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The REYNOLDA HOUSE Museum of American Art had pre-pandemic plans to capture the Triad with an American photorealism exhibition from which 28 out of its 40 works were found close to home in the Winston-Salem area.

6 Founded in 1979, the NORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY was the brainchild of founder Larry Leon Hamlin, and was the first organization devoted to black theater in North Carolina.

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Artists, singers, and musicians’ -it’s what makes the city a locus for the exceptional.

When groups organically merge and form it makes for some stellar results. Enter through the side door UNCLE WATSON’S WIDOW (UWW).

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Having primarily distinguished herself in character roles, particularly those she’s played for Mike Leigh (eight films in all) and an Oscar-nominated turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Phantom Thread (2017), Lesley Manville takes center stage in MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS. 12 Former Greensboro mayoral candidate Eric Robert has filed a complaint with the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar against Greensboro City Attorney CHUCK WATTS. 13 While the pandemic had shut down performing arts centers across the nation, several theatres believed it would last a few weeks, months, or a season at most.

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Reynolda House Captures American Photorealism

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he Reynolda House Museum of American Art had pre-pandemic plans to capture the Triad with an American photorealism exhibition from which 28 Dalia Razo out of its 40 works were found close to Contributor home in the WinstonSalem area. Covid-19 arrived and the project was forced on the back burner. Following two years of patience and generosity from the private collectors and institutions that committed to collaborating on the postponed exhibit, the museum now welcomes the public to experience Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism. The exhibition is scheduled to run through December 31 in the museum’s Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery.

During a visit to a local art collector’s home, Reynolda House curator Allison Slaby was shocked to walk straight into a large-scale Richard Estes screenprint. The collector she was visiting turned out to have around 15 more of Estes’ works upon which Slaby realized she had the start of an exhibit. Set on doing something with the newfound treasure, Slaby reached out to other private collectors and museums to see what could be developed. Contributors for Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism include peer

Richard Estes, D Train (1988), screenprint in colors on museum board.

Private collection. ©Richard Estes, Courtesy Menconi + Schoelkopf. institutions such as the Gibbes Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Wake Forest University Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. Emerged from Pop art, photorealism is the recreation of a photograph, at times taken by the artist, or a print source. The artist recreates through a medium of their choice, which has included acrylics, oils, screen-printing, watercolors, and even the use of projectors, airbrushing, and stamp-

pad ink. The exhibit presents a rich collection of American photorealism since its appearance in the 1960s with works by artists Ralph Goings, Don Eddy, Ron Kleeman, Robert Bechtle, Robert Cottingham, Janet Fish, Ben Schonzeit, Audrey Flack, Richard McLean, Chuck Close, Jack Mendenhall and, of course, Richard Estes.

“We are showing different artists but Richard Estes is really at the heart of the exhibition,” said Slaby, who curated the exhibition.

Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism includes Hubcap,

one of Estes’ latest works. The 90-year-old photorealism pioneer completed the piece last year in 2021 and thanks to a generous contribution from David Neill, former president of the Reynolda House Board of Directors, and Scottie Neill, the painting is now part of Reynolda House’s permanent collection. Through the donation, David Neill looks to enable the museum to fulfill its collection priorities while prompting conversation, learning, and curiosity through the museum’s art collection. Allison Perkins, executive director of Reynolda House and Reynolda Gardens, considers

Robert Bechtle American, 1932-2020 Agna Caliente Nova, 1975 Oil on canvas 48 x 69 1/2 inches High Museum of Art, Atlanta. purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts arid the Ray M. and Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, 1978.1 © Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Trust, Courtesy of the Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Trust and Gladstone Gallery

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the new acquisition a reaffirmation of the museum’s commitment to adding exceptional works from leading artists in their fields.

The exhibit fuses post-war boom nostalgia with an in-depth reflection on modern life over the past 60 years highlighting the often forgotten realities of urbanity and American consumerism. The spectator dives into transportation settings, unusual landmark perspectives, window-shopping, a variety of surface reflections, and still life in which light and color function reign over objects in focus, common in Janet Fish’s works. Fish’s displayed pieces initially stun with their large-scale size and gentle, everyday imagery but quickly immerse the viewer in the fine details of her focus on opacity, reflection, and light.

Audrey Flack and Ben Schonzeit’s works take a more playful approach zooming into daily objects of little monetary value but potentially significant sentimental value. Robert Cottingham’s fascination with commercial signs and their power to encourage human consumption acts as an omen to a 21st-century ongoing obsession with visuals, and Estes’ love for unusual perspectives reestablishes the need to look at our life’s surroundings from different angles.

For the last several years, art exhibits found only in the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery of Reynolda House offer art captions in both English and Spanish, making the new exhibit even more accessible to the Triad’s Spanish-speaking community.

The exhibition is beautifully assembled, welcoming to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and is an exemplary display of American culture through the eyes of those who paved the way for photorealists.

“I hope that people are absolutely astonished by these works of art and that word of mouth spreads that everybody needs to get to Reynolda House to see it,” said Slaby proudly. !

DALIA RAZO is a bilingual journalist, fine arts educator, and doctoral student at UNCG.

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Reynolda on the House is a series of events designed to inspire a sense of belonging for anyone who visits the museum. Programming and themes take inspiration from the fall 2022 exhibition, Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism. Guests will enjoy access to the historic house, as well as light programming, all without an admission fee.

Events are Thursday, August 25 from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday, October 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration will be available on reynolda. org/chromedreams.

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THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL IS BACK! AUGUST 1-6, 2022 Founded in 1979

by Larry Leon Hamlin, the North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) is the first professional Black theatre company in North Carolina. NC Black Rep is comJoshua Ridley mitted to exposing diverse audiences to Marketing & Black classics, the Communications development and Manager production of new works, improving artistic quality, and sustaining Black theatre internationally.

This continues to be the benchmark by which all projects are measured. NC Black Rep was founded as a vehicle from which theatre professionals can earn a living through their craft.

The inaugural National Black Theatre Festival took place in 1981. This historic event illustrates the powerful theatre spirit and extraordinary talent of performers, designers, directors, producers, and technicians from across the country and abroad. During six life-impacting days, patrons will experience electrifying performances, informative workshops, riveting films, and insightful spoken word poetry that will open their eyes to the beauty and depth of African American artistic endeavors. Every evening culminates with a Celebrity Reception, Midnight Readers’ Theatre and late-night Words and Verses.

“The National Black Theatre Festival is one of the most culturally rich festivals in the country. The festival is produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company,” expressed Nigel Alston, Executive Director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. “It is simply Marvtastic!” Marvtastic is a term coined by the company’s founder Larry Leon Hamlin meaning “there is nothing greater or better than.”

Every biennial National Black Theatre Festival kicks off with a star-studded Opening Night Gala which includes a vibrant parade of powerful African drummers and dancers followed by a grand and royal procession of more than 40 celebrities of stage, television, and film.

Winston-Salem, NC (also referred to as Black Theatre Holy Ground) has been a hub for prominent Black figures during festival seasons. Dr. Maya Angelou was the first Chairwoman of the National Black Theatre Festival in 1981. Other prominent attendees have included Oprah Winfrey, Billy Dee Williams, Cicely

Tyson, and Harry Belafonte. “The National Black Theatre Festival is the biggest event in Black theatre,” said Jackie Alexander, Artistic Director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company and Executive Producer of the National Black Theatre Festival. “There is something unique about Winston-Salem. That’s why it’s called Black Theatre Holy Ground.”

A significant component of the National Black Theatre Festival are the Celebrity Co-Chairs. The Celebrity Co-Chairs have the honor of being official representatives of the National Black Theatre Festival.

They have the duty of promoting the festival in all aspects of their art and career.

The Celebrity Co-Chairs act as ambassadors of the National Black Theatre Festival, they spread the word and continue to further the mission of the National Black Theatre Festival.

This year’s celebrity co-chairs are Lisa Arrindell and Petri Hawkins Byrd. Lisa Arrindell is an actress, born and raised in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, in Theatre, at The Julliard School. Her acting career spans work in television, film, and theatre. Her acting credits include Law & Order SVU, Madam Secretary, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion, and more.

Petri Hawkins Byrd is native of Brooklyn, New York. Byrd received his Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 1989. Byrds earned his rise to fame as the fan favorite Bailiff on JUDGE JUDY. After the show ended, Petri Hawkins Byrd went on to continue his acting career starring in The Bold and the Beautiful. Byrd has also appeared on stage numerous times as a stand-up comedian.

The North Carolina Black Repertory Company operates under the direction of Executive Director, Nigel Alston and Artistic Director and now Executive Producer of the National Black Theatre Festival, Jackie Alexander. The North Carolina

Black Repertory Company’s founder Larry Leon Hamlin served as Executive Producer of the National Black Theatre Festival until he passed in 2007. Following his death, Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin stepped into the role of Executive Producer to ensure that Larry Leon Hamlin’s legacy was continued. Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin passed away in 2022 after which Jackie Alexander stepped in as Executive Producer of the National Black Theatre Festival.

This is the first year that the festival will be held on an even number year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has not been a festival in 3 years. There are new additions to the National Black Theatre Festival every festival season, including programs and scholarships for artists to attend from across the country. There will be a special gallery exhibition Black Theatre Royalty: Portraits from Hattiloo Theatre Collection on display at Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in the Main Gallery, August 1-27, 2022.

The 2022 National Black Theatre Festival consists of over 25 theatrical productions located in more than 15 venues. “The National Black Theatre Festival is a cultural staple with deep roots that has enhanced the history of Winston-Salem and is helping guide the future of our community,” shared Chase Law, President, and CEO of Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County. “I am so excited to be able to experience my first National Black Theatre Festival. From theatrical productions, workshops and seminars, late night poetry, and international vendors market, there is so much to experience in the coming six days. We’ve been waiting for this moment. Winston-Salem is about to be electrified!”

The National Black Theatre Festival is an event where the energy is often hard to describe with words. Everyone should experience the festival at least once in their lifetime. There is something for everyone, from plays, to musicals, Opening Night Gala, International Vendors Market, live staged readings, symposiums, workshops, and more. The National Black Theatre Festival takes place in Winston-Salem — also known as Black Theatre Holy Ground — every other year. People can experience this year’s festival August 1-6, 2022.

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National Black Theatre Festival returns to the spotlight Founded in 1979, the North Carolina Black Repertory Company was the brainchild of founder Larry Leon Hamlin, and was the first organization devoted to black theater in North Carolina.

Mark Burger Just last week, it presented the staged Contributor reading of Matias De La Flor’s staged reading of Romeo y Julieta, a bilingual, contemporized adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in Bailey Park in Winston-Salem.

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storm — a city-wide festival devoted to African-American theater — and founded the National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF). For over three decades, the festival has attracted celebrities and audiences from far and wide to join together and celebrate what has been described as Black Theatre Holy Ground.

The festival has weathered its share of financial hardships on occasion, as well as the loss of executive director Hamlin (who died in 2007), but its mission remains the same. And although it’s the National Black Theatre Festival and devoted to black theater, its appeal is in no way predicated on race. It’s designed to enlighten and entertain all theatergoers — those who love the communal experience of live theater. Hamlin coined the self-explanatory term “Marvtastic,” and that was the

kind of experience he wanted audiences and guests to have at each and every event.

Due to concerns regarding the COVID pandemic, the festival was canceled last year, but this year it’s back and, as organizers hope, bigger and better than ever.

As many as 60,000 people are expected to attend the festival, which has also been an asset for Winston-Salem, bringing in an estimated $13 million in tourist dollars.

The National Black Theatre Festival opens Monday and will continue through August 6th at various venues throughout Winston-Salem. For a complete schedule of events, visit https://ncblackrep. org/nbtf-2022/ or download the official festival brochure: https://ncblackrep.org/ wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022Brochure-WEB.pdf.

The co-chairs for this year’s NBTF are award-winning actress/writer/producer Lisa Arrindell (Clockers, The Sin Seer, TV’s Meet the Browns) and three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer/actor Petri Hawkins Byrd (American Skin, TV’s Judge Judy). The legendary, multi-talented Ben Vereen will received the Sidney Poitier Lifelong Achievement Award, and other notables scheduled to attend and/or perform include Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lillias White, Regina Taylor, Dawnn Lewis, T’Keyah Crystal Keymah, Ruben SantiagoHudson, Ted Lange, Roscoe Orman, Harry Lennix, Darnell Williams, Michael Colyar, Tonya Pinkins, Lamman Rucker, Hal Williams, and UNCSA School of Drama graduate Stephen McKinley Henderson. Many have attended past festivals and retain close ties to the event.

“We are so excited about all our mainstage productions this year,” said Jackie Alexander, NBTF executive director and

producing artistic director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. “The selection committee outdid themselves this year. The talent we will be bringing to the 2022 National Black Theatre Festival will be Marvtastic and will reach audiences of all ages.”

This year’s festival will open with a return presentation of The Eve of Jackie (The Last Time), which offers an intimate glimpse at entertainer Jackie Wilson (1934-’84), renowned as “Mr. Excitement,” on the eve of his final performance in 1975.

While in the middle of his act in Cherry Hill, NJ., Wilson collapsed onstage, having suffered a massive heart attack. He was resuscitated but then suffered a stroke and lingered in a comatose state for the last 10 years of his life. Gregory’s show-stopping turn as Wilson has long been considered one of the greatest in the festival’s history.

This will mark his 20th anniversary in the role, and vows this will be his final performance as Mr. Excitement.

In addition to live the theater, the festival will include workshops, a reader’s theater of new works, a film festival, a poetry jam, a youth celebrity project, a vendor’s market, a dance contest, a series of events geared toward teenagers (called “TEENtastic”), and The International Colloquium. The festival will also pay tribute to Hamlin’s widow, Sylvia SprinkleHamlin, former NBTF board chair and executive director, who died in January and was widely lauded for keeping Hamlin’s memory alive through the festival. !

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Epstein kept the faith and formed his vision of what a band willing to interpret and reimagine could be.

Joining Epstein, who plays bass and 6 and 7-string guitars, is lead vocalist Bekkah Moss whose soulful voice is a perfect catalyst for the songs to take root in your soul. Cutting her teeth in church choirs, symphony chorales and eventually garage rock, she was influenced by Eminem, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Eagles.

Steve Jones, on vox, guitar and bass is a founding member of Ledneck and a guest singer with the Vagabond Saints Society.

He has covered such greats as Robert Plant and Mick Jagger and is influenced by The Beatles, Pink Floyd and King Crimson.

On drums and vocals is Matt D’Amico who has performed in rock, blues and pop bands throughout the DC, Maryland & Virginia Metro and shore areas before moving to Winston-Salem 14 years ago.

Steve Mowery, before joining UWW, played keyboards and bass for diverse acts in the Triad including Band II, Shelter, Dante’s Roadhouse, the Meagan Markles, the Keith Farmer Experience and the Randolph County Jazz Orchestra. Mowery grew up playing the double bass in orchestra since fourth grade and is influenced by Bartok and Keith Emerson. !

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Initially the brainchild of local musician and producer Jon Epstein and Dan Goldstein, UWW has moved from an acoustic project in Kent, Ohio in 1996 to a band challenging musical genres while spinning their own interpretations and reimagining the genre of “blues rock.”

After finding success as the founder of Ohio’s Last Stone Cast, Haymarket Riot, and Fast Chester, Epstein took a different creative path in 2018 finding that he had some of the best musicians around him willing to step into the unknown.

A longtime fan of the blues and influenced by bands like King King, Bad Company, and artists like Joe Bonamassa and Tracy Chapmen, what started as an experiment in pushing boundaries has now become a full-blown prescription for what ails you.

Epstein (also known as Dr. Jon from The Check-up on WTOB, a local music show in the Triad) had an instinct that with the right people he could produce music that expanded the vocabulary of blues-rock.

Using extended range guitars, and handpicking the band members, Epstein began answering the musical questions ‘what would happen if we created a sub-genre?’ and ‘what would be the response when introduced to a new audience?’

That new audience ended up being international. Working and mastering at Earthtones Studios in Greensboro, Epstein started shopping the album across the pond. In the United Kingdom, the album was named one of the top 100 (#30) albums by UK blues-rock radio.

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Vernon and the GOP Gun Raffle

lot of folks seemed shocked when Vernon Robinson announced that he was organizing a gun raffle for the Forsyth Republican party. The WinstonJim Longworth Salem Journal criticized the local GOP for being “tone Longworth deaf” to the recent at Large massacres in Texas and Illinois. In fact, according to Forsyth Democratic party chair Kevin Farmer, two of the assault-style rifles being raffled “appear to be” models used in the Highland Park massacre. Yet true to form, Vernon fired back, saying, “People like gun raffles and it is a great way to raise money.

The only people who are upset about gun raffles are people who are hostile to guns and gun owners.”

If Vernon’s use of the word “people” sounds familiar as a misdirection from facts and reality, that’s because it is. A

certain Republican President used to and still does attribute unsupported statements to “people say.” I’m a gun owner, so I obviously don’t hate gun owners. However, I oppose this particular raffle because it comes at a time when we shouldn’t be promoting the use of semi-automatic weapons. Still, if you know anything about Vernon Robinson, then nothing about his gun raffle should surprise you.

After serving two terms on WinstonSalem City Council, Vernon became a perennial that also ran for just about every other office on the State and local level. He was also known for his political grandstanding, like the time he placed a one-ton granite replica of the Ten Commandments at the front door of City Hall in an effort to show that God’s laws should be on full display at government buildings. To hell with the separation of church and State.

Vernon would say and do just about anything to get attention and to promote himself, ostensibly as a viable candidate for whatever elected position he sought at the time. He was a rare commodity: an ultra-conservative African-American

Republican. In fact, he referred to himself as “The Black Jesse Helms.” He was also Trump before Trump was Trump. And that brings me to the election of 2004.

That year, George Bush was running for re-election and Rep. Richard Burr announced that he was giving up his Congressional seat in order to run for Senate. Burr’s announcement brought no less than eight GOP stalwarts out of the woodwork and into the race to represent the 5th district. The field included Ed Broyhill, Nathan Tabor, State Senator Virginia Foxx, and Robinson. Thanks to Vernon’s high profile, he came in first place in the July primary, but couldn’t muster the 40% he needed to avoid a run-off with Foxx, who finished second.

The run-off was scheduled for August 10, so I invited both candidates to appear together on “Triad Today” the weekend prior to the election.

During their joint appearance, Vernon was typically animated and bombastic, at one point accusing Virginia of “telling whoppers.” But the whopper meter spiked when I called out Vernon for repeatedly bragging about his military combat experience. “What war did you serve in

Vernon?” I asked. “The Cold War,” he replied. I continued to press him for specifics about his actual combat experience until he finally admitted that he had none. As I said before, Vernon was Trump before Trump was Trump. Foxx went on to win the run-off, and Vernon later blamed me for his loss.

Had Robinson defeated Foxx in 2004, he would have been North Carolina’s first radical right-wing Congressman in modern times, and by January 6, 2021, he probably would have been up on the stage with Trump, urging the crowd (some of who were armed) to march to the Capitol. Instead, he is a private citizen grabbing headlines any way he can, this time by using guns to raise money for the Republican party.

You can call Vernon Robinson anything you like, but don’t make the mistake of thinking he is tone deaf. The fact is, when it comes to what the Republican base and its election-deniers are saying, Vernon hears them loud and clear. !

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris showcases the marvelous Lesley Manville

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aving primarily distinguished herself in character roles, particularly those she’s played for Mike Leigh (eight Mark Burger films in all) and an Oscar-nominated Contributor turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Phantom Thread (2017), Lesley Manville takes center stage in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, in which she plays the title character and also served as an executive producer, and she takes full advantage of the opportunity.

The film is based on the 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, who fashioned an entire series of Mrs. ‘Arris novels and is probably best known for The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure (which became a blockbuster film in 1972).

Grace Fields earlier played Mrs. Harris in a 1958 “Studio One” television episode, and Angela Lansbury essayed the role in a contemporized 1992 TV movie, but this is the first feature film based on the character.

Manville’s Ada Harris is a hard-working housekeeper in the London district of Battersea. As the film opens, it is 1957 and Mrs. Harris has only now just learned that the husband she’s awaited in all that time was killed in action during World War II. Like other hardships she’s endured, she accepts her grief with grace, and goes about her work with due diligence, until she happens to lay eyes on a Christian Dior dress.

Not only is Mrs. Harris enchanted by the sight, but she quickly becomes obsessed with purchasing one for herself. To that end, she scrimps and saves — and even does a little gambling — to finance her trip to Paris. Having never really left Battersea before, the City of Lights is truly an eyeopening experience, and it will ultimately become a life-changing one, as well.

Produced and directed by Anthony Fabian, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is nothing if not agreeable throughout.

Although awash in sentimentality, the film refrains from becoming too cutesy — although it does come close at times. It luxuriates in the stylish trappings of its haute couture milieu, sprinkled with the kind of

cinematic fairy dust that, at its best, recalls the whimsy of Frank Capra.

At heart, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a whimsical, warm-hearted fable about following your dreams. It’s may seem unusual that Focus Features would choose to release it in the summer amid the deluge of big-bang, big-buck comic-book extravaganzas, but it does serve as a viable alternative to those larger, louder films. It’s quaint, even old-fashioned, and leisurely paced — perhaps a bit too much so. The simple, homespun wisdom that Mrs. Harris espouses, which has such a charming yet powerful effect on those she meets in Paris, she comes to realize also applies to her own life, but by that point the audience is way ahead of her.

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The film has some very nice moments and some very nice scenes, but there are a lot of character and subplots percolating throughout, and the film can’t comfortably accommodate all of them. As a result, several seemingly significant characters

don’t have much significance and are given short shrift. Still, there’s a very friendly cast on hand: Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose Williams, Ellen Thomas, Anna Chancellor, Christian McKay, and Phillipe Bertin (as Christian Dior).

Faring best are Jason Isaacs as Archie, the lovably rakish Battersea bookmaker whose cheerful flirtations with Mrs. Harris mask a genuine affection, and Isabelle Huppert as her “nemesis” Claudine Colbert, the snooty Dior administrator constantly exasperated by Mrs. Harris.

Huppert, herself an embodiment of Gallic glamor and a superb dramatic actress, enjoys a change of pace playing a more light-hearted role than she usually does.

Her onscreen parrying with Manville allows both actresses to display their notinconsiderable comedic talents. It’s these little character moments that keep Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris buoyant. !

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Bianca Chambers wasn’t going to leave the sleuthing to the Detroit police after her Mercedes Benz was stolen.

Using social media tips, she tracked her Chuck Shepherd car all over the city, but each time she’d call 911, police would be too late to nab the thief. On July 13, though, she got lucky: The man who was driving her car parked and went to get his dreads twisted, and Chambers pounced. She walked into a barbershop, Fox2 Detroit reported, and confronted him. When he denied stealing her car, Chambers took him down by his dreadlocks. Customers subdued the unnamed man while Chambers slashed her own tires: “I thought he was gonna take off and I didn’t know how long it was going to take for the police to pull up,” she said. “You’re just the dumbest criminal, that’s all. You’re joyriding in my car like nobody was going to see,” she told the perp. Police said the man has a history of car theft.

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Kent Slaughter of Springfield, Missouri, filed a class-action lawsuit against Bass Pro this month, alleging that the outdoor equipment superstore is not honoring its lifetime guarantee on the Redhead All-Purpose Wool socks, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Slaughter says the warranty influenced his decision to buy the socks, and until 2021 he was able to return them when they wore out for another pair with the same promise.

However, last year, the store changed the merchandise; the new socks feature a distinctive stripe design and offer only a 60-day warranty. Slaughter’s suit notes that the store’s “The last sock you’ll ever need to buy” claim is no longer true. Bass Pro didn’t comment.

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— People in Gorakhpur, India, are struggling with record heat and lack of rainfall, as are many parts of the world.

But according to the Daily Star, they had a different solution — and it worked! “It’s a time-tested belief that frog weddings are held to bring in rain,” said organizer Radhakant Verma. His group found two frogs on July 19 and held a wedding ceremony for them, with hundreds of people watching and a celebratory meal afterward. Sure enough, on July 20, the India Meteorological Department called

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— More heat wave fun: University of British Columbia researcher Alison McAfee told Metro News that when outdoor temperatures exceed about 107 degrees Fahrenheit, drone (or male) bees begin to convulse, forcing their sex organs to explode from their bodies, an event that causes them to die from shock. “It’s pretty extreme,” McAfee said. “That’s a temperature they shouldn’t normally experience, but we were seeing drones getting stressed to the point of death.”

She believes drones are one of the most effective indicators of climate change.

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Japan is famously known for its culture of overworking. Rather than try to change that culture, two Japanese companies have developed an upright nap pod, where workers can sneak in a quick, private power nap without having to nod off in the restroom or at their desks. The boxes have been compared to upright tanning beds, Oddity Central reported.

They offer support for the head, knees and back, even as workers stay in the standing position. “It’s better to sleep in a comfortable location,” noted Saeko Kawashima of Itoki, the furniture company that collaborated on the product.

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In southwestern Idaho, an annual phenomenon is creating slick spots on the highways, CBS2-TV reported. The Idaho Transportation Department headed out on July 21 with heavy equipment to scrape Mormon crickets off Highway 51.

When the crickets are crushed by cars, the resulting goo can become hazardous for motorists. The department posted a video on its Facebook page, but warned viewers: “If you get queasy easily, don’t watch this with the volume on.” Crunch!

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It’s hot everywhere, but Texas is showing off with consecutive days above 100, or even 110. Some wild animals have a unique way of dealing with the heat, and it even has a fun name: splooting. WFAATV in Dallas reported on July 21 that squirrels are taking to the street, literally: lying facedown with all their limbs spread out. The rodents don’t sweat or pant, so splooting in the shade helps them cool down. One little guy was even spotted splooting on a sidewalk vent. !

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ormer Greensboro mayoral candidate Eric Robert has filed a complaint with the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar against Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts.

The complaint stems from what Robert alleges is Watts’ refusal to comply with Robert’s request Ian McDowell for information about a purchase agreement that Watts signed, transferring the ownership of the Contributor Greensboro gun show to the City of Greensboro. That transfer of ownership allowed the city to buy out the contract from the gun show’s previous owner, and end the controversial event.

Robert’s complaint alleges that Watts “repeatedly lied” about the existence of the purchase agreement.

Watts contends that he never claimed the document did not exist, just that there were no records of it in his office.

Robert alleges that, at the time of their correspondence, he did not know that Watts was the city attorney who signed the agreement, as Mayor Nancy Vaughan’s attempts to end the gun show began in the Spring of 2018, when Tom Carruthers was still city attorney.

Robert subsequently ran in this year’s mayoral primary, where Justin Outling was the only challenger to receive enough votes to face Vaughan in the general election on July 26.

Robert’s dispute with the city began in August 2021,

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when he filed a public information request for documents and correspondences between coliseum director Matt Brown and city officials from 2017 until that date.

Robert was seeking records in relation to how the city purchased and then canceled the gun show that had been a regular event at the Greensboro Coliseum. In April, he filed a lawsuit accusing the city of delay and falsification in responding to his public information requests.

In May, Vaughan told YES! Weekly she sought a way to end the gun show shortly after the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida led her to question the appropriateness of such an event on city property. “[City Attorney] Chuck [Watts] said we aren’t forced to have a gun show in the coliseum, as we can determine who carries guns in our buildings.”

She said that coliseum director Brown “negotiated the purchase from its former owner, just as he’s done with other events, because he had a better use for that space.”

Documents of that transaction were what Robert sought last fall. The dispute escalated after the city claimed to have no responsive records, causing Robert to email the city attorney and request his help in uncovering them.

In his January 11 response to Robert, Watts wrote, “we have searched our files, as we always do, and do not appear to have any documents responsive to your PIRT request.” Later that day, Watts wrote, “I do not believe that [records of the sale] exist in our office” and “I am the City’s lawyer and I am not obligated to provide testimony or information about the actions of my client.”

In March, Robert filed a new public information request for all email correspondence and documents from 2018 to present containing the name “Rodney Sorrel,” the previous owner of the gun show. Using Sorrel’s name yielded results, whereas that of coliseum director Brown had not. On May 5, the city provided multiple documents, including a draft purchase agreement showing that the city bought out the event for $400,000.

Robert subsequently acquired the final agreement, dated November 4, 2020, and signed by Brown, Gun Show Inc. owner and officer Rodney Sorrell, and Watts.

Robert attached that purchase agreement to his complaint, in which he wrote the document: “. . . came to light after I filed a Public Records’ lawsuit against the City of Greensboro, and, only then, did I discover that City Attorney Chuck Watts had actually signed the very record he repeatedly said did not exist.”

In his complaint, Robert wrote, “I accuse Mr. Charles D Watts Jr. of unethical behavior unbecoming an officer of the courts and city official, specifically in the areas of honesty and integrity.” He then cited the following statements from Watts’ emails of Jan. 11: “There is no other way for you to ask the question that would unearth such documents in my office as I do not believe that they exist in our office. I am saying that now for a third or fourth time. As to your question about what the city did or did not do, I am the City’s lawyer and I am not obligated to provide testimony or information about

Chuck Watts the actions of my client. You seem to have collected a lot of information from other sources, but I hope you understand, I do not see that I need to be your witness for any such information.”

In a Wednesday email, Watts noted that he never told Robert that the documents do not exist, but that “I do not believe they exist in our office.” Watts stated that Robert had “misrepresented what I actually said in the email” and “I won’t address his ridiculous assertions.”

He did respond to YES! Weekly’s request for an explanation of why a document signed by him was not on file in the City Attorney’s office.

“The answer is simply that we are not a repository for every final contract that we review or sign. That is not my charge as City Attorney. The Clerk has that role but can only retain documents that she receives.”

Watts cited what he called Roberts’ “attempts to undermine my reputation for honesty” as the “bigger issue” with Robert’s complaint.

“I am very comfortable with my obligations under the public records act and the open meetings laws and the advice that I provide to others. I’d like to be respected for complying with those requirements rather than being challenged by someone who has no basis for knowing what he claims to assert.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Triad Stage reopens, celebrating its 20th season

Naima Said

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While the pandemic had shut down performing arts centers across the nation, several theatres believed it would last a few weeks, months, or a season at most.

For Triad Stage, the doors were shut for more than two years before the decision was made to reopen one of Greensboro’s most reputable

theatres.

“Like all theatres in America, we thought we would be able to reopen relatively quickly and still premier our production of Pride and Prejudice, a modern adaptation written by local playwright Kate Hamill. We would have never guessed that after shutting our doors in March of 2020, the set we created would remain on stage until May of 2022,” said Sarah Hankins, artistic director at Triad Stage. “It’s the show no one has seen.”

Although heartbroken, this has not hindered the drive Triad Stage continued to maintain during its time of leave. In fact, it transformed it into a time of reform.

“We took this time to focus on who we are for the next 20 years and decided on a fresh take. We worked with an art consultant in the last year to define our purpose in the Triad and what we stand

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for as an organization,” Hankins said. “It is instrumental to identify what kind of space you want to produce, and since we have a reputation for top-notch professional productions, and design, it was all the more crucial we retain that part of our theatre.”

Triad Stage emphasized the importance of showcasing issues and changes our society faces. With the minimization of plays this year from six to 10 shows between Greensboro and WinstonSalem’s location, to only three main stage productions, Triad Stage strives to connect more deeply and specifically with the local community to spark those conversations.

The organization is excited to announce its 20th season of mainstage productions, beginning with the world premiere of a new play, Rebellious, a story centered around four Bennett Belles during the sit-in movement. The show was written by North Carolina playwright, Mike Wiley, and will be directed by Donna Bradby. The play is set in Greensboro, home to Triad Stage and the community it serves. The production will run from October 4th through the 23rd. In the spring, the stage will welcome a classical show that tells the tale of four real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror with The Revolutionist, written by Lauren Gunderson, and directed by Hankins. The production was chosen by a local reading group and will run from March 14 through

April 2nd. Lastly, showcasing in the summer to end the season, will be the production of The Cake, where traditional Southern values and a gay wedding bring up questions of love, found families, cancel culture, sex after 40, and the addictive qualities of a good cake. The show was written by Bekah Brunstetter and will be directed by Hankins, as well. It will run from May 2nd through the 21st.

Alongside the three main stage productions, Triad Stage will host two-holiday concerts to celebrate the season.

“In the darkness of the time that has passed, there must be some light-hearted fun. What better way to bring that than music?” Hankins said.

Tunes for the Holiday will begin on December 7th and last until December 18th, celebrating the season with familyfriendly classics and show tunes. Moving into the season of love, Valentine’s Cabaret is an intimate jazz weekend with a curated wine and chocolate tasting.

The Cabaret welcomes local jazz singer Lalenja Harrington. The four-day celebration will run from February 8th through the 11th.

“The fun does not stop there. Triad Stage has worked hard to maintain a diverse season with opportunities for everyone to enjoy and create,” Hankins said.

While amid productions, the artistic team of Triad Stage will be holding a developmental workshop on Jekyll, a new female-focused contemporary

adaptation of the Gothic classic by Patricia Lynn. “This is the beginning of our new play initiative where we foster and develop new work that will be premiered the following season, and the cycle will continue,” Hankins shared.

Intending to diversify the identities featured on stage, Triad Stage is providing a space to support local artists and their original work with the opening of their creative lab. “The purpose of the creative lab is for our locals to have access to an upstage cabaret space for free and push the boundaries of what the art form is, whether it’s a show and dance piece or a devised theatre piece,” Hankins explained. “It will be about a three-week program, and individuals will be chosen by grant process. Three sharings will be held at the end of their residency in April to showcase their work. This is a chance for artists to see where they are, receive feedback from audiences, and identify if they want to develop the work further.

It is a chance for them to take that risk without the pressure of a polished performance. That is something we all thrive for. A chance.” !

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The Carolina Artist Mixer at Gallery on Main: Creative Networking to Benefit the Unsheltered Gallery on Main, 112 S. Main St., High Point, will open to more than 20 poets, musicians, photographers and visual artists for creative networking Saturday, July 30 from 7 to 11 p.m. in an event to Lana Shkadova benefit the unsheltered.

“The idea is to Contributor bring artists to meet and collab together,” said Tajia Lagomarsino, the organizer of the mixer. “I feel that most of the time artists don’t know what other artists are working on, but if they get together, you never know what they can come up with, what they can create together.”

Approximately 150 attendees are expected to gather at the two-story gallery space, which also includes an outdoor area that can accommodate up to 200 people.

The current line-up includes Tuari Micah “The Artyst Walker,” Nicki Ladon, Krista Bradley, Dj 1996, Alex The Great, 9ofhearts, Mimi Muniz, Sky Sevier, Tara Levy, Robin Sh8kes Williamson, Tiffany Wilson, Dr. YES! WEEKLY

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How, Mo Grays, Sy, Sarah Moody, Taylor Smith, Huasson Byrd, DJ Grand Imperial, S.O.U.L Society and Terence Walker, Lana Shkadova and others.

Terence Walker is headlining the poetry program and is scheduled to lead readings upstairs in the back. There will be live music, food and drink vendors upstairs in the main room, photography in second room and DJ battles downstairs.

Walker said that he is not surprised at the number of artists who signed up immediately.

The organizers came up with the Artist Mixer idea in May following the Furniture Market art show. Depending on how the

first mixer goes, they will plan for the Carolina Mixer to become a recurring creative network in the Triad.

The S.O.U.L. Society / Heavy Energy University team is helping the Gallery on Main to organize these events.

“We are working with Tajia to put this event together. SOUL Society is a registered NC non-profit organization, focused on community empowerment through the arts.” Walker said. “We are here to connect with the artists of the greater Triad and provide them with the mentoring space and various platforms to develop and grow. Heavy Energy University stemmed from the S.O.U.L. Society experience,

except Heavy Energy is an LLC — for profit.

Where S.O.U.L. Society provides mentorship and education, Heavy Energy, as a business, which exists to help artists get paid and turn their artreneurship into real life.”

Heavy Energy and S.O.U.L. Society are essentially run by the same group of founders. A lot of their events are heavily intertwined. S.O.U.L. Society is going to the schools and universities, whereas Heavy Energy is really focused on connecting with the businesses.

Artists such as Morgan Meyers, Irie Child, Briana LaFrazier, Keisha Keyes and others came in through S.O.U.L. Society and benefitted from all the opportunities that Heavy Energy offers.

“We are always looking for artists to connect. A great part of our goal is to bring the community into the art space and bring arts into the community, because they are so intertwined,” Walker said. “The beauty of the community are the speakers of the community — those that can give you directly the history of the past in the now. Documentation, if you will. You know, artists document life. Poets, musicians transcribe the times. This is why the cities look like they do. Its because artists are the architects. So our goal is to continue to

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work with artists in the present and into the future.”

The Gallery on Main team met Walker and the S.O.U.L. Society in August 2021 and invited him to host the Black History Month show in February 2022. Then that Black History Month show turned into this year’s Furniture Market show.

“We utilized a lot of those same artists and some additional pieces from other artists for this year’s Furniture Market. So that space downstairs became a primary space to showcase local talent. And we host a lot of difference events here,” Tillman said.

Tajia Lagormasino stepped in as an artist at Gallery on Main and hit the ground running, curating these shows.

“How often do you know of artists getting together and having an artist mixer?

It doesn’t happen very often but there is so much to learn from each other,” Lagomarsino added.

She said that there is another very important aspect to this event. All those artworks presented for the Carolina Mixer will transfer over into the Silent Auction.

Lagomarsino is a longtime member of the High Point Jaycees. A percentage of the proceeds from the Silent Auction will go toward the Jaycees’ fund for backpacks for the unsheltered homeless.

Abigail Grace Lind, High Point Jaycees director, said in a statement, “We’re excited about our growth over the past year and the ability to do more in and for our community. I’m proud to continue living out the vision that service in the best work of life with the Jaycees.”

The date of the auction is pending right

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now, but the artworks will remain on the walls downstairs at the Main Street Gallery for up-to 45 days.

Admission to the gallery is free. People will be able to come in and view at any point for the duration of the Show. Meanwhile, there will also be other dates and other events. All the showing artists are local and the Gallery on Main team is planning a few artist tours as well. They are interested that the artists have as much exposure as they possibly can get during this time.

All showing artists have an option to designate all or any of their works for the auction or to take them down at the end.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday noon to 6 p.m.

S.O.U.L. Society, Heavy Energy, Live Alkaline Water, High Point Jaycees, Triad Voice Magazine, NC Nail Academy, and Moore Backyard Garden are supporting the event and will be present. Arc of High Point is co-organizing the Silent Auction. !

LANA SHKADOVA has experience in journalism, radio and sound production, design and creative writing. She moved to the United States in 2005 and is originally from Ukraine.

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Gallery on Main is located at 112 S. Main Street in High Point. The Carolina Artist Mixer will be held Saturday, July 30 from 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets can be found at Eventbrite for $10. Get 50% off by using code GOM97. This event is open to the public.

For more information, email wheresoulsrevive@ gmail.com or visit www.galleryonmainhp.com

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ormed from a mutual love of punk rock and drinking, the Camel City Blackouts keep on chugging as a three-piece, with an upcoming show Katei Cranford at Monstercade on August 6.

“We’re excited to Contributor play Monstercade anytime we can,” said guitarist Ryan Sizemore. “It feels like home there, strange and wonderful.”

Cutting from the core of late-90s punk, a la the Epitaph, Fat Wreck Chords, and Asian Man Records variety, the Camel City Blackouts channel a cheeky sort of angst — the likes of which befit a band formed after a Dropkick Murphys concert in 2015.

“My background is nothing more than a frustrated kid trying to find an outlet and a voice. I think all of us got into music for that same reason,” Sizemore said. “We needed something to lean on to get us through life. We still do.”

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intoxicated by their music, and maybe a wee bit of alcohol, that he wanted to play in a punk band,” Sizemore explained, referencing the entrance of bassist Derek Gilreath.

“If I didn’t go to that show the band may never have happened,” Gilreath said.

“I think it was the atmosphere — rowdy, loud, and fun — and the crowd singing. It was an electric feeling that carried over and brought excitement back to music for me.”

Gilreath messaged Sizemore the very next day. “We met up at his house and started playing a couple of songs that ended up becoming our first EP,” Sizemore noted. Released in 2017, “Come Back Down,” was recorded in southern punk fashion: “in a spare room of a house in the middle of nowhere with our buddy, Kevin Wilson.”

In the years since, the pair put out three EPs, a full-length, and has recently expanded to a proper three-piece with Doug Hawkins on drums. “He’s also the band’s barber,” Sizemore said, praising the sharpness Hawkins brings to the operation.

With influences like Slayer, Fugazi, and Helmet, Hawkins adds an element of heaviness to the mix of poppier shades of punk enjoyed by Gilreath and Sizemore. “I feel like I listen to a ton of different things,

but my hands only play punk songs,” Sizemore said, “and the bands I grew up listening to are the ones that still have an immense influence on me today.”

An avid Alkaline Trio fan, Sizemore’s songs hint at accents from the Skiba Chicago fold — a notion not ignored by engineer and “e-list punk celebrity” Scotty Sandwich (of Death to False Hope Records) who recorded the Camel City Blackouts’ two most recent EP’s, “Wild Card” and “13,” at his Sandwich Shoppe studio.

“We sent Scotty some live recordings of our songs ‘Angels’ and the acoustic version of ‘Another Night,’” Sizemore said of the process. “He told us he heard ‘Another Night’ as more of an electric song and that it also reminded him of Chicago punk rock.

Which was right up my alley.”

Both acoustic and electric treatments of “Another Night,” ended up on the “13” EP; and each has its own video. “I love when bands give listeners a more stripped-down intimate version of a song,” Sizemore explained. “I had a vision and couldn’t be swayed to not put the acoustic version on there.”

Visions of variations and dualities abound with intention in the Blackouts world. “When Derek and I first started playing I told him I wanted to write songs

that invoked a sense of Halloween and Valentine’s Day,” Sizemore said, referencing the balance of “happy and dark” songs highlighted by each EP: the vulnerabilities of “Wild Card” stacked against the aggression of “13.”

It’s a balance similarly established across their 2019 full-length, “Possession,” (recorded with Joe Potts and Shaun Singerling at JP Audio Labs in Colfax).

“This was the first time we were in a real studio,” Sizemore explained. “We had a lot of freedom and more time to orchestrate these songs.” There’s the horror story of “La Diabla” and the politics of “Egotist;” both of which are made manifest in accompanying videos. “My biggest regret from this album was that we never did a video for ‘Waiting for a Lover,’” he added.

“I really love that song.”

But there’s no time to blackout with regrets — the Camel City Blackouts have drinks to finish, shows to play, and a new release in the works. “We haven’t put out anything new this year,” Sizemore said, “and look to change that in 2023.”

The Camel City Blackouts, Hyperloops, and Fox Season will be at Monstercade on August 6. !

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