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EMBUR FIRE FUSION is located behind Mad Hatter in what was formerly Donutime Coffee and Donuts. The old light-up sign still hangs in the window, but Embur is far from serving your favorite morning pickme-up. The menu is a balance of Peruvian dishes and wood-fired pizza, which is not only atypical...

10 Abbey Mei Otis knows how to get your attention. I’d call her debut fiction collection ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER “infectious,” but that lazy blurb is unfair to a writer whose work is not only mordantly funny but frequently heartbreaking.

11 Fresh from its big-screen takedown of Space Mutiny (1988) in May, “RiffTrax Live” returns with an even bigger-budgeted space opera ripe for razzing – Columbia Pictures’ big-budget 1983 bomb KRULL...

12 DOUG MACLEOD is a bluesman whose music is in conversation with the blues tradition. However, unlike a lot of other blues artists who have a deep respect YES! WEEKLY

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for the music of the past and the deep history of the genre, MacLeod doesn’t play covers.

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Loosely based on a true story, it centers on Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, Denzel’s son), who during the 1970s was a rookie — and the first African-American officer — with the police department in Colorado Springs.

20 Among the gazillion other products and services available from Amazon is the behemoth’s facial recognition software, REKOGNITION, marketed as providing extremely accurate facial analysis. But when the American Civil Liberties Union gave it a go, the results were startling.

25 DJ AYO VIP aka Vallinda Persaud is taking over Greensboro’s Nightlife scene little by little while turning the heads of partygoers all over the city. Persaud is a 28-year-old DJ, singer, and rapper who was originally born in Toronto, Canada.

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‘INTO THE BLUE’ RELEASE PARTY

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Josh King is a singer-songwriter based in Greensboro and is set to release his first debut album “Into The Blue” on Aug. 17 at the Blind Tiger, located at 1819 Spring Garden St. in Greensboro.

King is probably most well-known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and vocals for the band The Ends. King has also played in other local groups such as House of Fools, Roseland and Carri Smithey. Some members from those bands will join him at the Blind Tiger to show their support for his solo venture.

King said the album name “Into The Blue” came from one of its 11 songs off the album that bears the same name.

“The song has a lot of meaning to it,” he said. “I wrote the song during two separate times; I wrote the first half of the song when I was going through some stuff.

I was a little down and out, kind of given up on a lot of stuff and quit writing songs, that is why I didn’t finish this song. I wrote the second half and made a couple of changes and decided to have a better life.”

King describes “Into the Blue” as “all over the place.”

“I tried to write an album that is true to me,” he said. “I wasn’t looking to try and

sound like a certain thing, and I think I pulled it off. As far as listening to it, people will find a little bit of everything in it. If you like music, I hope that there is at least one song on the album that you will like.”

The release party at the Blind Tiger starts at 9 p.m. with doors opening at 8 p.m. King’s band is composed of Jordan Powers on guitar/ vocals, Eddie Walker on drums/vocals, Joel Kiser on guitar, Josh Coe on bass and David Thurlow on keys.

Opening for King are singer-songwriters with country and local roots, Carri Smithey and Caleb Caudle. As for King’s genre, he would describe himself as alternative rock with rock ’n’ roll, country and punk as his other influences.

“Basically the album is kind of an ode to all my past bandmates from the 20 years I have been playing,” he said. ‘It has a little bit of every one of those bands in it.”

The release party at the Blind Tiger costs $10, and tickets can be purchased online at www. theblindtiger.com/. For more information about Josh King, visit his Facebook www.facebook.com/joshkingnc/, Instagram or Twitter pages (@ joshkingnc). !

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hen it comes to choosing a restaurant, I tend to avoid those that label its menu as “fusion.” There is something about combining two entirely different types Jennifer Zeleski of cuisine that never seems to come out quite right. Embur Contributor Fire Fusion, located at 107 Smyres Pl. in Greensboro, just opened its doors in early August and seemed worth a try.

Embur is located behind Mad Hatter in what was formerly Donutime Coffee and Donuts. The old light-up sign still hangs in the window, but Embur is far from serving your favorite morning pick-me-up. The menu is a balance of Peruvian dishes and wood-fired pizza, which is not only atypical, but yet another international-cuisine restaurant added to Greensboro’s food scene. I tried not to have too high of expectations and looked forward to getting my first taste of Peruvian and Italian food just minutes outside of downtown.

Before walking in, guests may peek inside the large windows to see the woodburning pizza oven or notice the large garden boxes lining the sidewalk, packed with fresh herbs. Copious amounts of basil, rosemary and various types of mint are growing well in the summer heat, creating a green contrast to the very modern interior of the restaurant just steps away.

Seating is open to your choice or preference, and the sides of the restaurant are lined with booths, where children would have no problem squeezing in if seating

was limited. There is also a long bar in the back, facing a well-stocked liquor shelf and traditional espresso machine. I am not quite sure if the restaurant inherited it or if there are plans to use it, but one can only be surprised at a fusion restaurant.

The menu was intriguing at first glance.

Some of the categories combined the two cuisines side-by-side, and others were strictly one or the other. More of the lunch options could be found in the salads, sandwiches and soup categories, whereas the heavier plates were those more in tune with their traditional roots.

There are long lists of ingredients for the salads, featuring several different flavors such as a Tropical Salad featuring arugula, mango, strawberries, sweet peppers, fennel, palmitos and lemon dressing. The sandwiches are more straightforward; the Caprese consisted of tomato, mozzarella cheese and arugula (which is hardly the only meat-free option on the menu). All of the pizzas on the menu could be classified as vegetarian, aside from the Americana, which is a Margherita pizza with sautéed onion and pepper mix over rotisserie chicken.

Speaking of chicken, it is the only meat you will find on the menu. And after hearing rave reviews of how tender and flavorful rotisserie Peruvian chicken is, I couldn’t have been more excited. In most cases, chicken is my meat of choice, and I was curious to see how it would hold up to the hype.

However, I knew I couldn’t just order the chicken. If I was going to experience its fusion style, I was going to have to order a few of the menu items that I couldn’t identify, and somehow pair them with a side of pizza. Luckily my boyfriend, Peyton, is always up for the adventure, and we weren’t going to give up the opportu-

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Our order started with an appetizer of Yuquitas a la Huancaina, which I was too ashamed to try and pronounce, but our server described as fired yuca served with a yellow Peruvian pepper sauce. Despite my slight American embarrassment, our server could pronounce it beautifully.

Peyton ordered one of his personal favorites, Margherita pizza with just tomato and Fior Di Latte mozzarella, according to the menu. It was a safe choice, but one that he couldn’t pass up thanks to the enticing smell of the wood-burning oven, and the hope for a delicious pizza experience.

I chose the 1/4 Pollo a la Brasa, the Peruvian rotisserie chicken, which came with the option of hand-cut fries and a salad, or Peruvian-style house rice. Without thinking, I ordered the fries and salad as a

side but realized my regret as our waitress walked away. The Peruvian rice sounded delicious, but I was tempted by the fresh, mixed-greens salad to pair with the savory chicken, so I didn’t allow my decision to lead to dissatisfaction.

Instead of waiting for a dessert menu until after dinner, I embraced the fact that I would be too full for tiramisu or alfajores (cookies filled with dulce de leche, topped with coconut flakes) upon finishing our meals, so I ordered the maduros (fried plantains) instead, as a sweet side.

The Yuquitas a la Huancaina didn’t take long to make its way to the table, and I was surprised how similar it looked to French fries, but how different they were. Despite its appearance, it was more savory than a potato and held a more complex flavor. The Yuquitas a la Huancaina smelled like fair food, but lacked the

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grease, and is what I plan on getting the next time I need a fried-food fix. The yellow dipping sauce wasn’t aggressive in flavor, and only had a mild spice that Peyton compared to jalapeños.

The appetizer was satisfyingly crunchy and perfectly salted, but I knew I couldn’t finish them all with the rest of the food that would follow.

Don’t be intimidated by the name; this could be the best appetizer for your family when you stop by (and you don’t have to tell the kids they’re not potatoes).

Our main entrées arrived shortly after, mine with varying textures and contrasting colors, and Peyton’s with picturesque melted cheese and bright red tomato sauce. We could hardly wait to dig in.

The chicken, which was white meat and served with a small chicken wing attached, was so tender it pulled right off the skin. Not to be cliché, but it was meltin-your-mouth tender, and difficult to stop eating to try my other options. The fries are good enough that I would have fallen in love with them as a child, despite not caring for steak-cut fries, but they could have used something to pair them with other than another version of the yellow pepper Peruvian sauce. I hate to admit that my American heart longed for a bit of ketchup.

When the yellow sauce was paired with the chicken, it was a good combination, but the sauce overshadowed the delicious flavors of just the chicken itself, so I opted out of using it. As for the salad, I adored the light balsamic vinegar it was tossed in, and the mixed greens and chopped tomatoes tasted fresh. It was a great way to cut the overall savory and salty flavors I was experiencing elsewhere, and I would be interested in trying the other salads on from the menu options next time I visit.

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which was surprising having been made in the wood-fired oven.

The lack of crispy edges or blackened places made for a middle that was slightly disappointing, but the cheese was melted well, and the sauce had the tartness you need for a solid Margherita pizza. However, we couldn’t believe the lack of basil for having so many fresh herbs growing outside. But the overall flavor and texture of the pizza were pretty decent. Considering we only ordered the basic Margherita, we are unsure of the amount of actual toppings on the other options but would be interested to find out.

Finally, the maduros were a bit squishy and greasy for my liking. I never had fried plantains from a restaurant before, and these lacked the slight crisp I was used to.

The plantains have a sweeter flavor, but not one that was similar to bananas, as many might suggest. The caramelization worked in their favor. I wouldn’t feel compelled to order the maduros again unless someone at the table felt strongly about having fried plantains.

Without the appetizer and additional side, the total would have been a modest $20 for two, which is your average cost in the area, and what would be expected for the amount of food for both plates. I can’t say I was as impressed with the cuisine as I am with the other authentic restaurants in Greensboro. Embur is a place that may satisfy picky eaters, and allow others to get outside of their comfort zone.

If you’re looking to take a chance on a fusion restaurant, Embur Fire Fusion is your newest stop in the Triad, and might just spark your appetite for local, combination cuisine. !

JENNIFER 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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Author exposes Scuppernong to ‘Alien Virus’

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Can’t remember if I was 9 or 10 when the sex robot fell from the sky.”

As the opening “If You Could Be the God of Everything” demonstrates, AbIan McDowell bey Mei Otis knows how to get your attention. I’d call her Contributor debut fiction collection Alien Virus Love Disaster “infectious,” but that lazy blurb is unfair to a writer whose work is not only mordantly funny but frequently heartbreaking.

Other things break in her stories or were broken before they begin; not just sex robots, but systems and dreams and promises, as well as skin and bone and flesh. She writes of transformations both agonizing and transcendent, as bodies mutate and tumors erupt into sparkling star-stuff. The Pushcart-winning author Joanna Ruocco described Otis’s stories as occurring in “bargain bin worlds remaindered from the near futures of the more fortunate,” an apt descriptor for her fierce identification with marginalized communities many science fiction writers pretend don’t exist.

I first heard of Otis when her publisher Gavin Grant emailed about her upcoming appearance at Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books, where she’ll be appearing at 7 p.m. on Aug. 21. Small Beer Press, which Grant founded with University of North Carolina at Greensboro MFA Writing Program alumnus (and Pulitzer nominee) Kelly Link, is one of the country’s most ambitious genre imprints, publishing

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not only the acclaimed Link but many other imaginative and literate writers of fantasy and science fiction. I had high expectation for its newest author. Otis’s book surpassed them.

Sometimes she grabs you even before the first line with titles like “Sex Dungeons for Sad People” or “I’m Sorry Your Daughter Got Eaten by a Cougar.”

That last title is a good example of her genre-blurring approach. I can imagine editors telling her that the story should be about the mountain community dealing with the loss of a child, or about the narrator’s sexual relationship with an undead Civil War soldier, or the visiting space pilots called “shuttlemen” (a coinage worthy of the great Cordwainer Smith), but not all three. Yet she mixes these elements deftly while dealing far more achingly with loss than the title might suggest.

However, she’s subtle, too. One of the best stories is the affecting “Moonkids,” about young people born in a lunar colony, but exiled from it after failing a crucial exam. Surgically altered to survive Earth’s gravity, they attempt to adapt to life in an American beach town. She unflashily but expertly sets

the stage in her first three sentences: “Suzo says Moonkids find their way to Sandpoint because they’re drawn to the tides.

They like to be around something else that’s ruled by the pull of the moon. Colleen thought she came to Sandpoint because Crabby Abby’s was hiring and soft shell didn’t seem like such a bad thing to eat for lunch every day, but she’s willing to concede that maybe Suzo has a point.”

In an email, I told Otis that I found her decaying suburbs and abandoned housing tracts a more believable portrait of our future than the cliché cyberpunk megalopolis and that she seems more genuinely interested in social margins than many authors of what was considered science fiction’s cutting-edge subgenre when I was her age. Her response was more nuanced than my glib dismissal of (some of) her predecessors.

While acknowledging that “the stereotypical cyberpunk tropes were imagined primarily by white straight cis men, and the horizons of marginality that can be imagined by those guys are always going to be narrower than those imagined by queer and POC people.” She praised the work of Samuel R. Delany and Pat Cadigan. “I’m always hesitant to write

off subgenres as too dominant-culture because I don’t want to contribute to the erasure of marginalized people working in those genres. And often what those writers did was widen the perspective, so we can see the margins of the margins.”

She also wrote that her interest in marginalized communities stems “from trying to grapple with big questions about what it means to share suffering, or to transgress laws, or to long for home.”

These questions, she explained, are the ones “asked most urgently by people shoved from the center of society,” adding that her depiction of marginalization may be the least inventive part of her work.

“If you want to write horror, I can’t think of anything more horrifying than what this country has done to poor people, and people who are gender- or neuro-divergent. I can’t think of anything more surreal and inventive than how this country conceives of laws and then punishes lawbreakers. Grappling with those questions through speculative fiction is a way of defamiliarizing them a little, and trying to dig toward truths without speaking for or raising my voice above any one specific group of people. Maybe estrangement can enable clearer sight, or maybe it’s just a way of holding up the nightmare with tongs.” !

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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Rifftrax razzes Krull Fresh from its big-screen takedown of Space Mutiny (1988) in May, “RiffTrax Live” returns with an even bigger-budgeted space opera ripe for razzing – Columbia Pictures’ big-budget 1983 bomb Krull, which critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert called “one of the most boring, nonsensical, illogical fantasies in a long time” on their television series.

Krull was clearly an attempt to emulate the success of Star Wars (1977), replete with Mark Burger its own (albeit muddled) mythos. Costing a whopping $40 million, big bucks in those days, the film grossed less than $20 million.

Contributor In 1983, Columbia’s other attempts to hop aboard the science-fiction bandwagon, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (in 3-D, no less) and Yor: The Hunter of the Future didn’t fare much better, despite subsequent cult followings.

These days, Krull is probably best remembered for its admittedly grand visual effects, early roles for Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane, and – at least to this cineaste – that director Peter Yates, who initially turned down the film, got to make his splendid adaptation of The Dresser, at Columbia. (OK, that film didn’t make a whole lot of money, either, but it earned Yates an Oscar nomination as Best Director, and it’s better than Krull!)

For almost 10 years, “RiffTrax Live” has been roasting the bad, the worse, and the ugly during its series of big-screen presentations. Film lives forever – whether it deserves to or not – and the RiffTrax team has selected some of the biggest, boldest, baddest cinematic atrocities in irreverent and irrepressible fashion.

Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy – those beloved, battle-scarred veterans of “Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K)” – are back on the big screen, prepared to do battle with the inter-stellar inanity of Krull armed with wisecracks, witticisms, quips, and puns. Yes, indeed, the “Farce” is with them.

The Fathom Events presentation of Rifftrax Live: Krull will be screened Aug. 23, with an encore screening Aug. 25, at more than 600 theaters nationwide, including three here in the Piedmont Triad: The Grand 12 - Four Seasons Station (2700 Vanstory St.) and Regal Greensboro Grande Stadium 16 (3205 Northline Ave.) in Greensboro, and the Grand 18 Theatre (5601 University Pkwy.) in Winston-Salem.

“Mike, Kevin, and Bill continue to bring the laughs, and we’ll continue bringing them back to the big screen,” vowed Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. “We’re proud to announce their return this August with another sci-fi cult classic that is sure to have audiences entertained.”

During its small-screen run, not only did “MST3K” amass a sizable worldwide following – becoming a cult phenomenon in its own right – but also drew attention to scores of movies best forgotten and in some cases revived interest in them as potential cult classics. During its lengthy run, the series earned two Emmy nominations (both times for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program), and in 1993 received the prestigious Peabody Award.

With the series canceled in 1999 after 197 episodes, and following a 1995 feature film, the series continues to live on in syndication and on home video – as well as in the hearts and minds of its fervent fans worldwide.

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This event marks the 27th “RiffTrax Live” event since first partnering with Fathom Events. Previous offerings have included Ed Wood’s infamous Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), the indescribable Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003), Samurai Cop (1991), Syfy’s campy Sharknado extravaganzas, and more. So long as there are bad movies to be ridiculed and mocked, there’s no end in sight! Rest assured, “RiffTrax Live” will be back. !

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oug MacLeod is a bluesman whose music is in conversation with the blues tradition.

However, unlike a lot of other blues artists who have a deep John Adamian respect for the music @johnradamian of the past and the deep history of the genre, MacLeod Contributor doesn’t play covers.

MacLeod spends a chunk of each year on the road doing solo gigs. He doesn’t trot out gems by Robert Johnson or Howlin Wolf to demonstrate his connection to the 1930s and 1940s.

Instead, MacLeod, who will play Muddy Creek Music Hall in Winston-Salem on Aug. 17, performs only originals. I spoke to MacLeod by phone from his hotel room in Raleigh last week, where he had played a show before bouncing down to Georgia.

The blues, of course, is a form with specific chord changes, structures, and the expressive treatment of certain nonstandard flatted notes. It’s also a tradition of truth-telling and entertaining that involves transforming pain, suffering, anxiety, and hardship into art. Non-verbal moans and cries can be central details in a performance. The authenticity of the blues — the realness of the struggle and emotion that the music often conveys — is what first drew MacLeod to the blues when he was a high school student in St. Louis in the early 1960s.

Since then, MacLeod made a living as a performer, singing the blues, writing songs, playing guitar and telling stories.

Early in his career MacLeod met and played with some older blues artists like George “Harmonica” Smith, Ernest Banks and Lowell Fulson. They became his mentors, and they nudged MacLeod toward an articulation of the blues that required a challenging level of self-discovery and self-revelation. One thing that MacLeod learned was that the songs and tropes of pioneering blues artists weren’t necessarily sensible material for him. If part of what resonated with him about the music was its realness, then he had to try to get in touch with his own realness if he wanted his music to have a similar punch.

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mentors, who asked him “What do you know about hellhounds?” To which MacLeod had to answer, “nothing.” So, who was he trying to BS? That was the question his mentor, Banks, asked him.

“He taught me to be honest and to write about what you know about,” MacLeod said.

MacLeod realized that he’d never experienced some of the particular hardships and colorful details that he’d come across in old blues songs; he’d never picked cotton, and he didn’t know anything about mojos, as he said. So that left MacLeod trying to figure out what topics were fair game.

As it happened, loneliness and the need for love proved to be pretty decent places to start. MacLeod’s first solo record, 1984’s No Road Home, starts with the song “I’m Down Now,” which is sort of a mission statement about lowness and isolation. Over the years MacLeod moved away from the electric blues of his first record, and he began playing on a resonator guitar, performing mainly solo. The set-up allowed him to showcase his deft fingerpicking and expressive slide playing.

That early commitment to playing only original material forced some innovations so that he could fill up a full night on the stage: MacLeod became a storyteller and an entertainer with a comedic streak.

“I had to do a lot of stories in between songs to entertain the crowd,” he said.

“Because of that, I became a really good storyteller.”

Setting up his songs and explaining some of the characters and context became part of his show. Whether he is getting laughs (often) or sketching out the hurt and anger that might have prompted one of his songs, MacLeod treats between-song banter as central to his role as an entertainer.

MacLeod’s most recent record, Break the Chain from 2017, takes the tell-thehard-truth challenge seriously, with the title song being about MacLeod’s experience of being sexually abused as a child, and about the ways that those types of traumas can set up patterns of abuse in victims, later in their lives. Through therapy — another system of intensive candor — MacLeod came to terms with what had happened to him as a child. He realized that his story of endurance and the eventual establishment of a healthy and loving family relationship with his wife and child could serve as an inspiration to others.

In addition to songs about the redeeming power of love and truth, the record also features a recording of “Church Street Serenade,” an older instrumental that MacLeod had an originally recorded for a previous record that is now out of print. The song is a sort of hat-tip to a place in Virginia, where MacLeod had spent time as a young man, seeking out the blues. “Church Street Serenade” is slow, somber and pretty, evocative of classic, expressive blues tracks like Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was the Night.” It’s MacLeod’s way of honoring the humble nobility of the artists inspired him and the music that ultimately saved his life.

Even MacLeod’s instrumental music points back to that ethos of truth and expression. MacLeod said he views slide playing as a way of making the guitar sing. And he often encourages students in workshops to make sure that any guitar playing they attempt to do should first relate back to the voice. Meaningful music, in MacLeod’s view, isn’t about some crafty assemblage of notes, it’s about the expressive emanation of one’s

being, one’s soul. If you can’t articulate that essence by singing it, then MacLeod views that as a sign of something possibly being off the mark.

“Your first instrument is your heart, and your second instrument is your voice,” he said. Converting that into sound on an actual physical instrument, whether it be on a piano or a saxophone, requires both a little magic and a core of truth. Riffs and solos should be things that one can replicate with one’s voice.

MacLeod asks: “If you can’t sing it, should you be playing it?” !

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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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Aug 17: Casey Noel Aug 18: Matt Walsh Aug 19: The Randolph Jazz Band Aug 24: Blue Cactus Aug 25: Heather Kenney Aug 31: Bear Stevens Sep 1: Laura Jane Vincent Sep 7: Open Mic w/ Wolfie Calhoun

clemmons

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Aug 18: Fuhnetik Union Aug 24: Lasiter Union Aug 25: Ryan Trotti Aug 31: DJ Bald-E

danbury

green heron ale house 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Aug 18: Regal Sloan Aug 25: Mike Mitchell Trio Sep 1: Sezessionville Sep 8: Hot Trail Mix Sep 15: Will Easter and the Nomads Sep 22: Jack Marion and The Pearl Snap Prophets Sep 29: Pete Pawsey

greensboro

arizona pete’s

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Aug 17: 1-2-3 Friday Sep 2: Seshollowaterboyz Sep 18: Ski Mask The Slump God, Danny Towers, Bandhunta Izzy, DJ Scheme Sep 19: Neck Deep: The Peace and Panic USA Tour 2, Trophy Eyes, Stand Atlantic, WSTR Oct 3: Arch Enemy, Goatwhore, Uncured

artistIka night club 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Aug 17: DJ Dan the Player Aug 18: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player YES! WEEKLY

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BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Sep 20: Ms. Mary Goes Gospel Sep 22: Ms. Mary Goes Gospel

BeerThirty

505 N. Greene St Aug 17: Chad Barnard Aug 24: Craig Baldwin Aug 31: Gerry Stanek Sep 7: Starstruck Sep 14: Mix Tape Sep 21: Chad Barnard

the blind tiger

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Aug 16: For The Fallen Dreams w/ Sworn In, Bodysnatcher Aug 17: Josh King Album Release Party Aug 18: Enrage Against The Machine w/ Cypress III Aug 24: NIrvanna: A Tribute to Nirvana Aug 25: Radio Romance Aug 31: Create. Presents: Esseks Sep 1: Papadosio, Higher Learning Sep 5: Companyon, Lowborn, North

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churchill’s on elm 213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Aug 16: Live Thursdays

comedy zone

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Aug 17: Jerry Farber Aug 18: Jerry Farber Aug 24: Tim Kidd Aug 25: Tim Kidd Aug 31: Mike Speenberg Sep 1: Mike Speenberg

common groundS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Aug 25: Andrew Kasab

cone deNIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Sep 14: Mark Tremonti Sep 15: Riley Green Sep 26: Kaleo Oct 25: Andy Grammer

greene street club 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

ham’s new garden

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Aug 17: Disaster Recovery Aug 24: Southern Eyes Band Aug 31: Jukebox Revolver

Listen Speakeasy 433 Spring Garden St Aug 19: Phil Madeira

RODY’S tavern

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Aug 15: Currie Wayne Clayton Aug 17: Jukebox Rehab Aug 22: Mix Tape Aug 25: Jukebox Revolver Aug 29: Tyler Millard Band Aug 31: Low Key Sep 8: Radio Revolver Sep 12: Currie Wayne Clayton Sep 14: Kayla Watson Sep 22: Jukebox Revolver Sep 28: Low Key Oct 6: Radio Revolver

somewhere else tavern

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Aug 18: Desired Redemption, Trailer Park Orchestra, Dogbane, Crimson Soil, Angelic Steel Sep 1: Murder Maiden Sep 14: Creatio, Crystal Saunders, Kendall Levesque Oct 6: SoulSeason

Speakeasy Tavern

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

the idiot box comedy club

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Sep 8: Stand Up Comedy Workshop

the W BISTRO & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown Aug 16: Karaoke Aug 17: Live DJ Aug 18: Live DJ

high point

after hours tavern 1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Aug 17: Karaoke Aug 18: Dogdaze Aug 24: Karaoke

Bar 65

235 Cornell Dr | 336.543.4799 Aug 18: An Entropic Project

ham’s palladium 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Aug 17: Lucky Pocket Aug 18: Jukebox Revolver Aug 24: Bad Romeo

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the deck

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Aug 17: Spare Change Aug 18: The Plaids Aug 19: Stereo Doll - Jamestown Food Truck Fest Aug 24: Where’s Eddie Aug 25: Hip Pocket Aug 26: GMan and the Grand Torinos Aug 31: The Dickens

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dance hall daze

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Aug 17: Skyryder Aug 18: The Delmonicos Aug 24: The Delmonicos Aug 25: Crimson Rose Aug 31: The Delmonicos

BReathe Cocktail Lounge

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge Aug 16: Comedy Night w/ Cabell Wilkinson

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old nick’s pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Aug 17: Karaoke w DJ Tyler Perkins Aug 18: Chasing Fame Aug 24: Karaoke w DJ Tyler Perkins Aug 25: Bootleggers

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CoaCh’S NEighborhood grill

1033 Randolph St. Suite 26 | 336.313.8944 coachsneighborhoodgrill.com aug 18: austin bingham aug 25: Keith burkhart Sep 8: Marte Maney Sep 15: austin bingham Sep 22: darrell hoots

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MuddY CrEEK CaFE & MuSiC hall

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 aug 16: open Mic w/ Country dan Collins aug 16: Kevin Maines and the volts aug 17: doug Macleod aug 18: usual Suspects aug 18: June rise aug 19: Elliott humphries aug 19: Elephant/wes Collins aug 23: open Mic w/ Country dan Collins

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 aug 16: big bang boom aug 17: unknown henson aug 23: the original wailers, Pure Fiya aug 24: Shooter Jennings aug 25: Shiloh hill, i, anomaly, Foxture, Companyon aug 31: the black lillies Sep 2: labor day groove Fest Sep 7: Jay aston’s gene loves Jezebel Sep 15: bunker dog improv Comedy Show

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405 4th St NW | 336.721.1945

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826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 aug 15: letters to abigail

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com

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408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern aug 25: Fruit Smoothie trio aug 31: Souljam Sep 28: Souljam

burKE StrEEt Pub 1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097 burkestreetpub.com aug 16: Pride Night

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3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Jul 26: Karaoke aug 3: Exit 180

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620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake

FoothillS brEwiNg

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com aug 15: greg wilson and Second wind aug 18: grooveFood aug 22: west King Street band

JohNNY & JuNE’S SalooN

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com

MaC & NElli’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com

MillENNiuM CENtEr 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com

MilNEr’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com aug 19: live Jazz aug 26: live Jazz www.yeSweekly.com

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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Aug 17: Kids in America Aug 18: Big Freedia Aug 23: Pusha T Aug 24: On The Border Aug 24: DJ Lemon Aug 26: Black Stone Cherry Sep 13: Trouble Sep 13: Lil Baby Sep 14: Alina Baraz Sep 14: Trial By Fire Sep 15: Cherub Sep 18: Nonpoint

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Aug 17: Gov’t Mule Aug 21: NEEDTOBREATHE w/ JOHNNYSWIM Aug 31: Pizazz Smooth Jazz Festival Sep 6: Miguel Sep 12: 4u: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince Sep 16: 5 Seconds of Summer Sep 18: Portugal. The Man

707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com Aug 17: Jason Aldean Aug 19: Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers, & Ann Wilson of Heart Sep 11: Deep Purple & Judas Priest Sep 13: Zac Brown Band Sep 19: Niall Horan

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Aug 31: Anne Claire Niver Sep 1: DownTown Abby & The Echoes

GREENSBORO COLISEUM TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Sep 15: Alan Jackson

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Sep 6: Chris Isaak Sep 7: Taj Mahal Trio

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Aug 15: Lyle Lovett Sep 15: James Bay

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 14: Fall Out Boy

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Aug 22: 3 Doors Down & Collective Soul

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com

RALEIGH

CCU MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com Aug 18: Jason Aldean Aug 24: Brad Paisley Sep 1: Kid Rock & Brantley Gilbert Sep 4: G-Eazy Sep 14: Zac Brown Band

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Writing history with lightning: Spike Lee ties the past to the present

BY MATT BRUNSON

W

hen was the last time that Spike Lee directed a movie that mattered?

And by “mattered,” I mean when was the last time he helmed a film that was seen by audiences, championed by critics, and discussed by the establishment? For my money, the rhyme-and-reason endeavor Chi-raq should have been that film — it made my own 10 Best list for 2015, but it earned less than $3 million at the box office and hit Blu-ray a mere seven weeks after debuting theatrically. No, one would have to go all the way back to 2006’s Inside Man to find a Spike Lee Joint that was viewed by more than just a handful of his strictest devotees.

With that in mind, here’s hoping that BlacKkKlansman ( ) receives the following it deserves. Loosely based on a true story, it centers on Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, Denzel’s son), who during the 1970s was a rookie — and the first African-American officer with the police department in Colorado Springs. Desperately wanting to become an undercover officer, he gets his wish when he’s assigned to attend a speech

by Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) and ascertain whether the former Black Panther’s call for a revolution should raise any concerns. Ron reports back that Carmichael’s fiery rhetoric was merely grandstanding, an opinion backed by two white colleagues also involved with the assignment, Flip Zimmerman (Adam

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Driver) and Jimmy Creek (Michael Joseph Buscemi, Steve’s lookalike brother).

Ron’s next task is one he roots out himself, and one he feels might lead to something more dangerous than mere rhetoric.

Answering a newspaper ad placed by the local Ku Klux Klan chapter, Ron begins a dialogue by passing himself off as a white man who hates blacks, Jews and everyone else destroying white America. Ron’s duplicity is successful enough that he lands a meeting with the local Klan yahoos, but since he’s the wrong skin color, he sends Flip to serve as his visual counterpart for in-person meetings while he continues to handle phone duties. His infiltration is so successful that he ends up engaging in a series of telephone chats with no less than David Duke (cue the unexpected though effective casting of Topher Grace), the KKK head who in recent times is better known as Trump’s biggest cheerleader and kindred spirit.

The humor in BlacKkKlansman is occa-

sionally overdone, and yet it never dilutes the suspense generated by the overarching fear that the lives of Ron and Flip are in peril every moment of every day. Some will complain that the Klan members and their enablers are painted in strokes that are far too broad, but I say nonsense. The dialogue spoken by the racist characters is often atrocious and painful to the ears, but that’s to be expected when dealing with Americans as illiterate, insidious and evil as the ones on parade throughout this picture. Only Trump supporters will object to what they will see as caricatures but everyone else will see as stone-cold reality. Of course, it’s not as if right-wing reactionaries will be found anywhere near this film – like most important movies of recent vintage (such as last year’s The Post), it’s strictly a speaking-to-the-choir effort, unlikely to change the dim minds of those who see “fake news” conspiracies everywhere.

Speaking of Trump, his dark soul clogs every pore of this powerful picture. This is especially true in the moments when Lee draws upon actual footage from the Charlottesville rally, in which Trump’s neo-Nazi groupies were directly responsible for the death of Heather Heyer. (It’s no coincidence that the movie is being released on the one-year anniversary of that grotesque march.) Admittedly, Lee’s rush to tie the past to the present leaves the film with too many loose threads dangling at the end. On the other hand, when the present is so putrid and precarious that hope and change need to take effect ASAP, who can blame the maverick filmmaker for his empathy and outrage?

THE LATEST SHARK FLICK hoping to take a sizable chunk out of box office revenues, The Meg ( ) is largely everything you would expect from a movie in which Jason Statham elects to deliver an uppercut to Mother Nature. It’s

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ridiculous to compare any movie of this ilk to the masterpiece that is Jaws, yet the movie is ballsy enough to openly invite such comparisons. Pippin the pooch, the Kintner kid, the tracking devices (now electronic gizmos instead of big ole barrels, because progress!) — they’re all here in barely disguised facsimiles. All that’s missing is Robert Shaw raking his fingernails across a blackboard — then again, the mere presence of Rainn Wilson will strike many as a nails-across-theblackboard equivalent, so there’s that.

Wilson plays the gazillionaire funding an underwater science facility named Mana One and located off the coast of China. When one of the facility’s submersibles gets attacked by something enormous deep deep deep down in the Pacific Ocean, it’s decided that Jonas Taylor (Statham), a former rescue diver now drowning himself in bottles of beer, should be the man to save the stranded crew members — one of whom just happens to be his ex-wife (Jessica McNamee). Taylor left the biz after his encounter with a gigantic “something,” so he’s not surprised when he discovers that the perpetrator behind this submersible sabotage happens to be the same “something” — specifically, a 70-foot prehistoric shark whose scientific moniker is Carcharocles Megalodon. The rescue mission is (mostly) a success, but rather than remain near the ocean floor, the Meg decides to journey closer to the surface, where it proceeds to not only terrorize the Mana One employees but, eventually, unsuspecting beachgoers.

Adapted from Steve Alten’s 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, The Meg offers a few interesting developments in its narrative, and it’s nice to see Statham once again headlining the sort of picture that automatically gets handed to Dwayne Johnson these days. But even beyond its PG-13 bloodlessness, the movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities. That’s largely due to director Jon Turteltaub, who has spent a career making popular pablum, bland hits that exhibit little style or wit (Phenomenon, National Treasure and its sequel, etc.). Say what you will about director Renny Harlin, but he at least kept his dopey shark film, Deep Blue Sea, moving at mach speed.

The Meg isn’t any worse than Deep Blue Sea — they’re both passable, undemanding entertainment — but it’s certainly more toothless. Luckily, the scrappy Statham is on hand to provide it with some bite. !

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here’s magic to do when a prince learns the true meaning of glory, love and war in Stephen Schwartz’s iconic and unforgettable musical masterpiece.

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, threetime Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, “Pippin” is the story of one young man’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, this updated circus-inspired version of Pippin continues to captivate and appeal to the young at heart throughout the world.

Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson $5 coupons will be sold for BELK’s Charity Sale. For every coupon you buy, $5 goes to keep Theatre Alliance thriving and you can save $5 on any purchased Belk item at their Belk Charity Event on Aug. 25, 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.!

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Among the gazillion other products and services available from Amazon is the behemoth’s facial recognition software, Rekognition, marketed as Chuck Shepherd providing extremely accurate facial analysis. But when the American Civil Liberties Union gave it a go, the results were startling. Using Rekognition, the ACLU scanned photos of every current member of the U.S. House and Senate and came up with 28 matches to a mug shot database of people who had been arrested for crimes. The ACLU announced its findings July 26 and admitted it used Amazon’s default settings, to which Amazon responded, “While 80 percent confidence is an acceptable threshold for photos of hot dogs, chairs, animals or other social media use cases,” Amazon would advise customers to set the threshold at 95 percent or higher for law enforcement. The ACLU told NPR that the legislators who were falsely matched were men, women, Republicans and Democrats of all ages. However, the software did misidentify people of color at a higher rate.

WEIRD SCIENCE

You thought you were old? You’re just a twinkle in a nematode’s eye. Russian scientists have revived two ancient, frozen roundworms, or nematodes, from samples collected in Siberian permafrost, The Siberian Times reported on July 26. The worms, which were found in cores taken from 30 meters and 3.5 meters deep, are believed

to be female and 41,700 and 32,000 years old, respectively. After collecting the samples, scientists slowly thawed out the worms, which eventually started eating and moving. Scientists from the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Moscow believe the nematodes have some adaptive mechanisms that may be of scientific importance.

FLORIDA. NEED WE SAY MORE?

During a July 23 debate among mayoral candidates in Key West, Florida, Sloan Bashinsky, a perennial contender, took a minute to answer a call from God. “Hello?

What? God?” Bashinsky said, speaking into his cellphone. According to FLKeys News, it wasn’t the first time he’s heard from a higher power: “I have said every time I ran, I ran because God told me to run,” Bashinsky explained. “I think anyone who wants this job is insane.” Bashinsky has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and was once among the island’s homeless. He joins six other candidates on the ticket.

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Just after midnight on July 22, a couple in Palo Alto, California, were awakened in their bedroom by a 17-year-old burglar with a garment obscuring his face. Instead of demanding money or jewelry, though, the intruder asked for their Wi-Fi password.

According to the Sacramento Bee, the homeowner forced the teen out of the home and called police, who tracked him down a block away and arrested him for felony residential burglary. Police later determined it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt at connectivity. Less than an hour earlier that night, a prowler had summoned a

woman from her home to ask for access to her Wi-Fi network also. She told him to go away, and he rode off on a bicycle — which she realized the next day he had stolen from her backyard. She called police, who recovered the bike near where they had arrested the teen.

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— Jeffrey Jacobs, 37, thought he had a great thing going. Last year, when a tree fell on his White Plains, New York, home, he told the owner of a tree service (and big hockey fan) that he was the owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, reported The Hour.

Impressed, the tree service owner sent a crew in the midst of a storm, then billed the actual club owner, 78-year-old Jeremy Jacobs, $5,100 for the service. Police in nearby Wilton, Connecticut, heard about the deception when they received a call in May from security officials at a company chaired by the Bruins’ owner. The story sounded familiar: In November, Jacobs had been pulled over in Wilton, and he told officers he owned the Bruins in an effort to get out of the ticket. On July 20, Jacobs was pulled over for using his phone while driving in Poughkeepsie, New York, sent back to Wilton and charged with criminal impersonation.

— Diamonds are SO 20th century. In Japan, Warp Space is offering newlyweds the chance to make their union universal with wedding plaques launched into space.

According to United Press International, the startup company, founded by faculty members from the University of Tsukuba, will print a titanium plate with the names of the betrothed and put it, along with a few hundred other plaques, in one of a series of small cubes to be released

into space from the International Space Station. Astronauts will memorialize the launching by taking photographs, which will then be sent to the newlyweds. The service costs $270.

AWESOME!

Painesville (Ohio) Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti has a reputation for serving up unusual sentences, and he delivered again on July 24 when 18-yearold Bayley Toth appeared in his courtroom.

Toth was convicted of two misdemeanor criminal mischief charges for toppling a portable toilet at Painesville Township Park in June, among other things. Cicconetti sentenced him to 120 days in jail, but suspended it in lieu of Toth shoveling ... manure at the Lake County Fair. “You act like an animal, you’re going to take care of animals,” Cicconetti told Toth. The News-Herald reported Toth will also have to perform 40 hours of community service and pay restitution for damage to the park.

JUST SAY NO

Brody Tyler Young, 25, was arrested in a Nashville, Tennessee, McDonald’s on July 23 after spending “all day” locked in the women’s restroom, dancing naked, doing jumping jacks and hitting the wall. According to WFFA TV, when officers managed to enter the restroom, they found Young locked in a stall, smelling of “chemical fumes, as if he had been huffing.” Young was taken into custody and charged with public intoxication and public indecency. !

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Bon Appétit, Greensboro: Downtown to celebrate Restaurant Week

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ately, I’ve been bingewatching several Food Network shows, but my favorites have been Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” and “24 Hours to Hell and Back.”

What I learned from these programs is that the food and service industry is a tough and volatile market with several working parts that make Katie Murawski a restaurant whole. With success entirely dependent upon the state of the economy, fast and pleasant Editor service, and quality food that tastes delicious, working within the restaurant industry is not an easy job.

However, with the support of the local community and loyal patrons, it seems to make it all worth it in the end.

Greensboro’s culinary scene is steadily growing, and to keep its momentum rolling, Downtown Greensboro, Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro are partnering with downtown restaurants, bakeries, and bars for a week of food, drinks, and community with Downtown Greensboro Restaurant Week from Aug. 20 to 26.

Julia Roach, Downtown Greensboro, Inc.’s organizer of Restaurant Week, said that Restaurant Week was initially spearheaded a couple of years ago by Nick Wilson of 1618 Downtown. This year, Downtown Greensboro, Inc., has taken over organization and promotion of the event.

“So we decided this year to make all the pricing consistent,” Roach said of the recent changes of Restaurant Week. “In the past, each restaurant could pick whatever they want for their special to be. We looked at all the other restaurant weeks in North Carolina and consistently they all had set pricing, so we when went with $10 and YES! WEEKLY

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$15 lunches and $20 and $30 dinners. The cool thing about that is you are not necessarily going and getting one $20 meal, some restaurants are doing two entrées for $20 and things like that so it helps make it more accessible to different people.”

In addition to those set prices for full restaurants, Roach said DGI also wanted to include a $5 special price so that all of the various coffee shops, bakeries and bars/ breweries downtown could also participate.

Roach said UNCG is the presenting sponsor and will be helping to promote Restaurant Week specifically to UNCG students and alumni.

“They will be promoting for students to come downtown, which I think is great, and they can immediately start the school year off going to different restaurants and hopefully shops and all different types of businesses downtown to see what that is about,” she said. “Then they also have a high percentage of alumni also in the area, and they can promote them as well to enjoy the downtown restaurants.”

Roach said she has heard positive feedback from the changes already, and she thinks that consistent pricing will draw more potential customers in and will also show those customers what price range the restaurant is in as well.

“I think it is really beneficial,” Roach said of Restaurant Week. “A lot of the restaurants notice that in August, in particular, their sales slow down. People are on vacation or gearing up for school, doing their last minute things before the fall, so it kind of gives people a reason to go out and enjoy these restaurants.”

Roach said Restaurant Week is an excellent opportunity for people to visit a restaurant, bakery or bar downtown that they have never tried before, eat or drink at a discounted rate and come back after Restaurant Week.

“I think we just have a lot of great local businesses and restaurants,” Roach said. “The restaurant owners here are really involved in their businesses, and that makes a huge difference in that way, and they are all really willing to help and be a part of their community.”

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PARTICIPATING DOWNTOWN RESTAURANTS, BARS AND BAKERIES 1618 Downtown, 312 S. Elm St., will be offering both a lunch and dinner special for Restaurant Week. For lunch, the price is $15 and includes a 4-ounce seared baseball filet, Trofie pasta macaroni and cheese, blackened asparagus and Cheron sauce. For dinner, the price is $30 and consists of a wellington filet, English pea purée, Duxelle, potato galette and glacé de veau.

B. Christopher’s, 201 N. Elm St., will be offering a dinner special for $30 and includes a three-course meal.

The first course provides a choice of local tomatoes with Buffalo mozzarella, shaved red onion, fresh basil, olive oil, balsamic glaze or cup of lobster bisque. The main course offers a choice of three entrées. Steak and Frites with wild mushroom demi-glaze, duck confit over vegetable and goat cheese risotto with a bing cherry sauce or pan-seared Scottish salmon over wilted spinach potatoes and a citrus beurre blanc. The dessert course offers a housemade fruit cobbler and whipped cream. It is asked that attendees make a reservation through www.bchristophers.com and add a note to the reservation about Restaurant Week.

The Bearded Goat, 116 E. Lewis St., will be offering “The Peachy Goat” $5 drink special. The cocktail includes Deep Eddy’s Peach Vodka, fresh lemon and lime juice, topped with ginger beer and garnished with peaches.

Beer Co., 121 W. McGee St., will be offering $5 mimosas and High Gravity Drafts.

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Blue Denim, 217 S. Elm St., will be offering lunch, dinner and cocktail specials for restaurant week. The $10 lunch special includes a choice between “Sister Chicken” or “The Mojo Burger.” The “Sister Chicken” is composed of crispy Joyce Farms chicken breast, pickles, lettuce, tomatoes, Blue Denim sauce, challah bun, hand-cut Cajun fries and iced tea. “The Mojo Burger” is composed of house-ground chuck, Velveeta, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, challah bun, hand cut Cajun fries and iced tea. The $30 dinner special includes three courses with the first course being “Crawfish Beignets,” which is composed of crawfish, peppers, comeback sauce or “Sprouts” which are crispy Brussels sprouts, shallots, spicy-sweet Vietnamese sauce. For the second course, there is a choice between “Shrimp & Grits,” which is composed of North Carolina shrimp, a tasso-Andouille-shiitake cream sauce, OMG grits or “Crispy Chicken,” Joyce Farms airline chicken breast, refried red beans, Louisiana popcorn rice, and sweet and sour barbecue sauce. The third course is a “White Chocolate Pecan Bread Pudding,” with a whiskey crème anglaise. The $5 cocktail (per glass) special is a housemade sangria.

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Pier Oyster Bar & Grille Cheesecakes By Alex, 315 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 medium coffee and a slice of cheesecake or layer cake.

Cincy’s Downtown, 115 E. February One Pl., will be offering a $10 lunch special for restaurant week. The special is a choice of any regular-sized chili “way” with either a side salad or dessert and a drink.

Crafted: The Art of Street Food, 600 C Battleground Ave., will offer a $20 special for two entrées from a separate limited menu for Restaurant Week. Crafted: The Art of the Taco, 219-A S. Elm St., will be offering a $15 special with two taco entrees, which includes the Americanized and Baja style (with some limitations listed on separate limited menus).

“I think it is a good way to bring people downtown that don’t typically venture into downtown,” Chef and owner Kris Fuller said of Restaurant Week.

Fuller said with the incentive of lower prices and specials during Restaurant Week, and attendees can try something new each day of the week and explore what the restaurants, bars and bakeries downtown have to offer.

“It is a chance to spend a little less money and try what I would consider our introduction tacos, something a little more straightforward,” Fuller said of Crafted: The Art of the Taco. “Then while you are there, we hope that you try out our signature tacos that we have to offer, or come back and try them.”

For The Art of Street Food, Fuller said, “It is a good way for people to come in and find some dishes from all over the world that they typically would have to go to separate restaurants to get.”

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The Green Bean, 341 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 drink special for a cappuccino plus single origin espresso.

Dram & Draught Greensboro’s $5 Frosé said Street Food recently went through a menu change and would be offering a “Ramen of the Month,” where patrons can try different types of ramen depending on when they come in.

“I think my favorite part [of Restaurant Week] is it brings us local businesses together,” Fuller said. “Often we are so busy and just don’t really have time outside of our own restaurants, to sit down and collaborate and do things, but Restaurant Week is a chance for us all to sit down and say ‘hey what do we wanna do, what do we want to highlight to make us all more successful in our community. So, it is a really good time for collaboration.”

Crooked Tail Cat Cafe, 604 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 glass of wine special or a complimentary 12-ounce drink with the purchase of an hour in the Kitty Lounge. To reserve a spot in the Kitty Lounge, visit the website (www.crookedtailcatcafe.com/bookreservation) the cost is $10.70 (sales tax included).

Dram & Draught Greensboro, 300 W. Gate City Blvd., even though this spot isn’t open quite yet, it will be making its debut in Downtown Greensboro for Restaurant Week. This new bar from Raleigh will be offering $5 frosé (frozen rosé) for its Restaurant Week special. “With most other restaurant week models, there are no options for beverage-only concepts like Dram & Draught that don’t have a kitchen or restaurant to participate,” said Raleighwood Media marketing represenYES! WEEKLY

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tative Lisa Jeffries. “But one of my favorite ways to enjoy any local culinary scene is by making ‘a night of it’ and visiting many places throughout the evening. The first stop at a local watering hole, dinner at a neighboring restaurant, and perhaps even dessert at another. This really opens the doors for more operators in the hospitality space to participate.”

Ghassan’s Restaurant at LeBauer Park, 210 N. Davie St., will be offering a new menu item, chicken shawarma pita, for its Restaurant Week lunch special.

The chicken shawarma pita comes with a choice of one side and a 24-ounce fountain drink or iced tea for $10. Vice president of catering and marketing Lina Fleihan Urmos said that this special is available at the LeBauer Park kiosk throughout Restaurant Week from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

“We are excited about [Restaurant Week],” Urmos said. “Just because it is a new menu item and it has been wellreceived at our other locations, so we are excited to use that as a way to introduce this item to the LeBauer Park location.

Urmos said Ghassan’s launched a new menu at its Battleground location and should be launched at the other locations at the end of the month.

“It is a great way to highlight the local restaurants and bring more attention specifically to the LeBauer Park area and the fact that there are some great dining options down there as well,” Urmos said of Restaurant Week.

Jerusalem Market on Elm, 310 S. Elm St., will be offering lunch, dinner and drink specials for Restaurant Week. For lunch, co-owner Easa Hanhan said the restaurant would be offering a $10 Jerusalem Classic Combination. For dinner, there is a choice of either a $20 Jerusalem Market Vegetarian Sampler Platter for two or a $30 Jerusalem Market Mixed Grill Platter for two. And the drink special is any glass of wine for $5.

“It gets our name out and our dishes out to more people,” Hanhan said of Restaurant Week’s importance to his business.

“It’s a good way to break the ice, and it is good advertising that is in our wheelhouse and attracts the right type of people.”

The restaurant is also featuring a new Palestinian dessert called kanaseh, which is composed of shredded filo dough, a sweetened cheese mixture in the middle and is layered and baked with an orange blossom simple syrup. Hanhan said people should come out to try what is on the menu at Jerusalem Market because his brother, Omar, the chef and co-owner makes authentic recipes from scratch. He said his favorite part about Restaurant Week is that it breaks the monotony and offers something different, new and “out of the ordinary” to the culinary scene.

“We think that Jerusalem Market is probably the most unique restaurant in Greensboro as far as food and dining experience and it should not be missed,” Hanhan said.

Koshary Restaurant, 200 S. Elm St., will be offering a $30 dinner special for two. The special includes two Moroccan chicken dinners, two drinks (including hibiscus or soda), and an order of baklava to share.

Liberty Oak, 100 W. Washington St., will be offering a $10 lunch special and a $20 dinner special. The lunch special is the honeycup chicken sandwich. The dinner special is steak risotto.

Little Brother Brewing, 348 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 “beer cocktail” as its special for restaurant week. The beer cocktail is a Shandy made with Little Brother’s Brutally Honest IPA, Spanish Cava and sparkling Italian soda, garnished with a lemon. “We are most excited about restaurant week because it allows us to step outside of the traditional offerings that we have by getting more creative with unique ingredients.” wrote general manager Karmen Guilyard in an email.

Meraki Handmade, 230 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 glass of wine or two lattes/coffees as its drink specials.

Mellow Mushroom, 609 S. Elm St., will be offering both a $10 lunch and a $20 dinner special. The lunch special includes any Lil Salad, slice (up to three toppings) and a drink. The dinner special includes a Lil House or Caesar Salad, a medium onetopping pizza and dessert.

Natty Greene’s Brewery & Pub, 345 S. Elm St., will be offering both a $10 lunch and $20 dinner special. The lunch special

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Blue Denim Restaurant includes a smoked brisket sandwich with fried onions, coleslaw, barbecue sauce and a side. The dinner special consists of a surf and turf plate.

Pier Oyster Bar & Grille, 216 S. Elm St., will be offering a select menu dinner special with three courses for $30 per guest.

The courses are a choice of a starter, a choice of an entrée and a choice of a dessert. It is recommended that guests call or book their reservation online at OpenTable.com (www.opentable.com/r/pieroyster-bar-and-grille-greensboro). There will also be $1 oysters from 4 to 6 p.m. as well as a $5 special on select cocktails.

Preyer Brewing Company, 600 Battleground Ave., will be offering a $5 drink special for restaurant week, and the special is a Saisongria (a fruit-infused saison).

The Table on Elm, 227 S. Elm St., will be offering a $5 small coffee and a pastry of your choice as its special for Restaurant Week.

Undercurrent, 327 Battleground Ave., is offering a $5 drink, $15 lunch and $30 dinner specials. Lunch includes a “Greensboro Burger” with Summerfield Farms beef, pulled pork, fried green tomato, pimento cheese, pickled red onion, Peppadew-peach barbecue sauce on a challah bun. The dinner includes a three-course sampling menu. For the first course, there will be fried green tomatoes, pimento cheese, country ham and basil-lusty monk aioli. The second course is composed of, grilled pork WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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White and Wood, 215 S. Elm St., will be offering a $30 dinner special featuring two courses with a choice of salad and an entrée or an entrée and dessert.

The salads are composed of tomato and strawberries, beets or Brussels sprouts.

The choice of entrées includes scallops, duck confit and ricotta gnocchi, or filet mignon ($10 supplement). The desserts include a choice of peach tart, Pot de Creme or strawberry and olive oil cake.

According to the website (www.dgsorw. com), the tax and tip are not included in the special prices, and all specials are dine-in only. Business hours vary, so check the hours of operation of the participating businesses before going. Please note that specials may only be available during certain hours. All Restaurant Week specials are available while supplies last and restaurants have the right to adjust all specials without updating the Downtown Greensboro website. Check with the businesses regarding questions on the special, allergies and other dietary restrictions. !

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.

DJ AYO VIP is taking Greensboro by storm

BY ANGELICA GRADY DJ AYO VIP aka Vallinda Persaud is taking over Greensboro’s Nightlife scene little by little while turning the heads of partygoers all over the city. Persaud is a 28-year-old DJ, singer, and rapper who was originally born in Toronto, Canada.

Since she’s had the opportunity to move around, so she has experience with diverse cultures and party scenes throughout the North American region.

Persaud got her start DJing as a student at the East Carolina University student radio station, WZMB 91.3 in May 2010. She has been a DJ ever since, but DJing wasn’t her first passion. Persaud is originally a singer and rapper, and DJing was something that she fell into by accident. Over time, she learned that nobody gets paid to rap but plenty of DJs that get paid to play music. “So why not kill two birds with one stone?”

Since then, Persaud has lived and played events in Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte and now Greensboro. Persaud feels something that sets her apart as a DJ is that she is self-made and multitalented.

Not only does Persaud make her own music, but she also shoots and edits her own video content, and does canvas art, which is displayed in the Center for Visual Arts in Greensboro. Her infectious and high-energy while on stage draws the crowd in, and she said her love, passion, and knowledge of music alone is the fuel that drives her. Persaud reminisces on her most significant accomplishment up to date as DJ, which was DJing at Moogfest

where she opened up for Pete Rock and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (DJ from A Tribe Called Quest).

“Brings tears to my eyes still,” Persaud said of her Moogfest set. “Most humbling experience I have ever had and my biggest DJ career opportunity to date for sure.”

Persaud said she never imagined she would have the opportunity to play with those hip-hop legends, and that her set was amazing and the crowd was giving her great energy.

“Some were dancing, but what’s more weird is most people were just standing and staring like they were amazed,” she said. “Folks treated me like a celebrity afterward and wanted pics. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I wasn’t somebody famous.”

As for the future, Persaud’s ultimate goal for her career as a DJ would be to play large festivals overseas and earn recognition for producing her original music, similar to what “Diplo has done with Major Lazer or DJ Khaled.” Persaud wants to share the love she has for music and to share “that natural high” music gives her with others.

“Music is a universal tool, a universal language and I want to use my platform to create unity and spread love and open up peoples’ minds to other cultures,” she said.

Be on the lookout for DJ AYO VIP playing every Saturday night at The W on Elm Street and her “Dancehall Hip-Hop Bashment Party” Friday on Aug. 17 at the Artists Bloc, located at 1020 W. Gate City Blvd. !

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[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Now that that special relationship appears to be well and truly restored, you can spend more time dealing with those long-needed workplace changes.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A misunderstanding between you and someone you care for should be corrected immediately. This relationship is too important to lose over a bruised ego.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A new opportunity sounds promising. But watch out for any conditions that might be attached. Before making a decision, ask that each one be explained in detail.

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[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Quick action to heal bruised feelings pays off in a big way. Now you’ll be able to move forward with your plans without that problem holding you back.

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* There are lots of sports fans out there, and a lot of sports to enjoy: football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey ... olive oil wrestling? OK, maybe there aren’t a lot of oiled wrestling events here in America, but in Turkey it’s the national sport.

Kirkpinar, as it’s known there, has been popular since the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish town of Edirne has been hosting the annual tournament since 1361. * If you do much printing, you might not be surprised to learn that if you figure out the cost by volume, printer ink costs far more than Dom Perignon champagne or Chanel No. 5 perfume. * The name of Alcatraz Island — famed location of a high-security prison that’s

now a tourist attraction — comes from the Spanish “Isla de los Alcatraces,” or “Island of Pelicans.” * The murre, a bird found in the Arctic, actually dives into the water and swims to catch the small fish that comprise its diet.

Interestingly, its eggs aren’t like those of any other bird in the world: The whites are blue, not white, and the yolks are bright red. * Those who study such things claim that the oceans eventually will dry up — in about a billion years or so.

Thought for the Day: ”In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.” — Oscar Wilde © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

SEIZE THE MEH

I’m a 31-year-old guy who got really hurt after a relationship ended a few years back. Now I just don’t date women whom I’ll ever really care about, because I don’t ever want Amy Alkon to feel how I felt when my previous Advice relationship ended.

My friends say I’m Goddess being a coward and missing out, but hey, I’m not depressed over any chicks. I think I’m being smart in protecting myself. Maybe more people should take this approach. — Comfortably Numb These days, your relationships probably start when you eyeball a woman on the street: “Whoa! I bet she’d be seriously mediocre in bed!”

Next, you discover that she’s a real yawn out of the sack, too — and you’re in!

Now, it’s possible that you’re way more emotionally sensitive than most people, to the point where a loss that others would eventually recover from hits you like a never-ending colonoscopy (with, um, artisanal anesthesia: “If you’ll just bite this stick...”).

Even if you are super sensitive, avoiding the pain comes at a substantial price: living a gray goulash of a life, spending every day with some uninspiring somebody you don’t really care about. But consider that we evolved to be resilient — to heal from emotional injuries as we do physical ones.

However, in order for you to do this — and to see that you might actually be able to stand the pain of loss — you need to view resilience not as some mysterious emotional gift but as a practice.

Resilience comes out of what clinical psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls “hardiness.” He writes that “hardiness ... provides the courage and motivation to do the hard, strategic work of turning stressful circumstances from potential disasters into growth opportunities.” His research finds that hardiness is made up of three “interrelated attitudes,” which he calls the three C’s: commitment, control, and challenge.

Commitment is the desire to engage with people and life instead of pulling away and isolating yourself. Control is the motivation to take action to improve your life “rather than sinking into passivity and powerlessness.” Challenge is the willingness to face the stress life throws at you and use it as a learning experience “rather than playing it safe by avoiding uncertainties and potential threats.”

These attitudes might not come naturally to you. But you can choose to take them up, same as you might other “unnatural practices,” like monogamy and wearing deodorant. Understanding that there are steps you can take to recover from heartbreak might give you the courage to go for a woman you really love.

Sure, that woman might leave you — causing you big-time pain. But consider that risk avoidance — like by being with a woman you don’t really care about — isn’t pain avoidance. The pain is just different.

It’s low-dose extended-release — like frequently experiencing the post-sex horror that leads you to want to grab your clothes

and make a run for it before the woman next to you wakes up. And then you remember a couple of essential points: She’s your wife, not some Tinder rando, and it’s your apartment.

GIVE PIZZA A CHANCE

I’m a straight 36-year-old woman, and I recently lost a lot of weight. My doctor’s happy. My girlfriends think I look great.

They’re all “How’d you do it?” “You look like a model!” However, my male friends think I’m too skinny now. Is there a big difference in what the sexes consider a good body? — Slim Though women assume that men think the ideal female body shape is modeliciously skinny, consider that construction workers rarely yell out, “Hey, hotstuff!

Great set of ribs!”

In studies exploring men’s and women’s ideas of the ideal female body weight, women consistently “perceive men as being attracted to thinner female figures than is true in reality,” writes social psychologist Viren Swami. And it isn’t just North American men who like fleshier women. Swami ran a massive survey — of

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7,434 men and women in 26 countries, across 10 world regions — and “men across all world regions except East Asia selected a significantly heavier figure as being most physically attractive compared to what women believed was most attractive to men.”

Swami and his colleagues speculate that “women exposed to magazines marketed to women may form skewed perceptions of what body types are most appealing to men.” But don’t despair. Swami’s study and others measure the preferences of the “average” man. There is no such person. Or, as an epidemiologist friend of mine often reminds me, there are “individual differences” — meaning individuals’ preferences vary. In other words, there are men out there who will be seriously into a woman like you — a woman who can do amazing feats in the bedroom, like removing a pair of skinny jeans without calling 911 and asking for firemen to come over with the Jaws of Life. !

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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