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4 Actress, director, and producer TRACEE ELLIS ROSS spoke to an excited crowd of students, community leaders, and Triad residents about her journey of empowerment at North Carolina A&T State University on Tuesday, October 4. 6 Triad artists will get their shot at some cold-hard cash and red-hot bragging rights this Saturday as Arts Uptown Greensboro gives them a chance to “ REIGN SUPREME.”
8 Triad Playwrights Theatre invites residents to an original play, THE UNDERS written by Pete Turner and directed by Jonathan Crow, at the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre from October 13 to October 16.
10 The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ever-popular “RiverRun Retro” screening series has a DIABOLICAL DOUBLE FEATURE ready to shriek and roll this Halloween season, and both events will take place at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem.
11 Storm after storm, TV reporters continue to PUT THEIR LIVES AT RISK by trying to remain standing upright in the midst of dangerously high winds and torrential rains. It’s what media consultants used to call “reporter involvement.”
12 In The Good House , the adaptation of Ann Leary’s best-selling novel, Sigourney Weaver gives what may be her FINEST SCREEN PERFORMANCE and one of the single best performances in any movie this year.
18 Greensboro city council voted Monday, October 3 on a revised city ordinance that District 1’s Sharon Hightower said could CRIMINALIZE HOMELESSNESS
20 With several spokes in his wheelhouse, Ben Singer is much more than the man behind Modern Robot — his performance iteration that makes live soundtracks to weird movies — who’ll host NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, featuring live custom score, to the Reeves Theater
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spoke to an excited crowd of students, community leaders, and Triad residents about her journey of empowerment at North Carolina A&T State University on Tuesday, October 4.
Kicking o the 2022-23 Chancellor’s Speaker Series, Ross spoke to a sold-out Harrison Auditorium in a Q&A moderated by 1998 alumna Dr. Nicole Rankins focusing on women’s rights concerning health, representation, success, and self-empowerment in the everyday lives of women.
“I like to share experience, strength, and hope. Really experience, my own experience, because I feel like I don’t know what’s best for you. We’re all humans kind of fumbling along trying to figure out the right way to do things,” Ross said when asked to give advice to the crowd. “What I love to do is share my own experience and really be transparent about that.”
One of the things she told the crowd was to remember that they were worthy enough to take up space in rooms that may be di cult. She said that it was important to acknowledge the emotional cash that gets spent in the di erent fac-
“We are not only enough but we are worthy and powerful. Even though the world doesn’t always mirror that back to us, that doesn’t mean that it’s not true,” Ross said.
Ross is known for her roles as Joan in the series “Girlfriends” and most recently for her role as Rainbow Johnson in ABC’s comedy series “Black-ish” and its spin-o , “Mixed-ish.” Over the years she’s been seen in numerous television, short and feature films including “Private Practice”, “CSI,” “The High Note” and “Portlandia.” She’s received numerous awards including a Golden Globe, numerous NAACP Image Awards, and special honors by Women in Film with the 2017 “Lucy Award for Excellence in Television,” and during the 2016 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon with the “Fierce and Fearless” award.
In the fall of 2019, Ross launched her own hair care line Pattern Beauty that is currently being sold at Target, Ulta Beauty, and Sephora.
Ross is the co-founding signatory of the Time’s Up social movement and has joined forces with the Essie Justice Group, an organization designed to end mass incarceration and the impact that it has on women and families.
When speaking about her 10-year journey in launching Pattern Beauty, Ross said, “every time I got a no, I got clearer about the vision.”
“You don’t have to study to be a CEO, you just have to do the work.”
She encouraged those looking into entrepreneurship to be intentional and purposeful about what they were doing, including showing the world who they would like to be.
“You don’t have to know everything, you just need to ask the right questions and be a good listener,” Ross said.
When speaking about the recent Roe V. Wade Supreme Court reversal, Ross said “the news rocked me to the core.”
She said that she was in London when the announcement was made and had to journal her way through the news.
“I’m very aware that a fundamental
aspect of my freedom has been taken away,” she read from her initial thoughts on the subject. “This SCOTUS decision isn’t about protecting life, it’s about control and power.”
She went on to remind the crowd that there is collective power in speaking up about human su ering and women’s rights. She said that it’s important to gain the right information and tools to combat fear.
“That’s part of how we are empowered. If I get information, the fear starts to lessen. The fear starts to dissipate so that I can actually make an informed decision from an empowered place,” she said.
Ross also discussed how she has evolved and found her own worth while working in the entertainment industry before she began taking questions from the crowd. She said it is important to be
intentional about your future and advocate for others.
“My freedom is inextricably tied to yours and others,” she said. “My feelings are not facts, they are the truth of my experiences.”
She ended the night by saying that listeners should not compare themselves to others because the path is di erent for each individual.
“Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides. Genuinely make space for yourself in the world and honor your heart. Don’t live a life that’s anyone’s but your own.” !
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.
Triad artists will get their shot at some cold-hard cash and red-hot bragging rights this Saturday as Arts Uptown Greensboro gives them a chance to “Reign Supreme.”
Kick Ass Concepts and Arts Uptown Greensboro will host its Reign Supreme Art Battle on Sat urday, October 15 in the city’s Midtown district. The location, currently being withheld, will be announced on Friday to the expected 100 attendees. Doors open at 9 p.m. with the battle beginning at 9:30 p.m.
Co-organizer Joseph Wilkerson said the concept is something that he’s wanted to do in the Triad for quite some
time now, first in the form of an art bar. Wilkerson is instrumental in running Arts Uptown Greensboro, an organization designed to provide advocacy, cultural education and planning, fundraising and grant making, and training for the Uptown Greensboro area.
“The art bar concept was a place for artists to come and hang out. A lot of times artists want to mingle with like-minded creatives and I didn’t feel like we had that type of space here in Greensboro,” he explained. “Obviously you can go to a club and be around “regular people” but where do the art ists — the visual artists, the filmmakers, the actresses, and so forth — hang out. Needless to say, one of the events I was trying to put into this space was an art battle.”
Wilkerson said that the battle gives the Triad area a chance to highlight its artists for the nation.
“We want to distinguish ourselves
from the pack of other potential art battles across the nation, but more specifically in the Triad area. We really left a void that we thought somebody else was going to fill and, as far as we can tell, nobody has done that,” he said. “I think that this would be a differentia tor between most paint, art battles with the nontraditional surfaces.”
Wilkerson was inspired to re-create the need for an artist battle from previous years following this summer’s Sneaker Ball.
“After the Sneaker Ball, I was looking at some of the videos and some of the pictures. Looking at the fact that we built our own art wall and people
loved it. It was a reminder of what we used to bring to Greensboro when I had my gallery and art spaces. This allows artists to get recognition, network, and theoretically an opportunity for them to compete with their other fellow artists to see who’s going to reign supreme in a fun environment. We’re trying to find a way to really make this fun and exciting for both the artists as well as those that are going to be in attendance.”
The live art battle will feature 12 artists in a battle competition through three timed rounds of 20 minutes with the artist’s medium changing from can vas, wood, and to a plastic torso. The top three winners will receive a cash prize.
Artists participating include: @shanndy_land, @artmanswag23, @thehazeartcollection, @mtheartyst, @verareed2475, @_goatart, @scopevision421, @alex_btm, @erranzart_xtra, @dsartstudio_nc, @the.mollette.effect
According to Wilkerson, there will be two 1st round; six artists in the 2nd round and the final round will feature the top three artists. The audience will vote on who moves on to the next round and will eventually choose the winner. Completed pieces will be available for sale by the competing artists, along with other works previously created.
Wilkerson said that attendees could expect music, fun, food, and great art at the event.
“Hopefully it will be an opportunity to just kind of hang out with some of their friends, their families, and artists. It’s a real opportunity for the community to come out and see something that they rarely get to see in a competition format,” he said.
Already off to a solid start, Wilkerson said that he’s heard great feedback from the community about the event. He said that ticket sales have been going well. “If you want to experience something new and fun, then this might be the type of event that you might want to check out. It’s going to be a fun time,” he said. Especially if you’re an artist, I definitely would say come out and take a look for yourself, so when we do the next one, you’ll know what to expect.” !
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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Four strangers, one ghost train, one locked door, one gun, one knife, 400 years of racial injustice, with an unknown destination. Triad Playwrights Theatre invites residents to an original play, The Unders written by Pete Turner and directed by Jonathan Crow, at the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre from October 13 to October 16.
The play may be new to the stage, but the stories of these characters are not brand new to the audience.
“The story follows well-known historical figures locked in a room as history begins to reveal itself throughout the play,” said Turner. “I began writing this play about 3-4 years ago. I am a member of the Greensboro Playwrights Forum and wrote this piece as a response to the murder of Eric Garner and his dying words. It explores the history of racism in the United States in the style of a thriller/mystery.”
The cast is made up of local actors: Melanie Matthews as Moses, Julia Ringel as Fran, David Merritt as Milt, Terry Power as The Butcher, Casey Arnold as Margot, and Brian Payne as Ghost Voices.
Turner, a North Carolina award-winning playwright, won the New Play Project award from The Drama Center of City Arts and Events back in 2019 for his play Bags of Skin, which held its first production in January 2020.
Amid the pandemic, Turner held a zoom reading of the play with actors based in the Triad.
“Now that theatres are back up and running, as a partnership, Pete and I wanted to take this story from the screen to the stage. This type of show has never been done before. A lot of times wellknown productions audiences know the story, but no one in the audience knows this story, what will happen, or where it is headed,” said Crow, director and managing director of Triad Playwrights Theatre.
“As the director, I want actors to stay in the moment with authentic interactions and a conversation starter. People will look at racial injustice from a di erent perspective than before because it focuses on the intensely personal and horrific, white-spread macro e ect of racial injustice in the same play, which is rare.”
Theatre is a communal process and the support of local arts is crucial. Merritt, a student at Guilford Technical Community College, and previously seen in High Point University’s Periphery, met Turner through a mutual friend during the initial reading of the show.
“I fell in love with the story. Keep in mind it was during the time of the pandemic so when I was informed it was going to make a stage appearance this year, I was thrilled to audition. The most challenging part I would say I faced was embodying a 14-year-old boy, but I am 25 with a baby face,” Merritt shared. “My character, Milt, grew up in Chicago and is on a train back from visiting his cousins, but everything blurs in between. As the train makes its way, he slowly begins to remember. It’s always interesting trying to play someone that much younger than you because your first instinct is to make them more energetic, and playful. When I asked Pete how he intended to write him, he told me to play a boy who went on a train and doesn’t know why, nothing
more. This way I am not restraining myself, but realizing that some teenagers are more reserved, and some are warier. You have to learn to make up rules for yourself because you have what the director wants you to do, what the script wants you to do, and what you want to do and finding that middle ground that works.”
The Unders isn’t a story for any particular age group but invites all to join and embrace the art of storytelling in a fictionalized surreal manner. Ringel, a 16-year-old Weaver Academy for Performing and Visual Arts student, is the youngest actor in the show.
“I have done stage work since my concentration in school is theatre, but I had never done a show like this before. It is family-friendly but has a mature level of writing I’m learning to connect with,” Ringel said. “The personality shift of my character from a more upbeat persona to something more di cult to portray has been something my fellow seasoned actors have helped me grow into.”
Turner’s long-term goal is to have the ability to re-work the play if needed and submit the script for publication. “Being an artist is one thing but having the support to be an artist is another. We have
a new performance center in the area, Tanger Center, which is a wonderful thing for our community, but most of those shows and actors are brought from other states. What makes The Unders special is the opportunity to showcase all the local work and talent that is sometimes neglected. I believe Greensboro is the playwright capital of North Carolina. In addition to us, you have the Evening of Short Plays, which has been going on for over 20 years, developing the talent you see. I envision bigger and better things ahead.” !
NAIMA SAID is a 23-year-old UNCG theatre graduate and host of Heeere’sNeeNee Horror Movie Podcast.
Oct 13-15 @ 7:30 PM
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Stephen D. Hyers Theatre - 200 N. Davie Street.
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Körner’s Folly will present Victorian Parlor Series: Murder Mystery on Friday, October 28 at Historic Körner’s Folly, 413 S. Main Street in Kernersville. Tickets are $50 per person and include two drink tickets and light hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are available at www.kornersfolly.org or by calling (336) 996-7922.
Back by popular demand, this event o ers participants the chance to solve a horrifying whodunit set in Victorian England. Perfect for a Halloween celebration, the evening will feature an opportunity to explore the twists and turns of the 22-room home built in 1880.
Each attendee will receive a detailed character history to allow guests to take on the role of noble lords and ladies with mysterious motivations. Guests are encouraged to dress the part with our costume inspiration guide. Körner’s Folly sta will act as hosts and help direct the action, which will take place among the historic home’s three floors.
Kernersville’s farm-to-table restaurant The Prescott will provide guests a tasting menu of Victorian-inspired dishes with a modern autumnal twist. Seasonal varieties of wine and beer will be available for additional purchase (two drink tickets are included in ticket price).
During the Victorian era, the parlor was the social center of the home, o ering a comfortable place to gather under the roof of an inspiring host, partly for amusement and partly to gain new experience or knowledge through conversation. The Victorian Parlor Series (VPS) at Körner’s Folly is a quarterly educational and entertainment program focusing on the culture of the Victorian era, o ering participants hands-on experience of life in this fascinating time.
“We are thrilled to be able to host this edition of our Victorian Parlor Series again, and just in time for Halloween,” said Körner’s Folly Executive Director Dale Pennington. “Körner’s Folly’s eccentric floor plan and Victorian history will pro-
vide a truly bewitching backdrop as the story unfolds!”
From the Körner family’s roots in the Black Forest region of Germany, traces of old superstitions can still be found at the historic property, including the curiosity of “The Witches’ Corner” located on the home’s front porch. According to legend, the world is inhabited by unseen spirits. To avoid bringing these entities inside, visitors were asked to toss a shiny coin into a black cauldron, known as the Witches’ Pot, providing a distraction and allowing entrance without the uninvited and unwelcome.
The evening will begin at 6:30 pm in the elegant second-floor Reception Room at Körner’s Folly, and guests will be free to wander throughout the house, discovering local history as well as the home’s architect Jule Körner’s extravagant interior designs. Costumes of the Victorian and Edwardian periods with ‘spirited’ accessories are strongly encouraged.
Featuring a labyrinthine layout spread among 7 architectural levels, Historic Körner’s Folly is a suitable setting for a dark and dastardly deed. The game will run until 10:00 pm, with the object of identifying a murderer, or escaping the detection of the other guests. Prizes will be awarded for Best Costume, Best Solution, Best Character, and other, more enigmatic honors.
Limited tickets available. 21+ Only. For more information, contact suzanna@ kornersfolly.org or call (336) 996-7922.
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 o erings throughout our region We acknowledge that it takes every voice, every talent, and every story to make our community a great place to live, work, and play. Arts Council is committed to serving as a facilitator, organizer, and promoter of conversations that are authentic, inclusive, and forward-thinking. There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in WinstonSalem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www.cityofthearts.com
Wednesday 10/19 - Monday 10/31
Aquaverse an underwater themed 3D blacklight immersive experience is coming to Roar October 19-31! This art instillation of fluorescent murals creates, immersive, architectural environments enhanced by signature Black-light 3D Glasses, which explodes the masterpieces into a visual carnival for your eyes, imagination, and Instagram feed. Aquaverse will create a photogenic love-fest for all who enter the blacklight experience. Step inside the exhibit to experience this magical, surreal underwater world for yourself.
Wednesday 10/12
Trivia Time | 7pm - 9pm | Fords Food Hall
Thursday 10/13
Joe Dowdy | 6:30pm | Fords Food Hall
Friday 10/14
Ciera Dumas & Patrick Rock | 6:30pm | Fords Food Hall
DJ PROFESSOR | 10pm | Fords Food Hall
DJ FISH | 8pm | The Mayfair Club
Saturday 10/15
DJ PROFESSOR | 6:30pm | Fords Food Hall
General Hijink | 9:30pm | Fords Food Hall
DJ FISH | 8pm | The Mayfair Club
Sunday 10/16
Camel City Revelators | 2pm | Fords Food Hall
Second Sunday for Second Harvest | All donations go to the Second Harvest Food Bank
633 North Liberty Street | Winston-Salem, NC 27101 www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater.com
The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ever-popular “RiverRun Retro” screening series has a diabolical double feature ready to shriek and roll this Halloween season, and both events will take place at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Parkway, WinstonSalem.
The first, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 22, is a special screening of director Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 comedy Beetlejuice, with cinematographer Thomas E. Ackerman in attendance. Ackerman, a member of the School of Filmmaking faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), will be presented with the festival’s Master of Cinema award before the screening.
Tickets for this screening are $12 (adults), $6 (students with ID or accompanied by ticketed parent or guardian), free for children under 12, and are available at https://riverrunfilm.com/.
“Tom Ackerman is a most worthy recipient given the length of his career and the
many notable productions on which he has worked, including Beetlejuice,” said RiverRun executive director Rob Davis.
“We are thrilled to honor a director of photography with our Master of Cinema award. This is the first time we’ve presented the award to a DP during my tenure at RiverRun, and I believe it’s the first time in the history of the festival. We were deeply honored when he accepted our invitation.”
Released in 1988, Beetlejuice was both a surprise commercial and critical hit, winning an Oscar for Best Makeup. The film, which sends up conventional ghost stories in wildly imaginative fashion, boasts a star-studded cast including Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, Winona Ryder, Je rey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, and scene-stealer Michael Keaton as the ghoulish, ghastly, perennially mischievous title character. The film’s popularity has so endured that a big-screen follow-up is currently in development.
“As a long-time fan of RiverRun, it is a great honor to receive its Master of Cinema award,” said Ackerman. “Inevitably, an occasion like this leads you to a certain amount of introspection. The fact is, Beetlejuice was made a long time ago, but it was significant, not only having the chance to create a very strange
world but working with a true artist in the process. Beetlejuice is a favorite, for the reasons I stated above. The first project I shot for Tim Burton, the original version of Frankenweenie, should be mentioned as well.”
Looking back on a career that spans almost 50 years, “I’m reluctant to do a ‘favorites list’ per se, but the following titles would definitely be included: Back to School, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Jumanji, George of the Jungle, and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” he said. “I’ve shot a lot of movies and am proud of (almost) all of them.”
“While Tom is perhaps best known for his many film blockbusters, he has described his career as ‘eclectic,’ and his work includes documentaries and training films as well as productions for television,” said Davis. “We are pleased to recognize such an acclaimed cinematographer with our Master of Cinema award.”
“Beetlejuice is one of my personal favorites of Burton’s films,” said Zack Fox, general manager of Marketplace Cinemas and a noted independent filmmaker himself, who may well be donning the familiar black-and-white striped suit of the title character for the event. “It’s no question that Ackerman helped build Tim Burton’s career and deserves to be recognized for it. He has shot other terrific films including Burton’s original short Frankenweenie, another favorite of mine. I know I’ll enjoy Ackerman’s Q&A very much.”
At 8 p.m. Friday, October 28, “RiverRun Retro” will present the 100th-anniversary screening of F.W. Murnau’s silent horror classic Nosferatu, the very first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s immortal novel Dracula, starring the unforgettable Max Schreck in the role of the undead Count Orlok. The film is widely regarded as a landmark in the genre, and distributor Kino Lorber has digitally mastered the film from its 35mm restoration, with an orchestral performance of Hans Erdmann’s original 1922 score.
This special screening will be introduced
by Renata Jackson, professor of cinema studies and assistant dean of academics at UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking, and there are strong hints that the mysterious, malevolent Count Orlok himself will be present to “celebrate” his anniversary. Fans are encouraged to take photos with the Count — if they’re brave enough — although, of course, in traditional lore, a vampire can’t be photographed!
The centennial screening of Nosferatu is free for all ages, but tickets are required and can be requested at https://riverrunfilm.com/
“When looking back at films from 1922, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu came up as an ideal film for a centennial screening given its legendary status in the horror genre and its legacy as a representative of German Expressionist Cinema,” said Davis. “We are fortunate that Renata Jackson from UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking will provide an introduction … and have it on good authority Count Orlok himself may show up. We’ve thought of doing a ‘Halloween Retro’ over the years and are delighted we can present two appropriate yet very di erent films for the holiday — the giggly fun of Beetlejuice and the ghoulish fright of Nosferatu! Both of these classics are spectacular Halloween entertainment.”
“It’s great to re-team with RiverRun again for out-of-the-festival events,” Fox said. “We showed several ‘Retro’ screenings at our drive-in during lockdown and had wonderful success. I’m thrilled we get to work with them again for screenings inside our cinema with special guests. Rob Davis and his team always pick excellent and exciting films accompanied with great Q&As that the audience will love.”
The 25th annual RiverRun International Film Festival is scheduled for April 13-22, 2023.
For more information, call 336-7241502 or visit https://riverrunfilm.com/ riverrun-halloween-retro-2022/. !
BY MIKE WILEY
ou may not have heard of him, but John Selden made a lot of very profound statements. Selden was an English scholar who lived from 1584 until 1654, and among his many sayings is, “Ignorance of the law excuses no man.” Over the centuries, highway patrolmen, judges, and others in positions of power have popularized the phrase as, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Selden also wrote a special idiom about hypocrisy, which he used when chastising preachers, and politicians who behaved one way but held everyone else to a di erent standard. Selden mocked their hypocrisy by saying, “Do as I say and not as I do.” Were John Selden alive today and had he watched coverage of hurricane Ian on TV, he would have certainly aimed his hypocrisy barb at the news media.
Ystorm Alberto. Since then, countless other TV reporters have been hit by flying debris or knocked down by gusting winds.
Jim Longworth Longworth at LargeStorm after storm, TV reporters continue to put their lives at risk by trying to remain standing upright in the midst of dangerously high winds and torrential rains. It’s what media consultants used to call “reporter involvement.” I get it. Television managers want their anchors and reporters to get out in the community, appear at local events, and interact with viewers. That’s fine if your reporter is playing a pick-up game with kids or visiting a nursing home. But it’s not OK to put that reporter in harm’s way.
Recently while hurricane Ian swept through Florida with 130-mile-per-hour winds, the National Weather Service announced it was, “an extreme threat to life and property.” But that didn’t deter the Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore from standing outside in the middle of a CAT 4 storm and getting struck by a fallen tree branch. Fortunately, Cantore was not seriously injured, but not all reporters have been so lucky. In 2018, a Greenville South Carolina TV anchorman and his videographer were killed when a tree crashed down on their SUV while covering tropical
Despite the inherent dangers of covering hurricanes by standing in the middle of them, most television executives defend the practice of having reporters on the scene. Dan Shelley, president of the Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) told The Washington Post, “It’s important to show (the hurricane) in factual and vivid terms so people understand just what they are up against.” But Shelley’s declaration is exactly what John Selden would have a problem with. That’s because as the TV reporter is fighting o hurricane winds and wading through dangerously swollen creeks, he’s telling viewers to stay inside, i.e., “Do as I say and not as I do.”
In the aftermath of Ian, NPR’s Eric Deggans wrote of his reaction to watching reporters warn viewers while ignoring the warning themselves. Wrote Deggans, “You hear the same warnings: Don’t walk or drive through flooded areas. Don’t expect emergency services to respond until the storm passes and the winds die down. I also heard several meteorologists say, ‘Hide from the storm, run from the water.’
It’s tough to send a message that people in a ected areas should hunker down at home when TV channels are filled with footage of reporters out in the driving storm.”
To be fair, I’ve also witnessed TV reporters helping to save lives while putting themselves at risk. Several years ago, I watched as a CNN correspondent helped load stranded residents into boats, and, during hurricane Ian, WESH-TV reporter Tony Atkins waded through waist-deep water to rescue a nurse who was trapped in her car. Those acts of bravery notwithstanding, I’m not so sure we need our TV reporters putting their lives in danger whenever there’s a storm to cover. After all, we now have drones that can show us the dangers and devastation of hurricanes, and drones can be easily replaced. Not so with reporters. !
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).
n The Good House , the adaptation of Ann Leary’s best-selling novel, Sigourney Weaver gives what may be her finest screen performance and one of the single best performances in any movie this year. Weaver holds the dubious distinction of being the first actress nominated twice for an Academy Award in the same year (1988) — Best Actress for Gorillas in the Mist and Best Supporting Actress for Working Girl — and won neither.
If there’s any justice, that may very well change. Her performance is quintessential “Oscar Bait,” and Academy voters should take notice because she deserves heavy consideration. The
overall film is quite good too, but she’s the driving force.
IWeaver plays Hildy Good, a real-estate broker with an ex-husband (David Rasche) who left her for another man, two daughters (Rebecca Henderson and Molly Brown) with varying neuroses, two dogs, and a serious drinking problem.
One of the most novel touches is having Hildy essentially host the film, lending the story an effective, firstperson perspective. Weaver doesn’t play the role for easy sympathy but with assurance and confidence that mask her insecurities (for the most part). “I was born three drinks short of comfortable,” she says, yet the film doesn’t downplay the seriousness of her problem. Nor, thankfully, does it devolve into a preachy soap opera.
Thanks to an intervention a year before, Hildy has been to rehab. Now she has become more surreptitious in her drinking habits, storing cases of Merlot in her boathouse and knocking off a nightly bottle. She loathes and despises that her friends and family treat her differently as a result of her being in rehab, concerned it will affect her business.”
In a terse exchange with Henderson’s Tess, she points out that she’s able to continually support her financially but all she seems to talk about is her drinking. It’s not Hildy’s steely New England reserve but the fact that she’s teetering on the edge herself. Every time she gets into her car while tipsy, the film’s ten-
sion goes off the scale.
This is Weaver’s show all the way, but the entire cast is good. Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Kathryn Erbe, Beverly D’Angelo, and Paul Guilfoyle (as the town gadfly) appear to go effect, and Kevin Kline shines as Frank Getchell, the earthy local contractor and a long-ago love of Hildy’s, who still has an abiding affection for her. This is the third film Weaver and Kline have appeared together in, following Dave (1993) and The Ice Storm (1997). Those films focused more on Kline’s characters, but here he eases into support mode and allows Weaver to hold court. They have a lovely, even sexy, chemistry here. Kline nicely balances Frank’s easy-going demeanor with a palpable concern for Hildy’s welfare.
The husband-and-wife directorial duo Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (who also wrote the screenplay with Thomas Bezucha) display a keen feeling for the region and its inhabitants, including the secret, occasionally scandalous, details of the characters’ lives, past and present, and the gorgeous Nova Scotia locations easily pass for the Massachusetts coast. There are a few narrative contrivances, but these don’t diminish the film’s considerable power. The Good House is worth seeing for Weaver’s turn alone, but there are plenty of other reasons, as well. !
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Entertainment): Producer Charles Dorfman makes his feature directorial debut with this contemporary shocker in which a dinner party in a recently completed luxury housing development turns deadly when an unexpected home invasion occurs, with Catalina Sandino Moreno, Iwan Rheon, and Tom Cullen among the endangered guests, available on DVD ($27.97 retail) and Blu-ray ($28.96 retail).
THE BURNED BARNS (Cohen Media Group/Kino Lorber): International superstars Alain Delon and Simone Signoret match wits in screenwriter/director Jean Chapot’s 1973 crime drama (originally titled Les granges brulees ), wherein Delon’s investigator delves into a brutal murder that occurred near the remote farm owned by Signoret’s family. In French with English subtitles, available on Blu-ray ($29.95 retail), replete with bonus features.
“ED SULLIVAN’S ROCK & ROLL CLASSICS” (Time Life): The title tells all in this 10-disc DVD collection ($119.96 retail) highlighting over 100 uncut performances from Ed Sullivan’s long-running, Emmy-winning CBS variety series, including those by such luminaries as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beach Boys, Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, Buddy Holly, Neil Diamond, Herman’s Hermits, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, and many others, plus a collectible book, vintage interviews from the documentary series The History of Rock & Roll , and the selfexplanatory bonus DVD “The All-Star Comedy Special,” which features Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Duller, George Carlin, and other funny folk.
EXOTICA (The Criterion Collection): An early triumph for writer/producer/ director Atom Egoyam, this evocative, award-winning 1994 drama primarily set in the titular Toronto strip club, where each night a regular customer (Bruce Greenwood) buys the favors of a young dancer (Mia Kirshner). Less an exercise in titillation than a penetrating — if somewhat talky — character study, populated by a fine cast including Elias Koteas (as the club DJ), Victor Garber, Don McKellar, and Egoyam’s wife Arsinee Khanjian (as the club owner). Both the two-disc DVD ($29.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($39.95 retail) include audio commen-
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Based on Renato Pestriniero’s story One Night of 21 Hours, this e ective 1965 shocker (originally titled Terrore nella spazio and shown on American television as The Demon Planet) marked Italian cult director Mario Bava’s only foray into science-fiction, and he certainly employed his trademark style to accentuate the diabolical proceedings — enough, indeed, to inspire other filmmakers. (Alien, anyone?)
Upon receiving a communication signal, the spaceships Argos and Galliot blast o to investigate, but upon arriving at the titular destination, the Galliot crashes — seemingly with all hands killed — and the Argos badly damaged. Token American lead Barry Sullivan plays Argos commander Mark Markary, who is determined to find out exactly what’s going on.
Needless to say, it’s something bad. The inhabitants of the desolate planet are not vampires in the traditional sense, but unseen beings that possess the dead and compel the living to commit violence.
The special e ects remain innovative (especially given the film’s budget), and Bava establishing a foreboding, malevolent mood is impeccable. The concept is terrific, despite a cluttered script and indi erent dubbing, and aside from Sullivan and sultry redhead Norma Bengell (as his lieutenant), the cast is merely adequate Yet, overall, Planet of the Vampires delivers some crackling chills this Halloween season.
The special-edition Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentaries, theatrical trailer, and more.
tary, a selection of Egoyam’s short films, and more. Rated R.
(Mondo Macabro/CAV Distributing): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of director/ screenwriter Jose Luis Madrid’s R-rated 1971 shocker (originally titled El vampiro de la autopista ) in which the mountain village of Stuttgart is plagued by a spate of mysterious murders seemingly committed by a vampire. In Spanish with English subtitles, bonus features include English-dubbed audio option, audio commentary, animated press book and publicity stills, trailers, and more.
INTO THE DEEP (LionsGate): Director Kate Cox’s R-rated feature debut is a sea-faring suspense thriller, with Ella-Rae Smith a young woman wooed by mysterious American tourist Matthew Daddario, who seems too good to be true (for very good reason), available on DVD ($19.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($21.99 retail).
THE JACKIE STILES STORY (Virgil Films/Kino Lorber): The title tells all in actor-turned-producer/director Brent
Huff’s documentary feature exploring the life and career of Kansas-born basketball star Jackie Stiles, whose exploits on the court made her the leading scorer in NCAA history for over a dozen years, followed by her selection at WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2001, until her playing career was hampered by injuries and later by a rare form of cancer that she battled with the same unswerving determination that made her an icon. Friends, family, coaches, teammates, journalists, and fellow players weigh in on Stiles’ courage and legacy, augmented by a fabulous selection of clips that make this a must for sports fans, available on DVD ($19.95 retail).
ray ($29.95 retail), which includes both the original and international versions of the film, audio commentary, trailers, and more.
“MELROSE PLACE”: THE COMPLETE SERIES (CBS Home Entertainment/ Paramount Home Entertainment): The title tells all in this massive, 54-disc DVD collection ($111.99 retail) including all 220 episodes — plus bonus features — from the entire 1992-’99 run of the award-winning Fox Network drama series, created by Darren Star and spun off from Beverly Hills 90210 , featuring a glamorous ensemble cast including Heather Locklear, Thomas Calabro (the only actor to appear in every episode), Courtney Thorne-Smith, Andrew Shue, Linden Ashby, Rob Estes, Jamie Luner, David Charvet, Brooke Langton, Lisa Rinna, Josie Bissett, Doug Savant, Jack Wagner, and Alyssa Milano.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR (Mondo Macabro/CAV Distributing):
The indomitable Jess Franco wrote and directed this 1973 chiller (originally titled Al otro lado del espejo ) starring Emma Cohen as a sultry but unstable nightclub singer who is possessed by the spirit of her dead father (Franco mainstay Howard Vernon) and compelled to commit a series of gruesome murders. In French with English subtitles, available on Blu-ray ($29.95 retail), boasting such bonus features as audio commentary, retrospective interviews, and more.
Originally titled El Secreto de la momia egipcia , this 1973 chiller, which marked the final film to date directed by Alejandro Marti (under the pseudonym “Ken Ruders”), sees a bloodthirsty mummy resurrected in 19 th-century England by a diabolical, Satan-worshipping lord (George Rigaud). In English and French with English subtitles, available on Blu-
“RUNNING OUT OF TIME COLLECTION” (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment Group): A self-explanatory Blu-ray collection ($49.95 retail) including director Johnnie To’s 1999 award-winning action blow-out Running Out of Time (Am zim) and the award-winning 2001 follow-up Running Out of Time 2 (Am zim 2) , which To co-directed with WingCheong Law, both of which star Ching Wan Lau as a police inspector battling the Chinese crime syndicate even when the odds are stacked against him. Bonus features include original Cantonese and Mandarin (with English subtitles) and English-dubbed audio options, the retrospective documentary Hong Kong Stories , audio commentaries, archival featurettes and interviews, collectible booklet, and more. !
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A British artist known as Mr. Doodle (real name: Sam Cox) has doodled throughout his entire mansion in Tenterden, Kent, United Press International reported on Oct. 4. Everything is covered: walls, furniture, kitchen appliances, textiles, floors, ceilings. Cox shared The Doodle House with the world on a YouTube video, taking viewers through the process from stark white to completely doodled. It took him two years, 240 gallons of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint and almost 2,300 black pens to complete the project. His wife, Alena, is all in with the doodle decor.
Keith Tyssen of She eld, England, has maintained a striking topiary he calls “Gloria” in his front garden since 2000 — the bush depicts a woman lying back in a reclining position with her knees bent. But, MSN reported, Tyssen has a problem with random “drunken louts” entering his yard, usually during the night, and becoming intimate with the shrub. For one thing, he said, the noise wakes him up. But more disturbing, the “act” damages Gloria’s figure. “Someone will squeeze the breasts,” he said, “so that will damage it. They’re climbing on top of her and pulling her legs apart — you know, it’s disgusting.” Now Tyssen is begging his community to leave Gloria alone; one Twitter user suggested he grow a thorny vine through her to deter the assaults.
On Oct. 5, an American man who appeared to be about 50 years old asked to see Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, CNN reported. When he was told that would not be possible, he hurled a Roman bust to the floor in the Museo Chiaramonti, then upset a second one as he rushed out. The man was detained by Vatican police and turned over to Italian authorities. Both statues were around 2,000 years old. Press o ce director Matteo Alessandrini said the busts were “a xed to the shelves with a nail, but if you pull them down with force they will come o .” He said restoration work had already begun.
KTUU-TV reported that on Oct. 4, a small boat carrying two men landed near the community of Gambell on northern St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. According to town clerk Curtis Silook, the men told
villagers they had sailed over 300 miles from Egvekinot in northeastern Russia and were trying to escape the Russian military draft. Sen. Dan Sullivan conferred with the Department of Homeland Security, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy said they were transported to Anchorage, where federal authorities were sorting out their status. “We don’t anticipate a continual stream of individuals or a flotilla,” Dunleavy said.
— Tyler Monk, 34, an exterminator in Kinder, Louisiana, is ... changing. That is, his skin is darkening from white to black, apparently because he briefly tried Prozac in January 2021 to help with anxiety, the New York Post reported. “The fact is, (doctors) don’t know why I’m changing colors,” Monk said. After two months, Monk’s arms and face took on a grayish tone that continued to darken even after he stopped the drug. “First they thought it was photosensitivity ... but I’ve been covering up and I’m still getting darker,” he said. He has seen eight specialists, and more appointments are on his calendar. His family is supportive: “We really don’t mind the color change, as long as he’s healthy and OK with it,” said his wife, Emily.
Three men were arrested on Sept. 24 in Hernando County, Florida, after an o -duty detective spied them using saws to cut tra c lights o the poles, WFTV reported. By the time deputies arrived at the scene, the men had put three lights into their van. Aaron Wood, James Donnelly and Oleksiy Naumenko were arrested for theft and admitted to stealing the lights. Each is valued at $5,000.
An unnamed 32-year-old woman didn’t get far in the Mini Cooper she stole in Lakewood, Washington, on Sept. 19, Fox News reported. The driver, who had her 4-year-old son in the back seat and a bottle of whiskey in her hand, steered the car right into a section of wet cement that had just been poured by city crews. When she emerged from the car, she threw a television and an Instant Pot out of the car before trying to walk away. All items were stolen from the suspect’s mother’s home. After her arrest, crews went back to work on the pavement. !
Triad residents are used to The Pony Express, or United States Postal Service, bringing them their mail and packages, but this month they can count on carriers to also bring them hope and awareness.
What started as a term of endearment has grown into a moment of awareness, support, and solidarity for breast cancer survivors and those in the struggle. Breast cancer is a leading form of cancer in women with one in eight women diagnosed with the disease in
their lifetime. According to The National Breast Cancer Foundation, it is estimated that “approximately 30 percent of all new women’s cancer diagnoses will be related to breast cancer” in 2022.
The site goes on to say, “an estimated 287,500 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the U.S. as well as 51,400 new cases of noninvasive (in situ) breast cancer.”
Following a call from her husband’s supervisor, Yolanda Jackson made it her personal mission to crank out as many pink shirts as she could for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Her husband, Thomas, has worked for the post o ce for 22 years and she has done specialty shirts for the business before. Using a crafting machine her daughter bought her last year, following the loss of her job, Jackson went to work to make sure that carriers who
wanted a shirt would be covered.
“I was excited about the opportunity. I have family members who have had breast cancer so to be able to make those shirts for them to support people who su er from this was really exciting,” she said.
Jackson made up an order form for her husband to take to work. The response was an unexpected one.
“His supervisor ran out of copies of the order form because there were so many people who were really interested in getting one,” she said. I was like ‘wow. Okay I need to get on this.’”
Jackson purchased the shirts, printed out a couple of designs, and when the supervisor approved the design, she got to work. In total, 75 people ordered shirts from Thomas’s West Side station, o West Market Street in Greensboro.
“I included a breast cancer awareness bracelet in their package and made sure it was presented really nice,” she said.
Thomas and his colleagues decided to wear their shirts on the first Monday of October. He said that he knows it was a lot on his wife to single-handily create so many shirts but it was nice.
“They showed up to work and showed out.”
Thomas said that the feedback has been great. It has also been an act of solidarity for one of his coworkers.
“We had one coworker that went through it. My wife said let’s do something special for Kare and I said that’s cool.”
A proud Thomas said seeing the act of his wife’s hard work and the joy it brought to others was overwhelming.
“It felt good to look around and see everyone wearing those shirts. We have three di erent zones at our station and everybody has a shirt. It was great.”
Jackson created a special basket for her
with an extra shirt, a cup, and a few other knick-knacks.
“It was kind of surreal to see everyone in their shirts. It was really nice to see the pictures,” she said.
Carriers will continue to wear their shirts throughout the month of October and Jackson is busy making more after receiving requests from the city’s USPS Bulk Center.
“One of my girlfriends works out at the bulk center and she ordered a shirt. People saw her wearing it and I’ve gotten some orders from there. It has kind of spread a bit. Everyone is trying to get one and show support.”
According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, an estimated 42,550 women will die from breast cancer in the nation this year with a woman being diagnosed, on average, every two minutes. There are currently almost 4 million breast cancer survivors in the nation. While it is rare, men can also get breast cancer. “In 2022, an estimated 2,710 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. and approximately 530 men will die from breast cancer,” according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
For Jackson, what ultimately started as a hobby and a small request for her husband has turned into a thriving initiative surrounded by awareness.
“I really don’t want it to stop here. There are so many cancers that people deal with and each month is dedicated to something. If I could do something like this every month, showing support for people who are actually dealing with these diseases, that would be great for me.” !
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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Greensboro city council voted Mon day, October 3 on a revised city ordinance that District 1’s Sharon Hightower said could criminal ize homelessness. Hightower and the other three Black council members voted against it, but the other five council members, all of whom are white, successfully voted to pass it.
Afterward, Hightower told YES! Weekly she wasn’t surprised the vote was divided along racial lines. “You’ve got to remember that most of the folks who are homeless look like me.”
Sec. 16-10. Putting objects or substanc es on street or other public place or space, was the first revised ordinance and the only one of the three voted against by all four Black council members: District 1’s Hightower, District 2’s Goldie Wells, Representative At-Large Hugh Holston, and Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson. The most controversial revision was the addition of this opening sentence: It shall be unlawful to throw, drop or deposit, or cause to be thrown, dropped or deposited on any street, avenue, alley, highway, footway, sidewalk, park, or other public place or space in the City, any
object, substance, or waste (including but not limited to, refuse, garbage, ashes, rubbish, building rubbish, dead animals, putrescible matter, paper, drinking cups, broken glass, tacks, brush, grass, weeds, and anything injurious to health).
The original shorter sentence had read “It shall be unlawful to put any object or substance on a street which is likely to cause injury to a person, animal, or vehicle.” The reference to injury was also removed from the ordinance’s title, which changed from “Putting injurious object or substances on street” to “Put ting objects or substances on street or other public place or space”
At the September 1 council work ses sion, Mayor Nancy Vaughan explained why she wanted to remove the referenc es to injury by stating that leaving that word in the ordinance would allow those receiving citations to argue, “a blanket is not injurious.”
A dozen speakers against the revision expressed concern that the purpose of the revision was to make it easier for po lice to remove a houseless person’s blan ket, backpack, bags, or other belongings from Center City Park. Del Stone of the Working Class & Homeless Organizing Alliance stated that the reference to ashes meant that the ordinance effectively criminalized smoking.
Hightower expressed concern about the removal of possessions and the penalties. “It’s about the criminaliza tion of when people leave their stuff. For
them, their stuff is their home. It’s just like when we go home to our stuff.”
Johnson said she didn’t like the way council “jumped through hoops” to pass the ordinance. Wells agreed. Holston called this and the other ordinances “hard to enforce,” and said they address “symptoms rather than causes.”
Representative At-Large Marikay Abu zuaiter expressed outrage that anyone could object to an ordinance prohibiting “injurious objects” and “people throwing things at people.” Gesticulating theatri cally, she called the new versions of the ordinances a “mild revision” of regula tions that had been in the city code “for years.”
Abuzuaiter seemed unaware that the word “injurious” had been removed at Vaughan’s request, or that the ordi nances said nothing about objects being thrown at people, an action already a misdemeanor assault. As for her claim that these were only mild revisions, the mayor and two assistant city managers stated at the September 1 work session that the original ordinances were difficult to enforce and that the revisions would give police and city employees’ broader latitude. For instance, the original ver sion of Sec. 16-10 only applied “objects in the street,” and not to city parks.
The second revised ordinance, Sec. 18-14. Blocking and impeding street and sidewalk access decrees that sidewalks, public passageways, and entrances to
buildings must have 36 inches of clear access and that objects impeding that access can be removed by police. It is also enforced with a misdemeanor charge and a fine of up to $50.
Hightower, Holston, and Wells voted against this ordinance, but Johnson joined Vaughan, District 3’s Zack Matheny, District 4’s Nancy Hoffman, District 5’s Tammi Thurm, and At-Large representative Abuzuaiter in voting for it.
The third revised ordinance, Sec. 18-50, unlawful noise-producing activities, added a prohibition against amplified sound in public spaces that could be heard from more than 30 feet away. After Hightower added a friendly amendment stating that “permitted protests and rallies” were exempt, it passed unanimously.
The “permitted” may be significant n the future. Most of the marches through downtown Greensboro protesting the killings of unarmed people of color by police officers had not received permits. The most recent such march wound through the Entertainment District at 7 p.m. on a busy Friday.
Before council voted on the ordinance, Johnson moved to table it, saying she wasn’t necessarily against it, but that council needed to fine-tune it to make sure it didn’t have unintended conse quences. Even as Hightower seconded Johnson’s motion to table, Vaughan expressed disagreement with Johnson’s position, calling the controversy “a public
safety issue” that “is only getting worse.”
So did Abuzuaiter and Ho man, generally the most conservative of the council’s Democrats (new member Zack Matheny, very much a proponent of the ordinances, is a Republican). But Thurm, whom some Greensboro conservatives have described as “far left,” was also a firm supporter.
The vote on tabling was split along the same lines as the ordinance vote.
After a two-hour break into the fourand-a-half-hour meeting, 12 public speakers, ranging from activists to ministers, expressed opposition to the revised ordinances. Before that break, eight speakers responded to a statement Matheny made at the September 1 work session, in which he alleged those who feed the houseless and hungry in Center City Park “need educating” about the “significant trash” they leave behind and suggested the city should require some kind of permit or certification for those volunteers. Over the last month, Matheny has repeatedly refused to answer YES! Weekly’s questions about what evidence he has for this claim.
The eight members of the public who spoke in response to Matheny’s comment included two activists, four volunteers who feed the houseless and hungry in downtown Greensboro, and two members of the homeless community. The volunteers all described carefully cleaning up after themselves.
Later in the meeting, Abuzuaiter stated that none of the revised ordinances said anything about feeding people downtown. None of the speakers claimed it had but were speaking about Matheny’s allegations.
Towards the end of the public comment section of Monday’s meeting, Thurm reacted in anger to comments
some speakers made about Matheny.
“Quite frankly, I can’t sit here anymore to him being demonized. I can’t sit here and hear the entire public ripping apart one of my peers, because I think that he has come to this council in good faith, and he is working with us to move this city forward.”
Despite Thurm’s reference to the “entire public,” only four of the eight people speaking in response to Matheny’s claim mentioned his name, as did four of the 12 speaking against the ordinances.
The anti-Matheny comment included activist Nate Hayes calling Matheny a fascist and a criminal, and Luis Medina of WHOA: Working Class & Houseless Organizing Alliance, saying to him “If you’re trying to clean up the city, I suggest you leave the city and take Nancy Vaughan.”
Earl Zayack, whose e orts feeding hungry people in Center City Park have been profiled in YES! Weekly, called Matheny’s claim that volunteers were leaving trash behind a lie, and accused Matheny of only caring about “his rich donors.”
Others who criticized Matheny did so with less emotive rhetoric, and the majority did not name him at all. Activist Hester Petty stated that Matheny should recuse himself from voting on the ordinances, as he is paid by the city in his position as director of the lobbyist organization Downtown Greensboro Inc. WHOA’s Del Stone called the city council “fascist,” but did not single out Matheny. George Achini, a homeless 64-year-old guitarist and military veteran who often plays in Center City Park, criticized the suggestion that those who feed people like him needed to be regulated, and said, “We are the trash you left behind.”
The public speaker who received the most condemnation from Council was activist Paulette Montgomery, who
stated “Mr. Matheny, I don’t understand why you can’t a ord our unhoused the same consideration that this community gave to you when you have a fundraiser for help with your wife’s insurance bills from her cancer, God rest her soul.”
Thurm, Abuzuaiter, Wells, and Johnson condemned Montgomery’s statement as personally attacking Matheny by mentioning his late wife.
Throughout the five-hour meeting, the audience in the council chamber loudly applauded each speaker. Several grumbled when council members were speaking, and two were ejected for shouting back.
Near the end of the meeting, Vaughan stated:
“I have one question for the city attorney. If you would look into this. I don’t know if there was an ordinance or something that was passed that when somebody is removed from a meeting, that they can’t attend a certain number of meetings after that. Will you check to see if that was ever passed? If it wasn’t, I think that’s something we need to look at, whether it’s 30, 60, or 90 days after the removal.”
Near the end of the meeting, Matheny responded to critics.
“This has been an interesting night. I got sworn in on August 15, and somehow I became the poster child for writing these ordinances.”
Earlier, Rebecca Deal, who has been feeding people in the park on Sundays at 6 p.m. since 2020, said, “If this was your brother, sister, mother, or father, would you make the same decision?”
“The answer is yes,” said Matheny. “I do come down every day, and I see the same people every day, living unsheltered. If we as a community think that’s okay, we are failing. When I hear folks say ‘I have
fed the same person for ten years.’ I had a young man tell me today, I have fed the same person for 20 years.”
He described the controversy as “one person’s right if they’re unsheltered versus another person who just happens to be there.”
“Whose rights weigh out more? Everybody should be equal. Deserving fair treatment in respect, doesn’t that mean everybody? Is it just the unsheltered population that deserves fair treatment and respect?”
He concluded with a request to City Manager Taiwo Jaiyeoba regarding the former Regency Inn and Suites at 2701 N. O.Henry Blvd.
Last November, the Interactive Resource Center and Greensboro Urban Ministry joined with the nonprofit Partnership Homes to convert the empty building into a temporary shelter for the homeless population.
“That building has been sitting empty since April,” said Matheny. “I request you come back to us at our next meeting in two weeks with a plan to get the Regency hotel up and going and get people o the streets and into that hotel.”
He was not dissuaded when Jaiyeoba said the city does not own the property.
“We basically gave money to partnership homes,” responded Matheny. “Are they defaulting on their loans? I’m not going to support buying any more housing when we’ve got the hotel that is sitting empty.” !
IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfi ction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.
With several
spokes in his wheelhouse, Ben Singer is much more than the man behind Modern Robot — his performance iteration that makes live soundtracks to weird movies — who’ll host Night of the Living Dead , featuring live custom score, to the Reeves Theater October 28.
Singer is also part of the production team for the Martha Bassett Show, a songwriter, collector, cat dad, and among many other things: a freelance programmer and app coder. “It’s a side of me I don’t think many folks know,” he said, relaying the tech career that first brought him to Greensboro nearly 15 years ago. And while that’s only one of many spokes in his wheelhouse — it’s one he especially enjoys rolling into his world as an artist and performer.
“It was probably in junior high when I started going to one library to check out stacks of books on computing and
another for a stack of books about music,” he explained. “It makes it seem inevitable to be working on these kinds of apps now, but the path never seemed that straightforward.”
Now a freelancer, Singer is embarking on new chapters in the world of coding — having programmed a number of festival apps (including the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival and Ottawa Jazz Festival) and his latest round of commissions: “Moving Sound” with Dr. Erika Boysen (Assistant Professor of Flute at UNC-G); “Walking Venezia,” with composer and saxophonist Laurent Estoppey (of ensemBle baBel); and “Wheelhouse Beats” with guitarist and bandleader, Charlie Hunter.
Singer’s work on stage, screen, or code, combines an interesting set of dualities — grounding the abstract into the relatable, o ering complexities in digestible applications. Seeing that balance as more natural than intentional, it remains present. Singer credits “a lot of experimentation,” he said. “With Modern Robot, the duality I see most is old and new — an old movie with new-sounding music. When it’s a traditional silent film, I’m doing an old and obsolete kind of performance, but to an audience today, they haven’t seen it before, and it’s a new thing.”
“Being unique or new is part of my artistic ethic,” he continued. “But it has to be aesthetic too, or it’s just being weird for the sake of being weird. Old movies ended up being this rich material for me to work with. There’s always a story being told, and on top of that, there’s also a story of why the movie was made, or who made it and how. I combine that with music that has a lot of feels, and the whole thing blooms.”
The result offers reimagined scores or conjured soundtracks played live, with the visual source material running onscreen. Ruling over the public domain,
Modern Robot’s gamut runs from midcentury instructional videos to b-movie classics like Plan 9 from Outerspace and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians from silent stars like Buster Keaton to zombie-master George Romero.
It’s Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead , that’s become a crowd favorite — one which Singer toured with at Fringe Festivals from Florida to Scotland; and at a NYC horror festival honoring Romero’s work. He’ll bring the ghoulish production — which seamlessly interlopes with the film’s existing dialogue — as a duo (with drummer Chuck
Pickney) to the Reeves Theater in Elkin on October 28.
Praising Pickney’s awareness and technique, Singer remarked on the processes essential to his work within Modern Robot and the coding world — both of which require experimentation and creativity to truly resonate with audiences in ways that ground the abstract or cleanly convey complex information.
Shifting with the means and aims of the task at hand, Boysen’s “Moving Sound” offers an immersive package showcasing her work across movement, flute, and voice using work from composers: David Biedenbender, Mark Engebretson, and Jane Rigler. “I wanted the app to feel like an exhibit at a museum — a place to listen and watch without distractions,” Singer explained.
Featuring live performances in tandem with a moving musical score, “Moving Sound” offers interviews and behindthe-scenes footage. Captured in a field-recording style, “we hoped that the locations we recorded at, especially the old Glencoe Mill would pull you into the piece while giving a real space for Erika to move in,” he noted. “As you watch the video, the score moves in sync with the music; and if you scroll the score, it scrolls along.” The intent allows users to follow the score — and peer into the ways composers communicate. “This kind of music can come across as cerebral and abstract, but both Erika and the composers are trying to get across some very real ideas and feelings.”
Shifting keys, “Walking Venezia,” offers a more interactive focus with three components based around recordings from ensemBle baBel of concert in the
French Pavilion during the 2017 Venice Biennale for art. French artist, Xavier Veilhan, had transformed the pavilion into a recording studio — the festival audience walked through the space as the musicians performed improv-style, resulting in nearly five hours of music material accessible on the app.
Within those components, the “Walk” feature uses the music to offer a unique soundtrack — with different instruments and pieces changing with each direction.
“Laurent and I both come from a place where chance and coincidence are fun
games to play,” Singer said of the ideals supporting the backbone of “Walking Venezia.”
For those who choose a straight path — quiet music can be heard in the distance of various directions; growing louder the closer you go. With improv layers that work together, no two walks are the same. The “Particles” feature offers remixable layers of instrumentation for a personal DJ experience. And the “Cityscape” allows users to virtually wander around Basel, Switzerland, or Greensboro, NC, with different neighborhoods highlighted by different pieces of music.
Where “Moving Sound” and “Walking Venezia” both offer experiences, Singer’s latest product, “Wheelhouse Beats,” is full function: a tool for drummers by drummers, inspired by a casual text from Hunter — who took the idea and started “assembling some of the finest drummers in the industry.” “This is the first time I’ve written an app that I use almost every day,” Singer insisted. “Right away, it became an essential part of how I practice.”
“Like a metronome, Wheelhouse is a great tool for playing time,” he continued, “but even more, it’s for hearing and playing a great groove.” Offering a deep
dive into beats and styles, Wheelhouse features levels of customizability and dissection befitting all sets of skills.
Featuring works from Bobby Previte, Carter McLean, George Sluppick, Corey Fonville, Derrek Phillips, Jeremy “Bean” Clemons, Brevan Hampden, and Chris Gelb, the app originally boasted 1,454 drum loops, all mixed, edited, and sequenced by Singer. “It’s now 1,573, and growing!” he noted — adding the two more drummers about to drop in the mix. “Each drummer records a special set of beats, and each beat at many tempos,” Singer explained. “Wheelhouse stitches these together to play the exact tempo you want.” The result offers a clean interface with options specific to each style or percussive instrument, visually inspired by stereo receiver dials of the 1970s.
A Modern Robot in more ways than one, Singer’s “Moving Sound,” “Walking Venezia,” and “Wheelhouse Beats” are available via app stores. Modern Robot’s Night of the Living Dead is at the Reeves Theater in Elkin on October 28. !
KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who spotlights area artists and events.
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Nov 6: Randolph Jazz Band
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Oct 13: Jonathan Richman w/ Tommy Larkins
Oct 13: Dead Horses w/ Andrea von Kampen
Oct 14: Stereolab w/ Rievel Is Glauque
Oct 15: Psychic Hotline Block Party
Oct 16: Bob Mould Sols Electric: Distortion and Blue Hearts! w/ H.C. McEntire
Oct 16: The Luka State w/ Micky James
Oct 16: The Glorious Sons w/ Brother Elsey
Oct 17: Madison Cunningham w/ Bendigo Fletcher
Oct 17: KMFDM
Oct 18: Calexico w/ Ada Lea
Oct 18: Mightmare
Oct 18: Mother Mother w/ Sir Sly & Transviolet
Oct 19: Frankie and the Witch Fingers w/ Kairos Creature Club
Oct 19: The Maria Present: CINEMA
Oct 19: The Black Angels
Oct 20: Alex Cameron w/ Loah
Oct 21: shame / Viagra Boys w/ Thus Love
Oct 21: Jon Spencer & the HITmakers
Oct 22: Yep Roc 25 ft. Caitlin Cary, The Old Ceremony, Chris Stamey, Mayflies USA, Jennyanykind, Dawn Landes, & more!
Oct 23: Panchiko w/ Computerwife
Oct 24: Narrow Head w/ Temple of Angels & Bleed
Oct 25: Whitney
Oct 25: Pile w/ Maneka
Oct 26: Violent Femmes
Oct 26: Corey Branan w/ Jon Snodgrass
Oct 26: The Airborne Toxic Event w/ In the Valley Below
Oct 27: Mo Lowda & the Humble w/ Supper Club
Oct 28: Bad Suns w/ Last Dinosaurs & Quarters of Change
Oct 28: Algernon Cadwallader
Oct 28: Watchhouse
Oct 29: Hand of Doom w/ Speedstick
Oct 29: Too Many Zooz w/ Yam Yam
Oct 30: Dar Williams
Oct 30: Ghostly Kisses w/ Richie Quake
Oct 31: Napalm Death w/ Brujeria, Frozen Soul, & Millions of Dead Cops
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Nov 1: War On Women
Nov 1: The Wrecks
Nov 2: Tropical Fuck Storm
Nov 2: Russian Circles
Nov 4: Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Je Cosgrove Trio
Nov 4: OFF!
Nov 4: Beth Stelling
Nov 5: Chloe Moriondo
Nov 6: Shane Smith and the Saints
Nov 6: Oso Oso
Nov 6: The Legendary Pink Dots
Nov 7: Plains
Nov 7: Tigers Jaw
Nov 9: Eugene Mirman
Nov 9: Leven Kali
Nov 10: Copeland
Nov 10: The Red Pears
Nov 11: Violet Bell
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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com
Oct 23: Travis Tritt & Chris Janson
Oct 29: Frankie Valli
Nov 1: PUSCIFER
Nov 3: We The Kingdom
Nov 6: HBCU Culture Homecoming Fest & Battle of the Bands
Nov 13: Myriam Hernandez
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Oct 21: Demi Lovato
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Oct 12: Sabrina Claudio
Oct 12: Yung Bae
Oct 13: The Sage Motel Tour ft. Monophonics
Oct 14: DOMi & JD Beck
Oct 15: Noah Kahan
Oct 15: BAYNK
Oct 16: FEID
Oct 17: Fletcher
Oct 18: Joji
Oct 19: The Front Bottoms
Oct 19: Max & Iggor Cavalera Return: Beneath Arise
Oct 20: Steve Lacy
Oct 21: HeavyBagEnt Presents the Bull Pen
Oct 22: Warren Zeiders
Oct 22: Hippo Campus
Oct 23: Steve Vai
Oct 25: Marcus King
Oct 26: Twiddle
Oct 26: Jake Scott
Oct 27: The Bronx w/ Drug Church & Robot Monster
Oct 29: Mac Sabbath
Oct 29: AWOLNATION
Oct 31: TRIVIUM
Nov 3: Bad Omens
Nov 4: Emo Night Karaoke
Nov 5: Yung Gravy & bbno$
Nov 5: William Clark Green
Nov 6: Rina Sawayama
Nov 9: Blanco Brown
Nov 10: Claudia Oshry
Nov 10: Oddisee
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Nov 12: Silversun Pickups
Nov 13: The Menzingers
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Oct 22: Stevie Nicks
333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com
Oct 20: Lizzo
Oct 28: Greta Van Fleet
TAP HOUSE
6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 www.facebook.com/vstaphouse
Oct 13: Ashton Redd
Oct 14: Spindle 45
Oct 15: Blue City Bombers
Oct 20: Taylor Mason Duo
Oct 21: PhilRay
Oct 27: Joey Whitaker
Oct 28: Billy Creason Band
Nov 3: JVC
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org
Oct 12: Craig Ferguson
Oct 13: Here Come The Mummies
Oct 15: A Walk in August
Oct 15: Pierce Freelon
Oct 17: A Walk in August
Oct 19: Joe Santriani
Oct 21: The Wallflowers
Oct 22: Brent Cobb & Hayes Carll Gettin’ Together
Oct 23: Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Oct 24: Josh Gates Live!
Oct 25: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Oct 27: Dance Theatre of Harlem
Oct 30: Gipsy Kings ft. Nicolas Reyes
Oct 31: Clerks III
Nov 2: Jonathan Blanchard
Nov 6: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nov 10: The Fab Four
Nov 11: Claudia Oshry
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Oct 12: Wardruna
Oct 15: Diana Krall
Oct 16: Steve Martin & Martin Short
Oct 24: Daniel Howell
Oct 27: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Oct 28: Marcus Mumford w/ The A’s
Oct 29: Jonathan Van Ness
Oct 30: Straight No Chaser
Nov 10: Disney Junior Live on Tour
Nov 11: Lewis Black
129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 www.reevestheater.com
Wednesdays: Reeves Open Mic
Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam
Oct 15: The Embers ft Craig Woolard
Oct 20: Alice Howe & Freebo, Terri Binion, & DaShawn Hickman Presents Sacred Steel
Oct 22: Magnolia Green + The Deluge
Oct 23: Steve Hofstetter
Oct 28: ALIVE
Oct 29: The Reeves House Band plays Led Zeppelin
Nov 11: Sideline
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2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 www.arizonapetes.com
Oct 30: The Early November w/ I Can Make A Mess & Vinnie Caruana
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310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com
Oct 13: Pete The Cat
Oct 15: Abigail Dowd
Oct 20: Brickman Across America
Oct 21: Tyrus Live!
Oct 22: Hidden Truth of Black Wall Street
Oct 23: East of Nashville Songwriters in the Round
Oct 30: Crowned Kings
Nov 3: Natalie Grant
Nov 4: Larry & Joe
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Oct 13: Rodney Brady
Oct 14: Savannah Harmon
Oct 20: Rodney Brady
Oct 20: Stone Dolls
Oct 21: Ellie Morgan
Oct 27: The Good Watts
Oct 27: Jim Mayberry
Oct 28: Jay Mathey
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Oct 14-16: Carolanne Miljavac
Oct 19: Ryan Long
Oct 20: Bubba Dub
Oct 21-23: Adele Givens
Oct 27: Randy Feltface
Nov 3: Pinky Patel
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Oct 14: Jukebox rehab
Oct 21: Tess
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Oct 28: The Traveling Blues
Oct 29: Simerson Hill
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Oct 13: Frankie Beverly & maze
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Oct 22: Casting Crowns
Oct 23: Christian nodal
Oct 25: iron maiden
Oct 29: aggie Homecoming Concert starring lil Baby
Oct 30: aggie Homecoming Gospel Concert
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Oct 14: Big Bump and The Stun Gunz
Oct 15: Stray local
Oct 22: Bradley Wik
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nov 4: Green Queen Bingo
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Oct 14: daniel love
Oct 19: megan doss
Oct 21: Paris ave
Oct 26: michael Chaney
Oct 28: Kelsey Hurley
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Oct 29: viva la muerte
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Oct 15: That Girl lay lay
Oct 16: diana Krall
Oct 20: venus Williams
Oct 22: david Sedaris nov 3: Travis Tritt & Chris Janson nov 5: Sergey antonov nov 8: disney Junior live on Tour nov 10: daniel levitin & rosanne Cash nov 11: Joe Gatto
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Jan 13: Eric Brown & Juice adkins Feb 3-4: robert Baril
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nov 5: Susana macfarlane
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Oct 15: Toyz
Oct 19: dwarfnators
Oct 22: Hampton drive
Oct 28: The resistance
Oct 29: Slightly Emotional
GOOFY FOOT TaPrOOm
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Oct 15: mike Everett
Oct 22: Emma lee
Oct 29: Susanna macfarlane nov 5: Tyler millard duo
HiGH POinT THEaTrE
220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com
Oct 14: don Quixote
Oct 15: Kathy mattea & Suzy Bogguss
Oct 28: Jimmy Webb Oct 29: lonestar nov 3: Girls night: The musical
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138 Church Ave | 336.991.5016 www.facebook.com/plankstreettavern
Oct 29: Purple House
SWEET Old Bill’S
1232 N Main St | 336.807.1476 www.sweetoldbills.com
Oct 13: Buddy ro and the Fairlanes Trio
Oct 20: Johnny O’ and The Jump Out Boys
Oct 27: Jimmy Hayes revival nov 3: dylan Smith nov 10: Banjo Earth
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Oct 13: dan miller
Oct 14: Jill Goodson
Oct 20: Ethan Smith
Oct 21: room42
Oct 22: Stone Parker Band
Oct 27: renae Paige
Oct 28: Hampton drive
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336.622.3844
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Oct 28: Butch Walker w/ Aaron Lee
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Oct 29: Matt Stell, Elvie Shane, Chayce Beckham, & Jason Adamo
Oct 30: Bring Out Yer Dead
Nov 4: Cosmic Charlie
Nov 5: 49 Winchester
Nov 9: Todd Snider
Nov 10: Tropidelic w/ Mike Pinto
Nov 11: William Clark Green w/ Ben Chapman
500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com
Oct 20: Koe Wetzel
Oct 28: Turnpike Troubadours
1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com
Oct 18: Greta Van Fleet
Nov 3: Reba McEntire w/ Terri Clark
1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097 www.burkestreetpub.com
3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 www.facebook.com/cbtavern
121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018 www.earlsws.com
Mondays: Open Mic
Thursdays: Will Jones
Oct 14: Zack Brock and The Good Intentions
Oct 15: Aaron Hamm and The Big River Band
Oct 21: Jonathan Parker
Oct 22: Chelsea Sorrell and Runaway Train
Oct 28: Carolina Ambush
Oct 29: Jason Leake Band
BREWING COMPANY
772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 www.fiddlinfish.com
Tuesdays: Trivia
Oct 14: Joe Dowdy Trio
Oct 15: Cosmic CHarlie w/ Wyndy Trail Travelers
Oct 21: Sam Robinson
Nov 4: Hotwax & The Splinters
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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 www.foothillsbrewing.com
Sundays: Sunday Jazz Thursdays: Trivia
Oct 12: Colin Cutler
Oct 14: Camel City Blues
Oct 26: Banjo Earth
Nov 2: Colin Cutler
Nov 9: Hotwax & The Splinters
11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218 www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter
Mondays: Line Dancing
Oct 15: Diamond Edge
Oct 22: Jimmy Shirley Jr & The Footlights
Oct 28: Atlantic Coast Highway
Oct 28: Zack Brock & Good Intentions
137 West St | 336.201.5182 www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe
Oct 13: Jim Messina
Nov 9: Gaelic Storm
170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 www.theramkat.com
Oct 12: Kitchen Dwellers w/ Daniel Donato
Oct 13: Colin Allured & LB The Poet
Oct 15: Rhymin’ N Stealin’ (The Original Beastie Boys Tribute)
Oct 19: Terri Binion
Oct 20: Je Jenkins
Oct 21: Sarah Sophia w/ Clint Roberts
Oct 28: Gypsy Soul
Nov 3: Vince Herman
Nov 4: Legendary Shack Shakers
Nov 9: Chris Renezema w/ Jess Ray Nov 11: The Waybacks
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Oct 13: Joe Dowdy
Oct 14: Ciera Dumas & Patrick Rock, DJ PROFESSOR, DJ FISH
Oct 15: General Hijink 400, DJ PROFFESSOR, DJ FISH
Oct 16: Camel City Revelators
Oct 21: Gypsy Soul
Oct 21: The Chuck Dale Smith Band Oct 22: Watchtower DMB
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Thursdays: Music Bingo
Oct 14: Souljam Trio
Oct 21: Jay Alexander & Special Guest
Oct 22: Justin Fox Band
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