YES! Weekly - September 13, 2023

WS Fashion Week

Winston-Salem Fashion Week launched its ninth season this past Monday with a celebratory evening recognizing city o cials, sponsors, partners, designers, and other special guests who allow this local highlight to continue taking place.

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5 The High Point Arts Council would like to invite the community to the 49th Annual DAY IN THE PARK Festival at City Lake Park in Jamestown on September 16.

6 A new, comprehensive exhibition at REYNOLDA HOUSE Museum of American Art, the site of the incident, lays out a remarkably clear and seemingly fair picture of what happened on the night of July 5 and the early morning of July 6, 1932, as well as the events leading up to Reynolds’ death and its aftermath.

8 Inspired by actual cases, P27: PATIENT 27 is a mini-series currently in pre-production, with a start date of October 8th. It dramatizes the efforts of an idealistic social services worker, Cynthia Edwards (played by Alicia Fusting), as she

10 KEITH THIBODEAUX was born December 1, 1950, in Lafayette, Louisiana where he displayed a proclivity for drumming while still in diapers.

12 Good intentions do not a good movie make, and such is the case with THE GOOD MOTHER, an unsatisfying melodrama that nevertheless has points of interest along the way — the total of which come very close to making it worthwhile.

18 “It has come to our attention that the Greensboro police intend to SEIZE THE PRIVATE PROPERTY of unhoused people living near the Interactive Resource Center in downtown Greensboro.”

20 Hey Winston-Salem! FEMFEST NC is puttin’ on the ritz for the inaugural FemFête, a classical music soirée and silent auction going down at SECCA on September 22.

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4 The “Ultimate TRIBUTE BAND WEEKEND” is coming to High Point as Ziggy’s presents the High Point Music Festival at Stock + Grain Assembly September 15-16.

Guilford Technical Community College students and community members will have the opportunity to obtain fresh produce and meat at no charge on the High Point campus once a month through a partnership with its Titan Link services and Out of the Garden Project

Out of the Garden Project will provide a Fresh Mobile Market food truck on the High Point campus the first Wednesday of every month for a year. Distribution begins Wednesday, September 6 from 10-11:30 a.m. or until the food is distributed in the parking lot adjacent to the Johnson Warehouse located at 719 S. Hamilton St., High Point.

Full list of dates include:

Wednesday, Oct. 4

Wednesday, Nov. 1

Wednesday, Dec. 6

Wednesday, Jan. 1

Wednesday, Feb. 7

Wednesday, March 6

Wednesday, April 3

Wednesday, May 1

In addition to fresh produce and meat, there will be shelf-stable food, bread, and grab-and-go snacks.

The partnership is funded through a $9,000 investment from the Titan Link and the GTCC Foundation.

Titan Link provides resources and information that assists GTCC students, sta , and faculty with non-academic challenges such as housing, transportation, food insecurity, childcare, and emergency loan/ grant/scholarship application access for GTCC.

“This partnership is going to impact and benefit so many people on our campus and throughout the community,” said Natashia McEachern, interim director for Titan Link. “A number of our students struggle with a number of life barriers. The opportunity to grocery shop for free, get fresh produce and meat, will help ease some of life’s burdens for them and their families. The same is true for so many other members of our community.”

Out of the Garden Project, a Triad-based nonprofit organization, began in 2008 serving a few families with food on Friday

so they would not go hungry over the weekend.

“We are honored to partner with this leading academic institution in striving to provide food for those in need in our midst both at GTCC and in the community,” said Don Milholin, executive director and president, co-founder of Out of the Garden Project.

With the help of hundreds of volunteers and donors, the organization has distributed 20 million meals since, distributed four million meals last year, distributes 325,000 meals monthly and serves 2,000 students and families each week.

Fresh Mobile Markets, an Out of the Garden program, serves over 3,000 families every month throughout 20 locations in the Piedmont Triad. Families can expect to leave a Fresh Mobile Market with around 65 pounds of food.

For more information, visit gtcc.edu/ events/recurring/fresh-mobile-market. php. !

THE PLAYERS

The Players features three former members of Chicago and a former drummer of Earth Wind & Fire. This Super Group, covers Chicago, that have 21 top 10 singles, 5 number one albums, 11 number one singles and 5 gold singles, and Earth Wind & Fire, who have 7 number one singles, 8 top-10 albums, and 50 gold and platinum albums.

At a Players show, you will hear all the fans’ favorites performed just as they did in the original bands. The Players features Bill Champlin, Keith Howland, and Jeff Coffey — all former members of Chicago. Joining them will be former drummer of Earth Wind & Fire, Gorden Campbell.

Out of the Garden Project at one of its recent Fresh Mobile Markets in the Triad.

The Ultimate Tribute Bands perform at the High Point Music Festival

The “Ultimate Tribute Band Weekend” is coming to High Point as Ziggy’s presents the High Point Music Festival at Stock + Grain Assembly September 15-16.

Aiming to “set the city of High Point alive with the electrifying sounds of legendary music,” the two-day festival features a bill of seven topnotch tribute artists — ZZ Top Notch, in fact — plus DJ Hek Yeh kicking o each day with specialty sets.

Carpool (the Cars), Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones), and Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson) stack the evening bill on Friday.

Petty Thieves (Tom Petty), Chasin’ Aldean (Jason Aldean), and Cowboy (Kid Rock) join the NC-based tribute to that ”Little Ol’ Band from Texas” for the session starting Saturday afternoon.

“This exciting event promises to deliver an unforgettable experience in Downtown High Point for music enthusiasts of all ages,” organizers said, “featuring an incredible lineup of top-tier tribute bands selected by Ziggy’s.”

Ziggy’s captain and festival coordinator, Jay Stephens, finds the festival prospects thrilling. “Our goal is to create a captivating experience where attendees can relive the magic of their favorite artists and enjoy a weekend filled with outstanding live music, delicious food, and a vibrant festival atmosphere.”

Marketing Director, Greg Gerald, agreed.

“The High Point Music Festival is a two-day extravaganza that will transform Down-

town High Point into a vibrant hub of live music and celebration,” he said. “Attendees will have the opportunity to witness the awe-inspiring performances of tribute bands paying homage to iconic artists spanning various genres, including rock, pop, country, R&B, and more.”

Marking their inaugural festival e ort, the ever-evolving Ziggy’s team has enjoyed their latest homebase at Stock + Grain. “We’ve really enjoyed the past five months having a couple stages there,” Gerald said. “It’s a beautiful space in a fast-growing social district — and it’s been great seeing old friends as well as making new ones through our shared love of music.”

Priding itself on showcasing musicians over their decades-long history, Ziggy’s is excited to launch the festival and “make a weekend out of it,” Gerald said, reflecting on the festival’s origins. “The idea came about because we had a date held in place for the Michael Jackson Tribute, Who’s Bad,” he explained. “And the lineups are set up to cater to almost every type of music fan.”

“For instance, I booked Cowboy, the Kid Rock tribute personally for you,” he continued, jesting this writer’s known disdain for that particular end of the bill. Admittedly, I do quite dig five of the seven artists; and did once buy a Kid Rock CD my cousin in Jamestown wanted for Christmas years ago. So Gerald might be on to something.

“Really, we’re expecting music lovers of all ages, genres, and backgrounds,” he said, getting back to the festival’s tribute theme. “I believe there’ll always be an audience for cover bands, no matter what people say.”

Love them or hate them, elements of contention resonate around cover bands in the music-makin’ world. There’s arguments to be made for merits of original music versus the love in a solid tribute versus the sort of cash cow coattails of major players. And this writer sees a balance that’s more nuanced than this article has room to print. Good, bad, and/or both: the market for tributes remains unquestionable.

Around the Triad, the Vagabond Saints Society and Camel City Yacht Club often rack up “Triad’s Best” awards. And Gerald spent the summer witnessing that market demand firsthand. “I was fortunate to have been able to work the VusicOBX

concert series this past summer and got to see Sublime with Rome for the first time as well as Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Both of which were spectacular tributes with more than 3000 attendees.”

“People love the nostalgia,” he continued, turning to their fall schedule beyond the festival, which features artists like: Ledneck (Led Zeppelin) coming September 30. In October Ziggy’s will host The Chain (Fleetwood Mac), Nirvani (Nirvana), Mean Street (Van Halen), and Grass is Dead (Grateful Dead). Meanwhile, Make Yourself (Incubus) and Rattle & Hum (U2) are on the books for November.

“I am a fan of all types of music and if it were up to me and if our market supported it, it would be all original tour bands every night,” Gerald noted, pointing to original programming Ziggy’s is hosting at multiple venues through the fall. “MOON TAXI is coming to COHAB on September 29,” he said. “And we’re bringing Phillip Phillips, Big Something, and Wednesday 13 to the Millennium Center over the next few weeks.”

Eyeing even further into the future, “if Jay keeps rolling, I’ll keep rolling with him,” Gerald said. “I’m excited to see what 2024 holds. And I’m excited to kick o the first of hopefully many High Point Music Festivals to come.” !

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

WANNA go?

Ziggy’s presents the High Point Music Festival at Stock + Grain Assembly, located at 275 N. Elm St. in High Point, September 15-16. Tickets, layout, and show information are online at www. highpointmusicfestival.com.

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Arts Council celebrates community at annual event

PRESS RELEASE BY HIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL

The High Point Arts Council would like to invite the community to the 49th Annual Day in the Park Festival at City Lake Park in Jamestown on September 16. Day in the Park takes place from 11 a.m. to 4p.m. and features two stages of live entertainment, multiple food trucks, children’s activities, historic arts exhibitions, arts themed activities, and over 30 artists and crafters. Admission into the festival is free. All-day ride tickets for the train, carousel, and more are just $6 for kids.

We are reinstating the Day in the Park event following a several year hiatus and are extremely excited to see the Guilford County community come together for a day of fun! This event aims to uplift our arts community while uniting families in the joy of the arts through the specialized Children’s Corner where many hands-on arts activities will be held. Entrepreneurs and crafters will showcase their talents through the Market Bazaar. Several food trucks will be placed around the venue allowing guests to have a taste of local High Point cuisine: Kona Ice, The Kid In Me Tastee Treats, Kibi’s Crazy Casserole, Too Random: A Street Food Experience, Taqueria El Azteca & Taco Truck, Hickory Tree Turkey BBQ, Paddled South Brewery, and Nomad Wine.

There will be several Community Arts friends featured at Day In the Park includ-

ing: High Point Museum, The Art Gallery (TAG), Mendenhall Place, Gallery on Main, Vinmark International Dance, A Simple Gesture, Reconsidered Goods, Thrive HP, Latino Family Center, High Point Fire Department, High Point Library, Jamestown Library, Pullman Poet Society, DUCK Lab at UNCG, High Point Community Theater, High Point Police Department, High Point Theater, and the NAACP.

The Day in the Park event will showcase local musicians, dancers, poets, and actors across two stages, the main stage and the mobile stage. The performances on the main stage will include Andrews Marching Band, The Studio, NuBeing Collective, HPCT, HPU Drumline, Vinmark International Dance, and Gabrielle Awori, Spoken Word. Performances on the mobile stage will include Graceful Swans, Kay Marion, Poems - Terri Atman, Miracle Signs & Wonder Dance Team, Line Dances, Penn Gri n School for the Arts Students, JP Castillo, and Jack Gortham.

We would like to extend a big thanks to our High Point community sponsors: City of High Point, High Point Parks and Recreation, Guilford County, Thrive High Point, Visit High Point, and La Ley Radio who have supported us through our Day in the Park event! We look forward to your continued partnership and hope to engage more community partnerships for those that are interested in being involved in our future events. !

“Smith & Libby” explores unsolved mystery, shines light on puzzling past at Reynolda House

It wasn’t a big party, but it was a memorable one.

Benny Goodman played his clarinet over the Victrola in the bungalow, and Broadway star Libby Holman sang her torch songs a cappella for her and husband Zachary Smith Reynolds’ friends.

After a cocktail or two on the lake porch, the hosts and guests rambled down to the boathouse to paddle canoes. There, they ate barbecue, drank beer, flirted, and did all the things that young, beautiful, wealthy people do.

The company comprised of Smith’s friend and personal assistant Albert “Ab” Walker, Charlie Norfleet Jr., Jim Shepherd, Billy Shaw Howell, Mary Louise “Babe” Vaught, Virginia Dunklee, Lewis “Lew” McGinnis, Charles Gideon “CG” Hill, whose birthday it was, and Blanche Yurka, Holman’s acting coach. Although one of the guests later recalled a sense of unease about the evening, the group seemed to be a charmed circle.

The warm night air smelled of lemony magnolia, narcissus, and newly mown grass. The sun set on a beautiful July night in Winston-Salem, but before it rose the next day, one of the party would be dead.

The exact cause of the tragic death of Z. Smith Reynolds remains a mystery to this day, and the means of his demise is argued as passionately now as it was nearly a century ago. Some assert it was a suicide, some a cold-blooded murder, others an accident.

A new, comprehensive exhibition at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the site of the incident, lays out a remarkably clear and seemingly fair picture of what happened on the night of July 5 and the early morning of July 6, 1932, as well as the events leading up to Reynolds’ death and its aftermath.

More importantly, it provides insightful portraits of Reynolds and Holman, married only seven months at the time, showing both of them to be complex human beings with big appetites for living.

“Smith & Libby: Two Rings, Seven Months, One Bullet” opened at Reynolda House on September 8 and will be on view through December 31. The show’s

curator, Phil Archer, used archival objects, news articles, and other primary sources to recreate the atmosphere and tell the story of the unsolved mystery that rocked Winston-Salem and made national headlines.

Archer decided to do the exhibit now, because, he said, in his 25 years as a curator at Reynolda House, the questions about the incident have never stopped.

“I’d get so many questions,” Archer said. “It’s human to be curious.”

When Smith Reynolds’ niece Irene Reynolds Schier was in town for the 2017 Reynolda House centennial celebrations, she asked Archer if she could see the room where her uncle was shot. That room, closed for many years, is now open to the public.

“After 91 years of public curiosity, we felt ready,” Archer said. “I had done enough research, and I sensed that an exhibition could be visually rich.”

The items on display include a newly digitized newsreel from Hearst Metrotone News that was shown coast-to-coast before Hollywood movies in the summer

of 1932; original news service photographs used by newspapers across the United States; recorded oral histories about the case from people who knew Reynolds personally, including his sister, Nancy Susan Reynolds, and employees of Reynolda; and an animated film going minute-byminute through the night of the shooting, produced by Out of Our Minds Animation Studios in Winston-Salem.

One of the highlights of the exhibition is the replica of a gown worn by Holman in a Broadway show called “Rainbow” by Vincent Youmans and Oscar Hammerstein II. Jenna Anderson of Jenna Sais Quoi Design Studio recreated the gorgeous dark purple gown based on the information from three photographs in the Reynolda House archives and Archer’s research.

“The wrinkles in the photo tell you how the fabric was placed,” Anderson said. “And the hang of the fabric tells about the understructure of the dress.” The dress has long sleeves and is daringly o -theshoulder with a snug waist and billowing skirts.

An entire wall in the gallery is devoted

to Holman after Reynolds. Shortly after Reynolds’ death, Holman revealed that she was pregnant with their child. When the case was dismissed, she returned to New York, gave birth to Christopher “Topper” Reynolds, heir to millions of dollars from Smith’s estate.

Holman resumed her theatrical career for a while and then moved on to singing folk songs with Josh White, possibly in the first mixed-race duo in the U.S. The two were popular and acclaimed, and they refused to play in venues where he was not allowed through the front door.

Holman, who came from a wealthy family in Ohio and was well educated, became increasingly involved with the burgeoning civil rights movement in the 1950s, and was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King.

BACK TO THE BEGINNING

The show begins with Reynolds’ early life, recounting the tragic losses of his father R.J. Reynolds in 1918, shortly followed by that of his mother Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston while giving

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Phil Archer, curator of “Smith & Libby.”

Jenna Anderson of Jenna Sais Quoi Design Studio recreated the gorgeous dark purple gown based on the information from three photographs in the Reynolda House archives and Archer’s research.

birth in 1924. Although he proved an indi erent student, Reynolds received his pilot’s license at the age of 16 and was considered by many to have a keen intellect.

When he was just 20, Smith Reynolds flew from London to Hong Kong from December 1931 to April 1932, putting him in the company of Charles Lindberg and Amelia Earhart. Holman was only slightly more famous than he and 7 years older. He courted her by flying all over the U.S. to attend her performances.

By the time of the party in 1932, their relationship had become strained.

The facts and some speculation in the case are delineated in the Out of Our Minds film that runs continuously throughout the exhibition. Reportedly, the cicadas were so loud that evening that they mu ed the gunshot. The only people in the house at the time were Reynolds, Holman who was in the room with him, Ab Walker, and Libby’s acting coach Blanche Yurka who heard voices and saw Walker downstairs but could not contribute much else. Holman claimed she experienced amnesia before and after seeing Reynolds at the foot of their sleeping porch bed with a gun to his head. Walker and Holman drove Reynolds to the hospital where he died around 5 a.m. The police investigated. Death by suicide, murder, and accident were discussed.

Walker and Holman were initially indicted for murder in the case, but the investigation was quickly shut down. News outlets from all over the

country had quickly set up bureaus in Winston-Salem to cover a trial that was never held.

No conclusions are drawn. Those are left to the viewer. See the show with friends and family, because, as one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries, it is sure to spark conversations.

The next few months are jam-packed with programs related to this exhibit.

“Reynolda Noir,” a dinner theater event featuring historian Dr. Michele Gillespie, Provost of Wake Forest University; Archer, Betsy Main Babcock Deputy Director at Reynolda; singer Jodi Burns, and pianist Kenneth Frazelle, sold out quickly, but an additional show has been added on September 30. Tickets are $100.

“Reynolda on the House”: You can see “Smith & Libby” for free on Sept. 21, 4-7 p.m.; Oct. 15, 1:30-4:30 p.m.; and Nov. 28, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

For a complete list of related events, visit www.reynolda.org/visit/calendar. Tickets and more information are at www.reynolda.org. !

LYNN FELDER is a freelance writer, poet, memoirist, and playwright, living in Winston-Salem. She is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association.

WANNA go?

What: “Smith & Libby: Two Rings, Seven Months, One Bullet”

When: Sept. 8-Dec. 31

Where: Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, NC

Tickets & info: www.reynolda.org

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Local production team preps pilot shoot in Piedmont Triad

Inspired by actual cases, P27: Patient 27 is a mini-series currently in pre-production, with a start date of October 8th. It dramatizes the efforts of an idealistic social services worker, Cynthia Edwards (played by Alicia Fusting), as she investigates a state mental hospital after hearing rumors of abuse committed by the sta against the patients. Whatever skepticism she might initially have had evaporates when she uncovers a web of corruption, one that threatens not only the patients and the sta but potentially herself as well.

The facility’s administrators are determined to keep their secrets hidden — by any means necessary. Cynthia is no longer sure who to trust and who not to while realizing that she may be the last — and only hope — for the controversy to come to light. In addition to Fusting, P27: Patient 27 also stars Jonathan Bedford, Hanna Brown, and Davis Osborne.

P27: Patient 27 is the brainchild of filmmaker Kent Allen. A 2003 graduate of The Art Institute of Charlotte, Allen has worked in various capacities in both film and television. His feature and short film credits include Serial (2005), Hereditary (2010), Palmetto Haunting (2010), and Waiting for Butterflies (2015), and his smallscreen credits include Home (2012), Slave Hunter (2013), and Tainted Love (2011’13).

The inspiration for P27: Patient 27 was a simple one. In addition to entertaining the audience, he also wanted to enlighten them by drawing attention to the lapses (both intentional and unintentional) and abuses in patient care. It is designed as both a drama and a thriller, one that happens to resonate with contemporary relevance.

“I have always had a passion and tried to be a voice for the unspoken,” he explained. “Homelessness and our current drug epidemic run rampant across our country. There is abuse of power and authority at almost every turn. Our story exposes the abuse many of our most vulnerable citizens face in our psychiatric facilities and even our nursing homes. Patient abuse prevention has come a

long way over the years, but so much more needs to be done so that citizens can live more healthy and productive lives. Patient abuse in psychiatric facilities 20-plus years ago was a major problem, and our story focuses on that era while shedding light on the current controversial horrors that many people face to this day.”

Once the P27 short film had been completed, Allen knew there was much more to tell and more directions the narrative and characters could go. He considered expanding it into a feature, then began to consider adapting it as an ongoing series or mini-series.

“Originally this was a short film that evolved into a feature,” he confirmed. “This is a series with dynamic characters and our team felt that it would be best if we could explore our characters and stories more through a mini-series. The

series will be pitched to various indie and mainstream streaming platforms, (and) we may even hold a premiere for the pilot (episode) in Winston-Salem at some point. Production begins October 8th over the course of 4-5 months. In terms of our pilot, 50% will be shot in WinstonSalem, and the remaining (percentage) in Virginia and parts of Charlotte. The series is being directed by myself and my writing partner, Davis Osborne of Charlotte. Post-production services will be handled in Clemmons.”

Davis is also looking to hire 50-60 extras for a gala scene, and for those interested in being a part of P27, the filmmakers ask that they e-mail a headshot and full body photo to p27theseries@ gmail.com. In the subject line, they should include name, age, and location. To view the preview trailer for P27, see https://vimeo.com/816626874

“For the entire series we are casting all over the country,” Allen said. “However, we were able to cast some amazing talent from Charlotte, Atlanta, New York, and even Winston-Salem. Some of our key crew are Winston-Salem residents. There are lots of talented filmmakers and actors in the Triad area!”

For more information, you can chat directly with the filmmakers on the P27 Facebook page: https://www.facebook. com/patient27movie. The o cial website for Allen’s company, Windsor House Entertainment, is https://www.windsorhouseent.com/. !

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WINSTON-SALEM THEATRE ALLIANCE 40TH SEASON

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Alliance is excited to share, as part of our 40th season, our upcoming mainstage holiday shows for “Absolutely Everybody!” You don’t want to miss these entertaining shows playing at our beautiful Ihrie Theatre on W 6th Street in downtown Winston-Salem!

Grab our popular show themed cocktail and snacks at our concessions and enjoy a big city theatre experience here in our own town.

Are you a fan of the kooky and creepy? Join us at the graveyard with everyone’s favorite family, “The Addams Family” September 15-24. Continuing with the spooky season theme, we’ve got our seventh visit to Transylvania for “The Rocky Horror Show”. Pick up your participation bag and see Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter live on stage October 26-30! Playing November 9-13 is an out of this world laugh with “Return to the Forbidden Planet”, a rockin’ show featuring some of your favorite hits from the 60s! Closing out the holiday season is “Annie Warbucks”, the feel-good sequel to “Annie”. See how Annie completes her new family by playing matchmaker for Daddy Warbucks on stage December 8-17. Great for the whole family!

Mixed throughout our main stage events are some more featured shows that may catch your eye. In October we have “Halloween: The Musical”, a campy parody based on the 1978 horror film. Also in December is a staged-concert “Quilt: A Musical Celebration Book” in celebration and honor of World Aids Day. Finishing the busy month of December is “Christmas with the Crawfords”. Based on the actual Christmas Eve live radio broadcast of the Crawford family from their Brentwood mansion in the late 1940s.

For tickets, dates, and more information visit our website: theatrealliance.ws

For box o ce inquiries: 336-723-7777.

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Lucy and Desi’s “Son” to Perform in Mt. Airy

nce upon a time, there was a 6-year-old Louisiana Cajun who landed a job playing the son of a Cuban band leader and ended up running an international ballet company. Along the way, he was the sage of Mayberry, the most visible member of a Christian rock band, almost joined the Von Trapp family, and after struggling with substance abuse and depression, became a dedicated witness to God. Lucille Ball called him Keith. Ron Howard called him Johnny Paul. TV producers called him Richard, and millions of little girls just wanted to call him. But for the past 70 years, succeeding generations of fans around the world have called him “Little Ricky.”

OKeith Thibodeaux was born December 1, 1950, in Lafayette, Louisiana where he displayed a proclivity for drumming while still in diapers. By age 3 he won a talent contest which landed him a job playing drums with the Horace Heidt orchestra for $500 per week. Three years later he joined the cast of “I Love Lucy,” playing Ricky Ricardo, Jr., then stayed with the show until it wrapped in 1960. From 1962 to 1966 he played Opie’s pal Johnny Paul Jason on “The Andy Gri th Show,” then left Hollywood and started touring with David and the Giants, one of America’s first Christian rock bands. In 1976 he met and married Kathy Denton, an accomplished ballerina, and 10 years later they founded Ballet Magnificat, an acclaimed dance company based in Jackson, Mississippi which tours all over the world.

David and the Giants, which was formed in 1963 by David Hu , will perform next weekend as part of Mt. Airy’s annual Mayberry Days celebration. Keith joined the group in 1969 and played with

them for eight years. These days he serves as executive director of Ballet Magnificat and joins David and the Giants for reunion tours.

I first met Keith in 1979 when he stopped by my morning television show in Richmond, Virginia and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. Over the years we’ve talked about his television roles, his music, the ballet company, and his faith in God.

JL: Is it fair to say that music has been the common thread to everything in your life?

KT: Yeah, but another important thread was my faith in God. Even when I was very young, I had a sense of God. I asked my Dad, “Why do you think God picked me to be Little Ricky on such a famous television show?” And Dad said, “Because God has a purpose for you, Keith.”

JL: How many kids auditioned for the role of Little Ricky in “I Love Lucy”?

KT: There were about 200.

JL: With all due respect, God had a purpose for those other kids too, so what gave you the edge?

KT: There were a couple of factors. I looked like Desi Arnaz and I looked like their child. I also played the drums, which was a gift that the other kids maybe didn’t possess.

JL: What was it like playing Opie’s pal on “The Andy Gri th Show?”

KT: It was a very easygoing show to be a part of. It was fun hanging out with Ron on the set. He was one of the nicest kids in Hollywood.

JL: And he sort of looked up to you, didn’t he?

KT: He did because I was about four years older, and he always asked the writers to write me a part so I could be on the show.

But Keith was on the show even when he WASN’T on the show. That’s because Opie would frequently quote one of Johnny Paul’s philosophies to Andy.

Opie: Johnny Paul says tar is real good for your teeth.

Andy: That’s just an old wives tale.

Opie: Johnny Paul ain’t married. Mayberry Days runs from Monday, September 18 through Sunday, September 25. For more information visit www. mayberrydays.com

For more information on David and the Giants, visit www.davidandthegiants. com. Their concert on Saturday, September 23 begins at 3 p.m. at the Andy Gri th Playhouse.

Keith’s book, “Life After Lucy,” is available from Amazon.com. !

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

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Keith Thibodeaux, right, with wife Kathy.

Keith Thibodeaux, middle, as “Little Ricky,” with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

The Good Mother prowls mean streets

pregnant girlfriend Paige (Olivia Cooke) isn’t so sure.

ood intentions do not a good movie make, and such is the case with The Good Mother, an unsatisfying melodrama that nevertheless has points of interest along the way — the total of which come very close to making it worthwhile.

Hilary Swank, doubling as a producer, stars as Marissa Bennings, a widowed journalist who is dealt a major blow when her younger son Michael is gunned down, seemingly the victim in a drug deal gone wrong. Older son Toby (Jack Reynor), a local police o cer, suspects that Michael’s best bud Ducky (Hopper Penn) is the culprit, but Michael’s

GLater, Paige discovers Michael’s stash, a tainted combination of fentanyl and heroin called “Mother’s Milk” (the film’s original title), which not surprisingly arouses Marissa’s journalistic instincts. Despite her own ongoing bout with the bottle — an interesting irony the filmmakers opt not to emphasize — she begins her own investigation into the circumstances surrounding her son’s death and the extent of the drug epidemic ravaging the city of Albany.

The Good Mother is not lacking in ambition, as it attempts to be a character study/murder-mystery/ morality play, but it’s unable to coalesce these elements in a compelling or credible fashion. It’s an easy film to admire but also an easy one to pick apart. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency in apprehending Ducky and, indeed, Toby

almost seems to be the only cop in the department. In addition, the motivations of a major character — which ought to be a major plot point — are never really addressed. The screenplay, by Madison Harrison and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, attempts to convey and dramatize the far-reaching consequences of the drug trade, but it doesn’t reach far enough. Too many questions (some of them basic) are left unanswered. This, ultimately, is what undoes The Good Mother. Nevertheless, The Good Mother makes great use of its Albany location but hardly glamorizes the city. Through the lens of cinematographer Charlotte Hornsby (who does exemplary work here), Albany is a noir-ish nightmare,

drenched in despair and gloom. The mood is consistently well rendered. The film looks great.

The performances are the film’s principal attributes. Swank, enjoying a good, solid lead turn, imbues Marissa with grief, guilt, and self-loathing, although even at her most bedraggled and hungover she still looks pretty terrific. Cooke and Reynor likewise play their roles with earnest conviction, and there’s good work from model-turned-actress Dilone as Toby’s wife, who’s also expecting a baby, but none of the other characters emerge with any clarity or depth. !

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Later, Paige discovers Michael’s

APORIA (Well Go USA Entertainment): Writer/director Jared Moshé’s R-rated existential fantasy stars Judy Greer as a grief-stricken widow who unexpectedly gets a belated opportunity to save her husband (Edi Gathegi) when her scientist friend (Payman Maadi) constructs a machine capable of time travel — but changing the course of history comes with inescapable consequences. Both the DVD ($19.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.98 retail) include behind-thescenes featurette and trailer.

BABYLON 5: THE ROAD HOME (Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment): J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the Emmy-winning, syndicated science-fiction series, serves as story writer and executive producer of this animated, PG-13-rated follow-up that reunites stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman in an allnew adventure that sees them traveling through time and multiple dimensions, available on Blu-ray ($29.98 retail) and 4K Ultra HD combo ($39.99 retail), each replete with audio commentary and behind-the-scenes featurette.

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Cohen Media Group/Kino Lorber): Screenwriter/ producer/director Emmanuel Carrere’s award-winning 2021 adaptation of the best-selling non-fiction book of Florence Aubenas (originally titled Le Quai de Ouisreham, which translates to The Night Cleaner) starring executive producer Juliette Binoche as an intrepid journalist who works undercover as a cleaner on a ferry to ascertain the exploitation of the working class in contemporary France. A passion project for Binoche, she is one of the few professional actors in the cast. In French with English subtitles, available on DVD ($19.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.95 retail).

THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE (Kino Lorber): Writer/ director Francisca Alegria’s feature debut (originally titled La Vaca Que Canto Una Cancion Hacia El Futuro) stars Leonor Varela as a surgeon who returns to the village on the Chilean coast where she grew up to tend her ailing father (Benjamin Soto) — only for her to unexpectedly encounter the spectral form of her longdeceased mother (Mia Maestro), who appearance coincides with an ecological disaster that threatens to destroy the village. In Spanish with English subtitles, available on DVD ($19.95 retail).

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DVD PICK OF THE WEEK: HARDCORE (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)

In his second outing as writer/director, Paul Schrader followed Blue Collar with this controversial, hard-hitting 1979 melodrama that doesn’t quite add up to the sum of its parts — but those parts make it a minor landmark of ‘70s cinema.

George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a devout Calvinist and pillar of his Grand Rapids community, whose teenaged daughter inexplicably runs away during a church trip to California. When he learns that she has become a prostitute and porn actress, he undertakes a harrowing journey to locate her. Augmented by Jack Nitzsche’s chilling score and evocative cinematography by Michael Chapman (who

discussed the film with me when he taught at UNCSA), Hardcore wallows in its sordid milieu with indulgent abandon, as Jake is exposed to a world he could not possibly have imagined.

Scott gives one of his best performances as Jake, expertly conveying the character’s desperation and inner rage. Let’s face it: There was never an actor who lost his temper like George C. Scott, and he is a force of nature here. There’s also first-rate support from Peter Boyle as a sleazy private eye who shows Jake the ropes, and Season Hubley as Niki, a streetwalker who becomes Jake’s guide into the underbelly of pornography, as well as something of a surrogate daughter figure. The two share some thoughtful philosophical discussions that elevate Hardcore far above simple exploitation.

Like a number of Schrader’s films, Hardcore ends with an ostensibly cathartic, kneejerk shoot-out that brings the narrative to a close, but doesn’t necessarily ring true and leaves lingering loose ends. Still, for its faults, the film remains potent, thoughtprovoking, and relevant.

The special-edition Blu-ray ($24.95 retail) includes audio commentaries and theatrical trailer. Rated R.

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (Paramount Home Entertainment): The 4K Ultra HD combo bow ($30.99 retail) of John Hughes’s entertaining high-school comedy with Matthew Broderick as the titular hipster who plays high-school hooky with girlfriend Mia Sara and best bud Alan Ruck in tow, while the increasingly frustrated principal (scene-stealer Je rey Jones) pursues them in vain. Splashy and entertaining, and Broderick — in arguably his signature screen role (and one of his best performances) — always recognized the darker, more manipulative side of the character. Very much a product of its time, this showcases both the city of Chicago and an enthusiastic cast including Jennifer Grey (as Ferris’s antagonistic sister), Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward (who later married), Edie McClurg, Kristy Swanson, Richard Edson, Virginia Capers, Ben Stein, and an unbilled Charlie Sheen (who’s a treat). Bonus features includes audio commentary and featurettes. Rated PG13.

THE FIRST TIME (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($24.95

retail) of director James Neilson’s 1969 coming-of-age drama following teenagers Wes Stern (in his feature debut), Wink Roberts (in his feature debut), and Rick Kelman (in his final feature to date) on a summer excursion to Niagara Falls where they encounter “older woman” Jacqueline Bisset, whom they mistakenly assume to be a prostitute and attempt to woo her. Despite a sympathetic turn by the breathtaking Bisset, this is woefully dated and strains credibility from the outset — and pales in comparison to The Graduate, which preceded it by two years. Rated PG-13.

FORCE OF EVIL (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Screenwriter Abraham Polonsky’s absorbing 1948 feature directorial debut, based on screenwriter Ira Wolfert’s novel Tucker’s People, stars John Garfield as a hard-driving attorney determined to advance his career — and the fortunes of banker brother Thomas Gomez — by getting involved in a numbers racket. This e ective, noir-ish melodrama/morality play took on a new dimension with the advent of the Hollywood Blacklist, which derailed

Polonsky’s career (he didn’t direct another film for 20 years) and likely contributed to Garfield’s early death four years later. The special-edition Blu-ray ($24.95 retail) includes audio commentary, introduction by Martin Scorsese (a great admirer of the film), and theatrical trailer.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): The award-winning, PG-rated fourth installment of the popular animated franchise sees returning voiceover cast members Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Andy Sandberg, David Spade, Molly Shannon, and Fran Drescher joined by Kathryn Hahn, Jim Ga gan, KeeganMichael Key, Brian Hull, and Brad Abrell for another round of monstrous, familyfriendly mirth under the co-direction of first-timers Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska, in which a scientific experiment goes haywire and renders the monsters mere mortals, available on DVD ($30.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($34.99 retail), each replete with bonus features including audio commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, lyric video, trivia quiz, and more.

HUMAN DESIRE (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($24.95 retail) of Fritz Lang’s noir-ish 1954 melodrama, loosely based on Emile Zola’s La Bete humaine, with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Broderick Crawford comprising a combustible, ill-fated love triangle set against the backdrop of the railroad industry. Bonus features include an appreciation by actress Emily Mortimer and theatrical trailer.

NO HARD FEELINGS (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): Director/co-writer Gene Stupnitsky’s bawdy comedy stars Jennifer Lawrence (also a producer) as a cash-strapped woman hired to “date” withdrawn teenager Andrew Barth Feldman and alleviate him of his virginity the summer before he attends college. Lawrence and Feldman enjoy a comfortable chemistry throughout, but the third act lapses into contrivance and predictability, despite their best e orts to keep things afloat. Both the DVD ($34.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($38.99 retail) include behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, and outtakes. Rated R. !

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WALK OF SHAME

“It’s just a biohazard issue,” the pilot told air traffic control. And indeed, the Delta Airlines Airbus A350 was forced to return to Atlanta after two hours in the air on Sept. 1 after a passenger suffered an “onboard medical emergency”: uncontrollable diarrhea that left the entire length of the aisle covered in fecal matter. The Guardian reported that passengers said the flight crew did everything they could to clean up the mess, including spraying it with scented disinfectant. But that merely made the cabin “smell of vanilla s--t,” one traveler said. Back in Atlanta, passengers, including the afflicted traveler, waited eight hours for the plane to be cleaned up and the aisle carpet to be replaced, then reboarded and were on their way to Barcelona — again.

BRIGHT IDEA

A 38-year-old man and a 55-yearold woman have been arrested in the central Shanxi province of China, China Daily reported, for digging a shortcut

through the Great Wall of China. Local police were alerted to the damage on Aug. 24 and followed tracks from an excavator back to the suspects, who explained that they needed the shortcut to get back and forth to their construction jobs. The Great Wall is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has reportedly been “damaged beyond repair.” The two were charged with destroying a cultural relic.

AWESOME!

Tennessean Tami Manis is going to see her name in the 2024 edition of the “Guinness World Records” book after 34 years of hard work ... not getting haircuts. United Press International reported on Aug. 31 that Manis’ mullet, measured at 5 feet, 8 inches long, earned her the prize in the female competitive mullet category. She had not cut the “party in the back” section of her hair since Feb. 9, 1990. “I’ve had people recognize me from 20 years ago because I’ve kept the same hairstyle,” she said. “This is amazing.”

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Frick and Riverview Parks in Pitts-

burgh have a problem: The deer population has grown to the point that the animals are dangerous to themselves and humans, Fox News reported. “With no natural predators, we are seeing an increase in car-deer collisions, relentless damage to our ecosystem and unnatural aggression toward pets and people,” the city’s website reads. What to do? The city is going to randomly pick 30 archers to participate in “a pilot program with archery-controlled hunts ... during the 2023-2024 deer archery season,” the city announced. Hopeful hunters will be part of a lottery system, and final participants must have a clean background check and a deer permit. In addition, “the selected archers will be required to attend an accuracy test” and will be confined to a specific area of the park to hunt. Those who kill more than two deer in their area will be given preference for subsequent seasons, according to the city. Keep that orange vest handy.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

Nicholas Coffey, 23, couldn’t resist bragging on social media about his “new” Mercedes-Benz on Sept. 2, which made it easier for cops to track him

down, Fox News reported. Coffey and an accomplice used the stolen car to break into other vehicles on Deltona, Florida, residential streets during the early morning hours, then stopped at a gas station, where Coffey was captured on surveillance video. Volusia County detectives caught up with him the following morning and arrested him on multiple charges.

SAW THAT COMING

A 20-year-old unnamed Swiss man was taken to the hospital on Aug. 21 after trying not once, but twice, to put his face on the water nozzle at Geneva, Switzerland’s Jet d’Eau, the BBC reported. The attraction projects 110 gallons of water per second, reaching a height of 459 feet. His first attempt resulted in him being thrown backward; on his second try, he was thrown into the air and landed on a nearby cement walkway. He then dived into Lake Geneva, where officers found him and sought medical care for him. The company that operates the fountain intends to file a complaint against him for trespassing. !

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ACROSS

11 Soulful Redding

12 Really tiny

13 “Saturday Night Fever” star

14 Hard Italian cheese

15 “Sure, put me down”

16 Toenail treatment, informally

17 Astral bear

18 Coffee holder

21 Rambled

27 Mexican city due south of Dallas

plane

28 Elevate

32 Waiting with — breath

33 2013 Grammy winner for “Royals”

34 Dunne of classic films

35 Lieu

36 Chinese ideal

37 California county whose seat is Fairfield

38 Sign word after “Ye”

39 Stocking stuffer

40 Worked on a leaf collection?

41 “You beat me”

42 Tennis tie

1 Tip politely, as one’s hat

2 Human face’s shape

3 Whoop- — (extravagant fanfare)

4 Expanded

5 Sedgwick of Warhol films

6 Marilyn of “Niagara”

7 In — (pronto)

8 Desktop illuminator

9 No longer being detained

10 Sax celebrity

43 Up and about

46 Gained access to

50 Refrigeration fluid

51 Workers with shingles, maybe

52 Kofi, once of the U.N.

54 Caveman’s weapon

58 Scrub nurses’ sites,

Winston-Salem Fashion Week Launches its 9th Season

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ston-Salem Fashion Week launched its ninth season this past Monday with a celebratory evening recognizing city officials, sponsors, partners, designers, and other special guests who allow this local highlight to continue taking place. Launched by its founder, Nikita Wallace, almost 10 years ago, the fashion show returns stronger than ever, with an avant-garde collection never before included. With shows scheduled through the last day of the month, this year’s event celebrates undiscovered designers as well as the often-forgotten fact that we have everything we need to be stylish right here in Winston-Salem.

A graduate of Salem College with a degree in studio art and a minor in art

history, Wallace was half a school credit away from being able to graduate towards the end of completing her degree. Years prior, she had worked at Forsyth County Schools District’s Robert B. Glenn High School where she had engaged enough with students to know about their dreams and aspirations. Many of these graduating high school students were striving to leave for places like New York and California to pursue careers as artists, designers, photographers, and anything really within the entertainment and fashion industries.

Even after no longer working for the public school system, Wallace never forgot these students, their stories, and how greatly they inspired her to think about providing a creative platform for them in Winston-Salem to reach their goals. For years, she thought about holding an art and fashion show of sorts to provide that platform, until she found herself half a credit away from reaching one of her own dreams. At that moment, she pitched her long-standing idea as a senior thesis, and upon being informed that pulling off the event would get her

across the finish line, Wallace launched the first Winston-Salem Fashion Week at Salem College.

The first show was such a success it pretty much ended up paving its own way, and all these years later, Wallace and her team launched into the event’s ninth season. While Winston-Salem Fashion Week now has a solid team and designer selection system in place, Wallace is an avid guest of fashion shows in the area through which she’s able to see for herself what is happening locally and the up-and-coming designers. “If I’m going to different shows and checking out different artists, I’ll encourage them to look into Winston-Salem Fashion Week,” said Wallace. “I open up that invitation.”

This is how she met accessory designer Sasha Woods, or the Ultimate Junki as she is known in the fashion world, who is returning to Winston-Salem Fashion Week for the second time in her career. Years back, Woods was competing at an event in which Wallace was one of the judges, and upon witnessing Woods’ one-of-a-kind works, Wallace extended an invitation for her to consider show-

casing in Winston-Salem Fashion Week. The two have maintained contact throughout the years since, and this particular year, Woods felt it was time for her to return to the event and showcase, again.

Known for expressing herself through her accessory designs, Woods tells her story, experiences, and deepest feelings through her work. “Sometimes when I put things together, and I see them later on, I’ll know exactly how I was feeling or exactly what I was trying to express during that moment,” said Woods. “People don’t get it off the bat, but once they do, they know I’m just expressing myself.”

Completely blind in her right eye, eye patch pieces emphasize her experience of having to function as an artist with only one sighted eye.

As hard as she tried to fit in while growing up, Woods realized from a young age she was different. She was constantly creating without realizing she was reinventing things, and now that she’s returning to Winston-Salem Fashion Week, she feels at her fullest bloom.

“I feel like Sasha seven years ago would

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be very proud of Sasha now because back then I would have never imagined the ideas I have now,” said Woods. “This is my last show of the year, and it will be my last show for a while, so I’m really going out with a bang.” Notorious for designing extravagant pieces to be worn on occasion, Wood’s collection is to bring the unexpected.

Also at his fullest bloom, designer Brian Atkins is presenting his collection “Blush” on the Winston-Salem Fashion Week runway this year. A lifelong fashion lover, it wasn’t until the last several years that Akins finally decided to pursue his passion when he purchased a sewing machine. After enrolling in a basic sewing class focused on making handbags, he continued to teach himself different aspects of the craft, and eventually began designing clothes. A director of quality for United Healthcare, Atkins has never wanted fashion to feel like work and currently manages beautifully a balance between his day job and his passion.

Atkins also met Wallace at a competition when he was first getting started in the fashion world, and followed her work throughout the years to come. Due to fashion shows tending to be scheduled around the same time of year, it wasn’t until this year that Atkin’s timeline matched that of WinstonSalem Fashion Week, and he was finally able to come on board. When he saw Wallace’s announcement that the event was holding its ninth season, he knew this was the year for him to participate, and made it a priority. Atkins is being specifically showcased as part of this

year’s new avant-garde collection. Known for going outside the box and completely against the grain, Atkins’ “Blush” will decorate the runway with items including very dramatic oversized bows and collars which he considers his niche. A collection he started back in the spring, and he went on to complete it later in the year on behalf of WinstonSalem Fashion Week, and the opportunity to showcase what is the best version of himself and his work. Additionally, the designer is a firm believer that everyone is beautiful in their own way. He will never forget noticing how tiny every model on the runway seemed to be during his first few years in the industry.

“The thing about me is I tend to see beauty where other people do not,” said Atkins. “I will choose the girl that is different, that looks completely different, and that is just not your everyday pretty or your everyday size. I just appreciate all types of beauty, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, etc.” Fortunately, the industry has changed since Atkins started working in it, and he notes it has opened up a lot over the past couple of years to plus-sized models. Not only is he proud to bring the best version of himself onto the runway, but of the camaraderie he constantly fights for through highlighting all sizes and beauties.

While Wallace is particularly excited about this year’s avante-garde portion of the show, she is also looking forward to many of the new presences this year. Some of these new faces include therapist and stylist Alysha Williams, who will be holding the discussion “How Fashion Impacts Mood & Perception” during the

Swap & Style Event, and the Curvy Fox Boutique, a store focused on helping curvy women look and feel beautiful. By attending Winston-Salem Fashion Week, the public inevitably supports WinstonSalem and its surrounding areas. “To support local is key,” said Wallace. “We have everything we need right here.”

For more information on Winwston Salem Fashion Week, including showtimes, tickets and more, visit www. wsfashionweek.com. !

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

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ACLU warns city that anti-homeless measures violate constitutional rights

“It has come to our attention that the Greensboro police intend to seize the private property of unhoused people living near the Interactive Resource Center in downtown Greensboro.”

That quote is from the opening paragraph of a letter sent by Daniel K. Siegel and Muneeba Talukder to Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, Police Chief John Thompson, City Attorney Chuck Watts, and Deputy City Manager Chris Wilson on August 29. Siegel is the Deputy Legal Director and Talukder is a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation.

“For the reasons outlined in this letter,” wrote Siegel and Talukder, “this action would likely violate the Fourth, Eighth, and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution. We strongly urge you to cease issuing these notices and refrain from seizing and destroying the property of unhoused people.”

The letter stated that seizing the property of unhoused people is a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of “unreasonable searches and seizures and cited Lavan v. City of Los

Angeles (2012), in which the judge ruled “Violation of a City ordinance does not vitiate the Fourth Amendment’s protection of one’s property. Were it otherwise, the government could seize and destroy any illegally parked car or unlawfully unattended dog without implicating the Fourth Amendment.” It also cited that judge’s ruling that “unhoused people had property interest in temporarily unattended personal property,” and that such temporarily untended personal property would “certainly include medications, government documents, and protection from the environment such as shoes and clothing.”

It then stated that “seizing and destroying the property of unhoused people without first giving them an opportunity to be heard by a neutral decision-maker would violate due process,” as the 14th Amendment prohibits the government from depriving “any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

The attorneys then cited the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on criminal penalties for involuntary acts. “More than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court held that a statute criminalizing a person’s addiction to drugs violated the Eighth Amendment . . . . A majority of

the Court later agreed that people who are unhoused and addicted to alcohol could not be punished for being drunk in public, as alcoholism is a disease and such people ‘have no place else to go and no place else to be when they are drinking.’” The letter cited Martin v. City of Boise (2019), which held that “an ordinance that prohibited sleeping in public spaces was unconstitutional,” for “as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors on public property, on the false premise that they had a choice in the matter.”

The ACLU attorneys concluded by stating: “Any efforts by Greensboro to regulate unhoused people must comport with the Constitution. We encourage you to meet the needs of your community in humane and sustainable ways that will respect the constitutional rights of everyone who lives in Greensboro.”

The same day the ACLU letter was mailed to Greensboro officials, it was posted to the Facebook page of the Interactive Resource Center with a note from IRC Executive Director Kristina Singleton.

“We talk a lot around here about our community and the support we receive on many different levels,” wrote Singleton. “Today, we want to talk about the ways that we need to do better. Our community is experiencing homelessness and poverty, the likes of which we haven’t seen since we opened our doors

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in 2009. The challenge to triage the need continues to grow, while resources remain stagnant and shelter space and affordable housing decline. The community we serve struggles every single day with displacement, making it difficult to focus on anything other than finding a safe place to exist without threats and intimidation. Today, the ACLU submitted a letter to City Officials and Management outlining ways that homelessness is being regulated in unconstitutional ways, specifically, the 4th, 8th, and 14th Amendments, right here, in our City of Greensboro. The support of the City of Greensboro and the programming that allows us to continue to step up and offer new, innovative bridge programs until we can have permanent solutions is not lost on us, and we are grateful, but we are not where we need to be. We cannot allow the people we serve to lose their voice and their rights in the process. Are we as a community going to look the other way, or will we continue to fight for the rights of ALL human beings? We know the answer is housing. WHEN are we, as a community, going to have solutions instead of criminalizing poverty?”

Many advocates for Greensboro’s unhoused community, including the Working Class and Houseless Organizing Alliance that distributes meals to the indigent and hungry, believe that this controversy began on July 26, when Susan Shore Schwartz sent an email to Mayor Vaughan and District 3 representative Zack Matheny with the subject line “Center City Park.” Schwartz is Executive Director of the Cemala Foundation, a nonprofit that describes itself as “a 29-year-old family foundation that seeks to enhance the quality of life in Greensboro.”

“I was just in Center City Park,” wrote Schwartz. “The sidewalk on Elm Street looks terrible. There are clothes strewn about, food, food containers, and more. Very unsightly, I hope you can find someone to clean up the mess.”

“I noticed an increase of people in the park last week,” replied Vaughan later that day. “I checked with some of our service providers to see if there was a reason (such as did someone cut back on services?). One provider did tell me that there might be additional feeding in the park. We do need to find an alternate location.”

“Additional feeding” was an apparent reference to the various groups that feed the houseless and hungry in the park.

In the same email thread, Trey Davis, Assistant City Manager for Public Safety, wrote “I will get GPD’s downtown of-

ficers to go by and alert BHRT [the city’s Behavioral Health Response Team] to see if they can assist as well.” Davis also wrote that he would be in touch with Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc., the nonprofit that the city has contracted to run Lebauer and Center City Parks via a public-private partnership.

On August 1, Vaughan forwarded Schwartz’s email to Parks & Recreation Director Phillip Fleishman, Assistant City Manager Nasha McCray, Deputy City Manager Chris Wilson, Police Chief John Thompson, and City Manager Taiwo Jaiyeoba, among others.

In her accompanying message, Vaughan described the “situation in the parks” as “getting worse on a daily basis.” She called upon all addressed parties to collaborate on “a plan to ensure that the park is a welcoming safe place for all residents, employees, and visitors” and stated that Greensboro Parks Downtown Inc. “needs to play a leadership role in maintaining the safety and cleanliness of Center City Park.”

“The City has invested significant funding in landscaping, lighting, and other measures. They need to be utilized. I believe we are paying for security at both parks. Is it effective? We need to make sure that GDPI has the contact information for BHRT and other service providers. Someone should be walking through the parks throughout the day.”

Within 10 days of the mayor’s email, a new sign was erected near the Elm Street entrance to Center City Park listing new rules and regulations for it and Lebauer Park. The new rules prohibit hammocks or camping gear, storing or leaving personal items behind after the park is closed, and suitcases, storage containers, shopping carts “or other items that obstruct the right of way.”

The new rules also stated that “Charitable distribution activities are not permitted in LeBauer Park, Center City Park, or along Davie Street.”

On August 23, a Greensboro police officer taped a notice to the pylons of a bridge near the Interactive Resource Center stating “The purpose of this letter is to give notice that you are trespassing on City of Greensboro Property. Please relocate your belongings or City Operations will remove your belongings. You have 7 days.”

Six days later, the city received the letter from the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation. !

IAN MCDOWELL is an award-winning author and journalist whose book I Ain’t Resisting: the City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith will be published in September by Scuppernong Editions.

The FemFest gang gets fancy af

Hey WinstonSalem!

Fem-

Fest NC is puttin’ on the ritz for the inaugural FemFête, a classical music soirée and silent auction going down at SECCA on September 22.

Fancy dress is suggested for the notably swankier a air, which features an array of classical musicians in lieu of the punkier varieties (though the traditional FemFest will still rock on later in the year).

The loftier FemFête price point is accompanied by complimentary beer, wine, cheese, and charcuterie in an elevated atmosphere — though the mission and heart remain the same: fundraising for the FemFest NC 501(c)3 which works to

raise awareness and support for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

“Internally, we’re billing FemFête as ‘The FemFest Gang Gets Fancy AF’,” said FemFest organizer Sarah Burns. “Sometimes it’s okay to put away our cut-o t-shirts because getting fancy is just plain fun! We would love to see everyone in their versions of glitz and glam cocktail attire.”

“We know it’s an unexpected look for us,” she continued. “But we’ve actually discussed incorporating other genres for a couple years now. And in planning this fundraising event at SECCA, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to introduce some of the classical musicians that have expressed interest in being more involved with FemFest NC in the past.”

As FemFête sees FemFest stepping out of their comfort zone, the gang looks to highlight the comfort zones of other musicians and artisans, while helping bring the basic comforts to those who need it most through continuing to fundraise for the

emergency shelter at Family Services of Forsyth County. “We’re hoping that FemFête will become an annual fundraising event for FemFest NC so we can continue to raise awareness and support for their work,” Burns said.

Co-organizer, Jelaina Frelitz, agreed. “As we continue to grow, we want to introduce the mission of FemFest NC to new-to-us audiences — and sometimes that means venturing into ‘unknown’ territory.”

“FemFest has always been both music and art-driven,” she continued. “We’re thrilled to hold an event in such a pillar venue of the Winston-Salem community. The Hanes House will provide us the opportunity to host in an intimate, salon-style environment complete with an outdoor terrace featuring a stunning view of the grounds and SECCA’s lake.”

Despite the high-brow nature and fancy duds, FemFest fans will see at least a few familiar faces with Billie Feather swapping her punk guitar ri s for classical strings in

the classical duo, Resonator, she shares with banjoist Hank Smith.

A resident of Washington these days (as a professor at Washington State University, no less), Feather is excited to continue her connections to FemFest and visit her old stomping grounds. “I love traveling and we love playing for a fantastic cause,” she said of the cross-country appearance. “So of course, we were in!” Taking inspiration from artists like the Krüger Brothers and Bela Fleck’s work with classical guitarist John Williams, Resonator “finds comfort in breaking musical barriers with innovative instrumentation and arrangements.”

Feather’s excitement extends to showcasing a di erent side of her musical prowess through a band “born of a mu-

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Billie Feather in her classical duo, Resonator, with Hank Smith

Jojo Di Norcia

tual love of classical, bluegrass, and folk music.” Their set will boast a “mixture of original compositions, rearranged classical favorites, and evocative reimaginings of traditional folk tunes,” to express the joy they find in “creating music that connects generations and appeals to all levels of music lovers.”

It’s a joy shared by their fellow performers: classical guitarist (and UNC-School of the Arts student) Olivia Anderson; chamber musician (and teacher at the UNCSA Community Music School) Charley Shafer, who’ll perform with Dr. Robert Matthews (organist and choirmaster at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church); and the Ensemble Clarke composed of Laurence Brooke, Sara Antonia Arévalo, and Jojo Di Norcia.

“They’re all absolutely incredible musicians of exceptional caliber and we could not be more honored that they will be a part of our first FemFête!,” Feather noted of her billmates. “We’re so thankful for all of them!”

“Everyone involved are dear friends to FemFest,” she continued. “They all have local ties to schools. They’re all incredibly supportive of the FemFest mission which is to inspire others through music and raising awareness of domestic violence.”

Turning to the realm of visual art, FemFête will host a silent auction featuring works from Laura Lashley, Kimberly Varnadoe, and Marianne DiNapoli-Mylet.

Saturday, September 23 10 A.M. until 4 P.M.

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“All three of our featured visual artists are well-known, sought-after creators within the community,” Frelitz explained. “We’re honored for their continued support of our mission.”

Honors and hors d’oeuvre abound for FemFête, though lovers of the lowbrow needn’t worry: FemFest NC, with its grit and rock’n’roll glory, will return on December 2.

“The outpouring of love and support is everything we expect from this community,” Burns said, suggesting folks keep an eye on the FemFest socials as details, lineups, and specialty events surrounding “FemFest NC X” will start rolling out shortly.

Join the FemFest gang in getting fancy af for the inaugural FemFête at SECCA on September 22. Tickets are $100, with a discounted rate available for SECCA members. More information can be found at: https://femfestnc.betterworld.org/ events/FemFete. !

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Sep 16: Noah Cyrus

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Oct 13: Girls Gotta Eat

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Oct 30: Free Throw

Oct 31: Dragonforce

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Sep 22-23: Drake

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Sep 30: Jonas Brothers

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Oct 11: Travis Scott

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Sep 16: Black Glass

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Sep 22: SmasHat

Sep 23: Ryan Trotti

Sep 28: Jarrett Raymond

Sep 30: Muddy Creek Revival

Oct 27: Spindle 45

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CAROLINA THEATRE

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www.carolinatheatre.org

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Sep 20: Corinne Bailey Rae

Sep 21: Leela James

Sep 22: Chris Botti

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Sep 28: TEGAN AND SARA

Sep 29: Jake Shimabukuro

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Oct 7: Rissi Palmer

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www.dpacnc.com

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Sep 19: Squeeze and the Psychedelic Furs

Sep 20: Ben Folds

Sep 21: Nick Cave

Sep 22: Jo Koy

Sep 24: Chris Tucker

Sep 28: Chicago

Sep 29: Patti LaBelle

Sep 30: Nimesh Patel

ELKIN REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240

www.reevestheater.com

Wednesdays: Reeves Open Mic

Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam

Sep 22: John Fullbright

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Sep 30: Phatt City

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Sep 23: Frute with Mellow Swells

Sep 28: Rhiannon Giddens

CHAR BAR NO. 7

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COMEDY ZONE

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www.thecomedyzone.com

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Sep 19: Craig Conant

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CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646

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GaraGE TavErn

5211 A West Market St | 336.763.2020

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Sep 15: Stereo Doll

Sep 16: Zack Brock & The Good Intentions

Oct 19: Tony andrews

GranDOvEr rESOrT

2275 Vanstory Street Suite 200 | 336.294.1800

www.grandover.com

Wednesdays: Live Jazz w/ Steve Haines Trio

GrEEnSBOrO COLISEum

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Sep 15: Koe Wetzel

Sep 22-24: Cowboy Days

HanGar 1819

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.579.6480

www.hangar1819.com

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Oct 24: Carnifex w/ Signs Of The Swarm, To The Grave, The Last Ten Seconds, Heft

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LITTLE BrOTHEr

BrEWInG

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Wednesdays: Trivia

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Sep 15: real Jazz

Sep 16: unheard Project

Sep 22: Johnny O and the Jump Out Boys

Sep 23: royal Jelly

Sep 29: Sam robinson Band

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Sep 19-24: CHICaGO the musical

Sep 29-30: Golden Girls: The Laughs

THE IDIOT BOX

COmEDY CLuB

503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699

www.idiotboxers.com

Thursdays: Open mic

WHITE OaK

amPITHEaTrE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400

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WInESTYLES

3326 W Friendly Ave Suite 141 | 336.299.4505

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high point

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GOOFY FOOT TaPrOOm

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Sep 28: Manhattan Short Film Festival

Sep 30: Unwind Music Festival

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SwEEt Old Bill’S

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jamestown

thE dEck

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999

Sep 14: Ethan Smith

Sep 15: tOYZ

Sep 16: Southbound 49

Sep 22: carolina ambush

Sep 23: radio revolver

Sep 28: alex Ottaway

Sep 29: Jukebox revolver

Sep 30: Megan doss and Jon Montgomery

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cOcktail lOUngE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822

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wednesdays: karaoke

Sep 23: wild wild Burlesk

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

oak ridge

BiStrO 150

2205 Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.6359

www.bistro150.com

raleigh

ccU MUSic Park at walnUt crEEk

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111

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lincOln thEatrE

126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400

www.lincolntheatre.com

rEd hat aMPhithEatEr

500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800

www.redhatamphitheater.com

Pnc arEna

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300

www.thepncarena.com

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Sep 30: Old dominon

Oct 10: kirk Franklin

Oct 13-14: travis Scott

Oct 18: Shania twain

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kaMikaZE’S tavErn

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winston-salem

Earl’S

121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018

www.earlsws.com

Mondays: Open Mic

thursdays: will Jones

Sep 15: will Easter

Sep 16: Billy creason

Sep 22: kyle kelly

Sep 23: Flat Back cadillac

Sep 29: the Mighty Fairlanes

Sep 30: Fox n vead

Oct 6-7: Zack Brock and good intentions

Fiddlin’ FiSh

BrEwing cOMPanY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945

www.fiddlinfish.com

tuesdays: trivia

Sep 15: Ears to the ground

Sep 16: Oktoberfest 2023

Sep 22: Swingbillies Of Boonetown

Sep 29: hotwax and the Splinters

Oct 6: tyler dodson

Oct 7: day of the dead

Oct 13: Sam robinson

FOOthillS BrEwing

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348

www.foothillsbrewing.com

Sundays: Sunday Jazz

thursdays: trivia

MidwaY MUSic hall

11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218

www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter

Mondays: line dancing

MUddY crEEk caFE & MUSic hall

137 West St | 336.201.5182

www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe

thE raMkat

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714

www.theramkat.com

Sep 13: Jeff Black

Sep 14: time Sawyer

Sep 15: Bedford, Sam Foster

Sep 16: drew Foust’s wheelhouse

Sep 23: charles wesley godwin, nolan taylor

Sep 28: wheeler walker, Jr., channing wilson

Sep 29: Migrant Birds

rOar

633 North Liberty Street | 336-917-3008

www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater. com

wiSE Man BrEwing

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008

www.wisemanbrewing.com

thursdays: Music Bingo

Sep 23: tyler dodson duo

Oct 20: gipsy danger

Hopscotch 2023

9.7-9.23 | Downtown Raleigh | Katei Cranford

PRESENTS

hot pour

BARTENDER OF THE WEEK BY NATALIE GARCIA

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BARTENDER: Saige Avis

BAR: Cohab Space in High Point, N.C.

AGE: 25

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Greensboro, N.C.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING?

2.5 years

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER?

I was asked to work at Arizona Pete’s.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? Meeting new people!

WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF BARTENDING? Remembering all the recipes.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Liquid Marijuana.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? French 75!

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK?

Same as my personal favorite drink, French 75. It has champagne, gin, lemon juice, and sugar. It’s the perfect amount of sweet and a lovely way to end the night, or just get it started!

WHAT’S THE STRANGEST DRINK REQUEST YOU’VE HAD?

“Make me whatever you want,” it’s not strange but it happens often.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING?

Oh gosh, I was a bartender at a night club so I’ve truly seen it all, people kissing, falling, puking, fighting. Craziest thing was probably this girl fighting with our security team!

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE FOUND IN A BAR BATHROOM? People “enjoying each others company,” if you know what I mean.

WHAT’S THE BEST/BIGGEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN?

I once got $400 from these two guys. As they were leaving, they told me they would’ve left $1,000 but they didn’t like a response I gave to a question they asked. Whatever.

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Email Natalie Garcia at natalie@yesweekly.com and ask about being our Bartender of the Week!

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[SALOME’S STARS]

Week of September 18, 2023

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) With your Arian charm quotient at an almost all-time high this week, plus all the facts you have to back you up, you just might win over the last doubters of your proposal.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might be in line for that job change you applied for. But be advised that you could be called on to defend your qualifications against supporters of other applicants.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)

Creating a new approach to an old idea is one way to get beyond that workplace impasse. There’s no such problems in your personal life, though, as things continue to flow smoothly.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be more forthcoming about your feelings concerning a proposed change either in your workplace or in your personal life. Your opinions are valuable. Don’t keep them hidden.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) A changing situation in your life needs more patience than you appear to be willing to o er. Allowing it to develop at its own pace is the wisest course you can take at this time.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) With more stability in your life — both on personal and professional levels — this could be a good time to strengthen relationships with both friends and colleagues.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) People have always relied on your

integrity not only to get a job done, but to get it done right. So don’t be pressured by anyone into cutting corners to save time.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) While others might get rattled over unexpected changes, your ability to adapt calmly and competently helps you make a positive impression during a crucial period.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A changing environment might be daunting for some, but the adventurous Sagittarian takes it all in stride. A friend from the past could awaken some meaningful memories.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) With your self-assurance rising to full strength, the bold Goat should feel confident about opening up to new ventures as well as new relationships.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Reaching out to someone who has been unkind to you might not be easy. But in the long run, it will prove to have been the right thing to do. A friend o ers moral support.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your keen insight once again helps you work through a seemingly insoluble problem in your workplace. The weekend o ers a good chance to develop new relationships.

[BORN THIS WEEK: You have a penchant for finding details that others would overlook. You would make a fine research scientist.

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answers

WEEKLY SUDOKU

crossword on page 15

sudoku on page 15

by Fifi Rodriguez

[1. U.S. STATES: Which state is home to a giant sequoia tree named General Sherman?

[2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Is a rhinoceros an herbivore, omnivore or carnivore?

[3. GEOGRAPHY: Which city in India is home to the Taj Mahal?

[4. MOVIES: What is the title of the first James Bond movie?

[5. TELEVISION: What was the product featured in the first TV advertisement?

[6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which French fashion designer is credited with inventing the Little Black Dress?

[7. FOOD & DRINK: What does it mean to julienne vegetables?

[8. GOVERNMENT: What does the acronym GDP stand for in economic terms?

[9. LITERATURE: What is the cat’s name in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”?

[10. SCIENCE: Who is considered the father of the atomic bomb?

answer

10. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

9. Grimalkin.

8. Gross domestic product.

7. Cut into short, thin strips.

6. Coco Chanel.

5. Bulova watch.

4. “Dr. No.”

3. Agra.

2. An herbivore, a plant eater.

1. California, Sequoia National Park.

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