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BACK TO SCHOOL If there is one piece of advice from my experience that I would give people going back to school this year, it would be to never give up. It may sound cliché, but it was my mantra when I started kindergarten and it was my mantra as I walked across the stage at my college graduation. It is still something I tell myself every day as I interact in the realm that all of my past teachers have called “the real world.” I talked to parents in the Triad who are sending their children off (to kindergarten and college) and asked what their ADVICE would be in this transitional time.

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It’s not easy being amazing. Actually for 1703 RESTAURANT and Catering, being amazing is easy. Because within its walls labor the nurture and love of Joe and Molly Curran, and Chef Curtis Hackaday, one of the Triad’s most creative chefs. The restaurant, located on Robinhood Road in WinstonSalem, has been striking an arrow through the heart of foodies for 18 years.

10 ANNE-CLAIRE NIVER doesn’t think she is a “big-voiced chanteuse,” a phrase repeated in ads and articles since a 2014 review called her that. The Durham-born singer-songwriter, whose second album I Still Look for You was released this month, laughed when I quoted it.

11 With summer fading fast, GKIDS has partnered with Fathom Events to bring anime aficionados a rare and special treat on the big screen: Satoshi Kon’s awardwinning feature debut PERFECT BLUE (Pafekuto Buru), which has been rarely screened in the United States since its initial release.

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that fate had chosen a musical path for her.

And, in fact, Horn, a Texas-born jazz singer who lives in New York City, said music was her first language: she started singing before she could speak.

19 A clever concept gets off to a roaring start before eventually losing its way in THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS, a puppet pageantry that is most decidedly not one for the whole family to enjoy.

24 Monstercade is hosting a sick show full of fresh faces with FORTEZZA, It’s Snakes, and Bangzz on Aug. 31. Featuring three choice acts from various North Carolina music scenes and generations, the lineup highlights how the Winston weirdo bar continues establishing itself as a conduit for grooming growing bands and anchoring solid acts from neighboring music communities.

25 In the 1950s, TEENAGERS went cruising in their cars and sometimes mooned other motorists. By the end of the decade, cramming into phone booths was all the rage. During the free-love 1960s, some teens felt empowered to smoke weed and disrobe at rock concerts.

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The Summerfield Stars baseball team is making sure their name will be remembered. In July, the Summerfield Stars became the 9U AA Champions of the USSSA World Series. And coaches Vaughn “Gooch” Gladwell, Eric Benoy, John Sheridan, Dewey Joyner, David Lorczak and Demetrius Ponder were partially responsible for the Summerfield Stars’ victory.

“This team is a real family and the other coaches are a big part of the success as well,” Gladwell wrote in an email. “Along with amazing ballplayers, we are surrounded by a great group of coaches and parents.”

The Summerfield Stars are a traveling baseball league, and Gladwell said he was drawn to the idea of coaching this kind of team because more players were “moving in that direction.” Although the Stars are experiencing victory now with their first win, it wasn’t an easy journey getting to that point. Back in 2017, the Stars came

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in fourth in the Pony Baseball tournament, which he said the team took really hard. Since then, Gladwell said the Stars have used new strategies in order to win in future games. Gladwell said the Stars’ perseverance and hard work have allowed them to reap new victories.

Gladwell said he has been coaching baseball for 20 years but started coaching for Summerfield five years ago. Gladwell said, “the magical component” of the Summerfield Stars is each team member’s individual strengths. As for future plans for the Summerfield Stars, Gladwell said that they will be playing six more games this season and they will play during the Winter World Series as well. The state championship and preparation to win the USSSA 2019 in Florida, are both on the to-do list for the coaches and the team. Visit the Stars’ website (www.summerfieldrec.org) for more information and for the game schedule. !

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Actually for 1703 Restaurant and Catering, being amazing is easy.

Because within its walls labor the nurture and love of Kristi Maier Joe and Molly Cur@triadfoodies ran, and Chef Curtis Hackaday, one of the Triad’s most creative Contributor chefs.

The restaurant, located on Robinhood Road in WinstonSalem, has been striking an arrow through the heart of foodies for 18 years.

Before opening 1703, the Currans worked at Roaring Gap Club, and during the off-season of November to April, they catered.

“After the season in 1999, we started looking for a space in Winston-Salem,” Molly said. “The space at 1703 Robinhood Rd. became available, and we took it over in June 2000. After months of renovation, we opened in October.”

Fortunately, the restaurant already had a good base of catering customers.

“Opening a restaurant is always nerve-wracking, but we had a group with whom we had a relationship,” Molly said. “This made the transition a little easier. Our regulars have been loyal to us for 18 years, and we are very grateful to them.”

Molly said the catering/restaurant relationship is great synergy. “We continue to see people in the restaurant who were introduced to us through catering, and we are Molly and Joe catering to first-time Curran party givers who know [us] only from the restaurant. It’s a nice balance.”

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unmatched. Hackaday started as a waiter when 1703 opened. He left for a few years, returned to wait and cook and became Chef de Cuisine six years ago.

“Curtis was thrown to the wolves when he was promoted in 2012,” Molly said. “We were getting ready to go up to Roaring Gap to take over a restaurant on the property. Our chef walked out a week before we were set to go. Curtis stepped in and was better than we could have imagined.”

Molly said Hackaday had been given much flexibility to be creative with his menu items, but that’s only part of his job.

“Sometimes parties come up quickly, and he has to navigate the purchasing and manage the prepping for the parties, all the while creating the masterpieces on the plates of the restaurant tables.

It can be annoying with the last minute additions, but he is virtually unflappable.

We are his biggest fans.”

Hackaday, who’s a full-time dad as well as a chef, is a huge supporter of local agriculture and loves to try new, innovative approaches to local ingredients.

“We use three farms on the regular: Harmony Farm, Fair Share Farm, and Shore Farms Organics. I speckle in other

farms if they have something I want and can’t get from the main three.”

The result of his close relationships with farms is wildly imaginative, visually stunning tapas and entrées.

“It’s easy to plan menus when the farms start raging,” Hackaday said. “I look at their product list and see how I can make this different and accessible.”

Hackaday is also a mushroom expert and has foraged and picked 50 pounds of mushrooms this year.

Margie and Bill Imus own Minglewood Farm and Nature Preserve, where Hackaday has donated his talents at their farm-to-table fundraising events.

“He is one of the most creative chefs and makes some of the most beautiful plates of cuisine in town,” Margie told me. “He is truly an artist in many ways.

We saw right away Curt was all about seasonal, local produce, and knowing his farmer.”

Eighteen years of success for a locallyowned restaurant is no small feat. 1703 isn’t part of the downtown scene and despite me including them in a list of West End restaurants, they’re technically not in the West End (close enough though).

Mostly, 1703 considers themselves a neighborhood restaurant.

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“The neighbors are our captive audience,” Molly said. “We know them and recognize them and bend over backward for them because we value their continued business. We vary our menu daily based on the chef’s creativity, which keeps our ideas fresh. Our regulars like it because they can come to dinner for two nights in a row and have a different dining experience.”

The Currans also attributed their success to very low turnover of their waitstaff.

“They are the face of our business, but more importantly, we feel they are members of our little family,” Molly said.

“It takes a special person to be able to do all that is required to wait tables at 1703, and we appreciate all they do and their loyalty. As a result, they stick around.”

Often, when a catering business opens a restaurant, the restaurant struggles.

However, 1703 has embraced the dynamic.

“Our catering business is our bread and butter,” Molly said. “When the restaurant business is quiet the catering business is busy. Like everything else with us, our catering is a little different from other catering businesses. As a custom caterer, we attempt to make each party or wedding different. Joe is ridiculously creative, and he’s able to take the host’s initial concept and make into something amazing. The presentation is stunning, using different colors, textures, and heights in display.

The whole party really matters to Joe.”

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it. It’s hard to tell someone what your favorite entrée at 1703 is when the menu changes so often. The restaurant isn’t part of the downtown vibe, which can also be isolating.

“We definitely feel left out of the hype surrounding downtown,” Molly said.

“We’ve been in existence long enough to remember when there was no scene downtown. We are grateful for the energy surrounding the downtown restaurants because it has changed the dynamic of Winston-Salem. Downtown has come a long way, and we’ve been here the whole time.”

Winston-Salem is a glowing community of restaurants, and it should not be downtown versus everyone else. The Currans said they strive to be a part of that.

“When one of us is successful, there is potential for everyone to be successful.” !

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What’s not so easy for 1703 is being just far enough away from “the local food scene” that though the eatery isn’t exactly forgotten about, it is often not talked about. Something I’ve noticed in the past is that when local media and foodies talk about restaurants, lots of downtown is mentioned, and somehow 1703 is left out. Sometimes, we can’t help

KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Anne-Claire Niver on grief, dreams, new album

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nne-Claire Niver doesn’t think she is a “big-voiced chanteuse,” a phrase repeated in ads and articles since a 2014 review called her that. The Durham-born singersongwriter, whose second album I Still Look for You was released this month, laughed when I quoted it.

“It sounds like I’m in some French salon,” she said while taking a break from packing for her upcoming move to Carrboro. “People may think they know what I sound like when they see that word, and it’s just so not that. But I’m sure happy to have my

name in print.”

Suspecting she might be tired of talking about how she used to sing for goats, a past job mentioned in several articles, I asked about more recent events. She said that, over the four years since she worked at Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, “I started feeling very liberated as an artist and became brave enough to call myself one.” However, she’d never imagined sharing her work beyond a close circle of friends until one of them, her future producer Alex Bingham, encouraged her to do so.

“It never occurred to me that I could collaborate with other musicians or have a band,” said Niver, who received her degree in Musical Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she said she was “always singing someone else’s music.” Realizing she could sing her own, she started “writing like crazy.” Soon after, she moved from Raleigh to Greensboro, where she polished her songs with what she called “a very big band” composed mostly of UNCG jazz majors.

Her Kickstarter-funded first album, Anne-Claire Niver and the Wild Mystics, came out in 2015. “I made it with Kris Hilbert at Legitimate Business in Greensboro. It was a good jumping off point for me. I was slowly figuring out what I wanted and what I didn’t want.”

She kept writing and then, in May of 2016, her maternal grandmother died.

“She’d gone swimming that morning, and basically had a heart attack.” Niver’s family, which she described as “small and close” and as “expecting to have her around for at least another 10 years,” were devastated. “Some people can lose a grandparent and not be impacted all that much, but my sister and I were the only grandchildren, and it hit us hard.”

Niver used a Biblical phrase to describe the siblings’ relationship with their “mee-maw,” Willa Rae Bullock, whom she memorializes in a moving song on her new album. “I like to say we were fearfully and wonderfully loved.” Niver compared her grief to “looking at the sun,” explaining the simile with “I couldn’t do it all at once, and it physically hurt.”

Then other family members started talking about their dreams of being visited by Willa. “They’d say she told them everything was going to be okay,’ and I couldn’t wait to have a dream of my own.”

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told at all her shows since her grandmother’s death, the dream wasn’t what she’d expected.

“She came in the room all in white and said my name, and it was the most beautiful sound I’d ever heard. As she approached my bed, I felt myself physically moving in my sleep toward her, and I told her I’d been waiting for her and asked where she’d been.”

In the dream, Niver’s grandmother “opened her mouth, but my voice came out and said ‘I just can’t stop crying.’ I woke up disappointed because I wanted a message, but what I got [was] like a reflection of my own grief and I didn’t know what to do with that.”

She eventually composed the song “Second Time” about it. The day before she was scheduled to record it, Niver’s grandfather died. Her producer told her she didn’t need to come into the studio, as they could track the instrumental parts without her and record her vocals later. “But I thought ‘both of them would want me to do this,’ so I went and did it and pulled through. It was the last thing we did that day, and became a gateway to the rest of the record.”

That album, I Still Look For You was released on July 31 and can be purchased at www.anneclairemusic.com. On Aug. 31, the release will be celebrated at the Crown in the Greensboro’s Carolina Theatre at 310 Green St. Guitarist, bassist and singer-songwriter Sam Frazier and futuristic indy-pop band Blueberry will be performing with Anne-Claire Niver at this event. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased by calling (336) 333-2605 or, for an addition $3, at www.carolinatheatre.com !

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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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Perfect Blue shines on the big screen With summer fading fast, GKIDS has partnered with Fathom Events to bring anime aficionados a rare and special treat on the big screen: Satoshi Kon’s awardwinning feature Mark Burger debut Perfect Blue (Pafekuto Buru), which has been rareContributor ly screened in the United States since its initial release.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its international release, Perfect Blue will be screened at approximately 500 U.S. movie theaters, including the AMC Classic Hanes 12 in Winston-Salem, on Sept. 6, with an encore screening Sept. 10. The Sept. 6 screening will be in Japanese with English subtitles, the Sept. 10 screening the English-language dubbed version. The film, which is rated R, contains violence and nudity – and is recommended for mature audiences.

“Satoshi Kon was an incredible visionary and remarkable filmmaking talent,” observed GKIDS president Dave

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Jesteadt, in an official statement. “His shocking debut feature remains incredibly relevant, with its bold view of how technology and media can mold and distort our own perceptions of ourselves, and we are pleased to offer a new opportunity for audiences to discover his work.”

Based on a novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, the story focuses on Mima Kirigoe, a rising pop sensation who opts to quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, which upsets her massive fan base – and drives one obsessed fan to relentlessly pursue and torment her.

When Mima accepts a recurring role on a popular television series, those around her begin meeting untimely and grisly fates.

Consumed by guilt and paranoia, Mima’s sanity further spirals downward as her stalker closes in on her, both online and in person. This combination of psychological thriller, blistering media satire and eye-popping visuals immediately catapulted Kon to the front ranks of anime artisans, and he fulfilled that promise with such modern classics as Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), the 13-part mini-series Paranoia Agent (2004) and Paprika

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(2006), the latter marking Kon’s final feature before his untimely death at age 46 in 2010.

“We are delighted to extend our partnership with GKIDS, and to bring another of Japan’s best-animated features to the U.S.,” said Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt. “This ongoing partnership provides an extraordinary opportunity for anime fans to experience these films on big screens nationwide.” !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.

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t’s easy to think that some sort of predestination was involved. With a name like Jazzmeia Horn, one might assume that fate had chosen a musical path for her. And, in fact, Horn, a Texas-born jazz singer who lives in New York City, said music was her first language: she started singing before she could speak. Her John Adamian mother told stories of Horn making @johnradamian low humming noises as a newborn.

Given that everyone in her family either sang or played an instruContributor ment, musicality surrounded Horn.

Her grandfather was a pastor, her grandmother played piano in the church services and her mother sang in the choir while her father played drums.

Horn said that it was only later in life that she realized her household was unusually rooted in song. “At Thanksgiving time,” she said, “other people would usually talk about what they were grateful for, we would sing songs about being grateful.”

For a time, as a child, Horn thought that people who couldn’t sing or play an instrument had some sort of physical impairment or a problem that she was unable to understand.

I spoke with Horn earlier this week by phone from her home in Harlem as she put her two young daughters down for their afternoon nap. Horn will perform at the 8th annual John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival in High Point on Sept. 1.

Horn, 27, released her debut album A Social Call last year. It features her confident and impressive takes on standards like “I Remember You” and “East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” and medleys that mix soulful hard bop and spiritual jazz with gospel and liberation music. One track segues from “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is sometimes referred to as the “Black National Anthem,” into “Moanin’,” a song with a sizzling head-nodding blues riff made famous by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Another track moves from “Afro Blue,” a tune associated with John Coltrane, into “Wade In the Water.”

Also on the record is Horn’s version of “The Peacocks (A Timeless Place),” a complex and intricate piece, written

by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday accompanist Jimmy Royles, with a lot of unexpected chromatic movement.

It’s a song that Horn performed at the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition, which she won.

Working her way through a song with complicated turns and twists is one of Horn’s skills. Another is her virtuosic scat-singing, for which she deploys insistent rhythmic accents, rapid-fire runs, sax-like flurries and more. Her upbringing as a performer in church, charged with singing sacred music that required a pure heart, honesty and an ego that was kept in check -- all of that gave Horn a stage presence that is poised and serious, but comfortable and warm, too.

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and so it’s become entirely natural for her to get up on stage and make music.

“I don’t think about it, it’s just a part of my being,” Horn said.

Horn came to New York City on a scholarship to go to the New School. She found herself in a jazz scene that was bubbling with new energy from young artists with a sense of respect for the past coupled with a willingness to push out in new directions, to fold elements of pop and soul into the repertoire, or to dig up obscure old blues and ragtime tunes from the 1920s or earlier.

Music-making, for Horn, is a way of harnessing one’s energies and directing them out into the world. There’s uplift and positivity, but there’s also concern (particularly in her poetic spoken-word moments) about the state of the world. Songs -- like the blues lament of “Moanin’” -can serve to exorcise bad feelings, to cast out the sense of never-ending struggle and injustice. She also addresses racism, pollution and poverty. Horn throws herself into the songs.

“I definitely have a spiritual and holistic approach to music. With this reverence that I have for music, it started out with a reverence for God, but God is love, God is every-

thing,” she said. “So the music deserves all of me.”

Horn fits nicely onto the lineup of the two-day festival in High Point. Other bold and innovative vocalists playing the 2018 John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival include Dianne Reeves and Gregory Porter; it will be a good weekend for fans of jazz vocals. There will also be plenty of expansive horn-centric music that pays tribute to the mix of tender balladry and ecstatic spiritual questing embodied by the music of jazz giant John Coltrane, who was born in North Carolina in 1926. Coltrane’s son Ravi will perform at the festival. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, guitarist Lee Ritenour, singer/guitarist Jackie Venson and more will perform at the festival. !

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 31: Bear Stevens Sep 1: Laura Jane Vincent Sep 7: Open Mic w/ Wolfie Calhoun Sep 8: Brother Oliver Sep 14: 80’s Unplugged Sep 15: JB Boxter Sep 16: The Randolph Jazz Band Sep 21: Jakobs Ferry Stragglers Sep 22: Nobody’s Fault

clEmmOnS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Aug 24: Lasiter Union Aug 25: Ryan Trotti Aug 31: DJ Bald-E Sep 1: Clanky Lincolns Sep 7: DJ Bald-E Sep 13: James Vincent Carroll Sep 15: Southern Eyes Sep 21: Dj Bald-E Sep 29: Smash Hat Oct 5: DJ Nick Vander

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GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com 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

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REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Aug 31: Reeves House Band Sep 1: Amethyst Kiah Sep 7: The Glorifying Vines Sisters Sep 8: Patrick Rock Band Sep 14: Ten More Years Sep 15: Music Maker Relief Foundation Sep 20: Che Apalache Sep 22: Red Molly Sep 28: The Get Right Band Sep 29: Corey Hunt Band Oct 5: Lindsay Lou Oct 6: Sam Baker Oct 12: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters Oct 13: Darrell Scott Oct 18: Steam Machine Oct 19: Birds of Chicago Oct 26: Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboy

gREEnSBORO

ARIzONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Aug 31: 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 Oct 13: After The Burial & The Acacia Strain

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Aug 31: DJ Dan the Player Sep 1: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

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 Sep 7: Starstruck Sep 14: Mix Tape Sep 21: Chad Barnard Sep 28: Bend in the River Trio feat.

Geoff Clapp

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Aug 31: Create. Presents: Esseks Sep 1: Papadosio, Higher Learning Sep 5: Companyon, Lowborn, North

By North, Glow Sep 9: The Tim Carter Band Sep 12: Ride The Lightning: A Metallica Tribute Sep 15: Wintersun Sep 20: The Young Dubliners Sep 21: The Eric Gales Band with Tavers Brothership

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 30: Live Thursdays

COMEDY zONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com

Aug 31: Mike Speenberg Sep 1: Mike Speenberg Sep 7: Chris Wiles Sep 8: Chris Wiles Sep 14: Kevin Bozeman Sep 15: Kevin Bozeman Sep 21: Valarie Storm Sep 22: Valarie Storm Oct 5: Corey Holcomb Oct 6: Corey Holcomb

COMMON GROUNDS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Aug 29: Kelly Frick & Matty Sheets Sep 22: AshV, Quarter Roys

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 Nov 3: Lewis Black Nov 4: Lewis Black Nov 10: Midland Dec 15: The Lacs

GREENE STREET CLUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

HAM’S NEW GARDEN

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Aug 31: Jukebox Revolver

LEVENELEVEN BREWING

1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Aug 29: Neville’s Quarter Sep 5: Elliott Humphries Sep 6: Piedmont Old Time Jam Session Sep 12: Bryan Toney Sep 19: William Nesmith Sept 20: Piedmont Old Time Jam Session Sep 24: Farewell Friend Sep 26: Doug Baker Oct 3: Jamie Anderson Oct 10: Karen Novy

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LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

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Sep 23: The Retrovales Sep 28: Otis Oct 13: Seth Brand Acoustic Duo Oct 20: Paleface

RODY’S TAvERn

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com 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

jamestown

ThE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Aug 31: The Dickens Sep 1: Brothers Pearl Sep 2: Megan Doss band Sep 7: Disco Lemonade Sep 8: Soul Central Sep 9: The Leftovers Sep 14: Crossing Avery Sep 15: Static pool Sep 21: The Plaids Sep 22: Gypsy Danger

Sep 23: David Revis band Sep 28: Jukebox Junkie Sep 29: Spare Change Sep 30: Rockit Science

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DAnCE hALL DAzE

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Aug 31: The Delmonicos Sep 1: Ambush Sep 7: Skyryder Experience Sep 8: Cheyenne Sep 14: Silverhawk

Sep 15: The Delmonicos Sep 16: Benefit Jam Session Sep 21: The Delmonicos Sep 22: William Willards Country Storm Band Sep 28: The Delmonicos Sep 29: Crossfire

BREAThE COCKTAiL LOunGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge

SOMEWhERE ELSE TAvERn

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern 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 30: Karaoke Aug 31: Live DJ Sep 1: Live DJ

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AfTER hOuRS TAvERn

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Aug 31: Karaoke Sep 1: West haven Sep 7: 6 Ways to Sunday Sep 8: Red Dirt Revival Sep 15: Sok Monkee Sep 22: Black Glass Sep 29: Louder, fair Warning, and West haven

BAR 65

235 Cornell Dr | 336.543.4799

hAM’S PALLADiuM 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Aug 31: Splash

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old nick’S pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Aug 31: karaoke w dJ Tyler perkins Sep 7: karaoke w dJ Tyler perkins Sep 8: under the Gun Sep 14: dana bearror Sep 15: karaoke w dJ Tyler perkins Sep 21: karaoke w dJ Tyler perkins Sep 22: kenny & Henry Sep 28: karaoke w dJ Tyler perkins Sep 29: confusion

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coAcH’S nEiGHborHood Grill

1033 Randolph St. Suite 26 | 336.313.8944 coachsneighborhoodgrill.com Sep 8: Marte Maney Sep 15: Austin bingham Sep 22: darrell Hoots

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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 31: Souljam Sep 28: Souljam Sep 29: Fruit Smoothie Trio oct 26: Souljam

burkE STrEET pub 1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097 burkestreetpub.com

cb’S TAvErn

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Aug 31: karaoke oct 26: Halloween bash

FinniGAn’S wAkE

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake

FooTHillS brEwinG

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Aug 29: destination bluegrass band

JoHnnY & JunE’S SAloon

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com

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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 Sep 2: live Jazz Sep 9: live Jazz

MuddY crEEk cAFE & MuSic HAll

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Aug 30: country dan collins Sep 1: The pinkerton raid/carries paz Sep 2: Elliott Humphries Sep 6: open Mic w/ country dan collins Sep 6: roanoke/South Hill banks Sep 7: Fiddle & bow presents pierce pettis

THE rAMkAT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 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 Sep 19: old 97’s Sep 20: The waybacks Sep 23: Justin Townes Earle Sep 29: Tommy Emmanuel, Jack pearson oct 4: Shinyribs oct 5: Gillian welch oct 7: The devon Allman project oct 12: American Aquarium

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405 4th St NW | 336.721.1945

TrAdE ST dinEr

529 N Trade St | 336.999.8977 Aug 26: dJ Mike lawson/live drag show performances

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826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 Aug 29: Marcus Horth Aug 31: Travers brothership Sep 5: Abigail dowd duo Sep 7: Gipsy danger Sep 12: doug davis duo Sep 14: The log noggins

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com Sep 20: Old Crow Medicine Show w/ Dawes Sep 27: Vince Gill Sep 28: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Sep 15: Alan Jackson Oct 4: Maroon 5

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE

DPAC

former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com 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 Sep 23: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Sep 13: Trouble Sep 13: Lil Baby Sep 14: Alina Baraz Sep 14: Trial By Fire Sep 15: Cherub Sep 18: Nonpoint Sep 19: Fozzy Sep 20: Borns Sep 21: Kaleo Sep 23: Owl City: Cinematic Tour w/ Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes Sep 25: All Tiem Low w/ Gnash Sep 25: Father John Misty Sep 27: Future Islands Sep 27: Jay Rock Sep 28: Chromeo Sep 29: Cam

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 14: Fall Out Boy Sep 22: Godsmack & Shinedown Sep 28: Chris Young w/ Kane Brown, Morgan Evans, & Dee Jay Silver Sep 29: Romeo Santos

CAROLINA THEATRE

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

GREENSBORO COLISEUM

DURHAM

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Sep 6: Chris Isaak Sep 7: Taj Mahal Trio Sep 25: Toad The Wed Sprocket Sep 26: Squirrel Nut Zippers

CHARLOTTE

Sep 1: DownTown Abby & The Echoes Sep 18: Coco Montoya

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 30: Lost 80s Live

WINSTON-SALEM

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Sep 21: SteelDrivers Sep 28: Tannahill Weavers

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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Aug 31: Anne Claire Niver

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com

HIGH POINT THEATRE

CAROLINA THEATRE

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com Sep 1: Kid Rock & Brantley Gilbert Sep 4: G-Eazy Sep 14: Zac Brown Band

PNC ARENA

HIGH POINT

GREENSBORO

CCU MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK

500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Sep 7: Hopscotch Sep 13: 4u: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Sep 29: Joan Baez Sep 30: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

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Felt up: Crudity and nudity, puppet style

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clever concept gets off to a roaring start before eventually losing its way in The Happytime Murders ( ), a puppet pageantry that is most decidedly not one for the whole family to enjoy.

Brian Henson, son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson and a Muppet veteran in his own right, and screenwriter Todd Berger, whose credits include the likes of The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow and Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, clearly wanted to take a break from comparatively benign projects and push the envelope when it came to puppet reproduction on screen. Of course, Team America: World Police and Meet the Feebles have already been there, done that, but The Happytime Murders more closely resembles (in structure if not quality) the brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit insofar as it’s a Tinseltown-set murder-mystery in which humans and nonhumans can be found uneasily commingling.

Here, it’s puppets that live alongside

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people, and for the first half-hour, Berger and co-scripter Dee Austin Robertson slyly craft a meaningful message movie as puppets are treated by many humans as second-class citizens and subject to

frequent instances of police brutality.

(As an exclamation mark on the analogies, there’s even a celebrity puppet who goes the Michael Jackson route with the bleaching and the nose job.)

Unfortunately, any interest in social criticism gets chucked out the window as the movie continues, with all subtext completely abandoned as the filmmakers become increasingly interested in only offering vulgar gags. Some are quite funny while others are quite flaccid, though there’s no telling which gags will work for which viewers. For example, a restaging of the Sharon Stone no-panties scene from Basic Instinct allows audiences a peek at puppet pudenda — if that strikes you as the height of hilarity, then knock yourself out.

The plot concerns the stars of the vintage television sitcom The Happytime Gang being systematically murdered by an unknown assailant. Phil Philips (Bill Barretta), a disgraced puppet cop now working as a private eye, becomes personally involved with the case, meaning that he must again join forces with his former partner, Connie Edwards (Melissa

McCarthy), to solve the mystery. Along the way, Phil visits a porn shop specializing in such titles as Little Kitties with Big Titties, gets reacquainted with an old (human) girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) who co-starred on The Happytime Gang, and receives invaluable assistance from his loyal receptionist Bubbles (Maya Rudolph).

Visually, The Happytime Murders is a seamless production, with the blending of the human and puppet protagonists executed flawlessly (the closing credits allow viewers to check out some of the behind-the-scenes magic). The mystery is also fairly well-executed (if holding no real surprises), and comediennes like McCarthy and Rudolph are allowed moments to shine. But really, everything is mainly just an excuse for audiences to see puppets curse, drink, take drugs, and have sex. So if watching felt characters get felt up sounds like a winning proposition, The Happytime Murders might just be the ticket. More cautious viewers might prefer to stick with straight shooters like Kermit, Big Bird and even that questionable Gonzo. !

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ARTC bringing live theatre to the Downtown Arts District

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he Alamance Repertory Theatre Company (ARTC) is bringing live theatre to the Downtown Arts District. On Sept. 7, the ARTC Theatre will open its doors at 612 N. Trade St. The company will bring downtown Winston-Salem three plays in three months, then will produce quarterly plays. Stanley & Alice, an original comedy by author and playwright Cindy Argiento of Greensboro, will kick off the three months, running Sept.

28 through 30. Marsha McNeely Hierl will be the director.

Oct. 19 through 21, theatre goers of all ages will be treated to a spooky presentation of Halloween Screams, written

by L. Don Swartz and directed by Gill Thornton . Nov. 16 through 18, we will present the perfect family play to set the mood for the holidays, Greetings!, written by Tom Dudzick and directed by Mike Burke. ARTC is excited to have this fabulous opportunity to bring live theatre downtown.

The Alamance Repertory Theatre Company was founded in 2017 by Walter Boyd and Gill Thornton.

Originally, ARTC was a learning opportunity for Gill to learn how to direct, produce, write and perform in quality theatre productions as part of her home school curriculum. The company did that and much more. In the past two years, we have grown into a respected theatre company that strives to bring current plays to our audiences. We dare to touch on social issues that other companies shy from. We are a theatre company for the young at heart, run by the young… and not so young.

Alamance, loosely, means “all mankind.” The goal of ARTC is to bring theatre to all people in multiple areas.

We perform in Alamance, Guilford, and Forsyth counties. We are terribly excited to bring the Downtown Arts District into our fold. As long as we can get there, we

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Located with the ARTC Theatre will be Just Desserts, a new dessert bar serving gluten free/vegan cakes and cookies, brownies from To Your Health Bakery, The South’s Finest Farm Made Ice Cream (proudly serving Homeland Creamery Ice Cream by the scoop), and more delicious desserts. 14Degrees coffee will be served, as well as tea, soda, and water. Just Desserts will be open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from noon until 6 p.m., ad Friday and Saturdays from noon until 8 p.m. or later. On show nights, the dessert bar will close at 6 p.m., but will serve desserts during and after the shows.

Additionally, the McNeely Gallery, a part of Studio 7, will be opening a new location at 612 N. Trade St. from September through November.

The original Studio 7 and the McNeely Gallery will still be located at its current location, 204 W. Sixth Street. Opening Sept.

7, for DADA’s 20th Anniversary Gallery Hop is Mexican artist Ricardo Treviño. He will hang throughout September in a salute to Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins Sept. 15.

Auditions for Stanley & Alice will be held Aug. 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the ARTC Theatre location – 612 N. Trade St. Roles available for male 50+ for “Felix Unger” type husband, one female 50+ for sassy wife, one older male 60+ for the neighbor, 18+ female(s) for waitress and pregnant lady, 18+ male for maintenance man. Rehearsals will begin immediately in the evenings.

For more information call (336) 4089739 or email studio7ws@gmail.com.

You may also visit us at www.studio7ws. com, www.themcneelygallery.com, www.

ARTCtheatre.com, or www.justdesserts. com. !

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:35, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 PUZZLE (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 OPERATION FINALE (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25 THE LITTLE STRANGER (R) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 SEARCHING (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 SUPPORT THE GIRLS (R) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS (R) Fri & Sat: 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (NR) Fri & Sat: 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15, 11:30 Sun - Thu: 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 ALPHA (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:00, 4:35, 7:00, 11:45 Sun - Thu: 12:00, 4:35, 7:00 ALPHA 3D (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 2:15, 9:25 MILE 22 (R) Fri & Sat: 2:20, 4:30, 8:40, 11:00 Sun - Thu: 2:20, 4:30, 8:40

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CRAZY RICH ASIANS (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:45, 3:30, 7:25, 10:05 THE MEG (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 THE EQUALIZER 2 (R) Fri - Thu: 12:50, 9:45 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 10:00 ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 3:45, 7:25 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:15, 6:35

MADELINE’S MADELINE Fri: 8:00 PM, Sat & Sun: 12:45, 8:00 Mon & Tue: 3:15, 8:00, Wed: 8:00 PM Thu: 3:15, 8:00 BLACKKKLANSMAN (R) Fri: 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Sat & Sun: 9:45 AM, 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Mon: 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, Tue: 3:00, 5:45, 8:00 Wed: 5:45, 8:00, Thu: 3:00, 5:45, 8:00 SKATE KITCHEN (R) Fri: 9:00 PM, Sat: 1:30, 4:00, 9:00 Sun: 1:30, 4:00, Mon - Thu: 8:45 PM THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sun: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30 Mon & Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed: 6:30, 9:00, Thu: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 PUZZLE (R) Fri: 4:00, 6:30 Sat & Sun: 11:00 AM, 6:30 Mon & Tue: 3:45, 6:15 Wed: 6:15 PM, Thu: 3:45, 6:15 EIGHTH GRADE (R) Fri: 3:00, 5:30 Sat & Sun: 10:30 AM, 3:00, 5:30 Mon - Thu: 5:30 PM

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In Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Aug. 17, a friendly game at Southers Marsh Golf Club turned ugly when Derek Harkins, 46, and an unnamed 57-year-old man Chuck Shepherd got into a brawl on the 18th hole. But you gotta hand it to Harkins: The Patriot Ledger reported that he pointedly ended the fight by biting off the other man’s finger up to the knuckle, according to Plymouth Police Chief Michael Botieri. The victim, from Marshfield, was taken to the hospital, but his finger could not be reattached. Harkins was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery, mayhem and disturbing the peace.

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The happiest place on Earth couldn’t work its magic on Aug. 15 when a worker at nearby Harvest Power fell into a vat of oil and grease from Walt Disney World.

The plant in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, recycles the resort’s food waste, then converts it into renewable energy and fertilizer. John Korody, 61, and another worker were emptying the contents of a semitruck into a vat when Korody slipped on a grate and fell into the vat. His co-worker tried to pull him out, but the fumes overtook them both, and Korody slid farther in, according to The Washington Post. The Reedy Creek Fire Department responded, but Korody was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Debbie L. McCulley, 57, of Salem, Virginia, has been banned from all future Floyd County High School sporting events but, on the bright side, her indecent exposure case may eventually be dropped, following an incident area lawyers are calling “moon over Floyd.” McCulley’s husband, Mark, is the JV softball coach for Glenvar High School, and the charges resulted from Debbie’s unusual reaction to her husband’s team’s loss to Floyd County in May. She “stood on or close to the pitcher’s mound and pulled down her pants with her right hand to expose her right butt cheek,” according to Floyd County Sheriff ’s Deputy G.H. Scott. But Debbie told the officer that her husband had confronted the opposing coach after the game, and she was afraid he would be “attacked,” so she was trying to divert attention from the two men. The Roanoke Times reported that Debbie wrote a letter of apology and will be performing community service.

Chris Robinson of the Virginia High School League noted that crowd behavior at games is “probably leaning a little bit in the wrong direction.”

WEIRD SCIENCE

United Press International reported that a 42-year-old British woman saw her eye doctor after experiencing swelling and drooping of her eyelid earlier this year.

After performing an MRI, doctors discovered a cyst and performed surgery, during which they found a hard contact lens embedded in the eyelid. It turns out that the patient had suffered a blow to the eye 28 years ago and had assumed the lens fell out. She experienced no symptoms until the recent discomfort.

ANNOYING

— After 16 years, neighbors of “Eva N.” in Sturovo, Slovakia, have gotten relief from her particular brand of torment, reported the BBC. From morning until night, the woman had played a four-minute aria from Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” over and over, with her speakers on full blast.

“The whole street is suffering,” complained one resident. At first, the musiclover played the music to drown out a neighbor’s barking dog, but continued the practice until Aug. 6, when she was arrested for harassment and malicious persecution. If found guilty, she could face between six months and three years in prison.

— A pothole in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, got a new life as a vegetable garden this summer after area residents grew weary of waiting for the city to repair it.

The hole, which is several feet deep, had been expanding for months, neighbors said. So they filled it with tomato plants, which are now ripening and getting so tall they require wire cages for support. Now, “It’s sort of, like, become the community garden,” resident Bryan Link told CBC Radio. Finally, Mayor John Tory has agreed to not only fill the pothole, but to move the tomato plants to a community garden.

COMPELLING EXPLANATION

Near Mason City, Iowa, on Aug. 20, the Iowa State Patrol pulled over a Ferrari 488 Spider that was clocked going 137 mph during a rainstorm. “Not a great idea to drive this fast in the rain,” the trooper posted on Facebook with a photo of the radar readout. The unnamed driver, however, wasn’t fazed; she thought she was going “around 100.” Fox News

reported that if ticketed in a 70-mph zone (the highest speed limit in Iowa), her fine would be $335.

SUPERPOWERS

— Phoenix teenager Josiah Wiedman, 13, was walking home through a park in early August with a friend when he was struck by lightning, “sending me 9 feet into the air, making me bounce on my head and then flip over to my back,” he told ABC News. Afterward, doctors put Josiah into a medically induced coma for three days, and when he came to, he made a speedy recovery. His mother, who didn’t expect her son to survive, dubbed him “Superman” — and indeed, Josiah said he’s waiting for his special powers to kick in. “I haven’t felt my powers yet, but I will soon,” he said.

— Moses Lanham, 57, fell 18 feet from a rope in gym class when he was 14 years old. As a result, the Michigan man is now known as “Mr. Elastic.” Lanham has double cartilage and extra tissue in his knee joints, hips and ankles, which makes it possible for him to turn his feet 180 degrees backward and walk. In fact, he tells Metro News, walking with his feet pointed behind him is more comfortable than walking normally. “I’ve heard one other (person) can turn his feet, but not walk,” Lanham said of his fame. “When I perform this in front of people, I love the reactions,” he said. “One time, I actually had a person throw up after I turned my feet around.” !

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Going back to school: The most bittersweet time of the year

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ast August, I finally finished school (for now). It is hard to believe that I went to school for 17 years, and even harder to believe that I may go back Katie Murawski for a master’s degree in a few years. If there is one piece Editor of advice from my experience that I would give people going back to school this year, it would be to never give up.

It may sound cliché, but it was my mantra when I started kindergarten and it was my mantra as I walked across the stage at my college graduation. It is still something I tell myself every day as I interact in the realm that all of my past teachers have called “the real world.” I talked to parents in the Triad who are sending their children off (to kindergarten and college) and asked what their advice would be in this transitional time.

Acey Holmes lives in Winston-Salem, and she is sending off her son Hudson to kindergarten at Moore Magnet Elementary School.

Holmes wrote in a Facebook message that Hudson is nervous because he knows his friends from preschool will be attending different schools. Holmes said she is excited but a little anxious as well.

She wrote that she is excited because she knows that Hudson loves books and reading, however her biggest concern for him is, “That his busy little body and mind won’t fit in the mold of current traditional education.”

Danielle Viator is from Winston-Salem, and she sent off her oldest daughter to kindergarten yesterday. Viator said she is excited that her daughter (whom we won’t name for safety concerns) is attending Speas Global Elementary, which she describes as a diverse International Baccalaureate school with a dual-immersion program.

“I am excited for her to learn all about the different cultures and languages,” she said. “When we first toured the school, all the teachers are from different countries, they are very global-minded, and I was super excited about that part of it to make sure she doesn’t grow up in the little Winston-Salem bubble.”

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Viator’s daughter has attended daycare and preschool since she was 2 1/2 years old, so she is used to being apart from her mom all day.

“We are used to some of the drop off situations and being apart all day, so I think she will be all right,” Viator said.

“She said she is a little nervous (right now she is at the top of her class and soon she will be lowest on the totem pole) about being the smallest at big kids’ school.”

Viator said despite her daughter being a little nervous, she is overall excited.

Viator, however, has mixed emotions.

“I am excited because I know she is looking forward to it, and nervous with this being the first time that I can’t just call in and check on her like I can at daycare, or just pop in and take her whenever I need to,” she said. “It is scary with all the craziness that has been happening in our world-- with school shootings and everything-- it is a little terrifying to think

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that I am just leaving her out there.”

Viator is confident that her child will adjust just fine because she is a “smart kid who loves challenges.”

Carol Smith and her daughter Kadia Joseph are originally from Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Smith said they both had dual citizenship and moved to the Triad last year so that they could both go back to school and be together to make up for lost time. Smith said she worked and was not around her daughter for a lot of her childhood because Joseph went to live with her father on a different island at age 9.

“When she was ready to go off to college, I realized that I did not instill a lot of the life skills that I wanted to instill in her,” Smith said. “Another reason why I came as well is because, from our country, we are taught that the South and the North Carolina area are racial areas, and I was afraid for her in those regards, so I

wanted to protect her as well.”

Joseph is attending North Carolina A&T State University and is in her sophomore year pursuing a degree in physical therapy. Smith will be attending school online (possibly at Salem College) to finish her bachelor’s degree in marketing.

She said she started working toward her degree when she was still pregnant with Joseph. Smith completed her associate degree in graphic design but had to stop her schooling to care for her sick mother. Smith said as an artist as well as a former small business owner; she has found refuge with like-minded people in Winston-Salem. She is most concerned about being there for Joseph and making sure she is prepared for school.

“I hope that from my experience and other experiences, that she finds people who empower her and love her and she gets involved with that kind of group that makes her grow,” Smith said. “Peo-

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ple are saying to me ‘you left the Virgin Islands, which is paradise, to come here?’

And I am like, ‘this is paradise to me,’ in regards to the architecture, arts, diversity, and being exposed to other than just what a small island can offer you.”

Joseph said her first year of college was successful with the help of her parents and friends she made at college. Joseph is most excited to join extracurricular activities during her sophomore year.

Her main piece of advice for first-year students is to look for scholarships and become more open-minded.

“Even $500 can get your books at least, so it doesn’t come out of pocket,” she said. “I think that freshmen coming out of high school should know that not everyone is going to agree with them or like them, so learn to stand on your own.

College helps you find yourself and stand behind your opinion and not let others change it. Oh, and time management is very important.”

Joseph said she thinks it is amazing that her mother is going back to school as well.

“Not everyone is going to get what they need at a younger age,” Joseph said.

“Or even if they got what they wanted and they found something that they like, and the fact that she is taking the opportunity to go back to school and get that degree she is trying to get is amazing.”

Lana Benton is from Winston-Salem and just sent her son, Nicholas, off to Western Carolina University to study middle school science education. Benton said she also has an older daughter living at home who is going to Forsyth Tech as well.

“It is kind of bittersweet,” Benton said of both of her children starting college

and the next stages of their lives. “You still have one at home, but now all the sudden your baby, your only boy is 200 miles away, so there is not that oversight and there is a little bit of worry attached to it. But, you know, also confidence that he’s a good kid, he’s smart, he’s been raised right, he understands discipline, but he still has got that young boy that is always going to be there.”

Benton said her biggest concerns are the same concerns she had of him in high school, which were making sure he was studying, doing his homework, paying attention in class and being social. Benton said she also worries about him making the right choices. Benton’s advice for other parents sending their child off to school is to “allow them to experience it.”

“You raised them to the point with this goal of giving them their independence, and let them learn and let them experience it,” she said. “You are always going to be there but, experience is the best teacher.”

She also said for parents and future students to “do their homework early,” prepare financially, research colleges and figure out how to get into college because she said it is getting harder and harder to get accepted these days. Benton said because Nicholas has developed his own career path and is confident in what he wants to do, she is excited for him and feels more at ease.

“As parents, we spent the last 18 years somewhat controlling our children’s lives, and it is OK to give up control,” she said. “If you have questions or are struggling with your child going away, there are always other parents that are doing exactly the same thing you are, that are going through the same things you are,

you probably know a lot of them already especially through your kid’s schooling, but just keep that support system for yourself.”

Kimberly Kenney lives in WinstonSalem, and she just sent her youngest off to North Carolina State University.

“It was a little chaotic, and I have been really stressed out about it for months actually, and it went a whole lot more quick and painless than I thought it would,” Kenney said of taking her daughter to college. “It wasn’t until I got home that I got super sad about it.”

Kenney said she misses her daughter, Brenna, but she knows she is having the time of her life. Kenney said her oldest son is in his fourth year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, so sending off a child to college wasn’t something she experienced for the first time.

“That was like a totally different experience,” Kenney said of her son attending UNCG. “I don’t know if it is the boys versus girls thing or if its youngest versus oldest, or maybe a mix of both, but I definitely didn’t dread it nearly as bad to take him.”

Kenney said she and Brenna used to work at River Birch Lodge together for three years, so she misses her in many areas in her life. Kenney said she is most worried about other people because she is very confident in her daughter’s choices and behavior.

“I am the most worried about other students, other kids influencing her,” Kenney said. “I am just nervous about her being away from home, not being able to lay eyes on her on a regular basis and if anything is going on with her, not being able to know it until Christmas or Thanksgiving.”

Hudson Holmes enjoys reading and is ready for kindergarten

Kadia Joseph and her mother Carol Smith

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Kenney said Brenna is going into the engineering program at NC State, so she is also worried about her daughter being stressed out and her time management skills. She is most excited for Brenna to get started with her life, and since she earned college credits in high school, she is excited that Brenna will be starting college with 40 credits.

“We spent the last couple months, my husband and I, learning new hobbies for ourselves,” she said of adjusting to an empty nest. “We have been doing some indoor rock climbing; I have joined some new groups--There is a group called Women Who Hike--so just really putting some emphasis on me. I have been a parent for my entire adult life (I had my son when I turned 20 years old). The idea of being a parent on a daily basis was time-consuming for me. And I decided, when I got the suggestion from another parent who was going through the same thing, that I needed to find a way to focus on myself. I started doing these things months before it was time to send her away. So now that she is gone, those things are already in place, and I am already in the swing of these hobbies, and I am not at a loss to do with my time.”

Kenney said it is OK to feel both sad and happy when sending a child off to school. She said it is also OK for parents to share those feelings with their children because they need to know that they are missed but also that their parents are excited about their future. !

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.

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Fortezza: Fresh faces from Winston-Salem Monstercade is hosting a sick show full of fresh faces with Fortezza, It’s Snakes, and Bangzz on Aug. 31.

Featuring three choice acts from various North Carolina music scenes and Katei Cranford generations, the lineup highlights how Contributing the Winston weirdo bar continues escolumnist tablishing itself as a conduit for grooming growing bands and anchoring solid acts from neighboring music communities.

Fortezza, the evening’s headliners, a fresh-faced, fuzzed-out, stoner-psych trio from Winston-Salem, understand the importance of community and cohesion for healthy music scenes.

“Everyone is so supportive,” bassist Maddie Kendrick said of her hometown.

“We all just want to see each other succeed and there’s something really special about that.”

Drummer, Matty Garau, shares a jazz background with Kendrick, who’s presently studying bass at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The group is rounded by Tristan Smith and his “unpredictable riffage” on guitar.

“We’ve been called three jazz musicians who want to be Black Sabbath a few times,” Kendrick quipped.

Like any good classic, the Sabbath hat tip rings clear. Likewise, the trio lends nods to the Oh Sees, Ty Segall, or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It shows in their sound: both slick and spacey.

“Jazz and psych kinda go hand in hand in terms of experimentalism,” Kendrick said of the genre bleed-over often seen these days across record labels like Burger or Goner; and festival bills from The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

“Psych music is all about getting weird with it, same as jazz,” Smith added. “The avant-garde has had a huge influence on the way we play.”

Fortezza recently played with Lacy Jags, from Chapel Hill, whom Kendrick called “killer.” They could easily fall in line with Asheville garage-psychsters, the Tills, or the former-Boone kids in the Nude Party.

Their latest release, Beyond the Wall, was recorded by Rebecca Mueller at the famed Fidelitorium Recordings in Kernersville earlier this year.

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book. “It was a pleasure to have this NC trio out to the studio to cut a few tracks.

Keep your eyes peeled for new singles from these visionaries.”

The compliment carries weight. Mueller, aka “Missy Thangs,” is a force. Both in the studio, and on stage, as the synth-wizard in Birds of Avalon and No One Mind.

“Missy is the coolest,” Smith said. “She always knows exactly how to spice up a song and how to hype up a crew. On top of that, she’s insane behind a mixing console.”

As Fortezza’s records progress, so do they as a unit. “We got more comfortable with writing, but the most important thing was getting more comfortable with each other. And having a connection,” Kendrick insisted.

“We grew together as musicians. That was a big part of how our sound developed,” she added.

While Smith sees freedom for development in recording, he adores playing

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live. Kendrick agrees. For her, playing live brings “a really special energy there that you just can’t replicate in a studio.”

Typically gigging around Winston, Fortezza came to Greensboro by way of a WUAG Presents series show back in March, with an appearance scheduled for a September episode of the station’s “Radio Greensboro” program.

Most immediately on their horizon is the Monstercade show. “We’ve never had the opportunity to play with either It’s Snakes or Bangzz before, but it’s awesome to be on such a great bill,” Kendrick said.

The bill is pretty stacked.

Bangzz is a solid pair in the Triangle music scene. Feminist garage-punks and “feral women,” Blair Coppage and Erika Libero, play a strong-hand in why that particular neck of North Carolina is making waves. Fresh from a Northeast tour, they’re also playing the Hopscotch Music Festival; and are a top North Carolina band to follow.

It’s Snakes, from Charlotte, are the modern incarnation from the infamous 1980s indie group Fetchin’ Bones. It’s a little bit rock’n’roll; it’s a little bit funky.

Comprised of married-couple Hope Nicholls and Aaron Pitkin, It’s Snakes prove punk rock love is real (and wild).

“Monstercade got voted the [Most Original and Unique] bar in the Triad for a reason,” Kendrick said of the venue.

“We’re beyond stoked.” !

KATEI CRANFORD is a GSO rock-n-roller and Triad music nerd. She hosts Mostly Local Monday, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week. Catch her on WUAG 103.1FM or via live stream at www.wuag.net.

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Kids do stupid things In the 1950s, teenagers went cruising in their cars and sometimes mooned other motorists.

By the end of the decade, cramming into phone booths was all the rage.

During the free-love 1960s, some teens Jim Longworth felt empowered to smoke weed and Longworth disrobe at rock concerts. In the 1970s at Large and 1980s, selfadministered body piercings became a sign of rebellion. These kinds of activities were wacky, but for sheer stupidity, none of them could hold a candle to some of the things kids have been doing in recent years.

According to ListCrown.com, some of today’s more popular stunts include drinking a cocktail made of hand sanitizer and mouthwash. Another activity involves choking your partner until they black out.

Then there’s the Cinnamon Challenge, where kids swallow large quantities of dry cinnamon powder. Sounds harmless, but according to GreatSchools.org, the National Institutes of Health said the Cinnamon Challenge could result in collapsed lungs. Another modern day teen pastime was the “Tide Pod Challenge,” where stupid kids put the detergent-filled pods in their mouths and chew it up. Even though, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, ingesting detergent pods can cause chemical burns, and induce seizures and coma.

And that brings me to the “Kiki Challenge” which went viral earlier this year.

The Kiki Challenge requires the participant to jump out of a moving car, dance to the strains of Drake’s “In My Feelings,” then jump back into the moving car. On July 23, 18-year-old Anna Worden of Bettendorf, Iowa, took the Kiki Challenge and ended up in the hospital with a fractured skull, blood clots in the ear and bleeding in the brain.

“I thought it would be fun,” she told a T.V. news reporter. That same week, a 19-year-old boy in Alabama took the Kiki

challenge and was also seriously injured.

These and other dangerous activities have been on the rise over the past decade. For example, CBSNews.com reports that in 2013, an 18-year-old Georgia boy took a dare and drowned after he was tied to a shopping cart, then pushed into a lake. That same year a 19-year-old boy caused a multi-car accident when he fainted from holding his breath while driving through a tunnel in Portland, Oregon.

There are many theories as to why such dangerously stupid behavior is so rampant. One is that kids just want to be seen by millions of people on YouTube. However, Dr. Katherine Ramsland of DeSales University believes it is more related to peer pressure. She told Psychology Today, “They (teens) look for novelty and are

easily influenced by the latest trends, and by their need to belong to the in-group.

They use dares to build their self-esteem.”

Clearly, teen stunts have become decidedly and deliberately more dangerous than ever before. At the same time, 18 and 19-year-olds want to be treated like adults, but adults don’t eat detergent or jump out of moving cars. Instead, we adults do more mature things, like smoke cigarettes, overeat, drive drunk and get addicted to opioids. Come to think of it; I guess there’s no age restriction on stupidity. !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) A changing situation in your life needs more patience than you appear to be willing to offer. Allowing it to develop at its own pace is the wisest course you can take at this time.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) With more stability in your life — on both personal and professional levels — this could be a good time to strengthen relationships with both friends and colleagues.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) People have always relied on your integrity not only to get the job done, but to get it done right. So don’t be pressured by anyone into cutting corners to save time.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) While others might get rattled over unexpected changes, your ability to adapt calmly and competently helps you make a positive impression during a crucial period.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A changing environment might be daunting for some, but the adventurous Sagittarian takes it all in stride. A friend from the past could awaken some meaningful memories.

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ary 19) With your self-assurance rising to full strength, the bold Goat should feel confident about opening up to new ventures as well as new relationships.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Reaching out to someone who has been unkind to you might not be easy. But in the long run it will prove to have been the right thing to do. A friend offers moral support.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your keen insight once again helps you work through a seemingly insoluble problem in your workplace. The weekend offers a good chance to develop new relationships.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) With your Arian charm quotient at an almost all-time high this week, plus all the facts to back you up, you just might win over the last doubters to your proposal.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might be in line for that job change you applied for. But be advised that you could be called on to defend your qualifications against supporters of other applicants.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Creating a new approach to an old idea is one way to get beyond that workplace impasse. No such problems in your personal life, where things continue to flow smoothly.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be more forthcoming about your feelings concerning a proposed change either in your workplace or in your personal life. Your opinions are valuable. Don’t keep them hidden. © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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* According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word that has the largest number of different meanings is “set”; it takes 26 pages to detail them all. * As fall approaches, here’s some good news: Except for the queens, all wasps die in the autumn. * There are those who feel that we should adopt the metric system of measurement, claiming that our current system is outdated and archaic. To go truly archaic, though, we could start measuring things in flags, baronies, falls,

roods, townships and hides. Yes, those are actual terms of measurement. They equal, respectively, 25 square feet, 4,000 acres, 342 square feet, a quarter of an acre, 36 square miles and 10 acres. * In 1938, Fortune magazine published a prediction that, in hindsight, turns out to have been rather egregiously off the mark: “Few scientists foresee any serious or practical use for atomic energy. They regard the atom-splitting experiments as useful steps in the attempt to describe the atom more accurately, not as the key to the unlocking of any new power.”

Thought for the Day: “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I’m a 41-year-old married lesbian. My wife and I used to work from home together. She recently got an important job, and she’s now gone all day, five days a week. I’m happy for her, and this is good for us in the long run, but I’m really sad and lonely.

Amy Alkon

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Avoid any temptation to kidnap strangers lingering in your building’s lobby. “Are you going to cut me up and put me in your freezer?” the terrified UPS man will ask.

You: “Uh, I thought we’d just hang out and have coffee, but whatever works for you.”

Healthier (and less felonious) forms of coping start with unpacking what loneliness is. The late neuroscientist John Cacioppo explained loneliness as a painful feeling of “disconnection” from others. He differentiated loneliness — the aching longing for human connection — from a desire for solitude, “the pleasures of sometimes being by yourself.” And he and his wife and research partner, psychologist Stephanie Cacioppo, noted that loneliness has been associated with serious negative effects on not just emotional well-being but also physical health — including an increased risk of heart attacks. (It seems heartbreak isn’t just a metaphor.)

However, as you’re staring gloomily into the void (the indentation in the couch where your wife used to sit during the day), it might help to understand that our emotions are actually our watchdogs. They rise up in us to motivate us to engage in the sort of behaviors — like connecting with other people — that would help us survive and pass on our genes.

For example, we humans evolved to be cooperators — interdependent — which is to say we’re “people who need people.”

Take author Henry David Thoreau, an icon for hermitude and self-sufficiency who put in big chunks of alone time out by Walden Pond. What few people realize, notes Thoreau expert Elizabeth Witherell, is that he was also a huge people person.

In fact, Thoreau wrote in “Walden,” “I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any fullblooded man that comes in my way.”

As for you, it’s possible that some of the feelbad you’re experiencing is the discomfort we often feel about change. But chances are, you’d feel a good bit better if you could replace at least some of the level of daily human engagement you’re used to. You could, for example, go out to a coffee shop for part of your workday — the same coffee shop every day so you can connect with other regulars there. You could also invite work-at-home friends over to your place to be coworkers. Volunteer work could be helpful, too.

No, it isn’t the same as having your wife there with you all day. But it should dial down your separation distress — perhaps even substantially. This should allow you to let your wife know you really missed

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How do you know when a man’s “I love you” is for real? I’ve had men express their love to me with great sincerity, only to vanish not long afterward. Are all men this fickle? Manipulative? — Upset Why does a man say “I love you”?

Sometimes because “Look, a ferret in a top hat!” doesn’t do much to get a woman into bed.

To parse whether a man’s “I love you” is just the later-in-the-relationship version of “You related to Yoda? Because yodalicious,” you need to consider context. The exact same statement can have different meanings depending on the context — the situation, the circumstances in which it’s made.

Not surprisingly, research by evolutionary social psychologist Joshua Ackerman and his colleagues suggests that men’s

I-love-yous “are likely to be more sincere (i.e., less colored by the goal of attaining initial sexual access) after sex has occurred.” They also find that men, on average, start thinking about “confessing love” 97 days into a relationship — so just over three months. Of course, an individual man may know sooner or take longer.

All in all, the best lie detector you probably have is context — racking up a good bit of time and experiences with a man and seeing how well the walk matches the talk. You might even wait till the three-month benchmark before concluding that the I-love-yous are likely to be for real — and aren’t, say, the best possible air bag for what might come shortly afterward: “I got you a little something on my work trip. It requires a short course of antibiotics.” !

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