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The opioid crisis is something an entire nation can relate to, but right here in the Triad and North Carolina, whose death toll from opioids grew 73 percent in just 10 years, it is something that creator and director Brandon Bias and actor and executive producer Julian Brittano take very seriously. EXPOSÉ is a scripted crime drama television series...

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TESSA FARM TO FORK opened in October 2015 and had a bit of a rocky start, with a couple of chefs and managers coming and going. But with Chef Caleb Smallwood at the helm, this tiny eatery may have finally found its groove. The site of our latest, Triadfoodies Chef’s Table, was a sold out event, featuring six courses of locally-sourced and seasonal ingredients.

10 “OH! NATURALE: Nudes and Nature” features works by two WinstonSalem artists who have been a part of the local arts scene collectively for over 20 years. Seth Moskowitz and Don Green will feature new work for the show that will run through Aug. 26 at the Artworks Gallery.

11 The Artistic Connection will present a special event featuring award-winning cinematographer and University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking faculty member THOMAS E. ACKERMAN, whose credits include such perennial favorites as Beetlejuice (1988), National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2002).

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Clear your calendar for a blowout weekend of eclectic, multicultural, American musical entertainment as the NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL wraps up its three-year residency in downtown Greensboro Sept. 8 through 10.

19 Greensboro College Theatre presents Caryl Churchill’s dystopian look at the future, “FAR AWAY,” 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, and 2 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 2-3, in the Annie Sellars Jordan Parlor Theatre...

20 LOGAN LUCKY is a movie filled with so many Southern-fried yahoos, it makes the characters in Smokey and the Bandit look as cultured as those in Howards End by comparison.

24 When Charles Sciabbarrasi and Ray Mascali, two Sicilian-Americans from New Jersey, opened NEW YORK PIZZA beside the ice skating rink in the Carolina Circle Mall in August 1976, it was an instant hit.

25 Entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout the Triad have an opportunity to gain some exposure of their businesses on Aug. 26 during the fourth annual TRIAD MINORITY BUSINESS EXPO.

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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY

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THE OAK RIDGE BOYS SATURDAY

ABIGAIL DOWD FRIDAY THUR 24 DIXIE SWIM CLUB WHAT: Five unforgettable women, free from husbands, kids and jobs, meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives over a period of thirtythree years. These women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges that life flings at them with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Lee Street Theatre.

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MOVIE NIGHT AT PROEHLIFIC PARK

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WHAT: Almost a year to the day, Abigail Dowd and Margo Cilker reunite at Common Grounds, joined by Carrie Paz for what promises to be a magical evening of soul stirring lyrics, sweet harmonies and fine guitar picking.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Common Grounds Coffeehouse Greensboro. 602 North Elam Ave, Greensboro.

MORE: $8-10 tickets.

WHAT: Proehlific Park is presenting a movie for kids every Friday night from August 25 through October 13. ‘It’s a fun, inexpensive way to watch movies with your family. It’s also a way to help those in need, because proceeds from movie nights will go to support our annual Santa’s helpers program...’ The movie for August 25 will be Moana.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Proehlific Park.

4517 Jessup Grove Rd, Greensboro.

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WHAT: The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds will host The Oak Ridge Boys on Saturday August 26th, 2017 at 7 pm, doors for the event will open at 6 pm. The Oak Ridge Boys is the fourth and final of multiple artists to visit the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds as part of the 2017 Classic Country Concert Series.

The concerts will be held indoors at the Annex at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

Winston-Salem, NC. MORE: $20-60 tickets.

SAT 26 GREENSBORO FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL WHAT: Greensboro Food Truck Festivals include over 50 food trucks, craft vendors, live music, art, craft beer and wine and kid’s activities. Our August event will have a fire truck rides as well as an Art Light show on Elm St. from 8:30 to 10pm!

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] TOSHI’S CAFE

BY JESSICA CLIFFORD Six years ago, the quirky café, Coffee and Roses, was located on High Point Road. This unique mix of a restaurant, where you could buy your coffee and also pick up some flowers, was forced to close due to the construction of Gate City Boulevard.

However, that did not stop Toshi Yoshida, the owner of the café, from going somewhere else and creating a new restaurant, this time based on the interesting mix of coffee and sushi. Soon after, Yoshida opened Toshi’s Café in the Adams Farm Shopping Center.

He had experience preparing sushi and wanted to incorporate it into his new restaurant, where he also serves sandwiches, smoothies, baked goods and breakfast.

“It’s a good place for someone that never tried sushi before,” Yoshida said.

He puts a lot of emphasis on making the sushi just the way the customer likes it: by adding more vegetables or fish if desired. Yoshida also knows his customers enjoy free treats with their meals.

Therefore, every Monday he adds free drinks to their purchase and hands out samples of his tiramisu and cake.

The café is an intimate area, with an option to eat in or take out.

However, if you are ever in the mood to read a good Manga novel, it is best to order and stay there because Yoshida lets his customers read his 2,000-book collection decorating one wall of the café. “[Toshi’s Café] is a great place to meet good people, your friends and family,” Yoshida said. “We still need this kind of place in the area.”

Toshi’s Café is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. !

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A Chef’s Table at Tessa Farm To Fork

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n the bustling stretch of Battleground Avenue, where it meets Horse Pen Creek Road, there is a former Waffle House that is now a pale shadow of its former self.

Kristi Maier Tessa Farm to Fork @triadfoodie opened in October 2015 and had a bit of a rocky start, with a Contributor couple of chefs and managers coming and going. But with Chef Caleb Smallwood at the helm, this tiny eatery may have finally found its groove. The site of our latest, Triadfoodies Chef’s Table, was a sold out event, featuring six courses of locally-sourced and seasonal ingredients.

Chef Smallwood came into his career somewhat inadvertently, as he calls it his “backup career plan.” It all started when he attended Appalachian State and be-

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Chef Caleb Smallwood. gan doing dishes at The Eseeola Lodge.

“It was a part-time job,” Smallwood said. “I washed dishes for a season, moved up from there and went on to other resorts and restaurants for a number of years while supplementing in the off-season with some landscaping and photography work.”

In 2011, Smallwood began working for the 1618 Restaurant Group, where he further honed his skills, cooked on some food trucks and eventually took a detour to focus on his photography.

“I went to Randolph Community College to do their photojournalism program, and I really thought that was going to be

my path,” he said. “But then I found out I was going to have a child and decided freelance photography might not be the best option for a father.”

Through some random connections a year and a half ago, he found his new home at Tessa. Smallwood said there were some earlier growing pains when he started at Tessa.

“When I got there, one of the first issues we were having is that there wasn’t a lot of direction,” Smallwood said.

“Not that the team didn’t know how to produce quality food, but that they didn’t understand what it took to deal with local agriculture and back up what it means to be Tessa Farm to Fork.”

Smallwood said over the past 18 months, he even had to dial himself back.

“I’ve come to realize at lunch, people want sandwiches and burgers and maybe a seasonal entree,” he said. “So they can come in and get back to their day.”

He said dinner is a lot more fun. “I don’t like being tied down,” he said. “With the way we get our ingredients we use, it allows that creative avenue for me. I

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Smallwood doesn’t exactly like to call himself executive chef, even though that’s pretty much what he is.

“The morning crew rotates with the evening crew and there’s only a couple of people cooking in there,” he said. “Formalities aren’t really our thing at Tessa.”

What is Smallwood’s thing, then?

True, small-batch, farm-to-table cooking. He designs his menu around what’s available and being brought in during the “weekly blast” by his local farmers.

Menus are updated often and if you’re feeling especially adventurous, you can order the Chef’s Plate, which basically puts you at Smallwood’s whim for your dining experience. Of course, that’s what all of us got to enjoy at our Chef’s Table.

Six courses of Chef’s Plates.

Course One Zucchini Gazpacho Gate City Harvest zucchini with tomatoes, orange, Harmony Ridge Farms peppers, citrus and balsamic

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This was a light and refreshing gazpacho. Quite different from others I’ve had in that, it wasn’t so much a puree, but the vegetables had been sweated down a bit, yet still country. It was nearly ceviche-like but without the seafood. Delicious.

Course Two Yellowfin and Plum Yellowfin tuna with Harmony Ridge plums in a ceviche with radishes, peaches and micro greens Speaking of ceviche…This was another fairly light course that had an Asian-feel with the sesame oil and cilantro with a bit of a bite from peppers.

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Course Four Pork Belly and Cold Smoked Scallop Hickory Nut Gap Pork Belly topped with a seared diver scallop with a honeysuckle cream sauce and rosemary roasted cashews Did your mouth water there? Everything about this dish was delightful. The pork belly and scallops were both cooked perfectly. Smallwood said he preserved the honeysuckles from a local farm in a sugared vodka base. The cream sauce with the cashews and rosemary worked with all of it. It was my favorite dish of the night and fellow diner Scott Fancett agreed and said, “the flavors are dancing in my mouth.”

Course Three Course Five Blueberry Spare Ribs Brisket and Wahoo Hickory Nut Gap spare ribs with chipotle Summerfield Farms Beef Brisket and harissa dry- rub, Summerfield Farms North Carolina Butter poached blueberry barbeque sauce Wahoo served in a light broth, with Now we are getting into some meatier chickpeas, Gate City Harvest carrots, portions, low and slow is the way Chef roasted celery and fried shallots Smallwood said he likes to go. These ribs, DWSP_Music17_Chronicle_8-25-17_8-26-17.pdf 1 6/21/17 9:28 AMbroth, the brisket Served in a pho-type he called them “finger-pops,” had terrific was very tender, like pot roast. The chickflavor impact, just tender enough.

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peas were an interesting component as well. This dish reminded me of a Mediterranean version of a cassoulet but with a lighter broth. This may have been my first time having Wahoo, which is a mild-tasting fish that reminds me of albacore. Nice as a summer “stew” and not too heavy.

Course Six Pound Cake with Maple Pecan Peach Ice Cream Very simple and light. The cake and the ice cream were both dusted with pecans and garnished with sweet mint from the garden. A nice, delicate finale.

Our diners also got to hear from local farmer, Aubrey Cupit, of Gate City Harvest in Summerfield. “We’re lucky to work with Tessa because they’re one of the few restaurants in Greensboro that do a large volume of local sourcing, around 80 percent,” he said. “Where most local restaurants do about 50 percent.” He added, “Caleb’s very talented. Sometimes he has to wait to build his menu or even change it up if something isn’t available or if it has

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To really enjoy what Tessa has to offer, Smallwood said there’s no time like the present with the season’s incredibly bountiful harvest.

“It’s an exciting time right now in the Piedmont,” he said. “All the stuff I grew up on, all the squash, tomatoes, cucumber, corn….all the colors. It’s a fun time to build pretty plates of food that are nourishing and refreshing.”

Smallwood told his Chef’s Table guests, “The type of cuisine here at Tessa, being farm-to-table and supporting our local farms, that’s very meaningful to me.” !

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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Nudes and nature make perfect partners in new show at Artworks Gallery

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utch abstract painter Piet Mondrian once said, “It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if David Willard necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work art, as strong as it is true.” This quote brings Contributor to life the visuals in the mind’s eye of the artist’s process. It is in this viewpoint that two artists joins together to bring a new show to the Artworks Gallery in downtown Winston-Salem.

“Oh! Naturale: Nudes and Nature” features works by two Winston-Salem artists who have been a part of the local arts scene collectively for over 20 years. Seth Moskowitz and Don Green will feature new work for the show that will run through Aug. 26 at the Artworks Gallery. The show kicked off with a showing at the gallery on Aug. 4 at

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Moskowitz is a native New Yorker who moved to Winston-Salem in 1979. Formerly a reporter for The Washington Post, Moskowitz continued his journalistic endeavors as a reporter and columnist for The Winston-Salem Journal and then moved to a public relations position for RJ Reynolds. Now he is the director of communications for Reynolds America Incorporated Services Company.

Moskowitz said he had always been drawn to and fascinated by the beauty of organic forms and how the interplay of hue, tone and texture affect the emotions they evoke. Moskowitz said he is particularly drawn to the lines, curves, colors and textures of trees, flowers and the human form.

“During the past couple of years,” Moskowitz said. “I’ve created a strong body of work based on the nudes I’ve shot in a human form class, and I wanted to do a show just of nudes, but didn’t think Winston was ready for that.”

He still wanted to exhibit some of them in the show, and began to realize that he does the same thing with nude and nature pieces: deconstruct and reconstruct organic forms in a way that evokes interesting feelings about a new way of seeing the subject. Moskowitz chal-

lenged himself to produce a few pairings of nude and nature prints to see how the interplay of the two reflected and affected each.

“Ultimately, I created 13 pairings – 26 prints in all – that do that,” he said. “I’m proud of the final product, which is a show called “OH! Naturale – Nudes and Nature,” and the public has responded very well to it,” he said.

Green is an artist and sculptor who has worked and studied extensively to hone his craft. He received his M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin in 1966, his B.F.A from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1964, and an advertising art degree from the American Academy of Art in 1956.

Green has used this education and training to become a very established presence in the Winston-Salem arts community for over 20 years.

Green’s latest works are sculptures that depict distinct cycles in life. His works depict the cycles of life, death, decay and rebirth. He creates his work from found trees that have already gone through the life, death and decay cycles that are now being reborn through his work as new sculptures.

“My art has always been inspired by nature— land, rocks, woods, water and the ongoing processes in nature—erosion, wear, rust and decay,” Green said on the Artworks Gallery website. “My life is shaped and influenced by my perceptions of the natural world around me. I find proof of the existence of a supreme being and a sense of spiritual renewal and guidance in nature’s landscapes.”

Green works with stone, wood and naturally oxidized steel. His forms are organic, and inspired by trees (or details of them), hills, valleys, rocks, roots, streams and rivers. His sculpture is concerned with massive weight, compression and the resulting distortion apparent in the forms.

As in life, the connectivity that is the human experience is not one easily seen, unless of course, one takes the time to appreciate what is right in front of their eyes.

Or even better, on display at Artworks Gallery until Aug. 26. !

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Noted cinematographer makes the Connection The Artistic Connection will present a special event featuring award-winning cinematographer and University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking faculty Mark Burger member Thomas E. Ackerman, whose Contributing credits include such perennial favorites as columnist Beetlejuice (1988), National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2002).

The event is called “Sight Line,” and will take place Aug. 30 at Altair Casting & Production Services in Winston-Salem.

Ackerman will discuss his career and his adventures in the screen trade, as well as offering advice and pointers to aspiring filmmakers. Ackerman’s 40-year (and counting) career makes him an ideal guest, Amanda Hoey, one of the event’s organizers, said.

“We’ve actually had Tom speak before, and I feel every opportunity to learn from his vast experience is invaluable,” she said.

“He has worked on such a broad spectrum of films that he’s a perfect example of what the Artistic Connection is about: Thinking outside the box.”

Shortly after arriving in Winston-Salem, Ackerman said he took part in an Artistic Connection event. He said it was a good opportunity to meet the “local movie buffs and kindred spirits.”

Although the majority of Ackerman’s features have been comedies, “I don’t think there’s a ‘comedy look,’” he said.

“Even if there were, the best comedy directors and producers aren’t interested.

John Hughes produced three of my favorite projects – Dennis the Menace (1993), Christmas Vacation and Baby’s Day Out (1994) – and there was never a more dedicated fan of photography and production design. After he screened our Christmas Vacation dailies of a cold and frustrated Clark (Chevy Chase), trapped in the Griswold attic, John sent me a fax (remember those?) exclaiming: ‘This is the essence of how an attic should look!’ You know what? I actually worked very hard to make sure it looked that way. Filmmakers can be obsessive about these things.”

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Throughout the year, the Artistic Connection hosts special screenings, panel discussions and meetings at Altair Casting Services. These events bring together the region’s artistic contingent to promote their individual and collective endeavors, discuss their experiences, and foster new collaborations. It’s an opportunity for professionals, aspiring professionals, students, and film fans to learn firsthand about the process. !

MARK BURGER can be heard Friday mornings on the “Two Guys Named Chris” radio show on Rock-92. © 2017, Mark Burger.

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terms of photography, he said he favors Beetlejuice and Jumanji. He said regarding the less rewarding films, they’re very few and not worth mentioning. “I’m extremely fortunate to have made a good living doing what I love,” Ackerman said.

Ackerman is returning for his ninth year at the School of Filmmaking and he is eager to begin the new year, he said.

“It’s been a privilege to teach at the school,” Ackerman said. “Oddly, I’ve had some industry colleagues who say, ‘It’s wonderful that you’re giving back’ – as if it were a form of charity. Truthfully, I get as much from experience as my students.

It’s rewarding in so many ways. They help me explore things in a way that wouldn’t be possible in a vacuum, and it’s exciting to help them exploit their potential and grow as artists.”

UNCSA has remained steadfast in its support of working faculty, he added having taken the occasional semester off to work on a feature film (including Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked in 2011).

“I’ve been able to continue shooting – with a bit of directing here and there,” he said. “It’s all carefully coordinated, of course. I don’t just walk in and say ‘Oh, by the way, I’ve got to be in L.A. tomorrow.’”

Hoey said they are thrilled for the opportunity to “pick the brain of one of the greats.”

“Tom’s experiences with those that have been gracing the screen for decades, both living and dead, make him a speaker that the Artistic Connection hopes will make those of all ages excited about their potential,” she said. “If we are ever going to succeed, we need to learn we need to be willing to ask the questions. North

Carolina has an enormous amount of talent, and the Artistic Connection is doing all it can to not only accentuate those that have vast experience, like Tom and many others but also to help those at all levels grow and reach the next level.”

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The Artistic Connection’s “Sight Line” event with guest Thomas Ackerman will take place 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30 at Altair Casting & Production Services, 703 Coliseum Plaza Court, Winston-Salem. Admission is $5. For more information, call 336.734.8285 or email a.hoey@ yahoo.com. The official Artistic Connection website is www.whichfoot.net. You can also find them on Facebook.

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The 2017 National Folk Festival: The eclectic music festival holds its final year in Greensboro

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lear your calendar for a blowout weekend of eclectic, multicultural, American musical entertainment as the National Folk Festival wraps up its John Adamian three-year residency @johnradamian in downtown Greensboro Sept. 8 through 10. We bookend the Contributor summer season with an overstuffed cluster of weekends to signal the start and end of the fun. Consider the National Folk Festival to be sort of like the entertainment equivalent of the brilliant finale of a fireworks display.

If you missed the festival in 2015 and 2016, then you missed some spectacular music and culture. Trouble Funk, the pow-

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erhouse pioneers of the supremely funky, D.C.-based genre of go-go music played to an exuberant crowd in 2015 with over 100,000 people. Hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash worked the turntables during impressive shows of call-and-response excitement and rap/pop history last summer. The 2017 iteration of the three-day festival will be no different and the point is: don’t miss it before the festival moves on to a new home in 2018.

This is the 77th year of the festival, which operates with a wide and rich perspective on folk music in America, embracing the idea that American music is almost always the fruitful product of the creative interactions between people who came from elsewhere. The National Folk Festival, programmed by the National Council for the Traditional Arts, is America’s longest-running festival of traditional arts. Every three years the festival sprouts anew in another city, showcasing the diversity of America’s traditional musics The Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of Marshall Allen, will play its interstellar music at the National Folk Festival. and cultural wealth.

The lineup for the 2017 festival includes salsa, polka from Michigan, Chicago blues, trance music from Morocco via New York, western swing, bluegrass from Kentucky, hip-hop, gospel, jazz, brass bands and quite a bit more.

Here are a few of the acts you might want to plan on catching: Alash Alash is an award-winning trio from Tuva, a tiny republic bordering Mongolia and they’re named after a river. Tuvan folk music is known for throat singing, a tradition where performers coax a mix of low growl and high whistle from their vocal cords, all at the same time. The members of Alash, who play instruments as well, have performed and studied the traditional music of Tuva since they were children. Drones and scrapes, complicated layers of sound, and enigmatic harmonies are part of this music, which sounds both deeply pastoral and avant-garde, at times. So, expect to be captivated by this ensemble. Alash will play a total of four different sets over the course of Saturday, Sept. 9 and Sunday, Sept. 10.

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Dark Water Rising With ties to Robeson County and the Lumbee community there, Dark Water Rising play a dynamic mix of rock, soul, ballads, progressive rock, Broadway, pop and gospel. They don’t play Native American folkloric music, per se, but they represent a living culture that engages with popular culture while retaining and celebrating a connection to native traditions. Dark Water Rising will play Saturday at noon.

Egyptian Celebration Fronted by Yasser Darwish, a former member of the National Folkloric Troupe of Egypt, this ensemble performs music and dance from Egypt and the Middle East, drawing from some secular traditions that have connections to Sufi ritual.

Darwish, now out of New York, performs the tannoura, or whirling Dervish, which is a hypnotic spinning dance that requires stamina and fortitude. Egyptian Celebration will perform a total of six times on Saturday and Sunday.

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Country singer Kelsey Waldon will perform five sets at the National Folk Festival.

Kelsey Waldon While country music keeps morphing, picking up bits of rock, bits of hip-hop and bits of soul, Kentucky singer Kelsey Waldon plays classic country propelled by aching pedal steel and her arresting, straight-forward singing. She brings to mind classic artists like Loretta Lynn and Townes Van Zandt. Waldon plays a total of five sets on Saturday and Sunday.

The Fairfield Four The Fairfield Four is a group with a venerable 96-year history, extending back, with numerous lineup configurations and newcomers, to its 1921 formation at the Fairfield Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Gospel quartet singing can be surprisingly energetic, with rhythms, syncopations, dense harmonies and ecstatic high notes. The genre links elements of spiritual singing of the mid-19th Century, songs of freedom and faith, call-andresponse vocal traditions of West Africa, and church music and hymnody, and a style that shaped early raucous rock and velvety soul. The Fairfield Four keep alive a tradition that is distinctively American, filled with hope, devotion and the push for justice. The Fairfield Four perform a total of three sets, one on each day of the festival.

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Sun Ra Arkestra Sun Ra was a bandleader, a composer and an improviser, but he was also a poet and an icon who preached a kind of mashup philosophy of Afro-mysticism, sci-fi futurism and world peace. Sun Ra, who was born Sonny Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, claimed to be from Saturn. His cosmic shtick may have overshadowed his music for some casual observers who weren’t jazz listeners. But Sun Ra was sort of like Duke Ellington, his orchestra — or Arkestra, in Ra’s case — was his real instrument. He composed deep and lovely songs, check out “Space Is the Place,” “Saturn,” “Brainville,” “Lights of a Satellite” or dozens of other compositions from his huge catalog of tunes. He nurtured some serious players in his horn sections, like baritone player Pat Patrick and tenor player John Gilmore (both of whom are now deceased). Alto player Marshall Allen, who is now 93, played with Sun Ra for nearly 40 years, and has led a band devoted to the composer’s music since the composer’s death in 1993.

For more info and a complete schedule go to nationalfolkfestival.com. !

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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6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Aug 23: The Eldorados Aug 30: Brice Street Sep 6: Stephen Legree Band Sep 13: Brice Street Sep 20: The Eldorados Sep 27: Rob Massengale

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1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Aug 26: Nick Bullins and the Crooked Saints Sep 2: Stained Glass Canoe

Sep 9: Abigail Dowed Sep 16: Hot Rod Boys Sep 23: None of the Above Sep 30: Meagan Jean and the Klay Family Oct 7: Will Easter

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ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Aug 25: 1-2-3 Friday Oct 22: Insane Clown Posse: The Great Milenko Tour Oct 24: Dope, (HED) P.E. Oct 25: GWAR

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Aug 25: DJ Dan the Player Aug 26: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Aug 27: Stephen Freeman Sep 9: Ms. Mary & The Boys

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THE CORNER BAR

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com Sep 7-10: Rock of Ages Sep 15: Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky & The Road Hounds, Heather Masse, & Fred Newman Sep 16: Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ w/ Bob & the Showgram Sep 19: 2Cellos Sep 24: Alison Krauss & David Gray

CHARLOTTE

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123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Sep 23: Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular

Oct 4: The Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band Oct 13: Rodney Carrington

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CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Aug 24: Buddy Guy Sep 22: A Temptations Revue w/ Bo Henderson Sep 30: Michael Ken Oct 13: Land Jam 2017 w/ Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Sep 3: Marco Antonio Solis w/ Jesse & Joy Oct 14: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Oct 15: Foo Fighters

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RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Aug 23: Goo Goo Dolls & Phillip Phillips Sep 20: Lauryn Hill w/ Nas Sep 23: Newsboys

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STAGE IT!

Greensboro College Theatre presents ì Far Awayî

Greensboro College Theatre presents Caryl Churchillí s dystopian look at the future, ì Far Away,î 7:30 p.m. Thursday≠ Saturday, Aug. 31≠ Sept.

2, and 2 p.m. Saturday≠ Sunday, Sept. 2≠ 3, in the Annie Sellars Jordan Parlor Theatre in Main Building on campus.

Tickets are $10 and may be reserved by emailing tickets@ greensboro.edu.

Confronting our deep≠ est fears, Churchillí s ex≠ traordinary play depicts a chilling world where everyone is at war and not even the birds in the trees or the river below can be trusted. This hour≠ long, futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusted.

Written by the cel≠ ebrated author of ì Top Girlsî and ì Cloud Nine,î this innovative work consists of three brief scenes. In the rst, a young girl spending her rst night in her new guardianí s house witnesses a bloody slaughter. Next, the girl, now grown, is spending her rst day working in a hat factory. There, she and a young man concoct funny and elaborate hats that are to be worn for a horri c purpose. In the nal scene, the boy and girl, now wed, are seeking refuge from a global con ict in which even the animals are on one side or another. ì Each carefully chosen detail seems to vibrate with unsettled depths,î The New York Times wrote of ì Far Away.î ì And each summons anxieties both primal and mercilessly particular to the times in which we live.î Greensboro Collegeí s Department of Theatre seeks to provide a strong

foundation in theatre while allowing the student to emphasize in a particular area such as directing, acting, or arts admin≠ istration.

The coursework is integrated with the production work to provide a better understanding of the many facets of the theatre. Required participation on stage or backstage on all theatre productions allows the techniques and theories that are examined in the classroom and the laboratory to be tested in a performance setting.

For more information on the program, contact David Schram, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Theatre, at 336≠ 272≠ 7102, ext. 5243, or email schramd@greensboro. edu. !

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particularly priceless moment in cinema can be found in 1982’s 48 Hrs., when the street-smart crook played by Eddie Murphy (in his film debut, no less) saunters into a bar filled with racist rednecks and barks, “I’ve never seen so many backwards-ass country fucks in my life!”

While that quip can be applied to many real-world instances (Trump rallies, for example), it gets reclaimed for the screen

by Logan Lucky ( ), Steven Soderbergh’s first film as director since his ersatz retirement following 2013’s Behind the Candelabra. Logan Lucky is a movie filled with so many Southern-fried yahoos, it makes the characters in Smokey and the Bandit look as cultured as those in Howards End by comparison.

Soderbergh, who was responsible for those largely middling Ocean’s flicks starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, returns to the scene of the same type of crime with his latest effort, which similarly follows the planning and execution of a major heist. In this case, the seemingly impossible robbery is being attempted by a band of down-and-outers, among them siblings Jimmy, Clyde and Mellie Logan (Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Riley Keough) and a loopy con named Joe Bang (Daniel Craig). Their target? The NASCAR coffers at Charlotte Motor Speedway, filled to the brim during the Coca-Cola 600 over Memorial Day Weekend.

Locals who lamented that 1990’s Days of Thunder transposed the word “Charlotte” over an image of a good ol’ boy drinking out of a Mason jar while standing in front of a dilapidated barn will be further disheartened with the representation here. There are precious few characters who don’t look and sound like they just got back from molesting Ned Beatty alongside the Georgia river — one of the few exceptions is an arrogant British race car driver played unconvincingly by Seth MacFarlane. The script by Rebecca Blunt (suspected by many to be a pseudonym for Soderbergh, who often employs fake names while working in other capacities on his films) veers between treating these characters with care and treating them with condescension — that’s probably the proper way to frame these types of Red State folks who more often than not mean well but idiotically vote against their own best interests again and again, but it leads to too many passages buckled

by an overbearing affectedness.

Indeed, Logan Lucky isn’t that much different from last year’s Masterminds, which suffered horrible reviews while this one is being overpraised in some circles.

Honestly, the difference between the pair isn’t that pronounced, although this one definitely comes out on top thanks to a solid second half (due to some satisfying plot intricacies) and some sharper performances. Tatum is especially fun to watch as Jimmy Logan, although it’s Craig who most holds our attention as the live-wire Joe Bang. I won’t reveal whether the outlaws successfully pull off the heist, but let it be known that Craig easily steals the film.

One’s tolerance of The Hitman’s Bodyguard ( ) largely depends on one’s acceptance of the “buddy actioncomedy” rising from the grave like one of the zombies in a George Romero (RIP) horror flick. Indeed, the script for this rather generic endeavor feels like it’s been sitting on a desk since the late 1980s, gathering dust as stars like Schwarzenegger, Nolte, Glover and even Piscopo hemmed and hawed over whether to sign on the dotted line.

Samuel L. Jackson plays the hitman, set to appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to testify against an Eastern European war criminal (Gary Oldman). Ryan Reynolds plays the bodyguard, an outsider who’s brought in to protect the hitman after it becomes clear that there’s a leak inside the corridors of power. The hitman and the bodyguard are sworn enemies, but by being forced to work together, they find moments of bonding amidst the hours of bickering.

If it sounds entirely predictable and pedestrian — well, no argument there. Yet what saves the picture is the chemistry between its principal players. Reynolds and Jackson work exceedingly well together, and Jackson and Salma Hayek — as the hitman’s no-nonsense wife — also work well together. Yet what’s even more pleasing is that Jackson works well alone.

It’s been a while since he’s surprised us as an actor, but here he’s loose and relaxed and very, very funny.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard features at least one tiresome car chase too many, and the final half-hour feels as if it’s going to stretch into next week. But even these debits can’t completely diminish the bullseye turns by the winsome protagonists. !

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ccording to Governor Roy Cooper’s website, in 2005, Guilford County had 27 opioid related deaths and Forsyth County had only 13. By 2015, Guilford had increased to 47 opioid related deaths, and Forsyth had spiked to 53. The opioid crisis is something an entire nation can relate to, but right here in the Triad and North Carolina, where the death toll from opioids grew 73 percent in just 10 years, it is something that creator and director Brandon Bias and actor and executive producer Julian Brittano take very seriously. Exposé is a scripted crime drama television series that uncovers corruption within a system, Bias said. According to the show’s IMDb page, Nakesha T. Jones, Bias, Brittano, Felton Foushee and Courtney Stribling have been credited with writing some episodes.

Exposé is centered around Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent Lance Grier (Brittano) who loses his nephew. As the story unfolds, all the people who are involved in the corruption are revealed as being apart of his nephew’s death.

“Our lead helps shines light on the situation and as they go deeper more is discovered,” Bias said.

He said this show is centered on the opioid crisis, addiction, distribution and corruption.

“There is no race attached to this, there is no social status attached to this it is across the board,” Brittano said.

It is a real-time situation and something everyone should be able to relate to, Bias said.

Bias said production started last fall but it was just going to be a short film at the time. “Since then, the project grew into a full feature and me and Julian partnered up and thought we could go deeper and wider with the story, so it is pretty much what I thought it was times 2,000,” Bias said.

Exposé, the T.V. series emerged in late May, early June of 2017 and Bias said he believes the medium of television maximizes the potential of a project like Exposé.

“I think it would have worked as a feature film,” Bias said. “But putting this as a T.V. series we can really break down the characters and really incorporate everything that is involved so we get a fullness out of it and I played with the idea but dismissed it. Then I met Julian and he revived that in me, and we took it there.”

Brittano said there is not a target age

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Julian Brittano, executive producer and lead actor plays FBI Agent Lance Grier in the crime drama T.V. series Exposé. demographic that they were hoping to reach because they are able to highlight various demographics of society. Brittano said however, much of it will be centered around the millennial generation. Brittano said the show will definitely reference the elderly, that are addicted to prescription medication because they deal with chronic pain, the veterans who struggle with overprescription as well as infants who are born addicted or who have lost their life due to the medications in utero. Brittano said he is struck by the infant deaths because his cousin recently lost her child due to an injury she sustained while pregnant. He said she was prescribed pain medication up to the middle of her pregnancy, and this was unfortunately when she discovered that she was pregnant. He said the baby passed away due to being addicted to the prescription medication.

Brittano said he has personal stake in the topic of prescription medication and the

opioid epidemic because his cousin lost her baby from it and his brother may have been misdiagnosed at a young age and now he suffers from various health issues from prescription medications.

Brittano said both Bias and himself have applied all of their personal resources to this project so that it can have a viable chance in being successful. “We

are invested,” he said. “And that is what we are asking the community to do- be just as invested in this as we are.”

Bias said that the show has already gained some attention from local and nationwide media outlets, but he believes there should be even more attention brought to the series. He believes after Exposé airs, it will get the conversation

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started about the opioid epidemic and the way it impacts the community both at home and abroad.

One of the biggest issues Brittano said he and Bias found in their research on the epidemic is that most people who are addicted don’t even know they are addicted to opioids. “You have people who take the prescriptions and they are not aware of it or they have a tough time because, who are they going to open up to?” Brittano said. “So, what Exposé will do, will highlight and get the conversation started and community involved.”

“What I have learned and I am pretty sure Julian can agree, a lot of parents that lose their child they had no idea of the addiction or whatever, and a lot of it starts from sports injuries,” Bias said. “It will be a lot of warning signs.”

Brittano said the series will showcase a “tough” family that has been resistant to their family member. “We will show them soften up on camera,” Brittano said. “So that people who are watching who feel deterred can approach their feelings.”

Brittano said there are some other community based initiatives that they are doing to cultivate a call to action and generate conversation for the opioid crisis and the show such as, casting calls in multiple cities across North Carolina.

Brittano said Exposé is appropriate for North Carolina because the opioid crisis is the number one health issue of the state.

Brittano said this is especially timely because just recently the White House has deemed the national opioid crisis a state of emergency.

“The funny thing about President Trump’s statement,” Bias said. “I was actually writing the script and I was writing about a governor character declaring a state emergency, and 30 minutes later boom, right on T.V. a lot of the script has been that way. Every week we have that ‘wow’ moment.”

Brittano said he just met with North Carolina’s secretary of health and human services last Friday and they discussed how Exposé can partner in with the strategic plans that the governor and officials are putting together.

“Like Brandon said, this thing has magnified so much and very quickly just with this project, just because it is so community-based,” Brittano said. “We feel as though we have a medium to use that engages the community, hold accountability to officials, engages the millennials and we’re here to tell a good story.”

Brittano said one way the community can become invested is by electing state officials, such as secretaries of the health and human services departments.

“We challenge them almost, to answer our president’s requests,” Brittano said.

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Brittano said what sets Exposé apart from other dramas is that there is a level of “edutainment” to the medium. For instance, within the dialogue Brittano said they will be introducing factual statistics and initiatives that will educate and inform the audience, while also entertaining them. Brittano believes this is what sets Exposé apart from other series. The show lobbies for support and knowledge to the audience and is not for personal gain or greed, Brittano said.

“It is just to help save some people’s lives,” Bias said. “We can’t provide answers, all we can do is provide our talent and display something that should be intriguing and should be spoken. It is not to put pressure on people, but rather acknowledge the obvious. I think if they listen to us, we can make some big changes and save some lives.”

Exposé’s first season mainly takes place in a fictitious place called Triad City and was filmed exclusively in the Triad and surrounding areas such as High Point, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Burlington. Bias said that Greensboro has been the setting for most of their footage so far, with recognizable places such as the Battleground Avenue area, The Dynacon Event Center and Greene Street Nightclub.

The event center’s owner Bill Waller is a big sponsor of the series and Brittano said he has been supportive of the show.

Brittano said he has allowed them to use his space to shoot “a number” of scenes as well as where the satellite office for the series is located. He said the city of Greensboro has been very responsive and supportive. Although, Bias said, this show is not meant to reflect the Triad specifically but rather gives the commu-

nity something to relate to, rally behind and get involved with. Bias and Brittano said they plan to film in other locations of North Carolina as well such as Charlotte, Wilmington and the Raleigh/Durham area.

Another thing that sets Exposé aside from other crime dramas, is that the series has been shot entirely in film, specifically 16 mm Kodak film. Kodak Motion Pictures and Entertainment division president Steven Bellamy is one of the strategic partners with the film components. Kodak will be doing all the processing, color grading, transferring and supplying all the film for the production. Brittano and Bias hope to get back to the craft of filmmaking by shooting the series in film. Brittano said they wanted to put some heart into the project because it is a heartfelt project.

“With all the digital effects and film-like looks,” Brittano said. “Let’s just shoot film.”

“There is no need to emulate it, when you can actually shoot it.” Bias said.

As far as release dates go, Bias said there has not been one announced.

“Definitely 2018, hopefully earlier,” Bias said.

Brittano said they are looking at spring or summer of 2018. Soon, the duo plan to start releasing some visuals and teasers for the series this fall. Having started the project back in late May and early June, Bias said there has been a good bit of progress made.

John Blaq, actor and Winston-Salem local plays Andre “Dre” Sims in Exposé.

Blaq describes his character as a man in his early to mid-20s who is “hard-headed and learns lessons the hard way.”

“Dre believes he is always the smart-

est person in the room,” Blaq said. “He is always scheming and being mischievous.”

Blaq said he came onto the project very early on for a small part. After he shot his scenes, Bias liked his portrayal of Dre so much, that he expanded his character to become one of the leads.

Blaq said Exposé is really great and the timing couldn’t have been better. He said the show is “very much needed and very entertaining.”

“It never gets lost on you that this is a serious problem,” Blaq said. “It is an epidemic, and people need to talk about it.”

Blaq said he is really glad God put him in the position to work with Bias and Brittano, and he is excited to watch it grow.

Blaq and his partner Jae Blacc started with a comedy series they cleverly called Blaq on Blacc. Blaq has worked for Save The Arts films as well as various local theatre plays. He said he is very committed to the Triad area and attributes his success from working here. He said that it feels awesome to be filming Exposé in the Triad and believes that people do not have to move out of the Triad to places like New York or Los Angeles to get started. He believes that if aspiring actors “hustle and grind” they don’t have to move away to be successful. He believes that Exposé is a success story for keeping art local that has set an example in the community.

To learn more about Exposé, email info@exposetvseries.com or visit their Facebook page. To inquire about casting calls email casting@exposetvseries.com. !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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New York Pizza: Act Three

BY BILLY INGRAM When Charles Sciabbarrasi and Ray Mascali, two Sicilian-Americans from New Jersey, opened New York Pizza beside the ice skating rink in the Carolina Circle Mall in August 1976, it was an instant hit. In September 1978 (everyone insists it’s 1977, but newspaper accounts say otherwise) they opened a second location on Tate Street in a wedge-shaped former Northwestern Bank branch.

Today, Sciabbarrasi is busy running his All Fresh Produce and his trucks can be seen all over the Triad. He explained why selling their authentic Neapolitan pies near the University of North Carolina Greensboro campus made sense, “It was the only decent place to eat in the area,” he said. “There was nothing out there, food-wise. Students had the cafeteria and us.” The price of a large pizza in 1978 was $4.00.

Sciabbarrasi and Mascali leased the building next door a year later, a plant store facing Walker, and then merged to add a full-service bar. “Liquor by the drink had just been approved,” they said. “Our license was one of the very first in Guilford County.”

Sciabbarrasi said opening a bar was not much of a gamble because the legal drinking age at the time was 18. “Most of the students were 18,” Sciabbarrasi laughed. “And what do students do? I rest my case.”

NYP was joined on Tate in the early1980s by night clubs hosting live shows like Belstone Fox and Nightshade Cafe, below Hong Kong House, where Grammywinning country music/folk singer-songwriter and UNCG alumna EmmyLou Harris played her first gig.

Just down the block was Fridays where R.E.M. and Violent Femmes rocked out for only a $1 cover charge. By the time the drinking age raised to 21 in 1985, the music venues had folded.

A decade or so ago, after Sciabbarrasi and Mascali sold the place to Eddie Gramisci, NYP was one of the city’s top spot for long lunches. Day drinking lollygaggers mingled with bed-headed musicians dressed in clothes they picked up off the floor.

Construction workers, professors, lawyers, nursery school teachers, artists, skateboarders, all jostled the joint to curry favor with Misty Lee. She transcended mere bartending, venturing into alchemy with ‘The Pour,’ a measure of vodka or bourbon not for the faint-hearted, reserved for those creative souls who kept lively conversations percolating at this,

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NYP is the Triad’s second most popular live music venue according to Yes! Weekly’s 2017 reader’s poll.

Bizarro World’s Algonquin Round Table.

Two weeks ago, new owners assumed the mantle of Greensboro’s cultural cauldron and one could feel NYP awakening from its Odinsleep.

Manager Vishal Goswami is excited about the challenge, “We’re adding different types of liquor, and we’re going to be running food specials,” Goswami said. “We want people to come check us out to see how we’re doing and slowly we’ll make more changes based on what people want.”

Reinstating the magically-disappearing-then-mysteriously-reappearing-patio is one of the new owner’s priorities.

NYP was never thought of as a music venue until this last decade when Eric Moss and Rosie Hernandez began booking bands.

The last two years, under the direction of bar manager Jeff Losh, the emphasis has been on booking metal and jam bands. Monday nights are the Pizza Pile featuring members of The Mantras, Dreaded and, from Virginia, The Fat Catz.

Losh’s efforts scored NYP second place in Yes! Weekly’s 2017 reader’s poll for the Triad’s Best Live Music Venue, so it’s only natural that, behind the bar, Rob Joyce

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Gavan Holden and Caleb Gross of Basement Life who played NYP last month. and Rob Paquette are both underground scene fixtures.

Joyce’s punk-antics are on display with Time Machine Drive-By and Sparkle Donkeys while Paquette is the hardcore guitarist for Dreaded.

“During the day this is a restaurant-bar where everyone can have fun,” Losh said.

“Then at night, it turns into a venue that’s the best in Greensboro.” All shows are 18 and up and bands get pizza, PBR and 100

percent of the cover charge.

NYP will once again be hopping on Thursdays with $1 domestic beers and Dopey Graham’s EP release party on Aug. 24 and the Strictly Social DJ Carolina event on Aug. 31. !

BILLY INGRAM is the author of 5 books and producer of The Nathan Stringer Summer Music Show now on DVD featuring performances by Grand Ole Uproar, Ameriglow, Jack Carter and more.

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Triad Minority Business Expo returns bigger than ever for its fourth year Entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout the Triad have an opportunity to gain some exposure of their businesses on Aug. 26 during the fourth annual Triad Minority Business Katie Murawski Expo. According to the press release, this year’s expo will Editor be held Aug. 26, at the Biotech Place in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, located at 575 Patterson Ave., Winston-Salem.

The doors open from 10 a.m. and the expo goes on until 3 p.m. Reginald McCaskill, president, CEO of Maximum Enterprises Inc. and organizer of the expo said the expo is free and open to the public and calls it a “celebration of minority businesses.”

McCaskill said this year will have more vendors than ever before with 80 vendors planning to attend. He said in 2013, (the first year of the expo) there were 25 vendors, and each year grew with more and more vendors turning up. He said the second year brought around 50 and the third year brought around 65 vendors.

McCaskill wanted to make it clear that the expo is open to everyone. He said any minority, such as ethnic minorities, racial minorities, gender and sexuality minorities and etc. were welcome to come and gain exposure from the rest of the community.

“Minority businesses really bring a lot to the table as it relates to the local economy and infrastructure,” he said. “It is important for people to know these businesses do exist. [The expo] helps to bring exposure to them and allows them to share their gifts and talents.”

Among these various businesses that are attending are Jewellery Unique, Elasya B’s, Emma Allen State Farm, McHoward Business Coaching, Ventures Cafe, NOLA Catering and the International Civil Rights Museum, McCaskill said.

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advantage of the opportunity to learn how to increase the success of their businesses while supporting other minority and female-owned businesses. The expo will also feature workshops and session designed to help entrepreneurs connect with resources, create business opportunities and cultivate relationships, McCaskill said. The sessions are lead by local business leaders and will focus on helping entrepreneurs grow their business and maximize their level of success.

“We really need people to come out and see it,” McCaskill said. “Though this event is celebrating minorities, everyone should come out.”

McCaskill said people looking for work should bring their resumes because some businesses at the expo might be hiring and he said this would be a great networking opportunity as well.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and greet the expo’s special guests: actress Angela Robinson from Tyler Perry’s The Haves and The Have Nots and actor Julian Brittano from Oprah Winfrey’s Greenleaf, the press release stated. McCaskill said that there will be food trucks out and about at the expo, and some vendors will be selling their local wares, so it is advised to bring some spending money. McCaskill said there will also be giveaways every 30 minutes and a local artist showcase. The press release stated there will also be a V.I.P. Red Carpet and Award Reception on Aug. 25 and a Classy All White Affair on Aug. 26.

These events will be held at the Enterprise Conference and Banquet Center and Hawthorne Inn, respectively. Tickets for these events are $25 and can be purchased online at www.triadminoritybusinessexpo.com. !

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A: Absolute Suicide. 1/4 Sour Apple Pucker, 1/4 Watermelon Pucker, 1/4 Island Blue Pucker and 1/4 Absolute Vodka. Pour all pucker ingredients over ice. The drink will be a purple color. Add Absolute Vodka last. It will shift the entire drink clear and tasty.

Q: What’s your favorite drink to drink?

A: Whiskey and ginger, preferability Jameson, and Tequila chilled Q: What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen while bartending?

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A: The best way to handle any situation is to just be kind to the person and handle all situations diligently. You may be having an off day or the guest may be, but if you commit yourself to handing out smiles while on the clock, you’ll be surprised to see how many frowns you turn upside down while easily heightening your tip percentages.

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2017 Fall league

CP3 Basketball Academy is proud to announce that our First Annual Fall League will begin November 4th and run through February 3rd. This is will be a Co-Ed league for Grades K-8th.

Each team will Practice one time a week and games will be held on Saturday or Sunday of each week. The cost of the League will include jerseys for each team.

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last call [THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

WATERCOLOR UNDER THE BRIDGE

A guy my girlfriend dated seven years ago is now an aspiring artist, and he gave my girlfriend one of his paintings.

It’s abstract, splashy, Amy Alkon and horrible. I find it disrespectful of Advice him to give it to her Goddess (because she’s in a relationship). She said he does lots of paintings, sells almost none, and gives them as gifts to all of his friends. I asked her to throw it away, but she said that would be “too mean” and shoved it under the bed.

Am I being overly jealous, or is it wrong to accept gifts from exes? — Chafed Art — especially abstract art — says different things to different people. To you, the painting screams, “Ha-ha, I had sex with your girlfriend!” To everyone else, it’s probably an expression of a moment — the one that came seconds after “Outta the way! I had some bad clams!”

It makes sense that a gift from a guy to your girlfriend would set off your internal alarms. Consider, as evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad points out, that one sex — the male one — woos (as in, tries to get the other into bed) with gifts. When a guy arrives to pick a woman up, she doesn’t open the door with “Surprise, bro! Got you these roses! Take off your pants!”

As I somewhat frequently explain, this difference comes out of how sex can cost women big-time in a way it doesn’t cost men — with pregnancy and the 18-year after-party. So, women evolved to go for men who are willing and able to invest in any little, uh, nipple nibblers they give birth to, and gift-giving can be a signal of that.

Your being upset over the painting could be a subconscious reaction to this. But considering that this guy is handing out paintings like they’re “We Buy Gold!” leaflets, this gift to your girlfriend is probably a sign of a few things: He paints badly (though prolifically) and lacks storage space.

In general, as for whether it’s okay to accept gifts from exes, context counts. Did the two people break up just yesterday or a decade ago? Are there still feelings bubbling up? Was the ex’s gift, say, a tire jack or a diamond-encrusted thong?

Because this was just an ugly painting given to your girlfriend by a friend (long stripped of benefits), she did the kind thing and accepted it. So maybe just appreciate that her willingness to shove it under the

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bed relieves you of the need to suggest an even better location: a la “Can I offer you a steak — mesquite-grilled with just a hint of carcinogenic paint fumes?”

WIFE IN THE FAST LANE

I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend for 10 months. I was hoping to get married eventually. Well, my friend goes to this famous “relationship coach” who says that if a guy doesn’t ask you to marry him within the first year, he never will. Is that true? It’s making me feel anxious and worried that I’m wasting my time. — Two More Months?

It’s comforting to believe that somebody has the magical knowledge that can get us to happily ever after. That’s why there was a movie called “The Wizard of Oz” and not “The Dishwasher Repairman of Oz.” In fact, we crave certainty and get freaked out by uncertainty. Psychologically, a guarantee of something bad happening is way more comfortable for us than the mere possibility that it could. This sounds a little nuts, but it makes evolutionary sense, because uncertainty leaves us on constant alert, which is both psychologically and physiologically draining.

When research subjects are given a choice — get an electric shock for sure right then and there or possibly get surprised with a shock later — they overwhelmingly opt for the certain zapping in the present.

And neuroscientist Archy de Berker found that people experienced greater physical stress responses (sweating and enlarged pupils) when a shock came unpredictably than when they knew it was coming.

This is why it can be tempting to buy into an “expert’s” doom-and-gloom timetable — despite countless examples disproving their “Marry before the year’s out or spinsterville forever!” pronouncement. And consider something else: University of Pisa psychiatrist Donatella Marazziti finds that people in love are basically hormonally inebriated for a year or two. Also, it’s typically adversity — which tends to be in short supply during a year of romantic picnics and spa vacations — that shows what two people are made of and how well they, as a couple, weather life’s kicks in the teeth. You know...like after you encourage your partner to be true to that inner voice — and he listens: “Thanks to you, honey, I’m quitting my soul-killing six-figure job to become a professional pogo stick artist.” !

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.

[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Venus enters your sign on August 26, 2017 and will be traveling “with you” through September 18. Her presence gives you an air of poise and people will simply like how you look. Often when Venus is prominent we become more interested in art forms and want to make things in the environment more attractive. We are also more interested in beautifying ourselves.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) While Mercury retrogrades in your sign, it will be a challenge to make decisions.

Unless they are minor in nature, it might be less energy consuming to avoid them altogether. If you are pressed to move forward, do your research well ahead of making a commitment.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Venus, your ruling planet, travels with you into the territory of friendships, community and organizational affairs. Over the next three weeks she will enhance your presence within any activity of this sphere. It is a good time to plan a party for friends or to meet new people at other gatherings.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You likely will be presented with a new career or life direction opportunity.

Although you have doubting inner voices and a few obstacles, you can do this. The symbols suggest it is on your life path, so help will be available.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to

December 21) You are reaping benefits of a work well done during this last two year period. An opportunity surfaces to show your new skills. Perhaps there will be an experience that makes this clear this week or next. Take heart. Your effort has been noticed. Take a careful step into the new option.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Business in general is favored for you most of the summer through mid-September. Unexpected opportunities are coming your way. It is up to you to respond and take action. These will help you toward a big transition that comes early in 2018. At present the legal irritations may require your attention, but in the bigger schema they are just nits.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Aspects are favorable in the areas of travel, education, publication, and legal interests. If you are not already traveling, you may be planning your next trip now.

A surprising event or encounter is likely

to occur this week. Boredom could cause you to decide to do away with the old to make room for the new.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Money or other material goods may be repaid or returned this week or next. Positive opportunities may develop via career contacts. Be aware that you are in a sensitive frame of mind and may misinterpret that which is said to you. You may be the one who hears what you want to hear. Take your impressions with a grain of salt until you clarify what was originally intended.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) It will be important to use firmness about your boundaries. This is likely to be particularly so with children, and even lovers who may want to overrun your plans. If you have wondered whether or not to approach a potential lover, the time is now. The warrior is in your corner. Count on it. Others will pay attention.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your avatar, Venus, moves into your fourth house which is related to home, property and family matters. You may have a desire to improve the appearance of the environment around you, whether at home or at work. You may be attracted to activities that allow you to play or work with your favorite colors. Venus remains there until September 18, 2017.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Recall that Mercury, your planetary avatar, is retrograding. This week he makes several minor, but challenging aspects. Your schedule may be hard to plan. Work around the house may require two trips to the hardware store and then another tweak. Hold onto your sense of humor.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Now that the August eclipses are over, you have the opportunity to take a break and clean up whatever messes may have developed. It is a matter of good mental health that you take some time to rest and recover. Eclipse seasons are generally hard on Cancerians.

Are you interested in a personal horoscope?

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

There is a fee for services.

Website: http//www.horoscopesbyvivian.com

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