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EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors IAN MCDOWELL JOHN BATCHELOR TERRY RADER JOHN ADAMIAN MARK BURGER KATEI CRANFORD JIM LONGWORTH PRODUCTION Graphic Designers ALEX FARMER designer@yesweekly.com AUSTIN KINDLEY artdirector@yesweekly.com

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RASCALS does many things well. Chef-owner Jessica Borgione is implementing a casual, tavern concept, decorated in patterned wood walls, fresh flowers on the tables. She uses quality, fresh ingredients, the servers are well versed and highly personable, and live music is performed most weekends.

10 KENNETH LAIRD of High Point is one of 36 contemporary artists featured in the international traveling exhibit, “Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms – Reimagining the Four Freedoms” organized by the Rockwell Museum...

11 For the next installment in its ongoing series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present the acclaimed, award-winning 1984 documentary feature BEFORE STONEWALL...

12 In what could be called a revisionist version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, OPHELIA repositions the point of view to that of its title character, the delicate and doomed heroine whose all-consuming love for the Danish prince Hamlet could save neither.

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Last month, I described the first two of the four investment sectors I’ve identified in the LEGAL CANNABIS and hemp industry.

19 Following the first round of DEBATES between and among 20 Democratic candidates for President, Donald Trump proclaimed that the 2020 race was already over.

20 LARA HOPE is fanatical about Heavy Rebel Weekender, the annual blowout of slicked-back hair, hollow-body electric guitars, two-tone shoes, tattoos, hot rods, burlesque, competitive eating, and high-octane retro rock-and-roll.

21 The Triangle and Triad are lit with festivals this Fourth of July weekend: the 40th annual Festival for the Eno will wash onto the banks of the Eno River in Durham, and the 19th rendition of HEAVY REBEL WEEKENDER takes over the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem.

21 The WINSTON-SALEM FAIRGROUNDS is a venue that hosts over 100 events a year, and is well known for the Dixie Classic Fair, but a show in June lands as a bright spot for the City...

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THUR 4 FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION WHAT: The City of Winston-Salem and the Winston-Salem Dash are excited to host their annual Independence Day celebration at BB&T Ballpark on Thursday, July 4! The fun begins at 4:30 p.m., continues with the Dash’s 6:30 p.m. game against the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, and concludes with Winston-Salem’s official Fourth of July fireworks show, presented by the City of Winston-Salem.

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[SPOTLIGHT] ROCKIN MOROCCAN

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Co-owner and Chef Amina Guennoun and her husband Mike Neel, co-owner and self-proclaimed “hype man,” are bringing a taste of Morocco on wheels to the Triad with the Rockin Moroccan Food Truck.

Rockin Moroccan looks like it is the first of its kind in North Carolina. The food truck will make its debut at Summerfield Farms on July 4 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Guennoun originally hails from Morocco and has traveled all over Europe. When she moved to the United States 12 years ago, she met Neel. Three months later, they got married. The two met in the most unexpected place: The Walmart parking lot.

“It is a funny story,” Guennoun said with a laugh. “In the parking lot of all places,” Neel added.

“But it was love at first sight, And three months we were ready to get married,” she continued. “He is a very supportive husband; I would have never done it without him. You have to have somebody to support you for success in your life. I have to admit that I would never be whatever I am now without him.”

“Likewise, my love, ” he said.

“I am actually from Morocco, and we try to do something different that nobody has already,” she said. “So we wanted something really authentic, and something different.

“It feels like it came out of your mom’s kitchen; we want to bring home cooking with a Moroccan vibe, we don’t want it to just be a fast food truck,” Neel said of his wife’s food.

Rockin Moroccan boasts a big menu with platters, sandwiches, and something special either every day or every week, Neel said. Some of its menu items include Moroccan spiced burger, lamb shanks, saffron chicken, kefta, gyro, falafel, stuffed grape leaves, and other options for vegans and vegetarians.

There is an interesting fusion item on the menu as well. The Moroccan Roll is a twist on an Asian-style veggie spring roll but seasoned with Moroccan spices.

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“Everyone has similar stuff,” said Neel when asked what sets Rockin Moroccan apart from other Mediterranean/Middle Eastern eateries in the area.

“Everyone knows Morocco for their spices.”

“Like he said, everyone has falafel, but we put our own spin and spices,” she added.

Neel said the platters come over rice with pita and two sides, and can also be sandwiches (which comes with fries).

“Except for the lamb, we can’t put the lamb shank because it is on a bone,” he said. “The saffron chicken, even though that is on the bone, we will use a chicken breast or tender instead and spice it up.”

“We want to make sure that you are full,” Guennoun said of the portion sizes.

Rockin Moroccan is also a catering service.

“We also do catering for people, it doesn’t have to be the same food that we have on our menu if they desire anything from Morocco--let’s say tajine, or couscous, we make it happen on the catering side as well,” Guennoun said.

Neel said feedback on Rockin Moroccan has been awesome thus far, especially since no one has tasted their food yet...

Well, I have and so has the staff at the YES! Weekly office. We were treated to a Rockin Moroccan lunch a couple of weeks ago, and we were not disappointed.

“We are booked up all the way through August at least,” he said. “Feedback has been great. We are over 2,600 likes (on Facebook).”

Catch Rockin Moroccan’s debut on the Fourth of July at Summerfield Farms. For more information and a full schedule of where you can find them, visit the website (rockinmoroccanfood.com), Facebook page (rockinmoroccanfood) and Instagram profile (@rockinmoroccan_gso). !

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Chowing down with John Batchelor at Rascals Tavern

BY JOHN BATCHELOR | john.e.batchelor@gmail.com Food: Starters get high marks, good sandwiches and burgers, but not enamored with the entrée specials.

Ambience: Casual, tavern concept.

Service: Pleasant and well informed.

Value: Lower price range for entrée specials, mid to upper for menu items.

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Ratings range from Not Recommended to Acceptable, one (satisfactory), two (good), three (very good), four (excellent) or five (truly exceptional) stars.

Do you want a new bottom?” the waitress asked my wife. I wouldn’t touch that line even by long distance, but the query was appropriate. At issue was the sub roll hosting The New Yorker, an aptly named assembly of sliced capicola ham, salami, and mortadella (Italian sausage), augmented with smoked Gouda cheese, all placed in shredded lettuce with hot pepper slices. On the one hand, there’s a lot of flavor in those meats, and they are all quality products. But the balsamic vinaigrette that dressed the lettuce had been over applied, resulting in a soggy lower half. Wet bread is not palatable, and a dry half was, in fact, provided — a good sandwich, when repaired.

Rascals does many things well. Chefowner Jessica Borgione is implementing a casual, tavern concept, decorated in patterned wood walls, fresh flowers on the tables. She uses quality, fresh ingredients, the servers are well versed and highly personable, and live music is performed most weekends. Open about a year, the property exudes a pleasant, neighborhood bar ambience.

I am especially fond of the starters section of the menu. Scotch Eggs are constructed from a center of a hard-boiled egg surrounded by crisp fried sausage, spread with Dijon mustard blended mayonnaise. A winner.

To make Fried Deviled Eggs, the kitchen divides a boiled egg, removes and devils the yolk, coats the whites with panko bread crumbs and fries them, then fills the now crisp white host with deviled yolk and tops them with hollandaise sauce sprinkled with dill and crisp crumbled bacon (real, not “bits”). The presentation

Beef rib entrée

of six halves on mixed lettuces is entertaining as well as satisfying.

Fresh cut French fries form the foundation for Poutine, in this version decorated with crisp steak strips and clumps of sausage, interspersed with fried cheese curds.

This is a very large portion, presented in a bucket. I love the look, and the flavor, to me, is more satisfying. The overall impact just less messy than most other versions I’ve tried.

I am also a fan of the Fried Green Tomatoes here. Three slices, firm and tart, are covered with homemade pimento cheese, ladled with warm, sweet raspberry jam, the whole assembly scattered with pieces of crisp bacon. The sweetness of the jam is an able foil for the tartness of the tomatoes. These are hearty and heavy, and could easily constitute a meal by themselves. The set menu consists of salads and sandwiches.

Strips of grilled breast meat are placed on a bed of mixed lettuces to form Grilled Chicken Salad, with crumbled goat cheese, diced tomatoes, cucumbers and fresh croutons. The ranch dressing is pleasantly mellow. The Greek Salad earns a little less praise. It’s not bad, it just seems expensive ($12) for what you get- a large helping of mixed lettuces, sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, banana peppers and croutons. The dressing is vinaigrette augmented with herbs- OK, but not as flavorful as the ones I’ve had in some Greek restaurants around town (where the price is lower).

The Philly Steak Sandwich boasts a lot of thin-sliced beef, emitting solid flavor, albeit dark, and to my taste, overcooked.

The impact intensified with sliced bell peppers, onions, hot peppers and a dollop of Cheez Wiz. Enjoyment was undermined by excessive salt.

The Burger provides a solid depth of beef flavor. If you are seeking a vegetarian alternative, a vegetable patty is also offered. The main ingredient is augmented with lettuce, tomato and smoked cheddar cheese, plus jalapeño aioli. (A caution: The latter ingredient is pretty intense. You might consider asking for it on the side and adding to your personal taste.)

Sandwiches come with a choice of a side. The fresh cut French fries are very good, indeed. But the thin-sliced sweet potato fries were either crisp but almost burned (very dark brown) or not crisp at all. Potato salad is a straightforward preparation with appropriate sized chunks of potato; my wife and I both liked it.

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Fried green tomatoes The kitchen produces off-menu special entrées on Wednesday through Saturday nights. Four large, deveined shrimp, tender, cooked just right, perched atop Asian Stir Fry- a pile of red and yellow bell pepper slices, asparagus, red cabbage, and Portobello mushrooms over rice noodles, surrounded by an orange sweetish sauce of the sort that appears in lots of area Asian restaurants. This struck me as one of those occasions when restraint or focus would have served the conception- there was just too much going on, and again, so much salt that it was difficult for me to eat. Another special, Beef Ribs, looked spectacular. The beef itself was rather firm in texture, and it provided a moderate level of flavor in its own right. A house made barbecue sauce was rendered more complex with blueberries and a blueberry reduction, plus pineapple chunks. These are not ingredients I usually associate with beef, and I did not think they constituted a particularly good match in this case, either. Mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus were the vegetables, and they seemed well chosen.

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been higher. But when the most expensive items are the least enjoyable, numbers get hurt. We noted a problem with one check.

The set menu is the same at lunch and dinner, but lower prices are available at lunch. My charge for a salad, however, was the full dinner price. I was informed that you have to ask for a smaller, lower-priced portion; default goes to full price — caveat emptor. I would return to Rascals for the bar and the casual food. Perhaps other entrée specials would be more pleasing. !

JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/ cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina.

Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com

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Kenneth Laird’s art shows ‘what freedom means today’

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enneth Laird of High Point is one of 36 contemporary artists featured in the international traveling exhibit, “Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt Terry Rader and the Four Freedoms – Reimagining the Four Freedoms” Contributor organized by the Rockwell Museum, for his digital print on paper, “Freedom of Speech – Fake News.”

Their initial call for artists in 2017 yielded over 1,000 works in a juried competition supported by the Ford Foundation. The show opened at the New York Historical Society in New York City on May 25, 2018, while the art exhibit ran concurrently at Central Park at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

For the “Reimagining the Four Freedoms” section of the exhibition, artists were asked to consider what freedom means today and to provide a contemporary interpretation of Roosevelt’s speech to Congress in 1941 and painted

by Rockwell in 1943. The Four Freedoms speech included freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Chosen works included painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and mixed media.

Laird was working full-time as a creative director of Liberty Garden Products in Kernersville when he entered four different drawing concepts that all involved present-day technology. When he read his first, second and third “reject” emails, he said he didn’t even bother opening the fourth one. Thankfully, he accepted a call at work from the Norman Rockwell Museum asking if he was still interested in entering his drawing, as they had not received his response to his fourth concept being accepted.

Laird presented the winning concept for his drawing, “Freedom of Speech - Smart TV Illustration” along with this written description, “Can we believe anything in the media anymore? Two words dominate the media lexicon Fake News. Newspapers for so many years were the gold standard of journalism. Now, look at what it has come to in America. The idea of electronic news through social media scares me.

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he said, and when he was in the worst of it, he called his dad who told him, “Don’t drive tonight while you’re upset, son, get some sleep and in the morning, load up everything you can into your car and come back home and we’ll figure it out.”

Laird said that all it takes is one person to believe in you when you’re downing out to help you get back up again and his parents were his.

Laird graduated from the Memphis College of Art in 1992 where he received three scholarships and was named Illustrator of the Year by the faculty. He received his Master of Arts degree from Syracuse University in Illustration and graduated top of his class in 2002. Laird studied under many great illustrators such as C.F. Payne, Gary Kelly, Anita Kunz, Tim O’Brien, Bart Forbes, John Thompson and Murray Tinkelman while at Syracuse. Laird has worked with over a hundred advertising agencies with clients that include Walt Disney, NASCAR, Keebler, Topps, Upper Deck, Lance, Bic, Knorr Best Foods and more.

Laird has done paintings to raise awareness for breast cancer, The Art with Heart charity auction for abused women and other good causes.

“It feels so good when people have an emotional conversation about my art,” he said. “Moving forward, I continue to ask what I can do socially to change people’s opinions of things for the better good.”

Laird continues to accept commissions.

He said he “paints with graphite” by applying several layers of graphite with leads ranging from 9H to 6B and works from light to dark to slowly complete a piece of work minus fixatives or smearing and rubbing techniques.

Laird also wanted to give a shout out for Zack Capes for his “Triad Visual Artists” Facebook platform. !

Ignorance abounds, and this freedom is at a risky crossroads. Encouraged by the freedom to protest and create imagery about the topic, I felt compelled to make this image of a young man watching cable news with a story about Fake News on the TV. Decide for yourself as the color image is slightly blurred.”

“Growing up as an illustrator, every artist aspired to be as good as Norman Rockwell,” he said. “For me to have my art hanging next to his is a dream come true.”

Another painting that celebrates the right of freedom in America is “Jack of Hearts,” which features an illustration

of a man holding an actual embedded photo of a soldier based on the story that inspired a web site called “52 reasons to love a veteran” created by Ella Rue after her son came back from Afghanistan with PTSD. Laird has received a lot of second chances throughout his art career. He said art was all he had ever wanted to do and his passion and true love (aside from his wife, Pam and son, Eric) is with his easel and drafting table. He said his parents had always encouraged him to do art.

“I was one of the very, very lucky ones after going through a difficult journey,”

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

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OUT at the Movies commemorates Stonewall For the next installment in its ongoing series, WinstonSalem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present the acclaimed, award-winning 1984 documentary feature Before Mark Burger Stonewall, which will be screened Saturday, July 13 at the Contributor UNCSA ACE Theatre Complex, located on the main campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

This marks the 35th anniversary of the film, which has been re-released to theaters throughout the nation to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, a landmark event in the gay rights movement.

“I think it is most appropriate that we are screening Before Stonewall so soon after the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall protests and riots,” said Rex Welton, the co-founder and director of the OUT at the Movies film festival. “It is the story of the birth of the gay rights movement and is a must-see for all.”

Before Stonewall is narrated by Rita Mae Brown, the renowned author whose works include her best-selling 1973 debut novel Rubyfruit Jungle, the popular “Mrs. Murphy’s Mysteries” and “Sister” series of mystery novels, the 1985 NBC-TV adaptation of William Faulkner’s The Long Hot Summer (starring Jason Robards, Ava Gardner,

and Don Johnson), the 1986 ABC-TV movie My Two Loves (starring Lynn Redgrave, Mariette Hartley, and Barry Newman), and the 1993 ABC-TV comedy The Woman Who Loved Elvis (starring Roseanne Barr and then-husband Tom Arnold). She’s even got a cult classic to her credit, having penned the screenplay for the unforgettable Roger Corman slasher opus The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).

The late 1960s were, obviously, a time of considerable political and social turmoil, given the rise of the Civil Rights Movement (and the backlash against it) and the escalation of the Vietnam War (and, indeed, the backlash against that). It somehow seemed inevitable that the LGBT community, which for so long had been buffeted by oppression and persecution, would take a stand.

Shortly after midnight on June 28, 1969, members of the New York City Police Department conducted a raid on the

Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, commonly known as a gathering place for the LGBT community. Raids were not uncommon, but more often the management was tipped off in advance.

This time, however, the customers resisted arrest, and crowds begin to gather outside, many voicing support for their gay neighbors. Events quickly escalated, with rioting breaking out shortly thereafter.

Yet despite the violence and looting, the majority of media coverage and public sentiment leaned more in favor of the gays than the police – and the Stonewall Riots brought an unprecedented amount of attention to the plight of the LGBT community, in New York City, throughout the nation, and around the world. Echoing Welton’s sentiments, it could legitimately be said that the modern gay rights movement was born that fateful night in June 1969.

Before Stonewall, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sun-

dance Film Festival, won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Informational Cultural or Historical Programming (Programs) and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Craft (Research), as well as Best Film honors at the Houston International Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at Filmex, First Place at the National Educational Film Festival, and an honorable mention at the Global Village Documentary Film Festival, and in 1989 won the Festival’s Plate award at the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

The film marked the feature debut of producer/director Greta Schiller, who in collaboration with partner Andrea Weiss would create their production company Jezebel Productions in 1984, the same year that Before Stonewall was released. Their subsequent collaborations include such noteworthy documentaries as Paris Was a Woman (1996), The Man Who Drove with Mandela (1998) and Bones of Contention (2017).

The annual Winston-Salem OUT at the Movies LGBT Film Fest is scheduled for Oct. 3-6. !

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

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Ophelia: Out from under the shadow of Hamlet

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n what could be called a revisionist version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia repositions the point of view to that of its title character, the delicate and doomed heroine whose all-consuming love for the Danish prince Hamlet could save

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Adapted from Lisa Klein’s novel by screenwriter Semi Challis and directed

by Claire McCarthy, the film details how the fair maiden Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) came to be at Elsinore Castle, how she came to be a lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude (Naomi Watts), how she came to love – and lose – Gertrude’s son Hamlet (George MacKay), and how she became a pawn in the internecine

machinations that would ultimately bring the kingdom to ruin. To rephrase one of The Bard’s more quotable lines: All will not end well. Yet anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Hamlet is well aware of that from the outset.

There are, of course, other notable characters who figure prominently, including Hamlet’s brash and ruthless uncle Claudius (Clive Owen), who successfully schemed to win Gertrude and the crown; Ophelia’s status-conscious and ill-fated father Polonius (Dominic Mafham); her brother Laertes (Tom Felton), whose lust for vengeance dovetailed perfectly with Claudius’s plot to eliminate Hamlet; and Hamlet’s faithful but hapless friend Horatio (Devon Terrell).

In what may be a nod to contemporary political correctness and racial diversity, this Horatio happens to be a character of color, but it scarcely matters, one reason being that Terrell gives one of the film’s strongest performances – and in a relatively thankless role, no less.

Ophelia is certainly a feast for the

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Daisy Ridley as Ophelia in Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia. eyes, with top marks going to cinematographer Denson Baker, production designer Dave Warren, and costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini, and it’s consistently interesting – especially for Shakespeare buffs – to observe how this narrative parallels and adheres to the original Hamlet, and what alterations it makes to that text.

But, in a way, as well-made and respectful as it is, Ophelia is doomed from the start. The towering legacy of Shakespeare’s drama simply looms too large. Even under the best circumstances, it would be almost impossible to equal, much less surpass, Shakespeare.

Hamlet is perhaps the most debated and discussed tragedy in the Shakespeare canon, to say nothing of the English language. In no way does this film insult or belittle the Shakespearean source, yet it struggles to find an identity of its own.

Were it not for Hamlet, Ophelia would not exist.

By and large, the performances are perfectly sincere and earnest, even if Owen’s “Prince Valiant” hairstyle is distracting. Watts plays not only the betrayed Gertrude but also Ophelia’s secret confidante, the mysterious witch Mechtild. MacKay is serviceable as Hamlet, although ironically he’s playing what is traditionally the “Ophelia” character – nervy, paranoid, consumed by outrage, and something of a shadowy figure in the background. Quite frankly, the story is much more persuasive when told from Hamlet’s perspective. Ophelia is not an uninteresting character, but she’s not as interesting as Hamlet.

The red-haired Ridley brings firm conviction to her role and contributes a song (“Break of Day”) to the proceedings, but Steven Price’s bombastic score – weighted down by the chorale (and Ridley’s number) – sounds as if it belongs in a Marvel movie. Ophelia is hardly without interest, but it just isn’t enough. !

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Greensboro Roller Derby to hold interest fair and boot camp in July

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fter a highly successful Pridethemed bout at the beginning of June and two wins from the Travel Teams in Virginia Beach at the end of June, Greensboro Roller Derby (GSORD) is excited to announce that more roller derby fun is coming in July and August!

On Wednesday, July 17, Greensboro Roller Derby will be holding its bi-annual Roller Derby Interest Fair and Boot Camp.

GSORD invites the Triad community to attend, learn more about roller derby, and see why over 60 league members from diverse backgrounds have fallen in love with this sport and dedicated themselves to be members of the league.

The boot camp and interest fair will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Skate South, 208 W. Fairfield Rd. in High Point.

This interest fair is free and will answer any questions attendees may have about roller derby, discuss what skating for GSORD entails, and what is expected at tryouts, including basic skating skills. All that is required of attendees is to demonstrate that they are safe, stable and confident on skates. GSORD’s training committee will teach them the rest! A date is still being determined for try-outs, which will also take place at Skate South. Try-outs will be open to anyone, even if they did not attend the interest fair. For try-outs, attendees are required to bring their own gear, which includes quad skates, a helmet, kneepads, elbow pads, wrist guards and a mouth guard. Roller derby gear can be purchased online from our sponsor, Bruised Boutique (www.bruisedboutique. com/), or in person at Derby City Skates, located at 4003 Country Club Rd. in Winston-Salem.

“We know the idea of ‘try-outs’ is daunting, but we promise—you can do it! And we’ll be there to help you every step of the way,” said Hattie Fisher (AKA Southern Belladonna), director of membership.

After try-outs, new skaters will enter a 90-day learning period called the GSORD

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Academy, where they will be taught basic skills needed for roller derby, followed by an additional six-week “Scrimmage School,” where attendees will apply what they have learned and play alongside GSORD’s more experienced skaters. The membership cost is $35 per month for new skaters and increases to $50 once they reach full membership status.

GSORD is apart of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). WFTDA skater insurance is mandatory after new skaters graduate from The Academy, and its cost is $75 per year. GSORD always welcomes new volunteers as well as skating and non-skating officials. If you are interested in this avenue, please send an email to membership@greensbororollerderby.com.

GSORD’s next home bout will be Sunday, Aug. 4 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Skate South. This bout will be a doubleheader with the Gate City All-Stars taking on Upstate South Carolina Roller Derby, and the Mad Dollies taking on The Elm Street Nightmares. This bout will have a backto-school theme with discounted tickets for teachers and students. School supply donations are highly encouraged and greatly appreciated.

For more information about joining our league, contact GSORD’s director of membership, at membership@greensbororollerderby.com or visit GSORD’s website, www.greensbororollerderby.com.

Greensboro Roller Derby (GSORD) is a member-controlled/operated Women’s Flat Track Derby league that fosters diversity, athleticism and teamwork. GSORD strives to make a positive impact on its members, surrounding community and the sport of roller derby. GSORD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded in 2010. !

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The Limestone County (Alabama) Sheriff’s Office is on the lookout for Mickey Paulk, 35, after executing a search warrant at an Athens apartChuck Shepherd ment where he was believed to be living on June 17. While Paulk was not at the apartment at the time, officers did find meth, drug paraphernalia, ammunition and body armor, along with DeezNutz, Paulk’s “attack squirrel,” in a cage in the apartment.

Sheriff’s deputy Stephen Young told The News Courier officers were told Paulk feeds the squirrel meth to keep it aggressive, which Paulk denied in a Facebook video.

Officers released the squirrel into the wild, but Paulk (still on the run) later told news outlets he went back to the apartment and whistled, and DeezNutz returned to him. A GoFundMe page established to help Paulk pay his legal fees includes a post saying the squirrel has been “safely gotten ... out of Alabama and it is being boarded until his owner’s legal issues can be settled.” The

Limestone sheriff’s office took to Twitter to warn locals to be wary of Paulk: “Mickey Paulk is a fleeing felon with felony warrants unrelated to his squirrel.” (UPDATE: Shortly before press time, the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office announced on Twitter that Paulk had been arrested Thursday night, June 27.)

THE CONTINUING CRISIS

Early-bird travelers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport got a rude awakening on June 21 when an unnamed man tried to pass through a TSA checkpoint entirely naked.

According to WXYZ, the man approached the checkpoint and removed all his clothing, then removed a barrier and approached a metal detector. Officers didn’t allow him through the metal detector, so he ran around it, where he was caught and covered with plastic trash bags. A bystander said he was calm and compliant while being detained. Law enforcement determined he was not a threat and took him to a local hospital.

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Roy and Brenda Pickard of Knotts End, Lancashire, England, lived in a 1960s horror film for a week in June as a pair of nesting

herring gulls terrorized them each time they emerged from their home. “If I try to go out of the door, the two adult birds are right there, and I’ve got no chance,” Roy told the Mirror. At one point, Roy was attacked so viciously on the back of the head that he had to go to the hospital for treatment. Roy contacted animal organizations, but they offered no remedies for the violent birds: It’s breeding season, and herring gulls are protected when nesting. “The whole thing has been terrible,” Roy lamented.

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Equality got a boost in Argentina in June when that country’s National Appeal Court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife 8 million pesos (about $178,000) for 27 years of housework. Newsweek reported Judge Victoria Fama reasoned that the wife, who holds a degree in economics, put her career aside for the entirety of their marriage to keep house and raise children, and by the time her husband left her in 2009, she was too old to compete in the job market. “The economic dependence of wives on their husbands is one of the central mechanisms through which women are subordinated in society,” the judge stated. Meanwhile, the husband was living “a good life.”

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A 26-year-old man identified only as Chang from Guangdong, China, went out for a Friday night of drinking with friends on June 7 and returned home to find that his keys were missing. Someone inside let him in, and he went to bed to sleep it off. The next morning, the Chinese news site Sohu reported, Chang awoke with a sharp pain in his chest and went to Dongguan Hospital, where an X-ray revealed the missing house keys lodged deep in his esophagus. Doctors first thought emergency surgery would be necessary to retrieve the keys, but with the help of a muscle-relaxing drug, a gastroenterologist was able to pull them out through his mouth.

COMPELLING EXPLANATION

The Behney House Hotel in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, was evacuated after police responded to a reported bomb threat there on June 23, reported WPMT. When officers arrived, they found David Oxenreider, 28, who lives at the hotel, and the homemade bomb he claimed to have made next to a dumpster outside the building. Oxenreider told police he made the bomb to get their attention because he was frustrated that his attempts to warn officials about aliens hadn’t been taken seriously. According to the criminal complaint, Oxenreider said he encountered a UFO and aliens in 2014, who told him “humans need to start being good

people, or else they were going to destroy the Earth with a nuclear laser beam.” Police disarmed the device and arrested Oxenreider.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

An unnamed woman arrested earlier was released from the St. Louis Justice Center on the morning of June 5 -- sort of.

Jail staff gave her clear instructions about how to get out of the building, according to corrections commissioner Dale Glass, but instead she got on the elevator, pushed all the buttons, and got off at the fifth floor, where she exited through a fire door into a stairwell, locking herself in, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Two and a half days later, staff finally saw her peering through a window in one of the doors. The woman had made noise during her confinement, but Glass explained that the jail is a noisy place, and the staff couldn’t figure out where the noise was coming from as she moved from floor to floor. Paramedics were called and the woman was offered hospital care, but she declined, saying, “No, I just want to go home.”

OOPS!

Holmes Beach (Florida) police posted a query on their Facebook page on June 15 regarding an unusual item that had washed up on the shore and was turned in by a local resident: a prosthetic ear. Social media did its magic, and the ear and its owner were reunited five days later. The Associated Press reported that a Beaufort, South Carolina, couple had been vacationing in the Tampa Bay area, and the man was putting the rubber ear in his pocket for safekeeping when a wave knocked it out of his hand.

Police Sgt. Brian Hall said he would mail the ear back to its owner, as prosthetic ears can be very pricey.

INEXPLICABLE

Do you ever wish you hadn’t invested in a Ring doorbell? On June 22, while Wilton Thomas of North Lauderdale, Florida, was at work, his doorbell camera captured a man in a green car pull into his driveway, exit the car, remove his shirt and crouch down to relieve himself. He used the shirt to clean himself up, then left the mess behind and drove away. Thomas told WPLG he would have understood if the man had knocked and said, “Man, you know what, I had an emergency. I had nowhere to go, and this is where I had to do what I had to do.” The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is investigating. !

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touched the booming 91-year-old wood and felt it vibrate.

Perhaps only a vintage film geek understands the thrill of hearing and feeling sound played Ian McDowell through a 1928 Vitaphone speaker.

Last week, thanks to Contributor Gigi Galdo and Martin Campbell of the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro, I had an opportunity to make my cinephile friends jealous.

Standing in the dusty darkness of what was formerly the segregated balcony (the only place African Americans could sit), I watched Campbell, the Carolina Theatre’s technical director, plug his laptop into a large wooden horn-shaped speaker, handmade for Western Electric by the Victrola Company. Playing through it, his modern music sounded better than it would have on any speaker I owned in college.

Galdo, the Carolina Theatre’s marketing assistant, was as transported as me.

Behind the speakers was the Vitaphone turntable for the long-gone sound disks that, except for size, were practically identical to phonograph ones, which in those days were compounded of shellac (a material derived from the resin secreted by the female lac insect) rather than vinyl.

I imagined black audiences making their way to the side entrance, through the segregated lobby, and climbing three flights of stairs to this space, from which, if they

1969 proscenium by Mac Abernethy, who is still the organist there stood at the rail and peered down (risky, since staring at white folks was considered “uppity”), they could glimpse the untouchable opulence below. The Carolina was segregated until 1963 when students from A&T and Bennett College protested by blockading the ornate front entrance they weren’t allowed to use.

No matter how seemingly cool and glamorous, the past always has a substratum of pain.

Based on what Galdo and Campbell told me, along with info from the Carolina’s history page and the addictive Cinema Treasures site, and an amusingly hyperbolic article from the Oct. 30, 1927 Greensboro Daily News, here’s a partial history of the Carolina as a movie palace (it also has a long and continuing history as a venue for live performance, a subject worth an article of its own).

When it opened on 310 S. Greene St. on Oct. 31, 1927, Saenger-Publix Corporation

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advertised it as “The Showplace of the Carolinas.” It was the largest such venue in the state and one of the most expensive in the South, costing $500,000. Designed by Greensboro architect James M. Workman and the French-born/D.C.-based Jules de Sibour, it boasted a $75,000 heating and refrigeration installation, making it the first air-conditioned public building in Greensboro.

The first movie shown at the new theater was Painting the Town. Although contemporary ads declared it “the bee’s knees” and “the snake’s hips,” it’s largely forgotten even by film historians.

In August 1928, the Carolina became the first theater in North Carolina to show a sound movie, or more correctly, one with sound sequences. This was Glorious Betsy, a $50,000 (a huge budget for the day) biopic starring Dolores Costello as the Baltimore-born socialite who married Napoleon’s youngest brother. Galdo emailed

me a microfiche photostat of a Greensboro Daily News ad with the word “Vitaphone” (“the voice of the screen”) in larger type than the film’s title or cast.

Invented by Western Electric’s Bell Laboratories in 1924, Vitaphone was used in cinemas between 1926 and 1931. It was the last and most commercially successful sound-on-disc system. The soundtrack was not printed on the film itself, but on a 16-inch phonograph disc recorded at 33 1⁄3 rpm and played on a turntable physically coupled to the projector’s motor. Each record had a playing time of 11 minutes, roughly that of the then-standard 1,000foot film reel.

“It sounded better than the early soundon-film systems,” said Campbell when he demonstrated the speakers to me. “But within three years, sound-on-film caught up, and this was no longer state of the art audio.” The Vitaphone discs being only good for about 20 plays, and the necessity for a separate infrastructure to deliver them to theaters were also factors in the sound-on-disc system losing this early format war.

By the early 1930s, sound-on-film was the norm, and the Showplace of the Carolinas made the inevitable switch. From the Depression through the Postwar era, it continued to be considered the finest movie palace between D.C. and Atlanta.

“Everybody wore their Sunday best,” Galdo said, “both audience and staff. The projectionists wore suits and ties.”

At least, they did so while going to and from the fourth floor where the projection booth originally was.

“It was so hot in the booth; they’d strip down to their underwear.”

The Carolina Theatre in 1942 with Blotto & Road House Nights

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The present-day exterior of the Carolina Theatre The gleaming Art Deco movie palaces of the 1920s and ‘30s didn’t sell snacks. Popcorn, like candy and hot dogs, was something you ate at carnivals and ballgames, not at “the Pictures.” That changed with the war years when theater owners realized they could charge street vendors for being allowed to set up outside the lobby.

The next step was cutting out the middleman. In 1949, the Carolina opened its first concession stand.

That same year, WCOG began broadcasting the Circle K Club live from the Carolina stage. This was a local children’s radio program featuring such “kiddie show” celebrities as George Perry, aka the Old Rebel, whose career entertaining generations of local children were chronicled by Billy Ingram in a 2007 YES! Weekly article.

The live hijinks were followed by cartoons and the weekly installment of the serials, featuring comic book icons such as Superman, Batman and Captain America in their threadbare live-action debuts, or the spacemen and globe-trotting adventurers who would influence George Lucas. The matinee usually ended with an hour-long B-western. By the early 1950s, membership in the Circle K Club had grown into the thousands. The club thrived until 1961, when Saturday morning cartoons debuted on network T.V., keeping the kid audience at home.

Adult attendance also declined due to competition from television, as well as from the smaller and newer cinemas in shopping centers, and because of white flight from downtown. In 1968, Born Free was the last major studio release to have a first-run showing at the Carolina.

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watching Christopher Lee, Bruce Lee and Pam Grier in Fayetteville’s grindhouses, the Carolina showed the 11-year-old gorefest Blood Feast and the more recent and racially-charged The Klansmen and The Liberation of L.B. Jones. In 1976, The Exorcist, already three years old, became the last movie shown there for a while.

That same year, the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro raised $550,000 to save the theater from demolition. In 1977, the council purchased it and began renovation, reopening it a year later as a community performing arts center. In 1981, an arsonist died in a fire she started in a stairwell, and the building suffered considerable damage.

The United Arts Council staged the Renaissance Capital Campaign in 1988, raising $5,000,000 to help expand the city-owned Cultural Center on Davie Street and to undertake the next phase of renovation. In 1991, the Carolina reopened with refurbished dressing rooms and offices, a second-floor banquet area, new sound and lighting equipment, new HVAC, a modern concession stand, and new restrooms. Seating capacity was reduced to 1,075. In 2006, the United Arts Council, now ArtsGreensboro, passed the deed of ownership and responsibility for the historic structure to the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro, Inc., a newly formed nonprofit dedicated to “Presenting Arts, Preserving History.”

But what does the future hold for it as a cinema?

Campbell told me that the theater is raising money for “a 12,000-lumen full HD projector,” which “will be a significantly huge improvement on what we have now.”

Galdo explained that the Carolina hopes “to raise $15,000 to get that new projector.”

It typically only plays movies from DVD

Gigi Galdo, the Carolina Theatre’s marketing assistant

in the auditorium and from DVD and Blu-Ray in The Crown. Campbell said that fewer and fewer distributors have 35 mm prints, and those that do charge a lot and might be reluctant to allow those treasured prints to be spooled through the theater’s aging projectors.

He said he’s eager to upgrade the theater’s digital capability.

“We got a significant donation specifically for the HD projector, but need 15,000 more. The new one will have a significantly higher contrast ratio, with deeper blacks.”

He also said that sound is already upgraded. “We’ve got a Dolby EX Surround system. That’s a huge step in the right direction from our previous sound system, which was built in the 1980s.”

Galdo told me that, when she joined the Carolina staff, she never expected to be working with films, even though that’s what she studied in college.

“My university did not offer a major in film, only a minor. So, I took spent my junior year studying film abroad at Kings College London. I was lucky to have studied with Richard Dyer, an incredible film theorist, while there. My areas of focus were queer cinema and the use of gendered landscapes in early westerns.”

She said that, while the Carolina’s executive director had booked its films for years, he took note of her experience and interest and asked if she would take over. But, she added, the actual selection process is highly collaborative.

I asked her if she thinks Greensboro’s Carolina will ever be able to show as impressively varied a selection of vintage cinema as the Carolina Theater in Durham, with its weekly retro double features and frequent film festivals.

“I definitely think it’s possible. We focus on performing arts and have to build our film schedule around that, other than our

summer and holiday film festivals. And I think that we would like to in the future some more smaller scale series, but that does allow us to put in things that would otherwise get lost. There is a balance we have to strive for, but I think that doing smaller series in the future will allow us to do deeper cuts, things that aren’t necessarily as popular to the general public.”

The Carolina’s upcoming summer film festival includes Some Like It Hot (July 8), The Big Lebowski (July 9), Coco (July 10), Grease (July 11), Purple Rain (July 15), Time Bandits (July 16), Caddyshack (July 17), The Blues Brothers (July 18), North by Northwest (July 19), Psycho (July 22), Dirty Dancing (July 23), Inside Out (July 24), Jesus Christ Superstar (July 25), Enter the Dragon (July 29), Best in Show (July 30), Moana (July 31), Blue Hawaii (Aug. 1), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (Aug. 5), Gone with the Wind (Aug. 6), The Incredibles (Aug. 7), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Aug. 8), The Birds (Aug. 9), Notorious (Aug. 12), Midnight Cowboy (Aug. 13), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Aug. 14), Stand by Me (Aug. 15), and Vertigo (Aug. 16).

Films generally start at 7 p.m. and are $7 ($6 for students, seniors, teachers, military and first responders). See carolinatheatre. com for details.

YES! Weekly thanks the Carolina for sharing their extensive photo archives, some highlights of which can be seen on the YES! Weekly Facebook page. A treasure trove of over 100 historical images can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/carolina_theatre_gso under the “albums” tab. !

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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Four Investable Sectors of the Legal Marijuana Industry: Part 2 – Nutraceutical and Industrial Hemp Last month, I described the first two of the four investment sectors I’ve identified in the legal cannabis and hemp industry.

When asked about the probability of marijuana legalizaCharles Freeman tion over the years, I had always assumed the market would be Contributor based on “recreational” consumption and compete with the alcohol and tobacco markets.

However, the marijuana and hemp industry has expanded to include other segments beyond recreational. Just as the automotive industry can be broken down by segments such as cars, trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles. The four sectors I see in the legal cannabis industry include – Recreational, Pharmaceutical Medical, Nutraceutical, and Industrial Hemp. In this month’s column, I want to explore the last two segments.

Nutraceutical (and Personal Care) The legal cannabis and hemp nutraceutical market is one of the fastest growing trends of today. But my definition of the Nutraceutical market is broader because I include personal care products in the category as well.

Basically, I characterize these products as being based from a marijuana or hemp plant and that they do not require a prescription to purchase. You may have seen the “CBD sold here” signs pop up seemingly overnight around town. Those are the places you can buy the nutraceutical products, and the types of products can range widely.

The one that is catching most of the attention locally is CBD hemp products.

Hemp was recently made legal via the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and while hemp products are not exactly brand new; the reported benefits from cannabidiol (CBD), which can be extracted from hemp, have created a new health and wellness craze which could last if more research substantiates stated claims.

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buying things like CBD tinctures in hopes it will help everything from insomnia and anxiety to aches and pains.

What is a CBD tincture? Tinctures are a concentrated liquid that can deliver the effects of the cannabinoid molecules without smoking. Tinctures are designed to be taken in small doses due to the concentration of the product. If you go into a hemp store, the tinctures will be the little brown medicine bottles with a dropper. You can take the recommended amount by applying it under your tongue, mixing it in some pasta, or adding it your coffee. This new “method of delivery” allows the product to be consumed much more easily and, from an investment standpoint, provides the opportunity for higher demand for the product.

CBD is also being extracted and combined with creams and oils to be used topically.

In early June, the grocery store chain Kroger added CBD topicals in stores across 17 states. In my investigation of the industry, I purchased a hemp-based CBD cream that was designed for sore muscles. I play a lot of tennis, so my arm tends to get sore after I’ve played several days in a row. To be completely honest, I couldn’t tell much difference between the CBD cream and any other sore muscle ointment I’ve used. I did use it sporadically so that could have been a factor. Since that experience, I’ve had several people tell me that consistent use aids in the effectiveness of the product. Who knows? But this is where we need guidance from our research community to provide suggested amounts and frequency of use, just like any other over-the-counter product I could buy at a drug store.

I also include other hemp-based products in the nutraceutical category.

Hemp seeds are being used in lotions and shampoos. From what I’ve seen, almost every type of product that you can find in the “personal care” aisle at Target is being created with some form of hemp in it.

Are hemp-based lotions more moistur-

izing than something else? To me, it goes back to what works best for each person.

We are all different and different products work better for different people. The point is that because CBD extracts and hemp seeds can be used and marketed in just about anything, the Nutraceutical/ Personal Care sector stands to be huge over time.

Industrial Hemp Hemp has been used by various civilizations for literally thousands of years. Hemp rope and textile fiber have been found by archaeologists at numerous sites around the world throughout history. Hemp products faded from industrial use as it was coupled with marijuana and targeted as a drug. Without dwelling on the history so much since hemp is now legal, the new question is what can we use hemp for today?

This point is particularly relevant given the growing “Sustainability Movement.”

The Sustainability Movement, in my opinion, is very broadly defined as a recognition and advocacy for products and policies that are more environmentally friendly. More and more people are acknowledging climate change, the pollution of our oceans, recycling, and other issues related to the “sustainability” of our planet and its resources. Industrial hemp products stand to be a potential solution for some of these problems. For instance, hemp can produce two to three times more fiber for clothing than cotton, with half the required amount of water.

You can produce two times the amount of paper from hemp versus wood pulp per acre, and you can get it in three months versus 10 years! A 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine suggested hemp could be used to produce more than 25,000 products.

From an investment standpoint, the various industrial opportunities of hemp create more potential demand for the plant. Is it likely hemp paper would ultimately replace paper made from wood

pulp? It’s a possibility, but it would likely be a very long time before that would happen. However, given the versatility of industrial hemp, you can’t ignore the potential size of this market over time.

In summary, each of the four identified investment sectors in the legal marijuana and hemp industry has valid reasons for sustained growth. Think about it - a person could get up in the morning, add a CBD tincture to her coffee, put on clothes made from hemp fiber, go to her office and print a presentation on hemp paper, drive home in a car with plastic containing hemp, and settle in for a relaxing night at home with her spouse after taking a THC marijuana gummy. We are not as far away from that reality as you might think.

Disclosure: AdaptFirst Investments LLC (AFI) is providing this information for educational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies.

Investments involve risk and unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Commentary of any kind in this article is based on AFI’s opinion and analysis, and not representative of future performance of any security or market. AFI AND CONTENT SOURCES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER OR ABOUT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION FOR ANY PURPOSE. Use of the article information is at reader’s own risk. Personalized investment advice can only be rendered after engagement of AFI for services, execution of the required documentation, and receipt of required disclosures. Please contact AFI for further information. Information presented is not intended as tax or legal advice. Readers should consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding their individual situation. !

CHARLES FREEMAN is a Chartered Financial Analyst and President of AdaptFirst Investments in Greensboro, NC. With over 20 years in the investment industry, Charles helps clients find and invest proactively in potential future trends and attractive investment opportunities. Charles has been published or featured in Investor’s Business Daily, The Saturday Evening Post, WXII 12 News, HQ Greensboro, and more.

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Trump and the Democratic debates Following the first round of debates between and among 20 Democratic candidates for President, Donald Trump proclaimed that the 2020 race was already over. It may be the first thing he Jim Longworth has ever said that isn’t a lie. That’s because, with the Longworth exception of a few at Large comments by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, nearly every word uttered during last week’s bifurcated debates was far left, far out, or far off base from what mainstream America cares about or supports.

What specifically spurred Trump’s tweet was when the Thursday night debate group all raised their hands to affirm that they would provide free healthcare to undocumented and illegal immigrants. The President wrote, “All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American citizens first? That’s the end of the race.”

In fact, the Democrats seemed to be at odds with their own philosophies.

For example, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and others support Medicare For All. But three years ago, when Bernie first calculated how that care would be paid for, we weren’t taking in over 100,000 illegal immigrants every month. Now, by the time a Medicare For All advocate can be sworn into office, we’ll have an additional 2 million illegal immigrants to care for, in addition to the 12 million already here. That doesn’t just skew Bernie’s numbers; it screws Bernie’s numbers.

And what about Kamala Harris’ showstopping line when her competitors were shouting over top of one another?

Said Harris, “Hey guys, America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how they’re going to put food on their table.” She received a huge and well-deserved ovation for that reality check. But no one asked her to square that remark with a vote that House Democrats took the day before when they allocated $4.5 Billion dollars to care for detained children who came here illegally. So much for Harris’ “food on the table” quip, because, as it turns WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

out, there are 15.5 million American children here legally who are living in poverty, and who don’t have enough food or proper medical care. Suddenly, Trump’s tweet, “How about taking care of American citizens first,” seems more relevant.

Meanwhile, former Texas Congressman and RFK wannabe Beto O’Rourke said if elected he would enact a “War Tax” which would be imposed on all non-military families to help care for veterans who return from “future wars.”

Future wars? That’s as wacky as Bernie pledging to allow convicted murderers and rapists to vote WHILE they are in prison. Or how about Marianne Williamson, a spiritual adviser to Oprah, who told the debate audience that she would beat Trump with love. Hey Madame Moonbeam, I think 20 other women are already in court about love beating right now.

Then there was the contest between O’Rourke, Cory Booker, and Julian Castro to see which one could speak the most Spanish at the most inappropriate times. They did it to impress Hispanic and Latino folks at the Miami debate venue, but what about the mainstream majority they claim to covet? According to the American Community Survey, only 13% of American families speak any Spanish at home, so how is randomly breaking into a foreign language going to endear the Dems to the 87% who only speak English?

The objective of Democrats should be to deny Donald Trump a second term, yet while the debaters on stage criticized the President, very few said anything to attract his voting base. Harris did take on Trump for bragging about low unemployment, saying, “He (Trump) points to low unemployment. Yeah because people are working two and three jobs. In our America, no one should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table.” That’s the kind of tough talk that we need from whoever hopes to stand alone on a debate stage with Donald Trump and take him to task. It is, however, now painfully obvious that Joe Biden isn’t the person to do that. During the televised debate, he constantly slurred and stumbled over his words. He stopped in mid-sentence on two occasions and pretended he was out of time, rather than finish another incoherent thought. And he couldn’t even effectively apologize for or defend his own past positions while serving in the Senate, and as Obama’s VP.

In my February 19 column, I predicted that Kamala Harris has the best chance to break the glass ceiling in the Oval Office. After last week’s Democratic sideshow, I’m still convinced of that, so long as she doesn’t veer off too far into the left lane. Moreover, nominating Kamala may give us our only shot at getting Trump on the same public stage with a real prosecutor. Seeing her

take Donald apart could change a lot of minds, and draw a big audience. Of course, a love beating might do well in the ratings too. !

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

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Celebrating roots rock ‘n’ roll: Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones return to Heavy Rebel

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ara Hope is fanatical about Heavy Rebel Weekender, the annual blowout of slicked-back hair, hollow-body electric guitars, two-tone shoes, tattoos, hot John Adamian rods, burlesque, @johnradamian competitive eating, and high-octane retro rock ‘n’ roll.

Contributor “I can confidently say that it’s my favorite event all year,” said Hope, the hornrim-wearing frontwoman of Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, a band based out of the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Hope and her bandmates spend much of the year on the road, playing festivals and hot spots that celebrate what they call the roots rock ‘n’ roll culture and tradition.

Hope and her band will perform at Heavy Rebel Weekender at the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem on Friday, July 5, the first day of the three-day festival. Hope first came to the event as a spectator eight years ago, and she and her band have since returned as performers for seven years running. This year marks the 19th year of the event, which turns downtown into a celebration of the days before the Beatles.

Every music genre has its golden era or peak years. For fans of big bands, it might be somewhere around 1940. Many jazz heads view the year 1959 as being the pinnacle. For certain baroque music fanatics, music went precipitously downhill after 1750. Blues and old-time enthusiasts talk about recordings made between the years

1927 and 1937 as being a brief window offering a glimpse into a now-vanished world. If you worship psychedelic rock, your record collection probably focuses on music from 1969 and earlier. Connoisseurs of thrash metal might consider the mid-’80s to be the choicest stretch of time before true metal got corrupted.

Some hip-hop purists turn their nose up at anything after the mid-’90s. Certain punks can be dismissive of post-1979 music. You could go on, mapping out portals into different musical universes, with one genre emerging as another flourishes and another declines. The point is, there are precise historical sweet spots.

Rockabilly is a semi-problematic term and one that a lot of artists never quite embrace as a genre description. It was a way of talking about rock ‘n’ rollers who had a hillbilly aspect, a country tinge, a little bit of twang and drawl to their combustible, jittery music. It suggested a crazed element, giving a worse twist to something that already had a bad reputation — rock ‘n’ roll. The term also often connotes a racial divide — the white end of the spectrum of early rock ‘n’ roll. All the same, many would say that rockabilly flourished from the time when Elvis Presley recorded his rendition of “That’s All Right Mama” in the summer of 1954 to about the time he was drafted in 1958, or maybe the following year when Buddy Holly died. Viewed that way, rockabilly had a short day in the sun.

But, as is the case with most creative summits, subsequent generations of fans and musicians picked up the music and did something new with it, fusing it with elements of gypsy jazz, punk rock, metal, holding onto aspects of a unique tradition while tweaking the components and

upgrading the sound for a contemporary reality. Bands like the Cramps, the Stray Cats, the Flat Duo Jets, and Reverend Horton Heat all took the germ of rockabilly and ran with it. Expect to see a lot of variations on raw early rock and roll at Heavy Rebel. (Dex Romweber, the hyperanimated guitar wizard behind the Flat Duo Jets, will be playing, as will dozens of other artists.)

In addition to the music, there will be mud wrestling, a Big Wheel race, a Pabst Blue Ribbon drinking contest, a Krispy Kreme donut-eating contest, and other themed events. And, fashion-wise, if Rosie the Riveter and Gene Vincent are your

style icons, you’ll feel very much at home at Heavy Rebel.

But don’t get the idea that Heavy Rebel and the rockabilly scene are a monolithic world of old cars, denim, ducktails, slap-bass and nostalgia. For their part, Hope and her Ark-Tones blend a fair bit of country, jazz-crooning, Latin and other elements into their sound. And Hope’s songwriting often focuses on the pleasures of humble simplicity.

“I’m sick of songs about partying and cars and heartbreak,” she said.

Instead of singing solely about hotrods and romance, Hope has several songs that celebrate the freedoms of doing what you love and appreciating the routine joys of a life well-lived, even if it means eking by without a lot of cash. The song, “This Is What I’ve Got,” off of the band’s 2017 record Love You To Life, is sort of a mission statement about taking stock of how many of life’s best things don’t really require money.

On a similar theme, the band’s 2014 record, Luck Maker, embraces the idea that we create our own good fortune in life by having the right attitude, working hard, and being open to the good things right in front of us.

As a sort of demonstration of her look-on-the-bright-side world view, Hope recounts how a fall down a set of stairs in California earlier this year forced the band to cancel the remainder of a tour and hobbled the singer with a cast and crutches for several months. But, she said, even though it was not a great thing to have happen, the injury ended up offering her some downtime, and seeing her impairment on stage gave many fans a way of sympathizing with the singer and opening up new conversations.

“It’s been kind of a cool way to connect with my audience,” Hope said. !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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Sounds of the summer: Festival for the Eno, Heavy Rebel Weekender The Triangle and Triad are lit with festivals this Fourth of July weekend: The 40th Annual Festival for the Eno will wash onto the banks of the Eno River in Durham, and the 19th rendition of Katei Cranford Heavy Rebel Weekender takes over the Contributing Millennium Center in Winston-Salem. columnist Both festivals invoke distinct images of summer. Heavy Rebel is wild and raucous, in a more urban environment, with a river of PBR flowing in its own right, while the Festival for the Eno plays like a postcard for music-loving naturists: dewy sweat and river antics, with rustic tunes flowing from freshly built pine stages.

“Saving the river one song at a time,” the Festival for the Eno is as much about the river as it is about the music. Running July 4 and 6 at West Point Park, on the literal banks of the Eno, the lineup boasts 80 acts on five wooden stages (built new each year,) with 20 food trucks and dozens of craftsfolk.

Hosted by the Eno River Association, the festival, according to organizers, draws around 30,000 folks “to the shaded banks on the Eno River to sing, dance and make merry with great food and crafts all while learning about natural resource conservation and raising funds for land protection in the Eno River basin.”

The scene is a bit more rustic, a bit more rootsy than the rockabilly madness going down at Heavy Rebel. But being on the banks of a river has unique advantages: there’s tubing, swimming, and leashed pups are allowed—it’s a party for the planet, and the Eno River specifically.

The music is central, but extracurriculars such as claywheel pottery, water mill corn grinding, urban farming, kayaking, and weaving demonstrations are scheduled to acquaint attendees with the simple pleasures and values of the river; and its heritage.

Old-time jams and workshops are planned for those looking for interactive performances. On the stages, choice performers include Anne Claire, Arson Daily, Blue Cactus, Boulevards, Loamlands, the Mantras, Reese McHenry, Severed Fingers, and dozens more.

Tan and Sober Gentlemen, a group pushing “Celtic punk-grass,” will pull double-duty at both festivals over the weekend.

Where the Festival for the Eno features a bill dipped from the grassroots flavor

of Shakori Hills, the schedule for Heavy Rebel Weekender reads like Cashbash on steroids: the Bo-Stevens, Bob Fleming and the Cambria Iron Co., Dex Romweber, Hick’ry Hawkins, Jason Moss and the Hosses, Lara Hope and the Ark-tones, the Rocketz, and the Tremors are a mere sampling of the more than 50 acts scheduled.

It makes sense—Winston-Salem is the unofficial rockabilly capital of North Carolina—and Heavy Rebel Weekender plays like its annual coronation.

Running July 5-7, the weekend for “freaks, geeks, and weirdos,” will celebrate its 19th year with a “Pre-Party Pig Pickin’ and Back Porch Jam” on July 4 at the back dock of the Millennium Center.

Heavy Rebel organizers boil the delightfully trashy festival down to, “three days of the best party with your best friends!”

Beyond tunes, the HRW party is jampacked with activities: burlesque and sideshow acts, a car show, and contests out the wazoo including mud wrestling, big-wheel tricycle races, a Krispy Kreme

doughnut eating contest, PBR drinking contest, and an upright bass slapdown.

The party itself wraps with a super jam on Sunday but boasts an array of music, vendors, and oddities starting on Friday.

Wiggle Room returns to showcase the shimmy of burlesque and the wonders circus-style sideshow acts. Performances full of glitz and tassels and feats of sword-swallowing, fireplay and acrobatics will run all weekend. Workshops for folks interested in the arts are scheduled throughout the festival, with an “all-star” burlesque showcase and pageant slated for Saturday.

For the motorheads, HRW and the Camel City Skulls Car Club will host the Heavy Rebel Car Show on Saturday. Free for spectators, the show will feature cars made before 1972, displayed along Trade Street in Winston-Salem’s “arts district,” with trophies going to the cheeriest of rides.

As fireflies light up the night, and the scent of charcoal wafts through the air, it’s a special sort of festival weekend in the Triad and Triangle. Whether you’re more into saving the river, or cruising old cars while rocking a mile-high hairdo, there’s fun to be had this Independence Day Weekend.

For the love of music, the river, and weirdos: Happy Birthday, America! !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring NC the following week, 5:307pm on WUAG 103.1fm.

Crowder, Lonestar fans packed the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds & Annex

BY DJ HARGRAVE Event & Branding Manager of the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds & Annex The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is a venue that hosts over 100 events a year and is well known for the Dixie Classic Fair, but a show in June landed as a bright spot for the City of Winston-Salem. On June 21, the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex Theatre welcomed a sold-out crowd of 2,200 guests for a captivating performance by Crowder, a contemporary Christian artist who provides an inspiring and engaging experience to his listeners. The Grammy-nominated, Billboard chart-climbing star was on tour following the release of his latest album, I Know A Ghost, which is now available everyWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

where. Following that Saturday night was a performance by Grammy Awardwinning country group, Lonestar, with local phenoms, Jukebox Rehab (or JBR as the crowd chanted repetitively that night). One thousand five hundred fans rolled in the Annex for the second show of the Fairgrounds’ Classic Country Concert Series partnered with WBRF Radio. How often do you go to a concert where the audience is on their feet for the opener and headliner the entire show? Crowder was one of those nights. The show began with a high-energy performance by the Rhett Walker Band, followed by Crowder shortly after. The show was made possible thanks to the Fairgrounds’ relationship with Winston-Salem based contemporary Music Station WBFJ. This was the first

time since 2017 that the Fairgrounds have sold out the Annex Theatre since Travis Tritt rolled into town. It takes a certain type of artist to put thousands of people in the same room and create a spiritually uplifting experience for them. It also takes a special venue to create an environment that is welcoming, intimate and provides everyone in attendance with the best seat in the house. The Annex Theatre is one of the few venues where attendees in the “nosebleeds” are standing, singing and dancing during the full length of the concert as if their seats were front row.

“The Annex Theatre can hold up to 2,200 fans; we feel like we have a good place in the market for live music and will continue to grow our events and treat the citizens of Winston-Salem and

surrounding areas. It’s a great pleasure when our staff hears statements such as, ‘Wow, I wasn’t expecting this,’ or ‘Where’s the ice?’ The positive commentary of the event is regular treatment for our awesome working staff to take in,” said Robert Mulhearn, Winston-Salem Fairgrounds booking and venue manager.

The intimate environment of the Annex Theater makes it a candidate for an array of concert genres. This summer, they are welcoming Pam Tillis, Lorrie Morgan and Gatlin Brothers as a part of their Classic Country Concert Series, along with The War & Treaty on July 30, in partnership with the National Black Theatre Festival.

To stay updated on upcoming concerts at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds, visit wsfairgrounds.com !

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Aug 2: Chaisaray and John Ray Aug 9: Gerry Stanek Aug 16: Stewart Coley Aug 23: Chad Barnard Aug 30: Tyler Long

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Jul 5: Dr. Bacon & The Wright Avenue Jul 6: C2 & The Brothers Reed Jul 11: The Light It Up Tour w/ A Light Divided & Lydia Can’t Breathe Jul 13: Summer Reggae w/ Pure Fiyah Jul 17: Light The Torch w/ Moon Tooth Jul 18: Ready For The Stage Showcase Jul 19: Dirty Logic - A Steely Dan Tribute Jul 20: EMO Raleigh presents Get Sad Y’all Jul 21: Jelly Roll Jul 25: Bad PPL Collective Jul 27: The Breakfast Club 80’s Tribute Band Aug 2: Tuesday’s Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Jul 5: Cane Mill Road Jul 8: Some Like It Hot Jul 13: Crown Mountain Jam Jul 18: Ashley Heath and Her Heathens Jul 20: Coddle Creek Jul 25: Violet Bell Jul 26: Unspoken Tradition Jul 26: Gordon Lightfoot Jul 27: Adwela & The Uprising

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Jul 4: Live Thursdays

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Jul 10: Stone Cold and the Jackal Tour Jul 12: John Witherspoon Jul 13: John Witherspoon

COMMON GROUNDS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Jul 19: Matty Sheets, Laura Jane Vincent & Ben Singer Jun 22: DRB Jul 13: The Two’s - Push On Tour

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CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Jul 6: Better Than Ezra Jul 13: L.A.Guns Jul 20: Absolute Queen Jul 23: Buckcherry

LEVENELEVEN BREWING 1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Jul 10: Doug Baker Jul 13: Chris McIvor Jul 17: John Stevens Jul 24: BigdumbHick Jeff Wall

LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

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

RODY’S TAVERN

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Jul 22: Radio Revolver Jul 12: Stereo Doll

THE IDIOT BOX COMEDY CLUB

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Jul 12: Sean FInnerty Jul 27: Standup 201 Showcase

THE W BISTRO & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown Jul 4: Karaoke Jul 5: Live DJ Jul 6: Live DJ

HIGH POINT

AFTER HOURS TAVERN 1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Jul 5: Karaoke

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GOOFY FOOT TAPROOM 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 Jul 13: Dylan Branson Jul 20: Turpentine Shine

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THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Jul 4: Robert Smith Jul 5: Jukebox Revolver Jul 6: Jaxon Jill Jul 11: Bradley Steele Jul 12: The Dickens Jul 13: Radio Revolver

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BREATHE COCKTAIL LOUNGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge Aug 30: BDM

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841 Old Winston Rd | 336.497.4727 jpeppers.com Jul 11: James Vincent Carrol Jul 18: Justin Fulp Jul 25: James Vincent Carrol

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OLD NICK’S PUB

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Jul 6: Retrospect Band Jul 12: Karaoke Jul 13: Dante’s Roadhouse Jul 20: Big Daddy Mojo Jul 26: Karaoke

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Classics Reimagined 58th Season

June 22–July 27 | 2019 Greensboro, North Carolina

Week 2 | Celebrate the 4th at EMF Tickets on Sale NOW Join Gerard Schwarz, Alan G. Benaroya Music Director Chair, for five weeks of music excellence in the Triad.

Signature Performance: Mozart, Mozart, and More Mozart

Featuring EMF Faculty Artists Kevin Reid, horn; Jake Fridkis, flute; Jenny Grégoire, Tonight violin; William Wolfram, piano July 3 | 8 PM | Dana Auditorium, Guilford College

Young Artists Orchestras

Dana Auditorium, Guilford College July 4 | 8 PM Holst – The Planets; Samuel Jones – Concerto for Flute & Orchestra (2018) July 5 | 8 PM Vaughn Williams–Tuba Concerto R. Strauss – Don Quixote

Fanfares & Flourishes

Mark Peskanov, violin, with the Eastern Festival Orchestra Joan Tower–Sixth Fanfare Khachaturian–Violin Concerto Shostakovich–Symphony No. 11 July 6 | 8 PM | Dana Auditorium, Guilford College

Chamber Music Series Eastern Chamber Players

July 8 | 8 PM at UNCG Mark Peskanov, Victoria Chiang July 9 | 8 PM at Guilford College Featuring works by NC’s Caroline Shaw & US premiere by Hilda Sehested All programs dates, artists, venues, & prices subject to change.

BONUS Master Classes with EMF Faculty & Guest Artists | Young Artists Recitals FREE & Open to the Public!

Mark Peskanov, violin | Fri., July 5 | 4 PM Young Artists Piano Recital | Sun., July 7 | 3 PM Victoria Chiang, viola | Mon., July 8 | 4 PM Master Classes held in Sternberger Auditorium, Guilford College, unless otherwise noted.

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101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 TheLibertyShowcase.com Jul 6: Exile Jul 20: Tim white & The Song of the Mountains road Show aug 3: Nathan Stanley w/ Dewey & Leslie brown and The carolina Gentlemen aug 17: Gene watson

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3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Jul 4: Low country boil Jul 16: Jvc Jul 20: The invaders

FiDDLiN’ FiSh brEwiNG coMPaNY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Jul 12: Phase band Jul 28: camel city blues

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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Jul 3: The Local boys Jul 6: George Smith Jul 7: Sunday Jazz Jul 10: hazy ridge bluegrass band Jul 13: Greg wilson & Second wind Jul 14: Sunday Jazz Jul 17: Turpentine Shine Jul 20: The clanky Lincolns

MiLLENNiuM cENTEr 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com Jul 5: heavy rebel weekender

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630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Jul 7: Live Jazz

MuDDY crEEk caFE & MuSic haLL 1642 Spring Garden St., GSO (corner of Warren St.)

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5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Jun 29: June rise Jun 30: codie Prevost Jul 5: cassidy catanzaro and robinson Treacher Jul 6: rob ickes & Trey hensley Jul 12: The Get right band Jul 18: alexandra kay Jul 19: wonderwall - beatles Tribute

ThE raMkaT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Jul 11: charley crockett Jul 12: The civics, None the wiser Jul 13: absolute 80’s, Gan Family rocks Jul 24: cosmic honky Tonk revue Jul 26: The vagabond Saints’ Society: The Music of The cars Jul 27: Silent Disco w/ DJ Sk & DJ Poochie LaFever Jul 31: National Park radio aug 7: a killer’s confession, once

wiSE MaN brEwiNG

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 Jul 31: into The Fog

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booth amphithEatrE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com Jul 6: russian Nights Jul 12: the music of Chicago w/ brass transit Jul 13: Weird al Yankovic Jul 19: Greensky bluegrass Jul 20: Embers Jul 21: Sublime w/ rome, SoJa & Common Kings

charlotte

boJaNGlES ColiSEum

SpECtrum CENtEr

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Jul 9: NKotb

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dpaC

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Jul 5: Gov’t mule Jul 11: Stevie Wonder & the Shakedown and hall & oates tribute Jul 12: the Connells Jul 19: ana barbara Jul 23: blueface Jul 24: Carly rae Jepsen July 26: Genessa & the Selena Experience

ovENS auditorium

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com

pNC muSiC pavilioN 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com Jul 7: tedeschi trucks band Jul 10: Wiz Khalifa Jul 12: train w/ Goo Goo dolls Jul 13: luke Combs Jul 19: dave matthews band Jul 20: tom Joyner Jul 21: third Eye blind & Jimmy Eat World Jul 22: iron maiden Jul 23: blink-182 & lil Wayne Jul 24: mary J. blige & Nas www.yesweekly.com

pNC arENa

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com

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Winston-salem

WiNStoN-SalEm FairGrouNd

421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com Jul 13: pam tillis & lorrie morgan

CaroliNa thEatrE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Jul 23: the bacon brothers

thE FillmorE

500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Jul 11: rob thomas Jul 16: Young the Giant + Fitz and the trantums Jul 17: Godsmack

durham

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Jul 13: Young the Giant + Fitz & the tantrums Jul 14: Weird al Yankovic Jul 16: Godsmack Jul 17: prEttYmuCh Jul 20: Greensky bluegrass

rEd hat amphithEatEr

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com

greensboro

CaroliNa thEatrE 310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Jul 5: Cane mill road Jul 6: Chaunter

GrEENSboro ColiSEum 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Jul 19: anuel aa Jul 20: 90’s Kickback Concert Jul 25: lionel richie

WhitE oaK ampithEatrE

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220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com

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I’ve heard that we’re romantically attracted to people who look like us. Is that true? I don’t think any of my boyfriends have looked anything like me, but I have seen couples who look so similar they could be related. — Wondering

You can kinda see the merits of dating your doppelganger: “I’m looking for myself, but as someone else so I don’t always have to empty the dishwasher and scream out my own name in bed.”

There is this notion that opposites attract. Actually, the opposite often seems to be the case. According to research on “assortative mating,” people tend to pair up with partners who are physically similar to them — creating a matchy-matchy assortment — more often than would be expected through random chance.

To explore how much matchiness is appealing to us, social-personality psychologists R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks used a computer to blend each research participant’s face into the face of a stranger of the opposite sex. They did this to increasing degrees, morphing in 0%, 22%, 32%, 39%, and 45% of the research participants’ features. Their research participants rated the strangers’ faces most sexually appealing with the 22% blend — that is, with just 22% of the participants’ own features mixed in.

In another morphing study, neuropsychologist Bruno Laeng and his colleagues mixed each participant’s face with that of their romantic partner — with 11%, 22%, and 33% blending. And again, 22% was picked consistently — suggesting that people find their romantic partners more attractive when they look just a bit like them.

Granted, it could be a coincidence that the exact same percentage — only 22% morphed — popped up in both studies.

However, what’s noteworthy is that more resemblance didn’t lead to more attraction. This jibes with how some degree of similarity is genetically beneficial, increasing the likelihood of desirable traits showing up in partners’ children. (Tall plus tall equals tall.)

However, evolution seems to have installed a psychological mechanism

to keep us from lusting after extremely similar partners, such as siblings and first cousins. Such close relatives are more likely to have the same rare recessive genes for a disease. A recessive gene when paired with a dominant gene (say, from a genetically very different partner) doesn’t express — that is, the person doesn’t develop the disease. But when two recessive genes get together...

PARTAAAY! As for you, though you say you haven’t resembled your partners, it’s possible that you actually have in subtle ways you didn’t notice. Back in 1903, researchers Karl Pearson and Alice Lee looked at 1,000 couples in the U.K. and found correlation in height, arm span, and left forearm length between husband and wife.

This isn’t to say everyone’s going to resemble their romantic partner, but we seem subconsciously drawn to people who share our features to some extent: “You know, Pooh Bear, looking at you is kind of like looking in the mirror...and for a second, being horrified that I have a forest-like grove of chin hair.”

I’ve been with my wife for 23 years. I know sex is important, but sometimes we’re tired or not in the mood. I want to keep our intimacy alive. What are some things we can do to stay connected physically? — Embarrassed Having To Ask

them duct-taped together in the vault.

It turns out the answer isn’t all that complicated: Basically, you just need to bring in some of the G-rated part of foreplay and afterplay (without the sex in between). Psychologist Debby Herbenick and her colleagues note that researchers have found three things — kissing, cuddling, and massage — to be “important aspects of sexual intimacy ... associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction.”

Helpfully, the Herbenick team chiseled apart what they call the “KCM composite” — the way kissing, cuddling, and massage get mushed together in studies. They felt that this blending might obscure “important differences” in the effect of each. In fact, they found that cuddling seems to be uniquely powerful, increasing emotional intimacy (as well as sexual pleasure) in a way kissing and massage do not.

Though you’re seeking a solution for when you’re too zonked for sex, it’s important to make sure that cuddling is often an end in itself. This, paradoxically, should help keep your sex life alive: Your wife will see your cuddles as an expression of your love rather than a sign that you just want something out of the sexual vending machine. Ultimately, cuddling for cuddling’s sake is probably the best way to keep from getting to the point where “taking care of her in bed” involves holding a mirror under her nose to see if she’s still breathing. !

Many couples do eventually need help from a professional to connect physically — whether it’s an advice columnist, a sex therapist, or a bank robber who leaves

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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