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The culinary scene here in the Triad is burgeoning and blooming, and this is true for brick and mortar establishments as well. But there’s also something about a FOOD TRUCK. 10 Three incoming freshmen at University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem are the 2017 KENAN EXCELLENCE SCHOLARS, named for William R. Kenan Jr. (1872-1965), the esteemed business mogul and philanthropist born in Wilmington...

11 On July 1 two business partners opened the arcade of the future in Greensboro. Shift is a VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE, complete with safely padded booths and equipped with HTC Vive virtual reality gaming systems and it is the only one of its kind in the area.

12 ...singer and songwriter GRAHAM NASH, who plays Greensboro’s Carolina Theater on Aug. 5, might do even more retrospective ruminating and recollecting than most. On some level, that self-reflection prompted Nash to shake up his life, divorcing his wife of nearly 40 years and moving to New York City from Hawaii.

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The World War II drama DUNKIRK is already being hailed in some quarters as one of the greatest war films ever made and in other corners as a typically overrated Christopher Nolan endeavor. Neither claim is accurate, although it should be noted that the enthusiasts are closer to the mark than the Nolan naysayers.

24 For six days out of the year, according to its website, THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL is a historic event that “illuminates the powerful theatrical spirit and extraordinary talent of performers, designers, directors, producers and technicians from across the country and abroad.”

29 OK, so a few weeks ago I was leaving the Triad Today studio when my friend Steve Rehburg, an account executive at abc45, handed me a bag of something called “GORILLA GRAINS”. I trust Steve because, like me, his hair is turning gray, nevertheless I wasn’t about to sample a bag of grain just because he offered it.

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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY

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THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND FRIDAY

THE COLOR OF SOUND FRIDAY THUR 27 EVIE LADIN & KEITH TERRY WHAT: California-based Evie Ladin & Keith Terry throw down original folk songs and deep interpretations of old songs, with the kinetic thrill of percussive dance. Ladin sings and plays infectious clawhammer banjo, while Terry is a master percussionist. It was Appalachian string band music pared to the absolute minimum of accompaniment, but packed with an orchestras worth of rhythm.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

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WHAT: The show and sale will feature works of original art, fine crafts and gift items. Along with the Artists of Gateway Studios, participating artist will be Tammy Willard. Enjoy live music featuring the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble, Carmen Granger, Viola and Jonathan Wiseman Quartet. Refreshments served by the Centers Culinary Arts Students.

WHEN: 5 - 7 p.m.

WHERE: Gateway Gallery.

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MORE: Free entry.

WHAT: The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds & Annex will host The Charlie Daniels Band with special guest Scooter Brown Band and Tammie Davis. Charlie Daniels is known for his Dove Award winning gospel albums to his genre-defining Southern rock anthems and his CMA Award-winning country hits, few artists have left a more indelible mark on Americas musical landscape than Charlie Daniels.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Winston Salem Fairgrounds Annex. 411 Deacon Blvd., Winston-Salem.

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WHAT: The Levitt AMP Greensboro Music Series returns for a second season of TEN FREE concerts at Barber Park. Join us on July 29 to enjoy performances from jazz and blus vocalist Melva Houston and blues, soul, and rock’n roll musician Roy Roberts. Food trucks on site. Picnics welcomed, but no outside alcohol.

WHEN: 6 - 8:15 p.m.

WHERE: Barber Park.

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WHAT: The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is teaming up with The North Carolina Black Repertory Company to bring Sinbad as a pre-festival kick off event. Ranked by Comedy Central as one of the “100 Greatest Standups of All Time,” actor and comedian Sinbad has had audiences laughing for over three decades. Throughout his incredibly successful career as a standup comedian, Sinbad has starred in two Comedy Central specials and four HBO comedy specials.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] THE LOUNGE SPORTS BAR & GRILL

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Located in the old Sundance Hotel now called the Winston-Salem Hotel and Spa (and by the end of this year, a Best Western Plus), The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill is owned and operated by bar and spa owner Maya Gilliam, restaurateur Shanta Hauser and bar manager Nicolas Morris.

Gilliam said Hauser has been working in the same kitchen that is now The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill for seven years with the hotel’s catering service. Gilliam said a mutual idea of bringing in all of their areas of expertise led to the creation of The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill.

“When I opened my spa in the hotel, we all came together and were just like ‘hey, let’s do this’ and the owners of the hotel really loved the idea, and they also wanted a sports bar because sports sells.”

The trio deemed the joint “the most relaxing place to watch the game.”

Across the hall is Ma’ati Spa, also owned and operated by Gilliam who describes the Lounge Sports Bar & Grill as a “sports bar with a spa twist.”

Gilliam said The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill has a full menu ranging from pub favorites such as potato skins and a moz-

zarella tower to southern cuisine and soul food items such as shrimp and grits and fried chicken. She said there is another menu aside from the food menu, which adds to the “spa twist” of the sports bar.

Gilliam said patrons could upgrade to the spa twist menu, which includes a cold spa towel with aromatherapy infused in it before the meal.

One of the nine licensed massage therapists will come to a table or a massage chair of the patron’s choosing and give whoever upgraded to the spa twist option a head, neck, forearm and shoulder massage before dinner.

“We do a lot of typing,” she said. “On our phones, the computer we are literally typing all day. But no one focuses on the muscles in their forearms, hands and fingers.”

After dinner, patrons are brought a hot towel infused with aromatherapy, and some ginger tea to sip on. Gilliam said this bar is so different from others because of the spa twist elements and attention to detail, like infused ice cubes to compliment a craft cocktail.

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the head,neck, shoulder and forearm massage is $25, and each service is only $5 separately. Gilliam said buying extra time is also possible for $2 per extra minute. She said with the full-service spa twist, the massages will likely last about 30 minutes and 10 minutes per individual service.

The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill officially opens on July 29 from noon until 2 a.m. and will host an after party for the Sinbad show. Gilliam said they would celebrate every night of the National Black Theatre Festival with drink specials and live music.

“The week of the festival is basically our opening week,” she said. “We really want people just to come enjoy the food, craft cocktails and really experience this space.”

Gilliam said that one of the organizers of the festival already booked 152 rooms in the hotel. “So, there will be festival goers in the hotel and what better way to begin,” she said.

To view more upcoming events follow The Lounge Sports Bar & Grill on Facebook @TheLoungeSportsBar or visit their website at www.theloungesportsbar.com. !

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The new food on the block: Food trucks of the Triad

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he culinary scene here in the Triad is burgeoning and blooming, and this is true for brick and mortar establishments as well. But there’s also Kristi Maier something about a @triadfoodie food truck. It’s still a bit novel in our area and often romantiContributor cized by professional and amateur cooks and especially fans of food. But it takes a substantial investment and a strong constitution to open a food truck with weather, sourcing and operational costs as constant stressors. Not to mention, food trucks need a place to be stationary.

Don’t even get us started on inspections and prep areas. All food trucks must have a commissary, and a most excellent one at that, which is a good bit of the battle.

The health departments around here are known to be, shall we say, sticklers.

I love food trucks; I love the variety and how the owners think outside the box, pardon the pun. Unfortunately, I don’t get to enjoy food trucks often, and I know it may seem shocking, but I don’t attend food truck festivals or rodeos for the most part due to the large crowds and a long wait (more on that later). Hitting them at lunch or dinner isn’t always possible either

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Chef Jeremy Clayman of StrEAT Provision.

Darren and Charlie Hunt of Whisk And Tin Food Truck.

Matt Pleasants, owner and operator of the Bahtmobile.

because my children complain about not having a place to sit (odd, seeing as how the little one can’t stay seated for lunch or dinner. Go figure). However, food trucks like to be at a place where their customers can take a seat anyway, so you’ll find them at parks or social areas where sitting is possible.

Other drawbacks to a food truck? It’s not like we live in southern California where the weather is perfect 95 percent of the time or the Pacific Northwest where sure, it’s rainy, but it doesn’t get frigid. Food truck owners and operators are at the mercy of the Mother Nature.

Rain? Our recent 95-degree temperatures (it’s 120 degrees inside a food

truck)? Frigid temps? That means it’s cold in the truck, which means the food gets cold more quickly. Sometimes these factors result in a lighter turnout.

Food trucks have small menus, aren’t that much more expensive, and the choices are creative and adventurous.

Tempura-fried sweet potatoes? Burgers with peanut butter, pepper jelly and bacon? Burritos with ferments, mushrooms and local meat? You’re now more likely finding those items at our restaurants on wheels than anywhere.

We talked to the locals and found out their favorite new food trucks, owned by chefs and professionals who left their restaurant gig for life on the streets.

StrEAT Provision The older of our newbies, StrEAT Provision is owned and operated by the talented chef, Jeremy Clayman, most recently of Small Batch Brewing Company, where he dished out some innovative, farm-sourced small plates for beer lovers.

Clayman, who’s worked in fine dining for the past 25 years and has collaborated with the renowned Chef and restaurateur, Sean Brock, said while he enjoyed helping others fulfill their dreams, he knew that it was time he focused on his own. “I figured a mobile food business was a good way to start,” Clayman said. “And one day I probably would like to go back to a brick and mortar business.”

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The food truck business has its pros and cons; after all, if you’re not on the streets, you’re not making money.

“If I’m here, I can’t watch my kids’ games,” Clayman said. “At the same time, it can still be flexible. The main thing is I really like to be able to be outside or look out the window, rather than being in a dungeon from sun up to sundown.”

StrEAT Provision has been getting rave reviews for its farm-focused small plates and snacks. Burgers, a grilled mac and cheese with grilled onions and the aforementioned tempura sweet potatoes drizzled with honey. Find StrEAT Provision’s schedule on Facebook and is available for private events as well.

that. Hunt decided to learn more about the booming mobile industry and said, “I bought a 1982 Grunman Olsen step van, which immediately broke down on the way home.”

It took nine months from purchase to being licensed, to build the truck themselves.

Hunt brought on his brother Charlie, who’s also a chef, and adds, “We’re now a fullyfunctioning commercial kitchen on wheels.”

The Whisk and Tin Food Truck offers scratch-made “topped” mac and cheese.

Usually topped with their homemade buttermilk brined fried chicken tenders.

Choices like the signature mac and cheese topped with honey drizzled chicken or the very popular Buffalo topped mac. There’s also a chicken and ranch topped, and a jalapeño popper topped mac. Expect to get full.

“Our curbside menu mac and cheese focused, but we have the capacity to cater most anything per private request or event,” Hunt said.

You’ll find Whisk and Tin Food Truck’s 6/21/17 9:27 AM media sites like Faceschedule on social book and Instagram.

Bahtmobile One of the newest trucks that have been on the road after only getting its permit in mid-July. The Bahtmobile is owned and operated by Chef Matt Pleasants. When Pleasants left The Honey Pot, he packed his bags and moved to Portland, Maine.

“The beauty of that job that I took was that it closes for a time in January,” he said. “So we spent three weeks in Thailand and a week in Singapore. After a few drinks on this balcony of a bungalow on the side of the mountain, on the beach, I had a revelation, ‘Why am I not making Thai food in Winston-Salem?’”

Pleasants said he started writing a business plan, moved back here last April, found an investor, a truck and the final month getting squared away with the health department.

The menu on the Bahtmobile is Thai and Vietnamese with local ingredients that change with the seasons. In the winter, expect to see soups and ramen.

Pleasants says his inspiration comes from his travels.

Whisk And Tin Food Truck The son of a chef who went to culinary school and spent his career in the restaurant industry as a consultant, Darren Hunt had an epiphany, all thanks to his toddler son. “All he would eat was mac and cheese and chicken fingers so I thought ‘I DWSP_Music17_Chronicle_7-29-17.pdf could do something with this,’” he said. 1 Of course, there’s much more to it than

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“Seven years ago, while traveling, I started to pay attention to Thai and Vietnamese cooking and this whole world of possibilities,” Pleasants said. “It’s all the food I eat in my spare time. I love shrimp and grits, but other than that, I’m eating curry.”

The Bahtmobile was highly anticipated, though the wait wasn’t an incredibly long one. Pleasant said support has been massive.

“I’ve been getting great feedback, especially on spice so I’ve toned that down a bit,” he said. “The menu is different, so customers first order something conservative and they love it. They’ve come back and ask questions and order something adventurous. I like that I gain their trust and they’re willing to try something they’ve never had before.”

Bahtmobile’s schedule around WinstonSalem can be found on social media as well.

This food wagon is about to be on the road again.

Chef Stuart Ford, who parked his hot dog cart to work at Pintxos Pour House for a time, is about to hit the streets again as well, with a full-fledged mobile food business on track for early August.

Ford said he’d still be known as Wild Willie’s Wiener Wagon with an emphasis on “and more.” “There will be a rotating menu of sliders, hot dogs, tacos and barbecue along with some specific menu items,” Ford said.

Stay tuned.

Oh and here’s a tip on how to handle a food truck rodeo. Bring your friends, a minimum of four but preferably six or eight. Each friend selects a truck. Disperse and order a dish. Reconvene. Sit on your blanket or in chairs, share and nosh your goods. Listen to music. Repeat with a whole different set of trucks. !

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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hree incoming freshmen at University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem are the 2017 Kenan Excellence Scholars, named for William Mark Burger R. Kenan Jr. (18721965), the esteemed business mogul and Contributor philanthropist born in Wilmington and a graduate of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

The Excellence Scholarship program was established in 2005 by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and endowed with a $6 million grant from the Trust in 2011, and provides tuition, fees and room and board for four years of undergraduate study.

This year’s recipients are cellist Josephine “Josie” Greenwald, from Scottsdale, Arizona; dancer Sylvani Starchild-St. Clair, from Eugene, Oregon; and filmmaker Kelly Simpson from Anchorage, Alaska.

“For more than a decade, the Kenan Excellence Scholarship program has honored some of the best and brightest young artists from around the nation,” said UNCSA provost David English in an official statement. “Josie, Sylvani, and Kelly join a long list of student artists who have distinguished themselves in the arts, academics, and service to their communities. We are proud to welcome these three exceptional young women to UNCSA.” Greenwald, the principal cellist of the Chaparral High School Symphonic Orchestra, also plays in the Phoenix Youth Symphony, the West-Central Regional

Left to right: Josephine Greenwald, Kelly Simson and Sylvani Starchild-St. Claire.

Orchestra, and the Scottsdale Unified School District Honor Orchestra. She ranked toward the top of her high school graduating class and had completed numerous honors and advanced-placement courses.

At the UNCSA School of Music, she will study with faculty member Brooks Whitehouse, who said of her: “She is a technically skilled young cellist with a disarming willingness to take interpretive chances … equally striking was her composure from the moment she entered the hall for the audition. She introduced herself to the committee in an easy and direct manner that immediately dispelled the usual formalities and stiffness of the audition format.”

Greenwald said she wants to inspire others through the power of music.

“In music, every day I get a little better, and I love that feeling of building,” she said. “I focus on constructive criticism and

work to improve my personal best.”

Starchild-St. Claire began her dance training at age 3, and her credits include Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dancing Dwarfs, Odette/Odile and Cygnet in Swan Lake and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. “(My) ultimate mission as a dancer and choreographer is to give voice to the callings of the heart, to the things that simply cannot be said with words, to have audiences feel they are heard and understood, and to be heard and understood myself,” Starchild-St. Claire said.

She has studied contemporary dance and choreography, as well as tap and ballroom dancing and she has participated in summer intensive programs at the Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, the Texas Ballet Theatre and the Whitman Summer Dance Lab in Walla Walla, Washington. She has won a regional acting award and an Anthony

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The School of Dance’s associate dean Brenda Daniels said Starchild-St. Claire “radiates joy and beauty in her dancing.”

“She was unusually mature, focused, and disciplined in class – exhibiting traits that professional dancers must have in order to succeed and flourish,” Daniels said.

Simpson, who plans to study directing and screenwriting at the School of Filmmaking, has worked at KTVA News Studios and Tommy’s Dog Film Production Company, both based in Anchorage.

She has written several screenplays and produced some digital shorts at the King Career Center. In addition to filmmaking, her interests include photography, painting, piano, pod casting, sketching, and songwriting.

Simpson is “fascinated by what preoccupies our culture.”

“Things like fame, youth, violence, and vulnerability, and how these affect the fabric of our daily lives,” she said. “What we value as a society forms our identity as Americans. Through my art I seek to understand my own values and how they influence my identity as an artist, and therefore my perspective on the world.”

Henry Grillo, associate dean of the School of Filmmaking, describes Simpson as “remarkable and artistic,” as well as “poised, focused, thoughtful and wellspoken” – with all the skills needed to become a fine storyteller.

For more information about all the goings-on at UNCSA, visit the official website: http://www.uncsa.edu/. !

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A SHIFT in gaming: Greensboro’s only virtual reality arcade On July 1 two business partners opened the arcade of the future in Greensboro. Shift is a virtual reality arcade, complete with safely padded booths and equipped with HTC Vive virtual reality Katie Murawski gaming systems and it is the only one of its kind in the area.

Editor Cruz Cockman and Chet Lakhani are the two visionaries who own the arcade on Spring Garden Street.

Both Cockman and Lakhani are not new business owners, in fact, Cockman owns a store also on Spring Garden called the Little Akihabara Anime Shop. The anime shop sells a variety of things such as wall art and anime shows’ merchandise.

Cockman said he had one of Shift’s virtual reality machines hooked up in Little Akihabara for about a year.

“It was due to a great response that we had, and we decided to do [Shift],” Cockman said. “It prompted us to want to do more, being able to offer multiplayer and for the ability of people to have these experiences together has been huge.”

Lakhani owned Glass City Smoke Shop right across the street from Little Akihabara, and that is how he and Cockman became friends. Lakhani said both Cockman and himself love being on Spring Garden Street because “it is the only street in Greensboro with a plethora of local businesses rather than chains.”

Cockman said he originally bought a virtual reality system for himself to play with. But then he said he realized it was easy and intuitive to use and this experience could have something there for everyone. He said that VR is not just on just for entertainment purposes anymore.

Every industry is starting to use them for some business application, he said.

Cockman said even Hollywood is starting to use VR techniques such as in the new movies Spider-man and Dunkirk.

“We are seeing it spill over from all other entertainment aspects,” Cockman said.

Cockman said virtual reality is something that everyone can do and enjoy, and the target age of enjoyment ranges from 7 years old to 70 years old. One thing Cockman mentioned was how accessible VR is for everyone even those who are disabled.

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SHIFT owner Cruz Cockman and employee Joseph Bauer. at Little Akihabara. There are over 70 different games with something from every kind of genre and experiences to choose from at Shift.

While the shooters are popular with the gamer crowd, Cockman said, there are also different types of other games such as horror, puzzles and escape-room-type games. If you consider yourself more of an explorer rather than a gamer, Cockman said, there are programs or “experiences” that Shift has that takes you anywhere in the world.

“Google Earth VR, for example, lets you visit any city you wanted virtually as you want,” Cockman said. “There are also underwater experiences.”

With how VR works, Cockman said, there is a shock value that some people experience. He and Lakhani agreed that they see more of a “wow” factor rather than a shock factor. The two claim they have not had a single person that has left unhappy or unimpressed. They said when people come in they make sure to give the experience the customer wants and with VR it can be done.

“There is nothing like this in our area currently,” Cockman said. “There are other places that are along the same concept, and they are becoming quite popular in other countries. We are the first in the area, though.”

Cockman said Shift has put in the research to do what they can do to set the standard.

“No place has put nearly as much into safety as we have with our booth structures that we built,” Cockman said. “Virtual Reality, especially the system that we have is incredibly immersive, you literally forget while you’re playing it that you’re in a room doing it. A person wearing the headset can’t see anything, and if someone were in the booth with them, they would likely get punched, kicked or ran into. There is a lot that comes with that immersiveness. All of our booths are padded for protection.”

Shift sells time slots by the half hour or hour, and there are many different pricing options. Lakhani and Cockman stress that most of their bookings are made through their online portal, which is cheaper than paying the walk-in price of $30 for 30 minutes or $50 for an hour.

Cockman and Lakhani, (both friends of Austin Kindley, YES! Weekly’s art director and fans of our publication), wanted to give readers of YES! a special treat for being such loyal readers. They would like to invite readers to benefit from one of their very exclusive deals. By using the promo code YES!20, you can get a one-hour booking for only $20.

In the future, and more specifically

when school starts back up again, Shift will offer reduced membership rates as well as studio art packages. He said with VR capabilities artists can create more complex and imaginative digital art. Both Lakhani and Cockman hope to collaborate with University of North Carolina Greensboro’s art department so students can get more involved with the arcade and experiment with the studio art packages Shift will offer. They will also offer corporate packages for team building exercises as well.

“Right now we are trying to get exposure and to build our client base,” Lakhani said. “We run a lot of our promotions on Facebook, which is a good platform to follow us on. We always post coupons on there.” !

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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Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash plays Greensboro

R

ock legends spend a bit of time revisiting the glory days of their past, usually at the prodding of journalists and fans.

Sometimes a reissue John Adamian project requires @johnradamian listening to outtakes from the vaults and sifting through the Contributor archives. But singer and songwriter Graham Nash, who plays Greensboro’s Carolina Theater on Aug. 5, might do even more retrospective ruminating and recollecting than most. On some level, that self-reflection prompted Nash to shake up his life, divorcing his wife of nearly 40 years and moving to New York City from Hawaii.

Nash’s work and life captured the attention of music fans, as a member of British Invasion hitmakers the Hollies, as a lover of Joni Mitchell, as a bandmate of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young in different configurations of CSN and CSNY. Nash has had a lifelong interest in photography, so his rock ‘n’ roll journey was documented on film by himself even more extensively than most artists who are routinely trailed by the press. Nash released a solo record last year, This Path Tonight, his first in over a dozen years, and that followed the 2013 release of

his autobiographical memoir Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, the writing of which required extensive probing of past relationships and achievements. Adding to the remembrances of things past, Nash also presided over a multi-disc boxed set showcasing the massive stadium tour that Crosby, Still, Nash and Young did in 1974, complete with coffee-table book, rare photos and remastered rarities.

“When I finished Wild Tales, I realized that I had had an incredible life, and I actually wasn’t that happy at the time,” Nash said, who spoke with me by phone from a tour stop in New Jersey. “I had to do something to be reasonably happy.”

At 75, Nash is engaged in the challenge of making sense of things and getting what he wants from his remaining years, and if any of that — his late-blooming new romance, his candor about the demise of his relationship with Mitchell, or of the ways that drug problems undermined the lives of his Crosby Stills and Nash bandmates — bothers people, but Nash isn’t inclined to apologize.

“I’m trying to come to terms with life, just life itself,” he said. “How much time

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do I have left?” he asks later in the conversation, alluding to his drive and desire to stay busy.

The title track from his recent solo record suggests there’s an ongoing quest for meaning, for understanding what constitutes identity and personality.

“I try my best to be myself but wonder who’s behind this mask,” sings Nash on “This Path Tonight.”

Singing, and particularly singing with other singers, making sweet, tight vocal harmonies — has been central to Nash’s career. Crosby, Stills and Nash took shape because of the particular blend of their voices and how big and airy that combination sounded. Nash said he started playing music because he wanted to imitate the impeccable vocal harmonies of the Everly Brothers, and in CSN and CSNY, Nash routinely flew his vocals atop the rest of the singers, adding a pure and clear upper layer to the voices. Over the years, Crosby and Nash served as a kind of hit-squad harmony team, adding their paired voices to recordings by Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, and many others.

It’s not like Nash doesn’t have a muchloved back catalog of his material. His solo debut, 1971’s Songs For Beginners, inspired a tribute album among folkleaning bands of the 21st Century. But if singing with others has defined his career, Nash finds playing solo shows, (like the one he’ll do in Greensboro) with the voice and guitar accompaniment of his friend Shane Fontayne, to be a gratifying challenge, revealing aspects of the songs that might not shine through in a full-band, multivoiced setting.

“What we’re doing is stripping all the songs down to kind of exactly how they were written — a little guitar and a little piano,” Nash said. “Pretty soon you find out if you have a good song or not.”

Nash said that the audience response to the newer, less widely known material is all the more meaningful in that context.

Some of Nash’s efforts in recent years have focused on maybe shedding new light on old material in other ways as well. He’s referred to the archive-hunting,

selecting, annotating, remastering and presenting of the recordings from the mammoth CSNY box set as one of the biggest challenges of his creative life. Part of the goal was to reveal that the group — known as they were for their sweet blend of vocals — was a solid and rugged live band.

“I’ve always wanted the world to know that CSNY was a really fine, fine rock ‘n’ roll band,” Nash said. “We could really play.”

In addition to the chops and energy of the group, the 1974 collection reveals that the band was very much engaged in the events of the day. A given set might have included Neil Young’s blistering “Revolution Blues,” a sort of dark, brooding hangover from the hippie dream off his cult-classic On the Beach album released that same year. Nash’s “Military Madness” and “Chicago” fit right in with the spirit of music that was protesting any number of things, including war, political corruption and the violent suppression of student demonstrations.

Nash, who was born in England, has been an American citizen for almost 40 years now, and he’s remained involved in protest music, to a degree; he and Crosby showed up to sing to the Occupy Wall Street activists in 2011 in New York City.

But these days Nash — who is disgusted by the current president — is channeling his political rage into painting canvases “out of frustration with the Trump administration.” Nash said he’d painted some ever since the early 1970s when he was inspired by Mitchell (who was a prolific visual artist as well as a singer/songwriter and performer).

Some artists are reluctant to criticize political figures in a time that routinely gets glossed over as “divided,” but Nash jumps into the subject without coaxing.

“I’m stunned that he’s our president,” he said. “I don’t particularly look at him as my president. I think he’s an awful man.

Quite frankly this is an incredibly great country, and we deserve better than this.” !

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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213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Aug 12: Sahara Reggae Band Aug 19: Jack Long Old School Jam

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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Aug 5: Graham Nash Aug 17: Lyle Lovett & His Large Band Aug 24: Buddy Guy

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Theatre Alliance is proud to present everyone’s favorite teen satire in all its 1989 glory -- in musical form. Heathers: The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers.

But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid, J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized butt… but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.

Brought to you by the award-winning creative team of Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness, Desperate Housewives), Laurence OKeefe (Bat Boy, Legally Blonde), and Andy Fickman (Reefer Madness, She’s the Man), Heathers: The Musical features all your favorite lines, Corn Nuts, and croquet games from the original movie starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, as well as musical numbers that will have you laughing and dancing in your seat.

Jamie Lawson, Theatre Alliance Artistic Director, says, “Heathers contains some of the best R-rated one liners ever uttered.

Despite its racy humor and outrageous situations, the show finds its heart and compassion in acceptance and tolerance.”

Heathers: The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time.

With its moving love story, laugh-out-loud comedy, and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, Heathers will be Winston-Salem’s most popular musical in a long time. Are you in, or are you out?

The Theatre Alliance production is directed by Jamie Lawson and musically directed by Nick Helms. The cast features Mary Upchurch as Veronica, James Crowe as J.D., and Amanda Decker as Heather Chandler as well as an ensemble of new and returning actors.

PERFORMANCE DATES: Friday, August 18 at 8 pm Saturday, August 19 at 8 pm Sunday, August 20 at 2 pm

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Thursday, August 24 at 8 pm Friday, August 25 at 8 pm Saturday, August 26 at 8 pm Sunday, August 27 at 2 pm Tickets to Heathers are priced at $18 for Adults and $16 for students/seniors.

There is also a $2 per ticket discount available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets to Heathers may be purchased in person at the Theatre Alliance Box Office (Fridays from 12:30-3:00 p.m.), online at www. wstheatrealliance.org or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at (800) 838-3006. Please call Theatre Alliance at (336) 723-7777 with any questions about this or future shows.

Student Rush: $14 before any performance. Tickets will go on sale five minutes before show time. MUST show current, valid student ID. Attendees must wait in a standby line until 5 minutes to show time, at which point, available seating is released. Tickets may not be reserved for Student Rush, under no circumstances; they must be purchased at the Box Office, 5 minutes prior to that day’s performance.

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The Art of War recalls Katherine Heigl and Gerald Butler far more than it stirs memories of Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott.

From there, the film blazes through one frenetic episode after another, all featuring cutting-edge effects that are especially striking in 3-D. The storyline involving a rogue commander (Clive Owen) isn’t particularly inspired but it is perfectly serviceable, and late-inning appearances

by Rihanna and Ethan Hawke are properly entertaining. But it’s ultimately all for naught when balanced against the dead weight at the center of the film. That would be DeHaan and Delevingne, neither of whom are especially convincing in their trite roles. Stronger performers might have been able to provide the characters with interesting shadings and distinct personalities, but Delevingne and especially DeHaan are woefully miscast, and the final impression is of two children playing dress-up against a galactic backdrop that ultimately swallows them whole.

BY MATT BRUNSON The World War II drama Dunkirk ( ) is already being hailed in some quarters as one of the greatest war films ever made and in other corners as a typically overrated Christopher Nolan endeavor. Neither claim is accurate, although it should be noted that the enthusiasts are closer to the mark than the Nolan naysayers.

Certainly, Dunkirk hardly belongs in the same class as Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan or any of the other superb combat flicks that have been produced over the past 100-odd years. Focusing on the unlikely — some would say miraculous — evacuation of over 300,000 surrounded Allied soldiers from the French beaches over the course of a few days in 1940, the movie is stripped down in terms of its characterizations. Various players are represented in only scattered scenes, and character names are often hard to come by. A few recognizable actors appear here and there — Tom Hardy as a courageous pilot, Cillian Murphy as a shell-shocked soldier, Kenneth Branagh as a concerned

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officer, and Bridge of Spies Oscar winner Mark Rylance as a British citizen commandeering one of the rescue boats — but most of the cast is comprised of up-andcomers whose boyish faces are often hard to distinguish in the darkness and under the dirt. Worse, Nolan’s decision to tinker with time won’t bother those who can keep up but is certain to anger and irritate those whose knives are already unsheathed.

Yet to suggest that Dunkirk is a movie lacking in emotion because it’s lacking in sharply etched players is incorrect. Nolan’s strength here is his ability to place audiences right into the thick of the various struggles taking place by air, land and sea.

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year’s Oscar, he comes up with a movie that works beautifully as an aural and visual assault. This in turn heightens the senses in terms of what’s at stake for all these soldiers and civilians, and viewers with any semblance of empathy will easily be engaged, enraged and, ultimately, inspired.

The latest eye-candy achievement from director Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ( ) should be seen on a large movie screen — preferably in 3-D — or not seen at all.

Based on the influential French comic series Valerian and Laureline, the movie opens with a clever and amusing prelude that spans the centuries (backed, of course, by David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”) before shifting to a lengthy segment in which the visual effects dominate everything else. But rather than the CGI distancing viewers (as if too often the case), they prove to be completely immersive and instead invoke sympathy for the alien creatures placed front and center.

Unfortunately, the movie then switches over to the human protagonists, and all magic is quickly dispelled. Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne), two 28th-century government agents doing their part to make the universe a safe place to live, are introduced as they flirt with one another, and the witless banter

Moviegoers who endured a rough night watching the recent Rough Night will fare significantly better with Girls Trip ( ), another comedy about four college friends who reunite years later for a raucous, no-holds-barred weekend.

Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall) is a bestselling author, Sasha Franklin (Queen Latifah) runs her own TMZ-style website, Lisa Cooper (Jada Pinkett Smith) is a divorcee with two kids, and Dina (Tiffany Haddish) — well, Dina defies description.

The four reunite in New Orleans during the Essence Festival, where they hobnob with celebrities, hook up with an old college pal (Larenz Tate), and learn that Ryan’s husband (Mike Colter) is having an affair.

Friendships are tested, romances are ignited, copious alcohol is consumed, and grapefruits are employed in an interesting way.

Like most modern comedies, Girls Trip occasionally goes overboard with the raunch (the zipline incident is funny the first time, unpleasant the second), and all problems are neatly resolved with predictable precision. Yet the movie dishes out a generous portion of huge laughs, and all four actresses are aptly cast and enjoy an easy rapport. Best of all is Haddish, whose breakout performance is not unlike that of Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids or Kate McKinnon in Ghostbusters. Best known for her TV roles, she proves to be utterly fearless in this film, diving into her part with both confidence and ferocity.

It’s an invigorating performance, but, kids, don’t try the grapefruit at home. !

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Wampus Cats, panthers and cougars, oh my!

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hen I was a boy, my grandfather told me about the huge Wampus Cat he claimed to have seen one dark Guilford County night during Prohibition. Later, while writing a freshman paper on North Carolina’s “mystery animals,” I asked him about the Vampire Beast of Bladenboro that allegedly terrorized that small town 142 miles from Greensboro in the winter of 1953.

He opined it was likely the same type of critter.

George Dewey Barnes liked to tell tall tales, yet 37 years after his death, I’m finding out that one of his tallest might be sort-of true.

When I was a kid, he and I spent many weekends at his brother Olan’s farm at the corner of Friendly and Holden, where Uncle Olan had fought roosters and brewed moonshine since coming home from the Great War. After Greensboro’s growth had put the property inside city limits, he stopped “chicken fighting” (because Baptists don’t like to say “cock”) and bootlegging, but was allowed to raise and sell poultry until he died in 1979. On Saturday nights, after Olan and Virginia Barnes had gone to bed early as farm folks do, Granddaddy and I would sit in the parlor watching wrestling, cheering on Johnny Weaver and George Becker against Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson. Next up was Shock Theater out of WGHP in High Point.

One early ‘70s summer night, host Dr. Paul Bearer (Dick Bennick Sr.) wished us “pleasant screams” as he introduced Jacques Tourneur’s 1943 classic The Leopard Man, which featured the most frightening sequence I’d seen in such an old movie, in which a teenaged Mexican girl is stalked Matthew Phillips. and killed by a panther. “That almost happened to me,” Granddaddy said to me. tion, meaning the century and the Barnes I asked him what he meant; he said, brothers were in their early 20s. Dewey “I’ll tell you tomorrow. It’s no story for and Olan were sweet on two “Yankee gals bedtime.” learning how to be ladies at Greensboro The next day, as his brother twisted College,” which he said was still at that the heads off chickens and tossed the time, a finishing school for would-be carcasses to us for scalding and plucking, Southern Belles. One Saturday night, Granddaddy told me this story. the brothers crept up to the dorm with It was a couple of years into Prohibi-

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a painter’s ladder and snuck the women out to go joyriding in Granddaddy’s jalopy.

The quartet ended up camping off Owls Roost Road near Summerfield, where they lit a fire and sampled Olan’s moonshine (which would later become known as the best this side of the mountains).

They had a coonhound named Eustace with them, and the dog took off into the dark after a rabbit. They drank more hooch and called for him to come back.

Which he did, fast and making a noise, like the Devil was right behind. Eustace leaped into the jalopy and tried to burrow under the rumble seat. Everyone laughed until they spotted what crouched at the rim of the firelight.

My grandfather said it was an enormous cat, black as night and big as a donkey, with eyes like coals and teeth the size of railroad spikes. Granddaddy’s gal hollered and climbed his shoulders, and he stumbled for the car with her scanties in his eyes and her fingers twisting his hair (this was one of the several things he’d say made him bald at an early age). They

all got crammed into the car and peeled out of there, and Granddaddy said, even over the sound of the engine and gravel and Eustace baying, they could hear the “Devil Cat” screaming like but louder than the women.

Uncle Olan twisted the head off one last chicken and said that the story was bull hockey--only he didn’t say hockey. He also said Granddaddy had “wanted him some nookie,” but his date was wise to him and only sipped her hooch, letting Granddaddy gulp till he could barely stand. Olan suggested Granddaddy had seen the eyes of a bobcat in a tree and inebriated imagination did the rest. Annoyed, Granddaddy threw down his chicken and stomped inside the house.

Ten years later, I was in grad school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and my grandfather and his brother were in Green Hill Cemetery. My Great-Aunt Virginia sold or ate the last chickens and put the house at 3702 W. Friendly on the market but continued to live there until 1985, when it so, and she moved into the Quaker Friend’s Home.

One day, having seen The Leopard Man again in Eddie Bowen’s horror movie class, I remembered Granddaddy’s story about the Wampus Cat. She didn’t but said that one night in her husband’s last years as a farmer, something ate a dozen hens, leaving only feathers, feet and a paw print big as a man’s hand.

The Wampus Cat is one of the several monstrous felines in Southern folklore.

Depending on whether you hear the story down in the Pine Flats or up in the mountains, it’s both demonic and panther-like, or a beautiful Cherokee woman cursed to transform into a four-legged cougar. This article is also a shapeshifter, and will now transform from a tall tale to something more probable and recent. When I began researching Tarheel folklore about Wampus Cats and Phantom Panthers, I discovered an old acquaintance made the local news two years for what he said he saw one rainy night inside city limits.

On Nov. 30, 2015, just after 9 p.m. and within five miles of where my grandfather said he saw his Wampus Cat, Greensboro resident Matt Phillips was riding his bike on the Atlantic and Yadkin Greenway off Old Battleground when his lights picked up something ahead of him. He says it was a huge feline, “just massive,” with tan rather than black coloration, and a long thick tail. It was a mature cougar, with its size suggesting it was a huge male.

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Etching of black leopard, Thomas Kelly, Zoological Society of London ca 1836.

“People have asked if I’m sure it wasn’t a bobcat,” Phillips said. “I’ve seen bobcats.

Bobcats are tiny compared to this guy. I had two 600-lumen lights on the front and a 750-lumen light on my helmet.

There’s no question of what I saw. I had more light running on my bike at that time than a car has headlight output. When I saw it, it was right behind Southern Foods. I believe the smell of their weekly purging of their freezers is what attracted it.”

Phillips claims to have spoken with others who say they’ve seen it in that same area.

“One guy made the point that there’s a lot of lazy food sources out there, in the form of deer and other game that are protected in the area around Battleground Park,” Phillips said.

He said he was northbound on the Greenway near the intersection of Aubrey Home and Southern Foods when it happened.

“It was maybe 50 yards ahead of me, crossing the path from the Southern Foods side to the cemetery side,” Phillips said. “It was walking casually, body raised up, and it turned when it saw my headlights. Anyone who has a house cat knows that moment when you catch kitty doing something naughty, and the ears go back, and it slinks down. It slunk down when it saw me and immediately scooted off.”

He said stopping wasn’t an option because he was doing about 25 miles per hour and trying to process what was in front of him.

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“There’s nowhere to turn off the path, just a fence on my right and woods on my left,” Phillips said. “As I came up to where it had just been, I looked to the right and there it was, crouching against the fence, waiting for me to pass and looking as scared as I felt. I saw it almost as close as you are right now. I hit the pedals. All I could think when I passed it was ‘is it behind me?’”

Phillips said there was no way he was going to stop and search for his phone as he darted home. He said all he could think about was this predator prowling the Greenway where some children live.

“I called 911, hands shaking, and the guy on the phone took it very seriously, but the police who came out said they couldn’t find anything,” Phillips said.

“Which isn’t surprising, it’s not like the cat was going to stick around. I’ve read they can range 50 miles in a night.”

In the almost two years since Phillips said he’s had strangers contact him and say they’ve seen it.

“I’ve also talked to my mom, who lives out in Summerfield,” he said. “She says her neighbors have had livestock killed by it, and have found prints. Afterward, people have come to the shop I was working at, and stated that they know they’re there, they’ve seen them, they’ve heard them at night, they’ve found the prints.”

Phillips said he doesn’t know about their experiences, but he does know what he saw.

“The canned response from the State of North Carolina Wildlife Commission is

A cougar at the NC Zoo, 2013. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons.

that cougars are extinct in this state, but that’s garbage. In fact, Tennessee just finally acknowledged that they have them there, based on trail cam photos.”

Phillips was correct, Tennessee’s authorities have reported 10 confirmed cougar sightings since 2015, after none in the previous century. While Jason Allen of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission calls the chances of any wild cougars living in the Piedmont “slim to none,” Katie Cannon, education director of Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsboro, is less dubious.

“Carolina Tiger has been contacted with infrared pictures and other photos of pug marks and possible cougars (photos are not always clear) in surrounding counties,” she said. “It is not impossible for there to be cougars in North Carolina, either wandering here from the west or individuals kept as pets who were released or escaped and continue to thrive in the wild.”

Phillips is not the only Greensboro resident I know who claims to have seen a feline predator bigger than a bobcat roaming freely. My friend Lynne Buchanan said the one she saw a decade ago wasn’t in the Piedmont, but she describes something more like my grandfather’s Wampus Cat than a cougar. Lynne says she was a passenger on a trip to the Outer Banks, and that she glimpsed something just off the stretch of Interstate 64 that crosses the Alligator River and runs through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.

At first, she thought it was a bear or a huge dog, but she said,

“As I looked closer, I saw what it was, although my mind refused to believe it; there couldn’t possibly be a black panther roaming the coastal plains of North Carolina.”

I recently exchanged emails with a retired North Carolina fish and game official about the possibility not only of wild cougars in the Tarheel State but the black panthers some believe exist in isolated areas of the coastal Carolinas.

My correspondent, who asked to remain anonymous, said he considers the black cats described by my grandfather and my friend highly unlikely.

“The cougar, the only North American wildcat bigger than a lynx, doesn’t have a melanistic color variant like leopards and jaguars do, and those two species don’t naturally occur in North America,” my correspondent said.

But he was much less skeptical about the tawny-colored cougar Phillips described. Furthermore, and this is the reason why he asked not to be identified, he offered this interpretation of why North Carolina wildlife officials might be reluctant to admit the possibility.

“If anyone official were to acknowledge the existence of wild North Carolina cougars, amateur cougar hunters would turn out in force, randomly blasting away at large house cats, bobcats, Labrador retrievers and each other,” my correspondent said. “I don’t blame state authorities for silence or denial.” !

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Little Girl Blue returns for The National Black Theatre Festival PHOTO BY OWENS DANIELS

The production team for Little Girl Blue. (L-R) Mabel P. Robinson, Sharon Agnew, Nathan Ross Freeman, Cheyenne Covington, Markeisha Ensley, Leo Rucker, Bijan Shaw, Adam Ingram Perry, Jennifer O’Kelly, Claudia Burnett, Frenchie La’Vern, Ms. Brown, Tinisha Rouse.

The National Black Theatre Festival is a historic event that “illuminates the powerful theatrical spirit and extraordinary talent of performers, designers, directors, producers and techKatie Murawski nicians from across the country and abroad.” During the Editor six “life-impacting” days, the website states that there will be electrifying performances, informative workshops, riveting films, and insightful spoken word poetry.

The festival is produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company, whose mission according to their website, is the coordination, promotion and development of educational and cultural activities with an emphasis on theatre arts. It was founded in 1979 by Larry Leon Hamlin, and it is North Carolina’s first professional Black theatre company. The company produces Black theatre classics, up and coming African American writers and at least one world premiere each season.

Among the plays that will be featured over the course of six days, one will be

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returning for a second time to a WinstonSalem stage on Aug. 1 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Little Girl Blue, inspired by the life and music of Nina Simone débuted Oct. 20 to 23, 2016 at The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and attracted Dr. Sam Waymon, Nina Simone’s brother and Bill Cobbs as honorary guests. Unfortunately, tickets sold out last Wednesday due to its high demand and popularity.

According to the press release, the play is a ‘unique theatrical concert experience’ written and directed by award winning playwright Nathan Ross Freeman and is a feature-length production, planned to perform globally. The show stars introducing pianist, vocalist and rising thespian Bijan Miarra Shaw as Eunice Waymon and soul/jazz singer, songwriter, pianist and international recording artist Markeisha Ensley as Nina Simone. Some of Ensley’s favorite credits include, Savannah in Jamaica (AUDELCO nomination), The Radio, Caroline, or Change (Gallery Players NY), Chess (Actor’s Fund benefit), The Jungle Book (Mill Mountain Theatre). She is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School and New York University. As a singer-songwriter and pianist, Markeisha received the 2011 Abe Olman Scholarship Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame/Songwriters Guild of America and has recently toured in Japan and Europe.

Her most recent EP is titled Talk to Me.

Ensley appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Manager in the United States.

“Little Girl Blue is a conversation between Nina Simone and her younger self, Eunice Waymon,” Freeman said. “That is the specific thing that is talked about, it basically celebrates who she was and who she became. On a universal level, it celebrates all of us. Those daily conversations we have in terms of who we were or who we become. Not in a chronological way, but in a way that our younger selves grow up with us just like our present selves constantly revisit. There is a moral and ethical values are constantly changing as our live proceeds.I don’t want to say she is an anomaly, but she is one of the few celebrities whose success interrupted her dreams, not failure.”

Freeman said the most important aspect of the play to him, is the relationship he had with his different selves who would appear in his life. He has to constantly reference himself presently to negotiate with all of his different selves when he is about to make a life-changing decision. He feels that writing this play and envisioning Simone’s life was one of these decisions.

“The particular self in me decided to explore what this play is for her to have a discussion and conversation with her

younger self as Eunice,” Freeman said.

Mabel P. Robinson is a multi-talented professional in the international spheres of directing, choreography and playwriting. She graduated from The Julliard School of Music and has danced with numerous renowned professional companies including Alvin Alley, Martha Graham, Talley Beatty and Louis Johnson. Robinson has appeared on Broadway in box office hits including, Golden Boy, Murderous Angels, Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Your Arms Too Short To Box With God, and has performed on various television shows both in the U.S. and internationally. Her movie credits include Cotton Comes To Harlem, Stand Up and Be Counted, Funny Lady, and The Wiz. Early in her career, Robinson was one of the earliest African American females to be featured on American network television when she appeared in Golden Boy, starring the legendary Sammy Davis Jr. At the same time, she was also a featured dancer on the classic music showcase Hullabaloo. She was the first female to have concurrently running Broadway shows. She starred as Dancing Mary in the original production of Your Arms Too Short To Box With God, while also working as the choreographer and assistant director in the Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess.

Robinson authored The Glory of Gospel and Mahalia Queen of Gospel, commis-

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Bijan Miarra Shaw

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sioned by Stardust Productions Co.b.v., which ran for three years in Europe. The Glory of Gospel opened the 1997 National Black Theatre Festival Gala; Mahalia Queen of Gospel opened at the 2005 and 2007 National Black Theatre Festival Gala. Robinson created the NCBRC Teen Theatre Ensemble, and is the former Artistic Director of The North Carolina Black Repertory Company and the producer of The National Black Theatre Festival. Robinson is an active member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors Equity, and Screen Actors Guild. Robinson also serves as the play’s dramaturg (which is someone who supervises and/or consults the development of a play from concept to production) and this is a new position for her.

“I chose her to be my dramaturg as not only the playwright, but also to be a dramaturg that is because the elements of music and movement are so key to it she has working knowledge of all- she is a playwright, director, musical playwright and director so she has skills in music composition,” Freeman said.

In terms of connecting with the play’s central character, the charismatic and influential Nina Simone, it is not the musical side of Simone that Robinson identifies with.

“For me, Nina Simone is someone that I identify with, she is of the civil rights era and her life was certainly influenced by it and I think it made her take the turn that is so important for us, as black Americans, to know about because it is something that kept her going and took her to a different level and her lyrics are so important to her songs,” Robinson said. “She teaches everyone how to participate on a level in which they could understand and which would be comfortable for them as artists.

Unfortunately she had to do a lot of it in

Europe because the opportunities did not become available to her in America. It was the perfect timing for her as well.”

Robinson said Simone challenged what was acceptable for a black woman to do as a performer and how much her influence has rubbed off on other artists today. “That was very strong point, there was one way for her but she gave you the freedom, which is basically what the civil rights movement did too,” Robinson said.

Cheyenne Covington is the conceptor and executive producer of Little Girl Blue and he said he identifies with Simone differently than Robinson does in the sense that he was not around for the civil rights movement. As an artist, he believes Simone was the one who inspired just about every contemporary artist today.

“She definitely paved a way for a lot of musicians today and they don’t even know she did, Covington said.

Covington produced a couple small performances in 2002 and 2005, about Nina Simone in a one woman show. He said the play was different from Little Girl Blue but still essentially about the life of Simone.

“I wanted to take it up another step, well several many more steps, so that is why I brought in Nathan about two years ago,” Covington said. “We took that one person- that one character and divided her in two and made her more twodimensional, which is something a solo performance really can’t do. We separated Nina from Eunice and made two characters of the same character.”

In 2015, Covington said he presented the idea to Nathan to take up the play, put major money behind it and elevate it so it can be an international performance.

Freeman reflects on how people have perceived the work of Simone as a history, but he disagrees and believes “unlike any other artists, we can’t create a history of

Nina Simone because her history is still burgeoning because she is an era, she has eras.”

Even now posthumously, he said, there is a wealth of exploration with her and her music. Her music is influential even in T.V. commercials, Freeman said, she is being resurged again. “Just about every major vocalist, at some point in time, wants to do Nina,” Freeman said. “Of course, the

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simulation the dramatizations of her life will constantly go on. But most importantly, her collection is still developing.”

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Gorilla Girl from Graham ries, topped off with a sprinkling of salted mixed nuts. Steve says it’s a symphony in your mouth!

BY JIM LONGWORTH Like most senior citizens, I am set in my ways. I like to watch the same old TV shows over and over again. I like to wear the same old pair of jeans around the house. I identify more with Johnny Bench than Johnny Depp. And I won’t try any food that has “grain” in the name.

OK, so a few weeks ago I was leaving the Triad Today studio when my friend Steve Rehburg, an account executive at abc45, handed me a bag of something called “Gorilla Grains”. I trust Steve because, like me, his hair is turning gray, nevertheless I wasn’t about to sample a bag of grain just because he offered it.

“Try it,” he said. “My wife Alicia makes it.” I thanked him and walked away, intending to re-gift the Gorilla Grains to my wife Pam. As fate would have it, I got stuck in traffic on the way home, and the longer I was stuck, the hungrier I grew. In what can only be described as an act of desperation, I opened the re-sealable bag of Gorilla Grains, and poured a handful of the buttery sweet morsels into my mouth.

It was the best thing I had ever tasted! In just a few short seconds, I had gone from being set in my ways, to being hooked on grain. As a journalist I was naturally intrigued to learn more about my new vice, so I contacted Alicia Rehburg to find out about her company, and how she came to invent Gorilla Grains.

Jim: How would you describe Gorilla Grains?

Alicia: It’s a small, batch-baked granola with a toasty, buttery taste, and light, delicate crunch. We use 100% organic oats and real butter.

Jim: What gave you the idea to try and create the perfect grains?

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Jim: You talk about Steve a lot. How did the two of you meet?

Alicia: We met outside of his television station. I went there on a Saturday morning to volunteer to answer telephones for a crisis call line. He was there to let volunteers in the building, then he would go back to his office and drink coffee and read the newspaper. After he let me in, he never made it back to his office (laughs).

Alicia and Steve Rehburg.

Alicia: My husband Steve was a chef by trade. Food had to taste good to him, so he was not on board with any granola snacks that I made for our children. In fact, I had him sample granola from far and wide, and he said the bag they came in tasted better than the granola. I was convinced that there had to be a better way to make granola that would be tasty to discerning palates like Steve’s. I also believed there had to be a way to make a healthier snack than the things people stash in their desks at work.

Jim: So how long did it take you to come up with the right formula?

Alicia: For fourteen years I tried out

variations of the recipe on Steve. The poor guy endured things no one should have to (laughs). Remember, this is someone who would rather go hungry, than eat foods that don’t taste good.

Jim: Once you hit on the right formula, how did you envision Gorilla Grains being used?

Alicia: Customers tell me they like to put it on top of their Greek yogurt. Others take it to work for a snack right out of the bag. In fact, I hear that a lot of moms put a bag of Gorilla Grains in their kids’ backpack for school. Our favorite way to eat it, is in a parfait with Greek yogurt, layered with Gorilla Grains and frozen, mixed ber-

That chance encounter led Alicia and Steve to the altar, and later produced four children. Today, the couple and their youngest daughter live in Graham, and Alicia’s company is growing by leaps and bounds. Gorilla Grains is garnering rave reviews, and was a finalist in the first annual Big Tasty contest held in Asheville, winning Alicia an opportunity to study at Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center.

Jim: How did the Rutgers experience help you, and what are your goals for the company now?

Alicia: The wealth of knowledge I gained there established our direction for future growth, which is to market Gorilla Grains as a premium food product, and make it available to the public through fine retail stores, as well as through online sales at www.gorillagrains.com.

As for me, I’m still set in my ways. I still watch the same old TV shows, and wear the same old pair of jeans. But my outlook on eating grains has changed, thanks to a lady in Graham, her guinea pig husband, and a bag with a gorilla on it. !

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last call [THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

BY AMY ALKON

THE TRUTH ABOUT STATS AND DOGS I’m a woman looking for a new boyfriend and considering various online dating sites.

Some have long questionnaires, and they factor your answers into an “algorithm” to match you with the best possible partner.

Are these sites significantly better than the others? — Site Seeker

Most people will tell you they want to be accepted for who they really are — yet those doing online dating rarely post profiles with stuff like “I like long walks on the beach, fine dining, and obscenely large breasts.”

In light of this, sites using these compatibility “algorithms” would seem to have some added value. However, according to a massive online dating analysis by social psychologist Eli Finkel and his colleagues, this algorithm stuff mainly seems to be a “science!”-flavored marketing ploy. The researchers explain that it’s “virtually impossible” for sites to do what they promise with these algorithms: “match people who are uniquely suited to one another” and who are likely to have a “satisfying and lasting long-term relationship” together.

As the Finkel team notes about the “uniquely suited” business: The evidence suggests that these algorithms are really no better at rooting out compatible partners than the matching most people already do themselves with sites’ search parameters — culling the herd of breathing, profile-posting humans down to, say, fellow Ph.D.s who are also weekend Satan worshippers. (“Shall we meet at the Starbucks by your office, or are you up for an afternoon of ritual goat slaughter?”)

Even more outrageous is the sites’ claim that this mathematical alchemy can identify two people who can have a lasting, happy relationship together who have yet to even meet. The researchers point out that the algorithms only measure the “individual characteristics of partners” (personality, attitudes, values, background). They note that this is just one of three essential variables that determine whether relationships sink or swim.

The other two are elements that can’t really be sussed out before two people are in a relationship. One is the “circumstances surrounding (a) couple” — like how they fit into each other’s family and whether one loses their job or goes through other major stressors. The other factor is the “interactions between the partners” — how partners communicate, solve problems, and support each other.

I would add an essential fourth factor that needs to be assessed face to face — physical attraction. So, regarding those “29 dimensions of compatibility!” that one site advertises, consider, if you will,

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30 and 31: discovering “this must be what dead bodies smell like when the detectives cover their nose with a hanky on TV” and “I’m as sexually attracted to you as I am to a stalk of wheat.”

There’s also the “garbage in, garbage out” problem (statisticians’ shorthand for how poor-quality input leads to poorquality output). It’s unlikely that people are any more honest and accurate in filling out these questionnaires than they are in their online dating profiles. (No, sadly, outside the world of “gender-fluid” activism, being a woman isn’t just “a state of mind.”)

Typically, deception in online dating profiles is intentional; sometimes — as research on personality finds — we can’t quite see ourselves as we really are. For example, take an item on one of these sites’ compatibility surveys: “I try to accommodate the other person’s position.”

There are seven little circles on a scale to blacken in, from “not at all” to “very well.” Well, okay, but do control freaks always understand that they’re control freaks? Sometimes somebody seriously controlling might fill in “very well” on “I try to accommodate...” simply because they see themselves in the best light — instead of the actual light: “I’m Stalin — though I’ve never been able to grow much of a mustache.”

Probably the best that can be said about these personality questionnaires is that they might lead you into a little helpful introspection. But otherwise, these tests seem as pointless as they are grueling (kind of like filling out an application for a bank loan for your personality).

This isn’t to knock online dating itself, which offers really rapid, easy access to a lot of potential partners whom you’d probably never meet otherwise. However, it helps to have a smart strategy vis-a-vis the potential pitfalls, and that’s meeting any person you think might be a possibility ASAP (before you have any long, bond-y text-athons).

Meeting pronto gives you the best shot at seeing whether you click, as well as spotting any vast differences between profile and reality. And as I always advise about first dates, keep it cheap, short, and local. Less investment means less disappointment if you find out a guy’s lying — or, maybe worse, if he’s being honest: He really is looking for his “partner in crime” — because one of the guys on his robbery crew got arrested last week. !

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[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) The sun returns “home” to your sign this week.

You likely will find it to be energizing. Now is the time to focus on new plans for this next year of your life. Take a fresh look at where you want to direct your energy.

Don’t press your luck in the arenas of relationship(s). Maintain yourself within appropriate boundaries.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Mercury travels slowly through your sign between now and the end of September.

It will be going through its retrograde cycle before it moves along. Take care with any decision of importance because you likely will find reason to change your mind. New information keeps popping up to alter your direction. See the lead paragraph for more information.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) This is a good time to experience a new type of activity with your lover or partner.

Go somewhere different together. Make an effort to try out new restaurants or change the usual environment while you are together. Don’t just sit and watch TV, particularly if that is what you usually do.

Go play!

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your energy is running high early in the week. You may want to demonstrate your skills and talents to others. Try to manage this without major display of ego.

Avoid losing your temper lest you suffer the consequences. An authority figure might want to bring you down by the end of the week.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) You are working very hard to give birth to a child or a creative enterprise. The timing feels crucial. Only longterm persistence will yield results, so it is best to assess whether you have the will and the support to accomplish your goal.

(Gamblers beware: Pay off your debts or things will go poorly for you.)

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Changes may be occurring in your primary relationship. One or the other of you is probably trying to hang onto what is familiar. Changes and growth must be allowed to happen or the relationship will become stale. Let things flow naturally.

Don’t jump to conclusions or make problems bigger than they are in the name of control.

been doing since last fall. There is also a sense in which you have become bored with the project. Return mentally to the place you started to re-ignite your passion. This is probably not the best time to quit.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You would be happy to take the first flight to Tahiti and never bat an eye over it. Short of that, you may be taking small mental breaks this week, with lots of daydreaming and drifting. Make notes about those things you need to remember. The brain fog might drown out worthwhile information.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You have enough energy to spare. Apply heavy muscle to exercise or a chore that needs to be done. Otherwise you may become snappy and are liable to pick a fight. Work with those who share your rhythm this week, or you may say things that you’ll wish you had not. We each have our own drumbeat and yours is no better or worse than anyone else’s.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your romantic side is cooperating well at this time with your nurturing side. This is especially good for female friendships.

Make a date for lunch and reconnect with people you like. Communion with others will be pleasurable. Your heart will smile at the warm, fuzzy feelings.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your focus shifts to matters of home, hearth, and family. Things of the past may float up in your mind for reflection. If this occurs, ask yourself what you learned from the former experience. It probably would help you now. Family concerns may occupy your attention.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Venus enters your sign this week and will be traveling “with you” through August 26, 2017. Her presence gives you an air of poise and people will simply like how you look. You may become interested in your personal appearance and make improvements in how you are seen. This is the time to try out new glasses, clothing and hair styles.

Are you interested in a personal horoscope?

Vivian Carol may be reached at (704) 366-3777 for private psychotherapy or astrology appointments.

There is a fee for services.

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[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You may be under pressure to follow through and display work that you have

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