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The concept at CHEZ GENÈSE has been a dream of Hubert’s for years. “It started out as a really random daydream...

If I could have any job in the world, what would it be?” Hubert said she knew almost instantly that it would be to open a restaurant hat helped people achieve a first or second opportunity in life.

10 “I’ve always known I’d write a book about Wyatt Earp,” said author MARK WARREN in a recent phone conversation.

The Georgia-based novelist has written three.

11 HENRY GRILLO has been appointed interim dean at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in Winston-Salem.

12 The sheer notion of Quentin Tarantino committing this era to celluloid is a tantalizing one, and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – his ninth film, as the ads proudly proclaim – is steeped in the pop-culture milieu he’s embraced since day one.

18 A Friday morning post on the HOMELESS UNION of Greensboro’s Facebook page alleged that organization has been “evicted”

from the Interactive Resource Center, where it was founded a year and a half ago...

19 During this 50th anniversary month of the Apollo moon landing, I watched a number of NASA-related movies, and while most of them were topnotch productions, it occurred to me that hardly any of the actors actually looked or sounded anything like the real-life astronauts they were PORTRAYING. 20 You have to spend a fair bit of time in the Sunshine State to get a feel for its character, its vastness and its idiosyncrasies. The hip-hop-inflected indie synth-pop duo HURRICANE PARTY are distinctly Floridian. The band just released its debut full-length LP, Juice, a record that tips its hat to Florida in all kinds of ways.

21 The news of DWIGHT BOWERS passing on July 14 swept through Greensboro like a rug pulled out from underneath; and though downtown will be forever dimmer in his absence, close friends at Cafe Europa have organized a memorial service and dance party in his honor on Aug. 11.

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‘COMMON TIES THAT BIND’

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

On Aug. 2, Sawtooth School for Visual Art (251 Spruce St. N., in Winston-Salem) will host a reception and artist talk with Ownes Daniels for his exhibition “Common Ties That Bind,” which is on display now until Aug. 23. The reception and artist talk with Daniels is from 5 to 7 p.m.

According to the Facebook event page, the reception will also include a guest appearance and performance by “ songstress Diana Tuffin accompanied

by African drummer Hashim Saleh.” The models of each work of art in the exhibit (A.J. Jumper, Dont’a Thomas, Francessa Adams, Marisa Greeson, Ashley Price, Joseph Price, Alex Fuentes, and Jayla Allen) will be in attendance to discuss their experiences and thoughts on the exhibition.

Sawtooth executive director Amy Jordan said that “Common Ties That Bind” is a “timely and relevant exhibit.” Jordan explained that Daniels started off as a student at Sawtooth, and then became its artist-in-residence.

“He progressed really rapidly, and he did his first solo exhibit here in our Corridor Gallery and just really formed a relationship that has been on-going,” she said.

“Last year he did a residency with us, and we wanted to help support him by really supporting an exhibit he wanted to put together.”

Daniels said the vision of the mixedmedia exhibit “Common Ties That Bind” started as another project in April 2018, but gradually morphed into what it is now. Daniels describes himself as “a news junkie,” and he gets a lot of his ideas from the news. After hearing people open up publically about sexual assault and harassment during the Me Too Movement, “the biggest thing that struck me was, everybody came on T.V. had something that was common among them: Some old white guy, some time ago, had molested them.”

Through the stories of people coming forward to share their experience, Daniels said he started to notice this pattern, and it inspired him. He also noticed the difference of being “tied” to something versus being “bound.”

“You are tied up, but you have a certain amount of independence,” Daniels explained. “So, whereas, you are bound to something, you have either no independence or no freedom at all. That is why it is called ‘Common Ties That Bind,’ The work I want the visitor to suggest to themselves is, ‘am I tied to this situation, or am I bound?’”

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Upon entering the gallery, Daniels said there would be a small basket with cut-up rope in it for viewers to take with them and give it away as they walk through the exhibition. As they look at each work of art, they will examine themselves and ask themselves if they are tied to it or if they are bound to it.

“It is our hope that the community will visit this exhibit and experience the narrative that the artist brings to life in this body of work,” Jordan said. “Art is a compelling medium for elevating and addressing ideologies, and our partnership with Owens endeavors to engage the diverse members of our community and jumpstart conversations about race and other forms of bias.”

Jordan pointed out that Sawtooth will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2020.

“We continue to provide creative art expression for all age groups in 10 disciplines, including painting, drawing, printmaking, glass, metals, wood, digital arts, textiles, photography and ceramics,” she said.

“Sawtooth was founded by the Junior League and was originally known as the Arts and Craft Workshop. Since then, we have moved several times and gone through many transitions, but always providing a space for our community to create.”

Jordan said the “Common Ties That Bind” reception and artist talk will be held in the Davis Gallery, located on the second floor of Sawtooth.

The next exhibit opens in September and will feature paintings by New Yorkbased artist, Mariyah Sultan. !

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Chez Gènese: Genesis or ‘A new beginning’

athryn Hubert is reminded of her new beginning every day. Although, Chez Genèse, her French-inspired cafe has not quite reached its one-year Kristi Maier anniversary mark @triadfoodies (that happens in late October), one year ago she was in Contributor the throes of remodeling her space in downtown Greensboro with an eye on a dream—to find her place in the hospitality industry while helping young adults with mental and intellectual disabilities.

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The concept at Chez Genèse has been a dream of Hubert’s for years. “It started out as a really random daydream...If I could have any job in the world, what would it be?” Hubert said she knew almost instantly that it would be to open a restaurant hat helped people achieve a first or second opportunity in life.

Inspired by her cousins who have autism, her dream narrowed in scope to working with young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. “They are the heartbeat behind my mission.”

Hubert already had a culinary degree.

She lived in France for a year to study French cuisine, and afterward graduated from UNCG with a degree in hospitality. From there, she began working with autistic youth, and during that time, she began to visualize her calling.

The young entrepreneur calls her Chez Genèse “French-inspired” in service and cuisine. “I love French food and culture,” she said. “I think the generosity that the French have with their time and with their food and the mentality of taking simple, quality ingredients and spending time on them fits hand -in-hand with what we are trying to achieve from a mission perspective,” to create a culture that serves.

Taking the fast-paced, stressful nature of the restaurant industry into consideration, there was a special hiring process for those on her staff with disabilities.

“It’s noisy. There are sounds, smells, visual and personal interaction.” Hubert needed to know from each of the applicants how they handled stress and what they would need from her. Training was a

good two months, followed by intensive training two-weeks before opening with refreshers simulating real-life experiences and a lot of repetition to increase the staff ’s confidence.

“No one on our staff had worked in a restaurant before so we were able to train them the way we wanted to.”

Chez Genèse is breakfast and lunch only with no plans to change.

“It allows us all to get back home to our families and recharge and helps us look forward to those special events.”

Hubert said she enjoys feature nights, wine dinners, and special events because it allows her to break out and test her creativity outside of the regular menu.

The Chef’s Table menu was an example of a playful take on seasonal ingredients, celebrating Bastile Day.

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Pork Ribs with Herb Butter and Apple/Fennel Slaw

FIRST COURSE

Grilled Peach Burrata Salad with Arugula Peaches and blueberries, the fruits of the season, brought beautiful sweetness to this starter course, and it contrasted so well with the slightly bitter arugula.

Creamy burrata is a welcomed addition to anything at any time for me.

SECOND COURSE

Dry-rub Pork Ribs with Herb Butter and Apple/Fennel Slaw The smells coming from the kitchen were signaling what was to come and tantalized us as we awaited its arrival.

The rub gave a great smoky char to the ribs while the tart and sweet slaw cleansed the palate and kept you going back for more.

THIRD COURSE

Cheese Course with French Bread, Honeycomb, Fruit Hubert wanted to really immerse the group and give us the quintessentially French cheese course. A cheese course is quite fun and a nice departure during a tasting, particularly after the main course. It readied us for the sweet dream to come.

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Cheese Course with French Bread, Honeycomb, Fruit

FOURTH COURSE

Champagne and Raspberry Ice Cream Float Super simple and luscious and bubbly.

The float was reminiscent of our childhood days with a nice adult spin.

The guests at the Chef’s Table and any patron who visits Chez Genèse knows the time that the kitchen staff is putting in and there’s a sense of patience and graciousness on both sides of the table, from guest to server. And the servers are there for the long haul.

“During our one-on-one meetings, so many of our staff members told us they see this place as their career goal,” Hubert said. “We want them to be here as long as they want to be here, but we’ll also gladly help them be to be a stepping stone on their career path.”

Knowing that Hubert said the cafe is just now at the place where they can help those that want to stay long-term and find fulfilling ways in which to do so. “We’re now asking our employees what they want to do and how we can help them fulfill that personal need of developing new skills or do something different, so they don’t feel stuck in the same job.”

Champagne and Raspberry Ice Cream Float

And that leads us to what Hubert’s next dream will be, and that is to make a broader impact than just her business.

The cafe already offers workshops and is focusing on a strong catering business.

In the next year, she plans to roll out a training program for individuals to get training and life skills, and she will network with other businesses for job placement. “We could be a revolving door to set people up to succeed in other workplace settings,” she said. “If you know what drives someone and what motivates them and what they love. If you can tap into that and they come into work, and they get to do what they love, their productivity goes up as well as their enjoyment. And I think you can feel that as a team and as a guest when you come here.” !

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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‘Utterly devoid of physical fear:’ Novelist Mark Warren writes about a famous gunfighter

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I’ve always known I’d write a book about Wyatt Earp,” said author Mark Warren in a recent phone conversation.

The Georgia-based Ian McDowell novelist has written three. Adobe Moon, the first book of Contributor his Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey trilogy, was published in 2017. The second, Born to the Badge, a year later, and the third, Promised Land, will be released Oct. 1.

The first two novels take Wyatt from bouncing in a Missouri brothel to law enforcement in Dodge, where he uses what he learned from an Irish boxer (and the butt of his revolver) to “cool off ” and disarm drunken Texas cowboys disobeying ordinances against carrying guns in town. In Kansas, he meets the irascible John Henry Holliday, becoming one of the few people the deadly dentist turned gambler actually likes.

In the last book, Wyatt joins his brothers and Holliday in Tombstone, where tensions mount between the Republican Yankee “law dogs” and the Dixiecrat drovers who provide the town with beef by stealing Mexican cattle (and sometimes murdering vaqueros). A 30-second shootout in the alley beside Fly’s Photographic Studio (not the OK Corral) results in the Vendetta Ride that effectively ended Wyatt’s law enforcement career.

Mark Warren, who is 72, first became fascinated by Wyatt Earp at age 7. That was 1955, when The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, the first T.V. Western aimed at adults, premiered on ABC. But Warren became fascinated with Wyatt not via T.V., but by reading Stuart Lake’s biography Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall. Lake’s book was published in 1931, two years after Wyatt’s ashes were buried a Jewish cemetery. Lake died in 1964 but lived to see himself and his book discredited, and its subject’s reputation tarnished. “It’s a pity Lake turned Wyatt into a such a flawless hero,” Warren said,” because he also did a lot of great research. Once the book was proved to YES! WEEKLY

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contain lies, it was widely assumed that Wyatt was responsible. He wasn’t. Other than when talking about the death of Johnny Ringo, about which we’ll probably never know the truth, Wyatt was scrupulously honest.”

Because Stuart Lake fabricated so much, it was once believed that Billy Breakenridge’s 1928 memoir Helldorado was more accurate. Breckinridge, a friend to the “Cow-Boys” killed in the gunfight and deputy to the Dixiecrat sheriff who was Wyatt’s political enemy and romantic rival, portrayed Wyatt as a liar, thief, pimp and murderer. Breakenridge’s book was just as fictionalized as Lake’s, but because as grittier, it seemed more “real.”

It’s only in recent decades that historians, relying on primary documents such as 19th century court transcripts, diaries, and correspondence rather than self-serving 20th century memoirs, have mostly concluded that, until Morgan was murdered and Virgil crippled in ambushes, the Earp brothers were lawmen legitimately trying to do their duty rather than criminals out to eliminate rivals.

Today, the best biography of the wandering gunman who could never find what he wanted in life and only became posthumously famous is Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller. “Casey did such a great job that I

Author Mark Warren knew there was no point in my trying to a do a biography,” Warren said.

In turn, Tefertiller gave Warren’s Adobe Moon the kind of blurb any author of historical fiction would kill to get from a respected historian. “This wonderfully written work makes readers feel almost as if they are sitting next to Wyatt on that brothel barge on the Illinois River, enjoying the treats of the time. Historical fiction can be a delight, and Warren delivers.” I asked Warren why he spent so many decades researching his trilogy but

only began writing it in his 60s.

“It took me that long to figure out how Wyatt thought. I just could not make sense of so much of what he did, until I realized the answer had been staring me in the face all along. Several of his contemporaries, including Bat Masterson, said virtually the same words about him: he was one of the few men that I ever met in the West who was utterly devoid of physical fear. That’s not the same thing as a courage. There’s a difference between a man who never feels fear and one who conquers it.”

To learn more about Mark Warren and to read the first chapter of Adobe Moon for free, visit www.wyattearpanamericanodyssey.com !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Mark Warren will speak about and give a slide presentation on Wyatt Earp at Scuppernong Books at 304 S. Elm Street in Greensboro on Sunday, Aug. 11. The event, which is free and open to the public, will last from 2 to 3 p.m., with a signing afterward.

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Appointments, accolades at UNCSA School of Filmmaking

Mark Burger

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Henry Grillo has been appointed interim dean at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in Winston-Salem. An associate dean since 2010, Grillo succeeds Susan Ruskin, who recently accepted a position as dean at the AFI (American Film Institute) Conservatory in Los

Angeles.

“Henry Grillo is extraordinarily qualified to guide our top-ranked film school during the 2019-’20 academic year,” said Karin Peterson, interim provost of UNCSA, in an official statement. “His wisdom and expertise will serve us well as we search for a permanent dean while continuing to provide the nation’s finest training for creative storytelling.

“With over four decades in teaching and higher-education administration – including stints at Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Evansville (IN) – Grillo taught for 25 years in the UNCSA School of Design and Production, as assistant dean and director of graduate programs, he oversaw the expansion from four MFA programs to 10.

“After a transition to the School of Filmmaking, he instituted new graduate programs, including a collaborative gaming program with North Carolina State University, created the interdisciplinary film production program for students who pursue degrees outside the school’s eight established disciplines, and provided the infrastructure for a 42% increase in enrollment over the past decade.

“As testament to his leadership, Henry’s tenure at UNCSA has been marked by firsts: He was the first to hold the title of associate dean, the first administrative fellow, and the first director of the faculty enrichment center.”

Grillo has also received both the UNCSA and UNC Board of Governors’ awards for teaching excellence during his tenure at UNCSA. With the announcement of nominations for the 71st annual Emmy Awards earlier this month, three graduates of UNCSA are in the running.

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ultimately resilient relationship between legendary choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and the equally legendary entertainer Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams). Canfield, a casting director with the Los-Angeles based Telsey + Company, previously earned Emmy nominations for NBC’s This is Us in 2017 and the FOX presentation of Grease Live!

(2016), and won a Casting Society of America Award in 2017 for the feature film The Greatest Showman.

Margaret Qualley, who studied ballet in UNCSA’s high school program, received a nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, for her performance as actress/dancer Ann Reinking in Fosse/Verdon, which earned 11 nominations in all. Qualley, the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell and Paul Qualley, also appeared in the HBO sci-fi series The Leftovers (2014-’17) and can currently be seen in a pivotal role opposite Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This is her first Emmy nomination.

Rounding out the UNCSA nominees is another first-timer, Zoe White (School of Filmmaking ‘04), nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for a SingleCamera Series (One Hour) for the episode “Holly” from the third season of the acclaimed, top-rated Hulu drama series The Handmaid’s Tale, which is based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel and earned 10 Emmy nominations altogether.

In 2018, White received nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Online Film and Television Association for her work on the series. She won a festival prize for best cinematography at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival for the 2016 short The Push, and her feature credits include writer/ director Onur Tukel’s comedies Catfight (2016) and The Misogynists (2017).

Henry Grillo Filmmaker Richard Clabaugh, a faculty member at the School of Filmmaking from 1999-2007, was unstinting in his praise for his former student.

“Zoe is really talented,” he said. “She was a fantastic, wonderful student, and a wonderful person. I’m super-thrilled to see her get an Emmy nomination.”

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FOX will broadcast Emmy Awards presentation on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 8 pm.

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

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High Point Museum & Historical Park A regular busker on the streets of Asheville, Vaden Landers is a true folk artist that focuses primarily on old-time and country blues music. Vaden Landers launched his musical career when he became known as part of a famous busking group in Asheville known as the Fly By Knight Rounders; which included the infamous Abby the Spoon Lady and the talented Chris Rodrigues. Vaden’s music is the epitome of art that is authentic and heartfelt. With a voice that’s been compared to a young Hank Williams, Vaden’s full band performance at the High Point Museum is not to be missed.

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n addition to the moon landing and the Miracle Mets, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Manson murders, a seminal Mark Burger event that too many signified the end of the Swingin’ Sixties.

Contributor The sheer notion of Quentin Tarantino committing this era to celluloid is a tantalizing one, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – his ninth film, as the ads proudly proclaim – is steeped in the pop-culture milieu he’s embraced since day one.

It’s not a documentary or even a docudrama, nor was it ever intended to be. This isn’t history revised; it’s history rewritten – which is nothing new for Tarantino, having upended a few historical facts in his 2008 hit The Inglorious Basterds, for which,

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it should be noted, he won the Academy Award Best Original Screenplay … And original it was.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is, at heart, a buddy movie. The buddies are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), best known for a Western television series called Bounty Law, and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his former student double and current minder.

At this particular point, Rick is stumbling through guest stints on other T.V. Westerns, mulling offers to appear in spaghetti Westerns, and convinced that his career is on the skids. It’s fun to watch DiCaprio play a dissipated, self-pitying neurotic, while Pitt plays Cliff as someone grateful for what career he did have and is happy to keep Rick’s spirits up. There’s a nobility in Cliff’s simple perspective on life, which makes for a nice contrast to Rick.

Just up the street from Rick – on Cielo Drive — lives the starlet Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). Newly married to the acclaimed Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha), who’s riding high on the success of Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Tate lives what appears to be a charmed life, hobnobbing with the top celebrities of the day, with a glorious career in front of her.

Fate, of course, would deal her the cruelest hand, but that’s not on Tarantino’s agenda at all. Yes, the Manson family hovers, although Charles Manson (Damon Herriman, who plays the same role in the Netflix series Mindhunter) is but a shadowy presence, often referred to but only briefly glimpsed.

There are digs at contemporary Hollywood and nods toward its past, delivered in the trademark staccato fashion that has always been a major component of Tarantino’s films. Some scenes burst with the sheer sensation of joy that comes only from movies, proof that Tarantino still brings a genuine (and genuinely skewed) sense of wonder to his work. There’s no question that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is grand entertainment, and cinematographer Robert Richardson revels in the heady, kaleidoscopic imagery of late ‘60s Tinseltown.

Yet somehow the sum is less than its parts. The film spins off into various tangents, not all of which are necessary, and not all of which are resolved.

The historical elements that the film uses as background are compelling enough on their own, and somewhere deep down, one can only wonder what Tarantino would have done with a straightforward account of the Manson murders, yet it

most certainly wouldn’t – and couldn’t – have been as enjoyable as this. Then again, even the very title Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is indicative of a fairy tale, although it being Tarantino it’s very much an R-rated fairy tale.

There’s a parade of familiar faces: Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch (as Hollywood hairdresser Jay Sebring), Damian Lewis (as Steve McQueen), Zoe Bell, Scoot McNairy, Michael Madsen, Rumer Willis, Lena Dunham, Rebecca Gayheart, Margaret Qualley, Nicholas Hammond (hilarious as actor-turned-director Sam Wanamaker), and the late Luke Perry (in his final role) – yet some barely make an impression.

Even Robbie, ostensibly the leading lady,

glides through the proceedings like an ethereal presence. Her interactions with DiCaprio and Pitt are minimal. She’s in a movie of her own — a bubblier, happier story than Rick and Cliff’s, which makes for an amusing irony.

Both DiCaprio and Pitt bring full-throttle star power to the proceedings, exuding expert comic timing and on-screen chemistry, and there are terrific bits by Julia Butters as a precocious young actress whose professionalism inspires Rick’s, and Mike Moh’s spot-on impression of Bruce Lee, shown here playing Cato on The Green Hornet series, whose boasting rubs the even-tempered Cliff the wrong way. !

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Women of Soul — $56 K.R. Williams Auditorium Winston Salem State University, 601 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. A celebratory tribute embracing different genres of the Soulful Sound honoring Mahalia Jackson, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, Donna Summer, Etta James, Anita Baker, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, Mavis Staples, Janis Joplin, Jill Scott – and that’s just naming a few.

Performed by: Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago, IL Written and Directed by: Daryl Brooks Produced by: Jackie Taylor Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Wednesday, July 31, 8 p.m., $56 (#37) Thursday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $56 (#60) Friday, Aug. 2, 8 p.m., $56 (#86) Saturday, Aug. 3, 3 p.m., $56 (#103) Saturday, Aug. 3, 8:00pm, $56 (#118) Natural Woman: An Aretha Franklin Tribute — $46 Reese Theatre – Embassy Suites 460 N Cherry St. A theatrical tribute to the legendary Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, as never told before. Experience her iconic songs all over again, including such hits as “Chain of Fools,” “Never Loved a Man,” “Ain’t No Way,” “Respect,” and more.

Performed by: Blake Vision Entertainment, Atlanta, GA Written & Directed by: Thandiwe Deshazor Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Wednesday, July 31, 8:00pm, $46 (#45) Thursday, August 1, 8:00pm, $46 (#68) Friday, August 2, 8:00pm, $46 (#95) Saturday, August 3, 8:00pm, $46 (#128) Gettin’ Old is a Bitch…

But I’m Gonna Wrestle That Bitch to the Ground — $46 Hamlin Theatre Stage 2 The Benton Convention Center, 301 W. 5th St. Ginger Peechee-Keane of the NBTF hit M.O.I.S.T. Back by popular demand! With more tips for sassy and bodacious grown folks on how to enhance their sexy grown folks business. Batteries not included.

Performed by: SitMyAssDown Comedy Productions, Chicago, IL Written by and Starring: Mariann Aalda as Adult Sex-Ed Evangelist and Mojo Motivator, Dr. Ginger Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Wednesday, July 31, 10:30pm, $46 (#50) WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Thursday, August 1, 10:30pm, $46 (#73) Friday, August 2, 10:30pm, $46 (#99) Saturday, August 3, 10:30pm, $46 (#131) Berta, Berta — $43 Drama Workshop Theatre Salem Academy & College Fine Arts 500 E. Salem Ave. After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover Berta.

Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.

Performed by: Langhart Communications Group, Washington, DC Written by: Angelica Chéri Directed by: Reginald L. Douglas Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Thursday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $43 (#64) Friday, Aug. 2, 8 p.m., $43 (#90) Saturday, Aug. 3, 3 p.m., $43 (#107) Saturday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m., $43 (#123) Twelfth Nigh—Or What You Will, Mon — FREE Winston Square Park, 310 N. Marshall St. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will with a twist. The Island of Illyria is now Jamaica and Shakespearian songs are replaced with Bob Marley classics—we prefer to call this play, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Mon. Performed by: North Carolina Black Repertory Company in collaboration with the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and UNCSA Winston-Salem, NC Directed by: Ted Lange Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Tickets available at venue on a first come first served basis.

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Storytelling Festival: Stories for Young People — $9 Hamlin Theatre Stage 2 The Benton Convention Center, 301 W. 5th St. Storytellers from across North Carolina skillfully weave tales of cultural history, fiction, humor and life lessons through this age-old tradition.

Presented by: NC Association of Black Storytellers Performance Dates, Times, and Costs: Thursday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m., $9 (#51) Friday, Aug. 2, 10 a.m., $9 (#74) !

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Sometimes a routine traffic stop (in this case, for an expired license plate) is the most interesting incident in a cop’s day. So it was on July 10 for Guthrie, Chuck Shepherd Oklahoma, police officers. Around 11 a.m., they stopped a car driven by Stephen Jennings, 40, who had a friend, Rachael Rivera, 30, in the front seat, and a timber rattlesnake in a terrarium on the back seat.

Jennings told police he had a gun in the car at about the same time they identified the car as stolen, reported KFOR. Upon further search, officers found an open bottle of whiskey (next to the gun) and a container of “yellowish powder” labeled “uranium.”

“The uranium is the wild card in that situation,” Guthrie Police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs explained. Jennings told police he was trying to create a “super snake” with the radioactive uranium. Charges for Jennings included possession of a stolen vehicle and transporting an open bottle of liquor.

Because it was rattlesnake season, his valid

hunting and fishing license absolved him of any charges related to the snake. Police are still trying to figure out what charges might be brought regarding the uranium.

RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES

Capitol Police in Montpelier, Vermont, discovered dozens of cannabis plants growing in the flower beds along a walkway at the Statehouse on July 8. Police Chief Matthew Romei told NBC5 that it was unclear whether the more than 30 plants were marijuana or hemp, and they don’t know who planted them. But since there is no criminal case, officials don’t plan to have the plants tested. “It’s legal to cultivate, but there are limits on where you can do it, and the Statehouse flower beds certainly aren’t one of those permissible sites,” Romei said. “If there is a typical Vermont story, this is probably it.”

SECONDHAND HIGH

Dr. Scott Dolginow, owner of Valley Emergency Pet Care in Basalt, Colorado, has noticed a new trend among his dog patients. He told The Aspen Times on July 11 that he’s seeing three to 10 dogs a week in his veterinary office with marijuana toxicity. No, they’re not toking alongside

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their owners around the fire pit. Dolginow’s theory is the dogs are eating human feces while on trails or camping with their owners and getting a secondhand buzz. Pet owner Rebecca Cole said her dog, Marty, started staggering, vomiting and urinating on the floor after hiking with her on a trail last spring. Cole took Marty to the vet, where “they said he was high. I couldn’t believe it because I don’t have anything in my house.”

Dolginow said, “Most dogs will eat human feces given the opportunity.”

arrested on July 9 as she motored toward home with an inflated kiddie pool on the roof of her SUV. CBS2 Chicago reported that Dixon police officers pulled Yeager over after being alerted that there were two children in the pool. Yeager told police she took the pool to a friend’s house to inflate it, then had her daughters ride inside it “to hold it down on their drive home.” Yeager was charged with two counts of endangering the health or life of a child and two counts of reckless conduct.

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— When not just any old Motel 6 will do, check into The Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyu, near Tokyo’s airport, and ask for the “Superior Cockpit Room.” Along with two beds, a bathroom and a table, the room features a full Boeing 737-800 flight simulator that offers guests the experience of piloting a full-size jet. According to United Press International, the room rents for $234 per night, but for a 90-minute simulator session with an expert, guests will have to cough up another $277. (The simulator can’t be used without supervision.) The room became available for booking on July 18.

— Gen. Charles Etienne Gudin, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s “favorite generals,” was killed by a cannonball on Aug. 22, 1812, during the failed French invasion of Russia.

Posthumously, he got the star treatment — a street named after him in Paris, his name carved on the Arc de Triomphe, and his heart removed and brought home to be placed in a Paris cemetery chapel.

But on July 6, Reuters reported, a team of archaeologists found what they believe are his remains buried (ironically) beneath the foundation of a dance floor in Smolensk, Russia. Their first clue? Gudin had lost one of his legs below the knee in battle, and indeed the skeleton was missing its left leg. Scientists will compare the skeleton’s DNA with living descendants of Gudin’s to confirm their suspicions.

THAT’S NOT THE WAY IT WORKS, KAREN

In Turkey’s new Istanbul Airport, a firsttime flyer had to be rescued on July 10 after she assumed the conveyor belt carrying luggage to the baggage sorting room was her path to the plane. The unnamed woman, juggling a carry-on and a shopping bag, stepped carefully up to the moving belt at the airport check-in and tried to climb on, but lost her balance and took a tumble. The Sun reported that airport personnel were quick to stop the conveyor belt and help her off.

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A. Janus Yeager, 49, of Dixon, Illinois, was

People in the United Arab Emirates depend heavily on expensive desalination for drinking water. But an Emirati businessman has a novel idea for providing fresh water to the Arabian gulf. Abdulla Alshehi wants to borrow an iceberg from Antarctica, EuroNews reported in May. For six years, Alshehi has been working on a plan to tow an iceberg, as much as 1.25 miles long and a third of a mile wide, the entire 5,500 miles to the UAE coast. He estimates the journey will take 10 months and the iceberg may lose about 30% of its mass, but Alshehi believes its presence could provide drinking water to about 1 million people for about five years. And that’s not all. “It’s expected that the presence of these icebergs may cause a weather pattern change (and) attract more rain to the region,” he said.

A trial run this year will move a smaller iceberg, at a cost of $60 million to $80 million. Alshehi believes the cost of the larger project will be between $100 million and $150 million.

MR. GUO IN THE KITCHEN WITH A LADLE

Nearly a year after chef Xiu Bin Wang, 33, was found dead in his room above China Chef carryout restaurant in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, police are still trying to figure out how he died, Metro News reported. He apparently suffered a “forceful blow” to the head, and officials first fingered Zhu Long Guo, a colleague at the restaurant who admitted to striking Wang with a ladle during an altercation. “A ladle was seized, and there was a thorough investigation,” Detective Constable Brad Wanless reported at an inquest on July 11.

But the coroner could not make a definite determination: “I do not accept that there is a clear causal link between the admitted blow with the ladle and the death of Mr. Wang,” senior coroner Grahame Short concluded. !

© 2019 Chuck Shepherd. Universal Press Syndicate.

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On the street with Billy Walsh: Homeless Greensboro artist overcomes obstacles through art

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colorful acrylic-painted canvases and his talent as a classical trumpet player.

Walsh, a native of Philadelphia, said the city had always been the landscape he paints most as an artist. He said one of the first times he became fascinated with art was when he was 10 years old and his mother, who was also an artist, took him to a museum. While looking at drawing of Isadora Duncan by Auguste Rodin, he told his mother that he could draw better and she replied: “Why don’t you?”

Walsh attended the Kansas City Art Institute and studied under Lester Goldman and Hal Parker. Then he went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He said he loved history and read all the greats with his favorites being Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, and Edward

Gibbon. European history was what got him into art, and he especially loved the modern era brought on by Picasso.

Walsh began making a living with art in 1971 and used to sell watercolor paintings of his lover who posed as his model. He said he grew up and met his sweetheart, Patti Ann in 1974, who “was one of the dearest creatures God ever made.” They lived together for eight years although they were like “two ships in the night,” with her working days and him playing trumpet at night and painting houses during the day.

Walsh said he had great mentors along the way, such as David Mills, a graduate of Cambridge and a scientist at Temple University, who was a good friend that introduced him to classical music. He

began helping Walsh play in classy places and weddings. Walsh said he had been a “hip artist,” so he cut his hair and started to dress in fine European suits with ties and cuff links to play trumpet in clubs, five-star restaurants and Italian kitchens across Philadelphia. He said he knew everyone, and played with the best musicians in Philadelphia including Patty Labelle and musicians who worked with Miles Davis over a period of 35 years, and he said they inspired him. He said he was working his “tail off five to six days a week, and the money was good, and the music was good.”

He was a self-taught musician beyond having music teachers in school and was proud to get to study music theory with Dennis Sandole, who taught John

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Coltrane. Walsh said he lived in Philadelphia for many years “with punks and drugs.” It was in the 1980s when he met his wife, Margaret. He said she worked as a schoolteacher and a receptionist. When she died of cancer eight years later, it was a dreadful time for him.

A short time after that, he had a sold-out show in a three-story national chain bookstore and had sold 32 paintings. Walsh said he took that money and moved by invitation from some of the people who purchased his paintings to the West Philadelphia suburbs. He said he tried hard to sustain $1,100 a month rent on a musician and artist’s inconsistent income, but he couldn’t do it. He left the suburbs in 2004 and became homeless and broke for 60 days and nights as he walked back into Philadelphia. He said, “the streets of Philadelphia were poison.”

While walking through gangs’ territory, he knew he couldn’t show any fear. One night, he said, after standing up to one gang member, he was “accepted and had license” to walk through their territory, especially after they heard him play his trumpet. After the eighth time of being robbed in his sleep, he left Philadelphia.

He said he wasn’t a brawler and wasn’t afraid to defend himself, but felt his days there were numbered.

Walsh said that in late summer of 2010, he began walking from Pennsylvania and that a hurricane led him to Greensboro.

He had walked first to Fredericksburg, Virginia, and was on his way to a music store in Richmond (to get valve oil for his trumpet) when he met Scotty Rogers, who drove him to Richmond and gave him $50. When he arrived in Greensboro on Sept. 1, 2010, all he wanted to do was rest.

He had a planned to go to Mobile, Alabama, and play the festivals, but when he walked in on Randleman Road and asked a policeman where he could find a shelter, he decided to stay in Greensboro after the Weaver House gave him a two-month stay in their shelter. He said he remembered artist William Mangum, who still comes for the Wednesday morning breakfasts, telling him “that’s a good drawing.” When Walsh ventured into Fisher Park and discovered all the single-story houses, he began painting again. Then he helped with WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Billy Walsh’s sketches and paintings displayed on the table and counter of Deep Roots Market’s Community Room (his art is not hanging on the walls)

cooking, cleaning and setting up for 150 homeless guests every week at United Grace Methodist Church. He said he ended up selling 60 paintings within three months. Walsh was then able to get his first apartment, but couldn’t keep it as an artist because he couldn’t make enough money to sustain his rent and became homeless again.

“If an artist is complaining about their life’s circumstances, I would say to them that they are not unique to go through things,” Walsh said. “You have to have the will and suffer the consequences. If people really like what you do and give you money for it and it inspires you, it’s up to you to know if you have the strength to do it. One reason I have been successful in surviving is because I keep going.”

Grace United Methodist Church’s “Arise Breakfasts” on Tuesday mornings is how Walsh became a member of the church.

He said that Pastor Morris Brown was

there for 12 years and now, Pastor Dan Martin; “a very fine man,” treats him with respect. Walsh said he stayed in their shelter for two winters and was grateful for their generosity and love. He said he has learned how to sustain himself, but if he had the right job in house painting, he’d work in a minute.

“Greensboro has given me the most peace of mind that I have had in my entire life,” he said. “I found peace in Jesus here.

I keep my bible by my side. Art is very important. Art is a reflection of God’s world.

You live your gifts. I have gifts, and I share them. I am so inspired by someone who works hard, I work hard, and I can’t blame anybody but myself if I don’t make it.”

Walsh said that aside from his two marriages, he “has lived underground as a homeless artist for 52 years.” Today, he said he gets up at 6 a.m. and walks to Hardee’s to get two cups of coffee; then he’ll go to Weaver House for lunch, and attend First Presbyterian Church’s “Hot Dish & Hope” dinner for the homeless at 6 p.m. He said he mostly does art all day and takes breaks to play his trumpet.

“This guy amazes me and the first day he began talking about his life,” said Doug Branscom, a cashier at Deep Roots Market. “I wanted to know his story and day by day; I learn more about his amazing life.” Branscom has adopted him as his brother in memory of his own brother who died. He buys his acrylic paints and takes him out to eat on his birthday and listens to his stories, just like a real brother.

Walsh said the mayor of Philadelphia back then once said, “Billy Walsh is a national treasure and Philadelphia’s bestkept secret.” Now, he is a precious hidden gem in Greensboro. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, singer/songwriter, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/housesitting.

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Rift between Hyde and Kennedy goes public UPDATE: After this article was published, Michelle Kennedy made the following the statement: “Marcus Hyde was never an IRC employee. He was an AmeriCorps member and we were his site placement.

Ian McDowell He also didn’t quit — he was terminated Contributor from AmeriCorps for failure to follow program guidelines.”

A Friday morning post on the Homeless Union of Greensboro’s Facebook page alleged that organization has been “evicted” from the Interactive Resource Center, where it was founded a year and a half ago, and that “the eviction notice gives us until Aug. 1 to leave, with no real method for appealing that decision.”

The lengthy post, the entirety of which can be read on Facebook, including the following allegation: “We are especially concerned with threats to issue trespassing citations to people who come on the property after

hours, and the fact that guests of the IRC don’t have any real means to address grievances or concerns, give feedback or direction to the IRC.” Michelle Kennedy, executive director of the IRC and At-large Representative to the Greensboro City Council, responded to the post with a Facebook comment protesting what Kennedy called “gatekeeping” and “manipulating the actual words spoken by people experiencing homelessness.”

Kennedy’s comment also stated that “people experiencing homelessness are interested in a homeless union that they actually lead themselves and have reached out to the IRC asking if meeting space might be available to them because so much of the time spent with HUG [the Homeless Union of Greensboro] is taken up by the notions and ideas of the selfappointed housed mouthpieces and their planned agendas.”

These remarks appeared to refer to Homeless Union of Greensboro organizer and co-founder Marcus Hyde, who has denounced what he has called Kennedy’s “failure to stand up for someone she knew that got killed by the police.”

Hyde was referring to the death of

Marcus Deon Smith, whom Kennedy spoke fondly of in a December statement to YES! Weekly. The Homeless Union of Greensboro’s Facebook post also stated: “concern that our eviction is connected to our efforts to get Justice for Marcus Deon Smith.”

Hyde, who helped the Smith family get legal representation and has been a strong proponent of their suit, resigned from the IRC late last year, and this year has been critical of Kennedy when speaking from the floor during town hall meetings, particularly following the city council’s decision to table its previously announced independent review of the Greensboro Police Department’s fatal hogtying of Marcus Deon Smith, which occurred after Smith’s family announced they were suing the city.

Just before noon, this writer reached out to both Smith and Kennedy about the Facebook post and Kennedy’s comment on it.

“The IRC has a very top-down power structure, so it was a conflict of interest for me to work there and encourage homeless people to speak up about issues that affect them,” wrote Hyde when asked about his resignation from the

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organization. “I should have quit earlier.”

When asked about his dispute with Kennedy, Smith replied, “I just think she doesn’t like to be criticized” and accused Kennedy of “trying to discredit and silence her critics.”

Kennedy had equally strong statements.

Addressing what she called his “accusation that the IRC is citing people for trespassing, or that we don’t have for people to air their grievances,” Kennedy exclaimed, “You’ve got to be kidding me!

Mr. Hyde’s claims are completely unwarranted and false.”

“What other executive director has their personal cell phone on their business cards, and has a standing open-door policy with every person that they serve? I will absolutely ask somebody to leave the property if there’s a conflict with another person, but what that means at the IRC is that you have to leave for that day, and can come back tomorrow morning.

We never ban people permanently or tell people that they can’t ever come back.

But if there’s a safety issue, I’ll absolutely ask somebody to leave, but that’s not citing somebody for trespassing.”

“It’s not the Homeless Union there’s an issue with,” she said. “We’ve had good relationships with the group in the past, and unfortunately, we’ve had to cut down on meetings after hours at our campus, due to staffing and security issues. We always want to be welcoming to others in our community, but resources can only go so far. And we wish them the best of luck.”

She said that, on July 16, she had sent an email to the Homeless Union stating that the IRC no longer had the resources to provide that organization after-hours staff.

“Every year we get requests from a number of groups to have meetings, so we reevaluate who we have given space to and how long have we given it, how does that impact our staffing, etc. and we reset the calendar ever July,” Kennedy said. “We sent the email saying this is what’s happening beginning Aug. 1. Marcus responded and asked if something was wrong. I responded with what I just told you and thought that was the end of it until he made this post today. I probably should not have commented on Facebook, but my surprise at his outrageous and unwarranted post got the better of me.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Some movie characters miss the mark During this 50th anniversary month of the Apollo moon landing, I watched a number of NASArelated movies, and while most of them were topnotch productions, it occurred to me Jim Longworth that hardly any of the actors actually looked or sounded Longworth anything like the at Large real-life astronauts they were portraying. Tom Hanks, for example, neither looked nor sounded like Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, and Ryan Gosling was a total wash-out as Neil Armstrong in First Man, for the same reasons.

These anti-doppelganger experiences prompted me to think back on all of the films in which someone was decidedly miscast, and, since we are now obsessed with presidential politics, I thought I’d share my thoughts on some of the more egregious screen portrayals of political figures.

JFK: To date, dozens of actors have portrayed John Kennedy, including William Devane in Missiles of October, Martin Sheen in the mini-series Kennedy, and Rob Lowe in Killing Kennedy. But it takes more than a Boston accent to make the 35th president come alive on screen. Latenight T.V. host-turned actor Greg Kinnear did that for me when he appeared in REELZ channel’s The Kennedys. It wasn’t a very good series, but Kinnear made me believe he was JFK. RFK: Among the men who have donned flop hair and a Boston accent in trying to portray Bobby Kennedy, were Steven Culp in Thirteen Days, Martin Sheen in Missiles of October, and John Shea in Kennedy. The worst of these was Barry Pepper in The Kennedys. Again, Pepper is a fine actor, but totally miscast as JFK’s younger brother. On the positive side, I thought the most convincing Bobby was Law & Order’s Linus Roache in FX’s RFK. What Roache lacked in cosmetic accuracy, he made up for with his authentic passion.

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trap in LBJ, as did James Cromwell in RFK, and Tom Wilkinson in Selma. Randy Quaid attempted the role in LBJ the Early Years, but he just looked goofy, and, as his character aged, his hair looked like someone painted white-out on it. Thus far, the best Johnson interpretation has come from my friend Bryan Cranston in All the Way, for which he won a Tony before taking his play to the big screen in 2016.

dent, one in 1974’s Lincoln, and again in 1985’s North and South. He’s even better than Daniel Day-Lewis.

Finally, my highest praise goes to James Brolin in Showtime’s, The Reagans. Brolin made me believe that he was Reagan, and he should have won the Emmy that year.

Thus far, no major films have been made with Trump as the lead character,

but if that ever happens, we can only hope that Ryan Gosling doesn’t get the role. !

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Nixon: Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella are world-class thespians, but both came up short in their portrayals of Richard Nixon, Hopkins in Nixon, and Langella in Frost/Nixon. Hopkins looked nothing like the controversial president and sounded like Hannibal Lecter doing an impression of Nixon. Langella also looked nothing like Nixon, and his speech cadence was way off the mark. Strangely enough, my favorite Nixon was Beau Bridges in TNT’s Kissinger and Nixon.

Bridges understood his subject and expertly captured Nixon’s nuances.

41 & 43: Both George H.W. Bush and son George W. have been memorialized on film. Our 43rd president was played by Josh Brolin in Oliver Stone’s production, W, in which Brolin’s mannerisms and speech patterns were pretty accurate, although he was nowhere near a dead ringer for Bush. Meanwhile, Brolin’s onscreen dad was played by James Cromwell who neither looked nor sounded like our 41st president. Being tall wasn’t enough to make us believe Cromwell knew anything about voodoo economics.

Obama: In 2016, two films were released about a young Barack Obama.

Devon Terrell played the lead in Barry, and Parker Sawyers starred in Southside With You. Neither actor looked like Obama, but Terrell at least managed to get the voice right.

The others: James Whitmore hit a home run with his televised one-man show as Harry Truman, while Ralph Bellamy and Edward Herrmann are captivating as FDR in Sunrise at Campobello and Eleanor and Franklin, respectively.

Dennis Quaid also deserves high marks as Bill Clinton in The Special Relationship.

Meanwhile, stay away from Tom Selleck’s turn as Eisenhower in IKE: Countdown to D-Day. He just looked like Magnum without hair. And don’t bother with Sam Waterston’s Lincoln, but check out Hal Holbrook’s two turns as the 16th presiJULY 31 - AUGUST 6, 2019 YES! WEEKLY

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lorida is, like the South itself, a place that the rest of the country doesn’t fully understand.

(People can, and do, debate whether Florida is part of the John Adamian South.) You have to @johnradamian spend a fair bit of time in the Sunshine State to get a feel Contributor for its character, its vastness and its idiosyncrasies. The hip-hop-inflected indie synth-pop duo Hurricane Party is distinctly Floridian. The band just released its debut full-length LP, Juice, a record that tips its hat to Florida in all kinds of ways. Hurricane Party will be playing a show in Winston-Salem at Monstercade in one of a string of their first non-Florida dates in America. (They’ve also toured parts of Europe.)

The band’s name refers, of course, to a very Florida-centric social event. A hurricane party is a gathering of people who hunker down during a tropical storm, ignoring evacuation warnings, riding out the wind and rain, sharing the limited resources, partying while the lights flicker, and using up whatever’s left in the freezer before the power goes out. There’s something appropriately reckless about the concept. (Anyone’s seen the “Florida Man” account on Twitter knows that the state is sort of proud or at least infamous for its theatrical brand of lawlessness.)

I spoke with Richard Colado, one half of the duo, last week by phone from his home in Jacksonville. His collaborator, Bleubird, is from Fort Lauderdale, in South Florida, which gives the band a sort of pan-Floridian quality.

“Florida definitely has this particular flavor,” said Colado, 38, who’s lived in Jacksonville his whole life. “It’s just a weird place. I’ve always kind of liked it, too. Part of me thinks, If you’re from Florida, you’re always from Florida.”

Both Colado, who performs under the name RickoLus, and Bleubird have their own solo projects, but Hurricane Party is something that allowed them to bounce ideas off one another. The result is the musical equivalent of a coastal town with no zoning regulations, where motels, vape shops, shoe stores, schools, cemeteries, condos and auto dealerships all get YES! WEEKLY

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jammed together wherever they can fit, and garish signage is unrestricted. The delirious mash-up factor is very much part of the Hurricane Party sound. The visual aesthetic is a mix of airbrushed license plates, neon, and the particularly ‘80s vibe of Patrick Nagel’s paintings. It’s beach kitsch. Their sound has been called yacht rap.

Colado said that when he and Bleubird began collaborating on the Hurricane Party material, it all felt effortless and infused with the right kind of energy. The feeling just needed to be documented.

They didn’t need to think and debate about what their goals were.

“Whenever I’m recording, there’s always that goal to capture something that’s happening as opposed to manufacturing something,” he said.

Hurricane Party is definitely informed by hip-hop and rap, particularly in the magpie approach to grabbing bits and pieces of other things and reassembling them. Crips beats evoke ‘90s-era artists such as De La Soul and the Wu-Tang Clan, with hints of the Chemical Brothers and Folk Implosion.

“That was one of my favorite concepts about hip-hop: it was this recycled collage-type of music,”Colado said.

But he makes it clear that it’s not quite

accurate to call Hurricane Party a hip-hop act.

“Overall, we’re more of a pop group; we’re not a hip-hop group. It’s not hip-hop enough to be hip-hop,” he said. “I feel like we’re more pop, which is the all-encompassing genre.”

A song like “Pamplemousse,” which means “grapefruit” in French — a very citrusy/Floridian title — has touches of soft rock and sunny psychedelia, even.

(There’s another song called “Orange Juice.”) “My head is everywhere, I can never pin it down,” goes one of the verses, suggesting that the all-over-the-place nature of the music is a subject of the songs as well. Just to keep you guessing, they wedge a rapped bridge in between synthy choruses.

Other tracks, like “Space Mountain,” shift unexpectedly from ominous indie hip-hop sections into goth-rock refrains.

(Note the Disney connotation in the song title, a reference that returns in the band’s Magic Kingdom-ish logo.)

Funky breakbeats, acoustic guitar, shout-along choruses, and dreamy synths all get piled on top of one another at different points. And a Babel of other languages shows up, too. One track has a German-language skit referencing a Jacksonville skate park. Elsewhere someone

recites lyrics from an Oasis song in French.

It’s meant to be absurd, and it’s ok if only a couple listeners even figure out what’s going on.

The track that serves as the Florida lynchpin for the record is “Swamp,” which has shout-outs to fellow Floridians the 2-Live Crew and includes the refrain “you ain’t from around here, you don’t come from down here.”

Florida may be known as a place where people go to retire. But it’s also a state with plenty of people who grew up immersed in the culture of the place.

Hurricane Party isn’t necessarily trying to sell the rest of the world on Florida, but they have a sense of bemused pride in the place and in its one-of-a-kind strangeness.

“I’m not trying to be from anywhere else,” Colado said. “I’m from here, I never left.” !

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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Cheers to the Dwightest star in the sky “We set controls for the heart of the sun.

One of the ways we show our age.

Then it’s the memory of our betters, that are keeping us on our feet,” LCD Sound System The news of Katei Cranford Dwight Bowers passing on July 14 swept through Greensboro Contributor like a rug pulled out from underneath; and though downtown will be forever dimmer in his absence, close friends at Cafe Europa have organized a memorial service and dance party in his honor on Aug. 11.

Organizers beckon folks to “help celebrate this wonderful human being that touched so many lives.” Attendees are encouraged to bring photos for a traditional memorial from 6-8 p.m.; with DJs from near-and-far hosting a late-night dance party, for the freaks.

The lineup should ring familiar to Babylon party kids: DJ Panic, DJ Misterbailey, Dominic, Andrew Comstock and Peter Daye (L in Japanese).

“Dwight’s charm was electric, his smile infectious,” organizers noted in Bowers’ obituary, “He had a way of making others feel so damn good about themselves, often at his own expense.” For Jonny Alright, Bowers, “was, is, and will be one of the most inspirational people that I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.”

As the “Dwightest star,” he exuded stellar enthusiasm with a tough-as-nails smirk; and could toast with you in the highest, or help you wallow in the pits, with an empathy that was out-of-thisworld. He was truly treasured company.

“He was a bright star in a dark sky,” Allison Navarro insisted, “I can’t imagine the

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past 20 years without him.”

“Anytime I was in a bad mood, Dwight could make me laugh,” Matthew Goshow said, “whether he was dancing along to some silly song, or saying ‘oh my god, like, the vibes in here.’ I cherish the time we spent together, even if most of it was at work.”

Bowers was a worker—a man of service—for his friends and Greensboro, on the clock or off. Dedicated. Diligent. Even in the face of getting arrested, mid-shift, back in his days at Solaris.

“We later found out that he got arrested because he wouldn’t rat-out a friend,” Courtney Reynolds recanted of the time Bowers disappeared after taking her order. “That’s the kind of guy Dwight was,” Reynolds added. “He lived life to the fullest, with an ear and shoulder through good times and bad, [he’d] never turn his back on you.”

A source of big smiles and bright ideas, Bowers was in a good place his last days.

“My favorite memory was made recently,” Blair Kline said. “We drank beer on his back porch, talking about how we both wanted to make more of a difference to

others. He was happy and so positive about the future,” Kline continued, “it was the wee hours following the Fourth of July— still dark outside, but the sun was coming up. Dwight got this burst of energy and laid a quilt on the grass. We held hands, listening to music—finding shapes in tree branches and leaves. Around 7:30 a.m., he grabbed some old fireworks and set them off, but only one worked. Still. It was perfect.”

Bowers regarded his friends like family. No stranger to hardship, his parents preceded in death, blood relatives were few—though the brotherly bond between him and Andy Bowers was mighty.

“At first, the thought of a big public service seemed too much to comprehend,” Bowers admitted, ”but I soon got more than a hundred messages from people who loved my brother, each with their own story of the impact he made on their lives.

I always knew Dwight was a great person, and well-loved; but, in that moment, I knew it wasn’t just me needing to grieve and memorialize him. There’s a whole

community of loved ones who surrounded him and need to do the same.”

There are sounds of silver-linings in tragedy: Dwight Bowers will never “lose his edge,” as James Murphy mused in songs we sang together. And folks have come out of the woodwork with affection.

“Unexpected and awful as this situation has been, I’ve found comfort in knowing that Dwight was loved and will be remembered by so many people,” Bowers noted. “Dwight never really understood how much he meant to others,” Chrissie Nelson echoed. And he meant so much, to so many.

“It’s only fitting this event will bring people together in honor of such a great person,” said Peter Daye aka L in Japanese.

“Bowers was our ‘Kevin Bacon’ in terms of the degrees of separation of Greensboro people, which his party will reflect. Attendees should be ready to meet new people who loved him just as much.”

Come dance yourself clean and toast to his sweet, sassy memory.

“Everybody’s getting younger… It’s the end of an era – it’s true And to tell the truth.

Oh, this could be the last time.

So here we go,” LCD Sound System I hope to see all my friends that night. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1fm.

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Aug 2: The Country Road Band Aug 3: Lyn Koonce Aug 9: Casey Noel Aug 10: Jay & Cara

clemmons

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Aug 1: James Vincent Carroll Aug 2: Black Glass Aug 3: Exit 180

danbury

green heron ale house 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Aug 3: The Acousticat Revue Aug 10: Blistered Hearts Aug 17: Alicia B. Aug 24: Pete Pawsey Aug 31: Regal Sloan

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Reeves Theater

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Aug 2: Reevestock Presents: Brent Cobb and Them Aug 3: Reevestock 2019 Aug 9: Clay Howard & The Silver Alerts w/ Whiskey Foxtrot

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arizona pete’s

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

artistIka night club

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Aug 2: DJ Dan the Player Aug 3: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE

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

BeerThirty

505 N. Greene St Aug 2: Chaisaray and John Ray Aug 9: Gerry Stanek Aug 16: Stewart Coley

the blind tiger

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Aug 2: Tuesday’s Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Aug 3: Jerry’s BDay Bash w/ Cosmic Charlie Aug 5: Wifisfuneral: Free Weef Tour Aug 6: Wavy Train Aug 7: Stick To Your Guns: Revolver presents the Pure Noise Tour Aug 8: Tilian: The Skeptic Tour Aug 9: Mostly Crue w/ Unleashed YES! WEEKLY

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cAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Aug 1: Uncle John’s Bone Family Aug 4: The Marshall Tucker Band Aug 8: David Gans Aug 9: Dangermuffin Aug 15: Flow Tribe

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Aug 2: Live Thursdays

comedy zone

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Aug 2: Mike Merryfield Aug 3: Mike Merryfield Aug 15: Daddazz and MelissaMC Aug 16: Erik Myers Aug 17: Erik Myers

common groundS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388 Jul 31: Andrew Kasab Sep 7: Tian Garcia and Morgan McPherson Sep 18: Andrew Kasab

cone deNIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com 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 Oct 5: Mason Ramsey

LEVENELEVEN BREWING

1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Jul 31: Bryan McFarland and Scott Orr Aug 2: Matty Sheets and Crumb Catcher Acoustic Aug 3: Viva La Muerte Aug 7: Jamie Slate Aug 10: Comedy Showcase w/ Dusty Cagle Aug 21: Bryan Toney Aug 23: Farewell Friend album release party Sep 7: Comedy Showcase w/ Dusty Cagle Sep 11: Arcus Hyatt and Stephen Sunshine Sep 14: Chris McIvor Sep 18: Tony Low & Alice Osborne

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348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Aug 2: Beau James & Kiely Connel Aug 3: Emily Michaud Aug 6: David Childers Duo Aug 10: Banjo Earth Band Aug 16: Tyler MIllard Duo Aug 23: Abe Reid & The Spikedrivers 5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Aug 7: Whiskey Foxtrot

THE IDIOT BOx COMEDY CLuB

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Aug 2: Krish Mohan

THE W BISTRO & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown Aug 2: Karaoke Aug 3: Live DJ Aug 4: Live DJ

high point

AFTER HOuRS TAvERN 1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Aug 3: Bending Fate Aug 10: Shun The Raven Aug 17: Fair Warning Aug 24: Sok Monkee

GOOFY FOOT TAPROOM

2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 Aug 3: Dave Moran Aug 10: Renae Paige Duo Aug 17: Susanna Macfarlane & Jamie Pruitt

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THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Aug 1: Robert Smith of Brothers Pearl Aug 2: The Plaids Aug 3: Brothers Pearl Aug 8: Karolina Rose Aug 9: Soul Central Aug 10: Hip Pocket Aug 15: Cory Luetjen

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I keep reading about how detrimental social media usage is, with people avoiding face-to-face interaction and feeling inferior when they see everyone else looking gorgeous and having fabulous lives.

Would you recommend taking regular breaks from social media? — Instagrammer Girl

Amy Alkon

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Put on 10 pounds recently? No problem!

There’s surely an app that’ll stick your head on the bod of some 22-year-old actress who works out 13 hours a day and subsists on Nicorette gum and bottles of air blessed by monks.

Social media is often seen as Satan with cat memes. It gets blamed for everything from eating disorders to the decline in the bee population. But consider that how a person uses social media can shape how it affects them.

Psychologist Sarah M. Hanley and her colleagues note that there are two different kinds of social media users: active and passive. Active social media users create content and communicate with others.

Passive users browse newsfeeds and posts without commenting. They’re basically read-only info consumers.

For both active and passive users, taking a vacation from social networking sites like Facebook and Instagram is a thing lately — the digital version of cutting out sugar (at

least temporarily). But is it actually a good thing?

Hanley and her colleagues blocked research participants’ access to social media sites for a week. They figured this would benefit passive users — the silent observers — giving them a break from the noxious barrage of how rich, beautiful, and successful everyone else seems to be.

In fact, passive users’ well-being wasn’t really affected positively or negatively during their social media exile. However, active users ended up being kind of bummed (or, in researcher terms, they had diminished “positive affect” — a decrease in positive, pleasant moods, and feelings).

This makes sense, because using these sites in an engaged way — when, say, a mob isn’t coming after you because you like your coffee “wrong” — can be a positive thing, increasing social connection. So when active users pull the plug on their social media, they separate themselves not only from the negatives but also from the social and emotional benefits of engaging with others.

In short, social media is a tool — same as an ax, which you can use to cut wood for a lovely campfire or to chase terrified teenagers through the forest. You can choose to take an emotionally healthy approach to social media: be an active participant instead of a passive one by posting stuff or at least participating in conversations, even in small ways. If somebody’s barrage of fabulosity gets you down, you might remind yourself of all the reality that gets cropped out — a la, “Here’s a pic of my boyfriend and me in Cabo for two weeks...during the 1 minute and 37.6 seconds we weren’t fighting. #Cabocouples #grateful #livingmybestlife.”

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My newly divorced business colleague keeps asking for my hot friends’ phone numbers. I think this is highly inappropriate. If things go badly, I’m stuck in the middle! I keep hinting that I don’t think it’s cool for him to put me in this position, but he doesn’t seem to be getting the message. Help. — Stuck It’s so annoying when your colleagues leave their mind-reading helmets at home.

In such cases, there is a way to get your message across, and it’s by directly expressing it — in words. This is not exactly a mystery of the universe I’m revealing here. But like many women, you probably have a tendency to default to hinting and hoping for compliance.

This looks like a flaw in female psychology — until you hold it up to an evolutionary lens, as the late psychologist Anne Campbell did in looking at sex differences in assertiveness. Campbell explained that being direct — unambiguously stating what you want — can make another person angry and lead them to retaliate, possibly physically. A woman who

is physically harmed might not be able to get pregnant or fulfill her role as her children’s primary caretaker, making her a genetic dead end. So, women especially have been driven to protect themselves and their reproductive parts. Campbell believes this led to the evolution of female indirectness — not as flaw, but as a feature.

The thing is, the evolved emotions driving this behavior aren’t your master, and you don’t have to obey them. You simply have to be willing to pay the price of rebelling: feeling a little uncomfortable when you draw outside the evolved emotional lines. This just takes telling the guy “no mas.” He’s free to look up friends of yours on social media and contact them there if he wants, but he needs to stop asking you for their numbers. You’re down with bringing in more clients, but you draw the line at acting as the corporate recruiter for his penis. !

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