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BRINGING BACK THE MILL VILLAGE
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“It would be great to rebrand this whole area as the Mill Village.” So said Nick Piornack, general manager of REVOLUTION MILL, when I interviewed him last week. Piornack envisions the 45-acre mixed-use development off Yanceyville as the heart of a once neglected but now revitalized Northeast Greensboro, and closer to downtown than many people realize.
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It’s almost Valentine’s Day, foodies, when even the most begrudging partner puts on their big kid pants and heads out to romance their significant other. This is the one night most people do it up. But this year, we’re bringing you a list of the NOT SO USUAL SUSPECTS. 10 ANNE-KARINE THORESEN has been working full-time as an artist, painter and teacher since the year 2000. 11 Two years ago, Fathom Events and Lionsgate scored a direct hit when they joined forces to re-release Dirty Dancing (1987) to the big screen to commemorate its 30th anniversary. 12 A remake of a 2011 Mexican movie that only played film festivals stateside, Miss Bala follows in the footsteps of such recent efforts as Peppermint and Everly in that it takes a standard Liam Neeson or Bruce Willis programmer and injects it with a heavy dose of girl power. 13 ...when I heard that Triad Stage was going to be presenting Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s “WHITE LIGHTNING” I was curious to see how the theatre would represent this aspect of Southern culture. YES! WEEKLY
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The call to legalize MARIJUANA is nothing new. It has been going on for decades. So, the question is…why now? It comes down to this – social acceptance and tax revenue. 19 Over the years BARBARA EDEN has materialized in a number of venues: in film, on stage, at USO shows, and in Vegas, but she is best known for playing the title character in NBC’s “I Dream of Jeannie.” 20 The guitar isn’t technically classified as a percussion instrument, but it can be played like one, and guitarist DANIEL CHAMPAGNE slaps out beats on his acoustic, executing pyrotechnic doublehand tapping on the fretboard, thrumming rapid triplets with his thumb and middle finger, and generally making the six-string do unexpected things. 21 VALENTINE’S DAY: some folks love it. Some folks hate it. Shari Blades and her sixth annual Anti-Valentine’s cover show are hoping to satiate both at Smith & Edge on Feb. 16.
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HARRY POTTER BOOK NIGHT DRIVIN’ ‘N CRYIN’ WHAT: We hope you’ll join us for Harry Potter Book Night! This year’s theme is Hogwarts, and we’ll have all sorts of games, activities, and prizes. It will be a magical evening for the whole family. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 p.m. WHERE: McKay’s Greensboro. 1607 Battleground Ave, Greensboro. MORE: Free event.
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WHAT: Details In October 1985 Drivin N Cryin played their first show at Atlanta’s famed 688 Club. The band quickly gained attention for their blistering live shows, and amassed a rabid fanbase in the fertile soil of the late-1980s Southeast music scene. With a gold record, 10 full-length albums, and a handful of EPs to their credit, the band still refuses to rest. WHEN: 7-10 p.m. WHERE: The Ramkat. 170 W 9th St, Winston-Salem. MORE: $18-40 tickets.
SAT 9 LOVE YOUR LOCAL FRENCH TOAST BRUNCH WITH MELT KITCHEN & BAR WHAT: The chefs from Melt Kitchen & Bar - New Garden will serving Market Fresh French Toast on Saturday, February 9th starting at 8 am and while supplies last! This delicious French toast will be made with farm-fresh eggs from Massey Creek Farms and sour dough bread from Piedmont International Bakery. WHEN: 8 -11:30 a.m. WHERE: Greensboro Farmers Curb Market. 501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro. MORE: $5 suggested donation.
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WHAT: The young virtuoso recently described as ‘the finest guitar player of this generation’ brings his world tour to The Muddy Creek Music Hall for one night February 9! “The word Prodigy seems to entirely fall short of this soft-spoken young man’s skills, he coaxes sounds and melodies out of his instrument that literally drop jaws.” The Calgary Herald, CANADA WHEN: 8-11 p.m. WHERE: Muddy Creek Cafe and Music Hall. 5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem. MORE: $16 tickets.
WHAT: Love Market is a local Valentine’s market where you can find the perfect, unique gifts for the special men & women in your life. You will find over 60 vendors selling handmade arts, crafts & jewelry as well as antique, repurposed and food items. We also have some fun couple activities for you to enjoy together – a fortune teller, a caricature artist, and couple massages! WHEN: 12 -5 p.m. WHERE: Foothills Brewing Company’s Tasting Room. 3800 Kimwell Drive, Winston-Salem. MORE: Free entry.
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BY JASMYN BRUNSON “Mindfulness Boutique” is what the owner Stephany McMillan calls her yoga studio Rise and Flow, located at 1109 Coliseum Blvd. in Greensboro. The studio’s grand opening was Nov. 27, 2018, and McMillan said its motto is to “give rise to mindfulness in every aspect in one’s life.” The goals of Rise and Flow are to bring awareness of mindfulness into areas of the community that it is not taught, teach the mental aspects of yoga, and work on the alignments of one’s body. McMillan got the idea to open her own studio after finishing her yoga teacher training. She was going back and forth to the doctor trying to figure out what was going on with her body, only to learn that she was stressed. After doing more yoga training, she started to notice a huge difference in herself. She felt as though she needed to share what she learned with other people to help them to find a new way to manage their stress. McMillan said the studio offers a variety of classes. The most popular beginner’s class is called “Together We Flow,” which incorporates a sequence of multiple yoga poses and alignment. The studio also offers a “Parent’s Peace” class that invites parents to bring their children to practice peace and to explore the world of yoga. McMillan said all are welcome, from beginner yogi to experienced yogi.
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The drop-in rate for individuals is $10, and for a parent and a child it is $12 and anyone added would be charged $2. The studio offers a monthly membership, which starts at $100 and includes the opportunity to explore unlimited classes and access to all workshops that are scheduled. McMillan said attendees could also rent a room in the studio for an event, which starts at $75 an hour. (To schedule times and discuss rates, contact McMillan at the studio.) There are multiple events that are held at Rise and Flow such as “Open Mic Night,” which is held on every second Saturday. This event is free and gives local talent a chance to showcase and bring the vibes of yoga and the energy of music in one collective space. Rise and Flow is closed Mondays, but is open Tuesday and Thursdays from 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays from noon12:45 p.m., Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays from 9:30 a.m to 11:45 a.m, and on Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. “All are welcome, just come with an open heart, great attitude and willingness to learn and explore and you will be good to go!” McMillan added. To learn more about Rise and Flow, visit its Instagram and Facebook pages. !
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t’s almost Valentine’s Day, foodies, when even the most begrudging partner puts on their big kid pants and heads out to romance their significant other. This is the one night Kristi Maier most people do it up. @triadfoodies But this year, we’re bringing you a list of the not so usual Contributor suspects. Places you can go and have just as memorable a time as if you’ve dropped a Benjamin or two at the finest eatery in the city.
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Small Batch Burger, 241 W. 5th St, Winston-Salem & 2760 Highway 68 S. Unit 237, High Point Let’s take it back to the ‘50s with a beautiful burger, fries and a milkshake. The shakes are so big you’ll be forced to share it with your beloved and maybe two other beloveds. Small Batch doesn’t look anything close to a diner or the ‘50s though. It’s practically cosmopolitan. What a fun, casual night you can have and then you can take an evening stroll to burn off those calories. If you ask my husband, he’ll tell you I think fries are hot. Plus at Small Batch, Thursday is “pint night.” The Library Bar at Spring House Restaurant Kitchen & Bar, 450 N. Spring St., Winston-Salem My favorite bar in all the lands, as I like to say. The sexy Library Bar is newly renovated and expanded with plenty of luxurious seating, opulent lighting and a warm cozy fireplace. You can order your entrée here, but I might suggest a selection of appetizers and one of there beautifully crafted cocktails. From Thursday through Sunday, Spring House will offer a specially designed St. Valentine’s Day menu to give you plenty of choices to linger over. For all you pizza lovers: Mission Pizza, 707 N. Trade St., Winston-Salem & Mozzarella Fellas, 336 Summit Square Blvd., Winston-Salem Owner Peyton Smith will be the first to YES! WEEKLY
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tell you that pizza Napoletana is a sexy food, what with roaring thousand-degree Vulcan oven, all the fresh toppings, and the light and chewy crust. Mission Pizza Napoletana is intimate small, not necessarily intimate quiet, but it’s a fun and enjoyable date spot for sure. It’d make a really great first date spot, if you’re crazy enough to do that on Valentine’s Day. For a bit more fancy schmancy to your typical pizza place, Mozzarella Fellas is offering a Valentine’s Prix Fixe menu $55 per person. They promise the menu will be sure to satisfy even the pickiest of dates. If you just want delicious pizza, you can order off the regular menu. Reservations are
required “to ensure that you get home early, wink-wink.” RSVP by email, info@
I’ll Make You Breakfast (or buy you breakfast, anyway) Who says you have to have dinner on Valentine’s Day? Any number of our wonderful breakfast establishments in the Triad fit the breakfast for whatever meal bill, but we really do love Breakfast Queen Mary’s Gourmet Diner, 723 N. Trade St., Winston-Salem or Scrambled Southern Diner, 2417 Spring Garden St., Greensboro, where you can get luscious pancakes all piled high with a number of finely crafted ingredients, eggs, bacon, biscuits, grits. Then you can go home and take a nap…. together. Tea for Two on 2/14 The Flour Box Tea Room & Cafe in Old
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For the Sushi Lover In Winston-Salem, there’s Mizu Japanese Restaurant, 3374 Robinhood Rd., Winston-Salem, where there’s actually a sushi roll called the Sweetheart Roll. And it’s expertly rolled and shaped with tuna into a pretty little heart. It features spicy tuna crunchy inside and fresh tuna on top. It’s one of my favorite rolls ever at my favorite sushi place in Winston-Salem. In Greensboro and High Point, US Sushi has a Valentine Roll that also features tuna.
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Salem, 137 West Street, SW, WinstonSalem, is doing the regular full tea service ($18/person), but owner Ulyana Kay will have love-themed desserts. If you’re feeling bubbly, there will be Prosecco. Reservations for tea are always recommended. Desserts for Dinner It’s only one day a year, y’all. Order a nice dessert like a brownie or cookie from West End Coffeehouse, Black Mountain Chocolate (both also serve gelato) or at Twin City Hive or Camino Bakery, which stay open later. In Greensboro, Cheesecakes by Alex’s cheesecake could get you all four food groups in one “meal.” Get your fill of macarons from The Humblebee Shoppe or Tart Sweets. Valentine’s Day already is about love, so you can throw caution to the wind and show yourselves some love and enjoy your “just desserts,” literally. This day only, promise? The “I Don’t Need No Man” on Valentine’s Day Enjoy “Galentine’s Day” at Fiddling Fish in the Big Winston Warehouse on Trade Street. I feel you eye-rolling over there, but sometimes “girls just wanna have fun,” as Black Mountain Chocolate’s Marissa Joyce exclaims. Enjoy a “chick flick” movie by A/perture. A brews and snacks package will be available for purchase. Load up before with truffles, macarons and all the chocolate from Black Mountain Chocolate, just across the way. Canteen Market & Bistro, 411 W. 4th St., Winston-Salem, is doing a Galentine’s Day Rosè & Raw Bar happy hour as well as a Prix Fixe Menu (reservations accepted for 6:30 and 8:30 pm) . Valentine’s Day for a Cause Providence Restaurant, 5790 University Pkwy, Winston-Salem. Pick a night, Feb. 14, 15, 16 and your meal supports Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. It’s $75 per couple with a pretty incredible menu and complimentary Champagne. See the Facebook page for details and for the link for tickets. The Porch Kitchen and Cantina & Alma Mexicana, both in Winston-Salem, will be donating 10 percent of their sales the entire day to the Parkinson’s Foundation - they will be selling items off of their usual lunch and dinner menu as well as offering Valentine’s Dinner specials Eat your heart out, foodies! ! 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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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 7 IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INTERSECTION OF AIR HARBOR ROAD AT LAKE BRANDT ROAD IN GREENSBORO, GUILFORD COUNTY STIP Project No. U-6019 The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to make improvements to the intersection of Air Harbor Road and Lake Brandt Road in Greensboro. An open-house public meeting will be held at Covenant Grace Church located at 1414 Lake Brandt Road in Greensboro from 4-6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 7, 2019. The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested citizens the opportunity to review maps of the project, ask questions and provide feedback. Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 6 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Maps of the proposed improvements will be displayed at the meeting and staff of NCDOT will be on hand to provide information and answer questions. A map of the proposal is available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/. For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Engineer, Jennifer Evans, PE, (336) 487-0075 or jenniferevans@ncdot.gov. Comments will be accepted at the meeting, by mail or email, and should be submitted by March 1, 2019. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam, (919) 707-6072 or Lnputnam@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. FEBRUARY 6-12, 2019
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nneKarine Thoresen has been working full-time as an artist, painter and teacher since the year 2000. A native of Lillestrøm, Norway, Thoresen Terry Rader has always specialized in painting animals. Her work Contributor began with painting dogs and birds; then she moved on to painting endangered species. In January 2015, she founded the Coalition of Artists for the Recognition of Endangered Species (CARE). Thoresen said that CARE is a small group of Triad artists that include Andi Hennings, an equine artist; Addren Doss, an animals, landscapes and abstract painter; Tucker Bailey, a sculptor and painter; John Gibbs, a sculptor; Alexis Lavine, a watercolor artist; and Cecilia Cox, a still life painter. CARE artists presented 93 paintings of animals residing at The Greensboro Science Center during its “See To Believe” 2017 fundraiser gala and each artist contributed a different dimension to the show including the animals, views of children looking at the animals, and the skulls in the curator’s room. In 2016, CARE honored “Endangered Species Day” with an opening reception in a “Saving Animals from Extinction” exhibit at The Ambleside Gallery in Greensboro. In 2018, the Randolph Art Guild invited the artists of CARE to present a show for the benefit of the North Carolina Zoo that included animals from
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Greensboro to get all they wanted from her house. Then, with all she could fit in her car, she headed to Destin, Florida, a little town that originated as a small fishing village where she photographed birds for five months in the Panhandle on the Gulf side. She said that she needed to better understand them before painting them. When she came back to Greensboro, she moved into a house with an attached suite for her studio with her two Papillons (Flip and Filbert) and three Border Collies (Fiona, Farley and Finnegan). Thoresen shares her love of dogs through her volunteer work as a dog trainer with the Carolina Dog Training Club and competes in Rally Obedience, an AKC Dog Sport. She recently qualified for the 2019 Nationals with Fiona, and she also does workshops with her Border Collies in herding, disc and dock diving, just for fun. Whistler, her African Gray Parrot, repeats, “Purple is your friend,” as Thoresen says every painting needs a little purple in it. Thoresen will be one of several artists to be featured in the “Menagerie” exhibit of the North Carolina Zoo’s animal residents art at The Artery Gallery. The opening reception will be on Friday, Feb. 8 from 5-8 p.m. and the show will run through Feb. 26. The Artery Gallery’s co-owner and artist David Thomas said that the “MeManager of Software Engineering nagerie” exhibit includes in Greensboro, NC: Leads a team of artists, Jack Stratton, Mark Software Engineers and participates Kingsley, Vito Ciccone, Don Morgan, Hank Rudisill, in the design and development Janet Oliver, Andrea Henof high-performance, distributed, nings, Casandra Liuzzo, Roy Nydorf and Thoresen. state-of-the-art software. Requires: Thomas said that he (1) Masters + 3 yrs exp. OR (2) Bachaccompanied these artists elors + 5 yrs exp. Mail resume to: to the North Carolina Zoo, where they painted on Market America, Inc., 1302 Pleasant location in mixed meRidge Road, Greensboro, NC 27409, dium, oils, watercolor, ink, Attn: Sherry Spesock. gouache and pastels, and
Africa and North America. CARE donates a percentage of the proceeds of their paintings to the organization where the animals reside. Thoresen said the paintings are intended to invoke an emotional response and to educate. She said that it is a great way of giving back to the community and that she would like to see these paintings go on the road as a traveling national education exhibit. Thoresen said artists interested in joining CARE are welcome to call her to discuss the application process as the CARE artists intend to continue bringing awareness to endangered species. She said that they have plenty of paintings yet to come with the North Carolina Zoo, the Greensboro Science Center and Duke Lemur Center all located in the Triad. She said that CARE would welcome an opportunity to share this body of work as a whole if anyone would be interested in hosting a show, as it is quite an impressive collection. Thoresen said she is an avid backyard bird watcher and loves to go to the mud flats when birds are migrating and photograph them. In 2008, she was so moved by the harm done to the environment, animals and birds with the BP Oil Spill that she called The Red Collection in
that he was happy to take part in exhibiting their work. “I decided to take the big leap to become a full-time artist when I first moved to Greensboro,” Thoresen said. “I can’t believe I’m still doing it, but through being consistent, persistent and through a lot of hard work, I’m still here. I teach classes two times a week, and I tell my students to paint what you’re passionate about and about what you know. When you paint what you are passionate about, I think it shows through in your work.” She said that when things get hard, she reminds herself that it’s worked for 20 years, so why wouldn’t it work now. Then she does the best thing she can do. She takes a dog on a walk in the woods. ! TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, songwriter and wellness herbalist, formerly an ad agency creative director/branding strategist/copywriter and Earth Harmony columnist, a storyteller on a mission to raise awareness for creativity and environmental sustainability along with part-time work in Community Outreach & Wellness Buyer at Deep Roots Market Co-op and her business, Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind (pet, house sitter).
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Feb. 8 from 5-7 p.m., “Menagerie” opening reception. The exhibit runs through Feb. 26 at The Artery Gallery, 1711 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, 336.274.9814 and is free and open to the public, gallery hours Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (closed Sundays), https://www.facebook.com/ArteryGalleryGreensboro/ Karine’s studio is open to the public by appointment for individuals and small groups. Ongoing painting classes for all levels on Mon., 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., 336.209.4151 (Karine), http://karinethoresen.com/works, https://www. facebook.com/Anne-Karine-Thoresen-FineArt-205968202768327/, https://www.facebook. com/karine.thoresen, https://www.facebook. com/Coalition-of-Artists-for-the-Recognition-ofEndangered-species-CARE-800494460024589/
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Get down and dirty for Valentine’s Day Two years ago, Fathom Events and Lionsgate scored a direct hit when they joined forces to re-release Dirty Dancing (1987) to the big screen to commemorate its 30th anniversary. Mark Burger Such success does not go unnoticed, and once again PatContributor rick Swayze and Jennifer Grey will bring their fancy footwork and romantic chemistry to theaters nationwide, including the Regal Greensboro Grande Stadium 16, located in the Friendly Center in Greensboro. Dirty Dancing returns – just in time for Valentine’s Day, with screenings this Sunday (Feb. 10) and next Wednesday (Feb. 13). Set in the Catskills in the summer of 1963 and steeped in period nostalgia, Dirty Dancing details the relationship that develops between lonely teenager “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) and resort dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), set to such chart-topping ‘60s standards as “Be My Baby,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” What proved surprisingly popular were the original songs created for the film: Swayze’s own “She’s Like the Wind,” Eric Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes,” and the Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes duet “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” which won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Duet. For those who remember those happy days of radio airplay in 1987, these tunes were absolutely, completely inescapable. (Indeed, some are still heard in regular rotation to this day!) Despite its Catskills setting, the film was actually shot in Virginia (Mountain Lake) and right here in North Carolina (Lake Lure). The Mountain Lake Hotel still hosts “Dirty Dancing Weekends” on a regular basis, and since 2009 Lake Lure WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
hosts an annual “Dirty Dancing Festival.” Swayze and Grey had previously co-starred in the John Milius action opus Red Dawn (1984) and reportedly did not hit it off. Indeed, their off-screen relationship on Dirty Dancing was rumored to have had its ups and downs, yet screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein (who based the story in part on her own experiences as a teenager) felt this brought an added layer of tension to their characters. Dirty Dancing also stars Jerry Orbach (the much-missed mainstay of “Law & Order”), Jack Weston (Wait Until Dark), Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance), Kelly Bishop (Tony Award winner for A Chorus Line) and future “Seinfeld” favorite and Jurassic Park victim Wayne Knight in his first major screen role. Costing a mere $5 million, the film was an unexpected sleeper hit, grossing over $60 million in the United States and over $150 million worldwide. Its success boosted the careers of Swayze, Grey and first-time director Emile Ardolino (who later helmed the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg blockbuster Sister Act), and put fledgling independent studio Vestron Pictures on the map. (Three years later, Vestron Pictures was off the map – having declared bankruptcy and having produced
no films comparably successful to Dirty Dancing.) Since its release, Dirty Dancing has literally become a cottage industry, spawning a popular and award-winning stage musical, a live television version in 2017 (starring Colt Prattes as Johnny and Abigail Breslin as Baby), and a belated and and largely ignored 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, which featured a brief cameo by Swayze. “Dirty Dancing is one of those really rare films that feels just as fresh and fun as it did the first time you saw it,” said Tom Lucas, vice-president of studio relations for Fathom Events, when the film was re-released in 2017. “As an ‘80s classic set
in the ‘60s, it’s a double-dose of cinematic nostalgia, and we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome Baby and Johnny back to the silver screen.” ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.
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Miss Bala misses the mark Hardwicke, best known for directing the raw teen drama Thirteen and the first (and best) of the Twilight pictures, stages the copious shootouts with assured confidence, though she fails to provide any tension in the more individual moments (such as when Gloria tries to plant a bug in Lino’s phone or cross the border in a cash- and drug-filled car). Rodriguez handles all of her assignments well enough, and it’s nice to see an unlikely actress going the Liam Neeson route. But when it comes to Miss Bala itself, the film is sure to leave audiences feeling taken.
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remake of a 2011 Mexican movie that only played film festivals stateside, Miss Bala ( ) follows in the footsteps of such recent efforts as Peppermint and Everly in that it takes a standard Liam Neeson or Bruce Willis programmer and injects it with a heavy dose of girl power. In Peppermint and Everly, the heroine fought for the love of family. In Miss Bala, Gloria (Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez) fights for the love of her friend. A Latin-American makeup artist working in Hollywood, Gloria returns to Tijuana to visit her best friend Suzu (Cristina Rodlo), a beauty who’s preparing to enter the Miss Baja California pageant. With Gloria in tow, Suzu goes to a local nightclub to schmooze with Saucedo (Damian Alcazar), the local police chief and primary benefactor of the beauty contest. But once cartel leader Lino (Ismael Cruz Cordoba) and his posse bust into the nightclub to carry out an
assassination attempt on Saucedo, all hell breaks loose, and Gloria loses track of her friend. What follows next is a plunge into hell for Gloria, as her attempts to find Suzu
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Just how absolutely ludicrous is the big twist in the new thriller Serenity ( )? It’s so head-smackingly stupid that I had to check the credits to see if M. Night Shyamalan was listed anywhere. Instead, the culprit is Steven Knight, a gifted scripter responsible for such original efforts as Dirty Pretty Things (for which he earned an Oscar nomination), Eastern Promises and Locke. It’s one thing to think outside the box; it’s another to deliberate beneath the barrel. Serving as both writer and director, Knight has come up with a movie whose originality is thoroughly obliterated by its idiocy. It starts out in familiar neo-noir fashion, as Matthew McConaughey plays a fishing boat captain who’s asked by his ex-wife (a bored Anne Hathaway) to murder her abusive husband (Jason Clarke) for $10 million. As he contemplates whether to execute the dirty deed, he’s adviced by his conscientious best friend (Djimon Hounsou) and pursued by a strange businessman (Jeremy Strong) sporting a briefcase. Were I a kinder man, I would just go ahead and offer a spoiler and save everyone valuable time and money. But since the critics’ code prevents blatant reveals, let’s just say the movie doesn’t have as much in common with a neo-noir as it does with Neo, the protagonist in that highly popular and influential trilogy starring Keanu Reeves. The plot pirouette effectively neutralizes any emotions we might be feeling toward any of these characters, and it leads to a final halfhour that’s as daft as anything found in an Ed Wood turkey. Indeed, about the only thing missing is a shot of McConaughey bellowing “Pull the string!” while a herd of buffalo — or, in this case, a school of tuna — parade across the screen. !
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standing ovation from me were Michael Tourek as Hank and Carroll Michael Johnson as Chester. Of course, all the actors in this production were phenomenal and more than deserving of applause, but those two really struck a chord with me. Their actions and reactions brought me more into the story. I felt terrified at the booming of Tourek’s voice when Hank was angry. But I was giggling while watching my partner try to decipher what Johnson was saying half the time through Chester’s thick Southern accent and good ol’ boy antics. The set was simple and consisted of a big track of red-tinted “dirt” with a moveable metal car attached to it. The metal car was made to look like a hunk of junk in the play, but the artistry of its design looked like something one might see in a modern art museum. Above the set was a rectangle-shaped light fixture equipped, rightly so, with mason jars that lit up the stage. Below the set was bigger jars filled with pennies that glistened in the light. The moonshinethemed decor was noticeable, but not overdone; a little went a long way regarding the design of the set, which made the performance that much more alluring. Opening nights at Triad Stage are like no other. After attending past shows such as “And Then There Were None,” “Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” and “The Passion of Teresa Rae King,” I never had the chance to experience Triad Stage on opening night. I was lucky enough to score seats on the floor, and that intimacy was my favorite part of the experience. Not giving too much away, but this production has an optimistic, yet somewhat mysterious conclusion. “White Lightning” is indeed a thrilling ride from start to finish. Hurry up and catch “White Lightning” before it tears out of the Pyrle Theatre Feb. 6-10 and Feb. 12-17. For more information and to buy tickets, visit the www.triadstage.org. ! 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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Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the Chuck Shepherd company’s founder. For $79.99, Vaev will send you a box containing a petri dish, which houses a facial tissue used by a sick person. Niessen explained to Time magazine that the recipient wipes their nose with the provided tissue and contracts a cold virus to get it out of the way before, say, leaving on a vacation. But Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, debunked Niessen’s theory: “There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses ... getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” He adds that Vaev’s customers will never know what exactly is on the provided tissues, which Niessen says are produced by a “stable” of 10 go-to sneezers, some recruited on the internet. Still, Neissen claims to have sold about 1,000 used tissues, although the company’s website currently shows the product as sold out. “We’ve had some supply-chain issues,” Niessen said, without offering details.
GIFT WITH PURCHASE
A shopper at a Primark store in Essex, England, was startled to discover a human bone in a sock on Dec. 10. Essex police reassured the public that the bone “did not appear to be a result of recent trauma,” and it did not have any skin attached to it,
according to Sky News. A Primark spokesman said the company is checking with its supplier, and “No evidence of any kind exists to suggest that any incident has occurred in the factory, so it is highly probable that this object was placed in the sock by an individual for unknown reasons.”
POLICE REPORT
A motorist in New Canaan, Connecticut, called police on Jan. 23 after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver’s seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie Warner-Grise, 50, “unable to answer basic questions,” according to the arrest report. They “detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath (and) her speech was slurred. ... In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.” The Hour reported Warner-Grise failed field sobriety tests and she was charged with driving under the influence of vanilla extract. The Food and Drug Administration requires that pure vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, which makes it 70 proof.
IT’S GOOD TO HAVE GOALS
Pavol Durdik added another Guinness world record to his collection Aug. 3 in Puchov, Slovakia by extinguishing 62 lighted matches with his tongue within one minute, according to United Press International. In a video posted by Guinness World Records on Jan. 25, Durdik had the matches laid out in front of him and lighted each one before putting it out on his tongue. He also holds the record for most socks put on one foot within 30 seconds.
GUTSY
So much for advanced Russian security. As art lovers browsed an exhibition at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery on Jan. 27, Euro News reported, a thief nonchalantly strolled in, plucked a 1908 landscape by Arkhip Kuindzhi off the wall, and walked out of the building. Police quickly viewed surveillance video and arrested a 31-yearold man, who admitted he hid the painting, worth an estimated $185,000, in an unfinished building nearby. The gallery was able to recover the painting and announced that “security measures have been reinforced ... at all venues of the Tretyakov Gallery.”
LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL
Police in Austin, Texas, caught up with 19-year-old suspect Luca P. Mangiarano on Jan. 24, a month after a bank robbery in large part because of his choice in getaway vehicles. According to police, Mangiarano stepped into the BBVA Compass bank on Dec. 18 and handed a note to a teller, reading: “This is a robbery, please give me all your 100’s and 50’s in a envelope and everything will be ok.” The employee did as directed and the robber left the building, then hopped on a Jump electric scooter and took off down the sidewalk. He perhaps failed to consider that the scooters are linked to GPS tracking systems and online accounts with phone numbers, email addresses and credit card information, which, after police obtained them from Jump, led them to Mangiarano. Austin Detective Jason Chiappardi told The Washington Post: “We had never had a scooter involved in a robbery.”
BRIGHT IDEA
Outdoorsman Scott Ritchie of Loveland, Colorado, has a new lease on life thanks to 3D printing. Ritchie, 52, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in early 2018 after noticing pain in his hip after flyfishing. CBS4 in Denver reported Dr. Ronald Hugate of the Panorama Orthopedics and Spine Center in Highlands Ranch took an aggressive and creative approach to treating Ritchie: He made a 3D virtual model of Ritchie’s pelvis, then designed an implant to exactly replace the area of bone that would have to be surgically removed. Made of titanium, the implant was produced using a 3D printer. Two weeks later after surgery, Ritchie was walking with crutches and is expected to walk on his own in a few weeks more, although he was warned he might have a limp. “If I do have a limp, it’s better than nothing,” Ritchie said.
UH, NO
On Jan. 29, the Chenoa (Illinois) Police Department put a call out for volunteers
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to help with a training session taking place that evening. “Officers are undergoing their annual Taser training tonight ... and are looking for members of the public who are willing to volunteer for the experience,” announced WEEK-TV. Volunteers were required to sign an “exposure waiver” in order to participate, but it was unclear whether the Tasers would be live.
EWWWW!
Penny Pospisil, 47, of Sumter County, Florida, was arrested on Jan. 25 for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, 55-yearold Anthony Mitchell, according to WFTV. Investigators believe that last August, in the Lake Pan RV Village where Pospisil and Mitchell lived, she killed Mitchell and cut his body into pieces, living with the remains in their camper. When neighbors asked about him, she explained that Mitchell had died of natural causes and she had him cremated. But they also noticed a foul odor coming from the camper and that Pospisil was regularly showering at the pool. When police arrived in December to investigate her overdue lot fee, she told them that she was a victim of domestic violence and had killed Mitchell in self-defense. She faces charges of second-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body.
BLAME IT ON THE METH
Debra Lynn Johnson, 69, of Searles, Minnesota, suffered from heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illnesses, according to the Mankato Free Press, and was a patient at a transitional care center before her husband took her home to have a “death party,” he later told authorities. Brown County sheriff’s officers responding to a 911 call from Duane Arden Johnson, 58, on Jan. 24 found the words “Death Parde God Hell” spray-painted on the front door. Duane came out of the house naked, yelled that his wife was dead and ran back inside, where officers found him in the bathtub picking “things” from his skin. Debra’s body, still warm, was wrapped in a sheet. Duane told police his wife had begged him to take her home to die, so they had staged the party, “rocking out” to Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health” and taking methamphetamines. After her death, Duane said he washed and wrapped her “like the Bible told me to do.” Police found stolen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the home, and Duane was charged with felony counts of theft and receiving stolen property. !
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It would be great to rebrand this whole area as the Mill Village.” So said Nick Piornack, general manager of Revolution Mill, when I Ian McDowell interviewed him last week. Piornack envisions the 45-acre Contributor mixed-use development off Yanceyville as the heart of a once neglected but now revitalized Northeast Greensboro, and closer to downtown than many people realize. “When I started here, my friends downtown were amazed I was moving ‘all the way out there’ to Revolution Mill.” But it’s actually only six minutes from his old office at Downtown Greensboro, Inc. on Elm Street. “Just one mile from Moses Cone and all the medical complexes, and 2.1 miles from downtown.” Built in 1898, Revolution was the first flannel mill in the South. By the 1930s, it was the largest producer of that fabric in the world. But it ceased operation in 1982, and by the end of the 20th century, the huge buildings that once housed looms and other machinery were empty shells. Revolution Mill was the second textile plant established in Greensboro by brothers Moses and Ceasar Cone, three years after their Proximity Cotton Mill became the South’s first denim plant. The Cones built two additional Greensboro mills; White Oak in 1905 and Proximity Printworks in 1912. By the 1920s, according to “Revolutionary Design,” a 2017 O.Henry Magazine article by Yes! Weekly contributor Billy Ingram, one in every seven people living in Greensboro worked for Cone. Each of the company’s mills was surrounded by selfsufficient villages containing churches, stores, schools, playing fields, recreation centers, and company-owned houses. At their peak, the Cone Mill villages covered 450 acres, with 2,675 workers residing in about 1,500 houses, but they were all sold off after World War II. Cone Mills Corporation declined through the late 20th century until it was bought out, along with former competitor Burlington Industries, by International Textile Group, a take-over begun in the 1980s and completed in 2004. The White Oak plant at 16th Street and YES! WEEKLY
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Fairview was the last to close, producing denim until 2017. By then, White Oak’s one-time sister plant Revolution Mill hadn’t been an actual mill for over three decades. It closed in 1982 and was entered on the national register of historic places in 1984. In 2003, Greensboro developers Frank Auman and Jim Peeples bought the property. They converted half the mill into office and event space by 2012, when defaulting on a construction loan forced them into foreclosure. Nonprofit and community development lender Self-Help Ventures bid $8 million to acquire the property and started renovating in spring of 2013, building offices, artists’ studios and 142 apartments. In December of 2015, the Greensboro City Council voted to give an urban development investment incentive grant of $1 million to Self-Help Ventures for development of the site, on the condition Self-Help would invest at least $85 million and generate at least 20 new jobs there by the end of 2018. The latter was accomplished by 2017, when Cugino Forno Pizzeria opened in March and, four months later, Natty Greene’s Kitchen + Market opened in the former textile plant’s 9,000 square-foot carpenter’s shop building. As reported by Kristi Maier of YES! Weekly, Natty’s former co-owner Kayne Fisher rebranded the restaurant, butcher shop and bar as Kau last month. Piornack told me that he’s really pleased with the rebranding. “Kayne’s butcher shop and market are great. It’s easy to pick up stuff for all the people who work here and live here, and it’s such high quality, and all local.” He said he expected Kau to experience major business this spring, “with the deck opening up and more people moving here.” “Fantastic” was Piornack descriptor for Revolution Mill’s occupancy. “According to the projection I got last week, as of the 1st of April, we’ll be sitting on about 106 companies and will be about 94 percent occupied, with about 740 people working here in our offices.” But what about residential tenants? “We recently added eight luxury apartments, so we have 150 residential units. Currently, as of last week, we’re sitting at 96 percent.” According to www.revolutionmillapartments.com, eligible single households with annual income between $24,000 and $33,900 (two-person ones earn-
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ing between $28,000 and $37,500) can qualify for reduced monthly rental rates of $749 or $889 per month. I asked him about what Revolution Mill advertises as its “affordable housing” option. “About 20 percent of our total is Affordable, and they’re 100 percent occupied.” Revolution Mill’s website calls it “a destination campus that includes more than 100 businesses, meeting and conference facilities, 150 loft apartments, outdoor performance spaces, public art galleries, restaurants and coffee shops, greenway trails and more.” The Latin word for field, “campus” means the land and buildings on which an institution, academic or otherwise, is located. Google, Microsoft and Apple all call the land on which their offices sit campuses, and many hospitals and even airports use the term for their facilities. “It’s definitely a campus rather than a complex,” Piornack said. “The way it’s set up now, you can virtually walk everywhere. You can hit the cafés; you can walk through office space to art galleries, apartments, everybody can stay inside.” It’s changed quite a bit since he first came here from downtown at the end of 2014. “I’d been developing on the South end – I’m the one who kind of started all the development down there. I put the parking lot in, a couple of restaurants, back in 2011 through about 2015. When that project started to wind down and everything was complete from what we can do, a friend of a friend just introduced me to the folks here. Revolution Mill was getting ready to start their big construction push.” He was first hired as business development manager. “There hadn’t been much development of business at the time. Some offices, but no restaurants, no apartments, just basically a lot of buildings that had been cleaned out and gutted.” Construction was planned but hadn’t begun. “So, originally, I was brought in for busiWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
ness development. Or as we like to chuckle about it here, I kind of came in to sell the sizzle. It was really a matter of starting to connect the community back to Revolution Mill by throwing a lot of events, by doing a lot of marketing, connecting the folks from downtown to out here, showing that it’s back and it’s revitalized and there will be a lot of capital put back in to take it to the next level. I did that for two or three years, and then kind of naturally worked myself into the general manager position I have now.” When I asked Piornack what he found most engaging about his job, he said it was “the combination of art and creativity and business,” then described a particular example. “We took on probably about eight or nine artists and kicked off one of these new buildings. I think that really started to set the tone for the cool factor, showing that we weren’t just putting in general businesses. That gave us kind a different vibe, and then a lot of businesses piled in right around that and started filing in the gaps.” I asked what’s been his biggest challenge. “Well, I don’t want to go back to the subject of location, but I do think we continue to have to make sure we put ourselves on the map. Downtown is certainly getting ready to take on a lot of new projects, with the hotels and the performing art center, and I think we just have to continue to market. I never sit back and think, wow, we’re 93 percent here and 96 percent there, so it looks like we made it! I think that now, we probably have to go harder, to take it to the next level and work on this next building. We still remain with 16-18 or more acres on the Yanceyville side that are available for future development that we haven’t even started to discuss yet. With the 45 acres, we have plenty of room to grow.” But, he emphasized, the Greensboro
community has responded very favorably to what he and Revolution Mill have done so far. “Both our full-service restaurants are thriving. Cugino Forno Pizzeria has been a remarkable success, just incredible. They’re opening their second one in Winston this spring, over by the powerplant, and they’re also seriously looking at another one in Durham. They have hit the ground running and done a great job.” And he expects big things in the next few months. “Just between, let’s say, February and April, we’re going to move in another couple of hundred people, just between the Kontoor brand and two or three other offices that we’re just completing now. So, a 200-person injection, which is in the 740 number I gave you. That’s going to really enhance the activity here.” He said he expected Kontoor, the publicly-traded independent created by the separation of VF’s Jeanswear organization, to move into Revolution Mill in late March, and that “the next big retail piece” will probably be the second location of the Bearded Goat. “I haven’t gotten a final date, but I would think that will be sometime between April and May, at the latest.” And then there’s the work being done on the 167,000 square-foot storage building on Yanceyville called the Mill House. “We’ve moved all of the storage folks out, so the building is empty, and we begin interior demolition in about two weeks.” While that’s going on, restoration will begin on the building’s exterior, including the windows and brick, and will continue over the next several months. During that time, he said that Revolution Mill would be studying its options for the interior. “One option is about a 100 to 130-room boutique hotel. We’re looking at additional office space, and for the first floor, we’re really focused on our retail package, which might include more restaurants,
perhaps the hotel lobby, that sort of thing. No matter what we do there, we’ve got to do all the work that we’re doing now anyway – the gutting and the external façade work and all that. While all that’s going on, we’ve got another few months to really finalize it.” He said that another “really cool factor that I think people aren’t quite knowing yet” is LT Apparel Group, “which is doing most of the children’s wear for Adidas.” Their home base is in New York, but their design center has been a Revolution Mill “anchor tenant” since 2016. “And Avery Dennison is already here in a temp space, getting ready to take on about 12,000 more square-feet, with around 50 folks.” I asked him about the latter’s permanent space. “We’re building it right now, downstairs across from the Café. They’ll be in it probably by the late spring or early summer. And so all that’s happening, and what it’s spawning is a lot of other small folks here, that are in the arts and photography and textiles. We’re getting a real creative vibe, with everybody wanting to be part of this synergy around textiles and design. So, maybe not purposefully, but over the last three years, that’s became a real niche for us.” And then there are medical facilities. “Moses Cone already has one big office here, and they do all their planning for it, with meetings several times a week. And Women’s Hospital is moving in here. It’s going to be, like I said, about a mile from all of the doctors and the medical center here. It certainly helps with some of our apartment rentals, as we have nurses and interns moving in, so that’s a positive.” At the end of our conversation, he returned to the subject of creating a “Mill Village” district, anchored by Revolution Mill and the restoration, as a similar mixed-use site, of the Proximity Printworks Mill at Fairview and Ninth, which the Wisconsin-based Alexander Company has projected to be completed in 2020. “I was also chairman of Downtown Greensboro, Inc. last year. One of the things we’ve been trying to work on is districts. And the Mill Village district, Mill District, or whatever it becomes, would be a great addition here since we are so close to downtown. Someone, the city council or whomever, will have to draw a circle around what that means, but I think it’s probably time now to start considering that, based on the time and money and everything that’s going on in this area.” ! 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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Why will marijuana be legalized now? The call to legalize marijuana is nothing new. It has been going on for decades. So, the question is…why now? It comes down to this – social acceptance and tax revenue. Social Acceptance There have been massive changes in the social acceptance of marijuana use over the last 30 years. A number Charles Freeman of polls reflect widespread acceptance among the population. We all know that “polls” can be questionContributor able given the dataset and administrator. Still, the legalization issue was forefront in the last election, so many well-known news agencies and polling organizations gathered opinions. Gallup, a recognized authority in surveying public opinion, released new numbers in October 2018 ahead of the midterm elections. They found 66 percent of Americans now support legalizing marijuana. This approval rating is up dramatically from the 1970s when the Controlled Substances Act was passed, and marijuana was placed on the Schedule 1 list. Other agencies affirm this general number. The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank, found an approval rating of 62 percent. A CBS poll cited the legalization support rating at 59 percent. Even a Fox News poll found 59 percent of the 1,002 people they called approved of marijuana legalization. Gallup also went farther and looked at political affiliation and demographic groups. Since 2009, a majority of Democrats supported legalization. Currently, all major political identification groups hold a majority approval rating – Democrats 75 percent, Independents 71 percent, and Republicans 53 percent. The change in conservative sentiment among Republicans in the last few years seems to be supporting legalization efforts in Washington. As public opinion is changing, it creates a bipartisan opportunity for the two sides to come together. Such an occurrence is rare these days with our divided government. Age also doesn’t seem to matter with regard to legalization views. The 18-34 year old demographic has the highest percentage of support at 78 percent. But the biggest change has been in the 55 and older group. Legal cannabis support jumped from 50 percent in 2017 to 59 percent in 2018 among older adults. Lastly, here in the South, opinions tend to be more conservative relative to other parts of the country. Therefore, you might assume approval numbers would be lower. You might also assume that since the entire West Coast has adopted recreational legal marijuana laws, their approval rating may be higher. Gallup found approval ratings across geographic regions to be nearly identical: East – 67 percent, Midwest – 65 percent, South – 65 percent, and West – 65 percent. So, across the board, support for legalizing cannabis has increased over the last few decades. As the numbers all move into the majority, I think this gives elected officials the political support to move forward with more compreYES! WEEKLY
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hensive legalization changes in an effort to grow something else – tax revenue. Regulate and Tax New York is likely to be one of the next states to approve recreational use of marijuana. Governor Andrew Cuomo was re-elected in November and is pushing to have a law in place within the first few months of 2019. However, Cuomo has not always been a legal cannabis supporter. In fact, he opposed marijuana use of any kind in 2010 prior to his election. He reversed his position in 2014 and supported a limited medical marijuana program. In January 2018, Cuomo launched a study regarding the plausible outcomes of legalizing recreational cannabis use in New York. After the NY state Department of Health study showed the benefits of legalization outweighed the potential impacts, Cuomo completely reversed his position and now fully supports passing a recreational use law. This changing attitude seems to be consistent with the Gallup polling data mentioned previously. But Cuomo is a governor, and New York needs some help. The challenge for many government officials is balancing public needs with tax revenue, and often budget deficits occur. None of us like an increase in taxes, so politicians are generally not excited about advocating a tax rate increase. But Cuomo realizes that taxing cannabis sales brings in an entirely new revenue source, and it could be a big one. Current estimates suggest tax revenue on cannabis sales in New York could exceed $1 billion a year. (Yes, “b” for billion.) This money could be critical in helping fix New York’s ailing subway and bus systems. This is just one example of how tax money from marijuana sales could be used. Tax revenue distribution in legal cannabis states vary of course, but some other uses currently include health care, education, and government services. But why buy it legally with a tax versus just buying it from “that guy” you know? Many people have suggested to me that the marijuana black market will never be overtaken by the legal cannabis market. I actually agree with that to a degree. However, I think illegal sales will be dramatically reduced over time. Think about it…if you want to go out and have some drinks with friends this
weekend, do you drive to the mountains to buy a couple jars of moonshine? Probably not. You are most likely going to the local ABC store or meeting at a bar in town. Similarly, once marijuana is federally legal and regulations are standardized, I think black market sales slowly decline over time. Like alcohol, I think more people will be willing to pay a premium for convenience and the assurance of product integrity. Between growing social acceptance and the need for new tax revenue to cover massive budget deficits, I think this time it really is different. We are on the road to federal marijuana legalization, and I expect it will happen in the next three to five years. ! Disclosure: AdaptFirst Investments LLC (AFI) is providing this information for educational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Commentary of any kind in this article is based on AFI’s opinion and analysis, and not representative of future performance of any security or market. AFI AND CONTENT SOURCES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER OR ABOUT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION FOR ANY PURPOSE. Use of the article information is at reader’s own risk. Personalized investment advice can only be rendered after engagement of AFI for services, execution of the required documentation, and receipt of required disclosures. Please contact AFI for further information. Information presented is not intended as tax or legal advice. Readers should consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding their individual situation. CHARLES FREEMAN is a Chartered Financial Analyst and President of AdaptFirst Investments in Greensboro, NC. With over 20 years in the investment industry, Charles helps clients find and invest proactively in potential future trends and attractive investment opportunities. Charles has been published or featured in Investor’s Business Daily, The Saturday Evening Post, WXII 12 News, HQ Greensboro, and more. To learn more, visit www.adaptfirst.com
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Barbara Eden brings her magic to the Triad I suppose at one time or another we’ve all fantasized about winning the lottery or finding a magical genie in a bottle. I’ve never won the lottery, but last week I definitely met a magical “Jeannie.” Over the years BarJim Longworth bara Eden has materialized in a number Longworth of venues: in film, on stage, at USO shows, at Large and in Vegas, but she is best known for playing the title character in NBC’s “I Dream of Jeannie.” On March 7, she will pop into town and team up with another T.V. icon Hal Linden, in a production of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” at the High Point Theatre. It’s a play that features two aging characters who have loved each other since childhood. Over time, the pair wrote letters to each other, and now they are reading those missives aloud. Last week I spoke with Barbara about the play and her career. JL: This isn’t your first time around performing “Love Letters”. What makes it such an attractive play to you as an actor? Eden: First of all, it’s a wonderful arc for an actor, and it’s beautifully written. JL: And there’s no song and dance number, no special effects. Eden: No, you don’t have any help. (laughs) Just the lights. JL: What does Hal bring to the play? Eden: Well, he’s wonderfully talented. And he understands the role he’s playing. He understands the character, from boy to young man, to older man, and he makes it quite clear in his acting how these two people are attracted to each other, and yet are so different. JL: Do you write a lot of letters? Eden: No (laughs). Although I was forced to when I was younger. My mom would always make me write thank you notes. JL: I understand that you are a descendant of another letter writer, the great Benjamin Franklin. Eden: Well, that’s what my grandfather always said. Grandpa was born around Philadelphia and his name was Charles Benjamin Franklin. He told me that his aunt and uncle had real memorabilia from Benjamin Franklin. I would love to have proof of that. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
JL: It’s no surprise to any of your male fans that you once won a beauty contest, but when you were first starting out in show business, I heard that some idiot studio executive at Warner Brothers told you that you were not “Hollywood pretty.” How did that make you feel? Eden: I was crushed (laughs). I was just crushed. My uncle had driven me there because I didn’t know how to drive, and he was furious. He was going to go right back in and give the man what for (laughs). The executive showed me a picture of his daughter and said, “Here’s what we want, big tits.” And I had never heard that word used. JL: Who was this guy, the original Harvey Weinstein? Eden: Just about. I was appalled at
the whole thing as I stood there holding my white gloves (laughs). Anyway I went home, cried a lot, then I realized, I thought, ”My goodness, they can’t just have all pretty people on screen. They have to have human beings, and I can be a character actor, nothing wrong with that. So I didn’t quit. JL: We’re all glad you didn’t. Eden: But the coup de gras came a year later. I was at Warner Brothers to work with an acting coach named Cutler. I was not under contract, but he was coaching me for free. I was walking to his class one day, and I heard someone shout, “Hey you!.” I ignored it. Then he shouted, “Hey you in the yellow pants.” I turned around and it was the same man I had met with before, and my heart went down
to my toes. He said, “We’re going to test you.” Can you imagine? The same man. So that really validated me (laughs). JL: What has made “I Dream of Jeannie” remain so popular for so long? Eden: Our group of actors were wonderful and we all worked together so well, but the basic story is so classic. It’s timeless, and strangely enough you can relate to it because she’s a fish out of water. Also it was funny. It was like giving the audience a little respite from all the worries they have. I also find it interesting that I still get mail from France, Italy, Russia and China, which is shocking to me. JL: Maybe we should make you a diplomat. Eden: I know. JL: In your autobiography, “Jeannie Out of the Bottle,” you wrote that you are not a star, you’re an actress. You can’t possibly think that you’re not a star? Eden: Stars are people who win Oscars, you know (laughs). They’re stars, I’m not. I’m just lucky because my part in “I Dream of Jeannie” hit home with people, and they like it, but it was my job, and that’s how I thought of it. If you’d like to see Barbara do her job in person, you can purchase tickets to “Love Letters” by calling the High Point Theatre box office at 336 887-3001, or visit www. highpointtheatre.com. ! JIM LONGWORTH is the host of “Triad Today,” airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).
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Don’t keep it simple: Australian guitarist and singer plays Winston-Salem
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eople sometimes like to point out that the piano is a percussion instrument. They mention this when someone approaches the keyboard John Adamian with a particularly @johnradamian physical attack. The guitar isn’t technically classified as a Contributor percussion instrument, but it can be played like one, and guitarist Daniel Champagne slaps out beats on his acoustic, executing pyrotechnic double-hand tapping on the fretboard, thrumming rapid triplets with his thumb and middle finger, and generally making the six-string do unexpected things. Champagne’s playing brings to mind the techniques of flamenco guitarists, one-man-band buskers, tabla drummers and other dexterous instrumentalists. Champagne, who was born and raised in Australia but has been living in Nashville for the past four years or so, spoke with me by phone from Portland, Oregon, last week after playing a string of West Coast dates. He’ll perform solo at the Muddy Creek Music Hall in Winston-Salem on Saturday, Feb. 9 before heading up the midwest and heading back to Australia and New Zealand in the spring. The guitar attracts plenty of virtuosic players, but people who want to show off their chops to maximum effect tend to gravitate toward the electric guitar, with its versatility, whammy bars, pickups, tone settings, cut-aways, varieties of sustain and feedback, pedals and more. But Champagne is primarily an acoustic player. He started out playing classical guitar as a kid and eventually started developing his own unique as a teenager, after hearing artists like Michael Hedges and fellow Australian John Butler. “Developing my style was a real combination of stealing these tricks off people that were doing it and experimenting,” Champagne said. Music is, admittedly, something that can function and captivate us without the need of the other senses, or even of verbal language itself. Melody, harmony and rhythm operate on our bodies. Vibrations move us in ways we don’t necessarily even YES! WEEKLY
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understand. That being said, in addition to the pleasing sounds, Champagne’s playing is eye-catching. His fingers flutter and tap on the body of the guitar. He maneuvers his right arm in graceful semiwindmills to strum and pluck the strings over the sound hole, moving up the fretboard to tap or depress the strings close to his fretting hand, or back to pound out beats on the wooden front or of the guitar body. Meanwhile, he sets up hammer-on and hammer-off figures with the fingers of his left hand, in rhythmic counterpoint, or he sounds out bright sustained harmonics. He gets a lot of sound out of the instrument. He appears to be both intensely focused and sort of carried away by what he’s doing. Fans of players like Eddie Van Halen, Stanley Jordan and Kaki King will all find aspects of Champagne’s playing to be of note. But, unlike a lot of guitarists working with similar extended techniques, Champagne is also a singer and a songwriter. He works to balance the instrumental showmanship with an attention to songcraft. “I really wanted to marry the two, but it can be hard to do it in a way where one’s not getting in the way of the other,” Champagne said. “Sometimes it’s hard because I always come up with interesting, cool rhythms and other kinds of things, and at the end of the day you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s right for the song, and oftentimes it’s not.” It would be easy to let the guitarplaying get in the way of the lyrics and the vocal melodies. Champagne addresses the challenge by building in space in the verses of his songs to allow the guitar playing to ride in the backseat for a while. There are other moments where the playing is clearly the focus. On songs like “Supernova,” off of his 2017 record Faultlines, Champagne sets
up a beat, using his fretting fingers to get a percussive low-end kick-drum type of sound stressed on the one and three, while his right hand pops out a crisp snapping backbeat on two and four. He sings over top, with a rhythmic accent that borrows from hiphop and slow-soul inflections. His playing has as much in common with the popping and slapping of funk bass, the wide-openness of beat-boxing and the physicality of drumming as it does with the a traditional folk singer wielding an acoustic guitar. Champagne, 29, has spent a fair bit of time busking, playing festival sets and generally performing for audiences who might not expect such percussive techniques. He’s seen listeners who struggle to understand what he’s actually doing with the instrument. “I forget that it is a bit different from regular guitar,” he said. Over the years Champagne has finetuned his technique and zeroed in on equipment — like a custom pick-up — that helps allow him to play and be heard. Early on, Champagne says he was going through guitars every couple of months. He’s quick to point out that he wasn’t shredding the instruments to splinters, but that he routinely knocked hairline
cracks into certain spots where he struck the body repeatedly. Early live footage of Champagne’s playing shows guitars with lots of electrical tape and other adhesives holding them together. All of that tapping and knocking and fancy fingerwork sometimes spurs somewhat puritanical audience members to express their concern to Champagne that he’s using unorthodox techniques, causing what they view as harm to a delicate instrument. Couldn’t he just stick with three chords and some restrained strumming, some ask. Champagne understands the appeal of the minimalist aesthetic. And he knows the virtues of stripping down one’s playing. He’s not necessarily arguing with the wisdom of the less-is-more philosophy. But still, ultimately he’s interested in a style of playing that’s more unabashedly maximalist. “I also really love when people don’t keep it simple,” he said. ! 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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Anti-Valentine’s Day coming back your way Valentine’s Day: some folks love it. Some folks hate it. Shari Blades and her sixth annual Anti-Valentine’s cover show are hoping to satiate both at Smith & Edge on Feb. 16. Katei Cranford Blades is a heartbreaker looking to Contributor rip it up, and mend a few pieces, too, by pulling-out stops and putting together treats for what she calls a “safe haven” from the sap of traditional Valentine’s celebrations. So no worries if you ain’t got a honey, in fact, that’s the point. “Calling all singles: the disenchanted and fed up!” Blades decried over Facebook, “just when you thought it was over, Valentine’s Day rears its ugly head once again.” Cupid doesn’t play, and Blades doesn’t mess around. “We guarantee there will be no cheesy, obnoxious romantic clichés,” she said. “Okay, well maybe a little cheese,” she admitted. Either way, Blades assures: “booze, games, bands and general feelings of bitterness will be provided for all.” In addition to the tunes, comedy bits and raunchy Q&A sessions are customary. Each year boasts a special surprise or two, ensuring tears of laughter roll harder than tears of pain. Though the event doesn’t diss those who feel lovey-dovey, it is an environment that welcomes scorn on the sappiest of holidays. A cathartic gathering of friends as loved ones during a time it’s all too easy to feel lonesome. “The Anti-Valentine’s Day show has always been one of our favorite events,” said Chris Nielsen, guitarist for scheduled performers, Time Machine Drive-By. “It’s just so much fun to be irreverent about something so culturally sacred.” Beyond romance, friend circles can shift greatly in the span of six years, since the first Anti-Valentine’s show in 2013. Members of TMDB have found themselves splintered across the country. They agree it’s all too easy to take for granted the time you’ve got to spend with friends or bandmates—it’s a love worth celebrating. With that, the biggest surprise this year comes in a blast from a Time Machine Drive-By reunion. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Crowd during first Anti-Valentine’s Show, courtesy of Catherine Grimes “Even though we threw in the towel on being a full-time band in 2016, there’s been an unspoken expectation that we’d come back around for at least one more Valentine’s show,” Nielsen said. “It’s in our blood,” he quipped. The band, for which Blades is a vocalist, has been involved with each anti-Valentine’s show so far. “Rob’s flying in from Florida and Alex is pulling an all-nighter from D.C. just to make this happen,” Nielsen said of the strides made by the drummer and bassist in pulling it all together. “When I heard the Anti -Valentine’s Day show would ride again I felt an immediate pull to be a part of it,” said drummer Robert Joyce. “I jokingly told Shari I was buying a plane ticket. A day later, Time Machine had been assembled, and I bought that ticket.”. “The Anti-Valentine’s Day show has always meant a lot to me,” Joyce noted. For all the romance smack-talk, the show remains all about love. “It’s about giving people who don’t have dates a place to be and feel cared about,” Joyce explained. “But I also love breakingdown the societal norm that is Valentine’s Day ‘proper,’ and turning it into an event we can all share together,” he added. For Joyce, “it’s the love of friends and community over the love of shiny objects and fancy dinners. We’re looking to lift each other up and give each other something to look forward to.” Drinks specials and other treats have been inferred, and Nielsen has crafted custom guitar picks for the broken-heart-
ed looking to strum the pain away. But with the covers being the most anticipated morsel of the night, Blades and company have carved a new niche for all the lovers with nobody to love.
“There’ll be some sardonic takes on heartfelt love songs and plenty of jaded anthems celebrating singles,” Nielsen said of the musical selection. “There’s also a fleeting chance to catch some TMDB originals.” “Whether you’re looking to meet your next ex-lover or trying to escape the sap with your sweetheart, it’s the place to be,” he added. “All bands will be performing a vast amount of covers,” Blades said. “The catch is that it’s love songs only: Kenny G, ColorMeBad, Marina and the Diamonds, no ode to love is safe this night,” she added. For Blades, the motto is “No date? No problem! It’s time to go crazy.” The sixth annual Anti-Valentine’s Cover show will go down on Feb 16 at Smith & Edge (422 N Edgeworth St.) ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring through NC the following week, 5-7pm on WUAG 103.1fm.
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FOUR SAINTS BREWING
218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Feb 6: Contentment Is Wealth Feb 8: Couldn’t Be Happiers
clEmmOnS
VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE
6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Feb 8: DJ Bald-E Feb 9: Jax N Jill Feb 15: Whiskey Mic
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REEVES THEATER
129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Feb 9: The Martha Bassett Show, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Feb 15: Declan O’Rourke Feb 16: Occidental Gyspsy
gREEnSBORO
ARIzONA PETE’S
2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Feb 8: 1-2-3 Friday
ARTISTIkA NIGHT CLUB
523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Feb 8: DJ Dan the Player Feb 9: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player
BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Feb 14: Timeless Soul Band Feb 16-Mar 16: Motherhood: The Musical
BEERTHIRTY
505 N. Greene St Feb 7: Geoff Clapp and Charlie Hunter Duo Feb 8: Dana Bearror Feb 15: Craig Baldwin Feb 22: Susanna MacFarlane and Jamie Pruitt
THE BLIND TIGER
1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Feb 6: Fade To Black: A Metallica Tribute Feb 7: Parmalee w/ kasey Tyndall Feb 8: Sevendust w/ Tremonti, Cane Hill, Lullwater, kirra Feb 9: Cosmic Charlie
COMMON GROUNDS
11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Feb 6: Matty Sheets Wednesdays Feb 8: The Jahnks Feb 9: DJ StoneSoup Feb 12: Julian Sizemore Tuesdays Feb 15: Michael Johnson
CONE DENIM
117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Mar 15: Ben Rector
LEVENELEVEN BREWING
1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Feb 6: John Stevens Feb 13: William Nesmith Feb 20: Doug Baker
LITTLE BROTHER BREWING
348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Feb 7: Dane Page Feb 9: Into The Fog Feb 15: Tyler Millard Duo
THE IDIOT BOx COMEDY CLUB
502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Feb 8: Mello Mike Feb 13: Wednesday Open Mic
THE W BISTRO & BAR
HAM’S NEW GARDEN
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aftEr hourS tavErn
1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net feb 24: Desired redemption, Divine treachery, Mad Loco Motives, Crimson Soil, Skulls & Whiskey
GoofY foot taProoM
2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 feb 7: Into the fog feb 9: Greg and Matt from the Piedmont Boys feb 15: turpentine Shine
haM’S PaLLaDIuM
5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com feb 8: Cassette rewind feb 9: Stephen Legree Band
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thE DECk
118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com feb 8 : rockit Science feb 9 : Soul Central
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DanCE haLL DazE
612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com feb 8: the Delmonicos feb 14: Skyryder feb 15: kye & the horizon Band feb 16: the Delmonicos feb 22: the Delmonicos feb 23: ambush
BrEathE CoCktaIL LounGE
221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge feb 9: DJ Mike Lawson feb 16: DJ Mike Lawson
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191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com feb 8: karaoke feb 9: under the Gun
NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 21 FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING ON N.C. 115 (OLD STATESVILLE ROAD) FROM N.C. 24 (W.T. HARRIS BOULEVARD) TO I-485 IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-5772 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) from N.C. 24 (W.T. Harris Boulevard) to I-485 in Mecklenburg County. The purpose of the project is to reduce congestion on N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) between N.C. 24 (W.T. Harris Boulevard) and I-485, and to provide multi-modal accommodations along N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road). The open-house public meeting will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at the Independence Hill Church located at 10220 Independence Hill Road in Huntersville from 4-7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation. Maps will display the proposed concepts and project team members will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or by email or mail by March 8, 2019. Comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/U-5772-2019-02-21.aspx For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Travis Preslar, P.E., by phone at (980) 262-6290 or by email at TJpreslar@ncdot.gov. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Samantha Borges via email at smborges@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707-6115 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made.
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3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Feb 23: Incognito
FIDDLIn’ FISH BrEWInG COMPanY
772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Feb 7: “Shakey” neil Feb 8: Cody Woody Feb 15: Camel City Bluegrass Feb 22: BadCameo
NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 20 FOR THE PROPOSED TORRENCE CHAPEL ROAD AND WEST CATAWBA AVENUE INTERSECTION AND SURROUNDING AREA IMPROVEMENTS IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-5906 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed improvements to the intersection of Torrence Chapel Road and West Catawba Avenue and the surrounding area in the town of Cornelius in Mecklenburg County. The purpose of the project is to improve traffic flow and improve safety. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 20 from 4-7 p.m. at the Cornelius Town Hall located at 21445 Catawba Avenue in Cornelius. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to feedback regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by March 22. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/. For additional information, please contact Sean Epperson, P.E., NCDOT Division 10 Project Team Lead, at (704) 983-4400 or smepperson@ncdot.gov. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6072 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. YES! WEEKLY
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FOOTHILLS BrEWInG
638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Feb 6: Hazy ridge Bluegrass Band
jOHnnY & junE’S SaLOOn
2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com
MaC & nELLI’S
4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com
MILLEnnIuM CEnTEr 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com
MILnEr’S
630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Feb 10: Live jazz Feb 17: Live jazz
MuDDY CrEEk CaFE & MuSIC HaLL
5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Feb 9: Daniel Champagne Feb 10: ashley Heath, Corey Hunt, Emily Musolino, Tyler Hatley Feb 14: jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys Feb 16: Brian Grilli, Tupelo Crush Feb 17: Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker, rob Ickes & Trey Hensley Feb 21: jerry Garcia Band Cover Band
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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Feb 7: Drivin’ n’ Cryin’, Lauren Morrow, Possum jenkins Feb 8: The Blue Dogs, Matthew Mayes, Mark kano & Mike Garrigan Feb 16: The Funky knuckles, jonathan Sclaes Fourchestra, john ray Trio Feb 21: Corey Smith
WISE Man BrEWInG
826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 Feb 8: The Trongone Band
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booth amphithEatrE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com
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bojanglES coliSEum
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com
cmcu amphithEatrE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com
thE FillmorE
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Feb 8: Walk the moon Feb 8: the Sweet Spot Feb 9: bryce Vine Feb 10: Yung gravy Feb 12: St. paul & the broken bones Feb 18: in Flames Feb 18: YnW melly Feb 19: anderson .paak & the Free nationals Feb 20: alan Walker Feb 21: thouxanbanFauni Feb 22: mike Stud Feb 22: Who’s bad Feb 23: Dylan Scott Feb 23: off With Your radiohead Feb 24: the-Dream Feb 25: Wet & Kilo Kish Feb 26: gin blossoms Feb 28: a boogie Wit Da hoodie mar 1: West coast high 2019 ft. cypress hill & hollywood undead mar 5: citizen cope mar 6: Subtronics w/ blunts & blondes mar 7: Whiskey myers mar 8: big head todd & the monsters mar 9: on the border mar 13: State champs mar 13: hippie Sabotage mar 15: nothing more mar 15: lil tracy
pnc muSic paVilion 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com
oVEnS auDitorium
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com mar 15: Experience hendrix
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333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Feb 24: Fleetwood mac mar 9: p!nk
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carolina thEatrE
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Feb 9: the Fab Four Feb 15: Susana baca Feb 21: johnny cash at San Quentin: johnny Folsom 4 & Friends Feb 28: aaron lewis mar 3: justin hayward mar 11: tower of power
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3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com
rED hat amphithEatEr 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com
pnc arEna
1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com mar 12: Elton john
Winston-salem
WinSton-SalEm FairgrounD 421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com
Dpac
123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Feb 20: alan parsons Feb 21: the piano guys Feb 22 & 23: rock of ages mar 5: james bay
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carolina thEatrE
310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Feb 7: Drew & Ellie holcomb Feb 10: the unc clef hangers’ Feb 10: joe pug Feb 16: Seth Walker mar 2: Desmond jones mar 6: travis greene mar 7: the chieftains mar 8: puddles pity party
grEEnSboro coliSEum 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Feb 23: Winter jam mar 15 & 16: Eric church
WhitE oaK ampithEatrE
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com
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high point thEatrE
220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Feb 14: branford marsalis Quartet Feb 15: al Di meola mar 8: gina chavez mar 10: the Queen’s cartoonists
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I’m dating this new woman. I like her a lot, but she keeps complaining that I still have pictures of my ex-girlfriend on my wall, saying that it makes her uncomfortable, especially when we’re having sex. I was with my ex for a while, and we lived together. They’re just pictures. What’s the big deal? — Irritated
Amy Alkon
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There’s a place for the photographic Museum of Relationships Past, but it isn’t the area around your bed — assuming that your sex partners don’t require inflation with a bike pump. Actual human beings have feelings. They long to be treated with dignity — to be given the sense that others value them and care about how they make them feel. This would be reflected, for example, in replacing what, to a woman, probably looks
like a wall shrine to the ex with pix of your other, less inflammatory loves, like Linda, your family’s late Rottweiler. It’s possible that you have some sort of empathy gap — something keeping you from the usually automatic “fellow feeling.” This is a way researchers have described the sort of empathy that involves “emotional contagion” — “catching” and then feeling an emotion another person’s feeling, to some degree. Even if this isn’t natural for you, you can bring it into your relationships through “perspectivetaking” — making an effort to imagine how another person feels in a situation. (This is different from imagining how you would feel.) Research by C. Daniel Batson suggests that trying to feel what another person is feeling leads us to have empathy, “which has been found to evoke altruistic motivation.” This means that it motivates a person to behave in kind and compassionate ways. In contrast, though imagining how we would feel if we were in the other person’s shoes produces empathy, too, the researchers found that it also produces “personal distress, which has been found to evoke egoistic motivation” — which is to
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say, “Me! Me! Me! All about me!” In general, treating other people as if their feelings matter — even when you don’t share their feelings or think they’re entirely legit — makes for far happier relationships. If you aren’t interested in putting in the work to show empathy, you can still have a relationship — but with an atypical partner. Your best bet is probably a Boston fern — specifically one advertised to have “durable plastic leaves that are resistant to fading.”
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Do men fall in love at first sight more than women do? My male friend says it’s mostly men who’ll see a woman from across a room or subway platform and fall for her. Yeah, I know that happens. Don’t women do this, too? Like, a lot? — Wondering Dude A guy’s claim of “love at first sight” plays better with the ladies than “I wanted to spend eternity with your boobs.” Research by psychologists Andrew Galperin and Martie Haselton finds that men, far more often than women, report experiencing “love at first sight.” However, they conceded that “some men might be reporting some episodes of sheer sexual desire as ‘love at first sight.’” (Ya think?) This sex difference in love at first sight aligns with the different pressures ancestral men and women had to contend with to survive and pass on their genes. Because women alone get pregnant from sex, female emotions evolved to push women to take the slow route in mating — to assess a
man over time for his level of commitment and character — lest a woman end up with a baby daddy who’s all “Beep, beep! — I’m outta here” like the Road Runner. Men, on the other hand, have an evolved sexual business model of volume and variety (kind of like Walmart). However, because ancestral men could bolt right after sex and still have a chance of leaving surviving descendants, it was in men’s evolutionary interest to hook up with an endless parade of hot-erellas. As I often mention, female features we think of as beautiful — like youth, clear skin, an hourglass figure, and pillowy lips — are actually cues of health and fertility. So, not surprisingly, male mating imperatives evolved to be visually motivated — “Do you look like the woman for me?” — in a way female ones did not. Ultimately, though evolved male mating psychology is pushing you — even today — to be eyeball-driven, understanding its origins can help you be mindful to take a step back and put in the time to explore a woman’s character. This may help keep you from jumping into a relationship with some woman who turns out to be an extremely hot sociopath. As you might cry to your friends, “I’m so confused; she seemed so genuinely interested in me — wanting to know where I bank, the name of my first pet, and the last four of my Social.” ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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