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The University of North Carolina Greensboro is getting ready to kick off its oldest continuous series with some pretty big names in hopes that Triad residents will take a few hours to live out the arts. THE UNIVERSITY CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES kicks off its 109th season on Friday, October 8th, with a performance by Sphinx Virtuosi. The performance is the first in the school’s series that goes back to the late 1800s.

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RIDGE SHRIMP AND OYSTER is the latest initiative from long-time area restaurateur Drew Lackland. He was one of the originators of Bert’s, for those readers with long memories, as well as Reel Seafood. Ridge reincarnates those basic concepts, on a somewhat smaller scale in the Oak Ridge shopping center.

6 A youth-inspired theatre founded in 2011 by Erinn Dearth, SPRING THEATRE exists to empower and challenge the community to experience the energy, emotion, and adventure that springs from extraordinary theatre. Spring Theatre helps established and aspiring theatre artists reach their full artistic potential through mentoring, main stage productions, theatre camps, workshops, and master classes.

7 On a less triumphant note, the UNCSA School of Filmmaking reported last week that former faculty member RONALD ROOSE (1945-2021) had passed away in New York City after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.

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career in broadcasting. My first job was as a weekend announcer at WSJS radio in Winston-Salem. I was jazzed about the work, and all I could think about was landing a full-time position and skipping COLLEGE. 9 It’s against this historical backdrop that writer/director Corinna Faith’s THE POWER takes place. This is an eerie, atmospheric chiller that utilizes its setting — a rundown hospital in the heart of London — to maximum effect.

14 With a new comedy special under wraps, comedian ANNIE LOWE looks to take things to a new level. “I’ve had too many ‘sometimes all you can do is laugh’ moments that I’d be a fool not to cash in on,” the Winston-Salem native said of what drew her to stand-up—a vocation she credits for refining her concept of self as she began transitioning gender into the woman she is today.

19 Triad folks headed to SHAKORI HILLS will see some familiar faces out in ‘them Pittsboro pines as the 17th annual Shakori Hills Festival of Music and Dance returns Oct. 7-10.

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IMMIGRANTS FACING EVICTION APPEAL TO DEVELOPER

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Immigrant families facing eviction from the mobile home park they’ve lived in for 25 years are appealing to the developer negotiating to buy it.

On July 12, Lynne Anderson of Family Properties informed her tenants in Jamison Homes Mobile Park on Greensboro’s Hiatt Street the property was sold, and they had until the end of September to get out.

Despite those statements, the sale to Owls Roost Partners was not finalized, and NC General Statute North Carolina General Statute § 42-14.3 requires that residents of five or more mobile homes on property being converted to another use must be given 180 days, which in this case means the tenants have until Jan. 28.

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by Nancy McLaughlin, “Anderson said her aunt, who died recently, stipulated in her will that the property be sold and the proceeds divided among her grandchildren.”

Anderson’s aunt, Shirley Todd Jamison, died in March 2017, with no heirs. Anderson did not respond directly to YES! Weekly’s questions about this apparent discrepancy, but after repeated inquiries, Anderson’s sister Becky O’Hare sent a brief email stating that the heirs are Jamison’s grand nieces and nephews.

O’Hare did not clarify whether Anderson had misspoken or been misquoted. Neither Anderson nor O’Hare has responded to questions about whether those heirs include their children, nor have they provided documentation of the actual terms of the will.

In September, multiple residents of the property told YES! Weekly that Anderson sold them the trailers they had previously leased, in some cases only months before telling them they had to move. They said they had spent their savings purchasing and remodeling their mobile homes and had no money to move.

On Sept. 21, Siembra NC announced that Anderson had refused to meet with tenants to discuss their proposal to sell the property to them rather than to Owls Roost Partners, so they are appealing to Jerry Wass, developer and CEO of Owls Roost.

Wass’s LinkedIn profile lists him as the founder and CEO of AnomalySquared. com. Both Owls Roost Partners and Anomaly Squared are located at 7900 McCloud Rd #400 in Greensboro. On Sept.

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and request that he cease negotiating with Family Properties. The provided script included the statement “These families have lived on the property for many years (some of them for over 20 years) and deserve to have a chance to buy the land they have lived on.”

Since Sept 22, calls to Wass’s phone number have gone straight to voicemail, with a message that the mailbox is full.

On Sept. 22, Kelly Morales of Siembra NC told YES! Weekly “It’s been about two and a half weeks since Hiatt Neighbors delivered a letter to Jerry Wass, CEO of Owl’s Roost.

Then last week, Lindley Neighborhood Association also wrote a supporting letter to Mr. Wass, stating that they are standing with the Hiatt Neighbors.

Neither Hiatt Neighbors nor the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association has heard back from anyone at Owl’s Roost. That is why the community has been asking their supporters to call and text Mr. Wass, in order to show him that the Hiatt neighbors have broad-based support across the community. So, that’s where we’re at.

I think these are literal wake-up calls for him to do the right thing. The neighbors will continue organizing if he does not respond.”

Morales provided YES! Weekly with the following written statement from the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association.

Lindley Park Neighborhood Association Resolution about the Threatened Displacement of Hiatt St. Trailer Park Residents Sept. 9, 2021 The Lindley Park Neighborhood represents both homeowners and renters who live within Lindley Park - bounded roughly

by Oakland St. to the South, W. Market St. to the North, Josephine Boyd Blvd. to the East and Holden Rd. to the West.

We are a neighborhood that values its diversity and all residents who call this place home. Some of our neighbors have led efforts over the past several years to bring together and support all the different segments of the community through initiatives like Knit the Bridge in 2016, community building days at the Corner Market and the Corner Market’s SNAP benefits program.

Now some of our Lindley Park neighbors who live in the trailer park on Hiatt St., most of whom are Latino, are facing the threat of being displaced because the current owner seems to want to sell the land. Many of these Hiatt St. trailer park

residents have lived in the Lindley Park neighborhood for decades. The children who live there have attended Lindley Elementary, Kiser Middle School, and Grimsley High School, and their tight-knit and mutually supportive community is what has gotten them through hard times.

They have formed their own residents’ association, and they are asking the current owner to sell the land to them, rather than to the developer she is in conversation with.

We appreciate these neighbors as part of our broader Lindley Park neighborhood, and we support their right to advocate for themselves. We urge the developer, Owl’s Roost Partners, to listen to these members of our community, and work with them to come to a resolution. As a neighbor-

hood association, we want to support our neighbors to pursue the best possible outcome for themselves and their families.

We hope for a fair and equitable process that treats these neighbors with dignity and respect, and we hope the current owner will give fair and due consideration to these residents as potential buyers.

As a neighborhood association, we love where we live and understand why our Hiatt neighbors want to stay in our beloved community. We support all those who call this neighborhood home, and we are hoping for a positive resolution and a great outcome for our neighbors in the trailer park on Hiatt St. Josh Sherrick President, Lindley Park Neighborhood Association !

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idge Shrimp and Oyster is the latest initiative from long-time area restaurateur Drew Lackland. He was one of the originators of Bert’s, for those readers with long memories, as well as Reel Seafood. Ridge reincarnates those basic concepts, on a somewhat smaller scale in the Oak Ridge shopping center.

Offerings focus on seafood, but for meat-eaters, there is a burger and a steak. The menu is non-contact, posted on a chalkboard, as is the wine list. That list blends quality with value. You can’t go wrong here, no matter what you choose. Artisan brews abound as well.

Seating indoors is well separated. Four tables outside accommodate about 16 guests. An herb garden—functional as well as attractive—flanks the outdoor seating section. Service personnel are all masked. Although you can’t see smiles through masks, pleasant and naturally friendly personalities are evident. Orders are accurate, deliveries appropriately paced.

My wife and I started one evening with Fried Calamari, a perennial favorite.

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battered and fried very crisp. These are so small in diameter, it’s almost impossible not to render them a bit firm, and these were, but the flavor is quite good and we liked the texture. A good marinara sauce intensifies flavor.

Oysters Rockefeller are portioned in sixes or twelves. The oysters themselves are juicy and fresh tasting, augmented with the traditional spinach, garlic, and hollandaise sauce. This kitchen augments these basics with crisp pieces of fried bacon, plus melted Parmesan cheese. A richly rewarding rendition.

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Additional oyster selections—raw to broiled—change according to fresh availability.

Fried Shrimp can be ordered as a starter or entrée. Ridge’s treatment is among my favorites—lightly coated in cornmeal and flour, delightfully crisp, yet still tender. If you are a fried shrimp fan (and who isn’t?), these are worth the drive to Oak Ridge. The seafood cocktail sauce, made in-house, is noteworthy.

You can also get shrimp that have been steamed and spiced.

Mussels provide a similar first/main

alternative. They are fresh tasting (no muddy aftertaste), available in three configurations. Italian (the version we tried) adds garlic, tomatoes, and sausage to the broth—delicious. I’m looking forward to getting around to the other two—with marinara sauce, or with garlic, white wine, and butter.

The Wedge Salad meets or beats any steakhouse version in the Triad. A large, chilled iceberg lettuce wedge is ladled with rich blue cheese dressing, made inhouse, flanked by cherry tomatoes, and decorated with diced bacon.

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FLOUNDER SESAME Flounder Sesame has been one of my favorite seafood entrées for decades. A light coating of crushed wheat crackers and sesame seeds forms a crust for the fish, dredged in egg wash, then pan-fried crisp in sesame oil. Homemade tartar sauce adds bite.

Grilled Tuna uses quality fish, cooked precisely as ordered, enhanced with a mustard dill sauce. Salmon is usually available on the menu in at least two preparations. The version I tried was grilled, pleasantly crusty on the exterior, but moist and tender inside, coated with lemon beurre blanc sauce.

Scampi is one of the most flavorful treatments of this perennially popular dish I’ve ever had. A rich lemon, butter, fresh herbs, and white wine broth hosts large, tender shrimp, yielding an abundance of flavor. Crab Cakes are mild in flavor, but fresh tasting, enclosed in a light, crisp crust. Again, the homemade tartar sauce is really good.

Entrées come with a choice of two sides. No matter what else you select, somebody at the table should get hushOYSTERS ROCKEFELLER

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WEDGE SALAD puppies. They are crisp and abundantly flavorful. Other alternatives include coleslaw, crisp French fries, sweet potato fries (one of our favorites), red potatoes (also recommended), potato salad (accented with mustard), corn on the cob, and another seasonal vegetable, lately grilled yellow squash and zucchini.

Desserts are scratch-made in-house.

The tart Key Lime Pie in graham cracker crust is the standard by which I judge all other such preparations. If I weren’t already committed to it, then the Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie would most likely be my favorite—another killer, both well worth the calories.

Brad Hendrix is the kitchen manager/ partner. The other partner is Darold Dumond. This trio has been collaborating for decades.

Now that the beltway is open out this way, a drive to Oak Ridge is easy, quick, and scenic. You go past the airport (don’t take Old Oak Ridge Road) then turn at the marked exit. The road goes past the Old Mill at Guilford. I have enjoyed the ride and will again in the future! !

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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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Play aims to heal audiences through realism and imagination

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youthinspired theatre founded in 2011 by Erinn Dearth, Spring Theatre exists to empower and challenge the community to experience the Naima Said energy, emotion, and adventure that springs from Contributor extraordinary theatre. Spring Theatre helps established and aspiring theatre artists reach their full artistic potential through mentoring, main stage productions, theatre camps, workshops, and master classes. As a result, Spring Theatre’s youth are confident community members who are prepared for leadership roles including, but not limited to, performing, writing, directing, and staging their productions. The family of Spring Theatre fuels the creative spirit of the entire Triad and beyond.

As part of their “Season of Change,” mentioned in their press release, Spring Theatre in Winston-Salem, will be producing a world premiere play about love and dealing with loss.

Gil And the Wild One, written by Joe Heaney from Minnesota is a story told through the eyes and minds of two 11-year-old kids as they work to maintain the adventure and playfulness of youth in the face of life-threatening illness.

Rife with humor and poignancy, this play strives to remind us of the importance of companionship and the strength of imagination, while leaving us with the ever-important lesson that we do not need to live forever to matter, we just need to matter to somebody else.

When choosing the season, Dan Beckmann, Artistic Director, felt it was important to include this new work. “I’ve been enamored with this play since I was treated to its first draft back in 2011,” Beckmann said. “It’s that perfect kind of theatre experience which combines pure, childlike play with a really important message. It’s a work that lets us escape the real world while also equipping us to take on some of its tougher challenges when we return.”

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Above - Rehearsals for the play Gil with actors Jack Colo (left), Paisley Holland, (middle left), James Crowe (middle), Lauren Rahill (middle right), and Trevor Ketterling (right).

At right - Rehearsals for Gil and the Wild One with actors Lauren Rahill (left), Jack Colo (middle), and James Crowe (right) both a larger-than-life character in the imaginary world and also a very realistic character in the hospital room in the show.

“I think that one of the coolest things about working on an original work is that you get to play a character that no one else has before,” Rahill said. “Since many of the characters in this show are from a fantasy world, it really is starting from scratch on developing them. It’s definitely an exciting process, but also quite a bit of pressure, as you always want to make sure that you are doing justice to the playwright’s vision of the character.”

Beckmann also mentions, who also serves as Director of the piece, “Don’t be deterred into thinking this is a produc-

tion only to be enjoyed by kids and their parents. The narrators are children, it’s true, and of course, Spring Theatre always places youth at the center of its purpose, but Gil and the Wild One is a play meant for everybody. It’s great work.”

Ketterling, one of the cast members, also said, “Gil and the Wild One is exceptionally relevant right now as it delves into a child’s imagination and shows how they utilize it to deal with the changing world around them. It is impossible to think there aren’t coping strategies like this being used by children dealing with

a world full of intense experiences, both good and bad.” !

NAIMA SAID is a 22 year old UNCG theatre graduate and host of Heeere’sNeeNee Horror Movie Podcast.

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You can catch Spring Theatre’s Gil and the Wild One at the Mountcastle Theatre on Friday, October 15th at 7 p.m., Saturday, October 16th at 7 p.m., and Sunday, October 17th at 2 p.m. The ticket link can be accessed on www.SpringTheatre.org.

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A big win and a big loss for UNCSA

Ronald Roose and Mark Burger time,” he said, “and I don’t have the time to waste. None of us does, really.” Here, here.

The Roose family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the UNCSA School of Filmmaking at www. uncsa.edu/giving, to be made available to students in need. Under “tribute” information, people can select “in memory of” and type in “Ron Roose.” If you would like the family to receive a letter acknowledging your gift, simply enter the following address: Gina Roose, 70 Riverside Drive Apt. #4-C, New York, N.Y. 10024.” !

by his passing, part of me is glad that he’s out of pain.

Meyer e-mailed a heartfelt statement to UNCSA last week, noting: “In the end, the only thing (Parkinson’s Disease) couldn’t destroy was his heart. What does that tell you? And now, mercifully, he is gone. For the first time in my life, I am in the world without him. I have no idea how this works.

I seem to be staring into an abyss.”

I will miss Ron Roose, but when I think about him, I’ll smile, and so will a lot of people. Those who knew him were blessed.

If I brought a little light into his life, he most certainly brought some into mine. He never lost his sense of humor, and he never wallowed in self-pity. “Self-pity is a waste of

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for a YES! Weekly cover story. Titled “Cutting Class: The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Roose,” he discussed his work, his battle with Parkinson’s Disease, his love of sports, and the circumstances by which he came to teach at the School of Filmmaking.

It was the cruelest kind of irony, but it came with a silver lining. Having been diagnosed and gone through a divorce, his potential nest egg was decimated thanks to the insidious chicanery of one Bernard Madoff. Ron almost never spoke disparagingly of anyone, but his eyes would go cold when the subject of Madoff came up, and who could blame him?

The story, which ran in 2011, remains a personal favorite — even if the editor at that time misspelled Ron’s last name as “Rosse” (on the cover, no less!). This prompted gruff e-mails from me and from Ron’s friend, noted author and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer, but Ron just laughed it off.

That’s the kind of guy he was. Even Ron’s sister Gina e-mailed me how thrilled she was with the piece.

Afterward, Ron and I would get together for dinner periodically on weekends. We’d talk movies, of course, and sports — and he’d never let me forget how many championships New York had as opposed to Philadelphia. He hadn’t expected to have a “third act” as a teacher, but he fell in love with it and took great pride in his students and, indeed, UNCSA as a whole. He loved the school, and the school loved him right back.

It was due to Ron that I had the privilege of corresponding with Nicholas Meyer, whose work I’ve admired for years. They were best friends literally since birth, born an hour apart on Dec. 24, 1945. One of their collaborations, the Cold War spy thriller Company Business, starred my favorite actor, Gene Hackman, and it could legitimately be said that I regard Company Business with more affection and fondness than the people who actually made it!

That said, it was due to that film that Ron was able to cross into East Berlin shortly after the Berlin Wall came down, which he described as an unbelievable feeling. While editing the film in London, his wife gave birth to their daughter Emma, so Ron’s memories of the film weren’t all bad.

The last time I saw Ron, I hugged him.

“I love you, brother,” I said. “I love you too, Mark,” he said. “You’ve been a good friend.”

I didn’t see Ron after that, but occasionally we’d talk on the phone. Then, unfortunately, there came a point where he couldn’t. I would leave a message saying I was thinking of him and hoping he was taking care of himself. As saddened as I am

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The lovely and talented Mary-Louise Parker, a 1986 graduate of the University of North Carolina (UNCSA) School of Drama, won her second Tony Award as Best Actress for her performance Mark Burger in The Sound Inside at the 74th annual Tony Awards last month.

Contributor Parker earlier won a Best Actress Tony for Proof in 2001, and her long list of accolades and awards includes an Emmy and Golden Globe award for the HBO production of Angels in America (2004) and another Golden Globe in 2007 for the long-running Showtime series Weeds.

On a less triumphant note, the UNCSA School of Filmmaking reported last week that former faculty member Ronald Roose (1945-2021) had passed away in New York City after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.

“With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Ron Roose on September 15th,” the statement read. “He died peacefully at home surrounded by his family, after having lived with Parkinson’s for 15 years.

He was beloved by our students and those of us who knew him, worked with him, and called him friend. He had an indomitable spirit, a mischievous sense of humor, a kind heart, and a passion for teaching. He will be sorely missed.”

Roose, who taught picture editing and sound design from 2008-’15, worked on such noted films as Serpico (1973), Night Moves (1975), The Wanderers (1979), Easy Money (1983), Company Business (1991), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), and Hoffa (1992), to name a few.

During my 20-plus years in North Carolina, I’ve gotten to know a great many of the UNCSA faculty members. I consider Dale Pollock and Richard Clabaugh among my best buds, I’m very friendly with Julian Semilian and Michael R. Miller, and I also considered Ron a very good friend.

We’d only met in passing before Pollock held a small Super Bowl party. The teams playing were the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. As a Philadelphia Eagles fan, the only satisfactory resolution to the game would have been if a sinkhole suddenly opened up and swallowed both teams.

Ron and I got to talking, and I quickly realized that he would be the perfect subject

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y the time I was a junior in high school, I had already embarked on a career in broadcasting. My first job was as a weekend announcer at WSJS Jim Longworth radio in WinstonSalem. I was jazzed about the work, Longworth and all I could think at Large about was landing a full-time position and skipping college.

But no one in my extended family had ever graduated from college, and I knew it would mean a lot to my parents for me to be the first. Nevertheless, I was not going to give up my weekend job, so that meant I would need to attend a college that was close to work. That’s when I decided to drop by the UNCG admissions office and see if they would take me.

Then as now, I was not particularly good looking, but the woman who greeted me just about leapt out of her chair when she saw me. I was flattered until I found out the reason for her excitement. Not only did UNCG want me to enroll, they NEEDED me to enroll. That’s because the University was still transitioning from single-gender to coed, and on the day of my visit, women outnumbered men by a ratio of 7 to 1. It was a win/win for everyone. UNCG landed another male student, and I was able to keep my radio job, work at the campus TV station, and get a college degree. I apologize for boring you with my personal story, but I promise there is a more universal point to this saga.

UNCG’s coed transition aside, that same year, a national survey showed that men comprised 59% of all college students, and women comprised 41%.

But a not-so-funny thing happened over the next 50 years. Last week, New York University professor Scott Galloway told CNN’s Michael Smerconish that college

enrollment is now 60% female and 40% male, with every indication that the latter figure will continue to decline.

In fact, these days, there are one million more women applying to college than men. According to Galloway, we are experiencing the largest gender gap in the history of American higher education, and that gap has created “mating inequality” in our society.

“College educated women are not interested in mating with men who don’t have college degrees,” said Galloway.

Ouch!

Clearly, today’s young men don’t value college as much as previous generations did. And while the cost of a college degree and resulting debt is a possible deterrent, it is also true that many of today’s males are just not very motivated, and that concerns Galloway.

“Uneducated men pose a risk to our economy and our society. If you look at the most unstable, violent societies in the world, they all have one thing in common: they have young, depressed

men who aren’t attaching to work, aren’t attaching to school, and aren’t attaching to relationships. The most dangerous person in the world is a broke and alone male, and we are producing too many of them.”

Galloway’s warning implies that the only time these lonely males get off their parents’ sofa is when they engage in hacking, insurrection, or some other anti-social activity, and that is both really scary and really sad. I don’t know what it’s going to take to motivate these guys in a positive direction, except to remind them as often as possible that they have value and potential, and that somewhere, there’s an admissions counselor who would be excited to see them walk through her door. !

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The Power: A haunted hospital in London

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n the early 1970s, the British economy was so shaky that the government-mandated power shutdowns throughout the nation in order to save Mark Burger money. No electricity, no heat, no lights.

Contributor These were, no pun intended, dark days in the U.K. It’s against this historical backdrop that writer/director Corinna Faith’s The Power takes place.

This is an eerie, atmospheric chiller that utilizes its setting — a rundown hospital in the heart of London — to maximum effect.

Rose Williams plays Val, a trainee nurse reporting for her first shift at the East London Royal Infirmary. A timid, even tremulous, young woman, Val appears entirely unprepared for what the night holds in store — not just for her, but for the rest of the hospital staff and some of the patients.

As soon as night falls and the power is turned off, the spookiness quotient goes into overdrive. There are long, dark corridors to be crept through, creaking doors that open by themselves, and strange shadows around every corner. Whatever one may say about The Power, it’s a greatlooking film.

As unexplained events occur with alarming frequency, Val’s grasp of reality and sanity seems to be eroding. She becomes obsessed that someone, or something, is haunting the hospital — and it appears to have targeted her as its conduit. Her erratic behavior confounds and frightens her co-workers, leading them to believe that she shouldn’t be tending the patients, but should be a patient — in the psychiatric ward.

The Power has been described by some as a “feminist” horror film, given that it was written and directed by a woman and that the principal characters are predominantly female. Cinematographer Laura Bellingham and production designer Francesca Massariol — who contribute exemplary work here — are also women.

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own pace — reflects some issues currently being addressed by the #MeToo movement. The film doesn’t use those issues as simply a gimmick, but to explore some very dark themes.

In addition to Williams, who acquits herself very well in a difficult role, there’s fine support from newcomer Shakira Rahman as a young patient who may hold the key to the mystery, and Diveen Henry as The Matron, Val’s stern and foreboding supervisor, underneath whose cold exterior is someone who suspects that Val’s seemingly outlandish claims may be closer to the truth than even she’d care to admit. Henry doesn’t say much, nor does she have to. Her darting eyes and furtive glances say it for her.

There aren’t many laughs in the film — nor should there be — although Faith does incorporate a few darkly humorous nods. One of Val’s co-workers is captivated by the new novel she’s reading (it’s called Carrie, by the way), but by and large, The Power plays it straight — and scary. Even when it’s not entirely clear where the narrative is headed, there’s a demented and frenzied momentum that holds one’s attention throughout. This is one to watch with the lights on.

- The Power is available on VOD, Digital HD, and on DVD ($27.97 retail) from Shudder/RLJE Films, the latter boasting bonus features including audio commentary. !

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Police in Madison, Wisconsin, are looking for a sculpture that was stolen from the Art Fair on the Square on Sept. 25. The unique piece, titled “Dumpty Humpty,” is a bronze of the nursery rhyme

character sitting on a toilet with his pants around his ankles and a book in his hands. It’s worth $1,400, according to United Press International. The vendor told police she’d seen two men loitering around her booth, and when she stepped away, they vanished, along with the artwork. Security camera footage also captured the men leaving with Humpty. Hope they didn’t drop him, because, you know ...

WHAT A CHARACTER!

Red Crocs weren’t enough to protect an 11-year-old boy at the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Fairgrounds on Sept. 18 when a haunted house actor took his role a little too far. According to The Washington Post, the boy, his sister and some friends were headed to the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house when Christopher Pogozelski, 22, approached them, trying to scare them. The boy told Pogozelski he wasn’t afraid, that the ghoul’s knife was “fake.” “Oh, it’s real.

Trust me, it’s real,” Pogozelski replied, then began poking the boy’s feet with the weapon until he drew blood. Reportedly, the actor was using his own Bowie knife rather than a rubber one, believing it wasn’t sharp enough to hurt anyone.

Still, he lost his job over the incident.

After getting bandaged up, the boy returned to be spooked again.

SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE

In the village of Ust-Tarka in southwestern Siberia, people are wondering what caused several hundred ravens to fall dead out of the sky on Sept. 22, the Mirror reported. Sergei Kuzlyakin, a veterinarian, said the birds are being tested to see if they were poisoned, but called himself “shocked.” “I have been working as a doctor since 1975 and this is the first time I’ve seen this,” he said. A local ornithologist thought the birds might have ingested pesticides, but the mass death event has “caused anxiety among residents,” local officials noted.

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Jacob Hansen and his wife, Quinn Kelsey, went looking for a casserole dish at a Goodwill store near their home in Denver, but they discovered a sentimental treasure instead, KUSA-TV reported on Sept. 28. As they browsed, Hansen looked up at a painting displayed in the store and realized he was the artist: He had created the piece 21 years ago as a high school freshman. His teacher entered the piece in a Jefferson County art show, and it sold at the time for $150, Hansen said. “I saw my signature on the bottom and then it was, ‘Wow, this is unbelievable.’ And I immediately FaceTimed my mom.” The couple bought the painting for $20 and plan to sell it online, with proceeds going to breast cancer research.

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An unnamed man in Jacksonville, Illinois, went to the hospital on Sept.

25 with a gunshot wound, the Journal Courier reported. The victim told Cass

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County Sheriff Devron Ohrn that he and family members had been testing bulletproof vests, and he allowed another person to shoot him as he wore one.

“Something like this is definitely not a good idea,” Ohrn said. “A bulletproof vest is not a catchall. Also, it is still a crime to shoot another person, even if they tell you to.”

BRIGHT IDEA

On Sept. 27 at the Imphal Airport in India, Mohammad Sharif, of Kerala, was arrested for trying to smuggle nearly a kilogram of gold to New Delhi. The Central Industrial Security Force told IndiaTimes.com that Sharif attracted their attention because of the way he was walking. When he was examined, officials found more than 900 grams of gold paste, worth roughly $56,000, in his rectum. Cases such as this are reportedly common in Kerala. The CISF watches for people who seem unable to walk properly or are displaying discomfort on their face.

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— If leaf-peeping is in your plans, you may want to take extra precautions against a fearsome intruder: the spotted lanternfly. According to WLNY-TV, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is warning autumn leaf tourists to beware of the beautiful but highly invasive species from Asia. “They can hitch rides in vehicles or on outdoor items such as clothing and easily be transported into and throughout New York,” said NYSDAM Director of Plant Industry Chris Logue. Officials direct people who find one to kill it immediately, then send a photo of it to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation along with your location.

— Looking for a job? David Duffy, co-owner of Duffy’s Circus in Northern Ireland, is encouraging people to become clowns. According to the BBC, Duffy says the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a shortage of performers; his circus has been shuttered for more than 500 days, but will resume operations soon with looser restrictions. Duffy’s looking for folks who are “really, really adaptable. ...

No matter what sort of mood you’re in, you have to light up that circus ring,” he said. !

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Living the Arts: UNCG kicks off its concert and lecture series

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he University of North Carolina Greensboro is getting ready to kick off its oldest continuous series with some pretty big names in hopes that Triad Chanel Davis residents will take a few hours to live out the arts.

Editor The University Concert and Lecture Series kicks off its 109th season on Friday, October 8th, with a performance by Sphinx Virtuosi. The performance is the first in the school’s series that goes back to the late 1800s.

Charles Duncan McIver, the University founder and first president, began an Entertainment Course in the school year of 1893 with a series of lectures by Greensboro locals and readings from Shakespeare by a traveling actor. Music was added in 1894-95, and by 1895 the University and Greensboro YMCA joined to sponsor a Combined Entertainment Course of eight performances, according to the school’s website.

In 1913, students were charged an annual fee to support concert and lecture programs, which were held at downtown theatres, until the opening of the UNCG Auditorium opened in 1927 and they were moved to campus. During the twentieth century, the University Concert and Lecture Series hosted artists like Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Wynton Marsalis, the San Francisco Opera, and the Hague Philharmonic.

Shana Tucker - Oct. 29, 2021 Shana Tucker is described as a lyrical storyteller, soulful cellist, and dynamic singer-songwriter. A cellist for over 30 years, the Long Island native has been playing since she was 11-years-old. Tucker studied classical cello at Howard University in Washington, DC, where she dove into improvisational jazz and honed her singer-songwriting skills, and received her degree in violoncello performance from CUNY-Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with master cellist Marion Feldman.

Often dubbed a “rare performer,” Tucker said that the critique has everything to do with perception. She believes that many people expect a traditional, classical performance from her and get quite the opposite.

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Shana Tucker “I think there’s a surprise element because people don’t expect me to be as conversational as I am. I like to joke a lot, talk about the music, and share a lot of the inspiration or where my head was when I wrote a song,” Tucker explained.

“It’s a show that includes them, their input. I see them and I let them know that I see them.”

Her unique genre of ChamberSoul™ weaves together jazz, improvisation, roots folk, acoustic pop, and a touch of R&B into melodies that echo in your head for days. Tucker said the genre came about because she grew “wary about telling people what the music was not.” The classically-trained cellist admits that it can be tricky describing the genre but admits that it’s easier this way.

“In the music industry, everybody has to label it something so you have an idea what to expect. It’s music, it has influences and we mean it when we play,” she said. “We’re not a cover band or trying to sound like anybody but ourselves.”

Tucker said she gravitated towards the concept in high school.

“I liked being able to play music with people and not have a conductor in front of us telling us when to play, what to play or how to play. That’s what happens with my band,” she explained. “We have a blueprint, which is the chart, and I’m the storyteller, singing the lyrics and adding life to it with dynamic and nuance and all of that, but we don’t tell each other what to play. We interpret this blueprint in a way that is relevant to our instruments. At the core of it is the intent which is from the heart, from the soul to the audiences and designated place.

Putting it together as one word, Cham-

berSoul, seemed to make sense.”

After Cirque du Soleil heard an NPR interview with Tucker about her debut CD, SHiNE, and her ChamberSoul style, they invited her to be cellist/vocalist for their show KÀ in Las Vegas, where she performed for five years before returning to North Carolina. Based in Durham, she said that she realized North Carolina was home when she would come to visit. The fact that the state was artist-friendly was a plus, calling it “a sacred space for the arts and creativity.”

“The state arts council is vibrant, supportive, and communicative. The local arts councils really care about recording the talent that is in their own backyard.

I’ve not lived in any place where the community has had this type of dedication to making sure that artists are seen, heard, uplifted, supported, and celebrated.

There’s so much talent. There’s a history of talent from music of all genres literally from mountain to shore,” she said.

Tucker has performed and recorded with legendary jazz saxophonist/composer Bennie Maupin, jazz drummer/ composer Shirazette Tinnin, jazz flutist/ composer Nicole Mitchell, and Grammynominated NuSoul collective The Foreign Exchange. Tucker has also worked on, Women’s Work, which is a female-led collective of jazz, soul, and pop singersongwriters and musicians representing both East and West Coasts. Her latest project, Bodystories, is a collaboration with choreographer and community organizer Murielle Elizéon, that focuses on the idea that our individual, communal, and generational stories live in our body and that the body is the place to start to reclaim those stories.

“It’s a way of expressing a visceral memory and telling that either through dance, through music or through interpreting the movement of dance,” Tucker said. “We’ve been working on that since June 2019.”

She is a front-line advocate for arts education, an accomplished teaching artist, incorporating community engagement, workshops, and teaching residencies into her touring schedule.

“I would say that the work that I do extends through my teaching artistry and my arts advocacy. Every time I perform, I always ask if there is an element of outreach that can happen.”

Tucker said that her need to participate in outreach has a lot to do with what was missing when she was younger.

“We didn’t know that artists were normal people that could tell us about what they do, how they do it, could give us examples of stuff, let us touch their instruments, or talk to us like regular people,” she explained. I wanted to let young people know that people that you see on stage one night could be sitting right next to you, talking to you, and laughing with you or be your neighbor. They are just regular people who just happen to do this for a living.”

Her advocacy also led to her teaching artistry. She taught orchestra in Brooklyn and Queens for years.

“It was important to not just be in one place as Ms. Tucker, the music teacher at PS 159. I wanted to be sure that I could go to as many schools as possible and talk about how to access joy through music,” she explained. “How to claim ownership over your creativity and how to find your voice through your music. Being able to do outreach from pre-K all the way up to grown folks, other professionals, and college students is really important to me.”

Which plays into Tucker’s current role.

Since most of her work was shut down during the pandemic, Tucker became the executive director of KidzNotes in the Raleigh-Durham area. KidzNotes is a music for social change program that engages students pre-K through 12th grade in an intense out-of-school musical program that includes instrumental instruction, choir, music theory, general music, orchestra, and band.

Tucker said that residents can expect “regular folks telling stories about regular folks” at the concert.

“They can expect to laugh. Within the space of laughter, love, regret, and reminiscing, there’s a shared living experience of life that, thankfully, I’ve in some of my more creative moments in my life, have

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Desk, OCC nominations), The Pajama Game (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde.

In 2015, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lehár’s The Merry Widow and returned as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Along with two Grammy nominations, her solo albums, Always and Wonder in the World, are available on Ghostlight Records.

been able to articulate through song,” she said. “I know that everybody can’t do that but I feel like it is my responsibility to do that for those who can not.”

A responsibility that Dominick Amendum, artistic director for the UNCG Concert and Lecture Series, is delighted that she’s willing to carry out.

“We are excited to present singer-songwriter and cellist Shana Tucker as part of the UNC Greensboro Concert and Lecture Series. We are sure she will delight the audience with her unique brand of ChamberSoul, and our students will greatly benefit from her cello masterclass and seminar about arts entrepreneurship,” said Addendum.

Kelli O’Hara - Jan. 14, 2022 Stage and screen star Kelli O’Hara has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I garnered her the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Drama League, Outer Critics, and Oliver nominations. She reprised the role while making her West End debut and performed a limited engagement at Tokyo’s Orb Theatre.

Kelli also received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in the hit web series The Accidental Wolf. Other film and television credits include the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, All The Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, Showtime’s Masters of Sex, CBS All Access’ The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, N3mbers, and the animated series Car Talk.

Other Broadway credits include Kiss Me Kate (Tony, Drama League, OCC nominations), The Bridges of Madison County (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), South Pacific (Tony, Drama WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Margaret Atwood - Feb. 6, 2022 Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s most important and influential writers whose novels, poetry, and films have proven relevant time and again.

Co-sponsored by University Libraries, the first half of the evening will feature collaborative art inspired by Atwood’s writing, created and performed by UNCG faculty and students. The second half will be a moderated conversation with the author.

Atwood’s appearance is one of the headline events in the University’s yearlong collaboration of She Can/We Can, which examines the actions leading up to and past the 19th amendment and how they affect equity and equality today.

Atwood’s stunning works are a remarkable observation of who we are, and if we are not careful, where we are going.

Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

Atwood, whose work has been published in more than 45 countries, is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.

It is the long-awaited sequel to The

Handmaid’s Tale. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, The MaddAddam Trilogy, and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award.

Geena Davis - Feb. 26, 2022 Academy Award winner Geena Davis is one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, appearing in several roles that became cultural landmarks.

Davis received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the offbeat dog trainer Muriel Pritchett in Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist. She was again nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise, in which she co-starred with Susan Sarandon. Davis went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of baseball phenomenon “Dottie Hinson” in A League of Their Own. Earning the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama, Davis broke ground in her portrayal of the first female President of the United States in ABC’s hit show Commander in Chief.

Davis made her feature film debut starring opposite Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.

She went on to star in such films as The Fly, Beetlejuice, Angie, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Stuart Little.

Few have achieved such remarkable success in as many different fields as Davis has: she is not only an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actor but also a worldclass athlete (at one time the nation’s 13th-ranked archer) and a member of the genius society Mensa. She is the Founder and Chair of the non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which

engages film and television creators to increase dramatically the percentages of female characters — and reduce gender stereotyping — in media made for children 11 and under.

Geena Davis and festival co-founder Trevor Drinkwater founded the Bentonville Film Festival in 2015 to champion women in media. BFF’s mission is to encourage content creation in film and other forms of media that reflects the diverse — and half female — world we live in. The Festival takes place in early May in Bentonville, Arkansas and is researchbased and commercially driven.

Most recently, Davis starred in 20th Century Fox’s The Exorcist, a serialized psychological thriller based on the 1971 book of the same name; Marjorie Prime, based on the Award-Winning play; and Dear Angelica, one of the first VR narrative films from Oculus.

Malpaso Dance Company April 23, 2022 Since its establishment in 2012, Malpaso Dance Company has already become one of the most sought-after Cuban dance companies with a growing international profile. Emphasizing a collaborative creative process, Malpaso is committed to working with top international choreographers while also nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography. The company tours with 11 dancers and is led by its original three founders; resident choreographer and Artistic Director Osnel Delgado, Executive Director Fernando Sáez, and dancer and co-founder Daileidys Carrazana.

For more information on venues, ticket prices, and performance times, visit https://vpa.uncg.edu/home/ucls-2/. !

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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Annie Lowe levels up With a new comedy special under wraps, comedian Annie Lowe looks to take things to a new level.

“I’ve had too many ‘sometimes all you can do is laugh’ moments that I’d Katei Cranford be a fool not to cash in on,” the WinstonSalem native said Contributor of what drew her to stand-up—a vocation she credits for refining her concept of self as she began transitioning gender into the woman she is today.

“I continued to work the same bartending job and perform at the same mics and shows through the whole thing,” she said. “It was sort of a trial by fire. Now I feel like I’ve gotten a pretty good grip on who I am—and what people see when they look at me—and have just started finding some great ways to use that to my advantage rather than just emotional damage control.”

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in a shameless and literal way is hilarious, it turns out,” Lowe explained. “I try super hard to normalize my experience by making the usual moments more relatable and also not making fun or chastising anybody else in the process.”

It’s a process that began on a lark. “I did my first open mic about seven years ago while visiting a friend in Chicago,” she explained. “I was hooked immediately, and we went out to mics every day that week.

The minute I got back home I started an open mic at Hoots, and it was all downhill from there.”

Keeping things rolling, Lowe initiated the Monday night comedy open mic at Monstercade. “It’s such a fun room with a good mix of comics and civilians,” she said, “and the bartender, Ian, plays the best walking music in the biz.” And on Wednesday, she often heads to Greensboro for an open mic at the Idiot Box, calling it the “cornerstone of my week since I started.”

Lowe draws on those ideas when conjuring a routine. “We’re all building character and ideally learning to be better people while we do it,” she explained.

“It’s tough to get people’s attention and surprise them enough to laugh and it takes time figuring out how to do that in a way that doesn’t hurt, annoy or alienate people.”

“I like to keep things pretty light and talk mostly about myself,” Lowe noted of her material. “I’m on a journey of selfdiscovery that is superficially unusual, but I think everybody is on their own journey,” she added. “We’re alive for such a short period of time and everybody is trying to figure out who the hell they are and what they’re doing here. So if I can loop back from something trans-specific and tie it into something more universal—it’s funnier, and it’s also great advocacy.”

Living life through comedy, Lowe finds “putting every ounce of myself into trying to get strangers to laugh at me,” more than worthwhile. “People come up to me after a show and talk to me about their queer experience,” she explained. “People that have recently come out, or want to, as well as people who have queer friends and relatives tell me that my comedy made them feel seen.”

And it’s fostered a connection with fans.

“I’ve been talking to a young man that just started hormone therapy about how wild of a ride it is,” she said. “I’m helping with their legal name change via Instagram messages. Cheesy as it sounds, that is my favorite part about all of this.”

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“One Ma’am Show” comedy special she recently finished filming. “There aren’t a ton of trans women stand-up comics with comedy specials—I really think there’s an appetite for it. And I want to be the snack that sates it.”

Filmed over two rounds of shows at Monstercade, Lowe worked with Eric Truny and folks at the Creative Businessmen Studios for production. “I’m still riding the high from that one,” she said.

“Those fancy cameras made me look on screen the way I imagine I look in my head, I actually cried a little bit when I saw the footage.”

But filming the special wasn’t Lowe’s first foray in front of a Monstercade camera. In March, she hosted the “Cock Block Theater” web series for MonstercadeTV, which featured G-rated cuts of classic porn flicks, spiced with commentary.

“Carlos, the owner, has impeccable taste

when it comes to movies so weird and awful they approach high art,” she said of the experience. “The opportunity to quote Goethe when describing a German E.T. porn parody is its own reward.”

As their schedules began to heat up with the summer, things got a bit busy to continue filming beyond the current episodes. “That said, I do have a green screen and a ring light, so literally anything is possible,” Lowe noted, reflecting on a September of steady bookings. She’ll be taking a pause to travel through October and is excited to resume live shows in late November.

Be on the lookout for Lowe’s return, and the release of her “One Ma’am Show” Special coming soon. !

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riad folks headed to Shakori Hills will see some familiar faces out in them Pittsboro pines as the 17th annual Shakori Hills Festival of Music and Dance Katei Cranford returns Oct. 7-10.

“After having to cancel the past three Contributor festivals, we are beyond the moon to be able to welcome back our festival friends,” organizers said of the bi-annual event that brings a weekend of music and dance to a sprawling 75-acres of farmland with a handful of stages, tents, and vendors galore.

Headlined by flagship artist, Donna the Buffalo, Shakori Hills is a sister festival to the Finger Lakes Grassroots festival the band started in 1990 to benefit a local AIDS organization in Ithaca, New York.

Shakori Hills began in 2003; and serves as a fundraiser for arts and music programs in the Chatham County area, while promoting traditional and contemporary roots music and dance from the world over.

Donald Gaye, esteemed sound man and barista supreme (who serves both these days at Common Grounds), has been along for the Shakori ride for “about a dozen years now,” back in his days as a sound engineering student at the GTCC Entertainment Technology program.

Starting as a production volunteer, Shakori helped Gaye hone skills from mic placement to stage lighting, all the while “meeting friendly and fascinating people,” he said. Turning toward his work as a stage manager, he’s relished working the various Grassroots festivals up and down the east coast. And while he thanks Grassroots for the opportunity to travel, it’s the friendships he’s developed at Shakori that matter most. “Despite this being my hometown, I’ve met people I might not otherwise have,” he said. “I always look forward to new challenges and rewards with each Shakori, but the best part will always be the people and the music.

That‘s where the fun and joy is found.”

Greensboro viola virtuoso and music instructor, Kasey Horton, agrees. “Shakori is my music home away from home, and has been since 2010,” she said. For the upcoming festival, she’ll perform with an array of artists through the weekend, including the WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

“soul diva mind explosion” that is the Emily Musolino Band on Thursday and Friday at the Grove Stage; with Asheville psych siblings (and one-time Wahoo’s regulars) the Travers Brothership on Friday at the Meadow Stage; and with Appalachian funk-rockers, Dr. Bacon, at Carson’s Grove on Saturday night.

The Shakori opening ceremony will commence to the tune of Greensboro’s Africa Unplugged, with Djembe Master Atiba Rorie, Thursday on the Meadow Stage.

The group will also close out the Cabaret Tent Saturday night, with Winston soulster Sonny Miles, in the slot right before.

Fresh from an appearance on the Martha Bassett Show, Miles’ Shakori feature will cap off a banging festival season for the rising R&B artist that’s included slots at the IdeasCityWS Festival, Hopscotch Music Festival, Summer in tha Carolinas, and Festival for the Eno. The Greg Humphreys Electric Trio will groove out Carson’s Grove on Saturday night. It’s been a few years since Humphreys called the Triad home (in bands like Hobex and Dillon Fence;) and even more since the now-New Yorker made his music debut covering the Clash at an R.J. Reynolds high school talent show. But with a song in the new season of Netflix’s “Outer Banks,” he’s looking forward to “seeing missed friends,” sharing his latest “bedroom pop” record Spanish Steps, and playing live with his band for the first time since March 2020.

Meanwhile, Charlie Hunter and Sam Fribush have been hitting the pavement since their Triad return. They’ll play as

the Sam Fribush Organ Trio with Charlie Hunter and Chuck Pickney on Thursday at the Meadow Stage. Fribush will spend the weekend in something of a Shakori sandwich: heading back to Greensboro to perform with Hiss Golden Messenger at SCRAPFEST in Lebauer Park (and with his own outfit for the afterparty at the Flat Iron) on Saturday, before his Sunday show on the Meadow stage with Chris Boerner and Matt McCaughan.

For folks not quite finished shaking their Shakori shoes, South Florida’s Roosevelt

Collier will bring some pedal-steel back to the Triad for a show at the Flat Iron on Oct. 10.

And as things move into the spooky season, Shakori Hills and Cat’s Cradle are partnering to host a “Horror in the Hills Halloween Party,” featuring two days of haunts, horror movies, camping, and live music to celebrate Dante High’s latest album. With Greensboro’s hip-hop educator, Rowdy, as event emcee, flyers designed

by Parts Unknown staple, Chris Ferguson; and a “bloody brunch” from Sengoko, the Triad has more than a few hands in the mix.

Get to shakin’ as the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance goes down Oct. 7-10. Horror in the Hills will reign on Oct. 30 and 31. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who enjoys spotlighting artists and events.

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 www.foursaintsbrewing.com Thursdays: Taproom Trivia Fridays: Music Bingo Oct 9: Tyler Millard Oct 16: Casey Noel Oct 17: Eastern Standard Time Jazz Jam w/ Mark Dillon and Friends Oct 23: 80’s Unplugged Oct 30: Cory Leutjen

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com Oct 8: Katt Williams Oct 9: Bert Kreischer Oct 15: Playboi Carti Oct 16: Little Big Town - Nightfall Oct 22: Steely Dan Oct 24: Los Tigers del Norte Oct 29: Myke Towers Oct 30: NEWSBOYS

A Brother’s Revival set to play High Point on Sat., Oct. 9 STAFF REPORT About 35 minutes before picking up the phone to call David “Rook” Goldflies, the song “Whipping Post” by The Allman Brothers starts playing on my office radio. I chuckle to myself and smile as shortly I will be talking to a former member of the band who put down the bass line for hundreds of the (Allman Brothers) bands’ live shows from 1978-1983.

Goldflies was given the nickname “Rook” short for “Rookie” at the start of his musical career by a bandmate. “It just stuck,” he said.

Joining Goldflies on stage at the High Point Theatre, Sat., Oct. 9, will be another southern rock veteran, Mike Kach, who toured with Dickey Betts in his band Dickey Betts and Great Southern for 12 years. Goldflies and Kach lead the A Brother’s Revival on its ‘Fall Fillmore’ Tour with true knowledge and experience. As vocalist and keyboardist for A Brother’s Revival, Kach was Dickey’s choice to sing the songs initially sung by Gregg Allman.

A Brother’s Revival is a true Allman Brothers legacy band that will perform the At Fillmore East album in its entirety during their Fall Fillmore Tour to celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary. At Fillmore East is often called the best live rock and roll album of all time and catapulted the Allman Brothers Band onto the world stage.

According to their release, during A Brother’s Revival’s two-and-a-half-hour show, they play all of the fan favorites, including Ramblin Man, Melissa, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Southbound, YES! WEEKLY

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THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Oct 6: Big Boi Oct 9: Sleigh Bells Oct 10: Benny The Butcher Oct 12: Manchester Orchestra Oct 12: Phora Oct 13: Don Toliver: Life of a Don Tour Oct 13: Dayglow: The Harmony House Tour Oct 14: Rival Sons with Dorothy Oct 15: The Infamous Stringdusters Oct 16: Mon Laferte Oct 17: All Time Low Oct 17: Willow Smith

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Whipping Post, Blue Sky, One Way Out, Soulshine, Revival, and others.

A Brothers Revival is unique in that the group has a musical director who recorded and toured with the Allman Brothers Band. David “Rook” Goldflies played in the Allman Brothers night after night on the road. His presence in A Brothers Revival gives the group a solid foundation to realize the full potential of the Allman Brothers’ powerful performances.

A Brothers Revival captures the beauty and intensity of the soaring double leads of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts. The drumming of Butch Trucks and Jaimoe, along with the unique timpani performance mid-show, are brought to life by A Brothers Revival’s two drummers who drive the band like a freight train rolling down the Georgia train tracks.

A Brother’s Revival continues its ‘Fall Fillmore’ Tour at High Point Theater, 220 E. Commerce Ave., Sat., Oct. 9. Showtime: 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: $30 to $40. Info: (336) 8873001 or visit https://highpointtheatre. com/events/. !

707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com Oct 8: Thomas Rhett & Cole Swindell Oct 9: Pitbull & Iggy Azalea Oct 10: Nate Feuerstein Oct 11: Dead & Company Oct 12: Jonas Brothers Oct 16: Zac Brown Band Oct 17: Knotfest Roadshow: Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, Fever333 & Code Orange

SPECTRUM CENTER

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Oct 14: MercyMe Oct 17: The Millennium Tour 2021: Omarion, Bow Wow, Ashanti, Ying Yang Twins, Lloyd, Sammie, Pretty Ricky, Soulja Boy Oct 24: Michael Buble

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VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 www.vstaphouse.com | www.facebook. com/vstaphouse Oct 7: Anna Mertson Oct 16: Jill Goodson Band

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CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Oct 14: The Marshall Tucker Band Oct 15: Nikki Glaser Oct 21: The Mavericks

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123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Oct 5-10: The Band’s Visit Oct 15-16: RAIN: A Tribute To The Beatles Oct 17: America

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REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 www.reevestheater.com Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam Aug 19-Oct 21: The Martha Bassett Show Oct 8: David LaMotte Oct 16: Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive Oct 29: Chance McCoy

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ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 www.arizonapetes.com Oct 30: Dying Fetus w/ Terror, Brand of Sacrifice, Vitriol

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 www.barndinner.com Oct 2-Nov 6: Love Machine The Musical

BAXTER’S TAVERN

536 Farragut St | 336.808.5837 www.baxterstavern.com Fridays: Karaoke Oct 9: RetroVinyl Oct 10: Jukebox Revolver Oct 17: The Embers

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 www.theblindtiger.com Oct 6: Through Fire w/ Royal Bliss, Black Satellite, Zero Theorem Oct 7: We Came As Romans Oct 8: Blacktop Mojo Oct 10: !Mayday!

Oct 12: Microwave w/ Edler Brother,

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Taking Meds, Weakened Friends Oct 14: The Lonely Ones Oct 15: Vampires Everywhere

CarOLina ThEaTrE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Oct 8: Carly Burruss Oct 17: The Drifters, The Platters & Cornell Gunter’s Coasters

COMEDY ZOnE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 www.thecomedyzone.com Oct 7: Cash Out Comedy Show Oct 8-9: Brad Stine Oct 13: Positive K’s Comedy Experience Oct 15-17: Don “D.C.” Curry Oct 20: Ben Brainard Oct 21: Marvin hunter Oct 22-23: Kerwin Claiborne Oct 29-30: Social Misfits homecoming Comedy Show nov 5-7: Shuler King

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117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 www.cdecgreensboro.com Oct 25: Toosii

FLaT irOn

221 Summit Ave | 336.501.3967 www.flatirongso.com Oct 10: roosevelt Collier Oct 12: hunter/Sluppick Duo Oct 15: Will Blade w/ Charlie hunter & George Sluppick Oct 22: Sam Fribush Organ Trio

UPCOMING THEATER AND MUSIC PERFORMANCES Open to the public and free to attend

GrEEnSBOrO COLiSEuM

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Oct 15: Millennium Tour 2021: Ying Yang Twins, Lloyd, Sammie, Pretty ricky, Soulja Boy Oct 28: For King & Country

PiEDMOnT haLL

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com nov 14: Chevelle nov 17: in This Moment, Black Veil Brides

SOuTh EnD BrEWinG CO.

Something Wicked This Way Comes Oct. 21-23 & 25-27 at 7:30pm Oct. 24 at 2:00pm TICKETS REQUIRED www.highpoint.edu/theater/tickets

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 www.southendbrewing.com Tuesdays: Trivia night Wednesdays: Music Bingo

Ghosts, witches, and the truly bizarre come to life with scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hamlet, and Titus Andronicus. Let the Spooky Season begin.

Hallowinds!

October 29 7:30pm The Sportscenter Athletic Club is a private membership club dedicated to providing the ultimate athletic and recreational facilities for our members of all ages. Conveniently located in High Point, we provide a wide variety of activities for our members. We’re designed to incorporate the total fitness concept for maximum benefits and total enjoyment.

We cordially invite all of you to be a part of our athletic facility, while enjoying the membership savings we offer our established corporate accounts.

3811 Samet Dr • HigH Point, nC 27265 • 336.841.0100 FITNESS ROOM • INDOOR TRACK • INDOOR AQUATICS CENTER • OUTDOOR AQUATICS CENTER • RACQUETBALL BASKETBALL • CYCLING • OUTDOOR SAND VOLLEYBALL • INDOOR VOLLEYBALL • AEROBICS • MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM WHIRLPOOL • MASSAGE THERAPY • PROGRAMS & LEAGUES • SWIM TEAMS • WELLNESS PROGRAMS PERSONAL TRAINING • TENNIS COURTS • SAUNA • STEAM ROOM • YOGA • PILATES • FREE FITNESS ASSESSMENTS F R EE EQUI PM E N T O R I E N TAT I O N • N U R S ERY • TEN N IS LES S O N S • W IRELESS I NTERNET LOUNGE

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This fun concert will include music from Johan De Meij’s “The Lord of the Rings,” selections from “Harry Potter” films, music from the movie “The Nightmare before Christmas,” and other items in the spirit of Halloween.

Wear your favorite costume and join in the fun! www.highpoint.edu/arts-design/eventcalendar october 6-12, 2021

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ThE IdIoT Box ComEdY CluB

503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com oct 15: damon Sumner oct 23: Everlasting Improv-ers

high point

AfTEr hourS TAvErn

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 www.facebook.com/AfterHoursTavernHighPoint oct 23: Chaos fm

hAm’S PAllAdIum

5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 www.hamsrestaurants.com oct 8: fire-Bone oct 9: hampton drive Band oct 15: huckleberry Shyne oct 16: ultimate rock machine oct 22: After Party

hIgh PoInT ThEATrE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com oct 9: A Brother’s revival oct 23: Best of the Eagles Tribute

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 www.thedeckatrivertwist.com oct 7: Jordan gates oct 8: hampton drive oct 9: The Plaids

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old nICk’S PuB

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 www.OldNicksPubNC.com fridays: karaoke oct 9: Travis grubb and the Stones rangers

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ThE lIBErTY ShowCASE ThEATEr 101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 www.TheLibertyShowcase.com oct 9: The malpass Brothers oct 23: doug Stone

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3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111 www.livenation.com oct 9: Thomas rhett & Cole Swindell oct 13: The Jonas Brothers oct 15: Zac Brown Band oct 22: knotfest roadshow: Slipknot, killswitch Engage, fever333 & Code orange

lInColn ThEATrE

126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400 www.lincolntheatre.com oct 7: miTiS oct 8: Trial By fire: Tribute to Journey oct 9: Jump mountain & low Brow oct 14: Smoky hollow outdoor Concert feat. Yarn w/ The nasty habits oct 15: Perpetual groove oct 16: giant Panda guerilla dub Squad w/ Sons of Paradise oct 20: neal francis w/ duck

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500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com oct 6: Alice Cooper oct 7: 3 doors down oct 15: nEEdToBrEAThE w/ Switchfoot, The new respects oct 16: Brett Eldredge: good day Tour oct 21: modest mouse oct 22: for kIng & CounTrY oct 23: Band Together feat. khruangbin YES! WEEKLY

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1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com oct 7: Alabama oct 12: harry Styles oct 26: michael Buble nov 19: genesis

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Bull’S TAvErn

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 www.bullswsnc.com wednesdays: karaoke oct 8: Spindle 45

BurkE STrEET PuB 1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097 www.burkestreetpub.com Tuesdays: Trivia

CB’S TAvErn

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 www.facebook.com/cbtavern oct 29: halloween Bash

fooThIllS BrEwIng 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 www.foothillsbrewing.com oct 10: Sunday Jazz oct 17: Sunday Jazz

mIdwAY muSIC hAll

11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218 www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter wednesdays: line dancing w/ denise oct 6: Classic Country Showcase

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 www.theramkat.com oct 6: migrant Birds, oceanic oct 7: kenny george Band, Sam foster oct 8: 1970’s film Stock oct 9: Beloved, he Is legend, magnitude oct 10: John moreland, Caleb Caudle oct 16: Beloved, Codeseven, In // Parallel oct 20: Shamarr Allen & The underdawgs oct 21: Sierra hull

wInSTon-SAlEm fAIrground

421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com oct 1-10: Carolina Classic fair

wISE mAn BrEwIng

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 www.wisemanbrewing.com wednesdays: game night Thursdays: music Bingo

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

THE FASTIDIOUS AND THE FURIOUS

I’m a divorced guy in my 40s. I was at a bar with friends and went over to talk with a woman I found really attractive. Though she wasn’t the Amy Alkon friendliest, I asked to take her to dinAdvice ner. She said she’d Goddess think about it and then asked for my Instagram. Several days later, I texted her, and she agreed to go out. We’ve since had a few dates, but I’m bothered that she wouldn’t go out with me until she’d scoured my social media. What does that suggest about her? —Offended

You don’t expect much from a woman who’s “known” you all of 20 minutes: just blind trust that you’ll do the gentleman thing of opening the passenger-side door for her — as opposed to the psychopathic gentleman thing of stuffing her in your trunk.

Of course, the latter could happen if two gay men were dating, but there’s good reason women — more than men — would opt for a “buyer beware” versus a “buyer be guessin’” approach. “Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death,” observes personal security expert Gavin de Becker in “The Gift of Fear.”

Even the stringbeaniest man can prob-

ably whup the average woman. Men have 15 to 20 times more testosterone than women, explain endocrinology researcher David J. Handelsman, M.D., and his colleagues. Higher “T” is associated with increased “muscle mass and strength” and “bone size and strength.”

This means that even the power broads of the female athletic world are ill-prepared for any battle of the sexes.

Take women’s tennis rock stars Venus and Serena Williams. In 1998, when they were ranked fifth and 20th respectively, each got trounced by 203rd-ranked male tennis player Karsten Braasch — whose “prep” for these matches was playing a round of golf and throwing back a couple of beers.

Beyond physical safety concerns, there’s one half of the species that pees on little plastic sticks after sex to see whether they’re about to make another human being — one which, on average, will cost $233,610 to raise until age 17.

(College, grad school, and multiple stints in rehab priced separately.)

This difference in male and female reproductive physiology led to the evolution of differences in male and female sexual psychology — namely in their general level of sexual selectivity. It’s in men’s evolutionary interest to have sex with a slew of women — and the hotter the better, because the features we find beautiful (youth, clear skin, and an hourglass figure) reflect health and fertility.

(In a pinch, a woman with a pulse will do.)

An ancestral man could cut and run after sex — leaving it to the Miss Neanderbrow he hooked up with to feed and care

for any resulting fruit of the womb — and still have a pretty good chance of passing on his genes. In contrast, ancestral women who didn’t just stumble off to do it in the bushes with every Clooneyesque club toter likely left more surviving children to pass on their genes (carrying their psychology of choosiness).

Women’s emotions push them to act in their evolutionary best interest. Women fear getting involved with men who will be unwilling and/or unable to pick up the tab if sex leads to, um, the creation of small mammals who will run up big bills at the orthodontist. In other words, it benefits a woman to scope a new man out and decide whether the ideal time to go to dinner with him might be the first Tuesday in never.

We’re psychologically unprepared for the “evolutionarily novel” experience of vetting a stranger we meet in a bar, because our psychological operating system is adapted for an ancestral hunter-gatherer world: small, consistent communities of perhaps 25 to 100 people in which “intel” on a person was readily available through the grapevine. What’s a modern, stranger-encountering woman to do?

Well, this one apparently hoped to get some clues about you from your social media: probably from the sort of stuff you post, your follows and followers, and how you engage in the comments.

What does this woman’s precautionary approach say about her? Well, probably that she isn’t so desperate for a man or a free dinner that she’ll take risks with her safety and go out with any Joe Bar Tab who offers to treat her to a meal.

This isn’t to say she’s found a foolproof vetting method. Though social media is a new thing, it’s rife with a well-worn evolved tool: deception — used to defeat the precautionary strategies of the opposite sex. This typically leads not to rape or death but the sinking feeling of being had — when, say, visits from the guy who posted pics of himself “flying private” always coincide with rolls of toilet paper going missing. !

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. ©2021 Amy Alkon. Distributed by Creators.Com.

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