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When it comes to burgers and eating out in general, we figure the chefs know a thing or two. When they let someone else do the cooking and that someone else isn’t at home, we guess they know what they like. Going out for BURGERS is no different; we asked around and found out some of our local chefs’ favorite burgers. 9 FAVORITE BURGERS FROM AROUND THE TRIAD! 11 Clement said she thinks her DNA testing comes across in her ART due to the realism and how she has to plan her drawings. She said she is not a spur-of-the-moment spontaneous artist and she even has to plan out the colors. She continually stretches her techniques to transition realism with abstract art. 12 Of the ongoing slew of superhero movies, BRIGHTBURN puts a nasty spin on the cycle by introducing a superhero bent on conquest. 13 GREENSBORO ROLLER DERBY (GSORD) is excited to announce its third home team bout of the season, the Mad Dollies versus the Battleground Betties! YES! WEEKLY
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In 2002, BUDDY GIST gave UNCG the trumpet his friend Miles Davis played on the legendary album Kind of Blue. Soon afterward, it was appraised at $1.6 million. Two years before his death in 2010, Gist was sleeping in Center City Park. 19 Earlier this month during a CNN town hall, Democratic presidential candidate SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS broke bad on companies who pay their female employees less than males doing the same job. 20 PRECIOUS CHILD is a musical performance project fronted by the artist Precious, who operates out of Los Angeles. Precious writes a lot about feeling and sensation, about the condition of being in touch or divorced from our emotions, of being unable to experience pleasure or pain, of being removed from a feeling of wholeness, and of having an incongruous identity thrust upon us. 21 Curse the day, y’all. NIGHT BATTLES is making their way to Winston-Salem for a show with Basement Life and Space Cadet Orchestra on June 1 at Monstercade.
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STIP PROJECT NO. U-6008 The N.C. Department of Transportation and the City of Greensboro will hold a public meeting regarding proposed interchange improvements to Joseph Bryan Boulevard (S.R. 2085) at New Garden Road and Horse Pen Creek Road in Greensboro. The primary purpose of this project is to improve traffic operations and safety in the project area. The meeting will be held Thursday, June 6 from 4-7 p.m. in the St. Paul Apostle Catholic Church fellowship hall located at 2715 Horse Pen Creek Road in Greensboro. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation. At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or may be done by phone, email, or mail by June 28. As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the U-6008 project website: https://publicinput.com/bryan_boulevard. For additional information please contact consultant Project Manager Bobby Norburn, E.I., at (919) 858-1869 or bnorburn@CALYXengineers.com or P.O. Box 33127, Raleigh, N.C., 27636. 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.
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WHAT: Three-time Grammy Awardwinning and multi-platinum-selling artist Pentatonix has sold nearly 10 million albums in worldwide consumption and performed for hundreds of thousands of fans at their sold out shows across the globe. Their YouTube channel boasts more than 15.5 million subscribers, yielding over 3.4 billion video views. Their 2015 self-titled album is certified gold after debuting #1 on Billboard’s 200. WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex. 1921 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro. MORE: $29.50-69.50 tickets.
WHAT: Spirits Of Summer presented by Texas Pete takes place on 4th Street in Downtown Winston-Salem on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 and features the best wines, beers, music, and local restaurants in the region. North Carolina wineries will be offering tastings and purchase of their harvest. Beer lovers also find their niche at the festival as several North Carolina craft Breweries will be on-site offering tastings and purchases of their brews. WHEN: 12-6 p.m. WHERE: 4th Street, Downtown Winston-Salem. MORE: $25 advance tickets. $30 day of.
WHAT: Meet all the Princesses at The High Point Fairytale Ball. This magical event is full of memorable moments you won’t want to miss! Dance with Cinderella. Read with Rapunzel. Share Sweet Treats with Tinkerbell. Create a Tiara with The Little Mermaid! All of our princesses are excited to sing, dance, and play with your little ones! This event includes professional princess portraits for every child, candy buffet, crafts, stories, songs, games, and more. WHEN: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. WHERE: NOAH’S Event Venue. 4130 Mendenhall Oaks Parkway, High Point. MORE: $35 child ticket. $20 adult ticket.
WHAT: Artists along the sidewalks, live music, Garden Quest, art and planting activities for kids, family games, aerial artists, Poodle Parade, sidewalk cafes, giant chess, fencing duels, and more are featured - all within the colorful backdrop of the garden in bloom. This event is made possible by Greensboro Beautiful with private donations from the community, and admission is FREE! WHEN: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden. 1105 Hobbs Rd, Greensboro. MORE: Free event.
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UNCSA SCHOOL OF FILMMAKING MAKES THE GRADE BY MARK BURGER
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the School of Filmmaking at UNCSA in Winston-Salem, and the esteemed entertainment trade magazine Variety has given the school another reason to celebrate by naming it as among the 50 most influential film schools in the world. The May 14 “Entertainment Education Report” recognized “programs and educators at colleges and universities around the world that give students the tools to enter the showbiz industry.” “In 15 years, we have built a robust film program with expert faculty who are closely tied to the industry, facilities that are state-of-the-art and well equipped, and a curriculum that develops technical skills but also nurtures creativity and inspires entrepreneurship,” said Susan Ruskin, Dean of the School of Filmmaking. “We are launching alumni who are diverse storytellers and creative innovators. They are landing jobs – and creating jobs – in all aspects of the film and television industry.” The School of Filmmaking, whose many illustrious alumni include Brett Haley (The Hero), David Gordon Green (Halloween), Jeff Nichols (Loving) and Martha Stephens (To the Stars), to name just a few, provides an in-depth, hands-on filmmaking experience and the latest in filmmaking technology with tuition that is up to $50,000 less than that of other prominent film schools.
“Students are making films – all funded by the university – during their first year,” Ruskin said. “That doesn’t happen elsewhere, and it offers immeasurable value to the educational experience and a way to level the playing field for all students.” In addition, she noted, “with our student-to-faculty ratio of nine-to-one, students have extraordinary access to educators who are also working in the industry.” The article in Variety also highlighted faculty member Bob Keen, the department chair of visual effects and immersive media, whose special-effects credits include such films as Lifeforce (1985), Hellraiser (1987), Nightbreed (1990), Candyman (1992), and Dog Soldiers (2002). He’s also directed such films as Proteus (1995), The Big Game (also ‘95), and Heartstopper (2006). Although the School of Filmmaking has state-of-the-art facilities and technology for computer-generated imagery (CGI), Keen told the magazine he encourages students to think outside the box and experiment. “We teach them the old techniques as well as the new ones,” he said. “There is always more than one way to do an effect. But we explore the whole gamut of possibilities.” For more information about this and other events at UNCSA, visit the official website: www. uncsa.edu/. !
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hen it comes to burgers and eating out in general, we figure the chefs know a thing or two. When they let someone else do the cooking and that someone Kristi Maier else isn’t at home, @triadfoodies we guess they know what they like. Going out for burgers is no Contributor different; we asked around and found out some of our local chefs’ favorite burgers. James Patterson, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro “My favorite burger hails from Scrambled on Spring Garden in Greensboro. It’s called Burgatory —Angus beef, onion jam, smoked Gouda-Pimento cheese, lettuce, bacon, fried pickle, hollandaise, corn aioli on a brioche bun—This is the burger that I secretly desire, almost daily. I ask for it to be medium-rare, egg over-easy and crispy bacon! I know I shouldn’t be picky, I’m not cooking it, and no matter how it comes... it will be better than anything you’ve had out and about. Get there early and eat this for breakfast, you will not be disappointed!” Jay Pierce, Mozelle’s Fresh Southern Bistro, Winston-Salem “Beef Burger in Greensboro. It’s well seasoned, well executed and just fantastic and affordable. It can’t be beat.” John Wilson, Sophie’s Cork & Ale, Lexington Side note: Chef John’s burgers are already a sight to behold. He has a burger feature every week, so be sure to look them up. “Westegg Hangover at Cin Cin [in Winston-Salem] is my favorite,” he said. “I love all their craft burgers, but I’m a sucker for waffle burgers and candied bacon.” Freddy Lee, Bernardin’s at the Zevely House, Winston-Salem The self-professed junk food lover said he gets his favorite burgers at two places, Small Batch [in Winston-Salem and High Point] and Cin Cin. “I love the burger with pork belly (the Smoke Batch) at Small Batch. I do love some fat on my burger.” At Cin Cin, “I love the bison burger.” YES! WEEKLY
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Burger Surpreme Travis Myers, Willow’s Bistro, Winston-Salem “I love the Prince Albert at Sir Winston Wine Loft & Restaurant.” This burger has it all; it’s double-stacked with blueberry barbecue sauce, caramelized onion, balsamic port mushrooms, country ham and white cheddar cheese. Peyton Smith, Mission Pizza Napoletana, Winston-Salem “Burger Supreme has a pop-up at MPN. The burger is a flat-topped, smashedburger that caramelizes into a great crust.” Curtis Hackaday, 1703 Restaurant & Catering, Winston-Salem Closely aligned with Smith, Hackaday said, “Right now I’ve been digging Burger Supreme. (He gets a double.) It helps that they do the Coffee Park on Thursdays, so they are real close to me. I usually plan on getting one every Thursday if time allows. Otherwise, I like Burger Spot and Hops Burger in Greensboro. I’m excited about the Hops Burger opening down the street from 1703.” (Plans are still underway for the Hops location to be open at the former Carmine’s in the West End in July.) We couldn’t finish this article without asking Greensboro burger-blogger and Mr. Hamburger Square himself, Randy Barnes, what his favorites are. For him, it’s hard to pick just one because price and style matter. Sometimes we want an old-school greasy burger, and sometimes a carefully crafted burger is the only way to go. “White & Wood on Elm Street is insanely good at $18, but it’s $12 on Mondays. It’s ground filet mignon and ribeye.” The burger is topped with Gruyere, bacon, shallot aioli and drunken barbecue
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sauce and served with tots topped with Parmesan and scallions. “Jay Pierce’s version of the Big Mac, The Chef’s Double is worth the 25-mile trip to Mozelle’s at $14 with real fries,” Barnes added. “The best bargain for me is Jack’s Corner Bar near UNCG, [which costs] about $6 with French fries and a drink. Tucker’s Grill in Horneytown is a personal favorite. They serve lunch only Tuesday through Saturday.” Hamburger Square is an actual area of downtown Greensboro. The area of Elm, Davie and McGee Streets near the railroad tracks received its name because there were once hamburger and hot dog restaurants in the buildings at all four corners, thus the area was nicknamed Hamburger Square. “These restaurants, notably the California Sandwich Shop in what’s now Natty Greene’s, and Jim’s Lunch, now the brewpub across the street, were somewhat segregated, in that Gentile society didn’t go near the place,” Barnes said. “Cigar companies were there in the neighborhood, and the upstairs of many including Natty’s were hotels serving the train traffic for the station two blocks away.”
“Hookers, cigars, beer and nickel hamburgers were the draw. Add some shoe shines and pool halls, and there goes the neighborhood,” he joked. “The Square where the Jefferson building, now Lincoln Financial, is, was the high-society area and the Southside intersection was called Hamburger Square as a sort of derogatory meaning. My grandfather, born 1912, would visit Hamburger Square for nickel hamburgers back in the Depression when he had the money.” A 50th Anniversary Project of Greensboro Beautiful is underway to revitalize the area known as Hamburger Square. If you’re interested in following Randy on his hamburgering, you can follow his Instagram, @hamburgersquare. The photo on his Instagram is a colorized version of an original photo from the Greensboro Historical Museum. You can visit www. hamburgersquare.com for history, photos and recordings from people who visited there. So, who’s hungry for a burger now? ! 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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FAVORITE BURGERS AROUND THE TRIAD
BILLIONAIRE’S BURGER
WAFFLE BURGER
Sriracha-Pimento cheese, bacon, crisp lettuce, bacon-beer mustard, bacon-mayo
Candied bacon, peach jam, fried egg, American cheese, maple syrup, powdered sugar
Twin Peaks, 1915 Hampton Inn Ct., Winston-Salem. (336) 306-9183
Sophie’s Cork & Ale, 23 W. 2nd Ave., Lexington. (336) 3007338
DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER
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Havarti, tomato, lettuce , red onion, wasabi Sriracha sauce, cold-water lobster
pickles, ketchup, onions Pete’s Burgers & More, 747 S.
Stumble Stilskins 202 W. Market St, Greensboro. (336) 691-1222
Scales St., Reidsville. (336) 349-6965
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DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER Lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles, ketchup Doss’ Old Fashion Ice Cream, 406 N. Main St., Kernersville. (336) 996-1930.
HIBACHI BURGER Grilled shrimp, fried vegetable rice, white sauce, crispy wontons on a Sriracha bun Hops Burger Bar, 2419 Spring Garden St., Greensboro. (336) 235-2178. 2138 Lawndale Dr., Greensboro. (336) 663-0537.
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Mustard, chili, onions, slaw
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Zesto Burgers & Ice Cream, 2600 New Walkertown Rd., Winston-Salem.
Mickey’s, 265 W. Mountain St.,
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STATE STREET BURGER
BACON JAM BURGER
Cheddar cheese, tomato, leaf lettuce, mayo, topped with crisp onion straws on a toasted bun
Homemade bacon jam, cheddar, Applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, red onion. Village Tavern, 1903 Westridge Rd., Greensboro. (336) 282-3063 221 Reynolda Village, Winston-Salem. (336) 748-0221
Tripps Restaurant, 4402 W. Wendover Ave., Greensboro. (336) 854-9518
THE BACON CHEESEBURGER ON STEROIDS
BLOODY MARY BURGER
Monterey Jack cheese, three pieces of jalapeño bacon, three pieces of Applewood-smoked bacon, housemade bacon-mayo, shredded iceberg lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles.
Marinated beef, Cajun vodka sauce LaRue Elm, 403 N. Elm St.,
Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, 4522 Wendover Ave, Ste. 101, Greensboro. (336) 323-2666. 504 Hanes Mall Blvd., WinstonSalem. (336) 893-6456
Greensboro. (336) 252-2253
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lettuce, tomato, avocado aioli Lee’s Brass Taps, 2506-B Battleground Ave., Greensboro.
BurgerIM, 2505 Battleground Ave.,
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Greensboro. (336) 897-0122
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Greensboro artist wants to ‘paint that feeling’
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illary Clement was barely 2 years old and watching T.V. when she first realized she wanted to be an artist. When she told her parents that she wanted Terry Rader to be an artist they said, “absolutely not, you’re gonna Contributor get a job!” She said she was taught to be quiet and contain her natural enthusiasm for life in public. It was just how her family’s family had been raised. It wasn’t until Clement was much older that her mother confessed that she believed that Clement’s art was better than the famous art instructor they liked to watch on T.V. But she didn’t want her daughter to be prideful, it just wasn’t the way she had been taught. So, Clement set her art aside and listened to her loving parents and went to school. A West Virginia native, she got her degree in biology from The West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia. She took a job at LabCorp and was transferred to Burlington, North Carolina, in 2001 where she “uses the other side of her brain” every day in DNA testing. Clement said she thinks her DNA testing comes across in her art due to the realism and how she has to plan her drawings. She said she is not a spur-of-the-moment spontaneous artist and she even has to plan out the colors. She continually stretches her techniques to transition realism with abstract art. “I love abstract art, but it’s hard for me,” she admitted. “I know my forte is realism. I blend my realistic art of animals with loose, soft backgrounds. Sometimes I use geometric shapes in the backgrounds, like on the ‘Corvus’ painting with the geometric rectangles applied with silver leaf.” Some of Clement’s background techniques look hauntingly ethereal and complexly engaging in the way she captures the animal’s essence. She said she is self-taught. “You have to find something inside you that is natural. I’ve been painting 10 years trying to find the right thing inside me.” Although she really loves the nostalgia that gleams forth in some of her work, she said she wouldn’t call her works “folk art,” she prefers to call it “contemporary WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Americana.” Clement said she is finally ready for gallery presentation, and to let someone else put the time it takes into getting her art out there. She used to have a pop-up gallery in the old Glitters building in Greensboro with 35 artists in 2017. “I’m not flowery in how I talk about my art,” she said. “It’s just something I have to do. I just do it.” How does this biology major artist do it? She said she has to think about what she wants to work on next and sometimes she has to think about it for a long time. She likes creating realistic animals with feathers, scales and bumps and strives to capture the wildness of the animal. (In other words, she doesn’t paint cute bunnies.) She usually uses three to four reference photos and takes her time in working through the problems to figure out what is going to look best. She paints in oil and acrylic incorporating gold and silver leaf. Her paintings vary in sizes from 20 x 20 to 48 x 60 and she has a waiting list for her commissioned paintings. Clement is busy and not just with biology and art. In 2017, she and her husband bought The Historic T. Austin Finch House in Thomasville and renovated it as a venue for weddings and parties. She said they are scaling back to a limited, more manageable number of weddings a year where its Renaissance revival architecture provides photography opportunities. They are now accepting applications for two artist studios for rent in the building where the Davidson Arts Council has its office. On top of all of that, she also cares for a feral colony of 14 cats. She and her
neighbor take the cats to Feral Cat Assistance Program (FCAP) for spaying and neutering. For now, the only art event she is featured in will be on June 6 from 6-9 p.m. in the 100 x 100 One Night Art Sale fundraiser at The Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro. She is one of 100 artists who have agreed to paint and donate one 10 x 10 painting. She said she’ll be donating an elephant painting. All art will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis and will be taken down at the end of the night. Clement said that Tracey Marshall has been a big help to her, especially with the business side of art.
“You know how you feel when you drive in the country and see that one old barn and it feels somewhat romantic of a time gone by?” she asked. “It’s got a past and a story behind it. People leave and farms don’t stay around, I want to get that down and share it. I want to paint that feeling.” ! TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, wedding vows writer, storyteller, poet, emerging singer-songwriter, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner, and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/house sitting.
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First Fridays in downtown GSo
Firefly F Market
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banjo earth band an open air market located at the corner of south elm & mlk in downtown greensboro
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Brightburn: Bad seed from another planet
Of the ongoing slew of superhero movies, Brightburn puts a nasty spin on the cycle by introducing a superhero bent on conquest. Young Brandon Breyer (Jackson A. Mark Burger Dunn) looks like your average 12-year-old Contributor boy … but looks can most certainly be deceiving. For one thing, Brandon’s not from around here. He came to Earth during a meteor shower and was discovered by farm couple Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle (David Denham), who had been desperately trying to conceive a child. Brandon’s arrival seemed to have been the answer to their prayers. But, again, looks can be deceiving. As per the superhero canon, Brandon comes from another world. He’s got superpowers. He even lands in Kansas –
essentially the heartland of America. (The title Brightburn refers – initially – to the county where the story is set.) But Brandon is not here to help. He’s here to harm. He’s not a benevolent visitor, but a malevolent one, and only now is he beginning to show his true, nefarious colors. The film was written by executive producers Brian and Mark Gunn, Brian being the brother and Mark the cousin of producer James Gunn, the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy films who weathered a firestorm of controversy regarding some off-color and inflammatory tweets that resulted in his being dismissed from the franchise, only to be rehired this past March, much to the relief of fans but to lingering resentment from some quarters. In any event, the creators of the film have considerable familiarity with the superhero genre and clearly revel in overturning some of the expectations that come with it. It may be an overstatement to describe the dialogue as “witty,” but it’s certainly smart – and sometimes extremely (and intentionally) funny.
Some of the influences here are fairly obvious: Stephen King (particularly Carrie and Firestarter), M. Night Shyamalan, and even H.P. Lovecraft. Brightburn boasts most of the expected superhero fantasy trappings, but the horror elements are very much in evidence, and some of the death scenes are gory enough to rattle even stout devotees. Once Brandon begins to exercise his powers, he goes so far to fashion his own costume (admittedly not very elaborate) and even his own logo. But wherever this symbol appears, it’s at a scene of carnage and destruction. He’s leaving his mark, and he wants everyone to know it. As he casually tells his aunt (Meredith Hagner), who also happens to be the school guidance counselor, he doesn’t have a complex about being adopted because he knows he’s superior. She finds this worrisome, but it won’t be long before she has other things to worry about. At the core of the story is the disintegration of the family unit, albeit conveyed within a supernatural context. Tori and Kyle have raised Brandon with unconditional love, yet it’s not enough to overcome the inherent evil within him. Denham and particularly Banks bring such conviction to their roles that it’s easy to empathize with them when they make bad decisions, even when confronted with the mounting evidence that all is not well with Brandon. The love they have for the boy compels them to overlook, if only for a time, what is transpiring before them. What they don’t realize is that time is running out. All told, the performances in Brightburn are sturdy down the line. Emmie Hunter is appealing as Brandon’s classmate crush, and Gregory Alan Williams, as the local sheriff, isn’t the prototypical buffoon. He knows something’s amiss, although that
doesn’t necessarily spare him from the usual fate of horror-movie cops. Where the film really scores is in Dunn’s pivotal turn as Brandon. He’s playing every parent’s nightmare, but his subdued, even sympathetic performance is the quintessential portrait of the banality of evil. He’s menacing without ever taking it too far. The adolescent angst he conveys when he asks his mother, “Who am I?” is something many, if not all, of us can identify with – no matter what planet we’re from. He plays the role with such quiet confidence and has no difficulty holding his own with more experienced co-stars. He’s simply terrific. This young star truly is the hero of Brightburn. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.
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team one last time might be the most painful joy I’ve ever felt. Blood, sweat and tears year after year, and if I could give more, I would.” As an extra special Pride-themed treat for fans, the halftime show will feature drag performers Velma Violet, Betty J, and Andy Drodge! These queens and king have something special planned for you all, and you won’t want to miss it! Be sure to bring singles to tip these fantastic drag performers, as they are donating their time to perform. Fans can catch the action on June 2 at Skate South in High Point, located at 208 W. Fairfield Rd., from 7-9 p.m. (doors open to the public at 6 p.m.). Spectators are encouraged to bring their own non-marking chairs along with a non-perishable food donation to GSORD’s charity partner, Greensboro Urban Ministry. Tickets are on sale now on for $8.50 on the Eventbrite page. Tickets at the door are $10 (ages 16 and up), $5 for children 6-15, and children 5 and under are free! Tickets for students, military and seniors 55+ with ID are $8. !
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Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, is nothing if not persistent. On April 22, Hernandez walked through the vehicle gate at CIA headquarters in Langley, VirChuck Shepherd ginia, where she was stopped by a police officer. She explained that she had an interview in the complex, but the officer discovered she had no official business there and told her to leave. On May 1, Military Times reported, Hernandez returned, this time in a Lyft vehicle, again asking to see her recruiter. She was issued a written warning and directed to leave. On May 2, she was back (in an Uber this time), telling officers she returned because the recruiter’s “phone was off.” On that day, officers inadvertently kept her North Carolina ID card, so on May 3, she came back to pick it up, and also asked if she could speak to “Agent Penis.” Promising to leave by bus, Hernandez ultimately refused, telling an officer, “Do you really think I’m going to leave?” And that’s when they’d
had enough. Hernandez was arrested and charged with trespassing.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
An employee of Candyland Park in Longwood, Florida, was surprised on the evening of May 12 when he spotted a man shooting hoops without a stitch of clothing on. Police responded to the 911 call and found Jordon Anderson, 29, who said he was working on his game and “feels playing naked enhances his skill level,” according to The Smoking Gun. Officers asked Anderson to put his clothes back on, which he did, but he was still charged with indecent exposure.
UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
— We don’t know what brought 29-year-old Coffii Castellion of Largo, Florida, to the Mease Dunedin Hospital emergency room on May 13, but we know where she went afterward: the Pinellas County jail. According to The Smoking Gun, Castellion first caused a stir when she nicked seven bathing cloths and 10 pairs of hospital slippers, valued at a combined $10.79, earning her a felony charge because of her two previous theft convictions. But her most grievous crime
that evening was “taking a (used) feminine pad from underneath her pants” and throwing it at a health care provider, striking her in the stomach. For that, Castellion was charged with battery and held on $7,000 bond. — Shonta Bolds, 36, was arrested on May 11 and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she threw a coconut at a man who was sitting on the porch of the VIP Gentleman’s Club in Key West, Florida. The man had started filming Bolds, which upset her, leading her to yell at him and call him names. Fox News reported that Bolds admitted to throwing the coconut but noted “it did not hit him.” Police explained to Bolds that since she was outside of the club, she could have no expectation of privacy.
A BIRTHDAY GIRL SCORNED
Georgia Michelle Zowacki of West Newton Borough, Pennsylvania, celebrated her 55th birthday on May 15 by drinking vodka all day, according to her boyfriend, David Rae. They also went out to dinner to mark the occasion, but after they returned home, Zowacki became angry that there were no gifts or cards or a cake. “Next thing you know, I’m getting stabbed,” Rae told KDKA. He told Westmoreland County Police Zowacki came at him with a box cutter: “She went to my neck, she says, ‘I’m going to kill you.’” She ended up cutting his arm. Then she “destroyed” his bedroom, throwing his TV to the floor and breaking his bed. She was charged with aggravated assault and spent the rest of her birthday in jail.
FINE POINTS OF THE LAW
In December, three dancers at the Foxy Lady strip club in Providence, Rhode Island, were arrested after allegedly offering sex in exchange for money. On May 15, the last of those dancers to appear in court, Lindsay Hoffmann, 30, was cleared on those charges. It all came down to one word: “anything.” Officer Sean Lafferty, an undercover investigator at the club that night, testified that Hoffmann approached him and told him that for $300, he could get anything he wanted in a downstairs VIP room, reported the Providence Journal. Lafferty believed her offer was of a sexual nature, but Judge Melissa DuBose said “anything” could have meant, well, anything. “You could ask 50 people... and it would be a range from really freaky stuff to stuff that would be completely benign,” she said. Lafferty admitted that Hoffmann did not explicitly offer sex, even during a $160 nude lap dance. Hoffmann declined to comment.
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A preschool student at St. Cyprian Children’s Center in Philadelphia arrived at school on May 14 with a little something extra in his pocket: a baggie containing 22 purple plastic bags of crack cocaine. Fox29 News reported that a teacher’s aide noticed the bulge in the 5-year-old’s pocket and asked him to take the item out. He told her the person who had handed him the bag had asked him to hide it. Philadelphia police are investigating.
UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT
— Jesse Barner-Walton, 39, of Webster, Massachusetts, got a free ride from police after refusing to leave the Cadillac Ranch bar in Southington, Connecticut, on May 5. But as he sat in the back seat, he repeatedly called 911, according to WTIC. Finally the officers pulled over to make him stop, but he became uncooperative when officers tried to put handcuffs on. BarnerWalton was charged with misuse of the 911 system and interfering with an officer. — Leonard Olsen, 70, was arrested in Lakeland, Florida, on May 10 for reckless driving after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy filmed him sitting on his sunroof while his Cadillac motored down the road at about 40 mph. When Florida Highway Patrol troopers asked him about riding on his sunroof, Olsen said he “didn’t know about that” but later admitted that the car was on cruise control. “The car drives itself and has a gigantic computer in it,” he said, according to WTSP. “I thought it would be a nice way to praise God for a minute ... and that’s what I did.” After his arrest, Olsen told officers he would rather be taken to jail than back to his wife, who “treats (him) like a servant.”
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Dog owners in China are advised to take great care when naming their pets, as was demonstrated by the case of a man from Anhui Province. The man, a dog breeder named Ban, was summoned by police on May 13 after posting on social media that he had two new dogs named Chengguan and Xieguan — titles given to law enforcement personnel dealing with petty crimes and traffic issues, the BBC reports. He was sentenced to 10 days in a detention center in Xiangyang. One police officer said Ban had “caused great harm to the nation and the city’s urban management, in terms of their feelings.” For his part, Ban said he “didn’t know this was illegal.” !
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ephyr Wright refused her boss’s request because she didn’t want to squat beside the road and pee. Her boss was Senate Majority Leader Ian McDowell Lyndon Baines Johnson, not yet the 36th president of the Contributor United States. Wright was his cook, a position she later held at the White House. Her husband Sam was his chauffeur. Planning to fly to his home state, Johnson asked the Wrights to drive his limo there ahead of him. “Recipes from the President’s Kitchen,” a 2008 NPR article, attributes the following response to Wright: “When Sammy and I drive to Texas . . . I am not allowed to go to the bathroom. I have to find a bush and squat. When it comes time to eat, we can’t go into restaurants. We have to eat out of a brown bag. And at night, Sammy sleeps in the front of the car with the steering wheel around his neck, while I sleep in the back. We are not going to do it again.” In the years before Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African-Americans on road trips faced worse things than embarrassment. The dangers of “driving while black” are as old as driving and cops weren’t always the greatest threat. “People,” wrote novelist, essayist, and
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journalist John A. Williams in 1964, “have a way of disappearing on the road.” By people, he meant black ones like himself. Williams was commissioned by Holiday magazine to drive across America “in a shiny white new station wagon” with “a fistful of credit cards.” The resulting essays became his 1965 book This is My Country Too (a title Williams hated). In the 1960s, according to HuffPo journalist Kate Kelly, the US included over 10,000 “sundown towns” that were “whites only” after dark. (North Carolina’s included Carrboro, Pine Bluff, and Southern Pines). Even in areas that allowed black people to remain after dark, most hotels, gas stations and restaurants refused them. Just stopping and asking, “do you serve Negroes?” could get a black traveler insulted, threatened, beaten, or killed. On his 1964 trip, Williams said he carried “a shotgun, a road atlas and Travelguide, a listing of places in America where Negroes can stay without being embarrassed, insulted, or worse.” Published from 1947-57, this was a hipper and slicker competitor to the more popular and better-remembered publication informally known as “the Green Book.” The Green Book started 11 years before Travelguide and lasted nine years longer. It first appeared in 1936 as The Negro Motorist Green Book, was renamed The Negro Traveler’s Green Book in 1956 and, in its 1966 final edition, dropped “Negro” to become Travelers’ Green Book. By then, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was making it obsolete. Which is what its creator Victor Hugo
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Green had always wanted. In his introduction to the first edition, which focused on hotels in the New York metropolitan areas, Green wrote that he hoped for “a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published.” Green, who died in 1960, never saw that happen. By the 1950s, the Green Book was covering facilities in most of the United States, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico and Bermuda. Much of its distribution was via Esso service stations, which welcomed black customers (and even franchise holders), and promoted the Green Book as enabling them to “go further with less anxiety.”
Carolina State University public history doctoral student Lisa R. Withers is the project’s research historian. “The position is an opportunity to work directly with community members to bring awareness of the African American lived experience during the Jim Crow Era,” Withers wrote in a recent email. “I hope this project can help bring attention to the role local communities across the state played in a national historical narrative and to remember those who helped African Americans travel safely through North Carolina.” Withers has identified 36 Triad Green Book sites: 19 in Forsyth County and 17 in Guilford. The Forsyth locations, all demolished, were in Winston-Salem. The Guilford locations include five still-standing ones; three in Greensboro, one in High Point and one in Stokesdale. The most famous is the Historic Magnolia House at 442 Gorrell St. in Greensboro, which has been restored
The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission project “Green
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as closely as possible to its condition in the days when its guest list included Ray Charles, Jackie Robinson, Ruth Brown, Satchel Page, Ike and Tina Turner, and James Baldwin. While no longer a hotel, it’s available for private events and corporate functions and serves Wednesday and Thursday dinners (walk-ins welcome) and Sunday brunches (reservations recommended). On Sunday nights, it hosts Magnolia’s Juke Joint, “an upscale dining and jazz jam experience,” from 6 to 9 p.m. Built in 1889 by Daniel D. Debutts, the Magnolia House wasn’t listed in the Green Book until 1950. Much of its early 20th-century history remains obscure, but by the 1940s, it was the property of Nina Starr Plott, the widow of J.T. Plott. In 1949, Mrs. Plott sold the house to Arthur and Louise Gist, parents of Herman Gist, the state legislator and popular leader in Greensboro’s black community known, as his 1994 obituary in the News and Record noted, “for his swagger, biting wit and pointed orations.” The Gist family turned it into the Magnolia House Motel, and it was soon a stop on the circuit of R&B and Soul clubs that ran from Harlem and D.C. to Atlanta, Richmond and Jacksonville. Sam Pass, who purchased the Magnolia in 1995 and began restoring it in 2007, is from the neighborhood. Born in 1950, he grew up around the corner from it on Martin Street. In the early ‘60s, he and his friends would walk down Gorrell to catch Sunday matinees at downtown cinemas like the Carolina and the Center. “We’d pass the Magnolia with its fine marquee and its ‘No Vacancy’ sign,” he told me recently, “and gossip about whatever celebrity was staying there.” Pass was working for FedEx when he acquired the property. “I wanted to do safety at the new hub they were building at the airport, but they took too long getting it open, so I retired and started working at A&T as an environmental science health and safety specialist, and now do that at Duke.” Meanwhile, the Magnolia had fallen on hard times. It remained in business until 1979, but the end of segregation had turned it into a boarding house. “When people of color were allowed to stay at the so-called white hotels,” Pass told me, “the black-owned ones had a problem staying open, so they reverted to renting out single rooms on a weekly basis.” It had been closed for almost 15 years when he bought it from Herman Gist’s widow Grace. “She couldn’t keep the street people out of it, plus he wasn’t here to help her with it, so she decided to get rid of it.” Restoring it took a lot of work and money, which is why he wasn’t able to open it until 2012. “The Southwest corner of the WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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Plaza Manor Hotel roof was caving in from years of neglect.” Another reason restoration took so long was that it was all on a custom basis. “We got a lot of help from people like John Baird at Baird Lumber Company. Brooks Lumber also worked with us, helping us mill out siding for the house. North Carolina Granite Corporation gave us 160 tons of granite rock. Preservation Greensboro gave us $5,000 to go to Architectural Salvage and pick out what we needed in antique merchandise, materials or supplies.” He described his two biggest challenges as funding and time. “The house is not renovated, it’s totally restored, and it took a lot of sweat and a lot of stress.” He said he’s now reached that sweet spot where he can mix business with pleasure. “Magnolia House is used for special events like bridal showers or graduation events or parties. But we also do a juke joint series, something I kind of created where we do live entertainment, dinner and a show. On Friday, [May] 31, it’s a
tribute to Luther Vandross and Aretha Franklin.”
That show will feature “some very talented young men from A&T” and four local vocalists, including La Tonya Wiley and Pass himself. “I’ve been doing it since I was about 3 years old. Kind of runs in the family.” Just a couple of blocks from the Magnolia House stands another less-heralded Green Book site. Like the Magnolia, the end of segregation transformed it from a popular stop for performers on the Soul and R&B circuit to a boarding house. Unlike the Magnolia, it still is one and has been in continuous operation since its glory days. This is the Plaza Manor (formerly the Plaza Manor Hotel) at 511 Martin St. When I asked Elise Allison of the Greensboro Historical Museum about it, she put me in touch with Anita Steele, whose aunt Annie Lee Hill opened it with her first husband Donnie Edwards in
Donnie and Annie Lee Edwards outside Plaza Manor Hotel
1950, then sold it to current owner James Siebert in 1984. Steele had already provided the Greensboro Historical Museum and the North Carolina African Heritage Commission’s Green Book Project with photos and articles relating to her aunt’s history with the Plaza Manor. After I spoke to her in early May, she gave the Historical Museum permission to share several of these materials with me. The earliest was a clipping from the March 1950 Greensboro Daily News, announcing that construction was nearing completion on “a new residence-hotel for Negroes.” The clipping describes the hotel as a 22-room, steam-heated cement block structure owned and operated by Donnie Edwards and constructed by F. A. O’Briant. Steele’s other documents include the first page of a 1978 article in Black Business Awareness, which Allison told me was a local publication with little record in library archives. The article describes how Hill got her start in business making and selling sandwiches to local cafes, then opened the plaza with her husband. According to the article, the Plaza’s guests included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and the Harlem Globetrotters. “That was my aunt’s first husband,” Steele told me in a phone conversation. “They started it together.” Steele told me that her aunt was born sometime around 1906 and that she ran the hotel by herself after Edwards died in 1966. Her aunt remarried to Charlie Hill in 1971 but owned the hotel until its 1984 sale. “She still called it a hotel, but it was a boarding house by then, as it was when I came to live with her in her house on Beech Street in 1978. I don’t remember the days of Louis Armstrong and the Harlem Globetrotters, that was well be-
fore my time, but I remember her talking about them.” Steele described her aunt as “tough and strictly business when it came to conducting business,” but a woman who loved her family. “She didn’t have any children, but me and my mother’s seven other kids would visit with her all the time. We never realized how much history we were walking into when we came to call.” With the help of Elon University’s collections archivist Libby Coyner, I found a clipping about one famous guest at the Plaza Manor. On June 6, 1961, the Burlington Daily Times-News carried on Page 9 the article “Greensboro Police Holding Singer on Narcotics Count.” This was Willie Edward John, aka Little Willie John, arrested at the Plaza Manor by “the Greensboro Vice Squad and federal narcotics agents” after they allegedly found “30 grains of marijuana” in a matchbox in his closet. John’s biggest hit “Fever,” which he recorded in 1956 for his debut album of the same title, was made even more famous by Peggy Lee’s 1958 cover. But his version sold over a million copies, and he hit the charts again with 1960’s “Sleep” and 1961’s “Take My Love.” The 1963 edition of the Green Book, printed two years after John’s arrest and the year before Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, is prefaced with “Your Rights, Briefly Speaking.” This opening section lists the states that recently introduced laws to protect the civil rights of minorities. Thirty-one states are listed, but North Carolina is not one of them. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of. MAY 29 - JUNE 4, 2019 YES! WEEKLY
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Miles, Buddy and UNCG’s million-dollar trumpet if he was trying to keep departed friends alive in his head. Buddy Gist served in the US Navy until the end of WWII and graduated from A&T in 1947. His older brother Herman, also an Aggie, would become a major force in the local African-American community, a flamboyant (and highly effective) state representative, until his fatal heart attack on the North Carolina House floor in 1994. Rather than seeking local success like his brother, Buddy moved to Harlem, where he soon owned several New York-area car dealerships and cosigned the loans on Cannonball Adderley and Paul Chambers’ first automobiles. Gist’s regularly appeared in Jet Magazine’s gossip column. A Buddy Gist with Cheryl Ann Davis (daughter of Miles) September 1955 entry reads “News just leaked out that Inez Weaver, a program operated by Greensboro Urban of New Yorker the wealthy Los Angeles Ministries, where visiting music faculty Buddy Gist,” atsocialite, and auto and students brought him CDs, furnishtending the Nobel dealer Buddy Gist wed ings and supplies, played and cooked for Prize ceremony in two months ago.” A July him, and in case of UNCG jazz professor Stockholm. 1958 entry called Gist “a Chad Eby, took him home for ThanksgivIn the 1960s, Gist prosperous Harlem auto Miles Davis Trumpet on display ing. founded Kilimansalesman” and claimed at UNCG In July of 2009, Buddy Gist suffered an jaro African Coffee, he’d recently eloped incapacitating stroke and was moved in which Miles with “Fisk University into the Golden Living Nursing Center in Davis, Lena Horne and Andrew Mellon coed Faith Berry,” whose father Ted Berry Greensboro. He died there on April 18, heir Peggy Hitchcock were investors. (The would become Cincinnati’s first African2010, at the age of 84. title of Davis’s 1968 studio album Filles de American mayor. A November 1959 one I asked Haines if Gist ever regretted givKilimanjaro refers to this.) mentions “Faith Berry Gist, daughter of ing away Miles’ million-dollar horn. In 1974, he was ringside with his friend the Ted Berrys of Cincinnati and the wife “We offered to sell it for him, but he Sidney Poitier for the historic Rumble in wouldn’t hear of it,” Haines said. the Jungle in Zaire. Gist is the handsome Shortly before his death, Gist told mustached man in the dark blue suit who Jeri Rowe the same thing. “Miles was a hugs Ali from behind (and briefly lifts teacher. He had a love for the music, and him) after Ali has knocked out Foreman he knew I would keep the trumpet as an at around 4:35 of the YouTube video instrument of learning. That’s what he “Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman would have wanted.’’ Highlights (Rumble in the Jungle).” Haines told me his favorite memory of The 1980s hit Gist’s fortune harder Buddy Gist was when Buddy reunited with than Ali hit Foreman, and Gist was back Miles’ children, decades after he used to in Greensboro by 1996. In 2008, Steve look after them while Miles was the road. Haines, who recently returned from “Chery and Gregory were here for the Miles sabbatical, ran into Gist and invited him Davis Memorial Concert. Afterward, Buddy to coffee. Haines asked where his friend embraced Cheryl outside of what was was now living and was shocked when then Aycock Auditorium. And it started Gist said “Center City Park,” adding “I’m snowing. In April. The look on Buddy’s comfortable there, and everybody loves face was more magical than the snow.” ! my stories about Miles.” Before that, Haines said, Gist lived in the home of his late brother’s widow. IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, After they quarreled, Mrs. Gist evicted numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of Buddy. nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of Haines got Gist into Partnership Village, and none of which he’s ashamed of. Buddy Gist with Jeri Rowe and Gregory Davis (son of Miles)
In 2002, Buddy Gist gave UNCG the trumpet his friend Miles Davis played on the legendary album Kind of Blue. Soon afterward, it was appraised at $1.6 million. Two years before his death in Ian McDowell 2010, Gist was sleeping in Center City Park. Contributor Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1925, Arthur “Buddy” Gist, Jr. grew up in Greensboro. His parents owned the Magnolia House, where guests included such celebrities as Louis Armstrong, who, according to the historic site’s current owner Sam Pass, loved Mrs. Gist’s biscuits and molasses. In 1949, Buddy Gist met Miles Davis at the Manhattan jazz club Birdland. They bonded over what Jeri Rowe, who interviewed Gist for the 2009 article “Taking care of Buddy,” called their mutual love of “boxing, business, women, sharp clothes, jazz and the horn.” Twenty years later, Davis gave one of his horns to Gist. Along with Rowe’s interview and Stacey Krim’s “Spartan Stories” blog post “Buddy Gist, the Man Behind the Miles Davis Trumpet,” this article is based on my conversations with UNCG jazz professor Steve Haines, who helped find housing for Gist after discovering he was homeless. When Haines described Gist as a man who told wonderful stories but who was cagey about his personal life, I wondered
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rtists tend to create with the hope of stimulating feeling or heightening sensation. But to simply stir powerful emotions isn’t necessarily meaningful. One can easily incite people, outrage them, titillate them and manipulate their sense of pathos. SomeJohn Adamian times it can all feel cheap, un@johnradamian earned or even suspect. Precious Child is a musical performance project fronted by the artist Contributor Precious, who operates out of Los Angeles. Precious writes a lot about feeling and sensation, about the condition of being in touch or divorced from our emotions, of being unable to experience pleasure or pain, of being removed from a feeling of wholeness, and of having an incongruous identity thrust upon us. I spoke to Precious last week by phone from Manhattan, while the artist prepared for a show in New York City. Precious Child will return to Monstercade in Winston-Salem this week. The music of Precious Child can veer from the abrasive circuitry-frying sounds of industrial and even noise to the more moody and atmospheric aspect of ambient composition. Precious Child released Hallow, a five-song EP last year. It opens with a punishing, chugging song, “The End (Again).” Sand-blasted distorted guitar pounds away in steady eighth notes while Precious howls and shrieks over machine-stitch drum programming. One thinks of artists like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Nine Inch Nails. The third song on the EP, the title track, has the lines “I’m not a dream/I’m not a lie/I know who I am/And I know why.” This inner confidence about one’s identity seems central to much of what Precious does. And that quest and struggle frequently is articulated in terms of how young people grapple with becoming who they are and pursuing their desires as individuals. When asked about whether adolescence was a source of inspiration or a particular area of interest as a subject, Precious said, “Being a teen was a potent experience for me. It was pretty much at that time that I decided that I was going to be my own individual and do what I wanted, and not seek to fit in.” Precious said that while the music isn’t intended for any specific audience, young people might find a special connection to it. “Teens, in particular, I’ve got a soft spot for them,” Precious said. Precious has thought about young people and the ways that they occupy a peculiar spot in our culture, one where their sensitivity is catered to, on a certain level, but where they’re not permitted to operate completely as autonomous individuals under the law. “It’s hard because teens have a strong push for identity, but they can’t really pursue it since they’re officially kids,” Precious said. “I also think they’re an underserved and under-respected part of our population. They’re YES! WEEKLY
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highly energetic. They’re creative, and they’re passionate.” Grown-ups, adults, or people out of their teens at least, often reflect on their youth and adolescence as having been a time of particular intensity, or an awakening to passions and inclinations that go on to shape and define their lives. “There’s this fascination in society, where people, as adults, almost worship the emotional experience of teenagers. They worship it nostalgically,” Precious said. “And yet a lot of teenage emotional experience is trivialized or mocked.” Much of pop music is based on enshrining the particulars of youth: young love, run-ins with old-fashioned authority figures, the freedom presented by the open road and the automobile. And then there’s the other subset of songs about the glory days: how awesome it was to be young and filled with life, uncompromised by responsibilities, possibly naive or innocent and filled with hope. If the first songs on Hallow move through dark and agonized sounds, the last track, “Divine,” gets to a place that’s almost soothing and cinematic. The 12-minute instrumental piece was written as the soundtrack for a piece of installation art that Precious did at Miami Art Week at the end of last year. It was inspired in part by Precious’s response to the televised confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court seat that he was eventually awarded. The hearings spotlighted allegations of sexual violence made against Kavanaugh, and the resultant media coverage and social media response was seismic. “I personally lean toward supporting the victims, and I felt outraged that people weren’t listening to them,” Precious said. But that wasn’t precisely the feeling that inspired the piece. Instead, Precious was struck with a sense that the testimony had become a sort of spec-
tacle, an entertainment where the public consumed the coverage to trigger either anger at Kavanaugh and his enablers in the GOP or possibly some other type of opposite alarm regarding the eroding sense of entitlement and white-male blamelessness. The installation piece that Precious made involved fresh flowers strewn on a gallery floor and covered with plastic, with other fresh flowers encased in a kind of resin. In either case, the flowers would eventually be trampled on by gallery goers or ultimately rot. The flowers represented the experience and memories of victims, and the ways that they would eventually be either mistreated, discarded or forgotten as the public moved on to other fresher outrages in the news cycle. The possibility that the news-consuming public would one day move on and forget the Kavanaugh story was part of what made the piece vital for Precious. And the prospect of other more of-themoment current events made the concept seem potentially renewable. “I’m sure there’s going to be some fresh new abomination of a news story,” Precious said. Meanwhile, a new Precious Child album is in the works, one that Precious said is more poppy. One might view Precious’s embrace of pop as something that fits in with the concerns expressed in the music itself: the idea that our bodies are the most essential way that we can interact with and understand the world, that our physical experience is the thing that leads to real knowledge. Dance-pop is all about body pleasure, you could say. “Our experience of our bodies is as close as we can get to a genuine or authentic experience,” Precious said. Though Precious Child might exist and thrive largely in an online realm, on streaming music sites and through social media profiles, Precious does place a premium on unmediated exchanges and interactions that occur in real space. Precious routinely gives out a cell phone number to encourage fans or curious listeners to send texts and to possibly come to a show to take in the performance in person. Music is something we experience in our bodies. The sound waves strike us, and we respond: we get melodies caught in our heads, rhythms express themselves in our limbs, we dance, or we think, or our memories get prodded, or we recoil. In its way, the music of Precious Child is about drawing attention to the physicality of music and art. The idea seems to be that if you feel something, it’s worth paying attention. ! 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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Curse the day, y’all. Night Battles is making their way to Winston-Salem for a show with Basement Life and Space Cadet Orchestra on June 1 at Monstercade. The doomy Raleigh-based fourKatei Cranford some are fans of the Triad, especially Monstercade--of Contributor which they emphasized their fervent admiration. “It’s my favorite place to play outside of the Triangle,” said vocalist Charlie King. King, who “spent a good chunk of time playing in snotty ‘60s style punk bands,” is now joined by his musical brothers in arms: guitarist Chris Skelly, bassist Dante Bruno, and drummer Ryan Nathan. Skelly and King are friends who shared an upbringing in the 1980s Northeast hardcore scenes; Bruno and Nathan were enlisted through an extensive Craigslist search. “It took eons to find a functional rhythm section,” King said, “but Chris and I quickly bonded over our deep love of Spacemen 3. Initially, I think we wanted to just sound like them, but it turned into something else on its own.“ The result falls in the spectrum of postpunk edged with Krautrock and goth noise, bits of Wire with Love and Rockets meets Mission of Burma. “I tell people we sound like heavy gothy, post-punk as played by ‘80s hardcore kids--a noisier Jesus and Mary Chain,” King admitted. Songs reflect loss, damage, and “metaphysical mysteries” with attempts “to reconcile dark and sometimes selfdestructive tendencies with a desire to be a compassionate being, not only to the world around me but to myself,” King said. “It’s honestly mostly just my own dark personal narrative.” Their material may be dark, but it’s bright skies ahead for Night Battles, who face a busy summer with two releases and a steady string of shows ahead on their front. In June, they’ll appear on the Triangle Tape Compilation from Broken Sound Records; and a split 7-inch with M is We is slated for late summer. “We both happen to exist in this local ‘post-punk’ bubble, so the discussion started happening last year that we should do something together,” Skelly said. Recorded with Scotty Sandwich at the
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Sandwich Shop, the split will feature a new song, “Flat on My Back,” and will be the first recording made with Nathan on drums. “There’s so much amazing music happening in this state at the moment, and I’m so glad labels like Broken Sound and Sorry State are chronicling bands with their compilations,” King said. “Comps” are a hold-over from the heydays of tangible media, and highlight the importance of local connections and community. It’s a recorded tie that binds musicians outside their immediate band circle. “Being originally from New York, the thing I love most about North Carolina and its various music scenes--and what makes it stand so far apart from a scene like New York--is that there is literally no competition,” Skelly said. “Community like that was simply non-existent in NYC, it was all each band for themselves, all the time.” “Everybody down here works with a real sense of unity and commitment to put on amazing shows and put out records that are varied, and inclusive, and that really showcases the amazing music that’s happening in this state,” he added. The sense of community weaves through Night Battles: their two releases thus far feature artwork from Ron Liberti (Pipe and Cold Cream) and Christopher Williams (Maple Stave and Plastic Flame Press). As for the Triad, Night Battles often shares bills with Totally Slow and maintains alliances with the likes of Harrison Ford Mustang, Irata, and Spirit System. “One band, in particular, I really enjoy is Instant Regrets from Greensboro,” Skelly said. “Fun fact, the second time I ever played in North Carolina was in 1996 at the Dick Street House in Greensboro with my old band Dahlia Seed,” Skelly recalled,
espousing the depth of the Triad roots he looks to strengthen. Branching out, the upcoming show will be their first with Basement Life. “We’ve been trying to set something up for a while now, so it’s nice to get a chance to finally play with them,” Skelly said of the bill, which will also feature Space Cadet Orchestra, a newer Winston orchestral psych ensemble. “Our inspiration is simply that music is our lifeblood,” Skelly insisted, “and the
need to be creative makes us find the space in our busy lives to make this thing called Night Battles.” Battle on, dudes. Night Battles will be at Monstercade on June 1 with Basement Life and Space Cadet Orchestra. ! KATEI CRANFORD Is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring NC the following week, 5:307pm on WUAG 103.1fm.
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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com May 30: Brytiago & Darell May 31: Appetite for Destruction Jun 1: DaBaby Jun 5: Tesla Jun 6: Slushii Jun 8: Yacht Rock Revue Jun 11: Catfish & The Bottlemen Jun 12: Gojira
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333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Jun 10: Ariana Grande Jun 12: Twenty Øne Piløts
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AGE: 25 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Greensboro, NC HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? About 3 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I attended the ABC Bartending School and became state certified. Shortly after, I was brought onto the service team at Mark’s. I was lucky enough to get started under the wing of a seasoned mixologist, who taught me a lot. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? There are certain regular guests I service, and occasionally they will just ask me to make them something. My favorite part of the job is hearing those people exclaim “whoa” when they taste the cocktail in which they have no clue the ingredients of. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? This is a tough question, honestly. On busy nights I’m grateful for a round of gin and tonics ordered, but handcrafted cocktails are far more fun to make. My current favorite is something I call “the green dragon.” It consists of muddled jalapeno and basil, agave syrup, lime juice, elderflower liquor and Sutler’s gin. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Bourbon on the rocks. Why ruin something perfect?
WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? The Nutty Irishman. One version calls for Frangelico/Jameson and the other calls for Bailey’s also. I prefer the former, so the Jameson is more present. WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? I’ve seen people fall out of their chairs. Once someone tried to hire a stripper to come in for them. We shut that down real quick. I think the biggest most ridiculous thing wasn’t actually something I saw, but I heard. This one lady was screaming for help from the restrooms, and it sounded frantic. When someone got in there to assist with whatever was wrong, she exclaimed that she was stuck in the stall. This woman was so far gone that she honestly believed she was locked INSIDE the bathroom stall. Needless to say, she was denied service the rest of that evening. WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? Aside from a few 100% tips on single drink tickets ($6 tip on a $6 pint of beer), one regular guest consistently leaves me at least 40% every time he dines, and he never has a cheap night with us.
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I’m a 6’2” woman. What’s the ideal way for me to respond when people (almost always men and total strangers) ask, out of the blue, “How does a woman your height find boyfriends?” — Annoyed
Amy Alkon
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I’d opt for the macabre approach, delivered totally deadpan: “Actually, I stretch short men on a rack in my basement. You can sometimes hear the screams from the side yard.” Responding with shocking humor — in an uber-cool tone — gives you the upper hand, in a way an enraged response to their rudeness would not. And yes, people who say this to you are rude — assuming you don’t go around wearing a sign that reads “Hey, strangers, ask me anything! Nothing’s too impolite or too personal!” Of course, when people overstep (as maybe 6,055 other people have done previously), it’s natural to get angry — to go loud and ugly in calling them on their rudeness. However, that sort of directness — explicitly telling them that they’ve wronged you — is probably counterproductive. Social psychologist Elliot Aronson finds that people are highly prone to “selfjustification” — the ego-defending denial that they’ve behaved badly. Making matters worse, our fight-or-
flight system reflexively reacts to verbal attacks in the same adrenalized way it does to physical attacks. So, angry directness from you is likely to provoke a rudester into amping up the ugly — turning around and deeming you rude, wrong, and “Wow...testy!” for your response. Ultimately, using humor as I suggested — an over-the-top statement, delivered flatly — allows you to restructure the power balance, shifting yourself out of the victim position. You’re clearly informing the person they’ve crossed a line, with minimal aggression on your part. This is important because, as a tall girl, your energy is best put to more productive ends — folding yourself up like origami to fly in coach and fighting the Statue of Liberty for the extremely tall guys of Tinder.
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My style is basically grunge rocker girl: ancient jeans, a vintage rock T-shirt, and bedhead. I need photos of myself, so late Saturday afternoon, I did a photo shoot with a professional stylist, makeup artist, and photographer. Long story short, I despise all the photos. They dressed me in “nice lady” clothes I hated and put too much makeup on me, including lipstick, which I never wear. I’m normally pretty assertive, so I don’t understand why I didn’t speak up for myself. — Irritated When your style is grunge femme — bedhead and jeans that appear to be loaners from a wino — it’s a major bummer to pay for photos that make you look like you sell high-end real estate via bus bench ads.
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It’s especially bummerific when you could have spoken up but instead just went along like a lap dog in a bee outfit. But the reality is, your ability to assert yourself — which comes out of a set of cognitive processes called “executive functions” — can get a little beaten down. Executive functions are basically the COO (chief operating officer) of you — the cerebral department of getting stuff done, through, among other things, planning, prioritizing, holding sets of facts in mind, and making choices. And then there’s the executive function that crapped out on you: “inhibitory control,” which, as cognitive neuroscientist Adele Diamond explains, allows you to direct your “attention, behavior, thoughts, and/or emotions.” This, in turn, empowers you to do what you know you should — like eating your green beans instead of going with what your impulses are suggesting: faceplanting in a plate of fries and soldiering on to do the same in a bowl of chocolate frosting. As I explain in my “science-help” book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” our mental energy to keep our executive functions
powered up gets eroded by stress, fatigue, hunger, and even seemingly minor mental chores — like choosing between the 30 slightly different kinds of balsamic at the supermarket. Basically, as the day draws on and you put weight on your executive functions, you wear out their ability to be there for you. So, what can you do to avoid repeating this experience? Try to schedule tiring, emotionally taxing projects earlier in the day. It also helps to figure out ahead of time where your boundaries lie — stylistic or otherwise. Then, when somebody does something you’re not comfortable with, you’ve pre-identified it as a no-no, which makes it easier for you to stand up for yourself — calmly and firmly. Remember, “every picture tells a story” — and it’s best if yours doesn’t seem to be about the time the lady at the Estee Lauder counter held you down, made you up, and then pulled out her Ruger and forced you into mom jeans. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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