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Mother’s Day is a day to appreciate your mom (or mom-figure) and what better way to do so than to take her out to brunch? In Greensboro on Mother’s Day, you can treat your mom like the queen she is by taking her to dine with other queens-DRAG QUEENS that is. 10 High Point is home to the CAROLINA BREWSFEST, and according to the press release, the festival is the region’s largest combination craft beer festival featuring only North Carolina-based craft beers and endurance event. 11 First things first: The 21st annual RIVERRUN International Film Festival will take place April 4 to 14, 2019 – so mark your calendars now. Regarding the 20th annual festival, which ran April 19 to 29, total admissions were tallied at 17,222, an increase of 3 percent over last year. 12 CHRIS STAMEY’s new musical memoir serves as a kind of secret history of Winston-Salem sounds in the ‘60s and ‘70s. A founding member of the influential band the dB’s, a prolific solo artist, producer and all-around indie-music guy...
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Avengers: Infinity War got a jump on the summer movie season by opening the last weekend of April, but there are plenty more titles to fill out the official seasonal slate. Tully premiered this past weekend, and over 50 OTHER MOVIES are expected to debut locally between the start of May and the end of August. 19 First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes murder. TRIAD STAGE returns to Hawboro, this time to the wrong side of the tracks. A young woman beleaguered by her husband and terrorized by her mother-in-law finds comfort in the arms of another man. 23 In the spirit of MOTHER’S DAY, I spoke to a few Triad moms who pull the double-duty of being both performer and parent to explore the mesh between musicianship and motherhood. 24 I met ARIEL DORFMAN at his son Rodrigo’s Halloween wedding to my friend Heather, where I dressed as the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Unlike most there, he didn’t mistake me for Swamp Thing and stood out among the partying pirates and pussycats by being only himself.
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WHAT: The 1st Annual Made at the Forge Auction! Live and silent auctions, demos, and tours from 6pm till 9pm. Forge members have been toiling away at making the items for this auction. Come out to see what these local makers have crafted to raise money for our community makerspace. Open to the public. All proceeds go toward the Forge’s ‘Forge Ahead’ fundraising campaign. WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Forge Greensboro. 219 W. Lewis St., Greensboro. MORE: Free entry.
WHAT: This will be an afternoon of Fun! Come and join us on the golf course and show your support! Format 4-Person Captain’s Choice. Lunch and Check-In at 12 p.m. Open Division Cash Prizes for 1st and 2nd Win a 2018 Chevrolet at the Hole in One. A $10,000 Hole in One Challenge where the player receives $5,000 and The Shepherds Center receives $5,000. WHEN: 12 p.m. WHERE: Pine Knolls Golf Club. 1100 Quail Hollow Rd, Kernersville. MORE: $75 player fee.
SAT 12 TRIAD DOG GAMES WHAT: The Sergei Foundation presents its fifth annual Triad Dog Games to raise funds for its charitable mission to save companion pet’s lives. Events include dock jumping, disc (frisbee), flyball, agility runs, and more! A 5K run/walk has also been added this year. So come and compete or just spectate, spend the day at the park, eat, and have some family fun (and don’t forget to bring your canine family... leashed, friendly, and rabies vaccinated dogs welcome!). WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: Winston-Salem Fairgrounds 414 Deacon Blvd., Winston-Salem. MORE: $6 admission.
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SUN 13 ANGELO’S ARTISAN MARKET WHAT: Join us for as we celebrate Mothers Day at Wise Man Brewing! On Sunday, May 13th, Angelo’s Artisan Market will be setting up again selling their handmade, antiques, repurposed, plants, food items and more! Treat yourself, your mom or your favorite woman in your life to a fun day and some amazing, unique gifts! We will have some Free Flowers for the special women, music by GoodFellers, and 2 Food Trucks. WHEN: 12 p.m. WHERE: Wise Man Brewing. 826 Angelo Brother’s Ave. Winston-Salem. MORE: Free event.
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FIRST COMES LOVE. THEN COMES MARRIAGE. THEN COMES MURDER. Triad Stage returns to Hawboro, this time to the wrong side of the tracks. A young woman beleaguered by her husband and terrorized by her mother-in-law nds comfort in the arms of another man. They carry out a plot meant to free Teresa, but the repercussions of their actions haunt them and threaten to drive them to madness. For mature audiences.
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care, but not everyone has access to that. There are a lot of folks that can’t afford it.” Flowers works for Novant Health as an insurance verification and precertification specialist. She wants the proceeds from the concert to go to the Cone Health Mammogram Scholarship Program to help uninsured/underinsured people to get mammograms. “It is important to me to be able to assist people who can’t financially work it out to have the screening done,” she said. Performing with TPO is Desired Redemption, Reckless Abandon and Heaven Forbid. According to the Facebook event page, Reckless Abandon will kick off the event, and Arsenic Dreams will provide a photo booth so guests can take pictures together. In addition to the music, there will be vendors, “fun events to raise awareness” as well as raffle prizes, such as gift cards, gift baskets and a “big prize” of a romantic getaway “king suite” at the Hampton Inn and Suites by Hilton at
On May 12 at The Somewhere Else Tavern (located at 5713 W. Friendly Ave. in Greensboro) from 7 p.m. until midnight Trailer Park Orchestra has organized a benefit concert they are calling Beards For Boobs: Breast Cancer Awareness. According to breastcancer.org, about one in eight women (or about 12.4 percent) will develop “invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.” TPO’s booker/“band mom” Sandra Olivey Flowers was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2017. The 49-year-old was having yearly exams since she turned 40 and never had any negative results. “On Dec. 26 I was given the diagnosis of breast cancer,” she said. Flowers said she had surgery to remove the mass at the end of January 2018 and she started chemotherapy treatments on March 1. “I am very fortunate because I work for the hospital and have really good insurance,” she said. “I have great coverage and
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the Greensboro Coliseum area. To win, participants must be present at the raffle, and the price of raffle tickets are $2 for one ticket, $5 for three tickets and $10 for 10 tickets. According to the website, (www. conehealth.com/services/imaging-radiology/breast-imaging/mammographyscholarship-fund/) “The Mammography Scholarship Fund will cover one mammogram screening per year to women age 40 and older who meet the criteria. A new application must be completed each year. Funding varies from year to year. Digital mammography screenings are available at The Breast Center of Greensboro Imaging and Annie Penn Hospital. Call 336-3351195 for more information.” The cover charge is $5, doors open at 7 and music starts at 8 p.m. For more information, visit the Facebook event page (www.facebook.com/ events/219137685506900/permalink/231869957567006/). !
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other’s Day is a day to appreciate your mom (or momfigure) and what better way to do so than to take her out to brunch? In GreensKatie Murawski boro on Mother’s Day, you can treat your mom like the queen Editor she is by taking her to dine with other queens-drag queens that is. Greensboro’s newly installed City Sushi Brunch with Anjelica Dust is making its debut at Sushi Sapa (located at 223 S. Elm St.) for Mother’s Day on May 13. The brunch will be hosted monthly by well-known Greensboro queen Anjelica Dust and each month the proceeds from the event will go to a different local nonprofit. “We really want to focus on our home,” Dust said in a phone interview. “We all love Greensboro; everybody involved has been in Greensboro for so long, and we’ve seen the growth and the change downtown, and it is just a beautiful place. North Carolina gets such a bad wrap for so many things but, if you meet your neighbors, I promise they are a lot nicer, especially in Greensboro than you would ever imagine.” For the first City Sushi Brunch, Dust
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A Mother’s Day brunch fit for a queen hosted by queens
Anjelica Dust said Greensboro Pride would receive the proceeds. Dust wrote in an email that she specializes in character illusions, comedy and “costumes fit for a queen.” With a “gift for gab” Dust reads books at “Drag Queen Storytime,” hosts at the “Beer and Fear Bash at Castle McCulloch” and does drag/hosts at Chemistry Nightclub (her home bar). Dust wrote that she has toured the United States from New York to New Orleans and worked in Los Angeles “with some of the biggest names in the business.” Dust wrote that she believes that charity and doing for others is one of the greatest gifts that this life has to offer. “The Greensboro queens got together, and we decided that we wanted to start a charity brunch that we are going to be doing monthly,” Dust said. “All set up by the queens- queen at the front door, taking reservations, seating, hosting. We just wanted to set up something where drag starts all the way at the front door.” Joining Dust for Mother’s Day is Jujubee (aka Airline Inthyrath and my personal favorite queen), who came in third place in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Race second season. Dust wrote in an email that Jujubee is donating her time and will be performing for free “so that the charity can have all the money raised.” Jujubee and Dust have worked three events together, and Dust said Jujubee would be performing at Chemistry Nightclub on May 12 for the “Sex Kitten Roundup” (starring Paisley Parque and Aria Russo), so it worked out perfectly to have her perform for the drag brunch on May 13. “Jujubee is one of the most down-to-
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Earth, nicest, sweetest queens I have ever worked with,” Dust said. “I have had the opportunity to work up and down the East coast, I’ve worked in L.A., I have been doing this for 13 years, and I am still kicking. I got to meet a lot of drag race girls, and Jujubee is one of those girls that walk up to you, and it’s like you can’t help to be instant friends with her. She is so, so lovely.” Other local, seasoned and new queens will also be performing and helping out at the brunch and for future brunches. On Mother’s Day, the other queens performing and volunteering include Tia Chanella (aka “The Fairy Drag Mother”); Fuscia Rage (aka “Miss Triad Pride 2012”); Kitty Litter (aka “self-proclamation First Lady of the City of Providence, Rhode Island”); KayKay Lavelle (aka the “Triad’s premiere bearded queen”); Brandi Stevenz; Crystal Frost (aka the “Glamour Granny of Greensboro,” former “ Miss North Carolina Sex Kitten” and former “Warehouse 29 Witch”); Pheromosa (aka “Mother Cockroach” and “Drag Foster Child of the Greensboro Drag
Scene”); Paisley Parque ( aka former “Miss Gay NC USofA At Large,” “Miss Dragula EOY FYI” and “the lips of NC”) and Xtassi. Dust wrote in an email that Litter has raised “over $1 million for nonprofits over her 30 years of being a drag performer. Her motto is give till it hurts!” Dust wrote that Xtassi is a 23-year-old comedy queen from Greensboro and works at Chemistry Nightclub. Dust wrote that Xtassi has worked with nonprofits to benefit their community in the past. “Xtassi is excited to share their talents both on and off stage for the purpose of improving Greensboro.” Dust wrote that Rage is proud to be able to be apart of an organization “that brings understanding and encouragement to members of our beautiful community,” and is looking forward to the new Greensboro Drag Brunch. “We have many more roads to go and challenges ahead,” Rage wrote. “We will continue to show the world our pride and respect for others. I encourage you to get
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involved in some way to push our cause forward; no good deed is too small. Reach out to anyone that may seem in need of a helping hand.” Brandi Stevenz (whose “alter ego” is Brandon Hoover) works as a paramedic by day. Stevenz wrote to Dust in an email that she now performs her routines mostly for charity. “My lip synching portrayal of my country music star heroine Reba McEntire routinely brings a cacophony of whistles from the crowd and thunderous applause,” Stevenz wrote. “If I can make one person smile and or help another have a better day then my job was successful. I live to help others any way I can.” Dust said the menu for brunch includes Sushi Sapa’s regular lunch menu as well as some added brunch flavors such as an omelette with mushroom, tomato, onions, cheese, spinach, and a choice to add ham, salmon or crab for extra; and the Drag Star Breakfast that is composed of scrambled eggs, toast, pancakes and bacon. Other menu items include City Brunch (shrimp tempura, California roll and two nigiri); City Brunch 2 (spicy tuna roll, salmon and an avocado roll with two nigiri) and Misty’s Box (one half California roll, two nigiri, chicken hibachi and a soup or salad). There will also be specialty rolls called: “Anjelica’s Volcano,” “Fiery Olive Oyl,” “Tia’s Rainbow,” “Sex Kitten” and “Chemistrated.” “The food may be good, but the drinks are going to be off the chain,” Dust said about the bottomless mimosas and bloody mary bar that are the specials for the brunch. Dust admits that after 13 years of doing drag she still does not know everything. Her drag mother (Paisley Parque) helped set up this event, and Dust still looks to her for advice. Dust said Parque has been doing drag for over 25 years and is coming up close on 30 years. “I have so much respect for people who have done drag longer than me and anyone coming up in drag,” she said. “There are so many different kinds of drag
out there now, it is not just something that gay white men own anymore, and it never should be. Trans women can do drag; straight women can do drag, straight men can do drag-drag is a culture that is open to everyone. I love how social media has shown the last few years that everyone has the opportunity to have a couple minutes on stage and feel like a superstar.” Dust said the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race has changed drag for the entire world. “Look at American Idol,” she said referring to Ada Vox, who was the first drag queen to make it to the Top 10, according to Billboard.com. “Drag is becoming much more mainstream. Straight people are getting to see how beautiful and how amazing the art form is. All of us here (Greensboro queens) we just want to share that with Greensboro, we want to raise money and help people in the process.” To buy tickets for the inaugural City Sushi Brunch with Anjelica Dust, visit the website, www.greensborodragbrunch. com. Tickets for the first show’s confirmed tables have sold out, but folks can still buy tickets for the same time, bar seating and standing room for $15-$20, and the second show’s seating time is also still available for $15-$20. Doors open at 11 a.m. for the noon show and the second seating starts at 2 p.m. and the event is open to all ages. Dust said she can’t guarantee large parties sitting together, so people should arrive as early as possible. “If not though, what a great new way to make new friends to watch a fabulous show and brunch with,” Dust wrote in an email. The next dates for City Sushi Brunch with Anjelica Dust are June 10, July 8 and Aug. 12 and will be the second Sunday of each month with rotating entertainers. !
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Baconessence (bacon-inspired dishes), Zeko’s To-Go (multi-cuisine), Wired (coffee), Food Freaks (American cuisine), Baguetteaboutit (baguette sandwiches and hot dogs) and Wingz and Thyngz (chicken). The live music will feature New Orleans’ Neutral Snap, a five-piece band playing both original and cover music. According to the release, the event is not only for families but also for “four-legged friends” as well. Brown Truck Brewery is an event brewer and sponsor of the Brewers’ VIP social the evening before the festival. Brown Truck has been involved with Carolina Brewsfest since its inception. “It’s nice to have a hometown event,”
head brewer Ian Burnett said in the press release. “Other cities are bigger than ours, but that doesn’t keep us [High Point] from having an awesome festival. We support the event to celebrate and promote other brewers and breweries and to make High Point a destination. And playing host to the brewers the eve before the festival lets the brewers have their own fun and sense of community. Everyone should come.” Kicking off the festival is a half marathon (13.1 miles) and 5k (3.1 miles) for those who want to run. Participants will receive a custom T-shirt, finisher medal and admission to the festival. Junction 311 produced these races, and it also manages and produces 19 races across North Carolina and the South East. “In the fourth year of the event, we are honored to have so many repeat runners and brewers attending,” Junction 311 endurance sports race director Mike Clark said in the press release. “Both the race and the festival continue to grow, as does Junction 311 as a company. From day one we felt that High Point was a great host location to bring together [North Carolina] brewers and runners - giving all involved a reason to celebrate.” The half marathon and 5k start and finish at the transportation terminal on East Commerce Avenue. The half marathon starts making a big loop around the
downtown area, High Point University, the High Point Greenway Trail and all the way up to Deep River Road. The 5k will start on East Commerce Avenue as well. Runners will run past the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers, down West Westwood Avenue, Locke Street and loop back around Ferndale Boulevard. According to the website, all participants (21+) will not only receive admission to the Brewsfest but also two free beers and two guest admissions to the festival. The half marathon begins at 8 a.m. and the cost to register is $90. The 5k begins at 8:15 a.m. and the cost of registration is $40. Registration remains open online and at packet pick up locations. According to the press release, Camp R.E.A.C.H. is the event’s lead charity partner. Camp R.E.A.C.H. is a summer camp for children and young adults with special needs who have severe language challenges, and augmentative communication is addressed for each camper. For more information and to buy tickets for the festival or races, visit the Carolina Brewsfest website www.carolinabrewsfest.com. ! 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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RiverRun 2018: That’s a wrap! First things first: The 21st annual RiverRun International Film Festival will take place April 4 to 14, 2019 – so mark your calendars now. Regarding the 20th annual festival, which ran April 19 Mark Burger to 29, total admissions were tallied at Contributing 17,222, an increase of 3 percent over columnist last year. This year’s festival set records for 36 sell-outs — 17 in advance – and marked the first time that both openingnight films, American Animals and Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, sold out. During the festival, MovieMaker Magazine named RiverRun as “one of the top-50 festivals worth the entry free,” on a list of international film festivals.” The 2018 festival presented 165 films in all, representing 40 countries from around the world. “We had more than 2,000 submissions and we had many difficult choices to make in completing the program,” said Rob Davis, RiverRun’s executive director. “The juries were very impressed with our competition films and agreed it was difficult to make their final decisions.” Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White was selected as Best Narrative Feature, with Qu winning the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director and Best Actress accolades for Meijun Zhou. Thomas Gioria won Best Actor for Xavier Legrand’s drama Custody. Remarkably, both actors are making their feature debuts in their respective films. Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo won the award for Best Screenplay for The Workshop, which Cantet also directed. In the category of documentary features, Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap took the prize as Best Documentary Feature, Mila Turajlic won Best Director for The Other Side of Everything, Kieran Gosney and Dino Jonsater won Best Editing for Time Trial, and Julian Schwanitz copped Best Cinematography for Donkeyote. In the shorts competition, Nathalie Biancheri’s Xavier Corbero: Portrait of an Artist in Winter copped the prize for Best Documentary Short, while Maris Curran’s While I Yet Live was awarded a Special Jury Prize. The Best Student Documentary Short was The Sandman directed by Lauren Knapp of Stanford University. Daniel WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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Daigle’s Garage at Night and a Special Jury Prize was awarded to Armita Keyani’s Welcome Home. Jonatan Shwenk’s SOG won Best Animated Short, with Special Jury Prizes going to Trevor Jimenez’s Weekends and Valentin Riedl and Frederic Schuld’s Carlotta’s Face. RiverRun’s audiences had their say as well, with Gregg Jamback’s In Pursuit of Justice winning the Overall Audience Award, Sam Garbarski’s Bye Bye Germany the Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton Narrative Feature Audience Award, Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar’s Silas the Documentary Feature Audience Award, and Noga Ashkenazi’s Saints Rest the Altered States Audience Award. Each year, the festival holds a special event called “Pitchfest,” in which RiverRun, in tandem with various North Carolina universities, promotes the development of up-and-coming filmmakers. They present, or “pitch,” the idea for their project to a panel of industry insiders and experts, seeking advice on how to best proceed, as well as vying for prizes and industry recognition. This year marked the fifth Pitchfest, in which pre-selected student
filmmakers from Wake Forest University, Elon University, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The Piedmont Federal Savings Bank first place selection was Moriah Hall and Nathan Knox’s No Sanctuary (UNCSA), which carries with it a $500 prize, and second place went to Lizzie Bankowski’s Dead in the Water (UNCW), which carries a $250 prize. According to Davis, the festival received overwhelmingly positive response from attending filmmakers and audience members, the staff and volunteers were in top form, and the inclement weather – which seems irrevocably intertwined with the festival’s schedule over the years – did not dissuade filmgoers. “The weather wasn’t a factor, I’m happy to say!” Davis said. For a complete summary of the 2018 RiverRun International Film Festival, including photo and video highlights, check out the official website: http://riverrunfilm.com/ ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.
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hris Stamey’s new musical memoir serves as a kind of secret history of Winston-Salem sounds in the ‘60s and ‘70s. A founding member of the John Adamian influential band the @johnradamian dB’s, a prolific solo artist, producer and all-around indie-muContributor sic guy, University of Texas Press has just published Stamey’s music-centric autobiography, A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories, which focuses attention on the 15 years he spent living in Manhattan and just across the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. But North Carolina, and Winston-Salem, in particular, loom large in the story of how this talented songwriter and arranger found a place in what he calls “the American indie-rock revolution.” Stamey, along with fellow Winstonian Mitch Easter, a close friend and frequent collaborator, was a product of the age, born in the ‘50s, raised on Popular Science magazine, inspired to tinker with things like toy rockets and reel-to-reel tape decks, there with open ears (and a contrarian skepticism) when the Beatles broke big in America. In some ways, it’s a story that was repeated all over America in the early ‘60s, with rock ‘n’ roll, and the British Invasion jolting quick fermentation in the creative juices of a generation of young musicians. But, as Stamey tells it, something peculiar was happening in Winston-Salem, and the combination of factors led to a flowering of unusual original music from the city. A special concert at The Ramkat in Winston-Salem on May 12 will recreate some of that local music that Stamey discusses in the book. The event, really a once-in-a-lifetime bit of local musicological excavation and re-creation, is called “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Winston’s Psychedelic 60s … and Beyond.” Songs by local bands from the ‘60s and ‘70s, such as Sacred Irony, the Imperturbable Teutonic Griffin, Rittenhouse Square, Little Diesel, Sneakers and more will be performed by a large cast of players. Some of these bands were different vehicles for a revolving cast of players, including Stamey and Easter (who went on to success as an influential
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record producer and with his band Let’s Active), Peter Holsapple (later of the dB’s and R.E.M.), Rob Slater (now of Luxuriant Sedans), Don Dixon (who also went on to success as a producer) and many others. “For the most part, either original lineups or almost original lineups are performing songs talked about in the book,” said Stamey, who spoke to me by phone from his home in Chapel Hill last week. Local guitar legend Sam Moss, who died in 2007, is remembered in the book for his talent, humor, commitment to the blues, and for his role in influencing many young local guitarists at the time. And if one was looking for the story of WinstonSalem rock, Stamey has threaded that narrative through his book. The concert on Saturday takes its name
from a song by the band Captain Speed and the Fungi Electric Mothers, a band that made a super-rare test-pressing of some of their far-out material and played a legendary show in town. “That concert really changed everybody’s attitudes in our local rock scene,” Stamey said. In the book, he describes the show as “a seismic event for our town.” The band, led by guitarist Mike Greer, pressed four test copies of a two-song 45, and a rendition of the material will be performed by admirers at The Ramkat. That earth-shaking concert took place at a Catholic high school. Stamey points out that local churches opened their doors to young musicians, letting creative youth culture flourish within the relatively
subdued setting away from nightclubs. And that had an unanticipated consequence that may have shaped the blossoming of Winston’s music scene: young bands were permitted — even encouraged — to perform original material. “Little could match the excitement of writing a song during the week and then playing it for your musical peers on the weekend,” Stamey wrote. A handful of talented young musicians and a supportive network of church potlucks and coffeehouses fostered the music scene. Another factor that helped impart the foundational elements of music-making, in Stamey’s case, was a public school system that provided a music education. “At Reynolds High School we had a
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great guy named Bob Smith who taught music theory,” Stamey said. That musical education didn’t end in Winston-Salem, Stamey went on to study orchestration at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill before heading to New York in 1977. And A Spy in the House of Loud demonstrates his keen ongoing interest in acoustics, arcane recording techniques, songcraft and musical innovation. But something special was happening in Winston. When Stamey writes about seeing Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt at a concert at Wake Forest or experimental composer George Crumb at the North Carolina School of the Arts, one senses that the swirl of high art, the electric kick of rock, and the of-the-people poetry of folk was blending together in its own unique way in these parts. Students of indie-rock history will find Stamey’s book loaded with interesting non-North Carolina-centric tidbits. Stamey was central in the release of former Big Star singer and songwriter Chris Bell’s solo masterpiece gem “I Am the Cosmos.” (Stamey ran a label that put out the single.) Stamey also played guitar briefly with legendary rock writer Lester Bangs. He was roommates with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. Stamey collaborated extensively with Alex Chilton of Big Star and the Box Tops. Stamey was on the scene in Lower Manhattan when CBGB’s was at its peak. In its way, Stamey’s memoir fits nicely with books by James Walcott, Patti Smith and Will Hermes that delve into music in New York City in the ‘70s. Stamey brings a fair amount of musical analysis, acoustical science, and audioengineering knowledge to his writing, which will add to the book’s appeal for theory nerds and studio rats. (Style vigilantes will appreciate his concern over superfluous apostrophes.) His discussions of how to achieve blurry effects by moving one’s head quickly to the side of a microphone while singing, or how to execute complicated (and now obsolete) analog tape editing tricks, or why different types of distortion highlight certain notes in the overtone series, altering the color of some chords — the stuff can be complex, but his writing is approachable and energetic. He makes a great pinball analogy for how a good record should work, to “trigger some kind of instant deep-brain response, bypassing the critical faculties, beyond analysis. Just neurons flashing all over the place.” That’s about as compelling a description of how a good record feels as any I’ve read. It also captures Stamey’s aesthetic taste for kinetic action, an openness to mechanized clangor, and his fondness for the temporal compression of the pop song. Listening to (early Stamey project) WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Sneakers now, one can hear the connection to Big Star and the through the line to soon-to-follow bands like the Replacements. This was urgent, pent-up and melodic pop, with a rare balance of muscle and brains. The book is punctuated with several “Jukebox” chapters, which are about particular songs by other artists, songs that captured the feeling of the moment in some important way. And Stamey’s thoughtful enthusiasm for, say, “Little Johnny Jewel,” the first single by the band Television, will make you want to revisit or investigate these songs with renewed attention. An appendix at the back, with a handy Spotify playlist, offers detailed harmonic analysis, discussions of arrangements, instrumentation and production elements. Stamey offers plenty of glimpses into his process as a songwriter, with insights into how sonic architecture takes shape during the recording process, and how contemporary songwriters leave room for a song to achieve its full character in that phase of the process. As Stamey puts it, in contextualizing how developments in studio technology altered a songwriter’s focus: “A song was a script for making a record.” In addition to the show at The Ramkat, the next day, May 13, Stamey do what he calls “a musical book reading,” which will involve string accompaniment (violin and cello) and his guitar playing. The reading takes place at Bookmarks in WinstonSalem at 3 p.m. It’s free and open to the public. See “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Winston’s Psychedelic 60s … and Beyond” featuring songs by Captain Speed and the Fungi Electric Mothers, Sacred Irony, Arrogance, Rittenhouse Square, Little Diesel, Sneaker and the Imperturbable Teutonic Griffin performed by an all-star cast of players including Robin Borthwick, Don Dixon, Ed Dodson, Mitch Easter, Tommy Eshelman, Jim Glasgow, Peter Holsapple, Robert Keely, Bobby Locke, Corky McMillan, Bob Northcott, Rick Reich, Will Rigby, Chuck Dale Smith, Chris Stamey and more at The Ramkat, located at 170 W. 9th St., on Saturday, May 12, at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $17 to $25. For more information, call (336) 754-9714 or visit www.theramkat.com. !
Saturday, May 19 LeBauer Park downtown Greensboro Gates: 2pm, Blues: 3pm Advance tickets: $20 Check out Blues & Food Market May 19-20 Davie Street
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CAROLINA THEATRE 310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com
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vengers: Infinity War got a jump on the summer movie season by opening the last weekend of April, but there are plenty more titles to fill out the official seasonal slate. Tully premiered this past weekend, and over 50 other movies are expected to debut locally between the start of May and the end of August. Here are sneak peeks at some of these films — one per release date — followed by checklists of the remaining titles. MAY 11: Following in the footsteps of Rodney Dangerfield’s Thornton Melon, Melissa McCarthy heads back to school in Life of the Party, a comedy in which a neglected housewife decides to join her daughter (Molly Gordon) at college. Also: Breaking In. MAY 18: Although the plot of Deadpool 2 will find the wisecracking hero (Ryan Reynolds) protecting a young boy from Cable (Josh Brolin), the studio synopsis cheekily explains that, “after surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured
cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste.” Also: Book Club; Pope Francis — A Man of His Word; The Rider. MAY 25: Solo: A Star Wars Story casts Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) as the young Harrison Ford, as Han Solo initially hooks up with Chewbacca and deals with Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover). JUNE 1: The owner (Johnny Knoxville) of a dilapidated and dangerous amusement park rallies his friends when a rival theme park opens in the area in the com-
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edy Action Point. Also: Adrift. JUNE 8: A follow-up to the popular film series starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean, Ocean’s 8 finds Danny’s sister (Sandra Bullock) assembling a crack team (Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, and more) to steal diamonds owned by an A-list actress (Anne Hathaway). Also: Hereditary; Hotel Artemis. JUNE 15: Fourteen years after the Oscarwinning original, The Incredibles 2 hits theaters, this time with Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) forced to stay home with the kids while wife Helen (Holly Hunter) stays occupied with a series of secret missions. Also: The Seagull; Superfly; Tag. JUNE 22: Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which their characters attempt to save the dinosaurs from an island about to be destroyed by a brewing volcano. JUNE 29: Emily Blunt’s character is MIA, but Benecio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return for Sicario: Day of the Soldado, in which Del Toro’s enigmatic assassin and Brolin’s federal agent step up their efforts to eliminate various drug-cartel kingpins. Also: Uncle Drew. JULY 4: The First Purge is not a sequel but a prequel, as the events that led up to the original film’s law of lawlessness are detailed. JULY 6: Ant-Man and the Wasp, the follow-up to 2015’s Ant-Man, finds Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) teaming up with Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), for a mission overseen by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas). JULY 13: In the action thriller Skyscraper, a former FBI agent (Dwayne Johnson) has to contend not only with a towering inferno but also with the fact that he’s been framed for causing the rampaging fire. Also: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. JULY 20: Amazingly, The Equalizer 2 will be the first sequel in Denzel Washington’s lengthy career as a leading man, with the two-time Oscar winner returning
to the role of taciturn do-gooder Robert McCall. Also: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. JULY 27: Plot points are still vague, but Mission: Impossible — Fallout has something to do with agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his allies (among them Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson and Simon Pegg) involved in a mission that goes wrong. Again. Also: Blindspotting; Boundaries; Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. AUG. 3: In The Spy Who Dumped Me, two best friends (Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon) learn that one of them has been dating a secret agent, thus thrusting them into the world of international espionage. Also: Christopher Robin; The Darkest Minds; Mile 22. AUG. 10: Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is based on the real-life story of an African-American police officer (John David Washington) who, along with his partner (Adam Driver), goes undercover and manages to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado. Also: Dog Days; The Meg; Puzzle. AUG. 17: The comedy Crazy Rich Asians follows a New Yorker (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her boyfriend (Henry Golding) on a trip to Singapore, whereupon she learns that her beau comes from a wealthy family and that seemingly every single woman in the country desires him. Also: Captive State. AUG. 24: Already made into a wellregarded 1973 movie starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, the true story of wrongly convicted Devil’s Island prison Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) is retold in the new drama Papillon. AUG. 31: A country doctor (Domhnall Gleeson) makes a house call to a crumbling mansion, only to discover it might be haunted, in The Little Stranger, an adaptation of the novel by Sarah Waters. LIMITED: Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, whose A Fantastic Woman recently won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, returns with Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams as two women who consider rekindling their longago teenage romance. Also: Eighth Grade; First Reformed; Hot Summer Nights; How to Talk to Girls at Parties; Leave No Trace; McQueen; Never Goin’ Back; On Chesil Beach; A Prayer Before Dawn; Show Dogs; Sorry to Bother You; Under the Silver Lake; Woman Walks Ahead; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?; The Year of Spectacular Men. !
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The Passion of Teresa Rae King review
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irst comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes murder. Triad Stage returns to Hawboro, this time to the wrong side of the tracks. A young woman beleaguered Katie Murawski by her husband and terrorized by her mother-in-law finds Editor comfort in the arms of another man. They carry out a plot meant to free Teresa, but the repercussions of their actions haunt them and threaten to drive them to madness. Join Triad Stage for this World Premiere loosely inspired by Émile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin. For mature audiences. This play was written and directed by Triad Stage’s own Preston Lane and stars Beth Glover as Mamie King, Stanton Nash as Carter King, Patrick Ball as Levon Lankford, Sarah Hankins as Detective Suzanne Oliver, Madeline Fox as Teresa Rae King, Lorin Kaplan and Melat Ayalew listed as ensemble cast members. I went to see the play on May 6 at the Pyrle Theater in downtown Greensboro. Much like Triad Stage’s production of A Beautiful Star during the holiday season, this play painted with local color. Very unlike A Beautiful Star, it was disturbing and haunting. The stage rarely consisted of any props, except a dinner table with utensils, a screen for a projection of graphics that wrapped around the top of the stage (offering a panoramic view for spectators) and a trap door for “the river” in the most horrifying scene. The story is narrated by a haunted Detective Suzanne Oliver and recounts the story following the disenchanted protagonist (or is it antagonist?) Teresa Rae King and her family Mamie King (Teresa’s guardian) and Mamie’s son Carter King (Teresa’s husband, who was also raised as her brother...ick!) and of course, Carter’s childhood friend and the story’s antagonist Levon Lankford. The family’s portrayal (even with the quasi-incest) is not one that is unusual in a family living in the seemingly deep South, especially with the representation of Christianity. Teresa waits hand-and-foot on her misogynistic, annoying and childish WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
husband, while also listening to Mamie ramble on non-stop while she does hair at her home-salon. At first, Teresa doesn’t say much, but rather listens to music on her phone and escapes in her own world. She doesn’t speak at all really until Levon comes back into town and gets a job with Carter. Levon lit a fire in Teresa. He was her passion, and while their “love” (or more accurately, their lust) for one another was forbidden due to Teresa’s vows of “til death do we part,” they find a way. The consequences of their actions, of course, haunt them until they find another way out. The first part of the play itself was comforting to watch considering my own Southern family’s history, which is far less dramatic, being able to relate made me connect emotionally with the characters. By the end, I was shocked and quite spooked. Needless to say, I didn’t answer my ringing phone for the rest of the night. I did not imagine that this play would dig that deep and expose the ugly underbelly of human nature. The message of the play is chilling: to what end can intense passion and repression drive humans back to their animal instincts? The answer, in regards to Teresa Rae King: the very bitter end. This Southern noir/thriller is not one to miss at Triad Stage. Showtimes: May 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m.; May 11, 12 at 8 p.m.; May 13 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; May 15-17 at 7:30 p.m.; May 18, 19 at 8 p.m. and May 20 at 2 p.m. ! 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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LIFE OF THE PARTY (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 The Leisure Seeker (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 11:40 AM, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 CHAPPAQUIDDICK (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Wed: 11:35 AM, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:05, 4:35 BREAKING IN (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 11:40 AM, 1:45, 3:50, 5:55, 8:05, 10:15 HIGHER POWER (NR) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 LINCOLN CENTER’S ROMEO & JULIET (NR) Sat & Sun: 2:30 PM Tue: 7:30 PM RAMPAGE (PG-13) Fri: 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Sat & Sun: 12:00, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Mon: 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Tue: 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 9:55 Wed & Thu: 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 THE 12TH MAN (NR) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 9:50 BAD SAMARITAN (R) Fri & Sat: 5:05 PM Sun: 5:00 PM Mon - Thu: 5:00, 9:30 OVERBOARD (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 11:45 AM, 2:15, 7:20, 9:50
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In the tony Denver suburb of Castle Rock, Colorado, the motto might be “If the house is rockin’, DO come knockin’!” Residents on Avery Way are in a tizzy about the ThunderChuck Shepherd storm Play Palace, a 7,500-square-foot home where, neighbors told KDVR-TV, the owner invites swinging couples and singles to gather for wild sex parties. Invitees must make a “donation” ($70 for couples and single men, $20 for single women), and the parties include drinks, snacks and potluck dishes. “One had four crockpots,” said a neighbor, “showing up like they’re going to a Bunko party or something.” On the invitation, guests were asked to bring their own condoms and show respect for the “new furniture.” The host is a married father of three who feels harassed by the neighborhood, but he counters that he’s taken steps to be discreet, including installing soundproofing and making sure “there are no open areas.” But neighbors claim they hear “disturbing sounds” coming from the house. “You can hear people doing what they’re doing,” one resident told reporters. Castle Rock Police say the man is not breaking the law because he’s only taking donations, and the activities are contained to his home.
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The Black Panther isn’t feeling the love in South Korea lately. The Walt Disney Co. sent two statues of the superhero to
Busan to celebrate Marvel Studios’ filming along Korea’s southern coast. But on March 17, according to The Korea Herald, a 32-year-old drunk man was arrested after he vandalized the statue in the Gwangbok-ro shopping district, and on April 21, the statue near Gwangalli Beach was toppled and part of its head broken off. An official from the Korea Film Council thought someone had probably tried to climb the statue, despite numerous off-limits signs.
OOPS!
— Police officers in the German town of Neustadt were called April 25 to an apartment building after reports of screaming led neighbors to suspect domestic violence, the Daily Mail reported. Instead, they found a couple receiving instruction in the Japanese art of Shibari erotic bondage from the apartment’s tenant. (“Shibari” translates as “the beauty of tight binding.”) In a statement titled “Fifty Shades of Neustadt,” police reported the couple were “well and in a good mood,” even asking the officers if they’d like to join in, but they had to decline. — In the seaside village of Lytham St Annes, England, Douglas Cholmondley Travis, an 88-year-old member of the local Neighborhood Watch, was on patrol Oct. 10, 2017, when he and an 87-year-old watch colleague noticed a van turning into Lytham Park Cemetery. Regarding the vehicle as suspicious, they began taking pictures of it until Antony James, driver of the van, there only to visit family graves, grew angry and stopped, according to Metro News. James got out of his van to confront Travis, causing a
panic, according to defense attorney Robert Castle, that resulted in James being knocked down by the Neighborhood Watch vehicle and Travis charged for reckless driving and assault. “This is all terribly sad,” Castle told Blackpool Magistrates Court in late April, as his client is “one of the eyes and ears of the police.” Travis was fined 40 pounds plus court costs.
LOOK-ALIKES
Dolores Leis, 64, of Nanton in Galicia, Spain, is a modest wife and potato farmer. But thanks to the internet, she has found fame as “Trump’s Galician sister.” The Associated Press reports that a journalist researching farming posted a photo of Leis at her farm on Instagram, and the striking resemblance between her and the U.S. president caught the attention of the web. “I say that it must be because of the color of the hair,” Leis told La Voz de Galicia on April 24. She added that she’s not overwhelmed by the sudden attention because, unlike her doppelganger, she doesn’t use a mobile phone and isn’t much interested in online chatter. “I look at everything that my daughters show me, but it never stung my curiosity to have (a phone),” she said.
MISGUIDED
Greyhound Bus passengers were frustrated on April 19 after their trip to New York was delayed by mechanical trouble and navigational challenges. The ride started in Cleveland, where the scheduled departure time was 2:30 a.m., passengers told WEWS-TV, but the bus didn’t leave until 6 a.m. After crossing into Pennsylvania, the bus turned around,
and the driver explained he was returning to Cleveland because of mechanical difficulties. However, the driver missed Cleveland and drove all the way to Toledo before realizing the mistake and heading back to Cleveland. “We were on this bus for seven hours just going in a circle,” said passenger Morgan Staley.
BATHING NEWS
— Evelyn Washington, 29, broke then crawled through a window in a Monroe, Louisiana, home on April 17, then settled into a warm bath with a bag of Cheetos and a large plate of food within reach on the toilet lid. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that when the homeowner returned from work around 5 p.m., she called police, who removed Washington to the Ouachita Correctional Center, where she told them “an unknown male told her to break into the victims’ residence.” — On April 4, a homeowner in the Longton area of Stoke-on-Trent, England, returned home to discover a man bathing in his tub and enjoying a cup of Oxo (broth), according to the BBC. When police arrived, the 36-year-old naked man tried to flee but was caught and arrested. The homeowner complained: “He ate me crisps, had five rounds of corned beef and sauce, ate a jar of pickles, had two ice creams and a can of Coke.” !
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hat does a quote, great beer and an old factory all have in common? That’s right; you guessed it- Wise Man Brewery! (Okay, that was the worst riddle to ever exist, and you probably didn’t guess it, but still). I visited Wise Man (located at 826 Angelo Bros Ave. in Winston-Salem) way before I even thought about starting my blog, The Hoptometrist (www.thehoptometrist8. wixsite.com/allaboutbeer). Fast forward almost a year later, and I had the opportunity to speak to taproom manager Dan Rossow so he could tell me just how this awesome brewery came to be. Quit Your Day Job Wise Man opened a little over one year ago and was founded by Sam Victory alongside his friends Mike Beverly and Jason Morehead. As I reviewed their website, I found one of their rotating quotes that I felt captured exactly their style: “Do not ask what beer can do for you, but what you can do for beer,” which is totally what Wise Man has not only used in their brewing process, but also with their approach to the community they are in. Victory has a background in Chemistry (Ph.D. with years of experience in the field) and combined his knowledge into experimenting with home brewing. As he gained experience and began to take it more seriously, the idea of his own brewery came to take shape and soon he, Beverly (a lawyer), and Morehead (an accountant) joined forces. While Beverly and Morehead still have their day-jobs, Victory spends his days brewing and experimenting to come up with new, great beers for all of you to enjoy. Victory has taken that ideology of what he can do for beer (not just what beer can do for him), and applied that thought process to how the whole brewery runsand it’s worked really well so far. A Whole Lot of Flighty Beers (Get it? Flights of beers- flighty beers?) As I mentioned a little before, Victory enjoys experimenting with new brews, and Rossow informed me of something
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I thought was pretty cool: Wise Man’s menu is always changing. So don’t get too attached to a brew, as it might be replaced after a bit. (Not like you won’t find a new favorite in about two seconds, because you will). This was always the idea when they opened Wise Man; they wanted to be an experimental brewery that got to try new styles and didn’t chain themselves to a certain one. But they do have two permanent menu installments, Mountain Calling, an American IPA alongside with Body Electric, a Double IPA. Rossow informed me this wasn’t the intention, but the beers did so well and were popular enough that the owners knew people might be really upset if they took them away. Even though those two will always be up on the menu, the others you may see today will not. But that’s the cool thing about this brewery; you’ll always be surprised (in a good way). Each beer that’s brewed has a unique name and quote assigned to it. Each quote is from a wise man or woman (get it?). Whether it’s “Pie on the Weekends,”
an IPA with the name based around Tina Fey commenting that prison must not be so bad if they get pie on the weekends; to “Dancing Problems,” a brown ale with the name based on James Brown saying that dancing might just solve all our problems. There’s always a story with Wise Man’s beer, and with rotating taps- you’ll get to hear a new one each time you go. If You’re Not Eco-Friendly Don’t Talk to Me The building itself is it is an old factory that they renovated earlier last year before opening. While they changed the space, they recycled a lot of the materials such as the old window panes and even wood to make tables in the taproom. Not only do they recycle that way, but they also give their grains after using them in their brewing process to local farms for them to use- isn’t that awesome? It’s little things like that that can make a huge difference in the long run. This past Earth Day, Wise Man installed Renu Energy Soultions solar panels on the building so it can be more energy efficient along
with LED lighting and high-efficiency taps for brewing. With the amount of energy the brewery uses during the brewing process and hosting its guests, this is a great example of how Wise Man cares about the environment and are providing more than just a pint of beer to the community. Quality, Variety and Community As I’m sure you’ve noticed by now if you’ve made it this far, there’s a lot that makes Wise Man the brewery that it is. Rossow was so kind to show me around the whole building, let me taste a lot of the beer they have on tap, and tell me all about the great place that it is. I could ramble on about all the reasons you need to go check this place out, but I think you’ve gotten the gist. Wise Man really values those three things- quality beer, variety of it and supporting a community that wants to drink it. So when you have a night that you’re looking for some good beer, a yummy food truck and an enjoyable place to hang out, look no further. Wise Man is your guy. !
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Moms (who) rock In the spirit of Mother’s Day, I spoke to a few Triad moms who pull the double-duty of being both performer and parent to explore the mesh between musicianship and motherhood. Katei Cranford Rock ‘n’ roll momma, Suzanne Contributing Stafford (who started singing in the columnist choir before fronting bands through her 20s,) is a solo-act with two school-aged kids in-tow. Experimental-darkwave artist Elizabeth Iori performs as The Gasping while raising a teenager and a toddler. And collaborative electronic solo-artist, Anna Luisa Daigneault (aka Quilla,) is a new mom to an 11-month-old baby girl. “I have yet to finish writing a song,” Daigneault joked. “I took about six months away from music after she was born, but it felt really weird to not be doing stuff,” she said of the transition into the “new natural” of post-partum performing. “I’d sing to my daughter a lot; and when I eventually started playing music again, it became therapeutic fun see what kind of songs came out under the restraints of trying to not wake a baby.” “She’s also inspired me to write my most serious works to date, namely ‘Watch Me Eat My Nom-nomz’ and ‘1-2-3 Hay un caca,’ a song in Spanish all about diapertime.” “I’ve written so many off-the-cuff songs while communicating with the girls,” Stafford said of her songstress parenting technique. “Granted I usually only sing instructions to them when I’m either in a very good mood or I’m about to lose my patience, and it’s a coping mechanism. Motherhood’s made me quite the accomplished freestylist,” she laughs. “I’m surprised to be more motivated than ever to create,” Daigneault said of her recent songwriting. “I thought having a child might stop me from making music forever. I was wrong,” she added with reflection. “But with so many new responsibilities towards caring for a new human, it can be hard getting out there and performing, and I don’t take it for granted at all.” The hardships of balancing time and energy (or a lack thereof) weave through each moms’ perspective. “I end up doing most of my songwriting late at night when everyone is asleep. I don’t think it has WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
changed the tone of my music,” Iori said of the writing process. “But I don’t think it would be nearly as political as it is if it wasn’t for my kids.” Outside of songwriting, finding the balance between personhood, parenthood, and performerdom is essential. “It’s important for mothers to not forget what makes them feel like delightful human beings, outside of the daily grind of diapers, toothless grins and splatters of applesauce,” Daigneault insists. “I don’t perform as often as I used to, but I do know that performing makes me feel happy, strong and in the moment, and therefore it makes me a better mother.” “I don’t go as much as I should,” Stafford concedes. “But I like taking the kids to the shows at OPOTW or Common Grounds. It just depends how much juice I got left in me come showtime. Or cash. Kids make going everywhere expensive. I love how Rosie [Fernandez] hosts music on Saturday afternoons at Boxcar, that’s a great time for music-loving parents to hear some tunes. Plus there’s tokens you can shove off on the babies.” Though exhausting, there are rewards known only to performer parents. “My daughters singing along to the songs that not a whole lot of other people hear, but they know all the words. That’s a neat feeling,” Stafford said of her favorite fans. For Daigneault, “I remember the first time we sang the same note together. Her eyes got really big and excited. Magic. It was a long screech, but it was a fun one.” On the note of kids’ approval, Iori said, “My teenager is like ‘meh.’ But the twoyear-old seems to enjoy it. Watching the look on his face when I let him listen is the best part about being a musician and a mom.” “Keeping the path forward, without breaks and stalls,” is Stafford’s plan with a new record in the works. “I go through fits of being able to keep focus on playing shows. But regardless, I play guitar everyday on my porch. Or on my bed.” “When I do get to perform now, I enjoy it even more than before, because I feel excited to have the opportunity to share music in public,” Daigneault said. Her next show will be a solo-set as Quilla followed by a duo session with Molly McGinn at Joymongers (576 N. Eugene St.) on June 12. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music aficionado who’d like to applaud her own music-lovin’ Mom for all the concerts and Tuesday trips to Schoolkids Records growing-up. And to her Grams who—to this day—vents frustration by playing boogie-woogie tunes on the piano. Happy Mother’s Day.
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Ariel Dorfman is haunted by history I met Ariel Dorfman at his son Rodrigo’s Halloween wedding to my friend Heather, where I dressed as the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Unlike most there, he didn’t mistake me for Ian McDowell Swamp Thing and stood out among the partying pirates and Contributor pussycats by being only himself. The writer hailed as one of this hemisphere’s most important cultural voices was born in Argentina of Jewish émigrés from Odessa and Chisinau but spent his childhood in New York until the McCarthy era drove the family to Chile. From 1970-1973, he served as a cultural adviser to Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected president who died, with many others, in the CIA-backed coup now called the “Other 9/11.” He and his wife Angélica divide their time between Santiago and Durham, where he’s a Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke. His award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in over fifty languages, and his play Death and the Maiden became a film starring Sigourney Weaver. His commentary regularly appears in The New York Times, and he recently published the collection Homeland Security Ate My Speech. He will be at Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books on May 11 at 7 p.m. discussing Darwin’s Ghosts, his new novel about Fitzroy Foster who, photographed on his 14th birthday, is astonished the Polaroid shows a long-dead man kidnapped from Terra del Fuego and displayed in a 19th century “Human Zoo.” Blending ghost story and real history, it asks “who are we and what can we do about it?” In an email, I asked Dorfman about his own haunted history. “The 1973 coup against Allende is the central traumatic experience of my life, destroying democracy in Chile, killing friends and dreams and sending me and my family into exile. I ended up in the United States, a country responsible for that coup but that I also call my own for reasons that are explained in my memoir, Heading South, Looking North. It’s astounding that this adopted homeland would suffer its own September 11th. This has allowed me to shuffle, intellectually and emotionally, between the two lands, language and cultures that define me,
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making me very creative: both an insider and a stranger. The perfect situation for a writer!” Why has he written about a more literal haunting? “The human zoos that proliferated in the nineteenth century were an extraordinary phenomenon – photography, the hubris of science and modernization, the way in which the West captured (in so many senses) natives from the colonial and indigenous world, all of this stimulated my imagination. What happens if those who have been uprooted from their home decide, a century later, from the land of death, to take over somebody’s life and force that person to deal with that past? A situation both tragic and comic, perfect for a novel.” “I have always been obsessed, since childhood, with how the dead might speak to us. We are, after all, on our way to becoming ghosts ourselves. The fact that my wife and I have also lost so many friends due to the Chilean dictatorship makes ghost stories irresistible to me.” A year before I met him while I was dressed as a monster, he wrote about an even more famous one in “America Meets Frankenstein,” reprinted in Homeland Security Ate My Speech. There, he sug-
gested that supporters of Donald Trump be regarded with compassion. I asked if he still believed that. “One of the hard lessons of exile and loss is that we pay a high price by demonizing our adversaries. I am, of course, outraged that many misguided Trump voters are conned into defending policies that will destroy them, their families, the free America they yearn for, and even the air they breathe. But to feel compassion, to try to understand them from within the pain and confines of their lives, without paternalism (using the example of Faulkner, that I looked at closely in my essay on him in the Homeland Security book) is a way to establish
bridges, bridges being the essence of my life and literature. I also think – as proven in novels, plays, essays, op-eds – that, despite the darkness of many of my themes, cultivating humor is a way to make human those who are different. At times we need to share a good laugh with those who antagonize us. Fiction is another way of creating a common space. I hope Darwin’s Ghosts helps find the common ground of forgiveness that we so desperately need.” ! 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.
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Should 16 year olds get the vote? With America in the throes of WWII, FDR ordered that the military draft age be lowered from 21 to 18. Soon after that, Senator Jennings Randolph began lobbying for Jim Longworth the voting age to be lowered as well. According to HisLongworth tory.com, Randolph at Large wrote, “They (young people) possess a great social conscience, are perplexed by the injustice in the world and are anxious to rectify those ills.” Randolph’s pleas fell on deaf ears, but in 1954 President Eisenhower rekindled the debate, when, during his first State of the Union address, he said, “For years our citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 have, in time of peril, been summoned to fight for America. They should participate in the political process that produces these fateful summons.” Again though, support for a lower voting age
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dwindled until over a decade later when we were embroiled in the Vietnam War. President Nixon supported a Constitutional Amendment to lower the voting age to 18, and by summer of 1971, the 26th Amendment was ratified. Ironically, the new law unleashed 11 million new young voters onto the political scene just in time to vote for Nixon’s anti-war opponent George McGovern. Nixon was still re-elected, but in 1972, 55 percent of the newly franchised young voters went to the polls. Over the years, youth voting has been erratic. For example, according to the US Census, only 36 percent of eligible young voters turned out for the 1988 election. Four years later that number was 44 percent thanks in part to an interest in Bill Clinton. That percentage was duplicated in 2008 when young people were energized by Barack Obama, but by 2012, their participation dropped back to 38 percent. Reportedly, the 2016 election brought out young voters in numbers that nearly equaled those of 1972, although, an informal poll taken during the Portland Oregon protest rally the day after Hillary
lost, revealed that nearly 70 percent of millennials didn’t bother to vote the day before. Today, in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school massacre, young people ages 16 to 18 are more politically active than ever. Their fervor and anti-gun protests are even stirring up debate about lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. Late last month, the Washington, D.C. City Council voted to allow 16 and 17 year-olds to vote in local elections, with Councilman Charles Allen saying, “At the age of 16, our society already gives young people greater legal responsibility. They can drive a car. They can work. Some are raising a family or helping their family make ends meet. They pay taxes. And yet, they can’t exercise their voice where it matters most – at the ballot box.” Mr. Allen’s comments harken back to Jennings Randolph, Ike, and Nixon, all who argued that if a young person can be called into battle, he should be able to vote. The problem is that D.C.’s action does not apply to federal elections. Short of Congress passing new voting rights legislation, a change to the 26th Amend-
ment would have to be ratified for the voting age to be lowered to 16. Theoretically, there’s enough time to act on either option before the 2020 election, but to do so, members of both parties would have to put politics aside, and agree to let millions of young, angry voters have a say in national politics at a time when high school kids despise and distrust all incumbents. It is unlikely that Congress will demonstrate the kind of non-partisanship it would take to lower the voting age, but we can only hope. Yes, I realize that some high school students are immature and lack an understanding of how government works, but those same shortcomings also apply to millions of adults whose political parties gave us Trump and Hillary to choose from in the last election. I doubt that 16-year-olds could do any worse than that. ! 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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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions
GIRL-ON-GIRL INACTION
I hate to be trite, but my wife and I are experiencing “lesbian bed death.” We’ve been happily married for three years. I’m not sure why we’re Amy Alkon not having sex. Sure, we’re both busy, but it’s more a question Advice of just not ever feelGoddess ing the urge. I know sex is important for a relationship, and I’m worried. Is there a way to reboot our sex life? — Bedfriends It’s understandably depressing if the only time there’s heavy breathing in the bedroom is when you’re re-enacting WrestleMania XXV — that is, trying to get the duvet cover on. This doesn’t mean you should buy into the lesbo-bashing notion of “lesbian bed death” — the myth that lesbian relationships, in particular, are where sex goes to die. The term traces back to a finding from social psychologist Phillip Blumstein and sociologist Pepper Schwartz, published in their 1983 book, “American Couples: Money, Work, Sex.” Blumstein and Schwartz, reviewing results from their survey of 12,000 American couples,
announced that lesbians in relationships “have sex less frequently by far than any other type of couple.” This single survey led to decades of sneering about lesbian relationships as the province of hot hand-holding. However, psychologist Suzanne Iasenza notes that a bunch of subsequent studies found that lesbians tend to be more sexually assertive and sexually satisfied than straight ladies — as well as less orgasmchallenged. (Helps when you know your way around the ladyparts without needing a two-hour lecture and a female anatomy PowerPoint.) The reality is, so-called lesbian bed death actually happens to heterosexual women — once they get into relationships. In other words, the real issue is not being a lesbian but being a woman in a long-term partnership — and the assumption that male sexual response, driven by spontaneously occurring lust, should be considered the norm for women. Sex researcher Rosemary Basson, M.D., finds that when a relationship is brandnew or when women are apart from their partners for days or weeks, they’re likely to experience the “spontaneous sexual hunger” that men tend to have. However, once a relationship has been going for a while, women’s sexual desire becomes “responsive.” It isn’t gone. It’s “triggerable” — which is to say it’s hibernating until somebody wakes it up with a little makey-outey.
This, however, brings us to another problem. Chances are, a reason that straight couples might have more sex is that men — driven by that spontaneous lust — are more likely to initiate. You and your wife need to initiate — and maybe even schedule sex dates so initiating doesn’t become yet another thing that falls off your to-do list. Eventually, when you light a bunch of candles to set the mood, your wife’s response should be something a little more erotic than “You gotta be kidding me. Another squirrel fried on the power line?”
FOR WHOM THE CELL TOLLS
I’m addicted to my phone — Twitter, Instagram, news, texts...you name it. My girlfriend feels disrespected and unheard when I look at it while she’s talking, but I can’t seem to stop. Please help me out before I lose the woman I love! — Addicted If your smartphone were actually smart, it would ping you to listen to your girlfriend before she’s your ex-girlfriend trash-talking you in a bar. Instead, smartphones and apps turn us into lab rats ferociously hitting the touch screen for another hit of techno-crack. They do this through what psychologists call “intermittent reinforcement” — “rewards” that come randomly and unpredictably. Checking your phone sometimes “rewards” you with a new message or newsbit — sometimes (or even often), but
not always. When “rewards” come regularly and reliably — like when a rat pushes a bar and gets a food pellet every time — the rat chills out and only presses when, say, his stomach rings the dinner bell. Unpredictable rewards, on the other hand — only sometimes getting a hit — drive the rats to pump the bar incessantly, sometimes even till the little fellers go claws up. However, there is hope for you — and your relationship — thanks to research on habit formation (by psychologist Phillippa Lally, among others). Repeatedly behaving differently when your girlfriend’s talking to you — by turning your phone totally off and, if possible, relocating it to another room — can eventually change your default behavior from robotically checking your phone to attentiveness to those important to you. In time, you might expand your attentiveness into other areas of your life. A good test for whether it’s okay to be all up in your phone is swapping in its lowtech counterpart. For example, when the highway patrolman strides over and taps on your car window, is that really the best time to pick up that Stephen King novel and read the end of Chapter 4? ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Lick your wounded pride if you like, but it’s a better idea to find out why your suggestions were rejected. What you learn could help you deal with an upcoming situation. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Feeling a bit listless? No wonder. You might be pushing too hard to finish everything on your to-do list. Cutting it down could help get your energy levels up. [LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Taking time out of your busy schedule might be the best way to handle that sen-
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[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Insist on full disclosure by all parties before agreeing to be part of a “great deal.” What you learn should help you decide whether to go with it or not. [SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Your decision to protect the secret that was entrusted to you might irk some people. But it also wins you the admiration of those who value trust and loyalty.
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[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Just when you thought you had everything planned to the smallest detail, you get some news that could unsettle things. But a timely explanation helps put it all back on track. [GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Home and work continue to compete for your attention. But you handle it well by giving each its proper due. Someone you trust offers valuable advice. Listen to it. [CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Unsettling news creates a difficult but not impossible situation. Continue to follow your planned routine, but keep your mind open to a possible change down the line. © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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