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All aboard the “Nuevo South Train,” Larry & Joe are bringing their Appalachian-Venezuelan fusion to TEDxGREENSBORO at the Van Dyke Performance Space on November 3; and for a show of their own at the Carolina Theatre on November 4.

4 Lewis and Elm and Rioja are both, at their core, wine bars with light food and snacking, but LEWIS AND ELM offer a somewhat more complete sit-down dining experience.

Production, was awarded one of SEVEN GRANTS FROM THE 1/52 PROJECT, which aspires to support designers of color as they foster their careers in the realm of theater.

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One of the most legendary rock bands of all time, JOURNEY, announces the continuation of their highly successful tour with the 50th Anniversary Celebration Freedom Tour 2023 featuring, very special guest TOTO

7 The Greensboro Arm Wrestling League (GRAWL) presents GRAWL BRAWL XIV: GRAWLOWEEN, an arm wrestling competition and benefit for the nonprofit Youth Focus, Saturday, October 29, at Oden Brewing, 802 W. Gate City Blvd.

8 Jessica Cancino, an alumna of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) School of Design &

10 During Angela’s multi-faceted career, the British-born actress and singer won a slew of TONY AWARDS AND GOLDEN GLOBES, and was even nominated for an Oscar for her first film at the ripe old age of 17.

12 The horror film SMILE is the feature version of writer/director Parker Finn’s 2020 short Laura Can’t Sleep — and, judging by the results, it should have stayed that way

19 As the Triad gears up for some HALLOWEEN FUN, it’s battle royale weekend across the Triad for cover show lovers, costume competitors, drag lovers, and all of the above.

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Chow Down with John Batchelor at Lewis and Elm

BYJOHN BATCHELOR

Lewis and Elm is a fairly new establishment from Jake Assaf, one of the tiny number of certified sommeliers in the Triad. It opened in mid-summer. He also owns Rioja (1603 Battleground Avenue, (336) 412-0011, riojawinebar.com) and hosts tours focused on wines (in Italy, at the present).

Lewis and Elm and Rioja are both, at their core, wine bars with light food and snacking, but Lewis and Elm o er a somewhat more complete sit-down dining experience, whereas Rioja has a larger retail bottle section. (The beverage menu at Lewis and Elm is not restricted to wine, but there’s a solid focus on wine.)

A long bar lines one wall. The rest of the interior is devoted to tables and chairs, which are actually comfortable. (I sometimes wonder if some places deliberately select seating that makes you hurt after awhile, so you will leave,

and they can seat another party.) Walls are painted a rich blue. A shelf o ers bottle selections, in addition to those on the wine list.

Given the expertise of the owner, you would expect the wine o erings to be very well chosen, and they are. In-house personnel are unusually well-informed as well. My meals here have typically begun with the best descriptions of wine specials I’ve ever encountered in any restaurant, anywhere, akin to what I hear when visiting wineries and talking with wine makers. You get a sense of place as well as flavor, yet I never perceived snootiness — just a sense that these people are interested in and enjoy what they do.

The food is casual, designed for sipping, snacking, and conversing. You can actually carry on a conversation here. You only hear the muted hum of people having a good time visiting, not the obtrusive noise that characterizes so many restaurants these days.

Each menu item includes a beverage

suggestion. Under “Salads and Snacks,” for example, I noted Spanish Cocktail Mix, consisting of corn kernels, fava beans, garbanzo beans, and Valencia almonds; a Marinated Olive Medley; as well as several salads that can be augmented with a protein. You will also find four interesting cheese assortments. These seem well suited for a very light evening.

I was seeking dinners, though, so I gravitated toward the more filling fare.

I am a big fan of mousses and pate’s, but I seldom see them in local restau-

rants. Of course, I ordered the Mousse Tru e’e here — creamy chicken liver blended with bits of tru es and sherry. The recommended pinot noir turned out to be an excellent pairing.

The Ploughman’s Platter joins thinly sliced prosciutto with cheese wedges, flanked by grapes and carrot slices, pickled in-house, plus cornichons and walnuts. The kitchen makes a mustard from grape must — suitable for a wine themed bar — and that sharp enhancement is special with the meats on this and other plates. The menu recommends

Mousse Trou e’

Norwegian Tartine

Charcuterie

Ploughman’s Platter

Panino Italiano

a beer with this, but I stuck to wine.

The Charcuterie Selection presents Coppa (an Italian pork cold cut), salami, and prosciutto, with pickled onions and grapes, along with cornichons, plus a dab of that must mustard. Spread that on dry toast points and crackers, and you’ve got another winner. The suggested pairing is La Coux Côtes du Rhône, a good French red.

The final page of the menu o ers tartines (open-faced sandwiches) and paninis.

The Norwegian Tartine takes its name from the primary ingredient — smoked salmon- layered over crumbled goat cheese, all scattered with capers, a classic combination. This is assembled over crisp baguette slices, alongside a small salad of leaf lettuces with pickled red onion slices. I really liked the suggested Alla Costeira Prosecco — an Italian sparkling wine — with this.

The Panino Italiano places salami, prosciutto, and blended cheeses between slices of focaccia, a small house salad, and homemade pickles alongside. The menu also recommends the Alla Costeira Prosecco with this, but I was more inclined to a Carignan flight special that was o ered that night — the same red varietal, but made in three di erent locations — France, Sardinia, and Spain. Yes, you can tell the di erence. All enjoyable, but each unique.

The same sides come with Beef and Blue, sliced roast beef plus bleu cheese, also on focaccia. This bread is really tasty, and these two primary ingredients are well matched for each other. The

Robert Hall Cabernet Sauvignon proved to be a very good recommended pairing.

The front of the house is hosted by Alex Allred and Luke Powell. Beth Welsh helms the back of the house, and she is also the o cial cheesemonger. It’s a solid team, delivering a comfortable but sophisticated experience.

You do not have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy a good wine bar. You don’t even have to know anything about wine in order to enjoy yourself here, you can rely on servers’ advice. And on the o chance that you just don’t like wine, a full bar and beer can accommodate any taste.

This is the sort of place that could become a hangout. And that’s a compliment. !

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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Hours: 4-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 4-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1-8 p.m. Sunday

Snacks: $5-$12

Cheese and Charcuterie: $10-$15

Salads: $10

Sandwiches: $5-$12

Desserts: $9-$10

Most recent visit: October 7

High Point University invites the community to campus for an exciting lineup of complimentary cultural events. The fall schedule includes a variety of speakers, art, music and theater performances.

For a complete list of community events and to sign up for email notifications on future events, go to: www.highpoint.edu/live.

VETERANS DAY

November 11 8:00 am Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Center

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S

CINDERELLA

November 17 - 19 7:30 pm November 20 2:00 pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center

CHRISTMAS PRAYER BREAKFAST

December 9 8:00 am

Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Center

CHRISTMAS DRIVE

December 19 - January 1 5:00 pm

HPU Campus Enter at University Parkway Welcome Center

OTHER EVENTS INCLUDE:

OCTOBER

October 19 Gallery ReceptionTheory/Practice: The 2022 Faculty Biennial Exhibition

October 20 - 26

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe - Theatrical Performance

NOVEMBER

November 5 American Portraits - Wind Ensemble Concert

November 7 Gallery Reception and Artist Talk - Christi Harris

November 8 Instrumental Chamber Ensemble Concert

November 15 Jazz Ensemble Concert

November 28 Awakening - HPU Community Orchestra Concert

Secure your complimentary tickets by visiting www.highpoint.edu/live.

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Beef and Blue

The Legendary Rock Band Journey Celebrating the 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour 2023

One of the most legendary rock bands of all time, JOURNEY, announces the continuation of their highly successful tour with the 50th Anniversary Celebration Freedom Tour 2023 featuring, very special guest TOTO. JOURNEY, Diamond-selling Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will take the stage in 38 cities across North America with their catalog of global chart-topping hits, including “Don’t Stop Believin”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Faithfully”, “Lights” and more.

Presented by AEG Presents, JOURNEY Freedom Tour 2023 begins February 4 in Allentown, PA – making stops in Austin, Montreal, Memphis and more – before wrapping April 25 at the brand new Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, CA. The 2023 run includes rescheduled dates in Washington DC, Hartford, Toronto and Quebec that were postponed earlier this year due to covid.

Citi is the o cial card of the JOURNEY 50th ANNIVERSARY Freedom Tour 2023. Citi card members will have access to presale tickets for the U.S. dates beginning Tuesday, October 18th at 10 a.m. local

time until Thursday, October 20 at 10 pm local time through Citi Entertainment (excluding Canada, Washington DC and Hartford shows). For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com. A limited number of exclusive VIP Packages are also available. These exceptional o ers can include an amazing selection of reserved seated tickets, custom merchandise and much more.

Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, October 21 at 10 a.m. at journeymusic. com.

JOURNEY features Founder, Neal Schon (lead guitarist), Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals), Arnel Pineda (lead vocals) Jason Derlatka (keyboards, vocals), and Deen Castronovo (drums, vocals) and Todd Jensen (bass). Neal Schon, 3x Hall of Fame inductee: Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame. Jon Cain is a recipient of two BMI songwriter awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey.

Neal Schon: “We are all thankful and overwhelmed by the success of our Journey Freedom Tour 2022 this year and have added a new run of dates for 2023”

says JOURNEY Founder Neal Schon. “We are looking forward to hitting the road again with our very good friends Toto! Come join us for a special evening full of fun and Rockin’ good memories. See you soon Friends.”

Jonathan Cain adds “Excited to perform for our fans as we tour next year with Toto. The combined hits of both bands represent a couple of decades of excellence that have become a soundtrack for people’s lives. The music of Journey along with the music of Toto is an example of “certain music” during “uncertain times.”

Very special guest TOTO, who have collectively streamed more than 3.3 billion plays on Spotify alone based on hits including “Rosanna”, “Africa” and “Hold the Line”, will join JOURNEY on all dates.

TOTO’s Steve Lukather shares, “‘On behalf of myself and the band, we are very honored and excited to do this tour with our old and dear friends JOURNEY. Gonna be a great night of music, and as all the guys are lifelong friends... a blast o stage as well.”

FREEDOM TOUR 2023 DATES

February 4: Allentown, PA, PPL Center

February 5: Charlottesville, VA, John Paul Jones Arena

February 8: Savannah, GA, Enmarket Arena

February 10: Columbia, SC, Colonial Life Arena

February 11: Greensboro, NC, Greensboro Coliseum

February 14: Lexington, KY, Rupp Arena

February 17: Knoxville, TN, Thompson-Boling Arena

February 19: Bossier City, LA, Brookshire Grocery Arena

February 22: Austin, TX, Moody Center

February 23: Lafayette, LA, Cajundome

February 26: Jacksonville, FL, Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena

*March 1: Washington, DC, Capital One Arena

March 3: State College, PA, Bryce Jordan Center

*March 4: Hartford, CT, XL Center

March 8: Montreal, QC, Bell Centre

*March 9: Quebec, QC, Videotron Centre

*March 12: Toronto, ON, Scotiabank Arena

March 13: Ottawa, ON, Canadian Tire Centre

March 16: Bu alo, NY, KeyBank Center

March 17: Atlantic City, NJ, Boardwalk Hall

March 20: Champaign, IL, State Farm Center

March 21: Moline, IL, Vibrant Arena at The MARK

March 24: Sioux Falls, SD, Denny Sanford PREMIER Center

March 25: Lincoln, NE, Pinnacle Bank Arena

March 28: Des Moines, IA, Wells Fargo Arena

March 31: Tulsa, OK, BOK Center

April 1: Memphis, TN, FedExForum

April 4: San Antonio, TX, AT&T Center

April 7: Springfield, MO, Great Southern Bank Arena

April 8: Wichita, KS, INTRUST Bank Arena

April 11: Casper, WY, Ford Wyoming Center

April 13: Boise, ID, ExtraMile Arena

April 14: Spokane, WA, Spokane Arena

April 17: Eugene, OR, Matthew Knight Arena

April 19: Stockton, CA, Stockton Arena

April 22: Bakersfield, CA, Mechanics Bank Arena

April 23: Fresno, CA, SaveMart Center

April 25: Palm Springs, CA, Acrisure Arena

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Greensboro Arm Wrestling League Hosts Halloween Event October 29

PRESS RELEASE

The Greensboro Arm Wrestling League (GRAWL) presents GRAWL Brawl XIV: GRAWLoween, an arm wrestling competition and benefit for the nonprofit Youth Focus, Saturday, October 29, at Oden Brewing, 802 W. Gate City Blvd. Doors open at 8 p.m. Competition begins at 9 p.m. Admission is a minimum donation of $7 in advance, or $10 at the door. Limited supplies of $25 VIP reserved seats are also available. RSVP for your spot online now at www. youthfocus.org/grawl .

This Halloween-themed, all-ages event will be a battle of mythical proportions, with a group of magical creatures battling a team of gorgeous cyborgs. Come see Smother Earth, the Fairy Bod Mother, Kraken Skullz and Father Figure take on Ruth Bader Ginsborg, Toy Soldier, Amazon Prime, and K9, wrestling on behalf of Youth Focus.

Joining the GRAWL team for this

triumphant, post-pandemic return: emcee Mistress Amanda, color commentators and all-around hilarious guys Al Schraeder and Bob Beshere, and DJ Clash.

Weather permitting, this event will be held outdoors in the Oden beer garden under the heaters. Halloween costumes are encouraged.

Youth Focus’s Act Together program provides emergency housing for young people who are experiencing a family crisis, are victims of abuse or neglect, or are otherwise homeless. Learn more at www.youthfocus.org . !

THE GREENSBORO Arm Wrestling League (GRAWL) is an all-volunteer organization that aims to help its community through badass, progressive theatrical events. Since our inaugural season in 2016, our colorful arm wrestlers have raised more than $50,000 for Greensboro nonprofits. For more information, visit www.greensboroarmwrestling.org or contact Amanda Lehmert Killian at (336) 339-0712.

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.

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UNCSA alumna earns inaugural 1/52 Project design grant

Jessica Cancino, an alumna of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) School of Design & Production, was awarded one of seven grants from the 1/52 Project, which aspires to support designers of color as they foster their careers in the realm of theater. Each grant is worth up to $15,000, totaling $100,000.

The 1/52 Project provides financial support to emerging designers from traditionally excluded groups of artists, with the intent of diversifying and fortifying the Broadway design community. The project’s funding emanates from designers with currently running Broadway productions who are asked to donate one week’s worth of their royalties to the 1/52 fund. Applicants were selected based on talent, creativity, innovation, and potential for future excellence in the professional theatrical field. Cancino and other recipients were honored at a reception in New York City earlier this month.

“I am honored to be selected as one of the inaugural grant recipients,” said Cancino, who received her BFA in scene design from UNCSA in 2016, said. “I believe that a supportive multicultural community is an integral part of our development as artists. The grant creates opportunities by not only providing financial support but also providing exposure for its recipients.”

The 1/52 Project was founded by acclaimed set designer Beowulf Boritt in partnership with TheFrontOffice Foundation. Boritt won a Tony Award in 2014 for Best Scenic Design for a Play for Act One , based on Moss Hart’s autobiography. He also received additional Tony nominations for Kander and Ebb’s The Scottsboro Boys , Selina Fillinger’s POTUS , Evan Cabnet’s production of Therese Raquin , and Korie and Lapine’s Flying Over Sunset , which reunited him with Act One ’s James Lapine and earned Boritt a Drama Desk Award.

“I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be able to make a living as a theater

designer, much less have the opportunity to do it on Broadway,” said Boritt. “Part of that luck was being born a middle-class white boy. The goal of the 1/52 Project is to give a little encouragement to a talented group of early career designers for whom doors may open less easily. In supporting them, we hope to strengthen and diversify the profession. I’m immensely grateful for the generosity of the Broadway community for funding the idea and the hard work of the 1/52 Grant Committee for the impossible task of choosing from a large group of very talented applicants.”

Boritt indicated that he was personally impressed by Cancino’s work and has commissioned her as an associate designer to remount an off-Broadway Yiddish production of the musical classic Fiddler on the Roof next month.

“I aspire to collaborate with artists to help bring forth new voices and help share our stories,” said the Venezuelan-

born Cancino. “Using storytelling as a vehicle, we get to explore deep truths to create paths for connection and healing, inviting people to feel and see themselves authentically as worthy to take up space.”

“I believe Jessica has a unique and important point of view in regard to her work that she continues to develop and explore,” observed John Coyne, UNCSA’s director of scene design. “Merging her insights as a female Venezuelan artist, who recently became a U.S. citizen, with her artistic voice, Jessica is on a path to continue to make important contributions within our industry. I believe the 1/52 Project Grant will help Jessica continue to establish herself within our theater community.” !

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BY PIEDMONT OPERA

Piedmont Opera opens its 45th anniversary season with one of the world’s most beloved operas, Verdi’s La traviata, a love story trapped between two worlds.

Violetta, a courtesan serving Paris’ elite society, encounters Alfredo, an earnest young man genuinely in love with her. His a ection wins Violetta over, and she chooses to leave her life behind and live only for Alfredo, but at what cost to them both. Directed by award-winning director Dr. Steven LaCosse, La traviata has inspired popular films from Pretty Woman to Moulin Rouge.

La Traviata, also known as The Fallen Woman, is based on the life of Marie Duplessis. She rose from poverty to become one of 19th-century Paris’s most celebrated courtesans before dying at age 23 from tuberculosis.

Author Alexandre Dumas (one of her many lovers and son of Alexandre who penned The Three Musketeers) based his romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias on their brief a air. He subsequently adapted it into a hugely successful play, upon which Verdi based his opera.

The cast is led by Ukrainian soprano Yulia Lysenko, the former prima donna at the Ukrainian opera house in Lviv. Prima donna has a di erent connotation outside of the United States. Opera houses in other countries have full-time, salaried opera singers who perform year-round for a specific house. The prima is the best singer in that company.

Yulia Lysenko emigrated to the United States after starting her career at the Lviv National Opera. She was the first-place winner of the International Competition Mystetztvo XXI (Kyiv, Ukraine). She appeared on the television show Zirki v Operi, the Ukrainian adaptation of the British hit show Popstar to Operastar.

Praised by Opera News Russia for her “bright and clean” soprano and “vivid and e ortless” singing, Yulia has thrilled audiences throughout Asia and Europe in principal roles before she arrived in the states. She made her American debut at the Princeton Festival in 2018 in the title role of Madama Butterfly and joined Piedmont Opera for Mimi in La boheme later that year. She returned to star as Elisabeth in Mary, Queen of Scots where she had to have mean girl lessons because the role was in such contrast to her personality!

Piedmont Opera’s production of Verdi’s La traviata is performed at the Stevens Center of the UNCSA on Friday, October 21st at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, October 23rd at 2:00 PM and Tuesday, October 25th at 7:30 p.m. James Allbritten, the company’s Artistic Director, will conduct; Steven LaCosse is the Stage Director. Other principals include Orson Van Gay, II, as Alfredo and Robert Overman as Giorgio Germont.

Tickets range from $20 to $95 and are available by calling 336.725.7101 or visit PiedmontOpera.org.

Remembering Dame Angela Lansbury

ight years ago, Queen Elizabeth bestowed upon Angela Lansbury the title of Dame Commander, the equivalent of Knighthood for men. Accordingly, from that time forward, I included Angela’s new title on the envelope of every Christmas card I mailed to her. Of course, I knew Angela before she was a Dame, and back then there was nothing pretentious about her. The title didn’t change that.

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During Angela’s multi-faceted career, the British-born actress and singer won a slew of Tony awards and Golden Globes, and was even nominated for an Oscar for her first film at the ripe old age of 17. Her career on Broadway and in films and television spanned eight decades, playing everything from a teapot (Beauty and the Beast) to a demon

Ebarber’s assistant (Sweeney Todd), to the title role in Mrs. Santa Claus. It’s no wonder Geo rey Rush called her, “The Living Definition of Range.” And, while theatre-goers remember her for landmark musicals like “Mame” and “Gypsy”, and film bu s revere her for her turns in Gaslight and “The Manchurian Candidate”, fans around the globe know her best as mystery writer-turned-sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the long-running CBS drama “Murder, She Wrote.” I on the other hand will always remember Angela for helping me win my wife Pam’s hand in marriage. More on that later. For now, Pam and I, like millions of fans, are mourning the loss of dear Angie. She passed away last Tuesday. Angela Lansbury was 96 years old.

In 2006, my friends at the Television Academy asked me to produce and moderate an event that would celebrate women in television. I agreed, but insisted that we include Angela Lansbury on the panel, and also honor her with a special Academy presentation. Keep in mind that, by then, Angela had already been inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Yet, ironically, a lot of high-brow Academy voters had neglected to award her even a

single EMMY for her work on “Murder, She Wrote.” I considered that not just an over site, but a travesty, thus my insistence on creating a special award for her. And so, on March 30, 2006, I assembled a dozen actresses and women producers for an in-depth discussion about their careers. Among the participants joining Angela and me that night was Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men”), Melina Kanakaredes (“CSI NY”), CCH Pounder (“The Shield”), and Jeanne Tripplehorn (“Big Love”). By the way, every big star assembled on stage was in awe of Angela, so much so, that at the private pre-event dinner, not one of them would sit at her table for fear of intruding. That’s when I asked Pam to go over and keep aAngela company, and the two of them had a wonderful time together, which ended with Angie serenading my better half.

What follows are highlights from my exchanges with Angela during our “Women in Prime” event:

JL: You played the doting mother of Elvis Presley, the overbearing mother of Warren Beatty, and the evil Communist mother of Laurence Harvey. To paraphrase Isaac Hayes, you were just a “Bad

Mother” weren’t you? (laughter).

AL: Yeah, I was good at playing a bad mother. (she laughs)

JL: Who was your role model or hero when you were growing up?

AL: Two people had a tremendous impact on my life as a child. One was my grandfather, who was very much a largerthan-life character.

He was a politician, a great labor leader, and a great speechmaker, and as a child, I was taken to hear him speak. He spoke in the Albert Hall in London, and he could really rally the crowds because his heart was in the right place. He cared about his fellow man, probably more than anybody I remember in my childhood except possibly my father. However, his charisma was so extraordinary that I used to go home and practice making speeches, and it was one of the things that brought me out of myself because I was absolutely a very shy child. I hung on to my mother’s skirt. I was that kind of a child. So, I give him credit for bringing me out of myself by doing imitations of him.

JL: How was it for you being a working Mom early on in your career?

AL: It was very di cult.

JL: How so?

AL: It’s easy for us as women to describe our problems as Mothers and having children. How di erent it is for men. It certainly was in those days. Today, husbands are more prepared to take on more of the responsibility of being there at home when you can’t be there. So, it’s a di erent world in that respect. When my kids were growing up and I was working, I was torn. I went through all of those terrible moments of crying and saying, “I’m not going to go to New York for 6 months and do a play unless my kids can go with me”, and oftentimes they did. I hate to say this, but I think it was to their detriment because I had to pull them out of school and all those things.

JL: I think all of the early “Murder, She Wrote” episodes were written by men, and you were outspoken about the fact that you thought men didn’t always write for women the way they should. Did you ever get women writers?

AL: We never had women writers. We never did. I wanted to have women writers. But my brother was the story editor at the time, thank goodness because at least he knew what I was wanting to achieve in the way of helping Jessica to grow out of Cabot Cove, and at least put her foot in the larger pond, get out in the world and interact with more interesting people. He enabled me to do that, but we couldn’t go very far afield within that format.

JL: In 1987 you wrote “Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well Being,” and I heard that the book was inspiring for a lot of women. Speaking of which, tell me about the feedback you’ve

received from women who said you had a positive impact on their lives.

AL: I’ve had some wonderful feedback from the theatre roles I’ve played, and from the movie roles I’ve played, not so much with Manchurian Candidate. It took me years to live down THAT role (laughter). I started “Murder, She Wrote” when I was 59 years old, coming up to 60, and I got into television because I felt I hadn’t made any real money in the years I had been in the theatre and movies, and the time had come for annuity, you know (she laughs). You have to think about these things. And so, I got into television, thank God. But I was lucky enough to fall into an extraordinary role, a role model for women of my age. Women had never been represented in the way Jessica Fletcher

approached her middle age, and for the first time, those women really counted for something. But the interesting thing was, it wasn’t just women that I heard from. It was also men. Middle-aged men and older men adored Jessica Fletcher, and to this day they still do. But with the women, the mail I got was just astronomical, and I still get it. It’s quite extraordinary. Women just decided they were going to be like Jessica Fletcher. They became writers. They pulled themselves together. They lost weight thanks to the book, and they became absolutely fascinated by what was possible for women of our age to attain. So, my feedback was tremendous.

At the end of our panel discussion, Academy president, Dick Askin came up on stage and presented Angela with a beautifully framed plaque that recognized her as a “Pioneer for women in television.” I then used the occasion to publicly thank her for helping me get Pam to the altar. I explained that, following our first meeting, Pam was none too impressed with me, nevertheless, I persevered. I had learned that her all-time favorite TV show was “Murder, She Wrote”, so, I packed up my entire VHS collection of Jessica’s mysteries and dropped the tapes o to Pam at work. Soon after that, she agreed to go out with me, and eventually, we tied

the knot. Angela laughed and said, “What a wonderful story! I can’t believe it.”

There’s no telling just how many lives Angela Lansbury touched, and how many people she helped along the way, some without ever having known it. One example occurred several years into the making of “Murder, She Wrote”. As the story goes, guest star Van Johnson could see how the grueling production schedule was wearing on his buddy Angie. He told her she had made enough money and didn’t have to keep working and suggested she should just walk away. Angela told him she would not think of quitting because hundreds of people depended on her for a living. That was Angela in a nutshell. Always thinking of others. Always a team player. Always giving us all she had to give.

Soon it will be time to mail out holiday cards again, and this year, for the first time in a long time, I won’t be addressing any of them to a Dame, and that makes me sad. Rest in peace, Mrs. Potts.

You can watch “Women in Prime” and other celebrity videos on www.jimlongworth.com. !

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).

The horror

film Smile is the feature version of writer/director Parker Finn’s 2020 short Laura Can’t Sleep — and, judging by the results, it should have stayed that way. Although technically competent, Smile is nothing to smile or scream about, except for the bloated running time (115 minutes) in which it takes to go absolutely nowhere. This is not a time-killer but a time waster, and a bore to boot.

From her introduction, it is evident that therapist Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is in dire need of therapy herself — and not because she lives in New Jersey (which

is enough to drive anyone batty). The daughter of an abusive alcoholic who eventually committed suicide, Rose has her share of demons, and she’s about to “inherit” another one.

This occurs in a chance meeting with Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey), who has just witnessed one of her college professors kill himself right before her eyes. She is convinced that whatever caused him to commit suicide now has its sights set on her. Within moments, she too commits suicide, and Rose exemplifies her professional training by not making a move or saying a word to stop her. She simply backs away in horror.

Rose becomes increasingly obsessed that she is now the target of this insidious phenomenon. Yet Finn never bothers to o er or suggest even a rudimentary explanation for her predicament. Is this phenomenon an ongoing or ancient one? Was Rose that target all along? If so, why did it take such a circuitous path back to her? Ultimately, as the film drags on, one becomes less concerned with explana-

tions than impatient for the ending, which is ultimately reached at a yawn-inducing pace. There’s a di erence between meticulous and ponderous, and Smile falls smack into the latter category.

In addition to Finn’s dreadful dialogue, he borrows heavily from the Stanley Kubrick playbook with long, languid tracking shots and a nerve-jangling soundtrack. He may be attempting to replicate the unsettling ambiance of The Shining (1980), but little shines here. This is the kind of horror film where nearly every jolt or scare is inevitably followed by Rose waking with a start. By the third or fourth time, it becomes most tiresome. By the seventh or eighth, it’s annoying.

Leading lady Bacon (daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick), who sometimes bears an uncanny resemblance to Ally Sheedy, gives a performance so grave it might seem brave were it not wasted here. Like everything else in Smile, her onscreen su ering becomes tedious. She gives it everything she’s got, but it’s all for naught.

The supporting characters, who would normally be potential slaughter fodder in this sort of film, are so bland — and so listlessly played — that they simply drift in and out of the proceedings, leaving no mark. They’re dull and forgettable. Kal Penn, Robin Weigert, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle

Gallner, and Rob Morgan have all been seen to better e ect in just about anything else each has ever done. Only Stasey (reprising her role from Laura Can’t Sleep) registers, and she has only a single scene. Lucky her. !

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THE AIDS SHOW (Milestone Film & Video/Kino Lorber): Peter Adair and Rob Epstein produced and co-directed this 1986 documentary, originally broadcast on PBS, examining the origins of the stage show presented by Artists Involved with Death and Survival (AIDS), which was conceived and enacted by those who had personal experience with the disease during its early says. Adair (who later died of AIDS) and Epstein also narrated, and this is a potent reminder of those dark days when a successful treatment hadn’t yet been discovered and homophobia ran rampant as a result. The DVD ($19.95 retail) includes bonus features.

BAD ROADS (Film Movement): Writer/ director Natalya Vorozhbit’s award-winning 2020 feature debut (originally titled Plokhiye dorogi) o ers a series of contemporary vignettes set against the backdrop of simmering Russian/Ukrainian tensions. Well-acted and tension-filled, it’s hardly a surprise this occasionally feels theatrical given it was adapted from Vorozhbit’s acclaimed play. Timely and topical, to say the least, and a persuasive calling card for its writer/director. In Ukrainian with English subtitles, available on DVD ($24.95 retail).

THE BLUE IGUANA (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Writer/director John Lafia’s 1988 feature debut stars Dylan McDermott as a hard-boiled private eye blackmailed into tracking $20 million in laundered money in Mexico, with much of the action taking place in the titular tavern. Jessica Harper, James Russo, Dean Stockwell, Tovah Feldshuh, Pamela Gidley, and Flea round out an enthusiastic cast, but this scattershot, smug spoof of film noir send-up doesn’t add up. Paramount Pictures gave this a wide release only to see it crash and burn in one week’s time, although it does have a few fans, available on Blu-ray ($24.95 retail). Rated R.

DR. DEATH: SEEKER OF SOULS (Scorpion Releasing/Kino Lorber): John Considine headlines producer Eddie Saeta’s one and only directorial feature, a low-budget, low-impact 1973 shocker in which he plays a diabolical, 1,000-year-old sorcerer determined to prolong his eternal life — which entails finding fresh victims.

Veteran character actor Considine has a ball in a rare big-screen lead, but the film can’t decide whether to play it straight or go for laughs. Barry Coe, Florence Marly, Cheryl Miller, Stewart Moss, Jo Morrow (in her final feature to date), and Moe Howard (in his final feature) also appear.

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DVD PICK OF THE WEEK: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (Scream Factory/ Shout! Factory)

Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon scored an immediate cult hit with his 1985 feature directorial debut, which put a fresh, funky spun on the zombie genre and kicked o a still-thriving franchise and fan base. One fateful night in the Uneeda Medical Supply Company, a canister of top-secret gas concocted by the U.S. military years before is inadvertently opened, and the toxic fumes have the e ect of resurrecting the dead — and there just happens to be a cemetery next door. For the group of punks who decide to party there, it’ll be a night they’ll never forget — if they survive. Trying to contain the problem (no pun intended) are veterans Clu Gulager as Burt and James Karen as Frank, and Don Calfa as the manic mortician Ernie (“Burt” and “Ernie,” get it?), while the punks are portrayed by Thom Mathews, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Nunez, Beverly Randolph, Brian Peck, and Linnea Quigley (unforgettable as “Trash”).

The special e ects are suitably stomach-churning, the ‘80s punk soundtrack is killer, and O’Bannon’s penchant for black comedy is on full display. Return of the Living Dead may not be a great film in the annals of history, but it’s still great fun after all these years.

The “collector’s-edition” 4K Ultra HD combo ($39.98 retail) includes audio commentaries, retrospective documentary, featurettes and interviews, workprint version, theatrical trailer and TV spots, and more. Rated R.

The Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentary, retrospective interviews, trailer, and more. Rated R.

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE (Menemsha Films/Kino Lorber): Virginie Efira and Niels Schneider star in screenwriter/director Catherine Corsini’s 2018 adaptation of Christine Angot’s best-selling novel (originally titled Un amour impossible) as a couple who share a passionate romance in late 1950s France but part before the birth of their child, followed by the subsequent, often turbulent five decades in their lives. In French with English subtitles, available on DVD ($19.95 retail).

INDECENT PROPOSAL (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Having scored with Fatal Attraction (1987), director Adrian Lyne reunited with producer Sherry Lansing in this award-winning 1993 adaptation of Jack Engelhard’s novel, starring Robert Redford as a ruthless tycoon who o ers $1 million to struggling couple Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson for one night of passion with the wife. Less thought-provoking than slick, stylish, and overheated — the sort of flashy melodrama designed to arouse controversy although it’s much ado about very little, with Seymour Cassel, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Connolly, Rip

Taylor (!), and scene-stealer Oliver Platt (as Redford’s attorney). The 4K Ultra HD combo ($39.95 retail) includes audio commentary. Rated R.

THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST (Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of writer/producer/director Paul Auster’s vaguely autobiographical 2007 drama starring David Thewlis in the title role, a novelist who takes a break after finishing his latest work and encounters mysterious beauty Irene Jacob, who may be a figment of his imagination while becoming his de-facto muse, with an uncredited Auster also narrating the film. Bonus features include the documentary Running O to the Circus: Paul Auster on Film, behind-the-scenes featurette, collectible booklet, and theatrical trailer.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS (Scorpion Releasing/Kino Lorber): James B. Clark directed this award-winning 1964 adaptation of Scott O’Dell’s best-selling, loosely fact-based novel, starring Celia Kaye as an orphaned Native American girl stranded on an island o the California coast in the 19th century, where she manages to survive with the help of a wild dog. This played “kiddie matinees” for years after its initial release, and remains

a nostalgic favorite for many, available on DVD ($19.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.95 retail).

RUMBLE (Paramount Home Entertainment): Based on Rob Harrell’s graphic novel Monster on the Hill, screenwriter/director Hamish Grieve’s PG-rated animated feature is set in a fantastic world where monster wrestling is the most popular sport, prompting a young girl (voiced by Geraldine Viswanathan) to train a lovably bumbling beast (voiced by Will Arnett) to become champion, with Terry Crews, Fred Melamed, Tony Danza, Tony Shalhoub, Charles Barkley, John DiMaggio, and pro wrestlers Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoai and Becky Lynch lending vocal support, available on DVD ($13.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($19.99 retail).

THE SCORE (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The 4K Ultra HD combo ($39.95 retail) of director Frank Oz’s stylish but routine 2001 caper, with Robert De Niro as a veteran thief coerced by eager young acolyte Edward Norton to embark on one last heist … with predictably serpentine consequences. Given the talent involved, this is watchable and well-made but a big disappointment. Angela Bassett is wasted as De Niro’s love interest, while Marlon Brando (in his final completed feature) o ers another indulgently lazy late-inning turn as De Niro’s eccentric fence, and was reportedly disrespectful to Oz during production. Bonus features include audio commentary, behind-thescenes featurette, additional footage, and theatrical trailer. Rated R.

SCREAM 2 (Paramount Home Entertainment): A limited-edition 25th-anniversary 4K Ultra HD combo ($30.99 retail) of Wes Craven’s award-winning 2007 follow-up to his 2006 horror blockbuster, set two years after the events of the first film, with encoring cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy and Liev Schreiber joined by Jada Pinkett Smith, Omar Epps, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Heather Graham, Timothy Olyphant, Portia de Rossi, Rebecca Gayheart, Luke Wilson, Tori Spelling, and David Warner. Surprisingly good given the speed in which it was made, and a worthy (and scary) follow-up. Bonus features include audio commentary, deleted scenes and outtakes, and more. Rated R. !

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FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus took the opportunity of a meeting at Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Oct. 7 to present Russian President Vladimir Putin with a birthday gift, the Associated Press reported. Putin turned 70 years

old that day, so naturally, Lukashenko presented him with a gift certificate for a Belarusian tractor. (Tractors are a source of pride in that country’s industry.) Lukashenko told reporters that he uses a similar model in his own garden; Putin, however, did not comment on the gift. Instead, he addressed issues such as conflict between ex-Soviet nations, fighting terrorism and illegal drugs.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS

Electric cars, trips to space, Twitter — it’s never enough for serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. Now, Reuters reported, the joke’s on buyers who snapped up 10,000 bottles of Musk’s new perfume, Burnt Hair, in just a few hours — at $100 a pop. “With a name like mine, getting into the fragrance business was inevitable — why did I even fight it for so long!?” Musk wondered on Twitter. The perfume is described on The Boring Company’s website as “the essence of repugnant desire.” “Just like leaning over a candle at the dinner table, but without all the hard work,” it boasts. The scent won’t start shipping until September 2023, so you can cross it off your Christmas list for this year.

AWESOME!

Ray Ruschel may not be the fastest or strongest defensive lineman on the North Dakota State College of Science football team, but he brings his best game and more to the team, the Associated Press reported. Ruschel, 49, works as a night-shift mechanic at a sugar beet factory. He decided to enroll at the college to study business management, and he learned he was eligible to try out for the football team — reviving his high school career of more than 30 years earlier. Ruschel’s coach gives him high marks: “His personality ... he’s just a really likable guy with an ambition not to leave any stone unturned,” said Eric Issendorf, who’s one year younger than Ruschel. With about a dozen plays per game, Ruschel has helped his team secure a 4-1 record for the season, and they’re hoping for a national championship.

ARMED AND CLUMSY

On Oct. 6, Burlington (North Carolina) police officers responded to a call around 7 a.m., the News & Record reported. A homeowner told them that as he walked from his car to his front door, an armed man approached him and tried to force his way inside the house. The two struggled, and a gunshot grazed the victim’s chest, but he wasn’t seriously injured. The victim was able to slam the door on the suspect — or, more precisely, on the suspect’s hand. As investigators processed the scene, they found a glove with a severed finger inside, which they used to identify Vernon Forest Wilson, 67. He was booked on multiple charges in Alamance County and held on $250,000 bond.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENT

Youth pastor Cory Wall of the Fairview Baptist Church in Greer, South Carolina, misstepped in a big way on Oct. 5 when he distributed “I (heart) hot youth pastors” stickers to the young members of his congregation, Only Sky reported. After some social media backlash, Wall admitted that his “joke” was a “mistake,” but his church was more reticent about the incident: First, the church sent a private email to members saying it had discussed the matter with Wall and he “understands this should not have been shared with the students.” When that wasn’t enough, Fairview issued a public statement on Oct. 9, allowing that the sticker was “offensive to some” and confirming that Wall had been placed on administrative leave. Upset congregants are reportedly praying for more.

PEOPLE WITH ISSUES

Police in Smithfield, Utah, responded to a domestic violence call on Oct. 8 that didn’t turn out how they expected, KUTV reported. Rachelle Clingo Walker, 35, told officers that her husband had struck her during a psychotic episode, but Walker’s husband had video that portrayed a different story. In the video, Walker can be seen “trying to bring out the victim’s ‘other personality’ by speaking in incantations,” the report noted. She’s shown gripping his arm “tighter, cutting into his hand with her nails.” When the husband tells her to stop, Walker grabs a pair of scissors and holds them “above her head in an intimidating fashion,” not allowing him to escape. He finally got away from her, and she called police. Walker was arrested for aggravated assault, unlawful detention and other charges.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

In Seminole, Florida, 56-year-old Paul James Sinclair summoned his inner 8-year-old on Oct. 10 as he attempted a bank robbery. Sinclair, according to The Smoking Gun, entered a Chase branch with his hand under his shirt making “the shape of a gun with his finger,” arrest records said. He advised teller Desiree Stefanik not to “push any buttons” as he waited for her to hand over the loot. Sinclair got away with only $120 and was arrested shortly after the incident. !

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Folk and Fusion: Larry and Joe bring music without borders to the Carolina Theatre

A ll aboard the “Nuevo South Train,”

Larry & Joe are bringing their Appalachian-Venezuelan fusion to TEDxGREENSBORO at the Van Dyke Performance Space on November 3; and for a show of their own at the Carolina Theatre on November 4.

Bounded by their love and talent for string music of their respective folk traditions, Larry & Joe is the official pairing of the GRAMMY-nominated Winstonnative Joe Troop and Venezuelan llanera

star turned asylum-seeking migrant, Larry Bellorín.

We are not to be confused with the pizzeria in Newark, New Jersey, Troop insisted, with a pull of the leg and pluck of the strings — expressing the group’s lighthearted nature that almost hides the heavy-trodden roads they’ve experienced. Roads not unfamiliar to their sonic home bases: Troops in the banjoed bluegrass of the Appalachian mountains and Belloríns in the harp-filled waltz of llanera growing up in Monagas, Venezuela.

An array and arrangement of strings tie the two together — as people and musicians, their mission is to show that music has no borders. With a set featuring harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, guitar, maracas, and “whatever else they decide to throw in the van,” Larry & Joe

fuse together a “distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.”

And while Bellorín is pretty sure this is the first time llanera has been played on a banjo, it’s not exactly Troops first rodeo in a sort of “latingrass” — having earned a GRAMMY nomination for his work in Che Apalache. I love the fact that the Appalachian and Llaneran string bands are coming together, Troop said. It’s the coolest thing in the world to me. Because they’re two music traditions that have the same spirit. The same spiritual foundation somehow and the same freedom to keep expanding musically. It’s music from the Americas — and the Americas don’t have a clear identity. It’s a big melting pot at this point.

The fusion proves a point the pair finds invaluable: music is the universal language, Bellorín said. Our instruments understand each other without uttering a single word. We have an inclusive group where all folklore traditions can come together and make music.

Getting technical, we’re both multiinstrumentalists and seasoned veterans of our folk music traditions, and are respected in our home traditions, Troop explained. Now when we bring our styles together, we need to figure out ways to fuse the: metric modulations, changing swing, accommodating different rhythmic and harmonic structures to co-exist. Finding fun in that challenge, Joe reflects on his world of folk — first unfolded as a teenager at a diner in Deep Gap. My brother took me to see Doc Watson, and I was immediately

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hooked. My folk tradition has given me everything, he said. And now, with Larry, I get to bring my life’s work in commu nion with that of a llanero musician. Appalachian folk music and música llanera are like old friends, soul mates who finally got to meet in person.”

Considering themselves musical soul brothers, their styles are bridged from paths of lives blown apart, with a steady (albeit uncertain) focus on a life of music. For Troop, the pandemic threw his world into upheaval. Having spent 10 years living in Buenos Aires, where he’d formed Che Apalache, Troop found him self on the precipice of the shutdown. On the heels of their 2019 GRAMMY nomination for Rearrange My Heart, (Che Apalache’s sophomore album produced by Béla Fleck) the group’s major 2020 was suddenly canceled. The quartet split to their homes — some in Mexico, some in Argentina. Troop caught the last flight back to the U.S.

“The pandemic ruined my band’s op eration, and I had to start over,” he noted — recalling his upbringing: playing blue grass in Winston-Salem before attending UNC-Chapel Hill (his interest in Latin music especially perked during his time in UNC’s Charanga Carolina ensemble). After college, he traveled around, living briefly in countries like Spain and Japan, before spending a decade teaching Ap palachian string music in Argentina.

Back in the states, Troop became something of a wanderer: briefly living in a cabin in Danbury and his van, before heading out west to farm-sit in California and Washington. Then a migrant shelter in Mexico and a theater company in Ohio. “I was searching, bouncing around,” he explained. “I didn’t have a home. I left the house I was renting during the first part of the pandemic and I was hoping I would find my next move.”

“It’s just my nature. I was born to ramble, it’s in my bones. Not everyone understands this life, but they don’t have to,” he continued, referencing the adage, “‘he who travels learns.’ I fully believe that.”

Taking in lessons from the world, with an eye to act on them here at home, Joe released his 2021 solo album, “Borrowed Time featuring work with Béla Fleck, Tim O’Brien, Abigail Washburn, and Charlie Hunter. It was my homecoming, Troop explained. “It marks the time between Che Apalache and this new duo being in focus.

An album of solidarity with the mar ginalized, The Rise of Dreama Caldwell, references the Alamance County activist pushing to reform North Carolina’s cash bail system. Hermano Migrante, writ ten before they met, struck a chord for

Bellorín — driving home how their music offers a message for basic human rights — and the beauty of sharing space and practice with other cultures.

Together, that drive ties into the “Nuevo South,” a descriptor for the ways immigrant communities have shaped the contemporary southern landscape — and ways elements of those cultures have been woven into the landscape all along. And Troop is thrilled to be in a pair show casing that concept in action. “I lived 14 years outside of the US, but I’m glad to be back home in NC,” he said. “I decided to move to Durham after meeting Larry — because of this duo.”

“I was flailing about, waiting for some divine connection to happen,” Troop continued, recalling his work prior to the fateful show where they first met. “And then Larry walked right in that door, and from the first moment, I realized that I had it again.”

Larry & Joe bloomed from a residency Troop booked at the Fruit in Durham, during which Bellorín was invited to play in late December of 2021. I remember Joe telling me that I was like a blessing to him, Bellorín recalled. He didn’t think he was going to be exposed to the kind of music that would make him fall in love and get fired up about a new folk tradi tion for the long haul. Likewise pointing to the divine, Joe had lost his foundation in Che Apalache and I was also com ing out of having my band, Son Latinos — ending up with nothing to do in the pandemic as well. There was too much similarity between our situations.

Bellorín’s road into the group is paved with a story worthy of a blockbuster biopic. At six years old, he was shin ing shoes in Venezuela — singing as he worked — attracting the ear of administrators at a premier music school. Start ing on the cuatro guitar, he was earning a living by age 11, adding bass, mandolin, and maracas to his repertoire. He began apprenticing under llanera harpist Ur bano Ruiz. In 1999, they performed with GRAMMY-winner, Renaldo Armas at the Punta de Mata’s Parque Ferial.

Working as a touring artist, Bellorín and his wife would ultimately open Casa Vieja, the first officially recognized llanera music school in his hometown, where they’d teach nearly 500 students and launch a number of music festivals, including the Garza de Oro. It’s one of the things that I’m most proud of,” Bel lorín noted.

In 2012, the Venezuelan migration crisis forced Bellorín into exile, seeking asylum in the United States; and landing in Raleigh with about $30 in his pocket while working construction jobs to make ends meet.

Music has been the greatest relief and stabilizer in all of the difficult situations, Bellorín said. A professional musician for the majority of his life, I’ve had to sacri fice my music for my life, and not work as a musician in order to support my family, he added. But even in situations like doing construction work even when I was risking the health of my hands for those purposes — music has always been there for me. Music has been my life. I haven’t lived without music, but it’s totally difficult to have a full-time job and then make music afterward. You have to have a lot of musical and spiritual strength and a lot of love and passion.

“You get home, tired after work but even still wanting to do a rehearsal,” he

continued, “and after every rehearsal, you see the progress made as a result of sacrifice — especially after having worked construction — is beautiful and gratifying.”

Since moving to the U.S., Bellorín has built his reputation as an in-demand player in a handful of salsa, merengue, and Cumbia band; and founded the Caribbean music band, Son Latinos–but, as with Joe’s music, the shuddering impact of the pandemic was unavoid able.

And that’s when the call came in from Joe, Bellorín said. I was working construction and had no expectations. But once I heard the harp and banjo together, it was unlike anything I’d ever made or heard before. And it didn’t just

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catch my ears, but it also caught the audience’s ears.

Troop agreed. “Our connection was immediate,” he said. “I was pretty lost before I met Larry and [manager/Fruit wrangler] Kayla last December. I was flailing around, waiting for a sign. And that sign came out of the residency.”

“Our manager Kayla [Oelhafen] is our angel,” Troop continued, praising the administrative efforts of Oelhafen (and writer Lindsey Terrell) that have helped cover the business and social media ends — allowing Larry & Joe full creative focus. “We’ve been working as hard as we can to launch quickly. It’s just us, our small team, and the love from the fans we’ve already made. They put wind in our sails.”

And it’s been a blustery year. The pair have toured the eastern part of the country — at venues and Folk Festivals — they’ve recently launched a video se ries and are about to release their debut record. Offstage, they host workshops in partnership with the United Arts Council’s Artists in Schools program and the Durham Arts Council’s Creative Arts in Public & Private Schools. And Larry is in the process of building a harp luthiery.

For the video series, Larry & Joe returned to where it began: the Fruit in Durham. The first release features the song, “Gabanjo,” which offers a fresh take on a classic Venezuelan form.

On the flip, their set is notorious for a maraca-laden rendition of the old-time favorite made popular by artists like Flatt & Scruggs and Buck Owens.

Laying down the wax, their debut album “Nuevo South Train,” is due by year’s end. “We’re so excited for people to hear this album in December that we can barely contain ourselves,” Troop said. With the mastered tracks returned ten months to the day after meeting, Larry & Joe reflect on the mysterious work of the divine (and the handiwork of area musicians).

“I think the pressure that we felt made us dig really, really deep at the moment, as we were making the album,” Troop said. Produced by Charlie Hunter, that pressure was eased in part thanks to the craft of those involved, including AfroCuban percussion from Brevan Hampden on “Larry’s Cachapa,” or the pedal steel DaShawn Hickman brings onboard. And just as music knows no borders, neither does the album — which features bass recorded from Nelson Echadna down in Venezuela.

“The music was asking for more, and that’s when we made spontaneous deci sions to add other instruments and get guest musicians,” Troop said. “DaShawn really brought something magic to the album. The first time the three of us had ever played music was when we hit ‘re cord.’ Three different musical traditions, for the first time. Something magic happened.”

Larry & Joe extend that magic to Hunter in the producer chair. “Work ing with Charlie was the most incredible mentee experience I’ve ever had,” Troop noted. “He reshaped my rhythmic concept and revolutionized my approach

to banjo, and shaped our compositions without imposing anything himself. He just helped us be the best versions of ourselves, somehow. I think he’s magic”.

Bellorín agreed. Working with Charlie was a very different and unique experi ence, he said. I was able to see through a person that isn’t from my country — that doesn’t know about my folk tradition — I was able to watch him understand our musical ideas. He was able to just get it, understand it, and help us shape our compositions by taking elements out and rearranging them. He worked with what we had, but helped us restructure it into something better.

It was an album made in record time no pun intended and we both felt the severe lack of time we had to prepare. We were fighting against it, Bellorín continued. It’ll be the first in history to weave together the Llanera and Appala chian instruments.

Serving as a tangible example of the work they’re weaving, the album high lights the universal language of music in its production and its offering — with neither limited to the wax on a record for Larry & Joe — as people or as a duo.

I know we look like twins, but we’re not the same, Bellorín joked. Don’t get confused with who’s who. While the pair vary in appearance, they offer an inter esting level of similarities for symbiosis — perhaps best demonstrated in their workshops and educational program ming. Our educational program is very unique because even though we’re from distinct nationalities, we have one and only one goal as educators: to teach about our folk music traditions

With the two sharing independent backgrounds as music educators, the

roles become cyclical. “We both rec ognize that the other is good at their folk tradition,” Troop explained. “We want to make sure that it’s going both ways, that we’re equally able to bring our bag of tricks to the other and share our resources and hope something new comes along.”

Both concerts and workshops are bi-lingual experiences in both English and Spanish, though neither Larry & Joe considers language the greatest barrier in their pursuit. “Teaching passionately and showing that we love all folk tradi tions of the world, children intuitively understand what that implies — and what that says beyond music,” Troop noted. “You don’t have to tell children, you just have to show them — and they’ll understand that not only music is universal, but that humanity is universal. Music is the perfect way to show them.”

“Both Larry and I know our musical history,” Troop continued. “We have close relationships with our mentors and our students. We both see ourselves as part of a continuum. And viewing ourselves in this way makes the musical process feel timeless, ageless. We’re just another couple of human beings bring ing our own little contributions to the great river of music.”

And on that river, Larry & Joe hope their work generates a flow of crosscultural ideas. People are seeing through our work that folk traditions can come together and take on their own color, even without changing anything about either of them, Bellorín said. They can come together on one single path and, in the process, we’re bringing instruments from distinct folklore traditions togeth er, causing an influence in people from

both of our countries. There’s a switch that’s being flipped. They’re hearing new folklore traditions and falling in love with them.

Within that approach, widening the rivers of access remains key. While language isn’t necessarily a barrier — money and time certainly are, aspects which they address through measures like “pay-what-you-can” ticketing whenever available. It’s a brilliant idea because it doesn’t give any social class identity to our audience, Bellorín said. Cementing principles, it’s our way of challenging the capitalist system that so clearly failed us, Troop noted. It evens out in the end people who can pay more, pay more.

People who can’t pay don’t pay. It works out the same for us in the end.

And it’s working. “We’ve seen the audience growing in numbers and also in representation,” Troop said. “People from many different cultures, but particularly lovers of Latin American folk music and Appalachian folk music.

They’re coming into the same space.

They’re people that share a common interest, like us: the connectedness of

these folk traditions. We want to share space. We want to experience collective joy and cry together for the systems that divide us. And our tears and laughter will break those systems.”

Bellorín likens the experience to finding an explosion of feelings. We have them very relaxed in the clouds and then we start to come down on them with euphoria. Song, dance, and everything changes immediately. People cheer, people sing without even knowing the language. Even one little syllable aye and you can see the happiness in the people that they experience at the moment that we’re on stage. It’s magic. !

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KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who spotlights area artists and events.

Larry & Joe bring the “Nuevo South Train” to Greensboro as part of TEDxGREENSBORO at the Van Dyke Performance Space on November 3 and on their own for a show at the Carolina Theatre on November 4.

PHOTO BY ZION MCKNIGHT

Showo : The Triad readies for weekend of Cover and Drag Shows

As the Triad gears up for some Halloween fun, it’s battle royale weekend across the Triad for cover show lovers, costume competitors, drag lovers, and all of the above.

First o — let’s be real, we’re all winners in this scenario, and Friday is fit for a crown as Pynk Mo$cato hosts “The Hidden,” at the Crown above the Carolina Theatre.

An immersive experience, the Hidden o ers a masquerade-ballmeets-fashion-show hybrid with work from HippyKy designs and NxInternet, plus musical performances from Queen Izzy, Kolin James, FlowerinBloom, and Rastaa and the Band of Slime. Costumes are required and an open mind is preferred for the evening.

Saturday o ers the covershow showdown, with the return of Joe G’s Cover-Band Explosion at .etc facing o against Jukebot at the Ramkat.

In the Greensboro corner, the long-running cover band series makes a triumphant return, with a lineup of local bands covering major favorites, with this round betting a most righteous bullied-teen tropetape: Versus, the Lemonheads, Bad Religion, Daniel Johnston, and Violent Femmes. A dance party with L in Japanese will follow.

Running since the 1990s, the cover explosion will serve as a fundraiser for the Guilford County Animal Shelter. “Many of us are pet parents and feel this is always a needed bucket to fill up when we can,” said organizer Joe Garrigan, noting the explosion’s two-fold benefit. “It’s also a great way for many folks who aren’t connected to the local scene to get an eye opener to the great talent in our town.”

The lineup of artists is often assembled from a mash of existing bands and local musicians. “The folks performing are not necessarily in bands with the people they are performing with,” Garrigan explained. “Most people put bands together with other musicians based upon their abilities and availability.”

A regular member of the Kneads and THNG, Garrigan is in the lineup as part of the Versus set along with fellow-Kneads’ member Melvin Holland; plus Alec Farrel from Voidward and Kerry Kantwell from Horizontal Hold. Members of Old Man Fight Club o er up Bad Religion. Owen Burd and Jason Ward (both of Irata) are joining Chris Micca (the Joy Band, Sam Frazier, and the Side E ects) are doing Violent Femmes.

Jerrod Smith (the Leeves, Instant Regrets,) is going solo — dying his hair and embracing the sweet lo-fi weirdness of the beloved alternative Texas weirdo. “I’ve been playing most of them for years but have never played them outside of my house,” Smith admitted. “I’m dying my hair grey because I also think it’ll be funny to have fake gray hair when I turn 40,’’ he added about getting into character. “At first I thought I’d act like DJ, but then I realized my own mental illness could shine through.”

While the sun shone on Smith, the lights turned on for Suzanne Sta ord (Sugar Meat) who realized she’s been singing Lemonheads lyrics wrong for the past few decades. She’s got herself a full band and will be doing songs o their albums: “It’s a Shame about Ray” and “Come On Feel the Lemonheads.” “I’ve been listening to them since I was 14 and thought I knew the songs,” Sta ord explained. “I found out there were some lyrics I never really knew. Particularly on Rockin Stroll.”

Meanwhile, over in Winston-Salem, Jukebot comes alive for their annual Halloween cover show and costume contest, Saturday at the Ramkat. Now in its ninth year, Jukebot is excited to melt faces with rock and pop bangers from the 1980s through today. The costume contest will o er cash prizes. They’re pulling hip-hop artist Lil Skritt up from Charlotte to open the show, with a Nite Moves dance party after.

Costume lovers and 80s babies can rise and shine Sunday brunch hours as Alternative Resources of the Triad (aka the organization behind Greensboro Pride) host the “Stanger Queens in an 80s Arcade” fundraiser

on Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Boxcar in Greensboro.

According to organizers, the “afternoon of Drag, Halloween, and 80s fun” will go down in Boxcar’s new private event space. “Everyone is encouraged to dress in their Halloween or 80s best! We’ll be awarding prizes to our best-dressed guests.” A double-matinee drag show from Brenda the Drag Queen, Crystal Frost, Jinxx Van Jester, Macaria Rage, and Wylie Kylie Coyote will run at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Down in College Hill, the evening contender, Mayhem on Mendenhall just announced the block party of bands and drag artists has been postponed until April. However, organizers still intend on hosting the market of vendors Sunday afternoon at College Hill Sundries, with a free dance party hosted by Strictly Social that night.

No matter which event you choose, thanks to Triad artists and organizers, we’re all winners around here. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who spotlights area artists and events.

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