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MAY 1-7, 2019 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 18

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Through many trials and tribulations, a Winston-Salem business owner finds serenity and purpose in her profession. Baker, army veteran, and mother Faith Harris McKnight owns THE SWEET TRUTH BAKING AND CATERING, a Minority Black Women Enterprise, Historically Underutilized Business, and certified home bakery located in the Boston-Thurmond Neighborhood of Winston-Salem.

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

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CHEF FREDDY LEE has been stealthily creating extraordinary cuisine for nearly three decades as the chef for his restaurant, Bernardin’s, located at 901 W 4th St. in Winston-Salem. The restaurant celebrates 27 years this year, which is no small feat for a restaurant these days.

10 Hirsch Wellness Network is proud to host its 10th annual LUNAFEST on May 23 from 7-9:30 p.m. at the Community Theatre of Greensboro. This ticketed fundraising event is open to the general public (ages 13 and up suggested) with a complimentary beverage and popcorn.

11 The ongoing Turner Classic Movies Big Screen Classics Series, presented by Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures, continues May 5 with the 50th anniversary screening of the 1969 Western TRUE GRIT, for which the legendary John Wayne won the Academy Award as Best Actor for his unforgettable turn as the booze-soaked, one-eyed marshal “Rooster” Cogburn.

12 Let’s be real here. AVENGERS: ENDGAME could have been nothing more than three hours of, say, Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) teaching Nebula YES! WEEKLY

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(Karen Gillan) how to play Paper Football and it would still gross a kazillion dollars and be crowned the greatest superhero movie ever made.

13 Triad Stage is closing its 18th season with the classic Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Hear the wild winds of fortune.

Your destiny calls and adventure awaits.

18 I’ve discussed how the social acceptance of consuming MARIJUANA has changed dramatically since the 1990s.

Acceptance has grown across demographic groups and political affiliation.

19 ...the man, who MCCRORY described as about 6-foot 2-inches and built like a pro wrestler, was also carrying a tree limb with which he used to pound on the top of McCrory’s sedan.

20 When PETER TORK of the Monkees died in February of this year, at the age of 77, the New York Times obituary didn’t mention his ties to North Carolina and the Triad region.

21 May is for MUSIC FESTIVALS apparently, because mother of mercy, there’s a bunch of music festivals happening this month.

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

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QUANTO BASTA WINE DISCOVERY TUESDAY

CARRIE UNDERWOOD WEDNESDAY WED 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD WHAT: Carrie Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a true multi-format, multimedia superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner, she has sold 64 million records worldwide and recorded 26 #1 singles, 13 of which she co-wrote.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro.

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DANCING IN THE STREETS: A TRIBUTE TO PETER TORK

2ND ANNUAL MAYDAY ON MCGEE STREET FESTIVAL

GREENSBORO WATER LANTERN FESTIVAL

QB WINE DISCOVERY: WINES OF FRANCE PART II

WHAT: The May DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop, “Dancing in the Streets” will include a tribute honoring the life of someone who spent quite a bit of time over the last two decades in this area of NC...The Monkees’ Peter Tork. There will be film, memorabilia, a scavenger hunt with prizes, a dance contest, music, yoga, theatre vignettes, a family art area, and more!

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: DADA- Downtown Arts District Association. 604-A North Trade Street, Winston-Salem.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: The second annual “MayDay on McGee” Street Festival will be held on May 4th, 2019 and is a collaboration between Little Brother Brewing, Jah Works, Inc., and Uncle John’s Bone. There will be satellite bars featuring local beers, food trucks, vendors and other fun activities on site.

This is a family friendly block party and is free to attend.

WHEN: 2-11 p.m.

WHERE: West McGee Street between South Elm and Greene Street in Downtown Greensboro.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: Tickets are on sale for the Greensboro Water Lantern Festival. Water Lantern Festival is an amazing experience where you’ll witness the magic of the lanterns as they light up the water.

WHEN: 5-10 p.m.

WHERE: City Lake Park.

602 W Main St, Jamestown.

MORE: Get your tickets at www.WaterLanternFestival.com before it sells out! Tickets are $25-40 depending on how early you get them.

WHAT: Everyone will enjoy this exciting wine and culinary experience — whether you’re planning a fun-filled neighborhood gathering, date night, corporate event, or a girls night out, this evening is designed for wine lovers, enthusiasts, industry professionals and the wine connoisseur alike.

WHEN: 6:30-8 p.m.

WHERE: Quanto Basta: Italian Eatery & Wine Bar. 680 W 4th St, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $69 per guest. Limited seating available. E-mail Tim@SpringHouseNC.com, or call 336.293.4797 to reserve tickets.

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FROM BONDSMAN TO CANDY MAN

BY IAN MCDOWELL

“This store doesn’t have a business card yet,” said Dan Weatherington the week after his Gate City Candy Company had its April 1 soft opening at 529 S. Elm St. in Greensboro. “So, here’s the one for my bail bond company.”

Weatherington, who also owns Gate City Bail Bonds at 1325 S. Eugene St., has long dreamed of opening an old-fashioned candy store.

“I’ve been a bondsman for about eight years,” he told me on my next visit. “That industry’s been on a downward spiral and is battling legislation aimed at putting it out of business. So about four years ago, I started thinking about doing something else.”

Weatherington, a military veteran who’s also worked as a firefighter, said that writing up business plans was initially daunting, due to his lack of both retail experience and formal training. “But I went to the library and read a bunch of books, researched online, jumped through some bureaucratic hoops, and got it done.”

When Weatherington was growing up in Goldsboro, his family took many trips to the Blue Ridge mountains, “where I loved stopping at old-fashioned candy stores.”

That’s how he discovered his lifelong love of peanut butter fudge. “It’s the creamiest. I could eat it all day long.”

One of the first places he ever had it was at Nancy’s Candy Company on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, less than 20 miles from his mother’s hometown of Patrick Springs.

Founded by Nancy Galli in 1987 as Nancy’s Homemade Fudge, the once-tiny store and company quickly achieved recognition for its signature peanut butter fudge cup, expanded and rebranded in 1998, and in 2009 added a line of signature truffles.

When Weatherington decided to open a candy store of his own, he began sampling

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chocolate from a variety of suppliers. “I’ve literally in the last four years traveled from coast to coast as a bail bondsman, and we didn’t pass a candy store without going in and trying what they had and testing it out.”

He said he never found any he liked as much as Nancy’s. “And her products are just so beautiful, especially the truffles, they’re like works of art. I kept going back and forth, trying to figure out who my supplier should be, and I kept reverting back to Nancy’s because their truffles are just beautiful and the taste is amazing.

So, she’s my supplier.”

I tried a raspberry truffle. It was wonderful. Weatherington sells 24 flavors of truffles, including bacon, tiramisu, jalapeno, Irish crème and Jack Daniels; and 14 flavors of fudge, including salted caramel, cookies-n-cream, his beloved peanut butter, and birthday cake. The last seemed particularly popular with the customers I saw sampling it. There’s also chocolate-covered pretzels and Graham crackers, chocolate bark, cordials, caramels and creams. His bins are stocked with 20 flavors of taffy, 24 flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans, 30 flavors of M&Ms, and assorted gummies, sours and other retrostyle candy such as Mary Janes and Whirly Pops. He said he would be adding an entire room, “that area behind the back curtain there,” of locally-made products very soon.

He also sells root beer, ginger ale, Nehi, and a variety of novelty sodas. He promised that he’d be stocking my hard-to-get favorite, Moxie, the classic brand that between the world wars was as popular as Coke and Pepsi.

Gate City Candy Company is open 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10-8 Monday through Friday and 12-6 on Sundays. Its official grand opening is planned for Saturday, May 4. !

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A Chef’s Table: The quiet genius at Bernardin’s

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hef Freddy Lee has been stealthily creating extraordinary cuisine for nearly three decades as the chef for his restaurant, Bernardin’s, located Kristi Maier at 901 W. 4th St. @triadfoodies in Winston-Salem.

The restaurant celebrates 27 years Contributor this year, which is no small feat for a restaurant these days.

Quiet and a bit shy, with a complete lack of bravado that you might expect from some chefs, Lee and his brother, Terry, are a stronghold in the WinstonSalem dining scene. Before there was a popular downtown, Bernardin’s, at its unassuming shopping center location on Jonestown Road, was the go-to for that “special night out” for anniversaries, proms, and romantic dates. Back in the day, a restaurant in a shopping center was the thing to do, Freddy told me.

Then, nine years ago, the Zevely House, which had enjoyed its iconic status as a restaurant in the Historic West End, became available. The Lee brothers moved the restaurant into the 200-yearold Moravian style house, and it was as if Bernardin’s at the Zevely House was always meant to be.

“Downtown was starting to really happen back then, and we thought the West End would be a perfect location, it was more central and nearer to everything.”

More businesses, bakeries, the ballpark, and condos added to the happening little neighborhood vibe.

Salem with the intent to open Bernardin’s, and they’ve considered themselves North Carolinians ever since.

Bernardin’s was the location of a recent Chef’s Table, which was so popular that it sold out in a matter of hours.

Thirty-two guests were welcomed on the beautiful Bernardin’s patio where Freddy embarked on an adventurous, culinary tour of flavors from around the globe with local ingredients.

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Roasted Tri-Color Cauliflower Salad Granny Smith apple, almond walnut crunch, grilled corn, feta cheese, grated salt-cured fermented egg yolk, anchovies, micro-greens, Sherry vinaigrette Listening to Freddy talk about this dish was fun and made me want to replicate it. The complex flavors of the lightly roasted cauliflower along with a sweet crunch of roasted nuts were a fun take on a salad.

The romantic atmosphere of the purported “oldest home in WinstonSalem” also adds to the already elevated masterful dishes coming out of the Lee kitchen. White linen tablecloths and a full place setting in the dining rooms give it an intimate feel, and service is always top-notch.

Freddy was born in India and raised in New York. As a teenager, he started working in fine-dining restaurants in the city and after high school and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America.

Although he learned a great deal about French culinary techniques in school, it’s on-the-job training that he’s found invaluable.

“You learn some basic skills from school, but it’s working at different

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Freddy worked in New York City in restaurants (such as Tribeca Grill) and California for a bit before he and Terry followed family members to Winston-

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Tandoori Kangaroo With braised Savoy cabbage, lentil curry potato cake, papadam, mint yogurt, tandoori sauce Did you say “kangaroo?” Yes, I did. Bernardin’s is kind of famous for its kangaroo dish. What does it taste like, you may ask; it’s slightly stronger in flavor than beef but not as gamey as venison. It’s very lean, very clean and you should have it at least once. Freddy’s preparation of this classic Bernardin’s dish is lovely and lets the flavors of the meat shine.

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Roasted Sea Bream With sunchoke, asparagus, rainbow carrots, lobster chorizo broth The light and flaky fish was pan-seared with crispy skin in a simple, earthy, and smoky broth.

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Pork Belly Ramen Tonkotsu With a half of a boiled egg, enoki mushrooms, nori, green onion, black garlic, chili oil, pork broth A true crowd-pleaser, this dish was light and flavorful with the jammy egg.

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Cheesecake Parfait Blackberry, raspberry, white chocolate, caramel, coconut pistachio crisp, Oreo cookies, Grand Marnier, crème anglaise

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This little dessert had it all: fluffy, whipped and sweetened cream cheese layered with chocolate, coconut, and berries with hints of orange.

“Dive straight down and pull it up for the perfect bite,” Freddy told us.

And perfect it was. I’d go back for that anytime. I’d go back for any of it. Guest John McPherson, who’s attended several Chef’s Tables said, “I love how the chef has taken us all over the globe with this meal.”

Every course was exquisite. Some versions of the dishes served at A Chef’s Table are dishes that have made or will make an appearance at Bernardin’s at any given time. Lee said he loves to work with a different game and changes his more adventurous offerings based on what quality ingredients he can get.

“I like to work with emu and bison and different kinds of seafood,” he said.

Lee encourages taking the leap when dining out.

“Many people order off the menu, but sometimes they’ll want to be surprised.

That’s the best way to eat, really. Order different entrées and share them.”

The Lee brothers also own Bernardin’s Charlotte and Blue Fin in Columbia.

Freddy also has partnerships in other restaurants as well: Trade Street Diner, Bleu Restaurant & Bar, and Cowboy Brazilian Steakhouse. How he has time to cook in addition to looking after all these restaurants is a wonder.

However, now with his children grown, he enjoys quick trips with his wife, even out of the country, but never for very long.

“I like to get out of the restaurant and travel and eat fast food,” he said with a laugh. “Opening restaurants is stressful but to me, I love to cook, and it comes easy. I will always be cooking.” !

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LUNAFEST Short Film Festival has stories for everyone

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irsch Wellness Network is proud to host its 10th annual LUNAFEST on May 23 from 7-9:30 p.m. at the Community Theatre of GreensTerry Rader boro. This ticketed fundraising event is open to the general Contributor public (ages 13 and up suggested) with a complimentary beverage and popcorn. LUNAFEST features films with a total running time of 85 minutes, “by, for and about women,” but men return each year as well. There is also a pay-it-forward ticket gifting for cancer patients for those who wish to make it possible for someone else to attend.

LUNAFEST, the first all-women traveling film festival began in 2000 by LUNA Bar. LUNAFEST will screen across 175 cities with audiences expected to reach 25,000 this year.

The eight films and directors for 2019 are Flip the Record by Marie Jamora, The Final Show by Dana Nachman, My Immigrant Story by Yuriko Gamo Romer, War Paint by Katrelle N. Kindred, Drummer Girl

by Sophie Hexter, Are We Good Parents?

by Bola Ogun, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

by Jackie Files, and UR Dead to Me by Yonoko Li. President and founder of Hirsch Well-

Elaine Heini teaching an art class at Hirsch Wellness Center ness Network Louise Grape said that 110 people attended the viewing last year and they are excited to offer an actual theatre venue this year with a seating capacity of 160. She said that all of the funding for this community event goes toward Hirsch Wellness Network’s healing arts programs for classes that are free of charge to cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.

Grape said that LUNA handles packaging and sending the films to the hosts and that HWN and other hosts pay $350 directly to LUNA’s nonprofit of choice, Chicken and Eggs Productions, which

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provides mentorship and critical financial support to female nonfiction filmmakers.

She said that the whole thing is a “complete giving circle” and even though the films are about women, it is a must-see for men.

Grape said she attended LUNAFEST years ago and felt that the healing power of listening to other’s stories made a difference on the journey from illness to wellness. She didn’t recall the name of the particular film, but the story of a Syrian family living in a tent city told through the eyes of a young girl and her friends remain with her to this day.

The film showed that no one was separated by class or race in the tent city and that even though they didn’t want to be living that kind of life, it had changed them as people. It showed that they were all connected by their shared experience.

Hirsch Wellness Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been dedicated to building a cancer support community that connects cancer patients and survivors, caregivers, family, and friends with creative tools and self-care strategies providing emotional support during treatment into survivorship and beyond since 2008.

Grape has walked the journey with cancer touching her life through her sister, her mother and herself. She created HWN to honor her mother and others so that they could have a place to come where they could be honest with what they are going through.

“We try to be there for the whole person,” she said. “Hospitals provide the

physical and clinical side of things. Often when people ask about cancer, they don’t know what to do with the information when it is shared. Many who have cancer or have loved ones with cancer put on a happy face. No happy face is needed here.

I observed this as a 9-year-old when my mother died in 1973, and when my sister had ovarian cancer and died in 2015, and again when I was diagnosed with cancer right after my marriage.”

A breast cancer survivor, Grape is still here and happily married 30 years later.

Hirsch Wellness Network’s mission “believes that regular artistic practice relieves stress, enhances mindfulness, and can generally improve health outcomes.

Making art connects us to a profound source of creative flow; we are invited to enter an inner dialogue between ourselves and the materials, which can open up avenues for emotional expression shown to decrease stress and depression.”

HWN instructors are growing and include Mary Beth Boone, Catherine Crowder, Elaine Heinl, Jacqui Mehring, Bonnie Mcleod Hitchcock, Leanne Pizio, Terry Brown, Dena Goldman, Victoria Clegg, Molly Haile, Mavis Liggett, and Jack Stratton.

“We are always looking for area experts to bring a healing arts teaching approach for those touched by cancer,” Grape said.

“Volunteers are also a major part of our support network, and more are welcome to help with events, classes and clerical needs.”

To learn more about attending or teaching an HWN class in “a place to be fearless,” see the list of classes online and contact program manager Ginger Lambrecht at (336) 209-0259. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance or for-hire writer/editorial/copy/digital content, former creative director/ strategist, storyteller, poet, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner, and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/house sitting.

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May 23 from 7-9:30 p.m., Tickets $25 (ages 13 and up suggested) at Community Theatre of Greensboro, 520 S. Elm St. Greensboro, (336) 333-7470.

Hirsch Wellness Network, 1250 Revolution Mill Dr., Suite 130, Greensboro. Call (336) 549-8367 for LUNAFEST or event information. www.hirschwellnessnetwork.org, www.lunafest.org/filmmakers, www.clifbar.com/luna, www.chickeneggpics.org/.

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Greensboro’s got True Grit The ongoing Turner Classic Movies Big Screen Classics Series, presented

by Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures, continues May 5 with the 50th anniversary screening of the 1969 Mark Burger Western True Grit, for which the legendary John Wayne won the Contributor Academy Award as Best Actor for his unforgettable turn as the booze-soaked, one-eyed marshal “Rooster” Cogburn.

More than 600 cinemas nationwide will host this event, including the Regal Greensboro Grande, located in the Friendly Center in Greensboro. In addition to Sunday’s screening, there will be two encore screenings on May 8.

Based on the novel by Charles Portis and directed by Hollywood veteran Henry Hathaway, who had previously directed Wayne in Circus World (1964) and The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit follows Cogburn as he accompanies young Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) on a quest for vengeance, to seek out Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), the outlaw who murdered Mattie’s father.

Joining them on this adventure is an eager young Texas Ranger named La Boeuf (singer Glen Campbell, in his screen debut), and the cast includes a veritable “Who’s Who” of familiar faces, including Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, Jeremy Slate, John Fiedler, and Robert Duvall, the latter as outlaw leader “Lucky” Ned Pepper, whose showdown with Cogburn is among the film’s many highlights.

Wayne’s only previous Best Actor nomination came in 1949, for Sands of Iwo Jima, but he was bested by Broderick Crawford in All the King’s Men. His competition for Best Actor in 1969 was nothing if not formidable: Richard Burton (Anne of the Thousand Days), Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy), Peter O’Toole (Goodbye, Mr. Chips), and Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy). Although the durable Wayne was seen by many as a sentimental favorite, he was by no means a shoo-in. His outspoken political stance, and the recent release of the much-derided but financially successful Vietnam War spectacle The Green Berets – which he’d directed and starred in – did not necessarily endear him to Tinseltown’s more liberal-minded contingent.

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The 50th-anniversary presentation of True Grit will be screened 1 p.m., Sunday at Regal Greensboro Grande, 3205 Northline Ave., with encore screenings noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 8.

Admission is $13.34 (general admission). For advance tickets or more information, visit www. fathomevents.com/events/tcm2019-true-grit50th-anniversary-1969.

Yet in the end, Wayne emerged victorious – not unlike the crusty Cogburn. The film also received an Oscar nomination for Best Song, and Wayne would reprise his Oscar-winning role in the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn, which marked his only screen teaming with Katharine Hepburn.

In 2010, the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit, which starred Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn and was more faithful to the Portis novel, earned 10 Oscar

nominations (including Best Picture and Best Actor) but went home empty-handed. Nevertheless, the Coens’ True Grit was one of their most successful films at the box-office.

TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz will introduce the film and offer closing commentary. !

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

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Avengers: Endgame fans flames of expectation

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et’s be real here. Avengers: Endgame ( ) could have been nothing more than three hours of, say, Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) teaching Nebula (Karen Gillan) how to play Paper Football and it would still gross a kazillion dollars and be crowned the greatest superhero movie ever made.

After all, when it comes to Marvel material, hope and hype eventually become the same thing, an impenetrable fortress of elevated expectations designed to ward off any hints of criticism or feelings of disappointment, particularly within oneself. And if that nudging of negativity comes from someone else, it’s even worse.

There’s a reason fans of superhero flicks have become their own entity, unlike any other group of moviegoers past or present. If you’re one of the 16 (out of 356) critics on Rotten Tomatoes, who gave Roma a rotten review, who cares? If you’re one of the three (out of

265) critics who ruined Eighth Grade’s perfect 100% RT score, nobody bats an eye. But if you’re one of the 144 (out of 325) critics who trashed Man of Steel, brace yourself for the death threats.

And if you’re one of the 64 (out of 427) reviewers who “splatted” Avengers: Infinity War, prepare to be despised with a passion greater than that usually reserved for terrorists and child molesters (and if you’re female, take that anger and quadruple it). It’s a lamentable facet of modern society — one clearly heightened by the omniscience of the Internet — and it’s embarrassing for those who can appreciate comic-book flicks yet still realize it’s OK to accept differing opinions and justified criticisms without immediately wanting to shoot the messenger.

So take a deep breath, put away those pistols, and behold Avengers: Endgame.

As the culmination of the 22-film saga collectively falling under the Marvel Cinematic Universe umbrella, it’s a staggering achievement, as impressively linked in its world-building and its myth-

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making as the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings sagas. Is it the best superhero movie ever made? In the immortal words of Balki Bartokomous, “Don’t be ridiculous.” It’s the longest superhero movie. It’s possibly the most expensive superhero movie. It’s certainly the most superhero movie. But there are at least a dozen super-sagas superior to this one, some residing within the MCU itself (the Captain America titles The Winter Soldier and Civil War, Black Panther, and the very first Avengers flick if we’re naming names). And as far as comic-based stories with similar themes and execution, it’s no better or worse than the exemplary non-MCU effort X-Men: Days of Future Past. Nevertheless, this ranks among the upper echelons of this particularly robust genre, and it closes out this phase of the Marvel dynasty in rousing fashion.

(Yes, technically, the upcoming SpiderMan: Far from Home is part of this phase, but this one feels like the end.)

Spoilers would be appreciated by absolutely no one, but there’s certainly no problem in relating the opening events, which occur immediately following the conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War. As we all remember from last summer’s theatrical showings (as well as subsequent visits on Blu-ray or DVD), Thanos (voiced by Josh Brolin) had acquired all six Infinity Stones that were required for him to wipe out 50 percent of the universe’s population. That meant a lot of superheroes went up in smoke, with the remaining good guys — an assortment that includes original Avengers Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Bruce Banner/Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Clint Barton/ Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Thor/just Thor (Chris Hemsworth) — feeling the weight of their failure. But here comes Captain Marvel (Brie Larsen) to save the day — and the universe! Right?

Well, not exactly. To say that Avengers: Endgame is a movie of many surprises is putting it mildly. Certainly, there are some expected character beats, some predictable visual cues, some anticipated speechifying. But these bits come across less as obvious annoyances and more as savvy fan service, right in line with keeping customers satisfied. At any rate, they’re quickly surpassed by the unexpected directions taken by this picture. Only an ostrich wouldn’t know that some permanent sacrifices are required to defeat Thanos, but the

guessing game will leave just as many viewers right as wrong. Likewise, the extent of Thanos’ evil deed affects the surviving heroes in different ways, but the identities of those who crumble and capitulate might shock. And even given the premise, the last movie I ever expected to hear name-dropped in an MCU effort (a John Cusack flick) gets a shout-out, so kudos for that.

At three hours, Avengers: Endgame never wears out its welcome, though one of its many journeys does feel like one too many, particularly since it results in not one but two ridiculous coincidences. The erratic CGI wizardry that allows actors to appear as their younger selves seemed to have finally turned the corner with the excellent de-aging effects witnessed in Captain Marvel, but here there’s an unfortunate reversal of fortune, with one actor looking like a cut-rate waxworks version of himself.

And let’s not even get started on the number of plotholes that are a direct result of the storyline’s hopscotching (ones prominent enough to make me consider dropping the rating a half-star).

Still, what matters most — and what elevates the entire picture — are the emotional beats. Those looking for the usual repetitive fight sequences that often clog the pores of superhero flicks will be disappointed since there’s truly only one gargantuan battle royale.

Wisely, the focus is instead on the human (and alien) element, with many of the series stars turning in some of their best work. Johansson, always a highlight in this franchise, sports a particularly haunted demeanor that’s almost startling in its rawness, while Gillan develops Nebula in a manner that was previously unimaginable. As Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Paul Rudd provides some much-needed levity — a scene in which he’s mocked

by Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) left me laughing the hardest — while Evans again embodies everything we find noble in our fellow humans.

And then there’s Downey, who hasn’t been this affecting in the role in quite some time. Brittle, harsh, and faced with impossible choices, his Iron Man reclaims his position as — with apologies to Cap — the original Avenger, the first superhero in this 11-year-long, 22-film-spanning saga. Watching Tony, Steve, Natasha, Bruce, Thor and Clint together for what might be the very last time — well, it’s enough to make a grown fan cry. !

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riad Stage is closing its 18th season with the classic Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Hear the wild winds of fortune. Your destiny calls and adventure awaits. A poet, thrown into prison, fears the Inquisitor, but the inmates demand their own kind of justice. The poet begins to tell a story of a mad Knight determined to achieve his impossible dreams. Join the quest and reach the unreachable star. Man of La Mancha April 28 – May 26.

Opening Night is Friday, May 3.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION The creative team includes director Preston Lane, music director Justin P. Cowan, scenic designer Josafath Reynoso, costume designer K. April Soroko, lighting designer Rob Perry, sound designer Christopher Ross-Ewart, and projections designer Brian McMullen. The dramaturg is Virginia Hirsch, Denise Gabriel is the movement coach, Christine Morris is the vocal coach, Jim Wren is the fight choreographer, Cindi Rush is the casting director, and the stage manager is Janine Wochna.

THE CAST Triad Stage audiences can welcome and welcome back Sherz Aletaha, Dan Callaway (South Pacific), DeMone, Josh Foldy (Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Christine Morris (And Then There Were None, Actions and Objectives), Luis Quintero (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Graham Stevens, Michael Tourek (White Lightning, South Pacific), and Michael Yeshion.

Rounding out the cast are a number of UNCG students: Kemari Bryant, Bradley Carter (A Christmas Carol), Cristina Duchesne, Yansa Fatima, Kezia Moore, J. Andrew Speas (A Christmas Carol), and Forrest Wilson.

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More information on the production can be found online at www.triadstage.org/ performance/279/man-of-la-mancha.

PERFORMANCE AND SPECIAL EVENT INFORMATION All performances are at Triad Stage at The Pyrle Theater, located at 232 South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina (between Market and Washington Streets).

Showtimes for Man of La Mancha are 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and select Sunday evenings and 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. Select Saturday and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. There are no matinee performances during previews.

Opening Night is Friday, May 3 at 8 p.m.

Pay-What-You-Can performances are Tuesday, May 7 and Wednesday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. Wine Tasting Friday is Friday, May 10, prior to the evening’s 8 p.m. performance.

Technically Talking, a behind-the-scenes discussion with members of the design team is Tuesday, April 30, immediately following the 7:30 p.m. preview performance.

The InSight Series with a noted expert who will be discussing the world of the play will be held on Sunday, May 5, immediately following the 2 p.m. matinee performance.

PostScript, a lively, open discussion with the cast, will be held on Thursday, May 9, immediately following the 7:30 p.m. performance.

Audio Described and Sign LanguageInterpreted services will be available during the 2 p.m. matinee performance on Saturday, May 18. !

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In St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Lucas Dawe, 20, appeared in court on April 11 to face charges of possessing stolen skeletal remains. According Chuck Shepherd to court documents reported by The Chronicle Herald, Dawe is suspected of stealing a skeleton, estimated to be more than 100 years old, from the All Saints Parish cemetery. The skeleton was found along a walking trail on April 6, and police were led to Dawe after an anonymous witness reported seeing him licking the bones. He was also charged with interfering with human remains, after he was accused of boiling the bones and drinking the water.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Residents of a particular neighborhood in the Denver suburb of Cherry Hills Village may not have ever known the name of their subdivision: It didn’t appear on signs, but could be found in the fine print

of real estate documents. Nonetheless, the Cherry Hills Village City Council voted unanimously on April 16 to change the neighborhood’s name from Swastika Acres to Old Cherry Hills. Councilman Dan Sheldon explained that the name came from the Denver Land Swastika Co., which divided the land into plots in the early 20th century, before the Nazis appropriated the symbol: “There was nothing wrong with (the name) at that time,” Sheldon told KDVR-TV. Only one resident opposed the name change, Sheldon said.

“She thought it was important to preserve that historical value of that symbol ... even though she herself lost family members in the Holocaust.”

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Some days everything goes right. So it was for the Polk County Sheriff ’s officers who responded to a call on March 24 from Marta Diaz in Winter Haven, Florida.

Diaz’s car, a tan Jeep Patriot, had been stolen earlier in the day. As the officers took Diaz’s statement, that same tan Jeep pulled up in front of the house, and Ronnie Dillon Willis, 25, emerged, telling deputies he was “looking for his cellular phone, which was pinging back to the res-

idence,” reported the Miami Herald. Diaz told the officers she didn’t know Willis but had seen him earlier on her street. Willis told the officers he woke up that morning at that location, inside a vehicle, but he wasn’t sure if it was the Jeep or a minivan also parked there. He knocked on the door of the house, but when no one answered, he took the Jeep to look for his phone, which was missing. The deputies arrested Willis for grand theft of a motor vehicle; Willis also had a suspended license, for which he received a traffic citation.

LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES

Over Easter weekend, hundreds of people visited a gum tree in a suburb of Perth, Australia, after the tree appeared to start “weeping” on Good Friday, which the faithful took to be a divine sign. For three days, the tree continued to leak water from a branch stump, provoking people to drink the “holy” water and bathe in it. “What made it exciting yesterday, a man decided to take all his clothes off and have a shower,” remarked neighbor Jacqui Bacich to 9News. The excitement died down after the Water Corporation discovered the tree’s roots had wrapped around a cracked iron water pipe about a foot underground, and the leaking water had slowly filled up a hollow part of the trunk.

... MUST COME DOWN

Members of England’s Colchester United Football Club were confused by the cheeseburger they found on the pitch at their training ground in March. “When we discovered the burger ... we weren’t quite sure what to think,” media manager Matt Hudson told Sky News. But Tom Stanniland, who was tracking the burger, knew exactly what had happened and called the club to explain. “I sent a burger into space using a weather balloon,” Stanniland said. “It had gone about 24 miles up and the weather balloon popped. It’s ... traveled over 100 miles and landed.” The burger was attached with a zip tie to a styrofoam box fitted with a GoPro camera and a tracking device. Stanniland took a bite out of the burger after retrieving it, but wasn’t impressed: “That’s not nice,” he said.

UPDATE

The news on Easter was full of videos of the man in a bunny costume involved in a brawl in Orlando, Florida, who claimed innocence by saying he was defending a woman who had been spit on. “I am the type of person who avoids fights by any means necessary, but in that situation, I would fight any day,” 20-year-old Antoine

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McDonald told the media. But the Tampa Bay Times reports McDonald has a rap sheet that belies this chivalrous image.

The Pasco County Sheriff ’s Office said McDonald is wanted in New Jersey in connection with a vehicle burglary and was a person of interest in a carjacking and two armed robberies in Florida. Police in Dover, Delaware, report arresting McDonald for two armed robberies there in 2017. No arrests were made in the Orlando incident.

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE

In College Station, Texas, the Peach Creek Vineyard is trying out a new concept for its wine-tasting events: wine with alpacas. Teaming up with the Bluebonnet Hills Alpaca Ranch, the vineyard offers customers the chance to pet and take selfies with alpacas while sipping wine and shopping for yarn, wool or clothing.

“In 24 hours, we were sold out,” vineyard owner Kenneth Stolpman told KTRK-TV. One event sold out so quickly Stolpman had to turn away more than 1,000 people.

FAMILY VALUES

Police in Phoenix responding to a suspected child abuse call on April 19 arrived in time to see 27-year-old Rebecca Gonzales slap and punch her 7-year-old son in the parking lot of a Walmart store, reported ABC15-TV. The boy, according to court documents, had been at Walmart with his grandmother and was supposed to be Grandma’s lookout while she shoplifted, but Gonzales wasn’t happy with his performance. The boy, whose mouth was bleeding, told police his mother hit him because “he didn’t watch out for his grandma good enough.” Gonzales was arrested for aggravated assault.

POLICE REPORT

At a Rotterdam, New York, Walmart, two men pulled off a well-choreographed scam on April 13 that cost the store $2,000. The men purchased three laptops, for which they paid cash, according to The Daily Gazette. But after the cashier counted the money, one man asked for it back, saying he wanted to make sure he hadn’t paid too much. The other man then started dancing around the checkout area as a distraction. The thief with the money gave some of it back to the cashier, but pocketed the rest, and the clerk did not recount the cash. Police are still looking for the suspects, who were captured on surveillance video. !

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hrough many trials and tribulations, a WinstonSalem business owner finds serenity and purpose in her profession. Baker, army veteran, and Katie Murawski mother Faith Harris McKnight owns The Sweet Truth Baking Editor and Catering, a Minority Black Women Enterprise, Historically Underutilized Business, and certified home bakery located in the Boston-Thurmond Neighborhood of Winston-Salem.

“It sounds like sweet tooth,” she said of the name of her business. “We black folks always say, ‘oh that is the truth’ or ‘your cooking is the truth.’ So, my baking is the sweet truth. I have [a couple] slogans too: ‘I heard you had a sweet tooth, look no further because my Logo design by Alex Brown baking is the truth,’ and ‘indulge your sweet tooth with The Sweet Truth.’”

McKnight was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but has Southern roots around the Triad on her father’s side and in Alabama on her mother’s side. She moved to Thomasville when she was still in grade school, but after moved to Yonkers, New York, for eight years before she settled back in the Triad permanently in the 2000s. She has worked in the food industry all over the Triad in different positions, such as “I was a baker in the military,” she said. the chef of faculty dining and catering at “I went in as a cook, but how I ended up North Carolina A&T State University, first as a baker is because something hapcook at High Point Regional, a baking pened to me. I was sexually assaulted supervisor at Wake Forest University, and when I was in the military, and the as the cafeteria manager for Winstonsergeant that was apart of this, they Salem and Forsyth County schools. She put him back in the kitchen with me. So also worked at Novant Health and the they gave me a choice to either transfer Winston-Salem-based organization or become the night baker, and that Veterans Helping Veterans Heal. Before isolated me from everybody. So I was a working in North Carolina, she said she night baker, and that is how I got my bakworked as the assistant to the director ing skills up.” for Project Renewal’s culinary arts trainMcKnight said she finds it ironic that ing program, and she started its baking she took something negative that happrogram. pened to her and turned it into someMcKnight’s baking experience goes thing positive. In the age of #MeToo, she back to when she was 8 years old, but she said she is an advocate and that she has said, baking as a profession and passion been fighting for justice for the last 28 started in her mid-20s, while she was years. serving in the United States Army.

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“So baking is like a coping skill for me because I have PTSD,” she said. “That is how I handle a lot of my stresses when I bake...Maybe it was because of what I was going through and why I ended up being the night baker and being by myself at night, [baking] was something to pass the time away.”

She also said music has always helped her cope too. Her go-to baking music is Mary J. Blige and old school R&B from the‘80s and ‘90s. In December 2017, McKnight won second place in the Forsyth Technical Community College Launch Challenge, which according to the Forsyth Tech website, is a collaborative effort by the Emerging Entrepreneur Funds, composed of the six WinstonSalem colleges and universities— Forsyth Technical Community College, Piedmont International University, Salem College, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Wake Forest University, and Winston-Salem State University— aiming to incentivize entrepreneurship by challenging participants to successfully start their business up within six months of completing the challenge. McKnight said that when she won second place, she

was awarded $15,000 to certify her home bakery and buy baking equipment.

McKnight said she went through the program with help from her mentor Jen Brown, founder of Fearless and owner of the Engaging Educator.

“The reason why I clicked with Jen is because she is from New York and she got my personality. A lot of people in the South don’t get my personality because I am kind of aggressive; like how Janelle Monáe says, ‘a little rough around the edges but keep it real smooth,” McKnight said. “She helped me with the Launch Challenge, to present myself to these Southerners. She said ‘don’t hold back, but then don’t go too far.’”

McKnight said she had to compete alongside over 20 people, follow several steps, attend various sessions and work one-on-one with Brown during the Launch Challenge. At the end of the program, McKnight said she had to present her business plan in front of an auditorium of 100 people. McKnight attributed her success to the help of her family and her determination.

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daughter was working with me then—and my daughter knows how to bake (she makes a better pie crust than I do)— she helped me with my presentation, and my niece made me a powerpoint, I started it, and she put some stuff in there.”

During those months, it wasn’t easy for McKnight. She said her husband was in hospice for cancer while she was competing in the Launch Challenge.

“Nobody knew my husband was sick, and I didn’t want anybody to know because I didn’t want it to hinder my chances,” she said. “I didn’t want them to think that ‘oh, she can’t do this because she is taking care of her husband,’ so I never told anyone.”

McKnight finally told people when she was one of the six finalists. She stayed motivated by being apart of the Launch Challenge and wanting to make her husband proud. “I knew he wanted me to keep on going. That was my motivation.”

McKnight said her husband passed away July 2017 and she won second place that December. This past year, she has also been dealing with her grandmother in hospice and her oldest daughter undergoing brain surgery.

“I have just been getting hit after hit after hit, but I think God is preparing me for other things just to see if I can handle what I am going through, what I went through,” she said remaining optimistic.

The Sweet Truth offers a variety of baked goods and pastries such as cake pops, cakes, cupcakes, granola bars, other traditional Southern desserts, glutenfree and vegan products, and her newest project, edible cookie dough.

“I do a lot of things that people don’t do, things that people don’t want to do, like cake pops because they are tedious and time-consuming,” she said of The Sweet Truth’s uniqueness from other bakeries in town. “People don’t understand that you have to charge them for your time. I want to get paid a certain amount an hour, so if you ask me to do certain custom things, you are going to have to pay me.”

She also has an edible-ink printer for designs on sheet cakes, just like the big-box stores and bakeries. Unlike most big-box stores and other bakeries, McKnight said she does not use shortener-based icing for her cakes and cupcakes. Since The Sweet Truth is a home bakery, she enjoys working on her own time, completely undisturbed.

“That is why I didn’t bake while you were here,” she said to me when I went to interview her at her home and The Sweet Truth in March. “Because I find that if I am talking to somebody and I am baking and measuring, I am going to miss something, I am going to leave something out, and I am going to mess up something. So I try WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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She said she takes her business seriously, even to the point of getting water shipped in to use for baking. She takes time for mise en place and accurately measures out her ingredients. She said her usual baking shift is about four to five hours.

“I’ll bake until I get tired and then I’ll stop,” she said. “That is why I like a certified-home bakery because I can do it when I want to, no matter what time of day. I can stop and watch T.V. for a little while, I can eat, and I can get back up and do what I have to do.”

McKnight sells her baked goods at Colony Urban Farm Store and cake pops at A/perture Cinema. She has thought about moving from home bakery to storefront, but after talking it over with a colleague, she decided against it because of the stress that comes with opening and maintaining a brick-and-mortar.

“I am going to keep it how it is, and I will pick up a few more small places,” McKnight said. “I am going to take his advice and do this for a couple more years and see how it goes.”

She said she is not allowed to have signage in her yard that advertises The Sweet Truth, but it is listed in Google. She is also not allowed to have customers pick up their orders from her home; instead, she meets customers at Colony Urban Farm Store.

“If I have them meet me at Colony, nine times out of 10, they are going to spend some money while they are in Colony,” McKnight said. “Josh and Allison [owners of Colony Urban Farm Store] have been the best to me as far as letting me sell my stuff out of there, and they are not killing me on the split either, they were better than anybody here in Winston-Salem.”

McKnight said the support from her children and the motivation to keep challenging herself is what keeps her passion for baking burning.

“My oldest daughter, she is one of my biggest fans, she sends me a lot of recipes, and when we have birthday parties and anything she is throwing at her house, she will give me something I have never made before and challenge me,” she said. “I am always challenging myself.”

To get a taste of The Sweet Truth, visit Colony Urban Farm Store, A/perture Cinema, the website www.sweettruth2.vistaprintdigital.com/, Facebook page www. facebook.com/sweettruth2/ or Instagram page @the_sweet_truth1. !

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

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I’ve discussed how the social acceptance of consuming marijuana has changed dramatically since the 1990s. Acceptance has grown across demographic groups and political affiliation. I think Charles Freeman how marijuana is being consumed Contributor these days is part of the reason for those changes.

In the past, cannabis consumption was largely associated with smoking. Occasionally, someone might say they had a “pot brownie” at a party. But typically, variations of smoking were used in consuming the product, i.e., a joint, a pipe, etc. This historical precedent is quickly being replaced by new “methods of delivery.”

There are three major segments in the legal marijuana industry – flower, edibles, and the newcomer - concentrates. Flower represents purchases of dry leaf cannabis to put in a pipe or roll in a joint, just like the old days. Edibles have expanded dramatically beyond brownies. Now it is common to go to a dispensary and purchase gummies, chocolate bars, or even chips.

Concentrates are the newest form of cannabis products, and they are quickly overtaking their counterparts. Concentrates are basically cannabis-derived extracts of the plant that contain various amounts of THC and/or CBD. Other cannabinoids can be isolated by the extraction process as well (which I expect to see in the future).

The oil extract is then often consumed directly or with a vaporizer.

The increasing popularity of consuming concentrates relates to versatility. For medical patients, concentrates can be much more potent than flower or edibles, so relief from ailments can come much more quickly and efficiently. Also, on the medical front, concentrates allow for the isolation of specific cannabinoids in the extract. Therefore, the patient can consume a specific concentrate based on the

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type of disease or disorder they have. On the recreational side, vaping the concentrate oil seems to hold more appeal than smoking the flower for many consumers.

Smoking (in general) has been on the decline for decades due to acknowledged health risks. I’m not going to suggest vaping is or is not more harmful than smoking.

Remember, I am analyzing this industry as I would analyze any other industry only for investment purposes. That said, the numbers in the sales data seem to speak to the preference. After a state adopts cannabis legalization in some form, over time, flower sales begin to decline and concentrate sales increase.

“When adult-use sales began in Colorado, on January 1, 2014, flower immediately dominated. By the end of that year’s first quarter, flower commanded 67 percent of all cannabis sales in the state. However, four years later in 2018 sales of flower during the first quarter sunk to 44%. During this same period, the share of concentrates in the cannabis market expanded from 15% to 31%.” - BDS Analytics Similar trends of concentrates gaining share from flower sales are also occurring in Oregon and California. I think this has to do with consumer education in the legal cannabis market. Think about it: When a state first legalizes cannabis sales, it is a novelty. Interested citizens are just excited they can buy the product legally for the first time. Brands do not really matter at this point. It is more about the ability to buy something legal which was illegal before. Flower would be the natural first purchase as it is the most familiar to the mass market given history. However, dispensaries and “budtenders” are highlighting new alternative products, and the response seems to be positive based on the sales data.

So, are concentrates the future? I would actually say – No. Industry estimates at this point suggest edibles will be the leading segment in the long run. More specifically, it is thought that the most common method of consumption will be ingesting cannabis and hemp via liquid rather than food.

I recently downloaded a cannabis

company presentation, and it highlighted products that are being developed for the future. Four of the five target products were beverages of some kind – coolers, beer, sports drinks. Can you imagine, five years from now, seeing CBD sports drinks being consumed at your local tennis match?

The FDA plays a large role in the development of such products given their regulation of dietary supplements. As I have mentioned, I see clarifying guidelines being laid out by the end of 2019 or 2020 at the latest for cannabis and hemp-based products given the growing momentum of the legal cannabis industry.

There is an ongoing debate about cannabis being a “substitute” for alcohol.

Some studies suggest alcohol consumption has declined in states where cannabis is legal, while other studies suggest this is not the case. New methods of cannabis delivery could give us definitive data for this question. For example, if “cannabis beer with no alcohol” does, in fact, become available to the mass market at some point, it will be a lot easier to make a direct comparison.

I also see future consumption of medical cannabis in another new form – gel caps.

Several companies are already producing gel caps for the medical market. Let’s speculate a bit. If medical marijuana was federally legal and doctors were able to prescribe it more, the most probable delivery method would be in pill form, given the current industry standard. Most people would have a hard time imagining their grandmother smoking a joint to treat her chronic pain. But what if she could just take another pill? She just adds it into her other daily medications. My guess is she wouldn’t think anything about it as long as it eases the pain, especially if the doctor prescribed it.

So, let’s put our investment hats on.

Many markets are governed by supply vs. demand. The “methods of delivery” for the legal cannabis industry are opening doors and creating more demand in the medical and recreational markets. When you realize cannabis consumption is moving beyond the traditional smoking

method, you can imagine how broad the market could be as the public becomes more educated about the new forms of delivery. Certainly, delivery methods are only one factor influencing demand. However, I feel these new consumer-friendly innovations are one of the contributing factors in the growing social acceptance of cannabis use. Further, with the ability to “infuse” cannabis in recreational beverages and create gel caps for medical use, the potential global market could be much higher than previous estimates.

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

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McCrory keeps getting attacked Last week Pat McCrory pulled up to an intersection in Charlotte, and politely stopped his car to let a man cross the street. The man looked at McCrory and started shouting that he recognized Jim Longworth the former Governor.

The shouting then turned to cursing.

Longworth Oh yes, and the man, who McCrory at Large described as about 6-foot 2-inches and built like a pro wrestler, was also carrying a tree limb with which he used to pound on the top of McCrory’s sedan. According to a police report, the man did about $600 worth of damage to McCrory’s car. Fortunately, Pat and his wife Ann (who was in the passenger seat) were not injured.

In a sense, the crosswalk attack was like a tangible metaphor for what McCrory’s life has been like these past three years.

Take, for instance, what happened in Washington back in January of 2017. Pat and FOX Business anchor Lou Dobbs was strolling along a sidewalk in front of the Capitol Hilton when an angry mob gathered and chased McCrory into an alley.

Within moments, Dobbs, his entourage, and D.C. police were able to rescue McCrory, but not before the former Governor had been bombarded with shouts of, “Shame on you, you anti-gay bigot! You’re a bigot and an asshole!”

It’s a sad fact, but Pat McCrory seems to have a bullseye painted on his chest, which attracts all sorts of slings, arrows, and outrageous tree limbs. However, as I’ve pointed out in past opinion columns, the attacks on McCrory are misdirected

Pat McCrory in 2012 and unjustified. To this day, most people only remember McCrory for what they think was his role in passing The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, aka HB2, aka the “Bathroom Bill,” aka the “You can only use bathrooms that correspond to your biological sex” bill. Not only are provisions of the bill often misunderstood, but so is his role in signing it. Many folks believe McCrory planned, wrote, and lobbied for HB2, a law which large corporations, big-name entertainers, and cowardly sports leagues, used as an excuse for not doing business in North Carolina. Pat told me in a past interview that he tried to stop the Republican-controlled General Assembly from passing HB2. In the end, he was forced to sign a bill that he neither sought nor supported, to adhere to provisions in the State Constitution, which prevent local governments from assuming powers not given to them by the legislature. In a nutshell, here’s what happened.

In 2016, then-Attorney General Roy Cooper was running to unseat McCrory, who had been a successful, seven-term,

coalition-building Mayor of Charlotte.

As Governor, Pat tried to bring that same kind of bi-partisanship to Raleigh, including working with Democrats to pass a historic $2 billion bond package that would modernize college campus facilities. He resurrected the State’s lagging economy, lowered unemployment, and under his leadership, North Carolina outpaced the nation in economic growth.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump was poised to lead a GOP sweep through North Carolina.

Cooper needed a miracle to beat McCrory, and Charlotte Democratic Mayor Jennifer Roberts handed it to him, gift-wrapped.

She and her Council added “gender identity” as a protected class under the City’s public accommodations ordinance, and planned to enact and enforce it in a matter of days. If, for example, a business owner didn’t allow men who “identified” as women to use the women’s bathroom, then that owner would face a fine and possible jail time.

“I begged Mayor Roberts not to pass the ordinance,” Pat told me during a

Triad Today interview. “I wrote her a letter saying, ‘You’re trying to find a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.’ The Attorney General should have declared the ordinance unconstitutional and intervened immediately, but he refused to do it because he was in the pocket, doing fundraisers with Mayor Roberts.”

By July of 2016, economic boycotts were piling up, but a little-known bi-partisan deal was in the works that would have removed enough controversial language from HB2 to end most of those boycotts.

The compromise bill was supported by nearly every House Republican and by 10 House Democrats. However, according to a report by WBTV’s Nick Ochsner, Cooper torpedoed the effort by pressuring the 10 Dems to vote against the bill.

Cooper stood by and watched HB2 burn red-hot because he knew it was his ticket to the Governor’s Mansion. Then, after taking office, he signed into law a so-called repeal of HB2, titled, HB142, which was a cosmetic bill with no teeth, designed to placate those who had boycotted our State. Ironically, HB142 pretty much just restored the status quo and left gender identity issues up to the Courts to resolve, something McCrory had wanted from the very start.

And so, boys and girls, Roy Cooper became Governor by not enforcing the State Constitution, while Pat McCrory became a private citizen for upholding it. Cooper got where he is by keeping HB2 alive, while McCrory got where he is by trying to prevent it. Today, Roy gets to go to ribbon cuttings, while Pat gets to be cursed at and have his car bashed with tree limbs.

It’s just my opinion, but I think the wrong man is being scruitinized. !

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

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hen Peter Tork of the Monkees died in February of this year, at the age of 77, the New York Times obituary didn’t mention his ties to North Carolina and John Adamian the Triad region. @johnradamian The Monkees were hugely popular in the late-’60s, starring in Contributor their own T.V. show and releasing hit records. Tork left the Monkees, initially in 1969, though the band and its members reunited for tours and events starting in the 1980s. But Tork, who lived most of his life in California and Connecticut, had also spent a lot of time in Winston-Salem and Clemmons over the years, working with musicians and business professionals from the area. He was managed, from around 2005 to 2008, by Marilyn Ingram, who also performed and toured with him during some of that time. Ingram, the president of the Downtown Arts District Association of Winston-Salem, is helping to coordinate Dancing In The Streets: A Tribute To Peter Tork, an event that will honor and celebrate Tork’s life and career.

His time in the Monkees created a lifelong legacy for Tork, and it was one he was proud of. His role in the band, particularly the character he played on the T.V. show, meant that, on one level, Tork also needed to reassert his musicianship, artistry and intelligence to differentiate the real-life Peter Tork from the one known to fans.

“My public life began and ended with the Monkees,” he once told an interviewer.

He was cast as the innocent airhead

beatnik, a loveable clown. And the show was sort of a mix of the Marx Brothers and Laugh-In, taking ‘60s-era grooviness and making it something acceptable for the after-school crowd. They popularized a certain strain of the counterculture and made it seem harmless, at a time when beads, shaggy hair, sandals, protests, Eastern religion and psychedelic drugs were frightening or alarming a subset of American society. (Though, doing his part to raise eyebrows, Tork once wore an “Orgy Organizer” button during a photo shoot for a teen magazine in the ‘60s.)

Tork was an entertainer, but he was also a classically trained musician and a brilliant guy. (Watch some older interviews with him, where he routinely swerves fluidly from talking about pop culture to discussing capitalism, global resources, competition, religion, greed and other big-time subjects.) He might have been a real ham, but he was serious about the business of bringing people together through music.

The Monkees were much maligned at the time for not playing their own instruments or writing all their own material, something that was true, in varying degrees, of a lot of stars of the era, from the Byrds to Glen Campbell. In fact, Tork, in addition to singing, playing bass and guitar, also played piano and banjo on some of the Monkees recordings. And the Monkees went on to surprise doubters by making albums that had their own creative stamp.

In their way, the Monkees anticipated the era of the boy band, a hand-picked assemblage of music and stage talent designed to resonate with audiences and to harness the fan fervor of the moment.

But the band broke up, and Tork did other things, including being a school teacher, for a time. He also eventually did some T.V. acting and had a short stint as an advice columnist. Music remained a constant, even if he didn’t remain in the public eye.

Tork released his debut solo album, Stranger Things Have Happened, in 1994.

He had a band, Shoe Suede Blues, that focused on Chicago blues and other gritty dance styles. They also took other genres and gave them a new spin. As proof of his counter-cultural bonafides, Tork and his bandmates did an old-timey banjo tune, “Bound To Lose,” originally by the Holy Modal Rounders.

“The thing about him that I found, he liked the community of playing together,” said Ingram about Tork and his fondness for performing to all kinds of audiences.

In that way, Tork was a real product of the folk revival, embracing American music — from the cities, from the country, from different cultural origin points — and enjoying the chance to bond.

Ingram said the Winston-Salem event, which is part of the arts association’s monthly first-Friday Gallery Hop, will be a chance to focus on Tork’s non-Monkees career. There will be yoga (Tork was a practitioner), singing, dark chocolate (Tork was a fan), children’s events, a scavenger hunt, theater sketches, visual art, and more. Ingram will showcase some of the memorabilia from Tork’s career, items — film footage, posters, articles, and more — that she gathered in her capacity as his manager and collaborator. She expects the evening will culminate in a sing-along.

“I think he’d love it,” Ingram said. “He liked people to just play music.” !

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

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In Greensboro, the second-annual Mayday on McGee Street Katei Cranford Festival pops-off on May 4. The block party is a collaboraContributor tion between Little Brother Brewing and Uncle John’s Bone, with proceeds benefiting Jah Works, Inc. The Mantras, Dr. Bacon, The Wright Ave., Sons of Paradise, and Ranford Almond are on hand to rock the block of Elm and McGee from 2 p.m. to midnight.

Dr. Bacon is a pretty big score for Hamburger Square, and they’re pulling double-duty in the North Carolina festival scene over the weekend with an appearance at Shakori Hills, which will run May 2-5 on a farm just outside of Pittsboro.

The bi-annual grassroots fest led by Donna the Buffalo features a handful of stages, overnight camping and good vibes in the Chatham County pines.

Victoria Victoria is one Triad artist on the four-day bill, which also includes Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, Travers Brothership, and a few dozen other rootsy acts from all over the world.

Fans of Megan Jean and the KFB can catch them at a couple of festivals over the coming weeks. In addition to Shakori, the Charleston duo is scheduled for Glendonfest, which runs May 18-19.

Glendonfest brings “farm party” to a whole new level. Songbird Laura Jane Vincent corrals musicians on her Moore County family homestead for a weekend of fun, dancing, and medical oddities. According to organizers, ”the site was once owned by a multi-generational family of country doctors. The grounds contain a fully preserved doctors office built circa 1820, filled with trinkets and tools of a fascinating variety.”

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The lineup and location make for a redneck mall-goth paradise: Korn, Tool, Foo Fighters, Rob Zombie, Judas Priest, the Crystal Method, the Cult, 311, Evanescence, Bush, +LIVE+, Black Label Society, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Circa Survive, Killswitch Engage, High On Fire, Tom Morello, HO99O9, and the Dirty Nil; and that’s hardly the whole roster.

Back in the Triad proper, Greensboro double-fists festival fun May 16-19, with the 33rd-annual Carolina Blues Festival and the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival converging on downtown at the same time.

Hosted by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, the “longest-running Blues festival in the Southeast” will feature House of Dues, Melva Houston, Jon Shain, Clark Stern and The Musical Rewards, and Dom Flemons in Lebauer Park on May 18. A pre-party, hosted by folks from 90.1 FM and Strictly Social will go down the night before at Cafe Europa.

For the bookworms, Greensboro Bound will bring authors, panels and workshops to various venues throughout downtown over the three-day literary celebration, culminating in a discussion between “Righteous Babe” Ani DiFranco and Rhiannon Giddens at Harrison Auditorium on May 19.

Festival cheer flows South on May 18 with the third-annual Cheerwine Festival in downtown Salisbury. Smash Mouth— yes, Smash Mouth—headlines with Live House, Stella Rising, and the Southern Gothic being but a few other acts slated

in celebration of that sweet cherry soda.

The ‘90s festival influence doesn’t stop as the Gears and Guitars Festival returns to Winston-Salem from May 23-26.

Beginning with a Dash game sandwiched between sets from Watchtower, (a Dave Matthews cover band,) the heavily-’90s festival goes all weekend.

Organizers aim to “light up Bailey Park”

with performances by Trampled by Turtles, The Infamous Stringdusters, Drive-By Truckers, Stone Temple Pilots, and Dishwalla, amongst others.

More into food and drink, or film?

The fifth-annual Carolina Brewsfest will feature 40 craft brewers at the Mendenhall Transportation Terminal in High Point on May 11. The Winston-Salem Greek Festival goes down May 17-19, and the LUNAFest film festival is at the Community Theatre of Greensboro on May 23.

It’s not even summer and the festival season is hot. June has its own surprises with the Summer Solstice celebration, Cigar Box Festival, and Greensboro Zinefest among several others. But for now, it’s May, and the festival floodgates have officially opened. Let the games begin! !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring the following week, 5-7p.m. on WUAG 103.1fm.

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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com May 1: Mason Via May 4: anne and the Moonlighters May 5: Sunday Jazz May 8: Shiloh hill May 11: the Pop guns May 12: Sunday Jazz May 15: george Smith May 18: george Smith May 19: Sunday Jazz May 22: Eversole Brothers

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630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com May 5: Live Jazz

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 May 3: the Way down Wanderers, Whiskey foxtrot May 10: town Mountain, Zoe & cloyd May 16: Stig, unaka Prong, tuB May 17: chaos and carnage tour ft.

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AGE: 31 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Iowa, go Hawkeyes!

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 11 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? Like most people who bartend, I started off serving tables. I quickly took an interest in being behind the bar, and an old coworker gave me a shot, and the rest is history.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? I would say the social aspect and the fast-paced environment of it. I’m super detail-oriented, so the meticulous part of bartending works for my personality well.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Unless I have to make 100 of them, the Burke Street-famous Astro Pop! Everyone gets so excited when they see them because they are layered and pretty.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? I’m a vodka-girl. I like lemon drops a lot, but if you know me, you know the way to my heart is an extra dirty(filthy if you will) martini!

WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Either the martini I mentioned above or a nice glass of red wine.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? Ohh boy...I’ve seen quite a lot of things over the years, many I probably should keep to myself, ha! I’d like to give a shout out to a fun regular named Michael Jessup because he’s given us many stories to tell. One of my favorites was actually when I was on the other side of the bar at Tee Time Sports and Spirits, and Michael rode in the front door in an Evel Knievel costume on a mini bike and rode around the bar haha, that was seriously unexpected and hilarious!

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF U.S. 21 (N. MAIN STREET) FROM CEDAR LANE TO BARIUM LANE IN IREDELL COUNTY

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TIP PROJECT NO. R-2522

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of approximately 1.7 miles of U.S. 21 (N. Main Street) from Cedar Lane (S.R. 2005) in the town of Troutman to Barium Lane (S.R. 1336) in Barium Springs, Iredell County.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 2 from 4-7 p.m. at the Troutman Town Hall located at 400 N. Eastway Drive in Troutman. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

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Project maps and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/publicmeetings/.

For additional information, please contact NCDOT Division 12 Project Manager Bryan Sowell, P.E. at (980) 552-4221 or bksowell@ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Kristen Maines, ENV SP at (704) 332-2289 or kmaines@drmp.com.

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NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6072 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. _________________________________________________________________________

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-4816494.

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Pay more attention to what a recent spate of workplace criticism might say about your performance and not what you think it implies about you personally. Some flexibility might be called for.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) With new information, and new promises of support (not to mention growing self-confidence), this could be a good time to restart a project you couldn’t quite handle before.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Before you decide to close down a problemloaded project and make a fresh start with someone else, try once more to reach a compromise with your balky partner. He or she might surprise you.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) While you continue earning points for your sharp negotiating skills, be alert for an attempt to undercut your efforts. You’ll need to provide solid facts and figures to stay in the game.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A minor health problem might cause you to ease up on your usually busy schedule.

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[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The adventurous Sea Goat might be eager to take on a new challenge. But before you do, you might want to take some time to check out previously overlooked factors.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A feeling of being overwhelmed by all that you have to do can be eased by setting priorities.

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[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Creating a calm, peaceful place for yourself in the middle of a roiling emotional whirlpool this week starts when you, and no one else, decide how to make decisions about your life.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a good week to look at healing bruised feelings and re-establishing weakened relationships. It’s also a good week to start new projects and make new job-linked contacts.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Music and art dominate the week, giving the sensual Bovine a lot to appreciate. On the practical side, deal firmly, but fairly, with those who might try to undermine your work efforts.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Good feelings continue to flow from your recent efforts to reconnect with family and friends. But be ready to defuse a dispute before it can disrupt all that peace and harmony.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A practical view of a romanticized situation could help to clarify some of its more confusing aspects before you make a decision that could be tough to undo later on. © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I’m a slim woman in my early 40s — successful in my field — and I am always in jeans, a vintage ripped t-shirt, and boots. I mean, ALWAYS. Granted, I Amy Alkon have an extremely expensive handbag and Advice perfectly highlighted Goddess blonde hair, and I always wear winged eyeliner. My friends say that going “underdressed” like this is disrespectful and inappropriate for (corporatetype) business meetings. Are they right, or is rocking your own thing no matter what a sign of confidence? (P.S. I’d kill myself before I’d wear a blazer.) — Punk Rock Corporate There’s actually something to be said for a person who goes into an important business meeting dressed like one of their LinkedIn endorsements is “Aggressive Panhandling.”

Sure, to a lot of people, it looks like career suicide in progress. However, research by Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino suggests that rebelling against norms for business attire can make you come off as higher status than people who dress all junior CEO. Gino ran a number of experiments that led her to this conclusion, but my favorite is from a seminar on negotiations she taught at Harvard to two different groups of bigwigs in business, government and philanthropy. For each session, she dressed in the requisite “business boring” — a dark blue Hugo Boss suit and a white silk blouse.

But then, for her second session, she paired this outfit with a pair of red Converse hightops. As she made her way to the classroom, a few fellow professors did give her the WTF-eye. However, seminar participants, surveyed after each session, guessed that

she was higher in status and had a pricier consulting rate when she was wearing the red sneaks.

Gino explains that a person who is seen to be deliberately violating workplace wardrobe norms sends a message that they are so powerful that they can shrug off the potential costs of not following convention.

Anthropologists and zoologists call this a costly signal: a trait or behavior that’s so wastefully extravagant and/or survivalthreatening that only the highest-quality, most mojo-rific people or critters could afford to display it. This, in turn, suggests to observers (whether predators or predatory executives) that it’s more likely to be legit — and not false advertising.

So, it seems your dressing all hobo honcho could actually ramp up your status in others’ eyes. And let’s say someone suspects you’re dressing this way because you’ve lost it on some level — psychologically or financially. Gino writes in her book “Rebel Talent” that to signal status, it’s critical that people believe an individual is “consciously choosing not to conform” and willing to assume the possible costs of that. Well, with that pricey handbag (plus the megabucks highlights and Instagram influencer winged eyeliner), you swat away any suspicions that your poorgeoisie-wear reflects actual impoverishment. Just don’t be surprised if, post-meeting, as you’re making a call on a bench outside the building, two kindly old ladies drop a Ziploc in your lap with socks, a granola bar, and directions to the nearest shelters.

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with!” — as opposed to “Now, she’s a woman I wanna debate on Jeremy Bentham’s views on utilitarianism!”

Also, you should no more feel guilty for being drawn to young women than you would for having your taste buds be more “All aboard, baby!” for chocolate cake than for a “burger” made out of broccolini. This preference evolved to solve the “How do I pass on my genes?” problem for our male ancestors. (And no, the answer to that would not have been “Date grannies!”)

However, it helps to understand what psychologist Daniel Kahneman has explained as our two thinking systems — fast and slow. Our fast system is emotion-driven, rising up automatically, and is often home to toddler-like demands: “Gimme cake!” Our slow system, the home of rational thought, needs to be forced to do its job — examining our impulses and assessing whether it’s wise for us to run with them.

In other words, your problem comes from running with your initial impulse without putting it through the Department of Reasoning. Though it’s natural to be led by your eyes, you need to implement a next step — assessing the character of these foxerellas before you turn them into girlfriends. (This starts with generating standards so you can determine whether a woman meets or misses them.) In short, when you tell some

babe, “Honey, everything looks good on you!” one would hope that you don’t eventually learn whether “everything” includes a police-issued spit mask. !

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