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At SPINNING DREAMS, a new cinema recently opened in Greensboro by filmmaker, actor and educator Edna Thompson, the concessions are cheap and the movies are free.

5 The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ongoing “RIVERRUN RETRO” screening series brings star power to its next special presentation, a screening of the 1959 Twentieth Century Fox drama The Best of Everything with co-star Diane Baker and noted author and film historian Foster Hirsch in attendance.

6 The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts is delighted to announce that tickets for the national tour of “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” will go on sale Friday, November 10 for eight performances from March 26-31, 2024.

7 Wake Forest University’s inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award winner DEBBIE ALLEN will participate in a conversation about her life and career in Wait Chapel on Sunday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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VIRGINIA FOXX is not like most Washington politicians who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths. In fact, she may not have even had a spoon.

9 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON can be an enlightening experience but it’s also an exhausting one. Its worthy message is over-emphasized to the point of repetition, and its 3½ running time tends to work against, rather than enhance, its cumulative impact.

14 Army veteran WANDA ABBOT was regularly asked that by male soldiers serving in Operation Desert Shield, the 1990 mobilization for the first Gulf War. They kept asking even after she saw combat in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

16 Emanuel Wynter continues encircling into his own with his sophomore release, “FROM ORBIT.” Recorded in February

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Charlotte –The public is invited to attend either of two open house meetings with the N.C. Department of Transportation to view updated information on 5 projects proposed to widen a section of N.C. 73 to a four-lane divided roadway and to improve the I-77/N.C. 73 interchange.

The limits for these five separate projects include: R-5721B – Beatties Ford Rd to West Catawba U-5765 – West Catawba Ave. to Northcross Drive I-5715 – Upgrade existing interchange to split diamond R-2632AB – Old Statesville Rd to Davidson-Concord Rd R-5706 – Davidson-Concord Rd to U.S. 29 The public meetings will be held on Nov 14, 2023, at Lake Norman Baptist Church located at 7921 Sam Furr Road in Huntersville. The open house meetings will be held from 2-4 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. The public is invited to attend either open house.

Project details, including maps, can be found on the NCDOT project webpages: https://www.ncdot.gov/projects/nc-73-improvements-lincoln-mecklenburg/ Pages/default.aspx https://www.ncdot.gov/projects/nc-73-mecklenburg-cabarrus/Pages/default. aspx NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled people who wish to participate in this virtual hearing. Anyone requiring special services should contact Diane Wilson, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center in Raleigh; 919-707-6073; or pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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t Spinning Dreams, a new cinema recently opened in Greensboro by filmmaker, actor and educator Edna Thompson, the concessions are cheap Ian McDowell and the movies are free.

“Like so many in Contributor the local community,” said Thompson, “I was dismayed when the Litchfield discount cinema fell victim to the pandemic, as movies cost so much, especially when you figure in refreshments and popcorn. So, I decided to do something about it.”

Her cinema is small but cozy, with 75 comfortable seats and a concession stand that serves freshly made popcorn (“the best in Greensboro”) for $2 for 32 oz., $3 for 64 oz., and $5 for an 85 oz. tub. All candy, including M&Ms, Skittles, and Snickers is $1.50, as are all chips. Hot dogs, which Thompson grills at home, are $2. Canned sodas and bottled tea are $1.50, while bottled water is $1.

Admission is free. While walk-ins are fine, Thompson recommends signing up for showings via the “Get Tickets” EventBrite link at www. spinning-dreams.com, so she knows how many audience members to anticipate.

During the interview, she offered me a chargrilled hotdog and asked for an honest opinion. When complimented on both its quality and how well she grilled it, Thompson said, “That’s because my mom always insisted that love had to be the extra ingredient.”

Spinning Dreams free cinema is located in the Office Blue Event Center in Suite 108 of the Pinehurst Building at 2 Centerview Drive, just off West Meadowview in Greensboro. When I visited it last week, Thompson was showing The Blackening, director Tim Story’s 2022 horror com-

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Edna Thompson at the Spinning Dreams concession stand. edy that addresses the typical fate of Black characters in slasher movies with the tagline “We Can’t All Die First.”

Spinning Dreams will show The Blackening again on Tuesday, November 14 at 10:15 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., and on Monday, November 27, at 12:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. For this week’s schedule, call the cinema at 336-907-3021 or email spinningdreamsenterainment@gmail.com.

Upcoming movies include The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Pixar/ Disney’s Oscar-winning 2017 animated feature Coco, the Whitney Houston concert film I Wanna Dance with Somebody and Plane, the 2023 action film with Gerard Butler and Mike Colter (Marvel’s Luke Cage).

There are also some surprises.

“I am working on some Christmas films the community probably has not seen at all. I called the studios yesterday and they both called me back, so I’m waiting to get a license to show those two movies. I can’t tell you the titles yet, but I’m really excited.”

Thompson wrote, produced, and directed the 2021 film Office Blue — Shelter in Place, which was shot in Greensboro. In it, she plays a member of a community in crisis after a stay-at-home order reveals secrets and lies between office workers, spouses, and families.

“I did it originally as a short demo, which I pitched at producers for funding, and they gave me a standing ovation, but nobody gave me any money, so I produced it myself. I’d previously done a direct-toDVD educational film titled It’s Your Baby, which was designed to prevent teen sex and pregnancy. I may end up remaking it, as the budget wasn’t sufficient for streaming. There were issues with background noise and lighting that I didn’t have the finances to correct.”

But when she turned her Office Blue demo short into a feature film, she raised the money to surmount those challenges, and Office Blue – Shelter in Place is available on Tubi, Prime Video, Mometu, TCL, Xumo, and Plex. She has since completed a sequel, Office Blue – Our Christmas, which will have its streaming debut during this holiday season.

Thompson has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Elementary Education program at North Carolina A&T. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in School

Education, Administration, and Leadership at UNCG. “I’m originally from Concord, but we were right there on the County line, with a Huntersville physical address, a Davidson phone number, and me attending a Cabarrus County school. Grew up on a farm with many animals, including cows, pigs, and hogs (which aren’t the same thing), chickens and turkeys.”

Thompson, who is one of this area’s first Black women independent filmmakers, is reaching out to other Indy filmmakers and offering them Spinning Dreams as a venue in which they can show their films at no up-front costs.

She is also holding auditions for future Office Blue and other Spinning Dreams Entertainment films. “Our business is to provide movies appropriate for the whole family to view together. We need actors, extras, models, and performers with original music to feature in our films.”

For more information, visit spinningdreams.com. !

IAN MCDOWELL is an award-winning author and journalist whose book I Ain’t Resisting: the City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith will be published in September by Scuppernong Editions.

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RiverRun celebrates Diane Baker and The Best of Everything

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The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ongoing “RiverRun Retro” screening series brings star power to its next special presentation, a screening of the 1959 Twentieth Century Fox drama The Best of Everything with co-star Diane Baker and noted author and film historian Foster Hirsch in at-

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The Best of Everything will be screened at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18th in the Main Theatre on the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) campus, 1533 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem.

Tickets are $12 (general admission) and $6 (students with valid ID) and are available at https://riverrunfilm.com/. Baker and Hirsch will participate in an onstage discussion regarding the film and Baker’s career, and Baker will be presented with RiverRun’s Master of Cinema award.

“I am deeply honored we are able to present our Master of Cinema award to Diane Baker,” said Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director. “While many know her from her on-screen performances and a stellar career working with the likes of George Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman, and Gregory Peck, she is also a talented producer of both documentary and narrative stories, and she has a deep devotion to film education is an educator herself. This promises to be one of the most special ‘Retro’ evenings we have had the pleasure of hosting.”

Based on Rona Jaffe’s best-selling novel, The Best of Everything follows three young women (Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, and Baker) as they navigate the rigors of balancing career and romance working at a high-powered New York publishing firm. Joan Crawford plays the head of the firm, and a star-studded cast includes Louis Jourdan, Stephen Boyd, Martha Hyer, Brian Aherne, and Robert Evans (later to find fame as the head of Paramount Pictures). The film earned Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design (color) and Best Original Song (the title tune), crooned by Johnny Mathis.

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Donald Harron, Diane Baker and Brian Aherne in The Best of Everything board. “It’s a grand entertainment deeply rooted in its own time yet bursting with entertainment value for the present moment. It is a special treat to screen the film in the presence of its sole remaining star, the incandescent Diane Baker, who was signed to a contract at Twentieth Century Fox just as the old contract system and the studio era were nearing the end. As always, I look forward to returning to RiverRun, one of the best-run and most generous film festivals in the country, headed by Rob Davis, an incomparable host and executive director.”

In addition to the screening, Hirsch will also be signing copies of his new book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” a sweepingly comprehensive and self-explanatory overview of film in the 1950s, detailing the fall of the studio system, the introduction of such gimmicks as 3-D and CinemaScope, the Hollywood Blacklist, the inestimable impact of television on the film industry, careers that began or ended during the decade, and much more. Bookmarks will be at the screening offering the book for purchase.

“I wrote the book in part as a defense of the 1950s, a decade too often and too easily dismissed as a complacent age of innocence,” Hirsch explained. “It was in fact a time of great transition and change, of moral and political challenges. Out of the crucible of its many conflicts came a collection of some of the greatest films ever made in America: A Place in the Sun, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Born Yesterday, Rear Window, Ben-Hur, Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Imitation of Life, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Night of the Hunter, Vertigo — the list could go on and on. I wanted to celebrate my own

coming-of-age at the movies. I started going to movies on a regular basis when 3-D, Cinerama, and CinemaScope were introduced. In free-fall from the competition of television, the industry had to reinvent itself with new subjects and formats. My approach is personal — in a way, the book is a kind of memoir, a story of the author’s experience of going to the movies in the postwar decade.”

“When Diane Baker accepted our invitation, we wanted a film from the 1950s to correspond to Foster’s book,” Davis said. “She actually suggested ‘The Best of Everything,’ and I was thrilled as it encapsulates the decade on several fronts.

First, from the standpoint of story, there are so many boundary-pushing themes in the film for that era such as premarital sex, abortion, etc., which were only beginning to show up on the screen.

Second, the film’s look captures the era perfectly with both color and design taking mid-century modernism to the max.

And finally, the film is representative of the end of the studio system approach to filmmaking. The film’s beautiful score was composed by Alfred Newman, who had composed the Fox fanfare for the opening of the studio’s films and was with the studio for 20 years. The Best of Everything would be his last score as head of the studio’s music department and his title song, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, would receive an Oscar nomination. Not a bad way to leave!”

Baker made her feature debut in George Stevens’ acclaimed 1959 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank and has since appeared in such films as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), William Castle’s 1964 shocker StraitJacket (which reunited her with Crawford), Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964),

Edward Dmytryk’s Mirage (1965), Cliff Robertson’s The Pilot (1980), The Joy Luck Club (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Christopher Guest’s A Mighty Wind (2003), and the Oscar-winning thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

She also taught acting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and was the executive director at the School of Motion Pictures — Television and the School of Acting. !

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“TINA – The Tina Turner Musical” on sale Nov. 10 PRESS RELEASE The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts is delighted to announce that tickets for the national tour of “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” will go on sale Friday, November 10 for eight performances from March 26-31, 2024.

Tickets start at $33 + ticket fees via: · TangerCenter.com · Ticketmaster.com · Groups of 10+ are now available.

Visit TangerCenter.com/Groups or email Groups@TangerCenter.com for more information.

The North American touring cast is led

by Ari Groover (“TINA Broadway,” “Head Over Heels,” “Holler If Ya hear Me,” “Little Shop of Horrors”) and Parris Lewis (“Hairspray”) who will evenly share the role of Tina Turner, each playing four (of eight) performances a week. Also starring are Deon Releford-Lee as Ike Turner, Roz White as Zelma Bullock, Wydetta Carter as Gran Georgeanna and Sarah Bockel as Rhonda.

The ensemble includes Daelyanna Kelly Benson, Antonio Beverly, Ben Bogen, Karen Burthwright, Aliyah Caldwell, Brianna Cameron, Max Falls, Zachary FreierHarrison, Reyna Guerra, Gordia Hayes, Takia Hopson, Geoffrey Kidwell, Symphony King, Gigi Lewis, Natalia Nappo, Wildlin Pierrevil, Gerard M. Williams, Nia NelsonWilliams, Terance Reddick, Shari Washington Rhone, Eric Siegle, Kristopher Stanley Ward, Christine Suddeth, and Jeff Sullivan.

“The North American tour of “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” is one of eight productions that have opened around the world since the show began in the West

End in 2018, which is testimony to Tina’s extraordinary legacy,” the producers, Tali Pelman from Stage Entertainment and Jimmy Nederlander said. “We can’t wait for America to see the two megawatt superstars who share the role of Tina, Deon Releford-Lee in the role of Ike, and the incredibly talented company who are on the road in this tour!”

Produced by Stage Entertainment, James L. Nederlander and Tali Pelman, in association with Tina Turner, “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” was written by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins.

“TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” is directed by Tony Award nominee Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Tony Award nominee Anthony van Laast, set and costume designs by Tony Award nominee Mark Thompson, Music Supervision, Arrangements & Incidental Music by Nicholas Skilbeck, lighting by Tony Award nominee Bruno Poet, sound

by Tony Award nominee Nevin Steinberg, projection design by Tony Award nominee Jeff Sugg, orchestrations by Tony Award nominee Ethan Popp, wigs, hair and makeup design by Drama Desk Award winner Campbell Young Associates, and casting by The Telsey Office.

An uplifting comeback story like no other, “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

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of all time, Tina Turner won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows were seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.

Featuring her much loved songs, “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.

This new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner received its world premiere in April 2018 in London, where it opened to five-star reviews and has broken box office records at the Aldwych Theatre. In March 2019, the German production opened at Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg, the Broadway production followed in November 2019 and was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical. The Dutch production opened at the Beatrix Theater, Utrecht, in February 2020. A third European production opened in Fall 2021 at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid, Spain and the most recent production opened at the Theatre Royal Sydney in Australia in May of 2023.

“TINA — The Tina Turner Musical” originally opened on Broadway on November 7, 2019, was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production reopened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on October 8, 2021, following the 18-month industry wide shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Broadway production ended performances Sunday, August 14.

Produced by Stage Entertainment and Ghostlight Records and featuring the original London cast, “TINA

— The Tina Turner Musical: Original Cast Recording” is available worldwide on CD, both online and in stores. The CD features a 20-page booklet, which includes liner notes, synopsis, and production and studio photography. The album was recorded in February 2019 at Angel Studios and RAK Studios, produced by the show’s Music Supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck and Kurt Deutsch, and co-produced

by Tom Kelly. To download or stream the album, or order the CD, please visit http:// www.ghostlightrecords.lnk.to/riverdeeptinaturnermusical.

When she was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in October, 2021, Tina Turner became one of only three women in the institution’s history to be inducted twice (she was initially inducted in 1991, alongside Ike Turner).

The Emmy-nominated feature documentary “TINA” is now available to stream on HBO Max. A revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, “TINA” charts her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. The feature documentary is from Academy Award-winning directors Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin and Lightbox, the production company founded by Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn, together with Emmy-nominated producer Diane Becker.

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SHOP HANDMADE FOR THE HOLIDAYS AT SAWTOOTH’S HOLIDAY MARKET ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2

BY ROBERT GRANT Sawtooth has long been a destination for those looking to give their family and friends one-of-a-kind holiday gifts made by highly acclaimed regional artists–and this year is no different. This season, the almost 80-year-old school presents Sawtooth Spotlight, a new event comprising a dynamic juried exhibition and a day-long holiday market.

The juried exhibition is on view at Sawtooth’s Davis Gallery from Monday, November 13, through Saturday, December 9. Featuring dozens of works created by Sawtooth instructors, students, staff, and friends — with many of them for sale–the exhibition serves as a celebration of the Triad’s creativity while offering a great sampler of the school’s offerings. Join Sawtooth on Saturday, November 18, from 5 to 7 p.m., for the exhibition’s reception, which is open to the public and features a cash bar.

On Saturday, December 2, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., over 50 artists from across the region will fill the studios across Sawtooth — and spill into Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts–for a spirited holiday market like no other.

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fun for the whole family, with craft demonstrations and hands-on activities for all ages (adults, too!) offered throughout the day. Guests can also purchase food and drinks from local favorites, including Sur Chilean Inspired Food, Taco Bros, coffee from Inti House, and refreshments from Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, among others.

Sawtooth’s Holiday Market is open to the public with a suggested donation of $5, supporting the school’s scholarship and community outreach programs. !

SAWTOOTH is located at 251 N. Spruce Street in downtown Winston-Salem. Learn more about these events, and see the full list of participating artists and vendors, at sawtooth.org

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Inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence winner Debbie Allen at Wake Forest Wake Forest University’s inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award winner Debbie Allen will participate in a conversation about her life and career in Wait Chapel on Sunday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Wake Forest Professor of Dance Nina Lucas and Monet Beatty, owner of Monet Beatty Dance Company in Winston-Salem, will moderate the discussion.

The Maya Angelou Artistin-Residence Award honors world-renowned artists who reflect Maya Angelou’s passions for creating, performing and teaching and celebrates exceptional artists for combining achievement in the arts and a commitment to improving the human condition. Angelou was Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest from 1982 to 2014.

As artist-in-residence, Allen’s engagement with students will include teaching a ballet class, participating in a roundtable discussion with students, and critiquing the dress rehearsal of Wake Forest’s Fall Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert that opens Nov. 16.

Allen has earned six Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, five NAACP Image Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and the first Astaire Award (for Best Dancer). She holds five honorary degrees, has been an artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for more than 15 years and was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2020.

In 2001, she was appointed by Presi-

Debbie Allen dent George W. Bush to represent the United States as a Cultural Ambassador of Dance. That same year, she opened the nonprofit Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles, where she currently teaches young dancers.

As an actress, Allen is best known for her role as Lydia Grant in the 1980s hit series Fame, In 2011, she began playing Dr. Catherine Avery in the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.

Allen is also the author of the children’s books “Dancing in the Wings” and “Brothers of the Night.” !

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY combines the best traditions of a small liberal arts college with the resources of a large research university. Founded in 1834, the school is located in Winston-Salem, N.C. The University’s graduate school of arts and sciences, divinity school, and nationally ranked schools of law, medicine and business enrich our intellectual environment. Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu.

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irginia Foxx is not like most Washington politicians who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths. In fact, she may not have even had a Jim Longworth spoon. Growing up in Avery County, Virginia’s family was Longworth so poor that in order at Large to make ends meet, she took a job as a janitor at the high school she was attending. She persevered and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill then went on to teach English at Appalachian State University, followed by a stint as president of Maryland Community College. Her first taste of politics came while serving as Gov. Jim Martin’s Deputy Secretary of Management. That led to a successful run for the state Senate where she served from 1994 until 2004. That year, 5th District Congressman Richard Burr decided to jump from the House to the United States Senate, creating a crowded field of Republican candidates who wanted to succeed him.

That’s when I got to know Virginia Foxx.

Then as now, the 5th district is so heavily Republican that whoever snags the nomination for Congress is all but assured of a victory in the general election. That’s why eight Republicans lined

Time for Foxx to Retire up to run in a July primary for Burr’s vacated seat. Known only to voters in Watauga County, Virginia finished in second place behind the bombastic Vernon Robinson who billed himself as “the Black Jesse Helms,” and was, in many ways, Trump before Trump. Robinson had served on Winston-Salem City Council and made a name for himself for outrageous statements and stunts, like the time he placed a replica of the Ten Commandments on the courthouse steps, or took credit for creating charter schools. Unfortunately for Vernon, his margin of victory over Foxx wasn’t large enough to avoid a run-off. That set up their one and only face-to-face debate which I moderated as part of a “Triad Today” special.

On August 4, 2004, just prior to the run-off election, Foxx and Robinson sat down with me for a half-hour discussion and debate. At one point, Robinson took a veiled swipe at Foxx for being a woman who never served in the military.

VR: I’m the only person in this race with military experience…I served as a missile combat crew commander.

JL: Exactly in what war did you serve?

VR: (pauses to think) The Cold War. JL: But you’ve often talked about your combat experience. Did you engage in combat?

VR: No, but I’m a veteran.

I also questioned Robinson about his Education Reform Foundation.

JL: Your Foundation has a budget of $107,000, but you pay yourself

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VR: (pauses) Uh, that was over three years.

In the years since that famous debate, I’ve been told that my fact-checking line of questioning cost Vernon the election.

If that’s so, then you can blame me for putting Virginia Foxx in Congress. But it was also during that broadcast nearly 20 years ago that Virginia said something which is now coming back to haunt her. Said Ms. Foxx, “The people of this district deserve a dignified, hard-working person who wants to serve them.”

After taking her seat in Congress, Virginia was dignified. She was a model representative, not only attending every House vote but showing up at numerous events back home in the district. I referred to her as, “the hardest working woman in Congress,” a tag that still applies today. I was honored when, in 2005, Virginia took to the floor of the House and read a proclamation in recognition of my work on “Triad Today.”

Said Foxx, “Mr. Speaker, the press has a responsibility to fulfill its role as the fourth estate, that is to serve as a guardian of democracy and defender of the public interest. I am pleased to congratulate ‘Triad Today’ for its outstanding commitment to keeping the community informed.”

But somewhere along the way, Virginia started to change. She went from being dignified to being arrogant and angry.

She also became a camera hound who managed to wrangle herself beside Republican presidents and leaders during State of the Union addresses and press conferences. And, Virginia became such a partisan that she didn’t care what bilge she spewed, like when she frightened her own elderly constituents by telling them that Obamacare would create death camps for older people.

Worst of all she forgot how to act with and around anyone who disagreed with her increasingly far-right-wing ideologies. She also forgot her pledge to be dignified and to defend the free press, as we saw recently when she yelled at a reporter.

That was the day homophobic insurrection supporter Mike Johnson was named Speaker of the House. Afterward, Virginia pushed her way to the front of Johnson’s impromptu press conference where a reporter from ABC News asked the Speaker about his role in trying to

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Virigina Foxx overturn the 2020 election. Before Johnson could respond, the gaggle of fellow election deniers behind him laughed at the question. Then, Virginia jumped in and shouted to the reporter, “SHUT UP! SHUT UP!” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from my friend who once pledged to be “dignified.” This was the same woman who, when honoring “Triad Today,” called the press, “guardians of democracy and defenders of the public interest.”

Her outburst at the ABC reporter was alarming, not just because it was scary rude, but because it said a lot about how far Virginia Foxx has devolved from being a polite partisan into a self-appointed censor of anyone who doesn’t believe the lies that she and her right-wing colleagues spin with great regularity.

Thanks to GOP gerrymandering, Virginia Foxx, now 80 years old, is assured of a seat in Congress for as long as she wants it. I just wish she didn’t want it.

She has become an embarrassment to our state and a symbol of everything that is wrong with politics in America.

I wish Virginia would do the right thing and retire, but if she decides to remain in office, I just wish she would, to use her words, “SHUT UP! SHUT UP!” !

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here is no question that, throughout history, Native Americans have been betrayed and mistreated.

Mark Burger Promises were made and treaties were signed, Contributor but the powers that be (white and wealthy) had no hesitation in repeatedly breaking them.

Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man (1970), Ralph Nelson’s Soldier Blue (1970), and Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves (1990) are among the earlier films that depicted this to some degree or another, but they could be categorized as traditional Westerns. Killers of the Flower Moon is set in the years following World War II, so there is a relatively more contemporary sensibility to the proceedings.

Producer/director Martin Scorsese’s sprawling adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction best-seller, scripted by Scorsese and Eric Roth (Oscar winner for Forrest Gump), is laden with good intentions, is extremely well-made, and proves once again how masterful a filmmaker Scorsese is. Once considered a wunderkind (or, perhaps, enfant terrible), he has deservedly emerged as one of the most revered directors of his time, if not all time.

That said, Killers of the Flower Moon can be an enlightening experience but it’s also an exhausting one. Its worthy message is over-emphasized to the point of repetition, and its 3½ running time tends to work against, rather than enhance, its cumulative impact. The film is being lauded for its intentions (admirable) and Scorsese’s directorial prowess (considerable), and there are moments of unmistakable power and even poetry, but too often Killers of the Flower Moon lumbers when it should soar. Not unlike Scorsese’s 2016 religious epic Silence — a film with its share of admirers — it succumbs to heavyhandedness.

Having discovered oil on their tribal land, the Osage people of Oklahoma have enjoyed an unexpected financial windfall, both for the good and bad.

As a statement on capitalism, the film certainly makes its point. Robert De Niro plays William “King” Hale, a cattle baron who has taken the time to learn the customs and language of the Osage — all the better to manipulate and swindle them.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, King’s nephew, who recently returned from service overseas. He takes a job as a driver and is immediately infatuated with Mollie (Lily Gladstone), a diabetic Osage woman who seems more bemused by Ernest than besotted with him. Their courtship and later marriage are punctuated by a series of Osage deaths, some from illness and others having been murdered, some in broad daylight. Yet the authorities don’t seem particularly interested in looking into them — but everyone, it seems, is out to make a (financial) killing.

Scorsese takes great pains to explore the culture and customs of the Osage Indians, then promptly jettisons them when the narrative shifts into a more conventional crime-drama mode. The latter is familiar territory for Scorsese, yet even as gifted a filmmaker as he can’t extract much suspense from the inevitable outcome. Killers of the Flower Moon is both a history lesson and a morality play, but it needs more fire, more passion.

DiCaprio is still boyish enough to convince as an uneducated, ethically challenged rube, De Niro is in full Machiavellian mode as the aptly nicknamed

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by Scorsese’s long-time friend and collaborator, the irreplaceable Robbie Robertson (who died in August).

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King (although his status as the film’s villain is obvious from the get-go), and the enormously empathetic Gladstone suffers nobly as Mollie, despite being bedridden a good portion of the film’s running time. Theirs are the only characters to emerge, however.

Jesse Plemons brings a nice, no-nonsense approach to Tom White, the agent sent by J. Edgar Hoover to spearhead the investigation for what would later become the FBI, but he’s a standardissue flatfoot. We learn nothing about him beyond the badge. John Lithgow (reliably solid) and Brendan Fraser (over the top) turn up late in the game as the attorneys involved in the case, and such familiar folk as Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Basaraba, Gene Jones, and Barry Corbin also appear to good effect.

Yet Killers of the Flower Moon is so concerned — and even consumed — with conveying the bigger picture and its message that the film’s characters almost become incidental. Some Native Americans have complained that the Osage characters are basically collectively portrayed as victims. But in most cases the white characters don’t emerge beyond much rudimentary description either. The film also ends with one of the strangest scenes in recent memory, although it does afford Scorsese a cameo appearance.

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A store in Swansea, Wales, that supports the Barnardo children’s charity has circulated a request to its donors, United Press International reported on Oct. 27: Please don’t send us your sex toys. “Please be mindful that we are a children’s charity and as such we have a range of ages on our wonderful volunteer team,” the statement read.

“We therefore ask that you refrain from donating your used and unused marital aids! ... The branch has CCTV so that these items can be traced back to their owners.” In other words, we know who you are.

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A 75-year-old woman in Pavia, Italy, had to get the courts involved to get her two sons, ages 42 and 40, out of her house, CNN reported on Oct. 27. Mom described her sons as “parasites” who had been living with her without contributing financially, even though both had jobs.

Judge Simona Caterbi called the brothers “bamboccioni,” or big babies, and declared they have until Dec. 18 to vacate the woman’s home. “Once a certain age has been exceeded, the child can no longer expect the parents to continue the maintenance obligation within limits that are no longer reasonable,” Caterbi said. The brothers hadn’t decided whether they would appeal the decision.

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The name pays tribute to the baby’s mother and father, other members of the family and religious devotions. But register rules limit a child’s name to one compound name and two simple ones, and the duke and his wife will need to shorten the name for legal purposes.

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An unnamed teacher at Mesa High School in Arizona is on paid administrative leave and under investigation after he dressed up in devil horns and waved a pitchfork over students’ heads on Oct. 25, KPNX-TV reported. Student Nathaniel Hamlet, who reported the incident to his dad, said the teacher said, “Hail, Satan” as he waved the pitchfork. “Some people thought it was funny, some people didn’t like it,” said Hamlet, who was insulted by the costume. For his part, the teacher said he was dressing up for Spirit Week at the school and was part of a “dynamic duo” with the teacher next door, who dressed as an angel. “Participating in spirit weeks like this is a way for me to engage with my students and bring fun to my classroom,” he said. “It’s truly not any more complicated than that.” Mesa Public Schools said in a statement that the investigation is ongoing.

– The Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge, Georgia, has updated its menu with an addendum: Patrons will get a surcharge if they are “unable to parent” — $50 per bill for misbehaving kids — NBC10 Philadelphia reported.

A Google review from diner Lyndsey Landmann described a “huge scene” made by the owner in front of the whole restaurant: “He got in our faces and told us that we belonged at Burger King and not at his restaurant,” Landmann said.

“He was yelling.” The owners, however, said they weren’t going to “comment on a policy we’ve had for years. We just want to live in the woods and cook.”

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A school spokesperson said the prankster was given “the option to take the costume off or leave the stadium.” Sam

Houston was winning the game until the phallic fan was removed; they lost 37-34.

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Bet you didn’t know that every year, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials distribute oral rabies vaccines to raccoon populations in 14 states, driving around and targeting areas where the critters will find and eat the bait. But, as NPR reported, in rural communities, it’s more efficient to drop the little packets from low-flying planes. “The planes have a tube and a conveyor belt that just drops these vaccines to make sure they’re sort of evenly dispersed,” said journalist Emily Mullin. Jordona Kirby with the USDA said the trick was to make the vaccines palatable to a raccoon, so they come in a fish flavor and a sweet flavor. If other animals find and eat the packets, it won’t hurt them.

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Two unsuspecting visitors to Wortham Park in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 26 were the victims of a teenager’s scream for attention, KHOU-TV reported. Alford Lasean Lewis, 19, and 18-year-old Kingston Miker cooked up a scheme wherein Lewis first tried to rob a man, and then sucker-punched another man in the back of the head, as Miker filmed the actions. “They did this for fun and posted it on social media, which is simply unacceptable,” said Ashlea Sheridan, a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s office. Lewis was contrite: “You know, I just made a mistake, and everybody makes mistakes,” he told KHOU. “What people don’t see is that I shook his hand after and gave the man a hug.” Oh well, then. Case closed.

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Officials in Melbourne, Australia, raided a home on Oct. 31, where they found a meth lab, boxes of gemstones and so many Legos that they’ll need a truck to haul them away, The Guardian reported. Police found 1,130 boxes of the plastic blocks valued at more than $200,000 and arrested a 36-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman. “This is the first time our detectives have seized a Lego collection,” said Detective Inspector Anthony Vella.a !

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building that has been a cornerstone of WinstonSalem’s Industry Hill has received new life, quickly becoming headquarters for all things entertainment.

Chanel Davis Robert Hall, owned and operated by the husband and wife Editor duo Will and Christy Spencer, is all about honoring the past and focusing on building the future.

Located at 874 N. Liberty St., the building has been around since the early 1900s and has served as a doctor’s office, cafe, and one of the largest sign shops in the area, Coe & Hartman Signs. Most recently the building was home to Bob’s Machine and Metal Fabricator, a shop owned by Bob McCormick.

The Spencers decided to refurbish a Robert Hall Sign found in the basement that belonged to a chain of clothing stores that went out of business 50 years ago and adopt the name as an homage to their late friend, Bob. “Bob ran his machine shop out of that building for many, many years. He passed away in 2005. And when he passed away, he made sure that my husband and I could purchase the building,” said Christy. “He was a really good man. It’s the perfect name.”

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Capone’s Bar For years the duo used it as storage for their primary business, JKS Incorporated.

Both Christy and Will are long-time business owners within the city’s downtown area. In 2018, Will decided to jump into the brewing industry with Radar Brewing, and the couple began to think about what else downtown Winston-Salem could use.

“The area where we are, Industry Hill, is up and growing and Will has had a business there in that neighborhood since 1983,” she said. “We are tried and true downtown believers and investors.”

After mulling over the possibilities, the couple decided to make part of the Robert Hall building into an Air BNB called the

Huntley House while dedicating the rest of the building to entertainment space. The Huntley House connects to space at Robert Hall.

“So when we have private events, like weddings or big corporate events, people can stay on site and use that space for guests.”

Determined to give the building a new life, the Spencers set out to transform Robert Hall into a place where people could gather and enjoy themselves while staying true to the building’s character and adding some unique characteristics themselves.

Broken into several spaces to be a multifunctional space, Robert Hall can

accommodate everything from parties to weddings and corporate needs.

Capone’s Bar can be found on the second floor of Robert Hall and gives the area a 1920s fee with brass entry doors, a tin ceiling, natural lighting, rich naval blue walls, and salvaged knotty pine paneling set the mood for the authentic 1920s mahogany bar — said to have come from one of Al Capone’s hangouts in Bellemont, Michigan.

The area is completed with a restored 1914 antique brass cash register, Capone paraphernalia, a metal “vault” door, and plenty of seating options.

“My husband is a collector of all things,” Christy said laughing. “He bought the bar sight unseen, off of eBay, and sent our guys to Michigan to pick it up. It was in pieces and he had a picture of what it was supposed to look like put together. They went to this place that was kind of shady.

The story was that the bar came out of an Al Capone bar up near Detroit, Michigan.

We don’t know if that’s 100% true, but it’s our story and we’re sticking to it. So we thought, what a fun name for upstairs?

Capone.”

The first floor called The Vault, has been restored to its original, industrial look with gray block walls, brick columns, and an exposed sawmill plank wood truss ceiling giving you the feel of being in a secret space.

“Because the downstairs is kind of darker, moodier, and in line with Capone’s, we thought of it as The Vault, where he would have kept his money,” Christy explained.

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The Vault is connected to a 700-squarefoot fully equipped commissary kitchen, perfect for caterers and pop-up restaurant innovators. As owners of the Winston Series Cup Museum, the couple is no stranger to throwing unique parties and the kitchen allows them a permanent space to do just that. One way is by hosting Robert Hall’s Secret Supper Society dinners.

“I was telling my friend, Lisa, that I had visions of having these big dinner parties with crazy decorations. She said you need to do a supper club.”

Members join the Secret Supper Society as a premium or regular yearly paid membership that grants them access to themed-supper parties.

“The supper club was invented to bring back that lingering for a night of entertainment. Great food, great company. You dress for it and you have an experience,” Christy said.

The club has 170 members within its first year.

“It’s really a way to bring people together and have a fun party,” Christy said. “I love to throw a party and Robert Hall has allowed me this beautiful space to have parties. It gives me an avenue to do something I love, which is create spaces, and bring people together.”

Robert Hall’s outdoor patio space, called The Garden has two outdoor fireplaces, ample seating, and a manicured landscape. It is here that you’ll discover a wishing well that was discovered during renovations.

“We really wanted to keep it. You will find this gorgeous metal grate over the top of it that says The Garden. The space is really cool at night. It lights up. It’s really pretty,” said Christy.

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each played a part in the renovations. She said that while her primary job has nothing to do with interior design, her passion is design and creating spaces and esthetics where people will enjoy themselves. Her husband, Will is more hands-on with the renovations when it comes to the woodwork, plumbing, and electrical.

“Will did so much of that himself. We’re a good team. We’ve done a lot of projects together. I do the design and the decorating,” Christy said. “We take our gifts and merge them.”

The five-room AirBnB attached to Robert Hall honors the family and their ties to the area. The Huntley House is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin Huntley, Sr., the namesake of one of the biggest furniture companies in the South in the first half of the 20th century, and great-grandfather to one of the owners of The Huntley House

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and Robert Hall. The five rooms are named for different members of the Huntley family, reflecting the interestingly diverse influences of our history and community.

“I love the name Huntley. It’s always been one of their family names, and we named it that in honor of Mr. Huntley,” Christy said.

The rooms each have their own personality and are curated with family heirlooms and treasures. Each item was curated from Will’s mother, Ann, who sadly passed away during the pandemic. She was 92 years old.

Christy said that they were very close so she wanted to honor her memory.

“We ended up with a house full of her furniture and memories. She was an only child and had lived in the same house for more than 60 years. I built out the Huntley house in memory and honor of my mother-in-law,” Christy said. “She meant

that much to me. So each room is named after a family member, and I just took all of our family photos and the pieces she loved and basically decorated the whole place.

I would pick and say that I’d take her over my husband any day of the week. Most people don’t feel that way about their mother-in-law but mine was very special.

We were like two peas in a pod. She had such a huge impact on my life, and I’m so grateful, so grateful for her.”

The first-floor Fulton room welcomes individual guests to an elegantly simple ADA-compliant bedroom featuring a single bed and an accessible bathroom.

The Lanier Room features a queen bed, ensuite, a sitting room with a coffee maker, a mini fridge, a microwave, and a view of downtown. The Stoddard Room features a British Colonial-style king bed. Upstairs is The Lewis Room, with one double bed the room is complete with stunning wall coverings and a European-style ensuite.

The Kathleen Room, also upstairs, is one of the largest bedrooms in the boutique-style hotel. It offers a king bed and a European ensuite.

Being from Winston-Salem, the couple hopes the area will help to continue the transformation of downtown.

“We think Winston’s special. One of the things that downtown Winston has lacked is multiple unique options for events.

There’s nothing wrong with the convention center or these hotels, but they’re not intimate, and they don’t really speak to Winston-Salem. It just offers another level of entertainment.”

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Women combat veterans advocate for their sisters-in-arms “There I was overseas, part of the forces serving under Stormin’ Norman [General Norman Schwarzkopf], and every time I got promoted, the men would ask me who I slept with to get my Ian McDowell newest rank or title.”

Army veteran Wanda Abbot was Contributor regularly asked that by male soldiers serving in Operation Desert Shield, the 1990 mobilization for the first Gulf War. They kept asking even after she saw combat in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

“I’d say, how come you don’t ask each other that? While you all are out partying and everything, I’m in the barracks studying.”

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Abbott is executive assistant and office manager for Combat Female Veterans Families United at 5500 Adams Farm Lane, Suite 106 in Greensboro, where she was one of six senior CFVFU staff members interviewed last week.

Abbott said that growing up with male cousins taught her how to talk back.

“So, in the Army, I’d answer these guys in their own language and that would make them have second thoughts. But it was still rough, and being a Black female, I was still going up against that Ol’ Boy attitude. I once had a warrant officer tell me that my being a Black female meant there wasn’t nothing I could tell him. I said, what are you talking about, they put me in charge of a whole platoon full of guys, the only female there. I kept thinking about it and thinking about it, and I was getting ready to do something to him, because if I wasn’t the same, why did they let me in the Army?”

CFVFU program director LaKiesha Lewis described the organization’s mis-

sion as “to provide transition services to combat female veterans and their families, supporting life after war.”

Retired Staff Sergeant Abbott said she encountered constant discrimination and disrespect while serving in the United States Army from 1975 to 1996.

CFVFU community engagement director Shaquanna Riley, whose two decades in the U.S. Air Force were from 1998 to 2018, said those attitudes persist.

“One way we’re treated differently from our male counterparts is that feeling that we don’t count, or that we should be grateful that we’re allowed to be in the military. I was a jet engine mechanic, working primarily around males, and there was the feeling that you had to prove that you belonged there, and had to earn their respect. It wasn’t a matter of rank. No matter how many times I was promoted, or whatever group I was in charge of, there were times that my commander or chief would speak to the male worker that was lower-ranked than me, even though I was the one in charge. And those men under me, whose respect I had earned, would always look confused as if they were wondering why he couldn’t see the rank on my shoulder.”

Riley said that it wasn’t just her insignia that seemed invisible. “You get treated like you’re not even there. You have to be introduced, you have to say, and then repeat, your title or rank, and even then you have to prove to them what you know and what you’ve done.

So many times, I had to have other males that I worked with speak for me, and say to the pilot or officer what I’d already said. It’s that invisibility and the constant having to prove that you have the right to be there.”

Program Director and combat veteran Lewis said her treatment in the Air Force was similar.

“I worked with mostly men because I always worked on computers, and always had that feeling of, even if you felt a certain way, you kept your mouth shut because you don’t want to be seen as weak.”

Former Navy Chief Petty Officer Robin Hamilton said that, during her 38 years of active and reserve duty, one of her “biggest peeves” was being expected to take notes even when she was the highest-ranked sailor in the room. “I’ve had carpal tunnel surgery and my handwriting is atrocious. There’s no reason

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I should always be the note-taker, just because I’m a woman.”

Assistant Executive Director Chrisma Brock, an Army combat veteran, said second-class treatment continues even after women finish serving their country.

“Then there’s the whole issue of how we’re treated by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. As women veterans seeking healthcare, we endure the same inequalities, the invalidation, the invisibility, all of those things we felt in service. For decades, women who experienced military sexual trauma weren’t given the option of having a female healthcare team. Only in 2023 have we been given that option, when it should have been available to us 20 years ago, or even before that.”

Lewis also said that she felt more disrespected by the VA than by the Air Force.

“Post-military has probably been the hardest for me. Advocating for yourself in a healthcare system that’s supposed to take care of veterans, you assume they’re going to take care of ALL veterans, but getting access to basic care is extremely hard for women. For a long time, I stopped dealing with the VA system at all, because I didn’t want to keep repeating my story. I didn’t want to have to feel like what I was saying was falling on deaf ears. I told myself, I’ll just get a civilian job with good healthcare and not have to deal with this. But why do I have to do that if I served my country? I’m entitled to those benefits. I’ve gotten a lot better at advocating and making them hear me, but for the first five years after I got out, I got tired of going through the VA system and feeling like nobody heard me.”

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(From left) Lakiesha Lewis, Wanda Abbott, Robin Hamilton, Chrisma Brock, and Shaquanna Riley case management and peer support services for a military sexual trauma group called Shero.

“I met Sandra Robinson, our founder and executive director, at the VA. Sandra is a light source, and while she was with the VA, she started a group called Combat Female Veterans, which became Combat Female Veterans Families United when she left the VA. Most female veterans don’t feel acknowledged, don’t really feel that they’re part of the service, although you served. I was enrolled in graduate school at the time to be a counselor, and this gave me a purpose and a place to use my gifts. So, I was initially volunteering and working with the Sheroes group, and I ended up here with a bunch of sisters who get me.”

Hamilton shared that sentiment and feeling of sisterhood.

“We all love Sandra and she’s very easy to follow. She talked to me about joining the organization and I did. I was made vice president and I’m also on the board of directors. I’m also the point of contact for Leslie’s House in High Point, which is the only women’s homeless shelter in that city. I’m retired as a chief petty officer in the Navy, and am really honored to be here today with my sisters.”

Hamilton and Brock were among 15 female veterans who in 2019 received the Outstanding Combat Female Veterans of North Carolina award from Governor Roy Cooper.

“I’m not actually a combat vet,” said Hamilton, “but I served during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and the Global War on Terrorism era, meaning from 1984 to 2022. So, there’s not too much I haven’t seen or done.” The award honors female veterans who honorably served their WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

country during wartime, regardless of whether or not in a combat zone, and have had a demonstratable positive impact upon their communities.

Program Director Lewis is the newest of the women interviewed last week, having moved to Greensboro earlier this year.

“I was living in Asheville, where I met a lady named Alice who runs a homeless shelter for female veterans. She recognized that was something needed there, because there was nowhere else like that. So, when I came here, I reached out to her and said I really wanted to be connected with someone who helps female veterans. She told me to get in touch with Sandra Robinson, whom my friend had worked with numerous times.

I reached out and said I’m a combat veteran and interested in being a part of the team in any capacity. Sandra asked me to come in and talk with her. In that conversation, I told her I just wanted to volunteer, but she said that she had a full-time position she needed to fill and I was going to take it.” Lewis laughed, adding that “there was no arguing allowed.”

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Welcome to Wynter’s Orbit

manuel Wynter continues encircling into his own with his sophomore release, “From Orbit.”

Recorded in February during a show at Wynter’s homebase at the Evening Muse in Charlotte, ”From Orbit,” sets the stage for a trajectory amongst soul and stars–tied to earth through Wynter’s trademark Katei Cranford violin strings — accented by a cast of seasoned players, sentimental musings, and a slanted ear toward Contributor rock’n’roll.

“I tend to write a lot about love and love lost,” Wynter admitted. “There’s a lot of nostalgia. There’s a lot of personal reflection. I’m definitely leaning more into my rock bag. It’s still soulful, though. I feel like I’m getting better at creating and materializing what’s in my mind.”

With an eye to the heavens, “I’ve always been fascinated by how vast the universe is,” he continued, relaying the progression of his work across lifetimes and metaphysics. “The floating rock we live on is the only home we as humans have ever known, yet it orbits a star that is similar to billions of others. There’s beauty tucked away in nothingness, and that’s how I feel about the human experience.”

Tying that experience to references in his debut single, “Cosmos,” “things like love and joy can come around and give us new excitement in a life that can feel very ordinary and routine,” Wynter said. “Whether they last for a lifetime or for an instant, we should enjoy them like we enjoy the moon in the sky or a planet in transit.”

Looking back at the gravity of music in his lifetime, Wynter first began playing violin as a first-grader living in the Bronx. “I had an aptitude for it and fell in love with it pretty quickly,” he explained. “I did the Suzuki Method, which involved a lot of ear training and reading music.”

Carrying his appetite and traditions as his family moved to Charlotte, “I didn’t branch out into contemporary styles of music until I was in high school,” he noted. ”I was very interested in jazz and the blues, and I wanted to be able to play that stuff on the violin.”

Delving into more contemporary stylings, Wynter carries major influences from artists like Gary Clark Jr., Anthony Hamilton, and Leon Bridges. “Their songs have touched me deeply,” he said. “And they have rich, unique voices that are great at conveying the emotions behind the music.”

“Gary Clark Jr.’s ‘You Saved Me’ is probably one of my favorite songs of all-time,” Wynter continued, plugging the cover track that found its way to “From Orbit.”

“I love the sounds he gets out of his guitar and the ways his music blends rock, blues, and soul in ways that speak to me.”

Clark’s influence expanded beyond a single song inclusion — with Wynter listing “Live” amongst motivators behind releasing “From Orbit” as a live album. “John Mayer, D’Angelo, and PJ Morton have all also put out incredible live records,” he said. “Speaking of PJ Morton, I love how

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he’ll release a project and then put out a live version. His live recording of ‘Gumbo’ definitely was a big inspiration for me.”

“And Thee Sacred Souls — they make me feel warm and fuzzy,” Wynter continued, recollecting the warm and fuzzy summer’s day in 2022 and the first formations of “From Orbit.”

“I‘d fully committed to the idea of recording and releasing a live album,” he explained. “The first song I wrote with this plan in mind was ‘Stranger;’ and I spent the last half of the year writing and refining the songs that would be on the record.”

Toying with titles and concepts, Wynter settled on his favorite track at the time: “From Orbit.”

“I recorded demo versions of all the songs and brought them to my band to rehearse. From that point, it was like preparing for a show. It was all in a set list, so when you listen to the album, that’s the order of the songs we played on the night of the recording.”

Blending covers (MGMT’s “Electric Feel” gets its own feel — ”I’ve been playing for a few years,” Wynter noted.

“I really like the way we do it: It’s dreamy. It’s ethereal. It’s dynamic,”) and all-new originals, “From Orbit” ultimately took shape in front of a live audience at The Evening Muse.

“It was a beautiful night,” Wynter gushed. “It’s one of my favorite venues in Charlotte — the first place I ever performed my original music, so there was really no other place I’d rather record a live album.” Elora Dash offered what Wynter described as an appropriately “stellar” performance to open the evening. “Everything fell right into place,” he mused — with gratitude.

“Usually, live albums are recorded from a tour,” he continued, relaying the set at stake, ”and the best perfor-

mance of each song throughout that tour is picked to be on the record. But we didn’t have a tour — the plan was to record everything that night.”

Typically calm in the face of an audience, “the expectation weighed on me a bit,” Wynter admitted — praising his band: Nero Tindal IV, Curt Keyz, Victor Payton-Webber, and Justin Allen; along with the evening’s sound engineer, Joe Kuhlmann. “They were solid and supportive, and they each did an amazing job. The room was full of life and energy. I’m very thankful for the experience.”

As he orbits the phases from record to release, “I’ve definitely come into my own as a writer and as a performer,” he said, offering “From Orbit” as “a timestamp of where I’m at now. I’m proud of my growth as an artist.”

Along the galaxies of that growth, Wynter’s solo career is on the horizon — in tandem with his work in the studio and on-stage in groups like 9daytrip (to whom he credits helping boost confidence in his voice). “Funny enough, I used to be very shy about singing in front of an audience,” he said, “shout out to Shelby Stover for sticking a microphone in front of me at a show. I started singing with those guys and never looked back.”

“Thankfully, I’ve had the opportunity to be in and work with several bands before starting my own,” he continued, redirecting toward his own orbit and what lies ahead. “I’ve gotten a good idea of what it looks like. Of course, I’m still learning. I’ll always be learning.”

The pursuit of knowledge actually led Wynter to study at UNC-Greensboro for a few years — linking up with artists like Sam Foster, Demeanor, and Ashley Virginia.

“Working with Sam at Earthtones was a lot of fun,” Wynter said. “Most of the time, I get asked to record something folky or do string arrangements on a song, but Sam told me that he specifically wanted an electric violin.

I was happy to oblige.”

“Every once in a while, I’m able to meet up with Demeanor,” he continued, reflecting on his times in the Triad. “We’re both usually busy, so it’s always a good time hanging out, and we usually end up making up something.” Referencing a vault of unreleased tracks, Wynter pointed to his guitar work on Demeanor’s 2023 single, “ALL FOR ME,” featuring Ashley Virginia; and his shows at the Carolina Theatre as part of Studio 176’s Underground Now residency and Colin Cutler’s Songwriters in the Round.

Around Greensboro, Wynter also appeared in the “Around Town Sessions” music video series, performing tracks off his 2020 debut record “These Past Two Years,” in College Hill’s Springdale Park. “Recording was a lot of fun and I still enjoy watching other episodes,” he said.

“Greensboro has a lot of charm to it, and the series does a great job at capturing it.”

With no Triad shows on his immediate horizon, “I’m beginning my next phase as an artist, and I’m excited to share it when the time comes,” Wynter said, with plans to circle back this way soon.

“From Orbit” is out now via streaming platforms. !

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2. Mitchell.

3. Isaac Newton.

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5. White Russian.

6. “Cheers.”

7. The American Express card.

8. Distribution of light and dark in drawing and painting.

9. The Dakota apartment building.

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

3811 Samet Dr • HigH Point, nC 27265 • 336.841.0100 FITNESS ROOM • INDOOR TRACK • INDOOR AQUATICS CENTER • OUTDOOR AQUATICS CENTER • RACQUETBALL BASKETBALL • CYCLING • OUTDOOR SAND VOLLEYBALL • INDOOR VOLLEYBALL • AEROBICS • MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM WHIRLPOOL • MASSAGE THERAPY • PROGRAMS & LEAGUES • SWIM TEAMS • WELLNESS PROGRAMS PERSONAL TRAINING • TENNIS COURTS • SAUNA • STEAM ROOM • YOGA • PILATES • FREE FITNESS ASSESSMENTS FREE E QUIPMENT O RIENTATION • N URSE RY • T E N N I S L E S S O N S • WI R E L E S S IN T E R N E T L O U N G E

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