YES! Weekly - December 14, 2022

Known for its variety of live performing arts, its support of local artists, a toy-making workshop, and even hosting Santa Claus, additions to this year’s event include DENT’s open call for its first recycled art installation project “Trees.”

4 Like their creator, the PAINTINGS OF BEVERLY MCIVER overflow with life, emotional depth, and humanity. A retrospective of more than 50 of the artist’s works over the past 25 years – mostly oils and mixed media – will be on display at SECCA now through March 26.

6 In this season of celebration, the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) has announced its selections for the BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR, with the ethereal fantasy Everything Everywhere All at Once topping the list as Best Picture, Michelle Yeoh winning Best Actress.

8 As we celebrate this holiday season, let’s not forget that there are people beyond our immediate circle of family and friends who are suffering, and could benefit from our LOVE AND GENEROSITY.

9 Steven Spielberg again asserts himself as one of our premier filmmakers with THE FABELMANS, a heartfelt and bittersweet valentine to his family that ranks as another triumph, and an extremely likely awards contender.

14 When Kerwyn “KB” Matthew opened HOUSE DIVIDED BOTTLES AND TAPS it was just because he loved craft beer. “I’m a big craft beer guy.”Fast forward a few years and you could say that his passion for brews and buckets, combined with his business skills, has paid off.

16 It’s Christmas time in the Triad--and while our climate doesn’t exactly favor sleigh bells, there’s PLENTY OF HOLIDAY JINGLES (and ring-ting-tingling, too) from area artists this season.

Beverly McIver reveals personal and universal in her art in retrospective at SECCA

BY LYNN FELDER

Like their creator, the paintings of Beverly McIver overflow with life, emotional depth, and humanity. A retrospective of more than 50 of the artist’s works over the past 25 years — mostly oils and mixed media — will be on display at SECCA now through March 26.

McIver, her longtime friend and curator Kim Boganey, and her gallerist Tonya Turner-Carroll were in Winston-Salem last week to join SECCA’s sta , and other farflung McIver fans in celebrating the opening of Beverly McIver: Full Circle, events that felt like more of a homecoming.

The exhibition describes the full range of human experience from lovemaking, caregiving, and dancing to death, dying, and grieving. McIver’s vibrant colors announce all the feelings with vivid energy, drawing the viewer into the artist’s most personal experiences.

The works encompass self-portraits, and portraits of loved ones and extended family, and portraits of others’ loved ones, some even depicted in death. Some, like “Brown Girl Memory,” in collaboration with an Italian artist, are fantastical creations, but most are expressive/realistic figural representations.

McIver’s deep and seemingly fearless visual self-revelations remind us that what

is most personal is most universal. As the program notes say: “Her self-portraits explore expressions of individuality, stereotypes, and ways of masking identity, while portraits of family members provide glimpses of intimate moments, in good times as well as in illness and death.”

Throughout her life, McIver has acted as caregiver for various family members, her mother, her elder sister Renee who has developmental disabilities and epilepsy, and her father. This prolonged service to the family coupled with the stress of a highly productive art career resulted in “The Depression Series,” self-portraits that she painted at Yaddo, an artist retreat in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2017.

McIver didn’t meet her father, Cardrew Davis, until she was 17. In his latter years, she took on the task of being his caregiver. At the height of COVID, they both contracted the illness. McIver survived, but her father did not.

While in Scottsdale, Ariz., in the late 1990s, McIver created an emotionally multi-layered series of paintings called “Mammy How I Love You: Loving in Black and White.” Her experience of being among the 3% of African-American people in Scottsdale pushed her to rethink interracial relationships in particular and attraction in general. The few images

from this series on display at SECCA are intimate, sensual, and show a powerful connection between the figures — McIver and a friend.

McIver sought self-expression in clown club while in high school in Greensboro. Her early self-portraits in clown makeup reflect her disappointment in not being admitted to Barnum and Bailey’s clown school. She said, “The clowns were all white and all male.”

McIver’s mother worked throughout her life as a domestic worker in the homes of white people. Domestic work by Black women and their struggle to work and raise their families is a theme that runs through McIver’s work. “Dora’s Dance #3,” in the SECCA show is a great example. It shows McIver dancing as Dora, a domestic worker whom McIver met at a nursing home in Hattiesburg, Miss. Dora and the woman she had worked for were in the same nursing home, separated by an unintentional but very real line between Black and white residents.

“All the Black ladies were on one side of the hall, and all of the white ladies were on the other,” McIver said. “It was weird.”

“Dora’s Dance #3,” McIver holds out the skirt of a vibrant blue dress and dances joyfully in blackface. Dancing plays a role in much of her work including another in

Beverly McIver’s “Depression Series” hangs on a wall in the Potter Gallery at SECCA.

Gallery-goer Joshua Hall looks at images from Beverly McIver’s series “Mammy How I Love You: Loving in Black and White.”

this show, “Dancing for My Man.”

Asked if she considered herself a dancer, McIver said, “I dance privately in front of my mirror every morning.

“When I was growing up, we couldn’t dance or play cards. We stayed with my grandmother who was religious and strict.”

McIver grew up in Greensboro, one of three daughters of a single mother, Ethel, who worked multiple domestic and factory jobs to make ends meet.

The young artist was eager to leave home, go to school, and express herself — and to get out from under the shadow of some of the strong women in her life.

She received a bachelor’s degree in Painting and Drawing from North Carolina Central University, Durham, in 1987, and an MFA degree in Painting and Drawing, from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn., in 1992.

It was at Penn State that she met one of her most important teachers, Elizabeth Lentz. Lentz’s work is featured in a contiguous exhibit that shows the work of artists who have influenced McIver and some who have been influenced by her. Her teachers include Faith Ringgold and Richard Mayhew. Those who have studied with her include Mary Porterfield, Chris Santa Maria, Damian Stamer, and Lamar Whidbee.

McIver moved to Arizona in 1996 to be an art professor at Arizona State University, Tempe. She met Kim Boganey, who curated an emerging artist show of McIver’s work in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1998, and the two became fast friends and colleagues. Beverly McIver: Full Circle was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and guest curated by Boganey, former director of Scottsdale Public Art. It was exhibited in Scottsdale before moving here last week, and it will move to the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., when it closes here in March.

McIver was the SunTrust Endowed Professor of Art at N.C. Central in Durham from 2007 until she became Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts, at Duke University in Durham, in 2014 where she remains. Throughout her impressive career, she has received numerous awards and residencies.

In 2017-18, a residency at American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, led to her collaboration with Castelli. While in Rome, she was featured in Beverly McIver e il colore nero, a documentary for Italian television. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, which she used for several residencies and professional development.

McIver’s work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Nelson Fine Arts Center Art Museum at Arizona State University, and the Mint Museum, to name a few. In 2017, she received the lifetime achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation in a ceremony hosted by Faith Ringgold. McIver was named one of the “Top Ten in Painting” in Art in America in 2011.

Raising Renee — a feature-length documentary film produced in association with HBO by Academy Award-nominated and award-winning filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan — tells the story of McIver’s promise to care for Renee when their mother dies. The film played in festivals around the country, was nominated for an Emmy® for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming, and is now available on Amazon Prime. !

LYNN FELDER is a freelance writer, poet, memoirist, and playwright, living in Winston-Salem. She is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association.

Beverly McIver talks about her painting “Brown Girl Memory.”

Critics picks: SEFCA members

select the best of 2022

In this season of celebration, the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) has announced its selections for the best films of the year, with the ethereal fantasy Everything Everywhere All at Once topping the list as Best Picture, Michelle Yeoh winning Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan as Best Supporting Actor, and the Daniel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert duo taking Best Director and Best Original Screenplay honors.

“Personally, I am thrilled that SEFCA recognized Everything Everywhere All at Once in so many categories,” said Matt Goldberg, president of SEFCA. “As film critics, one of the best things we can do is celebrate films that push the boundaries of narrative and genre. We hope that our voice can pull in viewers who may not normally check out a film where two women with hot-dog fingers figure out their relationship. As strange as the film can be, its core message of embracing the richness of our relationships in the face of nihilistic apathy will endure far beyond this year’s award season.”

Colin Farrell won Best Actor and Kerry Condon won Best Supporting Actress for their roles as troubled siblings in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin The complete list of SEFCA’s winners is below, and SEFCA can be followed on Twitter at @SEFilmCritics.

As voted by the 80-plus members of SEFCA, the top 10 films of 2022 were:

Best Actor: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin. Runner-up: Brendan Fraser, The Whale

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once . Runnerup: Cate Blanchett, Tar

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once . Runner-up: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin .

Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin Runner-up: Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Ensemble Cast: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery . Runner-up: Women Talking .

Best Director(s): Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once . Runner-up: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Original Screenplay: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once . Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin .

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sarah Polley, Women Talking . Runner-up: Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Best Documentary Feature: Fire of Love . Runner-up: Good Night Oppy Best Foreign-Language Film: RRR Runner-up: Decision to Leave .

Best Animated Film: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio . Runner-up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On .

Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick . Runner-up: Janusz Kaminski, The Fabelmans

Best Score: Michael Giacchino, The Batman . Runner-up: John Williams, The Fabelmans .

The Gene Wyatt Award (The Film That Best Evokes the Spirit of the South) : Elvis . Runner-up: Till . !

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WEEKLY ARTS ROUNDUP

PIEDMONT CRAFTSMEN ISSUES CALL FOR CRAFT ARTISTS

BY GRETCHEN SIEBERT

Piedmont Craftsmen’s annual call to craft artists to apply for guild membership begins January 2023. Specific dates will be announced by their eNewsletter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.

Piedmont Craftsmen is 501(c )(3) premier craft guild founded in 1963 in Winston-Salem, NC. It was founded by craft artists and collectors to promote the value of fine craft and its makers. Central to the organization are its Guild Members, craft artists working at a high technical level in a craft medium. Craft medium categories include clay, fibers, metals, glass, printmaking, photography, wood, jewelry, and mixedmedia. New members are inducted through an annual review process by a selection committee consisting of Piedmont Craftsmen Guild Members and arts professionals.

Today, Piedmont Craftsmen represents nearly 400 craft artists throughout the United States. The organization mounts exhibitions, operates a gallery and shop open year-round; presents the annual Piedmont Craftsmen’s Fair in November; and has an education program that conducts workshops in public schools and presents artist talks, demonstrations, panel discussions, and more that are free for the public.

HOW THE REVIEW PROCESS WORKS

The review process consists of two rounds: The Image Review and The Object Review.

For the Image Review, a small portfolio of work samples must be submitted via ZAPPlication between January and April 1st. Submissions are reviewed by the committee soon afterwards. Selected artists are then invited to move to the next round.

The Object Review takes place at Piedmont Craftsmen’s Fair in November. Applicants, now called Provisional Members, must purchase a booth to participate in this round and are able to take full advantage of the sales opportunity of the 3 day-long event. The committee meets the Friday afternoon

of the Fair weekend, without Provisional Members present, to review their work in person. Selected artists are then formally invited to become Guild Members after the Crafts Fair.

The selection committee looks for two general objectives in applicants’ work: a demonstration of technical achievement and a strong artistic voice. Specifics of technical achievement vary depending on medium. In the context of this review, a strong artistic voice means that the work is recognizable, or stands out, as the work of that individual artist, whether that person’s style is very traditional or contemporary.

For complete detailed information, member benefits, costs to apply, and the application link, please visit https://piedmontcraftsmen.org/ craft-artists/become-an-artist-member/

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

Artists creating work in the US in the craft medium categories mentioned above can apply. Although there are some grey areas, work of purely painting and drawing mediums will not be considered.

It’s a great opportunity for emerging craft artists and those who have been in the craft world for a while looking to broaden their market or network. Piedmont Craftsmen strongly encourages underrepresented craft artists to apply.

Interested craftspeople may also contact Piedmont Craftsmen at info@ piedmontcraftsmen.org, call at (336) 725-1516, or chat with sta at the Gallery during business hours. More information can be found at https:// piedmontcraftsmen.org/.

ARTS COUNCIL of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Arts Council’s goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness, and providing support to grow and sustain the arts and cultural o erings throughout our region, ultimately bringing our community together and making it a great place to live, work, and play. For additional information, please contact: Katie Hall, Chief Marketing O cer, khall@intothearts. org, 336-747-1421, www.intothearts.org

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s we celebrate this holiday season, let’s not forget that there are people beyond our immediate circle of family and friends who are suffering, and could benefit from our love and generosity. Over the past decade, I’ve been able to showcase scores of community organizations on my “Triad Today” television show, and in the process, I’ve learned that there are several ways we can help these agencies help others. The first is to donate goods. Second is to donate money. And, third is to donate our time. Of course, some nonprofit groups can benefit from all three types of giving. Here, in no particular order are just a

Afew organizations to which you might lend your support.

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC

Even prior to the Pandemic, the Piedmont Triad had one of the worst food insecurity problems in the nation, and that included the problem of childhood hunger. Now, with thousands more of our neighbors in need, the problem has worsened, including for children. To help alleviate the hunger problem, Second Harvest Food Bank has stepped up its efforts to distribute food to nonprofit agencies who feed hungry people in an 18-county area. The Food Bank has also partnered with a number of area companies to provide meals for kids. You can write a check directly to the food bank, or you can drop off nonperishable food items at a number of locations in our area. For more information call (336) 784-5770, or visit www. hungernwnc.org.

CANCER SERVICES, INC.

Their stated mission is “to enhance quality of life for those living with cancer, and to provide the gift of life through education.” Their services include patient advocacy, financial assistance, providing equipment and supplies, offering peer support groups, and much more. 90% of funds donated to Cancer Services, Inc. goes directly to providing client services. In addition to money, you can also donate used equipment and supplies. Call (336) 760-9983, or visit www.cancerservicesonline.org.

GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY is on the front lines when it comes to providing emergency assistance. Greensboro Urban Ministry provides homeless families in Guilford County with a safe, temporary environment. Volunteers are needed to prepare and serve meals, manage shelters, tutor children, and perform a variety of other duties. Monetary donations are also much appreciated. Call (336) 271-5959, or visit www. greensborourbanministry.org.

MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE is a non-profit agency that serves an 18-county area in North Carolina and Virginia, and provides personalized care for patients at the end of life, as well as comfort to families. Mountain Valley Hospice has offices throughout the region and operates two hospice homes. They also specialize in care for termi-

nally ill children and veterans, and offer grief support for kids and adults. To give money or inquire about volunteering, call 1-888 789-2922, or visit www. mtnvalleyhospice.org.

PETTY FAMILY FOUNDATION

NASCAR legend Richard Petty and his family support a number of charitable organizations including Paralyzed Veterans of America and Victory Junction Camp, the latter of which provides an uplifting experience for children with severe disabilities and terminal illnesses. To make a donation or learn more, visit www.pettyfamilyfoundation.org.

SHIFT_E provides qualified students with college scholarships, and much more. Formerly “Say YES Guilford”, Shift_ed also provides students with support services that are designed to help them be successful in life. Their equity-based program begins in kindergarten and includes everything from tutoring to career counseling. Shift_ed relies in part upon donations from companies and individuals. To learn more about scholarships, or to make a donation, visit www.shift-ed.org

CAROLINA DONOR SERVICES AND RED CROSS

There can be no greater gift this holiday season than the gift of life, and that’s why you might consider donating blood and signing a donor card. Either gesture requires only a few minutes of your time, and will almost certainly result in saving someone’s life in the future. You can reach Carolina Donor Services at 1-800 200-2672, or at www. carolinadonorservices.org. You can call the Red Cross at (336) 333-2111, or reach them via the internet at www.redcross. org.

Please remember that your donations of time, money, or goods to area community organizations are vitally important, not just now, but throughout the coming year. It is also a way for us to expand the circle of people we care about, and that’s something worth celebrating in this season of giving. !

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).

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ot o last year’s remake of West Side Story, which earned seven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), Steven Spielberg again asserts himself as one of our premier filmmakers with The Fabelmans, a heartfelt and bittersweet valentine to his family that ranks as another triumph, and an extremely likely awards contender.

Recently, both Kenneth Branagh (in last year’s Belfast) and James Gray (in this year’s Armageddon Time) have revisited their childhoods, but The Fabelmans is the one most steeped in the magic of cinema, as the young Spielberg — here Sammy Fabelman — was entranced by cinema at so early an age.

It’s no surprise that Spielberg would coax splendid performances out of child actors, having done it numerous times throughout his career, and here Gabriel LaSalle shines as the teenaged Sammy, with Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord (in his feature debut) as the younger Sammy. Michelle Williams plays Sammy’s mother Mitzi, whose artistic aspirations were put on hold by marriage and child-rearing, and Paul Dano plays Sammy’s father Burt, a brilliant electrical engineer whose career takes the family from New Jersey to Phoenix and then to California.

Sammy is a self-taught filmmaker, so obsessed with making movies that he initially fails to realize that his parents’ marriage is slowly but surely splintering. When editing a film of a family camping trip, Sammy discovers that Mitzi’s attentions have shifted to Burt’s best friend, “Uncle” Benny (Seth Rogen). It’s right there on film, and film doesn’t lie.

But, as Spielberg has demonstrated successfully throughout his career, film can lie; it’s all about illusion. Be it Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), or E.T. , The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) — or many others — he has defined movie magic for the better part of 50 years. That he continues to do so with

enthusiasm and no detectable cynicism is key to his success. He loves what he does, and so have audiences the world over.

There are a few hokey moments, and Williams’s performance is occasionally mannered (the character is somewhat written that way), but The Fabelmans is an all-around triumph and undoubtedly one of the very best films of the year. It’s brimming with love and hope, yet it does not downplay the emotional turmoil experienced by the characters as the Fabelman marriage flounders or when Sammy encounters anti-Semitism in high school. Spielberg and fellow screenwriter Tony Kushner have done an exemplary job covering all the bases.

Working with such long-time collaborators as composer John Williams, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and production designer Rick Carter — to name a few — Spielberg conveys the nostalgia of the era in a warm, wondrous fashion. The superb cast includes Judd Hirsch in a snappy appearance as Mitzi’s eccentric uncle Boris, a former circus performer who encourages Sammy’s dreams, and scene-stealer Chloe East as Sammy’s first girlfriend (and heartbreak), the quirky Monica Sherwood. There’s also an inspired cameo by David Lynch, himself a legendary filmmaker, playing yet another legendary filmmaker, the immortal John Ford, to cap things o .

Noah Baumbach makes Noise with surreal satire.

Don DiLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise was long considered “unfilmable,” but screenwriter/producer/director Noah Baumbach makes a valiant, mostly successful, attempt that retains DiLillo’s quirky sensibilities and scathing satire.

Set in early ‘80s Ohio, the film focuses on Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), a college professor, his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig), and their four children from three previous marriages apiece. Among the various topics satirized here are marriage, parenthood, consumerism, suburbia, academic life, and infidelity, and Baumbach enhances the absurdist tone with an o beat, straight-faced sensibility that recalls John Irving crossed with the Coen Brothers.

White Noise, not to be confused with the 2005 Michael Keaton paranormal thriller, is the biggest, perhaps most ambitious of Baumbach’s films, and although it may not be his best it reinforces his status as a filmmaker unafraid to take risks. Some ideas work better than others, and a few plot strands fizzle out, but there’s much to savor here, including Danny Elfman’s jaunty score and the stunning cinematography by Lol Crowley (who replaced Michael Seresin early in the production). The film looks and sounds great, and it works much more often than it doesn’t. Gerwig, Baumbach’s real-life partner

(and an acclaimed filmmaker in her own right), brings the right touch of ditziness to her role as the neurotic, pill-popping matriarch who repeatedly fails to rationalize the irrational, and the children are winningly played by Ra ey Cassidy, real-life siblings May and Sam Nivola (the children of actors Alessandro Nivola and Frances O’Connor), and twins Dean and Henry Moore (in their feature debut). Playing Jack’s colleagues are Jodie Turner-Smith, André Benjamin, and the always-welcome Don Cheadle, the latter of whom enjoys a side-splittingly dual discourse with Driver in which they compare Adolf Hitler and Elvis Presley.

Driver, in his fifth collaboration with Baumbach, holds everything together with a deliriously funny, deliciously deadpan turn as Jack, whose self-absorbed existential musings threaten to overwhelm his family and his life Perennially poker-faced — even when facing utter calamity — and sporting a surprising pot belly, Driver puts on a show-stopping demonstration of his comic abilities. All by himself, he makes White Noise well worth a look, and the end-credit sequence (best not described here) ends things on a highspirited note. !

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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

RayLee Holladay and her husband, Bubba, live in Lascassas, Tennessee, where they raise cows. About six years ago, WKRN-TV reported, RayLee had been seeking a venture of her own to bring in money on the farm when she discovered Rent The Chicken, a business founded by Phil and Jenn Tompkins of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Today, RayLee’s Rent The Chicken franchise is thriving. Customers can either rent egg-laying chickens for about six months, or hatching chicks, which can be returned about two weeks after they hatch. “It’s great for teaching kids a little responsibility,” RayLee said. “And this is a trial. It’s not like getting a puppy for Christmas.” Chickens can be rented by families or by schools, day cares and senior living facilities. If renters grow attached, they can adopt the fowl for an added fee. Since its beginning 10 years ago, Rent The Chicken has expanded into 24 states, the District of Columbia and into Canada.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

The Rockdale County (Georgia) Sheri ’s Department posted a list of its top 10 most wanted fugitives on Facebook on Nov. 28, Fox News reported. One local criminal evidently felt left out, though: Christopher Spaulding, an area man with two warrants for his arrest, commented, “How about me?” The sheri ’s department responded, “We are on the way” and on Dec. 1 arrested Spaulding. Later, they commented, “We appreciate you for your assistance in your capture!” Spaulding’s warrants were for felony violation of probation.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENTS

— A 72-year-old woman was arrested on Nov. 29 in Berlin after she allegedly turned o her hospital roommate’s ventilator — twice! — because the sound of it was annoying her, The Washington Post reported. After the first incident, police said, the woman was told the machine was necessary to keep the roommate alive, but she switched it o again later in the evening. The other patient had to be revived, although she is expected to recover. The suspect was charged with suspicion of attempted manslaughter.

— On Dec. 5, as Hassan Chokr, 35, appeared virtually from jail for a hearing in Wayne County, Michigan, he became frustrated with Judge Regina Thomas and started yelling and pointing at the camera, Fox News reported. Thomas

asked for his microphone to be muted, and things escalated: “I want the record to reflect that ... now he has removed his pants to show the court his backside,” Thomas said. “I don’t know why anyone would think it is appropriate to pull down his pants and show the court their behind during a court proceeding.” Chokr’s attorney agreed with Thomas that a mental health evaluation “probably would be a good thing” and said Chokr was just exercising his right to free speech. Thomas wasn’t buying it, though: “We don’t get to do and say anything we want to without the consequences of those actions,” she said. “That’s where your client finds himself today.”

MAKING A STATEMENT

Mindy Janette Stephens, 46, was arrested on Dec. 1 and charged with illegal dumping after an incident that took place on Nov. 10 in Electra, Texas. According to KXAN-TV, Stephens, seen on security footage wearing a white hazmat suit and a yellow mask, deposited three 5-gallon buckets of human excrement at the front door of the Electra police department, then got in her SUV and drove away. Stephens told another media outlet that she had been renting an apartment to a man who had not paid rent or utilities for a year, and after she evicted him, she found the buckets of waste. “He’d been pooping in the buckets,” she said. She said she called the police department to ask what she should do with them, but o cers weren’t helpful — so she took the buckets to the station. City wastewater o cials removed them, and Stephens bonded out of jail.

HARSH

An Olive Garden restaurant manager in Overland Park, Kansas, is out of a job after they sent a ranting message to team members about excessive time o , KCTV5 reported. “We are no longer tolerating ANY excuse for calling o . ... If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. ... If you only want morning shifts, too bad, go work at a bank. ... Do you think I want to be here until midnight on Friday and Saturday? No. I’d much rather be at home with my husband and dog,” the message said. An Olive Garden representative said the message was “not aligned with our company’s values. We can confirm we have parted ways with this manager.” !

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ston-Salem’s annual holiday event Christmas for the City is returning for its 15th annual year this upcoming Saturday. Known for its variety of live performing arts, its support of local artists, a toy-making workshop, and even hosting Santa Claus, additions to this year’s event include DENT’s open call for its first recycled art installation project “Trees.” A non-profit Creative Reuse Center and Art Laboratory since 2019, DENT has previously led several successful open calls for other community recycled art projects including “Let the Record Show” and “Scarecoronas.”

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Led by co-founder and director David J. Brown, the non-profit started in 2017 as what Brown describes as “the coming together of a small band of misfits.” An artist himself with a background in contemporary art, Brown spent almost 40 years working in major museums across the country including Winston-Salem’s very own SECCA. While at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown ran the exhibitions program, at times, curating up to 90 shows a year among five galleries within three different buildings, an experience he refers to as paying his dues for the love of art.

Bringing this experience of working with thousands of artists and creatives throughout the country, Brown strives to be as creative and democratic as possible in the non-profit’s approach. “At DENT we deem that every person is a creative,” he said. “Everybody has something special about them, some area of expertise, and we try to celebrate that.” Part of that celebration includes community projects such as Saturday’s holiday tree recycled art installation, and while Brown is unsure of what will

Invited for the first time to participate in this year’s Christmas for the City, Brown gave it some thought before realizing that rather than just setting up a table to talk about DENT, the invitation was an opportunity to display what DENT is all about. With a mission to serve all those interested in reusing materials creatively rather than sending them to a landfill, the open call for “Trees” invites absolutely everyone to create a holiday tree out of anything they may have lying around their homes unused. Materials may range from recyclables to scavenged items, to any viable options for creating a project rather than going out and spending money on an actual tree.

“We’ve been doing this at my household for a number of years. Sometimes we go to the woods, pull a branch, and we’ll decorate that,” Brown said. “Artists are always making stuff out of stuff, and a lot of times that stuff is reused.” In addition to fostering creativity, the open call looks to bring awareness to how much material we actually have within our reach to create something meaningful. Hopeful to exhibit around 50 trees, the project has no limitations regarding materials or tree size. All participating tree creations will be displayed collectively inside the event as one massive art installation.

Some of the artists signed up to create a tree for Saturday include students from various surrounding schools, out of which one of the entries will bring in a holiday tree that will be made out of computer parts. As DENT eagerly looks forward to the variety of final tree submissions it will display on Saturday, it is also hopeful that the project will become a staple of the Winston-Salem holiday season, potentially building momentum in which year after year people look forward to the trees and continue to come together on behalf of building them out of recyclable materials.

Having spent a good amount of time researching creative reuse centers such

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as The Scrap Exchange in Durham, as well as working with Greensboro’s Reconsidered Goods, Brown was determined to take a good look at the creative reuse model and embellish it for a Winston-Salem concept. Having now established the model intended for DENT, the non-profit is looking to eventually have a brick-and-mortar operation to physically work out of. While the organization is aware a brickand-mortar may not happen, it remains determined to continue running as it has been for the past few years. After all, there is a DENT Mobile Unit available.

Donated by Duncan Lewis, artist and DENT board member, the organization operates out of a 1968 Ford Step Van. “We would use it as a rolling laboratory where you could do simple workshops

and create,” Brown said. “It would give us the possibility to go out into the communities to do all of this.” Still very much in the beginning stages, Brown hopes to fundraise the money necessary to retrofit the van in order to continue bringing DENT wherever it is called. As part of its various community-serving goals, DENT has also been supporting public school art educators with art supplies.

After announcing on social media the desire to serve art teachers in need of materials, it wasn’t long before an educator reached out from a WinstonSalem school providing a list of art supplies needed in her classroom. DENT placed a call and managed to gather the equivalent of six carloads of materials from the teacher’s list. This is not the only art teacher DENT has helped, and

the organization commits to continue providing educators the opportunity to get what they need through the local community’s response and support.

A creative instigator, radical optimist, and pal of the arts, Brown invites everyone to consider building a tree for DENT’s first recycled art holiday tree installation, but most importantly, to make a dent in the waste stream. The project will receive submissions for the open call until the morning of the day off, in efforts of reaching and including as much of the community as possible. All submissions will be displayed at

Christmas for the City at the Benton Convention Center Saturday, December 17th from 1 to 6 p.m. !

WANNA go?

To sign up for DENT’s open call for “Trees” visit: https://mailchi.mp/128a4127cc71/dents-projecttrees-sign-up.

For more information on DENT visit: https://www. dentws.org.

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

Crafting Success: Sports Theme brings success to local bar

When Kerwyn “KB” Matthew opened House Divided Bottles and Taps it was just because he loved craft beer.

“I’m a big craft beer guy.”

unclaimed. From there, he created the limited liability corporation. In August, he celebrated his sixth year in business.

“I’m a Carolina fan and my wife is a Duke fan. I’m a New York Giants fan and she’s a Washington Commanders fan. It’s just a total house divided.”

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Fast forward a few years and you could say that his passion for brews and buckets, combined with his business skills, has paid off.

The name came about naturally as the Matthew household is truly a house divided when it comes to sports. He said that when he and his wife Jennifer were thinking of names, she suggested “House Divided.” Matthew said he checked the Secretary of State’s website and was surprised to see it was

The business started at 5545 W. Market Street, in the Guilford Station Shopping Center, selling craft beer and wines.

“I’ve always been into craft beers. At the first spot, I didn’t have any food. It was just kind of a craft beer and wine shop where you could either come chill and drink a beer, or pick up your beer.”

For Matthew, it’s a business that he and his closest friends have talked about doing for more than a decade.

“My boys and I have talked about opening our own bar for the last 15 years. We were always going to other places and drinking but out of all of my boys, I was the one to do it. Six years ago I took that leap,” he said. “I

took that chance and I’m where I’m at now. I can’t say I would complain but of course, I can’t say that it was always easy. It started off great in the beginning, followed by a few bumps in the road in the middle and then COVID hit. But once I got through COVID everything was on the up and up after that.”

Within the last year, Matthew has moved to 616 Dolly Madison Road and business has boomed. Matthew said that the additional space, and adding food and liquor to his menu have helped.

“That definitely had something to do with our success. This space is about three times the size of my first location,” he said. “When it comes to the food, my cook is actually from Greensboro and has his own following.”

The cook he is speaking of is Ronnie Miller better known as Snacks the Collard Green King. Snacks has been cooking in various restaurants, clubs and hosting pop-ups in the Triad for years.

Kerwyn “KB” Matthew and his wife

“I had my followers and he had his followers from all of the places he’d cooked. It was definitely a good combination.”

A good combination, indeed. Williams said that he continues to see his business grow every day.

“Even after being open six years, we are still gaining new customers every day. Everybody wants to host their birthday parties here, we’re hosting different events here and have things going on. It’s really going well right now. I can’t complain. It is keeping me pretty busy. Every day, seven days a week.”

While he wanted to be successful, he never thought he would be this big.

“Everyone that opens a business wants to be successful but this definitely wowed me and went behind my expectation. Especially once we got into this building. And we’re still growing.”

While the business name may be based on a series of disagreements, Matthew said that is where it ends when it comes to him and his wife. The couple met at Greensboro College where they both played college basketball.

Matthew, who admits that his wife, Jennifer, is a better shooter than he is, said that next year the couple will be celebrating 20 years.

“That’s really the only time we have

a disagreement, is when it comes to sports. Everything is fantastic at home.”

He says that everything stays friendly within the house of rivalries.

“What is fantastic about this space is the atmosphere. As a sports bar, it doesn’t have a sports bar feel. It feels more like you’ve walked into a resort. When you walk through the door you feel comfortable and it’s laid back,” Matthew explained. “You actually feel like socializing. It’s a sociable, cool, laidback atmosphere that just so happens to have some good food and alcohol.”

Matthew wants to open a House Divided Bottles and Taps in every state across the nation.

“We want to branch off and put a House Divided pretty much in every state. In North Carolina, you have Duke/ Carolina rivalry but in Florida, it’s a different rivalry; in Atlanta, it’s a different rivalry, and so on. Everybody has their House Divided rivalry wherever they live. That’s one of the reasons we didn’t decorate heavily. When it comes to sports you will have rivalries where ever you go.” !

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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Sing a chorus or two: Triad Christmas songs for 2022

It’s Christmas time in the Triad — and while our climate doesn’t exactly favor sleigh bells, there’s plenty of holiday jingles (and ring-ting-tingling, too) from area artists this season.

Giddyup into memories of a “Christmas in Caroline” with Chuck Dale Smith. A “mostly autobiographical” diddy, the track brims with childhood reflections and nostalgic references to Christmas mornings and major events of the early 1960s. “It refers to the Sears & Roebuck that was located on Fourth Street in Winston-Salem as the destination for Christmas for me,” Smith explained. “I really got the Silvertone guitar pictured on the cover — which I still have!”

Going back through the years, from

baseball gloves to department store strings, there’s a jolly ring, harkening the classic tunes — Smith’s personal favorite being Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” which he remembers his brother having the original 45-single as a kid — while also reflecting on changing times around the mid-century Christmas tree.

The intro o ers a tribute to Buddy Holly — who Smith considers his favorite artist of all time — with the song exploring hints of the Kennedy assassination looming over the Christmas of ‘63 and the impending British invasion. “It changed the mood of the country at that time,” he explained, reflecting on ways those Christmas mornings (and that Silvertone guitar) changed his own mood. By ‘68, Smith was writing songs for his own original band, Sacred Irony, whose single “Let’s Go Steady” got its first taste of airplay on WTOB. Years later, aside from the occasional song or two, he hasn’t looked back. The Chuck Dale Smith Band will be at Folly’s Draft & Snack on December 17 and at Roar on December 23.

Fellow Winston rocker, Clay Howard, is

excited to share “My Favorite Christmas,” a new track and video fit for the holiday season. “It’s a happy little thing,” Howard said. “It’s silly, but really it’s hard to write a Christmas song that isn’t.” Leaning in on silliness, the corresponding video offers a sendup in the style of Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic,” though with more elfish activities (and a baby Yoda ornament break-out star).

“One of my old bands, Stratocruiser, wrote a holiday song each year for a decade, but I wanted to send something new,” Howard explained, having been moved to the spirit from a call for Christmas songs from Ken Hauser at WTOB.

As for his own Christmas playlist, Howard loves the old stu : from the Firestone Christmas album series to Glen Campbell, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and the Ventures. He even considers the recent Cheap Trick Christmas record “quite fantastic.” “I’m a lifelong fan,” he admitted, “but I was quite surprised that the album was more than a cash grab.”

Howard’s group, the Camel City Yacht Club, will perform for a New Year’s

Eve party at the Playground in Clemmons. “It’s gonna be smooth,” he said, with plans for smooth sailing and new releases come 2023.

From silly to a touch of sorrow, “It’s Snowin” from Greensboro’s “Flea Trap” flips the holiday script, with their special release and video. Featuring spoken word over a jazzy rehearsal set, “the tune is more of a sketch than a fully realized piece,” explained guitarist and vocalist Taylor Viar. “Recognizing this category of music can be kitschy, we wanted to juxtapose holiday music’s funny qualities with sad subject matter, as such contrast is present in many of our lives this season.”

O ering another shade within that contrast, ”Blue, Blue Christmas” from Lyndon Rego (featuring Tom Troyer and Zac Covington) recounts romance and longing over soft acoustic guitar and snowy reflections — a notably di erent Christmas o ering than the Elvis song of a similar name. “The Christmas holidays can be a sad time for folks who are missing loved ones,” Rego said, noting “proceeds will support Ukraine during the di cult winter.”

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On the other end of wintery romance, “First Snow” from Victoria Victoria and Charlie Hunter explores the spark of something new. “Having lived in wintery, dark places, we wanted to create a tune that reflected the optimism that comes with the holiday season,” Hunter said.

Engaging in the romanticism of this time of year, “Charlie and I wrote this romantic song thinking about the first snow of winter and falling in love with someone you’ve never spoken to or really don’t know. Because of the hopes and dreams that come with the holidays,” Victoria Victoria’s Tori Elliott explained. “Catching someone’s eye in a co ee shop as they hold the door open for you, it’s snowing outside, and by the time you receive your drink you’ve already imagined an entire life with them where you’ve fallen in love and lived happily ever after.”

From pleasant disruptions to holiday standards, the Christmas cover song is a cornerstone of the winter market. And William Nesmith is more than happy to oblige with a manic-pop take on “Go Tell it on the Mountain;” and its vivacious accompanying video of Nesmith in an array of characters, costumes, and wigs across an elaborate green screen production.

“Holiday music has that magical ability to be soothing and uplifting at the same time,” Nesmith said. “The Christmas season o cially starts for me the day after Thanksgiving and from then on, it’s basically non-stop holiday music.”

Listing N*SYNC’s take on “O, Holy Night” among his favorites, “I’m a big fan of Pentatonix and that acapella-style,” he explained — o ering hearty inspiration over his latest release. “I jumped at the chance to create this ‘one man choir’ with my producer Connor Holcombe at 7 City Recordings.” He’s also excited to “dust o those holiday hits” at upcoming parties and shows. Fans can look forward to Nesmith’s takes on Mariah Carey, the Drifters, and more at Steel Hands Brewing on December 15 and at State Street Wine Company on December 30.

In a similar spirit, Julian CreechPritchett’s Sweet Dream continues its annual release of Christmas covers. “I love holiday music personally, not just for Christmas,” Creech-Pritchett said, pointing to the pool of “Halloween bangers out there.” As part of Flea Trap, he’ll pull double-duty in the 2022 Triad holiday soundtrack, with Sweet Dream’s synthed-out take on the classic “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”

“It’s a favorite that I thought might translate well to an all-synth soundscape,” Creech-Pritchett said. “I was directly inspired by the work of Wendy Carlos and her Switched-On series of recordings. For the vocals, I decided to go

with a heavy auto-tune sound to match the aesthetic of the rest of the recording.”

Pulling from the classics, CreechPritchett also took cues from Frank Sinatra’s version as inspiration in choosing his synth work. “I also love ‘The Christmas Song,’ especially the original Nat King Cole mono mix,” he said. “It just hits the nostalgia button like nothing else. Other personal favorites include Donny Hathaway’s version of ‘This Christmas,’ Andy Williams’ version of ‘White Christmas,’ and Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Want to Come Home for Christmas’.”

With their third album in the works, Sweet Dream is playing around North Carolina through December. They’ll be back in the Triad at Monstercade on January 6 and at etc.gso on January 7.

Jerrod Smith (of Instant Regrets and V.M.D) has gotten into a similar spirit— for the punks and grinches out there. Typically releasing an annual Halloween album of horror-inspired songs, Smith’s 2022 installment features a couple of Christmastime tracks befitting more macabre festivities: “What Time Is Midnight (To A Mogwai)” explores the logistics of Gremlins and “Garbage Day!” o ers a send up for fans of “Silent Night Deadly Night 2.”

Keeping with the festive albeit nonexactly Christmas nature, “Treason’s Greetings” from 30 is Dead o ers a “great soundtrack to steal turbomen from suburban moms,” said the band. “It’s not a Christmas song, it’s punk rock, but the timing couldn’t have worked out better.” The song itself was written during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, “but by the time we were ready to release it we were staring down Christmas, so we threw on our ugly sweaters and leaned into it.”

From punk rock to classics and Christmas memories, there’s a fresh Triad jingle for all sorts of spirits. Ring-a-ling-a dingdong-ding, y’all. Merry Christmas. !

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

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FIREHOUSE TAPROOM

10146 N Main St | 336.804.9441 www.facebook.com/firehousetaproom/

Dec 16: The Fabulous Flashbacks

Dec 17: Red House Band

Dec 18: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band

ASHEBORO

FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 www.foursaintsbrewing.com

Thursdays: Taproom Trivia

Fridays: Music Bingo

Dec 17: Eck McCanless

Dec 18: Honky Tonk Jam w/ Mark Dillion & Friends

CARBORRO

CAT’S CRADLE

300 E Main St | 919.967.9053 www.catscradle.com

Dec 15: Turnover

Dec 15-16: Eliza McLamb

Dec 17: Mellow Swells, The Back Pocket

Dec 22: Maddie Wiener

Jan 6: Billy Prine & The Prine Time Band

Jan 7: The Kingsby Manx, Nathan Bowles & Joe O’Connell

CHARLOTTE

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600

www.boplex.com

Dec 16: Nutcracker! Magic of Christmas Ballet

Dec 31: The Avett Brothers

Jan 13: Stephen Sharer

Jan 29: Asphalt Meadows w/ Momma

Feb 3: Fantasia w/ special guest Joe

Feb 4: Vive Chuhuahua

Feb 8: John Mellencamp

Feb 15: Dancing with the Stars: Live!

Feb 17: Katt Williams

Feb 25: 2023 Blues Alright Tour

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com

Dec 15: From Ashes To New

Dec 18: ‘Twas the Drag Show Before Christmas

Dec 20: Destroy Lonely

SPECTRUM CENTER

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com

Dec 15: Charlotte R&B Music Experience

Jan 13: Future

CLEMMONS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP

HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 www.facebook.com/vstaphouse

Dec 15: Corky Jamz

Dec 16: Stereo Doll

Dec 17: Southern Country Outlaws

Dec 23: Vinyl Tap

Dec 29: Joey Whitaker

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org

Jan 30: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Feb 11: Angel Olsen

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com

Dec 22: Fantasia Dec 23: The Hip Hop Nutcracker

Jan 3 -8: TINA -The Tina Turner Musical

ELKIN

REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 www.reevestheater.com Wednesdays: Reeves Open Mic

Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam

Dec 16: The Music of John Prime Dec 17: Holiday Magic

GREENSBORO

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 www.barndinner.com

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com

Dec 16: Greensboro Ballet: The Nutcracker

Dec 17: Chad Eby and Ariel Pocock Quartet

Jan 6: Bill and the Belles

Jan 7: Will McBride

CHAR BAR NO. 7

3724 Lawndale Dr. | 336.545.5555 www.charbar7.com

Dec 15: James Vincent Carroll

Dec 16: Isaac and Adele

COMEDY

GaraGE TavErn

5211 A West Market St | 336.763.2020 www.facebook.com/GarageTavernGreensboro

Dec 15: aaron Carter

Dec 16: Cory Luetjen

Dec 17: Megan Doss & Friends

Dec 22: Bradley Steele

Dec 23: DJ Todd

Dec 29: renae Paige

Dec 30: Gipsy Danger

GrEEnSBoro CoLiSEuM

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com

Dec 17: Pentatonix: a Christmas Spectacular

Dec 28: WWE Live Holiday Tour

Jan 14-15: Monster Jam

Jan 28: Toby Mac

HanGar 1819

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.579.6480 www.hangar1819.com

Dec 14: Jonny Craig

Dec 16: randy of Trailer Park Boys

Dec 30: Larger Than Life: 90’s & 00’s Pop Dance Party

Jan 6: in The End: Linkin Park Tribute

LiTTLE BroTHEr

BrEWinG

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbrew

Wednesdays: Trivia

Fridays & Saturdays: Free Live Music

PiEDMonT HaLL

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com

Jan 27: Steel Panther

Feb 26: Big Head Todd and the Monsters

STEvEn TanGEr CEnTEr

300 N Elm Street | 336.333.6500 www.tangercenter.com

Dec 14: Hip Hop nutcracker

Dec 17: Heather McMahan

Dec 18: Worship Live Holiday Tour

Dec 31: The Kruger Brothers

THE iDioT Box

CoMEDY CLuB

503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com

Thursdays: open Mic

Dec 17: Carter Deems

Jan 13: Eric Brown & Juice adkins

Jan 21: Drew Davis

high point

1614 DMB

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 https://www.1614drinksmusicbilliards.com/

Dec 16: nirvani

Dec 17: Black Glass Dec 31: Bending Fate

GooFY FooT TaProoM

2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 www.goofyfoottaproom.com

Dec 23: Greg Payne of the Piedmont Boys

HiGH PoinT THEaTrE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com

Jan 7: The songs of John Prine

Jan 13: Mario The Maker Magician Feb 9: new York rockabilly rockets

jamestown

THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 www.thedeckatrivertwist.com

Friday & Saturday: Live Bands

Jan 28: Stephen Freeman and Echoes of a Legend Show Band

Feb 3: Twitty & Lynn: a Tribute to Conway & Loretta

Feb 4: Lonesome river Band

Feb 11: Wonderwall: a Beatles Tribute

Feb 25: Wade Hayes w/ Dewey Brown

raleigh

CCu MuSiC ParK

aT WaLnuT CrEEK 3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111 www.livenation.com

Dec 30: Magic of Lights: DriveThrough Holiday Lights Experience

LinCoLn THEaTrE 126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400 www.lincolntheatre.com

Dec 14: andy Frasco & The u.n. W/ Little Stranger

Dec 15: The vegabonds

Dec 16: arrested Development W/ Terminator x

Dec 17: neighbor w/ Sicard Hollow

Dec 18: Scotty Mccreery, George Birge, Kylie Morgan

Dec 22: Jump, Little Children w/ Frances Cone

Dec 23: Smell The Glove

Dec 29: Cris Jacons

Dec 20: into the Fog Dec 31: red Panda www.redhatamphitheater.com

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BrEaTHE

CoCKTaiL LounGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 www.facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge

Wednesdays: Karaoke

PnC arEna 1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com

Dec 14: Trans-Siberian orchestra

Jan 21: CinCH World’s Toughest rodeo

randleman

KaMiKazE’S TavErn

5701 Randleman Rd | 336.908.6144 www.facebook.com/kamikazestavern

Karaoke Every Tuesday & Thursday

Dec 16: Second Wind Band

Dec 17:

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THE LiBErTY

SHoWCaSE THEaTEr 101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 www.TheLibertyShowcase.com

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Dec 14: Thousand Dollar Quartet

Dec 16: Hollirockets Elvis Christmas

Dec 17: The J.D. Simo Trio w/ Patrick Sweany

Dec 23: Sam robinson Band

Dec 24: Christmas Eve with Will Jones

Dec 30: The Mighty Fairlanes Dec 31: The Megan Doss Band

FiDDLin’ FiSH BrEWinG CoMPanY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 www.fiddlinfish.com Tuesdays: Trivia Dec 16: Kris atom

FooTHiLLS BrEWinG

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 www.foothillsbrewing.com

Sundays: Sunday Jazz Thursdays: Trivia

Dec 14: Terra String Dec 16: ryan Johnson Dec 18: Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs Dec 21: Terra String

Dec 28: Banjo Earth Dec 30: The Sun Dried Tomatoes

MiDWaY MuSiC HaLL

11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218 www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter

Mondays: Line Dancing Dec 31: Jimmy Shirley Jr.

MuDDY CrEEK CaFE & MuSiC HaLL

137 West St | 336.201.5182 www.facebook.com/MuddyCreekCafe

Dec 17: The Blue ridge Girls Dec 17: The Kody norris Show Dec 29: Eddie 9v

THE raMKaT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 www.theramkat.com

Dec 15: Jeffrey Dean Foster & The arrows

Dec 16: Futurebirds w/ Tyler ramsey

Dec 22: Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs

Dec 23: Jump, Little Children

Dec 29: Dead President$

Dec 30: Circles around The Sun

WiSE Man BrEWinG

winston-salem

EarL’S

121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018 www.earlsws.com

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 www.wisemanbrewing.com

Thursdays: Music Bingo

Dec 16: William Hinson

Dec 17: Evan Blackerby Trio Dec 23: Time Sawyer Dec 30: Souljam nYE

Cypress Trails

Elkin | Angela Cox

[ ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your work on a recent job assignment is impressive and sure to be noticed. Meanwhile, expect to receive news about an upcoming holiday event you won’t want to miss.

[ TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Saving the world one person at a time is what you were born to do. So accept it when people ask you for help, especially during the holiday season.

[ GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Now that you’ve resolved all doubts about an important decision, you can surprise a lot of people by defending your stand with strong and well-reasoned arguments.

[ CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The holiday mood stirs your need to nurture everyone, from the family cat to greatgrandma. But don’t overdo it, especially with teens, who like to feel grown up.

[ LEO (July 23 to August 22) Enjoy basking in the warm love of family and close friends this holiday season. But don’t fall into a prolonged catnap yet. There’s still much to do before you can fully put up your paws and relax.

[ VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Avoid pushing others to work as hard as you do on a common project. Instead, encourage them to do their best, and they might well reward you with a pleasant surprise.

[ LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Like the sensible Libra you are, you no doubt already started your holiday shop-

ping. But be careful to keep within your budget. Shop around for the best buys.

[ SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Love and friendship remain strong in your aspect over the next several days. This is a good time to develop new relationships and strengthen old ones.

[ SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A beloved family member has news that will brighten your holidays. Also expect to hear from friends who had long since moved out of your life.

[ CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Family and friends are in for a surprise when you accept the need to make a change without being talked into it. (Bet it surprised you, too, didn’t it?)

[ AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Restoring an old friendship might not be as easy as you had hoped. You might want to explore the reasons for your former buddy’s reluctance to cooperate.

[ PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your party-going activities pick up as the holiday season takes o . Enjoy your plunge into the social swim as you make new friends and renew old friendships.

[ BORN THIS WEEK: You are caring and considerate — two wonderful attributes that endear you to people of all ages.

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2022

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by Fifi Rodriguez

1. MOVIES: What was the name of the fictional kingdom in “Frozen”?

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[6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: How many legs does an ant have?

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2. HISTORY: How many people died as a result of the Boston Massacre of 1770?

[7. LITERATURE: What is the title of Toni Morrison’s first novel?

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3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the name of Scrooge’s business partner in “A Christmas Carol”?

[8. MATH: How many minutes are in a week?

[9. BUSINESS SLOGANS: Which company’s slogan is, “Expect more. Pay less”?

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4. TELEVISION: In what city is the long-running drama “Grey’s Anatomy” set?

[10. EXPLORERS: What is the home country of Roald Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole?

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5. GEOGRAPHY: Which two cities were the original endpoints of the Orient Express?

answer

1. Arendelle. 2. Five. 3. Jacob Marley. 4. Seattle, Washington. 5. Paris and Istanbul (Constantinople). 6. Six. 7. “The Bluest Eye.” 8. 10,080. 9. Target. 10. Norway.

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