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CJ Ross (known as Young Dirt), CEO of GRIND HARD SLEEP LESS RECORDS and a Hip Hop artist out of Reidsville, has been professionally rapping since 2010.

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8 I can bring food into a conversation any ol’ time. I can even do it when we start talking MERLEFEST. The annual festival that celebrates American and Bluegrass music takes the stage this Thursday through Sunday featuring what might be one of the most amazing lineups in recent memory…

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HAPPY TRAUM has been coming to North Carolina for over 60 years. The New York-based folk singer, writer, archivist and educator first hitchhiked to the state in 1956, when he was just out of high school. And this week will be Traum’s 29th year at MerleFest.

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20 Having dabbled in mega-budget studio fare with The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, director Marc Webb returns to more intimate fare with GIFTED, a successful – though hardly flawless – tearjerker that pushes most, if not all, of the right buttons.

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BREWS & BLUES PLANT SALE ARTS & CRAFT BEER WHAT: We’re teaming up with the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society,PorterHouse Burger Truck and Preyer Brewing Company for a fun, adults-only event. There will be good music, good food, good beer, and of course lots of plants to kick-start your summer garden! Free admission. Beer, food, and plants available for purchase. Proceeds support the work of The Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children’s Museum.

WHEN: 5-8 p.m.

WHERE: The Edible Schoolyard.

220 N Church St., Greensboro.

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WHAT: The fourth annual Arts & Craft Beer is on tap for Friday. This fundraiser event combines craft beer tasting, art demonstrations, art making, and live music with all proceeds from the event benefiting the Sawtooth School’s Scholarship Fund. Tastings of the area’s best craft brews will be provided by Foothills Brewing, HOOTS Beer Co., Wicked Weed Brewing, and many more.

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CJ ROSS-GRIND HARD SLEEP LESS

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CJ Ross (known as Young Dirt), CEO of Grind Hard Sleep Less Records and a Hip Hop artist out of Reidsville, has been professionally rapping since 2010.

Today he works with Demetrius Williams, the senior designer for their clothing line, and engineer Brian Staples.

Ross has become who he is today by just enjoying the art of song as an extracurricular activity. Steadily the open mics and events became a profession for him.

“I actually wanted to draw for Disney when I was a kid and then I went to school for graphic design and everything,” he said. “I graduated early from high school, I went to East Carolina. I was on the fast track to getting this art degree and then Pixar came out and nobody is drawing cartoons anymore.

“I started getting into some extracurricular activities. That brought me into the rap world. I rapped before that, but I didn’t take it serious.”

Ross said his career highlights are when he gets one-on-one conversations with his fans and supporters.

“I had a girl that hit me on Facebook and said she had a problem with opiates. She was like ‘I see how you’re always going after your dream and chasing music. I really like your music. It helped me kind of get clean because like you always say, it’s 24 hours a day and you decide what do you with it.’

“So she took it upon herself to take three months to get clean. I was like ‘That’s dope.’ If my music can inspire that, that’s more important to me than making the money. Giving other people hope and inspiration, that’s like the most important part to me.”

While inspiring others, Ross is inspired by his two daughters.

“They are a huge inspiration on what I do. Something got to shake so they can have their Playstation 4’s and Peppa Pig toys and all that good stuff.”

The most challenging part of Ross’s work is dealing with the industry.

“Pretty much anything you’ve ever heard about the industry is true. It’s a cutthroat business. There is a lot of not-legitimate love. People play a role to get what they want out of you and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, you learn how to maneuver and you learn how to just keep to yourself and do your own thing and stay in your own lane.

“It’s part of something you love. It’s kind of like dating somebody with a bad attitude, but a really good heart.”

Ross’s future plans are to further GHSL’s clothing line and roll out a complete album of his work.

GHSL wear can be found at www.ghslwear.com/ Learn more about CJ Ross’s work by following the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GHSLFam/ !

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can bring food into a conversation any ol’ time. I can even do it when we start talking MerleFest. The annual festival that celebrates American and Bluegrass music Kristi Maier takes the stage this @triadfoodies Thursday through Sunday featuring what might be one Contributor of the most amazing lineups in recent memory…The Avett Brothers, Jim Avett, Zac Brown Band, James Taylor, just to name a few along with tried and true performers making their return to the stage in Wilkesboro.

MerleFest was founded in 1988 in memory of Eddy Merle Watson as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College and to celebrate ‘traditional plus’ music.

That’s music that the Appalachian region is known for, plus anything else an artist cares to play. The thing that you can guarantee with MerleFest is that no two acts will be alike. It’s one of the premier music festivals in the country, and “serves as an annual homecoming for musicians and music fans.”

As MerleFest banjos and fiddles its way into our area this week, the artists and festival-goers need to keep their energy up from all that singing and dancing and shopping, among other activities. And that means finding a satisfying meal.

There are various tents all across the festival footprint. Food tents are mostly operated by community members and benefit community and campus nonprofit organizations.

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Food tents at Merlefest are mostly operated by community members and benefit community and campus non-profit organizations. says that in addition to a fundraiser for WCC, MerleFest serves as a fundraiser for the non-profit organizations providing food at the festival. And for some groups it’s their largest fundraiser. “Some festival-goers who’ve long attended the festival head straight to the Food Tent to get whatever has become their favorite.” She says everyone is bound to find something to love. “Many people praise the Boy Scouts’ BBQ chicken, others love the baked goods provided by the WCC Culinary and Baking & Pastry Arts students.

Still others want the fish, pintos, smoked

turkey legs. And funnel cakes. The choices are unending.”

In the Watson Stage area, you’ll find a plethora of choices in the way of entrees, side dishes, desserts and beverages. And there are other snacks and food options at The Shoppes at MerleFest as well as a smattering of locations on the lower festival grounds like coffee, doughnuts and a creamery. Lowe’s Foods has a “Raised Right Here” tent and features local pimento cheese, hummus and veggies, SausageWorks on a pretzel roll and fruit for $3.00-5.00. Prices in the tents

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presents range from $1.00-3.00 for snacks and $7.00-9.00 for entree plates with sides. “It is important for our guests to know that their purchases in the Food Tent benefit the non-profit, community and educational groups who work hard to prepare the sweet and savory selections,” Herman says. “In fact, for many of these groups, MerleFest is their largest fundraiser of the year.”

There really is just no shortage of eats to enjoy while you’re taking in some of the best in Americana and Blue Grass.

Singer Jim Avett says he usually eats food provided by other artists and patrons, but he does have a favorite. “When I do eat, I like the turkey legs... so good with corn on the cob.”

Look for the foodies to bring you some live updates from the festival this week, beginning Thursday and through the earlier concerts on Sunday. Who knows who we’ll see. We’ll definitely be speaking to artists from the festival and show you the eats along the way.

Organizers provided us with a list of vendors and their locations at MerleFest. !

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early 1,000 people gathered at Governmental Plaza on Greene Street this past Saturday to take part in the global March for Science. The Greensboro march was one of over 600 sister marches held around the world.

Earth Day was a perfect date for marches to support, among other things, climate change awareness and alternative energy. In Greensboro, it was a perfect day all around. The rain that doused the original March for Science in Washington, D.C. hadn’t yet reached North Carolina.

The sun shone as participants toted their best homemade signs into the plaza.

Marchers ranged widely in age and background, but all were passionate about the role of science in shaping the modern world, and protecting scientific progress in the future.

“This was something I felt I had to do.

There was no way around it,” said march organizer Joseph L. Graves Jr., who holds a doctorate in Evolutionary, Environmental, and Systematic Biology. He is a professor and associate dean for research at Greensboro’s Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.

Graves had first planned to attend the Washington, D.C. march, but when his schedule made that impossible, turned his efforts to the local event. He joined a team of concerned locals from all branches of science to promote and organize the march. Graves brought to the group his reputation as a scientific researcher, as well as decades of experience fighting for progress that began with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

“I’m the first African American to ever earn a Ph.D. in my field of science. And so I’ve dealt with Jim Crow, racism, and resistance to me being a scientist all my life,” said Graves. “I’ve been doing this since King.”

The march kicked off at 10 a.m. with a performance by Greensboro’s Disaster Recovery Band and a marching song performed by young children. Then speakers from the local scientific community outlined the challenges facing scientific progress in modern America, including budget cuts to scientific organizations, unequal access to science education, and political resistance to things like climate change and vaccinations. All of these problems have plagued the U.S. before, but many see a growing tide of anti-science senti-

More than 900 marched in Greensboro in support of fact-based science. ment in recent government policy.

Graves called it “A dangerous acceleration of this historical trend of basically not listening to the results of scientific research, particularly results that can have catastrophic impacts on the well-being of American citizens and the world. This has always been true, but this administration has really pushed the envelope in terms of its insensitivity to crucial scientific results.”

Those crucial results may soon be harder to come by based on the Trump administration’s budget cuts to scientific research. The current budget is expected to cut funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by 30 percent and the Department of Agriculture by 29 percent, and the National Institutes of Health by 18 percent.

The march followed a circular route past the Civil Rights Museum, to chants of “Science not silence,” and “The ocean is rising and so are we.” The drivers of several passing cars honked and waved in support.

Marchers then returned to Governmental Plaza for donuts and a performance by the band Viva la Muerte and tours of the NanoBus, a rolling laboratory from which students at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering performed scientific demonstrations. The mood was light and optimistic, but participants had no illusions about the seriousness of the march’s message.

“We’re scared,” said Jeff Regester, who

came to the march with his wife and son.

“Scared for a future where basic facts don’t matter, where people lie and get away with it.”

If turnout is any indication, plenty of people feel the same fear. The Greensboro march had 900-plus participants; the march in Washington had 40,000.

Marches were held as far away as Hong Kong and Sydney. All were born from the same flurry of social media organizing that created the Women’s Marches in January.

Personally, Graves doesn’t believe that the March for Science will change any minds at the top. Rather, he wants to inspire those at the bottom to stand up for change that will benefit themselves and the planet.

“I call for much more fundamental transformation,” said Graves. “So, a society that actually cares about its citizens instead of the interests of large corporations, which seem to have an orientation of their profits over anyone’s wellbeing.”

The multiple marches can only help the cause, as they call more attention to the problems.

“Having one big march in one place gets attention, but again, the change really has to come from the grassroots,” Graves said. “Having these 500 or so local marches is a tremendous asset to this movement.” !

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Funny business in the ‘50s Movie Comedians of the 1950s: Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy is the latest in long line – over 35 books! – written by the noted author and film historian Wes D. Gehring.

Published by Mark Burger McFarland, which has, in addition to its Contributing vast library released a veritable treasure columnist trove of specialized film books over the years (including invaluable volumes on Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, to name but a few), this self-explanatory tome offers a fresh and fascinating inside into screen comedies of the 1950s.

It was the mid-point of the twentieth century, and a time of great transition throughout the world – including the entertainment world. World War II was over. The Cold War was just beginning.

Vaudeville was dead. And the immense impact of television was already being felt, particularly by the Hollywood studios, which initially perceived (hoped?) it was a passing fad then considered it a deadly rival. (Now, of course, film and TV studios go hand-in-hand.)

Television certainly seemed a threat to screen comedy. People could watch many of their favorite funnymen (Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Abbott & Costello) without having to pay for it, and as with anything tastes were changing in the Eisenhower era. Such established comedy stars as Bob

Hope (with or without Bing Crosby), Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Charlie Chaplin (although not the box-office draw he once was, he was critically revered) faced competition from such newcomers as Martin & Lewis, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Randall, who would solidify his star status on the small screen.

Gehring expertly covers an even dozen of the decade’s most significant comedy films, finishing with Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959), considered by some – including the AFI (American Film Institute) – to be the greatest comedy of all time. With each film, Gehring provides a detailed yet concise (and often fascinating) insight into the circumstances of each film’s production, including outside forces that might have affected them.

This includes the Red Scare that gripped the nation throughout the decade (and beyond), and impacted the careers of Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday) and, even more acutely, Charlie Chaplin (Limelight), who was so enraged he refused to set foot in the United States and remained in selfexile in Switzerland until given an honorary Oscar in 1971. Indeed, Movie Comedians of the 1950s isn’t a leisurely, nostalgic stroll down memory lane, and it reasserts the notion that comedy is a serious business – with the emphasis on business.

Gehring doesn’t pull any punches, either.

He comes to celebrate and illuminate, and

uses facts to accomplish the latter. Using a vast number of sources (all duly credited in his end notes), Gehring delves into some of the problems faced in each production.

By and large, each film won critical favor, but not all were financially successful.

The failure of Skelton’s The Clown (directed by Robert Z. Leonard) in 1953, a film directly inspired by Skelton’s love for Chaplin, sent him scurrying to television, which he is certainly best known for today. Chaplin’s Limelight (1952) -- considered by some to be his greatest sound film and by others as his greatest film, period – was released at a time when he was being hounded for his political views and previous romantic scandals (he had a predilection for much younger women). As a result, the film received only a limited release, and newspaper columnists spent more time criticizing Chaplin the man than Chaplin the artist.

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were riding high, both in nightclubs and films. Sailor, Beware (1952) rates a chapter here, as does Artists and Models (1955), their 14th film as a duo, which also marked an early (and show-stopping) role for Shirley MacLaine.

It was clear by this point that Lewis was clearly leaning toward striking out on his own, not just as a solo performer but also as a filmmaker in his own right. Tashlin, who has three films covered in this book

(Son of Paleface and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? being the other two), helmed the final Martin & Lewis vehicle (1956’s Hollywood or Bust, by which time the duo was bust), then an additional six films with Lewis. This after tossing Lewis off the set of Artists and Models at one point!

Despite its Broadway pedigree (including a Tony Award) and a star-studded cast headed by Henry Fonda in the title role, the making of Mister Roberts (1955) was not smooth sailing. Original director John Ford (whose four Best Director Oscars is a record that still stands today) was not known for his light touch. He bickered with James Cagney (and backed down) and at one point got into an altercation with Fonda. Ford was also drinking during production, and when he fell ill – just how ill remains open to conjecture – Mervyn LeRoy stepped in to complete filming, with seamless results (and undoubtedly to the relief of studio executives, cast and crew).

Having already written extensively on this era, including entire volumes on Chaplin and Skelton, Gehring expertly distills his knowledge within the framework of each film’s context, as well as its inception, production, critical and financial reaction, and legacy.

Gehring isn’t saying that these are perfect films, but important ones that reflect the decade – and he makes a persuasive case for each one.

– Movie Comedians of the 1950s: Defining a New Era of Big Screen Comedy, by Wes D. Gehring (212 pages; $39.95 retail). Published by McFarland. For more information, visit the official website (www.mcfarlandpub.com) or call 800.253.2187. !

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Folk musician and instructor Happy Traum returns to Merlefest

BY JOHN ADAMIAN

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appy Traum has been coming to North Carolina for over 60 years. The New York-based folk singer, writer, archivist and educator first hitchhiked to the state in 1956, when he was just out of high school. And this week will be Traum’s 29th year at MerleFest.

“I’ve done it every year except for the very first year,” says Traum of his connection to the legendary festival where the biggest names in bluegrass, folk, Americana and roots music converge every spring. Traum spoke to me by phone from his home in Woodstock.

Traum, who turns 79 next month, is an accomplished guitarist able to pivot between Piedmont blues, British fingerpicking, and bluegrass. He’s written books on a variety of acoustic guitar styles. He wrote instruction books on the blues, on flatpicking, books for children, on the music of artists as diverse as James Taylor and the Incredible String Band. Long before the age of the YouTube tutorial video, Traum started Homespun, a company devoted to taping and later videoing acoustic artists discussing their craft in addition to publishing instructional books and videos. We have Traum to thank for some key footage of bluegrass and old time giants like Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson and dozens of others talking about how they thought about what they did when they played.

If you need a rundown of Traum’s folk

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bonafides, how about this: with his group the New World Singers, Traum made the first recording of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind” and later “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” In 1971 Traum joined Dylan in the studio for sessions that included some tunes that ended up on Dylan’s second greatest hits record. Traum was a writer and editor for defining folk magazine Sing Out! And he wrote on folk guitar playing for Rolling Stone, Guitar Player and other magazines. Allen Ginsberg wrote the liner notes on the back of Traum’s 1975 record Hard Times In The Country with his brother

Artie. Traum also has a sort of one-man multi-media show with recollections and music called “Coming Of Age In the Folk Revival.”

Traum’s first trip to North Carolina was sort of an unplanned folk music odyssey, a just few years after anthologist and folklorist Harry Smith (who Traum also hung out with some) put together his legendary Anthology of American Folk Music, giving fuel to the folk revival and sending many young city kids like Traum to explore largely forgotten music recorded in the ‘20s and ‘30s, music that had connections to rural parts of the country, mostly the American South, from the Mississippi Delta to Appalachia and beyond. Traum and his high school pal, guitarist Barry Kornfeld, came to North Carolina, and -like Dylan would a few years later -- they tried to meet poet and song collector Carl Sandburg.

“We called Carl Sandburg up on the phone from a gas station,” says Traum.

“He wouldn’t see us. We talked to him though.”

They tried to meet other North Carolina folk and old time music legends, like Bascom Lamar Lunsford, a lawyer, singer, banjo player and song collector whose iconic 1928 recording of “I Wish I Was A Mole In the Ground” was included in Smith’s Anthology (and quoted in part by Dylan in “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.”)

They didn’t connect with Lunsford either, but they did get to spend some

time with mountain ballad singer, professor and Folkways recording artist Artus Moser. (Traum’s traveling buddy, Kornfeld was, incidentally, the guy who once drove Dylan out to visit his idol, Woody Guthrie in the hospital.)

From early on, Traum’s experience of folk music was one that centered on community, sharing and paying homage to one’s elders. As a young folkie hanging out in Washington Square Park in New York City, learning from others on the scene, the music had a kind of educational network built into it.

“Since I started playing the guitar, I always wanted to pass on how to play to other people,” says Traum. “Having that interest or drive to teach people is what led me to start writing books -- about the guitar and about music and about different artists.”

At MerleFest, Traum will be performing as an artist, but Homespun, the company he started with his wife, and which marks its 50th year in business in 2017, is also a sponsor. And Traum will be an MC of sorts on some of the stages, doing what he does so well, talking to other musicians about how they make music, about technique, theories and tradition.

“It gives the small audience a chance to both hear an artist in an intimate setting and also to ask questions,” says Traum of the indoor stage known as “The Pit.” Traum spends a big part of his year out playing and teaching at acoustic music events around the country. He’s a regular at workshops at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. (Kaukonen is also on the bill at MerleFest.) And with his deep catalog of stories and material involving foundational figures in the folk revival I asked Traum if he was considering writing a memoir.

“I have to convince myself that I’m interesting enough,” says Traum.

Happy Traum has six slots on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 30 at MerleFest.

The festival, which features the Avett Brothers, the Zac Brown Band, Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain, Bela Fleck, the Del McCoury Band, Leftover Salmon, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives,Steep Canyon Rangers, Sam Bush Band, Sarah Jarosz, Tift Merritt, Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo and dozens of other artists, runs April 27-30 and is held on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro. Visit merlefest.org for more information. !

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tribute to the recordings of The Manhattan Transfer, a new dance-theatre performance comes to the Triad as part of a collaboration between William Perry Morgan, director of musical theatre, and Ashley Hyers, Lenise Willis professor of theatre and dance, both of which are Contributing a part of the Greensboro College faculty. columnist “In the genre of recent Broadway musicals Come Fly Away and Movin’ Out, and even Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, we have created our own unique dance-theatre piece,” said William Perry Morgan, director.

The piece, which will have its world premiere this weekend, tells the story of war through dance, and Morgan says it was inspired by the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, which was introduced to Morgan by his sister in 1972.

“They were the slickest, coolest vocalists ever,” Morgan said, “smooth jazz, tight four-part harmonies, crazy costumes; it was great.”

The group progressed over the years until Tim Hauser, the founder of the group, passed away a few years ago. They were scheduled to perform at the Carolina Theatre just a few days later. “I went to the concert,” Morgan said. “It was an emotional experience for those of us in attendance. I wanted to do some sort of tribute, personally, to Tim and the rest of the group. And I came upon this idea.”

The performance uses only dance and movement to convey its storyline, taking the audience from traditional WWII dance styles to the more “hip” moves of the 90s.

“Because there is no dialogue, all the choreography must convey the story,” said choreographer Ashley Hyers. “The choreography is a mix of swing, jazz and contemporary styles.”

“The beginning of the show takes place during WWII, so I chose to use a lot of swing dance,” Hyers added. “By the end of the show, we have moved forward to the 1990’s, so the choreography has more ‘club’ dance moves. There are several duets throughout the show that demonstrate the various relationships between the characters, and we have moves that represent war, love and loss.”

The cast of 12 has been in the studio creating and rehearsing since January; five Greensboro College alum are participating in the project, as well.

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Tharp brought Movin Out to Broadway and Come Fly Away—dance to soundtracks and songbooks, and I thought, ‘If they can do that in New York, why can’t we be doing that kind of theatre, too, here at Greensboro College?’”

Morgan approached Hyers, who he has worked with on several other creative projects. “We started with a list of songs from the album Tonin,’ and then I decided to go back through other albums from Manhattan Transfer,” Morgan said.

“I found my favorite numbers and then a story just began to develop.”

“What is so wonderful is that we are continually developing and creating in the rehearsal space,” he added. “The storyline has moved in ways we never really imagined. The dancers/ actors we are working with really have added to the storytelling just by being in the room and saying ‘yes’ to the ideas that we toss out over at them.”

Morgan says the original piece “confronts war, nightmares of war, being separated by way, the effects on people…it spans generations.”

“We are really acting, still, and telling a story, just not using words.” !

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by Lenise Willis

Saying goodbye to Playbill and Drama It saddens me to say that the biggest headline this week is that the playbill and drama section will no longer be printed in YES! Weekly. Unfortunately, those in the creative field know the struggle all too well, and it’s probably not a shock to hear that the theatre arts were caught up in a series of budget cuts. My hope is that perhaps it can return in the future, stronger than ever and with a more robust digital extension. But only time will tell.

It was seven short years ago that I got my start as a writer here. I was a young journalist looking to push my way into the world, and thankfully our publisher, Charles Womack, and my then-editor Brian Clarey were susceptible and supportive when I asked that we add a theatre section (and let me write it).

And thus was my introduction into the beautiful world of dance, theatre, stand-up comedy, symphonies, improv, even haunted houses. I’ve loved every minute of it. I’m proud to say that I was a theatre columnist and I’m grateful to have met so many wonderful, talented people. With that said, instead of giving you the rundown of on-goings this week, I want to instead equip you with a few suggestions to pass the torch. I urge all of you to take on the task of keeping up with our Triad arts scene. Just because I’m no longer reporting it, doesn’t mean it isn’t thriving.

We have an acclaimed professional theatre here, Triad Stage, working out of both Winston-Salem and Greensboro. They’re equipped with a design team that will amaze you, and produce the gamut, from Preston Lane originals to Southern greats and all-around classics. Check in with them at triadstage.org. And So We Walked, which is running now, will close out their season at the end of this month. The shows that I saw there that will always leave an impression on me include Billy Bishop, Dial M for Murder, The 39 Steps and Preston Lane’s originals: Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity, Tennessee Playboy and Snow Queen.

For an accommodating dinner and a show, check out The Barn Dinner Theatre at barndinner.com. Their productions are always fun, the service is impeccable and the management has created a warming theatre community. Another theatre family you should check out is Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance at wstheatrealliance.org. The audience and theatre have together created a unique, intimate club-like atmosphere—a rarity in today’s disconnected world. And even if it’s simply a staged reading, they’re always producing something. Director Jamie Lawson stays busy.

Don’t forget to check the calendars at UNC Greensboro, UNC School of the Arts, Greensboro College, GTCC and NC A&T State University. Each have a well-developed arts program and produce captivating works.

Community Theatre of Greensboro (ctgso.org) and The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem (thelittletheatreofws.org) are sure to remain as staples in the community, and I’d like to give a special nod to the smaller Open Space Café Theatre, which continues to battle against the odds. I admire their effort and dedication, and you can see their wonderful season at osctheatre.com.

Thank you to everyone that I have interviewed; it was an honor to tell your story. Thank you to my editors Brian Clarey, Jordan Green and Jeff Sykes for your red pen, patience, wisdom and encouragement. Thank you to Charles for giving me a voice and all of you. And thank you to all the readers who took the time to grab a paper out of a box around the corner.

I hope you always will. I hope you dance…and read the paper. !

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her living a “normal” life, just Having dabbled like any other child … except, in mega-budget studio fare of course, she’s not like any with The Amazing Spiderother child.

Man (2012) and its 2014 With its sun-dappled cinesequel, director Marc Webb matography (courtesy Stuart returns to more intimate Dryburgh) and song monfare with Gifted, a successful tages, Gifted is very much – though hardly flawless – a melodrama – although a tearjerker that pushes most, well-played one. Evans and if not all, of the right buttons. Mark Burger Grace exhibit real chemisChris Evans, the current try together, and Octavia big-screen Captain America, is down-to-earth and apContributing Spencer brings her patented blend of common sense and pealing as Frank Adler, a columnist sass to the role of protective blue-collar working stiff neighbor Roberta, who acts raising his precocious niece as Frank’s conscience (whether he Mary (Mckenna Grace), who on her wants it or not). very first day of school astonishes her So far, so good. But then Frank’s classmates and teacher (Jenny Slate) long-estranged mother Evelyn (Lindwith her mind-boggling aptitude for say Duncan) enters the picture, determathematics. mined to wrest Mary away from Frank.

It runs in the family, as Mary’s Evelyn was herself a mathematics mother was a brilliant math prodigy genius, and despite her daughter’s who cracked under the strain and fate, is all-too-willing to push her ultimately committed suicide. Since granddaughter in the same direction. then, Frank has been adamant about

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The inevitable custody battle between Frank and Evelyn is where Gifted slides into contrivance, replete with some late-inning revelations that compromise the story’s credibility to some extent, all the better to wrap things up in a neat and tidy fashion.

Still, Gifted’s attributes outweigh its defects. Jenny Slate is delightful as Mary’s teacher, whose interest in Mary is quickly compounded by a (romantic) interest in Frank, and reliable Glenn Plummer plays Frank’s sympathetic but pragmatic attorney.

Duncan even manages a modicum of sympathy before reverting back to “Dragon Lady” mode.

Finally, there is young Grace, a total charmer whose undeniable screen presence echoes that of Drew Barrymore and Dakota and Elle Fanning when they were just starting their careers. When Mary tears up – which she does periodically – resistance is futile.

Those in the mood for a good cry would do well to bring extra Kleenex. !

An empty Promise Good intentions do not always yield good movies, and sadly that’s the case with The Promise, an ambitious and well-meaning, but utterly muddled historical melodrama set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.

An earnest Oscar Isaac plays Mikael, an Armenian come to Constantinople to study medicine. It’s not long, however, before he is swept up in the mounting political turmoil. Despite being engaged to Maral (Angela Sarafyan) – replete with dowry – Mikael is drawn to Ana (Charlotte Le Bon), who happens to be involved with firebrand American journalist Christopher Myers (a bearded Christian Bale).

It’s this love triangle which ultimately dominates The Promise, albeit none too steadily. Director/screenwriter Terry George, whose credits include In the Name of the Father (1994), Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Reservation Road (2007), has fashioned a historical saga that sags throughout, crushed under the weight of its admittedly noble intentions.

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contemporary relevance, but these elements have been distilled – indeed, diluted – into a soap opera.

There’s so much misery and suffering that the film becomes something of an endurance test, although the period detail has been nicely rendered.

The cast also includes Shohreh Aghdashloo, Rade Serbedzija and Marwan Kenzari (who’s quite good as the dashing but ultimately heroic Turkish playboy Emre), while James Cromwell and Jean Reno turn up in brief appearances that barely qualify as cameos.

Given the subject matter, it’s easy to see what drew the actors to this material. This is a story that should be overpowering and profound, that should have considerable emotional resonance, but instead the film is underwhelming and wearisome – in short, a major disappointment. !

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When I was in sixth grade, I went to Tweetsie Railroad with a friend and his family. They were white. Back then, you got to dress up when you were there. We both wanted to be cowboys but the woman helping us looked at me and said, You’ll make a better Indian.

And that’s what she gave me. The Indian costume.”

Luis Medina is mixed race. His father is Puerto Rican, his mother Korean. His partner, Jess, is white. They have a young daughter together.

The number of people who reported a mixed race background grew by 32% to 9 million between the 2000 and 2010 census. In comparison, the single race population increased by a little over 9% in that same period. Yet, even with the ever-increasing growth of the population, those of mixed lineage are rarely included in discussions of race in America.

“A lot of people can go back to their tribe,” Luis explains. He uses the word ‘tribe’ to designate a single-race identity.

“But I don’t have that option. I don’t have that kind of community.”

Luis is 29 years old and works in food service. He has dark eyes that flash with interest as he talks. He talks fast. He’s always talked fast. In school, he was placed in a class for children with learn-

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ing disabilities because of it, but he didn’t have a learning disability.

Looking at him, it’s impossible to know where he fits into the racial caste system we have in America. And that’s the point.

Luis gets a lot of questions like Where are you from?, which is another way of asking, What are you?

“I’ll tell you a story,” he begins, shifting forward in his chair. “I have a friend who’s white and his white father was ultra conservative but he loved me...thought I had all the qualifications of a conservative manly man.

And he’s drunk one evening and he’s saying: I don’t like niggers, I don’t like spics, etc. And he looks at me and says, You should be glad you’re white.

And his son stood up for me and said, Luis isn’t white.

And the guy looked at me, and he looked at me, and you could tell he had no idea what I was. He’d always seen a white person.

And finally he said, Well, you’re a credit to your people, son, whoever the hell they are.”

“The next half century marks key points in continuing trends,” reports Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Acting Director of the U.S. Census. “The U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white

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This tipping point is projected well before 2060, when minorities will comprise 57% of the U.S. population.

“It’s difficult,” Luis continues. “I don’t want to talk about this. It makes me angry so I don’t like talking about it. I can be racist. When I say I’m racist, it isn’t a joke.

Racism is born from anger. But it doesn’t work.

“Of course, there’s systemic racism. In all directions. It’s not that only white people can be racist. I have been racist. Black people have been racist. Is there a difference? Yes. “I used to work at a cafeteria. I was the only non-Black person working there and that was a problem. A big problem.

“Mostly, I think, because they couldn’t figure out what I was.

“And that was more important to them than to any white person I’ve ever experienced.

“It was more about, Is he one of us or is he an enemy? And those were the only categories they seemed to have.

“It was set up the way those things are.

White people were upper management.

They were hardly ever in the place. Black people worked and ran the cafeteria. I was

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brought into the office one day for something and my supervisor, who was black, said, We’re all minorities here, meaning, in the cafeteria, and I said, No, we’re not. I’m the minority here.”

In 1924, with the purpose of making interracial marriage illegal, the State of Virginia attempted to define whiteness as part of its Racial Integrity Act. Interracial sex and marriage were outlawed in many states until 1967 when the Supreme Court struck down those prohibitions in Loving v.

Virginia.

The language of the act defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having no known, demonstrable or ascertainable admixture of the blood of another race.”

The only problem with that definition was that many of Virginia’s most prominent families proudly traced their lineage to Pocahontas.

So, the Virginia legislature revised the act. Virginians could be up to one-sixteenth Native American and still be white.

People who were one-sixteenth Black, however, were still Black.

In 2013, a record high 12% of newlyweds married someone of a different race, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data. Some 6.3% of all marriages were between spouses of different races in 2013, up from 1% in 1970.

Statistics like these, marking worldwide trends brought about through a multi-dimensional globalization rooted in economic, educational, and political forces feed the White Nationalist movement.

These trends are indicators for them of what they melodramatically call White Genocide. The purveyors of the White Genocide movement have been able to finesse the language of UN Genocide policies to cover their beliefs. In their minds, for instance, integration is a form of ‘forced assimilation.’

But it’s impossible to discount current trends and very complicated to tease out what these trends mean in the context of our continuing national dialogue about race.

The number of people of all ages who identified themselves as both white and black rose by 133% since 2000. Of those who chose mixed race in the 2010 census, 20.3% identified as black and white, 19.3% as white and ‘some other race’. The third most cited was white and Asian.

In North Carolina, those who chose more than one race on the 2010 census, grew by 99% over 2000.

“I think this marks a truly profound shift in the way Americans, particularly African

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Americans, think about their race and their heritage,” said C. Matthew Snipp, professor of sociology at Stanford University.

“I don’t identify with the tribal disputes,” Luis tells me. “I don’t know what it means to be white. We seem to define whiteness only in opposition to blackness. I think we believe blackness is more defined, while no one knows what whiteness is.

“If we’re really going to take race seriously in the US---and we act like we want to---then I’m less white than Obama is.

“But we’re not serious about it. We only do it by sight.”

This is borne out by the Pew Survey analysis, which found that 61% of the people it considered multiracial identified themselves by just one race. When asked why, they most often said it was based on how they looked, how they were raised, or that they only knew family members of one race.

“It was kind of an eye opener to us that multiracial identity, it’s more than just the people who make up the family tree, it’s also a product of experiences and attitudes,” said Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research at the Pew Center.

What does the increasingly racially mixed population of the United States mean for the future? And how do we discuss race in America when an ever-growing number of our citizens identify as mixed?

Can those of mixed race join together as a political force or do we reach a place where discussion of race becomes simply a very relevant, yet historical, question?

Political action appears to require categorization and labeling. Any particular segment of society cannot be politically engaged until it has a definition. This means that, usually, groups who resist being labeled by others must adopt a label of their own in order to be politically expedient.

“Is my oppression not relevant enough to speak? Do I not have enough people behind me to speak?” Luis asks. “It’s possible that because someone doesn’t have ‘a people’ they’re more likely to sympathize with the more racist views of whites.

I think we saw that in the election.”

Luis worked diligently for third party candidates last year because he believed in their message and their validity as a part of our political process, but when he stepped into the voting booth, he voted for Hillary Clinton.

“I had to. I thought of my mixed race daughter and the kind of world I want for her. This narrative of White Victimhood becoming White Nationalism needs to be stopped. I had to vote against that agenda.

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“My partner, Jess, she’s white. She could vote third party. She had that privilege.

But I couldn’t. That how I saw it.

“I voted my skin color. Is that how we want it to be?

“You hear that multi-ethnic democracy doesn’t work. And I guess, historically, that’s true. But in America, we’re going to have to make it work. We’re just going to have to.”

“Like race, racial identity can be fluid,” says Angel Onwuach-Willig, author of According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v.

Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family. “How one perceives her racial identity can shift with experience and time, and not simply for those who are multiracial. These shifts in racial identity can end in categories that our society, which insists on the rigidity of race, has not even yet defined.”

The increasing number of people who identify as mixed race defy our easy categorization of what race actually means, or if it means anything at all. The struggle for new terms, new classifications, or, on the other side, for a gradual easing of racial identifiers is ongoing. All social constructs of race are challenged by the growing mixed race community.

“It hurts. The things that get me upset are when I realize my time is taken away,” Luis said. “That I have to take my time to think about these things, to deal with these things. Even though I’m racially fluid, ethnically fluid…”

Luis releases a quick, frustrated sigh, glancing around the room, searching for words.

“All I know is this...people don’t categorize me correctly, sometimes they do.

And sometimes, based on the way they categorize me, I don’t get a choice. It’s not my choice.

“How could I expect you to understand what it means to be half Korean, half Puerto Rican? I don’t even understand, but it is mine. If I want to get along with you, I have to find a way to relate to you.

“I can’t understand a black man’s struggle. I have seen into it. I’ve looked at it. But I still, fundamentally, have privileges he doesn’t have. I know that if my skin was darker, I’d get pulled over by the police more often. I’ve seen it happen to other people. I know that if I’m wearing a hood the police might think I’m a thug. Unless I have my white baby in my arms.

“I don’t get a choice in those situations.

And that’s what hurts.

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[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Information has been flying your way thick and fast. A surprise concerning a friend or a family member might have you reeling.

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[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) At the beginning of the week you may be feeling stress related to your lover or a partner, maybe a child. Underneath it all, the issue is tied to your internalized sense of what a woman “should” do or be. Our culture has always struggled with images of the feminine. Is she a caretaker or a seductress?

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) You may encounter a stumbling block in your path.

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Do the best you can in this situation.

Remain aware that most adults are in charge of their own reactions. You can’t fix everyone.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) It is just possible that you may not be well this week. The culprit is likely an infection that gives you a headache, along with other symptoms. Lie down and don’t struggle. You will heal faster. It is possible the “headache” comes through employees or lessees. Everyone is quarrelsome this week.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You may be in receipt of a surprise piece of news that is startling. Be aware that this news may be erroneous.

Consider the source. Is it reliable? Don’t rearrange your life until you have verified information. The surprise may be related to a roommate, neighbor, or a sibling.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You have been and continue to be challenged by the need to mature. Allowing old emotional wounds to run your life and your feelings is not the way to go. The lessons started last year and will continue through 2017. By now you may be feeling much more courageous and able to surmount the old fears.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Avoid challenging authorities this week. They are bigger than you and there might be an unpleasant outcome if you do. Venus has entered your sign this week and will be traveling “with you” through June 5, 2017.

She is a people attractor. Her presence gives you an air of poise and people will simply like how you look. (This does not include authorities.) !

Are you interested in a personal horoscope?

Vivian Carol may be reached at (704) 366-3777 for private psychotherapy or astrology appointments.

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I love my boyfriend; however, I feel bad that he never buys me presents. He did when we were dating, and he buys Amy Alkon himself extravagant stuff. But he got me nothing for my Advice birthday and only Goddess some trinkets for Christmas because I made a stink.

When I’ve brought up the gifts issue, he’s implied that I’m materialistic. However, what matters to me is not the cost but that he’s thinking of me. Is my desire for gifts somehow shallow? — Coal Digger Once again, it’s Christmas. Ooh, ooh, what’s that under the tree?! Once again...it’s the floor.

Many men sneer at the importance their ladies place on getting gifts from them, deeming it a sign of female emotional frailty. What these men aren’t taking into account is that the differences that evolved in male and female psychology correspond to differences in male and female physiology. To put this another way, women — disproportionately — are into getting gifts from romantic partners for the same reason men (disproportionately) are into watching strippers. (“All the better to pass one’s genes on with, my dear!”)

Because, for a woman, sex can lead

to pregnancy (and a hungry kid to drag around), female emotions evolved to act as a sort of alarm system, making a woman feel crappy when there are signs a man’s commitment may be waning.

(Wanting to feel better makes her take corrective action — pressing him to put up or get out.) However, a man’s being willing to give gifts suggests a willingness to “invest” (beyond 2.6 minutes of foreplay and a teaspoon of sperm).

Accordingly, evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad believes that giftgiving evolved as a “distinctly male courtship strategy.” Though women do give gifts to romantic partners, they tend to wait till they’re in a relationship and then do it to “celebrate” being together. Saad’s research finds that men, on the other hand, “are much more likely to be tactical in their reasons for offering a gift to a romantic partner” — like, in the courtship phase, to get a woman into bed. (Of course, if a woman wants to get a man into bed, she doesn’t need to give him a present to unwrap; she just starts unbuttoning her top.)

Explain the science to your boyfriend.

You don’t have a character deficiency; you just want him to show his love in the way that works for you. That’s what people who love each other do — even if they, say, believe the gift of their side salad at dinner should be gift enough.

Besides, you aren’t demanding, “’Tiara of the Week!’ or I’m gone!” You’d just like occasional little “thinking of you” prezzies and somewhat bigger ones on Official Girlfriend Holidays (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.). Ultimately, these are

not just gifts but messages that making you happy is worth an investment of money and effort — beyond what he’s been putting in to run out and get his wallet wired shut just in time for your birthday.

WUSSY GALORE

My fiancee and I were driving my drunk friend home from a party. He was saying rude things to her, but I knew he was just wasted and didn’t mean them, so I didn’t say anything. I thought my fiancee would also shrug it off, but she was mad and hurt that I didn’t stand up for her. Is it that big a deal? Couldn’t she have stood up for herself? — Middleman Yes, there’s actually more to being an ideal partner to a woman than being able to unhook a bra with your teeth.

A woman today may be perfectly capable of defending herself — with her big mouth or her big pink handgun.

However, she has an emotional operating system pushing her to go for men who show an ability and a willingness to protect her. This comes out of how, over millions of years of evolution, certain la-

dies’ children were more likely to survive and pass on their mother’s genes (and the psychology that rides along). Which children? Those whose mothers chose men who’d do more in an attack than, well, effectively crawl under the car seat and wish all the awfulness would stop.

Your fiancee probably still feels resentful and maybe even thinks less of you for how you basically showed all the testosterone-driven fortitude of a geranium. Consider what grandpas everywhere call “having character”: doing the right thing — even when that kinda stinks for you. If, in looking back, you would’ve done things differently, tell your fiancee. Then pledge that going forward, you’ll be that kind of guy — and protecting the person who means most to you won’t involve pushing your girlfriend toward the grizzly bear so you’ll have more time to make a run for it. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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