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WHAT: Free arts and music festival. AFAS will close off Liberty Street, between 6th and 7th Streets, for artists to set up their booths. As always admission is free, and there are no charges or fees or commissions to AFAS artists. WHEN: 1 p.m. WHERE: AFAS Artivity in the Park. 630 N. Liberty St, Winston-Salem. MORE: Free event.
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Thousands filled High Point’s Oak Hollow Festival Park over Labor Day Weekend to see numerous acts perform but the event meant something special to at least two performers. Michelle and Ravi Coltrane were two of the acts at the eight annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival. “I’m always honored to partake in something that is historical and helps prolong the legacy of my parents, Alice and John Coltrane,” Michelle said. The star-studded event was included performances from Gregory Porter, Pete Escovedo Orchestra featuring his daughter Shelia E., Dianne Reeves, Jackie Venson, Lee Ritenour, Jazzmeia Horn, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Coltrane Jazz All-Star Band and the Coltrane Jazz Youth Band. “This festival was never meant to emulate Coltrane but to honor him. Coltrane loved all types of music. That’s why we work to make sure the festival is made up of good, solid talent,” said festival organizer Joe Williams.
The student essay contest, offered by the Friends of John Coltrane, Inc., gives middle and high school students across North Carolina an opportunity to receive a free instrument of their choosing by submitting an essay explaining their music aspirations, affinities and needs. The new instruments are presented, on stage, to winning students by the festival headliners. This year, those instruments were presented by Michelle Coltrane, herself with some words of encouragement. She called the contest “reverberations” of her parent’s hard work. “This is the lasting memory of what both of my parents wished – a legacy,” she said. “Someone in that group is going to connect with that instrument, and they will leave a legacy of their own behind.” Danielle Foust is beginning her freshman year at North Carolina A&T State University and said the new piccolo she received is not only a great burden off her shoulders but instrumental to her new
position in the school’s marching band. “I get to have my own instrument versus having to use a university instrument and knowing that when I do go home and need to practice, I’ll have something that I can rely on,” Foust said. “It’s a new beginning for me and my musical career with a new instrument.” Jordan Hamilton, a junior a Dudley High School, received a Euphonium he plans to put to good use. He said he received the news after coming home from his second day of school and was ecstatic to learn he’d won.
“This feels like a major accomplishment. At my school, we have a lack of instruments. This will allow me to practice on my own time and help out others who need help with their instruments,” Hamilton said. “I will let my peers to know about this, so they can learn about Coltrane, what he did and hopefully win an instrument for themselves. For more information on the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival or how to apply for the student essay contest, visit www.coltranejazzfest.com !
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hildren get Disney, so what’s my adventure land? A beautiful restaurant that has a market inside so I can order food, shop while I wait (or just Kristi Maier swing in and shop), @triadfoodies all while seeing something new every time. Contributor That’s Canteen Market & Bistro. Billed as a gourmet market and dining experience, you have no doubt of its intended function as soon as you breeze in. Plus, there’s a beautiful, communal bar right in the center to ground the entire gleaming 6,000 square-foot space. It’s dreamy. The business, which just opened its doors officially last week, is the product of Claire Calvin owner of The Porch Kitchen and Cantina and Eric Swaim, her neighbor at Hoots Roller Bar and Beer Co. at West End Millworks. The two had talked for a couple of years about opening up an urban market. When the space at 411 W. Fourth St.(also known as Commerce Plaza) became available, it was originally
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area, called The Cellar, with hard-to-find conceptualized by the property owners as boutique wines, local and international a fine dining restaurant. However, Calvin craft beer, kombucha, coffee and artisanal and her dream of a downtown market mixers featuring companies that have a with a distinctly urban feel could not be story to tell. dissuaded. Swaim put a great deal of thought “This space would be too big just a marinto his beverage program. The large ket or just a restaurant, but altogether, it communal space features the obligajust works,” she said. tory craft cocktail menu. For beer, there’s The market side of the restaurant feaa North Carolina focus behind the bar, tures staples such as pasta and sauces, with everything on draft while the cooler some on the higher end, but still budgetincludes beers from around the world. The friendly for a night in. There are also wine at the bar boasts a relatively new local sauces such as Y’all Sauce, (made tap concept. in Winston-Salem) and international “All wine by the glass is all being poured sauces, mustards, grits, gourmet crackers, draft,” he said. “It eliminates waste and bread mixes, jams, jellies, endless varieties ensures freshness, which is something we of pickles--you name it. Calvin said they’re really wanted to commit to. When it’s on just getting started and are happily taking draft, there’s no light and no oxygen to suggestions for fun items to add. During make it go bad. It’s the perfect temperaour interview, Calvin paused for a moment ture for white and for red and gives you to help a customer who had her arms full. control over your pour. It’s very concise at She had come for one thing (don’t we all) the bar with a trip around the world in the and appeared to need a basket. Calvin back.” hastily retrieved a mini-cart. We joked The right side of the space is glassed in that her budget was no longer limited with a bar top that overlooks by what she could carry in her the lower level that houses arms and she went on her ERIC SWA D N A N IM LVI the Winston-Salem way. A C RE Chamber offices along In the back, the AI with The Porch’s dining area sits adnew administrajacent to a beautitive dwelling just fully curated wine below. and beverage CL
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The 411 on Canteen Market & Bistro In front, the kitchen is where Chef Chris Almand, formerly of West End Cafe, is making menu items for the bistro for dinein and take-home and the pastry chef is making the sweet treats. The refrigerator case is stocked with local pimento cheese, goat cheese, deli items and items a customer can grab to go for a quick snack or lunch. Calvin said the menu would often change to reflect what is in season and what is available from their partner farm, Whit Acres. Local restaurateur and breakfast queen, Mary Haglund, who loves to support her fellow comrades simply said, “Just get down here. The food is so good. It’s beautiful, full of great energy and run by some of the best people!” Canteen will have an official grand opening this weekend featuring market samples, wine tastings, demonstrations, and giveaways. Visit their social media for more details. ! 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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Legendary performer (as chronicled in Jimmy Buffett’s 1999 hit “I Will Play for Gumbo”), Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton, brings his Florida slide guitar blues, and his own hot sauce to every multi-sensory performance, as audience members stir, then sample a large pot of gumbo prepared on stage. Blues, Cajun, rock and country, plus gumbo, seamlessly combine for a whole new genre! He is asking concert goers to help in the cause by bringing non-perishable food items in support of the Greater High Point Food Alliance.
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Arrogant. Pompous. Obnoxious. Vain. Cruel. Persecuting. Distasteful. Verbose. A showoff. There’s no question that I am all of those things.” — Howard Cosell Billy Ingram One-hundred years ago, Howard Contributing Cosell, one of the most influential columnist broadcast journalists of all time, was born on March 25, 1918, in WinstonSalem. Cosell was gruff, quick-witted, worked without a script, said whatever came to mind. He spoke in extreme hyperbole and wouldn’t be throttled. Cosell was one of the most volatile and unpredictable
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television personalities of the 20th century. Cosell brought gravitas to sports reporting, and his every segment was a big event. It was a skill he honed in the early1960s as a field correspondent for ABC’s groundbreaking Saturday afternoon series Wide World of Sports, the first to televise competitions from around the globe. His relentlessly upbeat staccato vocal style could make a game of pool seem out of this world. He was broadcasting ringside when underdog Cassius Clay won the World Heavyweight Championship in 1964. When Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali, Cosell was first to refer to him that way. Cosell was unwavering in his support even when much of the country turned on Ali after he refused on religious grounds to be drafted into the army. Hate mail and death threats failed to sway Cosell. He kept Ali’s name and face
before the American public, declaring the champion to be the “greatest of all time,” during the period Ali was banned from boxing. “Ali and Cosell played off of each other so well, their interview segments were legendary,” said Andy Durham of www.GreensboroSports.com. “The gab and the jab, I guess, but it was great.” In 1968, Olympic athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith held their fists in the black power salute during the medals ceremony. Afterward, they bypassed the braying press pool and went straight to Cosell. As Smith recalled in a T.V. interview years later, “I don’t think he had the answers, but he understood the problem and asked questions that gave a young athlete like myself enough space to say what I felt.” When Cosell asked Smith if he was proud to be an American he replied, “I’m proud to be a black American.” The nation had never seen anything like that on T.V. Cosell was one of the three original play-by-play commentators on Monday Night Football. However, co-host Frank Gifford told the Television Academy Foundation in an interview that traditionalists in the 1970s were not fans. Gifford said that Cosell bore most of the criticism and it affected him. “He turned like a snarling cat,” Gifford said in the interview. “He started taking on the media himself; he realized he had a bigger platform than they did.” Only 9 months old when his family moved from Winston-Salem to Brooklyn, growing up poor may explain why Cosell was so driven and utterly disparaging of those he believed to be his inferiors. “I don’t care any longer what they write about me,” he ranted about sports reporters in a 1974 documentary. “In general, they’re a disgrace to the journalism they pretend to be part of. You know, it was almost conspiratorial, it seemed to me, the way certain classes of sports
Howard Cosell writers came out of the woodwork to go after me. They’re a seedy lot, hangers-on, traveling with the clubs, living with the clubs, dugout mentality, no horizons.” In the annals of sports, Cosell and Ali will be inexorably linked. If you think about it, their bond couldn’t have been more natural. Both men were revered and deeply hated, both set out on an unlikely path to becoming the greatest in their fields of endeavor. It was a genuine friendship that humanized two larger than life figures. The camera doesn’t lie. Cosell died in 1995 but not before appearing on screen at a tribute to Ali and spoke tearfully. “It’s hard to believe, all the years, everything that’s passed between us. It’s so hard to believe and so memorable. And now, it’s time to say to you Muhammad; God bless you. Happy birthday. And you know something? You are exactly who you said you are. You never wavered.” The same could be said of the man who spoke those words. ! BILLY INGRAM is the author of 5 books including Hamburger², (mostly) about Greensboro. He is working on a memoir of his time as one of the ‘New York Yankees of Motion Picture Advertising.’
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Life is but a dream — and a drag — in Tucked For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, WinstonSalem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present writer/director Jamie Patterson’s Mark Burger award-winning drama Tucked, which will be screened on Contributor Sept. 8 at the ACE Exhibition Complex on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. The story details the friendship that develops between Jack (Derren Nesbitt), a boisterous and boozy drag queen recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Faith (Jordan Stephens), an up-and-
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coming drag performer who learns the ropes of the lifestyle from this unlikely mentor. Despite coming from different backgrounds and generations, Jack and Faith come to a better understanding of themselves – and each other. Rex Welton, the co-founder and director of the festival and screening series, described Tucked as “a drama about love, loss, and friendship – a feel-good movie with a great charm and sense of humor.” The film was hailed by Jennie Kermode (www.eyeforfilm.co.uk) as “an oddcouple tale with a lot of heart, Tucked is a real charmer, a celebration of growing old disgracefully and a celebration of how society has changed for the better. Warm-hearted and easy to engage with, whatever your own background, it’s deserving of a wide audience” – and won the Audience Award as Outstanding Narrative Feature and the Grand Jury Award as Outstanding International Narrative
Feature, at this year’s L.A. Outfest. This OUT at the Movies screening marks the last before its International LGBT Film Fest, which is scheduled for October 4-7 in Winston-Salem. The opening-night film is You Should Meet My Son 2, and director Keith Hartman and actors Emory Duncan and Tyler Richmeier will be on hand for the screening and sponsor/filmmaker party. Other highlights include the documentary To a More Perfect Union: U.S. vs. Windsor, with special guest Judith Kasen-Windsor, the widow of Edith Windsor; a 15th-anniversary screening of Latter Days, which was the very first film screened at the very first festival in 2003; acclaimed filmmaker/playwright Del Shores will perform his show Six Characters in Search of Play at Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance; and much more. The climactic awards party will be held Oct. 7 at Canteen Market & Bistro. !
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of the string, a player can go up a fifth, for instance. Roy-Chowdhury said that even though he’ll be performing instrumental pieces, the aesthetic of the playing and even the design of the instrument go back to vocal music. “That’s the way they’ve been constructed, to emulate vocal ornamentation, to allow for the bends from one note to another, without breaking the note,” he said. In the same way that many jazz horn players prize the expressive quality of vocalists and seek to recreate some of the phrasing and textures of singers, in Indian music, the voice is often thought of as the ideal model for instrumental soloists. If part of the tradition is devoted to copying
vocalists, another strand of sitar music showcases technical virtuosity on its own. Roy-Chowdhury, 39, has been playing sitar since he was 13 years old. He played a little guitar and piano before gravitating to the sitar. He’s had time to cultivate the required virtuosity. Indian music doesn’t have the harmonies and chord progressions that captivate many listeners of Western music, but the complexity of melodic variation, the articulation elaboration of the raga, with sophisticated microtonal ornaments, all of that adds to the music’s profundity. But beyond that, the rhythmic structures of Indian music can present seemingly endless vistas of shifting accents, confounding offbeat phrases, and truncated
patterns that expand and shrink until all points converge in astonishing alignments. “It can definitely get to a point of mathematical precision,” said Roy-Chowdhury when I asked about the degree to which advanced mental cogitation is required to execute some of the flourishes. Most fans of funk and jazz and other intricately syncopated music are familiar with an aesthetic that sets up rhythmic patterns, establishing certain sets of expectations, letting the listener get a feeling of being inside the music and clued into its structures, only to have them altered, subtly undermined or cleverly varied. Indian music takes this complexity to advanced-calculus levels. Phrases can sometimes seem to be staggered incrementally, shifting a 16th note at a time off the expected starting or stopping place, or the pulsation itself can toggle in and out of a triplet feel. There’s a gamesmanship to Indian rhythm, with percussionists playfully complicating the placement of expected accents. RoyChowdhury describes these as rhythmic “interventions.” Sometimes it can seem as if the percussionists relish the chance to confound the featured soloist’s ability to keep up with the cascading pulsations. But fans appreciate the playful backand-forth as an expression of the music’s richness. The ability to momentarily withhold or offset the delivery of an anticipated event within the music only enhances the pleasure for many listeners. It’s not complexity for complexity’s sake. “Anything that impedes the musicality is more a distraction than something that adds to the performance,” Roy-Chowdhury said. “Playing with the expectation and the variation that bring surprise, that’s more important than the mathematics. Toying with the expectation of where people expect something to happen, that’s a really special part of Indian music.” ! 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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Summer movie wrap: The highs and lows of sunny cinema season
BY MATT BRUNSON
W
ith summertime tragically on its way out, it’s time for the annual glance at the movies audiences and critics checked out over the past four months. Here, then, are some of the seasonal highlights and low points. Biggest Disappointment: Solo: A Star Wars Story. For the vast majority of my life, Han Solo has been — along with Atticus Finch, Indiana Jones, James Bond, and a few others — one of my defining cinematic heroes, which is why it pained me to see the character’s iconic dimensions reduced so drastically and dramatically in this ultimately unnecessary addition to the Star Wars saga. Those of us who grew up with the franchise since a young age and find it still rooted in our DNA deserved something better than a cash-grab that’s only moderately entertaining and not especially memorable. Clearly, this feeling was shared by many, as this has emerged as the first Star Wars film to lose money for its studio — consequently, plans for further spin-off films (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Boba Fett) have been delayed if not altogether crushed. Added insult: L3-37, the most ill-conceived, most insulting, and all-around worst character to be found in any film this summer. Biggest Stateside Bomb: Skyscraper. Were it not for the Christmas smash Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, there might be more question marks circling the continued viability of Dwayne Johnson as a box office draw. After all, last summer found him headlining Baywatch, which ended up losing $11 million stateside, while this past spring saw his Rampage coming up $21 million short in U.S. profits. Neither, though, flopped as bad as Skyscraper, a generic action yarn that cost $125 million yet only grossed $67 million — a $58 million tumble. As with Rampage, it took the international audience to save the picture from total disaster, with foreign earnings up to $225 million. Biggest Surprise: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Considering I wasn’t a fan of the 2008 hit Mamma Mia!, I wasn’t expecting much from this belated sequel. So imagine my delight to discover that this outshines the original in virtually every department, with better singing, better dancing, and better humor. Bonus props to Lily James (Cinderella, YES! WEEKLY
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Baby Driver), who is excellent “playing” Meryl Streep (i.e. the young Donna in flashback scenes). Sexiest Stud: Andy Garcia. Forget about Tom Cruise, Chris Pratt, and the other boys of summer. Only Andy Garcia had the distinction of wooing the ladies in two films this summer. Book Club found him sweetly seducing Diane Keaton, while Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again saw him lavishing his attention on Cher. In real life, Garcia is 62 years old — I guess people in that age group aren’t called sexagenarians for nothing. Best Scene-Stealer: Awkwafina, in both Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8. Runner-up: Eeyore in Christopher Robin. Most Unexpected Reference To A Werner Herzog Documentary: Book Club. The character played by Candice Bergen hasn’t had sex in 18 years, leading one of the other ladies to quip that her vagina is a “cave of forgotten dreams.” Most Expected Reference To A Sharon Stone Blockbuster: The Happytime Murders. Given the film’s focus on puppet pudenda, it’s scarcely surprising when a femme fatale flashes her forbidden felt a la Stone in Basic Instinct. Best Tagline: “Opening Wide” — The Meg. A declaration that accompanies, well, pretty much every movie takes on additional meaning when it comes to this shark flick. The Warner public relations department knew it, too, since the words on the poster were positioned directly inside the title creature’s gaping maw.
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Most Dependable Movie Stars: Superheroes. Given the state of modern cinema, this isn’t exactly a surprise. Yet once again, summer was overpowered by colorfully garbed beings. Four of the five top-grossing movies of the season thus far are superhero flicks (the one exception: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), with a combined stateside gross of over $1.8 billion dollars. Naturally, the all-star extravaganza Avengers: Infinity War led the pack, with Incredibles 2, Deadpool 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp also earning significant bank. As for the top-grossing film of the entire year, it’s also a supersaga: February’s Black Panther, which finally passed the $700 million mark in early August. Least Dependable Movie Stars: Dogs. Say it ain’t so! Alas, man’s (and woman’s) best friend wasn’t able to sniff out much success with critics and/ or audience members — a far cry from those long-ago years when Rin Tin Tin was the nation’s No. 1 box office draw. May’s Show Dogs earned rancid reviews while the August releases Dog Days and A.X.L. (the latter about a robotic canine) both bombed with viewers. As for the dog’s cousin, the majestic wolf, one starred in the August release Alpha — yet while that picture was greeted with strong reviews, it likewise failed to find an audience. Movie I’m Most Sorry to Have Missed in Theaters: (tie) RBG and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? These two nonfiction features proved to be the sleeper hits of the summer, earning
rapturous reviews and grossing enough to land them both on the list of the all-time Top 25 moneymaking documentaries. I hated missing them in theaters; luckily, both are now just hitting Blu-ray, meaning my wait is almost over. Runnerup: Leave No Trace, which has a perfect 100 percent rating (from a whopping 182 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie I’m Least Sorry To Have Missed In Theaters: Death of a Nation. Trump recently pardoned Dinesh D’Souza of criminal charges, so this bogus documentary is the corrupt rightwing tool returning the ass-kissing favor. Even the base knew well enough to stay away, resulting in one of the summer’s puniest releases (among movies playing on over 1,000 screens, only Action Point and Bad Samaritan grossed less). Best Performances: (Alphabetical) Toni Collette — Hereditary; Elsie Fisher — Eighth Grade; Ethan Hawke — First Reformed; Charlize Theron — Tully; John David Washington — BlacKkKlansman. Best Film: Eighth Grade. Television and YouTube star Bo Burnham makes an impressive feature-film debut as the writer and director of this raw and realistic movie about an introverted student struggling to survive her last week of eighth grade before preparing for high school. Yet the real story here is the knockout central performance by 15-year-old Elsie Fisher — her work as Kayla Day will break your heart. Runners-up: First Reformed; BlacKkKlansman. !
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riad Stage is opening its season by bringing to stage the alltime best-selling mystery. Ten strangers trapped on a dangerous island each have a secret. One by one, they begin to die. Match wits against the master of suspense to catch the killer before there are none. And Then There Were None runs Sept. 9 – Oct. 7. Opening night is Sept. 14 at The Pyrle Theater, located at 232 S. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro. “I love a mystery,” said founding artistic director Preston Lane, the director of And Then There Were None. “The thrill of the unknown puts an audience on the edge of their seats. The real world slips away as the puzzle takes over and soon we’ve even forgotten we’re in a theater. The terrifying chills of a great whodunit send shivers up our spine and makes us wonder who’s sitting beside us.” Show times for And Then There Were None are 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and select Sunday evenings and 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. Select Saturday and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. There are no matinee performances during previews. Opening Night is Friday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can performances are Tuesday, Sept. 18, and Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. Wine Tasting Friday is Friday, Sept. 21, prior to the evening’s 8 p.m. performance. Technically Talking, a behind-thescenes discussion with members of the design team is Tuesday, Sept. 11, immediately following the 7:30 p.m. preview performance. The InSight Series with a noted expert who will be discussing the world of the play will be held on Sunday, Sept. 16, immediately following the 2 p.m. matinee performance. The InSight speaker is UNCG
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professor Cindy Damm McPeters, who will speak about feminism in Agatha Christie’s work. PostScript, a lively, open discussion with the cast, will be held on Thursday, Sept. 20, immediately following the 7:30 p.m. performance.
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SUPPORT THE GIRLS (R) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 9:20, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 9:20 ELIZABETH HARVEST (NR) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 ALPHA (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 5:00, 7:25 CRAZY RICH ASIANS (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:45, 3:30, 7:25, 10:05 THE MEG (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00
THE PRESENT (NR) Fri - Thu: 7:30
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:35, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20
PEPPERMINT (R) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35
PUZZLE (R) Fri - Thu: 2:35, 7:40
JULIET, NAKED (R) Fri & Sat: 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 2:30, 10:00
THE LITTLE STRANGER (R) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 5:05, 10:10
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 2:45, 7:40, 10:20
SEARCHING (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:15, 5:20
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JULIET, NAKED (R) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 Mon: 5:30, 8:00, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed: 6:30, 9:00, Thu: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 THE BOOKSHOP (PG) Fri: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sat & Sun: 10:30 AM, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Mon: 6:00, 9:00, Tue: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Wed & Thu: 6:00, 8:30 SUPPORT THE GIRLS (R) Fri: 4:15, 9:15, Sat: 1:45, 4:15, 9:15 Sun: 1:45, 4:15, Mon: 6:45 PM Tue: 4:15, 6:45 Wed: 6:45 PM Thu: 4:15, 6:45 BLACKKKLANSMAN (R) Fri: 3:00, 5:45, 8:45 Sat & Sun: 12:00, 3:00, 5:45, 8:45 Mon: 8:45 PM Tue: 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 Wed: 5:30, 8:15 Thu: 3:15, 8:45 EIGHTH GRADE (R) Fri: 6:45 PM Sat & Sun: 11:15 AM, 6:45 Mon - Thu: 9:15 PM
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About the production The creative team includes: director Preston Lane, scenic designer Robin Vest, costume designer Bill Brewer, lighting designer Oliver Wason, and sound designer G. Clausen. The dramaturg is Sarah Hankins, Denise Gabriel is the movement coach, Christine Morris is the vocal coach, Dale Girard is the fight choreographer, Cindi Rush is the casting director, and the stage manager is Tara Kelly. To purchase tickets or for performance information on And Then There Were None, call the Triad Stage Box Office at (336) 272.0160 or visit www.triadstage. org. !
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Social media have given us the dubious opportunity to document all manner of celebratory, mournful, hilarious and contemplative events. And so they have opened the door to Chuck Shepherd fame for “Paul Flart” (real name: Doug), a 31-year-old hospital security guard who took to Instagram in March to share with the world his “sphincter sirens.” Flart spent a lot of time sitting around at the front desk with nothing to do, but, he noticed, “The lobby has really great acoustics, and naturally, we all fart. One day I ripped a rather nice one and got really good sound from it, so the next time it happened I recorded it and sent it to my group chat.” Those lucky friends encouraged him to go viral and helped him choose his Insta handle, Paul Flart. Today, he’s racked up more than 20,000 followers, according to Vice. Unfortunately, hospital management isn’t among them, and on Aug. 23, Flart was fired from his job. But he’s not deflated; he
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Mohamad Zayid Abdihdy, 24, declared that he’s “going back to hookah” after a fiery incident on Aug. 25 involving his e-cigarette. The cellphone store worker was in an HDTV Outlet store in Anaheim, California, buying a new television when the smoking device exploded in his pants pocket. “The gentleman, he is running ... and he is screaming and yelling,” store manager Antelmolare Guzman told NBC4. “Apparently, all of his right leg was completely burnt all the way down. Part of his private parts were also kind of affected.” While Abdihdy ran to the restroom to see to his burns, Guzman put out the stillflaming e-cig on the store’s floor. Abdihdy, who did not go to the hospital, said he still can’t walk on his leg.
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Mason Tackett of Floyd County, Kentucky, told WYMT that neighbors called him on Aug. 26 to say his cousin,
Phillip Hagans, was carrying items out of Tackett’s house. When Tackett returned home, he said, “It looked like he was packing up for a yard sale when he come out.” Hagans was “lying, throwing his hands, saying stuff like, ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it.’ ... He did pull a gun on me,” Tackett said. But what he really couldn’t understand was Hagans’ choice of items to steal: a cheese grater, an empty Lysol bottle and soap. “Who steals a cheese grater?” Tackett asked. “He stole my soap. Who steals soap? ... Must have been a bad batch (of methamphetamine) around here ‘cause Floyd County has gone crazy in the last four days.” Hagans was charged with receiving stolen property and being a convicted felon with a firearm.
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At least one competitor dressed up as Donald Trump at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships in Lancashire, England, on Aug. 27. As grapplers slipped and slid in the slimy mess, even the referee got toppled a few times. United Press International reported that both men and women participated to support the East Lancashire Hospice.
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A man named Tang from Sichuan Province, China, promised his girlfriend, Yang, that he would buy an expensive luxury car for her. The only problem was that he didn’t have the money. So he cooked up a scheme, inviting Yang and her brothers to the Chengdu car dealership on Aug. 16, where he had allegedly put down a 10,000 yuan payment. Tang asked the group to wait there while he went to get the cash, but instead, according to Shanghaiist, he went to a supermarket and bought a fruit knife. Outside, he found a secluded spot and cut up his own arms, then called Yang and said he had been robbed at knifepoint of the 750,000 yuan he had supposedly withdrawn for the car. While her brothers took Tang to the hospital, Yang waited for police, who eventually excised the story from Tang. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a 500 yuan fine. !
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I can’t photograph you when you hug me,” said Ciara Kelley to a little rascal demanding affection at Greensboro’s Crooked Tail Cat Café, located at 604 S. Elm Ian McDowell St., last Thursday. Ciara rarely tolerates those who igContributor nore boundaries but made an exception for Ricky. He was the most rambunctious of the “mewligans” (a word I coined for my cats Murder and Mayhem), who so adorably mobbed her that Crooked Tail owner Karen Stratman had to distract them with treats before Ciara could get a good shot. “I wish I could take them all home,” Ciara said afterward. If I wasn’t a cat-owner who wished to avoid a Disturbance in the Furce, I’d have been tempted by a calm, gorgeous female house-panther named Angel. And by Ricky, who went to his new home days after the photoshoot. There’s a high turnover among the furry four-legged members of the Crooked Tail staff. Unlike rapid human turnover, that’s a good sign. Along with the local rescue organization that provides the cats and processes their adoptions, Stratman and her employees are committed to introducing people to their future feline overlords. Besides beginning with the same consonant, cats and coffee both help people wake up in the morning, but that’s not why Stratman started a business combining them. All the felines except Stratman’s “catdaughter” Joey, whom she fell in love with while fostering, are available for qualified adoption. Meeting them is a different experience from visiting a traditional shelter or pet store rescue cage. Like Ciara, you may want to take them home, assuming you love the adorable little murder machines and weren’t dragged in by someone who does. Clearly happy in their spacious domain, YES! WEEKLY
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the cats enjoy scratches, toys and places to climb or hide, and don’t sulk, cower or complain. Stratman and her staff say bittersweet goodbyes when visitors love their charges enough to adopt one. The cats aren’t just kept on premises to attract customers to the coffee shop. “We’ve partnered with a local organization called Red Dog Farm,” Stratman told me. She explained that Red Dog not only supplies the cats but handles the interviews, assessments and paperwork. “We don’t get involved with that. They’re the experts in approving people and determining who is capable of adopting and caring for the cats.” Stratman and her manager Sarah Starnes (who told me she asked for her job title to be spelled “manapurr” in her contract) may jokingly call themselves “crazy cat women,” but they have nothing but praise for the canine-named organization they’re partnered with. “Red Dog Farm makes sure all our cats are happy and healthy,” Stratman said. “They all come spayed or neutered and are microchipped and fully up to date on all age-appropriate veterinary care,” and are combo-tested for feline AIDS, feline leukemia and other diseases. “They do a great job of sending us awesome cats and keeping us stocked up.” As the name indicates, Red Dog also
finds homes for humankind’s oldest friend (regardless of which is “best,” Felis catus seems to have adopted humans millennia after the first Canus became domesticus). Starnes told me the organization, which she also volunteers for, doesn’t limit itself to cats or canines. “They rescue a wide range of animals,” she said, explaining that Red Dog operates through a foster network. “If you’re able to provide appropriate housing and care, they’ll match you up with just about anything needing rescue, from goats, pigs, donkeys or even emus, to rodents and reptiles.” Starnes told me that, not only does she volunteer with Red Dog, but she’s signed on to foster. “Karen also fosters, as does another employee,” Starnes said. “McLellan, my coworker back there preparing coffee, actually adopted a cat from us.” By “back there,” she meant the Alley Cat Coffee Bar, where beverages are prepared, something the Health Department doesn’t allow in the same room as the cats. Customers who wish to purchase coffee, tea, wine, beer, soft drinks or a ‘meowmosa’ (champagne with orange juice or raspberry syrup) must do so there. The cats aren’t allowed past its glass door (through which they sometimes stare curiously, imploringly or accusingly), but after
the drink undergoes a “transfer of possession” from seller to customer, the latter may bring it out to the Kitty Lounge and sip it with some feline company. Those who don’t want to pay for that privilege are free to remain in the back room, which has tables, comfortable chairs, a couch, and cat pictures, constituting a cozy felinefree but still themed café of its own. If someone wants feline companionship, but only has the budget for beverages, every 10 drinks earn 30 free minutes in the Kitty Lounge. After McLellan Corum finished her backroom barista duties, she came out and told me about the cat she adopted, whom she calls “my one-eared one-eye,” but whose name is Lilly. “She’s been a great addition to my family,” Corum said. “I got to meet her while I was volunteering here before I got hired, so I got to see her every day and bond with her, and by the time I got approved, we were already perfectly matched.” Another adoption occurred while I was there. “If she works out, can we come back and get one of the little ones for me?” said Sherrie Johnson’s granddaughter as the woman and child watched Starnes gently lower a white cat into a carrier. Johnson and her granddaughter were taking home Snowball, the beautiful six-year-old female who’d given me a gentle “hands off!” swat on my previous visit, but had posed regally for (and accepted scratches from) Ciara. Johnson told me that Snowball was a replacement for a cat who’d originally belonged to, but sadly outlived, her daughter. “When we lost her cat Mia two weeks ago, it was like going through that again.” Johnson said that she and her husband, who are raising their daughter’s children, still own two elderly male cats, but that she’d been wanting another female “who would be my cat.” She said first came to Crooked Tail out of curiosity, with no expectations of finding a replacement for Mia, but “Snowball was just perfect because her first owner was an elderly lady who had to go to assisted living, so she’s
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used to having someone older around her.” Johnson said Snowball had at first been standoffish, “but then she started snuggling to me, and I knew this cat had to be with us.” Starnes agreed it was a perfect match, but teared up anyway. “She was supposed to scare everyone wanting to adopt her away, so she could stay here with me,” she joked as she dabbed her eyes. “If it wasn’t for my giant dog who doesn’t understand why kitties don’t want to play with him, I’d have adopted her months ago.” Starnes admitted that getting attached to the cats is a hazard of the business. “The first couple I got close to, I cried, not like this, but big-time sobbing,” Starnes said. However, she said it got better. “People started sending in pictures of the cats after the settled into their new homes. Seeing how happy they were made it stop hurting.” On my earlier visit, Stratman told me that she opened Crooked Tail last November, but the idea had been curled up and purring in her head for several years. “I saw the concept back in 2011 and visited a couple of cat cafés that opened here in the U.S,” she said. The Ohio-born entrepreneur went to school in South Carolina and graduate school in Florida before moving to Greensboro in 2012.
Before opening Crooked Tail, Stratman managed a start-up company in the waste energy field. “Greed got in the way of success, and it did not take off, but lessons learned, and it led my life to opening this, so it all worked out.” Crooked Tail was the first cat café to open in North Carolina, and according to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture’s database, is the only licensed one in the Triad and one of only four in North Carolina (there are two in Charlotte, and one just opened in Chapel Hill). Stratman said that “as the first person to open a cat café in North Carolina,” she worked with the Veterinary Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture “about what I could and could not have in my lounge.” No exposed wood surfaces were allowed, although she was able to get approval for her space’s hardwood floors after having them protectively (and expensively) coated. Everything had to be “either wipeable or disposable.” She’s not allowed to have more than 12 cats that are never confined, except when being temporarily quarantined in the cage the health department requires for those recovering from an illness. “Among the first calls I made were to regulatory bodies here in Guilford County,” Stratman said. “They said just make sure I had two separate spaces, which I already
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had. And I had to have everything disposable. No for-here cups, all my food items have to be pre-packaged. I don’t make anything here, or mix ingredients.” The rules can seem arcane and even arbitrary. If Crooked Tail serves cereal, customers have to be given a container of milk and pour it over the bowl themselves. As long as it’s not poured or handed to customers in a room the cats can enter, baristas may brew coffee and tea, add flavors, cream and sweetener, or mix champagne and juice. But lemons have to be brought in pre-sliced. Crooked Tail’s Alley Cat Coffee Bar sells not only the aforementioned beverages (on Sunday, my “meowmosa” was $3), but sodas, bottled water, seasonal hot chocolate and cider, and cookies. There’s no charge for entering or hanging out in that cat-free inner sanctum, but time spent in (as opposed to just passing through) the outer Kitty Lounge costs $5 for 30 minutes when space is available for walk-ins (reservations are booked at $10/hour). On Tuesdays, children 12 and under get in for half-price. No more than 12 humans are permitted in the Kitty Lounge at a time, children under 14 must be accompanied by adults (one for every two children), and children under 5 are not allowed. On Sunday, I witnessed Starnes skillfully turn a potential walk-out into a sale, calming
a father who insisted his youngest was “about 5,” by pointing out that he and the child could wait in the coffee bar while his wife and two older children interacted with the cats. He later left with a grin and many thanks. Seeing this human interaction, in which a frown became a smile, reminded me that I’d asked Stratman about squabbles between the cats. “We hardly ever have personality issues,” she said in a tone both proud and thankful. “They’ll get into their little arguments, but they have so much space, they just hiss at each other and walk away and it’s fine. They have vertical space, hiding spaces, multiple food bowls and water stations, and they’re all spayed and neutered, so they’re not fighting over territory.” For info on hours, adoption fees (which go to Red Dog Farm), reservations, “mempurrships” and special events like Kitty Yoga and “Mewvie Nights” (I told Stratman she should someday show Disney’s great 1963 live-action film The Three Lives of Thomasina, where kid-me first learned of the goddess Bast), go to www.crookedtailcafe.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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The Hopscotch Music Festival will again descend over downtown Raleigh from Sept. 6-9. Now in its ninth year, Hopscotch highlights the magic of community and collaboration between venues, restaurants, and random spaces coming together to make a playground for music-lovers with
wallets of all sizes. The series of free “Day Party” shows sprinkled during daylight hours extend festivities to everyone. It’s all part of why outlets such as Spin regard Hopscotch as, ”one of the best and most eclectic music festivals in America.” Keeping that magic of community in mind, below are the Triad home-team heroes you can see, amongst the major stars and sick up-and-comers, at this year’s fest.
1970s Film Stock — Saturday, 9 p.m., Fletcher Opera Theater 1970s Film Stock is Eddie Garcia’s oneman pedalgasm. A longtime force around Winston-Salem, Garcia is excited to take his symphonic spectrum of sonic atmosphere and instrumentals to the forefront of an operatic-stage. Basement Life — Saturday, 3 p.m., Schoolkids Records The Greensboro post-punks in Basement Life are pumping their new album, Devour, and riding-out their influences of the late-1990s vibes with an emotivefling. Blueberry — Friday, 10:30 p.m., The Wicked Witch The airy Greensboro pop group takes a minimalist approach to new wave stylings. At its core, Blueberry is anchored by Kate Burleson’s synthesizer and soft voice swirling Nate Goldsmith’s wading guitar, crafting a tone as sweet as the fruit-bearing their name. Breathers — Friday, 4:30 p.m., Neptune’s. Saturday, 10:30 p.m., The Basement (Exhibit Hall A of the Raleigh Convention Center) Before he headed Atlanta’s Breathers, “synthpop oddball” T. Lee Gunselman, was the driving force behind the WUAG YES! WEEKLY
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Basement Life in 2018
Breathers in 2016
Essex Muro in 2017
Blueberry at 2018 GSOFest
Drag Sounds in 2016
Paint Fumes in 2016
Presents kings in Casual Curious. Quirky, artsy, and fun at a party, there’s more rhetorical substance behind Breathers’ robotic clicks and whistles than first meets the ear.
Harrison Ford Mustang — Friday, 1 p.m., Slim’s Cheeky punkers, Greensboro’s Harrison Ford Mustang, push catchy songs about slasher flicks and general slacker themes. The recent addition of second-guitarist Michael Joncas (from the Kneads,) added a remarkably Replacements vibe to the now-quartet.
Stevie — Friday, 12:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Slim’s. Friday, 4 p.m, Cirque De Vol A newer outfit featuring former Greensboro garage doo-woppers Lindsey Sprague and Amethyst White (from Trashettes and Daddy Issues) who’ve teamed-up with Chesley Kalnen (from Case Sensitive) to cut floral lo-fi femme melodies, ripe for dancing.
Drag Sounds — Thursday, 4:40 p.m., Boxcar. Friday, 3:15 p.m., Slim’s and 10 p.m., Deep South A handful of years ago, Mike Wallace and Trevor Reece were building their shagged-out rock’n’roll repertoire in the Greensboro house-show circuit before moves to Baltimore and the Triangle helped them harken the late-1970s sound they spread today. Echo Courts — Friday, 4:30 p.m., Night Rider. Saturday, 4 p.m., Slim’s Echo Courts, (once from Greensboro) ride the softer-side of psych. Cresting the wave of their latest release, Room With a View, these dudes spin a soundtrack to accompany the swan song of summer. Essex Muro — Saturday, 1:40 p.m., The Wicked Witch Featuring former members of Jenny Besetzt, Jeff Bechtel and Brad Morton, who ditched the Greensboro dream pop ship and jumped aboard the punchy, Raleigh-based, punk-rock bandwagon. Churning-out “confusion-is-sexy” 1980sstyle hardcore, Essex Muro whips crowds into frenzies that rip.
Old Heavy Hands — Saturday, 1:20 p.m., Boxcar The Greensboro southern rockers in Old Heavy Hands lay it on thick. Running hard, like a pack of tattooed troubadours, they walk the line between tradition and reinvention to invoke classical styles of craftsmanship in songwriting (with a wild streak or two). Paint Fumes — Friday, 11 p.m., Deep South “If it ain’t Paint Fumes, it ain’t worth a huff.” That’s the name of their 2016 album and fairly solid tongue-in-cheek advice. Their Greensboro-connection runs deep through drummer, and GSO-native, Joshua Johnson (one-half of the far-out duo Wahya’s, and sole-practitioner behind the “one-man-band garage blues stomp” of Pinche Gringo.) Paint Fumes is garage rock with snot, pumping tunes that go along with bad rituals and good times.
Toothsome — Friday, 1 p.m., Cirque De Vol. Saturday, 2 p.m., Schoolkids Records What began as a Cure cover-set has grown into a brand new dark-pop cartel featuring members of Greensboro’s Basement Life, Kudzu Wish, and Alli with an I. With more than 120 bands in the mix, samplings of local flavor are merely one facet of the many tasty experiences to be had over Hopscotch weekend. So, be sure to say “hey” to your homies and enjoy the surprises. It’s gonna be one helluva time. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who’s had a blast at every Hopscotch so far. She hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week. You can catch her on WUAG 103.1FM every Tuesday from 5-7pm or via live stream at www.wuag.net.
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The Silent Sam saga Once upon a time, a group of women who had lost their fathers and husbands to war, raised enough money to erect a statue in honor of their fallen loved ones. That group was the Daughters of the Confederacy, Jim Longworth and, over time, their statue of a rifle-bearLongworth ing soldier affectionately became known at Large as “Silent Sam.” Sam was a different kind of Confederate memorial. His sole purpose was to honor members of the University of North Carolina family who had been killed in a not-so-Civil War. Sam was not a lionized general or a cruel slave master. He was a benign figure who even became part of a humorous legend around the Chapel Hill campus. As the joke went, if a virgin ever walked past Sam, he would fire his rifle (he never had to). Humor aside, though, the statue was to have been a quiet reminder of lives cut short. However, Sam’s 1913 dedication was marred by the vile remarks of Julian Carr, a Confederate veteran who, in his speech, bragged about flogging a female slave. The text of Carr’s shameful remarks was re-discovered in 2009, and, ever since then, Silent Sam went from being a well-intentioned memorial to a hated symbol of white supremacy. And so, as an increasing number of Confederate statues have been defaced or removed this year, it was just a matter of time before Silent Sam would be targeted by protestors. That time arrived on Aug. 25, when a gang of UNC students toppled Sam from his perch. YouTube videos of
the angry mob put me in mind of Iraqi citizens who toppled a statue of Sadaam Hussein in 2003, or Parisians who took to the streets and defaced portraits of Hitler after WWII. One can argue that the 5 percent of American Southerners who owned slaves were as bad as Hitler and Saddam and that beatings and lynchings were no less shameful than firing squads and gas chambers. However, the privileged young people who toppled Silent Sam last month were not celebrating the death of a recently deposed tyrant. There was no sense of immediacy to their actions, nor would their destructive behavior end racism. If anything, their violent act only gave rise to violent reactions. Last week, the UNC Board gave Carolina’s Chancellor until November to come up with a resolution regarding the disposition of Silent Sam, and I hope that resolution will include putting Sam back where he was, and erecting an additional statue nearby that honors the struggles and achievements of African Americans. Of course, regardless of what UNC decides, we should all recognize that statues are only symbols, and every moment we spend arguing about them is time we could be spending on the fight to repeal racist policies designed to disenfranchise minorities. In other words, getting rid of Silent Sam won’t help us get rid of gerrymandering. Last month’s UNC mob broke the law. Even worse, they failed to understand that removing history doesn’t change history. Instead, it just delays the lessons we must learn, and the challenges we must face to affect real change. The fact is that Silent Sam has a lot to tell us if we just listen. ! 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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CROSSROADS @ SECCA #021
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Orquesta Akokán, an amazing Cuban orchestra straight from Havana, will headline Crossroads @ SECCA #021. This remarkable ensemble plays deeply soulful mambo reminiscent of Benny Moré, Pérez Prado, and banda gigante of the 1940’s and 50’s and is sure to have you dancing in your seats.
Advance tickets: $25 / $35 VIP Day of: $30 / $40 VIP Children under five are free. Tickets: Visit secca.org or call 336-725-1904.
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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions
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Amy Alkon
Advice Goddess Hating Waiting
My friend was dying to tell her new boyfriend she loves him but waited till he said it first. She, in fact, makes that a rule. Now I have a new boyfriend. Should I just shamelessly own my feelings — that is, tell him I love him? Or should I follow my friend’s lead? —
We have this notion that it’s really romantic for a couple to say “I love you” pronto: “The moment he/she sat down at the bus stop next to me, I just knew!” In reality, “love at first sight” tends to come with some issues, such as the failure to weed out any insta-beloveds who kiss like big-lipped fish. Your desire to go all blurtypants on the guy likewise seems romantic — until you consider the psychological mechanics behind it. Chances are, you’re in a state of psychological tension — all fired up with suspense at how the guy will respond — and only by telling him will you finally get relief. (It’s basically the emotional version
of really, really needing to pee.) Research on sex differences in “parental investment” by evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers suggests that it’s probably a bad idea for you, as a woman, to go first with the ILY. Trivers explains that in species like ours, in which females get stuck with the burden of parental care (should sex lead to the creation of toddlers), they evolved to vet males for ability and willingness to invest — more than that initial teaspoonful of sperm, that is. Men coevolved to expect this — to expect to have to prove themselves to women to get sex. In short, men chase; women choose. Sure, there are couples out there in which the woman chased and things ended up just fine. But those evolved differences in male and female psychology are still driving us — even now, in our world of smartphones, facial recognition software, and, before long, family vacations in flying minivans. In other words, you’re taking a risk by tossing out the ILY first — possibly causing the guy to want you less than if you let him take the lead in ILY blurtations. And hi, feminists! I can hear the flicking of your lighters as you ready your pitchforks and hay. But the way I see it, what should be feminist is acknowledging what seems to be the optimal approach for women per research on human psychology. Despite the risks, you may decide to be
that rebel gazelle that chases the lion. If so, why not go all the way? Pull out your man’s chair for him in restaurants. Put your jacket over his shoulders on a cold night. And be the one who goes downstairs with the baseball bat when there’s a weird noise at 3 a.m. As he cowers in bed, reassure him: “Baby, you just stay there in your nightie...I got this.”
THE BENEFITS OF EXORCISE
My fiancee dumped me three months ago. I was devastated, but I’ve come to realize that we shouldn’t be together. Now she keeps pressing for us to meet, saying there’s stuff she needs to “process.” I was finally starting to get over her, but should I just go? — Torn Getting together with your ex-fiancee after you’ve finally started to move on is like being just out of rehab and reconnecting with a friend: “What could be the harm? A nice pastrami on rye with my old heroin dealer!” Your brain, like an air-conditioned Miami mansion, is “expensive” to run, so it tries to go on autopilot (basically nonthink mode) whenever possible. When you repeatedly take a certain action — like turning to a certain person for love, attention, and comforting — that action becomes more and more automatic. On a neural level, this plays out with a bunch of
individual brain cells (neurons) that “wire together,” as neuroscientist Carla Shatz puts it. This happens after individual neurons each fire off a chemical messenger — a neurotransmitter — that another neuron catches and absorbs. The more a person repeats the same action — and the more a group of neurons does the same fire-off-and-catch sequence — the faster they get at it. Eventually, these neurons become what I like to describe as a “thinkpack” — conserving mental energy through bypassing the conscious thought department and robotically defaulting to whatever action worked for the person in the past. Right now, the last thing you need is to stall your recovery process — the weakening over time of those entrenched neural pathways — by getting the band (Ramon and The Neurons) back together. If you feel bad about saying no to seeing her, consider how she’s prioritizing her need to “process” over your continued recovery. Aww...how loving! (“It’s not you; it’s me — and how my crappy new insurance no longer covers therapy.”) ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) It’s OK to focus on the demands of your career. But try to avoid misunderstandings by also reaching out to family and friends. Your sharp intuitive sense kicks in by midweek. [VIRGO (August 23 to September 22)
Keep a rein on that green-eyed monster. Jealousy is counterproductive. Instead of resenting a colleague’s good points, concentrate on developing your own abilities.
[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22)
Spending time on a creative project during this high-energy week can pay off both in emotional satisfaction and in impressing someone who is glad to see this side of you.
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21) Now is a good time to start planning that trip you’ve put off because of the demands on your time. Be sure to choose a destination that is new and exciting.
[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) That upbeat mood in the
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first part of the week makes you eager to take on new ventures. A more serious note sets in later to help you assess an upcoming decision.
and Rams. Already-paired Arian twosomes experience renewed harmony in their relationships. Money matters also take a bright turn.
[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A high energy level gives the Goat the get-up-and-go to finish outstanding tasks before deadline, leaving time for well-earned fun and games with friends and family.
[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Use that strong Bovine determination to help you keep the faith with your convictions while you move through a period of uncertainty. Things begin to ease by the week’s end.
[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Dealing with disappointment is never easy. But the wise Aquarian will use it as a vital lesson and be the better for it. A close friend has something important to say.
[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Pay attention to your intuition. It could be alerting you to be more careful about accepting a “statement of fact” simply on trust. Don’t be shy about asking for more proof.
[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Best bet is not to get involved in an argument between colleagues until you know more about who started it and why. And even then, appearances could be deceiving. Be alert.
[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Concern for the well-being of someone in need is admirable. But don’t forget to take care of yourself as well. Ask a family member, close friend or colleague to help you.
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