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SPRING HOUSE opened in April 2012 in the historic Bahnson House, one of Winston-Salem’s classic “millionaire’s row” residences from the 1920s. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The restaurant’s founder, Lynette Matthews-Murphy, oversaw the home’s restoration. To the extent feasible, the interior retains its classic look.

6 The 2022 RiverRun International Film Festival opens this week, and FOUR AUTHORS will be appearing in conjunction with special screenings. “RiverRun has spotlighted authors several times at both the festival and our ‘RiverRun Retro’ programs,” said Rob Davis, executive director of the festival. “We are pleased to partner with Bookmarks for signings with these special guests.”

8 North Carolina made national headlines back in 2010 when the General Assembly passed “Susie’s Law,” so named for a puppy that was rescued from her Greensboro home after having been set on fire and abandoned by her owner. Thanks to “Susie’s Law,” anyone convicted of CRUELTY TO ANIMALS can face up to two years in jail.

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GOOD LIFE, the feature directorial debut of writer/producer Bonnie Rodini, is predictable but pleasant, an unpretentious comedy with bittersweet moments and a winsome performance by leading lady Erica Wessels.

14 4:20 became a regular afternoon time to get high, and then a calendar date, April 20, for communal celebrations of doing so.

The 3 digits spread not only to mainstream pop culture (every clock in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is set to 4:20) but politics.

15 Locals light up Incendiary Brewing Company with the OUT OF THE SHADOWS Music Showcase, on April 30, in downtown Winston-Salem. Bringing together six local bands with original tunes, “for an all-day bundle of fun and great beer,” before running into the night, with Tupelo Crush closing out the free, all-ages event.

18 Something new blooms in Sam Logan and his latest project, NIGHTBLOOMS. “The vibe is shifting,” reads the bio for Logan’s new outfit, an indie quartet resonating with a similar palette of his longtime darkened dream-pop group, Lilac Shadows — albeit a bit softer, yet more direct.

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DETAILS IN MARCUS SMITH SETTLEMENT RELEASED Recent court filings contain new details in the settlement agreement between the family of Marcus Smith, the City of Greensboro, and Guilford County.

A document titled Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims was filed on April 15 in the Middle District of North Carolina. It is signed by all parties and awaits a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Loretta C. Briggs.

The agreement details who would pay how much of the $2.57 million settlement and how it will be divided between Smith’s parents and children. It also states that one of Smith’s children has not been located, and requests that certain documents be permanently sealed.

The state medical examiner ruled Smith’s death a homicide, due to “prone restraint” after he became unresponsive and stopped breathing after being placed in the “hog-tie” position of a RIPP Hobble device by Greensboro Police officers he approached while experiencing a mental health crisis in September 2018.

In April 2019, Smith’s mother, Mary, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, naming the City of Greensboro, the eight Greensboro Police officers, and two paramedics from Guilford County as defendants.

These defendants, along with Smith’s parents, Mary and George Smith; his adult son, Marquis Smith; his two minor children, identified only as A.D. and K.S.; and Guardian ad Litem Betty Toussaint, are listed as parties in the April 15 settlement.

The agreement states that the City of Greensboro will pay $2,220,000 of the settlement and Guilford County will pay $350,000. The payment will be made within 60 days of the settlement’s final approval.

Of that, $1.21 million will go to the parents and estate of Marcus Smith, with $1.35 million (or $450,000 each) allocated to his three children.

Greensboro’s Interactive Resource Center will receive $10,000 (as Smith was homeless at his time of death), for the installation of a plaque stating “This courtyard is named and dedicated in loving memory of Marcus Deon Smith with funds for this dedication provided as an expression of respect and reconciliation by the City of Greensboro.”

The agreement goes on to state that none of the parties have been able to locate one of Smith’s minor children, referred to as K.S., or the child’s mother.

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every six months until K.S. has been located, or until the other minor child, A.D., is of age.

“If the Guardian ad Litem identifies and locates K.S. prior to A.D.’s 18th birthday, then the balance of the Deposited Funds shall be distributed.” But if K.S. is not located by the other minor child’s 18th birthday, the amount remaining in the trust will be divided between A.D. and Marquise.

The agreement states that the plaintiffs “do hereby fully release, remise, and forever discharge the City, County, Officers, and Paramedics” from “all claims and liability related in any way to the death of Marcus Deon Smith.”

It also states: “The undersigned attorneys of record for Mary Smith will counsel her not to call for the termination of employment of the Officers, Paramedics, or any other past or current employee of the City or County. Moreover, Mary Smith and her counsel specifically acknowledge that the settlement of this litigation should not negatively impact the employment status of the Officers, Paramedics, or any other past or current employee of the City or County.”

The agreement is signed by plaintiff Mary Smith, plaintiff attorneys Graham Holt and Flint Taylor, Guardian ad Litem Betty Toussaint, and defense attorney Alan Duncan.

Another document filed on April 15 is Brief in Support of Defendants’ Joint Unopposed Motion Regarding Motions to Seal. In it, both plaintiffs and defendants agree to request that the judge permanently seal multiple documents from the case including full transcripts of all depositions; body-worn camera footage of 50 previous incidents in which individuals were hogtied by GPD; plaintiff attorneys’ written summaries of those incidents; and personnel records of defendants.

The brief argues that such documents are only public records if used in a court proceeding; however, the Smith case was settled before reading court.

Briggs is expected to certify the settlement agreement and rule on the brief before the end of April. The settlement agreement states that all parties have no objection to permanently sealing the documents named in the brief. !

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have admired the work of Chef Tim Grandinetti for a decade, but due to a simple twist of fate, this is the first time I’ve had an opportunity to write about him. He spent a dozen years with the Marriott Corporation before moving to Spring House. He grew up in Hudson, New York, where his great-grandfather operated an Italian restaurant, after arriving at Ellis Island.

Spring House opened in April 2012 in the historic Bahnson House, one of Winston-Salem’s classic “millionaire’s row” residences from the 1920s. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The restaurant’s founder, Lynette Matthews-Murphy, oversaw the home’s restoration. To the extent feasible, the interior retains its classic look.

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White linens adorn the tables. Outdoor patio seating is attractive as well.

The culinary concept combines “Southern-style deliciousness in cadence with Mother Nature” [website].

A starter of Shrimp, Corn, and Crab Fritters bursts with sweet corn flavor, followed by seafood subtleties. A swirl of red beet puree creates an abstract painting on the plate. Duck Confit and Sweet Potato Empanadas ooze rich duck flavor from tender fowl, well complimented by the potato. The crust of the empanada generates ample flavor of its own.

Roasted Oysters are this kitchen’s interpretation of a classic, covered in this case with soft pimiento cheese flecked with crisp bacon, presented over fresh spinach leaves. Fried Cauliflower Florets are crisp yet tender, the natural taste of

the vegetable well accented by a kimchi mayonnaise.

My unindicted co-conspirators and I tried two pork entrees. The Braised Pork Shank is an exemplary rendition of this perennial favorite, the meat tender enough to be pulled away from the bone with a fork, emitting deep flavor, augmented with a natural jus. I was especially enamored with the accompanying hoppin’ john, flecked with crisp pork belly bits. An off-menu special Pork Chop retained the bone, which I think adds flavor.

This came with braised red cabbage and sweet potato-chorizo hash, especially well-chosen accompaniments.

Meat Loaf certainly honors the southern concept. This kitchen’s rendition utilizes bison, a leaner meat than beef, its flavor enhanced with Romesco sauce and cherry tomato confit. Fried onion straws

complete the presentation. Steak and lamb entrees are available, of course, but I chose Short Ribs in pappardelle pasta instead, because short ribs just taste better to me. The combination of rich, tender beef was joined with green peppercorn sauce plus whipped ricotta cheese, all of which blended beautifully with the pasta.

Chicken Cutlet Shrimp is a fairly unusual combination, but it works easily. The chicken is lightly sauteed, the shrimp tender, and neither overshadows the other.

These primary ingredients are assembled over pimiento cheese grits, a winning medley, the whole further enriched with a brandy cream sauce.

Two seafoods completed out our main course choices. Salmon is enriched with lobster cream sauce, joined on the plate with Napa cabbage and bacon — a praiseworthy combination in its

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own right. Shrimp fritters add another dimension. My favorite is Sea Bass, moist and tender, supplemented with Parma ham. The ham adds a moderate degree of saltiness and extends the flavor of the fish without overpowering it. Ginger tomato fondue surrounds the presentation, adding a mild acidic touch. A classic beurre blanc sauce rounds out the flavor profile.

You won’t go wrong with any wine choice from this list or pay an unreasonable price. Servers provide well-informed suggestions and are fully capable of adding details to help with food decisions.

And they pay attention. Sequencing flows from the pace you set.

I completed these review visits with a sense of regret. I wanted to eat more from this menu, and that’s a real good sign. A tasting menu, for example, is available, but that’s not practical when you need to sample different entrees, because the whole table has to order it. A section of the menu offers large portions

of seasonal vegetables, and I look forward to them in the future. This kitchen maintains a strong relationship with local farms.

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RiverRun turns a page: Star authors to attend 2022 festival

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he 2022 RiverRun International Film Festival opens this week, and four authors will be appearing in conjunction with special screenMark Burger ings. “RiverRun has spotlighted authors several times at Contributor both the festival and our ‘RiverRun Retro’ programs,” said Rob Davis, executive director of the festival.

“We are pleased to partner with Bookmarks for signings with these special guests.”

The first, as noted in last week’s cover story, is Master of Cinema recipient Hayley Mills, whose memoir Forever Young was published last year by Grand Central Publishing. Mills will be on hand for the screening of the 1968 comedy The Trouble With Angels (8 p.m., April 28 at SECCA, 750 Marguerite Drive, WinstonSalem) followed by a book signing.

“Many of us grew up with Hayley Mills and her memoir is written in a style that makes one think you’re hearing from an old friend,” observed Davis. “It’s a fascinating insight into her family life and the engaging backstory of some of the most popular movies of their time.”

The feature documentary Leftover Feelings: A Studio B Revival, will be screened this Saturday (5 p.m. at SECCA) and Tuesday, April 26 (3 p.m. at Hanesbrand Theatre, 209 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem). The film, co-directed by

TROUBLE WITH ANGELS Ted Roach and Lagan Sebert, details the recording of an album by John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas in Nashville’s famed RCA Studio B. Author Michael Elliott, whose biography Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story was published last year by Chicago Review Press, will be on hand to autograph copies of the book. “We are pleased to welcome him along with the co-directors for the April 23 screening at SECCA,” said Davis.

When author Glenn Frankel attended a “RiverRun Retro” screening of High Noon (1952) some years back, the festival ran out of copies of his 2017 book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. This year, Frankel is back to attend the 50th-anniversary 4K restoration of the Oscar-winning 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy (7:30 p.m., Friday, April 29 at UNCSA – Main Theatre, 1533 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem), and he’ll be signing copies of Shoot-

ing “Midnight Cowboy”: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, which was published last year by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux – and this time they’ll be bringing more copies!

“Glenn is a master at writing the ‘biography’ of a film and illuminates the cultural spectrum which permeated the late 1960s and created the environment for the film to be made,” Davis said.

Finally, noted author and academic Foster Hirsch, a member of the RiverRun Advisory Board and a popular festival veteran, is back this year to host a screening of Otto Preminger’s 1953 film noir classic Angel Face (5:30 p.m., Friday, April 29 at UNCSA – Gold Theatre), produced by Howard Hughes and starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.

Hirsch’s 2007 biography Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King was reissued in paperback last year by the University Press of Kentucky. “Foster’s biography is

one of the most thoroughly researched director biographies ever published, providing great insight into a Hollywood legend,” said Davis. “(Preminger’s) best work is worth repeated viewing,” Hirsch said, “in a sense, because of the complexity of both the man and the (best) work, you aren’t finished with Otto. You keep going back, keep revisiting, and thinking. He refuses to give easy answers and he attacks complacency. I also wanted to make the case that Preminger remains underrated. He would have been appalled by the current filmmaking practice of acrobatic, nonstop camera movement, staccato editing, and a barrage of close-ups. He was one of the masters of what is now old-school, studio-era filmmaking. He was a master of mise-en-scene and an acknowledged master of widescreen composition.”

Kevin Thomas, the long-time Los Angeles Times film critic and an acknowledged Preminger aficionado, offered his thoughts: “Otto Preminger’s work holds up – absolutely,” he said. “He made some very fine films. He made a few stinkers, too!” (Thomas laughed when he recalled the critics’ screening of Preminger’s psychedelic 1968 “spoof” Skidoo: “The consensus was that Otto had completely lost his mind!”)

Nevertheless, “when you look back, the good ones far outnumber the bad.

At his best, Preminger’s work was right up there with the greats, no question,” and Thomas considers Angel Face among his best. “(It’s) increasingly riveting and terrific, in which Simmons is cast against type as a lovely, appealing young woman who is far from what she appears to be,” he said. “This splendid, unpredictable

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1953 film holds the viewer in its grip from start to finish.”

“Angel Face is a terrific, little-seen film noir classic directed by Preminger as a favor to Howard Hughes, who was engaged at the time in a contract dispute with Jean Simmons,” Hirsch revealed.

“Although Simmons did not want to make the film and was traumatized by Preminger’s tyrannical treatment, she gives what may well be her finest performance in this haunting, cold-hearted thriller.”

As Hirsch alluded, Preminger was notoriously demanding and ill-tempered, earning the nickname “Otto the Terrible,” and there is little doubt that these days such behavior would not be tolerated.

“Preminger’s cinematic legacy remains overshadowed and to some extent compromised by his reputation as a Germanic tyrant and bully, a man given to explosions and fits,” Hirsch admitted. “His legendary temper hurt his reputation during his own life and has continued to haunt him. And in the current climate, when sins of the past haunt an artist’s work and reputation, his personal shortcomings are perhaps even more of an obstacle than ever to a fair evaluation of his achievements.

“He was a complicated man, a man of great contradictions: He could rant and scream and attack and was also capable of great generosity and compassion – and great loyalty. He was a family man above all, an exemplary son, brother, uncle, husband, and father.”

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is nothing short of extraordinary. There’s tremendous insight when it comes to the films and Otto himself. I literally want to re-watch his films again after reading it.”

Including Skidoo? Thomas is noncommittal but admits: “I’m anxious to see what Foster says about it.”

In addition to Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, the University Press of Kentucky (https://www.kentuckypress. com/books-page/) has also recently released the hardcover edition of John Baxter’s Charles Boyer: The French Lover (298 pages, $34.95 retail) and the paperback editions of Paula Marantz Cohen’s Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism (216 pages, $19.95 retail), Jeffrey Spivak’s Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley (410 pages, $29.95 retail), Bernard F. Dick’s Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars (334 pages, $30 retail), Eve Golden’s John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars (378 pages, $24.95 retail), Andrew Dickos’ Street With No Name: A History of the American Film Noir (318 pages, $29.95 retail), and Andrew A. Erish’s Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio (298 pages, $27.95 retail).

Hirsch is eager to return to RiverRun, particularly after the COVID pandemic of the past two years. “It will be a pleasure to return to this festival, beautifully run and organized by Rob Davis,” he said. “It is one of the best film festivals in the country and it is an honor to participate.”

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This week, the district of Old Salem is full of celebrations that precede the founding of America.

This past Sunday, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 250th Easter Sunrise Service in Old Salem.

As America’s first sunrise service, this gathering of Moravians and people of all faiths is a cultural experience for all to enjoy at least once in their lifetime.

My childhood is full of happy memories centering around Old Salem, Winston-Salem’s very own living history site. As a child, my family would drive up from Davidson County to explore Old Salem and enjoy Mayberry’s ice cream.

In the fall of 2010, I began my journey as a first-generation college student at Salem College, the oldest educational institution for both girls and women in the United States. It wasn’t until my junior year that I experienced my first Easter Sunrise Service alongside fellow students and Salem Academy and College’s beloved Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Amy Rio. I clearly remember being taken aback by the magnitude of the service — the number of people, the contrast between the silence and the music, and the presence of darkness and light. All these pieces combined with the Moravian liturgy make an incredible impression on a first-time attendee of this service.

Now in her fifteenth year of chaplaincy at Salem, Rev. Dr. Rio remarked, “this cultural and spiritual experience is one that reminds us that the light will always shine out of darkness and our (Salem) campus community embodies that belief. Our liberal arts institution understands that the music represented in this service brings forth the very best of every one of us.” This weekend, Salem Academy and College will celebrate its 250th anniversary with Reunion Weekend which will include a traditional Moravian Lovefeast led by Rev. Victoria Reid as well as the inauguration of Dr. Summer Johnson McGee, Salem’s 22nd president.

Each year, the Easter Sunrise Service begins at 6 a.m. sharp with liturgy and music followed by a silent walk to God’s

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Acre for the second half of the service.

While I wasn’t raised Moravian, my favorite tradition that is foremost in this experience is listening to the Moravian Band play hymns antiphonally across the district. This year, the bands were led by Rev. Dr. Nola Knouse, Director of the Moravian Music Foundation. “The many instrumentalists of the Moravian Band arise very early every Easter to proclaim the resurrection,” said Rev. Dr. Knouse. “These dedicated band musicians then move on to other Moravian churches in the area that have their Easter services at 8, 9, 10 or 11; some playing for two or three services altogether!

Each congregation’s Moravian band provides musical support for funerals, preludes, and worship, hundreds of times each year, and we are immensely grateful for their dedication and service at Easter and year-round.”

If you attend festivities this weekend celebrating Salem’s 250th anniversary, you are certain to hear music by members of the Moravian Band. “It was the Moravians who held firm to the value that our community should provide equal opportunities for educating girls and women,” said Rev. Reid. “This has been a key tenant of the Moravian Church since its founding in Salem more than 250 years ago, and Salem Academy and College reaps the benefits of that vision.”

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orth Carolina made national headlines back in 2010 when the General Assembly passed “Susie’s Law,” so named for a puppy that was Jim Longworth rescued from her Greensboro home after having been Longworth set on fire and at Large abandoned by her owner. Thanks to “Susie’s Law,” anyone convicted of cruelty to animals can face up to two years in jail. Of course, to us animal lovers, two years is not nearly enough time for an abuser to spend behind bars, but it’s better than no time at all. Unfortunately, stricter sentencing doesn’t seem to discourage really sick people from doing really sick things to animals.

Last year an individual snuck into Martin Luther King Park in Statesville and proceeded to use ducks for target prac-

tice. He also beat some of the ducks over the head and cut the feet off of others. A total of 43 ducks were tortured and killed that night. Then there was the 19-yearold Winston-Salem man who was arrested for electrocuting squirrels, and cutting off the ears and noses of other animals while they were still alive. Perhaps there’s no way to stop this kind of behavior, but I wish the General Assembly would at least re-classify animal torture from a Class H felony to a Class B felony, so that these sick abusers might stay locked up for eight years instead of two.

Having said that, I am also concerned about another form of abuse which is on the rise, and that is animal neglect.

Here in the United States, an animal suffers some form of abuse every 60 seconds, and each year, more than 10 million animals die from abuse. One such case involves a High Point woman who was charged with animal cruelty last month. Police discovered the woman’s dog locked in a crate. It had been starved to death. Also last month, a Lexington woman was arrested on charges of felony cruelty for failing to care for her dog after it had been struck by a car. The dog suf-

fered a broken back in the accident, and the woman was advised by a Davidson County Animal Control officer to get the dog to a veterinarian. Instead, she let the dog suffer. Neither of these women deliberately tortured their pets, but neglect is still cruel, and it is still abuse.

I suppose it’s tempting to profile all animal abusers as low-life, uneducated sickos, but that’s not always the case.

Take for example, NFL superstar quarterback Michael Vick who, along with his dog-fighting buddies, tortured and killed a number of pit bulls at his Virginia farm.

Vick is far from a low-life criminal. He was college-educated and quite wealthy. Or how about the upper crust millionaires who run their doped-up racehorses into the ground, then sell them for dog meat?

And then there’s the Iredell County Commissioner who operates Zootastic Park in Lake Norman. He has repeatedly been cited and fined for all sorts of neglect, including last month for allowing several of his animals to suffer from frostbite, and earlier for allowing maggots to eat into the flesh of three wolves. These folks, like Vick, certainly don’t fit the profile of the local redneck who gets off on torturing animals. And that brings me to a story that CNN broke earlier this month about a form of animal abuse that goes on at the highest levels of government.

The US Army’s Public Health Command recently reported that horses belonging to the storied Caisson Platoon, have

been seriously neglected for years. These highly trained caisson horses serve at military funerals, and escort the caskets of Presidents and other dignitaries. They also provide security for Washington D.C. “in time of national emergency or civil disturbance.” But behind the scenes, the 60 platoon horses suffer from poor quality feed, moldy hay, parasites, and a host of other unspeakable conditions, including having to stand in their own excrement “in tiny mud lots scattered with gravel and construction waste.” Two of the horses died in February of this year, and during an autopsy, one of them was found to have 44 pounds of gravel and sand in his gut.

When questioned about the neglect, Col. Patrick Roddy, who commands the Old Guard unit (which includes the caisson horses), blamed the neglect on lack of adequate space and funding. No doubt Roddy’s assessment is correct, but he and everyone else who had anything to do with oversight or caring for the horses, should be dishonorably discharged and prosecuted for animal cruelty. The caisson horses are a national treasure, but then, so are all animals. They all deserve the best possible care, and they all deserve the swiftest possible justice for their abuse. !

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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Guilford County is sitting at a great crossroads; an educational precipice if you have eyes to see. We are at a point where we could see the substandard treatment of public education by our county in the rear-view mirror of our lives. After the final destruction of our educational system that was named COVID-19, we now have the opportunity to embark on a new, exciting and vital chapter in public education.

In May we begin an election cycle where 5 seats for the local school board could be changed. At almost the same time, the county will be searching for a new school superintendent. Add the fact that there are several new schools in the works, the county has more funding for schools than ever before with the influx of ESSER money from the federal government, a bump

in the state funding due to the looming Leandro case payout and the increase in property taxes due to re-evaluation of properties.

Combined, these items make for a wonderful opportunity for Guilford County to “restart” their public school system. Wipe the slate as clean as possible and let’s get into the 2022-2023 school year with an increased vigor and focus on the future of our community. It is widely accepted that the way out of many challenges of life is through education. NOW is our time Guilford County! Let’s not waste this wonderful opportunity, one that will not come along again, and apply ourselves to making this a county where people want to live and work and where the citizens are proud of the public schools again. !

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ood Life, the feature directorial debut of writer/ producer Bonnie Rodini, is predictable but pleasant, an unpretentious comedy with bittersweet moments and a winsome performance

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by leading lady Erica Wessels.

Olive Pappadopoulis is a thirtysomething dental hygienist in Cape Town, South Africa. At loose ends after a break-up, she impetuously decides to revisit her roots — in Greece. Her mother (Jennifer Steyna) warns her against it, but Olive is not to be denied. She wants to visit her late father’s house and recharge her batteries. It is rather remarkable that Cape Town locations double for Greece, as steeped in the culture as it is portrayed here.

It quickly transpires that Olive is greeted by inhospitable villagers and that the “house,” as it were, is in ruins. Olive makes a new friend in Jet (Caleb Payne), a precocious seven-year-old Albanian refugee, and a new enemy is the local fortune teller Haroula (Robyn Scott), for reasons that will soon become evident. She even catches the eye of handsome — and available — Nikos (Sven Ruygrok), so things are looking up.

Good Life might initially appear a distant cousin of The Lost Daughter (2021), the Oscar-nominated drama starring Olivia Colman. But the mood here is cheerier and fluffier, with the sunny locations nicely captured by cinematographer Amelia Henning. Wessels initially overdoes the neurotic quirks at the outset, but soon settles down into a more relaxed,

more likable groove — and she certainly looks great in a bikini. In what could have been stock roles, Ryugrok and Payne are charming, and there’s a terrific supporting turn by Nicky Rebelo as Spiro, the local pharmacist and Haroula’s long-suffering husband, who takes pity on Olive and takes Haroula to task for her long-simmering antagonism.

The well on Olive’s property figures prominently in the proceedings, and it could legitimately be said that all’s well that ends well.

— Good Life is available on iTunes, Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft, Rakuten, Sky Store, Amazon, Volta, and IFI@Home. !

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A birthday party for an employee at Gravity Diagnostics in Kentucky cost the company $450,000, but it wasn’t an expensive cake and decorations that ran Chuck Shepherd up the bill, WLKYTV reported. The employee, whose birthday fell on Aug. 7, asked the office manager days before to forgo the usual celebration because such affairs trigger his anxiety disorder, and “being the center of attention” would cause him to suffer a panic attack. However, the manager went ahead with planning a lunchtime to-do in the break room, which caused the guest of honor to flee to his car to eat his lunch. The next day, the birthday boy was called into a meeting and scolded for his reaction and was later fired “because of the events of the previous week,” according to a lawsuit he filed against the company. In the suit, the former employee said the company didn’t accommodate his anxiety disorder and caused him to suffer a “loss of income and benefits and emotional distress and mental anxiety.” The Kenton County jury agreed and awarded him the six-figure amount.

IT’S A DIRTY JOB ...

In Australia, Queensland’s Bill Edgar is known to some as the Coffin Confessor.

As such, Edgar shows up at funerals and speaks for the deceased, telling off family members, setting friends straight and delivering bad news about beneficiaries, News.com.au reported on April 14. But Edgar’s job doesn’t stop there. His services, for which he charges $2,000 to $10,000, have expanded to removing items from the deceased’s home that they’d rather the family not see: “Could be sex toys, messages of hate, love, whatever it is they’ve written down, that they want removed from their web browsers. One gentleman had ... a sex dungeon in one of his bedrooms. And that gentleman was 88 years of age, believe it or not,” Edgar said.

He even delivers his services in the United States and United Kingdom, and he said Paramount has picked up the story for a movie.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

According to Washingtonian magazine, a five-bedroom house for sale in Fairfax, Virginia, listed for $800,000, will “go quickly” in a neighborhood where many homes sell for $1 million or more. It’s not in great shape, granted, but the biggest

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drawback? The home has “a person(s) living in lower level with no lease in place.”

And prospective buyers can’t see the lower level. Listing agent Zinta K. Rodgers-Rickert said the basement resident has “weaseled her way in” and does not pay rent, and the current owners can’t “emotionally deal with the eviction.” Nevertheless, the house already had attracted at least one offer, with more expected. Rodgers-Rickert helpfully drew a picture of the basement for one potential buyer and said it’s in no worse shape than the rest of the house.

Except for that squatter, of course.

NOW, WHERE DID I PUT THAT ...

On April 11, ITV News reported that a dead body had been left in a “side room” at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, England, for four days. Once discovered, the body was removed to the hospital’s mortuary, and the deceased’s family was notified. Officials, who did not reveal the identity of the body, have launched an investigation and offered their apologies to the patient’s family.

THE TECH REVOLUTION

It may have been April 1, but it was no April Fools’ prank. A San Francisco police officer approached an idling car with its headlights off around 10 p.m. and saw that it was empty, SFGate reported. That’s when the car moved forward, crossed the intersection and came to a stop with its emergency flashers on. As it turned out, the AV, or autonomous vehicle, was operated by Cruise, and was just trying to move into a safe position before yielding to officers. “An officer contacted Cruise personnel, and no citation was issued,” the company explained in a statement.

A maintenance team was dispatched to take control of the vehicle.

I’LL DO ANYTHING FOR A FROSTY®

David Stover, 57, has been telling workers at the Bunnell, Florida, Wendy’s restaurant that he’s an undercover DEA agent ever since his buddy who worked there left, in an effort to continue getting a discount on food, ClickOrlando.com reported.

The store manager told investigators Stover would even flash a badge when asked for proof. Unfortunately for the fast-food fan, the badge was a concealed-carry permit, and police were called to Wendy’s on April 11 because Stover was arguing with the staff. He was arrested for impersonating a law enforcement officer. !

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he Hemp Source in WinstonSalem in offering a full-blown dining experience for those looking for a different dining experience.

The local, husband Chanel Davis and wife-owned CBD and hemp business host CannaDish: The Editor Brunch Edition on Sunday, May 1, 2022 beginning at noon.

The brunch, which is for those 21 and up, will feature a four-course infused meal, complete with drinks, created by a private chef and offering live jazz music from BandClazz. Tickets are $70 for individuals and $120 for couples.

Co-owner Jay Galloway said brunch items would be infused with the business’ CBD and legal strain of THC from its Delta 8 products.

“It’s a very intimate setting. It’s a nice little kickback where you can vibe out and feel good while you eat good, as well,” he said. “You have to look at this as an experience. Where else can you go and get a cannabis-infused meal? Most people are watching shows on Netflix where they’re cooking with cannabis and wishing they could go experience that.

We can pull it off and we can say that we are the first of our kind around here, that we know of, doing so.”

The brunch, provided by Chef Chop of

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Jay and Kayla Galloway, Owners of The Hemp Source WS Big Apes food truck, includes dishes such as an avocado and herb crostini topped with bruschetta, feta cheese finished with a balsamic glaze; Hennessy and white chocolate chicken and waffle minis with arugula finished with a strawberry compote; and Charleston-style grits topped with seared scallops, sautéed shrimp, onions, peppers with a Cajun cream sauce.

“It’s really tough to please everyone when it comes to menu selection. You

have people who don’t eat red meat or don’t eat pork. We figured brunch wasn’t meat-heavy but can cover the basics,” Galloway said. “In general, most people are good with seafood and chicken.”

While the goal was to find the perfect marriage between food and cannabis, Galloway said it wouldn’t mean a thing if the food wasn’t good. He credits the success to Chef Chop.

“Before entering into the infused portion, we wanted to make sure the food

sounded and looked good. The infusion piece is actually a lot easier since we know all the ways we can break it down,” he said. “The first thing we needed to do was make the meal appetizing enough to get people interested in going. Having him on board just makes things easier for us.”

Galloway said they’d had previous food-infusion events to show customers and residents different ways to consume their products.

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“It was really just to think outside the box and show people different ways to consume their CBD products. We wanted to make it an experience where people could see they could have it in their food, drink or any kind of way,” he explained.

“We also wanted to give people in the area something different to do. Something like this wasn’t going down in Winston-Salem, so we wanted to make sure we offered it and it was safer than having your cousin putting something in

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a meal at home.”

Now on to its third CannaDish event, this will be the first CannaDish event since the COVID shutdown. He said the biggest challenge during the previous events was expressing to people exactly what it was. The location, located at 690 Jonestown Road, has held similar events before including Puff and Paint, where people come in, purchase products, and use them in-store while painting, similar to the popular Sip and Paint. They’ve

also hosted Centered Infusion Yoga, where participants drink CBD tea to relax before partaking in a yoga class.

“It was still kind of taboo to a lot of people. This go-round, it has been a lot easier. Not just because of us sharing more information about the products and what they’re good for, but it seems as if it’s kind of becoming publicly and more widely accepted. People are a little more open to doing an event like this,” Galloway said. “More athletes are talking

about CBD and hemp products and it makes it a lot easier.”

Galloway said feedback from all of the events has been pretty good. He said he finds a lot of folks think that “if you cook with cannabis, that your food is going to taste like cannabis.”

“We try to make it known that you can infuse it in your food without the heavy, bitter or earthy taste that you’d get from the cannabis.”

Galloway said that those who attend the event could expect a chill, cool vibe with a family-style dinner. He said that the goal is not to get people “high out of their minds” but they can expect to start feeling the effects halfway through the second course, but it won’t be overwhelming.

“It will force you to mix and mingle with people that are around you. We try to make it as interactive as possible,” he said. “It’s an intimate setting with like-minded individuals that are just laid-back. We want you to come and enjoy yourself, with no mess, in a safe environment.”

Galloway said that either way, attendees would leave better than when they came.

“You will probably leave here feeling really cool, chill, and will probably get the best sleep of your life that night. And if you did come in with some pain, you’ll probably be pretty good on your pain levels, as well.”

For tickets or more information, visit www.thehempsourcews.com/thecannadish. !

CHANEL DAVIS is the current editor of YES! Weekly and graduated from N.C. A&T S.U. in 2011 with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She’s worked at daily and weekly newspapers in the Triad region.

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Triad mayors (and their challengers) on pot When high school students in San Rafael, California met at a statue of Louis Pasteur on a fall afternoon in 1971, they didn’t mean to create a cannabis culture catchphrase or an international Ian McDowell herbal holiday.

As originally Contributor reported by High Times in 1991 and verified by Huffington Post in the 2013 article “420 History: The Story of April 20 becoming Weed Day,” five kids known as the Waldos (because they hung out on a wall outside their school) had an alleged map to a legendary abandoned cannabis patch in a forest near Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard station. They agreed to meet at the Pasteur statue at 4:20 p.m. and begin their search for the secret pot patch.

They never found it but were soon using “4:20 Louis” as code for a favorite recreational activity. By the time one of the former kids, David “Waldo Dave” Reddix, became a roadie for Grateful Dead’s bassist Phil Lesh, it had shortened to just the three digits, and was just as much a recognition code among stoners as “friend of Dorothy” once was for gay men in Greenwich Village.

4:20 became a regular afternoon time to get high, and then a calendar date, April 20, for communal celebrations of doing so. The 3 digits spread not only to mainstream pop culture (every clock in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is set to 4:20) but politics.

California Senate Bill 420, which passed in 2003, established that state’s medical marijuana program. North Dakota House Bill 1420, intended to legalize cannabis, was introduced in January 2021.

On April 20, 2019, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. It hasn’t moved forward, but if passed, would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and eliminate criminal penalties for its manufacture, possession, or distribution.

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becoming the first North Carolina city to allow the release of police body-worn camera footage to the public. Shortly after that municipal policy was enacted, then-governor Pat McCrory signed a law requiring judicial consent for releasing such footage. If state officials can legislate to thwart a municipal policy, they can also act to support it.

For our April 20, 2022 issue, YES! Weekly reached out to mayors and mayoral candidates across the Triad and asked them where they stand on the issue of decriminalizing or even legalizing recreational cannabis.

The three mayors and two challengers who responded are Winston-Salem’s Allen Joines, High Point’s Jay Wagner, and Greensboro’s Vaughan, along with Greensboro candidates Outling and Eric Robert (a fourth candidate, Mark Cummings, did not respond to our queries).

Democrat Allen Joines has served as Winston-Salem’s mayor for 21 years, first winning that office in 2001. Joines, who does not face a challenger until 2024, gave the shortest answer.

“I support medical marijuana and decriminalizing recreational marijuana.”

Republican Jay Wagner was first elected mayor of High Point in 2017 and will not face any challengers until 2023.

His response was slightly longer than that of Joines.

“I don’t have any comment,” emailed Wagner. “I don’t generally comment on issues that my Council doesn’t have the power to deal with or enact.”

Greensboro mayor Nancy Vaughan, a Democrat who first assumed office in 2013, gave a more detailed answer than either her Democrat or Republican counterparts in the other two points of the Triad.

“I support the legalization of medical marijuana,” emailed Vaughan. “I have seen people in the end stages of cancer and other chronic diseases suffer needlessly because they cannot legally access medical marijuana. Often family members risk safety and arrest if they purchase marijuana to ease the suffering of a loved one.”

On the subject of the legalization of recreational marijuana, Vaughan was more circumspect.

“I am not against the general assembly legalizing and regulating the use of recreational marijuana,” she wrote. But she said she supported relaxing enforcement on “small recreational amounts.”

“Marijuana possession is not a highpriority crime for the Greensboro Police

Department. They are not arresting people who are smoking pot in the privacy of their own home.”

Vaughan was then asked her response to claims that police do not have probable cause to arrest people for possessing hemp or to perform a test on it. The question is one that many Black organizers have asked of Greensboro’s leaders, Senate, and Gubernatorial candidates.

The State Bureau of Investigation has acknowledged that hemp is legal and indistinguishable from marijuana by smell and sight.

“There is not a roadside sobriety test for marijuana,” responded Vaughan.

“Nationwide, and in the City of Greensboro, crash fatalities are at an all-time high. Many are from people driving while impaired. People should not be driving while impaired under any substance. It can become a hindrance to the traveling public.”

A common statistic when it comes to marijuana is that over 80% of those arrested for possession are Black, even though Black and white people consume recreational cannabis at the same rate.

This had led to the claim that “Pot is legal for white people,” which has been echoed by everyone from a veteran white marijuana dealer quoted by New York magazine in 2009, who claimed he’d not been stopped once by the NYPD in over two decades, to former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon when she unsuccessfully ran against Andrew Cuomo in 2018.

When asked what she thought should be done about the disparity, and why the GPD continues to arrest so many Black people for drug possession, Vaughan repeated her statement that arresting people for recreational marijuana is “not a high priority” for the Greensboro police.

“However, drug trafficking is. Because of our great highway system, Greensboro, High Point, and Winston see a significant amount of drug trafficking. It is often tied to our increase in violent crime and homicides. It is rare that recreational marijuana is a stand-alone charge. For the reasons that I mentioned above, we need legislative relief and rapid testing.”

Greensboro’s municipal races are nonpartisan, but two of the candidates vying to unseat Vaughan are registered Democrats, while the third is Independent.

One of the Democrats, former superior court judge Mark Cummings, did not respond to these questions. The other, Outling, whose race against Vaughan has become acrimonious, addressed all the above questions.

“The questions surrounding the legalization of marijuana are complex,” wrote Outling in an email. “Like most North Carolinians, I do not understand why, unlike the majority of states, ours does not allow doctors to prescribe cannabis to treat debilitating conditions. When we move to whether recreational marijuana should be legal, I believe it’s first important to understand (as your questions note) that prohibition has failed on a number of levels. Racial disparities, the often-random nature of enforcement, diversion of law enforcement resources from more serious offenses, and implications of creating a criminal record for what (at most) should be a minor civil offense all argue against continuing current policies.”

Outling also stated his support for “a cite-and release policy,” with “a minor sanction for what is a minor offense.” He also declared his concern about the implications of legalizing recreational use, particularly due to “the impact on young people,” without “a regulatory environment to control safe distribution.”

Outling concluded by saying he believes most states will ultimately legalize recreational use. “This could have a positive impact on reducing crime by eliminating an unregulated all-cash trade often connected to other forms of criminal activity.”

While there are no Republicans on the 2022 Greensboro mayoral ballot, Eric Robert is running as an Independent.

Designer and Partner at QUB Studios, Robert is a newcomer to politics, but a longtime downtown resident who has become critical of everyone on the city’s current council.

Robert emailed that he “absolutely supports legalization of recreational and medical marijuana.” He repeated the “absolutely” when asked if, while waiting for statewide and national legalization, he supports decriminalization.

“I absolutely agree that recreational cannabis being indistinguishable from hemp by sight or smell, the police should not have probable cause for searches.

Because they can’t tell, no search should take place.”

As to how he would deal with the arrest disparities, Robert’s response was equally emphatic.

“No racial profiling, full stop.” !

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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Out of the Shadows at Incendiary Brewing Locals light up Incendiary Brewing Company with the Out of the Shadows Music Showcase, on April 30, in downtown WinstonSalem.

Bringing together six local bands with Katei Cranford original tunes, “for an all-day bundle of fun Contributor and great beer,” before running into the night, with Tupelo Crush closing out the free, all-ages event.

“It’s meant to help shine a light on the local original music scene and expose folks to some artists they may not be aware of,” said co-organizer, Brian Pierce. “Too often local original music gets overshadowed by the larger touring acts or the more established cover bands. We’re hoping to help move the needle on this just a little bit.”

As drummer for Tupelo Crush, Pierce understands the world of local musicians. He’s paired with Incendiary to build a bill featuring “road dog rock’n’roller” (and former Whiskey Foxtrot-er) Sam Foster with his new outfit, the Obsolete; songstress, Casey Noel; Pfafftown rockers, Killing Gophers; and Winston-Americana from Wafer Thin. Mac and the Machine, (the solo project of Camel City Bluesman Mac Walker) will play during set changes to bridge performances.

“The idea of a showcase event for local original bands has been floating around in my head for some time,” Pierce said, reflecting on his intentions to illuminate the local scene. “While we think this lineup really does offer a terrific sampling of the level of talent available to local audiences, it in no way shows the larger picture. Our hope is that we can turn this into an annual event involving different artists each time.”

Pointing directly to Incendiary’s taproom manager, Chris Straus, Pierce doesn’t carry that torch alone. ”She’s been vital in making this thing happen,” he explained. “I approached her with the idea and she was immediately on board. Her role in building the showcase can’t be overstated!”

Straus shares the feeling. “We love music and we always try to support locals where we can,” she said. “Thank goodness I had someone else who shares the same vision approach me with the idea,” she added, referencing Pierce. “He’s been a big help in coordinating the lineup.”

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Thursdays — with the new Lewisville location hosting local bands on Fridays and Saturdays.

“We really want to give opportunities to highlight originally created music,” she said, turning to the upcoming “CoalPitLive”’ free-show series which features national artists, running from Memorial Day through the summer. Previous years have seen local bands open for major acts like Gin Blossoms, Cowboy Mouth, Cracker, and Lucero.

By contrast, the locals will shine during Out of the Shadows. And while the two series share the same space, they remain entirely separate operations. “They’re both associated with Incendiary Brewery, but they’re separate in their branding and funding,” Pierce clarified. “OOTS is being funded by local businesses. Which plays right into the heart of what we’re trying to do.”

Straus agreed. “This event is a chance

to really lift up our tried and true local performers and reveal their talent,” she said. “This is really all about them, and the other local businesses that chose to sponsor them.” Both she and Pierce praised the sponsors that helped green light OOTS: Link Apartments Innovative Quarter, TB Realty Team, The “B” String Guitar Shop, Underdog Records, Carolina Basement Systems, Ardmore Barbershop, and Deca Interiors.

“We’ve been very fortunate to have so many local businesses come on board in support of this showcase,” Pierce said, turning to the location — which he sees as being similarly symbolic. “Incendiary’s ‘coal pit’ stage really encompasses everything we’re hoping to accomplish with the show,” he noted — driving the focus toward local artists in local landmarks supported by local businesses. “Not only is Incendiary centrally located right in the heart of Winston, in the repurposed Bailey

Power Plant, the stage is literally in the shadows of two of Winston’s most iconic buildings: the Winston Tower and the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel.”

As for the audience, “the biggest takeaway we hope people will get from this event is the importance of supporting the local music scene and the musicians and venues that make it happen,” he said.

“There are plenty of homegrown artists that are writing and performing some really terrific stuff right here in the Triad.

We hope to strengthen the bond within the community of area musicians that play original music. We feel like everyone benefits if we can continue to grow the local music scene.”

The Out of the Shadows showcase lights up Incendiary Brewing Company on April 30 in downtown Winston-Salem. !

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omething new blooms in Sam Logan and his latest project, Nightblooms.

“The vibe is shifting,” reads the bio for Logan’s new outfit, an indie quartet Katei Cranford resonating with a similar palette of his longtime darkened Contributor dream-pop group, Lilac Shadows — albeit a bit softer, yet more direct.

“To me, Nightblooms is kind of a spiritual evolution of Lilac Shadows,” Logan said of his first “new” project since moving to Greensboro in 2015. “They’re both steeped in feelings of anxiety and unease, but whereas LS used krautrock rhythms and loud, angular electric guitars, Nightblooms tries to cloak some of those feelings in a bit of a softer touch.”

Embracing a shift toward the acoustic, and within himself, “people have been

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talking about a ‘vibe shift’ on Twitter in terms of how the culture is changing,” he explained. “Millennials are no longer the ‘young’ people anymore. The internet and culture is being curated in different ways, and there seems to be some freaking out.”

Equally overly anxious and lighthearted,

“the major shift really is between Lilac Shadows and Nightblooms. And ways they explore similar emotional territory, in different ways sonically,” he said, alluding to the instrumentation as a sort of sonic honey to the lyrical vinegar — a lighter guitar styling “in the vein of John Fahey or

William Tyler” seeded amongst heavy lyrics inspired by panic attacks and climate change.

Their first official release, “Heart to Heart,” however, is as close to a Tom Petty song as Logan assumes he’ll get — having chosen to channel the Traveling Wilbury for an upcoming compilation from Sleepy Cat Records. ”All the songs on the comp are centered on the theme of ‘cruising,’” he explained, noting Petty being his first concert as a kid. “Lyrically it’s pretty personal, but the music is a broad sonic tribute to a songwriter I grew up listening to.”

Beyond the single, Nightblooms signed with Sleepy Cat Records to release their first full-length, currently in the works.

“They’ve been putting out some of my favorite North Carolina records for a few years now,” Logan said of the Chapel Hill label behind artists like Blue Cactus, Earleine, T. Gold, and (Grimsley-alumni) Libby Rodenbough. “I’m really honored to join their roster.”

Within the Nightblooms’ roster, Sleepy Cat songwriter Chessa Rich will join the

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lineup (on keys) starting in May — a role originally filled by Derek Torres (from Sengoku) who shifted to playing lead guitar. Longtime friends (and bandmates in Lilac Shadows and T0W3RS) the guitar work between Logan and Torres supports a rhythm section of Greensboro musicians Logan met serendipitously.

Bassist Lenwood Edwards (Kill the Buddha and Velvet Arrows) came aboard over music conversations at Deep Roots.

Meanwhile, drummer Steven Diaz (Mountain Lions) moved into Logan’s neighborhood at just the right time. “I saw him loading drums into his house when I was out walking my dog,” Logan said. “I struck up a conversation and became friends pretty instantaneously.”

Logan himself is a native of Charleston, South Carolina — an experience that arcs within his songwriting. “One of the most recurring themes in Nightblooms is that of climate anxiety, and how fragile our existence really is,” he explained. “I grew up in a city that is literally sinking into the ocean, so it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long, long time.”

Songs like “Anthropocene” wrestle the concepts directly, while “The Slow Decline” explores the broad mistreatment of the planet. “Free Time in the Apocalypse” is “about the absurdity of daily tasks (like making your bed) when faced with the looming crisis presented by climate change,” Logan noted, acknowledging the privilege of writing songs, while “so many people are actually living through it.”

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why I didn’t share them with people for a really long time.”

Ever-present melancholy persists in Logan’s lyrics — echoed by influences like Kevin Morby, Destroyer, Aldous Harding, The Weather Station, and Angel Olsen.

“Of all the emotions we experience as humans, melancholy is like number one for me,” he said. “What a complex, challenging emotion: equal parts sad, hopeful, bittersweet, and wistful all at once.”

Musically, however, he intends to keep it light. “Maybe it’s a factor of getting older that I’m allowing myself to explore darkness outside of just simply having loud, distorted guitars or heavy instrumental sounds,” he reckoned, referencing his attraction to both melodic arrangements and wrangling the metaphysical.

“Sometimes weird, unexplainable things just happen because we live in a very random, chaotic universe,” he said, pointing to “What They Seem,” a song about “not trying to always find some sort of meaning in life’s randomness,” written in the wake of an owl attack last May. Tooling toward the methodical, Nightblooms will start recording in June, with releases rolling by late summer. “As of now, the plan is to release the first single around Hopscotch,” Logan noted, ”and then the full-length is slated for February 2023.”

They’ll play the Pinhook in Durham and at Ruby Deluxe in Raleigh with Gold Light before their show together at SECCA on April 30 (with food from Y’all Supper Club). Nightblooms will also be at Double Oaks in Greensboro on May 28 with Mountain Lions and Ashley Virginia. !

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The Fillmore

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309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Apr 21: Little Feat Apr 22: Three Dog Night Apr 29: Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular May 1: The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle May 3: Melissa Etheridge May 5: Beth Hart May 6: The Steeldrivers May 7: Rissi Palmer May 7: Stay Prayed Up May 11: Joe Jackson May 14: Leonid & Friends

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Barn Dinner Theatre 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 www.barndinner.com Apr 9-May 7: Crowns Mar 14-Jun 25: Groovin’ Jul 8-Aug 6: Soul Sistas

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536 Farragut St | 336.808.5837 www.baxterstavern.com Apr 24: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band Apr 29: The Stallions Apr 30: Big Bump & The Stun Gunz Jun 4: Southern Sounds Band Jul 2: High Fidelity Jul 3: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blyes Band Jul 10: The Pink Slips Jul 15: Spindle 45

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310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Apr 22-23: Bus Stop in The Crown May 1: ABBAFAB May 4: Future Fund 10 May 8: Always... Patsy Cline May 15: Dori Freeman May 19: Chelcie Lynn

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 www.thecomedyzone.com Apr 22-24: Anthony Rodia Apr 29-30: Tyler Chronicles May 5: Shayne Smith

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221 Summit Ave | 336.501.3967 www.flatirongso.com Apr 21: Lord Nelson Apr 22: Angie Aparo Apr 28: Saphron Apr 29: Glory Fires, Totally Slow, Sugar Meat Apr 29: Lee Brains + The Glory Fires w/ Suzanne Apr 30: Hustle Souls Apr 30: Joe Troop May 5: Jack Marion & Pearl Snap Prophets May 8: Jeff Plankenhorn and Scrappy Jud May 14: Royal Jelly

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In using dating apps, I go by who looks cute in photos (followed by a call).

But I keep going on dates and finding I have zero physical attraction to the guy. No spark. Big depressing waste of time. How do I prevent this?—Unhappy Hour Girl

Amy Alkon

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“Looks cute in photos” is a start. But vision is just one of our five senses, and a few of the others refuse to be left out of the “Hot or not?” action.

I experienced this firsthand when this hot guy came up behind me in the coffee line, and I nearly passed out. Not because he’s just that hot,but because — despite his appearing recently showered — I found myself living a cop show cliche: that moment when the junior detective retches into a hanky, then makes a run for it to puke in the bushes.

Beyond how a guy smells, there’s the pitch of his voice (“You da man!” versus “You da mouse!”) — along with stuff you can only see in person: how he moves and how tall he is. If, like most women, you’re a height queen, you might figure it’s because your dad cast a big shadow. In fact, in “Why Women Have Sex,” psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss explain that much of what we’re into goes back waaaay further — to our “evolutionary past.”

This might explain why my two female friends, standing right next to me in line, did not smell what I smelled. Or as one put it: “Hello, Crazy. Is there something medically wrong with your nose?” It probably comes down to our genes. Women are drawn to the scent of men with dissimilar immune system genes — with whom they’d make a baby with a broader set of defenses against disease — and grossed out by men whose immuno pack is redundant with theirs.

In other words, all those dud dates are actually time well spent — and this goes double for the most disastrous. See them for what they can be: comedic gold — making you a sparklingly amusing addition to cocktail parties, where you might draw the eye of some Mr. LCIRL (“looks cute in real life”). Then and there, you’ll be able to see (and smell) all the manvetting essentials — including his height (actual as opposed to claimed on a dating app, where 6’2” is very often another way of writing almost 5’7”). #OKLiar

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I thought my (second) husband and I were happily married, but based on my past experience, the signs are there that he’s planning on leaving me. He’s going to the gym regularly, working later, eating healthy, and dressing better for work. At New Year’s, he did say his resolution was to improve himself and get ahead at work to provide better for our family, but that seems too convenient. His recent behaviors are almost exactly like what my rotten first husband was doing when he left me.

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tion, talk with your husband. Ask questions instead of making accusations. For example: “Awesome New Year’s rez. Love to hear what inspired these changes.”

Evoke his empathy by telling him about the pattern that’s got you so worried.

Open with “Okay, maybe crazy...” — though maybe anything but — because “Ugh, the workings of our minds” will get you more answers than the defensiveness-provoking “Ugh, you’re just like the last one.”

Finally, look to history. Does his prior behavior over time — combined with the output from these other lines of inquiry — suggest he’s the sort to go “Toodles, wife and babies!” If not, what stinks in his gym locker probably isn’t a “go bag” with fake passports, $100K in cash, and plane tickets to a country that doesn’t extradite for himself and his, um, wife, Brittany Bigtits. !

To be human is to leap to conclusions — when we aren’t doing Simone Biles-level gymnastics to avoid exploring the obvious: “Hmm, might there be a connection between the bizarre shrinkage of all my clothes and my mowing through six jumbo bags of Doritos daily?”

In my defense, Doritos are basically heroin you can pick up at the Piggly Wiggly. In your defense — for your Olympic long jump from “He’s eating healthy” to “He’s yet another dirtbag who’s leaving me” — our brains are pattern-spotting machines, hoovering up similarities in things and events. Sometimes these patterns are meaningful, or as science historian Michael Shermer puts it: “Sometimes A really is connected to B,” but often it is not.

This mental sloppiness seems like a design flaw, but it’s actually a feature.

We evolved to be protectively wrong — to err on the safe side — meaning make the least evolutionarily costly error: for example, going temporarily paranoid instead of potentially coming home to a house that’s permanently short one breadwinner.

However, even temporary leeriness can take a lasting bite out of a relationship. To replace your assumptions with informa-

GOT A PROBLEM? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com). Follow her on Twitter @amyalkon. Order her latest “science-help” book, Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence. ©2022 Amy Alkon. Distributed by Creators.Com.

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