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There is a constant buzz moving through the city of High Point as the Rockers’ opening day approaches. With spring training coming to an end, the team is pumped and ready to get started. THE ROCKERS have prepared all summer for their upcoming season and are prepared to share the experience with the city.

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The time has come for a triumph, and ACADIA FOODS in Winston-Salem has accomplished it. They’ve made a traditional deli that is vegetarian and vegan-friendly, with options that many wouldn’t think twice about simply excluding meat, dairy or egg, while also creating crave-worthy meals for carnivores.

10 The TRIAD PRIDE Performing Arts will perform “Quiet No More – A Choral Celebration of Stonewall” on May 4 at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro.

11 The nationally-ranked UNCSA School of Filmmaking, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, invites local viewers to share in the celebration when it screens the fourth-year (senior) STUDENT FILMS Friday, May 3 at the ACE Exhibition Campus on the UNCSA campus in Winston-Salem.

12 With that off my chest — and with a couple of subsequent Hail Marys and a bout of self-flagellation, to boot — it’s time to admit that, in comparison to the new HELLBOY, those earlier incarnations of Mike Mignola’s popular comic series now seem positively heavenly.

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Last week, Meredith College released a new poll showing that 56.7% of North Carolina voters believe a THIRD POLITICAL PARTY would be suitable for our State and the nation.

18 The first agenda item at the April 16 Greensboro City Council meeting was “Council Discussion for an Independent REVIEW OF THE MARCUS SMITH INCIDENT.” The discussion consisted of Mayor Nancy Vaughan asking “do we have a motion?”, District 1’s Sharon Hightower moving that the proposal be tabled “due to pending litigation,” and Representative At-large Michelle Kennedy seconding.

20 STEVE POLTZ has some good stories. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter raconteur has gotten around, and he’s bumped into some characters — famous and obscure — over the years.

21 A secret-password and backdoor entrance. Booze flowing in places it usually doesn’t. Music. Dancing. Gatsby. The Greensboro History Museum promises playfully shady business at their “SPEAKEASY NIGHT,” on April 26.

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“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.” MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

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CENTRAL CAROLINA FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY WED 24-28

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WHAT: With exhilarating rides and activities, it’s a great time for the entire family.

Enjoy delicious carnival food, rides & more!

The Central Carolina Festival will feature an action-packed midway featuring thrill rides, games of skill and delicious midway food from Drew Expositions.

WHEN: Wed - 5 p.m.- 11 p.m. | Thurs - 5 p.m.- 11 p.m. | Fri - 5 p.m.- 11 p.m. | Sat - 11 a.m. - Close | Sun - 1 p.m. - Close WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Parking Lot. 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro.

MORE: $5 admission. $20 admission w/ ride wristband.

WHAT: At the incrEDIBLE Plant Sale, we’ll have a wide selection of veggie, herb, and flower starts for sale. Proceeds benefit the Greensboro Children’s Museum’s half-acre garden, The Edible Schoolyard. This event is free and open to the public. We’ll have food trucks, children’s activities and live music by Laura Jane Vincent and Mountain Lions.

WHEN: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

WHERE: The Edible Schoolyard.

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WHAT: An afternoon of live musical performances on two stages, gardening and musical activities for children, food vendors, lawn games, dancing, and more. Admission is FREE! #GroovinintheGarden WHEN: 12-5 p.m.

WHERE: Gateway Gardens.

2924 E. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro.

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WHAT: The Junior League of High Point & ForwardHP invite you to the main event this Spring: Trucks, Taps, & Tunes! Featuring live music, local food trucks, local breweries and a fun kid zone. We are thrilled to announce Nashville’s rising music star Casey Clark will be headlining and local artist Joey Whitaker will be opening. This is sure to be a fun event you don’t want to miss! Enjoy overeating, dancing til your feet fall off and tasting unique beers from all over NC while the kids have a great time at our Kid Zone.

WHEN: 4-10 p.m.

WHERE: Downtown High Point.

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GREENSBORO FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL WHAT: Food, fun and frolic in downtown Greensboro! 50 food trucks, craft beer, live music, kid’s activities, craft vendors, free event. No tickets needed!

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Junction 311’s Carolina Brewsfest returns for its fifth year on May 11 in downtown High Point at the Mendenhall Transportation Terminal, 220 E. Commerce Ave. This festival brings together runners and local craft beer enthusiasts for a day of endurance, beer tasting, and community. Junction 311 owner Mike Clark created the Carolina Brewsfest. Junction 311 is an event production agency with a focus on endurance and running events that incorporates craft beer. “[The Carolina Brewsfest] joins running, the appreciation for craft beer, and [the] void in the High Point market,” said Junction 311 brand developer Nikki Popovich. “It focuses on giving a platform for North Carolina beer to be introduced to people and bringing people to the area.” Popovich said starting at 9 a.m. on May 11 there would be 5k, 10k, and 15k races followed by the craft beer festival starting at 11 a.m. She said registration is open until the day of the race and includes entry to the craft beer festival.

“You do not have to participate in the running portion to join the craft beer festival, but all the runners are invited to the festival,” Popovich said. “We have people that are pacing (running at the specific pace the entire time), and no matter which race you are doing, you can lean on someone that’s running a certain time.”

Popovich said runners have a “work hard, play hard” mentality, so a race followed by a beer festival goes handin-hand. There are presently 44 North Carolina breweries scheduled to attend and offer their craft brews, including Triad favorites such as Brown Truck Brewery (High Point), Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company (Winston-Salem), and Leveneleven

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Brewing (Greensboro). Unlike most craft beer tasting festivals, where admission is bundled in with the cost of tasting, the Carolina Brewsfest offers different ticket options.

“Say, somebody knows they are not a huge craft beer-drinker, but they want to go enjoy (or maybe their girlfriend or boyfriend wants to go); they pay general admission, and they can buy beer tickets that are redeemable at any booth,” she said. “Those that buy the unlimited taster, they get a keepsake taster cup that they carry around and refill as many times as their heart desires from wherever they like.”

Popovich said that there would be live music by local Triad bands Stereo Doll and Southern Ends as well as six food trucks (Umami, Wired, PorterHouse Burger Company, Zeko’s To Go, Frank’s Chicken and Waffles, and Crispy Gyoza) for attendees to enjoy while they sip on some of the finest craft beers in the state.

“Anybody can go out and walk or run a 5k and have a great experience, and you get admission to the festival, so it is a great time,” she said.

Tickets for general admission are $7 online, $10 at the gate, and unlimited taster passes are $35 online and $40 at the gate. Tickets for the 5k are $40, tickets for the 10k are $50, and tickets for the 15k are $55 through April 30, and includes two free beers, two admission tickets into the festival, a T-shirt and a finisher medal.

For a full list of attending breweries, a map of the race route and to buy tickets or view ticket prices, visit the Carolina Brewsfest website, www.carolinabrewsfest.com/ !

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here is one frontier that has struggled to integrate vegetarian and vegan options as equals—the American deli. Freshlysliced meat topped Jennifer Zeleski with creamy cheese just didn’t have a feasible substitute, Contributor and failed attempts at replacements ended up as sad salads or terrible tofu.

The time has come for a triumph, and Acadia Foods in Winston-Salem has accomplished it. They’ve made a traditional deli that is vegetarian and vegan-friendly, with options that many wouldn’t think twice about simply excluding meat, dairy or egg, while also creating crave-worthy meals for carnivores.

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Salem area have also instilled hope in those who often struggle to find affordable and delicious options within their appetite’s parameters, but this is the first and closest I’ve found to a deli you can stop by for a quick lunch or one you’ll take a detour for after a long day at work.

Acadia Foods’ new menu was created after the Washington Perk Southside location, 228 W. Acadia Ave. in WinstonSalem, transitioned into new ownership in 2018. The store has expanded into a full coffee bar, a small organic-based grocery store and a traditional deli, all of which push the boundaries of great taste and healthier choices for the WinstonSalem community.

The space has a modern yet welcoming feel, with a brightly-painted exterior and sleek logo, much like many in the downtown Winston-Salem area. There’s a large porch to kick back under the umbrellas and plenty of wooden tables to gather around inside for a quiet and mellow getaway.

But let’s get back to the food.

The menu is broken down into hot and cold sandwiches, a portion for kids of all ages, sides, salads, snacks, a build-yourown sandwich section and breakfast, whose options often appear on the allday Sunday brunch menu as well.

Note how there wasn’t a separate section of the menu devoted to veggiefriendly options, they were just mixed

right in—even though their details made them stand out.

A cauliflower melt made with bacon or tempeh, roasted cauliflower, caramelized onion, cheddar, mayonnaise and grilled sourdough. A roasted beet Reuben (next to a traditional Reuben, corned beef and all), with smoked Thousand Island dressing, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese

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on grilled marbled rye bread. The Jack Straw (arguably the most impressive) made with spinach, sprouts, cucumber, pickled onion, carrot, lettuce, tomato, herbed cream cheese, Monterey Jack and marbled rye.

These options seemed so doable yet so simply-miraculous that I couldn’t wait to try one for myself. I settled on the B(T)AT hot sandwich, choosing bacon instead of tempeh, fresh arugula, roasted tomato, mayo and sourdough. The sandwich was labeled vegan (aside from the bacon on my part), and I paired it with a side of vegan pasta salad.

This sandwich was nothing short of delicious. The sourdough bread had been grilled long enough to get both slices entirely crispy, exactly how you want a golden grilled cheese or a well-buttered panini. Its tartness with the mayo was addicting, and the perfect balance to the saltiness of the bacon and the freshness of the arugula. The roasted tomato added a subtle sweetness that was reminiscent of sun-dried. Rather than your typical BLT, this sandwich had a depth of flavor that I’ll be attempting to recreate on my own.

It’s hard to mess up pasta salad—make a box of al dente pasta, throw in some assorted vegetables and toss it in a light vinaigrette (or packaged Italian dressing if you’re headed to a summer picnic), and let it marinate overnight. Easy enough.

The pasta salad at Acadia was just as good, if not better than that first scoop of summer pasta salad you’ll get this year.

Mixed in a light vinaigrette was Ditalini pasta thrown in with chopped red onion, tomatoes, capers and fresh parsley. It was refreshing and not vinegar-heavy, and I would definitely order it as an upgrade to a bag of chips or a side of fresh fruit.

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To get a feel for the cold sandwiches and hot soup, my boyfriend (and selfproclaimed deli addict) chose the cold Pastrami sandwich, made with smoked Thousand Island dressing, coleslaw, Swiss cheese on marbled rye, with a side of the daily soup special, Mexican corn chowder.

It isn’t as common for him to have a lot to say within the first few bites of a sandwich, so this one was an exception. The smoked Thousand Island dressing was smothered over the marbled rye, which was as soft as it could be without falling apart with the weight of the toppings. He found the sauerkraut to be crisp and not overwhelming, the Pastrami to be tender throughout, and not a single bite to leave behind.

Although the Mexican corn chowder had the flavors one might expect: cumin and onion mixed into the soup’s creaminess, he found it to be too salty and was reaching for the pasta salad as a refreshing side instead. It wasn’t enough to turn him away from other soup options in the future, but may make him think twice before turning down potato salad or vegan collard greens next time.

The truth is, it was easy to fall in love with such a simple place. Both meals were served on mismatching ceramic dishware, not in a kitschy way, but in a much-less-wasteful way. Yes, to-go is still an option with the appropriate packaging, but if you have a few minutes to spare, grab a bottle of soda from the fridge, order your sandwich and relax. You might just find a new vegetarian favorite or your new go-to deli. !

JENNIFER ZELESKI is a senior Communication major at High Point University, who is always eager to cook, eat and listen. Her many food adventures can be followed on Instagram @jayz_eats.

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he Triad Pride Performing Arts will perform “Quiet No More – A Choral Celebration of Stonewall” on May 4 at the Carolina Theatre in GreensTerry Rader boro. This includes both the Triad Pride Men’s Chorus and the Contributor Triad Pride Women’s Chorus. TPPA will be accompanied with an orchestra of 10 and joined by special guests Common Woman Chorus of Durham and The Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus to launch their biggest performance yet.

One hundred and thirty voices will sing for those who have been silenced, and possibly awaken those who no longer wish to remain silent, with the mission to bring the community closer together.

This ticketed event is open to the public along with an optional ticketed Gala Post-Concert cocktail party that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Triad Pride Men’s Chorus and will feature live music by pianist Fei Fei Wang, desserts and libations to conclude the evening.

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Triad Pride Performing Arts sings for those once silenced PHOTO BY RANDY GOOCH

Triad Pride Men’s Chorus LGBTQ community stood together against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. These riots are widely considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States, according to Wikipedia.

William Southerland is TPPA’s choral artistic director and conductor, who is in his sixth season working as a volunteer with the Triad Pride Men’s Chorus. He has plans to attain his Ph.D. in music education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in May 2020. He presently holds two degrees in music from Florida State and UNCG and was recently selected as an advisor for community engagement for the National Gala Chorus, a professional organization for gay and lesbian choruses.

Southerland said the works they will be

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performing started three years ago when two directors, Charlie Beale of New York and Joe Nadeau of Los Angeles, wanted a piece to highlight the range of voices composed by several collaborators to come together in one adhesive performance. He said that there are eight movements and the first three movements set the stage leading up to the riots for an exciting fourth movement. In movements five through eight, the results and the aftermath are revealed in the most complex composition written by Julian Hornick of New York.

It tells eight different stories, some of which include the day after the riots when someone discovers in the morning paper that there are others like them. Another story voices being openly gay in politics, and another takes place toward the end of the 1980s and early 1990s during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when a group of activists staged a “die-in” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City to honor and call attention to those affected. TPPA is also inviting alumni from the last 20 years of the Triad Pride Men’s Chorus to join in and sing the last song in the first half of the show.

Southerland said that this work is intended to remember and to celebrate the people who were lost. He said that conversations today include the LGBTQ community who didn’t live through that era, while others did. He said it’s important to know that the whole piece focuses in a particular way on the voices that did not get heard, specifically “transgender and people of color who actually led the riots, but their stories were downplayed.”

“In our 20 years, we’ve not done a project this big,” Southerland said. “We are basically telling the story of the Gay Rights Movement through song, poetry, and pictures. We function as a team with a production committee made up of singers and

15 others who made this event possible.”

He said this is the first time they have rented a large venue with projection.

Stephen Hale, the artistic director of Triad Pride Acting Company, directs the actors who have speaking parts.

TPPA is an organization that thrives through an all-volunteer nonpaid staff.

Stephen Hartley serves as the vice chair, and head of fundraising and development.

He said that they would be honoring two of their long-term members since day one, Michael Grant and Anthony Moore, during the concert and they will both sing as well.

“We hope people will come out to celebrate TPPA, who without the support of community would not exist,” Hartley said.

TPPA was formed in 1999 as the Triad Pride Men’s Chorus. The Triad Pride Women’s Chorus was added in 2016 and began its first rehearsals in January 2017.

On July 1, 2017, the organization changed the name of the 501(c)(3) to TPPA. TPPA added its third group, the Triad Pride Acting Company on July 1, 2018.

Both choruses accept new singers in August and January. Rehearsal visits are open as well. Nonsinging volunteers who want to assist with production, fundraising, marketing, ticketing, rehearsal support, and administrative support are always welcomed. Details regarding TPPA benefit appearances for outreach and paid performances can be found on their website, www.triadprideperformingarts.org/. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, storyteller, poet, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner, and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/house sitting.

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May 4 at 7-9:30 p.m. at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S. Greene St., Greensboro, Student/Senior $15, Adult $30, Concert & post-show party $60. May 4 at 9:30 p.m., Gala Post-Concert cocktail party in the Renaissance Room at the Carolina Theatre.

A $3 facility fee and NC sales tax will be added to each ticket. To avoid this charge, call the Carolina Theatre Box Office at (336) 333-2605 Mon. – Fri. from noon until 5 p.m., or visit the Carolina Theatre in person. Websites: www.carolinatheatre. com/event/triad-pride-performing-arts-20thanniversary-gala/?occurrence_id=4273, www. triadprideperformingarts.org/, www.facebook. com/triadpridewomenschorus/, www.facebook. com/triadpridemenschorus/

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UNCSA School of Filmmaking hosts free student screenings The nationallyranked UNCSA School of Filmmaking, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, invites local viewers to share in the celebration when it screens the fourth-year (senior) Mark Burger student films Friday, May 3 at the ACE Exhibition Campus on Contributor the UNCSA campus in Winston-Salem.

This year’s selection boasts eight narrative shorts and five animated films: Alley Rats (written and directed by Sean Breitkreutz): Two childhood friends attempting reconciliation embark on a wild night of partying.

Blue & Hues (directed by Jordan McLaughlin): Two thieves begin to question their line of work when they target a powerful man with a diamond lodged in his eye.

Cherry Lips (directed by Jean-Luc Swift): A small-town girl, eager to escape the confines of her life, anxiously awaits her musician brother’s visit, which she expects to be her ticket to the big city.

Daughters (directed by Grant Godbee): A pregnant teenager, consumed by guilt, confronts her own mother, whose irresponsible lifestyle she blames for her upbringing.

Drapes the Clown (directed by Nicholas Guy): In order to win back his ex-girlfriend, a chronically unfunny guy decides to become a clown.

Folding Fur (written and directed by Keaton Sapp and Madison Williams): In a small paper forest, a small paper fox tries to befriend a newcomer to the forest – with unexpected results.

Helio’s Horizon (directed by Ibrahiim Luckett): A young sunflower musters up all his courage to save his village from imminent destruction.

Loser (directed by Jeff Yabrow): A synopsis is not available. (You win some, you lose some …)

OGMOG (directed by Ben Fisk): An animated film.

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Painted Love (directed by Michelle DeGrace): A disillusioned debt collector’s faith in dreams is restored when she discovers a magical portal to a wonderful new world.

She Follows Close Behind (written and directed by Aidan Weaver): A woman questions an old man with regard to an unsolved mystery from her past.

Solitude (directed by Navarre Megali): During World War II, a black American serviceman is ordered to co-pilot a B-24 bomber for a daring raid over Germany, knowing full well that his superiors and fellow soldiers consider him expendable.

Warrior Princesses (directed by Malory Pacheco): The titular twosome, while trespassing through an ancient shrine, encounter their kingdom’s nemesis.

The UNCSA third-year (junior) student films will be screened 7-9 p.m. Thursday, May 2, also in the UNCSA Main Theatre. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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The UNCSA School of Filmmaking fourth-year (senior) student films will be screened 3-5 pm and 8-10 pm Friday, May 3 in the Main Theatre of the ACE Exhibition Complex located on the UNCSA main campus, 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem. Admission is free.

For further information, visit the official UNCSA website: www.uncsa.edu.

RiverRun and Indie Lens Pop-Up bring Charm City to Winston-Salem Fresh from its record-breaking 21st festival held earlier this month, the RiverRun International Film Festival’s back in action – partnering again with Indie Lens Pop-Up to present a special screening of the award-winning documentary feature Charm City on April 30 at the Forsyth County Central Library in downtown Winston-Salem – and it’s absolutely free.

Produced and directed by Marilyn Ness, the film takes a long, hard look at the perils and problems facing Baltimore’s inner city. Filmed over a three-year period, it’s an in-depth look profile of a city in turmoil, as well as an ode to those residents and officials fighting an uphill battle to improve their city and make it safe for its residents, many of whom live in poverty and despair.

Frank Ochieng of ScreenAnarchy.com called Charm City “disturbing and defiant … Thoroughly involving and moving, Charm City is both oddly inspirational and nightmarish in its raw presentation.”

A post-screening discussion will be moderated by Jane McKim, RiverRun’s education director, and will feature Peter Gilbert, co-executive producer of Charm City, and other special guests yet to be announced. !

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efashioning this review as a church’s confessional booth, let me admit right off the bat that I wasn’t the biggest fan of Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed Hellboy flicks. Bless me, Father, for I have taken the minority opinion: While I admired Ron Perlman’s irresistible performance in both 2004’s Hellboy and 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the Hellboy-Liz Sherman relationship in the first film, and the cool critters in Part Deux, I found the storytelling clumsy rather than clever, the atmosphere oppressive rather than immersive, and, with a few exceptions, the characters colorless rather than captivating (even Abe Sapien didn’t exhibit much personality until he hired a new agent, changed his name to Amphibian Man, and reemerged in del Toro’s Oscar-winning The Shape of Water). Skimming my dusty review of the ’04 original, I even see where I wrote that its worst moments brought to mind the infamous 2003 screen version of The

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a sentence that even I recognize as outright blasphemy.

With that off my chest — and with a couple of subsequent Hail Marys and a bout of self-flagellation, to boot — it’s time to admit that, in comparison to the new Hellboy ( ), those earlier incarnations of Mike Mignola’s popular comic series now seem positively heavenly. Functioning more as a reboot than as the originally planned sequel (axed once it became clear neither del Toro nor Perlman would be involved), this Hellboy represents less a hot night on the town and more a cold shower meant to douse excitable feelings that this flop has no intention of alleviating or even addressing.

As was the case with Spider-Man: Homecoming, the film’s creators were adamant about not creating yet another origin film.

Yet unlike the Spidey saga, this picture is so awash in exposition (including, yes, a genesis sequence) that it would be safe to state that some fibbing was taking place.

The picture actually opens even before —

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way before — Hellboy first climbs out of the bowels of Hell during World War II — it commences back in the time of King Arthur and Merlin, as they manage to defeat Nimue the Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich), hack her up into enough separate pieces to fit into an Evil Dead sequel, and bury the various body parts in separate locations so she can’t ever return. Of course, whereas a fool and his money are soon parted (e.g. those who paid a combined $162 million to see Grown Ups), the same can’t be said about a Blood Queen and her appendages, meaning that she finally returns in our present day to continue her reign of terror.

It’s up to B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) operative Hellboy to stop her, and he’s aided in his efforts by his adoptive father Trevor Bruttenholm (Ian McShane), a psychic teenager (Sasha Lane), and an agent (Daniel Dae Kim) who can turn into a jaguar when necessary (claws and effect, as it were).

Interestingly, I watched both Hellboy and The Kid Who Would Be King (now out on Blu-ray) on the same day – some sort of low-key cosmic alignment since both films deal heavily with the legend of King Arthur. The kid flick is by far the better bet, partly because none of its fantastical musings prove to be insulting like the liberties taken in this slog. And whereas The Kid/ King is rated PG and del Toro’s Hellboy flicks were rated PG-13, this one is rated R. That in itself is no problemo, but the end result doesn’t resemble an R-rated film made by adults as much as an R-rated film made by teenagers who think it would be cool to pepper their project with as much profanity and as many gory interludes as possible. Hellboy goes even more over-

board than Logan in adding naughty bits just for the, uh, hell of it — unlike, say, Deadpool, which did a great job of making its R-rating feel like a natural fit, these other pictures bring to mind the adage, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

Neil Marshall, who kicked off his career with the terrific one-two punch of Dog Soldiers and The Descent (the latter making my 10 Best list for 2006), gets swallowed up by this dour and depressing undertaking, and it begs the question as to whether it was yet another case of an indie filmmaker turning drunk and irresponsible when handed a sizable budget or (as has been suggested) it was another sad instance of a studio not allowing a filmmaker to fully explore his own vision. In either case, it’s sad to see Marshall attached to this boondoggle, which admittedly does contain a few notable sequences (the entire interlude with the evil Baba Yaga is a high point) and committed turns by Harbour et al (only Jovovich fails to convince, coming across less like a formidable force of evil and more like Joan Crawford after discovering that her dressing room is too small).

As for the devil’s backbone, i.e. those wisecracks that often feel like Hellboy’s entire raison d’etre? The humorous quips in del Toro’s twofer weren’t always as funny as its makers intended, yet they come across as classic Richard Pryor when compared to the lame nyuks uttered by this film’s red-hued hero. “The only thing that hurts worse than being stabbed in the back is … being stabbed in the back.” Are those crickets I hear, or merely the theater auditorium’s A/C unit sputtering to life?

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The latest likable effort from Laika, Missing Link ( ) may not match the stop-motion-animation studio’s previous endeavors like Coraline and ParaNorman but nevertheless displays enough charm and whimsy to satisfy the small fry.

Placating the adults in their midst might be another matter.

Hugh Jackman, whose prior voice work was in the service of the animation outfits at Aardman, DreamWorks and Warner, here joins the Laika cause by lending his soothing pipes to the character of Sir Lionel Frost, an English adventurer who travels the world hoping to prove the existence of famous mythological creatures.

After encountering (but failing to document) the Loch Ness Monster, Sir Lionel gets an invitation to come track down the Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest.

Sir Lionel easily finds the creature (Zach Galifianakis), the reason being that the invite was sent by the Sasquatch himself.

A talkative type, the affable beast names himself Susan and reveals that he wants Sir Lionel to lead him to his long-lost relatives, the Yetis residing in the Himalayas.

Sir Lionel agrees to the task, and they’re soon joined by his former girlfriend, the

wealthy Adelina Fortnight (Zoe Saldana).

But the hissable Lord Piggot-Dunceby (Stephen Fry) doesn’t want Sir Lionel’s discovery to become public, so he hires an assassin named Willard Stenk (voiced by Timothy Olyphant but drawn suspiciously like Jackie Earle Haley) to kill everyone involved.

The Laika brand of animation always provides a welcome reprieve from the visually stale style of toons offered by everyone not named Aardman, Pixar or Disney, and the gentle humor is likewise appreciated as a respite from the cruder gags that too often have become the norm. It’s just a shame that the characters aren’t more invigorating — Mr. Link/ Susan is actually a rather one-note figure, and Adelina adds nothing substantial to the proceedings, created solely for the purpose of providing Sir Lionel with an obligatory love interest. And although there are some enterprising bits when it comes to the staging of these stopmotion creations, the actual jokes putter as often as they pop. Missing Link sports a distinctive look and offers plenty of heart, but true invention is noticeably MIA. !

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Would a third party make any difference?

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ast week, Meredith College released a new poll showing that 56.7% of North Carolina voters believe a third political party would be suitable for our state and Jim Longworth the nation. Moreover, those respondents agreed with a survey Longworth statement that said: at Large “…the two major parties do not do an adequate job of representing Americans.”

The Meredith poll results will come as no surprise to anyone who follows Tarheel politics. After all, those of us who are registered as “Unaffiliated,” comprise the second largest voting block in the state, now numbering 2.1 million. That compares to 2.5 million registered Democrats, and 2 million Republicans.

Unfortunately, “Unaffiliated” is a designation and not a political party. Absent

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being the latter, we alternative-seeking voters have always had a plethora of splinter parties to choose from. During the 2016 Presidential election, for example, there were 36 nationally recognized political parties, including the Libertarian party, the Green party, and the Socialist party.

There were also over 30 active parties indigenous to particular states, such as the Vermont Progressive Party. The problem is that none of these parties have stood a chance in Hades of putting their candidate into federal office. To be viable, a political party has to be able to amass enough votes to win control of the White House or a chamber of Congress, and right now, no such alternative party has that kind of strength.

In all fairness, though, the two major parties have done everything they can to prevent a national third party from becoming viable, including setting the bar high for upstarts who might dilute their power. For example, here in the Old North State, if a third-party candidate wants to get on the ballot in 2020, her party must have garnered 2% of the total votes cast in 2016. Absent that, she must collect names

totaling 2% of the votes cast in the last Gubernatorial election. Since over 4.6 million people voted for Cooper and McCrory, that means a third-party candidate for President must collect over 9,000 signatures if she wants her name to appear on the ballot.

However, let’s not forget that there are 2.1 million Unaffiliated voters registered in North Carolina, so if we all organized into the official Unaffiliated Party, and if our counterparts in the other 49 states do the same thing, we can be a viable force, capable of winning elections instead of spoiling them. The downside is that once that happens, it won’t be long before leaders in the Unaffiliated party will require our candidates to only support other Unaffiliated candidates and once they’re elected, only vote for legislation that is endorsed by the Unaffiliated leadership. In time, our grand new party would become as partisan as the two old parties. That’s because when we humans get organized, we tend to become more tribal. We conform rather than question. We become less independent and more intolerant. Even worse, we often lose sight of the principals which brought

us together in the first place. Just think about some of the early settlers who came to America to escape religious persecution, then immediately started burning witches and redacting Mueller reports.

Ironically, the Constitution makes no mention of political parties, and yet today, the two major parties are charged with interpreting, amending, and subverting that very document. With all due respect to the Meredith poll respondents, forming a nationally viable third party might seem like the best way to “adequately represent the needs of Americans,” but it might also just lead to more partisan gridlock. There’s one last thing to consider. In 2016, thirdparty candidates siphoned off votes in key states that would have gone to Clinton, and that put Trump in the White House.

If you’re among the 2.1 million Unaffiliated folks in North Carolina or the 56.7% who say we need a third party, you might want to reflect on 2016 and be a little less independent in 2020. !

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here is a constant buzz moving through the city of High Point as the Rockers’ opening day approaches. With spring training coming to an end, the team is pumped and ready to play ball. The Rockers have prepared all summer for their upcoming season and are ready to share

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the experience with the city.

Leading the team to a hopeful victory this season is field manager Jamie Keefe.

Keefe has spent his whole life surrounded by the game; which has led him to many championship titles. With 26 years of knowledge, whether it was playing or coaching, Keefe is proud of what he has accomplished this summer and believes it will show on the field.

“My job is to teach them how to play the game and help them succeed,” he said. “We have a strong team of 25 players whom all deserve to be here.”

After spending the summer training the Rockers for the future, with help from Frank Viola, Keefe has already lost one player to the Major Leagues.

“I won’t be surprised if we lose another player before opening day and one to two more by the end of the season,” Keefe said.

He is sad to see them leave but proud that he prepared every single player for an opportunity of a lifetime.

“I know what it will do,” said Keefe when asked how the Rockers will affect High Point. “This team is going to bring the community together, even closer than it’s been in a long time.”

“There’s a buzz going around town, a buzz that you only get when there’s a brand new stadium in a city that’s been starving for that entertainment and that excitement,” he added.

Keefe is hopeful there will be a secure atmosphere throughout their entire season.

“It’s going to be beautiful here on May 2, and it’s going to be the same way at the end of September,” Keefe said.

Rockers’ pitcher Seth Simmons, an East Carolina alumnus and WinstonSalem native, is happy to be playing close to home with a supportive family behind him.

“It’s incredible; I haven’t been this close to home in a long time,” Simmons said.

After playing four years at East Carolina University, Simmons moved out West where he got to pitch for the minor league teams of the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks. Along with

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his many years of experience, nine of Simmons’ teammates have played in the big leagues. One of which is Seth Maness, who graduated from East Carolina University as well.

“The more experience you have around yourself, the better,” Simmons said of his teammates. “You’re only as good as the people you have around you, competition-wise and learning-wise.”

Simmons said he feels honored to have Viola as his pitching coach.

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cated to baseball. With his decorated baseball career, playing in the big leagues for 15 years and coaching for eight, the Rockers couldn’t be happier to have someone as committed and qualified as Viola.

“I’ve had great pitching coaches, but none like Frank,” Simmons said with a smile. “Frank has a ton of knowledge, and he was so exceptional in the big leagues that I am going to be beside him as much as I can to learn as much as I can.”

Hoping to pitch in the big leagues one day, Simmons said, “Right now the team

I am apart of, and the task in front of me is the High Point Rockers, and I’m ready for this experience.”

Skilled catcher Brett Austin is also grateful to be apart of the High Point Rockers. In high school, the National Umpires Association named Austin National Player of the Year. From there, he was the 54th overall pick by the San Diego Padres in the MLB draft. However, Austin decided to play at college for North Carolina State University, where he did exceptionally well. Since graduating, he has spent most of his career with the White Sox organization where he was the fourth round pick in 2014. After not playing the majority of last season, Austin said, “It feels good to be out here playing again with a great group of guys.”

Austin is in High Point to merely play the game he loves and knows so well.

“This is it for me,” Austin said with a big smile when asked what his hopes for the future of his baseball career are. “If I end up getting picked up that’s great, however, if I don’t, I’ll move on.”

Austin had a long and successful career, and he is thankful to be playing still.

“I’m pumped, and I hope the city of High Point is as excited as we are for this season,” he said.

The High Point Rockers will be the

city’s first-ever baseball team exclusive to High Point. Playing at the BB&T Point Ballpark in downtown, the Rockers will be members of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Twenty-five players strong, the team is ready to showcase their talent and have some fun, with help from their mascot, the rocking horse.

“We chose a rocking horse because it’s a play on word that embodies both furniture market and rock ‘n’ roll; we want everyone to have a fun time here at our stadium,” said general manager Christian Heimall.

Fans can get involved and help name the mascot on the Rockers’ website, www.highpointrockers.com. Voting will be available until April 28 at midnight.

The team has their first game on April 25 against the defending Atlantic League Champions, the Sugar Land Skeeters.

The team’s first home game is on May 2, at 7 p.m. at the BB&T Point Ballpark.

Fans can buy tickets for this season on the Rockers’ website or head over to their local office at 214 Lindsay St. in downtown High Point.

Follow the Rockers for more upcoming events on Facebook at @HighPointBaseball, Instagram at @HighPointRockers, and Twitter at @Rockersbaseball. !

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Council tables inquiry into death of Marcus Deon Smith The first agenda item at the April 16 Greensboro City Council meeting was “Discussion for an Independent Review of the Marcus Smith Incident.” The discussion consisted of District 1’s Sharon Ian McDowell Hightower moving the proposal be tabled “due to Contributor pending litigation,” with at-large representative Michelle Kennedy seconding. The council then voted unanimously to table the independent review that Kennedy, Hightower and Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson had supported 15 days earlier.

At the April 1 meeting, Kennedy proposed the independent review after listening to speakers calling for the firing of Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott, whose officers fatally hogtied Marcus Deon Smith, a homeless African-American man who approached them during the NC Folk Festival and asked to be taken to the hospital.

On April 10, attorney Flint Taylor, cofounder of the People’s Law Office in Chicago and litigator of multiple landmark civil rights settlements involving AfricanAmericans killed or tortured by police, announced the Smith family was filing a lawsuit against the City of Greensboro, Guilford County, seven GPD Officers, and two EMS paramedics, all named in the April 10 YES! Weekly article “Family sues over fatal hogtying by GPD,” which links to the Complaint.

At the April 16 meeting, Hightower explained this reversal by stating “I want people to know that I absolutely do support an independent review, but because of the timing of everything right now, we are unable to move forward.”

“I just want to follow up and echo what Sharon is saying,” Kennedy said. “This is something that we have, many of us, very strong feelings about, and this is not to say this is not going to happen, but it is delayed due to current litigation.”

The tabling was not a surprise to some in the audience, as it had been announced in a press release that morning. The lack of discussion, or opportunity for public comment, was.

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Marcus Deon Smith Mayor Nancy Vaughan began the meeting by announcing, “We do allow for speakers to address the council on agenda items,” but cautioning them to “conduct themselves in a civil and respectful manner at all times.” She also stated that “any disruption of the meeting will not be tolerated.”

After the investigation was tabled with no opportunity for comments from the floor, some in the audience rose and chanted “fire Wayne Scott!” The mayor asked for them to sit down and be silent, then called for security.

“Why can’t we do a public comment about this?” shouted protestor Rachel Wieselquist as Vaughan called for her removal. Wieselquist and the other protestors left voluntarily when security arrived.

On Wednesday, I asked Vaughan why no public comments had been allowed. “‘The motion was to table the item,” she said, “and the motion to table is nondebatable, which means you vote on it right away,

so there’s really no comment from the council and there are no speakers from the floor.”

She confirmed the review was tabled due to pending litigation.

“I think it’s common sense that, once the lawsuit is filed, you turn it over to the lawyers. I think that would probably be the same advice that the plaintiff ’s lawyers would have given their clients. I do think that, as a council, we would have been willing to do a professional legal review of the way that the investigation was handled.”

I asked her about her statement the lawsuit was “a strategic blunder” by the Smith family (misremembering the quote, I said “strategic error”).

“I do think it was a strategic error. They could have waited until an investigation was complete. I think the majority of council was considering a professional review similar to Charlottesville, which could have been done reasonably quickly – most of the documents are already

assembled, and unlike Charlottesville, there weren’t a whole lot of different players. But in the end, the timing just didn’t work.”

Lewis Pitts Jr., a retired Civil Rights lawyer who lives in Greensboro, was present with the Smith family and their legal team announced the lawsuit. In 1985, Pitts was co-counsel with Flint Taylor in a civil suit that found two Klansmen, three Nazis, two Greensboro police officers, and a police informant liable for the wrongful death of one person and injuries to two more in the 1979 Greensboro massacre.

I asked Pitts to comment on the latest developments in the Smith case.

“The same outrage from the community was manifesting at city council meetings three years ago,” he said on Thursday, “as is the same lack of transparency and abrogation of duty by the council.”

Pitts was referring to an Oct. 18, 2016, closed meeting in which the council debated examining information regarding former GPD officer’s Travis Cole’s use of excessive against Dejuan Yourse, an incident reported by the Washington Post.

At the public meeting immediately following the private one, Sharon Hightower accused fellow council members of “trying to shut me down” and said that a vote had taken place at the closed session.

In the YouTube video “Greensboro City attorney misleads public,” posted by blogger Roch Smith, Jr., Vaughan asks former Greensboro City Attorney Tom Carruthers if the vote from the closed meeting can be made public. “I don’t consider what was taken a vote,” he says. “I consider it as a consensus of council. We don’t take votes in closed session.”

But in the minutes and audio recording from that closed session, which the Greensboro News and Record hired a lawyer to obtain, the council can be heard taking two formal votes on the subject, each with a seconded motion, and each council member voting.

“So, the city attorney categorically lied,” Pitts said on Thursday. “I filed a complaint against him before the Bar, which did nothing, but he categorically lied.”

Pitts then said that “in the audio from the 2016 closed meeting, the city council is clearly more interested in protecting the image of its police department than in finding out the truth, which is relevant because they’re doing the same thing now.”

In the 2016 audio, Hightower asks to be

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allowed to view information on the Cole case. At-large Representative Marikay Abuzuaiter expresses concerns about what this might do to the public image of the police department. At-large Representative Mike Barber (who would lose his seat to Kennedy in 2017) cites “potential pending litigation in this matter” and advises “that we make no further public statement.”

“I don’t have a reason to question what [the police department has told me and presented to me,” says District 2’s Justin Outling, explaining why he feels no need to investigate further.

“There’s possible litigation on this one which could really put us in a tight spot,” Abuzuaiter says.

“I believe our job is to do what’s best for the city of Greensboro,” Barber says. “We have to take into our hearts what we’re doing to our police department. We’re killing them. Every two weeks we have the parade of characters that come up and beat the crap out of our city, and some of us oppose it, and some participate in it.

We’re hurting our city. We’re doing a poor job of marketing it.”

Barber is no longer on the council, but Pitts claimed this attitude remains.

“When this city council gets credible evidence the police are engaging in wrongdoing, rather than pursue it, they put their heads in the sand. Their sworn moral and legal obligation is to the best interests of the community, not to protect themselves from civil liability.”

He also suggested that the tabling of the independent review was a punitive action against the Smith family.

“They’re saying, well, if they’re going to file a lawsuit, we just won’t hold the investigation. That’s slapping the family on the hand because they had the audacity to sue.”

After speaking to Pitts, I asked Vaughan if tabling the investigation was a punitive measure. “No, we said we’ll take it up again after the lawsuit. I do think it was just legal advice. Certainly, any lawsuit would be the ultimate investigation.”

On that one point, Pitts and Vaughan might agree. Pitts stated that, while the city council has both the legal and moral authority to investigate the matter, he doubted their willingness to do so. “This is the pattern and practice referenced in paragraph 63 of the Complaint, which causes Greensboro police officers to believe they can abuse African-American citizens with impunity.”

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history. “I think there are people who thought there would be a wider-ranging investigation, looking at GPD over the years, but I don’t think that was ever under consideration.”

“She is such a politician,” said Kim Suber, sister to the deceased Smith, when I asked her for a reaction to the mayor’s statement that the lawsuit was “a strategic blunder” on the part of the Smith family. “The mayor plays yo-yo with the emotions of the people of Greensboro. But we are not from Greensboro, and could tell she had no intention of an investigation.”

Protestor Rachel Wieselquist expressed a similar sentiment. “Nancy Vaughan called the lawsuit a ‘strategic blunder.’ To me, it seems that the strategic blunder was City Council and the City Manager waiting six months to even suggest conducting an independent investigation.

They waited as long as they could to make the first stride towards justice and now have the gall to insinuate that it’s the family’s fault that they won’t.”

Smith’s mother Mary Smith also said she didn’t trust the city council, due to “the way they ignored it until they couldn’t anymore.” She said she only learned how her son actually died weeks after his funeral. “We buried Marcus with the lies of Chief Wayne Scott, and that’s a hurt that can’t be healed.”

I asked Vaughan about her opening remarks at last Tuesday’s meeting, specifically her statement “We expect that all speakers will conduct themselves in a civil and respectful manner at all times.”

Did this, I wondered, mean the council intends to require “civility” from members of the public who speak at the podium, as well as those in the audience? Some speakers from the podium have described the council in harsh and occasionally profane terms.

“I think that says more about the speaker than it does about the council meeting.

It’s more when people go over the time, and people speak out from the audience.

So, I think that’s more of an issue. We can still ask for civility.”

Seeking clarification, I asked again if “civility” would be required from future speakers at the podium.

“As I said, I think that says more about the speaker. And it’s a work in process. You may see it change a little bit at the next meeting. I do think there’s a possibility we may go to three minutes [rather than the currently allotted five] in the future at the town hall meetings.” !

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From California to Nashville: Folk singer Steve Poltz embraces everything in between

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teve Poltz has some good stories.

The Nashville-based singer/songwriter raconteur has gotten around, and he’s bumped into some characters — famous John Adamian and obscure — over @johnradamian the years. Get him to tell you the one about how he and Contributor his sister met Elvis on the tarmac at Palm Springs airport when they were kids.

Or about trick-or-treating at Liberace’s house. Or about the time he opened up for Styx, and it didn’t go over so well. Or about his buddy who made guitars for Johnny Cash. Or about the time a radio announcer mispronounced his name and listeners showed up at his performance thinking they were going to hear the reggae band, Steel Pulse. Or about how he still enjoys talking about religion from the stage, since it seems to get people to sit up in their seats.

Poltz grew up in Southern California and lived most of his life there. His songs reflect that So-Cal vibe, with a laid-back sense of humor and a generally unflappable attitude. But he was born in Canada, and he regularly goes back to perform and visit family there. He has dual citizenship, which might give him perspective on the peculiarities of American life. A couple of years ago he moved to Tennessee, almost on a whim, with some encouragement from his girlfriend. Poltz had pretty strongly identified himself with San Diego and Southern California.

Some of his tunes included bits about driving down to Tijuana to partake in excess over the border. Another one of his songs, “Hey Hey #19,” celebrated beloved San Diego Padres baseball player Tony Gwynn. It’s a folk song that happily settles for garden-variety enthusiasm, of-thepeople pleasures and the joys of team spirit, along with some serious San Diego pride. The title, in Poltz’s allusive style, manages to evoke both Steely Dan and Neil Young while the song sounds nothing like either of them. It also fits into a great mini-tradition of songs about baseball players, like Jonathan Richman’s “Walter Johnson” and Dylan’s “Catfish.” Poltz, who YES! WEEKLY

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plays four sets at Merlefest on Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, said he initially thought he couldn’t leave his longtime home. “I told my girlfriend, ‘No way. I am San Diego.’ I actually said that!” said Poltz, laughing at the bravado when we spoke last week by phone. He might not have become Mr. Nashville, but there’s a lot about living in Music City that he likes: Southern cooking and literature, the bustling music culture, the relative ease of driving to perform in places like Asheville, Birmingham or even Chicago. And the reduced income-tax burden was a bonus, too.

Poltz has a little something in common with fellow Nashville-based storytelling troubadour Todd Snider. They both have a slightly absurd sense of humor, and their comedic riffs often serve as a baffle for other deeper emotions. With Poltz, it’s the laughs that catch you first.

A song title like “Fistfight At A Vegan Brunch” pretty much demands your attention, clueing you into the juicy ironies from the start. The non-meat-eating crowd is generally thought to be a peace-loving bunch, so the thought of a brawl in that setting is inherently funny. It’s a classic tale of one man’s affection for a woman (“she put tofurkey on her pita, said her name was Rita”) wounding or angering another man who already considers himself romantically attached to the woman in question. It’s a little like “Gimme Three Steps” or “Tennessee Waltz,” but set at a health food restaurant.

Poltz, who turns 60 next year, has

said that in addition to a fondness for musical theater (like Oliver!, Cabaret and Godspell), as a kid he also was entranced by the novelty songs of artists like Dr. Demento. That led to an interest in songwriters like Randy Newman and Loudon Wainwright. Those two, in particular, could balance humor with heartache.

Some of Poltz’s funniest songs are ones where he takes potentially depressing stuff and puts a wry spin on it. “Folk Singer,” the title track off of his 2015 record, chronicles the indignities of being a guitar-toting, touring folkie: driving for hours, playing to no one, and making next to nothing. It would be sad if Poltz didn’t see the comedic potential.

“Everything in that song is true,” Poltz said. “You gotta laugh about it. I think it’s funny. I find humor in dark stuff.”

But Poltz’s life as a musician and songwriter hasn’t been characterized by fruitless struggle exactly. He co-wrote Jewel’s big hit “You Were Meant For Me,” and he’s had plenty of posh tours over the years.

His latest album Shine On, released last year, is Poltz’s first since relocating to Nashville, and it opens up with a slice of Poltz’s positive attitude, a bit of that sunny California disposition transplanted to middle Tennessee. The first song, the title track, is a slow and mellow halfspoken nudge to live a good life, don’t pick fights, strive for what makes you happy, and to embrace your fears and scars as things that make you what you are.

In what might be more proof of how the Nashville sensibility is sinking into Poltz’s

worldview, there’s an excellent song on Shine On called “Pick-Up Song,” a tune filled with internal wordplay, truck talk and kiss-offs. “Girl, if I don’t pick up, it’s ‘cause I’m in my pick-up and on my way to pick up somebody else.” It’s a song that could work on a Brad Paisley record, but, with its heartland-rock oomph and biting humor, it also brings to mind the work of Cracker’s David Lowery.

Poltz is one of those songwriters who, in conversation, just sounds like his whole brain is crammed with music and tunes.

Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, James Taylor, TLC (he covered their hit “Waterfalls”), Broadway, Mojo Nixon, Miles Davis, Wilco, Johnny Cash — you get the feeling his songs are in conversation with all the music that’s swirling around his head.

Despite the tales of hardship depicted in his song “Folk Singer,” Poltz is optimistic and upbeat about the challenges of making music and staying true to his vision of songs that go from silly to heavy while covering a spectrum of emotions.

“I really believe that my best days are yet to come. I feel like success comes to me more each year and it gets better, as long as I keep making records,” he said.

“All I’ve learned is that you can only be yourself, and it’s a good lesson to learn.”

See Steve Poltz at MerleFest, which runs April 25-28, in Wilkesboro. merlefest.org !

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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A night at the Greensboro History Museum Speakeasy A secret-password and backdoor entrance. Booze flowing in places it usually doesn’t. Music. Dancing. Gatsby.

The Greensboro History Museum promises playfully shady business at Katei Cranford their “Speakeasy Night,” on April 26.

Organizer Erin Contributor Blackledge hopes to snuff out the elitist impression often associated with museums. Her plan this round caters to flappers looking to flip with fellas, hooch hounds in search of a gin mill, or really any bright young thing who longs to run around an old, ritzy building in a feather boa.

“I think history museums get a bad rap for being boring,” she said, “so I’d love to shake that up.”

Blackledge is a museum studies masters student at UNCG who began her relationship with GHM as a Gayle Hicks Fripp Education intern in 2018. Though her role at the museum stemmed from an internship creating children’s summer programming, she turned to something more adult for her capstone.

“It’s been fun to say that I was essentially throwing a party to fulfill my graduation requirements,” she said, “but in reality, it’s been so much more than that.”

Museums, in general, are adding more interactive exhibits and after-hour flair, reinventing themselves as a place for more than field trips and family time by integrating regular “adult’s only” afterhour style events.

With the speakeasy, Blackledge hopes to help GHM hop on that ball.

Inspiration struck during Blackledge’s formal internship, where she noticed an imbalance in visitor demographics.

“There was a great deal of programming dedicated to school groups,” she explained, “but I didn’t see the museum fulfilling the needs of younger adults without children.”

And in that, she saw an opportunity to party. “As for the speakeasy theme, we tossed around ideas regarding interactivity for adults — everything from murder mystery parties to escape rooms. The overarching themes of fashion, prohibition, and politics was also very much a conscious decision to utilize universal interests.”

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ment,” Blackledge admitted about museums in general. “We wanted a low-stakes way to reach a new audience.”

It’s a surprisingly novel concept for a crowd often underserved. “With all the things to do on a Friday night, you don’t want to drop $50 a person to go to a museum you’ve potentially never visited,” she admonished.

For now, the party is one night only. But Blackledge is hopeful more are on the horizon. “Fingers crossed that this event is successful enough to start a ‘Night at the Museum’ series — that’s my goal.”

Speakeasy tickets are $20 and include two-drinks with appetizers. “Gatsby” outfits or cocktail attire is encouraged to keep up the theme (or for anyone looking to win the costume contest).

Be part of Greensboro’s worst kept secret with “Speakeasy Night,” April 26, at the Greensboro History Museum. !

Those universal interests perked the purse-strings of downtown businesses, Blackledge acknowledged the support they’ve received from folks at Natty Greene’s, Preyer Brewing, Oscar Oglethorpe, and others who’ve provided prizes for a raffle and costume contest.

Food and drink will flow from GIA: Drink Eat Listen. Booze options include an array of specialty cocktails spirited by the GIA distillery. Hors d’oeuvres will be on hand.

Blackledge had a menu set but is tweaking things after feedback regarding vegan options. “This project is steadily encompassing my whole life,” she jested, alluding to her crowd-pleasing dedication.

As for entertainment, live jazz will ring from UNCG’s Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program, with dancing tips and partners from the Piedmont Swing Dance Society.

And then, of course, there’s the museum itself. The speakeasy-proper goes down on the ground floor. But the rest of the galleries will be open for exploring.

Party-goers can “tiptoe through the tulips” upstairs through the paper poppy forest on their way to catch a silent flick at the Crystal Theatre, tickle the keys of vintage typewriters in “Connection Point,” or just engage the museum with a buzz typically frowned-upon during normal operating hours.

The purpose of the party above all else is to give folks the skinny on the museum.

“We went into this project calling it a ‘friend-raiser,’” Blackledge explained, suggesting the motivation to be more about people than money.

“It’s all about appealing to a variety of audiences,” she added, “and creating a

positive atmosphere of inclusivity while providing forms of ‘edutainment.’“ With that spirit came the conscious decision of a lower price-point.

“Some events seem like an invest-

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who loves both jazz-age antics and the Greensboro History Museum. She hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of touring bands, 5:30-7 p.m. on WUAG 1031.fm.

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AGE: Experienced WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Greensboro, North Carolina HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 15 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? Strike of luck when I met someone who worked at a bar and got thrown into it!

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WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? The conversations with patrons and those people becoming friends and family. I don’t know of many other jobs where you would laugh as much as you do while bartending.

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? All of them! Blueberry lemon drops WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Old Fashioned, it’s classy and delicious WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? A man balling up $100 bills and throwing them to people around the bar and then actually ate one of them!

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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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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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.

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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I’m a married lesbian. Yesterday on the phone, my wife invited her sister to spend the night (in our small one-bedAmy Alkon room apartment) without asking me.

Advice When I confronted Goddess her, saying it’s OUR home, she said, “It’s my sister!” Family’s very important to her, and her sister didn’t come, so I let it go. But what’s the protocol with guests, specifically family? — Feelings Ignored To err is human — as is the tendency to duck personal responsibility like it’s a shoulder-fired missile.

We have a powerful drive to be consistent — to have our actions match what we claim to stand for. We are also frequently inconsistent. Welcome to “cognitive dissonance,” social psychologist Leon Festinger’s term for the discomfort we feel when we hold two competing beliefs or attitudes or when our beliefs and our behaviors clash. An example of this (totally random!) would be the belief “I’m a loving, respectful, considerate spouse” and then the behavior “I just hauled off and told my sister our home is her hotel room — without so much as a courtesy ‘Hey, hon...?’ to my wife.”

Social psychologist Elliot Aronson, one of Festinger’s former students, found that

we manage our inconsistencies through “self-justification.” This involves creating an explanation for our hypocritical attitudes or behavior that makes us look good: smart, honest, and 100% in the right.

So (again, super randomly!) an example of self-justification would be a spouse who’s just acted like a singleton instead of a partner — who excuses it with “Family is everything to me!” instead of conceding “Whoopsy...got a little impulsive on the phone and forgot to run Sis’s visit by you.”

(Just a guess, but you probably wouldn’t have been all “Sorry, but the couch is totally booked up with our unfolded laundry.”)

As for your question — “What’s the protocol with guests, specifically family?” — unfortunately, there’s no set of numbered stone tablets to answer that.

In fact, as with so many questions that come up in relationships, the process of answering — not the actual answer — is what really matters.

I see this constantly in my work as a volunteer mediator (doing free dispute resolution for Los Angeles residents in the LA City Attorney’s office). Conflicts that turn ugly and escalate are typically the result of people pushing for “positions” without regard for “interests.”

Positions are our goals — the “what,” as in what we want another person to do (or stop doing). So, your position might be “I want to be asked, even just as a formality, before you tell somebody they can stay over.” Interests are the underlying motivations — the “why”: “I want to be treated with respect, like my feelings matter.”

In my mediations, I’ve found that

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positions that are deeply important to a person can become far less do-or-die when you tend to their underlying interests. This starts with framing whatever happened in, uh, flame-retardant rather than inflammatory terms. You do this by expressing your feelings — “I felt really humiliated when X happened’’ — instead of making accusations: “You did this, you relationship criminal!”

Hearing feelings (instead of blame) allows you to empathize with each other.

(HINT: You should actively try to empathize — and, in mediator lingo, “validate” feelings,” meaning let the other person know that you get where they’re coming from.) For example, in addressing this guest issue, you might’ve said to your wife, “I hear how important family is to you.” Hearing that you understand eliminates the need for her to try to MAKE you — meaning she can approach the conflict between you more like a loving partner than a “Thrones” swordsmistress, bent on turning the enemy into a human doily.

The beauty of dialing down from combat mode like this is that it enables you to engage in collaborative problem-solving — for example, brainstorming together to

come up with ideas for how things could work regarding overnight guests at your place.

And finally, a little real-worldism in approaching any disagreement: In the heat of the moment, most of us are about as able to speak calmly and listen with an open mind as we are to flap our wings and fly to the corner store. Following the lead of parents with tantrummy children, you could preplan to say “Hey, let’s take a time out” when things get heated.

You could each briefly go off on your own (take a walk around the block, take a bath) and consider whether the other might maybe, POSSIBLY have a point. In this case, for example, you two are sharing a home, not running a hotel — which is why you have a cat, not a concierge, and there’s no engraved note informing guests that they will be socked with a credit card charge if they make off with your ratty bathrobe. !

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