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“It was a vision that I had long before I moved back to Greensboro,” said The Artist Bloc’s co-owner DARLENE MCCLINTON. “At the age of 27, I prayed every single day, ‘God please birth in me a vision of success,’ and that is kind of when The Artist Bloc was born.”

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Bakers from To Your Health Bakery, located in Winston-Salem, and Baked Downtown, located in Greensboro, will be making their way to the SMALL SCREEN this holiday season on Hallmark Drama and Netflix, respectively.

7 Foodies, there’s way more to the sweet life and THANKSGIVING DESSERTS than pumpkin pie. Eh…bet me, but I’ve rounded up some most delicious recipes, two from local food bloggers, that are sure to please after your feast, or before, or the next day, and forever.

8 KÖRNER’S FOLLY’s Christmas by Candlelight Tours will light up the night on Dec. 7 and 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Kernersville.

9 The RiverRun International Film Festivals has teamed up with Marketplace Cinemas in Winston-Salem to present a special screening of the documentary HOOPS AFRICA: UBUNTU MATTERS on Tuesday, Dec. 5, with filmmaker and North Carolina native Taylor Sharp scheduled to attend.

10 THE GOOD LIAR, adapted from Nicholas Searle’s best-selling novel by screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher and directed

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16 The apparent RACIAL DISPARITY between local advocates for abortion rights and those who oppose them was not meant to be the theme of this article.

But after visiting both the Pregnancy Care Center in College Hill that counsels against abortion, and the A Woman’s Choice clinic two miles away that the Fulton street center’s staff spends so much time protesting, it became impossible to ignore.

18 I’m talking about JOHN KENNEDY, and how he misread history, unintentionally insulted the State of Virginia, and was compelled to make amends.

20 LEE RITENOUR was a little busy last week. But that’s wasn’t really unusual for him. He had gigs in China, and so we weren’t able to schedule a time for a lastminute chat.

21 Rave on, flat-top cats and dungaree dolls! THE TREMORS look to shake up the Triad with shows on Nov. 22 at the Flat Iron in Greensboro and Dec. 6 at Earl’s in Winston-Salem.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO GRADE SEPARATE FRANKLIN BOULEVARD AND CLOSURE OF O’FERRELL STREET RAIL CROSSING AND PROPOSAL TO EXTEND NACO ROAD FROM O’FERRELL STREET TO U.S. 70 (BURLINGTON ROAD) WITH RAIL GRADE SEPARATIONS AT WARD ROAD AND WAGONER BEND ROAD AND THE CLOSURE OF MAXFIELD ROAD AND BUCHANAN CHURCH ROAD RAIL CROSSINGS IN GREENSBORO

STIP PROJECT NOS. P-5709 / Y-5500GA The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes project P-5709 to grade separate Franklin Boulevard and closure of O’Ferrell Street rail crossing. A grade separation means using a bridge to separate intersecting roads and/or railroads. Project Y-5500GA proposes to extend Naco Road from O’Ferrell Street to U.S. 70 (Burlington Road) with rail grade separations at Ward Road and Wagoner Bend Road, and closure of rail crossings at Maxfield Road and Buchanan Church Road in Greensboro. The purpose of the project is to remove existing atgrade railroad crossings, provide safety improvements, and improve passenger and freight rail operations along the Piedmont Corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte.

A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21 at Genesis Baptist Church, 2812 E. Bessemer Ave. in Greensboro.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings or the project website: https://Publicinput.com/Franklin-naco-Greensboro The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made.

NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done by phone, email, or mail by Dec. 5, 2019.

For additional information, please contact: For P-5709- NCDOT Senior Rail Project Engineer Anamika Laad, at 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, (919) 707-4705 or alaad@ncdot.gov, or for Y-5500GANCDOT Project Development Engineer Consultant Matthew Potter, PE, at 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, (919) 707-4738, or mwpotter@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher,

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WHAT: Five Finger Death Punch is an American heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Five Finger Death Punch’s debut album The Way of the Fist was released in 2007, which began achieving rapid success and selling over 500,000 copies in the United States. The 2009 follow-up album War Is the Answer further increased their popularity, selling over 1,000,000 copies and got certified Platinum by the RIAA. WHEN: 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro.

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WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

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WHAT: Join us Saturday, November 23rd from 1p-6p at WFMY News 2 Piedmont Winterfest for a Frozen 2 Skate. Come skate outdoors, wear your favorite Frozen character costume and admission will be 50% off. Surprise appearances from Elsa & Anna from 1p-4p. Don’t have a favorite Frozen character or costume? Wear any of your favorite Disney character costume and receive a discount.

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REYNOLDA’S ESTATE-WIDE HOLIDAY STROLL WHAT: Stroll the sidewalks, galleries, and gardens of Reynolda surrounded by beautiful decorations, carolers, and merriment at this annual kickoff to the holiday season.

Take a carriage ride through the Village, see the 1917 bungalow after-hours, and escape to the greenhouse in Reynolda Gardens to see the orchid display.

WHEN: 2-8 p.m.

WHERE: Reynolda House Museum of American Art. 2250 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem.

MORE: Free entry.

SAT 23 CHEVELLE WHAT: Chevelle is the understated musical powerhouse who have continually delivered rock anthems for the past 25 years. 7 number one hits, 17 songs reaching the top 10 charts, over 4 million records sold in the USA and many more world wide. Platinum and gold albums across their 8 studio records, 2 compilation releases, a successful live CD and two live DVD releases completes their extensive body of work to date.

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BY TERRY RADER Gate City Songwriters are coming together to help fight hunger in a 10-hour indoor music festival called GSOngfest on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 1 -11 p.m. at Leveneleven Brewing in Greensboro, located at 1111 Coliseum Blvd.

Everyone is invited to this family-friendly event.

You can plan to listen to music all day long or come and go as you please with a suggested donation of $10 at the door. All proceeds will go to the Out of the Garden Project. Visitors may purchase award-winning beer, wine, soft drinks, or water along with food from the West Coast Wanderer food truck to bring inside.

Artists playing for a cause will deliver a broad range with something to appeal to everyone. From quiet, thought-provoking personal folk songs to high-energy folk-rock in 30-minute, back-to-back sets starting every half hour with William Nesmith (who also designed the poster), Alice Osborn, Tony Low, Matty Sheets, Laura Jane Vincent, Christian McIvor, Leah Kaufman, Kirby Heard, Bobbie Needham, Jim Herrmann, Julia Houghton, Doug Baker, Jack Gorham, Bryan McFarland, Kim Lane, Bryan Toney, Dean Driver, Tom Troyer, Barry Gray, Jamie Anderson, Matt “MC” Armstrong and Jeff Wall. Some artists will perform solo, and some will have others accompany them.

These local artists are also members of the Doodad Farm Songwriters Circle.

Personally, I’ve been blown away with the wealth of talent, the lack of ego, and their big hearts. It has been an amazing experience to see so many of them record their first and even fifth CDs, start songwriting rounds and finally begin to play publicly or increase their tours both nationally and internationally. They are giving back with what they do best, music.

They are also selling their CDs and giving 100% of those proceeds to the Out of the Garden Project for those of you who want to give local holiday gifts.

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fest came from many of the songwriters thinking and talking about how great it would be to have an original music festival that would also help a local nonprofit in our community,” said Bryan Toney, who co-founded Gate City Songwriters with Bryan McFarland. “Dan Morgan, the owner of Leveneleven Brewing, provided our first venue dedicated to booking only original music, so his was the obvious place to have it. Since its opening in 2018, it has won numerous beer awards, and in 2019 was voted the second-best intimate music venue in the Triad by YES! Weekly readers.”

The Out of the Garden Project has distributed more than 11 million meals since 2009 and serves 1,900 students and families every week.

“This program works due to an outpouring of help from our community,” said Kristy Milholin, director of events and co-founder of Out of the Garden.

“We’ve been able to put some good systems into logistics and infrastructure, but we constantly need more volunteers and funding. It takes a lot of work and an army of people that lock arms together to make it happen.”

Gate City Songwriters was formed in the fall of 2017 by a rotating group of folks representing a wide variety of original music genres and levels of experience with no prompts that meet most Sunday afternoons from 4 to 7 p.m. with an open mic on the fourth Sunday of each month at Leveneleven Brewing.

For a complete schedule, go to https:// www.facebook.com/gatecitysongwriters/ or contact Bryan Toney at (828) 406-0684 or bctoney@gmail.com. !

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t’s that time of year again. The weather’s getting colder, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the Christmas decorations are starting to appear. For many, it’s the time of year for sitting around the fire watching specials such as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” or even a festive baking show.

This year, a few Triad locals won’t just be watching such a baking show - they’ll be the stars.

Bakers from To Your Health Bakery, located in Winston-Salem, and Baked Downtown, located in Greensboro, will be making their way to the small screen this holiday season on Hallmark Drama and Netflix, respectively.

The head baker and founder of To Your Health Bakery, Anna Simeonides, will be featured in Hallmark Drama’s “Christmas Cookie Matchup,” a baking competition series. According to the show’s website, “Hallmark Drama’s first-ever baking competition will bring together America’s most talented home bakers alongside the cast of ‘When Calls the Heart’ to face off in a new cookie baking challenge.”

Based in Winston-Salem, To Your Health Bakery specializes in gluten-free, allergy-friendly and vegan baked goods.

Their ingredients are all-natural with no preservatives or corn syrups, and they offer keto and paleo options, but orders can be customized and made with no restrictions as well.

“We always were a natural bakery, but we weren’t 100% gluten-free when we first started out,” Simeonides said.

Over time, the bakery evolved into the specialty shop it is today, following the wants of the customers.

“My little brother was born with a lot of allergies, and so we understood the importance of clean and healthy eating,” said Simeonides, who, by preparing food for her younger brother growing up, learned the complexities of cooking and baking for someone with extensive food allergies. “There was such a need for an allergy-friendly bakery.”

Simeonides, a Hallmark enthusiast, decided to apply for the baking competition after finding a casting call online.

“Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a number one Hallmark fan, and I love baking,” she said, adding that some of her Facebook friends tagged her in a post advertising the show.

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to submit a video of herself as part of the application process. In her video, she detailed her love for Christmas, her ugly sweater collection, her baking, her holiday traditions, her favorite Hallmark movies and even sang Christmas carols.

After getting a callback and securing a spot, Simeonides headed out to Los Angeles to film the show over a period of about eight days. The show is an elimination competition, with six bakers competing in two challenges each day, for a grand prize of $25,000.

Two judges preside over the challenges, and at the end of each day one baker is sent home. The show has five parts, and each week leading up to Christmas, another episode will premiere on the Hallmark Drama channel.

For Simeonides, the most challenging aspect of the competition was the mental exhaustion and the pressure she put on herself, yet competing was one of the most rewarding experiences of her life.

“I definitely am the kind of person to, like, psych myself out. But it was so amazing that really there was no drawback other than that,” she said. “I really feel like I soaked up every single moment of it.”

Simeonides said that only Hallmark could forge true friendships out of a baking competition.

“All of the competitors walked away absolutely loving each other,” she said, adding that everyone who worked on the show, from producers to directors, to makeup artists, had “that spirit of Hallmark in them.”

The first episode of “Christmas Cookie Matchup” premiered on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 9 p.m. on Hallmark Drama. A new episode runs each following Wednesday night.

But To Your Health Bakery isn’t the only Triad sweet spot hitting the small screen. The Greensboro-based bakery, Baked Downtown, is set to be featured in an episode of “Sugar Rush Christmas,” a holiday edition of the Netflix original baking competition series that first premiered in 2018. According to the Netflix website, “Sugar Rush Christmas” is “everything you love about ‘Sugar Rush’ - with a holly jolly holiday twist - in this Christmas-themed spin on competitive baking.”

Baked Downtown began in owner Taylor Inman’s home kitchen under the name For Goodness Cake. As the business expanded, Inman, formerly a dental assistant, was able to quit her job and move the operation into a shop in downtown

Anna Simeonides on the set of “Christmas Cookie Matchup” Greensboro, changing the name to Baked Downtown to avoid confusion with another bakery based in Charlotte.

Though the business has moved on up from Inman’s kitchen, the only employees are Inman herself and one other person, and they’ve tailored Baked Downtown to focus on unique creations. “We specialize in unusual cakes, like gravity-defying cakes, or cakes with waterfalls in them,” Inman said.

While vending at a farmer’s market one day, Inman received a call from Netflix inviting her to apply for a baking competition T.V. show.

“They found our Instagram and had never had any competitors from North Carolina,” she said, adding that the call led to an application process and a series of extensive video chat interviews.

“They were very nerve-wracking,” said Inman, recounting how the interviews took place over multiple rounds with various Netflix producers and personnel. “We ended up doing three different video chat interviews in our kitchen at home, and then once we got there, there was even more. We had tons of interviews.”

And this new adventure for Baked Downtown has been a long time coming.

Inman said she first received a call in October 2018, was notified they’d been cast in December 2018, and filmed the show in February 2019. “The word is FINALLY out!!!” read Baked Downtown’s October 2019 Facebook post that first announced their participation in the series.

Inman selected Frances Kreilick, a friend from the dentist’s office, to compete on the show with her.

“When I was out of my home with For Goodness Cake, she came and helped me

during the major holidays when I would get behind,” said Inman of Kreilick. “So she was my, my first choice.”

Filming began only a few hours after Inman and Kreilick arrived in Los Angeles.

Inman said the taping of both the competition and the competitors’ on-screen interviews took place over the course of three days and added up to around 19 hours of shooting.

Like “Christmas Cookie Matchup,” “Sugar Rush Christmas” is also an elimination competition, but with a much faster turnaround. Four teams of two bakers face off in three different challenges, and a team is eliminated after each round. The last two teams remaining go head-tohead in the final round for a grand prize of $10,000.

As gleaned from the name, the defining characteristic of “Sugar Rush Christmas” is the extremely fast-paced nature of the competition. For the first and second rounds, the bakers had a combined total of only two hours - any leftover time they had in the first round, they could use in the second. They had only four hours for the final (and most daunting) challenge.

“It was absolute insanity,” Inman said of the competition. “The clock, I think it ticks away at three times its normal rate.”

Though she’s used to working under time constraints, the kitchen’s appliances, tools and set-up were completely different from the kitchen that she’s used to working in. This difference, coupled with the short bake times, was the most challenging aspect for Inman.

“Honestly, the worst part of the whole thing was just not knowing where anything was,” Inman said. “All your measuring cups are in different places, your ingredients are in a separate area and you shared a refrigerator and glass chiller with another competing team.”

Although the competition certainly induced some stress, Inman and her teammate bonded with the other competitors, bakers who hailed from Maryland, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania.

“We met some absolutely incredible people, between the producers, the other bakers, the other competitors. We still keep in touch with all of the other competitors,” said Inman, adding that one of the bakers from Maryland is even coming to visit Greensboro soon.

“Watch it and don’t judge too hard,” Inman laughed. “Sugar Rush Christmas” is available to stream on Netflix beginning Nov. 29. !

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Thanksgiving sweets to fall for

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Foodies, there’s way more to the sweet life and Thanksgiving desserts than pumpkin pie. I’ve rounded up some of the most delicious recipes (two from local food bloggers) that are sure to please after your feast, or before, or the next day.

Pumpkin Dream Cake (recipe adapted from Jessica Merchant, author of The Pretty Dish and HowSweetEats.com blog) This cake isn’t overly spiced; feel free to add a bit more cinnamon or even pumpkin pie spice to your liking. This frosting recipe calls for two blocks of cream cheese. I found one was plenty, but if you love frosting, follow the recipe as specified.

2-cups all-purpose flour 2-teaspoons baking soda 1 ¼-teaspoons ground cinnamon ½-teaspoon salt ¼-teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg One 15-ounce can pumpkin puree 1 ¾-cups brown sugar ½-cup plain Greek yogurt ½-cup vegetable oil Four large eggs 2-teaspoons vanilla extract

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Cinnamon cream cheese frosting Two 8-ounce blocks cream cheese ½-cup unsalted butter 2 ½-cups powdered sugar ½-teaspoon cinnamon 1-teaspoon vanilla extract

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9-by-13 inch baking dish with nonstick baking spray. In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg. In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, sugar, yogurt and oil. Once smooth and combined, whisk in each egg one at a time and then whisk in the vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing until it’s combined with no large lumps remaining. Pour the batter into the greased baking dish and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool the cake completely. Once the cake has cooled, frost with the cream cheese frosting, slice and serve.

Frosting instructions: Beat the cream cheese and butter together until creamy, then beat in the sugar and cinnamon until combined. Beat in the vanilla extract and frost the cooled cake.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (Recipe by the local blogger, TeriLyn Hutcheons Adams, blog: afoodiestaysfit.com) “The yummiest, healthy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies,” Adams said.

“The cookies are light and fluffy with the perfect pumpkin flavor without being overly sweet.”

1-cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling) ¾-cup coconut sugar ½-cup unsweetened applesauce One egg 1-tablespoon vanilla extract 2-cups whole-wheat flour 2-teaspoons baking powder 2-teaspoons cinnamon 1/8-teaspoon nutmeg 1/8-teaspoon ground cloves ½-teaspoon salt 1-teaspoon baking soda 1-cup semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare two baking sheets by lining with parchment paper. In a large bowl, cream together pumpkin, sugar, applesauce, egg, and vanilla and mix well. This should yield a fluffy, light brown mixture. In a medium

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt and baking powder in a separate bowl. Gradually add the dry mixture to wet and mix until it’s combined. (Don’t over-mix it!) Fold in chocolate chips and use a small ice cream scoop to form the cookies and place 1 to 1.5 inches apart. (The cookies won’t spread so they can be close.) Bake for seven to 10 minutes until the cookies feel springy to the touch. (Don’t over-bake!)

Remove to a wire rack to cool.

Notes from Teri: If you like a slightly flatter cookie, press each mound down with the back of the ice cream scoop. This required three sheet pans to bake all the dough, so the cooking time is seven to 10 minutes per round.

(The recipe notes at the top lists the total time baking so you have an accurate estimate of how long it’ll take to make the full recipe.)

I prefer to bake one sheet at a time to ensure even baking. But, I prep two sheets so I can put the second one in as soon as the first comes out. Then, I let the first pan cool a bit before reloading with dough to bake for the last round.

These are best eaten the same day but still fine in an airtight container for three to four days. However, I do recommend baking them in small batches and baking just what you need for the day.

(You can refrigerate the rest of the dough for three to four days until you’re ready to bake more.)

Nikki’s Sweet Potato Pie (recipe by blogger Nikki Miller-Ka, blog: niksnacksonline.com) Yield: Two pies,6 to 8 servings per pie 1/3-cup unsalted, softened butter 1/3-cup Dixie Crystals extra fine granulated sugar ¾-cup dark brown sugar Three large eggs 1 ¼-cup (10 ounces) evaporated milk 4-cups mashed, cooked sweet potatoes 1-teaspoon lemon zest 2-teaspoons pure vanilla extract ½-teaspoon freshly grated ginger ½-teaspoon ground cinnamon ½-teaspoon nutmeg ¼-teaspoon salt Two unbaked pastry shell (9 inches) In a bowl, mix the cream, butter and sugars together. Add eggs one at a time and mix until all are incorporated. Add milk, sweet potatoes, lemon zest, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt, and mix well. Divide mixture and pour it into two pie shells. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean and cool until ready to serve.

We are so thankful for our contributors this week. Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday! !

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

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Nov. 29 until Jan.4, 2020, open from Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for the Daytime Holiday Tours. Dec. 14, from 10 a.m-3 p.m. is A Kernersville Yuletide: (tickets regular tour admission). Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 from 6-9 p.m., Sat., Dec. 7 at 10 a.m.: Christmas Puppet Show ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas ($5 ages 2 and up, purchase tickets online ONLY for puppet show). On Dec. 7 and 21 and from 5-9 p.m. is the Christmas by Candlelight Tours.

Regular tour admission tickets: Adults ($10+tax), Children Ages 6-18 ($6+tax), under 6 (free) may be purchased online or onsite. Christmas by Candlelight tickets ($15+tax) for Adults, ($6+tax) for Children (Ages 6-18), under 6 Free. Tickets for ice-skating: www.kernersvillemuseum.org/ ice-skating-rink-info. Körner’s Folly, 413 S. Main St. in Kernersville, NC, (336) 996-7922, www. kornersfolly.org. Holiday closings: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and Jan. 5, 2020.

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örner’s Folly’s Christmas by Candlelight Tours will light up the night on Dec. 7 and 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Kernersville. Suzanna Ritz, operations and Terry Rader programs manager, said it feels “otherworldly” when visiContributor tors get to experience the Victorian-era house museum with Victorian-inspired Christmas decorations after dark. Candlelight Tours and on-site ticket sales begin promptly at 5 p.m. in Aunt Dealy’s House, and holiday tours last about one hour, followed by hot cider and Moravian cookies on the South Porch.

“We work with local actors and musicians to provide entertainment and give visitors a feast for the eyes,” she said.

The Candlelight Tours began in 2012, and 500 to 600 visitors have attended annually. Once inside, Ritz said that all the tours are self-guided so that visitors can take their time with family and friends.

She said that they have a tour route and storyboard, so people don’t miss anything, but they don’t have to follow it.

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sparkle and shine to some, others have interpreted the decorating with the wonder of the Gilded Age. Ritz said it takes a lot of volunteers to decorate. She said some of those volunteers are the Körner relatives/ descendants, and others just love getting into the Christmas Spirit. She said helping put this together is their way of giving back. This year’s volunteers include The Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden team (who will be decorating the foyer), the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professionals Network, Kernersville Kiwanis Club and others. Ritz said that visitors get to vote for their favorite room and the winner gets “bragging rights and are asked to bring their A-game to the next year’s competition.”

Ritz said they have three different floors, seven different levels, and she said that some rooms are very small and open up to extremely large spaces. Ritz cautions visitors to be careful on two large staircases and over 100 steps, and while everyone is welcome, even the first floor isn’t wheelchair accessible. Ritz said that those assisted by a walker generally do well on the first floor, and those with a cane can manage the tour if they take their time.

Ritz said that the daytime self-guided holiday tours last approximately one hour, and the house would be fully decorated from Nov. 29 through Jan. 4, 2020. The last tickets will be sold at 4 p.m. each day to allow adequate time to tour the house.

Körner’s Folly Christmas 2016 Interior Amateur photography is allowed, but Ritz said to call ahead for professional photography appointments.

The annual Christmas puppet show, “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas at Körner’s Folly,” usually sells out and tickets can be purchased online. Ritz said this show, based on Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem, has “a Körner twist” and is followed by a visit from Santa in the Reception Room. Children will tell him their wish, receive a candy cane, and have photos taken with Santa in front of the 12-foot Christmas tree.

A Kernersville Yuletide is a three-part community celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ritz invites visitors to explore the elaborately decorated Jule Gilmer Körner house that dates back to 1800 before venturing on to the Botani-

cal Gardens, where visitors may find inspiration for their own holiday decorating.

Then, on to local history explorations at the Kernersville Museum where attendees may complete a magical evening at the museum’s outdoor ice-skating rink.

Ritz said Körner’s Folly gift shop is open during public hours and by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays. She said they have lots of Victorian-inspired and hard-to-find ornaments, gifts and oldfashioned, German-inspired ornaments for the holiday season along with toys and gifts for the kids. !

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Hoops Africa: RiverRun rocks doc at Marketplace Cinemas The RiverRun International Film Festivals has teamed up with Marketplace Cinemas in WinstonSalem to present a special screening of the documentary Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters on Tuesday, Mark Burger Dec. 5, with filmmaker and North Carolina native Taylor Sharp Contributor scheduled to attend.

“We always like to showcase North Carolina filmmakers, both during our annual festival and year-round,” said Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director. “Hoops Africa was made by Taylor Sharp, a talented young filmmaker from Morganton, who is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Additionally, Winston-Salem native and NBA player Chris Paul is featured in the documentary, making for another local connection.”

“It was the concept of Ubuntu that captivated me during my time volunteering in Zimbabwe with Hoops 4 Hope after my first year at UNC, and the people I met there had inspiring stories that I wanted to share with the world,” Sharp recalled.

“It was on my 17-hour flight home from South Africa that I was serendipitously seated next to Dan Hedges, a cinematographer who also called North Carolina home, and we vowed one day to return together to bring these stories to life. With the rapid growth of basketball, in part due to the efforts of the NBA, coalesced with the stories I had a yearning to tell, it was clear to me that this chapter of my life was meant to be devoted to filmmaking.”

“Ubuntu” is a Nguni Bantu term from the Southern African region that roughly translates to “human kindness,” and expresses a philosophy in “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.”

The Hoops 4 Hopes (H4H) is a global not-for-profit program that has supported youth development in Southern Africa since 1995. It educates and empowers children to become productive adults, engage in healthy lifestyles, manage life’s challenges, and become leaders within their communities and throughout the world. The program reaches some 10,000 children a year (ages 6-16) in more than 70 schools across Africa.

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philosophy was a principal component of the Boston Celtics’ 2008 NBA Championship, documents the historic 2015 NBA Africa Game, and features a stellar line-up of NBA superstars including Paul, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, Doc Rivers, Paul Pierce, Adam Silver, Luc Mbah a Moute, Luol Deng and many others.

In addition to the Marketplace screening, RiverRun will present free screenings of the film at local schools with Sharp in attendance.

“In many ways, we had a clear vision for what the film would ultimately become,” Sharp explained. “We just had to navigate how and where the puzzle pieces would fit together. Fortunately, whenever there was a potential roadblock, and we pushed

through and found the right person to contribute their talents, write a check, make a connection, or give us some words of wisdom. The optimist in me says that the universe grants good-natured and well-intentioned projects what they need and when they need it, and that was certainly the case for this film. It was an Ubuntu effort throughout, and the film’s success can be attributed to countless individuals who contributed in some way.”

Hoops Africa marks Sharp’s debut as executive producer and co-director (with Hedges), and although it’s only his first film, he said it’s an experience he will forever treasure.

“From Brooklyn to Milan to Harare, I’ve traveled all over the world sharing

this film, leaving each audience with a knowledge of Ubuntu and the work of Hoops 4 Hope and the NBA,” Sharp said.

“While the film is globally applicable, there’s something special for me to bring to home to the state that made me who I am. When I look out over audiences of students, especially, it’s easy me for me to relate to them, as it was not long ago that I was sitting where they sit. I know North Carolina and its inhabitants possess the ability to be beacons of Ubuntu, and I hope the communities that see this film are reminded of that.”

The 2020 RiverRun International Film Festival is scheduled for March 26-April 5. !

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McKellen and Mirren serve up a feast of falsehoods

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he Good Liar, adapted from Nicholas Searle’s best-selling novel by screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Bill Condon, Mark Burger affords the viewer the sheer, undiluted Contributor pleasure of seeing two master thespians – Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren (or Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Helen Mirren, if you prefer) – operating at full throttle yet making it look effortless.

Remarkably, this marks the first screen pairing of McKellen and Mirren, although they’d previously appeared on stage together in Strindberg’s “Dance of Death” nearly 20 years ago in New York. The Good Liar also marks McKellen’s fourth screen collaboration with Condon (including Gods and Monsters and Beauty

and the Beast), and the second boasting the McKellen/Condon/Hatcher triumvirate, following Mr. Holmes (2015).

Set in 2009, the narrative details the relationship between McKellen’s Roy Courtnay, a widower, and Mirren’s Betty McLeish, a widow. They’ve “met” online and decide to meet in person, where they immediately confess they’d used false names when emailing each other.

This is the first of many falsehoods that will pass between the two, although certainly not the last.

It quickly becomes apparent that Roy is a con artist, having pulled off a number of lucrative investment scams with his “business partner,” Vincent (reliable Jim Carter), and that he’s sizing Betty up for the (financial) slaughter. McKellen’s in grand form as the devious, duplicitous Roy, although it’s not apparent how legitimately dangerous he is until later.

As Roy and Betty’s relationship develops, replete with him becoming a mainstay at her suburban house, her grandson Stephen (Russell Tovey) makes no secret of his distrust – and distaste – for

the good guys

his grandmother’s new friend.

McKellen has a larger role, but rest assured, Mirren isn’t overlooked. Like the actress who plays her, Betty is not to be underestimated. As the title hints heav-

ily, neither character is what they seem.

There’s a definite David Mamet flavor to the proceedings, which are further augmented by Carter Burwell’s effective score and the crisp, stylish cinematography by Tobias A. Schleissler (also encoring from Mr. Holmes and Beauty and the Beast).

Make no mistake; The Good Liar is a yarn, one in which the importance of seemingly insignificant moments ultimately becomes clear as the story progresses. There’s a certain amount of sleight-of-hand, but the film always plays fair, plot-wise. And, again, who better to weave this tangled yarn than McKellen and Mirren?

To divulge much more about the story could conceivably spoil the fun, so it’s best to simply sit back and savor the twists and turns as they transpire. This is juicy, tasty entertainment with a sting in the tail. !

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A powerful performance of WSTA’s Tommy demands standing ovation

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ttending the opening night of “Tommy” at the Winston-Salem Theater Alliance with a fairly full house was even more of a spectacular evening revisiting the Terry Rader very music I grew up on than I could have imagined. The actors Contributor were in top form and never missed a line with powerful voices, believable expressions and a shared stage presence that pulled the audience even closer in our cozy intimate space. Sitting third-row center, it felt like I was a part of the cast with non-stop movement, music and dancing. The performance kept the crowd laughing or hushed and anticipating each of the three actors depicting Tommy and his reactions.

“The play is based on the Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend,” WSTA’s webpage states. “The music and lyrics are by Pete Townshend with additional music and lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon. Based on the iconic 1969 rock concept album, The Who’s Tommy is an exhilarating story of hope, healing and the human spirit. The story of the pinballplaying, deaf, dumb and blind boy who triumphs over his adversities has inspired, amazed and puzzled audiences for more than 40 years.”

Director Jamie Lawson set the tone of the evening in light-hearted laughter and shout-outs to sponsors: Mike Lewis Attorneys, YES! Weekly and the show’s sponsor, IORA Primary Care. He also invited everyone to bring gifts for the WSTA Angel Tree supporting Parenting Path. He was also excited to share the news of WSTA’s kick-off capital campaign to support their future move to 650 W. 6th St. The music of The Who was “an exhilarating score” that had a multi-generational audience tapping their feet and some silently singing along. The band was placed like bookends with three women on the left and three men on the right sides of the stage.

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keyboard ; Gwen Gregory, keyboard; Erin Lopp, percussion; Allan Beck, guitar; Aaron Beck, guitar and Ron May on bass. Knowing this music as well as I do, I promise they were spot-on and they rocked the house!

The cast of “Tommy” includes Jake Messina as Tommy (and the narrator) who truly commanded the stage when he came to life beyond the boy’s silent, yet powerful roles starring Liam Terrill as Tommy at age 4 and Nicholas Greene as Tommy at age 10.

Parents Steve Robinson (Captain Walker) and Donna Schimmenti (Mrs. Walker) were a hit as was the seven-ensemble actors and the rest of this amazing cast, James Crowe (Cousin Kevin), Ken Ashford (Uncle Ernie), Sean Farrell (The Lover), Braxton Allen (The Hawker), Denise McKibbin (The Acid Queen), Mark Brown (The Specialist) and Mary Margaret Coble (Sally Simpson).

The three actors portraying Tommy were a sensation all through the night with repeated, spiraling echoes of “See Me, Feel Me” performed in a hauntingly ethereal, yet hopeful voices that kept the crowd poised for more.

It would be impossible to choose a single favorite act in this amazing play, but I have to say that when the seven vixens in black took the stage and The Acid Queen Denise McKibbin’s powerful voice belted out “The Gypsy,” it was a surreal and seductive scene that fully expressed the power of addiction. It also painted yet another exquisite choreographed contrast between black and white, good and bad.

Bravo!

The WSTA’s production of “Tommy” delivers one hour and 40 minutes of non-stop rock ‘n’ roll storytelling excitement with 30 songs and dancing. !

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RADIOFLASH Fri - Tue: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 LAST CHRISTMAS (PG-13) Fri - Tue: 12:00, 10:20 HARRIET (PG-13) Fri - Tue: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 JOJO RABBIT (PG-13) Fri - Tue: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 JOKER (R) Fri - Tue: 2:20, 5:00, 7:40 RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS (NR) Fri - Tue: 12:25, 10:10

KNIVES OUT (PG-13) Tue: 8:00 PM, Wed: 5:30, 8:15 Thu: 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 THE IRISHMAN (R) Fri: 3:15, 7:30 Sat & Sun: 11:00 AM, 3:15, 7:30 Mon: 7:00 PM, Tue: 3:15, 7:30 Wed & Thu: 7:30 PM JOJO RABBIT (PG-13) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 10:30 AM, 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 Sun: 10:45 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon: 8:45 PM, Tue: 2:45, 5:30 Wed: 5:00 PM, Thu: 2:30, 5:00 PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG) (R) Fri: 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 Sat & Sun: 9:45 AM, 12:15, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 Mon: 5:45, 8:30 Tue: 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 Wed: 5:45, 8:30 Thu: 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 PAIN AND GLORY (R) Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat & Sun: 11:30 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon: 6:30, 9:00 Tue: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Wed: 7:00, 9:30 Thu: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

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Tommy continues on Nov. 20, 21, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m., Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. The show takes place at the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance located at 1047 Northwest Blvd. Tickets range from $16 to $18 at www.theatrealliance.ws or call (336) 723-7777.

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

About a year ago, Les and Paula Ansley of Mossel Bay, South Africa, stumbled upon a novel idea for a new type of spirit, which they call Indlovu Chuck Shepherd Gin, the Associated Press reports. During a safari, they learned that elephants eat a wide variety of fruits and flowers, but digest less than a third of it. “As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these botanicals,” Les Ansley said. “Why don’t we let the elephants do the hard work of collecting all these botanicals and we will make gin from it?” Why, indeed?

They collect the dung themselves, by hand, and describe their gin’s flavor as “lovely, wooded, almost spicy, earthy.” (“Indlovu” means elephant in the Zulu language.) Each bottle’s label notes where the dung was gathered and when.

“Most people are very keen to actually taste it,” Ansley said. A bottle sells for about $32.

FINE POINTS OF THE LAW

After losing in district court, convicted killer Benjamin Schreiber took an unusual claim to the Iowa Court of Appeals, but was shut down again on Nov. 6, according to The Washington Post. Schreiber, 66, was sentenced to a life term in 1997, but in March 2015, he suffered a medical emergency in his prison cell that caused doctors to have to restart his heart five times. Schreiber thus claimed he had briefly “died,” and therefore he had served out his life sentence and should be released. The district judge didn’t buy it, though, saying the filing proved he was still alive, and the appeals court agreed, saying, “Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot.”

HIGHER EDUCATION

A Dutch university now offers students a turn in the “purification grave,” a hole dug in the ground where students can lie down and reflect on their lives for up to three hours. The student chaplaincy at Radboud University initially offered the experience in 2009 as a temporary experiment, but due to increased demand, it’s back this year, according to Vice.

Students are not allowed to bring their phones or a book with them into the grave. “You can see it as a special place

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of meditation: below you the earth, above you the sky,” the university website explains. “You will then automatically notice what is going through your mind.” If you’re skittish about entering the grave, you can sit on the bench nearby. Radboud also offers a finalsseason “crying room” and nap pods.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS

Female employees in Japan who wear eyeglasses are seeing red after some companies there have reportedly banned eyewear for their women workers, according to the BBC. While some retailers have said women in glasses give a “cold impression,” the hashtag #glassesareforbidden has been trending, and Kumiko Nemoto, professor of sociology at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, spoke out against the “outdated” policies: “It’s all about gender. It’s pretty discriminatory. ... The company values the women’s appearance as being feminine and that’s the opposite to someone who wears glasses.” Japanese women have also rebelled against policies that require them to wear high heels.

BRIGHT IDEA

Subhash Yadav, 42, of Jaunpur, India, visited a market to eat eggs with a friend, News18 reported on Nov. 4, but the two fell into an argument. To settle the dispute, police said, Yadav accepted a challenge to eat 50 eggs in exchange for 2,000 rupees. He ate 41 eggs, but just as he began to eat the 42nd, he collapsed, unconscious. He was rushed to the hospital but died a few hours later.

Doctors claimed Yadav died of overeating, but family members would not comment.

AWESOME!

For the person on your gift list this year who can’t get enough ranch dressing, Hidden Valley comes to the rescue with a decorative plastic stocking full of its creamy nectar. FanSided reports the Hidden Valley Ranch Custom Holiday Stocking measures 105 square inches festooned in red and green and filled with 52 ounces of Original Ranch. It comes with its own mantle holder and has a handy pouring spout at the toe. All that ranchy fun costs just $35. Time to get dippin’! !

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‘Art connects us:’ Darlene J. McClinton continues cultivating creativity through The Artist Bloc

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It was a vision that I had long before I moved back to Greensboro,” said The Artist Bloc’s co-owner Darlene J. McClinton. “At the age of 27, I prayed Katie Murawski every single day, ‘God please birth in me a vision of sucEditor cess,’ and that is kind of when The Artist Bloc was born.”

The Artist Bloc, located at 1020 W. Gate City Blvd., celebrated five years this past August as Greensboro’s hub for creatives, by creatives. McClinton said that The Artist Bloc is an arts venue that showcases “emerging artists’ artworks” while multitasking as a coffee shop, full bar and small art supply shop.

McClinton, a mural artist, and her business partners filmmaker Watricia “Trish” Shuler and painter Sunny Gravely all met at North Carolina A&T State University and decided to fulfill a need they saw in the Greensboro community. McClinton said that need was for a place where artists, young and old, could gather, express themselves and show their work in a safe environment. McClinton now works as a visual art instructor at A&T, but she said she met Shuler as an undergrad, and that Gravely was, at the time, her instructor at A&T. They opened The Artist Bloc in August 2014, and it has since thrived in the small shopping center space next to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

McClinton said her initial intentions for The Artist Bloc was for it to be an art supply store that would also host special events. She said her business partner loved coffee, so she wanted it to have coffee, “But right now, we are really known as an arts venue, that is where we generate the most of our buzz.”

McClinton said the shop sees about 100 artists or more a week, and their artwork includes visual and performing arts.

“We infuse all the arts here,” she said, “It’s theatre, poetry, comedy, dance, live music, hip-hop, open mics, independent film festivals, showcases-- anything you could think of creatively, we do.”

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Darlene j. McClinton at The Bloc Awards in 2017 N.C. A&T and UNCG students, as well as all different kinds of people ages 21 to 40.

“I think the arts are what makes this place intergenerational,” she said. “We’ve been able to do a cross-market where the different generations can blend together because art connects us; it really does. It connects everybody together.”

She said that The Artist Bloc is not just a place for artists; it is for everyone who loves art. Even though the business is forprofit, McClinton said this venture was started with the community in mind.

An example of a community-focused aspect of The Artist Bloc is the TAB Arts Center Nonprofit. McClinton said TAB has two programs. One of these programs is for Alzheimer’s patients, who come to The Artist Bloc for art therapy. The other program is the All Arts Summer Camp for kids that she and her business partners are trying to implement in Guilford County Schools.

“One of the reasons why I love that program is because my godson was in the All Arts Camp this past summer, and he kind of gets in trouble at school, and when you get in trouble at school, they equate it with intelligence,” McClinton said. “He was in that program, and he acted and was able to remember his lines, to perform, he was excited about going to the camp.”

TAB raises money through fundraisers held throughout the year, with the next one being a Paint and Poetry Brunch on Dec. 8.

“I love it, I tell people this all the time, being the owner of a brick-and-mortar is challenging, it is very difficult,” McClinton said of co-owning The Artist Bloc. “The rewarding part of it is, people call it home and a hub for artists.”

McClinton said she is “an artist first, a teacher second and an entrepreneur third.” She has nine public art murals in

Greensboro (some are located on the campus of Bennett College, the International Civil Rights Museum, the pedestrian tunnel in the Aycock Historic District, Warnersville Recreation Center and the Greensboro Science Center), and she said she specializes in murals (indoors and outdoors) as well as small-scale portraits.

McClinton describes her art style as comprised of vivid colors and shapes.

“If you look at a body of work I created for galleries and stuff, it is images that have figures in it, and that is broken down into simple forms, abstract and geometric shapes, and then I use bright and vivid colors.”

As an artist, she said she uses colors to depict the moods she is in or what depicts the mood of the world around her.

“Most of all, the colors I put in my work I am consciously choosing them to represent or symbolize how the community is feeling or how I am feeling,” she said. “[Some] of the colors you’ll see in my work, in all of my paintings, is the colors yellow, cream or gold. I use those colors because it represents the light from within.”

She said yellow and gold symbolizes happiness and excitement, and she wants people to feel good when they look at her art.

“I don’t want anybody sad or depressed,or down, just happy with good vibes,” she said.

But what if she is feeling sad, depressed or down? I asked her.

“I am not going to paint it in on any public art,” she said with a laugh.

McClinton was originally born in New York but grew up in Greensboro and went to college at A&T to study art. After graduating, she moved to Washington D.C. to get her Master’s degree from Howard University. McClinton continues to teach at A&T and said next semester would mark her 10th year teaching there.

She got her start as a middle school art teacher, but teaching wasn’t what she had originally planned to do with her Master’s degree. She said she wanted to be an international artist, but things didn’t go as planned.

In late 2007 and into 2008, McClinton became homeless.

“It is an interesting story,” she said, “I went to grad school, then said, ‘I’m great, I am 25, and I have a Master’s degree, so I am going to move to New York City and

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An in-home mural by Darlene J. McClinton not tell my family.’ I quit both of my jobs, sold my car, and had $5,000 to live in New York City, and nobody knew.”

She went on to pursue her dream of being an international artist, but she said after three months living in the Big Apple, she was homeless and living out of her car. She said she would wake up when the sun rose, and go to sleep when it set.

She was out in the heat, and she was there in the winter. She would wash up at McDonald’s and sit and read or sketch in the library to pass the time. She said she would spend a week at a hotel, and then rent a room in Washington Heights where three other families lived paying $700 a month. She said she was taking temporary jobs left and right, and she was on a food budget of $5 a day.

“My skin was changing from not being able to get that thorough wash,” she recounted. “It was when the recession had just hit. What I learned was, no one knows you have a degree; you are not walking around Greensboro or wherever and have ‘degree’ on your forehead. They are treating you the same way they are treating everyone else. When I was homeless, that is what I had to realize.”

She said she was angry at first, and then sad and hurt, but it was “a good journey for me to go through, it was very humbling, and it made me become for the people.”

“How can you help the people if you don’t live among the people?” she asked.

“And really know what the people are going through. That is what has grounded me in this whole new process of life.”

She went to New York City to chase her dream, as many hopeful young adults do.

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“Celebration of Progress” mural by Darlene J. McClinton admitted. “I am originally from New York, so I thought I would move back home, but I didn’t tell my family I was there because I wanted to make it- I wanted to tell my family that I was here and I was making it...Eventually, when it got hard, I had to tell my mom what was happening.”

After New York City didn’t work out, McClinton said she drove all the way to Atlanta, still sleeping in her car. After a while, she decided to go back and retrace her steps.

“I had a job in D.C. called Our Future, which was a mentoring program,” she explained. “I called them and said, ‘If I move back to D.C., can I get my job back?’ She said, ‘Yes, you can have your job back, and since you were such a good worker, we’ll pay you more money.’ When I told her I was homeless, she said, ‘I’ve been homeless before, so I am going to advance you three checks, and I am going to buy you a bed.’”

Shortly after that, she became a teacher.

“I feel like I was chasing money and chasing my dream as an international artist, and if I moved to New York and broke into that industry, it would happen,” she said. “But we sometimes are listening to music that can influence our thoughts, I tell my students all the time, and start believing what you hear and not really having a full plan thought out.”

McClinton said she experienced a “spiritual awakening to live a life of service” while she was homeless.

“During the awakening, a voice- a spiritual voice- said I was going to be a teacher and that I was going to teach at North Carolina A&T State University,” she said. “I didn’t think it was going to happen anytime soon. So, I was a middle school art teacher and did a great job there, within that year, one of my professors from A&T loved me as a student,

told me that there was a position open at A&T State University.”

It was kismet. McClinton moved back to Greensboro to start her new job at A&T in 2010 with the mindset of giving back to her alma mater as well as the Greensboro art community.

“Because I am from this community, and I have good relationships with people from a child all the way up, I felt like it was easier to start a business here,” she said. “I knew that my family, friends and community would support me here.”

McClinton said that she listened to the community for four years, and they were all asking for a place like The Artist Bloc.

“They wanted a place where they could get a Love Jones-vibe. They wanted a place where they could hear poetry and snap their fingers. They wanted a place where they can hang out,” she said. “We were able to answer a request from the community; I would say a prayer in a sense, a longing that the community really wanted a place like this.”

One way that McClinton shows her appreciation to the art community is the annual Bloc Awards, which will be held on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020.

“Because of my homeless journey and background, and being in Greensboro and owning an arts venue and seeing so much diverse talent, we can’t pay everybodywe pay a lot of artists- but what we can do is tell you thank you and appreciate you,” she said.

McClinton explained that The Artist Bloc Awards brings Hollywood to Greensboro, meaning up-and-coming talent is invited to come perform while recognizing the diverse talents winning a Bloc Award in the Triad.

“No longer do we have to drop what we are doing and move to New York City, move to California, no, this platform will bring the right kind of exposure to us,”

she said. “What separates artists here from mainstream artists is exposure.”

She said that The Bloc Awards are for all types of arts, and is even for artists who work behind the scenes.

“This award show is to honor those types of artists, and we will continue to change the categories,” she said. “The goal is to grow the build The Bloc Awards to be as large as the Essence Festival held in New Orleans. When I say I want to bring Hollywood here, I want to bring it here to us.”

Looking to the future, McClinton said The Artist Bloc plans to keep growing, expanding, and of course, giving back to the community.

“I would tell artists that you can make a living from art,” she said. “I think artists are discouraged from becoming a performing or visual artist. I think a lot of times people think they aren’t going to make a living with art, but I don’t think that is true. I think you just have to work a little bit harder than others.” !

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Coming up on Nov. 22 is McClinton’s last event of the year, Creative Infusions Unplugged. She said this is the first time she’s doing an unplugged session and first time with an all-women lineup.

From 9 p.m. until 1 a.m., McClinton said the event would be streamed live, and each artist will tell their story followed by whatever art performance or piece they want to showcase. The Artist Bloc’s hours vary, to learn more information, and to stay up to date on events, follow The Artist Bloc on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, or visit the website, https://www.theartistbloc.com/.

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Race, religion and Greensboro’s abortion divide: A tale of two clinics, and those protesting one Everyone working at the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center at 625 Fulton St. in Greensboro last week was white.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro student who suggested an Ian McDowell article about the center (but was not the woman who Contributor ended up accompanying me there for a consultation) claimed this surprised her when she went there for free STD testing last year.

“I knew they were Christian,” she said, “but I expected some black ladies. When I went to that kind of clinic in Seattle, there were black church ladies working there, and Greensboro is a lot blacker than Seattle. Seems all the Pro-Life folks here are white.”

The apparent racial disparity between local advocates for abortion rights and those who oppose them was not meant to be the theme of this article. But after visiting both the Pregnancy Care Center in College Hill that counsels against abortion, and the A Woman’s Choice clinic two miles away that the Fulton Street center’s

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staff spends so much time protesting, it became impossible to ignore.

This article won’t attempt to answer the question of why the local anti-abortion movement seems largely white but will provide observations that appear to support such a claim.

The Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center is what is commonly referred to, by both supporters and opponents of abortion rights, as a crisis pregnancy center, a type of nonprofit created in the 1970s by antiabortion activist Robert Pearson in the wake of Roe v. Wade.

The Fulton street CPC is a short walk from both UNCG and Greensboro College.

UNCG English department professor Christopher Hodgkins has been a keynote speaker at the “God and Sex Review” forums hosted by it.

Award-winning reproductive rights reporter Jennifer Gerson has been critical of the growing relationship between CPCs and colleges. Gerson’s 2019 Cosmopolitan article “Fake Health Clinics Are Tricking College Students” described CPCs as “anti-abortion clinics” and criticized many for being “staffed mostly by volunteers (versus doctors and nurses).

This is not entirely true at the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center, where the staff listed on the center’s website includes four Registered Nurses with

degrees from Western Carolina, UNCWilmington, and Messiah College, but many of the rest are volunteers, and there is no physician.

Staff bios devote as much space to church and family as training and experience. All 16 staff members belong to local Baptist congregations, mostly Lawndale Baptist and Mercy Hill. Fifteen are married, 14 have children and 12 have three or more children each.

Online photos on the center’s social media indicate only one staff member, a receptionist, is black.

When I accompanied Sarah, a 31-yearold Greensboro resident who asked that her surname not be published, to a consultation at the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center last week, the receptionist was white.

Sarah told the receptionist that she’d recently learned she was pregnant from her OB-GYN, and that she simply wanted to talk about options. She was surprised when the receptionist immediately photocopied her ID. “Planned Parenthood doesn’t do that until you schedule a medical procedure,” Sarah told me.

Sarah was even more surprised when we were introduced to a visibly pregnant young woman, whom, we were told, would be Sarah’s “advocate.” We were

then ushered into a waiting room, where Sarah was given much paperwork to fill out. The young advocate and an older woman who identified herself as a nurse then stepped out of the room.

“They sure want to know a lot about my religion and sexual history,” said Sarah as she answered multiple-choice questions like Who will be helping you make a decision about this pregnancy? and Who will help you after you’ve made your decision? Checkbox options were “Father of the Baby,” “Your Parents” and “Other.”

The form asked whether Sarah’s relationship status was “Single, Married, Engaged, Divorced, Remarried, Separated or Widowhood,” and whether her faith was “Atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon, Muslim, WICCA, Other, or None.”

The nurse and advocate returned and escorted Sarah to another room. There, Sarah later said, the nurse insisted on a pregnancy test before any counseling could be given. Sarah described the nurse as denouncing Planned Parenthood, the organization that, some years ago, provided Sarah with an abortion in another state.

“She called Planned Parenthood a forprofit business that makes all its money on abortions.”

After the test was conducted, the nurse

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“This very pregnant young woman was clearly there to exemplify this idea of being pregnant and how special it is,” Sarah said. “She was very young, no makeup, wide-eyed, big bright wedding ring, holding her belly the whole time.”

At this point, Sarah had enough, and we left.

The next day, I called Terry Salas Merritt, a strategic communications manager for A Women’s Choice, Greensboro’s only remaining abortion clinic, and told her what I’d seen (and what Sarah had described) at the nonprofit organization whose staff members regularly protest outside hers.

“We would never require a pregnancy test or a copy of someone’s driver’s license when they just want to talk to us,” Merritt said.

She also called the CPC nurse’s alleged description of Planned Parenthood, which her clinic is not affiliated with, “ridiculous.”

“Anyone who thinks abortion is profitable is severely mistaken; the costs of providing it gets higher with each new restriction intended to force them to close down, which aren’t imposed on CPCs. Planned Parenthood offers a wide variety of services and always has.”

She said that A Woman’s Choice does, too.

“All our materials talk about all three options, abortion, motherhood or adoption, as acceptable and welcome.”

Merritt suggested I come the following day afternoon and speak to Selina Tate-Wall, manager of A Woman’s Choice in Greensboro.

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mornings, the Midori parking lot turns into a de-facto anti-abortion fair, with awnings, tables, a stage and a mobile ultrasound clinic from Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center. The protesters, who can number as many as 200, eat at Midori after they’ve finished protesting.

On Thursday, there were no protesters in sight.

Tate-Wall, a friendly and energetic African-American woman, introduced me to three other black women and two white ones on her staff.

“With A Woman’s Choice,” Tate-Wall said, “we stand by our name, and we offer choices, whether it’s continuing or terminating the pregnancy. We trust that women are going to make that decision for themselves, and we’re here to support them, no matter what that decision is.”

I mentioned not seeing any protesters outside “Come Saturday, you will. I can take what they dish out, but patients don’t want people talking at them, much less yelling amplified obscenities. I make sure that, when they come through those doors, they’re safe and respected.”

She said that protesters don’t just show up on Saturday mornings.

“Ones from the Fulton street CPC arrive every day before their own center opens.

Then on Saturdays, the Love Life people show up from Charlotte.”

Love Life Charlotte is a conglomeration of fundamentalist Christian churches aimed at “ending abortion” in that city.

According to the Huffington Post, Love Life founder Justin Reeder believes that “Abortion is a man’s issue.” Recently, Love Life has been targeting abortion providers across North Carolina, and Greensboro’s

only one is in its crosshairs.

When I returned at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, about 60 protesters were braving the frigid Midori parking lot. All were white, and about half were women.

Lining the clinic’s service road were about 30 pro-choice volunteers, there not to confront the protesters, but to direct patients where to park and to escort them safely inside. The escorts included many African-Americans, but there appeared to be more women than men.

“We need more big scary guys like me,” quipped Michael Usey, Senior Pastor at College Park Baptist Church, who wore a CLINIC ESCORT vest. I knew “Pastor Mike” from playing trivia against him at Geeksboro, where his team name was the “Non-Shitty Christians.”

“The protesters seem much less willing to engage with male escorts than with female ones,” Usey said.

A few male protesters were wearing Love Life T-shirts over their thermals, while a few female ones wore jackets proclaiming their affiliation with Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center. Mary Holloman, the center’s communications coordinator, approached from their mobile ultrasound lab and invited me to come to her with any questions.

As I’d already read her News & Record op-ed, which did not identify her affiliation with the center, I was more interested in talking to someone from Love Life.

Where were the hundreds of them that were supposed to show up today?

“They’re gathering on the other side of the bridge,” said Greensboro Police Department’s Sgt. Eric Goodykootnz, referring to the parking lot of Destiny Christian Center at 2401 Randleman Rd.

“They’re supposed to be marching down here shortly. They’ve had over a thousand who’ve said they were gonna attend, and that’s what sparked the other side saying they’d have more attending, too, and we’re here to keep the two sides separate and everybody safe.”

Several of what Tate-Wall described as “the regular crew” of local protesters set up a PA system on a grassy rise behind Midori that overlooked the A Women’s Choice Parking Lot. One was a beefy, balding white man who regularly shouted at black men accompanying patients to the clinic.

“Sir, take your woman away from this place, don’t let her kill your baby,” he yelled. “Don’t be a coward; take responsibility for your baby in her womb. You claim Black Lives Matter, but your black baby is about to be butchered in there by a white doctor, a sexual predator. Get your woman out of here and have her raise that baby that God has gifted you with.”

When I opened my iPad, he said: “I hope you’re live streaming this, because I am.”

He then alleged that a clinic volunteer had tried to run him over several years ago. “And that’s why God killed her.”

In my interview with him, which can be viewed on YouTube under the title “Christians don’t kill people, and you can’t name one that ever has” (another claim he made), he asked, “Why should I give you my name?” But his Facebook live stream identified him as Chris Pantalone.

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Presidents are only human, so they make mistakes. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s claim that Colorado borders Mexico, or George Bush’s decision to invade the wrong country after 9/11. I’m talking about John Kennedy, and how he misread history, unintentionally insulted the state of Virginia and was compelled to

make amends.

The story began on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1619. That’s the day 38 English settlers from the London Company, navigated their ship down the James River and onto Berkeley Hundred (Harrison’s Landing), in what is now Charles City, Virginia, just 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, Virginia, which had been settled 12 years before. The landing party was led by Captain John Woodlief, who, as prescribed

in the company charter, ordered a day of Thanksgiving to be observed upon their arrival, and every Dec. 4 thereafter.

Over time, Berkeley became known for its historic firsts. The first bourbon whiskey was made there in 1621 (by a preacher no less). “Taps” was played for the first time while the Union army was encamped at Berkeley in 1862. And, of course, it was the site of America’s first Thanksgiving. But more on that in a moment...

In 1907 Berkeley was purchased by John Jamieson, who had served as a Union drummer boy during the army’s encampment at the plantation. Ownership later fell to his son (and my friend) Malcolm, who passed away in 1997. Mac loved Berkeley and was aggressive in marketing the historic site, including through the use of promotional videos and commercials, which I helped to produce. He invited the public to tour the house and grounds, sold Berkeley boxwoods and bourbon, and held an annual Thanksgiving pageant which attracted tourists from across the country. But the celebration wasn’t always widely recognized.

One hundred years after his father beat the Yankee drums at Berkeley, Mac was upset by something another Yankee did. In the fall of 1962, President Kennedy issued his yearly Thanksgiving Proclamation in which he recognized his home state of Massachusetts as the site of America’s first Thanksgiving. And so, on Nov. 9 of that year, Virginia state Sen. John Wicker was prompted by Mac to write to the president, and point out Kennedy’s faux pas. In his telegram, Wicker referenced historical records about Berkeley’s celebration, which took place one full year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620.

Later that year, Kennedy confidant and noted historian Arthur Schlesinger sent a reply to Wicker with a tongue-in-cheek apology from the president. According to Berkeley records, Schlesinger “attributed the error to unconquerable New England bias on the part of the White House staff.”

The following year, on Nov. 5, 1963, President Kennedy had to eat crow during his annual Thanksgiving proclamation, saying, “Over three centuries ago,

lot of them over there,” he said, pointing at gathering at Destiny. “As far as here, none! You want to know why? Because most of the black churches around here have a false gospel.”

His statements about this can be viewed on YouTube under the title “White abortion protester says black churches preach false gospel.”

I walked down Randleman to see if there were really “a lot of” black people in the Love Life group.

Lee and Shonia Stokes, the pastors of Destiny Christian Center, the nondenominational church housed in a former K-Mart, are black, as is most of their congregation. In a 2018 YouTube video, “The church next to an abortion clinic,” Lee Stokes says, “We had no idea there was an abortion clinic a stone’s throw away” when they bought the building.

It was, he said, “kind of the custom” of his church “to be silent about” abortion.

But this changed in 2018 when Love Life founder Justin Reeder “pulled the wool off our eyes.”

When I arrived in the parking lot, there was a crowd of what I estimated at somewhere between 600 and 1,000 people gathered in front of a bandstand (the GPD would later estimate 800).

A female speaker was instructing the crowd not to answer any questions from the press, but referring them to the Love Life’s Facebook page. The percentage of black people on the stand was higher than in the much larger group on the pavement. I estimated there were somewhere between 30 and 50 AfricanAmericans present in the entire crowd, and my impression was that a very large majority-white group from Charlotte had joined a much smaller majority-black group from Greensboro. Unlike the protesters already at the clinic, well over half

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that Pantalone was referring to another escort who later died in a car accident.

“I don’t remember specifics on the incident he’s referring to,” she wrote, “but I think it had to do with him blocking the entryway to the clinic, which is a federal offense, while she was trying to get into the parking lot. It’s pretty common that these guys will try to claim they were threatened by clinic workers and volunteers.”

As Pantalone had said, “Catholics aren’t Christian.” I asked Burn if she’d ever seen any Catholic protesters at A Woman’s Choice.

“When I was volunteering in 2016 and 2017, we also had another group of Latino Catholics (men and women, but usually not children) who would come to the clinic and pray quietly with signs in front of the other regulars, without interacting much.” Burn also said that, when she was volunteering at A Woman’s Choice, she never saw a single African-American protester. “The only black people I saw were patients and clinic staff.”

Because Pantalone had alleged that “black babies” were being killed by white clinic staff, I asked him how many black people were in his movement.

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our forefathers in Virginia and Massachusetts, far from home, in a lonely wilderness, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”

Kennedy’s New England bias wouldn’t allow him to disavow Plymouth entirely, but Mac was happy that Berkeley finally gained official recognition for holding the first Thanksgiving, even if it was a shared honor. Sadly, it was to be Kennedy’s last proclamation. He was assassinated 17 days later in Dallas.

The holiday season is now upon us, and it’s a time for celebrating with friends and family, and for remembering fondly those who are no longer with us. In this season of giving thanks, perhaps we would all do well to emulate those weary English settlers, and just be thankful for surviving another day of our long journey.

So here’s a Berkeley bourbon toast to Captain Woodlief, a little drummer boy, old Mac, and to that Yankee president who finally set the record straight. !

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of this much larger crowd was male.

“Much more of the Charlotte group are men,” said Usey after I’d followed the Love Life prayer march back to the parking lot. I asked him if he agreed with my observation that, even with the addition of those from Destiny’s congregation, most of today’s protesters were white.

“Yes,” he readily agreed. “At least 95 %.”

Seeing me talking to Usey, a clinic escort approached and offered a quote, although she asked not to be named.

“Bad things can happen when they learn women’s names.”

Despite her American accent, she told me she was a United Kingdom citizen with a green card. “I’d moved to Greensboro, and then a few months ago, I read an article about this clinic by Sayaka Matsuoka, which inspired me to volunteer. I can’t vote here, but I want to do my part for the women in my new community.”

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A sneak peek inside Tromploy’s ‘Winstonland’ Around 7 p.m. last night, I got to catch a glimpse inside ‘Winstonland,’ ahead of Tromploy’s “Alice in Winstonland” installation opening this Thursday. The installation is located in the former WinstonKatie Murawski Salem Sentinel at 418 Marshall St. NW #100. It was still Editor under construction, but I was able to see the story I wrote last week come to life into something cohesive and pretty rad to look at. Most of the materials were made and assembled at Mixxer, the community maker space located at 1375 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. The walls were covered with some plastic, which was being spray-painted with psychedelic designs. And under a blacklight, it only heightened its trippiness. The ball pit was half-finished, and the slide still needed to be mounted, but for how much they’ve worked on in the past two weeks, it is pretty impressive. The entire installation is a combined effort of the guest artists: Nevets, WYNOCEROS, XOSK, Megz, Christine Toole and Carlos Bocanegra.

Toole (builder and LED artist) and Bocanegra (LED artist and owner of Monstercade) are familiar collaborators who just got back from installing a light exhibit for Electric Daisy Carnival in Orlando, Florida. (Presently, they are in New York City working on another installation at

Hudson Yards.) Toole and Bocanegra will be working together on a video installation, which can be seen on several miniscreens connected to a wall of Astroturf upon entering the exhibit.

“For the video editing part of our piece, I’ve had to review at least 15 different versions of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ movie (including the classic porno) for ideas,” Bocanegra wrote in an email. “Our piece will feature clips from rare copies of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as far back as 1903!”

When asked about what is most exciting about “Alice in Winstonland,” Toole wrote, “It’s conceptually new in this area.

Tromploy is working to bring experimental art that has been growing in another area of the country here to our own doorstep, which turns traditional ideas about how to consume art and how it should be consumed on its ear.”

“Alice in Winstonland” opens this Thursday and remains open until Nov. 29 from 1 to 10 p.m. on weekdays and with special event hours from 9 p.m. until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. No photography is allowed, except in the designated selfie areas. Tickets start at $15 for general admission, children (ages 8-17) are $8, children ages 7 and under are free, and senior citizens and those who serve or served in the military are $13. For more information and to buy tickets, visit https://tromploy.com/. !

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ee Ritenour was a little busy last week.

But that’s wasn’t really unusual for him. He had gigs in China, and so we weren’t able to schedule a time for a last-minute chat.

Ritenour, a guitarist who’s released over 30 records under his own name, has basically been busy for

the last 50 years.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Ritenour was surrounded by the entertainment industry, and so a lot of the young musicians that he played with as a teenager went on to be session players and professionals in the field. Ritenour’s impressive career includes a surprising list of credits as a sideman on recordings by a range of legends, joining artists like Peggy Lee, Oliver Nelson, Dizzy Gillespie and Pink Floyd in the studio. Ritenour was on the sessions with the Brothers Johnson, with producer Quincy Jones, when they recorded a hit version of the Shuggie Otis song “Strawberry Letter 23.” Ritenour studied both jazz and classical guitar, in addition to amassing a string of sessions as a studio session player.

But while working as a session player requires serious technical skills, versatility,

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and a kind of low-friction approach with an ego that’s kept in check by performing to help others realize their vision and sound, Ritenour eventually found the routine to be a distraction from his own creative goals.

“It became limiting after a while because I realized I wanted to have a style of my own,” Ritenour has said in older interviews on the subject. “I didn’t want to play everybody else’s style.”

This is a guy who’s been in on literally thousands of studio sessions, recording on other people’s albums, contributing to commercial jingles, soundtracks and more.

Ritenour, 67, may have grown tired of the studio work that kept him busy at the start of his career, but he’s watched the industry change over the decades, and he has some interesting insights for younger musicians looking to make a living as session players. Of course, one has to master one’s instrument and be versatile in a lot of different styles, but Ritenour has also suggested that there’s an interpersonal component to success in the field.

“You can’t be shy. You need to be a

people person,” he told students at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. “People like to work with people that they like.”

In terms of career advice, telling young people to make sure others like them is a little like telling them to just be really good at what they do. It’s not necessarily so easy, but for Ritenour, it’s all about joi’d’vivre, and it all comes back to the music eventually.

Ritenour has long been a big fan and student of Brazilian music. He first went to the South American country in 1973, and he’s been folding aspects of Brazil’s deep music culture into his own music ever since, working with masters of samba, bossa nova, Tropicalia and batucada in projects over the past 45 years. He’s had Caetano Veloso on an album. He’s recorded with Joao Bosco and with Carlinhos Brown and numerous other stars of Brazilian music. In 1997, Ritenour produced and essentially led an all-star tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of the key architects of bossa nova.

Ritenour has said that the Brazilian people and Brazilian music “unlocked a lot of feeling” in him. And he’s returned over

and over to Brazilian music, which is often rooted in the country’s vibrant Carnival culture, parades and dancing. Brazilian samba is jubilant and effervescent music with public dancing, call-and-response playing, a strong national identity, highcontrast accents and infectious irregular time-line patterns all built into it. To understand the role it occupies in the culture, it’s something along the lines, in American terms, of New Year’s Eve at Times Square crossed with the Super Bowl crossed with South By Southwest.

Bossa nova took those parade rhythms and transposed them to the guitar, taking the music of an entire drum ensemble and turning it into a slightly sad but complex jazz-oriented nightclub music.

Bossa nova is similar to the blues in the U.S., in that it’s a genre that manages to embrace sadness and triumph over it by turning the emotion into the center of a bigger celebration of melody, dance and philosophical perspective.

Ritenour’s clean and singing guitar tone and easy-on-the-ears approach work well in these contexts. His playing is at home in a groove, and his focus is often about highlighting a tune or exploring the guitar’s rhythmic potential rather than standing out in front of the music.

(Though he certainly can shred at length, too.) Wide-ranging musical curiosity that has made him capable of moving from pop to classical to smooth jazz to funk to blues to bebop to rock, and which led him to Brazilian music has continued to drive some of Ritenour’s collaborations and recent projects, like his 2006 album Smoke N’ Mirrors, which blended elements of West African and Indian music into Ritenour’s easy-going groove-fusion.

With multiple trips to Asia practically every year, like the one that had him playing shows in China last week, it will be interesting to see if Ritenour incorporates musical influences from those travels into upcoming projects. !

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

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The Tremors still shake it up Rave on, flat-top cats and dungaree dolls! The Tremors will be playing in the Triad on Nov. 22 at the Flat Iron in Greensboro and on Dec. 6 at Earl’s in Winston-Salem.

Emboldened Katei Cranford by the everlasting appeal of early rock’n’roll, the longContributor running rockabilly group has been combining classic sounds of Sun Records with the reckless abandon of late ‘70s punk rock, since the early 2000s.

“What keeps us going is that it’s such fun music to play,” said ringleader Jimmy Tremor, who takes Dixie-fried sonic cues from Carl Perkins and vocal hops like Gene Vincent. “The restrictions and boundaries of the form really force you to be creative, musically,” he added. ”The simplicity and rhythm is something that most folks just can’t resist.”

Tremor keeps loads of spring in his step for someone who’s been playing in bands for the past 25 years, forming The Tremors following the implosion of his 1990s punk group, Ubangi Stomp. “I’d always been a huge fan of rockabilly,” he explained of the switch, “it’s the purest, and most primitive, style of rock’n’roll.”

Plus, “there’s not much difference in early punk music and rockabilly. It’s short, simplistic songs played with urgency by self-taught musicians,” Tremor explained of the genres, “kind of like two sides of the same coin, 20 years apart.”

The musical currency backing that coin shines from the Sun Records family mashed with the New York Dolls, and Rolling Stones though Tremor’s no cursory fan. “I could go on for days,” he said about rockabilly loves, noting Warren Smith, Billy Riley, Luke McDaniel and Johnny Carroll.

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that it became commercially viable for labels to release forgotten singles or unreleased gems from the original era.”

Like a “high-octane Eddie Cochran,” the Tremors have kept up to speed with shifting media. Their discography spans five full-length records (beginning with 2004’s Scourge of the South,) 15 years of playing shows, and roughly a dozen compilation appearances--emblematic of their early ‘00s upbringing, though the age of streaming.

“It was great for us,” Tremor said of the compilation-era. “Free publicity. And as a scene-builder, comps exposed all of these new bands to larger audiences. It really helped to give an identity to the neorockabilly movement of the 2000s.”

The Tremors continue to ride that movement, with the biggest shift being the entrance of Cool Hand Luke on upright bass. “We couldn’t have been luckier than to have Luke come into the situation.

He’s got great enthusiasm and a youthful exuberance that’s infectious,” Tremor

explained of his bandmate.

“Also, I’ve got to give it to [drummer] Stretch Armstrong,” Tremor praised of the rhythm section. “He’s a brilliant conceptual artist, a great friend and bandmate, who’s stuck it out through thick and thin,” he continued, “I couldn’t have found a better collaborator.” The trio has a handful of new songs, ready to record, looking to keep the motor running.

They’ll likely partner with Steve Graham, who’s recorded and engineered their releases since 2005’s Uranium Rock, and put it out through Tremor’s Brain Drain Records, a label created during his days in Ubangi Stomp. His penchant for DIY, a strong carry-over from punkier times and practical matters. “As an independent musician, it’s been a great way of not only maintaining artistic control and retaining all rights to the music and art but also receiving a higher percentage of profit from sales,” he explained.

Artistic control is salient. “One of the unifying elements of the Tremors, from the beginning, was our love for mid-20th century-kitsch,” Tremor said of their flair for novelties and a load of drive-in aesthetics. He recalled spending months developing “3-D Tremorsvision” for the

face of 2007’s Invasion of the Saucermen, which featured the 3D-cover art requiring special glasses.

Mid-century kitsch and novelty aside, “The great thing about rockabilly is it’s timelessness,” Tremor asserted. “Although it’s a sound that only flourished in the mainstream of popular consciousness for four-to-five years, there’s always been a rockabilly subculture playing the old songs and making up new ones,” he explained.

Beyond glow-in-the-dark records and shows with major talents and infamous characters, the Tremors are back in the saddle for some local shows in new spaces.

“I feel really lucky to have been able to keep a rock ’n’ roll band rolling along in the 21st century for so long,” Tremor insisted. ”It’s been extremely satisfying artistically, and a lot of fun as well.” !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Nov 22: Casey Noel Nov 23: Matt Walsh Nov 27: Matt Walsh Nov 29: Chris Hedrick Dec 6: Condor Hill Dec 7: Tyler Millard Dec 13: RD & Co. Dec 14: Gooseberry Jam Dec 15: The Randolph Jazz Band Dec 20: Matt Walsh Dec 21: Cory Leutjen and the Traveling Blues Band Dec 22: Beer & Hymns Dec 28: Tail Light Rebellion

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VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Nov 22: Whiskey Mic

Nov 28: Local Music Showcase Nov 29: Gipsy Danger Nov 30: Southern Eyes Dec 20: Red Dirt Revival Dec 21: Down The Mountain Dec 27: DJ Bald-E

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129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Nov 20: White Christmas Nov 22: Legacy Motown Revue Nov 23: EmiSunshine Nov 29: Reeves House Band plays the Rolling Stones Nov 30: The Kruger Brothers Dec 6: Martha Bassett & The Elkin Big Band Dec 13: Songs of the Season Dec 14: Elizabeth Cook w/ Andrew Leahey Dec 19: Chatham County Line Dec 20: Darin & Brooke Aldridge Dec 21: Time Sawyer’s Annual Holiday Show Spectacular

Dec 31: Reeves House Band - New Year’s Eve Jan 10: Travis Meadows Jan 17: Ward Davis

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ARIzONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Nov 22: 1-2-3 Friday

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Nov 22: DJ Dan the Player Nov 23: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Nov 30: Black Nativity Dec 7: A Carolina Christmas Feb 1: Mahalia Mar 7: 9 to 5 Apr 4: Beehive: The 60’s Musical May 1: Motherhood The Musical

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Nov 22: Dana Bearror Nov 23: Almost Vintage Nov 29: Kathy And Jeff Brooks Dec 6: Dave Moran Dec 13: Stewart Coley Dec 27: High Cotton

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Nov 20: John 5 and The Creatures w/ Jared James Nichols and Reverend Jack Nov 21: Vintage Trouble Nov 22: Chelsea Grin: The Enternal Nightmare Pt. II Tour Nov 23: Blacktop Mojo w/ Otherwise, Lullwater, and Kirra Nov 24: Immortal Technique Nov 25: Thy Art Is Murder w/ Perdition Temple Nov 28: Carolina Shyt Thanksgiving Concert Nov 29: Natural Wonders: The Ultimate Stevie Wonder Experience Nov 30: Jay Da Youngan Dec 4: Born of Osiris w/ Oceano, Car Bomb, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Primordial Tides Dec 6: Collie Buddz w/ Keznamdi Dec 7: Obituary w/ False Prophet & YES! WEEKLY

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Extinction A.D. Dec 12: An Evening w/ The Grass is Dead Dec 13: The Spill Canvas: Decade & A Half Tour w/ The Juliana Theory, Cory Wells, Run Home Jack Dec 14: Jukebox Rehab Dec 15: Tab Benoit Dec 19: Bluegrass Christmas w/ Songs From The Road Band & Turpentine Shine Dec 20: Brother’s Pearl Christmas Vacation Dec 21: A Christmas Celebration w/ The Dickens Dec 26: Brice St Dec 28: Murder By Death Dec 29: 10 Years Dec 30: David Childers & The Serpents w/ Paleface Dec 31: New Years Eve w/ The Breakfast Club - 80’s Tribute Band Jan 3: American Hair Band Jan 4: Trial By Fire - A Tribute to Journey Jan 8: The Almost - If I Believed You Tour

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Nov 29: Seth Walker Nov 30: Cory Leutjen & The Traveling Blues Band Nov 30: A Motown Christmas Dec 7: The Gathering Dec 8: 6th Annual PTJO Holiday Concert Dec 8: Albert Cummings Dec 14: The Nutcracker Dec 14: Lowland Hum Dec 15: Matt Nakoa Dec 21: Robin and Linda Williams Dec 27: Friday Reggae Vibes Jan 19: Mipso Jan 19: Pearl & The Charlotte Holding Company

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Nov 21: Live Thursdays

COMEDY zONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Nov 22: Daddazz & Melissa MC Nov 23: Patrick Garrity Nov 29: J. Bliss Nov 30: J. Bliss Dec 6: Dean Napolitano Dec 7: Dean Napolitano

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Dec 8: Holiday Drag Comedy Spectacular Dec 12: D’Lai w/ Darren Fleet Dec 13: Frankie Paul Dec 14: Frankie Paul Dec 19: Shaw Family presents Carl Payne Dec 20: Darren DS Sanders Dec 21: Darren DS Sanders Dec 27: Burpie w/ Travis Howze Dec 28: Burpie w/ Travis Howze Jan 9: WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley

CoMMon grounDS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388 nov 20: Matty Sheets w/ Laura Jane Vincent nov 22: Ben Cook nov 23: Lightning 13 Dec 11: Andrew Kasab

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117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com nov 22: Hardy nov 29: Lil Tjay Dec 21: Eli Young Band Feb 18: British Lion

grEEnE STrEET CLuB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

HAM’S nEW gArDEn

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com

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1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 nov 21: Marcus Horth nov 22: Sharon Bradley nov 23: gSongfest nov 27: Doug Baker nov 29: Sentimental Johnny nov 30: Laura Jane Vincent Dec 6: russell Henderson Dec 7: Dusty Cagle Dec 11: Tony Low and Alice osborn Dec 13: Matty Sheets and Marc Kennedy Dec 14: Pete Pawsey Dec 20: The Cool Beans Dec 21: Christian McIvor Dec 26: Zac Messick and Claire Dec 27: Andy Brower and Matty Sheets Jan 3: Chris McIvor Jan 4: Dusty Cagle Jan 11: Josh Watson

LITTLE BroTHEr BrEWIng

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 nov 22: Sid Kingsley nov 26: La Terza Classe nov 29: Higher Education Dec 13: Threefour Mountain Dec 14: Billingsley www.yesweekly.com

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5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com

THE IDIoT Box CoMEDY CLuB

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com nov 22: ultimate Comic Challenge Semifinals nov 23: Judah Friedlander Dec 7: Family Friendly Improv Dec 10: Improv Comedy Dec 14: Special Sketch Event: Wikimedians & Mon Frere Dec 20: A roast of Santa Dec 27: Kenyon Adamcik Jan 3: 40 First Jokes of 2020

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HAM’S PALLADIuM

5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com nov 22: Cumberland Drive nov 23: ultimate rock Machine nov 29: Stereo Doll nov 30: Bad romeo

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com nov 21: Cory Luetjen nov 22: gipsy Danger nov 23: Southbound 49 nov 29: Hip Pocket nov 30: The Dickens

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841 Old Winston Rd | 336.497.4727 jpeppers.com May 14: James Vincent Carroll

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191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com nov 22: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 23: andrew Millsaps Band nov 29: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 30: gypsy Danger Dec 6: karaoke Dec 7: Chasin Flame Dec 13: karaoke Dec 14: Big Daddy Mojo/5th anniversary Party Dec 20: karaoke Dec 21: Disaster Recovery Band Dec 27: karaoke Dec 31: the offenders, new Year’s Eve Party

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101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 TheLibertyShowcase.com nov 22: the Bellamy Brothers Dec 7: Jimmy Fortune Jan 11: the legacy Motown Revue Jan 18: Ronnie McDowell Jan 25: Confederate Railroad Feb 8: little texas Feb 22: Dailey & Vincent Feb 29: Stephen Freeman

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Bull’S taVERn

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern nov 21: guttatrees nov 23: Electric Jelly Funk nov 27: Smashat nov 29: Souljam

CB’S taVERn

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 nov 30: line Dancing w/ Pat

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FiDDlin’ FiSh BREwing CoMPanY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com nov 23: wristband nov 25: old time Jam Dec 6: Circus Mutt

FoothillS BREwing

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com nov 23: E-Jay Borther Bear and Co. nov 24: Sunday Jazz nov 27: Jerry Chapman nov 30: lisa & the Saints

MaC & nElli’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Dec 27: whiskey Mic

MilnER’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com nov 24: live Jazz

MuDDY CREEk CaFE & MuSiC hall

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 nov 21: Downtown abby & the Echoes nov 22: amanda anne Platt & the honeycutters nov 23: Chris Jones and the night Drivers nov 24: Jim avett nov 30: Rain Check, walter holton, Dan Dockery, Big Ron hunter Dec 1: wayne henderson and Presley Barker

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 nov 21: Sylvia Rose novak Band, Chris Rattie & the new Rebels nov 22: Couldn’t Be happiers, Magnolia green nov 23: Scythian nov 29: Silent Disco nov 30: Country Dan Collins Dec 6: Southern Culture on the Skids, Balderdash ltd.

Dec 7: a Jazzy Christmas w/ Chelsey green & the green Project Dec 8: Michael anderson Christmas Show Dec 12: Rod abernethy Dec 13: the Squirrel nut Zipper’s holiday Caravan Show, Firecracker Jazz Band Dec 14: Finks, Spirit System, Pink Slater, alternative Champs

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com Nov 29: Fantasia w/ Robin Thicke, Tank & The Bonfyre Dec 5: Power 98 Winter Block Party

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Nov 22: Galantis Nov 23: As I Lay Dying Nov 26: Jeezy Nov 27: Zoso Nov 29: Manchester Orchestra Nov 30: Epmd Dec 2: Festivus w/ Cage The Elephant Dec 3: Festivus w/ Of Monsters & Men Dec 4: Festivus w/ Phantogram Dec 6: Incubus Dec 10: Summer Walker Dec 12: Nghtmre Dec 18: Snoop Dogg Dec 19: Tyler Childers Dec 20: Eli Young Band Dec 28: The Purple Madness - Tribute to Prince Dec 31: Hippie Sabotage

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com Dec 13: Deck The Hall Ball starring Rob Thomas & Ingrid Michaelson Dec 17: Lindsey Stirling Dec 31: Charlie Wilson

PNC MUSIC PAVILION 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com

SPECTRUM CENTER

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Nov 20: Jonas Brothers Dec 7: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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820 Hamilton St, Charlotte | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Nov 20: The Menzingers Nov 21: Ice Nine Kills Nov 23: Freddie Gibbs Nov 24: Dave East Nov 25: La Dispute Nov 30: Xavier Omar Dec 5: Andrew McMahons Dec 7: Puddle of Mudd Dec 8: Drum Appreciation Day Dec 13: Issues Dec 18: Morbid Angel

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CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Nov 21: Kip Moore Nov 22: Aaron Neville Nov 23: Sam Bush Dec 1: A Motown Christmas Dec 4: Robert Earl Keen Dec 5: The Malpass Brothers Dec 6: The Marcus King Band

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Nov 20: The Doobi Brothers Nov 22-23: Sylvan Esso Presents w/ Molly Sarlé of Mountain Man Nov 24: Kenny G Nov 27: The Brian Setzer Orchestra Nov 29: II Divo

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Nov 29: Seth Walker Nov 30: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band Nov 30: A Motown Christmas Dec 6: Cageless Birds Dec 7: The Gathering Dec 8: Albert Cummings Dec 14: Lowland Hum Dec 15: Matt Nakoa Dec 21: Robin & Linda Williams

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Nov 22: Five Finger Death Punch Nov 23: Miranda Lambert Dec 11: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec 31: The Avett Brothers

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com

PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Nov 20: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Nov 22: Ariana Grande Nov 24: Tool w/ Killing Joke Dec 1: Fantasia w/ Robin Thicke, Tank, & the Bonfyre

WINSTON-SALEM

WINSTON-SALEM FAIRGROUND 421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Nov 23: Chevelle

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

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HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 23: Lee Ritenour Nov 24: John Berry

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BARTENDER: Bianca Banks BAR: SouthEnd Brewing Co - COME SEE US! AGE: 31 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Raised here in Greensboro but born in Chicago, IL. I much prefer the winters here.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? I have been bartending going on ten years now. I have had other jobs in between, but bartending has been the main source of income for a decade now.

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I actually became a bartender whilst working at Chili’s here in Greensboro. I had the opportunity to move up from a server to a bartender when I turned 21, and I snatched it! Although bartending, there has made me hate making margaritas.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? I enjoy the fluidity of it. (Pun intended) Working for as many bars as I have the base of the job really stays the same. Whether you work for a dive bar or a high-end cocktail speakeasy, you’re there to interact with the people whose drinks you serve, and you can make a fair amount of lasting connections that way.

Anybody can make a drink, but I think people also come out for an experience. I enjoy providing that experience for anyone who may sit at the bar.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Boilermaker. (Shot of whiskey and a beer) I like to keep it simple.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? I love a good glass of scotch, even if my wallet doesn’t.

If anyone loves scotch but not the price, check out Monkey Shoulder! It has all the qualities of a great scotch without the cringe of looking at your bank account the next morning.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? I recommend drinking a Ferrari. (Fernet/Campari cocktail) It’s definitely an acquired taste, to say the least, but it does help with digestion and palate cleansing. Just try to overlook the bitterness.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? I’ve seen quite a few crazy things in my bartending days, so it’s hard to limit it to just one. But if I had to, it would have to be a guy trying to sneak in a sixtel keg inside of a baby stroller into the bar. Still not quite certain what the thought process there was. Don’t get any ideas, folks.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? I have received a $200 tip, BUT it was on Christmas, and I think they were in the holiday giving spirit.

If anybody wants to try to beat that over at SouthEnd, I won’t fight ya.

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[HOROSCOPES]

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Once again, you find a creative way to resolve a pesky problem in short order. However, a matter involving a possible breach of confidence might need a bit more time to check out.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A recent act of kindness is beginning to show some unexpected (but very welcome) results. On another note, expect to hear more about a possible move to another locale.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) While it seems that chaos is taking over, you get everything back to normal, even if it means being more than a little assertive with some people. Expect to hear more job-related news soon.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Reuniting with an old friend could lead to the sharing of some great new experiences. But be careful you don’t find yourself once again being super-critical or overly judgmental.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The good news is that the sure-footed Goat can rely on his or her skill to get around obstacles in the workplace. The not-so-good news is that new impediments could turn up later.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Expect to be able to move ahead with your workplace plans now that you have a good idea of what you might have to face. You also can anticipate a welcome change on the home front.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You should be seeing some positive results following your move toward repairing that unraveling relationship.

There might be some setbacks, but staying with it ultimately pays off.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A change of pace is welcome but also confusing. Before you make decisions one way or another, be sure you know precisely what it is you’re being asked to do.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A quieter period settles in, giving you a chance to catch your breath, as well as allowing for more time to handle some important family matters. The arts dominate this weekend. Enjoy them.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Encouraging a friendlier environment in the home could go a long way to help dissipate anger and resolve problems, especially those affecting children. It won’t be easy, but you can do it.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Don’t fret if you don’t get the gratitude you think you’re owed for doing a nice thing for someone. There might be a good reason for that. In any event, what’s important is that you did it.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The frustrations of last week have pretty much played themselves out. You should find things going more smoothly, especially with those all-important personal matters. © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I haven’t had sex since my last breakup, and I’m all lusty. I really like this guy, but he seems to have some intimacy issues. We went on a coffee date, and Amy Alkon the chemistry made things go further Advice than I would have Goddess wanted or expected (making out like crazy in the car). My friends keep reminding me to build trust and friendship before sex. But can you really go backward? Like, is it possible to just hang out and chat once things have gotten hot and heavy? — Lustbucket A nice thick pane of bulletproof glass between two people is an underappreciated chastity helper, which is to say, in a perfect world, you’d plan your dates around one of you getting a job in a check-cashing place or getting arrested and held without bail.

There’s a tendency when you’ve initially gone a little too heavy into the heavy petting to be all: “Oh, well...cat’s out of the bag. Let’s just go straight to the sex dungeon.” However, for women especially, having sex right away can lead to a sort of psychological blinding to their sex partner’s shortcomings.

Women seem more prone to getting attached when they have sex. This is thought to result from surging oxytocin, a hormone associated with emotional

bonding between mothers and children, as well as lovers. Oxytocin is released in both men and women through cuddling, kissing, and especially through orgasm. However, in men, having sex also sets off a big blast of testosterone. Testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer on oxytocin, blocking it from getting to its receptor. So just as a woman’s going all melt-o about a guy, if the guy has no pre-sex emotional attachment to her, his neurochemistry is prodding him to say something sweet and romantic, like “Thanks for the ride! Have a great life!”

In other words, the bulletproof glass suggestion isn’t all that outrageous. It’s a form of “precommitment,” a strategy by economist Thomas Schelling that involves preparing in advance to make it difficult for you to break a promise or duck a goal.

Incorporating precommitment could mean only scheduling lunch dates in restaurants and only on days when you have a work meeting right afterward. Another idea is getting to know each other over the phone more than in person — with the caveat that you only do it in relatively public places, where turning FaceTime into PenisTime is likely to lead to, um, jail time.

FADE TO BLEH

I’m a very obsessive person. I went on one date with this guy, and it was immediately apparent that he’s emotionally unavailable and broken. I deleted his number but soon dug it back up. I texted, but he never responded. I know he’s bad news, but I still think about him constantly. It’s especially bad when I’m trying to go to sleep. How do I stop these intrusive thoughts? — Besieged

It’s like that spinning teacup ride, with Satan as the carny: “Wanna get off? Too bad!”

You’re doing your best to avoid thinking about the guy. Unfortunately, there’s a problem with that. Research by psychologist Daniel Wegner on “the paradoxical effects of thought suppression” suggests our minds have something in common with a defiant 2-year-old, meaning that telling yourself not to think about something gets your mind doing exactly the opposite: thinking about that thing with a vengeance.

This is just how the mind works. When you tell yourself not to think about something, it’s an immediate fail. The mind sweeps around to monitor how well you’re doing at not thinking about it, which of course involves thinking about whatever you’re not supposed be thinking about.

Helpfully, Wegner and his colleagues found a possible way to stem the flood of intrusive thoughts: distraction. This requires thinking of something positive and unrelated to the thoughts you’re trying to suppress. Even a red Volkswagen — the example they used in their experiment — could do the job.

What’s more, psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can keep your mind from constantly bouncing back to a thought if you shift your focus: admit that not thinking about it is hard. As I explain in “Unf*ckology,” “Removing the need to patrol your thoughts ... removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland with a flashlight to see how well you’re doing at it.”

Finally, because the mind cannot multitask, meaning think two thoughts at once, it might be helpful at bedtime to tire yourself out reading aloud or following a guided meditation on your phone: You’re walking down a beach...you’re looking out into the waves...and...um...oops! Just remind yourself that not thinking about something is hard and yank your mind back to Swami Doodah after you inevitably picture yourself holding the guy down and drowning him in the ocean. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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