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WINGS GOD GAVE MY SOUL In June of 1944, GEORGE PREDDY settled into the cockpit of ‘Cripes A’ Mighty 3rd’, one of the Army Air Force’s newest and most advanced fighters, the P-51D. By the first week in August he had bagged an additional 17 German warplanes in support of the Allied D-Day invasion. This marked the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and abuse is one of those iceberg issues, what we see of it is just a small portion above the surface with much more going on underneath, unseen and unacknowledged. 11 Backers of the CASCADE SALOON rehabilitation project in Downtown Greensboro were to appear before City Council on Dec. 20 to ask for an extension of their deadline for stabilizing the dilapidated structure
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Sometimes ballet can get overlooked by the general public, but not at Christmastime. Thankfully THE NUTCRACKER has torn down that wall with its awe-inspiring choreography that harnesses the magic and wonder of Christmas Eve. 30 James Ross’s crime noir novel, THEY DON’T DANCE MUCH, was published in 1940 (Mysterious Press reissued it in 2013), and reading his hard-boiled account of life in central North Carolina in the 1930s will cure any lingering longing you may have had for those simpler times. 31 Barry Jenkins’ hard-hitting and heartfelt coming-of-age drama MOONLIGHT scored big with the voters of the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA), taking the honor for Best Film of 2016, earning five awards in total, and being the runner-up in three other categories. 32 THE TRAVELED FARMER has been open for a little over a month and already it seems the idea of turning a British gastro pub into a true farm to table restaurant with a built-in market is paying off.
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TYLER PERKINS-TRIAD KARAOKE KING BY CLAUDIA BURNETT
“If you can do what you love, and get paid for it, you’ll never work a day in your life,” said Tyler Perkins about his life as an owner/operator of Get Vocal Entertainment Triad. Four years ago, Tyler Perkins was in Asheville singing karaoke at a popular bar. The karaoke DJ noticed how well Tyler could sing and work the crowd, so they offered him a job as a part-time karaoke DJ. While Tyler was working the karaoke circuit, the owner of Get Vocal Entertainment Asheville, Cory Short, took notice of Tyler and hired him as his full time karaoke DJ alongside Caleb Johnson, winner of American Idol season 13. Tyler was on a high, doing what he loved. Unfortunately, Tyler’s stepfather, who lives in Winston Salem, fell off the back of his Pepperidge farm truck and tore his shoulder. Tyler decided to walk away from his dream job, help his stepfather and his business. Once his father was on the mend, Tyler stayed in Winston because he “loved the city, the people, and knew there wasn’t a rival company that could compete with us. (Get Vocal Entertainment)” Tyler was given an amazing opportunity to buy into the Get Vocal Entertainment franchise and begin his own journey as a business owner in Winston-Salem. Get Vocal Entertainment has been in business for over 20 years. The reason he franchised is because all of the karaoke and DJ music is licensed. Which means they do not use You Tube to source the music and they update current songs every week. The last thing Tyler had to do was put his stamp on the name, and Get Vocal
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MARK KEMP NAMED EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF CREATIVE LOAFING CHARLOTTE
For the third time in the past decade, Creative Loafing has named North Carolina native Mark Kemp as Editor-in-Chief of the Charlotte alternative newsweekly and website, said publisher Charles Womack of CL’s parent company Womack Newspapers, Inc. Kemp returns to Charlotte after three years in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he served stints as Editor of the musicinstruction magazine Acoustic Guitar and Editor-in-Chief of the SF Weekly. A former Senior Music Editor at Rolling Stone, VP of Music Editorial at MTV Networks, and entertainment editor at The Charlotte Observer, Kemp began his journalism career as a reporter for the Times-News of Burlington. In the early ‘90s, he served as longtime Executive Editor of Option, the groundbreaking alternative music and culture magazine. Kemp edited Creative Loafing in the mid-2000s as well as the late 2010s, spearheading CL’s joint coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention with Huffington Post. His book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South, was published by Simon & Shuster in 2004. “The addition of Mark Kemp as Editorin-Chief at Creative Loafing in Charlotte is something that the staff and readers of CL should be very excited about ,” says Womack. “Kemp brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the position and knows the Charlotte market extremely well. Personally, I am a huge fan and am anxiously looking forward to his taking the CL brand of print, social media and more to the next level.”
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A consortium led by North Carolina A&T State University has been awarded a $1.4 million grant, renewable for up to five years and $7.8 million, by the United States Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. The grant will be used to estab-
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lish and manage the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility (CATM) through N.C. A&T’s Transportation Institute. Joined by consortium members Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of the District of Columbia Community College, Dr. Maranda E. McBride, director of N.C. A&T’s Transportation Institute is the PI on the grant and will serve as the director of CATM. UTC Programs are designed to advance state-of-the-art transportation research and technology, and develop the next generation of transportation professionals. The goal of each UTC is to form a unique center of transportation excellence on a specific research topic. CATM will focus on improving the mobility of people and goods. “Our nation faces unprecedented challenges from population growth, a changing climate, and increasing freight volumes. Universities are at the forefront of identifying solutions, researching critical emerging issues, and ensuring improved access to opportunity for all Americans,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “This competition supports the future transportation workforce by providing students with opportunities to take part in cutting-edge research with leading experts in the field.” The work of UTCs will help the United States meet the impacts outlined in “Beyond Traffic,” a draft report documenting trends and challenges to the nation’s transportation system over the next 30 years. The Congressionally-mandated program has been in place since 1987 to help address the nation’s ever-growing need for the safe, efficient and environmentally sound movement of people and goods. “This is great news for N.C. A&T and the city of Greensboro” said North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams. “This grant will provide crucial funding for students to develop cutting-edge research in transportation to improve our city’s infrastructure, protect the environment and plan for future growth. This funding will equip our local engineering students to advance their research in a way that will substantially impact our city.” Together, UTCs advance U.S. technology and expertise in the many disciplines comprising transportation through education, solutions-oriented research and technology transfer, and the exploration and sharing of cutting-edge ideas and approaches. !
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tions that will pay over the long run, the immediate need is strong in Guilford County. omestic violence and abuse “Those domestic violence homicide is one of those iceberg numbers are really telling,” Dr. Murray issues, what we see of it is said. “While Guilford County wasn’t at just a small portion above the top of the list for 2015, the rates here the surface with much more going on are still very high. Last year just over underneath, unseen and unacknowl5,000 people in the community were edged. And just like an iceberg, it seems affected by ongoing domestic troubles. like a faraway problem, easily avoided, at When you look at all the data, the least until you wander unknowingly into homicides are only a small percentage of its path. those cases and then there are the cases Now, thanks to a partnership bethat are never reported to anyone.” tween the Phillips Foundation and the Those 5,000 cases were handled University of North Carolina at Greensthrough the Guilford County Family boro’s (UNCG) Department of Counseling Justice Center and the numbers include and Educational development, local both primary and secondary victims. people will have innovative tools and The victims were not just in the areas of information at hand to create healthier traditional domestic violence, but also relationships and to remove themselves sexual assaults, child maltreatment and from dangerous, or even life-threatening elder abuse, all areas the HRI hopes to ones. Called the Guilford County Healthy provide assistance in. Relationships Initiative (HRI), the effort ‘Dr. John Gottman (an internationally will work across a broad spectrum of acclaimed psychology professor who areas, connecting resources and getting UNCG’s Dr. Christine Murray is part of the team looking at ways to curb domestic violence. worked in marital stability and relationthem into the hands of the people most ship analysis) said that most couples in need of them. in relationship trouble wait an average of six years before “We want to really connect with the existing resources “In 2013 and 2014, Guilford County led the state in reaching out for help,” she continued. we have in the county and bring them together,” Murray domestic violence homicides,” UNCG’s Dr. Christine Murray “That is the needle we want to move,” Dr. Murray said. explained. Differing viewpoints and areas of coverage can said. “And locally we are still seeing one divorce filed for “If people reach out earlier, when they first start havlead to new connections. “We want to develop upstream every two marriage licenses granted in the county.” ing problems, they can get help and many times fix the inventive resources that can be available to people before How the group hopes to tackle the problem, Dr. Murray problems. You can imagine if people are already years in they have problems.” said, is going to be through targeting three main areas of and entrenched in their problems, how hard it is for them to The second targeted area will be in social marketing. Doactivities and opportunities. The effort will begin with an accept help and make changes.” ing so will make use of social networking technology to get official launch of the organization in February. Agencies and organizations participating in the Guilford the messages out to a greater number of people. The first target of the HRI will be that of community County HRI include: Partners Ending Homelessness, YMCA “We want to use both digital and face to face strategies mobilization. A steering committee will be formed from of Greensboro, Teach for America, Greensboro Children’s to get people the needed info,” Dr. Murray continued. “Our 25 individuals in the community, including people working Museum, United Way of Greensboro, United Way of High primary focus is on relationships for couples and families, throughout both public and private interests – educators, Point, Youth Villages, Say Yes To Education, The Salvation but we also want to be there for singles who have needs or social workers, counselors, law enforcement, clergy, comArmy Boys and Girls Club, Guilford County Family Justice people who are having relationship problems in the workmunity leaders and others. Center, Ready For School/Ready For Life, Guilford County place. The skills learned for one situation really do transfer Department of Social Services, Guilford Green Foundation, over to other parts of life. Family Service Of The Piedmont, Children’s Home Society “We’re also going to be working with UNC-TV to create a of North Carolina, Guilford Education Alliance, Greensboro sub-campaign to reduce the stigma of relationship probPublic Library, Greensboro Parks & Recreation, Center For lems and getting help,” she said. New North Carolinians, Guilford Child Development and The third aspect of the HRI approach will be in developYWCA of Greensboro. ing education programs to strengthen family relationships The Phillips Foundation was created by Kermit G. Phillips and wellness. Initiatives are underway to create “Safe CHRISTMAS EVE MARKET NEW YEAR’S EVE MARKET in 2002 and fully funded in 2014. A successful real estate Conversations” programs with local facilitators as well Saturday, Dec. 24, 7am - 12pm Saturday, Dec. 31, 7am - 12pm Last minute gift buying or special Find fresh greens and other developer, Phillips created the foundation to give back to as a pilot program within the schools to promote family meal preparations? Find lots of great foods for your holiday the community and create positive change through impact relationship building. These will be coupled with a series of holiday decorations. Great gifts meal and great desserts or investing, strategic grants and original programs. You can online educational programs designed to be viewed and and stocking stuffers from the a specail hostess gift by many learn more about the foundation at PhillipsFoundationNC. used by couples. Market’s craftsmen and artisans. of our market artistians. Don’t forget to get some tasty Thank you to all of our customers org. ! “People aren’t really trained in relationships anymore,” Dr. treats from the Market’s bakers! and vendors for a wonderful 2016! Murray said. “We teach kids math and reading, but we don’t teach them how to build strong, respectful relationships.” RICH LEWIS is a father, husband, writer and cook who makes his home in 501 Yanceyville St. • Greensboro, NC While that is definitely one of those upstream intervenGreensboro, NC. WWW.GSOFARMERSMARKET.ORG
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Project backers seek extension of Cascade Saloon stabilization deadline BY JEFF SYKES | jeff@yesweekly.com | @jeffreysykes Backers of the Cascade Saloon rehabilitation project in Downtown Greensboro were to appear before City Council on Dec. 20 to ask for an extension of their deadline for stabilizing the dilapidated structure, to which city taxpayers have committed some $475,000 in an effort to keep it from being torn down. In a complex but minimally debated corporate arrangement, the City of Greensboro agreed to give the Cascade Saloon building to Preservation Greensboro Development Fund, who would then stabilize the building before transferring it on to Rentenbach Constructors. The original ask of $175,000 to stabilize the structure ballooned this spring when PGDF and Rentenbach came back asking for an additional $300,000 in order to make the project feasible. A February 2016 email from city planners estimated the total stabilization costs had grown to $850,000 and that it was “not a good business deal” for the corporations unless city taxpayers kicked in another $300,000. The memo states that the building would have a $2.4 million value once rehabilitated, but that Rentenbach would have spent $3.6 million on the project in order to “push their reputation as redevelopment leaders.” The council voted 8-1 in favor of the grant after backers set out an aggressive timeline for rehabilitation, including a Dec. 31 deadline for PGDF to complete the structure’s stabilization. PGDF took title to the building, which sits along the main railroad tracks running across Elm Street, earlier this fall. The grant agreement with the city required that stabilization work be completed by PGDF by Dec. 31 before they gift the building to Rentenbach. In a Dec. 12 memo to council from Assistant City Manager David Parrish, staff sought to reassure council that the project remains on track and that no additional tax dollars are being requested. Rentenbach Constructors and Christman Capital Development Company are partners in the project with PGDF. “While visually, it appears work is not taking place, the level of stabilization activity in terms of design work, regulatory approvals and work with the railroads has been significant,” Parrish wrote. “Christman is still committed to this project. Rentenbach, a Christman Capital Development Company, will invest at least $2.925 WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
million in the renovation and restoration of the historic structure and will relocate 25 existing jobs and create 6 new full-time positions at the site. The site will serve as a regional corporate headquarters for Rentenbach.” Attorney Marsh Prause serves as the chair of PGDF’s board of trustees and has been the primary booster of the project for several years. In an email exchange earlier this month, Prause said the project’s momentum remains strong. Changes to the project’s design to allow for more preservation of the building’s historic fabric have slowed progress and negotiations with the NC Rail Road and Norfolk Southern have been “incredibly complicated,” Prause said. “Importantly, however, the fundamental project finances and timeline are intact – we are not asking for any more City money and we are still set to complete the project on schedule, by the end of 2017,” Prause wrote. “That means that the investment and job creation aspects of the UDIG agreement are being honored – the investment and job creation will happen on schedule.” Both the NC Rail Road and Norfolk Southern refused to comment on the negotiations or provide any insight into the process or plans for future rail expansion in that corridor. However, both Prause and Parrish said that Christman “does not see barriers to the project’s feasibility from the railroads.” “The railroads have identified all of the safety and insurance standards that need to be met for the project and Christman is prepared to meet them all,” Parrish wrote. The council will discuss the requested extension at its Dec. 20 meeting. The request would extend the stabilization deadline to June 30, 2017. Parrish told council members that “the project is still expected to be completed by 12/31/2017.” !
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t was the first Christmas that I had begun to figure out the role of Santa Claus. My parents knew that I wanted D.G. Martin Santa to bring me two things—a new basketball and a Contributor small ventriloquist’s dummy. (The dummy was really just a doll that looked like Charlie McCarthy. But when you pulled the string in the back of his head, his mouth would move. I thought I could learn to talk for the dummy without moving my mouth and become the next Edgar Bergen.) My parents told me that Santa couldn’t be expected to bring me two “big” presents and that I would have to choose which one I wanted the most. Of course, I wanted both. But I also
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wanted to please Santa Claus. So I began to try to decide which one of those presents I could do without—if I had to. I needed the new basketball. I was one of the youngest kids trying to play the game in my neighborhood—and the older kids wouldn’t always let me play. The new ball would be my ticket. The big kids would want to use it, and to use it they would have to let me play. As for the ventriloquist’s dummy, I was sure I could use it to amaze and entertain—and get the attention that I craved. So it was a hard choice—and Christmas was coming in the next few days. I couldn’t make up my mind. Just before my parents’ deadline for deciding, I was playing up in our attic. Guess what I found. It was an unwrapped square package that I hadn’t seen before. So I checked it out and saw that inside the package was a brand new basketball— just like the one I wanted Santa to bring me. This was a puzzle.
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What was the basketball doing here in the attic? I was pretty sure I knew the answer, but I didn’t like it. My friends and I had been talking about the question of whether or not Santa was real or not. Some asserted with all certainty that they knew that their parents were responsible for the mysterious gifts that were supposed to come from Santa. One boy promised “for sure” that he had stayed up and seen his parents putting out Santa’s presents. Another group held firmly to the belief in Santa Claus. I was a part of this group. We appreciated the difficulties of our position. We were beginning to understand how many children, houses and towns there were in this world—and how far apart they were. We struggled to explain how all of Santa’s work could be accomplished in so short a time. We thought these things through, making ourselves believe. Whatever our doubts, we could not conceive of living in a world without Santa. There was a practical side to all this as well. As one of the boys put it, “What if there isn’t a Santa Claus? What if our parents are really the ones who give us those presents? If that should be true, what do you think will happen when we tell our parents we know that they are Santa Claus? They might just stop what they are doing.” He made good sense. I kept trying to put my doubts aside. But this basketball in the package made it hard for me—hard not to believe that my parents had bought it and put it up there until Christmas when they would put it out as a gift from Santa. Yes, it was all coming together. And I didn’t like the conclusion I was reaching. But I sure did like knowing that I was going to get a new basketball from Santa—or whomever. So, there I was—crushed under the grim reality of been having to deal with a world without a real Santa Claus. With all this on my shoulders, what do you think I did next?
You are going to find this next part hard to believe. But here is what I did. I marched down the stairs, found my mom in the kitchen, looked her in the eye, and said, “Mom, I have decided what I want Santa to bring me. I want him to bring me the ventriloquist’s dummy.” At the very moment I was painfully giving up my belief in Santa Claus, I was ready to exploit the system—knowing that I already had the basketball. The story is not over. Christmas morning I came down the stairs looking for my dummy and my new basketball. Sure enough, there was the ventriloquist’s dummy beside the fireplace. But there was no basketball. No basketball. “I thought I was getting a basketball,” I said to my parents. “But don’t you remember. You said you wanted Santa to bring you the ventriloquist’s dummy, and that is just what he did.” “Yes,” I thought, “but . . . but . . . but . . . I saw the basketball.” It was all a puzzle. All so confusing. I liked the ventriloquist’s dummy, but I sure wanted the basketball, too. And I had seen it in the attic. Later that morning, when we were opening the family presents, my dad reached under the tree and handed me a wrapped-up, square package. “From Mom and Dad” the card said. When I opened it—well, you know what was inside. I had my basketball—from my parents. “Of course,” I thought. “That is why it had been in our attic.” I had my ventriloquist’s dummy from . . . from Santa. Yes, from Santa. Who else? And I had another gift. It was, I think, the best gift of all. One more year of believing. ! D.G. MARTIN hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV. Preview the upcoming program on UNC-MX digital channel Time Warner #1276) on Fridays at 8 p.m.
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Radical dentistry was on display in November in London’s Science Gallery, where installations offered “art-science collaborations” — including Taiwan artist Kuang-Yi Ku’s Chuck Shepherd “Fellatio Modification Project.” Former dentist Ku, complaining that textbooks on mouths tragically under-regard their value in sex, created (the ordinary way) a custom retainer for the client’s mouth but then added rubber “bumps” and “cones” and “ribs” and “ripples” that might be pleasing to a partner.
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED
Evolution, according to scientists, likely explains why some “prey” develop defense mechanisms to avoid “predators,” i.e., the prey who fail to develop them are unable to procreate (because they’re dead), but a team of scientists from Sweden and Australia recently concluded that something similar happens in a species of fish in which males
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mate basically by huge-appendaged rape. Growing nine generations of the species in the lab, the researchers concluded that the females who can avoid the “rapist” evolve larger brains than those who fall victim. (Researchers, loosely speaking, thus concluded that as males grow bigger penises, females grow bigger brains to outsmart them.)
RECURRING THEMES
Whistleblower goes to jail; responsible industry executives make millions. Long-time Mississippi environmental activist Tennie White is 27 months into a 40-month sentence (for “falsifying” three $150 tests in her laboratory), but highranking executives at the Kerr-McGee chemical conglomerate made millions on the case White helped expose: leakage of cancer-causing creosote into communities, including White’s Columbus, Mississippi, neighborhood. A detailed investigation by TheIntercept.com in November noted the executives’ brilliant response to the 25,000 creosote lawsuits nationwide: put all the liability into one outlying company (eventually going bankrupt) but selling off, highly profitably, the rest of the firm.
COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS
Texas is among the most enthusiastic states for jailing low-income arrestees who cannot pay a money bail, especially during devastating family hardships, and the four Houston bail magistrates are particularly harsh, according to a recent report of the Texas Organizing Project. After hearing one financially overwhelmed woman beg sarcastically that $1,000 bail is “nothing” next to her other bills, unsympathetic magistrate Joe Licata shrugged, “It’s nothing to me, either. It’s job security.”
PERVERT — OR NOT
(1) When police in Port Orange, Florida, arrested Anthony Coiro, 76, in November, he admitted that he had a stash of “crazy” pornography, some featuring children. However, he adamantly insisted, “I’m not a pedophile. I’m just a pervert,” adding, “a law-abiding pervert.” He faces 52 counts. (2) In November in Osaka, Japan, an unnamed arrestee apparently had his sexual molestation charge (against a woman on a crowded train) dramatically downgraded. “Actually,” the man indignantly told the judge, he is not a pervert — but just a pickpocket (a lesser crime). The victim had testified that the man had brushed
against her for “3 seconds” and not the “30” she originally told police.
WEIRD QUANTITIES RECENTLY IN THE NEWS
(1) Price tag for one round of a 155mm projectile shot from the Navy’s USS Zumwalt: $800,000. (2) Trees killed in California by the now-5-year-old drought: 102,000,000. (3) Recent finding of “water” farthest from the Earth’s surface: 621 miles down (one-third of the way to the Earth’s “core”). (4) Odds that Statistics Lecturer Nicholas Kapoor (Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut) said he played against in buying a $15 Powerball ticket: 1 in 913,129 (but he won $100,000!). (5) Speed police calculated Hector Faire, 19, reaching in an Oklahoma police chase: 208 mph (but they got him, anyway). (6) Different languages spoken by children in Buffalo, New York, public classrooms: 85.
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(1) Michelle Keys, 35, among those joyously caught up in Iowa’s upset win over highly ranked Michigan in football in November and celebrating that night in Iowa City, was slurring and incoherent and told police she was certain she was standing in Ames, Iowa (120 miles away), and had just watched the “Iowa State - Arizona” game (a matchup not played since 1968). (She registered .225) (2) A 38-year-old woman was arrested in Springwood, Australia, in November when police stopped her car at 3 a.m. at an intersection — with a children’s swing set wedged onto the roof of her SUV. (She had shortly before mistakenly driven through someone’s back yard and through the swing set.) (.188.)
PERSPECTIVE
“Sexually-based offenses,” a TV show intones, are “particularly heinous,” but to the small Delaware liberal arts Wesley College (according to the U.S. Department of Education) even an accusation of sexual misconduct is so heinous that there was no need even to interview the alleged wrongdoer before expelling him. (An informal meeting did occur, but only after the investigation was completed.) The expulsion occurred even though the victim herself had not originally accused that particular student. The expelled student’s offense was to have helped set up video for a consensual sex encounter that was (without consent) live-streamed. (The Department of Education accepted a settlement in which Wesley agreed to revamp its code of student rights.) !
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Cripes A’Mighty 3rd and New Crew — Sept, 1944. Christmas, 1944. The United States was fully embroiled in a protracted world war with some 15,000 Guilford County residents in uniform but, in contrast to the previous three Christmases, a sense of optimism nipped the air as the holidays approached. News of decisive victories by Allied forces in the European Theater of War following the audacious D-Day invasion of Normandy that summer had brought about a renewed sense of national pride and purpose. Cakes and pies were less plentiful due to sugar and flour rationing, the availability of meat and other staples was severely limited as well, so Christmas dinner wasn’t as sumptuous as most would have liked. And that after dinner cup of coffee? That stuff was really hard to come by! But folks carried on as they had become accustomed. Guilford Dairy at 1700 West Lee (more recently a skate shop with the same name) still offered its famous Egg Nog for 55 cents a quart while shoppers
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jammed the many department stores downtown that advertised ties for Dad at a buck apiece and fur lined coats for Mom for around $65. With nearly all essential materials directed toward the war effort the toy industry was forced to adapt. Gone were traditional cast iron trucks and Army men; Radio Flyer had to stop making their iconic metal wagons, instead producing 5-gallon Blitz cans for the duration. Every product possible had to be constructed from wood and fabric; even plastics had not yet entered the consumer market. What children wrote Santa for in 1944 (that might sound familiar today): Lincoln Logs, Raggedy Ann & Andy, Parcheesi, Ouija Boards and erector sets. Coble Sporting Goods, located where Design Archives is now on South Elm, offered scale model airplanes designed to look like those employed by our fighting forces, including the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. Missing from Coble’s shelves, or any other retailer, were models based on
the USA’s newly deployed P-51 Mustangs, like the one piloted by Greensboro’s favorite son Major George Preddy, America’s top Mustang Ace, who gained fame and recognition for blowing out of the skies a record number of the Luftwaffe’s finest. Preddy’s mastery of the air rendered Hitler’s once preeminent Messerschmitt attack aircraft impotent, his remarkable achievement served as an inspiration to Allied troops across the globe. But what the city, his proud family and the world didn’t know was that Preddy lay dead on Belgian soil that Christmas morning, shot down not by the enemy but by our own anti-aircraft while engaged in one of his characteristic acts of bravery, the sort of daredevil gambit that secured his place in history as one of America’s fiercest warriors. “A real tiger wound up tight.” Born in 1919, George Earl Preddy, Jr. grew up in the Aycock neighborhood and
attended Sunday School at West Market Street Church downtown. He was what they called “wiry” back then, with big Dumbo ears that protruded outward in an almost aerodynamic way, looking for all the world as if he could take flight with a strong enough backwind. His nickname, everyone had one in the 1930s, was Mouse. Topping out at 120 pounds, he sent away for the Charles Atlas course to try and build muscle mass, the one that promised to build you up so buff that bullies would no longer kick sand in your face and steal your girl. Not that party boy George Preddy had to worry much about that; pretty girls were naturally drawn to the reserved, dark-featured little scrapper who kicked ass unapologetically, who didn’t need to be the center of attention but was anyway. Some things never change. A tenacious athlete, intensely competitive despite his small size, he graduated from Greensboro (now Grimsley) High School at age 16. Down the block from his
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George Preddy and Cripes A’Mighty. home on Park Avenue, at the tennis courts behind War Memorial Stadium, George would take on all comers while manning the concession stand he designated ‘The Mouse Hole’ painted in big bold letters. Fascinated with flying, at age 19 George and his younger brother Bill learned to maneuver an eight-cylinder locally built WACO biplane down at the Vandalia field on Pleasant Garden Road. Before long, they were taking folks from around Liberty and Burlington up into the clouds for a dollar a head. George Preddy Sr. recalled that time in an interview for the Greensboro Historical Museum, “Me being on the railroad, I made a trip from here to Sanford practically every Sunday and would pass along right beside of the field about a mile this side of Liberty. And I noticed there’s a little Gum Tree there which I notice now is a big tree. And if [George] wasn’t up in the air he’d be standing under that tree in the shade and wave at me. And I named the tree George’s Tree and it still stands on Highway 421 about a mile WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
and a half this side of Liberty.” After news broke that Hitler had invaded Poland, 20-year old George Preddy attempted to enlist in the Navy in September of 1939 but was repeatedly rejected over the next year for his slight physique. So he and Bill took off barnstorming the state in the summer of 1940, putting on exhibitions and offering rides to locals in order to raise cash to make it to the next town. Through grit and determination, George eventually made it into the Army Air Force. They had a sudden need for experienced pilots in the fall of 1940, what with Germany shelling the city of London with little effective resistance and all. Preddy earned his wings days after the Pearl Harbor attack in December of 1941 and within weeks he was stationed in the jungles of Australia where he made an inauspicious debut, winding up in the hospital due to a training mishap. George Preddy Sr. remembered hearing about the accident from his oldest son, “He went
down near Melbourne. He said it happened just before sundown and between 15 or 20 feet of him was one of those enormous big anthills. He said those ants were very bloodthirsty. Had he not been found and brought in they probably would have killed him before morning.” He recuperated for about two months but that near death incident failed to dim his perpetual Pepsodent smile. After recovery, Preddy found himself without assignment until he was forwarded to Major John C. Meyer of the 352nd Fighter Group who wrote in retrospect, “I remember the first time I met George Preddy. I was quite disappointed. He had come to me due to the recommendation of Jack Donaldson who had known him in the Pacific.” Surely, Meyer thought, Donaldson must be thinking of some other guy not this scrawny, beady-eyed lad. Operating out of Bodney, England with the 487th Fighter Squadron, while piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt christened ‘Cripes A’ Mighty’ (after the expletive
Preddy was prone to using when he got excited) George Preddy downed his first enemy warbird on December 1, 1943 in a melee over Rheydt, Germany. Major Meyer gradually realized that Preddy was unusually aggressive and tenacious when it came to spotting and eliminating the enemy, a demeanor one veteran of the Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney referred to as, “Wound up like a ten dollar watch.” Preddy’s next winged steed, ’Cripes A’ Mighty 2nd’, was one of less than a couple thousand P-51B Mustangs manufactured during the war. Considered America’s first modern dog fighter, it was a supercharged, high-speed predator equipped with a revolutionary British designed 12 cylinder Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that could engage the enemy at heights above 25,000 feet. It proved to be a perfect fit for George Preddy, with man and machine becoming one. Within two weeks piloting his P-51B, with five enemy aircraft destroyed, Lt. Preddy had earned the title of Ace. In the following weeks 10.83 Balkan DECEMBER 21-27, 2016 YES! WEEKLY
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George Preddy and his parents. Crosses, each representing a kill, would be painted on his plane’s cowling. He was a minimalist painter on a canvas of death. With exceptional marksmanship and precision targeting, Preddy sent spurts of hot lead in short, staccato bursts tearing into truck engines, surgically strafing locomotives in a way that left Nazi supply trains irreparably disabled on the tracks. One of his fellow pilots was quoted as saying, “Flying with George, you knew you were going to stay out until the last drop of gasoline. Just enough left over to get back to the base. He was a hunter, he went out looking.” By then, Mouse had earned a new nickname: Ratsy. In June of 1944, Preddy settled into the cockpit of ‘Cripes A’ Mighty 3rd’, one of the Army Air Force’s newest and most advanced fighters, the P-51D. By the first week in August he had bagged an additional 17 German warplanes in support of the Allied D-Day invasion. This marked the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Turns out George Preddy could be as formidable at the craps table as he was at high altitude Nazi sniping. When a sortie over Germany was cancelled for the morning of August 6, 1944, a night-long drunken crap game ensued that ended with Preddy raking $1,200 of his fellow
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George Preddy and Red McVay — Aug 6, 1944. aviator’s cash off the table. He purchased a War Bond, mailed it to his mother, then passed out. It was a short respite; the 487th Squadron was rudely awoken by reveille just 20 minutes later. Their morning mission was back on — Target: Berlin. Despite being three sheets to the wind, Preddy insisted on leading the six-hour sortie escorting B-17s to carpet bomb Hitler’s backyard. First order of business was for Preddy to mount a small platform and brief his flyers, which he attempted to do but promptly fell on his ass, causing his commanding officer to remark, “George is drunk!” Head reeling, with Cripes A’ Mighty 3rd cruising at 32,000 feet, Preddy threw up into his oxygen mask then hurriedly attempted to wipe up the mess and regain his composure. That’s when he spied more than 30 ME 109s bearing down in formation towards them. In close succession, Preddy downed five Messerschmitts as easily as a game of Asteroids then dove to treetop level after a sixth. What happened next was detailed in Preddy’s encounter report: “The enemy aircraft were down to 5,000 feet now and one pulled off to the left. I was all alone with them now so went after this single 109 before he could get on my tail. I got in an ineffective burst causing him to smoke
a little. I pulled up into a steep climb to the left above him and he climbed after me. I pulled it in as tight as possible and climbed at about 150 miles an hour. The Hun opened fire on me but could not get enough deflection to do any damage. With my initial speed I slightly outclimbed him. He fell off to the left and I dropped down astern of him. He jettisoned his canopy as I fired a short burst getting many hits. As I pulled past, the pilot bailed out at 7,000 feet.” Despite destroying six Luftwaffe fighters in less than five minutes, a European Theater of War record, the 25-year old pilot swore he’d never again take flight with a hangover. The famous shot of a bleary-eyed George Preddy in his cockpit flashing the OK sign with both hands was taken after landing on August 6th. With that Clark Gable mustache and innate machismo, this was the guy Howard Hughes dreamed of being. For his superior ability, Preddy was awarded the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Cross and, after August 6, Colonel Meyer nominated him for a Congressional Medal of Honor. Preddy had become, in Meyer’s assessment, “the greatest fighter pilot who ever squinted through a gunsight.”
A Hero’s Welcome George Preddy and Cripes A’ Mighty 3rd parted ways after that fateful day in August, the Mustang was reassigned and would hold the record for most victories in the air before being shot down in April of 1945. As for America’s most famous WWII Ace, he was given a month off in September and a flight back to Greensboro, after a stopover in Washington, D.C. where his parents and a phalanx of reporters were waiting for him. In interviews he was unflinchingly modest, deflecting credit to his wingmen and support crew. A gala homecoming was held on September 15 at War Memorial Stadium, a few yards from the tennis courts where George Preddy had manned his Mouse Hole concession stand just a few years earlier. A telegram was read from legendary World War I Ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who’s record Preddy shattered, that stated in part: “Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to grasp Major Preddy’s hand and offer my heartfelt congratulations and appreciation for his great contribution to all Americans and to the citizens of your community.” A wristwatch was presented to George Preddy on behalf of the city but when the hometown hero addressed the crowd it
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Preddy was shot down by friendly fire while chasing a German plane on Dec. 25, 1944.
was with genuine humility, reminding the assembled that his was a group effort. “Rather than make this a celebration for any one person, let us make it a token and a tribute to all fighting men from Greensboro and Guilford County,” Preddy said. “The American fighter will sacrifice his life for the Four Freedoms and it is up to the American people to see that these sacrifices are not made in vain.” In an interview over WBIG in Greensboro, Preddy talked extensively not about himself but another native son, broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, who had accompanied his unit when they first sailed into England. “Ed Murrow was right there when the Allies invaded Normandy and followed them onto the beaches to bring firsthand news to the anxious people in America and England,” Preddy said. “He rode in an English bomber to Berlin on a raid at night. Ed Murrow knows what he speaks about because he has spent every available moment getting a better insight into the feelings of the war-stricken peoples of Europe.” It was precisely this reserved nature and matter-of-fact affability that spurred the War Department to offer Preddy the opportunity to forego putting his life on the line in order to tour the nation on behalf of the War Bond effort. It wasn’t WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
even a consideration for the pilot. In a letter written while relaxing in Greensboro he stated, “I must go back, back to do my part, back to fly and give again. And I’m not afraid. My plane may be shot away but I have wings. Wings not of wood or steel or stuff but wings God gave my soul. Thank God for wings.” “Absolutely fearless.” Major George Preddy returned to duty with a new assignment, commanding officer of the lowest performing unit of the 352nd Fighter Group, the 328th Squadron. In November of 1944, his squadron broke the European Theater of War record for most enemy aircraft obliterated in one mission, 24 in all. On December 23, equipped with not much more than spark plugs and screwdrivers, Preddy’s crack squadron made an uncertain landing onto an improvised steel-matted strip in an area designated only as Y-29 near Asch, Belgium. Tents, fuel, a few guards, fresh snowfall and hostile Nazis awaited their arrival to provide air support for the Battle of the Bulge. What they didn’t have was any sort of repair crew. Weather conditions grounded the squadron until the afternoon of Decem-
ber 25. Before taking off on a search and destroy mission, George proudly displayed the red socks on his feet his mother had sent for Christmas and was quoted as saying, “Preddy’s going hot today!” After a few hours in the sky without action the 328th flew into a ferocious dogfight already in progress. Preddy radioed out to his squadron, “Looks like they started without us, let’s join ‘em!” as they dove into the thick of battle. After making easy work of two Luftwaffe fighters, Preddy spotted an escaping FW 190 fighter. American anti-aircraft gunners were stationed nearby so Preddy was aware that pursuing the enemy at treetop height would be perilous because he’d be hidden from view until he was directly overhead of those gunners. He set out after the 190 anyway. It was just a momentary burst that rang out from that .50 caliber machine gun on the ground, the briefest possible touch of the trigger, before the gunner recognized a Mustang fighter speeding overhead. That ack-ack tore into Cripes A’ Mighty’s armor but it appeared as if the resultant crash landing was one the pilot could potentially walk away from. But Major George Earl Preddy, Jr. was likely dead from a direct hit before the plane ever hit the ground. In a letter home George’s younger
brother Bill Preddy, just beginning his service in the Army Air Force in late-1944, wrote to his grieving parents, “A man’s span on this earth is not measured in years. That is least important. To find happiness, success, and most important, to find God is the zenith of any man’s worldly activities. I think a man has not lived until these things have been achieved. Some have lived a complete life in a few short days. George lived his life in the last year and a half. His life was full, rich in success and happiness. His work was himself.” Tragically, Bill Preddy was also killed in action in April of 1945. Grave markers for both brothers can be found in Lorraine American Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. If yours is a Merry Christmas then you, like the rest of us, are indebted to those brave young men and women who defeated fascism, that generation they’ve labeled ‘The Greatest’ because, truth to tell, they were. ! Billy Ingram has written and/or produced 7 books including Hamburger², a book (mostly) about Greensboro’s unique vagrancies and anomalies.
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FOUR SAINTS BREWING
218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Dec 21: Traditional Irish/Celtic Music Session Dec 30: Matt Walsh
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RIvER RIDGE TAphOUSE 1480 River Ridge Dr | 336.712.1883 riverridgetaphouse.com Dec 31: pop Guns
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GREEN hERON AlE hOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Dec 23: local Music Christmas Celebration Dec 31: New Years Eve Social with Regal Sloan
ARIzONA pETE’S
2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Dec 23: 1-2-3 Friday Dec 30: 1-2-3 Friday
ARTISTIkA NIGhT ClUB
523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Dec 23: DJ Dan the player Dec 24: DJ paco and DJ Dan the player
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1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Dec 23: house Of Fools w/ Old heavy hands, Brother hawk Dec 25: Crystal Bright & The Silver hands w/ Joey Barnes & The Nasty Bits Dec 28: David Bryan & Friends Feat. Brian & Brent of The Mantras Dec 29: Tookie, kooldown B2B D.J. MisterBailer, DaReal DJ, DopeSteez
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ChURChIll’S ON ElM 213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com
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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Dec 30: Shane McConnaghy Dec 31: New Year’s Eve Show Jan 6: Sid Davis Jan 7: Sid Davis Jan 13: Mutzie
COMMON GROUNDS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Dec 22: Open Mic Night Dec 29: Open Mic Night
CONE DENIM
117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Dec 31: 2016 New Years Eve party w/ Trial By Fire Jan 12: Aaron lewis Jan 13: Breaking Benjamin Jan 26: Chippendales 2017: Best. Night. Ever. Tour
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341 S. Elm St | 336.691.9990 thegreenbeancoffeehouse.blogspot.com
GREENE STREET ClUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 greenestreetclub.com
GREY’S TAvERN
343 S. Elm St | 336.617.5341
hAM’S GATE CITY
3017 Gate City Blvd | 336.851.4800 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 23: Cufflinx Dec 30: Joe Belle
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1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 23: Radio Revolver Dec 30: Exit 180
MCphERSON’S BAR & GRIll
5710 W Gate City Blvd | 336.292.6496 mcphersonsgreensboro.com Dec 31: Radio Narks
pRINT WORkS BISTRO
702 Green Valley Rd | 336.379.0699 printworksbistro.com Dec 21: Evan Olsen & Jessica Mashburn
SOMEWhERE ElSE TAvERN
5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Dec 23: Made To Terraform, pavlove Dec 30: Divine Treachery, Annabel lee, Written in Gray, haymaker, Without A hobby
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2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Jan 13: A Trump Roast
vIllAGE TAvERN
1903 Westridge Rd | 336.282.3063 villagetavern.com
WORlD OF BEER
1210 Westover Terrace | 336.897.0031 worldofbeer.com/Locations/Greensboro
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AFTER hOURS TAvERN
1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Jan 21: The Norm, The Terrible Twos, Somewhat Forgotten
BlUE BOURBON JACk’S
1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks Dec 23: heads Up penny Feb 18: Jukebox Revolver
ClADDAGh RESTAURANT & pUB
130 E Parris Ave | 336.841.0521 thecladdaghrestaurantandpub.com Dec 21: Craig Baldwin Dec 22: Buzzard holler Boys Dec 23: paris Avenue, David & Joel Dec 24: Midnight Gypsies Dec 27: Julian Jackson
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HAM’S PALLADIUM 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 23: Second Glance Dec 30: Vintage & Lace Dec 31: Disco Lemonade
LIBERTY BREWERY
914 Mall Loop Rd | 336.882.4677 hghosp.com Dec 22: Tyler Millard Dec 29: Matt Walsh
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THE DECK
118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Dec 23: Kashmir Dec 31: Soul Central
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DANCE HALL DAZE
612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Dec 23: Colours Dec 30: The Delmonicos Dec 31: Cheyenne & Donna Miller
ECLECTION
221 N Main St | 336.497.4822 eclectionnc.com Dec 31: DJ Aline @ Breathe Lounge/ New Years Eve Party
THE EMPOURIUM
734 E. Mountain St. | 336.671.9159
LEWISVILLE
OLD NICK’S PUB
191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Dec 31: New Years Eve Party with The Mulligans Jan 7: Karaoke w/ DJ Tyler Perkins Jan 13: Exit 180 Band Jan 21: Karaoke w/DJ Tyler Perkins
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2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys Dec 22: Trivia
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RIDER’S IN THE COUNTRY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net Dec 23: South Whiskey Road Dec 24: Eyecon Dec 31: Fair Warning
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2ND AND GREEN
207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com Dec 21: The Epiphany Project Bandroje Dec 31: DJ A-Vegas
6TH & VINE
209 W 6th St | 336.725.5577 6thandvine.com Dec 23: Colin Allured Dec 30: Mezza Voce
BULL’S TAVERN
408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Dec 22: Shiloh Hill Dec 23: Fat Cheek Kat Dec 25: WSNC Christmas Jam Dec 30: Fruit Smoothie Trio Dec 31: Brothers Pearl
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MAC & NELLI’S
1420 W 1st St | 336.893.6881 thequietpint.com
2105 Peters Creek Pkwy laughingas.net Dec 23: King Tutt Dec 30: The Burston with Wilde comedy show Dec 31: New Years Eve 2017 Jan 11: Luenell Jan 18: Jamie Kennedy Jan 20-21: Leonard Outzs 4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Dec 21: Karaoke w/ DJ Chris Dec 23: Stephen Henson Dec 26: Mike Bustin Dec 28: Karaoke w/ DJ Chris Dec 30: Stephen Henson Dec 31: Southern Eyes
MILNER’S
630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Dec 25: Live Jazz
MUDDY CREEK CAFE
5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Dec 30: Sam Foster Jan 1: Rob Price Jan 7: Chris Nelson
5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Dec 21: Single Release Party with Leah Shaw Dec 22: Sarah Sophia, Steve Willard, Susanna Macfarlane Lee Dec 23: The Williamsons, Dylan Mounce, Jon Montgomery, Emily Scott Robinson
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TEE TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010
VILLAGE TAVERN
2000 Griffith Rd | 336.760.8686
WAYWARD BREWS
5078 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.652.2739 waywardbrews.com
WEREHOUSE/KRANKIE’S COFFEE 211 E 3rd St | 336.722.3016 krankiescoffee.com
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620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Dec 30: Dana & Evan Dec 31: DJ Hek Yeh
FOOTHILLS BREWING
638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Dec 21: Double H Dec 25: Sunday Jazz Dec 28: Never Too Late Dec 31: The Travis Smith Project
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110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Dec 21: Zack Mexico, The Tills, Drag Sounds
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Rock remains: Singer and songwriter Clay Howard releases new EP BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian
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ike many people, singer and songwriter Clay Howard was initially motivated to make music by a sense of style. Howard got his first electric guitar because he liked how it looked. “I did pick up the guitar because it looked cool,” says Howard, who spoke by phone from his home in Kernersville last week. “I thought it’d look cool in my apartment.” After looking at the instrument for a while, Howard eventually concluded that it might be even cooler if he learned how to play it. But Howard, who just released his second solo record, an EP called “I’ll Give You Something to Cry About,” has a pretty casual way about him. He conveys the feeling that his 30-plus years of music-making have been off the cuff, almost accidental. When we talked about his teenage years, his formative music experiences, Howard brought up playing sports. He says he had friends who practiced guitar for eight hours a day, and that was all they wanted to do. Howard was more inclined to play basketball. But if shooting hoops and running through your scales or chord changes are two very different activities, there might be a similar mindset that can excel at both. There’s relentless repetition, a pushing of the body to its limits, a willingness to work in solitude, with improvement coming in incremental bits. Some people are born to do it, but most others reach a level of proficiency by force of will and patience. There are experts who speculate that the music-making urge in humans is all an extension of the mating instinct. We sing to attract partners. Maybe the same is true of sports: We play sports to demonstrate mastery and to earn attention. It’s all a variation on birds and their fancy plumage, perhaps, but, like that guitar, it’s pretty cool to listen to and look at. It’s not like Clay Howard is making ultrafancy, self-consciously elaborate music. These are sturdy riffs, more like a brick wall than a peacock feather. “My only intent when I set out to write a record was that I wanted to write a rock record, and that just comes out of me,” says Howard. “That’s what rock and roll is to me. My favorite band is Cheap Trick, so straight-ahead rock is what I listen to.” Listen to “Too Many People” off of
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the new EP. It brings to mind T. Rex and Sammy Hagar, music that calls for leather pants and silky scarves draped from mic stands. The guitars are distorted and rocking, but not menacing. It’s good-time bluesy riffage, with a little snarl. The drums pound, but it’s all in the service of a party vibe, as opposed to something designed to spark a riot. And yet there’s something strangely fitting about the song for today’s political moment: “Too many people who think they’re right,” goes one line. (The fact that everyone tends to think themselves to be right goes without saying.) Howard, 48, says he felt the sentiment for the song didn’t require much more than the riffs and the chorus. “There was not a lot of need for words,” he says. “It
was sort of tongue-in-cheek and serious at the same time.” All five originals on the six-song EP were written as exercises for a Winston-Salem based songwriters’ group that Howard has been a part of. Each week there’s an assignment, sometimes it’s a song-form requirement -- like “write an Irish lullaby” -- or something more music-nerdy, like “make the chords spell out a word.” The participants have a week to write, polish, record and post their work with other members of the group. It’s a spur to creativity. The pressure helps nudge the songwriters in directions they might not otherwise go. “It’s really just a way to keep you on your toes and keep you working on your craft,” says Howard. “If I waited on inspira-
tion I’d be retired before I wrote another song.” Howard has been playing out in bands since he was 20 or 21. He’s done bar rock, Christian rock, cover bands, coffee houses and all kinds of other settings. He was in a band that once did an EP of Neil Diamond covers. All of that has given him even more of a workmanlike understanding and appreciation of pop songcraft, a sense of “the way certain things should work,” he says. “It’s a crash course in popular music theory,” says Howard. “Playing so many covers, it makes it a lot easier to write a hook.” Another recent musical endeavor of Howard’s involves leading the music portion of the contemporary worship at
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a church in Kernersville. In some ways it’s the exact opposite of getting up and performing in a club. It’s not supposed to be about the singer, it’s about the audience and the community. But even that faithcentric setting can drive home some of the core principles of making music that resonates with people. “What you’re doing when you’re leading worship is that you want people to sing. You’re not performing at all,” says Howard. “It’s really hard to write a song that a group can just jump in and sing along with.” One song on Howard’s new EP that many listeners will be able to jump in and sing along with is his cover of the Hall & Oates soul-pop classic “She’s Gone.” Howard and his collaborator, MinnesotaWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
based producer/musician Brynn Arens, turned the song into a chugging ‘80s rock workout, as if Pat Benatar had jumped in to take over. Howard has assembled a band called the Silver Alerts to debut this new solo material. They’ll be performing at Test Pattern in Winston-Salem on Jan. 6th. He’s kicking around ideas for his next project. At some point he’d like to record some more folk-ish acoustic material, but he’s not certain that’s where his tendencies will lead him. Classic rock remains the template that he returns to. “It’s familiar. It was done right. That stuff was recorded so well,” says Howard. “I’m just a flag-bearer for the lost art of rock.” ! DECEMBER 21-27, 2016 YES! WEEKLY
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Albums I,II,III w/The Whom 7:30p Sa 14 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience IV, Houses, Presence,Pys Grafitti Th 19 DWEEZIL ZAPPA “Dweezilla On The Road” Guitar Masterclass 2:30p
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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Dec 31: The Avett Brothers
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DANCE FROM ABOVE HOLIDAY PARTY 2016
The Crown at Carolina Theatre (310 S. Greene St. Greensboro) Thursday Dec. 22 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. “In the face of so many opaque dividing lines all around us we need to pull ourselves together and remind each other that we are more than our differences. Those of us at Dance From Above feel that to do that we must find things that lift our dampened spirits up and reconnect with an emotion we can not let ourselves forget in times like these, JOY. Uplifting, unfiltered, unhinged, Joy. We have asked our resident DJs to focus on this as a theme for their sets so lets shake off the burdens of the world for a night with soulful dance music. Remember, at Dance From above, were all family; so in that spirit, lets come together, seek out common ground, and dance on it all night long. Housekeeping notes: When: Thursday December 22nd Where: The Crown at Carolina Theater, 310, S. Greene St. Greensboro. Cost: Accepting Donation See Below! In the open hearted spirit of this event we decided to make this event free of charge so anyone can join us in celebrating a night of Joy, unfortunately there are a some venue fees that we have to cover so we are asking for donations if you are able to give. If there is any additional profit, we will be donating it to charity.” - via Facebook
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19 DWEEZIL ZAPPA: 50 Years of Frank Thu 20 THE BAND OF HEATHENS 21 DAVID ALLAN COE w.Chris Bullard 21 ELVIS LIVES@Memorial Auditorium 28 THE BREAKFAST CLUB 80’s
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Bull’s Tavern (408 W. 4th St Winston-Salem) Thursday Dec. 22 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
“In an age of music where folk and “indie” is taking the world by storm Fri Jan 13 it is not often that you find a band Sat Jantheir 14roots that not only understands 2 Showshow Covering but also understands to create MARCH 7 Albums evolva sound that’s continuously 2 night Many passesartists avail. WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib ing and fully unique. LOS LONELY BOYS have the ability of portraying exactly THE CLARKS w/Michael Tolcher what’s expected from a genre but THE HIP ABDUCTION few recognize the importance and VANESSA CARLTON 7p the knowledge to be more and Thehave Ultimate create a sound that moves outside of HIPPIE SABOTAGE Ledthat Zeppelin prototypical genre. This is where REVEREND HORTON HEAT+ Experience Shiloh Hill comes in. WHISKEY MYERS
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OVENS AUDITORIUM
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Jan 21: Tim Hawkins
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CAROLINA THEATRE
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Jan 24: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Jan 26: Pat Metheny Jan 28: 10th Annual Wiser A Cappella Jam Feb 7: Al Di Meola Feb 13: The Wood Brothers
DPAC
123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Jan 20: Tim Hawkins Jan 22: The Beach Boys
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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Jan 14: The Glenn Miller Orchestrae
HIGH POINT
HIGH POINT THEATRE
A project that focuses on a joint contribution of artists showcasing not only excellent songwriting and lyricism, but a simple yet effective ensemble of harmonizing vocals, guitars, banjo, and percussion. With just the right mix of folk, pop, and fireside feeling, each song has way of pulling you in and eventually taking you away. At certain moments you might find yourself with a desire to compare but that comes from what’s only seen on the surface. By the end of your first experience with Shiloh Hill, only visions of their music will be dancing in your head.” - via Facebook !
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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Dec 31: Drop !t: Ookay Jan 11: Pop Evil Jan 19: Greensky Bluegrass Feb 3: Atmosphere Feb 10: The Fighters Feb 12: Safetysuit
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220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Jan 26: Robin Spielberg Feb 14: Ken Lavigne
PNC ARENA
1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Jan 22: Winter Jam
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[PLAYBILL] by Lenise Willis It’s the last week of the holidays, a time when things should start slowing down before the big celebration and traditional festivities. It’s the perfect time to take a moment and enjoy something new with family and friends. Theatre appeals to all of our senses to bring to life the spirit of Christmas. There’s still a chance to see Triad Stage’s down-home telling of the Nativity Story this week through Saturday, Christmas Eve. The Preston Lane and Laurelyn Dossett original of Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity gives a comical and Appalachian spin on the Biblical story of Mary and the birth of Jesus. Reenacted by the choir of a welcoming, all-inclusive church, the production begins at the very, very beginning, with the creation of Adam and Eve, continues through the Great Flood, and ends with a miracle in a manger. Another traditional, family-friendly production around this time of year is the classic Russian ballet, The Nutcracker. High Point Ballet will be presenting its version this week, Wednesday through Friday, with a special presentation of the Land of Sweets on Friday afternoon, 2 p.m. Then, kids will get a chance to meet with the Sugar Plum Fairy and feel closer to the production and its design. Most theatres are taking a break this week, too, to enjoy their family and friends and look back on their year of accomplishments and wonderful memories. By the dawn of the New Year, theatre in the Triad will start drumming up again with new exciting productions. Be on the lookout for news of Triad Stage’s production, The Price, which opens in late January. The production, by Arthur Miller, features two brothers who never speak, a woman looking to live the life she never had, and a retired furniture dealer, all whose past and present collide. Also coming in late January is Theatre Alliance’s production of Zanna Don’t, a comedy about a school, Heartsville High, where almost everyone is gay. The big man on campus is a chess champion and the captain of the football team isn’t cool until he’s cast as the lead in a musical. After writing a controversial show, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the students create a catalyst for a young man and woman to fall in love. !
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ometimes ballet can get overlooked by the general public, but not at Christmastime. Thankfully The Nutcracker has torn down that wall with its awe-inspirLenise Willis ing choreography that harnesses the Contributing magic and wonder of Christmas Eve. If you columnist missed UNC School of the Arts’ final productions last week (or even if you didn’t), you’re in for a repeat treat this week with High Point Ballet’s version of the classic. “Dance is such an innate part of every culture,” said Artistic Director Gary Taylor. “From our youngest days we see babies bouncing to the beat of the music. If we encourage others to watch this remarkable story and they are able to engage in the visceral experience, I can guarantee that they, too, will have ‘visions of Sugar Plums dancing in their heads.’” Swirling with heroic toy soldiers, swordfighting mice, and the dazzling dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the classic Russian ballet couples the choreography of award-winning and local choreographer Gary Taylor with the beautiful set design of award-winning Howard C. Jones, lighting by Craig Stelzenmueller, and original costumes designed by Executive DirectorFounder Rita Taylor. “Each year we bring fresh and new choreography to our Nutcracker,” Gary Taylor added. “The music and story are always the same however each year we change about one third of the shows. This keeps things challenging for the dancers and for our families and friends that come back year after year as a part of their holiday tradition. New costumes, new dancers and new choreography keep audiences interested and entertained.” Gary Taylor says he’s always been drawn to the classic because of his love for Tchaikovsky’s musical score, and one of his favorite scenes to choreograph is the Land of the Sweets. “For the dancers, this is some of the most challenging choreography in the production. I like challenging myself to create new choreography to the same
music. Even for me it keeps The Nutcracker at its best, always fresh and full of holiday energy and cheer.” Besides mastering the complex choreography of one of the most renowned holiday classics, The High Point Ballet has created a beautiful and magical set to offset the magical story. Designed by the renowned set designer Howard C. Jones, who has also created many of Triad Stage’s beautiful sets, the scenery is as whimsical as the dancer’s intricate movements, from the giant growing to the glistening Land of the Sweets.
Both the set and costumes come together to create a magical aesthetic for audiences of all ages. “The costumes are quite elegant and require months of preparations and work,” said Rita Taylor, costume designer. “The costumes are all handmade. They begin as a rendering in a costume notebook and eventually become a reality. They are individual works of art. Christine Fowle is the designer that translates the vision of artistic director into a reality. Costumes are the icing on the cake in taking us on this magical journey.” Overall, the production both upholds the timeless tradition and upmost respect for the centuries-old classic, while giving it a fresh perspective. The High Point Ballet’s production is also known for being a wonderful family affair, especially with its special one-time presentation of the Land of the Sweets, in which younger audience members get a deeper interaction with the magical world and all of its characters. !
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With the Force having awakened last year, Rogue One – billed as “A Star Wars Story” – purports to tell the story immediately preceding the events of the original Star Wars (1977), specifiMark Burger cally how the Rebel Alliance obtained Contributing the plans for the Imperial Empire’s columnist ultimate weapon, the Death Star. Leading the charge is a ragtag bunch of misfit warriors headed by Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), whose own father (Mads Mikkelsen) was one of the designers the Death Star – the very one who devised its one weakness. With the Empire spreading fear and terror, time is running out … although you wouldn’t necessarily know it from this bloated, exposition-heavy saga, which offers the requisite special-effects bonanza
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but otherwise comes up short, although that will scarcely matter where it counts the most: The box-office. Rogue One’s credited director is Garth Edwards, whose Godzilla (2014) was almost as disappointing as this, although it’s been widely reported (in this universe, anyway) that rewrites and reshoots were supervised by Tony Gilroy, who shares screenwriting credit with Chris Weitz, himself a director. Whoever’s responsible scarcely matters, as this ranks alongside Revenge of the Sith (2005) as the weakest film in the Star Wars franchise. Fans will undoubtedly enjoy the nods to the original film, including the set design and visual effects, as well as some very familiar characters. Yet it’s a foregone conclusion that many of the principal characters in Rogue One will perish, as they have no part of Star Wars. There are also allusions to the films that inspired George Lucas to make the original Star Wars, including Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Seven Samurai (1954), the latter of course the inspiration for The Magnificent Seven (1960) – which was recently remade to no great effect – and even The Guns of Navarone (1961), itself a template for war stories in which a mismatched commandos must unite to commit an act of sabotage. That Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen play disgraced samurai-types lends credence to this notion. Characterization and performance are not Rogue One’s strong suit. Jones is earnest and humorless, Diego Luna more downcast than devil-may care as resident hero and hunk Cassian Andor, and Ben Mendolsohn’s Imperial heavy a pale (albeit scowling) impression of Ian McKellen. As a wheezing and wizened Rebel hero – who provides even more unnecessary exposition – Forest Whitaker proves that even a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, ham exists in the galaxy. The simple matter is that Rogue One doesn’t enhance or expand the stature of Star Wars in any way. The original film could have stood alone, on its own. It’s unnecessary. !
Holiday Woe Office Christmas Party: Generic title. Generic movie. This raunchy yuletide romp, which is never as fun-filled as advertised, comes from the directing duo of Josh Gordon and Will Speck, whose 2007 feature debut Blades of Glory is an axiom of screen comedy compared to Office Christmas Party. Filmed in Georgia but set in Chicago, the flimsy story focuses on a wild bash thrown by the employees of Zenotek, a struggling data-storage firm trying to survive in the cutthroat corporate world. Surely, a sex-, drug-, and alcohol-fueled binge will turn the company’s fortunes around. There are intermittent signs of life, and some of the actors do their level best to exhibit some zest and zeal under the lowbrow circumstances, but there’s an ever-mounting air of desperation.
For the most part, the comedy-friendly cast flounders: Jason Bateman, Kate McKinnon, Rob Corrdry, Jillian Bell, Randall Park, Olivia Munn (cute but wooden), T.J. Miller (who musters a bit of energy), Vanessa Bayer (better than the material), Courtney B. Vance (cutting loose in a rare comedic turn) and Jennifer Aniston, here playing the resident party-pooper. Actually the real partypoopers are the writers – all six of them: Justin Malen, Laura Solon, Dan Mazer, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore and Timothy Dowling. Some jokes are telegraphed in advance yet prove not to be nearly as funny as intended (if at all), and far too many of them just hang there, slowly twisting and dying. In the end, Office Christmas Party offers few laughs, no surprises, and zero holiday cheer. Maybe Bad Santa 2 wasn’t so bad after all ... !
Where eagles dare In his feature documentary debut, The Eagle Huntress, filmmaker Otto Bell provides a glimpse into the culture and traditions of Mongolia as well as an irresistible underdog story in its title character. Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a 13-year-old girl who wants to follow in the family tradition of being an eagle hunter and to participate in the annual Golden Eagle Festival, which thus far has been open only to men. That Aisholpan is a female doesn’t sit well with some traditionalists, who state that a woman’s place is in the home, not on hunts, and they don’t have the physical constitution to be an eagle hunter. Little do they realize just how strong the girl’s devotion is. Encouraged by friends and family, Aisholpan is undaunted, and in this screen newcomer a star is born. The camera loves
Aisholpan and her open, appealing, unforced presence. It’s impossible not to root for her. She may be young, and the odds may be stacked in her favor, but she is a model of determination and perseverance, without losing any of her youthful charm and innocence. The English-language narration by actress Daisy Ridley (one of the film’s executive producers) is sparingly used, employed only in those select moments where the audience might need a slight clarification or explanation. Indeed, what lingers most in the memory is how The Eagle Huntress told almost entirely through its imagery, with the sweeping and perilous Mongolian landscape, the pomp and pageantry of the festival, and the glorious flights of the eagles beautifully captured by cinematographer Simon Nibletts. (In Kazakh with English subtitles) !
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ARRIVAL (PG-13) – No shows Wednesday or Thursday; Showtimes for Friday & Saturday ONLY: 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 ASSASSINS CREED 2D (PG-13) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 ASSASSINS CREED 3D (PG-13) 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 COLLATERAL (PG-13) 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 DOCTOR STRANGE 2D (PG-13) 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 FANTASTIC BEASTS & WHERE TO FIND THEM 2D (PG-13) – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 (Starting Friday 12/23 Showtimes: 1:00, 7:00) Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them 3D (PG-13) – 11:00, 2:00, 5:00 FENCES (PG-13)Starting 12/25 Showtimes: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 HACKSAW RIDGE (R) – 1:00, 4:00 (Starting Friday 12/23 Showtimes: 4:00, 10:00) MOANA 2D (PG) – 11:00, 12:15, 1:35, 2:50, 4:10, 5:25, 6:45, 8:00, 9:20 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 PASSENGERS 2D (PG-13) 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) – 12:00, 2:40 ROGUE ONE 2D (PG-13) – 11:00, 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00 (Starting Friday 12/23 Showtimes: 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00) ROGUE ONE 3D (PG-13) 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 SING 2D (PG) 12:00, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 10:00 SING 3D (PG) – 11:00, 9:00 WHY HIM (R) – Starting 12/23 Showtimes: 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50
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Greensboro’s forgotten classic BY BRIAN LAMPKIN A Review of They Don’t Dance Much, by James Ross, Mysterious Press, $14.99
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t’s tempting. The past, that is. It s tempting to think of the past as a better time, a simpler time, a kinder time. And despite all evidence to the contrary, many of us give in to that temptation. We long for the good ol days, the days with perceived less greed and less violence; a time less susceptible to the machinations of the powerful. James Ross’s crime noir novel, They Don’t Dance Much, was published in 1940 (Mysterious Press reissued it in 2013), and reading his hard-boiled account of life in central North Carolina in the 1930s will cure any lingering longing you may have had for those simpler times. Ross lived in Greensboro and worked as a journalist at the Greensboro Daily News (now the News & Record) when he wrote his only novel. He lived in Fisher Park and his sister Eleanor, a poet, married the nov-
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elist and fellow Greensboro resident Peter Taylor. They Don’t Dance Much quickly disappeared from public view, despite Raymond Chandler’s open admiration for it, but kept reappearing like a disturbing dream of unknowable psychological import. It has been republished five times, but still has yet to find the audience it deserves. It might be because of its dark view of humans in general, or because of its shredding of the hypocritical veil so often worn by the small town pious. There’s really no character to root for in this murderous tale, but I suppose the narrator--failed farmer and now debt-ridden roadhouse cashier Jack McDonald--earns some of our sympathy for his recognition of the meanness surrounding him. He’s at least a less-willing participant in the worst of it, if hardly an admirable bloke. No, the hierarchy of awfulness begins above McDonald’s station. Smut Milligan, bootlegger and roadhouse owner, and the various town bankers and bigwigs are the real villains, and while there’s some satis-
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James Ross on assignment. faction in the vicious reward some of these town elders receive, the ugly order of things tends to remain intact. They Don’t Dance Much is set in a fictionalized Corinth, North Carolina. There is a real Corinth (about 60 miles southeast of Greensboro), and Ross’s beat for the Greensboro paper was Raleigh, so he surely traveled through Corinth and found something suitably unpleasant about the town to work with. Ross gives no class of people a pass--this isn’t a novel of the sturdy honorable working-class surviving under the thumb of the elites. Every class of people is made up of individuals all out to screw-euphemistically or not--anyone they can. The wealthy are just a little better at it. Of the “best folks class” Ross writes: “They were the people that are supposed to be nice folks, but like a dram now and then. And when nobody is looking like to kiss somebody else’s wife and pinch her behind and let their hands drop on her thigh, always accidentally, of course.” Their behavior only gets worse once money is involved. There aren’t a lot of women in Ross’s novel, and we don’t get to see what makes the one vital woman character--the wealthy, beautiful and, in grand noir tradition, treacherous Lola Fisher (Ross’s Fisher Park roots are showing)--behave the way she does. The characters, mostly white, also freely use the n-word, as these deplorable central North Carolina figures surely would have in the 1930s. Ross avoids any direct commentary on race, which leaves the novel and its steady rain of n-words on muddy moral ground, but the world of
central North Carolina is seen through the narrator’s eyes, and Jack McDonald ain’t gonna have no enlightened view on race. No sir. Apparently, James Ross hated being compared to the great crime novelist James Cain, but there is an undeniable link to Cain’s roadhouse classic The Postman Always Rings Twice. There’s also a clear debt to Hemingway. These lines seem nearly lifted in style and substance from The Sun Also Rises: “I took another drink out of the spider-webbed bottle. I looked at the bottle when I’d finished my drink. It was about a third gone. I set it down beside me on the ground. I was getting a little tight then.” I find Ross’s novel less-obviously plotted than Cain’s (and thus more appealingly atmospheric) and less intent on literary status than Hemingway’s (and thus less stilted and frankly more fun). But all comparisons are odious, I suppose, and They Don’t Dance Much doesn’t need the literary canes to stand up on. As some seem bent on making North Carolina return to some imagined idyllic past, They Don’t Dance Much might serve as a reminder of the greed, racism and meanness of our collective history. It’s a high watermark in Greensboro letters as well. Perhaps we could get the whole city to read it with an appropriate mix of pride and recognition: We’ve had great writers. We’re no different than anywhere else. We’ve been vicious and vindictive. We’re no different than anywhere else. !
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SEFCA speaks - and Moonlight shines Barry Jenkins’ hard-hitting and heartfelt coming-ofage drama Moonlight scored big with the voters of the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA), taking the honor for Best Film Mark Burger of 2016, earning five awards in total, and Contributing being the runnerup in three other columnist categories. In an official statement, SEFCA president Curt Holman noted: “At a time when expensive, heavily-marketed ‘popcorn movies’ dominate the cultural conversation about cinema, the ability of a small, quiet and personal film like Moonlight can give film fans hope for the future.” In addition to Best Film, Moonlight copped awards for Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), Best Ensemble, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director for Jenkins – who tied with Damien Chazelle, director of the contemporary Hollywood musical La La Land. Naomie Harris was runner-up for Best Supporting Actress, James Laxton’s cinematography was Runner-Up in that category, and Moonlight was also the runner-up for the Wyatt Award for the Spirit of the South, named for the late critic Gene Wyatt and bestowed upon the film that, as the name of the award implies, best captures the spirit of the South. Casey Affleck was selected Best Actor for his performance as a grief-stricken blue-collar handyman in Kenneth Lonergan’s bittersweet drama Manchester by the Sea, which also won the Best Original Screenplay award for Lonergan and was runner-up (to Moonlight) for Best Ensemble. Natalie Portman won Best Actress for her performance in the title role of Jackie, Pablo Larrain’s speculative historical drama set in the days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as seen through the eyes of his widow, and Viola Davis was named Best Supporting Actress for her turn as a compassionate Pittsburgh matriarch in Fences, reprising the role that won her a Tony Award for the 2010 Broadway revival of the August Wilson classic. Loving, the historical drama written and directed by UNCSA School of Filmmaking graduate Jeff Nichols, which examined the relationship of the real-life interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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Edgerton and Ruth Negga), won the Wyatt Award, with Negga the runner-up for Best Actress. Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, a portrait of the acclaimed writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin, won Best Documentary. Disney’s animated blockbuster Zootopia won Best Animated Film, Chan-wook Park’s elegant historical saga The Handmaiden was selected Best Foreign Language Film, and La La Land’s Linus Sandgren won for Best Cinematography. The complete list of winners and runners-up is as follows:
Handmaiden. Runner-up: Elle. Best Animated Film: Zootopia. Runner-up: Kubo and the Two Strings. Best Cinematography: La La Land (Linus Sandgren). Runner-up: Moonlight (James Laxton).
Moonlight Manchester by the Sea La La Land Hell or High Water Loving Arrival Fences and Jackie (tie) Nocturnal Animals Hidden Figures Each year, the SEFCA awards are voted on by professional critics (radio, print, online media) in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. This year, 53 critics (including yours truly) cast votes. Added Holman: “We’d like to dedicate the 2016 awards to the memories of Jim Ridley and Ken Hanke, SEFCA members who passed away this year. They will be missed.” !
Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea. Runner-up: Denzel Washington, Fences. Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Jackie. Runner-up: Ruth Negga, Loving. Best Director (tie): Barry Jenkins, Moonlight and Damien Chazelle, La La Land. Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight. Runner-up: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water. Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences. Runner-up: Naomie Harris, Moonlight. Best Ensemble: Moonlight. Runnerup: Manchester by the Sea. Best Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan). Runnerup: Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan). Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins). Runner-up: Arrival (Eric Heisserer). Best Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro. Runner-up: OJ: Made in America. Best Foreign Language Film: The DECEMBER 21-27, 2016 YES! WEEKLY
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The December Chef’s Table at The Traveled Farmer BY KRISTI MAIER | @triadfoodies
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he Traveled Farmer has been open for a little over a month and already it seems the idea of turning a British gastro pub into a true farm to table restaurant with a built-in market is paying off. On the very day the new concept turned one month old, The Traveled Farmer was the site of our monthly Chef’s Table where we let Chef Jay Pierce surprise us. We’ve enjoyed a couple of precursory events at The Traveled Farmer, which used to be known as The Marshall Free House before Marty Kotis and his team decided to go a new direction. Now the menu is wholly focused on featuring local ingredients with local and global influences. You’ll find catfish and Hoppin’ John, but also fried wontons with tuna and other globally inspired fare. In addition to the new menu and name, The Traveled Farmer also features a farmer’s market just inside the restaurant, where you can find many of Chef Pierce’s favorite locally sourced products that he loves to use in his kitchen, plus prepared items from the kitchen that you can grab and go. There is also farm stand produce ready for the picking during a quick shop. The whole area in what is now known as Midtown is alive and vibrant. It feels like a place you want to be. And it is. We knew Chef Pierce and his team would knock it out of the park at our Chef’s Table. We felt it was a great way to introduce local food lovers to this Kotis’ concept. Pierce brought out several already popular items from the menu as well as some items he’s working on. And when the chef surprises us, we give him or her cart blanche to get a little creative. It’s all served family style to add to the festive and communal feel of the evening.
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Aperitif of Steak with Kimchi Bleu Cheese Fondue This was a riff on a steak sandwich and was just a lovely taste of steak on a homemade cracker.
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Not Pimento Cheese with homemade crackers and house pickles and Sweet Potato Chips with South Carolina BBQ dipping sauce The story behind this Not pimento cheese? It doesn’t have pimento in it. So
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technically, it’s not pimento cheese, but it’s about as close to it as you get.
COURSE THREE
Roasted Beet Salad with Whipped Goat Lady Dairy Chèvre I love beets. And when paired with goat cheese, even better. This was a simple, classically beet salad and it’s offered on the menu.
COURSE FOUR
Quinoa Salad with house vinaigrette Very leafy but with wonderful quinoa throughout. You can pick your salad at Tabled Farmer, pick your toppings and add a protein for a small upcharge, allowing you to be in control of your own salad destiny.
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Fried Catfish bites with Miso Butter on Grilled Bok Choy This was a dish that celebrated the bok choy drizzled with the miso than the catfish. But no one complains about the added bonus of fried catfish to a platter. Salty and buttery and fabulous.
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Meatballs and sauce on Drake’s spaghetti These meatballs in a terrific sauce can be found in the Traveled Farmer’s market along with the pasta, which is made in High Point.
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Superfood Fritters These were delicious. Made with so many healthy grains and seeds, you have to feel good about eating them. They’re also available in the market and found on the menu as a Smoky bean and quinoa fritter.
COURSE EIGHT
Blackened Catfish with Collards and Hoppin’ John with garlic scape butter This so happens to be one of my favorite things on Traveled Farmer’s new menu. Each component complements the other so nicely. The catfish is perfection. Chef Pierce says, “It’s the signature dish of our young existence.”
COURSE NINE
The Deconstructed Korean Bowl This item is a favorite on the new menu and is served as a Korean Rice Bowl. For fun, Chef Pierce turned this into a sampling of all the components of the dish and called it a “taste of pork”.
COURSE TEN
Dessert Storm Dessert Sampling of Smores Pie, Key Lime Pie, Sweet Potato Cheesecake and Banana Pudding. Served in tiny mason jars, the desserts are always a hit.
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An element of added fun was our Dirty Santa gift exchange. Our guests were encouraged to purchase a locally made product from the Traveled Farmer’s market or bring something in. Proceeds from our guests’ purchases that evening were donated by the restaurant to No Kid Hungry. The market is getting stocked more and more every day and I think most folks will be able to find something at a very decent price point. Our Chef’s Table is always full of merriment and delicious courses. We appreciated The Traveled Farmer’s decision to serve it family style. Sometimes you just want a bite. Sometimes others at your table want more than a bite. This ensures that everyone gets the right amount and there’s not pressure to act like you like something if you don’t. !
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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) This is the time of year in which you try to do too much, take care of everyone, and often forget to include yourself in the equation. Now is the time to check with your internal sensors. Is it truly necessary to handle every last detail? If your energy level is low, give yourself a break from the usual routine. Your body will reward you for the sacrifice of your ego. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is a week in which you will tend to be thinking obsessively. It is an opportunity to learn how to better control your mind. Shift your attention to something less dramatic, such as whatever is happening this moment, rather than worrying over what might happen in the future.
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[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) The holidays are loaded with people coming and going for you this year. There may be a surprise or two in the making. You may be the host or hostess to a celebration, involving many. Romance and all kinds of relationships are favored. If you are an introvert, this may sound exhausting. However, you can take it all in stride and enjoy the activities if you set the Inner Critic aside and just enjoy. [SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) This is a period in which you may encounter someone from your past, possibly a former lover. Someone is being pig-headed here. Is it you or the other? Take whatever opportunity arises now to settle old pain. This is a good time to give up grievances and move on with your life. [SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Cosmic energies favor new design of outmoded business or organizational systems. Financial or business pressures may be the motivator. It is time to update and modernize, especially if you are working with a method out of old habit. If you are working on a major project it is best to brainstorm now but save the final decisions until after Jan. 8 when Mercury will be direct.
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[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The sun returns “home” to your sign this week. You likely will find it to be energizing. Now is the time to focus on new plans for this next year of your life. Take a fresh look at where you want to direct your energy. It is appropriate that your attention be directed toward yourself right now. However, take the needs of others into account.
[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You are likely to be playing host/hostess to several this season. It appears yours is the party house. This serves as a good distraction from the many life concerns floating about you. Filling your mind with the desire to be of help to others is often a salvation from the blues. [PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Don’t overdo on the food and libations this holiday. You could find yourself feeling the pain afterward. Give yourself time to be still, read inspirational prose, and gaze into the fireplace. Meditate. A quiet holiday may be just the right experience to give you peace. [ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is absolutely not a time to take the offensive, attacking position. If you feel angered by another, think the situation through from the very beginning. Look for your contribution to the problem. On the other hand, if someone else takes a swing at you, whether literal or metaphorical, you may defend yourself as you need. [TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a highly favorable week for the Bulls. You are front and center and people appreciate what you bring to the table. Relationships flow well, especially among those with whom you work. You bring out the best in people around you now. For a selfChristmas present, add a layer of music or high tech art to your life. [GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You occasionally confuse what you think with who you are. There are those who will disagree with you this week. Just don’t let it become a battle to the death. Your identity is not at stake in this situation. You may not like what is happening, but you can choose a better time later to argue the point. [CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You are in the flow of things now. There are few who would stand in your way. Friendships, partnerships and other social relationships are cooperative and even helpful to your goals if you need that. You will likely find yourself a leader of one or more groups of peers. If you prefer not, then head it off at the beginning. Are you interested in a personal horoscope? Vivian Carol may be reached at (704) 366-3777 for private psychotherapy or astrology appointments. There is a fee for services. Website: http//www.horoscopesbyvivian.com
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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions
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Women are really cuckoo when it comes to gifts. If my lady didn’t get me a present on my birthday, I wouldn’t really care. But if I didn’t buy her something for hers or if I Amy Alkon chose badly, brace yourself! Don’t get Advice me wrong; I love my girlfriend. I just wish Goddess I understood how to avoid the minefield here. — Lost In Santa’s Wonderland Unfortunately, you can’t just tell her that your relationship was “a gift from God.” So was the plague of locusts. Gift-getting generally is a bigger deal to women than it is to men (like, if you miss the mark on her birthday, you might have to call in the U.N. peace negotiators). To understand why, consider that our emotions aren’t just feelings; they’re motivational mechanisms that evolved to guard our survival and help us pass on our genes. For example, you feel jealousy when you sense a threat to your relationship — like that your girlfriend’s compleeeetely platonic male BFF sees the friend zone as the dugout for the sex friend zone. Of course, both men and women feel jealous and are deeply hurt by both sexual infidelity (“Did you have sex with him/ her?!”) and emotional infidelity (“Do you love him/her?!”). However, evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that men
and women differ in which type they find more distressing. Because men experience “paternity uncertainty” (“Mama’s baby, Papa’s maybe”), they’re more distressed by sexual infidelity, which could chump them into raising a kid who’ll pass on some other dude’s genes. There’s no such thing as “maternity uncertainty” because babies are delivered not by storks but by obstetricians — who coach screaming, profanity-spewing mothers-to-be to push a bowling ballsized human out a very small opening. Accordingly, Buss finds that women are more distressed by the prospect that a man might be emotionally elsewhere, leading him to divert his investment in their children into diamond-encrusted loot for that hussy he’s been stepping out with. In light of this, it makes sense that a woman puts more weight on a male partner’s displays of love and commitment — which is ultimately what gifts to your girlfriend are. Maybe understanding that can help you convert gift-giving from a perilous chore to a way to tell your girlfriend that you love her, that you don’t take her for granted, and that it means something to give her a little burst of happy. Unfortunately, this may not make your shopping any easier on Official Girlfriend Holidays (Christmas, Valentine’s Day, your anniversary, and her birthday). What might is asking for advice from women close to her — her mom, her sister, her BFF. As a bonus, they’re likely to gab about what a loving, thoughtful boo you are. As a secondary bonus, if some gift is a bust,
they’re also handy targets for blame. However, there’s a way to minimize the effects of any big-gift fails, and it’s with semi-frequent little gifts — like picking up her favorite overpriced smoothie or that special cheese she raves about. Doing this tells her something very important: that you love her enough to pay attention — uh, to more than the game scores from a hidden earpiece while she’s telling you about all the intrigue at Book Club.
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I’m a struggling musician (singer/songwriter), so let’s just say I’m not swimming in cash. I adore my girl, but I don’t have money to spend on her like her previous rich ex (who’d buy her expensive jewelry and designer handbags), so I feel weird buying her anything at all. What can I get her that shows my love without breaking the bank? — Underfunded It probably hasn’t escaped her that you sometimes prepare for dates by visiting the Coinstar machine. Money — even just a little bit of money — actually can buy happiness, but it helps
to know what to spend it on. Research by psychologist Thomas Gilovich finds that money spent on experiences tends to make people happier than money spent on material stuff. That’s because we quickly acclimate to the new (SET ITAL) things (END ITAL) in our lives and they stop giving us the same happiness bump they did at first. But an “experiential gift” — like writing a song for your girlfriend and singing it to her in a romantic location — is what we might call “reusable happiness.” Experiences are a renewable resource because we re-enjoy them as we reflect on them and talk about them. They also become part of a shared relationship history, and that’s very bonding. Who knew? It seems there’s an upside to not having a bunch of money to spend: your girlfriend looking back fondly on a day with you in a way she never could with all those romantic afternoons she spent with her Ford Fiesta-priced Prada purse. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2016 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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