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JULY 4-10, 2018 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 27

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URBAN EXCAVATING My pal Nathan Stringer, his 1-year-old daughter Emery and I spent several days exploring the side streets off Bessemer Avenue, extending East from Summit, in search of remnants of the ARMY AIR FORCE’S BASE that sprang up 75 years ago. It was the largest military training facility located within a single city limit.

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Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III publisher@yesweekly.com EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors JENNIFER ZELESKI BILLY INGRAM JOHN ADAMIAN MARK BURGER KRISTI MAIER KATEI CRANFORD TERRY RADER PRODUCTION Graphic Designers ALEX ELDRIDGE designer@yesweekly.com AUSTIN KINDLEY artdirector@yesweekly.com

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We’ve got some delicious restaurant recipe BURGERS for you, copycats if you will. Take inspiration from these restaurantquality burgers from some of our local chefs who know a thing or two about a great burger.

10 HEAVY REBEL WEEKENDER, Winston’s own “townie Xmas,” is a wildride amped with car shows, sideshows, and wiggle-rooms that will erupt over a three-day slew of doughnut-binging, PBR, and bands galore from Friday to Sunday in downtown Winston-Salem.

11 For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT AT THE MOVIES will present a special encore screening of the award-winning drama A Million Happy Nows...

12 THE MANTRAS are a jam band in that they play a largely unpindownable blend of music that moves from funk to reggae to jazz to metal to Latin rhythms to Southern rock to prog and beyond.

13 In talking with BRYAN TONEY, you learn real fast how excited, yet humble he is when it comes to his music. Even though YES! WEEKLY

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he’s written songs and played guitar since he was a teenager, Toney has worked and waited a lifetime to enjoy his recent yearlong accomplishment of going full-time as a singer-songwriter...

18 Superhero and science fiction films are often given a pass thanks to their robust visuals, so why not documentaries?

Filmed on all seven continents and in approximately 20 different countries, MOUNTAIN is basically 75 minutes of freebasing highly addictive footage that is sure to leave viewers gasping, gaping, and wanting more.

24 CAMEL CITY HEMP co-owner Adam Combs brewed me a piping hot cup of his United States-grown and manufactured hemp cannabidiol (CBD) tea only moments after I walked into the sleek and modern brick-and-mortar...

25 Last week I taped a segment for Triad Today that focused on the prevention of childhood injuries. My guest... suggested (among other things) that parents keep their children away from ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING JULY 10 FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ON LEWISVILLE CLEMMONS ROAD (S.R. 1103) FROM CLEMMONS ROAD (U.S. 158) TO SOUTH PEACE HAVEN ROAD (S.R. 1891) FORSYTH COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-6004 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project to improve Lewisville Clemmons Road (S.R. 1103) from Clemmons Road (U.S. 158) to South Peace Haven Road (S.R. 1891) in Clemmons.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, July 10th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the River Oaks Community Church located at 1855 Lewisville Clemmons Road in Clemmons.

The primary purpose of this project is to address safety issues. Another purpose is to improve flow and reduce traffic delays, particularly through the interchange.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. A brief presentation will be made at 4 p.m., 5 p.m., and 6 p.m.

Each presentation will be the same. There will not be a Q&A session during these presentations; instead, attendees will have an opportunity to talk one-on-one with project team representatives. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via email, or mail by August 8, 2018. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings.

For additional information, contact Connie James, P.E., NCDOT Division 9 Project Engineer at 375 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston Salem, NC 27127, (336) 747-7800, or ckjames1@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Caitlyn Ridge, P.E., Environmental Analysis Unit Public Involvement Officer at ceridge1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6091 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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

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FOURTH OF JULY WITH THE DASH WHAT: The best Fourth of July Fireworks display in the Triad is at BB&T Ballpark with the Winston-Salem Dash! First pitch is at 6:30 p.m., and an extended fireworks show follows the game.

WHEN: 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: BB&T Ballpark.

951 Ballpark Way, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $8-16 tickets.

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WHAT: This show features Pranav Bhandare who plays the psychiatrist who is appointed to examine President Trump. However, as he prepares his first TV interview after being fired by Trump, he finds himself in a wacky situation at the TV station after it gets locked down by false reports of 4th of July fireworks that were mistaken for bombs. The show has impressed audiences with its satiric humor.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Stephen D. Hyers Theatre.

200 N. Davie Street, Greensboro.

MORE: $15 tickets.

WHAT: The Heavy Rebel Weekender will be held on July 6-8, 2018. It’ll feature three days of live music, classic cars, slideshow acts, burlesque performances, contests, mud wrestling, big wheel races, doughnut eating contest, drinking contest, vendors and much more.

WHEN: All weekend.

WHERE: Millennium Center.

101 W 5th St., Winston-Salem.

MORE: $35 single day pass. $90 weekend pass.

WHAT: Whether it’s rock, folk, country or blues, Darrell Scott, the 4-time Grammy nominated Nashville songwriter, has written hits all the way from Brad Paisley and the Dixie Chicks to Del McCoury, Sam Bush and Keb Mo; contributing songs to three of 2016’s best albums alone.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: The Ramkat.

170 W 9th St., Winston-Salem.

MORE: $20-35 tickets.

SUN 8 2018 ARTS SPLASH CONCERT SERIES WHAT: The High Point Arts Council is excited to announce our 2018 summer outdoor concert series Arts Splash. This years series features eight concerts splashed all over town in various locations with different genres to better ensure a greater representation of the arts and to make the arts easily accessible to everyone in our community. July 8 - Chatham Rabbits.

WHEN: 6 p.m.

WHERE: Oak Hollow Festival Park.

1841 Eastchester Drive, High Point.

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AN APPALACHIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL July 1 – augusT 4, 2018 2018 season highlighTs:

Broyhill chamber ensemble July 1, 5, 22 & 25 • young People’s global Film series July 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 Weicholz global Film series July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 & August 3 • summer exhibition celebration July 6 Kool & the gang July 7 • aspen santa Fe Ballet July 11 i’m With her (sara Watkins, sarah Jarosz, aoife o’Donovan) July 12 shaken & stirred: Michael Feinstein and special guest storm large July 14 eastern Festival orchestra featuring Misha Dichter July 15 nc Black repertory company: The Legend of Buster Neal July 20 The hot sardines July 21 • rhiannon giddens July 26 • rosen sculpture Walk July 28 BoDyTraFFic July 28 • live eTown radio show Taping July 30 • Kristin chenoweth August 4 Plus visual arts workshops, lectures and more!

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GOOFY FOOT TAPROOM AND BREWERY

BY JENNIFER ZELESKI

Featuring local and regional brews, soon-to-be serving some of their own from their one-barrel system, Jeffrey and Tiffany Thompson are hoping to create a community with their newly-opened Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery, located at 2762 NC-68, Unit 109 in High Point.

Jeffrey is a former software engineer and home-brewer of 14 years, and it wasn’t until he felt his creativity through his work dwindling that he thought of a new pathway. The couple was visiting High Wire Brewing in Asheville when the idea dawned on them, but it was sidelined for a while.

“It was very much in the dream-stage then,” Tiffany said. But six months later, Goofy Foot became an idea morphing into reality.

The first thing to come to Jeffrey was the name. It seemed like a given, thanks to a piece of his personality and upbringing that carried its way through his life.

“It started as just something to bring back from my childhood because growing up I skim-boarded and surfed, and I had the goofy foot stance, which is right foot forward,” Jeffrey said. “With that, I was always the odd guy out with my friends, and it evolved into a cool term, but also a way for me to say, ‘it’s okay to be unique, it’s okay to be different.’”

The stance followed him to Appalachian State University, where he met Tiffany and learned to snowboard for the first time. A friend who visited their soft opening on June 22 had saved the original snowboard Jeffrey started with, and it now sits in its new home, at the end of the bar for all to see, featuring a shiny new Goofy Foot Taproom sticker.

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Regardless of the Thompson’s unsteadiness with undertaking the journey, they decided to take the leap, relying on each other for support and carefully putting the pieces together to open the taproom. The experience took on a whole new life beyond their love of IPAs. Jeffrey took it in his own hands – literally – to make all of the tables, the bar, and the tap wall’s backdrop with repurposed and reclaimed North Carolina wood.

Tiffany brainstormed ideas for hosting yoga classes upstairs, picked out a variety of wine for its respective shelf, and due to their focus on inclusion of everyone, decided to also host Up Dog Kombucha from Winston-Salem on their tap lineup (coming soon, but bottles are now available).

The couple also hopes to host trivia nights, a running club through Fleet Feet next door, and a variety of other events.

In their eyes, the possibilities are endless.

But until then, and until their local brews start making their appearance, they challenge their visitors to grab a board game from the shelf, or order some local food only steps away, and enjoy a full or half pour for the evening. Or “pour it forward” and buy a beer for a friend or stranger, giving them a way to spread generosity.

“We want to create a neighborhood place to hang out to bring the kids, a place that has great local beer where people can unplug and have good conversations,” Jeffery said. “It’s not overwhelming, it’s not loud, and everyone is welcome.”

Find more information at Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery on Facebook or @ goofyfoottaproom on Instagram. !

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8 p.m., Thursday, July 5 Dana Auditorium, Guilford College Grant Cooper, conducting; Nigel Armstrong, violin

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8 p.m., Friday, July 6 Dana Auditorium, Guilford College José-Luis Novo, conducting; Les Roetgges, flute

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8 p.m., Saturday, Friday, July 7 Dana Auditorium, Guilford College Gerard Schwarz, conducting; Anne Akiko Meyers, violin.

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hat are you doing for your Independence Day celebration? Grilling out? Let’s hope!

We’ve got some delicious restaurant recipe burgers for you, copycats if you Kristi Maier will. Take inspira@triadfoodies tion from these restaurant-quality burgers from some Contributor of our local chefs who know a thing or two about a great burger. We have some criteria though; The burgers had to have easy-to-find ingredients and be not too difficult to cook and assemble. Please note the recipes listed don’t always tell you to cook the burger. We figure that’s a given.

Another given is to season the meat. If you don’t do that, you can’t complain that it doesn’t taste chef quality. A little salt saves lives. As for cooking, you can grill or griddle to your doneness, whatever your heart desires.

Burger Batch’s Figgy Piggy Few burger joints opened with as much anticipation as Burger Batch…because it was nearly the first, and now there are many that’s followed on its heels. The most popular burger at Winston-Salem (and now High Point’s) beloved BB is

called the Figgy Piggy. Owner Tim Walker assures us it’s very easy to make.

Ingredients: Ground beef Goat cheese Onion, sliced thinly Fig jam Bacon To caramelize onions, heat oil or butter in a skillet. Add onions, a little salt, and cook on low to medium-low heat until very soft and deep caramel brown. Allow plenty of time for it to render down. While the onions are cooking, crisp the bacon.

Assemble the burger with goat cheese, caramelized onions, then add bacon.

Spread jam on the top bun and bottom too, if you wish.

Pepper jack cheese Sweet and sour pickles or a spicy variety CHA! Ranch sauce Onion rolls (buttered and griddled/toasted on the inside) CHA! Ranch sauce: 1 and 1/2 cups ranch dressing 4 tbs. CHA! by Texas Pete 4 tbs. Canned chipotles in sauce, pureed.

Mix together. Sprinkle patties with blackening spice. Prepare the ranch sauce while the burgers cook.

Crisp the bacon. Cook patties to preferred doneness. Add cheese just at the end. Place burger on bun, top with bacon, add one ounce of crispy onions. Drizzle 1 tbs. of CHA! ranch over each burger. Add three pickles and top bun.

Providence Restaurant/Providence Culinary Training and Chef Jeff Bacon’s CHA! Burger Get ready for a little kick in the pants.

This is a riff off Providence’s Black Tie Burger served in the restaurant. This burger has all the spice. The burger is spicy, the bacon is spicy, the pickles can be spicy (if you buy them that way), the ranch is… well, you get it.

Ingredients: 6-ounce each burger of chuck, brisket and short rib, in patties Blackening spice Bacon (jalapeno flavor if possible) Crispy fried onions (make your own or just by the iconic ones in the canister)

Sophie’s Cork and Ale’s Donut Burger with Raspberry Jam, Candied Bacon, American Cheese and a Fried Egg. Chef John Wilson likes to make a big burger. And maybe…just maybe…if you’re going to have doughnuts in the house for your holiday, save a few for this indulgent beast, which he says is super popular and fun to make.

“People are always like, ‘when are you gonna do the doughnut burger again?’

Also, the waffle burger I’ve done is a huge hit every time. Plus they love the fact that I’m getting the doughnuts right around the corner at the local shop here in Lexington.”

Ingredients: Pick up some of your favorite doughnuts

Sophie’s Cork and Ale’s Donut Burger

for buns (you can use two doughnuts or one cut in half for the bun). Pictured is a Red Donut Shop glazed doughnut.

8-ounces ground Angus beef for patty Raspberry jam (Wilson does it all from scratch, but we won’t tell if you use storebought) 2 cups frozen or fresh raspberries 2 cups of sugar 3 cups of water Reduce about 3/4 of the way and cool to get jam consistency/texture Candied bacon: Place bacon on a sheet pan, bake in the oven until it is 3/4 of the way cooked, sprinkle brown sugar over top of bacon, finish in the oven.

Optional: Fried egg, cooked to your liking, and American cheese Assemble and enjoy. Adding the optional fried egg and cheese starts to say, “brunch.” It’s still delicious without those add-ons.

Big Mac Att-Hack Say it with me…Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun! This hack is my version of the icon, only a bit elevated.

I’ve practiced plenty and it’s finally perfect.

I omit one of the (in my opinion) unnecessary buns. If you make the onions this way, they’re better than the original. (For some reason I am not a fan of the teeny onions on the chain’s burgers.)

For the special sauce, you can always go Burger Batch’s Figgy Piggy

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Providence Restaurant CHA! Burger with 1,000 Island Dressing. But I like making my own…it’s a little less sweet with more acid and tastes more “special saucy.”

Also, no need to buy relish if you can chop pickles, which is what I do. Shredded lettuce is preferred. I almost always have Romaine on hand, so that’s what I use.

Ingredients: 2 Beef patties Special sauce Lettuce, shredded Cheese (your choice) Pickles, sliced dill Onions, minced Bun, sesame of course Onions: You can finely mince fresh onion but I prefer 2 tbs. dried minced onion and add just enough water to moisten. Let them hang

Big Mac Att-Hack out until reconstituted. Voila!

Special sauce: 1/2 cup mayonnaise 2 tbs. ketchup or chili sauce 2-4 tsp. sweet pickle relish or pickles very finely chopped (sweet and/or sour) 1-2 tsp. of the pickle juice (or vinegar) 1/2-1 tbs. prepared minced onion 1 tsp. sugar A few dashes of Texas Pete Hot Sauce Mix the sauce together. This can be made well in advance and keeps nicely a few days. Grill the patties and toward the end lay on your cheese.

To assemble: Spread onions and sauce on the bottom bun, arrange lettuce on top of the mixture, add patty with melted cheese, then special sauce on top of that. Add another

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layer of lettuce, the next patty with cheese then top with onions, pickles, lettuce and more sauce. You can give your self a little grace here. The flavor will be on point.

Honorable mentions: Burgers with bacon and barbecue Burgers with Pimento Cheese Burgers Carolina Style (chili, slaw, mustard) Burgers with Beer Cheese (so good) The recipes above will work with your choice of ground meat (i.e. sirloin, beef, prime rib, combination). Choose according to your taste and budget. Keep in mind these recipes ought to offer inspiration for your burger bonanza, to step out of the same old same old, lettuce tomato mayo or ketchup, mustard and pickles. Not that

there’s anything wrong with that. Replace your ground beef with something different such as ground lamb (or go all lamb). Or add sausage…even breakfast sausage! Or use meatloaf mix (found in the meat section). The differences in texture and flavor will ensure you don’t get bored with burger night. I learned a little tip from Meridian Restaurant owner/chef Mark Grohman, take ground beef, stuff it with a little round of Baby Bell cheese. Grill ‘er up. Instant and easy, cheese stuffed burger.

Have a Happy Independence Day! !

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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Happy Heavy Rebel Weekend, y’all!

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eavy Rebel Weekender, Winston’s own “townie Xmas,” is a wild-ride amped with car shows, sideshows, and wigglerooms that will erupt Katei Cranford over a three-day slew of doughnut-binging, Contributing PBR, and bands galore from Friday to columnist Sunday in downtown Winston-Salem.

HRW is delightfully trashy, with a musical slant toward the rougher ends of the Americana spectrum, where “thrash and psychobilly meld like never before.”

Where good red-blooded folks sing sweaty songs about bad things (and worse people).

Where dudes like Bob Fleming invoke pleas of social justice and perils of heartbreak masked in whiskey lyrics and cigarette smoke.

The 18th year for Heavy Rebel marks the second-year appearance for Fleming, a roving Carolina working man’s musician, who finds it easier to quote Frank Turner than pinpoint a hometown.

Originally a solo-act, Fleming’s been truckin’ “sad songs for happy people” with twang and several degrees of volume for a few years now. “Sometimes I play quietly on an acoustic, sometimes I crank

up a tube amp as loud as it goes,” he said of his duality.

Fleming’s got plans for a louder set with his latest incarnation, the Cambria Iron Company, who’ll play the HRW Main Stage Sunday evening.

With a few “road-tested” releases under his belt and a sound landing between John Moreland and Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Fleming developed his craft with phases (and various names) along the way.

“They’re a way for me to translate my songs into different styles, from folk, to rock ‘n’ roll, and everywhere in between,” Fleming reckoned of the band’s prior names. “Dawn had just started singing with me and she made a joke about her being a ‘Drunk Girl Chorus.’ So we ran with that as a duo for a while.”

“The Cambria Iron Company was a steel mill in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. My grandfather worked there until the day it shut down,” Fleming said. “We changed names to reflect the direction we were taking with a full band.”

Dawn Williams, Fleming’s pint-sized partner on-stage and off, “is 100 percent the machine that keeps this dream rolling.

Not many people would quit their job and go on tour forever, but she’s been there every step of the way,” Fleming beamed.

“Honestly, it’s the best life I could imagine.“ Best doesn’t always mean easiest.

And Fleming’s body has hit some bumpy roads. “I ran into a bunch of diabetes isPHOTO BY JENELLE SOUTHWELL

Bob Fleming & the Cambria Iron Company in studio.

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sues last year, so we decided to stop touring for a while, to focus on my health and the new record. The day after we finished recording guitar, I shattered my wrist. It was wild,” Fleming said. “Bum luck,” he shrugged, “I couldn’t play guitar for three months, but it allowed me to focus on just writing. It was different but good.”

Personal injuries aside, Fleming continues to record with concerns larger than himself.

“I feel music, in general, has a social responsibility. If you aren’t using your voice to lift people up and fight for social justice, it feels like time wasted,” Fleming said. “I’m just trying to teach the kids, and write songs Joe Strummer would be proud of.”

“We put out a split on Bandcamp with W.T Newton, called ‘Not Today Devil,’ all of the proceeds go directly to Planned Parenthood,” Fleming said. “The Triad is kind of a hotspot of artists wanting to help other people.”

“When I started writing, I was in a particularly low place. As I move through life, my songs tend to reflect that. I don’t write happy songs, even though I am happy a lot of the time,” Fleming said of the disparity between his personality and

artistic output. “I attribute my happiness to being able to express my depression through writing.”

“And today, especially, it’s hard not to incorporate injustice into a song.” “‘Mother Mary’ has a completely different sound than anything I’ve done previously,” Fleming said of the new album. “It should feel just as at-home next to a Hot Water Music record as it does one from Townes Van Zandt.”

Fleming intends a full-band Cambria Iron Company tour to follow the release in early 2019.

“In the meantime, I’ll be doing a short solo-run at the end of August with Matthew Paul Butler and Jon Charles Dwyer,“ he said of his post-Heavy Rebel plans.

Heavy Rebel Weekender starts Friday in downtown Winston-Salem. Bob Fleming and the Cambria Iron Company play the Main Stage on Sunday at 6 p.m., Hickry Hawkins follows. That man is a nut. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a GSO rock ‘n’ roller who digs alotta the bands at Heavy Rebel this year. ...especially Dex Romweber (who plays Friday.) She also hosts Mostly Local Monday, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring NC the following week, every Monday 5-7 p.m. on WUAG 103.1fm.

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Happy Nows back again at OUT at the Movies For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present a special encore screening of the award-winning Mark Burger drama A Million Happy Nows, which Contributing was shown to great acclaim at last columnist year’s festival.

“I knew after watching 10 minutes of the screener that it would be a hit at our festival, although I never imagined it would receive unanimous perfect scores from our audience,” said Rex Welton, the festival and series co-founder and director. “It was the runaway choice for the audience award for best narrative feature at our 2017 festival. It received unanimous ‘4’s from the audience – the first time we ever had a film receive all ‘4’s!”

The film stars Crystal Chappell as Lainey Allen, a much-beloved soap-opera star who opts not to renew her contract instead retire to the beach with her publicist and partner Eva Morales (Jessica Leccia). Eva begins to notice that Lainey is exhibiting strange behavior and signs of depression. A visit to her physician yields an unexpected diagnosis of earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease, whose rapid progression throws Lainey and Eva’s relationship into turmoil, as they struggle to retain some semblance of dignity in the face of an uncertain future, hoping to enjoy what the life they’ve made together before time runs out.

Chappell and Leccia previously paired on the CBS daytime drama “The Guiding Light,” in which their characters – Chappell’s Olivia Spencer and Leccia’s Natalia Rivera – evolved from scheming, sworn enemies to passionate lovers, dubbed in some circles as a “same-sex supercouple” and hailed as a breakthrough in daytime drama. Chappell and Leccia have since collaborated on the soapopera web series “Venice: The Series,” which Chappell co-created (premiered in 2009), and earned her two Daytime Emmy awards, as well as “The Grove,” a 2013 pilot for a proposed web series.

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executive producer/screenwriter Marisa Calin, who also appears in the film as Kate. She and Chappell are scheduled to attend the screening and reception at Jeffrey Adams (321 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem) afterward.

At the 2017 FilmOut San Diego festival, A Million Happy Nows won the awards for Best First Narrative Feature, Best Actress (Chappell) and Best Supporting Actress (Leccia), and the audience award as Outstanding First Narrative Feature at Outfest Los Angeles.

Calin said there were multiple motivations for writing A Million Happy Nows.

“The inspiration was the wonderful on-screen chemistry between Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia. I happened to see their celebrated pairing in ‘Guiding Light,’ and I felt that there were few more dramatic and nuanced performances in any for on screen. I was immediately inspired to explore the fascinating power dynamic they’d had the chance to develop, with new characters and the more intense format of a feature (film).”

In addition, Calin’s life – like so many – has been directly impacted by Alzheimer’s disease. “In my own life, my grandmothers had both been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and I was experiencing the heartache of watching very strong matriarchal figures try not to show the cracks, even whilst losing the awareness of when that was happening,” she said. “That experience lent itself to a story that allowed Crystal and Jessica to explore the dynamic shift when someone

so strong becomes compromised, and you discover that the quiet, steadfast love of their partner is maybe the strongest trait of all.

“The conflict of Alzheimer’s lies so much the understand of our own identity and how we can continue to exist beyond that,” she said. “My ultimate intention was to find the balance between drama and humor, a time-honored coping mechanism, and to make sure we are left filled with a sense that love prevails.

The heart of the film has remained as I originally envisioned it. I wanted to explore vulnerability and love amid a loss of control.”

Much to Welton’s delight, “our 2018 series screenings have been the best in our nearly 15-year history. We have had a strong year, and great attendance so far with Rebels on Pointe, The Cakemaker and Ideal Home.”

What’s more, the festival’s appeal is growing beyond not just the Piedmont Triad, but the state of North Carolina.

“We have sold advance tickets for A Million Happy Nows to folks from New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Tennessee, and are expecting another large audience on July 14.”

In addition to the screening and reception, the festival will also host a special brunch Sunday (11 a.m.-1 p.m.). Advance tickets are $35 and attendance is limited.

Those who purchase advance tickets will be emailed the location to buyers upon confirmation.

The fifth annual OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Festival is scheduled for Oct. 4-7. Sponsorships are available beginning at $100, and festival passes are already available for $75.

All the details regarding the upcoming festival can be found at www.outatthemovieswinston.org. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.

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The OUT at the Movies screening of A Million Happy Nows will take place 7:30 p.m. July 14 at the ACE Exhibition Complex on the main campus of UNCSA School of Filmmaking, 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem. Tickets are $8 (advance) or $9 (at the door). For advance tickets or more information, call (336) 918.0902 or visit the official OUT at the Movies website: www.outatthemovieswinston.org.

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ometimes repetition concentrates the mind. And vibrations don’t hurt either. A mantra, originally derived from Hindu and Buddhist practice, is a word or syllable John Adamian or a sound repeated @johnradamian over and over again to aid in meditation.

In some cases, a Contributor mantra is a unit that represents all of the vibrations thought to exist in the universe, and in others, it’s a name or a phrase that helps focus the mind or helps rid extraneous thought from the picture. It’s a way of zeroing in and also of forgetting. The Mantras are a long-running Greensborobased jam band that doesn’t exactly shy away from those mystical possibilities associated with their band name.

I spoke with guitarist and founding member Keith Allen by phone last week as he made his way from his Greensboro home to the band’s practice space. The Mantras are playing a free show in downtown Greensboro at 7 p.m. on July 14 in LeBauer Park. The quintet has been laying relatively low for the last 18 months or so, partly because they’ve been working on a new record, which has been recorded and mixed and which should be released in the fall.

The Mantras are a jam band in that they play a largely unpindownable blend of music that moves from funk to reggae to jazz to metal to Latin rhythms to Southern rock to prog and beyond. There are precedents for their mash-up sound, and one could point to Phish or Little Feat, the Dixie Dregs, Return to Forever, Frank Zappa, Primus, and Santana as artists that take a hybridized approach to music-making, fusing guitar virtuosity with, in some cases, hairpin-turn section switches. (Allen played metal and rock before studying jazz and classical, which might partially explain the eclecticism.) There’s an improvisatory, long-form streak in the music too, one that, of course, points back to the Grateful Dead.

One can talk about the music of The Mantras as if it were something that the band consciously set out to generate based on their preferences and goals, but Allen casually undercuts that kind of logic.

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said. “Nobody ever lives the life that they planned on, we just have to adapt and make the best of it.”

Adaptation, natural growth and an undulating flow are more the vibe of The Mantras.

“It’s very organic,” Allen said. “We never set out to have a specific style. We always have been real open to writing whatever we want to, and in whatever style we want.”

Mission accomplished. Or non-mission accomplished, depending on how you view it.

Listen to the title track off of Knot Suite, the band’s 2016 release. It starts as a mellow four-on-the-floor groove and eventually winds up culminating in a tangled and dense atonal odd-time riff that cascades over itself. It’s the kind of staggered and uneven phrasing that will doubtless challenge some dancers trying to spin and twirl at their live shows. Or listen to “Dirtnap,” also from the last record. It opens with atmospherics and then drifts into what sounds like a Middle Eastern mode, with a tone that suggests an oud and hand-drum backing, from there, the guitar gets super compressed and heavy.

Live shows are where The Mantras like to cut loose. And, as with many bands in the jam scene, they offer recordings of a lot of their live shows, showcasing some of their extensive jams, segues and covers. You can go to their Bandcamp to listen to or purchase downloads of literally hundreds

of live recordings going back to 2014 or so.

Allen has been playing music with bassist Brian Tyndall for 15 years. The Mantras lineup has morphed a little over the years, but drummer Justin Loew and percussionist Brent Vaughn have been part of the equation for years. Singer and keyboardist Julian Sizemore is the most recent addition to the group, and he joined several years ago. Engineer Matt Gordon gets a sort of honorary sixth-member billing in the band for working to accentuate the contours of their chutes-and-ladders songs live, and for also recording and posting those shows.

Playing live stresses a kind of be-herenow philosophy that relates to the mantra of The Mantras.

“As an improvising band you are in the moment so much that it’s hard to know what’s going on because you’re just reacting,” Allen said. “All this art that we’re making, it just reflects life. Like this conversation that we’re having right now, you leave pauses to allow for someone else and there’s questions and answering.”

The give and take, the space for breath, the meditative unspooling, and a pursuit of an openness to offset or equalize density and detail — The Mantras add eyedroppers of all that, particularly on their records.

In 2013, The Mantras released a record with the entertaining title Jam Bands Ruined My Life. On it, there’s a song called “JBRML,” an acronym of the title. But,

rather than an epic jam, the track is more like an extended piece of ambient guitar, with slow-blooming feedback and drones.

Don’t mistake this as some kind of repudiation of the genre, though. The album also includes “Kinetic Bump,” an aptly titled bit of spongy disco ornamented with alien-insect keyboard sounds and funky scrubbed guitar patterns that eventually turn into guitar-hero shredding.

Humor is something that a lot of jam bands have in common, and for Allen and The Mantras, it’s another case of balancing out extremes: heaviness is cool, but so is lightness. Tight complexity has its place, but so does spacious simplicity. Music that makes you cry can be wonderful, but a chuckle is a good thing sometimes, too.

“The art that we’re creating is trying to be a reflection of the art that we live,” Allen said. “When I was younger I saw hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of shows — something that I really noticed is that you have to keep the light on, in a way. There’s a lot of angsty type energy that can go into music. It’s okay to make people feel a certain way, but you really want to leave people with a positive feeling. At least I do.”

See The Mantras at LeBauer Park in Greensboro on Saturday, July 14 at 7 p.m. !

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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Greensboro self-taught singer-songwriter adapts in an evolving music scene

BY TERRY RADER In talking with Bryan Toney, you learn real fast how excited, yet humble he is when it comes to his music. Even though he’s written songs and played guitar since he was a teenager, Toney has worked and waited a lifetime to enjoy his recent year-long accomplishment of going full-time as a singer-songwriter after surviving an unexpected second-career change. He’s served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and also the former founder of a 25-person Atlanta-based technology company. In 2015, he was honored with the Ed Kitchen Leadership Award for his work to revitalize downtown Greensboro and still supports the Greensboro Project Space and Forge Greensboro. He has even written a song, “Wondering,” which was inspired by the people he met in the area’s impoverished communities.

Toney recalls a recent performance at Leveneleven Brewing in Greensboro, where he was moved by the support of many of his most admired and respected local musicians. He said he really felt validated when he looked up and saw the faces of Dean Driver, Doug Baker, William Nesmith, Bobbie Needham, Jeff Tillman, Tony Low, MC Armstrong, Marvin Veto, Tom Troyer and others. Later that same week, he had a show in South Carolina where he performed original music for three hours. This singer-songwriter is serious when it comes to making music and he loves to hit the road to do it. A North Carolina native with travel in his blood, Toney is booking shows as far and wide as he can.

As a co-founder of Gate City Songwriters, Toney regularly attends the weekly gatherings with fresh material to test out. Whether he receives comments or not, it helps him to decide what to keep and what to file. He told me that these circles inspire him and when he hears what the other singer-songwriters are doing, it makes him want to up his game and write better songs.

Toney’s three things that he loves the most (music, nature and his loved ones) are only named in imagery in a song with this chorus: “I don’t need much, but what I need, I need a lot of.” He’s a true storyteller in his songs. Toney has been told that his music sounds like Bread, R.E.M., WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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Chris Stamey, Elvis Costello, America and others. I think his song, “Wondering” is right in line with Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown” and a little reminiscent of Scott McKenzie singing John Phillip’s “San Francisco.” He continues to be humbled and proud when people tell him his music reminds them of other great artists.

He said his song ideas come from anywhere and he has learned to be ready to jot them down or record them on his phone when the muse arrives. Toney confessed that he occasionally has songs he doesn’t want to sing because they may be too political or they just don’t measure up to his standards. Then there are times when he feels like a part of a song is really good and he’ll salvage pieces of it. He’ll keep either the melody or the chorus and make a new song out of it.

He chuckled and said that he didn’t ever want to ignore the muse, so he doesn’t throw any of them out. He added that a song may not mean anything to him today, but it could be a well-crafted song later, due to its elements. For example, he had an old melody that he wrote 15 years ago and just created a new song with it, “Now There Are Stars.” It was

inspired by a story he read about the war-torn Middle East. A city was totally destroyed and the people who lived there could see stars where they couldn’t before. When he read that line, it moved him. He wrote it down and wrote a song about it later.

Toney shared a quote that expressed his answer to my question of why he writes and sings songs, by Rick Rubin, “The art you make is always ultimately for you. Make something you love.” !

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Toney has upcoming shows all across the South this summer. Locally, he’s playing at Leveneleven Brewing in Greensboro on July 11 with Chris Nelson, Stonefield Cellars Winery in Stokesdale on July 15 with Doug Baker, Leah Kauffman and Isabel Taylor and the WiFi Wine Bar & Shoppe in High Point on Aug. 10 accompanied by Eddie McGee, Chris Nelson and Steve Phillips. For shows, see www. bryantoney.com/. Follow Bryan Toney on www. facebook.com/bryantoneymusic. For bookings, email bt4play@gmail.com.

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Rocky Mountain High: Gorgeous documentary ultimately runs ragged

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uperhero and science fiction films are often given a pass thanks to their robust visuals, so why not documentaries?

Filmed on all seven continents and in approximately 20 different countries, Mountain ( ) is basically 75 minutes of freebasing highly addictive footage that is sure to leave viewers gasping, gaping, and wanting more. Whether it’s mountaintops peeking through the clouds or climbers peeking down at the ground waaay below, the sights captured by cinematographer Renan Ozturk are simply breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

As an ocular treat, Mountain is tremendous. As an aural assault, it is decidedly less so.

The narration is provided by Willem Dafoe — or, as he’s now forever known in my household, He Who Was Absurdly Cheated Out Of His Oscar For The Florida Project. Dafoe’s rugged, ragged voice is perfect for this assignment — the problem instead rests with the words he’s

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delivering. They’re provided by Robert Macfarlane, largely lifting from his 2003 book Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination. On the printed page, they’re the sorts of missives and musings that are fun to leisurely examine, process and

contemplate; when delivered out loud by another party, they often come across as a tad precious and a bit twee. Certainly, there are several fine passages in the film — I especially like when countless climbers are lining up to tackle Everest and Dafoe

comments, “This isn’t climbing anymore; it’s queueing. This isn’t exploration; it’s crowd control.” But for every finely turned phrase like that, there’s another that’s cumbersome. (“What curious performances we put on with the mountains as our theater!”)

The movie’s narrative drive is functional even if the sections often feel untethered from one another. Dafoe explains how the citizens of earlier centuries would view the mountains as the forbidden domain of “dragons and divinities,” until “fascination replaced trepidation” and humankind began seeing the towering rocks as new frontiers to explore and conquer. After the expected Everest interludes, we’re then shown the exploits of the new breed of daredevils, those who risk their lives for the sake of YouTube viewers worldwide.

The thematic links are often tenuous and the narration occasionally overbearing, but these components ultimately melt away in the face of the staggering images. Perhaps akin to small children, Mountain is a film that should be seen but not necessarily heard. !

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Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, and combined with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville, this musical romp through Rome includes desperate lovers, mistaken identities, scheming neighbors, slamming doors, and secrets behind every toga.

Pseudolus, a crafty slave, aims to earns his freedom from his young master, Hero, by winning for him the heart of a beautiful virgin, Philia.

The task, however, is not as easy as it seems. Philia is a courtesan from the neighboring house of Marcus Lycus, and has already been promised to Miles Gloriosus, a Captain in the Roman army. Undeterred, Pseudolus devises a clever scheme to sneak Philia away. But the plan becomes more and more complicated as others get involved: Hero’s parents Senex and Domina, who return home early from a trip; their slave Hysterium, the chief slave of the household; their other neighbor Erronius, returning from a long and unfruitful search for his two children who were kidnapped in infancy by pirates; and the other captivating courtesans of the house of Lycus: Tintinabula, Panacea, Vibrata, Gymnasia, and the Geminae Twins.

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Chatham Rabbits Folk/Bluegrass

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Lakota John & Kin Acoustic Blues

High Point City Lake Park

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Dori Freeman Country

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High Point Museum & Historical Park

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High Point Library Plaza

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West End Mambo Latin

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] TO ABSENT FRIENDS

During the 2014 World Cup, five friends in Durango, Mexico, made a pact to travel to the 2018 tournament in Russia. They saved their money, bought Chuck Shepherd a bus, painted it in Mexico’s colors and booked passage for themselves and the bus on a ship going to Spain, where The Daily Mail reported, the friends planned to drive the bus to Russia. But just before they boarded the ship in April, one of the five, Javier, told his friends his wife had put the kibosh on his trip. So the remaining four did the next best thing: They made a cardboard life-size cutout of Javier, looking grumpy and wearing a shirt that says, “My wife didn’t let me go,” and set off for Russia. The cardboard Javier has been very popular at the soccer venues, attracting female admirers, appearing on the big screen, crowdsurfing and being photographed with fellow football fans from all over the world.

ANGER MANAGEMENT

In North Port, Florida, a witness watched on June 17 as 75-year-old Helena Molnar beat an unnamed man with a water jug after he watered her plants. When he emptied the rest of the water in the jug on her plants, she went inside her house and returned with a different weapon, which the witness didn’t see but said “made a different sound” than the water jug. According to WWSB TV, North Port

police arrived to find the victim soaking wet, with blood drops on his shirt. Molnar was charged with battery.

UNDIGNIFIED DEATH

Samen Kondorura was joined by dozens of male relatives mourning his mother’s death in North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 15, as they carried her coffin to a lakkean, a wooden stilt structure where dead bodies are stored during traditional funeral ceremonies. But as they hoisted the coffin up a bamboo ladder, The Jakarta Post reported, the ladder broke and the coffin fell, striking people in the crowd, including Kondorura himself, who suffered a severe head injury and died on the way to the hospital.

ART MAKES A STATEMENT

— At the Royal College of Art’s annual London fashion show in June, one graduate unveiled a unique approach to accessorizing garments: crystallized bodily fluids. Alice Potts displayed a pair of ballet shoes decorated with crystals formed from sweat, along with a fake fur adorned with urine crystals. Potts told Reuters the “more natural materials” could offer environmental benefits not possible with traditional plastics.

— To kick off an exhibition focused on the opioid crisis at his Stamford, Connecticut, art gallery on June 22, gallery owner Fernando Alvarez and artist Domenic Esposito placed an 800-pound, 11-footlong steel sculpture of a bent and burned spoon in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin. Purdue has been the subject of lawsuits alleging deceptive marketing and, therefore, re-

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A COMEDY Anything dealing with President Trump’s psychiatrist giving a live interview and everything going wrong with the interview, has GOT to be GOOD!!

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sponsibility for opioid addiction and overdose issues. “The spoon has always been an albatross for my family,” said Esposito, whose brother has struggled with drug addiction for 14 years. The Associated Press reported police arrested Alvarez for obstructing free passage and confiscated the spoon as evidence.

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RECURRING THEMES

On June 23, firefighters of Engine 642 of the Henrietta, New York, Fire District went the extra mile after responding to an accident in which the injured driver was a pizza delivery man, according to Fox News. “Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance, the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn’t go to waste,” the fire department posted on its Facebook page. “If it’s not delivery it’s Di ... Fire dept?!”

In this week’s installment of foreign objects stuck in body cavities: Mr. Li of China’s Guangdong Province went to the doctor on June 15 at Pingshan Hospital in Shenzhen after feeling discomfort and pain in his ear. Using an otoscope scan, the doctor discovered a live cockroach burrowing into the 52-year-old man’s ear canal. “It’s still alive, still moving,” the doctor can be heard on video saying, according to The Daily Mail. She cut the roach into pieces to remove it and disinfected Li’s ear with alcohol in case it had laid eggs.

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— James J. Rynerson, 38, was being held in the Mesa County (Colorado) Jail in May after being charged with menacing, disorderly conduct and trespass. But on May 21, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, sheriff ’s deputies at the jail released him, having mistaken him for Marvin March, 35, a different inmate. Jail staff gave Rynerson March’s belongings, and he wore March’s leather jacket as he signed March’s name to the release papers and left the facility. Rynerson’s wife was startled to see her husband in the garage at their home, and after he explained what happened, she convinced him to go back. She “personally drove him back to the Mesa County Detention Facility,” the report noted, and he was back in custody by 11 p.m., with new charges, including escape and forgery, added to his list.

— A woman in Wenling, China, was so thrilled to be driving the Ferrari 458 she rented on June 21 that she recorded herself while waiting at a stoplight: “First time driving a Ferrari. This truly is the most amazing feeling.” But within minutes, reported the Daily Mail, she swerved

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When Juan Ramon Alfonso Penayo, 20, of Santa Teresa, Paraguay, failed to return after leaving his home June 14, his family assumed the worst. The town lies on the border with Brazil, reported the BBC, and is a hotbed of illegal drug activity. Police found a charred body three days later and called Penayo’s family, who, despite being unable to identify the remains, accepted that it must be him and proceeded with funeral arrangements. As they mourned over his casket during the wake, Penayo walked nonchalantly into the room. The body in the casket was returned to the morgue, and Penayo’s family celebrated his return.

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

Visitors crowding into a Vancouver, Canada, street festival on June 17 were invited — at $38 a pop — to try a new health craze: Hot Dog Water. The drink is marketed as a gluten-free, Keto diet-compatible, post-workout source of sodium and electrolytes, and every sleek bottle, which promises to help with weight loss, also contains a hot dog. It’s also a prank.

Hot Dog Water CEO Douglas Bevans told Global News the product was dreamed up as a response to the “snake oil salesmen” of health marketing. In small print at the bottom of the sales sheet is this disclaimer: “Hot Dog Water in its absurdity hopes to encourage critical thinking related to product marketing and the significant role it can play in our purchasing choices.”

Touche. !

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Urban excavating the remnants of Greensboro’s Army Air Force Base

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y pal Nathan Stringer, his 1-year-old daughter Emery and I spent several days exploring the side streets off Greensboro’s Bessemer Avenue, Billy Ingram extending East from Summit, in search of remnants of the Contributing Army Air Forces base that sprang up 75 columnist years ago. It was the largest military training facility located within a single city limit.

Armed with an antiquated, sketchy map we were excited to discover a plethora of former barracks, processing centers, churches, recreation halls (that are somehow still in use) repurposed as warehouses, manufacturing hubs and auto body shops.

Before Basic Training Center 10 was established in March of 1943, the United States’ involvement in World War II had been anything but a rousing success.

Devastating setbacks unnerved the folks back home but events were beginning to turn in our favor.

This was a global war destined to be won in the skies. The original Army Air Forces training center was located in Missouri; following the attack on Pearl Harbor a second facility was established in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When that became overwhelmed, a nationwide search took place to determine the ideal location for what would be a critical point of embarkation for replacement troops headed to Europe and Asia.

Not since General Greene led his Carolina Regulars into battle at Guilford Courthouse had there been such a large military contingent in this state.

Constructed on 652 acres of dirt and freshly cut pine trees, BTC-10 brought with it millions of dollars in infrastructure spending. Some 330,000 troops passed through its gates; air cadets who left a large portion of their paychecks in local restaurants, shops and movie theaters during their four to six-week stays here, spurring an economic boom. Greensboro was as much an Army town then as it is a college town today.

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according to the base newspaper, “A scattered few warehouses bordered the railroad tracks. Beyond, wooden sidewalks covered the muck; a single drill field was flooded, and the majority of squadron streets remained avenues of red North Carolina mud. It was also cold and raining.” More importantly, there were no airplanes, much less any flying fortresses or fighter jets like those they’d soon be commanding. Contrast that to the morning of July 4, 1943, a mere four months later, when the polished and perfect trainees marched in formation for the first time through the center of town.

Within 10 months that muddy field off Summit had been transformed into a military metropolis with three libraries, five chapels (with 11 chaplains holding services daily), one of the finest and fullyequipped hospitals in the state, three large gymnasiums, dance halls, the Red Cross, telephone centers, seven pharmacies and a weekly newspaper.

In May of 1944, BTC-10 was reassigned as Overseas Replacement Depot, where its main purpose going forward was to facilitate the transfer of troops and Air WACS fresh from basic training into the Pacific theater of war, as well as redeploying veteran pilots and crew members arriving from the European conflict.

Over 3,000 military personnel and hundreds of civilians worked on what everyone referred to as “The Base.” The Officer’s Lounge was said to be the finest in the country with formal dances on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights, where students from Women’s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) would be bussed in from downtown.

There were nine post exchanges (PX)

where soldiers could grab a candy bar or a beer from what was basically the largest department store chain in the nation. It was stocked with comic books, pornographic magazines, cigarettes, feminine products --pretty much anything anyone needed from soap to nuts.

In addition to the eight theaters in town, there were four first-run movie houses on base with 15-cent ticket prices as well as the Kitty Hawk Big Top, an all-weather amphitheater for boxing exhibitions and variety shows.

North Carolina A&T’s athletic field today fits almost exactly into the footprint

of what was the two rifle ranges.

Three hundred of the 10,000 German prisoners of war in North Carolina were housed at ORD under relaxed conditions.

Local farmers would round them up to work in the cotton and peanut fields where the Krauts earned 80-cents a day, per the Geneva Convention. Loosely supervised, not a single one escaped.

They were treated so well it created a furor when African-American airmen complained, ever so rightly, that Nazis were afforded better accommodations than they were. This proved to be a sad glimpse into the future for black veterans

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who believed WWII would be the tipping point for equal rights.

A cavalcade of Hollywood stars and dignitaries paraded through Greensboro to entertain the enlisted men including Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, Jeanette McDonald, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, opera singer Grace Moore, boxer Max Shapiro, Lon Chaney and Louis Armstrong.

Inductees of note included motion picture stars Donald O’Connor and Sabu (Dastigir) the Elephant Boy but by far the most famous recruit was 20-year-old, Charlton Heston. Before his deployment, the future movie idol had been trying repeatedly, without success, to get Lydia Marie Clarke (a student at Northwestern University he’d fallen for three years earlier) to become his bide.

Heston wrote in Chicken Soup For The Couple’s Soul, “After I left for basic training, I redoubled my effort to get Lydia to marry me. ‘Just think, darling,’ I wrote.

‘If we’re married and I get killed, you get $10,000 free and clear.’ This... failed to move her. Exhausted by the grind of basic training, I gave up even mentioning marriage in my letters. One day I shambled back to my barracks after hours on the obstacle course to find a yellow envelope on my bunk. ‘HAVE DECIDED TO ACCEPT YOUR PROPOSAL,’ the telegram said.

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in 2008, Lydia was at his side.

ORD’s mission shifted again with the end of hostilities in 1945, focusing instead on reintegrating around 5,000 returning soldiers a month into civilian life. That’s when Mayor Vanstory embarked on a year-long campaign to have ORD decommissioned.

“With other Army bases available we felt that we could make some move locally that would give us immediate relief,” the mayor stated, adding that he’d like to see the barracks repurposed for temporary housing to address overcrowding.

“Those who are charged with the responsibilities of the city’s affairs want the camp personnel to regard this as your second home and to come back to see us either as a visitor or a permanent resident in later years.”

For the most part, the 1,500+ hastily constructed buildings on this USAF base were simple wood frames perched on temporary supports, never intended to stand the test of time. Regardless, architectural echoes of ORD still reverberate off East Bessemer Avenue, awaiting eagle-eyed urban explorers.

For instance, directly behind Bojangles on Bessemer, a former PX operated out of the brick building at 1017 Westside Dr. Two doors down, a Quonset Hut served as a chapel in 1944. (Other Quonsets be found around town, one on Lydon Street and another fully intact example in a backyard off South Elm, both likely moved from the base camp.)

Further down Bessemer, a triangular strip of grass across from KFC was where the main headquarters sat, hence the street’s designation as Headquarters Drive. That sprawling structure stood (barely) for over six decades until it was

demolished just a few years ago.

An unmodified rusty metal office building can be found along Winston Street, currently unoccupied, where other ORD relics converted for modern use are scattered about.

Covered in vinyl siding, rows of former barracks and processing centers remain hives of activity between Warehouse and English Streets, behind the troop train depot on the corner of Bessemer and English that today serves as Berico’s base of operations.

A block to the north on English Street is a prime example of one of those barracks, even retaining the original wooden doors

and front porch. On the other side of English, at Cain Street, a recovered ORD barracks is now a lodge hall.

That just scratches the surface. The entire region remains a goldmine for those looking for a connection to a time when America was united in purpose against a common enemy, a period of guarded optimism with absolute faith that our leaders would emerge triumphant in the greatest conflagration mankind had ever known. !

BILLY INGRAM would like to write the definitive book on ORD if someone would fund it. Thanks to Elise Allison at the Greensboro History Museum.

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Camel City Hemp: Winston-Salem’s new health-conscious hemp dispensary Camel City Hemp co-owner Adam Combs brewed me a piping hot cup of his United States-grown and manufactured hemp cannabidiol (CBD) tea only moments after I walked into the sleek and Katie Murawski modern brick-andmortar located at 1039 Burke St. in Editor Winston-Salem. It was CBD-infused organic German Chamomile tea with a dash of all-natural honey. And after 15 minutes of steeping, I enjoyed its smooth flavor and calming effect.

“That is 30 milligrams of water-soluble hemp CBD isolate,” Combs explained. “It is organic, German Chamomile and it has Theanine in it, which relaxes and focuses the brain.”

Combs said all of his consumable products are non-psychoactive, 100 percent legal hemp CBD and contain either zero or less than the legal 0.3 percent limit of THC. He said he recommends the tea to his clients in the evening after a long day on their feet. He boasted that other companies out there have CBD-infused teas, but it is nothing like his product. I still have to try that for myself, but after having two cups of the tea (he recommends reusing the tea bag and giving it a big squeeze in a second brew) in about an hour between each other, the uncomfortable lower back pain and abdominal cramps I was experiencing earlier that morning were completely non-existent by that afternoon. Not only that, I was feeling clear-headed and motivated to get back to my busy day.

Combs gave me a “menu” of his products and showed me around his dispensary (as he prefers it to be called) last Friday after only being open for one week. Camel City Hemp offers apparel, oils, edibles, teas and topical pain relief products, all made from industrial hemp.

The glass and refrigerated cabinets next to each other displayed all of his hemp CBD oil products, which included flavored (natural, orange, mint) PhytoNutrient Rich Hemp Oils (250 mg, 500 mg and 1,000 mg), organic coconut MCT oil tinctures (300 mg, 600 mg, 1,200 mg and 2,500 mg), topical 300 mg pain relief spray, vegan gummies (which were much tastier and less sticky than gelatin gummies), CBD-infused caramels (not vegan, but still really tasty), Manuka Honey YES! WEEKLY

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(which Combs claims Camel City Hemp is the only place in the world that sells this type of CBD-infused honey) and of course, the 150 mg flavored organic, fair-trade CBD teas (German Chamomile, Turmeric Ginger, Immunity Boost and Honeybush).

“Basically, what we have done was try to create, to the best of our ability and up to this point, a variety of products,” he said. “Soon, we will have over 20 [different products] in our store.”

If you want a full rundown of what all of these products are, Combs is more than happy to educate potential patrons in person as they come in to visit Camel City Hemp. He will offer you some tea while he explains everything in full-detail without expecting to make a sale. He’ll also show you a laminated book containing certificates of analysis for each product stating that it has been tested and certified by a third-party cannabis laboratory to ensure that the products are lawful and compliant with federal regulations.

On the other side of the room, there are a couple of benches and diagrams on the wall, resembling something one might see in a doctor’s office displaying an outline of the human body and the brain. In the front of the store is a concrete slab with four high-top chairs for customers to hang and “people-watch,” outside through the one-way mirrored glass window as Combs

said he likes to do from time to time.

The co-owner of Camel City Hemp and Combs’ wife, Casey, is the artist behind the product design, packaging, in-store signs and wall displays. The couple partnered with Winston-Salem-based companies, The Finishing Touch Drywall & Concrete, and local steel manufacturing shop, Heavy Metal, to create the interior of the shop.

Combs is no stranger to health and wellness. He grew up in Winston-Salem and became a college soccer player, professional and major-league trainer, former gym-owner and a Gym Jones Level 3, which is a private training facility that is exclusively devoted to extreme physical fitness that incorporates psychology. After living in Asheville, the couple wanted a change of scenery and decided to move to the City of Arts and Innovation and contribute some innovation of their own.

Combs said he wants Camel City Hemp to cater to individuals who are conscious of what they are consuming and that want clean and pure hemp CBD products.

That is why he said he puts out product exclusive to the market that uses the cleanest, non-GMO natural and organic ingredients.

He said there are so many people who are hurting mentally, physically and emotionally these days, and he just wants to

help people live healthy and happy lives.

“We are getting to a place where things have to change,” he said. “The way we eat, the way we talk to each other, the way we consume, plastics, I mean everything.

We have to basically revamp the global economy in a lot of ways, and it is not going to happen overnight, but it will happen over time. I think that cannabis is going to be the plant that propels a lot of change.” !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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ATV laws must change Last week I taped a segment for Triad Today that focused on the prevention of childhood injuries. My guest, a noted Pediatric Injury Prevention Coordinator at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, sugJim Longworth gested (among other things) that parents keep their children Longworth away from All Terrain Vehicles. Coincidenat Large tally, before that segment could air, the Winston-Salem Journal ran a front page feature story about a horrendous ATV accident which had occurred back in January, and nearly took the life of 13-year-old Tyler Hughes of Clemmons.

On that fateful day, Tyler got on his ATV and proceeded to drive fast along a snowy, curvy road. The ATV flipped over on him and the roll bar severed his left arm. The headline of the story was, ‘Quick Thinking Mom, Skilled Doctors Made the Difference,’

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a reference to how Tyler’s mother Crystal had applied a make-shift tourniquet to her son’s arm, and how surgeons at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center were then able to successfully re-attach the arm.

It was a feel-good, human interest story with a happy ending, because Tyler is now almost fully recovered. It was also a grossly negligent story for what wasn’t written. The fact is, Mrs. Hughes should have never let her son operate an ATV in the first place.

Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against Mrs. Hughes, who acted bravely under pressure, but I do have something against ATVs. As far as I’m concerned they are nothing but noisy death traps. But don’t take my word for it. Based on data extrapolated from a 2010 Reuters report, there are about 11,000 ATV accidents every year, and, according to ATVsafety. gov, those accidents result in roughly 900 deaths annually. Even more troubling, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that ATV deaths involving children have accelerated since the new millennium began. Sadly, in North Carolina, 45 people lost their lives in ATV accidents in a two year period between 2014 and 2016,

and that makes our state ninth in the nation for ATV-related fatalities.

Shamefully, the Specialty Vehicle Industry Association (the ATV industry’s answer to the NRA), has tried to divert attention away from the inherent dangers of ATV’s, by blaming accidents and fatalities on people who take their four-wheelers onto paved roads, instead of driving them strictly off-road. SVIA would also have us believe that simply wearing a helmet will prevent all serious injuries. In reality, that is more true for motorcycle riders than for those who ride ATV’s. During a 2010 meeting of the American College of Surgeons, it was reported that when the severity of injury is the same in an ATV as it is in a motorcycle, those riding the ATV are 50 percent more likely to need treatment in an intensive care unit, and 50 percent more likely to die. Why? Mainly because unlike motorcycles, ATV’s are mostly operated by minors.

Tyler Hughes is the perfect example.

He wore a helmet, but that did nothing to prevent the roll bar from cutting off his arm. So how, then, do we protect kids from being injured or killed on an ATV? It’s very simple, we keep them away from ATVs.

In a state that values freedom, why can’t we choose to use cannabis in all its forms?

The Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends that no one under the age of 16 should operate an ATV, and I agree.

Our state lawmakers should embrace that recommendation, along with three caveats. First, is that the 16-year-old must also have a valid driver’s license even when crossing a public road. Second, the age restriction must apply regardless of the size of the ATV’s engine (current North Carolina law allows kids as young as 8 years old to operate smaller ATVs).

Third, the new law should apply regardless of where the ATV is operated, and that means no one under 16 can ride on an ATV even on private land.

Without new laws that come with hefty fines, we’ll never be able to protect kids such as Tyler from risking life and limb on an ATV. Think I’m over reacting? Then pay heed to Tyler’s own words, when he told Journal reporter Jenny Drabble that he “can’t wait to start riding again.” Children don’t know any better. Lawmakers and parents should. !

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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It’s a social justice issue!

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PRANCE CHARMING My friend is obsessed with dating models. Of course, because he’s dating mostly based on looks, these relationships rarely Amy Alkon last. He says that he’s trying to move up in the business Advice world and that being Goddess seen with a beautiful woman makes a difference in how he’s perceived. Wouldn’t businesspeople be more impressed if he could keep a relationship going, even if it were with a plainer woman? — Discerning Dude The problem with dating largely based on looks is that you tend to end up with the sort of woman who’s frequently hospitalized for several days: “I was thinking so hard I dislocated my shoulder.”

However, your friend isn’t wrong; arm candy appears to be the Prada handbag of male competition. Research by social psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues suggests that a man’s being accompanied by a modelicious woman functions as a “hard-to-fake” signal of his status, as beautiful women “have the luxury of discriminating among a plethora of suitors.”

In the Winegard team’s experiments, men paired with attractive women were consistently rated as higher in status than the very same men when they were paired with unattractive women. In one part of the study, some men were assigned an attractive female partner. The men were told that they’d be conducting a survey out on campus with her and that they “were to act as if they and their assigned partner were in a happy relationship.”

These men were forced to choose between a group of men and a group of women to survey (and thus flaunt their hot female partner to). Interestingly, almost 70 percent of these guys chose to flaunt to other men. This isn’t surprising, considering how, as the researchers note, men are “largely” the ones who determine one another’s status (within a group of men). Of course, a man’s being seen as high-status by other men is ultimately a path to mo’ better babes — so your friend may basically be getting a twofer by showing off to other dudes.

The reality is, once he’s more established, his priority may shift from needing a signal to wanting a partner. At that point, he may come to see the beauty in the sort of woman who has something on her mind — uh, besides a $200 doubleprocess blond dye job and $600 in hair extensions.

FORT NOXIOUS I’m a straight guy in my 30s with pretty strong body odor. I saw your column about how more men are doing body hair trimming. I remember you saying not to remove all the hair, and I don’t want women to suspect I’m gay. However, I’m wondering whether shaving my pits would help with my BO. — Pepe Le Pew When a woman you meet can’t stop thinking about you, ideally her thought isn’t, “Could there be a small dead animal making its home in his armpit?”

Underarm stink comes from a specialized sweat gland. Your body has two kinds of sweat glands, eccrine and apocrine.

Eccrine glands are the air conditioners of the body, producing sweat that’s pretty much just salty water to cool us off. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, are scent glands, found mostly in the armpits and groin and around the nipples. And sorry, this is gross: Any smelliness emanating from the apocrine areas comes not from the sweat itself but from bacteria that move in to lunch on it.

So — intuitively — it seems like shaving that pit hair (removing it entirely versus just trimming it) would make a difference, giving the bacteria far less of a, um, dining area. Unfortunately, the studies on this are problematic — with too-small sample sizes (meaning too few participants to know whether the findings reflect reality

or are simply due to chance). One of the studies was done not by independent researchers working out of a university lab but by five researchers employed by a multinational company that sells razors and shaving products. This doesn’t necessarily mean their results are skeevy. However, a finding like “Let that armpit hair grow wild and free and wave in the wind like summer grain!” is probably not the stuff career advancement is made of at a company selling hair removal products.

Also, as you suspect, shaved pits on a straight man (one who isn’t an Olympic swimmer or a serious body builder) may lead women to suspect he is gay or some body-obsessed narcissist. If you do decide to try pit-shaving, in summer heat, you might forgo tank tops and wear shirts with loose short sleeves. And when you’re about to get naked with a woman, see that you pre-allay her fears. Explain that the shaving thing is merely about getting the hideodorousness under control — not getting into a skin-tight dress, a ginormous platinum wig, and a 14-foot boa in “don’t f--- with me!” fuchsia. !

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[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Be sure you are part of the discussion involving your suggestions. Your presence ensures that you can defend your work, if necessary. It also helps gain your colleagues’ support.

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A misunderstanding needs to be dealt with, or it can grow and cause more prob-

lems later on. Be the bigger person and take the first step to clear the air.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Set some strict guidelines for yourself so your heavier-than-usual work schedule doesn’t overwhelm the time you need to spend relaxing with loved ones.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You might feel a little uncomfortable

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But remember that today’s strangers can become tomorrow’s valuable contacts.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Reward yourself for all that you’ve accomplished despite some annoying situations that got in your way.

Enjoy a well-earned getaway with someone special.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Realizing that someone else is taking credit for what you did is bound to get anyone’s goat, but especially yours. Be patient. The truth soon comes out.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Forget about opposites attracting.

What you need is to find someone who thinks like you and will support your ideas, even if others say they’re too radical.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Workplace problems can affect your financial plans. Be prudent and avoid running up bills or making commitments until things begin to ease up by the 27th.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your persistence pays off as the information you demanded starts to come through. The pace is slow at first, but it begins to speed up as the week draws to a close.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An unwelcome bit of news jolts the Bovine, who would prefer that things proceed smoothly. But it’s at most a momentary setback. A Leo brings more welcome tidings.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You need to pay close attention to the details before making a commitment. Don’t accept anything that seems questionable, unless you get an answer that can be backed up.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Congratulations on getting that project up and running. But as exciting as it is, don’t let it carry you away. Make sure you set aside time to spend with family and friends. © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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