YES! Weekly - October 26, 2022

Calling all ghouls and goblins! Halloween is here and your hostess with the most-ess o cially presents o erings and suggestions to pack your calendar full of Halloween plans.

27407

WOMACK

4 The Carolina Theatre, High Point City Hall and Elon University are amongst some of the buildings in the Triad said to be HAUNTED.

6

For roughly the past 20 years, Wake Forest University’s Timothy S.Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology has continuously displayed a variety of DAY OF THE DEAD exhibits.

8 DRAG ME TO THE OPRY features some of North Carolina’s most noteworthy drag performers and impersonators, including Kristin Collins, Cierra Nicole, Buff Faye, DeVida, and Quindynn Tarantino.

10 If Halloween doesn’t slake your thirst for all things macabre, the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has a sizzling shocker on tap: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

11 Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil used to say, “ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL,” which, in a broad sense, refers to the fact that every decision made in Washington affects every community, and that decisions made locally can affect what goes on nationally.

12 One thing’s for sure: Tom Cruise’s insistence that TOP GUN: MAVERICK be released to theaters only after the pandemic began to recede was a very wise business decision.

16 Calling all ghouls and goblins! Halloween is here and your hostess with the most-ess officially presents offerings and suggestions to pack your calendar full of HALLOWEEN PLANS

18 Like any part of the United States with communities so old, THE TRIAD’S FOLKLORE is heavily haunted. There is, for instance, Lydia, forever young, pale, and pretty as she stands on the dark road outside of Jamestown and thumbs a ride home. When you pick her up, you don’t yet know she’s dead.

20 V.M.D is the solo-moniker for Greensboro musician Jerrod Smith (The Leeves, Dickwolf, Instant Regrets) who writes and records an album, [mostly] inspired by horror movies, each October to be released on Halloween. He’ll release the 10th installment “ SEASON OF HALLOWEEN,” via bandcamp on October 31.

BY

ELON

Elon University

The University is said to be haunted by Mary, who resides in the West Dormitory and is known for talking to students while they’re sleeping. Mary also is blamed for swinging light fixtures, footsteps, electrical anomalies, apparitions, and shattering mirrors. According to campus legend, Mary died in the Jan. 18, 1923 fire that destroyed much of the campus. She was trapped on the third floor, and jumped out the window to her demise.

GREENSBORO

Biltmore Hotel

There are many accounts of the Biltmore Hotel, built in 1903, being haunted. The real question would be, not what, but who you saw there.

The hotel began as an o ce building for the Cone Brothers in the 1900s. One of their accountants, Philip was found dead in an alley one morning. Some say he committed sucide, others feel he may have been strangled with piano wire and pushed out the window. Either way he is believed to have stuck around the hotel, haunting female guests, standing in the window, shu ing papers and making loud footsteps on the hotel’s carpeted halls.

Haunts in the Triad

Philip is not the only long-term guest at the hotel. There are reports of Lydia, a young call girl killed by one of her clients, still hanging around. It was reported that she was thrown over the balcony and landed at the end of the stairs. Legend has it that if you say in her previous room, room 223, to bring something pink. Guests have reported lights and television coming on by themselves and running water in the bathroom, the smell of perfume and purses being tipped over. Reports of anything pink of the guests is separated. The hotel has since painted the room, pink.

Blandwood Mansion

The former Governor’s home on West Washington Street, now serving as Preservation Greensboro’s main o ce, is presumed to be haunted. There have been reports of footsteps in the halls, missing items such as pens and paper clips that disappear. It is also believed that there is an endless game of hide and seek, often attributed to Letitia, the eldest daughter of John and Ann Eliza Morehead and Lady of the House during the Civil War.

Carolina Theatre

In 1981 a fire broke out in the Theatre while it was closed and killed a woman. As the woman was not supposed to have been there at the time, it is believed she

deliberately set the fire that killed her. People now claim that her ghost continues to haunt the building and expresses itself by moving the seats up and down. There have also been reports of cold spots in the building.

Center Pointe Greensboro News and Record writer Jim Schlosser, who wrote about Greensboro’s last execution on Halloween in 2005. According to Schlosser, a series of executions were held inside the Guilford County jail, beginning in the 1890s. Schlosser’s research found that Guilford’s last jailhouse execution in 1907 was that of a black man, Frank Bohannon. Hangings were public spectacles in those days, and incited morbid curiosity as hundreds of onlookers who would gather outside the jail to be close to the execution. After 1907, executions were held in Raleigh in Central Prison. The county jail was located on the land adjacent to the old City Hall — on the northwest corner of North Elm Street and West Friendly Avenue, at the present location of Center Pointe condos project.

Dana Auditorium at Guilford College

This auditorium on the campus of Guilford College was built in 1961. The spot where it stands can be traced back to

the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War. During the war, the area was used as a field hospital and many say that a fallen soldier haunts the space. There have also been reports of a little girl being spotted in the Choir Room, as well as a man in a brown suit in the halls.

HIGH POINT

High Point City Hall

It has been said that you can experience some paranormal activity at High Point’s City Hall, located at 211 S. Hamilton St. It’s believed that a tall shadowy man in a top hat is said to stalk the corridors when the building is closed for business. There have been several reports by night shift workers that they’ve seen a tall, shadowy man in the secured building. There are also legends of a gray, blurry figure or blob like spirit outside the building on the E. Commerce Street side entrance. It seems to come from a corner section of the building and floats across the parking lot. This has been captured on City Hall’s video camera footage.

JAMESTOWN

Lydia’s Bridge

This bridge outside of Greensboro is said to be haunted by a phantom hitchhiker. Lydia was headed home from a

Carolina Theatre

PHOTO

Dana Auditorium

High Point City Hall

dance in the early 1920s, and as her story goes, her date lost control of the car. He was killed instantly, but she, badly injured, died on the roadside while trying to flag down help. Now a ghostly hitchhiker, she is usually seen wearing white and then disappears before she gets to her destination. She is also known as the Phantom Hitchhiker, the Vanishing Lady, and the Lady in White. The bridge is no longer used.

KERNERSVILLE

Körner’s Folly

Körner’s Folly was built in the 1800s in Kernersville. The mansion has been reported as haunted by its former owner. The Winston-Salem paranormal society conducted an investigation, complete with electro-magnectic field detectors and audio equipment, on the historic home in 2009. The investigation revealed several disembodied voices and some mysterious specks of light.

WINSTON-SALEM

Brookstown Inn

The historic Inn is located in an 1837 cotton mill. At the time, women working the mill lived in a dormitory. One happened to take a fatal fall in the grain elevator shaft. It is believed that she still walks the halls looking for the roommate who pushed her. Guests staying in the hotel report hearing children laughing and running through the hallways, a female voice calling out the guests name or patting on the foot of their beds. There have been reports of orbs and activity on several floors of the Inn in the past three decades.

Salem College

Salem College began in 1772 as a primary school, then a high school and

now a college. It is the oldest women’s college in the Southern U.S., and it has the abundance of haunts fitting to such an old institution. For example, the Clewell Dorm is haunted by a little girl who fell down an elevator shaft (now boarded up), and in the Gramley Library, the spirits of two girls electrocuted in 1907 manifest as apparitions and screams on the third floor. Gramley Dorm has a spirit of a girl who hanged herself in the attic; she makes dragging sounds in the attic as if moving furniture. The Fine Arts Center has a pianist ghost who walks down the halls and plays the pianos and organs, and the ghost of a man who died in Theatre #2 is said to haunt that building. At Babcock Dormitory, the lobby portrait of Mary Reynolds Babcock, daughter of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds, is said to have eyes that follow you. !

High Point University invites the community to

an exciting

VETERANS DAY

November 11 8:00 am

Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Center

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S

CINDERELLA

November 17 - 19

pm November 20

CHRISTMAS

PRAYER BREAKFAST

December 9 8:00 am

Nido

Mariana

Arena and Center

CHRISTMAS DRIVE

December 19 - January

OTHER EVENTS INCLUDE:

OCTOBER

October 19

Gallery ReceptionTheory/Practice: The 2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition

October 20 - 26

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe - Theatrical Performance

NOVEMBER

November 5

American Portraits - Wind Ensemble Concert

November 7 Gallery Reception and Artist Talk - Christi Harris

November 8 Instrumental Chamber Ensemble Concert

November 15

Jazz Ensemble Concert

November 28

Awakening - HPU Community Orchestra Concert

Körner’s Folly

Lam Museum of Anthropology Celebrates Day of the Dead’s Diversity

For roughly the past 20 years, Wake Forest University’s Timothy S.Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology has continuously displayed a variety of Day of the Dead exhibits. Initially small in size and the amount of time this would be on display, the exhibit’s size has grown throughout the years depending on the museum’s gallery space available. This year, the museum brings back the exhibit in the largest form ever displayed, along with an upcoming open house unlike any in the past.

Dalia Razo Contributor

T he museum’s assistant director Sara Cromwell has guided the cura-

tion of the exhibit since it was turned over to her several years ago. Many of the pieces on display had been brought back from various visits to Mexico by the former curator who, having spent time in San Miguel de Allende, was able to share with Cromwell the experience of the celebration in Mexico. Fascinated with the topic, Cromwell was excited to update what has now become a traditional exhibit.

Reflecting on past exhibits, Cromwell looks to highlight the existing diversity in the celebration. “Day of the Dead is vastly different in different places and that’s actually something the current exhibit splits into urban areas versus rural areas,” said the assistant director. “This is not a universal thing and I’m trying to emphasize diversity even in our focus on a very specific cultural practice.”

Throughout Mexico, ofrendas look different depending on the region and

some places do not celebrate Day of the Dead at all.

A new addition to the current exhibit is the display of student artwork from the Northwest Middle School Art Club. Museum Educator Tina Smith reached out to WinstonSalem/Forsyth County Schools to inquire about collaborating with a teacher. The school district recommended Northwest Middle School art teacher Natasha Young and both Smith and Young worked together with the school’s art club to expose them to the celebration’s background and guide them through the creation of original artwork.

“ I wanted to express to my students how much of a big deal this was because there’s several working artists who never really get their work displayed in a space where the public can see it,” Young said of the opportunity for her art club to collaborate

with the museum. “Now they can add to their resumes as they go further in their educational careers that they had a piece of artwork up in the Lam Museum of Anthropology over on the Wake Forest University campus.”

T hrough their collaboration, Smith and Young led a brainstorming session in which Smith shared artifacts from the museum with students to expose them to different ideas they could work from and introduce those unfamiliar with the celebration to the overall topic. “I have a diverse group of students so it’s not a part of everyone’s culture,” said Young. “However, we talked about how even though it’s not necessarily a part of your culture, you can still pay homage to those who have gone before you.”

T he museum is well known for its collaboration with the community but until now had never showcased student artwork from beyond the

campus as part of this exhibit. The student pieces currently on display include a variety of memory boxes, masks, collages, and even a fusion of any of those three, which were the options provided to the art club for this collaboration. “Projects like this give my kids an opportunity to really experience things outside of the classroom,” said Young. “And that’s what I want them to have, a full, rich experience.”

While the exhibit changes year after year, the availability of such a large space this time around was perfect for displaying such a complete collection of pieces including those from Northwest Middle School’s Art Club. Not all of the current museum selections always make it to the gallery, but aside from a few Day of the Dead pieces the Lam Museum has loaned to Disney World’s Coco Exhibit at EPCOT, everything is out on display this year.

Parts of the exhibit that don’t always make it out include “Commercialization of Day of the Dead.” This selection brings forth the issue of cultural appropriation as well as the acknowledgment of Mexican culture in the United States. “I think it’s a really important part of the conversa-

tion,” said Cromwell. “When you buy Dead of the Dead items it’s usually mixed up with the Halloween items.” A common misconception, Day of the Dead and Halloween are separate celebrations unrelated to each other.

This year, though, Cromwell noticed a change that may be leading our American society in the right direction. Target, one of many large department store chains, is displaying its Day of the Dead items in a separate section from the Halloween items. Additionally, they have included a background explanation of the celebration itself along with information on Flavia Zorrilla Drago, the Mexican artist whom the store collaborated with to develop this year’s collection.

With a great love for this particular exhibit, Cromwell is continuously working on updating and innovating for the ongoing future of Life After Death: The Day of the Dead in Mexico .

“Part of what I’m trying to do for next year is a video,” she said. “I’m trying to recruit people who celebrate Day of the Dead, both on campus and in the larger community, to give us some input on how they celebrate and what it means to them.” Anyone interested in participating in a short video inter-

view for this purpose is encouraged to reach out to the museum.

This upcoming Saturday, October 29, the museum will host its Day of the Dead Open House from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A free event open to all ages, the museum will have craft activities, live performances by Raleigh-based Mariachi Los Galleros, a selection of Spanish language books from the Forsyth County Library Book Mobile, face painting by a current WFU art stu-

dent, and food available for purchase through the Que Viva! Latin Street Grill food truck.

The Timothy S.Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology is located in Palmer Hall on Wake Forest University’s Reynolda Campus. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. !

DALIA RAZO is a bilingual journalist, fi ne arts educator, and doctoral student at UNCG.

Southern Fried Drag Queen Extravaganza comes to Winston-Salem on November 4

WINSTON-SALEM, NC (OCTOBER 19, 2022) — Cardboard Castle Productions presents Drag Me to the Opry: A Southern Fried Drag Queen Extravaganza on Friday, November 4 at 9 p.m. at Reynolds Place Theatre. This Triad-area premiere o ers a fresh take on the drag show experience, featuring celebrity impersonations, live singing, dancing, and a comedic send-up of country classics — all with a charitable twist.

Cardboard Castle Productions, based in Hickory, NC, produces drag shows, brunches, and theatrical events with a charitable focus. The production company is the brainchild of Triad-born and raised David Zealy-Wright and his husband, Derek Zealy-Wright.

“Cardboard Castle is the only organization of its kind in the southeast,” said David Zealy-Wright, director of Cardboard Castle Productions. “We combine highquality drag performance and charity with theatrical sensibility. Our goal is to

bring together people of all backgrounds and beliefs through excellence in queer artistry.”

Drag Me to the Opry features some of North Carolina’s most noteworthy drag performers and impersonators, including Kristin Collins, Cierra Nicole, Bu Faye, DeVida, and Quindynn Tarantino. Comedic YouTube personality Geraldine Gingersnap emcees. A portion of all proceeds will benefit FemFest NC, a WinstonSalem-based nonprofit organization that advocates against domestic violence and sexual assault while raising funds for Winston-Salem’s emergency domestic violence shelter. !

WANNA go?

Drag Me to the Opry: A Southern Fried Drag Queen Extravaganza will be held on Friday, November 4 at 9 p.m. at Reynolds Place Theatre, 251 N Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. There will be a VIP meet and greet at 7:30 p.m. VIP seating plus meet and greet is $45. Regular seating is $35 (plus taxes and fees). For tickets, visit intothearts.

BY CARRIE LEIGH DICKEY

It is seven in the morning on a Saturday, and my alarm is going o . I pop out of bed. My husband is surprised as I am not much of a morning person. I would rather snuggle in under the covers and take a slow start to the day. But today is a different sort of day — an event day. Event days are when Artfolios collaborates with business owners to bring art into the community.

My husband and I leave the house with our car packed to the roof to set up for “Artful Living on Fourth: an art sell at the historic Nissen.” We unload easels and tables galore and wonder how it all fit! After resting at home for an hour, it is back to the Nissen to enthusiastically welcome our 16 amazing artists as they prepare for today. Soon, artworks of various styles and media brighten the hall with color. At two in the afternoon the doors open, and guests start to arrive.

The space is vibrant. I walk past one group of collectors admiring the precision of Dean Roland Johnson’s realistic floral and water lily paintings. I savor the sounds of classical guitar played by Samuel Taylor while sipping a drink. I eaves drop on a conversation between two artists who had never met before but find out they are connected in so many delightful ways. I watch as artist and educator, Melrose Tapscott Buchanan, thoughtfully shares the story and technique behind her work. I enjoy seeing children learning how to appreciate art alongside their parents. I share joyous tears with artists as forever homes are found for their artworks.

Why do I eagerly bound out of bed on event days? Art has the power to connect.

Our next event is coming up soon! Artfolios will take part in the 2022 Holiday Ardmore Artwalk on Saturday, November 5 from 10:00am-4:00pm. I and four other artists — Barbara Lister-Sink, Dean Roland Johnson, Laurie Basham, and Virginia Shepley — will be participating. Each of us will be present to discuss our work. Stop by for a short time or stay for a while. Our “Art Stop” location is 504 Miller Street in Winston-Salem.

If you or your business would like to collaborate to bring art into the community in 2023, reach out me at carrie@artfolios. shop.

ARTFOLIOS TAKES a personalized approach to art collecting. We celebrate, showcase, and promote WinstonSalem area artists. We curate an online art gallery o ering a hand selected collection of fine art originals; collaborate with the community; consult individual and corporate patrons; and assist with a needed commission. We are here to help you find the perfect art match! Find out more by visiting www.artfolios.shop.

ARTS COUNCIL is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Our goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness and providing support to grow and sustain artistic, cultural and creative o erings throughout our region We acknowledge that it takes every voice, every talent, and every story to make our community a great place to live, work, and play. Arts Council is committed to serving as a facilitator, organizer, and promoter of conversations that are authentic, inclusive, and forward-thinking. There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in WinstonSalem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www.cityofthearts.com.

returns to slay audiences with

If Halloween doesn’t slake your thirst for all things macabre, the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has a sizzling shocker on tap: Stephen Sondheim’s blockbuster, Tony Award-winning musical extravaganza Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which opens November 10th under the direction of UNCSA School of Drama alumnus Lo Feliciani Ojeda (BFA ’20).

Sweeney Todd will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 10th-12th and Nov. 17th19th, and 2 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Freedman Theatre in Performance Place, located on the UNCSA campus, 1533 S. Main St.,

Winston-Salem. Tickets are $25 (general admission) and $20 (students with valid ID) and are available by calling (336) 721-1945 or visiting https://www.uncsa. edu/performances/events/20221110sweeney-todd.aspx.

Based on Christopher Bond’s 1973 play, Stephen Sondheim conceived the 1979 Broadway musical Sweeney Todd, a wild and wicked bacchanal of black comedy detailing the diabolical doings of the title character and his adoring partner in crime, the twisted Mrs. Lovett. The two have (literally) cooked up a savage scheme to relieve unwary “customers” of their worries — and their lives. Featuring music and lyrics by Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney Todd essentially swept the Tony Awards that year, winning eight in all, including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Harold Prince), Best Actor in a Musical (Len Cariou), and Best Actress in a Musical (Angela Lansbury).

The play — and the character — have

Sweeney Todd

been resurrected and revived numerous times since, including in Tim Burton’s award-winning 2007 big-screen musical, starring Johnny Depp (who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor) and Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Tim Burton.

The legendary Sondheim died last November at age 91, and Lansbury died earlier this month at age 96. “I am directing Sweeney Todd to honor Sondheim,” Ojeda said. “I think in music, so music is my way into the world of the play, and Sondheim is musical theater Shakespeare.”

This production, featuring musical direction by Dionne McClain-Freeney, stars Kobe McKelvey as the razor-wielding “demon barber” and Carolina Fairly as the ferociously faithful Mrs. Lovett.

“It is really exciting to be back at UNCSA and working with the current generation of students, while also getting to work with the current fourth-year students, who were freshmen when I was a student,” Ojeda said. “To see them now ready to take on the creative world is amazing and humbling. This cast, crew, and creative team are absolutely amazing, and they have been working their butts o to make this show incredible, and I can’t wait to see their work shine on stage!”

Ojeda was neither intimidated by the size and scope of the production, nor of working alongside his former UNCSA mentors and teachers. “Sweeney Todd is a big show,” Ojeda admits. “(School of Drama) dean Scott Zigler made the selection to stage it at UNCSA for the first time, which is quite exciting! It is actually really exciting because they are now my colleagues and we can really create and collaborate together, and speaking the same language of theater, we can communicate both with the students and each other to make the show. I see it as a gift to work with people I trust and know, and who trust me as well.”

In addition to its horrific and darkly humorous ambiance, Ojeda believes that Sweeney Todd is also rife with subtext that explores obsession, social inequality, and even passion.

“For me, it’s not darkness, it’s deepness,” he observed. “This is a play about obsession, and the lengths we take to get what we want. Everyone gets their revenge, some way or another, in this play. It also demonstrates how systems

of class and oppression can and do have dangerous e ects on contemporary society if they are not addressed. The show admits a lot of things that we are kind of terrified to admit to ourselves about how we are in the world and how we see each other as human beings. The complexities of human emotion boil down to simple concepts about death and vengeance and murder. It is also a bloody good thriller!”

Working on the production, Ojeda said, has been intense, eye-opening, and enjoyable. “The students are discovering things that I hadn’t thought of in my wildest dreams. When you’re directing you have an idea in your head, but it always turns out to be the actors who have the best ideas.

“The hardest thing is making sure we don’t stay in that world of Sweeney Todd when we are in rehearsal,” he said with a laugh. “These characters are very intense. But if you make it fun and exciting, and there’s laughter and music in the room, then the actors can flow through the layers of emotion for their characters. And the show is really, really funny. You kind of need light laughter and love to fully comprehend the grandeur and tragedy of the world.” !

See MARK BURGER ’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2022, Mark Burger.

Mark Burger

Contributor

Lo Feliciani Ojeda

Beasley and Budd to Appear on Triad Today

Former Speaker of the House

Tip O’Neil used to say, “ All politics is local,” which, in a broad sense, refers to the fact that every decision made in Washington affects every community, and that decisions made locally can affect what goes on nationally. In just under two weeks, that philosophy will be put to the test when voters in North Carolina decide to send either Democrat Cheri Beasley or Republican Ted Budd to the United States Senate, and, by so doing, determine the balance of power in our federal government.

Ms. Beasley is a former Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, and Mr. Budd is a three-term Congressman from the 13th district. One is liberal and the other is conservative, and both are locked in a neck-and-neck battle that political pollsters say is too close to call. This weekend, Budd and Beasley will appear on an episode of “Triad Today.” My interviews with them were pre-taped and what follows are highlights of those conversations.

INFLATION

JL: Forty million Americans are living in poverty and 12 million children go hungry every day. What are your solutions for bringing down the rate of inflation?

CB: I’ve been all over the State, 100 counties, and the prevailing issue is rising costs. People are feeling it on everything from pain at the pump to prescription drugs, and everything else in between. We’re trying to get through the supply chain issue, but I also know that there are corporations that are price gouging at a time when they are making record profits, and that’s just not right for North Carolinians.

JL: So, if you get elected, you’ll want to go after those corporations, right?

CB: Well yes, there should be a penalty for them. It’s also important for us to focus on our Made in America economy so that we’re making more of our goods in the State.

TB: Inflation is a 40-year problem. We

haven’t had inflation this bad since the Carter administration, leaking into the Reagan administration. We know how to fix this. The problem is the ideology of the Left, the ideology of Cheri Beasley, the ideology of Joe Biden won’t allow us to fix it.

JL: What do you mean fix it?

TB: We’ve got to have more energy. That’s what’s driving this. I’m talking about fertilizer producers to produce our food. Diesel producers that need to put fuel in the trucks to get it to the grocery stores. Everything the Left wants to do makes it harder on those folks, which is driving up prices right now. Encouraging people not to come back to work, I mean that’s what they did for a while, and that’s a lot of what’s causing the worker shortage right now.

JL: And, gasoline prices are about to go back up because of what Saudi Arabia and OPEC did.

TB: Right, and so are heating fuel prices just on the edge of winter here in just a few months.

SAFE SCHOOLS

JL: Twenty-seven children have been shot at school just since January. What’s your solution for making our schools safe from gun violence?

TB: This is heartbreaking, and as a parent, we all want our kids to come home safely. You have to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals, and you can do that without infring-

ing upon second amendment rights. We need to enforce the laws that are on the books, many of which aren’t being enforced, and we need to deal with mental illness, which is an increasing problem.

CB: We need universal background checks, we need red flag laws, and there is absolutely no reason to have weapons of war on our streets, and guns should not be in the hands of people who can’t use them responsibly, and who use them dangerously.

SOCIAL MEDIA

JL: As you know, Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company, so one Congressman wants to ban all Tik Tok apps on military bases as a matter of national security. Meanwhile, parents are concerned about the dangerous information being posted on all social media platforms.

Would you like to see social media companies be regulated in the same way as broadcasters?

TB: How social media is being used is very concerning. We have to be very careful and make sure we look at this through the lens of national security, but at the same time protect our first amendment rights.

CB: There’s no doubt that young people stay on social media, and we have to be thoughtful about the kinds of things our young people are taking in. And I do think there have to be more regulations. We have to balance the protections offered by the first amendment

with making sure we keep people safe.

Interviews with Cheri Beasley and Ted Budd can be seen in their entirety on “Triad Today” this Saturday at 7:30 a.m. on abc45, and Sunday at 11 a.m. on MY48. For more information about the candidates and their positions, visit www.tedbudd.com and www.cheribeasley.com. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

Jim Longworth

Longworth at Large

Ted Budd

Cheri Beasley

One thing’s for sure: Tom

Cruise’s insistence that Top Gun: Maverick be released to theaters only after the pandemic began to recede was a very wise business decision. Audiences were starved for big-screen multiplex thrills, and it has racked up astronomical box-office grosses, far outdistancing its predecessor — the biggest box-office hit of 1986 — in financial terms. Yet, even after 35 years, the film never strays very far from the elements that made the original Top Gun such a success.

In addition to flashbacks and photographs from the earlier film, the familiar

refrain of Harold Faltermeyer’s original score, and director Joseph Kosinski’s assiduous replication of original director Tony Scott’s flashy technique, the overall story is the sort of basic flag-waving, jingoistic melodramatic throwback to the World War II films of the 1940s. Top Gun: Maverick is undoubtedly a technical marvel, but the story holds few surprises. (One surprise is that Berlin’s Oscar-winning song “Take My Breath Away” isn’t heard here — and that’s rather a pleasant surprise, given how inescapable it remains on the radio.)

The remarkably well-preserved Cruise, doubling as producer here, brings his trademark cocky swagger to the role that initially made him a superstar, and it’s accurate to say that Cruise has retained that status ever since. Now a captain, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is still bending the rules and butting heads with Navy brass, personified by Jon Hamm and (all-too-briefly) Ed Harris, who admonishes him: “Your kind is headed for extinction.”

Maverick’s unauthorized antics land Maverick back at Fighter Weapons School, where he is given the opportunity — or ordered, if you prefer — to train the next generation of fighter pilots for a top-secret mission, the details of which are hardly important. Basically, it’s a reprise of the Rebels’ assault on the Death Star in the original Star Wars (1977) — and absolutely no points for guessing how it all turns out.

There are, of course, the expected complications: One of the pilots, Rooster (Miles Teller), is the son of Maverick’s old wingman “Goose” (Anthony Edwards), and he still harbors a grudge over his father’s death, and Maverick’s subsequent attempts to prevent him from becoming a flier. The other is Maverick’s on-and-off romance with old flame Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly), who realizes that his high-flying days are rapidly drawing to a close, even if he doesn’t. How these situations are dealt with is hardly a surprise, either Although there is a female pilot assigned to the mission — Monica Barbaro’s “Phoenix” — Top Gun: Maverick is saturated with testosterone-fueled machismo. Instead of the first film’s volleyball game, there there’s a football game in which the pilots (literally) flex their muscles. Much like the first film, this fares best when it’s in the air. On the ground, it’s fairly standard soap opera.

The only holdover from the original film, aside from Cruise, is Val Kilmer, who reprises his role as Maverick’s old Top Gun nemesis, “Iceman” Kazansky, now an admiral and the man in charge of Fighter Weapons School. Kilmer’s health difficulties have been incorporated into the character, who is suffering from terminal cancer but still wants to give Maverick a last shot at glory.

Cruise and Kilmer share a few nice scenes together, and there’s enjoyable supporting work from Lewis Pullman (son of actor Bill Pullman) as “Bob,” the prototypical geeky misfit who proves his mettle under fire, and particularly Glen Powell as “Hangman,” who is clearly an heir apparent to Maverick and plays his role to the hilt, even giving Cruise a run for his money. If there’s another Top Gun on the horizon, Powell makes fair his bid to take command. !

See MARK BURGER ’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2020, Mark Burger.

Mark Burger

Contributor

BURIED ALIVE (Vinegar Syndrome): A limited-edition Blu-ray ($34.98 retail) of director Gerard Kikoine’s final feature to date, a contemporary version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story set in an exclusive girls’ school where the students tend to disappear on a regular basis. Produced by the indomitable Harry Alan Towers, this was filmed in 1988 in South Africa (!), with slumming veterans Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence (sporting an outrageous hairpiece), and John Carradine joined by Playboy Playmate Karen Witter (who later married TV producer Chuck Lorre), Nia Long (in her feature debut), Arnold Vosloo, and porn princess Ginger Lynn Allen, who keeps her clothes on but proves an excellent screamer (and gives a decent performance). This tacky horror outing, which bypassed theatrical release, sees Poe’s name misspelled “Edgar Allen Poe” in the credits, and Carradine (in his final feature) relegated to a blurry cameo at the climax, although his picture is prominently displayed throughout. Good for a few laughs. Bonus features include retrospective interviews. Rated R.

CAT PEOPLE (Scream Factory/ Shout! Factory): A “collector’s-edition” 4K Ultra HD combo ($36.98 retail) of director Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the 1942 horror classic, focusing on the alluring Nastassja Kinski, as a virgin who fears that sexual contact will (literally) bring out the beast in her, with Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O’Toole, Ruby Dee, Scott Paulin, Frankie Faison, John Larroquette, Lynn Lowry, and Ed Begley Jr. in support. Stylish and erotic, but emphasizing the sexual angle tends to throw the narrative off-balance, as do Schrader’s unnecessarily pretentious attempts to “class up” the genre. A quintessential interesting failure that is definitely not for all tastes or the squeamish, although it does boast a fervent following. Bonus features include audio commentary, retrospective featurettes and interviews, photo galleries, theatrical trailer, and more. Rated R.

GOLDENGIRL (Scorpion Releasing/Kino Lorber): In her 1979 feature debut, Susan Anton (who also sings the theme song) portrays an Olympic hopeful who has been specially trained by her scientist father (Curt Jurgens), a neo-Nazi whose genetic experiments are responsible for her athletic abilities — but which may have dire consequences. Under the direction of

BY MARK BURGER

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK: THE COUNT YORGA COLLECTION

Robert Quarry became an instant genre icon as the title character in 1970’s Count Yorga, Vampire (rated PG-13), a low-budget chiller from American International Pictures that became a sleeper hit and a cult classic. Setting the film in modern-day Los Angeles was both inspired and the likely result of said budget, yet writer/ director Bob Kelljan milks the irony for all it’s worth, delivering genuine scares along the way. Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready (making his feature debut as producer/actor), Donna Anders (in her feature debut), Judith Lang (in her final feature to date), and Edward Walsh (as Yorga’s brutish henchman, aptly named Brudah) are good in support, but it’s Quarry’s witty but undeniably menacing turn as Yorga that remains indelible.

With no explanation — except box-o ce receipts, of course — Quarry was back in 1971’s The Return of Count Yorga (rated R), where he sets his sights — and fangs — on leading lady Mariette Hartley, whom he abducts after a vivid sequence (inspired by the Manson Murders) in which her family is massacred by vampires. Walsh encores as Brudah (no explanation there, either), as does the reliable Perry in a different heroic role, with screenwriter Yvonne Wilder (director/screenwriter Kelljan’s real-life wife), Walter Brooke, Rudy De Luca, Michael Pataki, and Craig T. Nelson (in his feature debut), Tom Toner, and producer Michael’s real-life father George Macready (in his final feature) rounding out a solid, if rapidly diminishing, cast. If anything, the sequel is even more cold-blooded and downbeat than its predecessor, and many consider it the superior film,

The limited-edition two-disc Blu-ray collection ($89.95 retail) includes audio commentaries, retrospective featurettes and interviews, collectible book, posters and lobby cards, theatrical trailers and TV spots, and more. Both films:

I’M DANGEROUS TONIGHT (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Originally broadcast on USA Network and based on a Cornell Woolrich story, director Tobe Hooper’s 1990 chiller stars Madchen Amick (better than the material) as a college student who turns wicked and wild when she dons a glamorous dress fashioned from a cursed Aztec cloak, with a star-studded cast including Dee Wallace, R. Lee Ermey, Corey Parker, Mary Frann, William Berger, Natalie Schaefer (in her final appearance), and Anthony Perkins, who’s a hoot as Amick’s oddball professor. Given Hooper’s post- Poltergeist and Cannon Films output, this isn’t bad but pretty slight. The special-edition Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentaries, retrospective featurettes and interviews, and more. Rated R.

MUTANT HUNT (Vinegar Syndrome): A limited-edition Blu-ray ($34.98 retail) of writer/director Tim Kincaid’s lowbudget 1987 sci-fi blowout, with Bill Peterson (in his final feature to date) as a mad scientist who develops a serum that turns cyborgs into super-human killing machines, which he believes is his ticket to worldwide domination. Bonus features include audio commentary, retrospective interviews, and more.

the normally reliable Joseph Sargent, this pseudo-science-fiction melodrama, based on Peter Lear’s best-selling novel, is rife with possibilities that it never adequately explores, thereby stranding a star-studded cast including James Coburn (as a high-powered sports agent and Anton’s potential romantic interest), Leslie Caron, Robert Culp, Harry Guardino, Michael Lerner, Nicolas Coster, Jessica Walter (who barely appears), and tennis star John Newcombe (in his only feature film). In addition to a big theatrical release (which flopped), the late, lamented Avco Embassy Pictures planned to broadcast this as a two-part NBC mini-series to coincide with the 1980 Olympic Games, but when the United States boycotted the Olympics, that too fell apart. The special-edition DVD ($19.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) include audio commentary, retrospective interviews, trailers, and more. Rated PG.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): J. Lee Thompson holds the dubious distinction of being the first Oscar-nominated director ( The Guns of Navarone ) to helm a slasher movie, this admittedly well-made but frequently confusing 1981 thriller starring Melissa Sue Anderson (a long way from Little House on the Prairie in her feature debut) as a prep-school student with a traumatic past whose present becomes equally traumatic when friends and classmates being dying off with alarming frequency.

Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker, Frances Hyland, Lesleh Donaldson, Jack Blum, Lenore Zann, and feature newcomers Tracy Bregman and Lisa Langlois offer competent support, while Hollywood veteran Glenn Ford lends some heft as Anderson’s psychiatrist, although reportedly difficult on the set. The special-edition Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentary, theatrical trailer, TV and radio spots, and more. Rated R.

NO ESCAPE (Unearthed Classics/ MVD Entertainment Group): Martin Campbell directed this 1994 adaptation of Richard Herley’s 1987 novel The Penal Colony (the film’s original title), starring Ray Liotta as a hard-bitten combat veteran imprisoned in a futuristic island penitentiary, where he proves his mettle and plots a full-scale rebellion. Well-made but long-winded, this has its fanbase and a sturdy cast including Lance Henriksen, Ernie Hudson, Kevin Dillon, Stuart Wilson, Kevin J. O’Connor, and Michael Lerner (as the warden) — but at best it’s a passable diversion. The special-edition Blu-ray ($34.95 retail) includes retrospective interviews, vintage featurettes, original theatrical trailer, photo gallery, TV spots, and more. Rated R. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2022. Mark Burger.

(Arrow Video/ MVD Entertainment Group)

WHAT BURN BAN?

Things got a little heated — which is to say 73 vehicles were utterly consumed by raging flames — at the annual fall festival at the Robinson Family Farm in Temple, Texas on Oct. 15, an event that features a pumpkin patch, hayrides, live music, kids’ games and more. The Bell County Fire Marshall’s O ce is seeking information about an attendee who, according to witnesses reporting on social media, flicked a cigarette butt in the grassy parking lot, which, combined with the gusty winds and dry conditions that had already prompted the county to issue a burn ban, most likely started the blaze. “I have to say that is the most exciting and expensive pumpkin patch we’ve been to,” one attendee posted on Facebook after the disaster claimed their family van. Unsportsmanlike

David Alan Taylor, 41, of Pensacola, Florida, did not follow the guidelines for safe tackling recommended by the various youth, college and professional football organizations when he charged onto the practice field on Sept. 20, donned a

helmet, got into a football stance and charged his target, burying his helmet in said target’s chest before grabbing him by the arms and pushing him to the ground.

But it wasn’t Taylor’s form that got him in trouble; it was the fact that his victim was 9 years old. The Pensacola News Journal reported that shortly before demonstrating his rusty football skills, Taylor had become enraged upon seeing his son being overpowered by the victim during a one-on-one tackling drill. The tackled youth was not seriously hurt, and Taylor was booked to the Escambia County jail on a first-degree felony count of aggravated child abuse and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.

AWESOME!

When your horse runs o with a herd of wild mustangs, let him go, because man, he’s gone. That was the reality Shane Adams of Fielding, Utah, had to accept when his 10-year-old horse, Mongo, joined a passing herd in the middle of the night during a camping trip eight years ago.

Adams reported his horse missing and searched the area regularly for years, to no avail. But Yahoo Insider reported that the Bureau of Land Management recently

contacted Adams with incredible news: Mongo had been found. The horse is seriously underweight due to the scarcity of food in the region where he and the herd were roaming, but Adams said Mongo is in good health and has not forgotten his training. Adams said his life had taken a downward turn in the years since Mongo disappeared; he and his wife divorced, and an auto accident in 2021 left him disabled. However, he now feels things are looking up: “My life is like down in the dumps, like the car accident. I lost my house, I lost everything. I got my horse back though.”

RARE VINTAGE

A pair of Levi’s jeans found in an abandoned mine in the American West sold for a staggering $87,400 at a New Mexico auction on Oct. 1, reported CNN. com. What was so special about the jeans? They dated back to the 1880s, and while it’s not uncommon for “denim archaeologists” to find jeans from that period of history, it’s incredibly rare to find them so well-preserved. “There’s a couple of soft spots on the jeans that could use a bit of reinforcement, but otherwise they’re super-duper solid jeans,” said Zip Stevenson, who runs a denim repair shop in Los Angeles and placed the winning bid with a partner. Though Stevenson would prefer the jeans were purchased and put on display in a museum, he said he would consider selling them to a private buyer. “I could easily imagine Johnny Depp or Jason Momoa wearing them,” Stevenson said.

SMELLY SITUATIONS

— An overturned semi on I-95 in Cumberland County, North Carolina, on Oct.

18 gave commuters more than the usual tra c accident inconvenience. That’s because when 22,000 pounds of catfish and 150 gallons of diesel fuel hits the road ... it stinks. State troopers told WBTW-13 that the semi driver was unhurt in the crash, which was caused by another driver pulling in front of him.

— The Fairfield Sun Times reported that Ollie the black Labrador was safe and sound, but very stinky, after spending a few hours in the sewer behind his owners’ home in Holbury, Hampshire, England on Oct. 18. The dog was missing when his owners returned to the house earlier in the day after a brief outing, and it was discovered that he had fallen through a manhole in the backyard into the sewer about three meters below. Neighbors were asked not to flush their toilets during the rescue operation.

PEOPLE WITH ISSUES

Rorie Susan Woods, 55, of Hadley, Massachusetts, is facing multiple assault and battery charges after she took extreme measures in an attempt to prevent what she and other protestors believed was a wrongful eviction being carried out by sheri ’s deputies in Longmeadow on Oct. 12. WWLP-22 reported that Woods drove an SUV hauling a trailer loaded with beehives to the residence of Alton King, the homeowner being served an eviction notice. While wearing a protective beekeeping suit, Woods shook the beehives, unleashing a swarm of angry bees on the o cers, three of whom were allergic to bee stings. Sheri Nick Cocchi said Ross’ actions could have gotten someone killed: “We had one sta member go to the hospital and luckily, he was all right or she would be facing manslaughter charges.”

BUT IS IT ART?

The city of Cheadle, Alberta, Canada, is the temporary home of a newly revealed shrine to snacking. A 17-foot-tall statue commissioned by Frito-Lay was unveiled in early October. The work memorializes the signature Cheetos experience: three fingers holding up one of the crunchy snacks, their tips covered in the powdery orange residue the brand has christened “Cheetle.” “We’re excited to be celebrating Cheetle and Canadians’ cheesy, Cheetledusted fingertips on such a grand scale and in such a uniquely mischievous way,” said Lisa Allie, senior marketing director at PepsiCo Foods Canada. CNN reports that the Cheetle Hand Statue will be on display in Cheadle until Nov. 4, when it embarks on a tour of Canada. !

Workshops for

Katei Cranford Contributor

All Hallows Eve 2022: Haunts, Freaks and Treats in the Triad

Calling all ghouls and goblins! Halloween is here and your hostess with the most-ess officially presents offerings and suggestions to pack your calendar full of Halloween plans.

FRIGHTS

For the hauntlovers, there’s a new nightmare attraction in our neck of the woods — Scream Dreams in Thomasville has joined the lineup to terrorize the Triad alongside the venerable Woods of Terror, Kersey Valley Spooky Woods, and Salem’s Lot. An entirely indoor attraction, Scream Dreams looks to serve the citizens of Chair City and beyond — with screams and squeals in more than 50 rooms and “hallways of horror” across the expanse of animatronic wonder in an abandoned furniture factory.

General Manager Gus McPherson has

spent more than 20 years in the prop and scene-making world of attractions and films. A sculptor by trade, he’s built traveling mini-golf courses, stunt shows, mazes, and more. And he’s brought that experience — fueled by a love and “lifelong passions for haunted houses,” he said.

While his favorite elements of Scream Dreams involve the “diversity of rooms and hallways,” McPherson has seen folks enjoy several different elements. “Most people love the clown room,” he said, dropping a few spoilers. “And the doors room, and all the Beetlejuice! Though some have claimed the monster butthole to be their favorite.”

Leaving the experience to the imagination, “you might find yourself dancing in our disco room,” he added.

Currently housed in the basement of the building itself — a compound known as “Castle Boo” — McPherson and the owner intend Scream Dreams to grow and morph with the years. “The owner designed Scream Dreams from the ground up, so as to be able to change the path each and every year to keep it fresh,” he explained. “We worked

together diligently for nearly 6 months on what rooms and themes we would offer.”

But Scream Dreams is hardly the final nightmare they have planned for Castle Boo — putting the compound to work as a full-service, year-round tourist destination. On the interior: a coffee bar, gift shop, escape rooms, and Illusion rooms geared toward grownups. “Think of a discovery place for adults,” McPherson noted. On the exterior, they envision food options like an Asian BBQ and Hotpot that can seat 40 folks, plus an LED light park for folks to wander all year.

As of now, they’re hosting food trucks on operating nights (Fridays and Saturdays through November 4). “We hope to make a huge impact in bringing several thousands of people a week to Thomasville and the Triad,” McPherson explained. “This being our first year, expect growing pains. But the best is yet to come.”

FILMS

For fans of frights from a distance — ala stage and screen — the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro is running “Hocus

Pocus” on October 26. In Winston, the folks from the RiverRun film festival are celebrating the 100th anniversary of “NOSFERATU” with a free screening (and visit from Count Orlok himself) at Marketplace Cinemas on October 28. From picture shows to stage shows, the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance invites all the unconventional conventionists to their 6th annual production of “The Rocky Horror Show,” running October 27-31.

A couple of blocks over, Camel City Playhouse resurrects “EVIL DEAD: The Musical” for a second year, October 2730 and November 4-6. A deadite dance and karaoke costume party follows the late showing on October 29.

Up in Elkin, ghouls rule the Reeves Theater on October 28, when Modern Robot gives new life to “Night of the Living Dead,” with an accompanying reimagined score (played live) from a duo of Ben Singer and Chuck Pinckney.

TREATS FOR EVERYONE

There’s trick-or-treat, trunk-or-treat, and treats of all shapes and sizes (for all ages) across the Triad.

In High Point, HYPE, the Rockers’ rocking horse mascot, is partnering with High Point LEAP (Literacy Empowers All People) for a book-or-treat, trickor-treat, and live book reading from children’s author Sterling B. Freeman, at the Truist Point stadium from 6 to 8 p.m. on October 27.

The Ragsdale Interclub is hosting a trunk-or-treat with games and facepainting in the Ragsdale High School Visitor’s Lot, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. on October 29. The High Point Elks’ trunk-or-treat runs that afternoon, from 2 to 4 p.m., at lodge #1155.

Stock + Grain Assembly gets spooky on Oct 30, with an all-day affair of trickor-treating throughout the stalls, plus a chili cook-off and costume contest featuring “High Point celebrity judges.” And on October 31, the Southside Recreation Center will host a Halloween Day Party, with music and snacks, 4-6 p.m.

In Winston-Salem, the Coffee Shed Halloween Market Party on October 29, starts the day at 8 a.m., with trick-ortreats, cider, and vendors from Root Down Nursery until 3 p.m. Over in West Salem, the ghouls behind the West Salem Art Hotel and Full Moon Festival are bringing the “Ghoul Moon Festival” to the block, 4-10 p.m., with crafts, games, movies, contests — plus a Jack O’Lantern contest along with individual costume contests for kids and adults. The festival also features musical demonstrations and performers including Reverie Drums, FlowerInBloom, Cakes Ov Light, Oiseau, Mother Marrow, and Emceein ’Eye.

Next door, the West Salem Public House joins the fun and will host a “Gathering in Remembrance of the Witches Burned in Old Salem,” to chat up new takes on old lore and Moravian mobs, starting at 6 p.m. As they say, ”come for the cake, stay for the witch burning.”

On October 30, trick-or-treating and tunes ring in a special Halloween Sunday Market, 2-6 p.m. at Liberty Plaza. The Reynolda House Museum will host an “Organ Spooktacular,” from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., with a performance of spooky songs straight from an original 1917 Aeolian Organ.

In Greensboro, the Parks and Recreation department will host “Halloween Hoopla” at the Brown Recreation Center, starting at 6 p.m. on October 27. Girls Gather Presents: Ghoul’s Night Out at Oden Brewing from 5 to 9 p.m., with a free Pure Barre GSO pop-up class from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by a market of women-owned businesses.

The next night, Royal Jelly hosts its Halloween Party at Oden Brewing on October 28, with a live show, pop-up

market of spooky arts and crafts, face painting, and a costume contest. On the campus of UNC-Greensboro WUAG 103.1fm and Carmichael Studios will present “Spook-a-palooza” in front of the library lawn. Student short films will be followed by a “Beetlejuice!” screening and live music from WOAH, Velvet Arrows, Melting Ice, and Wayside.

On October 29, Stonewall Sports Greensboro is doing a special Halloween edition of their Drag Story Time, starting at 11 a.m., at Scuppernong Books. Across downtown, Deep Roots is doing a pumpkin decorating contest that afternoon from 1 to 3 p.m. Trick-or-treating takes over Elm Street business from 1 to 4 p.m.; and Glenwood Together hosts a trunk-or-treat from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Down at Oden Brewing, “GRAWLoween” returns for an official “GRAWL Brawl XIV’’ bout of competitive arm wrestling. Starting at 7:30 p.m. and serving as a fundraiser for Youth Focus, the theme follows a “battle of mythic proportions” between fantasy and sci-fi creatures. Pumpkin carving takes over Doodad farms for their annual “Boodad” Halloween open mic and potluck. Out in nature, Lake Brandt will offer a full day of Halloween activities with a costume lake paddle, “Creepy Creatures” interactive learning demonstration, and spooky campfire stories (with s’mores).

Creatures take the spotlight during the pet-friendly costume contest at Boxcar’s family-friendly day party, from noon to 4 p.m., at Boxcar. An adults-only party goes down after 7 p.m., with its own costume contest and lineup of spooky performances.

Going back to the dogs, SPCA of the Triad, All Pets Considered, and Guilford County Animal Resources present Howlo-ween II, a “bark-or-treat” party, noon4 p.m. on October 30 at Country Park. From waggers to Shaggers, the Boogie Buddies Boo Bash goes down from noon to 5 p.m. at Steel Hands Brewing, with free Carolina Shag dance lessons, a classic car show, spooky line dances, and trick-or-treating for Shaggers of all ages.

And a Halloween Pop-Up Market offers creepy wares from 4 to 8 p.m. October 30 at Westerwood Tavern. On October 31, the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library will host a Halloween Monster Mash party from 4 to 5 p.m. and Windsor Recreation Center has a trunk-or-treat from 5 to 7 p.m.

FOR THE GROWNUPS

In Greensboro, Bull City Ciderworks will host a special costumed Halloween True Crime Trivia on October 27. Downtown, the Girlz Trap Too festival features a Y2K-themed costume day party at XO

Lounge. On October 28, the Greener Side Comedy Hour adds a costume contest and music to its comedic lineup at the Green Bean. And in Glenwood, FUNERAL CHIC, BloodRitual, RAWHEX, HEFT, and This Is Your GOD get heavy for a Halloween show at etc.gso.

Festivities continue at etc.gso on October 29 for the “Hallowed Out 2” festival with American Death Cult, Sunshine Moonlight, Windley, TCOOOA, Shotgun!, Just Jaded, and Cheap Speed. The New Strange performs for a costume Halloween party at State Street Wine; and Prez is on deck at the Bearde Goat Revolution Mill for their “Goats and Ghouls” costume party.

Downtown, Viva La Muerte plays SouthEnd Brewing’s Halloween party and the Historic Magnolia presents a Halloween cos-play edition of the “Rise Up!” music series, with Alvin Shavers and Tomie B AKA DJ Real playing a mix of afro, deep, soulful, tech and house. Over at the Artist.Bloc, Manifest All Dreams, and Luv Nation are bringing a “Nightmare on Meme Street” meme’dout costume party, with music from JOOSELORD, Chasyn Sparx, members of Steady Hyperactive, and more.

On October 30, Antion Scales hosts the “Scared Straight” Halloween party at the Flat Iron with Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Jet Rogers, and OG Spliff. And Sweet Dream rings in Halloween proper with a show at Wahoo’s Tavern on October 31.

In the High Point area, FireHouse TapRoom in Archdale gets haunted on October 28, with a costume contest fueled by music from Jukebox Rehab and The Ghosts of Liberty. On October 29, witches rule the Brewer’s Kettle High Point for their “Witches Brew 2” Halloween art show and costume party. And Ziggy’s.Space blasts its first Halloween Bash with the Mantras and Dr. Bacon. In Jamestown, the veteran Beer & Fear Bash returns to Castle McCulloch; and Radio Revolver plays a Halloween Bash at the Deck.

Ghosts” offer a haunting costume party and CoalPit Live cover show, with Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins,) Angry Chair (Alice in Chains), and Big Empty (Stone Temple Pilots.) And Fair Witness Fancy Drinks will suspend their “No Draculas” policy for a Halloween Prom (complete with a dancefloor, karaoke, and costume-contest coronation). Covers continue at Old Nick’s Pub Arcadia, for a costume contest and music from Spindle 45. Meanwhile, Mostercade celebrates the season with a free show featuring Vangelism, Book of Wyrms, and Hempire.

Offering both hair of the dog and hair to high heavens, Joymongers Barrell Hall will host the second annual “Haunted Mansion” Halloween Drag Brunch, 12-3 p.m. on October 30. Presented by Queer Winston, the event offers a multi-category costume contest and is open to all ages (with parental discretion).

Come Halloween proper, XcentriX will play a Halloween party at ROAR Food Hall. In Kernersville, the Halloween BOOgrass Jam spooks up the weekly Monday night bluegrass series.

HALLOWEEN AFTERLIFE

Looking for a wash to smash the season? Need to get rid of what’s left of your jack o’lanterns? “Don’t trash it, SMASH IT!” at the Lake Brandt Marina Pumpkin Smash, 10 a.m.-noon on November 5. Greensboro Parks and Recreation invites attendees to “launch, hammer, or slingshot your old pumpkins right into the ground,” to prepare them for composting in area community gardens.

Rotting pumpkins will help bring new life in the spring, but first, it’s time to rattle bones and howl at the moon. Happy Halloween Triad!

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who enjoys spotlighting artists and events.

a special costumed Halloween Silent Disco on October 28. Across downtown,

In Winston-Salem, the Ramkat hosts a special costumed Halloween Silent Disco on October 28. Across downtown, Palm Dreams, Lofield, Dull Mourning, and Cook anchor the bands for a Halloween party at Anchor Coffee.

On October 29, the 5th Annual Halloween Bar Crawl kicks off from Radar Brewing at 4 p.m., followed by a haunting ramble across bars leading to an 11 p.m. costume contest at Reboot Arcade Bar.

Down around Bailey Park, Incendiary Brewing’s “Coalpit

Ian McDowell

Contributor

Blandwood Mansion and the Gold Cure

Like any part of the United States with communities so old, the Triad’s folklore is heavily haunted. There is, for instance, Lydia, forever young, pale, and pretty as she stands on the dark road outside of Jamestown and thumbs a ride home.

When you pick her up, you don’t yet know she’s dead.

Most folks who tell that story don’t know that Lydia is just our local variant on a motif that folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand traced back to 1870s Europe in his 1981 book The Vanishing Hitchhiker, with versions in North American communities stretching from Quebec to San Francisco’s Chinatown and from Oaxaca to the Ozarks. Don’t tell Lydia this, but Chicago’s Resurrection Mary is the most famous.

For those not fond of trudging through weeds to an abandoned underpass, there’s a Triad-wide variety of haunted buildings closer to where most readers live.

There’s Winston-Salem’s Historic Brookstown Inn, located in an 1837 cotton mill. Women working in the mill lived in a dormitory there. Long after one’s body

was retrieved from the bottom of a grain elevator shaft, she’s said to walk the halls, looking for the roommate who pushed her.

High Point has not just its adjacent Lydia, but a reputedly haunted City Hall, where a tall shadowy man in a top hat is said to stalk the corridors.

In Greensboro, there’s the Biltmore Hotel, where ghost guides say a mob accountant thrown out a window and a call girl who threw herself down a stairway still have not checked out.

Midway between the Biltmore and my home in College Hill, there’s my favorite local haunted spot, although it’s not its alleged ghosts I find most interesting about the place.

I pass it every time I walk downtown to cover a city council meeting, and two good friends were married there (the guest who showed up in a t-shirt might be haunting the place now if he’d ignored the request of the groom, a hulking biker, to go home and change).

Blandwood Mansion and Gardens at 447 W. Washington Street was built in 1795 and enlarged in 1822. From 1841 to 1844, when it was enlarged again, it was the home of Governor John Motley Morehead. Designated as a historic landmark in 1988, it is believed to be the oldest example of the Italian Villa Style of architecture built in the United States.

Moorehead was an early and crucial

proponent of the railroads that, after the Civil War, turned Greensboro from a village into a commercial hub (and from the 1930s until the 1950s, an army town, which is why Elm Street once had so many brothels). He owned slaves, although not enough for his mansion to meet the definition of a slave plantation. He also argued that Freedmen should be recruited into the Confederate Army. That proposal was not well received in Richmond, both because the Virginia aristocracy that controlled the South despised North Carolinians, and its president Jefferson Davis

personally disliked Zebulon Vance, who became governor here during the civil war. Very few members of that plantation aristocracy, who oppressed North Carolina’s small farmers almost as brutally as their counterparts in 19th Russia did their kulaks, were willing to give guns to the Black people they treated even worse. Most of the ghostly folklore about Blandwood is not connected to its antebellum history, but the years following 1903, when the mansion became the home of the Keeley Institute.

Incorporated in 1891, the institute was

An advertisement for a Keeley Institute at Blandwood in Greensboro.

originally housed in the Central Hotel Building at Elm and Market Streets, with Col. W. H. Osborn of Greensboro as president and Benjamin and James Buchanan Duke among the other stockholders. Its mission was to rehabilitate alcoholics and drug addicts through a program developed by Leslie E. Keeley, who founded the original Keeley Institute in Illinois in 1879, and whose slogan was “alcohol is a disease and I can cure it.”

Over the next decades, the institute rapidly opened local branches and treated alcoholics, “opium inebriates” and “morphine fiends” throughout the United States and Europe. In these institutes, sta dosed patients with Keeley’s proprietary “gold cure,” a potion unavailable at any pharmacy that contained what Keeley called a “double chloride of gold.”

For more on Keeley’s “cure,” and for how the great 19th Century Journalist Nellie Bly exposed it, read “Nellie Bly takes the Gold Cure,” a 2018 article by Stephen Bitsoli on dirtysexyhistory.com, a website created and run by Triad-based historian, author, and Netflix consultant Jessica Cale. In that article, Bitsoli described Keeley’s “medicine” as “a witches’ brew of varying ingredients — gold salts, alcohol, morphine, cannabis, and other substances — in colored water.”

Bitsoli also wrote that “despite the toxic and/or addictive nature of many of these ingredients — and remember, morphine was then legal and even heroin was sold over the counter in the United States until 1924 — there were few if any claims of negative side e ects or new addic-

tions associated with the cure other than vomiting or dizziness.”

While Keeley created his institute to peddle a phony “cure,” Bitsoli noted that it actually had a high success rate, albeit not that of Keeley’s absurd claim that 95% of his patients were permanently cured. “The reason the Keeley Institute worked as well as it apparently did was that it wasn’t just a vehicle to sell snake oil — though it undoubtedly was that — but it o ered something else: dignity. The alcoholic was treated not as a lowlife, weak, or evil, but as someone with a disease.”

Bitsoli quotes William L. White, author of Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America: “The atmosphere was informal and friendly at the clinics, with a marked absence of the bars and restraints that were typical in most inebriate asylums of the period.” And unlike many of the 12-step programs developed in the 1930s, it was not faith-based and did not encourage cult-like behavior and group identification.

The Gold Cure was debunked many times including in an article by the great 19th Century journalist Nellie Bly, who in her 1924 obituary was described as “the best reporter in America.” Bly first became famous for her 1887 newspaper series and book Ten Days in a Mad House, for which she had herself committed to what was then described as a lunatic asylum. For her 1894 expose of the Gold Cure, she checked herself in the Keeley Institute in White Plains, New York as an “absinthe fiend.”

Despite the late 19th-century expose by a famous journalist and 20th-century denunciations by the American Medical Association, the institute survived until 1965, but the Greensboro location closed in 1961. It was saved from demolition in 1964, purchased by Methodist College’s Preservation Greensboro Inc. in 1966, and opened as a museum in 1976.

As a licensed center of the Keeley Institute, it had been a clinic treating alcoholism and addiction with an ine ective and dangerous cure for 58 years. In the prior century, it was only occupied by James Motley Moorehead for 39 years and his heirs for 34.

“There is so much history tied to Blandwood that may contribute to the Haunts,” wrote Dan Riedel, co-owner of Carolina

History and Haunts, in a Facebook message to YES! Weekly.

Riedel broke that history down into what he called three major events, the first being the Civil War.

“Late March into April of 1865 was a terrible time for central NC. Although Greensboro did not see a battle, we saw war. The battle of Bentonville would take place outside Raleigh. Injured and dying soldiers were put on trains and sent to safer areas along the tracks for help. Greensboro was one of those places. Three staging areas were set up for hospitals: what’s now the museum, the area around the old Courthouse at Elm and Market, and the property of Blandwood mansion. Many claim to see what looks like a face or sometimes a light from the tower window.

Some have captured orbs and strange feelings around the property they attribute to that time and some of the sta have also heard footsteps around the middle of the afternoon upstairs.”

After the war, the Moorehead family moved back in, but “a lot of them”, wrote Riedel, died of tuberculosis in the house. Then came the Keeley Institute and the Gold Cure, which Riedel described as being given to patients on the second floor of the main building every afternoon, and as consisting of “gold chloride, light poisons, and alcohol.”

According to Riedel, “something is said to linger within a house that claims to be the oldest standing on its original foundation in Greensboro. It definitely has a story to tell.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

Season of Halloween Soundtrack

.M.D is the solomoniker for Greensboro musician Jerrod Smith (The Leeves, Dickwolf, Instant Regrets) who writes and records an album, [mostly] inspired by horror movies, each October to be released on Halloween. He’ll release the 10th installment “Season of Halloween,” via bandcamp on October 31.

“Cool air, falling leaves, horror movies, and punk songs are my favorite things,” Smith said, grasping at his initial motivation. “Probably something ingrained in me. It’s just a great time of year and this has become a part of it.”

“I love horror movies and movies so it was only a matter of time before I stole the Misfits’ gimmick,” he continued, dropping reference to the punk band’s notorious “Halloween” and “Halloween II” releases.

Fast and punchy“Halloween 3” ponders the polarizing third-installment in the Halloween franchise: “ TELL ME WHERE IS MICHAEL MYERS ,” Smith screams in the irresistibly sing-a-long number. And while the song proclaims to not “get the point of Season of the Witch ,” it did open a gate to horror material — though he actually advises against gate-opening in the song “Don’t Open the Gate” (a reference to the 1980’s kid’s horror movie).

“I thought it would be funny to write ‘Halloween 3’ and then I ended up writing about five other songs about horror movies,” he said, turning to his personal favorite fright flicks — which toss between “The Thing” and the first “Friday the 13th,” both of which are featured in tracks like “Jerrod And Schmoodle Review Every ‘Friday the 13th’ in 1 minute and 6 seconds, “Friday The 13th In 3-D,” and “The Sweater Of Your Mother” and “That Thing At Outpost 31” (one of several songs referencing Kurt Russell pictures).

“If I was trying to be cool I’d say ‘The Last Winter’ or ‘Hausu’, which I do love,

Vbut not as much as ‘The Thing,’” Smith continued musing favorites. “Honestly, a lot of them don’t have a song yet and a lot of shitty movies have a good song about them.” He has put out “The Last Winter” and “Girls of House,” for the record.

“My favorite songs are the songs where the subject matter transcends just being a song about a movie,” he noted. “Which happens often because all horror movies are political. Even the ones that are just people with chainsaws cutting up naked women are political by their very nature of avoiding politics. People that say to keep politics out of horror can’t see how political every movie they love is.”

Feminism and consumerism run deep in killer tracks like “Alien: A Lesson In Sexist Space Society,” “Mary Lou Is Not Your Property,” or “Every Man Is A Creep.” Consumerism and class in

“(When There’s No More Room In Hell The Dead Will Walk) Back 2 The Mall,” “American Leprechaun,” “Koka-Kola Santa Claus,” “The Strain of the Stragoi,” or “Melt Into Society.”

“That’s just how it works,” Smith said. “The main point of all this goes back to that song about ‘The Abyss’: ‘ people hate it when art gets political / fuck you, everything is political .”

Going overt, there’s the “SkyNet Is Google” Terminator track or the stompalong protopunk tune and Zombie supersoldiers in “Overlord Turns Political.” The racism in “Monsters” or “White Cliches.” A sort of environmentalism in “Cannibal Holocaust: A Song,” ”a rant about saving the planet by eating yourself and your friends,” Smith wrote in the liner notes.

While politics seep into just about everything, there are also fun songs about stupid movies: “Hey, kid! Good job!!!” calls back the infamous “piss on hospitality” scene in “Troll 2” — with a handclap shimmy-down beat, no less. Or the circusy, “Enjoy Slusho!” (from “Cloverfield”) and the ridiculous “A 2nd Shark Always Shows Up!” reference to “The Meg.”

Spoilers abound through straightforward plot summaries and callbacks to both classics and cult favorites: the punk rock “Idle Hands,” “The Tall Man Always Wins” allusion to “Phantasm,” “I Love

Katei Cranford

Contributor

My Brother” to “Basket Case,” “Drinkin’ 40s of Blood” and “Lost Boys,” “Help Wanted” and “The Shining,” or the pretty obvious ”C.H.U.D.weiser.”

Though the catalog isn’t limited to horror relics of the VHS era. “Hereditary Incantations” started the 2019 album, which included the “IT’s Not A Clown” homage to IT:2. “It Follows Yr Fk” back in 2016, which also features the Stranger Things inspired earworm banger: “Save Some Eggos For 011.”

Which brings another element central to horror movies and recurrent through the catalog: sage advice characters could use. And songs that spell it out, like “Don’t Go (Into The Tall Grass),” or the closing line: “ never read the Necronomicon out loud, you fools,” from 2014’s ripper, “Angry Molesting Trees.”

And while there are a lot of “don’ts” in the world of horror, there’s also 2015’s breathy lo-fi anthem, “Always Stick Together,” that offers a general practice to surviving a slasher and a cute allusion to friends and loved ones who appear on various songs.

“My wife is almost always on it,” he noted. “I’m always around her and I love her voice.” The pair actually got married on Halloween in 2017, the album for that year breaking form for “My Bloody

Halloween Valentine,” a collection of warped love songs.

The 2020 and 2021 releases also broke form, 2021 kept it simple with two tracks: the lighter punk “It’s Almost Time For Halloween” and a gother post-punk “Everyday Is Halloween.” The 2020s “i dont wanna get the virus” was less a horror-movie record and more a cathartic quarantine experience exploring the “horrors of everyday life.” Fast sad songs for a weird time. “It was a weird time to be alive,” Smith said. “I guess it always has been.”

Getting back to the movies, cannon and backstories play out in tracks like “AC/DC Is Dead” (showcasing Stephen King’s cocaine-induced directorial pursuits and the band’s death-by-watermelon in “Maximum Overdrive”). There’s songs like “Pure Eviiiillll,” Kill for your Mother,” or “Say It 3 Times in the Dark,” that mash an array of movie references.

“Jokes and Jokes” and “Torture Porn vs. The Shining” offer personal critique.

The world of Dr. Herbert West — Reanimator gets a total ripper treatment from two very different tracks — both practically made for dancing: the strangely almost-doowapped “Miskatonic Medical Massacre” and the sludged-out punch of “The Resonator.”

“Fast Zombies / Slow Zombies” is another totally danceable number that serves more of a reflection in the event of a necropocalypse than a movie reference — for which the undead get their fair share in tracks like “Trioxin 2-4-5” or “Zombies of Busan.”

Getting worldly, there’s the “Goodbye Lucio!” dedication to famed director Lucio Fulci; and the straight-up bop-number, “Profondo Rosso,” which explores a killer’s identity in Dario Argento’s “Deep Red.” [Try to not sing along by the end — I dare you.]

Throughout the collection, some of the references are pretty on the nose. Some are for the “if you know, you know” deep-dive crowd. And some are just catchy as hell for fans of the alternative, punk, and rock n roll spectrums. In the end, they all make for a rad Halloween party soundtrack. It’s “the Season of Halloween” and the 10th V.M.D Halloween album comes out Oct 31 at http://vmdvsdmv.bandcamp.com. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who spotlights area artists and events.

shoP the block

Now’s a great time to enjoy downtown shopping. Visit downtownws.com for Shop the Block exclusive deals that’ll put a bounce in your step. And who knows, maybe even shoes on your feet.

ASHEBORO

CHARlOttE

nov

nov

nov

SPECtruM CEntEr

CARBORRO

orchestra

ClEmmOnS

CMCu aMPHitHEatrE

tHE FillMorE

VillagE SQuarE taP HouSE 6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 www.facebook.com/vstaphouse oct 27: Joey whitaker oct 28: Billy Creason Band oct 29: Jill goodson Band nov 3: James Vincent Carroll nov 4: Brother Pearl nov 5: Honky tonk outlaws nov 10: Corky Jams nov 11: Hampton Drive nov 17: Megan Doss nov 18: whiskey Mic

duRHAm

Carolina tHEatrE 309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com

Oct 27: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

Oct 28: Marcus Mumford w/ The A’s

Oct 29:

Oct 30:

Nov 10:

Nov 11:

Nov 12:

Nov 22-23:

Dec 7:

ELKIN

Van

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 www.facebook.com/corner.bar.37

Wednesday & Saturday: Karaoke

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 www.thecomedyzone.com

Oct 27: Randy Feltface

Nov 3: Pinky Patel

Nov 4-5: Chad Prather

Connick,

Nov 10: Tim Shropshire

Nov 11-12: Burpie

Nov 17: Kerwin Claiborne

Nov 18-19: Shelly Belly

Nov 25-26: Mario Tory

REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 www.reevestheater.com

Wednesdays:

Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time

Oct 28: ALIVE

Oct 29: The Reeves House Band

Led Zeppelin

Nov 11: Sideline

Nov 18: Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius with Paul Burch

Nov 25: Time Sawyer w/ Damon Atkins Trio

Dec 9: Donna the Buffalo

Dec 10: Drifters Revue

grEENsboro

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 www.arizonapetes.com

Oct 30: The Early November w/ I Can Make A Mess & Vinnie Caruana

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 www.barndinner.com

Oct 1 - Nov 19: Is There Life After 50?

Nov 26 - Dec 18: Black Nativity

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com

Oct 28: Homecoming Roots Reggae JAM - Vibin’ In Peace

Oct 30: Crowned Kings

Nov 3: Natalie Grant

Nov 4: Larry & Joe

Nov 4: On The Border

Nov 16: Nu-Blu

Nov 28: Motown Christmas

Dec 1: Frosty

CHAR BAR NO. 7

3724 Lawndale Dr. | 336.545.5555 www.charbar7.com

Oct 27: The Good Watts

Oct 27: Jim Mayberry

Oct 28: Jay Mathey

GARAGE TAVERN

5211 A West Market St | 336.763.2020 www.facebook.com/GarageTavernGreensboro

GREENSBORO

LITTLE

Dec 2-3:

COMMON

602

Nov

CONE

Nov

PIEDMONT

2411

Nov

Dec

RODY’S TAVERN

5105

Oct

Oct

SOUTH

117B

Tuesdays:

Oct

Oct

Oct

STEEL HANDS BREWING

1918

Oct

Oct

Oct

Nov

Nov

Nov

Nov

Nov

Nov

STEVEN TANGER

HIGH

Nov

Nov

Nov

THE

WINESTYLES

3326

Oct

Oct

336.307.2567 www.goofyfoottaproom.com

Oct

Nov

HIGH

PLANK

KERNERSVILLE

KERNERSVILLE

Main St.

336.816.7283 www.facebook.com/kernersvillebrewing

LEWISVILLE

OLD

Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 www.OldNicksPubNC.com

101

Nov

Nov

Nov

Dec

Dec

RALEIGH

919.821.4111

Dec

LINCOLN

www.lincolntheatre.com

Oct

Oct

Oct

Nov

REd Hat ampHitHEatER

500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800

www.redhatamphitheater.com

Oct 28: turnpike troubadours

pNC aRENa

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com

Nov 3: Reba mcEntire w/ terri Clark

Nov 13: adam Sandler

dec 1: Chris tomlin X mercyme

winston-salem

EaRl’S

121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018 www.earlsws.com

mondays: Open mic

thursdays: Will Jones

Oct 28: Carolina ambush

Oct 29: Jason leake Band

Nov 4: time Bandits

Nov 5: megan doss Band

Nov 9: Neil Young Classics- local Bands

FiddliN’ FiSH BREWiNg COmpaNY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 www.fiddlinfish.com tuesdays: trivia travelers

Nov 4: Hotwax & the Splinters

FOOtHillS BREWiNg

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 www.foothillsbrewing.com

Sundays: Sunday Jazz thursdays: trivia

Oct 26: Banjo Earth

Oct 28: drew Holgate

Oct 30: Carolina Shreds

Nov 2: Colin Cutler

Nov 4: Colin allured

Nov 5: Chasing daylight

Nov 6: Ryan Johnson

Nov 9: Colin Cutler

Nov 11: Josh Watson & Emily Stewart

Nov 13: Evan Blackerby

Nov 16: Carolina Clay

Nov 18: COia

Nov 20: Ears to the ground

Nov 23: Banjo Earth

Nov 25: Eddie Clayton

Nov 27: the Sun dried tomatoes

Nov 30: terra String

midWaY muSiC Hall

11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218 www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter mondays: line dancing

Oct 28: atlantic Coast Highway

Oct

Nov

Nov

Nov

Sidekix

muddY CREEK CaFE

muSiC Hall 137 West St | 336.201.5182 www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe

intentions

Nov

gaelic Storm dec

tHE RamKat 170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 www.theramkat.com

Oct

Oct

Klein

Foust w/ maia

Fifi

Week of

[

MYTHOLOGY: What are the Nereids in Greek mythology?

[

LITERATURE: Which 19th-century English novel has the subtitle, “The Parish Boy’s Progress”?

[

ACRONYMS: In printing, what does the acronym DPI stand for?

[

GEOGRAPHY: Which city lies near the largest natural harbor in the world?

[

ANIMAL KINGDOM: How does a bat find its prey?

7.Above,

6.MalalaYousafzaiofPakistan,who ghtsfiforchildren’srightstoeducation, was17whenshewontheaward.

[

HISTORY: Who is the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19)

an even greater gap between you two.

[

LANGUAGE: What does the Latin prefix “super-” mean in English?

[

LAW: What is double jeopardy?

you love being the focus of everyone’s attention, it’s a good idea to take a few steps back right now to just watch the action. What you see can help with an upcoming decision.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Congratulations. Your handling of a delicate family matter rates kudos. But, no resting on your laurels just yet. You still have to resolve that on-the-job problem.

[

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who founded the American Red Cross?

MEDICAL: What vitamin deficiency causes night blindness?

[

5.Echolocation(sendinghigh-frequencysoundwaves).

4.Sydney,Australia.

3.Dotsperinch.

2.“OliverTwist”(CharlesDickens).

1.Seanymphs.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) “Caution” continues to be your watchword this week, as a former colleague tries to reconnect old links. There are still some dark places that need to be illuminated.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Making a good first impression is important. Revealing your often hidden sense of humor can help you get through some of the more awkward situations.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Are you taking that Cancer Crab image too seriously? Lighten up. Instead of complaining about your problems, start resolving them. A friend would be happy to help.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) A widening distance between you and that special person needs to be handled with honesty and sensitivity. Don’t let jealousy create

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You might surprise everyone by being unusually impulsive this week. But even level-headed Libras need to do the unexpected now and then.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A period of turmoil gives way to a calmer, more settled environment. Use this quieter time to patch up neglected personal and/or professional relationships.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A new relationship could create resentment among family and friends who feel left out of your life. Show them you care by making more time for them.

CAPRICoRN (December

Concentrate on completing all your unfinished tasks

then be able to use this freed-up time

research

AQuARIus (January 20

You’re right to try to help

their

But keep

objectivity, and avoid showing any favoritism between the two sides.

[PIsCes (February 19 to March

personal life continues to show positive changes. Enjoy this happy turn of events, by all means. But be careful not to neglect

workplace obligations.

BoRN THIs week: People of all ages look to you for advice and encouragement. You would make an excellent

by King Features Syndicate