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16 THE SCIENCE OF BREWING Science may be the last thing on your mind when sitting down to enjoy a craft beer, but it’s always on the minds of the brewers who make it. Whether you prefer pilsners, stouts, or IPAs, there’s some crazy science happening from the moment the grain is harvested to when the final product comes out of the tap. To learn more about the brewing process, several brewers in the Triad offered to share their expertise and knowledge.

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I’ve heard about the RED CRAB since it opened. On the North Carolina scene since March, the restaurant is quickly becoming a Triad favorite. It’s part of a chain of seafood joints called J&C Crab, which operates restaurants in Florida, North and South Carolina, and Massachusetts. The Greensboro location is in the old Ham’s building at 3017 W. Gate City Blvd. and the Winston-Salem location is in the former Hooter’s at 120 Hanes Square Cir. in Winston-Salem.

10 Winner of eight Tony Awards, the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance musical production of HAIRSPRAY has extended its run in the Triad through July 28 at 1047 W. Northwest Blvd. Hairspray is based on the New Line Cinema film, written and directed

by John Waters...

11 Fresh from its special, one-night-only screening of the independent comedy/ drama One Summer Night with actor Ian Nelson, Winston-Salem’s premier art-house theater A/perture Cinema will welcome the “HYPE Tour” on Sunday, July 28.

12 Following his startling big-screen bow last year with Hereditary, filmmaker Ari Aster returns to the horror genre with YES! WEEKLY

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MIDSOMMAR, which details a fateful trip to Sweden by a group of American tourists.

18 My Republican Father went to his grave in 2010, still BLAMING ME for the outcome of the 1992 election. “It’s your fault that Bill Clinton got elected,” he would say. Dad was referring to my support for Ross Perot, a self-made Texas billionaire who ran as an independent candidate for President against Clinton, the Democrat, and George H. W. Bush, the Republican incumbent.

20 GUNNAR NAGLE doesn’t make music that is overtly nostalgic or about the past. If anything, the sound is futuristic. His soulful and adventurous indie pop is very much the product of the digital era, sounding like music crafted by someone who’s spent a lot of time hunching over a laptop looking at the spikes and dips of digital audio files on a screen.

Nagle releases his debut full-length album Big Dreams, Sweet Maybes this week.

21 A one-man band aided by old electronics, TIDE EYES is a project from Pat Brown, formerly of Casual Curious, which weaves vintage synthesizers and electronics into a dreamy, dancy dive into “bedroom pop.”

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WHAT: Join us at Wrenn Miller Park this summer for Zumba by Ragsdale Ymca, vendors and movies! Our beer vendor is Four Saints Brewing Company, the food trucks are Big Mouff and Gassans and our dessert vendors are Cakes by B’s, Blue House Bakery and Kona Ice of Greensboro. This month’s movie will be E.T. WHEN: 6-10 p.m.

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Serious beer connoisseurs can enjoy the first samples of the frosty brews during the VIP Brewmaster Tasting. All those who are less interested measured analytical sips and would rather jump right into experience as many of the five hundred beers as responsibly possible, may crash the gates after VIP. WHEN: 3-6 pm for general admission.

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[SPOTLIGHT] SWIPEBY

BY MARISA SLOAN SWIPEBY, a new app available on Android and iOS, is making it easier than ever to support local businesses in WinstonSalem. Through the app, users can skip the unpredictability that comes with food delivery and instead enjoy curbside service at their favorite local restaurants.

Delivery fees. Long wait times. Cold food. SWIPEBY kicks all that to the curb by turning any restaurant into a virtual drive-thru. Whether it’s a craving for pizza or tacos, customers can easily place an order via the app before hopping in the car. And don’t worry about changing out of pajamas — the restaurant can track your location so that staff will be waiting curbside with hot and ready food: no unnecessary waiting, and no need to get out of the car.

SWIPEBY launched earlier this year with approximately 40 restaurants in WinstonSalem. More restaurants join every week, and founder Carl Turner has his eyes set on eventually expanding nationwide.

Turner, a graduate of Wake Forest University, founded SWIPEBY as the evolution of a previous app of his design called Neighborz. Marketed as “Tinder for food,” Neighborz aimed to simplify the task of choosing a place to eat by allowing users to explore the meals around them visually.

SWIPEBY embraces the user accessibility of the Neighborz app while also providing the convenience of a drive-thru. Turner said that in theory, the experience is faster even than McDonald’s due to the absence of waiting in line to pay at the window.

“The best thing is it doesn’t cost you anything as a user,” Turner said. “There are no fees, the app is for free, and the food prices are the same as if you were dining in the restaurant.”

Turner said that SWIPEBY is also significantly cheaper for the restaurants than any other food delivery app out there.

While the app does charge a percentage cut to the restaurant, it is generally half the cost that a restaurant pays for services such as Uber Eats, Grubhub, or DoorDash.

Convenience for both the restaurant and customer remains at the forefront of Turner’s mission.

“Your Outback, your Applebee’s, your Carrabba’s, your Chick-fil-A, your McDonald’s, they have their own technology teams, right?” Turner said. “They invest millions, and they have curbside service, all of them. But what we really see is that these local restaurants cannot afford it.”

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smaller, local restaurants because they lack the technology and infrastructure required. Through the SWIPEBY app, he hopes to correct this imbalance while also giving restaurants the power to continue managing the customer’s experience.

SWIPEBY comes out of Winston-Starts, an incubator in Winston-Salem. With the help of local angel investors, Turner’s startup company grew rapidly, even winning the North Carolina Idea Seed Grant — one of the most competitive startup grants in the Southeast.

“We are a local Winston-Salem company, we are getting our support from local, and I think our app is something that can support local,” Turner said.

Participating SWIPEBY restaurants include: Asian BBQ & Grill, Bib’s, Small Batch, Charm Thai, Chiang Mai Thai, Cloverdale Kitchen, Coppola’s, Don Tequila, Downtown Deli, Downtown Thai, Firehouse Subs, Grille Ville, Golden Corral, Honky Tonk Smokehouse, ISE Japanese, J and J Food Mart, Jeffrey Adams, Jimmy the Greek, King’s Crab Shack, Kotta Japanese, La Perlita, Lighthouse, Local 27101, Los Toritos, Mac & Nellis, Mayberry, Mi Pueblo, Midtown Cafe, Murphy’s, Mystic Ginger, O’Brien’s Deli, OSO Eats, Penny Path Café & Crêpe Shop, Pho & Sushi, Quiet Pint, Senior Bravo, Southern Family Restaurant, Taqueria Guadalajara, Thai Harmony, The Loop, The Olive Tree, Time Square Pizza, Tre Nonne, Village Juice Company, Washington Perk, and Willow’s. !

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Red Crab brings laid-back vibe to Triad seafood scene

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ating at the Red Crab isn’t just about enjoying a good meal. It’s about having an experience.

I’ve heard about the Red Crab since it opened. On the North Carolina scene since March, the restaurant is quickly becoming a Triad favorite.

It’s part of a chain of seafood joints Davina Van Buren called J&C Crab, which operates restaurants in Florida, North and @highpointfoodie South Carolina, and Massachusetts.

The Greensboro location is in the Contributor old Ham’s building at 3017 W. Gate City Blvd. and the Winston-Salem location is in the former Hooter’s at 120 Hanes Square Cir. Most nights there’s a wait—to avoid the crowds, arrive before the dinner rush or take my lead and opt to visit for an early Sunday brunch. The friendly staff greets customers as they arrive, ushering them to tables in the spacious, natural-light-filled dining room, or roomy booths that line its perimeter. There’s also a lively bar area with seats surrounding the bar on all sides and several tables on a slightly elevated platform.

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One of the first things you notice at Red Crab is the graffiti-covered walls and columns. With remnants of past guests offering advice on what to order, words of wisdom, or simply declaring love for a sweetheart. (You can ask for a Sharpie and leave your own mark as well.)

The beach vibe is immediately apparent, and appropriate for a seafood place.

First things first: the cocktails—which have fun nautical-themed names such as “Castaway,” “Off the Deep End,” “Shark Bite,” “Ginger,” and “Gilligan”—are on point.

I ordered the “Love Boat,” a brilliant concoction of gin, sparkling wine, fresh-squeezed lemon, and simple syrup.

My dining companion had the “Crabby Patty,” Red Crab’s signature version of the Bahama Mama. Both were delicious. It was definitely the best drink I’ve had at a chain restaurant in...Well, probably ever! The bar also serves a wide variety of beer and wine.

You’ll find the usual suspects on the appetizer menu— oysters (raw or steamed), hushpuppies, cheese sticks, calamari, onion rings, and wings—which are available breaded or unbreaded. Wing fans can choose from a variety of sauces including barbecue, Buffalo, Cajun, lemon pepper, and sweet Thai chili. You’ll also find several fried seafood baskets (shrimp, tilapia, catfish, oysters, chicken tenders), which are served with either French fries, sweet

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Fried oyster basket with sweet potato frieds potato fries, or onion rings.

The house specialty is Cajun-style seafood boils, which is what the Red Crab is known for. You can choose from daily specials ($25.99–29.99), which include various combinations of shellfish on different days, or a create-your-own platter based on market prices. Here’s how it works: once you’ve chosen your seafood, pick a sauce (Cajun, garlic butter, lemon pepper or “juicy,” a combination of all three) and a spice level (mild, medium, hot, or extra hot). You can also add rice, boiled eggs, or sausage.

I came to throw down, so I went for the Sunday special, which includes a halfpound of headless shrimp, a half-pound of snow crab legs, and a lobster tail. Since it was my first visit, I went for the medium heat, which I later thought was very tame, and the “juicy” sauce. My friend ordered a combination of black and green mussels and clams so that we could sample most of the shellfish offerings.

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the Red Crab is a primal experience, so come prepared to eat with your hands and really get in there. Open the bag, pop on the plastic bib and gloves, and go for it! The bucket is for your shells, napkins (you’ll need plenty), and gloves, which are neatly and easily whisked away when you finish eating.

Looking around the restaurant, I saw a good mix of young people, families, and groups of friends. “Customers love our food and vibe,” the manager told me.

“Many of our guests—who come from all over the Triad and Virginia—feel Red Crab is unique because of how good and fresh our seafood is.”

Should you have room for dessert, you have two quality options: cheesecake or chocolate lava cake. We ordered one of each, and while I am typically not a chocolate lover, the lava cake was outstanding.

I’d read mixed reviews about the service since it is still new, but our server was excellent. Shout out to Braylin, a polite young man who just completed Army basic training. He’s home on leave before starting his advanced individual training as a combat medic. Thank you, Braylin!

All in all, the Red Crab is a fun place to enjoy a laid-back meal with loved ones.

It’s definitely doing its own thing, and I’m already dreaming about my next visit. !

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Big fun from with Hairspray, Shine! Summer Camps

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inner of eight Tony Awards, the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance musical production of Hairspray has extended its run in the Triad through July 28 at Terry Rader 1047 W. Northwest Blvd. Hairspray is based on the New Contributor Line Cinema film, written and directed

by John Waters, the book written by Thomas Meehan and Mark O’Donnell, and original music

by Marc Shaiman with lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Hairspray is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International, which also supplies all authorized performance materials.

According to the press release, Hairspray is a family-friendly musical “piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs” that takes place in Baltimore, circa 1962. Hairspray tells the story of how plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad’s dream comes true when she gets to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” Once this “lovable teen is transformed from social outcast to sudden star,” she must dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of her crush Link Larkin, and integrate a T.V. network, “all without denting her ‘do!”

(Speaking of hairdos, local Triad hairstylist Mary Lea Williams designed and styled all of the wigs for the show.)

Jamie H. Lawson, the artistic director of Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance, took over the position in 2001 and has been with the group for the longest duration of its existence. He said that they have a tight group of 200 people. Some are regulars, and some are new to the performing arts scene. Lawson said everyone is basically a volunteer and that he and some designers receive small stipends for their efforts, as well as occasional additional music or scenic directors.

Theatre Alliance performs shows once a month each year, in addition to other special projects along the way, such as the Shine! Theatre Camp. Lawson said it is a labor of love, and being the only director makes it easier to organize it all.

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Hairspray Actors Tracey (Jessie Stewart) and Edna Turnblad (Gray Smith) (now known as High Point University) serves him well in working with different people day and night. His day job is more formal and his nights and weekends at the theatre are anything but formal.

“Hairspray has been such a fun experience with a great message,” Lawson said. “Doing theatre as much as I do, I see shows that either leave you with a message or are entertaining without as much substance, but this show has both.”

Lawson said the community theatre is all about diversity on the stage and in the audience. He said he hopes that the fun the cast has spills over to the audience.

“You’ll have fun if you come see it, I promise you,” Lawson added.

Sponsors for Hairspray include Mike

Lewis and Associates, Attorneys at Law; Lida Calvert Hayes and David Hayes and YES! Weekly.

“We’ve been very lucky to have a lot of support from our private donors, as that keeps us going as a nonprofit,” Lawson said. “Without them, we wouldn’t exist.”

SixPix reservations are available for season members who can save on transaction and credit card fees and get six tickets to any show in the 2019-2020 “Feels Like Home!” season. These tickets can be used anyway, and those interested can purchase a SixPix online, over the phone or through Paypal.

Shine! is a theatre camp hosted in partnership with Theatre Alliance and led by volunteers, Jaye Pierce and Jenny Lawrence. Both are organizers of the

summer camps and have expressed an interest in giving back to the community.

Lawson said that Shine! began ruminating about three years ago after the organization wanted to help a local nonprofit assist blind youth with a theatre experience. Pierce and Lawrence wanted it not to be as rushed, so they decided to extend it to two weeks instead of one.

Thus, Shine! was the result.

Shine! is open to those with special needs ages 8-18.

“As adult actors, when we perform, we worry about our hair and costumes being just so and getting all of our lines right,” Lawson said. “These kids just do it, and it’s magical! They are here to have a good time, and it’s special to watch.”

The 2019 Shine! camp will be held July 22 through 26 and July 29 through Aug. 2 at from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Campers must attend both weeks and both performances. Lawson said campers would learn the ins and outs of theatre with opportunities to assist behind the scenes or on stage. The final performance is of Frozen, Jr. This performance will be a fully staged youth production on Aug. 2 with afternoon and evening performances. “Mega-auditions” (auditions for several “month-long” shows at a time) are held three times a year, usually on Saturdays starting at 8 or 9 a.m. and are announced on Twitter, Facebook and Theatre Alliance’s website home page.

No experience is necessary, and all are welcome to audition for a show. Lawson said it’s OK if you’ve never “done theatre” before because it’s all “a learning experience.” The next round of mega-auditions will be Aug. 10 for Disaster: The Musical, Tommy, as well as select roles in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. !

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(336)723-7777. Tickets start at $16 at www. brownpapertickets.com/event/4188088, SHINE! Summer Camps, July 22-26 and July 29-Aug. 2, Frozen Jr. is on Aug 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., see website to register and for more details at www.wstheatrealliance.org.

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Hype builds at A/perture Cinema Fresh from its special, one-nightonly screening of the independent comedy/drama One Summer Night with actor Ian Nelson, Winston-Salem’s premier art-house theater A/perture Mark Burger Cinema will welcome the “Hype Tour” on Sunday, July 28.

Contributor Hype is a new web series that focuses on Smiles Davis (Willie Raysor), an ambitious young man approached by tech entrepreneur Ava English (Andie Morgenlander) to help promote the independent start-up and hip-hop movements in Durham. As their company prepares a major pitch to potential investors and a live-streaming concert, Smiles and Ava become enmeshed in the rap community, replete with its disparate personalities, untapped talents, and interpersonal conflicts.

Hype is the brainchild of filmmaker Hollis Randolph Gallagher and rapper/executive producer Phonte Coleman, of the group Little Brother. In addition to offering an inside exploration of Durham’s music and artistic contingents, the series is also designed to showcase their talents to a wider audience. The series was produced independently and funded on Kickstarter, where it was selected as a “Project We Love,” and is filmed entirely on location in Durham.

Gallagher and Phonte will be on hand at

A/perture Cinemas to discuss the project and field questions from the audience.

Hype marks Gallagher’s debut project, and he knew it would be daunting but willingly took on the task.

“I knew many of the challenges going in – shooting five 20-minute episodes of anything on that budget requires abundant energy and being able to rally a team of people who are doing it for the love and the shared vision – but it was still difficult, of course.”

Gallagher’s impetus for the series was simple.

“The project started as a reflection of my community as someone involved in the creative scene in Durham, a city undergoing rapid and front-facing change via an influx of tech start-ups and money,” he explained. “We raised $10,000 from a Kickstarter campaign, largely from people in the area, to shoot the first season, and sourced actors, crew, and music locally – so it’s very much a ‘by-us, for-us’ North Carolina project.”

The Hype tour was a natural extension.

“The tour idea was to take our show out of Durham and interact with creative communities across the state,” he said.

“The series has been hyper-localized so far, necessarily, but Hype, moving forward,

aspires to be a North Carolina show rather than solely a Durham thing.”

The series has already earned accolades. “Hype, at its best, is simultaneously a balm and a friendly grin to anyone who’s called Durham home, as well as a primer to the area for anyone unfamiliar with its joys and pitfalls,” stated Triangle Guide. “Yes, watch Hype. Yes, talk it up for its hometown grit and charm. But this is a series well worth watching on its own merit.”

Does Hype live up to its hype? Gallagher thinks so, and he’s hard at work on the second season.

“I think we already accomplished our goal of igniting the creative community in Durham to some degree,” he said. “We premiered the

series at the historic theater here, the Carolina Theatre, and had back-to-back sold-out screenings, so there was – and I feel still is – excitement about what we’re doing, especially since Phonte got involved.” (Gallagher is also working on a documentary on Phonte’s group Little Brother.)

Looking back on season one, “I’m certainly pleased with the result,” Gallagher said. “Everything came together in the end, including a soundtrack that features a lot of North Carolina artists, and I’m proud of the way we display Durham in the show.” !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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The “Hype Tour” screening will take place 3 p.m. Sunday, July 28 at A/perture Cinema, 311 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem. Tickets are $12.

For advance tickets or more information, call (336)722-8148 or visit www.aperturecinema. com/. For more information about Hype, visit the official website: www.hypedurham.com.

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ollowing his startling big-screen bow last year with Hereditary, filmmaker Ari Aster returns to the horror genre with Midsommar, Mark Burger which details a fateful trip to Sweden by Contributor a group of American tourists.

As he displayed in Hereditary, whose success placed Aster firmly on the map alongside Jordan Peele and, to a lesser extent, M. Night Shymalan, as current masters of the genre, Aster is a commanding talent. Midsommar is exceedingly well-made and quite distinctive.

There’s a good cast on hand, but this is a clear case of the director as star.

But it’s also too long. The film is never dull, but at 147 minutes, it’s overstated.

Consider that Midsommar is longer than

such established horror classics as 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby (136 minutes), 1973’s The Exorcist (121 minutes), and 1980’s The Shining (144 minutes), yet it doesn’t need to be. Its point has been made, and its tale told well before the end credits roll.

The byproduct of this directorial indulgence is that by the third act, the audience is way ahead of the game. It’s clear that the characters – those still standing, that is – are in way over their heads, and have little hope of escape.

This also allows the audience ample time to ponder little lapses in logic, which can be fatal for a film like this.

At the center of the narrative is Florence Pugh’s Dani Ardor, a quintessentially tragic heroine who has just suffered a grievous family loss. Her long-standing emotional neediness has become grating to her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor), whose exasperation is a dead giveaway (no pun intended) that their four-year relationship is coming to an end.

On a whim, she decides to accompany Christian and his grad-school buddies

Mark (Will Poulter) and Josh (William Jackson Harper) on an anthropological research trip to Sweden to study the practices and rituals of a pagan cult, of which their friend Pelle (newcomer Vilhelm Blomgren) is a member.

The remote rural landscape has been beautifully captured by cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski (a Hereditary holdover), and the pounding score (by The Haxan Cloak, nee Bobby Krilc) adds further shading to the mounting suspense. Technically, Midsommar is an unqualified success. It’s also not for the faint of heart, as Aster is not one to pull any punches.

Pugh gives a gutsy, even heart-rending performance as Dani, but by the end,

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she’s almost a background figure. Her character has traveled its arc, and it’s simply a matter of waiting for the inevitable final twist, which is not entirely surprising, to bring the narrative full circle.

If Hereditary echoed The Brotherhood of Satan (1971), a terrific but obscure gem of the genre, Midsommar bears certain (and move overt) thematic similarities to another genre classic, The Wicker Man (1973). It may not supplant that film’s status, but whatever its faults, Midsommar is certainly far superior to the unnecessary 2006 remake of The Wicker Man. !

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attended the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance’s production of Hairspray on Sunday, and the amount of talent and energy that the cast brought to the show completely exceeded my expectations. As someone who doesn’t attend plays as much as I should, this production made me want to return to the theatre to see more every chance I get.

A brief description of the show included in a press release states, “The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards including “Best Musical,” is a family-friendly musical piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs. It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire: To dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a T.V. network, all without denting her ‘do!”

Jamie Lawson directs the performance, and the cast includes Jessie Stewart as Tracy Turnblad, John C. Wilson as Link Larkin, Gray Smith as Edna Turnblad, Neil Shepherd as Wilbur Turnblad, Heather Jaynes as Velma Von Tussle, Taylor Bechtold as Amber Von Tussle, Jalik Roberson as Seaweed, and Dee Curry as Motormouth Mabel.

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nection as they joked and jabbed at each other during the show.

The highlight of the show for me was a performance by Dee Curry, who plays Motormouth Maybelle. Curry says, “We can’t get lazy when things get crazy.” And then slowly rolls into the intimate and powerful song, “I Know Where You’ve Been.” Her performance lifted me and took me somewhere else. I can’t explain it, but it was a magical moment. As I slowly returned to reality and realized where I was, I had to acknowledge that this show was extraordinary.

Theatre Alliance’s Hairspray is being met with great enthusiasm and excitement. So much so, the production has extended its show dates an additional week.

Now, you have the opportunity to see Hairspray on July 18, 19, 20 at 8 p.m., July 21 at 2 p.m., and the newly added dates of July 25, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and July 28 at 2 p.m. The show takes place at the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance located at 1047 Northwest Blvd. Tickets range from $16 to $18, and more information can be found on the website, www. wstheatrealliance.org. !

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In Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo, one can visit the Unko Museum — a whole interactive experience built around “cute” poop. (“Unko” means poop in Japanese.) For Chuck Shepherd example, reports the Associated Press, one can sit on a colorful fake toilet and pretend to poop as music plays, then collect a brightly colored souvenir poop to take home. An enormous poop sculpture erupts every 30 minutes, volcanolike, and spews little foam poops. In one room, visitors can play a “whack-a-mole” type game where they stomp on poops. Visitor Toshifumi Okuya was delighted: “It’s funny because there are adults running around screaming, ‘poop, poop,’” he said. The museum opened in March and will remain open until September.

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

In the College Station neighborhood of Pulaski County, Arkansas, traditions run deep, especially when it comes to the

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Fourth of July. Beneques Christopher, 19, told KSDK that the holiday “firework war” has been going on for years, and even attracts people from other neighborhoods: “They know when Fourth of July comes, this is the spot to be at.” But this year, the ritual went awry, resulting in many injuries and several people facing charges. Christopher was one of the victims: “It popped right here,” he said, pointing to his groin area. “And it could have been dangerous because I almost lost everything.” Instead, he suffered a second-degree burn on his thigh, but he feels lucky that he didn’t lose any fingers, as five others did. When police officers arrived, people started pointing fireworks at them, leaving two deputies with injuries. While a local pastor hopes to shut the tradition down, Christopher vows to continue it: “We started the tradition, and now we have to keep it going,” he said.

WALMART SHUNNING

An unnamed woman pulled a stunt in a Wichita Falls, Texas, Walmart on June 25 that got her banned from the store.

According to NBC News, Police Sgt. Harold McClure said a store employee reported that the woman had eaten half a cake from the bakery, then attempted to buy

the other half (for half-price), saying she found the cake in that condition. While Walmart did not want to press charges, they did prohibit her from shopping at the store in the future — a policy they’re familiar with, after an incident in January at another Wichita Falls Walmart. In that case, a woman rode an electric cart around the store’s parking lot while guzzling wine from a Pringles can. She was also Walmartshunned.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

A craving for cake batter ice cream brought New York City police officers to a Baskin-Robbins store in Coney Island on June 29 — a fortuitous detour, as it turned out. The Associated Press reported that when 33-year-old Emmanuel Lovett walked into the shop and tugged on his denim shorts, a loaded pistol dropped to the floor, and officers swarmed Lovett, who, it turns out, had a robbery record that prohibited him from having a firearm. He was charged with criminal possession of a firearm. No word on whether he, or the officers, enjoyed their ice cream.

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS

A diner in Little Rock, Arkansas, is getting

attention for a clever menu item. According to United Press International, Mama D’s offers a “My Girlfriend Is Not Hungry” option, which adds extra fries, chicken wings or cheese sticks to an order to share with a dinner partner who underestimates their hunger. On its Facebook page, Mama D’s said the option is “a solution for those who tend to dine with people that eat food off their plate.”

DUMB AND DUMBER

According to WHDH, two men were transported to the hospital on July 6 after both were shot in the foot while they cleaned a loaded, homemade cannon in a basement in Epping, New Hampshire.

Friends drove Albert Dionne, 56, of Nottingham, New Hampshire, and Christopher Krafton, 52, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the Epping Fire Station in the bed of a pickup truck. The cannon, made from the barrel of a muzzleloader rifle, had been loaded and failed to discharge, so they were cleaning it. !

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cience may be the last thing on your mind when sitting down to enjoy a craft beer, but it’s always on the minds of the brewers who make it. Whether you preMarisa Sloan fer pilsners, stouts, or IPAs, there’s some crazy science Contributor happening from the moment the grain is harvested to when the final product comes out of the tap.

To learn more about the brewing process, several brewers in the Triad offered to share their expertise and knowledge.

Dan Morgan is the owner and head brewer at Leveneleven Brewing (1111 Coliseum Blvd.) in Greensboro. He has also owned a homebrew shop called Big Dan’s Brew Shed for the better part of eight years. Don’t make the mistake of calling him a “master brewer,” however, because he said there’s no such thing.

“I [brewed for] the first time in ‘83 or ‘84 right after I dropped out of high school,” said Morgan, reminiscing about an old record store that used to sell beer kits in the back. “It was pre-hopped extract syrup, so you would buy that and three to five pounds of corn sugar. You’d boil those and use the little dried yeast pack on the lid that was horrible. We sanitized with chlorine. I actually made one batch that tasted a little bit like bleach.

It didn’t kill me. It was cool; I made five batches of really bad beer.”

Morgan was living with his aunt and uncle, who at the time, had no idea what was happening while they were at work.

“I would brew in the kitchen at night,” Morgan said. “They thought it was weird that a 16-year-old boy suddenly got really passionate about cleaning and bleaching the kitchen on a Wednesday night. Then exploding bottles in the attic gave me away. Yep, the whole batch.”

A lot of things have changed since Morgan’s first brush with homebrewing — there’s even a Walgreens where the old record store used to be on the corner of Spring Garden and South Josephine Boyd Streets — but his love of both beer and brewing remains the same. He’s “always kind of approached this more as cooking than anything,” starting with a recipe and the same four main ingredients: YES! WEEKLY

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The science of brewing

Brewing ingredients in a lab surrounding the finished product: A tall glass of craft beer malt, water, hops and yeast.

Malts are produced by steeping grain, usually barley; until just before the seeds begin to sprout. After grain growth has begun, the seeds are heat-dried in a kiln, and then ground up. The heating process stops the growth and also preserves enzymes such as amylase and protease that will later be used to catalyze the breakdown of starches to sugars.

“Probably the smartest people, the biggest scientists in the food chain, are the maltsters,” Morgan said. “The people who take a barley seed and trick it into thinking it’s going to become a plant.

Barley out in the field is just starch, pretty much useless for making beer. But if you get the barley wet and it’s around 100 degrees, you start the germination process.

The inside of the seed thinks it’s going to become a plant, so it grows up energy reserves in the form of starch…. Then just as [the maltsters] start to see some sprout they get them into a kiln which raises them to about 115 degrees. Then that heat rise kills the enzyme that says ‘you’re going to become a plant,’ and it stabilizes.

That germination and malting process builds up the starch which is eventually

gonna become sugar, and we’re gonna make alcohol out of that.”

After the malt is ground and the insides of the seeds exposed, it is ready to be used for brewing. Jeff Thompson, owner and head brewer at Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery (2762 NC-68 Ste. 109) in High Point, gave me a personal tour and walked me through the life cycle of a beer.

“I was a software engineer for the last 20 years, and I did brewing on the side,” he said. “Computer science gave that to me for a while — its problem-solving, its creativity, its math. Then toward the end, we weren’t as busy on the creative side, we weren’t creating things. That was another reason I did this. I thought it would give me an outlet to be creative to a certain extent, within boundaries.”

For Thompson, brewing gives him that freedom and creativity, and the science part comes into figuring out how to brew it. Goofy Foot is a one-barrel nanobrewery, meaning Thompson uses a threevessel system that he fondly dubbed “glorified homebrewing.” The first vessel is a hot liquor tank, which, contrary to its name, is used to heat water.

The second vessel is called a “mash

tun,” and is where the ground malt is mixed with hot water to convert starches to sugar. The temperature varies depending on what kind of beer Thompson is making that day.

“Your alcohol by volume (ABV) is directly impacted by how much grain you put in there,” Thompson said. “The more grain, the more sugars you get. The more fermentable sugars you get, the more the yeast can [turn into alcohol].”

At the bottom of the mash tun is a metal filter. As starches are converted to sugars by enzymes in the malt, a sweet solution of sugars called “wort” is filtered out. Thompson said the temperature is increased to 168 degrees after about an hour to stop the extraction of sugars.

Then, hot water is very slowly added to the mash tun in to drain the wort into the third vessel, called the boil kettle.

At this point, Thompson takes a preboil gravity reading that tells him how much sugar is in the wort, then boils it at approximately 190 degrees for 60 to 75 minutes. When the wort is boiled, it acts as a canvas for hops to work on.

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Wise Man Brewing’s co-head brewer Ryan Jackle cannabis. While there is a misconception that hops contribute most to the flavor of beer, Thompson said there are generally two types of hops that each serve different functions: first addition and late addition hops.

First addition hops, or “bittering hops” are added at the beginning of the boiling process. These hops release higher alpha acids that are responsible for the beer’s bitterness and preservative quality. Late addition hops, on the other hand, are added at the very end of the boil and contribute to most of the tastes and aromas that people traditionally associate with hops. There are over 250 different types of hops in total, each containing their own essential oils, flavors and aromas.

After about an hour of boiling, the wort is cooled down again and transferred to a fermenter. During fermentation, yeast is added to break down sugars in the wort to glucose, which is then transformed into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yeast is living organisms, however, and sometimes things can go wrong when dealing with them.

“When it’s too cool, the yeast is going to fall out and go dormant,” Thompson said. “When it’s too hot, it won’t activate.”

For this reason, the fermenter must be kept at a temperature somewhere between 55 and 70 degrees, depending on the type of yeast being used and the type of beer that is being brewed. Ales typically ferment at a higher temperature and for shorter periods of time than lagers. It must also be a closed system — that means no oxygen allowed after the yeast has been added. Yeast loves WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery’s three-vessel brewing system oxygen, but too much oxygen will make the beer flat and damage the stability of the flavor.

There are also side reactions occurring during fermentation that can form unwanted organic compounds which strongly influence flavor. For example, the type of yeast strains used to make ales will typically undergo side reactions that produce byproducts with fruity fragrances. Ryan Jackle and Sam Victory, the head brewers at Wise Man Brewing (826 Angelo Bros Ave.) in Winston-Salem, know more than anyone about the complications that come with fermentation.

“Sam, being a Ph.D. chemist, he brings to the table a whole other level of research and development,” Jackle said.

“Bringing his chemistry background to the table is just great. He is basically a big kid.

He likes to play with as many different microbes and yeast and hops and different ingredients, different techniques, different styles. We are almost like a research and development lab…. We always have at least a dozen to two dozen experiments going on somewhere.”

Jackle said it only takes a few days for the yeast to consume all the sugar available and for the beer to be considered technically “done.” But alcohol and carbon dioxide aren’t the only things being made, and after only a few days, the beer doesn’t taste quite right yet. Somewhere on its journey toward becoming alcohol, the sugar makes a quick pitstop and is transformed into pyruvic acid. Pyruvic acid is very reactive, and can sometimes be changed into another organic compound before the yeast can help it become alcohol.

“Some of those compounds are good, and some of those compounds are bad,” Jackle said. “One of the ones being bad would be diacetyl. The diacetyl is kind of a buttery flavor; it’s a slickness in your mouth…. What happens is the yeast produce this diacetyl compound, and if you give it time after the yeast is done fermenting it reabsorbs that diacetyl along with some other off-flavors. So, they reabsorb that stuff and put it back out as good stuff.”

Other off-flavors include acetaldehyde, which is a green-apple flavor, and hydrogen sulfide, which has the unmistakable smell of rotten eggs.

“When the beer is ‘done,’ that’s when we do a diacetyl rest,” Jackle said. “We jack up the temperature a few degrees for at least four to five days. That really kind of whips things up and makes sure the yeast are staying active and are able to clean up all that mess.”

After the diacetyl rest, the fermenter is set to a much lower temperature in order to force the yeast to go dormant and fall out of the solution. Then the finished beer is filtered out and packaged with the addition of extra carbon dioxide under pressure. The final step? Taste-testing.

“We have a sensory panel that consists of me and my two cellarmen,” said Jackle, laughing. “And we all taste the beers. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it!”

The job may be tough, but that hasn’t deterred many brewers. North Carolina is home to the largest number of craft breweries in the South, with over 300 breweries and brewpubs. North Carolinians love beer, and if the growing number of breweries is any indication, the Triad

Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery owner Jeff Thompson is no exception. In fact, the only thing stronger than the Triad’s love of beer is the community of brewers who make it — a community described by Jackle as “awesome,” and which Morgan could only shake his head and describe as “somewhat incestuous” due to how often the brewers partner up to collaborate.

While living in Asheville, Thompson originally planned for Goofy Foot to be a six or eight-tap brewery that sold his own beer exclusively. That changed, however, when he moved to High Point and was introduced to the brewers of the Triad.

At the time, Jackle worked at Big Dan’s Brewshed. While frequenting the shop for supplies, Thompson became good friends with Jackle, whose advice helped Thompson to develop many of the recipes that he continues to brew today. Thompson said it was Jackle’s kindness and knowledge that really pushed him to start up Goofy Foot.

“We kind of changed our model a little bit to be a taproom first and foremost, and all these buddies of mine around, we wanted to support them because a lot of people don’t even know they’re here,” he explained. “So we kind of wanted to be a tasting room for all the local North Carolina breweries.”

It seems that whether you’re looking to get into the science behind homebrewing or just looking for a good craft beer, the brewers of the Triad are a great place to start. !

MARISA SLOAN is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is majoring in chemistry with a minor in English, and her work has also appeared in her school’s newspaper The Carolinian.

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My Republican father went to his grave in 2010, still blaming me for the outcome of the 1992 election. “It’s your fault that Bill Clinton got elected,” he would say. Dad was referring to my supJim Longworth port for Ross Perot, a self-made Texas billionaire who ran as Longworth an independent canat Large didate for President against Clinton, the Democrat, and George H. W. Bush, the Republican incumbent.

To many, Perot was nothing more than a spoiler who cost Bush the election. “You wasted your vote,” Dad would say. I didn’t believe that then, and I still don’t believe it 27 years later. What Perot accomplished and contributed that year is nothing short of phenomenal, and I can’t help but feel that America would be better off had he been elected. Perot made another run for the White House in 1996, but after a disappointing showing, he dropped out of the public eye. Ross Perot passed away last week. He was 89 years old.

Political junkies and journalists under the age of 50, only know Perot by googling him, but for those of us who covered or participated in the ’92 election, he will be remembered as an unforgettable force of nature, and the most successful third party Presidential candidate in history. Yes, I’m aware that Teddy Roosevelt fared a little better in 1912 than Perot did in 1992, but by the time Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose ticket, he had already served two terms as President. Perot, on the other hand, though widely accomplished, was not a household name when he entered politics. After having served in the Navy for four years, Perot borrowed $1,000 from his wife, Margot, and created Electronic Data Systems, which he later sold for over $2 billion.

He then started Perot Systems, which he sold for $4 billion. In 1969, Perot traveled to North Vietnam to negotiate for the release of POWs, and 10 years later when two EDS staffers were held hostage in Iran, Perot mounted his own successful, private, paramilitary rescue mission.

Ross Perot was tough-minded and business-savvy, but he was best known for his plain-speaking and often humorous phrasings. During their three-way debate in October 1992, Perot stole the show from Bush and Clinton when he uttered his now-famous warning about what would

happen if Congress passed NAFTA: “We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It’s pretty simple. If you’re paying $12 an hour for factory workers, and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, have no health care, have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement, and you don’t care about anything but making money, then there will be a giant sucking sound going south.”

In fact, Perot was the only candidate who made the economy and our growing deficit a central focus of that campaign.

And while history will show that Perot got nearly 20% of the popular vote in 1992, that doesn’t tell the real story of his rise to prominence, and how much of a threat he posed to Bush and Clinton early on. Lest we forget, after Perot officially entered the race in February, he quickly became the front runner, and by June he was still in the lead, polling 39% to Bush’s 31%, with 25% for Clinton (source: NYT, 6/11/92).

But less than one month later, Perot suddenly and mysteriously dropped out of the race. His official reason for the pull-out was that he believed the Democratic party had become unified, and he didn’t want to hurt Clinton’s chances. Only months later did we learn the real reason for Perot’s retreat.

He claimed that multiple sources told him that Bush’s campaign was plotting to disrupt his daughter’s wedding by, among other things, distributing lewd, doctored photos of her. Bush’s press secretary denied Perot’s charges and implied that the Texan was crazy.

Nevertheless, the Perot wedding went off without a hitch, and Ross’s daughter, who had known nothing about the threats against her, urged her Father to re-enter the race. Despite a winning debate performance, however, Perot was never able to regain his earlier momentum, and he finished third on election day.

We’ll never know what kind of President Ross Perot would have been, but we know what kind of a person he was. He was a dedicated husband and father, a fair and courageous employer, a military man who hated war, an unlikely, plain-speaking politician in the Harry Truman mold, and a candidate who wasn’t afraid to tell us the truth.

Sorry, dad, but I have no regrets for voting for Perot in 1992. As far as I’m concerned, the Bush and Clinton supporters wasted their vote that year. R.I.P., Ross. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of “Triad Today,” airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

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unnar Nagle doesn’t make music that is overtly nostalgic or about the past. If anything, the sound is futuristic. His soulful and adventurous indieJohn Adamian pop is very much @johnradamian the product of the digital era, sounding like music crafted by Contributor someone who’s spent a lot of time hunching over a laptop looking at the spikes and dips of digital audio files on a screen. Nagle releases his debut full-length album Big Dreams, Sweet Maybes this week. Underdog Records in Winston-Salem will host a listening party on Saturday, July 20, from 3 to 5 p.m., to celebrate the release of the album on vinyl.

It’s a record that sounds informed by the tendency toward abstraction in contemporary hip-hop production styles, and a fondness for abrupt jump-cuts and extreme contrasts that many indie artists have been moving toward for several years now. It’s not exactly the kind of record that someone comes up with by just sitting around strumming an acoustic guitar or messing around on a piano. The sound of technology is cooked into the music. It’s not hard to hear a connection to performers like Bon Iver, King Krule, Francis & the Lights, or the Dirty Projectors in Nagle’s songs.

If Nagle’s music isn’t exactly retro, he does make a few gestures toward the past and childhood. The album cover is a visual play on the classic children’s book Goodnight Moon, with its distinctive green room showing a view of the blue night sky. Instead of the signature fireplace and painting from the original book, there’s a table with an analog synth. Think of the record as a kind of sonic bedtime story for the Moog set. The first song on the record is “94,” which refers to the year Nagle was born. There are allusions to artists who were breaking out in 1994 — artists like Beck and Nine Inch Nails.

“Got a call back for a speaking part in a new version of my life,” goes one of the lines. It may be a stretch to say, but there’s the idea of reworking source material, circling back on the past from a new vantage point, tinkering with an original, all of YES! WEEKLY

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which is at work in the music.

That opening track, like many of the ones that follow, has elements that sound processed and reprocessed, signals that get run through effects, played back, overdriven, pitch-adjusted, reversed, tweaked, submerged in a bath of sonic glitter to the point where one can’t tell what’s organic and what’s not, what’s a shimmer from the machine or a breath of the human touch.

And that’s part of the point.

Nagle said that each song emerges in its own way, from different elements piled up.

One might start with a guitar riff, another from a voice memo, or with an improvised vocal scat over a drum machine.

“I’m not totally sure what everything is,” said Nagle, referring to the mesh of musical details. He said he wanted to take advantage of the new technology, to use a “digital approach to songwriting.” Rather than using technology to approximate a live-sounding recording, Nagle embraced the collagist results, even if things might sound “obviously manipulated and strange” to some.

Juxtaposing the lo-fi with the hi-fi was part of the aesthetic.

“Those two components existing next to each other have a kind of cosmic energy,” Nagle said.

Such extreme contrasts anchor the record. The second track, “First Time,” is built up around layered hand-claps that sketch a kind of Caribbean rhythm that gets loaded with bottomed-out synth basslines and wild stereo panning, which gives the whole thing a woozy effect on headphones. It might summon a comparison to PJ Harvey’s similarly subaquatic-sounding

“Down By The Water,” another song from that sweet-spot in the mid-’90s.

Nagle released an earlier EP, Over Easy, back in 2017. The new material is a bit of a departure from that last effort, the songs of which seemed more guitar-centric and straight-forward. Those songs sounded like something that a band could realistically come up within the practice room.

Big Dreams, Sweet Maybes is a different animal. In places, one gets the feeling that Nagle has listened closely to the sound of fried circuitry, and he liked what he heard.

Nagle makes artful use of what some might call noise. It’s sort of the 21st-century version of an early rock ‘n’ roller taking the gnarly sound of a distorted cheap guitar and turning it into a stylistic asset, or the same with a hip-hop artist transforming the sound of hissing and scratchy records and making that a textural groundwork for the music itself. A nice glitchy-twitchy vibe is sprinkled throughout Nagle’s record.

That’s offset by the very human blend of the vocals, as well as the layers of saxophone played by Joseph Dowdy. The horns get stacked and multi-tracked in places, creating a choir-like effect.

The experimentation is intended to spur a response and a reaction in the listener.

While making the record, Nagle figured that if a moment, technique or an inspired guess captured his own interest in the studio, then that had a value.

“I’m not one to deny a gut feeling,” he said. Nagle wanted there to be something “ephemeral and immediate” about it.

Sometimes the blind stabs or wild tinkerings had a special touch.

“The things that I hold on to the most

are the blemishes,” Nagle said.

Indeed, the song “Needs Fixing” sounds like it’s almost about the very idea of embracing an imperfection, a scar, or maybe a sonic smear as a detail that adds character and meaning to the whole. The fragmentary track, which is little more than a minute long, is built around what sounds like a loop of a detuned voice memo of someone saying, “To me, that doesn’t need fixing - there’s something about that I really love.” A scrap of march-like drum programming dematerializes as fizzy synth burbles float up like bubbles in champagne, and then the song shifts into a dreamy musicbox-ish section.

In conjunction with the release of the album, Nagle is coordinating a private live show and video project at the Wherehouse Art Hotel in Winston-Salem, with a number of his collaborators and other artists he admires. It’s the first time the music will really get a full live public performance. And in a flourish, a kind of real-life jump cut that fits in with his music, Nagle, who’s lived most of his life in Winston-Salem, will move to New York City next month. !

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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Ebb and flow with Tide Eyes A one-man band aided by old electronics, Tide Eyes is a project from Pat Brown, formerly of Casual Curious, which weaves vintage synthesizers and electronics into a dreamy, dancy dive Katei Cranford into “bedroom pop.”

A legit ‘80s baby Contributing and millennial dad, Brown holds “a soft columnist spot for ‘80s and ‘90s culture and find a lot of value in the music and technology that came out of those decades.”

Value indeed. The entire concept of Tide Eyes is made possible by ‘80s machinery— and Brown’s drive for music. When the demands of a full band became daunting, Brown turned to tinkering with ‘80s synths and vintage electronic equipment to create Tide Eyes.

“I basically decided to learn how to make electronic music once I realized that being in bands was not likely to be very feasible,” Brown said. “I went to a fairly dark place existentially for a while after having my son,” he explained, “I thought I needed to grow up and leave childish things like music behind.”

Fusing life phases, both old and new, the solo-nature of Tide Eyes presents musical outlets and possibilities that ebb and flow with fatherhood. “The relief it brought reminded me how important music was,” Brown said upon his return to performing. Bands may no longer work.

But there’s still music to make.

As for tangible inspiration, “I try to make music like my heroes,” Brown noted, sandwiching himself with an “oh jeez,” before sticking his sound somewhere between “Sade and Prince, or Stevie Wonder, Kate

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Tide Eyes at GSOFest Bush, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Scritti Politti.” With an extra nod to Steely Dan, he made good on being a dad with “dad” tastes, after all.

Brown’s Triad upbringing was born of Casual Curious, which brought him to Greensboro, from Durham, in 2011. Initially a guitarist, bassist, and a “C-minus” keyboardist, Brown’s experiment with electronics presented itself officially as Tide Eyes in 2015.

Tide Eyes’ first full album, Waveformer, released on cassette in October, marked Brown’s first attempt at recording a full-length album entirely himself; and catalogs his initiation into composing material with older drum machines and synthesizers.

“The album also represents a move over to a lifestyle where doing music alone with technology became a necessity,” he

explained. With a 1980s parallel, it’s no wonder his 2016 single “Upside Down” took inspiration from Stranger Things.

Waveformer’s cover even resembles the late-‘80s style Eleven sports in season three. It’s unintentional, though not unrelated. “The artwork for Waveformer is directly inspired by Alexander Calder prints my mom hung in my room when I was a baby,” Brown explained.

As for the single itself, “I was deeply moved by the characters and the story,” Brown said, “popular interest comes in waves, and I’m always hoping to my music can ride them out.”

Oceanic references abound from Brown, who grew up “obsessed” with sharks and cephalopods. “It’s a continued source of inspiration,” he explained of his love for the ocean, “and comforting in a weird way—something so big and powerful,

there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.”

While Brown keeps his head above water and eyes on the tides of sonic exploration, his feet are planted in Triad sand.

“Greensboro has a lot of heart and spirit and I like playing music around here,” he said. “People seem to welcome the variety. And I plan to keep pushing myself in new directions.”

Within those directions, there are elements of electronic, of psych, of good old fashioned yacht rock—Brown refers to it all as “bedroom pop,” Tide Eyes often fills cracks on bills. “I try to create music that could be exciting to fans of many different genres fairly deliberately,” Brown explained.

As for making it all fit, Brown’s advice rings of a classic dad pep-talk: ”You just gotta use your ears,” he said, “if it sounds good, it is good.”

Though Brown admits not having a traditional band can make it difficult to navigate certain waters, he ultimately enjoys being free from the confines of a crew. “I get genuinely excited making my songs dynamic and interesting, and this format allows me total control over every detail,” he explained.

“Any wild idea I have, I can attempt,” he added, “and it helps my set work in a variety of scenarios—it’s easy to cram me in a corner. “ !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 1031.fm.

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Crammed in a corner Tide Eyes will be for his next show with Saphron and LIMN at New York Pizza on July 20. His summer schedule continues with the Harrison Ford Mustang album release at OnTheOne Music on July 26, and an appearance at the inaugural “Still the Days” fest at Gibb’s on Aug 24.

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6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Jul 19: DJ Bald-E Jul 20: Whiskey Mic 100th Show Party

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GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Jul 27: Scott Moss and the Hundred Dollar Handshake Aug 10: Blistered Hearts Aug 17: Alicia B. Aug 24: Pete Pawsey

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129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Jul 18: Todd Snider w/ Molly Thomas Jul 19: Reeves House Band plays Led Zeppelin Jul 20: James Tucker w/ Bill West Jul 26: Front Country Jul 27: Memphis Thunder feat. Taylor Vaden Aug 2: Reevestock Presents: Brent Cobb and Them

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2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Jul 19: 1-2-3 Friday

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505 N. Greene St Jul 19: Tom Warren Jul 26: Dave Moran Aug 2: Chaisaray and John Ray Aug 9: Gerry Stanek Aug 16: Stewart Coley Aug 23: Chad Barnard Aug 30: Tyler Long

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1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Jul 17: Light The Torch w/ Moon Tooth Jul 18: Ready For The Stage Showcase Jul 19: Dirty Logic - A Steely Dan Tribute Jul 20: EMO Raleigh presents Get Sad Y’all Jul 21: Jelly Roll Jul 25: Bad PPL Collective Jul 27: The Breakfast Club 80’s Tribute Band Aug 2: Tuesday’s Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute

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ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Jul 19: DJ Dan the Player Jul 20: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Jul 18: Ashley Heath and Her Heathens Jul 20: Coddle Creek Jul 25: Violet Bell Jul 26: Unspoken Tradition Jul 26: Gordon Lightfoot Jul 27: Adwela & The Uprising

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120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Jul 19: Stephen Freeman: Rockin’ Tribute To The King Aug 3: Stephen Freeman: Rockin’ Tribute To The King Aug 24: Wonderwall - A Tribute To The Beatles

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Jul 18: Live Thursdays

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Jul 19: Mike Speenberg Jul 20: MIke Speenberg Jul 26: Kevin Lee Jul 27: Kevin Lee

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117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Jul 20: Absolute Queen Jul 23: Buckcherry Jul 27: Stunna 4 Vegas Aug 2: Lyfe Jennings Aug 9: Can’t Speak On It Tour feat.

Jaydayyoungan & Yungeen Ace Aug 10: Jack Russell’s Great White Sep 6: Filmore Sep 10: Polo G Sep 20: David Allen Coe Sep 28: Gwar

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HAM’S NEW GARDEN

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LEVENELEVEN BREWING 1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Jul 17: John Stevens Jul 24: BigdumbHick Jeff Wall

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348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Jul 20: VIva La Muerte

NCDOT TO HOST A PUBLIC MEETING ON JULY 25TH FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS OF IDLEWILD RD IN MECKLENBURG AND UNION COUNTIES.

STIP Project No. U-4913 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to widen Idlewild Road to a multi-lane, mediandivided roadway approximately 500 ft west of Barney Drive to Rockwell Drive, modify the existing I-485 interchange with a “Diverging Diamond” interchange (DDI), and construct a roundabout at the intersection of Idlewild Road and Stallings Road, in Mecklenburg and Union Counties. The purpose of this project is to provide additional traffic carrying capacity along Idlewild Road, provide accommodations for bicycles and pedestrians, and provide improvements for the intersections at Stallings Road, Steven Mills Road, and the I-485 interchange.

The meeting will be held at Poplin Elementary School at 5627 Poplin Road, Indian Trail, on Thursday July 25th 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation.

At the meeting NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the

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As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the U-4913 project website:

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR PROPOSED GRADE SEPARATION AT HILLTOP ROAD RAIL CROSSING IN GUILFORD COUNTY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Jul 28: Camel City Blues

FOOTHILLS BREWING

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Jul 17: Turpentine Shine Jul 20: The Clanky Lincolns Jul 21: Sunday Jazz Jul 24: The Eversole Brothers Jul 27: Redleg Husky Jul 28: Sunday Jazz Jul 31: Hotwax & The Splinters

MAC & NELLI’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Jul 18: Acoustin Jam Jul 25: JBR

MILLENNIUM CENTER 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com

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STIP PROJECT NO. P-5713 The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing a grade separation at the Hilltop Road (S.R. 1424) rail crossing (722361Y) of the Norfolk Southern “main” line in Guilford County.

The purpose of this project is to improve train and vehicular safety in the project area.

A public meeting will be held Thursday, July 18 from 5-7 p.m. at the Korean United Methodist Church located at 2504 E. Woodlyn Way in Greensboro. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Jul 21: Live Jazz

At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members

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who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than Aug. 18.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed on the project webpage: https://publicinput.com/hilltop-road-rail-crossing.

For additional information please contact NCDOT Senior Rail Project Development Engineer Gregory Blakeney at:(919) 707-4717 or 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C., or hilltop-road-rail-crossing@publicinput.com.

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 via email at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (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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NCDOT TO HOST A PUBLIC MEETING ON JULY 25TH FOR THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF GREAT WAGON ROAD FROM SHALLOWFORD ROAD (S.R. 1001) TO LEWISVILLE-VIENNA ROAD (S.R. 1308) IN FORSYTH COUNTY

STIP PROJECT NO. U-5536 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to extend Great Wagon Road from Shallowford Road (S.R. 1001) to Lewisville-Vienna Road (S.R. 1308). The project includes roundabouts connecting Great Wagon Road to Shallowford Road (S.R. 1001) and Lewisville-Vienna Road (S.R. 1308), along with proposed side roads connecting Great Wagon Road to Shallowford Road (S.R. 1001). The Great Wagon Road project will accommodate future traffic volumes, improve connectivity throughout the downtown area, support economic development, accommodate pedestrians, bicyclist and motorists, and improve safety for all users.

The meeting will be held at Lewisville Town Hall at 6510 Shallowford Rd, Lewisville, on Thursday July 25th 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation.

At the meeting NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or may be done by phone, email or mail no later than August 26th.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the U-5536 project website: https://publicinput.com/GreatWagon-Extension For additional information contact: NCDOT Project Consultant, David Keiser, PE, Project Engineer (CDM Smith, Inc.) by phone at (919) 325-3531 or via email at keiserdz@cdmsith.com or Connie James, PE, Project Manager, NCDOT Division 9, by mail at 375 Silas Creek Parkway, NC 27127 by phone at (336) 747-7800, or via email at ckjames1@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 Kayla Weber by phone at (919) 707-6061 or by email at knweber@ncdot.gov or Samantha Borges by phone at (919) 707-6115 or by email at smborges@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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I’m a married lesbian working on having another baby with my fab wife. My new best friend is an attractive straight Amy Alkon girl who lives in another state. We talk and text every Advice day. It isn’t sexual or Goddess romantic at all, but my friend gets me in a way that, I’m sorry to say, my wife does not. My wife seems jealous. I’ve noticed her moping around when I’m on the phone and sometimes rolling her eyes when I’m laughing with my friend. How can I reassure her without giving up my new friend? — Concerned Spouses can’t meet each other’s every need — and shouldn’t be expected to.

Like, if you’re doubled over in pain, you don’t just hand your wife some dishwashing gloves and a knife and be all, “Kitchen-floor appendectomy, babe?”

Still, it makes sense that your wife is getting all green monster-y. Human emotions, including jealousy, are a tool chest for solving the mating and survival problems that have kept popping up throughout human history.

Jealousy is a guard-dog emotion, rising up automatically when we sense that our partnership might be threatened — like by an attractive rival moving in on our boo. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that our jealousy, in turn, triggers mate-retention behaviors, such as going around all hangdog mopeypants to try to guilt our partner into spending less time with their sparkly new friend.

Now, it seems like you could just reason with your wife: “Come on...my friend’s fiercely hetero, she lives in another state, and I’m having another baby with you.”

However, though we each have the ability to reason, reasoning takes effort, while emotion comes up automatically, without mental elbow grease. So it turns out that emotion does a lot of our decision-making, and then we dress it up as reason after the fact (maybe like a little Socrates action figure).

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partner for love and comforting the less fearful and clingy they tend to be.

In other words, you should consistently go a little overboard in showing affection, like by sending your wife frequent random texts (“in supermarket & thinking about how much i love u”), caressing her face, doing little sweet things.

Basically, stop just short of boring her to death with how much you love her. This, in turn, should make her more likely to yawn about your friendship than go all junior prosecutor: “Did you just shave your legs for that phone call?!”

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My male neighbor was married to a wonderful woman for 15 years. She died, and he was grieving heavily for several months, telling my husband and me she was the love of his life and he didn’t “know how to do life” without her, etc.

Well, six months later, he was dating, and in less than a year, he’s engaged to somebody new! I’m beginning to wonder if all his “I’m so grief-stricken” was just for show. — Irate The way you see it, he went through some Stages of Grief: 1) Wow, this is terrible and life-shattering. 2) Boobs!

However, it isn’t surprising that you’re “irate” at what you perceive to be a suspiciously speedy recovery. Evolutionary psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues believe grief evolved to be, among other things, a form of advertising. “Prolonged and costly” grief signals a person’s “propensity” to develop deep emotional attachments to others. This, in turn, suggests they can be trusted as a friend, colleague, or romantic partner.

The reality is, there are individual differences in how people respond to loss that don’t always square with widely held beliefs about how grief is “supposed” to work. These beliefs, explains

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grief researcher George Bonanno, “tend to create rigid parameters for ‘proper’ behavior that do not match what most people go through.” They end up fostering doubt and suspicion about what’s actually successful coping. “When we cast suspicion on a bereaved person just because we think she coped with death too well or got on with her life too quickly, we only make her loss more difficult to bear.”

Understanding this, maybe you can try to be happy for the guy and support him in his new relationship. Don’t assume that his finding new love means he’s forgotten his late wife or no longer misses her.

Consider, as Bonanno observes, that if somebody had a wonderful relationship, they may feel an acute void and long to have the wonderfulness back. And to be fair, there was some passage of time here.

It’s not like the guy was all up in his phone at the funeral, drying his tears in between swiping right on Tinder. !

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