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HARRINGTON said that writing his new album has been hard, because “there are so many stories, and to tell one specifically requires the context of other stories around it. So, how do I take 10 stories, and key points of those stories, and try to tell one story that feels bigger and feels accessible?”

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Indigo Hotels, owned by IHG, like to spring up in areas that provide their guests with a more local experience. SIR WINSTON RESTAURANT & WINE LOFT is located immediately inside of the hotel, and as soon as you walk in, you’re immersed in a local experience. From the walls adorned by local artists to Sunnyside Millworks’ handcrafted banquettes, tables, chairs and all of the new woodwork in the restaurant, the focus on those local details are quite obvious.

10 Winston-Salem jewelry artist, Nannette Davis has just returned from her first 2019 New York Fashion Week and is inviting everyone to come see some of her New York JEWELRY DESIGNS along with new ones at her second Winston-Salem Fashion Week show...

11 October marks LGBTQ+ History Month, and the OUT AT THE MOVIES International LGBT Film Festival is bigger than ever. For one thing, the festival has added an entire day....

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British Intelligence operative Katharine Gun. Gun, in defiance of the Official Secrets Act, disclosed a top-secret memo that detailed how the United States and Great Britain leaned on United Nations delegates to invade Iraq in 2003.

18 CONDADO, an emo-rock band from Randolph County, will make their way to Greensboro for a show with Basement Life and Propersleep on Sept. 28 at the Flat Iron. The boys in the band aren’t looking to move to a big city, but they’d like to play one near you.

19 There’s a particularly tense scene from the movie GOLDFINGER, in which James Bond is strapped to a table about to have his genitals (and various innards) removed by a giant laser beam.

20 Most gigging musicians have a manyirons-in-the-fire approach to staying busy.

But Winston-Salem-based bassist and composer JOHN DANIEL RAY takes the idea of having a lot on your plate to impressive levels. Multi-tasking and going with the flow are temperamental orientations that also play into his creative approach.

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SISTER HAZEL SATURDAY WED 25 ADAM ANT: FRIEND OR FOE WHAT: Following a world tour to sold-out venues throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Adam Ant confirms his 2019 FRIEND OR FOE TOUR is coming to Greensboro’s Carolina Theatre. Adam will play his landmark Friend or Foe album in its entirety, as well as classic chart-topping singles and personal favorites.

WHEN: 8-11 p.m.

WHERE: The Carolina Theatre.

310 S. Greene St., Greensboro.

MORE: $30-55 tickets. VIP packages available.

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WHAT: Join us as we present adoptable dogs & cats from local shelters & rescues!

This is a great way to add a new pet to your home! You can see the animals in person, learn about their qualities and what they are looking for in a home! There will be vendors selling various wares, various pet related clinics from nail clipping to vaccines.

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WHEN: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

WHERE: City Lake Park.

602 W. Main St., High Point.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: Sister Hazel is comprised of five gifted, seasoned musicians whose well-spring of natural talent has been called “one of the Top 100 Most Influential Independent Performers of the last 15 years” by Performing Songwriter Magazine.

The band has become firmly established not only in rock and alternative music, but now in country with four back-to-back Billboard Top Country Albums Chart entries.

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: BB&T Ballpark, Winston-Salem.

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SAT 28 IN THIS MOMENT WHAT: In This Moment is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed by singer Maria Brink and guitarist Chris Howorth in 2005. In certain serendipitous cases, a band’s name perfectly encapsulates their essence, and heavy metal rockers In This Moment are a case in point - the sheer power and immediacy Maria Brink’s vocals make it difficult to be anywhere else.

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: White Oak Amphitheatre.

1921 W. Lee St, Greensboro.

MORE: $32.50+ tickets.

SUN 29 WINSTON-SALEM FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL WHAT: Food trucks will be descending on Liberty Street in downtown Winston Salem for a day of food, art and fun. Free to attend.

Check out the website for a list of trucks and other pertinent information.

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WHERE: North Liberty Street, WinstonSalem.

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HPU’S CULP PLANETARIUM BY: CASSIDY WHITE

As High Point University continues to grow, a donation of $1 million from Rob and Susan Culp has made it possible to build a planetarium on campus.

The newly opened, 128,000 squarefoot Wanek School of Natural Sciences is a four-story undergraduate building that houses biology, chemistry and physics students with classrooms, labs and the planetarium.

For a long time, HPU’s President Nido Qubein, Ph.D., wanted to bring all of the elements to campus that support science programs. The Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy, Congdon School of Health Sciences, Wanek School of Natural Sciences, Cane Conservatory and the Culp Planetarium were all part of the vision.

“The planetarium was an extension of that thinking,” Qubein said. “I don’t need to tell you to look at the beauty of this [campus]. You see it. You can’t run away from it. It is 360, all around [students] all day. I believe what this does is it enters the soul of our students, and it allows them to become naturally more innovative, naturally more desirous to make an impact in the world.”

The Culp Planetarium features a 50foot dome with a 23-degree tilted angle.

Covering 6,000 square feet, the planetarium contains dual laser-illuminated projectors, LED lighting, a 5.1 surround system with 125 reclining seats and writing tables.

“This is a place where any discipline on campus can learn - biology students, anatomy students, communication students,” Qubein said. “All of them can have specific software built for them.

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and all elements in it in ways that are amazingly applicable to every aspect of our life.”

Brad Barlow, Ph.D., is the director of Culp Planetarium and assistant professor of astrophysics. When Barlow had first heard talk of the possibility of a planetarium being built a few years ago, he was filled with excitement.

“I knew how revolutionary such a facility could be for our teaching,” Barlow said. “It was also clear how impactful the planetarium could be on our science outreach efforts in the community,” Barlow said. “Much of my introductory astronomy class focuses on the motions of the sun, moon, stars and planets in our sky. Before the planetarium, I would show my class static two-dimensional images when teaching this content. A lot of their learning leaned on students’ abilities to imagine what these motions would like the look. Now I can embed my students in any part of the solar system, galaxy or universe that I want to. It really is transformational.”

Now, the Culp Planetarium is home to four science classes: Astronomy of the Stars, Galaxies, and the Cosmos; Environmental Science; Search for Life in the Universe; and Planetarium Operations.

Full-dome movies are shown every Friday in the planetarium and each week, students, faculty and staff can reserve their seat for a 20-30 minute movie.

These movies cover topics such as coral reefs, black holes and dinosaurs. There will also be live astronomy shows in the planetarium that show the visibility of the night sky.

“I hope the planetarium helps students to experience that same awe-inspiring feeling that almost everyone experiences as a kid when looking at the night sky,” Barlow said. !

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he Pepper Building no longer sits lonely and vacant. Years passed as many walked by wondering what would become of the 1928 art-deco landmark when it Kristi Maier was announced @triadfoodies several years ago that the building had been sold and would Contributor become a boutique hotel and restaurant.

Indigo Hotels, owned by IHG, like to spring up in areas that provide their guests with a more local experience. Sir Winston Restaurant & Wine Loft is located immediately inside of the hotel, and as soon as you walk in, you’re immersed in a local experience. From the walls adorned by local artists to Sunnyside Millworks’ handcrafted banquettes, tables, chairs and all of the new woodwork in

the restaurant, the focus on those local details are quite obvious. The restaurant was at one time in the basement of the Pepper Building, and the new Sir Winston is a nod to its predecessor of the 1960s and its inspirational namesake, Sir Winston Churchill. People who have eaten at Sir Winston in the ’60s will see familiar quotes as well as light fixtures found in the sub-basement that have now been repurposed in the bar and dining room.

The attention to detail is impeccable.

Chef David Swing was hired to design the menu and lead the kitchen of the new Sir Winston, which opened in the spring.

Swing was born in Winston-Salem, grew up in Wilmington, gained his culinary skills in New York City, and worked his way back to the City of Arts and Innovation several years ago. To build the menu, he had to go all the way back to the late ’60s.

“I was given the original Sir Winston menu, and I took some ideas from that, but I had to assure management that I would not implement that pricing structure,” Swing joked.

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Sir Winston endeavors to take you back in time enough to appreciate classic details and flavors, but bring you back to today’s modern techniques, flair and Swing’s influence of Southern cuisine.

Swing took popular items such as seafood and prime rib and put his own spin on it.

“Shrimp cocktail was very popular, so I came up with Sutler’s Gin pickled-shrimp, which is on our small plates menu as well as on our N.C. trout dish.”

Swing said they didn’t want to be a steakhouse but did want red meat options on the menu.

“To play off the prime rib, all of our signature steaks come off the rib loin, which we break down in-house, including my personal favorite, the cap steak which is featured in the Bulldog’s cut.”

Swing said this steak made the menu after he got his hands on the cookbook of Sir Winston Churchill’s personal cook.

Between researching original menus and Churchill’s indulgences, writing and re-writing menus, Swing said he spent at least two months preparing for this gig.

Chef Swing introduced a few new ideas to the guests that will be featured on the upcoming fall menu, but the tasting courses were a great balance of the tastes of summer and a nod to the spiciness of fall.

Course One Pimento Cheese-Stuffed Squash Blossom with Apricot Mango Chutney I love the delicate texture of a stuffed squash blossom that’s been flash-fried, and it seems like they were made for pimento cheese. This appetizer tasted like summertime in the South.

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“I’m playing with smoking Cornish hens and preparing them the same way, with bacon jam and the pork rind crust.”

Course Three Seared Scallop, Pork Belly, Beet Purée with Pickled Watermelon Our very own version of surf and turf.

I’ve enjoyed scallops, which are now on the menu at Sir Winston, and the culinary team prepares them to perfection.

Course Four Seared N.C. Grouper, Black Truffle Risotto, Raspberry Mole with Blood Orange Purée Sea dwellers twice in one night? What a lovely treat.

Course Five Cheerwine-Braised Boneless Short Rib with Chipotle Grits, Gremolata This course was the most comforting of the night, and Swing said there is a variation now on the menu.

Course Six Orange Ginger Cake with Wasabi Mousse Beautifully presented, the orange and ginger on this petite cake were reminiscent of the coming season. The mousse on top was definitely adventurous, to say the least.

Sir Winston is a hotel-restaurant, but Swing said he appreciates the company’s approach to embracing the local story.

“It does have this corporate backing, but the fact that it’s a chef-driven restaurant and that they said to me, ‘Alright chef, here’s a very little direction and the ball is in your court,’ was something that I’d been looking for a long time.” !

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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instonSalem jewelry artist Nannette Davis has just returned from her first 2019 New York Fashion Week and is inviting everyone to come see some of her New Terry Rader York jewelry designs, along with new ones at her second Contributor Winston-Salem Fashion Week show on Sept. 28. The show takes place at the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Biotech Atrium located at 575 Patterson Ave. in Winston-Salem.

Davis showed her own solo collection at WSFW, which featured looks in sterling silver, brass and Nugold. The “Kinetics in Metal” collection will be her first opportunity to show her work independently as an accessory runway designer.

Davis said she had “an absolutely great

time in New York” and calls the experience “an amazingly fun whirlwind for 10 hours straight in one very fast-paced day.” Davis partnered with clothing designer Puja Arora of Studio Ivey, and they brought their collaborative runway looks in two shows at New York Fashion Week. This collaboration reminded her of a previous batik artist she collaborated with in Sante Fe and Denver during the 1990s. Davis designed jewelry to compliment the batik clothing that sold well enough to help them pay for their $2,000 booth fee.

Davis said she has been designing and making metal jewelry since 1991, but it has taken getting back into collaborating with a fashion designer to help her realize how much she really enjoys it.

“I love how fashion designers work with lines and how they consider how things fall and drape,” she said. “This inspiration gives me a jumping-off point to add to the designer’s look. I had so much fun designing for Arora, who is an amazingly wonderful woman who empowers others.”

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Davis said she appreciated the recognition in New York as an accessory designer and walked the red carpet at the end of the show as a designer in a gown Arora specifically designed for her. Davis recalled Arora telling her that her custom jewelry accentuated her clothing designs.

“The jewelry and clothing look like they were made for each other,” Davis said.

Nikita Wallace, owner/CEO of the nonprofit WSFW, had worked previously with Davis as an art teacher. Davis has been teaching metal designs at Sawtooth School for Visual Art for eight years. She said Nikita Wallace and Nannette Davis utilizing that studio has been an integral as is customary in this industry. part of her success, thanks to Sawtooth’s “I was also a mural artist for 10 years, metals director Sarah Stein and the Sawand I am still putting it all together as an tooth art community. artist, designer and maker to decide what Davis will extend her metal and jewI want to do,” she added. “I don’t know elry making experiences at MIXXER (a yet, except I am absolutely loving designmaker-space run by J. Alan Shelton) in a ing for other fashion designers. I’m an workshop on Sept. 25. Davis said she is a anomaly. I’m just breaking into it.” ! maker, unlike other jewelry designers who only design and let others produce their designs. Davis said she grew up in Chicago TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, singer/songand later met her husband at school in writer, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner Lawrence, Kansas, where she received a and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/house Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design sitting. and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Jewelry and Metal Designs. She then moved WANNA to Colorado before making North Carolina home 12 years ago because her husband Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m., Metal Texture/Jewelry Workfound a job as an architect. Davis said shop taught by Nannette Davis at MIXXER, 1375 N. she worked as a leading bench designer Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.; Sat., 9/28 at 6:30 p.m., before she went full-time working on WSFW Designer’s Showcase ($20-$200); Red her own for three years until the 1990s Carpet & Vendors Gallery opens at 4 p.m. at Wake recession. Now that her son has graduForest Innovation Quarter, 575 Patterson Ave., ated from college and she’s found an Biotech Atrium. Nov. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Whimsical independent living facility for her mom, Women Show at Crossnore School & Children’s Davis is taking her jewelry making out of Home, 1001 Reynolda Rd. Find out more about the background.

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The joy of six: OUT at the Movies festival expands October marks LGBTQ+ History Month, and the OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Festival is bigger than ever.

For one thing, the festival has added an entire day. It opens Wednesday, Mark Burger Oct. 2 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 6 – culminating with Contributor the awards ceremony at Jeffrey Adams on Fourth.

This year’s festival boasts 27 films (features and shorts), 10 Q&A sessions and five parties with over two dozen filmmakers, actors and documentary subjects scheduled to attend. Screenings will be held at the ACE Exhibition Complex on the main campus of UNCSA, 1533 S. Main St., and the Byrum Welcome Center on the campus of Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Rd. Rex Welton, co-founder of the OUT at the Movies screening series and the director of both the series and the festival, is delighted by the festival’s expansion this year but said its success is not surprising.

“BB&T stepping up to become our presenting sponsor in 2015 opened so many doors,” Welton said. “Over 90% of our donors and sponsors from 2018 returned in 2019. We have expanded in the sense that we added a fifth day, we are screening a Thursday movie for a second time, and we have added a few films to our Saturday and Sunday afternoon sched-

ule. It has been an incremental expansion and should serve us well. I often tell folks that our goal is to provide one of the very best festival experiences in the country for our filmmakers, audience members, donors and sponsors- and we do!”

This year’s festival has many highlights, beginning with the Oct. 3 screening of Proper Pronouns, a documentary about four transgender clergymen in North Carolina. This screening is free and will be followed by a Q&A and reception at the Byrum Welcome Center. This film, a work-in-progress, has direct ties to the university, as filmmaker Meg Daniels is a graduate of Wake Forest’s documentary film program, and one of the film’s subjects, Liam Hooper, is a graduate of Wake Forest’s School of Divinity.

On Oct. 4, Dr. Sam Pegram of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will moderate the Q&A discussion following a screening of 5B, also at the Byrum Welcome Center. 5B is a documentary about the staff and patients at San Francisco General Hospital’s AIDS ward during the early days of the crisis, produced and codirected by Paul Haggis (Oscar winner for Crash) and Dan Krauss.

On Oct. 5, the action shifts to the ACE Exhibition Complex at UNCSA, with the free LGBT Filmmakers and Filmmaking Salon at 11 a.m., moderated by Eden Lane, followed at 1 p.m. by a screening of the romantic comedy From Zero to I Love You, with actors Scott Bailey and Ann Walker (a festival regular) on-hand for the post-screening Q&A. At 5 p.m., transgender actors Carlie Guevara, Kristen Lovell and Tamera Williams are

Gay Chorus Deep South scheduled to be on-hand for the screening of The Garden Left Behind, followed at 7 p.m. by the screening of the awardwinning documentary feature Gay Chorus Deep South, with cast member Ashle Blow in attendance for the Q&A, moderated by William Southerland of the Triad Pride Performing Arts.

On Oct. 6, the festival presents the Southeastern U.S. premiere of the Portuguese drama Primos (Cousins) at 12:45 p.m., with Thiago Cazado (writer/ co-director/star) and Mauro Carvalho (co-director/cinematographer) scheduled to attend. At 7 p.m., award-winning filmmaker Nicole Conn will be at the screening of her latest drama, More Beautiful for Having Been Broken, which she wrote, produced, edited and directed, featuring a star-studded cast including Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison (hey, I’ve interviewed him!), Harley Jane Kozak, Emmy-winner Kay Lenz, Emmy and SAG Award-nominee French Stewart and

Felissa Rose (fondly remembered for her cult turn in the original Sleepaway Camp). The documentary Circus of Books will be screened at 7:15 p.m., with director Rachel Mason joining in via Skype for the Q&A. In addition, Randy “R.J.” Jones, the original cowboy from The Village People and a UNCSA graduate, will also be among the luminaries in attendance, as both a festival juror and a performer at the Oct. 5 evening party, which is free with a ticket from any of the festival’s Saturday screenings.

“The first year of our festival (2014) was challenging in many ways,” Welton admitted. “We did not have a presenting sponsor, nor a track record as a festival. It was difficult attracting donors, sponsors and even audience members. But we survived, learned a lot from our inaugural festival, and continue to make changes as needed.” !

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The sixth annual “Out at the Movies” International LGBT Film Festival runs Oct. 2-6. All screenings are $10, a five-screening flex pass is available for $40, and a festival pass (good for one admission to as many films as you can see) is $75. For a complete schedule of events, advance tickets, or additional information, call (336) 918-0902, email outatthemoviesfest@gmail.com, or visit the official festival website: https://outatthemovieswinston.org/.

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he factbased political yarn Official Secrets is an effective, engrossing dramatization of the case surrounding British Intelligence Mark Burger operative Katharine Gun. Gun, in defiance Contributor of the Official Secrets Act, disclosed a topsecret memo that detailed how the United States and Great Britain leaned on United Nations delegates to invade Iraq in 2003.

As it turned out, the United States invaded anyway. But when the British newspaper The Observer printed the memo and Gun’s identity was revealed, she was swept up in an international firestorm, alternately branded a patriot and a traitor. The fact that she was married to a Turkish Muslim (played by

Adam Bakri) only fanned the flames.

Even for those familiar with the story, Official Secrets is quality entertainment.

As the idealistic protagonist, Keira Knightley doesn’t resemble the actual Katharine Gun but offers an earnest portrayal. As do The Observer reporters pivotal to breaking the story: Matt Smith (as Martin Bright), Matthew Goode (as Peter Beaumont) and a feisty Rhys Ifans (as Ed Vulliamy).

Based on Marcia and Thomas Mitchell’s non-fiction bestseller “The

Spy Who Tried to Stop a War,” one of the film’s most potent attributes is how the screenwriters (Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein and director Gavin Hood) have carefully distilled the historical details in a step-by-step fashion that spells things out with crystal clarity. The story never gets bogged down by minutiae. In addition, the film offers a totally credible depiction of the newspaper milieu. The scenes at The Observer and the actions of its reporters never strike a false note.

A lot of familiar folks turn up such as Conleth Hill (terrific as Observer editor

Roger Alton), MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Jeremy Northam, Kenneth Cranham and Hattie Morahan. But particularly effective is Ralph Fiennes as Gun’s attorney, Ben Emmerson. Fiennes doesn’t appear until midway through but adds a boost of star power to the proceedings, as well as a quietly powerful coda.

Utilizing actual news footage of President George H.W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair is a nice touch, and Hood conveys what could have been a convoluted tale in a cool, controlled fashion.

Noises off: Peter Sarsgaard in The Sound of Silence Peter Sarsgaard’s low-key portrayal of a “house tuner” dominates The Sound of Silence, a wry character study that marks the feature debut of director/co-writer Michael Tyburski, and is based on the short film that he made earlier with cowriter/producer Ben Nabors.

Sarsgaard’s Peter Lucian has fashioned a unique career for himself, replete with a profile in The New Yorker, diagnosing aural anomalies in people’s homes. With his latest client, Ellen Chasen (Rashida Jones), the problem seems to emanate from her kitchen toaster, so he sends her a new one.

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85 minutes, it’s not exactly fast-moving – but it’s not boring, either. This is one film where the term “quirky” is perfectly applicable, as it revels in both the sights and (especially) the sounds of New York City.

It’s also nice to see Sarsgaard in a star turn, and he invests the film with a quietly wounded dignity and pride. Living in a converted nuclear fallout shelter – all the better to keep the outside noise where it belongs – Peter is so consumed by his work and his perceived importance of it that he’s hardly aware that he’s losing connection with the world around him.

Only at the end does he realize that Ellen could possibly be a way to reconnect with the rest of humanity – and himself.

– The Sound of Silence opens Friday. !

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Kindly, the New Zealand Herald reported, they suggested he was welcome to bring along a support person, such as a friend or family member. “Sensing the bad news, I decided I’d need the best support person available,” Jack wrote on Facebook, “so I spent $200 ($127 U.S.) to hire a clown.”

As the co-workers discussed Jack’s exit, the clown blew up balloons and folded them into animals. He mimed crying when Jack was handed his final paperwork.

Jack said his bosses found the humor in the situation, and he has already landed another job.

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It’s springtime in Australia, which means if you’re headed outside down under, you’ll want to carry a big stick with you. September and October are the height of magpie swooping season, when nesting magpies are known to attack walkers, runners and bike riders in defense of their young. While they’re only 12 inches long or so, 7News reported, the black-andwhite birds can cause a lot of pain with their sharp beaks. Last year, a toddler was nearly blinded, and this year a man who was attacked as he rode his bike veered off the path and crashed, later dying of

head injuries. “They’re never trying to hurt anyone or be malicious,” ornithologist Gisela Kaplan said. “It’s all about risk assessment.”

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Followers of Emily Post who are floundering with the rules for making toast ... er, getting toasted will want to pick up the new book from her great-greatgranddaughter, Lizzie Post. According to The New York Times, “Higher Etiquette: A Guide to the World of Cannabis, From Dispensaries to Dinner Parties” offers tidbits of advice for a variety of situations, to wit: Don’t eat all the munchies. Avoid words like “pothead” and “weed,” which can have negative connotations. Tip your “budtender” well, as he or she probably makes minimum wage. “Etiquette,” Post reminds us, “can be so easy.”

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Gerry Moore’s goal with his latest project is “making people smile,” and it’s working. The Pensacola, Florida, man built a “boat car,” a hybrid vehicle that looks like a boat on top but motors along the street on the chassis of a Ford Expedition. Moore’s wife, Karen, said her husband completed the project in three days and made sure it was street legal before taking it out on the road. WEAR TV reported on Sept. 10 that the vehicle is a “permanent convertible,” but Moore keeps a scuba mask and snorkel on board in case they get caught in the rain. !

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Justin ‘Demeanor’ Harrington on being honest, being heard

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Uh-oh, is he going to do that rap stuff?” said the silver-haired white lady in front of me when Justin Harrington joined his aunt Rhiannon GidIan McDowell dens on stage at the University of North Carolina at GreensContributor boro’s 125th annual Founder’s Day concert in October 2017.

The young black man on my right had a different take.

“Why didn’t you tell me Demeanor was part of this?” he said to his date, referring to Harrington’s hip-hop handle. “His rhymes are tight!”

Afterward, both seemed impressed, albeit one more grudgingly than the other.

“Well, he does have a way with words,” said the woman in front of me, while the man on my right expressed admiration not just for Harrington’s rhymes, but his skill playing the bones.

“My grandpop used to do that with pig ribs, but never sounded near so good.”

Almost two years after Harrington performed with Giddens at UNCG, I sat down with him for an interview at Tate Street Coffee, where he talked at length about the challenges of playing banjo and bones at hip-hop shows and rapping in front of folkies. In our conversation, he had just as many questions for me as I had for him.

Harrington had become aware of the Marcus Smith case, something he would speak about during a performance at the Blind Tiger two weeks after I talked to him. He asked me how a journalist untangles one story from the web of other stories that every person, and every story is connected to. (Here and elsewhere, I’ll save myself embarrassment by not including my stumbling answers to his incisive questions.)

Harrington said that writing his new album has been hard, because “there are so many stories, and to tell one specifically requires the context of other stories around it. So, how do I take 10 stories, and key points of those stories, and try to tell one story that feels bigger and feels accessible?”

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person to tell that story,” Harrington said.

“You gather information, you bend to the medium, and you let somebody tell their story, even in the way that you’ve written it. And then you contextualize it with your other stuff.”

“But me, when I’m working on this music, I’m trying to figure out all of these voices, and how to let them all sit together in a musical space that’s pleasing to the ear, but lends itself to action, and not just people agreeing and being jaded,” he added.

He mentioned the 1969 siege of A&T when the National Guard invaded that campus and student bystander Willie Grimes was killed.

“When we students at A&T hear about something like that, it’s easy to just be sad, until someone says, OK, let’s get together and figure out what action we can take,” he said. “So, how does your journalism inspire people to do something about it, rather than just recognizing that it’s bad? And how do I, as an artist, inspire people to do something about things, rather than just agreeing with me?”

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He said he’d thought a lot about the spaces, musical and otherwise, in which he performs, especially because music gets so compartmentalized.

“Do I try to get in these spaces that clearly I’m not celebrated in? I mean, now I am because rap has become pop music, and doors have opened, but 10 years ago, I would have had to decide: Do I create something to challenge that, or do I accept that it’s just reality? And I think that, in the political sphere, we all have to make a decision. Do we accept that this is just the reality, and maneuver accordingly?”

He talked about what he called the ”hoodie metaphor.”

“Do I have to avoid wearing a hoodie for the rest of my life, or I do choose to wear one and speak in a way that defies some people’s expectations of how a black man in a hoodie talks?”

From there, he moved to the subject of bridging the folk music of his famous aunt Giddens, whom he’s been performing with since he was very young, and the hip-hop he loves, too.

“In the past, I was either in the folk world or in the rap world. And when I was in folk world, I got weird looks when I talked about rapping, and when I was in rap world, I got weird looks when I talked about folk,” Harrington said. “I say this all the time, and suspect people are tired of hearing it, but I had to realize that, one, rap is folk, and that two, people don’t really know what they want until they see or hear it.”

He said that, for him, the most important thing in any medium is honesty.

“I think it’s the duty of every artist out there to be unapologetically honest in all of their music. And for all of the people who are willing, to be honest, to put their foot down and become players in this big chess game right now for the future of humanity. We have to be honest about the future, but how do we make honesty a trend? That’s why the honest people have to make more noise. The companies that run Instagram and Facebook algorithms, they’re only going to push what people are willing to like and tweet because the only currency that matters is

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data. Google, Facebook, Twitter, they’re all data miners.”

“So, if honest people start making more noise, and honest journalists keep doing what they’re doing, then those companies that only care about likes, tweets and subscriptions, they will have no choice but to go where the attention is because that’s where the money is. Instead of capitalism killing the planet like it’s doing, can we make capitalism sustain the planet?”

I told him I’d been very moved when I saw him perform with his mother, UNCG professor, singer, poet and activist Lalenja Harrington, at the concert Lalenja organized with her sister Rhiannon and friends Laurelyn Dossett, Molly McGinn, Charlie Hunter and Sinclair Palmer as a benefit for the Experiential School of Greensboro, held at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant this last May. He said the idea of performing with his mom started when she asked him to write a verse to the Oscar Brown Jr. song “Brown Baby,” famously performed by Nina Simone.

“I wasn’t as comfortable a year ago as I am now with putting rap into other genres of music, fitting my sound, which is relying upon hard snares and kicks and stuff, with noodling jazz. But then I started writing this album where I was combining rap and folk, and I wrote a verse for my mom on a song called ‘Not Just A,’” he explained.

“Later on, when my mother was doing jazz night at the O. Henry [Hotel], she was planning to do ‘Brown Baby,’ so she asked me to do a verse. I decided to just speak the verse I wrote for her, and it worked really well. The crowd just kind of stopped existing, and it was just me and my mom.”

Harrington said it was different when they performed it together at the benefit concert in May. “Onstage, with all of those amazing musicians, I knew that my mom was hearing and that they were hearing me, and was now more comfortable with everyone else hearing me,” he said. “So, in that

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particular rendition, I performed it less to my mother, and more to the crowd, so it was almost like doing a different song. It means a lot to us every time we do it, and changes according to the audience, but at the church, it really felt like people were hearing me, too.”

He described that as a rare experience for a self-described young black rapper, who likes to say things to make people

uncomfortable. “It means a lot to know that my mom has my back when I’m honest and that I have her back when she’s honest. And in that room, it felt like everybody was ready, to be honest.”

I asked him about O Henry, his second album, released at the beginning of 2019.

“That was a combination of my singular experience in growing up, going to contra dances with my aunt Rhiannon, going

on tour with her, playing banjo with her, the influences I received through her. I did my own research in terms of new songs and stuff like that, but that’s what I grew up playing, and that’s what I channeled into the album. And so, it was almost like taking something old and putting it with something that’s new. That’s how I view it in my head, taking this rap thing and pushing it back to the past, and taking the past and pulling it up to the future.”

But he said after cutting that album, he realized something. “Folk isn’t behind us, old-time music isn’t behind us, racism isn’t behind us, honesty isn’t behind us, and so I guess I’ve been looking toward the future and the past at the same time.”

He said that he wasn’t sure what he could tell me about the album he’s working on now. “I will say this, I’m going to be making a project with some really great musicians who are all honest, and I’m going to be supremely honest about love, about acceptance and about reality.

Looking toward love while knowing your reality, and the idea of, if not now, then when?”

He’s also working on a “musical collage called One Beat,” which he described as a residency and then tour with 24 other artists from all over the world. “From Nepal to Egypt to North Carolina to Russia. We’re meeting in Florida for a couple of weeks, and then we’re going to go on tour in the South, Florida to Georgia and a couple of places in between, and we’re going to be leading workshops for young people, we’re going to be performing this record, and I’m super honored to be part of it. So that’s taking up the rest of my year.”

Demeanor’s album O Henry is available on ReverbNation, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify and SoundCloud. Follow him on Instagram @demxmusic and at his website, demeanormusic.com. !

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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Condado in the city Condado, an emo-rock band from Randolph County, will make their way to Greensboro for a show with Basement Life and Propersleep on Sept.

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The boys in the Katei Cranford band aren’t looking to move to a big city, but they’d like to Contributor play one near you.

“Personally, I’m not a huge fan of cities,” said guitarist and vocalist Alberto “Birdie” Velazquez, who noted that though they do enjoy smalltown living, it’s “tour, tour, tour,” that tops the Condado radar.

“We just want to travel and play with our favorite bands,” Birdie explained.

“But I think we can all say that we haven’t received a strong enough calling to live elsewhere.”

An Asheboro native, Birdie’s first interaction with an instrument stemmed from playing Guitar Hero and listening to The Strokes in elementary school. Music

continued to grow as his lifestyle through the grades.

“Concert band, jazz band, marching band, chorus, theater, you name it, I did it,” he said of his relationship to performance through high school.

Guitarist Josh Reid and bassist Javan Trinidad have been playing together since they were 14.

“I traded my PlayStation 2 to a friend for an acoustic guitar with three strings and taught myself as much as I could until my mom could afford to buy me my first electric guitar,” Reid explained.

His role as a performer started as a teen in his church band. It’s there where he met Trinidad, who now owns JT Autoworks in Winston-Salem and “can survive off of Peanut M&Ms and Lifesaver Gummies.”

“We’ve created a pretty equal balance in the various regions, which makes us feel more like an N.C. band than a Greensboro band,” Birdie noted of their mix throughout the Piedmont. “We’re proof that we didn’t have to move to a huge city in order to find what we consider success,” he added.

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project for Birdie, with band names and members fluctuating in the few years following. Reid and Trinidad entered the picture in 2017, after a fortuitous meeting at Guitar Center. They officially settled into “Condado” on Jan. 1, and the current lineup cemented with drummer Anunt Singh, who “unashamedly enjoys radio rock,” the following spring. Sable, their second EP, was released in July.

“I loved their writing style and ‘90s mentality,” Singh said of joining the group. ”We get on together really well.

The ride’s been great so far, and I can’t wait to see where we end up soon.”

Where they’ll end up next is at the Flat Iron, technically a new venue in downtown Greensboro, named after the long-running bar of the same name in the same spot. It’ll be a first appearance in the Summit Avenue space for Condado, who signal a new crest of Triad bands fresh enough to have never known the first Flat Iron incarnation.

Their Greensboro history, thus far, has largely been house shows; outlets that Birdie feels carry an energy unmatched by traditional venues, though that hasn’t dampened the excitement for the upcoming show.

“We like telling stories, and we like being blunt,“ Birdie said of their material.

A Guilford Technical Community College recording engineering student, he personally made the record along with the band, who unanimously favor a DIY approach.

“We’ll never settle for a blown-out, over-produced sound,” Birdie said. “Dynamics are way too crucial for what we

do.“ As for artistic influences, Sable falls somewhere between Michael Cera Palin and Weezer.

“Everyone says we sound like Weezer,” he said, “which I think is good, but also hilarious.”

As a band, Condado enjoys adding to the sounds of the “fourth wave” emo genre.

“Being open about your emotions is an important thing,” Birdie noted. “We want to make that clear to everybody.”

Though Condado’s overall mission is to make music they love, “It’s also to make connections with people based off of the stories we tell,” Birdie insisted. “And if people haven’t noticed already, all of us are of a minority race and ethnicity. We already hold different perspective from the average American,” he added. “Plus, we grew up with other hardships. We know what it means to be different and unaccepted. We want people to come to our shows and sing with us.”

“We want them to feel as if they’re right where they belong,” he said of the audience, “because everyone has hardships in their life, and everyone weighs the severity of a situation differently.”

Catch Condado at the Flat Iron with Basement Life and Propersleep on Sept.

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KATEI CRANFORD Is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring N.C. the following week, 5:30-7 p.m. on WUAG 103.1FM.

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The name is Bond, Jane Bond?

There’s a particularly tense scene from the movie Goldfinger, in which James Bond is strapped to a table about to have his genitals (and various innards) removed by a giant laser beam.

Jim Longworth “Do you expect me to talk?” Bond asks the title character.

Longworth “No, Mr. Bond. I at Large expect you to die,” Goldfinger replies.

As a boy of 10, I learned two things from that scary scene.

First, I never wanted to have my genitals severed by a giant laser beam unless the situation was absolutely hopeless.

And second, only a man can play the part of Agent 007, James Bond. At least that’s what I thought until recent reports surfaced regarding an impending gender switch of Her Majesty’s top agent.

Call me silly, but I tend to believe that a writer’s intentions and specifications should be honored when it comes to the big screen portrayal of his or her protagonist. Certainly, there’s such a thing as artistic or dramatic license when adapting a novel into a movie, but that should only apply to things like a condensation of plot points in order to accommodate time constraints. It does not, however, give a film producer the right to change things just for the sake of change. Can you imagine, for example, changing Moby Dick’s name to Moby Denise? Or casting Tom Cruise to portray Lara Croft?

For some time now, there’s been talk that the next James Bond will be played by a man of color. In fact, Idris Elba’s name has been mentioned in that regard, and that’s fine with my wife, Pam, who met with the actor in L.A. and thinks he’s hot. But rumor has it that in the upcoming Bond flick, No Time to Die, Daniel Craig is called out of retirement for one last job, and he is introduced to a woman who is identified as “007.” She is played by British actress Lashana Lynch, who also happens to be black. This begs the question, “Is Lynch going to be the next Bond, or WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

just the next 007, or both?” I’m now officially both gender and racially confused.

Author Ian Fleming, on the other hand, was never confused about who James Bond is.

The character Fleming created is a white male, born in Scotland, approximately 6-feet-tall, who achieved the rank of Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.

Despite the fact that six different actors have portrayed Bond on film, the producers have, thus far, selected “men” who generally fit the Fleming bill, but that may be about to change. The late Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli must be spinning in his grave at the thought of a female James Bond. That’s because, as the producer of the Bond series from its inception in 1962 until his death in 1996, Cubby had always been protective of the brand, and careful to nurture the Bond image. In later years, Broccoli began to give his daughter Barbara and stepson Michael Wilson more responsibility in the family business. That was OK so long as Cubby was alive, but after his death, the kids began to tinker with the brand, up to and including casting Craig, and turning him into Jason Bourne instead of a refined British spy. That was bad enough, but now, the Broccoli kids may be about to ruin the franchise if they cast a woman as the iconic secret agent.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m fine with a female spy in any other venue. Heck, I’m fine with just about everything having to do with the opposite sex. But if a woman is cast to play the next James Bond, then you might as well just strap me to a laser table and be done with it. I simply wouldn’t feel right about having a set of “gadgets” that are no longer available to 007. !

After one son comes home the playground with a broken tooth, rather than telephone the parents of the other child, our urban sophisticates decide to meet to resolve the blame. Everything begins politely enough, but the veneer of civility slowly melts away.

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ost gigging musicians have a manyirons-in-the-fire approach to staying busy. But WinstonSalem-based bassist and composer John Daniel Ray takes John Adamian the idea of having @adamianjohn a lot on your plate to impressive levels.

Multi-tasking and Contributor going with the flow are temperamental orientations that also play into his creative approach. He stays busy, and when he makes music, he’s literally got his hands and feet doing something, playing the bass, tapping on laptop keys, stomping on foot pedals or doing other sorts of gadgetry-related manipulations.

His system is often set up in such a way

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John Daniel Ray has a number of standing gigs. He plays at a church every Sunday. He performs jazz tunes at High Point University a couple times a week.

He plays with a wedding band that tends to perform twice a week. He also makes improvised atmospheric musical accompaniment at a yoga class twice a month. And he plays in a video-game music cover band. He’ll be touring the West Coast this fall with the group Jazz Is Phish, a rotating ensemble that takes the compositions of the jam band Phish and approaches them as jazz tunes, highlighting the improvisational and extended solo possibilities. His Bandcamp page is filled with other projects, some of them

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one-time deals, some of them long-term collaborations. There’s a vintage-jazzsounding song he wrote for the wedding of some friends. There’s a pretty classical guitar piece he wrote in honor of a cousin who had passed away. It’s a grab bag that’s bursting with odds and ends, and one gets the feeling that his hard drives are filled with hours and hours and hours of musical source material that he’s waiting to distill down to other recordings, eventually to be served up for streaming fans.

When I spoke to Ray last week, he was at work at a non-musical side project.

“I’m making a hammock,” he told me.

Ray said he’s been into backpacking for a while and he had been using nylon camping hammocks for years, but had long suspected that he could make them better.

The hammock-making is an anomalous pursuit. His life is full-time music now, “and way too full-time,” he said with a

laugh. But Ray appreciates the benefits of his diversified musical endeavors.

“Every minute of my day, I’m doing something that I love,” he said. “I literally wake up looking forward to what I do.”

Ray, 38, grew up in Winston-Salem and went to the North Carolina School of the Arts as a high school student, switching his focus from classical guitar to bass, in an orchestral setting. Ray doesn’t necessarily view it this way, but it’s possible that his intense immersion into classical music set off a reaction that sent him in a different, more exploratory musical direction.

“I totally got burnt out on classical,” he said.

Much of Ray’s music now embraces a fully improvised aesthetic. There are often no songs, no predetermined structures. He gets together with like-minded collaborators, someone zeros in on a key, and the grooves start percolating from there.

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Listen to “The Man Makes A Phone Call,” a track from a trio project called Microwave Homies. It’s a keyboard, bass and drums configuration. Ray posted the recordings in the summer. Fans of early’70s era Miles Davis or of the squishy funk-tinged fusion of Return To Forever might enjoy these skittering jams. At times Ray’s bass sounds like a videogame creature, steadily chomping away, munching at the low end, and then he’ll punch up the far-out effects, layering on harmonized notes or digital delays, sending the rhythms rippling out in receding waves.

Sometimes the energy swells to bumping crescendos and then subsides into atmospheric washes.

“I’ve gotten really into improvisation, just studying it as a lifestyle, day-to-day, making decisions. I’ve gotten really passionate about it as a musical form,” Ray said.

For the yoga classes, Ray plays what he calls “chill electronics.” It’s music that has to be soothing and non-disruptive, stretching out for 15-minute expanses at times, and yet sometimes a slow, steady pulse or beat is called for, and Ray gets to explore the ways that music and sound relate to the body.

He landed the yoga gig by randomly contacting some area yoga teachers with the proposal to accompany their classes.

Through it, he has been “learning how to make music along with movement.”

Bending and stretching are part of Ray’s musical world, in terms of reaching an audience. Streaming has altered the landscape for musicians. The traditional sources of revenue have been obliterated in many senses. Selling physical copies of music, or getting paid for digital downloads — those aren’t lucrative in the ways

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they might have been 25 years ago. And yet, if the internet vaporized the possibility of making money by selling music, it also opened up pathways for connecting with a potential audience on a global scale. A musician like Ray doesn’t need to focus absolutely on appealing to local fans if he can tap into a network of interested listeners in other places. Pockets of fans might add up to an audience in unlikely places. If a musician can get to them, non-traditional touring opportunities can emerge.

“The biggest challenge with the improv thing has been marketing,” Ray said. “For the kind of stuff we do, there’s maybe a handful of people who are gonna come out and see a show like that. And a lot of them are my friends who are gonna support me. But worldwide there are several hundred thousand people who are interested in this.”

If keeping busy is the key to success, then Ray is slowly on his way to piecing together a critical mass of listeners, wherever they may be.

“I’m creating what I want to create and then trying to find the people that want to hear that.”

John Daniel Ray will release a new record by his Vintage Astronaut ensemble in early November. The material was recorded during a five-night residency at the South Side Beer Garden in WinstonSalem. Ray will also be providing music for the Live Music & Yoga event that generally happens on the first and third Sunday of every month at 4:30 p.m. at Footnote, 634 W. 4th St., Winston-Salem. !

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www.carolina-highlandgames.com Laurinburg, North Carolina October 5, 2019 Watch athletes compete in the caber and hammer throw, and enjoy piping, drumming, dancing and Tartan glory.

Beer, food, and craft vendors will be on site. There will also be a special evening concert featuring Highland Echoes.

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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BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Sep 26: Ms. Mary & The Boys Oct 5: Sing Hallelujah!

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505 N. Greene St Sep 27: Tom Warren Oct 4: Pound Cake Oct 11: Craig Baldwin Oct 18: Dave Moran Oct 25: Lyn Koonce

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Companyon, A Light Divided, & More Oct 1: SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque Oct 2: The Kitchen Dwellers w/ Highstrung Bluegrass Band Oct 4: Trial By Fire - A Tribute to Journey Oct 5: Fear The United Oct 8: The Ghost of Paul Revere w/ Animal Years Oct 10: Talib Kweli Oct 11: Zoso - A Led Zeppelin Experience

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310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Sep 25: Adam Ant: Friend or Foe Sep 27: Jon Shain Sep 29: Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra October 2: Miranda Sings - Who Wants My Kid? Oct 4: UNCG Jazz Ensembles I and II Oct 6: Amythyst Kiah Oct 11: Heather Mae Oct 16: Ernest Turner Trio

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO WIDEN U.S. 158 (REIDSVILLE ROAD) FROM U.S. 421 / I-40 BUSINESS TO BELEWS CREEK ROAD (S.R. 1965) IN FORSYTH COUNTY

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101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 TheLibertyShowcase.com Oct 12: The Malpass Brothers w/ Garrett Newton Band

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STIP PROJECT NO. R-2577A The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of U.S. 158 (Reidsville Road) from north of U.S. 421 / I-40 Business to Belews Creek Road (S.R. 1965) in Forsyth County. The primary purpose of this project is to improve traffic operations.

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A public meeting will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10 at Gospel Light Baptist Church located at 890 Walkertown-Guthrie Road in Winston-Salem.

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 on the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings or the project website: https://www.Publicinput.com/US158-Walkertown-area The public may attend at any time during the 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 comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done by phone, email, or mail by Oct. 25, 2019.

For additional information, contact NCDOT Division Highway 9 Project Engineer Connie James, PE, at 375 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston Salem, NC 27127, (336) 747-7800 or ckjames1@ncdot.gov.

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772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Sep 27: Nylon Lion Sep 30: Old Time Jam Oct 4: Salem Songwriters Oct 5: Lisa & The Saints

FOOTHILLS BREWING 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Sep 25: Ryan Eversole Sep 28: Wyndy Trail Travelers Sep 29: Sunday Jazz Oct 5: Men In Black

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630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Sep 29: Live Jazz

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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, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, (919) 707-6069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800481-6494.

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Sep 26: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band Sep 27: C2 & The Brothers Reed Sep 28: Jack of DIamonds Oct 3: Bird Dog Jubilee Oct 4: Balkun Brothers

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Sep 26: STIG, Unaka Prong, Medicated Sunfish Sep 28: William Bell, June Rise Sep 29: The Way Down Wanderers Oct 3: David Childers Quartet, Blue Cactus Oct 9: Langhorne Slim and The Lost At Last Band, Katie Pruitt

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SPECTRUM CENTER

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Sep 25: Guns N’ Roses Sep 27: Old Dominion Sep 29: Phil Collins Oct 11: Alabama

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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Sep 25: Adam Ant Sep 27: Jon Shain Oct 6: Amythyst Kiah Oct 11: Heather Mae Oct 11: PLC Land Jam 2019

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PIEDMONT HALL

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 28: In This Moment

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220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com

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3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com Oct 5: ZZ Top Oct 12: Luke Bryan

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Sep 27-28: Internation Bluegrass Music Association Oct 1: The Head and the Heart

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I know some men refuse to use emojis because they think they’re silly or cheesy. But I have to say, when men use emojis, they make me feel good. Is it crazy that a heart or a rose emoji makes me feel like a man’s more interested? — Wondering

Amy Alkon

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It’s easy to misinterpret tone in texts.

However, emojis are basically the cartoon cousins of commas, which can make the difference between a quiet evening at home and an evening spent handcuffed facedown while the forensics team digs up your backyard for skeletal remains. (If only you’d tucked the commas into the appropriate places when you texted, “I love cooking my dogs and my grandma.”)

Emojis in courtship were the subject of two studies from the Kinsey Institute. In the more recent one, social psychologist Amanda Gesselman and her colleagues found a link between emoji use and maintaining a connection beyond the first date, as well as more romantic interactions and more sex (over the year that participants were surveyed about).

I suspect emojis are an especially helpful tool for men to use in dating. Research by psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen suggests that men, in general, don’t have women’s emotional fluency — that is,

women’s ease in identifying and expressing emotion. Emojis help men communicate warmth and interest in a woman easily and comfortably. This in turn keeps women from getting mad that men don’t show their feelings — or mistaking a lack of expressiveness for a lack of feeling.

So it’s no surprise you appreciate the emojis. Still, there’s much that remains unexplored in these studies. For example, do people who use more emojis get more dates and sex, or do people who get more dates and sex use more emojis?

And do emojis play well with everybody, or do they sometimes kill a developing connection? “Wait...a 55-year-old man just sent me an entire screen of cartoon eggplants?”

Of course, emojis could more charitably be viewed as a classic form of communication. The medium was just different back around 2000 B.C., when the pharaoh would dispatch the eunuch with stone tablets covered in pictures of dogs, beetles, and mummies. Message: “Dinner is at 6, unless there’s a plague of locusts.”

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lot — like if a cop pulls you over and asks, “Do you know why I stopped you?” and you answer, “You have a small penis, and you’ve yet to hit your ticket quota?”

Authenticity is overrated. Sure, it’s seriously important when you’re bidding $3 million for a Picasso. But in humans, authenticity basically means having the outer you — your behavior — match the inner you: your thoughts, desires, feelings, and values.

Revealing your hopes, fears, and desires to another person is essential to having real intimacy — allowing them to really know and understand you. But as with the Officer Cocktail Sausage example, telling the whole truth isn’t always ideal.

Technically, by not letting rip whatever feeling comes to mind, you’re being “inauthentic,” “phony,” “insincere.” However, this view comes out of neuroscientific ignorance. Though we have personality traits that are consistent across time and situations, research by neuroscientists Roger Wolcott Sperry, Michael Gazzaniga, and Joseph LeDoux suggests there is no singular, consistent “real you” — or “real” anyone, for that matter. Instead, we each appear to be a set of shifting standards,

preferences, and practices based on the priorities that a particular situation triggers in our evolved psychology: whether, say, it’s survival (“Run for your life!”) or mating (“Wanna have coffee? Naked?”).

Not having a singular self means we can choose the sort of person we want to be. We do this by coming up with a set of values and acting in line with them. (For more on the practical steps involved, see the “Be Inauthentic!” chapter in my book “Unf*ckology.”) In your case, for example, if kindness is one of your values, you might set aside your grievances with your colleague and decide, “You’re a fellow human who’s suffering, and I’m gonna reach out to say I’m sorry about that.”

Being kind to a guy you loathe is actually an act of sincerity when your behavior aligns with your values. If only “killing ‘em with kindness” were more than a figure of speech...then you could call dibs on this meanie’s swanky office as they wheeled him out in a body bag. !

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