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Bradley had played Pinhead in 1987’s HELLRAISER and its 1989 sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, both shot in England. He was in Greensboro working on Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth. The previous films took place in a sort-of London full of British actors with dubbed American accents. Now, to paraphrase the Leonard Cohen song Don Henley slaughtered at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, the Hellraiser demonology was coming to the USA.

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EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors KRISTI MAIER JOHN ADAMIAN MARK BURGER JESSICA CLIFFORD IAN MCDOWELL STEVE MITCHELL

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The March of Dimes knows how to throw a party. Each year local organizers coordinate one of the most sought after events of the year, the SIGNATURE CHEFS AUCTION. 10 Katie St. Clair is an assistant professor of art at Davidson College. Her show is titled “OBSERVATIONAL ABSTRACTION” and includes work by St. Clair, Kirk Fanelly, Murry Handler, Désirée Petty and Bayley Wharton.

11 Filmed in and around Winston-Salem under the title The Moleskin Diaries, Zach Brown’s award-winning debut feature HARD SURFACES will celebrate its East Coast premiere with a gala screening Nov. 11 at the ACE Exhibition Complex on the University of North Carolina School of the Arts campus 12 North Carolina may not be linked with a lot of high-profile nationally recognized hip-hop but still, there are artists working away here, trying to carve out a name for themselves and for the state.

Last year marked the 20th anniversary of J.O.T. RECORDS, a small independent Winston-Salem hip-hop label.

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RIVERRUN welcomes filmmaker and actress Monika Henreid for two programs about her father: actor, director and Hollywood Blacklist survivor Paul Henreid.

20 The original script for SUBURBICON was written by Joel and Ethan Coen back in 1986, shortly after the dynamic duo flashed their calling card in the form of their debut beauty, 1985’s Blood Simple.

24 Tomorrow I will go to Green Hill Cemetery and eat lunch with my dead grandfather. He was no more Mexican than me, but was my introduction to DÍA DE MUERTOS, the Mexican Day of the Day (typically called Día de los Muertos here, but the shorter name is more common in Mexico) 25 What do you get when cross a trailer park with five guys and their musical instruments of mass destruction? An eclectic orchestra fueled by the love of partying and rock ‘n’ roll. THE TRAILER PARK ORCHESTRA consists of Chris Sealey(bass), Joe Potts (guitar), Louis Money (vocals), Brian Pell (percussion) and Bull Bentley (guitar).

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

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WHAT: A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years— The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names ‘Audrey II’ - after his coworker crush.

This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD! WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Community Theatre of Greensboro. 520 South Elm St., Greensboro.

MORE: $10-$30 tickets.

WHAT: Richard started playing the guitar at age 5 and has never looked back.

Focusing early on with the fingerstyle guitar of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, he began transcribing classical music, Jazz, bluegrass, ragtime and the blues to Sousa marches.

Now a seasoned performer in his forties with thousands of performances worldwide to his credit, Richard has become renowned worldwide for his mastery of instrument and for his knock-out entertaining shows.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $16-$18 tickets.

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WHAT: The GO FAR Family 5K & Fun Run presented by Triad McDonalds is a kids running event held Saturday, Nov. 4. Families are encouraged to register to run with their children. After the race, enjoy vendors, food and fun. GO FAR is a nonprofit running club that teaches children of all abilities about healthy eating, goal setting and how to train for a mile or 5K. WHEN: 7:30 a.m.

WHERE: Showplace Courtyard.

211 East Commerce St., High Point.

MORE: $15-25 registration.

EAT, DRINK, & BE MARRIED BRIDAL SHOW WHAT: Join us Tuesday to experience the Triad’s most elegant wedding show; The Eat, Drink & Be Married Expo! Take in the majestic beauty by strolling the grounds of Castle McCulloch while meeting our expertly selected wedding professionals. During the evening you can enjoy complimentary cocktails & taste deliciously prepared food from our preferred selection of caterers.

WHEN: 6 p.m.

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WHAT: Ever seen Hamlet done in a minute? How about backwards? Well, you’re in luck. Back by popular demand, the Willingham’s Spotlight Theater Company proudly presents the hysterical and unforgettable The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Yadkin Cultural Arts Center; Willingham Theater.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] TAP HOPPERS TOUR

BY JESSICA CLIFFORD

Only a year ago, Tap Hoppers tour brought a new avenue for drinking and socializing to the Triad.

The tour takes 14 friends on a ride in a shuttle bus, to explore three breweries in over three hours. For those wanting larger group tours, a 30-person ride can take place in two buses.

Tour-goers will learn about local brewing and taste three samples of seasonal or year-round beer, while also selecting a 7 oz “taster’s choice” brew. Water and snacks are provided and people can get 20 percent off meals at World of Beer once the tour is over.

Tour-goers can also purchase beer to take home and store it in the bus’s cooler during the ride.

“Anybody can just go to a bar and sit and have a drink,” said co-owner Patrick Sanecki. “You are getting more of a social and full-experience by doing it with us.”

Sanecki and his co-owner, Niels Larsen, have over 30 years of experience in restaurant and bar, culinary and hospitality businesses.

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In October, they changed things up by adding three new breweries, including Gibbs Hundred Brewing Company, Little Brother Brewing and Horigan’s House of Taps to their original set of six brewing partners. With new breweries also comes three new rotating tour rotations.

Tours are every Saturday, with custom tours for groups occurring anytime during the week. Dates are already filling up for holiday tours. Register online or over the phone to request a time slot for family and friends over the holiday season.

Many seem to enjoy the tour including one person who told Sanecki, “I feel like I had a vacation in Greensboro.”

Sanecki believes the tour is a great way to bring local businesses and community members together.

“It’s something that our growing community needed to get people out and about,” he said.

For more information about upcoming events and specials follow Tap Hoppers on Facebook and Instagram @taphopperstours. !

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Thanksgathering 3 Day Pass $25 PERFORMERS: Eric Gales Band Marvelous Funkshun Big Daddy Love Dr. Bacon Time Sawyer Mood Cultivation Project Urban Soil Shane Pruitt RKIII Elusive Groove The Freeway Revival Twisted River Junction Travis Griggs and Friends 3 Pc & and a Biscuit Stab Rabbit Funk Mob Wyndy Trail Travelers DOCO

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Signature Chefs Auction benefits March of Dimes

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he March of Dimes knows how to throw a party.

Each year local organizers coordinate one of the most sought after events of the year, the Signature Chefs Auction.

Money raised from the auction goes toward the March of Dimes overarching mission of improving the health of babies by preventKristi Maier ing birth defects, premature birth @triadfoodies and infant mortality. The event is held in Greensboro and WinstonSalem on two separate dates and Contributor features some of the areas most popular chefs. The chefs and their restaurants each donate their time and a package that is auctioned off during the event.

Guests of the fundraiser also taste creations from the chefs and vote for their favorites. Judges choose Chef of the Year among a variety of criteria like presentation, taste and creativity. The People’s Choice is voted on by auction attendees.

Then the real fun begins as the auction itself is worth the price of admission. There’s just something about watching people spend money on a great cause and they get pretty competitive about it too. Nothing

Chef John Drees - People’s Choice GSO

Chef Brad Semon - Chef of the Year GSO

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Claire Calvin, The Porch Kitchen & Cantina Scott Crater, Village Tavern Jon Rumery, Bleu Restaurant The panel of judges voted Miller as Chef of the Year and Calvin as People’s Choice.

Statistics show that one in 10 parents are affected by some type of birth complication. Winston-Salem event chair, Terry Williams said the March of Dimes seeks to make an impact on that.

“This event is not only to have fun but to raise money for an excellent cause,” Williams said. “We’ve been touched over the years in a number of ways with our extended family who’ve had birth complications, plus being involved with children over the past decades, we’ve come to deeply care that we’re able to meet their needs in a professional and fundamental way. That’s really what the March of Dimes is all about.”

President Franklin Roosevelt’s struggle with polio led him to create the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Later known as the March of Dimes, the foundation provided research for vaccines that eventually eradicated the polio epidemic in this country. Since then, the March of Dimes has turned its focus to preventing birth defects and research to discover the genetic causes of birth defects with newborn screening, education, etc.

Creating awareness of premature birth and its causes is another of the organization’s missions.

For more information on the March of Dimes and the Signature Chefs Auctions that happen around the area, state and nationwide, visit marchofdimes.org. !

KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

like tossing a few bids back and forth for a private wine dinner for 10 people in your home provided by the Village Tavern or a weekend getaway for 10 from Graze. Packages like that exceeded $2,000.

In Greensboro, about 330 people attended the event, which raised $150,000.

Chefs of the event included: James Patterson, Sedgefield Country Club Michael Harkenreader, Undercurrent Restaurant Chris Russell, B. Christopher’s American Steakhouse Brad Semon, The Painted Plate Matt Kidd, 1618 Midtown John Drees, Southern Lights Bistro Derek Cress, Cristina Gray’s Restaurant Eric Snow, GIA Drink Eat Listen The panel of judges voted Semon as Chef of the Year, and Drees was voted People’s Choice.

In Winston-Salem, over 320 were in attendance raising over $105,000.

Chefs of the event included: Mark Grohman, Meridian Restaurant Shane Moore, Foothills Brewing Opie Kirby, Finnigan’s Wake Pub Richard Miller, Graze Restaurant

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Rattling the eyes through ‘Observational Abstraction’

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atie St. Clair is an assistant professor of art at Davidson College.

She’s tall, slim and her hands are constantly in motion as she speaks. She Steve Mitchell arrived at a rapt crowd on Oct. 27 in the InFocus Gallery Contributor at GreenHill, located at 200 N. Davie St. Her show is titled “Observational Abstraction” and includes work by St. Clair, Kirk Fanelly, Murry Handler, Désirée Petty and Bayley Wharton.

The show runs until Nov.5 at Green Hill.

“Where the viewers understand my work as visual, I understand my painting by feel,” she said. “I don’t sit at an easel but crawl around on the floor. I use my hands to mix the paint in buckets. I work from instinct, experimentation and observa-

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tion.” She began painting almost before she could walk. Growing up, she would listen to audiobooks as she painted; this tension and overlap between writing and visual art have continued as her work has developed. This tension was also a recurring theme in the artist talk, co-sponsored

by Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.

“Painting, for me,” she explained, her hands fanning around her, “is about ambiguity and non-linear connections but my writing practice is different. It functions more to focus and clarify my creative practice.”

St. Clair’s paintings are from a series titled, “Erratics,” based on her experience observing glacial erratics in Ireland. Glacial erratics are pieces of rock that differ in size and type from the rock of a native region, rocks transported from far away to the region by glaciers.

“I don’t start by knowing where I’m going in a painting,” she said. “I have a lot of sensations from experiencing a landscape. During my time in Ireland, I was immersed in this raw, limestone world. I’d

go back to my studio with very specific forms and thoughts about what I’d seen and felt, but I didn’t go back thinking, ‘I’m going to paint rocks.’”

Another theme that was discussed during the artist talk was St. Clair’s striving to shift or interfere with the way we normally see and experience the world. St. Clair said she was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was young so linear thinking was not something that came naturally.

St. Clair said her studio is cluttered with color-coded words and phrases that are spread out on her floor. She said this method helps her to see order, repetition, themes and have a “color-palette of ideas” when she goes to write.

“My idea of painting is really broad,” she said. “Collage and painting are one and the same to me. The tension and playfulness between the two help me question why we create rules for ourselves and how we can break them. We need to create a distance from ourselves, to lose our perspective, to find another way of seeing.

We need to rattle our eyes.”

Since she moved to North Carolina two years ago, she’s found herself becoming intrigued with the landscape of the Triad.

She said she is inspired by the Southern red clay and “rearranging debris on the forest floor to inspire new compositions.”

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St. Clair said she feels alive when she sits in the dirt, shrouded by plants, mushrooms, lichen and insects.

“My art is embedded with the wonderfully impossible task of conveying all these sensations,” she said.

During the question and answer period after the talk, a young girl asked in a soft voice, “Did being dyslexic make it harder for you to learn to paint?”

St. Clair’s face brightened into a grin and said, “You know, I’m not sure I’d even be a painter if I weren’t dyslexic,” she said.

“It taught me so many things. It became the way I could understand the world.”

“I’m a big girl, 6 feet 2 inches,” she said swinging her arms expansively. “But when I paint, I get bigger. I can shine.” The girl nodded quietly. Understanding, perhaps, that one day she could shine too. !

STEVE MITCHELL’s novel, Cloud Diary, will be published by C&R Press in March 2018. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books. Find more at www.authorstevemitchell.com

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Hard Surfaces comes home for East Coast premiere Filmed in and around WinstonSalem under the title The Moleskin Diaries, Zach Brown’s awardwinning debut feature Hard Surfaces will celebrate its East Coast premiere with a gala screening Nov. Mark Burger 11 at the ACE Exhibition Complex on the Contributing University of North Carolina School of columnist the Arts campus, followed by an afterparty at Meridian Restaurant, located at 411 S. Marshall St. The indie drama stars Shawn Pyfrom (also one of the film’s producers) as Adrian, a fast-rising, hard-living celebrity photographer – replete with a glamorous girlfriend (Julia Voth, also a producer) – whose world comes undone when his estranged sister Samantha (Mariana Novak) dies and he becomes guardian to her daughter Maddy (Hannah Victoria Stock), forcing him to confront the demons of his past and present while tentatively attempting to forge a healthy future for both of them.

Brown, Pyfrom and co-star Chase Fein are scheduled to attend the screening, and Voth may join them if her schedule permits. Already, Hard Surfaces has made waves on the festival circuit, winning the Best Screenplay award at the Downtown Film Festival in Los Angeles, and the Gold Remi award for Best First Feature and Houston Film Society Critics’ Choice

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awards for Best Supporting Actress (Voth) and Best Young Performer (Stock) at WorldFest Houston. The film has been acquired for distribution by North of Two, www.northoftwo.com.

Brown, said the film’s writer, director, executive producer and co-star, he had two features in development, Hard Surfaces (The Moleskin Diary) and Patience, which he’d written first, “but Patience takes place in multiple cities and Hard Surfaces in just one,” he said. “I had written Hard Surfaces to take place in Winston-Salem specifically because I’d recently found out how amazing and artistic the downtown had become. I grew up in and around Winston-Salem, so it was a combination of wanting to shoot my first movie in my hometown, being able to shoot in just one location, and having a supportive artistic community.

He said it felt amazing to be shooting back home because he gets to spend time with family and visit familiar sights.

“The community was amazingly supportive,” he said. “We were also very fortunate to hire recent graduates from UNCSA as well as current students to work as interns.”

Altair Casting, based in Winston-Salem, also lent its expertise to the production, with Altair’s Phil Newsome the film’s casting director.

“Zach brought the main leads in from L.A., but the majority of extras were cast here,” Newsome said. “I, along with my assistant Amanda Hoey, also did a lot of other unofficial jobs on the film, from setting up some investor parties to helping with locations. I also have a small role as David Hill, Adrian’s attorney.”

Hard Surfaces was a wonderful opportunity on several levels, according to Newsome. “It was exciting to see the beauty of downtown Winston-Salem utilized again, also it was great to cast local actors in day-player roles and as extras. It is our hope that when people see this film, more (film) folks will realize that our area is a great place to shoot.”

As for the title change, Brown explained that herself and Voth had been talking about changing the title for a while.

“As the (screenplay) drafts went on, the diary became less and less prominent, but we were so busy with trying to get the film finished that we kept putting it off,” she said.

Newson remarked that it was driving him crazy trying to come up with a good title, but as the film neared the end of post-production he said, “we could finally relax and had the freedom to focus our thoughts toward it. Julia actually came up with Hard Surfaces, which we all loved since it evoked an actual feeling rather than an on-the-nose representation of the story.”

Looking back, “I was so incredibly fortunate to have the trust of everyone involved, despite this being my first film,” Brown said. “Everyone trusted me and let me make the movie that I wanted to make. I also really put an emphasis on allowing every single person that I hired to bring their own ideas and artistic abilities, which helped a lot with the trust. In essence, we all established early on that we’re going to need to work together to make the movie the best that it could be with what we had to work with.”

To view the trailer for Hard Surfaces (which includes some profanity), see www. vimeo.com/231508977. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2017, Mark Burger.

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Winston-Salem label does grassroots hip-hop

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ip-hop has its centers of gravity. New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Memphis all have thriving scenes and names associatJohn Adamian ed with their sounds. @johnradamian North Carolina may not be linked with a lot of high-profile Contributor nationally recognized hip-hop but still, there are artists working away here, trying to carve out a name for themselves and for the state. Last year marked the 20th anniversary of J.O.T. Records, a small independent Winston-Salem hip-hop label.

The label was founded by James O. Terry Jr. in 1996, first as a CD-only project, moving, over the years, to release vinyl and into the realm of streaming music, with many of the label’s albums available on the Spotify and Tidal services. Terry, 46, grew up in Winston-Salem, where he attended Carver High School in the 1980s.

Terry was a communications major at NC State in the early ‘90s, and launching a record label made a kind of sense to him, given his background.

“It kind of fell right under that umbrella,” Terry said.

But there was no real template or howto-guide for launching a rap label. “I didn’t have any classes to teach me,” he said.

He had been DJing hip-hop parties since he was a young teenager, spinning records at events at the Sawtooth Center and the National Guard Armory. Terry made a decent amount of cash DJing, so when he went off to college he was able to go in a style suitable to a budding hip-hop impresario. This included “gold rings on every finger” a flashy gold chain, and “a butter soft $700 coat trimmed in real mink and matching mink headgear,” as he writes in Breaking Stereotypes, one of the several books he’s put out telling his life story and documenting the work he’s put into the label and his hip-hop projects.

Eventually, Terry decided to shift his focus to writing lyrics, rapping and making original music instead of DJing. He started performing under the name Grande Gato.

One of the things that made Terry’s songs stand out was that he rapped in Spanish, even though English is his first language,

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and no one spoke Spanish in his household.

“I wouldn’t say I grew up speaking Spanish,” Terry said. “I learned Spanish in high school and then I kind of would run into people who knew Spanish and they would teach me, but they were teaching me like the informal Spanish, whereas in school I was learning the formal Spanish, and between the two I kind of was able to learn. I wouldn’t say I’m super fluent in it, but at the same time I can speak it.”

To rap at all requires a degree of confidence, and rapping in a second language takes extra gumption. But Grande Gato has had success, given the challenges.

He’s been asked to perform in Miami, as a part of Latin music events where he was the only African-American rapping in a second language. Teaming up with other hip-hop artists from the region, he’s assembled a collective known as North Carolina Street Heat. Grande Gato is joined by rappers Jon Notty, Don Caban, Fire Marshall and Ms. Crystal on most of the releases under the collective’s name, and other artists join the team as special guests as well.

Terry had met Notty and Caban when he was a student at North Carolina State University and they were attending North Carolina Central. Before fully committing to pursuing music as a career, Terry worked for a time as a BED teacher, teaching “behaviorally-emotionally disabled” students.

“The kids in my class, when they found

out I did music, they kind of gravitated more towards me,” Terry said. He saved up his earnings to focus on music and the label.

“I didn’t officially go full-time until about 2003,” he said. This year marked the 10th year that Grande Gato, North Carolina Street Heat or some combination of the collective performed at the Dixie Classic Fair in Winston-Salem. The collective has released seven records, and Terry and his collaborators are readying the eighth one for early 2018.

Going full time has meant a number of things for Terry. He spends a significant amount of time driving between Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Charlotte to the record stores that carry J.O.T. Records releases. He also sells his books, some of which are photo-heavy documents, almost like physical copies of an Instagram feed, featuring informal pictures of Terry and the North Carolina Street Heat crew at clubs, hanging out with other artists, connecting with fans.

“Pictures are worth a thousand words,” Terry said. “I could tell people all day, but they see the pictures and they get it. I always believe you don’t have to say a lot to make an impact.”

For devoted fans, the books offer a glimpse into the origins of J.O.T. Records as well as the day-to-day life of Terry and his collaborators.

“I talk about how I started out selling out of the trunk of my car,” Terry said.

“There’s a lot of history in there that lets people know stuff that they wouldn’t normally find out about us unless they did a deep dig, and a lot of people aren’t going to do that -- you know, we live in a fast-paced society and if you don’t show it to ‘em in five, ten seconds, you’ve lost their attention.”

In addition to the CDs, LPs and books, Terry is big on what he calls “multi-level marketing.” He and the collective members sport watches, hats, jackets, necklaces and other items branded with the North Carolina Street Heat logo (a DJ with two turntables). It gives the impression of a large and unified organization.

“I try to do stuff a little different to make it stand out,” Terry said.

When people think of folk music, hiphop isn’t always the first style that comes to mind, but there are elements of the J.O.T. Records output that can be viewed as folk for the digital era. It’s small-batch: Terry presses up 100 copies of each vinyl release. This music emanates from the people and from this place, giving it a connection to the region. Listen to Jon Notty’s “Cam Newton” from the collective’s 2014 release The Album. It’s a 21stcentury pop-culture praise song about the Carolina Panthers’ star quarterback.

With its ominous rising synth-string line and slowed-down vocal textures, it has a vaguely trap-ish sound, but it’s also appealingly raw and weird. Caribbean inflected rapper Fire Marshall’s woozy and slightly crazed “Diamond Touch” is a catchy bit of warped dancehall. Grande Gato’s “Para Ganar” presents a syncopated slice of North Carolina reggaeton.

Terry’s wife, Ms. Crystal, performs an atmospheric and slightly dark trap-gospel song called “Save Me.” (“Heal me, heal me, don’t let the devil kill me.”)

Terry isn’t necessarily trying to grow the roster of J.O.T. Records. He’s excited to just keep doing what they’re doing.

“Everybody that I work with, I like them because they’re unique, they didn’t sound like anybody else out there,” Terry said.

“That’s why I gravitated toward everybody. That’s why I wanted to continue my relationship with everybody and put ‘em out there. I tell them ‘We don’t have a big budget, but you can do what you’re doing.’” !

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BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Nov 4: Ms. Mary & The Boys

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1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Nov 1: Mom jeans, Prince Daddy &The Hyena, Kississippi, Pictures of Vernon Nov 2: Shwayze Nov 3: The Patrick Rock Band with The Josh Kin & Them

Nov 4: Carbon Leaf Nov 5: Red Not Chili Peppers w/ Broken Record Nov 7: Girlpool w/ Palm, Lala Lala Nov 8: A Light Divided, The Scars Heal In Time, Raimee Nov 9: Jesse Royal Nov 11: Abbey Road: A Beatles Tribute Nov 13: Scale The Summit, Angel Vivaldi, Andy James Nov 15: The Billyfolks w/ Giant Red Panda Nov 18: mewithoutYou, Pianos Become The Teeth Nov 21: UNCG Sapphires Fall 2017

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iverRun welcomes filmmaker and actress Monika Henreid for two programs about her father: actor, director and Hollywood Blacklist survivor Paul Henreid. Widely remembered for his role as raconteur Victor Laszlo in the iconic “Casablanca,” Henreid made his Hollywood debut in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and appeared in a wide range of films across a variety of genres including “Now, Voyager,” “Devotion,” “The Spanish Main,” “Of Human Bondage,” “Night Train to Munich,” “In Our Time,” “Song of Love,” “Deception,” “Rope of Sand” and many others. After defending free speech during the McCarthy era, he was semi-Blacklisted until Alfred Hitchcock hired him to direct 28 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” launching a prolific chapter in Henreid’s career as a director for film and television. His last film appearance as an actor was in “Exorcist II: The Heretic.”

On Saturday, November 4, Henreid will participate in a program at RED Cinemas in Greensboro where she will discuss her father’s career with RiverRun Executive Director Rob Davis. The program begins at 5:00 pm and will include a screening of the film noir classic “Hollow Triumph” (also released as both “The Scar” and “The Man Who Murdered Himself”). Tickets are $12 and available online at redcinemas.com or at the theater box office. !

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MOJO & the Bayou Gypsies

Saturday, November 4, 2017 - 8:00 PM A good luck charm in New Orleans culture, mojo is also the moniker of charismatic singer-songwriteraccordionist, Mr. Mojo, leader of the Cajun-Creole band, The Bayou Gypsies. Certified by the Louisiana Hall of Fame, the group’s all-original music reflects Louisiana life, culture and Zydeco tradition through a gleeful gumbo of “red hot mojo music” using fiddle, drum, rubboards, accordion and more, resulting in the ultimate cultural and musical experience!

Masters of the Mind - Live

Saturday, November 11, 2017 - 8:00 PM Performing for the first time together, four internationally acclaimed mentalists - The “Kinetic Man” Guy Bavli, psychic duo Jeff & Tessa Evason, and The Mind Artist – tap into the wonders of the mind through telekinesis, predictions and mind-reading for a spectacular and entertaining performance injected withelements of humor and intrigue.

With performances from Las Vegas to Australia, local audience interaction and participation makes for a unique entertainment experience at every show.

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High Point Ballet: The Nutcracker: December 20-22 High Point Ballet: Land of the Sweets: December 23

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Game of Thrones, A Parody of Ice & Fire: January 18 John Sebastian & David Grisman: January 20 American Spiritual Ensemble: January 27 Kit & the Kats: February 3 Emile Pandolfi with Dana Russell: February 14 Al Stewart: The Year of the Cat Tour: February 16 Heart Behind the Music with Alabama’s Teddy Gentry, John Berry, Lenny LeBlanc & Linda Davis: March 9 Shaun Hopper & Joe Smothers: March 23 On Golden Pond: April 5 Black Violin: Back by Popular Demand!: April 24 Dawn Wells: What Would Mary Ann Do? April 28

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Awful, by George By repeatedly shunting the Mayers storyline to the back burner in what turns out to be a dismissive and even condescending manner, Suburbicon is no different than the countless other movies that believe — excuse the Casablanca paraphrase — the problems of three black people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy Caucasian world. It’s the same old cinematic song, even more off-key than usual.

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he original script for Suburbicon ( ) was written

by Joel and Ethan Coen back in 1986, shortly after the dynamic duo flashed their calling card in the form of their debut beauty, 1985’s Blood Simple. Shelving the script, the siblings instead moved forward with 1987’s brilliant Raising Arizona, although they later incorporated some of Suburbicon’s elements into their Oscar-winning screenplay for 1996’s Fargo.

Coen pal George Clooney later got hold of the script for Suburbicon and planned to turn it into a movie as far back as 2005. Instead, one thing led to another, and it’s only now that Suburbicon is hitting theaters, with direction by Clooney and a Coen script that has since been modified by Clooney and his frequent writing partner Grant Heslov. Given the ghastly result, perhaps the Coens should sue since it’s almost inconceivable that their original idea bore much resemblance to a debacle that unexpectedly

has emerged as one of the year’s worst films.

Topical yet tone-deaf, Suburbicon initially appears as if it will focus on the tensions that emerge when a black family moves into a white middle-class neighborhood in 1959. With an unrepentant white supremacist soiling the White House and his dim-witted supporters

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spewing their hatred at various rallies and marches (oh, and on the Internet), a movie examining unbridled racism certainly couldn’t be timelier. But no, this is merely a side dish to the real plotline, which centers on the plight facing mild-mannered neighbor Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon), his wife Rose (Julianne Moore), their son Nicky (appealing Noah Jupe), and Rose’s twin sister Margaret (also Moore). A home invasion by two seedy criminals (Glenn Fleshler and Alex Hassell) results in one death – this, in turn leads to a cover-up, a visit from an insurance investigator (Oscar Isaac), and several more slayings.

The sequences involving the Lodges — that is to say, the majority of the movie — is pitched as a dark comedy, but since Clooney doesn’t share the Coens’ natural aptitude for satire, these scenes prove to be awfully heavy-handed and stridently overbearing. The Coens must share some of the blame, though, for creating such flat characters in the first place. (Then again, there was a reason the brothers tossed this aside back in ’86.)

The portions of the film focusing on the African-American family — Mr. and Mrs. Mayers (Leith M. Burke and Karimah Westbrook) and their son Andy (Tony Espinosa) — are presented in far more dramatic fashion, wisely stripped of any comedic underpinnings. Yet witnessing the Mayers being harassed on a daily basis and seeing their car firebombed works in direct conflict to the broad comedy unfolding elsewhere in the film, and the only possible reaction is one of embarrassment. Clooney, of course, means well, but his point that the nice black family is being persecuted while no one pays any attention to the white scumbags next door couldn’t be more clumsy or obvious.

Goodbye Christopher Robin ( ) is a film of several stories and many moods.

It’s a biopic of author A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson), best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh. It’s a story of PTSD, as Milne suffers from flashbacks to the horrors he experienced while participating in World War I. It’s a comingof-age tale, with Milne’s son, Christopher Robin (played by Will Tilston at age 8 and Alex Lawther at age 18), learning to cope with being a star in his own right (and against his will), as the kid whose childhood provided the template and inspiration for his father’s most popular works. It’s a piece about family dysfunction, as there are frequent fissures created between Milne, his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie), and their young boy. It’s an inspirational study of how the creative process can be employed to soothe the soul and heal the psyche. It’s a horror story about the cult of celebrity, with an innocent life being subjected to the sort of media frenzy that’s still very much in effect today. And, for those who care to subscribe to this viewpoint, it’s a film about child abuse.

That’s an awful lot of weight for one movie to carry, but the strain really only becomes apparent during the latter passages. For the most part, director Simon Curtis and scripters Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan do a smooth job of integrating the disparate elements to fashion a bittersweet yarn that largely centers on a co-opted childhood. The efforts to reclaim said adolescence would logically factor into any such narrative, yet it’s during the final stretch (basically, when Lawther takes over from Tilston in the role of Christopher Robin) that the picture becomes rushed, clipped and unsatisfying.

Goodbye Christopher Robin makes a valiant effort at emerging as more than just a traditional biopic. Ultimately, though, its lofty ambitions are a bit too much for the filmmakers to bear. !

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Hellraiser on Elm Street: An oral history of locally-filmed horror

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Ian McDowell

Contributing columnist

Pinhead’s here,” my friend Julia said one night 26 years ago in Greensboro.

I scanned the crowded Rhinoceros Club and asked if she meant the bartender or her boyfriend. The former was someone we argued politics with. The latter was a tall man whose tiny noggin amused

our vicious circle.

“No, asshole, the guy with nails in his head from Hellraiser!”

She meant Doug Bradley, the British actor best known as the nail-studded Lord of Pain and Pleasure horror fans dubbed Pinhead. Bradley had played Pinhead in 1987’s Hellraiser and its 1989 sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, both shot in England. He was in Greensboro working on Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth. The previous films took place in a sort-of London full of British actors with dubbed American accents. Now, to paraphrase the Leonard Cohen song Don Henley slaughtered at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, the Hellraiser demonology was coming to the USA. Julia pointed at a mild-looking man I recognized without his makeup, due to his having reverted to human form at the end of Hellraiser 2. As John Hammer poured whiskey, Freddie Krueger’s latest rival endured the enthusiasm of a local magician, who inexplicably babbled about Star Trek while producing a shilling from Bradley’s ear. The British coin suggested the prestidigitating Trekkie had come looking for the actor. Me, too. I wanted to interview Bradley for an article I hoped to sell to the magazine Fangoria.

That never happened. The bemused Brits button-holed by the shilling-twirling Tarheel included not only Bradley, screenwriter Peter Atkins and publicist Stephen Jones, but an Atlanta-based journalist Fangoria had flown down to cover the shoot. Interrupting their Trekkie tormenter, I introduced myself by saying Neil Gaiman told me to say hi.

The creator of Sandman and future best-selling author of “American Gods” had known them since his early days in journalism. Then still living in the UK, Gaiman had recently flown to North Carolina’s DEG studios to meet producers in-

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Ken Carpenter, Eric Wilhelm and Peter Atkins raise Hell on Greene Street. terested in “Good Omens,” the 1990 novel he had co-written with Terry Pratchett.

Over surf-n-turf in Wilmington, he told me that his old mates would be filming in Greensboro and I should look them up.

While I never got to interview Bradley, Atkins and Jones declared any friend of Neil’s a friend of theirs, making us welcome at the downtown shoots and the Rhino afterward. I became particular friends with Atkins, with whom I’d exchange letters and phone calls for years before we lost touch for no good reason.

This article has gotten us back in contact.

Atkins took an active part in the filming of Hellraiser 3 that might not have happened in Hollywood, where it’s uncommon for the writer to be involved in the filming. “I was originally only going to be there for two weeks prep before the cameras rolled,” he wrote in a recent email.

“But Tony Hickox (director), brought on to direct at very short notice after the producers fired Tony Randel (Atkins’ friend from the old days in Liverpool who’d

directed Hellraiser 2), wanted to keep me there.”

When told there wasn’t enough money in the budget to do that, the director cast Atkins in the small role of the bartender transformed into a “Cenobite,” as the S&M demons who made their film debut in writer/director Clive Barker’s 1987 Hellraiser were called. “I’m sure the producers were very grateful once I nobly took on the job of casting strippers from the club next door for our Boiler Room sequences,” he wrote.

Hellraiser 3 premiered in the United States on Sept. 11, 1992. Domestically, it earned $12,534,961 on a cost of approximately $50,000. It was the first release by the Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films, but none of the cast or crew had any contact with Harvey Weinstein. Atkins said the film was, “so successful in terms of production costs versus Box Office returns that Miramax, who’d come in only as distributors after we’d made the movie, bought ownership of the franchise from

producer Larry Kuppin and commissioned Hellraiser 4.”

I asked Atkins if he remembered something he said one time at the Rhino when he quipped, “I never thought filming in North Carolina meant dealing with the Mafia.” Being British, he pronounced the “a” as in “math.”

In the ‘90s, money flowing from the High Point International Furniture Market made Greensboro the strip club capital of the South. A Triad restaurant owner capitalized on this by opening several clubs, one of which was where Atkins held auditions. Shortly into the process, he said he received a message that the owner was angry he’d not come downstairs and introduced himself. “What’s the matter with you, you come to my place but don’t pay me respect?” he described the owner saying.

Answering my recent email question about this, Atkins said it was not a shake-down, but a friendly warning by a man who said he didn’t want to see

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his employees exploited. Regardless of whether that now-deceased restaurateur had mob ties, his longtime reputation for being “connected” was something he actively encouraged as a way of seeming more intimidating.

In that email, Atkins recalled the club owner as “a very interesting fellow” and wrote that despite “the secret that everyone in town seemed to know,” he was friendly and generous. “I had a couple of private dinners with him, and he reminded me of some ‘self-made men’ I’d known in Liverpool, so we got on fine.”

I told Atkins I recalled him being bemused that he couldn’t buy alcohol on a Sunday, but could purchase a pistol at the gun show near the Howard Johnson’s where the crew was housed. He replied that the High Point Gun Show seemed bizarre to him then, if less so now that he has in-laws who own a horse farm in Georgia. But, he said, it “didn’t faze” Hickox. He recalled Hickox buying the film’s heroine Terry Farrell, whom Hickox was dating and who would go on to play Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “a small pearl-handled revolver” as a romantic gesture. “Because flowers were a little conventional.”

Atkins wasn’t the only member of the crew who unexpectedly found himself playing a hell-spawned Cenobite. That also happened to Eric Wilhelm, now a Charlotte-based sound engineer, who was studying film at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Besides being a student, Wilhelm delivered pizza for Domino’s. In a Facebook message, he wrote that his boss was a film buff “entranced” by the idea of a Hellraiser movie happening here. “One day he told me there was an open call for extras for a bar scene, and asked if I wanted to be one,” wrote Wilhelm, saying that it seemed a vicarious thrill on his boss’s part. “He even let me take off work!”

Wilhelm showed up at the shoot, where he was approached by two crew members asking his height and weight. When he told them, they asked if he wanted to be a Cenobite.

“I wasn’t even sure what a Cenobite was, but I said yes!”

He said the actor playing the club DJ, who was resurrected as a Cenobite with CDs sticking out of his head, had left town before his post-transformation scenes.

“They had the suit already made for him, and now he was gone.”

In one scene, the Cenobite whom fans would call “CD Head” (there’s even a trading card of Wilhelm labeled that) walks out of the club in High Point, pulls a CD out of his head, and throws it into the head of a cab driver in Greensboro.

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Preparing to film a flaming New York taxi on Greene Street. directly at the camera, but, Wilhelm said, “you can’t really throw a CD in a straight line.” Plus, he could barely see in the makeup. “So I take the CD and throw it, and it totally beans the director in the face! I can still smell and feel that costume,” wrote Wilhelm. “It was really tight and cumbersome.” It was now the beginning of October, and there was an early chill in the air. “You would think the costume plus makeup would keep me warm, but it didn’t.” He added that he’d hoped that he could keep the costume and wear it on Halloween, but “no such luck.”

Wilhelm was paid $400. “In cash, under the table,” he told me in a Facebook message. Even though he ended up on a trading card, on the cover of Fangoria magazine, and as an action figure. “All in a day’s work for an underpaid pizza delivery boy,” he wrote.

Some locals were paid less and had less fun. Allison Malloy was working at Traxion Studios while finishing her degree at UNCG when she heard that the production needed extras. The instructions were simple. Bring or wear a “sexy/shiny” evening or cocktail dress and come in makeup. There was no compensation, but being a big fan of the series, she came.

She wrote me that she “was struck by how run-down and sketchy the set seemed; I’m wondering if it was filmed at one of those empty places used for the furniture market.” The person in charge of extras chose a dress, and she changed and sat in a chair and waited to be called.

After an inspection, she joined a group placed at various tables in what was supposed to be a restaurant. “There was half-cooked food on plates and water in glasses, and we were told to wait.”

She wrote that the scene was very different in real life than it looked in the

movie, where it’s an elegant restaurant with a string ensemble playing while women dance behind screens. On set, they danced to Van Halen while the diners were “ate” and “talked” without making a sound.

Star Terry Farrell entered with “the soap opera actor who played J. P. the Club Owner” (Kevin Bernhardt, who played Kevin O’Connor on General Hospital and Father McBride on Dynasty).

“They did their lines several times, with the extras pretending to talk and eat and the string ensemble pretending to play and the dancers dancing,” she said. Malloy said her main memory is of how famished she was. “Staring at half-cooked food would gross out most people, but made me hungry. They had a popcorn maker, and now whenever I think about or see any part of any Hellraiser movie, I smell popcorn.”

Atkins and Jones were the ones I hung out most with while the film was shooting in Greensboro, and both of them wrote that they have fond memories of the area, emphasizing how struck they were by its beauty.

Those interested in reading fine horror fiction should check out the awardnominated “Rumors of the Marvelous” by Atkins, his collection of short stories that’s available on Kindle and in paperback from Amazon. Jones has long been one of the premier editors in the field of horror fiction. You can’t go wrong with any of his “Best New Horror” anthologies, but locals might want to start with “Best New Horror 7,” as it contains the last known fiction written by Greensboro’s Jane Rice.

The second night I saw Doug “Pinhead” Bradley at the Rhino, he said “thanks for rescuing us from that horrid magician chap.” The last time I saw him was five years later, at a comic book convention in Charlotte. The guy running it had won the Florida lottery and spent much of it restocking the guest lounge with free top-shelf liquor every hour. Over a bottle of Macallan, Bradley claimed this was his first time in North Carolina, insisting Hellraiser 3 had been filmed in Australia.

Before I could argue, a scantily-clad green woman accidentally tipped an enormous framed painting of a barechested and kilted character from Star Trek onto the aging actor who played him.

When I turned back around, Bradley and the bottle were gone. To this day, I don’t know if he was having me on. !

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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Joy and remembrance on Día de Muertos Tomorrow I will go to Green Hill Cemetery and eat lunch with my dead grandfather.

He was no more Mexican than me but was my introduction to Día de Muertos, the Mexican Day of Ian McDowell the Dead (typically called Día de Los Contributing Muertos here, but the shorter name columnist is more common in Mexico). Vacationing in Oaxaca, he’d photographed shops lined with Calaveras, miniature skulls made from sugar or clay. Eight-year-old me was perplexed but fascinated. I understood slightly better a few years later, after reading Ray Bradbury’s Young Adult classic The Halloween Tree.

“It’s both happy and sad,” says Bradbury’s Mr. Moundshroud, who takes a group of trick-or-treaters through space and time to learn the role the Autumn festival of the dead plays in various cultures.

“It’s all firecrackers and skeleton toys down here in the plaza and up in that graveyard now are all the Mexican dead folks with the families visiting and flowers and candles and singing and candy,” Moundshroud said. “It’s like holding hands at a séance with your friends, but some of the friends gone.”

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lation of Charleston buried the corpses of Union prisoners of war left by the retreating Confederates and honored them with Dinner on the Ground. In that Southern tradition, “dinner” (the noon Sunday meal after morning worship) was held communally on blankets spread among the churchyard graves. In its original festive spirit, the weekly Dinner on the Ground was not too different from the annual Mexican one of picnicking among newly washed headstones.

In Europe, Allhallowtide, the three days consisting of All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2), was a time for remembering the dead. Its observance declined in North America until Mexican-Americans brought their own variation. Now, Día de Muertos is the most popular such observance in the United States.

“It’s really like a family reunion,” wrote Sarah Chavez, writer, historian and executive director of The Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit organization of funeral industry professionals, academics and artists devoted to “exploring ways to prepare a death phobic culture for their inevitable mortality.”

In a Facebook message, Troop wrote that the English custom of giving Soul Cakes to those who went ‘Souling’ (singing door-to-door) at both Halloween and Christmas was “very similar to that of the sugar skull.”

In her “Día de Muertos: a Primer” at www. orderofthegooddeath. com, Chavez stressed the festive and familial nature of the Mexican holiday, noting the deliberate absence of funereal solemnity. On it, she wrote, cemeteries are “crowded and lively,” full of people carrying buckets of water to wash the headstones, ice-cream vendors, candy sellers and “children playing tag among the headstones or playing with toys right on top of a tomb.”

She called the occasion one of love and joy, “a poignant example of a culture that has cultivated a positive relationship with death.”

Besides graveside celebrations, she wrote that the holiday includes home altars, special sweets, and the presentation of flowers, candles and food to the dead. Most of these can be seen in the Triad on Nov. 3. That’s when Casa Azul of Greensboro, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of Latino art and culture, will be holding a Día de Muertos celebration from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Greensboro Public Library and LeBauer Park.

The organization will be also be displaying an Ofrendas exhibit in the Nussbaum Room of the Greensboro Public Library at 219 N Church St. on both Nov. 3 and

4. An ofrenda (offering) is a collection of objects placed on a Día de Muertos altar.

The exhibits, created by local artists, honor deceased loved ones, community members or public figures who have made significant contributions to society. Each ofrenda will be colorfully decorated with flowers, papel picado (literally “pecked paper,” a Mexican folk art in which paper is cut into beautiful and elaborate designs) and mementos of those who have passed on. Both events are free and open to the public.

Tomorrow, I’ll be having a more intimate celebration beside my grandfather’s grave in Green Hill Cemetery, the only burial site of this orphan’s dead family within 100 miles of Greensboro. Maybe my mother, who died 15 years before he did, or my father, who died 30 years after, will join us. !

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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Trailer Park Orchestra is back and ready to rock What do you get when crossing a trailer park with five guys and their musical instruments of mass destruction?

An eclectic orchestra fueled by the love of partying and rock ‘n’ roll. The Trailer Park Katie Murawski Orchestra consists of Chris Sealey (bass), Joe Potts Editor (guitar), Louis Money (vocals), Brian Pell (percussion) and Bull Bentley (guitar). Bentley said that everyone played in different bands with each other before and Money describes the members as “local music veterans.”

Money said TPO did not feel complete until Potts joined the band and Sealey, (who joined last year) was the icing on top. Potts joined the band after he helped them record their first demo at his studio, JP Audio Labs.

After jamming out for the first time one night four years ago, they were at their trailer park when they first conceived their name. “We were actually writing the song which is now “Lot 312,” Money said. “I was sitting there trying to think of a name, and I was thinking I like the name Trailer Park and it started to hit me, what is another name for a band? Trailer Park Orchestra, and as soon as I said it everyone in the room was like ‘that’s it.’”

On Nov. 3 the orchestra will commence after a five-month hiatus (due to Pell’s recovery from an operation) at Bessemer Billiards, located at 1207 E. Bessemer Ave. in Greensboro, from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.

Also playing will be Desired Redemption and Katelyn Masters.

This show is apart of their monthly First Fridays, which has been a recurring event for four years that features three bands.

Typically one band is from out of town, Money said. Bentley said there is usually three different styles of music, such as blues, metal, cover bands, country, etc.

Even though the band hasn’t been performing for five months, TPO has been writing and making music on and off in Potts’s home studio. TPO also had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to collaborate with a hip-hop Hall of Famer, Special K. He appears on their new song that will be on their second and upcoming album, Deep Fried Double Wide, called “Peed On a Stick,” and was written by Money after his girlfriend told him she was pregnant.

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several songs about equal rights and gay rights.” “But not in a political way,” Bentley said finishing Potts’s sentence.

“Not in a political way, but almost coincidentally that we are actually kind of good, swell people,” Potts said. “I think once a lot of people get to know us they are surprised or shocked to find out that the trailer park is kind of a nice place to be.” Deep Fried Double Wide is expected to come out in February 2018, but TPO plans to preview a couple of their songs before the end of the year. From here on out, TPO will perform at every First Friday event and on Feb. 17 they plan to play a benefit show for Triad Health Project at Somewhere Else Tavern. !

he was involved with Triad Old School at a Kool Moe Dee show and after they became friends and TPO has even unexpectantly performed with him before.

“We became Facebook friends and when I went to New York City he said to hit him up so I did and we hung out,” Money said. “I was walking in the south Bronx with Special K down the grand concourse, how many trailer park guys get to do that? It’s pretty awesome.”

Another new song called, “Tate Street Hipsters” will also be on their upcoming second album. This song stems from the band’s collective frustration with the lack of participation and support for local music by Tate Street hipsters.

Bentley recalled a time when Special K hopped on stage with them at the Blind Tiger and started performing. Bentley said that there were Tate Street hipsters there at the show, and, “they didn’t know that there was literally hip-hop royalty performing for them.”

TPO’s music can be described as, “if Lynyrd Skynyrd was reincarnated and grew up with old-school metal, old-school punk and old-school hip-hop,” Money said. Overall, there is significant Southern rock, metal and punk influence ingrained in their music.

“If Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Ramones had an illegitimate child it would be us,” Bentley said.

Money said their style and genre goes back to the whole Tate Street hipsters conundrum. “If we play at a metal bar we stick out like a sore thumb because we are not as heavy as everyone else,” Money said. “If we go play some of the Tate Street-area venues everyone is looking at us like we are the death metal band.”

Potts wanted to point out that despite

their band name being “Trailer Park Orchestra” and them being five burly, white men doesn’t mean they are what they seem. “A lot of times I think we are mistaken or presumed to be,” Potts said as Bentley interjected, “Country rednecks.”

“Or more conservative than we are,” Potts said. “In fact, we have written

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last call [THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

BY AMY ALKON

WHILE YOU WERE SWEEPING

My boyfriend unplugs my laptop when it’s charging and plugs the charger into his, despite knowing that I need my computer charged for work. This is actually part of a pattern — a general lack of consideration, from constantly being late to always leaving messes for me to clean up to knocking the shower door off the track and then just leaving it leaning against the tub. Recently, my dad emailed him three times without hearing back — in response to a favor he’d asked of my dad! — and I had to bug him to reply. How can I get him to be more considerate? — Disturbed

There are people who go all crazybiscuits if you don’t immediately email them back — confusing the ability to reply nearly instantly with a mandate to do that. Still, there’s a middle ground between frantically responding to every message and taking so long that somebody sends the cops around to peer in the windows for a body.

When you’re romantically involved with someone, it’s kind of a problem if the most reliable thing about them is their unreliability. Granted, we all fail in the followthrough department every now and then — like when my car got ticketed because the registration sticker I’d paid for remained in a pile of unopened mail that had gradually migrated under my bed.

But when somebody has a pretty pervasive pattern of carelessness — when they’re basically an entitlement-infused, cornercutting slacktastrophe of a person — it points to their coming up short on what psychologists call “conscientiousness.” This is one of the five core personality dimensions (along with openness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability), and it reflects a person’s level of self-control and sense of responsibility to others.

Personality researcher Brent Roberts explains that people who are “high in conscientiousness” “tend to write down important dates, comb their hair, polish their shoes, stand up straight, and scrub floors.” That last one is an unexpected plus if you have dingy grout; however, there’s such a thing as too much conscientiousness — which is cool if your “type” is a rigid, perfectionistic mini-Mussolini.

Meanwhile, on the perennially chillaxed end of the spectrum, people “low in conscientiousness” tend to break promises, cancel plans, watch more TV, oversleep, and see credit limits as credit suggestions.

The plan-canceling and promise-breaking reflect something noteworthy — selfcenteredness and a lack of concern for how

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their behavior affects others. (Essentially, they tend to do things halfway — but only when they can’t get away with doing them a third of the way or less.)

Not surprisingly, researchers find that people’s lives work better if they keep their promises, don’t go around with yesterday’s sloppy Joe on their shirt, and get to work at an hour that does not require an explanation that opens with “you’ll never believe what happened this time!”

However, it isn’t just your own level of conscientiousness that impacts your life. Psychologists Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson find that having a partner high in conscientiousness makes you likely to have higher income and job satisfaction and a better shot at getting promoted.

They suggest that having a more conscientious partner makes for a more satisfying and supportive home life, allowing a person to focus more on their work.

Personality traits are, to a great extent, genetic and are largely stable because of that. However, Roberts finds evidence that people can increase their level of conscientiousness. This starts in the smallest ways, like making the bed and tidying the house in the morning so it looks more “lived in” than “ransacked.” Repeated behaviors become habits, and collectively, our habits form who we are.

Of course, changing starts with wanting to change — valuing conscientiousness enough to be motivated to make it an integral part of everything one does. This sometimes happens when a person gets a tragedy-driven wake-up call. Absent that, your best chance for inspiring your boyfriend to want to live more conscientiously is by using empathy as a motivator — gently explaining to him how unloved you feel and how disrespected other people must feel in the wake of his constant sloppy disregard for anyone but himself.

If he says he wants to change, give yourself a deadline — perhaps two or three months down the road — to see whether he’s making meaningful improvement. If you decide to break up, you might want to make conscientiousness one of the “musthaves” on your “What I Need In A Man” list so your next relationship feels more like a romantic partnership than a remedial finishing school for one. Lesson 36: One should email the girlfriend’s dad back in less time than it would take to deliver the message by pony express — if you first had to get the mare and the stallion to hook up to make the pony. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon

[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your energy levels are high, allowing you to complete those unfinished tasks before you take on a new project. A social invitation could come from an unlikely source.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Instead of worrying if that new person in your life will stay or leave, spend all that energy on strengthening your relationship so it becomes walk-out resistant.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) You might think you’re helping, but unless you’re asked for a critique, don’t give it. If you are asked, watch what you say. Your words should be helpful, not hurtful.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A sudden financial dry spell could reduce your cash flow almost to a trickle. But by conserving more and spending less, you’ll get through the crunch in good shape.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your attempt at mediating disputes might meet some opposition at first. But once you’re shown to be fair and impartial, resistance soon gives way to cooperation.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your work requires increased effort during the next few days. But it all will pay off down the line. Things ease up in time for weekend fun with family and/or friends.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November

21) Go ahead. Reward yourself for helping settle a disturbing workplace situation.

On another note: A personal relationship might be moving to a higher level.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22

to December 21) A sudden change of heart by a colleague might create some momentary uncertainty. But stay with your original decision and, if necessary, defend it.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to Janu-

ary 19) Rely on a combination of your sharp instincts along with some really intense information gathering to help you make a possibly life-changing decision.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your genuine concern for others could prompt you to promise more than you can deliver.

It’s best to modify your plans now, before you wind up overcommitted later.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A situation that seems simple at first glance needs a more thorough assessment before you give it your OK. Dig deeper for information that might be hidden from view.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Careful: Right now, things might not be quite what they appear. Even the intuitive Crab could misread the signs. Get some solid facts before you act on your suspicions. © 2017 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

[STRANGE BUT TRUE]

by Samantha Weaver

* It was 20th-century American journalist, editor and writing teacher Brenda Ueland who made the following sage observation: “Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” * If you’re thinking of starting a business and want to get up and running right away, there’s a company ready to help you get started. Novanym, a branding firm based in Farnborough, England, can provide you with a unique name and its matching .com domain — even your choice of three logos for your fledgling venture. For less than $700 you can brand your company as Aquinique, Spiranti or

Fenmarch. Have a more generous budget?

Try Mupkin, Cubexis or Zeqon, all in the $5,000 range. If you really want to go all-out — and are in the right industry — try Motaway for $25,727, or even InvestmentEtc, which is going for nearly $40,000. * You might be surprised to learn that if you add up all the deaths that are caused worldwide by tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS, the total would be less than a third of those attributable to pollution, which accounts for 16 percent of all global deaths.

Thought for the Day: ”Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” — Gwendolyn Brooks © 2017 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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