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22 GODDESS, WISHES, APPLES In the back of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, I’m thanked for information about Kinko’s (now FedEx Office) on Tate Street, where I used to work. Neil was writing the scene where the mysterious Mr. Wednesday uses a fake business card in a scam. He wanted to know if Kinko’s asked customers to verify information they wanted printed. Had we talked later, I’d have described how UNCG students leave OFFERINGS TO MINERVA.

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Everyone wants to visit a place where they feel accepted, and when a crew says “YAMAS!” in elation as you walk through the restaurant’s front door, it’s hard not to feel embraced.

10 On May 4, 80 high school art students from Greensboro’s Cornerstone Charter Academy – A Challenge Foundation Academy will converge upon The Village at North Elm to show off their LATEST WORKS. 12 Despite requisite inclement weather, the 2019 RIVERRUN International Film Festival once again proved its popularity, as the 21st annual festival racked up 40 soldout screenings this year...

14 In the immortal words — make that word — of Gomer Pyle, USMC: Shazam!. The second Captain Marvel movie to be released this spring (yup, this character was originally known by that name from his creation in 1939 until his rebranding in 1972), DC’s valiant effort doesn’t soar as high as its Marvel counterpart, though there’s still a hefty amount to enjoy...

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festival shows at the Crown visit Tickets. carolinatheatre.com 23 AMY CATANZANO, whose work investigates the intersections of literature, science and consciousness, will lead a master class in Investigative Poetry at the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2019 Spring Conference held at UNCG on April 27.

24 Growing up in Greensboro, BILLY WAYNE CRADDOCK loved two things: football and music.

25 On April 10 at Bethel AME Church in Greensboro, lawyers for the family of the late MARCUS DEON SMITH announced a civil suit over Smith’s Sept. 8, 2018 death after being hogtied by Greensboro police officers during the North Carolina Folk Festival.

26 BRANDY ZDAN isn’t crazy about the acoustic guitar. The singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer loves guitars. It’s just that she prefers an electric, with its more varied range of tonal possibilities, sustain and attack.

28 April is Jazz Appreciation month. To celebrate, the High Point Arts Council will host the MELVIN HOLLAND QUARTET on April 18 at the Centennial Station Arts Center in downtown High Point.

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WHAT: Comprised of an all-star line-up of some of Asheville North Carolina’s best musicians, Dirty Logic works hard to create a show that both honors the exceptional music of Steely Dan and showcases the incredible skill and unique musical voice of each of the band’s members. This 11-piece powerhouse delivers the experience that true Steely Dan fans recognize as authentic passion for the music.

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WHAT: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly have created a unique sound, becoming one of the most influential groups in modern history. The journey began when Beverly relocated from his hometown of Philadelphia to San Francisco and formed Maze.

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Come one, come all to the Squidling Bros.

Circus Sideshow in Greensboro on the holiest day for stoners, April 20. Club Orion (4618 W. Market St.) is the place, from 9 p.m. until midnight is the time to see the Philadelphia-based “collective of circus freakshow performers” team up with local burlesque talent Stage Slave Gavin and Mona Loverly.

According to the press release, there will be “live music, clowns, fire, sword swallowing, acts of danger, daring and dumbfoundery.” The sideshow includes accordion stylings of Maray Fuego, “the shockingly hilarious” Original Clown Babe Mackenzie Moltov, “Impenetrable Music man and Fakir of Fun” Matterz Squidling, and the evening will be emceed by the clown “with the upside-down frown” Jelly Boy. “A Fakir is someone from the Middle East or India that is able to withstand a great amount of pain and not be harmed in any way,” Squidling said. “I manipulate broken glass, I do stunts on beds of nails with rubber chickens and people standing on me, and an anvil placed upon the bed of nails. Our show is a comedy stunt show, so we incorporate old vintage sideshow with our modern take. It is all about clowning around and having fun, and showing people we can make the impossible possible.”

Squidling said Fuego mixes Billie Holiday with a “punk rock flare” for a unique accordion performance, Jelly Boy will be swallowing swords, Moltov will be contorting her body in crazy positions, and Gavin and Loverly will be performing their own burlesque sets (possibly, Squidling added, with a 420-friendly theme).

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The Squidling Bros. are presently on the road touring. I spoke with Squidling over the phone while they were at a sideshow performance at the Uranus Fudge Factory in Missouri (its tagline is, “It’s not a town, it’s a destination”).

After their show in Greensboro, the Squidling Bros. will be heading to Asheville for a show on April 24 as a part of their spring Tentacle tour.

“We are excited to get back to Greensboro and be able to perform for our friends and fans who have come out to see us and also to shock and amuse new folks who have never seen a sideshow before,” Squidling said. “We are always excited to bring our show to people who have never seen the types of things that we do.” !

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veryone wants to visit a place where they feel accepted, and when a crew says “Yamas!” in elation as you walk through the restaurant’s front Jennifer Zeleski door, it’s hard not to feel embraced.

That warm welcome Contributor meaning “cheers to good health,” can be found at the recently-opened Yamas Mediterranean Street Food, located at 624 W. 4th St. in Winston-Salem.

The Instagram-worthy snapshots of fresh, healthy-looking bowls packed with greens and grains are what drew me into the hype, especially with the rise of health-focused, vegan and vegetarianfriendly options popping up in downtown Winston-Salem, such as Village Juice Company and Canteen Market & Bistro.

After being a few workouts into the realization that New Year’s resolutions are long gone and summer is on the horizon, it was time to give Yamas a shot.

The interior of the restaurant was larger than expected, with a full-size dining room separate from the ordering line, where customers wind through the dozens of topping options and potential combinations.

The grab-and-go fridge offered imported feta cheese next to bottled kombucha and house-made rice pudding. And the sunlight lit up the front of the counter, where a variety of baked goods were on display in a glass case, enough to make you reconsider that salad in exchange for baklava bites or house-made cookies.

With dessert thoughts aside, I ordered a half grain and half salad bowl for lunch, with a mix of the organic spring mix, arugula, spinach and romaine, topped with the lemon basmati rice. I hoped for a light citrus flavor that would combine well with the chicken souvlaki and other various toppings.

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Half-grain, half-salad chicken souvlaki bowl with a side of falafel and dolmades free, you’re smart enough to figure it out— just skip the grains (and the grain-focused toppings later on) with a salad bowl.

My boyfriend tagged along and skipped the bowl concept entirely, instead opting for the traditional gyro sandwich on pita; nothing added or removed. (Beware: extra toppings on the pre-made recipes require an upcharge).

The customization hardly scratches the surface when choosing the base, and I quickly found myself doing flavor combinations in my head and wondering, how much healthy food is too much healthy food? It didn’t matter.

I was given the option to add up to three dips or spreads, of which I chose tahini hummus and the harissa yogurt. Harissa is a spicy paste made from peppers, paprika and olive oil, and tends to add that bite of spiciness you’re looking for in Mediterranean food that is sometimes elusive. Mixing it with yogurt sounded like a great way to tone down the spice and give the bowl a bit of creaminess.

My chosen protein was the chicken souvlaki, one of my usual go-tos, with added falafel and dolmades on the side.

Dolmades are rice-stuffed grape leaves, often some of the most traditional items you’ll find when visiting a Mediterranean restaurant or local Greek festival, and falafel is ground and seasoned chickpeas, deep-fried. Both are vegan and glutenfree options that you would love even as a carnivore. But, the pomegranate braised lamb and fig and pistachio chicken salad also sounded promising if that’s more your speed.

The toppings, that’s where this got interesting. Marinated chickpeas. Tomato and cucumber salad. Sumac pickled onions. Mandarin cranberry couscous. Red cabbage slaw. And feta cheese, of course.

That was just under half of the options, but each seemed enticing in their own way. Lastly, I chose the entire bowl to be drizzled with a lemon and lime tahini sauce.

Peyton’s traditional gyro sandwich

came with a large pita covered with tzatziki cucumber sauce, gyro meat (yes, you can see the vertical rotisserie where it’s sliced on the back kitchen line), seasoned fries, and marinated grape tomatoes.

Just looking at my bowl, I knew every bite was going to be different. I had to make a choice: should I toss it all and hope for the best, or keep everything delegated to a certain section, hoping to get the best of every topping? It ended up a mix of both, and I couldn’t say it was for the better. Within the first few bites, it was easy to tell that the lettuce was fresh and the rice was a great texture.

The chicken was well-seasoned and not tough or dry but wasn’t quite hot enough for it to justify not just being served cold.

The toppings are where the bowl got its character, and each was impressive in its own way.

The sumac pickled onions and tomatocucumber salad added the vinegar and acidity, the marinated chickpeas added

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Despite all of these flavors being great individually, the drawbacks were the sauce, dips and spreads. Not only did they overpower everything else in the bowl, but they also didn’t have a striking or memorable flavor that made you want to drench your lettuce or grains in them.

If I had known this would have been my biggest regret, I definitely would have held off or asked for much less than a heavy drizzle over the entire bowl (no matter how photogenic it is).

On Peyton’s side of the table, the gyro pita was good, but not the best. The pita was not warm and was fairly dense, which he found to be off-putting. The tzatziki was necessary to ensure the sandwich wasn’t too dry with the thicker pita but had just the right amount of spice and creaminess. The meat was tender and had a good level of saltiness to pair with herb-based seasoned fries and marinated cherry tomatoes, which were refreshing bursts of flavor. The falafel connoisseur himself was satisfied with the crunch, but each one lacked the freshly-fried warmth and oil that makes falafel so addicting.

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The dolmades, however, were better. The grape leaves were tender, and the fillings were well-balanced with all of the craveworthy flavors: garlic, oregano, salt and more.

Overall, I was pleased with the efficiency and affordability that Yamas had to offer, but maybe not quite as a substitute for other local Mediterranean favorites.

I truly believe there is so much potential to make the flavors and options even more impressive that I wouldn’t count out Yamas as a great addition to your healthy local fare.

But making the meal as memorable as it can be comes down to a focus on spices and seasonings being well-balanced, less focus on sauces and spreads (which overpower those other great flavors), desired temperatures of certain items, and freshness in every aspect. Also, the combination of flavors comes down to knowing what you want and how it all blends together on your bowl or sandwich, so remember — less might be more when you’re adding all of your favorites.

Do yourself a favor, be welcomed into Yamas with a personal cheer, and leave with two cookies, one in each hand. You’ll thank yourself later, even if it doesn’t fit into your beach-body diet. !

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Greensboro artist inspires her students to make art

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n May 4, 80 high school art students from Greensboro’s Cornerstone Charter Academy will converge upon The Village at North Elm to show off Terry Rader their latest works.

Everyone is invited to come experience Contributor 180 pieces of art in this one-time exhibit from 5-8 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public with light refreshments minus alcohol.

Tracey J. Marshall is excited about the art program she designed and still teaches full-time at Cornerstone. She said that all of the students are required to attend the show to receive credit for it.

Each student will get to show two pieces of art with the advanced students showing a couple of extra pieces. She said that some of these students have been with her for four years now, but she has been teaching art for over 17 years. She wanted her daughter to go to Cornerstone, so in the middle of the school year, she got to teach an Art I class there, and that led to her present full-time teaching position. Marshall said it was quite a learning curve to go from teaching artists who had signed up for her classes to teaching students that may or may not want to be in an art class. She said that her peers at Cornerstone helped her to get up-to-date on school protocols, and from there she created the Cornerstone Art Exhibit.

Marshall didn’t start out thinking about art as a major although she has been painting since she was in high school.

Art by TJM Kids Art Camp But after one art class, she knew that art what was she was born to do. Marshall attended several colleges through a consortium program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her BFA degree after attending Savannah College of Art and Design.

She said there were two things that she had always loved: art and playing ball.

Marshall said that art finally won when her knee gave out.

“For me, it was always either art or sports,” she said. “It’s what kept me in school. After Savannah, I dabbled in psychology and business classes, but I kept getting drawn back to art. Years later, I was looking for a place for a gallery, and after investigating ways to start a business for one and a half years, I met with a

BB&T banker named Ann who listened to my story and gave me a business loan. My father told me that I ended up getting my MBA in experience.”

Marshall said through serving on the board at the former Adult Enrichment Center; she met a lot of people in the community that were very supportive. Her awards include being named 100 Creative in the Nation, 40 Leaders Under 40 and the latest title NC Ultimate Painting Champion 2015. She also has contributed and organized fundraisers including co-chairing Friends of Gateway Holiday Charity Event for 10 years with Lisa and Keith Bunch, the Greensboro Day School Art Exposed Fundraiser, Adult Center for Enrichment fundraisers plus several donations for numerous charities. She served

as chair for the Cornerstone playground fundraiser committee and now serves on the Cornerstone fundraising PTO committee.

Many people in the Triad remember Marshall for The Marshall Gallery she owned, taught and held art shows at in Greensboro for 11 years and for the 1,000 square-foot studio at The Creative Center she used to own, then co-owned with others as a co-op and taught at for a couple of years.

Today, aside from teaching art fulltime and raising a family, Marshall books groups for both kids and adult art classes, kids art camps, parent and child art classes, private birthday parties, ladies’ nights out canvas painting and wine-glass painting with special Art by TJM punchcard savings options. She has an ongoing adult art class from 7-9 p.m. every first and third Wednesday (which costs $20).

“If you enjoy art, it’s really worth it to see what these young folks are doing,” Marshall said in regards to the Cornerstone Art Exhibit. “I would love to see what they accomplish in 20 years if they stick with it.” !

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21 and done: RiverRun 2019 wraps Despite requisite inclement weather, the 2019 RiverRun International Film Festival once again proved its popularity, as the 21st annual festival racked up 40 sold-out screenings this year – including Mark Burger the first in the festival’s history at RED Cinemas in GreensContributor boro – up from last year’s record-setting 36 sell-outs.

Although specific attendance figures have not yet been tabulated, it’s clear that the festival was yet another success.

“This year’s RiverRun International Film Festival was one of our biggest and best ever,” said Rob Davis, executive director of the festival. “Preliminary box-office numbers show (that) we seem to have surpassed last year, and the entire RiverRun team is gratified by the tremendous number of positive responses we have received from festival attendees.”

This year’s Master of Cinema recipients added some Hollywood star power to the proceedings, with actor/director Richard Benjamin and actress wife Paula Prentiss being presented with their awards last Wednesday, following a screening of Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), starring Prentiss, and preceding a screening of The Sunshine Boys (1975), which starred Benjamin, at Hanesbrands Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem.

“We really feel quite honored,” said Benjamin. “We can now say that we are Masters of Cinema. We’re going to show our kids these (awards), and if they complain about anything ever again, we can just say ‘We’re Masters of Cinema!’

“We’re deeply honored,” he added.

“This is a beautifully run festival, run with warmth and affection and professionalism.”

Former studio executive and current film producer Mike Medavoy received his Master of Cinema award Sunday before a screening of Raging Bull (1980) which, as he noted during the Q&A with UNCSA School of Filmmaking Dean Susan Ruskin, “was the very last picture we greenlit at United Artists.”

Ruskin, who worked with Medavoy at Orion Pictures during the 1980s, hailed him as “an enormous influence in the industry.”

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Martha Stephens, recipient of RiverRun’s Spark award ing, was presented this year to director Martha Stephens (a 2006 UNCSA School of Filmmaking graduate) before the screening of her latest film, To the Stars, Saturday night at UNCSA Main Theatre.

Awards for the 2019 RiverRun festival were announced and presented Sunday, the last night of the festival. In the narrative-feature category, Alice was named Best Narrative Feature and director Josephine Mackerras awarded the Peter Brunette award for Best Director. Director Sephora Woldu’s Life is Fare received the Special Jury Prize for Bold Innovation.

In the category of documentary features, American Factory (directed

by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert), won Best Documentary Feature. Marcus Lindeen was named Best Director of a Documentary Feature for The Raft, Best Cinematography of a Documentary Feature was given to For Sama, the Human Rights award presented to Always in Season, and a Special Jury award presented to Kifaru.

In the category of Narrative Shorts,

director Matt Porter’s Damage took the top prize, while director Ines Gowland’s Weaning won Best Student Narrative Short. RiverRun is an Academy Awardqualifying festival for Documentary Shorts, and director Jonathan Miller’s A Jew Walks Into a Bar was named this year’s Best Documentary Short. El Desierto (directed by Carly Jakins and Jared Jakins) won a Special Jury Prize for Cinematic Quality, and Hamama & Caluna (directed by Andreas Anuuk Muggli) won a Special Jury Prize for Social Impact.

RiverRun is also an Academy Awardqualifying festival for Animated Shorts, and this year’s Best Animated Short was Cat Days, with Game Changer receiving an Honorable Mention.

For the third year in a row, the festival has partnered with “Reel South” for the Reel South Short Award, which honors an authentically Southern documentary running 15 minutes or less. This year’s winner was As In Death, which will receive a cash prize and a Reel South digital distribution deal.

One of the festival’s most popular events, the RiverRun Pitch Fest, celebrated its eighth anniversary this year, as college students from across the state pitch their ideas for documentary film projects to a panel of judges. A Space for Me, directed by Riley Bradford and Sophia Ortiz from Elon University, won first place, with second place won by Alchemy, directed by Bridget Fitzgerald of Wake Forest University.

At RiverRun, the audience also has its say. In the category of Audience Awards, Kifaru was selected Best Documentary Feature, Alice won the Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton Re Vision and Independent Feature Film Award, and Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn? won the Overall Audience Award.

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The second Captain Marvel movie to be released this spring (yup, this character was originally known by that name from his creation in 1939 until his rebranding in 1972), DC’s valiant effort doesn’t soar as high as its Marvel counterpart, though there’s still a hefty amount to enjoy in this thematically loose-limbed undertaking.

Whereas the DCU has often been criticized for its why-so-serious approach to mythmaking, it’s obvious the suits have finally opted to take a hint, injecting a light amount of humor into Wonder Woman, a sizable amount of humor into Aquaman, and now a gargantuan amount of humor into Shazam! It’s an appreciated gesture in most circles, though I personally didn’t mind the darker underpinnings in past DC flicks (particularly Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy). At any rate, it’s not like DC is reinventing the wheel here, as even a cursory glance at Marvel opuses like, say, Guardians of the Galaxy or Thor: Ragnarok can attest.

Djimon Hounsou, who’s been appearing in superhero sagas with almost as much regularity as Chris Evans (he previously popped up in Captain Marvel, Aquaman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and even as the title hero in an animated Black Panther T.V. show), here sets the story in motion as an elderly wizard who needs to bestow his formidable powers onto someone worthy of them. He bypasses young Thaddeus Sivana back in the mid-70s and instead waits until now when he believes he has found a true champion in Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a foster boy who shares a home with disabled comic-book fan Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer) and other good-hearted kids. Whenever he utters the word “Shazam,” Billy turns into an adult superhero (Zachary Levi) whose formidable powers include, umm… Neither Billy nor Freddy are sure, so cue the amusing sequences in which the pair attempt to determine exactly what Shazam can do. (Turn invisible? Stop bullets? Leap tall buildings in a single bound?)

Meanwhile, the now adult Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong) has spent his life trying to attain the power that was within his grasp as a child, although he has no plans to use it for the betterment of mankind. To be fair, Billy isn’t exactly displaying heroic qualities, either, as he’s more interested in attaining fame and fortune — or at least YES! WEEKLY

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ample YouTube hits and a few quarters tossed at his feet as he shows off his awesome super-tricks.

Shazam! is good for some laughs, but in an increasingly crowded landscape in which superheroes are allowed to be philosophical, guilt-ridden, godlike, and even meta (what up, Deadpool?), there’s something comparatively puny about this film. Its drama (particularly the familial material) feels warmed-over, its conflicts feel boilerplate, and the majority isn’t quite bright enough or inventive enough to overcome a third act free-for-all that involves numerous superbeings and demonic entities slugging it out in a repetitive CGI loop that neither illuminates nor entertains.

Shazam! is endearing enough to earn an ever-so-modest recommendation, but it’s hardly the final word in superhero splendor writ large.

There’s a humorous moment when the protagonist hears a tinkling sound from below and looks down, only to see a giant piano keyboard on the floor underneath their feet. It’s a clever homage to that classic scene from 1988’s Big, the Penny Marshall hit in which a little boy finds himself trapped in Tom Hanks’ adult body thanks to some vaguely supernatural shenanigans. It’s a scene that’s right at home in the new film Little ( ) … only this scene actually isn’t in Little. Instead, it’s in Shazam!, another current film about mismatched bodies. Were that there were any moments of comparable wit and inventiveness in Little, a bland comedy whose moniker reflects its overarching puniness.

The manner in which folks switch bodies (Freaky Friday) or ages (13 Going on 30) or even gender (the recent What Men Want) is never the point in these types of films, but Little is particularly lazy in setting up its curse. Nevertheless, this is in line with the rest of the film, which is a surprisingly drab affair that never allows for more than an occasional fleeting smile (actual belly laughs are sadly MIA).

Regina Hall, coming off 2018, which saw her delivering an award-winning turn in Support the Girls and co-starring in the 10 Best-worthy The Hate U Give, is here in manic-Monday mode, cast as a woman who was bullied as a child and has grown up to now be the bully to everyone else.

Her Jordan Sanders is a fire-breathing tyrant, a CEO with OCD (a deadly combo) who enjoys barking at those around her, particularly her mild-mannered assistant April (Issa Rae). But an encounter with a little girl with a toy wand results in a curse

that finds Jordan waking up the next day back in the body of her younger, school-age self (played by 14-year-old Black-ish costar Marsai Martin, who also serves as an executive producer — the youngest in history — on this film). With the reluctant aid of April, Jordan must find a way to reverse the curse — first, though, her diminutive body means that she has to return to the classroom, and again risk being bullied.

For those expecting to see a movie starring top-billed Regina Hall, the problem is that, by the very nature of the story, she’s only around at the beginning and at the end. To compensate with another grownup, writer-director Tina Gordon Chism and co-scripter Tracy Oliver (working from an idea conceived by Martin when she was 10 years old) beef up the size of Rae’s role to the extent that April actually becomes the primary player. But who cares about her comparatively drab character when all the potentially interesting material involves Jordan in all her incarnations? The lack of a center affects all areas of the film, with half-baked romantic travails for both Jordan and April and lapses in logic when it comes to believable character transformations (a “Three Months Later” placard toward the end of the film skips over crucial scenes that would allow us to witness and understand all the changes).

If Little at least delivered on its comedic material or provided some sort of emotional resonance, much could be forgiven. But the laughs are largely lame and the pathos utterly nonexistent. Whereas Hanks’ Josh Baskin in Big sobbed deeply at the absolutely frightening prospect of being the wrong age in the wrong body, Little settles for the pint-sized version of Jordan making sexual passes at her hunky teacher (Justin Hartley). Even the anti-bullying angle fails to gain any traction — then again, that could simply be because viewers themselves will feel battered and beaten after sitting through the forceful blows delivered by this rampaging mediocrity.

It’s not like there wasn’t any room for improvement. The 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary can boast of countless fans, but there are just as many

folks (myself included) who find it a crudely made concoction hampered by clumsy pacing and, aside from the magnificent Fred Gwynne, undercooked performances.

This new edition, also named Pet Sematary ( ), seeks to correct those deficiencies with slicker production values, better emoting, and even a twist not found in either the novel or previous film.

As before, the Creeds – dad Louis (Jason Clarke), mom Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and young children Ellie (Jete Laurence) and Gage (played by twins Hugo and Lucas Lavoie) — move to a small Maine town, where their new abode happens to rest on the edge of a highway that’s home to countless trucks that barrel through at all hours of the day and night. The Creeds meet across-the-street neighbor Jud Crandall (John Lithgow, effective in a turn that’s less folksy and more gravelly than the one provided by Gwynne), who informs them of a pet cemetery that rests deep in the woods of their property. It’s only later that Jud alerts Louis to the fact that anything that is dead and subsequently buried beyond the cemetery, in-ground deemed “sour” by long-ago Native American inhabitants, will come back in an altered state.

The first stretch of this P.S. is more reputable than that of the junkier ’89 model, but it also isn’t much fun, hurriedly paying somber lip service to the conventions of the story rather than engaging viewers in its darker implications. But then the massive deviation from the original text occurs, and it promises to spin the tale off into a different and possibly more thought-provoking direction. (This twist also explains why Gage had been largely ignored in the early going, emerging less as a character and more as a background prop.) But while the initial scenes following this “gotcha!” pirouette manage to resonate, the juicier aspects soon fade into the background, and the picture devolves into a tiresome slasher flick. It all culminates with a brand new ending so useless and anticlimactic that it almost qualifies as a shaggy dog story — a mangy mutt that should be buried as quickly as humanly possible. !

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PETERLOO (PG-13) Fri: 4:30, 7:30 Sat & Sun: 10:30 AM, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Mon: 5:00, 8:00, Tue: 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Wed: 5:00, 8:00, Thu: 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 THE PUBLIC (PG-13) Fri: 3:00, 8:00 Sat & Sun: 10:00 AM, 3:00, 5:30 Mon: 5:30 PM, Tue: 3:15, 6:00 Wed: 8:15 PM, Thu: 3:00, 5:30 THE AFTERMATH (R) Fri: 5:30, 8:30 Sat & Sun: 10:15 AM, 12:30, 6:00, 8:00 Mon: 8:30 PM, Tue: 5:45, 9:00 Wed: 5:30 PM Thu: 8:15 PM THE MUSTANG (R) Fri: 3:30, 6:00 Sat & Sun: 1:00, 3:30, 8:30 Mon: 9:15 PM, Tue: 3:30, 8:15 Wed: 6:00, 8:30 Thu: 3:30, 8:45 STYX (NR) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sun: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 Mon: 6:15, 9:00, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:15 Wed: 6:30, 9:00, Thu: 4:00, 6:45, 9:15

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING APRIL 23 IN CHARLOTTE REGARDING PROPOSED WIDENING OF N.C. 49 AND REALIGNMENT OF BACK CREEK CHURCH ROAD IN CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

STIP Project No. U-5768

The N.C. Department of Transportation has begun studies for Project Number U-5768 in Mecklenburg County. A public meeting to present information on the project will be held on April 23rd. This project proposes to widen N.C. 49 from John Kirk Drive to I485, realign Back Creek Church Road, and close the existing Back Creek Church Road at-grade crossing of the NCRR. An open-house public meeting will be held at the UNC Charlotte Cone Center (Lucas Room) located at 9025 University Road in Charlotte from 4-7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The purpose of this meeting is to provide citizens the opportunity to review maps of the project, ask questions and provide feedback.

Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 7 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Maps of the proposed improvements will be displayed at the meeting and staff of NCDOT will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

A map of the proposal is available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.

For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Wilson Stroud, NCDOT Central Project Management Unit (919-707-6045 or wstroud@ncdot.gov) Comments will be accepted at the meeting, by mail or email, and should be submitted

by May 7, 2019.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer Diane Wilson at 919707-6073 or pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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In Raleigh, North Carolina, residents of The Dakota apartment complex are stepping out a little more confidently after management engaged the services Chuck Shepherd of a company called PawzLife. The Raleigh News and Observer reported on March 22 that residents were growing disgusted with the amount of dog feces on the sidewalks and green spaces around the complex. So management turned to a high-tech solution: Residents who own dogs are required to bring them to a “pup party,” where PawzLife collects their DNA with a simple saliva swipe and creates a “unique DNA profile” for each dog. The company then visits the neighborhood to pick up any stray poop, and owners whose dogs are a match with the poop DNA are fined $100 per offense. PawzLife owner Matthew Malec said, “We are just trying to make the Earth a little bit better to live on.”

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Traffic on a street in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles came to a virtual stop as two cars engaged in a legendary standoff over a parking space on April 1. Fox News reported that Mariah Flores, who was positioned across the street, documented the entire two-hour dispute on Twitter, as the “black car” and the “silver car” jockeyed to parallel park in one open spot along the sidewalk. As horns honked and tensions mounted, a “plot twist” changed the whole dynamic: The owner of a third vehicle, parked in front of the empty space, left, leaving room for both black and silver to park.

The drivers quickly settled their vehicles in the spaces but then sat in their cars for some time. “Like are they afraid of each other or is it just awkward now?” Flores wondered. Finally, the driver of the silver car emerged, prompting Flores’ comment, “SILVER takes the gold.”

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A wealthy San Francisco philanthropist, Florence Fang, 84, is being sued by the city of Hillsborough over the “Flintstones” home and grounds she has created in the suburb. The oddly shaped house was built in 1976, and Fang bought it in 2017.

Today it’s painted purple and red, features a large “Yabba Dabba Do” sign near the driveway, and Fang has added dinosaur

and mushroom figurines, along with Fred Flintstone himself, to the yard. “We don’t like it when people build things first, then come in and demand or ask for permission later,” huffed Assistant City Attorney Mark Hudak, who told KTVU Fang built without the proper permits and the property is subject to code violations along with offending the neighbors’ aesthetic sensibilities. But Angela Alioto, Fang’s attorney, said the home is Fang’s “happy place.”

Fang doesn’t live in the home but uses it for entertainment and charitable events.

“She’s had an incredible life, and I think it’s wonderful that, at 84 years old, she has found something that makes her so happy,” Alioto told the San Mateo Daily Journal.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US

Kaz James, 37, from Salford, Greater Manchester, England, has known since he was a child that he was different from other people. “I didn’t ever feel like a human. I always felt like a dog that was really out of place,” James told Metro News. He first started to understand his peculiarity when he gained access to the internet at 17 years old. “I was known by my friends for ... grabbing hold of the collar of their shirt in my teeth and biting or licking them, very canine-type behaviors,” James said. Today he eats out of a dog bowl and owns three custom-made dog suits -- one a $2,600 fur suit shipped from Canada. “(M)y behaviors were quite doglike in childhood, probably from the age of 6,” he said. “No one ever talked about it. It was never mentioned.”

FAMILY VALUES

The Carter County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s Department had some strong leads in the death of Edith Betty Ralph, 75, on April 6, but none stronger than the behavior of John Christopher Ralph, 51, Edith’s son, who had been living with her and had repeatedly complained to friends and family that she was “driving him crazy.”

“The night of Mrs. Ralph’s murder, John asked co-workers to take pictures of him at work saying that if anything happened to his mother he would need an alibi,” according to the sheriff’s department.

ABC News reported that Edith was found deceased due to severe head trauma and several gunshot wounds. John was stopped at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, ready to board a flight for Amsterdam. He was held on a $1 million bond. !

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The Brothers Schraeder (A.J. and Al-don), Unstoppable Failure is a two-man sketch comedy show that takes a healthy dose of absurdity and slams it against sharp satirical writing. They have been official selections at SF Sketchfest, NYC Sketch Festival, Philly Sketchfest, The New South Comedy Festival, Chicago Sketchfest, and The North Carolina Comedy Festival.

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Sean Patton – Wednesday, April 24 at Starr Theatre Sean Patton is a comedian based in Los Angeles and New York, by way of New Orleans. He began doing stand-up in the Crescent City and have since performed in comedy clubs across the U.S. and Canada, as well as The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2011), Just for Laughs Chicago (2013), Just for Laughs Toronto (2013), and Just for Laughs Montreal (2008, 2010, 2012). He’s performed on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham (2009), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2010), and Conan (2011, 2013). 2013 also marked the release of his Comedy Central Half Hour.

More recently, He’s been on @midnight (2014, 2015) and will be on the second seasons of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail (2015) and This Is Not Happening (2015, 2017), Showtime’s Live from SXSW (2017) and TruTV’s Comedy Knockout (2016, 2017) As for acting, He’s appeared on IFC’S Maron, Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and TruTV’s Those Who Can’t.

Mia Jackson – Thursday, April 25 at Starr Theatre Mia Jackson is a bona fide Georgia peach (that’s Georgian for “native”) and self-proclaimed know-it-all. After graduating from the University of Georgia, she hit the local comedy scene and has thrilled audiences since day one. To her credit, she has appeared on NickMom’s Night Out, Viceland and was a semi-finalist on Season 9 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. She has appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and the movie Mother’s Day. In 2017, she was named a New Face at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and Atlanta’s Creative Loafing named her the city’s Best Stand-Up. Smart, funny, and versatile; Mia entertains all types of crowds.

Todd Barry – Friday, April 26 at Starr Theatre New York City-based comedian and actor Todd Barry is widely recognized for his roles as the bongo-playing “Third Conchord” on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and Mickey Rourke’s deli boss in 2009 Oscar-winner The Wrestler, and renowned throughout YES! WEEKLY

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Boasting multiple stand-up appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and two Comedy Central Presents specials and his latest one-hour Comedy Central special Super Crazy. Todd’s resume also includes such hit T.V. shows as Louie, Delocated, Bored to Death, Tim and Eric, Chappelle’s Show, Sex and the City, and even Sesame Street.

Among his additional feature-film highlights are Todd Phillip’s Road Trip, Louis CK’s Pootie Tang, and Mitch Hedberg’s Los Enchiladas. You can see him soon at Sigourney Weaver’s right-hand man in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, and as Paul Rudd’s co-worker in David Wain’s Wanderlust.

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Todd has been heard on both The Howard Stern Show and The Bob & Tom Show, and his albums Medium Energy, Falling Off the Bone, and From Heaven are available from Comedy Central Records, Amazon and iTunes. He has earned the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival’s Jury Award, praise from Ricky Gervais as one of the best comedians of 2009, and accolades from The Onion’s A.V. Club, which declared Medium Energy one of the best comedy albums of the decade.

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n the back of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, I’m thanked for information about Kinko’s (now FedEx Office) on Tate Street, where I used to work.

Neil was writing Ian McDowell the scene where the mysterious Mr. Wednesday uses a Contributor fake business card in a scam. He wanted to know if Kinko’s asked customers to verify information they wanted printed.

Had we talked later, I’d have described how UNCG students leave offerings to Minerva. An author writing about ancient gods in modern America might have wanted to know one was still being worshipped at the end of the 20th century.

The statute that didn’t exist when American Gods was published is of someone older than her Latin name. The Roman goddess of wisdom, medicine and war was inspired by both the Etruscan Menrva and the Greek Athena (the claim that the Roman gods were simply the Greek ones under new names is a simplification).

In Roman mythology, Jupiter impregnated his cousin Metis, who transformed into a fly to escape. Fearing their child might usurp his power, Jupiter swallowed the fly, and Minerva was born from her mother inside her father. Creating a forge in her rapist’s head, Metis hammered out arms and armor for her daughter. When this gave Jupiter a headache, he commanded the blacksmith Vulcan to split his head open. Minerva emerged adult and ready for battle.

Her 9-foot bronze statue (atop a 9-foot limestone pedestal on a 2-foot concrete base) emerged in 2003 from the head (and hands) of Greensboro’s James Barnhill, who also created A&T’s February One monument to the Greensboro Four and the General Greene monument at the Greene Street roundabout.

Barnhill told me the commission came from education advocate Dorothy Kearns, then organizing UNCG’s Class of 1953 50year reunion. “She contacted me about a gift to the university, and we settled on Minerva, the mascot of Women’s College.”

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her with a spear and a snake (along with the owl, one her traditional symbols), was installed in the Student Building, which was demolished in 1950. That mass-produced plaster replica of a Roman original fell apart after being moved several times.

Barnhill said his Minerva is positioned to “express the idea that she’s simultaneously inviting students to the university and blessing them as they take their knowledge out into the world. There is a gentle taper to the figure (which actually starts with the pedestal), as well as a simple arc. While somewhat frontal, Minerva looks good from all angles, due to a slight turning in her body. The pleats in her robe mimic the flutes of a Roman column.”

My photos show five red and green apples atop the limestone pedestal on which Barnhill’s bronze sculpture stands, and another 10 at its plinth. More apples will likely appear when exams begin on May 4. Students leave them as offerings for good grades.

In a 2017 oral history interview archived at UNCG’s Digital Collections, assistant

director of programs Jeff Lail claimed to have begun the tradition in 2012. “I set up a table in front of Minerva and just handed out apples and told a little story and the thing just took on a life of its own.”

But Mike Harris, associate director of publications for University Communications, told me in an email that the first offering was a coin left in 2007, and the first apple appeared in 2010.

In an April 30, 2013 article in UNCG’s Campus Weekly, Harris described offerings left at the statue as including an apple, flowers, and a letter “addressed simply to M,” noting this was the first message he’d ever seen there.

Since then, he’s seen apples with coins partly jammed into them (“that tradition later died out”) or with wishes or class numbers written on them with a Sharpie, as well as apple juice, apple candy, flowers, pens, a dollar bill, and tokens from Chuck E. Cheese and Boxcar Arcade. “And notes. Lots of notes.” He said he’s never opened a sealed or folded note.

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a young woman looking up at the statue.

In her hand was a pear she said she’d brought from the campus Bestway.

“I’m not asking for anything. I just like her, and she’s gotta be tired of apples.”

She stared up at the bronze face that seemed to be looking more at her than me. “I don’t know how they get them up there, so I’m going to toss it. Stand back.”

She got it first try. Under the darkening sky, the goddess looked pleased. !

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

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Amy Catanzano’s investigative poetics Amy Catanzano, whose work investigates the intersections of literature, science and consciousness, will lead a master class in Investigative Poetry at the North Carolina Writers’ Ian McDowell Network 2019 Spring Conference held at UNCG on April 27.

Contributor The Wake Forest University poetin-residence and associate professor has received national recognition for winning the Noemi Book Award for Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella and the PEN USA Literary Award for Multiversal, among other honors. At WFU, she has received Arts and Humanities Awards to conduct creative research for her writing at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and on the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. She has an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

In email, I asked her to define the term “investigative poetics.” She explained that it’s “an approach to poetry in which poets creatively research subjects of study” and is inspired by Ed Sanders, the poet, singer, and social activist who co-founded the ‘60s avant-rock group The Fugs and wrote the radical manifesto Investigative Poetry.

“Sanders argues that poets, not only historians and journalists, should assume responsibility for the description of history and ‘historical reality.’ He wrote the manifesto in 1976 for a Catanzano self portrait layered with a Hubble photo of visit to the Naropa Institute in Boulder, deep space Colorado, which is now a university imaginative examination often makes it with an internationally-known literary a revolutionary approach to poetry.” community and writing program focused I asked Catanzano how approaching on experimental and contemplative this subject in a single-day will differ approaches to writing. I taught there from doing so at WFU. When she teaches before teaching at Wake Forest. While investigative poetics in her college investigative poetics is an evolving classes, she leads students in discussions term, its focus on ambitious, active, and WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

of Sanders’ manifesto and asks them to come up with their own topics for investigation, conduct site visits, complete exploratory exercises, write poems based on their findings, and then discuss those poems in a workshop setting, where feedback is provided.

“For the one-day class, I’ll draw from the most essential aspects of this process and give the participants resources to move forward on their own.

Participants can already have a topic of investigation in mind, or they can wait to be inspired during class.”

Since 2009, Catanzano has published a series of essays on a form of investigative poetics that she calls “quantum poetics,” exploring the intersections of poetry and science, particularly physics.

The term is derived from quantum phys-

ics, also known as quantum theory and matrix mechanics, a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles, incorporating the concepts of quantization of energy, wave-particle duality, and the uncertainty principle.

“Quantum poetics is my integrated artistic theory, interpretive framework, and writing praxis that explores poetry in relation to quantum physics as well as string theory, astrophysics, and more. As part of this work, I conduct site visits to scientific research centers.”

During her visit to CERN, Catanzano spoke with leading theoretical physicists.

There, she told me, she also “saw the control room of the ATLAS experiment, which used the Large Hadron Collider to discover the Higgs boson, an elementary particle of matter” that describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

I asked Catanzano about Entanglements: A Conference on the Intersections of Poetry, Science, and Art, which she is convening at WFU on May 13-16.

“Entanglements is bringing together 10 leading poets, scientists, artists, and scholars from around the world to investigate the intersections of poetry, science, and art in daytime and evening events and performances. Wake Forest presenters, special guests, and visiting attendees are also participating. The conference, most of which is open to the public, will provide WFU and the Triad an enriched setting where the themes of the conference are explored. Please join us!”

But before that, she will be conducting her master class for The North Carolina Writers’ Network 2019 Spring Conference.

This full day of workshops and sessions on the craft and business of writing will be held at UNCG’s MHRA Building at the corner of Spring Garden and Forest Streets on Saturday, April 27. Approximately 150 writers will gather for classes and programming that includes faculty readings, open mics, Slush Pile Live! and more. The keynote address will be by essayist and poet Michael McFee, recipient of the 2018 NC Award for Literature (the state’s highest civilian award).

The deadline for discounted online registration is April 21. More information can be found online at ncwriters.org. !

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

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‘Crash’ Craddock to perform at High Point Theatre Growing up in Greensboro, Billy Wayne Craddock loved two things: football and music.

Jim: Who was your favorite singer when you were a boy?

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Crash: I had a lot of them, Hank Williams, Faron Young, Jim Reeves, but my very favorite was Carl Smith.

Jim: So how did you get the nickname “Crash?”

Crash: A lot of people think I got it from racing cars, and where that came from was Marty Robbins introduced me one night as a “race car enthusiast.”

Actually, I got it from playing football, believe it or not. I played right halfback, and my brother played left, and I was the smallest man on the team. So when the guard or tackle would open up a little hole, I was gone, ‘cause the other guys were so big I didn’t want to get hurt (laughs).

But young Crash dreamed of making hits, not getting hit, so in 1957 he made his first professional recording at a local studio, singing the Rock-a-Billy song, “Smacky Mouth.” The following year he was picked up by Columbia records as their answer to Elvis. In 1959, Craddock, the Everly Brothers, and several other performers were booked for a concert tour of Australia. Sometime earlier, Crash had filmed a black and white demo of “Boom Boom Baby,” but unbeknownst to him, the film had made its way to Brian

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Henderson, popular host of a Bandstand program on Australian television. “We played the film many times, and we were able to promote Crash Craddock so successfully that he was able to fill stadiums all over the country, and made several live appearances on Bandstand,” Henderson said.

Crash: When I landed in Sydney, there were thousands of fans waiting, and I thought they were screaming for the Everly Brothers, but they had turned out for me because of the video that had played on Australian T.V. In fact, “Boom Boom Baby” became the number one hit down under, and Crash became a superstar in the Land of Oz. Over the next two decades, Billy became the international King of Country Rock music, and racked up a number of hits here in America, including the sexually suggestive, “Rub it In.” Not long after he was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, Crash went to see a comedian perform at High Point Theatre, and one of the ushers recognized him.

“You know, I’ve never played here,” Billy told the usher. “Wait a minute, I want to introduce you to somebody,” said the usher, who then brought Crash together with Dave Briggs, director of the Theatre.

Dave: Billy told me he had never played here, so I said, “We can fix that!”

Briggs and Crash finally got their schedules to jive, and Craddock headlined a special show in the Summer of 2016. On April 27, Crash returns to High Point Theatre for a much-awaited encore performance. On a recent visit to Triad Today, I asked Crash why he chose to remain in Greensboro when he could have lived in so many other cities.

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Crash: Jim, I love it here. When I go somewhere, I know how to find my way back. They asked me to move to Nashville several times, but I told them, “Look I love my hometown. When I die, they’re going to put me in a pine box and send me back home anyway, so there’s no need to move. I’ll just stay right here” (laughs).

Crash: No. Now they throw Depends (laughs).

I also asked Crash, now 79 years old, if women still throw their undergarments at him on stage.

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).

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You can listen to and throw your underwear at Billy Crash Craddock, Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m. at High Point Theatre.

For tickets, visit www.highpointtheatre. com or call the box office, (336) 8873001. !

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Family sues over fatal hogtying by GPD *Editor’s note: This story originally appeared online on April 10.

On April 10 at Bethel AME Church in Greensboro, lawyers for the family of the late Marcus Deon Ian McDowell Smith announced a civil suit over Smith’s Sept. 8, 2018 death Contributor after being hogtied

by Greensboro police officers during the North Carolina Folk Festival.

The plaintiffs’ legal team includes a prominent civil rights attorney who helped negotiate Chicago’s landmark 2015 decision to award reparations to survivors of police torture.

Along with the Greensboro-based law office of Graham Holt, representing the Smith family since last October, the Complaint is submitted by three attorneys from the People’s Law Office in Chicago: G. Flint Taylor, Ben H. Elson, and Christian E. Snow.

Taylor, who made the announcement at Bethel AME with Holt, was on the 2011 legal team that obtained the first judicial decision naming former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley as a defendant in a civil police torture case. He took part in the decades-long campaign to bring criminal charges against Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, convicted in 2010 for lying about torturing suspects. In 2015, this led to a historic $5.5 million-reparations package to those tortured while in police custody during Burge’s command.

In 1982, Taylor and the People’s Law Office, which he co-founded, attained an historic $1.85 million civil rights settlement against the Chicago Police Department for the death of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton, killed during a 1969 police raid while he lay sleeping under the influence of a drugged drink given him by an FBI informant.

In 1985, Taylor was co-lead trial counsel in a Winston-Salem federal district court case that found two Klansmen, three Nazis, two Greensboro police officers, and a police informant liable for the wrongful death of one person and the injuring of two others during the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. This was the first time in U.S. legal history that anyone was found liable for wrongful death in the Greensboro Massacre.

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by Taylor, Holt and the Smith family lists Mary Smith and George Smith, parents of Marcus Smith, as individual plaintiffs, and Mary Smith as administrator of her late son’s estate.

The City of Greensboro and Guilford County are named as defendants, along with Greensboro police officers Justin Payne, Robert Duncan, Michael Montalvo, Alfred Lewis, Christopher Bradshaw, Lee Andrews, Douglas Strader, and Jordan Bailey, and Guilford EMS paramedic Ashley Abbott and Dylan Alling in the Complaint acquired by YES! Weekly.

The Complaint’s Preliminary Statement includes allegations that “Greensboro Police Officers caused Marcus’s death by brutally restraining him prone on the ground and hogtying him like an animal until he stopped breathing” and that Guilford County EMS “failed to intervene to protect Marcus from the use of unreasonable force and failed to promptly attend to his serious medical needs.” It also states that Marcus Smith was not engaged in any criminal conduct, was unarmed, made no threats to the police or others, presented no immediate danger to the officers, himself or others, and was not actively resisting arrest.

It alleges that “written and de facto policies, practices and customs of Defendant City of Greensboro and its Police Depart-

ment contributed to and were a moving force behind Marcus’s death, as the Defendant officers were acting pursuant to these policies, practices and customs, that included the use of restraint devices to hogtie people who are in a prone position, and the treatment of people who experience mental health crises.”

The Complaint describes officer Duncan as handcuffing Smith’s hands behind his back while other officers held him down.

“Defendants then hogtied Marcus while he was prone on the ground. Defendant Payne grabbed Marcus’s ankles and pushed Marcus’s feet toward his hands with extreme and unnecessary force, bending Marcus’s knees well beyond a 90-degree angle. Defendant Payne pushed Marcus’s feet all the way to the point that they were touching his handcuffed hands at the small of his back” The Complaint states that Duncan, Andrews and Montalvo “used the RIPP Hobble device to bind Marcus’s hands to his feet behind his back while Defendant Payne continued to violently push Marcus’s feet toward his back, causing Marcus’s knees to continue to be bent well beyond a 90-degree angle.”

According to the Complaint, in a description that matches this writer’s own multiple viewings of police body cam videos, “Andrews and Montalvo then

tightened the strap on the RIPP Hobble device so tight that Marcus’s shoulders and his knees were suspended above the ground.”

The subsequent description also matches this writer’s multiple viewing of the videos, in which Marcus Smith can be seen “wheezing, moaning, groaning, gasping for air, and in obvious respiratory and physical distress.” Less than half a minute later, he became unresponsive.

The Complaint then describes how, while and after restraining Smith, the officers and paramedics allowed him “to remain prone on his stomach, with his knees bent well beyond 90 degrees.” It alleges “they failed to continuously monitor” his condition and that the paramedics were aware that he was “unconscious, unresponsive and not breathing, yet waited longer than two minutes to begin any resuscitative efforts.”

The Complaint’s “Policy and Practice Allegations” describe “a concerted effort to cover up” Smith’s death, beginning with statement issued by the Greensboro Police Department that claimed he “had collapsed while he was in police custody (he did not), that he was combative (he was not), that officers rendered aid (they did not), that he died at the hospital (he died face down on the street), and blatantly omitting that Marcus was taken to the ground by the police and forcibly restrained and hogtied.”

The Complaint challenges statements made by Chief Wayne Scott that his department had no directives regarding the use of the RIPP Hobble. After Smith’s death, Chief Scott “stated that the GPD Directive only applied to the transport of persons in custody, and since Marcus was dead before they got to the point of transporting him, the Directive did not apply,” and that “the department did not have a specific directive on applying the RIPP Hobble, or hogtying, restraint prior to transporting detainees.”

The Complaint states, as previously reported and verified by YES! Weekly, that the “manufacturer of the RIPP Hobble provides a bold-faced warning with the product that reads: ‘NEVER Hog-Tie a Prisoner.’”

The Complaint concludes with “Plaintiffs hereby demand a trial by jury pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 38(b) on all issues so triable.” !

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

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Make it electric: Brandy Zdan brings her guitar-centric pop rock to Winston-Salem

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randy Zdan isn’t crazy about the acoustic guitar. The singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer loves guitars. It’s just that she prefers an John Adamian electric, with its more @johnradamian varied range of tonal possibilities, sustain and attack.

Contributor “I honestly avoid playing acoustic guitar,” said Zdan when we spoke by phone from her home in Nashville last week.

Zdan plays Winston-Salem’s Ramkat on April 17.

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who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is proud of the grand tradition of Canadian singer/songwriters — Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Robbie Robertson, Gordon Lightfoot and others — many of whom used acoustics often. But Zdan is more inclined to rock. Sweat and volume are her friends. Her Twitter feed features some loving photos of a recently acquired set of Fender amps.

Zdan released Secretear last year, her second solo full-length studio record. It’s an album with plenty of attitude and swagger, with lots of textures, ranging from scratchy and nasty to powderedsugar sweet and bubble-gum bouncy. For the most recent record, Zdan worked with guitarist Carl Broemel and bassist Tom Blankenship, from the band My Morning Jacket. Zdan is married to the drummer Aaron Haynes, who also plays on the record. Zdan said she puts a lot into what she calls “casting the band,” getting players whose work she admires and who she can trust to bring interesting ideas and perspectives to a recording project.

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“It’s actually one of my favorite parts about making music — creating the sonic vision for a record,” Zdan said.

Secretear has a particular sound, balancing plenty of raw, strutting riff-rock energy, with layers of pedal steel and slide adding atmosphere, sturdy bass lines, neon-tinged synth and muscular stripped-down drumming that never hits a crash cymbal or executes a tom fill unless it’s absolutely necessary. Listen to the subsonic Mini-Moog bass line on “I Want Your Trouble,” a tune that would fit right in on a Cheap Trick or Joan Jett record. Elsewhere, like on “Navigator,” Zdan might bring to mind the pop of Haim or Tegan & Sara, with wispy vocal harmonies and bubbling keyboard arpeggiations. She can also evoke a smoky, late-night country vibe, like on “Be the One.” Many of the songs are built on the idea that love has a power and force that’s almost dangerous. Something that can be heavenly or hellish, depending on

how it plays out. “You could really hurt me if you wanted to,” goes the refrain on “Navigator.”

Zdan’s records sound contemporary, particularly in their pairing of trebly guitars and moody soundscapes with clouds of synth and pedal steel, but they also hint back to early no-frills rock. She can make you think of those Lindsey Buckingham songs off of classic Fleetwood Mac records, tunes that conjure Roy Orbison while chugging along with a twitchy energy.

The appeal of rock fundamentals makes sense in terms of the elements that Zdan punches up in her music.

“There’s a simplicity to [old rock ’n’ roll], and it’s all just about groove and melody,” she said. “I don’t shy away from hooks and from catchiness.”

Underneath the melodies and the riffs, there’s a lot happening with what seems minimal at first. If you listen closely to a song like “Wild Fire,” off the new record, with headphones, you hear all kinds of

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING APRIL 24 IN CHARLOTTE REGARDING THE PROPOSED REPLACEMENT OF BRIDGE 342 ON N.C. 16 (WEST BROOKSHIRE FREEWAY) SOUTHBOUND OVER ANDRILL TERRACE AND IRWIN CREEK IN CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ STIP Project No. B-5792

The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to replace Bridge No. 342 on N.C. 16 (West Brookshire Freeway) southbound over Andrill Terrace and Irwin Creek in Charlotte.

An open-house public meeting will be held at the J.C. Smith University - Mosaic Center (Multipurpose Room) located at 1635 West Trade Street in Charlotte from 4-7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The purpose of this meeting is to provide citizens the opportunity to review maps of the project, ask questions and provide feedback. elements that lurk in the background, howling guitars, jet-plane sounds, vocal echoes and smears.

“I like to hear a record that has layers,” Zdan said. “When I listen to records, I don’t want things to all be the same.”

One of the ways that Zdan mixes things up is playing solo shows, with just her, her versatile voice, her electric guitars and those Fender amps. She’ll be solo when she plays Winston-Salem.

You might think that converting some of these big-sounding songs to just guitar-and-vocals would be a challenge, but Zdan makes the set-up fill a lot of space.

“I love the sustain,” she said of her devotion to electric guitar. “It can be super intense and loud, but it can also be the most delicate thing, with reverb.”

Zdan is a dynamic performer, with or without a backing band. Rolling Stone magazine included her in a list of the 30 most exciting artists they saw at South

By Southwest in 2019.

Rather than using the solo setting as a way to tease out more subdued material, Zdan views it as an opportunity to cut loose.

“I’m still doing all the rockers,” she said. !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 7 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Maps of the proposed improvements will be displayed at the meeting and staff of NCDOT will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

A map of the proposal is available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.

For additional information please contact NCDOT Division 10 Bridge Program Manager, Garland Haywood, PE at (704) 983-4400 or at ghaywood@ncdot.gov.

Comments will be accepted at the meeting, by mail or email, and should be submitted by May 8, 2019.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop.

Anyone requiring special services should contact NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer Diane Wilson at 919-707-6073 or pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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The many faces of Melvin Holland April is Jazz Appreciation Month. To celebrate, the High Point Arts Council will host the Melvin Holland Quartet on April 18 at the Centennial Station Arts Center in downtown High Point.

Katei Cranford A true Jazz appreciator, Holland is an accomplished Contributor saxophonist, UNCG School of Music graduate and former host of the long-running “Jazzboro” radio show, who spent his college-years hosting a weekly “Jazz Party” in his living-room.

But he’s no mere jazzman. The 26-yearold multi-instrumentalist runs the genregamut: also performing in Greensboro rock band, Harrison Ford Mustang, and with singer-songwriter Johanna Breed.

“I was just lucky to have band directors that let me play whatever I wanted and a family who listened to a diverse catalog of music,” Holland said of his foundation. ”It

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really allowed me to discover myself as a musician.”

Growing up in a musical home, Holland has been officially playing since age 11.

“I’ve always just naturally been drawn to

it,” he noted of his upbringing, “my dad used to be a DJ, and my parents played music all the time.”

The diversity Holland espouses isn’t exactly common. Though musicians often boast a range of tastes, it’s rare to find those who play both basement shows and recital halls.

But Holland’s been rocking the doublelife since college, where he attended the jazz studies program by day and hosted house-show venue by night. A man of practical composure, he recommends hydration and earplugs, and credits “plenty of water and rest” for his success maintaining balance between his varied music pursuits.

As for crediting his influences, Holland lists Hendrix, HUM, and Fugazi among his favorite rock bands. John Coltrane and Wynton Marsalis reign high on the jazz-end. ”I’ve kind of adventured into writing jazz music with electronic influence,” Holland said of his latest sonic pursuit. “I’m experimenting with running a wah-wah with reverb and delay pedals with the saxophone,” he explained, “that’s for the future, though.”

For the High Point performance, Holland’s chosen jazz standards with unique arrangements for a more traditional set.

“It’s going to be a very intimate show,” he noted, “I’ve gathered a quartet of players I enjoy, and I really just want to get up there and have fun.”

On the studio-end of things, Holland has a jazz-electronica concept album in the making. ”I’ve been writing the story, and some of the music is already recorded,” he

explained. “It’s a work in progress.“ As for other works in progress, Holland and his Harrison Ford Mustang outfit recently wrapped recording at Legitimate Business.

“Kris is a magician, yo,” Holland said regarding Kris Hilbert, the mastermind behind the revered Glenwood record studio.

“He does phenomenal work and makes the process just seamlessly flow.”

While Sips, the first EP from Harrison Ford Mustang, was recorded in a shed with four microphones, their use of an actual studio for upcoming self-titled release highlights the official direction they’re taking.

“We’ve gone from a lackadaisical, slacker rock band to a more upbeat, driving sound,” Holland noted of their development, “we went from sounding like Pavement to more like Fugazi.”

Holland plays bass for the four-piece, though rounding-out a rhythm section for a punk group wasn’t planned. “I always loved listening to rock music, but I kind of just fell into playing in a rock band,” Holland explained, “though I like the direction it’s going.”

As for how his two worlds collide melodically, “I’ve kinda melded the two together,” he said. ”I use my knowledge from being a jazz musician in my bass playing all the time and vice versa.”

“When you’re playing to seated audience with an ensemble, the energy is coming from the players more than the audience,” he explained of the different show environments, “but when you’re playing a basement show or in a pit, the energy is coming more from the audience than the performers.”

“In either situation, the transfer of energy starts with the players,” he insisted.

Musically, Holland expresses an array of varied energy, with the upcoming weeks holding several chances for him to show it off.

The Melvin Holland Quartet will celebrate Jazz Appreciation month on April 18, as part of the “Third Thursday” concert series presented by the High Point Arts Council, at the Centennial Station Arts Center in downtown High Point.

Harrison Ford Mustang has shows on Apr. 20 at Lucky’s Skate Shop with Bergenline; on Apr. 24 with Home Town Girl at Soul Relief Records; and on May 19 with Andy the Doorbum at Monstercade. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of touring bands, 5:30-7pm on WUAG 103.1fm.

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218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Apr 19: Nobody’s Fault Apr 20: Matt Walsh Apr 21: Randolph Jazz Band Apr 26: Brother Oliver Apr 27: 80’s Unplugged

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VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Apr 19: DJ Bald-E Apr 20: Hawthorne Curve Apr 26: Whiskey Mic Apr 27: None The Wiser May 2: James Vincent Carroll May 3: DJ Bald-E May 4: Southern Eyes May 10: DJ Bald-E May 11: Down The Mountain May 17: Whiskey Mic

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GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE

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1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Jun 8: Gooseberry Jam Jun 22: Abigail Dowd

REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Apr 25: Old-Time Jam May 3: Andrew Finn Magill’s “Canta, Violino!”

May 4: The Martha Bassett Show Presley Barker May 10: Reeves House Band plays The Grand Ole Opry May 16: The East Pointers May 17: Scott Miller Jun 1: Elizabeth Cook Jun 8: Gretchen Peters w/ Trisha Gene Brady

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Apr 17: The World Alive Apr 19: 1-2-3 Friday 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Apr 19: DJ Dan the Player Apr 20: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 May 4: Stephen Freeman: The Gospel Side of Elvix June 15: Soul Sistas of Gospel Aug 3: Stephen Freeman: Rockin’ Tribute To The king Aug 24: Wonderwall - A Tribute To The Beatles

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Apr 12: Craig Baldwin Apr 14: E’Lon JD and Chaisaray Apr 19: Starstruck Apr 26: Casey Noel May 3: Dave Moran May 4: Bend in the River

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Apr 17: Plini, Mestis, Dave Mackay Apr 19: Jacob Bryant w/ The Corey Hunt Band Apr 20: 420 Reggae Jam w/ Sahara Reggae Band & DJ Stretch Apr 22: Signs of the Swarm, Depths of Hatred, Sentinels, Brand of Sacrifice Apr 24: Soil and Flaw w/ Below 7 & Written In Gray Apr 26: Andy Black Apr 27: Rumours: A Fleetwood Mac Tribute May 2: Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria - The Shades of Blue Tour

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May 3: After The Burial w/ Valleys, Discoveries May 4: Sad & Boujee May 7: Jamestown Revival w/ Cordovas May 9: Futurebirds w/ Chuck Mountain May 10: Cosmic Charlie - Grateful Dead Tribute May 11: Bass Planet ft. Dredlok May 15: Bad PPL Collective

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Apr 19: Sinbad Apr 25: Cris Machado Apr 25: Ellen Doyle Apr 26: Andy Forrester Apr 26: Sonny Pandit Apr 27: Caryn Carson Apr 27: TK Moyer May 2: Three Dog Night May 4: Triad Pride Performing Arts 20th Anniversary Concert

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Apr 18: Live Thursdays

COMEDY zONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Apr 17: An Evening with Girl with No Job Apr 19: Tony Tone Apr 20: Tony Tone Apr 26: Dean Napolitano Apr 27: Dean Napolitano May 24: Don “DC” Curry May 25: Don “DC” Curry Jun 7: Aries Spears Jun 8: Aries Spears

Come enjoy a 5k walk with the whole family!

COMMON GROuNDS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Apr 17: Matty Sheets Apr 19: In The Round Apr 27: Mtroknwn May 3: Tony Low CD Release Party May 4: Brett Newski & The No Tomorrow

CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Apr 17: Stars & Guitars Apr 25: Granger Smith Apr 26: Who’s Bad: The ultimate Michael Jackson Experience Apr 27: zoso - A Tribute To Led zeppelin May 7: Chief Keef May 16: Fozzy Jun 16: Hinder Jun 21: David Allen Coe Jul 23: Buckcherry

GREENE STREET CLuB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

HAM’S NEW GARDEN

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Apr 19: Badd Madison Apr 26: 3 Alarm Wasabi

LEVENELEVEN BREWING

1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Apr 17: Doug Baker & Clay Howard Apr 19: Jamie Anderson Album Release Party Apr 24: Dave Ray Cecil May 1: Hold For Jim May 8: Tony Low May 15: Hold For Jim May 22: Dean Driver and Barry Gray Jun 5: Christian McIvor

2019 Greater Guilford Heart and Stroke Walk Saturday, May 18th

Survivor Ceremony Sponsor tents with goodies Huge Kid's Zone VIP section for Veterans Dress up your dog for the Annual Poochies on Parade Free Wet 'n Wild pass for children that bring a heart healthy drawing

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LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Apr 19: Banjo Earth Band May 17: Alex Culbreth May 18: Paleface May 25: Evan Button

RODY’S TAVERN

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Apr 17: James Vincent Carroll

SPEAKEASY TAVERN

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

THE IDIOT BOX COMEDY CLUB

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Apr 17: Land Mermaids! Running Amok!

Apr 17: Alter ID/Tomorrowquest/ Rabbit Brothers Apr 18: KIssing for an Hour and Best Party Ever Apr 19: High Dramma/Hellcat/Tomorrowquest Apr 19: Bad Medicine Apr 19: O’Sullivan/IdiotBox/Unstoppable Failure Apr 20: Monolith, No Strings Attached, Pre Modonnas Apr 20: Fan Club, Tryangle, Mom’s Adhesive Improv, Hijinks Apr 22: Ben Jones Apr 22: Lindsay Glazer Apr 22: Judaea Drisoll Apr 22: Money Mic Apr 23: Evan Pittfield Apr 23: George Chen Apr 23: Tara Brown Apr 24: Luna Balbroux Apr 24: Sean Patton Apr 24: Wendy Steiner Apr 24: Mark Brady Apr 25: Gregory Joseph Apr 25: Mia Jackson Apr 25: Lauren Faber Apr 25: Richard Douglas Jones Apr 26: Reven MacQueen

THE W BISTRO & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown Apr 18: Karaoke Apr 19: Live DJ Apr 20: Live DJ

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED ROUNDABOUTS ON SUNSET ROAD AT THE OAKDALE ROAD/MIRANDA ROAD/LAWING ROAD INTERSECTION AND ON OAKDALE ROAD AT THE SIMPSON ROAD INTERSECTION IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TIP PROJECT NO. W-5710X

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed roundabouts on Sunset Road (S.R. 2108) at the Oakdale Road (S.R. 2042)/Miranda Road (S.R. 2025)/Lawing Road (S.R. 2040) intersection and on Oakdale Road (S.R. 2042) at the Simpson Road (S.R. 2041) intersection in the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County. The purpose of the project is to improve safety and reduce congestion.

The meeting will be held on Monday, April 29 from 4-7 p.m. at Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church located at 1915 Oakdale Road in Charlotte. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive feedback regarding the proposed project. The opportunity to submit comments will be provided at the meeting or may be done via phone, email, or mail by May 17. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project maps and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/W-5710X-2019-04-02.aspx For additional information, please contact NCDOT Division 10 Project Engineer Theo Ghitea, P.E. at (704) 983-4400 or tghitea@ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Robbie Kirk, P.E. at (704) 206-7113 or rkirk@sepiengineering.com.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6072 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800481-6494.

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GOOFY FOOT TAPROOM 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 Apr 20: Jared & Hannah Apr 27: William Nesmith May 4: Casey Noel May 11: Jack Of Diamonds Duo

HAM’S PALLADIUM

5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Apr 19: FM Reprise Apr 20: Spare Change Apr 26: Stephen Legree Band Apr 27: Disco Lemonade

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Apr 17: Open Mic Apr 19: Jukebox Revolver Apr 20: Crossing Avery Apr 24: Open Mic Apr 25: Robert Cellucci Apr 26: The Dickens Apr 27: The Plaids Apr 31: Open Mic

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DANCE HALL DAZE

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Apr 19: Skyryder Apr 20: The Delmonicos Apr 26: The Delmonicos Apr 27: Jimmy Shirley & The 8 Track 45 Band

BREATHE COCKTAIL LOUNGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge Apr 20: DJ Mike Lawson

LEWISVILLE

OLD NICK’S PUB

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Apr 19: Whiskey Mic Apr 26: Music Bingo Apr 27: Big Daddy Mojo May 3: Karaoke May 4: Lasater Union May 10: Music Bingo May 11: Exit 180 May 17: Karaoke

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BULL’S TAVERN

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern May 25: Sons of Paradise YES! WEEKLY

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CB’S TAVERN

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Apr 26: Jack Of Diamonds

FIDDLIN’ FISH BREWING COMPANY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Apr 12: Jack of Diamonds Apr 15: Old Time Jam Apr 19: Brother Oliver Apr 22: Old Time Jam

FOOTHILLS BREWING

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Apr 17: The Plate Scrapers Apr 20: The Ladies Auxiliary Apr 21: Sunday Jazz Apr 24: The Eversole Brothers Apr 27: Woodie and the String Pullers Apr 28: Sunday Jazz

MAC & NELLI’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Apr 20: Jukebox Revolver

MILNER’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Apr 21: Live Jazz

MUDDY CREEK CAFE & MUSIC HALL

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Apr 17: Sugar Mountain Band - Neil Young Tribute Apr 18: Cave Twins Apr 19: Dirty Logic - A Steely Dan Tribute Apr 20: Joe Newberry with Blistered Hearts Apr 24: Dee White Apr 26: Friday Night Music Club Apr 28: Christy Snow/Casey Clark/ Alicia Bullard/Elliot Humphries Apr 28: Mo Lowda & The Humble/ Loop City May 4: Wild Ponies/LoneHollow May 11: GoodFellers

THE RAMKAT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Apr 17: Will Hoge, Brandy Zdan Apr 19: Nappy Roots, G Yamazawa, Terminator X, LB The Poet Apr 20: Marvelous Funkshun, DOCO, BadCameo Apr 25: Sylvia Rose Novak, Jeffrey Dean Foster

WISE MAN BREWING

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 Apr 26: Souljam Quartet

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com May 1: Jazziando May 4: Tash Sultana w/ Pierce Brothers May 8: Mint Julep Jazz Band May 15: Kate McGarry

Apr 17: Hatebreed Apr 18: The Parlor Mob Apr 19: Cassadee Pope Apr 20: 4/20 Fest Apr 21: JACK & JACK Apr 26: Lil Mosey May 3: Missio May 6: Smino May 7: Marianas Trench May 8: Chief Keef May 9: lovelytheband May 10: Johnny Orlando May 11: Stankonia May 13: The Struts May 14: A R I Z O N A

RALEIGH

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Apr 27: Rainbow Kitten Surprise May 4: GRiZ May 10: Earth, Wind & Fire May 12: Bryan Adams May 16: Greta Van Fleet May 17-18: PRIME Music Festival

PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Apr 19: Casting Crowns May 27: Paul McCartney Jun 11: Twenty Øne Piløts Jun 18: Luis Miguel

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former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com May 2: Clint Black & Trace Adkins May 4: Bryan Adams May 9: Iration May 15: Greta Van Fleet

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Apr 18: The Purple Madness - Tribute to Prince Apr 19: Lil Baby Apr 20: Trial By Fire Apr 26: Stardust to Ashes Apr 27: Lord Huron Apr 29: Falling In Reverse May 1: Gunna May 8: Garbage May 10: Shakey Graves w/ Illiterate Light May 13: JohnnySwim May 14: Tash Sultana

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Apr 25: Brit Floyd Apr 26: Javed Ali Apr 28: Whitesnake May 8: Home Free: Timeless World May 9: Idai.Arie May 12: Keith Sweat & Friends May 14: Carol Burnett

THE UNDERGROUND

820 Hamilton St, Charlotte | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorenc.com WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Apr 17: The Tallest Man On Earth Apr 23: Afro-Cuban All Stars May 1: India.Arie May 2: Melissa Etheridge May 8: Night Ranger

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Apr 27: Brit Floyd

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com May 2: Three Dog Night May 4: Ariel Pocock & Chad Eby May 6: Beatles vs Stones May 6: Davina & The Vagabonds

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Apr 19: Maze ft. Frankie Beverly May 1: Carrie Underwood

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com May 4: 4th Annual Gate City Blues Festival

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Apr 27: Billy “Crash” Craddock May 10: Beach Music Festival ft.

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WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? My favorite thing would be the people I get to interact with on a daily basis, or when you make a wine selection for someone and they truly enjoy it, and keep coming back for more. I also enjoy meeting new people from all different walks of life and that’s something you don;t get from other jobs .

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE WINE AND WHY? My Favorite wine at the moment, would be a red Burgundy (Pinot Noir). It’s a light red wine with a lot of complexity, starting off sometimes with an earthy driven nose, and can open up to different red fruits on the back end. It’s a great red for summer!

WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Honestly, I would prefer a glass of angels envy bourbon. It’s finished off in port sherry barrels and it’s just kind of refreshing to me after a meal.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? One Mother’s Day we had a family affair outside of the bar. It was pretty early in the day, but the results that ensued were pretty funny.

The family got into an argument with each other and their significant others, and started throwing wine glasses at each other and then decided to throw things across the parking lot which included a cell phone which shattered into about a million pieces, and a purse. They then decided to work things out in our single serving bathroom and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just talking. I mean hair was everywhere!

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? I was tipped a 300 dollar bottle of wine once and it was delicious.

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I’m so tired of these supposed magician multitaskers on their cellphones. The guy I’m dating and some of my friends don’t seem to get how disrespectful it feels when they play around on their phone or text while I’m talking to them.

Am I crazy to want eye contact and attention when I’m

This smartphone multitasking thing probably goes further than anyone knows — like, I’m picturing a parishioner in the confessional and the priest in the adjoining booth on his phone, shopping for a new cassock: “Next-day delivery. Sweet!” Parishioner: “Um, father...did you hear me say I murdered three people and still have them in my trunk out back?”

Somebody came up with an annoyingly cute name — phubbing (a mash of “phone” and “snubbing”) — for when someone ignores you in a social setting by being all up in their phone. Not surprisingly, research by social psychologist Varoth Chotpitayasunondh finds that phubbing comes off as a form of social ostracism — allowing the snub-ee to experience that fun feeling some of us had in third grade when other kids diagnosed us with cooties and sentenced us to eat alone for the rest of elementary school.

Chotpitayasunondh’s research suggests that being phubbed by friends and acquaintances threatens our fundamental need for “belongingness.” Other research on phubbing’s effects in romantic partnerships

finds (again, not surprisingly!) that it erodes intimacy and makes for less-satisfying relationships and diminished personal well-being. Regarding phubbers’ skewed priorities, the title of a study by communications prof James A. Roberts says it all: “My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone.”

The important thing to remember is that you have a choice in how you are treated — whether you’ll put up with having, oh, 46% of someone’s attention. Your power in pushing for respectful treatment comes out of what I call the “walk away principle”: how willing you are, when somebody refuses to give you the level of respect you want, to just say, “Well, I’ll miss you!”

Figure out what sort of phone behavior works for you (for example, phone totally off and away when they’re with you or, say, facedown on the table in case the babysitter or liver transplant team calls). Explain the issue by appealing to their empathy — “It hurts my feelings when...” — rather than attacking them. You might also feel less slighted if you remind yourself of the addictive pull of these electronic binkies.

Frankly, we’re lucky cellphones are a very recent invention. “Washington Falling Into the Delaware,” anyone? Or maybe a little Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty or...wait a minute! I think somebody just liked my Instagram post!”

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you!” of empathy. Get reason out of bed and use it to remind yourself that you weren’t helping this guy; you were enabling him — “protecting (him) from the consequences of his behavior” (as they put it at HazeldonBettyFord.com). Sure, there may come a time when he’s ready to “say no to drugs,” but right now, he and drugs are having some very interesting conversations and may even start a podcast. !

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www. advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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A guy will insist he’s clean, tell you he’s finally just “high on life”— a state which... hmmm...doesn’t usually involve shouting matches with the curtains.

Your feelbad about saying no to any further convos with this guy actually has some ancient roots. Ancestral humans lived in a seriously harsh environment, so we evolved to cooperate — to work together and help each other — making it less likely we’d starve to death and/or get eaten by lions.

But people don’t always put out a memo listing their needs, so how do we know when to help? Well, welcome to the evolution of empathy, our tuning into others’ emotions and “catching” what they’re feeling (to some degree).

Unless you’re a sociopath or a sex robot, empathy rises up automatically, as does its sister state, compassion. Compassion, as I define it in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” is “empathy with an action plan” — motivating us to want to do something to help when we see a person suffering.

In other words, your emotional overlords have been pinging you, alerting you that somebody’s in distress, and unfortunately, reason (as usual!) is late to the party. That’s to be expected, because reason is what cognitive scientists call an “effortful process,” in contrast with the automatic “Awww, poor

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