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Those prolific picture-makers at Wreak Havoc Productions are back in action – readying the fifth annual “Wreak Havoc Horror Festival,” which runs Sept. 20 and 21 at RED Cinemas in Greensboro, and putting the finishing touches on their latest production, UNCLE OTTO’S TRUCK, based on the Stephen King short story, which will enjoy its world premiere at the festival.

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A few short years ago, the chances of you finding a cold-pressed JUICE BAR was pretty much nil. But now, the Triad is seemingly bustling with a selection of juice bars, most offering a lot more than just juice.

We’ve been checking out some of the major players on the juice scene.

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11 For the next installment in its ongoing series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT AT THE MOVIES will present a special screening of director Gillian Armstrong’s documentary Women He’s Undressed, on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Reynolds House Museum of American Art. 12 Writer/producer/director Jennifer Kent scared up an impressive horror hit with her 2014 debut The Babadook. Her sophomore feature, a rugged period-piece called THE NIGHTINGALE, is in many YES! WEEKLY

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ways more horrific – because its horrors are well within the realm of credibility, if not outright historical fact.

18 Writer/director/producer Patricia Gillespie’s five-part documentary series THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, which premiered Tuesday night on Viceland, is only nominally about the Clemmons serial killer who called himself Pazuzu Algarad, and whose selfmythologizing claims of Satan-worshipping and cannibalism received more previous media coverage than his victims.

20 I admit it. I was taken with Kamala Harris even before she announced her run for the PRESIDENCY. I wrote a column in which I praised her prosecutorial record, and predicted she would be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office. She still might, but not in 2020.

21 If some key part of rock and roll is about rambling, then NIKKI HILL and her band are tapped into the essence of the music. Hill, who grew up in Durham and now lives in New Orleans, probably spends about nine months out of the year on the road, playing all over the country and all over the world.

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

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WATER LANTERN FESTIVAL

WHAT: Channeling the power of community and baller baked goods to raise voices and funds for migrant families in N.C. and at the U.S. border. Join us for a night of fun and fundraising, with all proceeds to benefit local immigrant advocacy group Siembra NC and national migrant legal rights organization Al Otro Lado! Bake Sale, Silent Auction, DJs and Live Local Latin Music.

WHEN: 5-10 p.m.

WHERE: Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company 504 State St., Greensboro.

MORE: No admission fee.

WHAT: Water Lantern Festival is an amazing experience where you’ll witness the magic of the lanterns as they light up the water. Tickets are on sale for the Greensboro Water Lantern Festival.

WHEN: 5-10 p.m.

WHERE: Lake Reidsville Park.

630 Water Works Rd., Reidsville.

MORE: $25-40 tickets. Get your tickets at www.WaterLanternFestival.com

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FUEL AT INCENDIARY BREWING

WHAT: From the originators of Battle Of The Decades (80s vs 90s) Party to one of the BIGGEST white attire events on the East coast! R&R Productions, LK Productions & 97.1 QMG are joining forces again to bring you The Annual & Official NC All White Affair 2019. We will be rocking w/ DJs playing all of the hits from the 80s, the 90s & the new millennium.

WHEN: 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: George K’s Catering and Banquet Hall. 2108 Cedar Fork Dr., Greensboro.

MORE: $20-40

WHAT: Join Incendiary Brewing Company and Gears and Guitars Winston Salem as we rock the Brewery and The Coal Pit for the one year anniversary. Featuring beer of course and music by Fuel with Clay Howard starting the night off right at 7 PM, Fuel hits the stage right after. Be prepared to rock.

WHEN: 7-11 p.m.

WHERE: Incendiary Brewing Company.

486 N. Patterson Ave., Winston-Salem.

MORE: Admission to Fuel concert is complimentary. 21 to Drink and Food Trucks will be on site for dining options.

SUN 1 AFROMAN WHAT: Afroman is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his songs “Because I Got High” and “Crazy Rap (Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags)”, both of which were released in 2001 and featured on his album The Good Times.

Afroman was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002.

WHEN: 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.

WHERE: The Blind Tiger.

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MICROGROOVE SPINS SOUL, FUNK IN GREENSBORO

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Microgroove was born in a conversation between Soul Relief Records owner Harley Lyles, promoter Jeff Brown and their friend Brycon, a San Francisco-based and Charlotte-born DJ who first discovered soul through hip-hop.

“Microgroove is our monthly Greensborobased event where we bring soul and funk DJs to play vinyl and mostly little records,” said Brycon in a conversation at Lyles’ record store in early August.

Previous Microgrooves have been held at College Hill Sundries and Little Brother Brewing. The next one is at the newly reopened Flat Iron on Aug. 31. Brown also plans for future Microgrooves in Asheville, possibly in tandem with the Greensboro ones.

Brycon first became aware of soul during his North Carolina childhood. “My mom’s from Detroit and had a lot of Motown around the house.” He’s now a professional west coast DJ, MC and producer, and has worked with Masta Ace, the Artifacts and Michael Rose of Black Uhuru. But even before he spun and produced it professionally, hip-hop brought him back to soul and funk.

“Listening to a friend’s tape of some oldies, I started to connect it to the soul artists that hip-hop groups sample. As a hip-hop fan, you get ravenous to discover these breaks and samples and want to have them for yourself. Before long, I was actually enjoying the music for itself, rather than just for nostalgia or who it influenced.”

Brycon said he’s still drawn to the stuff that has “more hard drums and kind of a hip-hop feel,” as a way of introducing newbies to the good old stuff. “I hope that the drums and beat will connect with certain dancers, certain people in the crowd, who go ‘hey, I remember that sample,’ but then I want them to kind of drift from that, and just listen to the music for what it is.”

“Brycon and I did music promotion years ago in Asheville,” Brown said. “Since then, we’ve lived in the Bay Area. Brycon is still there, and I’m back in Greensboro. With him periodically visiting, we started talking with Harley about how we could do an event with music we like that’s not here already. I don’t think there’s really a lot of people in Greensboro spinning funk and soul.”

“It all starts and fans out from James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic. But we do a lot of soul oldies from artists all over the map, from all your standards like Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone to more obscure artists, including ones from Greensboro.”

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I asked Lyles about Greensboro’s soul and funk history.

“The Greensboro-based artists we play include Roy Roberts, Electric Express, and High Point’s George Campbell. There were once were a lot of North and South Carolina based labels where they could get package deals, back in the sixties and seventies through the early ‘80s. When little records were easier and more affordable, you could get a recording session and 500 records for anywhere from $250 to $500.”

The three consider themselves educators as well as the promoter, DJ, and seller. “I think a lot of people don’t know about how Greensboro was once heavily entrenched in the history of this music,” Brycon said. “We get a lot of requests, but try to help people understand that these are curated sets and these are musicians and turntables are instruments.”

He said that he, Brown and Lyles see it as part of their mission to bring in people from other areas who’ve been spinning soul and funk. “It’s kind of like a vinyl conglomerate, so to speak. Guys who are going to bring the same flavor to the table, like John Kirby from Dogpatch Radio/Numero Group and Nate Smith from Carolina Soul, both whom will be at the Flat Iron. Some guys we haven’t had in the mix yet would be like Tom Page from Durham.

For Brown, it’s an important part of his promotion company Make Greensboro Weird. “I think Greensboro is a great growing place. But I think we need to continue to make Greensboro weird, and I think plugging Soul Relief Records is good. Check out Make Greensboro Weird’s Facebook page for updates.” !

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Juice is on the loose in the Triad

few short years ago, the chances of you finding a coldpressed juice bar was pretty much nil.

But now, the Triad is seemingly bustling with a selection Kristi Maier of juice bars, most @triadfoodies offering a lot more than just juice. We’ve been checking out Contributor some of the major players on the juice scene. Fortunately, if you live in WinstonSalem, Greensboro or High Point, it’s no longer a big trip to get juiced up.

Organix Juice Bar 1318 Hawthorne Rd., Winston-Salem George Memory has been on the grow for four years after becoming virtually a household name in Winston-Salem with Organix. From starting out in Ardmore at his little shop with its cold-pressed juice to expanding to smoothies, açaí bowls and toast at Organix in Greensboro (1941 New Garden Rd.), Memory has also had a goal to diversify and fill a void where he sees it.

Which leads us to…

Cafe Vara Du 1961 N. Peace Haven Rd., Winston-Salem

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Village Juice Coming in September, Cafe Vara Du offers its own cold-pressed juices, toasts, waffles, rolled ice cream, açaí bowls, coffee, as well as desserts.

“I’ve been thinking of this concept for a couple of years,” Memory said. “Customers would see the posts of toasts and ask me about the Ardmore location, but I couldn’t offer it there.”

Vara Du means “be yourself,” and Memory said he wanted the space to be a “no-judgment zone” that offers a local coffee shop in the Sherwood Forest area that gives locals a choice of indulgent ice cream while someone else at the table enjoys a healthier option. Memory isn’t stopping there. Plans are already well underway for Cafe Vara Du-Kernersville.

Village Juice 205-O S. Stratford Rd., 400 W. 4th St., Winston-Salem What started out as a “juice truck” has emerged into a local enterprise with two accessible locations on Stratford Road and on 4th Street in Downtown WinstonSalem. Village Juice has also transcended beyond just juice with nut milk, smoothies, smoothie bowls, grain bowls and salads, toasts and poké bowls (in the downtown location only). Each bowl, whether fruit-filled or veggie-filled, is carefully thought-out and chef-driven for major flavor impact. Gluten-free options are available, too.

OrganicAF 120 W. Lexington Ave., Ste. 101, High Point A play on words? If you don’t know, ask a college student. But, Matt Williams, owner and operator of OrganicAF, said the “AF” in the name stands for Always Fresh.

Williams, his wife Priscilla and their friend, Mike Fulk, opened in October 2017 after many trips to Greensboro or Winston for fresh juice.

“Before, I had a desk job, and my weight got out of control with zero metabolism, and I just wanted to be able to play with my kids,” Williams said. “Being tired was not who I wanted to be, so I started a wellness program—going to yoga and started a more vegetarian lifestyle. The options were slim in High Point, and we started making more juice at home, playing around in the kitchen.”

Williams said once he started bottling his own juice and people started seeing it, they encouraged him to start a juice shop.

“It’s been life-changing,” he said of opening OrganicAF. “I love standing at the register and getting to know my customers. This job suits me so well.”

With the mantra of “drink your veggies,” this little shop in High Point serves a slew of cold-pressed juices packed with goodies like kale, spinach and cucumber while taking the edge off all that veg with fruit.

If you’re after something a bit creamier, raw nut milk will be just the thing. Juices and milk have cute names such as BasicAF, CleanAF (Williams’s favorite) and

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Juice Batch WokeAF (if you need coffee). Can’t you just see them in their juice-naming meetings?

Juice Batch 2758 NC-68 Unit 101, High Point New on the scene but an idea that’s at least a couple of years old is the juicy, baby sibling of the beloved Small Batch Beer and Small Batch Burgers. Owner Tim Walker said he knew that he wanted to open a juice shop when he signed the lease for Small Batch High Point two years ago.

“I’ve always been into fitness and healthy drinks, too,” said Walker, who is also a trained chef. “But also delicious burgers and beer, so we wanted to offer a balance. With Small Batch and Juice Batch, we offer the best of both worlds.”

“There are tons of juices to cater to a more hardcore healthy person, but we will add a little honey to a smoothie or smoothie bowl as well,” he added.

Another exceptional feature: Poké bowls filled with rice, healthy veggies, and tuna or salmon. Walker tested poké with pop-ups at Small Batch for a while.

“They’re great,” Walker said. “You get so much from them, vibrant color and crispy and crunchy texture. And they’re easy, healthy and go well with our juice theme and Hawaiian vibe.”

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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Greensboro artist leads Lilies Project for coal ash art

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reensboro artist and project leader of Residents for Coal Ash Cleanup, Caroline Rutledge Armijo, along with Artplace America and the Stokes County Terry Rader Arts Council, are gearing up for “The Gymnastics Show” Contributor on Saturday, Sept. 21 as part of The Lilies Project at Southeastern Stokes Middle School in Walnut Cove, North Carolina. This variety/talent show event is free, open to the public and will include film clips, gymnastics and skits.

Armijo is seeking talent with those who have Stokes County connections.

“The Lilies Project – Addressing Coal Ash Through Arts & Parks” grant is a National Creative Placemaking Fund Project sponsored by ArtPlace America to

make art out of the 20 million tons of coal ash from the Duke Energy Power Plant in the Belews Creek community. Armijo, the mixed-media artist who applied and won the grant, has taken on the task to create public art, lead programming, and manage the overall project through collaboration with others in the community. She has combined her creativity and environmental advocacy, along with her previous work as a liturgical artist in Washington D.C., to focus on environmental issues such as coal ash and fracking.

Armijo said she realized something wasn’t normal in 2010 when her friend was diagnosed with a brain tumor, along with an alarming number of other residents being diagnosed with cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and respiratory/ asthma issues.

“The Lilies of the Field” idea came out of a class she took at Servant Leadership at Holy Trinity School in Greensboro. Then while meditating in the spring of 2016, she had a vision of making towers out of the coal ash as art for a park in Germantown.

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The name of the project is a reference to the movie Lilies of the Field, for which Jester Hairston (a Belews Creek native) composed the song “Amen.” She said being awarded the ArtPlace America Grant in October 2017 is what started the project. She met with representatives from North Carolina A&T State University about the health concerns and how they were seeking alternative ways to contain coal ash in her community. She said this process involved many community meetings utilizing vision boards and creating Lilies of the Field community art prototypes.

During a two-week According to the Lilies Project webstudy at Penland School of the Arts in site, the North Carolina Department of July, Armijo said she had the idea to mimic Environmental Quality announced on April beehives in nature to make hexagonal coal 1 the decision of the final closure plans ash towers. She said it took them about a for six remaining coal ash basins, includmonth to place the order with North Caroing the one at Belews Creek. Armijo said lina A&T State University to create 30, the issue of what to do with the coal ash 8-foot-tall posts while utilizing a patented is still being litigated with the Southern coal ash encapsulation technology. The Environmental Law Center. artists in the community plan to paint and “The event on Sept. 21 is just one small arrange the posts at two musical stages part of The Lilies Project,” Armijo said. “It in two parks, a nature trail, and a butis geared to build community and take terfly garden that will be launched at the everyone back to the ‘80s before the coal Walnut Cove Library on Oct. 12. ash health threats, when life was not as The Dan River coal ash spill on Feb. 2, stressful. Honestly, we’re just trying to get 2014, made global news, which helped the community engaged. How do you regain recognition of Duke Energy’s unlined ally start to heal a place? I think it’s basic pit of coal ash. in coming together, singing together and “The ash remains a serious health dancing together. I’m hoping we can turn problem until it can be fully excavated and something that has been a burden to our contained properly,” she said. “It can’t just community into something that is positive be covered up because there is nothing and uplifting.” ! below it to contain it and protect the underground streams. Right now, it is sitting 60-feet deep in our groundwater, and TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, singer/songthey’ve got to get it out, and it has to be writer, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner contained above the groundwater. It’s not and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/house safe to use it as filler dirt in new construcsitting. tion either.”

Armijo said last August former Vice WANNA President Al Gore, Karenna Gore and Rev. William Barber II made an appearance at a The Gymnastics Show, 9/21, 2-4 p.m., Southeastthree-day celebration event. She said Gore ern Middle School, 1044 N. Main St., Walnut Cove, said that he felt “inspired for the first time 10/12 Butterfly Garden Launch, Public Library, in a long time,” and that he saw The Lilies Walnut Cove, theliliesproject.org, artplaceamerica.

Project as a group of people who repreorg, Caroline Rutledge Armijo, (919) 358.5057, sented fusion-politics. caroline.armijo@gmail.com.

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OUT at the Movies is Undressed to thrill For the next installment in its ongoing series, WinstonSalem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present a special screening of director Gillian Armstrong’s documentary Women Mark Burger He’s Undressed, on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Reynolds House Contributor Museum of American Art. The film offers an in-depth look at the life and career of OrryKelly (1897-1964), one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed costume designers, and the winner of three Academy Awards for his work: An American in Paris (1951), Les Girls (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959).

He also received a fourth nomination for Gypsy (1962).

“OUT at the Movies is so excited to be partnering with the Reynolda House Museum of American Art on our screening of Women He’s Undressed,” said Rex Welton, co-founder and director of the OUT at the Movies Festival. “The film is a wonderful documentary about Orry-Kelly. During the boom years of Hollywood, he was the costume designer for an astonishing 282 motion pictures and designed for Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, and many others.”

Born Orry George Kelly in the small town of Kiama, Australia, the future Oscar winner was almost obsessively cautious about his personal life.

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Orry-Kelly played by Darren Gilshenan with cocktail party guests In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, Armstrong explained that her eight-year quest to make Women He’s Undressed was an attempt to celebrate Orry-Kelly’s legacy and shed some light on this enigmatic figure, including his long friendship with superstar Cary Grant (dating back to the days when both were young and struggling).

“It’s a story about friendship and loyalty,” Armstrong told Alexandra Spring.

“It’s a story about two young mates starting out and helping each other; it’s about fame, money, power, and homophobia.”

Orry-Kelly’s list of credits is long and mind-boggling, encompassing a variety

of genres: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), The Petrified Forest (1936), Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), Jezebel (1938), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Dark Victory (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), Now, Voyager (1942), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Oklahoma! (1955), and many others.

“This fun movie will be a nice complement to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s exhibition, ‘Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration,’” Welton said. “[It’s] the first Reynolda House show to feature openly gay artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker, (who) captivated the public with striking images and fashionable depictions on handsome men and glamorous women.”

The Leyendecker exhibition opens Aug. 31 and is scheduled to run through Dec. 31.

The sixth annual Out at the Movies festival, which runs Oct. 2-6, is also coming up soon, and Welton believes it to be the best one yet. For one thing, it’s the biggest – running an extra day – and boasting over 25 feature films and sev-

eral shorts screened at the ACE Theatre Complex on the main campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Byrum Welcome Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.

In addition to film screenings, there will be panel discussions, parties, and live entertainment throughout the festival. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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The OUT at the Movies screening of Women He’s Undressed will take place 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Rd., Winston-Salem. Admission is free with regular Reynolda House admission ($18 general admission, free for students and members). For advance tickets or more information, call 1(888)663-1149 or visit the official Reynolda House website: www.reynoldahouse.org/.

For more information about OUT at the Movies, call (336)918-0902 or visit the official website: outatthemovieswinston.org/.

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The Nightingale: Retribution down under

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riter/producer/ director Jennifer Kent scared up an impressive horror hit with her 2014 debut The Babadook. Her sophomore feature, Mark Burger a rugged periodpiece called The Contributor Nightingale, is in many ways more horrific – because its horrors are well within the realm of credibility, if not outright historical fact.

The setting is Tasmania, circa 1825, when the British held sway over Australia. Clare (Aisling Franciosi) is a young Irish woman convicted of theft and sentenced to servitude. The terms of her sentence have expired, but the British authorities are in no hurry to parole her.

When she requests her freedom from Lt. Hawkins (Sam Claflin), he not only refuses but brutally rapes her. Then he and a few of his men murder her husband and baby before her very eyes.

It is this turn of events that fuels Clare’s quest for vengeance, which she pursues with obsessive single-mindedness. She recruits Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), a native tracker who has no love for the British (who have systematically massacred his people) and embarks on an arduous journey across a punishing landscape to mete out retribution.

Drenched in period atmosphere and steeped in dread, The Nightingale is not for the faint-hearted, and its earliest screenings were marked by walk-outs.

Yet, there’s a method to Kent’s blunt approach, as it sheds light on the racial divide of the era. As Clare is Irish and a convict, and because Billy is an Aborigine, they are both regarded as less than human. Indeed, early on even Clare refers to Billy as “boy,” until she comes to realize that he, too, has suffered at the hands of the occupying British, in ways very comparable to her.

There’s a distinct Western motif here, both in period and narrative structure.

The Nightingale invites comparisons – and not unfavorable ones – to John Ford’s 1956 classic The Searchers, and there are echoes of Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones (1958), particularly in the relationship that develops between Clare and Billy.

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Aside from a supporting role in Jimmy’s Hall (2014), most of Franciosi’s prior exposure has been on the small screen, but that’s likely to change given her explosive turn here. It’s impossible not to empathize with the character, even at her most violent. This marks Ganambarr’s screen debut, and he plays Billy with assurance, bringing a jaded but unmistakable dignity to the role.

Claflin, playing one of the year’s most loathsome screen villains, is seething with brutality and violence. He’s not only a racist and a rapist, but a psychopath, justifying his sadistic actions by the uniform he wears and the rank he holds.

He is a monster who is frighteningly believable.

The film, however, does tend to meander, particularly in the third act when it should be accelerating toward the finish.

Kent occasionally indulges in directorial flourishes (notably some dream sequences) that seem rather arbitrary.

Nevertheless, The Nightingale is a harrowing journey into the heart of darkness, hard to forget and impossible to ignore. It proves that Kent is a filmmaker to be reckoned with, one unafraid to challenge or even goad an audience into a reaction, whether positive or negative.

This is not a film for everyone, nor is it a perfect film, but it is a film with something powerful to say. !

(In English, Aboriginal, and Scottish Gaelic with English subtitles) See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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Kernersville Little Theatre announces its 2019-2020 season

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ernersville Little Theatre (KLT) is excited to announce its four-production line up and performance schedule for the 2019-2020 Season, Chasing Dreams. From family favorites to powerful drama to side-splitting comedy, this is a season not to be missed!

KLT launches its first production of the season in September with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss and originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine.

The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in the geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School. Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups. Winning isn’t everything—Spelling Bee runs Sept.

13 through Sept. 22. Rated PG-13, some language and mild adult themes.

KLT will continue its season in November with Treasure Island, a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. It begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem featuring a host of legendary swashbucklers including the dangerous Billy Bones, the sinister two-timing Israel Hands, the brassy woman pirate Anne Bonney and the hideous form of evil incarnate, Blind Pew. At the center of it all are Jim Hawkins, a 14-year-old boy who longs for adventure, and the infamous Long John Silver, who is a complex study of good and evil, perhaps the most famous herovillain of all time. An amazing adventure awaits you—Treasure Island runs November 15 through Nov. 24.

In February, KLT picks back up with Blithe Spirit and introduces us to fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati.

As the personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, joins Elvira, and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity. Until death do us part, or so we thought. Blithe Spirit runs Feb. 28 through March 8, 2020.

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In June, KLT will wrap its 2019-2020 season with Bright Star, a musical written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945-46 with flashbacks to 1923. This musical is inspired by Martin and Brickell’s Grammy-winning collaboration on the 2013 bluegrass album Love Has Come for You and, in turn, the folk story of the Iron Mountain Baby. A rich tapestry of emotion—Bright Star runs June 18 through June 28, 2020.

KLT’s season tickets are on sale now through Oct. 1 and offer a considerable discount over door ticket prices. With the Season Flex Pass, each purchase includes four tickets, and each ticket is good for any performance of any show. It’s your choice!

All performances will be held at the James Fitzpatrick Auditorium at Kernersville Elementary School, located at 512 W. Mountain St., Kernersville. Performance times vary depending on the date with evening performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. and afternoon matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets for each show are available for purchase online at www.kltheatre. com, by phone at (336) 993-6556 or at the door on performance dates.

Kernersville Little Theatre wishes to thank its 2019-2020 season sponsors for their support, including The Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Kernersville Foundation, River Landing at Sandy Ridge, the Town of Kernersville and Vintage Sound and Light for their support of the arts in our community.

ABOUT KERNERSVILLE LITTLE THEATRE Established in 1977, Kernersville Little Theatre is a nonprofit, volunteer-based community theatre. Everyone is welcome! Join us today and support local arts in your community, and we look forward to seeing each one of you on opening night! For more information about the 2019-2020 season, auditions, performance dates, ticket sales or volunteering, visit www.kltheatre.com, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter !

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An upscale neighborhood near the Ibis Golf and Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is all a-flutter over some unwelcome guests: dozens of black vultures.

Chuck Shepherd The Palm Beach Post reports that a New York family can no longer visit the $700,000 vacation home they bought earlier this year because the birds have defecated and vomited all around it, leaving a smell “like a thousand rotting corpses,” claimed homeowner Siobhan Casimano. Homeowner Cheryl Katz put out fake owls with moving heads and blinking red lights for eyes to scare off the birds, but she said the vultures “ripped the heads off.” Katz had to summon police when the vultures became trapped in her pool enclosure and attacked each other: “Blood was everywhere,” she told the Post. Katz and other homeowners blame the invasion on a neighbor who feeds wildlife, supplying bags of dog food, roasted chicken and trays of sandwiches for their enjoyment. Neighborhood association president Gordon Holness told the Post the neighbor has been issued a warning, but the migratory birds are protected by federal law.

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A young man identified only as Akash, in Yamunanagar, Haryana state in northern India, received a brand-new BMW from his parents for his birthday, reported Fox News on Aug. 12. But Akash, who had nagged his parents for a Jaguar instead, told police the BMW was “a little small for him and his friends inside.” So he pushed the new vehicle into a river, where it sank into deep water and had

to be pulled out with a crane. “The youth was arrogant and kept insisting that he be given a Jaguar,” police said. “We could only afford to give him a BMW,” said his father. “We never imagined he would do anything like this.”

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Maybe his conscience got the better of him. On Aug. 13, according to WTAE, a man in a wheelchair approached a teller at a First National Bank on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The man, thought to be in his 60s, handed the teller a note demanding cash, but then “suddenly abandoned his robbery attempt and exited the bank,” a police statement read. Police and FBI agents were on the lookout for the reluctant robber, but there were no photographs or video of him to aid them.

STRANGE OBSESSION

Washington State Highway Patrol Sgt. Kyle Smith stopped along Highway 518 near Seattle on Aug. 13 to see if a car parked on the shoulder needed assistance. Instead, according to the Associated Press, he observed the driver inside with eight mobile phones, neatly arranged in a blue foam square, all playing Pokemon Go. Smith did not issue a ticket to the driver, but he did warn him to put the phones away and move along, as the shoulder is meant only for emergency stops.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel brought the town of Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, continent-wide attention in mid-August when he gifted the community a Hollywood-style sign installed on a hill above the town.

Soon, Canadian adult toy company Our Pleasure posted a video to Facebook featuring some of its products in front of the sign and at other locations around the town, reported The Telegram, incit-

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ing anger among some residents. “They went too far with this,” said Andrew Pretty, a member of the town’s local service district committee. “They had one picture right next to the playground ... it’s not right.” Our Pleasure owner Cathy Daniels described the video as “more of a fun video,” but townspeople don’t see the humor. They are circulating a petition asking Our Pleasure not to use photos of Dildo for its advertising and social media campaigns.

THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT

Jeremiah Ehindero, 41, pastor of Jesus Miracle Church in Sango-Ota, Nigeria, blamed the devil for his trouble with the law after stealing an SUV from a local Toyota dealership. Ehindero negotiated a price for the Highlander, which he said would be used for “evangelism,” then asked for a test drive — and never came back, the Daily Post reported on Aug. 19.

He later sold the vehicle to a spare parts dealer for about $1,650. According to police, Ehindero confessed he stole the car to repay a loan from a microfinance bank in Lagos after tithes and offerings from his congregation were insufficient. “When the pressure from the microfinance bank became unbearable for me, the devil told me to steal a vehicle from the car dealer to sell and use the proceeds to repay the loan. I regret my action.” Ehindero and his accomplices were arrested in Ondo State.

CREME DE LA WEIRD

In Stockholm, Sweden, an unnamed man attending a traditional crayfish party on Aug. 20 at the Skansen Aquarium was delivering a speech while standing on a rock in a restricted area. As he spoke, he rested his arm on a glass barrier — until the crocodile who lives in the tank “jumped up and grabbed his lower arm,” Jonas Wahlstrom, owner of the aquarium, told CNN. But that isn’t the weird part of the story. The dastardly crocodile in this story was formerly owned by ... Fidel Castro. The croc was one of two given to a Russian cosmonaut in 1970, who took the animals to Moscow. Wahlstrom eventually brought them to Stockholm.

The croc “lost its grip after 10 seconds,” Wahlstrom said, leaving the victim with injuries to his lower arm and hand.

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Dave Schmida, 21, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, set out on Aug. 12, determined to get rid of a hornet’s nest three stories high under a corner of his family’s roof. He first tried spraying the nest with Raid, but when that didn’t work,

he got creative. As his brother Matthew recorded video of the extermination, Dave lit up a Roman candle and pointed the fiery balls at the nest, reported the Worcester Telegram. The first two or three missed their mark, but when his ammunition connected with the nest, it burst into flames, killing the wasps but setting the eaves on fire as well. Schmida rushed up to a nearby window and used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out.

“I would say mission accomplished,” he said, even though there is now a small hole in the house.

CRIME REPORT

An attempted burglary in Oronoco Township, Minnesota, unfolded in an unusual manner on Aug. 15. Police responded to a burglary in progress call to find that alledged thief Kirsten Hart, 29, had scuffled with a 64-year-old woman before making off with pill bottles, debit and credit cards, $150 cash and a fake $1 million bill. Hart had run out of the house with part of her shirt ripped off, which led a passing motorist to ask if she was hurt and needed a ride. Hart accepted, climbing into the trunk of the car, according to KIMT. The driver later told police he realized something wasn’t right but panicked and drove off. Police also said they found iPads stolen from a local STEM school in Hart’s car. She and an accomplice face multiple charges.

SNOWFLAKES FALLING EVERYWHERE

Ex-cons, juvenile delinquents and drug addicts are getting new monikers in San Francisco, thanks to the Board of Supervisors’ new “person-first” language guidelines. For example, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, someone just released from prison will be a “justiceinvolved person”; a repeat offender will be a “returning resident.” People on probation will be “persons under supervision.” The under-18 criminal crowd will be known as “young people impacted by the juvenile justice system.” Those suffering from addiction will be “people with a history of substance use.” Words such as “convict” and “inmate” “only serve to obstruct and separate people from society and make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal,” the board’s resolution reads. “Referring to them as felons is like a scarlet letter,” Matt Haney, board supervisor, said.. !

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hose prolific picturemakers at Wreak Havoc Productions are back in action – readying the fifth annual “Wreak Havoc Horror Festival,” which Mark Burger runs Sept. 20 and 21 at RED Cinemas in Greensboro, and Contributor putting the finishing touches on their latest production, Uncle Otto’s Truck, based on the Stephen King short story, which will enjoy its world premiere at the festival.

“We received 123 submissions this year and whittled it down to an official selection of 47 short films, six feature films, and two VR (virtual reality) films,” said Dan Sellers, president of Wreak Havoc Productions and screenwriter/editor/ producer/director of Uncle Otto’s Truck.

“The selection process was incredibly difficult this year, but we were thankful to have more screen time to play with than in years past, which allowed us to accept more films than we ever have. This is our biggest official selection yet!”

(For a complete list of the selections, see www.wreakhavochorrorfilmfest.com.)

“I’m really excited for the move to RED Cinemas,” said Wreak Havoc vice president Sammie Cassell. “The expansion of the festival, the ability to get food and eat in the theater, seeing our films on a big theater screen – it’s exciting! And North Carolina has brought it this year! Killer Assistant, from South Carolina, is a funny short. Here There Be Monsters is amazing, and my favorite feature is Artik (about) a comic-book serial killer – that movie got me!”

“Every year the films we select continue to surprise me and this year is no different,” Sellers said. “One thing we’ve managed to do is provide a wide array of horror films, so there’s something for everybody.

We’ve got brutal and gory slashers, we’ve got hilarious, goofy comedies, and we’ve got dramatic emotional thrillers, too. I’m also proud to say that this year’s festival features the most local filmmakers from the Triad and the Carolinas in previous years. Attending the festival is a great way to meet and mingle with other filmmakers.”

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which he acted, produced and catered, Cassell also appears in the festival selections Silent Breath, directed by Josh Mabe, and It’s All Fun and Games, directed by Brad Thomasson.

Sellers and the Wreak Havoc contingent were able to secure permission to film Uncle Otto’s Truck through the “Dollar Baby” program, in which King gives his approval to make an adaptation of one of his short stories – for one dollar. The author, however, retains all rights to his work and the films cannot be shown commercially without his approval.

Perhaps the best-known example was one of the first: The Woman in the Room (1983), which initially appeared in King’s 1978 anthology “Night Shift” and marked the directorial debut of a fledgling filmmaker named Frank Darabont. King was impressed enough to grant Darabont the rights to adapt another short story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (originally published as a novella in King’s “Different Seasons”). The resulting feature, 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption, was one of the most acclaimed King adaptations ever, earning seven Academy Award nominations and cementing Darabont’s status as a filmmaker. He has

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since helmed the King adaptations, The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007).

As one of the most successful writers in history, King is understandably protective of works bearing his name. In 1992, he successfully sued the producers of the feature film The Lawnmower Man because it was billed as “Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man.” Anyone who’s seen the movie or read King’s original short story, which was written in 1975, knows there’s scant resemblance between the two.

“Per our contract with Mr. King, we’re

fairly restricted by what we can do with the film,” Sellers explained. “We’re not allowed to sell the film with screenings, home-video, digital screening, or theatrical distribution. We also cannot sell merchandise for the film, either. One of the most important rules is that we use the credit ‘Based on a Short Story by Stephen King’ as opposed to ‘Stephen King’s Uncle Otto’s Truck, which is something I’m totally fine with, as Mr. King wasn’t part of our production but provided the source material, written 30-plus years ago.”

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Aside from a few alterations, Sellers sais the film is a faithful adaptation. “I didn’t think it was so important to transcribe the story into screenplay format but to adapt it and make it our own film. Some things have been cut out or condensed, and we swapped the gender of the main character – the narrator – as well. Having said that, almost all of the monologue and dialogue come straight from King’s words.”

Originally published in Yankee magazine in October 1983, Uncle Otto’s Truck was later included in King’s best-selling 1985 anthology “Skeleton Crew.” It’s a brooding tale of supernatural retribution, set in King’s familiar stomping grounds of Castle Rock, the setting of so many of his stories and novels.

“I was not familiar with the original story by King before researching Dollar Babies,” Sellers admitted, “but I read it and fell in love with it, and pursued the rights to make it. Uncle Otto’s Truck is one of the short stories that take place in King’s fictional town of Castle Rock, so I was excited to have the opportunity to play in that world.”

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“I’ve been a fan of Stephen King’s work since I was a kid,” Sellers said. “His novels and short stories are so well written and fun to read. He uses an economy of words and cuts through a lot of the bullshit, but that’s just his writing style.

“The thing I probably enjoy the most about King’s work is the inter-connectivity that you sometimes find between characters and locations. That’s something I’m taking advantage of with our film, [and] the use of Stephen King ‘Easter eggs’ hidden all throughout.”

As Sellers previously noted, one change from page to screen is that the narrator is female. Then again, in George A. Romero’s 1993 adaptation of The Dark Half, Julie Harris played a character written as a male, and in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Morgan Freeman’s Red was originally an Irishman. Jennie Stencel, former WXII on-air personality and artistic director of The Idiot Box comedy club in Greensboro, was tapped for the role, and

according to cinematographer Zack Fox, “was absolutely the best person for it.”

Stencel had not read the original story “until they sent me the script, but I loved it,” she said. “My mother loved King and anything macabre.”

The shoot “was hot, and I think we spotted some species of bugs never seen before,” she quipped, “but Wreak Havoc was amazing. Everyone works so hard, and really, my favorite part was how willing everyone was to try something in a new way. I’d love to work with them again.

I think we made a really amazing film.”

Fox, a long-time Wreak Havoc collaborator, concurs. “Dan and I have developed a nice on-set short-hand and trust,” he observed. “He lets me take nice creative liberties. I pitched the idea of using a weird mixture of tilt-shift lenses and wide angles, and he completely supported it. I think everyone will be very pleased with how it comes out. The ‘above-andbeyond’ part of the shoot was our lead special effects/makeup artist Matt Patterson, and his wife, Michelle. They did an incredible job on the on-set effects with the blood and gore.”

Cassell had read Uncle Otto’s Truck “and I re-read it when Dan mentioned doing a short,” he said. “I absolutely love Stephen King! My mom gave me a copy of ‘It’ my freshman year in high school, and I fell in love. I then proceeded to catch up on all his books. To me, King gets the comingof-age story better than anyone – with a twist. Those years can be strange and intimidating and scary, and King takes that to the nth degree.”

In addition to Stencil and Cassell, the cast includes Tom Gore, Lilie Butler, Devin Burke, and Mike Burke as Uncle Otto. As for the titular truck, “I honestly can’t remember,” Sellers confessed, “but its name is Festus. I think the main components are (from) 1951, but it has parts from different trucks as well.”

Mike Burke, an unabashed King admirer, was also acquainted with the story.

“I read it years ago and really enjoyed it,” he said. “I’m a fan of his work – he is a master storyteller. He takes normal people and puts them in extraordinary, and twisted, circumstances. One of the first books of his that I read was ‘The Stand.’ I love the way he took a horror trope – big scary virus eats the world – and showed how it impacted real people. ‘It’ scared the bejeebers out of me. I was living alone in an apartment, reading late at night, and frequently had to put the book down and walk away – sometimes even putting a newspaper to cover the book! He painted such wonderfully chilling pictures and evoked the small towns of the ‘50s. As a child of the ‘50s and ‘60s, the reality resonated with me, making the horror more

on point. Even books that I didn’t like at first reading, like ‘The Tommyknockers,’ I re-read later and found them delightful.”

Although Uncle Otto’s Truck is a short, Burke recognized the depth of the character.

“I’ve done theater for 40 years; I love a role I can play with like this. What Otto perceives becomes his reality. His resignation and acceptance of his eventual doom is very appealing. And I got a chance to hang out on the set with one of my sons, who plays the young version of my character. That was a real joy.”

The production, Sellers said, “went fairly smoothly for the most part. It was a ton of hard work and very long days, with a lot of traveling involved. Principal photography was three days in the rural mountains of Southwest Virginia. We had a few more days of second-unit shooting and voice-over recording in Greensboro, Mount Airy, and Madison. But it’s done, and I’m thrilled with the footage we have.

I can’t wait for people to see it!”

This, of course, is only the latest Wreak Havoc production. In 2018, they unleashed a pair of documentary shorts -- Ghosts of the Carolinas and Trouble Will Cause (the latter an examination of the infamous Lawson Murders on Christmas Day, 1929) – and earlier this year saw the release of Countdown to Midnight, a follow-up to their 2017 short Midnight Shift. Coming next is the short drama Sea Salt Wind, which marks Fox’s debut as writer, editor, producer and director.

In addition, they continue to produce the self-explanatory Wreak Havoc Film Buffs Podcast (www.wreakhavocproductions.com/podcast), which recently celebrated its 100th episode, and the Carolina Haints Podcast (www.wreakhavocproductions.com/carolinahaints), which explores Southern legends and myths, and which is scheduled to return for a third season on Sept. 20, the day the festival opens. !

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‘Devil’ in Pazuzu Algarad case wasn’t Satan: Viceland miniseries criticizes Forsyth law enforcement Writer/director/ producer Patricia Gillespie’s five-part documentary series The Devil You Know, which premiered Tuesday night on Viceland, is only nominally about the Clemmons Ian McDowell serial killer Pazuzu Algarad, and whose self-mythologizing Contributor claims of Satanworshipping and cannibalism received more previous media coverage than his victims.

How law enforcement allegedly failed those victims is one theme of Gillespie’s series, which becomes a persuasive indictment of both the Forsyth County Sheriff ’s Office and this country’s broken mental health care system. It addresses the social and economic gap between Clemmons, the suburb where the crimes occurred, and Winston-Salem, the city where they were investigated, and alleges a lack of concern for the victims on the part of the investigators.

The most powerful sequences in The Devil You Know depict Stacey Carter’s five-year quest to find out what happened to her former boyfriend Josh Wetzler, who disappeared in July of 2009.

On Oct. 5, 2014, Forsyth County Sheriff investigators discovered Wetzler’s skeletal remains buried behind a house at 2749 Knob Hill Dr. in Clemmons. The buried remains of Tommy Dean Welch were also found nearby. The house belonged to Cynthia James and was occupied by James, her son Pazuzu Algarad, and Algarad’s self-proclaimed wife, Amber Burch.

Algarad was born John Alexander Lawson in San Francisco in 1978. He legally changed his name in 2002, taking “Pazuzu” from the Assyrian king of demons mentioned in The Exorcist.

Burch later testified that Algarad killed Wetzler in July of 2009, with the body remaining in the house for several weeks until Burch helped bury it. In October 2009, Burch killed Welch, and Algarad helped her with that burial.

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one count of accessory after the fact. The next day, Krystal Matlock was arrested and charged with accessory after the fact.

On Oct. 28, 2015, Algarad was discovered dead in his cell at Raleigh’s central prison, to which he’d been transferred on a sealed safekeeping order. The cause of death was determined to be a self-inflicted wound on his arm.

(The urban legend that he opened an artery with his own filed-sharp teeth has never been officially verified.)

On March 9, 2017, Burch pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed robbery and accessory after the fact to murder.

Per a plea arrangement, she received three consecutive sentences that totaled 30 years and eight months to 39 years and two months in prison.

On June 5, 2017, Matlock pleaded guilty to conspiracy to accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and was sentenced to three years and two months to four years and 10 months in prison.

By that time, Gillespie had been working on her documentary, envisioned initially as a 90-minute feature titled American Monster, for almost three years, having arrived in Winston-Salem to begin it in late 2014. In an hour-long phone conversation last Thursday, she told me it was never intended to focus on Algarad, and would not have done so even if he’d survived and consented to an interview.

“Something people may not be getting from the promos is that, over the course of the series, we deconstruct the sensationalism surrounding the case,” said Gillespie, referring to how articles about murder often obscure what she calls “the actionable fact of violence in this country” by ignoring both its causes and casualties.

Most press coverage of Algarad’s crimes focused more on the killer’s alleged beliefs than his victims and survivors.

The Winston-Salem Journal’s and the Greensboro News & Record’s headlines repeatedly used the phrase “avowed Satanist,” as if that was a more important aspect of the case than the victims or the time it took to discover their bodies.

On Aug. 3, 2009, Terena Billings told the Forsyth County Sheriff ’s Office that her father, Allen Billings, had helped bury a corpse in her neighbor Pazuzu Algarad’s backyard. On Feb. 9, 2010, Stacey Carter reported that a friend had told her that Josh Wetzler, Carter’s ex-boyfriend and

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Mugshots of Pazuzu Algarad and Amber Burch

Josh Wetzler with his and Stacey Carter’s son Jared

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the father of her child, was buried on that property. Algarad’s mother went to the Forsyth County Sheriff ’s Office in November of 2011 and told a detective her son had killed someone. Over the next two years, the Forsyth Sheriff ’s Office received multiple tips of the crime.

Yet, even though both bodies remained where they’d originally been buried for five years, they were not discovered until October 2014.

National and international coverage largely ignored this, instead emphasizing Algarad’s self-proclaimed Satanism.

“It’s easy to blame Satan,” Gillespie said. “It’s hard to take a look at ourselves and say that we, as voting citizens of the United States of America, really need to examine this system. Every single one of these victims fell through giant cracks in the social safety net of this country.”

Gillespie neither believes in Satan nor that the man born with the name John Lawson became a murderer as a result of Satanic beliefs.

“He had very serious mental health issues that presented from a young age, and his family didn’t have the money necessary to take care of those problems.

And then he was ostracized in a lot of communities. He certainly had his little group and his following of fellow misfits, poor people who also felt abandoned by society, which is why they were attracted to him. I think if you had interceded with that kid when he was 13 years old, he might have become a productive member of society, or at very least, not harmed as many people.”

Gillespie grew up in the working-class city of Yonkers, New York, where she encountered many of the issues that the people in her series face.

“Addiction and violence were things that touched my upbringing. When I was 19, my best friend’s big brother was murdered by a couple of local kids, and I was shocked by the community’s and media’s response, which was about how those were kids from the other side of the tracks, those kids drank, those kids did drugs, those kids had dads in jail, those kids were not our kids, instead of looking at the real issues leading to the actual horrific crime.”

“But I was really young and still in film school, and not ready to turn the camera on the kind of experience still percolating with me,” she added.

After graduating, she was a line producer on Whose Streets?, a documentary about the killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson uprising, and a producer on Unrest, writer/director Jennifer Brea’s documentary about Brea’s struggle with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Patricia Gillespie with cinematographer Adam Kolodny on left and associate producer Kyle Porter on right Preparing to make her feature film debut as a producer, writer and director, Gillespie searched for a subject.

“I was looking for cases that felt like what I had experienced, and this one checked a lot of the boxes. It wasn’t because of the horrific nature of the crime, but all the forces around these people--the health care crisis, issues in modern policing, the opioid crisis, the war on drugs-- all the factors contributing to getting them here for this horrific thing to happen. I can’t stop a serial killer by making a film, but I think I can ask people to examine our role in this process.”

Gillespie said that many true-crime documentaries “are so concerned with blood splatter and gun residue and the details and facts that the most potent emotional part of a crime, the shrapnel of violence that spreads off of one incident, is often overlooked. But I think it’s really important and compelling and relatable to anybody who has a family.”

She was struck by Chad Nance’s coverage of the Pazuzu case in the nowdefunct Winston-based online news daily Camel City Dispatch, particularly his Oct. 16, 2014, article “John ‘Pazuzu’ Lawson …

The Boogey Man Cometh.” She’d never met Nance before, but reading that and other articles by him, she was drawn to his approach, and when she called him, to the man himself.

“Chad is this great sort of op-ed journalist who speaks beautifully and wears his heart on his sleeve. He gave me a lot of necessary cultural context, and he has kids growing up in the community, so he has skin in the game.”

I asked her to describe how Nance went from source to participant and subject in the documentary.

“He was one of my first interviews, and then stuff started unfolding with his family and his children, and instead of taking this role of the omniscient narrator, he started to tangentially work his way into the story,” she said. “He gave me a crash course on the history of the greater Winston-Salem area, and the differences between the suburbs, and how industry leaving that city affected the population.”

Gillespie said the in-depth reporting of the Journal’s Michael Hewlett was “humane and heroic.”

“He’s an amazing journalist,” she said of Hewlett. “I know he had a really close relationship with Stacey Carter throughout this process and was helping her find out what really happened to Josh, and understand what was going on from a legal standpoint, and I benefitted from that, too.”

She also praised Hewlett “and his amazing attorney Amanda Martin” for getting sealed documents about the case released.

“That ensured that the information we’re putting out there is good information, and the criticism we’re offering is very well-documented,” she added.

The Devil You Know was shot over four years, evolving in the process from feature film to miniseries.

“Before Viceland came aboard, my associate producer at the time, Kyle Porter, said, ‘you’ve really got to put yourself in this,’ and I was like, ‘no, no, no! I’m not of that world; I’m not a front of the camera person.’ But I had been working with Chad and was comfortable with him, and the guy just speaks beautifully, so he became the voice and face of the series.”

But she agreed that Stacey Carter is its heart.

“Stacey is such a wonderful, lovable person. And the work she’s now doing is important. She lives in Salisbury, and she took this experience where she’d gotten unbelievably screwed over, and she applied it and said, ‘let’s help the kids that are having behavioral problems now before it blows up.’ So, I really hope that people look for Stacey. She does equine therapy work with an organization called Heart Centered Horsemanship, and she has a number of other side projects to help the community. She really deserves all the support, because she’s just a fantastic example of getting the sourest lemon and making lemonade for the good of everyone. She is a real living hero.”

Having seen a screener of all five episodes of The Devil You Know, I believe it to be a powerful and humane work that, in its best sequences, transcends the true-crime format. Some of it may be hard to watch, although there are no grisly images of the murders that Algarad was involved in. The earliest is examined in the final episode, which includes a very moving scene I’ve agreed not to describe until the series is over.

(Note: There is graphic footage of Algarad associate Nate Alexander and his girlfriend using heroin.)

That happens early in the premiere episode, along with revolting and disconcertingly smug descriptions of the Algarad household by David “Crazy Dave” Adams (as well as a sincere but inaccurate second-hand description of the crimes by the more sympathetic Sylvia Lebeau). It’s in this first half of the premiere that the series seems as though it might be as lurid as its promos suggest. But if you stick with it, you will find it serious, intelligent, moving, and the work of a filmmaker with something important to say.

“I do want to say that I don’t think the phenomena that what happened with the police and the sheriff ’s office in Forsyth County is a local issue,” Gillespie told me near the end of our conversation.

“I think it’s happening all over America, where the working class are one of many communities that have legitimate grievances with modern policing. We should be looking at that and asking how we can create a better system that serves the many and not the few.”

Viceland is on Spectrum Cable channel 133. The first episode is now available for free on Viceland’s YouTube page. The channel is also available on DirecTV (271), Dish (121) and U-Verse (1257). !

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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Biden/Gabbard in 2020?

I admit it. I was taken with Kamala Harris even before she announced her run for the Presidency. I wrote a column in which I praised her prosecutorial record, and predicted she would be the Jim Longworth first woman to sit in the Oval Office.

She still might, but Longworth not in 2020. During at Large the first round of debates with nine of her Democratic rivals, she attacked former Vice President Joe Biden for his stand against school busing in the early 1970s. Biden was unprepared for the attack and subsequently stumbled his way through the rest of the debate. That, plus some verbal gaffes along the campaign trail, convinced me that Joe might be fading. However, shortly after that first debate, it was revealed that Kamala’s busing attack was nothing more than a disingenuous ploy to raise her poll numbers, eat into Biden’s support among African American voters, and raise money for the campaign. Unbeknownst to debate watchers at the time, Harris’s team had already produced promotional T-shirts with a photo of her as a little girl, being bused to school. During the second debate, Harris ran out of gimmicks, and Biden performed much better. Since then, Harris has dropped 12 points in the polls (down to 5%) and Biden, at 29%, has maintained a double-digit lead over Sanders (15%) and Warren (14%).

Last week, Biden’s wife Jill said out loud what everyone has been thinking. Speaking to a group of fellow educators, Jill acknowledged that a lot of folks may like other candidates more than her husband, and may even favor their health care policy over Joe’s, but the former VP has the best chance of beating Trump in 2020.

Certainly, a lot can change between now and next summer. For example, Sanders might throw his support to Warren at the convention, and Biden could find himself an also-ran. Barring that, a surprise in New Hampshire or, God forbid, a serious health scare, Biden appears to be well on his way to the Democratic nomination.

If that’s so, then Joe’s pick for a running mate could be especially significant in the upcoming election. That brings me to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard from the great state of Hawaii.

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complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses. For example, Biden received a student deferment during the Vietnam War, while Gabbard is an Iraq War veteran. Biden supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, while Gabbard is opposed to such “regime change wars” which unnecessarily cost human and financial resources. Gabbard supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and was critical of the DNC’s favoritism to Hillary. Biden is a getalong-go-along politician who works and plays well with the Democratic establishment. Gabbard has come under fire for her earlier opposition to gay marriage, while it was Biden who pushed Obama into supporting same-sex marriage. Joe avoids political confrontations while Tulsi wades into them, as evidenced by her attack on Harris for locking up thousands of marijuana users while joking about smoking weed. Biden and Gabbard also complement each other in terms of age.

Joe would be 78 during his first year in office, and Tulsi, as his vice president, would only be 40. That’s important because, if elected, I don’t think Joe will seek a second term, and his stepping down could give Tulsi a chance to break the glass ceiling in 2024.

Joe Biden’s driving ambition is to right the ship of state by restoring dignity to the office of the President, and civility to public discourse. He wants to curb domestic terrorism and rid our nation of assault weapons. And, he wants to restore our image abroad, by dealing with our allies and adversaries maturely.

I believe Congresswoman Gabbard would serve him well in that mission. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

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f some key part of rock ’n’ roll is about rambling, then Nikki Hill and her band are tapped into the essence of the music. Hill, who grew up in Durham and now lives in New John Adamian Orleans, probably @johnradamian spends about nine months out of the year on the road, Contributor playing all over the country and all over the world. When you ask Hill about where she lives and how that might shape her music, she chuckles and says that it’s probably more meaningful to talk about her intense travel schedule and the effect that has on her sound.

Hill and her band will return to familiar turf next week, playing three shows in North Carolina, including a performance at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro on Sept.

6. (Hill and her husband Matt, the guitarist in the band, both met in the Triangle area in 2005.)

I spoke to Hill earlier this week as they made their way back to New Orleans for a brief bit of time off before hitting the road again. By the end of October, Hill and her band will be playing a string of dates across Germany.

She’s a dynamic frontwoman and vocalist. The kind of rock that Hill plays is a direct continuation of the stylistic cross-pollination and evolutions that have characterized the music since the beginning. It’s always been possible to hear the stomp and grit of John Lee Hooker in the coiled, chrome-plated riffage of AC/ DC. Hill and her band take that muscular,

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snarling, scuzzy, bar boogie — the devil’s music, celebrating sex, booze, the open road and wild freedom — and reinject it with a growling soul, some Memphis strut and sizzle. Workmanlike drumming and gleaming twin-guitar interplay give Hill a sturdy foundation on which to build.

You can definitely trace strains of Otis Redding, Ike and Tina Turner, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, and Chuck Berry in the sound. Or, put another way, you can hear the swagger of the Rolling Stones, Humble Pie and the Faces, and the other bands that soaked up rock ‘n’ roll, the blues and other flavors of American music. You might detect some rockabilly here and some dancehall/reggae-inflected grooves there. It’s eclectic, but it’s not whiplash-y. All of the threads braid together naturally enough.

The ability to pull the different components together, to make the most of contrasts without disorienting the listener, those are all part of being an entertainer.

Hill said she picked up many of the fundamentals of working an audience while singing in church as a kid.

“There’s no better place to learn showbiz 101 than the Baptist Church,” Hill said. “It’s a show. It gives you the beginning, middle and end; you watch how the pastor ebbs and flows with the crowd-the swells, the call-and-response. It’s incredible.”

She also credits her formative years as a teenager going to all-ages shows or sneaking into venerable Chapel Hill clubs like the Cat’s Cradle or Local 506, seeing legendary Triangle-area acts such as Southern Culture On The Skids, Dexter Romweber, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers, all of whom mined the musical past in creative ways. As a young person obsessed with live music and exploring old music, Hill said she was lucky to connect with a group of like-minded music nerds.

Finding herself “most of the time being the only black woman around,” Hill began a process of probing the central role that African American women played in what became rock ‘n’ roll. That’s something she enjoys reminding others of as well.

“This legacy is so wide,” she said, pointing to the connections to gospel, blues and roots music. “There’s something about the history of it that really caught me.”

Hill released her third record, Feline Roots, last year. If her career started out playing rock, blues and soul covers, she soon found herself wanting to write her own material and to showcase her originals.

“I thought it was gonna take me months to write a song, but every time I wrote one, I wanted to write another,” she said. “I was coming up with ideas, and they definitely have a mind of their own.

Writing has become this cathartic thing.”

Navigating the challenges of the world, coping with the uncertainties of romance and the indignities of the workplace, holding one’s head up and getting what one wants out of life — those are the themes that Hill returns to. As one song from the newest record concisely put it: “Don’t Be The Sucker.” Elsewhere, like on “Poisoning the Well,” she brings a punk-soul edge to her questions about the state of things: “Why can’t we live our lives [and] not be terrorized by hate and greed?” Hill can howl, moan and belt. She has a full voice that she knows how to push to get just the right amount of brass or grit.

Hill has a degree in exercise physiology, and she’s worked as a bartender, too, so she’s no stranger to working up a sweat and late hours, both of which serve her well as a stage performer. Still, as much as she and her husband are pursuing a dream, making music together, traveling the world and carving out a career on their own terms, with the effort that goes into organizing tours, recording sessions, record pressings, T-shirts, marketing and the whole complex logistics of keeping a band together, Hill said being on the road or up on stage is the ultimate payoff.

“It’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever done,” Hill said. “But it’s always a trip to see where your music takes you.” !

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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BARTENDER: Darrick Bernard Long BAR: Elm Street Lounge AGE: Too old and too southern to answer that.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Chapel Hill, North Carolina HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 9 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I worked as support staff at the Black Bird in Asheville, North Carolina.

I used to bake cakes for our employee meetings. I started making them for the bar manager. When I made him a hummingbird cake, I shared a story of a drink my grandmother taught me to make.

Recognizing the ingredients, he knew the drink by another name. The next day I came to work as a barback.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Lately, Manhattans have been on the brain.

In particular the Brooklyn, which adds Luxardo to the classic Manhattan recipe. The rich cherry flavor of the Maraschino liqueur is wildly fantastic to me.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? The thing I enjoy most about bartending is when the guest has never had a cocktail by me and after having the first sip their face lights up.

Seeing a person captured by the flavor and aroma of something I created is priceless.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? There’s too many to name one. I enjoy making that drink my grandmother had after her hummingbird (the Sazerac), but I also really enjoy making Martini’s with their sultry simplicity or any of the classics bound in history and lore.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? I like my drinks the way the strong Southern women who raised me liked theirs: Room temperature and straight from the bottle. Templeton 6-year-rye, or Makers 46 in moderation, of course.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? I’ve seen a lot. The first time I saw a Bartender use fresh eggs white in a drink, I thought it was crazy.

Then I tasted an egg white amaretto sour in all its velvet splendor. When I think of the older cocktails, I get excited about how difficult it must have been to create such depth of flavor with so few resources immediately tangible. It’s crazy; I suppose how blessed we are today to have such access.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? Tbh the biggest tips are the ones that will stay with me a lifetime. I was given a book called the “Drunken Botanist,” or another time I was told to follow the Educated Barfly on YouTube. Those tips in the form of knowledge are most valuable.

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your suspicions about a colleague might be on the mark. But you also could be misreading the signals you believe you’re getting. Do some discreet checking before jumping to conclusions.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) You might have to work harder this week to get people to listen to what you have to say. But if you stay with it, you could start to get your message out to many by week’s end.

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Take some time out from your many tasks and see if someone might be trying to reach out to you. You could be surprised to learn who it is and why you might want to reciprocate.

ary 19) Although family matters again take up a big chunk of the Goat’s time, the week also offers a chance to explore a new career move you’d been contemplating for a while.

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You still might want to do more investigating before taking on a new commitment. Later would not be the time to try to fill in any crucial gaps in what you need to know about it.

18) Applying your practicality (what does it offer me?) and your creativity (how can I improve on it?) could provide sound reasons for seriously considering that new offer.

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The single set will find that keeping their romantic aspirations on high gives Cupid a better target to aim at. Paired Pisces will find that this week helps reinforce their relationships.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Changing your mind doesn’t come easily for Lambs, who place a high value on commitment.

But new facts could emerge that might persuade you to rethink your situation.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a good time to put that fine Bovine’s eye for beauty to work in redecorating your home or workplace. And don’t forget to indulge yourself in some personal time as well.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your sense of loyalty to someone who asks for your help is commendable. But make sure there are no information gaps that should be filled in before you move too far too quickly.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Don’t let difficult people raise the Crab’s ire levels this week. Avoid them if you can. If not, resist telling them off, even if you think they deserve it. Things improve by week’s end. © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I met a guy, and he was very enthusiastic, calling and texting multiple times every day, almost obsessively.

Soon after, I was havAmy Alkon ing a really bad week: too much work, health issues with my Advice parent...just really Goddess vulnerable. He said stuff like “I’d never leave you,” “I’ll never run away.” Well, a couple of days later, he just vanished. I blocked him after two days of no contact, and I feel kind of bad. All my girlfriends think it was too harsh, but my guy friends think it was the right thing to do and said they block people all the time. Why the difference in opinion? — Ghosted Being in a relationship can have some costs, but ideally, they don’t include hiring a private detective with a team of tracking dogs.

It actually isn’t surprising that your male and female friends have differing reactions to your blocking the dude. Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen’s research suggests that women are born empathizers in a way men are not — meaning that from early childhood on, women are driven to notice and identify others’ emotional states.

They tend to be deeply affected by others’ feelings and are emotionally triggered into a sort of fellow feeling (empathy). Men, on the other hand, tend to be “systemizers,” driven from early childhood on to identify

the “underlying rules” of the inanimate world, like those governing the operation of machines, abstractions (such as numbers), and objects (like a soaring baseball).

Of course, men aren’t without empathy.

But research consistently finds women higher in empathy than men. Law professor and evolutionary scientist Kingsley Browne observes in “Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars” that women’s “greater empathy may be responsible for the heightened guilt and anxiety that women feel about acting aggressively.”

Browne cites brain imaging research by neuroscientist Tania Singer that suggests men’s empathy for a wrongdoer “may be more easily ‘switched off,’” and observes that “men’s diminished empathy for those who ‘deserve’ punishment probably increases their willingness to kill the enemy” in war.

The thing is, biology is not destiny. Recognizing that you, as a woman, might have a propensity to be “nice” to people who don’t deserve it can prompt you to recheck your decisions to go easy on somebody.

Don’t expect it to feel comfortable at first when you stand up for yourself; you’re bucking countless centuries of evolved human female psychology. In time, however, acting empowered should start to feel right — meaning you’ll be all “Of course!” about blocking a guy who doesn’t get that just disappearing is acceptable only for a tiny subgroup of beings: those whose workstation is a magician’s top hat.

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term boyfriends are not the super hot ones.

My current boyfriend is attractive but not even close in hotness to some of the guys I’ve had one-nighters with in the past. I’ve noticed this pattern in female friends’ guys, too. Why is this a thing? — Interested There’s a certain kind of man a woman looks to date exclusively...for three to five hours.

I often cite research from evolutionary psychology that finds that women across cultures prioritize finding a man who’s a “provider.” A man’s appearance isn’t unimportant, but context — whether a woman’s going for a long-term or shortterm thing with a man — is a factor in how much it matters. Not surprisingly, if a guy is a potential husband, a woman’s more likely to make do with, say, a dad bod and a weak chin than if she sees him as a potential hookup — a disposable himbo, a single-use Adonis.

A possible evolutionary explanation for this is the “sexy son hypothesis.” Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that “by mating with an especially attractive man, a woman might be able to bear a son who is especially attractive to women in

the next generation. Her son might have increased sexual access, produce more children, and hence might provide his mother with additional grandchildren.”

There is support for this idea in research by biological anthropologist David Waynforth, which finds that ladies on the hookup track prefer men with more masculine facial features — a la square-jawed superheroes. Hookup-minded women likewise favor more muscular men (according to research by social psychologist Michael J. Bernstein).

However, when a woman needs to make trade-offs between hunkaliciousness and character to land a long-term partner, it surely pays to relax a little on physical criteria: go for a really good man who’s good enough in the looks department. “Good enough”? He doesn’t have to be smokin’ hot, but he can’t be so uggo that you need to reassure him, “Not to worry! My sex drive will come back...um, when you’re on the mantelpiece in an urn.” !

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