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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING JANUARY 17 FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO N.C. 27 (FREEDOM DRIVE) FROM TODDVILLE ROAD TO MOORES CHAPEL ROAD IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-5957 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed improvements to N.C. 27 (Freedom Drive) from Toddville Road to Moores Chapel Road in Charlotte. The purpose of this project is to improve mobility and accommodate bicycles and pedestrians along the project corridor.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 17 from 4-7 p.m. at Allenbrook Elementary located at 1430 Allenbrook Drive in Charlotte. 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 February 16, 2019. 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.

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16 CONCERN IN TRIAD MONTAGNARD COMMUNITY “After reading that, I felt stabbed in the back,” said Liana Adrong, administrative coordinator of the MONTAGNARD Dega Association of Greensboro, whom I interviewed on Dec. 29. “My father did so much to help U.S. Special Forces back in the day, and the president is making it sound like this country doesn’t care about us anymore.”

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It’s enlightening when you find a place like KAYA Japanese Fast Food, located at 3925 Sedgebrook St. in High Point, and disappointing when you visit a different new restaurant that’s not only sub-par but embarrassing to associate with the delicious and eclectic food landscape that can be found in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

10 Kayne Fisher has unveiled a new brand, a new look and direction for THE KITCHEN + MARKET at Revolution Mill.

The restaurant and market, which was part of the Natty Greene’s Brewing company brand until last fall, will now be known as Kau, which is pronounced as “cow,” to better reflect the self-taught chef and entrepreneur’s aspirations for the space.

11 BEN IS BACK, which opens Friday at A/perture Cinema, is an intense and insightful drama starring Oscar-winner Julia Roberts as Holly and Oscar-nominee Lucas Hedges as Ben, and was written, produced and directed by Peter Hedges, the father of Lucas and a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Of the 140 films I viewed over the past 12 months, here are my picks for the 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2018, followed by 10 worthy runners-up and other assorted superlatives.

18 North Carolina fine art photographer CARL GALIE, who resides in WinstonSalem, is using his talent to help others fall in love with the mountains, rivers and beautiful places in nature that he hopes to see preserved.

19 Guilford Green Foundation’s GREEN QUEEN BINGO is back and has announced its 2019 dates for Jan. 11, April 26, Sept. 13 and Nov. 8. Green Queen Bingo has decided to team up with Greensboro Pride with a goal to bring Greensboro’s LGBTQ community and its straight allies closer together.

20 MICHAEL THOMAS JACKSON, a composer and improvisational multiinstrumentalist, lives a few blocks from me in Winston-Salem. ...on the weekends, you can often find Jackson working with a rotating squad of like-minded improvisers in duo, trio, quartet, quintet and larger configurations around the Triad...

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BOONE DOGGIES HOT DOGS FOOD TRUCK EXPANDS TO A RESTAURANT

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

It is always inspiring to see a fellow Mountaineer succeed. Drew Ausley, owner of the beloved Boone Doggies Hot Dogs food truck just opened his brick-andmortar bearing the same name at 566 E. Main St. in Yadkinville.

Ausley graduated Appalachian State in 2013 and started four years ago with a humble hot dog cart at the corner of Stratford and Clemmonsville Roads in Winston-Salem, which then grew into a successful food truck. Ausley said after two and a half years with the food truck, expansion was in order. But don’t worry Boone Doggies die-hards, “we will definitely still have the food truck,” Ausley said.

He said the food truck would be going out to the same spot at Stratford and Clemmonsville Roads for lunch a few days a week, and that his dad, Andrew Ausley, Jr., would be helping him hold down the fort at the restaurant.

“My dad will be here, and I will be out on the food truck of course. The two of us will kind of tag-team the restaurant,” Ausley said. “It is definitely a family business, to say the least.”

The restaurant is located in the space formerly known as Hillbilly BBQ & Grub.

“We found a perfect little-sized restaurant that is free-standing, it’s got a drive-thru on it, it had everything on the list that we really wanted,” he said.

Ausley said that when they bought the

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restaurant, they also bought its inventory.

He said the restaurant would be opening Jan. 8 under the Hillbilly BBQ & Grub name and phasing out its menu items.

More space means more menu items, and he said Boone Doggies would be adding burgers and barbecue to the menu and would serve daily specials.

“We have a smoker that is apart of the restaurant, like a real smoker and a pit, so we will be doing pit-smoked barbecue,” he said.

Ausley said he wants to thank patrons of Boone Doggies for their support and for winning the Triad’s Best Food Truck and Best Hot Dogs in Forsyth County in YES! Weekly’s 2018 readers poll.

“They are definitely the reason for us to make a leap into the restaurant,” he said of his loyal customers.

Ausley said he hopes to hold a grand opening sometime in the next two weeks, but that those plans are tentative at the moment.

“We are excited to be here in Yadkinville and ready to start calling this place home,” he said. “We are excited to see what the new restaurant world can do for us.”

Keep in the loop by checking Boone Doggies’ Facebook (www.facebook. com/boonedoggies/) or Instagram (@ boonedoggies) pages for announcements and the food truck schedule. !

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he Triad’s international food scene is something to be proud of with lengthy lists of locations that cover several spectrums of cultural cuisines. It’s Jennifer Zeleski enlightening when you find a place like Kaya Japanese Fast Contributor Food, located at 3925 Sedgebrook St. in High Point, and disappointing when you visit a different new restaurant that’s not only sub-par but embarrassing to associate with the delicious and eclectic food landscape that can be found in Greensboro, YES! WEEKLY

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After a not-so-great experience at one newly-opened “Japanese fast food” location in Greensboro, I decided to look up the same phrase, but this time, looking for a place that seemed to have missed the attention it deserved. Hoping to find a hidden treasure somewhere, one that would be sure to wipe away the bad memories of a meal that went mostly uneaten, and Kaya was that place.

Little did I know, I had driven past it dozens of times on NC-68, where the location is hidden behind another international must-go, BBQ Nation. When my boyfriend Peyton and I arrived, we walked underneath the neon red “Japanese Restaurant” sign into a somewhat spacious, familyowned business that had John 3:16 handpainted on the wall, in English and Korean.

The opposing wall was covered in pic-

tures of dishes ranging in price from $8.95 to $23.95, and almost all were Korean.

The Japanese portion of the menu was a blackboard that listed a variety of hibachi options, including vegetable, chicken, beef, scallop and several combinations, all of which came with white rice or fried, vegetables and white sauce.

Despite the original intentions of Japanese fast food, how could we pass up the opportunity to experience traditional Korean instead? High Point has another traditional Korean location roughly 20 minutes away in a much less-casual setting (High Point Korean BBQ). Based on our great experiences there, we decided to adjust our appetites. Hibachi would just have to wait for another time.

Few of the dishes were recognizable by name, so we ordered based on their letter/ number identifiers. My choice was “S2,” a

Soft Tofu Stew with Seafood, which also had a beef option. Peyton’s entrée was “C2,” the Dol Sot Bibimbap, which is only described as “sizzling vegetables on rice” but based on previous bibimbap experiences, we knew enough to predict there would (most likely) be beef and a fried egg added on top. Lastly, a pork fried egg roll, because that was a little more aligned with the originally intended “fast food.”

The space was fairly quiet and clean, and we could hear Peyton’s fried egg as it sizzled to a crisp on a hot pan. Somewhere behind the curtained kitchen, both of our bowls were being heated to ridiculously high temperatures, which was proven as soon as they made their way to the table.

The egg rolls, along with shareable sides arrived first, which included a small cup of lightly-colored broth with an egg mixed in, (and tasted like a very mild version of

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chicken broth, and not quite miso) and a plate of kimchi, fish cakes and pickled daikon. The kimchi seemed to be mostly bean sprouts in sweet vinegar, but can be made in various ways depending on region and preference, and is often made with white radishes.

Starting with each of these options truly set the tone for the rest of the food to come. The egg rolls were easily the best we’ve both ever tasted. One order came with two egg rolls, with their outer layers having gone just past the point of being golden, instead of creating a crunch that took you right into the sweetness of the cabbage-based filling. The pork was savory, but not overwhelming or greasy, and the rolls needed nothing for support (duck sauce, hot sauce or the like).

After enjoying the rolls a bit too much, and feeling a pang of guilt for indulging too quickly, we rebounded into our newfound favorite, kimchi. Sweeter and less astringent than what we’re used to, the kimchi has a great crunch and freshness that would go well in addition to almost any dish on the menu. Peyton saved some for his bibimbap as I enjoyed the pickled daikon, which was refreshing, crunchy and satisfied my slight obsession with bean sprouts. The two other small side dishes, the fish cakes sprinkled with sesame seeds, and the chopped zucchini with an contemplated what the general “seafood” orange-tinted sauce, both didn’t offer term meant for the soup, but I knew I much flavor but were worth a try. just had to go at it blindly. The soup was The real stars arrived literally sizzling hot — temperature wise and spice-wise. and bubbling. Peyton’s large black bowl Be warned if you skim from the top, the was hot enough to start to brown the oil will leave a lingering spice only calmed rice on the bottom, urging him to stir its by the white rice on the side. I tried (and contents throughout to avoid too much failed) to identify some of the fishy sticking, some of which is inevitable. components, picking out the octopus that The bowl was filled. White rice covwas a bit too tough to swallow, and makered the bottom, layered with shredded ing funny faces across the table when an beef, thin strips of carrots, bean sprouts, unexpected texture came up. Nonetheless, sprinkled seaweed and bok choy. And yes, the broth was spicy and savory, and the there was a fried egg like a cherry on top. tofu was so soft it melted in your mouth, The edges of the fried egg were crispy despite still having a slight texture in the just as we expected, and each bite was soup. I knew it would be a recipe I could try different. Peyton rated it a 10/10 bibimto copy at home but would fall short on all bap, with its crunchy rice, fresh vegetables and its ability to fill him up before the bowl would be cool enough to touch.

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More than anything, what we got was traditional. There wasn’t a thought that crossed through our minds back to the rather unfortunate meal prior, and there was yet another location added to the list of places that adventurous, culturallycurious foodies need to try. Look for the unsuspecting, and you never know what you might find. !

JENNIFER ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.

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Kau opens in former Kitchen + Market at Revolution Mill space Kayne Fisher has unveiled a new brand, a new look and direction for The Kitchen + Market at Revolution Mill. The restaurant and market, which was part of the Natty Greene’s Brewing company Kristi Maier brand until last fall, @triadfoodies will now be known as Kau, which is pronounced as “cow,” Contributor to better reflect the self-taught chef and entrepreneur’s aspirations for the space.

Kau will be a restaurant, a butchery, and a bar. Its unveiling took place Jan. 8 with local influencers and media getting a first glance.

The Kitchen + Market opened in its industrial mill quarters in the summer of 2017. It’s a casual restaurant that its curator calls “industrial warmth” that has some upscale items and includes a butcher shop and market. It has been Fisher’s childhood dream.

“I spent summers with my grandparents in Detroit, and when my grandfather got off from Chrysler, we’d go to a deli or a butcher shop, grab some meat and we’d cook that night’s meal. I was always intrigued by the idea of a market and butchery. Since the age of 15, I have had the concept in mind, and this space allowed that to come to life.”

Fisher, who said he’s learned from “the culinary school of life” since age 5, parted with the Natty Greene’s franchise last fall and said the foundational menu that made the Kitchen + Market remains unchanged, but he still wanted to start fresh with a new name to avoid confusion.

“People ask me ‘have you been to culinary school?’ and I answer ‘Yep…still in it since I was 5 years old.’ I have a real drive and passion for food that I’m sure drives the staff nuts. I really am a mad chef. I love coming in and seeing what I can conjure up. I’ve got the greatest refrigerator around, and I get to cook from it!”

Part of the restaurant’s decor is a weathervane that features a bull and the Hawaiian translation for bull is kau.

“It’s easy to say, somewhat cool, raises curiosity, it’s fun and fits with what I want to do,” Fisher said of the new name. “I did not want to be too literal with the name.

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Southwestern heritage. The entrepreneur and draught master said he still wants a family-friendly atmosphere with a simple menu. “It’s still simplicity at its finest.

The meat and two is still a part of the foundational menu.” However, Fisher said he was ready to challenge that idea. After all, getting creative is half the fun.

“I want to explore with the same fundamental ideas, but also play with some game. I want to challenge the palates of Greensboro, so they try things they’ve never tried.” Fisher said they’re starting with a wild game night on Tuesdays, adding, “Our customers can sample yak or kangaroo without having to fully commit.”

So is Kau a chophouse? Is it a steakhouse? Fisher said yes; but that’s not all it is. “I want anyone to be able to come here. I’ve taken everything I’ve learned, and it’s in my head. You can come as you are and have wings and chili and your dining partner can have charcuterie or a cowboy ribeye.”

What you don’t see often is an old school, in-house butcher within the entire concept. Fisher brings in the raw materials, the animals, and his team breaks them down, grinds the beef, stuffs the sausages, and breaks down the pigs.

Fisher is equally enthusiastic about his market next door.

“It’s growing into a true neighborhood market, but the star is the meat cooler.”

Fisher said the plan is that customers can shop for their protein and ingredients for the sides of their meal but while

they’re there, be able to pick up essentials such as detergent and toilet paper. If you’re in a hurry, there are prepared meals and sides such as macaroni and cheese.

“The idea is for you to know your butcher, know the highest quality cuts, and I want it to feel genuine and useful,” Fisher added. “It’s not artisan; it’s a neighborhood grocery store. You can get that night’s meal or stock up for the week.”

What you find in the market is also what’s on the menu for the most part.

“Come get it and take it home, or we’ll cook it for you,” he said. “I’ve searched and searched. It wasn’t arduous because I got to try lots of meat. But I know it’s the best. We use local when we can, and we’ve been fortunate with who’ve we’ve partnered with. We’ll expand as we grow and explore.”

Braveheart Farms Black Angus Prime,

Pine Trough Branch Farm, Harmony Ridge Farms, are just a few of the producers you’ll find in the meat case.

“The restaurant was more stripped down and entrée-driven when we were tied into the pub. Now we’ve opened up the playbook. And it’s going to stay that way. I’ve got a lot of plays we’re ready to unleash,” Fisher said. “I’m 49 and just starting over. And I’ve never felt more liberated and excited.” !

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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his Christmas, Holly Burns is getting an unexpected visit from her son, Ben. It comes as something as a shock because Ben’s been undergoing intenMark Burger sive therapy at a nearby rehabilitaContributor tion facility for drug addiction, and is still very early – and very shaky – in his long, arduous road to recovery. On the surface, a family reunion can be festive, but it can also reopen old wounds.

Ben is Back, which opens Friday at A/ perture Cinema, is an intense and insightful drama starring Oscar-winner Julia Roberts as Holly and Oscar-nominee Lucas Hedges as Ben, and was written, produced and directed by Peter Hedges, the father of Lucas and a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

It’s Peter’s fourth film as a writer/director, following Pieces of April (2003), Dan in Real Life (2007) and The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), all critically acclaimed, with Pieces of April earning Patricia Clarkson an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Ben is Back also marks Hedges’ first credit as a producer. Well, his first official credit …

“Technically, I’ve felt like a producer in some capacity on all the films I’ve directed,” he said. “I tend to think ‘producorially.’ It made me very thoughtful about what I asked for and how much it would cost. I tend to make what could be called small stories, about people, and I want to make sure that everything is up there on the screen.”

With Ben is Back, Hedges was prepared to go the distance – and then some. “I knew when I started, whether or not I could find a producer, that I would do it myself,” he said. “I was prepared to sell my home, to be honest. Fortunately, I didn’t have to.”

Since making his screen debut in a small role in Dan in Real Life, Lucas (at one time a student at the UNCSA School of Drama) has seen his star rise quickly, earning an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor in Manchester by the Sea (2016), further acclaim for Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017, Boy Erased and Mid90s WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

last year – and making his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery.

Although Peter had envisioned Lucas when creating the character of Ben, “I never imagined he would be in my film.”

The leading lady, on the other hand, did. “When I sat down with Julia with a list of possible actors to play Ben, she waved them aside. She wanted Lucas.”

Quite simply, you don’t say no to Julia Roberts.

“You don’t, you really don’t,” Hedges said with a laugh, but her commitment to the project and her confidence in Lucas prompted a reconsideration for Peter and Lucas.

“We had a period of time to talk through what this would be like,” Peter explained. “He had some questions about the screenplay and his character.

It was not necessarily son and father – even though that’s what we are – but our relationship was between actor and director.”

Ben is Back can be perceived as a human drama and as a modern-day parable on temptation and redemption, told in a credible, forthright fashion that never lapses into melodrama, and in a tightly-compressed 24-hour period.

The Christmas Eve setting was an absolute from inception, “because Ben needed to come home unexpectedly.

Had he just shown up on a random day, Holly would probably have taken him right back to rehab, but holidays are a particularly complicated time. For broken families, for people who suffer addiction, the holiday season is a conflicted reality. Therefore, it’s not particularly surprising that Ben would come home for Christmas. There’s a reason for it.”

It does, however, raise alarm bells.

Ben’s sister Ivy (Kathryn Newton) is supportive but wary, younger siblings Lacy and Liam (newcomers Mia Fowler and Jakari Fraser, respectively) are too young to fully grasp Ben’s condition and are delighted having him home, but stepfather Neal (Courtney B. Vance) is outwardly suspicious and doubtful.

Not surprisingly, Holly is the most hopeful, yet even her resolve will be shaken and tested beyond what she could ever have imagined.

The Iowa-born Hedges graduated UNCSA in 1984, initially studying to

be an actor but then branching into playwriting. He adapted his novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? for director Lasse Hallstrom in 1993, which earned an Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for a young Leonardo DiCaprio, adapted Jane Hamilton’s novel A Map of the World in 1999, then earned an Oscar nomination alongside Chris and Paul Weitz for Best Adapted Screenplay in About a Boy (2002), based on Nick Hornsby’s novel. He later worked on NBC’s subsequent T.V. series, which ran 2014-’15, and contributed to the screenplay of the animated Disney feature The Good Dinosaur (2015).

Exploring the widespread impact of drug addiction, the story for Ben is Back explores not only the addict and his family but those around them and the community at large – all having been tainted in some way. On a more intimate scale, Ben is Back bears a passing similarity to Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic (2000).

“I’m flattered by the comparison because that’s a film I love,” Hedges said. “I felt in my bandwidth that I could focus on one family for one day.

I immersed myself in that family. I felt I was peeking in on their lives, and I felt it was important that, even though it’s a hard story, there had to be a lot of humor in it … (and that) the truth gets peeled back layer by layer.”

Ben is Back has also been compared to Beautiful Boy, which dramatizes the effects of addiction on Nic Sheff (Timothee Chalamet), the son of author David Sheff (Steve Carell, who starred in Dan in Real Life), based on the best-selling memoirs of both. Hedges, however, sees no competition between the two. In fact, just the opposite.

“It’s a film I root for,” he said. “We’ve all worked together. Lucas and Tim are friends, Steve and I are friends, our families have spent time together. There cannot be enough stories about this epidemic. The more stories there are, the better the insight we have.”

Indeed, Hedges hopes that such insight can have a far-reaching and positive effect.

“I believe we can’t coddle someone with kindness,” he observed. “No one person can stop another person with an addiction. They have to do it for

themselves. But one person can say that they’re not going to give up on that person, and by that one person not giving up on them, they can make a change in their lives. I’ve certainly heard personal stories about that.”

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t was just last month that Mary Poppins returned to movie theaters across the globe, accompanied by a classic phrase that was immortalized when she first hit the screen back in 1964. But while the no-nonsense nanny remains “practically perfect in every way,” the same can’t quite be said about the cinema of 2018.

Make no mistake: There were many exemplary movies released over the course of the past 12 months. Audiences certainly thought so, as the period set a box office record with a total domestic haul of $11.8 billion (breaking the previous record set in 2016). But personally speaking, this hardly ranked as the best of times when it came to motion pictures that left their mark in my head or in my heart. It’s the first time since 2012 (the year of Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, and Life of Pi) that I didn’t hand out a single four-star review, as nothing burrowed into my soul in quite the manner of such year-topping efforts as Arrival, Up in the Air, No Country for Old Men, and Far from Heaven (to name but four 21st century masterpieces).

Still, why grouse? Even if they didn’t completely hit the sweet spot, there were still plenty of worthwhile movies released in 2018, enough to easily compile a Top 20.

Of the 140 films I viewed over the past 12 months, here are my picks for the 10 best movies of 2018, followed by 10 worthy runners-up and other assorted superlatives. Alas, budget cuts, unfortu-

nately, resulted in a 5 Worst list instead of the usual 10 Worst list. Just kidding; the real reason is that I skipped so many of the apparent turkeys that are clogging other critics’ 10 Worst lists — Gotti, Death of a Nation, Slender Man, The Cloverfield Paradox, etc. — that it seemed churlish to include such bad-but-not-painfully-andexcruciatingly-bad movies as The Hurricane Heist and The House with a Clock in Its Walls just to meet a quota.

THE 10 BEST

1. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos). The best film of 2018. The climactic comeuppance and abrupt ending could both be stronger, but otherwise, this outrageous period piece — basically All About Eve with corsets — is a smashing success.

Yorgos Lanthimos directs with flair, the exceptional screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara cuts like a dagger, and a perfect cast is anchored by Olivia Colman as the sickly Queen Anne and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as the two women who compete for her attention and affection. It’s a historical drama, an acerbic comedy, and a poignant love story all rolled into one rollicking package.

2. EIGHTH GRADE (Bo Burnham).

Written and directed by television and YouTube star Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade offers a knockout performance by 15-yearold Elsie Fisher as Kayla Day, an introverted student struggling to survive her last week of eighth grade before preparing for high school. Stripped of practically all artifice, this stinging saga is more unsettling than Hereditary, more unnerving than A

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Quiet Place, and it bested Avengers: Infinity War as last summer’s ultimate word on edge-of-your-seat entertainment.

3. ROMA (Alfonso Cuaron). Alfonso Cuaron is known for directing such cinematic gems as Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien, but this time, it’s personal. The helmer here loosely draws from his own childhood experiences to fashion a leisurely and loving look at a family living in Mexico City in the early 1970s. The focus is primarily on the family’s live-in maid Cleo (a wonderful turn by non-professional Yalitza Aparicio), and her triumphs and travails form the backbone of a richly textured and humanistic story.

4. THE HATE U GIVE (George Tillman Jr.). From BlacKkKlansman to Blindspotting to Beale Street and beyond, the issue of systematic racism informed many a movie in 2018. Yet slipping through the cracks was the most affecting one of all, a powerful adaptation of Angie Thomas’ novel (scripted by the late Audrey Wells) about an African-American teenager (Amandla Stenberg) whose sociopolitical consciousness is awakened after she witnesses her close friend (Algee Smith) fatally shot by a white cop.

5. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (Tim Wardle). In a stellar year for documentaries, this emerged as the best of the bunch. It starts out as a feel-good human interest story — three adopted JewishAmerican siblings learn of each other’s existence at the age of 19 and become buds — before morphing into something decidedly darker and disturbing. “This is like Nazi shit,” notes one of the trio, and

this compelling film ends up examining a myriad of subjects, not least being a contemporary analysis of “the banality of evil.”

6. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper).

Nary a superhero could be found in the year’s best blockbuster unless one counts the alter ego of Rocket Raccoon serving as both director and co-star. That would be Bradley Cooper, whose splendid remake of the oft-filmed tale demonstrates that good stories never die, they just patiently rest as filmmakers figure out how to bring back their sparkle. Yet Cooper’s greatest achievement turns out to be his generous support of Lady Gaga, a revelation in her first significant movie role.

7. WIDOWS (Steve McQueen). After various crooks are killed during a robbery that goes wrong, their wives (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki) are forced by outside aggressors to pick up where their husbands left off – by successfully planning and executing their own heist. Benefiting from its wealth of narrative, Widows doesn’t build on its competing plots as much as it dissects them, peering deep into their bowels and consequently spinning the film off in unexpected and exciting ways.

8. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader).

Paul Schrader has spent a huge chunk of his career examining the omniscient specter of violence — how it’s triggered, how it manifests itself, and how it’s ultimately settled. With this haunting and meditative work about a parish pastor (Ethan Hawke) experiencing a crisis of conscience, the writer of Taxi Driver, Hardcore and Light Sleeper has added another puzzle piece that allows the topic to snap into place, even if only temporarily.

9. LEAN ON PETE (Andrew Haigh).

Emotions receive a brutal workout in the year’s most unjustly forgotten film, but they’re triggered not through shameless manipulation but through an honest and absorbing look at a young boy (Charlie Plummer) who forms a special bond with Lean on Pete, a racehorse no longer desired by its crabby owner (Steve Buscemi).

This memorable drama feels raw and real, with many outstanding (and unpredictable) vignettes and an excellent performance by Plummer.

10. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler).

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the solo Marvel adventures to date. A heady mix of William Shakespeare and Walt Disney — and with a few James Bond gadgets added to sweeten the deal — it ventures far beyond wham-bam-thankyou-Stan territory.

The Next 10 (Honorable Mentions, In Preferential Order): Free Solo; Searching; A Quiet Place; If Beale Street Could Talk; RBG; BlacKkKlansman; Shoplifters; Blindspotting; Isle of Dogs; Burning Best Actor: Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased and Ben Is Back; Christian Bale, Vice; Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born; Ethan Hawke, First Reformed; Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Best Actress: Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade; Toni Collette, Hereditary; Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born; Carey Mulligan, Wildlife; Rachel Weisz/Emma Stone/Olivia Colman, The Favourite Best Supporting Actor: Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born; Steve Buscemi, The Death of Stalin and Lean on Pete; Russell Hornsby, The Hate U Give; Mahershala Ali, Green Book; Simon Russell Beale, The Death of Stalin Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk; Amy Adams, Vice; Elizabeth Debicki, Widows; Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at the El Royale and Widows; Shayna McHale, Support the Girls Sleepers: Beast; Beirut; Disobedience; Private Lives; Upgrade Disappointments: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald; Solo: A Star Wars Story; Suspiria; Venom; A Wrinkle in Time Overrated: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Bumblebee; Halloween; Smallfoot; You Were Never Really Here

THE 5 WORST

1. THE 15:17 TO PARIS Clint Eastwood has directed 37 motion pictures over the course of 41 years, yet none have been as painful to watch as this dramatization of a real-life incident in which young Americans Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler (cast as themselves) heroically stopped a terrorist attack while vacationing in Europe. Only these climactic scenes convey any sense of genuine drama; the rest is shockingly devoid of Eastwood’s usual professionalism, crippled instead by amateurish performances, chintzy production values, and ham-fisted dialogue.

2. RED SPARROW A former Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) reluctantly attends a so-called “whore school” where she learns how to mix sex with espionage.

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all, it’s hard to feel like a movie is striking a blow against misogyny when its camera leers as obsessively as a virginal frat boy at a strip club.

3. MILE 22 Director Peter Berg and actor Mark Wahlberg have made four movies together, but nobody will be equating them with Ford-Wayne, Kurosawa-Mifune or Scorsese-De Niro at any point in the near or far future. Easily the lamest of their collaborations, this badly edited action flick finds Wahlberg delivering a career-worst performance as a cranky, wise-cracking CIA operative whose groanworthy quips and tough-guy posturing prove to be even more deadly than the copious bullets he fires at anything that moves.

4. THE GRINCH Illumination Entertainment, which previously performed a hate crime on the Dr. Seuss canon with the odious 2012 adaptation of The Lorax, returns with another cacophonous rendition that completely misses the irresistible charm and sly simplicity of the source material.

The basic story remains the same; only we now find ourselves siding with the Grinch more than with the insufferable joy germs populating Whoville — surely not the angle anyone sought when making this garish cartoon.

5. ROBIN HOOD Fifty Shades Freed could have conceivably nabbed this slot — after all, its predecessors landed in the No. 1 and No. 3 spots on this list in their respective years — but since it’s a shade or two (though not 50) better than those previous efforts, I’ll give it a break and instead use this final space for this buffoonish boondoggle. A medieval makeover meant for millennials, Robin Hood suggests that Nottingham came equipped with its own Urban Outfitters and everyone spoke like bratty, entitled teenagers. !

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Rakhi Desai of Houston didn’t think much at first of the gift she brought home from a white elephant party in mid-December — a brown stuffed bear with a stitched-on Chuck Shepherd heart. As she looked it over later, Desai noticed the words “Neptune Society” stitched on its foot “and then I started to feel, and it’s almost like little pebbles or rocks” inside, she told KTRK-TV. That’s when it hit her: The bear was filled with someone’s cremated remains. The friend who brought the bear to the gift exchange got it at an estate sale, so Desai called the Neptune Society, hoping to reunite the bear with the family it belongs to, but the organization doesn’t track the bears.

However, there is a name on the bear’s tag, and Desai is hoping to find the owner through that. “(T)his bear is very special to somebody and belongs in somebody’s family,” she said.

WEIRD ROUNDUP

On Christmas Day, Deadspin.com shared a “verbatim” list from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of emergency room visits paid by Americans who inserted items into various body parts, and shouldn’t have. An edited sampling: Into the ear: “Popcorn kernels in both ears, ‘feeds her ears because her ears are hungry’”; “Was cleaning ear with Q-Tip, accidentally walked into a wall, pushed Q-Tip into ear”; “Placed crayon in ear on a dare.” Into the nose: “Sneezed and a com-

puter keyboard key came out right nostril, sneezed again and another one almost came out”; pool noodle; piece of steak; sex toy. Into the throat: mulch; “Swallowed a quarter while eating peanuts”; plastic toy banana. And finally, into the rectum: “Significant amount of string”; cellphone; Christmas ornament ball; “Jumped on bed, toothbrush was on bed and went up patient’s rectum.”

LIKELY STORY

Vanessa Elizabeth Helfant, 38, of Knoxville, Tennessee, floated a “dog bites man” defense at her DUI hearing on Dec. 13, arguing that several parked cars struck her on March 25, 2017. The jury, however, didn’t buy her story after hearing evidence: Witnesses at the scene followed Helfant to her destination, and when officers arrived and knocked on the door, Helfant called 911 to report people knocking on her door.

WATE reported that she eventually admitted that she had drunk half a pint of vodka and smoked marijuana. Helfant, who had no prior offenses, was convicted and faces at least 48 hours in jail and her license will be suspended for a year.

WHICH WITCH?

Tiffany Butch, 33, of Timmins, Ontario, Canada, may go down in history not for her psychic gifts, but for being the last person ever charged in Canada with “pretending to practice witchcraft.” On Dec. 11, Butch, whose nickname is the White Witch of the North, was charged under Section 365 of the Criminal Code for demanding money in return for lifting a curse. Two days later, that law was repealed. Marc Depatie, spokesperson for the Timmons police force, said Butch gave a customer “a

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But Butch denies the charge, saying other psychics framed her. “People proclaimed me a witch here and gave me a nickname, but I’m not a witch. I’m a psychic,” she told CBC News. Butch is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 22.

WEIRD SCIENCE

On Jan. 1, Camron Jean-Pierre, an 11-yearold Brooklyn, New York, boy, lost his life after apparently suffering an allergic reaction to the smell of the fish his family was cooking for dinner, reported the New York Daily News. His parents used an unspecified medical device to try to help him, but he lost consciousness and emergency services were called. Camron was taken to Brookdale Hospital, but he couldn’t be revived. Scientists have noted that people with food allergies can react strongly to odors from food, and inhaling these odors can cause extreme asthmatic reactions.

him with a banana after the clerk tried to intervene in a domestic situation. According to KCCI, Tapia caused about $1,000 in damage; he was charged with assault and third-degree criminal mischief.

BRIGHT IDEA

If super-sharp shears snipping near your ears isn’t enough of a rush, you might want to visit Madrid, Spain, and the salon of Alberto Olmedo, who uses ninja swords and blowtorches to cut hair. Claiming his approach is inspired by Renaissance tradition, Olmedo told Euronews that swords allow a hairdresser to cut hair from both sides of the head at once, resulting in a more even finish. He started perfecting the skill when he became “disillusioned with scissors.” Olmedo also offers a cut with claws worn on the ends of his fingers, and plans are in the works to bring lasers into his work.

ARMED AND CLUMSY

Asparagus is healthy and delicious. But for 63-year-old Jemima Packington of Bath, England, the columnar vegetable is much more: Packington is an asparamancer, a person who can foretell the future by tossing the spears into the air and seeing how they land. “When I cast the asparagus, it creates patterns and it is the patterns I interpret,” Packington said. “I am usually about 75 to 90 percent accurate.”

In fact, out of 13 predictions she made for 2018, 10 of them came true. What’s in store for 2019? Packington tells Metro News that England’s women’s soccer team will win the World Cup; “A Star Is Born” will win an Oscar; and fears over Brexit will be largely unfounded. Oh, and asparagus will see an all-time high in sales.

Despite a flood of warnings from law enforcement about the dangers of shooting celebratory gunfire into the air on New Year’s Eve, an unnamed Kansas City, Kansas, man just couldn’t resist. As he prepared to head outside at midnight with his .22-caliber handgun, he “sat the gun down in the couch (and) accidentally shot himself in the stomach,” tweeted Police Chief Terry Ziegler. The Kansas City Star reported Ziegler’s department conducted a “tweet-along” during the evening, with multiple reports of shots fired — so many that at 11:50 p.m., officers headed to a parking garage to take cover from the bullets that were expected to rain down at midnight. At 12:01 a.m., the department tweeted, “Gunfire EVERYWHERE.” Thankfully, no injuries were reported in the city as a result of the merrymaking.

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Alarmed neighbors in Perth, Australia, called police after hearing a child screaming and a man repeatedly shouting, “Why don’t you die?!” on Jan. 1, according to the Evening Standard. Multiple units of officers arrived at the property, only to learn that the unnamed man, an extreme arachnophobe, had been trying to kill a spider.

His wife confirmed to police that her child had been screaming, and her husband apologized to police for the confusion. The spider didn’t survive.

WEAPON OF CHOICE

Rogelio Tapia, 26, was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 31 after a dispute at a QuikTrip around 3 a.m. The store clerk and witnesses told police Tapia chased the clerk around the store and assaulted

You’ve seen photo books and calendars depicting swaddled infants surrounded with flowers. In Irmo, South Carolina, on Dec. 29, photographer Stephanie Smith re-created the look using her high school friend Nicole Ham, according to FOX13 News. Ham, who is “336 months old,” was swaddled in a pink blanket and wore a giant gold bow on her head as she lay within a circle of garland and flowers. A sign next to her read: “Loves — champagne. Hates — dating in 2018. Go Tigers!” “We couldn’t keep a straight face,” said Smith, adding that she and Ham are already brainstorming ideas for future funny photo shoots. !

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Trump administration raises concern in the Triad Montagnard community

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After reading that, I felt stabbed in the back,” said Liana Adrong, administrative coordinator of the Montagnard Dega Association of Greensboro, whom I Ian McDowell interviewed on Dec. 29. “My father did so much to help U.S. Contributor Special Forces back in the day, and the president is making it sound like this country doesn’t care about us anymore.”

She was referring to “Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees,” a Dec. 12 Atlantic article about the administration’s intention to unilaterally reinterpret a 2008 agreement protecting Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before 1995 from deportation.

Trump first tried to change this policy in 2017, when ICE began rounding up longterm immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This received bipartisan criticism and prompted the resignation of Ted Osius, the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, who called it a broken promise to those now facing imprisonment or worse in those countries. In November of 2018, the New York Times reported that the administration “has quietly backed away from” deporting these refugees, but this reversal was short-lived.

Three weeks later, The Atlantic quoted James Thrower, a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, as stating that, while pre-1995 Vietnamese immigrants are not subject to the 2008 agreement, it “does not explicitly preclude” their removal.

In their article, Charles Duntz and Krishnadev Calamur wrote that this “reflects an entirely new reading of the agreement,” and that the Trump administration now considers all pre-1995 Vietnamese immigrants as potentially deportable.

Adrong told me that these reports had caused great concern in the Triad’s Southeast Asian community, particularly among her fellow Montagnards. Montagnards are the indigenous people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

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People.” Initially habitants of the coastal lowlands, they were gradually pushed into the highlands by invading Vietnamese and Cambodians from the 9th century onward. In the 1960s, they became known for their fierce opposition to the North Vietnamese government in Hanoi, and their bravery fighting alongside U.S. special forces.

With the North’s 1975 victory over the corrupt U.S.-backed government in Saigon, Montagnards became increasingly subject to persecution, imprisonment, and death in the newly united Vietnam.

Many fled to Cambodia, only to face more persecution by that country’s ruling communist party, the Khmer Rouge.

In 1985, the first Montagnard refugees entered the U.S. In 1992, others were evacuated from Eastern Cambodia under threat of annihilation by the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese. With the assistance of Lutheran Family Services and Catholic Social Services, the majority of the approximately 3,000 Montagnard refugees who made it to the U.S. were resettled in Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte.

Adrong told me that, although she arrived here after 1995 and her family are all citizens, Trump’s plan affects her friends and neighbors. “Some have been here since 1986 but haven’t been naturalized due to the language barrier. They’re afraid that they won’t pass the tests.”

She became emotional as she described her family’s history. “My father served seven years in a Vietnamese jail, and my mom struggled so much to raise her kids and to keep our family together while my father was imprisoned for helping the U.S. Special Forces.”

Adrong’s father is deceased, but she said her organization is helping a Montagnard who also fought alongside U.S. Special Forces, and who has been prevented from being naturalized by the language barrier. “That’s why we’re offering to do one-on-one tutoring. We now have those resources we can offer to our community if they decide to go that route [to citizenship].”

Also present when I met Adrong were Sun Bujri, of the Southeast Asian Coalition (SEAC), and Vung Ksor, Refugee Health Coordinator for the Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC).

Bujri said that, in late November, the Viet Anti-Deportation Network, of which SEAC is part, heard rumors of a “secret” (her word) meeting among the Depart-

U.S. officer training Montagnard troops in 1964

Montagnards with U.S. special forces

U.S. Army Ranger with Montagnard troops

Montagnards with Green Berets in Vietnam

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ment of Homeland Security and Vietnamese officials to discuss ending restrictions on deporting pre-1995 refugees. According to The Atlantic article, an unnamed Justice Department spokesperson confirmed this occurred in early December, but declined to say what was discussed. A Dec. 8 bulletin from the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center stated it was about the 2008 repatriation agreement.

“We don’t know what the meeting entailed,” Bujri said, “but we know the administration wants to change that repatriation agreement, making everyone deportable, not just anyone who came after 1995.” She said her organization has worked to spread awareness and express the concerns of the Montagnard community and the larger Vietnamese-American one.

Ksor said that, in her work with the CNNC, she’s spoken to Montagnards who fought for the U.S. and who are greatly concerned about this administration’s intentions. “One has bullet fragments all through his body, basically from head to toe, and he nearly died just a couple of weeks ago because his liver and pancreas got some bacterial viruses from those old fragments still in his body.”

When the man first came to the U.S., she said, he expected to find support here, but this wasn’t the case. “He wants to get U.S. citizenship, but because of the language barriers, because he can’t drive, because he has no money, there are so many things that prevent that from happening. If he did something wrong – for example, stole food or did something just to survive, that could get him sent back.

It doesn’t make sense that he sacrificed so much for his friends and then for this country not to care about him because he did something wrong in the past.”

Bujri elaborated on the dangers facing her community.

“We still have a really terrible relationship with the Vietnamese government because of the American war in Vietnam, although I want to make it clear that is my own take. People don’t realize how much we sacrificed by aligning ourselves with the U.S. It’s so hard to imagine going back there and starting a life that you left when you were 6. You’re not a farm kid anymore. You don’t know what farming is like; you don’t know how to grow the seeds.”

She said the Triad’s Montagnard community doesn’t always comprehend the barriers to remaining in the country they or their parents fought for. “They don’t have an understanding of the law, don’t know what their rights are. So, some just agree to things or sign things that they don’t know will ever hurt them. You have this feeling of, ‘I’m in the U.S. now, I’m WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Former Green Beret George Clark is president of Save the Montagnard People. The emblem on Clark’s jacket is of the Mobile Strike Force Command good as any other citizen.’ You don’t realize that being a legal permanent resident is not the same as being a citizen. And that’s what we’re all learning and struggling with. Because citizenship is the only way we can protect ourselves. And that’s why we encourage that community and have our citizenship workshops. Because if your Green Card expires, and you get caught in this mess, if you’re caught for drug trafficking, or being in gangs, it just makes it 10 times worse.”

She called many of those now facing deportation “our uncles and husbands and fathers and grandfathers, the men who came in during the ‘80s and ‘90s.”

Bujri explained that many Southeast Asian refugees came to the U.S. during that time of mass incarceration due to the Clinton/Bush War on Drugs. “Refugees are placed in impoverished neighborhoods that are over-policed and lack support.”

Because of this environment, as well as the lack of both cultural competency and assistance in adapting to the U.S., she said some refugees ended up in prison, but served their time and moved on with their lives, “Now, their old convictions are haunting them and making them deportable.”

A week after I met with Adrong, Bujri and Ksor, I traveled to the rural outskirts of Asheboro to talk to U.S. Special Forces veterans who’d fought alongside men like Adrong’s father. Highlands Lane, a gated gravel road off Waynick Meadow Road, leads to the compound that the men who built it call the New Central High-

lands. One of those men is George Clark, president of Save the Montagnard People, a nonprofit charity founded by Vietnam veterans in 1986.

Clark, a Green Beret who served with the Mobile Strike Force Command (MIKE Force), explained the purpose of this small rural Montagnard community.

“The 101 acres have been 100 percent bought and paid for by special forces guys.” He pointed to a cedar building that he said a Montagnard couple plus another Montagnard man live in. “It’s split in half, so each one’s got their own apartments. There’s also the guest house donated by a special forces guy who left it in his will. We’ve got another whole Montagnard family that lives in it.” He also said there was a traditional Montagnard graveyard here, gardens, a foundry, and soon, a ceramics shop. “The goal here is to give them skills and teach them independence.”

I’d come here to get quotes from American veterans who fought alongside Montagnards in the Vietnam War, but the New Central Highlands deserve an article of their own, and I hope to write it between now and Memorial Day (YES! Weekly covered a Montagnard Christmas there back in 2005, but it’s grown since then).

Clark has strong opinions on the subject of deporting Montagnards back to Vietnam.

“I’ve butted heads with the Feds and the judicial system when they tried that crap.” He described one such occasion, involving what he called “a young kid with a brain disorder” whom he said missed taking his meds one day in Greensboro.

“He got off the bus one block off from where he lived in one of those apartments on Textile and Church that all look the same. Walks into the wrong house, peels down to his skivvies and turns on the T.V. Next thing, he’s in jail, and they’re going to deport him. The Feds had him in Atlanta and were going to ship him back.”

Clark said he asked them why they intended to send the young man back to Vietnam. “I told them he wasn’t born there.”

They asked him what he meant, as the detainee was a Vietnamese immigrant.

“I told them he was born on the floor of a jungle somewhere between Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Last time I checked, they don’t give out birth certificates in the damn jungle. I asked them what country they thought they were going to send him back to. It was a big fight, but we got that stopped.”

Clark saw much bigger fights in Vietnam

and almost died in one. A Montagnard he called Charlie saved him. Here’s the story as he told it.

“We were helping the SEALS out when they were getting hammered pretty bad down in the Mekong Delta. The Nha Trang MIKE Force, that emblem on my jacket, we hit everywhere. From ’69 on, we would send one of our Montagnard companies down there, to some hot spot where the NVA [North Vietnamese Army] was shooting up our boats.

“One hot night in the cypress swamp, we were slugging it out, and I got hit in the shoulder. Then an RPG peeled my scalp up. Thought I lost my eye, but it was just full of mud. Then I got hit again.

Three or four Montagnards jumped on top of me to keep me from getting shot more. I called the [helicopter] gunships in.

Almost everybody was dead. I told those who weren’t to get in the water, but they didn’t, they stayed on top of me while the gunships hosed the area “Charlie eventually pulls me into the river and some time goes by, and I think he’s dead and probably me, too. I always carried a grenade in my cargo pocket, figuring if I was going to be taken prisoner, I’d just pull the pin and boom! I go to do that, and a hand grabs that cargo pocket.

It was Charlie. He told me I wasn’t going to die yet.

“We hid in the sawgrass until the helicopters came and got us. But Charlie, he took those hits for me. He was a legend for doing that. He’d got his nose shot off saving one American before me. They put it back together, made it look nice, and then in ‘75 when everything was going to Hell, a fragment of a shell from a Sovietmade tank takes half his nose off again.

He was one of the 800 prisoners the Vietnamese let the Russians experiment on, one of the four out of that 800 that made it here. The rest died.”

Clark said the future looks grim for those Montagnards sent back there by this administration.

“They don’t have a chance unless the people in North Carolina get off their ass and start raising Hell. It has to start with public awareness of who these people are and what they did for us. Nobody’s talking about that. What’s that little newspaper you got up there in Greensboro, the Rhino? I talked to them 15 or 20 times, and they keep promising to write about it but haven’t. How hard is it to keep our word to the people who sacrificed so much for us?” !

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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Award-winning photographer aims to protect mountains, rivers North Carolina fine art photographer Carl Galie, who resides in WinstonSalem, is using his talent to help others fall in love with the mountains, rivers and beautiful places in nature Terry Rader that he hopes to see preserved. I attended one of Galie’s Contributor photography exhibits at the Elberson Fine Arts Center at Salem College in 2012 and found myself awestruck at the details and the light he had captured in his photographs. The large-scale pristine landscapes preserved on paper seemed surreal as if they were painted.

Galie isn’t focused on capturing beautiful nature scenes through the lens. He is also putting his work out there with powerful eye-opening environmental messages, especially with his mountaintop removal images. He said that from 1900 to 1957, 300 coalmines had dwindled to only two in his coalmine family hometown in Southwest Pennsylvania. When they shut down, and jobs began disappearing, Galie moved to Morganton, West Virginia. However, he started his exodus South when he left the mountains in West Virginia in 1986.

His move took him to Palm Beach, Florida to North Carolina to Louisiana and back to North Carolina in 1991 when he began his professional career as a nature stock photographer traveling back and forth from Pennsylvania to the tip of Florida. Galie said he had two goals at that time; to become a published photographer and to have his photography accepted as art. Today, he has accomplished both. Galie said the universe had lined things up for him to be in the right place at the right time.

In 1995, he received an Emerging Artists Award from the Winston-Salem Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council for funding his photographs of the Roanoke River for his first book, “Vision Quest, A Visual Journey Through North Carolina’s Lower Roanoke River Basin.” An exhibition of these prints was shown in 1999 at the Elberson Fine Arts Center at Salem College and donated to The Nature Conservancy in 2002 after being exhibited YES! WEEKLY

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Carl Galie at Sandstone Falls at colleges and private galleries across North Carolina and later used in several publications.

In 2007, Galie was awarded a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council for his second book project, “175 Paces,” printed in 2008. Galie said he took each photograph in a span of 175 paces throughout all four seasons in Bertie County, North Carolina. The location belonged to his late friend, Gail LeggetRoberson, author of The Wake Weekly’s “Nature in a Nutshell” column. Mirroring Henry David Thoreau, she built a small pre-fab cabin as a private escape for her writing. Galie said Roberson invited him to visit and introduced him to the landowners. Without her help, he would have never found the vistas for the photographs in his book, “Vision Quest.” Galie said the cabin expressed simplicity with beauty everywhere, and that this second book was more personal for him because it contained writings of being a young boy growing up on a pond in a coalmin-

ing town. Because of the direction in the economy in 2009, book sales were not as brisk, and he still has copies. However, he has come a long way.

“I’ve never had everything I wanted, but I’ve always had everything I needed,” Galie said.

Galie said his 20-year conservation career happened by accident with his first book and allowed him to meet and work with several conservation groups including Roanoke River Partners and the New River Conservancy, where he continues to volunteer. He was awarded the first Art For Conservation Grant in August 2010 for his project, “Lost on the Road to Oblivion, The Vanishing Beauty of Coal Country.” Galie collaborated with North Carolina poet laureate Joseph Bathanti, who submitted 13 poems for this project.

“I thought my work with mountaintop removal was over, but now, everything we worked for and all we thought we had achieved is backsliding,” Galie said. “It is still an issue.”

In 2011, he received a Blessings Program Foundation Grant along with the Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Award for journalism in 2014 for his work on mountaintop removal and the aftermath that follows. Galie’s story in pictures paints the tainted truth hidden in coalmining towns

much like the one he grew up in.

Aside from accepting invitations to exhibit, Galie doesn’t have any new projects in the works at this writing. Maybe it’s time for him to pull out those copies of his second book, “175 Paces” and share his powerful messages that might be more readily received today. They could become important documentation for future generations who might not get to see these pristine places in real life.

To view Galie’s work, visit his website, www.carlgaliephotography.net. His books are available at www.carlgaliephotography.com, www.facebook.com/carl.galie and www.instagram.com/carlgalie/. To see his photos of the Colorado River and mountaintop removal in Kentucky, visit the North American Nature Photography Association website, www.nanpa.org. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer/editorial/content/ copy, poet and songwriter, part-time co-op community outreach coordinator and wellness clerk at Deep Roots Market, certified herbalist and flower essences practitioner and pet/house sitter, formerly an ad agency creative director, copywriter, branding strategist and Earth Harmony columnist, a storyteller on a mission to raise awareness for creative people, grassroots, sustainability, holistic wellness and underground happenings in our community.

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Greensboro Pride, Guilford Green Foundation team up for Green Queen Bingo 2019 Guilford Green Foundation’s Green Queen Bingo is back and announced its 2019 dates. This year, GGF partnered with Greensboro Pride with a goal to bring Greensboro’s LGBTQ community and its Katie Murawski straight allies closer together. “[Green Queen Editor Bingo] has always been a great community event that brings together the LGBTQ community and our straight allies to raise money for Guilford Green Foundation, and just to have fun playing bingo with drag queens,” said Jennifer Ruppe, the executive director of the Guilford Green Foundation and LGBTQ Center. “In my opinion, that is the best way to play bingo.”

Ruppe said attendance for Green Queen Bingo is usually between 300-400 people.

She said she is excited that GGF and Greensboro Pride decided to partner for 2019 and onward because she believes that they would be more efficient in raising money and providing LGBTQ events to the Greensboro community. Ruppe said the funds raised would go mainly to support grants given out by the foundation, the LGBTQ center, and also support the Greensboro Pride festival.

“So 2019 kicks off a new partnership with us, and we see it as a win-win,” Ruppe said. “We get to bring together two major organizations in the community, and hopefully reach even more people and raise even more money to give back to the community.”

Ruppe said that Fuscia Rage (aka Brian Coleman, vice chair of Alternative Resources of the Triad and secretary of Greensboro Pride) would be the Green Queen host and that there would be 10 games of bingo with cash prizes for winners along with drag performances in between.

She said the evening would be broken up by an opening performance from drag queens, and performances after every two sets of bingo.

“I am very excited to be back again this year as the Green Queen,” Rage said. “I am just very excited that GGF and Greensboro Pride has this opportunity to be able to come together and involve more of the community.”

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2017 Royal Bingo Ruppe said since all the performers are volunteers, she could not advertise who would all be in attendance and performing, but there are usually five or six performers at each bingo event. Ruppe said tips are strongly encouraged because performers are donating their time and resources.

“All the queens that do the Green Queen Bingo are all on a voluntary basis, so this is all of our own time, talent and it all goes, of course, to a good cause,” Rage said. “Crystal Frost and I have attended and participated in every single bingo with the exception of about five in the very beginning. We are very much bingo veterans.

Crystal Frost is our Duchess of Protocol; she keeps us in line and makes sure we don’t get too rowdy.”

Ruppe said after each game there is a cash prize and it typically starts small and increases with each game. The largest prize is $100.69, and that all cash prizes are a dollar amount plus 69 cents because “it is just a funny number in bingo.”

“We have special balls that cause reactions, such as B7 or B4, where [attendees] will bang on the table and act like a little kid,” Rage said. “Of course, everyone’s favorite bingo ball is 69, and we all know the reaction that should get.”

Rage said the attendees of Green Queen Bingo are some of the best attendees that she has performed for. Rage said her favorite part of hosting Green Queen Bingo is interacting with attendees, changing

people’s perspective and helping teach tolerance.

“A lot of our bingoers, they don’t have the opportunity to get out to a regular [drag] show, typically at a bar or nightclub somewhere. And what we have used bingo as is a form of teaching tolerance and understanding,” Rage said. “There is a misconception that all drag queens want to be girls, and that is not necessarily true.

It is an art form; it is a character that you portray. Especially now, we are blurring those lines of social norms, and what is acceptable and what isn’t acceptable. I think this is just another way to instill in our local society a bit more tolerance and understanding, and just to have good fun.”

Ruppe and Rage said ticket sales and sponsorships are how the event raises money, and that local business or organizations can sponsor each game of bingo.

“It is expensive to look this cheap, as Dolly Parton said,” Rage remarked. “Support your local LGBTQ organizations, businesses, and allies that are so wonderful to us and continue to provide us with places to do this. Come and have a good time, this is a place to let your hair down.”

The dates for future Green Queen Bingo are April 26, (which Rage said would be a “seeing double,” celebrity theme) Sept.

13 (which would be right before Greensboro Pride, and have a summer theme) and Nov. 8, (which Rage said will have a “holiday-mash up” theme).

“Please participate,” Rage said of the upcoming bingo on Jan. 11 and future bingo dates. “Wear your rainbow attire, your colors to represent your ally status or rainbow to show your LGBTQ pride.

Dress like your favorite celebrity in April, wear your beachwear in September and then holiday festivities, ugly sweaters, Halloween costumes [in Novemeber]. We always encourage people to participate in whatever the theme is, it just makes it more fun.”

To become a sponsor of a future bingo game, email Ruppe at jennifer.ruppe@ ggfnc.org or call (336) 790-8419. !

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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Green Queen Bingo is open to all and takes place Friday, Jan. 11 from 6 to 11 p.m. at The Terrace at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, 1921 W. Gate City Blvd. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the game starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission or $12 for students or government with I.D., and can be purchased online at www. guilfordgreenfoundation.org/bingo-tickets/. This is an all-ages event, but the recommended age of attendees is 15 and up. The next fundraiser benefitting GGF is the GRAWL Brawl X: Cupid’s Revenge on Feb. 16 at Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company (504 State St.) from 7 to 10 p.m.

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Absolutely free: Composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Thomas Jackson keeps improvising

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here are avantgardists amongst us: the neighbor walking the dog, the nurse at the hospital, the person answering the phone, serving ice cream, John Adamian operating the leaf@johnradamian blower. Experimentalists, non-pop artists, lifetime creative Contributor tinkerers — they have to make a living, and most of the time they’re not paying their bills with money made by making art. You could interact with them every day, never knowing they have a secret alternate life making sound, or dance, or writing, or visual art.

Michael Thomas Jackson, a composer and improvisational multi-instrumentalist, lives a few blocks from me in WinstonSalem. By day you might find him behind the counter at the downtown coffee shop/deli Washington Perk. But in the evenings, and on the weekends, you can often find Jackson working with a rotating squad of like-minded improvisers in a duo, trio, quartet, quintet and larger configurations around the Triad and in a radius that extends a few hours outside the immediate area.

Jackson came to my house for an outdoor conversation on Sunday, with the sun out and bright after days of gray and rain. Later in the afternoon, Jackson played clarinet as a part of a five-piece ensemble of improvisers including gongs, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, cymbals, chimes and other metallic percussion at Ear Shot Records in Winston-Salem. Jackson will perform improvised electronic music on Thursday night with a Fi-Aged #9, a duo with Craig Murray, at Monstercade in Winston-Salem. (“It’s sort of the free-jazz aesthetic done with electrics,” said Jackson of the duo.)

I’ve known Jackson since the early ‘90s.

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and unsurprised that he was still making music, fully committed to free improvisation as something that was almost like both an artistic pursuit and a spiritual practice.

The music is wide open, with no rules of harmony, no metric constraints, nothing off limits, really, but there are some (semi-elusive) things that it helps to have a handle on as a performer and collaborator, “Knowing when to play, and knowing when to stop,” Jackson said.

It makes perfect sense, and it might be a cliche about improvisation, but it’s also something of a conundrum: you have to listen closely in order to be able to make up music on the spot in a group setting.

Particularly if you want to avoid clutter and clatter and full-on chaos.

“If the idea is reckless abandon, it’s usually a bad idea,” Jackson said.

So how do you listen attentively and create at the same time? It helps to be open to the full spectrum of textures and timbres as sources of contrast and as pertinent details in themselves. And one starts to suspect that a kind of ingrained call-and-response aesthetic operates, not in the strict rhythmic fashion of the call-and-response practices associated with African-derived music, or with the statement-and-answer logic of classical music, but just a base-level conversational approach, where one waits for an opening in the discussion before chiming in. If everyone is trying to “talk,” or make sound at the same time, it can feel overstuffed.

Restraint conveys good sense.

During Sunday’s show at Ear Shot, you could watch Jackson taking in what the other musicians were doing, laying out for a while, adjusting his playing, adopting a clipped staccato tone to propel a rhythmic section along, or feathering in subtle snippets as an atmospheric wash, turning out melodic wiggles and sustained notes, ranging from short barks to a lively warm counterpoint.

Jackson grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, a city with a rich and deep musical history. “A lot of Memphis music I discovered after I left,” he said. “I didn’t really learn to appreciate Big Star until I was an adult. But the blues stuff — it is omnipresent. You can ignore it, but it’s there.”

Memphis is, of course, famous for its place in the history of rock ’n’ roll, the blues, and even in the world of power-

pop. Jackson found his way into the fertile underground music scene through a combination of factors.

“I blame punk and my dad, who had an excellent record collection, for showing me how to take what people generally consider not-serious music seriously,” Jackson said.

As a teenager Jackson booked all-ages shows and got plugged into a dynamic DIY punk culture that was built on the urgency of making music and of obliterating the dividing line between performer and audience, scrapping the notion of music as a commodity or a pursuit reserved for experts.

“You can pretty much do anything, as long as you don’t plan on making money,” Jackson said.

Digging into the public library’s holdings of experimental music introduced Jackson to currents of 20th Century modernism and the avant-garde. Many of those strands converged in the ecstatic energy of free jazz, which gave Jackson a reason to continue exploring the clarinet that

he’d played in his junior high school band.

“That was the more appealing stuff, the outer stuff,” Jackson said.

He’s been making music now for well over 30 years, and Jackson remains interested in the possibilities of sound, of vibrations and of spontaneously creating music in front of a live audience. Some might find the experience of listening to freely improvised music to be a challenge, since many of the standard signposts for an audience are gone, without familiar chord changes, regular pulsation, or easily recognizable pattern; one can feel unmoored. It’s a little like looking at a Mark Rothko painting if you’re only used to Velasquez.

You can listen to some of the different projects that Jackson has been involved with over the years; it can be hypnotic and meditative or frenetic and spastic.

Live recordings of Fi-Aged #9 (streaming on Bandcamp) attain a fried-circuitry quality, with an analog sizzle, sonic flare-ups, robotic oscillations and tones that sound like they’re being pulled and stretched to their limit. In genre terms, it’s closer to noise than to ambient, but the music could be viewed as being a sinister cousin of new age.

If you go to the show, know that, even if things get a tad shrill or jarring, Jackson and Murray don’t necessarily view the sounds in those terms, and they’re not out to be abrasive. As a thought experiment, don’t focus on what the music sounds like but consider how the vibrating sound waves feel as they pump out of the speakers and through the space around you. That might seem off-puttingly far out, but pretend the sound is something you’re soaking in. To get used to it and decide what it does for you, it takes more than just cautiously dipping your toe in.

“I’m not out to antagonize people,” Jackson said. “I’m not by any means trying to further marginalize myself.” !

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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Soul Relief in rotation A little record store in Greensboro is putting the needle to the groove in more ways than one, hosting shows and squeezing as much soul as possible into the teeny space on Chapman Street.

Katei Cranford Owned and operated by Harley Lyles, Contributing the titular “Soul Relief” stems from his columnist short-lived show on WUAG in the early ’00s. ”It was a way for me to get out of the house and play records I otherwise would be playing alone at home,” Lyles said of the mission he’s carried from his basement to his storefront.

“I specialize in a little bit of everything, whether it’s old rockabilly 45s, Billy Joel albums or rare jazz.” It’s the treasure of the hunt Lyles lives for. And he’s done enough living in that regard to literally stock a store “My real obsession started with hunting down records to sample and make beats with,” Lyles explained. “Then the accumulation led to too many records, and I had to start selling things off.”

The result is a groovy snapshot where folks can both shop from, and contribute to, a collection in action. It’s a labor of love which helps Lyles be open to more than just slinging records.

In its short run, Soul Relief shows have hosted hometown punks, jazz heads, classic Triad nu goths, weirdo alternafreaks, and few heavy-hitter touring bands.

“The live shows just fell into my lap, and I obliged,” Lyles said. “Bands have come in expecting a big PA and all that, which we don’t have,” he added with a laugh. But barebones spaces can hold promise, and Soul Relief goes to show how much fun laissez-faire can be.

“We didn’t even know a record store was hiding back there until we were asked to play,” said Totally Slow who opened for Australian punkers, Orion, in October.

“Nathaniel really knocked it outta the park with that one,” Lyles said of the Fantasy punk who booked the show.

“They were young, energetic, and really into records,” Lyles added. “Their driver was really into vintage 45s. We had a blast.”

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“So much of why I got into it is based on always having new records to listen and share,” Lyles added, regarding what he calls “the endless quest” in record collecting.

“I eased into selling records, and although it was painful to sell off records I really loved, I chose to make it my livelihood,” he noted. “But I’ve met so many more local and foreign collectors that turned me onto new stuff over this past year. The payoff is immeasurable.”

With a few coast-to-coast surprises in the works, Soul Relief is, according to Lyles, “just getting started.” !

Harley Lyles at Soul Relief the stereo, as was the case with the Soul Relief’s first in-store performance of 2019 with Eugene Chadbourne. “He’s the kind of artist I champion,” Lyles said, “those who make their own way, creating their own sound.”

“Chadbourne sold me part of his blues collection, and part of the deal was him performing,” Lyles added. “I was flattered.”

Good nature tends to breed a good environment.

“Harley is really welcoming,” said Harrison Ford Mustang, who recently played the shop with Swartzwelder and Pennsylvania punkers, Church Girls.

Swartzwelder agreed. “It has a cool, relaxed, local vibe that everyone seemed to enjoy, and Harley was super-nice and passionate about the music scene.”

That passion made an impression on Church Girls during their national tour stop. The group spoke to Swartzwelder about the rarity of smaller, more intimate spaces these days. ”It’s cool that we have a spot like this in Greensboro,” they said.

Soul Relief is a business, sure, but one which seems focused on more than just the almighty dollar.

“It’s good to see the tradition of a weird, little record store flourishing,” said Ammoron from Winston’s J.D. Power and the Associates (who played the store’s opening day). “And Harley does a great job at curating. I didn’t even know Richard Petty made a record!”

Lyles is indeed a jukebox of both choice records and knowledge—not just of the musical variety. The small shop is adorned with posters from bygone

Greensboro and Lyles at the ready, dropping bombs of trivia and conversation.

“I just try to provide an educational experience,” he said. “I hope when you share what you love, it gives shoppers a good time.”

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 N.C. the following week, 5-7p.m. on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Jan 11: High Cotton Jan 12: Earliene Jan 18: Bear Stevens Jan 19: Andrew Rohlk Jan 25: William Nesmith Jan 26: JB Boxter Feb 1: Wolfie Calhoun Feb 2: 80s Unplugged Feb 6: Contentment Is Wealth Feb 8: Couldn’t Be Happiers

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC FEBRUARY 5 REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO WIDEN RANDLEMAN ROAD (S.R. 1007) FROM GLENDALE DRIVE TO WEST ELMSLEY DRIVE IN GUILFORD COUNTY STIP Project No. U-5850 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to widen Randleman Road (S.R. 1007) between Glendale Drive and West Elmsley Drive in Guilford County.

A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at New Goshen United Methodist Church located at 3300 Randleman Road in Greensboro.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by Feb. 19, 2019.

For additional information, please contact Brian Ketner, NCDOT Division 7 Project Engineer at P.O. Box 14996, Greensboro, NC 27415-4996, (336) 487-0075 or, bkketner@ncdot.gov.

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, at (919) 707-6069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF N.C. 73 MECKLENBURG AND CABARRUS COUNTIES STIP PROJECT NOS. R-2632AB & R-5706 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold two public meetings regarding the proposed projects to widen N.C. 73 from N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) to U.S. 29 (Concord Parkway North) in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties. Intersection improvements are also proposed along the corridor. The purpose of STIP Project No. R-2632AB is to reduce congestion on N.C. 73 (Sam Furr Road) between N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) and Davidson-Concord Road (S.R. 2693) and provide bicycle and pedestrian accommodations.

The purpose of STIP Project No. R-5706 is to increase mobility between Davidson-Concord Road (S.R. 2693) and I-85 and between U.S. 29 (Concord Parkway North) and I-85, reduce congestion at the intersections, improve traffic operations along N.C. 73 (Davidson Highway), and provide pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.

The same concept maps and project information will be presented at both meetings. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. The open house public meetings will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. (drop-in) on: Monday, January 28 Lake Norman Church of Christ 17634 Caldwell Station Road, Huntersville

Tuesday, January 29 Connect Christian Church 3101 Davidson Highway, Concord

NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by February 12, 2019. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at www.ncdot.gov/projects/nc-73-mecklenburg-cabarrus.

For additional information, contact Theresa Ellerby, C.P.M., NCDOT Project Manager, at (919) 707-6020 or tellerby@ncdot.gov.

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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.

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Enjoy the arts this weekend with someone special.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Let your head dominate your heart as you consider the risks that might be involved in agreeing to be a friend’s co-signer or otherwise act as his or her backup in a financial matter.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) You could risk creating an impasse if you insist on expecting more from others than they’re prepared to give. Showing flexibility in what you’ll accept could prevent a stalemate.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Prioritize: Resolve to close the door and let your voicemail take your phone calls while you finish up a task before the endof-week deadline. Then go out and enjoy a fun-filled weekend.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Although you can weigh all factors of a dispute to find an agreeable solution for others, you might need the skilled input of someone you trust to help you deal with an ongoing situation of your own.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Although you’re getting kudos and other positive reactions to your suggestions, don’t let the cheers drown out some valid criticisms.

Better to deal with them now than later.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November

21) The good news is that your brief period of self-doubt turns into a positive “I can do anything” attitude. The better news is that you’ll soon be able to prove it.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to

December 21) This is a good time for Sagittarians to start making travel plans while you still can select from a wide menu of choices and deals, and not be forced to settle for leftovers.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to Janu-

ary 19) Like your zodiacal sign, the surefooted Goat, you won’t allow obstacles in your path to keep you from reaching your goal. Don’t be surprised by who asks to go along with you.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Following your keen Bovine intuition pays off, as you not only reassess the suggestions some people are putting in front of you, but also their agendas for doing so.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You continue on a high-enthusiasm cycle as that new project you’ve assumed takes shape. You’re also buoyed by the anticipation of receiving some good news about a personal matter.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your eagerness to immerse yourself in your new assignment is understandable. But be careful that you don’t forget to take care of that pressing personal situation as well. © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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* In this time of bitter partisan rivalries, it would be well to remember the following sage observation: “Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would cheer just as much if you and I were going to be hanged.” The man who first made that observation was Lord Protector of England Oliver Cromwell, considered by some to be a hero of liberty, by others to be a regicidal dictator. He died in 1658, probably from septicemia. He was so reviled that, three years later, his body was exhumed so that he could be posthumously executed, his body thrown into a pit and his head displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall. * The acids in your digestive system are so corrosive that your stomach must produce an entirely new lining every three days. * You might be surprised to learn that the mother of Sir Winston Churchill, that

quintessential icon of Britishness, was actually born an American in Brooklyn, New York. Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, nee Jeanette Jerome, was a socialite, and it is through her that Winston Churchill is related to his wartime ally, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The prime minister and the president were seventh cousins, once removed. * If you’re planning to travel to Washington state with nefarious plans, here’s an interesting law to keep in mind: Any motorist with criminal intent is required to stop before entering a town and inform the chief of police of his or her presence.

Thought for the Day: “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” — Tom Clancy © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I went out with a feminist who was all into women’s empowerment, but when the bill came, she made no effort to chip in. Please explain this type of feminism. Is it somehow possible that she didn’t notice the check? — Incredulous

Amy Alkon

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It is possible that she didn’t notice the check. It’s also possible that she likes to take time off from complaining about paternalistic behaviors to sample the ones that work best for her.

While this appears to be a glaring example of self-serving selective feminism, research suggests there’s sometimes a more charitable explanation for absurdly contradictory beliefs and behavior. Though most people believe that there’s a single consistent you (or me) with stable beliefs and preferences, this actually seems to be an illusion. In fact, if there’s one thing that’s consistent about humans, it’s how inconsistent we all tend to be (and — it gets better — how consistent we are in vigorously denying that).

Cognitive scientist Colin Martindale theorized back in 1980 that we have a number of “subselves” — sub-personalities with varying beliefs and priorities — that go active or sink into the background depending on the context at hand. In other words, whichever goal is front and

center in your mind — like “Fight patriarchal oppression!” or “Take this totally adorbs patriarchal oppressor home to bed!” — drives how you think and behave.

Research by neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests Martindale was right.

Gazzaniga’s findings also led him to the conclusion that our mind has a janitor of sorts — a psychological one he calls “The Interpreter” — that tidies up in the wake of our inconsistencies by creating justifications for them. These, in turn, allow us to view ourselves as consistent and rational — instead of laughably hypocritical, like a feminist who, when the check comes, stares skyward, all “Wow! That is one of the most well-preserved examples of the early-’90s popcorn ceiling!”

However, again, more charitably, everybody these days is confused about who’s supposed to pay on dates (and when and what it all means). For example, a woman will chip in on the first date because she earns a living, too! — or because the prospect of sex with the dude is akin to “Would madam enjoy her Caesar salad with a light dusting of E. coli?”

To suss out where this woman is coming from, you need more information, and to get that, you’ll need further interaction — on the phone or, even better, in person.

(Action reveals character.) Sure, she could be a hypocrite riding the patriarchal free dinner train — or maybe she finds it icky to split the check and figured she’d get the next one. It’s also possible she’ll reciprocate with a home-cooked meal — because you picked a place where the water alone costs $11 and she’s busy completing a dog walking internship while moonlighting as a freelance field hand.

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KEEPING IT RIO

This girl I’ve been dating for two months is soon going to Brazil for three months! We aren’t officially committed, so it seems unfair to ask her to be monogamous. We plan to stay in touch, but I don’t want to hear about her with other dudes, and selfishly, I don’t want to stay home, all celibate like some war bride. — Realistic Or Cracked?

It’s very considerate of you to suggest three months sexually off leash, as she is traveling to the ancestral homeland of male supermodels, where a chunk of the GNP is dependent on Carnival — a weeklong drinking, samba, and sex fest.

The problem is jealousy, one of our guard dog emotions. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that jealousy rises up automatically to help us fend off “potential mate poachers” and prevent a mate from “defecting.”

Because it’s set on “auto,” it can be hard to override.

That said, though you don’t have a committed relationship with this woman — let alone an “open” one — you might be able to make use of a psycho-

logical tactic of people in sexually open relationships. It’s called “compersion” — taking pleasure in your partner’s getting pleasure, even if it’s from some other, uh, provider. Granted, this is probably about as realistic for most people as their Ubering to a party via unicorn. However, it dovetails nicely with my fave quote about love, from sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein: “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Float the idea of planned cooperative ignorance, and ask her to think on it for a few days. (People often have more reasoned responses to hot-button issues when they aren’t expected to reply pronto.) Also, it doesn’t hurt that she’s the one wintering where stone-sober women are tempted to stop men on the street with “Excuse me, but would you mind if I licked black beans off your ridiculously chiseled abs?” !

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