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The King of Rock ’n’ Roll had a unique connection with the Triad, the Gate City in particular, about which he declared from the stage, “Of all the places we’ve been to, you’re one of the most fantastic audiences we’ve had.” Many of ELVIS PRESLEY’s most exciting live performances of the 1970s were reserved for Greensboro Coliseum audiences.
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The long-anticipated SIMPLY THAI restaurant on East Main Street did not open with fanfare. That will come later when owners Matt “Jit” Lothakoun and his sister Vonne Keobouala hold a grand opening in January. 9 My FATHER died in fear and anger. His last coherent words to me included the Latin phrase “timor mortis conturbat me,” with an F-bomb between “mortis” and “conturbat.” 10 The RIVERRUN International Film Festival rings in 2018 with, not one, but two upcoming “RiverRun Retro” events – one an Oscar-winning best picture, the other an acknowledged comedy classic. 11 For the past 38 years, ERIC BRAEDEN (real name Hans Gudegast) has starred as Victor Newman, the iconic, EMMY-winning antagonist of “The Young and the Restless”. He arrived at the fictional Genoa City in 1980.... 12 JEFFREY LEWIS thinks a lot about writing his setlists. But Lewis, a folk-punk songwriter and cartoonist, thinks a lot about a lot of things. He thinks about songwriting, art, relationships, culture, communication,
humor, sadness, craft, skill, entertainment, commerce and history. 17 THE GARAGE was originally conceived by Richard Emmett and his wife Kim Lawson in the late 1990s to be a potential hub for the Winston-Salem music community that would provide a downtown venue for local and regional acts to perform. It didn’t take long for that to become a reality... 18 Circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum may have led a fascinating life, but you wouldn’t know it from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, a broad and broad-minded musical that’s closer to High School Musical than Freaks on the pop-culture scale. 25 “I think I’m rather boring,” said the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s JANET BOSEOVSKI, Ph.D. “But if you find an angle on a formerly Canadian, childfree psychology professor who studies development (and children in particular), hikes, lifts heavy things, runs to torture herself, and suffers from anxiety, mild depression, and impostor syndrome, let me know.”
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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY
be there JACK WILLIAMS FRIDAY FRI 5 SHOOTING WITH MY FEET WHAT: Friday, Jan. 5, come out and enjoy visual artist/photographer Owens Daniels street photography exhibition, Shooting With My Feet NYC take a photographic walk through the streets of Harlem, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronxs. The exhibition will open Jan. 5 at 7 p.m.- 10 p.m. with a live music performance by Nikki J & The Gentz starting at 8 pm. his exhibition includes an artist talk with prints, T-shirts and posters on hand for purchase. WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Artworks Gallery. 564 N. Trade Street, Winston-Salem. MORE: Free entry.
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SAM MAZANY FRIDAY FRI 5 FIDDLE & BOW SOCIETY: JACK WILLIAMS WHAT: Jack is a fearless singer, inventive storyteller, forceful-yet-delicate guitarist, and holds near-legendary status as a modern-times troubadour. Though sometimes thought of as a singer-songwriter, audiences should not expect a night of quiet introspective ballads. Williams is known for his entertaining and high energy performances. WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall. 5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem. MORE: $13-15 tickets.
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WHAT: Tree Toss is a much-anticipated event that has become a tradition for our wild family. Each year, the friendly folks at Cranberry Tree Farm donate their unsold trees to the Center, and we give them to our animals as a special form of holiday enrichment. If you’ve never seen wild animals receiving holiday trees, presents, and toys, dont miss this chance. WHEN: 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Conservators’ Center. 676 E. Hughes Mill Road, Burlington. MORE: $20-26 admission.
WHAT: Chatham County Line has released eight albums, including their most recent, Autumn (2016). The quartets sound is tied to bluegrass history, from bluegrass inventor Bill Monroe to innovators like John Hartford, but is influenced by the members backgrounds in rock bands. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Yadkin Cultural Arts Center; Willingham Theater. 226 E. Main Street, Yadkinville. MORE: $20 tickets.
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What started as Small Batch Beer Company in Winston-Salem grew to Burger Batch, and opened right next door at 237 W 5th St. Now, the Burger Batch empire has expanded into High Point with the new location in Heron Village, located at 2758 Eastchester Dr., right across from the new High Point location of Duck Donuts. Burger Batch specializes in 8 oz. high-end burgers and fancy milkshakes, owner Tim Walker said. “Burger Batch has done really well, so we decided to open another location here in High Point,” Walker said. Walker said he has wanted to keep expanding ever since the start. Walker said High Point is a good location because there is a lot of traffic on Eastchester drive and it is right by the Palladium. “It is right on the edge of Greensboro, we did not want to go into Greensboro, but now we kind of get both markets,” he said. “It is also close to the colleges, so
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that is always good.” When I spoke with Walker on Dec. 29, he said that he anticipates the opening to be within the next two weeks in mid-January. Walker said there is not a date set in stone just yet, but there will be a soft opening for friends and family before the grand opening to the public. Walker said one of the best-selling burgers is “The Morning After,” which is topped with a fried egg and served with french fries. Another best-seller takes after the name of the city it was born in, “The Winston,” which comes with Pimento cheese and potato chips on it. “We change it up all the time,” Walker said. “We have a lot of different varieties, and our burgers are a really big deal. Our shakes are what really got us on the map; we have all these real, huge gourmet milkshakes with pieces of cake on top, or cotton candy and all sorts of stuff like that.” !
NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON JAN. 18 REGARDING THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF ARCHALE ROAD (S.R. 1577 / S.R. 1004) FROM ROBBINS COUNTRY ROAD (S.R. 1567) TO NORTH MAIN STREET (S.R. 1009) IN RANDOLPH AND GUILFORD COUNTIES STIP Project No. U-3400 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes widening Archdale Road (S.R. 1577 / S.R. 1004) from Robbins Country Road (S.R. 1567) to North Main Street (S.R. 1009) from existing three and two lanes to three lanes with a center turn lane in Archdale. A public meeting will be held at Archdale Public Library located at 10433 South Main Street on Thursday, January 18th, 2018 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather public input on the proposed design. Maps of the study area, environmental features and proposed typical sections will be available on the project website for public review and comment. The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or later by February 8, 2018. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Project maps are available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/. For additional information contact Jeffrey L. Teague, PE, NCDOT Division 8 Project Manager by phone: (910) 944-2344 or via email at jlteague@ncdot. gov; or by mail: 902 N Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen, NC 28315. 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 Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who speak Spanish and 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 1-800-233-6315. Aquellas personas que hablan español y 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 1-800-233-6315.
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Simply Thai restaurant opens in Jamestown
Owner Matt “Jit” Lothakoun, Ting Nhouyvanisvong and Vonne Keobouala BY NORMA B. DENNIS | norma@normabdennis.com
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he long-anticipated Simply Thai restaurant on East Main Street did not open with fanfare. That will come later when owners Matt “Jit” Lothakoun and his sister Vonne Keobouala hold a grand opening in January. The brother-sister duo, however, did host a soft opening Nov. 29 for staff and a few walk-in customers who dropped by when they saw the lights. The following two nights found friends and families who had learned of the opening crowding the place to experience the Thai and Laotian cuisine offered by Jamestown’s newest restaurant. “This was a trial run to get us started,” Vonne said. “It has warmed our hearts to see the new restaurant come to life after so many months of preparation and planning.” Although they will hold an official ribbon cutting and opening ceremony after the new year begins, the staff at Simply Thai is ready to serve customers now. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Saturday from 4:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Our love of cooking started with our mom, Chan,” Vonne said. “She was the driving force and sustainer of our family when we came from Laos to America in the 1980s and settled in Visalia, California, Mom was way ahead of her time, operating what is now called a food truck for a loyal following, which included many Southeast Asians who longed for the delicious flavors and dishes of home.” While in college, Matt opened his first Southeast Asian restaurant with his mother as the head chef.
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“It was a learning experience for both of them,” Vonne said. “But it was our mother who understood the importance of getting to know our customers, in addition to offering delicious food.” Matt has a degree in industrial engineering, and Vonne began her career as a human resources professional. But their passion for food led the siblings to start a Thai restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In 2008, Matt noticed a new strip mall in Elon that would eventually become the location of Simply Thai. The restaurant not only drew customers from the Elon and Burlington communities but from surrounding areas as well. When deciding to open a second restaurant, the brother and sister choose Jamestown, which like Elon had a smalltown feeling. “There is a trend happening in America, where small-town life is being rediscovered and valued again,” Vonne said. “Jamestown was the first town I lived in after moving to North Carolina from California 20 years ago,” Matt said. “I still remember the immediate feeling of history and small-town life.” Having the restaurant close to several universities also appealed to the siblings. “At Simply Thai in Elon we meet university freshman and get to know them and their families over the years,” Vonne said. “We often greet customers by name when they walk in and make it a point to learn their food and drink preferences. Ours is a family business. Our spouses are on board to round out the team. But we also treat our employees and customers like family.” Simply Thai in Jamestown can seat 50 customers. There is also patio seating for about 20. Guests who eat at the bar can enjoy their favorite cocktail while watching
Keobouala and Nhouyvanisvong hold two dishes served at Simply Thai
Staff from left: Cary Safrit, Duyen Ton, Mila Lothakoun and Kevin HayHu Simply Thai’s sushi chef work his magic. The bar will feature crafted drinks infused with Asian herbs and fruits making them flavorful and unique. The bar manager is creating a signature Simply Thai cocktail and will unveil it at the restaurant’s grand opening. Drinks may be made with or without alcohol. “Our mom is the only one who can do some of our food recipes, but she is teaching us,” Vonne said with a smile. “Part of Matt’s culinary mission is to stay current on Southeast Asian food trends. Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have grown in popularity in recent years as des-
tinations for ‘foodie’ travelers. Matt visits the region regularly. He and Mom have planned a trip there this winter to discover the latest flavors and bring back the best to incorporate into Simply Thai’s menu.” Matt and Vonne, who quit her corporate job in June, will divide their time between the Jamestown and Elon locations. “We are looking forward to becoming part of the Jamestown community,” Vonne said. “We want to be like ‘Cheers,’ where everyone knows your name. We can’t wait to get to know our customers.” !
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y father died in fear and anger. His last coherent words to me included the Latin phrase “timor mortis conturbat me,” with an F-bomb between “mortis” and “conIan McDowell turbat.” Meaning “the fear Contributing of death disturbs me,” that’s from columnist the 15th Century Scots poet William Dunbar’s “Lament for the Makers,” which Dad loved reciting with a bad brogue at dinner instead of Grace. “It damn well does disturb me,” he said when he was a swinging bachelor younger than I am now, who medicated mortality with alcohol and women younger than I was then. I thought of him while talking to Susan Sassman and Deborah Parker, co-facilitators of Death Café Greensboro, an informal discussion group that meets at 6 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books. These charming and enthusiastic ladies with very different Southern accents are passionate advocates for the international movement founded, at least in English, by the London anthropologist Jon Underwood, who died last June at the age of 44. “It’s in the sharing that people learn to overcome their fears because they hear other people’s stories of how things have gone,” Parker said to me at coffee around a sunlit table. “Some people may come and talk about how their aunt recently died, and they hated how the funeral was handled,” she said. “Which can lead to others asking how they’d like their own taken care of,” Parker explained that there are new options for this. “The old ‘let’s embalm the body and see it in a coffin’ is on its way out.” I asked Sassman how the movement’s been affected by the death of Jon Underwood, who didn’t create the first Death Café (that would have been Café Mortel, created by Swiss anthropologist Bernard Crettaz in Neuchâtel in 2004), but who was called the movement’s founder in his New York Times obituary. “I know that there are over 5,000 death cafes operating in over 52 countries in the world,” she said. “So I think in seven years since Underwood organized his first WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
From left: Deborah Parker and Susan Sassman of Death Cafe Greensboro one in London, that’s good growth.” She acknowledged that many resist the subject, which she calls “the ultimate taboo in this death-phobic culture.” Like Parker, she wants to help combat that phobia. “We really need places where people can come together very freely, have a glass of wine, a cup of coffee, and share their fears and their dreams.” She said such meetings help attendees not only get past their fears of their own deaths but those
of others. “People working in hospice say their own lives are enriched by being with the dying.” Death Café is not Scuppernong’s only mortality-minded monthly meeting. While Sassman and Parker’s informal discussion group gathers at 6 p.m. on the third Monday of every month, they are allied with and regularly attend Café Mortal, conducted by Lia Miller on the first Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Both
events are free and open to the public. Café Mortal is a program of Creative Aging Network-NC with sponsorship from Lambeth-Troxler Community Care and is more literally agenda-driven. Meaning Miller’s Café Mortal meetings often follow a printed agenda and an announced theme, whereas Death Café is more what Sassman called “just sitting around and talking.” Sassman got into the movement through the late Stimp Hawkins, who up until his death last year was a fixture of both Death Café and Café Mortal (Steve Mitchell covered his farewell in our June 16, 2016, issue). “He was so charismatic, and I’d been thinking about the death movement for decades,” said Sassman, adding she’d been hesitant to talk about it due to others’ discomfort with the subject. “Stimp was a man who was all about talking about it all the time. So we started meeting for coffee, and I got pulled into the group and met Deborah.” “I’ve been involved with home health care for the dying for many years,” said Parker, whose brother died at home in 1989. “We kept his body there, and people came to see him. He was not embalmed, and then he was cremated.” She said her brother’s ability to talk to people about his own dying eliminated their fear. “It took me quite a while to realize I could work with Hospice and volunteer because I always thought I could do it for a family member but not a stranger, but he told me the morning before he died ‘you’re going to do this for other people one day’.” ! 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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A “retro” new year courtesy of RiverRun The RiverRun International Film Festival rings in 2018 with, not one, but two upcoming “RiverRun Retro” events – one an Oscar-winning best picture, the other an acknowledged Mark Burger comedy classic. Based on Laura Z. Contributing Hobson’s best-seller, Gentleman’s Agreecolumnist ment was adapted into a film by Twentieth Century Fox in 1947, with noted playwright Moss Hart penning the screenplay and Elia Kazan directing. The film stars Gregory Peck as an idealistic journalist who poses as a Jew in order to ascertain the level of antisemitism in society – only to discover that it’s more widespread than he could ever have imagined. The film became one of the year’s biggest box-office hits and also one of the most acclaimed, winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm) – with additional nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress (Dorothy McGuire), Best Supporting Actress (Anne Revere), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing. The star-studded cast also included John Garfield, Sam Jaffe, Jane Wyatt, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, and young Dean Stockwell (as Peck’s son). Ironically, given that many Hollywood studios were founded by Jews, it was Darryl F. Zanuck (a gentile) who pressed
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forward with the project at Fox, ignoring the pleadings and warnings of his fellow moguls that the impact of such a film could only be destructive. On the contrary, Gentleman’s Agreement became the studio’s biggest hit of that year while shedding light on the subject of antisemitism. There will be a special screening of Gentleman’s Agreement on Jan. 13, with special guests Christopher Hart, the son of screenwriter Moss Hart, and noted film professor, historian and author Foster Hirsch (Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, A Method to Their Madness: The History of The Actor’s Studio). They will discuss the controversy surrounding both the novel and the film, as
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A still from Gentleman’s Agreement (1947). Left to right: John Garfield, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Celeste Holm. The film won 3 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan) and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm). well as the illustrious career of Moss Hart, who only wrote a handful of screenplays (including 1952’s Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye in the title role, and the 1954 version of A Star is Born), but is best known for his stage career, which included such smash hits as My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, and Camelot. The next day, Hart and Hirsch will reconvene at the RED Cinemas in Greensboro for a special screening of the 1935 MGM comedy classic A Night at the Opera, which paired the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico and Harpo) with Broadway ingenue Kitty Carlisle, popular crooner Allen Jones, and the perennially nonplussed Margaret Dumont (a much-beloved foil for the Marx Brothers). Billed at the time of its release as “the funniest picture ever made,” A Night at the Opera sees the Marx Brothers at their zany zenith, and Groucho Marx subsequently cited this film as his personal favorite of all the ones he and his brothers made. In 1946, Carlisle would marry Moss Hart and they had two children: Christopher and Catherine. Christopher Hart will discuss memories of his mother, who would later become a frequent member of game-show panels, but more significantly
a tireless, lifelong proponent of the arts. The 20th annual RiverRun International Film Festival is scheduled for April 19-29. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.
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Eric Braeden: An astonishing man When I was a little boy, I dreamed of becoming a great athlete, a rugged cowboy, or a famous actor. None of those dreams came true for me, but all of them did for one little boy who grew Jim Longworth up poor in war-torn Nazi Germany. His is Contributor a remarkable journey which even he is astonished by, thus the title of his new book, “I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama”. For the past 38 years, Eric Braeden (real name Hans Gudegast) has starred as Victor Newman, the iconic, EMMY-winning antagonist of “The Young and the Restless”. He arrived at the fictional Genoa City in 1980, first by way of Bredenbek, Germany (the town from which he took his stage name), then Galveston, Texas; Montana and California. As a young man he was a track and field champion in his native land, then after immigrating to America he took jobs as a ranch hand, a furniture mover, a car valet, a lumber mill worker, and a documentary filmmaker, before his good looks and considerable talent led him to a full time acting career. Like his alter ego on T.V., Eric is a serious man who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He is a deep thinker who is passionate about politics and the state of the world around him. He has a wry sense of humor and a strong sense of self, and, above all, he is fiercely devoted to his family. I recently spoke with Eric about a wide range of topics, including his decision to write an autobiography. JL: Why did you write the book? And Why now? EB: Several people had prevailed upon me, including my family, to write it down, so finally I succumbed, and it was not as painful as I thought it would be. Not that it was painful, but there’s a point where you just don’t want to talk about yourself. I’m interested in things outside of myself …because a constant preoccupation with oneself leads to nowhere. JL: Your love of and proficiency in athletics is a common thread that runs through the book. What does the competition of sports teach us about life? EB: Essentially what it teaches you is not to give up. Even if you suffer a loss, you come back and say, “OK, how do I improve what I do?”, and then try it again, WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
and the next time you’ll probably be better. I grew up competing in discus, shot put and javelin, and what’s so great about track and field is that it is qualitatively measurable. There’s no bull shit about it. And you never give up, and that has become a guiding principal in my life. I don’t take “No” for an answer. I don’t listen to people who say I can’t do something. I say, “Oh really? I’ll show you”. JL: That defiant spirit manifested itself in 1966 when you landed the role of a Nazi officer in “The Rat Patrol”. The producers wanted you to play the character in stereotypical fashion, but you refused because you wanted him to be a three dimensional human being. Did it occur to you that ABC might have fired you for not taking “No” for an answer? EB: I didn’t care. If I know that I’m right about something, then I don’t care. I was not insisting on something that was morally wrong. I just wanted it to be a truer representation of what it meant for a young German to be in the Africa corps for heaven’s sake. There are so many stereotypes about Germans, about Russians, about Americans, and those stereotypes are dangerous. JL: Is it true that while filming “Rat Patrol”, you actually showed up in court one day wearing your Nazi uniform to defend against a speeding ticket? EB: You know (laughs) I hate to say it, but yes I did. We were shooting at MGM and I had to rush to court, but there was no time to change. So I walked in with my hat under my arm and the marshals had a big grin on their faces, and I apologized for the uniform. (during the hearing) I asked the officer, ”When did you have your speedometer calibrated last?”, and he couldn’t answer. I won the case. JL: How could you not? (both laugh). In 1970 you had a chance to break out of playing German soldiers, when Universal offered you the starring role in the Sci-Fi classic, “Colossus: the Forbin Project”. But the studio would only hire you if you took an Americanized name, so Hans Gudegast became Eric Braeden. Did you ever regret changing your name? EB: To be honest with you, at first, almost every day, but the name Braeden gave me an emotional tie to the village I came from. Still, it was a difficult thing, no two ways about that. JL: Does anyone still call you Hans?
EB: (laughs) Good question, but I would have pissed off too many people. I say what is on my mind, and in that sense, I am not politically correct. Has it occurred to me? Vaguely. Am I interested in politics? Passionately, because we all need to be engaged, otherwise they (career politicians) run roughshod. JL: Too bad you won’t run, because all of your fans would vote for you. By the way, I know you receive a lot of fan mail from women. Have any of them ever expressed a desire to know you in a carnal way? EB: (laughs) Yeah, of course ! Why not? And I’m very grateful to them. JL: Eric, the title of your book isn’t so much one of profanity as it is one of astonishment, especially considering the journey you’ve made and where you ended up. Right? EB: Absolutely. Totally astonishment. ! 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). EB: Only close friends. It’s an extraordinary separation. Anyone who knows me as Eric, and calls me Hans, I say, “No, no, you don’t have that privilege, don’t do that”. And vice versa. JL: After “Colossus”, you were in demand as a guest star on a myriad of TV dramas, then in 1980 you were hired for Y&R. EB: When I made the choice to do a soap. A lot of actors said, “You’re doing what?”, as if I had contracted some type of disease (laughs). A lot of those people have not been heard from since, but I’m still working. I’m still standing. JL: I heard that you never watch yourself after an episode’s been shot. EB: Doing a film you have all of the time in the world, big deal. Doing night time television, big deal. But doing what we do is a harder medium than any in Hollywood. About a month ago I had to learn 74 pages of dialogue in one day. It’s hard work under very limiting circumstances and I have great respect for our production company, but I’m hard put to watch something that I was a part of. No, it’s on to the next thing. JL: Speaking of the next thing, you are quite fervent in your beliefs about helping others. One way to do that is by holding elected office. Your Father once served as Mayor, so why haven’t you run for Governor or Congress?
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effrey Lewis thinks a lot about writing his setlists. But Lewis, a folk-punk songwriter and cartoonist, thinks John Adamian a lot about a lot of @johnradamian things. He thinks about songwriting, art, relationships, Contributor culture, communication, humor, sadness, craft, skill, entertainment, commerce and history. On the subject of setlists, though, Lewis said that, on the night of a gig, sometimes writing the setlist felt like the most creative part of the evening. The songs have already been written and rehearsed, the instruments need to be kept in tune, and stage lighting needs to work, et cetera, but much of that comes down to technicalities. When Lewis, 42, sets out to write a set list, he thinks about the arrangement of tunes for a performance as something like the opening gambit of a chess game. The songs are like chess pieces; Lewis said, “each piece has a particular power.” The way you arrange them together, one song after the other, can force a certain reaction or require a specific series of moves based on their function and force. He doesn’t want too many sad songs or funny songs bunched up together, or too many strummed songs, or songs in the same key one right after another. Those are practical decisions about how to entertain a crowd. The same things that drive some bands to zero in on a particular set list to play the same sequence of songs night after night, to maximize the punch delivered to a crowd, those are what drives Lewis to tinker with his setlists every night, in hopes of never boring fans, of coming up with new combinations and new configurations that might fit the given night and given crowd. You can hear the results of his setlisttinkering when he plays On Pop of the World studios in Greensboro on Jan. 10. I spoke with Lewis by phone from New York City, where he lives, on New Year’s Eve, the day after he’d just finished a big show that he’d been nervous about, and the day of another big year-end show that he was hopeful for. Lewis is funny, insightful and wide-ranging in conversation, much like his songs. He’s relentlessly creative and productive, operating a sort
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of dual artistic life as a maker of cartoons/ comics/illustrations and as songwriter/ performer, a wide-ranging DIY folk-punk. He tends to think of himself as being somehow more focused, evolved or accomplished in the sphere of comics, but that’s hard to square with the fact that he has toured the world playing music and has records out on the iconic tastemaking Rough Trade label. “I’m much more of an illustrator than a musician,” Lewis said. This comment is made in the context of discussing his song “Time Trades,” which is a deep and lovely meditation on how time basically robs you of stuff -- your looks, your health, etc. -- but that through patient work, repeated effort, and humble practice, we get something in return from time. We get better. We become better people. We become better at being people, ideally. If you want to get a sense of how funny and smart Lewis is, listen to “Have a Baby,” off his 2015 record Manhattan, with his band Los Bolts. In typical, lyric-packed Lewis fashion, the song runs through a somewhat self-important-sounding person’s list of superficial style concerns, about what types of clothes to wear out, what sort of picture to use in an online profile photo, about the merits of analog over digital media -- familiar subjects, perhaps, for anyone in the world of indie rock. “That stuff ’s important to me,” goes the attitudinal and ironic refrain a few times before the kicker of a turnaround, “at least until I throw that bullshit out and have a baby.” The song treats style posturing as a meaningless plumage display leading up to the Darwinian finish of reproduction. He seems to be making equal fun of culture-consumers and breeders. Imagine a sort of surf-punk face-off between Jonathan Richman and the self-lacerating hipster-eviscerations of LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, and you’ll get an idea of Lewis’s skills. He somehow manages to be biting without being brutal. He’s not mean-spirited, though he wields a scalpel. Lewis has connections to artists like Kimya Dawson (they’ve collaborated),
and one can hear a distant link to similarly smart-funny-candid-touching songwriters like Loudon Wainwright III. Lewis is a bridge to the outsider folk-freak world of the Lower East Side from the ‘60s. He was friends with Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs, towards the end of the poet-singer’s life. Lewis has also collaborated with likeminded, slightly crazed folk-wizard Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders. Lewis’s autobiographical explorations -- mini-memoirs set to song -- have something in common with the deeply confessional work of John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon but without the same taste for misery and pathological levels of awkward self-revelation. Lewis isn’t necessarily trying to make listeners squirm in profound discomfort. When I ask Lewis if there’s such a thing as a song with too much candor, he says yes, that he’s abandoned songs like that over the years, songs that he says were “too icky in a personal way, that felt too oversharing.” He’s written songs that refer to the music of troubadours Will Oldham and Leonard Cohen. But he’s also written song-story-epic chronicles like “The History of Punk on the Lower East Side 1950 - 1970,” which is a mini-class medley that moves from Harry Smith to the Velvet Underground to the Silver Apples and the Stooges. He’s written songs about other people’s songs. He wrote a hilarious song about taking LSD and going out of his mind (“The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane”). And then he wrote a hilarious song about people mistakenly thinking that that song meant he wanted to take more acid (“No LSD Tonight”). He’s also written equally funny songs about the indignities of being a working indie musician (“Support Tours” and “Indie Bands on Tour”). Lewis has said that Lou Reed and Daniel Johnston are two of his songwriting idols. He’s also said that the longrunning and wide-ranging band Yo La Tengo are the model of productivity and aesthetic excellence that he aspires to.
(“It’s kind of funny that I’ve put so much effort into constantly sounding like them, and I guess I’ve just failed so completely because no one ever [compares me to them],” he said.) Aside from emulating Yo La Tengo, hitting the sweet spot between sad and funny, between deep honesty and universal insight -- that’s what Lewis is after. “I do my best to hit the ball,” said Lewis, likening the challenge of songwriting as an at-bat. “And I hit a lot of foul balls,” explaining that sometimes he pulls too far toward depressing or too far toward silly. Lewis compared songwriting to a mysterious kind of groping. “I often think of it like you’re reaching blindly into another dimension and you’re trying to bring something back,” he said. “You’re sticking your hand into mud, and you can’t see.” I asked Lewis some other questions, about rhyming, writing songs for musical theater, and about whether great songwriters tended to write great songs late in their career (his answer: generally, no). Lewis was game to chat, thoroughly entertaining, and self-effacing. (“I’m just doing too much stuff, and everything I do is just an excuse for why I’m not better at doing something else.”) But ultimately he wanted to make one point about what he and his band are trying to do: They may be humble, DIY polymath jokesters, but they want to blow your mind if you come to their show. “That’s just my aim every night,” he said. “We’re actually just a great band, and I think anybody who sees our shows has a hard time describing how or why it’s great,” Lewis said. Putting all the mumbo jumbo (his word) about songwriting and setlists and music history aside, Lewis says he knows they’re doing something right when people come up to him after a performance and say that was the best show they’ve ever seen. “We get that reaction pretty regularly,” 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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Last call at The Garage Operating a live local music venue is not as cool as it would appear, and it definitely isn’t easy. When you stop to consider the sheer number of details Dr Jon Epstein involved in the day to day operation of Contributor a venue, it suddenly becomes obvious that no sane person would do it unless they were highly committed and motivated by the idea that running a club is worth the effort because it matters. This is especially true of clubs that depend solely on artists and fans drawn from the local, community. In larger metro areas these clubs can become central to the identity of local music scenes and can become the incubators of new genres, styles, or scenes, and eventually take on their own mythic identity. Under the right circumstances, venues such as the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, CBGBS in New York, the Troubadour in Los Angeles, and Cat’s Cradle in Cary become part of the fabric of music history. In Winston-Salem, that club was The Garage. The Garage was originally conceived by Richard Emmett and his wife Kim Lawson in the late 1990s to be a potential hub for the Winston-Salem music community that would provide a downtown venue for local and regional acts to perform. It didn’t take long for that to become a reality and by the mid-2000’s the Garage had become the symbolic home of the Winston-Salem Americana/Roots rock/Jangle Pop scenes. That these were the genres that gravitated towards the Garage was certainly no surprise to anyone familiar with Winston-Salem’s central role in the global Alternative rock scene of the 1980s and Early 1990s. A young band from Athens, Georgia, REM, who would later go on to become one of the most successful rock bands in history began their recording career in Winston-Salem at Mitch Easter’s Drive In studio where other “jangle pop” bands such as Let’s Active and the Connells recorded and by the late 1980s the city had at least half a dozen live music clubs which were mostly centered around what is now Deacon Blvd including Baity’s Music Garden and Ziggy’s. Unfortunately, while Winston-Salem was critical to the birth of the “jangle pop” movement that centrality did not result in any noticeable or permanent changes to the local music scene and by the turn of the century, WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
all remnants of that scene had been bulldozed and replaced by parking lots and BB&T Field. The Garage was meant, in part, to help fill the void left by the relentless march of progress by providing a community space for the music community in the heart of the city’s arts district. In that respect, it worked like a champ, in no small part due to the original owner’s passion for succeeding. By 2012, however, Emmett and Lawson decided that it was time for them to move on to other ventures and the club was sold to Tucker Tharpe, who had been working with the couple for some time and had a distinct knack for club management and a burning passion to continue what Emmett and Lawson had started. By virtually any measure he succeeded. Under his guidance, the Garage continued to live up to its iconic reputation as the crown jewel of downtown music venues. For that reason, Tharpe’s announcement that the Garage was closing on New Year’s Eve sent shock rippling through the local musician community. Why, after all, would a club that is by every outward appearance was thriving, close? In the end, it boiled down to the economics of scale. The thing that made the Garage the club it became was its size. It is called an “intimate” concert venue, with a capacity of just over 100 people. While this makes it an outstanding place for an audience, it makes it very difficult for the club owner to manage operating expenses, and virtually impossible to bring in national level acts who routinely charge thousands of dollars in “guarantees.” With a maximum audience of just over 100 paying customers for any given show ticket prices to cover the costs would be prohibitively high, and beverage sales would likely not cover the costs. When you include the cost of overhead such as
employees, equipment, rent, electricity and stock, it becomes a losing proposition. In the end, the Garage became iconic for the same reason it became untenable. “The decision to close the Garage was one of the most difficult things I have ever done,” Tharpe told me during a recent conversation, “but I did not expect the reaction to be quite as intense.” Rumors about why the club closed, and what the next
move will be, have been flying since the announcement. The idea the club moving to the location of the Downtown Ziggy’s is probably the most discussed but is wishful thinking. “I haven’t even considered it,” Tharpe told me, “and while it’s fair to say I will be back, it won’t be there.” ! DR JON EPSTEIN is a writer, artist, and musician living in Winston-Salem.
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ircus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum may have led a fascinating life, but you wouldn’t know it from The Greatest Showman ( ), a broad and broad-minded musical that’s closer to High School Musical than Freaks on the pop-culture scale. Some engaging if highly anachronistic songs provide the only pep in a big-budget production that was oddly entrusted to a director whose only previous credits were helming T.V. commercials and creating visual effects for little-seen pictures. That might explain why Michael Gracey’s staging of the musical numbers lacks flair, finesse or even spatial symmetry. As for the script by T.V. vet Jenny Bicks and Dreamgirls writer-director Bill Condon, it offers only pop psychology in its look at P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) as a troubled overachiever and a politically correct framework that’s ultimately at odds with the more troubling aspects of its leading character and the time in which he lived. In this film’s fantasy world, prejudice is primarily practiced by a few burly drunks hovering around the edges — certainly, little exists in Barnum, presented here as a big-top patriarch whose wispy hints of bigotry vanish whenever one of his performers belts out another Top 40 wannabe. Zac Efron and Zendaya provide some forbidden teeny-bopper romance that further drags the picture down, while Michelle Williams is given precious little to do as Barnum’s eternally patient wife. Jackman is aptly cast in the title role, and he would have been sensational in a
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darker, warts-and-all interpretation of the character. Instead, he’s asked merely to coast in a splashy but shallow picture that might as well have been called American Idle. Casting famous actors as famous historical figures often put the performer at an extreme disadvantage, since it means they have to work twice as hard to put over the same feat of duplicity as less recognizable thespians tackling similarly iconic figures. Then-unknown Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi? No problem. Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock? Big problem. In that respect, casting Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill seems like a risky gamble, given that both are known commodities. But Oldman, an actor who — let’s not forget — has already portrayed such disparate personalities as Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald and Ludwig van Beethoven (to say nothing of such fictional mainstays as George Smiley and Count Dracula), proves to be up to the task in Darkest Hour ( ), a satisfying dramatization of Churchill’s fledgling days as the British Prime Minister. Even operating under pounds of makeup required to convert the actor into the roly-poly elocutionist, it’s easy to
initially spot Oldman peeking out. Yet as the movie progresses, Oldman effectively buries himself in the role, aided by the efforts of director Joe Wright and scripter Anthony McCarten to convey the urgency at hand — namely, that Adolf Hitler has already begun his march through Europe, and Churchill must decide whether to fight the bastard (his choice) or negotiate a treaty that will hopefully leave England untouched by Nazi destruction (the choice of many of his peers). The historical highlights are on display: the dislike of Churchill by even those in his own party, the “miracle at Dunkirk” (also seen this year in not only Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk but also the sleeper pick Their Finest), and, of course, the famous speeches. The latter monologues truly allow Oldman to shine, delivering the words with such fervor and feeling that it quickly becomes clear that they elected the right man for the job. It didn’t exactly require all the money in the world, but Sony nevertheless had to cough up a sizable chunk of change to reshoot certain scenes in All the Money in the World ( ). Even with the decision coming less than two months before the film’s official release date, director Ridley Scott pulled it off, with
Christopher Plummer effectively stepping in for the scandal-struck Kevin Spacey and co-stars Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg doing their part by returning to the filmic fold to redo their scenes. It’s an impressive example of Hollywood professionalism and efficiency — it’s just a shame the movie itself isn’t a bit more compelling. The real-life framework remains intact: Miserly J. Paul Getty (Plummer), the richest man in the world, refuses to pay the $17 million ransom when his 16-yearold grandson John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, no relation) is kidnapped while living in Italy. It’s a workable scenario, but the execution is often more arid and aloof than incisive and intriguing — worse, scripter David Scarpa (working from John Pierson’s 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty) must have felt the need to somehow pump up the volume, since the story takes some ridiculously fanciful turns (particularly during the third act) that would have made more sense on a vintage episode of Walker: Texas Ranger. As Fletcher Chase, a former CIA agent who now serves as Getty’s hands-on advisor, Wahlberg is game but miscast — faring much better is Williams, who, as the kidnapped boy’s mom, brings conviction to what could easily have been a rote role. Still, it’s the last-minute replacement who saves the day — and the movie. Playing Getty as Scrooge writ large, Christopher Plummer delivers a superb performance, providing the part with the richness it requires. !
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eppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum will present Raise the Moon, an original production, beginning Friday, January 12 at Kaleideum North in Winston-Salem. The play weaves the tale of a girl who, though her toe was tied to the moon, longed to swim in the sea... and a boy who pulled in the tide, but dreamed of dancing in the stars. The story is told through dance, poetry, and live music. Raise the Moon is “Theatre for the Very Young,” which means that it was specifically developed to be performed for children ages birth to five years old and their caregivers. Theatre for the Very Young is a relatively new trend in the performing arts, with roots in the United Kingdom. It is now being produced in Australia and in the United States in leading children’s theatre companies such as Metro Theater Company in St. Louis and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Peppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum’s Raise the Moon will be the first Theatre for the Very Young production in the Triad region. Because the audience is primarily preverbal, this type of theatrical production relies on other means of storytelling. It’s visually stimulating and often includes live music, lights, hands-on props, puppetry, and dance. Audience participation is a staple in children’s theatre, but Theatre for the Very Young moves beyond audience participation into audience interaction. “You can’t predict how a baby or a 2-year-old is going to react to anything,” says Becca Drew Ramsey, Kaleideum Director of Theatre and Creative Learning and Raise the Moon playwright. “They are literally discovering the world around
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them moment to moment. Performers in TVY acknowledge and invite the audience into the play with them. It’s about making connections.” Raise the Moon will be performed January 12-14, 19-21, and 26-28. Tickets are $2 for Kaleideum members and $5 for non-members. (Tickets do not include Museum admission, but offer participants a $1 discount on Museum admission the day of the show.) Visit www.peppercorntheatre.org for specific showtimes and to purchase tickets. Kaleideum North is located at 400 W Hanes Mill Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ! KALEIDEUM was formed by the merger of The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks on July 1, 2016. Kaleideum Downtown (formerly The Children’s Museum) was founded by the Junior League of Winston-Salem and opened its doors on November 20, 2004. Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) was founded by the Junior League of Winston-Salem and opened its doors as the Nature Science Center in 1964. The two museums began talks of a possible collaboration in early 2015, with a new mission of “Inspiring wonder, curiosity, and lifelong learning in our children and community through interactive play and discovery.” For more information, visit www.kaleideum.org.
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When 5-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Mississippi, saw the Grinch stealing Christmas on Dec. 16 on TV, he did what any civic-minded citizen would do. He called 911. TyLon Chuck Shepherd told Byram police officer Lauren Develle, who answered the call, that he did not want the Grinch to come steal his Christmas, reported the Clarion Ledger. Develle made TyLon an honorary junior officer and had him come down to the station on Dec. 18 to help her lock away the Grinch, who hung his head as TyLon asked him, “Why are you stealing Christmas?” Although the green fiend apologized, TyLon wouldn’t release him from the holding cell. Police chief Luke Thompson told TyLon to come back when he’s 21, “and I’m going to give you a job application, OK?”
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME
In Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia, on Nov. 29, sheep shearer Casey
Barnes was tramping down wool, and her father and boyfriend were working nearby, when her long, curly hair became caught in a belt-driven motor. Horrifically, the motor ripped her scalp off from the back of her head to above her eyes and ears. Barnes was flown to Sydney, where doctors performed an emergency 20-hour surgery to save her scalp, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Barnes will have artificial skin attached to her head instead, reports The Sun. A GoFundMe page has been established to help with her medical bills.
SELF-ABSORBENT
The Tea Terrace in London is offering a new way for customers to enjoy themselves — literally. On Dec. 16, the shop began selling the “Selfieccino,” an image of the customer’s face in the frothy topping of either a cappuccino or a hot chocolate. Patrons send an photo to the shop via an online messaging app, and the “Cino” machine takes it from there, reproducing the picture with flavorless food coloring in about four minutes. “Due to social media,” shop owner Ehab Salem Shouly told Reuters, “the dining experience has com-
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Pam Bisanti, a 31-year resident of Mount Dora, Florida, has approached the city council more than once about the speeding traffic along Clayton Street, where she lives. On Nov. 27, Bisanti made good on her threat to take matters into her own hands if the council didn’t by wielding a handmade sign reading “SLOW DOWN” as she stood next to the roadway during rush hour wearing her pajamas and robe. “The mothers up the street who send their kids down to the bus stop should have every expectation that those kids will be able to cross Clayton without being killed,” Bisanti told the Daily Commercial, saying she plans to continue her protest until the city takes action. “I am frustrated, angry and fed up. There needs to be a solution sooner than later. Remember that vision of me in my pajamas,” she added.
parking lot of a nearby T.J. Maxx store earlier that day. Stephens subsequently underperformed on a field sobriety test, according to The Independent Florida Alligator, and was arrested for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.
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Melissa Allen, 32, was arrested on Dec. 19 after attempting to shoplift more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Framingham, Massachusetts, Target store, reported the Boston Globe. On hand to help in the arrest were more than 50 police officers who were at the store to participate in the annual “Shop With a Cop” holiday charity event.
— Workers at Captain Hiram’s Sandbar in Sebastian, Florida, resorted to calling police on Nov. 17 when customer William Antonio Olivieri, 63, refused to leave the bar after a night of drinking. Olivieri told Sebastian police he had arrived by boat, but when a quick walk down a nearby dock failed to uncover the boat, he said perhaps he had driven himself to the bar in a black Hyundai. Throughout the interview with police, reported the Sebastian Daily, Olivieri also maintained that he was in downtown Melbourne, Florida, where he lives. Finally, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly intoxication and taken to the Indian River County Jail. — Sumter County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to The Villages on Nov. 19 where resident Lori Jo Matthews, 60, reportedly barked at her neighbor’s dogs, then entered her neighbor’s yard, yelling at the neighbor and finally slapping the neighbor after being told to leave. Deputies caught up with Matthews as she attempted to enter her own home, where she was handcuffed and arrested on charges of battery and resisting arrest. Alcohol, reported Villages-News.com, may have been involved.
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Stephen Allen of Tukwila, Washington, moved in with his grandmother years ago to help care for her. When she died last year, he invited his brother, a convicted drug dealer, to move in, but along with him came drug activity, squatters, stolen property and debris. Allen eventually asked police to raid the home, but when they did on Dec. 15, they evicted Allen as well, leaving him homeless. “It’s all legal, but it’s wrong,” Allen told KIRO-7 News. “I can’t do anything about it.”
THE CALL OF NATURE
Tracy Hollingsworth Stephens, 50, of Alachua, Florida, answered nature’s call on Nov. 25 by stopping her car in the middle of County Road 232 and stepping outside. An officer of the Florida Highway Patrol soon took notice as he had been searching for Stephens following her involvement in a two-car collision in the
North Fort Myers, Florida, homeowner Joanie Mathews was terrorized for hours on Nov. 14 by a large pig that wandered into her yard overnight and spent the day destroying the lawn and biting Mathews three times before trapping her in the cab of her truck. “She would circle the truck ... and I would jump in the back seat and I was like ‘Go away, pig!” Mathews told NBC-2 TV. Mathews finally called law enforcement, and it took three Lee County sheriff’s officers to wrangle the testy porker. “It was just hilarious because the pig fought them every which way,” Mathews said. No one, at press time, had stepped forward to claim the pig. !
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he King of Rock ’n’ Roll had a unique connection with the Triad, the Gate City in particular, about which he declared from the stage, “Of all the places we’ve Billy Ingram been to, you’re one of the most fantastic Contributing audiences we’ve had.” Many of Elvis columnist Presley’s most exciting live performances of the 1970s were reserved for Greensboro Coliseum audiences. Presley made his first incursions into our state long before that. In the spring of 1955, this relatively unknown rockabilly performer and his rough-hewn, three-piece combo played their first dates in North Carolina at the New Bern Shrine Auditorium and Asheville’s City Auditorium on May 14 and 17, followed by September bookings in those towns, augmented with stops in Raleigh and Wilson. Concert Date: Sept. 17, 1955 A raucous show at Thomasville High’s auditorium revealed a young performer possessing an unnerving intensity accented by quivering lips, unnaturally dark eyes and a slicked up, black ducktail pompadour that took three kinds of grease, and considerable time to prep, so it curled and flopped when he threw his head forward. Teen girls squealed and swooned uncontrollably at Presley’s pelvic gyrations and raw sex appeal, a source of great concern for many parents in this staid community. Concert Date: Feb. 6, 1956 As his first single on RCA Records, “Heartbreak Hotel,” was rocketing up the charts to No. 1, Greensboro welcomed the up-and-coming 21-year old pop star. He was on tour with the Carter Sisters and the Louvin Brothers, for four electrifying performances at the ornately fashioned National Theater on South Elm (now a parking lot next to the Guilford Building). Cruising into town in a pink ’55 Cadillac Fleetwood, there’s a rumor Presley had trouble getting backstage, as the local crew couldn’t believe this greaser was their opening act. The next day, the troupe tore it up four more times at the Center Theater in High Point.
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Concert Date: Feb. 15, 1956 On the night of Feb. 14, Presley motored into Burlington, checking in at the Piedmont Hotel. Dressed in a navy blue suit, he ate lunch at a nearby café, visited WFNS (now WBAG) unannounced, then gave away tickets at Margie’s Musicland for his 8 p.m. performance that evening at Williams High School. After that, it was on to Winston-Salem’s Carolina Theater but not before stopping at the Brightwood Inn in Whitsett. Louise Little waited on Presley that evening, stating that he ordered a “hamburger with lettuce and tomato, washed down with a glass of milk.” The booth he occupied is preserved as a shrine. After these days, Presley would never again be able to stroll the streets alone without attracting a frantic mob. Concert Date: Feb. 16, 1956 Winston-Salem Journal’s Roy Thompson was blown away by Presley’s performance, one that, “Sent a matinee houseful of teen-agers and other music-lovers into an orgy of hand-clapping, footstamping and tonsil-straining screaming. It is extremely doubtful that the Carolina Theater has ever seen a more enthusiastic audience.” A month later, he appeared at
the YMCA gymnasium in Lexington. Presley left touring behind soon after, in favor of cranking out lightweight celluloid musical romps, filming as many as three a year. Kissin’ Cousins, Kid Galahad and Roustabouts could live a little, love a little, then spinout on the speedway in pursuit of Girls! Girls! Girls!
The Other Elvis Presley One of the buxom objects of The King’s desire in “Tickle Me,” actress Francine York who passed away just last year, described Presley in 1965 to me as, “Not at all shy, very outgoing, great sense of humor. So gorgeous in person. Always kidding around, kiddingly talking back to Norman Taurog, the director. Very kind to me and complimentary. So different than a lot of stars who were stuck up.” Within a few years, these hopelessly anachronistic travelogues with sappy soundtracks had diminished Presley’s stardom so completely he was considered washed-up. An electrifying performance in December of 1968 on an NBC primetime special sparked the greatest comeback in show business history. Presley was again riding high on the pop charts, then conquered Las Vegas like a Southern Godzilla just as Sin City was losing its cachet. Other performers on the Strip typically appeared for two-week engagements while Presley’s gigs at the Las Vegas Hilton were month-long affairs. Had there been no Elvis, that moribund resort town quite possibly would have dried up and blown
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about what he saw, so cameramen at the Coliseum that night were strategically positioned within the orchestra to capture the entire performance for “Elvis on Tour,” Presley’s last motion picture, as it turned out. Estelle Brown of the Sweet Inspirations told BBC2, “When Elvis walks out on stage it’s like the building is being torn down. People were screaming and hollering and falling out and throwing stuff on the stage, oh, it was just amazing. Not only did he have the Sweets and the TCB band but he had the gospel quartets like The Stamps or Imperials. If you include the orchestra it would be about 60, it was a lot of people on stage.” For this night, Presley wore his Royal Blue Fireworks outfit, open to the waist, with an Owl Belt and matching cape, draped with one of the trademark scarves he occasionally bestowed upon fans. His every twitch generating ripples of excitement, Instamatic cubes flashing like strobe lights, rending teen angst from menopausal women, hands reaching up towards this heavenly body in desperate longing. Cameras rolling, Presley decided spontaneously to attempt a new song he’d recorded weeks earlier. Holding a lyric sheet in front of him, the band struck the opening chords to “Burning Love.” The King’s final Top 10 smash was performed live for the first time in Greensboro. After his last number, Presley spread his caped wings, exiting like a condor amid much fanfare from the orchestra. A booming voice echoed across the Coliseum speakers — “Elvis has left the building!”
away into the desert sands. Presley took his bombastic revue on the road beginning in 1970, breaking attendance records everywhere, but venturing no closer to the Triad than Cleveland until 1972. Concert Date: April 14, 1972 Before the Memphis Mafia arrived in Greensboro, Presley’s advance men had already covered with aluminum foil every window on the top floor of the posh new high-rise Radisson Hilton on West Market; a sky parlor plunged into never-ending nighttime across the street from Greensboro College. Documentary filmmakers recording Presley’s stage show rejoined the tour in Greensboro after a short hiatus. The footage was screened at a local theater for Colonel Parker, who was enthusiastic www.yesweekly.com
Concert Date: March 13, 1974 After a two-year absence, 16,000 tickets for Presley’s return to Greensboro sold out within minutes; scalpers commanding $200 for a front row seat that cost them $10 each. The King looked sharp that night in his high-collared, Blue Starburst belted jumpsuit with wildly exaggerated, pleated flairs. A boy from the audience outfitted in a sequined jumpsuit and cape was ushered onstage, Presley draped a scarf around him then commanded jokingly, “Get him out of here, he’s dressed better than I am!” Concert Date: July 22, 1975 Shortly after midnight on Monday, July 22, Presley and his entourage deplaned from a newly acquired 96-seat Convair 880. Christened the Lisa Marie, the airliner was customized, like all of Presley’s vehicles, by ’66 Batmobile designer George Barris. Moments after settling in at the Hilton, word went out to the manager of the Greensboro Coliseum that there was a problem. Armed with a telephone and the
City Directory, he began waking up local dentists, starting with the “A”s, until he found someone who would see the star of that night’s concert for an emergency procedure. It wasn’t until Dr. J. Baxter Caldwell’s patient sauntered into his office on Pembroke around 3:30 a.m. that he realized he’d be working on the most famous mouth in America. It had become common practice for Presley to remove one of his fillings, then be seen on a rush basis for what would eventually yield him a prescription or two. (Ironically, Caldwell was known for his reluctance to use painkillers.) Christopher Newsom shared a snapshot of Presley leaving the Hilton for the Coliseum that evening, “My dad and his brother went and waited for him. His bodyguards told everybody he had a
toothache or something and wouldn’t be hanging around to talk.” Presley had, of late, been inexplicably pestering his female backup singers from the stage with crude insults, such as their breath “smelled like catfish” according to Snopes.com. Most of his vitriol was reserved for on-again, off-again girlfriend, Kathy Westmoreland who harmonized with the Sweet Inspirations. When it got to be too much, all but one of the women had walked off stage mid-performance the night before in Norfolk. Determined to quit for good, after a heartfelt apology from Presley, all but Westmoreland performed at the Coliseum on July 22. One local reviewer declared this concert, “better than ever.” After returning to the dentist’s office for a follow-up, Westmoreland met with Presley as he sat on his bed in karate pajamas, brandishing a gun in one hand and a gift-wrapped watch in the other. More bewildering, the next afternoon the entourage discovered, at the airport, that Presley had flown ahead to Asheville without them. After the Lisa Marie was dispatched back to Greensboro and they finally made it the Rodeway Inn, Presley was contrite, showering everyone with what the jeweler that traveled with him called, “Practically a whole jewelry store!” He took the $40,000 diamond ring off his finger to give to J.D. Sumner of The Stamps. When The King didn’t receive his customary standing ovations in Asheville, he doled out expensive trinkets to audience members, some $85,000 worth altogether, then handed over his guitar to a random fan (who, in 2015, tried to sell it for $300,000). Concert Date: June 30, 1976 At this point, theatrical practicality had taken over, Presley was only pretending to play guitar, his moves mere poses. The audience lapped it up nonetheless. Every year in the Gate City, Presley sported a different outfit, in 1976 it was the Blue Egyptian Bird. When he wore this elaborately beaded getup for the first time three months earlier, he ripped the seat of the pants, generating front page headlines. That split across Presley’s fault line was such a touchstone moment in pop culture it rivaled the Beatles’ split. A typical day started around 3 p.m. with Presley partying with his bandmates past sunup. Other than getting in and out of a limousine, the group wouldn’t see the light of day for weeks on end. As one of The King’s courtiers put it, “At a point you get nuts.” Close associate Red West described Elvis in 1976 as, “A boy in a man’s body who could not handle the celebrity he had now become. I had a sinking feeling that I would not see my best friend again. And I didn’t.”
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Former site of The Radisson Hilton and current site of The District at West Market. Some staff believe the restless spirit of Elvis Presley still resides.
What the Public Couldn’t Know By the spring of 1977, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll had been on a years-long rocking roller coaster of Amphetamines and downers. A full-time staff and a national network of unknowing physicians kept Presley medicated between near-fatal overdoses and brief periods drying out. Weighing in at over 250 pounds, after 20 years of hit records, movies and sold out concerts; the greatest superstar of the 20th century was effectively broke and needed to be constantly on the road earning. While Colonel Parker deserved credit for making his protégé a star, he was pocketing around 50 percent of everything Presley earned, with under-the-table side deals abounding. A carny show charlatan of W.C. Fields-ian proportions who’s real name was Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, ‘Parker’ had fled the Netherlands
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to escape murder charges, a criminal past no one in Memphis or Hollywood knew anything about. Parker made business decisions for his only client based primarily on how much money he needed to pay down his losses to (among others) the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas. A casino owner’s dream who once squandered $10 million (adjusted for inflation) in one sitting, he’d throw down on every number on the roulette table (so, even when he won he lost). Concert Date: April 21, 1977 Opening night for the last 10-week tour before The King’s untimely death was in Greensboro. One concertgoer recalled, “My dad had a part-time job at a dry cleaners. They received a call from the Greensboro Coliseum. They needed an ‘emergency cleaning.’ My dad drove over; it was Pre-
sley’s outfit for his concert. Presley was laying on a couch when my dad went back there. Evidently, something happened to his costume.” The enthusiastic, capacity crowd that night was treated to one of the strongest and most exuberant of what would be The King’s farewell performances. Presley was feeling frisky in his golden Mexican Sundial suit, singing three favorites long ago dropped from his repertoire: “Little Sister,” “Little Darlin’” and “Fever.” Still sending shrieking shock waves throughout the audience, Presley’s pelvic thrusts were a thing of the past. Action onstage was reduced to dispensing as many scarves as possible, his naturally drowsy eyes now noticeably woozy. Presley had been prescribed more than 5,300 pills for this outing, a mind-numbing cocktail of Opioids, Amphetamines and central nervous system depressants that included: Valmid, Placydil, Valium,Pentobarbital, Phenobarbital, Butabarbital, Dilaudid, Demerol, Morphine, Biphetamine, Amytal, Percodan, Carbrital, Dexedrine, Cocaine Hydrochloride but most especially Codeine and Quaaludes. Playing progressively smaller venues every year, The Colonel reasoned that small-town audiences would be grateful to see Presley regardless of how bloated or ill he became. The Final Curtain... Six hundred narcotics had been dispensed for Presley by Aug. 15, 1977, one day before departure for an excursion which would have bypassed Greensboro in favor of Asheville and Fayetteville. Indicative of his compulsively crepuscular lifestyle, the last photo taken of The King was snapped at dawn the next day by a waiting fan as he returned to Graceland from his dentist. Hours later, he was dead from an overdose at age 42. When news broke out, Greensboro’s
Southern Bell phone lines were overwhelmed with incredulous callers, as former operator Cathy Robbins remembered in an online post, “Every available person was working the board. Supervisors, upper management - everyone was answering calls! They told me not to attempt any calls to Memphis; their phone system had been blown out!” They could only relay the message, “We have no details at this time, stay tuned to your local T.V. for information as it becomes available.” It had been a little over 21 years after Presley’s first Gate City gig and barely four months since his last. At the time of his passing, Presley had sold more records than any solo artist in history. “Elvis on Tour” was released posthumously, winning the Golden Globe for Best Documentary; a young Martin Scorsese supervised the montage sequences. The entire April 1972 Greensboro performance was released unofficially so that Presley’s flirtations with the Triad remain pressed between the pages of our minds, sweetened through the ages just like wine. There are those who believe Elvis Presley’s restless spirit may still be making periodic stops in Greensboro. The Radisson Hilton is long gone, repurposed as The District at West Market, where a receptionist told me last year about furniture in the lobby that would, on occasion, be rearranged overnight despite no one detected on the security footage entering or exiting. Some on staff believe it’s the restless spirit of The King. Until recently, a lady was residing in the penthouse precisely because Elvis had stayed there. Perhaps Elvis hasn’t left the building after all. ! The author of 5 books, BILLY INGRAM is one of the nation’s top experts on television history. Portions of this article appeared in a different form in O.Henry magazine. Ask your doctor if cocaine hydrochloride is right for you.
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UNCG prof talks athletics, acedemics, avenging “I think I’m rather boring,” said the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Janet Boseovski, Ph.D. “But if you find an angle on a formerly Canadian, child-free psychology professor who Ian McDowell studies development (and children in parContributing ticular), hikes, lifts heavy things, runs to columnist torture herself, and suffers from anxiety, mild depression, and impostor syndrome, let me know.” I met Janet (I use her first name because she’s a friend of mine) when she competed as the Academic Avenger in a Greensboro Women’s Arm Wrestling League charity fundraiser at Geeksboro Coffee and Beverage Company. She entered wearing academic robes over a Black Widow jumpsuit supplemented with props from Captain America and Iron Man, but it was her Facebook posts that made me realize she’s too interesting to require an angle. Particularly one she wrote about running, something I don’t much like. Neither does she, who does it more than me and posts about it with wit and passion. She owns a bandana emblazoned with I hate running and I love running that she’s never worn. “The shade is a menacing pink, and the sentiment is cliché, but I bought it because the words ring true.” She claimed she’s not a natural runner. “I am relatively slow and have curves that shun typical runners’ clothes and invite street ogling under innocent circumstances.” This summer, she said she felt awe at “the conversation of the real women runners in my group who wore the tiny shorts with adorable piping over slim, straight hips and happily declared it was the braless season.” It also didn’t help that she’s not a beer drinker. “If you know about running, you know craft brew is critical to the culture.” So why does she run? Here’s her paragraph from a recent email, which I’m quoting in full because it’s too good to break up. “I wish I could say it gives me a high or brings me peace, but that would be untruthful. I love running for what it allows me to expunge. Somehow, the labored and rhythmic breathing leads to the purging of (troublesome) emotions. My best description is that running takes me to point of mental nothingness. It’s WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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not positive or negative, but a state of clarity. I love running for the companionship and community. Sweating in front of others is a vulnerable action; there is no place to hide and you’re too tired to selfcensor your facial expressions or dialogue. People see who you are. And even if you are a slow, ninja-bodied, non-beer drinking type, there is respect every time you show up with readiness to take on your mind and the road.” More of her time is actually spent in resistance training, which she said is what got her into GRAWL. Friends and gym mates had been complimenting her strength, and she realized she received “tremendous satisfaction from lifting heavy things and being able to knock out a set of push-ups readily.” And so, “despite a culture that tells women they should be, and should want to be, delicate,” she thought, “why not exploit that in arm wrestling and serve a great cause at the same time?” She said she’s been surprised and gratified by the support her Academic Avenger character has received, judging from the funds raised and the people who approached her that evening. Switching from athletics to academics (and back to talk from email), I asked her about studying children while choosing
not to have them. “You don’t have to have cancer to study cancer,” she wisecracked, referring to an earlier conversation about Leukemia. This reminds me of my godmother, who feared she’d have to change professions if she got pregnant, so as not to blur the line between study and parenting. The child of Macedonian immigrants, Janet was born in Toronto (she added “in Canada” because “when I taught at Wake Forrest, I had students who didn’t know!”). Her parents owned a successful restaurant for 25 years despite initially speaking little English. They are why she supports local businesses, another subject on which she waxes eloquently wroth on Facebook.
This profile doesn’t describe her neardeath experiences while running, which she really should write about for publication, and skips her hilarious horror at Florida as an introduction to the U.S. Nor, did we talk about her study of how children aged 3-12 decide whether other people are nice, mean, smart, and/or capable. But while she’s someone who routinely makes keen and accurate observations, you’ve now read sufficient evidence to disprove her thesis that she’s rather boring. ! 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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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) As much as you love being the center of attention, your big Lion’s heart impels you to share the spotlight with a colleague who helped you with that well-praised project. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your eagerness to act on a challenge is wisely tempered early in the week by a lack of necessary information. Things begin to clear up during the weekend. [LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A relationship you’d hoped would keep going seems to be going nowhere. Close it out and move on to a brighter romantic aspect just beginning to manifest itself.
[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A new offer could clear up that lingering money problem. Also, a more confident attitude on your part might well help get that personal situation back on track. [ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might be hurt by a colleague’s harsh criticism. But don’t let it shake your confidence in what you’re trying to do. A more positive aspect starts to appear by week’s end.
21) Things don’t go completely as planned this week. But enjoy the surprises, even if you have to adjust your schedule. Some of them could be quite delightful.
[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You’re torn between your sensible self and the part of you that enjoys acquiring lovely things. Best advice: Wait for an end-ofmonth sale, and then buy something wonderful.
[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Making choices is usually easy for straight-shooting Archers. But a new development could deflect your aim. Try to put off decisions until you know more.
[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your artistic side has practical applications this week, such as redecorating your home or redesigning your personal stationery. Whatever you do, someone special will like it.
[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) While part of you might prefer taking a more familiar path, let your more daring and — admit it — super-curious self see what the unexplored has to offer.
[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You could be drawn into a problem ‘twixt friends or family members. Best bet: Ask the questions that go to the heart of the matter, then get them all together for a group hug.
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I’m a married lesbian in my 50s. I blew up my happy marriage by having an affair with somebody I didn’t love and wasn’t even that attracted to. Now my wife, whom I love very much, is divorcing me. Why did I cheat on her? I don’t understand my own behavior. — Lost
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There are those special people you meet who end up changing your life — though ideally not from happily married person to lonely middle-aged divorcee living in a mildewy studio. There’s a widespread assumption that “a happy marriage is insurance against infidelity,” explained the late infidelity researcher Shirley Glass. Even she used to assume that. But, her research (and that of subsequent researchers) finds that even happily married people end up cheating — for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they want better sex or even just different sex. Sometimes they want an ego shine. And sometimes they feel something’s missing within them. But soul-searching is emotionally grubby, tedious work, so they first look for that missing something in the nearest hot person’s underpants. It seems inexplicable (and borderline crazy) that you risked everything you care about for somebody you find kind of meh — until you look at this through the lens of
“bounded rationality.” And before anybody takes a lighter to hay on a pitchfork they plan to chase me with, I’m simply offering a possible explanation for such baffling behavior; I’m not excusing cheating. “Bounded rationality” is the late Nobel Prize-winning cognitive scientist Herbert Simon’s term for the constraints on our ability to make truly reasoned, rational decisions. These decision-making constraints include having a limited time to make a choice and limited cognitive ability, which keeps us from seeing the whole picture, with its rainbow of repercussions. We can end up engaging in what psychologists call “framing,” a sort of selecta-vision in which we make decisions based on whichever part of the picture happens to be in mental focus at the time. (Of course, we’re more likely to focus on how fun it would be to have a little strange than how strange it would be to end up exiled to a motel when the wife finds out.) For some people, behavior from their spouse that suggests “Ha-ha...crossed my fingers during that vows thing!” is simply a deal breaker. But say your wife still loves you and is mainly leaving because she feels she can’t trust you. (A partner who inexplicably cheats is a partner there’s no stopping from inexplicably cheating again.) If you can explain — though not excuse! — your thinking (or nonthink) at the time, maybe your wife will agree to try couples therapy, at least for a few months. Bounded rationality aside, I suspect you’re unlikely to cheat again, and especially not on what I call “The ER Model” for bad decisions: patients muttering, “This isn’t how I thought the night would end” — just
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How long does it take to get over someone? One friend said it takes half as long as you were together, and another said it takes twice that time. — Recently Dumped Sometimes it takes a while to let go, but sometimes you’re so ready that you’d chase the person off your porch with a shotgun (if you had a porch or a shotgun and weren’t afraid of doing time on a weapons charge). Your friends, with their precise breakup timetables, are confusing emotional recovery with mass transit. The reality is, people vary — like in how naturally resilient they are — and so do relationships. (Some are long over before they’re formally retired.) Sadness after a breakup can feel like the pointless adult version of getting grounded indefinitely. However, as I’ve written in previous columns, psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that sadness appears to be
“adaptive” — meaning that it has useful functions. For example, the “disengagement” from motivation that accompanies sadness gives us time to process what happened, possibly helping us learn from our mistakes instead of inviting them back in for an eggnog. Accordingly, a way to heal emotionally is to find meaning within your mistakes — figuring out what you might have seen or done differently, which tells you what you should probably do differently in the future. In other words, think of the sadness holding you down not as your hostagetaker but as your helper. Deliberately using it that way might even help you curb the impatience that leads some to start dating before they’re actually ready. Sure, on a first date, it’s good to give a guy the sense that you’re passionate and emotionally present, but probably not by sobbing uncontrollably when he asks whether you want a latte. ! 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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