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Based on the crowds I have observed this fall, SUNDAY BRUNCH is a wildly popular attraction in the Triad. I find the occasion especially inviting during the Holiday season. Herewith, three of my favorite locations.

6 LONG LIFE MEAL PREP COMPANY is a family-owned and operated business that caters to everyone and their dietary needs. “We have been gifted so much in the short time we have been here and have an expectation to be grateful through feeding others,” said Sarah Long, co-owner. “This is our third-year opening, and we have a variety of 15 different bowls each week.

7 The bubbly holiday comedy SINGLE ALL THE WAY is currently available on Netflix, and “OUT at the Movies” will be hosting a special Netflix Viewing Party on December 22 beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A with cast members Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers.

8 As we celebrate this holiday season, let’s not forget that there are people beyond our immediate circle of family and friends who are suffering, and could benefit from our LOVE AND GENEROSITY.

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14 The “Jamison Mobile Park Homes” sign announcing the tightly knit immigrant community that’s quietly thrived on Greensboro’s Hiatt Street for decades is gone. It’s been replaced by a handmade and forlornly sign proclaiming “HOPE FOR HIATT.” 15 Greensboro is a community home to opportunities, businesses, history, and its very own curling team. “We aren’t the Olympics, but we are one hell of a local team,” said Chris Ratliff, team captain for the GATE CITY CURLING TEAM. 19 OUR BAND, a harmonious New York City duo with Triad ties, will host an intimate tribute to the Everly Brothers on Dec. 20 at Double Oaks Bed and Breakfast in Greensboro. “Steeped in the tradition of great male and female duets such as Johnny Cash and June Carter,” Our Band, is the pairing of pianist Sasha Papernik (a first-generation Russian-American) and guitarist Justin Poindexter...

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ased on the crowds I have observed this fall, Sunday Brunch is a wildly popular attraction in the Triad. I find the occasion especially inviting during the Holiday season. Herewith, three of my favorite locations.

For these visits, my wife and I ordered Eggs Benedict in each restaurant, in order to establish some degree of direct comparison, plus something else that looked especially interesting. In each location, the traditional Eggs Benedict recipe — poached eggs, Canadian bacon, and hollandaise sauce on an English muffin — had been tweaked a bit.

Green Valley Grille (622 Green Valley Rd, Greensboro 27408, 336-8542015, greenvalleygrill.com) is elegant. A two-story ceiling looks down onto the din-

ing area. Brick walls flank a large center arch. The large, open kitchen is situated in a way that creates the impression of a theater, with chefs on stage.

Their version of Eggs Benedict uses a toasted challah bun, layered with shaved Giacomo’s ham, poached eggs, hollandaise, and hashbrown potatoes. The bun is distinctive — sweetish in flavor, soft in texture — a pleasant variation on the traditional English muffin host. The ham, a local product, is excellent. The hashbrowns are worth a trip in themselvescrisp, decorated with fried onions.

My wife ordered Shakshuka, something we had never had before. This consists of potato cakes wrapped in bacon, covered with fried eggs, then a ragout of chorizo sausage and tomatoes, topped with basil pesto. Interesting. We especially liked how the sausage flavor blended with the eggs, the tomatoes adding an acidic

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Print Works Bistro (702 Green Valley Rd, Greensboro 27408, 336-3790699, printworksbistro.com) is light and airy, with abundant natural light.

Draperies around various perimeters and sound-absorbing tiles in the ceiling soften crowd noise.

A conventional version of Eggs Benedict is available here, if you are wedded to tradition. But I found Smoked Salmon Benedict more interesting. This is also based on a toasted English muffin but adds smoked salmon to poached eggs with hollandaise sauce. Fresh sautéed spinach is served

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alongside. I found the smoked salmon more attractive than traditional Canadian bacon, and healthier to boot!

Our second choice here was the Vegetable Torte. “Torte” in this case is a loose construction — roasted winter root vegetables are placed on top of and in between two squares of puff pastry.

Soft-cooked eggplant, carrots, mushrooms, and butternut squash are diced and dolloped with tomato balsamic emulsion and a dab of goat cheese, then sprinkled with spiced pumpkin seeds. If tasted separately, the inherent, natural flavor of the vegetables is evident; taken together, the tomato and goat cheese add a welcome accent. A kale and apple salad is served alongside.

The Undercurrent (327 Battleground Avenue, Greensboro 27401, 336-3701266, undercurrentrestaurant.com) is elegant but not stuffy. It’s easy to relax here. For me, of equal importance, conversation can be conducted, given the low noise level.

The kitchen was serving a summer version of Eggs Benedict when I visited.

Instead of an English muffin, a buttermilk biscuit hosted poached eggs, along with a crisp slice of fried green tomato coated with pimiento cheese, placed over country ham, all ladled with hollandaise sauce.

You might not anticipate buttermilk biscuits in a fine dining restaurant, but if your grandmother had gone to a top-level culinary school, these are the ones she would have made. I would go back just for the biscuits (along with everything else).

The tomato slices are tart and firm (as they should be), the pimiento cheese a sharp yet mellow complement.

After my visit, the kitchen changed the preparation to Greens, Eggs, and Ham Benedict — sweet potato biscuits, collard greens, and country ham over poached

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Merguez and Grits is an assertive variation on the southern tradition of shrimp and grits. In this case, lamb sausage is hosted by Guilford Mill grits blended with smoked white cheddar cheese, plus fried eggs and tomato confit. A Moroccan spice mixture (cinnamon, cumin, coriander, allspice, black pepper, and ginger) kicks things up. I really enjoyed the lamb sausage.

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ong Life Meal Prep Company is a familyowned and operated business that caters to everyone and their dietary needs. “We have been gifted so much in the short Naima Said time we have been here and have an expectation to be Contributor grateful through feeding others,” said Sarah Long, co-owner. “This is our third-year opening, and we have a variety of 15 different bowls each week. We have been growing at a rapid rate with 30 different locations between Greensboro to Charlotte.”

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The Long family prepare to distribute blessing boxes. everything packed and distributed the week of Christmas,” Myers said. “I am thrilled for others to enjoy our honey barbeque chicken or wild-caught salmon with jasmine rice and green beans, but if a family has specific allergies or conditions, we are the first to accommodate.”

The blessing boxes recognize the spirit of the holiday with healthy desserts.

“We believe sweets are the gateway to the soul, so why not make them festive,” Long said. “We will be making pistachio pudding, pumpkin cheese protein muffins, red velvet protein poppers, and a variety of donuts. My favorite is the lemon cake donuts decorated with colorful sprinkles.”

Long Life Meal Prep is grateful to have been able to serve and feed their community since the day they opened

their doors, providing a variety of options and dietary needs for the whole family. “Thank you to the community for helping us do this. Thank you to those who donate and thank you to those who help us find families in need. As we grow, we want to give back even bigger,” Don shared. “To see the smiles on the faces of the single moms, widows, and guardians who continue to do their part despite the tough nature we live in today, we could not ask for more. In order to make real change, you have to start somewhere, and it’ll only get better from here.”

Long Life Meal Prep is hoping to expand to newcomers and refugees in the area, welcoming them with open arms and a hot meal, a universal language that brings everyone together.

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This is the first year Long Life Meal Prep has organized a blessing box for Christmas. “We got the idea after launching our second Thanksgiving boxes and found it to be quite the success. A small blessing box can fit 20-25 items and cost $50, while a large box can fit 35-40 boxes for $100.”

Long, her husband Don, and her brother, Josh Myers, have a dream of giving back in the way they know best — feeding others. “Our initial idea was to donate three boxes of food to families in need,” she said. “We began advertising on our social media platforms as a means to reach out to those who knew someone in need.

Before we knew it we had people pouring in donations and wanting to help.”

The final day to donate is Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. “There will be a donation option on our website where you can click a button to donate, or give us a call and donate through the phone,” Long said. “Our goal is to distribute more than 20 boxes. Not only in North Carolina but nationwide.”

The company has partnered with Urban Ministries so they can help point them in the direction of those in need of meals.

“Whether or not someone can donate, if they know a family in need, we would love to be made aware. When putting together our boxes, we always include a protein, starch, and a veggie. We will have

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Season’s greetings from “OUT” at the Movies The bubbly holiday comedy Single All the Way is currently available on Netflix, and “OUT at the Movies” will be hosting a special Netflix Viewing Party on December 22 beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a Mark Burger Q&A with cast members Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers.

Contributor It’s free for those with a Netflix account or watching the movie with someone who has an account. UNCSA faculty member Ron Stacker Thompson will moderate the Q&A, and if you have a question for Urie and/or Chambers, simply e-mail it to rex@outatthemovies.org. If you are unable to participate in the party but would like to view the Q&A, just send an e-mail to the same address.

Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World, The Seagull) served as executive producer and directed Single All the Way, a contemporary — and very timely — holidaythemed romantic comedy with a twist — or two.

Urie (Ugly Betty, The Good Wife) stars as Peter, a successful social media marketing executive whose perennially single status concerns his family. They worry they he hasn’t found Miss Right. What they don’t know is that Peter isn’t looking for Miss Right — he’s looking for Mr. Right.

In an effort to stave off his family’s inevitable surprise, he convinces his roommate and best friend Nick (Chambers, in his feature debut) to pose as his romantic partner when he visits them in New Hampshire for Christmas. What follows is an escalating comedy of errors, as Peter’s ruse spirals further out of control. Will Peter and Nick find acceptance and happiness? Perhaps, but it’s going to be a wild time getting there!

Barry Bostwick and Kathy Najimy play Peter’s parents, with Jennifer Coolidge (erstwhile “Stifler’s Mom” from the American Pie films) as his flighty Aunt Sandy.

Luke Macfarlane, Jennifer Robertson, Madyson Bridges, Alexandra Beaton, and Dan Finnerty (Najimy’s real-life husband) plays “Kevin the Snow Plow Guy.” Music City Drive-In called Single All the Way “a sweet little Christmas love story.

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Michael Urie is the star of this film in so many ways. He is funny, charming, and perfectly cast as Peter. I loved what he brought to the table and his sincere approach to this role.” Andrea Marks-Joseph of Tilt Magazine wrote: “Somehow, even in an era of excellent queer television, a gay rom-com this fantastic and free of trauma feels too good to be true. But it is! Simple as that.”

“Michael Urie has finally landed himself a lead role, and it couldn’t have come at a better time,” wrote Anne Campbell of Film Gate Reviews. “Single All the Way is really a silly title, but the comedy is well-earned, especially with Urie shining throughout all the well-meaning hijinks. An unexpected and hidden gem within the movie is Dan Finnerty as Kevin the Snow Plow Guy. It’s only two scenes, but he’s a great singer and is funny at the same time.”

“Caz” of Let’s Go to the Movies stated: “Everything about Single All the Way is utterly wonderful, I seriously found myself enjoying the film so much. I seriously couldn’t recommend it more as it really was such a joy to watch. I could easily find myself watching this one again. Michael Urie is a breath of fresh air, and I seriously believe he is the main reason for the film working so much and the joy he brings to it all. Philemon Chambers was great opposite him, and the spark can be felt between the characters. This could quite possibly be the best new Christmas film for 2021.”

“Single All the Way is an enjoyable romcom starring ‘OUT at the Movies’ favorites Jennifer Coolidge and Michael Urie,” said Rex Welton, co-founder and director of the festival and screening series. “It is a fun, light movie that I know our audiences will enjoy. We set up the Q&A with Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers as a special gift to our loyal ‘OUT at the Movies’ audience.”

“OUT at the Movies,” Winston-Salem’s popular LGBTQ film festival and screening series, will also be ringing in the New Year with a screening currently scheduled for Jan. 8, 2022. Details will follow soon. The official website is https://outatthemovies. org/. !

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The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem’s holiday play, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, opened this past Friday, December 10 at Reynolds Joshua Ridley Place Theatre located inside the Milton Rhodes Marketing & Center for the Arts.

Communications Under the leadership Manager of Executive Director, Philip Powell, The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem has been bringing local theatre to the community since 1935, also making it the oldest performing arts organization in Winston-Salem. Leading up to the performance was an opening reception in the Main Gallery of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.

Patrons engaged in conversation and observed art in the gallery. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, stars AlexAndriA-Grace Porter as Mary Bennet and Graeme Mitchell Taylor as Arthur de Bourgh. The play tells the story of two people who share the same interests, finding each other in the right place at the right time.

The production is a lighthearted romantic comedy that is great for the entire family. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley runs through this weekend, closing on Sunday, December 19. For tickets and information on Covid-19 policies, visit LTOFWS.org.

North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Nativity According to the Gospels Nativity According to the Gospels, formerly known as Black Nativity, is an annual tradition of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep).

The performance opened this past Friday, December 10 at Hanesbrands Theatre. Nativity According to the Gospels is written, directed, and choreographed by Mabel P. Robinson. Act I tells the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, and Act II portrays a modern day telling of how people from across the land come together to celebrate that event. The performance stars Bethany Heath as Angel, Kennethia Mason as Mary, and Wayne Jones as Joseph, and features a live band, a gospel choir, and modern dance. This is the first time Nativity According to the Gospels has been held at Hanesbrands Theatre, making it an immersive and intimate experience. In the past, the production was held at R.J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium. “This is our first indoor live performance in 22 months,” said Jackie Alexander, NC Black Rep’s Artistic Director. The production runs through Sunday, December 19. For tickets and information on Covid-19 policies, visit NCBlackRep.org.

Music Carolina, Winter Light Music Carolina began their 2021 Winterfest Friday, December 10 with Winter Light. Winter Light featured Tom Caufield on acoustic guitar and Matt Kendrick on bass at Piedmont Music Center. The set consisted of a contemplative, expansive approach on classic hymns and carols. Matt Kendrick and Tom Caufield combined elements of hymnal, folk, jazz, and ambient music for this performance. The concert featured songs such as Hark the Herald Angels sing, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Joy to the World, Silent Night, and more. “I’ve enjoyed making music with Tom since the late 80s.

We always create some magic when we get a chance to play together. In this concert I enjoyed the space, afforded my bass, by Tom’s guitar and arrangements,” Kendrick said in an interview. Tom Caulfield, a Native of Michigan, has been playing guitar since his youth.

This was his second performance with Music Carolina; he previously performed in Music Carolina’s Summerfest with Monet Beatty for An Evening of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Caufield’s album and more of his works can be found on his website at CaufieldMusic. com. Matt Kendrick, one of the Artistic Directors for Music Carolina, has been playing bass since high school. In addition to Music Carolina, he also plays for Jazz Classique, and other music groups in WinstonSalem. Music Carolina’s Winterfest will conclude on Friday, December 17 with A Classique Christmas at Piedmont Music Center. For information on Covid-19 policies and tickets, please visit MusicCarolina.org.

The Southbound Craft Fair The Southbound Craft Fair welcomed hundreds of guests to its new home at the Cobblestone Farmers Market in downtown Winston-Salem. Formerly known as Krankies Craft Fair, the fair’s mission is to support small scale craft businesses and handmade work by local makers. Featured vendors included Kyla Eliza Arts, Piper + Fig, Petal Club Co., Shairpins, Mossy Mojo Terrariums, Earthbound Arts Gallery, Kanokano Studio, and Gibbons Woodworking. Follow Southbound Craft Fair on Instagram at @southboundcraftfair.

There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County annually.

To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www. cityofthearts.com. !

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s we celebrate this holiday season, let’s not forget that there are people beyond our immediate circle of family and friends who are suffering, and could Jim Longworth benefit from our love and generosity. Over the past decade, Longworth I’ve been able to at Large showcase scores of community organizations on my “Triad Today” television show, and in the process, I’ve learned that there are several ways we can help these agencies help others.

The first is to donate goods. Second is to donate money. And, third is to donate our time. Of course, some nonprofit groups can benefit from all three types of giving.

Here, in no particular order, are just a few organizations to which you might lend your support.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC ... Even prior to the Pandemic, the Piedmont Triad had one of the worst food insecurity problems in the nation, and that included the problem of childhood hunger. Now, with thousands more of our neighbors out of work, the problem has worsened, including for children. To help alleviate the hunger problem, Second Harvest Food Bank has stepped up its efforts to distribute food to nonprofit agencies that feed hungry people in an 18 county area. The Food Bank has also partnered with a number of area companies to provide meals for kids. You can write a check directly to the food bank, or you can drop off non-perishable food items at a number of locations in our area. For more information call 336-784-5770, or visit www. hungernwnc.org.

Cancer Services, Inc ... Their stated mission is “to enhance quality of life for those living with cancer, and to provide the gift of life through education.” Their services include patient advocacy, medication and financial assistance, providing equipment and supplies, offering peer support groups, and much more. Ninety percent of funds

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donated to Cancer Services, Inc. goes directly to providing client services. In addition to money, you can also donate used equipment and supplies. Call 336-7609983, or visit www.cancerservicesonline. org.

Greensboro Urban Ministry ... is on the front lines when it comes to providing emergency assistance. Greensboro Urban Ministry provides homeless families in Guilford County with a safe, temporary environment. Volunteers are needed to prepare and serve meals, manage shelters, tutor children, and perform a variety of other duties. Monetary donations are also much appreciated. Call 336-271-5959, or visit www.greensborourbanministry.org.

Mountain Valley Hospice ... is a nonprofit agency that serves an 18 county area in North Carolina and Virginia, and provides personalized care for patients at the end of life, as well as comfort to families. Mountain Valley Hospice has offices throughout the region, and also operates two hospice homes. They also specialize in care for terminally ill children and veterans and offer grief support for kids and adults. To give money or inquire about volunteering, call 1-888 789-2922, or visit www.mtnvalleyhospice.org.

Petty Family Foundation ... NASCAR legend Richard Petty and his family support a number of charitable organizations including Paralyzed Veterans of America and Victory Junction Camp, the latter of which provides an uplifting experience for children with severe disabilities and terminal illnesses. To make a donation or

learn more, visit www.pettyfamilyfoundation.org.

Say YES to Education Guilford … provides qualified students with college scholarships, and much more. Say YES to Education Guilford also provides students with support services that are designed to help them be successful in life. Their equitybased program begins in kindergarten and includes everything from tutoring to career counseling. Say YES relies in part upon donations from companies and individuals. To learn more about scholarships, or to make a donation, visit www.sayyesguilford.org.

Carolina Donor Services and Red Cross ... There can be no greater gift at this holiday season than the gift of life, and that’s why you might consider donating blood and signing a donor card. Either gesture requires only a few minutes of your time, and will almost certainly result in saving someone’s life in the future. You can reach Carolina Donor Services at 1-800 200-2672, or www.carolinadonorservices.org. You can call the Red Cross at 336-333-2111, or reach them via the Internet at www.redcross.org.

Please remember that your donations of time, money, or goods to area community organizations are vitally important, not just now, but throughout the coming year.

It’s also a way for us to expand the circle of people we care about, and that’s something worth celebrating in this season of giving. !

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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here comes a point during producer/director Ridley Scott’s factbased drama House of Gucci in which one gets the unmistakMark Burger able sense that the narrative is slowly but inexorably slipContributor ping away. All the elements for a juicy, flashy melodrama, set against the backdrop of high fashion are seemingly here, as well as a starstudded cast, yet this ranks as a keen disappointment and a missed opportunity.

That the film has aroused some controversy regarding its dramatic license is hardly surprising, and Scott is no stranger to such controversy. His 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), which dramatized the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, starred Gerard Depardieu (quintessentially French) as the Spanish sailor, but no one really seemed to mind because not that many people saw it, although it was infinitely better than the other big-screen Columbus saga that year, the laughably ludicrous Alexander Salkind production Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

Scott’s American Gangster (2006) fudged some facts but was, by and large, an absorbing crime drama. All the Money in the World (2017), which detailed the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, aroused more controversy due to Scott’s decision to eliminate Kevin Spacey (who played J. Paul Getty) and replace him with Christopher Plummer after the allegations against Spacey for sexual impropriety broke, followed by the disclosure of salary disparities between leads Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg. Nevertheless, All the Money in the World was a quality effort — and even earned Plummer an Oscar nomination.

Adapted from Sara Gay Forden’s nonfiction bestseller The House of Gucci by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, this long-winded film is an obvious attempt to replicate the mood of Coppola’s Godfather trilogy — particularly with regard to the family angle — while incorporating elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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dolfo considers belonging to an inferior class. It is Rodolfo’s brother Aldo (who else but Al Pacino?) who engineers a reconciliation that will have unimaginable consequences for all concerned, including himself.

Gaga’s Patrizia is the latter-day Lady Macbeth who coerces Maurizio to take a more active role in the Gucci empire in Machiavellian style, using and betraying other members of the family at will. Instead of three witches, Patrizia is constantly swayed by Pina Auriemma (Salma Hayek), a chain-smoking television psychic (!) who becomes her confidante and co-conspirator.

This would seem to be can’t-miss material, and for a time House of Gucci combines satire and soap opera in a flamboyant, ornate style. Then, alas, it becomes repetitive and rudimentary. Even when Maurizio seeks to distance himself from Patrizia’s influence — which ultimately seals his fate — it lacks dramatic impact.

By the end of the film, Patrizia is onscreen so little that her character all but evaporates.

Nevertheless, Gaga (née Stefani Germanotta) proves her Oscar-nominated turn in A Star is Born (2018) was no fluke, and here she doesn’t have the benefit of her initial vocation — singing — to fall back on. Driver underplays Maurizio to such an extent that he is seemingly overshadowed and overwhelmed by those around him, but it’s an effective portrait of a man who comes to realize that fortune and status do not guarantee happiness or satisfaction, or even survival.

Hayek, who not so long ago might

well have been considered to play Patrizia, has little to do except whisper wicked advice and smoke cigarettes. It’s always nice to have Irons around, even if he bears an uncanny resemblance to

Boris Karloff in his later scenes. The wily Pacino growls his way through the role of Aldo while occasionally flashing that trademark hot-blooded temper. Jack Huston occupies the Robert Duvall “Tom Hagen” Godfather role as Maurizio’s consigliere.

The real scene-stealer, however, is Jared Leto as Aldo’s son and Maurizio’s cousin, Paolo. Playing a bald, sweaty, middle-aged failure struggling to secure even a small piece of the family’s prestige for himself, the actor is completely unrecognizable and completely sympathetic as this lovable loser. His is unquestionably the film’s best performance.

House of Gucci is appropriately operatic and Dariusz Wolski’s cinematography appropriately stylish, yet the film is strangely empty and devoid of genuine emotion. These are not likable characters. More damaging is that they’re not particularly interesting, either. The film is watchable and engrossing at times, but style doesn’t equal substance, and substance is a quality sorely missing here. !

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The Saudis take their beauty contests seriously, it appears: Judges at a competition northeast of Riyadh are cracking down on artificially enhanced contestants. The contest is part of the King Abdulaziz

Camel Festival. Yes, the contestants are camels, the Associated Press reported, and 43 of them have already been disqualified. Camel breeders enter their most beautiful animals with the hope of winning $66 million in prize money, but Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic changes will not be tolerated this year. How, you ask, are those procedures implemented? Breeders might stretch the lips and noses of their camels, inject their heads or lips with Botox, inflate

body parts with rubber bands and use fillers to relax their faces. “The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels,” the Saudi Press Agency said.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

An unnamed mountain climber is a little richer this season after a cache of precious gems valued at $84,350 was awarded to him by the Chamonix-MontBlanc council on Dec. 3. The climber found the emeralds and sapphires in 2013 as he scaled the tallest peak in western Europe; they apparently were debris from an airplane crash there in 1966, CNN reported.

The original owner of the stones couldn’t be located. The council split the booty with the climber and will display their half at the Chamonix Crystal Museum.

NICE TRY

A 50-year-old Italian dentist tried on Dec. 2 to dodge getting the COVID-19 vaccine but still gain a health pass by offering the health worker a silicone prosthetic arm for the jab, The Guardian reported. Italy recently cracked down on unvaccinated people at social, cultural and sporting events, so the man allegedly purchased a fake arm that may have cost him hundreds of euros. The medic, Filippa Bua, said she “felt offended as a professional. The color of the arm made me suspicious and so I asked the man to uncover the rest of his left arm. It was well made but it wasn’t the same color.”

The unidentified man will face fraud charges, according to Luigi Icardi, the regional health councilor.

WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME

Graham George Spencer of Singapore was walking with a friend in the Singapore Botanic Gardens on Nov. 30 when a runner dashed right into the path of a group of about 20 otters, causing them to change from “being quiet to going crazy like dogs,” Spencer told todayonline.com.

The otters, apparently confused about who was who, attacked Spencer, pushing him to the ground and biting him around his feet and buttocks. “I was bitten 26 times in 10 seconds,” he said. “If it wasn’t for my friend, I don’t think I’d still be here.

I’d be dead.” At a hospital across the street, Spencer was given tetanus shots and antibiotics.

GOAT

No, not that kind of goat. Former (unsuccessful) mayoral candidate for Berkeley, California, Wayne Hsiung, an animal rights activist, is going to spend some time on supervised probation after

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a February 2018 stunt in which he stole a newborn goat, Berkeleyside reported on Dec. 8. The theft, a felony, took place in Transylvania County, North Carolina, at Sospiro Ranch. Hsiung said he stole the kid because he thought it was suffering and might face a cruel death, but the court was not entertaining his “rightto-rescue” defense. In fact, Judge Peter Knight sustained so many objections by the prosecution during Hsiung’s opening statement that he wasn’t able to finish it.

Curtis Burnside, owner of Sospiro Ranch, said NipNap, the baby goat’s mother, “cried for days and was beside herself looking for her lost baby.”

BRIGHT IDEA

In the “this could never happen in America” category: New Zealand is putting in place laws that will eventually ban smoking altogether by 2025, The Guardian reported. Each year, the legal smoking age will increase, said associate health minister Dr. Ayesha Verrall. Legislation will also make smoking unaffordable, reduce the level of nicotine in tobacco products, limit retail outlets, and increase funding for addiction services. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking ... People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco,” Verrall said.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

— A middle school in Milton, Massachusetts, went into lockdown on Dec. 8 when a student reported that an adult “may have had a weapon,” The Patriot Ledger reported. After about 30 minutes of investigation by school officials and Milton police, however, it was determined that the “weapon” was a phone charger that a staff member was carrying. “I am pleased to report that nobody was physically harmed,” Superintendent James Jette said in a statement.

— On Dec. 3, a second-grader at Pamoja Preparatory Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, brought a loaded pistol to school to “show it to classmates,” the Daily Beast reported. The child said they took the gun from a lockbox under the parents’ bed.

Two days earlier, at Woerner Elementary School in St. Louis, a kindergartner brought a gun to school when they picked up the wrong backpack. Sgt. Charles Wall of the St. Louis Police Department said no charges will be filed in either case: “It was determined no criminal incident occurred,” he said. !

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Exotic Entrée in the Garden: Wild Boar on the menu at Himalayan Garden

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reensboro’s newest Nepalese/Tibetan restaurant, hidden in the fountain plaza at the far end of the shopping center in the 1600 Ian McDowell black of Highlands Boulevard, is known to serve one of the Contributor tastiest pork dishes from an Asian restaurant in the Triad.

The spice-simmered belly meat in Himalayan Garden’s Grilled Wild Boar tastes unlike any I’ve previously encountered. The meat of male wild pigs can have a gamy quality known as “boar taint,” but there was none of that here.

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The term “wild boar” typically denotes species rather than gender, so perhaps this dish, which I’ve had twice, is actually made from wild sowbelly.

The Indian boar is native not just to the Subcontinent, but Nepal, Burma, western Thailand, and Sri Lanka. Bandel, as the meat is known in Nepali, is a major protein for the Kirati, one of the indigenous ethnic groups of the Himalayas.

Richly-flavored, it’s leaner than domestic pork, even when farm-raised (all “wild game” sold in restaurants is farmed.)

Even wild pork belly is fatter than the rest of the pig, and the grilled boar at Himalayan Garden can be cut with a fork and practically melts in the mouth. The other boar dish on the menu, which is marinated and boiled in garlic, pepper and chiles, might require a knife if it wasn’t chopped and shredded. On my first visit, I and my two companions (one of whom had been a vegetarian until bacon lured her to the Dark Side), agreed that the shredded marinated boar was quite good, but the grilled variety was superb.

Vegetarians and those who don’t eat pork need not fear. Himalayan Garden has plenty of vegetarian and vegan dishes, as well as those made with halal chicken or goat, fish or prawns, and cheese. The fresh-baked nan, or Indianstyle flatbread, is also among the best I’ve had in the Triad, particularly with the homemade mint sauce.

My friend Tim, who accompanied me on my second visit, is absolutely fine with swine but ordered the $9.99 chicken Thali lunch, which also proved to be delicious. Both our meals came with nan (which he agreed was excellent), but where mine was accompanied by a generous portion of potatoes and broccoli, his was served with a bowl of what looked like almond slivers, but which proved to be beaten rice (called “bitten rice” on the menu).

Also known as known as flattened or pressed rice, this is a hugely popular side dish and street food in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India, in which de-husked rice grains as parboiled, then dried, flattened with rollers, and fried in a clay pot.

Our extremely friendly hostess Sahara was happy to explain the process. Sahara said that while her name has the same English spelling as the Arabic word for desert, in Nepali, it means help or support. “When my parents grow old, I will be their sahara. I was born and raised in

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Barbecued chicken with beaten rice Nepal until I came here ten years ago.”

Sahara said that the “bitten” rice was both gluten-free and vegan.

“It’s really good when you’re eating in festivals, or in a large party, as it’s used to absorb the fattiness of the meat.”

I asked her if it was okay to do what we were doing, which was to sprinkle it on my boar and Tim’s chicken. “Yes, you just mix it up and eat it any way you want, it’s entirely your choice,” she said with a smile. “You can also add yogurt and fruit to it, and eat it for breakfast like oatmeal. There’s another of it called fluff rice, where the rice is not pounded but is puffy like popcorn.”

I’d enjoyed that on my previous visit, when it came with my friends’ chicken curry and marinated boar, and found it addictive, and very easy to imagine chowing down on it by the handful at a street festival.

Sahara described Nepali cuisine as heavily influenced by her birth country’s neighbors in China and India. “But while we use a lot of the same spices, our cooking methods tend to be very different. Our curries tend to be different from the Indian ones, just as our dumplings tend to be different from Chinese ones.

The thali course is one of our traditional meals. It comes with the chicken, mutton, pork or goat curries, or a combination of chicken and goat, as well as lentil soup, vegetable curry, garlic spinach, and a serving of white rice.”

She also stressed that the chicken, goat, and mutton are halal, “which is a good point for Muslim people.”

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mixed with chopped tomato, onions and Nepali spices; its variant sukudo sadheko, which adds marinated dried goat meat to those vegetables; deep-fried tiger prawns with honey-ginger sauce; and pangra.

On my first visit, my friend Kelly ordered the latter, which turned out to be subtly spicy chicken gizzards, enough of them for a hearty meal. Kelly is a fan of organ meat and wants to return for the grilled intestines entrée.

Despite my carnivorous nature, I was more intrigued by two paneer (cheese) dishes; one consisting of battered deepfried curds with tomato and mint sauces, the other of marinated curds chargrilled with green pepper and onion. There’s so much more I want to try.

The menu includes plenty of curries, a dozen vegetarian varieties, and 13 with meat. Vegetarian options are lentils, black-eyed peas, potatoes, bamboo shoots, cauliflower, okra, mushrooms, and coconut. Meats include chicken, mutton, fish, shrimp, pork, and goat.

There are seven varieties of mo mo, the Nepali and Tibetan variant of Chinese bao and Japanese gyoza. Hand-made from scratch, these steamed and fried dumplings come filled with chicken or vegetables and are served with housemade chutney and spicy chili sauce.

There are also a variety of tandoori items and kebabs.

Due to the size of the shopping complex behind the Red Robin off New Garden Road in Greensboro, Himalayan Garden can be a bit hard to find, as you can’t park in front of it. It is at the rear of the pedestrian fountain plaza, near the Bed, Bath and Beyond. The actual address is 1614-B Highwoods Blvd, but

Grilled wild boar with mint sauce the only signage is a small wall banner.

However, it has a patio facing the sloping hill, and the relative isolation looks like it will make for pleasant outside dining in warmer weather. !

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Home and Grace: Tenants of Hiatt Street mobile home park receive extended deadline The “Jamison Mobile Park Homes” sign announcing the tightly knit immigrant community that’s quietly thrived on Greensboro’s Hiatt Street for decades is gone. It’s been replaced by a Ian McDowell handmade and forlornly sign proclaiming “Hope for Hiatt.”

Contributor The “Hope for Hiatt” sign hung in front of a mobile home in October. Now, there’s just a concrete slab, as grim as any in a cemetery. Several other trailers have also been removed or demolished, their detritus piled beside the street.

Fruit trees and flower bushes planted by tenants have been cut down. Residents allege this was done by Family Properties of NC, the company selling the land where 18 immigrant families have lived, some for more than 30 years. The intended buyer, developer Jerry Wass of Owls Roost Partners, plans apartments on the site.

Several families are already gone, temporarily living in hotels and facing mounting debts. Those who remain fear the same inevitable, crippling expenses.

One thing is clear, none of the residents expected to be dealing with this during the 2021 holiday season.

At least not before July 12, when landlord Lynne Anderson, owner/manager of Family Properties, sent eviction letters with a September 30 deadline. The deadline was extended to January once Anderson was informed that state law requires at least 180 days’ notice.

On December 8, Marc Isaacson, an attorney representing Wass, said via email that residents now have until the end of the Spring 2022 school semester before they vacate.

“The buyer and seller heard the testimony of some of the residents at recent city council meetings and are empathetic about their situation. The parties to the contract agreed to extend their closing date from January to two weeks after the end of Guilford school year (i.e. June 19) to allow ample time for the residents to relocate.”

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of the trailer park that afternoon.

“The seller has agreed to work with them through mid-June,” said Vaughan.

“This gives us a solid seven months to work on finding them a new place and hopefully finding it together. We believe, and I think all of council would feel this way, that it is preserving community and contributing to affordable housing.”

The extended deadline prevents families from losing their homes before Christmas, but will make graduation and the beginning of summer emotionally difficult for the Hiatt Street children. According to Siembra NC’s Nikki Marin Baena, there is no binding guarantee.

“Obviously, the ideal resolution for the residents would be for the sale to not go through, and they can purchase the property themselves. With that said, they have had very positive feelings from meeting with Nancy Vaughan. But they have not received anything about the promised extension in writing that is legally enforceable. Or anything in writing and legally enforceable about any other commitment the city might be willing to make. Some of us have experience with tenant organizing, and we’re clear that at times like this to receive something in writing that is legally enforceable. So, Siembra NC plans to continue to support the residents until they receive that kind of commitment.”

Baena said this is particularly important in light of how some former residents have already had their trailers moved to comply with the original timeline.

“They’re still not settled into their homes in their new locations, and they had to take on large personal expenses and debt.

It’s important to support the residents, as we’ve already seen what’s happened to

the ones who tried to strike out on their own, and encouraged huge debt, but are not in their new homes yet.”

As they did the month before, speakers at the December 7 city council meeting appealed to Anderson and Wass to reconsider their deal, and for the council to support their plea.

Speakers included two former presidents of the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association, Bill Eckerd and Stephen Johnson, as well as Katie McGinnis, copresident of Lindley Elementary PTA. All voiced opposition to displacing the Hiatt Street families, and to the planned apartment complex, which McGinnis called “counter to the Lindley Park me and my neighbors know and love.”

McGinnis also said, “Displacing those families in the current mobile home park would mean breaking up class dynamics, celebrating childhood friends, and adding even more strain to another school year that has been fraught with distractions due to Covid.”

McGinnis also requested council consider reevaluating zoning laws, “in order to prevent something like this from happening in the future.”

That echoed a recommendation made

by Kennedy at the November 1 council meeting, where she said “tenants may not have known that was happening” until it was too late to appeal, due to the law requiring only property owners be informed which Kennedy calls “a little bit of a systems failure.”

The city won’t ask Family Properties and Owls Roost Partners to reconsider the sale. On Thursday evening, Mayor Vaughan said the city could be sued if the council appeared to “interfere.”

“It’s apparent that the buyer and seller are going to go through with this sale, and we have worked with them on possibilities and how we can keep these families together as a community. I think that we have some options, but I’m not yet willing to say what they are at this point.”

Vaughan said she found it “very hard to deliver the message that there was very little possibility of the sale not going through. I feel for them, I really do. People have been there for over two decades.”

Isaacson said calls for the buyer and/or seller to “walk away” from the sale are not only impractical but improper.

“The buyer is under a legally enforceable purchase contract, so the buyer is not able to just ‘step aside’ and not perform its legal obligations. That would constitute breach of contract. The buyer has incurred significant expenses for nearly one year with earnest money deposits, due diligence studies (environmental, soil testing, title, survey, site plan engineering, etc.). In addition, the buyer has made commitments to other parties (e.g. its lender) to pursue this project.”

Isaacson also took exception to statements YES! Weekly reported alleging that Owls Roost Partners intends to build “student apartments” on the site. “This is not, and never has been, intended to be a student housing development.”

The plan that Isaacson shared at the April 27 business meeting of the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association described three apartment buildings, each having 24 units; 12 single-bedroom and 12 double bedroom.

Former Lindley Park Neighborhood Association president Bill Eckard told YES! Weekly that whether those units are populated by students doesn’t really matter. “The families who live there now are a perfect fit with the values of our neighborhood and the future we began to plan for in the neighborhood plan. Replacing them with many more people just isn’t what we want. It takes us away from diversity, affordability, walkability, and retaining residents with long-term connections to the neighborhood — all values laid out in our neighborhood plan.”

Attempts to contact Anderson of Family Properties and Becky O’Hare were unsuccessful. !

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Greensboro curling team slides into its 5th season Greensboro is a community home to opportunities, businesses, history, and its very own curling team.

“We aren’t the Olympics, but we are one hell of a local team,” said Naima Said Chris Ratliff, team captain for the Gate City Curling Team.

Contributor “We started back in 2018 when an older gentleman came out and started an exhibition of curling, calling for the community to sign up and start a league.”

Ratliff, a UNCG employee, called on a few friends, two of those being Spencer Smith and Kevin Shoffner, to join his team.

“These two have been with me since day one. We also had two other players in the beginning who either moved away or, sadly, passed away, but we found a way to push forward,” Ratliff shared.

“You need four members to be considered a team, and we were lucky enough to welcome Angel Fuentes, who is originally from Mexico, to the team and has been with us for about three years now.”

None of the players had prior experience of the game, but they follow the motto of taking the first initiative and learning along the way or failing without

regret. “It is very competitive, which is a step up from how we started five years ago, and because of it we have earned ourselves a name and met a lot of other community members who share a similar passion,” Smith said. “Who knew people in Greensboro enjoyed curling?”

There are 16 teams in the Greensboro league, with four teams on the ice at a time, splitting between sheet 1 and sheet 2 with a circle located at the end.

“We curl on Tuesdays since the rink is predominantly open to the public every day. The rink runs from 6:30 until 9:30 p.m., one hour dedicated to a team each week,” Shoffner said. “We get a randomized time and team each week. It is a good way to practice and learn how different teams operate.”

Men and women between the ages of 20 to 60 have gone out to curl and be part of an established Greensboro team. “Each team must pay their dues in order to play and take part in the final tournament,” Shoffner said. “We always play against another team all the way up until mid-January, then participate in the playoffs against all Greensboro teams. The winning team gets a cup with their name on it.”

The competition takes place at the Icehouse, located at 6119 Landmark

Spencer Smith, Chris Ratliff, Kevin Shoffner and Angel Fuentes (l to r) make up the Gate City Curling team.

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Kevin Shoffner Center Boulevard, which already sees a high volume of traffic due to the city’s WinterFest. Gate City Curling finished in third place last season and won back in 2018, although there were no cups back then.

“It is such a great pastime and hobby during the winter season. We take it very seriously but always have such a grand time. Anyone is allowed to come out and watch,” Ratliff shared. “Our goal is to win, but to be part of such a neat sport in a time where there isn’t much going on, I feel we have already won.”

Local curling is a good way to bring the community together, but it is not what you see on the television. “We call ourselves the cornhole of curling. Local curling is not done on this beautiful white sheet of ice, located inside, and everything is so technical. It is nothing like that. We are outside in the elements.

If it’s super cold, it’s super cold. If it’s warm, then the ice is sometimes a little wet and it makes the ice unlevel. You also have people drop stuff on the ice and it cracks,” Shoffner said. “One year there was a bunch of leaves stuck on the ice so we had to throw harder, that was fun.”

The team also worked together to create and design their equipment and t-shirts. “We wanted to see ourselves as

more official, which I believe we are after all these years. We designed, printed, and distributed our own custom shirts.

We are one of three teams that originated from the beginning, and we pride ourselves on that,” Ratliff said. “In terms of our equipment, we bought two mixing bowls and flipped them together, then filled them full of cement, and attached a broom we got from Home Depot. This works well for us and other teams, while traditional curling throws a polished granite rock that costs between 2-3,000 dollars.”

Gate City thus far is undefeated this season and has high hopes of taking home the cup this year. Old Town Draught House, the team’s favorite hangout spot, will be sponsoring the team this year. “I remember the day Chris came up to me at Old Town and said ‘Hey man, want to do something crazy?’ and I’ve been stuck with him ever since, in the best way of course,” Smith shared. “Now I get to work with such a diverse group of people, and I wouldn’t want to slip and fall on the ice in embarrassment with anyone else.”

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ur Band, a harmonious New York City duo with Triad ties, will host an intimate tribute to the Everly Brothers on Dec. 20 at Double Oaks Bed and BreakKatei Cranford fast in Greensboro.

“Steeped in the tradition of great male Contributor and female duets such as Johnny Cash and June Carter,” Our Band, is the pairing of pianist Sasha Papernik (a first-generation Russian-American) and guitarist Justin Poindexter (Grimsley alumni and University of North Carolina School of the Arts graduate).

Together, they produce intimate harmonies, meshing an Eastern-European flair across an Americana soundscape—from shows at Carnegie Hall to tours around Poland, Germany, and Estonia as ambassadors of American music for the U.S. State Department.

It’s that harmonic prowess they’ll draw from when celebrating the Everly Brothers for a special holiday show in Poindexter’s hometown—as distant a concept that can be these days. “As a musician, I feel like I’ve recalibrated my sense of home to be where the people I love are, wherever that may be,” he explained. “That said, there’s nothing like eating at the familiar places

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With plans to indulge in a few Triad classics, notably K&W, Yum Yums, and Stamey’s, the pair is excited to drive through the lights at Tanglewood and continue Poindexter’s familial tradition of attending a Moravian Lovefeast. “None of us are Moravian, but my grandmother worked as an interpreter at Old Salem for 40 years,” he explained. “We also do fondue on Christmas Eve. I think that was a thing my grandparents started in the ’70s and it just kept going. We stocked up on the big old-fashioned Christmas lights before they made the conversion to LED. To me, it just isn’t Christmas without those super hot multicolored bulbs.”

Our Band doesn’t shy from antiquities or nostalgia—notions Poindexter exudes when discussing venues and their upcoming show at Double Oaks. “It’s always a pleasure to make music in a beautiful space,” he said, “and if you ever come to our apartment, you know we like old funky stuff.”

And for that show, the pair will engage in a sort of musician holiday tradition: special hometown events with Triad players.

“There are so many terrific musicians in the area—I love to book a couple shows for a chance to play with them,” Poindexter explained, praising drummer Chris Gelb and bassist Pat Lawrence, who’s been enlisted in helping bring the Everlys set to life.

Calling Gelb “NYC’s loss to NC’s gain,” Poindexter is excited to again pair up with the percussionist, with whom he per-

formed traditional jazz and country music around the NYC area before Gelb moved back to Sanford. Lawrence, meanwhile, is “a true Renaissance man,” Poindexter said.

“He can do absolutely anything—plays great bass and masterminds the Martha Bassett show, plus he can build a house with his own hands, from trees he cleared himself.”

Building on their own diverse backgrounds—Papernik’s classical piano training and upbringing amongst Eastern-European folk music; and Poindexter’s roots in country, blues, and jazz—they find common ground in the Everly Brothers, a group they discovered in very different ways.

Papernik became a fan as an adult, through the Robert Plant and Allison Kraus 2007 album “Raising Sand,” which features a cover of “Stick With Me Baby.” “That got me listening to their album ‘A Date with the Everly Brothers,’” she said, “and then pretty much all of their other albums after that.”

Poindexter, by contrast, discovered them through a Rodney Dangerfield flick as a kid in the ‘90s. “It was ‘Dream’ in that movie, ‘Ladybugs,’” he said. “I just rewound the tape over and over. Their sound is so haunting. It’s not that they sound exactly alike—it’s that they sing so telepathically well together. Don is so soulful on the lead, and Phil’s tone is so pure and beautiful in harmony.”

Together, they’ve enjoyed the challenge of channeling that harmony. “Don and Phil’s vocal range is much closer than mine and Sasha’s,” Poindexter explained. “We

have to rework parts and keys to make it work, but therein lies the fun. It’s not an imitation we’re going for, it’s just a way to explore their repertoire and vibe in a creative way.”

Papernik points to her favorite song in their upcoming set, as an illustration. “I put in a Tchaikovsky’esque piano solo in our version of ‘Love Hurts,’ which I’m really excited about,” she said. “We were really sad in August when Don Everly died. And immediately thought of doing a whole concert inspired by the Everlys, who’ve always been a huge influence on our music.”

At the core, Our Band sees a sincerity in their musicianship and admiration for the source material as paramount. “They have a kind of earnestness in their vocals that makes the whole thing work,” Poindexter noted of the “sublime harmonies” the Everlys beheld. “It’s what we’ll do our best to capture.”

Following the show and holiday festivities, the pair plan to record a round of videos with lap steel artist, Cindy Cashdollar, which will be released via their YouTube channel. !

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I’m a divorced guy in my 40s using dating apps. I’m keenly aware of what I do and don’t want in a woman and make it clear in my profile.

For example, I write, “If you’re in a weird Amy Alkon co-dependent relationship with Advice a five-pound dog,” we are not a match.

Goddess A friend looked at my profile and was all, “Man, you have to delete that.” I see no problem with what I’ve written. Who’s right? —Constructive Honesty Admittedly, when people advise women, “Find a man who’s like a dog!” they mean like a big loyal-to-the-death black Lab, not a purse-sized poodledoodle that spends a quarter of its life getting foofed up at Monsieur Marcel, the doggie hairdresser.

Of course, because a woman has a tiny ridiculous dog doesn’t mean she’s rife with psychological shortcomings.

Including that bit in your profile — and especially as you worded it — says a few things about you, none of them ladymagnetizing. And sure, you wrote, “IF you are...” (in some sort of unhealthy relationship with your micro dog). However, even women who are emotionally together (and maybe even dog-free) are likely to swipe left or knock your profile into the little trash can icon.

Most problematically, this remark and

other similarly cutting ones in your profile suggest you’re an angry guy: a big flashing skull-’n’-crossbones “STEER CLEAR!” for women. “Anger-prone individuals are volatile and frequently dangerous” — to the point of violence, evolutionary social psychologist Andrew Galperin and his colleagues explain. Women, on average, are smaller, physically weaker, and thus more physically vulnerable than men, which is likely why they err on the side of overperceiving signs that a guy might be a Mr. Angry. In fact, per the Galperin team’s research: “A single instance of angry behavior” in “new acquaintances” is enough to provoke this keepaway motive — even when their anger seems justified by the situation at hand!

Your sneering about behavior being “weird” and “co-dependent” is another red flag — suggesting you view life through puke-colored glasses and are quick to think the worst of total strangers. That’s Bigotry 101: using one infobit about an individual to leap to all sorts of ugly assumptions about them. It’s toxic, irrational, and unfair — and, if it’s your goto thinking, perhaps something to work on changing, lest you pay an unintended price (both in an ugly-first view of others and in others seeing you as a person to block, delete, and/or avoid).

By the way, “co-dependent” is an insulting term that’s in need of either retirement or scientific validation. It’s generally understood to describe two individuals in a persistent dysfunctional dance. The “enabling” individual temporarily eases the suffering of the other person (or pet!) — in ways that, in the long term, are harmful to both. “Co-dependence” was flung on the

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It’s tempting to try to escape the emotional toddlers by announcing you’re seeking someone “psychologically healthy” or “emotionally solid.” Probably pretty useless. Those who have an unhealthy relationship with their dog — or their mom, crystal meth, or tennis — are often the last to know or admit it.

Ultimately, you might simply accept that you’ll likely end up on a date or two with women you’d do anything to avoid.

Keep first dates casual — like meeting for coffee for an hour — and your disasters will at least be Hobbesian: nasty, brutish, and short. Finally, I must say — while typing this with my tiny, “My Little Pony”like Chinese crested curled up asleep in my lap: Five pounds of dog may elicit laughs — till it’s cleanup time and you need a single sheet of Kleenex instead of a backhoe. !

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public by self-help authors — without any scientific basis: no evidence for the long lists of its supposed symptoms. It’s now promiscuously applied to shame people — to the point where showing none of the supposed symptoms gets used as proof of one’s co-dependence!

That said, you’re wise to try to proactively shoo off women who are wrong for you, as it could keep you from wasting your time and theirs on the phone (or worse, on a happy hour date that flies by like a week of medieval torture). However, there’s a way to tell the wrong women, “Yoohoo, move on!” without coming off scolding or demeaning (and in turn throwing out the babes with the bathwater).

Probably the best constructive yoohoo is subtle fact-stating, like mentioning you’re an atheist to discourage interest from those on Team God. Similarly, in the “who am I?” portion on a dating app, a 40-something, Johnny Depp-alicious hottie of a guy posted, “Living a plant-based life,” suggesting he doesn’t just eat vegan; it’s major in his identity. If, like me, you are committed to “steak-based living,” you know to give a big sad pass to Mr. Pirates of the Cauliflower-ribbean.

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