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Tea for two and two for tea. TEA, in many forms, seems to be taking off and becoming an alternative to coffee that can be a welcomed ritual in the late afternoon, just ask the English. 10 The RiverRun International Film Festival and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art have teamed up again to present a special “Madmen and Masters” screening of Frank Pavich’s acclaimed, award-winning feature documentary Jodorowsky’s DUNE (2013) on Aug. 25th at SECCA, in Winston-Salem. 11 Greensboro author Holly Goddard Jones’s THE SALT LINE, debuting next month from Putnam, has been called “one of the best Southern books of the year” by Southern Living magazine. 12 TIFFANY ASHTON knows what she’d be doing if she weren’t pursuing a career in music. Ashton grew up in King, attended public schools in WinstonSalem, and is now enrolled as an undergrad at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. 20 The new documentary STEP focuses on the members of an inner-city Baltimore high school step team, but what’s most surprising about the film is how comparatively little time is spent on the dancing. 24 GLITTERS owner Gary Barskey hopes the “Going Out of Business Sale” sign in his window at 529 S. Elm St. will prove to be a fib or at least an overly negative prognosis. As owner and operator of the store that, as his slogan says, has been “delighting downtown Greensboro with everything you never knew you wanted since 1988,” he’s seen the tough time before. 25 If you’re expecting to see bikiniclad babes and handsome hunks at the “ocean beach” along the lake guarding the 15th and 16th holes of the WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP this year, you might go to be very disappointed.
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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] FOUR SAINTS BREWING COMPANY BY KATIE MURAWSKI
In Asheboro, there is a brewery that aims to serve the community with more than just good-tasting, local beer. Four Saints Brewing Company is located at 218 S. Fayetteville St. in the heart of downtown Asheboro and was named ‘Four Saints’ after the four patron Saints of beer: Saint Wenceslaus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Luke and Saint Augustine of Hippo. Four Saints is home to a seven barrel brew house and in just two years of being in business, the brewing company has brewed over 100 different kinds of beer. Their core line-up is a Blonde Ale, German Wheat, Amber Ale, Belgian Double, Irish Red and Stout. Co-owner, founder and fourth grade teacher Joel McClosky said he and coowner Andrew Deming became friends through their wives and their shared love for NFL, guns and of course, beer. In 2009, the alcohol ban was lifted from Asheboro and McClosky said it opened many doors for local businesses to flourish. In 2011, McClosky said after seeing Bud Light in a beer garden at a community chili cook off in Bicentennial Park, Deming and himself
decided then and there that they would start brewing together and bring a brewery to Asheboro. “It was a great community event,” he said. “It was community businesses, organizations, charities, local produce--everything was focused on community and local. The small little beer garden they had was Bud Light. And so, Andrew and I were standing in that little quarantined area and looking around at everything, that is where we had our handshake moment that we were going to open up a brewery in Asheboro. This community to us was a community that deserved one.” After a very successful Kickstarter campaign in July 2012, (a goal of $45,000 in 45 days exceeded their expectations when they yielded $52,000 in 45 days) they locked into the 100-year-old building that they are in today. After three years of renovation and planning, Four Saints opened its doors in May 2015 and have remained the go-to spot in downtown Asheboro. McClosky is deeply embedded in the community and its efforts to sustain
Joel McClosky posing with a pint in front of the Four Saints’ logo mural inside the brewery. itself. Four Saints is also doing something innovative for artists with their Art Wall Project. Les Caison III, local artist and bartender at Four Saints spearheaded the idea of partially commissioning artists to create a unique piece of art that hangs in the brewery along with T-shirt and sticker designs to help promote the artist. This Friday, Aug. 18 Four Saints is unveiling an ultra unique new beer that is, lawyer verified, North Carolina’s first legal
Hemp Ale. McClosky said the seeds and flowers of the hemp plant is blended with an English Mild Ale recipe. The new beer unveils upon opening at 3 p.m. and goes through the night. Bob Crumley, owner of Founder’s Hemp will be hanging out from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. with a booth of products for sale set up. To learn more about Four Saints follow them on Facebook or visit their website. !
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ea for two and two for tea. Tea, in many forms, seems to be taking off and becoming an alternative to coffee that can be a welcomed ritual in the late Kristi Maier afternoon, just ask @triadfoodies the English. Tea is lovely, warm or iced, with a spritz Contributor of citrus or as a latte, or a beautifully blended ceremonial matcha, it can be the perfect pick-me-up or an act of self-care. But there is something about the decadence of a true full-service tea. The finger sandwiches, fruit, mini quiches, jammy cookies and the scones! Oh, and the Devonshire (aka clotted) cream! At the risk of talking about tea again (see last week’s Kombucha story) we wanted to share where you might go to get a spot of tea with all the beautiful accoutrements. O.Henry Hotel 624 Green Valley Road, Greensboro ohenryhotel.com Now a Greensboro tradition, the O. Henry Tea is enjoyed in the hotel’s social lobby. Serviced by the Green Valley Grill, you can keep it simple with a light tea or go all out with a full high tea with scones, finger sandwiches and confections. You’ll almost always want an extra little egg sandwich or cucumber sandwich or a scone. My friend, Shelly Myers, said she likes the O. Henry Tea because of the setting, “I don’t like to sit in a restaurant for tea,” she said. “I like the room, the cozy seating and the service with its mismatched tea cups, and the food on the tiered plate server.” Tea is served Friday, Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and also weekdays, Monday through Wednesday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Reservations are highly recommended. Mae’s Vintage Kitchen 149 S. Main Street, Kernersville Located in the heart of downtown Kernersville in the Historic Harmon House, Mae’s Vintage Kitchen (formerly Pegg House Tea Room) has way more space now than what they used to have in their old farm house a couple of blocks over.
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O.Henry Hotel The menu expanded too, with multiple sandwiches, panini, wraps, entrees and brunch offerings as well as their Moravian chicken pie. As for the High Tea ($19.95 per adult, $9.95 per child for a Lil’ Tea), you’ll enjoy a collection of sandwiches like cucumber, turkey or ham, sweets and scones and homemade Devonshire cream. The Flour Box Tea Room and Cafe 137 West Street SW, Winston-Salem Located in Historic Old Salem, you can have a simple lunch, a meat and cheese platter, a treat or high tea service. The Flour Box Tea Room is relatively new and
owner, Ulyana Kay, said the tea service is getting increasingly popular with positive feedback, “People have responded ‘this was the best experience since England’ and ‘best scones in town.’ All the positive feedback is definitely rewarding.” Reservations are suggested for high tea but not required. Starting in September, look for a new menu that will have lunch options that will be a bit more focused on the tea room rather than the cafe. Coffee lovers, never fear, Kay said they’re adding an espresso machine for cappuccino and other coffee drinks.
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Vida Pour Tea 412 State Street, Greensboro vidapourtea.com Locally designed tea by owner, Sarah Chapman, who launched her company to be a wellness business as much as a tea business. The hands-on approach at her shop can have you finding a tea that will be an enriching experience, just as it should be. Sweet Aromaz Flower Lounge 140 W. Sixth Street, Winston-Salem sweetaromaz.com The newest shop in Winston-Salem where you can get a sweet spot of tea and take home a lovely bouquet. There’s a variety of custom blended teas and baked goods from local bakeries such as Camino and BeSpoke are available, Vida Pour Tea, Chad’s Chai by the package, as well as coffee and flowers, of course. The website said that “fur babies are welcome.”
O.Henry Hotel Tea Shops in the Triad Check out these actual tea shops/retailers/makers in the area that sell loose leaf teas and tea accessories. Angelina’s 125 S. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem angelinasteas.com Located in the Five Points area of Winston-Salem, Angelina’s offers floor to ceiling jars of loose leaf teas and blends from all over the world as well as hot tea at the counter. On a Saturday afternoon it can be quite hopping. It’s part book shop, part tea shop, part tea essentials. If you’re looking for some delicate china from which to enjoy your tea, it’s at Angelina’s. DWSP_Music17_Chronicle_8-19-17.pdf You may also find your little one’s first tea1 party set.
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Tea Hugger teahugger.net Find these loose leaf tea blends, some with a twist, at the Greensboro Curb Market on Saturdays and various other locations as they do a great wholesale business too. Their motto: “Drink what you love and be happy doing it.” Chad’s Chai and Tea Company chadschai.com Found in retailers, farmer’s markets and generally getting great support from local coffee shops, from Jaime’s Grey to Chai blends. These are hand-crafted, loose leaf teas and you can find them at many retailers reputable around the Triad and beyond. They don’t have an actual shop but consider Black Mountain Chocolate a partner, which carries all of their teas in both the small and large package option. ! KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her 6/21/17 9:28 kitchen, though herAMkidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.
Clotted v. Devonshire Cream In case you’re wondering about the difference in clotted cream and Devonshire Cream, which tend to be used interchangeably, clotted cream is simply heavy cream cooked low and slow in the oven (at least 12 hours) and then chilled completely. The cream “rises” to the top, or clots, and forms a crust, which is skimmed off. You can spread the clots and the luxurious cream that rests below on your scone, French toast or other baked goods. It’s nutty and naturally lightly sweet with a brown butter taste and supremely creamy. Devonshire Cream is clotted cream, but produced in Devon, England. It’s actually quite easy to make Clotted Cream but there’s a trick: the heavy cream should be high quality, preferably from grass-fed cows and must not be ultra-pasteurized. Not so easy to find, but some organic food stores will have it. You can also make a “mock” version of Devonshire with unsalted butter, cream cheese, sour cream that’s great in a pinch (adding in some sugar and vanilla would be optional). But below
is a recipe for true clotted cream (not Devonshire since we’re not in Devon). Devonshire sure does sound better, doesn’t it? Clotted Cream 4 cups heavy cream (must not be ultra-pasteurized and should be grassfed. I used Maple View Farms from Hillsborough) 8 x 8-inch glass or ceramic baking dish (you’ll want the cream to rise up between one to three inches in the dish) Bake at 175-180 degrees for 12 hours. It will still be a bit loose with a crust on top, but should’ve reduced by 30 to 50 percent. Chill on the counter until cooled. Cover, then refrigerate at least four hours. Separate the clots carefully and spoon the cream into a charming jar. You can mix the clots in, or fill with the cream, then cover with the clots. You can reserve the liquid for baking, soups, smoothies or other recipes if there’s a lot left over. Some folks say just mix it right in. Spoon the clotted cream on scones. You’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven. !
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he RiverRun International Film Festival and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art have teamed up again to present a special Mark Burger “Madmen and Masters” screening Contributing of Frank Pavich’s acclaimed, awardcolumnist winning feature documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) on Aug. 25th at SECCA, in Winston-Salem. Since its publication in 1965, Frank Herbert’s science-fiction saga Dune was hot property in Hollywood. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs (of Planet of the Apes fame) wanted to make it but died in 1973 before pre-production could commence. It wasn’t until 1984, and after director Ridley Scott had passed on the project, that producer Dino De Laurentiis finally brought Dune to the big screen, with David Lynch directing an all-star cast. Although the film had its supporters – Herbert among them – it was, at the time, a critical and financial disappointment. In editing the film to feature length, Lynch was quoted as saying: “I died a death on Dune” – although he remained friendly with De Laurentiis and later directed the 1986 classic Blue Velvet under his auspices, earning Lynch an Oscar nomination for Best Director. In the mid-1970s, however, shortly after Jacobs’ death, cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo) made his bid to make Dune, and he came tantalizingly
bigger things – Kurtz would produce Star Wars (1977) and O’Bannon and Giger collaborated on Alien (1979) -- but they also brought some of the very same ideas and elements from the aborted Dune to those later films, which are divulged and discussed in great detail throughout the documentary. Many of the principals involved with Jodorowsky’s Dune relate their involvement, including Giger (who died a year after the documentary’s release). The Dune dynasty has continued over the years. In 2000, Syfy’s mini-series Frank Herbert’s Dune received good reviews, won two Emmy Awards, and was successful enough to spawn Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune was aired in 2003 and was likewise well-received, also winning an Emmy Award. Earlier this year, it was announced that acclaimed, Oscarnominated director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) was signed to a big-screen remake of Dune. The “Madmen and Masters” screening of Jodorowsky’s Dune will be introduced by David Spencer, assistant professor of cinema studies and the senior curator of the Moving Image Archives at the UNCSA School of Filmmaking. !
close to making it happen. Although his window of opportunity passed – there was enough material to make a full-length, and frequently fascinating, documentary about the Dune that never was, one that would supposedly have been true to both Herbert’s vision and Jodorowsky’s cinematic sensibilities. To that end, Jodorowsky had interested an eclectic cast to appear in the film, including Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine, Udo Kier,
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Holly Goddard Jones ticks off America of being able to sit around and indulge all of our anxieties about what we can’t control. People struggling just to survive— and that would be most people over the course of human history—don’t spend a lot of time thinking 50 or 60 years (or even 10 years) into the future.” As a genre writer myself, I’m happy she anticipates what would have been my last question. “I think the popularity of the genre also has to do with a positive trend in publishing,” she said. “That trend is literary writers feeling freer, and more respected, working in genres other than realism. When I was a grad student, you didn’t go around advertising that you’d read the last Stephen King novel. Now, it’s not so taboo. And the dystopian genre is a good place to play for those of us who like character development as well as plot.” Holly Goddard Jones will be at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro at 7 p.m. on Aug. 31. Her new novel The Salt Line will be officially released on Sept. 4. !
BY IAN MCDOWELL Greensboro author Holly Goddard Jones’s The Salt Line, debuting next month from Putnam, has been called “one of the best Southern books of the year” by Southern Living magazine. Yet, there are no fried green tomatoes or steel magnolias in what critics are comparing to The Stand, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Hunger Games. I asked the University of North Carolina Greensboro creative writing professor and award-winning novelist why her postapocalyptic society results not from an attack by foreign power, zombies, or even angry birds, but ticks— an imminently squirm-inducing idea for anyone who’s extracted a tiny six-legged blood-bag from a dog’s ear or their own belly-button. “The Salt Line began as a horror story, not a dystopian novel,” Jones said. “I chose ticks because I wanted a smallscale ‘monster’ of the kind Scott Smith used so well in The Ruins. Ticks made sense because they trigger gutlevel revulsion. They also — and this was particularly useful — inspire dread and paranoia. Once you find one on yourself, you feel them all over. I knew I’d get some mileage out of characters feeling that crawling sensation, or thinking they’ve felt it.” She said ticks were great for a dystopian novel, too, because they carry disease and their prevalence is tied to a host of worrying environmental issues. Jones said that The Salt Line “takes its name from a text-within-the-text, a children’s book that acts as an allegory for the tick infestation that wreaks such havoc on society and causes the United State to get divided up into quarantined zones. In the children’s book, it’s a literal ring of salt used to keep evil spirits out of a village. The salt line of the outer text is a perimeter that marks off a territory east of the Appalachian mountain range, complete with a highly politicized wall that emits a vibration that’s supposed to help to keep the ticks out.” While The Salt Line takes place on a larger scale than her first novel The Next Time You See Me, it was inspired by something tiny. “I started the book one of the summers I was teaching in Sewanee, Tennessee, where I would spend a lot of time hiking WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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the trails,” she said. “Lots of ticks. Lots of nights when I would wake up to that feeling of a tick on my scalp, and I’ve have to jump and yelp and scream at my husband to pick it off me. At some early point, I also had the idea for the ‘Stamp,’ which is the crude device in the novel that is used to extract a burrowed tick. I can’t remember how or why I had that idea now — it’s lost in the mists of time (and over the course of four sleepless years of pregnancy and new parenthood).” A Dystopia, as the name suggests, is the opposite of a Utopia, an imagined place
or state in which everything is worse than present-day reality. Remembering Jones’s earlier mention of her world’s allegedly tick-repelling border wall, I asked her if dystopian fiction becomes more popular when an actual dystopia seems imminent. “I don’t know if that’s the arrow I’d draw, exactly, but I see your point,” Jones said. “Not to diminish the scary times we live in, but in a way, dystopian literature is probably as much a sign of living in an age of unbelievable plenty as it is of our descent into dark days. We have the luxury AUGUST 16-22, 2017
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Country music singer/songwriter, college student to play three shows in the Triad
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iffany Ashton knows what she’d be doing if she weren’t pursuing a career in music. Ashton grew up in King, attended public schools in John Adamian Winston-Salem, and @johnradamian is now enrolled as an undergrad at the University of North Contributor Carolina Charlotte. She is a singer and songwriter making her way into the country-music machine of Nashville. (She’s opening for the Oak Ridge Boys later this month.) The 20-year-old has been making music since she was a child. She’s been singing and performing since she was 6, but she’s not necessarily one of those musicians who can’t imagine a life that didn’t involve recording studios and spotlit stages. “I’d probably be doing engineering,” Ashton said when asked what career she’d be in if music weren’t happening for her. Ashton graduated from Atkins High School, a magnet school for science, technology, engineering and math students in Winston-Salem, in 2016 as valedictorian. She was also a part of competitive rocketry teams throughout middle and high school. Even her way of talking about songwriting had a sort of scientific twist to it. “Songwriting is like an invention,” Ashton said. “You have a lot of different parts
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and a lot of different pieces of knowledge. It may be melodic knowledge; it may be lyrical knowledge.” As it happens, on the day I spoke to her, Ashton had been doing “co-writes.” Co-writes involves getting two or more songwriters together to do some rapid-fire brainstorming, kicking around ideas for lyrics, melodies, chord changes, or song structure in hopes of jump-starting the sometimes elusive mystery of the creative process. “If all goes well, it melts together into
a beautiful piece of work,” Ashton said. “You want it to bring the story to life for the audience.” Some singer/songwriters find the process of writing to be so personal and intimate— dredging up emotions, telling stories drawn from their experience and testing hooks and lyrical ideas—that they don’t feel comfortable jumping into it with a stranger, or with anyone else around. But for every seemingly solitary songwriting genius — for every Willie Nelson,
Hank Williams, Kris Kristofferson (all of whom co-wrote songs as well) — there are songwriters like Dean Dillon, (who’s written hits for George Strait, Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney). Also numerous big stars in country music today, like Lee Brice and Luke Bryan, got their start writing before making it as a solo act. If you view a song as a kind of creative technology that spurs certain responses in some listeners, then the process of cobbling together a story, adjusting the phrasing, getting the lyrics just right,
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pushing the melody in certain spots, all of that can take on a trial-and-error, laboratory aspect. “Most of the time, two heads are better than one,” Ashton said. Writers often talk about learning to “kill your darlings,” a saying that sometimes suggests one has to discard the parts of a piece one is most fond of to make it most effective. Working without a collaborator or an editor can make that part of the process difficult. But having a trusted voice to tell you that something you love doesn’t work, or that something you were unsure of is worth fleshing out — that can be the most valuable part of a creative collaboration. “Coming to that compromise — even the ability to see another perspective on your idea, it’s priceless,” Ashton said. Ashton’s music is informed by what she listened to growing up: Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Shania and Taylor Swift. But it wasn’t like her playlists were exclusively country. “I also listened to pop music,” she said. “I was a big Avril Lavigne fan.” She also liked Broadway, R&B, rap, classic country, Christian music and Appalachian folk music. “I think that the more musical diversity you have, the more well-rounded your knowledge will be,” she said. She has already released a couple E.P.’s that reflect that. Ashton’s music might occasionally have a crunchy guitar tone, a snapping backbeat or some retro ‘80s keyboard, but the sentiments and the sounds are still familiar to country listeners: finding freedom and finding romance in a smalltown setting. Trucks, jeans and boots make appearances. In songs like “Home to Me,” Ashton sings about the idea that, after seeing the world, life and relationships out in the quiet country are as satisfying as anything one might find in the bustle of the city. She sings with clarity and enunciation. There’s not a ton of grit, growl or bluesy
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swoops to Ashton’s vocal approach, but there’s a soft, pure-voiced control that sometimes rises to a gentle coo. With a few new songs she’s preparing to release to radio, and the school year around the bend, Ashton is looking at a tightly scheduled semester, with lots of weekend shows, and trips to Nashville for more co-writing. “It can be quite a juggle, but when you do what you’re passionate about, even things that seem like work don’t actually feel like work,” Ashton said. “Sometimes it means not a lot of sleep.” ! 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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See Tiffany Ashton at Muddy Creek Music Hall, on August 20, and at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro, August 25, with Lo Cash. Ashton plays WinstonSalem again on Aug. 26 with the Oak Ridge Boys at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.
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ASHEBORO
FOUR SAINTS BREWING
218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Aug 19: Emma Lee Aug 26: Brother Oliver Sep 1: Wolfie Calhoun
CLEMMONS
RIVER RIDGE TAPHOUSE 1480 River Ridge Dr | 336.712.1883 riverridgetaphouse.com Aug 25: Southern Eyes
VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE
6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Aug 16: Second Glance Aug 23: The Eldorados Aug 30: Brice Street Sep 6: Stephen Legree Band Sep 13: Brice Street Sep 20: The Eldorados Sep 27: Rob Massengale Oct 4: Brice Street
DANBURY
GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE
1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Aug 19: Royal House Aug 26: Nick Bullins and the Crooked Saints Sep 2: Stained Glass Canoe Sep 9: Abigail Dowed Sep 16: Hot Rod Boys Sep 23: None of the Above Sep 30: Meagan Jean and the Klay Family Oct 7: Will Easter
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GREENSBORO
ARIZONA PETE’S
2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Aug 18: 1-2-3 Friday Oct 24: Dope, (HED) P.E.
ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Aug 18: DJ Dan the Player Aug 19: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player
BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Aug 27: Stephen Freeman Sep 9: Ms. Mary & The Boys
[JARREN BENTON] Tuesday - The Blind Tiger
CHURCHILL’S ON ELM
BIG PURPLE
812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728
213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Aug 19: Jack Long Old School Jam
THE BLIND TIGER
THE CORNER BAR
1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Aug 18: Jarren Benton Aug 22: Decapitated, Thy Art Is Murder, Fallujah, Ghost Bath, Auxilia Aug 25: Locash, Norlina, Tiffany Ashton Aug 29: Tribal Seeds, Pepper, Fortunate Youth, Darenots Sep 6: Of Montreal, Showtime Goma, Nancy Feast Sep 8: Bear With Me
BUCKHEAD SALOON
1720 Battleground Ave | 336.272.9884 buckheadsaloongreensboro.com
1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Aug 17: Live Thursdays
COMEDY ZONE
1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Aug 18: Jay Stevens Aug 19: Jay Stevens Aug 25: Grandma Lee
COMMON GROUNDS
CONE DENIM
117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Aug 23: The Cadillac Three Sep 9: Kyle Sep 10: Lettuce Oct 11: SZA Oct 24: Andy Mineo
GREENE STREET CLUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 Sep 28: Riff Raff
HAM’S GATE CITY
3017 Gate City Blvd | 336.851.4800 hamsrestaurants.com Aug 18: The OSP Aug 25: Sahara
11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Aug 25: Abigail Dowd, Carrie Paz, & Margo Cilker
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1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com aug 18: audioclypse aug 25: Tyler millard
SomEwhErE ElSE TavErn
5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern aug 18: neglected, Beshiba, Shinigami, mess
SpEakEaSY TavErn
ham’S palladium
5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com aug 18: Jukebox revolver aug 25: Southern Eyes Band
jamestown
ThE dEck
118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com aug 18: Jaxon Jill aug 19: Stereo doll aug 25: The plaids aug 26: cory leutjen
Sep 1: The dickens Sep 2: Brothers pearl Sep 8: Soul central Sep 9: Static pool Sep 15: where’s Eddie? Sep 16: Jody lee petty
kernersville
dancE hall dazE
612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com aug 18: The delmonicos aug 25: Time Bandits aug 26: Silverhawk
BrEaThE cockTail loungE
221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge
lewisville
old nick’S puB
191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com aug 18: Evan & dana aug 24: acoustic music with Beau James aug 25: karaoke w/ dJ Tyler perkins Sep 1: karaoke w/ dJ Tyler perkins
1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006 aug 25: Julian Sizemore Sep 8: Tyler millard Band Sep 15: david lin Sep 22: Southern Fiction
ThE idioT Box comEdY cluB
2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com aug 26: Brian o’Sullivan
villagE TavErn
1903 Westridge Rd | 336.282.3063 villagetavern.com aug 16: Second glance aug 23: The Eldorados aug 30: Brice Street Sep 6: Stephen legree Band Sep 13: Brice Street Sep 20: The Eldorados Sep 27: rob massengale oct 4: Brice Street
high point
aFTEr hourS TavErn
1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net aug 19: Schmack daniels aug 26: Susie’s atomic Jukebox and deconstruction
BluE BourBon Jack’S
1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks Sep 23: Southern Eyes oct 6: Jukebox revolver
claddagh rESTauranT & puB
130 E Parris Ave | 336.841.0521 thecladdaghrestaurantandpub.com aug 18: hypnotic conquest aug 25: Jamie leigh aug 30: craig Baldwin
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jp loonEY’S
2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys Aug 17: Trivia
randleman
ridEr’S in ThE counTrY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net Aug 19: Blackglass Aug 25: jill Goodson Band Sep 2: Fair Warning
winston-salem
2nd And GrEEn
207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com Aug 20: connor christian
Bull’S TAvErn
408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern
cB’S TAvErn
3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Aug 25: phase Band
FinniGAn’S WAkE
620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Aug 19: The Exit 180 Aug 25: Evan & dana Sep 1: Marcus horth Trio Sep 8: j Timber and joel henry duo
FooThillS BrEWinG 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Aug 20: Sunday jazz Aug 26: The pop Guns
ThE GArAGE
110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Aug 18: Annabelle’s curse with Will overmand Band Aug 25: 1970s Film Stock album release w/ Bronzed chorus, Transport 77 Sep 15: noTS
hickorY TAvErn
206 Harvey St | 336.760.0362 thehickorytavern.com
johnnY & junE’S SAloon
2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com Aug 25: confederate railroad Sep 17: upchurch The redneck w/ demun jones, dirt road republic August 16-22, 2017
lAuGhinG GAS coMEdY cluB 2105 Peters Creek Pkwy laughingas.net
MAc & nElli’S
4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com
MillEnniuM cEnTEr
101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com Sep 20: St paul & The Broken bones
MilnEr’S
630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Aug 20: live jazz Aug 27: live jazz
MuddY crEEk cAFE
5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Aug 17: open Mic with country dan collins Aug 18: George hage from jack the rodeo Aug 19: chris nelson with Bryan Toney and Eddie McGee Aug 20: Elliott humphries Aug 24: open Mic with country dan collins Aug 25: russell lapinski
MuddY crEEk MuSic hAll
5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Aug 17: not For The children: A musical revue of Women Behaving Badly Aug 19: The Trailblazers Aug 20: che Apalache Aug 20: Tiffany Ashton Aug 25: Greg Wilson and Second Wind
piEdMonT MuSic cEnTEr 212 N Broad St
ThE quiET pinT
1420 W 1st St | 336.893.6881 thequietpint.com
TEE TiME SporTS & SpiriTS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010 Aug 19: Fuhnetik union
villAGE TAvErn
2000 Griffith Rd | 336.760.8686 villagetavern.com Aug 16: The GB’s Aug 23: confuzion Aug 30: Breaking Season Sep 6: The pop Guns Sep 13: Tin can Alley Sep 20: The Funk Mob
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booth amphithEatrE
8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com Sep 7-10: rock of ages Sep 15: Garrison Keillor, richard Dworsky & the road hounds, heather masse, & Fred Newman Sep 16: Jeff & Larry’s backyard bbQ w/ bob & the Showgram Sep 19: 2Cellos Sep 24: alison Krauss & David Gray
charlotte
CmCu amphithEatrE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com aug 27: Goo Goo Dolls w/ phillip phillips Sep 20: 2Cellos
thE FiLLmorE
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com aug 19: Social Distortion aug 20: monica aug 24: Gente De Zona aug 25: Dru hill aug 25: Sahbabii aug 26: Sixteen Candles aug 26: beyond the Fad aug 28: barns Courtney aug 31: through the roots Sep 8: Lettuce Sep 10: Dark tranquillity Sep 12: 2 Chainz Sep 16: Chronixx Sep 17: Grungefest Sep 19: Electric Guest Sep 20: Joywave Sep 22: Nothing more Sep 22: adam ant Sep 24: mutemath
Sep 25: the War on Drugs Sep 26: trombone Shorty & orleans avenue Sep 28: issues Sep 30: Kesha Sep 30: Space Jesus oct 1: Jake miller oct 2: Foster the people oct 3: Seu Jorge oct 3: the Script oct 4: mastodon oct 5: Clean bandit oct 6: Cafe tacuba oct 7: pvris oct 9: hollywood undead
pNC muSiC paviLioN
707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com aug 18: Luke bryan aug 20: matchbox twenty & Counting Crows Sep 8: brad paisley Sep 10: ruff ryders w/ Fat Joe Sep 15: Jeff & Larry’s backyard bbQ Sep 27: Kings of Leon Sep 28: Jack Johnson Sep 29: alison Krauss & David Gray
ovENS auDitorium
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Sep 11: paramore Sep 28: Loretta Lynn Sep 29-30: Jason isbell & the 400 unit
tWC arENa
333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com aug 18: Earth, Wind & Fire aug 29: Kendrick Lamar Sep 3: Ed Sheeran Sep 14: bruno mars Sep 27: Katy perry
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• Bulk Foods
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Sep 20: Drew holcomb & the Neighbors Sep 25: mac Demarco Sep 26: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Sep 28: rufus Wainwright Sep 29: Loretta Lynn oct 8: robert Cray
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CaroLiNa thEatrE
123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Sep 23: pink Floyd Laser Spectacular
greensboro
CaroLiNa thEatrE
310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com aug 17: Lyle Lovett & his Large band aug 24: buddy Guy Sep 22: a temptations revue w/ bo henderson Sep 30: michael Ken
GrEENSboro CoLiSEum 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 3: marco antonio Solis w/ Jesse & Joy
WhitE oaK ampithEatrE
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com aug 22: Livehouse & Switchfoot
high point
hiGh poiNt thEatrE
220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Sep 22: Emi Sunshine w/ Summer brook & the mountain Faith band Sep 24: the Suffers
raleigh
CCu muSiC parK at WaLNut CrEEK
3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com aug 16: John mayer aug 19: Lyke bryan aug 22: matchbox twenty & Counting Crows Sep 1: Green Day Sep 8: Jason aldean, Chris Young, Kane brown & DeeJay Silver Sep 23: brantley Gilbert Sep 29: Jack Johnson oct 6: Zac brown band
rED hat amphithEatEr 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com aug 23: Goo Goo Dolls & phillip phillips Sep 20: Lauryn hill w/ Nas Sep 23: Newsboys
pNC arENa
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Aug 18-24
Heathers: The Musical Book, Music and Lyrics by Kevin Murphy & Laurence O’Keefe Heathers: The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. Heathers: The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time. With its moving love story, laugh-out-loud comedy and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, Heathers
will be Winston-Salem's most popular musical in a long time. Are you in, or are you out?
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Theatre Alliance 1047 Northwest Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC Friday, August 18 at 8 pm Saturday, August 19 at 8 pm Sunday, August 20 at 2 pm Thursday, August 24 at 8 pm Friday, August 25 at 8 pm Saturday, August 26 at 8 pm Sunday, August 27 at 2 pm
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THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 THE BIG SICK (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:30, 5:25, 8:20, 11:15 Sun - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:30, 5:25, 8:20 SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (PG13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:15, 7:30 BABY DRIVER (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 5:00, 10:15 LOGAN LUCKY (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 STEP (PG) Fri - Thu: 11:40 AM, 1:45, 3:50, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 THE EXCEPTION (R) Fri & Sat: 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35, 11:50 Sun - Thu: 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 ANNABELLE: CREATION (R) Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE NUT JOB 2: NUTTY BY NATURE (PG) Fri: 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 Sat - Thu: 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 THE DARK TOWER (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40
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he new documentary Step ( ) focuses on the members of an inner-city Baltimore high school step team, but what’s most surprising about the film is how comparatively little time is spent on the dancing. To be sure, there are numerous sequences in which we watch the girls practice, and of course there’s a big dance competition at the end. But the majority of the picture examines the lives of these young women away from the hoofing, centering instead on their family lives and their efforts to graduate and be accepted into college. It’s not unreasonable, then, to assume that the title doesn’t refer to their chosen form of dancing as much as it refers to the steps each girl must take if she wants to break free from her surroundings and escape into the world at large. The picture primarily focuses on Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger and Tayla Solomon, three seniors at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. Cori is the brainy one (she’s hoping to get into Johns Hopkins on a full scholarship) while Tayla is the sardonic one (she’s constantly rolling her eyes at her mom, a corrections officer with as much boundless energy as any of these girls). As for Blessin, she’s the
founder of the step team as well as the center of the movie. Bright and beautiful, she lives for dance but has trouble applying herself in other areas. With plummeting grades and a mother who doesn’t always come through for her, she’s the one most in peril of not moving forward, and the later scenes in which she realizes she may get left behind as her peers are receiving their college acceptance letters pack an emotional wallop. More straightforward than many other documentaries about kids in competition, Step isn’t as richly detailed or narratively mutable as something like Hoop Dreams or Spellbound. But by focusing on the hopes and aspirations of three distinct individuals — and by raising the stakes via opening the film with the 2015 policesanctioned-and-court-approved slaying of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray — the movie posits that, while artistic expression may be a way of life, the environment in which it’s often practiced may be more subject to matters of life and death. !
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n North Eugene Street, Deep Roots Market, a community owned food cooperative has seen better days. The market has (quite literally) deep roots Katie Murawski in Greensboro as it originated from a dorm room of GuilEditor ford College in 1976. It was founded by a group of vegetarian students who did not have adequate access to vegetarian foods. Thus, a buying club was formed among the students and each member pooled their money together to buy in bulk what they would need to eat happily, healthy and ethically. Eventually, the buying club outgrew the basement of a dorm and into a storefront downtown and in 2013, the store moved to Eugene Street. Recruited to open the kitchen at this new location, Nicole Villano, now Deep Roots’ general manager since February 2017, said she felt called to take the job. Villano swears by co-ops and believes in their potential and impact in the community. She said co-ops are really important because they put people before profits. “We are not profit driven,” she said. “But anytime we are profitable those moneys go back into the community through nonprofit donations or reinvestment into the business to offer more services, depending on where the needs are.” Part owners is what Deep Roots call its members, and part owners get dividends, or a check from Deep Roots back to use in the store when they are profitable. However, recently Deep Roots has not been profitable, and Villano said this has been due to a couple of reasons. The biggest reason being that there had been multiple closures from both sides of North Eugene Street since October 2016 and in June the road was closed from both sides. “We knew about the Greenway project but we did not know about the water line project down there in front of the baseball stadium until a week before they started it,” she said. “So at one point we were literally cut off from both sides of our street.” The Greenway project aims to put a
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sidewalk that goes through downtown and right in front of the market, which Villano said is wonderful and will be good for business. Once it is completed, it will give more people access by foot or bike downtown. However, Villano said the construction is ongoing and will not be completed for months. “Our sales have gone down between 10 to 20 percent,” Villano said. “Which is a huge drop for us because we have not really recovered from the expense of the move and paying back of the loans has not started yet. It is definitely a financial challenge to say the least.” Villano said the biggest part that is lacking in Greensboro is the education on why co-ops are important. “If Greensboro were to lose Deep Roots Market, it would be felt in waves for years because of all the stuff we do for people,” Villano said. “ Greensboro is lucky to have such a great co-op with deep roots, literally.” Along with the road construction, Villano said Deep Roots’ reputation took a hit before her tenure as the general manager because of previous management’s deci-
sion to not source some items ethically. Villano said she vows to serve the community in her position by bringing back Deep Roots’ trusted reputation to source their products from good companies. Villano said Deep Roots is the hub of Greensboro’s local economy and that the community owns and drives the store. Anyone in the community is free and welcomed to shop there because purchasing a membership is not required. Villano said the co-op is ran democratically, in the sense that there are board of trustee elections. The elected board members then guide the co-op in the direction of what the people want it to go. Villano said Deep Roots is a platform for local producers to sell their products and services such as Zaytoons, a former wellknown restaurant. Deep Roots gets local producers started with products, space and packaging. “It is an opportunity to live out the American dream,” Villano said. “If you have this gift or product that you do better than anyone else, we help people who are just starting out getting the resources they need.”
Villano said when people shop at Deep Roots and co-ops in general, they are voting with their dollars. This keeps dollars in Greensboro and helps local families send their children to something as big as college or even something little as dance classes. “When you shop at any other corporate grocery store, your money is funneled out of the community,” Villano said. “[Corporate grocery stores] are profit driven; the people at the top make 895 times more than the lowest paid person on average.” Villano said Deep Roots employees make comparable wages; department managers make about the same amount of money, and all hourly employees make the same amount of money. “Which is ideally higher than other grocery stores because we want to pay people fair wages,” Villano said. “Fair trade is another things co-ops stand for, you are paying people what they ask to be paid.” She said that the coffee, tea, sugar and coconut industry create more slavery in order for them to meet the demand of Walmart’s low prices, which it in turn, creates slave-like and indentured servitude
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for workers in that industry. Villano said that there are many different types of co-ops such as credit unions and companies like Blue Ridge Electric. Deep Roots belongs to the National Cooperative Grocers. Villano said all of the combined resources are pooled together to helps the market get lower prices than Walmart on some items. Villano said the misconception that the market’s prices are too high also contributed to their slump in business and sales. “So that is why some of our prices are cheaper than Walmart,” she said. “We have customers tell us that all the time.” Villano said co-ops are responsible for regulating organic labeling and that Deep Roots has strong ties to local organic farms such as Reedy Fork Farms located about 20 minutes away in Elon, North Carolina. Melissa Wilson-Blanchard the office manager of Reedy Fork Farms said the farm provides Deep Roots with livestock feed, eggs and beef. She said everything they provide for the market is certified organic and grown locally on the farm. Wilson-Blanchard agreed with Villano and said co-ops are a great opportunity for locals to purchase locally and help keep their small farmers in business or entrepreneurs that are around the cooperative in business with locally made products. She said it is important to be a certified organic farm because it means that there are not any pesticide used on the produce or harmful antibiotics that is given to the animals that reside there. “As far as being a certified organic farm like our 650-acre farm is, it is really important what you are putting in your body and your animals’ bodies,” she said. “Being certified organic is not only something that is life changing, but it is life altering.” Wilson-Blanchard said the public needs to be made more aware about what organic means and what local co-ops can do for them, she said it is all about education. Villano said Deep Roots is committed to serving the community in many more ways than just providing ethically sourced and certified organic foods available. “We all care about each other and take care of each other and our community,” she said. “If you wanted to come here and do a fundraiser, or if you need food for homeless people in your neighborhood, Deep Roots will work with you. There are multiple ways to serve our community.” Villano said consumers do not have to become members to shop at the market but it is highly encouraged to pay a onetime fee of $100 to become a lifetime owner in the co-op. In the near future, Deep Roots plans to WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
hold a grand re-opening in September. According to the press release, this event is the “biggest in Deep Roots’ history.” The event is city-sponsored and includes neighboring businesses. There will be a dedication at 4 p.m. and it is encouraged to be there and set up by 3 p.m. The event goes to 6 p.m. and neighbors will continue the celebration with live music and food. Tables will be provided upon request and the market will also look into to tent rentals. Those who have tents are encouraged to bring them and staff will help set it up. “Please come ready to showcase your products with demos and samples,” Villano wrote in the press release. “We encourage you to tell the story of the companies you represent. It is time to celebrate the end of this difficult time and the end of this ongoing road construction. Together, let’s delight the people of Greensboro and show them why Deep Roots should be their first choice for grocery shopping and why your products should be in their bags!” More recently, on Aug. 19 Deep Roots will host an “all Beatles evening” from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. There is no cover charge
and there will be coffee, tea, wine, beer and other beverages as well as readyto-eat food plus a hot bar and salad bar open until 7:30 p.m. Joel Landau is the performer and he said in an email “there are over 180 songs the Beatles wrote and recorded; I play and sing all but three, so
all your Beatles requests are welcome! Come sing along or listen along.” ! 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. AUGUST 16-22, 2017
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All that Glitters must be sold? Hard times for a downtown landmark BY IAN MCDOWELL Glitters owner Gary Barskey hopes the “Going Out of Business Sale” sign in his window at 529 S. Elm St. will prove to be a fib or at least an overly negative prognosis. As owner and operator of the store that, as his slogan says, has been “delighting downtown Greensboro with everything you never knew you wanted since 1988,” he’s seen the tough time before. I have a personal stake in his survival and believe that Greensboro will be a sadder and drabber place if he does not ride this one out. For decades now, his eccentric establishment has been my one-stop shop for knick-knacks to pop into care packages and delight my friends and pen pals across the country. Other customers shop at Glitters for the glass pipes, T-shirts, postcards, winged bulldog statues, replicas of vintage toys and board games, creepy unicorn and banana slug masks and general head shop paraphernalia. My own repeated purchases are even more eccentric and often cheaper. I’m talking about zombie finger puppets, wiggly rubber “monster women” with retro glamour girl heads and bombshell torsos but reptilian or insectoid appendages, plastic guns with which you can fire harmless potato pellets at your cat or spouse, real huge insects preserved under glass, and Grow Your Own Triops kits. The last is one of my favorites. They are like the Sea Monkeys of our pop culture childhood, only without the bitter disappointment and unsavory associations. The hardy, easy-to-grow, prehistoric-looking, freshwater crustaceans called Triops not only have three eyes but can get to be three inches long, six times bigger than the tiny boring brine shrimp. Barskey’s business has improved since he moved south from his location of 27 years at the corner of Elm and Washington, but he’s carrying a heavy load. “We want to try to come back from this,” he said. “It’s just that the debt from the last four or five years has been pretty treacherous on me. It’s credit card debt that got built up when things were slow, and then the move, and I just can’t seem to get my head above water, which is very scary. So I’m running the back half of the store at 50 percent off, and I have stuff in storage that I can bring down and fit in here because we can always build back up.” Barskey said he first got into this business in the early 1980s when he had some booths at the Buckhorn Flea Market in
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Glitters owner Gary Barskey. Orange County for three or four years before he opened Glitters. “That that was back when the Fed was taking people’s sailboats for owning rolling papers,” he said. “The lawyers who owned the land that Buckhorn Flea Market was on, they had it registered as a tree farm, and they got a little paranoid that I was selling pipes. That’s when I moved to Greensboro.” His first location was at South Elm and McGee. “We opened, I think, in June of 1988, where Natty Greene’s is now,” he said. “We were there for three years, and then there were problems with the person who bought the building, and we moved to South Elm and West Washington, where we were for 27 years. We’ve only been here at 529 South Elm since midFebruary.” Like so many other specialty shops, Glitters has been hurt by the internet. “That has hit us,” he said. “Some of the suppliers, like on shirts, are also running their own websites. A shirt I might pay $13 for, they’re selling for $13.50.”
Glitters is not only pre-Internet, but pre-Walmart, pre-Target, as well. None of those places were selling Barskey’s stuff, but unlike them, he said Glitters tried to find the best quality stuff they can get. “Now, people will go online and find something that isn’t made as well, but it’s a quarter of the price,” he said. “ But I want to stress how grateful I am to our customers over the years. We try and find things that they’re not finding everywhere else, and they do appreciate us for it.” Barskey is also grateful to the women who’ve helped curate his inventory over the years. “I have to thank my wife Martha Smith and my daughters Desiree and Miranda for their taste in products,” he said. Barskey said he wanted to thank Zack Methany and Downtown Greensboro for helping him with money to get all the plaster off the walls and fix the place up a bit. “I’m just trying to survive, to make it viable again, because this is a good location and it should work out good down here.” !
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Changes in store for this year’s Wyndham Donald and Major championship winners If you’re expecting to see bikini-clad Jason Dufner, Padraig Harrington, Keegan babes and handsome hunks at the “ocean Bradley, Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell, beach” along the lake guarding the 15th Stewart Cink, Kevin Kisner and Retief and 16th holes of the Wyndham ChamGoosen in the field. Defending champion pionship this year, you might go to be Si Woo Kim withdrew because of injury. very disappointed. It appears the beach Former champions returning are Arjun will now be lakeside, so the outfits might Atwal, K.J. Choi, Ryan Moore, Carl Pettersnot be as skimpy. That’s just one of the son, Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker and changes this year’s tournament Aug. 16 Camilo Villegas. to 20 at the final PGA Tour tournament of The 78th annual Wyndham Championthe regular season. ship runs through Sunday at Sedgefield Also gone is “Margaritaville,” the popuCountry Club. Tickets are available at lar watering hole/music venue outside the www.wyndhamchampionship.com, main clubhouse. In its place, “Front Porch www.Ticketmaster.com or through the at the Wyndham” will feature live music, tournament office at 336-379-1570. Thru entertainment and concessions. The Aug. 20, while supplies last, buy two venue is open to all tournament patrons good-any-day tickets for the price of one and PGA Tour professionals will also pay at area Harris Teeter visits during the day. stores with a VIC card. Replacing the popuPHOTO BY CAROL BROOKS As always, children lar sand sculpture ages 15 and under are outside the clubhouse admitted free with a is a topiary garden. paying adult. Visit the Artist Topiary Joe will website for details create custom-deoan free admission. signed topiary sculpPARKING: There tures. Verdant moss are three parking and lush plantings will lot options for your be transformed into convenience: Premier famous figures and Parking Lot, Public images as Wyndham Parking North Lot and Championship fans Si Woo Kim continued the tradition Public Parking South watch. of first-time PGA Tour winners at Lot. Complimentary “Wyndham Worldthe 2016 Wyndham Championship. parking shuttles run wide has thousands continuously from all of properties all over three lots to Sedgethe world,” Mark Brafield Country Club and back. zil, Wyndham Championship tournament PREMIER PARKING: American Furniture director said. “This year, we’ve chosen to Warehouse, 3900 W Gate City Blvd., $10 showcase some of Wyndham’s southern Wednesday and $15 Thursday-Sunday. locations with this new tournament PUBLIC PARKING NORTH: Greensboro theme just like we did a few years ago Coliseum, 1921 W Gate City Blvd., 10. when Key to Wyn looked like a ski lodge PUBLIC PARKING SOUTH: Furniturewith pine trees and snow outside and skiland South, 5635 Riverdale Drive, $10. ing simulators inside. It should be cool to UBER: Tournament patrons can use the watch Topiary Joe sculpt moss and plants Uber app to request a ride to drop them into people and images.” off at a designated Uber Lot near the One more new venue this year is “Food tournament entrance. Riders will be able Trucks on 10,” near the 10th green, which to request a ride home from the Uber Lot, also includes a Michelob Ultra tasting and located at the intersection of Anson and six different North Carolina craft beers. Rockingham Roads, a short walk from the Residents will recognize familiar faces at tournament’s main entrance. First time the Zeko’s and Grinder trucks. Uber riders can download the app from At press time, professionals committed the App Store and use the promo code to appear include three-time Wyndham WYNDHAM17 for a free first ride on UberX, champion Davis Love III, world No. 8 up to $15 in value. Users can also sign up Henrik Stenson, World Golf Hall of Famer at https://get.uber.com/go/wyndham17. Ernie Els, Kyle Stanley, Charles Howell III, See the website for tournament restricformer FedExCup champions Bill Haas tions. ! and Billy Horschel, former world No. 1 Luke WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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BARTENDER: Jeremiah Duininck BAR: Green Valley Grill AGE: 46 HOMETOWN: San Diego BARTENDING: 3.5 years now + 6 years in my 20s = 10 years ish Q: How did you become a bartender? A: At the first restaurant I ever worked at, a bartender got fired for stealing. They were desperate and I half begged, half BSed my way in.
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painful things to watch. Q:What’s the best tip you’ve ever gotten? A: The biggest (non-party/ group) tip I got was $150 on $250. That isn’t all that outrageous as tips go, but remember, I’m a dude, not a hot girl with a big smile and endless giggles. Q: How do you deal with difficult customers? A: Smile and act stupid. I pretend like I don’t comprehend their slights or rudeness, all while smiling and saying nice things. Works Wonders. Q: Single? A: Single Celled Organism
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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) The lunar eclipse described in the lead paragraph occurs in your Sun’s sign. Circumstances around this period, even for weeks or months, press you to encounter yourself in relationship to others. If your behavior is authentically “from the heart,” you will receive positive attention. If otherwise, you will hear about that as well. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This eclipse is in your twelfth house of the unconscious mind. It suggests you need to explore what is going on with you beneath your usual routines. Helpful tools could be: counseling or therapy, hypnosis, dream study and/or journaling. Find out what your unconscious is creating. If you don’t like it, address that and redirect its patterns. [LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) The new eclipse season will be opening your mind and heart to accept a larger circle of friends. You may become a leader or a strong supporter of a community network which has shared ideals. Certainly you will continue to have the friendships you have built in the past. However, your attention may be shifted to goals greater than your own. [SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) The new 18 month series of eclipses will bring a certain amount of intensity in the arenas of career (work in the world) and also home, hearth and family. You will be stretching your worldly boundaries to serve a new group of people. Family relationships will include one loss and one gain during these months.
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[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Legal, ethical or educational issues will be emphasized by the new 18 month series of eclipses. Travel will be punctuated, whether it via body, mind, or spirit. Exposure to those of different backgrounds or cultures opens your heart and expands your philosophy. A challenge concerning siblings, roommates, or neighbors may press you to seek a Higher Road. [CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This new eclipse pattern will emphasize issues of sexuality, intimacy, and material accumulation. Reorganization of debt, investments and your estate may be in progress. You may become more conscious than usual about existential matters related to life, death, and what is on “the other side” of normal, waking consciousness.
[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) The eclipses of this 18 month series will draw attention to your partnerships. Negative patterns from your childhood history may need to be uncovered, repaired or removed to allow your growth into a more mature relationship. Circumstances may encourage you to allow your partner to lead, while you take a supporting role. [PISCES (February 19 to March 20) This Leo eclipse pressures you to concentrate on improvement of work related relationships and health maintenance. Diet, exercise and improvement of physical regimen will become imperative. Honing your management systems in personal and work arenas is necessary to create order in your daily work routine. [ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This eclipse pattern emphasizes your progeny or other personally creative births. Romantic ventures will be intensely emotional and self-revealing. You will be learning a few lessons in discernment concerning friendships and associations that no longer serve you well. [TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Matters concerning your family and property will be accented for the next 18 months. Old problems in relationships, even with the deceased, will surface for cleansing and healing. A new family member may enter the scene, or you may begin to spend more time with family in general. [GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) The accent of this eclipse cycle will be on travel, education, care of vehicles and relationships to siblings, roommates, neighbors, or others who daily traverse your life. Habit patterns of thought will be brought to consciousness so negative thinking can be corrected. You will be introduced to new practical life skills. Or you may be teaching skills to others. [CANCER (June 21 to July 22) During this new 18 month series of eclipses you will be learning to value yourself in new ways. Alongside of that comes education in the management of money and other resources, such as time and energy. There will be less assistance from others in these arenas, but you are creating these resources for yourself. Are you interested in a personal horoscope? Vivian Carol may be reached at (704) 366-3777 for private psychotherapy or astrology appointments. There is a fee for services. Website: http//www.horoscopesbyvivian.com
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My otherwise wonderful husband always leaves his wet towel on the bed (on my side!). I’ve asked him to stop doing this countless times, but I don’t think he’s being passive-aggressive or anything. I think he just spaces out after showering. How can I get him to
It’s good for a man to have goals, though ideally not one that involves growing a fern out of your comforter. As you appear to understand, the problem isn’t ill will; it’s “I, Robot.” The first time your husband wondered “Where do I put this wet towel?” — perhaps at age 10 — his brain said, “Easy peasy...just drop it right there on the bed.” Sadly, it seems his superhero bedspread didn’t pipe up: “Superman’s got a ton to do today, and flying your wet towel over to the hamper is not on his agenda.” Our brain is an efficiency expert. Figuring things out the first time around (a la “what should I do with this towel?”) takes a bunch of energy. But, as neuroscientist Donald Hebb pointed out (in somewhat more neuroscientific terms), as you do an action over and over, your brain goes, “Oh, that again.” The trigger for the action — in this case, approaching the bed (while in a towel, ready to
get dressed) — becomes automatic. Automatic means there’s no stopping to muse, “Wait! I have a wife now, and she’s threatening to Saran Wrap the bed.” There’s only the old familiar launch code: “Bed!” — cueing “Drop wet towel here!” This automation thing — with thinking removed from the equation — is the reason nagging or even asking nicely before or after the fact is so often useless in changing behavior. You need to break in to the automatic sequence as it’s in progress (when he gets to the bed), kind of like an air traffic controller coming in over the plane’s intercom — “Attention Southwest two-two-niner...” Interrupting the trigger sequence allows you to send a yoo-hoo to areas of his prefrontal cortex, the brain’s department of rational thought — asking them to kindly wake the hell up and take over from the basal ganglia and other parts of the brain’s department of automation. No, I’m not suggesting you stand guard by the bed like one of those decorative architectural lions, waiting for wet towel time. And hiring one of those street-corner sign spinners would probably be both impractical and a little creepy. To grab your husband’s attention in a positive way, I suggest collecting cartoons (like one of my faves, “Bizarro,” by Dan Piraro) and leaving one marked “Towel alert! xo” on the area of the bed he turns into terrycloth swampland. (Pair it with a battery-operated flashing light if he ends up dropping his towel on top of it.) The cartoon should break him out of his auto-daze, reminding him to return the wet towel to its ancestral home, Ye Olde Towel Rack. (If there is something
missing for the two of you in bed, it probably isn’t mildew.)
FAME FATALE
I’m a novelist who’s suddenly getting successful (after 20 years of crappy jobs and rejected manuscripts). Every day, several people make this annoying and rather insulting comment to me: “Don’t forget about me when you’re famous!” This got me wondering: What keeps some people grounded while others let success go to their head? — Published Of course you’ll stay in touch with your old friends. You’ll have your assistant call them to see whether they’d like to come over and clean out your rain gutters. The quality that keeps success from turning you into, well, Kanye East is humility. People confuse humility — being humble — with being humiliated. However, humility is basically a healthy awareness of your limitations — what social psychologist and humility researcher Pelin Kesebir describes as “a down-toearth perspective of yourself in relation to all other beings.” That’s something you’re more likely to
have when you make it at 40 — after 20 years of working crappy jobs, driving a car held together with duct tape and hope, and selling your blood to buy a tuna melt. Contrast that with hitting it big at 17: “Bro, I was just on my hoverboard at the mall, and some dude handed me a recording contract!” The cool thing is, social psychologist Elliott Kruse and his colleagues find that you can bolster humility by expressing gratitude — appreciation for how another person has helped you. Expressing gratitude both “inhibits internal focus” and “promotes external focus” — focus on others. This sort of wider view may help you keep any fame you get in perspective. After all, there’s a way to live on in the hearts and minds of many, even after you die, and it’s by creating brilliant, spirit-moving art — or by being a chinchilla videotaped while eating a Dorito. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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