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The nation’s attention is currently focused on Trump’s recent Executive Order impacting REFUGEE resettlement and immigration. The Order directly affects the Triad, which has welcomed refugees for three decades. Today, Greensboro and Charlotte receive the largest numbers of refugees in the state.

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A series of Greensboro residents, faith groups and pro-refugee organizations gathered last week in Downtown Greensboro to voice their opposition to President Trump’s IMMIGRATION policies and what local consequences they could have.

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On Jan. 21, all seven continents of the world held marches in solidarity to send a message to the new Presidential administration that women and their communities will expect leaders to protect them and they will hold them accountable for DAMAGING POLICIES.

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WHAT: The Brothership performs live with 4 to 7 musicians, performing a vast repertoire of original and covered music. Utilizing the Travers Brothers’ roots of Soulful Blues, Rock, Funk, Jazz and Improvisational jam, the band covers all the bases.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: The Blind Tiger.

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WHAT: Enjoy the duet of David and Valerie Mayfield, whose style is steeped in old school bluegrass and classic country and newgrass. Tight harmonies, and hold on for some fast picking too!

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WHERE: Foothills Brewpub.

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WHAT: A beautiful exhibition of pastel paintings. Hosted by the prestigious Ambleside Gallery in Greensboro, this exhibit features a wide variety of techniques and subject matter from some of the best pastelists in the state. An opening reception will be on Friday, February 3 from 6 pm 9 pm.

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WHAT: Based on the hate crime that attracted vast attention worldwide, bringing sexual discrimination and violence to the forefront of public discourse, The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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WhAT: The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) and The Blue Ridge Music Center announce artist and musician Lonnie Holley and cellist Ben Sollee will perform in the concert series Crossroads @ SECCA #017 on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 in the McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium.

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WheRe: Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art. 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem.

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WhAT: On select Saturdays, you can enjoy vintage craft cocktails and delightful tapas garnished with an eclectic array of jazz artists performing in the styles of contemporary jazz with no cover charge!

This week is the Anne-Claire Quartet featuring Thomas Linger, Aaron Matson and Genevieve Palmer When: 6:30 p.m.

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A new business has blossomed in the face of tragedy. Since sister, mother and daughter, Kari Underwood, passed away in 2012 from a car accident, her family has nursed a business of selling beanies. The beanies are for ponytails and buns to poke through the top of the hat.

“It started with my mom,” said Kristi Underwood-Darr, Kari’s older sister. “She started making these beanies and everybody loved them. She stopped working after my sister died and she takes care of my sister’s kids now. They live with her.”

Karolyn Harvey, the mother of Kristi and Kari, took up crocheting beanies as a way to cope with the sorrow of losing Kari.

Eventually Harvey and Underwood-Darr decided to create KariBear Beanies.

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Kari’s daughter, Alexa, is excited to have the business as a way to remember her mother.

“Alexa started crying whenever I showed her the logo and showed her the website,” said Underwood-Darr. “It wasn’t a sad cry, it was a happy cry.”

The greatest highlight Underwood-Darr has seen is in her mother.

“The biggest highlight is my mom having a little bit of comfort of having some income coming in,” she said. “It’s allowing her to do something for herself where she can make money and have income coming in.”

Harvey plans to put her profits into a savings account for Kari’s children, Kaleb and Alexa.

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2017 Guilford Heart Ball raises funds, awareness in tHe fiGHt aGainst Heart disease Nearly 200 local leaders from businesses and communities around Guilford County gathered at the Elm Street Center recently for the American Heart Association’s annual Guilford Heart Ball. The elegant evening included music, dancing, auctions, and a gourmet dinner to celebrate those who have contributed to the fight against heart disease and stroke in Guilford County. Nearly $100,000 was raised over the course of the evening. The money will be used to fund heart disease and stroke research and prevention education.

Live and silent auctions were held to raise funds for heart disease and stroke prevention research and education. Auction items included a landscape by Chip Holton, artist in residence at the O. Henry Hotel, which was painted live in front of guests earlier in the evening, and a tour of WFMY broadcast studio followed by dinner with anchor Eric Chilton. Chilton was present as host of the Heart Ball for the second year in a row.

The Heart Ball reception served as the awards ceremony for the winners of the third annual LeBauer Visionary Award. The award recognizes local healthcare professionals who were nominated by their peers based on exceptional patient care, use of groundbreaking medical procedures and research, and contribution of time and effort to the community healthcare system. This year’s LeBauer Visionary Award Winners were cardiologists Dr. Michael Cooper and Dr. James Allred.

“It’s a huge honor to be recognized tonight,” said Dr. Cooper. “I just want to comment on what a great team we have at Cone in our medical community and our cardiovascular community. It’s been a real pleasure to be part of this.”

Dr. Allred agreed.

“We have incredible folks here in Greensboro, and Cone Health gives us opportunities to take our progress in the best, most incredible direction... Our patients are wonderful to take care of. Our field is changing very rapidly, but we’ve been given the tools to do what we need. We’re excited about the future.”

The winners were announced by Rich Lundy, vice president of heart and vascular services and imaging services at Cone Health. In his speech, Lundy praised all the nominees for their individual contributions to heart health, as well as for their teamwork.

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in multi-disciplinary team approach to patient care,” said Lundy. “This carefully planned approach is why we are one of the top cardiovascular programs in the nation. There’s no reason to go anywhere else.”

A particularly moving part of the evening was a video from the family of Lucas Alcacio, a local boy who has survived open heart surgery and whose family credits local cardiac care with saving his life.

“There was one point in the cardiac unit when he coded on them almost every day,” Lucas’ mother recalled, “and he’s still as happy as any child I’ve ever seen...the doctors are my everything.”

Roughly $39,000 of the almost $100,000 raised at the Heart Ball was garnered by heartfelt donations from the crowd after Lucas’ story was shared.

This was just one of many successful fundraisers held by the American Heart Association in the Triad. The 2016 Guilford Heart Ball raised nearly $230,000; nationwide, the 2016 Heart Ball campaign netted over $71 million.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death the world over, according to statistics compiled by the American Heart Association. Every one in seven deaths in the United States can be linked to heart disease; that means someone in the United States is killed by heart disease every 84 seconds. In Guilford County, heart disease is the second leading cause of death in both men and women, resulting in 799 heart disease related deaths across the county in 2016.

Gretchen O’Shay, developmental director for the American Heart Association of the Triad, said events like the Heart Ball are a way to lower these grim statistics.

“We have served $4 billion in research since 1949,” said O’Shay, “And we continue to expand on innovative research approaches so that more people can continue to live longer, healthier lives.”

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Community leaders speak out against Trump’s immigration order

BY ERIC WALLACE series of Greensboro residents, faith groups and pro-refugee organizations gathered last week in Downtown Greensboro to voice their opposition to President Trump’s immigration policies and what local consequences they could have.

With many holding signs with slogans such as “Refugees and Immigrants Welcome” and “Love Thy Neighbor” the demonstrators listened as one-by-one, immigrants from a wide range of countries shared their story of becoming an American.

Many of them were concerned that recent executive orders issued by the Trump administration may force them out of the country and/or separate them from their families. The orders enhance the ability of law enforcement to round up and deport immigrants.

“Our police officers are not ICE officers,” Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said.

“This city needs to be a safe haven.”

Vaughan is herself the descendent of Syrian immigrants.

Under the newly reestablished Secure Communities program, local police officials will have the ability to check fingerprints and view the immigration records of a detainee. The individual would then be handed over to federal authorities and possibly deported according to the Washington Post. Critics of the program allege that the policy could lead to the police racially profiling foreigners and scrutiniz-

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Daha Altaki spoke of her journey from Syria at the immigration rally in Greensboro. ing them for minor offenses.

Fari Dar-Bi, an immigration case manager and a refugee from Myanmar, expressed her concern as to what these orders could mean for immigrants in the community.

“President Trump’s executive orders really scare me,” said Dar-Bi. “I urge Congress’s leaders to help us refugees and for President Trump to listen. Greensboro must remain a welcoming city.”

Dar-Bi prefaced her speech with a story of her escaping her country after the military burned down her village. She fears that she and other refugees may be forced to return to the nightmarish conditions of their home countries.

One of Trump’s recent executive orders, which drastically reduces the number of refugees entering the U.S. was also an issue of concern for many. Meanwhile, all refugees from Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia have since been banned. The orders were issued out of fear of terrorists entering the U.S. by posing as refugees.

Those at the gathering want people to know that many of the refugees are good people who had no choice but to flee from the violence in their country.

“It was not my choice to leave,” said Daha Altaki, a newly-arrived Syrian refugee.

She explained that the brutal Syrian civil war, estimated to have killed

between 300,000 and 400,000 people, forced her to leave her beloved homeland. She wants people to know that she wishes to live in Greensboro peacefully and that her status as a Syrian should not be viewed as threatening.

“Because I am Syrian, I am not a terrorist. Because I am Muslim, I am not a terrorist. I’m a human being.”

Many in the audience were wiping tears from their eyes and visibly moved during her speech.

“Our dream is to live in peace. We are brothers and sisters and I want to be a part of you,” Altaki concluded.

Wasif Qureshi of the Islamic Center of Greensboro urged listeners to consider how small the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are. He implored those in attendance to take out their phones and Google their odds of dying in one.

“Your odds are 1 in 20 million of dying in a terrorist attack,” said Qureshi. “That’s the same chance of dying in your bathtub, or killed by a dog or even killed by your own furniture.”

Under the order, called the “Protection of the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, Trump made it clear during the signing ceremony that his administration will fulfill its promise of locking down the borders from potential foreign threats.

“We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats

our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country,” Trump said as he signed the order that targets the largely Muslim populated countries.

To Lynn Thompson of the New Arrivals Institute, a local group that teaches English and cultural studies to refugees, barring people from the U.S. based on country of origin and religion is hypocritical to America’s values.

“Everyone knows the Declaration of Independence,” Thompson said. “That we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Those words have for generations given people hope just as the Statue of Liberty has given hope and welcomed people into our country.”

To others in this country, the immigration system is already troublesome enough. While they stress that they contribute to their communities, they feel as though they are treated as second-class citizens.

Luis Flores, a Greensboro teenager, once dreamed of going to college and pursuing his dreams. However, his status as an immigrant brought into the country at a young age makes it difficult for him to afford going.

“Now, a document determines where I go to college,” said Flores. “A document is in charge of me and determines whether I get in-state or out-of-state tuition.”

Flores currently attends community college. While appreciative of the opportunity to pursue higher learning, he admits it is not what he once dreamed of.

“I am a part of this community,” he said.

“I have worked here. I have volunteered here. I ask that you give back to those who have given so much for this community.”

Ultimately, the demonstrators called for two things: City unity and Washington’s ear.

“I am honored to live in this community that loves people of different faiths and backgrounds,” said Qureshi. “I urge them and you to stay engaged, talk to Congress and your local officials. Share these stories with them and let them know that we are a part of this community.”

Mayor Vaughan emphasized that nothing will change in Greensboro in terms of police activity and how they treat the immigrant community. She emphasized that she and Police Chief Wayne Scott are on the same page.

“We need to be the community that builds bridges, not walls,” Vaughan said. !

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Body cam laws in North Carolina: What you need to know about HB 972

BY MIA OSBORN North Carolina’s infamous “body cam bill,” HB 972, was signed into law on July 11, 2016. More than six months later, debates over the law’s usefulness are still raging.

The League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad recently hosted a packed discussion in which the law’s co-founder, state Rep. John Faircloth (R-Guilford), defended it against retired civil rights attorney Lewis Pitts, one of the law’s most outspoken critics. Here are some takeaways.

What HB 972 does.

HB 972 declares that “recordings made by law enforcement agencies are not public records.” Recordings include audio or video captured by any device “operated by or on behalf of a law enforcement agency or law enforcement agency personnel when carrying out law enforcement responsibilities.”

HB 972 drew attention for its regulation of body cameras, but the law also covers recordings from dashboard cameras, which were formerly matters of public record. The law allows individual agencies to decide if their officers will have body cameras and to establish their own rules for how and when those cameras should be used. Once a recording has been made, however, the law strictly controls which members of the public are allowed to view it. However, law enforcement may view recordings at any time for administrative or training purposes.

Who may view recordings?

Someone may request a viewing only if they appear in the recording, in voice or image. If the person featured in the footage cannot make the request themselves, their personal representative can act for them.

A personal representative is defined by the law as a parent, court-appointed guardian, spouse or attorney of someone whose voice or image appears in the footage. If the person featured in the footage is dead, the category of personal representative is expanded to include the deceased’s adult children, or the parents/guardians of children who are still minors.

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recording. A request may be denied for a number of reasons, including if it is part of a criminal investigation or if its contents “may harm the reputation or jeopardize the safety of a person.”

If a request is denied, the person who made it must seek a court order and prove to a superior court judge that they should be permitted to view the footage. The law contains some safeguards to make this process easier, such as a waived filing fee for the court appearance.

If someone is allowed to view the footage, whether up front by law enforcement or after taking their case to court, the viewing will be just that: watching the footage one time, in the headquarters of the agency that filmed it. No copying or recording is permitted.

Opponents call it unconstitutional.

At the Jan. 17 meeting, Pitts contended that HB 972 goes against North Carolina’s Public Records Act, which states: “The public records and public information compiled by the agencies of North Carolina government or its subdivisions are the property of the people.”

Pitts maintained that citizens of North Carolina have a constitutional right to hold their government accountable for its actions, and that “The burden of proof should be on the government, on the police force, to explain why [a recording] has been withheld from public scrutiny.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has widely condemned the law.

“People who are filmed by police body cameras should not have to spend time and money to go to court in order to see that footage,” said Susanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the ACLU of North Carolina, in a statement on the organization’s blog. “These barriers are significant and we expect them to drastically reduce any potential this technology had to make law enforcement more accountable to community members.”

It’s not just about cameras.

When former Governor Pat McCrory signed HB 972 into law last July, it had already passed through the state legislature with flying colors. This may have been caused in part by the other issue which appears on HB 972: the setup of a statewide needle exchange program meant to lower disease rates among intravenous drug users.

Rep. Faircloth maintained that while some legislators may have been more in

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favor of one half of the bill than the other, combining the two was the best way to ensure they both passed.

“I used the two bills to balance each other,” he explained.

There is pushback at state and national levels.

Public outcry has surrounded HB 972 from the moment it was passed. A poll from Raleigh’s ABC 11 News published the day after the bill was signed into law shows that 85 percent believed body camera footage should be public record.

Protests got louder in September 2016, after Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.

The following week, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts called for a special session to repeal HB 972. Similar actions were taken by the Community-City Working Group of Greensboro, of which Pitts is a member.

The same week the bill was signed into law, the group presented a resolution to the Greensboro City Council asking for its repeal.

There is currently an open Change.org petition calling for the law’s repeal, and the ACLU of North Carolina offers a free app called Mobile Justice NC to help citizens quickly film encounters with police and

send them to the ACLU for review.

Calls for repeal or amendment of the law seem sure to continue. Rep. Faircloth said that he welcomes public input as HB 972 goes forward.

“I’m open to hearing any suggestions of change,” said Faircloth. “We know we’re going to be revisiting it.” !

MIA OSBORN is a Greensboro-based freelance writer who hails from Birmingham, Alabama.

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Washington D.C.’s Women’s March: A hub of pride and complexity

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n Jan. 21, all seven continents of the world held marches in solidarity to send a message to the Allison Stalberg new Presidential administration that women and their Contributor communities will expect leaders to protect them and they will hold them accountable for damaging policies.

I went to the heart of the gathering in Washington D.C. on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday night, I and the rest of my group got the iconic pussy hats. I searched for where I could get some and met a woman at the last seat of a bar who gave some out for free. They were made by people all over the country to be given out for people to wear at the march.

The night before the march was surreal.

Washington, D.C. was a land of drizzle and fog. When I donned my pussy hat, friendly faces and allies approached me. A woman who just flew in from Florida asked me where I got mine.

Cosmic’s Pizza place, the same pizza place a shooter from North Carolina went to end a fictional prostitution ring due to fake news, had a hate group preach their homophobia to an angry crowd. The hate group was called Official Street Preachers and they held signs that read “God says you are male or female” and “There is no gay gene.”

I watched in distress from across the street. A woman noticed my pussy hat and said something along the lines of don’t worry, our time is tomorrow.

Half a million people took the streets of D.C. on Saturday. It was a sea of signs that read things like “Viva la Vulva,” “Keep your tiny hands off my rights,” “Don’t normalize hate” and “Weak men fear strong women.”

I even saw a dog bearing a sign that read, “Even we know better.”

The streets were so crowded that I did not hear a single speaker, nor could I even get near. I knew it was an incredible line up of people like Michael Moore, Ai-jen Poo and Zahra Billoo. Unable to hear them, I instead listened to the people I was crushed up against.

Such people included D.C. law school students, Jekka Garner and Liz Pindini.

Garner held a sign that pictured Ruth Gins-

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burg with a necklace that read “dissent.”

“Ruth Ginsburg has been quite outspoken about the fact that she does not appreciate a Trump presidency so I can’t say that I don’t disagree,” Garner told me.

“Going to law school up here and being a woman, I think that’s all you need to realize: Donald Trump is not a good thing for this country.”

For Pindini, this was the first time she ever joined a protest.

“I think it’s extremely important to be here,” she said. “I’m trans and why is that a bad thing? According to the government, I should be ashamed of who I am and I find that absolutely unacceptable. There are just so many protections that we are on the cusp of losing. It’s terrifying.

“I just want to be able to exist, be happy and be who I am. I don’t think that should be something that is infuriating or frustrating for other people.”

Women certainly were not the only people marching. Men like Tony Fasolo marched as well.

“My daughter is an Air Force officer,” he said. “I’m a retired army officer. I worked in the Pentagon. I am a Vietnam Vet. I go down to the Vietnam Memorial, I volunteer there. I know that women serve honorably in the military. I believe in the word of the Pledge of Allegiance. I march because I just believe it’s the right thing to do.”

Fasolo was very worried about Donald Trump because he does not know what the new president really thinks. He fears for the freedom of the press and Muslims.

“I have a lot of friends who are Muslims,” he said. “I was in the Pentagon on 9/11. I know Muslims were the people who ran the plane into the Pentagon, but I know all Muslims are not terrorists. All I can say is we got to make sure we do defend our constitution and this is one way to do it right here.”

When the half million crowd marched, we chanted and sang. We shouted, “Black Lives Matter,” “Hands too small, can’t build a wall,” “This is what democracy looks like,” “Whose streets? Our streets” and “My body, my choice.”

While there was diversity and a lot of success, the Women’s March opened a long history of division in terms of feminism and race. Before the march, some writers came out as having mixed feelings about the march due to racial tension and a history of feminism usually being targeted to white people.

The Women’s March began with mostly

white leaders. In the interest of inclusion, prominent figures emerged for women of color such as Linda Sarsour, Shishi Rose, Tamika D. Mallory and Carmen Perez. For many though, the idea of inclusion came too late.

Jamilah Lemieux, a writer for Color Lines, wrote an opinion piece that went viral about why she was not attending the women’s march.

“I’ve never felt anything remotely resembling sisterhood with white women,” Lemieux wrote. “The absence of that sisterhood never felt more real for me than it did when I learned that 53 percent of white female voters cast a ballot for a man whose bigotry was, perhaps, his greatest selling point.

“I’m really tired of black and brown women routinely being tasked with fixing white folks’ messes. I’m tired of being the moral compass of the United States. Many of the white women who will attend the march are committed activists, sure. But for those new-to-it white women who just decided that they care about social issues? I’m not invested in sharing space with them at this point in history.”

Naomi Madaras, an activist and Quaker, also had concerns about the issues of white ignorance.

“I went to the women’s march knowing that I needed to be there as a white woman to call attention to the racism in white women’s communities,” she wrote to me.

At the march Madaras held a sign that read “White Silence is Violence” on one side and “Quaker Femmes Against White Supremacy” on the other.

“I wanted to be there with an anti-racist sign to remind women that look like me that we can, and must, do better to tear down white supremacy especially, when it protects us. This was particularly clear in the police presence on Saturday.

“We know that police assault and murder women of color at alarming rates, yet on Saturday I saw white women giving police high-fives, and since Saturday I have seen photos on social media of cops donning the pink ‘pussy hats’ in support of the women’s march. The contrast between how cops respond to people of color versus white women is staggering.”

Like Madaras, I felt very conscious of this. In some photos of me in my pussy hat, I could see how uncomfortable I was.

Half of me wanted to embrace the march but I was also haunted. On the other hand, I knew that discomfort is part of oppression awareness and should not be denied.

I just hope years from now I can smile and tell the younger generations that this was the beginning of something great. I hope I can say it was the beginning when women divided through race, religion, sexualities and gender decided to fight for each other.

Every day I’m going to try to keep that hope alive. !

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[news of the weird] SuSpicionS confirmed

Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara Holbrook Chuck Shepherd said she flubbed the “correct” answer for “author motivation” — in two of her own poems that were on the test. Writing in Huffington Post in January, a disheartened Holbrook lamented, “Kids’ futures and the evaluations of their teachers will be based on their ability to guess the socalled correct answer to (poorly) madeup questions.”

compelling explanationS

— In December, James Leslie Kelly, 52, and with a 37-conviction rap sheet dating to 1985, filed a federal lawsuit in Florida claiming that his latest brush with the law was Verizon’s fault and not his. Kelly was convicted of stealing the identity of another James Kelly and taking more than $300 in Verizon services. He bases

his case on the Verizon sales representative’s having spent “an hour and a half” with him — surely enough time, he says, to have figured out that he was not the James Kelly he was pretending to be. He seeks $72 million.

— In Hong Kong in December, Mr. Lam Chung-kan, 37, pleaded guilty to stealing a bottle of a co-worker’s breast milk at work and drinking it — but only to help with “stress” in his job as a computer technician. Undermining the healthimprovement explanation was a photo Lam sent the woman, showing himself in an aroused state.

ironieS

London’s The Guardian reported in January that “dozens” of people have been charged or jailed recently for “defaming” the new Myanmar government, which has been headed (in a prime-ministerlike role) since April by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected after her release from house detention following two decades of persecution for criticizing the longtime military regime. For her struggle for free speech, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Said the wife of the latest arrestee, Myo Yan Naung Thein, on

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THE LITIGIOUS SOCIETY

High Finance: Sometime in 2006, a photographer on assignment roamed a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, snapping photos of customers. Leah Caldwell was one person photographed, but says she refused to sign the photographer’s “release” — and was surprised, nevertheless, to see a photo of herself in a Chipotle promotion in 2014 and again in 2015 (and on her table in the photo were “alcoholic beverages” she denied ever ordering). In January, Caldwell said the misuse of her image is Chipotle’s fault for ignoring her non-”release,” and thus that she is entitled to all of the profits Chipotle earned between 2006 and 2015: $2.237 billion.

PRECOCIOUS

In December, Ashlynd Howell, age 6, of Little Rock, Arkansas, deftly mashed her sleeping mother’s thumbprint onto her phone to unlock the Amazon app and order $250 worth of Pokemon toys. Mom later noticed 13 email confirmations and asked Ashlynd if something was amiss.

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Ashlynd said, “No, Mommy, I was shopping.”

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS

— The British think tank High Pay Centre reported in January that the average CEO among the U.K.’s top 100 companies (in the Financial Times Stock Exchange index) earns the equivalent of around $1,600 an hour — meaning that a 12-houra-day boss will earn, by mid-day Jan. 4, as much money as the typical worker at his

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firm will earn the entire year. (Around the same time, the anti-poverty organization Oxfam reported, to an astonished press, that eight men — six Americans, headed

by Bill Gates — have the same total “net worth” as the 3.6 billion people who comprise the poorest half of the planet.)

— An organization that tracks “high net worth” investors (Spectrem Group of Lake Forest, Illinois) reported recently that, of Americans worth $25 million or more, only about two-thirds donate $10,000 or more yearly to charity. And then there is Charles Feeney, 85, of New York City, who in December made his final gift to charity ($7 million to Cornell University), completing his pledge to give away almost everything he had — $8 billion. (He left his wife and himself $2 million to live on, in their rental apartment in San Francisco.) A January New York Times profile noted that nothing is “named” for Feeney, that the gifts were mostly anonymous, and that Feeney assiduously cultivated his low profile.

— A “disturbingly large” (according to one report) number of smartphone apps are available devoted to calculating how much the user has “earned” per day and per year during restroom breaks answering nature’s calls while at work. Australia’s News Limited’s rough calculation estimated $1,227 for someone making $55,000 a year, but results might vary since there are so many apps: Poop Salary, ToiletPay, Log-Log, Paid 2 Poo, Pricy Poop, Poop Break and perhaps others.

THE PASSING PARADE

German cockroaches, and on his way to buy a supply of crickets and hornworms. (“Hornworms,” he said, have an “amazing defense” where they “eat tobacco for the nicotine, which they exhale as a gas to scare away predators.”) “When I’m feeling stressed out,” Rodriques said, he might take one out to “calm me down.” He met his first girlfriend when she was attracted to his pet giant African millipede (as long as a human forearm), but admits that “for the vast majority” of time in school, “I was alone.”

(1) Woodstock, Vermont, police arrested a 28-year-old man for bank robbery in January, with a key piece of evidence coming to their attention when a disapproving Vermonter noted a paper coffee cup not in its proper recycling bin. The cup held the robber’s holdup note and DNA. (2) A 46-year-old man was arrested in December after an evening at the Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and charged with leaving a server a non-monetary “tip” — of a Valium pill. !

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R E FRESETTLEMENT UGEE Greensboro as the Global Gate City s t o r y a n D P h o t o s b y D e o n n a K e l l i s ay e D

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iuanh Ho was 11 years old when she and her family got off the plane in Greensboro.

“There was snow on the ground. I remember it being so very cold!” she says.

Vietnam didn’t have snow.

Everything about America was big. And different.

Kiuanh is a refugee whose family resettled in Greensboro.

The nation’s attention is currently focused on Trump’s recent Executive Order impacting refugee resettlement and immigration. The Order directly affects the Triad, which has welcomed refugees for three decades.

Today, Greensboro and Charlotte receive the largest numbers of refugees in the state.

Many in Greensboro are proud of the “global gate city.” The motto serves as

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a distinctive calling card that indicates tolerance and acceptance.

Kiuanh is one example of how refugees become part of the local fabric.

Before the plane touched down on that cold day, Kiuanh had seen an American for the first time several months earlier.

It happened during the refugee-processing interview.

“He was as tall as could be. I had never seen such a tall white man!” She laughs at the memory. Kiuanh explains that they didn’t have TV in Vietnam, or later, in the refugee camps in the Philippines.

“So how could I know about Americans?”

In 1991, Kiuanh (pronounced “Keewan”) and her three sisters arrived in Greensboro with their single mother.

Settled by Lutheran Family Services, the family gained refugee status through the 1987 American Homecoming Act that pro-

vided resettlement preference to children born from American servicemen.

Kiuanh’s oldest sister is Amerasian, and the family faced persecution in Vietnam because of it.

“It was hard,” she remembers. “People called my mother and my sister a traitor.”

Kiuanh entered Aycock Middle School with limited English and second-hand clothes. She says that most refugees don’t have a lot when they arrive, “so you wear whatever is given to you. Kids at that age can be a little bit difficult to deal with.

I remember being picked on and laughed at as I walked by. I was young and took it personally, and I felt like I didn’t belong.”

She also struggled with a childhood seizure disorder. When her mother sensed Kiuanh was getting sick, she’d walk the girls several blocks to another refugee’s home, someone who had been in the country longer and had better English skills.

“If something happened, they could help translate to the emergency crew. I know for mom it was really scary for her to be in a new country,” Kiuahn remembers.

As she looks back, these challenges seem minor. America was her home now.

“I mean, we left Vietnam for a reason and being able to come to America was everyone’s dream. No one would think, regardless of the challenges, not to stay here. Going back was not an option,” she explains.

As Somali-British poet Warsan Shire writes in her poem, “Home”: “You only leave home when home won’t let you stay.”

Why are Refugees in Greensboro?

The Triad, and Greensboro, in particular, has welcomed refugees since Lutheran Family Services brought the first South-

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Leaders from a broad cross-section of community groups gathered in Greensboro last week to protest the Trump administration’s rash immigration order. east Asian refugees in the late 1970s.

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Greensboro became one resettlement city for Vietnamese and Montagnard refugees.

The Refugee Act of 1980 formalized efforts across federal, state, and local non-profit agencies.

Other agencies set up offices in Greensboro as infrastructures now existed. In the early 1980s, the federal government approached agencies in Greensboro to become one of four clusters for Cambodian resettlement.

The influx of that group further galvanized local resources, including many churches that stepped up to provide direct support.

Today, three refugee resettlement agencies have offices in the Triad: Church World Service, African Services Coalition, and World Relief in High Point.

Refugee resettlement traditionally garners bipartisan support, and is funded by the U.S. government.

Republican administrations have received some of the largest refugee numbers. In 1981-1987, Ronald Reagan’s administration welcomed 660,000 refugees.

During George H.W. Bush’s four years, 475,000 refugees were resettled.

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high estimates put the number around 557,000.

Obama’s administration capped the 2017 ceiling for refugee resettlement at 110,000.

The United Nations High Committee on Refugees (UNHCR) puts the global refugee crisis at a historic high. By the end of 2015, UNHCR calculated that one per every 113 person on earth is a refugee. Fifty-four percent of the world’s refugees come from Somalia, Afghanistan, and Syria.

Donald Trump signed the “Protection Of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States” order on Jan. 27.

The Executive Order dramatically alters the landscape of refugee resettlement.

(A separate order signed on January 25th, “Enhancing Public Safety In the Interior of the United States,” targets immigrants and undocumented individuals.)

The Protection of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry in the United States: Suspends US refugee program for four months and readjusts the 2017 resettlement ceiling from 110,000 to 50,000.

Institutes an initial 90-day suspension on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The suspension may be extended and the list of countries could grow.

Institutes an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria.

Seeks potential changes in visa issu-

ance and immigration screening.

Institutes a religious litmus test with a preference for Christian refugees.

How Refugee Resettlement Works: The UNHCR is the global entry point for most refugee processing. The 1951 Refugee Convention officially defined what determined a refugee, a definition ratified by 145 countries, the United States included.

The process starts as refugees file for status with UNCHR. From that point, countries that accept refugees have different processing requirements and quotas.

Entering the U.S. is particularly rigorous.

Kiuanh says there may be a misconception among Americans that refugees “get everything handed to them.” Rather, it is an emotionally difficult and arduous endeavor – a course that often begins with forced displacement to a refugee camp outside of their home country.

Kiuahn explains, “you apply then wait, and wait, and wait for the interview.

When you get an interview, then you wait some more. If they allow you to come – sometimes they don’t allow the whole family to come, then the parents have to make a choice to leave children behind. “ She says that parents sometime make the decision to go with the younger chil-

dren in hopes that one day they are able to visit or sponsor the rest of the family.

Then there are medical tests and biometric screenings. And more waiting.

Ultimately, less than 1 percent of the global refugees will meet the standards required for U.S. resettlement.

Even if a family is green-lighted for America, potential complications remain.

“Then something happens like a policy change, then those cases are put on hold and your start over again. Or you wait for them to review those cases again,” Kiuahn says.

On Thursday, Jan. 26, several hundred people gathered in Downtown Greensboro for a rally protesting issues around immigration, undocumented individuals and the refugee ban.

On Friday people who were en route to America with all documents in order, including visa holders, landed to find their entry now blocked. The Trump administration didn’t consult interagency resources. Therefore, the order, now dubbed “The Muslim Ban,” had not accounted for necessary structural and procedural changes in the Department Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure a smooth process.

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Muslim community leader Wasif Qureshi urged those in attendance to not give in to unnecessary fear.

airports across the United States.

Throughout the weekend of January 27, several federal judges across the country issued temporary emergency stays for individuals directly impacted by the ban, including those being detained and airports.

DHS issued a statement Saturday indicating the agency planned to uphold Trump’s Executive Order despite federal court rulings.

Protests continued throughout the weekend. Over 1000 people gathered at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Sunday afternoon.

Things to know about local refugee resettlement: Refugees eligible to enter the United States are vetted through a process that originates with UNHCR and includes various intelligence agencies and U.S. government organizations. The process requires face-to-face interviews, biometric and medical screening, and cultural orientation classes.

Refugee resettlement in the U.S. is a federally funded program with a model of refugee self-sufficiency as the goal.

Average vetting process takes 4 to 10 months.

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Syrians are already subject to an enhanced vetting process that takes an average of 18 to 24 months.

Refugees enter the U.S eligible for employment.

Local resettlement agencies help place refugees in suitable jobs.

Refugees are eligible to receive the same social service benefits as American citizens.

Local refugees receive a one-time “Reception and Placement Fund” between $900- $1100 per person, depending on the resettlement agency. Most resources go towards household set-up and must be used within 90 days.

Agencies such as UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians and New Arrivals Institute provided various support services once refugees are resettled.

Refugees must file for Green Card status within a year of their arrival.

The Doris Henderson Newcomers School is for recently arriving immigrants and refugees students in grades 3-12, and is part of the Guilford County School System.

It isn’t a free ride What many people don’t realize: Refugees repay the cost of their plane tickets.

Payments on the interest free loan start after the first six months of resettlement.

Kiuanh’s mother repaid the cost of four international plane tickets. “I remember mom making those payments a priority,” she says.

Contrary to refugees arriving with free hand outs, they arrive already in debt.

Even with start-up money and social services benefits, resources are quickly exhausted, particularly if the family includes children.

In the Triad, mosques coordinate efforts to help newly arrived Syrian refugees navigate the American system. They provide materials not covered by social services or initial aid (like personal effects, car seats for children, toiletries).

Several churches and private volunteers collect household goods for newcomers.

“It really takes a community,” Million Mekonnen points out. Mekonnen is the executive director of African Services Coalition in Greensboro.

Part of that community is relationshipbuilding with employers willing to provide refugees jobs. Mekonnen shares that “refugees are dependable employees and hard working family members. Once they are placed in jobs, they don’t quit. They

don’t go anywhere. Employers are coming to us.”

In many ways, Greensboro is ahead of the curve.

Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR), is an innovative program designed by Diya Abdo, a faculty member at Guilford College. Through the program, Guilford College has hosted two Syrian families and a Ugandan individual in on-campus housing. Currently, the campus is hosting an 11-member family until May 1.

The local effort is serving as model for national implementation. There are now four ECAR campuses nationwide, and Abdo is invited to speak at more.

Mobilizing local resources is more urgent than ever. In a email message, she speculated that “the refugee resettlement agencies will likely have their funds decreased; college and university campuses have much to offer in terms of resources to assist these agencies with the refugees currently in the U.S. and those who will be admitted after the 120 day ban. Campuses should start building volunteer and material capacity now in preparation for that.”

A group of Guilford College students recently received a $7,000 grant from Google igniteCS to facilitate 2-4 week STEM technology programs with middle and high school refugee students. UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC)

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REFUGEES RESETTLED IN THE TRIAD, 2016 (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem)

Congo - 1

Central African Republic - 11

Cuba - 1

Vietnam - 11

Kuwait - 1

Iraq - 22

Nepal - 1

Afghanistan - 44

Pakistan - 1

Ethiopia - 48

South Sudan - 1

Bhutan - 54

Zimbabwe - 1

Eritrea - 58

Colombia - 3

Somalia - 70

Uganda - 3

Burma - 84

Yemen - 6

Syria - 303 GRAPHIC BY ALEX ELDRIDGE

Iran - 7

Data extracted from the Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS) will help coordinate the efforts.

Building larger community links are essential.

CNNC offers services to the immigrant and refugee population. Lizzie Biddle, the Community Centers Program Coordinator at CNNC, manages two community centers in apartment complexes with large refugee populations. Another center is in a mobile home park with Latino residents.

The community centers offer services such as English classes, after school tutoring, social enrichment programs, and health screenings.

CNNC also provides opportunities for academic research on refugee experiences.

Biddle explains that “in addition to language and culture, there are challenges that other low income Americans face.”

One of the biggest is navigating the health care system, particularly if someone “hasn’t been to the doctor in 15 years.”

Biddle mentions a project with faculty in nutrition and public health. Bhutanese community leaders work with refugees from Bhutan and Nepal to serve as liaisons with the medical community. The goal, explains Biddle, is “better cultural connections to work with American doctors.”

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helps train and place refugees into jobs.

The association is a successful model of refugee-helping-refugee.

Former refugees offer support in other ways. Kiuahn and her husband took their four boys over Christmas holidays to visit a newly arrived Syrian family.

“We try to teach our kids to be appreciative of what we have. We try to connect them to the experiences we had growing up,” she says. The children played together despite the language barrier. Kiuanh asked the family what they needed, then she and her husband returned from Target with the items.

What next?

Local agencies are trying to figure out what current developments mean for refugee resettlement.

“We don’t know yet,” Mekonnon said in a phone interview.

The Executive Order isn’t clear about which refugees it will let in – or when.

He indicated that refugees are scheduled to arrive in Greensboro between now and February 27.

“We don’t know what is going to happen,” Mekonnon said.

He points to additional vague aspects of the Executive Order with no clarification. “For example, does it mean [refugees can’t come directly] from the country?

There are Somalis who have been living in Nairobi, Kenya for 20 years as a refugee.

We don’t know if this applies to them.

There are Iraqis in Jordan, Turkey. Are they included? “ Mekonnon indicated that African Services Coalition remains committed to solutions. “We don’t know what the future holds. But we are here. We will wait for the right time to assist.”

For many refugees, America is their last hope.

Kiuanh stresses that refugees want to work, and most express profound feelings of gratitude for this country.

“We don’t sit at home,” she says. “We feel we owe it to this country at least to support ourselves. This country gives us the opportunity to be safe. We just need a little bit of assistance in the beginning, but eventually we will be productive citizens of this country.”

Kiuanh and her husband own three restaurants in Greensboro: Boba House Vegetarian Restaurant, and two locations of nOma food and company, including the lunch counter at LeBauer Park.

She employees 60 people in Greensboro.

Kiuanh, like many refugees, grew up to become a local job creator.

Local resettlement and immigrant advocacy agencies, support organizations, and faith leaders gathered last Thursday

in Downtown Greensboro for a press conference.

Speakers highlighted the moral costs of recent actions. They reaffirmed a commitment to protect targeted communities.

Local refugee resettlement does something more than make a city feel good about itself, the speakers reiterated.

Immigrant and refugee presence collapses the space between the local and the global. In many cases, refugee crises are often tethered, in part, to American foreign policy.

Refugees also shared their experiences during the press conference. Doha al-Taki, a Syrian who arrived in the U.S. six months ago, took the microphone towards the end.

She closed with these words: “Because I am a refugee, I am not a terrorist. Because I am Syrian, I am not a terrorist. Because I am Muslim, I am not a terrorist. Because I wear the headscarf, I am not a terrorist. I am a human being and I want to live here with you in peace.” !

DEONNA KELLI SAYED is a writer, podcast producer, and storyteller. Learn more at dksayed.com, Twitter @ deonnakelli, and Facebook @deonnaksayed

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HEAR IT!

Luxuriant Sedans plan release show for Double Parked

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

T

he band Luxuriant Sedans aren’t out to rescue the blues exactly. The blues, of course, is a venerable, now timeless, African-American aesthetic style and form, one that infuses gospel, rock, bluegrass, hip-hop, country, jazz and more. So — the blues don’t need to be rescued. But what the band of seasoned Triad musicians are doing is giving blues-rock a nice jolt to the system, sanding off some rust from its undercarriage. Luxuriant Sedans release their second studio album, Double Parked, this month, and to mark the occasion the band will play a record-release show at the Garage in Winston-Salem.

Luxuriant Sedans are a rock band. If you appreciate a musical story that can move from and through Charley Patton to John Lee Hooker to the Small Faces to James Brown to AC/DC to Otis Redding to ZZ Top, then you’ll be able to get what Luxuriant Sedans are up to, and how it both relates to and shows a respect for keeping a tradition alive by staying limber and knowing a thing or two about the past.

Luxuriant Sedans pay tribute to the dynamism of rock and the blues by digging up fairly obscure tunes — from all over — and giving them a touch of chrome and internal combustion. But the band isn’t some kind of preservationist musicological outfit. They’re a sweaty and loud rock band, and they happen to be made up of Winston-Salem and Greensboro lifers, players who have been at it since the ‘70s and have soaked up what it means to plug in and play some crunchy chords with wailing harmonica, soulfully gruff singing, and driving rhythms.

“From the start, my vision of this was ‘Okay, we’ll use the blues as the root because we can do that until we’re 70 and we can put our stamp on it,’” says bassist and informal musical director Ed Bumgardner, a longtime music writer and fixture of the area music scene. “Looking for this material I wanted to re-find songs that had been discarded and had been forgotten.”

Bumgardner and his band bandmates — singer/harmonica player Mike “Wezo” Wesolowski, guitarists Rob Slater and Gino Grandinetti and drummer Bob Tarleton — succeeded. Even studious music fans will probably not be able to place some of these deep cuts by artists like John Nemeth and Marc Ford. It’s worth noting that many of the songs Luxuriant

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Sedans are reviving aren’t from the ‘50s or ‘20s, they’re from the last 25 years or so.

“What this is all about is the same thing that taught us how to play,” says Bumgardner. “When we got a Beatles record, or a Stones record or a Yardbirds record we’d go through it and look at the songwriting credits. That’s how we learned about Chuck Berry or Little Richard or Jimmy Reed. We’re part of an entire generation that had to find out about their own musical heritage from British imports.

Blues music had been discarded. This is the same thing.”

Luxuriant Sedans have only been a band since late 2013, but they’re all veterans of the area’s deep and impressive music scene. Bumgardner and guitarist Grandinetti have known each other since they were 12 or 13 years old. Bumgardner has known frontman Wesolowski since about the same time. As Bumgardner and Slater told me recently when we sat down to talk music at Bumgardner’s rock-memorabilia-filled home, something was happening in Winston-Salem in the ‘70s, some semi-mystical confluence of factors — really good radio stations, kids who were unusually talented musicians in their early teens, a cultural moment that made playing rock and blues the logical thing for loads of young kids from the leafy suburbs. This was a time when having long hair as a young man practically marked you as an outcast.

“Music was this refuge for all the musicians, and this town had tons of musicians,” says Bumgardner. “This town had tons of musicians and they were all really good.”

One point of connection for all of the members of Luxuriant Sedans was area guitarist Sam Moss, who passed away in 2007. At different times in their musical

careers all of the players crossed paths with Moss.

“In one way or another [Moss] brought us all to this,” says Slater.

And Moss remains deeply admired by the members of Luxuriant Sedans.

“He was literally as good as ever walked the earth,” says Bumgardner of Moss’s talent. “You push him hard enough and he’d go toe-to-toe with Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton.”

The project is, in a way, a tribute to Moss, whose playing never really got properly captured for posterity, though he made a demo recording with producer/ musician Mitch Easter, another of the band member’s local peers who recorded R.E.M., played in Let’s Active and who adds weight to Bumgardner’s theory that there was something in the Winston-Salem water in the ‘70s. (Luxuriant Sedans guitarist Slater also played in the Sneakers, the very Big Star and Replacementssounding late-’70s band that included Easter and Chris Stamey of the DBs.) Part of what makes Luxuriant Sedan more interesting than standard-issue blues rock is that they’ve been playing all kinds of music — proto-indie rock, folktinged acoustic, and other creative blends of American music — for long enough that those influences seem to have had a slowdrip effect on their sound, adding hints of color, texture and style.

Listen to “Poison Girl,” a song written by Chris Whitley with a sort of Springsteen-y narrative about troubled characters and a complicated romance and given a Stonesy bourbon-country touch by Luxuriant Sedans.

Or check out “Voodoo Moon,” a song by the Rocky Athas Group, which tells about a one-night stand complicated by spirit possession in New Orleans. It swings with

a bass groove that could have strode off a Led Zeppelin record. Frontman Wezo delivers the lyrics with a fitting nod to Howlin Wolf and Captain Beefheart, a soulful growl that suggests both wells of menacing compressed energy and a controlled restraint. It’s a little like Joe Cocker, but minus the excess theatricality. The band feathers in nifty staccato walk-ups and little touches that can bring to mind the attitudinal rock of the Kinks or the Clash in a context that might prompt a connection to Junior Wells or Dr. John. And Wezo’s harp playing is given a deserved center spot in the mix. His harmonica can sound like a tenor horn, and his breathy slurs, smears and moans up the lonesome-rambler element that’s already cooked into these songs.

For guys that started a band when they were in their early 60s, and who’ve probably each been playing for almost 50 years now, it’s impressive that Luxuriant Sedans don’t ever sound like they’re coasting or turning on auto-pilot. The interplay between the two guitars is subtle and tasteful, with muscle and crunch. Listen to the slashing riffs woven together on “Under the Gun.” The band can slide into slow-burn soul mode, like on “The Darkness” or into fast-moving material like album opener “Love Me Tonight,” which would be at home on a Motown/ Stax review. This is a band that sounds like they’re enjoying themselves. Chops are great and all, but all the experience in the world can’t replicate the energy that comes off of a group of solid players having a good time and paying attention to each other.

“We love playing so much, we have consistently rehearsed a couple times a week since the inception of the band and nobody every balks at it,” says Slater.

There was a time when musicians often seemed to sound jaded after they’d been playing for a few decades. There’s something nicely exuberant about Luxuriant Sedans and their attitude.

“I’ve been doing this since I was 12, and this is the most fun I’ve ever had,” says Bumgardner. “I think it’s the best band I’ve ever played in.” !

WANNA

go?

Luxuriant Sedans release Double Parked on Feb. 10 on Seventh Son Records. The band plays a record release show with the Red Dirt Revelators at 7 p.m. on Sat. Feb 11 at the Garage (110 West 7th St., Winston-Salem).

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Fri & Sat Feb 3&4

[CHOICE BEATS] Upcoming shows you should check out

[CONCERTS] Compiled by Alex Eldridge

CHARLOTTE

www.lincolntheatre.com FEBRUARY

F r 3 AMERICAN AQUARIUM

8p

Sa 4 AMERICAN AQUARIUM

8p

w/Hayes Carll / David Ramirez

Fr Sa Su Tu Fr Sa

10 11 12 14 17 18

w/ Joe Pug

NANTUCKET w.Driver/The Commune BETTER OFF DEAD (Grateful Dead) AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE THE WERKS/Electric Soul Pandemic ILL DIGITZ & DSCVRY (90’s) PERPETUAL GROOVE w/Groove Fetish / ELM 8p

Su 19 KELLY HOLLAND MEMORIAL

w/Hank Sinatra/ Jive Mother Mary /Automatic Slim 6:30p

Tu 21 BOOMBOX Th 23 LOUIS THE CHILD

w/Imad Royal / Manila Killa

Fr 24 THE LACS w/Almost Kings 8p Sa 25 LAST BAND STANDING 7p w/After Party feat: INDECISION Sa 25 CHERUB/FLOOZIES @ THE RITZ Su 26 LOX w/Uncle Murda 7p Th 2 Fr 3 Sa 4 We 8 Fr 10 Sa 11 Su 12 Th 16 Fr 17 Sa 18 We 22 Th 23 Fr 24

MARCH

JAZZ IS PHSH WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib LOS LONELY BOYS DAVID BROMBERG THE CLARKS w/Michael Tolcher BOWIE BALL Trib to DAVID BOWIE HOLLY BOWLING THE HIP ABDUCTION VANESSA CARLTON 7p GLOWRAGE RISING APPALACHIA 7p HIPPIE SABOTAGE REVEREND HORTON HEAT

American Aquarium Fri Feb 10

Nantucket ROYAL THUNDER/LORDS OF MACE/MORTIMER

The Garage (110 W. 7th St. Winston-Salem) Thursday Feb 2 9 p.m.

“ROYAL THUNDER are a four-piece rock band based out of Atlanta, Georgia that seamlessly blend the elements of heavy classic rock, 90’s grunge, and forwardthinking progressive rock. Propelled by the powerfully emotional voice of frontwoman Mlny Parsonz, the guitar heroics of Josh Weaver, and the dynamic drums of Evan Diprima, ROYAL THUNDER have been described by NPR as “a revved-up Southern hard-rock that howls like Led Zeppelin astride a psychedelic unicorn” and as “magnificently compelling rock music” by Decibel Magazine. Formed in 2004

by Weaver, his brother, and his best friend, the band went through several lineup changes over the years before settling on their current lineup, which also incorporated second guitarist Will Fiore as of 2015. http://bit.ly/royalthunder Instagram @royalthunder Twitter @RoyalThunderAtl Lords of Mace - Southern Doom Metal from Winston Salem. you know em.

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DPAC

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

Boombox

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HORIZONTAL HOLD/TOTALLY SLOW/CUCUMBERS

Test Pattern (701 N. Trade St. Winston-Salem) Friday Feb. 3 9 p.m.

“Horizontal Hold is a weird-pop quartet from North Carolina. The members have been in many NC bands of the recent (and not-so-recent) past including Wembley, Shiny Beast, In the Year of the Pig, Actual Persons Living or Dead, CantwellGomez&Jordan, Taija Rae, Analogue, Razzle, Drug Yacht, and others.

We recently put out a new EP with the PotLuck collective called “This Is Not a Living”. Old-fashioned CDs/downloads/streaming jams...whatever you like. https://horizontalholdnc.bandcamp.com/“ - via Facebook

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CAROLINA THEATRE

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STAGE IT!

[PLAYBILL]

Head-bang to Theatre Alliance’s Rock of Ages rock musical

by Lenise Willis

F

rom jumping on the bed, screaming, “Love is a battlefield” into your hairbrush, to tracing your eyes with dramatic black eyeliner, the 80s rocked; they rocked Lenise Willis hard. It was the time for big hair, Contributing lots of hairspray and a freeing musical columnist revolution. Marked by the works of Pat Benatar, Journey, Styx, Bon Jovi and Poison, it’s the perfect decade to highlight in a rock musical, and thus was born Rock of Ages.

Taking a stab at the high-energy musical, which performs more like a rock concert itself than a typical musical, is Theatre Alliance, which only seems fitting seeing as its director Jamie Lawson has a soft spot for both music and the 80s.

“It has been a blast; it’s like a time machine to my youth,” Lawson said. “It has really made me feel younger, just hearing all of these songs again.”

The musical focuses on an aspiring rock-star and a small-town girl, who both see their dreams rise and fall, all while weaving in the works of the “glam metal” bands of the decade.

In the show, it’s the tail end of the raging 1980s in Hollywood, when Aqua Net, Lycra, lace and liquor flowed freely.

Amidst the madness of Stacee Jaxx jamming on stage and partying harder afterward, aspiring rock star (and resident toilet cleaner) Drew longs to take the stage as the next big thing. He also longs for a certain small-town girl.

But when German developers sweep into town with plans to turn their legendary venue into a strip mall, the rock-androll fairytale is threatened—and the gang must save the day through the music of Whitesnake, Twisted Sister and other icons.

“It is a perfect show for anyone who even remotely enjoys 80s tunes,” Lawson said. “I’m someone who keeps his radio dial on the ‘oldies’ station 98.7, so it is bliss to basically create MTV videos onstage.”

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Seph Schonekas and Gray Smith as Lonny and Dennis in Theatre Alliance’s Rock of Ages.

“The music itself does most of the work,” Lawson continued, “but we like to help it out with fun costuming and big, teased hair, of course.”

One of the biggest challenges the crew has faced is making sure they don’t damage their voices while singing the high, grungy notes that are typical of rock songs, and of course, learning the dance moves and maintaining the insane level of energy that go with throwing a “rock concert.”

Songs include “We Built This City” by Starship, “Nothing But a Good Time”

by Poison, “Keep On Lovin’ You” by REO Speedwagon, “I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister, “Shadows of the Night” by Pat Benatar, and “The Final Countdown” by Europe, just to name a few. !

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Theatre Alliance performs Rock of Ages Feb. 10-26 at its theatre on 1047 Northwest Blvd. WinstonSalem. Tickets are $18 general admission. For tickets and more information call 336-723-7777 or visit wstheatrealliance.org. Performance is rated R for harsh language and sexual content.

Continuing this weekend is the 15th annual Greensboro Fringe Festival with original performances this week through Feb. 6 in the Greensboro Cultural Center.

Thursday’s line-up includes For Love of Country, by JOYMOVEMENT dance company, which explores what healing and reconciliation look like. Performances are at 6 p.m. in the Crown at Carolina Theatre. Following the performance will be the dance production Fringe Dance I, featuring works by five dance artists.

Queen B, running Thursday through Saturday in the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre, portrays the strength of women as two storytellers fuse their own personal tales of courage with that of a British Celtic queen who led a famous uprising against the Romans 2,000 years ago.

Alarm of the People, a WWII vignette play about spies, serial killers and saints, also runs Thursday through Saturday in the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre.

If you’re looking for a way to shake up your weekend, check out Late Night Happy–a performance combining the fire-happy duo Fabulous Fitzkee’s Fanatical Fun and MurderAnn, a rockcomedy duo. Show runs Friday and Saturday.

Also running Friday and Saturday only is Black Lives Don’t Matter: America’s Dirty Laundry at the Caldcleugh Multicultural Center. The moving production ponders racial profiling, police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement by bringing history, culture and race into the framework of the prison pipeline.

All performances are a suggested donation of $10. Visit greensborofringefestival.org for a full show schedule.

New on Thursday, Steinway artist Robin Spielberg will compile melodies and sensitive piano technique during a concert at High Point Theatre.

Theatre Alliance’s comedy Zanna Don’t! continues this week through Sunday. Set in Heartsville High where almost everyone is gay, the play is a light-hearted look at homosexuality and love. When the students write a controversial show, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a young man and woman end up falling in love.

Beginning previews this Sunday is Triad Stage’s The Price, an Arthur Miller play about two brothers who never speak, a retired used furniture dealer and a woman who longs to live the life she never had. In this play, considered one of Miller’s best works, the past and present collide, and secrets and rivalries are revealed. !

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Patriots Day: The bombing in Boston Patriots Day marks the third fact-based, big-screen teaming of filmmaker Peter Berg and producer/ star Mark Wahlberg, following Lone Survivor (2013) and the recent Deepwater Horizon, which depicted ordinary people swept up in extraordinary circumstances.

The film, based on Casey Wedge and Dave Sherman’s best-seller Boston Strong, is of course about the terrorist bombings during the Boston Marathon in April 2015.

Once again, Wahlberg portrays an everyman-as-hero, in this case Tommy Saunders, a hard-working -- if outspoken – police sergeant who witnesses first-hand the destruction wrought by the bombings then finds himself at the forefront of the subsequent investigation and pursuit of the sibling terrorists (played by Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze), who remain at large.

Julieta: A woman on the verge Julieta, an adaptation of three short stories taken from Alice Munro’s award-winning 2004 best-seller Runaway, marks the 20th feature from the acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, who for a time considered making it his English-language debut, with Meryl Streep playing both the younger and older

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versions of the title character.

Instead, he cast Adriana Ugarte and Emma Suarez, who resemble each other enough to make the transition work, comfortably if not entirely seamlessly.

The story unfolds like a mystery, as the older Julieta looks back on her marriage to Xoan (Daniel Grao) and her relationship with their daughter Antia (played

by Priscilla Delgado and then Blanca Pares). Xoan’s tragic death was the impetus for an ongoing estrangement between mother and daughter, and although Julieta has suppressed her emotions, her grief and sense of loss have festered over the years. A chance meeting with one of Ava’s childhood acquaintances (Michelle Jenner) has brought that anger and pain flooding back.

Colorful and, yes, florid at times, Julieta is in many ways quintessential Almodovar – which is not a bad thing at all. The characters have hidden secrets that threaten to consume them, yet he evinces a compassion for their individual and collective plights. In his screenplay, he has again fashioned strong roles for women. The female characters drive the story, which affords many opportunities for the actresses on hand – also including Inma Cuesta, Pilar Castro and long-time Almodovar favorite Rossy de Palma – to shine, even in smaller roles.

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There’s a strong cast on hand -- John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Beach, Vincent Curatola and Melissa Benoist – yet the screenplay, which tries too hard to accommodate too many characters, doesn’t always show them off to the best advantage. Few characters emerge in much detail, and there’s an “us versus them” mentality – whether intentional or unintentional -- when it comes to the Muslim characters, which seems vaguely inflammatory.

It’s impossible not to be moved by certain scenes, many of which are indel-

ibly imprinted in the collective memory given the extensive media coverage of an event which occurred only three years ago.

The film cannot be dismissed out of hand, given its intentions, which are laudable and nobly-inclined.

Like Berg’s previous collaborations with Wahlberg, Patriots Day is both earnest and intense, and the physical production very impressive. The action scenes are powerfully rendered, particularly a ferociously effective shoot-out with the bombers on a previously sleepy suburban street that ranks as one of the best action sequences in recent memory. !

Michael Keaton: Lord of the fries The Founder is a good movie with a great performance by Michael Keaton, playing the real-life Ray Kroc, who turned the McDonald’s fast-food franchise into the mega-buck, globalized institution it is today. He wasn’t the inventor, but he was the revolutionary.

The Golden Arches didn’t always have the golden touch – until Kroc came into the picture.

Under the direction of John Lee Hancock, Keaton’s Ray Kroc is aggressive, ambitious, a dreamer, a huckster, a born showman and a visionary. It’s the sort of showy role that this energetic, inherently likable actor pulls off with great finesse, even when the character does things that are anything but likable.

Orbiting Keaton’s stellar turn are Laura Dern (first-rate as Ray’s worried wife Ethel), B.J. Novak, Patrick Wilson and Linda Cardellini, as well as terrific teamwork by John Carroll Lynch and Nick Offerman as the McDonald brothers (Mac and Dick), whose historical status as the actual founders of McDonald’s has largely been forgotten. Such was the overwhelming and all-pervasive influence of Kroc (who died in 1984).

Hancock treats the story almost as if it’s an introduction to McDonald’s, knowing full well the viewer’s familiarity with it.

This adds some humorous, subtly ironic touches with one’s knowledge of how vast its empire has grown, how McDonald’s is ingrained in the very fabric of American culture.

Not unlike such previous efforts as The Rookie (2002), The Blind Side (2009) and Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Hancock brings an upbeat, can-do spirit to the proceedings, and John Schwartman’s bright cinematography is awash in Americana

and nostalgia.

Not everything is presented sunny side up, however, as the film’s third act clearly conveys Kroc’s ruthlessness, shifting from dreamer to schemer as he wrests control of McDonald’s for himself. Even the American Dream sometimes has a dark lining. The Founder is neither a salute nor a condemnation of Kroc, but a credible and entertaining dramatization of the birth of a fast-food nation – his fast-food nation.

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Secondhand Time recounts the chaos of a collapsed state

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erestroika began as a conscious attempt to restructure the economy of the Soviet Union in response to weak growth and declining production. Over the course of six years Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to guide the economy into becoming a bastard child of both communism and capitalism, but capitalism won and, in that winning, the Soviet Union collapsed. What had been promised, by Gorbachev and Yeltsin after him, was a glorious age of personal freedom and the free market. What happened instead was the looting of the country by a few people for billions and billions of dollars while others starved and social structures broke down.

“The beginning of capitalism...” someone remarks in the interviews recorded from 1991-2012 by Svetlana Alexievich, “You could become a millionaire overnight or get a bullet to the head.”

No one interviewed in the book ever

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meets Gorbachev or Yeltsin and, it could be argued, no one understands the policies put in place or the goals they were attempting to achieve. This is a book about what happens to normal people on the ground during the dismantling of a government. It’s the story of how impossible it is to conceive of what is going on in your country as it begins to dissolve, and the strategies people adopt in order to survive.

Alexievich has, over the course of her writing life, essentially created a new non-fiction form. Woven almost seamlessly from hundreds of interviews over years and years, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Random House, $30) is a record of the kinds of conversations that take place in kitchens, living rooms, bars, and coffee houses, a record of people talking about the recent past, the remembered past, and the murkiness of a future. Alexievich never imposes herself into the narrative, preferring to give her ‘characters’ the space to tell their own stories. Only in the rarest instances does

are Voices from Chernobyl, a record of the Chernobyl disaster and the years following, and Zinky Boys, about the Russian side of the Afghan War. In any book like this based upon interviews, one of the subjects being explored is always memory: What do we remember and why? How close is our memory to what actually occurred? What happens when our memory doesn’t overlap with the memory of those around us. In this regard, Alexievich wants to explore what she calls ‘domestic’ or ‘interior’ socialism, that is, the remembered experience of the individual and not the official historical record.

One woman tells her: “I remember my first supermarket, it was in Berlin: a hundred different kinds of salami, a hundred different cheeses. It was baffling. Many discoveries awaited us after perestroika, countless new thoughts and new sensations. They haven’t been described yet, she insert an observalet alone integrated into tion (“she is in tears history.” now...); she does not In reference to the title, provide commentary.

Alexievich explains: “On The result can be the eve of the 1917 Revolustarkly intimate, as if tion, Alexander Grin wrote, we are overhearing the “And the future seems to most personal converhave stopped standing in its sation from the next proper place.” Now, a huntable over. dred years later, the future There are horrific is, once again, not where stories here: of surviving Svetlana Alexievich it ought to be. Our time the war, the Gulag, the comes to us secondhand.” repression of a police Her purpose, she says, is “not to create state. Stories from soldiers, former party an exact picture, but a stained-glass officials, and people just trying to get by window, if you will, as a musician or a from one day to next. There are stories of composer might try to develop different love and children and beauty but always, melodies in order for them to blend in for Alexievich, it’s an awkward, tarnished the ensemble and create that effect. I kind of beauty which, to my mind, makes wanted to create the image of time.” it all the more astonishing.

Secondhand Time is exhaustive and “I’m searching for a language,” she exhausting. Like many intimate consays in an interview. “People speak many versations, it can go on too long as the different languages. There’s the one they characters explore ways of expressing use with children, another one for love. themselves, and the stories can become There’s the language we use to talk to strikingly similar because, well, they ourselves, for our internal monologues. are strikingly similar. Still, the overall There’s even a difference between the effect is of individual voices, yes, but also way people speak in the morning and something like the voice of a suffering how they speak at night.” nation.

Alexievich was born in Belarus, a It’s important, especially to us, now, as former Soviet Bloc country. Her parents we watch our nation become something were journalists there. Her mentor was else before our eyes. !

Belarusian author Ales Adomovich, who believed the 20th Century so horrific that it needed no elaboration or adornment.

Her previous books, available in English,

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Celebrate tomorrow’s filmmakers at free UNCSA screening The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) will present a special screening of student short films Friday, Feb. 10 in the ACE Exhibition Complex on the UNCSA main campus – and Mark Burger everyone’s invited.

The sole selecContributing tion from first-year students is Sweater columnist Getter, an animated Christmas comedy written, directed and animated by Anna Kamaroff. Second-year student films include Acrylics, produced by Matseliso Tlelai and written and directed by Bridget Anderson, set in a nail salon; Pigeonhearts, a coming-of-age fable set in rural North Carolina, produced by Kevin Cutrara and written and directed by Grant Conversano; and the teen drama Blackhead, written by producer Lauren Henderson and director Jack McLain.

Third-year selections include Gertie Gunther Knits a Stitch, a comedy about marital discord and “speed-knitting,” produced by Darren Dai, written by Marylea Wiley, and directed by Sean Rooney; and As Large as Alone, a drama about love, loss and grief, produced by Emil Tomosunas and Clayton Aggeles, written by Noelle Aleman, and directed by Chad Knuth.

Rounding out the event is a trio of fourth-year student screenings: Broken, a

drama set in the days after the Civil War, produced by Andrea Goocher, written

by Michael Pastore, Dustin Chandler an Cole Townsend McCabe, and directed by Wren Culp; Le Soi, yet another example of the burgeoning animation talent at UNCSA, an abstract short about a ballerina coming to terms with insecurity, produced by Noelle Aleman and directed and animated by Catherine Salisbury; and Parchment Wings, a fantasy/drama about hope and overcoming tragedy, produced by Sofia Thomasson, written by Noelle Aleman (her third film credit for this event!), and directed by

Fernando Medina.

As well as showcasing the talent at UNCSA, both in front of and behind the camera, these films also showcase the Piedmont Triad region.

It’s not uncommon to recognize familiar landmarks and, perhaps, some familiar faces too.

In an official statement, Susan Ruskin, dean of the School of Filmmaker dean and curator for this screening, said: “Our students create films in each of their four years of undergraduate study. That is one of the features that sets us apart from other top-tier film programs across the

country. We are proud to present some of the best films created last year in each of the classes.”

The School of Filmmaking was also recognized as one of the nation’s top 50 film schools by The Wrap (http:// www.thewrap.com/), the popular news organization that covers media and entertainment. The inaugural College Issue (published Dec. 22) saw an anonymous poll of industry insiders, professionals, educators and film pundits that evaluated the achievements of film schools around the nation.

UNCSA was tied at Number 10 with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. The article noted the success of School of Filmmaking graduates David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Undertow, Snow Angels) and Jeff Nichols (Loving, Mud, Midnight Special).

“We are competing with institutions across the country and around the world,” Ruskin said in a statement. “Being noted by an important industry publication like The Wrap is an excellent way to raise awareness for our film school.” !

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The UNCSA School of Filmmaking’s screening of student short films will take place 7 pm Friday, Feb. 10 in the Main Theatre of ACE Exhibition Complex on the UNCSA campus, 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem. Admission is free. For more information, visit the official UNCSA website: http:// www.uncsa.edu/

RiverRun salutes the screen legacy of Barbara Stanwyck Following the success of its inaugural “RiverRun Retro” in November featuring actress Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank) and noted film historian Foster Hirsch, the RiverRun International Film Festival will present this Thursday a special screening of the 1937 classic Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck, a discussion with Stanwyck biographer Victoria Wilson and a signing of her 2013 book A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel – True 1907-1940.

The event takes place at Hanesbrands Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem (doors open at 6:30 pm). BookMarks will have copies of Fuller’s book available for purchase, and the reception will feature light hors d’oeuvres from Mooney’s Mediterranean Cafe, craft beers from Hoots Beer Co., and wines from McRitchie Winery.

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The 1937 version of Stella Dallas, adapted from Olive Higgins Prouty’s classic novel and directed by King Vidor, earned Stanwyck her first Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She would subsequently be nominated for Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), and was presented with an honorary Oscar in 1982. She also won two Emmy Awards (for “The Barbara Stanwyck Show” and “The Big Valley”).

Fuller’s biography, which covers only the first 33 years in Stanwyck’s life (she died in 1990 at age 83), is merely the first volume in what is widely being hailed as perhaps the most thorough and comprehensive look at the actress’ life. More than 15 years in the making, Fuller had the full cooperation of Stanwyck’s family and friends, drawing on over 200 interviews with those

who knew and worked with her, as well as the publication – in many cases for the very first time – of Stanwyck’s personal correspondence, journals, and private papers. !

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The “RiverRun Retro” screening of Stella Dallas, and discussion and book signing with author Victoria Wilson (A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel – True 1907-1940) will take place 7 pm at Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 W. Spruce St., Winston-Salem. Admission is $15 (adults), $10 (students with valid ID). Tickets are available online at: http://www.rhodesartcenter.org/. For more information about this and other RiverRun events, call 336.724.1502 or visit the official website: http://riverrunfilm.com/.

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ur monthly Chef’s Tables have been a great hit. Food and fellowship…a combo that will make your heart full, exactly what we need these days.

This month, we wanted to share the talents of a local chef who is so beloved in our area that many of his comrades around here consider him the backbone of our culinary community, Chef Jeff Bacon, Founding Director and Executive Chef of Triad Community Kitchen and Providence Restaurant.

First….Triad Community Kitchen is a program of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, a major distributor of food and grocery products to hundreds of nonprofit partner agencies in the 18-county region it serves. Bacon considers Triad Community Kitchen and Providence his “mission in life.” Founded in 2006, TCK helps the unemployed, underemployed and those seeking to create a new start with culinary job training, prepare meals for distribution and catering.

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the newly remodeled DoubleTree by Hilton on University Parkway. It is a true farm-to-fork restaurant that is home to Triad Community Kitchen’s Hospitality Residency Program, where graduates embark on their new career and work alongside professionals to prepare them for the culinary world and hopefully enter the workforce in a higher paying leadership role. All proceeds from patron’s tabs provide support for the program.

Additional donations are accepted in lieu of tips.

It is quite the program and it has generated some culinary greats, including Chef Janis Karathanas, formerly of Mozelle’s and who’s currently taking on an educator role at TCK. Last week’s team consisted of Chef Bacon, of course, as well as sous chef, Matthias Gomez and Brea Ready, Leroy Cook, Keontaye Watson and Providence Executive Chef, Vanessa Lanier.

The dishes served at our Chef’s Table were special for our event. And that’s half the fun of our gatherings, to let the chef and his team surprise us. We went “Around the World with Local Ingredients.”

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community. Within the book, you also see TCK success stories. Graduates, who have gone on to cook in and lead kitchens and restaurants in the area and beyond; and how they came to Triad Community Kitchen and the program changed their lives. Those graduates’ recipes are there, as well.

Providence Restaurant calls itself a restaurant where you can “dine for a cause.”

As they put it, “Food nourishes a person.

Employment nourishes a family. A gathering place nourishes a community.”

Left to right: Matthias Gomez, Brea Ready, Chef Jeff Bacon, Leroy Cook, and Keontaye Watson.

COURSE ONE

Pan Seared Scallops with purple sweet potato puree, leak and pancetta fondue and sage brown butter This was a beautiful entree with the purple sweet potato puree agains those golden scallops. The scallops were perfectly cooked and the flavors went together amazingly well. I love purple sweet potatoes. They taste a little different than a traditional sweet potato…a bit earthier.

Brown butter makes everything taste that much better. Chef Bacon says this scallops dish is a featured entree quite often. We advise you follow them on Facebook to see when it re-emerges.

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New Orleans Crawfish Bisque Quite simple but luscious and a bright.

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hard to beat. I really love the Asian flavors of curry spices and coconut. The heritage pork from Harmony Ridge Farms was so tender. It just melted in your mouth. The coconut broth was the perfect vessel for it. The side of sticky rice in the form of a little cake was delicious alongside. If it was on the menu, I’d go back for this dish.

It’s actually something you might find craving after a few days.

Each of our Chef’s Table guests were gifted with Bacon’s and Triad Community Kitchen’s book, “Tested By Fire.” The book is filled with some of Bacon’s own recipes as well as many other restaurants in the

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

IS IT SOMETHING I WED?

Two of my girlfriends just got divorced. Both recently admitted to me that they knew they shouldn’t have gotten married at the time but did Amy Alkon anyway. Just this weekend, another Advice friend — married Goddess for only a year and fighting bitterly with her husband — also said she knew she was making a mistake before her wedding. Can you explain why anyone would go through with something as serious and binding as marriage if they have reservations? — Confused Consider that in most areas of life, when you’re making a colossal mistake, nobody is all, “Hey, how about a coronation-style party, a Caribbean cruise, and a

brand-new blender?”

But it isn’t just the allure of the star treatment and wedding swag that leads somebody to shove their doubts aside and proceed down the aisle. Other influences include parental pressure, having lots of married or marrying friends, being sick of dating, and feeling really bad about guests with nonrefundable airline tickets. There’s also the notion that “marriage takes work” — meaning you can just put in a little emotional elbow grease and you’ll stop hating your spouse for being cheap, bad in bed, and chewing like a squirrel.

However, it also helps to look at how we make decisions — and how much of our reasoning would more accurately be called “emotioning.” We have a powerful aversion to loss and to admitting we were wrong, and this can cause us to succumb to the “sunk cost effect.” Sunk costs are investments we’ve already made — of time, money, or effort. The “sunk cost effect” is decision researcher Hal Arkes’ term for our tendency to — irrationally, ego-servingly — keep throwing time, money, or effort into

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something based on what we’ve already put in. Of course, our original investment is gone. So the rational approach would be deciding whether to keep investing based on whether the thing’s likely to pay off in the future.

A way to avoid the sunk cost trap is through what psychologists call “prefactual thinking” — thinking out the possible outcomes before you commit to some risky course of action. Basically, you play the role of a pessimistic accountant and imagine all the ways your plan could drag you straight down the crapper.

But don’t just imagine all the awful things that could happen. Write out a list — a detailed list. So, for example, if you sense you could be making a mistake by getting married, don’t go all shortcutty, like “get divorced!” Parse out the ittybitties, like “figure out how the hell to find a decent divorce lawyer”; “get lost on the way to the lawyer’s office and stand on the side of the road weeping”; and “start working as the indentured servant of a bunch of sorority girls to pay the lawyer’s retainer.” Yeah, that kind of detail.

Making potential losses concrete like this helps you weigh current costs against the future ones. This, in turn, could help you admit that you and your not-entirelybeloved might have a real shot at happily

ever after — if only the one of you in the big white dress would bolt out the fire exit instead of walking down the aisle.

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I’m a 32-year-old guy using dating apps. I was in a long-term relationship that ended badly, and I’m not ready for anything serious right now. I get that many women are ultimately looking for a relationship. I don’t want to ghost them if they start getting attached, but saying from the get-go that I just want something casual seems rude and a bit presumptuous. — Conflicted Not everybody likes to spoon after sex.

You like to slip out of the house without being noticed.

It isn’t presumptuous to explain “from the get-go” that you aren’t ready for anything serious; it’s the right thing to do. Lay that out in your online profile (or at least in your first conversation) so women are clear that you’re an aspiring sexfriend, not an aspiring boyfriend. Consider, however, that research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend finds that even women who are sure that casual sex is all they’re looking for can get clingy afterward — to their great surprise. Townsend explains that women’s emotions evolved to “act as an alarm system that urges women to

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test and evaluate investment and remedy deficiencies even when they try to be indifferent to investment.”

Ghosting — just disappearing on somebody you’re dating, with no explanation — is dignity-shredding. If a woman does end up wanting more than you can give, you need to do the adult thing and tell her you’re ending it. Sure, that’ll be seriously uncomfortable for both of you. But keep in mind that bad news is usually the road to recovery, while no news is the road to randomly running into a woman everywhere, including your shower. !

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