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Finally, the JAMES BEARD AWARDS have recognized some restaurants in the Triad! The awards have been suspended for two years. Under revised procedures, recommendations from the public, as well as nominations from within the Beard organization, were considered. Two chefs, both from Winston-Salem, are semifinalists for Best Chef in the Southeast...

6 The 94th annual ACADEMY AWARDS ceremony will be held on March 27, 2022, and broadcast live on ABC and a/perture cinema in Winston-Salem is celebrating Hollywood’s biggest night in its own unique fashion.

8 I don’t know exactly what year it happened, but somewhere along the way, team sports turned into “ME Sports,”...

9 Last year alone, Netflix films earned over 70 Academy Award nominations, with THE POWER OF THE DOG topping all films with 12. This well-made and extremely well-acted adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel marks the return of screenwriter/producer/director Jane Campion to feature films, her last having been Bright Star in 2009.

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On February 27, three days after air raid sirens sounded in Ternopil, 18-yearold Sofiia Bashniak FLED the Western Ukrainian city with her grandmother, Olga. With the long-distance assistance of Sofiia’s stepfather Billy White, who has lived in Greensboro since 1969 and married Sofiia’s mother in 2017, the still-exhausted but relieved teen and grandmother are now in a hotel in Warsaw, Poland.

15 In honor of Women’s History Month, a historical moment was had as some of Winston-Salem’s most NOTABLE WOMEN cut the ribbon announcing the city’s first Women’s Legacy Parade. The ceremony was held Saturday, March 12, at the Milton Rhodes Center...

18 The Triad is home to so many HOSTESSES WITH THE MOST-ESSES—women who create platforms that help bring the music community to life—whether in-person with live residencies or over the air with radio shows and musical programming. In the spirit of Women’s History Month, we’re lucky to have broadcasters like Chris Roulhac, Martha Bassett, and Dr. Irish Spencer.

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inally, the James Beard Awards have recognized some restaurants in the Triad! The awards have been suspended for two years. Under revised procedures, recommendations from the public, as well as nominations from within the Beard organization, were considered.

Two chefs, both from Winston-Salem, are semifinalists for Best Chef in the Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV).

Stephanie Tyson opened Sweet Potatoes (529 N. Trade Street, 336-7274844, sweetpotatoes.ws) in 2003, with partner and floor manager Vivian Joiner.

“My initial reason for wanting to be a chef was irritation. I was strictly a frontof-the-house person when I first started and became the manager of a restaurant in D.C. My first night on the job the lead cook in the kitchen walked out. I had no idea what to do. I decided right then, ‘never again!’ So, I decided to go to culinary school and found that I loved it and had a knack for food. My Grandmother’s influence as a cook was very important.

“My partner, Vivian Joiner, and I had become tired of bumping our heads on the glass ceiling and decided, what the heck, why not open our own place. We maxed out credit cards and mortgaged the house to come up with some cash.

We were turned down for loans from the city and banks a lot. Phillip Hanes was one of our biggest supporters. He was a great influencer of people. We will

Stephanie Tyson of Sweet Potatoes forever be grateful to him as well as Mike Coe, our first landlord.”

Chef Tyson attended Baltimore International Culinary College and graduated on the Dean’s List. She has worked in Charleston, South Carolina at 82 Queen

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and Charleston Place Hotel, in Key West, Florida at Planet Hollywood and The Pier House Hotel, and also in Virginia. She was on the opening team of the Rainforest Café at Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, worked for a year at a country club in Arizona, and eventually moved back to the East Coast and home.

“I did not know in advance anything about the nomination. I think that the committee was intentional in trying to include more places in the South that get overlooked, like the Triad. We have developed a great culinary scene in this area, and I am thrilled to be considered a part of that.”

[In an article I wrote about Sweet Potatoes, I called the restaurant a “treasure.” The food is Southern, like what your grandmother would have cooked if she had been professionally trained and was really talented!]

In his early 30s, Peyton Smith of Mission Pizza Napoletana (707 Trade St NW, 336-893-8217, missionpizzanapoletana.com) needed a career that fit his “natural interests.” That turned out to be food.

“I was smoking some pork butts in

Chapel Hill, during a summer session in college. My older brother and I had a party. Maybe it was the feeling of getting to know my brother as an adult, maybe it was the half dozen or more Anchor Steam beers, but I was feeling good and observing how food brought people together. Fast forward 10 years, and I took that experience as source material for what I wanted to create.”

He began to conceive the restaurant in late 2007. “Then 2008 happened, so I had to pivot. I started a mobile pizza company, Forno Moto, while I went back to the drawing board. I initially thought I would make barbecue. But ultimately, I decided that was not the best idea, because I like to do things my own way, I was concerned about the weight of the barbecue tradition in NC, not to mention the wake-up hour to make barbecue.

“So, I pivoted to pizza. I put together a list of some of the top pizzerias in America. I started calling, asking for the boss, and pitching my story — I am a guy in NC, I want to learn to make pizza, and what’s in it for you is a great employee with free labor. I was laughed at a lot, met with incredulous silence.

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“So, mainly, I taught myself. I would have pizza parties, light up a wood-fired oven at my house, make a bag of dough, open up all the pizzas, toss‘em in the bin.

“A stroke of fortune occurred in early 2015 when Carlo Orlando walked into my restaurant. Orlando Foods is the US importer/business partner of Caputo Flour [widely regarded as the best flour for pizza crust]. Carlo and I hit it off, and I asked if he needed any volunteers at Pizza Expo, which is THE pizza trade show. He said “sure,’ so I made myself useful for four days.

“I was side by side with the best pizza makers in America. I asked a ton of questions, observed everything I could, took a million notes. Now, all these people are part of my pizza family. The rest of my continued growth is making and talking pizza with great professionals. I also eat pizza all over the USA and the world.

“The Beard Awards, I didn’t know anything. I was on a plane back to NC. When I revived my phone upon landing, I had a lot of messages from industry people, so I wondered what was up. I’m not really sure how I was identified. I have been on the event circuit for some years; MPN over the past couple years has been featured on almost every best pizza in America list.”

Greensboro’s MACHETE (600-C Battleground Avenue, 336-2658859, machetegso.com) is in the running for Best New Restaurant. [Note — this is best in the United States, not one of the geographic subdivisions.]

Owner Tal Blevins graduated from Page High School and UNC-G, then relocated to San Francisco, where he spent 20 years as a tech journalist. He and his wife, Nicole, became enamored with that city’s illustrious food scene.

He was an investor in Lazy Bear, which earned two Michelin stars, and True Laurel, named one of America’s best bars

by Esquire magazine.

When the Blevins returned to Greensboro, they were especially attracted to the food at LaRue [so was I], which sought to push the proverbial envelope, but did not survive. They made the acquaintance of two key kitchen personnel at LaRue — Kevin Cottrell, a Greensboro native who formerly cooked at Reel Seafood Grill in Greensboro, and in WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Chapel Hill at One Restaurant, and Lydia Greene, a graduate of the Alamance Community College culinary program.

This team arranged monthly 10-course prix fixe dinners out of the Blevins’ home kitchen for invited guests. When the Battleground Avenue property became available, they launched a full-scale restaurant, opening just before COVID quarantine. That first year was a real struggle, given the impact of quarantines and restrictions, but they survived.

Cottrell is Executive Chef, Greene is Chef de Cuisine, and Tanner Lankford, recently returned from training in Italy, is Sous Chef.

The name, Machete, grows out of two ideas. Literally, Cottrell used to enjoy chopping his way through the woods behind the house where he lived when he was growing up.

But figuratively, the team wanted to capitalize on the idea that the restaurant works on the cutting edge.

Cottrell reflects, “We didn’t know anything [about the Beard Award selection] in advance, but we’ve been receiving a good amount of local and national recognition. I’ll also praise Tal on his marketing skills, they are stellar. He’s had a way of getting our name out since the beginning. One of our big followers, local food writer Nikki Miller Ka, was recently recognized by the Beard Foundation. She’s hyped us since the pop-up days at Tal’s home.”

Being considered in any context in the Beard Awards is significant. Other North Carolina restaurants have earned accolades in past years and are in the running this year, too, but having three Triad properties in the semi-finals is a first.

Go to jamesbeard.org/blog/the-2022james-beard-award-semfinalists for the complete list and keep monitoring the Beard website for each round of announcements. Finalists will be revealed on March 16, with the winners honored in Chicago on June 13. !

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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. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail. com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel. blogspot.com.

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Celebrating the Academy Awards – a/perture-style!

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he 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 27, 2022, and broadcast live on ABC and a/ perture cinema in Winston-Salem is Mark Burger celebrating Hollywood’s biggest night Contributor in its own unique fashion.

To celebrate a/ perture’s Annual Red Carpet Party, a special tote bag is available that includes all the ingredients for a fun-filled Oscar night, including wine, a family-sized bag of fresh popcorn, official 2022 Oscar ceremony bingo cards and chips, Solarté shower cream, a discount coupon for an upcoming Winston-Salem Symphony presentation, and much more. All items in the bag have been generously donated by local businesses, which means that 100% of the proceeds will go toward supporting a/perture’s annual operating expenses.

There are only 100 Red Carpet Party tote bags available, each selling for $100. They can be picked up in the main gallery of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (251 N. Spruce Street, WinstonSalem) on Sunday, March 27 between 3 and 6 p.m. To order a tote bag, visit https://aperturecinema.com/redcarpet-party-home/.

Each year, prior to the Oscars ceremony, a/perture assembles a dinner & movie raffle to celebrate the nominated films. This year, 11 raffles have been established for each of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture and a “kidfriendly” version to celebrate the films nominated for Best Animated Feature.

All raffle items include dinner for two as well as other special items unique to each nominated film. Each raffle ticket is $10 and can be purchased at the front counter of a/perture cinemas (311 W. Fourth Street, Winston-Salem) or via the individual links here: https://aperturecinema.com/2022-best-picture-raffle/.

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these special, Oscar-related specialties “have been popular in the past because it’s a unique way to do a fund-raising gala — built around Hollywood’s biggest night, celebrating the cinema, and cheering on your favorite film. What’s not to like about that?”

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads all films with a total of 12 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director) and is widely considered the odds-on favorite, but Desai — like many others — has her own personal favorites she’ll be cheering on.

“My personal favorites are Flee, which is a wonderful film and is nominated in three Best Picture categories — International, Animated, and Documentary — and rightly so,” she said. “I will also be cheering on The Worst Person in the World (nominated for Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay) and Drive My Car (nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature, and Best Adapted Screenplay).”

The decision to shorten the televised ceremony, reportedly at the behest of ABC, in which the presentation for eight categories will take place in a pre-taped ceremony before the broadcast, has rankled fans and even Academy members, and Desai concurs. “Like many others, I am disappointed the (live-action and animated) Shorts awards were pulled from the live broadcast. We have been running the Oscar Shorts as a program for 13 years,” she said.

Going beyond the Oscars, a/perture cinema will be hosting a visual art exhibit in the main gallery of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Titled “Cinema Beyond the Screen,” it boasts the talents of several acclaimed local artists as they celebrate the art of film. Joey Allen, Kaitlin Botts, Abel Brone-Hammer, Cami Burruss, Virginia Christman, Caroline Dalholt, Ian Dennis, Hannah Gaskins Pabon, Leigh Kelly, A.K. Landreth, Angela Mendez, Lindsay Piper Potter-Figueiredo, Leo Rucker, Elizabeth Shanahan, Shairpins, Terry Shupbach-Gordon, Veronica Vale, and Grand Wilmoth are the talents who have lent their time and abilities to this one-of-a-kind exhibition.

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colleague who several years ago shared how he had commissioned an artist to recreate two paintings that were on the wall in the film Amelie,” Desai explained.

“I just thought that idea was so cool and original, and I wanted to do something similar here in Winston-Salem. So I reached out to artists to invite them to participate in an exhibition that was inspired by cinema, with the only parameter being that the piece had to be original and inspired by something related to the cinema — a film, a scene in a film, a cinematic concept, characters in films — really, it could be as broad as they wanted it to be. All the pieces will be for sale as a fund-raiser for a/perture, but the exhibit will be free for the public to see while it hangs in the main gallery at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts for all of April. It’s been a lot of work, but it is going to be so totally worth it when WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

the pieces are hung in a few weeks.”

“Cinema Beyond the Screen” will open Monday, March 28 (the day after the Academy Awards ceremony) and run until Thursday, April 28. Purchasers of a/ perture’s Red Carpet Party tote bags will be invited to a sneak peek at the exhibit on Sunday, March 27 from 3-6 p.m., during bag pick-up. A/perture patrons are invited to attend the gallery reception and mingle with the artists and fellow film fans on Friday, April 1 from 5-7 p.m. The official website for the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts is https:// www.intothearts.org/facilities.

For more information about a/perture cinema, call 336-722-8148 or visit the official website: https://aperturecinema. com/. !

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Festival of the Wild Geese originated in Lagos, Portugal in 2006. The festival celebrates Irish heritage with music and dance from famous Irish entertainers. This Joshua Ridley month, March 2426, Festival of the Marketing & Wild Geese is makCommunications ing its US debut in Manager Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Simon Burgess and his team have partnered with Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County to host the festival across two venues and three days.

The festival contains talent showcased from two performance groups, Rhythm of the Dance and Shamrock Tenors. Rhythm of the Dance combines traditional dance and music with the most up-to-date stage technology.

Performances for Rhythm of the Dance will be held on Arts Council’s campus at Hanesbrands Theatre (251 N Spruce Street) March 24-26. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.

Shamrock Tenors are Northern Ireland’s newest and most electric five-piece harmony and multi-instrumental group, combining traditional Celtic melodies and exciting modern-day vocals.

Shamrock Tenors will perform at ROAR, Winston-Salem’s newest multi-level entertainment venue featuring dining and entertainment, March 25 and 26.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9:30 p.m.

“I created and successfully ran the first Festival of the Wild Geese in Lagos, Portugal in 2006, and for several years thereafter,” expressed Simon Burgess, Owner/Operating Partner of ROAR Brands. “It became a community event for the Irish to vacate to Portugal and listen to famous Irish entertainers. This year we will make history, by bringing the festival centered on rich Irish culture to North Carolina at ROAR in downtown Winston Salem. Arts

Council is partnering with us to host two world-renowned acts for the only Irish music festival in the Triad featuring The Shamrock Tenors and Rhythm of the Dance. We hope the community will enjoy this three-day festival around St. Patrick’s week attracting additional Irish entertainers for years to come.

Festival of the Wild Geese takes place in downtown Winston-Salem March 24-26. For tickets and more information visit FestivaloftheWildGeese.com.

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 Winston-Salem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www. cityofthearts.com.

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Too Many “I’s” in TEAM These Days

don’t know exactly what year it happened, but somewhere along the way, team sports turned into “ME Sports,” and the trend toward toxic individuality Jim Longworth has manifested itself in everything from grooming and dress Longworth code, to style of play at Large and counterproductive regulations.

Actually, this subject has been on my mind for a long time, but it all came back into focus for me while I was watching the ACC Channel’s stellar 10-part documentary on the history of the league tournament. That series dredged up a lot of feelings I had about the importance of tradition in college athletics. I’ll start with my concerns over who is playing the game and for how long.

In speaking with producers of the recent ACC documentary, legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski talked about how the new

“one and done” era was hurting college basketball. Coach K noted that it takes two to three years to recruit a good player who used to stay in school all four years. Today, though, a coach spends the same amount of time recruiting, but the player leaves college after one year to seek fame and fortune. Team building has given way to “ME building,” which diminishes the importance of the overall mission, makes a sham out of the scholarship system, and denigrates the importance of a college degree.

The “ME first” approach to college basketball has also had an impact on the style of play. In the not-so-olden days, star players weren’t allowed to hog the ball or throw up a shot before the rest of his teammates were in position to rebound.

Today many of the “One and Done’s” can routinely be seen flying down the court or running out the shot clock without giving so much as a thought to passing the ball.

For those guys, every game seems to be more of an audition for the NBA than it is an opportunity to advance the school’s athletics program. And don’t get me started on the 3-point shot. Beloved sports columnist Bob Ryan believes that the 3-point rule has ruined the sport of basket-

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ball, and I agree. It was a gimmick originally invented by Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein to enhance the entertainment value of his staged contests, but today it mainly serves as an accomplice to “ME First” players, and an artificial device for putting a game out of reach.

Another contributor to the “ME First” movement in college basketball has to do with hair and grooming, but lest I be accused of having a “Get off My Lawn” senior moment, consider first the winningest program in college history, and how it got that way. The UCLA Bruins won 11 NCAA championships under head coach John Wooden, and those wins were buoyed by great players, great discipline, and an overriding belief that the team was more important than any one individual, even individuals like Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Bill Walton. To illustrate my point, what follows are comments by Wooden and Walton about what happened on the day Bill returned from summer break, and reported to practice sporting long red locks, in violation of the Coach’s rule that hair could be no longer than two inches in length. Wooden recalled the moment: “Bill told me he had been the national player of the year, that we had just won a national championship, and had been undefeated, and that I didn’t have the right to tell him he couldn’t have long hair. And I said, ‘You’re right Bill. I don’t have that right, but I do have the right to determine who is going to play, and we’re going to miss you this year.”

Walton completed the story: “So I got on my bicycle and rode as fast as I could to the barber shop in Westwood, jumped in the barber chair, and said ‘just cut it all off.’ Then I rode back to Pauley Pavilion in time for practice.”

Today’s “ME First” players wear their hair any way they wish. They sport as many tattoos as they wish. They wear rings in weird places, and often times wear different color shoes from other teammates.

It’s all about personal expression, and very little about personal commitment.

But hey, what do you expect when most of the coaches show up for games dressed in sweats instead of a coat and tie.

I’m not suggesting that we go back to a time when the set shot was more prevalent than the jump shot, or when a certain coach from Chapel Hill was allowed to go into an endless 4-corners stall. I am, however, suggesting that colleges stop letting scholarship athletes make a mockery out of education. I’m also suggesting that college coaches start acting like coaches, and that means refusing to sign any athlete who won’t commit to staying for four years. And college hoopsters themselves should be required to look, act, and play as a team, and not as five individuals.

It has been said that there is no “i” in “team.” I just wish that was true of college basketball. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

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IS THE SCHOOL BOARD AWAKE?

In a recent school board meeting, the “consent agenda” included an item D, 2020 -2021 Budget Amendments / Transfers Report.

This report along with the supporting documents equaled 18 printed pages of detail of amounts moved from one budgetary account to another with many of the items involving millions of dollars per line item.

The total movement of dollars was in the hundreds of millions.

Linda Welborn, board representative from District 4 requested this Budget Amendments / Transfers Report be pulled from the consent agenda, which was granted.

When the meeting progressed to discussion (sic) of this report, Linda Welborn asked a series of questions, which took about 4 minutes.

Anita Sharpe then asked a series of questions, which took about 3 minutes.

The board then voted to pass the report as written.

I am amazed that the majority of the board had no questions at all on 18 pages of figures, which moved hundreds of millions of dollars around within the budget. Most of the board members would have allowed that report to go without any question at all if Ms. Welborn had not requested it be pulled from the “consent agenda”.

The definition of a consent agenda follows: A consent agenda groups the routine, procedural, informational, and self-explanatory non-controversial items typically found in an agenda.

Hmmm, the majority of the existing school board members consider a report that moves hundreds of million (sic) of dollars around the budgetary system a routine non-controversial item. I find that disconcerting. !

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Campion and cast ride tall in The Power of the Dog

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ince the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) altered its rules to include streaming outlets, none has been more Mark Burger successful than Netflix. In only a few short years, such Contributor Netflix offerings as Roma (2018), The Irishman (2019), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) have all reaped numerous Oscar nominations, with Alfonso Cuaron winning Best Director for Roma.

The convenient availability of Netflix, within the comfort and confines of one’s own home, has proven more effective than the usual hype and hoopla employed by Hollywood studios (and independents) to tout their potential Oscar candidates and increased considerably during the COVID pandemic, in which viewership skyrocketed while attendance at traditional theaters suffered.

Last year alone, Netflix films earned over 70 Academy Award nominations, with The Power of the Dog topping all films with 12. This well-made and extremely well-acted adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel marks the return of screenwriter/producer/director Jane Campion to feature

films, her last having been Bright Star in 2009. Whether The Power of the Dog is the best film nominated for Best Picture is, of course, debatable. The Academy Awards are always good for controversy and debate and have been almost since their inception nearly a century ago.

Set in 1925 Montana but convincingly filmed in Campion’s traditional New Zealand stomping grounds, this certainly qualifies as a Western given its setting and prevalent attitude. The film is not necessarily a revisionist Western, but more a character study with subtle, simmering undercurrents that come to a boil as the narrative progresses. These are the elements that Campion emphasizes, rather than the stereotypical shoot-‘emup between good guys and bad guys.

Benedict Cumberbatch, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Director, digs deep and dark into the role of Phil Burbank, the grizzled loner who runs the family ranch alongside his brother George (Jesse Plemons, nominated for Best Supporting Actor). The ranch hands take their orders from Phil, George’s presence almost an afterthought.

Phil does likewise, needling George at every turn, calling him “Fatso” and reminding him that without him — Phil — the ranch would be a failure.

George marries Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst, nominated for Best Supporting Actress), a shy widow who runs a local restaurant and has a sensitive, studious son, Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee, also nomi-

nated for Best Supporting Actor). Rose is utterly intimidated by Phil, whose disdain for her marriage to George he doesn’t try to hide, and she begins to drink heavily.

Although used to his brother’s behavior, George is powerless to intervene.

The Western has long been a traditional milieu for machismo, but The Power of the Dog incorporates a twist – one that may not be altogether surprising to observant viewers. Phil is so aggressive, particularly in challenging the masculinity of others — even George — that it’s clear he has something to hide. He is unable to express any semblance of vulnerability, and by the time he does, it’s too late.

Augmented by Jonny Greenwood’s highly effective score (yet another Oscar nomination), The Power of the Dog isn’t lacking for scope or sweep. It’s a true Western saga, with elements of Edna Ferber’s Giant and various works by Tennessee Williams. (Rose isn’t too distant a cousin to A Streetcar Named Desire’s Blanche DuBois.)

The performances, particularly those of Cumberbatch and Smit-McPhee, register very strongly. Plemons and Dunst, a couple in real life, are also highly effective,

although their characters tend to fade into the background in the latter stretches. Campion, who earned three Oscar nominations here (producer, director, and screenwriter), has always been able to coax good work from her actors. Even her 2003 American debut In the Cut, which has its defenders but considerably more detractors, saw Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Jason Leigh play their roles, sketchy though they were, with conviction.

In addition to its symbolic touches, some considerably more overt than others, The Power of the Dog occasionally gets bogged down by its stately pacing.

It’s also a very dry film, and rather a clinical one. Its emotions are present but also strangely muted, even dispassionate.

Nevertheless, should the film dominate the Oscars (March 27, 2022), it wouldn’t be a crime or a steal. Worse films have won the big one. Then again, so too have better ones.

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Some romantic relationships are full of drama and strife, so maybe Sandra, 28, of Budapest, Hungary, has come up with a better model.

According to Oddity Chuck Shepherd Central, Sandra has fallen for Luffancs, a plastic model of an airplane. After breaking up with her latest human boyfriend in January, Sandra bought Luffancs for $660 and fell madly in love. “I don’t know why I love him, I just love him,” she said.

Sandra works in the aviation industry and is around airplanes every day, but says she will never cheat on Luffancs. In fact, she doesn’t know if she’ll ever date another human being. “Planes are more reliable as partners,” she said.

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When Bshar Ahmed, 30, of Youngstown, Ohio, was arrested on March 7, he told police that he was selling marijuana from the gas station where he was working the midnight shift because he just got out of prison and he needs the money, WKBN-TV reported. The owner of the station called officers about Ahmed and produced a bag, which Ahmed admitted was his, that contained bags of weed and a loaded .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun, along with suspected methamphetamine, crack cocaine, indeterminate pills and over $1,000 in cash. Ahmed’s previous convictions bar him from possessing a firearm.

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When ya gotta go ... At 4:40 p.m. on March 4, Kenneth Clark Carlyle, 64, walked up his neighbor’s driveway in his birthday suit and relieved himself, No. 2 style, on the neighbor’s glass patio table, The Smoking Gun reported. The whole thing was caught on not one, but two “separate angles of the victim’s home security video footage,” the police report noted. Clearwater, Florida, officers arrived at Carlyle’s RV camper, where they spoke to him “through the door ... and he was still visibly naked and highly uncooperative.” The bond on this incident is $250, but he was already in trouble from a December infraction, so he remains in the pokey.

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Three Michigan men ice fishing in a homemade shanty on Saginaw Bay on March 6 went for the ride of their lives as winds nearing 50 mph pushed their structure about a mile across the ice, the

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SURPRISE!

As construction crews worked to remodel the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California, on March 9, they made an alarming discovery, NBC News reported.

The building, which has been out of use since 2005, was the final resting place for “an unidentified, decayed body,” said Lt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. “We found remains best described as mummified,” he said. “The conditions in the walls were such that the body was preserved in good condition.” He said authorities will obtain fingerprints to try to identify the deceased. “Any theory is possible,” Kelly said, “... from someone who got in behind the wall and became trapped ... to someone put the person there.”

IT’S A HEAD-SCRATCHER

On March 3 in a quiet Denver neighborhood, someone broke into a box truck parked along a street and stole a box marked “Science Care,” KDVR-TV reported.

Inside the box were a number of human heads that were being transported for use in medical research. The thieves also stole a dolly. Isaac Fields, who lives nearby, was perplexed: Why was the truck parked in his neighborhood? Where was the driver? Why would someone steal human remains? Police wouldn’t provide many details because the case is still open.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protections agents probably rarely having a boring day, but between Feb. 19 and 25, officers in Philadelphia came across some particularly skin-crawly cargo: about 300 leeches from Bulgaria, NBC New York reported. The medicinal leeches, which arrived in jars distributed among six separate air cargo shipments, were headed for Connecticut, Florida and Illinois, but they’ll never make it: That type of leech, the Hirudo medicinalis, is a protected species and can’t be traded internationally. Instead, they were turned over to federal wildlife agents. !

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Cost-less Cuisine: Triad eateries adopt Pay-What-You-Can Model

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he past few years have hit the Triad community, just like every other community, pretty hard forcing many people to live in food deserts, and not by Chanel Davis their choosing.

A food desert is defined as a geographic Editor area where affordable, nutritious and fresh food is hard to come by, due to cost or lack of transportation. Assessments done by local nonprofits and Guilford County show there are at least 24 food deserts within the county with at least 17 of those in Greensboro.

With several areas in the Triad already being a food desert, there are a few local eateries that are working to elevate the stress and headache of figuring out where that next meal will come from and how you will pay for it.

Given Coffee and HOPE Truck Food Co. Winston-Salem What began as a passion project for the lead pastor at Hope City Church, located at 758 Montsinger Road in Winston-Salem, has grown into not one, but two, budding businesses independent from the church but serving the community with the same mission.

HOPE Truck Food Co. began in 2019 and was evolved from the work of the church’s pastor. For years he had traveled to High Point to give out food, first passing out hot dogs and water from the trunk of his car on Friday nights and later on Saturdays from a donated enclosed trailer. One day, according to Jamie Via, executive director of Hope Food Co., he mentioned how great it would be to have a food truck to continue passing out food in the community.

Someone in Boston, Massachusetts agreed and donated their food truck to the cause. The truck, valued at over $200,000, had a couple of thousand miles on it and was fully-equipped equipped.

“The reality is that people aren’t always going to come to you whenever they need help and the thought of being able to go to people and meet them where they are and give them what they need was just a great idea,” said Via. “It was just a great product that we were able to use to go out YES! WEEKLY

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Given Coffee opened in June 2021 and operates under a Pay-What-You-Can model

in the community to give away these free meals.”

In order for the food truck to continue to give away free meals, it needed to be selfsustaining. That’s where the organization’s pay-what-you-can model comes into play.

The food truck goes to businesses, private events including birthday parties, weddings, and food truck festivals. There’s no booking fee or deposit but Via admits that they book up pretty quickly.

“In the summer we get requests for over 30 events a month. There are some regulations about how far we can drive the food truck and it’s important for us to know how many people are going to be there,” she explained.

Via said that revenue is collected through suggested pricing. The prices are not listed on the food truck’s menu but are instead in the food truck’s square account.

The suggested cost often offset the free meals. A meal includes an entrée, a side, and a drink and ranges from $10 to $15.

“We are at the things you would see other food trucks out at,” Via said. “When we’re at those places we’re still consid-

HOPE Truck Food Co. offers free meals to those in need ered a pay-what-you-can food truck. If someone on the street sees our food truck parked somewhere and they want to come up and get a meal for free, they can always do that. But most of the time when we are at those places people do pay for their meals. We tried to look at what other food trucks are doing but still be able to meet our margins and have enough extra funds to be able to give away. We do have people who give over the suggested prices a lot of times because they know what we’re doing with that money and it’s something that they want to give towards.”

In June 2021, after finding success with the food truck, Hope City opened up a coffee shop inside the entrance of the church.

Given Coffee is another pay-what-youcan eatery with proceeds providing free meals to the community through the food truck.

There are no prices on the menu but the suggested prices range from $3 to $8 for the shop’s teas, coffees, espressos, pastries, etc.

“Someone could just come into the coffee shop, get whatever they want, and get it for free, a penny, a dollar or give our suggested amount, just like you would at a regular coffee shop,” Via said.

The shop offers outside and indoor seating and also has a section for large groups and meetings.

Via believes the coffee shop will take off

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once people realize they are open six days a week and it’s open to the public.

“We’re in a church building but we’re just like any other coffee shop,” she said.

Via said that generosity is a core value for the organization and the reason they feel compelled to follow the pay-whatyou-can model is because they feel that they’ve been given so much in their endeavors.

“We were given the food truck and we were given the funds to be able to outfit the coffee shop here. The things that we’ve been given, we want to turn around and give it away. That’s the heart of it,” she said.

Before COVID hit, the model of the food truck was slightly different, according to Via. When they traveled to private events, they would have prices on the menus with an expectation that people would pay. Once COVID hit, people were calling left and right due to restaurants shutting down and families wanting to eat outside, safely. That’s when they realized, Via said, that they could’ve been anywhere and in any neighborhood, with someone facing food insecurity.

“We just took all the prices off the menu and said no matter where we are we’re just going to say ‘if you can pay us something great, if not don’t worry about it, it’s on us.’

That’s where that hope comes in. This person may seem like they have it all together and they don’t look like they need that extra little bump but who’s to say what they’re going through.”

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this idea of helping others in the community who are in need.

They are booking us not only because our food is really good, but they’re booking us because of the mission behind it. So just continuing to see people support others in the community has just made a big impact on me.”

According to Via, to date, HOPE Truck Food Co. has given away over 15,000 free meals. For more information on HOPE Truck Food Co. or Given Coffee, visit www. hopefoodco.com.

Little Light Bread & Soup Co. Greensboro Caitlin Ryan saw a problem and decided to do something about it.

Almost a year later, her sheer tenacity, goodwill, and culinary skills have turned into a small business. Ryan said that during the pandemic, she realized that people were having trouble feeding themselves because of flaky delivery or delayed grocery delivery.

She decided to do something about it.

“I started making a pot of soup every week and I delivered it to anybody who asked, whether or not they could pay for it, it didn’t matter to me,” Ryan said.

She ended up making so many quarts of soup each week that broke the stove in her home. At that point, she knew she needed a bigger location and went looking for a restaurant space.

Which is how Little Light Bread & Soup Co., located at 3205 Yanceyville St. in Greensboro, came to be.

The LGBT woman-owned and led business, which opened in May 2021, serves American fare, along with soup and bread, and practices the pay-what-

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you-can model. There are suggested prices on the menu that vary based on the item.

Suggested prices range for a Chicken Soup meal is $8, sandwiches are $12 and Sirloin meal with two veggie sides is $25. There are family-style meals that feed 3 to 4 people, like the whole chicken meal, which is roughly $30.

Ryan, chef and owner, said it’s been a tough first year but anyone who walks into her restaurant will eat, whether they can pay for it or not.

“Usually people say ‘hey can I get some food’ and then we know they will probably take it to go and are not going to pay for it. And that’s fine. We don’t ask questions.

We just ask them what they want,” Ryan said.

The eatery just reopened in mid-February, having been closed since Christmas Eve. During that time Ryan battled illness, contractors walking off the job, renovations, and changing her business structure.

“That was hard. I didn’t think we were going to be able to open again. We worked hard and got in there. So far, we’re not going gangbusters but so far we’re a lot busier than we used to be,” she said of the uptick in business.

The pay-what-you-can model is more of a personal mission for Ryan. As someone who used to struggle who drugs and alcohol, Ryan said that it was the kindness of strangers that kept many people like her going.

“Myself and a lot of the people I work with are all former alcoholics and addicts.

People were nice to us. People fed us.

People clothed us. People let us sleep on their couches until we got better. You’re nice to everybody you meet because

people were nice to you when you needed it,” Ryan said.

For Ryan, offering food to those in need is a simple act of humanity and one that should be mirrored everywhere.

“We have this opportunity to grow our service work in this exponential way. It feels like the right thing to do. For me, I think it would be really fucking cool if in every shopping center there was someplace that you could go and eat, even if you didn’t have any money.”

Ryan said that having outlived so many of her friends; she doesn’t take lightly her second chance and relishes finding her purpose while living out her dream. Even if means scolding neighborhood kids for not being in school while making them cheesesteak at the same time.

“It’s about keeping my side of the street tidy. I know I’m not going to solve hunger in Greensboro by giving out bowls of soup but I know I can do my little bit to help other people. This is my purpose. To be here and to do this. So it gets me out of bed and fighting my demons in the morning,” she said. “If I can get my food in your mouth then I can win you over. Hopefully, we don’t just feed the belly but we feed the soul. Giving you a food memory.

Anybody in the restaurant industry will tell you if you want to get rich, do not open a restaurant. It’s not a moneymaking venture. So if we’re not going to get rich off of this, why don’t we just help people where we can?”

For more information or to donate to Little Light Bread & Soup Co., visit. www. littlelighttriad.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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Residents help former Page student & UNCG professor flee Ukraine On February 27, three days after air raid sirens sounded in Ternopil, 18-year-old Sofiia Bashniak fled the Western Ukrainian city with her grandmother, Olga.

With the longdistance assistance Ian McDowell of Sofiia’s stepfather Billy White, who has lived in Greensboro Contributor since 1969 and married Sofiia’s mother in 2017, the still-exhausted but relieved teen and grandmother are now in a hotel in Warsaw, Poland.

On March 8, two days after Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops back from Mykolayiv, former University of North Carolina-Greensboro visiting professor Ganna Kolesnyk escaped her shellshocked hometown with her daughters, Polina and Taissia, who are nine and 16, respectively.

The 45-year-old Kolesnyk, who taught British and Ukrainian literature at Mohyla Black Sea National University and is known as Anna to her friends and former Joyner Street neighbors Adrienne Everheart and David Taylor, is now in a hostel with her daughters in Bucharest, Romania.

Sofiia and Anna, who once lived 417 miles apart and may not know each other, had to leave male family behind. With Ukraine under martial law, men under 60 are required to stay and urged to fight.

Anna’s husband, Volodya, remained in Mykolayiv to not only defend that strategic southern port on the Black Sea, should that become necessary, but to care for their parents who are too ill to travel. Remaining with him is Ernestina, the family poodle.

Despite his age, Sofiia’s 65-year-old grandfather, George, also stayed behind to defend his country.

“I haven’t even brought him up with Sofiia or her grandmother,” White said to reporters assembled in front of the Old Greensboro Courthouse on Friday morning.

“I don’t even know how to approach it. Is he still alive?”

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will also reside with them until it’s safe to return to Ternopil. In the meantime, he’s trying to find them long-term lodgings in Warsaw, where his polyglot stepdaughter is already learning Polish.

Sofiia, who attended Doris Henderson Newcomers School in 2017 and Page in 2019, has US Resident status and a Green Card. She and Olga currently have an April 19 appointment with the US Embassy in Warsaw to secure a visa. White’s friend Tracy Furman, a commissioner on the Greensboro Minimum Housing Standards Commissions, has been working with congresswoman Kathy Manning’s office to expedite that process. When Sofiia and Olga arrived in Warsaw with no place to stay, Furman used her Expedia skills at 1 a.m. to find them a hotel room a few blocks from the US Embassy.

Everheart and Taylor have created a GoFundMe titled Help Anna & her children escape and survive. The three are currently safe in their Bucharest hostel, near a church where Anna has been praying with Oksana, a fellow refugee and scholar, and a McDonald’s that feeds refugees for free. The GoFundMe is to raise money for further travel, medical supplies, feminine hygiene products, and something to eat.

As of Sunday night, they had raised $2,934 of the $10,000 goal.

Both family groups had exhausting jour-

neys before reaching NATO countries.

Anna, Polina and Taissia only left Mykolayiv after Anna’s university and Volodya’s workplace closed, and Russian missile attacks forced the girls to get their lessons in bomb shelters beneath their school.

Traversing the 448 miles between Mykolayiv and Bucharest requires crossing Moldova from its eastern to western borders, but normally takes nine hours by car or train. For the displaced professor and her daughters, it was a 30-hour journey with no sleep and little food.

“I went on foot 8 km [5 miles] on the Ukrainian side and about 1 km in Moldova,” texted Anna via WhatsApp on Monday morning. “In Moldova, we were taken to the refugee camp by bus, and then transported to Kishenau [Chișinău] by bus as well.”

Sofiia “only” had to cross one border, to which her resourcefulness got her and grandmother after a planned ride in a friend’s car fell through at the last minute.

This required catching a series of overcrowded and hard-to-catch buses that regularly detoured around invading troops.

“They were getting some kind of intel about Russians on the roads, and had to keep changing routes,” said White. “I can’t imagine having to do that while riding a bus.”

Although White had been imploring them to leave for months, they only did

so after watching explosions from Olga’s porch.

Although White’s marriage to Sofiia’s mother ended, father and stepdaughter consider each other family. Despite White wanting Sofiia to finish high school in Greensboro, she was determined to return to the country in 2019 to help her grandparents and other Ukrainians.

“She seemed a shoe-in for a university scholarship, as she speaks so many languages. I tried to tell her she should complete college here, and then either become a diplomat, or get a regular job and make good money, and still help other Ukrainians get out. I knew if I could get her through college, the world is her oyster, and now she’s in Poland in a hotel.”

Speaking to the press on Friday, White explained that Sofiia’s harrowing 36-hour journey included heavy traffic, security stops, and frequently changing buses.

Challenges that Sofiia resourcefully met and navigated herself and her grandmother to safety.

“I think we take it for granted here that we go home every night and sleep in a warm bed and complain about the food we have delivered to our house,” said White on Friday. “They’re dodging bombs and trying to find relatives. It’s a very serious situation.”

He barely slept, and Sofiia and Olga did not sleep at all, until they finally were allowed to cross the Polish border, and even then, showers and slumber didn’t happen until Furman found them a hotel and they were checked in. “They slept for three days, and I finally got something like eight hours.

I’ve never had to feel like that before, living in the United States.”

But, he said, Warsaw and Kraków are filling up with refugees.

“Those cities are swelling at the seams right now. Something needs to happen because we need to move those people further down the line to the United States or other countries, as there are more.”

White said he looks forward to that “glorious day when we have a nice homecoming at the Greensboro airport,” but he doesn’t know how long that will take.

“There seems to be some kind of logjam in the state department and embassy offices.”

Taylor met Kolesnyk in 2003 and introduced her to their neighbor Everheart the next year. They’ve kept in touch ever since.

“That’s one of the things I really love about our College Hill Neighborhood,” said

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Anna and daughters flee Ukraine Everhart on Sunday night. “We are a very tight-knit group and really look out for one another no matter who you are.”

Everhart studied Russian language and history at UNCG but soon learned so much about the history and culture of Ukraine from her new friend. “In fact, Anna told me that when Russia eventually gave up Ukraine in 1954, many Ukrainians felt that they were Russians at heart, but because of their territory, they were now separate.

I’m sure to many Ukrainians, especially the elders, this war feels like the ultimate betrayal.”

For a while, she and Kolesnyk were housemates.

“I recall Anna spending hours scanning books from the library into digital format.

These educational books were unavailable in Ukraine but that didn’t stop her. Anna’s neck would be sore from hours of scanning, but that’s just who she is as an educator, devoted to promoting education and empowering the young people of Ukraine.”

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sleep at all because of a severe missile attack of Russian troops. In the morning we have learned that many houses in the suburbs of the city were damaged or destroyed and a part of the city is without electricity and heating now. I see that I have no choice but leave my beloved Mykolayiv to protect my children.

I am heartbroken because it means I have to part with my closest and dearest. My husband will stay here to take care of my elderly parents and his mother and sister who are not able to leave due to health issues and are completely helpless. I and my children can take with us only what we can carry themselves. I don’t know how to pack my whole life into three small bags. I realize that I possibly wouldn’t see my husband (19 years of happy married life) and my parents again. I have no idea what is waiting ahead and have only very little money.

According to Everheart, Kolesnyk and her daughters Polina and Taissia are scheduled to board a flight to the Netherlands as this article goes to press. !

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.

In honor of Women’s History Month, a historical moment was had as some of Winston-Salem’s most notable women cut the ribbon announcing the city’s first Women’s Legacy Parade. The Naima Said ceremony was held Saturday, March 12, at the Milton Contributor Rhodes Center, where organizers unveiled parade plans for March 2023. The event is presented by The Legacy Foundation for Women, a nonprofit organization that celebrates women by providing funds to invest in women’s goals and ideas for a better future.

“This event is special, and something we haven’t done before in Winston. Not only is it celebrating local women but gives the local businesses the opportunity to advertise and say we are here, and this is what we do. This is the moment to see what Winston has to offer for our women and the impact they have in our city,” said Alicia Bailey, founder of Women’s Legacy Parade and committee member of Legacy Foundation for Women.

The Women’s Legacy Parade will partner with the Forsyth County Police Department, utilizing female officers to secure the parade and Winston Salem/Forsyth County Schools in efforts to incorporate local high school bands to perform at the event. Local women-owned businesses including Body and Soul and Restoration Med Spa have already confirmed their participation in next year’s parade.

The unveiling opened with a musical performance from the Carver High School band before welcoming the parade introduction speeches from ten female leaders in the community of Winston-Salem, discussing the importance of women in business, health, and education.

“When we think about the future of

education, we would be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to recognize those who paved the way for us. An example among many is Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist, best known for starting a private school for female African-American students in 1904, which is now known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida,” said WS/FCS Superintendent Tricia McManus.

“There were thousands of women who made a huge difference in advancing education for children and adults in our world, and that has continued on in our generation today.”

Karen Roseboro, chief officer for Choice and Magnet Schools for WS/FCS tackled the importance of education opening doors for women and closing the equality gap.

“Less than a quarter of the top leadership positions in business are occupied by women, and in order for us to excel in our careers, we must recognize key characteristics that help us strive to climb that ladder and break that glass ceiling,” said Roseboro. “I encourage every woman to be a rebel. I consider myself to be a rebel, driven by confidence, but there is always the imposter that is looking to plague self-doubt. I encourage people to remember they are a rebel no matter what their endeavors are. Then you have the explorer, fueled by inhibition, and the truth-teller, someone who embraces candor. Most importantly you have the hero, someone who embodies courage, the inventor, someone who is brimming with integrity, and the navigator, someone who trusts and who is trusted. Women have a variety of innate characteristics that make each one of us unique and important to ourselves, our families, our careers, and our communities.”

For more information visit, https://legacyfoundationforwomen.com/. !

NAIMA SAID is a 23-year-old UNCG theatre graduate and host of Heeere’sNeeNee Horror Movie Podcast.

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he Triad is home to so many Hostesses with the Most-esses—women who create platforms that help bring the music community to life— whether in-person Katei Cranford with live residencies or over the air with radio shows and muContributor sical programming.

In the spirit of Women’s History Month, we’re lucky to have broadcasters like Chris Roulhac, Martha Bassett, and Dr. Irish Spencer to help us enjoy the wealth of North Carolina’s talent from the comfort of our home couches and car radios. While enhancing our community in the process.

For Spencer, “being part of The Voice means being part of the Community!”

Dr. Irish Spencer Blooming as “The Wild Irish Rose” every Saturday at noon on WNAA 90.1 FM, she’s been serving “Real Radio,” over the airwaves of Aggieland for the past 21 years, mixing “old school” hits across genres—

and taking song requests for her special “Shout-Out Saturday” segments.

Some of her most enjoyed artists include Prince, Stevie Wonder, Patti LaBelle, and Gladys Knight, but the audience remains her favorite. “What I do is voluntary,” she said of her show. “It’s my way of giving back to my alma mater, N.C. A&T State University. I love my listeners, and sharing news they can use every week.

Straight up no chaser!”

That unfiltered approach extends across the community. Spencer co-chaired the $2.5 million fundraising capital campaign for the Carolina Theatre; served as President and CEO of Welfare Reform Liaison Project Inc., (which focuses on workforce development and solving issues related to poverty in Guilford County) and, as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Piedmont, was presented with the national “Champion of Change” award by President Barack Obama in 2015.

“My heart is most happy when I am helping and engaging others,” she said, reflecting on her duality as a scholar, esteemed member of service communities, and lively radio personality.

Where Spencer shares “real radio,” Martha Bassett upholds the task of sharing “good music for good people,” with The Martha Bassett Show, filmed live and on-location every first and third Thursday from the historic Reeves Theater in downtown Elkin.

Now in its fifth season (with audiences back in the seats), TMBS mixes mediums, incorporating a live stream video series with radio syndication—including a weekly broadcast every Saturday at 7 p.m. on WFDD 88.5 FM. The current season started in February and will clock 20 shows through its run, ending October 6. Jim White and Cashavelly Morrison are upcoming guests on March 17. David Childers & The Serpents and Tiffany Thompson are slated for April 7.

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Martha Bassett Commanding the stage with a guitar and a giggle Bassett draws energy from her seasoned house band while keeping her eye open for new guest artists.

“The fun part is putting different kinds of artists together on the same show and seeing how they complement each other,” she noted of the programming built around exposing the talent of homegrown musicians.

Chris Roulhac strikes a similar chord as host of “The North Carolina Show,” every Wednesday from noon-2 p.m. on WQFS 90.9 FM. “This has been one of the highlights of my entire life, and has put some of the most wonderful people in my life.”

Featuring interviews, in-studio performances, and special requests, Roulhac is a treasure, bestowing a wealth of North Carolina music on listeners for almost 23 years. “I’m so grateful to Guilford College and WQFS for providing this opportunity.

I’ve made so many wonderful friends through the show,” she added.

Traditionally a fixture over the air (and in the crowd), she took a sort of pause during the pandemic, but noted she’s “looking forward to making up for lost time in both of those areas.” Especially within the blues realm, where she reigns supreme—having served as past president of the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society and where she remains a current member of their operating board.

Through the PBPS, Roulhac developed a community outreach program that sets up music performances in adult daycare settings (including Pace of the Triad and After Gateway). “We bring music to people who might have a hard time getting out to a traditional venue,” she explained.

“These performances have brightened the lives of the program participants, the staff at these facilities, and the musicians.

They’ve been a blessing.”

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Chris Roulhac cians Matter, an area nonprofit serving musicians in need of assistance in the event of emergency or illness. The group has also recently launched the Guitar Resettlement Project, which gifts guitars to Afghan refugees. Roulhac’s supportive nature reverberates. Remarkably quiet inperson, her fiery locks have been sighted in surprising places—dive bars, basement shows, and all sorts of underground venues—she’s always a welcome face in an array of crowds.

And her ears are always open, with remarkably expansive taste, which she transmits over the air. “I’ll do my best to get everything on if I’ve got it, or if it’s in the WQFS library,” she said—a means of expressing gratitude for the “marvelous opportunity” she sees in sharing the sounds of the state. “It struck me that some of the artists I play on my show now weren’t even born when the show started,” she added, “and I think that’s pretty cool.” !

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I’m a guy who falls into relationships too easily, ending up with women I’m not particularly interested in. I thought I had discriminating taste, but obviously my relationship track record says otherwise. How can I grow up and stop being so impulsive? —Disturbed

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You’re far from alone. People will insist they’re highly “discriminating” in choosing partners — and then move in with somebody on the third date. They, of course, portray this as the height of romance — when it’s really the height of “Hello?!

You barely know this person...were you dropped on your head as a baby?”

We humans have a powerful longing to be in a long-term love thing, and probably because of that, we’re far less choosy about romantic partners than we believe we are — at every stage of a relationship.

Social psychologist Samantha Joel finds we have a GO! GO! GO! bias in romantic relationships: a strong tendency to make decisions that move a relationship forward — from the first night we meet our soon-to-be beloved to the 615th time they go all human nightmare on us.

People find all sorts of reasons to stay when every molecule of sense they have is screaming “FLEE!” Being in love is, obviously, a biggie, as is fear of being single (and the stigma that can go along).

Breakups also become “logistically difficult” when partners’ lives become “intertwined,” through marriage, moving in together, or merging their groups of friends.

As for you, understanding that falling in love is often the twin of falling in an open manhole is a start. In the early stages, take it slow — and sober. Meet for coffee for an hour, and have someplace to be afterward (and actually stick to that and vamoose). Avoid marathon calls and texts.

When you’re into somebody, see whether they’re a good fit by holding them up to your standards for a partner. All your standards. Don’t just check the “she’s hot” box and crumple up the list.

Finally, in a world where we all experience harsh challenges every day, like the Uber driver arriving five minutes late, it’s easier than ever for people to contain their worst qualities. It might take you a year to know someone’s true character.

This suggests it’s wise to hold off on “entwinements” (like sharing a pad) till you’ve seen enough to answer the unfun questions, such as, “Hmm...what’s the likelihood I’ll end up emotionally and financially eviscerated and then dumped in a ditch to be picked apart by buzzards?”

less and tacky. Seriously, is there reasoning behind this behavior? My friends all agree it’s a major turnoff. —Grossed Out There’s this notion (held by some men as well as some feminists) that men and women are just people with different funparts and “What men want, women want.” Um, no. Note that you never hear dudes complaining to the bros, “Eew! So gross!” about getting unsolicited boob pics — first, because they never get them, but if they did, it’d be like they caught the boobie leprechaun with the pot of nymphomaniac hotties at the end of the cul-de-sac.

Women seeking a relationship tend to be turned off by the conspicuous display of abs (versus a guy “inconspicuously” showing he’s fit), and the display of the sick-expensive car is likewise a fail.

Social psychologist Jill M. Sundie and her colleagues find a man’s motivation to engage in “conspicuous consumption” — flashy, wastefully extravagant displays of wealth — is triggered by “short-term mating goals.” In plain English: “Yeah, he wants a lasting relationship — lasting from about 3 a.m. to sunup.”

Women read this signal loud and clear — which is why you boyfriend-seeking ladies are “grossed out.” Guys will counter, “But wait...women like men with money!”

Well, yeah, but there’s some nuance to that. Women seeking more than a threehour sex tour are primed by evolution to find a man who’ll “invest” — and not just in his “baby” (aka his 911 Turbo S): “Dylan, buddy, I know you need your tumor removed, but Daddy’s rims are almost six months old!”

By the way, these flashy car pics could even be a fail for a guy hoping to target the hookuperellas on an app, because they often signal he’s a liar. Twenty-two years old and ab-splayed across the hood of a Ferrari? The ladies know exactly what to look for. Yep...just zoom in on the photo for the clip-on bow tie and balled-up polyester valet vest — right behind the back wheel of LeBron’s car. !

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

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