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THURSDAY | 1.28 THE FAMILY SHE NEVER KNEW
Imagine if one day a shocking family secret revealed itself entirely by accident. In 2008, then 38-year-old Jennifer Teege was perusing the Central Library in Hamburg, Germany, near her home. Out of thousands of books, one dust jacket caught her eye. Born to a German woman and a Nigerian man, Teege had lived in an orphanage from infancy until she was adopted at 7 years old. She remembered her mother, Monika Hertwig, from brief contact with her and her grandmother, Ruth Irene, as a child. Leafing through the pages of photographs and biographical text, Teege realized the information in the book matched her adoption records. One glaring truth, especially, sliced through her life’s own pages. In that moment, Teege discovered her grandfather was the Nazi “Butcher of Płaszów,” Amon Goeth. Millions already knew his story as Ralph Fiennes immortalized his deeds on screen in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993). Teege is now the author of an international best-selling novel, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, co-written with Nikola Sellmair. She will share her polarizing revelation, and the positive results, at Prochnow Auditorium, 326 W. Dupont, beginning at 7:30 p.m. This presentation is free to NAU and CCC students, and is $10 for the public. Attendees need a ticket, available by calling 523-5661 or visiting www.ticketing.nau.edu.
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or collecting as many band members as their name suggests, Santa Cruz, California-based modern old-timers pack a wallop by any acoustic folk-grass standard. The Devil Makes Three has threads leading back to the early aughts when guitarist Pete Bernhard, upright bassist Lucia Turino and tenor banjo/guitar player Cooper McBean independently produced their first self-titled album. They followed up with Longjohns, Boots and a Belt in 2003 and A Little Bit Faster and a Little Bit Worse, a 2006 live album. In a daring move, the trio re-released their first collection a year later, subsequently gaining ground on the grass charts, and discovering once and for all their first group of tunes were slow burners worth another go. Mainstay roots label, New West Records, did well to pick up DM3 in 2013, and the world was let in on the group’s latest offering, I’m a Stranger Here. Stories come to life from home-spun lyricisms tapered around three-part melodies and two-step-worthy beats with Bernhard’s impetus crafted through McBean and Turino. And it’s a style fans, especially those in Flag, can get behind as their last two Orpheum shows sold out—like way out. Their gig last January was so packed thirsty folks scooped up all the beer in the entire hall. With history bound to repeat, it’ll be a good-till-thelast-drop kind of night at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the sure-to-be-raucous show kicks off at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22.50 in advance and $25 at the door. To learn more, call 556-1580 or visit www.thedevilmakesthree.com.
As mentioned on the next page in our blurb on Pinestories Story Slam, another literary mainstay affectionately known as Barley Rhymes offers readers the non-judgmental, laid-back opportunity to lend poetic tribute. Hot off the heels of its third anniversary, the celebration of poems and beer has taken to letting the poets out to play the first, third, and sometimes fifth, Sundays of every month. However, this Thursday, the Barley Rhymes folks are instating a special Shindig for Literacy. Fans, readers and beer drinkers will enjoy the same sonnets, odes, sestinas, free-verse and omnivorous (why not?) kinds of poetry they’ve come to love and specialize in, but an added twist of philanthropic proportions sends off 25 percent of all proceeds to The Literacy Center right here in Flagstaff. The local non-profit’s mission is geared toward adults, teens and families. Volunteers work daily to improve their English language and literacy skills to improve the quality of their personal, economic and community lives. So drink up, sign up and enjoy the musical stylings in between readers knowing you’re celebrating a fruitful cause. In the industry, this is what is called a win-win. Give a little bit at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66. Readers start signing up at 7 p.m., performances start between 7:30–8 p.m. 226-1282. Learn more on Barley Rhymes’ Facebook page and TLC at www.thinkliteracy.org.