunday Music Bingo (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern)

SEPTEMBER 3 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Jazz Jam (Crown Station Coffeehouse and Pub)

COUNTRY/FOLK Dem Sedgefield Boys (Comet Grill)

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B #MFGD Open Mic (Apostrophe Lounge) Labor of Love Fest: Andy Frasco & The U.N., Funk You, Akita, Balkun Brothers, Menastree (The Rail Yard Charlotte) Knocturnal (Snug Harbor)

POP/ROCK Piano Bar Karaoke with Ryan Stamey (Petra’s) Music Bingo (Tin Roof) Music Trivia (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Open Mic with Lisa De Novo (Legion Brewing)

SEPTEMBER 4 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH

Eclectic Soul Tuesdays - RnB & Poetry (Apostrophe Lounge) Soulful Tuesdays: DJ ChopstickZ, DJ JTate Beats (Crown Station Coffeehouse and Pub)

DJ/ELECTRONIC Uptown Unplugged with Dan Smith (Tin Roof) DJ Steel Wheel (Snug Harbor)

POP/ROCK Open Jam with the Smokin’ Js (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) Camp Howard, The Remarks, Daddy’s Beemer (Snug Harbor) The Tomb of Nick Cage, Solemn Shapes, 30 Year Sick, Malhond (Milestone)

SEPTEMBER 5 COUNTRY/FOLK Open Mic (Comet Grill)

DJ/ELECTRONIC KARAOKE with DJ Alex Smith (Petra’s) Bugalú - September Edition (Petra’s) Cyclops Bar: Modern Heritage Weekly Mix Tape (Snug Harbor)

POP/ROCK X (Neighborhood Theatre) Blake Lewis, Jason Manns, Hayden Lee (Evening Muse) Emit Radio’s Open Mic/Music Trivia Night (Dixie Pig, Tega Cay) Rockstead (The Rabbit Hole) Rude Dude and The Creek Freaks, Broke Jokes, Middleasia (Milestone) September Residency: Grown Up Avenger Stuff (Snug Harbor) Open House & Karaoke (Sylvia Theatre, York) Open Mic (Summit Coffee Co., Davidson) Open Mic (JackBeagle’s) Open Mic & Songwriter Workshop (Petra’s, Charlotte) Trivia & Karaoke Wednesdays (Tin Roof)

9/1THE MYSTICS' BALL - MASQUERADE 9/6 FAMILY AND FRIENDS 9/11 JOSEPH 9/8 SPASTA! 2018 9/9 SCHOOL OF ROCK 9/13 CBDB 9/14 NEVERMIND 9/15 OFF WHITE PARTY BROEMEL 9/19 NOAH GUNDERSEN 9/20 ofCARL My Morning Jacket 9/21ATLAS ROAD CREW 9/28 CAAMP 9/30 CASEY JAMES 10/2 MT. JOY10/9WELSHLY ARMS10/18 BLACK JOE LEWIS 11/7 WILL HOGE 11/10 THE NIGHT GAME 12/12BAYSIDE

COMING SOON  North by North (September 7, Snug Harbor) Ani DeFranco (September 8, Neighborhood Theatre) I’m With Her (September 13, McGlohon) Malcolm Holcombe (September 13, Evening Muse) Los Tiki Phantoms (September 13, Snug Harbor) Alina Baraz (September 14, Fillmore) Greg Laswell (September 19, Evening Muse) Toad The Wet Sprocket (September 20, McGlohon) Rebirth Brass Band (September 21, Neighborhood Theatre) Kaleo (September 21, Fillmore) Shiprocked! (September 22, Snug Harbor) Stanley Clarke (September 25, McGlohon) Father John Misty (September 26, Fillmore) Chromeo (September 28, Fillmore) Paperback (September 29, Snug Harbor) Ian Moore (September 29, Evening Muse) Jeff the Brotherhoos (October 2, Snug Harbor) Mt. Joy (October 2, Visulte) Bill Murray, Jan Vogler, and Friends (October 2, Belk Theater) Maroon 5 (October 4, Spectrum Center) Spirit System (October 5, Snug Harbor) Chvrches (October 16, Fillmore) Coin (October 19, Fillmore) Chris Robinson Brotherhood (October 28, Neighborhood Theatre) Haunted Summer (October 31, Evening Muse) Steep Canyon Rangers (November 10, Knight Theater)

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YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE Local dance troupe begins to cultivate a scene in Charlotte BY RYAN PITKIN

UST AFTER 8 P.M. on a recent Thursday night in the NoDa @ 28th atrium on North Davidson Street, AJ Glascow and Arynn Owens are warming up for a night of rehearsals with the Crayzee Collective, a dance troupe Glascow started about three years ago. Owens slips out of her white Fila sneakers and begins doing deep stretches before going into ballerina twirls. Glascow goes through the motions of a few halfhearted dance moves while looking into the reflection of an office window in the atrium. Two other members of the crew bring out cups of water from Amelie’s and place them on a broken down piano sitting near their rehearsal space. The group has been dancing here since before the collective began. When they first started coming together to hash out moves — before there were any performances to rehearse for — they’d sometimes take their act-in-progress into Uptown, dancing through the streets until the early morning hours. Glascow eventually decided that if the group was always going to be dancing and hanging out together, they might as well make it official. And so they formed the Crayzee Collective. A year later, they would perform at the Breakin’ Convention and since then have performed elsewhere in Charlotte at events like Taste of Charlotte. Just four members of the group are present on Thursday evening, as they walk through the steps for an upcoming performance at the Stage Door Theater. Within the next year, Glascow plans to open his own studio, but right now his eyes are on strengthening his own team and helping to develop the dance scene here in Charlotte. Glascow and Owens hope the “choreography concert” planned for September 22, which will include performers from Raleigh, Greensboro and Columbia, South Carolina, can serve as a “test run” for more similar performances in the future. “We’re going to get this small, intimate venue and see how many people we get to show up, get the word out about us in the city, and then the next year we’ll have maybe a spring, a fall and a winter show. Something like that, just try to see it out,” Glascow says. “This stuff’s expensive, man. You’ve got to support it on your own.” 24 | AUG. 6 - SEPT. 5, 2018 | CLCLT.COM

The Crayzee Collective poses before going on stage at the 2017 Breakin’ Convention. Glascow has been working on building a support network since he came to town about six years ago. As soon as he moved here from his hometown of Asheboro, he took a dance class on the side while attending culinary school. He had learned some dance in a studio for about a year previously, but hated it, especially the six months of ballet. But the Charlotte class was different, and it stuck. “I found out, I’m like, ‘This is what I really want to do,’ because it’s an adult-level class. I get to go in and be an individual but then there are still guidelines you go by, so that was something that I could get with,” he recalls. “I left culinary school and started to pursue dance as a full-time career.” He eventually began to study choreography, and that’s what he plans to do with his studio once he’s able to open it. Owens came into the picture about three years ago, just as the idea for Crayzee Collective was coming together. She had quit dancing when she moved to North Carolina from upstate New York at 12 years old, too upset by the move to find happiness in her hobbies. She eventually became a talented photographer, and in 2015, Glascow asked her to shoot headshots and group photos of a new collective he was forming. Her passion for dancing came back when she saw what Glascow was up to, and she’s been dancing alongside him ever since.

GLASCOW AND OWENS, both 25 years old, have similar dancing styles, although they differ in the sense that Glascow was self-taught while Owens grew up training in a studio. Glascow describes his own style as “urban abstract.” Most of his influences come from hip-hop, with other styles and elements mixed in. He says he doesn’t like to dance in

front of mirrors, but prefers a more visceral approach. “I don’t have the technical training to know if I’m doing it right or not, so if it just looks good, we go with it,” he says. “I’m so used to not using a mirror that being in front of a mirror is still weirdish to me. I just kind of feel it out and get it inside my body. I’ve developed it; it’s like a certain feeling, and it just hits me a certain way and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to do that again.’” Owens says she’s borrowed elements of ballet, tap dance, Afro and hip-hop dance styles in an attempt to make something all her own. “You have to incorporate all those, but I don’t really like all the rules of that, and I just want to break the mold so I take things that I like from those styles and mix them with my own groove,” she says. That individuality is a mindset that Glascow nurtures within the Crayzee Collective. Michelle Kerestes, a 28-year-old member of the troupe with a background in tap dancing, hadn’t danced for 13 years before meeting Glascow and joining in with the crew on their late-night dancing expeditions through Uptown Charlotte. She says Glascow’s readiness to let her grow on her own terms is what got her back into dancing and kept her with the group. “They allow us to actually have creative freedom to really express yourself,” Kerestes says. “I mainly did it as a way to get away from stress and anxiety but then I found a family that didn’t judge. They let you be who you want to be and also within that grow as a person and a dancer.” Unsurprisingly, that’s been a recipe for growth within the group. It was just a year after forming that Glascow was invited to choreograph a Crayzee Collective performance

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at the 2016 Breakin’ Convention, an international touring hip-hop dance festival that began in London. The group did so well that they were invited back for the 2017 convention, for which Glascow and Owens co-choreographed a routine involving Satan (Glascow) leaving heaven and taking some angels with him, only to lose them again to God (Owens). Glascow was even invited to the Breakin’ Convention in London in April 2017. The experiences were all great for the Crayzee Collective, but they’re bittersweet memories now considering that the convention won’t return to the Queen City in 2018. “It’s actually really sad that they’re not coming here,” Owens says. “It was a great platform for what we do, mixing hip-hop and theater. It helped people realize that this is not just like live street entertainment, or that we’re not just having fun with it. It’s something serious that you can actually pursue.” Without the convention, the burden for spreading the word and strengthening the dance scene in Charlotte lies on performers like Glascow and Owens, and they’re happy to take up that torch. The two would like to grab the attention of the culture in Charlotte, the way dancers get attention in

Phil Philips and Elizabeth Banks in ‘The Happytime Murders.’ Crayzee Collective members [from left] Arynn Owens, Michelle Kerestes and AJ Glascow at a recent rehearsal. other cities they’ve visited. Owens has noticed that, while visual artists and musicians have seen a growing momentum in Charlotte in recent years, the same can’t be said for dance. “There’s never really any dance performances. There’s only performances at dance festivals or Taste of Charlotte; just those family things,” she says. “I feel like if we had more of a community like Atlanta does or L.A. does when it comes to dance — where people just genuinely want to watch it, and go see it — that’s when I think the dance world here will evolve and start to grow bigger and have more support. Right now it’s just, like, waiting.” Glascow agrees, and jumps in to continue Owens sentence, something that happens between the pair a lot. “It’s really cool how even being in London, they have so much more of a respect for arts as a whole, and dance is kind of at the forefront almost. It’s the complete opposite [of Charlotte],” he says. “It’s like, dance, theater, all that stuff is at the forefront,

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and then it’s like, ‘OK, singing’s nice.’ It’s so widespread that everybody gets a piece of the pie. You can go to a show and get everything. It’s almost like a buffet for art lovers. So that’s really cool, and it’s something that I wish Charlotte would pick up.” On the bright side, neither Glascow or Owens is ready to leave Charlotte for a more active dance scene. When I ask if either of them ever gets discouraged and considers moving to a town with an already burgeoning scene, they both vehemently deny it, and they do so immediately. “We’d love to see it come up here,” Owens says. “I don’t want people to have to leave their home studios. We can do it here. That’s why I feel like those other places are oversaturated now, because they’re pulling in so many people who leave their own towns. If we can just get everything from where we are, that would be great. And I think we can.” Who better to say so than the one who convinced Satan’s stolen angels to come back to heaven? RPITKIN@CLCLT.COM

#ShapingCLT: Unpacking Privilege

Wednesday Sept.12th 2018 6:30-8:30pm at Levine Museum of the New South

Tickets $10 September’s installment of the #ShapingCLT series will focus on Unpacking Privilege in Charlotte. Food, games, and activities will move the conversation along.The examination of Charlotte’s future will move participants beyond conversation towards civic action.

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FELT UP Crudity and nudity, puppet style BY MATT BRUNSON A clever concept gets off to a roaring start before eventually losing its way in The Happytime Murders (**1/2 out of four), a puppet pageantry that is most decidedly not one for the whole family to enjoy. Brian Henson, son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson and a Muppet veteran in his own right, and screenwriter Todd Berger, whose credits include the likes of The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow and Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, clearly wanted to take a break from comparatively benign projects and push the envelope when it came to puppet reproduction on screen. Of course, Team America: World Police and Meet the Feebles have already been there, done that, but The Happytime Murders more closely resembles (in structure if not quality) the brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit insofar as it’s a Tinseltown-set murder-mystery in which humans and nonhumans can be found uneasily commingling. Here, it’s puppets that live alongside people, and for the first half-hour, Berger and co-scripter Dee Austin Robertson slyly craft a meaningful message movie as puppets are treated by many humans as second-class citizens and subject to frequent instances of police brutality. (As an exclamation mark on the analogies, there’s even a celebrity puppet who goes the Michael Jackson route with the bleaching and the nose job.) Unfortunately, any interest in social criticism gets chucked out the window as the movie continues, with all subtext completely abandoned as the filmmakers become increasingly interested in only offering vulgar gags. Some are quite funny while others are quite flaccid, though there’s no telling which gags will work for which viewers. For

example, a restaging of the Sharon Stone no-panties scene from Basic Instinct allows audiences a peek at puppet pudenda — if that strikes you as the height of hilarity, then knock yourself out. The plot concerns the stars of the vintage television sitcom The Happytime Gang being systematically murdered by an unknown assailant. Phil Philips (Bill Barretta), a disgraced puppet cop now working as a private eye, becomes personally involved with the case, meaning that he must again join forces with his former partner, Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), to solve the mystery. Along the way, Phil visits a porn shop specializing in such titles as Little Kitties with Big Titties, gets reacquainted with an old (human) girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) who co-starred on The Happytime Gang, and receives invaluable assistance from his loyal receptionist Bubbles (Maya Rudolph). Visually, The Happytime Murders is a seamless production, with the blending of the human and puppet protagonists executed flawlessly (the closing credits allow viewers to check out some of the behind-the-scenes magic). The mystery is also fairly well-executed (if holding no real surprises), and comediennes like McCarthy and Rudolph are allowed moments to shine. But really, everything is mainly just an excuse for audiences to see puppets curse, drink, take drugs, and have sex. So if watching felt characters get felt up sounds like a winning proposition, The Happytime Murders might just be the ticket. More cautious viewers might prefer to stick with straight shooters like Kermit, Big Bird and even that questionable Gonzo. BACKTALK@CLCLT.COM

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Treat your tastebuds to fancy WHEN MY BOYFRIEND’S out of cuisine. Finally, it won’t be awkward to town, I have to admit, it’s hard to figure out what I’m supposed to do with my spare time. respond to your waiter or waitress with, Especially when he’s traveling somewhere “That’ll be separate checks, thanks.” I’d add epic, like I don’t know, Cancun, Mexico! La Belle Helene Uptown to your bucket list. If you’re sensing a twinge of salt, you’re You can get dolled up and pretend you know damn right. *sighs* But unfortunately, how to pronounce everything on the menu. there’s this weird rule that girlfriends aren’t Imbibe delectable cocktails. Stiff allowed on bachelor trips, so my invitation drinks make for great conversation, or never came. gossip, with your gals. But beware, your Nevertheless, when the boys are away, the girls will play, so the ladies made plans girlfriends are a lot less likely to cut you off. to fill their weekend. I was reminded of the perfect place for an I had to go home for a quick visit with my elevated vibe and delicious libations — The mom, who was celebrating a birthday, but Broken Spoke. when I returned on Sunday I knew I would Pretend to be an art connoisseur. If have to get out of the house so I hit up some you’re lucky, your partner has an appreciation gals I knew I could depend on. for something other than football. If you’re After a couple drinks, I remembered why not, BFF date night is perfect for activities girls’ nights and pajama parties were so much fun. For one, you can get as drunk like going to an art show. I was hoping as you want and cry as much as to be in town for the SOMA art you want, and you won’t get on exhibition at Camp North their nerves. End this past weekend, but And for a few fleeting naturally parental birthdays moments, I could take my are more important. mind off of how much I Hopefully, they’ll have missed my boo thang. another soon, because I What started as an heard it was epic. easygoing, almost sleepy conversation, quickly Pick up a new hobby. turned into a trip down That will also make your memory lane as we Ubered significant other happy. Your AERIN SPRUILL to one of my old hangouts boo may not be interested in — Prohibition. I’ve been a few pottery making, cooking classes, times for drinks since my earlier SkillPop courses or beading. But there’s years in Charlotte, but it’s been few a silver lining. At least one of your pals will and far between. After all, Pro is one of those want to try all the things with you. And the bars that quickly became the sloppy college bar that only questionable adults went to. Queen City has more than its fair share of But there we were on a slow Sunday night classes for you to take. living our best lives laughing and talking our Sweat it out. Maybe your squeeze heads off — sure, it was I who was doing prefers hitting the gym. But your friends will most of the rambling, but how else was I help you brainstorm any physical activity going to keep my mind off things? that will make working out fun. Try out a The best part of the night was that there hip-hop spin class at CycleSouth or take a was no drama to be had in sight, and I chalk hot yoga class at Arrichion. that up to the fact that there’s nobody to argue with when the guys aren’t around. My boyfriend is my best friend, so I And I’m sure my boyfriend felt the same often have a hard time making time for way sipping drinks at the pool while looking my girlfriends. And knowing some of my out at ocean waves. Yes, I’m still bitter. girlfriends, they have a hard time with it, Nevertheless, girls’ nights are perfect for too. Enough with the excuses. It feels like it’s ladies that want to switch it up every now been ages since I’ve hung out with a couple and then. of my girlfriends and that has to change. You don’t have to wait for a bachelor or Stop sending each other memes and snaps. bachelorette party to make it happen. Trust Plan your next girls day or night this week. me, your significant other will thank you. (Sorry for hogging all of your attention, What do you like to do when you need lover.) some girl or guy time? Share it with me. I put together a few ideas for a solid date BACKTALK@CLCLT.COM night in the Queen City with your gal pals:

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1 Back muscles, informally 5 Future doc’s program 11 Edison rival Nikola 16 Flat-fixing gp. 19 “Out of Africa” writer Dinesen 20 French playwright Jean 21 Made from a certain wood 22 Coffeehouse dispenser 23 Cereal grain for a special event? 26 Found groovy 27 “Goodbye, mon ami” 28 Forever, seemingly 29 Canonized woman of Fr. 30 Little tales 31 Paid up 33 Sleep with a cereal grain on one’s blanket? 37 Augustus’ son-in-law 41 Shoulder decoration 42 Performing in a film 46 “Unh-unh!” 48 Fierce fire 51 Easily seen cereal grain? 55 Skill in darts 56 Plaster the roof of 57 See 85-Down 58 -- -fi 59 Pagan religion 61 Car roller in winter 64 Person threshing a cereal grain? 68 “Good for life” pet food 69 “Spanglish” actress Tea 70 Plenteous 71 Using a cereal grain as fuel? 75 Final chance to order a drink 79 Newspaper sections 80 Pro in first aid 81 Body design, briefly 82 Sills solo 83 “-- in Black” 84 Have a boxing match in an arena covered with a cereal grain? 90 Carroll of “All in the Family” 93 Puzzle cube inventor

94 Old TV dog 95 -- oxide (laughing gas) 98 Word-for-word 100 Response after being gifted with a cereal grain? 103 Charms 108 Roof feature 109 -- rule 110 See 5-Down 113 Wild fight 114 Dream Team’s land 115 Useful material for processing a cereal grain? 120 Rocker Vicious 121 Pop/rock singer Mann 122 Layered eye part 123 DVR option 124 Timeline segment 125 Muscle woe 126 Starts using 127 Glimpsed

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43 French city 44 Nirvana, e.g. 45 It “blows no good” 47 Ship again 49 Friendly 50 Epps of films 52 Like Vikings 53 Brazilian palm berry 54 Short while 59 Float easily 60 Thick polar coverings 62 New Mexico resort 63 Unruly tyke 64 Less dry 65 Clod buster 66 Great anger 67 -- and hers 69 Gyro meat 71 Singer Perry 72 Gp. for Iran 73 City near Lake Tahoe 74 Eligible for Soc. Sec. 75 Hanukkah pancake 76 Olympic god 77 Leslie Caron musical film 78 Behind 81 Razz 84 Israeli dance 85 With 57-Across, easily attached patches 86 Whopper 87 Kimono sash 88 Gusto 89 Sub meat 91 Evening, in some ads 92 To the -- degree 96 Arbitrary decrees 97 Methodology 99 Soften 100 Employ anew 101 PLO’s Arafat 102 Clodhopper 104 Goes soft 105 Iran-Contra figure North 106 Superman portrayer 107 Determined to do 110 Born and -111 Quarterback Graham 112 Thrash 115 Ford fluid 116 Put tears in 117 “-- believer!” 118 “-- pro nobis” 119 Pas’ mates

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QUICKIES Le’ts keep these short and sweet BY DAN SAVAGE This woman has gone down on me (I’m a man) more than half a dozen times in the last three months. Each time seems to be better than the previous! She does not want reciprocation. She has also turned down all my offers for intercourse. As far as I know, she is heterosexual just like me. What’s with that? I am getting a bit frustrated. Also, without going all the way, am I considered a friend with benefits? JUST CHILLING

You’re benefiting here — think of all those blowjobs — and if she’s a friend, you can certainly regard yourself as a friend with benefits. As for why she won’t allow you to eat her pussy or put your dick in her pussy, JC, well, a few things spring to mind. She could be one of those women who love to give head and that’s all she wants from a casual partner. Or she could have body-image issues. Or she could have a sexually transmitted infection, and she’d rather blow than disclose. Or she might be unwilling to risk pregnancy. Or she could be intersex or trans and not ready to open up. If you enjoy those blowjobs — if you’re enjoying the benefits — focus on what you are getting instead of what you’re not. My husband and I occasionally go to swingers clubs. I don’t want to inadvertently fuck any Trump supporters, but I hate the idea of bringing up politics and killing everyone’s collective boner. Any suggestions would be appreciated! OCCASIONALLY SWINGING

At the risk of killing your boner forever, OS, the organized swinging scene “leans right,” as pollster Charlie Cook would put it if Charlie Cook polled swingers. Easily half of the couples I met at a big swingers convention I attended in Las Vegas told me they were Republicans. One man — a swinger from Texas — told me he was a “traditional values” type of guy and that’s why he opposed samesex marriage. Fun fact: His wife was off fucking someone else’s husband while we were chitchatting in the hotel bar. Good times.

more productive inlet?) Bonus points if you and your husband are both secure enough in your marriage and cognizant enough of reality to regard crushes on others as normal and, so long as they remain crushes, not a threat to your marriage or commitment. Because then you can talk dirty with your husband about your boss — he can even pretend to be your boss — while you ride your husband’s cock.

The other night while my wife and I were watching porn and masturbating together, I suggested we I’m a happily married 35-yearmasturbate in front of old mom. I have a loving DirtyRoulette. I briefly and devoted husband. explained what the site Recently, I started a job is about. She asked me to get out of the house if that’s what I do — more and interact with if I get on DR when I more people. Well, it masturbate. I replied turns out my new boss yes, sometimes — is a real hottie. I have a and she was so taken crush on him and often aback, she ended our find myself fantasizing DAN SAVAGE masturbation session about him. While I know to process it. We’re fine these feelings can be normal, now, but do you think this is I tend to fixate/obsess. I’m “cheating”? basically looking for advice on how DIRTY ROULETTING to move past this crush or maybe find a more productive outlet. I don’t think it’s cheating, DR, but you aren’t NEWBIE FANTASIZING married to me. In other words, if your wife regards you masturbating with strangers on Here’s a more productive outlet: Turn out the the internet as cheating, then it’s cheating. lights, climb on top of your husband, get him There are, of course, some people out there hard, then sink your pussy down on his cock who regard too many things as cheating and ride him while you fantasize about your — fantasizing about others, looking at boss. (Perhaps this is better described as a porn, even non-webcam-or-porn-enhanced

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masturbation. People who think this way usually regard cheating as unforgivable and, consequently, their relationships are doomed to failure. I’m deep in the grips of a run-of-the-mill midlife crisis. My marriage is in a slump, and I’ve been sexless longer than at any time since I was a teenager. My wife has granted me the DADT “hall pass,” but I have no idea how to go about using it. My life is work, children, activities related to the children and a few solo hobbies to keep myself fit and sane. I rarely meet new people, except at work, and I can’t start a relationship with anyone I meet there. In fact, my career means I am subject to a fair amount of social scrutiny and discretion is paramount. Do you have any suggestions? HALL PASSING

Remember Ashley Madison? The hookup site for married people looking for affair partners? The site that did a terrible job of protecting its user data? The site that got hacked? A hack that outed millions of adulterers and ruined lives? According to a story at the Outline, Ashley Madison is back, baby, and lots of women — real women, not the bots that plagued the site pre-hack — are using it. “Once the dust had settled and other scandals entered the headlines, many people largely forgot about Ashley Madison,” Stephanie Russell-Kraft reports. “This might explain why Ashley Madison’s user numbers have shot up in recent years.” On the Lovecast: Finally! A sex-advice/rabbitcare podcast mash-up! savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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