YES! Weekly - February 22, 2023

4 On Saturday, February 18, the REYNOLDA HOUSE Museum of American Art inaugurated the long-anticipated exhibit “Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance.

6 THE RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will present a free screening of Remember This at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 2 at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem.

8 If you lie to the police, you end up in jail. If you lie to your spouse, you end up in divorce court. And, if you lie to the IRS, you end up broke. Yet according to a recent ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, YOU CAN LIE AND GET AWAY WITH IT if

you’re running for public o ce.

9 There are things amiss in MARLOWE, the screen adaptation of John Banville’s 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, but in many ways, the film is a pleasure to sit through — and not necessarily a guilty one.

14 If you think a mistake was made about a GIRL RECEIVING AN EAGLE AWARD, that is something else you need to rethink. As of 2018, Boy Scouts has allowed girls to participate in the same program as 11-17 year-old boys in a movement renamed Scouts BSA.

16 THE NUBEING COLLECTIVE is coming together with a new album and another round of their Strange Fruit Festival, both of which will bloom in the spring, followed by a GROW residency at the Greensboro Cultural Center as part of the Strange Fruit Foundation to round out the summer.

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A large downtown live music venue will be built on the entire 100 Block of North Church Street if plans presented by Greensboro Coliseum Matt Brown to Greensboro City Council members come to fruition.

3 The Stokes County Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of the “Forsyth Tech Community College Fine Arts Faculty and Alumni ART EXHIBITION” in the Apple Gallery.

The Stokes County Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of the “Forsyth Tech Community College Fine Arts Faculty and Alumni Art Exhibition” in the Apple Gallery. A reception is scheduled for Friday, March 3, 2023 from 6:30pm8:00pm at the Stokes County Arts Council 500 Main Street Danbury, NC. This exhibit includes approximately 50 original works including sculpture, drawing, paintings, and more. Artists in the exhibit include Strazzinski, Lilli Castaldo, Matt Flowers, Juie Rattley, Epiphany Knedler, Celia Castaldo, Jason Lancaster, Jamy Gearhart, Nicole Uzzell, Cecilia Wright, Maria Robinson, and Melissa Smedley.

Dr. Cristy Lynn Brown, Program Coordinator of Fine Arts at Forsyth Technical Community College was the coordinator of this collaboration and exhibit and worked closely with our Visual Arts Chair. Professor Jason Lancaster and AFA students from his Portfolio course installed the show. Professor Lancaster used this exhibit as a teaching model to give art

students experience in planning for an exhibit and making connections within the art community.

“This collection of work highlights the breadth of interests and flexibility cultivated within Forsyth Tech’s AFA program,” shared Lancaster. “We love getting a chance to show the work done by our students, past and present, and being able to demonstrate some of the strengths of our faculty in the same space creates a very interesting dialogue through the work.”

For more information on the Associate of Fine Arts program at Forsyth Technical Community College, visit https://www.forsythtech.edu/courses-programs/degrees/ programs-a-z/associate-in-fine-arts/.

This exhibit will be on display February 16-March 31, 2023 the Apple Gallery. The Stokes County Arts Council is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9:00am5:00pm, Saturday, 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m. and Sunday 12:00pm-5:00pm. For additional information about the exhibit, please contact the Stokes County Arts Council at (336) 593-8159 or visit www. stokesarts.org. !

Reynolda House Displays Artist Stephen Town’s Testament to the Black American Narrative

On Saturday, February 18,

residents. Upon coming across Pledger’s and Hamlin’s photographs, the artist felt called to paint their image.

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the Reynolda House Museum of American Art inaugurated the long-anticipated exhibit “Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance.” A collection of 37 pieces by living artist Stephen Towns, the show pays homage to the lives of Black Americans over the past century and a half through a series of paintings and quilt stories unlike any the museum has displayed before. Guest curated by the renowned Kilolo Luckett, art historian, curator, and founding executive director and chief curator of art platform ALMA|LEWIS, the exhibit is scheduled to run through May 14.

During a site visit last summer, Towns spent a couple of weeks learning about the various historical aspects of Reynolda House and Winston-Salem, including studying the Reynolda Archives in which he came across a photograph of Five Row’s residents Flora Pledger and Lillie Hamlin. A segregated community that housed Reynolda’s Black farm workers and their families, Five Row, which had gotten its name from originally consisting of a single row of houses, provided no electricity nor indoor running water to its

“The thing that just kept popping out was the image of Flora and Lille,” said Towns about his visit. Upon feeling their spirits calling upon him to show them to the world, the artist set it upon himself to bring them to life with acrylic, oil, and metal leaf, displaying the final work for the first time as part of this exhibit. “He is dreaming these new realities for us and that’s really important,” said Luckett of the artist, “because we get so fixated on the two people in the image, who are not just two people, they are representative of a larger experience of Black people resisting.”

Through these newly created realities, Towns seeks to show a testament to both his ancestors, a long line of Georgia and South Carolina laborers, and the colleagues he has worked alongside in his life. Additionally, he brings light to resistance in all of its forms. “People in the United States did not want to see the end, right? Of slavery,” said Luckett. “So there’s resistance going on in di erent ways from all di erent sides, it’s not just one dimensional.” Towns’ pieces question these meanings of resistance in historical, contemporary, and potentially even future settings.

Serious thought and time were invested in the development of the exhibit title, which both Towns and Luckett worked on together. Exploring an endless option of

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The Fisherman, natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, crystal glass beads, metal and wooden buttons

I am the Glory, acrylic, oil, metal leaf on panel

Shaping Up, acrylic, oil, metal leaf, silver leaf on panel

Charles “Teenie” Harris, acrylic, oil, copper leaf on panel

words and their various meanings within di ering time settings, the team finally settled on Declaration & Resistance.

“What does that mean today in contemporary times to declare something and for someone to resist?” asked Luckett. “We’re still in this struggle, and Stephen shows us through a multitude of ways the possibilities of what liberation looks like, the liberation of our minds, colonialism, imperialism, how we can free our minds so we can all be treated with dignity and respect.”

Many of Towns’ figures in his paintings are accompanied by butterflies, an intricate detail inescapable to the viewer and with tremendous intent. Based on this gentle creature’s movement and migratory behavior, its symbolism in Town’s pieces highlights not only the Great Migration of Black Americans out of the South into the North and West of the United States but the concept of mobility. Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, the artist did not see Black people elevated, either. Through his use of these butterflies, he wants to show how spiritual and wonderful people can be.

The one piece on display that was not created specifically for this exhibit, “Birth of a Nation,” is also the work that set Towns down the path of a new art medium. With an idea in mind of a piece he wanted to execute, the artist found himself struggling to paint this image and turned to quilting as an alternative. “I went to my mother’s house to get some of her old fabrics because my mother was a sewer,” said Towns. “Because I had that to experiment with I could create this piece.” Upon completion of this first quilt, the artist continued to create in this medium.

By teaching himself further quilting skills with the aid of YouTube videos, Towns discovered and immersed himself into the underground community of sewers and quilters. “It’s really inspired me to continue to make this work,” he said. “The idea of the quilt being this object that you wrap around yourself to create warmth, the fabric and the texture of it, and also that it’s a very sort of precious

object that’s not going to last forever, like moments in time, like history.” Several of the pieces in “Declaration & Resistance” include these beautifully intricate story quilt works.

“I feel like most artists would just stay in one medium,” said Luckett on Town’s versatility. “But Stephen, that’s not him, he’s always wanting to challenge himself.”

Homage to his deceased sister who owned a cleaning business, Towns first created “Birth of a Nation” based on the disrespect his sister would experience during interactions with people she worked for. This had her questioning why a person would disrespect someone whose grandparents fed their grandparents. Luckett found there to be no declaration of resistance without this piece included. Innovative and interactive, the exhibit invites the viewer to physically engage with Town’s creative process through a mini library of books recommended by both Towns and Luckett, a puzzle table for viewers to connect over, and a couple of displays holding some of the historical artifacts and source materials Towns got inspiration from. It’s from these that the artist focuses on particular aspects to then develop his expansive way of looking at the Black experience, creating unique opportunities to unlearn much of what we have been taught to look at in a certain way.

“Declaration & Resistance” is the perfect opportunity for any museum to paint a holistic picture of the American experience. “We’re going to keep doing our work, storytelling,” concluded Luckett. “But there has to be much more than just bringing a show here, there has to be a deeper conversation.” Perhaps with this deeper conversation a deeper behavior will take place, a change rooted in how to remove ourselves from what seems to be an ongoing colonial funk. In the meantime, Towns hopes that he has done both Flora Pledger and Lillie Hamlin justice. !

High Point University invites the community to campus for an exciting lineup of complimentary cultural events. The spring schedule includes a variety of speakers, art, music and theater performances.

For a complete list of community events and to sign up for email notifications on future events, go to: www.highpoint.edu/live.

WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT

WINDS ACROSS THE WORLD

February 21

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre

SPRING DANCE CONCERT

HAPPENINGS

March 16-18

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre

EXHIBIT RECEPTION & JUROR’S TALK

ARTIFACT BOLD 2023

March 29

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Darrell E. Sechrest Art Gallery

OTHER EVENTS INCLUDE:

March 29

Instrumental Chamber Ensembles Concert

April 4

Jazz Ensemble Concert

April 11

A Night at the Movies

HPU Community Orchestra High Point Theatre

April 14

Clarinet and Percussion Ensembles Concert

April 20-22

Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson Theatrical Performance

April 24

Mozart’s Requiem Choral Concert

April 26

Departures Wind Ensemble Concert

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

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RiverRun presents free screening of award-winning Holocaust drama

As its organizers enter the home stretch of preparations for the upcoming 25th festival, the RiverRun International Film Festival will present a free screening of Remember This at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 2 at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Parkway, WinstonSalem. Admission is free, but tickets are required and are available at https://riverrunfilm.com/.

This fact-based drama details the life of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II, who risked his life to o er first-hand accounts of war-torn Poland and the Holocaust to those in the West. Having survived torture at the hands of the Gestapo as a prisoner of war, he had experienced the atrocities inflicted upon Jews by the Nazis. Tragically, his warnings were ignored. After the war, Karski earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University, where he taught in the School of Foreign Service for 40 years. He was made an honorary citizen of Israel and awarded the distinction “Righteous Among the Nations.” Karski died in Washington, DC, in 2000, but was posthumously awarded the

Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

Remember This is based on the stage production Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, which was commissioned for Karski’s centennial, and first performed — appropriately enough — at Georgetown University. The one-man show starred David Strathairn (Oscar nominee for 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck.), who reprises his role as Karski in the film version under the direction of first-timers Je Hutchens and Derek Goldman. The film was originally presented on the long-running, awardwinning PBS series Great Performances. Remember This won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature at the 2022 Montclair Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and World of HA Change Maker Award at the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival.

“I had the opportunity to meet David Strathairn when he was in town last summer filming Angus MacLachlan’s new film (A Little Prayer),” explained Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director, “and David mentioned the stage production of Remember This. When Eva Anisko decided to film the project, Beth Levison served as a consulting producer. RiverRun supporter Diane Barrett put us in touch with Beth when we showed her documentary, Storm Lake, and I reached out to her about Remember This, and she connected me with Eva.

“The story of Jan Karski is a compelling piece of history, and one that must be shared as widely as possible,” Davis added. “All of us at RiverRun are honored to be able to show this film to our community. Jan Karski’s story reveals human nature at its worst but also at its strongest from the standpoint of his perseverance and work. Through his story, we see the results of apathy and inaction in a tragic lesson we all need to remember.”

A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring Barry Trachtenberg, the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, where he teaches classes on the Nazi Holocaust and Jewish responses to it, as well as classes on the history of Zionism, American Jewry, and other topics related to the modern Jewish past. Trachtenberg, who serves on the Board of Scholars of Facing History and Ourselves, has also authored the non-fiction books The Holocaust & The Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (2022), The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (2018), and The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (2008).

“We are excited to be partnering with RiverRun for one more screening event on the eve of the 2023 festival,” said Zack Fox, general manager of Marketplace Cinemas. “Remember This is an incredibly powerful story starring the always-wonderful David Strathairn. I

think this free event is only a taste of what wonderful films and programs Rob Davis and the RiverRun team have in store for us in the big festival!”

Davis reciprocates the sentiment.

“We’re delighted to be working with Zack Fox and the Marketplace team again,” he said. “The screenings at Marketplace have done well. For Nosferatu, we had 110 which is phenomenal for a 100-year-old silent film, and for Elf we had almost 100 — though that technically wasn’t free as admission was two cans of food. Beetlejuice was a paid ticketed screening and did great too, with 106 in attendance. Also, our free ‘Indie Lens’ virtual screenings are doing well. Our most recent one, Love in the Time of Fentanyl, had 208 viewers.”

As for the upcoming festival, “plans are going very well. We received over 1,750 submissions and are currently in the process of finalizing our schedule and accepting films for what promises to be a terrific silver-anniversary festival!”

The 25th annual RiverRun International Film Festival is scheduled for April 13-22, 2023.

For more information, call (336) 7241502 or visit https://riverrunfilm.com/ riverrun-halloween-retro-2022/. !

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WEEKLY ARTS ROUNDUP] PHENOMENAL WOMAN: MAYA ANGELOU BRINGS MAYA ANGELOU’S STORY TO THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME

For the first time in history NC Black Rep will bring the life of world-renowned poet, author and activist, Dr. Maya Angelou to the stage. Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou will be the fourth collaboration between director Jackie Alexander, producing artistic director at NC Black Rep, and Los Angeles-based playwright and poet, Angelica Chéri.

In 2014, Alexander produced Chéri’s first professional production, The Seeds of Abraham at The Billie Holiday Theatre in New York. He also produced and directed her first production at the National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) in 2017, The Sting of White Roses. Cheri’s play Berta, Berta was produced at the 2019 NBTF and is included in Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology.

Chéri’s other plays include The Wiring & the Switches (developed at the Ge en Playhouse), Learn to Speak Doll (Peppercorn Theatre commission), Slow Gin Fits (The Fire This Time Festival) and The Yin & The Yang (Columbia University). She and collaborator Ross Baum received the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical Gun & Powder (World Premiere at Signature Theatre, directed by Robert O’Hara), which has been developed at Theatre Latté Da, Goodspeed Musicals, The Signature Theatre and selected for the 2018 NAMT Festival of New Musicals. She is currently writing on the award-win-

ning series Godfather of Harlem, starring Forest Whitaker.

Adding to Cheri’s growing list of accomplishments, is the rolling world premiere of Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou which will have its start at NC Black Rep Saturday, February 25, 2023 - Sunday, March 12, 2023 before playing at The Ensemble Theatre in Houston. In the performance, Maya Angelou takes us on an epic journey through her astonishing life story. From the trauma that thrust her into mutism, to the awakening that inspired her to write “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” audiences will experience how this phenomenal woman developed one of the most celebrated voices of all time.

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If You Want to Lie, Run for O ce

f you lie to the police, you end up in jail. If you lie to your spouse, you end up in divorce court. And, if you lie to the IRS, you end up broke. Yet according to a recent ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, you can lie and get away with it if you’re running for public o ce. I’ll come back to that moronic ruling in a moment.

During President Biden’s recent State of the Union address, representative Marjorie Taylor Greene yelled out, “Liar!!” Not that Uncle Joe hasn’t fibbed in his life, but it’s just not good form to interrupt the President of the United States, much less call him a liar. Moreover, the woman doing the shouting doth protest too

Imuch. Greene, the poster girl for White trash, spreads lies as freely as a farmer spreads manure. The only di erence is that Green’s lies carry more of a lasting odor. Who could ever forget her claim that the 2018 California wildfires were started by Jewish space lasers? She also said that Nancy Pelosi had “Gazpacho” police spying on members of Congress. Of course, Greene meant to say Gestapo, but you can’t blame her because English is a second language for Marjorie. Greene said a plane didn’t hit the Pentagon on 9/11, and that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease. She claimed that global warming is good for humanity, and she still believes that the 2020 election was stolen.

But just when we thought Congress had hit rock bottom with Greene, we were introduced to George Santos, or should I say, Anthony Devolder. “Santos” has lied and continues to lie about anything and everything, including that he graduated from NYU and was a star player on the Baruch College volleyball team when

they beat Yale. The problem is Baruch never played Yale during the time Santos says he attended, and, in fact, he never attended Baruch or NYU. He says he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, but he never worked for either company. He said he is Jewish, but he’s Catholic. He said that his grandparents fled the Holocaust, but they were born and lived in Brazil, and he claims his mother was working in the South Tower on 9/11 and eventually died from exposure to toxic debris. Actually, she was in Brazil at the time of the attack. Santos said he owns more than a dozen rental properties, but in truth, he owns none. He claims to have produced Spiderman on Broadway and that he was once mugged. Neither is true. I could go on, but why bother.

Unfortunately, Greene and Santos occupy positions of responsibility and power, and they vote on legislation that can a ect all of us. Also unfortunate is the fact that politicians like them never get punished for lying, either during their campaign or anytime afterward. How many times have you heard a media pundit say, “There’s no law against lying.” Well, that’s sort of a lie itself, at least here in North Carolina, where a liable law actually exists. It was passed in 1931, but hardly ever heard of until last year.

The saga began when Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein was running for reelection against Forsyth D.A. Jim O’Neill. The hot-button issue of their campaign was the backlog of unprocessed rape kits on both the state and local levels. Stein crossed the line when he ran a TV ad that accused O’Neill of having “left 1,500 rape kits sitting on the shelf.” The implication was that O’Neill’s failure to test those rape kits in a timely manner allowed rap-

ists to roam free and rape more victims. O’Neill charged that Stein had violated the 1931 liable law which, “makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly circulate false, derogatory reports about a candidate with the intent of hurting that candidate’s chances in the election.” Violators of the law could pay a fine and spend up to 60 days in jail.

A Wake County grand jury was poised to indict Stein, but the very next day, a three-judge panel voted 2 to 1 to grant the Attorney General an injunction so that Stein could have time to prove that the 1931 law he broke was unconstitutional. The two who ruled for Stein were fellow Democrats. The dissenting judge believed that lying and defaming was not protected speech. Nevertheless, the injunction kept the Wake County D.A. from sending Stein to jail. On February 8 of this year, a federal appeals court in Richmond slammed the door shut on O’Neill’s case. Said O’Neill, “Josh Stein won a ruling today that changes the law in North Carolina so that politicians running for o ce can now openly lie to the public and make any outrageous claims they want, all in an e ort to get re-elected.”

Stein’s TV ad helped him defeat O’Neill last Fall, and now our Attorney General has his sights set on the Governor’s mansion. And so, boys and girls, this lesson in civics teaches us that it’s OK to lie, and that if you ever get caught breaking a law, just ask the judge not to punish you so that you’ll have time to change the law that you broke. Ain’t America a great country? !

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in Marlowe, the screen adaptation of John Banville’s 2014 novel The BlackEyed Blonde, but in many ways, the film is a pleasure to sit through — and not necessarily a guilty one.

First and foremost, there is the inspired casting of Liam Neeson as Raymond Chandler’s immortal gumshoe Philip Marlowe. He looks right at home in the character’s trademark fedora, exuding a world-weary cynicism and the tarnished nobility of one who has seen too much evil in the world. He joins such illustrious company as Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, Robert Mitchum, James Garner, Powers Boothe, James Caan, and even Elliott Gould in the role, and fully does the character justice.

The year is 1939 and the place is Los Angeles. Marlowe is hired by alluring Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger) to locate Nico Peterson (Francois Arnaud), a B-studio day player with whom she had an extramarital fling. The case would appear cut and dry when Peterson is killed in a hit-and-run accident on the grounds of an exclusive social club. But, in the world of Philip Marlowe, appearances can be deceiving — and indeed they are.

The screenplay, by Oscar winners William Monahan (The Departed) and Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), is steeped in the trappings of film noir, replete with an evocatively bluesy score by David Holmes. It is also convoluted and meandering. The film’s pacing and rhythm, particularly in the early going, feel a little unsteady. Yet Marlowe, which Jordan also directed,is always watchable and frequently entertaining. The crisp, Chandleresque dialogue is snappy and wry, and Neeson’s delivery is assured and smooth.

As Marlowe delves deeper into the case, which takes some expectedly dark turns, he rubs elbows with the rich and powerful and locks horns with the corrupt and sleazy. Not surprisingly, they often turn out to be one and the same. There’s a rogues’ gallery of colorful characters on hand, with Marlowe the proverbial straight man throughout.

Kruger is a quintessential femme fatale, although not quite a lusciously lethal as she might have been. As Clare’s mother, faded sex goddess Dorothy Quincannon, Jessica Lange plays a quintessential grande dame with indulgent (but not over-indulgent) relish. Ian Hart and reliable Colm Meaney play Marlowe’s police contacts, who begrudgingly o er assistance because they know deep down he’s one of them — and can do the dirty work they can’t. Neither has enough to do, but Marlowe’s resident heavies o er more pleasure.

Danny Huston, who frequently plays villains, does so again here as Floyd Hanson, the condescendingly o cious — and clearly corrupt — proprietor of the social club, where the cellar doubles nicely as a torture chamber. Huston plays Hanson as a combination of Noah Cross, the character his father John Huston so memorably portrayed in Polanski’s classic Chinatown (1974), with a touch of Sydney Greenstreet thrown in for good measure. He’s clearly having a ball being bad, and

so is Alan Cumming, adopting a syrupy Southern drawl as e ete crime boss Lou Hendricks, whose constant berating of faithful chau eur Cedric (a slyly low-key Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje) is good for some laughs. Nevertheless, Cedric gets the last laugh.

Recalling Jordan’s earlier The Good Thief (2002), the film’s period look may be due to the fact it was filmed nowhere near Los Angeles (or America, for that matter), but in Barcelona and Ireland. Xavi Giménez’s cinematography is both surreal and pulpy, which is certainly appropriate for the story. In essence, parts of Marlowe are greater than the whole, but some of those parts are pretty great. Perhaps surprisingly, there is no voiceover narration in Marlowe. Maybe Neeson’s saving that for the next flatfoot he’s set to play: Lt. Frank Drebin in the reboot/remake of The Naked Gun (1988). !

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BASKETBALL VS. WINTHROP

Saturday, February 25

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FAMILY VALUES

Tony Toto and his wife, Frances, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, are celebrating 57 years of marriage, WFMZ-TV reported in a feel-good Valentine’s Day story. “We have been blessed that we had all these years,” Tony said, noting “that one time when we had a rough time.” Yeah, that was the time in 1983 when Frances hired teenaged hitmen five times to kill Tony. “I don’t think I was thinking straight,” Frances said. “It was like it was a lovehate kind of a thing.” Of course, the murder attempts weren’t successful, and Frances and the young hitmen were arrested. She spent four years in prison, but their love never wavered. A feature film called “I Love You to Death” was made about their troubles, and they became minor celebrities, traveling to movie premieres and giving interviews. Tony and Frances got counseling and committed to better communication, and decades later, have a long marriage to show for their efforts.

THE ARISTOCRATS

On Feb. 11, during an intermission at the Hannover State Opera House in Hannover, Germany, ballet director Marco Goecke shocked even himself when he approached the dance critic from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Wiebke Huester, and smeared animal feces on her face. The Associated Press reported that Goecke was unhappy with a recent review of a production he staged in The Hague. Following the incident, he took off through the crowded theater lobby. But strangely, Goecke seemed to justify his actions in a later interview, saying that after having his work “soiled for years ... Once a certain point has been reached, I disagree.” The opera house suspended and banned him from the facility until further notice.

WEIRD SCIENCE

People who suffer from chronic constipation now have a high-tech treatment option: a vibrating pill that stimulates the colon, CNN reported. The Vibrant capsule, prescribed by a doctor, is taken at bedtime and reaches the large intestine about 14 hours later. Vibrations cause the gut to contract, moving food along. Eventually, the capsule is eliminated and makes its way to a sewage treatment plant, where it’s sifted out and sent to a landfill. Dr. Eamonn

Quigley of Houston Methodist

Hospital helped test the new technology. He said most people couldn’t feel it working. “A minority could feel it. None of them felt it was being uncomfortable.” But we’re uncomfortable just reading this.

IT’S COME TO THIS

In what prosecutor Owen Beale called an “organized criminal matter,” Joby Pool, 32, pleaded guilty to theft and criminal damage in Kidderminster, England, magistrates court, The Guardian reported. His crime? Pool broke into a warehouse on Feb. 11 and towed away a trailer with about 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, valued at about $37,000. He didn’t get very far; when police stopped him, he “walked toward (them) with his hands up.” “This clearly wasn’t spur-of-the-moment offending,” Beale said. “You don’t just happen to learn about a trailer with that kind of value being available.” The “Easter bunny,” as police dubbed him, will be sentenced in March to about two years in jail.

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— In the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, one gas station is employing a dramatic tactic to try to keep people experiencing homelessness away: blasting opera music over its outdoor speakers. WPVI-TV reported that neighbors aren’t fans: “I heard all this music, I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. Loud, it was unbelievable that time of night,” said Clinton Barnes, who lives close by. “I don’t think it’s a deterrent,” said Karen Clark. “They have to find something else.” One neighbor said it was as loud as if someone had “cranked the volume all the way up” on the TV inside their home. Gas station employees refused to comment.

— Austin Bristoe, 26, of Bloomington, Indiana, was sick and tired of people breaking into his 1998 Buick and stealing stuff, Fox59-TV reported. On Feb. 12, when police responded to a car fire, they found Bristoe just standing next to his burning vehicle, and he told them he set it on fire to stop the thefts. “If there was nothing left of the vehicle, then there would be nothing left to steal,” Bristoe’s logic went. As it burned, the fire caused a small explosion, and Bristoe commented, “I hoped the explosions would be bigger.” After arresting him for arson, they searched him, finding several packed syringes and benzodiazepine. !

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Musical Chairs: Architects, coliseum manager propose new live music venue for downtown Greensboro

f plans presented by Greensboro coliseum manager Matt Brown and architects from CPL to Greensboro City Council members and o cials come to fruition, a large downtown live music venue will be built on the entire 100 Block of North Church Street, as bounded on the north by E. Friendly Avenue and on the south by E. Market Street, and extending two blocks east to the railway embankment. Like the Coliseum and Tanger Center, it will be owned and run by the city.

City representatives have yet to publicly state just how large the proposed venue will be, how many seats its outdoor amphitheater and indoor auditorium

Iwill hold, how much it will cost, or how it will be funded. In fact, no city o cial has publicly released any information beyond the emails and three-page architectural presentation sent to downtown property owner Eric Robert in compliance with a public information request he filed on January 27.

On February 13, city public records administrator Kurt Brenneman sent Robert the following email:

“In response to your public records request concerning the proposed downtown entertainment venue, specifically all correspondence re (sic) the proposed downtown entertainment venue, the Greensboro Information Technology Department searched the City’s email archive and retrieved 77 responsive emails.”

Those responsive emails began with an invitation sent by Greensboro Coliseum Managing Director Matt Brown on Nov. 10, 2022. It was addressed to Nancy Ho man, city council representative for District 4, and Zack Matheny, the District

3 representative who is also president of the city-funded nonprofit Downtown Greensboro. Other recipients included Maddison Carroll, Chief of Sta and Director of Hotel Operations at The Carroll Companies; Mark Brazil, CEO of the Wyndham Championship; Laura Way, President and CEO of ArtsGreensboro; and Amy Grossman, President and CEO of the NC Folk Festival; as well as Ken Mayer, Todd Dalton and Andy Park from the architectural firm CPL.

Brown, who sent the initial email announcing the presentation, is also the Managing Director of the Stephen Tanger Center for Performing Arts, and with a salary of $368,392, the highest-paid public o cial in the City of Greensboro and the Triad.

“On behalf of Mayor Vaughan and City Manager Jaiyeoba,” wrote Brown, “I would like to invite you to attend a luncheon and presentation by the Greensboro Coliseum Complex and the talented team of Architects from CPL of a proposed new

downtown live entertainment venue. I believe this proposed new venue can both serve many of the Community and Arts organizations and patrons that each of you represents and can also be an alternative source of critical revenues to support your missions.”

Most of the emails released to Robert consisted of respondents stating whether or not they could attend, and in the case of Matheny, expressing concern that this was the first he was informed about the project, to which Brown replied by apologizing for not scheduling a separate meeting with Matheny and Ho man before the larger one. However, there were a few more nuggets of information about the proposed venue.

A November 15 email from Brown to CPL’s Ken Mayer contained the following statement: “Tomorrow is with the City Manager and one CCM [City Council Member] Nancy Ho man, who is an advocate for the Folk Festival finding other sources of revenue to remain in business

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and for the Cultural Arts and or GBO Arts using this type of venue to attract more Art type events.” It also stated that City Manager Jaiyeoba “wants to develop the Depot into a Food Hall and wants us to consider how the two venues can work together.”

Robert responded to the public release of these emails by complaining to Brenneman that this response did not comply with his public information request, as there were no attached plans or schematics for the site, nor was there any location given for the venue. On February 15, Karen Sharpe from the City Manager’s o ce sent Robert a PDF of 3 slides with the title “Friendly Market Music Hall,” the proposed name for the venue.

The first slide, Exterior Rendering 1, is an artist’s conception of the entrance to the venue at night, with a large illuminated “FMMH” logo/statue, box o ce, and in the left of the frame, what appears to be an outdoor amphitheater. Slide 2, Phase 1 Site Plan, depicts what appears to be the indoor venue, while Slide 3, Phase 2 Site Plan, appears to depict a large outdoor amphitheater covering the 100 block of N. Church Street, in the area currently occupied by the Lincoln Financial Building.

After Robert publicly posted these slides to Facebook, YES! Weekly reached out to city council representative Nancy Ho man, in whose District 4 this venue would be built, to confirm both the plans and location.

“It is the block where Lincoln [Financial] is,” replied Ho man in a text on Friday. She also wrote, “much of which the city owns and uses for Park and Rec.” Ho man was apparently referring to the city’s Park Operations Division at 320 E. Friendly Avenue.

The largest single tract on the block to be occupied by the proposed Market

Friendly Music Hall is the Lincoln Financial building, which is owned by Je erson Pilot, and which has a listed tax value of $2,055,200. The south side of the block also includes the buildings at 311-13 E. Market Street, which is owned by Trace Holdings LLC, has an assessed tax value of $581,500. These properties include Mitchell’s Clothing, which first opened its doors in 1939; Revision Vintage; and The Queen’s Royal Beauty Bar. These buildings, one an 84-year-old community landmark featured on the PBS show My Home, NC, would have to be purchased and bulldozed for the venue to be constructed.

When asked if she could comment on what her constituents can look forward to regarding the Market Friendly Music Hall, Ho man said “it’s much too preliminary,” but added “thanks for reaching out” and “stay in touch.”

Neither Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan nor Coliseum Manager Brown has responded to a request for comment.

One person who did have a comment after the site plans were posted to Facebook is Drew Brown, attorney for Rocko Scarfone, owner of the Cone Denim Entertainment Center at 117 S. Elm Street.

“It is obvious from looking at this document that this has been in the works for a number of years,” said Brown. “Now it is clear why the city has potentially destroyed my client’s business.”

As previously reported, Scarfone is suing the city over his claim that the ongoing construction of the February One Parking Deck on Davie Street, which began in 2017 and is still uncompleted, has made it impossible for Scarfone to book A-list acts like Dave Chappell (who opened the venue in 2014), as the construction has been built onto his easement and blocks the rear entrance that previously gave tour buses, road crews, security, and tal-

ent easy and safe access to the dressing room, green room, and stage.

“I am perplexed as to why the City and Downtown Greensboro needs yet another live music venue,” said Scarfone in an email, “considering the City already has the Coliseum, Piedmont Hall, and The White Oak Amphitheatre, and just spent almost $80 million building the Tanger Performing Arts Center. Downtown

Greensboro already has numerous live music venues such as Carolina Theater and Triad Stage. How can this project not impact other venues and how much is it going to cost the taxpayers?” !

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If you think all there is to a whale watch is standing on the deck of a ship searching for large oceanic mammals, think again. The term also applies to a balancing platform that requires teamwork and good communication skills to make it work.

When Alexis Cunningham considered what to do for her Eagle Scout project, she decided to create such a platform at Mount Shepherd Retreat Center in Asheboro. She recruited 20 volunteers who loaded the troop’s van with materials and headed to the site for the platform’s construction.

“I had participated in whale watching before and saw that it makes people happy and is fun,” Cunningham said. “I wanted others to experience it. The 8’x8’ platform is not too high o the ground so if someone falls o they will not get hurt. We also leveled o the ground and mulched the entire area to make it safer and help eliminate erosion. Part of Scouting is conservation.”

Reports from people using the platform after it was built were all positive.

If you think a mistake was made about a girl receiving an Eagle award, that is something else you need to rethink. As of 2018, Boy Scouts has allowed girls to participate in the same program as 11-17 year-old boys in a movement renamed Scouts BSA. Cunningham is part of Troop #5068, an all-girl Scouts BSA Troop that meets at Jamestown Presbyterian Church. It includes Scouts from Jamestown, High Point and other nearby areas. The troop is part of the Old North State Council and Akela District. Its male counterpart is Troop #68, which has met at JPC for almost 50 years.

“My mom was in Girl Scouts, but I never did that,” Cunningham said. “My brother, Austin, was a Boy Scout and received his Eagle award. I wanted to experience the same things he had. I did not start Scouting until I was a freshman so did not have as much time to work toward my Eagle award as some who joined Scouts when they were younger. I turned in my paperwork just days before my 18th birthday.” The way Scouts BSA is designed allows participants to advance at their own pace.

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pleting certain tasks with no time frame involved.

“I think Scouts BSA provides more opportunity for leadership,” Cunningham said. “There is more depth to building character and future leaders. Instead of being leader driven, the Scouts are more involved in planning and leading activities and there are more camping and outdoor experiences.”

Cunningham is a senior at Dudley High School in Greensboro and also attends classes at A&T State University. She plans to attend Hilbert College in Hamburg, N.Y, where she will play Division 3 hockey and softball and study forensic science.

“Hilbert is a small school, and I think I will fit in better there,” Cunningham said. “But its academic program is one of the top in the nation.”

Cunningham admits her course of study was not her first choice. She wanted to join the military, but circumstances would not allow that to happen.

“I wanted to serve my country in some way, so shifted my focus to something where I can still help people,” she said.

Her brother’s influence has not been limited to Scouting. He also was responsible for her interest in hockey. A figure skater for seven years, she switched to participation in hockey after watching her brother play and now travels four afternoons a week to practice and play with the Junior Hurricanes, a Triple A team out of Raleigh. She also is a pitcher on her school’s softball team.

“I love sports,” Cunningham said. “That is what keeps me going.”

“Alexis has a competitive nature,” said her mother Daniella Comber, who has trained as an assistant Scout Master for her daughter’s troop. “She wanted to be the first in this area to get her Eagle award and show other girls what they could achieve. I have been able to enjoy the journey with her and see her become someone the younger girls look up to.”

Comber and Cunningham’s grandmother, Kathy Bargar, have been two of the Scout’s biggest supporters.

“Alexis was key to starting Troop #5068,” said Scout Master Susan Grunenwald. “I was a Scout Master for my son’s troop and continued even after he got his Eagle award and aged out. Alexis asked if I would be willing to be Scout Master for an

Grunenwald and Jeanneen Adamcik began the troop in March of 2019 with five girls, the minimum required to start a troop.

“My daughter had expressed a desire to participate in Boy Scouts because she

liked all the high adventure activities,” Grunenwald said. “But in 2008 it was not available to girls and by the time it was she was o to college.

“It was a challenge to work with the parents in the girls’ troop. We had to inform them how the advancement to the di erent ranks worked and about camping. Our group meets weekly and has a camping experience once a month.

“We now have four trained leaders for the troop and 10 Scouts.”

Grunenwald feels the leadership skills that BSA teaches are most valuable. Scouts learn how to take charge, but also how to be supportive of other leaders. The younger Scouts learn from the older ones. Some requirements to advance in rank involve learning to instruct and Scouts must learn new skills as well as how to communicate them to others. Leadership also means learning how to delegate.

“I am not sure girls usually get this type of leadership training,” Grunenwald said.

“The structure of Scouts BSA leans itself to that development while adults serve as mentors and advisors. There also seems to be more parent involvement.

“Alexis is a good example of the leadership, communication, good citizenship and community engagement skills that Scouts BSA has to o er. She also is a model for the wonderful opportunity girls have to earn Eagle awards. Even girls not interested in earning the Eagle rank can just show up and have fun.”

Girls ages 11-17 interested in participating in Scouts BSA Troop #5068 may contact the Old North State Council at 336-378-9166. You do not have to have been a Cub Scout to join. !

Alexis Cunningham, who implemented the building of a whale watch platform for her Scouts BSA Eagle project, is shown on the platform with her Scout Master Susan Grunenwald.

The NuBeing Collective comes together

The NuBeing Collective is coming together with a new album and another round of their Strange Fruit Festival, both of which will bloom in the spring, followed by a GROW residency at the Greensboro Cultural Center as part of the Strange Fruit Foundation to round out the summer.

As signaled by the album’s first single, “Come Together,” the eclectic Greensboro jazz, hip-hop, and R&B outfit o ers a fresh take with a bit of Beatle inspiration meshed with their distinct multigenre blend and fresh bars of their own.

“Our ‘Come Together’ isn’t really a cover as much as a remix,” explained bandleader and producer Cyril “daFantom336” Howell. “The lyrics are di erent, there’s rap in there, the bass line and hook is really the only thing similar; but it’s so distinctive in format to the original song, as intended, to pay homage but

also bring some awareness.”

For Howell, that awareness — like his band — is multifaceted. On the surface, “the awareness of this song is that we are all in this together and need to band together against oppression,” he said, while also relaying a sort of inside joke amongst the band. “We’re like the Black Beatles,” he said with a laugh — clarifying the anecdote as more of an internal morale-booster. “Like how the Beatles just came in and took over, and that’s the confidence we are moving with. We

also lean heavily on the experimental side, as I feel they weren’t afraid to do as well. And we respect dope trendsetting bands like Pink Floyd, Parliament Funkadelic, or the Jackson 5.”

Blending their sonic experience, the collective is rooted in the hip-hop realm — with an intent of branching across genres to appeal to the “30 and over crowd that still loves rap music but aren’t as interested in the current artists presented to them.” Drawing from a deep well of influences, Howell considers

the band akin to “Outkast meets Snarky Puppy meets Black Eyed Peas.”

“Or let’s go, the Roots meets The Weather Report meets Queen,” he added. “I honestly believe that every musician feeds the next and if you listen there is always a takeaway. I’m really a connoisseur of the craft of music and can rock with most things.” Rapper and DJ, Kyran Scott aids in expanding the palette of possibilities. “We met at the barbershop and again, in the studio,” Howell explained. ”I would produce songs and he would just rap so e ortlessly — the band could literally survive o of songs we’ve already written together.”

From surviving to thriving, the collective is rounded by a lineup that includes vocalist Jasmine Tranai, bassist Wayne Cambell, Lacy Haith on horns, and drummer Andrew Tate. Together, their voices elevate the collective — o ering a successful blend of genre and sound. “We purposefully highlight di erent genres and time periods in our music,” Howell noted. “The upcoming album has influences ranging from Nina Simone to Prince and Rick James to Wu-Tang.”

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toward the jazz end, o ering a reinvention of the jazz tune made famous by Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James. “We added sultry vocals and a house beat underneath soulful pop changes,” Howell explained. “It’s a great introduction of a classic to fans.”

An accompanying video cements that introduction. “It was very fun to shoot,” Howell said, with a shout-out to HardPress Studios, Nikon Don, and the group e ort involved in the production. “It all came together and I feel we did it justice considering our resources at this point in our career.”

Looking back on the points leading to that career, Howell points to his background playing the keyboard in his father’s church. “I wanted to be a DJ as a kid, but my mom bought me a keyboard instead,” he explained. “I was very much into hip-hop, gospel, and jazz genres as a kid and as I developed my musical palette, those always translated into whatever form I was producing.”

In album form, the collective’s upcoming release, “X,” touches on the fluidity of their music. “The title represents the ‘unknown’ because the songs are so eclectic we didn’t know what to call it,” Howell noted, “but it also represents the number of tracks on the album, and at the same time kind of pseudo-representing Malcolm X, in a sense of being revolutionary.”

“The themes of our music are very much Black empowerment, freedom, the pursuit of happiness, and of course love,” Howell continued. “The album aims to infuse hip-hop with all of the elements of Black culture and highlights our contributions to American music.”

It’s a pursuit on which Howell embarks beyond his records and releases, as

Executive Director of the Strange Fruit Foundation, a local non-profit committed to “creating opportunities of value to BIPOC musicians, artists, and entertainment professionals” around the Greensboro area. The service of which touches on the familial, hometown element woven into their work.

While the collective itself formed well into their adulthood, Howell went to high school with Haith; and grew up in the same neighborhood as Tate. He’s also part of a Greensboro artsworld sibling powerhouse: his sister, Princess Howell Johnson, heads the Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet; and is the current “GROW” resident artist at the Greensboro Cultural Center (through March 12). The NuBeing Collective performed for opening night, and they’ll perform as part of the Strange Fruit Foundation’s GROW residency at the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre (Aug. 14-Sept. 17).

Howell envisions the residency will be a “NuFinds” live music series; but is first looking forward to o ering a taste with the return of the Strange Fruit Festival on April 15. “The festival is back this year at Center City Park,” he said, recalling the 2022 festivities. “We had the Greensboro Big Band open up, then Diana Tu n and The Polk Duo — one of my favorite local acts — followed by SunQueen Kelcey and The NuBeing Collective. There was something for everyone and we had a great time!”

Looking ahead to Strange Fruit 2023, “it’s going to be a dope event,” Howell noted, “and we plan to showcase the album at that time.” !

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mar 31: Johnny-o

PiEDmonT Hall

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400

www.greensborocoliseum.com

Feb 24: Green Queen Bingo

Feb 26: Big Head Todd and the monsters

mar 12: Key Glock

mar 25: Skid row & Buckcherry

mar 31: Judah & The lion

STEvEn TanGEr CEnTEr

300 N Elm Street | 336.333.6500

www.tangercenter.com

mar 4: Kountry Wayne

mar 5: nikki Glaser

mar 14-19: ain’t Too Proud

mar 23: Buddy Guy

THE iDioT Box

ComEDY CluB

503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699

www.idiotboxers.com

Thursdays: open mic

mar 10: nik Cartwright

mar 24: andy Forrester

high point

HiGH PoinT THEaTrE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401

www.highpointtheatre.com

mar 25: The Funny Godmothers

SWEET olD Bill’S

1232 N Main St | 336.807.1476

www.sweetoldbills.com

Feb 23: Tin Can alley

jamestown

THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999

www.thedeckatrivertwist.com

Feb 23: Bradley Steele

Feb 24: TJ The DJ

Feb 25: radio revolver

kernersville

BrEaTHE

CoCKTail lounGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822

www.facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge

Wednesdays: Karaoke

Feb 24: SmaSHaT

mar 11: vinyl Tap

liberty

THE liBErTY

SHoWCaSE THEaTEr

101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844

www.TheLibertyShowcase.com

Feb 25: Wade Hayes w/ Dewey Brown

mar 4: The malpass Brothers

mar 10: Country Gentlemen Tribute Band

mar 11: lee roy Parnell

mar 16: Chapel Hart

mar 17: Dailey & vincent

mar 18: aaron Tippin

mar 25: Dewey & leslie Brown

oak ridge

BiSTro 150

2205 Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.6359

www.bistro150.com

Feb 25: Jordan & madisen

mar 4: Kris Ferris

mar 11: Two for the road

mar 18: limited Engagement

mar 25: Wilde...Chris & amanda

Barrens

raleigh

CCu muSiC ParK

aT WalnuT CrEEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111

www.livenation.com

LincoLn ThEaTrE

126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400

www.lincolntheatre.com

Feb 22: Lotus

Feb 24: Boogie T w/ The Widdler, Khiva, notixx, Skelltyn

Mar 2: Muscadine Bloodline

Mar 4: alan Doyle and the Beautiful Band w/ christ Trapper

Mar 10: Sidewinder

Mar 12: Popa chubby

Mar 14: Marc Broussard

Mar 16: Boombox

Mar 17: adam Doleac

Mar 18: Shoot to Thrills w/ Stone Whiskey/ automag

Pnc arEna

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300

www.thepncarena.com

Mar 13: Greta Van Fleet

Randleman

KaMiKazE’S TaVErn

5701 Randleman Rd | 336.908.6144

www.facebook.com/kamikazestavern

Karaoke Every Tuesday & Thursday

Feb 25: Matt Dylan & The honky

Tonk outlaws

Mar 3: Drag in the country: Paisley

Parque

Mar 4: Fair Warning

Mar 11: Brother Pearl

Mar 18: Bad romeo

winston-salem

EarL’S 121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018

www.earlsws.com

Mondays: open Mic

Thursdays: Will Jones

Feb 24: Lando and Mando

Feb 25: Jason Moss and the hosses

Mar 3: The Mighty Fairlanes

Mar 4: Jonathan Parker

Mar 10: zack Brock and the Good intentions

Mar 11: aaron hamm and the Big river Band

FiDDLin’ FiSh

BrEWinG coMPanY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945

www.fiddlinfish.com

Tuesdays: Trivia

Feb 24: Down the Mountain

FooThiLLS BrEWinG

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348

www.foothillsbrewing.com

Sundays: Sunday Jazz

Thursdays: Trivia

Feb 24: Whiskey Mic

Feb 26: Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs

Mar 3: James Vincent carroll

Mar 12: David childers

Mar 17: The almost irish Band

Mar 19: Patrick rock w/ Special Guest

Mar 24: John Montgomery w/ Special Guest

MiDWaY MuSic haLL

11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218

www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter

Mondays: Line Dancing

Feb 25: The classics with Joe alexander

Mar 4: The Delmonicos

Mar 11: The classics w/ Steve Winston

Mar 18: Matt Dylan and the honky Tonk outlaws

MuDDY crEEK caFE & MuSic haLL

137 West St | 336.201.5182

www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe

Feb 26: The Blue ridge opry presents: The Shootouts

Mar 11: Taylon hope, Presley Barker

ThE raMKaT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714

www.theramkat.com

Feb 23: catz in Pajamas

Feb 24: Paul Thorn Band, Josh Watson & Emily Stewart

Feb 25: Jeremy’s Ten: a Pearl Jam Tribute

Feb 27: Los Lobos, David Wax Museum

Mar 3: Jon Sticklet Trio

Mar 4: Fireside collective

Mar 8: Secret Shame

Mar 9: Kruger Brothers

Mar 10: The Wood Brothers with Michaela anne

Mar 16: resse Mchenry, P-90’s

Mar 18: End of the Line: a Tribute to the allman Brothers Band

Mar 22: Popa chubby

roar

633 North Liberty Street | 336-917-3008

www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater. com

Feb 22: Divine Poetry

Feb 24: chuck Dale Smith, DJ chubbs, DJ Karolina

Feb 25: Gypsy Soul, Patrick rock, DJ Karolina, DJ Professor

Feb 26: couldn’t be happiers

Mar 3: camel city Blues

Mar 4: red umber, Tupelo crush

Mar 5: rain check

Mar 10: Darrell hoots, ready Set radio

Mar 11: Patrick rock, robertson Boys, DJ Jersey, DJ Professor

[SALOME’S STARS]

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Sometimes a setback gives you a chance to get a sharper perspective on the situation at hand. Your cheerful nature will help you override this temporary disappointment. What you learn from this pays o soon.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Be careful not to charge into something you don’t fully understand. Being asked to act on trust might be all right, as long as you can trust the one who asks.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A chance for romance beckons from someone you thought was far out of reach. But Cupid can always come up with a shortcut. How you respond to the situation determines how the relationship develops.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A career move seems more likely now than when you first considered it. Some of your plans will need readjusting as new facts emerge. Be careful that you don’t allow jealousy to create an unnecessary obstacle.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your love for beautiful things is part of what makes you the fine feline you are. But a little caution is advisable for a while. Resist the urge to splurge until your money signs look a little better.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22)

A co-worker could be trying to undermine you. Resist the temptation to retaliate. Instead, keep careful records of what you do so that you’ll be ready to present a strong position when the time comes.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22)

Family problems have been simmering for a while and could soon boil over. Avoid taking sides. There are many facts you don’t know yet. Meanwhile, a business decision proves

to be more complicated than you expected.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Cupid’s arrow can pierce hearts, but it can’t open tight lips. Only you can do that. That special someone you’ve been silently pining for all this time would love to hear you express those feelings.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Well-meaning friends might try to persuade you to give up on that project that seems to have hit a dead end. Someone will take notice, and your persistence will pay o .

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) It’s one thing to make a di cult decision, but you also have to stick with it, despite any pressures to get you to change your mind. You need to reassure someone you care for that you can keep your commitments.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) This is a good time for you to remember to be good to yourself. A trip to a place that was once very special in your life reawakens many precious memories, and soon leads to making new ones.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) An old health problem flares up and needs attention. Also, a chilly reaction from a once-warm friend needs to be confronted. Set the record straight before it’s too late to save the friendship.

[BORN THIS WEEK: You enjoy helping others. You have a taste for life’s luxuries and will take risks to get what you want. In matters of amour, you love deeply, and you expect your amorous intensity to be returned in kind.

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answers

crossword on page 11

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by Fifi Rodriguez

[1. TELEVISION: Which cable TV series features a character named Don Draper?

[2. MOVIES: What subject does Professor Minerva McGonagall teach at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

[3. HISTORY: Where was civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

[4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president had a sign on his desk that read, “The Buck Stops Here”?

[5. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the world’s largest desert?

[6. LITERATURE: What is the real name of the author Lemony Snicket?

[7. FOOD & DRINK: What is the fruit that gives the liqueur creme de cassis its flavor?

[8. MUSIC: What inspired the Beatles’ song “Blackbird”?

[9. CELEBRITIES: What is singer/actress Judy Garland’s birth name?

[10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What are squirrels’ nests called?

answer

10. Dreys.

9. Frances Ethel Gumm.

8. Civil rights unrest in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to Paul McCartney.

7. Black currants.

6. Daniel Handler.

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5. Antarctica.

4. Harry Truman.

3. Memphis, Tennessee.

2. guration.Transfi

1. “Mad Men.”