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ParticiPate in research Dr. Blair Wisco, a clinical psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is currently recruiting participants for a research study. This research study examines emotional and physical reactions to memories of extremely stressful or traumatic experiences. In order to participate, you must be 18 years old or older and must be able to read and write in English. If you are interested in participating, first you will be asked to complete screening questions online or over the phone to see whether or not you are eligible for the study. If you are eligible, you will be invited to participate in the study, which involves five visits to Dr. Wisco’s lab on UNCG’s campus within two weeks. During the first lab visit (3 hours), you will be asked to complete an interview and fill out questionnaires about your emotions and life experiences. You will then wear a portable cardiac monitor under your clothes and to complete questionnaires on a tablet computer outside the lab on three separate days (30-minute set-up per day, plus time spent completing questionnaires). In the last lab visit (2 hours), you will be hooked up to a similar monitor in the lab and be asked to listen to audio-recorded scripts describing personal past experiences. If you participate in these procedures, you will be compensated $150 for your time. If you are interested in this research participation opportunity, please email copelab@uncg.edu to learn more and receive the screening questionnaire.

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For jazz enthusiasts throughout the nation and the Triad, the Labor Day holiday has become synonymous with The JOHN COLTRANE International Jazz and Blues festival. While High Point has grown used to thousands of people descending on its city at least twice a year with its furniture market, the jazz festival and the top-notch musical acts that it brings with it has added another event that draws tourists to the city’s Oak Hollow Festival Park.

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“I tell stories of lost animals that deserve rebirth through art,” said ASPEN STEVANOVSKI, a conservation biologist specializing in eastern coyotes, when asked why she decorates the bones of animals.

5 The RiverRun International Film Festival’s next event, presented in collaboration with PBS North Carolina, will be a virtual screening of C.J. Hunt’s feature documentary The Neutral Ground...

6 However, there is no medicine contained in any PRESCRIPTION DOG FOOD. And that brings me to a 2016 lawsuit that was filed in California by plaintiffs who alleged that the accused pet food companies...

7 MerleFest. Mountain Song. Maggie Valley. Apple. Hopscotch. Pumpkin. And my group’s project, CAROLINA BIBLE CAMP BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL. The September festivals of North Carolina stand like spotlights before an uncertain audience...

8 The self-explanatory documentary feature THE MEANING OF HITLER offers a contemporary analysis of Sebastian Hoffner’s non-fiction 1978 best-seller...

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A unanimous Monday night vote by the Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commission may doom a HISTORIC QUAKER HOME later owned by a former state representative who became a religious mystic, dressed like Moses, and ran twice as a fringe candidate for United States President.

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Greensboro writer JAMES TATE HILL strategically navigated West Virginia streets 20 years ago, risking death rather than letting anyone know his vision is a blurry kaleidoscope of light and color.

22 School is back in session and veteran WUAG DJ PREZ PARKS is back in Greensboro with a brand-new live expansion of his long-running “In the Beat of the Night” radio show, plus residencies at the Flat Iron, Cafe Europa, and crates of records, wall to wall.

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Pretty bones: Conservation biology meets art

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I tell stories of lost animals that deserve rebirth through art,” said Aspen Stevanovski, a conservation biologist specializing in eastern coyotes, Naima Said when asked why she decorates the bones of animals.

Contributor Stevanovski works as a social media brand manager for two different wildlife companies. At Project Coyote, she crafts infographics on carnivore behavior and coexistence.

At Lobos of the Southwest, a collaborative effort of conservation organizations, scientists, and concerned citizens working together to save the endangered Mexican gray wolf, she does social media. “Lobo is the Spanish word for wolf. It is based in the southwest, but I work remotely.

While conducting my own research in the nearby woods in Winston-Salem, I came across a lot of deer skulls, except for a few coyote skulls,” said Stevanovski. “A lot of what I do to me is about respect. Either educational or giving a new life to what’s left behind.”

While Stevanovski has always taken an interest in art, she recently began working with acrylic paint. “I began painting bones during quarantine with my roommate. I realized how much of a difference I could make by telling natural stories with each animal skull to give it back the life and representation it had lost in death,” said Stevanovski. “I depict a life cycle with the

drawings that I incorporate on the skulls, whether it is adding antlers or deer track markings.”

After dabbling with the art of skull painting, Stevanovski wanted to canvas her work to further expand her natural storytelling ideology. “My work relates to my art because it is based on the environment that inspires me,” said Stevanovski.

“I finished a piece called ‘The Divine Feminist,’ which focuses on three female hyenas shadowing over a male lion, who is cowering before them,” shared Stevanovski. “A lot of people misunderstand hyenas. They are female-dominated and extremely intelligent, problem-solving through teamwork, even though lions are worshipped culturally as the epitome of masculinity.”

Stevanovski’s paintings often highlight animals in their realistic nature without realistically depicting them. “I capture the animals in my own style. In reference to my first hyena painting, many people asked why I depict them too harshly or in a darker tone, but I am blending them in with their environment. I find it beautiful to demonstrate these animals actively on the hunt, and showing others they are not just scavengers,” said Stevanovski.

Her fascination with hyenas began when she studied abroad in Tanzania back when she was attending Wake Forest University.

“I was part of a program called the School for Field Studies, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to study any-

Aspen Stevanovski thing in the environmental field. I got to work closely with the locals, the Maasai, who are indigenous to the land. Through them we learned techniques for living with wild carnivores and immersed ourselves in the culture and language,” said Stevanovski.

Spreading awareness and putting in the work has become the new normal for Stevanovski since becoming known for her advocacy and stance when it comes to coyotes and hyenas.

After being recognized for her work, Stevanovski was asked to teach a kid’s summer camp at Polo Park about the life cycle of hyenas. “A child’s mind is more open to absorbing information and seeing

things from a different perspective than adults. They soaked up the information like a sponge that by the end of the presentation everyone loved hyenas,” said Stevanovski. “At the same time, I was known as the coyote person. When someone sees a coyote during the day, they will most likely post about it on Facebook, and I must inform them it is normal for coyotes to be out during daylight. Coyotes were originally diurnal hunters, but because of human presence, they have become a lot more nocturnal.”

The creative biologist said that her dream job is to start a non-profit that would create coexist (a type of conservation) projects. “What I would love to do is expand coyote wildlife homes and actively work with others to push for policy change to help wildlife since real change can only occur through policy. I’d love to delve more into boots on the groundwork but with people and communities,” said Stevanovski. “If I can get work established in the States, I’d encourage a similar project with hyenas back in Tanzania since I plan on going back. It is such a beautiful country, and I’d love to go back to see the community that welcomed me with open arms.” !

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RiverRun and PBS team up to present The Neutral Ground The RiverRun International Film Festival’s next event, presented in collaboration with PBS North Carolina, will be a virtual screening of C.J. Hunt’s feature documentary The Neutral Ground, Mark Burger which will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26th, followed Contributor by a discussion with the filmmaker.

The screening is free, but registration is required. To register, visit eventbrite.com/e/pbs-nc-screening-of-pov-the-neutral-ground-and-virtual-discussion-tickets-165016842819.

The film details the fight over historical monuments and the ongoing debate over the “lost cause” of the Civil War, as the city council in New Orleans voted to remove four Confederate monuments in 2015. This aroused a firestorm of controversy, including a delay in the monument removal due to death threats, and made headlines the world over. Hunt attempts to comprehend how a losing army from 1865 still holds so much attention — and, indeed, adulation — in contemporary America.

The Neutral Ground is a co-production of POV and ITVS, in association with the Center for Asian-American Media, and a co-presentation of Black Public Media and the Center for Asian-American Media. The film was also an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

“We are always honored to present events alongside PBS North Carolina, and this one is no exception,” said Jane McKim, education director of the RiverRun International Film Festival. “The film is a fascinating documentary on a topic that the entire country — especially the South

— has become quite aware of in recent years, and we think that August 26th will certainly be an insightful evening.”

“We partnered with PBS NC for our 2021-’22 Indie Lens series and although this isn’t a part of the Indie Lens season, we were delighted when they asked if we’d like to partner on this screening,” said RiverRun executive director Rob Davis. “Monument removal has been a topic in the news over the last few years and this documentary about the experience in New Orleans provides a fascinating case study.”

The film marks the feature debut of Hunt, better known as a stand-up comedian and a producer and segment director on The Daily Show, the longrunning, Emmy-winning Comedy Central series hosted by Trevor Noah. Following the screening, Hunt will participate in a virtual discussion in which he talks about his impetus for making The Neutral Ground, his experience as a first-time feature filmmaker, and his observations regarding Americans who remain devoted

to the legacy of the Confederacy — some of whom he encountered while making the film.

In his review of The Neutral Ground, Brian Skutle of Sonic Cinema wrote “The Neutral Ground is coming out at a time when conservatives are railing about the dangers of Critical Race Theory. Hunt’s film shows why it is necessary and should have happened sooner. Unfortunately, too many in this country are not quite ready to admit that we need help with our addiction to the myths we were told growing up, and that it was all of us — not just people in the South — who were complicit in spinning them.”

Eric Althoff of Screen Comment observed that throughout the film, “Hunt undermines the myths of the Old South as benevolent to slaves, and he takes us through the post-war decades, when such propaganda was fed to Southern children, and in many places, still is. Hunt has a good eye and is charming and funny when he can be, and observant and wry even when he cant. May he continue making films.”

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 RiverRun festival, but this year’s event marked a successful comeback. According to Davis, virtual screenings and other special events have not only been individually successful but have attracted new followers and fans.

“Our year-round virtual screenings and events have been successful in keeping our brand in the public’s eye when we are doing much less in-person programming,” he said. “We’ve been thrilled at the new folks who have started following our social media channels and subscribing to our e-newsletter. We had several hundred new newsletter subscriptions just from our virtual Indie Lens screenings alone.”

Last week, the festival hosted a special screening of RiverRun Master of Cinema award winner Stanley Nelson’s documentary Boss: The Black Experience in Business at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem.

“Despite inclement weather, we had a nice audience for Boss and in their prefilm discussion, Tiffany Waddell Tate and Richard Williams did an exceptional job of ‘localizing’ the subject,” Davis said. “I think it’s one of the best programs we’ve ever done.”

In addition, the “RiverRun Rewind” encore engagement of The Desiring, which won the Audience Choice Award at this year’s festival, is still available in RiverRun’s virtual theater through Aug. 20th. (Tickets are available at https:// riverrunfilm.com/.) !

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The prescription dog food scam

ccording to petfoodindustry. com, Americans spent $36.9 billion dollars on pet food and treats in 2019. Meanwhile, comparecamp.com Jim Longworth suggests that this year, those figures will rise to over $38 Longworth billion dollars. On a at Large micro level, Petpedia.com says that pet owners in this country spend an average of $300 per year on pet food. However, over 40% of pet owners spend two or three times more than that, in part because their veterinarians prescribe a special diet to improve such things as digestive health and urinary tract ailments. In truth, these specialty pet foods do contain healthy ingredients, but they are not deserving of the name “prescription.”

A prescription, by definition, is “a writ-

ten order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.” However, there is no medicine contained in any prescription dog food. And that brings me to a 2016 lawsuit that was filed in California by plaintiffs who alleged that the accused pet food companies were, “in violation of antitrust and consumer protection laws for making certain veterinary diets available by prescription-only, in order to willfully overcharge consumers.” Plaintiffs also charged that these companies mislead consumers, “into believing the foods contain some kind of drug or controlled ingredient to justify the prescription labeling.”

A California District Court dismissed the lawsuit in July of 2017, but in July of last year, an Appeals Court ruled that the case could continue. In that ruling, the Appeals panel concluded that plaintiffs, “sufficiently alleged that the sale of the prescription pet food exclusively through vets, or with veterinary approval was a deceptive practice. In addition, plaintiffs satisfied the heightened pleading standard for fraud because

they alleged sufficient facts to show that prescription pet food and other pet food were not materially different.”

In reporting on the lawsuit for iheartdogs.com, Dina Fantegrossi wrote, “They (the plaintiffs) feel that the prescription-only status misleads consumers into believing the foods contain some kind of drug or controlled ingredient to justify the prescription labeling. In truth, veterinary prescription diets do not contain any ingredients that cannot also be found in conventional foods.”

And while there has been a recent surge in the sale of so-called prescription pet food, the underlying problem is anything but recent.

According to truthaboutpetfood. com, prescription diet pet food companies have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with veterinarians, dating back to the 1960s. In fact, By the late 1980s, these companies even began supplying vets with prescription pads as part of their marketing effort. That alone should have alerted the FDA to the alleged fraud, but, as dogsnaturallymagazine.com reports, “While the FDA

practices enforcement discretion when it comes to veterinary diets…the FDA has not reviewed or verified the health claims on any veterinary diet.”

And speaking of prescription pads, if you should run out of “prescription” food when the vet’s office is closed, there are a couple of chain stores that sell it, but only if you have (you guessed it) a written prescription. It’s like trying to buy Sudafed. It’s not really a prescription sinus medicine, but I can’t buy it without showing a driver’s license, because the government thinks I’m going to start a meth lab in my basement. Likely as not, the FDA will eventually mandate that greedy pet food companies stop calling their products “prescription.” which, in turn, could lead to a lowering of the inflated prices being charged for these non-medicinal foods. It’ll be a win/win for everyone unless your dog needs Sudafed. In that case, he’ll need a driver’s license. !

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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More than just a festival

BY LISA BREWER MerleFest. Mountain Song. Maggie Valley.

Apple. Hopscotch. Pumpkin.

And my group’s project, Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival.

The September festivals of North Carolina stand like spotlights before an uncertain audience, waiting to brighten their surroundings while praying the curtain doesn’t fall too early.

So many festival cancellations occurred in 2020 before the hope of a COVID-19 vaccine was on the horizon. Masking, social distancing, and obsessive-level handwashing were not enough to permit festivals in the throes of a pandemic.

A collective howl went up when MerleFest organizers pulled the plug on the 2020 April festival, understandably required by the Center for Disease Control and Governor’s restrictions on public gatherings. A month later, I watched grown men wipe away tears when they voted to cancel all seven weeks of 2020 summer Camp, a historic and tough decision for the Carolina Bible Camp & Retreat Center board of directors.

And I had the difficult task of canceling our 2020 fundraising bluegrass festival, reluctantly informing our artists that we were invoking the global pandemic clause to rescind our contractual agreements.

Everyone understood. Everyone hoped for better times.

We learned what it meant to “pivot.”

Some musical artists, like our good friends The Kruger Brothers, were creative in the face of setbacks. Uwe and Jens (ably assisted by office manager Melissa Call) produced an amazing, high-quality series for YouTube called Food Notes: Cookin’ With the Krugers. There was guitar and banjo, banter, and baking.

But there were no festivals.

Artists found their audiences on Facebook Live, on Zoom, and other social media platforms. There were tip jars, GoFundMe fundraisers, and PayPal: you pay, they play!

In order to keep the lights on at Carolina Bible Camp, we created an online fundraiser called “49 Days of CBC.” Although we missed holding seven weekly sessions of Camp, everyone could participate in the 49day fundraiser. There were impressive acts of athleticism (bicycling hundreds of sponsored miles) and silliness (“The 49-Day Snack-a-Day Couch Potato Challenge”). We were together while staying apart, and we raised money for our cause.

There were phone calls and e-mails, binge-watching, and emojis.

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canceled events “just a festival,” try to understand that they are reunions full of healing music, good food, fellowship, and long, warm hugs. They require unimaginable amounts of teamwork and yet in the end they are somehow both energizing and relaxing.

We like to recall that Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival has created a number of special moments and relationships.

For example, two different couples have married after first meeting at the festival.

One of our volunteers traveled from Maryland to North Carolina to work with us because the festival fell near the day he had lost his wife. A painful anniversary is now made a bit easier as he gathers with his new friends at CBC each year.

A family that had never heard of the Bible Camp received tickets to attend the festival. The following year, their daughter attended a week of Camp and was baptized. Her sister soon followed. A friend joined the two sisters for a youth conference and was baptized. All three girls walk together in Christ now.

I’ve been present when our volunteers have prayed with our performing artists, and I’ve seen how those artists have been impacted by that simple act.

Each year, at the close of our headliner’s musical set, artists gather onstage to sing, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” It’s a sacred moment. As the audience says their goodbyes, they know that you never really say goodbye to festival friends.

Understandably, we are thrilled, excited, and a little giddy to see that our outdoor festivals will take place this fall. We are prayerful that we will all see each other in September. We crave the reunions, the music, the fellowship!

In 2020, the state of North Carolina lost 1/3 of the previous year’s tourism revenues.

Festivals are an important part of our tourism.

More importantly, the lives lost to COVID-19 are precious and irreplaceable.

Therefore, let’s be smart. Please, let’s do everything we can to stop the spread of illness. As a police captain friend of mine says, the coronavirus is going to be around for a long time and we’re going to have to learn to live with it. Not in fear, but with caution, consideration and respect for others, and best practices.

If your physician clears you to get a COVID-19 vaccination, please get it. Vaxx up, mask up. Do what it takes, so we can enjoy these times of our lives. !

LISA BREWER is Executive Director of Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival in Mocksville, NC. Write to her at spchwoman@aol.com.

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he self-explanatory documentary feature The Meaning of Hitler offers a contemporary analysis of Sebastian Hoffner’s non-fiction Mark Burger 1978 best-seller The Meaning of Hitler, Contributor originally published as Anmerkungen zu Hitler, as proffered by filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker.

How can arguably the most loathed and despised human being of the twentieth century (or even modern history) still be celebrated today? Why are entire groups — both here and abroad — still enamored of his ideology, to the extent they attempt to replicate it?

These are not simple questions, but the filmmaker addresses them in a manner that is effective, credible, and frequently sobering. Using Haffner’s book as a springboard, they delve into Hitler’s

history, aided and abetted by authors, historians, psychologists, and even the husband-and-wife Nazi-hunting duo of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.

In some ways, the ending is a foregone conclusion. Attempt to rationalize irrational behavior is, as one observer notes, futile. As much research has gone into Hitler’s life, his rise to power remains something of a mystery.

Was the right man at the right time, or the wrong man at the wrong time?

Opinions vary, but the outcome is still the same.

Millions of lives were lost, all due to one man and the power he wielded. Yet Hitler’s memory continues to resonate and reverberate some 75 years since his demise.

In this day and age, people are as apt to seek information about Hitler online as opposed to reading a book. In many cases, they’re seeing what could euphemistically be called the “highlights.” As one observer notes, “Hollywood loves Hitler,” and the film is rife with scenes from various films

depicting him. Among the actors who have won acclaim playing Der Fuhrer: Alec Guinness, Ian McKellen, Bruno Ganz, and Anthony Hopkins (who won an Emmy for the 1982 television film The Bunker).

Even the uproarious “Springtime for Hitler” number in Mel Brooks’ The Producers (1968) is shown here but doesn’t seem quite so funny in this context.

There’s also Leni Riefenstahl’s unabashed propaganda “documentary” Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens), a film as alarming in its worship of Hitler’s Germany as it is astonishing in its technical proficiency, which makes it all the more frightening.

Another important aspect is that, with each successive generation, we get further and further away from that particular period of history. World War II ended in 1945, and a vast majority of people today have no idea what it was actually like. In a similar vein, someone who lived through the JFK assassination in 1963 or the events of Sept. 11, 2001, would have an entirely

different perspective than someone who wasn’t, because they actually experienced it as it occurred.

Epperlein and Tucker succeed in making The Meaning of Hitler a piece of entertainment as well as a cautionary tale. The slate-slapping to introduce many scenes may seem a little cheeky, but does exemplify the lengths to which the filmmakers went to paint a comprehensive picture.

And although it cannot be said that the film is light-hearted, it’s not as heavyhanded as it might have been.

There are, inevitably, comparisons to Donald Trump, which lends a certain measure of immediacy and relevance. It’s not the first time the analogy has been made, nor will it be the last. Yet even if the filmmakers had bypassed Trump altogether, The Meaning of Hitler would still be a worthy, up-to-date examination of Hoffner’s still-relevant book and providing ample food for thought for today’s audiences.

—The Meaning of Hitler is available Everywhere You Rent Movies. !

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If you’ve missed the window to be an astronaut, maybe you can qualify to pretend to be one for a year. NASA is accepting applications for four people who will live inside Mars Dune Alpha, a simulated Martian

habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Associated Press reported.

The 1,700-square-foot structure will have no windows and will be created by a 3-D printer. These paid volunteers will be challenged with spacewalks, equipment failures, limited communication with “home” and restricted food and resources. “We want to understand how humans perform” in the habitats, said lead scientist Grace Douglas. Requirements are strict, but former Canadian astronaut

Chris Hadfield recommends the gig: “Just think how much you’re going to be able to catch up on Netflix.” [Associated Press, 8/6/2021]

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Brandon D’Marcus Presha, 28, was arrested in Laurens, South Carolina, on Aug. 10 for an incident that took place on Aug. 6 in the McDonald’s where he works, The Smoking Gun reported. Late that evening, police said, Presha donned gloves and sat down at a table in the restaurant to ink a tattoo on the arm of a minor — and bystanders posted video of him plying his craft. Presha was charged with tattooing a minor and tattooing without a license. [The Smoking Gun, 8/10/2021]

SHOOTING SPORTS

— Two people died and two others went to the hospital in critical condition after a puzzling car crash on Aug. 11 in San Antonio, Texas. A female driver in her 20s or 30s, traveling at high speed, struck a parked car, police said, and when the owner of the parked car and two others came outside to see what had happened, the woman started shooting at them.

The parked car’s owner was killed; the other two were critically wounded, WOAITV reported. Then another neighbor responded to the ruckus and ended up shooting the driver and killing her. Police are investigating why the woman opened fire on the car’s owner. [WOAI, 8/11/2021] — A 19-year-old woman in Kenosha, Wisconsin, accidentally shot a friend with his own handgun on Aug. 10 while using the weapon’s laser sight to entertain a cat, the Associated Press reported. The woman, who had been drinking, according to a witness, picked up the friend’s handgun, “turned on the laser sight and was pointing it at the floor to get the cat to chase it,” the police report said.

The gun went off and a bullet struck the 21-year-old man in the thigh. The victim was charged for violating bond conditions that prevented him from having a gun. [Associated Press, 8/13/2021]

ROAD RAGE

In King County, Washington, an unnamed 47-year-old suspect was taken into custody on July 30 after several road rage reports, the most striking of which was this: On July 27, the suspect, driving a Jeep, started honking at another driver as both entered a ramp onto I-5, Q13 Fox reported. The victim took an exit to try to escape a confrontation, but the suspect followed and eventually blocked the victim’s car with his own. Then, as shown

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on dashcam video, the suspect exited the Jeep and threw an ax at the victim’s car before driving over the median and escaping. Charges for the multiple incidents include felony hate crime, felony eluding and theft. [Q13 Fox, 8/11/2021]

CRIME REPORT

On Aug. 12, a woman in Oconee County, South Carolina, saw Garry Chase Coble Jr. riding a horse down the road in the middle of the afternoon and then leading it inside a home. When deputies arrived and entered the home, WSPA-TV reported, they found horse feces on the floor in the front room. Next, officers discovered the horse standing calmly in the bedroom. Coble was arrested for larceny of livestock; the horse suffered only a small laceration on its front left leg. [WSPA, 8/12/2021]

DON’T EAT THIS

A piece of wedding cake from the 1981 marriage of Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, Prince of Wales, sold at auction in western England on Aug. 11 for $2,565, CNN reported. The 28-ounce hunk of confection was taken from one of 23 cakes made for the occasion and features a coat-of-arms, a silver horseshoe and a leaf spray. The piece was apparently given to Moyra Smith, a staffperson for the Queen Mother, at the time of the wedding. Since then, it was kept wrapped in plastic inside a cake tin. After 40 years, auctioneer Chris Albury bragged, “It’s an object that’s going to last.” [CNN, 8/12/2021]

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Xi Yan of Jurong West in Singapore called animal welfare group ACRES to her home on July 28 because of what she believed was a snake hissing in a cupboard near her bed. She sent a recording of the noise, and ACRES concluded it was probably a black spitting cobra, reported Coconuts Singapore. The rescue team, armed with protective eyewear and snake grabbers, methodically searched her bedroom, but what they came up with was much less threatening: It was a malfunctioning Oral-B electric toothbrush buzzing away. “The problem started because water got into my electrical toothbrush and affected the mechanism,” Xi said. “I should really buy a new one. I don’t want to go through this again.” [Coconuts Singapore, 8/11/2021] !

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Riding the ‘Trane: The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival Celebrates 10 years

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or jazz enthusiasts throughout the nation and the Triad, the Labor Day holiday has become synonymous with The John Coltrane International Jazz Chanel Davis and Blues festival.

While High Point Editor has grown used to thousands of people descending on its city at least twice a year with its furniture market, the jazz festival and the top-notch musical acts that it brings with it has added another event that draws tourists to the city’s Oak Hollow Festival Park.

“To see us come from asking for favors to getting calls from all over the world to participate in the festival is monumental,” said Joe Williams, festival and talent organizer. “People know about the festival around the world and artists know about the festival from other artists.

Pretty much, the best way to develop the festival, in my opinion, is to have it grow organically inside and out. When I say inside and out, meaning you’ve got artists telling other artists about their experience participating so they want to participate and you’ve got guests coming from all over telling other folks about the festival.

It’s something that seems to be unique and special that is drawing people from afar to visit our area.”

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Photos taken by QL Richardson of the previous 9th John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival This year’s two-day affair will feature the sounds of Kenny Lattimore, Chris Botti and includes an all-star lineup curated from across the country. Williams said that the challenge of choosing talent for the event is a tough one but when it’s right, you’ll know.

“Both nights have to balance, it has to appeal to a diverse group, it has to appeal to a diverse genre and it has to give everybody a little bit of what they’re looking for,” he said. “For people who’ve come to the festival for the first time, we want to surprise them and that seems to be what happens.”

On Saturday, the show will kick off with performances from the Coltrane All-Star

Band, trumpeter Chris Botti, singer and songwriter Kenny Lattimore, saxophonist Marcus Anderson, Galactic, and bassist Julian Vaughn.

Botti, who has had four number one jazz albums, has performed worldwide and won the Best Pop Instrumental Grammy Award in 2012 for his release IMPRESSIONS. Grammy-award nominated philanthropist, singer, songwriter Lattimore is no stranger to the stage or the music scene as a whole. The DC native has placed his mark on classic songs recorded by musical icons such as Donny Hathaway and The Beatles, transformed Christmas classics, and created musical magic on notable

movie soundtracks like Love Jones, Best Man, and Disney’s Lion King II Simba’s Pride.

Anderson, a Grammy and Stellar Award-nominated artist, has 13 albums underneath his belt and has worked with Prince and the New Power Generation.

In concert, Galactic brings unbridled energy to the stage to deliver incredible improvisations and new flourishes on familiar songs. The ultimate jam band, they embrace acid-jazz, post-bop, and fusion, while absorbing cultural styles and techniques of the music experienced in places they visit around the globe while on tour.

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Kansas City has made an international name for himself in a genre dominated by brass instruments. Having discovered his ability to play by ear at a young age, Vaughn plays the bass in a smooth and melodic style.

On Sunday, attendees will hear from artists like jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, Tito Puente, Jr. performing with Melina Almodovar, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, the Coltrane All-Star Band, and alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin.

Grammy-award winning Elling has collaborated with jazz legends and classical orchestras; created multi-disciplinary theatrical works for the Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago; served as Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore and Monterey Jazz Festivals; and explored the fertile common ground between jazz and poetry, working with the words of Allen Ginsberg, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, and others.

Puente, Jr. and special guest Melina Almodovar will perform a dynamic mix of classic Latin Jazz styles of merengue, salsa, and mambo fused with the rhythms that have gained contemporary popularity including cumbia, reggaeton, and bachata.

In 2019, Ingram released his debut album KINGFISH for which he co-wrote eight of the 12 tracks. The album debuted in the top spot on both the ‘Billboard Blues’ and ‘Heatseeker’ charts. The debut album won five awards at the 2020 Blues Awards including Best Instrumentalist – Guitar, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, Emerging Artist Album of the Year, Contemporary Male Artist of the Year, and Album of the Year.

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ance: The Coltranes,” an album on which she pays homage by reinterpreting songs by the couple including Alice Coltrane’s “Turiya and Ramakrishna,” and “Going Home” and John Coltrane’s “Acknowledgment,” and “Central Park West.”

Benjamin brought together musicians for the recording session. Most notably were those who played with either one or both Coltranes including 2020 NEA Jazz Master inductee bassist Reggie Workman and bassist Ron Carter who recorded with Alice Coltrane.

Williams said he feels good about this year’s lineup and what they will offer the audience.

“The lineup this year hopefully will do the same thing they’ve always done. I always try to find that new talent that people have never seen before. Hopefully, attendees walk away refreshed as people did with Gregory Porter when we brought him the first time.”

Like many festivals across the nation, last year’s festival was interrupted by COVID-19 and the restrictions that were imposed during that time. That didn’t stop the organizers from putting on some kind of show. A broadcast featuring the Lao Tizer band was live-streamed featuring a tribute to John Coltrane last year to benefit the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival’s Student Instrument Contest.

The free event was streamed on the festival’s Facebook page, website, and YouTube channel, and featured an appearance from vocalist Michelle Coltrane, stepdaughter of the jazz icon. Traditionally, the festival has given away instruments to student musicians in middle and high school who’ve written essays explaining what music means to them and why they are in need of a new instrument. Winners are presented with their new instruments

on stage at the festival.

“If you think about music, there’s a beginning in everyone’s career but until you get an instrument it’s something that you listen to and not participate in,” Williams said. “By giving a young person an instrument, that’s theirs and has never been touched by anyone else, you give them pride in their craft and help them further their dream.”

This year, the festival will include other events that may not be musical in nature but do tie into Coltrane’s time spent in High Point or are built around attracting guests from the festival.

From August 28 to October 5, 2021, residents and festival attendees can visit The Gallery on Main, located at 100 S. Main St. in High Point, to view a photographic history of the Coltrane festival. “Catch the Coltrane: A Photographic Journey Down the History of the Coltrane Jazz Festival” will be on display along with works from artist Rhonda “Rhen” Neal’s John Coltrane Collection.

“As a High Point native and attendee of the festival for many years, it’s exciting to see an exhibit that celebrates the amazing talent and loyal patrons that have truly made the Coltrane experience so special,” said Sabrina Tillman McGowens, co-owner of The Gallery on Main and owner of Sabrina’s. “We’re so honored to celebrate a local icon in our gallery through art and music.”

On Friday, September 3, attendees can tour Coltrane’s Childhood home on Underhill from 3 to 5 p.m. and the High Point Museum will celebrate the opening of the “A Love Supreme: The Jazz of John Coltrane through the Eyes of Chuck Stewart”, a traveling exhibit curated by the Grammy Museum.

The 2021 John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Golf Tournament, a project

that has been long in the making, will be held on Friday, September 3, 2021, at Oak Hollow Lake Golf Course at 3400 N. Centennial St. in High Point. Check-in starts at 8 a.m. with tee time starting at 9 a.m. The entry fee is $100 and the entry deadline is August 27. Fees for the two-man team include green and cart fees, driving range balls, and lunch.

Williams said that it takes the hard work of a dedicated team to make sure attendees reach the best experience.

“It takes a lot of people to pull this off.

The volunteers, the board members, and the festival support staff help to make sure this is a successful event,” he said.

While this is the 10th year for the festival, Williams sees it as just the beginning of a wonderful musical journey.

“I believe that we have touched just a fraction of this festival’s potential. Coltrane was not just a jazz musician. He was a musical explorer. He just traveled the world and he just wanted to find different sounds and music. He was in search. He searched to find music,” he said. “He was so much more than what you see on the surface and that is what allowed him to achieve what he has, why he’s so revered and why he’s touched so many people in music. From Common to Carlos Santana.

Coltrane created something that had never been created before. He’s much bigger than the pigeon-holes that people put him in.”

For more information, show schedule, or tickets, visit https://coltranejazzfest. com/. !

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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Greensboro zoning commissioner vote threatens historic home A unanimous Monday night vote by the Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commission may doom a historic Quaker home later owned by a former state representative who became a religious Ian McDowell mystic, dressed like Moses, and ran twice as a fringe candidate Contributor for United States President.

Built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, the Kimrey-Haworth House at 5307 W. Friendly Ave., is best known as a striking example of Italian Renaissance architecture; and for its second owner Samuel Lee Haworth, who expanded the Guilford College Department of Religion, and was an internationally prominent Quaker missionary in the years before World War II. In researching the house’s history, this writer has turned up brief but tantalizing scraps of information about Donald Badgley, who bought the house from Haworth’s widow in 1958, and ran for president on very bizarre platforms in 1980 and 1984.

That obscure historical sidenote has little to do with why some residents of the West Friendly neighborhood were dismayed by the Commission’s August 16 vote to rezone properties at 5307, 5313, and 5317 W. Friendly Ave. and 724 Muirs Chapel Road from Residential Single-Family to Conditional District-Office.

The rezoning request was brought by GrandDot Development, LLC on behalf of Barbara and Matthew Osborne, Robert and Vickie Cannon, and John Lomax. Lomax is the president and founder of Lomax Construction and Lomax Properties. The Cannons own the Kimrey-Haworth house.

They and the other applicants requested the rezoning because they want to build a 40,000 square foot medical building on the site of that and three other homes near the intersection of Muirs Chapel and West Friendly. The developers have not said which medical provider will occupy the building.

“Our main point here is that this property has changed in character,” said Mark Isaacson, the attorney speaking for the applicants. “Friendly Avenue has been widened.

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single-family residential anymore.”

“Is there a historic property on this, and are there any restrictions about that historic property?” asked Vice-Chair Sandra O’Connor.

Isaacson acknowledged that there was, but said the State Historic Preservation Office “confirmed that there are no restrictions to any changes that would occur just because this is on the National Registry.”

Isaacson stated that Robert Cannon, coowner of the Kimrey-Haworth House, had placed the property on the Registry in 1990 “to avoid Painter Boulevard, which was proposed at the time to come through or nearby this property,” but that Cannon no longer wished to maintain the property as a residence.

Candida Yoshika, who lives across the street from the historic home, spoke in opposition to the rezoning. “This zoning application would not maintain the character of our neighborhood,” Yoshika said, expressing alarm that it would remove “25% of our neighborhood” and impose “an office quality of life on residents.” She also decried “the demolition of historic properties” and stated that “the precedent for commercial zoning to creep eastward down Friendly Avenue” was a matter of great concern for her and her neighbors.

“We oppose the proposed zoning because it will harm the historic fabric of the area,” said Bill McNeil of the New Garden/ Guilford College Community Alliance. McNeil stated that demolishing the KimreyHowarth House and other homes built in the 1920s would gut one of Greensboro’s two designated heritage communities, and that the proposed 40,000 square-foot office space “is vastly out of scale and character” with both the neighborhood and the nearest office spaces. His organization, said McNeil, believes that “office and commercial zoning should stop at Muirs Chapel Road, and not sprawl along Friendly Avenue toward Westridge Road.”

“History changes,” Isaacson said in his rebuttal. “This is not about the next five or ten years, this is about the next 50 to 100

years in this community.”

Zoning Commissioners Mary Skenes and Zac Engle made statements in support of the application. Commissioner Richard Bryon moved to pass the rezoning, calling it “reasonable” and stating that “it will benefit the property owner and surrounding community and approval is in the public interest.” After the Commission voted unanimously for the rezoning, Chair Hugh Holston stated that “this approval constitutes final action unless appealed in writing to the planning department within ten days,” and “all such appeals will be subject to a public hearing at the Sept. 21, 2021 city council meeting.”

The Kimrey-Haworth House is listed in the National Registrar of Historic Places as “a prominent and virtually intact example of the Italian Renaissance style of domestic architecture that enjoyed a brief burst of popularity in the 1910s and 1920s” and “an important and threatened example of the roomy, comfortable suburban, eclectic style dwelling that housed legions of middle-class North Carolinians who migrated to sylvan settings surrounding the state’s burgeoning cities in the 1910s and 1920s.”

The following history of the house is based on the much more extensive one entered on the 1990 registration form by Linda Harris Edmisten, and this writer’s research into the history of former NC State Representative and fringe presidential candidate Donald Badgley.

The house was built in 1925-26, when the previously semi-rural area near the Guilford College Depot of the Southern Railway train line was being turned into a suburb by Southern Real Estate Company, which also developed Irving Park and Sedgefield. In 1925, the company sold the property to Benson and Minnie Kimrey for $5,000.

According to a 1927 deed of trust, the Kimreys took out a $700 loan with the house as collateral. A few months later, Benson Kimrey transferred the property to his wife, Minnie, for the sum of ten dollars.

In 1928, the Kimreys took out another $750 loan. Shortly afterward, they sold their house to Samuel and Evelyn Haworth for “the sum of ten dollars and other valuable considerations.”

From 1928 to 1957, Samuel Lee Haworth was a professor at Guilford College, where he expanded and reorganized the Department of Religion and was an active national and international Quaker leader who established a mission in pre-Castro Havana. Evelyn Haworth was a founder of the Guilford Art Appreciation Club, a member of the Girl’s Aid Committee of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting, and president of the North Carolina Woman’s Missionary Union of Friends. Following her husband’s death in 1957, she sold their house to the Trustees of Guilford College, who then sold it to Donald Badgley.

Badgley, a 1940 graduate of Guilford College originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, lived in the house from 1958 until 1967. In 1962, he was elected to the N.C. House of Representatives in an unprecedented Republican sweep of the Guilford County legislative delegation. In 1964, he ran in the Republican primary for Governor.

After losing that race to Robert Gavin, he returned to New York in 1968, where he became a religious mystic. In 1980 and 1984, he ran for President of the United States.

In both elections, Badgley got some fleeting national press attention as a fringe candidate, due to his long flowing hair and beard, his habit of wearing robes and carrying a staff, and his statement that “I don’t believe in the legal system.” Although he remained a registered Republican, the basis of his platform was a proposed “Perfect Calendar” consisting of a 360-day year, 30-day months, and 6-day weeks. Adopting this calendar, said Badgley, would bring “spiritual balance” to mankind.

In 1980, he made the Republican ballot in the Kansas primary, and was quoted in a July 14, 1980 Washington Post article “Fringe Candidates Assail Election Laws as Biased.” He ran again in 1984, but it’s unclear if his name was printed on any primary ballots. He died in Poughkeepsie on June 22, 1988, at the age of 69.

After Badgley sold it in 1967, the KimreyHaworth House went through five more owners before becoming a showroom for the Priba furniture company. Present owners Robert and Vickie Cannon purchased it in 1980 and restored it as a home for their family. !

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Downtown maker space expands Greensboro makers and future makers will soon have more space to hone their skills and figure out their craft as Forge Greensboro gears up to expand once again.

The commuChanel Davis nity maker space in downtown Greensboro is lookEditor ing to increase its size, from roughly 8,000 square feet to roughly 12,000 square feet with two additional classrooms, add community programming and launch a capital campaign to raise $350,000 for new programs, workshops, and facility improvements.

Similar to its previous expansion, the maker space, according to Executive Director Joe Rotondi, is “creating programs around how we saw people using the space.”

“Over the past three to four years, we’ve got an idea of what those programs are and how they affect the community. This campaign is to expand into the rest of the community so we can really stamp our programming and our partnership in the community,” he said.

“We’ll be expanding into more youth programming and putting more funds and systems into our programs that we’ve had success with in the past.”

New features will include advanced equipment, Innovation Labs for students, increased mentorship programs, and a mobile classroom to provide STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) instruction to schools throughout Guilford County. The expansion will also bring more youth programming, maker studios for entrepreneurs, and the growth of the pre-apprenticeship program.

“This expansion will open doors for many different groups within Greensboro,” said Jennie Savage, the Forge’s Programs Coordinator. “We will be able to reach many more people in the community with the help of fundraising, and we are excited about the new opportunities this will give to students, small business owners, and the Greensboro community in general.”

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He said that there are plans for the agency to work with local schools and nonprofits, like Greensboro Housing Authority, within a 5-mile radius of the maker space.

“We are looking to work with partners like them to bring kids into the space so that they are able to see the opportunities they have in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math as potential skills they can have for career paths,” Rotondi said.

“You know a lot of people come in here and invent, but there’s a big push in education overall. Guilford County Schools has been doing a lot of work in this realm too with their Career and Technical Education curriculum to get kids interested in hands-on and creative problem solving as early of an age as possible,” he said. “We had this push in education for a while where people were just geared to go to college, and you find that there is now a shortage of skilled workers. Instead of discouraging kids that think like, that we want to be a part of that community effort to inspire them to follow those gifts and talents they have into these great career opportunities.”

The goal of the nonprofit community maker space is to provide affordable access to tools and technology. For a small monthly fee, entrepreneurs, small businesses, artisans, and such can gain 24/7 access to a facility with 3D printers, a woodshop, machining, welding, ceramics, and laser engravers, including

a community of makers to work with and learn from.

“We started as a group of people meeting up in coffee shops wanting to basically merge their garages together, borrow tools and learn from each other,” Rotondi said. “The general premise is still there. Our core program is still membership access to a bunch of really cool tools that average Joes may not have the funds or the space for. For some folks, it’s just an expression of creativity where for other folks it leads to a new career, inspiring them to take a new economic pathway in life.”

Since its inception, the Forge has hosted more than 2,000 students in classes, with more than 1,200 total members. Currently, there are more than 240 active members and 30 entrepreneurs working out of the Forge. In 2016, the maker space doubled its space, bolstered its entrepreneurial resources, increased funding for the Talent Pipeline, and added curricula for both kids and adults.

Rotondi said that often the maker space fills a void that schools and local community centers inadvertently cre-

ated when they cut funding, creating an unintentional skills gap. It is a void that maker spaces have begun looking to fill.

“We didn’t realize what we had until we lost it. We’re hoping that through this youth program and advocacy for kids to engage with hands-on projects, that we can advocate for these spaces or versions of these spaces to come back to schools.”

He said that Forge Greensboro has seen a positive response to their latest campaign from their members, community partners, and staff. There are already plans to launch an afterschool youth club in late August.

“We’ll be designing and building our own Bluetooth speakers, which we’ve done as a staff,” Rotondi said. “We had a lot of fun, so we’re really excited to see what the kids come up with.”

To donate to Forge Greensboro, visit their website at www.forgegreensboro. org. !

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Written Vision: Blind author debuts memoir Greensboro writer James Tate Hill strategically navigated West Virginia streets 20 years ago, risking death rather than letting anyone know his vision is a blurry kaleidoscope of light and color.

Ian McDowell “Sometimes other pedestrians are waiting on the curb, and Contributor you can cross behind them. The odds are decent that they aren’t blind, distracted, or suicidal, but you realize this is a gamble. Party school that this is, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that some students might be drunk or stoned when they step into the crosswalk, even in the afternoon.”

Hill’s second book, Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir, was published this month by W. W. Norton & Co. It tells the funny and poignant story of how a high school junior, with keen eyesight but zero interest in books, became a legally blind novelist, essayist, and educator with multiple Masters degrees, who only in the last decade outed himself as a writer who can’t read.

At least not in the literal sense.

“I never learned Braille, and screen readers weren’t an option until 2001 when I was finishing my MFA in Creative Writing at UNCG,” said Hill when I interviewed him last week. “Before that, it was all prerecorded audio.”

In his book’s prologue, Hill describes his disability.

“What most people want to know is what I see when I look at them, and the short answer is this: I don’t see what I look directly at. If I look up or to the side, I can see something, and this usually fends off further questions. This answer allows people to imagine, however erroneously, that my blind spots are smudges on the center of a mirror from which I can escape by looking elsewhere.”

Hill suffers from Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), a rare degenerative disease of the retina that results in acute loss of central vision.

“Instead of a smudge, picture a kaleidoscope. Borderless shapes fall against each other, microscopic organisms, a timelapsed photograph of a distant galaxy. Dull colors flicker and swirl: mustard yellow, pale green, magenta.”

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constructed only of metaphors.” Standing a few inches from a mirror, he can see enough of his face to “ponder the accuracy of a girl who told me when I was 20 that I kind of looked like Ben Affleck, which might or might not have compelled me to defend the actor’s problematic career choices for the next two decades.”

Hill was born in 1977 in Charleston, West Virginia, and grew up in a house on a dirt road just outside city limits. One day when he was a high school junior in the early spring of 1993, he found he could neither read the words on the overhead projector nor the sparse notes his friend had taken.

When he got home, he told his mom he needed glasses.

The optometrist found a very large central blind spot in Hill’s left eye. Within weeks, a second blind spot developed in his right one, and he was referred to Johns Hopkins, where his incurable condition was diagnosed.

His peripheral vision still allowed him to get around on foot, although much more easily in familiar places. “All reading has been with my ear, and was strictly via audiobooks from 1993 until 2001 when screen readers became sophisticated enough.”

The former nonreader listened to hundreds of novels, and bought them in paperback editions that he never opened, but put on his shelves to make it appear that he’d read them with his eyes. He memorized track listings on his favorite CDs and buttons on the microwave. In college, he bought canned food and snacks at the minimart, because grocery stores were a nightmare. Later in life, shopping with girlfriends led to fights because they got tired of reading labels aloud, and he refused to explain why he needed them to do so.

In his book, he writes about the young woman who became his good friend as a college senior, after three years of considering him a jerk.

“As a freshman, she had waved to me multiple times before giving up. She wouldn’t be the last to confess this, and I was always relieved that people thought I was an asshole and not blind.”

Because he found it hard to communi-

cate his emotions, he began to write fiction.

“I started writing short stories as a way to try to express what I didn’t know how to articulate. Even though I wasn’t writing about myself, it was cathartic, and something I could do by dictating into a cassette recorder.”

In high school, it had been impossible for him to truly hide his blindness from his teachers and administration, but that changed at West Virginia Wesleyan College, where his graduation was nightmarish.

“I needed help finding my way across the stage, but was too stubborn or sensitive to phrase it that way. So, I thought, all right, how hard can it be?”

He uneasily took his place in line behind a tall women’s basketball player. “Then she disappears and I step forward and they hand me a leather bound diploma and I have no idea what to do. Do I turn left or right? Do I go forward? There were these old men surrounding me, one patting me on the back, one so close to my face I could

sort of see him smiling in a paternal, or perhaps confused, way.”

Hill couldn’t hear what they were saying over the music and crowd noise. “But I could feel them, first gently and then not so gently, pushing me off the stage. I say ‘Do I step forward?’ I think I see a head nod, and I take a step forward and nobody stops me. I keep walking and I go down a ramp and am safely off the stage, and I can sort of make out where the chairs are, and then an aisle, and then I’m fine because I can see empty chairs.”

Although he didn’t fall off the stage, Hill dreamed of doing so for years afterward.

“All because I refused to acknowledge the help that I needed, or why I needed it.”

He earned a Master’s in English Literature from West Virginia University in Morgantown. “I then got into the Creative Writing program at Hollins in Roanoke, which was just a one-year MA program at the time. From there, I came to Greensboro in 2001 for the MFA Creative Writing program at UNCG. I remember hearing my mom on the phone in the summer before I came to Greensboro for my third Master’s.

She said ‘well, he’s found something he’s good at,’ and I wasn’t sure if she meant writing or graduate school.”

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Hill married a poet he met at UNCG and calls Meredith in his book. That didn’t last long.

“I hope the portrayal is fair, and that the blame points squarely at the person telling the story, which is me. Since then, I’ve been married to Lori, who is a graphic designer and works in marketing, and who is from Greensboro. We’ve been dating since 2008 and married since 2013, and celebrated our eighth anniversary in July.”

It was after his divorce, and about the time he started dating Lori, that Hill stopped concealing his disability.

“I spent so many years lying, if only by omission. My best friends in college knew I needed help to read the titles at the video store, but when we got to the 13-inch TV in the dorm room, I never fessed up that I couldn’t see a lick of the movie. It wasn’t until 2008, post-divorce, that I started learning how to lead with that information when necessary. But it feels absurd to introduce myself to people with ‘Hi, I’m J.T. and I’m blind.’ There are so few occasions to confess something essential about yourself to strangers in a way that doesn’t make it seem weird.”

Hill’s first book, Academy Gothic, was published in 2015. It’s a murder mystery set in a failing and literally decaying small private college in a town much like Greensboro. The protagonist, who barely makes a living as an adjunct lecturer and resides in a dilapidated hotel across the street from the even more dilapidated college, is legally blind but can tell that the dean didn’t shoot himself three times in the head, though the cops claim otherwise.

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mond Chandleresque voice that felt like a protective way to talk about my blindness.

It was fiction, so I could just deny it was me.”

But the book sold, was published, and Hill had to promote it. Doing that, he discovered something.

“When you’re trying to promote novels, most people seem particularly interested in the parts that sound like they might be true. So, novels can come from truth, and a big part of that novel came from that part of myself I’d tried to hide for so long.

But when I was writing that novel, I was in a healthy relationship and had turned the corner towards self-acceptance. And when I started promoting it, I started talking honestly about myself. And I found I could still keep that humor in writing nonfiction, and it felt natural and true.”

This led to Hill’s essay “On Being a Writer Who Can’t Read,” which Lithub.com published in January 2016. “My friend Beth, the novelist Bich Minh Nguyen, read that essay and told me that it was a book if I wanted it to be. I realized it was, and now, five years later, it is.”

As someone who reads with his ears and grew up watching 1980s teen comedies, Hill is particularly thrilled that the audiobook of Blind Man’s Bluff is read by the actor best known for playing Booger in the film Revenge of the Nerds and Herbert Viola on the TV series Moonlighting.

“I never thought we could actually get him, but I told my publisher that the ideal narrator would be Curtis Armstrong, who did the wonderful audiobook of Nick de Semlyen’s Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the 1980s Changed Hollywood Forever. In that audiobook, he did an amazing job of delivering the sentences with a perfect weight where the weight is supposed to go, without too much performance, but also capturing the quiet moments, and the pathos along with the hilarity. Curtis totally captured that.”

Not one to be pigeonholed, Hill is currently working on a novel that sounds very different from either his first one or his memoir, and which draws on the pop culture of his youth. “It’s set in the malls of the 1980s and 1990s, and features a number of child stars, some real and some fictional.”

On Tuesday, August 24 at 7 p.m., the Greensboro Public Library will host a free virtual event in which James Tate Hill discusses Blind Man’s Bluff and answers questions from Zoom attendees. For more information, email beth.sheffield@ greensboro-nc.gov. !

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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chool is back in session and veteran WUAG DJ Prez Parks is back in Greensboro with a brand-new live expansion of his long-running “In the Beat of the Night” Katei Cranford radio show, plus residencies at the Flat Contributor Iron, Cafe Europa, and crates of records, wall to wall.

A full-fledged purveyor of beats, Parks is “happy to be back,” after a stint in Atlanta and “honored to still be playing some music” as he continues navigating the world of record collecting, event curating and laying the groove all around Greensboro—his adopted city “off and on” for the past 20 years.

A “New England groomed” military kid, Parks grew up moving around and embracing the beat. “Music was everything in our house,” he said, crediting his grandmother’s record collection as the foundation for

his own “crate-digging” obsession. “It’s like being a musical archaeologist,” he said, “and unearthing moments in time.”

In 2005, Parks took to the airwaves at WUAG, an experience that he parlayed into a job as a media consultant for Stones Throw Records, working with artists like Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc, MED, Dudley Perkins, Homeboy Sandman, and Georgia Anne Muldrow. In 2007, he started Psyoptic Records, initially as a label and later a DJ collective that’s collaborated with the likes of the Gate City Get Down, Dance From Above, and Strictly Social.

Happy to “still be a part of the Greensboro DJ community,” Parks continues centering his own community around the “In the Beat of the Night” radio show. At 16 years and counting, it’s one of the longestrunning programs in the region, currently broadcasting on Wednesdays from 9 to 11 p.m. “It started as a live mix show, focused on electronic and underground hip hop that got little love on mainstream stations,” he explained, referencing the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show as a major influence. The NYC hip hop radio show revolved around underground artists

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DJ Prez Parks mixed with live DJ sessions; and is credited with premiering acts like Biggie Smalls, Eminem, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fugees during its run throughout the 1990s.

Parks holds a similar purpose in highlighting local and regional artists. “I’ve seen so many great DJs and personalities come and go on to do amazing things,” he said. Parks looks to continue that mission as resident DJ and events curator for the Flat Iron. The goal is “to create an atmosphere that keeps the door open for all to be welcome,” he explained, noting the “musical melting pot” of weekly regulars like Open Mic (hosted by J. Timber) on Mondays, and the Tuesday night “Charlie Hunter and Friends” showcase.

On Fridays, Parks sits in with the Sam Fribush Trio (highlighting his trumpet skills and harkening his “band geek days.”) On Wednesdays, he brings the beat with a DJ double-whammy—broadcasting “In the Beat of the Night” live and over the air on WUAG, followed by an evening of “OffBeat Vinyl,” a bring-your-own record series he began upon his return.

“The Off-Beat came out of a need to dust off my record collection in storage once I got back,” Parks explained. “This city has taste,” he added, listing records attendees have brought that range from “SZA to James Carr. Brittney Spears to Fela Kuti. Run The Jewels to The Kinks.”

The series serves as an after party for “In the Beat of the Night,” which began broadcasting live from the Flat Iron in June.

“After 16 years, it was time for a change,” Parks said. “We took pieces of ideas from live stream concerts and shows like Red Bull Sessions and Radio Greensboro, and put it all together,” he explained of the format, which streams interviews and live performances. “It’s something new for a city that has given me a lot. Now our listenership isn’t just limited to the airwaves.”

The roster so far has included Afika Nx-

umalo, Ill Po, World War G (a group featuring S.I.L.E.N.T.W.A.R. and Bron G) Veteran Eye, Sunqueen Kelcey, and Brydecisive; along with the regular ITBOTN crew: DJ J-Lone, Patrick “Killmatic” Kilmartin, Katie.

Blvd, and Deviant Sounds.

Parks has enjoyed opening up the experience. “It’s nerve-wracking at first,” he said, ”but you grow with it and them. Each week brings new people and new energy.” And within the realms of new energies, the format affords an expansion beyond electronic music. “We’re open to fresh sounds and stories beyond our original vein,” Parks noted. “The show represents music as a whole. And we curate from there.”

But Parks’ renaissance isn’t limited to the Flat Iron. He’s been popping up at parties around town, and jazzes up the Cafe Europa crowd with “Sunday Jazz Sessions” each week from 6 to 11 p.m. “Jazz has so many layers and it touches so many genres,” he said. “We’re creating something special—with two turntables and piano.

It’s a vibe.”

Deviant Sounds and Killmatic are frequent faces around the decks. Peter Daye (aka L in Japanese) from Cut the Music Prints has been spotted during a session or two. And Veneé Pawlowski (Black Magnolia Southern Patissiere) has hopped on board, bringing tasty treats to match the beats.

“We’re kindred music junkies,” Parks said, saluting the “Sunday magic” and off-limit possibilities found in jazz and music in general. Possibilities he’s excited to extend for “In the Beat of the Night,” in its upcoming session on Aug. 18 with the indie-pop duo, Side Pony. Followed by singer-songwriter, Jessie Dunks, on Aug 25. !

KATEI CRANFORD Is a Triad music nerd who hosts “Katei’s Thursday Tour Report” on WUAG 103.1fm.

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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

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I’m a woman in my early 20s.

The guy I’m dating brought me to meet his friends. His male friends were warm and friendly.

The women were awful. One delibAmy Alkon erately kept saying my name wrong Advice (it’s not exactly exotic), and two Goddess others glared at my miniskirt. Another said something about how low-cut my top was. She made it sound like a compliment, but it was a mean dig. How can these women be so nasty when they don’t even know me? How do I diffuse situations like these? —Upset Nothing like women celebrating other women: “Way to go, girl! Showing everything but your areolas.”

When a man has a beef with another man, he’ll be direct about it: hurl insults at the guy’s face and maybe try to renovate his jaw with a barstool. Women fight sneaky-dirty with other women, using covert tactics, explains psychologist Anne Campbell. These include mobilizing a group of women to ostracize a woman, talking trash to men about her looks and how “loose” she is, and offering “compliments” that are actually nasty digs. Give a woman’s confidence a beatdown and she might dim her shine (cover her miniskirt with a shawl and wipe that sexy red lipstick off on her sleeve).

Psychologist Tracy Vaillancourt

separated female research participants into random groups. She compared one group’s reactions to a 20-something woman walking into a classroom dressed “conservatively” (in a loosely fitting shirt and khaki slacks) with the other group’s reactions to the same woman dressed “provocatively” (in a very short skirt and a tight, low-cut shirt). Dressed conservatively, she was “barely noticed by the participants.” When she entered in skin-baring sexywear, almost all the women “aggressed against her.” They rolled their eyes at her, gave her “onceovers,” and shot her “death stares.” After she left, many laughed at her, ridiculed her appearance, and/or suggested she was a man-hopping sleaze.

You’re a target for the she-hyenas whenever you wear sexy clothing and makeup (like an intense smoky eye with winged eyeliner). Decide whether you have the emotional strength and social capital to bear the glares and backbiting, or whether you need to, say, stock up on some floor-length prairie dresses. This isn’t to say you should immediately assume the worst of all women. However, understanding what you can expect from some might help you stand tall in the face of an attack — remembering that it’s about them, not about you, when they imply that your bedroom’s visitors log rivals Ellis Island’s.

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I’m a guy in my 30s. Before COVID, I used Tinder to hook up with different women a few times a week. I don’t recognize myself anymore. Yesterday, I was on a date, and the girl was really hot and wanted to go back to my place to have sex. I was weirdly turned off by the idea and called her an

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motivating us to feel, think, and behave in ways that keep us from getting invaded by the buggers.

For example, social psychology grad student James B. Moran and his adviser, social psychologist Damian Murray, find that reminding research participants of the looming threat of infectious disease puts a damper on the appeal of casual sex and their inclination to have it down the road.

Chances are this response explains your own psychological and behavioral shift: stud-turned-monk of COVID-19. There’s no clock on exactly when you’ll be back to your sexual-Wild West self. Should you get nostalgic, keep in mind that you can still dip into some elements of the hookuppy old days, such as “the walk of shame” — though, these days, that’s what we call it when you get yelled at by the old lady down the street for taking out the trash unmasked. !

Uber home. This isn’t like me, but it keeps happening. Why am I suddenly like this?

—Worried If we hadn’t gotten vaccines, we might’ve seen a whole new category of lingerie, a la Victoria’s Crotchless Hazmat Suit.

Our body’s immune system protects us by mobilizing warrior cells to fight off invaders like bacteria, parasites, and viruses that cause infectious diseases. However, war is costly — whether between nations or inside us. Psychologist Mark Schaller notes that our body’s effort to surround and kill “pathogenic intruders” sucks up calories needed for important bodily functions. It can also be “temporarily debilitating” due to “fever, fatigue, and other physiological consequences of an aggressive immunological response.” (You sometimes have to boil the village alive to save the village.)

To avoid these costs, we need to avoid being exposed to disease in the first place. Helping us do that is the job of our “behavioral immune system.” This is Schaller’s term for a suite of psychological mechanisms that function as our early warning system, helping us identify signs of pathogens in our social environment and

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