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22 ARTISTS TOGETHER IN THE MEMORY OF JOEY DEWEESE Many residents of the Triad were affected, in one way or another, by the sudden death of High Point’s JOEY DEWEESE last month... Local artists Jordan Morris, Brian Lewis, Spencer Elles, Heather Platts as well as others and even artists outside the state have come together and to show their support through art. Some drew/painted portraits, and some donated their art and time to raise money for the Deweese family.

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The culinary event that sets the standard for community in Winston-Salem is about to get lit.Dr. Brownstone’s SWEET SUMMER LUV LUV FESTIVAL will pop up on the grounds of Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen and Bar on Aug. 15 beginning at 5 p.m.

10 Once upon a time, downtown Greensboro was a dead zone beyond the party kids at the infamous club Babylon. These days things are much more lively for dinner crowds but less so for alternative nightlife. Three UPCOMING EVENTS over the weekend highlight how party people are again bubbling underground vibes to the surface— boasting inclusivity above all—with light shows and sick beats to boot.

11 When one thinks of Jell-O, it conjures up the inevitable sweet treat that so many of us enjoyed as young children or a tasty pudding pop on a hot summer’s day. The carefully crafted, and highly successful, advertising campaign all but stated that JELL-O represents America, or at the very least Americana. Having Norman Rockwell create the iconic advertising artwork went a long way toward perpetuating this idea.

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What is musical freedom? Thomasville-based saxophonist and performer Justin Holt is exploring that proposition with his ever-morphing improvisational outfit CATERPILLAR HEDGE. I spoke with Holt by phone last week in advance of Caterpillar Hedge’s upcoming free show at Earshot Music in Winston-Salem on Aug. 4 at 4 p.m.

Freedom means different things, depending on the context.

18 When it comes to the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film franchise, there’s the John Woo installment and then there’s all the rest. That is to say, there’s Mission: Impossible II, the sole bad entry in the series, and then there are the other chapters, all of which have been remarkably consistent in delivering high-caliber thrills.

24 Like waiting for Samuel Beckett’s Godot, it’s an exercise in absurdity, crushed optimism and existential despair. “That’s some bullshit,” said the young man in the Knicks cap when I told him GREYHOUND’s real-time GPS tracker indicated that the bus that should have arrived in Durham over an hour ago was still in Raleigh. “Damn Greyhound is always late.”

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WHAT: UNCSA Presents: The American Music Series, six great concerts at the Stevens Center this summer. This concert features rising Americana star, Josh Ritter. Born and raised in Moscow, Idaho, new folk/alternative country rock singer-songwriter Josh Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Stevens Center at UNC School of the Arts. 405 West Fourth Street WinstonSalem.

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WHAT: Emerging from the South Bronx in the early 1970s, Grandmaster Flash is inarguably one of Hip Hop’s original innovators. In the earliest days of the genre, he manipulated music by placing his fingers on the vinyl, perfected beat looping, and discovered many of the most iconic beats still commonly sampled today. Its no surprise that The New York Times calls him Hip Hop’s first virtuoso.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

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WHAT: Kallitypes, cyanotypes, pinhole photos and more. These NC photographers are explorers in the field of photography, both in subject matter and process. Using traditional, analog and alternative process photography, the artworks in this exhibition capture fleeting moments out of time and space. InFocus Gallery is an art space designed to bring together art collectors with artists that produce exceptionally collectible works.

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WHERE: GreenHill.

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WHAT: Thousands of fans will be on hand to celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, comics, cosplay, video gaming, television, original art, collectibles, contests and more.

Wizard World Comic Con Winston-Salem will also feature non-stop live entertainment throughout extended evening hours, gaming, exclusive Q&A sessions with top celebrities, movie screenings, anime, kids zone and more.

WHEN: 10 a.m.

WHERE: Benton Convention Center.

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THE FESTIVAL OF YOUTH: 80’S NOSTALGIA FESTIVAL WHAT: The Festival of Youth is North Carolina’s premiere nostalgia festival, which revisits music, fashion, culture and popular dances from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The city will be transformed from Greensboro, NC and will be rebranded as Retroboro.’ We are inviting you to take part in the citywide festivities and have the opportunity to travel back in time to revisit the most positive parts of your youth.

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GREENSBORO MAN WINS BIG IN POKER

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Jeremy Perrin is a 38-year-old Greensboro native who just won first place and $250,000 in his first poker tournament early last month. Perrin said he won out of 8,920 people and it only cost him a $365 entry fee.

“I went out to Vegas and played my first- they are called bracelet events, cause when you win, you win a big prize and a World Series of Poker bracelet- so it was the first one I had ever played and I won,” Perrin said in a phone interview on July 30.

Perrin didn’t always have his poker face.

He said he started playing poker because he saw his former boss playing it online.

“I quickly realized at that time that I could probably make more doing that than I did at that job, so I went from playing $10 tournaments to playing local poker cash games.”

He said he has been playing poker on and off and until recently he was the vice president of marketing at a water filtration company.

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too much of my time,” Perrin said. “So I decided I would try to go back into poker and be able to take one-week trips at a time and otherwise be home with my son all the time.”

Perrin quit his job and shortly thereafter, he took home a quarter of a million dollars. He said he enjoys the freedom and competition of playing poker.

“I have always been a super competitive person I don’t really like to do anything unless I feel like I have the chance to be the best in it,” he said. “It is just a big difference from corporate America. I like to compete in that environment too, but I don’t like being tied down and having to work so much every week and have no flexibility in my personal life.”

Perrin said he plans to take the money he has won and reinvest it in himself.

“If you are playing poker for a living, the more money you have, the more money you can make,” he said. “I am just putting it back into myself and next up I am going to Cherokee to play a World Series of Poker series of events at the end of this week actually.” !

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING AUGUST 14 NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE JOHNSON STREET (S.R. 1818)/SANDY RIDGE ROAD (S.R. 1850) WIDENING FROM SKEET CLUB ROAD (S.R. 1820) TO I-40 IN GUILFORD COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO. U-4758 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present information on the proposed widening of Johnson Street (S.R.1818)/Sandy Ridge Road (S.R.1850) from Skeet Club Road (S.R. 1820) to I-40 in Guilford County. The proposed corridor will consist of a 4- to 5- lane divided roadway with sidewalks and bike lanes.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 14 at the Deep River Community Center located at 1529 Skeet Club Road, in High Point from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than September 14, 2018.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Gene Tarascio, by phone at (919)707-6046 or by email at gtarascio@ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Robert Boot, by phone at (919)431-5276 or by email at Robert.boot@atkinsglobal.com.

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he culinary event that sets the standard for community in Winston-Salem is about to get lit.

Dr. Brownstone’s Sweet Summer Luv Luv Festival will pop up on the grounds of Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen and Bar on Aug. 15 beginning at 5 p.m.

Dr. Brownstone, aka, Chef Tim Grandinetti, originally launched Luv Luv in St. Louis in 2010 before an opportunity sent him to Winston-Salem. Now chef and partner at Spring House, Grandinetti wanted to create an event that brought the culinary community together.

“It all started on a cocktail napkin,” he said. “To bring farmers, artisans, producers, cooks to share the bonds of culinary brotherhood…the culinary love.” It then became Luv Luv. “A couple of drinks in and it was Sweet Summer Luv Luv,” Grandinetti added. Chefs from all over the United States and Canada have joined the popular Luv Luv events in the past.

I was fortunate enough to attend Luv Luv early on in my foodie writing adventures and it was at Luv that I saw how Winston-Salem is leading the Triad when it comes to bringing community in the food scene. It was here that I saw chefs who work in competing kitchens and restaurants gather as one with a single mission: Working together to plate us creative food and deliciousness.

And even though the festival has been graced by chefs from the international scene, the crowning glory of the week is always the night when culinarians from the local area light up the grills. That sets the stage for a slight change in Luv Luv this year. It will now be one night only.

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Chef Tim Grandinetti hard to schedule,” Grandinetti said. “All the usual suspects have a career trajectory that is upward and going amazingly.”

The chef said he’s going to take full advantage of all the local chef festival for 2018.

“The live local aspect is the most popular and so fun anyway,” he said. “We’re gonna just hit it out of the park. The local night has always shown the bond and love Winston-Salem has right here in the community and it reflects my friendship with these chefs, now that I’ve been here for 10 years. We have a great deal of respect for one another. It’s all about friendship and what we do best.”

Grandinetti said it takes no convincing to ask his chef friends to join him at Luv Luv. “These chefs simply always say ‘yes!

What do you need?’ or they’re asking me ‘When is the Luv?’” Of course, if you’ve ever met Chef Grandinetti, you know his exuberance makes it impossible to say no.

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This year’s lineup features familiar faces but some exciting new additions: Chef Jeff Bacon, Providence Restaurant Chef Jared Tipton, Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar Chef Chris Fulk, Quanto Basta: Italian Eatery & Wine Bar Chef Mark Grohman, Meridian Restaurant Pitmaster Mark Little, Bib’s Downtown Chef Shane Moore, Foothills Brewing & Footnote Chef Travis Myers, Willow’s Bistro Chef Tina Hodges, Quanto Basta: Italian Eatery & Wine Bar Chef Greg Rollins, The Graylyn Estate Chef John Wilson, Sophie’s Cork & Ale What will they be making? The chefs each offer two small plates, or 20 tapas for the guests. One must be barbecue inspired, and the other inspired by the farm; either the farmer’s market or they’ll be partnered with a farmer or feature items they grew themselves.

“There will be pig everywhere, but we like the chefs to bring in different styles of cooking, different mindsets, wonderful vegetarian dishes, cheesy dishes with bread,” Grandinetti said. “There will be a wide variety of tastes to enjoy.”

Also different, it’s all done as a reception-style culinary walkabout where guests will graze and even award tokens for their favorite dishes. Top People’s Choice scores will be gifted with a bag of swag.

Grandinetti said the whole cooking soiree is really about friendship.

“To be able to call upon my colleague and peers…it’s just so cool,” he said.

“And to meet someone new and cook with them like, John Wilson of Sophie’s, it’s the reason I do this. There’s always something new and exciting. And the camaraderie is what keeps the cooks who love food and the people who love food coming back.”

Wilson said he’s stoked about being a part of it this year.

“I haven’t had the chance to meet chef

Tim all these years and when he reached out to me for an invitation for Luv Luv festival I was more than excited, and what an honor to cook with some of the best local chefs.”

“We’re all so busy,” Grandinetti added.

“Life goes by so quickly. It’s so nice to take a night to cook together and break bread together and just catch up.” !

KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Dr. Brownstone’s Sweet Summer Luv Luv Festival is Wednesday, Aug. 15 at Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen and Bar in Winston-Salem. The evening will begin at 5 p.m. with a “Lemonade and Whiskey” Mix & Mingle on the Spring House Terrace– a cash bar featuring Sutler’s Spirit Company, Muddy River Distillery & TOPO Organic Spirits at Top of the Hill Distillery. Dinner begins at 6:15 p.m. The ticket price is $44 plus taxes and gratuity. Beverages are not included. Reservations are strongly suggested by calling (336) 293-4747.

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Elm Street’s underground rising

nce upon a time, downtown Greensboro was a dead zone beyond the party kids at the infamous club Babylon. These days things are much Katei Cranford more lively for dinner crowds but less so for Contributing alternative nightlife.

Three upcomcolumnist ing events over the weekend highlight how party people are again bubbling underground vibes to the surface—boasting inclusivity above all—with light shows and sick beats to boot.

Strictly.Social and Dance From Above are DJ collectives making moves, while Boxcar Bar + Arcade is poised to be a burgeoning outlet for bands.

“Doing these shows is all about community,” said Alvin Shavers of Strictly.Social about the electronic music series that turns a posh restaurant into a two-story party palace every “First Friday” night at La Rue. “It’s a musical journey,” Shavers said, “we just want everyone to accept each other and have a good time partying while listening to house music.” Freddie Fred, Kingthings, and Jonathan Vizcuña round out the resident DJs bringing talent for this round.

While Strictly.Social dips from regional DJ pools, Dance From Above wrangles international artists. Inclusivity remains salient, and crossovers are common between these kindred sets of party makers.

Projection artist, thefacesblur, will perform at both events, along with DJs fiftyfootshadows, Niervash, and Rahl.

Dance From Above shines “in the face of so many opaque dividing lines all around us. We need to pull ourselves together and help remind each other that we are more than our differences.”

They’re coming together Aug. 3, and Shavers is excited to have two of Greensboro’s electronic parties under one roof.

Though the Dance From Above shindig on Aug. 5 won’t be under any roof at all.

Starting in the afternoon, the event will occur “on a cozy patch of grass” outside the renovated flour mill on the Southern tip of downtown. As the sun sets, hypnotic projections will run against “looming silos” while DJs bump tunes into the evening air.

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to come let loose for a while and get lost in joyful rhythms,” with “no egos, no cliques, just a desire to pull people together to build a positive community and culture.” It is a staunchly communal organization.

“We do our best to embody a positive spirit in our humble dance parties by making an inclusive, welcoming space to get together as one despite the madness.”

“Also, the fact that we have underground legend Jack J, from Vancouver, is a pretty big deal to us,” organizers said. “The Pender Street Steppers are DIY as can be: no social media, they’re not on Spotify.

We’re the only non-major city to catch a date on their North American tour, and it’s their first time in the Carolinas.”

For nearly a decade, Jack Bonney introduced fresh acts to the Triad as general manager of WUAG. As DJ Bonzani (and part of Dance From Above), he’ll continue in a performer-role on Aug. 5.

Later that night, two blocks North on Elm Street, Boxcar Bar + Arcade will host Bit Brigade, the Bronzed Chorus, and Instant Regrets in its private event space.

Rarely does downtown have a home for underground bands, much less multiple offbeat events within walking distance.

Sunday will be special. Boxcar is printing commemorative flyers designed by Jenna Rice for the first 100 ticket holders.

Bit Brigade shreds the soundtrack to classic games while an expert plays along without skipping a beat (or power-up).

A videogame-band playing the arcade

seemed natural to Rosie Fernandez, local music advocate and Boxcar booker.

“Having these shows has been a work in progress,” Fernandez said. “Of course, I hoped it could happen. So we’ve been testing it out slowly, but surely. Fortunately, the owner wants to incorporate things that appeal to a diverse group of people.”

Fernandez said so far, the shows have done really well and are positively recieved by musicians and patrons.

“As long as we can have a space that’s proper for a party, we will try to come together with something special for people to enjoy,” Shavers added.

In the words of Dance From Above: “Let’s

come together, seek out common ground, and dance on it all night long.” !

KATEI CRANFORD is a GSO rock-n-roller and Triad music nerd. She hosts Mostly Local Monday, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week. Catch her on WUAG 103.1FM or via live stream at www.wuag.net.

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An American dream gone wrong JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom.

Published by Little, Brown and Company. 288 pages. $14.99 retail.

When one thinks of Jell-O, it conjures up the inevitable sweet treat that so Mark Burger many of us enjoyed as young children or a tasty pudding pop Contributor on a hot summer’s day. The carefully crafted, and highly successful, advertising campaign all but stated that Jell-O represents America, or at the very least Americana. Having Norman Rockwell create the iconic advertising artwork went a long way toward perpetuating this idea.

In the 1980s, Jell-O sales were given an unexpected, and certainly dubious, boost with the rise in popularity of alcoholic Jell-O shots, which became – and remain – a party staple, which yours truly can certainly attest to, having indulged in my first (but not last) Jell-O shots in college.

Of course, entire generations remember those long-running, award-winning T.V. commercials in which Bill Cosby, seemingly the personification of paternal benevolence, promoted the product.

That Cosby’s run as the Jell-O spokesperson lasted nearly three decades is a bitter irony, although not the first – or the last – to be found in Allie Rowbottom’s heartfelt memoir, Jell-O Girls.

This nonfiction volume, however, is not so much concerned with the corporate history of Jell-O, although that figures to some extent in the narrative. Rather, it’s a deeply personal and frequently painful journey that’s all the more heartrending

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because it happens to be true.

Rowbottom is a direct descendant of the Woodward family, which purchased the patent for Jell-O in 1899 for $450 – not an insignificant sum at that time.

Before they sold their interest – Jell-O is now owned by Kraft Foods – the family saw its investment mushroom into millions. To compound the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness, for Rowbottom’s family – particularly her grandmother Midge and mother Mary – it paved the way for misery. It is their stories that Rowbottom concentrates on in Jell-O Girls.

The town of LeRoy, New York, where Jell-O was headquartered for years, remains synonymous with the product, even as sales and the town’s fortunes have waned over the years, due in no small part to claims that it’s not neces-

Rowbottom is able to deftly avoid descending into melodrama, although the story would certainly make for a quintessential Hollywood soap opera.

She brings a clear-eyed clarity to the story, incorporating both a conciliatory and a cathartic tone that keeps the story on track throughout, even in its darkest moments – of which there are many.

Jell-O Girls is a fascinating story, and sometimes a hopeful one, but it’s not always a happy one. Coming as this does on the heels of Bill Cosby’s conviction for aggravated sexual assault (he’s due to be sentenced in September) – which is only briefly discussed in the book – one simply can’t think of Jell-O quite the same way again. The bitter has overtaken the sweet.

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sarily healthy for you. Indeed, a mystery illness struck several young girls in LeRoy in the early part of this century – a manifestation of what is euphemistically called the “Jell-O Curse,” perhaps?

For years, Mary had drilled into Allie’s head the idea of the curse – much as Mary’s mother Midge had drilled it into hers. But as Allie delves into her mother’s history – and, by direct osmosis, her own – the idea of a curse proves perhaps to be well-founded. The author lays bare the details of a dysfunctional family that seemingly had everything, but it simply wasn’t enough.

Long after the family’s financial stake in Jell-O ended, its specter still loomed large, even when not spoken of. When Mary is hospitalized for terminal cancer and has difficulty eating, she is – not surprisingly – served Jell-O. It’s almost as if the product remains on the periphery of their lives, almost taunting them, reminding them even in their weakest moments of its inescapable influence.

It’s no exaggeration to say that anyone over the age of three knows what Jell-O is – and, more likely than not, loves it.

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hat is musical freedom? Thomasvillebased saxophonist and performer Justin Holt is exploring that proposition with his ever-morphing improvisational John Adamian outfit Caterpillar @johnradamian Hedge.

I spoke with Holt by phone last Contributor week in advance of Caterpillar Hedge’s upcoming free show at Earshot Music in Winston-Salem on Aug. 4 at 4 p.m.

Freedom means different things, depending on the context. On one level it means the opposite of being enslaved, bound, constrained or controlled. In certain settings, total individual freedom can appear to approach anarchy. But in other situations, freedom means the liberty to abide by the rules. We live in a society of laws; we’re free, but that doesn’t mean we can do anything we want.

Free improvisation is a style of playing — extrapolated from the jazz tradition — that largely does away with the rules and guideposts of harmony, melody, rhythm, and even of pattern altogether. But, you might reasonably ask, if you abandon harmony, rhythm and melody, are you still left with music? Holt doesn’t particularly mind if, for some people, the answer is no.

“When I put people together, the goal is really non-musical,” he said.

Caterpillar Hedge has evolved from an alto-sax-and-drums duo, with drummer Mike Gese, to a trio with the addition of Greensboro improviser and avantgardist Gary Heidt. And now the ensemble regularly includes Winston-Salem-based multi-instrumentalist and wide-ranging experimenter Michael Thomas Jackson.

Others rotate in and out as well.

Holt, 27, says it helps him to talk about the sounds that he and the group make almost as if it were visual art.

“I started thinking of it in terms of texture and shape, instead of music,” Holt said. “That’s the way I approach sonic playing.”

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cymbals, snares and kick drums all sizzling and skittering in a state of near eruption.

Sometimes bass, guitar, or keyboards make slashing or lurching bursts, and other times everything hovers in a state of anticipation, a murmuring cloud. There’s keening and howling. The music often has a powerful force of will, like someone trying to go from treading water to lifting off and flying through the air purely by frantically moving their arms and legs. But the dynamics aren’t always set at full-throttle, sometimes things subside and breathe.

The mood can go from spastic to static.

Holt sort of stumbled onto the avantgarde. He had been playing blues guitar, learning Mike Bloomfield riffs, and trying to replicate a feeling, a sound and a style.

But at some point, he came to the realization that he was just working to copy preexisting patterns, and that didn’t seem like how he wanted to direct his creative impulses.

“I just wanted to do my own thing,” he said.

Through some reading and research, he became interested in the idea of doing away with tradition altogether. Holt eventually tracked down a copy of Ornette Coleman’s landmark 1961 album Free Jazz, which consists of two quartets improvising at the same time. Holt was really excited to dig in and listen to the record, but, when he did, he found he could hardly stand it.

“What the hell?” he asked himself.

Still, the recording presented a challenge, and he kept exploring the genre, eventually getting galvanized by John Coltrane’s Om, recorded in 1965.

In conversation, Holt will mention “musical conditioning,” suggesting that our musical preferences are the result of cultural programming, not some innate sense of what is and what isn’t musical.

Some of the music under the freeimprovisation umbrella is made with an explicit spiritual intention, to let one’s inhibitions go, to explore the extremes of sonic possibility, to push into a realm where the vibrations of sound waves have the potential of actually altering the physical reality around us. It’s far out, but it’s not unlike the thinking behind movements like Primal Scream Therapy, which assumed that the strictures of civilization and society leave individuals hampered by oppressive forces that keep us from our true natures.

For Holt, some of the language of meditation, spirituality and mindfulness

practices seep into how he talks about the project.

“It’s all improvised, it’s just based right on the moment — the present, right now — what you have to offer and let pass through you,” he said.

In the same way that the practice of drawing or painting can give artists the sense of intensifying the way in which they see things, simply playing improvised music — trying to be extemporaneous on an instrument — can give the player the feeling that the act of listening is deepened.

Holt, who works as a landscaper by day, has started releasing some recordings of Caterpillar Hedge and of other improvisational projects on his Pink Lady Apple House page on Bandcamp. The recordings document the expansions and contractions of the ensemble, with trumpet, keyboards, guitar, electronics, and extra drummers, saxes, and basses showing up. The performance at Earshot is set to include two reeds, two drummers, two bassists, something approaching the double quartet of that Ornette Coleman record that got Holt started on his quest for freedom and in-the-moment catharsis.

It’s definitely not for everyone, but if

you’re open to exploring the full spectrum of sound — and noise — and if you believe that maybe when it comes to taste and convention, we’re often shaped by the power of conformity and conditioning as much as by any universal aesthetic truth, Holt and Caterpillar Hedge are ready to push into whatever zone that the big spirit moves them.

“I really see Caterpillar Hedge as kind of like a community rather than a band, or an awareness or a consciousness rather than a band,” Holt said. “The point is to let your inner weird out, and if we all do that collectively, then in my mind we’re creating some kind of sonic paintings.” !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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Cruising for kicks: Plus, middle school movie makes the grade

BY MATT BRUNSON

W

hen it comes to the Mission: Impossible film franchise, there’s the John Woo installment and then there’s all the rest. That is to say, there’s Mission: Impossible II, the sole bad entry in the series, and then there are the other chapters, all of which have been remarkably consistent in delivering highcaliber thrills. This designation includes the sixth and latest picture, Mission: Impossible — Fallout ( ), and it’s hardly a knock to state that it’s not quite as compelling as all the other non-Woo endeavors. It may not ascend to any new heights, but it also won’t send viewers home disappointed.

Tom Cruise has spent this series playing Superman rather than Everyman, but here he takes it a step further: His character of Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt is now basically God, lording over his domain, bestowing his blessings on the worshipful mortals around him, and remaining indestructible no matter how

hard the Satanic emissaries in his midst try to bring him down. In this entry, Hunt has his hands full trying to retrieve three plutonium cores that were stolen from right under his nose (hey, even God makes mistakes). Negotiations to recover the

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wearying. Then there’s the case of Cavill — his character of the mysterious August Walker is intriguing, but he remains such a stiff performer that some of the life is drained from the scenes in which he’s required to convey ambiguity.

Ultimately, though, these are minor quibbles when compared to the energy and exuberance flowing through the majority of the picture. Don’t expect any crippling fallout to greet the release of Mission: Impossible — Fallout; on the contrary, it’s safe to assume that a seventh installment is already making its way to the drawing board. Now whether Cruise will remain in the Hunt remains to be seen.

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cores involve releasing master anarchist Solomon Lane (Sean Harris, returning from Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation) from imprisonment, a proposition that leaves Hunt queasy. Also thrown into the mix is special agent August Walker (Henry Cavill), ordered by CIA head Erica Sloane (Angela Bassett) to tag along with Hunt and his trusted accomplices Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg). Clearly, Walker has a hidden agenda, but Hunt is equally as preoccupied with the reemergence of Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), returning to the espionage fold in order to take out Lane.

Folks not familiar with the M:I series will need a scorecard to keep track of the various characters, but then again, would anybody be foolish enough to join an existing franchise for its sixth installation?

Just know that Alec Baldwin returns as IMF Secretary Alan Hunley, Jeremy Renner does not return as IMF agent William Brandt (hey, remember when Renner was briefly being groomed as the new M:I face until Cruise apparently decided he wasn’t ready to put himself out to pasture?), and The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby joins the ensemble as an ebullient black marketer known as the White Widow.

Even as far back as Brian De Palma’s original film from 1996, many of the muscular action set-pieces showcased in this series defy belief, and the ones featured in this latest picture dutifully follow suit. Yet the exhilaration they promote provides most of them with a free pass — the same can’t always be said for the vehicular chases, and this movie offers backto-back dashes that eventually prove

HEREDITARY WAS UNSETTLING through its pervasive atmosphere of dread, while First Reformed was unnerving in its implications involving violence and vindication. Yet for a summer ’18 outing that truly gets under the skin while simultaneously wreaking havoc on our emotions and expectations, there’s Eighth Grade ( ), an impressive indie effort set in that terrifying wasteland known as middle school.

Television and YouTube star Bo Burnham makes an impressive feature-film debut as the writer and director of Eighth Grade (as an actor, he’s appeared in small roles in such films as The Big Sick and Rough Night). Yet the real story here is the knockout central performance by 15-yearold Elsie Fisher — she’s cast as Kayla Day, an introverted student struggling to survive her last week of eighth grade before preparing for high school. Kayla has no friends and no self-esteem (despite posting inspirational videos on YouTube that are viewed by absolutely no one) – what she does have is a severe case of acne, a dependency on social media, and a wellmeaning single dad (Josh Hamilton) who annoys rather than inspires her.

Eighth Grade hits upon the usual points we would expect from a film of this nature — mean girls, dreamy boys, and nerds of all stripes — but the movie is stripped of practically all artifice. Photographed in a manner that offers the actors no opportunities for reprieve or retreat, this is a raw and realistic movie, and viewers will be clenching their teeth each time they anticipate the worst for poor, withdrawn Kayla and breathing a sigh of relief every time something fortuitous breaks her way.

And here you thought Avengers: Infinity War was the summer’s ultimate word on edge-of-your-seat entertainment. !

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Spring Theatre presents ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’

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pring Theatre will present The Adventures of Robin Hood Aug. 3 and 4 at the Mountcastle Black Box Theatre in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, 251 N. Spruce St. in downtown Winston-Salem.

Robin and his Merrie Band are always looking for an opportunity to perform daring, dashing deeds in their customary fun-loving fashion.

When the nefarious Sheriff of Nottingham decides to collect taxes (again!) and kidnap the lovely Maid Marian, a series of disguises, rescue attempts, archery contests, and sword fights ensue. Adapted

by Michele L. Vacca, this delightful, witty and fast-paced play is fun for the whole family.

“The Adventures of Robin Hood script is extremely funny and well-written,” commented director Mark Flora. “The show will be an immersive experience that will transport the audience right into Sherwood Forest, complete with medieval music and dance. This production will surely be as entertaining for adults to watch as it is a joy for our talented young actors to perform.”

Mark Flora will direct The Adventures of Robin Hood, assisted by Grace Reasoner. Brooke Bond will design the set, with lighting design by Patrick Burke. Trinity Wertheim will design costumes, assisted by Anna Hartle. Katie Ballard will choreograph the dance sequences and Chase Whitehurst will work as fight choreographer. Kevin Hampton will stage manage, assisted by Marilyn Gaylord, who will also serve as props master. The cast is as follows: Katie Ballard — Alfreida/Midge the Miller Morgan Bell — Edward/Lady Gwendolyn/Townsperson Parker Bond — Friar Tuck/Band Member Anna Clifton — Kate/Townsperson Emi Curia — Lady Marian Fitzwater Blaine Freeman — Sir Guy/Sheriff of Nottingham Bella Hart-Peck — Rowena/Gwyneth/Townsperson Tori Lockhart — Lucy/Townsperson Chris Nichols — Little John/Band Member Jeffrey Payton — Oswald/Deputy Grace Reasoner — Nell Stutely/Innkeeper of The Blue Bell Anneliese Shotwell — Alison/Townsperson Cayson Sipprell — Alfred/Penny the Trinket Seller/Townsperson Ethan Talbott — Will Scarlett/Band Member Avery Turner — Ethyl/Townsperson Tessa Turner — Alyssa/Townsperson Chase Whitehurst — Robin Hood

Travel with Jan and Zimbro Photography are sponsoring the run of the show. The Adventures of Robin Hood runs approximately 90 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission. For further information, please visit www.SpringTheatre.org or call (336) 747-1414. !

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Walt Dean King, 69, just wanted to take a look at a used car for sale on July 4. But when he approached the vehicle in the small California town of Tracy, about 60 miles east Chuck Shepherd of San Francisco, he was suddenly knocked off his feet by a bull that had gotten loose. King felt the bull’s horn go through his side and crawled between a bush and a house as the bull stood over him snorting for about 20 minutes.

FOX40 reported that King underwent three hours of surgery, after which doctors told him his belly fat had saved him from worse injury. King believes karma kept him alive: “Back in the ‘70s, I had pulled a lady out of a burning building, so now I think I’m being paid back, by not dying,” King said.

PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS

— Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who have made their fortunes in tech-related fields have discovered a spiritually enriching new guru, Jess Magic, a ukulele player and singer who calls herself a “heartist.”

At Magic’s intimate, invitation-only “Soul Salons” (and now on a 10-city national tour), participants share their energy and join in “songversations” — philosophical rap and improvised music and dance — a process Magic calls “a play date for your inner child.” Andrew Hewitt, creator of Game Changers 500, explains: “For people who live most of the time in their head, this feels like magic.” The New York Times reported that Magic believes her appeal is in response to the spiritual hollowness wealthy executives feel. “People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,” she said.

— Patriotism inspired Rain Wiggand, 22, and Zane Liles, 21, of Collins, Ohio, to construct an American flag using more than 2,000 Budweiser, Bud Light and Miller Lite beer cans. Wiggand posted pictures of the “beer flag” on Twitter on July 4. “It was a rough month of work for Zane and I,” Wiggand confessed, adding that they “averaged somewhere around 14 beers a night for 28 days straight.” Six other friends helped, he said, but they only drank on Thursdays to Sundays. Liles told BuzzFeed News, “It was a monthlong hangover that nothing could cure.” However, he said the project had not ruined beer for him. “I can still drink beer with the best of them.”

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

In Ghana, the reaction of mourners at a funeral is a measure of the deceased’s position in the community. But for family members who are unable to express their emotions openly, professional mourners will cry on their behalf. A leader of one team of criers told BBC Africa in July that they charge based on the size of the funeral, and the Kumasi Funeral Criers Association offers different styles of crying, such as crying with swagg, crying and rolling on the ground, and crying and vomiting. Ghanian funerals also feature dancing pallbearers and giant billboards to announce the funeral arrangements.

too much perfume or cologne. IT Media reported that the user simply points the sensor toward the underarm area (or other problematic spots), and in 10 seconds a numerical score will appear on the LED display. If you’re a 10 ... you’re not a 10.

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS

In 1985, Tosya Garibyan of Arinj, in Armenia, asked her husband, Levon Arkelian, 44, to dig a pit under their home where she could store potatoes. But once he got started, Radio Free Europe reported, he just couldn’t stop. Twentythree years later, the underground oasis Arkelian created is a tourist attraction.

Working as many as 18 hours a day with only a hammer and chisel, Arkelian created seven rooms, stairwells and passages running as deep as 65 feet and adorned them with carvings and decorations made from found objects.

Arkelian passed away in 2008, and his widow welcomes tourists to her museum, which includes his shredded work boots and tools. But she says the couple argued about the project. “He ruined his health because of this hole,” she told RFE.

— In Madison, Wisconsin, an unidentified 19-year-old driver flipped his car after overcorrecting in traffic on July 3.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported that the man left the scene and removed some clothing, then pretended to be a jogger who happened by when police questioned him. Police said he was not impaired; he was later charged with leaving a crash scene and driving without a license.

— A 62-year-old security guard named Ramdin in the city of Kanpur, India, told doctors he was robbed in June of about $722 (proceeds from the sale of his motorbike) by muggers who attacked him and knocked him out. When he woke up, Ramdin was suffering from severe abdominal pain, which brought him, 10 days later, to Rama Hospital, where a scan revealed a steel cup lodged in his abdomen.

Senior surgeon Dr. Dinesh Kumar told Metro News: “It seems that the metal cup was inserted into Ramdin’s rectum by the goons, and it got stuck near the intestines.” Doctors couldn’t remove the cup using the route it went in, so they had to operate. Ramdin was discharged from the hospital on July 4.

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Brigadier Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, announced in a press conference on July 2 that Israel is manipulating the weather over Iran to prevent rain. “Israel and another country in the region have joint teams which work to ensure clouds entering Iranian skies are unable to release rain,” Jalali posited, according to YNet News. “On top of that, we are facing the issue of cloud and snow theft.” However, the head of Iran’s meteorological service was skeptical: “It is not possible for a country to steal snow or clouds. Iran has suffered a prolonged drought, and this is a global trend that does not apply only to Iran.”

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In what can only be a testament to curiosity, a Staffa, Ontario, Canada, man has created an eBay listing for the McDonald’s meal he placed on a shelf in his home six years ago to see what would happen. CBC Radio reported on July 5 that Dave Alexander also set aside a homemade burger and fries, five years ago, in order to make a comparison. The McDonald’s meal held up much better: “The fries are stunningly good looking,” Alexander said. “The burger itself has darkened a little bit. The bun is about as hard as a hockey puck, but it looks just like it’s brand-new cosmetically.”

Alexander is downsizing and listed the meal — “original owner, never eaten” — for $29.99. “We live in the country and we’ve never seen a fly land on it. Ever,” he said. !

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any residents of the Triad were affected, in one way or another, by the sudden death of High Point’s Joey Deweese last month.

According to a media release by the Katie Murawski High Point Police Department, on July 7, police received Editor multiple calls reporting that a car was traveling the wrong way on the interstate. The release stated that Serenity L. Givens, 32, was allegedly traveling Northbound in Southbound lanes on Business 85 and struck Deweese, 28, head on just South of the Baker Road exit. The release stated that Deweese succumbed to his injuries on July 8 and died as a result of the crash at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

“Preliminary results indicate that alcohol was a contributing factor in the crash,” the release stated. Givens was charged with “Driving While Impaired, Felony Inflicting Serious Injury with a Motor Vehicle While DWI and having previously been convicted of a DWI (20-141.4(a4), and Driving on a Revoked License.”

Deweese’s fiancee Paisley Sellick and his two best friends, Joshua Harris and Joshua Duncan, are among the many that have expressed grief with his passing.

Sellick said she and Deweese just recently got engaged and moved in together. After four years of dating, they only lived under the same roof for four days.

“He just paid rent that morning on this little trailer next to his mom’s, because she was really sick and he always wanted to be around to take care of her,” Sellick said. “I would call it his trailer and he would call it our house. So, for about four days we lived together in the cutest little trailer you have ever seen, and we were house shopping.”

Sellick said on the night of the wreck they were traveling home from an evening out in separate cars and seconds after he blew a kiss and winked at her, he was hit.

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he really timed that one just right. And he was three hours late to dinner that night so wonder what would have happened if he were on time.”

Harris said he has known Deweese for 13 years and was his former roommate.

“I felt like it wasn’t real at first,” Harris said. “I freaked out and cried but it didn’t seem real until I got inside. Then it seemed too real. Everyone else said it didn’t seem real but I told them it was the opposite for me, it felt way too real.”

Duncan said he has known Deweese since 1998 and was his former roommate as well.

“It felt like a prank, it didn’t feel real,” Duncan said. “It was really hard to believe that it happened.”

Sellick, Harris and Duncan all described Deweese as intelligent, fiercely loyal, funloving, creative, funny, positive, stubborn and always late. He loved his mother and loved taking care of her. He worked as a fabricator and a car painter. He enjoyed frequent trips to The Milkshake Store (what he called Cook Out) for an extra peanut butter, strawberry (or blueberry) cheesecake milkshake. He took a long time to get dressed and would change his outfits frequently. His favorite music artist was The Weeknd, but he had a soft spot for Sarah McLachlan (specifically the song, “In the Arms of an Angel”). He enjoyed getting tattoos at Greensboro’s Legacy Irons Tattoo Co. And, of course, he loved “big booty.”

“Honestly, he was one of the smartest people I have met and he was very quiet and he’d sit and he just listen and if you got him talking, he was just so smart,” Sellick said. “Yes, he is head to toe in tattoos. He had these huge earlobes. When he wasn’t smiling he had a mean mug, but he was usually smiling. And he was just so incredibly smart.”

Sellick said her fondest memories of Deweese are all of her memories with him. She said he would tell her stories while she showered so that he would stay awake and spend more time with her after her workouts.

“He would sit on the toilet and he would tell me a story the whole time no matter how long my shower was,” she said. “It would go from personal stories to like really ridiculous stories about his friends. The last time he broke the entire plot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into four plots. So I got four shower stories. He would just tell me with sound effects and it was just so cute because he

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was just so creative but he never let it out.

I had all these stories every time I got into the shower. And I got very used to that. It is very heartbreaking right now. He was such a nerd [who] told the best stories.”

Harris said his fondest memory of Deweese was being his roommate and having to speed up the “pretty boy” who took hours to get ready. Harris said he most enjoyed their grooming routine each week where they would cut each other’s hair.

“We played video games together, and we would always have this debate on how he said or claimed that he could beat Super Metroid faster than me,” Harris said. “So we always said we would race, T.V. to T.V., and I would have won, but we never did it. And that is one of my biggest regrets that we never got to do that.”

Duncan said one of his most fondest memories of Deweese were when they lived together and would just hang out.

“We lived on a corner house in Greensboro and we would sit out there for hours and people-watch,” Duncan said. “We’d make up weird scenarios about what they were doing and what their life was like.

We’d be freestyling a story about a total stranger walking past us.”

Local artists Jordan Morris, Brian Lewis, Spencer Elles, Heather Platts as well as others and even artists outside the state (Sue Smith from Virginia @mellon. milk and Rebekah Bloomfield from New Zealand @bexbloomfield) have come together to show their support through art.

Some drew/painted portraits and some donated their art and time to raise money for the family. Morris took commissions to help benefit the Deweese family and has used recent past community markets (such as the one held at the Bearded Goat on July 21) to take up donations.

“I hadn’t seen him in like a year,” Morris said of his most recent encounter with Deweese. “My starter went out in front of his house and he came out and instantly knew what it was, he just dropped [everything] and got it fixed.”

Lewis painted Deweese on the back of Greensboro’s Mother Tucker’s Eatery, located at 1642 Spring Garden St., to honor his memory and “give his loved ones a place to visit him.” A small vigil consisting of Cook Out milkshake cups, candles, flowers, pictures and 40-ounce beer bottles still line the wall below the mural today.

“I didn’t know how much it would help, but I knew it could possibly help strengthen [the community] and have a place for them to visit him,” Lewis said. “To be knocked out, that quick, off the face of the Earth, that is the worst part. He is just gone and you can’t see him anymore. So [it’s] good just having a spot like that, I just hate that it is by a dumpster.”

Lewis said he is looking for a bigger space for another Deweese mural and would like to find someone willing to donate supplies and a wall or space preferably in a high bar-traffic area.

“I want it to make a statement that

towers over everybody and you can’t help but to look at it,” he said. “Maybe, someone will feel that guilt just by looking at it and not make stupid decisions. It is one of those things that I think can do us a lot of good while honoring a very good person.”

These local artists weren’t the only ones to extend support, other local businesses such as The Humble Bee Shoppe in Winston-Salem gave a portion of their sales (and even made Deweese’s favorite dessert, banana pudding) to the family for their expenses. In the near future, Nate Hall (Deweese’s tattoo artist and member of Old Heavy Hands) said he is thinking about doing a benefit concert as well as a tattooing event to help raise more money and remember Deweese.

Sellick said she would love to get a few tribute tattoos such as “Fight Hard,” (the tattoo Deweese had on his chest), on the backs of her thighs, and a crown on her wedding ring finger. Harris said he wants to get “Aww Mell” on his toes, because of an inside joke he had with Deweese about a similar and unfinished tattoo Deweese had on his toes that said “Aww Hell.”

Duncan, Sellick and Harris said dealing with Deweese’s death has been difficult, but seeing his face in different works of art has been inspiring.

“It is what I imagine losing a limb feels like,” Duncan said. “Like you go to move your hand and you don’t have a hand anymore. You can still feel it there and in your subconscious, you know it is there, but it is really not. And that is how it has

been, like I see something funny on the internet, and want to share it with him. I have accidentally sent him a few Instagram messages already. I can’t wrap my head around him being gone.”

“Your brain tries to normalize itself, it is like a glitch in a video game,” Sellick said. “It wants to reset but it’s like, it will never reset to how it was. He was a part of literally everyday for me and even the year he and I did not speak like I always thought about him 24/7. So now that he’s dead, my brain is doing what it normally does but what it normally does is think about Joey.”

“I am sure he does not want us sitting down and crying every day but I know Paisley has cried and I have too, the first week I was upset constantly,” Harris said.

“It feels weird to be back to doing normal things, I almost feel guilty going on with my life, going to work, and things cause I feel like I am supposed to stop and the whole world should stop too. I know that is not the case and I know Joey would not have wanted that.”

Duncan and Sellick said they will continue to take donations for the family via Venmo at @Joshua-Duncan-14 and @ PaisleyGraceSellick. !

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Waiting for Greyhound Like waiting for Samuel Beckett’s Godot, it’s an exercise in absurdity, crushed optimism and existential despair.

“That’s some bullshit,” said the young man in the Knicks cap when I Ian McDowell told him Greyhound’s real-time GPS tracker indicated that the Contributor bus that should have arrived in Durham over an hour ago was still in Raleigh. “Damn Greyhound is always late.”

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shown up at the Durham station wondering just how late bus #1083, scheduled to arrive at 10:20 p.m., was going to be this time.

Now it was after midnight the station was closing and the bus still hadn’t come. The icon on the map at bustracker. greyhound.com showed the bus still at the Raleigh station, arrival and departure times listed as “currently unavailable.”

The Greyhound ticket agent left at 11 p.m. with no announcement about when that bus might actually arrive in Durham.

Locklear and I waited outside along with four other men. Three Durham police officers hung around for a few minutes after the station closed. Locklear asked one how many evenings he’d seen Greyhound be late. “Never seen one that wasn’t,” the officer said.

At 1:15 a.m. on July 21, the online tracker

listed Greyhound #1083’s status as “currently unavailable.” I called Uber and told Locklear he was welcome to share the ride at no charge. But he and the other stranded passengers were bound for Charlotte or Atlanta, and none wanted to pay Uber to go from Greensboro to their various destinations. I was glad they were all adult but not elderly men, left alone outside a closed and dark bus station in downtown Durham.

Later, as my Uber driver turned on to Fulton Street from Gate City Boulevard, I wondered if anyone was waiting at the Washington Street Depot after 2 a.m. for the bus should have been there three hours ago. That’s when I decided to monitor all the Greyhounds arriving in the Triad, and see how many were even close to being on time. Was it really true that Greyhound was always late?

Not always, but pretty often.

From July 21 until July 27, I logged each of the 12 buses that serve the Greensboro and Winston-Salem stations, checking their daily arrivals and departures via bustracker.greyhound.com. On both July 21 and July 22, six of those 12 buses were at least 45 minutes late, and three were over two hours late. Bus #1086, running from Atlanta to New York and scheduled to arrive in Greensboro at 2 a.m., was the most consistently delayed over the entire week, arriving at least 20 minutes late on six out of seven days, and over four hours late on July 23.

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David Blankenship and Michelle Ide wait for the 9 p.m. bus to New York City that did not arrive until after 1 a.m.

27, it was listed as “Cancelled” at both its origin in New York City and its first stop in Richmond. Bus #1083, the late one from Durham I’d been trying to catch on July 20, was almost as bad. It was over two hours late the next two nights, and an hour and 55 minutes late on July 24.

Checking the tracker before submitting this article on Tuesday morning, I saw it was listed as “Cancelled” the previous night in Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte.

The longest single delay was experienced by bus #1096, Jacksonville to Detroit, on July 23. Although on-time at 4 p.m. in Winston, it remained there for six hours rather than departing as scheduled.

The bus running the other way, #1093, Detroit to Jacksonville, suffered nearly as extreme a delay on July 24, arriving in Winston-Salem at 6:10 p.m. rather than its scheduled 1:15 p.m.

I visited the Greensboro bus station on the evening of July 22 and talked to passengers. Lester Gaylor, who said he was from of Kingston told me that he rode Greyhound at least 10 times a year, and it was late “each and every time.”

He described his worst experience as a trip back home to Kingston from Atlanta, on which the bus was four hours late. He claimed that no effort was made to mollify the disgruntled passengers waiting to leave the Atlanta station. “You’d go up to the desk and ask what time the bus is leaving, and they’d say [in a snippy voice] ‘my supervisor hasn’t gotten back to me yet.’ And then they’ll just try to ignore you.”

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hour later that Sunday, also had some complaints. He said that his return from Charlotte was delayed by construction in Kannapolis, but that experience wasn’t as bad the trip there from Greensboro a few days before. “The bus had broke down in Durham before it got to Greensboro.

They put all the people from that bus on another bus, which filled it up, and all of us who were waiting for that bus here had to keep waiting for the next one.”

But what happens when the next bus is many hours away? A glance at Greyhound BusTracker suggested that there were going to be some disgruntled people later that evening. Bus #1082, Atlanta to New York, was running four hours late, and unlikely to arrive in Greensboro at 9 p.m. as scheduled.

At 11:15 p.m. that evening, I found Michelle Ide and David Blankenship still waiting for it outside of the closed Greyhound waiting room. They said they’d driven from Thomasville to catch it to New York, the first leg of an intended journey to Wilkesboro, Pennsylvania.

Ide said that they’d been told to wait outside on the platform at 11 p.m. because the building was closing for the night. “I’m supposed to arrive in [Pennsylvania] at 2:15 tomorrow afternoon and I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

They said that the station agent had told them their bus should arrive by midnight, and looked dismayed when I said that BusTracker showed it as expected in Greensboro at 1:17 a.m. They said they were resolved to wait, but were distinctly unhappy about having to do so outside a closed and empty station. “You’d think they’d let us at least go around front and

David Russell waits for the Raleigh bus which will be over two hours late

wait in the train station waiting room, as it’s open 24 hours, but no, you’ve got to have a train ticket to do that.”

A week later, I found David Russell waiting on the same bench. It was 8:25 p.m. on July 29, and Russell told me that he was waiting for bus #1076 to Raleigh, scheduled to have arrived at 7 p.m. He said the station agent told him it would arrive around 9 p.m. (it actually arrived at 9:27 p.m.). He said that he’d never used Greyhound before in his life, and never would again.

“So far, it doesn’t look like I’ll miss my flight out of Raleigh, but it’s still very inconvenient. I’ll get there too late to take a local bus to the airport. At that point, it’s actually cheaper to take an Uber from here in Greensboro right to the Raleigh airport. That’s only $60, but this is going to cost me over $70. Greyhound isn’t really the cheapest form of transportation if it can’t get there on time.”

Most Greyhound passengers don’t have the Uber option. For adjacent cities, services such as PART are cheaper and Amtrak is comparable. But for longer trips, Greyhound remains the most affordable choice for those who struggle to pay their bills every month, and that’s the increasing majority of Americans.

This article hasn’t really touched on Greyhound’s other customer service issues, particularly the sheer difficulty of reaching anyone who can address complaints. I spent 40 minutes on the phone Saturday trying to get my ticket refunded for the July 21 trip. After putting me on two lengthy holds, the agent said he couldn’t help me at the present time, as he was unable to find any records

relating to that schedule on that night, and told me to call back on Monday.

When I tried to reach Greyhound’s media liaison on Monday, www.greyhound.com/ en/about/media wasn’t loading. When I called Greyhound Customer Service, the agent repeatedly tried to give me, not the number for Greyhound Media Relations, but the very one I had called him at.

When I said “that’s your number,” he said, “oh, maybe it’s transferring to this one because the media number is busy.”

I eventually obtained the number of Laneisha Gibson at Greyhound Media Relations by calling the manager of a North Carolina station, who begged me not to include their name. Gibson’s voicemail listed a cell number to call if it was after business hours or if the media inquiry had a tight deadline, and when I called that one, she answered. After listening patiently to my description of this article and taking my email and phone number, she said she would get back to me with a statement by 11 a.m. Tuesday morning, but did not do so.

That lack of response suggests that a local article is unlikely to do much toward improving a national company’s customer service. But perhaps this will help persuade the people who maintain the Greensboro and Winston-Salem bus stations served by that company to have better facilities for those Triad travelers left stranded in the dark. !

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.

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I’m a 34-year-old woman in a two-year relationship with a guy. I’ve never been the jealous type. Yet, I do feel oddly possessive and jealous in this relationship, especially lately. My friends say this a sign I need to “work on” myself. Really? If so, how? What do I need to do? — Worried

“Hey, where’s the boyfriend?” your friend asks as she plops down on the couch next to you. You look at your phone: “Well, according to my tracking device, he’s at the end of Main, turning right onto Slauson.”

Jealousy gets a bad rap. Sure, it’s sometimes a sign that your self-worth is in the toilet. But it can also be a sign that your boyfriend has been sneaking off to the toilet at work with his boss’s busty assistant.

Evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes that sexual jealousy appears to be one of the “mate guarding adaptations” that evolved over human history — a sort of police dog of emotions to protect us from being cheated on. Buss observes that

sexual jealousy is activated by “threats to mate retention,” including “the presence of mate poachers” (rivals trying to lure your partner away), “cues to infidelity, or even subtle signals that suggest that a partner might be dissatisfied with the current relationship.”

But there are signals, and then there are meaningful signals. A possibly helpful thing to recognize is that we have overprotective defense systems. “Defense expression is often excessive,” observes psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse. This isn’t an accident or a design flaw. It’s evolution saying, “Hey, hon, let’s be on the safe side here.”

Consider the smoke alarm that’s a little oversensitive. This can be annoying when it screams for the hook and ladders whenever the neighbor lights incense next to her tub. But it’s far less annoying than waking up to your toes being crisped by your flaming bedroom rug.

Figure out the source of your feelings so you can address it. Is there something amiss in your psychology that leads you to be overly sensitive — to see a threat where it doesn’t really exist — or are you sensing some meaningful danger to your relationship? It’s one thing to follow the person you love with your eyes as he walks off; it’s another thing entirely to do it with a pair of high-powered binoculars and a bug sewn into his laptop bag.

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My boyfriend and I have a TV ritual — watching our favorite show together every week. Yesterday, I had a dinner meeting, and I asked him to wait to watch it with me, but he didn’t. There’s so much other stuff on TV. Did he really need to watch “our show”? He doesn’t understand what the big deal is and told me to just watch the episode myself and get caught up. Grrr.

— Mad So, your boyfriend’s saying, “My darling...my love...you know your happiness means the world to me — just not enough to masturbate and read a book for an evening.”

To be fair, it probably seems like a TV show is just a TV show. What is the big deal if he watches ahead? But it turns out that context matters. This is a TV show you watch together — or, as my boyfriend describes it, it’s a “relationship show.”

That probably sounds romantic, but considering our shows are usually murdercentric, date night is basically “Come over at 7, and we’ll have a nice dinner and watch six innocent people being gutted like hogs.”

It turns out that the fictional social world couples share through their “relationship shows” can be important to their partnership. According to research by social psychologist Sarah Gomillion and

her colleagues, it works like sharing a social network of real live friends and family members, fostering a “shared identity.”

In fact, their research suggests that sharing a fictional social world “predicts greater relationship quality.” This was especially true among couples who “reported sharing fewer mutual friends with partners.” For those partners, “sharing media more frequently was associated with greater interdependence, closeness, and confidence in the relationship.”

As for why you feel hurt, your boyfriend basically sent you the message, “I want to watch this show now more than I want to watch it with you.” But look to how he is in general. Is he loving? Does he usually — or at least often — prioritize your happiness and well-being? If so, you can probably get him to mend his episode-straying ways, simply by explaining why your collective fictional friends are important to your relationship. This is likely to fire up his empathy — or, at the very least, his dread of a brand-new recurring argument: “How can I ever trust you if you can’t — for a single evening — resist the seductive nature of the balding, annoying Larry David?” !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) There might be some facts you still need to know before leaping onto center stage. Best to move carefully at this time so that you can observe what’s happening around you.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your wise counsel continues to be needed as that family situation works itself out.

Meanwhile, the decisions you made on your job begin to pay off quite nicely.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Aspects favor action in the workplace. Line up your facts and show your superiors why you’re the one they’re looking for.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) There might still be some uncertainty about the decision you made. But a quick check of the facts should reassure you that you’re doing the right thing.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) It’s a good time to expand your outlook by getting out and around, whether you do some long-range traveling or just explore the great things to see closer to home.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your job situation brightens thanks to all your hard work. Now, spend some time repairing a personal relationship you might have neglected for too long.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Your hard work pays off on the job.

Personal relationships also can benefit from more of your time and attention.

Spend the weekend with loved ones.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The tidy Taurean needs to be a little more flexible about accepting some changes to those carefully made plans. You might be pleasantly surprised by what follows.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Early feedback on your project might be disappointing. But don’t be discouraged. Use it to make needed adjustments, then submit it to your superiors again.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Consider stepping away from your concentrated focus on your new project for a bit so you can get some perspective on what you’ve done and where you plan to take it.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Flattery could lure the otherwise sensible Fish into making an unwise decision. Be careful. All that praise might be an attempt to reel you in before you can learn the facts.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The understandably angry Crab might not want to accept the reason why someone might have tried to hurt you. But at least you’ll have an insight into why it happened.

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