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Something special happened on the evening of Feb. 19. Gone was Valentine’s Day, but love was certainly in the air. The love of food and fellowship. Thus, the story of another Chef’s Table. This one, featuring CHEF CHRIS RUSSELL of B. Christopher’s Steakhouse. It could’ve been made special by the fact that the 40-seat dinner sold out in two days flat. 10 Color coding is not just used to organize closets, or as a studying technique. A University of North Carolina Greensboro doctoral student hopes to harness the power of the COLOR CODING pedagogy to help educate children in multiculturalism. 11 Following successful screenings of The Fabulous Allan Carr in January and Rebels on Pointe earlier this month, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies series keeps on rolling, with writer/ producer/director Ofir Raul Graizer’s acclaimed drama THE CAKEMAKER... 12 When people think of folk musicians, singer-songwriters often come to mind. JIM KWESKIN is a life-long folk musician, both a product of and a big name in the folk revival.
Kweskin is known not for any songs he wrote — he’s not a songwriter — but for his masterful Piedmont-style guitar playing... 18 In in the same manner as high-school yearbooks that include such senior superlatives as Most Likely to Succeed, ANNIHILATION should come branded with the designation Most Likely to Clear Theaters. It will likely remain the 2018 equivalent of what Darren Aronofsky’s mother! was to 2017 cinema: a metaphoric mind-bender that will find favor with select moviegoers... 23 Eight of nine city council members agreed to make poverty the top-ranking priority for Greensboro in 2018 during a recent retreat. 24 Fred Koury’s PLANTATION SUPPER CLUB in Greensboro brought to the area musical immortals such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Mary Wells, Brenda Lee, the Righteous Brothers, Duke Ellington, The Shirelles, Ray Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nelson Eddie, Frank Sinatra Jr., Gene Krupa, even that notorious scoundrel Joe E. Ross. Glamorous and exciting as this period was for some, it came to an abrupt end in a most 1960s-way.
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She sales petite to plus sized clothing and her mission is to change how society places beauty in certain sizes of women. Haynes wants all women, no matter what size or shape, to feel beautiful. She wrote that her “target audience is girls from 15 to women who are 40 years old.” Haynes stated that she hopes to in the future have a storefront along with her online shop. “It has always been a dream of mine to have a store that I created from the ground up.” Haynes said with a lot of hard work and dedication to her business and customers; she hopes to have a shop for them to come in one day. Until Haynes can open her store, you can find her on Facebook by searching @theboutique1860, or on Instagram using the handle @boutique1860. She also plans on creating a website to showcase her merchandise. She said it would be posted on her social media pages when it is created. !
What is the newest trend? Online shopping! It’s quick, easy and if you have a device that can connect to the internet, you can shop from the comfort of anywhere. I interviewed High Point resident Rebekah Haynes via text, who owns Boutique 1860, an online boutique that she runs on Facebook and Instagram. She also does pop-up shops from time to time around the Triad. Haynes named the shop Boutique 1860 because her favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected in 1860. “I wanted the name to have a significant meaning to me,” she wrote. The main reason for her to open this online shop was that she believes it is convenient for shoppers and she can reach a bigger audience online. “I personally love to shop this way,” Haynes sent in a text message. “So I feel that others would too! And thought this would be a great way to start my new business.”
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omething special happened on the evening of Feb. 19. Gone was Valentine’s Day, but love was certainly in the air, the love of food and fellowship. Thus, Kristi Maier the story of another @triadfoodies Chef’s Table, this one, featuring Chef Chris Russell of B. Contributor Christopher’s Steakhouse. It could’ve been made special by the fact that the 40-seat dinner sold out in two days flat. It could’ve been made special by the fact that Chef Russell added four more seats that sold out in 10 minutes to accommodate a waiting list. But what made it most memorable and extraordinary was the sheer delight in the camaraderie of Russell’s guests, some who’d never stepped foot in his restaurant. That’s what Chef’s Tables are all about; to introduce you to a chef, get to know him or her a little better and to dive in and try a restaurant that maybe you just haven’t gotten around to yet. Oh, and it’s also to have a little fun. And by the chatter in the room, I feel pretty certain that folks were having a great time. Established in 2000, B. Christopher’s American Steakhouse was a popular restaurant in Burlington and enjoyed business there for nearly 15 years before Russell relocated to downtown Greensboro four and a half years ago. I’d just eaten there for the first time last August and reviewed it here on Page 8 after a wonderful experience. It was then we all agreed that this steakhouse, which was about much more than just steak, was a natural fit for a Chef’s Table. Russell spent part of his growing up years in Burlington and attended Elon University before he began his culinary journey. He said his first love as a chef has been roasting and grilling proteins but he’s enjoyed going in many other directions over his 30-year professional career. “Lately, I don’t think about what I cook or how I’m cooking neces-
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sarily, but why I’m cooking and putting this on a plate,” he said. Russell said today he’s taking a more artistic approach. “Not to be too serious about it because it is just nutrients that people need, but like any artist, I want people to see what I’m up to. Hopefully, people will see the care in it, whether it’s the knife skills or vegetable cuts, the layers and depth of flavor. Our palates work in a linear way, and a bite may catch you one way, and by the time you finish it may taste another way.” Chef prepared four courses, each featuring a different key component from Shellfish to Sweet. Shellfish Scallop Crudo Citrus/ Thai chile / mango / ginger / rice vinegar / mint / oil Salad Grilled Pear Salad Greens / pears / candied walnuts / blue cheese / mustard vinaigrette / caramelized onions / balsamic Meat 45-day Dry Aged Ribeye Horseradish potatoes / roasted Roma tomatoes / Foyot sauce Sweet Flourless Chocolate Torte / raspberry coulis Each course was thoughtfully prepared, and I heard more than one person say that the salad was the best they’d ever had. I, for one, love a great steak. And Russell’s ribeye was simple, yet beautifully presented. I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever enjoyed a flourless chocolate torte, but our dessert that evening was very creamy and very rich and really delicious. Speaking of his cooking style, Russell told me, “I like clean, approachable ingredients that people are familiar with and
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I like to sneak in some that people aren’t and that’s also fun.” Russell’s approachability extends far beyond just his food in the kitchen. After welcoming the guests at the Chef’s Table and retreating to the kitchen to get some courses out, Russell made it a point to come out and speak to each guest, often taking a seat at their table to enjoy some conversation. “Not only was the food phenomenal, but it was awesome that Chris was as involved with the group as he was,” said Chef’s Table “alumna” Meg Lohuis, of Greensboro. “It was great chatting with him. It really struck me how personable he was.” Russell has also been a mentor for many young chefs in the area, most notably, Chef Kris Fuller of the widely regarded Crafted restaurants in WinstonSalem and Greensboro. “When I met her as a teenager, I knew she had more get up and go in her pinky than most people had in their entire body, so it’s wonderful what she’s done and today I get inspiration from her, and she and her family are very good friends.” Fuller recalled the day she walked into his restaurant, and he took her under his wing, “Chris and his brother Eric were so kind and patient with me as just a kid in high school trying to figure out if my passion
for cooking meant that this should be my career path. I didn’t know it then, but I know now that my time with them was very important in me pursuing this career. And all these years later, it’s great to have had worked under them and to still have a relationship with Chris to this day.” Russell said he considers it a great accomplishment that he has been able to serve as a mentor for many sous chefs and others in his restaurant that he’s seen leave to achieve their own dreams. “It is one of the greatest feelings that one can have when you can mentor or inspire a person in a way that they go on and do great things. I want to take what I’ve learned and give that to someone else. It should be the natural way of the world, to pass on our knowledge so that others can move on and do better. I take a lot of pride in that.” ! KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.
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olor coding is not just used to organize closets or as a studying technique. A University of North Carolina Greensboro doctoral student hopes to harness the Katie Murawski power of the color coding pedagogy to help educate children Editor in multiculturalism. Whitney Wingate is a doctoral student in the UNCG English department, an intern at Duke Press and has taught at various institutions such as Duke University and Saint Augustine University in Raleigh. Wingate hopes to accomplish teaching multiculturalism through various books of color. Her first book, African American Book of Colors, focuses on African American identity and culture. What exactly is a book of color? Well, it is not a coloring book but rather, a book that teaches young children colors--such as red, blue, green, yellow, etc. “I hope to encourage multiculturalism through the practice of basic knowledge instruction so that the next generations of citizens will have an established habit of integrated thinking as well as an appreciation for every culture,” Wingate wrote in an email. “This book also features icons who were celebrated by many black Americans, rather than figures white/mainstream Americans assigned as valuable to the larger national culture.” She said her book features 10 colors
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Whitney Wingate poses with her color book turned to the Prince “purple” page used as representatives of 10 popular African American icons from black history. Each icon is depicted by a child model (aka her daughter, nieces and nephews) wearing African prints that are reminiscent of the icon represented. The images are placed next to illustrations with “pithy poems,” which she stated was great for early readers “to learn sight words and phonemes through rhyming.” Over some coffee from Common Grounds on Friday, Wingate told me about her book. She said she got the idea after the birth of her now 3-year-old daughter, who is biracial. “Race became a much more taboo topic than I thought that it ever was, and I kind
of felt like she was trapped in the middle of it,” Wingate said. “So I wanted to make sure she had access to some kinds of representations of black identity.” Wingate said the representation of African American identity has improved since she was a child but it is still extremely important for early childhood development and especially for her daughter. “I started looking at how I incorporate black cultural icons in her life, and I couldn’t find the resources that I needed,” Wingate said. “I decided one day, wouldn’t it be cool since she has all of these books of color, wouldn’t it be cool to have a black theme?” But she did not stop there; she started to wonder what if every kid had a book of color that could teach them about cultural identity. Wingate said she is now working on a series of books of color that feature Latino, Asian American, Native American, Americans with Disabilities, Women of America, Muslims of America and Immigrants of America. “I think we have a segregated multiculturalism project that we try to push on to our kids once they are already establishing and imbibing social, racial hierarchy,” she said. “That is why I thought [the book] was a good idea.” Some of the icons Wingate chose to use were four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens (associated with the color
white), American dancer Josephine Baker (pink), one of the most famous American artists Jean-Michel Basquiat (brown), the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama (green) and of course, one of America’s most beloved musical icons who just recently passed away, Prince (who is obviously associated with the color purple). Wingate made a point to pick certain African American icons over others that have been traditionally represented, such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. “I chose (Malcolm) X in order to represent black spiritual diversity and because he prioritized equality over integration, which demands an acknowledgment of humanity that integration didn’t necessarily.” Wingate hopes her book conveys the messages of inclusion, equality, and practice because she said learning is a practice. “You don’t show your kid, ‘this is pink,’ and then the next day they just know ‘hey this is pink for the rest of my life,’ it is a habit you have to keep getting them to engage with,” she said. “That is what I was hoping to get parents. Especially for parents of children who are not white or not biracial and be able to get their children in the habit of constructing an identity for blackness into this educational sphere. Not just for black children, but for Latinos, for Asian Americans, for Native Americans, for people with disabilities. There is a wealth of knowledge and education you can get out of that without being a separate unit. I would like for this book to be a practice of multicultural education.” Ideally with her book, she said children will learn their colors. But, she hopes children will tether those colors to cultural knowledge. Her recommended readership for these books aims for children who are ages 0-6. While the book is not published yet, she is working on getting it out for children in the community to read. She has big ideas for more books when she gets this project off the ground, so it looks like you’ll be reading much more of Whitney Wingate in the near future. ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.
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The Cakemaker rises March 10 as OUT at the Movies screening Following successful screenings of The Fabulous Allan Carr in January and Rebels on Pointe earlier this month, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies series Mark Burger keeps on rolling, with writer/producer/ Contributing director Ofir Raul Graizer’s acclaimed columnist drama The Cakemaker scheduled for March 10 at the ACE Exhibition Complex, on the main campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in Winston-Salem. The film stars Tim Kalkhof as the title character, a German baker named Thomas. When he meets Oren (Roy Miller), an Israeli businessman, and they begin an illicit affair that sees them setting up house together in Jerusalem – not far from where Oren lives with his wife Anat (Sarah Adler) and child. When Oren unexpectedly perishes in a car accident, the grief-stricken Thomas takes it upon himself to insinuate himself in Anat’s life – without divulging his actual connection to her late husband. But as the two begin their own relationship, Thomas’ lies loom ever larger – threatening to consume them all. At the 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival, The Cakemaker won the Lia Van Leer Award, the festival’s statement called the film: “An original, beautifully acted story with a sensitive approach to mourning and loneliness, the complexities of love and family, religion and food traditions, and the sweetness the nourishes our souls”, and the Haggiag award for Michal Oppenheim’s editing, with a nomination as Best Israeli Feature. The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival nominated The Cakemaker as Best Film, and won the Ecumenical Jury Award, with the statement, “With a gentle approach, the film portrays a journey towards acceptance and the pursuit of love. The unique bond formed between the characters strengthens a healing process that brings them new life. It allows the viewer to connect to the most important of human values, something that overcomes all prejudices: love.” WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Reviewing the film for Variety at Karlovy Vary, Guy Lodge called it “a tender, tactile, and just-sweet-enough story of hidden love, challenged faith, and unwittingly shared grief that marks an auspicious feature debut for Israeli writer/director Ofir Raul Grazier … (the film) works a complex range of social and religious tensions into its heart-sore narrative, without ever feeling sanctimonious or button-pushing. This moving, broadly accessible blend of old-school melodrama, contemporary identity politics, and buttery gastro-porn should sell like, well, hotcakes on the international festival circuit.” That there have been three “OUT at the Movies” screenings in as many months is both by design and happenstance, according to Rex Welton, co-founder and director of the OUT at the Movies festival and screening series – particularly in the case of Rebels on Pointe, Bobbi Jo Hart’s award-winning documentary about the New York-based, all-male ballet dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which happened to be performing at Davidson College the same weekend. “Our regular series screening is every other month,” Welton explains. “We had the opportunity to screen Rebels on Pointe in February and welcome three of the Trockaderos to town, so we ended up with screenings for three consecutive months. Our next screening will take place on May 12. We used to screen a series film every month, but adopted an every-other-
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for our festival, but I choose most of the films for our series.” This year marks the 15th year of the OUT at the Movies screening series, and “the fact that our film series is still around after almost 15 years is satisfying, especially since all began with what was envisioned to be a one-time screening,” says Welton. “We are thrilled that, as of last month, BB&T has become the presenting sponsor of our series, as well as our festival.” The fifth annual OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Fest is also set for Oct. 4-7, and submissions are already arriving. Sponsorships are available beginning at $100, and festival passes are available for $75. (You can learn all the details at www.outatthemovieswinston. org.) The Cakemaker is in English, German, and Hebrew with English subtitles. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.
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Jim Kweskin to play Winston-Salem: Folk musician of jug-band fame continues digging American roots
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hen people think of folk musicians, singer-songwriters often come to mind. Jim Kweskin is a lifelong folk musician, both a product of and a big name in the John Adamian folk revival. Kweskin @johnradamian is known not for any songs he wrote — he’s not a songwriter — Contributor but for his masterful Piedmont-style guitar playing, his wide-ranging repertory, and his role in popularizing jug-band music to a new generation of listeners in the ‘60s. I spoke with Kweskin by phone earlier this week from his home in West Hollywood, California. Kweskin plays a solo show as part of the Fiddle & Bow Society’s programming at the Muddy Creek Music Hall on March 2. “I think of myself as a songster, very much in the tradition of, though not as good as, Leadbelly and Mississippi John Hurt,” Kweskin said. That means chasing interesting material, playing whatever songs catch his fancy, and giving them his own spin. It’s the essence of the folk process, taking what you find and putting your stamp on it. Over the decades Kweskin has taken an interest in a broad range of American music. Not limiting himself to American music, but focusing on it. He fronted the Jim Kweskin Jug Band from about 1963 to 1968, releasing albums on Vanguard Records, performing at the Newport Folk Festival, appearing on T.V. variety shows and having some of the big names of the era serve as opening acts for his group. (The band featured Geoff Muldaur and Maria D’Amato, who later became Maria Muldaur, as well as washtub bassist and jug player Fritz Richmond.) Core surviving members of the group have gotten together for reunion tours in recent years as well. He went solo in the early ‘70s, and he’s been releasing records in a variety of configurations ever since. Like many of the artists in the folk scene of the ‘60s era, Kweskin, 77, and crew took a lot of inspiration from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, a
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monumental 1952 collection of recordings originally made in the ‘20s and ‘30s that served as a sort of founding document for the folk revival. (In addition to the blues, old-time, gospel and Cajun and many other strains of American music, Smith’s anthology featured jug-band music, perhaps most importantly, Gus Cannon’s Memphis Jug Stompers.) In a way, it’s hard to fathom now, but jug-band music was a hugely influential part of the folk scene in the early ‘60s. The Grateful Dead, before the Acid Tests, and before they were the Warlocks, were a jug band. Texas psychedelic masters the 13th Floor Elevators were riffing, in their own way, on something started by the jug-band craze. (If you ever noticed crazed percolating rhythmic tooting going on the background of their records, it’s a guy blowing on a jug through an amp and effects.) A 2007 documentary film, Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost, delved into the history of jug-band music and featured Kweskin and his bandmates prominently. The Carolina Chocolate Drops were a band operating in that tradition, giving African-American string-band and jug-band music a 21st Century iteration. And the music — as removed from the mainstream as it may seem, with instruments that sound boisterous and sometimes unrepentantly goofy — remains alive. “Right now there are hundreds of jugbands around the United States,” Kweskin said. “Some of them are really good.” Incidentally, Kweskin’s most recent release is a solo album called Unjugged. Kweskin won’t have anyone tooting on a clay jug or thumping on a washtub bass when he plays Winston-Salem. “It’s gonna be me doing what I do,” he said. What he does has always been to pull from all kinds of places. And part of the reason Kweskin was drawn to jug-music was the energetic irreverence of the music, and the fact that jug-band musicians had serious musicianship, but they didn’t mind being entertainers. Plus they synthesized urban and rural styles. “If you think about it, all jug-band music is is really early jazz and blues played on folk music instruments instead of horns,” Kweskin said. That’s key to understanding Kweskin’s musical universe. He mentions a pivotal moment to me. When he was a student at Boston College, Kweskin went out to a
folk club and saw Eric Von Schmidt doing a version of New Orleans hot jazz in a folkie context. “He was playing ‘Buddy Bolden’s Blues,’ and it blew my mind because I knew that as a Jelly Roll Morton tune,” Kweskin said. Taking a jazz composition and giving it a folk twist became one of Kweskin’s many maneuvers. Over the years he recorded songs like Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo” and Hoagy Carmichael’s “Two Sleepy People.” This all went back to some of Kweskin’s formative musical experiences: listening to early jazz on 78s from his father’s record collection during his boyhood in Connecticut. As a kid, he was listening to Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Sidney Bechet. “Nobody else I knew even knew who those people were,” Kweskin said. The ‘20s and ‘30s might represent a musical golden age for Kweskin, but he also occasionally picked more contemporary material. One of his solo albums features a somewhat ironic and lament-tinged version of Merle Haggard’s classic anti-hippie rant “Okie From Muskogee.” It was ironic because Kweskin and his pals seemed to most definitely smoke marijuana (as could be inferred from their 1967 weed-toking
throwback “If You’re A Viper”), probably took some trips on L.S.D. and definitely let their hair grow long and shaggy. But it makes sense that Kweskin would blend classic country, cowboy tunes, gospel, country blues, rags and more in his song bag. You can laugh and call it “Kumbaya” inclusiveness if you want, but that eclecticism has a meaning beyond just the musical excellence of the source material. And uniting people seems as worthy a goal now as it probably did in 1965. “The integration of the various styles is very much what I’m into as an artist, but it also includes the integration of the races, of the ages, of gender,” Kweskin said. “To me, the more we do different styles of music, all of us, the more we include the entire country and everybody in it, and actually the entire world, really.” ! JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.
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Alienation: Cerebral sci-fi will divide viewers the final shot was pretty much telegraphed by the picture’s halfway mark. Yet even here, the existential implications outweigh the physical evidence — come to think of it, it’s really the only way a movie of this nature should end.
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n the same manner as high-school yearbooks that include such senior superlatives as Most Likely to Succeed, Annihilation ( ) should come branded with the designation Most Likely to Clear Theaters. It will likely remain the 2018 equivalent of what Darren Aronofsky’s mother! was to 2017 cinema: a metaphoric mind-bender that will find favor with select moviegoers while absolutely alienating everyone else. To be sure, Annihilation isn’t quite as successful as mother! — neither is it in the same league as Ex Machina, the previous film from writer-director Alex Garland. But for those who can climb aboard its wavelength, it will provide enough challenging sights and sounds to clutter the mind and possibly even prompt a second viewing. Loosely based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel — the first of a trilogy, although Garland didn’t read the other two books until after completing his standalone screenplay as they hadn’t yet been published — Annihilation is (to paraphrase Winston Churchill ... or was it Gary Oldman?) a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. With a framing structure that lays out clues as carefully as Hansel and Gretel with their bread crumbs, the story opens on a quarantined Lena (Natalie Portman), a biology professor and former soldier, explaining to a hazmat suit-clad figure (Benedict Wong) and his colleagues the events that transpired after she entered Area X, a vast swath of stateside territory that has been taken over by an alien presence. Also known as The Shimmer, Area X has
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been repeatedly entered over the past three years by various military men, with none of them ever returning. Correction: One finally made it back — that would be Lena’s husband Kane (Oscar Isaac), who returned after a whole year and immediately lapsed into a coma. Stating that “I owe him,” Lena opts to join the latest team to enter the forbidden zone, this one comprised entirely of women with a medical rather than military bent. But immediately after penetrating The Shimmer, Lena and her colleagues — psychologist and team leader Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), physicist Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson), paramedic Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez) and anthropologist Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny) — immediately encounter death and destruction. Or should that be self-destruction?
Although the film’s motives and meanings are in constant flux, an indisputable theme involves inward annihilation, whether of people, places, or the planet itself. To reveal specifics would be to traffic in spoilers, but suffice to say that Garland pulls no punches in either his metaphysical musings or in his visual extremities. Science fiction cinema often borrows from itself, and Annihilation seemingly draws from such various genre signposts as Ridley Scott’s Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing and perhaps even Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Yet certain images — some grotesque, others gorgeous — prove to be uniquely the film’s own. The aura of unease maintained by Garland dissipates during a busy climax that might prove to be problematic even for many of the film’s fans, and the nature of
IT’S NO MATCH for a marathon evening of Apples-to-Apples with assorted friends and loved ones, but as a datenight option, a person could do worse than Game Night ( ). A reasonably diverting comedy that hits all the expected beats, this stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams as Max and Annie, a couple who routinely invite their friends over to their house to partake in Parcheesi, Charades, Monopoly and seemingly every other game this side of Spin the Bottle. Kicking up the festivities a notch is Max’s highly competitive brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler), who arranges a murder-mystery party for the gang. Brooks ends up getting kidnapped, a wrinkle that amuses the participants until they realize that the snatch wasn’t part of the game and that Brooks’ life is actually in danger. Sporting as many twists as David Fincher’s comparatively more somber The Game, Game Night works best when it focuses on the personalities of its characters and meanders when it pays too much attention to the particulars of the plot (which doesn’t really hold up to postviewing scrutiny anyway). Bateman and McAdams enjoy an easy rapport together and stay through the final credits for a capper to the running gag involving no less than Denzel Washington. !
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he Little Theatre of WinstonSalem will offer three acting camps this summer: Godspell JR., The Jungle Book and “Shake”-It-Up, a Shakespeare camp. Information and registration forms are available online at www.thelittletheatreofws.org or by calling (336) 748-0857 x204. Godspell JR. is a two-week, mainstage musical theatre camp for rising 7th-12th graders. Based on the gospel of St. Matthew and drawing from various theatrical traditions such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics, and vaudeville, Godspell JR. is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love. This camp will run June 18-30 and culminate in two public performances on the Arts Council Theatre stage on Friday, June 29 at 7 pm & Saturday, June 30 at 1 pm. The Jungle Book is a one-week, nonmusical camp for rising 2nd-6th graders. In this classic adventure story, Mowgli must choose between his life in the jungle or a new life in the human world, where he was born. Filled with excitement and humor, the play highlights the struggle of good versus evil, the value of friendship, the importance of loyalty, and what it takes to survive the “law of the jungle.” This camp runs July 16-20 and ends with a performance for family and friends on the Rehearsal Hall Stage. “Shake”-It-Up is a one-week, nonmusical camp for rising 2nd-6th graders. As they prepare to put on a play by The Bard, campers will learn a variety of Shakespearean techniques, from creating characters and building an ensemble to using their voices to project and articulate. This camp runs July 23-27 and ends with a performance for family and friends on the Rehearsal Hall Stage. All camps are Monday-Friday from 9:30 am – 4 pm and range in tuition from $270-375. All children and teens are welcome, regardless of ability or experience. Campers will audition for roles on the first day of camp, and every child will be in the production. Throughout the camps, the young actors will be learning stage blocking WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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Triad Stage will be presenting Our Town from Feb. 14 until March 4. According to the press release, for the citizens of Grover’s Corners, life is sweet. The doctor makes house calls, the teenage boy delivers the paper, and the boy-next-door meets the girl-next-door. Set in an allAmerican small town at the turn of the century, this 80th anniversary production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a heartwarming and deeply moving reminder to appreciate life while one has it and to relish every moment – no matter how mundane it seems – for it is those small moments that are truly miraculous. A partnership production with University of North Carolina School of the Arts Community Theater of Greensboro will be presenting Willy Wonka Kids on March 2 until March 11. According to the press release, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka follows enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka as he stages a contest by hiding
golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whoever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats, but the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie Bucket, who takes the tour in the company of his equally charming Grandpa Joe. The children must learn to follow Mr. Wonka’s rules in the factory – or suffer the consequences. The performance times are March 2 and 9 at 7 p.m. and March 3, 4, 10 and 11 at 2 p.m. Prices of tickets are $5-$9. Theater Alliance in Winston Salem on March 2 will be presenting Swell Party at 8 p.m. According to the press release, when a tobacco heir returns to his Southern home with a new wife, it surprises everyone, but that news becomes secondary when the groom turns up dead. The rest of the guests at his home try to put the pieces of the puzzle together and figure out whodunit. This play was inspired by the unsolved death in 1932 of Smith Reynolds, who was the 20 year-old heir to the Camel Cigarettes fortune. It’s free admission, but donations are accepted at the door. ! FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2018
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Police in Mainz, Germany, responded to an apartment building after cries were heard from within one unit early on Feb. 17, The Associated Press reported. When Chuck Shepherd they arrived, officers found two men, the 58-year-old tenant and a 61-year-old visitor, “hopelessly locked up” with a mannequin dressed as a knight and a large remote-controlled car. The men were too drunk to explain how they had become entangled, and one officer remarked that “the whole thing would have remained a funny episode” if the younger man had not become “more than impolite.” He now faces a charge of insulting officers.
PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US
Metro News reported on Feb. 20 that travelers “remained silent” for 20 minutes while a fellow passenger on a Ural Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey, to Moscow used the air vent above her seat to dry a pair of underwear. Witnesses reported
that the woman showed no shame and that “everybody was looking with interest and confusion.” Debate raged later, however, after video of the woman was posted online, with one commenter speculating that “maybe the takeoff was sort of extreme, so now she has to dry those.”
THE LITIGIOUS SOCIETY
Crestline, California, resident Claudia Ackley, 46, has teamed with “Discovering Bigfoot” filmmaker Todd Standing to sue the state of California, requesting on Jan. 18 that state agencies acknowledge the existence of a Sasquatch species. Ackley and her daughters, 11 and 14, say they were hiking a trail at Lake Arrowhead in March 2017 when they spotted a large figure braced in a pine tree. “I ran into a Sasquatch — a Bigfoot. We were face to face,” Ackley told the San Bernardino Sun. Forest rangers insisted at the time that Ackley and her daughters had seen a bear, and Ackley fears that by not acknowledging the presence of the legendary creatures, the state is putting the public at risk. “People have to be warned about these things,” she said. “They are big.” [San Bernardino Sun, 2/14/2018]
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Firefighter Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis, 49, from Toronto, was the subject of a weeklong search by more than 250 people using drones, dogs and helicopters starting Feb. 7, when he disappeared from Whiteface Mountain ski resort in New York’s Adirondacks. When he finally turned up in California at the Sacramento International Airport on Feb. 13, he was still dressed in his ski pants and ski boots, and he still had his helmet, along with a new iPhone and a recent haircut. But, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, Filippidis couldn’t tell officers anything about how he had traveled across the country, other than he rode in a “big-rigstyle truck” and “slept a lot.” The truck dropped him off in downtown Sacramento, but he was unable to explain how he got to the airport. He was taken to an area hospital.
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Staffers at a Bangor, Maine, day care called Watch Me Shine were happy to receive Valentine’s cookies made by a parent — until those who ate them started to feel high. “Within 15 minutes, teachers were reporting they had concerns about those cookies,” Tiffany Nowicki, director of the center, told the Bangor Daily News. About 12 staff members felt the effects of the treats, which were confiscated by the police and are being tested. “If they find something that shouldn’t be in those cookies,” Nowicki said, “that’s a big problem and we’ll make sure it’s addressed.” The day care has instituted a new policy that no outside food can be brought in for the children or staff.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Donna Walker of Linthwaite, England, just wanted a nice night out to celebrate her 50th birthday; she wasn’t anticipating a trip to the emergency room. Walker, along with her husband, Carlton, 45, and their two sons, was waiting for takeout
food at the Atlantis restaurant in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, early on Feb. 18 when a brawl broke out. The Walkers don’t know what started the fight, but Carlton told Metro News: “When the fight spilled out of the takeaway, I said to Donna to stay inside. When I turned round my wife was at the doorway being attacked and was covered in blood. My son was being strangled.” Donna sustained a 2-inch gash on her forehead and was bitten on the arm by the young woman who attacked her, calling for a tetanus shot and antibiotics. “I wiped my eye and saw all the blood,” Donna said. “I had no idea I had been struck.” Police were still looking for the attackers at press time.
WEIRD HISTORY
Union College in Schenectady, New York, excitedly announced on Feb. 13 that a librarian flipping through the brown pages of a 1793 almanac found a real historical treasure: a lock of President George Washington’s hair. Librarian John Myers came upon an envelope with “Washington’s hair” written in script on it, and inside, tied with a thread, were several strands of grayish hair. Keith Beutler, associate professor of history at Missouri Baptist University and the author of a book called “Washington’s Hair,” told The New York Times that in Washington’s day, it was not uncommon to exchange locks of hair as remembrances. “Exchanging locks of hair were like the selfies of the day,” Beutler said. Experts are examining the almanac and its provenance to determine whether the hair likely belongs to our first president, but in the meantime, college officials are learning how to preserve it.
ANIMAL ANTICS
At 10 Downing Street in London, Larry the cat is an institution, charged with chasing away mice and offering pet therapy to any willing caressers. Meanwhile, at the Foreign Office, Palmerston the cat serves the same purpose. But Larry and Palmerston have a long-running feud, according to The Telegraph, and on Feb. 16, they went at it again. Jezebel reported that fur was ripped and a collar torn off as the two cats duked it out in the street. Nick Dixon of “Good Morning Britain” said it appeared that Palmerston won this round: “Palmerston seemed to strut out of Downing Street. Larry seemed a bit dazed and confused after the fight.” !
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‘Voices of Greensboro’ raised in support of Café Europa
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Many downtown residents are unhappy with the way the city has been handling things, and not just the situation with Café Europa,” said Ian McDowell Jenn Graf, owner of Vintage to Vogue Contributor Boutique at 124 N. Davie Street in Greensboro, when I asked her why she was inviting people to show up at her shop this past week. There, citizens of Greensboro and Europa supporters gathered and were photographed holding a whiteboard on which they expressed questions they had regarding Europa, and other decisions the city has made. To publicize those statements on social media, Graf collaborated with photographers Ciara Kelley and Allen Martin on the Voices of Greensboro project. “We were pleasantly shocked at how many people came out to show their support for Café Europa and the injustice taking place,” wrote Graf, explaining that “it was touching to see supporters of Café Europa take time out of their busy schedules to participate in this event.” Martin expressed the view of many Café Europa supporters when he condemned the Request for Proposals bidding process conducted by the public-private nonprofit Greensboro Parks Downtown, Inc., to which Assistant City Manager Chris Wilson gave management of the restaurant space in Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie Street last November. “It has never been a ‘fair and equitable’ or open process,” Martin said. “Instead, it’s been a hostile takeover from the beginning.” Many whiteboard statements from Voices of Greensboro criticize the perceived lack of transparency. Several raised the issue of the alleged romantic relationship between Wilson and GDPI board member Cecelia Thompson, saying it creates an appearance of a conflict of interest. Wilson’s decision transferred an asset, which had been previously paying rent to the city to GDPI, the organization which Thompson, also the executive director of Action Greensboro, co-founded and chaired when the decision was made. On Feb. 4, Mayor Nancy Vaughan sent YES! Weekly an email quoting city attorney Tom Carruthers’ opinion that Wilson
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and Thompson’s relationship did not constitute a conflict of interest, as “the city’s funding to GPDI does not provide a financial benefit to any board member.” I wrote the mayor and the city attorney back, asking as a point of clarification if the financial benefit to an organization chaired by Thompson at the time of decision might still be a matter of concern. Neither the mayor nor the city attorney responded. On Feb. 23, Frayda S. Bluestein, professor of public law and government at the University of North Carolina School of Government, replied to my email inquiry about this issue. She agreed with the city attorney’s opinion but made the following statement: “The legal conflict of interest provisions generally are concerned with public officials gaining financial benefits from decisions they are responsible for making. Nonprofit board members do not gain financially from their service. It is certainly possible that the public might be con-
cerned about whether a public official can make objective decisions when there is a personal relationship involved. That is a perhaps an ethical issue, but I don’t think, based on the facts you’ve presented, that it is a legal one.” The UNC School of Government document Conflict of Interest Laws for North Carolina Public Officials & Employees [goo. gl/Xzj1TP] by Norma R. Houston mentions the ethical issue. At the end of the first paragraph of Section 1, “Conflicts of Interest in Public Contracting,” is the following statement: “Situations that are not illegal may nonetheless be inappropriate, so public officials should always consider the public perception of their actions in addition to the legal consequences.” Martin told me that he and other Voices of Greensboro are concerned with ethics and appearances. “As tax-paying citizens of Greensboro,” he wrote in an email, “we should have a right to transparency by the city government. The city clearly feels differently, and
that’s why so many have spoken out.” Europa supporter Michael Townsend expressed similar sentiments when I interviewed him while he was having his photo taken for Voices of Greensboro. Townsend said he’d been appalled by the way the entire Greensboro City Council has addressed or failed to address, the issue of transparency. “I just don’t think what’s been going on is right,” he said while writing #VoterRegret on the whiteboard. Photos from the Voices of Greensboro project are being posted on Facebook and Instagram this week. To see them for yourself, follow Voices of Greensboro on Facebook and Instagram (@VoicesofGreensboro) or visit www.instagram.com/ voicesofgreensboro and www.facebook. com/voicesofgreensboro. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Panhandling in Greensboro Eight of nine city council members agreed to make poverty the top-ranking priority for Greensboro in 2018 during a recent retreat. On Feb. 7, the day before the retreat, an opinion editorial Jessica Clifford from the Greensboro News & Record and Contributor a news segment on Fox 8 News, entered the media landscape. Both the article and the news segment discussed the negative effect of giving money to panhandlers. Marcus Hyde, a long-time homeless organizer and someone who experienced homelessness, cites those arguments as “classic poor-shaming opinions.” “There is this huge public education piece missing from the homeless conversation,” Hyde said. For Hyde and others, such as Michelle Kennedy, the current executive director of the Interactive Resource Center and an atlarge representative for Greensboro City Council, one of the missing pieces is the unconstitutionality of the panhandling and loitering ordinances in the city. Though panhandling is a free speech right, Greensboro requires panhandlers to have a permit. Requesting a permit requires a free background check that takes up to 10 days. Once cleared, a person must visit or call the collections division and show two forms of identification before receiving a permit. “The people who it would be most difficult to get a permit are the ones who would find it most difficult to get a job,” said Liz Seymour, the founding executive director of the IRC. The permit is a “prior restraint” based on the First Amendment and claims discrimination against the content of someone’s speech by the Supreme Court Case Reed v. Town of Gilbert and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Karen Hall, a woman who has panhandled for about five or six years, moved to Greensboro to get away from troubles in her home state of Alabama after she spent 15 years in jail. Hall has a permit and knows all the laws necessary to panhandle without receiving a ticket. She believes enforcing panhandlers to have a permit is a good law. “I think it’s a really good thing to have a permit because if you don’t, then everyWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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body would be out here,” Hall said. Seymour was surprised when she met with several homeless people at the IRC one day, and many agreed with the sentiment Hall shares. “People didn’t mind regulation as much as I thought they might,” Seymour said. “But, just what it does to the community attitude, people were really upset about that.” Seymour added that many homeless people do not want to be lumped into one group of criminalized people. Kennedy said she understands that
businesses have a stake in what happens near their business as well as parents that want their children to be safe. She also states her biggest issue with the ordinances is the connection between panhandling and other crime. “You have to separate the protected, free-speech act of panhandling from this term that folks keep using of ‘aggressive panhandling,’” Kennedy said. “I think they are really two different conversations and people don’t tend to view it that way, which is unfortunate.” A common theme from homeless
people in Greensboro is that they do not feel good when they are panhandling, but they feel it is more of a necessity. “Always when I did it, I was constantly looking for jobs, but sometimes in life, desperate needs call for desperate measures,” said a former New York City panhandler at the IRC, who did not want to be named. “I never felt good about it. Another part of me would be like well at least I’m not going to jail because I’m not robbing anybody. I’m giving these people an option.” Hall shared a similar view. “I cry sometimes because people are so good to me and it makes me feel bad, but they just want to see me do good,” she said. Other than the permit, Hyde said specific loitering ordinances are vague. Some ordinances that standout for him is Sec. 18-44 (b) occupying a place that is within 50 feet of the entrance and exit of a store that sells alcohol and Sec. 18-46 (b) (7) a person cannot loiter “at a location frequented by persons who use, possess, or sell drugs.” “Panhandling [and loitering] ordinances are directed towards poor people,” Hyde said. “But, the ordinance never says…this only applies to poor people. But, in actual effect that is who is affected.” From this perspective, panhandling and loitering ordinances are reminiscent of past discriminatory laws including Jim Crow, Anti-Okie and Ugly Laws. All of which, were abolished, but the effects are lasting. Looking toward solutions, many state the criminalization of homeless people is not the answer. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness states that multiple studies prove supportive housing is the valid solution because it reduces the cost of publicly funded crisis services, creates housing stability and improves health. A sentiment that is clear between Hyde and Kennedy – homeless people deserve a right to speak on the matter. “Any conversation about a segment of the population that doesn’t include that segment of the population is not a conversation worth having,” Kennedy said. With poverty ranked the top priority for the city in 2018, Greensboro residents will have to see what the city council’s solutions entail. ! JESSICA CLIFFORD is a senior at UNCG, majoring in Communication Studies and minoring in English.
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The showplace of the South: Plantation Supper Club
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Supper clubs were integral to a city’s social life from the 1940s to the 1960s. Especially on the East coast and down South, where ladies lacquered on lipstick and men tightened the knots in their ties to rub elbows and cut-a-rug. They enjoyed fine dining and dancing with world-class entertainment in opulent
surroundings. Fred Koury’s Plantation Supper Club in Greensboro brought to the area musical immortals such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Mary Wells, Brenda Lee, the Righteous Brothers, Duke Ellington, The Shirelles, Ray Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nelson Eddie, Frank Sinatra Jr., Gene Krupa, even that notorious scoundrel Joe E. (“Ooh! Ooh!”) Ross. Glamorous and exciting as this period was for some, it came to an abrupt end in a most 1960s-way. In 1943, Greensboro was bulging at the seams, awash in disposable income from factory workers operating at peak capacity and thousands of United States Army Air Forces trainees temporarily encamped on East Bessemer Avenue awaiting deployment to the European Theater of War. Young folks and military personnel alike were congregating wherever music was playing, jitterbugging to live bands or jukeboxes at the Silver Moon, Green Lantern, and the city’s main attraction, The Casino Club, located in a former cattle barn on the Fairgrounds where drunken late night fights were an extra added attraction. The Casino was co-owned by a young Fred Koury who recognized the potential for a higher class nightclub experience, something like what you’d find in larger cities. He built a sleek but spacious venue in 1943, a mile outside the city limits on High Point Road, near what would become Holden Road. Koury’s Plantation Supper Club, open nightly for dining on Western steaks, Southern fried chicken, and dancing to the house swing band, was a tremendous success. Most weeks, the Plantation booked entertainers not well-known then, and even less so today. Regional acts and B-listers like Lou Mosconi and Camille, dancers seen in Warner Bros. musicals who opened for Cab Calloway; “Big Bundle of Joy” Millie Davis performing burlesque Sophie
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The Flamingo room at Plantation Supper Club. Tucker style; and Wee Bonnie Baker, a one-hit wonder who recorded one of the most infectious tunes of all time, Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! in 1939. Sunday was family night when, in the early-’50s, a full-course filet mignon dinner cost all of $2. For the early crowd, Uncle Freddie’s Kiddie Revue kept the young ones occupied. Then there were nights when the brightest stars of a bygone-era shone at the Plantation. Some of the more colorful… Andy Griffith Andy and his wife Barbara had their earliest standup gigs at the Plantation, years before his monologue on Capitol Records, What It Was, Was Football, sold some 300,000 copies in 1953. Thus, launching the future T.V. star’s meteoric rise to the top. That single was recorded in Greensboro at a Jefferson Standard convention, Koury was managing the comedian’s career in those early days. In 1958, Andy Griffith became an honorary citizen of Greensboro in a ceremony before a Carolina Theatre screening of his hit movie No Time For Sergeants. Miyoshi Umeki A demurely coy personality who spoke in halting English, Miyoshi Umeki, the only Asian woman to ever win an Oscar for acting, sang for our supper in 1956. Audiences took an instant liking to her on T.V. that year, only months after immigrating to the United States from Japan. She applied her bluesy vocals to jazz standards for the most part, but the highlight of her show was a rousing rendition of the swing number, My Ichiban Tomodachi. My parents attended one of Umeki’s performances when my mother was pregnant; the singer signed a card to me that read: “I don’t know you yet but I’d like
to be your friend” in two languages. Shortly after her Plantation run, Umeki returned to her home country to film Sayonara, a box office smash for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Billy “Crash” Craddock The performer most closely associated with the Plantation, a consistent draw for a decade, hometown boy Bill Craddock (as he was first billed in the mid1950s) played innumerable dates, either headlining or as an opening act when bigger names were on the bill. As a result, Billy “Crash” Craddock became a legit OG rockabilly star in 1959 when Boom Boom Baby (Please Don’t Stop) unexpectedly shot to No. 1 in Australia.
Billy Craddock with Jayne Mannsfield for an autographed photo. Copyright 2018. Down Under youngsters went crackers for Craddock’s guitar-heavy paeans to atomic teenage angst. Songs about sweetie-pie baby dolls turning 17 and yearning for one last kiss, discovering the joy of what the whole school knows after shaking all over, from the bottom
to the top, dancing The Chicken on the living room floor. “Back then that’s what everybody was doing, the teenage songs and like that,” Craddock told me in a 2015 interview. “Some of ‘em are real good songs, some were silly, you know, but that’s what they were doing.” With a run of Top 10 singles, Craddock became to Australians what Elvis was to us in the states. “I don’t even think I’d have been in the business if it wasn’t for Fred Koury.” Craddock felt at home at the Plantation. “Everyone respected the artists and treated us well,” he said. “On the weekends, when I say they crowds were rowdy and loud, I mean in a good way, you know?” Craddock hit No. 1 on the American Country charts in 1971 with Knock Three Times. A string of hits followed, including a provocative crossover smash that ruled the airwaves in 1974, Rub It In. Andy Williams This dynamic pop tenor’s career was just taking off when he appeared here in 1961, one year later The Andy Williams Show debuted to big ratings on NBC amid a string of gold records like Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses. Growing up, I was repeatedly reminded of a momentary connection to Williams, who bounced me on his knee at the Plantation when I was a toddler. Rusty Warren ‘Sin-sational’ Rusty Warren bubbled up from smoky dives in the deep South to become a Las Vegas-lounge legend. Warren was a pioneering female comic because never before had anyone joked about sex from a female perspective, especially in such a risqué manner. Recorded live, Warren’s best-selling LP, Knockers Up, was released in 1960, two years later she belted out her bawdy one-woman musical revue for the Plantation crowd. Bounce Your Boobies (A Patriotic Song) was her big number which inevitably left audiences in stitches. Rusty Warren turns 88 this year. Brother Dave Gardner Talk about complicated individuals; Brother Dave Gardner was a Southern (Tennesseean to be precise) comedian with a beatnik sensibility. You can listen to Brother Dave LPs like Rejoice Dear Hearts and never quite hear the same thing twice. Twisted, warped, but damn funny at times, like this typical one-liner: “Let them that don’t want none, have
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mem’ries of not gettin’ any... let that not be their punishment, but their reward.” Craddock recalls meeting the mad monologuist first at the Plantation, “Then a year or two later we went down, me and my group, to Atlanta Georgia to do the Domino Lounge and Dave was down there. Boy, he’s a weird guy but funny. He told me one day; he said, ‘Crash, I believe there are certain people doing it right here in front of you, but you can’t see ‘em.’ And I thought, ‘Good God, what are you taking now, Dave?’ That’s a cat who was way ahead of his time.” After Gardner was arrested for marijuana possession in 1962, his career began to falter. Keely Smith Emerging from the shadow of Louis Prima, this Vegas chanteuse had just been signed to Frank Sinatra’s label Reprise in 1963 when her smoky vocals backed by a tight jazz combo were first heard at the Plantation, the essence of which is captured on her seminal album, The Intimate Keely Smith. She returned in 1964. Redd Foxx Long before mainstream success on Sanford & Son, this foul-mouthed comedian offended so many audience members at the Plantation they left in droves, within minutes. Somehow I doubt Foxx cared much, especially at such an unfortunately named club. Hal Driggers and the 6 Key Brothers Bars and restaurants couldn’t sell liquor outright in the 1960s, so an archaic practice known as ‘brown bagging’ was instituted. Customers brought their bottle of booze (in a brown paper bag) to an establishment that would measure out the cocktails then charge for mixers. There was a regional hit recorded in Greensboro called Brown Baggin’ by Hal Driggers and the 6 Key Brothers that mentions the Plantation and ‘Mr. Fred’ in the lyrics. Nat King Cole It was Cole that Jayne Mansfield called after being offered a week’s engagement at the Plantation for May of 1963, knowing he’d performed there. The crooner recommended she do it, that he’d fallen in love with the crowd there. Jayne Mansfield Mention the Plantation to old-timers, and one name is bound to come up, the sultry Jayne Mansfield, by far the biggest star to have spent more than a night or two in Greensboro She’s been dismissed as the poor man’s Marilyn Monroe, but filmmaker John Waters referred to Mansfield as, “The ulWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
timate movie star.” One of Playboy’s first playmates who rocketed to fame as the result of a poolside wardrobe malfunction that reverberated around the world. In her signature film, The Girl Can’t Help It (1956), Mansfield shimmy-shook down the avenue in a low cut outfit that accentuated her prominent headlamps and curvy caboose, a spectacle causing the iceman’s glacier to liquify, the milkman’s bottle to spontaneously lactate, and an apartment dweller’s eyeglasses to shatter as he leers at her sashaying up the steps. What possessed Koury to book this out-of-work movie star (considered washed-up in Hollywood) in 1963? She’d headlined in Las Vegas in 1958 and 1960 but didn’t really have a nightclub act, per se. Still, they worked out a deal where Mansfield would take 100 percent of the door receipts and Koury the concessions. Mansfield and her husband, bodybuilder and former Mr. America, Mickey Hargitay, cobbled together routines based on numbers from her motion pictures, capped off by what she referred to as a satire of the striptease, where Mansfield stripped down to not much more than whatever irony she imagined it represented. How this would go over in a conservative community such as Greensboro apparently hadn’t occurred to anyone. Shortly after landing at GreensboroHigh Point Airport, Mansfield impulsively ventured out to the Greensboro Country Club to flirt with Governor Terry Sanford who was gathering with real estate developers and young business leaders. Resplendent in a scandalously low-cut, skin-tight black gown with elbow length leather gloves, her cinemascope décolletage tastefully swathed in Blackglama when photographed for Friday morning’s edition of the Greensboro Daily News. Craddock opened for Mansfield and recalled an opening night faux pas. “Mickey Hargitay lifted her up with one hand and when he put her down her zipper came all the way open, from the top to her rear end,” he said. “Fred thought she planned that. She’d go around the stage, flirt with the men, rub their bald head or wink at them. She was a sex symbol; she didn’t have to do a whole lot more.” Whether she realized it or not, Mansfield had won over the toughest audience she’d ever faced. The next day, to demonstrate her family was like any other, Mansfield and her young son Mickey Jr. ’coptered into High Point for lunch at Schraftt’s, dining in the evening with her husband at Cellar Anton’s in Greensboro. Craddock recalled her offstage demeanor, “She was sweet as she could be, down to earth, that’s all there is to it. After the show, she’d always come sit at the table
Jayne Mansfield with me and Fred. That kinda surprised me, here’s a big star like Jayne Mansfield and she’s sittin’ at the table talkin’ and havin’ a good time.” On the last night of her run, Mansfield presented Junior Johnson with the NASCAR trophy after his ’63 Chevy Impala SS roared into the Hillsborough Orange Speedway Winners’ Circle. Working for the gate proceeds turned out to be highly advantageous for Mansfield, she was held over for two nights for a total of 18 sold-out performances, raking in $23,000, nearly a quarter of a million dollars in today’s money. That was unheard of, Vegas-sized box office that put the star back on top. Briefly. In a disastrous misstep, the night before leaving Hollywood for her Greensboro engagement Mansfield had filmed a drunken nude scene for Promises, Promises, a low-budget exploitation movie released in 1964. It was scandalous enough that Playboy’s June issue in 1963, headlined “The Nudest Jayne Mansfield,” was deemed to be pornographic, resulting in publisher Hugh Hefner being arrested and tried on indecency charges. (And folks didn’t even know about her alleged affair with President Kennedy that ended with her allegedly screaming over the phone, “Look, you’ll only be President for eight years at the most. I’ll be a movie star forever!”) What the previous year was perceived as kittenish and comically naughty, no longer seemed so innocent. She was virtually shunned after arriving for her second Greensboro week-long run in October of 1964. Her return to the Plantation was a resounding flop. One night, wickedly intoxicated, Mansfield walked out on stage wearing nothing but her mink, and that only momentarily. Local lore concerning Mansfield’s tragic death has her leaving Greensboro for a gig
further down South when her car drove into the back of a trash truck, decapitating her. Not at all true. Thanks to her initial success at the Plantation, performing in Southern supper clubs became the movie star’s bread-and-butter. After wowing a capacity crowd in Biloxi, Mississippi, on June 29, 1967, Mansfield, her children and her lawyer were driving to an early morning television interview in New Orleans, to be followed by a performance for troops at Gulfport’s Seabee Base. Rounding the curve on an unlit highway in the early morning hours, their car plowed under a truck spraying insecticide fog, the hard top of that ’66 Buick Electra was sheared away, corrugating all the way to the trunk. Three adults in the front, including Mansfield, died instantly but no one was decapitated. Youngsters in the back seat miraculously survived, among them was Mariska Hargitay, of Law & Order SVU. That mangled Buick became a carnivallike attraction traveling across the backwater burgs of North Carolina before finding a more permanent home in a Florida museum devoted to macabre events. Due to this accident, transport vehicles now come equipped with what’s known as a Mansfield Bar, a metal barrier underneath rear bumpers that prevents cars from penetrating a truck’s undercarriage. The Plantation a Go-Go! I’m not sure if anyone can pinpoint exactly when supper clubs with live entertainment, indeed nightclubs in general, fell out of favor but the Plantation ditched booking touring acts in 1965 in favor of scantily clad Go-Go Girls in oversized bird cages suspended from the ceiling, like something out of a James Bond — no, Matt Helm — movie. In an attempt at relevance in 1976, the Plantation was rebranded as Seven Seas Seafood and Dadi-O’s Disco but, three weeks later, a fire gutted the facility. After remodeling, Dadi-O’s became immensely popular with the date night crowd for a decade or so but didn’t quite have the impact its predecessor had on the generation preceding them. “We don’t have a place to go like Fred Koury’s today,” Craddock lamented. “He did have the best-looking club on the whole East Coast. Back then, people from 21 years old up to 85 had a place to dance to music, have good food and a great time.” ! The author of 5 books and creator of TVparty.com, BILLY INGRAM is, in the words of the LA Times, “one of the nation’s top pop culture gurus.” He finds it odd that sex symbol rivals Jayne Mansfield and Mae West both have crucial life-saving devices named after them. FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2018
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lights on without needing to rig a treadmill for your dog to chase a piece of bacon on a string. Of course, putting your financial survival first doesn’t mean you’re a bad friend. The, uh, brat of honor probably just sees it that way because of what psychologists call “attribution bias.” This describes how we tend to be charitable in explaining our own errors and failings — excusing them as situational (the result of something that’s happened to us) — while attributing others’ to the sort of people they are (compassionless, birthday-hating monsters). Have a sit-down with your friend and explain that you care deeply about him. (Review your history of showing this.) Emphasize that it was a lack of time and funding, not a lack of feeling, that kept you from, say, renting a sufficiently mansionesque bouncy house or hiring David Blaine to make balloon animals on his special day. Apply compassion. Recognize that there’s probably some woundyplace in him that makes him this way, basically expecting his birthday to be treated like some major national holiday. Okay, maybe the guy’s first name is Martin. Chances are, the two that follow aren’t “Luther” and “King.” ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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