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NOT JUST A GIDDENS SISTER PROFESSOR LALENJA HARRINGTON, Ph.D., is far more than just “the world’s greatest and most over-qualified tour manager,” as the Grammy-winning singer and musician Rhiannon Giddens affectionately called her during last October’s concert for the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s 125 Anniversary.
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My lack of exposure to Indian cuisine is disappointing. For far too long I have believed that the Triad area hasn’t had an adequate location for traditional, and ultimately delicious, Indian food. But with the recent opening of BBQ NATION in High Point, I could not have been more wrong. 10 GSOFEST is back for 2018 and will feature 25 bands coming together over a killer weekend to shred faces and spread sweet party vibes across seven shows at six venues over three days starting April 27. 11 Hard to believe, but next year marks the 20th anniversary of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, the no-budget indie horror smash that was arguably the first film to take maximum advantage of the Internet to promote its fictional mythos, which some believed was genuine. 12 How does one wind up playing surf rock? In the case of Asheville’s OUROBOROS BOYS and its co-founder Nicholas Marshall, the path involves some curious eddies and cross-currents through punk and old-time music. It involves a feeling for how things come undone and get pulled apart. APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2018
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Important issues receive an often problematic presentation in I FEEL PRETTY, an exercise in empowerment that ultimately proves to be less than the sum of its parts. Or should that be body parts, given the film’s laser-like focus on outward appearances? 24 BASEMENT LIFE ignites a joy of rediscovery in those who believe punk should remain preserved in amethyst, surrendered to another time and temperament. How is anyone going to improve upon, build on, what came before given the inherent limitations? A conundrum for sure, until a rare combo like Basement Life sonically boom tubes into our atmosphere. 25 Legendary television producer STEVEN BOCHCO had a wry sense of humor, so when I first heard that he passed away on April Fool’s Day, I held out hope that he had perpetrated a hoax on us. He hadn’t. Steven, who won countless awards and accolades across a career that lasted for half a century, finally lost his long battle with leukemia. He was 74 years old.
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SATURDAY THUR 26 THE PRODUCERS WHAT: A scheming producer and his mousy accountant aim to produce the biggest flop on Broadway in this Mel Brooks laugh-out-loud spectacle. The plot is simple: a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history, thereby bilking their backers (all little old ladies) out of millions of dollars. Only one thing goes awry: the show is a smash hit! WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Community Theatre of Greensboro, 520 South Elm St., Greensboro. MORE: $10-30 tickets.
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WHAT: The Womens Resource Center in Alamance County hosts the Herb Festival each year to provide Triad-area gardeners with the highest quality organic herbs, perennials, annuals, heirloom tomato and vegetable plants and specially-selected vendors. Many of our customers return every year to purchase plants they cant find anywhere else in the area. WHEN: 8:30 p.m. WHERE: First Presbyterian Church. 508 W. Davis St., Burlington. MORE: Free event
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WALKING TO HELP END MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BY HEATHER DUKES
Think walking 500 miles is hard? Try walking 500 miles with a backpack full of rocks. Next year, a Winston-Salem woman is doing just that. Dr. Nichole Taylor has Multiple Sclerosis, and when she was diagnosed eight years ago, it changed her life. She was a busy mom with two young daughters, and she was an anesthesiologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (she has since become the assistant dean of student affairs at Wake Forest School of Medicine). The areas that had sclerosis or “scarring” in her brain were areas that control fine motor and coordination on the left side of her body. As an anesthesiologist, she said she relied on her coordination heavily. “I lacked the precision, reliability, and predictability to safely care for patients in the operating room,” she wrote in an email. “It took me a while to accept this, but slowly I have built a very rewarding and fulfilling career.” Taylor is going to walk the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage from France to Spain. “I was compelled in 2017 to not put this journey off and start planning my own pilgrimage for 2019,” she wrote. “My main motivations for hiking the Camino are to raise awareness/money for MS. I will start my pilgrimage May 5, 2019, and walk for 35 days total.” She is determined to turn what can be devastating into something positive, and for her, the Camino is symbolic. Her journey begins at St. Jean in the French Pyrenees Mountains, and she will travel 500 miles to Santiago with stones in her backpack. “The stones represent the baggage we all hold onto throughout our lives,” Taylor wrote in an email.
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Toward the end of the pilgrimage, there is the Cruz de Ferro (Iron Cross), where she will leave her own stone, as well as a beaded necklace that she made representing others with MS that couldn’t make the walk. “It will not change the fact that I have MS,” she wrote, “but I feel it can change the disease for those in the future by raising awareness, promoting research for new medications and eventually a cure.” Inspired by the theme of stones, her daughters wanted to participate too. They created “Finish MS” movement on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ pg/FinishMS/posts/?ref=page_internal), where they paint rocks with inspirational messages, art and spread them throughout the community. Taylor also brings stones with her on all her training hikes all around North Carolina to prepare for the Camino. The movement has grown significantly in just two months with painted rocks being distributed in 12 states and two countries. “A coworker brought a stone to Windsor Castle in England,” Taylor wrote. “One of the stones went on a cruise and was left at St. Maarten.” Taylor loves that this activity is bringing people together, spreading awareness and inspiring others. “Right now I will reflect on the adventure and hope to get us closer to finishing MS forever.” Individuals who want to donate to her campaign can do so at http://main. nationalmssociety.org/goto/CAMINO2019Nichole and will receive a box of uniquely painted rocks to spread in their communities. !
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y lack of exposure to Indian cuisine is disappointing. For far too long I have believed that the Triad area hasn’t had an adequate location for traditional, and Jennifer Zeleski ultimately delicious, Indian food. But with the recent opening Contributor of BBQ Nation in High Point (located at 3928 Sedgebrook St.), I could not have been more wrong. BBQ Nation is a 100 percent Halal, Indian restaurant that serves everything from freshly-skewered kebabs and vegetarian rice dishes, to fresh naan bread and chicken masala. Last weekend, my boyfriend Peyton and I decided to give it a shot. To my initial dismay, lunch at BBQ Nation is served buffet-style. Normally I am highly opposed to buffets. The experience tends to be focused on the quantity of food rather than quality, and I have had several disappointing experiences in the past. But rather, I looked at this opportunity to embrace (almost) everything BBQ Nation has to offer, and I was not disappointed. Before even making our way to the buffet, we were asked if we follow vegetarian diets. We were a little surprised at the question and quickly realized how different this type of approach was to dining at other restaurants. I noticed that each of the surrounding tables had personal charcoal grills topped with skewers of meat or skewers of tofu, and was glad to see a restaurant that was so accommodating to potential dietary restrictions, without substituting menu items for lesser quantities or unfavorable options. Considering
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neither of us follows a strict vegetarian diet, we opted for the non-vegetarian grill. It was right around lunchtime, and the restaurant was decently crowded with several families, and a steady passing line through the buffet. Choosing what to try from the buffet would be much less straightforward, so I just went for it. There were several options written on the pink sticky-note labels that I didn’t understand, but I tried to use my intuition. There were vegetable uttapams, otherwise known as small pancakes with vegetables baked inside, several trays of vegetables, and a variety of different meat options. For my first plate, I settled on two different types of chicken, three different types of rice, and a slice of naan bread. Peyton, on the other hand, went for more variety. His plate featured the 555 chicken, chicken curry, a few vegetable choices, and one of the uttapams. When we returned to our table, we were met with the personal grill, that also had two chicken options, as well as one skewer with shrimp and another with large chunks of pineapple. As tempting as it was to dive right into the grilled skewers, we trusted that they would stay hot, and taste better if they rested for a bit over the charcoal, so we decided to start with what we got from the buffet. Peyton started with the 555 chicken, which we thought would be spicy due to its bright red color, but instead had a mild spice and overall good flavor. He
preferred the 555 chicken over the masala chicken but was ultimately all about some of the different vegetable options. My choices of chicken were each different in their own way. The chicken masala had a bright orange sauce, and I might have been content with ordering it as a full meal, but the sauce could get a bit heavy after a while. But when paired with long grain white rice, it was delicious, and exactly what one would expect from an Indian restaurant. The chicken curry was a bit spicier and left my mouth with a bit of an afterburn. I was thankful to have the white rice to calm down the spice. The only downside was that the chicken curry was on the greasy side, and the chicken was cooked and served with the bone, which made it unappetizing for a few bites. The first I tried was the chicken dum biryani, which had chunks of chicken and red onion throughout. My first bite hit me with a flavor that reminded me of the holiday season, but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what it was. Peyton captured it perfectly in one word: cardamom. The rice has a very aromatic and almost savory flavor in the best way possible. It was great, but I tried not to eat too much in fear of getting full too quickly. The vegetarian option was the vegetable pulao, which had a sweeter flavor at first until I squeezed on the fresh lime. The flavor became vibrant and addicting, unlike any rice dish I have tasted before. I knew I was going to have to copy the recipe at
home or come back for more. It was hard to choose which I liked best, but both were delicious in its own ways, and hardly substitutes for one another. Within the mix of it all, I got distracted from trying the naan bread. It’s hard to deny yourself any crunchy, savory naan bread when it’s in front of you, and this one was no exception. I loved that it was chewy at parts, but still had an irresistible baked flavor. Without filling up too much from our first plates, we decided to go for round two, but only after we tried the some of our skewers from the grill. The two different types of chicken, one a yellow color, and another looking similar to your typical grilled chicken had developed a black char around the edges. Both had the heavy taste of charcoal and smoke, the kind you long for when while cooking at home without access to a grill. The yellow chicken had a mild flavor compared to the others from the buffet, and the plain, grilled chicken was the mildest of all. They were good options to enjoy the grilled flavor but weren’t as enticing as the buffet counterparts. Peyton decided the shrimp was a nice change from the other meats, but the pineapple was the real winner for us. It was warm and still had its bright, citrusy flavor, but it was covered in something that made it spicy. So much so that I took smaller bites to account for not destroying my taste buds. Regardless, it was still delicious, and I will most likely be making grilled pineapple at home with some added spice. The second time around, I had to practice a high-level of portion control as I made my way down the line of the buffet. I picked up a small piece the medu vada, which was similar to a hush puppy in flavor and consistency. If I had come to BBQ Nation for the barbecue experience, I would have paired it with their take on buffalo chicken wings, but I was going for more of the uncommon items. I
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also grabbed a piece of the papad, which reminded me of a tortilla chip but had a taste I have never experienced before. It was very different from any “chip” I’ve ever had. It was savory, salty and crunchy, but something I didn’t really fall in love with. I also got a heavy scoop of the assorted Manchurian vegetables. I had tried a bite from Peyton’s plate and was instantly hooked. The mixture was sweet and savory, covered in a brown sauce and featured cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, and other unidentifiable vegetables. Paired with some of the rice dishes from my previous plate, I could have been easily content with having them and the Manchurian vegetables for dinner every night. Although I was fairly full halfway through the second plate, I decided to take a few more bites of the items I just couldn’t waste and headed back up to the line for dessert. Peyton got us a plate of naan bread while I picked up some of the freshly-chopped watermelon and cantaloupe. There was also a beet dessert, as well as two different dessert parfaits that we opted out of. We were both delighted to find the thermos of masala chai in the corner, and it was the cherry on top of our experience. The chai was perfectly spiced with fresh ginger, cardamom, and almost had an underlying spice of black pepper. If you have never had traditional masala chai, this is your chance. But be warned, you may never turn back to your favorite chai tea latte. By the end, I just wanted to take the
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tray of Manchurian veggies home, and to continue stuffing myself with naan bread and masala chai, but I knew I had to cut myself off. There were only a few aspects of BBQ Nation that deterred me from having an overall incredible experience, but the food wasn’t one of them. First, I am still not convinced on the buffet-style, considering the food gets cold quickly when you arrive back to your table, but I didn’t mind it as much when I took smaller portions and ate a little more efficiently. Also, the atmosphere was modern and would be great for large groups and families, but is very loud and smells entirely like charcoal, which isn’t a bad thing but could be offputting to some. All in all, I was too full by the end to try a sweet or mango lassi, a traditional Indian yogurt-based drink but will have to try one when I return. At roughly $15 per person for the lunch buffet, it could get pricey for a family, but no one will leave hungry, would be the perfect spot for workgroups looking to please a variety of people. Whether you’re looking to expand your exposure to Indian cuisine, or you’re a vegetarian looking for flavorful, atypical options, there is something for everyone to enjoy...even if it’s spinach chaat. Hey, at least it’s fried. ! JENN ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.
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SOFest is back for 2018 and will feature 25 bands coming together over a killer weekend to shred faces and spread sweet party vibes across seven Katei Cranford shows at six venues over three days startContributing ing April 27. Conceived as a DIY columnist music festival in the early ‘00s, GSOFest was resurrected from a four-year hiatus by a new group in 2017 who are bringing back another year of “Townie Christmas,” a moniker coined by photographer Donna Smith describing the jolly that floats around town come festival time. As the traditional holiday season, GSOFest offers expats a good reason to make a trip home. Perhaps better than the holidays, GSOFest offers townies a reason to celebrate stickin’ around. A showtime staycation of sorts, or what Totally Slow’s Scott Hicks calls a “centering force” of a good time and a reminder of how sweet home can be. GSOFest 2018 boasts some familiar faces and at least one fresh incarnation. The venerable “Joe G’s Cover Show Explosion” kicks things off Friday evening at The Blind Tiger (1819 Spring Garden St) with a fundraiser for SPCA of the Triad. Saucer, a post-rock package (featuring members of Lebaron, Cucumbers and Ebon Shrike) make their debut during the later Friday show, a “sick and heavy” party at Corner Bar (1700 Spring Garden St.) alongside punkers Essex Muro and Dick Wolf with a closing-set from pedal-
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Instant Regrets at Hellraiser during GSOFest 2017 wizards, The Bronzed Chorus. Saturday afternoon showcases a softerside at Boxcar (120 W. Lewis St.) with Michael Joncas, Josh Crocker and Harrison Barrow. The evening rolls into a twang at OPOTW Studios (1333 Grove St.) with the Quarter Roys, Emily Stewart, Vaughn Aed, Bob Fleming and the Cambria Iron Company, and Old Heavy Hands. Beats then takeover Saturday late-night with an electro-dance party featuring WOWNOW, Tide Eyes, and Transport 77 at Bites and Pints (2503 Spring Garden St.) The Sunday “Hangover Special” with Blueberry, Basement Life, Instant Regrets and Echo Courts promises to be a dreamy pop-punk sandwich of an afternoon at Westerwood (508 Guilford Ave.) Afterward, the fest says goodnight with Harrison Ford Mustang, Totally Slow and Ebon Shrike back at Corner Bar. GSOFest aims to be a snapshot highlighting a few of the many beautiful music-families within the Gate City. It’s practically impossible to connect them
all under one cohesive umbrella on the DIY-level. Attempts at inclusivity strike a hard balance against strains of actually making that happen on a shoestring budget of free time and barter-exchange. As a result, the fest largely breaks down to a string of local shows smashed into a party weekend. But even that takes a surprising amount of collaboration. Hosting shows is like herding cats. Multiply the herd by seven, and it becomes a chaotic effort to branch out, exploring beyond familiar circles of artists and streams becomes the biggest challenge. At its core, GSOFest has traditionally been an underground endeavor. As Greensboro grows as a city in ways that smother DIY-culture (this the first year in memory without a house-show), folks have mentioned a need to further outreach beyond the punkier DIY circles; and that an event named “GSOFest” should encompass a wider-audience and genre spectrum. To accomplish this, an alignment with proper
arts guilds and civic avenues has been suggested. More resources from established organizations inevitably make outreach easier. But that’ll be for next year’s wave of GSOFest organizers to develop. For 2018, GSOFest remains mostly a sweaty lil’ rock ‘n’ roll freakfest. Though there are kid-friendly shows, the goal is a solid weekend dedicated to making the best vibes with your townie friends and share the joyful hum of day-drinking and amplifier-buzz. It’s a respite from adult life. It’s this town throwin’ down in the crazy ways we can. A few of those crazy ways go toward good causes. Beyond the SPCA benefit kick-off event, each show will take donations for the Community Foundation’s East Greensboro Tornado Relief Fund; and there’ll be bins for hygiene products and shelf goods going to the Interactive Resource Center. Cut the Music Prints will be screening T-shirts live at the Blind Tiger on April 27 and Westerwood on April 29. If you’re bored around town, moved away and wanna rekindle your townie love, or haven’t ever really hung out in the ‘boro and wanna ditch your scene for a day or two, then GSOFest weekend is a helluva time to head to Greensboro. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a proud organizer of GSOFest. She chats up tunes and towns as hostess of Mostly Local Monday, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week. You can catch her on WUAG 103.1FM every Monday from 5-7pm or via live stream at www.wuag.net.
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Revisiting The Blair Witch Project THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT by Russ Gomm. Published by Arrow Books. 119 pages. $24.95 retail. Hard to believe, but next year marks the 20th anniversary of The Blair Witch Mark Burger Project, the nobudget indie horror Contributing smash that was arguably the first columnist film to take maximum advantage of the Internet to promote its fictional mythos, which some believed was genuine. There were those who loved the film and those who didn’t – some due to the shaky hand-held camerawork, which added to the raw, frenetic quality of the film but also induced motion sickness in some viewers. The Golden Raspberry Awards “honored” it with a Worst Picture nomination. Love it or hate it, for one brief shining moment it seemed everyone was talking about The Blair Witch Project. Was it real? Was it all a put-on? What was the significance of the last shot? How on earth did those camera batteries last so long? For those who haven’t seen the film, it focuses on three young documentary filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams) who visit the sleepy Maryland burg of Burkittsville to research the legend of the Blair Witch, who is reputed to haunt the woods surrounding the town. Off they go, cameras in hand, tromping through the woods … only they can’t seem to find their way out. They’re also spooked by bizarre symbols strewn about the area and strange sounds at night, and things
quickly go from bad to worse and beyond. A simple but effective scenario. The film marked the debut of filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez and has proven a tough, if not impossible, act to top. To this day, whether worked apart or in tandem, they’re inevitably billed as “the Blair Witch filmmakers.” It may be a stretch to compare them to Orson Welles, whose debut film Citizen Kane (1941) is almost unanimously hailed as his masterpiece, but there is a distinct parallel. Likewise the three lead actors, none of whom has done anything nearly as successful as The Blair Witch Project. In the wake of the film’s monumental success, grossing over $250 million on a budget of roughly $50,000, it also – for better or worse (mostly worse) – birthed a spate of mostly inferior found-footage shockers that continue to proliferate to this day. Nothing exceeds like success. Now, Arrow Books – the publishing arm of Arrow Video, the UK-based company that specializes in genrefriendly cult classics – has published this entertaining, informative little volume by filmmaker Russ Gomm, whose 2015 documentary feature The Woods Movie is essentially a cinematic version of this book.
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In his introduction, Gomm freely admits he’s a Blair Witch super-fan, and in his introduction, Blair Witch filmmaker Eduardo Sanchez opens his comments by saying Gomm is a freak – “and I love him for it,” he adds. Gomm brings an unmistakably eager enthusiasm to the subject at hand, covering the film’s inspiration, production, release, and legacy – along with appreciations penned by various filmmakers,
critics, and film historians for whom The Blair Witch Project was a watershed moment. Enthusiastic, yes – but never fawning. The critical observations made here are valid and worthy ones. Gomm even gives a fair shake to the inevitable follow-up, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, a (very) compromised, and much-reviled project released some 18 months after the first one – a blatant example of striking while the hype was hot, as well as a striking example of the law of diminishing returns regarding sequels. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (best known for the acclaimed Paradise Lost trilogy) is candid in discussing his intentions for the film – while admitting its drawbacks — that it just may encourage a second, more sympathetic viewing for die-hard devotees. Gomm, however, does not touch upon Adam Wingard’s follow-up Blair Witch (2016), a direct sequel to the original that completely ignored the second film, but given its recent release perhaps he simply hadn’t seen it. Given his fervor for all things Blair Witch, it’s safe to assume he’s seen it since. For more information about Russ Gomm’s The Blair Witch Project, visit
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ow does one wind up playing surf rock? In the case of Asheville’s Ouroboros Boys and its co-founder Nicholas Marshall, the path involves John Adamian some curious eddies @johnradamian and cross-currents through punk and old-time music. It Contributor involves a feeling for how things come undone and get pulled apart. Surf rock has plenty of appeal. The mostly instrumental genre showcases bright metallic guitar sounds, melodic riffs and a terseness that’s both strutting and nostalgic. Twang, tremolo and reverb gave the recordings a sense of body and space. The music is meant to conjure waves and surfing, but just as often the
sounds suggest bikers and the open highway, another equally American stand-in for youthful freedom over the imposing vastness of the world. But Ouroboros Boys aren’t engaged in retro time travel. As Marshall says, he wasn’t raised on the recordings of the Ventures and Dick Dale. “I grew up with Public Enemy, Skinny Puppy, Negativland, and the Books,” he said, explaining his fondness for samples. Marshall plays electric mandolin in Ouroboros Boys. But one shouldn’t expect any suggestion of bluegrass surf. The mandolin fits in nicely, providing a thrumming trebly tone, the high filigree that glides above the other textures. Marshall also assembles and manipulates samplers, which are a central part of the kind of collage-ish surface of the Ouroboros Boys sound. “For me, the music is like a painting and the samples are like newspaper photos or clippings from books or photographs,” Marshall said.
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Marshall started the band with guitarist Sean Dail in 2012. “When we formed the band we weren’t all that interested in making songs with words,” Marshall said. “Neither of us were songwriters. We want to write banging music.” Marshall and Dail channeled their energies into making sounds and songs that had a steady undertow, a seemingly calm exterior that could pull one in, all without the use of lyrics as a centerpiece. “I guess there’s this thing where most people say ‘If I’m gonna write music, I guess I should write words,’” said Marshall, explaining that he and Dail resisted that. “We went down this sonic lane.” Ouroboros Boys have a few songs posted on Bandcamp, but they’re heading into the studio in May with plans to record a full album’s worth of new material. On April 29 they’ll play at Monstercade in Winston-Salem. When listening to Ouroboros Boys, fans of North Carolina music might hear a few connections. There’s a kinship to the coiled internal-combustion rock of Southern Culture On The Skids, with the trailerpark schtick replaced by something a little more trippy. That link between surf rock and hotrod rock is a real one, each genre trading in a celebration of liberation through speed and motion. Ouroboros Boys also bear a sonic similarity to the Family Dollar Pharaohs, another more obscure but excellent Chapel Hill band from the ‘90s, who played surf rock with a twitchy melodic edge. Viewed from a certain angle, surf rock can seem like one of the more confining genres, with a limited set of tones and effects, a predetermined set of themes, excessive use of whammy bars contrasted with muted, percussive plucking on the guitars. But the music has tendrils that reach out into all kinds of different directions, into space rock, psychedelia, gypsy jazz, spaghetti western soundtracks, rockabilly, library music, honky-tonk, exotica and girl groups. And Ouroboros Boys push their music into the interstellar end of the spectrum. “I feel like I was listening to Ennio Morricone,” said Marshall of the influences that were percolating as the band took shape. “I was listening to Santo and Johnny, and I was listening to Link Wray. But I was way into Man or Astro-man? We’re influenced by heavy psychedelia, like Hawkwind, and early Pink Floyd.”
Ouroboros Boys are now a quintet, which allows for expansive sound-exploration. In addition to Marshall and Dail, with Mars Sigler on drums, and Benjamin Hatch on bass, there’s also a band member, Mario Martinez, devoted to old synths. Despite Marshall’s claim that the music is essentially “devoid of any meaning,” he has plenty to say about the ways that the band’s sound, with songs that are embedded with samples and found snippets, reflects something about the time we’re living in. “We love that post-punk sense of urban decay,” he said. “There’s a bit of latemodel capitalism sort of ambivalence in some of our music.” The band name, too, even has actual meaning -- not always the case with band names. The ouroboros is the the ancient symbol of the serpent eating its own tail, an image that suggests the circular, always-destroying/always-becoming aspect of the infinite universe, perhaps. “We’re interpreters of culture, and this culture is something that goes around and around and around and around,” Marshall said. “You’ll see bits and pieces of various 20th century cultural artifacts, it’s sort of recycled in a way that fits the name.” The new record, Marshall said, will be “full of anxiety and tension.” If there’s a line to be drawn from the punk and industrial music of his teenage years, to the old time and string-band music that first drew Marshall to the mandolin, and to the instrumental surfpsych he’s making now with Ouroboros Boys, it might be that looming sense of threat and menace. “When you’re young and you’re, like, riding trains, you’re interested in fortified wine and any song that has a stabbing in it, or a murder ballad, or anything juicy like that,” Marshall said. “I loved that stuff. It’s just kind of visceral and it’s kind of brutal.” ! 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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120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Jun 30: Wonderwall: A Tribute to The Beatles
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505 N. Greene St Apr 27: Brittany Davis May 4: Gerry Stanek May 11: Leather and Lace May 18: Doug and Deland May 25: Leather and Lace Jun 1: Chad Barnard Jun 8: Mark Wingerter Jun 15: Lyn Koonce
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CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Apr 29: Beck May 1: Rapcaviar Live ft. Migos & Trippie Redd May 10: Odesza May 11: Vance Joy May 14: Big Sean May 19: Primus / Mastodon May 23: Khalid
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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Apr 25: The Maine Apr 27: The Darkness Apr 27: Modest Mouse Apr 28: Twiddle Apr 29: Kate Nash May 2: 10 Years May 3: Blue October May 4: Matt & Kim w/ Tokyo Police Club & Feature Feats May 5: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness & Friends May 8: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats May 9: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club May 11: The Sweet Spot Charlotte May 12: Guided By Voices May 13: Imparables May 17: Babymetal May 18: Kairos May 21: St. Vincent Fear the Future Tour May 25: Ledisi May 25: Bishop Briggs
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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com
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333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com May 16: James Taylor w/ Bonnie Raitt
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309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Apr 26: Brian Culbertson Apr 29: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia May 1: Jon Foreman May 2: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall May 4: Ani Difranco
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mportant issues receive an often problematic presentation in I Feel Pretty ( ), an exercise in empowerment that ultimately proves to be less than the sum of its parts. Or should that be body parts, given the film’s laser-like focus on outward appearances? Amy Schumer stars as Renee Bennett, a woman who’s miserable because she doesn’t look like all the wafer-thin beauties who work out alongside her at SoulCycle classes or who appear in ads for Lily LeClaire, the makeup conglomerate for whom she toils in their remote basement office. But after catching the Tom Hanks comedy Big on television — and studying the scene in which little Josh Baskin is granted his wish by a Zoltar machine — Renee makes a similar plea to become beautiful (instead of Zoltar, her wish is directed at what she imagines to be a magic fountain). The next day, Renee’s wish is granted — sort of. Falling off a stationary bike, she bumps her head and wakes up believing she has been physically transformed into a RoboBabe. Of course, she looks exactly the same, but her belief in her physical makeover results in a newfound confidence that, among other developments, nabs her a boyfriend in the sweet and sensitive Ethan (Rory Scovel) and emboldens her to become the receptionist at LeClair HQ, where her unflagging enthusiasm captures the attention of founder Lily LeClaire (Lauren Hutton) and her grandkids, superstar models Avery LeClaire (a great comedic turn by Michelle Williams) and Grant LeClair (Tom Hopper). As the self-loathing Renee, Schumer delivers a strong performance that poignantly punches across the feelings of insecurity and anguish experienced by anyone who has ever believed they don’t measure up to a shallow society’s lofty standards of perfection. And as the self-confident Renee, she’s effective in her ebullience, even if she’s nowhere near as endearing as Rebel Wilson in Pitch Perfect or Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids (two plus-sized actresses
allowed the rare opportunity to play assertive and sex-positive roles). Part of the problem here rests in the unfortunate character turn devised by writer-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. Unlike the aforementioned heroines essayed by Wilson and McCarthy — and also unlike Hanks’ man-child in Big — Renee doesn’t remain a decent human being; instead, her delusion leads her to start treating those she deems not beautiful, like older people and even her longtime best friends (Aidy Bryant and Busy Phillips), with a certain measure of contempt and dismissal. It’s a perplexing plot point that renders her far less sympathetic, and if the film’s notion is that people should be judged by their inner beauty, then what are we to think when the lead character displays an ugliness at her core? Of course, Renee learns her lesson by the end — treat everyone equally! — but the film’s muddled messages do little to similarly educate viewers. Renee’s speech about loving yourself for who you are arrives as she’s hawking a new makeup line — umm, OK? The efforts to push across the notion that the pre-bump Renee is a complete ogre are absurdly over-the-top, as evidenced by such cringe-worthy bits as a jerk mistaking her for a “Sir.” (Really? With those lips, those curves, that hair?) The attitudes toward some of the supporting characters are also ill-advised, such as the insulting gags involving Renee’s socially awkward and overweight colleague (Adrian Martinez) and his image problems (the “highlight” finds him dropping his toilet paper roll as he’s combating diarrhea) and the patronizing bits directed at the pretty people (Renee is shocked — shocked! — to learn that hotties have problems, too). Kohn and Silverstein were the scripters responsible for such dismal endeavors as He’s Just Not That Into You (sagely described by my wife as “the type of movie where feminism goes to die”) and Valentine’s Day, so it’s admirable that I Feel Pretty is at least reasonably entertaining and doesn’t actively kill brain cells. But while it seems to have its heart in the right place, it’s ultimately too flat-footed and wrong-headed to do a body good. !
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hakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, a nonprofit event held every spring and fall on 80 acres in Chatham County, celebrates its sweet 16th birthday May 3 - May 6. The lineup features Steve Earle and the Dukes, Rising Appalachia, and festival stewards Donna the Buffalo. The festival benefits the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center. Steve Earle and the Dukes, in their Friday headlining performance, will honor the 30th Anniversary of his classic album, Copperhead Road. AJ Ghent, performing both Friday and Saturday, recently debuted on the Billboard Current Blues and New Artist charts with his Ropeadope Records release, The Neo Soul Blues Project. Meanwhile, Coachella veterans Chicano Batman, an L.A.-based four-piece, blend soul, psychedelic rock, and Brazilian Tropicalia for a groove that is both new and familiar. Merge Records’ artist Ibibio Sound Machine, hailing from London, UK, will perform at their only stateside festival of the season and is expected to deliver a standout set. Kinobe, originally from Uganda, will bring “Dance of Hope,” a cultural performance piece that explores the primal transforming power of music and dance to raise awareness and improve the way of life for children in need. Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival and Foothills Brewing have a multi-year exclusive agreement to provide tasty adult beverages. The festival is also supported by YES! Weekly, INDY Week, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, and Tick Warriors. Generous radio support is provided by these fine community stations WCHL 97.9, Life 103.1, WCOM 103.5. Shakori Hills GrassRoots is focused on presenting the best world music on stage and providing education in the healing arts, sustainability, and movement through workshops throughout the weekend. The vast amount of programs and workshops will amaze first-time and WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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seasoned festival goers. The Outpost, an area programmed specifically for 13 - 18 year olds, offers over 20 fun and educational activities while the Kids Tent will be buzzing 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. with fossil digs, relays, and crafts. Four day passes and single day advance tickets are on sale through Monday, April 30 at these locations: Townsend Bertram & Co, Carrboro, NC; Circle City Books, Pittsboro, NC; The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC; Redix Store, Wilmington and Wrightsville, Capital Bank, Pittsboro, NC and Schoolkids Records in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. Tickets are also available online at: www. shakorihillsgrassroots.org. ABOUT SHAKORI HILLS GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & DANCE Founded in 2002, Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is a nonprofit festival that supports the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center in Pittsboro, NC. The family-friendly festival is curated by Donna the Buffalo and features music performances and workshops, local arts and craftspersons, healing arts, activities designed specifically for 10 - 18 year olds, and programs for children under 10. More information can be found at www. shakorihillsgrassroots.org. !
BLUMHOUSE’S TRUTH OR DARE (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 MARROWBONE (R) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 10:10 BLOCKERS (R) Fri & Sat: 11:45 AM, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 11:45 AM, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 LEAN ON PETE (R) Fri - Tue: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Wed: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 10:10 Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 A QUIET PLACE (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 11:55 AM, 2:05, 4:15, 7:15, 9:25, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 11:55 AM, 2:05, 4:15, 7:15, 9:25 THE LAST MOVIE STAR (R) Fri - Thu: 2:45, 5:15, 7:35
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[PLAYBILL] Compiled by Heather Dukes On April 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 8pm, and at 6:30 pm April 26, at the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre at the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie St. R.U.R. by Karel Capek, Admission is $10 for seniors and students, $15 for adults, and $5 for the April 26 show. Tickets may be purchased online or at the door.” R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, a company that mass produces artificial humans to serve mankind. “At first, the artificial humans are happy. But as they became more advanced, they revolt against their human leaders. This is a dark play, but it is filled with hope.” On April 29 through May 20th Triad
Stage will be performing The Passion of Teresa Rae King at Triad Stage. According to Triad Stages Website “First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes murder. Triad Stage returns to Hawboro, this time to the wrong side of the tracks. A young woman beleaguered by her husband and terrorized by her mother-inlaw finds comfort in the arms of another man. They carry out a plot meant to free Teresa, but the repercussions of their actions haunt them and threaten to drive them to madness. Join Triad Stage for this World Premiere loosely inspired by Émile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin.” This play is for mature audiences. ! APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2018 YES! WEEKLY
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In Dorking, England, Chris Hepworth and his partner, Tanisha Prince, both of London, dove across the finish line in one minute and 37 seconds, setting a course record Chuck Shepherd and capturing the coveted U.K. Wife Carrying championship on April 8. Any adult couple can compete in the contest — married or not and regardless of gender — which consists of one team member carrying the other, most using the “Estonian carry,” with the “wife” upside-down, her legs over her partner’s shoulders and gripping him around the waist from behind. About 40 pairs competed over the quarter-mile course strewn with hay bales and mud, Reuters reported. Hepworth and Prince plan to move on to the world finals in Finland. “I think a Finnish guy wins it every year,” Hepworth noted, “so it’ll be good to go there and take them down.”
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
In Ohio in 2004, 6-year-old Alex Malarkey spent two months in a coma after a car accident, awaking as a quadriplegic and telling his family he had visited heaven, seeing angels and meeting Jesus. Alex and his dad, Kevin Malarkey, cowrote a best-selling book in 2010, “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven,” but in 2015, Alex admitted he had made up the story to get attention. “I did not die. I did not go to heaven,” Alex told The Guardian. In a recent effort to set the record straight, Alex filed a complaint April 9 in DuPage County, Illinois, against the book’s publisher, Tyndale House, alleging that “any reasonable person would have realized that it was highly unlikely that the content of the book was true.” The Washington Post reported that while Kevin Malarkey is not a party to the suit — which cites several Illinois statutes regarding the right to privacy, defamation, and financial exploitation of a person with a disability, among others — it does allege that Alex’s dad concocted and sold the story to Tyndale. The younger Malarkey did not receive any royalties from the sales of the book.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Richland Carrousel Park in Mansfield, Ohio, a family-oriented destination, just wanted to provide a seasonal attraction for kids who wanted to pose for a picture with the Easter Bunny. But Ladonna Hughett, 54, had other things in mind
on March 24 when she plopped into the bunny’s lap, grabbed him in inappropriate ways and made lewd comments, reported Fox 8 Cleveland. She then moved on to ride a horse on the carousel, also in ways witnesses described as lewd. “As soon as you think you hear all,” said Mansfield Assistant Police Chief Keith Porch, “I’ve never heard of somebody performing those types of acts on the Easter Bunny.” Hughett was arrested for public drunkenness and is no longer welcome at the amusement park.
THE HYPNOTIC POWER OF SPECIAL SAUCE
McDonald’s drive-thrus are a chill place to be, if three recent events are any indication. On March 17, police officers called to a McDonald’s restaurant in Okeechobee, Florida, found Derril James Geller of West Palm Beach had passed out in his car while waiting in line. Geller was arrested for driving on a suspended license (a crime for which he had been charged three previous times). But that’s just the tip of the ice cream cone: The Okeechobee News reported that in January, an Okeechobee woman was charged with DUI after passing out at a different area McDonald’s drive-thru, and in December, a Texas man also received a DUI for nodding off in the line at that same McDonald’s.
DO NOT EAT
1. An unnamed Chinese man “accidentally” swallowed a plastic and metal lighter 20 years ago. 2. He neglected to seek medical attention until recently, when he began experiencing stomach pains and other symptoms we’d rather not detail here. 3. In early April, using a camera inserted in the man’s body to locate the lighter, doctors at Dujiangyan Medical Center in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, performed not one, but two surgeries to extract the item. The Global Times reported that the lighter had been severely corroded by gastric juices.
OOPS
Officials in the city of Vordingborg, Denmark, planned the demolition of a 174-foot-tall silo months ahead of the event, but as onlookers cheered the explosion on April 6, the tower toppled in the wrong direction, landing on a waterfront library and music school. No injuries were reported, according to The Guardian, and the library interior, while covered with dust, sustained no serious damage. !
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rofessor Lalenja Harrington, Ph.D., is far more than just “the world’s greatest and most over-qualified tour manager,” as the Grammy-winning Ian McDowell singer and musician Rhiannon Giddens affectionately called Contributor her during last October’s concert for the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s 125 Anniversary. “My sister is a brilliant educator who took time off from her academic career here to get our show on the road,” she said when bringing the woman born Lalenja Giddens onstage for a rousing rendition of the Staples Singers’ “Freedom Highway.” “The beauty of our relationship is that we both have our creative endeavors and interests,” said Dr. Harrington to me in her office last Saturday. “We have our own spaces where we’re able to pursue the things we’re interested in, but we have always been really committed to supporting each other.” Our conversation took place on the third floor of UNCG’s MHRA building, where Dr. Harrington is director of Academic Programming Development & Evaluation for Beyond Academics, a four-year certificate program supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program emphasizes high-education, self-determination, community inclusion and independent living. Students completing requirements for graduation receive a certificate in Integrative Community Studies. When I asked if there was a particular Beyond Academics success story she’d like to tell our readers about, she described a student who graduated a few years ago. “When he began the program, his parent was his guardian, and ultimately responsible for all major decision-making in his life.” Over the course of the program, she said, he learned the things that young adults in college must learn to gain control of their lives. “He encapsulated that journey in his senior portfolio, and was able to use that document to communicate with the courts.” When he requested restoration of his
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Dr. Lalenja Harrington on the University of North Carolina Greensboro campus near her office rights, the court granted it. “This was an affirmation of what we believe about college as an environment for becoming a more self-determined person. We truly appreciate our partnership with UNCG in this endeavor, as they trailblaze with our students, challenging myths and misconceptions about ability along the way.” She also made it clear she does not think she deserves credit for the program’s success, saying that she preferred “to highlight a few instructors who truly get it.” One she named was Stuart Schleien, Ph.D. “He’s worked with us from the beginning, ensuring that his classes are accessible and making it clear he recognizes the value of all voices in his classroom.” Another she named was Megan Cayton, “one of our newest collaborators, whose universally designed approach to teaching welcomes any and all.” Dr. Harrington called their pedagogical practices “a key
component of opening up higher education to a wider swath of student learners, which is ultimately what we want to see this movement do.” She said that she relates to her students in having what she calls an “unruly body/ mind” in the classroom and educational settings, one that resists what traditional academia defines as an ideal student (white, male, privileged, able-bodied). “Our program seeks to advocate with anybody/mind that has been silenced, restricted, denied, or made invisible by the educational system status quo.” An untraditional career path brought Dr. Harrington a back to Greensboro, the city of her birth, where she came from a family of bluegrass musicians on her father’s side. “On my mother’s side, particularly when I lived with my grandmother, I grew up with the popular black music of the day, like the Manhattans, Marvin Gaye,
and Earth Wind and Fire.” She said her grandmother loved to play the Manhattans’ “Kiss and Say Goodbye,” but also Kenny Rogers’ “You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille.” On T.V., they watched both Soul Train and Hee Haw, which she called “a reflection of that connection between the black community and country music that Rhiannon is digging so deeply into these days.” Her mother expanded her horizons into folk music and the hippie scene, while also sharing her love of doowop and black 1960s classics. After attending Western Guilford high school, she found herself “looking for a chance to put some distance between me and North Carolina.” Accepted by several universities, she chose Princeton, planning become a medical illustrator. “But chemistry put the kibosh on any hopes I had of a biology major, so psychology it was.” There, two things changed the course of her life. The first was becoming a member of the a cappella group the Princeton Tigerlilies, which helped her “tap into music as a creative outlet with a confidence I’d not had before.” The second was a summer job working with children experiencing emotional disabilities. “That sparked what would become a lifelong interest in working with people.” She also became involved with the slam poetry scene. “I cut my teeth on it at the Cantab Lounge in Boston, where I was exposed to great poets of that time, such as Patricia Smith, Danny Solis, Lisa King, Taylor Mali and others.” She was the anchor for the Boston team that won second place at the 1994 National Poetry Slam but said that one of her favorite experiences was a show she did with local poets at the Boston Center for the Arts called Women R Us. “It was an incredible experience, three of us on stage, telling our stories in a collaborative choreopoem.” She returned to North Carolina to earn a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Receiving her MA there in 1996 and entering the Ph.D. program at UNCG in 2012 didn’t keep her from performing. “I did some poetry here and there, local slams, workshops with Poetry GSO, and some performing with Rhiannon.” While she described her creative side as “quiet” for a while after her son Justin was born, he got a role in Triad Stage’s Beautiful Star when he was 9, which led to her love for
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musicals, especially after both she and Justin performed in a local production of Children of Eden, a musical adaptation of the Book of Genesis. “So began my love affair with the musical stage.” Since then she’s been in a number of theatrical productions, of which Rent was her favorite musical and Born Bad her favorite straight play. She also collaborated with her younger sister, co-writing the song “Country Girl” on the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Leaving Eden and contributing vocals to their earlier albums Dona Got a Ramblin’ Mind and Heritage. In 2013, she and Rhiannon recorded the album I Know I’ve Been Changed, on which they were billed as the Giddens Sisters. That partnership did not end when her younger sibling embarked on her solo career. In 2015, they co-composed the song “Moonshiner’s Daughter” with T Bone Burnett, and in 2017, collaborated on the song “Baby Boy” on Rhiannon’s acclaimed second album Freedom Highway, to which Dr. Harrington also contributed vocals. She said it would be simplistic to call herself the academic sibling and Rhiannon the performing one. “I would argue that what Rhi does is just as academic; she is absolutely teaching as she performs, with her great wealth of knowledge about the history of AfricanAmerican music.” Dr. Harrington said her own challenge is “a search to bring the creative into the academic, as my brain is just wired to think in the poetic.” She described herself as “constantly looking for ways to bring my teacher, researcher and artist selves together, in much the same way that Rhiannon is bringing those selves together on stage. We’re always remarking on the mirroring that we are finding in our creative, career and life journeys.” She called 2017 a very transformative year in her own journey. “There was a moment when I was finishing up my dissertation as I was on the tour bus out to California for my first gig, that I wondered what in the world I was doing, but it was ultimately an incredible experience, just taking a right turn from my every day at the university, getting to share an important message every night with audiences, and spending that time with my sister and son.” She laughed at the memory of being WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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called “the world’s most over-qualified tour manager,” saying “Oh my goodness, I had no idea! Props to Rhiannon, her management team and her band for being so patient with me.” The experience, she said, gave her a huge appreciation of what a tour manager actually does. “There’s just so much! TMs are responsible for making sure that the show is successful while on the road, communicating in advance with all of the venues, making sure technical and hospitality details are in place before shows, scheduling tour buses or making plane reservations, making sure drivers get paid and have whatever they need on the road.” She said the tour manager is also responsible for collecting fees from venues, doing daily finance reports, managing time sheets, ensuring that band and crew get money for food, and scheduling accommodations. “I want to give a shout out to every TM working away out there!” For her next performing gig, she’s staying in Greensboro but taking center stage. Starting May 24, she’ll be performing jazz on Thursday nights at Greensboro’s O. Henry Hotel. She described her style as “an old-school standard one, kind of like Dinah Washington,” with other influences including Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. “Not the way Ella used her voice as an instrument, that’s
not in my wheelhouse, but I love her. Who doesn’t love Ella?” When I asked what else she’s looking forward to aside from the O. Henry gig, she laughed, “You mean, other than readjusting after living out of suitcases for a year?” Despite the rigors of the road, she said that the professional break had been restorative, but she was glad to return to academia. “I am in a new role with my program, focusing on curriculum, research and program evaluation, and I love it.” She also said she’s looking forward to making new connections with local artists and initiatives, “to getting back on the dramatic stage and continue flexing my acting muscles, to figure out what’s next with poetry, and to essentially begin enjoying life as an empty nester, watching my kid Justin find his own creative path.” A transcendent moment in the concert at which I first heard her name was when all the vocalists came onstage for a cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” making it an anthem of optimistic defiance. I asked Dr. Harrington if she feels more or less hopeful about the future than she did that evening six months ago. She said she struggles with that every day. “I want to be hopeful and live in that hope, but it’s so hard, with the daily assault on people in this country
right now.” She admitted to a profound ambivalence. “There’s a part of me that feels that this system works only for a few people, a certain top percentage, and I feel overwhelmed at what, realistically and logistically, we can do to challenge that.” But she declared forming that challenge a necessity. “We can’t just keep doing the same things going forward, or we’re just going to see the same dire results.” Bringing up her previous mention of her son Justin, I asked what she might tell him and other young people facing the state of the country right now, and if she had anything to say beyond what I recently told a friend’s daughter, that my generation should be sorry we let this happen. “That’s a tough one,” she said with a sigh. “My son is 19 and all I can say is that his voice is important, that I support him, and I really try to listen to the youth and let go of what I think they should be doing, but instead trust them to take action in a way that is impactful and meaningful to them. I do tell him that he has a right to be angry and that his journey is his own with that.” ! 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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Basement Life recording new album, will play GSOFest Not bragging, it was pure happenstance that I found myself covering the emerging downtown Los Angeles punk scene just as Social Distortion, Los Lobos, Perry Farrell, Red Hot Chili Billy Ingram Peppers and a whole host of bands no Contributing one had heard of then, but are legendcolumnist ary today, were thrashing their way through clubs no bigger than New York Pizza. Flea and Anthony still owe me $5. What made those performers so remarkable and transcendent, was an unmistakable authenticity. Basement Life ignites a joy of rediscovery in those who believe punk should remain preserved in amethyst, surrendered to another time and temperament. How is anyone going to improve upon, build on, what came before given the inherent limitations? A conundrum for sure, until a rare combo like Basement Life sonically boom tubes into our atmosphere. On the bill with Bit Brigade at The Blind Tiger this month, Basement Life drew a large and attentive crowd for an opening act, practically everyone in the place facing the stage from the opening cords on. Lead singer Gavan Holden’s volcanic vocals and atramentous lyrics fuse mercilessly, resulting in a mesmerizing stage presence, an inexplicably attractive ferociousness rooted in vulnerability and conflicted emotions. A musical force unreckoned-with for a decade, Gavan is one of those committed young rock warriors brave enough to tour the East Coast with bare pockets in tattered chariots when he was fronting the band Funny Like A Funeral some years back. It was a raw, eviscerating performance. Basement Life guitarist Eric Mann weaves and wails with an uplifting swagger while drummer Caleb Gross’ rata-tat-tat beats, sticks for Tommy guns, hammers it all home. Caleb’s banging on a custom-made, solid maple drum kit with 1960’s hi-hats that he claims, “Sound better because of the weights and the shakes of the cones.” I caught up with Gavan at Legitimate Business studio in Glenwood where Basement Life has been recording their second album, DEVOUR, over the course of eight consecutive eight-hour days.
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Lead singer/bassist Gavan Holden of Basement Life “It’s going really great,” he confided. “Kris [Hilbert] is an amazing producer; I don’t think we could have made a better decision.” As for the tone of this new album Gavan reveals, “It’s a little darker. Lyrically it’s more introspective than the first one. Musically, we wrote it more like jam sessions rather than anybody just bringing stuff in.” For someone so nakedly agro onstage, this singer/bassist is disarmingly low-key off. “It just kinda came together with us in a room playing. I think that adds a much different vibe to the songs and the structure.” Everyone involved is pleased with the results as recording wraps up. “I enjoy the creative process,” Gavan said. “I feel like everybody contributes a lot. One thing I like about writing with Eric, our taste in music is very similar, but our influences are way different. It took a little time for us to mesh but I think it sounds cool the way he plays guitar, it’s different from what I’m used to.” DEVOUR will be released digitally, on CD and vinyl this summer while Basement Life’s revelatory first album from 2017, Love Is Not Real, drops as an LP
in May. Audiophiles agree with Gavan that, “Vinyl is the best way to listen to music. It’s more interactive; you have to stick the needle on, flip the sides, it’s not something you can throw on and forget about. You’ve got artwork to look at; you can read the liner notes. It’s more of an experience.” Basement Life has no plans for touring but, “We’re playing a lot this summer across North Carolina, around the release of the new album. And maybe a little further out.” Gavan said he is drawn to local bands such as, “Hammer No More the Fingers,
they’re from Durham. I really like Night Sweats and Totally Slow. Instant Regrets, love that Greensboro band.” Basement Life will be performing Sunday afternoon, April 29 at Westerwood Tavern with Instant Regrets and Echo Courts, capping off GSOFest, a not-to-bemissed weekend-long roster of superior local talent spread out across different venues. ! Artistic member of ‘The New York Yankees of Motion Picture Advertising,’ BILLY INGRAM is the author of PUNK, a memoir of his time chronicling the 1980-1983 East LA punk scene for a sleazy gay magazine.
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Steven Bochco: T.V. innovator Legendary television producer Steven Bochco had a wry sense of humor, so when I first heard that he passed away on April Fool’s Day, I held out hope that he had perpetrated Jim Longworth a hoax on us. He hadn’t. Steven, who won countless Longworth awards and accoat Large lades across a career that lasted for half a century, finally lost his long battle with leukemia. He was 74 years old. Like his virtuoso father, Bochco had a talent for music, but it was writing that captured his interest. In the formative years of his career, Bochco took any job he could get just to be around the written word, first as a $50 per week scriptreader for Sam Goldwyn, Jr., and later as a script fixer at Universal. His early writing credits for NBC included Columbo and McMillan and Wife, but his first big solo series came while working for Grant Tinker at MTM studios. Hill Street Blues was a critical success, racking up 98 Emmy nominations and four wins as best drama during its seven-season run. Bochco followed Hill Street with L.A. Law, another four-time Emmy winner, then signed a long-term development deal with ABC, where he co-created the ground-breaking cop drama, NYPD Blue, which ran from 1993 to 2005. Unlike Hill Street Blues, which one reviewer referred
to as a “balance between comedy and drama,” NYPD Blue was mostly a gritty, edgy drama that pushed the envelope when it came to raw language and nudity. Not surprisingly, more than 50 ABC affiliates refused to air the first episode in which David Caruso and Amy Brenneman showed off their bare body parts during a roll in the hay. After creating the short-lived Iraq War drama Over There, Steven returned to the legal and police genres with Raising the Bar (2008), and Murder in the First (2014-2016), respectively. In addition to writing award-winning television scripts, Bochco also penned two books, “Death by Hollywood,” a tongue-in-cheek detec-
tive novel, and “Truth is a Total Defense,” his 2016 autobiography. I first met Steven at the Museum of Television and Radio (now Paley Center) in 1998, where he participated in a panel discussion about creating dramatic television. The following year I interviewed him for my first volume of “TV Creators.” Before the book went to press, I sent Bochco a preview copy. A few days later, he returned the pages, and they were filled with handwritten notes in which he corrected my grammar, and even fact-checked some of my research. I still have that markedup manuscript and point to it with pride. After all, how many authors can say that they were edited by Steven Bochco? His notes made me a better writer and a more thorough researcher, and for that, I will always be grateful. During our two interviews sessions in the summer and fall of 1999, Steven revealed a lot about himself and his craft. Here are some highlights: (on his early interest in writing) …“My teachers always told me I could write, and so it just sort of seemed clear to me at a very early age, that that’s what I did better than anything else. I wrote a lot. I wrote short stories; I’d write poems. I always enjoyed the actual act of writing. I enjoyed expressing myself on paper.” (on creating Hill Street Blues at MTM) … “That was the most creative control I ever had. I had creative autonomy on that show, for the first time…Grant Tinker created an amazing company, and the environment was truly unique,
in much the same way I hope that the environment of my company is unique, and a reflection of the environment that existed in those days at MTM.” (on dealing with network censors) …”I’ve had horrible fights (with them) because even though you may have creative control, you still have to deal with broadcast standards. I‘ve been at war with those turkeys ever since I’ve been in television, but I’ve never lost an episode to it. I’ve never had to fundamentally alter an episode.” (on pushing the envelope with NYPD Blue) …”We were being deserted in droves for cable, and I felt if we didn’t make this kind of show, and get people back in our tent by being more adult, and more contemporary in our use of language, then we were going to be out of business.” (on trusting your vision) … “If you start listening to everybody who’s telling you what’s wrong with what you’re doing, then you end up with the old cliché. You end up with a camel, and a camel is a horse designed by committee. My responsibility is to myself. I trust my judgment, and you’ve got to be true to your own vision.” Steven Bochco was always true to his own vision, and he left behind an innovative body of work to prove it. He also left me with some notes on how to be a better writer. I hope I didn’t let him down. ! 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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* It was famed journalist and news anchor Edward R. Murrow who made the following sage observation: “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
of Bhutan, and both television and the Internet were banned there until 1999. Incidentally, Bhutan also is the only nation in the world in which the well-being of the citizens is so important that the government measures the country’s Gross National Happiness.
* Many people know American counterculture figure Ken Kesey as the author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which presents a disturbing portrait of life in a mental institution. It’s less well known, though, that Kesey got an inside view of the system when he worked as a janitor in a mental hospital before he became famous.
* The Beatles was not the first band in which John Lennon played. Those previous groups obviously didn’t work out, though; in fact, at one point Lennon broke a washboard over a bandmate’s head during a dispute. After the Beatles’ success, though, Lennon apologized in style: He bought the poor guy a supermarket.
* Those who study such things say that a typical newspaper contains just 30 percent editorial content — 70 percent of the paper you buy is taken up by advertising. * The last country in the world to get telephones was the South Asian nation
* In Germany, Rice Krispies don’t say “Snap, Crackle, Pop”; they say “Knisper, Knasper, Knusper.” Thought for the Day: ”A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn’t be.” — Alexander Woollcott © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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I’m a man in my 60s. Looking back on my romantic life, I was always the guy women spent time with when their husband or Amy Alkon boyfriend wasn’t paying attention to them or while they Advice waited for the right Goddess guy (status, power, money) to show up. I’m good-looking, but I realize from reading you that I never had enough “mate value,” never mastering the essence of Cialdini’s “scarcity principle.” I’m a retired teacher. For 20some years, I taught kids who had severe behavioral problems. While parents, grandparents, and school personnel appreciated what I did, it didn’t hold much long-term interest for women. My wife left me for someone with much higher “mate value.” I keep thinking that all of this could have been avoided if I had only chosen a profession with high-end “mate value.” — Alone You were never going to be the guy for those women who pictured themselves spending lazy summer afternoons in Martha’s Vineyard (as opposed to Martha’s Laundromat). However, your having a middlin’bucks job instead of a megabucks one probably wasn’t the root of your mate retention issues. It turns out that there’s more to mate value than money and
a “high-end” job. In fact, evolutionary psychologist David Buss did a massive cross-cultural survey looking at what men and women want in a partner, and kindness topped the list for each. (Yes, kindness — which was pretty much your job description.) Intelligence was another list-topper. What wasn’t on the lists at all? A partner who’s a pushover — always available, never any pesky boundaries. Accordingly, you mention psychologist Robert Cialdini, whose “scarcity principle” I’ve referenced. Basically, we value — and want — what is out of reach and seems hard to get, not what seems hard to get rid of. That “hard” truth might seem like reason for you to keep looking back with despair. However, within it is actually a message of hope — an action plan. The reality is, you’re in a better position than ever to land and keep a woman. As I often explain, there are sex differences in what men and women prioritize in a partner, with men valuing looks far more than women do. (Youth and beauty are evolution’s version of a billboard advertising health and fertility.) This means that women’s mate value is higher when they’re, say, in their early 20s. And that’s why 22-year-old guys find 22-year-old women seriously hot — as do the grandpas of those 22-year-old dudes. Meanwhile, a 22-year-old guy is essentially gum under the tire of a 32-year-old guy’s Mercedes. Because women prioritize status and resources in a male partner, men’s mate value tends to increase as they get older and
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giant neural eraser that comes around once a week like the trash guys the city sends to your neighborhood. What happens is that you transform your default behavior — how you behave when you react automatically — to acting like a man instead of like the male friend who braids women’s hair while they’re waiting for the guy they are having sex with. As for the practical steps to becoming the new bold you: Figure out what seems fair and right, and then say “no” to everything outside that box. (Generosity is good. Generosity that knows no bounds is a lust’s executioner.) Assert yourself even when you’re scared to do it. Sure, you’ll feel uncomfortable, especially the first few times. However, you should slowly begin to do better with the ladies — and maybe even find love, despite it being clear that the only fur you’d ever get a woman would come with the rest of the hamster or the cat. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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more accomplished. Cruelly, women’s mate value declines with age. On a more positive note, what also tends to go is the notion some younger women have that massive character flaws can be outweighed by a massive mansion. Women with a thing for bad boys may likewise come to see the excitement in a man who pays the bills the boring way — through online banking instead of online identity theft. In short, there are plenty of women who’d want a guy like you — providing you mend your ways. Going back to that “scarcity principle,” what needs to become scarce is your willingness to be a convenient option instead of a priority. Though this has been your default state — for decades — it doesn’t have to remain that way. As I explain in my new “science-help” book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” “your feelings are not the boss of you. It’s not what you feel; it’s what you do.” In fact, by repeatedly acting assertively, you’ll actually rewire your brain. This isn’t to say the old rollover kitty behaviors go away. Unfortunately, there’s no
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