YES! Weekly - November 2, 2022

THE GREEK FESTIVAL

One of the biggest cultural festivals returns to Greensboro this weekend. The Greensboro Greek Festival kicks o on Saturday, November 5 at 11 a.m.

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4 From the first word in the name, you would assume it’s a bar. And it is. But NOT JUST ANY BAR. According to the website, it’s the longest bar in Greensboro, and I have seen no evidence to the contrary.

6 High Point University is a GOD, FAMILY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL, with symbols of patriotism abounding throughout campus.

7 Creative Greensboro has selected artists for its 2023 residencies in GROW, the Greensboro Residency for Original Works. The paid residency is supported by a $58,800, two-year SPARK THE ARTS GRANT from the North Carolina Arts Council.

8 The University Galleries at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in collaboration with Preservation Greensboro, will host a new traveling exhibit titled, “ WE BUILT THIS: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders in North Carolina.”

10 JACOB’S FIRST MANDOLIN, a short film made by Taylor Sharp, triumphed over all comers in the Visit North Carolina’s Firsts That Last Film Series Competition,

which was instituted to promote tourism in the Tarheel State.

11 MSN.com reports that according to a study by Mars Veterinary Health, there are BARELY ENOUGH VETERINARIANS right now to cover the current demand for pet medical care.

12 What would Halloween be without another Halloween movie? It’s a moot point, because HALLOWEEN ENDS marks the latest in a (very) long line of holidaythemed chillers that originated with John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 classic.

18 “I am relieved it’s over, but it’s bittersweet,” said Mary Smith to YES! Weekly, the day after United States District Judge Loretta Biggs approved the $2.57 million settlement agreement in Smith et al v. City of Greensboro et al, her Federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of her son Marcus. “IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE COME TO THIS.”

20 P.T. Burnem is bringing “ DUSTKAT DREAM DRUM MACHINE” to etc.GSO through a residency with open house workshops running November 13-19 and performances on November 17 and 19.

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Chow Down with John Batchelor at Bourbon Bowl

BY JOHN BATCHELOR

Most recent visit: October 21

What is this place? I can remember looking at a junkyard in this location for decades, the remnants of a long-gone gas station.

From the first word in the name, you would assume it’s a bar. And it is. But not just any bar. According to the website, it’s the longest bar in Greensboro, and I have seen no evidence to the contrary. True to the nomenclature, a rack overhead holds about a thousand bottles of Bourbon (OK, I did not count, but there are a lot!), and the drinks notebook- it’s way too big to be called merely a list- offers the largest number of Bourbon shots I’ve ever seen. Wines may not be familiar to many guests, but I have had them here and elsewhere, and they are easy to recommend. You won’t go wrong with any choice. Beer devotees will find happiness here, as well.

Where does the “Bowl” come from? Well, it’s also a bowling alley, with six lanes in back that can be reserved in ad-

vance. Bowling and drinking. Who would have ever thought of that?

Finally, it’s a restaurant, whose décor capitalizes on the historic structure, with plank walls, floor sections of tiny tiles lined with wood, and a factorytype skylight overhead. Weather permitting, there is also a really attractive outdoor seating section, flanked by a long fountain.

The food is casual in style, rather heavy in impact.

Gutter Ball Nachos capitalize on the bowling theme, piling spicy beer cheesedense, almost but not quite liquid- and chili, with shredded iceberg lettuce and small cubes of tomato, over crisp tortilla chips. This is a huge serving, recommended for sharing.

Goat Cheese Balls are crisp on the exterior- a function of a panko crustexuding rich goat cheese flavor from within a soft, warm interior. A Bourbon and cranberry chutney adds sweetness, followed by a mild alcohol aftertaste.

Three burgers are offered, all based, according to the menu, on a half-pound of American Wagyu beef. My wife ordered the Drunken Goat, the name a function of the goat cheese condiment.

Drunken Goat Burger

Brisket Quesadilla

Brisket Sandwich with Mac and Cheese

Goat Cheese Balls

Steak and Cheese Sandwich

Gutter Ball Nachos

I’ve never had goat cheese on a burger before, but we both found it quite pleasing. The rest of this complicated assembly includes strips of very good Bourbon cured bacon, leaf lettuce, softsauteed onions, and Bourbon barbecue sauce. The flavor profile starts with solid depth of beef flavor, followed by mellow goat cheese, rounded off with sweetish barbecue sauce.

The Brisket Quesadilla folds warm grilled tortillas around sliced beef brisket spread with soft, shredded cheese, plus clipped green onions and Bourbon barbecue sauce. There is also a Beef Brisket Sandwich, with jicama slaw and pickled red onions. We liked the quesadilla better, mainly due to the additional cheese flavor.

The Steak and Cheese Sandwich uses ribeye, sliced thin, joined by sauteed onions, mushrooms, and bell peppers, plus melted Provolone cheese. A crusty, toasted hoagie roll plays host, garnished with garlic mayonnaise.

Chicken Tacos use shredded meat and cheese, plus iceberg lettuce, ladled with cilantro-lime sour cream. The sour cream blend gives this a pleasant effect.

In Grilled Shrimp Skewers, the medium-sized shrimp have been deveined and cooked just-right-tender. I ordered this with garlic butter- a pleasant taste addition. (The Bourbon barbecue sauce is available as well.) Another skewer is layered with red and green bell pepper slices, plus red onions. These have also been treated with the grill’s heat, but I would have found them more palatable if cooked more. As served, they were cool and crunchy, barely marked around the edges.

If you are seeking a balanced meal, you will have to order a salad ($2 upcharge), a fruit cup, or sauteed vegetables. In keeping with the theme and ambience of this place, however, we stuck to carbs and starch. French fries are unusually crisp, bearing moderate potato flavor; sweet potato tater tots are soft in texture, similarly moderate in flavor. Mac and Cheese ($1 upcharge) provides good cheese taste.

Bourbon Bowl opened in early summer 2021. It’s truly gratifying to see these old properties reborn and repurposed. In this case, the concept is original and well-executed. !

JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@ gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com.

WANNA go?

Bourbon Bowl is located at 535 S. Elm Street, Greensboro 27406

Phone: 336-617-3038

Website: bourbonbowl.com

Hours: Monday-Friday 4 p.m.-2 a.m, Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Appetizers: $9-$28 Salads: $8-$13 Soups: $6

Burgers and Sandwiches: $9-$16 Entrees: $12-$15 Desserts: $8

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Chicken Tacos

Grilled Shrimp Skewers

HPU Installs Steel from NYC’s Twin Towers in the Qubein Arena

High Point University is a God, family and country school, with symbols of patriotism abounding throughout campus. The university recently installed the 3,000 pounds of steel forged into lettering underneath the 30-foot-wide American Flag display in the Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center.

The steel is from the remains of New York City’s Twin Towers, which were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. David Gri n Jr., CEO of the Triad-based company D.H. Griffin Company and an HPU parent, donated the steel to HPU from the site, where his company conducted restoration work after the attacks. Gri n says he hopes through this donation for the display that people will never forget about that day in history.

“The World Trade Center was a defining moment in American history, and I pray we never forget it,” said Gri n. “With God, family, country, I love that Dr. Qubein and the university take a stand on what they believe. We couldn’t be any happier with High Point University, and we love supporting the university and will continue to do so in the future.”

The steel lettering underneath the display in the Qubein Arena states “God. Family. Country. High Point University.” This display represents HPU’s values as a university that respects our nation, shows gratitude to God for our blessings and treats everyone as family.

In just a few weeks during HPU’s Veterans Day Celebration, more than 1,000 veterans and their families will walk through the Qubein Arena and see this patriotic display and the meaning behind the words.

It’s a moment that HPU President Dr. Nido Qubein says brings many people to tears.

“When a thousand people show up here on Veterans Day for our celebration to honor their sacrifice, they stand in awe of the notion that this university shouts it from the mountaintop that their service to this great country is deeply appreciated and we thank them for it,” says Qubein. “They stand by this display with tears filling their eyes and their hearts full of grace. They are proud to stand by this flag that they salute and by the principles in which they believe.”

You can view the completed installation at the Annual Veterans Day Celebration on Friday, Nov. 11, at 8 a.m. !

(Above) The steel is from the remains of New York City’s Twin Towers, which were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. (At right) David Gri n Jr., CEO of the D.H. Gri n Company, donated the steel to HPU from the site, where his company conducted restoration work after the attacks.

High Point University is a God, family and country school, with symbols of patriotism abounding throughout campus. The university recently installed the 3,000 pounds of steel forged into lettering underneath the 30-foot-wide American Flag display in the Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center.

Creative Greensboro Selects 2023 GROW Artist Residents

Creative Greensboro has selected artists for its 2023 residencies in GROW, the Greensboro Residency for Original Works. The paid residency is supported by a $58,800, two-year Spark the Arts grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.

2023 GROW ARTIST RESIDENTS

Rukiya Williams will create a documentary showcasing Greensboro’s creative community beginning December 12.

Princess Johnson will develop an original ballet, titled “The Hair Journey,” about Black women’s relationship with their hair, starting in January 2023.

Kay Marion will explore the relationship between classical and soul music through ethnomusicology and music composition beginning in March 2023.

Todgi Dozier will repurpose found materials into new pieces of art during her residency in April 2023.

Chappell Upper and Shared Radiance Performing Arts Company will adapt “Pride and Prejudice” into a contemporary theatrical work beginning in June 2023.

Angela Rumball will compose a new musical and present it with performers from the community starting in August 2023.

Tuari Walker will examine the business side of art and teach entrepreneurial skills for artists during his residency in September 2023.

SunQueen Kelcey will lead a series of songwriting workshops and public performances starting in October 2023.

Located in the Greensboro Cultural Center, GROW was established in 2020 as

a flexible space for Guilford County-based creatives to develop new work and o er free, public events. Selected residents receive no-cost access to the GROW space, dedicated marketing support, weekly compensation, and a materials budget. This year’s residents were selected by representatives from each gallery in the Greensboro Cultural Center and members of the City Council-appointed Cultural A airs Commission.

This project is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. GROW meets a Council priority by “providing opportunities for new and diverse artistic voices to share their work,” said Council Theater and Literature Director Je Aguiar.

“The commitment that Creative Greensboro and the City show in supporting local artists is clear as they o er what could be a career-changing residency for artists and Greensboro communities alike. The Council is thrilled to partner with Creative Greensboro for the next two years to grow artistry in our communities,” Aguiar said.

To learn more about upcoming residencies or past residents, visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/GROW !

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N.C. COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE

Carolyn Jennings Thompson, Seat 8 Brad A. Salmon, Seat 9 Gale Murray Adams, Seat 10 Darren Jackson, Seat 11

N.C. STATE SENATE

Michael Garrett, District 27 Gladys A. Robinson, District 28

N.C. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Ashton Clemmons, District 57 Amos Quick, District 58 Sherrie Young, District 59 Cecil Brockman, District 60 Mary Price (Pricey) Harrison, District 61 Brandon Gray, District 62

N.C. SUPERIOR COURT DISTRICT 18C SEAT 1 Stuart Albright

N.C. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE DISTRICT 18 Marc Ross Tyrey, Seat 1 Larry L. Archie, Seat 2

DISTRICT ATTORNEY Avery Michelle Crump

GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Kay Cashion, At large

J. Carlvena Foster, District 1 Paul Meinhart, District 2 Derek Mobley, District 3 Frankie T. Jones, Jr., District 7

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Alan Sherouse, At large

Amanda Cook, Dristrict 2 Deon Clark, District 4 Khem D. Irby, District 6 Deena Hayes Greene, District 8

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University Galleries to Host

“We Built This,” A History and Legacy of Black Builders Exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

The University Galleries at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in collaboration with Preservation Greensboro, will host a new traveling exhibit titled, “We Built This: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders in North Carolina.” The exhibit, opening Wednesday, Oct. 19, and running through Dec. 9 at the University Galleries, will feature the stories of those who constructed and designed many of North Carolina’s most treasured historic sites.

“This exhibition will highlight individuals who overcame racism and economic challenges to create some of North Carolina’s most beautiful landmark buildings,” said Roy Carter, associate professor and visual arts program director. “Many times, we walk into these facilities and admire them, and are not aware of those who built them.”

Executive Director of Preservation Greensboro Benjamin Briggs said, “We thought it was important to bring this exhibit to our city. Greensboro and North Carolina A&T hold important places in this inspirational story, and it is exciting to feature this exhibit on the university’s historic campus.”

According to Briggs, Preservation Greensboro is the only local nonprofit that advocates for historic preservation of places. “We Built This” is part of a multi-faceted educational program about the history and legacy of Black builders and craftspeople in North Carolina and is produced by Preservation North Carolina.

Spanning more than three centuries, “We Built This” provides more than two dozen personal profiles and historic context on key topics including slavery and Reconstruction; founding of historically Black colleges and universities and Black churches; Jim Crow and segregation; and the rise of Black civic leaders and professionals. “We Built This” acknowledges and celebrates the Black builders and architects who constructed or designed many of North Carolina’s most cherished historic places.

The exhibit will be open to the public during normal University Galleries hours, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays by appointment. Exhibitions are free. Group tours are welcome. For more information, call Carter at 336-334-3209.

In addition to the onsite location, the University Galleries features virtual exhibitions, which include:

“Black Art Matters”

https://www.ncat.edu/cahss/gallery/ black-art-matters.php

“Rosa: The Works of Bryan Collier” https://www.ncat.edu/cahss/gallery/ collier/index.php

“Songs from the Motherland: Musical Instruments from the Permanent Collection”

https://www.ncat.edu/cahss/gallery/ songs-from-the-motherland/index.php

To learn more, visit the University Galleries website. !

Alma Thomas, Glimpse of Jupiter, 1970, oil on canvas

Drum with carved figures, wood and hide, Indigenous throughout Africa

ARTS ROUNDUP

BY JAY SAUERMAN

After a two-year hiatus, WFDD’s Look Up and Listen returns to Hanging Rock State Park on Saturday, November 5th, 2022. This event celebrates community and public radio with a specially selected RadioLab episode to be played on the park’s lakeside beach after hours. Head over early to enjoy the park’s 48 miles of hiking paths which lead to picturesque mountain views, rock outcrops, waterfalls, and even a mountain cave. Guests are welcome to pack a picnic and meet on the beach to enjoy exclusive access to the park as the sun goes down.

Bring a blanket or folding chair to sit on the beach; campfires will be lit and all the supplies necessary for s’mores will be provided. Once everyone is settled in, the program will begin. This episode of RadioLab follows a strange crew of characters on a mission to the moon from Italo Calvino’s story “The Distance of the Moon.” The evening should have clear skies and a great view of the nearly-full moon over the water. The Forsyth Astronomical Society will join with their telescopes so visitors can make their own observations of the moon along with the movements of visible planets Saturn and Jupiter.

Stop by the check-in or info tables to receive glow sticks, WFDD swag, and a drink coupon for the after-party! Once the fires die out, WFDD sta members invite you to the Green Heron Ale House; your first drink is on the station! Your beverage will come in a WFDD pint glass that is yours to take home. It will be a great time to mingle with fellow public radio listeners and the sta of

WFDD. Invite your friends and family to join…tickets are required, but children 12 and under get in free.

88.5 WFDD has a history with the Piedmont and High Country lasting over 75 years. Originally founded by two students in a Wake Forest University dorm room in 1946, 88.5 WFDD reaches 32 counties across North Carolina and Virginia. With a mission to inform, connect, educate, and inspire, the station broadcasts local and national news and celebrates community with a collection of events throughout the year. When the pandemic hit, WFDD programming shifted to focus on virtual events and local coverage of national and worldwide news. They re happy to bring back beloved programs like Look Up and Listen while embracing new traditions and mediums that the pandemic helped to introduce. Join Look Up and Listen for some stargazing, storytelling, and s mores on November 5th!

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 Winston-Salem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community, pleas e visit www. cityofthearts.com.

North Carolina selects winner of

Jacob’s First Mandolin, a short film made by Taylor Sharp, triumphed over all comers in the Visit North Carolina’s Firsts That Last Film Series Competition, which was instituted to promote tourism in the Tarheel State. Of the 12 short films submitted, Jacob’s First Mandolin reaped almost 17,500 votes.

The autobiographical film depicts a bet made during a family vacation at Emerald Isle, that if father Will could get a pair of fish to bite on the day’s final cast from Bogue Inlet Pier, son Jacob would be rewarded with a mandolin. Two fish did bite, and Jacob would go on to co-found the popular, Chapel Hill-based band Mipso, whose members include Wood Robinson, Libby Rodenbough, Joseph Terrell and, of course, mandolin player Jacob Sharp. (Filmmaker Taylor Sharp is Jacob’s brother.)

Taylor Sharp plans to donate part of the $30,000 prize from the competition to Casting for Hope, the non-profit he cofounded to assist women a icted with gynecological cancers, as well as putting some of the money toward funding a film about his and Jacob’s mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2010.

The filmmaker, a Morganton native and a graduate of Morehead-Cain, said that he had several ideas in mind when he first learned about the competition

before settling on Jacob’s First Mandolin, particularly when he took into account his father’s willingness to support Jacob’s creative ambitions and how it was a significant moment in his brother’s artistic journey.

“I recognized that there was no story I knew better,” he explained. “While interviewing my dad and brother, I realized how much of an impact that mandolin had on the rest of our lives.”

According to Wit Tuttell, executive director of Visit NC, “the story embodies so many aspects of the North Carolina travel experience. It took place in one of the countless settings that reward travelers with a sense of closeness and completeness, of infinite possibility. Such moments are life-enriching if not always life-changing, and the Sharps would surely treasure the memory even without the bonus that music lovers have enjoyed with Mipso’s recordings and the band’s live shows.”

The dozen films in the competition

are currently available to be viewed at https://www.visitnc.com/firsts-thatlast-film-series#peoplechoice. Visit NC commissioned the entries based on proposed storylines that celebrate the enduring value of North Carolina travel experiences. In addition to the inspiration — and entertainment — provided by these short films, the website also o ers ideas and information for potential tourists regarding the many sights and experiences unique to North Carolina.

The other films submitted to the competition are: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, directed by Eternal Polk; City Center!, directed by Trey Edwards; A Homecoming, directed by Rick Bryson; In the Rearview, directed by Meagan Massa; Making Waves, directed by Pilar Timpane; Next Generation, directed by Jonathan Applebaum; Queen of Pisgah, directed by Curren Sheldon; The Road to North Carolina, directed by Luke Gloeckner; Seagrove, directed by Josh Sli e; So Far, directed by Bryan Rierson; and Waverider, directed by Bryan Harvey. Each short was filmed entirely on location in various regions of North Carolina, including Charlotte, Stone Mountain, Durham, the Pisgah National Forest, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, the Outer Banks, and more.

“These talented filmmakers and their subjects reach remarkable heights in exploring and re-creating life-changing moments,” said Tuttell. “Journeys unfold in places you’d expect and some you wouldn’t. These stories will inspire people to make every trip count as they immerse themselves in North Carolina’s natural wonders, its cities and culture, and add meaning and memories to their lives.”

The o cial Visit NC website is https:// www.visitnc.com/. !

Mark Burger Contributor

Pets Su er from Vet Shortage

nce upon a time, we could always count on nurses, firefighters, policemen, and doctors showing up for work, no matter what. That’s because they are life-savers, and lifesavers are supposed to be there for us 24/7. Alas, though, times have changed. The Pandemic has created shortages among the ranks of these brave and vitally important public servants, and those who remain on the job are overworked. The result is longer wait times in emergency rooms, and sometimes slower response time for 911 calls. Sadly, we humans have all come to live with certain inconveniences caused by sta ng shortages and supply chain snafus. But when pets are in crisis, they don’t understand Pandemic politics. They can’t call their Congressman, or complain to the Better Business Bureau. All they know is that they’re in pain and need help. And that brings me to a growing problem in this country: a shortage of veterinarians and vet techs.

Jim Longworth Longworth at Large

MSN.com reports that according to a study by Mars Veterinary Health, there are barely enough veterinarians right now to cover the current demand for pet medical care. The reason? A recent rise in pet ownership and a corresponding demand for veterinary care.

Veterinary clinics across the country are cutting back on hours of operation and some have closed altogether. Numerous sources cite the Pandemic as the main reason for this crisis. Petfinder.com spokesperson Lorie Westho told CNN. com that inquiries about pet adoptions increased by 70% between March 2020 and March 2021. And, Mark Cushing, CEO of the Animal Policy Group says that Millennials and Gen Zers alone are adopting pets, “at higher rates than their predecessors.” Meanwhile, according to the ASPCA, 90% of folks who adopted a pet during the Pandemic, kept their pet.

In a perfect world, pet adoptions are a good thing, but in a post Pandemic reality, no good deed goes unpunished. CNN.com reports that according to Dr. Douglas Kratt, president of the American

OVeterinary Medical Association, “client wait times now average 20 minutes, up from 11 minutes in 2019.” With all due respect to Dr. Kratt, he doesn’t live in the Triad, where wait times can be up to three hours for walk-ins, and over an hour even if you have a scheduled appointment. One statistic I do believe, however, is that half of all Vet Techs tend to burn out and quit within their first five years.

Certainly, being overworked and receiving inadequate pay are contributing factors to burnout, but so are the types of “patients” being treated. Jennifer Serling, president-elect of the Association of Veterinary Technician Educators tells CNN, “Unlike RNs and physician assistants, vet techs are responsible for providing care to multiple species that can’t talk and tell us what’s wrong. Unlike a hospital or a doctor’s o ce which has specialty nurses and doctors for everything, veterinary technicians are required to do it all.”

Not to make this a personal issue, but my family has been a victim of staing shortages, including recently at the Triad’s leading emergency animal care hospital. Open 24/7, this is THE pet emergency facility that local vets refer their clients to. So, when one of our dogs was having a prolonged, after-hours asthma attack, my wife and I drove him to this ER mecca (I won’t mention what clinic it is, but they’re located just o Guilford College road, and their name starts with Carolina Veterinary Specialists). We arrived at 10:30 p.m., and, as instructed by the sign in the parking lot, I called the receptionist to let her know we were at the front door. Instead of checking us in, she said, “Sorry we’re not seeing patients tonight.” “But you’re a 24-hour emergency hospital,” I said. “We’re not seeing patients,” she repeated coldly. I asked why. “It’s a sta ng shortage,” she said. “So, you don’t have a doctor inside?” I asked. “Yes, but the doctor can’t see patients because we don’t have enough sta . You’ll just have to bring your dog back in the morning.” Fortunately, our dog’s attack subsided, but what if it hadn’t? I don’t know if the hospital’s vet techs didn’t show up because of burnout or not. All I know is that no ER doctor of any kind should ever refuse to treat an emergency case, even if he’s the only one in the building. Speaking of which, not only is there a dearth of vets to meet demand now, what’s worse is

there aren’t enough vets coming along in the pipeline either.

Mars Veterinary Health reports that, based on the current demand for pet health care, 41,000 vets will need to enter practice over the next ten years. The problem is that only about 2,500 graduates become veterinarians each year, which means we’ll have a shortage of 15,000 vets by 2030. So, what’s the solution? For that, we can look to Arizona.

There, the State legislature just passed the Arizona Veterinary Loan Assistance Program, which will reimburse student loans up to $100,000 to veterinarians who graduate after January 2023. To receive the reimbursement, vets must work in Arizona for four years, with two of those years spent in a city, county, or nonprofit shelter. Other states like North Dakota now o er a variation of the program, and there’s also a federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program available. It’s tax money well spent, and it’s welcome news to pet owners. Steve

Farley, CEO of the Humane Society of Southern Arizona told DVM.com, “Thanks to this budget appropriation, at least 58 new veterinarians will come to work in Arizona by the end of 2023. Moving forward, making this appropriation annual will save countless lives while growing our economy, a win-win solution to an intractable problem. This is a victory for animal lovers across the State and is a great example of the benefits that accrue to our residents when our leaders work together for the common good.”

Unfortunately, Arizona is too far for me to drive for veterinary care, so I just hope the North Carolina legislature will do more to alleviate our own shortage of vets and vet techs. Until then, a lot of pets in need of emergency care will, in the words of a local vet receptionist, “Just have to come back tomorrow.” !

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).

: Seeing is bleeding

hat would Halloween be without another Halloween movie? It’s a moot point, because Halloween Ends marks the latest in a (very) long line of holidaythemed chillers that originated with John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 classic, and the third in the recent trilogy helmed by UNCSA School of Filmmaking graduate David Gordon Green, following 2018’s Halloween and last year’s Halloween Kills. In the overall canon, Halloween Ends is not the best or the worst in the franchise, but it’s a valiant attempt to incorporate some fresh blood (pardon the pun) in a well-worn formula.

After umpteenth sequels and various

W“interpretations” (i.e. screw-ups) of the Halloween mythos, Green made a smart decision to bring original creator John Carpenter back into the fold as an executive producer. Another key component, also an executive producer, is leading lady Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis, whose screen career was established with the original Halloween -- earning her the moniker of “scream queen” — and continues to bring an authoritative voice to the character of Laurie Strode.

As we rejoin Laurie for yet another potentially (ha!) horrific Halloween in Haddonfield, that once-bucolic burg is rife with residents who express not grief or despair but anger, rage, and vindictiveness. Some blame Laurie for Michael’s repeated rampages, and in the interim Haddonfield has had another Halloween tragedy, in which teenaged babysitter Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell of TV’s The Hardy Boys) was implicated in the unfortunate death of his young charge. This particular sequence, which kicks o Halloween Ends, is arguably the film’s

high point, and certainly gets things o to a roaring start. Like Laurie, Corey is an outcast, tormented by his past and uncertain of his future.

The notion that Michael Myers, billed as “The Shape” (again played by James Jude Courtney), somehow feeds o the anger of Haddonfield, is an interesting one. Since Halloween Kills, he’s been biding his time and cooling his heels in an abandoned sewer. But it’s only a matter of time before his begins his rampage anew, and Corey is the instrument of his destruction. That Corey has tentatively embarked on a relationship with Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak, also encoring) only fuels Laurie’s mounting paranoia.

It’s admittedly di cult to find a fresh angle or approach to Halloween, but it’s to the credit of Gordon and fellow screenwriters Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, and fellow UNCSA grad Danny McBride that they’ve made an obvious e ort to apply something of a novel approach. Some ideas work better than others, others don’t really work at all, but Halloween Ends isn’t lazy.

The narrative could have been streamlined a bit, although Green displays his technical proficiency as the narrative builds toward its inevitable bloodbath. Interestingly, a good number of the victims deserve just what’s coming to them. They’re not innocent bystanders or horny teenagers, but nasty, mean-spirited people. It’s been evident since Halloween that Green has respected the mythos and

the horror genre as a whole, while also approximating Carpenter’s distinctive style.

Matichak and Campbell are overly mannered at times but not unappealing, and it’s nice seeing Will Patton back as local lawman Frank, who has managed — like Laurie and Allyson — to survive a fair share of violence yet still carries a torch for her. Patton hasn’t much to do, but is a welcome presence nevertheless.

As the title implies, this should be the end of Michael Myers, although we’ve all heard that story before. Nevertheless, Gordon and company have managed to “conclude” the franchise with a modicum of dignity and class. !

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

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8-BIT CHRISTMAS (New Line Cinema/ Warner Bros. Home Entertainment): Taking a page from Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Carol, screenwriter/executive producer Kevin Jakubowski adapts his own best-selling novel in this familyfriendly, PG-rated holiday comedy starring Neil Patrick Harris as a suburban patriarch who recalls his childhood in 1980s Chicago, when his focus in life was to obtain the newest, most advanced video-game system for Christmas, with Steve Zahn, David Cross, June Diane Raphael, and Winslow Fegley in support, available on DVD ($19.99 retail), replete with bonus features.

CINEMATOGRAPHER (Lightyear Entertainment/MVD Entertainment Group): Director Dan Asma’s self-explanatory feature documentary debut explores the art of filmmakers as seen through the eyes — and the lens — of the cinematographer, featuring interviews with such Hollywood luminaries as Jack Green (Unforgiven), Donald M. Morgan (Starman), and Owen Roizman (The French Connection), as well as clips from various celebrated films, available on Blu-ray ($24.95 retail).

CONJURING THE BEYOND (Breaking Glass Pictures): Newcomer Victoria Grace Borrello toplines writer/director/ cinematographer Calvin Morie McCarthy’s low-budget, low-impact shocker as a recently divorced woman who consents to participate in a sleep-paralysis study that unleashes diabolical forces. Moody but muddled and slow-moving, there are a few in-jokes but is otherwise substandard scare fare. Not related to the big-budget Conjuring horror franchise, although the filmmakers likely hope audiences think it is. The “twist” ending is a cop-out, too. The DVD retails for 24.99.

DONBASS (Film Movement): Writer/ associate producer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s semi-satirical, award-winning 2018 drama takes place in the titular Ukrainian region, as the social structure collapses under the weight of rampant crime, misinformation, and the impending Russian invasion, which leaves the inhabitants seeking any semblance of hope or redemption in an unforgiving world. In Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles, available on DVD ($24.99 retail).

HOCKEYLAND (Greenwich Entertainment/Kino Lorber): Tommy Haines wrote, produced, directed, and edited

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DVD PICK OF THE WEEK: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (The Criterion Collection)

Frank Capra’s 1944 screen version of Joseph Kesselring’s smash Broadway comedy is often overlooked in the Capra canon, but it’s a delightful black comedy that has stood the test of time as a classic, due largely to its zesty ensemble cast.

Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) has just popped the question to girlfriend Elaine (Priscilla Lane), but when he shares the happy news with aunts Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean Adair), he is shocked to discover a dead body in the attic. It seems that they’ve been poisoning lonely traveling salesmen with elderberry wine. Mortimer’s panic accelerates with the arrival of his brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey), a murderer who has escapes from prison alongside sad-sack sidekick Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre). Adding to the craziness is brother Teddy (John Alexander), who is convinced that he’s Teddy Roosevelt.

A fast-paced, door-slamming farce in the classic screwball tradition, Arsenic and Old Lace features Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, and James Gleason in support. Grant disliked his performance because he felt Capra had him play it too broadly, but Cary’s always good company. Besides, there’s plenty of room for the other actors to maneuver and bid to steal their scenes. Lane is properly flustered, Adair and Hull properly dotty, Alexander a total scream, and Massey and Lorre an unexpectedly amusing comedic duo.

The film was completed in 1942, but because the film couldn’t be released until the stage production closed, it was held up for two years — although it was screened for servicemen stationed overseas during World War II. Both the DVD ($29.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($39.95 retail) include audio commentary, 1952 radio adaptation, theatrical trailer, and more.

doch’s wife), Jonny Harris, Thomas Craig, and Lachlan Murdoch, available on DVD and Blu-ray (each $59.99 retail) — each boasting behind-the-scenes featurettes.

OKA! (Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of director/producer/ screenwriter Lavinia Currier’s fact-based 2010 drama detailing music researcher Kris Marshall’s 25-year sojourn in Central Africa, initially to study and record the music of the Bavaka Pygmies, only to become so enchanted by their culture that he remained as essentially a member of their tribe. In English, Akka, French, and Sango with English subtitles, bonus features include the behind-the-scenes 2013 documentary Listen to the Forest and trailers.

this feature documentary that explores the long-standing rivalry between the Eleveth Golden Bears and Hermantown Hawks, a pair of high-school hockey teams in the heartland of Minnesota, not far from where the United States Hockey Hall of Fame is located, available on Bluray ($29.95 retail).

I’VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of filmmaker Patricia Rozema’s award-winning 1987 debut feature, which o ers a stellar showcase for leading lady Sheila McCarthy, playing an eccentric, ambitious photographer whose friendship with lesbian gallery owner Paule Baillargeon takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that she’s not quite whom she presents herself to be. Widely considered a breakthrough in “queer cinema,” this boasts a quirky, insightful appeal that goes beyond such boundaries. Bonus features include audio commentary, a selection of Rozema’s short films, Q&A session, and more. Rated R.

LONELYHEARTS (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($24.95 retail) of director Vincent J. Donehue’s 1958 feature debut, a glossy and occasionally noir-ish adaptation of Nathanael West’s novella (previously presented onstage), scripted and produced by Dore Schary, starring Montgomery Clift as a struggling newspaper columnist whose assignment as advice columnist threatens his own relationship (with Dolores Hart) and puts him at odds with cynical editor Robert Ryan, whose own marriage (to Myrna Loy) is floundering. In her feature debut, Maureen Stapleton earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

“MURDOCH MYSTERIES”: SEASON 15 (Acorn TV): Despite being stunned by the revelation that he has an illegitimate son, Yannick Bisson’s back on the case as early 20th-century Toronto detective William Murdoch in all 24 episodes from the 2021-’22 season of the award-winning, long-running Canadian mystery series (also known as The Artful Detective), based on Maureen Jennings’ best-selling novels, co-starring Helene Joy (as Mur-

QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY (Blue Underground/MVD Entertainment Group): A 4K Ultra HD combo ($49.95 retail) of screenwriter/director Jens Jorgen Thorsen’s controversial 1970 screen version (originally titled Stille dage i Clichy) of Henry Miller’s equally controversial, best-selling 1956 novel, detailing the debauched, decadent lifestyle of hedonistic roommates Paul Valjean and Wayne Rodda (in his feature debut) in the Parisian nightlife, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by Country Joe McDonald. The U.S. Government seized all prints of the film on the eve of its American release, prompting a heavily-publicized lawsuit that only brought the film — and Miller’s novel — further notoriety. In English and Danish with English subtitles, bonus features include retrospective interviews, theatrical trailer, poster and still gallery, o cial court documents (!), and more.

“RAY DONOVAN”: THE COMPLETE SERIES (CBS Home Entertainment/ Showtime Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment): Executive producer/co-writer Liev Schreiber earned three Emmy nominations portraying the titular, hard-bitten Hollywood “fixer” in all 82 episodes from the award-winning Showtime series, available in this selfexplanatory 29-disc DVD collection ($68.99 retail) including all 82 episodes from the entire 2013-’20 run of the Showtime drama series, plus the 2022 reunion film Ray Donovan: The Movie and a bevy of bonus features. !

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SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

Amou Haji, 94, of Dezhgah, Iran, also known as the World’s Dirtiest Man, refused to bathe for more than 60 years because he was afraid doing so would make him sick, Fox News reported. Apparently, he was right: For the first time, “villagers had recently taken him to a bathroom to wash,” the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. “Not long after, he fell ill and finally ... he gave up his life,” the report went on. Haji had no family, but villagers had built him a cinder-block dwelling for shelter on the outskirts of town.

EVERYONE NEEDS A HOBBY

– Rosie Grant, 33, of Takoma Park, Maryland, stumbled upon a new hobby while finishing an internship at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., a year ago, The Washington Post reported. Her studies revealed her own interest in cemeteries, and she found social media threads of other taphophiles like her. On one of those, Grant noticed a list of ingredients engraved on a headstone in Brooklyn, New York, and thought she’d give the spritz cookies a try. Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson’s recipe didn’t include instructions, but even so, Grant said the results were heavenly. “Cooking these recipes has shown me an alternative side to death,” Grant said. “What a cool gift (MillerDawson) put on her gravestone.” Grant has found other gravestone recipes -several in the U.S. and two in Israel, all from women.

– Remember the scene in “The Empire Strikes Back” when Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite? Catherine Pervan and her daughter, Hanalee, owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, have brought Solo back to life -- in bread, The New York Times reported. The two worked together for more than a month to create the 6-foot-tall “Pan Solo” sculpture from bread dough; now he stands outside their store as part of downtown Benicia’s scarecrow contest. “People are just super interested in it, and you see people smelling it and poking it,” said Hanalee.

NIGHTMARE SCENARIO

A woman known as Jahrah, 54, who worked at a rubber plantation on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, lost her life at work on Oct. 23 after being swallowed by a 22-foot-long python, the Guardian reported. Her husband

reported her missing when she didn’t return home from work; while searching for her, he found her sandals, headscarf, jacket and tools. Authorities caught a python that had been spotted nearby and found Jahrah’s body in the snake’s stomach, the local police chief said.

BACKTRACK

The state of Maine is walking back a 2015 decision to eliminate its review process for vanity license plates, the Associated Press reported on Oct. 27. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has called the resulting vulgarities the “wild wild West,” with about 400 offensive plates being subject to recall. “What I would say to those who want to engage in objectionable or questionable speech: Get a bumper sticker,” she said. Because the plates are technically the property of the state, new rules to stifle the nasty messages can be enforced, she said. Recall letters began hitting mailboxes this month.

IT’S A MYSTERY

– A huge, hollow metal object sat by the side of the road in New Brunswick, Canada, for weeks, and no one seemed to know what it was or how it got there, the CBC reported on Oct. 21. Finally, the New Brunswick Department of Transportation had it hauled away. Canadian Forces spokesperson Jamie Donovan said it likely is not connected to the military, and the DOT won’t claim it, either. Lying on its side, it’s about 10 feet tall and has a concrete base and a hatch. “At this point it really is a mystery we are looking into,” said Alycia Bartlett of the DOT.

– A Florida neighborhood is on high alert after a series of overnight visits from a well-dressed man wielding a machete, WSVN-TV reported. On Oct. 17, around 5:30 a.m., residents heard a knock at the door and saw the man on their doorbell camera, but he walked away after tapping the door with the machete. Other neighbors in Lauderhill had the same experience. “He didn’t seem like someone lost or confused,” one resident said. “He seemed very intentional, very businesslike, like he was dressed for business, just with a machete.” Police have stepped up patrols of the area but say no crimes have been committed. !

OPA! The Greek Festival Returns

ne of the biggest cultural festivals returns to Greensboro this weekend.

The Greensboro Greek Festival kicks o on Saturday, November 5 at 11 a.m. and runs until 9 p.m. at the Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church, located at 800 Westridge Road in Greenboro. The two-day festival continues on Sunday, November 6 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

It’s a festival that you don’t want to miss according to Mary Ann Contogiannis,

Othe festival’s Publicity Chair.

“We had to take a couple of years o because of Covid but it’s really the largest cultural event in Greensboro,” Contogiannis said. “This is an introduction to what being Greek and what Greece is all about.”

The two-day, family-friendly festival which features authentic Greek cuisine, pastries, music, dancing, and a vendors market, began decades ago as a bake sale at Friendly Shopping Center.

Parishioners have been planning this year’s event since early summer and are anticipating a crowd of 8,000-10,000 attendees.

It has since grown so big that the church moved the sale onto church grounds, expanding it to include complete lunches and dinners. Those attending can eat their food on the church grounds or take it to

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go. Visitors will be able to sample a variety of Greek Cuisine including Athenian Baked Chicken, Lamb Shank, Gyro Sandwiches, Chicken Souvlaki Sandwiches, and Greek Salads. Desserts include Spanakopita, Baklava, Kourambiedes, Finikia, Almond Crescent Cookies, Koulourakia, and Loukoumades. There will also be Greek wine and local beer on hand.

A DJ and the sounds of a mandolin-like bouzouki will be on hand for music, along with dance performances by the parish’s youth.

“The youth of our community have been working hard to pull together a dance routine that showcases di erent dances from di erent parts of Greece. We start with the little ones. We have a Pre-K group. They almost have two left feet but we get them to know which is the right and the left at an early age,” said Contogiannis about the youth performances that will be held at di erent times during the weekend. “Our elementary school kids do a little more of an advanced routine. Then we have the middle school/high school youth group with a more complex performance. They’ll be dressed in di erent costumes that are native to di erent parts of Greece. They’ve been working really hard.”

If you don’t come for the food, music or dancing, Contogiannis is sure that you’ll still have a good time.

“We o er a lot of di erent things for di erent people,” she said.

The Greek Marketplaces has an o ering of handmade items for purchase and if you get tired of being outside, the church will be hosting guided tours of the sanctuary.

“Our priest will do the tours. It is a Greek Orthodox Church but the Orthodox faith is the same throughout. What changes is whether or not it’s a Russian Orthodox, a Greek orthodox, or a Siberian Orthodox church. Sometimes it has to do with the languages that are spoken there,” Con-

togiannis explained. “He (the priest) will take people on a tour of our church talking about the history of our church, the Orthodox church, and the ethnography of the Orthodox church.”

Contogiannis said that she and other parishioners want people to “come and enjoy” the festival taking time to fully immerse themselves in the experience.

“Come and eat something, sit back and enjoy the dancing or go on a church tour, if you’d like. Go through the marketplace and take a gift back so you can remember everything,” she said. “This is a di erent experience and we want people to really experience the Greek Culture.”

The two-day festival is also a philanthropic one, via its two-dollar entry cost or donation of 2 cans of food.

According to Contogiannis, a portion of the proceeds gathered from admission will go to the local nonprofit Family Services of the Piedmont, and the food is donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank.

“One thing we do every year is take a portion of our proceeds and donate to charity. It’s extremely important to give back. It’s our church and our community. We want to give back to Greensboro and do philanthropic things for people. We feel it’s part of our job to give back to the community.” !

CHANEL DAVIS is the current editor of YES! Weekly and graduated from N.C. A&T S.U. in 2011 with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She’s worked at daily and weekly newspapers in the Triad region.

WANNA go?

The Greensboro Greek Festival will be held at the Formation of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church, 800 Westridge Road, Greensboro, NC 27410, Saturday, November 5 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, November 6 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.greensborogreekfestival.com.

Judge approves Marcus Smith settlement:

GPD expands Behavioral Health Response Team

“I am relieved it’s over, but it’s bittersweet,” said Mary Smith to YES! Weekly, the day after United States District Judge Loretta Biggs approved the $2.57 million settlement agreement in Smith et al v. City of Greensboro et al, her Federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of her son Marcus. “It should never have come to this.”

On Sept. 8, 2018, Marcus Deon Smith, a 38-year-old Black man died while pressed face-down on Church Street by Greensboro police o cers, who applied a “hogtie” restraint that attached Smith’s feet to his ankles and puts weight on his diaphragm, while two Guilford County EMTs looked on and did not begin CPR until five minutes after an o cer noticed he’d stopped breathing.

criminality but means that the victim died from the actions of persons other than himself.

The GPD internal investigation and the SBI one, both of which were concluded before the medical examiner’s report was released, found the o cers had not violated the law or the department’s professional standards. District Attorney Jim Westmoreland, who left o ce in January 2019, concurred.

in custody over the last decade, none of whom had died.

In April 2019, Smith filed the suit, which named the City of Greensboro as a defendant, along with o cers Lee Andrews, Jordan Bailey, Christopher Bradshaw, Robert Duncan, Alfred Lewis, Michael Montalvo, Justin Payne, and Douglas Strader, as well as EMTs Ashley Abbott and Dylan Alling. Montalvo retired with a full pension when he turned 55 and Andrews resigned in 2019 with a partial pension at the age of 50.

Strader was fired for an unrelated 2019 incident in which he discharged his firearm at a car fleeing a downtown crime scene. After he spent most of 2020 unsuccessfully appealing his termination, he was hired by the Graham police department in early 2021, where he remains a controversial figure, due to allegations of excessive force.

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Smith had a diagnosed mental illness with symptoms that included anxiety, paranoia and schizophrenia, and like many in the houseless community, he self-medicated with street drugs. But the North Carolina State Medical Examiner ruled how he was restrained as the primary cause of his death, which was ruled a homicide, a term that does not imply

Former GPD chief Wayne Scott, who retired at the end of 2019, announced the RIPP Hobble restraint used on Smith would be discontinued, but there was no departmental directive banning it until months after his successor Brian James took o ce in January 2020 and city council learned it was still not forbidden by the GPD directives manual. As described in “The Perfectly Legal Hogtying of Marcus Smith,” a May 12, 2021 article in the Raleigh-based online publication The Assembly, “hogtie” restraints are still technically legal in North Carolina law enforcement. Various agencies may “ban” it, as Durham and Winston-Salem police and the Guilford County sheri ’s department did long before GPD, but there is currently no legislation to prevent future heads of those departments from reviving it.

During the public controversy over Smith’s death, Mayor Nancy Vaughan and Scott publicly stated the RIPP Hobble had been used on “hundreds” of people

Before the suit was settled, Discovery revealed that the RIPP Hobble had been used in 275 instances between 2014 and 2018, in which approximately 68 percent of those it was used on were Black. Assistant City Manager for Public Safety Trey Davis acknowledged there had been “some” racial “disproportionality” as to who was hogtied.

A federal judge’s approval is not always required on a settlement, but was necessary in this case, due to minor children being included.

The $2.57 million settlement will be paid by the defendants and received by plainti s as follows:

approximately 30-minute court session, plainti attorney Flint Taylor and defense attorney Alan Duncan e usively thanked

the settlement.

In April of this year, City Attorney Chuck Watts announced that all parties to the lawsuit had come to terms on a settlement. However, that settlement was not o cial until recently. At the end of the approximately 30-minute court session, plainti attorney Flint Taylor and defense attorney Alan Duncan e usively thanked Jon Harkavy of the Chapel Hill firm Patterson Harkavy, LLP for working with all parties on the mediation that resulted in the settlement.

Although the terms of that settlement were agreed upon in April, one reason for the delay in it being finalized was the issue of Marcus Smith’s adult son Marquis Smith and two minor children, identified

Within 60 days of Oct. 20, 2022, the City of Greensboro will pay $2,220,000 and Guilford County will pay $350,000. $1.21 million will go to the parents and estate of Marcus Smith. $1.35 million will be apportioned between the three children, with each receiving $450,000. $10,000 will go to Greensboro’s Interactive Resource Center (IRC), for the installation of a plaque stating: “This courtyard is named and dedicated in loving memory of Marcus Deon Smith with funds for this dedication provided as an expression of respect and reconciliation by the City of Greensboro.”

include Greensboro attorney Betty Toussaint, whom a state court had appointed the children’s guardian settlement negotiations for the limited purpose of determining how funds would be distributed, Judge Briggs stated in a court appearance in August that she study it.

Although the terms of that settlement were agreed upon in April, one reason for the delay in it being finalized was the issue of Marcus Smith’s adult son Marquis Smith and two minor children, identified in court documents as A.D. and K.S. While both plainti s and defendants agreed to include Greensboro attorney Betty Toussaint, whom a state court had appointed the children’s guardian ad litem, in the settlement negotiations for the limited purpose of determining how funds would be distributed, Judge Briggs stated in a court appearance in August that she received no formal notification of this prior to that date, and would not sign o on the agreement until she had time to study it.

While Marcus Smith’s adult son Marquis and his minor child designated A.D. will receive their shares of the settlement within 60 days, guardian ad litem Toussaint has not yet been able to locate the child designated as K.S., nor that child’s mother. The settlement requires all parties to cooperate “with reasonable e orts to identify and locate K.S., with the Guardian ad Litem reporting to counsel every six months until K.S. has been located, or until A.D., the other minor child, is no longer a minor.” Until then, the $450,000 intended for K.S. will be held by the Guil-

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ford County Clerk of Superior Court, with “reasonable expenses” withdrawn by the Guardian ad litem.

If Toussaint identifies and locates K.S. prior to A.D.’s 18th birthday, the balance of those deposited funds will be distributed to K.S. But if K.S. is not located by A.D.’s 18th birthday, the amount remaining in trust will be divided between A.D. and Marquise Smith.

From the beginning of the public outcry over Marcus Smith’s death that began in October 2018, after Smith family attorney Graham Holt told the press that Smith had died from being restrained by police during a mental health crisis, many have asked what, beyond simply banning that restraint procedure, can be done to keep such a tragedy from recurring.

“The city is going to embed mental health workers in our police department,” said Vaughan in 2018, in a statement she made at the first council meeting after Marcus Smith’s death was ruled a homicide and the bodycam videos of that death were released. “These professionals will be new hires who are specially trained to assist police with their encounters with people su ering from mental health or drug addiction issues to help defuse and deescalate negative interactions. They will also provide follow-up and treatment options.”

The next time this proposal was publicly discussed at council was December 17, 2019. At that meeting, council voted 8-1 to approve agenda item No. 51, “Resolution Authorizing Award of Contract to The S.E.L. Group for Behavioral Health Response Program in the Amount of $500,000.”

The Social and Emotional Learning (S.E.L.) Group is a Greensboro-based organization founded by Dr. Nanette Funderburk and Minister Keith Funderburk. The purpose of the approved contract was to create “a Behavioral Health Response Program (BHRP)” providing city employees with a “real-time response from a mental health professional during crisis interactions with customers/residents.”

As part of its contract, S.E.L. Group was required to “equip city sta with the knowledge of how to handle crisis situations with clients in the absence of a mental health professional” and “de-escalate crisis situations, minimize crisis situations that lead to arrests, and more e ectively connect citizens who experience crises to the appropriate services in a timely manner.” The contract stated that S.E.L. Group clinicians would provide real-time response 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through Dec. 31, 2020, with the option of two one-year renewals.

The program did not begin until March 2020. In November of that year, the city

decided the contract with S.E.L. Group would not be renewed, and to hire a new team of counselors, who would report to the o ce of Equity and Inclusion, and work with police o cers who be given additional training.

This decision was not publicly discussed at a council meeting prior to council’s virtual work session on Nov. 17, 2020. At that work session, assistant city manager Kim Sowell informed the council that a licensed professional had been hired to run the new team and that the city was in the process of hiring six counselors.

The new city-run crisis intervention program, known as the Behavioral Health Response Team (BHRT) program, began with little fanfare in January 2021.

On October 10, the following announcement was posted to the Greensboro Police Department Facebook page.

The Greensboro Police Department was selected to receive funds from the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) Grant, through the NC Legislature House Bill 802. With these additional resources, GPD’s Behavioral Health Response Team now includes an EMS component.

Billie Silvera, Community Health Paramedic with Guilford County Emergency Medical Services Division, joined the team on August 29, 2022. Silvera has an extensive work history serving patients with behavioral health and developmental disabilities and has worked as a paramedic since 2014.

“I’m able to use both aspects of my career experiences- being a paramedic and serving those with mental health needs. I’m doing what I love on this team and together we are able to help others when they call 911” said Silvera.

With the new BHRT/STAR program, an o cer, licensed clinician and paramedic now respond together in one vehicle to calls where a mental health component may be present.

The post also quoted “Corporal Jeremy Johnson of BHRT” as saying: “This team is successful in that we are providing citizens of Greensboro with the best service we can o er. There are certainly calls where o cer support is needed. Other times, our o cers can default to the team’s clinician or paramedic for the exact care -- whether that is getting them connected with the help they need or providing immediate medical assistance.”

The post stated that, since January 2021, the BHRT team has “answered approximately 4,000 calls for service.” !

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.

P.T. Burnem brings the “Dustkat Dream Drum Machine” to the Triad

P.T. Burnem is bringing “Dustkat Dream Drum Machine” to etc.GSO through a residency with open house workshops running November 13-19 and performances on November 17 and 19.

“One Man, One Mic, One MPC,” Burnem is the stage name for Colin Swegman, an artist from the northeast known for “radical lyricism set to dark, heavy beats.” Based in Richmond, VA these days, he’s bringing an immersive, interactive experience to Greensboro — o ering “an amalgamation of many ideas I’ve been working with, both in and outside of the music practice for decades now.”

Carrying the fascination of embellishments and showmanship of his namesake, (who Swegman was dismayed to later learn was actually “kind of a dick”) the residency will synthesize light and sound, turning a room in etc.GSO into a robot drum machine through an array of gear and curation — a choreography of voice, design, composition and sculpture, with a collaborative, interactive experience for attendees.

“My studio has become a cacophonous orchestration of ambient drones and noisy rhythms, blinking lights, and clanging signs,” Swegman said. “It’s a lovely place to be and I found myself excited to create and conduct environments for sets which would perhaps play like an album.”

The core of the show is supported through The Illuminator, “which takes Modular signals and translates them into light and solenoid triggers,” he explained of the mechanics behind turning a room into a drum machine. For gearheads, the show also features a Pulsar-23 drum machine and an 0Coast and Strega driven by a 0-Ctrl. “They’re synthesizers dreamed up by Tony Rolando of MakeNoise out of Asheville, incidentally,” he added.

Aiding interactive elements, the

residency will feature tape recorders distributed on a first-serve basis. “You’ll also be able to become a part of the machine yourself,“ Swegman noted. “My technique with music right now is immersive, I keep drones, drums, and clanging objects going during the work, to sit with the sounds of the room and arrange things e ectively. I want to welcome folks into that process.”

Within that process, Swegman’s musical influences run a gamut of Aesop Rock, Mac Miller, Kate Bush, and Future Islands; along with the “Modular on the Roof” series and Éliane Radigue, a French drone artist and composer of electronic and symphonic instruments. Turning to his own work, “I’d like to span the range from meditative drone to cacophonous lunacy,” he said, with current themes concentrated around the “impermanence and the usefulness or uselessness of language,” he said. “And heartbreak, of course.”

Creating a static connection, the residency features workshops, geared toward opportunities for “ticket-holders

to get deeper into the piece,” Swegman explained, “with one-on-one time with the synths and perhaps a chat about the philosophical aspects of what I’m doing.“

Getting metaphysical, there’s the “philosophical ground of vibration and vibratory rates and harmonics being the key to not only music but all of existence,” he noted, “as we’ve been discovering that matter is energy vibrating so fast that it manifests as matter.”

Following the energy of the area, Swegman praised the openness of audiences he’s witnessed when performing in the Triad — notably during the Winston-Salem Rap Round Robin series, originated by the hip-hop sibling duo, Speak N’ Eye. And having been introduced to videographer, Yanni Xoinis (and the etc.GSO space) during the memorial show for the group’s elder brother, Joshua “Unspeakable” Brookshire.

“We met up recently to shoot a series of live videos, and performances of the material on [Swegman’s latest album] “Perzang!,” he explained of working with Xoinis. The pair released the video for

“Ton Up ‘Til The Sun Up” on October 28. “Yanni has a strong eye for capturing the feel of what I’m doing, and our work became the impetus for bringing the residency to Greensboro.”

No stranger to video, Swegman hosts

“The ZnZerna Music Hour,” a “weekly live stream on Twitch in which I jam out with synthesizers, explore philosophical ideas, and talk about what I’m doing artistically,” he noted. “It’s also a vehicle for presenting the Dustkat or Zerna stickers that I’ve been releasing and the philosophical concepts of dust and manifestation embodied by the Zerna.”

Broadcasting Tuesdays at 7 p.m., the show bridges Swegman’s love for the “endless potential of digital creation” and “special fondness for the tangible objects of art.” A fondness made manifest in sticker forms and Zerna — a little cat creature “uncovered in the dust of the bu ng room at a guitar factory I worked in on the eastern shore of Maryland.”

“The compound we used to wax the bu ng wheels comes in long bricks, and

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the use of the wheels on them carves them into shapes that change depending on your bu ng technique,” he explained. “Mine happened to carve them into a cat ear shape, which I then elaborated on using wax pencil, creating a type of sculpture that became popular around the factory.”

“On a whim, I began trying my hand at drawing the things, and that’s when it really took o ,” he continued, bestowing a title of “Zerna” on the “Dustkats” he’d made; and developing a sticker series

that “had a tarot-like system of subtle symbols and messaging — conveying a philosophy rooted in Zen and Hebrew mysticism.”

Drawing on the “Bob” stickers found across Philadelphia, and his experience of following stickers to underground locations in Poland, Swegman sees stickers as “a language, the voice of a city, in the same way that traditional gra ti is.” Bridging the tangible divide, he o ers a sticker club via Patreon. “For about the price of a co ee a month, members get

a premium Dustkat sticker in the mail, sometimes an additional handmade one-of-a-kind sticker, and sometimes other objects like physical copies of my albums.”

The ZnZerna Music Hour will broadcast live on Tuesdays during the residency to “welcome folks into the process digitally.”

Going beyond, Swegman is also a part of the bass-heavy electro-punk project, Trauma Lavern; and the acoustic postapocalyptic folk project D.R.O.N.E.S. out

of Richmond, VA. He’s also currently working on a “more straightforward rap album” with Cold Rhymes Records cohort, Height Keech; and will be on upcoming work with MC Homeless and Fake Four artist Myles Bullen. And is coproducing Aaron “Emceein’ Eye” Brookshire’s album, “Nothing Beats a Try,” due in early 2023. !

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

P.T. Burnem brings the “Dustkat Dream Drum Machine” to etc.GSO, November 13-19.

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Four SaintS BrEwing

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 www.foursaintsbrewing.com

thursdays: taproom trivia Fridays: Music Bingo nov 6: randolph Jazz Band nov 12: Creatio nov 19: analog Crash nov 20: Honky tonk Jam w/ Mark Dillion & Friends

nov 23: Corey Hunt and the wise

Dec 4: randolph Jazz Band

Dec 10: william nesmith

CARBORRO

Cat’S CraDlE

300 E Main St | 919.967.9053 www.catscradle.com

nov 2: tropical Fuck Storm nov 2: russian Circles nov 3: tumbao! nov 4: Matthew Shipp, ivo Perelman, Jeff Cosgrove trio nov 4: Beth Stelling

nov 5: Chloe Moriondo nov 6: Shane Smith and the Saints nov 6: oso oso nov 6: the legendary Pink Dots nov 6: Sing out nC - a Concert for reproductive Justice! nov 7: Plains nov 7: tigers Jaw nov 8: tracy Deonn nov 9: Eugene Mirman nov 9: leven Kali nov 10: Copeland nov 10: the red Pears nov 12: Phillip Phillips nov 13: alejandro Escovedo nov 13: the Brevet nov 14: Soccer Mommy nov 14: Field Medic nov 15: Don Dixon nov 16: Courtney Marie andrews nov 17: Stop light observations nov 17: Pretty Sick nov 17: Senses Fail nov 18: the Stews nov 18: Dro Kenji & midwxst nov 19: Carbon leaf nov 19: rose City Band nov 20: old Sea Brigade

nov 23: aldn nov 25: Crazy Chester nov 27: the Menzingers nov 28: Black lips Dec 1: less than Jake Dec 2: Julia., By george Dec 2: Violet Bell Dec 3: Mike Doughty Dec 4: Covet

Dec 7: lightning Bolt Dec 8: Jump, little Children Dec 9: Kelsey waldon Dec 10: the greeting Committee Dec 10: Southern Culture on the Skids

Dec 12: Special interest Dec 13: the Happy Fits Dec 13: Baked Shrimp

Dec 14: Mclusky Dec 15: turnover

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com nov 3: we the Kingdom nov 6: HBCu Culture Homecoming Fest & Battle of the Bands nov 13: Myriam Hernandez nov 17: Mania: the aBBa tribute nov 19: gloria trevi nov 30: rod wave

Dec 1: a Day to remember - reassembled: acoustic theater tour Dec 6: allman Family revival Dec 10: Southern Soul Music Festival

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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com nov 3: Bad omens nov 4: Emo night Karaoke nov 5: Yung gravy & bbno$ nov 5: william Clark green

nov 6: rina Sawayama nov 9: Blanco Brown nov 10: Claudia oshry nov 10: oddisee nov 11: Dayglow nov 12: Silversun Pickups nov 13: the Menzingers

nov 14: Bobby Shmurda nov 15: teddy Swims nov 16: i Previal nov 16: Jessie reyez nov 19: omar apollo nov 19: ani DiFranco nov 20: amon amarth nov 27: w.a.S.P nov 29: MaX w/ VinCint

Dec 2: Blue october

Dec 2: Soen + Special guests

Dec 3: State Champs

Dec 7: Jinjer

Dec 8: Machine Head

Dec 15: From ashes to new

SPECtruM CEntEr

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com

nov 20: Hilsong unitED + Chris tomlin

Dec 6: Daddy Yankee

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Nov 11: Hampton Drive

Nov 17: Megan Doss

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Nov 19: Muddy Creek Revival

Dec 1: James Vincent Carroll

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CaRoliNa THEaTRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org

Nov 2: Jonathan Blanchard

Nov 6: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Nov 7: Celebrating Billy Joel

Nov 10: The Fab Four

Nov 11: Claudia oshry

Nov 12: Boney James

Nov 16: lindsey Buckingham

Nov 18: ani DiFranco w/ The Righteous Babes Revue

Dec 3: That Motown Band

Dec 7: Herb alpert and lani Hall

CHaR BaR No. 7

3724 Lawndale Dr. | 336.545.5555 www.charbar7.com

DPaC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com

Nov 10: Disney Junior live on Tour

Nov 11: lewis Black

Nov 12: Randy Rainbow

Nov 22-23: Harry Connick, Jr.

Dec 7: allman Family Revival

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REEVES THEaTER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 www.reevestheater.com

Wednesdays: Reeves open Mic

Fourth Thursdays: old-Time Jam

Nov 11: Sideline

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

Nov 25: Time Sawyer w/ Damon atkins Trio

Dec 2: The Elkin Big Band w/ Teresa Jasper

Dec 9: Donna the Buffalo

Dec 10: Drifters Revue

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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

Nov 3: Natalie Grant

Nov 4: larry & Joe

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Nov 4: on The Border

Nov 16: Nu-Blu

Nov 28: Motown Christmas

Dec 1: Frosty

CoMEDY ZoNE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 www.thecomedyzone.com

Nov 3: Pinky Patel

Nov 4-5: Chad Prather

Nov 10: Tim Shropshire

Nov 11-12: Burpie

Nov 17: Kerwin Claiborne

Nov 18-19: Shelly Belly

Nov 25-26: Mario Tory

Dec 2-3: Michael Yo

Dec 8: Maddy Smith

Dec 9-10: Gianmarco Soresi

Dec 16-17: Mutzie

Dec 30: Bodacious

CoMMoN GRouNDS

602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388

www.facebook.com/CommonGrounds Greensboro

Nov 16: Megan Paullet

CoNE DENiM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 www.cdecgreensboro.com

Nov 11: ace Hood

Nov 27: Rome & Duddy

GREENSBoRo ColiSEuM

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400

www.greensborocoliseum.com

Nov 18: We outside Comedy Tour

Nov 23: los angeles azules

Dec 11: For King & Country

Dec 17: Pentatonix: a Christmas Spectacular

Dec 28: WWE live Holiday Tour

Jan 14-15: Monster Jam

Jan 28: Toby Mac

Feb 11: Journey w/ ToTo

liTTlE BRoTHER

BREWiNG

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678

www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbrew

Wednesdays: Trivia

Fridays & Saturdays: Free live Music

PiEDMoNT Hall

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com

Nov 4: Green Queen Bingo

Dec 8: Jinjer

Feb 26: Big Head Todd and the Monsters

rODY’S TAVErN

5105 Michaux Rd | 336.282.0950

www.facebook.com/rodystavern

Nov 2: David Mclaughlin

Nov 4: Pete O’dea

Nov 9: robert Alexander Smith & JVC

Nov 11: Wishful Thinking

Nov 16: Darell Hoots

Nov 18: rod Brady Duo

Nov 23: Tony Andrews

Nov 25: Jim Mayberry

Nov 30: Megan Doss

SOuTH END BrEWiNg CO.

117B W Lewis St | 336.285.6406 www.southendbrewing.com

Tuesdays: Trivia Night

STEEl HANDS BrEWiNg

1918 W Gate City Blvd | 336.907.8294 www.facebook.com/steelhandsgreensboro

Nov 4: The Brothers gillespie

Nov 5: Nathan Pope Band Benefit

Nov 10: Vilai Harrington

Nov 11: river Tramps

Nov 13: Jordan lawson

Nov 19: The High Tides

Nov 25: Tre Smith

STEVEN TANgEr CENTEr

300 N Elm Street | 336.333.6500 www.tangercenter.com

Nov 3: Travis Tritt & Chris Janson

Nov 5: Sergey Antonov

Nov 8: Disney Junior live on Tour

Nov 10: Daniel levitin & rosanne Cash

Nov 11: Joe gatto

Nov 12: Taylor Tomlinson

Nov 16: Alton Brown

Nov 18: The illusionists

Nov 19: Michael Feinstein

Nov 20: Atif Aslam

Nov 23: Mannheim Steamroller

Christmas Nov 26: Martina McBride

Nov 27: Dirty Dancing in Concert

Dec 13: Bela Fleck

Dec 14: Hip Hop Nutcracker

THE iDiOT BOx

COMEDY CluB

503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com

Thursdays: Open Mic

Nov 12: Dusty Cagle

Nov 18: Jay light

Dec 9: David goolsby

Dec 10: Kenyon Adamcik

WiNESTYlES

3326 W Friendly Ave Suite 141 | 336.299.4505 www.facebook.com/winestylesgreens boro277

Nov 5: Susana Macfarlane

Nov 12: Stewart Coley

Dec 3: Susana Macfarlane

high point

1614 DMB

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 https://www.1614drinksmusicbilliards.com/

Nov 12: Cowboy

Nov 18: Throwdown Jones

Nov 19: Vinyl rox

Nov 26: Fair Warning

gOOFY FOOT TAPrOOM 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 www.goofyfoottaproom.com

Nov 5: Tyler Millard Duo

Nov 19: Casey Noel

Nov 26: Michael Chaney

HigH POiNT THEATrE 220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com

Nov 8: uS Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band

Nov 18: Confederate railroad in Concert

Nov 20: Black Violin

Nov 26: John Berry Christmas Tour

Dec 3-4: The Nutcracker Ballet

SWEET OlD Bill’S

1232 N Main St | 336.807.1476 www.sweetoldbills.com

Nov 3: Dylan Smith

Nov 10: Banjo Earth

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THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 www.thedeckatrivertwist.com

Friday & Saturday: live Bands

Nov 3: Ethan Smith

Nov 4: Second glance

Nov 5: TOYZ

Nov 10: DJ Jen

Nov 11: The Finns

Nov 12: TJ the DJ/Dance Party

Nov 17: Dan Miller

Nov 18: 7 roads Band

Nov 19: Jukebox revolver

Nov 25: Decades

Nov 26: Simerson Hill

kernersville BrEATHE

COCKTAil lOuNgE 221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 www.facebook.com/BreatheCocktail Lounge

Wednesdays: Karaoke

Jan 14: Sprocket

KErNErSVillE BrEWiNg COMPANY

221 N Main St. | 336.816.7283

www.facebook.com/kernersvillebrewing

Thursdays: Trivia

liberty

THE liBErTY SHOWCASE THEATEr

101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844

www.TheLibertyShowcase.com

Nov 4: Seldom Scene

Nov 5: Dailey & Vincent

Nov 12: The Malpass Brothers

Dec 2: Billy “Crash” Craddock

Dec 9: Jerry Allison & Friends

Dec 10: Jimmy Fortune

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CCu MuSiC PArK AT WAlNuT CrEEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111 www.livenation.com

Dec 30: Magic Of lights: DriveThrough Holiday lights Experience

liNCOlN THEATrE

126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400 www.lincolntheatre.com

Nov 4: Cosmic Charlie

Nov 5: 49 Winchester

Nov 9: Todd Snider

Nov 10: Tropidelic w/ Mike Pinto

Nov 11: William Clark green w/ Ben Chapman

Nov 12: Stone Whiskey

Nov 13: St. lucia

Nov 17: Corrosion of Conformity

Nov 19: inzo w/ rome in Silver & Covex

Nov 25: into the Fog and Songs From The road Band

Nov 26: Duck

Dec 1: runaway gin

Dec 3: ian Noe

Dec 4: Chatham rabbits

Dec 7:Delta rae

Dec 9: The Connells w/ The Whom

Dec 10: The Dune Dogs

Dec 14: Andy Frasco & The u.N. W/ little Stranger

Dec 15: The Vegabonds

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

Dec 14: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

WINSTON-SALEM

EARL’S

121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018

www.earlsws.com

Mondays: Open Mic

Thursdays: Will Jones

Nov 4: Time Bandits

Nov 5: Megan Doss Band

Nov 9: Neil Young Classics- Local Bands

Nov 11: Anna Leigh Band

Nov 12: Drew Foust

Nov 18: Travis Grubb and the Stone Rangers

Nov 19: Aaron Hamm and the Big River Band

Nov 25: Decades Band

Nov 26: Russ Varnell and his Too Country Band

Dec 2: Zack Brock and the Good Intentions

Dec 3: Jesse Ray Carter

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

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

Dec 2: Colin Allured

Dec 4: Michael Chaney

Dec 7: Colin Cutler

Dec 9: David Childers

Dec 11: Caleb Wolfe

Dec 14: Terra String

MIDWAY MUSIC HALL

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

Mondays: Line Dancing

Nov 5: SideKix

Nov 12: JS, And the Footlights

Nov 13: Thunder Road Cruise in and Market

Nov 13: Atlantic Coast Highway

Nov 19: Sidekix

Dec 3: SideKix

Dec 10: JS, And the Footlights

MUDDY CREEK CAFE & MUSIC HALL

137 West St | 336.201.5182

www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe

Nov 9: Gaelic Storm

Nov 12: Presley Barker & Paige King Johnson

Nov 19: Wayne Henderson, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

Nov 26: Nirvani: A Nirvana Tribute

Dec 2: Kyle Petty

Dec 9: Dropkick Mullet

Dec 10: Big Daddy Love

THE RAMKAT

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

Nov 3: Vince Herman

Nov 4: Legendary Shack Shakers

Nov 9: Chris Renezema w/ Jess Ray

Nov 10: Joshua Ray Walker w/ Margo Cilker

Nov 11: The Waybacks

Nov 12: Acoustic Syndicate & Blue Dogs

Nov 17: Migrant Birds w/ Mild Goose Chase

Nov 18: Dirty Logic

Nov 19: Chatham Rabbits w/ Seth Walker

Nov 23: Sam Fribush Organ Trio w/ Sonny Miles

Nov 23: Camel City Yacht Club

Nov 26: Todd Snider

Dec 2: Trampled By Turtles w/ Spring Summer

Dec 3: FemFest IX

Dec 8: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio w/ Victoria Victoria

Dec 9: Southern Culture on the Skids

Dec 10: Samantha Fish w/ The Jesse Dayton Band

Dec 13: Tab Benoit

ROAR

633 North Liberty Street | 336-917-3008 www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater. com

Nov 4: The Rickets, DJ Professor, DJ Fish

Nov 5: DJ Dieon, DJ SK101, Ready Set Go

WISE MAN BREWING

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 www.wisemanbrewing.com

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[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might feel compelled to get involved on the “right side” of a seemingly unfair fight, but appearances can be deceptive. Get the facts before going forth into the fray.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Bullying others into agreeing with your position could cause resentment. Instead, persuade them to join you by making your case on a logical point-by-point basis.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Resist pushing for a workplace decision you might feel is long overdue. Your impatience could backfire. Meanwhile, focus on that still-unsettled personal situation.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your aspects favor doing something di erent. You might decide to redecorate your home, take a trip somewhere you’ve never been, or even change your hairstyle.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) You might want to take a break from your busy schedule to restore your energy levels. Use this less-hectic time to also reassess your plans and make needed changes.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) What you like to think of as determination might be seen by others as nothing more than stubbornness. Try to be more flexible if you hope to get things resolved.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Watch that you don’t unwittingly reveal work-related information to the wrong person. It’s best to say nothing until you get o cial clearance to open up.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) With things settling down at work or at home, you can now take on a new challenge without fear of distraction. Be open to helpful suggestions from colleagues.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Your creativity can help resolve an emotional situation that might otherwise get out of hand. Continue to be your usual caring and sensitive self.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You could impress a lot of influential people with the way you untangle a few knotty problems. Meanwhile, a colleague is set to share some welcome news.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Aspects favor recharging your social life and meeting new people. It’s also a good time to renew friendships that might be stagnating due to neglect on both sides.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Congratulations. Your talent for working out a highly technical problem earns you well-deserved praise. The weekend could bring news about a friend or relative.

[BORN THIS WEEK: Your sense of justice makes you a strong advocate for the rights of people and animals alike.

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[3. LITERATURE: Which 20th-century horror novel is set in the Overlook Hotel?

[6. MOVIES: Which book is the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu” based upon?

[7. BUSINESS: Which company goes by the nickname “Big Blue”?

[8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which state has produced the most presidents (8) by birth?

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4. MUSIC: Before his solo career, singer Harry Styles was part of which boy band?

[9. ANATOMY: What is a common name for the tympanic membrane?

[10. U.S. STATES: Which state features a full-size replica of the Parthenon?

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5. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital city of Denmark?

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4.OneDirection.

3.“TheShining.”

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