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DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS Local organizations and institutions throughout the Triad community are gearing up to serve and honor Latin American communities celebrating Día de los Muertos.

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Joe Borlik, who lives in Archdale and works in Greensboro, plays Black Belt Joe, the supernatural villain of KARATE GHOST 2, whom he describes as “a martial arts Freddie Krueger.”The film has its world premiere on Friday, October 27, at Amstar Cinemas 18.

6 The OLD TOWN FILM SERIES returns with a quartet of feature films devoted to the works of award-winning British auteur Edgar Wright throughout the month of November.

6 Just in time for Halloween, Epic Ink has published Brad Weissman’s selfexplanatory non-fiction book “HORROR UNMASKED: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope” (232 pages, $24.99 retail hardcover).

8 While moderating a star-studded event in Hollywood back in 2009, I introduced SUZANNE SOMERS by saying, “She is the author of a book titled ‘Touch Me,’ about the effect of the thigh master on global warming.” Suzanne laughed loudly. In fact, the superstar actress turned superstar entrepreneur loved to laugh, and she laughed a lot.

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Actress-turned-filmmaker Rebecca Miller, the daughter of Arthur Miller, has made some good films, including Personal Velocity (2002) and 2005’s The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) — the latter starring her husband, Daniel Day-Lewis — but unfortunately her latest, SHE CAME TO ME, is not one of them.

14 The Prince of Sophisticated Soul will make a stop in the Triad as he prepares to release his 27th album. WILL DOWNING will perform at the High Point Theater, located at 220 E. Commerce Ave., on Saturday, October 28. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

15 On October 18, CHANCELLOR FRANKLIN D. GILLIAM responded to criticisms that UNCG spends too much on administrators and athletics.

16 The Last Longleaf drops in the woodshed as DAVE WILLIS brings his solo project celebrating three new singles for Molly McGinn’s Woodshed Experience, on October 27, at Gas Hill Drinking Room in Winston-Salem.

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Prepare to have your soul kicked out of your body by a Karate Ghost!

While an accomplished martial artist, Borlik has never studied karate.

“I train at Triad Brazilian Jiu-jitsu [BJJ] in Archdale and at Octagon MMA and Krav Maga in Greensboro, and sometimes at Battle Born BJJ and MMA in High Point. There are some great fighters at Octagon and Battle Born, but Triad BJJ is my primary studio. The original idea was about a ghost or zombie who uses jiu-jitsu because that’s my art, but sometimes characters develop into new things and that happened here, and we liked the sound of Karate Ghost.”

The “we” is Borlik and LA-based filmmaker and actor James Balsamo, whose credits include Milfs vs. Zombies, The Wanker, 14 Ghosts, Cannibal Hookers, Hannukah, I Spill Your Guts, and Bloodsuckah Jones vs. the Creeping Death. As with the first Karate Ghost, released earlier this year, Orlik and Balsamo collaborated on the screenplay and act

oe Borlik, who lives in Archdale and works in Greensboro, plays Black Belt Joe, the supernatural villain of Karate Ghost 2, whom he describes Ian McDowell as “a martial arts Freddie Krueger.”

The film has its Contributor world premiere on Friday, October 27, at Amstar Cinemas 18 — Four Seasons Station, 2700 Vanstory Street, in Greensboro. The red carpet celebration starts at 7:30 p.m., with the free screening at 8:30 p.m. No need to buy a ticket. Anyone who makes it through the entire movie without fleeing in terror will have a chance to win a raffle.

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Borlik moved to the Triad from Michigan a few years ago, relocating for both work and family reasons, and bought a house in Archdale in 2015. His interest in horror films took him to the annual Man Monster Con in Charlotte.

“I met James Balsamo there in 2019 or 2020, and he invited me to get killed in several of his next projects, and then we collectively came up with the idea for the first Karate Ghost. Then in August, he texted me and asked if I wanted to do Part 2.”

Borlik had a blast playing a supernatural martial arts maniac.

“James Balsamo has killed me in several of previous films, and a couple of years ago, asked me if I wanted to do one where I kill other people. I said of course.

They make my voice really demonic and they got me in a great makeup designed

by Megan Grant, who works with Get Dead Crew in Charlotte. I look really scary in it.”

He also said that, as of last week, Balsamo was still editing the film. “It will be

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James Balsamo, Joe Borlik and Megan Grant (masked). ready by the 27th. I was on set the whole time, at least for everything filmed in the Triad, which is almost all of it, so I know what to expect. I kill a ton of people and there’s a lot of gore and blood.”

One of those people is “scream queen” Linnea Quigley, who performed the memorable cemetery dance before becoming a naked punk zombie in 1985’s Return of the Living Dead, which invented the idea of fast-moving zombies and will be shown on October 28th in the Crown of the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro.

“She plays a college dean that I kill. It’s amazing and a high honor to kill Linnea Quigley in a movie. It was the best day ever. She was super cool and nice. Everybody involved in this project is so great.”

The film also features Master Ken, or rather Matt Page, the comedian (and reallife martial artist) who created that persona for his popular Enter the Dojo YouTube show. Anybody who’s watched will know that he has some of the best comic delivery of any YouTube star. Also appearing in it is former pro skateboarded turned Jackass stuntman and television personality Bam Margera.

“I’m so thankful to have been part of this experience,” said Borlik. “There were so many talented people involved in this project. Every single person did an amazing job.”

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Linnea Quiggley and Joe Borlik He had particular praise for the makeup and special effects of Megan Grant, owner and lead artist for the Charlotte-based Get Dead Crew. “Her assistant Ellie Norris did most of the makeup for Part 2, although Megan worked one day on it, but she did everything on Part 1, including the practical effects. There’s some real talent involved in the project.”

From New Mexico, where she is working on a new feature film, Grant sent this comment: “Working with Get Dead Crew is certainly an experience. We take your dreams or nightmares, and bring them into reality.

By providing some skillful yet sick makeup looks and special effects gags. Working with James Balsamo is always a blast!”

Borlik hopes to see you at Greensboro’s Amstar Cinemas Four Seasons at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, where he promises he won’t kill you with ghost karate. “I do believe people will enjoy this movie. And if they run out of the theatre screaming in terror, that would be even better. With luck, there will be Karate Ghost III.” !

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Old Town Film Series takes a Wright turn with latest screenings The Old Town Film Series returns with a quartet of feature films devoted to the works of awardwinning British auteur Edgar Wright throughout the month of November.

The films will be Mark Burger screened on consecutive Thursdays Contributor at 7 p.m. at the Old Town Neighborhood Center, 4550 Shattalon Drive, WinstonSalem. Admission is free and refreshments will be available for purchase during the screenings.

The series kicks off Nov. 2nd with Wright’s 2004 breakout hit Shaun of the Dead (rated R), a ribald riff on the zombie genre which he directed and co-wrote with long-time collaborator Simon Pegg, who plays Shawn, and co-stars Nick Frost as Shaun’s best bud Ed. The film won the 2005 Saturn Award for Best Picture and earned three BAFTA nominations. Pegg and Frost returned in 2007’s award-

winning Hot Fuzz (rated R), which will be screened Nov. 9th and spoofs the hyper-violent “buddy/cop” genre and featured Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward, Billie Whitelaw (in her final feature), future Oscar winner Olivia Colman, and former big-screen 007 Timothy Dalton in support.

With 2013’s The World’s End (rated R), Wright completed what he called the “Three-Flavours-Cornetto-Trilogy” in this science-fiction spoof of an impending apocalypse. The World’s End, which will be screened Nov. 16th, reunited Wright with Pegg, Considine, Nighy, and Martin Freeman, while bringing Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, and Pierce Brosnan (himself a former James Bond) into the mix.

The series concludes with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (PG-13), the 2010 adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s popular series of graphic novels, on Nov. 30th. The film, which stars Michael Cera as the titular character, marked Wright’s first foray into big-budget filmmaking and featured a star-studded ensemble cast including Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick, Kieran Culkin, Brandon Routh, Chris Evans,

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Michael DiVitto Kelly, the recreation center supervisor of the Old Town Neighborhood Center who created the series, had done likewise when he worked for the Broward County Library System in South Florida. He believed that a similar series would be successful in Winston-Salem, and he opens each screening with a brief introduction, followed by an informal discussion period afterward.

His reason for saluting the works of Edgar Wright is simple. “I’m a big fan,” he said. “His films are smart, funny, touching, and visually innovative. His signature quick-editing, kinetic style in his films is refreshingly cool. Shaun of the Dead was a sleeper hit that’s been a real trendsetter in the film industry. My favorite of the

‘Cornetto Trilogy’ — Hot Fuzz — is this generation’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The violence is over-the-top funny, but again, great acting and storyline fall in line.

“One thing Wright consistently brings to the table is a great soundtrack,” Kelly observed. “I’ve read that he spends lots of time crafting which songs to use. The World’s End is the final part of the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ (and) I showed the film when I was a librarian in Florida.

There’s a great twist that caught the audience completely by surprise. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World bursts out of the gate with a visual style that hooks you.

Taken from the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Wright incorporates that format to make a spectacular film — one of my all-time favorites. It has a great soundtrack, too — Black Sheep by Metric is a killer tune. It doesn’t hurt that the main character, played by Michael Cera, plays bass (guitar); I’m a bass player.”

Since inaugurating the Old Town Film Series in February, attendance “has been consistent, but I hope to keep improving the numbers,” Kelly said. “I always want my programs here at the center to do well.” !

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Revisiting the history of horror Just in time for Halloween, Epic Ink has published Brad Weissman’s self-explanatory non-fiction book “Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope” (232 pages, $24.99 retail hardcover). As the title implies, this is an in-depth exploration of, and tribute to, one of the most consistently popular genres in film – the horror film.

That’s a tall order for any author, but Weissman is certainly to be lauded for the ambitious attempt. Although die-hard horror buffs may raise a few complaints or questions about what is or isn’t included or examined, this is nevertheless a handsome volume, and Weissman’s appreciation for an oft-maligned genre — albeit deservedly so, in some instances — is evident from the get-go. There’s also a good selection of film stills and poster artwork to further augment his intelligent

analysis, which extends from the vintage silents of yesteryear (Nosferatu, of course) to the seemingly endless number of current franchises that currently proliferate.

Even a cursory glance at recent big-screen releases — Talk to Me, The Meg 2, The Nun 2, The Exorcist: Believer, Insidious: The Red Door, to name but a few — is proof positive that the horror genre is stronger and as popular as ever.

Audiences tend to flock to them (even the bad ones), and there’s no end in sight.

Even the Academy Awards have seen fit to expand their critical parameters regarding horror and fantasy. Everyone, it seems, loves to be scared, and the reasons why can be found within the pages of “Horror Unmasked.” !

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BY LESLIE SPENCER The Wake Forest University Theatre in collaboration with the Loire Valley Theatre Festival will present “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom” starting this week in the Scales Fine Arts Center.

The production is sponsored in part by a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant.

“Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom” is based on the award-winning memoir

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery. The play tells the story of the young people in Selma, Alabama, who risked their lives in 1965 to win the right to vote for African Americans.

Jailed nine times before the march and traditional hymnal badly beaten on Bloody and folk songs.

Sunday, Lynda BlackCampbell and mon — the youngest Miranda Barry, properson to walk all the ducer and founder of way from Selma to Loire Valley Theater Montgomery, Alabama Festival, collaborated on the Voting Rights on the NEA proposal March in 1965 — and awarded to LVTF to her neighbors fought produce a new version alongside Rev. Martin of the play with a Luther King Jr. to secure community-based the right to vote for choir.

African Americans. She Joshuah Brian Campbell “By shining a light believed that “a voteon racial justice giants less people is a hopelike Lynda Blackmon Lowery, theatre less people,” and put her life on the line, can become a powerful truth-telling non-violently, to prove that anyone can agent and community connector,” change history no matter how young or said Wake Forest’s Vice Provost for the powerless they seem.

Arts and Interdisciplinary Initiatives The show will feature an ensemble Christina Soriano. Production Coordinaof actor-singers who bring the 1960s tor Dr. Brook Davis adds, “We are thrilled to life on the stage through the music and honored to have the opportunity to of the Civil Rights Movement. The play share this amazing story.” will be held on Wake Forest University’s Performances are October 27-28 Tedford Stage and directed by Jackie and November 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. with Alexander, artistic director of the North matinees on October 29 and November Carolina Black Repertory Theatre in 5 at 2 p.m. on the Tedford Stage of the Winston-Salem.

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moderating a starstudded event in Hollywood back in 2009, I introduced Suzanne Somers by saying, “She is the author Jim Longworth of a book titled ‘Touch Me,’ about the effect of the thigh master on Longworth global warming.” Suat Large zanne laughed loudly.

In fact, the superstar actress turned superstar entrepreneur loved to laugh, and she laughed a lot. That was nine years after being diagnosed with breast cancer and three decades after she was fired from a hit TV show just because she asked for the same salary as her male co-star.

But Suzanne was not one to let any kind of adversity beat her. After leaving Three’s Company and being virtually blackballed by casting agents, she re-invented herself and used her singing skills to develop a one-woman nightclub act. After headlining in Vegas in the early 1980s, Suzanne was voted as that city’s Female Entertainer of the Year, and suddenly casting agents came calling again. She was hired for the title role in She’s the Sheriff, then in 1991 Suzanne produced and starred in an autobiographical TV movie, Keeping Secrets which dramatized everything from her childhood dyslexia and abusive behavior by an alcoholic father, to her journey to find and marry the love of her life, Alan Hamel.

That was followed by her long-running comedy series, Step by Step, and an even longer-running career as a successful businesswoman who made hundreds of millions of dollars from putting her name on over 500 products, including the popular Thigh Master. Along the way, she wrote over two dozen books and became an advocate for women’s health. Suzanne’s cancer returned with a vengeance in July of this year, and it finally beat her one day shy of her 77th birthday. Suzanne Somers died on October 15. She is survived by Alan, their three children, and six grandchildren.

I first met Suzanne when she agreed to participate in an event that I was producing for the Television Academy which saluted famous TV Dads. I had asked her to come on stage and pay tribute to her Step by Step co-star Patrick Duffy, and we stayed in touch regularly after that. Sometimes our

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communications were brief and sometimes they evolved into her giving me advice about my kidney stones or recalling the infamous Three’s Company saga. What follows are excerpts from some of our emails over the years.

June 24, 2009 JL: Thanks so much for participating in the TV Dads salute last Thursday. The crowd really loved your comments.

SS: Thanks for the nice letter. That doesn’t usually happen. Both Alan and I thought you handled yourself well and were very good on your feet. You kept it lively and funny. I was happy to be there.

August 14, 2009 JL: I didn’t realize what a great cook you are. Pam and I are flying back to L.A. for the EMMYs next month. Can you provide the in-flight food for Delta?

SS: Yes, and the food will be organic!

February 5, 2012 and June 19, 2014 JL: I just watched your recent reunion with Joyce (DeWitt) on your internet show, Suzanne Somers Breaking Through. I hadn’t realized that the two of you had once wanted to do a tribute to John Ritter at the EMMYs, but your request was denied.

SS: It was the first time that Joyce and I had spoken after being estranged for decades. I was impressed by her willingness to appear, and it was an emotional reunion.

JL: Go back and tell me about the estrangement and why the EMMY idea didn’t fly.

SS: Before John died, I had reconciled with him in a telephone call. He had called me to ask if I would do a guest shot on his show, Eight Simple Rules. It was supposed to be a dream sequence where Joyce and I would be in his dream. I was so touched that he would reach out and call me after so many years, and it was uncomfortable for me to tell him that I didn’t want to do it. Because of my immaturity at the time, I didn’t have the wisdom to see it for the opportunity that it was. Instead, childishly I did not want to be on screen with Joyce.

At that point, she had said so many awful things about me in print, on TV and radio that I just didn’t like her. I take responsibility for my small-mindedness. Anyway, the conversation with John was tearful, emotional, and heartwarming, so instead we decided rather than do his show, that we would find a project to do together. When he died a month later, I was deeply sorry

and felt it was time to bury the hatchet. So, I asked my PR agent to call Steve Binder who was producing the EMMYs that year.

We suggested that during the show a large black and white photo of John would drop down, and then Joyce and I (dressed in beautiful black gowns) would come from opposite sides of the stage and have sort of a Three’s Company reunion as the eulogy.

Our idea was rejected. It would have been a TV moment to remember. By the way, I had wanted to go to his funeral, but John’s family barred me from coming. Well, now you’ve got me going about all the hard feelings from the Three’s Company debacle.

JL: That’s OK. SS: The whole thing was a tragedy all the way around. After five years of being on the show, I asked for a salary increase and 10% of the profits. The network decided to play hardball and fire me so that no other female would have the audacity to ask for parity with the men. Had Joyce and John backed me up, we would have all participated, but they turned against me publicly and I was ostracized and called “greedy” by the press. Before I left, security cordoned off the set so that I couldn’t interact with anyone. I was unable to work on TV for years due to the negative publicity. It was a needless, cruel scenario that created a bitterness that I had to work to overcome. But I now feel at peace with the entire thing.

January 29, 2013 JL: I just read where you said that you intend to live to be 110. I’m sure you will, and by then you’ll finally look like you’re 45.

SS: Hahahhaa..now I’ve really set myself up!

SS: Dear darling Jim you made my day!

Thanks.

October 17, 2016 JL: Hey I think I typed in your email address incorrectly and it got spammed out.

SS: You will never be spam to me.

JL: That may be the most romantically hi-tech thing a woman has ever said to me.

SS: Hahaha. I’m of the millennium.

October 16, 2019 JL: Happy birthday!

SS: Thanks, Jim. It wouldn’t be my birthday without hearing from you. You are always the first.

June 30, 2014 JL: Tell Alan I’m celebrating his birthday by passing kidney stones.

SS: Sorry for the stones. Drink a lake full of water.

August 1, 2023 JL: Hey Good Lookin’. I just heard that you’re having to deal with the “C” word again. I’m thinking good thoughts and sending prayers your way.

SS: Thanks, Jim. The wishes I’m getting from so many people make me feel so good. I must have done something right.

Looking forward to seeing you in the future.

That was the last time we corresponded.

I will miss our regular exchanges, and I will think of her often. Suzanne and I spoke of many things over the years, but perhaps what she said to me in a 2015 missive best sums up her essence. “Jim, I’m loving life.”

And what a life it was.

Rest in peace, my friend. !

August 24, 2014 JL: Dear Goddess, I just saw your bikini photo in the Enquirer. You can’t possibly be 68.

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) and streaming on WFMY+.

October 16, 2013 (Suzanne had just bragged to the press about her active sex life with Alan) JL: I hesitated to send this email for fear that it would interrupt something you and Alan might be doing.

SS: Hahahahaha..I still know how to get attention! I love that you always remember my birthday.

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Peter Dinklage plays Steven Lauddem, a renowned composer suffering from writer’s block and wallowing in abject self-pity. Following a nervous breakdown five years before, he married his therapist Patricia (Anne Hathaway), an obsessive neat freak whom he calls “Doc” and schedules sexual encounters in advance. From this, it might appear that She Came to Me is a comedy of creative neuroses, the sort pioneered by Woody Allen decades ago, right down to the New York City setting.

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expected. For Steven, this transpires when he encounters earthy tugboat captain Katrina (Marisa Tomei) in a local bar. Their afternoon fling provides just the inspiration Steven needs to get his professional career back on track, but it will — not surprisingly — wreak havoc on his personal life.

Also figuring prominently in the proceedings — too prominently, as it turns out — is Patricia’s biracial teenage son Julian (Evan A. Miller), who is wooing free-spirited classmate Tereza (Harlow Jane), a situation that doesn’t bother her mother (Joanna Kulig) but rouses the ire of her husband (Brian d’Arcy James), a stenographer (“court reporter,” he corrects) who spends his weekends as a Civil War reenactor. That Tereza’s mother has recently been hired as Steven and Joanna’s housekeeper is also an issue.

Too often the film’s narrative relies on contrivance to propel it forward, and too often it goes off into other tangents, not all of which are resolved — and some of which are never raised again. She Came to Me lacks cohesion.

The actors do their best to keep things afloat, so to speak, and everyone has shining moments, but the characters are never fully realized, therefore neither are the situations they find themselves involved in.

Tomei and Jane (daughter of Thomas Jane and Patricia Arquette) are appealing, but Hathaway is saddled with an awkward, shrill character that would be

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The principal pleasure in She Came to Me is Dinklage. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, the actor’s diminutive physical stature might well have precluded him even being considered for the role, but it’s not a factor here.

It’s not even remarked upon. The actor’s versatility clearly extends to comedy, as he can rouse a laugh (or at least a smile) with the merest flicker of his miserable eyelids. Reportedly Steve Carell was to have played Steven, but that would have been obvious casting.

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It’s happened again. On Oct. 15, as an EasyJet flight prepared to travel from the Spanish island of Tenerife to London after a three-hour delay, the pilot announced that the flight would depart in about 20 minutes.

“And that’s when the incident happened with the defecation,” said passenger Aaran Gedhu, according to CNN Travel. Gedhu saw two people visit the forward restroom before an unpleasant odor permeated the cabin and word spread that someone had pooped on the bathroom floor. “Obviously, the plane was in an unsanitary state. So they had to get external cleaners out from the airport to clean it,” Gedhu said. After the cleaning was complete, the pilot announced that passengers would have to disembark — which took another 30 minutes. Another passenger, Kitty Streek, said: “We obviously can’t prove whether the person simply had an accident or if they had done this out of anger for the delayed flight ... but nobody wants to be stranded in another country.”

And yet, they were: Gedhu was lodged in a hotel overnight before taking a “rescue” flight the next day.

A restaurant in Tokyo, Abe-chan, recently revealed the secret behind its popular pork skewers, Oddity Central reported.

The skewers are dipped in a sauce jar that hasn’t been cleaned in more than 60 years and is covered on the outside with a hardened goo. Each day, cooks pour new sauce over the previous day’s sauce, as they have throughout three generations of owners — a practice they say contributes to its rich flavor. Experts said as long as the concoction is heated, there shouldn’t be any bacterial growth.

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Fox News reported on Oct. 17 that Rowan Sturgill of Lexington, Kentucky, has documented her mother, Beth’s, obsession with Diet Coke on TikTok: “This isn’t even half of it, I’m not kidding,” Rowan captioned her video. Beth’s decor includes a soap dispenser labeled with Diet Coke and a wall full of images related to the nocalorie drink. Her Christmas ornaments are dominated by the soda, and an entire wall of her home is dedicated to a shrine of sorts comprised of bottles and cans of various sizes and shapes. One friend posted that it’s like being in an “alternate reality” when

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THE PASSING PARADE

On Oct. 15, as a child stood near a canal in Cape Coral, Florida, a Dodge Challenger left the road nearby at a high rate of speed and plunged into the canal nose first, NBC2-TV reported — fortunately just missing the child. “I can only imagine how he’s feeling,” said Lorraine Holder, who lives on the canal and had a home security camera trained on the water that captured the incident.

The car’s airbags deployed, which made it difficult to get the driver out, but a Good Samaritan helped him escape before it sank completely. No injuries were reported.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS

Three Florida men were arrested on Oct. 14 in Pompano Beach, Florida, after a hapless kidnapping attempt, KMOV-TV reported. Raymond Gomez and brothers Jonathan Arista and Jeffry Arista grabbed a man outside his apartment in Plantation, Florida, and drove him to a home nearby — but then realized they had the wrong guy, police said. They threatened him with an electric drill and a firearm and attempted to waterboard him before deciding he might be able to lure their intended victim

to them. The kidnappers drove him to his place of business, where the other man was, but the original victim phoned in a bomb threat (to get an immediate response), and the suspects were arrested.

They face life in prison.

IT’S A DIRTY JOB

Ryan Smith, 41, who transports bodies for a funeral company in Omaha, Nebraska, was arrested on Oct. 6 after he broke into the home of a deceased person he had moved, The Smoking Gun reported. Investigators said that when Smith initially went to the apartment, there was a “very real life size” sex doll on the bed near the body.

Later, Smith called the property manager and said the sheriff had asked him to remove the doll “to collect swabs for biopsy.”

The property manager denied Smith entry to the home, but he later suspected Smith was inside the unit, which had been secured with a deadbolt and chain. The manager watched as Smith left with his shirt untucked and trousers in “disarray,” then called police. The sex doll showed evidence of recent use, and she was confiscated for DNA testing. Ryan was relieved of his job. !

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DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAY IN THE TRIAD

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Dalia Razo

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ocal organizations and institutions throughout the Triad community are gearing up to serve and honor Latin American communities celebrating Día de los Muertos.

While Pixar’s film Coco brought attention to the Mexican holiday, the celebration is still new in certain areas of the

Triad.

For the first time under the direction of David Briggs, High Point Theatre is presenting “Ofrenda: a Día de los Muertos Celebration” this Thursday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. Featuring traditional music and dance from various regions of Mexico, this one-of-a-kind performance pays tribute to loved ones who have passed.

Briggs, who has now been with High Point Theatre for 12 years, has over 40 years of experience programming performances and originally wasn’t looking for a show specifically for Day of the Dead or for Hispanic Heritage. When the opportunity arose, though, he didn’t think twice about bringing the show to High Point.

The show is composed of both California-based Mexican folk dance company Ballet Folklórico de los Ángeles and Grammy-award-winning Mariachi Garibaldi. “They do great shows,” said Briggs, who has reviewed both companies in the

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past. “They just put out a terrific product and something that I think our patrons not only should see but should want to see.” Aware of how underserved the Latin American community is in High Point in terms of entertainment, this performance supports the theater’s commitment to celebrating the diversity in our communities and highlighting them through shows that value their art and culture.

High Point Theatre is located at 220 E. Commerce Ave. in High Point.

Moving into the weekend, the ongoing collaboration between the High Point Museum and the YWCA Latino Family Center presents its Día de los Muertos event on Saturday, October 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the High Point Museum. The event, now in its seventh year, originally started as an exhibit and has grown into a hybrid learning experience as well as a full-on community celebration. “We’re getting more creative and more participation from community organizations and groups,” said High Point Museum Curator of Education Sara Blanchett. “It’s been great.”

Without a doubt, the event is filling a niche in the community.

YWCA Latino Family Center director Laura Gonidez Arce, a native of Costa Rica, is also delighted to be decorating the High Point Museum alongside her team. “I love the culture, my husband is Mexican, so I just jumped in at the opportunity,” said Gonidez Arce, who is in her third year of working with the event and thoroughly enjoys every step of the process and the partnership with the museum. Together,

Blanchett and Godinez Arce have continuously worked to innovate the exhibit and accompanying event year after year, while entertaining and most importantly educating visitors, particularly students.

Blanchett fondly remembers the event having had its highest turnout yet the year before the pandemic. Naturally following COVID, the museum had to focus on rebuilding its visitation numbers and is optimistic for a turnout of around 200 people this Saturday, if not more.

The museum’s altar exhibit is already on display through November 4, and Saturday’s event will include dance and music performances. Additionally, there will be Day of the Dead Trivia, face painting, and crafts in the education classroom, including an opportunity for children to make an item they can place in the kid community ofrenda in the lower level of the museum.

The High Point Museum is located at 1859 E. Lexington Avenue in High Point.

The following Sunday, October 29, the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History will hold a history talk on Día de los Muertos featuring Sara Cromwell, assistant director of Wake Forest University’s Lam Museum of Anthropology. Scheduled for 3 p.m., Cromwell will discuss the process of making an ofrenda, or altar, including how and why it is built, and the various items placed on it. Immediately following the history talk, indoor and outdoor community ofrenda setups will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. in which community members are invited to bring photos and personal items to place on these.

The Mount Airy Museum of Regional

Casa Azul History is located at 301 N. Main Street in Mount Airy.

A regular collaborator and supporter of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, Cromwell has been curating the “Life after Death: Celebrating Day of the Dead” exhibit for many years now at the Lam Museum of Anthropology. A staple of Winston-Salem, this exhibit has been around for more than 20 years and returns each time with something new to ponder. Consistently highlighting the diversity within the celebration itself, this year’s exhibit which is on display through December 8 is split into three main sections. One focuses on public celebrations, another on the variety of ofrenda setups, and a third on cemetery celebrations.

A unique factor of this particular exhibit is its section dedicated to the commercialization of the Day of the Dead. While it has always been a commercial holiday, it becomes questionable in the United States when it’s more often than not

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“Ofrenda” at High Point Museam blended with Halloween, an entirely separate and unrelated holiday. Cromwell, who rewrote the entire text for this year’s exhibit, specifically spent some time clarifying the text for the commercialization section and added images of Day of the Dead markets. But the best part this year is probably this section’s newest acquisition, toy company Mattel’s Barbie Día de Muertos Doll.

“The commercialization went very far in one direction, where it’s like, this is also Halloween, and we’re going to put it on a can of Pringles for no apparent reason,” explained Cromwell. “But then some companies approached it the other way, and said, we need Mexican and MexicanAmerican artists to collaborate with us, help us do this in the right way, and that is what Mattel did.” The Barbie Día de Muertos Doll on display was designed by Mexican American Javier Meabe, lead product designer for Mattel Inc. Similarly to Pixar’s Coco, Mattel’s integrity has established a voice for Latin American voices rather than cultural appropriation.

The Lam Museum of Anthropology is located in Palmer Hall at 1315 Carroll Weathers Drive on the Wake Forest University Reynolda Campus.

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“Life After Death” exhibit at Lam Museam tion that started it all. With the exhibit running from Wednesday, November 1st through Saturday, November 11th at the Greensboro Cultural Center, special performances will take place in the Van Dyke Performance space the evening of Saturday, November 4th. Artists include Charlotte-based singer Maria Elena Valdez, artistically known as La Reina del Mariachi and Ballet Folklórico Corazón de México.

This year, Casa Azul is expecting its greatest number of ofrendas yet built by community members. “We all in Casa Azul share a deep commitment to spreading our culture, building bridges through our traditions, and also empowering the local artist,” said Fuentes. “We just want local artists to have a space for them to exhibit their work, as well as families, young artists, and people who may not call themselves artists, but have deep cultural roots.” Originally co-founded by former members who have long since passed the baton to current members, Fuentes wishes nothing more than to continue Casa Azul’s well-established legacy.

Casa Azul of Greensboro is located at 200 N. Davie Street, Suite 313, in Greensboro. !

DALIA RAZO is a bilingual journalist, fine arts educator, and doctoral student at UNCG.

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Will Downing: The Prince of Sophisticated Soul The Prince of Sophisticated Soul will make a stop in the Triad as he prepares to release his 27th album.

Will Downing will perform at the High Point Theater, located at 220 E. Chanel Davis Commerce Ave., on Saturday, October Editor 28. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Downing is thought to be one of the most versatile voices in R&B music, with more than three decades in the music industry and a number of classics includ-

ing “I Go Crazy,” “Wishing On A Star,” “I Try,” “A Million Ways,” “Sorry I,” and the show-stopping duet with Rachelle Ferrell, “Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This.”

He has worked on albums by Mariah Carey, The O’Jays, Billy Joel, Gerald Albright, Billy Ocean, Regina Belle, Rachelle Ferrell, and Mica Paris before releasing his first solo album in 1988.

His version of the John Coltrane piece, “A Love Supreme,” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In 2000, his album “All the Man You Need” received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional R&B album. Downing received the International Association of African-American Music Diamond Award in 2002. He self-published a coffee table book, “Unveiled Series,” in 2005 and is the celebrity Ambassador

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Downing said that fans can expect his best at Saturday’s show.

“The fans can expect the best of what I’ve done over 35 years and 26 soon-tobe 27 albums,” Downing said, naming off a few classics that fans can expect.

His distinctive baritone voice has carved a niche in the musical industry and gives him an advantage while he hosts a weekly radio show, “The Wind Down,” which is aired on his website and 20 stations around the world in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Spain.

When asked when he knew that his voice was in a class by itself, Downing referenced filling a slot that had been absent by a classic male vocalist.

“I’ve been blessed to have survived this business all these years. As far as my voice is concerned, a lot of male vocalists have abandoned singing in a lower register. Singers like Teddy Pendergrass, Isaac Hayes, Barry White, etc. have been absent for some time and I fit into that slot really well.”

In the process of his 27th album, Downing credits his experience to his longevity.

“I’ve put out music every year to two years since my career began in ‘88. I sing songs about what I’ve experienced and what I believe that others have as well,” he said. “A good song transcends time and generations.”

His latest release entitled “Romantique Part 1” was released in November

2019. He plans to follow up with “Romantique Part 2” at the end of November 2023.

The first album pays tribute to the musical legends with carefully selected classics with a nod to the original as Downing makes each song his own.

He pays tributes to Lou Rawls, Dionne Warwick, Isaac Hayes, the Jackson 5 and features the sounds of Avery Sunshine, Bassist Al Turner, and drummer Mike Logan, Jr. “I’m currently putting the finishing touches on album/Project #27 and touring nonstop. I’m excited about this new project which is due for release on my birthday, November 29th.” !

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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On October 18, Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam responded to criticisms that UNCG spends too much on administrators and athletics.

In a statement issued that morning and remarks at a faculty forum that afternoon, Gilliam called those claims inaccurate and accused his critics of

having an agenda.

Gilliam was referring to the recent report by East Michigan University accounting professor Howard Bunsis, which was part of an independent study sponsored by the UNCG chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Bunsis is president of East Michigan’s AUUP chapter.

Bunsis’s analysis, alleged Gilliam, is “independent but not unbiased,” and “rife with major and minor inaccuracies, misinformation, and misrepresentation.”

In a News & Record op-ed published two days later, Gilliam accused “a small but vocal group of UNCG faculty” of having “needlessly and unjustifiably put their interests above the interests of the University as a whole and our students.”

In both speech and editorial, Gilliam made statements that his critics have alleged are themselves misleading and inaccurate. “Please fact-check the Chancellor,” said one faculty member after the meeting.

This professor stated that, while their program is unlikely to face significant cuts, they fear retribution if named in this article. Similar allegations of administrative retribution towards those who criticize the chancellor and provost have been expressed by dozens of UNCG faculty and staff, all of whom asked not to be identified.

In his editorial, Gilliam described one Bunsis recommendation as “the old canard, reduce administrative bloat,” and stated that the number of senior administrators has decreased by 17% since July 2019.

But the Bunsis report did not allege “bloat” (a word it did not use) in terms of how many senior administrators work at UNCG; it stated that the total amount spent on administrator salaries has increased annually for the past six years, and at a far greater rate than faculty salaries have increased. AccordWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam

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ing to the Department of Education, the average UNCG administrative salary in 2023 is $141,436, while the average faculty salary is $83,447. Those same figures show that administrative salaries and benefits have increased by 51.4% since 2017, whereas faculty ones have only increased by 5.9%. Chancellor Gilliam has not disputed these figures or percentages.

In 2013-14, according to government figures cited by Bunsis in an earlier report released by the UNCG AAUP, Gilliam’s predecessor, Chancellor Dana Dunn, was paid $318,780, and was the second highest-paid UNCG employee.

Gilliam is currently the highest-paid UNCG employee.

YES! Weekly previously reported that Gilliam makes $434,504, but according to “How much did NC public university chancellors make last year?”, published August 11 by Raleigh’s News & Observer, Gilliam’s base salary plus benefits for 2022 is $534,180.

According to the News & Observer database, Gilliam has the fourth highest base salary of any chancellor or president in the N.C. university system, ahead of N.C. A&T’s Harold Martin.

Gilliam did not address salary figures, nor did faculty press him on these in the comparatively short Q&A that followed his lengthy speech. While nobody addressed the total amount that UNCG administrators make, that figure is higher than ever.

Then there’s Bunsis’s other allegation of overspending, which concerns the amount that UNCG, which has no football team and whose basketball games are sparsely attended, spends on sports.

In 2013, men’s basketball head coach Wes Miller was the 16th-highest-paid UNCG employee, earning $184,000. Ten years later, men’s basketball head coach

Mike Jones earns $344,784, an increase of 187%. Women’s basketball head coach Trina Patterson earns $150,235, less than half of what Jones makes, at a university that is 66% female.

Gilliam also responded to what he said was Bunsis’s claim that UNCG spends “$4.5 million on athletics,” which he called “misleading at best, misrepresentation at worst.” However, the Bunsis report states, based on NCAA annual financial reports, that UNCG’s athletic expenses for 2022 were $17,117,048.

The Bunsis report states, based on NCAA annual financial reports, that UNCG’s athletic expenses for 2022 were $17,117,048.

This figure includes $3,132,133 in coach’s salaries, $2,927,014 in staff salaries, $4,451,868 for facilities and equipment, $2,702,792 in athletic student aid, $1,836,128 in game expenses and travel, $1,448,273 in “other expenses,” $219,176 in medical expenses, $276,504 on recruiting, and $24,160 on competition guarantees.

In his hour at the podium, Gilliam made statements about Bunsis’s previous reports on other colleges that an examination of those reports does not seem to support.

Citing Bunsis’s analysis of Gallaudet University, which Gilliam called “a very fine university for the deaf in D.C.,” the Chancellor alleged that the conclusions of that report were “identical” to what Bunsis concluded about UNCG. Gilliam offered this evidence that Bunsis has an “agenda” that causes him to “say the same thing” at every university he analyzes for the AAUP, which is that cuts need to be made to administration and athletics.

But what Bunsis wrote about Gallaudet is not “identical” to what he wrote about UNCG. For instance, one of

Bunsis’s primary criticisms of Gallaudet is that it annually spends $30-40 million on consultants. The word “consultant” does not appear in his report on UNCG. He also reported that, in 2022, federal appropriations accounted for 75% of Gallaudet’s revenues, a figure that has risen every year since 2019, whereas tuition has only accounted for 9.4%. At UNCG in 2022, the state appropriation for UNCG accounted for 37% of its revenue, while tuition and fees accounted for 19%.

Nor did Bunsis criticize Gallaudet for what it spends on athletics, whereas those expenses represented a significant portion of what he said UNCG should cut.

The forum concluded with a Q&A session. Mark Elliott, associate head of the history department and president of UNCG AAUP, asked if it was accurate that Gilliam will decide on what programs and professors to eliminate due to what the chancellor and provost have alleged are necessary budget cuts.

“Some folks may get reallocated,” said Gilliam, who indicated that the process will take at least three years. “We have to teach-out the students who have declared majors. They will all be granted degrees in the majors to which they are enrolled. It’s not this sort of boogeyman that’s out there. We discontinue programs all the time.”

In his editorial and statement, Gilliam accused faculty of attempting “to scare current and future students unnecessarily” and of having spread “misinformation” about what positions and programs will be cut.

Gilliam’s accusations are “unfounded and unfair,” said Faye Stewart. Stewart is the graduate director of UNCG’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

“Faculty has access to information,” continued Stewart, “including the Academic Program Review rankings, that have been kept hidden from students and the public. Those spreadsheets are available online, but they are passwordprotected. If the administration wants to be transparent about how programs are being assessed and which programs may be considered for discontinuation, why aren’t they making this information available to students and the wider public?” !

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he Last Longleaf drops in the woodshed as Dave Willis brings his solo project celebrating three new singles for Molly McGinn’s Woodshed ExperiKatei Cranford ence, on October 27, at Gas Hill Drinking Room in WinstonContributor Salem.

Carved out of the Woodshed itself — a regular meetup of songsters and writers wrangled by McGinn at various venues — the Last Longleaf offers Willis (longstanding player in Possum Jenkins) a sort of creative reboot following a few “quiet years” and a handful of solo-singles.

“I’m more or less just trying to get back into the swing of things,” Willis said, relaying a sort of earnest core that resonates in his work. “You know — making something

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With friends like McGinn (and other Woodshedders like DaShawn Hickman), plus what McGinn calls Willis’ “ever-present passel of Possum Jenkins bandmates”: Jared Church, Nate Turner, Dave Brewer, and Brent Buckner; makin’ something comes mighty easy.

“If you want to get better at something,” Willis said, referencing Hickman’s pedal steel prowess, “surround yourself with people who are better than you.” “ …or however that idiom goes,” Willis continued, praising Hickman’s spate of recent awards. “He’s actually forced me to rethink how I play.”

The familiar alt-country twang of the ol’ Possum crew remains, though Willis continues transcending bounds of Americana — getting into the rock’n’roll grit as easily as he does slinging rounds in a more folksinger style. Straight-forward lyrics build on melodies that continue expanding his “Carolinacana” repertoire.

And like so many in the McGinn fold: Willis’ latest offerings first came together in the Woodshed — and were polished in official recording form via Doug Williams at Electromagnetic Radiation Recorders.

“Pre-pandemic, I was writing again and trying to get demos recorded just to send around to the Possum guys or to Molly to see if we could get a new project going,” Willis recalled. “Of course, those got pushed to the side considering that we really weren’t playing at all — in any of the projects.”

A woodworker, illustrator and allaround self-proclaimed “serial hobbyist,” Willis stayed busy. “I did put out two of those solo songs out in 2021, as something of a test run,” he explained. “They were fun to make, but kind of stalled on take-off: between work and life and raising youngin’s, it can be difficult to make anything consistent.”

Meanwhile, McGinn was retooling what would become the Woodshed Experience — a linchpin for local musicians, Willis included. “When Molly started doing her Woodshed project, I was able to make playing guitar a regular thing again,” he said. “Then we started mixing in some new songs and got comfortable with that group playing them.”

And with comfort comes consistency: “These upcoming singles are the first three songs we learned,” Willis noted, “but we’ve already started working on newer material.”

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On the menu, alt-country bleeds into what McGinn swears holds a Paul Simon sort of style — she’s not entirely wrong — though the similarities are beyond Willis’ intent. “Honestly, I don’t know where that came from,” he bemused. “It does show how different people hear your work in a completely different light than you would have expected.“ Johnny Cash’s influence over “Things To Do,” however, remains undisputed.

Covering the grounded joys of staying busy through sonic spit-fire chaos, Willis actually pulled inspiration directly from Cash’s oft-published, though strangely succinct, piece of agenda.

“What an odd list,” Willis said, reviewing the listing: “cough, eat, pee, etc. …it’s pretty funny, but I’m sure Johnny Cash never expected anyone to see this list he’d written to himself.”

“But I’m actually a habitual list-maker,” Willis continued, “and can certainly see myself leaving similar notes around the house.”

Taking cues from personal notes, the bluesy “Taking So Long,” offers a more subdued approach — matching the dread and loneliness of pandemic times. “It’s a song that lives up to its name and took way too long to get out,” Willis explained.

“It was in the first batch of songs — before the Longleaf project came long — but finally evolved with the help of the Woodshed folks.”

For “Roses,” Willis and those Woodshed folks get a little far out — think J.J. Cale meets Waylon Jennings — for which they headed to the Fidelitorium in Kernersville to record. Starting with the straightforward, the song ends up meandering in its own way — perhaps matching, as McGinn described, “a soundtrack for overmedicated walks in the woods.” For Willis, the session offered “a fun way to flesh

out a simple tune.” “It starts out just as it sounded in the room,” he explained. “But by the end, these added guitar countermelodies, more vocal harmonies, and mellotron strings until we built this little wall of sound.”

The Spector reference isn’t surprising. “I get stuck in these same old loops of 1960s or 1970s country and rock and pop,” Willis admitted. “I have to force myself to listen to something new — if not I’m back on George Harrison, Albert King, and Willie and Waylon.”

“I just love that stuff,” he said, turning to more of his “forced” reckonings: ”Aaron Lee Tasjan, Lily Hiatt, and Viv & Riley have been getting a lot of spins in the car lately, too.”

It’s an approach that extends beyond Willis’ speakers as he gears up to celebrate 20 years of Possum Jenkins. “I’ve known the Possum guys since college and met Molly shortly after moving to Winston-Salem,” he mused, referencing their official collaboration together in the Wurlitzer Prize outfit. “They’re all great friends,” he said. “Easy to work with, and quick laughs.”

Laughs he’s looking forward to sharing at the upcoming Gas Hill show (and the special “Possums Drinkin’” beer release and annual day-after-Thanksgiving party at Wise Man Brewing next). New brews and tunes flow as the years whirl on; but rest assured, certain things don’t change — through slide guitar and Americana harmonies — the latest from the Last Longleaf won’t be the last.

Dave Willis, aka the Last Longleaf, celebrates his latest release with Molly McGinn’s Woodshed Experience, on October 27 at Gas Hill Drinking Room. !

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