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One rising star from Greensboro made his debut on Broadway as Daniel in the musical Once On This Island, from the Tony Award®-winning writers of Anastasia and Ragtime, on Dec. 3 at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City.

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Recently, I found myself reminiscent of the sweet spice and addicting soy sauce flavors of the Korean chicken I had a too-short experience with and became eager to try more traditional Korean dishes. This cuisine compulsion led me straight to HIGH POINT KOREAN BBQ... 12 I always tell my students that, if you’re an American writer, sooner or later one of your characters is going to pick up a gun.” So said former Greensboro News and Record reporter BettyJoyce Nash in a phone conversation about LOCK & LOAD: Armed Fiction... 12 Despite being a short film, a good deal transpires during the course of HAPPY MISERY, a home-grown independent production filmed on location in Charlotte. Directed by Quinton QWill Littlejohn and written by Adrienne Jones, Happy Misery stars Jon Blaq as Bell, a bachelor who’s about to pop the question... 14 ...even the occasional free jazz audience member has been challenged by the improvised vocalizations of ANITA WOODLEY, who performs with the group N4HC, a Durham-based quartet that will play Greensboro on Dec. 16 at the monthly Per-

ceiver of Sound League event at Glenwood Community Bookstore. 18 The spiritual companion piece to director Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, director-star James Franco’s THE DISASTER ARTIST is another cheerful Hollywood-insider piece about a man whose ambitions far outweigh his expertise. In this case, it’s Tommy Wiseau, the mysterious figure who in 2003 served as writer-director-producer-starfinancier of The Room. 22 When I sat down with Wrecking Belle, the vice president of the Greensboro Roller Derby, (or also known as GSORD) I was expecting a rough and gruff individual. Instead, SHANNON SCOTTSPILLMAN was petite and soft-spoken. 25 Told that comedians Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett are being sued in federal court, I assumed it was over their FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL coming to Greensboro this Saturday. Although that popular touring show seems protected by the Fair Use doctrine of Copyright Law, it’s a truism that, in America, anybody can sue anybody for anything at any time.

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FRI 15 MCLAURIN FARMS LIGHT SHOW WHAT: McLaurin Farms will present its fourth annual Christmas light show. As a special treat, children can have their photo taken with Santa, and there’ll be hot chocolate and apple cider for mom and dad. This years drive-through display will feature more than 800,000 lights, bringing to life reindeer, elves, Christmas trees, and characters from the Land of Misfit Toys. WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: McLaurin Farms. 5601 N. Church St., Greensboro. MORE: $5 entry

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FRI 15 KNIVES OF SPAIN WHAT: knives of spain is Gwen Young on flute, analog synth, accordion, voice, percussion, guitar and more. For fans of music that ‘braids aspects of folk and the psychedelic avant-garde, minimalism, electronic experimentation and sonic mood painting.’ - J. Adamian, YES Weekly. WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: On Pop of the World Studios. 1333 Grove St., Greensboro. MORE: $7 admission.

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TASTE CAROLINA GOURMET FOOD TOUR WHAT: Theaters, parks, galleries and restaurants line the historic Elm street area in downtown Greensboro. On this guided tour of the revitalized downtown, modern culture and incredible food intertwine with over 200 years of history. You’ll talk with chefs and owners who are partnering with nearby small farms to offer fresh, innovative, and eclectic cuisine. WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Greensboro Marriott Downtown. 301 N. Greene St., Greensboro. MORE: $55 registration.

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WHAT: Join us for an exciting and unique way to celebrate the holiday season! Hula Carolina will be presenting a traditional luau performance with traditional dances and music along with some great audience participation. What a wonderful opportunity to attend a show that usually you have to travel great lengths to see. The show will be a one hour performance with dinner provided before show time. WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Harry Kahuna’s Tiki Grill. 5232 Robinhood Village Dr., Winston-Salem. MORE: $45 tickets.

WHAT: Basement Life is heading to New York Pizza this Saturday to play songs from their album Love Is Not Real. “Love is Not Real is more of an exercise in restraint and collaborative musicality than it is one of showmanship, which only flatters the presentation of the songs.” - Amplifier Magazine. WHEN: 8:30 p.m. WHERE: New York Pizza. 337 Tate Street, Greensboro. MORE: $5 admission.

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BY KATIE MURAWSKI Triad Stage was founded by Preston Lane and Richard Whittington in 1999 and held their grand opening in 2002 with the Pyrle Theatre. According to the website, Triad Stage opened with Tennessee Williams’ modern classic Suddenly Last Summer. In 2013, Triad Stage expanded to downtown Winston-Salem with the Hanesbrands Theatre. Today, according to the website, Triad Stage has 3,200 season pass holders and more than 400 annual donors. The core values of Triad Stage, as expressed on the website, are excellence, artistic risk, imagination, community, learning, inclusion, collaboration, rejuvenation, a Southern voice and North Carolina. Triad Stage’s current show, Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity covers both the Southern voice and North Carolina tenants of its core values. The play was written by Lane the artistic director of Triad Stage. “One of my favorite things about being an artist and making my home in the Triad is bringing to life on stage

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the voices and experiences of real North Carolinians, like in Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity,” he wrote in an email. “The South is so important to our artistic identity at Triad Stage that “North Carolina” and “A Southern Voice” are two of our core values. We pride ourselves on being part of the Triad community.” In the email, Lane also said that Triad Stage hopes to bring stories to the stage that the community can “see themselves in” for many more seasons to come. Don’t miss Triad Stage’s current holiday shows, A Christmas Carol (Hanesbrands Theatre, Winston-Salem) playing now through Dec. 24 and Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity (The Pyrle Theater, Greensboro) playing now through Dec. 24. The upcoming shows include A Raisin in the Sun (The Pyrle Theater) showing from Jan. 28 to Feb. 18, 2018, and Our Town (Hanesbrands Theatre) showing from Feb. 14 to March 4, 2018. For more information, visit www.triadstage.org. !

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Not your typical Carolina barbecue

imchi. Bulgogi. Bibimbap. Stone pots. If you’re lost, not to worry, I was too. Luckily, if you’re unsure how to pronounce any of these, the menu is Jennifer Zeleski numbered. Back in April when Contributor I was first exposed to Korean-style cuisine, I had no idea what to expect. Downtown Greensboro hosted the North Carolina Korean festival fit with K-pop dance performances, cups of rice topped with shredded nori and some of the best tacos I’ve ever tasted. Yes, Korean-style barbecue tacos. While attending the festival, I was handed a flyer for High Point Korean BBQ, a new restaurant that was welcoming the community to their grand opening on April 23. A relatively young addition to a small strip mall tucked behind The Biscuit Factory and Carolina’s Diner. Recently, I found myself reminiscent of the sweet spice and addicting soy sauce flavors of the Korean chicken I had a tooshort experience with and became eager to try more traditional Korean dishes. This cuisine compulsion led me straight to High Point Korean BBQ, located at 2107 Kirkwood St. #104. There’s nothing more overwhelming when diving into a new cuisine than having more than a handful of options on a menu. But with well-organized categories, it was simple to navigate through rice dishes, seafood plates and specials. There were a variety of options for any meat you were looking for, with high emphasis on beef, pork and chicken. It’s hard to deny yourself an indulgent appetizer before deciding on the main course. Ranging from vegetable and shrimp tempura to calamari and edamame, there is something for everyone to get their hands on. I opted for the Pan Fried Dumplings since I’ve only had prior experience with their steamed counterparts. I was eager to try something typical before venturing too far into unknown territory. To my surprise, before the appetizer, you’re given a tapas-style assortment consistent of traditional Korean bites.

If I was going to take a full step into the Korean experience, it was now or never. The spread included a small salad with ginger dressing, julienned pickled radishes, marinated soybeans, pickled jalapeños with onions, pickled cucumbers (no, I don’t mean pickles) and cabbage kimchi. Note the common theme: rice vinegar. The starters can sometimes vary with an occasional dish of Korean potato salad, amongst other smaller traditional dishes. Every individual small starter packed a powerful punch of flavor, with each offering a different take on traditional Korean flavors. The kind (and very patient)

server described each specifically when I inquired. Once I briefly knew each one, it was time to taste test. The radishes had a clean, crisp flavor that offered a nice crunch, but I was a bigger fan of their pickled counterpart, the thinly sliced cucumbers. I could have easily eaten a few portions of them on my own. Both could cleanse your palate in an instant and were satisfyingly sweet and sour. The soybeans, with a slight soy sauce flavor and a dark color paralleled to your average black bean, had an odd chewy texture similar to a pomegranate seed. The remaining two were the strongest flavors, with the jalapeños and onions giving the term spicy a run for its money. I usually steer clear of the ultra-spicy, but it was worth the bite. The most surprising was the cabbage kimchi, which was an overwhelming flavor that was difficult to describe, and not for the faint of heart or picky eaters. To put it simply, it was like nothing I’ve ever tasted before. The dumplings made their arrival with hardly a few minutes to spare. Fried perfectly to a crisp, they were served as if they just came out of the oil, and hot enough to burn your precious taste buds. Their quick arrival was a testament to the attentive and friendly service. I highly preferred the veggie dumplings,

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NEXT HOME GAME Friday Dec. 15 7PM 250 FREE KOOZIES & $2 NATTY LIGHTS Courtesy of R.H. Barringer mainly because I have a love for wellspiced vegetables, but the pork also had a great flavor. They had a great texture, and to all the gyoza lovers, they’re a musthave. If the rest of the appetizers are held to the same standard - which I think it is safe to say they most likely are - they’ll all be delectable. With hardly a moment to spare, the main course had arrived. I went for number 11, the Ttukbeagi, or the traditional chicken bulgogi “with boneless chicken marinated with special house sauce,” according to the menu. It arrived on the table in a cast iron bowl, sizzling with a few carrots, onions and scallions in the midst. Once it cooled down enough to be edible (and after some stirring around the bowl to continue the subtle frying), I was eager for my chopsticks to dive in. The chicken was delightfully tender, with a sweet and savory flavor that pairs well with my tin of white rice. Although it was in a smaller-sized bowl, it seemed packed with chicken, but not quite enough to have leftovers. I made a mental note to find one of the stainless-steel rice tins, which offered a lid to maintain heat, for all of my at-home rice needs. With so many dishes on the table, it was hard to imagine having been starving before my visit. Everything was offered in the appropriate amount, other than my desire for another helping of the pickled cucumbers and my obsession with white rice. I was glad I opted for the somewhat cheaper version of my dish on the lunch special portion of the menu, which is applicable from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. only on weekdays. If you’re looking for Koreanstyle food, and a quick lunch spot that has a small check, you’ve found the right place. However, the prices are higher for weekend lunches as well as dinner plates, so be wary of the tab adding up. Most of the dishes are above $10 on average (durWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

ing the week and through the weekend), but each dish offers the tapas starters and a side of rice. Other dishes included traditional soups (some spicier than others), Chinese-style dishes, and seafood fried rice. Some offering egg, broiled fish, or Korean glass noodles, which are thin and clear (different from Vietnamese rice noodles) with a slightly chewy texture. Alas, the final traditional offering was ultimately my favorite. At the end of the meal, every guest is given a small cup of traditional cinnamon Cha tea. Disclaimer: you’re going to want them to bring you the entire batch. Topped carefully with two pine nuts in each cup, the tea is what you wished all cinnamon teas taste like. It’s served chilled, with a sugary-cinnamon flavor that could make you long for the holiday season. I promised I would return even if just for the tea. But of course, if you’d like to opt for an adult beverage, they offer several flavors of Makkoli, a sweet Korean rice wine, including the flavors peach, banana and citron. With simple flower arrangements and long, dark wood tables suited for large groups, the atmosphere inside creates a classy sense of dining. The restaurant space was relatively calm and quiet, except for the sounds of chopsticks and a bustling kitchen with hot pots, boiling broths and tempura fryers. It’s suitable for business lunches or birthday dinners, and can calm your international craving in a hot minute. !

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JENN ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications from High Point University.

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‘Nothing says America louder than a gun’

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I always tell my students that, if you’re an American writer, sooner or later one of your characters is going to pick up a gun.” So said former Ian McDowell Greensboro News and Record reporter Contributing BettyJoyce Nash in a phone conversation columnist about Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, a short story anthology edited by Nash and Deirdra McAfee and recently published by University of New Mexico Press. The editors, who both have stories in the book, will be reading from their work and talking firearms and fiction at Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books at 3 p.m. on Dec. 17. “Nothing says America louder than a gun,” said Nash’s co-editor and former fiction writing instructor Deirdra McAfee. Whether we like it or not, declared McAfee, firearms are part of our national identity. “The gun has been domesticated in the American imagination. Most young children have seen more fictional incidents with guns than fictional incidents of affection between people or imaginary creatures.” As I and just about every other fiction writer I know can attest, eventually your protagonist will surprise you by doing something you had no idea would happen when you began writing that story. Nash,

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who had been publishing what she called “domestic tales of marriage and relationships and such,” after moving to Virginia and switching from journalism to fiction, never expected her protagonist to pick up a gun. It was quite a shock. “I’d never written a violent story before,” she said. “I felt a change in my pulse and my palms were sweating and I realized this had really hit me.” She was earning her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte at the time. When she described this experience to her advisor Pinckney Benedict, he suggested she write her thesis on the

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role of guns in fiction. Nash had previously met McAfee when taking a creative writing class from McAfee in Richmond. When Nash told her friend and former instructor she’d surprised herself by writing a gun story, McAfee was intrigued. She’d written one, too, and had given much thought to the role of firearms in American life. Unlike Nash, McAfee had grown up with guns and was experienced in handling them. “I actually took the NRA gun safety course a while back, and we were able to fire all kinds of weapons, including an MP5 9mm submachine gun,” she said. “I’ve not spent a lot of time on the range in the last few years, but I’m eligible for concealed carry.” Also unlike Nash, she’d not been surprised when a gun turned up in her story “The Shield of the Norns,” about a woman fired from her call center job who comes back with a 9mm pistol. That story, reprinted in Lock & Load, won the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s H. E. Francis prize in 2007. At that time, there had never been a workplace shooting by a woman. Ironically, McAfee said, three years after the university gave her the award, the first one happened there. “A woman who didn’t get tenure shot her whole department.” Both writers stress believe there’s never been an anthology like this before. “It’s not your grandfather’s anthology of dead men’s fightin’ and huntin’ tales,” McAfee said, adding “it’s not your leftie gun-con-

trol agenda and it’s not your rightie call to arms.” Nash said that, whereas most stories on this subject are about firearms and masculinity, “women wrote more than half the stories in Lock & Load.” The first story in the anthology is “A Lonely Coast” by the award-winning Annie Proulx, best known for the novel The Shipping News and the story “Brokeback Mountain.” Other contributors include Mari Alschuler, Gale Walden and Bonnie Jo Campbell. Men contributed too, and Nash cited acclaimed African-American novelist John Edgar Wideman’s “Tommy” as a story that made a friend of hers think differently about some things. “That’s what fiction can do for you,” she said, “make you engage with characters evening really alien or intolerable circumstances. It opens your mind and enlarges you.” McAfee also spoke on this subject and plans to do so again at Scuppernong. “Good literature, great literature, which is what we’re after, doesn’t offer answers,” she told me. Instead, she said it poses questions, and that she and Nash wanted to start a conversation that went beyond politics. “There is a distracting and noisy rights versus restrictions debate that is both illogical and really has nothing to do with how people understand guns in the United States.” ! 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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Modern romance explored in Happy Misery Despite being a short film, a good deal transpires during the course of Happy Misery, a home-grown independent production filmed on location in Charlotte. Directed by QuinMark Burger ton QWill Littlejohn and written by Contributing Adrienne Jones, Happy Misery stars columnist Jon Blaq as Bell, a bachelor who’s about to pop the question to his girlfriend Margo (Nakesha Brown-Graves). But, as he confides to his best friend Mason (Jae Blacc), that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop seeing girlfriend Jill (Paris Lowery) on the sly. As far as Bell is concerned, he knows all the angles of a romantic relationship – which he confidently and casually explains to Mason. But Mason, who is married to Margo’s best friend Sabrina (Dona Guy), has his own opinions and attitudes regarding modern romance. In the course of the film, which runs

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12½ minutes, each couple’s relationship is rocked to the core and each character is forced to re-examine his or her own priorities. The open ending of the short portends that we’ve not seen the last of these characters, that there’s more for them to deal with – both with each other and within themselves. What becomes clear by the end of the film is that the characters truly don’t know each other. They’re not able to make themselves happy, nor are they able to make their partners happy – hence the title. The film can be viewed on YouTube by searching “Happy Misery” and choosing the first option that comes up. “The inspiration came from several conversations with different people I’ve crossed paths with over the years,” Jones said, who also appears in the film. “During these conversations, I’ve noticed a similarity in which many of them were content in unhappy situations.” Whether it was a relationship or work-related, many people chose to make the best of their situation rather than try to change it, Jones said. Jones said she found this very interesting and wanted to create something that would start a conversation. “Not being honest with yourself and

brought my story to life and stayed true to your partner about your idea of happiwhat I envisioned,” she said. “We wanted ness will inevitably cause chaos,” she to keep the concept simple and focus on said. “The characters are both loosely the characters. The season of autumn inspired by people I know and are also represents change and symbolizes a time essentially “every-person” – whom pretty of self-reflection.” much anyone can identify with,” she Jones said she wanted to thank the explains. “These are people anyone could entire cast and team involved. come across in everyday life. I wanted to “It is our hope that people connect with show that our hearts and feelings are not the story and characters, and follow us as only tied to our partners but also to our we continue to develop the project,” she friends.” said. Her opinion was shared by Blaq, who Indeed, Happy Misery could exist as also produced the film. “She and I had a stand-alone film, be adapted into a been discussing her writing and decided feature format, or act as a pilot for an when she came up with the concept of ongoing web series. Happy Misery to get with some friends “The first film is Part One,” Blaq said. and make it and see how it would turn “There is a Part Two in the works, and we out,” he said. “A lot of it was just to see are discussing the future of the project if we could create something just for the beyond that at the moment. Everybody sake of being creative, then we thought really came together and worked hard to it would be pretty cool if we could maybe make it happen.” take it to film festivals, and it’s grown The official Facebook page for Happy from there. I became the producer of the Misery is @HappyMiseryMovie. ! film based on my relationships with other actors and being able to help connect the dots to bring everybody together.” See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Jones said she is very pleased with Burgervideo.com. © 2017, Mark Burger. YES! Weekly AD3 11.2017.pdf 1 11/14/2017 1:38:24 PM how the film turned out. “Quinton really

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Anita Woodley and N4HC to perform at Glenwood Community Bookstore

ans of free jazz are generally pretty open. Duck sounds, abrasive sonic smears, a-rhythmic clatter, atonality, wild flurries of notes, glacial stasis or disJohn Adamian jointed fragments — @johnradamian it’s all cool when the act of listening itself and the attention Contributor to sound waves and how they move is part of the point. But even the occasional free jazz audience member has been challenged by the improvised vocalizations of Anita Woodley, who performs with the group N4HC, a Durham-based quartet that will play Greensboro on Dec. 16 at the monthly Perceiver of Sound League event at Glenwood Community Bookstore. Woodley’s performance style has as much to do with theater and narrative and even shamanism and channeling as it does with singing in the traditional sense. The group formed three years ago after Woodley met bassist Vattel Cherry at a performance event in Little Washington, North Carolina, which was a free-form event. “People were beating toasters and all this stuff — it was wild,” Woodley said. Woodley was interacting with the

musicians, serving as a kind of roving MC, portraying her 100-year-old great-grandmother, which Woodley does in many of her roles as an educator and performer. Woodley doesn’t just enact the voice and behavior of her deceased great-grandmother; she communes with her spirit, “dips in,” as she puts it, adopting a different posture and facial expressions and changing her voice. Woodley tells stories of her great-grandmother’s life, imparting her perspective on events of the day. At that particular event, Woodley, in character, plucked on the bass a little, making some observations about the instrument. Cherry called her up a few months later to see if Woodley wanted to tell stories and join in on vocals with a free improvisation project he had along with drummer Jason Hines and woodwinds player and multiinstrumentalist Chris Lipscomb. “We all got in there and jammed, and they told me ‘Just be our seer,’” Woodley said. That’s a role Woodley takes seriously. It’s not uncommon in the age of selfhelp to hear encouragement along the lines of ‘just be yourself’ in many contexts. But the fact that we need to be nudged along those lines suggests that being oneself is something many of us don’t feel at liberty to be, or that maybe it’s not even something we all know how to do. Woodley is committed to what you might call radical realness. She was raised in Oakland, California, and she’s had a

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career as a journalist and educator, writing and performing in one-woman shows about breast cancer, leading workshops to instruct young people about sexual violence, bullying and harassment. With Cherry, Lipscomb and Hines creating grooves that ebb and flow behind her, Woodley rolls with the live setting, tapping into what she senses in a room, interacting with the audience, assessing what she senses to be their preoccupations and concerns, and spinning tales from her great-grandmother’s life. She might dive into the subject of police brutality or about the oppressive nature of history. Cherry and her bandmates give Woodley freedom to do whatever comes to her involving her voice. “He said your voice is the instrument, it’s the ultimate instrument,” Woodley said. “I get to be myself now, every frickin’ day. That is the best feeling in the world,” said Woodley of her mission. “Just show up and be you, and that’s gonna be good.” You can find footage of Woodley and N4HC extemporizing about “Cubicle Booty” in an improvised performance online, a playful riff on the emotionally and physically confining realities of office-job life. Or you can see footage of the group making music about the pressure to be on time or to wait. The Last Poets or Sun Ra and June Tyson might come to mind.

She moves, she morphs her face and exaggerates her mouth or her eyes. She might strike poses akin to surfing or tai chi. It all depends. It’s not all about storytelling, channeling and characters though. Sometimes, particularly when she’s trying to process or move through intense emotions, Woodley will bellow and howl. It’s a technique or behavior — what she calls “movin’ it” — that she learned from her great-grandmother, a way of embracing grief and letting it move through the body. It’s loud and animalistic, she said. She describes it as “tonal healing.” Her great-grandmother told her: “When you’re feeling it, just cry. Just let it out from the back of your pinky toe.” Woodley remembers watching her great-grandmother learn of the death of a loved one. “She would do this howling. She would be in her chair, and she would go prostrate with her body and just start screaming and howling out these sounds. It was like this releasing of something.” It may not be pretty, and if Woodley is moved to do it on stage, it may make some audience members uncomfortable, but that’s okay. Woodley figures we — as Americans, and Westerners — are probably a little too invested in holding it in, preserving appearances and conforming to what’s expected of us. She’s not entirely won over by that approach. “Everyone talks about how they want to know other cultures and accept other cultures, and it sounds good until it’s in your face,” Woodley said of the challenges that some might have with embracing different modes of expression. “I’m finally, at 41, coming around to accepting that this is just my job,” Woodley said. “A wrench’s purpose is to turn the bolt; my purpose is to make people comfortable with being uncomfortable.” ! 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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High Point Ballet presents:

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The Nutcracker Wednesday, December 20, 2017 - 7:30 PM Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 7:30 PM Friday, December 22, 2017 - 7:30 PM

It’s become a holiday tradition for many Triad families to attend a performance of the joyful, dream-inspired story of The Nutcracker. Swirling with heroic toy soldiers, swordﬁghting mice, and the glittering Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the classic ballet is beautifully presented through the choreography of award-winning Artistic Director Gary Taylor, award-winning set designer Howard Jones, lighting by Craig Stelzenmueller, and original costumes designed by Executive Director-Founder Rita Taylor.

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High Point Ballet presents:

The Nutcracker Land of the Sweets

Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 11:00 AM Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 2:00 PM The High Point Ballet Land of the Sweets Nutcracker performance is designed especially for children. The show length of approximately one hour and content is tailored for young people’s attention. To add to the experience, everyone is invited to come one hour prior to the performance to meet the Nutcracker characters, have souvenir pictures taken, and participate in themed activities.

2018 Game of Thrones, A Parody of Ice & Fire: January 18 John Sebastian & David Grisman: January 20 American Spiritual Ensemble: January 27 Kit & the Kats: February 3 Emile Pandolfi with Dana Russell: February 14 Al Stewart: The Year of the Cat Tour: February 16 Heart Behind the Music with Alabama’s Teddy Gentry, John Berry, Lenny LeBlanc & Linda Davis: March 9 Shaun Hopper & Joe Smothers: March 23 On Golden Pond: April 5 Black Violin: Back by Popular Demand!: April 24 Dawn Wells: What Would Mary Ann Do? April 28

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he spiritual companion piece to director Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, director-star James Franco’s The Disaster Artist ( ) is another cheerful Hollywoodinsider piece about a man whose ambitions far outweigh his expertise. In this case, it’s Tommy Wiseau, the mysterious figure who in 2003 served as writer-director-producer-star-financier of The Room. A shockingly inept film about the love triangle between a nice guy named Johnny (Wiseau), his fiancée Lisa (Juliette Danielle) and his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero), The Room was barely seen upon its original release but has since emerged as a cult sensation. It even inspired a tell-all book, Sestero’s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, and it’s that tome that functioned as the primary source for this endlessly entertaining film. Scripted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (the team behind The Spectacular Now and (500) Days of Summer), The Disaster Artist initially traces the growing friendship between Wiseau (James Franco) and Sestero (Dave Franco) as the pair try to make it in San Francisco. Eventually realizing that true thespian stardom can only be achieved in La La Land, the men move to Los Angeles and immediately hit the various agencies. While the good-looking Sestero lands a

few nibbles here and there, the bizarre Wiseau has absolutely no luck — this is turn spurs Wiseau to make his own movie, with Sestero as his co-star. What follows is an often uproarious yarn that finds Wiseau attempting to get The Room made even as his own cast and crew members stare in disbelief at his eccentric antics (Seth Rogen adds some nicely modulated deadpan humor as script supervisor Sandy Schklair). Yet even amidst all the hilarity, there’s a subtle poignancy at work, as Franco (as director) and his scripters clearly admire Wiseau’s sincerity while also taking note of his insecurity. This is especially hammered home in an early sequence set in an acting class — condescendingly told that his unconventional looks and irregular cadence will only allow him to play monsters and villains, Wiseau responds by informing the gathered assemblage that they’re the villains because of how they’re treating him. It’s a sobering moment, and Franco, delivering a career-best performance, sells it beautifully. The Disaster Artist is engaging enough on its own terms, and it’s not a requisite to have seen The Room beforehand. But it’s definitely recommended. Virginal viewers who watch as Franco’s Wiseau wails, “I did not hit her! It’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not! Oh, hi, Mark.” will extract a few chuckles from the scene, but Room rompers had best prepare for nyuks on a nirvanic level. !

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Triad Stage presents Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity

t the Pyrle Theatre in downtown Greensboro, a holiday show truly fit for all ages, will be showing until Dec. 24. Written and directed by Preston Katie Murawski Lane with original music and musical direction by Laurelyn Editor Dossett and presented by The Carroll Companies, Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity was commissioned and originally produced in 2006 by Triad Stage and was published by Playscripts, Inc. in New York, New York. From the name, you know this show is not your usual nativity story you’re used to seeing in church. Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity is an interactive theatre

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experience that walks through memorable stories from the Christian Bible right up through to the iconic nativity scene that is so familiar to us all. The show is set inside of a small church, the Open Heart Community Fellowship nestled in the hills of North Carolina–with stained glass windows and small wooden pews– and transforms to a different time and place throughout each scene. The first act is composed of the memorable Bible stories of Adam and Eve; Noah and the great flood and Abraham and Isaac. While the second act is composed of the nativity story that the show is named after. These memorable stories are all told through an Appalachian lens, in that each story has its twist complete with Southern twang and bluegrass music interludes. This play is by all accounts, wholesome and fit for all audiences. As someone who consistently (and quite literally) had to be dragged to church on Christmas Eve each year to hear the same old story about a baby born to a virgin mother in a stable, this play was not on my radar. However, after seeing this unforgettable play for myself on Dec. 10 and holding back tears, I can vouch for it and would recommend it to readers of YES! Weekly. Don’t think for one minute Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity showcases the “holier than thou,” conservative, Southern Christians that may come to mind upon reading the title–they aren’t trashy either. The cast of Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity was friendly, warm and inclusive. Playing Rev. Roy Ledbetter and God, Carroll Michael Johnson’s performance was strong and proved him to be the leader of the show. Supporting, yet also taking

the reigns during the second act, the preacher’s wife Vestina Ledbetter, Noah’s wife and Abraham’s wife, played by Cinny Strickland, was anything but second banana to the men she supported. Her wit and stage presence of each character she portrayed showcased her wide range of experience and ability. Some of the most memorable and truly dramatic performances came from Lawrence Evans (playing Vernon Sparks, Abraham, angel and shepherd) and 10-year-old Davari Moyd (playing Paul Sparks, Isaac and a wise man) in their scene depicting the story of Abraham and Isaac. How does God reconcile with giving his son to save humanity? According to this show, by testing man to see if he will give his son to God. This scene brought many audience members, including the lady sitting beside me, to tears as Evans expresses his deep sorrow for having to kill his only son to please God and tiny Moyd’s sweet and

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sad acceptance of his fate. Moyd, in my own opinion, stole the show by playing one of the three wise men in the second act. The Virgin Mary was played by Jillian Louis (who also played Eve and Ethel Green), and she was the picturesque virgin Mary by all accounts. Her beautiful and unbreakable voice as she passionately sings “O Holy Night” as the finale to the show, left the audience in awe. By bringing these characters to life, the cast of Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity shone brighter than the beautiful star itself. This production delivered a two-hour show that taught the audience that the true meaning of Christmas is hope and love. And that is what shines the brightest this holiday season. ! 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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Chengdu, China, street barber Xiong Gaowu offers a most unusual service at his roadside location in Sichuan province. For $12, Xiong will Chuck Shepherd scrap the inside of his customers’ eyelids using a straight razor, according to Reuters. Xiong suggests being “gentle, very, very gentle” when performing eyelid shaving, or “blade wash eyes,” as the technique is known in Mandarin. A Chengdu ophthalmologist, Qu Chao, says shaving may unblock moisturizing sebaceous glands along the rim of the eyelid, leading to a more comfortable and refreshed feeling. “If he can properly sterilize the tools that he uses, I can see there is still a space for this technique to survive,” Qu added.

UNCONTAINED EXCITEMENT

Traffic slowed to a crawl on I-95 in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Nov. 21 as President Trump’s motorcade arrived for the Thanksgiving holiday. Author and

sportswriter Jeff Pearlman was among the delayed drivers, but things turned weird when “these people (kept) getting out of the car dancing,” he posted in a Twitter video. WPTV reported that Pearlman recorded the people two cars in front of him emerging from their car and twerking on the highway, then jumping and dancing around enthusiastically before getting back in the vehicle.

COMPULSION

A 35-year-old Indian man employed a unique method for dealing with his depression: swallowing metal. Maksud Khan was rushed to surgery at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India, after developing severe abdominal pains, according to Metro News. An endoscopy showed that Khan had “coins, nails and nut-bolts in his stomach,” said Dr. Priyank Sharma, who led the surgical team. In late November, surgeons removed 263 coins, 100 nails and other metal items, including razor blades and dog chains, from Khan’s stomach. His family had no idea he had been ingesting metal, and Khan promised doctors he would never eat metal again.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

— In Iowa, autumn is breeding season for deer, when the animals can get a little wacky and try to cross roadways. It’s also the time of year when the Iowa Department of Transportation begins fielding questions from drivers asking why deer crossing signs aren’t erected at safer spots for deer to cross. “This sign isn’t intended to tell deer where to cross,” the Iowa DOT helpfully posted on its Facebook page on Oct. 24, according to the Des Moines Register. “It’s for drivers to be alert that deer have been in this area in the past.” State Farm Insurance reports that Iowa drivers have the fourth-highest likelihood in the U.S. of hitting a deer. Coincidence? — Rocky, an enterprising 7-month-old border collie in Devon, England, took the command “bring the sheep home” a little too literally in early November when he herded nine sheep into his owner’s kitchen. “I was in the kitchen and heard a noise,” Rocky’s owner, Rosalyn Edwards, told the BBC. “I turned around and the sheep were just standing there. It was funny at the time, but then there was quite a lot of wee, poo and mud everywhere.” The sheep stood around for a few minutes, then allowed themselves to be shown out the front door.

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As elder members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, gathered on Nov. 16 to discuss the recent church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of those present asked if anyone had brought a gun to church. One man spoke up and said he carries a gun everywhere, reported WATE-TV, and produced the gun, emptying the chambers before passing the weapon around. When the owner got the gun back, he replaced the magazine and recharged the chamber — accidentally squeezing the trigger and shooting himself in the hand and his wife in the abdomen. Both victims were taken by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

LAST WISHES

On Oct. 10, Richard Lussi, 76, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, succumbed to heart disease. But before he died, he made sure his family knew there was one thing he wanted to take with him: a cheesesteak from Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia. “No onions because they’ll come back to haunt me!” Lussi told his family. So the day before Lussi’s funeral, his son, John, grandson, Dominic, and two friends drove to Philly, where they ate cheesesteaks and bought two extra for Lussi’s casket.

John told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the funeral director advised not putting the sandwiches in the coffin until after the viewing, “because people would take them.” Pat’s owner Frank Olivieri Jr. said he was flattered and proud that his cheesesteaks were held “so dear” by someone. “Maybe it’s a bribe for St. Peter,” he added.

IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD

Lisa Cramps moved into a new home in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England, this fall and quickly discovered a mysterious manhole cover in her backyard. Rather than ignore it, Cramps dug up the cover and unearthed a World War II-era bunker underneath. Neighbors informed Cramps that the shelter pre-dates her house and originally had two stories, with the upper level partially above ground. “It’s very exciting to find this in our garden,” Cramps told Metro News. “I love Second World War history, and my mission now is to find out exactly why it’s here.”

UNDIGNIFIED DEATH

Linda Bringman, 64, of the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, died on Nov. 27 after being found unresponsive three days earlier with her head stuck between two posts of a wrought iron fence. Paramedics were called around noon that day to a PNC Bank branch where the fence was located, and Bringman was taken to the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Chicago Police could not provide an explanation for her being stuck in the fence, but they did not believe criminal activity was involved.

INEXPLICABLE

Ja Du of Tampa, Florida, was born a white male named Adam Wheeler. Today, he is not only transsexual, but also considers himself transracial, saying he identifies as a Filipino. “Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” Du told WTSP-TV in November. Du even drives a motorized rickshaw called a Tuk Tuk, a vehicle used for public transportation in the Philippines (but which Filipinos call “trisikels”). However, some Filipino-Americans are less than welcoming, claiming that Du has overlooked centuries of their people’s struggle. “To say you are that race is both unrealistic and problematic,” said Jackie Fernandez, a Filipino-American journalist. She believes Du has crossed a line between “cultural appreciation and appropriation.” !

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She came in like a Wrecking Belle: A profile of a Greensboro roller derby girl

his summer, I was spending some time visiting family in California and noticed that rollerblading was a huge trend there. It looked so fun, and it Lauren Davidson made me remember how much I loved it Contributor as a kid. Along with my (very athletic) cousin, I strapped on a pair of rentals and was ready to hit the ground blading. Until I discovered that rollerblading is actually really hard and passersby will absolutely heckle you when they see you clutching to a barrier for dear life. It took me less than 20 minutes (and that’s generous) to hang up my skates and hit the taco stand instead. The roller derby girls of Greensboro take on a slightly different attitude towards moving on eight wheels—instead of simply trying to master the art of rolling forward, they slam other people around, do jumps and participate in general badassery. When I sat down with Wrecking Belle, the vice president of the Greensboro Roller Derby, (or also known as GSORD), I was expecting a rough and gruff individual. Instead, Shannon ScottGreensboro Roller Derby’s vice president, Shannon Spillman was petite “Wrecking Belle” Scott-Spillman. and soft-spoken. When she began to guards. The game (or bout) is rife with describe her role in the derby, however, I opportunities for penalties, like accidental could see how she would be really good at tripping or hitting a person in the wrong this. A quiet confidence took over, and she place. Like basketball, there are 10 players described hits and falls with a delightful on the track at any given time, broken hint of menace in her tone. into two teams. Eight of those players are To give you a breakdown of the sport, blockers, and two are jammers. derby is a full-contact game. The par“The idea of the jammer is to get ticipants wear skates, elbow pads, knee through the pack, get all the way around, pads, wrist guards, helmets and mouth

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Wrecking Belle caught in action being a “bad-ass blocker.” and start a scoring pass. They have to make an initial pass of everyone before they score,” Wrecking Belle said. “That sounds really easy like just go through the pack, but then you have four blockers of the opposing team that are trying to keep you from going through.” And these opponents are no joke: Wrecking Belle describes herself as a “bad-ass blocker” who uses physics to maneuver her petite frame into stopping someone full-force. “I’m not a big girl, but I can stop a girl twice my size,” she told me. GSORD was established in 2010 and

includes two travel teams, with about 45 members total. “Our A-team is Gate City, and our B-team is Counter Strike, like the sit-in, so it’s got a little bit of Greensboro history,” Wrecking Belle said. “Within the league, we have home teams, and they are named after the streets of Greensboro, so we have the Mad Dollies, based on Dolly Madison Avenue; we have the Battleground Betties; we have the Elm Street Nightmares.” Guidelines for joining the league are provided by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. Beginners to derby come into the league as “fresh meat” and

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Shanna “Buster Vicious” Buster, president of GSORD, playing as the jammer in a bout.

go through a program that teaches the minimum skills required to play. WFTDA, as Wrecking Belle told me, is like the NBA or the NFL— it gives guidelines. “They say you have to skate this many laps in this time; you have to be able to step; you have to cross over; you have to be able to block,” Wrecking Belle said. “We don’t pass anyone until they pass that. Once they do that, you get drafted to a home team. It’s sort of like a round robin as the coaches go through all the new people. After you get some bouting experience, you’re eligible to try out for travel teams, after three games.” Wrecking Belle started her journey in an unsurprisingly independent fashion. “I grew up on rollerblades, so when I decided to do derby, I had to relearn how to skate because I had never skated on quads previous to doing derby,” she said. She was in college at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and one woman from the team was in Wrecking Belle’s class. “I went to see her and thought it was really cool, but at the time I was still in school, newly married and had a kid. I just did not have time or the energy or the finances to want to do it,” she said. However, fate brought her back to the sport. After a couple of years, Wrecking Belle went to a sporting goods store and purchased a pair of quads and taught herself how to skate in six months. Then she entered the fresh meat program. “When you get into the fresh meat, it’s like four months, and then you go to scrimmage school,” she said. “Fresh meat, they teach you how to skate. It’s great if WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

you already have balance, but they teach you how to fall; they teach you how to take hits. In three months, you are taught the very basics of roller derby. After the three months, you go to a month of scrimmage school and learn how to play derby. You learn the rules, and then you learn how to apply them.” After getting drafted to the Battleground Betties, Wrecking Belle made the travel A-team, Gate City. For the next six months, she practiced with Gate City and learned a lot. “I felt like I went through fresh meat again on the different level of the play,” she said. “From home teams to travel teams, there’s different strategies, different intensities. It was like a completely different game, so it felt like fresh meat for another six months. The rest is history, really. I’ve been on Gate City since then.” Being on the roller derby has changed Wrecking Belle’s life—she even met her husband through it, who’s a referee and goes by the name Richard Cranium, and she has made it so far as to play for Team North Carolina. What she’s gained most, however, is the mental and physical toughness of an athlete. “The thing I love about derby is that it’s a journey,” she said. “And it’s not only a skill journey, it’s a mental journey, like how many times can you fall and get back up; how many times can you get hit and get back up; how many times can you go to the penalty box and get back in and do it with the same intensity or better than you were before? It’s amazing to see people come in and be like family and they’re doing amazing things by the end of the

year. That’s what I love about derby. It’s so fluid, and you can see people’s journey right in front of your eyes.” Lauren Davidson is the editor-in-chief of Woven Greensboro, a weekly e-love letter

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Isaac Powell takes Broadway: Greensboro native and UNCSA graduate debuted in his role on Dec. 3 One rising star from Greensboro made his debut on Broadway as Daniel in the musical Once On This Island, from the Tony Award®winning writers of Anastasia and Ragtime, on Dec. 3 at the Katie Murawski Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City. According Editor to ibdb.com (the internet broadway database), Once On This Island was based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy; was written by Lynn Ahrens with music by Stephen Flaherty. Powell, 22, was born in Greensboro and went to school at Weaver Academy and then onto the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He graduated UNCSA in May and right out of college he was asked to portray Daniel in Once On This Island on Broadway. He packed up and moved to the Big Apple in August. “I had a series of auditions back this summer that led to it, and I got offered the role in July,” he said. “I spent five years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the culmination of our training there, we do an industry showcase in Los Angeles and New York City where we invite all of the top agents and casting directors and directors to sort of watch us do scenes and songs in hopes of securing talent representations and jobs in New York [City] and Los Angeles. Out of that opportunity, I was scouted by talent agents and some casting directors who were looking at me through some different roles and this one sort of came out of that.” According to its website, Once On This Island is “bursting with Caribbean colors, rhythms and dance. This production transforms the reality of a tropical village devastated by a storm into a fantastical world alive with hope.” The musical has already gotten its fair share of raving reviews. Jesse Green of The New York Times wrote that the play was “ravishing” and was delighted to enter the world of Once On This Island. Deadline’s Jeremy Gerard called the musical “glorious and timely.” Isaac Powell describes his character Daniel as “this really wealthy and privi-

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Isaac Powell after the curtain call of Once On This Island Photos courtesy of Broadway.com, production photos by Emilio Madrid-Kuser leged kid” who lives on a divided island. Where, he said, peasants who have dark skin live on one side with the light-skinned wealthy people on the other side behind a set of iron gates. Isaac Powell said that Ti Moune (Hailey Kilgore), a peasant girl sees Daniel (Powell) from afar one day and fantasizes about being with him. Isaac Powell said she then prays to the four gods that rule the island. “They hear her prayer and decided amongst themselves because they are tricksters and they like to have a good time, that it would be really entertaining to see what happens if they grant her wish,” he said. “The gods control the elements: they control the Earth, they control the weather and water and the other one controls death. I don’t want to give too much away but, you sort of see what happens when two different worlds meet for the first time.” Isaac Powell said Daniel is someone who grew up in a life of luxury and had everything handed to him, but Isaac Powell does not connect with his character on that. “I didn’t grow up super wealthy, or privileged, I have had to work hard for everything I have now,” he said. In fact, Isaac Powell said he did not grow up in an artsy household and had a “sportsy family.” His dad is a professional cross-fit

athlete and bodybuilder; his brother was a wrestler, his sister was a soccer player. Even though Isaac Powell was involved in sports growing up, “it never really clicked” with him; he said it wasn’t his passion like it was for his family. After some friends convinced him to try out for the Community Theatre of Greensboro’s The Wizard of Oz, Isaac Powell said he fell in love with it and kept doing every show he could at CTG. Through CTG, he auditioned for Weaver Academy and through Weaver Academy, he auditioned for the UNCSA’s free high school program. “Once I was there, I fell in love with the School of the Arts and decided to stay there for the remaining four years of my college education,” he said. Terry Powell, Isaac’s mother, said her son “paved his own way” and she attributes that to his success. “All of his drive really came because of his passion for theatre and acting,” Terry Powell said. After hearing the news about her son getting a role on Broadway right out of college, she said, “It was pretty surreal as a parent to see your kid excelling and being the best at what they are doing. I always felt that he would quickly rise to the top on Broadway, but I didn’t expect it to be that fast.” Terry Powell said this was only Isaac’s third audition out of college and to land a

role on Broadway is “almost unheard of,” she said. “I am not sure that the magnitude of it has set in yet, we have just been on cloud nine since the day he told us,” she said. Terry Powell said that when she first moved to Greensboro, people were always telling her that it was a good place for the arts. “From the phenomenal community theatre to the support that the community gives to the arts, to having one of the top acting schools in the nation just 20 miles away, just afforded so many opportunities that he couldn’t have been able to get if we were still living elsewhere,” she said. Powell’s advice to aspiring entertainers in Greensboro is to “work as hard as you can” and make sure to have the stamina, endurance and passion when seeking their dreams to fruition. “Seek opportunities for yourself that aren’t readily available to you,” he said. “You have to fight for what you want, and you have to make opportunities for yourself, and you just have to really want it with every fiber of your being and just know that you were born to do this.” ! 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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Found Footage Festival comes to Greensboro, battles ‘bizarre’ lawsuit Told that comedians Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett are being sued in federal court, I assumed it was over their Found Footage Festival coming to Greensboro this Saturday. Although that popular touring show Ian McDowell seems protected by the Fair Use doctrine Contributing of Copyright Law, it’s a truism that, in columnist America, anybody can sue anybody for anything at any time. So I wrongly assumed that someone had finally objected to their use of ancient VHS tapes recovered from garage sales, thrift stores and dumpsters. But no, the suit has nothing to do with Prueher and Pickett wringing laughs from old training videos, local T.V. segments and regional commercials. In emails about their Dec. 16 show at Geeksboro Coffee and Beverage Co., Prueher explained they’re being sued over an unrelated prank. They had appeared on a local Wisconsin T.V. newscast as a fictional “strong man duo” called Chop and Steel, performing “feats of strength” like breaking sticks and crushing wicker baskets. The station thought the joke funny, but its owners did not. “A big media company in Atlanta is embarrassed that we got on one of their shows,” Prueher wrote, calling the company’s claims of fraud “outrageous and bizarre.” He explained that the station had them stick around after their segment to shoot a promo and that the on-air talent was laughing about it the next day. “We did no damage and meant no harm by this prank,” which he described as intended to highlight the absurdity of local morning news. “If they’re embarrassed by our appearance, they should have asked some basic questions before booking a demonstrably stupid strongman act.” He praised his and Pickett’s legal team, but wrote that expenses “are draining us dry.” Fans interested in protecting free speech can contribute to their defense fund at www.gofundme.com/chopandsteele. Prueher promised that those attending their Geeksboro show could expect a rollicking good time, not a lecture or plea for help. He wrote that he and his partner are WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Found Footage Festival hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher. particularly proud of the relics from the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s included on this tour. At the height of that mass hysteria, self-promoting and often absurdly blatant charlatans regularly appeared on local and even national news shows, falsely claiming to be former cultists and seeking lecture fees for tips on combating the imaginary menace. Their show also includes selections from the private VHS collection David Letterman donated to the Found Footage Festival when he retired last year, on-air bloopers from a decade of North Dakota local news, and a “Welcome Home, Desert Storm” parade featuring Roseanne Barr and “Rico Suave” rapper-turned-pastor Gerardo. Prueher and Pickett, whose credits include The Onion and The Colbert Report, first met in the sixth grade. They bonded over Small Wonder, the 1985-89 syndicated comedy about a scientist who passes a robot off as his 10-year-old daughter. “Everyone in our class seemed to be watching the show on the level,” Prueher wrote, “but Joe and I couldn’t believe how wonderfully terrible it was. We did not excel in school, but had a very advanced sense of irony.” They began collecting found videotapes in 1991, after stumbling across a training video entitled “Inside and Outside Custodial Duties” at a Wisconsin McDonald’s. Since then, they claim to have compiled the world’s largest collection of “strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos.” In 2004, their Found Footage Festival debuted in New York. They’ve subsequently sold out hundreds of live shows, appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes-

tival, Bonnaroo and the Just For Laughs Festival, and have been featured on NPR, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! I asked Prueher if they have any Holy Grail of so-far-unfound footage. He replied they’ve been long seeking “The

Super Broker Shuffle,” in which a group of middle managers “rap” about stocking grape juice and dog food, and which can be seen on YouTube. “We don’t take any videos from the internet,” he wrote, “but this music video starring grocery store buyers is so tantalizing that I’d do almost anything for a VHS copy!” He described it as being “like the Super Bowl Shuffle, but without any of the charisma of the 1985 Chicago Bears,” and begged anyone with VHS footage of it to get in touch. Prueher and Pickett will bring their 2017 Found Footage Festival to Geeksboro Coffee and Beverage Company at 2134 Lawndale Drive in Greensboro on Dec.16 at 9:30 p.m. Tickets to are $10 ($12 day of show) and are available at www.foundfootagefest.com. ! 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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