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Preston Lane’s script for TRIAD STAGE’S DRACULA skillfully and seriously adapts the spirit and scope of Bram Stoker’s 512-page novel into a brisk 90-minute running time. The most famous theatrical version made a star of the handsome and hypnotic Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi but confined Stoker’s sprawling action to a single household and transformed his monstrous title character into a charmingly seductive demon lover. But Lane took a different approach rooted in Stoker’s more horrific text.

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KAU RESTAURANT, Butcher and Bar sits in the former carpentry building at Revolution Mill. Looking around, it is quite evident that its century-old wood has been repurposed, and the gorgeous building- from its floors to its high beams- is a sight to behold. 8 The 12th annual “STARRY NIGHT” silent art auction will be held on Nov. 6 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Theatre Art Galleries (TAG) in High Point. 9 Actor/filmmaker BRYAN BURTON, alumnus of Greensboro Academy, Weaver Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts, and graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, is coming home to Greensboro this weekend – but he’s not coming alone. 10 THE OLIO, which opened in 2014 in Winston-Salem, is an educational glassblowing facility featuring a youth apprentice program and retail gallery. 12 Maybe it could have been darker and sharper, but THE ADDAMS FAMILY is, after all, a family film, one designed to be enjoyed by all ages. The film is also about a family, of course, but a functional, fun famYES! WEEKLY

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ily. Despite their love for all things ghoulish and macabre, the Addams clan is a devoted and loving one. It’s the rest of the world that’s out of whack. 18 With Greensboro Pride in September, Pride Winston-Salem in October, there is still one city that doesn’t celebrate with its own festival— until now. High Point will finally have its own PRIDE on Nov. 2 at COHAB.SPACE. 19 This past weekend, Winston-Salem MAYOR ALLEN JOINES appeared on Triad Today to share his thoughts on a wide range of topics affecting the city that he has presided over since 2001. We began by talking about job growth. 20 You’ve got one more chance to see the band TCU. Only one. If you’re interested, you’d better jump at it, because it’s not likely to happen again. They haven’t played a show in three years, and no one necessarily expected a reunion... 21 SHAMIR LEE will crest the stage as part of the Creative Infusion x Carolina Waves GHOE Showcase, hosted by K-97.5, on Oct. 25 at the Artist Bloc.

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WED 23-27 BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA WHAT: An original stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Gothic Masterpiece, Dracula. Bring the garlic and wooden stake, but leave your disbelief at home. A bloodsucking stranger appears in London and has citizens locking their doors and praying for dawn. Join the fight against the darkness that strikes even the purest of hearts. WHEN: Multiple times. WHERE: Triad Stage. 232 S Elm St, Greensboro. MORE: Check triadstage.org/performance/307/dracula for dates, times and tickets.

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WHAT: Join Downtown Greensboro and Vintage to Vogue Boutique for our fourth annual Downtown Trick-Or-Treat at participating businesses. All participating businesses will have an orange pumpkin displayed in their window. Those participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project will provide non-allergy items for kids with food allergies. WHEN: 2-5 p.m. WHERE: Downtown Greensboro. MORE: Free event.

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UNCG FREE SPEECH CONFERENCE BY IAN MCDOWELL

“Democratic life faces unprecedented challenges, both locally and internationally,” said UNCG professor of communication studies Dr. Spoma Jovanovic. That, Jovanovic said, is why she and her colleagues organized “Finding Expression in Contested Public Spaces Free Speech Conference 2019.” The two-day conference takes place this Thursday and Friday in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House on the UNCG Campus. Conference hours are from 7 to 9 p.m. on the 24th and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the 25th. The event is hosted by the UNCG Department of Communication and is free and open to the public. Jovanovic, a 2019-2020 Fellow with the University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, explained the importance of the conference in a recent email. “Few could have anticipated the ways in which our democracies and electoral politics have become so heavily influenced by the impact of corporate personhood, public-private partnerships, explosive partisan politics, and a checkerboard game of economic decisions that too often leave people confused, rather than attuned to practical concerns punctuated by persistent injustices.” The conference begins Thursday evening with a commemoration of the victims and survivors of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which armed members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party killed anti-Klan demonstrators Cesar Cauce, James Waller, Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith and Michael Nathan. In 2006, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Report stated that the Greensboro Police Department knew in advance that the Nazis and Klansmen were planning an attack, yet did nothing to prevent it and instead instructed officers to avoid the scene. Nov. 3 is the 40th anniversary of the massacre. “We will observe 40 seconds of silence to mark the commemoration of the Greensboro Massacre and to celebrate the voices here and those gone but still in our midst that demonstrate the courage

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to speak so that the world is better for it,” Jovanovic wrote. This will be followed by the keynote address from Dr. Eric King Watts, professor of rhetorical studies at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Communication, whose research combines literary and media studies with aesthetics to examine the relationship of African-American public voice, the black body, the very meaning of “blackness,” and the power relationships that promote some public voices while leaving others voiceless. Watts’ keynote address, “Tribalism, Voicelessness and the Problem of Free Speech,” will examine the role of “posttruth” in the creation of intensely antagonistic public voices, and discuss how recent incidents of racial violence and this country’s immigration (or more accurately, anti-immigration) policies determine who can be heard and who matters. The second day of the conference begins at 8 a.m. with the panel “Pedagogy and the First Amendment.” Jovanovic, who will moderate, described the panel in an email. “Many students (and people in general) today have a shallow understanding of the First Amendment, and yet its impact reaches into all areas of our lives. In this panel, current and former graduate students from UNCG will consider the role and impact of video games (protected speech according to a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling) as well as how a ‘First Amendment Music Festival’ serves to promote citizenship and along with that, a deeper understanding of free speech protections and responsibilities.” Following this are panels on “Academic Freedom & Campus Free Speech” and “Contested Public Spaces.” The latter will examine controversies over public monuments and the rights of homeless people to have access to public spaces. The remaining panel topics are “Boundaries of Free Speech and Expression,” “Violence, Hate, Control of Free Speech,” and “Talking about Race.” Parking is available at Walker Deck, located at 1510 Walker Ave. in Greensboro. !

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ront and center at the sprawling, 50-acre, historic Revolution Mill, sits a restaurant that has set its sights on being the heartbeat of it all. Built in the Kristi Maier 1890s as the first @triadfoodies flannel mill in the South, it helped put the Triad on the Contributor manufacturing map. But as we all know, demands changed and the mill was closed. As of the early 2000s, Revolution Mill has been revitalized and transformed into office, event and living spaces. Kau Restaurant, Butcher and Bar sits in the former carpentry building at Revolution Mill. Looking around, it is quite evident that its century-old wood has been repurposed, and the gorgeous building- from its floors to its high beams- is a sight to behold. The care and attention to detail do not go unnoticed. It’s lovely, casual and beautifully adorned with bovine decor. There’s no doubt what Kau is: a restaurant dedicated to meat. After all, you walk right by a butcher’s market to get to your table. Don’t worry, plantlovers, there’s plenty for you, too. Kayne Fisher said his dream has always been to have a restaurant that included a butcher’s market. A place to have lunch, dinner or to swing by at the end of the day and pick up ingredients. Fisher said that is the way he and his grandparents did it when he enjoyed his summers with

them in Detroit. “It started this passion in me that one day, I’m going to open up my own little market, with a few cafe tables, and it’s going to have a butchery,” he said. “And we’re going to cut it and cook it. And if we don’t cook it, you can take it home and cook it for yourself. To be sitting here doing that now is a dream come true.” Fisher grew up in New Mexico and Colorado, but his family eventually moved to North Carolina. After he attended UNCG, he put down roots and began his restauranteur life with business partner Chris Lester, for Old Town Draught House, First Street Draught House, and Tap Room. Those ventures led to Greensboro’s own Natty Greene’s. The two enjoyed success and opened the brewpub downtown and then Natty Greene’s Kitchen at Revolution Mill. A year ago, Fisher parted with Lester and took the food aspect of NGK with him, while Lester continued with the brewery. Thus, Kau was born. “We decided to each follow our own passions, and that’s when I could unleash the full potential of this concept.” The guests of the Chef’s Table were promised a butcher’s journey and were met with Fisher’s vision of what that journey is: cure, brine, grind, smoke, cut. And at Kau, they do it all in-house. Course One Beet-cured Salmon with cracker, egg, scallion, dill spread To kick off the evening with salmon and not some form of red meat was a bit of a surprise. But the salmon, which looked almost like carpaccio, was a delightful first course to whet the palate. A perfect party “flavor” for a dinner.

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Course Two Collard Macaroni and Cheese with a bacon-glazed, house-made bacon strip You had me at macaroni and cheese, collards and at bacon. This course could’ve been a satisfying meal all on its own. Course Three Duck and Sausage Flatbread with roasted garlic bechamel, arugula, roasted red pepper, truffle oil, white cheddar, Parmesan Each table got their own pizzas, and guests enjoyed this course family-style, which is always a fun element at a tasting dinner. It was fresh, herbaceous and perfectly satisfying. Course Four Camel Slider with desert sauce, roasted cactus, aged provolone, pickled onions, yucca chips Chef Fisher “warned” the crowd that there would be camel as a way to show his adventurous side, which reveals itself often at Kau, as Fisher loves to work with wild game and interesting proteins. The camel was definitely interesting. He described it as a “beefy beef,” and that description was spot on. The desert sauce was made from cactus leaves and the aged provolone was meant to cut through any gaminess that might be lingering in the meat. This is the kind of adventurous and remarkable dish one should look out for when dining at Kau. Course Five Butcher’s Duo: Steak tartare with capers, grainy mustard, and a Mini-New York Strip with bone marrow butter, smoked sea salt While the more wild and bold of the proteins floats Fisher’s boat as much as anything to his core, he calls himself “a WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

cowboy.” Although he likes to “chef it up,” nothing quite compares to a great steak, excellently prepared. The Butcher’s Duo showed what Kau does best. The tartare was incredibly fresh with bright acidity. There were no bells and whistles for the strip, and none were needed. Course Six Apple Cheesecake and Chocolate Mousse Getting a bit full at this point, most of us were pleased that it was a mere bite of cheesecake, which was marvelous and laden with chunks of cinnamon apples. The mousse was a chocolate lover’s dream and the guests enjoyed chunks of homemade brownie on top. Fisher said with Kau, he’s trying to bring back a feeling from when the mill was vibrant. “I am re-introducing simplicity with the highest quality products that we cut, grind, stuff and smoke in-house. I have a marriage of a neighborhood tavern with the classic American steakhouse.” Kay Rogers, who traveled from WinstonSalem, summed it up nicely. “A great, wonderful menu in a memorable location.” For a more in-depth interview with Kayne Fisher, listen to my podcast, “At the Table with Triadfoodies,” on the Triad Podcast Network. ! 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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TAG, The Arc to host ‘Starry Night’ silent art auction

he 12th annual “Starry Night” silent art auction will be held on Nov. 6 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Theatre Art Galleries (TAG) in High Point. The Terry Rader Creative Expressions Art Studio at The Arc of High Point Contributor will also have their works for sale at this $10 ticketed event. The ticket price includes light hors d’oeuvre (from Pepper Moon Catering) and two beverage tickets. Guests are asked to RSVP in advance to Stephanie Antkowiak, the executive director of The Arc of High Point. Antkowiak said the stars theme would continue with a red carpet and photographers posing as paparazzi, “so the artists get to shine, and meet and greet the bidders with their families present.” She said that they want the community to come and focus on the participants’ abilities instead of their intellectual and developmental disabilities. This educational movement is one that is near and dear to Antkowiak’s heart because of her own two children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She said they have overcome the odds and are both in college pursuing their passions despite teachers, who at first wouldn’t teach

them. Antkowiak stood her ground and got her kids a seat in classrooms that were once off-limits to kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She said that no one should pre-destine what a child can do. One of the artists who will be at the auction is Blake Henkle. He has an agent that his mom/manager hired to handle his commissions from a painting he did that was purchased by one of the companies attending the High Point furniture market. He receives a commission from each print sold, Antkowiak said. She said that most of the traditional art would start bidding at $50, while somewhat smaller photographs that came from this summer’s photography program may start at $35. They encourage everyone to come, bid and donate. Other works of art will be for sale (not in the silent auction) and will include some of the work on their online shop and their store. Some of these items are handcrafted functional pottery, such as pet dishes, hanging bird baths, bowls, wind chimes, fairy houses, hanging ornaments, trivets, marble magnets, dry erase boards, jewelry pendants, pins, hand-painted aprons, iPad and iPhone cases, laptop bags, mousepads, handbags and keychains for people and pets. Jeff Horney, executive director of Theatre Art Galleries, said that TAG promotes and co-hosts this annual event by providing the space, but that The Arc of High Point board actually fundraises, organizes and puts on the event.

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“Jeff has been so supportive of this event for years, I can’t stress that enough,” Antkowiak said. “He is so passionate about people producing art.” This silent auction is The Arc’s major fundraiser for its Creative Arts Studios and provides instruction and supplies for participants. Antkowiak said that she is “just the math wiz” and gives credit to Liz McKinnon, director of creative arts program at The Arc of High Point’s Creative Expressions Art Studio, as being the “creative genius and amazing artist.” She said that McKinnon’s real talent is working with these artists. Antkowiak said their creative arts program is designed to give their artists a productive day and the ability to eventually have earnings from the sale of their creations in their classes that include pottery (Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon), sewing (Wednesday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.), fine art (Friday, 9 a.m.-noon) and crafts from the former crafts class that is being continued just in the day program for now. She said that their day program, “Wild and Free,” started a year and a half ago as an extension of the Creative Arts program. She said there are such limited day programs for kids in their late 20s to 30s who have no place to go, so they provided one at $35 a day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.3 p.m. This program also concentrates on pre-employment skills, independent living skills, raised-garden beds and cooking classes. Recently, they have incorporated wellness classes with yoga and Zumba. Antkowiak said they are in need of volunteers to assist McKinnon with teaching so they can add after school classes from 3:30-6 p.m. “TAG is honored to collaborate with

The ARC by hosting their annual art sale and fundraiser. The event grows every year, and the art being produced by the artists in their Creative Arts Studios is amazing!” Antkowiak said, “We hope people come out and exclaim, ‘oh wow! Look at what these artists can do! Not because they have a disability, but because they are talented.’ Come out and hopefully be amazed and help us celebrate the level of talent we have right here in our community.” ! TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, singer/ songwriter, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/ dog/house sitting.

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Bryan Burton: The name, the face, the place Actor/filmmaker Bryan Burton, alumnus of Greensboro Academy, Weaver Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts, and graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, is coming home to Greensboro this Mark Burger weekend – but he’s not coming alone. He’s bringing A Contributor Name Without a Place, an offbeat comedy/drama from writer/executive producer/director Kenny Riches, which opens Friday at RED Cinemas in Greensboro. Burton is scheduled to attend Friday, Saturday and Sunday to participate in post-screening Q&A sessions with audience members. The film, shot entirely on location in Florida, stars Burton as Gordon Grafton, an ambivalent, unmotivated young man who has never expressed so much as a single desire to leave his hometown of Miami Beach. That is, until his twin brother unexpectedly dies. When he discovers his brother’s journal, Gordon becomes obsessed with retracing his brother’s steps, and embarks on both a journey of self-discovery and the journey of a lifetime. The film also stars Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), also an executive producer; Charlotte Best (T.V.’s Home and Away), Christine Elise (Body Snatchers), Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey and Oscar nominee for Ragtime), and longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and UNCSA School of Drama graduate Chris Parnell. But it’s Burton who’s front and center throughout. Riches had seen Burton’s performance in a Columbia MFA thesis short film called Black and Blue, for You and was impressed enough to reach out to him, asking if Burton would submit a taped audition. “I read the screenplay, really loved the genre-bending tonality to his script, and happily put myself on tape,” Burton said. “A few great meetings later, the rest was history, and we went off to make this new feature film that I’m extremely proud of, as well as making many amazing new friends along the way. Working with Chris and Elizabeth and Patrick was one of the easiest, most fun experiences ever. Whenever you get to work alongside talents of that caliber, especially when WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

the chemistry between the performances is really ‘vibing’ – comedically, romantically, or otherwise – the job is always the easiest. I’m just so excited to share this personal milestone moment with the people and community that I love, who have supported me throughout my life and truly make Greensboro my home at heart forever.” Burton is quick to credit his collaborators, “and I truly want as many people to see it as we can get,” he said. “It’s definitely a harder film to simply define by one clear-cut genre category or classifiable film stereotype.” Burton describes the tone as “fresh and weird and fun and quirkily comedic” yet dark. “It’s something different, and not your normal Hollywood fare, but still has a very human story at the heart of it,” Burton explained. “That’s certainly one of the many things that attracted me in the first place.” On the big screen, Burton has been seen in Money Monster (2016) with George Clooney and Julia Roberts and The Post (2017) with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. On the small screen, he’s appeared in Adult Swim’s Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter, HBO’s Emmy-winning drama series Succession, and opposite John Turturro in the hard-hitting 2016 HBO mini-series The Night Of, which earned 13 Emmy nominations (including Outstanding Limited Series), and won five, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Riz Ahmed. “Probably to nobody’s surprise, it was one of the best experiences I’ve had as an

actor,” Burton said. “John Turturro is one of the most genuine and generous actors I’ve ever worked with … and, of course, working with show creator/writer Steven Zaillian was beyond the coolest thing! I mean, this dude is truly one of the greatest screenwriters who ever lived, and one helluva good director – let alone a very fun one to work with. I truly love how that whole series turned out, am so proud that I got to be a part of it, and am forever grateful to Steven and (casting director) Avy Kaufman for that opportunity.” Burton has also appeared in a slew of short films and several high-profile commercials, including American Express (with Tina Fey), T-Mobile (with Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper), and a well-remembered Liberty Mutual campaign involving two teenagers trying to repair their car on the side of the road in the dead of night. Further exercising his creative muscles, Burton completed the musical short film Push the Point, on which he served as director, producer, co-writer, production designer, set designer, sound editor and, just for good measure, lead actor. The film premiered at the 50th annual San Diego Comic-Con International (“the Big Mac Daddy con,” as Burton called it), and will have its North Carolina premiere at the 25th annual Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington next month. “I couldn’t be more pumped!” Actually, Burton has directed before: Plays, sketch-comedy digital shorts, and a short film for his senior thesis at Weaver Academy – which was shot in his family’s old living room.

“But Push the Point came with many years of professional experience on huge film and T.V. sets under my belt,” he said. “It was a legit production with a real crew, intense production design, a supremely talented cast of Broadway talents, and the wittiest, best group of co-writers/ producers/friends to collaborate and create with throughout the pre-production and production phases – including fellow Greensboro native and Weaver alumnus Alex Koceja as the musical’s lyricist. It’s my own directorial debut, and I couldn’t be more proud of it as well. Directing has always been something I wanted to do,” he added. “It was always a part of the plan, and will continue to be a part of it. I’ve always worked from more of a technical, musically-minded directorial method of performance, and without a doubt it made my transition on this project much smoother and a lot more fun.” ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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A Name Without a Place opens Friday at RED Cinemas, 1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro, and Bryan Burton will attend Q&A screenings Friday (7 pm), Saturday (7 pm), and Sunday (2:30 pm). For advance tickets or more information, call 336.230.1620 or visit http://www.redcinemas.com/. The film’s official website is anamewithoutaplace. com, and Bryan Burton’s official website is https:// bryan-burton.com/index.html.

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The science behind glassblowing by Marisa sloan What do the Hubble telescope, the windows of Notre Dame, and your favorite bottle of wine have in common? They’re all made with glass. Trying to imagine a world without glass is almost impossible. For many people, the glass screens of their phones are the first thing they see in the morning, and their glass light bulbs being turned off are the last thing they see at night. All this is possible thanks to the contributions of glassblowers over 2,000 years ago, and a glassblowing process that has remained nearly the same for just as long. The Olio, which opened in 2014 in Winston-Salem, is an educational glassblowing facility featuring a youth apprentice program and retail gallery. To learn more about the science behind blowing glass, founding executive director Rebeccah Byer and creative director Sarah Band offered to take a moment away from the furnace to talk about their own experiences with the art. “It’s a really great way to show science in practice, because we can take the concepts that students are learning in their books and apply them in real action,” Byer said. “We’ve had elementary school groups come in for their heat induction section; we’ve had high schools come for chemistry; we’ve had [a class on] the history of alchemy from Wake Forest University; we’ve had a lot of different groups come for a lot of different focuses.” Glassblowing is exactly what it sounds like: a glassforming technique that involves blowing molten glass into a bubble to shape it. A glassblower will begin at the furnace, which houses a large crucible of molten glass. They then use a long, hollow tube called a blowpipe to gather molten glass the same way a honey dipper is used to pick up honey (although it probably isn’t as delicious). The molten glass is rolled on a “marver,” a flat piece of steel, in order to slightly cool and shape the outside of the glass. Next, the glassblower creates a bubble by blowing into the blowpipe. Once it reaches the desired size, an iron rod called a “punty” is attached to YES! WEEKLY

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the opposite, bottom end of the molten glass blob so that it can be shaped with shears, tweezers, wooden paddles and water-soaked newspaper. Because the molten glass must remain above a certain temperature while being worked on, a secondary furnace called a “glory hole” is used to periodically reheat it during the shaping process. Then once the piece is complete, it is put into a third and final furnace called an “annealer.” The annealer slowly cools the glass to room temperature over a period of days, depending on the thickness and size of the glass, to prevent cracks from thermal stress. While it’s true that some of the techniques and tools are more refined today, the tried-and-true process has remained almost the same since the inception of glassblowing. Today, most glassblowing studios order glass from glass manufacturers and reshape it to fit their needs, rather than making the glass themselves. This is because it can be a difficult process. The type of glass used in glassblowing is created from sand (silica), soda (sodium carbonate) to lower the melting point, and lime (calcium carbonate) to increase the durability of the glass. The transformation of these raw materials into glass requires a furnace at about 2,400 °F, while most glassblowing requires only 1,350 - 1,900 °F to melt down the glass and keep it pliable for working. Silica, the major component of glass, is a mineral found only on special beaches with high percentages of silica in their sand. When lightning strikes this sand, over 100 million volts melt the silica together and form a hollow, branching tube called a “fulgurite.” And — spoiler alert — despite Josh Lucas’ character in Sweet Home Alabama making a living off of sculpting fulgurites into beautiful pieces of glass art, it’s actually a relatively rare phenomenon. In fact, Byer said there’s a shortage of silica, and glassblowers are feeling the effects. Now the second most used natural resource behind water, thanks to it being a primary component in building materials like concrete and glass, silica is running out. “The earth doesn’t have an unlimited supply of high silica content beaches or high silica sand,” said Byer, emphasizing the role that climate change and rising sea levels are playing in the loss of beaches. That’s why sustainability has remained at the forefront of The Olio’s mission. All of the glass used at The Olio is made from almost 100% recycled waste glass that is

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donated by the local community. After five years of sustainability, it’s recently become an even more important practice following the City of Greensboro’s abandonment of almost all glass recycling. “What we contribute to the landfill is significantly less than any other glass studio,” Byer said. “What we divert away from the landfill, from collecting from the community over time and also collectively nationwide, this system could do a serious service to our landfills and to our recycling systems.” Despite this, The Olio is only one of few glassblowing studios in the country that uses entirely recycled glass. That’s because there are as many different types of glasses as there are metals, and although “olio” means a miscellaneous collection of things, “if you mix different types of glass together and you don’t know where they come from or how they were made, everything can crack and explode,” Byer said. Different types of glass are categorized by their coefficients of expansion (COE). Glass expands when it is heated and contracts when it’s cooled, and the COE describes how much a glass will expand for each degree of temperature that it is increased. That’s why when glasses of different COEs are mixed together, despite perhaps looking the same to the naked eye, there’s always the risk that one will cool faster than the other and the whole thing will explode. “If you look in your pantry at home, for example, and you look at all the different jars that maybe your pasta sauce comes in, each of those jars has a different coefficient of expansion,” Byer said. “The COE that we use in our studio is 96.” Standard window glass has a COE around 84-87. Glass that has boron added to it, such as glass used in bakeware like Pyrex, has an exceptionally low COE of 33 so that it remains intact despite the high heat of an oven. Glassblowing studios that recycle glass have to be careful about where they’re getting their glass from and how they keep

it sorted, in order to avoid melting different types of glass together. The Olio, however, avoids this problem by using a patented formula that transforms any type of glass into 96 COE. The formula was developed by Christian Thornton, a glass artist based in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Byer and Band have been successfully using it at The Olio for five years without a problem. “We’re able to take all the different jars, mix them together — liquor bottles, wine bottles — and we add this formula and it makes them all one cohesive glass,” Byer said. The Olio is only one of two glassblowing studios in the country to use the formula, but Byer and Band have hopes to change that. “We can now go into other studios and help them figure out a system that would work for them to not be too costly on their time, or manpower, or space limitations,” Byer said. “I feel that we can really adapt this system to any other studio that wants

to use it. It can be done in any capacity.” The same way that different combinations of materials in glass can cause it to have a different COE, the addition of different metal oxides to glass can cause it to change color as well.

A lot of toxic, heavy metals are currently used to create color, although some glassblowers are trying to find alternatives to these. Cobalt oxide is used to make blue, lead oxide is used for yellow, iron for greens and blues, uranium oxide for fluorescent green, and sulfur oxide for amber. The list goes on and on. Gold and silver are also used, with red and pink colors being almost exclusively achieved using gold, but are expensive and therefore more rare in studios. Depending on which metal is being used, each metal ion has a different number and shape of electrons surrounding its nucleus. Color is created when the metal ions absorb certain wavelengths of light, and which wavelengths are absorbed depends on how the different shapes of electrons interact with other molecules in the glass. “What we do is really rooted in the science of glassblowing, and the science of art, and how to ignite and inspire people,” Byer said. “When [kids] come into our studio and they see science in action, they go back to school and they’re a little bit more interested in the chemistry or the physics lab. It’s a way for people to make those connections.” If you’d like to learn more about The Olio or glassblowing, visit theolio.org. !

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aybe it could have been darker and sharper, but The Addams Family is, after all, a family film, one designed to be enjoyed by all ages. Mark Burger The film is also about a family, of Contributor course, but a functional, fun family. Despite their love for all things ghoulish and macabre, the Addams clan is a devoted and loving one. It’s the rest of the world that’s out of whack. It was cartoonist Charles Addams who conceived The Addams Family, which became a popular mainstay of The New Yorker beginning in 1938. The ‘60s television series followed, as well as a pair of well-made but curiously unsatisfying feature films (The Addams Family in 1991 and Addams Family Values in 1993), and a Broadway musical (starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth). Unquestionably, The Addams Family has emerged as an American pop culture staple. As it’s based on a cartoon, an animated format perfectly suits the new version of The Addams Family, which is co-directed by Conrad Vernon (also a producer) and Greg Tiernan, who earlier helmed the animated raunch-fest Sausage Party (2016). The characters resemble the original Addams creations (with a few minor adjustments), and there’s plenty of room for in-jokes and visual puns. The star-studded voice-over cast

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includes Oscar Isaac (having a ball as Gomez), Charlize Theron (Morticia), Chloe Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Finn Wolfhard (Pugsley), Nick Kroll (Uncle Fester), Bette Midler (Grandmama), codirector Vernon (Lurch), and, in perhaps the most inspired bit of casting, Snoop Dogg as Cousin Itt. Thing’s around too but doesn’t talk. Having taken up residence in an abandoned asylum – replete with a ghost that constantly tells them to “Get out!” – the Addamses are quite content to be left to their own devices, but just down the hill is the picture-perfect suburban burg of Assimilation, lorded over by the perennially perky and relentlessly bossy reality-T.V. hostess and busybody Margaux Needler (voiced by Allison Janney). Even though Margaux’s daughter Parker (voiced by Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher) befriends Wednesday, Margaux makes no secret of her distaste for the Addamses – simply because they’re not like anyone else, which is something of an understatement. Cultural diversity is not the typical fodder for a family-friendly animated feature, but it’s a nice message, and the filmmakers wisely don’t pound it into the ground. The primary goal, after all, is entertainment, and with its eye-popping visual effects (quite impressive whether in 2-D or 3-D) and speedy pacing, The Addams Family provides just that. When the Vic Mizzy theme song, replete with bouncing ball and lyrics, is played before the end credits, it’s hard to resist joining along. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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he New Play Initiative for Forsyth County, founded in 2017, has awarded its second grant to a county-based, live-theater production company to produce a new or recent work by a North Carolina-based playwright. The Initiative has chosen to present a grant in support of Peppercorn Theatre’s planned presentation of a devised play version of “Alice in Wonderland.” The play is set for production in April 2020. Starting this fall in a collaboration with Asheboro’s RhinoLeap Productions, the writing end of this devised work will be led by Dr. Lalenja Harrington, a theatre-maker, actor, educator and advocate. In addition to her activities in the theater, Dr. Harrington is director of UNCG’s Academic Programming Development and Evaluation for Beyond Academics. This four-year certificate program supports students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, emphasizing self-determination, community inclusion and independent living. “Through her critical work with this program and the devised theater classes that she also teaches at UNCG, we

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believe that Dr. Harrington is a uniquely qualified artist and leader to place at the helm of our spring play,” Peppercorn noted in its grant application. The New Play Initiative, set up as a private family fund within the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County’s Arts Forever Fund, was established to encourage a stronger relationship between theater companies and playwrights in the state. The program realizes that theater companies often must take a financial risk to undertake lesser-known and newer plays, which also makes it difficult for playwrights to get new play scripts seen by an audience. “We are very aware of the work being created for young audiences by Peppercorn,” which is based at Kaleideum in downtown Winston-Salem, said Kathy Cissna, co-founder of the New Play Initiative. “We also know of Dr. Harrington and her extensive involvement in theater in the Triad. We’re pleased that the Initiative will be able to help finance this new work and the message it will share with young people, in addition to supporting Dr. Harrington in her playwriting.” !

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Near closing time Oct. 13 in a pub in Ruinerwold, Netherlands, a “completely confused” and “unkempt” 25-year-old man appeared with a strange story to Chuck Shepherd tell. Pub owner Chris Westerbeek told Dutch media the young man ordered five beers and “said he was the oldest (of six siblings) and wanted to end the way they were living,” according to The New York Times. The man had walked to the pub from a farm outside town, where police found five adult siblings, the youngest of whom was 18, had been living in a secret basement, accessed by a hidden door behind a cupboard, for nine years. They were apparently “waiting for the end of time,” police said, and the younger siblings were unaware there were other humans outside the basement. The family, including the father, who also lived on the farm, survived on a large garden and a few animals. NL Times reported police arrested a 58-year-old Austrian man, believed to a

tenant of the farm and identified only as Josef B., initially for refusing to cooperate with the investigation and later charged him with holding the family against their will; it was unclear where the mother is. At press time, the story was still unfolding.

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Tommy Lee Jenkins, 32, recently moved away from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Whitestown, Indiana, but on Oct. 1, he struck up an online relationship with “Kylee,” a supposed 14-year-old girl in Neenah, Wisconsin, according to the Justice Department. As their correspondence progressed, he requested sexually explicit photos of Kylee and made plans to engage in sexual behavior, court documents said, but when Kylee refused to come to Indiana, Jenkins set out toward Neenah — on foot. The Oshkosh Northwestern reported that waiting for him at the end of his 371-mile trek were Winnebago County Sheriff ’s deputies (one of whom was “Kylee”) and FBI agents, who arrested him for using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Jenkins faced other child sexual assault charges in 2011 and 2012 and had been sentenced to probation.

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— While patrolling a Bath and Body Works store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, an unnamed security guard let the boredom get to him. Around 2 a.m. on Oct. 11, he slipped his handcuffs on — then realized he’d left the keys at home. Forced to call police, who responded and freed him from his restraints, the bored guard then hid the cuffs from himself so he wouldn’t be tempted to put them on again. According to WDJT, he told police it wasn’t the first time he had handcuffed himself without having the keys. — Locksmiths at the Timpson shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, drew a crowd and withstood some ribbing after they locked themselves out of their store on Oct. 14, according to the Scottish Sun. Fortunately, one of the locksmiths had a toolbox with him, and he was able to legally break back into the shop.

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During the summer of 2018, someone robbed 61-year-old Akio Hatori of Tokyo, Japan, of his bicycle saddle. He was so angered by the theft, he told police, that he decided to become a serial thief himself — until he was caught on surveillance video on Aug. 29 and later arrested. Police searching his home said they found 159 bicycle seats. “I started stealing out of revenge,” Hatori told police, according to Kyoto News. “I wanted others to know the feeling.”

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Halloween came a little early to Nick Lestina’s home in Bagley, Iowa. The Lestinas have lived next door to Dahl’s Custom Meat Locker for 10 years without incident, but early in October, they discovered almost five inches of animal blood, fat and bones had flooded their basement. Lestina said it would have risen higher if not for his sump pump. He approached the meat locker next door for help, but, he told WHO TV, “They say it’s not their fault and told me ‘good luck.’” Lestina reached out to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which investigated and found that the business had slaughtered hogs and cattle on Oct. 3 and flushed fluids down the floor drain, which is probably connected with the Lestinas’ drain. The family of seven has had to move out of the home while trying to resolve the cleanup issue. “No one wants to see that, smell that,” Lestina said. “I would’t want that for anybody.”

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It was W.C. Fields who said, “Never work with animals or children.” Russian

President Vladimir Putin was reminded of that warning on Oct. 14 as he visited King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. The Daily Mail reported that Putin brought along a gyrfalcon named Alpha for the king, and as everyone admired the bird during the ceremonial exchange of gifts, it chose that moment to take aim on the plush royal carpet and, shall we say, leave its mark. Hunting with birds of prey is one of the favorite pastimes of Saudi royalty, and the birds are highly prized.

21ST-CENTURY RELIGION

Hoping to attract tech-savvy young Catholics to traditional rituals, the Vatican has released the eRosary, a wearable device connected to an app available for $110, reported engadget. Worn as a bracelet, the device is activated by making the sign of the cross and features 10 beads and a data-storing “smart cross,” which will help the devout pray a standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or a thematic rosary and keeps track of each rosary prayed. The app also downloads health information from the bracelet.

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— Anna Lindo, 34, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, was arraigned in Hartford Superior Court on Oct. 15 on charges that she bit off her ex-partner’s finger and then bragged about it on Facebook, posting a video of the severed finger. Her victim told police that on Oct. 13, he had been trying to ward her off as she attacked him with a brick when she took a bite from his right middle finger. Lindo’s mother found the finger after police had taken her into custody, but it was too late to reattach it, reported the Connecticut Post. Lindo was charged with first-degree assault and disorderly conduct. — In Eldorado Hills, California, homeowner Matthew Eschrich woke up late on Oct. 12, saw a sensor light on next to his garage and went downstairs to investigate. When he heard rumbling, he realized there was an intruder and called 911. Just then, his sister-in-law, who also lives in the home, called to say she had just pulled into the garage and saw a man running away, “wearing just a bra and panties,” KXTV reported. The intruder was later identified as Shaun McGuire, a 37-year-old transient, who was taken into custody and charged with burglary, indecent exposure and trespassing. !

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reston Lane’s script for Triad Stage’s Dracula skillfully and seriously adapts the spirit and scope of Bram Stoker’s 512-page novel into a brisk Ian McDowell 90-minute running time. The most famous Contributor theatrical version made a star of the handsome and hypnotic Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi but confined Stoker’s sprawling action to a single household and transformed his monstrous title character into a charmingly seductive demon lover. But Lane took a different approach rooted in Stoker’s more horrific text. In an email, the playwright said he’d been long fascinated by the story, which he first encountered via the 1977 Frank Langella film that, like the 1931 Lugosi one, was based more on the 1927 play than the 1897 novel. “When I finally read the book, I was thrilled by the expansive narrative,” Lane wrote. “I wanted to use theatrical storytelling to capture the time, scope, and space of the novel.” In doing so, he made a surprising but effective choice to have two actors play the Count. “Reading Stoker, I was surprised at how different Dracula in Transylvania was from Dracula in London,” Lane wrote. “I wanted to capture that sense of both an old, insulated evil and the new life it discovers with new blood.” Duality is a major theme of this production. Most adaptations give short shrift to either the flirtatious Lucy or heroic Mina. Lane’s decision to feature both women and write the roles so that the same actress could play each reflected more than a desire to cut the size of the cast. “For me, there is a sense that within all of us, there is the ability to be a vampire,” Lane explained. “With the characters of Lucy and Mina, we are given an opportunity to see a full range of human responses to something evil in our midst.” Stoker gave Mina more dialogue and agency than the heroine possesses in most adaptations of his novel (notable YES! WEEKLY

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exceptions include Agnes Morehead in Orson Welles’ 1938 radio play and Judi Bowker in the great 1979 BBC version). Lane went even further. “I very much wanted this small band of vampire hunters to be engaged not in a romantic story, but one of conflict and struggle. Mina is a vampire hunter who completely resists men’s attempts to dismiss her abilities. As a widow, she no longer has to be a Victorian wife, but has the freedom to assert herself.” Another change he made to Stoker’s narrative was to have it told by a child, with a young actress playing both narrator and multiple victims. “I believe that a childlike wonder is necessary when approaching theater,” Lane noted. “She is both the eyes through which we see the story and represents those most threatened by the invasive evil. I took the idea of Lucy’s child victims and created a framing device that asks us to approach the story with belief and wonder.” And fear, of course. Without going into spoilers, Lane does a very effective twist on Van Helsing’s closing address to the audience in both the 1927 play and 1931 film. “I wanted to make the audience look over their shoulders to make sure the person behind them isn’t eyeing their neck,” Lane wrote. “The framing device is designed to make the fear more palpable.” One of the major assets of this production is New York actress Maggie Thompson, the only adult woman in the cast. I was invited to the first reading, at which Thompson impressed by immediately distinguishing not only Mina from Lucy, but from the two very different vampires she also plays. “It started with the voice,” she told me. “I had to make a distinction between them just for clarity’s sake. Lucy has a sort of Estuary accent, whereas Mina’s is

Dathan B. Williams and Maggie Thompson so clipped it could cut glass.” I told her that to my Yank ears, Mina’s accent sounded as authentic as that of Curt James, who uses his real one

for Jonathan Harker. “When I was 8 years old, I went to bed with the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Jim Dale, so every single night I listened to Jim Dale’s voice, and now I feel just as comfortable in that accent as in my natural American bicoastal elitist one,” she said with a laugh. She called “poor Lucy” a “trial run” for Dr. Seward and Van Helsing, the men who fail to save her. “It’s Mina who, in the wake of Lucy’s death, teaches them what it means to actually respect a woman and take her seriously.” She said that she’d read the Stoker novel many times. “Dracula is one of my favorite books,

but is not really scary in the modern sense, although it must have been very much so to 19th-century readers. What struck me most about Preston Lane’s adaptation is its sense of immediacy and terror. I joke all the time that one of my favorite novels is just people riding trains and writing letters to each other about how scared they are, often at the same time, while Mina types and takes notes and juggles railroad schedules. It’s a slow burn. I think what’s been exciting about this process is taking this story and making it as scary as it was for Victorian Londoners while keeping the book’s period, setting and so many of its details.” Dathan B. Williams, whose magnificent voice reminds me of the great William Marshall, plays Van Helsing in the play’s London scenes and Dracula in a Transylvanian flashback. For this, he had to learn two different accents. He said that, while mastering the challenge of going from a Dutch one to that of a Hungarian aristocrat (Transylvania was part of Hungary in the 19th century,

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implications of Stephen Sondheim.” In graduate school, he sang with the ensemble company of the Cincinnati Opera, then was in the first MFA acting class at Carnegie Melon. “I made my Broadway debut in Showboat, have done some national tours, and this is my 46th regional theater contract.” He said that he hopes to see a lot of students in the audience for Dracula. “One subtext here is the question of what an immigrant is, and the fear factor surrounding it. So many more people were coming into London, and the question of ‘blood,’ in its figurative meaning, was strongly linked to that, and to Dracula’s need to come and be part of that. Why does this outsider want to be part of this new society?” He also believes it’s important that an African-American is playing Van Helsing and Dracula. “I hope that audiences also associate what it takes for people not in the overwhelming culture to assimilate to it.” Curt James, who plays Jonathan Harker

opposite Williams as Count Dracula in Transylvania, and Count Dracula opposite Williams as Van Helsing in London, is also portraying two very different strangers in strange lands. “Jonathan has such an interesting journey that we really found in rehearsal,” James said. “He moves from being optimistic and almost pompous to someone facing the loss of everything he loves.” James was born in Des Moines, but you’d never know it from his natural accent. “I’m an American-born citizen, but that’s not what I present as, which generally starts an interesting conversation about identity.” His father was in the U.S. air force, “but mum’s from Manchester,” and James lived in the U.S. until he was 5. “When they divorced, she took me back to England. I spent 13 years in Manchester, then moved to London when I was 18.” He studied at Guild Hall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican, worked in plays and operas “and randomly found my way into puppetry.” This led him to the West End production of War Horse. “They needed someone to come over here for a tour, and my being a U.S. citizen made it easier. I ended up doing 42 cities in 50 weeks, then Tokyo.” He then realized that his U.S. citizenship also made it easier to pursue his longtime dream of living and working in New York, “where I now make my home and life.” He said that he was fascinated by the idea of playing the London Dracula, who becomes younger in his new blood-rich environment, as not just a demonic lover, but a cult leader. “We’ve been talking about the Emmywinning Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country, about the controversial guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Oregon followers. What is it about some people that make others follow them and do anything for them? Dracula is an enormously powerful figure who gets what he wants, but his Achilles’ heel is his jealousy of religion, and of Christ’s presence in people’s lives.” In interviewing director Eleanor Holdridge, I learned that her mother, Barbara Holdridge, co-founded Caedmon Records, the company that not only shaped my own love for theater, literature and Boris Karloff, but created the modern audiobook. Holdridge told me that she spent much of her childhood listening to actors like Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave and Maggie Smith. “I grew up hearing Shakespeare and hanging out with theater people,” she

explained. “When the actors said the words, I’d imagine the world they were moving through. A director needs to be able to read a script and do that.” She worked in publishing for a while, then decided, “I just wanted to direct plays.” After graduating from Yale, “I freelanced all over for some years, then decided I wanted a home rather than being on the road all the time.” That led her to the directing program at the Catholic University of America in D.C., where she’s now the departmental chair. Like Thompson, she loved Stoker’s novel in childhood. “But like so much I adored as a kid, I went ‘oh my God, it’s sexist’ upon rereading it as an adult. So, I really loved that Preston’s script wasn’t sexist, but also that it was seen through the eyes of a child, as I first read Dracula when one myself.” She said that, while she loves the novel’s epistolary structure, “you can’t just read a bunch of letters and journal entries aloud on stage.” Plus, it was written for an audience that didn’t know who Dracula was, or even what vampires were. “Nowadays, everyone knows some reiteration of the story. One of the goals of this production is to recapture that surprise and experience the growing horror of something we don’t want to believe in.” She was struck by Lane’s reorganization of his source material. “I love how he accentuates the horror and makes the storytelling really interesting, with the flashbacks and the sense of the schism of time.” But she also said that Lane retained what’s timeless about the story. “It’s the sense of the horror of the unknown, and how every character represents something that keeps the darkness at bay,” Holdridge said. “Van Helsing is a bit of a Columbo, who pretends to be bumbling, but has a really sharp mind. It’s his intellect against the dark. Seward has his heart and compassion, which really comes out towards Renfield, whom Preston didn’t just treat as a campy flyeating maniac, but someone in pain. And then there’s Mina’s incredible strength of will. She has loved and lost and deserves to be a warrior. The irony is the men’s desire to protect her might prove to be everyone’s undoing.” Visit Triadstage.org for more information about the production, and to buy tickets. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Pride in the Triad continues with first-ever High Point Pride Last week was Pride Winston-Salem, and the streets were packed with thousands celebrating love and identity in its many forms. All of the Triad Pride festivals this year have been speKatie Murawski cial because 2019 marked 50 years Editor since the Stonewall Uprising in New York City, an event that changed the course of history for the LGBTQIA community. At Greensboro Pride, the streets were packed with diverse smiling faces. At Pride Winston-Salem, it seemed like everyone celebrating was happy to be in each other’s company. And personally, I didn’t see one counter-protestor. With Greensboro Pride in September, Pride Winston-Salem in October, there is still one city in the Triad that hasn’t celebrated its own Pride festival—until now. High Point will finally have its own Pride on Nov. 2 at COHAB.SPACE from 4 to 10 p.m. Contrary to Pride Winston-Salem and Greensboro Pride, the person organizing the festival is not affiliated with a nonprofit. She is a 19-year-old pansexual woman who decided to take matters into her own hands. Co-organizer and High Point citizen Paula Spring said she has been to Pride festivals across the state since she was 14 years old. “I thought High Point needed one. I can’t believe it has gone this long without having one here,” Paula said. “It is just volunteer-organized, and a lot of the LGBT people are included and of course, COHAB. SPACE has helped do a little bit of planning.” COHAB.SPACE is a furniture showroom and artist collective that is tucked alongside downtown High Point. Paula noted that her sister, Nicole, and her long-time friend and artist Jonae Connell had helped her as well as Dairy, an artist and COHAB’s social media and marketing coordinator. “Meeting COHAB was such a huge coincidence,” Paula said. “I talked with my siblings, and my brother was like, ‘well, there is a place called COHAB.SPACE and they’re based around artist and community.’” Nicole said she and Paula had gone to COHAB and “spilled our ideas of wanting to do something with the community” in High Point, and said that COHAB YES! WEEKLY

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was instrumental in helping them put together Pride. “How do we bring people together? How do we make High Point like a fun place to be, we live down the street and didn’t even know [COHAB] existed,” Nicole said. “More people should know about this place.” Dairy said that COHAB.SPACE has a strong community and various support groups. “Even though it was only two months to plan the event, you can get it done really quickly around here,” he said. “The stage was built in less than 24 hours because we have so many people on the premises that are willing to do literally anything we ask.” “Something needs to happen in High Point,” Dairy continued. “Everything is always in Greensboro or Winston-Salem, like everything. I live in High Point and I leave every single weekend. I wanted to do something in High Point. Lo and behold, Paula and Nicole showed up and were wanting to help.” Connell expressed similar sentiment because she is constantly going out of town to comic-cons, zinefests and other art conventions that are either in Raleigh, Durham or Greensboro. “It is always out of High

Point; I was just so upset there was nothing here for the artist community,” she said. “I think it is important to show our own community that there are people like them, and people willing to support them and a place to support them.” Paula said there would be food trucks, such as Que! Viva Latin Street Food, and the entertainment would consist of folks from either High Point or the Triad. There would be live music performances by “up-and-coming rap artist” Austin Stevens, and the Greensborobased band Jaded, a drag show with Faiza Zahra, and circus performers/flow artists the Dizzy Duo (composed of the Springs’ brother and his wife). Paula said there would also be a live podcast recording of Honey Dip Radio, Paula’s podcasting friends from high school. “Since I know it is not going to be anywhere near the numbers of Charlotte’s Pride, I do want to create something a little more personal, interactive and intimate to High Point,” Paula said. She wants High Point Pride to be “an event all about community,” and she wants the profits from the event to go right back into the community. COHAB.SPACE owner John

Muldoon was thrilled to hear about the plans for Pride and said that many of his friends and COHAB vendors are a part of the LGBTQIA community. “What we are trying to do is make a place that everyone feels welcome and just try to do things to connect with not only the locals artist and communities, but also that it is something that attracts outside artists anywhere in the world, to come to High Point to create or show their craft,” Muldoon said. “We are just trying to make something that is a little bit more open to everybody, not just market-goers, something that is yearround, family-friendly, where people feel it as home.” Connell said she is excited and proud of her best friend for taking on this initiative. “Especially in this small town,” Connell said. “With this event, I hope that other people are going to start seeing that there is more in this community than just this small town with nothing in it.” Dairy agreed with Connell and said he thinks the Triad is just “one big city and that everyone is welcome “ “That is what I want out of this Pride as well,” he continued. “To show that the three cities are still together, and we are one big community.” Paula said she intends for High Point Pride to be an annual event. She said the decision to have the festival in November was because of Furniture Market, but it might be a different date next year. However, it would not compete with the other pride festivals. “This place is a huge blessing, it is really hard to find any opportunities for a young person [here], and there are not much opportunities for artists,” Paula said of COHAB. “I took advantage of it; I wanted to create something here, but if I move away one day, it is something that the community can have.” ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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Winston-Salem mayor discusses the state of the city on ‘Triad Today’

Jim Longworth

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This past weekend, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines appeared on Triad Today to share his thoughts on a wide range of topics affecting the city that he has presided over since 2001. We began by talking about job growth. JL: What’s the current state of the city’s economy?

AJ: Well, Jim, last year we created more jobs in our community than we have in decades. We’ve got a goal of creating 5,400 net new jobs per year for five years in a row, and if we do that, we’ll be one of the top 50 metro areas in the country. Last year we created 5,300 new jobs, so we’re feeling good about that. Also, unemployment is low, and we’re making progress in our entrepreneurial development programs, so I feel like we’re moving in the right direction. JL: Let’s talk about Renfro, a sock manufacturing company with headquarters in Mt. Airy. Both the city and Forsyth County have offered Renfro hundreds of thousands of dollars in incentives to relocate over 200 jobs to Winston-Salem, but, to be clear, you didn’t recruit them. AJ: That’s a good point, Jim. We don’t fish in other people’s pond around us here. But they indicated to me that they needed to move. They said where they are now, they can’t attract the talent they need for a growing corporate headquarters, and they were going to move to one place or another. So I said, “We’d love to have you in Winston-Salem.” JL: So, are they coming to WinstonSalem? AJ: They haven’t made a final decision, but I think it will come fairly quickly, and I’m feeling very positive about it.

progress there. For example, we were able to keep Cook Medical here in the community, and they’re going to invest about $55 million, and probably grow their workforce from 650 to 1,000 jobs. We also just announced that Chris Harrison, a developer from Baltimore, is going to do about an $80 million project, with residential, hotel and retail going in there. JL: It was on this program last year that you announced a new program to reduce poverty in the city. How’s that going? AJ: We’ve seen poverty rates come down from 26% to 21%, and I won’t take credit for that because we’ve only been in business for about a year, but we’re moving in the right direction. And, we’ve got a lot of other really neat programs that we’re going to make some major announcements about in the next two to three weeks, one which will help with young people graduating from high school, and being able to go to college, hopefully for free. JL: Your friend, Mayor Nancy Vaughan, is having a problem with gun violence in Greensboro, so now, her city council is allocating a half-million dollars to an anti-violence program. In the wake of similar violence in Winston-Salem, is that something you’re looking into, or have you done so already? AJ: We’re looking at a number of things. We’ve got a task force that we’re operating within the police department, and we just received a large federal grant for something called a “shot locator,” in which we’ll be locating monitors all around various parts of the community, so that if a shot is fired, it triangulates where it was, and we can get immediate response to it. There are also some other things we’re looking at in terms of social programs, as well. JL: It sounds like Winston-Salem is doing pretty well, so what challenges still lay ahead?

JL: Bring us up to speed on what’s going on with the Whitaker Park site.

AJ: As always, you can’t ever let up. We need to keep pushing hard because the worst thing you can do is to sit on your laurels. !

AJ: As you know, R.J. Reynolds donated 1.7 million square feet of space to a nonprofit we created. We’re making great

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

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Getting the band back together: TCU reunites for one night only

ou’ve got one more chance to see the band TCU. Only one. If you’re interested, you’d better jump at it, because it’s not likely to happen again. They haven’t John Adamian played a show in @adamianjohn three years, and no one necessarily expected a reunion, Contributor given the fact that the width of the continent of North America separated one member of the band from the rest. Bands break up all the time. Life comes along; responsibilities pile up, family commitments, the unsustainable grind of the late nights, the lure of a regular paycheck from a day job, artistic differences — there are a million reasons. When Cody Elles, the frontman of the popular Greensboro-based cover band TCU (The Complete Unknowns), headed back to Southern California in 2016, he figured that was that, with the rest of the group sticking around North Carolina and moving on to other projects. So when Elles got a call from a “336” area code out of the blue a few months ago, he was surprised to hear the unmistakable baritone of Wade Gabel, owner of the Jamestown club, The Deck. When the band had been at their busiest, that

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venue, with its outdoor stage, had become a sort of welcoming home base for TCU. It was an energetic place that made the trip home after a late-night gig easier than trucking from some other city. As it happened, Gabel was in L.A. looking to get together with Elles for a drink. Elles did what any Angeleno might do with an out-of-town visitor, taking him to some landmarks — a spot said to be favored by Jim Morrison, and an honestto-goodness Hollywood-Boulevard dive bar. As it turned out, Gabel wasn’t just out on the West Coast looking to tour the noteworthy watering holes of the region. He’d come with a proposition for Elles: why not reunite TCU for one more gig at The Deck? Assuming the other members of TCU were up for it, Gabel would fly Elles and his girlfriend back for the show. “I went out to Hollywood and tracked him down, and I wasn’t gonna leave until we had some kind of arrangement,” Gabel said. “We continuously have patrons [at The Deck] who ask to see if we can make one more show happen.” And after some discussions with the other members of the group, many of whom have other projects keeping them busy, a date was set. And now, on Sunday, Nov. 10, the band will reconvene to roll through its impressive range of familiar and less-familiar hits and deep cuts from their extensive repertoire, which goes, as they like to say, “from the Beatles to the Black-Eyed Peas.” There may even be some new tunes that TCU

has never performed live before. Elles has been keeping busy on the West Coast. He’s still working on musical projects in California, writing originals and working with some others in the industry there. (Incidentally, Elles, who has acting experience as well, will be appearing as a contestant on an episode of the new game show 25 Words Or Less, which will air on local Fox affiliate on Oct. 28.) But he’s doing a fair bit of devoted rehearsing for this gig. The band had a special connection to The Deck, and they want to be prepared to rock accordingly. “We played all over North Carolina, every weekend for eight years, but we had such a great relationship with that venue and the audiences there,” Elles said. “The Deck shows were just a different thing. I’m super psyched to get to play in November. The show’s gonna be fun. We always put on a high-energy show.” A lot of bands will soldier on, reconfigure, or take on new members when someone leaves town or moves on to other projects. But the members of TCU pretty much figured that, when Elles left, the band would fold up its tent. Bassist Craig Allen said there was a feeling that things seemed to have come to a natural endpoint for the band. “Cody had a real knack for bonding with audiences,” Allen said. “He’s a really good frontman and frankly, puts on one heck of a show. There was no replacing that performer.” For the November reunion gig, TCU

would include the two guitarists who played separately in the band over its tenure. Guitarist Danny Skeel left the band in early 2015, and Luc Gravely took over guitar duties for the last year the band was playing. Both will be on-hand for this turbo-charged iteration of TCU. “We’re gonna make a sort of supergroup of everybody, which is cool,” Allen said. Drummer Nick Savoyski (Elles’s stepfather) will be supplying the beats. The crammed rehearsals, the special travel arrangements, and the one-timeonly nature of the show are all a way of celebrating the special chemistry between TCU, The Deck and the loyal audience. Elles gets credit for providing a creative spark that made the whole combination light up. “He’s got a larger-than-life personality,” said Allen of Elles and his skills as a frontman. “He’s touched a lot of people, and a lot of people remember his presence in the band.” ! 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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Showtime for Shamir Lee Shamir Lee will crest the stage as part of the Creative Infusion x Carolina Waves GHOE Showcase, hosted by K-97.5, on Oct. 25 at the Artist Bloc. “Darlene hooks it up with a dope Katei Cranford meeting place for artists across the board,” the GreensContributor boro hip-hop artist said of the venue, which will host his first appearance related to the annual NC A&T Homecoming Weekend celebration, affectionately known as the “Greatest Homecoming on Earth,” or GHOE. A dude of many hats, Lee carries titles beyond rapper as a producer, writer, WUAG DJ and more. Greensboro-affiliated since 2007, he hit the stage officially in 2011 and has kept his motormouth running. “I loved music as a kid. I was in chorus, orchestra, did some plays, got into poetry and eventually started rapping,” Lee said of his upbringing. “At first, everybody fronted on me as a rapper, and wouldn’t give me any beats, so I started making my own. It’s been a journey ever since,” he said of his entrance to producing, and ultimately, the stage. “I like to speak on things within society, the powers that be trying to keep a foot on our necks as a people, the negative effects of that,” he said of motivating forces. ”My more recent projects look more inward, and speak on how those things influence myself and the people around me.” And of those people, “it always takes a village,” Lee noted of the communal nature around crafting releases. “My friends in and outside of music are always involved in what I create. If not by directly collaborating, it’s by morale-boosting or just being the inspiration.” It’s that outlook that helped forge his artistic rebirth following the 2018 record SHAMLEEMUSTDIE, which plays like a self-introspective phoenix, rising from the ashes of an “ego death.” “I noticed my own ego getting me into situations that were hard to navigate through,” Lee explained, with X-men movie references. “Bishop was killed because of his strength, which became his weakness,” he clarified. “The anger that was fueling me artistically was beginning to hinder my growth as an artist.” WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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“In hip-hop, well, at least the cloth I consider myself cut from, we tend to romanticize this idea of aggression being used to validate leadership roles and the voice’s importance behind the mic and with performing,” he said. “I’m still growing and still learning; of course, I want my projects to reflect that part of my learning and growing process.” His latest release over the summer, Shamir Lee Presents (The Potted Tape), the multi-artist and multimedia project is the latest product of that artistic growth. “I wanted to make my ‘the Chronic,’ my ‘Welcome To Detroit,’ where I was in the driver’s seat of production,” he explained. “My cousin, Steven Dunn, wrote a book that was turned into a short film and wanted me to do the soundtrack, and the opportunity presented itself.” Some of the artists featured on The Potted Tape include Dopey Graham, Tony Price, Sage Walker, and SunQueen Kelcey, amongst “the usual suspects” in his recording repertoire. “I’m fortunate to be surrounded by talented people,” Lee insisted. “They pushed me to become a better producer, beatmaker and writer while making that album. The show was bittersweet. It was a celebration of the release of the album but also was around the time Taylor Bays passed. Love was flowing through the whole building.” As for national influences, Lee is a “huge” J. Dilla fan, considering “him the bridge between the Native Tongues and the Soulquarians.” But it’s the younger artists on which Lee is keeping his eye. “At the tender age of 30 (which is

like 73 in rapper years) younger artists motivate me to stay sharp and stay on my toes,” Lee confessed. “The new energy that the kids bring to this culture is beautiful,” he added. “Self-expression itself

is beautiful. The fact that we have these gifts as people to express ourselves, speak our truths through art is inspiring.” Beyond performing, Lee looks to reciprocate the therapeutic powers music holds. He hosts a weekly “#CLRTHRYRADIO” radio show every Tuesday from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. on WUAG 103.1 FM and beckoned local artists to send material to “throw on the air.” For Lee, these outlets are platforms to spread music gospel—he ends every radio show with the same call for “Everybody to love each other and listen to each other because love and understanding are the only things that can save us now—that and a bomb ass climate change plan.” And with that, he hopes to drop a few bombs of his own come showtime at the Creative Infusion x Carolina Waves GHOE Showcase, hosted by Mir.I.Am from K-97.5 FM, with Nunafterhours and DJ RNB, on Oct. 25 at the Artist Bloc in Greensboro. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Oct 25: Casey Noel Oct 26: Special Affair Nov 1: Ziggy Pockets Nov 2: Jack Gorham Nov 8: Cory Luetjen & the Traveling Blues Band Nov 9: RD & Co. Nov 15: Emma Lee Nov 16: The Funky Confusion Band Nov 17: The Randolph Jazz Band Nov 22: Casey Noel Nov 23: Matt Walsh Nov 27: Matt Walsh Nov 29: Chris Hedrick Dec 6: Condor Hill Dec 7: Tyler Millard

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129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Oct 25: David Holt’s State of Music Presents Rising Stars Oct 26: Zoe & Cloyd Album Release w/ Laurelyn Dossett Nov 1: Hannah Aldridge w/ James Vincent Carroll Nov 2: The Martha Bassett Show Sam Baker Nov 8: Sierra Hull Nov 9: LoneHollow Nov 15: Town Mountain Nov 16: Will Jones Nov 22: Legacy Motown Revue Nov 23: EmiSunshine

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523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Oct 25: DJ Dan the Player Oct 26: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

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BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Nov 1: The Legacy Motown Revue Sep 20: Sing Hallelujah! Dec 7: A Carolina Christmas

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1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Oct 23: TAUk - Feed The Beast Tour 2019 Oct 27:HIRIE w/ RDGLDGRN & kash’d Out Oct 29: Of Montreal Nov 1: Carbon LEaf w/ Abigail Dowd Nov 2: Pure Fiyah Nov 3: One For Johnny - A Benefit For Former Allman Brother Johnny Neel Nov 6: The Devil Wears Prada w/ Norma Jean, Gideon Nov 7: The Eric Gales Band Nov 8: Radio Romance Nov 9: Ed E. Ruger Nov 12: Rings Of Saturn w/ Enterprise Earth, Angelmaker, Brand of Sacrifice Nov 14: DSA Presents Rap 4 Lyfe Showcase Nov 16: Moonshine Bandits w/ Sarah Ross Nov 19: Bayside w/ Sincere Engineer

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BAR: Karonda’s Sports Bar & Grill AGE: 31 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Madison, NC HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? Around 10 years in various settings. HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I was the only person older than 18, who could legally serve from behind the bar (I was 21 at the time) when the bartender was a no call, no show. I was literally thrown into a bar, and it felt so natural. I have been in the service industry since I was 15, so it definitely felt like a promotion and an honor. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? The many amazing people I get to meet and take care of. I’m a natural nurturer, and I genuinely care that people have a great experience, whether they are just having a few beverages or a delicious dinner. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? My favorite drinks to make are the ones I get to customize for my patrons, and they enjoy it! I love the challenge of “make me something different.” I enjoy taking people’s favorite liquor(s) and customizing a beverage to their tasting preferences. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Whiskey, or Scotch, on the rocks. Jameson and Monkey Shoulder are my go-to’s for their affordability and availability. WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? My personal favorite is a traditional Irish Coffee - topped with homemade whipped cream. Coffee with dessert is always pleasant, but even if you aren’t eating your dessert, an Irish Coffee is a nice wrap to a delicious meal.

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About six weeks ago, I started dating the nicest guy. I have some intimacy issues (basically, fear of abandonment), and having somebody be nice to me is new Amy Alkon and uncomfortable. I freaked out one Advice night and had sex Goddess with somebody else. I know this guy I’m dating isn’t sleeping with other women, but we haven’t had the official talk. I don’t plan on doing this again, but I really want to confess. The guilt is terrible. — Disgusted With Myself The only man in your life with whom you should be discussing your recent sexual history is Dr. Maury Finkelbaum, your 7,000-year-old gynecologist. You and Neighbordude might be all kinds of fond of each other, but you have no agreement for sexual exclusivity, and you can’t violate a treaty that doesn’t actually exist. Still, assuming that he isn’t getting it on with anyone else, it’s natural that you’d feel guilty about an apparent asymmetry in sexual grazing. Human psychology evolved to have a sort of inner accounting staff monitoring the fairness level of our behavior — calculating whether we’re giving as much as we’re getting. However, unlike everybody’s grandma, evolution doesn’t care whether we’re nice people. It just wants us to survive so we can pass on our genes.

Accordingly, this fairness monitoring system safeguards our physical survival through safeguarding our social survival. (In ancestral times, slackers or freeloaders booted from the ancestral band markedly increased their chances of becoming some sharp-fanged thing’s Sunday brunch entree.) Even today, when we perceive that we’re getting more than our fair share of something — whether it’s cake or sex with hot strangers — our behavioral accounts payable team pings us in the form of feelbad: the noxious, gut-churning feeling of guilt (and/or its poisonous BFF, shame). Research by evolutionary psychologist Daniel Sznycer and his colleagues deems guilt a “recalibrational emotion.” Translated from the Professorese, this means that our wanting to stop the feelbad from guilt motivates us to even the balance between ourselves and somebody we’ve shorted in some way. The thing is, emotion, which rises up automatically, with no effort from us, needs to be fact-checked by reason. Unfortunately, reason has to be dragged out of bed and forced to work. And that’s what you need to do with yours. Again, remember that you and this guy had no exclusivity agreement that would have barred you from venturing into other men’s beds, back seats, or sex dungeons. Also, let’s get real on why you’re longing to tell. It isn’t to make the guy feel better but to make yourself feel better — to rid yourself of the psychological tension that comes from holding back information. (It’s basically the emotional version of a really bad need to pee.) Next, consider the view from psychia-

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trist and evolutionary researcher Randolph Nesse that painful emotions are important motivational tools — just like physical pain, when you, say, lean back at a party, all apex of cool, and rest your palm on a hot stove. Just as the searing pain gets you to lift your hand pronto, you can use your guilt-induced discomfort in a positive way: as reinforcement against your stepping out on the guy once you two do have a relationship. Other helpful insight comes from research on “attachment.” The “attachment behavioral system,” explain social scientists Mario Mikulencer and Philip Shaver, motivates human beings, from infancy on, “to seek proximity to significant others (attachment figures) in times of need.” A person’s “attachment style” indicates the degree to which a person “worries that a partner will not be responsive in times of need” (including the worry that one’s partner will flee the relationship entirely). However, Mikulencer and Shaver note that “a growing body of research shows that attachment style can change, subtly or dramatically.” One way to change it is through asking your partner to be very physically and emotionally expressive

with you in loving, cuddly-wuddly ways. Research by psychologist Brooke C. Feeney finds that the more an insecurely attached person sees their partner is there for them — like with touch that “conveys acceptance, warmth, and intimacy” — the more independent (that is, the less clingoramous) they can be. Finally, there’s something you can do to help yourself feel more secure, per Mikulencer and Shaver’s research: Turn on the TV in your head and run helpful programming — mental video of warm, fuzzy “attachment figures.” The researchers explain that “thoughts of an available and supportive attachment figure” lead people with a lot of attachment insecurities “to behave more like secure people.” Or, putting this another way, your response to a man being really loving to you would be to give love in return — as opposed to giving excuses like “I was so freaked out by how nice you were to me that I tripped and fell on somebody else’s penis.” ! 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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