YES! Weekly - July 19, 2023

Local Sculptor Honors Cancer Center that Saved His Life

LOCAL SCULPTOR HONORS CANCER CENTER

“I didn’t know anything about the healing gardens back then I discovered them during treatment,” said Feir. “I would come out here for serenity, and at other times to kill time in between appointments.”

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3 Recently, the headlines from Hollywood haven’t been about the hits or misses of the summer movie season, but the concurrent STRIKES BY THE WGA (Writers Guild of America) and SAG/AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)...

4 Triad Cultural Arts and Arts Council will present “Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop with 9TH WONDER: A Master Class and Panel Discussion” on Monday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at Reynolds Place Theatre.

6 MERIDIAN occupies the ground floor of Tar Branch Towers condominium building. The interior is modern and urbane. Panoramic windows look into a section of Old Salem.

8 It seems that we tend to develop short-term memory when it comes to recalling momentous events, whether they be glorious or tragic in nature. And that

brings me to our nation’s growing number of SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

9 The belated but eagerly anticipated follow-up, INDIANA JONES and the Dial of Destiny, which is purportedly the final installment, is the latest, longest, and undoubtedly least of the franchise.

14 On July 17, as the council chamber filled up with what several staff members described as the largest turnout for any Greensboro PLANNING AND ZONING Commission meeting they had ever seen, the scowl on developer Glenn Drew’s face deepened.

16 AARON “EMCEEIN’ EYE” BROOKSHIRE is gearing up for a double-whammy deal: hosting the 8th annual WinstonSalem Rap Round Robin and celebrating his latest album “Nothing Beats A Try,” out August 1 on Cold Rhymes Records.

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Making movies: Making dollars, making sense, and making art

ecently, the headlines from Hollywood haven’t been about the hits or misses of the summer movie season, but the concurrent strikes by the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and SAG/AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), which have e ectively put current and upcoming film and television projects in an indefinite state of limbo.

Closer to home, here in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission (PTFC), which has e ectively assisted and supported filmmakers and the projects they’ve decided to shoot here over the last three decades. According to executive director Rebecca Clark, a celebration may be in the o ng, but for now, there are the current projects being made here to attend to.

“We’ve had fairly consistent productions happening including reality TV shows, commercial work, music videos, and ‘drop-in’-type projects like Pawn Stars or Lakefront Bargain Hunt in the region,” Clark a rmed. “None of these projects are negatively impacted by the Writer’s Guild or SAG strike. Once in a while, we get an independent feature. The bigger economic feature productions that benefit from the North Carolina film grant haven’t filmed here since 2015, when the state’s film incentive was devastatingly slashed. However, I continue to remedy that.”

C. Neil Davenport is among those filmmakers determined to make their movies here, on their home turf and their own terms. Davenport, a graduate of the

RSchool of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), has not one but two projects he’s currently working on.

“The first one is a faith-based feature film titled All In, which I am co-producing alongside Pooja Gupta — a professor at UNCSA — with Race Films, and the second is a short art-house film titled Vultures, which I co-wrote with J.D. Franklin, a fellow classmate, and am producing it alongside a Winston-Salem start-up production company called Remnant Entertainment. Both films are in preproduction, geared to be developed in Winston-Salem and connected to The Arts Council of Winston-Salem.”

For more information about Davenport’s current projects, the pitch deck for Vultures is https://vulturesfilm. myportfolio.com/core, and there’s also an in-depth interview here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/ foreyorelore/id/27183186.

“I have two reasons why I am diligently working at bringing the production of these two films to Winston-Salem,” he said. “The first is thanks to my friend, Lou Baldwin. He is a major proponent in the development of the city, and he opened my eyes to what the city could do. The second reason comes more from the heart: Five years prior to grad school, I lived and worked within the film industry in Atlanta and could not wait to get out! Winston-Salem has become a home away from home for me, and this is my way of thanking its community for supporting me.”

“Neil is a very ambitious young filmmaker,” Clark observed. “He’s definitely a ‘go-getter’ and is trying to get a lot of local support and endorsements. I think the Arts Council’s partnership is particularly valuable to them in allowing their 501c3 status to be used to help them collect money for the film. That is a great resource for local filmmakers looking for funding. I definitely want him to shoot here — and will do all I can to support his production with all and any of the same

information I’d provide any production.”

Davenport, who graduated UNCSA in May, has fond memories of his stint at the School of Filmmaking, and particularly of his mentor, faculty member Peter Werner, who unexpectedly died in March.

“My words of praise have to be given to (School of Filmmaking) dean Deborah LaVine,” he said. “She came onboard during my first year and, in my perspective, orchestrated the film program wonderfully. There were some administrative issues both years I was a student, but LaVine was like the captain of a shop during a storm. With her, it was smooth sailing. I was one of seven students in the Masters of Screenwriting program at UNCSA and, outside of finding my voice as a writer, I learned the importance of mental health. There’s a reason why the school is on the top-ten list of film schools in the world. As for Peter, I could write a book about that man and what he taught me.”

Clark’s e orts to enhance and increase the state’s film incentives is a matter of simple arithmetic. The more the incentives have been revised and reduced, the less projects are being made here. Filmmakers will instead make their films in other states with better incentives, including Georgia. When a film is made here, it provides an economic boost for the region.

Clark is advocating for the incentive to be increased to 35% for any productions that film 75% or more in Tier 1 or Tier 2 counties, and for the minimum spend to be lowered from $1.5 million to $1 million.

“These would be simple amendments to the existing plan that would not cost North Carolina one additional dollar,” she said. “These small changes will make

a huge impact on building the film industry in the Piedmont Triad region and other Tier 1 and Tier 2 counties across the state. They would have an immediate, substantial, and direct economic impact on economically challenged counties. Film productions leave at least one-third of their total budgets behind in the local community. There would be well-paying jobs for local citizens who work behind the scenes on these productions, and these jobs would also be available to graduates of state-support film schools — like UNCSA — which will encourage them to stay and live and work in the region. We will be better positioned to attract permanent businesses that support the film, television, and commercial industries. And it will help us create more tourism to the region. People from around the world visit some of their favorite film sites. Look no further than Mount Airy as a perfect example of what a TV show can do to provide a huge economic impact on tourism!”

To that end, Clark suggests that voters reach out to their North Carolina House and Senate representatives to support these two simple improvements to the state’s current film grant. For more information about this, e-mail Clark at info@ piedmontfilm.com and she’ll be happy to provide more comprehensive details.

C. Neil Davenport’s o cial website is https://cneildavenport.com/ and his o cial IMDB (Internet Movie Database) page is https://www.imdb.com/name/ nm7465781/. The o cial Piedmont Triad Film Commission website is https://piedmontfilm.com/. !

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MUSIC CAROLINA SUMMERFEST CELEBRATES ITS 15TH SEASON

JULY 30-AUGUST 30, 2023

Sponsored by Music Carolina, Summerfest returns for it’s 15th season. The summer music festival features a range of musical styles including classical and jazz. Summerfest is curated by Artistic Directors Joe Mount and Matt Kendrick. This season’s lineup features seven great concerts, that will be held in a variety of locations here in Winston-Salem, NC. Summerfest 2023 kicks o on Sunday, July 30. Tickets and more information can be found at www.MusicCarolina.org

Wanderer’s Stars: Songs that Illuminate Our Path Toward Home

Sunday, July 30, 3:00 p.m.

Salem College Fine Arts Center, Shirley Recital Hall

“Time Out”

Friday, August 4, 7:30 p.m.

Salem College Fine Arts Center, Shirley Recital Hall

Baroque and Blue

Wednesday, August 9, 7:30 p.m.

Piedmont Music Center

“Close to You” — Songs of Burt Bacharach

Saturday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

Salem College Fine Arts Center, Shirley Recital Hall

Peter and the Wolf: A Family Concert

Saturday, August 26, 3:00 p.m.

SECCA Auditorium - FREE Admission

The Lyricosa String Quartet

Sunday, August 27, 3:00 p.m.

Piedmont Music Center

Dmitri Vorobiev, piano

Wednesday, August 30, 7:30 p.m.

Piedmont Music Center

PRESS RELEASE

Triad Cultural Arts and Arts Council will present “Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop with 9th Wonder: A Master Class and Panel Discussion” on Monday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at Reynolds Place Theatre. This event is free and open to the public but advanced ticket reservations are required due to the anticipated “sell out.”

Winston-Salem is known as a city of arts and innovation. Our citizens enjoy various forms of art and cultural experiences which are hosted by key organizations in our community, like Arts Council, Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership, The Urban League, and Triad Cultural Arts. All of these organizations, including the Winston-Salem Police Department, are excited to partner and host a celebration of 50 years of hip-hop, which is said to be the most popular music style in America, according to Billboard Magazine

9th Wonder, a pioneer of hip-hop and “homeboy” of Winston-Salem, will present his master class as the featured artist of the event. He is no stranger to the community. This summer, a mural was revealed commemorating 9th Wonder’s legacy as a North Carolina Hall of Fame musician.

As other communities across the nation celebrate hip-hop as a cultural innovation by African Americans, the citizens of Winston-Salem will, too. In addition to 9th Wonder’s master class presentation, an engaging Q&A will take place with community and guest panelists such as Sheri Bobby Kimbrough, Judge Fred

Adams, and Professor Bryan Turman of NC A&T.

In addition to the event “Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop with 9th Wonder,” a free “Moderate Level Hip Hop Class & Brunch” will be presented on Friday, July 21 at 1 p.m. Interested parties can contact Quamekia Shavers for more information at qshavers@icloud.com.

“Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop with 9th Wonder” is a sponsored project of Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County and funded through ARPA supported by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

Reynolds Place Theatre is located within Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts at 251 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Tickets are required and can be reserved at https:// www.intothearts.org/campus-events. !

TRIAD CULTURAL Arts (TCA) was founded in 2007 as a nonprofit, community based, multi-disciplinary cultural arts organization. A leader in bringing recognition to Black American history and culture, TCA is dedicated to presenting programming that contributes to a culturally competent community so that significant and lasting improvements can be made in our society.

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.

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Triad Cultural Arts & Arts Council announce event “Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop with 9th Wonder”

Chow Down with John Batchelor at Meridian

BY JOHN BATCHELOR

Meridian occupies the ground floor of Tar Branch Towers condominium building. The interior is modern and urbane. Panoramic windows look into a section of Old Salem. Tables are placed far enough apart to allow conversation. The noise level is moderate.

A smaller dining room accommodates private parties. Bar seating is available as well.

Service is well-paced and well-informed. Compliments go to the wine list as well as the bar area and bartender. When I asked for advice regarding a wine to pair with a new dish on the menu, his suggestions were right on target. You won’t go wrong here with any choices you might make.

Chef/owner Mark Grohman originally trained as a pilot, but he decided to climb out of the cockpit after 9/11. He learned under “some really good chefs,” starting part-time while he was still flying. Previous full-time stints in professional kitchens include Noble’s in High Point, which I have ranked one of the Triad’s three best, ever. He knew from the start he did not want to just work for someone else, though, so his goal was always to own his own restaurant. He was able to open Meridian in 2007.

The website promises the cuisine is “inspired by the bright flavors of the Northern Mediterranean, as well as local, organic, and seasonal ingredients. Everything is made in-house, from breads and handrolled pasta to house-made sausages and mozzarella.” It’s a good characterization, and everything I tasted validates the claim.

My wife and I tend to eat seasonally, to some extent, so we looked at salads to start. The Organic Spinach Salad is decorated with baby portabella mushrooms, plus bright red onion slices, dressed in sherry vinaigrette. Light, nutritious, and flavorful, just right for a summer evening.

But to be candid, the Fried Oysters are more my style. Pleasantly moist and plump, with a crisp crust, they are surrounded with creamed spinach, scattered with pieces of pecan wood-smoked bacon, made in-house, and diced red peppers, ladled with lemon hollandaise. Colorful, bright, and fresh tasting.

All good so far. Quite good, in fact. But we found two other starters that rank right up there at the top, in the context of Triad restaurants.

Steamed Hollander (in Maine) Mussels rest in a chardonnay cream broth that also hosts garlic, shallots, and fresh herbs, flanked by grilled bruschetta. The

mussels themselves taste great — no muddy residual — and the bread, crusty and flavorful in itself, is just wonderful as it soaks up that broth.

In a column earlier this year, I named calamari at another restaurant the best in the Triad. Well, that ranking is hereby matched at Meridian. The menu says “SAUTEED” (all caps), and our server made it a point to caution that it is not fried. No. These little squiggles are tender, not crusty, plated over spicy crushed tomatoes, enhanced with Genoese basil strips, laced with lemon pepper aioli. So now we have a tie for the best.

Entrées are most enjoyable as well. Yellowfin Tuna, caught o the North Carolina coast, is sushi grade, no gristle. The exterior is coated with cracked black pepper and seared, the interior rare (as ordered), plated over grilled Pioppini mushroom (from the Virginia mountains) couscous, braised chard, and crystalized shallots on top. These flavors play o each other well.

Tilefish is a fairly firm white-fleshed fish, with a pleasant, mild flavor of its own. This kitchen pan-sears it to a light crust, then joins it with jumbo shrimp, properly deveined and tender, over Anson Mills stone ground grits (a heritage product), onions, bell peppers, and celery, bits of housemade Andouille sausage, surrounded by a roasted tomato-tarragon pan sauce. I often find that tomato sauces overpower seafoods, but in this case, the sauce is light enough to allow both the fish and the shrimp to come through.

All Natural Pork Schnitzel is lightly breaded and pan-fried, served with sauteed spaetzle, braised chard, and lemon brown butter. The spaetzle absorb the lemon butter flavor, and the combination with the natural pork flavor is both lush and light at the same time.

Credible Steak Frites require two ele-

Calamari

Tuna

Spinach Salad

Oysters

ments, at the foundation: high-quality beef and fresh potatoes, properly cooked. Meridian scores on both counts. The steak is from Joyce Farms — a superior product that emits solid depth of flavor, no excess fat, no gristle. Somebody paid attention! This kitchen makes their own steak sauce, too, and if they bottled it, I would definitely buy it. The potatoes are blanched, then fried at service, the second iteration yielding a crisp crust. They rank among the best in our area.

We rounded out our visits with a pasta dish — Cavatelli, made in-house, with shrimp, strips of house-made tasso ham, sweet corn, lemon cream, fresh basil, and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese blend. The shrimp are true jumbos, deveined, tail on. The tail enhances the presentation. These really big shrimp taste great, and they were not overcooked — hard to get right in a dish like this. Their flavor is particularly enhanced by the fresh corn — a mellifluous marriage.

Desserts will have to wait until fall. I’ll be going back, not just for desserts, but to repeat some of the items mentioned above, as well as the Antelope entrée that looks really intriguing. It’s a good sign when I finish professional visits wanting to go back just because I like the food and there are more things I want to try. One other thought — Chef Grohman provides cooking

classes at the restaurant, or he will come to your house, provide some lessons, and cook dinner for you. Now that would be a lot of fun!

Andy Neely has been assisting in the Meridian kitchen for six years, and Steven Joyce started four years ago. This is a really good team! !

JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/ cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com.

WANNA go?

Meridian 411 South Marshall Street, Winston-Salem 27107 (336) 722-8889

meridianws.com

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 4:30 p.m.-10 p.m.

Appetizers: $12-$17

Salads: $8-$11

Soups: $7-$8

Entrées: $23-$43

Desserts: $8-$12

Most recent visit: July 11

Mussels

Tilefish

Pork Schnitzel Steak Frites

School Shootings and Short-Term Memory

hen Alan Shepard became the first American launched into outer space, folks were glued to their television sets. After John Glenn became the first man to orbit the Earth, there were parades and celebrations. But soon, public interest in the Gemini space program waned, and most people couldn’t name the latest man into space or tell you how many orbits Glenn had made. It seems that we tend to develop short-term memory when it comes to recalling momentous events, whether they be glorious or tragic in nature. And that brings me to our nation’s growing number of school shootings.

WAccording to the Washington Post, there have been 386 mass school shootings thus far in this century, and that includes an all-time annual high of 46 in 2022. In all, 356,000 students have experienced gun violence over the past two decades alone, so you’d think we would at least be able to recall the location of the worst of these mass murders…but we can’t. In the days following each heinous incident, the media frequently reminds us of how many children were killed, but then, the facts and faces wane from our collective memory. At first, politicians vow to enact reforms, then the outrage dissipates and talk of reform disappears.

For what it’s worth, here’s a list of the worst mass shootings at schools since Columbine. Perhaps this can serve as a reminder of what happened and why it’s so important that we do something to keep this list from growing.

March 21, 2005 — Ten students were killed, and seven others injured when a 16-year-old assailant opened fire at Red Lake Senior High School, on Minne-

sota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation.

October 2, 2006 — A 37-year-old milk delivery man dropped his kids o at school, then drove to Pennsylvania’s Amish West Nickel Mine School, and killed 6 children while wounding five others.

April 16, 2007 — A 23-year-old man murdered 33 students and wounded 23 others while classes were in session at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The gunman subsequently killed himself.

February 14, 2008 — A former graduate student spent his Valentine’s Day killing six people and injuring 21 others at Northern Illinois University.

April 12, 2012 — A 43-year-old former student returned to his alma mater, Oikos University, a Korean Christian school in Oakland California, and murdered seven students, injuring three others.

December 14, 2012 — In what was thought to be the most heinous of mass school shootings, a lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 28 children, all under the age of 10, and as young as 5 years old.

June 7, 2013 — After killing his father and brother, a 23-year-old man murdered six students and wounded four others at Santa Monica College in southern California.

October 24, 2014 — A 15-year-old boy murdered four students at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Washington.

October 1, 2015 — In Roseburg, Oregon, a 26-year-old killed 10 students and injured

nine others at Umpqua Community College. The gunman then shot himself.

November 14, 2017 — A 44-year-old man freed on bail for two previous felonies opened fire in Rancho Tehama school in California, and murdered six students while wounding 18 others. He then killed himself.

February 14, 2018 — Another Valentine’s Day was marred by unthinkable violence when a 19-year-old man with a history of disciplinary problems walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and killed 17 students while wounding 17 others.

May 18, 2018 — Not more than two months after the Parkland massacre, an assailant used a shotgun and a revolver to murder 10 students and injure 14 others at Sante Fe High School in Houston Texas.

May 24, 2022 — Twenty-two students were shot to death and 18 others injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Delays in responding to gunfire led to a trial and national debate over the role of School Resource O cers.

February 13, 2023 — An 18-year-old boy murdered four students and wounded five others at Michigan State University. The assailant was subsequently killed by police.

Given that most of us can’t name even half of the schools from this list, it’s not surprising that our elected o cials in Washington also su er from short-term memory when it comes to mass school shootings. The idea of a ban on assault weapons has been kicked around for years, but even if such a ban went into e ect today it wouldn’t prevent more school massacres. That’s because there are more guns in circulation than there are people in America, so guns are readily available. Also, not all school shootings are done with assault-style rifles. The solution is to beef up school security, and that means installing electronically locking doors, metal detectors, and posting an SRO in every school.

Until local, state, and federal governments are willing to spend the money to enact these reforms, then students will continue to be murdered, and we will continue to forget where they took their last breath. !

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The last — and least — of Indiana Jones

Maybe

Indiana

Jones should have hung up the fedora after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 15 years ago. The belated but eagerly anticipated followup, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which is purportedly the final installment, is the latest, longest, and undoubtedly least of the franchise.

Harrison Ford’s in there, still giving it his all and still a hero (and an actor) to reckon with, with perhaps his most impressive feat here appearing in an early scene wearing only boxer shorts. Indiana Jones may be a little weathered and weary, but Ford’s devotion to the character goes a long, long way. The same could be said of the goodwill the series has engendered up until now — but that too isn’t enough.

Executive producer Steven Spielberg, who instead opted to direct last year’s The Fabelmans (a wonderful film that sputtered at the box o ce), has handed the reins to James Mangold, a talented filmmaker in his own right. Mangold tries hard to emulate Spielberg’s style but with only intermittent success. The problem here is the cluttered, convoluted screenplay by the duo of Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp, and Mangold himself. This is the quintessential example where less would have yielded so much more.

Having retired from teaching at New

York’s Hunter College, Indiana Jones soon finds himself on another globe-trotting adventure. The coveted object this time around is the Antikythera, better known as “Archimedes’ Dial,” an ancient artifact that can supposedly cause rifts in time.

Ford has a worthy adversary in Mads Mikkelsen’s Jurgen Voller, a Nazi scientist who aided the American e ort to reach the moon (an interesting and historically accurate touch) and now plans to revisit — and win — World War II by utilizing the Antikythera. He also has a worthy partner/rival in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Helena Shaw, his estranged goddaughter and also an intrepid archaeologist. But Helena’s sidekick, newcomer Ethann Isadore’s teen-aged scrounger Teddy, feels like a pale and pallid imitation of Ke Huy Quan’s Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

It’s nice to welcome John Rhys-Davis as Sallah and Karen Allen as Indy’s wife Marion Ravenwood back into the fold, and it’s an amusing conceit that Sallah now toils as a cab driver in the Big Apple, but neither has much to do — certainly not enough to justify their prominent billing. Toby Jones (as Helena’s father), Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, and Thomas Kretschmann are also on hand, but the film doesn’t know what to do with them.

The first three films did not have the benefit (?) of CGI e ects, but this one goes wildly overboard with them, starting with the opening setpiece set aboard a German troop train hurtling toward Berlin

that is more exhausting than entertaining. It’s simply too much. The e ort to make The Dial of Destiny bigger than its predecessors is an admirable one, but it can hardly be called successful. It’s hard not to get charged up when John Williams’ immortal theme comes up, but for its fun aspects, The Dial of Destiny lacks those truly funny scenes that were so welcome in the earlier films. There are some nods to the events of the earlier films, but they seem arbitrary.

One of the film’s more interesting ideas, that the CIA is somehow in cahoots with Volker, is discarded early on, and the absurd climax makes one yearn for the comparative lucidity of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’s silly climax. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is never boring, but it is tiresome. It’s nice to see Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role one last time, but he — and Indiana Jones — deserved better. !

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THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS

In 1973, Nissim Kahlon was living in a tent on a beach north of Tel Aviv, Israel, the Associated Press reported. He started scratching into a sandstone cli wall along the beach, and eventually excavated a cave and moved in. Fifty years later, his created home is a sandcastle, with multiple floors, staircases, detailed mosaic floors and plumbing. But now Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry is moving to evict Kahlon, saying the structure is illegal and threatens the coastline. He said he first got a demolition order in 1974, but since then the government has left him alone, even connecting his home to the electrical grid. “I am not leaving here,” Kahlon, 77, said. “I am ready for them to bury me here. I have no other home.”

THE TECH REVOLUTION

The Toronto Zoo has a favor to ask of visitors to Nassir the gorilla: Please don’t show him photos or videos on your phone. Like any other 24-year-old primate, Nassir is “fascinated by videos, and screen time would dominate his life if he had it his way,” according to the zoo’s website. The Toronto Star reported that Maria Franke, director of wildlife conservation and welfare, is noticing the e ect of visitors sharing their content. “It was causing him to be distracted and not interacting with the other gorillas ... He was just so enthralled with gadgets and phones and the videos.” A sign now warns visitors: “Some content can be upsetting and a ect their relationships and behavior within their family.” Phones down, humans.

PRECOCIOUS

An 8-year-old boy faces multiple charges, including first-degree robbery, after he carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint on July 11 in Montgomery, Alabama, WSFA-TV reported. O cers tried to stop the car, but the little driver wouldn’t stop and later crashed into another car. A witness, “Snake” Knapp, said he saw the kid pick up two adults along the way. “I think parents just really need to know where their kids are, what their kids are doing,” Knapp mused.

he developed a green, fuzzy layer on his tongue. He was prescribed antifungals, but they didn’t help. Hairy tongue occurs when keratin causes a buildup of papillae, the tiny projections on the tongue. The man was directed to scrub his tongue with a toothbrush four times a day and stop smoking, and the green fuzz disappeared.

ANIMAL ANTICS

— People living in the Travis Heights neighborhood of Austin, Texas, are thinking twice about venturing outdoors — and it’s not because of the heat. A red-shouldered hawk is terrorizing pedestrians — to the point that U.S. mail delivery has been suspended in the area indefinitely, KTBCTV reported. “Imagine walking out of your house and knowing that you’re going to get punched in the back of the head by an animal with large talons,” said Alfred Del Barrio. He said he avoided the hawk on a run because he saw its shadow. Nicole Netherton of the Travis Audubon Society said the hawk is protecting its young. “Trying to ignore them so that they can get their business and breeding done is probably the best advice,” she said. State and federal laws protect migratory birds. Meanwhile, residents are asked to pick up their mail at a local post o ce until further notice.

— A wedding at Maison Albion in Albion, New York, recently sported an unexpected extra member of the wedding party, People reported. J, a llama, was hired to be a surprise groomsman by the bride’s mother, who knew her daughter wants to own a llama farm one day. Llama Adventures provided J and outfitted him in a tux that made him look as if he was wearing white gloves and standing on two legs, and he gamely stood with the other groomsmen as the nuptials took place.

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Local Sculptor Honors Cancer Center that Saved His Life

bout five years ago, local sculptor Lawrence Feir was living his best life. Not long separated from an unhappy marriage of 20-something years, he reconnected with himself by making new art, running an art collaborative in downtown Greensboro, staying active with sports such as kayaking and rock climbing, and even dating. And while he felt at a loss at how to even date after so many years, he was putting himself out there and doing well. Then overnight, in the midst of his newfound joy, the rug got pulled out from under him. The sore throat he initially went to the doctor for ended up being a cancer diagnosis.

AUnfamiliar with the journey ahead, Feir was eager to embark on it immediately in hopes of a full recovery. “You have this disease in you and you just want it out of you,” said the artist, “And because they don’t start treatment right away it seemed like an eternity.” Fortunately, Feir was treated at the Cone Health Cancer Center in Greensboro, a facility that provides its patients with two acres of healing gardens for relaxation, reflection, and therapeutic activities. Little did he know that this green restorative space would end up being a muse for him during what has likely been the most di cult chapter of his life.

“I didn’t know anything about the healing gardens back then I discovered them during treatment,” said Feir. “I would come out here for serenity, and at other times to kill time in between appointments.” While the hospital is actually pleasant inside, nobody really wants to be inside of it if they can help it. Other than employees of the actual facil-

ity, anyone coming through the hospital is either sick and receiving treatment, or there to be with and support a loved one undergoing treatment. It is an unhappy place where cancer patients are members of a club no one would ever sign up for. Yet Feir tried to make the best of it. Looking to avoid the fluorescent lights he regularly found himself under while inside the center, Feir found a spot in the gardens where he was able to lose himself in his perpetual doodling. His notepad pages began filling up with sculptures that he hoped to make if he recovered. One of these doodles was a windswept tree he noticed in the garden because of the way that it was leaning. The artist sketched it several times in his notepad and eventually forgot about it for about half a year as his focus remained on his chemotherapy and radiation. With no family within 400 miles, Feir also had an angel of sorts during this time.

His significant other at the time of his

diagnosis had not been dating him very long when he was told he had cancer. Aware that she had not signed up to be with a man about to undergo cancer treatment, Feir expressed his understanding if she chose to leave. However, she stayed and took care of him, a blessing he will not forget. Once in treatment, Feir was no longer able to drive nor able to get through some nights without getting ill due to nausea. His girlfriend at the time got him to and from all of his appointments, and made sure he didn’t miss any of these, especially after sleepless nights.

The healing gardens at the Cone Health Cancer Center are chaired by Mary Magrinat, the head healing gardener. Never losing hope that he would recover, one day Feir shared with someone in the garden that he would like to give back to the facility by building a sculpture in the space. When the idea reached Magrinat by word of mouth, she and Feir met to discuss the possibility further. Feir gave

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Lawrence Feir with his sculpture “Tree of Hope” at the Cone Health Cancer Center healing gardens

her the sketch of the windswept tree from his notepad and she loved it as it fit perfectly with the flora already in place. But when the idea was shared amongst other members of sta and management, it grew larger than Feir had intended it to be.

“I thought the new idea was wonderful but it was a little bit more than I could handle at that moment,” said Feir. “I had downsized my studio just before the cancer, and I still wasn’t feeling at 100 percent.” The sculptor wholeheartedly gifted his original design to the gardens and granted the sta permission to hire another artist to produce the sculpture. With a pause in between due to the pandemic, when the sculpture project finally moved forward another artist was hired to produce the work. However, the

final product was far from the original design, and the reception at the hospital was not positive.

By then, Feir was doing much better healthwise, and Magrinat approached him to inquire if he would reconsider producing his original design. Feir, also disappointed with the first sculpture looking nothing like his idea, didn’t think twice and got to work on this piece he was so passionate about making in gratitude to the place and people in it that saved his life. “When you work with me you’re going to get what I tell you you’re going to get,” said the sculpture about his process. “I firmly believe in making a model and meeting with a customer as long and as often as necessary until all of their questions are answered.”

Feir’s stainless steel sculpture now

stands tall as “The Tree of Hope’’ over a wall facing the healing gardens. His piece is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bill Bowman, a highly regarded surgeon at the hospital who passed away unexpectedly in 2021. His widow, Gay Bowman, wanted something to honor his memory and found no better fitting place than the healing gardens where he worked. Upon his death, family and friends of Dr. Bowman donated money on behalf of this memorial honoring both the late surgeon, and the hope that the facility and its sta bring to all of those who walk through its doors.

Having studied at the Parsons School of Design and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Feir’s work has mostly focused on figurative drawing. Later in life, he went into photography, fol-

lowed by the figurative and kinetic wind sculptures he is so well known for. Even more recently is that Feir began incorporating stainless steel in his sculptures, as he did with “Tree of Hope” at the Cone Health Cancer Center healing gardens. “I never understood the saying that cancer changes you until l was a patient,” concluded Feir. “It sure does.”

The Cone Health Cancer Center healing gardens are located at 2400 W. Friendly Avenue in Greensboro.

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

Un-Friendly Rezoning: More than 200 residents show up for P&Z Commission meeting

On July 17, as the council chamber filled up with what several staff members described as the largest turnout for any Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commission meeting they had ever seen, the scowl on developer Glenn Drew’s face deepened.

Over 200 members of a Friendly Avenue community turned out to voice their opposition to Drew’s plans to build 26 “high-density luxury townhomes” on three tracts of land consisting of roughly four acres at 4004 West Friendly Avenue. Drew, who sat in the back of the packed room, left the talking to his attorney, who requested a continuance until the August 21 meeting.

When asked by Commission chair Sandra O’Connor if he would like to speak on the continuance, Drew’s attorney, Alex Elkin of Brooks Pierce, said that his client requested the additional time “in order to further engage with the neighborhood and community with respect to the application and conditions that are offered.”

As no opposition was expressed, Commissioner Zac Engle motioned to continue the hearing to the August 21st meeting. Commissioner Keith Peterson seconded and the motion carried unanimously. “I guess this has been a good rehearsal,” said O’Connor as she thanked those in the packed council chamber for turning out, but also cautioned them

that “we cannot carry signs in chambers.”

The three plots at 4004 West Friendly that Drew hopes to rezone from R-3 (Residential Single-Family-3) to CDRM-8 (Conditional District-Residential Multifamily-8). Andy Aronson is one of the neighbors who oppose his request to do so.

“For the last 70 years,” said Aronson, “it’s been three houses per acre, with large setbacks 100 feet from Friendly and large lots. The neighborhood is very quiet and people here enjoy that. The proposed 26 townhome duplexes that he wants to build and rent out are like nothing in the neighborhood.”

Aronson said that he was already dismayed by successful rezonings by other developers that he said have already changed the character of the area, referring to what he described as “the huge medical center they’re putting at Muirs Chapel and Friendly” and a three-story apartment complex at Avondale and Friendly.

“The ability to do something doesn’t mean you should be doing it. Sometimes you have to take other people’s lives into consideration, but Mr. Drew doesn’t care about that, and the community has turned out in vast numbers to oppose it. A lot of people are upset and do not want this to happen, and there is absolutely no reason why it should. When you take a look at the land use, it’s adverse to what’s around there, it doesn’t fit in, it’s going to create traffic problems, it’s going to create safety problems, and it’s going to create pollution problems, from light, noise, and trash. And he’s been very disingenuous about telling us what is going on.”

Aronson is one of three residents in the contest area who allege that, at a recent meeting with neighbors, Drew had been questioned about his background as a developer, and said things that Aronson and others claimed to find irrelevant or dubious.

“He said that he developed Burger Kings. Well, that’s fine, but we were asking about his residential background. When pressed on that, he said he developed the Cone Mansion. Well, that was built in 1901, which would mean he’s over 122 years old. I don’t think that’s the case, but that’s what he told our group at our first meeting in July when he was explaining what he wanted to do in a meeting required by the zoning commission. He might have misspoken, but he didn’t say that he did.” [IM1]

Aronson called Drew “the same person who was in the American Hebrew Academy, which went belly-up under his watch.”

Drew is the nephew of Maurice “Chico” Sabbah, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the American Hebrew Academy (AHA) on Hobbes Road in Greensboro in 2001 and died in 2006. AHA, the world’s only pluralistic coed Jewish boarding school, closed in 2019 and rebranded in 2020 as AHA International School, but never reopened.

Fortress Re, Sabbah’s Burlingtonbased commercial aviation reinsurance company, had reinsured every airplane involved with the 9/11 attacks, and the $400 million settlement wiped out his endowment for the school, leaving tuition and fundraising unable to cover its $18 million-dollar operating costs.

Drew served as the school’s CEO, executive director, and General Counsel

from its 2001 opening until his resignation in November 2020. In a June 2019 Triad City Beat article on the academy’s downfall, Jordan Green reported that, although contributions declined from $5.2 million in 2013 to $404,987 in 2016, Drew’s compensation increased from $402,549 to $538,362 in that same period.

Drew’s LLC CZS Development was incorporated in 2021. OpenCorporates.com lists its registered address as 4010 Hazel Lane and Drew as agent and chairman.

Another neighbor who alleged that Drew had described himself as a builder of the Cone Mansion is Jenny Kaiser.

“As a group, we were trying to discern what kind of experience Mr. Drew has in actual residential development. He said he built the Cone Mansion. Several architects and architectural buffs in the audience called it to his attention that he wasn’t born when it was built. After being pressed on the issue, he backtracked and said he helped on the renovation, but he definitely originally said he built it.”[IM2]

Kaiser [IM3] said she had “three major concerns” about the proposed rezoning and development. She said the first is with the property setback, a term which when applied to real estate means the distance legally required between a dwelling or structure and the property line of the plot on which it stands.

“The minimum setback the city makes in rezoning is 35 feet, so it would be that distance from Friendly Avenue. All neighboring homes have a setback between 100 and 110 feet. That’s about 75 to 80 feet of a differential between the first house in his development versus the other houses on the street. This is a

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beautiful stretch of Friendly Avenue, and this property being so close to the street would really detract from it.”

The second, said Kaiser, is density.

“Currently, he could theoretically take the R3 zoning that he has and build up to 12 homes on that property without having any rezoning. And that’s a lot in a very dense portion, but he wants it rezoned so he can build 26 units.”

The third, said Kaiser, is what she called “the context of the neighborhood.”

“It has very unique homes, from traditional to colonial to modern to midcentury. To have a development where every house is exactly the same doesn’t fit with the neighborhood. And the building material he looking to use, brick façade rather than actual brick, and vinyl siding, also doesn’t fit.”

Buddy Mills, another neighbor who has been working to organize opposition to the rezoning, also alleged she heard Drew say this at a meeting with people from the neighborhood held at Beth David Synagogue.

“After he made the Cone Mansion claim, someone in the audience at Beth David googled when it was built, and then asked Mr. Drew if he was around in the early 1900s. He then clarified that he has helped restore the mansion.”

Nicky Smith, who described himself as a “core member of the group spearheading this resistance,” said he was worried about water runoff from the property if 26 units are built on it.

“We already have a problem with that in this stretch of Friendly Avenue, where water runoff goes right through the valley area between Kemp Road east and Kemp Road west and down into King

Pond, and from there into Lake Euphemia. Our complaint is that when the city annexed the township of Hamilton Lakes, it never agreed to take ownership of any of the Hamilton Lake lakes, and so we as homeowners are responsible for dredging our lakes to keep the area clean. Creating that apartment complex, and all the traffic it will increase around the units will create more and more road debris that’s going to come right into our King Pond and right into Lake Euphemia.”

John Drinkard works for CMJW Architects in Winston-Salem but has lived in this neighborhood off Friendly 1984.

“As an architect, I have seen rezoning applications done very well so that they can really add to a neighborhood. I came to Drew’s first meeting with an open mind, and the hope I would see something that would make me say, oh, this is good! But instead, I was shocked at his proposed development. There’s no design at all involved in it. It stands out as something incongruent with the neighborhood. He’s destroying the tree line and it doesn’t mesh with the neighbors.”

It was impossible to approach Drew either in the crowded chamber or the equally crowded lobby outside it, and he quickly exited the building without speaking to any reporters. YES! Weekly has reached out to him via phone and email, but at press time, he had not responded to a request for comment. !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

“Nothing Beats A Try” at the 8th annual Winston-Salem Rap Round Robin

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Brookshire is gearing up for a double-whammy deal: hosting the 8th annual WinstonSalem Rap Round Robin and celebrating his latest album “Nothing Beats A Try,” out August 1 on Cold Rhymes Records.

Carrying on the tradition Brookshire started with his brother, the late Joshua “Unspeakable” Brookshire, the rap roundrobin goes down on August 4 at Monstercade. Inspired by the format of shows put on by Dan Deacon (and carried over into hip-hop by Height Keech) the event brings together hip-hop artists and MCs in an onthe-floor environment, encircling a center audience in ring formation.

The 2022 show served as a memorial for Unspeakable, who passed only a few weeks before. For 2023, Brookshire will once again pull hosting duties, with an added opening slot performing his new record. “We’ll be celebrating the album and have physical copies on hand,” he explained. “The main event will follow my set of the new song plus maybe a few classics.”

“Mashing the release party together with the rap round robin seemed natural,” he continued, “so we can rally all of the Winston freaks in one place at one time.”

Returning freaks include OG Spli and PT Burnem — who appear on the new record. They’ll be joined by Greensboro’s Katie.blvd and Volz (from the Steady Hyperactive Collective). MCs Poncho and Sammy G will come up from Greenville to wrangle the mic. “They’re sorta just coming up in this weirdo rap scene, so I’m really hyped to have them come to Winston to see how we do things,” Brookshire said, “and they def bring the pain.”

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Slang aside, pain is an element Brookshire knows all too well. Pummeled by a series of tribulations — divorce and the deaths of his mother and only sibling — Emceein’ Eye keeps his head up: serving an album to o er a touching tribute, while also touching on his path forward.

Rallying freaks and ripping the new record, Brookshire’s resolution is reflected in his work. “I’m enjoying things moving forward with the hybrid organic-digital approach to sort of singer-songwriter raps on the record. The content is sorta personal, but also never gets too dark or anything,” he said — o ering a testament to his perseverance and the power of a solid posse, including Burnem and the Cold Rhymes family, who helped bring the album to life.

“Aaron has a settler’s mentality,” said Burnem, who worked on the record with Brookshire. “Tragedy is always pressing in, the work gets done regardless.” That power resonates in “Chop Up the Lock,” a banger track that o ers a twisted take on

“War Pigs” a’la raps from Burnem, Grant Livesay, and Twinn Zeus.

An e ort employing the “nothing beats a try” approach instilled from a phrase his mom often used — the album itself took shape from that notion, as Burnem and Brookshire tinkered on tracks. “We kept saying it over and over as sort of an inside joke,” Brookshire explained. “I was thinking at the time about moving forward, grinding solo, and trying to keep this music shit going, and I thought the title was a perfect fit.”

Nods and tokens of adoration for his family often weave through Brookshire’s work — his 2020 solo debut album, “Never Comply,” was released on his mom’s birthday and uses her high school yearbook for a cover. He credits his brother for just about anything related to artistry — the pair performing as the rap-punk duo, Speak N Eye, until Joshua’s passing — the album itself spawning the night after his funeral.

“We had this magical gathering of

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friends in the woods,” Brookshire explained. “It wasn’t necessarily a party, but more like people hanging out by our creek with a huge fire going. We daisy chained like 10 drop-chords down through the yard and Burnem set up his synths and droned through the night as we all sorta processed what had just happened.”

“It was myself, OG Spli , our friend Laura Gardea, Daniel Garner, Mason Stevens, Yanni Xoinis, and a few others,” he recalled. Gardea and Xoinis appear on the album’s first song: “Steam Chalice,” a track inspired by the RAS Kitchen Youtube channel — which also marks the last song the Brookshires wrote together. Initially slated to be a Speak N Eye track, Brookshire gathered gang vocals during a house party and reworked the parts for the release.

“We’d actually planned to try to start a new band, with live drums, to take these songs to a more rock and roll type place,” Brookshire said, pointing to “Unwound”, also co-written with his brother. “It’s one of the first chances to bear my heart a little in a simple way,” he explained. “We wrote it on the front porch a few weeks after splitting up with my ex-wife.”

“It’s just about not letting shit get to you, and just knowing everything’s going to be just fine,” Brookshire continued. “We wanted to pull songs from di erent places and sorta break up the norm of just rapping over loops and garage rock beats.”

Height Keech stepped in on bass to help make it happen — throwing notions of its Oasis alterna-rock feel. “Keech was like ‘We should throw a bridge in it that just takes it somewhere else,’ so we did; and it’s one of my favorite moments on the album.”

From favorite moments to favorite players, Brookshire acted on the titular attitude for the album’s title track: hitting up Fugazi’s Joe Lally to fill in on bass. “I figured ‘nothin’ beats a try, what would it hurt to ask?” Brookshire said. “I sent him a really in-depth message about our history — the Speak N Eye narrative, Cold

Rhymes and all that. He was super cool and mellow and was just like ‘Sure that sounds cool.’”

Seeing the track itself as something of a tribute to Lee Scratch Perry’s “Soul Fire,” Lally’s dubby playing style hit the mark in more ways than one. “Fugazi is my favorite band of all time,” Brookshire said. “They’re the whole reason I wanted to start playing music. Josh showed me their ‘Instrument’ documentary when I was like 12 and it was on.”

“‘Blueprint’ is the second song I ever learned on guitar,” he continued. “Josh knew how to play the main ri and taught it to me.”

Memories of his brother abound with an ever-present influence — as symbolized in the album’s closing track “Red Tambourine,” to whom it’s dedicated.

“I’d been working with this auction company and we were cleaning out this decrepit old house and my boss was about to throw away this vintage wind organ keyboard thing,” Brookshire recalled. “It had this harping accordion sound; and I took it home, where I came up with a melody and some words about my brother.”

Not intending to include it on the album’s initial lineup, Brookshire and Burnem worked on the track — for which he’d envisioned a “Dan Deacon-ish” mode with sampling and stutter-step elements.

“Together everything turned out 20 times better than I had originally imagined it would be,” Brookshire noted. “I couldn’t be happier to have this be my first release in tribute to my brother.”

“Nothing Beats A Try” from Emceein’ Eye comes out on August 1 on Cold Rhymes Records. The 8th annual Winston-Salem Rap Round Robin goes down at Monstercade on August 4. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who enjoys spotlighting artists and events.

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1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400

www.greensborocoliseum.com

Jul 20: Thomas rhett

Jul 24: nF

HanGar 1819

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.579.6480

www.hangar1819.com

Jul 18: Skold

Jul 20: Lylvc

Jul 22: Live, Laugh, Local

Jul 25: Crobot

Jul 26: montana of 300

Jul 27: Hail The Sun

WHiTE oaK

amPiTHEaTrE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400

www.greensborocoliseum.com

Jul 30: Summer Block Party SWv & Dru Hill

high point

1614 DmB

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113

https://www.1614drinksmusicbilliards.com/

Jul 21: Elder Bug

Jul 22: Pathway + regence + iroh + no Scope

HiGH PoinT THEaTrE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401

www.highpointtheatre.com

Jul 29: Comedian Henry Cho

jamestown

THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999

Jul 20: Bradley Steele

Jul 21: Huckleberry Shyne

Jul 22: Brandon Davis

Jul 27: Dan miller

Jul 28: no strings attatched

Jul 29: Stone Parker Band

liberty

THE LiBErTY

SHoWCaSE THEaTEr

101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844

www.TheLibertyShowcase.com

Jul 20: Tracy Byrd

Jun 21: Twitty & Lynn

oak ridge

BiSTro 150

2205 Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.6359

www.bistro150.com

Jul 22: Elena m

Jul 29: Limited Engagement

aug 5: Elena m

raleigh

CCu muSiC ParK

aT WaLnuT CrEEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111

www.livenation.com

Jul 20: Godsmack and Staind

aug 4: Eric Church

winston-salem

FiDDLin’ FiSH

BrEWinG ComPanY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945

www.fiddlinfish.com

Tuesdays: Trivia

Jul 21: Holler Choir

Jul 28: relay relay

FooTHiLLS BrEWinG

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348

www.foothillsbrewing.com

Sundays: Sunday Jazz

Thursdays: Trivia

Jul 19: Jim mayberry

Jul 21: anne and the moonlighters

Jul 22: County Broadcast Service

Jul 23: Jon montgomery and Friends

Jul 28: andrew Wakefield

Jul 29: Dustin York

Jul 30: Taylor mason

THE ramKaT

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714

Jul 20: The rumble ft. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.

Jul 22: The Floral Hygeinists

Jul 26: Kyle Caudle & Timberline, anna Hudson

Jul 27: Jeese Fox, ryan Johnson

Jul 28: Daniel Justin Smith

roar

633 North Liberty Street | 336-917-3008

www.roarws.com | www.roarbrandstheater. com

Jul 21: Philray Trio

Jul 22: Corky Jams

Jul 29: Silk Groove

WiSE man BrEWinG

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008

www.wisemanbrewing.com

Thursdays: music Bingo

Jul 22: mike Coia

Jul 29: Summertime Live: Parking Lot Parties

PRESENTS

hot pour

NAME: Hannah Foster

BAR: Blue Bourbon Jack’s (BBJ’s)

AGE: 24

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? High Point

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING?

Since 2019, the day after I turned 21.

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER?

By working at a bar/restaurant since I was 16. Started as a host, became a server and eventually a bartender when I turned 21.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING?

Meeting new people and being apart of an amazing sta and of course, our lovable regulars.

WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF BARTENDING?

Having a customer not know what they want and trying to curate a drink with little to no liquor or flavor preference from said customer.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Sex On The Beach.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK?

Vodka cran and pineapple.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Chocolate Martini.

WHAT’S THE STRANGEST DRINK REQUEST YOU’VE HAD? A Rumchata and Sprite.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? The craziest thing I’ve seen while bartending is four bouncers carrying a man out of the bar by both arms and both legs.

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE FOUND IN A BAR BATHROOM?

Airplane bottles in the toilet after some kids tried to flush them.

WHAT’S THE BEST/BIGGEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? $1,000

[BARTENDER OF THE WEEK | BY NATALIE GARCIA] Check out videos on our Facebook!

Grand Opening of The Artisans Mercantile

7.15.23 | Greensboro | Natlie Garcia

[SALOME’S STARS]

Week of July 24, 2023

[ ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Information you need might be coming in sporadically, but at least what you’re getting is valuable. Continue to wait until more is available before acting on that career move.

[ TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You continue on an upbeat cycle, and with that strong Taurean energy, you should see favorable results from your hard work. A pleasing surprise awaits you in your private life.

[ GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A misunderstanding needs more time to be worked out. Don’t give up on it just yet. Remain open to providing explanations, if called for. Another friend o ers good advice.

[ CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Fast action can correct a seemingly minor problem that has taken on some unexpectedly di cult aspects. Stay with it until it’s resolved. News on a more positive note is due soon.

[ LEO (July 23 to August 22) Some snags could cause delays in those plans you’re eager to see put into operation. But be patient. The Clever Cat will soon have good reason to celebrate a job well done.

[ VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Be careful not to let that Virgan sensitivity dissuade you from being the hardheaded realist you should be at this time. Your goals are in sight. Stay focused on them.

[ LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A more positive aspect opens up, allowing you to make some important changes in a personal situation. Remem-

ber to seek balance and avoid extremes as you proceed.

[ SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) This is a good week to get out and enjoy the fine times you missed while you were so deep in those workaday projects. Be sure to share it with that special person in your life.

[ SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Work and play are in balance this week. However, expect news that could tip things toward the workplace for quite a while — but all to a good end.

[ CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You’re more productive on the job than you have been in some time. That’s good, but be careful not to overlook some situations developing in your private life.

[ AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You’ve been doing a lot for others (as usual). But now it’s time to focus on your needs, including finally going on that long-delayed trip you’ve been hoping to make.

[ PISCES (February 19 to March 20) It’s all smoothly going on ‘twixt you and that very special person in your life. But a colleague causes some disruption on the job that you might be called on to help settle.

[ BORN THIS WEEK: You are sensitive to the needs of others, but you’re no pushover. You would make a fine teacher, psychologist or minister.

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answers

SUDOKU

by Fifi Rodriguez

[1. WEATHER: What is the name of the hot wind that blows from the Sahara Desert to the southern coast of Europe?

[2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the name of the condition of seeing human faces in random or ambiguous objects or patterns?

[6. MEDICAL: What is the common name for the ailment called epistaxis?

[7. TELEVISION: Which TV comedy popularized the phrase “Yabba Dabba Do”?

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3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only country that borders the United Kingdom?

[4. THEATER: Which Broadway play features a helicopter on stage?

[5. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?

[8. MOVIES: What is the nickname that Steven Spielberg gave the mechanical shark in the movie Jaws”?

[9. HISTORY: When did the Boxer Rebellion take place in China?

[10. MATH: Which number doesn’t have a corresponding Roman numeral? answer

1. Sirocco.

2. Pareidolia.

3. Republic of Ireland.

4. “Miss Saigon.”

5. Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

6. Nosebleed.

7. The Flintstones.

8. Bruce. 9. 1900.

10. Zero.

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