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“MAD MAN” IS A MAESTRO Few people realize EUGENE CHADBOURNE is famous. That’s the paradox of Greensboro’s Secret Cult Music God. I first heard his name in Tate Street’s long-gone Record Exchange in the early 90s, when a tall Japanese guy and an even taller German one announced they’d come to America to meet him.

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A portion of EUGENE STREET adjacent to NewBridge Bank park in downtown Greensboro is set to close April 3 for a project to improve drainage in the area. But those who do business along that strip are concerned about the potential impact it will have on their operations.

11 While the next election isn’t until 2018, Winston-Salem Councilwoman Denise Adams, along with Jenny Marshall, has announced her decision to run against Republican Virginia Foxx for the 5th district CONGRESSIONAL SEAT.

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The new record from BROTHER WILSON starts with some twang, some strumming and a country-rock song about the difficulty of changing, the battle between the will and the powerful

lure of longing and need. The album covers a lot from there.

27 From famed short-story writer O. Henry to actor Brandon W. Jones from Pretty Little Liars, the Piedmont has seen its share of creative stars passing through, but this month an all-new level of top celebrities will be gracing us with their presence and walking the runway for a good cause…well their DOPPLEGANGERS, at least.

30 A SIMPLE STORY by Leila Guerriero, translated by Frances Riddle, (New Directions, $14.95, 128 pages) really is as direct and cogent as the first sentence of the book.

31 Despite a torrential downpour – yes, it must be RIVERRUN time again! – there was almost a full house last Wednesday at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, where was held the launch for the 19th annual RiverRun International Film Festival.

32 MIDDLE OF THE ROOT is a meal kit delivery service (think Hello Fresh, Blue Apron) but with a local twist. It’s locally owned and operated. Subscribers order a meal, with local, farm fresh products and recipes to go along with them.

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only understands their roots but also understands how to create a sound that’s continuously evolving and fully unique. This is a project that focuses on a joint contribution of artists showcasing not only excellent songwriting and lyricism, but a simple yet beautiful ensemble of harmonizing vocals, guitars, banjo, and percussion.

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WHAT: All proceeds from the event

WHAT: Come to Kid’s Klub on Saturday, March 11th, and join the Greensboro Ballet for an interactive sneak peek into their upcoming Spring performances of ‘Coppelia.’

‘Coppelia’ is a funny classical ballet that tells the story of a girl named Swanhilda who’s engaged to Franz.

WHEN: 11 a.m.

WHERE: LeBauer Park.

208 N. Davie Street, Greensboro.

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WHAT: KLT will gather together Hawkeye, Duke, Radar, Hot Lips and the gang for drama, comedy, and action in The Swamp as the beloved characters wage a campaign to get a young South Korean to the United States for medical school.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: James Fitzpatrick Auditorium.

512 West Mountain Street, Kernersville.

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will go towards helping eliminate poverty housing in Forsyth County by helping a low-income family purchase a safe and affordable home. Ticket includes: Unlimited beer & wine, appetizers, music, and dancing.

Liquor drinks will be available for purchase.

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WHERE: The Roller Mill Events.

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WINSTON-SALEM SAINT JOAN DOGS ON THE WALKING CATWALK WhAt: NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE CULINARY TOUR Presents: Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw. From WhAt: Our main fundraiser, Dogs On WhAt: Explore the culinary delights and taste the best of downtown Winston Salem.

You will enjoy everything from local desserts to down home BBQ while you meet the chefs, owners and artisans who create it all. e begin our tour at Jeffery Adams on 4th and wind our way through the arts district.

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321 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem.

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the torment of the Hundred Years War, the charismatic Joan of Arc carved a victory that defined France. Bernard Shaws classic play depicts a woman with all the instinct, zeal and transforming power of a revolutionary.

WheN: 2 p.m.

Where: Hanesbrands Theatre.

209 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem.

MOre: $17-$20 tickets.

The Catwalk, is a fun way for people to support Red Dog Farm and enjoy a great night out. Animals that have been adopted as well as current adoptable animals take the stage in the fashion show.

WheN: 7 p.m.

Where: Triad Stage at the Pyrle.

232 S. Elm Street, Greensboro.

MOre: $25-$50 tickets.

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WheN: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Texas Discotheque 5201 W. Market St., Greensboro.

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TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME WhAt: Badfish, a Tribute to Sublime continues to channel the spirit of Sublime with a fury not felt for some time. What separates Badfish from other tribute bands is that they have replicated Sublime’s essence, developing a scene and dedicated following most commonly reserved for label-driven, mainstream acts.

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Where: The Blind Tiger.

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WILL SAUNDERS-TAKING ON NYC

BY ALLISON STALBERG

Will Saunders has been singing for nearly his whole life. In his youth, he sang in his church, directed choirs at N.C. A&T State University and was involved in marching bands and concerts through his schools. In 2013, Saunders moved from Greensboro to New York.

“I think as a professional musician, my career didn’t start until I moved to New York,” said Saunders. “I think all that prior to moving to New York was preparation for the journey.”

Since moving to New York, Saunders has performed on stages such as the Sugar Bar, Apollo Theater, Village Underground and even on Saturday Night Live with Kanye West.

“My first live show in N.C. was held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at the Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City,” Saunders wrote to YES! Weekly.

“The first here in NYC took place on Friday, May 27, 2016 at the Legendary Ashford & Simpson’s Sugar Bar. It was a packed house which included many notable guests such as singer/actress and Brooklyn native, Cheryl ‘Pepsii’ Riley and former WNBA star, Kym Hampton.”

Saunders has been encouraged to work hard from the support of his family.

“My family definitely has always been a support system for anything that I’ve done in music, even when I didn’t necessarily believe music to be a career option,” he said. “Even when I did not believe being a professional

singer, musician and song writer was something I could actually do in real life. My family believed that for me well before I did.”

Saunders also teaches high school music classes. He said that the students inspire him because they might see him on TV and say, “’Hey, that’s my music teacher, look at what he’s doing.’”

“I always have to remember there are people who are watching that I do know that are paying attention and want me to do well,” said Saunders.

An important note Saunders wants to be known is that artists are human.

“I think as an artist, sometimes people on the outside looking in kind of get the wrong impression of artists. ...They assume for some reason that we are not human, that we don’t get tired, sick, upset, sad or lonely but we do.

“For me I want it to be known and very clear that I’m just a simple kid from North Carolina...and here I am in one of the largest cities in the United States and I’m doing something I love to do that I’m passionate about.

Any person who has the love, passion and drive and wants to commit themselves to doing something, they can absolutely do it and I want that to translate that.”

Saunders’ goal is to release an album this year.

Hear Saunders’ music and learn more at www.reverbnation.com/WillSaunders. !

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REYNOLDS AMERICAN AND ITS EMPLOYEES DONATED $13 MILLION TO NONPROFITS IN 2016

Reynolds American Inc., its affiliates, related private charitable foundations and employees donated approximately $13 million to a wide range of nonprofit organizations in 2016.

“In addition to the highest-ever participation rates in our matching grants program, our employees continued to give back to the community by volunteering with numerous organizations in our communities, including United Way’s Days of Caring,” said Mamie Sutphin, RAI Services Company’s director of community engagement programs. “We were thrilled to receive United Way of North Carolina’s Spirit of NC Award for the third year in a row as we continue our long history of supporting organizations that bring the greatest impact to our community.”

The Reynolds American Foundation donated a total of $8.9 million in 2016, including funds donated to match grants made by employees. The Foundation’s largest contributions were to United Way of Forsyth County and surround-

ing area United Ways, Winston Salem Foundation (for Project Impact, supporting Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools), Gateway YWCA, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, American Red Cross (becoming an Annual Disaster Giving Program member in 2016), Arts Council, ABC of NC Child Development Center, Forsyth Technical Community College, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Old Salem, Salem College and Winston-Salem State University. In addition to the Foundation’s contributions, company employees contributed nearly $1.3 million of their own money to the United Way of Forsyth County campaign.

On a corporate level, Reynolds American and its subsidiaries contributed a combined $3.8 million in cash and property donations to nonprofit organizations in 2016. Significant donations were made to a variety of community organizations, food banks and youth tobacco prevention initiatives.

GREENSBORO HISTORY MUSEUM OFFERS RARE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ARTIFACT AND LECTURE

The first lecture of the 2017 Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Revolutionary Lecture Series will be held 7 pm, Mar. 14, at the Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave. The free lecture, Equipping the Southern Army: Manufacturing Military Stores for an Insatiable Patron will be presented by Dr. Robert F. Smith, Assistant Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences of Northampton Community College and author of Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution.

Guests at the lecture will be the first to see the rare and recently conserved knit cap worn by Colonel Arthur Forbis during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781. Forbis, a local militiaman was mortally wounded during the battle and this stained cap was kept by his family for generations. Dr. Paula Weller, Regent of the Colonel Arthur Forbis Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution and Curator Susan Joyce Webster will be available to talk about Colonel Forbis and the cap.

Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart notes, “Objects connect people to each other and to our past. With the help of the Colonel Forbis Chapter of the DAR, who funded preservation of the cap through our Adopt an Object program, the museum has been able to preserve this cap and its story for many generations to come.”

Susan Joyce Webster, Curator of Costumes and Textiles said, “This cap is one of our rarest artifacts. The family entrusted us with this piece over 80 years ago to tell not only a story of national significance, but the story of a local farmer and his family in the 1780s.”

After the lecture, museum visitors will be able to see the Forbis Cap in the Voices of a City exhibition starting March 15. Reservations are required for the lecture and can be made by calling 336-288-1776.

The Greensboro History Museum, a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, is open daily except Mondays.

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Eugene Street closure concerns affected businesses

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portion of Eugene Street adjacent to NewBridge Bank park in downtown Greensboro is set to close April 3 for a project to improve drainage in the area.

But those who do business along that strip are concerned about the potential impact it will have on their operations.

“Our customers won’t be able to get to me. There’s no way they’ll be able to navigate through here,” said John Hill, owner of Select Cycle, one of the businesses that will be affected. “Our customers have to bring a motorized vehicle to us, and we’ll be virtually landlocked if they close the street.”

The strip, located between Smith and Bellemeade streets, is expected to close for eight to 12 weeks, said Kristine Williams, assistant director for the City of Greensboro’s water resources department.

Lane closures are also expected on West Smith and North Edgeworth streets during construction.

“They (contractor Smith-Rowe) are going to try to speed up the construction,” she said. “They’re going to shoot for the eight weeks, instead of the 12.”

City Council in February approved the $1.7 million contract for Smith-Rowe to perform the work. The contract is still awaiting signatures from company officials, Williams said.

According to Williams, crews will be installing a 54-inch diameter storm pipe.

The total length of the installation will be 950 feet. At its deepest, the pipe will be 18 feet below ground.

Williams said the stormwater pipe that currently runs through that area was installed 50 years ago, and has deteriorated, causing some minor flooding.

Hill said he can’t recall any big problems with drainage in the area, other than some flooding that occurred one afternoon following a heavy thunderstorm several years ago, causing water to back up on the sidewalks.

Jimmy Contogiannis, owner of Acropolis Restaurant, said he has seen flooding on the street, but likewise contended “that is has been years since anything happened where it’s backed up.”

“The water came up to our door, but did not go into our restaurant,” he said.

Like Hill, Contogiannis said he’s anticipating “great hardships.”

“I’m not crazy about it,” he said. “There’s a lot of cars that use the street to get to Market, to get to Friendly, to get through downtown. And for three months no one will be able to park in front of the restaurant.”

Select Cycle and Acropolis are among three businesses on the portion that will be closed, the other being Orrell Design, a hair salon.

Hill said he doesn’t object to the development taking place downtown, but does question the timing of the streetwork, noting that a project by local developer Roy Carroll is going up on that stretch right now.

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A portion of Eugene Street in Greensboro will close beginning April 3.

The $60 million Carroll on Bellemeade development, currently under construction, will include about 300 apartments, and a 110-room Hyatt Place hotel.

“And I had asked the city about that, if this was a problem all those years ago, why did you wait until all this development,” he said. “Could you have done something prior to that to avoid shutting down the street?”

Williams said the Eugene Street project has been on the city’s capital improvements projects list for some time, and that Carroll’s development was not a factor in the timing.

“It was just a matter of trying to do this around the same time as the (Downtown) Greenway, so that we don’t go back and pave all these roads that were torn up and then turn around and redig them up for construction,” she said.

Carroll’s project is expected to be completed early next year. In response to a question about whether the improvements on Eugene Street had any connection to the development, Carroll’s office, in an email, stated simply “not to our knowledge.”

The construction of the Greenway itself has also been responsible for road closures downtown, including the closure of some lanes on Eugene Street, north of where the drainage project will be occurring.

Williams said she’s aware of the business owners’ concerns, and that the contractor will try to work out some accommodations.

“We ask the contractor to allow access whenever possible, allow intermediate

traffic access as soon as it’s safe,” she said.

“But there will be a trench in the middle of the road, and that will limit access.

The sidewalk will remain open during the construction projects, and for cycles, we’re hoping that they will still be able to access along the sidewalk.”

Zack Matheny chief executive officer of Downtown Greensboro, Inc. used to have an office nearby, and said “there has been a (drainage) problem with that area for quite some time.” He has heard from business owners who are concerned, but is supportive of the project.

“There’s a lot involved in trying to navigate infrastructure,” he said. “The city has infrastructure projects all over. In downtown it’s tougher, because it’s tight, but we’ve been able to work with them on other projects, and I think we will be able to work with business owners here.”

The city will be providing some temporary parking in the area, but Contogiannis is also worried about foot traffic.

“You’ll have to go through construction, go through a lot to get here,” he said.

Because of where Hill’s shop is situated, between the other two businesses, he said customers would be unable to bring their bikes in to be serviced.

He said he might have to relocate if his customers can’t get to him.

“I don’t know how willing people are to walk through a bunch of dirt and dust and rocks to get in here, anyway,” he said. “But I need to have vehicle accessibility. People don’t just come in here on two feet, or leave on two feet. They’ve got to leave here on something. I don’t even know how I would push something out to them.” !

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Adams eyes Congressional Seat held by Foxx

BY CHANEL R. DAVIS While the next election isn’t until 2018, Winston-Salem Councilwoman Denise Adams, along with Jenny Marshall, has announced her decision to run against Republican Virginia Foxx for the 5th district Congressional seat.

It’s a decision that’s been in the making for the past decade.

The 62-year-old Adams, who grew up in the era where women began to be told they could be and do anything, said that being a public servant allows her to help others while making her community and the world a better place.

“I always knew that I would be in politics because I’ve always been conscious of other people,” Adams said. “I have a lot to give to this world and that’s always been my focus. That’s what I thrive on and that’s what gets me up every morning.”

Well aware of the challenges she faces, Adams believes that she’s the person to oust Foxx stating that she’s committed, hardworking and willing to hold people accountable and do her homework in order to get the job done.

“I feel like we need a different kind of leadership for the 5th district. Someone that wants to represent all of the 5th and not be divisive. People will say the numbers aren’t there and it’s 75 to 80 percent White. That may be true but it doesn’t mean that they don’t want the same things that I want,” Adams said. “The 5th is a very diverse district. We have an African-American constituency of about 12 percent and a growing Latino constituency of 6 to 9 percent and then there are those who identify as other.”

John Dinan, professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University, follows national and state political races and said that Foxx has maintained a solid and steady advantage in each of her elections from 2004 to 2016.

“The district is a solidly Republican district. To be sure, there are other congressional districts in North Carolina that are even more solidly Republican in their voting patterns. But the 5th district is a comfortably Republican district, to the point that election analysts and handicappers do not identify the 5th district as a district that is winnable by a Democratic candidate,” Dinan said. “As a result, the 5th district does not appear on the lists of congressional districts around the country that could be competitive in 2018.”

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a factor in the 2018 midterm election.

“On one hand, the party holding the presidency traditionally loses seats in the House in mid-term elections, in a way that would bode well for Democratic challengers in 2018. In fact, the party holding the presidency has lost seats in the House in all but three mid-term elections held since the Civil War,” he said. “On the other hand, the composition of the mid-term electorate in recent decades has been more favorable to Republicans than to Democrats, in that the voters who make up the electorate in mid-term years generally lean more Republican than the voters who make up the electorate in presidential years.”

For Adams, there are three key components that she’ll focus on while running for office: economic development, education and healthcare.

“All three create a great quality of life that creates a viable community,” Adams said.

One of the things Adams believes could help the district is to look into the emerging markets and what the district has to offer.

“I’m all for the Innovation and the Arts, and the rebranding of cities and towns but what happened to agriculture? We still have some of the best land on the east coast. Why wouldn’t we focus on getting younger people connected back to agriculture? People want to know where their food comes from,” she said. “Nobody necessarily wants to have a major farm, like 200 and 300 acres, but young people want to have a farm of 5 to 10 acres, sell their products to the local grocers and farmers markets.”

Adams said that in order to be successful, it’s important that you affect how people live their lives and take care of their families, primarily by creating jobs, small businesses and looking at education. In order to do this, she explains, it’s important to look at the data and employment numbers and work with community colleges to train and retrain the workforce.

“Everybody is not going to go to a fouryear school or start off there. I think workforce development needs to be looked at to make sure we’re seeing the results that were intended,” Adams said. “When we

look at emerging markets we need to look at other districts that are comparable to ours and see what works for them.”

When it comes to healthcare, Adams believes that everyone should have some sort of baseline healthcare.

“I know how important healthcare is. If we had followed the examples of other countries that offered universal healthcare we would’ve been further along than where we are now,” she said. “We would’ve already retweaked the system to make it work for everyone.”

Adams said that she’s been humbled and surprised by the feedback she’s gotten since announcing her run. She said that it’s been very positive and people are looking for ways to help.

“I thought I’d get about 20 phone calls but I’ve heard from more people I don’t know than I know. I’ve heard from people across the district, North Carolina and some national PACs.” A few of those calls have been from her constituents in the North Ward who understand will miss her but wish her luck.

“They understand. My constituents want me to win but they hate to lose me. They understand that the fighting, services and work that I’ve done for them I will now do for all of Forsyth County and the 5th district. Their okay with that.”

Over the next few weeks, Adams will begin picking the members of team, set up her contacts and website along with beginning her fundraising efforts to go against the seven-time incumbent with more than $2 million in her war chest.

“My team will reflect the diversity of the 5th district. I believe in that.”

To the naysayers, Adams said we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

“When you tell people, who are fighters and soldiers, that they can’t, that’s the ammunition and drive they need to go make it happen. Just because you tell me I can’t, I’ve never let that stop me being and doing what I do and who I am. I’ve always believed in what’s right and what’s just. Anything outside of that I will fight,” Adams said. “Right now, where we are, I know a lot of people aren’t happy. I know a lot of people feel like it’s no way out and it’s not going to get better. It can get better when we change the players and the leaders at the table. It won’t get better until someone steps up and steps out.” !

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he Current Administration is taking us for a ride. It’s only been six weeks or so, but we’ve come a long way. Links Steve Mitchell are provided in the online version of this article. Let’s review Contributor the road markers along the way: — A Muslim travel ban which their own State Department acknowledges to be worthless, which they wanted enforced without guideline or regulation, leading to chaos: the handcuffing of a six-year-old boy and American citizens asked for their social media passwords as they de-plane; —The radical expansion of the definition of targeted undocumented Americans, a major increase in detention centers whose conditions are already inhumane, along with new sweeping powers for ICE agents, the possible conscription of local law enforcement into immigration enforcement, as well as the threat of the National Guard; —The stated intention to enforce laws

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Stay visible against recreational marijuana use, not trafficking or possession, under the long-debunked theory that marijuana is a gateway drug and leads to violence. This is very simply a method for targeting the black community. Very few white college boys will be prosecuted for possession, while police will be more empowered to pull over cars for minor infractions in ‘certain’ neighborhoods; —The destruction of the DAPL protest ground, held by Native Americans, exercising their Native rights; —Oh, and don’t expect any help from the Justice Department of Jeff Sessions.

He’s already stated he won’t be providing oversight of local and state law enforcement, that the Justice Department’s own exhaustive report on systemic racial issues in the Ferguson Police Department, for instance, is ‘anecdotal’, and that police abuse is, you know, ‘just a few bad apples.’

Are we there yet?

And, even if we aren’t, can there be any doubt where this particular Vacation to Hell is headed?

Leaked State Department plans provide for more deportation camps on the border administered by the same companies who run the prisons where we’ll send those convicted on minor marijuana charges, even as State Legislatures across the

country work diligently to find ways to criminalize popular protest. These policies are tantamount to designating large swathes of our citizenry as enemies of the state, and that’s not a thing even those in law enforcement want.

The governmental and logistical mechanisms that allow and expedite mass deportations are the mechanisms of a full and functioning police state. As ICE offices crop up across the country, with the travel lines, the holding cells, the detentions camps, connected in a vast network; as local, state, federal, and even (possibly) military troops become involved in this massive deportation effort, we create the full instruments of oppression, not simply for subsets of people within our communities, but for the communities themselves.

The broad scale harassment and intimidation of black and brown people has been announced, encouraged, applauded, and is now being implemented. It is not a pipedream, a threat, the frothing plans of a backwoods crazy. It’s the obvious and stated policy of our government.

And, it’s a kind of Cultural Genocide.

How often does the obvious need to be restated? That America was not, and has never been, the sole domain of White Men? That White Men were the first

undocumented immigrants on American soil. The American Project was constructed by people from all over the world and each one owns a stake in it.

The purpose of these efforts by the current administration is to divide our communities into small groups, and to isolate, intimidate, then practically or effectively imprison them. This strategy works best in the dark, in the places it is rarely seen; it works best as a whisper, as a threat.

We need to make these strategies visible. We need to be witnesses. We need to be the public announcers of what happens in our community.

Already, as talk of sanctuary cities and churches begin, there are networks for alerting people to possible roadblocks, raids, heightened police presence. While these have their uses, they also promote fear and isolation within the targeted communities.

What we need is a system that draws as many people immediately to these sites as possible, not to interfere with police action, but as witnesses, observers. As citizens, in community with those being targeted. So that, these communities know we support them, so the larger world knows we do not agree with our own government, so our government knows that its actions are seen, are not passing unnoticed. Think of the protests at the major airports after the introduction of the Muslim ban.

We need a kind of telephone tree for the internet age, an Uber for political action.

The undocumented, the unjustly targeted, need to know we—the rest of us, those not immediately threatened—stand with them against these first foundations of a police state. We must remain visible.

Law enforcement and our government need to know these extreme actions will not go gentle into that good night.

The White Nationalist strategy (let’s stop calling it Republican, let’s call it what it is) of the last twenty years has been to undermine our trust in government and democracy. White Nationalists do not want the government to work. They want something other than a government.

So, the White Nationalist Party’s Great Leap Forward into Totalitarianism continues apace. By this point, any Republican who has not abandoned this Party must be considered complicit. !

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— In 2008, Vince Li, a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada, stabbed another passenger, then beheaded him and started to eat him, and in 2009 was “convicted” — but “not criminally responsible” because of schizophrenia. He has been institutionalized and under treatment since then, and in February, doctors signed off on an “absolute” release back into society for Li (now known as Will Baker) — declining a “conditional” release, which would have required continued monitoring. Manitoba province law requires absolute discharge if doctors conclude, on the “weight of the evidence,” that the patient is no longer a “significant” safety threat.

— Doris Payne, 86, was arrested once again for shoplifting — this time at an upscale mall in an Atlanta suburb in December — but according to a 2013 documentary, “careerwise,” she has stolen more than $2 million in jewelry from high-end shops around the world. No regrets, she said on the film, except “I regret getting caught.”

Said her California-based lawyer, “Aside from her ‘activities,’ she is a wonderful person with a lot of fun stories.”

— When disaster strikes, well-meaning people are beseeched to help, but relief workers seem always bogged down with wholly inappropriate donations (which take additional time and money to sort and store and discard; instead, all such charities recommend “cash”). A January report by Australia’s principal relief organization praised Aussies’ generosity in spite of recent contributions of high heels, handbags, chain saws, sports gear, wool clothing and canned goods — much of which will eventually go to landfills.

(Workers in Rwanda reported receiving prom gowns, wigs, tiger costumes, pumpkins and frostbite cream.)

— Least Competent Criminals: (1) Alvin Neal, 56, is merely the most recent bank robber to begin the robbery sequence (at a Wells Fargo branch in San Diego) after identifying himself to a teller (by swiping his ATM card through a machine at the counter). He was sentenced in January.

(2) Also failing to think through their crime was the group of men who decided to snatch about $1,200 from the Eastside Grillz tooth-jewelry shop in St. Paul, Minnesota, in February. They fled despite two of them having already provided ID and one having left a mold of his teeth.

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— No Longer Weird: (1) Matthew Mobley, 41, was arrested in Alexandria, Louisiana, in February (No. 77 on his rap sheet) after getting stuck in the chimney of a business he was breaking into. (2) Former postal worker Gary Collins, 53, of Forest City, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in February to having hoarded deliverable U.S. mail as far back as 2000. (He is far from the worst mail hoarder, by volume, that News of the Weird has mentioned.)

— Luckiest (Bewildered) Animals: (1) In December, a 400-pound black bear at the Palm Beach, Florida, zoo (“Clark”) got a root canal from dentist Jan Bellows, to fix a painful fractured tooth. (2) In January, a pet ferret (“Zelda”) in Olathe, Kansas, received a pacemaker from Kansas State University doctors, who said Zelda should thus be able to live the ferret’s normal life span. (3) In January, an overly prolific male African tortoise (“Bert”), of Norwich, England, who had developed arthritis from excessive “mounting,” was fitted with wheels on the back of his shell to ease stress on his legs.

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BY IAN MCDoWELL Few people realize Eugene Chadbourne is famous.

That’s the paradox of Greensboro’s Secret Cult Music God. I first heard his name in Tate Street’s long-gone Record Exchange in the early 90s, when a tall Japanese guy and an even taller German one announced they’d come to America to meet him. The manager, Anna Gibson, is now a prominent naval historian, but then she was the Dark Goddess of Tate Street. When the character Death was introduced in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic, I showed it to my roommate Tim Blankenship, who said “why is Anna in this?” Before that, everybody thought she looked like Kate Bush.

Anna said Eugene would be playing in a couple of hours at the Nightshade Café. They picked up their backpacks and went outside to wait. Who, I asked her, is Eugene Chadbourne?

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Anna said he was brilliant and crazy, that he’d invented the electric rake, and that he liked to hook up a Fred Krueger glove to an amp and “play” the audience with it. The glove was an original prop from A Nightmare on Elm Street, given to him by the director Wes Craven, who was a big fan of his. Somebody walked up to the counter with a used LP of the Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut album. “They’re fans of his, too. He’s played with them.”

That night, I saw Eugene not only play the rake and the glove, but, after some wag requested it, perform the most maniacal version of “Free Bird” I ever heard. But he was more than a gonzo provocateur. I recently discussed this with several of The Violent Femmes.

Brian Ritchey, the band’s bass guitarist, praises Eugene’s musicianship. “Eugene could have been a heavy metal shredder or straight-ahead jazz musician. But he chose the less traveled path, which was good for him and us. He’s very capable on guitar and banjo. His acoustic sound projects like crazy. People have lost that ability due to laziness. One of my favorite memories of Eugene was when he stayed at my house in Brooklyn. He was sitting in a chair, looking out the window, practicing Erik Satie.

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I ask Brian about playing concerts with Eugene, as the Violent Femmes have done many times, including downtown Greensboro in 2006. “Performing with Eugene is fun and ridiculous. On the one hand, there are challenging musical demands. On the other, it frequently devolves into chaos. This is the model and it produces music that requires skill and willful amateurism at the same time.

He is always working on new material, so it never gets boring. He experiments with unusual and homemade instruments and encourages us to as well. Eugene has a knack for choosing great collaborators and I’ve met some fine musicians and longtime friends as a result.”

Drummer Victor DeLorenzo is equally effusive. “I’ve known Eugene for quite awhile and have had the pleasure of exploring music with him in the recording studio and on stages worldwide. He celebrates music without putting it into a rarefied place devoid of humor and raw improvisation and expression. He makes music by and for the human spirit, without the confines of genre or com-

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“I don’t know what it’s like for a band starting now, but when I was a teenager playing at parties, we were expected to do really long versions of songs with fifteen-minute improvised parts. For what I ended up doing, this was all really important stuff. It was a really good time period to be growing up, especially if you were heading in the direction I was.”

merce. Eugene will always be one of my musical heroes and I always look forward to a new direction in music from him.”

A couple of weeks ago, I sat in the window of Tate Street Coffee with the musician Brian and Victor admire so much, a man Spin magazine called one of the 100 best guitarists of all time. Looking out at the strip that’s changed so much since he first came here, Eugene told me about growing up in Colorado and dodging the draft.

“My father was a professor of French literature and my mother was a refugee. She met him in Providence after he got back from the war. He was offered several positions with universities and took one in Boulder. My mother’s parents had come over from Germany and really liked shit like the mountains. It was an exciting place to grow up.”

His eclecticism came early. “I got exposed to things like [the avant-garde composer] George Crumb. And later, crazy hippie stuff. Listening to ‘Revolution 9’ on the Beatles’ White Album was an eye-opener, and I and my friends kept getting into weirder music. Long form radio was popular in Boulder. I’d hear an interview with the Byrds talking about Coltrane and go ‘who the Hell is that?’ The deejay would play Jethro Tull and then Roland Kirk and I’d hear where Ian Anderson got his flute style.

I’d read an interview with Zappa and he’d say to go get Edgard Varèse. That was probably the last good advice Zappa ever gave me.”

He learned to improvise. “I don’t know what it’s like for a band starting now, but when I was a teenager playing at parties, we were expected to do really long versions of songs with fifteen-minute improvised parts. For what I ended up doing, this was all really important stuff. It was a really good time period to be growing up, especially if you were heading in the direction I was.”

The first direction he went was North. “When I was eighteen, my father got a position in Canada, just when I had to choose to leave the country or join the Infantry. I went to Calgary with my parents and started working at a daily paper, where I spent seven or eight years in a news room.”

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Eugene, who wrote about this in his 1989 memoir Draft Dodger and returned to it in his recent Dreamory, says he was lucky his family shared his feelings about Vietnam. “My friends had parents pressuring them to join the army, but my family protested the war. This caused a riff between my mother and her folks. My maternal grandfather got really rightwing, really frightened of the hippies. There was a photo in the Boulder paper showing my mother in a protest march and he called her a communist.”

While in Alberta, he produced and hosted a program on the 104.5 cable FM pirate station Radio Radio. “That was a really fun thing. The history of pirate radio is really fascinating, and this was a blatant example of it. There were four or five radio channels that were supposed to be turned over to local people. We’d go to the station, often in blizzards, and play our records. There was a whole group of people trying to keep this enterprise afloat. It basically consisted of the broadcast equipment and the tape machines we kept going.”

Eugene felt the ache of the exile. “Living up there was great, but I wanted to be able to go back. All the expatriates kept talking about New York. The music I was into was all American, especially after I met [composer and instrumentalist] Anthony Braxton. He really encouraged me to return to the East Coast. I wanted to get somewhere where lots of musicians were playing.”

In 1977, his exile ended. “Jimmy Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers. I moved to NYC as fast as I could, and within a week of being there I’d met people I’ve played with for years. That’s New York for you. My brother had an apartment I was able to move into. I was very fortunate about a lot of things. I started a total boob amateur, but by the time I left NYC was a professional earning my living and doing what I wanted to, and by that I mean NOT doing commercial music.”

So what brought him to Greensboro, where he’s been since 1981?

“Starting my own band. The only drummer I could find able to handle the music I wanted to do lived in Greens-

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boro. That was David Licht, the drummer in Shockabilly and all the versions of the band we had before that.”

The Greensboro music scene was different in the 80s.

“It had a lot of aspects of smaller cities that you really appreciate after you’ve been living and working in New York. Most people I played with in NYC were renting facilities and if they were really lucky they might break even.

Here, we could play at the Nightshade Café [the club under Tate Street’s legendary Hong Kong House] and people would pay at the door and I could actually pay my musicians.”

Eugene worked hard for that money. “Bookings were easy, but the trick was getting people to show up. I spent so much time at Kinko’s making flyers, then putting them all over campus. People talk about how Greensboro had a real music scene back there, but actually, there were a lot of separate little scenes. I knew all the musicians, but they were all so different from what I did. Dave had played with most of them. It was a hard job finding a bass player. One guy who could do it is still around, Tom Shephard, Shep the Hep! He was great, but didn’t want to go on the road. Another bassist I hooked up with quit after I played my guitar with a screwdriver.”

That band became the brief-lived but fondly remembered Shockabilly (1982-1985), with Eugene on guitar and vocals. Mark Kramer, also known for Bongwater and touring with the Butthole Surfers and Ween, was on bass and organ, with David Licht, who later founded the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, on drums. The band got its name at Fridays, the tiny but legendary Tate Street hamburger-joint-by-day, live-music-venue-by-night, where REM regularly played before that establishment closed in 1983.

“If you’re local, it was hard to get a weekend booking there. Steve Hayner, the owner, let us play one Saturday night, which was a major coup for us. Halfway through the set, he took me aside and said “what the Hell is this, Eugene? You’re scaring people away! Why did you tell me this was rockabilly?”

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stood me, I said Shockabilly!’ Kramer and Licht heard that and later said “Oh, now we have a name for the band.” We were calling it the Chadbournes, but people thought it was gospel or something. Nobody would ever figure out what we were. They called it Deconstructionism, but nobody knew what that meant.”

He chuckles ruefully. “Music writers said I was deconstructing stuff. I thought we were just improvising, a musical technique old as the hills. But writers have to come up with fancy shit all the time. So when I get questions like, ‘When did you start deconstructing things.’ I want to say ‘never, I was just improvising!’”

I ask Eugene about his friendship with Jimmy Carl Black, who died in 2008 and was the vocalist and drummer for the Mothers of Invention, calling himself “the Indian of the Group.”

“One of the great experiences of my life. He was my best friend. I really liked the idea of helping someone who’d given me so much pleasure growing up. I taught him how to make records at home, which helped him get by as he got older. Musically, it was amazing. I played with a lot of drummers who had a lot of technique, but he played really simply. He said you need someone just to keep a beat. He would sit on a pillow that was inscribed with the words ‘Sweet, Sweet Steady Beat.’ Unless really drunk, he never missed a beat. He was the first drummer I ever played with who played an actual Blues beat right.

He could also play Chuck Berry style, although it was hard to get it him to, as he’d worked with Berry, whom I gather was a difficult man. But he was the only guy who knew how to play it.”

I ask him about playing with the Violent Femmes and Camper Van Beethoven.

“I have my own kind of band with some of the members of Camper Van, but it was very different. Our Camper Van Chadbourne was probably the best-selling record I ever made. We did a very successful tour during the first Gulf War. Partially because every other band cancelled because they were afraid of terrorism. I played with Jonathan Siegel last year. He’s in Stockholm and I had a concert with him.”

“The Violent Femmes, I worked with in a very different way. In 1986 I made a record of them backing me up on my own songs. But for a few years when they were touring again I played with them. Up until they got into a huge lawsuit and stopped working for a while, they had a very professional tour going. It was a really luxurious and easy thing for me and I had some memorable shows. I really liked the surfing competition we played at in Virginia Beach.”

I tell him how much I loved their free outdoor show with him on Elm Street in 2006, and how I was impressed by the way he and the Femmes would stop whatever they were playing and switch to a vintage train song every time a train went on the trestle behind them.

“That was great. I’m told it drew the biggest crowd they ever had in Greensboro, but there was nothing about that in the paper. We loved playing beside the train trestle.

We’ve also played in Greece and Ireland. I’ve put out feelers because they’re back touring again. They do a really improvised show. They don’t have a set list and don’t know what they’re going to play from night to night. And they usually have a lot of interesting international people sitting in. And they PAY people to sit in, and don’t expect them to do it just for the exposure, which is also really cool.”

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which led them to disband from 2007 to 2009, after Gordon Gano angered Brian Ritchie by selling “Blister in the Sun” to Wendy’s. “There’s a classic example of what happens when people sign something or make business deals when they’re teenagers, and they have one song that makes much more money than everything else, and that song is credited to one person. You get into a discussion about what makes a rock and roll song. If you contribute, say, a base line, you don’t get credit and it ends up in lawsuits and rancor.”

Fortunately, Eugene’s own experiences were much happier. “Everywhere I went with them, everyone loved their songs. They transcended generations. And their audience was always respectful when you opened for them. Not like Delbert McClinton’s, who almost rioted when I played Coltrane.”

Plunging further into the past, I tell Eugene the first time I ever saw him perform was when he played the rake and glove at the Nightshade.

“I invented the Electric Rake here in Greensboro. Obviously, people don’t do mulch with rakes in New York. One broke in the yard, so I decided to put a pickup on it. It was the first thing I did that got a big local reaction, becoming almost a cult thing.”

He looks wistful for a moment. “But it also shows how stupid people can be about things. I mean, it’s wonderful if you like horrible noise, but it’s not something you want to be remembered for. It reminds me of Samm Bennett’s drum set made out of cheese, which of course sounded horrible, but which they wanted him to play on the Tonight Show.”

“On the other hand, taking the rake and attacking the performance environment with it, I’m proud to have been involved with. Going to the guys at the pool table, crawling under stages, that was fun. I was doing a show with my daughter Mollie in Austin when she was seven or eight. In one of these horrible rock clubs on Congress Avenue, we stuck the rake into an air conditioner fan and dust flew out into her face. I was horrified. One paper said my face turned from an insane avant-garde musician’s into a concerned parent’s.”

Then there was the Nightmare on Elm Street glove. “I still have one of the real props from the movie. The late writer and director Wes Craven gave me that. He was a guitar player who really liked other guitar players. He went to a lot of my shows. He said really gratifying things like ‘I liked that solo you played on that Thelonious Monk tune.’ He was a great deep listener.”

When I ask him how the Greensboro music scene has changed, he suggests “changed” is too neutral a term.

“There’s a real dearth of live music. In 1981, there were five venues on Tate Street. Now there aren’t any. When you tour, you’re lucky if there’s one in the capital of the state you’re visiting. Back in the day, there’d be one in every town.”

“Merle Haggard once was asked how he developed his musical style. He said the same damn way people learned how to do anything in this country, or used to, back when we had trades -- by playing the same damn thing every night, six or seven sets a week. That’s much harder to do now. These days most of my energy is devoted to figuring out where I’m going to play. And I’m someone who still gets some good opportunities. So many new people never get those at all.”

Speaking of opportunities, I mention that his daughter Jenny said I should ask him about the German music festival he’s playing this Fall. His face lights up.

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Chadbourne will play Bach’s Goldberg Variations on banjo at a festival in Germany later this year.

“That’s the Donaueschingen Festival that takes place every October in the small German town of that name.

It’s very famous. They’ve asked me to play Bach on the banjo, something I’ve been working on for years. I got interested in doing that as a way of passing times in dressing rooms. Somebody who heard it asked me to make a CD and I finally did. And then this very presti-

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gious festival reached out and asked me about doing the Goldberg Variations on the banjo. I’m going to see if I can do it fretless.”

Eugene is an excellent writer as well as a musician, although he’ll probably scoff when he reads that. His I Hate the Man who Runs this Bar (1998) remains one of the best books ever written on being a professional musician, even though it dates from the early days of the internet.

Sadly, it’s out of print and Eugene doesn’t own the rights, but aspiring musicians should still buy it from Amazon or American Book Exchange resellers. His autobiographical Draft Dodger is also out of print, but that period in his life, and much else, is covered in his career-spanning Dreamory, published in late 2015 and is available from his website.

“I worked at least twenty years on that. Actually, longer, as it includes stuff I wrote in high school. It uses material from family diaries, filling in things in things I couldn’t remember. It’s basically an attempt to record all the dreams I’ve had, my background, and the adventures that have happened doing what I do.”

I ask Eugene a question I’ve also asked other local luminaries like Fred Chappell. “If you could snap your fingers and magically bring a defunct Greensboro establishment, what would it be?”

“Hong Kong House, of course,” he says without hesitation, referring to Amelia Leung’s beloved Tate Street restaurant that closed its doors in 1999. “Such a nice family place. It was a community, the heart of the street.

And all the record stores we used to have here in town, like Crunchy Music Stuff and the tiny nook William Trotter presided over, don’t remember the name, but he bought

one of two copies I created of a tape recording of Billy ‘Ransom’ Hobbs hacking a piano up with an axe alongside a rural road.”

“And Nightshade, the club under Hong Kong House.

I did a lot of weird stuff there, but they’d also have straight-ahead blues like the Alkaphonics, or heavy rock.

I love the places where musicians get to organize things.

We need more spaces like that.”

He suspects those days may be gone forever. “One of the big problems is just getting younger people out to live events. Most places that don’t serve alcohol don’t stay in business, and the ones that do serve it are always getting closed down because somebody underage snuck in. There’s also the hidden assumption that if you want to play music, you better do it for free, because who do you think you are? So many people just assume that nobody should be paid for music, so there’s always a fight about that aspect of it.”

Which may be why Eugene has been playing more regularly in Raleigh than Greensboro. “We, by which I mean me and my daughters and some friends, have been doing these Monday nights at Neptune’s there, with Raleigh drummer Joe Westerland , Dave Menestres on bass, Dave Doyle on French horn and guitar, Carrie Shull on oboe, Jimmy Gilmore on guitar, and Laurent Estoppey on saxophone. Laurent is a Swiss sax player who lives in Greensboro.”

But he’ll be playing a free acoustic concert with Laurent Estoppey at Greensboro’s Glenwood Community Bookstore on 1212 South Grove Street at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 18. Eugene’s music can be purchased at http:// www.eugenechadbourne.com. !

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about how some of the PHOTO BY TODD TURNER songs — like the muscular blues-rock of “Lonely” he new record from Brother — called out for a more Wilson starts with some chest-thumping kind of twang, some strumming and tough-guy attitude, but a country-rock song about the instead, the song, with difficulty of changing, the battle between its snarling riffage and the will and the powerful lure of longing Hodnett’s roughed-up and need. The album covers a lot from growl, is basically about there. Brother Wilson is the solo project of being insecure, about Gibsonville-based singer and songwriter worrying about seeing Joel Hodnett. The record is called Utopia, an ex out with someone but it’s more about the hurdles to finding better looking who might paradise — earthly or otherwise — than it be better all the way is about basking in endless pleasures and around. “I don’t do lonely delights. well,” goes the refrain.

There are soul-blues tunes, some Part of Utopia’s appeal pop-leaning songs about inspiration and is that, even if the song uplift, a bit of hi-gloss countrypolitan styles are familiar, there’s mechanical-bull disco, there’s a jazzy folk something surprising tune about technological and social-meabout Hodnett’s candor. dia overload and there’s even a pretty and Brother Wilson is the solo project for His main goal, he says, dark instrumental with a rippling guitar singer-songwriter Joel Hodnett was “to not be fake, to line, piano and atmospheric effects. It’s a “Music is so much more than just the not pander to expectations.” Working wide-ranging full-length debut, but it’s not lyrics on the page,” he says. With that in with Matt Bowers of House of Fools, all-over-the-place or disjointed. (Hodnett mind, Hodnett says he paid special attenHodnett went into the recording process released what he calls “a very modest tion to recordings by Stevie Wonder and with the idea of making something that EP” under his own name in the past, but Thin Lizzy, among others. You can hear the held together as an album. Some artists this new project presented a chance to hint of Stevie Wonder on the gospel-soul like to shelter themselves while working, refocus and start fresh.) The throughline of “Feels Good” (co-written with Bowers) avoiding the influence of other songs or is Hodnett’s exploration of vulnerability, and even in the positive-outlook vibe on other recordings, but Hodnett says he sensitivity and regret within song settings “Inside the Lines.” Vocally, Hodnett can do listened attentively to some of what he where one might often find more macho blue-eyed soul, gruff rock and country-folk, considers to be the great recordings of swagger. all of it sounding fairly natural. pop and rock music from the second half I spoke with Hodnett recently by phone The idea that music could address our of the 20th century and beyond, thinking from his home, about making the record, frailties, suffering, desire for community, about production details, pacing and song about songwriting, about his formative and our place in the world is something architecture. musical experiences as a boy. We talked that Hodnett got early on.

“I’ve always been around music. I played and sang music in church,” he says.

His mother played piano, and his dad played guitar. He learned both instruments eventually, but singing was his first musical experience. Hodnett remembers his first Sunday “performance,” and the sensation that everyone in the congregation was listening to him sing a solo as a 4-year-old.

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conferences and stuff like that,” Hodnett says of that group. “It certainly gave me a confidence.”

If praise music got him started, secular music may be what shaped Hodnett as a songwriter. As a long-time fan of Greensboro’s House of Fools, Hodnett credits a casual hello to the band after a Chapel Hill show with his decision to pursue his own music. Over the years he developed a friendship and musical connection with former House of Fools member David McLaughlin. The two did acoustic duo shows, honing their skills mostly playing covers, but also getting a chance to build up stamina, stage chops and an understanding of what makes a song work.

“It makes you a better performer,” says Hodnett of the three- and four-hour bar gigs.

One of the interesting lynchpin tracks on Utopia is an instrumental called “Kepler,” which comes right at the middle of the record and serves as a sort of turning point, bending toward the second, slightly darker half of the album. “Kepler” has a heartbeat pulse, a high sparse melodic guitar line, some gentle piano, slightly ominous low-end chords and cinematic bird sounds.

It’s followed by “Days Like These,” a wry tune about being chained to one’s smartphone but unable to connect with people in a meaningful way. It has a very 2017 feel to it. “I been stuck in a haze for three long months/and those energy drinks don’t pack a big enough punch,” sings Hodnett.

That all leads to “Ghost City,” maybe the album’s most epic undertaking, a bit of rhinestone cowboy country-disco-funk with a four-on-the-floor Eagles feel, and a cautionary tale of glitter and cocaine to match. Airbrushed backing vocals fit right in. There’s a shiny harmonized guitar solo as well that might bring to mind 38 Special or that connection to the Thin Lizzy that Hodnett listened to going into this project.

The album closes with “Home Sweet Home,” which evokes U2 with its rumbling tom-toms and big sense of yearning.

“Standing still makes you dream of the wild blue yonder,” sings Hodnett.

Hodnett hopes to take these songs out live, maybe to assemble a band that can pull off the versions that he and Bowers put together in the studio. But he’s mostly just psyched to share the music with people, to create that sense of community that he values in music-making.

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[CHOICE BEATS] Upcoming shows you should check out

We 8 Fr 10 Sa 11 Su 12 Th 16

DAVID BROMBERG /Austin Shaw THE CLARKS w/Michael Tolcher BOWIE BALL Trib to DAVID BOWIE HOLLY BOWLING 8p THE HIP ABDUCTION

Dirty Remnatz/ Red Dog YEA(h) 3p

w/Kur & Mt. Crushmore

Fr 24 REVEREND HORTON HEAT

GET CLEAN ON POP

Holly Bowling

On Pop of the World Studios (1333 Grove St. Greensboro) Friday March 10 8 p.m. - midnight “Start your weekend with a clean and shiny feeling by feeling good at On Pop. This Friday evening presents us with the hip hop prog rock fusion of Dildo of God, the dance pop electrofunk of Greensboro new comer Tide Eyes, Asheville based synth rocker Tin Foil Hat, and one of Greensboro’s hottest hip hop acts, ILLPO. Show must be over at 12, show starts at 8. You’ll have enough time to hit the bars afterwards! As always your cover gets you in the door for music and complimentary craft beer!” - via Facebook

w/Unknown Hinson / BirdCloud /The Goddamn Gallows 7p Sa 25 WHISKEY MYERS w/Steel Woods Su 26 LOX w/Uncle Murda 7p

We 29 BLUE OCTOBER

w/Mathew Mayfield 7p

Th 30 “GRATEFUL BALL” THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS/ THE JEFF AUSTIN BAND 7:30p Fr 31 PULSE: Electronic Dance Party APRIL

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Sa 6 Su 7 Fr 12 Sa 13 Mo 15 Th 17 5-25 6-23

The Thu Mar 16 Hip Abduction

RUNAWAY GIN 8p Fri SUPER DUPER KYLE/Cousin Stizz PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW BARCODE SILENT PARTY HERE FOR THE WHYL 10p BOWLING FOR SOUP 7p w/Runaway Kids / Direct Hit

Fr 14 THE BREAKFAST CLUB Sa Tu Fr Sa Th Fr Sa

THE FILLMORE

w/The Get Right Band 8p

We 22 RISING APPALACHIA 7p Th 23 HIPPIE SABOTAGE 7:30p

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Mar 11: Casting Crowns

Sun Mar 12

Fr 17 VANESSA CARLTON w/Tristen 7p Sa 18 GLOWRAGE “Carnival of Color” 8p Su 19 RODI FEST: Moderna/Muse Rd. /

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

Fri Mar 10

MARCH

w/The Jason Adamo Band

PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG DOUG STANHOPE 7p JONNY LANG w/Quinn Sullivan 7p Y&T 8p CODY JINKS w/Ward Davis+ THE MANTRAS w/Doctor Bacon DANGERMUFFIN Album Release

Mar 17

Vanessa Carlton Wed Mar 22

Rising Appalachia

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OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Mar 10: The Head and The Heart w/ Mt. Joy 333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Mar 9: Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience

MAY

126 E. Cabarrus 919-821-4111

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Mar 8: Young the Giant Mar 10: Deafheaven w/ This Will Destory You & Emma Ruth Rundle Mar 10: Face 2 Face Mar 11: St Paul & The Broken Bones Mar 12: Bad Suns Mar 15: TroyBoi Mar 16: The Highway Finds Tour Mar 17: The Decibel Magazine 2017 Tour Mar 17: Regina Spektor Mar 18: Judah & the Lion Mar 19: Katatonia Mar 22: Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets Mar 22: Minus The Bear

TWC ARENA

SPRINTER METALFEST LIVE/DEAD ‘69 GREENSKY BLUEGRASS @RITZ GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS/BERDMAJIK DJ SET MOTHERS FINEST 7p Test Pattern (701 N. Trade St. Winston-Salem) REAL ESTATE w/Frankie Cosmos Fri Mar 24 Friday March 10 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.

MAYDAY PARADE “FREE SHOW- Grubby Little Hands brings their sweet/savory psych-pop bliss FRANZ FERDINAND back to Winston-Salem, this time at one of the city’s taste-making indie venues OLD 97’s Test Pattern. After the GLH performance, we’ll keep the party going with a DJ set

Adv. Tickets @Lincolntheatre.com & Schoolkids Records All Shows All Ages

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by Berdmajik (Donnie Felton). The show is free so come out and have an extra drink but be sure to take a cab home!

9:30p- Grubby Little Hands 10:30 til we sleepy- Berdmajik plays some bangers from the past, present and future.” - via Facebook !

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CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Mar 13: Gordon Lightfoot Mar 17: Robert Earl Keen Mar 20: Odessey & Oracle Mar 21-22: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Mar 10: Get The Led Out

RALEIGH

PNC ARENA

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by Lenise Willis Before we dig into upcoming performances this week, it’s important to note that some pretty big news came out of Winston-Salem on Monday. Twin City Stage, in its 82nd year of operation, has now changed its name back to its original The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem.

Regulars will notice that their old website now redirects to thelittletheatreofws.org instead of twincitystage.org—a bit of a beast to type, but still. The brand is getting back to its roots. It changed its name to Twin City Stage in 2009, but now chose to revert, “to better reflect its commitment, size and connection to the Winston-Salem area.”

“The most important part of this name change are the words WinstonSalem,” said Connie Quinn, executive director. “We believe that our original name ties us to the rich artistic heritage of Winston-Salem.”

The idea to change their name came about during a series of board meetings over the past year, as members discussed the theatre’s long-term vision.

“People preferred The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, and most continue to refer to us as The Little Theatre, so we felt we should to listen to our patrons,” said Michelle Welborn, the 201617 board president. Although I didn’t start writing about theatre until I signed on with YES! in 2010, so bear with me as I re-train my fingers that so happily covered TWC for not quite a decade.

This is also not to be confused with the Kernersville Little Theatre.

Beyond the name change, TWC, I mean LTWS fans, will notice a more diverse performance selection from the theatre, as well. The board is focusing on offering more professional-quality plays and musicals, but also a wider variety of venues and training opportunities.

As for upcoming productions, this week through March 31, Barn Dinner Theatre continues to hand out big prizes, including a renewed friendship, in its feel-good production of Bingo, The Winning Musical. In between playing their own games of bingo, the audience will witness three best friends and diehard bingo players who brave a terrible storm to make it to the annual celebration of the birth of bingo.

Monday and Tuesday, The Drama Center Children’s Theatre is holding auditions at the Stephen Hyers Theatre for More Fun Than Bowling, a philosophical comedy by Steven Dietz using the game of bowling as a metaphor for life.

The play will run April 21-30. !

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STAGE IT!

Celebrity look-alikes sport new fashions for good cause: Restoration Place Counseling presents 8th annual Restoration Runway: Famous

Lenise Willis

Contributing columnist

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rom famed shortstory writer O. Henry to actor Brandon W. Jones from Pretty Little Liars, the Cindy Mondello, founder and RPC has been hosting a fashion Piedmont has seen Each Restoration Runway event executive director of RPC. show as its lead fundraising includes entertaining perforits share of creevent for eight years. mances by dancers and singers. ative stars passing through, but this mission at the end of the show.” alikes walking a runway and sporting month an all-new level of top celebrities Mondello says there are three primary fashions from local stores, like Talbot’s, will be gracing us with their presence and pillars to what the organization does: Rebecca & Co. and the boutique at walking the runway for a good cause…well Affordable, Professional and Christian.

Fleetwood Plummer. In between groups their dopplegangers, at least.

When she began the nonprofit in 2005, it of models, impersonating singers and From Halle Berry to Debra Messing, the was with the purpose of helping women dancers will entertain audience members.

Triad has quite a few look-alikes—and get the help they need and integrating The full evening, which includes wine and we mean, dead-on ringers. It’s a plus, too, faith in the process. Cost is a nationally h’orderves, as well as a silent auction, is that they all have good hearts and are and locally documented reason as to an up-beat and fun event, but also with using their uncanny likeness for a good why people don’t seek the help that they a powerful message. Recipients of RPC cause. On March 30, each will strut their need. services will be giving testimonials on stuff in the 8th annual Restoration Runway “I wanted to help other women find how their lives were saved thanks to the to support the efforts of Restoration Place the same healing and freedom I did,” reduced counseling services.

Counseling, a non-profit 501(c)3 organizaMondello said. “I think I feel a certain The idea to host a fashion show came tion that provides significant discounted responsibility to women and that’s my from Mondello’s long-time friend who counseling services for women and girls heartbeat—helping others get free from was a breast cancer survivor and had aged 12 and older. life-crippling issues.” ! done something similar to raise awareThe annual fashion show, run by foundness. “(We wanted) something that we er and executive director of RPC, Cindy could do that would be fun but also where Mondello, is the largest annual fundraiser we could tie into our mission some way,” for the Christian-affiliated counseling WANNA Mondello said. “Our models have always services, earning about half of what the included petite to plus, young to old, and organization needs to operate.

The 8th annual Restoration Runway: Famous is a variety of ethnicities - to celebrate the “We do more than 7,000 sessions each a one-day only event on March 30 at Greensboro beauty of all women. This year is a little year, and about half of those are at the Country Club, 410 Sunset Drive, Greensboro. Tickdifferent with the Famous theme and $25 fee level,” Mondello said. ets are $50-$80. For tickets and more informadoppelgangers, but I think it will be so This year’s theme is Famous and will tion visit rpcounseling.org or call 336-542-2060. fun…and we still will powerfully tie in our feature about 30 local celebrity lookAttire is party festive or Hollywood glam.

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Get Out a tantalizing combination of fun and fear

Funnyman Jordan Peele makes a smashing debut as writer/director of Get Out, a racially charged chiller with a sharp undercurrent of social satire. Peele both adheres to and toys with the genre, but never insults or belittles it. Indeed, his approach enhances the implications and impact of the tale he’s telling.

The set-up is deceptively simple: Chris (Danuel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) are going to visit her family for the first time. Chris is

Mark Burger

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black, Rose is white. Chris asks if Rose has told her family this.

She says it won’t be a problem.

Indeed, once there, Chris is greeted by Rose’s parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener), who are welcoming if rather patronizing. The servants (Marcus Henderson and Betty Gabriel), who are black, are oddly docile and submissive.

Only Rose’s aggressive, harddrinking brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) treats Chris in a less-than-friendly manner.

To divulge much more would

Wolverine goes wild — one last time There’s a sense of finality in Logan, the third in the Wolverine trilogy spun off from the ongoing X-Men franchise. Set in 2029, the future looks pretty bleak, and things don’t look much better for the titular superhero, again played by Hugh Jackman.

Easily the most miserable of the X-Men mutants, Logan (AKA James Howlett) ekes out a lonely, lowly existence across the border, where he toils as a limousine driver and lives in an abandoned factory with fellow mutant Caliban (Stephen Merchant) and an ailing Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). The very source of his superpowers is poisoning Logan from within, which does little to improve his disposition.

Nor, initially, does the appearance of Laura (screen newcomer Dafne Keen), a sullen youngster who possesses powers very similar to Logan’s. It’s giving nothing away to reveal that she is the product of genetic experimentation using his DNA, so in a sense she’s his biological offspring.

The resident baddies are Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook), whose constant sneer is almost as impressive as his robotic right arm, and Zander Rice (Richard E. Grant), your quintessential mad scientist with a British accent. They’ve succeeded in creating a new breed of mutants – hence Laura – but have failed to contain them, hence Laura’s presence in Logan’s life.

Thus begins a long road trip to South Dakota, where Laura believes that an enclave of her fellow mutants is holed up. Logan’s not so sure, but with Pierce, Rice and an endless number of endlessly expendable black-clad goons in pursuit,

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there’s little time for debate.

Director James Mangold, who also helmed The Wolverine (2013) and collaborated on this film’s screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green, brings a grittier, harsher edge to the proceedings. Encouraged perhaps by the box-office success of last year’s Deadpool, Wolverine boasts enough bloodshed and profanity to earn an R rating – a rarity for a comic-book movie. It’s certainly not for the kiddies, although plenty will want to see it.

Jackman continues to invest the character with a hard-bitten conviction, while also adding a bit more humanity this time.

Keen is impressive as Laura, who shares her father’s hair-trigger temper, and Stewart is rather moving in what is (very) likely Xavier’s screen swan song – at least in this context.

As the film enters its third act, however, its momentum begins to flag. The emotional component between Logan and is well-handled and well-played, but there’s the inevitable climactic mash-up with the villains. By this time, however, Holbrook and Grant seem mere afterthoughts, dealt with in cursory ways. As a film, Logan aspires to an epic stature that it doesn’t always measure up to, although it’s certainly not for lacking of trying.

undoubtedly spoil the fun, and some of the (legitimate) surprises in store. Suffice it to say that something is definitely going on – something dark and twisted.

Peele has claimed one inspiration was, perhaps inevitably, The Stepford Wives (1974), based on Ira Levin’s best-seller, but to specifically mention some of the other inspirations would likewise give away too much, although Peele was probably influenced by the works of John Carpenter, given how he uses medium or long shots to establish menace.

The performances are solid across the board, with Kaluuya a likable and sympathetic hero and Williams adeptly convey-

ing considerable shifts in her character.

Whitford, Keener and Jones bring subtle, wicked shading to their roles, and Stephen Root makes the absolute most a small but pivotal role. As Chris’ best bud Rod, stand-up comic Lil Rel Howery provides comic relief (some of it broad), but his character too has an important bearing on the story.

All told, Get Out works on multiple levels. It’s funny, it’s scary, and best of all it’s smart. It has a point and a purpose, two things not often associated with the horror genre, where blood and guts usually take precedence. Nevertheless, Get Out has those, too … and brains.

A call to arms — and arts On this, the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, filmmaker Margy Kinmonth zeroes in on that very specific time and place, which saw the fall of the Tsarist regime and the rise to power of what would be commonly known as the Communist Party.

The self-explanatory Revolution: New Art for a New World examines, with clarity and color, the art of that revolution. For a few brief years, this would be perhaps the pinnacle of Russian art in the twentieth century, with many artists inspired by what they perceived and believed would be a triumph of equality in their homeland. As one observer notes, it was a time when arts, politics and revolution were intertwined.

If art could impact the political landscape, so too would the political landscape impact the arts. Vladimir Lenin was more predisposed toward supporting and encouraging Russia’s artists than his successor, Josef Stalin, who initially seemed predisposed but, as history would bear out, would ultimately do his best (and worst) to quash artistic expression.

Kinmonth interviews historians, contemporary artists, and descendants of revolution-era artists (among them filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, grandson of Pyotr Konchalovsky). Newsreel footage and re-enactments further flesh out the narrative, as do quotes by such Russian notables as Wassily Kandinsky (James Fleet), Kazimir Malevich (Tom Hollander), Varvara Stepanova (Daisy Bevan) and Matthew Macfadyen (Lenin).

Despite numerous purges, some of this artwork has managed to survive (often

through surreptitious means), but, alas, some of it is long gone. Yet there’s hope for the future, as the tradition and the legacy live on, both in hearts and minds.

Revolution: New Art for a New World will be screened 8 pm tonight (Wednesday, March 8) exclusively at a/perture cinemas, 311 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem.

Tickets are $12.50. For tickets or more information, call 336.722.8148 or visit the official website: http://aperturecinema. com/.

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Feb 10 - 16

a doG’s PuRPose (PG) 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 beFoRe i Fall (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 FiFTy shades daRkeR (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 FisT FiGhT (R) – 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 GeT ouT (R) – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 hidden FiGuRes (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 John Wick chaPTeR 2 (R) – 3:00 konG skull island (PG-13) – 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 konG skull island (PG-13) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 la la land (PG-13) – 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 la la land sinG-a-lonG (PG-13) 1:00 leGo baTman movie 2d (PG) 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 lion (PG-13) – 12:00, 2:40, 5:20 loGan (R) – 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45 moonliGhT (R) – 12:15 sPliT (PG-13) – 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 The GReaT Wall 2d (PG-13) 6:00, 8:45 The shack (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

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konG: skull island (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 11:45 AM, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 konG: skull island (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 3:20, 8:30, 11:05 Sun - Thu: 3:20, 8:30 konG: skull island 3d (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:45, 5:55 hidden FiGuRes (PG) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:55 AM, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 11:00 Sun - Thu: 11:55 AM, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10 la la land (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 beFoRe i Fall (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 loGan (R) Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:25, 7:00, 8:20, 9:55, 11:15 Sun - Thu: 11:35 AM, 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:25, 7:00, 8:20, 9:55

Table 19 (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 11:45 AM, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:40, 9:50, 11:50 Sun - Thu: 11:45 AM, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:40, 9:50 Wolves (R) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 The shack (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 GeT ouT (R) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 FisT FiGhT (R) Fri & Sat: 2:45, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 Sun - Thu: 2:45, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 FiFTy shades daRkeR (R) Fri - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 John Wick: chaPTeR 2 (R) Fri - Thu: 11:40 AM, 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 i am noT youR neGRo (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 anna kaRenina (R) Tue: 2:25, 7:35

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kedi (nR) Fri: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, Sat: 10:30 AM, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, Sun: 10:15 AM, 12:15, 2:45, 5:00 Mon: 6:00, 8:30, Tue: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Wed & Thu: 6:00, 8:30 a uniTed kinGdom (PG-13) Fri: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Sat & Sun: 10:00 AM, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon: 5:30, 8:00, Tue: 4:15, 8:45 Wed & Thu: 5:30, 8:00 i am noT youR neGRo (PG-13) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00, Sat: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00, Sun: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 Mon: 6:30, 9:00, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed & Thu: 6:30, 9:00 The Royal oPeRa house: il TRovaToRe (nR) Sun: 7:00 PM The Red TuRTle (la ToRTue RouGe) (PG) Fri: 4:15, 6:45, Sat: 11:15 AM, 4:15, 6:45 Sun: 1:45, 4:15, Mon: 6:45 PM Tue: 4:15, 6:45, Wed & Thu: 6:45 PM PaTeRson (R) Fri: 9:15 PM, Sat: 1:45, 9:15, Sun: 11:15 AM, 6:45 Mon - Thu: 9:15 PM

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Dance me to the end of love

BY STEVE MITCHELL “This is the story of a man who took part in a dance competition.”

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The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

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Still, Guerriero decides to follow him in the year leading up to the next competition.

Nothing explains fully, or in any kind of satisfying way, why we become obsessed, engaged, enthralled, with the things we do. Attempting to construct a foundation, we create stories, but beauty, like love, is contradictory, mysterious, impenetrable.

Our only role is submission.

Leila Guerriero

Simple Story by Leila Guerriero, translated by Frances Riddle, (New Directions, $14.95, 128 pages) really is as direct and cogent as the first sentence of the book.

The dance is the malambo, obscure even in its native Argentina. It’s a centuries old gaucho dance performed in groups of two or four, or the most preternaturally demanding, alone.

Maddenly quick and stunningly complex, the malambo involves multiple rhythms managed at breakneck paces, using all parts of the foot: heel, toe, ball, side, sole, and all combinations thereof. The average solo malambo clocks in between 4 1/2 and 5 minutes. There’s almost always blood on the floor when the dance is done.

In 2011, Guerriero, an Argentinian journalist, travels to the tiny town of Laborde, 300 miles south of Buenos Aires, population

6,000. Laborde is the home of the national malambo competition and contestants arrive annually from around the country to compete for the title.

She doesn’t know much about the dance or the competition, having only read an article in a city newspaper, but she thinks it might make an interesting story. On a warm January night, she’s sitting in the audience during the solo competition when a thunderclap breaks and a raging storm overtakes her.

That storm is Rodolfo González Alcántra.

“When he was finished, he pounded the stage with a monstrous force, froze on the spot and stood staring out through the fine layers of the night, covered in stars, all ablaze. And, half smiling---like a prince, like a ruffian, or like the devil---he tipped his hat. And he left the stage.

That’s how it was.

I don’t know if they applauded him. I don’t remember.”

Rodolfo González Alcántra does not win.

Only, it’s not submission to the lover, the one obsessed. It’s only submission to the outsider.

To the lover, it is complete engagement, an immersion. It’s a form of bliss.

Leila Guerriero doesn’t attempt a narrative of explanation. She doesn’t try to rationalize the sacrifice, the constant training, the strained relationships this kind of commitment is made up of. She tells us what people do and what happens.

She illuminates this range of experience in A Simple Story, not only by telling Alcántra’s tale (which she sometimes worries is too ‘nice’, from a journalist’s point of view, as there are no discernible tortures or traumas, and Alcántra himself never complains), but by touching on the stories of his family, his teacher, and his competitors; this community of mutual obsession.

There are new aspirants, teachers who are winners from the past, musicians, dancers returning year after year watching their chances wane, all sharing tiny, doorless dressing stalls just offstage, all stumbling back from that stage barely able to breathe.

The prose bears the marks (or scars) of the malambo. It is powerful, rhythmic, and economical, rising in bursts that

sometimes explode from the page, always acutely focused. Stories are told in short, concise paragraphs, character to character, while maintaining clarity and masterfully building suspense. Throughout the year, we move toward the only thing that truly matters.

And when the 2012 solo malambo winner is announced: “That’s it, I tell myself.

There goes a man whose life has changed forever.

No more sliding under turnstiles.

No more worn out sneakers.

No more hunger.”

No one can really explain to Leila Guerriero what it feels like to win at Laborde.

They only know they will never have that feeling again, and that is both the payoff and the curse.

A wordless acknowledgement passes among the past winners, as if they are conversant in a language they’ve agreed never to speak; so, they nod and embrace one another, and leave it at that.

To win at Laborde is the pinnacle of the malambo. Winning there means there is nowhere else to go. And because of this, as soon as you are crowned champion, you never dance again. !

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RiverRun readies to roll Despite a torrential downpour – yes, it must be RiverRun time again! – there was almost a full house last Wednesday at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in WinstonMark Burger Salem, where was held the launch for Contributing the 19th annual RiverRun International columnist Film Festival.

This marks the first festival for executive director Rob Davis, and he seemed comfortable and confident despite the weather and the fast-approaching March 30th opening.

“We just have a tremendous lineup of films for you this year,” he said, adding “a huge, huge thanks” to the RiverRun team – staff, sponsors, board of directors and volunteers – who have made his transition a smooth one.

The festival’s mission is simple: “A truly world-class cultural arts festival and ambassador for the city of Winston-Salem.”

Allen Joines, who has been mayor of Winston-Salem as long as RiverRun has called the city home, cited the “huge impact on our city” that the festival has created, not just in tourism and business but also in creating a positive, friendly environment in which film lovers can congregate and share their affection for cinema.

Davis noted it had been six months to the day since he accepted the post as executive director. Said Barry Maine, chairman of RiverRun’s board of directors: “I think it’s fair to say he hit the ground running, and he’s still running.”

Of more than 1,700 submissions – a festival record – RiverRun 2017 will screen a total of 151 films, including 69 features and 82 shorts, from more than 40 countries. “Each of these films is reflective of our mission to engage our audiences in an exploration of new and divergent cultures and perspectives through the art of film,” Davis said in an official statement.

This year will see two Masters of Cinema attending RiverRun: Celia Weston and Jane Alexander. The South Carolinaborn Weston has strong ties to WinstonSalem, as a graduate of both Salem College and the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). A Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee (for The Last Night of Ballyhoo), her extensive credits include Dead Man Walking (1995), Flirting With Disaster WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

(1996) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) on the big screen, and “Alice,” “Modern Family” and “American Horror Story” on the small.

In recent years, she’s made a number of films with fellow UNCSA alumni, including Phil Morrison (Junebug), Jody Hill (Observe and Report) and Angus MacLachlan (Goodbye to All That).

In the Radiant City, in which she co-stars with UNCSA graduate Michael Abbott Jr. and which was produced

by UNCSA graduate Jeff Nichols, will be screened this year as part of the festival’s “Altered States: New Directions in American Cinema” program. “A Conversation with Celia Weston” will take place April 2 at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.

One of America’s most acclaimed actresses, Alexander is a seven-time Tony nominee, two-time Emmy winner (and seven-time nominee) and four-time Oscar nominee (The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Testament). She was the chairperson for the National Endowment of the Arts under President Clinton, and has appeared in such diverse films as The New Centurions (1972), Brubaker (1980), The Cider House Rules (1999) and Terminator Salvation (2009). She made her film debut in the 1970 screen adaptation of The Great White Hope (1970), earning an Oscar nomination as Best Actress reprising her Tony-winning stage role. There will be a screening of The Great White Hope April 7 at Babcock Theatre on the UNCSA campus, followed by her award presentation.

The RiverRun “Spark Award,” given to an up-and-coming talent, will this year be presented to writer/producer/director/actor Keith Powell, whose credits include the series’ “About a Boy,” “30 Rock,” “Keith Powell Directs a Play” and “Keith Broke His Leg,” playing himself in the latter two.

He is also the founder and producing artistic director of the Contemporary Stage Company in Wilmington, Del. There will be two opening-night films: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s culture-clash comedy Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus), in which they co-star with Pierre Richard and the late Emmanuelle Riva (who died in January), and Kirk Simon’s self-explanatory documentary feature The Pulitzer at 100, which celebrates the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize.

The epic adventure The Lost City of Z, adapted by screenwriter/producer/director James Gray (Little Odessa, The Yards)

from David Gray’s non-fiction best-seller The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, is the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who mysteriously vanished during an expedition into the Amazon in the 1920s.

The film, which co-stars Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Angus Macfadyen and Tom Holland (soon to be seen in SpiderMan: Homecoming), will cap off the festival as its closing-night film April 9.

The centerpiece screening will be Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black

Colleges and Universities, the latest documentary from filmmaker Stanley Nelson, recipient of the Master of Cinema award at the 2015 festival. RiverRun 2007 will also offer “Spotlight: Cuba on Screen,” a series of six films only recently made available to audiences in the United States, and for those who truly appreciate the “big” in big-screen entertainment, there will be a selection of 70mm films screened from the UNCSA’s Moving Image Archive: John Boorman’s 1985 adventure The Emerald Forest (April 1), Ivan Reitman’s original 1984 comedy smash Ghostbusters (April 2), Wolfgang Petersen’s 1995 political thriller In the Line of Fire (April 8) starring Clint Eastwood and Oscar nominee John Malkovich (Best Supporting Actor), and David Lean’s Oscar-winning 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia (April 9) starring Peter O’Toole (in the title role) and an all-star cast.

The 2007 RiverRun International Film Festival runs March 30-April 9. For a complete schedule of events and screenings, for advance tickets or more information, call 336.721.1945 or visit the official website: http://riverrunfilm.com/. !

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e promised last Thanksgiving to bring you the story of a local non-profit that pairs the convenience of meal kits with helping the food insecure. Middle of the Root is a meal kit delivery service (think Hello Fresh, Blue Apron) but with a local twist. It’s locally owned and operated. Subscribers order a meal, with local, farm fresh products and recipes to go along with them. The organization has just launched its Spring “Meal Kits with Meaning” program. Middle of the Root’s (MOR) vision is to develop a vibrant, sustainable food system that makes fresh, locally grown food accessible throughout Forsyth County.

The mantra is to “explore local food, cook with confidence and support and grow community.” Research shows that there are nearly 65,000 people who are food insecure in Forsyth County. That amounts to 18% of our population that don’t know where their next meal comes from. Founder Ashley Jobe says they want

to change that. “The mission is to significantly impact the most food-insecure areas, by creating access to healthy, farmfresh food and providing both education and empowerment for healthier eating.”

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Here’s how it works….Subscribers order a meal kit (as you would with any national brand) that has locally-grown ingredients and locallymade products. These kits haven’t flown across the country on a plane for the past week. The ingredients for the kits are picked up from area farms within days of delivery. Volunteers fill the boxes by hand with much less waste since there’s very few packaged ingredients. You can choose your number of servings (Two/two-serving or one/four or six serving) and meal options (savory, gluten-free, vegetarian). Each recipe card shows you exactly where your food comes from in North Carolina. An example of a savory meat option might be Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes with Wilted Spinach. A breakfast kit is also available with a lower price point. It does not include a recipe and is more of a CSA (community supported agriculture) offering with fresh vegetables, fruits and local products. You can even donate a meal kit to someone else.

The program is now accepting orders for this Spring’s 10-week Meal Kits with Meaning delivery program. With every meal kit purchased, subscribers are helping provider better access to that same food for the underprivileged. Proceeds from the Spring 2017 Meal Kit Program will help fuel Middle of the Root’s Pop-Up Fresh Food Stands. Jobe, says “We plan on bringing local farm-fresh food to our

impoverished neighborhoods by setting up mobile carts and temporary stands at locations like bus stops and churches that are convenient to neighborhood residents.

There, they will have fresh food to take home and at the same time, we’ll have opportunities to engage with neighbors, build relationships and promote our classes and our meal kit program.”

Jobe adds, “By partly funding our programs through the sale of meal kits with fresh, local ingredients, we also support agriculture in our area, expanding the market for local farmers by connecting them with people who want and need what they grow.” Other programs in the future will include community gardens, farmers’ markets, mentoring partnerships for neighborhood residents with farmers and food business owners, subsidized snacks for after-school programs, and subsidized meal kits. Their programs all share the same goal, which is to increase access to local, fresh food.

Jobe says, “Middle of the Root’s goal is to have 30 subscribers in the Spring Meal Kit With Meaning Program so we can do our impact project. If we hit our goal, we plan to operate ten or more pop-up food stands that last at least two hours, and we hope to connect with approximately 15 people each time. As we increase our understanding of access barriers, as well as neighborhood strengths and resources, we can identify the most effective direc-

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Food access became a focal point for Jobe when she attended college in San Francisco and began to explore and become aware of how well-connected the city was. She says, “Local food was abundant because there was a shared value between public and private sectors.

Public gardens grew and maintained food just feet away from the restaurants they sold to. The people who volunteered at the gardens became valuable community members who could give back, learn and have new skills. The restaurants didn’t have to go far or pay absurd rates for fresh food.” She says this translated to fair market prices for consumers. “I was a benefactor of all of this. Not changing my diet, just consuming regularly, or so I thought, I started to notice a difference in how I felt and I was losing weight.”

Jobe says when she came back to Winston Salem after receiving her MBA, she was renewed and on a mission to help bring the same type of local community food access to the city where she grew up.

“I knew from research that Winston-Salem had some alarming health and food insecurity rates,” she says. Jobe is working on many other projects with key organizations, both public and private, along with people in the city and Forsyth County to build on the impact and to bridge the gap.

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Middle of the Root founder Ashley Jobe. it’s a hand up.”

Orders for Meal Kits with Meaning close on March 29 and deliveries begin the week of April, 5. There are two payment options, either weekly auto draft or you can pay in-full for a 10% discount. Another meal kit and impact program is planned for the fall and there are volunteer opportunities as well. For more information visit middleoftheroot.org. !

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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The 40-year-old guy I’m dating swivels his head to check out ladies everywhere. He even comments on those he finds attractive.

I’ve mentioned Amy Alkon that it bugs me. He contends that it’s my insecurities that Advice are really the issue Goddess here. I can see how lower self-esteem might lend itself to an offended reaction, as opposed to just a shrug or an eye roll, but is this really on me? — Blamed Yes, of course your insecurities are the real issue here. Because what woman wouldn’t feel great when her boyfriend’s all “Whoa, boobs are out tonight!”?

That said, it is normal that he’s driven to look. Men evolved to have their eyeballs all up in every hot woman’s business because the features considered beautiful in a woman correlate with health and fertility. Ancestral men who passed on their genes (and mating psychology) — the men whose male descendants are walking the planet today — are those who went for the fertile young hotties, not the 70-year-old ladies with a lot of personality.

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— those with an hourglass bod, a fertility indicator — there’s “activation” in (most notably) the nucleus accumbens. This is part of the brain’s reward circuitry and, as they put it, “the seat of addictive behavior.” Regarding their findings, Platek told me, “We think that this is why men quite literally find it challenging to look away from a highly attractive female body.”

No, not “impossible” to look away.

“Challenging.” Like it may sometimes be for you to keep from stabbing your boyfriend in the thigh with a fork when he rubbernecks at a passing pair of Wonderbreasts. However, feeling disturbed by his girl-gawking isn’t a sign you’re emotionally defective. Consider that emotions aren’t there just to jazz up your day.

Psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that emotions have a job to do — to motivate us to “respond adaptively” to threats and opportunities. For example, that rotten feeling you get in response to your boyfriend’s ogling is basically an alarm going off alerting you that a man’s commitment isn’t there or is waning. Wanting to feel better pushes you to remedy the situation.

If your insecurity is tripping you up, it’s in how you seem to be second-guessing the emotions yelling at you, “Do something!

HELLO?! Are you in a coma?” The thing is, you don’t have to feel assertive to be assertive. You just have to (gulp!) stand up for yourself as an assertive person would.

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For two years, I’ve been in the best relationship of my life, after years of really bad ones. I’m thinking that maybe the key to a happy relationship is having two people who think they aren’t good enough for each other. Not that we feel that in a pathetic way. We each just feel really grateful and lucky to be with the other person, and it makes a difference in how we treat each other. Thoughts? — Happy At Last Sometimes the thing we tell ourselves is love is really “the thing I got into because I was scared I’d die alone — surrounded by empty single-serving zinfandel bottles — and get discovered 10 years later, mummified, on my couch.”

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