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Greensboro native IAN HAIRSTON has been acting since the age of 6. Forced into inactivity by the pandemic, the actor and playwright did not waste a moment returning to the stage as the city began to reactivate.

4 To say it’s an honor to interview GEORGE STEVENS JR. is something of an understatement. This is, after all, the man who founded the American Film Institute (AFI) and created the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, co-founded the Kennedy Center Honors, served as cochairman of the President’s Council on the Arts and Humanities under Barack Obama, has won over a dozen Emmy Awards, a Humanitas Award, two Peabody Awards, and an Honorary Oscar in 2012.

6 The Triad is fortunate to have several hotels that house serious restaurants. The Marriott in downtown Winston-Salem is a case in point. BUTCHER AND BULL was originally conceived as a steak house, and that concept remains intact, but widerranging cuisine has recently been added by the new chef, Alex Governale.

8 Both of my parents were fortunate to have been under HOSPICE care before

they passed away, so I can testify firsthand that the folks who provide patients with serious illness and end-of-life care will someday occupy a special place in heaven.

9 Ever since Despicable Me (2010), the self-explanatory (and self-incriminating) “MINIONS” of nefarious super-villain Gru have been committing grand larceny, stealing every scene they’re in — if not the entire movie outright.

14 Journalist and historian BILLY INGRAM has stories to tell about his hometown of Greensboro, which he left in 1980, when “Californy seemed the place he ought to be and he packed up his 1974 Slant 6 Dodge Dart Swinger and moved to Beverly,” in the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies.

18 The seventh annual Winston-Salem RAP ROUND ROBIN throws down Friday, July 22 at Monstercade in Winston-Salem.

Soldiering on after the sudden passing of Joshua “Unspeakable” Brookshire, cofounder (and one-half of the sibling rap duo Speak N’ Eye), the upcoming event will serve as a special memorial and testament to his legacy within Winston music circles.

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Greensboro Playwright Debuts Millennial Inspired Play

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reensboro native Ian Hairston has been acting since the age of 6. Forced into inactivity by the pandemic, the actor and playwright did not waste a moment returning to the stage as the city began to reactivate.

Dalia Razo On a whim, he applied for the Residency at the Hyers program through Creative Contributor Greensboro in March, and will be showcasing his first original play Messy Millennials: Starter Pack July 21 through July 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Steven D. Hyers Theater in the Greensboro Cultural Center, located at 200 N. Davie St. Developed from what Hairston had originally written as a pilot in 2018, the play is now a series of vignettes through which six 30-something millennials navigate their way through a variety of disorderly situations during the last two years of the pandemic. Some of it is inspired by the playwright’s own life and his experiences during Covid-19, while the rest of it developed from ideas that had been long in Hairston’s head before finally settling on a script.

“When I first wrote this I didn’t know where it was going, I didn’t know where it was going to take me, I had no clue it was going to end up being this,” said Hairston.

In fact, the play was not complete when he took his chances applying for the residency. “Once I got the residency I focused on writing the rest of the show, writing the remaining vignettes between the course of March and June, adding about 75% of content to the original work in order to complete it.”

With a final script in hand, Hairston embarked on casting actors through auditions and reaching out to colleagues he’d worked with in the past. Todnée Jeffries, who worked as a playmaker with Hairston during their high school days, originally showed up to audition for a part and ended up staying as assistant director upon the playwright’s request. Jeffries has a BFA in Professional Theater from North Carolina A&T University in addition to her stage work, complementing Hairston’s experience, which has been mostly onstage.

“That’s always a fear when it comes to actors and egos, and sometimes it’s a scary place,” said Jeffries, on her work as assistant director. “This play is Ian’s baby, it’s his vision. I can’t come stomping my big feet over even though I may see something, or because I have a skill, or just because I know things, it doesn’t mean I always get to speak on it. I always ask things with respect to the director.”

While the audition process had a decent turnout, casting actors was still not easy. The city may be reactivating, but many are still hesitant to come out into a post-Covid Greensboro, while others remain unaware of the fine arts opportunities available via the city like Creative Greensboro. Fortunately, the cast for Messy MilWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Messy Millennials cast lennials: Starter Pack comes with a variety of acting experiences from novices to professionals, highlighting the opportunities that Hairston has been able to provide his community through the Hyers Residency.

“There is a snootiness to actors, and I’ve been around long enough to know how to behave in auditions, to know the kind of energy you need to have to book a role; that you have to be confident, that you have to be well-rounded because you have to be able to relate to many different types of people, and that with all of that comes a snootiness,” said Hairston. “I don’t want to count people out because of that, we can all be snooty thespians, but we need to make sure we are all being thespians together.”

Olivia Lambert-Tucker, Esq., a community theateracting colleague and friend of many years to Hairston, plays one of the six lead roles. Already a fan and avid supporter of his work, Lambert-Tucker is enthusiastic about what Messy Millennials: Starter Pack will do for the community. The actress considers the play a great opportunity to be more diverse where there is a general lack of diverse roles in theater spaces such as the Stephen D. Hyers Theater. “Usually when there is a play here you might see one person of color,” she said. “And that’s a false image because so many people of diverse backgrounds act.”

A TV junkie and a theater lover, Hairston managed to meld his love for both to tell his story about Black privilege. “It’s about a bunch of bougie Black people which we never really get to see,” the actor said. “We’ve been begging to tell our stories for so long and we’re finally getting the chance to do that.” Messy Millennials: Starter Pack challenges the seemingly never-ending stereotypical, same subject matter, that is constantly placed in predominantly white spaces and mistakenly interpreted as the reality.

Additionally, Hairston highlights that anyone can relate to any of his six lead characters and that any actor of any race, even gender for some of them, could easily play them. His intent, though, was always for his lead characters to be Black to show the diversity among Black people, to remind the public that not all Black people are thugs, or “woke,” but in fact, that they are just like everybody else. Jeffries plays a “bougie” housewife, Lambert-Tucker a formerly wealthy socialite, and Hairston a man who lives in his mother’s basement.

“We don’t get the opportunity to play regular people,” said Jeffries. “We always have to be something that’s shucking and jiving … that’s not the reality. And there will be some controversy as we progress with the production, but we’re not afraid.” Joining Hairston on this journey is exactly what the actress needed to get back into theater. She believes the play is a great gateway to create more opportunities for the community, to be educated, to understand how important the arts are, and to revive the city.

Hairston is grateful to tell his story with Messy Millennials: Starter Pack, but he is also hopeful the play will begin unboxing minorities who have been forcefully placed into a single example of what society dictates they can be. With a long list of pending and future projects, including a musical in the works, he hopes one day to create, or at least be part of a platform that supports others in telling their own stories. “We are in Greensboro and we have resources,” he said. “Everybody’s story needs to be told.”

Messy Millennials: Starter Pack cast includes Ian Hairston, Olivia Lambert-Tucker, Adrian Dion Quarles, Todnée Jeffries, Alexis Scales, Camille Wright, Nadie Lee, Austin D. James, and Ezra “EP” Price.

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Living Legend: An exclusive interview with George Stevens Jr. To say it’s an honor to interview George Stevens Jr. is something of an understatement.

This is, after all, the man who founded the American Film Institute (AFI) and created the AFI LifeMark Burger time Achievement Award, co-founded the Kennedy Center Contributor Honors, served as co-chairman of the President’s Council on the Arts and Humanities under Barack Obama, has won over a dozen Emmy Awards, a Humanitas Award, two Peabody Awards, and an Honorary Oscar in 2012 for his lifelong contributions to the film industry.

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the Merrier (1943), A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He was Oscar-nominated as Best Director for the last five, winning for A Place in the Sun and Giant.

Now, George Stevens Jr. has penned an autobiography, one as expansive, entertaining, and illuminating as his father’s best films. My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington (528 pages, $34.95 retail) was published in May by the University Press of Kentucky, and within its pages, Stevens details his life and career — and the lives of those around him — to such an extent that the reader truly gains an insight into the world in which he lived.

“That is so nice to hear,” he said. “I really am happy how the book turned out.

I found a form to allow the reader to remain engaged, and it’s been so rewarding to hear how many readers have discovered things they didn’t know previously.

It brought back a lot of memories.”

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In addition to Hollywood royalty, Stevens rubbed elbows with politicians and presidents, worked tirelessly as an ambassador of global communication via the arts, and raised two sons and a stepdaughter with wife, Elizabeth. In addition to his father, another of Stevens’ mentors was the legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow, who tapped him to serve as director of the Motion Picture and Television Service under the auspices of the United States Information Agency, where he oversaw the production of hundreds of documentary short films, including the Oscar-winning Nine from Little Rock (1965).

There are those who would say Stevens has led a charmed life, being the son of an Oscar-winning filmmaker, but he forged his own future through determination, hard work, a bit of luck, and what is clearly a Stevens family trademark: Stubbornness. “All of that is accurate,” he confirmed with a laugh.

Stevens lavishes praise on many and levels only mild criticism at a few. That, he said, was intentional. “I decided not to go into the area of settling old scores, but in a few instances, by implication, I dealt with matters.”

When asked if there were any gaffes or missteps in presenting the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award honors, he admitted “probably” — but he preferred to concentrate on specific ones. “I did 25 of them, and I really touched on only four.

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John Huston’s (in 1983) and Lillian Gish’s (in 1984) were also wonderful.”

The award was inaugurated in 1973 — John Ford being the first recipient — and, indeed, George Stevens Sr.’s name did come up as a possible honoree.

“There was a discussion once, and I sort of demurred,” he recalled. “I told the board ‘I would have to resign,’ and my friend Ted Ashley, the chairman of Warner Bros. and an AFI board member, joked ‘Let’s take it to a vote!’ Thanks, Ted! “My father enjoyed recognition, but he wasn’t eager for the spotlight. Ivan Moffat (the screenwriter for Giant), a longtime family friend, humorously observed that my father ‘suffered from pretentious modesty,’” he laughed.

Nevertheless, he paid great homage to his father in the award-winning 1985 documentary George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey, which not only encapsulated his father’s career but also his service with a military film unit during World War II, where he and his crew filmed the Normandy landings on D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the discovery of the Dachau concentration camp — an experience that deeply affected him.

There has long been the observation that following his wartime experiences; Stevens Sr. never directed another comedy. “In a sense, that is true,” Stevens said, “but there was situational humor in his later films: Giant, Shane, and even The Diary of Anne Frank. There is laughter. He retained that gift for humor.

His last film, The Only Game in Town, was supposed to be a comedy … not one of Dad’s best films, and he’d be the first to agree!”

George Stevens made movies, and George Jr. also produced and directed, but at the AFI, they made moviemakers.

In a sense, everything came full circle.

Having turned 90 in April, shortly before the publication of his autobiography, George Stevens Jr. is still hard at work as a producer. His latest project? The audiobook for My Place in the Sun, and he’s working with someone whose talents he is well familiar with, his younger son David. “I’m really glad we’re doing it together,” he said. “We’ve really enjoyed the experience.”

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WINSTON-SALEM HOSTS 2022 ARTISTS THRIVE SUMMIT Winston-Salem remains a destination at the crossroads of arts and innovation. From the National Black Theatre Festival to the Riverrun International Film Festival, and now The Artists Thrive Summit, Winston-Salem continues Joshua Ridley to garner national attention of arts and culture Marketing & enthusiasts.

Communications Artists Thrive aims Manager to identify the things that help artists pursue their vision and to enable communities to benefit from the arts in all aspects of life. The initiative began in 2015 when a group of arts professionals and artists produced the first draft of a field-wide assessment rubric. Through multiple rounds of feedback, Artists Thrive was publicly launched in 2017. Resources and tools within Artists Thrive help artists, arts organizations, and other groups that work with artists collaborate and craft meaningful stories about why artmaking matters.

The Inaugural Artists Thrive Summit was held in Berea, KY in 2017. The goal of this inaugural Summit was to celebrate, elevate, and proclaim the necessity of valuing artists. The Summit included three days of conversation, connections, poetry, and performances, culminating with the public launch of the Artists Thrive Assessment Tools. Artists Thrive was stationed in Berea, KY for 3 years. In 2020, WinstonSalem was announced to be the host city for the Summit. In 2021 Artists Thrive was hosted virtually.

This year, Artists Thrive will be held in a hybrid format with in-person sessions taking place at The Kimpton Cardinal Hotel in downtown WinstonSalem July 19-22, 2022. Artists Thrive intentionally relocates every three years so that artists and arts organizations are inspired, encouraged, and uplifted.

Artists Thrive operates differently compared to other nation-wide annual summits. “The Artist Thrive 2022 Summit is more than a gathering – it is a catalyst for creating connections and opportunities to elevate the value of artists in our community,” says Kevin Bitterman, Executive Director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.

The 2022 Artists Thrive Summit is making intentional efforts to have the Summit be more accessible and inclusive. This year the Summit introduced a “sliding-scale” pricing system. The true cost of attending the Summit in-person is $500 and $125 for online. There are a select number of tickets available at each level. Artists Thrive is asking attendees to de-

termine which ticket price best fits their needs, based on income level, wealth privilege, and other financial considerations. Attendees were able to select their admission costs based on an honor-code system.

“We have full faith and confidence in the WinstonSalem community that attendees will choose a pay level that is appropriate for their personal situation,” expressed Heather Pontonio, Senior Program Director of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and Artists Thrive Activator. For more information, please visit www.ArtistsThrive.org.

The Artists Thrive Summit is an amazing opportunity for the Winston-Salem arts community. What separates Artists Thrive from other traditional summits is the focus on collaboration. All participants in any of the sessions taking place over the duration of the four-day summit are encouraged to speak and share information. In order to further the impact Artists Thrive has on the Winston-Salem arts community, efforts have been made to expand Artists Thrive to the Triad. One of the sessions during the Summit will take place in Greensboro, NC. “We are grateful to have Artists Thrive here in WinstonSalem, Forsyth County, and the Triad. Our artists will benefit tremendously from the sessions at the Summit and information shared from their peers, arts leaders, and content knowledge experts,” expressed Chase Law, President, and CEO of Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County.

Independent artists tell their stories, history, and culture through their art. Artists Thrive takes a holistic approach bringing every aspect of art together and provides tools to help artists thrive. “We are committed to supporting our art partner organizations and independent artists, and ensuring they have every resource and opportunity for continued growth in all they do,” shared Law. “Having the Summit in our region for the next few years will have a significant impact on our arts and cultural sector and will also provide additional economic impact to our community.”

ARTS COUNCIL is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Our goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness and providing support to grow and sustain artistic, cultural and creative offerings throughout our region. We acknowledge that it takes every voice, every talent, and every story to make our community a great place to live, work, and play. Arts Council is committed to serving as a facilitator, organizer, and promoter of conversations that are authentic, inclusive, and forward-thinking. There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in WinstonSalem 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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he Triad is fortunate to have several hotels that house serious restaurants. The Marriott in downtown Winston-Salem is a case in point. Butcher and Bull was originally conceived as a steak house, and that concept remains intact, but widerranging cuisine has recently been added by the new chef, Alex Governale, who moved over from The Prescott in Kernersville.

Décor follows the steakhouse design.

Mounted bull and buffalo models gaze down from the walls. Exposed brick on several walls and black and white floor tiles create a clubby look. Prints reinforce the bovine theme.

The wine list contains a lot of good selections; other entertaining libations abound as well, of course. A long bar appears to be a popular gathering place. In addition to the main dining area, medium and large private spaces can be reserved, as well as separate seating in the wine cellar.

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Chef Governale has organized the new menu around as many locally sourced items as possible. There is a bit of public service in evidence as well. Bread service, in the form of Focaccia with apricot butter, both made in-house, adds a $4 charge. A portion of that fee benefits Second Harvest Food Bank.

Carrot Soup is blended with harissa, a paste that combines chili peppers, roasted red peppers, garlic paste, caraway seeds, coriander seeds, cumin, and olive oil. A dab of Greek yogurt blended with crème fraiche swims in the center. The result is complex and refreshing.

Squash Tart is colorful, and it tastes good, too, a function of fresh tomatoes and Boursin cheese that join slices of yellow squash and zucchini on puff pastry. A large semicircle of watermelon radish tops it off with a knockout visual impact. The whole assembly is laced with balsamic syrup.

Smoked Scallops arrive under glass.

When the server lifts the cover, a cloud of wood smoke wafts over the table, conveying a scintillating aroma along

with visual impact. The scallops, with a hint of woodsmoke infusion, are cooked just-right-tender, resting in strawberry gazpacho scattered with dabs of goat cheese and crushed pistachio nuts.

In concert with the main theme, the menu offers several salads, any of which can be augmented with a protein. My wife ordered the Wedge — a large, thick slice of iceberg lettuce decorated with real bacon, red onion slices, and halved grape tomatoes. The blue cheese dressing is pleasantly mellow.

She added steak on the side- sliced hangar steak, showing a good, brown sear, cooked just as ordered, delivering solid depth of flavor. A main course NY Strip steak also showed excellent beef flavor, again cooked just right, blessed with a bourbon bearnaise sauce. In this case, buttery mashed potatoes and smoky grilled asparagus matched up perfectly with the steak.

All the beef is Certified Angus. Meats are sourced primarily from Brasstown Meats, a superior vendor that is really serious about its products. The equip-

ment in this kitchen, I have been told, is a chef’s fantasy. I look forward to future red meat-oriented visits, which will no doubt include a burger and a filet mignon.

We also kicked in a serving of Parmesan Fries. These are interesting — fresh cut, sliced somewhat thicker than usual, almost Texas fries style, dusted with slivers of fresh Parmesan cheese. I would definitely recommend them.

Chef advised, “Our Seared Salmon over street corn cream is my favorite dish to prepare. I carried that recipe around in my notebook for a long time waiting for the perfect time to introduce it on a menu, and summer is the ideal time for a fresh salmon dish.” For sure. The creamed corn acts like a sauce that serves the salmon flavor really well. Roasted purple and red bliss potatoes complete the presentation.

The other seafood catch was Striped Bass, the white fish swimming in saffronorange fish fume’ flecked with fresh corn kernels. Steamed spinach is the well-chosen green vegetable, a wedge of watermelon radish creating a striking visual.

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STRIPED BASS left intact, rendered crisp. It adds pleasant flavor as well as texture to the natural fowl flavor, which is itself enhanced with peach barbecue sauce. Leaves of kale are flavored with bacon and garlic, flanked by a square of corn pudding.

I really liked the Pork Chop. The meat is tender and moist, about 3/4” thick, covered with a marmalade of figs and charred grapes. That fruity sweetness marries really well with the pork flavor.

Fresh summer vegetables — carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, and broccoli — are arrayed alongside.

To finish, if you are not inclined toward sweets, an assortment of local cheeses is available. I would not steer you away from such a choice.

But I would caution that Sous Chef Blake Castle is a passionate devotee’ of cheesecake. He comes up with new creations on a frequent basis, and they should always be considered. The simple NY-style version I had- rich and creamywas framed in a really good graham cracker crust. A colorful, tasty Fruit Tart is available as well.

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These selections come from the summer menu. Chef Governale intends to make changes according to the seasons, with plans to introduce a fall menu the first week of October. Butcher & Bull is currently open for breakfast and dinner, but lunch may be added in the coming months, as well as buffets for special occasions and holidays. !

JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/ cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina.

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Triad Today to Focus on Hospice

oth of my parents were fortunate to have been under hospice care before they passed away, so I can testify firsthand that the folks Jim Longworth who provide patients with serious illness and end-ofLongworth life care will someat Large day occupy a special place in heaven.

That’s especially true for the team at Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care.

Mountain Valley Hospice, headquartered in Mt. Airy, serves an 18-county area in North Carolina and Virginia with offices and facilities located throughout the region. In addition to providing in-home care, they operate in-patient hospice homes in Dobson and Yadkinville.

Mountain Valley also offers special programs such as We Honor Veterans, and Camp Kids Path to help children

deal with the loss of a loved one. They even offer a Pet Peace of Mind program, and, of course, they provide support for families of hospice patients.

This weekend, members of the Mountain Valley team will appear on “Triad Today” to talk about everything from access to care to the importance of volunteers. The program was taped earlier, and will air this Saturday and Sunday.

While some hospice agencies in North Carolina are for-profit, Mountain Valley is a nonprofit, so we began the show with a discussion about what that means to patients and their families.

“Our goal is to make sure that every patient who is hospice eligible can gain access to care,” said Stephanie Tilley, Senior Director of Growth & Access. “Many folks are surprised to learn that only about 50% of patients who meet the eligibility for Medicare actually utilize the Medicare benefits.”

But even those who don’t meet Medicare criteria are never turned away.

“We take care of those who can’t afford to take care of themselves, those who have no insurance, no financial means.

Our mission is to serve every patient,

every family, every time,” said Tracey Dobson, President and CEO of Mountain Valley Hospice.

In order to provide charitable care for some patients, Mountain Valley Hospice relies on donations and occasionally hosts fundraising events.

“Proceeds from these events go to support our patient services and community programs. It’s what enables us to not have to turn anyone away due to an inability to pay,” said Sara Tavery, Senior Director of Philanthropy and Volunteers.

The Mountain Valley Hospice team includes doctors, nurses, chaplains, and a large support staff. But that team of caring professionals is also complemented by an army of volunteers who help serve the needs of patients and their families.

“Volunteers are truly the heart of hospice. We are so fortunate to have a great group of volunteers. They are vital to helping us carry out our mission, and to provide compassionate care to our patients,” Tavery said.

Like my parents, most patients receive hospice care in their own homes.

“Nursing care is available 24/7 for patients in their own homes. We have CNAs who can help with bathing and dressing patients. Our chaplains offer spiritual support, and then we have social

workers who help manage resources for our patients,” said Jenna Campbell, Chief Clinical Operations Officer.

Mountain Valley also operates two, state-of-the-art in-patient hospice homes for when at-home care is no longer practical.

“It’s when we can no longer manage the patient’s symptoms at home, so we need to take it a step up and have the provider more involved at the bedside,” said Campbell.

But regardless of whether care is provided at home or in a hospice home, the goal is the same, as Chief Medical Director Dr. Glenn Golazewski explained.

“It’s important to keep hospice patients comfortable, and that’s what folks want when they’re dealing with end-stage illnesses.”

You can watch our “Triad Today” salute to hospice this Saturday at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45, and on Sunday at 11 a.m. on MY48.

For more information about hospice care, visit www.mtnvalleyhospice.org, or to schedule an appointment, call 888789-2922. !

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Now they’re back in Minions: The Rise of Gru, which is sort of an origin story, ostensibly detailing how young Gru (voiced once more by Steve Carell) first joined forces with the Minions as he embarked on his villainous career. That the film is set in 1976 allows the filmmakers’ free reign to spoof all the era’s trappings, including disco, kung fu, pet rocks, eye-scorching fashions, Big Wheels, and much more.

The screenplay, by Matthew Fogel, based on his and Brian Lynch’s story, isn’t great. Young Gru aspires to join The Vicious 6, a gang comprised of the world’s most notorious criminals. Instead, he winds up in possession of the Zodiac Stone, an ancient artifact that grants its owner infinite power. Or something like that. It all culminates in a barrage of

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special effects during the Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown district, with the fate of the world (one supposes) hanging in the balance.

Minions: The Rise of Gru is an entertaining diversion, to be sure, and the animation is customarily top-notch, but the narrative is fairly routine, and primarily an excuse for the Minions to work their comic magic. That’s the wisest decision the filmmakers could have made. With their frequently unintelligible frequently hilarious, gibberish and their unfailing penchant for wreaking absolute havoc, they never disappoint.

Perhaps the funniest scene in any movie this year, which alone is worth the price of admission, sees the main Minions — Kevin, Stuart, and Bob — essentially hijack an airliner to get to San Francisco. It’s short (maybe too short), it’s inspired, and it’s

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side-splittingly hilarious. Another delicious non-sequitur is when the Minions inexplicably host a Tupperware party dressed like suburban ‘70s housewives, jabbering away. It has nothing to do with anything, but it’s a scream.

Director Kyle Balda, who co-directed Minions and Despicable Me 3, goes solo here and establishes such a frantic pace

that the film occasionally tramples on its own punchlines, and some of the gags are repetitious, but fans of the franchise likely won’t mind.

In addition to Carell, whose voice has been modulated to sound like a youngster, the voice-over cast is packed with stars: Alan Arkin, Julie Andrews, Taraji P. Henson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Michelle Yeoh, RZA, Lucy Lawless, Steve Coogan, Will Arnett, and Russell Brand, but the undisputed star of the show is Pierre Coffin, who voices the Minions and who surely must have been exhausted by the end of production.

In Hollywood, where nothing succeeds like excess (and nothing exceeds like success), we’ve not seen the last of the Minions or Gru, as Despicable Me 4 is on track for release in 2024. Even if Minions 2: The Rise of Gru doesn’t reach the heights of its predecessors, it’s always nice to spend time with the Minions. Long may they make merry. !

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The trail to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado is some 13 miles long, and the peak itself tops out at more than 14,000 feet — making it a challenging hike for anyone. But Chuck Shepherd for Bob Salem, 53, the journey is nuttily complicated: He’s pushing a peanut up the mountain using his “nose”: customized headgear made of a CPAP mask with a black plastic serving spoon attached to it, NPR reported. “Basically, I’m just going to ... low crawl my way up there,” he said. “I mean, there’s not really much to it but just to keep flicking.” It’s all part of the Manitou Springs 150-Year Celebration, and Salem is raising money for a local charity that works to house people experiencing homelessness. Oddly, he’s not the first to achieve the feat, but he’ll be the first in the 21st century. Salem is wearing kneepads and elbow pads, and a spotter carries his backpack with a snowsuit inside for the higher elevations.

He’s expected to reach the summit the weekend of July 16-17.

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On July 10, as Rich Gilson used a miniexcavator to remove part of the foundation under the porch of his 1920s-era New Jersey home, he came across an unusual windfall: Among the weeds and dirt were two bundles of paper, secured with rubber bands, United Press International reported. “I got to look at the edge and it had a green tint to it, and I said, ‘This is money,’” Gilson said. The cash, printed in 1934, amounted to $1,000 in $10 and $20 bills. Gilson said the area where he found the money was previously accessible only through a crawlspace: “Somebody had to crawl under there and dig a hole. My sense is that something fishy happened,” he added. He plans to keep the money.

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Penguins at the Hakone-en Aquarium near Tokyo are turning their beaks up at a new variety of fish after officials switched because of an increase in price, United Press International reported. The cost of their standard fare, aji, increased more than 30% over last year, so the aquarium tried a cheaper variety of mackerel. But the penguins aren’t biting: “Even if they’ll take it in their beaks, they’ll just spit it out,” head zookeeper Hiroki Shimamoto said. If the keepers mix in a bit of aji, they’ll eat it, but without enthusiasm.

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The zoo’s otters have the same impression of the new menu item. Shimamoto said they could raise admission prices, but “we would like to do our best to keep our facility a comfortable place for our guests to visit.”

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Thanks to the quick reaction of a semitruck operator, a teenage driver sustained only minor injuries after she allowed her car to drift into the oncoming lane of a suburban Minneapolis street and crash into the trailer, The Smoking Gun reported. During questioning after the mid-July incident, the girl denied being on her phone at the time of the crash, but Anoka County Sheriff’s deputies noticed that her car’s Bluetooth system was “still streaming the audio to ‘Stranger Things’ on Netflix.” She then admitted to watching the popular series while driving.

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In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a serial pharmacy robber identified as Kristopher Kukola, 37, allegedly hit five CVS stores between May and July, demanding narcotics and displaying a gun, MLive.com reported. In the latest incident, on July 7, a fast-thinking pharmacist dropped a decoy pill bottle containing a GPS tracker into the bag.

Police found Kukola escaping in a Jeep and followed the car to an apartment complex, where the thief jumped out and tried to flee on foot. When officers caught up to him, Kukola told them, “The guy you are looking for ran that way.” Investigators found a BB gun, the drugs and the decoy bottle in his Jeep; he was indicted on federal charges.

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In the United Kingdom, environmentalists are fighting a twitchy problem: gray squirrels. The little rodents are taking over, the BBC reported, damaging woodland ecosystems and native red squirrel populations. And a cull isn’t practical — they reproduce too quickly. Now, however, scientists have created a squirrel contraceptive. Dr. Giovanna Massei of the U.K.’s Animal and Plant Health Agency said her team has developed a vaccine that prompts the immune system to restrict the production of sex hormones. Squirrels will be lured into a special trap, where they’ll feast on Nutella paste laced with the contraceptive. The project should be ready to deploy in the wild within two years. !

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From Background to Centerstage: Shelby J takes the lead in music and life Shelby Johnson has always been in the right place at the right time.

She’s also been prepared for every opportunity she gets while she’s there. That preparation has paid off.

Known as Shelby J., the Greensboro native has shared some of the world’s biggest stages with the world’s biggest musicians including Prince, Carlos Santana, D’ Angelo, Chanel Davis Roy Hargrove, Joel Henry Kiser and Larry Graham.

The singer/songwriter is now Editor preparing to return to her hometown where she’ll perform in front of her day-one fans and early supporters.

The Carolina Theatre, located at 310 S. Greene St., will host Shelby J. in the Crown on Friday, July 29 at 8 p.m.

The event, which is already sold out, is designed to be an intimate affair.

“I’ve played 20,000 seaters, I’ve played with Prince at the Super Bowl, we did the Hollywood Bowl and I reunited with D’Angelo. That’s cool but there’s nothing like a crowd of 200 folks where you can walk through the crowd and touch everybody,” she explained.

“I’m going to almost personally know everybody that’s going to be in this room. At some point, they’ve been a part of my life.”

She even has her second-grade teacher, from Vandalia Elementary, coming to see her performance. They’ve been following her career over the years and reached out to her via Instagram.

“You just don’t know who’s watching you. That’s the beauty of social media. I don’t know that my second-grade teacher has been following my career since my Anthony Hamilton days. They were like ‘oh yeah we saw you at Fun Fourth in 2014.’ That’s been like 20-something years. So it’s going to be nice for them to get to see what I call Shelby 3.0,” she said. “All of the stuff that I’ve done over my career has just kind of poured into the artist that I am now and the path that I am on now with my ministry in music to uplift, motivate, and inspire. That’s my UMI movement. That’s what everyone is going to get to experience from everything that I do moving forward with my music and with my career. Everything is to uplift, motivate and inspire.”

For those who won’t be able to attend, the Crown event will be recorded for a project to be released in the future. Capturing everything is something Shelby J. learned from Prince.

“Prince taught me to capture everything.

He was like ‘capture everything you do. You can decide what you want to do with it later but you can never recapture it.’ So I’m taking a page from his book.”

Shelby J. began her singing career at an early age. At the age of 3, she was singing in St. James

Baptist Church on W. Florida Street. She would go on to sing in the vocal ensembles at the then W.C. Jackson Junior High and Ben L. Smith High School under the tutelage of Ms. Pam H. Misher. The singer credits the teacher for helping her believe in herself and her craft.

“She could see more in me than I could see. I knew I liked to sing but I really never got the leads in a lot of stuff.

I was that strong support and she knew she could count on my notes. They were going to be right and they were going to be there,” she said. “Fast forward and I did that with Prince. He was able to say ‘Shelby’s going to have the note’ and ‘I know she’s going to have the girls right’ and ‘I know everybody is going to be on point because Shelby’s going to give me that foundation so then I can just do what I need to do.’”

It wasn’t until she went to Appalachian State University that was bit by the performance bug. While she was only there one year, it was an impactful year. She joined the school’s Gospel Choir, where they went on tour performing.

“I knew I needed to be going from place to place meeting people and singing for people,” she said. “I never felt anything like that before.”

It wasn’t an opportunity she was willing to give up, either. At the end of the tour, she explained to her parents that she wanted “to look for some different opportunities.” She got a job working at Nations Bank and began singing in every club in Greensboro.

“I sang at any club that would have me.”

Singing in those clubs brought Shelby J. opportunities, connections, and eventually a steady gig.

“Scott Adair would let me come in and just jam with him. He told me that I needed a Real Book so I could learn all the jazz standards. He said ‘the more you know, the further your can go.’ So I was learning that and what was on the radio. I had the “What’s the 411?” tape in the car but I also had my real book. Going from Mary to Ella.”

It was at one gig at Crocodiles on Tate Street that she met a keyboard player from Virginia named Lou Taylor that was putting a band together for cruise ships. She jumped at the opportunity.

“When the opportunity presented itself for me to sing on cruise ships, I was like ‘I’m out of here.’ I had been praying for the opportunity. I didn’t know anything about cruise ships and I didn’t know what this was going to be but I trust God and said I was going to give it a try and see what happens.”

After performing on the cruise ship for a while, Shelby J. decided to take a bite out of the big apple. Following the advice of one of the musicians she’d met, she caught an Amtrak to New York and crashed on futons and with a family member, going to every open mic she could find.

Which is how she ended up at Harlem’s iconic Sylvia’s Restaurant in 1995.

“Everybody was at Sylvia’s. It was poppin’. I couldn’t even get in the first time; I had to stand outside and watch through the glass.”

But that position wouldn’t last very long. She would end up befriending the musicians that played there and end up coming in with them two weeks later when they

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brought in equipment and set up. Shelby J. didn’t know that the host was leaving or that she was setting herself up for her next job.

“I got on the mic and was doing my thing and something happened with the power. The musicians were trying to get their instruments to work so I just started talking to the crowd. I wasn’t just going to stand up there,” she explained.

Afterward, Melba Wilson, Sylvia’s niece and owner of Melba’s, told her they were looking for a new host and asked if she’d consider the position.

“So I go from the girl that couldn’t get in three weeks ago to hosting this thing every week just based on this opportunity.”

Things took off pretty quickly for Shelby J. after that through auditions and word of mouth. She would go on to sing background for Groove Theory, eventually going on tour with them, Maxwell and The Fugees in 1996. She would sing with D’Angelo in 1999 and for fellow North Carolinian Anthony Hamilton. In 2005, she got a gig with Larry Graham at 3121 in Vegas that would ultimately change her life.

“I was singing I can’t stand the rain and some voice kept asking me to sing it again. I didn’t know who it was. I thought it was the soundman. I kept singing it again and Larry kept playing it. I was like this soundman really wants to get this right. This is crazy. This is like the fourth time he asked me to do this song. Larry was like I think that was your audition.”

Shelby said she didn’t know what he was talking about until she saw Prince.

“I always say it seemed like he was floating from the back of the room. He looked so good. He was clean. It was like 1:30 in the afternoon. Nobody should look that good at 1:30 in the afternoon. He had his entourage around him. Beautiful people. Everybody was smelling good. Looking good,” she said describing their first encounter. “He comes walking up to me. I had on a Baby Phat jumpsuit, Timberlands, a camouflage baseball cap with my cornrows in two pigtails, and some bamboo earrings. I was like ‘Hey Prince.’

He said ‘You’re a pretty good singer’ and I was like ‘Thank you so much.’ Then he just left. Larry just looked at me.”

The duo couldn’t believe it happened since Prince, who owned the club, played there on the weekends but they were there on a Wednesday. He would surprise them again later that night.

“When I was singing, the crowd started going crazy and I’m like they really feeling me this is great. I didn’t know that Prince was walking onto the stage behind me. I saw the pedal board but I didn’t put it together until afterward. He plugged in and started singing on my mic with me. We’re cheek to cheek. It was such a synergy between us. We talked about it after the fact. The crowd went crazy. We all hung out that night and then I went back to Greensboro.”

She wouldn’t be in Greensboro long. Two days later, Graham would call her and tell her to be on the lookout for a number she didn’t recognize because Prince’s people wanted to reach out to her. She was with her sister in the Walmart on Elm-Eugune Street when she got the call WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

asking her to be on a plane to Las Vegas the next day and to learn roughly 11 songs. She’d end up spending the next few hours running around the city looking for CDs and packing, to make it to Vegas the next day in time for sound check at 3121.

“Prince just goes into it. He hits the first chord of the song, Baby Love, and looked at the mic. I got on the mic and went into the song. That was my introduction to him saying I want to work with pros. I want to work with people who do their homework at home and this was my opportunity to show him if I was ready to do things at the level they did it at,” she said.

She would go on to play with him and his band on New Year’s Eve. Shortly after he asked her to be in the band telling her that they would begin rehearsing for the Super Bowl in one week.

“It was like a movie. When I play it back in my head, especially now that he is no longer with us in the physical plane, he’s with me every day spiritually, I just think about all of those moments where it was just me and him and the things that he said to me and how he said them,” she said. “Singers, dream and wish and pray for that opportunity to come along. That someone sees you and they appreciate what you do and that they’re going to give you a chance to be on the biggest stage in the world next to them.”

Prince highlighted Shelby J. and her voice throughout his works and their time together.

“He didn’t need me on that stage like that. The way that he cosigned me and the way that he put me on front street was such a blessing. He didn’t have to do any of that.”

One example is when she shared the stage with him at Super Bowl 41 in 2007. She had just joined the band three weeks earlier and is a football fan.

“It was such a dream come true. I had maybe someday wanted to go to the Super Bowl to watch the game, let alone perform at one, let alone perform at a halftime show with the biggest artist in the world. It was so surreal.

It was a lot of fun.”

The infamous performance is hailed as one of the greatest halftime performances in history, despite the rain. The singer said they were nervous about the rain and the slick stage but Prince was adamant about performing the show the way they rehearsed it.

“I asked Prince are we going to change anything and he goes ‘don’t change anything. We’re going to do the show just the way we rehearsed it. We got this. Erase all doubt.’ I take that with me to this day when I go on stage.

Don’t ever think about failing or what can go wrong. Don’t put that energy out there at all. Think about that you’re going to go out there and put on the best show ever and it’s going to be a moment that people will never forget including us.”

Prince also highlighted her on Planet Earth’s “Chelsea Rodgers.” He essentially had her write the song and record the song, top to bottom. This would become the duo’s first song together.

“I’m thinking I’m going to do some oohs and some ahhhs. Some background with Prince,” Shelby J. said. “I thought he was going to keep bits and

pieces not me singing with him. “That was the first recording that I did with him.”

She would collaborate with him again over the years working on 20Ten, and LotusFlow3r. She contributed heavily to his posthumous album released last year, Welcome 2 America. The album includes the song “Same Page, Different Book” which she co-wrote with Prince and recorded in 2010.

“I was so happy that the album was going to be coming out because what we were saying on the album was so relevant to what the world was going through right now.

Even though we recorded it in 2010, it was super relevant to what was happening in the world with the politics and Black Lives Matter. I was like this is the perfect time for this album to come out.”

In 2012, she released “North Carolina” featuring Anthony Hamilton. In 2017, she released her album “10” and in 2018 she released the Gospel single “God is Here.”

“That was a dream. I’m still proud of that record. It will get a brand new life because we’re getting ready to license it to different areas. Music ain’t milk it doesn’t expire.”

She made sure her mother and herself were producers on the album. She also made sure to own her master’s and publishing rights, through her music company Black Gypsy Music.

“That’s something I learned from Prince. You need to own your art.”

Moving forward, Shelby J. will be working with her big sister, Lyn, who happens to be her drummer and her business partner on a new music project, a Shelby J. 10 Christmas, focusing on acting and musical theater, working on two books and performing at the 2022 Civil Rights Gala on Monday, July 25 at the Khoury Conventions Center.

For more information on Shelby J., visit www.shelbyjmusic.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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Wandering Billy has his eye on Greensboro

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Journalist and historian Billy Ingram has stories to tell about his hometown of Greensboro, which he left in 1980, when “Californy seemed the place he ought to be and he packed up his 1974 Slant 6 Dodge Dart Swinger and moved to Beverly,” in the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies.

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It was there that Ingram contributed art and articles to the free gay bi-weekly Data-Boy, then designed movie posters and trailers for Paramount, Fox, New Line, and other studios. In 1994, he moved back to his hometown and founded the innovative infotainment website TVparty!, attracting millions of users and becoming the first to broadcast vintage TV clips online. He now writes a regular column, “Wandering Billy,” in O.Henry Magazine.

His books include 1998’s TV Party (Television’s Untold Tales!), 2012’s Punk, and 2015’s Hamburger2, a play on Hamburger Square, the old name for where the sandwich shop and brothel served soldiers getting off the train on Elm Street.

In June, he published Eye on GSO, which like its predecessor includes revisions of articles he wrote for O.Henry, YES! Weekly, and Triad City Beat.

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One is “Greensboro’s Grey Gardens,” which finds parallels between the lives of two sisters in a former farmhouse on West Market Street, and the mother and daughter made cult-famous by the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens.

“I was walking up West Market when I noticed, on the corner next to the USPS Distribution Center, this house that was almost completely overgrown. It once included the largest garden in North Carolina, and two sisters lived in it their entire lives. The grounds that housed every indigenous plant in the state are now at Biscuitville, with one tree left from all of the old growth. When I visited, there was a new Cadillac parked in the collapsing garage. That house was like Wakanda; nobody ever saw it, nobody ever remembered it, not in 40 years.”

While Ingram did his first bit of journalism in LA, he worked as an artist and designer for Data-Boy before contributing articles. That’s where his old byline was born.

“All their freelancers wrote under aliases. In 1980, if you got caught writing for a gay magazine, you could lose any other job you had. I didn’t know that, thought the aliases were cute and wrote under the name Billy Eye. I could have made quite a name for myself if I’d written under the name Billy Ingram, but nobody could find me. I was going to have the new book be “by Billy Eye,” but then thought, this is really dumb! Back in the day, I thought it was a punk thing to do.”

At Data-Boy, he only nominally had an

editor. “He never read anything anyone turned in. They would typeset the column on the Compugraphic, and when they ran out of space — just clip the end off. And then one of my columns went out with the word ‘fuck’ in it. The printers were these ultra-conservative super-straight Christians who never said a word about the half-naked guys all over the magazine, but had a fit over that word and nearly dropped us.”

Even before Billy Eye went Hollywood, his clientele included future big names.

“I did the first posters for the band London, before they changed their name to Mötley Crüe. Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil would march in and do their posters because they were playing the Starwood, the infamous club down the street owned

by Eddie Nash, who killed the four on the floor in the Wonderland murders. Nikki and Vince would walk down Santa Monica Boulevard, where the only dudes were male prostitutes selling booty, and cars would wreck watching these hot impossibly-skinny guys with big hair in spandex.”

Ingram wrote about the punk scene for Data-Boy from 1980 to 1984.

“That was when the Red Hot Chili Peppers were coming up, Social Distortion, the Minute Men, Perry Farrell. I was hanging out with them and it was a lot to write about. What I didn’t realize is that I had 50,000 readers every other week.

Nobody was covering that scene except for a little bit in LA Weekly, who actually asked me to write for them, and for some stupid reason, I said no. It would certainly

have been an easier gig than becoming a movie poster artist, which is what I did next despite having no training for it. But I submitted a resume and got hired.”

The year before he began doing movie posters, that job was revolutionized by new technology, which printed photographs as large as 27” x 40”, the traditional “one-sheet” film poster.

“Before that, most movie poster art was painted illustration, not photos. Now they needed somebody who could make collages, using photographs and color xerography. My hands had to be the equivalent of Photoshop, doing all the things that people do today in that software. I didn’t know I could do that, but I learned. We turned out three posters a day, for some of the biggest motion pictures, all the Hollywood blockbusters.”

Billy worked on the posters and campaigns for Moonstruck, Star Trek 4 & 5, and A View to a Kill, Roger Moore’s last outing as 007. He met that film’s co-star, Grace Jones.

“She came in the office and was one of the most drop-dead beautiful women I’d ever seen in my entire life, with killer perfume. I’d been at a punk show a few years earlier, where she jumped some dudes in the audience and started whaling on them.”

He’s particularly proud of his illustration for The Hunt for Red October.

“I was shocked how well it worked, as it was just Sean Connery’s face in that distressed circle. I also worked on the Lethal Weapon movies and Beverly Hills Cop and

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Billy Ingram will always remember Hudson Hawk because it was one of the biggest bombs we ever did. Everyone was so coked up at the time. We were working 16-18 hours a day, good luck having a social life.”

That’s not why he left.

“I loved it, but left in 1994 because of Photoshop. I was still faster than it then, but it was catching up, and I didn’t want to sit in front of a computer all day.

I enjoyed the hands-on aspect, running back and forth to the printers, cutting and pasting. So, I came back to Greensboro and returned to writing.”

And created a hugely influential website.

“Somebody showed me AOL and I realized the internet was going to be the next big thing, and I immediately started TVparty.com. Of course, there were no programs to code pages. I taught myself HTML and by the year 2000, my site was seeing three to four million visitors a month. I also did the first websites for UNCG, Eastern Music Festival, Rock 92 and KZL. One day at Emerald Pointe, the general manager said ‘the internet is not going to happen, it’s a hula hoop, a fad.’ I said I can’t wait to remind you that you said that. Everybody thought I was on drugs because I was working on this website 16 hours a day, as I was used to doing that in LA. I was the first to create web pages that had pictures, text, and embedded video. Couldn’t monetize it until about 2002, but from 2004 through 2006, I was making really good money.

It’s been diminishing returns since, but that was before TV Land, CBS, or ME-TV were on the internet.”

He said that writing for magazines remains a childhood dream come true.

“Growing up, I bought a dozen magazines a week, from National Lampoon to High Times. That was the grand period for magazines. Getting a regular magazine gig here took me back to those days.

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One reason Billy writes about the past is that he feels the United States isn’t the same country he grew up in.

“At best, American democracy has two years. Soon, we won’t have free elections.

We’ve got people jerry-rigging the system so that you can’t get elected unless a Republican, and can’t get elected as a Republican unless you’re either batshit crazy or pretend to be.”

The former Billy Eye doesn’t blame everything he dislikes about 2022 on the party that seems intent on re-criminalizing his lifestyle.

“I wrote an article for Eye on GSO about how we used to go out trick-or-treating and walked to school by ourselves. Now that’s gone. I felt so much freer then, like I could do anything. It gave me such a sense of possibility. Now it feels like everything is behind barbed glass.” !

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he seventh annual WinstonSalem Rap Round Robin throws down Friday, July 22 at Monstercade in Winston-Salem.

Soldiering on after Katei Cranford the sudden passing of Joshua “Unspeakable” Brookshire, Contributor co-founder (and one-half of the sibling rap duo Speak N’ Eye), the upcoming event will serve as a special memorial and testament to his legacy within Winston music circles.

“Joshua cared deeply about fostering connections between people, even if he wasn’t booked to play a show, he wanted more than anything to be involved as a person who could help people get booked,” said Aaron “Emceein’ Eye” Brookshire. “And his promoting

skills were seriously impressive. He really had his foot in the door with everyone and knew how to truly bring awesome people together for a great time.”

Joshua was known for putting people in the center of his work — quite literally during the round robins, which situates the audience in the center, surrounded by six artists across three stages, with two MC’s at each.

The format and concept is based on the model from Dan Deacon and the Baltimore Wham City Art Collective, where, as Brookshire explained, “Deacon would have whole round robins with full live bands and eventually took it on a tour across America in a school bus.” Fellow Baltimore artist, Height Keech, eventually took up the mantle with an all-rap variety. “He took it on several tours himself,” Brookshire added.

“One landed in Winston with us, which sparked us to do our own Winston edition.”

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along with Baltimore artists PT Burnem and Josh Stokes. On the local end, Been Boomin makes his RRR performance debut — having been in the audience for each edition, from the first show at the Hut to the Delurk Gallery years and the current RRR home base of the past three rounds: Monstercade.

Taking a pandemic pause in 2020, the 2021 edition went outdoors — giving a literal sense to the RRR “We Out Here” tagline. “It actually turned out a little different because so many people came out, they had to form a circle around us,” Brookshire said, “so it ended up being like a reverse round robin.”

As of now, the plan is to return indoors for the fast-paced, nonstop fury of a formula: each act does six songs, resulting in 36 nonstop tracks. “The main point of the show is for music to be going nonstop, without any breaks or bands breaking their equipment down,” Brookshire explained. “Most shows, one band plays, the audience takes a break to go outside and mull around and smoke, then you gotta wait for the next band to set up.

This concept allows for music to be running endlessly into the night, while also offering the audience a different style or flavor every few minutes.”

The goal is to keep it hype and breakneck, with a more traditional set to open the show. “I enjoy having an opening act to help get people warmed up and to signify that some cool stuff is about to go down,” Brookshire said, referencing the various genres and elements of opening acts in previous years: the Emotron, Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk, Power Animal, and Grant Livesay.

Kam Doja will offer the opening ceremonies for 2022, with the lineup rounded out by Brookshire (as Emceein’ Eye) and fellow RRR veteran OG Spliff, who made his performance debut at the inaugural Winston edition. “He’s like the heart of our Rap Round Robin,” Brookshire said. “He’s got such a grounding presence and has a way with the audience that people just seem to adore. It wouldn’t feel right to not have Spliff on the set.”

Looking back, Brookshire is comforted by the cyclical nature of the robin’s seventh round. “Height Keech and PT Burnem are like the pioneers of the rap round robin concept — I consider them mentors — and they were all on the very first Winston edition we had, so it feels like things are coming back around. Plus, having the senior heads involved has helped ease the stress.”

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younger generation how it goes down, so they can keep it going in the future.”

Though, this year, they’ll celebrate the past. “We’re still trying to come up with some ways to honor my brother,” Brookshire explained. “One idea involves passing the mic around after the show, to let people tell their stories and share memories.” He and Been Boomin are currently working to incorporate bits of Joshua’s recordings into sets.

“Josh is the whole reason I wanted to start making music,” Brookshire said.

“Our mom let us do our first house show in our family home when I was 12 years old. I was in high school when he went to college at East Carolina — he’d come pick me up on Fridays and drive me to Greenville for the weekend — and take me to all of these shows during the early years of Future Islands and Dan Deacon.

It’s where we met Height Keech when I was 15 years old. Now he’s like a brother figure to me and is head of our Cold Rhymes Records label.”

“We created a lot of music and experienced so much together as brothers and bandmates,” he continued, relaying the impact of being siblings held over the experience. “Being able to share that with my older brother means the world to me.”

An extended brotherhood carries on, with Keech and Burnem hanging around to help with unreleased Speak N’ Eye tracks. They’ll join “Spliff N’ Eye,” (a new incarnation filling the scheduled Speak N’ Eye spot) for a show at Etc in Greensboro the following night.

A longtime fixture of the Brookshires’ entourage, Spliff ’s incorporation is organic. “We’d just randomly show up at his apartment and force him to go with us to the shows we were playing,” Brookshire recalled of the process that eventually evolved into a sort of back-and-forth versus-style set of shared collaborations.

“We’d reserve half of our set-time to let him get on, like: ‘hey check out our little brother here, he kills it.’”

With new music on the horizon, Spliff N’ Eye plans to continue beyond the show. “I can’t say too much, but it’s going to be fire. And Josh would want us to soldier on.”

The seventh annual Winston-Salem Rap Round Robin soldiers on, July 22, at Monstercade. Spliff N’ Eye, Height Keech, and PT Burnem will be at Etc in Greensboro, with Katie Blvd., on July 23. !

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