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The name has changed, but that food is back in a cleaner and safer Greensboro location, nestled behind Alounemay Asian Market at 2601 W. Gate City Blvd., where Pakse’s former owner Mi Sinbaualay and her daughter Alexandra recently opened THE LAO KITCHEN. 10 Steeped in atmosphere and simmering with suspense, THE MIDNIGHTERS, now in release from IFC Films, marks the debut feature of writer Alston Ramsay and his brother, director Julius Ramsay, both originally from North Carolina. The film opens April 6 exclusively at RED Cinemas in Greensboro. 11 When Greensboro punkers TOTALLY SLOW got together in 2012, North Carolina was embroiled in the tensions of samesex marriage bans, while the Greensboro City Council was entrenched in a dogfight against the music community over noiseordinances. 12 Roby is the frontman and singer of Raleigh’s 6 STRING DRAG, a band that came on the scene in the mid-’90s, made some influential Americana-ish rock’n’roll and then split up for a stretch, during which time Roby released several solo records.
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In the name of full disclosure, I have never read Ernest Cline’s bestselling 2011 novel READY PLAYER ONE. Of course, I haven’t read many books that ended up becoming popular movies, but it’s a tidbit that seems worth mentioning in this particular case. Of course, I’m aware of the property and have actually perused great chunks of it — all of which left me thinking that Cline’s writing level tapped out somewhere around the fifth grade. 24 CRYPTOCURRENCY. You’re either into it or you’re not, sort of like knowing what the internet was about in the early1990s. In a nutshell, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dash, Ripple, among hundreds of others, are virtual, digital money with no bank or government supporting it. The WWE of financial assets where values can rise to great heights or fall precipitously in a matter of hours. 25 ADULTERY has been in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to full disclosures by a porn star and a former Playboy bunny who claim that they both had sex with Donald Trump (not at the same time, of course).
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On March 4, a Stouffer’s macaroni and cheese commercial aired and the star of it was a Greensboro father, Guilford Technical Community College graduate and pastor. Fred Pegues is a father of five, general manager of a tax preparation firm and a pastor at The Magnificent Reid Memorial CME Church. Pegues was born in High Point, but when he married his wife Tina, they moved to Greensboro. They have been living in the area for almost 30 years now. Pegues works at TWC Financials, which he said drove him back to school in the first place. “I was a part-time tax preparer here, and I worked at my corporate job. I got laid off from my corporate job, and I began working at TWC full time,” he said. “So, the accounting degree was to enhance my abilities to operate at the firm.” Pegues said he chose GTCC because he liked the flexibility of working and attending school. “Night classes when it was tax season, and day classes when it wasn’t tax season,” he said about his schedule. “It made me able to work and go to school at the same time.” Pegues said after an article from the Greensboro News & Record was written about his and his daughter’s (twins Faith and Hope) college graduations happening within the same week, a talent scout from New York City reached out to him. Pegues said the talent scout then directed him to COURTESY PHOTO
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he muchmissed Pakse Café in the seedy defunct shopping center at the corner of Florida Street and Freeman Mill Road in Greensboro was not, was Ian McDowell not, as Eric Ginsburg once observed, the Contributing kind of place you went for atmocolumnist sphere. But it was the Triad’s closest equivalent to Southeast Asian street food, albeit more like that of the Laotian capital Vientiane than Saigon. This was despite the Vietnamese sandwiches that sparked intense foodie debates as to whether Pakse’s or those at Banh Mi Saigon on Gate City Boulevard were better.
Pakse Café returns in a new location as Lao Kitchen The name has changed, but that food is back in a cleaner and safer Greensboro location, nestled behind Alounemay Asian Market at 2601 W. Gate City Blvd., where Pakse’s former owner Mi Sinbaualay and her daughter Alexandra recently opened The Lao Kitchen. The Alounemay entrance faces Maywood Street and the Lao Kitchen one is around back, but the establishments share the building and are connected by an interior door. It’s small, with a few communal benches and tables, but brightly lit, clean, friendly, and decorated with attractive art. Signage displays familiar items like pad thai and basil chicken, as well as economical deals like two large fresh spring rolls for $2.99 or six fried wings for $4.99. William Warren’s 2004 book Bangkok, written by an American who’s lived there since 1959, claims most of what’s called Thai food in the United States is actually Lao. Mi Sinbaualay is on vacation in Paris, so I couldn’t ask her, but I recall her saying
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something similar at her old location. During my visit to Lao Kitchen, I noticed three things distinguishing it from local Thai restaurants: sticky rice, papaya salad and larb. Larb and papaya salad can be found on Thai menus throughout the Triad, but typically taste quite different. Sticky rice, served in a cellophane-wrapped ball and eaten with one’s bare hands (the “sticky” refers to how it sticks together, not to your fingers), is a Laotian staple. While “sticky” or glutinous rice is common in Northern Thailand, a 2015 Smithsonian article claims that Lao people eat more of it than anyone else in the world, and that this is why they sometimes refer to themselves as “luk khao niaow”, meaning “children of sticky rice.” I ordered larb to eat there and papaya salad to go. The latter, which I’m still eating as I write this article, consists of the usual shredded papaya, chilies, tomato and cilantro, but with a side of pork skins rather than peanuts. Several old Yelp reviews of Paske Café speculated these were a Tarheel influence, but my Thai-Laotian friend Toune called their use distinctly Laotian. So is the padaek, the signature Lao fish sauce, chunkier and more pungent than Thai and Vietnamese varieties. Alexandra Sinbaulay told me that this sauce is her mother’s secret family recipe, and only used with papaya. Several online articles form food magazines describe Laotian papaya salad as being “sour” rather than “spicy.” Regardless of descriptors, it’s delicious, and I’m going to get another bowl before writing the next paragraph. The larb, a salad with minced pork or chicken, was also less spicy than the Thai variety. Mine contained shredded pork and sliced pork liver, and I’m told the WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
chicken variety uses chicken liver. As a liver-lover, I was fine with this. Stronger and with a quite different taste from the larb I’ve had elsewhere, but delicious. Lovers of beef jerky are advised that Lao Kitchen sells the best I’ve ever had, a claim also made in several Yelp reviews. This variety, known in Lao as Sien Haeng, is homemade, with a flavor suggesting sugar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and padaek all went into the curing process. A very generous “appetizer” portion costs $5.99, but cups of it are $2 at the counter. As for the sandwiches, my $5 one with pâté and ham was a dollar more than its equivalent at Banh Mi Saigon and slightly less wonderful, but much better than the ones downtown restaurants peddle for twice the price. Along with Lao coffee and Thai tea, Lao Kitchen also serves bubble tea and a drink made from raw fresh sugar cane, with no added ingredients. When you order it, they break off a piece of sugar cane and put it in what looks like an industrial juicer. Less sweet than I expected, but very refreshing. I can’t write about the chicken dishes because I’ve not tried them yet, but I certainly intend to. I’m definitely going back soon, and already regret not getting more beef jerky. !
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indsey (Alex Essoe) and Jeff Pittman (Dylan McTee) are a struggling young couple driving home on New Year’s Eve when they hit a pedestrian Mark Burger on a lonely stretch of road. In a panic, Contributing they bring the body home in a desperate columnist attempt to cover up the crime – a situation made more complicated because Lindsey’s wayward sister Hannah (Perla Haney-Jardine) is staying with them. Lindsey and Jeff soon discover that the victim wasn’t just a random passerby, but was specifically looking for them. Before they can ascertain the reason, Lindsey is visited by one “Detective Smith” (Ward Horton), who has an agenda of his own – and it’s not a pleasant one.
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As mistrust blossoms into full-blown paranoia, each character is forced to confront his or her own secrets, with each one’s life hanging in the balance. Clearly, this is not just another New Year’s Eve. Steeped in atmosphere and simmering with suspense, The Midnighters, now in release from IFC Films, marks the debut feature of writer Alston Ramsay and his brother, director Julius Ramsay, both originally from North Carolina. The film opens April 6 exclusively at RED Cinemas in Greensboro. For the 5:15 p.m. screening April 7, Alston will be on hand, along with brother Burke H. Ramsay, who served as executive producer. Julius has worked as an editor and director on such popular series’ as “The Walking Dead,” “Battlestar: Galactica,” “Scream: The Series,” and even “American Idol,” earning three Emmy nominations for his editing work. Alston’s career path was more circuitous. He was a speechwriter and adviser to Secretary of State Robert Gates, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, and General David Petraeus. But like his brother, he’s always loved film. Julius (who is five years older), frequently subjected his younger brother to films when they were kids – “including some that I shouldn’t have been watching at that age, like slasher movies,” he laughed. For their maiden cinematic voyage, they were determined to make something modest and manageable – yet effective and entertaining. “I’ve worked in genre television for many years,” Julius said. “I’ve done horror, thriller, science-fiction … but for The Midnighters, we didn’t want to rely on any supernatural conventions. That was really our goal. The monsters (here) are human in nature. We set out to make a character-driven noir thriller with a fast plot.”
Comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock and (naturally) the Coen Brothers are not unwarranted, but Julius also points out one of his personal favorites: Danny Boyle’s 1994 debut feature Shallow Grave. Twists and turns abound, nothing is quite what it seems, and there’s a palpable dash of dark humor incorporated into the mix. As meticulous and methodical as they were in preparing The Midnighters (which was originally titled Revelers), it wasn’t easy. “Absolutely not,” Julius laughed. “Anyone who says making their first feature was easy is either lying or made a really bad movie!” Once momentum started building, there was only one thing to do. “Come hell or high water; we’ll start shooting Feb. 6, and that’s what we did,” Julius said. “We’re making it – no matter what. That’s a great motivator.”
Alston concurred. “When you put a date on the calendar, everything becomes more real. It becomes a real thing very, very quickly. It’s a real thing willed into existence.” With its confined setting and ensemble cast, The Midnighters has an almost theatrical quality, not unlike Frederick Knott’s Wait Until Dark or Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. “It was always intended as a film, but we did a workshop reading, and it was fascinating to see it done that way,” Julius said. “We could tell (from that) that the characters and storyline were working.” Among the most memorable characters are Andrew Rothenberg (with whom Julius worked with on “The Walking Dead”) as Officer Verone and Joseph Anderson as Officer Campbell, a pair of neighborhood patrolmen who always turn up at the worst possible time. They’re not necessarily comic relief. They know that something’s going on … “The inspiration was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,” Alston said. “They’re kind of outside, kind of inside, kind of funny ...” At the 2017 Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (held in San Diego), The Midnighters won awards for Best Feature, Best Actress in a Feature Film (Essoe), and Best Screenplay of a Feature Film. At the Nightmares Film Festival (held in Columbus, Ohio), the film earned nominations for Best Thriller Feature and Best Screenplay Feature. Although the film is accurately billed as “A Ramsay Brothers Film,” they did not share directorial chores as Joel and Ethan Coen does. Their duties were more clearly defined. “Once on set, I consider my role is how to best help Julius,” said Alston, who was also the unit production manager. “It was his set. He’s the director.” With Julius being older, surely Alston wouldn’t try to influence his directing, would he? “He tried,” Julius laughed. “I tried,” Alston confirmed. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.
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hen Greensboro punkers Totally Slow got together in 2012, North Carolina was embroiled in the tensions of samesex marriage bans, while the Greensboro Katei Cranford City Council was entrenched in a Contributing dogfight against the music community columnist over noise-ordinances. There was an energy circulating, which suited the (then) three-piece--far from totally positive, still unavoidably present. Six crazy years later, Totally Slow has picked-up an extra guitarist, opened for a slew of legendary bands (Agent Orange, most recently) and continues to resonate with energy and an angrier version of what they call “hopeful nihilism” on their latest release: “Imperium.” Naturally political (the band formed from three friends protesting Amendment 1), Totally Slow’s third album serves as a hard silver-lining, emboldened by the creative freedom they’ve found in the fallout of the 2016 election. “We made a fairly conscious choice to just go ahead and be that scrappy pissed off skate-punk-band that was always lurking around on other records we’d made,” vocalist and guitarist Scott Hicks told New Noise Magazine. But it isn’t all politics with these dudes. Personal elements weave throughout, and each of their albums progresses down a track of relatable experiences: the reactionary mid-life melancholy on their 2013 self-titled first LP flows into the neurotically self-reflective 2016 follow-up, “Bleed Out.” With “Imperium,” Totally Slow has arrived at the downright incendiary. “I see these first three [records] almost like a backwards existential crisis,“ Hicks said. “Our first LP was mostly stuff I had been banging around acoustically, and then we learned them as friends for fun. “Bleed Out” was me trying to figure out how to be a better person and feeling frustrated, and “Imperium” is more of an angry set the world on fire kind of teenaged attitude.” That attitude was honed (and the volume heightened) after second-guitarist, Chuck Johnson, joined in 2016. “Chuck has really helped us narrowWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
down where the energy should go in the music,” Hicks said of the addition. ”Before Totally Slow, I almost always was in twoguitar bands, that’s my favorite space to write, for sure.” Hicks jests that the ideal space for Totally Slow to play would be “a house basement with the Cat’s Cradle” sound system. “With Chuck on board, things got a lot louder, and that can make it hard to find a good balance sound-wise in a tiny space - it’s a relief sometimes to play spaces with a nice PA system,” Hicks said. “If [drummer, Andy Foster] can’t hear us, then we’re essentially playing a show on muscle memory. I’m happy when we get to do big spaces, but we’re essentially a DIY band who carry that ethos and still run in those circles.” DIY comes with its own challenges. The most difficult of which for bands often involves the juggle to promote experiences without jeopardizing the spaces that host them. Keeping things sort-of secret is key. It’s a tight-rope, but one Totally Slow walks with grace. “I try to book our release shows somewhere unusual to keep things interesting,” Hicks said. “Our first release was at Legit Biz, which hadn’t had a show in a really long time. Then we did Local Honey hair salon. It’s fun to try to make these parties not feel like a formal ‘show.’ Just come hang out and also incidentally some bands are gonna play.” For the “Imperium” release, Totally Slow has a similar “one-off special” slated for Saturday night with Instant Regrets and Irata. “DIY spaces are so crucial here that we can’t even mention their location,” Hicks said.
But it’s in these places Hicks’s hope shines brightest. “I’ve been doing punk rock in Greensboro a really long time,” he said. “There’s honestly never been a solid run where things weren’t shifting in terms of energy or venue or audience. So our culture is our lack of a fixed culture, in a way.” Continuing with a hopefully nihilistic slant, Hicks said, “there are chunks of time that I’m not super interested in playing Greensboro, frankly. “But OPOTW Studios really is a great space and GSOFest is a centering force for local bands to kinda be like ‘oh yeah - it’s not so bad at home.’ There are a lot of loops here, and I can’t always be in on them all. So I look forward to checking out stuff that might not be on my radar and making new friends.” Totally Slow is totally looking forward to their release party on April 7 and playing GSOFest at Corner Bar on April 29. “Imperium” is out now on Self Aware Records. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a GSO rock-n-roller, NC mover-nshaker, and all-around Triad music aficionado. 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. APRIL 4-10, 2018
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Rock band with Americana roots celebrates its 20th anniversary, looks to the future Kenny Roby has tried his hand at a lot of things. He’s delivered pizzas. He’s worked for an insurance company. He’s been a barista. He’s been a clerk behind the counter at a record store. John Adamian But it’s probably @johnradamian that last one that most shaped Roby’s main focus, which is Contributor making music. Roby is the frontman and singer of Raleigh’s 6 String Drag, a band that came on the scene in the mid-’90s, made some influential Americana-ish rock’n’roll and then split up for a stretch, during which time Roby released several solo records. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of “Hi Hat,” 6 String Drag’s signature record from 1998. That record is getting a deluxe reissue, complete with a vinyl pressing for the first time, and last month 6 String Drag also released a new record, “Top Of The World,” its second in the band’s 21st-century iteration. The band plays Greensboro’s sympathetically named On Pop of the World this week, on April 7. Roby spoke with me on Easter Sunday by phone from his home in Raleigh. Roby, 46, is like a lot of musicians in
that his connection to different styles and periods runs deep and wide. He has the seemingly encyclopedic musical knowledge that one gets from listening to records, studying songs, and selling albums and CDs. In the course of our conversation, Roby made casual references to bands
and artists like the Del Fuegos, X, Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, the Blue Sky Boys, the Zombies, Uncle Tupelo, the Stanley Brothers and many more. This was all by way of discussing the swirl of influences that shaped and contributed to 6 String Drag’s sound, as well as making sense of
the era (the 1990s) when a lot of great and previously obscure music was being released on CD for the first time. That record-store experience was formative because Roby, who grew up in South Carolina, was working there with his friend Rob Keller, fellow 6 String Drag founder. The two were both spending days in the record shop, and they were roommates as well as budding musical collaborators. “We worked together at the same store, and then we lived together,” Roby said. “And we’d buy things and go home and learn them. Rob and I had gone through our phases of being really into traditional music.” The re-issue of “Hi Hat” offers a glimpse into how those influences filtered into their music. A bonus track features a cover of the Louvin Brothers’ exquisitely mournful and aching “Lorene,” complete with air-tight vocal harmonies. Some critics and reviewers have possibly made more of the Southern-tinged to 6 String Drag’s music than what is fully warranted. As Roby sees it, they’re a band that (like the British Invasion bands, and most other rock bands of note) were making rock’n’roll that was simply and naturally informed by a familiarity with American musical traditions like the blues, gospel, old-time, country, bluegrass, soul and beyond. “I had friends who were really into tra-
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ditional music. They were turning me on to Buck Owens and the Bad Brains,” Roby said. “But we grew up in the South, and our parents did like Hank Williams.” In the 20 years since “Hi Hat” came out, Roby and the reinvigorated 6 String Drag, with Dan Davis on drums and Luis Rodriguez on guitar, have moved a little away from some of the twang and drawl of the earlier records. The new record has both the muscle and thrust of punk rock, with plenty to bring The Clash to mind, along with the narrative punch and detail of Elvis Costello and The Hold Steady. Roby hits a sweet spot that balances the urge for hooky satisfaction with more layered and narrative depth. “I do like the pop-song thing, and I’ve gone into that, and I’ve gone into the singer-songwriter, storyteller phases of my life,” Roby said. “It’s hard for me just to do a story song and it’s hard for me to just do a pop song, so I tend to mix them up.” Listen to the top-notch “Let’s Fool Around Til the End of the World,” off the new record, a song that has character, detail, pop compression and durable melodic refrains. Feathered into the song are themes of faith, family, and political identity. “There’s aspects of it that are talking about pride and patriotism and the positive and negative aspects of it,” Roby said. “I don’t say it out loud.” That not-saying-it-out-loud element is one of the things that makes Roby’s songs rich and rewarding. There’s a sense of subtlety and fruitful uncertainty about his material. “With me, I don’t know 100-percent what a song’s about. It’s like, OK, Let me paint this picture in my head,” Roby said. “A lot of times, to make the character
three-dimensional intellectually, or emotionally, but also psychologically, you have to leave some mystery, because you can’t fall in love with something if you know everything about it.” The allure of a story and characters is strong, but the melody and memorable music are Roby’s first concerns. “Sometimes I feel like you should just write prose or poetry if you can’t pull off the main function [of making music] which is to make songs that people enjoy listening to,” Roby said. When I ask Roby if he’s ever considered writing fiction independent of his songwriting, he laughs and says he’s too disorganized and lazy. But songs like the title track from “Top of the World” don’t suggest the work of a lazy dude. There is a lovely delicate slowblooming Beatles-esque chorus, a sneaky structural complexity and a satisfying build-and-release wired into the song. Roby has a worldly perspective on his talents. He’s tried his hand at a lot of things, and while he knows that the music business is a dying industry, he says he’d rather have three music-related lines of work (solo projects, etc.) than have several sidelines that allow him to work on music only in his free time. “From my perspective, I’m not better at anything else than doing this,” he said. !
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n the name of full disclosure, I have never read Ernest Cline’s bestselling 2011 novel Ready Player One. Of course, I haven’t read many books that ended up becoming popular movies, but it’s a tidbit that seems worth mentioning in this particular case. Of course, I’m aware of the property and have actually perused great chunks of it — all of which left me thinking that Cline’s writing level tapped out somewhere around the fifth grade. More importantly, I have yet to meet anyone whose opinion I value — i.e. intelligent people who don’t get excited over, say, that upcoming Jersey Shore reunion show or the next inane Trump tweet — who hasn’t dismissed the novel as a painful experience, a name-dropping tome where practically all the ‘80sfriendly nostalgia is artificially manufactured rather than organically integrated into the framework. In short, it basically sounds like fan fiction — Fifty Shades of Grey for guys who have yet to discover their peckers.
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Snap, crackle and pop culture That Ready Player One ( ) the movie sounds superior to Ready Player One the book shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, given that Steven Spielberg is the one sitting in the director’s chair. After all, Spielberg worked similar alchemy when he helped transform Peter Benchley’s Jaws — a terrible book I did read — into merely one of the all-time great motion picture entertainments. Naturally, Ready Player One isn’t in the same league as Jaws — heck, it’s not even in the same 20,000 leagues — but on its own terms, it’s pleasing pablum, buoyed by an engaging cast and some savvy pop-culture references that are skillfully woven into the narrative rather than left hung out to dry. Ready Player One is set in one of those dystopian Americas in which the onepercenters get richer while everyone else is left suffering — no, not 2018 but rather 2045. The only escape for the masses is the virtual-reality world of OASIS, where folks spend practically every waking hour indulging in their fantasies. James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who created the
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OASIS alongside former partner Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg), has recently passed away, but not before revealing that there is an “Easter egg” hidden inside the virtual world and whoever solves the mystery will inherit ownership of Halliday’s empire. Naturally, there’s a soulless bureaucrat, Nolen Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), who uses all the resources available to him through his conglomerate Innovative Online Industries in an effort to crack the case and take over the OASIS; just as naturally, there’s an ordinary kid, 18-yearold Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), who bests him at almost every turn. Wade has help, though. In his online avatar guise of Parzival, he’s friends with Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zao) and Daito (Win Morisaki), and their outfit is soon joined by riot grrrl Art3mis. Wade falls for Art3mis, and more so after he meets Samantha (Olivia Cooke), the actual human behind the avatar. In the OASIS, they battle the likes of King Kong and Mechagodzilla while receiving muchneeded assistance from Ted Hughes’ Iron Giant. The film references come at the audience at warp speed (mostly ‘80s, but also some ‘70s and ‘90s), and if the cultural co-opting was frequently a lazy trigger on the printed page, a way to get easily impressed folks to mistake nostalgia for gravitas (“Wow, Cline mentions both Back to the Future and Knight Rider! This is the bestest book ever!”), there admittedly is some of that taking place on screen as well. But unlike a book, where every word can have equal import, the screen allows for background action that can be taken as mere asides, which is the case with many of the visual cues here. And while a few iconic films and characters take center stage at select points, they’re actually employed in imaginative and story-specific ways: A popular horror yarn from the 1980s receives its own showcase,
while the sudden appearance of a slasherflick fave provides the movie with one of its biggest laughs. (And as an Animal House fan, I appreciated the shout-out to Faber College.) Dating back to his prime period, Spielberg has not only championed children on screen but has also ensured that they’re affable rather than annoying (I would take the empathic Elliott from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial over the insufferable Kevin McCallister from Home Alone any day of the week). With Ready Player One, that tradition continues, as the quintet representing the human side of the online avatars prove to be an engaging bunch. Sheridan (best known for Mud) and Cooke (the dying girl from Me, Earl and the Dying Girl) are charming in the central roles, and it’s just a shame that the roles of Waithe, Zao and Morisaki weren’t larger. On the older side, Mendelsohn does well enough within the confines of a stock villain, while Rylance (who won an Oscar for Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies) wisely maximizes the charming aspects of his rather problematic character, a dreamer largely oblivious to the nightmarish real world. At 140 minutes, Ready Player One could stand some judicious trimming, with its length particularly felt during the protracted third act. Certainly, the first snippet of film that should have been excised is when Wade tells Sorrento that “A fanboy knows a hater when he sees one,” an awful, awful line designed solely to inspire high-fives among white geeks who feel persecuted by a world that dared allow the creation of a female Ghostbusters film. But while fanboys will blindly worship the movie and haters won’t even bother seeing it, the truth rests in between these extremes. On balance, Ready Player One is a diverting slice of entertainment, offering enough surface thrills to justify its existence in a world already overloading on nostalgic feints. !
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Miss, and Big Bob Freelander, the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the pageant’s chief judge. The cast is comprised of area high school students and younger. WHEN: Friday, April 13, at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 19, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 20, at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m. WHERE: Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance 1047 Northwest Blvd. HOW MUCH: $16-$18 TIX & MORE INFO: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/3178634 http://www.wstheatrealliance.org/site/ destined-our-34th-season-2017-2018/ !
SHERLOCK GNOMES (PG) Fri - Thu: 11:45 AM, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 SHIFTING GEARS (NR) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 LOVE, SIMON (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 TOMB RAIDER (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 9:45 PM MIDNIGHTERS (NR) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50
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
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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (PG-13) Fri: 11:35 AM, 5:05, 7:35 Sat: 11:35 AM, 7:35 Sun: 11:35 AM, 5:05, 7:35 Mon: 11:35 AM, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Tue - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:15, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15
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mile adapted from Michael Ritchie’s 1975 movie, “Smile,” a satirical portrait of a teenage beauty pageant, brings together two of the most commercially successful talents in the American musical theater. Marvin Hamlisch, the Oscar-winning composer, brought us the Broadway classics “A Chorus Line” and “They’re Playing Our Song.” Howard Ashman, the 36-yearold lyricist, book writer and director of “Smile,” wrote (with the composer Alan Menken) and directed the smash hit Off Broadway show, “Little Shop of Horrors.” This touching musical follows both the public and behind-the-scenes goings on at the fictitious Young American Miss Pageant in Santa Rosa, California, where 16 teenage girls compete for the title. The show focuses on two girls from very different backgrounds - Robin, a newcomer to the circuit, and Doria, her pageant-seasoned roommate who knows every trick of the trade. The show also depicts the relationship of Brenda DiCarlo, the ambitious pageant coordinator and former Young American
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Smile opens at Theatre Alliance on April 13
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BLUMHOUSE’S TRUTH OR DARE (PG-13) Thu: 7:00, 9:40 RAMPAGE (PG-13) Thu: 7:00, 10:00
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[PLAYBILL] compiled by Heather Dukes On April 5 at 7:30 p.m. High Point Theatre will present On Golden Pond. For 48 years Norman and Ethel Thayer have spent summers at their vacation home on Golden Pond. This summer, the aging couple faces the sad prospect that this may well be their last year at the cottage due to Norman’s physical and neurological decline. The somber realization, and mood, gradually gives way to a brighter, more hopeful future as the elderly man experiences the healing effects of bonding with the couple’s 13-year-old grandson, who joins them for an unexpected month-long visit. Front orchestra reserved tickets are $45, rear orchestra/ balcony reserved tickets are $40. High Point city residents get a $5 per ticket discount to this performance. Groups of 10+ also get special discount pricing. Call the box office at (336) 887-3001, 12-5 p.m., MondayFriday for more details and to take advantage of these special offers. Room and show packages are available for this performance. Get two tickets to the show plus a double occupancy room at either
the Radisson Hotel, the J.H. Adams Inn, the Wingate by Wyndham, or the Seven Oaks Bed & Breakfast. On April 13, 15 and April 19-22 The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will be presenting Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein, a celebration of songs that have become a part of our lives. Featuring show-stopping Broadway numbers from Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and more from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. On April 19-22, Greensboro College will present Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon, directed by Jo Hall, at the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building. Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s early television hit “Your Show of Shows,” with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman Max Prince. !
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Police in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, appealed to the public for help in late March tracking down a most unusual perpetrator. “Over the past year and Chuck Shepherd a half,” the department posted on its Facebook page, “someone has been clogging the women’s toilet (at the Deland Community Center) with a 20-ounce soda bottle. This is very strange ... and gross.” The Sheboygan Press reported that the string of more than 25 incidents began in 2016. Joe Kerlin, the city’s parks and forestry superintendent, says the suspect is likely an adult male, based on security camera footage from outside the restroom. The city’s resulting plumbing bills have totaled between $2,000 and $3,000.
OOPS
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after he fell into the space between two buildings and got stuck, KHON2 TV reported. Security guard Ray Rodrigues was dispatched to the roof to run the 55-yearold off, but found the man had fallen into a 7- to 9-inch-wide space between the cement walls. When pulling him out with a rope failed, firefighters resorted to using drills and saws to cut through the concrete to free him. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENTS
— Shoppers at the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, got more than they bargained for on April 8, 2017, as model Chelsea Guerra, 22, of Indiana Borough and photographer Michael Warnock, 64, of Point Breeze conducted a nude photo shoot around 11 a.m. According to the Pittsburgh TribuneReview, as Warnock took photos and families looked on, Guerra walked around and posed wearing only thigh-high black stockings and high-heeled shoes. In early March of this year, Guerra and Warnock pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after other charges were dropped, and paid a $300 fine. “My nude modeling is honest work,” Guerra said,
“and I use it mostly to fund my college career.” — A dairy truck driver lost his job in early March after being caught on a surveillance camera urinating near dairy cows in a barn at Tremblay Farm in Highgate, Vermont. While no charges were filed, Monica Massey of the Dairy Farmers of America said the driver’s behavior was unacceptable. “We saw the videos. What we saw was deplorable,” Massey said told WCAX TV. Darleen Tremblay said she was “shattered” by what she saw on the video. “I couldn’t move. I froze and I shook,” she added.
BRIGHT IDEAS
— The Snell Family Park ficus tree, a sprawling giant that has shaded the park in Fort Myers, Florida, for more than a century, played the part of groom to several brides on March 24 as Karen Cooper and others tried to save it from being cut down. The News-Press reported that while its roots are on the park property, some of the limbs in the tree’s 8,000-square-foot canopy extend to an adjacent property that is for sale, and potential buyer Jeff Romer was concerned about his liability for the tree’s upkeep. In December, Fort Myers’ public works officials approved the removal of the tree, prompting protests from Cooper and others. She got the idea of marrying the tree from women in Mexico who have been protesting deforestation. “I thought, ‘Oh, we should marry the ficus tree’ — kind of giggle, giggle.” A city spokeswoman said the city is moving ahead to save the newlywed tree, but Cooper is worried that the decision is not final. “If they cut down this tree, I’m going to be a widow.” — Ruan Rocha da Silva, 18, was caught in late March trying to steal five cans of deodorant from a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His prominent tattoo might have given him away: A year ago, after Silva tried to steal a bike from Maycon Wesley Carvalho, 27, and Ronildo Moreira de Araujo, 29, the two men forcibly tattooed Silva’s forehead with the words “I am a thief and an idiot.” The Daily Mail reported that Carvalho and Araujo were caught after filming themselves inking Silva’s forehead and sending the video to friends; both were sentenced to jail time. Silva is out on bail, awaiting trial for shoplifting.
INEXPLICABLE
Eastern Michigan University student Andrew (who didn’t give a last name), 22, wasn’t making any kind of statement or protesting any government action (or lack thereof) on March 12 when he filled
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a pothole in Trenton with a whole box of Lucky Charms and a gallon of milk. Andrew then lay on the road with a spoon and ate the cereal out of the pothole. “I don’t know where the inspiration came from, but when it hit me, I knew it was a good idea,” Andrew told MLive.com. “It tasted great. If I was blindfolded, I wouldn’t know if it was a pothole or a bowl.”
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Italian chef Fabio Picchi has offered three American exchange students in Florence a four-hour cooking lesson after the women tried to cook pasta in a pot without water on March 18. The pasta burst into flames within minutes, and firefighters were summoned to put out the fire. “We thought it was cooked like that,” one of the students told La Nazione. “They will have lunch in our restaurant with two of my extraordinary cooks,” Picchi said. “I think this can be useful to them, but also to us. Understanding is always ... what is beautiful and necessary.”
WEIRD POWER
In Didcot, England, known as the country’s “most normal town,” one resident creatively tried to change people’s perceptions with additions to road signs along local highway A4130. The prankster added destinations such as Narnia, Gotham City, Middle Earth, Emerald City and Neverland to roundabout signs, telling the BBC (on condition of anonymity): “To me there’s nowhere that is normal, there’s no such thing.” He said he’s been making “creative interventions” all over the country for about 20 years. The Oxfordshire County Council responded that while the additions were “amusing,” they’ll be removed as soon as the county’s potholes are fixed.
ANGER MANAGEMENT
Maghan LeGlue, 25, of Bridge City, Louisiana, shifted her rage into high gear on March 24 when she used her 2004 Ford Expedition to pin her 27-year-old boyfriend up against his Ford Crown Victoria, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff ’s Office. The Times-Picayune reported that the couple, who have three children together, had been arguing when LeGlue hit him, shattering his leg. Doctors performed emergency surgery on the victim. LeGlue was taken into custody and was held without bond. !
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f you are looking for Nemo or Dory in the Triad area, you might start at the ever-growing Greensboro-based aquarium service and retail shop located at 7209-B Cessna Dr. Katie Murawski J.J. Elliott and Dexter Hill, coowners of Triad Reef Editor Critters started their aquarium hobby out of their basement at their Stokesdale/Kernersville home, and in 2010 Triad Reef Critters formally opened its doors. “It was a hobby that got out of control,” Hill said. “We operated out of the lower part of our home for the first three years. Through word-of-mouth, it came to what they referred to us as ‘off the beaten path but worth the drive.’” On Saturdays, Hill said their driveway was full of cars. That is when Elliott and Hill decided to either get in or out of business. They went for it and leased space on Regency Drive from one of their customers. About three years into their five-year lease, they realized they were outgrowing the space. In November 2017, Elliott and Hill moved all of their reef critters to the 10,000 square-foot business park space located on Cessna Drive in Greensboro. “We basically built the store from the ground up in a period of about four months,” he said. Hill said he has always been an aquarium enthusiast. He started with freshwater and moved on to saltwater about 27 years ago. When he was younger, his father turned his living room into a freshwater fish store and bred fish. “I’ve always found having aquariums and messing with fish to be very relaxing, and challenging at times as well,” Hill said. “You can get very involved in it to the point where, in addition to naming your fish, you propagate them and raise babies or make new corals.” Elliott used to be in the corporate banking sphere while Hill’s background is in agriculture. About five years ago, Elliott came home after being laid off from her job and was worried about their financial future. Hill suggested that they finally take that 30-day South Pacific cruise that they had been planning. The couple went diving, snorkeling and Hill said by the time
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Porcupine Puffer sold at Triad Reef Critters Below from left: Acropora coral, Gold Ram Cichlid and Lobo coral, are all available at Triad Reef Critters
they got back, Elliott was just as much in love with his hobby as he was. “I really loved it, that was actually the first gift from you,” Elliott said to Hill. “It was a 20-pound rock for an aquarium in my office.” “But her taste in rocks have changed since then,” Hill said motioning to her engagement ring. Elliott said she is happy that things with her banking job didn’t go as planned. She said now when she sees her banking friends, and they ask what she does, she gets to say, “I sell Nemo for a living.” Hill said he used to work for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and then was the manager of the Piedmont
Triad Farmers Market. After that, he started flipping houses. Hill heard about an auction at the now out of business Aquamains, an aquarium shop formerly located on West Market Street, and decided to take a look. “They were just giving away the aquariums and pumps and stuff,” he said. “I just bought walls of aquariums.” Hill had been raising coral at his house, and he tried to sell it at other stores in the area. Elliott said saltwater coral grows, almost like a garden, and it can be shared with friends by “fragging,” or propagating. However, Hill said local shops weren’t willing to give him much for his homegrown coral.
“I thought, well let me just do a little co-op and invite some friends and fellow hobbyist to come in and get some stuff from me, and I could sell my corals as well,” he said. “It started off that way and the next thing I knew, I started buying from Indonesia, Philippines and Australia.” Hill said Triad Reef Critters is wellreceived by customers in the Triad and is the prime location in the area to shop for aquarium goods and services. In addition to retail, Hill said the company also does service as well. Hill said most stores have gone to only servicing because it is something you can’t buy online. “We also offer the ability to deliver the
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aquarium, set it up, service it and care for it,” Hill said. “So that people [who] would love to have a piece of the ocean in their home, that don’t have a clue, can enjoy it the same as people who spend hours every day researching it.” “We do custom design work, so if you have in your mind what you want your aquarium to look like, regardless of shape or size, we do that type of work for people,” Elliott said. “Again, if you want to be able to own a tank that is great, if you don’t ever want to touch the tank then we have a service team that will come out and service your tank as frequently as you need too.” Elliott said there are about 80 tanks throughout the Triad that Triad Reef Critters touches. Some of the local commercial clients Triad Reef Critters have included several dentist offices and restaurants (such as Hong Kong Buffet) in Winston-Salem, Suite 300 in downtown Greensboro and Rice Toyota. Hill said there are customers that come all the way from Charlotte and Raleigh that prefer Triad Reef Critters despite having shops closer to home. “We have a 120-mile following,” Hill said. “One of the first things we did when we first started even as a tiny company operating out of a cigar box, [with] a calculator and a receipt pad, was collecting emails.” Through an extensive email list, which Hill said has over 1,000 email addresses on it, he said customers have become more like Hill and Elliott’s “extended aquarium family.” Hill said what sets Triad Reef Critters apart from the rest of the shops out there is that it embraces the conundrum many brick-and-mortar retail shops face in the age of Amazon and online shopping. “While we’ve been growing, several of other businesses have been going out of business completely,” he said. “In their mind, online stores pushed them out of business by making it convenient for the customer and basically just diminishing prices. What we’ve done is kind of the opposite extreme. We have continued to offer fair prices, but we’ve also been the source for information. We’ve developed a culture that basically says, ‘we are not only going to sell people products, but more importantly we are going to ensure they are successful in the hobby.’” Hill said if a customer wants to buy a fish, nine out of 10 stores will sell them a fish. But Hill said Triad Reef Critters would talk with and educate customers before they sell them a fish that may not be compatible with their aquarium. Hill said that is one of the main reasons why Triad Reef Critters have remained while others have gone away. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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J.J. Elliott and Dexter Hill, co-owners of Triad Reef Critters “Integrity is a big thing with our staff,” Elliott said. “We have kind of a vision and culture and integrity is one of those things that is part of it. One of the things we preach to our staff is always do the right thing.” Elliott and Hill said it is very important for their staff members to fit into the culture of Triad Reef Critters, which consists of excellence, integrity, success, cleanliness, teamwork, knowledge, professionalism and having fun. “Our mission is to bring the peace of the ocean into homes and businesses of the Triad,” Elliott said. Hill and Elliott said they are not hiring just anybody for the job. They make sure their staff is well-educated and trained to be knowledgeable about what they are selling. “The majority of our staff are actually college-educated people that have been in the hobby for quite a number of years,” Hill said. Elliott said that this past year Triad Reef Critters actually got accolades from Action Coach, in which successful business professionals train other businesses. Hill said Action Coach gets business owners to model their businesses like other successful CEOs in bigger companies. Hill and Elliott said they model their business after big businesses such as Apple, Southwest Airlines and Starbucks. “We were a finalist, one of the top five finalists, for the best retailer of the year,” Hill said. “We didn’t win, but we were excited.” “We were excited to be among the top five as a fish store,” Elliott said. Hill said Triad Reef Critters in addition to retail, have become a distributor of
many products so that it keeps prices low. Hill and Elliott said they enjoy going to trade shows and networking with others that are in the same business. Hill said it’s important to Triad Reef Critters to know where and who they buy livestock from so that customers get products from the best suppliers. Hill said he is always asked the question, “Do you sell things that are sustainably raised?” He said even though 90 percent of the industry catches livestock from the wild, there are some suppliers that captive-breed livestock. Hill said those sustainable captive-breeders get Triad Reef Critters’ business first over those who don’t sustainably source livestock. “If we buy clownfish, we buy from a guy named Soren Hansen in Maine, who owns a business called Sea and Reef,” Hill said. “They captive-breed everything that they have, so that is where [our] clownfish come from.” Another sustainable effort Elliott and Hill make is selling their own propagated coral sections. To have more variety, Hill said Triad Reef Critters buys from others who propagate their own coral. As for the future, Hill and Elliott plan to expand even more to include more freshwater livestock and more space for the aquarium showroom. Hill is also planning on launching a product on April 9 that he has designed (and for which his patent is still pending) called “Dexter’s Dividers.” The divider is for people who want different kinds of fish (that may not coexist with each other) in the same tank. “It basically is the perfect solution for dividing an aquarium,” he said. “We are also developing our own website portal so we can sell directly to the customer.
Again, we are not one to run away or be intimidated by online business; we actually follow the trends. Whatever the customer wants, the customer gets.” Elliott said Triad Reef Critters are really invested in the Triad, from employing many residents to buying locally. For instance, Dexter’s Dividers are a product that is locally sourced (silicone and plastic from High Point and Greensboro) and partly assembled in-house at Triad Reef Critters. Hill said the owner of Larry’s Reef Services, Larry DuPont, was one of Triad Reef Critters’ first customers and is a retired Winston-Salem police officer. Hill and DuPont traveled to a trade show together in Los Angeles, and Hill said DuPont got into the hobby, specifically by feeding his fish a healthy diet. Hill said DuPont then started his own fish food company called Larry’s Reef Service (LRS Foods) out of Advance, North Carolina. Hill said DuPont started making a food product called LRS Frenzy Foods and launched it about six years ago. Hill said DuPont’s company grew and his product (which is locally sourced from the waters of North Carolina and Virginia) is now available in 500 retail stores in the United States and at least six different countries. “Our store kind of helped build that big business, and he’s been very successful,” Hill said. “So now, basically we are going to take our product [Dexter’s Dividers] and give it to him to distribute our product for us.” “We could have done it with many other distributors, but with Larry, he is local,” Elliott said. Elliott said Triad Reef Critters wants to be a big part of the community, and one way they do that is through an annual Reef Fest in October that feeds barbeque to over 300 people. Hill said the store also holds informational classes for customers and for people who may want to start getting into the aquarium hobby. “Somebody has to educate the people, somebody has got to care about the people, somebody has to ensure their success,” Hill said. “And that is us; we like doing it.” Triad Reef Critters is open Mondays through Fridays from noon to 8 p.m. It’s open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. To learn more about Triad Reef Critters, follow its social media accounts on Twitter (@TriadReefTweets), Instagram and Facebook (@TriadReefCritters), call (336) 643-6457 or check out the website at www.triadreefcritters.com. ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017. APRIL 4-10, 2018
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Tales from the crypto Cryptocurrency. You’re either into it or you’re not, sort of like knowing what the internet was about in the early1990s. In a nutshell, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Billy Ingram Dash, Ripple, among hundreds of others, are virtual, digital Contributing money with no bank or government supcolumnist porting it. The WWE of financial assets where values can rise to great heights or fall precipitously in a matter of hours. A volatile environment where fortunes can be made or lost overnight could explain why the concept is rapidly gaining acceptance. In 2016, only 1 percent of Americans had a stake in cryptocurrency, that number is up to 8 percent today. Bitcoin kiosks can be found in convenience stores alongside ATMs. I asked folks from wildly different backgrounds why they entered this murky marketplace. Rob Joyce, drummer/lead singer of Time Machine Dive-By, a Greensboro based punk band might seem like an unlikely player but he definitely isn’t when you consider why he got into the game. “It was the hype,” he confessed. “I mean, it was the hype mixed with the fact it had been around for so long, it was blowing up so I decided to get into it.” For Joyce, cryptocurrencies’ inherent volatility is part of the allure. “In one day there could be a $200 fluctuation, then it could dip back down the next day. Buy it low, sell it high.” He put up about $1,000 in 2016 and has, on several occasions, pulled out profits. He said the obsession feels like gambling. “It hasn’t been super lucrative lately, the market’s been going down. I wouldn’t suggest investing unless you’re willing to lose your money.” High Point entrepreneur and member of Los Angeles think tank Media Entertainment Technology Alliance Michael Hayworth came into cryptocurrency a few years earlier than Joyce. In 2012, he attended a breakfast for the think tank and he said a venture capitalist recommended buying Facebook on the secondary market for $0.25 “I spent a day and a half researching Bitcoin,” he said. “My regret is not putting in more. Since then, I’ve participated in
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several ICO’s and my experience is quite prosperous.” In recent days Google, Facebook and Twitter announced a ban on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings ads, as well as related content like trading advice and cryptocurrency wallets, but Hayworth is not worried about the snub. “I’ve heard Bitcoin called a scam, Ponzi scheme, and been mocked for my fascination in cryptocurrency since I got into it,” Hayworth said. “I believe that the future of cryptocurrency will see a large majority of the altcoins disappear, with around 1015 out of 1500+ surviving and becoming giants identical to the dot-com bubble.” “Chris” (who would prefer not to be named in this article because “crypto is sketch”) is a 34-year-old IT professional from Greensboro who recalls first hearing of cryptocurrency around 2009. “My roommate came to me and said, ‘Have you heard about this Bitcoin? It’s a way to transfer money anonymously, avoiding the middlemen,’” he said. “It was like a form of cyber-activism. It seemed cool.” He said the underpinnings of cryptocurrency was that it pays users to be a part of a supercomputer. “Revenue is generated through Blockchain technology, harnessing the power of multiple computers connected over the internet, all working together to solve really enormous mathematical problems that a single computer couldn’t,” he explained. “You don’t really get to know what the purpose of the blocks is. You buy your way into a block but you don’t ever get to know what they’re going to use it for. So there’s a kind of mystery behind it.” Chris remembers in the early days of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, “You could just leave your computer on and it would make you money.” However, he said back then it wasn’t worth much, not even his increased power bill from leaving his computer on. A Business Insider article (www. businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-in2017-review-2017-12) by Frank Chaparro states that in 2017, the value of a single
A Bitcoin kiosk Bitcoin had risen from $900 in January 2017 to almost $20,000 by December 2017, followed days later by a drop that sheared billions of dollars out of the cryptocurrency market. On the afternoon of March 29 (a particularly volatile day), Bitcoin was trading for around $7,500, stated A Business Insider article (www.businessinsider. com/bitcoin-ethereum-litecoin-pricemarch-29-2018-3) by Oscar WilliamsGrut. As for the future of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, Chris said it is unknown. “That $20,000 per coin late last year, people were kind of mesmerized by that,” he said. “The future may be smaller coins, it may be like penny stocks.” Regardless, Wall Street-based Fundstrat’s Tom Lee stated that “Bitcoin is still on track to end the year at $20,000.” Whether cryptocurrency merely survives or thrives, the underlying Blockchain technology is here to stay. Banks are using it to
make transfers faster and all their digital transactions safer. “An excellent example of a company using blockchain is the Crypto Kitties game, which its makers have compared to ‘Beanie Babies for the 21st century,’” Hayworth notes. “They recently raised $12 million from venture capitalists, and several of the kitties have fetched prices northward of $100k.” Comic book geeks may catch my allusion to EC horror comics in the title of this piece. Hopefully, this tale will be spared the inevitable macabre EC twist ending where The Crypt Keeper cackles as everything goes terribly wrong. As for Joyce, he is not worried and is “in it to win it,” because he has diversified his investments. “If the market gets healthy again, I’ll have a lot of oars in the water, so to speak.” ! BILLY INGRAM, aka MC AC/DC, is the author of five books and the producer of The Nathan Stringer Summer Music Show featuring an all-star lineup of local music artists.
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Adultery is illegal ...sort of Adultery has been in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to full disclosures by a porn star and a former Playboy bunny who claim that they both had sex with Donald Trump (not Jim Longworth at the same time, of course). While President Trump’s Longworth alleged extramarital at Large dalliances may be big news on CNN, there’s nothing new about presidents who have also allegedly strayed from the nest. President John F. Kennedy allegedly sneaked women into the White House on a regular basis, including such luminaries as Marilyn Monroe and Judy Exner, the famous mafia go-between. He also allegedly took nude swims in the White House pool with two of his interns. Lyndon B. Johnson was even more brazen, allegedly having sex in the back room of Air Force One, while his wife was on board. And then there’s Bill Clinton, who allegedly had affairs with numerous women including Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, before romping around the Oval Office with his intern Monica Lewinsky. Of those presidents, only Clinton got into hot water, and that was for lying about sex, not actually engaging in it. A similar fate may await Trump who is being investigated, not for committing adultery, but for allegedly having his attorney and a magazine mogul pay hush money that could be construed as illegal campaign contributions. But the real question is, why don’t these powerful men (and men in general) ever pay a substantial price for committing adultery? After all, adultery is still a crime in 21 states, carrying prison time ranging from 30 days to five years, and fines ranging from $10 to $10,000. In Massachusetts, for example, adultery carries a three-year jail sentence and a fine of $500, while in Oklahoma, an unfaithful spouse can do five years in the
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For three months, things were going really well with this man I was dating. He’d introduced me to his daughter. We’d even planned a trip together. And then he just disapAmy Alkon peared. I eventually texted him to find Advice out what happened, but he simply texted Goddess back, “Really busy, all good.” This isn’t the first time this has happened to me or my girlfriends. Why do men do this? Why don’t they tell you what’s really going on? — Upset When a guy just cuts you off like a bad tree limb, it’s tempting to come up with ego-cushioning explanations: He’s in a coma! He’s trapped in a wooded gully in his crashed car! He’s being interrogated at a CIA black site! (“Sorry...Mr. Jones is getting a series of painful electric shocks to his nipples right now and cannot come to the phone.”) However, the best explanation for this man’s disappearance is probably textbook stuff — psych textbook, that is, and specifically a couple of personality traits. One of these is “conscientiousness.” And the bad side of the spectrum is being
“low in conscientiousness” — psychologists’ term for a person who is careless, irresponsible, impulsive, and lacking in self-control and who habitually ducks his obligations (as if they were flaming arrows). The other trait is the unfortunately named “psychopathy.” Though it calls to mind shower-stabbing hobbyists, it doesn’t necessarily lead to murderous rampages. Still, it isn’t exactly the personality trait of angelic hospice nurses, as it’s marked by exploitiveness, aggression, poor impulse control, selfcenteredness, and a lack of empathy. Low conscientiousness and psychopathy partner up into an inability or unwillingness to admit to being wrong. Apologizing takes emotional strength and character strength — the conscientiousness and empathy that leave the wrongdoer feeling borderline queasy until they come clean and express remorse to the person they hurt. It isn’t just men who do the disappearo thing; it’s anyone low on conscientiousness. The problem is, when love appears to be on the horizon, we want to believe more than we want to see. It’s helpful to take an almost pessimistic approach to any new relationship: Assume a man has flaws; figure out what they are; and decide whether any are deal breakers. This takes observing his behavior over time (at least a year) in a variety of situations — especially crisis situations. You want
to know that when the chips are down, a man’ll have your back — and not just to use you as a human shield so the SWAT team snipers won’t pick him off.
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Every photo my boyfriend takes of me is horrific (one eye kind of shut, bad angle of my face, etc.). My female friends take decent pictures of me, so it’s not like it’s impossible. I know my boyfriend loves me and thinks I’m beautiful. Could he be trying to keep other men from being attracted to me? — Occasional Bride Of Frankenstein You’d think you wouldn’t have to give a man who loves you a detailed list of instructions for photographing you — down to “immediately erase any shots in which I look like I’m having a seizure or bear a strong resemblance to a surprised goat.” In fact, you are far from alone in complaining that the man you love takes terrible pictures of you — or in worrying that it means something. However, this worry of yours probably comes out of what I call our mind’s neatfreakitude. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests we get so itchy over mental chaos — being in a state of uncertainty about someone or something — that we’re quick to sweep aside inconsistencies and ignore missing information in service of creating a coherent narrative.
And then (conveniently!) we turn right around and go with the story we’ve created — in this case, the suspicion that your boyfriend is plotting to make you look uggo in photographs. The reality is, if you aren’t a professional model being shot by a professional photographer, it sometimes takes dozens of shots to have even one you don’t want to delete in horror. (Shoot my long face from above, as my boyfriend sometimes forgets and does, and I look like a movie star — the horse that played Seabiscuit.) Because men evolved to prioritize physical attractiveness in women and women coevolved to expect this, women are extremely sensitive to being photographed in ways that don’t show them off at their sparkliest. That’s probably why, if you glance at various 20-something women’s Instagram pages, you’ll see that many strike the very same pose in photo after photo (having figured out their exact best angle, to the micrometer). Sure, some men are as acutely sensitive about engineering their perfect pose — mostly those whose work attire is a sequined evening dress, a ginormous feather boa, and chandelier earrings the size of New Jersey. ! 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.
[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Hold off trying to fix the blame for an apparent mishandling of a work situation. A full investigation could reveal surprising facts on how and why it really happened. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your ability to find details others might overlook gives you an advantage in assessing a possibly too-good-to-be-true offer. A trusted colleague has advice. [LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Expect to be called on once again to act as peacemaker in a long-simmering dis-
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[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Love rules the week for single Bovines seeking romance. Attached pairs also find new joy in their relationships. Friday should bring news about a business opportunity.
[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Helping others is what Aquarians do so well. But this time, someone wants to help you. Expect to hear some news that will both surprise and delight you.
[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Home becomes the center of a new social whirl, as you show your talent for hosting great parties. You can expect to impress a lot of people who’ve never seen this side of you.
[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Things go so swimmingly that you’re tempted to take on more tasks. Best advice: Finish what you have now, then enjoy a well-earned relaxing weekend.
[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The Moon Child might have to raise those powers of persuasion a notch to get a still-wary colleague to agree to go along. Finding more facts to back up your position helps.
[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A little woolgathering is OK. But don’t let that dreamy state linger beyond midweek, when you’ll want to be ready to take on new workplace responsibilities.
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