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It’s been almost two months since the morning ELLA LORINE CRAWLEY, 50, was found near a walking path in Gateway Commons Park, located between Northwest Boulevard and Glenn Avenue in Winston-Salem. Yet, family members claim they haven’t heard much from investigators since.

5 In case you hadn’t heard, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, DRIVE-IN theaters are suddenly all the rage again. It’s a way of maintaining social distance but also enjoying movies as they were meant to be seen – on the big screen.

6 As the days wore on, my tech crew got so used to seeing celebrities stroll into the suite, that they would casually talk among themselves and fiddle with equipment as each actor entered. Then it happened. ROBERT WAGNER arrived for his appointed interview and the room went dead silent. There was no talking, no clanging of light stands, just complete silence. All of us, men and women alike, were mesmerized by his old style Hollywood elegance and boyish smile.

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8 A police officer in West Yorkshire, England, shared the thoughts of many after being called to the scene of a wreck involving a $300,000 LAMBORGHINI that lasted only 20 minutes on the road before it was totaled on June 24. “It’s only a car,” the officer tweeted, but he “could have cried.”

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WSPD VIOLENT CRIMES TASK FORCE RESPONSE

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

At 9 a.m. on July 7, over 100 law enforcement officers and agents gathered at Union Baptist Church, 1200 N. Trade St. in Winston-Salem, looking for leads relating to the murder of Ella Lorine Crawley, 50, a homeless, mentally-ill woman, who was brutally assaulted on May 23 and succumbed to her injuries on May 24.

The task force response consisted of door-to-door canvassing in the neighborhoods surrounding Gateway Commons, where Crawley was found with visible head injuries near a walking path.

Winston-Salem Police Department’s Lt. Gregory Dorn said there was a “very good turnout” Tuesday morning that included officers from multiple WSPD units, the Greensboro Police Department, and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, United States Marshal Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the State Bureau of Investigations.

“We have done this over the years, especially in a case like this where no leads are coming in—no tips, no Crimestoppers,” Dorn said. “Other murders, you have a bunch of witnesses around or cell phone/ social media technology, or video—we don’t have a lot of that. It is going to take boots on the ground to get some leads in this one, and that is why we are here.”

Activists behind the “Black Ops: Rebellion of Black Women” movement held in Aster Park on May 31—Arnita Miles, Miranda Jones, Ikulture Chandler, Jenn Oliver—have criticized the WSPD for its alleged lack of response and haste concerning this case.

They were just as critical of the task force response on Tuesday, calling it a “publicity stunt” and a “good photo-op.”

The activists also question the effectiveness of Tuesday’s canvass, and why it took almost three months since Crawley’s death to have this task force response.

“We have consistently been pursuing WSPD regarding Ella’s case,” Chandler wrote in a Facebook message. “Countless calls, emails, and the family is unable to get any information. What is frustrating to me is that I felt like there was no pressure to even find out what happened to her before we came along, and if we had not happened, Ella would just be a homeless woman who was killed. I think it is absolutely sad that they are just now making any attempt to find information. We were told they would put any additional information out to the public, but they haven’t put out any information to begin with. And now, they’re going door to door with the nearby church to prove what? This is just to shut us up, but we won’t be satisfied WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Lt. Gregory Dorn of WSPD at the Violent Crime Task Force Response on July 7 until an arrest has been made! And they’re not acknowledging the attempts we have made at all.”

Jones believes that more needs to be done by police to solve the crime.

“We had hoped for more in a city with a Black woman police chief,” Jones wrote in a Facebook message. “After all, so many Blacks in power often talk about how they are Black first. Social location shouldn’t matter.”

Jones thinks that a cash reward should be offered to anyone with helpful information.

“We still need to remain vigilant,” Jones wrote. “We must press until the case is solved.”

In an email, Captain Steven Tollie of WSPD Criminal Investigations wrote that Tuesday’s canvass was the third one conducted in this investigation—the first one was done the morning Crawley was discovered “and a second, larger canvass, occurred a few days later.”

“As is evident by the fact that this investigation remains unsolved, detectives have yet to develop a lead that will bring this investigation to a successful conclusion,” Tollie wrote. “The purpose in [Tuesday’s] canvass is yet another effort to reach out to members of the community where this occurred; in hopes that someone with information may come forward.”

Tollie responded to the criticism the WSPD received that the canvass might be ineffective given how much time had passed since Crawley was found.

“While it is true that this effort may fail, I would rather make the effort and fail; than to miss a potential opportunity to develop

a new lead in the investigation,” Tollie wrote.

Dorn said Crawley’s death was “near to our hearts,” as two of her relatives are retired law enforcement from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

“I know people have been asking why it has taken so long, but we have been out here—the people who complain about us not being here haven’t been here, so they don’t see us what we do every day,” Dorn said. “This case, it hurts us.”

Crawley died a day before George Floyd was killed by a police officer, which sparked a nationwide movement protesting police brutality.

“She was the first of five murders that week—we had a horrible week,” Dorn said.

“It was downright brutal, and [the killer] is a person we need to get off the streets, that is why we are out here. We have had success in these before, and a lot of times, the initial deployment is not when we get the tip, it is weeks later.”

Dorn said he hoped that the WSPD would get a helpful tip from Tuesday’s canvass.

“What I’d like to tell the suspect is, this is not going to go away, he or she is going to talk about it—it is going to come back to us.”

Dorn said the WSPD would not stop investigating and canvassing; he said investigators plan to follow every lead they get on this case.

“Say, if we got some information that 7 o’clock the day prior she was over on Thurmond Street, we might develop a plan to deploy on Thurmond Street and then pass out the flyers and try to get information in that area. We can canvass for video, try to track her from where she came from,” he said. “It’s like a tree—you follow every branch, every limb, every twig until you run out of twigs. And if another twig grows, we jump on that twig and investigate it, and it never stops.”

Anyone with information can contact detectives at the Winston-Salem Police Department, (336) 773-7000, or CrimeStoppers at (336) 727-2800, and on Facebook via “Crime Stoppers of Winston-Salem Forsyth County.” !

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Family members demand more information about murder of homeless, mentally-ill woman

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t’s been almost two months since the morning Ella Lorine Crawley, 50, was found near a walking path in Gateway Commons Park, located between Northwest Katie Murawski Boulevard and Glenn Avenue in WinstonSalem. Yet, family Editor members claim they haven’t heard much from investigators since. One of Ella Lorine Crawley’s sisters, Melissa Crawley, said she was initially in contact with the lead detectives and was told that the District Attorney had “put a rush on getting the lab results back.” But she said communication had ultimately stopped about two weeks after her sister was found.

“I leave voicemails, and it seems like it takes too long for him to respond,” Melissa Crawley said in a phone call on June 17.

“I called multiple times, and nobody is calling me back,” said Vanessa Crawley, another sister, in a phone call on June 26.

“I feel upset about that because I don’t want this swept under the rug, I want justice to be served. We need to find these people so that they won’t harm nobody else. All of this is a lot,” she continued.

“It’s like the police are doing nothing.”

On June 26, Captain Steven Tollie of the WSPD Criminal Investigation Division wrote in an email that the death of Ella Lorine Crawley has remained active and is under investigation. “As is standard procedure, detectives have established a primary point of contact for the family.

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Detectives have remained in contact with that point of contact and shared the limited information that we have available.

Unfortunately, we have received inquiries from persons purporting to be family members, only to learn that the people are not related to or associated with Ms. Crawley.” Tollie wrote in an email on June 29 that he could not release the name of the family member designated as the primary contact. “I can tell you that detectives have been in contact with him/ her, as recent as the end of last week.

While some of the people that have been in contact with you may, in fact, be family members, others who have inquired about this matter have been members of various organizations with no affiliation with the victim.” In a subsequent phone call with Captain Tollie, he said he had “a particular interest” in solving this case, but that investigators “need folks to come forward” with any information.

According to a WSPD press release sent out on July 6, authorities from multiple law enforcement agencies and various community representatives would gather on July 7 at Union Baptist Church, 1200 N. Trade St., to canvass the neighborhoods near the 300 block of West Northwest Boulevard.

“The purpose of the Response is to develop investigative leads, provide information to the community about a violent act that has occurred, to support the community in its efforts to recover, and to visibly demonstrate the partnership of multiple law enforcement agencies in addressing violence in the community.”

“She has two members of law enforcement retired from the Sheriff ’s office, so that is who has been our main points of contact in this,” said WSPD Lt. Gregory Dorn Tuesday morning in response to concerned family members. “We have a main family member because we can’t just call 10 people and distribute [information]. My detective doesn’t have time to call everyone.”

The WSPD media release described the incident to the public.

“At approximately 7:02 a.m. on the morning of May 23, 2020, Ms. Ella Crawley was located near a walking path in Gateway Commons Park. Ms. Crawley had suffered visible injuries to her head and was in grave need of medical assistance when discovered by a passerby. On Sunday, May 24, 2020, Ms. Crawley died as a result of her injuries. Authorities with the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office

determined that Ms. Crawley died as a result of blunt force trauma and strangulation.” According to the release, Ella Lorine Crawley was homeless at the time of her death and was known to frequent the area where she was found. She was wearing a gray-colored parka with a beige-colored shirt, and detectives believe that while she was traveling on foot, she “likely encountered her assailant(s) on or near Northwest Boulevard and the encounter likely occurred within a very short period of time before she was discovered.”

“I saw her, I saw what she looked like afterward, somebody is sick—somebody is really demented and deranged, and they need to be off the street, plain and simple,” Melissa Crawley said. “They are going to act again—it’s going to happen again. I feel like what they have done to my sister, that is not something that you wake up and decide to do and don’t do it again.”

The release also states that “certain items of her clothing were missing,” and that “investigators are attempting to determine if Ms. Crawley may have also been the victim of a sexual assault.”

Melissa Crawley and others have expressed concern over the killer, and possible rapist, being at-large and the public not knowing about it because of the alleged lack of communication. “If nothing else, I just want people not to forget that there is somebody out there that is not OK in the mind. I know I can’t bring her back, but the community deserves to know, the killer has not been caught—be careful, don’t be out alone, don’t be in that area by yourself.”

“We don’t have anything strong yet from that evidence to lead us in that direction that it was a sexual assault, and that was the intent of the assault; we don’t know that,” Dorn said. “We have not had an incident like this that I can recall, where a lady has been attacked like this in years, maybe five or 10 years. The last murder that we had similar to this was Constance Hall over on Manly Street in 2011, but we solved that case in 2014 through DNA.” To the WSPD’s knowledge, Dorn said, there hasn’t been a series of recent random assaults and attacks.

“Of course, that we are aware of— who knows, maybe there is someone targeting victims out here on the street they might not report it, and that is another element to this. Maybe someone was attacked earlier but just wasn’t attacked to this

point. We need to know about that assault if they have not reported it. I’ve worked sexual assaults, and I 100% believe that a lot of sexual assaults go unreported because of the embarrassment of it. If it is something like that, please come forward, come tell us, and that could very well seal the deal and give us the tip that we need.”

Melissa Crawley, who is a resident of Tennessee, described her sister as “good, decent, loving, kind, sweet Christian lady.”

Melissa Crawley said her sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia years ago, and before her death, she had recently stopped taking her medication.

“She couldn’t help herself. If we would have been able to get her the help she needed to get her back on her meds—she lived on her own for 15 years in her apartment alone. She went to church; she was a Christian lady, she was kind, she kept to herself, she wouldn’t bother anybody.”

Melissa Crawley said that her family had her sister committed to several mental health facilities multiple times before. However, the facilities could never keep her for an extended period of time since she was her own guardian. Another family member, who would prefer not to be named, said she was in the process of getting guardianship over Ella Lorine Crawley before her murder.

“She was left vulnerable, and this is what happens; she ended up beaten, strangled and possibly raped—It’s terrible,” Melissa Crawley added. “I feel like she was failed every time she was committed.” Vanessa Crawley, who is a resident of Virginia, said her sister “had a beautiful spirit.”

“She was doing so good! I just went to see her [a year ago]. She met my baby boy; she had an apartment and everything, but I don’t know what happened from there,” Vanessa Crawley said. “I just want justice to be served; I just want them to find whoever did this to my sister just like they would do for anyone else. It has been too long.”

Anyone with information can contact detectives at the Winston-Salem Police Department, (336) 773-7000, or CrimeStoppers at (336) 727-2800, and on Facebook via “Crime Stoppers of Winston-Salem Forsyth County.” !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor-in-chief of YES! Weekly. Her alter egos include The Grimberlyn Reaper, skater/public relations board chair for Greensboro Roller Derby, and Roy Fahrenheit, drag entertainer and selfproclaimed King of Glamp.

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RiverRun goes to the drive-in In case you hadn’t heard, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-in theaters are suddenly all the rage again. It’s a way of maintaining social distance but also enjoying movies as they were meant to Mark Burger be seen – on the big screen.

To this end, the RivContributor erRun International Film Festival and Marketplace Cinemas in Winston-Salem have joined forces to create “RiverRun at Marketplace,” a selection of festival screenings that will be presented at Marketplace’s drive-in facility, located at 2095 Peters Creek Parkway in WinstonSalem.

On Thursday, July 16, one of the festival’s most popular perennials – the Late Night Shorts – will be screened at the Marketplace Cinemas Drive-in, followed by the feature documentary Navigating Thru, which will be shown Tuesday, July 21. Gates open 7:30 pm both nights, screenings begin at dusk, and tickets can be purchased online at www.riverrunfilm.com/drive-in/.

“With our traditional festival canceled, we had to look at ways to modify our business model to at least get some of our films to our audiences via alternative platforms,” explained Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director.

Thus far, those attempts have proven successful, according to Davis.

“We started our RiverRun Virtual Theater to provide a streaming platform for some of our titles,” he said. “We wanted to offer some free options for the community, and we’re pleased to offer our North Carolina Shorts free, sponsored by Nelson Mullins, and our Saturday Morning Cartoons, sponsored by Salem Smiles Orthodontics.

Both programs were extremely popular, and we’ve also been very pleased with the response to our ticketed virtual screenings.”

The 2020 RiverRun festival was to have marked its inaugural partnership with Marketplace Cinemas, but circumstances dictated otherwise.

“This was to be our first year as part of the festival,” said Zack Fox, manager and projectionist at Marketplace Cinemas, “and we were very excited to be joining them as a venue. But, unfortunately, the festival was canceled. Once the drive-in idea was a ‘go,’ Rob Davis and I started talking about the possibility of doing some RiverRun nights. We are very excited to say that these (screenings) are definitely just the first of WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

many possible events with them.”

First up, “we will be showing our perennially popular Late Night Shorts on July 16, and this year’s program includes 10 absurdly shocking and hilarious shorts with everything from nuns on the run to zombies in power-suits,” boasts Davis.

The line-up includes Blue & Hues, Infinite Scroll, Kitty’s Naughty Knickers, Love You Tyler, Nowhere to Nun, Rope-a-Dope, Sixteen Thousand Dollars, Tom Sax in a Clone Pit, Unfinished Business, and Washed.

This presentation is sponsored by Parkway Lincoln.

Next, on July 21, comes Lindsay Taylor Jackson’s Navigating Thru, sponsored by Great Outdoor Provision Company, what Davis calls “a captivating documentary about women endeavoring to hike the vaunted Appalachian Trail.”

The Appalachian Trail spans some 2,200 miles across 14 states from Georgia to Maine, and annually thousands of people attempt to hike the entire distance. In the end, only one in four will succeed, and only a quarter of them are women. Navigating Thru follows a group of women making that herculean effort, attempting to discover for themselves what it takes to become “the 25% of the 25%.”

“We have had seven nights of drive-in movies at Marketplace, and I am proud to say that all seven nights have sold out,” said Fox. “Advance sales on RiverRun nights are starting out strong, too.”

Fox confirms there are plans to continue the drive-in screenings, and is currently negotiating future films and screening dates.

“With drive-ins allowing in-person shows while allowing for social distancing, I’ve not been surprised at their resurgence,” observed Davis. “Just as RiverRun has adapted to a new environment, our venue partner Marketplace Cinemas has also adapted its business model to become a drive-in instead of a walk-in theater at present.

We’ve done some year-round screenings at Marketplace over the last year, and we’re really looking forward to working with them as a festival venue for the first time in 2020.

“Now, a few months later, we’re thrilled to be working with Zack Fox and his team at Marketplace – just showing our films at their drive-in instead of inside their cinema!” !

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n the summer of 1977, I witnessed something I’ve never experienced before or since. I was holding court in a Century City hotel where CBS shuttled their Jim Longworth prime time stars in and out of my suite for two straight Longworth days. I was there to at Large tape interviews that we could broadcast back home on our local affiliate, and the network stars were there to boost ratings for their series. As the days wore on, my tech crew got so used to seeing celebrities stroll into the suite, that they would casually talk among themselves and fiddle with equipment as each actor entered. Then it happened. Robert Wagner arrived for his appointed interview, and the room went dead silent. There was no talking, no clanging of light stands, just complete silence. All of us, men and women alike, were mesmerized by his old-style Hollywood elegance and boyish smile.

On that day, R.J. was there to promote Switch, a private eye drama co-starring his friend Eddie Albert and a young Sharon Gless before she rose to stardom in Cagney & Lacey. We talked about a lot of things that day, but my memory is clouded by the passage of 43 years and the fact that I was star-struck to begin with. What I do know is that in the years since, I came to realize that R.J.’s elegance, charm, and kindness were 100% genuine. For example, 30 years after our first meeting, R.J. rushed from the set of Two and a Half Men and grabbed a redeye flight here to Winston-Salem to help our Humane Society raise money for a no-kill animal shelter. Thanks in part to R.J.’s celebrity draw, the shelter was eventually built, and in a very short time, we increased our save rate from 36% to over 70%.

Earlier this year, R.J. turned a youthful 90, and this summer, he celebrates his 70th year in show business. Recently, while everyone was still sheltering at home, R.J. and I had a socially-distant phone conversation about his remarkable career, which began with a cameo as a baseball player in 1950’s The Happy Years.

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Jim Longworth and Robert Wagner of Switch in 1977 JL: You were only in the movie for a few seconds, but it looked to me as though you could really play ball.

RJ: Well, I had played baseball in school, but I give credit to the editor for making me look good (laughs). Actually, Bill Wellman gave me that break. My father knew Bill from the Bel-Air Country Club, and he said, ‘My son wants to be in the picture business. Is there anything you can do?’ And Bill gave me that shot.

Young Wagner also made a lot of high profile friends of his own at the Club, including Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, and Clark Gable, who helped to open doors for him. Before long, R.J. was under contract at 20th Century Fox, where he played everything from a soldier to a Prince before landing a game-changing role in 1954’s Broken Lance, a western starring Spencer Tracy.

RJ: That was my favorite picture, and it did so much for me. Mr. Tracy gave me co-star billing above the title, and that took me out of being just another guy in Hollywood. It put me in a whole different position. I didn’t realize it at the time, but Broken Lance changed my life completely.

Wagner went on to appear in over 60 films but landed his first lead role on television in 1968 with It Takes a Thief, co-starring his friend Fred Astaire.

JL: You wrote in your book, “Pieces of My Heart,” that Fred once advised you to just “keep going.” What did he mean?

RJ: Just don’t let anything stop you. If you get turned down—if you get rejected, which is all the time, I mean, actors get

rejected constantly—he said, ‘just keep your head up and keep going.’

And that’s what R.J. did after Thief was canceled. He starred in Colditz, a shortlived WWII drama, then co-starred with Eddie Albert in Switch, all the while taking on supporting roles in such films as The Towering Inferno and Midway. Then, in 1979 R.J. struck gold with Hart to Hart, which ran for five seasons and spawned eight T.V. movies and a lasting friendship with Stefanie Powers. One of R.J.’s other co-stars in that series was Freeway the dog.

RJ: Most Hollywood dogs work on hand signals, but Freeway didn’t respond to that, so his trainer would be offset while Stefanie and I were in the middle of a love scene, and all you’d hear from the trainer is, ‘Come on, come on, come on.’ I’d be like, ‘Darling I love you,’ then we’d hear, ‘come on, come on.’

JL: Was there a lot of panting during that scene?

RJ: Yeah, from me and from the dog.

JL: You’ve always been sort of the romantic lead, but was there ever a time when your good looks kept you from getting an acting job, or from being taken seriously as an actor?

RJ: Oh, I don’t know. It’s possible. But a guy wouldn’t come up to you and say, ‘We wouldn’t cast you in this picture because you’re a good looking guy’ (both laugh) I mean, I never had that happen. But I’ve been very fortunate with all that.

JL: Well, you certainly had the looks to play a great James Bond. In fact, you and

Cubby Broccoli talked about your becoming 007 after George Lazenby dropped out. Why didn’t you take that role?

RJ: Because I’m too American. I think I would have had to do it with an accent; besides, Roger (Moore) was a perfect choice.

JL: But if you had been James Bond, aren’t there some villainous studio heads or critics that you’d like to have put in your ejector seat?

RJ: Oh, God (laughs) That’s a good question.

JL: You’re not going to name names, are you?

RJ: No, I don’t think so.

JL: Are there any T.V. or movie roles you turned down that you wish you hadn’t?

RJ: You know I was offered Westworld, and that would have been interesting, but I was doing something else at the time.

At that point in our conversation, I mentioned it was our friend Richard Benjamin who took the role in Westworld, and that prompted R.J. to comment on Dick’s participation in the recent documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, which was produced by Wagner’s daughter, Natasha.

RJ: Did you see the documentary?

JL: I did, and it was superb.

RJ: I’m so glad you reacted the way you did because what Natasha wanted to have happened out of that documentary is for people to remember her mother as she lived, not as she died.

JL: Natasha’s film was really a breath of fresh air amidst the stink of today’s tabloid media who thrive on sensationalism, but let’s face it, there have always been trash magazines that went after Hollywood celebrities.

RJ: But we weren’t free-game then.

Now we’re free-game, and anybody can write anything they want to, and not source it or attribute it.

JL: You once said that your friend Cary Grant worked hard to achieve a sense of ease about his celebrity. Has it been the same for you? Or, did that sense of ease about your celebrity just come natural?

RJ: I don’t feel uneasy about it, but I feel very grateful, very grateful. I’ve been so fortunate in my career, and I really haven’t done a hell of a lot to get that.

I’ve just been very, very lucky, Jim. !

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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he theme for this week is restaurants on Elm Street. No nightmares here! We’ll start downtown, with some recent reopenings.

B.Christopher’s (201 N. Elm St., 336-274-5900, bchristophers.com) is a personal favorite. I am especially pleased to see specific safety procedures posted: single-use menus, sanitizing tables and chairs after each guest, appropriately spaced seating, and hand sanitizer stations throughout.

Reservations are requested- especially appropriate these days. Dinner from 5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday.

The restaurant describes itself as “The Great American Steakhouse,” and I do like their steaks. My wife and share the blackened ribeye. It’s big enough for two, and you can’t beat the flavor.

Other cuts, of course, are available too.

Scallops Risotto, Blackened Salmon, roasted Free Range Chicken, and Roasted Portabella Mushrooms stuffed with goat cheese are stellar non-beef entrees.

Sides are exceptional: garlic mashed potatoes, fried onion crisps, thin-cut French fries (fresh cut in house), the stellar corn crème brulee, as well as green beans, spinach, Brussels sprouts, and asparagus, sourced whenever possible through partnerships with local farms.

Blue Denim (217 S. Elm St., 336-6765689, bluedenimgso.com) is open for no contact take out Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Order online by 3:00 for same day pick up 5-6:30 p.m. Pre-orders are also welcome. The family team wears masks and gloves, and follows safety procedures to keep all areas clean and sanitized. This place is all about flavorabundant, wonderful flavors that characterize the South, especially Louisiana cooking. These dishes travel particularly well, too. Consider Low Country Shrimp Boil with corn and andouille sausage, Shrimp and Grits with tasso ham and andouille sausage cream sauce, or cornmeal dusted fried Catfish with field pea succotash. The White Chocolate Bread Pudding is decadent!

White & Wood (215 S. Elm St., 336-

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Inside dining is now available in addition to takeout.

The menu offers a lot of cheeses and cured meats, in addition to raw oysters, tuna tartare, and beef tartare, plus unusually good salads. Entrée choices tend toward the higher end: Lobster with crème fraiche and Meyer lemon, Chilean Seabass with prawn dumplings, Scallops in citrus-chicken jus, Duck Breast in Port and jus, Filet Mignon, and Lamb with lamb bacon and sweet onions and candy stripe beets. @ Elm Street Grill (3606 N. Elm St., 336-286-4880, elmstgrill.com) is located on the other end of Elm Street. Ongoing phase 2 hours are 4:30-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Reservations are requested due to restricted seating space. Take out is available, too, of course. I have ordered from here on numerous occasions.

The menu blends casual with more upscale Southern American, plus occasional Indian cuisine as well. For starters, consider sweet chili Cauliflower or Firecracker Shrimp. Burgers, sandwiches, wraps, and tacos provide casual fare. Among the entrees, Fish and Chips, Jambalaya, Country Shrimp Skillet with sausage and corn, Shrimp and Grits with andouille sausage are all good choices. I often get Chicken Tikka Masala or Shrimp Coconut Curry. You’ll even find Italian- Shrimp and Scallops Alfredo, for example.

This menu also offers a higher than usual number of vegetarian entrees, such as Tikka Masala with mushrooms, peppers, broccoli, and onions; Cauliflower tacos; and Avocado Panini.

(Earlier editions of this series, with multiple other restaurant recommendations, can be found at issuu.com/ yesweekly. See my recommendations for the North and South Carolina coast at the YES! Weekly website: yesweekly.com.

Look under “Featured Stories.”)

According to Yelp data, 24,000 restaurants have closed across the United States since the beginning of March.

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survive! And stay safe, healthy and wellfed! !

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/

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TikTok user Kevin Wise told KSLA he was looking for his five minutes of fame when he jumped into a fish tank at Bass Pro Shop in Bossier, Louisiana, in late June. “I said that if I got 2,000 likes, I would jump in the tank,” Wise said. “I got way more than that and didn’t want to be a liar.” Shopper Treasure McGraw recorded video of Wise swimming around in the tank before he climbed out and ran through the store, soaking wet.

“We heard a big splash, and I thought it was one of the fish,” McGraw said. Initially, Bass Pro Shops said it would not press charges, but on June 26, the company filed a complaint with the Bossier City Police Department, noting that it had to empty the 13,000-gallon tank and clean it after Wise’s swim. Wise wouldn’t recommend the stunt to others. “Don’t do spur-of-themoment crap like I do,” he warned.

REPEAT OFFENDER

Devin Roberts, 32, of Bardwell, Kentucky, caught the attention of local media after being arrested three times in one week.

Carlisle County Sheriff’s deputies first encountered Roberts on June 23, WSIL reported, when he called the sheriff’s office to say he had taken a case he found next to a dumpster that turned out to contain items belonging to the city. When officers arrived, they determined the case had been removed from a city building. The following Saturday, Roberts was accused of fighting with a grocery store clerk and making lewd comments to female employees. Sheriff William Gilbert found Roberts at his home, passed out in a running vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. He had also left his 3-year-old son at home with another inebriated person. Finally, on June 28,

deputies pulling over a car on suspicion of drunken driving found Roberts in the passenger seat, drunk and in possession of alcohol, which violated the terms of his earlier bonds. Roberts faces multiple charges related to all three encounters.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENTS

— The Sun reported on June 29 that two Ryanair pilots are in the (chicken) soup after they recorded themselves getting silly with a rubber chicken in the cockpit of a Boeing 737-800. In the video, thought to be recorded as passengers boarded the plane in Birmingham, England, the first officer and pilot trade off using the chicken to operate the airplane’s throttle and making it squeak while mugging for the camera. Other crew members laugh in the background. A spokesperson for Ryanair commented: “These pictures and videos show crew on the ground in a parked aircraft with the engines shut down. While the images are unprofessional, the actions in them posed no risk and safety was never compromised. ... (Nevertheless) we are investigating the matter further.”

— Merseyside Police responding to the scene of a crash in Huyton, England, in the wee hours of June 28 say they arrived in time to witness a woman “finishing off a glass of wine,” according to the Echo. In the collision, a white Mercedes had plowed into a parked Ford Focus, with both cars sustaining significant damage. Photographs from the scene showed the Mercedes to contain an empty wine bottle on the floor of the passenger seat, along with a wine glass, and another full bottle in a storage compartment. Police announced the arrest of two women, 33 and 35, on suspicion of unauthorized taking of a motor vehicle and drunk driving.

THIS OLD HOUSE

Firefighters were called to a home in Guilford, Connecticut, on June 29 where a resident had fallen through a wood floor in the 177-year-old house and down about 30 feet into a well, WHDH reported. The victim treaded water for about 25 minutes while responders worked to hoist them out.

Apparently, the well had been covered over by an addition made to the home during a 1981 renovation. “Some of these older, historical homes may have hazards that were not updated by current code,” the Guilford Police Department tweeted. The victim was taken to the hospital but had only minor injuries. !

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alker Lyon is a High Point highschooler and solo-artist spending his quarantine summer building a portfolio of releases reflecting warm days and teenKatei Cranford age living in the age of coronavirus.

Harkening the Contributor sounds of soloists like Dayglow and Tame Impala, and mid-00s indie-pop bands like Girls, summer vibes are Lyon’s drift—upbeat and energetic, with certain waft fans of the Drums would enjoy.

The 16-year old Lyon blends surf rock and dream-pop, with a splash of R&B and hip-hop aimed to invoke summer emotions and surfside atmosphere cresting over a string of ongoing releases, starting back in April with the song “Take Me to the Sea.” “It’s based on a dream I had about some sand dunes,” he said of the inaugural track that carries a hint of the Vampire Weekend blend of rich kids enjoying warm weather in ages slightly freer of consequence.

The latest single, “Taking Our Time,” released on July 4, dips into a more chill direction—even as the theme of lacking direction resonates with burgeoning independence, the promise of empty parking lots and pains of self-awareness. Lyon’s work drips with teen topics that seem to carry a lifetime. “And the days go by,” so the lyrics go on the chill ballad, inspired on late summer nights. “I hope it relates to a lot of people’s issues overthinking,“ he said.

Indecision rings across the releases, notably on “ICEE MACHINE (Don’t Wait For Me),” a pop track incorporating sampled bits in the style of the Gorillaz, who Lyon cites as an inspiration. ”I like to mix them all and hope for the best,” he noted of his favorite ICEE flavors—the practice of blending echoes throughout his production. The meshed musical palate is a product of practice he’s carried since beginning songwriting in elementary school—by, as he put it, “coming up with not-so-great raps.” He’s dedicated the years since growing up to speed vocally and instrumentally: picking up the guitar at age 11, producing tracks at 13, and making releases by 15.

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years, from making chill beats to 1980s synth instrumentals,” he said of his development. “These days, I’m going for the alternative route, as it’s broad and has the best parts of my favorite genres.” His guitar work carries surf tones in dream pop and neo-soul, though he contends the best part of music involves story-telling over smooth grooves.

And Lyon’s stories stay rooted in summer. “It’s got distinct party vibes,” he noted, “but I also see the season as a level or a progression step in growing each year.

There’s always a push to experience new things and think about what’s next as I get older. This leads to some uncertainty and anxiety over the future, but I try to channel those emotions into upbeat songs.”

Lyon may be young, but there’s a polished maturity in his production. And songs like “Phone Tag,” an ode to childhood and Oak Hollow mall, show he’s not too young for nostalgia. “One of my earliest memories is crawling around inside the play-place they used to have,” he said of the defunct High Point shopping center, “may it rest in peace.”

Looking to the future, he’ll continue releasing singles for the foreseeable time. “Right now, I feel like my sound is constantly changing, so I like the idea of releasing singles because they improve as time goes along,” he explained, “once I get more consistency, an album is going to be the goal.”

Fans can expect EPs and funny music videos as the year rolls out. “I end up having a great feeling after doing all the work,” he said of being a one-man band and production team, “it makes each song a really personal endeavor, like directing a movie where you have to act as every character.“ While Lyon finds complete control fulfilling, he hopes for collaborations once quarantine stops being a way of life.

“Quarantine can be tough on musicians when it comes to playing live shows,” he noted, ”but it’s game time to prepare so that I’ll come out ready to perform.”

Summer is here, and should the music industry survive, Walker Lyon has a bright future ahead. In the meantime, his quarantine summer series is available on most major streaming platforms and www. songwhip.com/walker-lyon. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that plays like a mixtape of artists touring NC, currently on hiatus due to COVID-19.

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Jul 17: Shaun Jones w/ Chris Wiles Jul 18: Shaun Jones w/ Chris Wiles Jul 30: Vivaca A. Fox Aug 12: Jeff Allen Aug 14: Brian Regan Aug 15: Brian Regan Aug 21: Don “D.C.” Curry Aug 22: Don “D.C.” Curry Aug 23: Don “D.C.” Curry Aug 25: Preacher Lawson Sep 4: Earthquakes Sep 5: Earthquakes Sep 6: Earthquakes

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I started dating someone who is super close to his family (talks to his mom and/or dad daily, sometimes multiple times). I have a perfectly good relationship with my Amy Alkon family, but we talk a few times a month, Advice not a few times a day! I’m uneasy that Goddess being in a relationship with him will mean being in an intense relationship with his family, too. Should I be worried about dating someone so tied to his mom as an adult? —Disturbed There’s being close with your parents and then there’s being close like one of those kids on a leash at the mall.

Starting in the late ‘80s, childhood became like jail, with children no longer being allowed out to explore and instead incarcerated in fenced-in play dates.

This came out of “helicopter parenting,” named for parents overprotectively hovering over their kids, supervising every aspect of their lives. Helicopter parents remain in constant communication with their kids (including their adult kids), making their decisions for them, clearing obstacles out of their path, and trying to micromanage their children into Harvard and the “right” career, spouse, house, and all the rest.

When you have constant adult supervision, and your mistakes are magically

mopped up by Mom (like by calling your boss for you — which, yes, really happens), you get shorted on the normal developmental challenges that create a psychologically healthy, independent adult. Not surprisingly, research by interpersonal communications researcher Kelly Odenweller and her colleagues suggests helicopter parenting leads to adult children with “neurotic tendencies, dependency on others, and ineffective coping skills.”

Look at how your boyfriend responds to conflict, and assess whether you’ve got a psychologically handicapped adult baby on your hands or merely a guy who really likes and enjoys his parents. That said, even if it’s the latter, it might not work for you. Talk to him to suss out what sort of role his family would have in your lives.

For example: What would be expected of you? Would you need to go to every single event with his family? If you got a job across the country, would moving be out of the question?

Upon investigation, figure out what you’d be comfortable with. You may decide his level of involvement with his family doesn’t work for you, and that doesn’t make you a bad person or “wrong.” It just makes you the wrong person for him.

However, talking this out now could help you see whether there are compromises you two could live with (same as you might do if he were intensely into a hobby that you find intensely tedious). Maybe you’ll always be a little “Disturbed” about his level of engagement with his family, but maybe you can work things out so his parents are involved in your life together... but not on the level of intestinal polyps.

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In the first few weeks of seeing this new guy, I was really into him and wanted to spend all my time with him. We’ve now been together for three months. For the first time for me in a relationship, I’m okay with being apart from a boyfriend.

(Normally, I get insecure and upset.)

Maybe this is good, but it worries me.

If you don’t really miss someone when you aren’t together, does that mean you don’t love them? —Concerned There’s an old Billy Joel love song, “I need you in my house because you’re my home” — not, “I could take you or leave you because you’re the shed out back.”

It’s possible you mistook the initial excitement of the relationship for having the hots for this guy, in bed and as a person. Elevated dopamine plays a role in this. It’s a neurotransmitter — a chemical messenger — that drives wanting and seeking. Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz finds that “unpredictable rewards” — seemingly rewarding things we have yet to experience — may be even three or four times as exciting (that is, dopamine-elevating) as

those we’re used to. However, expecting something to be exciting and having it fall short, failing to match our prediction, causes dopamine levels to sag.

We experience less wanting and have diminished motivation to pursue it — in other words, the neurochemical expression of “meh.”

Give a hard look at whether this guy hits the marks for you. At the same time, consider whether you missed past boyfriends more because there was something missing in you. (When you develop emotional security, you’re able to be alone without feeling alone.) If you decide he’s worth keeping, remember that romantic partners need to feel loved, even if you don’t need them desperately. You’ll be doing the nice thing if you text the occasional, “I really miss you!” as opposed to the perhaps more honest: “I assume you’re alive. Still on for dinner this Thursday?” !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2020 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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Get the first 3 months of HBO,® CINEMAX,® SHOWTIME,® STARZ,® EPIX® included at no extra cost.

With ENTERTAINMENT through ULTIMATE Pkgs. Services auto-renew after 3 mos. at then prevailing rate (currently $54/mo.), unless you call to change or cancel. Req's you to select offer.

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For 12 mos. plus taxes & Regional Sports Fee when bundled.

W/24-mo. agmt & other qualifying AT&T svc (min. $39.99/mo. + taxes and fees). TV prices higher in 2nd year.* Regional Sports Fee up to $8.49/mo. is extra & applies.

All your favorite entertainment, together in one place, including: Live TV & Sports, On Demand, Cloud DVR, and access to HBO, Netflix, Pandora & more!1 1 Req's separate subscription/login for HBO,® Netflix and Pandora..

AT&T TV: Requires high speed internet. Recommend minimum Internet 25 plan (min 8 Mbps per stream for optimal viewing). Limit 3 concurrent AT&T streams. See att.com/tv for details. *$19.95 ACTIVATION, EARLY TERMINATION FEE ($15/MO. FOR TV) FOR EACH MONTH REMAINING ON AGMT., EQUIPMENT NON-RETURN & ADD’L FEES APPLY. Price incl. ENTERTAINMENT AT&T TV Pkg., 1 AT&T TV device & is after $10/mo. bundle discount on TV for up to 12 mos. Pay $49.99/mo. + taxes until discount starts w/in 3 mos. New residential customers only, excluding DIRECTV and U-verse TV customers. Restr’s apply.

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1-336-962-2615 AT&T TV: Requires high speed internet. Recommend minimum Internet 25 plan (min 8 Mbps per stream for optimal viewing). Limit 3 concurrent AT&T streams. ENTERTAINMENT 1-YR AT&T TV PACKAGE W/ OTHER ELIG. SVC: Ends 6/27/20. Available only in the U.S. (excludes Puerto Rico and U.S.V.I.). 1st & 2nd year Pricing: $39.99 for first12 mos. only. After 12 mos. or loss of eligibility, then prevailing rate applies (currently $93/mo. for ENTERTAINMENT), unless cancelled or changed prior to end of the promo period. $10/mo. bundle discount: Internet: Reqs new (min. $39.99/mo. plus taxes and $10/mo. equip. fee) or existing svc. Excludes DSL. Wireless: Consumers only. Sold separately. Reqs new (min. $50/mo. after discounts) or existing AT&T postpaid svc on elig. plan (excl. Lifeline) on a smartphone, phone or AT&T Wireless Internet device (excl. voice-only AT&T Wireless Internet). Both svcs: Eligible svc must be installed/activated w/in 30 days of TV activation and svc addresses must match to receive bill credit starting in 1-3 bill cycles. First time credit will include all credits earned since meeting offer requirements. Must maintain both qualifying svcs to continue credits. No credits in 2nd year for bundled services. Includes: ENTERTAINMNET TV Pkg, & one (1) AT&T TV device. Add’l devices avail for $120 each or on installment. Additional Fees & Taxes: Price excludes other add’l fees & charges. Regional Sports Fee of up to $8.49/mo. (which is extra & applies to CHOICE and higher Pkgs.). Different offers may apply for eligible multi-dwelling unit customers. AT&T TV: Subject to AT&T TV terms and conditions. Avail. in the U.S. only (excludes Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands). AT&T TV service will continue monthly at the prevailing rate charged to your payment method on file, unless you cancel, subject to any early termination fees. If you cancel in the first 14 days of order, you must return the included AT&T TV device within 14 days of order to avoid $120 non-return fee. Additional devices purchased on installment agreement subject to additional terms and conditions. See cancellation policy at att.com/help/cancellation-policy-att-tv.html for more details. Once you’ve canceled, you can access AT&T TV through the remaining monthly period. No refunds or credits for any partial-month periods or unwatched content. Compatible device req’d. Residential customers only. Pricing, channels, features, and terms subject to change & may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice. Some offers may not be available through all channels and in select areas. Regional Sports & Local Channels: Not available in select areas. Channels vary by package & billing region. Device may need to be in billing region in order to view. GENERAL: Limit 3 concurrent streams per account. Programming subject to blackout restrictions. Taxes may apply. See your Order Confirmation email and att.com/legal/att-tv.html for more details. GENERAL WIRELESS: Subj. to Wireless Customer Agmt (att.com/wca). Credit approval req’d. Deposit/Down Payment: May apply. Charges/restrictions: Taxes, Reg. Cost. Recovery Charge (Up to $1.50), other fees and charges, usage, speed, coverage & other restr’s apply per line.

See att.com/mobilityfees for details on fees & charges. International and domestic off-net data may be at 2G speeds. AT&T service is subject to AT&T network management policies, see att.com/broadbandinfo for details.

Offers may not be combined with other promotional offers on the same services and may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice. Other conditions apply to all offers.

HBO,® Cinemax and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. STARZ® and related channels and service marks are the property of Starz Entertainment, LLC. Visit starz.com for airdates/times. SHOWTIME is a registered trademark of Showtime Networks Inc., a CBS company. ©2020 EPIX Entertainment LLC. All Rights Reserved. EPIX® is a registered trademark of EPIX Entertainment LLC. ©2020 AT&T Intellectual Property. AT&T and the Globe logo are registered trademarks and service marks of AT&T Intellectual Property. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.