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Changes are in store for the beautiful Historic Brookstown Inn, and there is no better way to introduce folks to what is to come than by having one of our Chef’s Tables. Last week’s Triadfoodies Chef’s Table featured CHEF MARY ALLISON UTLEY, who was recently brought on as chef at the Inn. 10 For those who remember, the early 1980s were a time of economic hardship, with a recession hanging over the country like a dark cloud. For those who remember, the late 1970s and early 1980s marked THE HEYDAY of wacky radio gimmicks and disc jockey stunts that, to some extent, prefigured the reality-T.V. craze.

11 On Aug. 4 the White Oak Amphitheatre at the Greensboro Coliseum will be screaming “YES!” as the progressive rock legends and 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Yes take the stage, and kick off the first show of their Yestival Tour. The show begins at 7 p.m. and general admission tickets are $29.50.

12 EUGENE CHADBOURNE’s first gig in Greensboro didn’t go so well. “The very first night we played in North Carolina,

we got thrown out of the place immediately,” Chadbourne said. Chadbourne is a wide-ranging guitarist, banjo player, bold experimentalist, avant-folkie, improviser and relentless interpreter of a vast musical canon ranging from Sun Ra, to J.S. Bach, Doug Sahm, the Rolling Stones, T.L.C and Katy Perry.

20 The logical companion piece to the summer hit Baby Driver, ATOMIC BLONDE is another movie largely defined by its cool-as-ice characters, its actionpacked set-pieces, and its awesome mix tape of classic tunes readily available for iTunes download.

24 Greensboro has become an important stop for comic book writers and artists promoting their work. On Friday and Saturday, the creators of two ballyhooed titles from competing publishers will be at two different comic book shops in the town that has been officially named “COMIC BOOK CITY, USA” by the Greensboro City Council.

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WHAT: In this hilarious story of three brothers, Tom and his wife are about to adopt a baby. His brothers are anxious to help make a good impression on the woman from the agency who has arrived to check on the home and lifestyle of the prospective parents. Unfortunately Dick, who has stashed boxes of smuggled brandy and cigarettes in the house, and Harry, who is in possession of a cadaver he is planning to sell illegally to a medical school, fail miserably.

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WHAT: Jon’s blues-based songwriting and solid guitar work make for a very entertaining show. Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter who’s been turning heads for years with his words, his fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.

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WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

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WHAT: The Levitt AMP Greensboro Music Series returns for a second season of TEN FREE concerts at Barber Park. Join us on August 5th to enjoy poet, educator, and entertainer, Josephus III. The Poetry Cafe, Greensboro is a monthly open mic event and a weekly radio show on WNAA 90.1FM. This event will be sponsored by ITG Brands.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] MY BAGELS AND MORE

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

Greensboro’s newest bagel shop owner Steven Maschi wants the people of Greensboro and surrounding areas to know one thing above all else about My Bagels and More located on 5705 Inman Rd. “We are a lot more than just a bagel shop, that’s the difference,” Maschi said.

Maschi said My Bagels and More is a restaurant with weekly specials that serves unique bagel creations, such as bagelwiches, all day breakfast, deli sandwiches, signature 100 percent beef hot dogs and they even have a coffee and bakery bar. Maschi said the price of food at My Bagels and More varies because there are so many different items to choose from.

Maschi said the weekly specials comes with a side and a drink as well as other fixings; this week’s special is a Bagel Poor Boy with shrimp and it comes with crab cakes, asparagus, hollandaise sauce and a drink all for $11. Regular menu items typically average out to be $6 to $8. Maschi said the real deals are in the all day breakfast options, which is priced at $5 or less. For the health conscious, Maschi said, they also serve salads with freshly made dressings.

While My Bagels and More lives up to its name, (especially the “and more” part) Maschi said bagels are still the heart of the business. My Bagels and More is owned and operated by Maschi and his two children, his daughter works front of house and his son is a chef. My Bagels and

More opened on June 21 and Maschi said it has been a very successful first month for him and his crew.

“We are getting a lot of recognition from the local community,” Maschi said.

Speaking of recognition, Maschi said My Bagels and More was featured on FOX Channel 8 news the other night. Maschi said the coverage really gave My Bagels and More a jump in business for the summer.

“It turned out real well and we got a great response from it,” Maschi said.

Maschi is not new to the bagel business, before he moved to Greensboro he had a small bagel shop in Long Island, New York. Maschi said him and his son got together with other chef-friends and decided to open up My Bagels and More.

“We took off from there, it has been full steam ahead since we opened up,” Maschi said.

Maschi said he is a supervisor at a trucking company and he moved to the Triad for his job.

“We just decided to make the leap of faith,” Maschi said. “Some of the products that we are selling we felt like there was a need for it so we brought down our New York style bagels down here, as well as our signature hot dogs and French fries.

Maschi said he can’t decide his most favorite item on the menu but assures that there are so many good options to choose from.

“That is hard to tell, we have our signature bagel, and there are 12 of them and each one is better than the other,” Maschi said.

Some of their specialty bagel combinations include chicken ‘n’ bagels and a prime rib bagelwhich. Maschi said to accompany their signature bagels, there are 20 different flavors of cream cheese and 12 different flavors of butter, which is all custom made at My Bagels and More.

“I can’t pinpoint one thing that I like, because I like it all,” Maschi said. “The hot dogs are amazing we have seven signature dogs including the Bronx dog and Windy City dog.”

Maschi said he not only wants to serve the community by offering the best bagel combinations in town, but also by employing over 20 members of the Greensboro community. Maschi said in the near future they will open their drive-thru window as well as offer catering services.

Maschi’s message to readers would be come and enjoy the bagels, but “remember, it is My Bagels and More and the ‘more’ stands for a lot, lot more.” !

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A Chefí s Table with Ali Utley of the Historic Brookstown Inn

hanges are in store for the beautiful Historic Brookstown Inn, and there is no better way to introduce folks to what is to come than by having Kristi Maier one of our Chefí s @triadfoodie Tables. Last weekí s Triadfoodies Chefí s Table featured Chef Contributor Mary Allison Utley, who was recently brought on as chef at the Inn. Our Chefí s Table series and my podcast, ì At the Table with Triadfoodies,î are all an opportunity to introduce a chef that you need to know. Chef Utley, who we know as Ali, has worked in many capacities at many iconic restaurants in Winston≠ Salem. ìI started out at age 14 or 15 at Rainbow News and Cafe and basically worked my way up,î she said.

Utley worked at the former Christo≠ pherí s Global Cuisine and ran the Millen≠ nium Center kitchen. Most recently, Utley was employed at Meridian Restaurant, where she was a sous chef for Chef Mark Grohman. She said she loved working at Meridian and was able to hone≠i n many of hers skills from working there. ìT hings have changed over the last sev≠ en years or so in this industry,î Utley said. ìI learned early on that Ií d learn more just by watching. But now, people are much DWSP_Music17_Chronicle_8-5-17.pdf more willing to share their knowledge, 1 and thatí s how Ií ve been able to grow.î

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1 Utley is the reserved and quiet≠ type, so this was a big moment for her. Sheí s not one to go on≠ and≠ on about herself, and you can tell her passion is in the food, the experimentation and the experience. Chef Utley dazzled us with Baltic and Turk≠ ish avors in a departure from any other Chefí s Table that weí ve had.

First Course Vegetable Borek Ití s a Greek dish (similar to spanakopita 6/21/17 9:27 AM in outward appearance but stuffed with cauli ower) with Tasmanian farmerí s

2 cheese, fava beans, spices and a tart and tangy gastrique.

Second Course Garden Salad with Pickled Vegetables A simple salad to cleanse the palate served with beets, peppers, olives and feta cheese.

Third Course Pork Cepelinai Also known as a zeppelin, for its shape.

This course was a wonderfully comforting little dumpling lled with pork and po≠

3 tato. Rather than traditional sour brown gravy on top, the chef topped it with char≠ donnay butter and sautÈ ed mushrooms. I couldí ve eaten an entire plate of it.

Fourth Course Lamb Lollipops with Chickpea and Apricot Tagine The lamb rack lollipops were tender and perfectly cooked, and the chickpeas were aromatic. It felt almost stew≠ like but not heavy at all on a hot summer day.

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4 Fifth Course Semolina Cake with Greek Yogurt, Rose Gelee & Pistachios A lightly sweetened cake that had almost the texture of corn meal due to the semolina. It was slightly floral with the jam, and the pop of tartness from the yogurt made for a lovely contrast of flavors.

It was also topped with some pistachios to add a crunchy texture.

Utley wears many hats at the Inn; In addition to being a chef there and cooking for multiple events, breakfasts, luncheons and dinners, she’s also taken on the title of food and beverage director. On the night of our Chef’s Table, Utley had been in the kitchen since 6:30 a.m. and had serviced two other huge meals earlier that day.

That’s quite a day, and despite that, the

5 chef took the opportunity at Brookstown because of her husband, Paul Magee, who stepped in as executive chef. He was also a part of the culinary team at our Chef’s Table. Now, the couple can spend more time together and have more time for their daughters at home outside of the busy restaurant life.

“It’s nice because we kind of have a blank slate here,” she said. “We’re revamping the menu for catering, and I will be able to try new things.”

The Brookstown Inn is known for being a revamped mill for Salem Manufacturing, one of the first mills in the south to use electric lighting. Now, it is a hotel with 70 guest rooms and conference and catering space, and its history is apparent every where you look. Many wedding receptions

and parties have been held there, including special holiday, chef-driven dinners for Valentine’s Day. But just two weeks ago, Brookstown’s Cotton Mill Lounge opened its doors in a test run of serving small plates along with a full bar of libations. Ben Weber, of American Premium Beverage, attended the Chef’s Table said, “It’s exciting what they are doing. They have a vision of becoming part of the amazing food scene here.”

We’d say the Brookstown Inn and The Cotton Mill Lounge are well on their way.

Utley told us she’s looking forward to how the Brookstown Inn’s future will take shape, as she likes the challenge of trying new things. “If you’re not trying to grow, to find the next challenge or the next new

thing or to learn, it’s all a waste of time.” !

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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The Historic Brookstown Inn is available for guest suite bookings, receptions or conferences. The Cotton Mill Lounge full bar with pub fare is open Thursday through Saturday in the evenings.

Our next Chef’s Table heads to Greensboro’s Tessa Farm to Fork, where we’ll get to know Chef Caleb Smallwood a bit better and he’ll surprise us with a tasting of multiple plates. For details and tickets, check out the event on the triadfoodies Facebook page.

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Life on high with a view of Route 22

or those who remember, the early 1980s were a time of economic hardship, with a recession hanging over the country like a dark cloud. For those Mark Burger who remember, the late 1970s and early 1980s marked the Contributor heyday of wacky radio gimmicks and disc jockey stunts that, to some extent, prefigured the reality-T.V. craze.

One such stunt was cooked up by the minds at WSAN 1470-AM in Allentown, Pennsylvania, not far from Philadelphia.

In 1982, the station sponsored a promotion that would see three contestants live on the WSAN billboard in town, with the person who stayed the longest winning an $18,000 mobile home. The closing of Bethlehem Steel had recently rocked the region, so the recession was particularly hard on its residents.

For Ron Kistler, Mike MacKay and Dalton Young, the contest was more than just a lark; it was a mission. No one, least of all the people at WSAN, expected them to stay any longer than 30 days. But they didn’t count on the sheer determination of the three men, who remained bound to the billboard for six months, despite punishing winter weather and, according to an archived article from 1983 by the United Press International, one drugrelated arrest.

The event coincided with the release of Billy Joel’s hit song “Allentown,” inspired

by the city’s economic travails. “Allentown” remained on the Billboard charts for over 20 weeks. The “Billboard Boys” remained on the billboard even longer.

Now, this “Rust Belt Fairy Tale” comes to life in a feature documentary titled, appropriately enough, Billboard Boys, produced by Owl Town Productions, which is based in Philadelphia.

For producer Frank Petka and director Pat Taggart, the principals of Owl Town, this story was simply a faded memory from their childhood. The filmmakers have been friends for over 20 years and production partners for over 10. In this exclusive interview with YES! Weekly, they’ve chosen to answer collectively as opposed to individually.

“We were just kids when the story took place,” they said. “And while Allentown

was just a short ride from our homes in Philadelphia, we were wrapped up in cartoons – not current events. We learned about the Billboard contest when a local newspaper did a 30-year (retrospective) article. We read it, were fascinated, and dove in head-first.”

Having produced television programming, short films and features (most notably the 2011 romantic comedy 99 Percent Sure), this would be their maiden voyage into documentary filmmaking.

“It was a lot of fun and a great education to navigate those waters together,” they said. “Frank worked tirelessly to locate and then earn the trust of anyone intimately connected to the contest.

Obviously, the two most important relationships that needed to be built were with the surviving ‘billboarders,’ (as Mike

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Once they got on board, the project had legitimacy.”

For its time, the story of the “Billboard Boys” proved surprisingly popular, with attention extending beyond the Philadelphia area to Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and even international coverage. Phil Donahue devoted an entire show to the event, which as time went on became something of an embarrassment for WSAN’s management, with even the contestants airing their grievances – from atop the billboard, naturally. (Ironically, for all that attention, WSAN’s ratings and revenue didn’t improve much.)

“We like to think of this as a documentary that plays like a narrative, so first and foremost we just want audiences to enjoy the ride,” the filmmakers said. “Also, we hope that people admire the persistence of these three men as much as we do, and realize that they became symbols for so many other people in America at the time. And, finally, we want viewers to ask themselves: ‘How long could I have lived up there?’”

The filmmakers said they were very proud and grateful to have had the opportunity to tell a story that needed to be told. “People Magazine called this ‘a perfect story’ for a reason; every element of a truly great tale was in place and needed zero fabrication,” they said. “It’s a slice of Americana that sat on a shelf collecting dust for over three decades, and like the contest – which made waves around the globe – we want to share our story with the world.” !

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Yestival to kick off in Greensboro

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On Aug. 4 the White Oak Amphitheatre at the Greensboro Coliseum will be screaming “yes!” as the progressive rock legends and 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Yes take the stage, and kick off the first show of their Yestival Tour.

The show begins at 7 p.m. and general admission tickets are

$29.50.

This August and September, the Yestival Tour will be traveling across the United States with special guest Todd Rundgren. According to their press release, opening for the band is Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy Tour honoring “the magic of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.” Along with that will be their greatest hits from the 1969 album Yes until the 1980 album Drama including the songs “Roundabout” and “Starship Trooper.” This tour will showcase the “storied history of one of the world’s most influential, ground-breaking, and respected progressive rock bands.”

The press release stated that Yes will travel across the U.S. through early September, stopping in such markets as Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, with more to be announced soon.

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Yes is composed of Steve Howe, guitarist since 1970; Alan White, drummer since 1972; Geoff Downes, keyboardist who first joined in 1980; Jon Davison, vocalist since 2011 and Billy Sherwood on guitar and keyboards in the 1990s and the late Chris Squire’s choice to take over bass/ vocals in 2015. The band was founded in 1968 by Squire and Jon Anderson. The Grammy-award winning recording artists whose albums Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going For the One and 90125 have all been certified multi-platinum, double-platinum, platinum and more by the Recording Industry Association of America. Yes has sold over 50 million records and has spanned across almost five decades.

Alan White, the drummer spoke with YES! Weekly for an exclusive interview about the upcoming show. You may be chuckling at the irony of YES! Weekly covering the band Yes for their summer Yestival Tour. White chuckled at the irony as well.

He said he was “feeling good” about kicking off the tour in the Triad. He said he expects the crowd to be wonderful.

“We are going to play one song from every album from the 1970s to the 1980s,” White said.

“Which is kind of interesting in itself, and I am actually rehearsing one number at home that I have actually never played on stage. So, that will be kind of different for us and something people might not have heard before.

The stage show that goes along with the music from what I have seen so far, is going to look very spectacular and I think a lot of people will enjoy the message.

Tell the people of Greensboro that we are all looking forward to coming back and we are really looking forward to playing in Greensboro and the first show on our tour.”

After playing their stop in Greensboro, the tour will head two hours northwest to Boone, North Carolina. For more information on the Yestival or to buy tickets to the show, visit their website. !

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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Pyrotechnic, avant-folk provocateur Eugene Chadbourne plays On Pop of the World Studios

E

ugene Chadbourne’s first gig in Greensboro didn’t go so well.

“The very first night we played in North Carolina,” Chadbourne said. “We got John Adamian thrown out of the @johnradamian place immediately.”

This was at a club called the Belstone Contributor Fox, on Tate Street, back in the late 1970s. Chadbourne lived in New York City at the time, but he was touring the south with a Japanese trumpet player, traveling

by Greyhound bus, making stops in Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia and elsewhere. ”I thought that would be a fun experience,” he said. I’m sitting with Chadbourne in the dark at a broken picnic table in a parking lot across the street from The Garage in Winston-Salem, where Chadbourne and his band are about to play their July show. Chadbourne is a wide-ranging guitarist, banjo player, bold experimentalist, avant-folkie, improviser and relentless interpreter of a vast musical canon ranging from Sun Ra, to J.S. Bach, Doug Sahm, the Rolling Stones, T.L.C and Katy Perry.

Chadbourne is wildly prolific, shrugging a guess at how many albums, cassettes or CDs he’s released over the course of his long career.

“I really don’t know,” he said. “I had more than a hundred things on vinyl. I basically stopped counting when CDs came out. It got too confusing.”

The 63 year old has been living in Greensboro for over 35 years, and is well known in experimental and creative music circles.

He’s hammered together a peculiar bridge between the arcane music of idiosyncratic jazz-based innovators like Anthony Braxton and John Zorn (both of whom he’s worked with) and the more ultrabroad, of-the-people stylings of artists like Willie Nelson or North Carolina’s Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Or even the impossibleto-pigeonhole work of soul poets like Gil Scott-Heron or, maybe, split the difference between Captain Beefheart and hep-cat country crooner Roger Miller (both of whom Chadbourne has covered as well).

Chadbourne is, like all of them, an Ameri-

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Eugene Chadbourne, prepared for musical combat. can original. Whether on five-string banjo or electric guitar, often singing, he plays rock classics, country, standards, originals, snippets of classical, jazz, and dance-pop tunes of the day. He’s cited Bugs Bunny and Boris Karloff as influences, which might seem like an off-the-cuff joke, but there’s a mix of madcap effervescence and lurching, stitched-together humor that comes through on a lot of his music.

Take an avant-garde and Pop Art sensibility, with a disregard for hierarchical traditions, a taste for ecstatic excursions into anything-goes terrain, and hungry appropriations from mass culture — apply it all to country music, protest songs, psychedelic rock, jazz, folk and you might arrive at a place that resembles the world of Chadbourne.

If jazz musicians routinely learn their way around over a century of music--pulling from Broadway hits, bebop, soul of the 1970s, Brazilian bossa nova, hard bop, the Beatles, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and more--Chadbourne does something similar, but from a rippling, seemingly endless pool of source material. He might play tunes by Ray Wylie Hubbard, Albert Ayler, the Dead Kennedys, Merle Haggard, John Coltrane, Steppenwolf, Gershwin, Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa.

This kind of feverish omnivorousness might not strike hip music-lovers of the 21st Century as odd, but 30 years ago genre distinctions used to mean a lot more than

they do now. To cross-pollinate the worlds of skronking free jazz and redneck country was unthinkable back in the day. The most radical improvisers of the downtown New York scene — musicians who eagerly embraced the most abrasive and far-flung experiments — couldn’t understand why Chadbourne would play country.

“They thought I was out of my mind playing country and western,” Chadbourne said. “They would ask me stupid questions like ‘Where’s your cowboy hat?’”

One of the reasons Chadbourne said he came to North Carolina was that he couldn’t find drummers who could properly play country in New York City.

Some thought Chadbourne was being ironic, or that he was ridiculing the traditionally conservative values associated with country music. But like the harmonizing hippie rockers of the late 1960s who heard plenty they liked in the Louvin Brothers and Buck Owens, Chadbourne relates to it as music.

“I’m just playing and doing my thing with it, that’s all,” he said. “It doesn’t have to have any extra meaning.”

His thing is, admittedly, sometimes quite a bit different from the buttoned-up vibe of the Grand Ole Opry. Chadbourne’s approach to a cover song is often along the lines of Hendrix doing the National Anthem, complete with pyrotechnic tonal divebombs, abstract smears, skittering rhythmic breaks, abrupt digressions and allusive asides.

This is a man, after all, who invented and made something of a name for himself playing the electric rake. He’s built stringed instruments that used toasters and plungers as well. Though, inventing new sonic contraptions is something he’s sort of stopped doing in recent years, since it became a distraction, both for himself and for over-cautious prospective booking agents, who would sometimes stumble on video clips of the musician playing amplified lawn tools and conclude that the result would be too off-putting for a regular night of listeners. Not knowing that Chadbourne would be more likely to play tunes by Nick Drake or Billy Strayhorn.

“I know it was kind of entertaining for people,” Chadbourne said of the electric rake. “But it is something that hurts people’s ears sometimes. I just kind of lost interest. It’s also an example of — you can do something really brilliant and people

will ignore it, but you do something completely fucking stupid and people want to talk about it.”

Chadbourne’s musical aesthetic contains multitudes, and his life has been similarly all over the place. He was raised in Colorado, but he moved to Calgary, Alberta, to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War. While in Canada, Chadbourne worked at a daily newspaper as a reporter covering the entertainment beat, family living and features. He also got to write about new music, which helped keep him in a steady supply of records for the multiple pirate radio shows he has hosted.

When he got to New York City in the 1970s he entered a high-art downtown scene, one where Chadbourne’s zaniness was probably revolutionary in its own way.

When he moved to North Carolina, people thought that was pretty far out, too. He tours a lot, teaming up with like-minded and agile improvisers (such as WinstonSalem drummer Aaron Bachelder) in other parts of the world, or taking his solo show on the road.

Among the projects he’s preparing for is a Halloween show in Brighton, England, which will include backing by Monty Oxymoron, a former member of punk legends the Damned. In typically counterbalancing fashion, Chadbourne also has an upcoming performance at the venerable Donaueschingen Music Festival in Germany where he’ll be playing portions of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations on five-string banjo.

On the subject of how he decides to venture down a particular stylistic path — whether it’s contemporary radio pop or baroque music — Chadbourne said he doesn’t bother much with what the mass audience is flocking toward.

“Some things are popular then they’re not,” he said. “You never know what’s going to be popular. That’s not something that concerns me one way or another. If I like something, I don’t care if it’s popular or not.” !

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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New theatre struggles, then survives The new Triad Playwrights Theatre looked at more than a dozen local plays by local writers, but found it couldn’t cast any of them. So, rather than giving up, the theatre Director, Jonathan Crow, took the one man who had come to auditions: Pranav Bhandare, an Indian-born actor who came to this country four years ago and wrote a play around him. P.B., as the other actors call him, has been around Indian theatre for years, and worked on the fringes of comedy and diversity groups in New York State for a while. Jonathan, the director then got the mostly female cast together, along with Pranav, and wrote a play about an Indian psychiatrist that Congress appointed to meet with Donald Trump: Dr. Sanjay Banerjee Tumer. (“I hope he’s not a cancer doctor!” one character cracks…) He convinced the Tech Director to play the part of a good ole country boy working in a NYC Flagship TV station, while also the director had to play the part of Bill O’Rourke, late of FOX News. In addition, there is a precocious teen Intern, an icy Sexual Harassment

Monitor, and a harried Station Director who all round out the small cast of 6.

The results are a topical comedy- “The 5th of July-A Comedy” which is full of misadventures and surprises. It plays at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1416 Bolton St., in Winston Salem on August 10, 11, and 12th at 8 pm. Tickets are $8.00 cash/ check only at the door. !

Uplift Girls program launches

How to Preserve your Harvest

City Arts and Joyemovement Dance have joined resources to start a new all girl’s group, Uplift Girls. Uplift Girls invites all girls ages 9-18 who want to join an open discussion group where they can talk about their experiences, situations and problems. The first meeting is Monday, August 7, 2017 from 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm at the Caldcleugh Multicultural Center, 1700 Orchard Street in Greensboro.

The girls will examine essential questions such as: Who Am I? and Who Do I Want To Become? They will participate in dance and yoga, field trips and creative projects which will further develop their skills in the following four main components: Self-Care, Entrepreneurship, Movement and Global Citizenship.

The project goal is for girls to go from limited choices to limitless opportunity and leadership in their community.

For more information, contact Alexandra Joye Warren, Program Director at Alexandra.Warren@greensboro-nc.com.

The Caldcleugh Organic Outreach Garden offers “ How to Preserve your Harvest”.

Todd Fisher from City Arts will demonstrate how to dehydrate, pickle and ferment fresh vegetables. All produce will come from Caldcleugh’s Organic Outreach Garden.

The class will take place at the Caldcleugh Multicultural Art Center, 1700 Orchard Street, Greensboro on Tuesday, August 8 , from 6:30-7:30 pm. Seats are limited. Call Todd Fisher at 336-373-2974 to make a reservation today.

A donation of $5 is suggested. These donations enable City Arts to provide qualtity educational classes throughout the year. !

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BY MATT BRUNSON The logical companion piece to the summer hit Baby Driver, Atomic Blonde ( ) is another movie largely defined by its cool-as-ice characters, its action-packed set-pieces, and its awesome mix tape of classic tunes readily available for iTunes download. But whereas Baby Driver (the better picture, though not by much) loses some tread during its final act, this adaptation of the graphic novel The Coldest City feigns in the opposite direction, getting off to a rocky start before blossoming into something rousing and rejuvenating.

Charlize Theron, newly minted action star thanks to her fast and Furiosa turn in Mad Max: Fury Road, is equally as kick-ass here — she’s Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent operating in Berlin at the tail end of the Cold War. Landing in the divided city just as the Berlin Wall is about to collapse, Lorraine must find out who killed a fellow operative while also locating an explosive list that contains the names of double agents. She’s ordered by her MI6 superiors

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(Toby Jones and James Faulkner) to hook up with the department’s agent in Berlin, a live wire named David Percival (James McAvoy), but she also comes into contact with a gruff CIA agent (John Goodman), a mysterious woman (Sofia Boutella) who’s been following her, and assorted other players in the spy game.

Atomic Blonde is the sort of movie in which nothing is as it seems, as scripter Kurt Johnstad serves up a full menu of double-crosses, triple-crosses, false identities, and startling character revelations. Some of it doesn’t work (the film reveals its hand regarding McAvoy’s Percival far too soon), but the flurry of activity at least is consistent with the rest of the movie’s kinetic approach. David Leitch, a former stuntman on such films as The Bourne Ultimatum and 300, made his directorial debut (albeit uncredited) alongside Chad Stahelski on 2014’s John Wick, but his work on Atomic Blonde is far more impressive. There’s a lengthy fight sequence in this picture that’s among the best of recent times — filmed in one uninterrupted take, it’s less fanciful and more realistically sloppy than many such filmic fisticuffs, as characters can barely stand even as they continue to wallop each other.

As noted, the soundtrack is superb, even if it isn’t always as hardwired into the action as cleverly as the songs in Baby Driver.

For instance, After the Fall’s “Der Komissar” figures prominently in one scene, the sole reason apparently being that — whaddaya know! — the song title is in German and this movie is set in Germany.

Then again, the film does open with one brilliant David Bowie song — “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” — and closes with another brilliant Bowie tune (not telling), so let’s not be too harsh on Leitch for turning to his iPod to score the picture. Like his personal playlist, Atomic Blonde rocks.

If the minds behind The Guinness Book of World Records ever elect to add a category called “Most Walkouts For A Single Movie,” then I expect writer-director David Lowery’s A Ghost Story ( ) might have a shot at grabbing the tarnished-brass ring. Moving at the speed of molasses trying to drip up a wall, the movie clocks in at just over 90 minutes, yet many fidgety viewers will swear it runs at least four hours. One five-minute scene consists of nothing more than Rooney Mara’s character eating an entire chocolate pie, and if there’s any sequence in the movie likely to leave an audience member shrieking in frustration and bolting for the adjacent auditorium showing The Emoji Movie, it’s probably this one.

Yet for those who can get attuned to its leisurely approach, A Ghost Story proves to be a fascinating watch. Lowery’s decision to have his film move with the speed of a turtle with four broken legs is a deliberate one, tying into the piece’s themes regarding love, loss, identity, and time. Especially time.

At its center is a young couple identified only as C (Casey Affleck) and M (Mara).

The two are in love, with one of their relatively few conflicts coming from the fact that M wants to move from their present

house while C wants to remain there.

One day, C is killed in a car accident just outside the home, but he soon returns as a ghost. Intriguingly, the ghost isn’t some CGI specter or a Patrick Swayze hunk but rather a figure in a white sheet, the sort seen in Peanuts strips and in costume shops come Halloween. C remains in the house over the years/decades/centuries, and just when it seems the movie can’t possibly get any more existential, a leap is taken (both literally and figuratively) that spins it in a new direction.

Aside from one interlude with a chatty hipster (Will Oldham), the dialogue is kept to a bare minimum, another tactic that makes the movie feel longer than its actual running time. Yet Lowery’s approach is key in providing the picture with its melancholy mood, and he’s backed by a score from Daniel Hart that only emphasizes the pervading wistfulness. A mournful rumination on not only what it means to be human but also what it means to be something else entirely, A Ghost Story is a haunting experience no matter how you slice it. !

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The smart, sophisticated pulp fiction of Jane Rice

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BY IAN MCDOWELL

I like corn on the cob, men’s pajamas, zoos and ghost stories, and I dislike galoshes, mathematics, people who put burnt matches back into the box, surrealism and stewed tomatoes.”

So Jane Dixon Rice told Ladies Home Journal in 1946, three years after the fantasy magazine for which she wrote her most famous stories ceased publication and a decade and a half before she moved to Greensboro.

I lived here for over a decade before learning she was alive and local. As a teenager, I’d collected old pulp fantasy magazines, including Unknown, the shortlived, yet influential one that published much of her best work before being killed by wartime paper shortages in 1943. In 1997, horror and suspense writer David J. Schow told me that he was a huge fan of hers. He said when he was in North Carolina working on the script for the 1994 film The Crow, he kept meaning to come to Greensboro to meet her but never did. Although he told me I should seek her out, I never did either, and she died here in 2003 at the age of 89.

Life is a litany of lost opportunity. Just ask Fred Chappell, the award-winning Greensboro professor, poet and novelist I profiled for YES! Weekly in April. Fred began teaching at University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1964, a year or so after Jane Rice moved here, and is an admirer of her stories, “The Idol of the Flies” and “The Refugee.” Fred never met her, either, but his regret led him to suggest that I write this article. At Fred’s urging, and with the aid of writer and editor James Rockhill, who wrote the afterword to a posthumous collection of her fantasy and horror stories, I tracked down her extremely kind and gracious son John Rice Jr. He was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1937, when his mother was 24, and he moved to the Triad in the early 1970s, as his parents had 10 years before. A few weeks ago, I sat with John Rice Jr. and asked him to tell me about the mother he called “a very remarkable woman.”

He said his mother was born Jane Dixon in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1913 and was in the same family that the Mason-Dixon line was named after. He said his grandfather helped develop the X-ray, which led to his early death because of the exposure to radiation. John Rice Jr. said his mother was educated at Saint Mary’s of

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Illustration by Ed Cartier for Jane Rice’s “The Crest of the Wave” in the magazine Unknown Worlds, June 1941.

Illustration by Edward Gorey for Jane Rice’s “The Refugee” when it was reprinted in the hardcover anthology Monster Festival, edited by Eric Protter, Vanguard Press, 1965.

Jane Rice in later life.

Notre Dame and Yale where she received a degree in Cytology. She then volunteered to assist with medical situations at Norwalk Connecticut hospital and was very capable of doing support work in the medical field, he said.

Jane Dixon married John Thomas Rice Sr. “in 1932 or 1933.” John Rice Sr. was a representative for textile mills and worked for the American Leather Company before they merged with Elmo Leather in Sweden, a business into which his son would follow, and which would eventually bring both John Rices to the Triad. John Rice Jr. said that his mother began writing when the family was living in Rocky River, Ohio.

“I don’t recall how long they lived there, or when they moved there from Evanston,

Illinois,” he said. “That’s where I spent a far amount of time growing up and went to high school.”

John Rice Jr. candidly admits to not having paid much attention to his mother’s fiction at the time. He said his father was the businessman, and, after their marriage, his mother never had to work, despite having a significant amount of talent and could pursue what she loved, he said. John Rice Jr. said his mother liked to write and “did some experimental things and did some consulting.” She continued to do what she was doing, and then put it on the market as people consulted her to do.

“She took her time because she never had to really work,” he said. “But she had

Illustration by Ed Cartier for Jane Rice’s “The Refugee” when it was first reprinted in From Unknown Worlds, a 1948 one-shot published to test the market for a revival of the magazine killed by wartime paper shortages.

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John Rice with 1948 pulp magazine containing his mother’s story “The Refugee,” presented to him in the apartment of writer Ian McDowell.

Jane Rice with husband John T. Rice Sr. and their son John. a lot of natural talent. She once said ‘the artwork is more famous or more interesting when the artist or writer dies.’ She was not one to promote her stories and artwork, but along the way, more and more people were interested in what she did.”

The only collection of Jane Rice’s fiction is The Idol of the Flies and Other Stories, edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, which the specialty press Midnight House published a limited edition of 500 copies in 2003, right after she died.

It is now out of print, with copies regularly going for several hundred dollars on Amazon and eBay. It contains 22 stories, 11 of which were published in the pulp fantasy magazine Unknown (later renamed Unknown Worlds) between 1940 and the magazine’s demise three years later. Campbell, who helped create what was once called “modern science fiction” (later the “golden age science fiction”) via his editorship of Astounding Stories, conceived of Unknown as a vehicle for a distinctly modern kind of fantasy and horror. In his magazine, ordinary Americans of the 1940s, encountered the supernatural.

Gone were crumbling ruins, overwrought prose, eccentric and hysterical narrators facing eldritch horrors favored by his competition over at Weird Tales, the home of H. P. Lovecraft.

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A. Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon, he considered Rice one of his stars, and praised her prose fulsomely in his blurbs, calling it “beautiful” and “magnificent.”

To this day, she is best remembered for two stories she sold to him, The Idol of the Flies and The Refugee.

While in no way imitative, The Idol of the Flies is in some ways an inversion of Srendi Vashtar, the darkly comic Edwardian classic short story by “Saki” (H. H. Munro). But where that story is about a frail, sympathetic, animal-loving boy who invents his religion to escape the domination of his maiden aunt, the boy in Jane Rice’s story is neither an animal lover nor frail. His invented religion centers not around a captive ferret, but a fetish made of filth that he keeps hidden in a shed, and his cruelty extends to the humans who work for his rich but feeble aunt. It is ultimately a story of just desserts. The boy is so appalling he offends the demonic entity he intuitively worships and is destroyed by it, as well as the insects and other small creatures he’s been torturing.

Rice wrote other memorable stories for Unknown, some funny, some scary and some both. Despite her elegant prose, she could be as hard-boiled as any two-fisted male pulp writer. In The Crest of the Wave, the waterlogged corpse of an obese mobster who’s been given the “cement overshoes” treatment comes back to

wreak soggy vengeance on his mistress and her lover.

Her other most famous story is The Refugee, one of the most reprinted werewolf stories in the English language. Bestselling horror and suspense novelist Peter Straub included it in his massive 2009 Library of America anthology American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now, alongside stories

by Shirley Jackson, John Cheever, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov and Fred Chappell. “I knew nothing of Jane Rice until the critic Gary K. Wolfe suggested I read her,” Straub said when I asked him how her work ended up in his anthology. “Somehow, I came across a copy of that wonderful story. I loved it right away, and thought it was one of the best pulp stories I’d ever read--clear, straight storytelling, in good, tight, effective prose.”

The Refugee also seems slightly influenced by Saki, in this case, his classic darkly comic werewolf story Gabriel-Ernest, although here it’s a woman who discovers a naked young man at sunrise, and the eroticism is heterosexual and more overt.

The story is about an American expat suffering the deprivations of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943, the year it was written.

When Unknown Worlds, as the magazine had been renamed, folded in 1943, Jane Rice turned her attention to “slick” (meaning better paper and binding than

the pulps and better pay for the writers) magazines like Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle and Charm, mostly writing humorous short-shorts with either minimal or nonexistent fantasy elements. Then, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, she wrote a few for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and in the 1980s, a few more for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

Her last story was the novelette The Six Dog, which Necronomicon Press published as a chapbook in 1995. Stephen Jones reprinted it in his anthology The Best New Horror 7 the following year.

“Jane Rice was one of the great unsung heroines of the pulp magazines,” Jones said. “Like Catherine Moore, Leigh Brackett, Margaret St. Clair, Everil Worrell, Francis Garfield and other women writers of the 1930s and 1940s, her work is still not receiving the attention it truly deserves.”

The author wishes to thank John Rice Jr., James Rockhill, Stephen Jones and David J. Schow for their help with this article.

Jane Rice’s “The Refugee” can be read for free online or downloaded as a PDF at the Library of America’s Story of the Week webpage !

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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This weekend brings two big events to “Comic Book City”

BY IAN MCDOWELL Greensboro has become an important stop for comic book writers and artists promoting their work. This Friday and Saturday, the creators of two ballyhooed titles from competing publishers will be at two different comic book shops in the town that has been officially named by the Greensboro City Council, “Comic Book City, USA.” On Aug. 4 from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m., popular and critically-acclaimed writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne will be at Acme Comics on 2150 Lawndale Drive to meet fans and sign copies of their creatorowned fantasy series Curse Words, which its publisher Image Comics describes as, “The Lord of the Rings meets Breaking Bad.” Acme’s Jermaine Exum said wizardbased cosplay is welcome and madness is expected. Previous stops on the tour suggest that one may see a lot of fake beards, regardless of the wearer’s gender.

On Aug. 5, superstar Superman artist Shane Davis will be at Ssalefish Comics on 1622 Stanley Road to greet fans and sign his and DC Comics’ special tribute to the New Gods characters of the late great Jack “the King” Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, the Hulk, the X-Men and the Avengers. Like the Friday event at Acme, this event is free and open to the public.

Jack “the King” Kirby, who passed away in 1994 (and whose 100th birthday will be on Aug. 28), was perhaps the first comic book artist whose style I recognized growing up in the 1960s. Davis discovered Kirby in the 1990s, when he was 12 and found an old copy of the first issue of the comic book legend’s 1970s supernatural series The Demon at a yard sale. He was immediately struck by the cover art and “the way the Demon’s fingertips are coming at you as he jumps off the wall.”

After that, he found Kirby’s 1970s run on Marvel’s Black Panther (a character Kirby created in the 1960s) and the artist’s most important work for Marvel’s rival DC, the New Gods characters that may have influenced George Lucas (villain Darkseid is the father of the hero Orion, and the heroes worship a mystical energy field called the Source).

“Jack Kirby was such a dominating and powerful artist,” Davis said. “It was almost like I wasn’t reading the books, but ‘reading’ the artwork. I particularly loved how he drew crazy old people like the villain Granny Goodness, how he drew their flapping jaws, the way his line work conveyed their craggy facial features and made

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Comic legend Jack Kirby. them look like barking frogs.”

This year DC Comics editor Dan Didio invited well-known creators to pitch special projects for the Jack Kirby centennial. Davis’s first proposal only featured the hero Orion, but “Dan said I should involve the other New Gods, too.” Davis said the finished project, New Gods Special, which was released on Aug. 1, was almost a happy accident. “If I’d known from the start I was going to use not just Orion but almost the whole New Gods cast, I might have choked,” he said.

The day before modern superstar writer-artist Davis is celebrating all-time, superstar writer-artist Jack Kirby at Greensboro’s newest comics shop, Ssalefish, the gonzo lawyer-turned-writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne will be at the city’s oldest one, Acme Comics.

Acme Comics is the only North Carolina stop on their Curse Words Wizard Van Tour 2017. The tour is promoting their new se-

ries about a wizard named Wizord, who with his talking koala Margaret appears one day in New York and announces that he’s arrived from another dimension to defend us all from evil. But is he?

In an email conversation with Soule, I ask him if his and Browne’s book is a reaction against previous fantasies about wizards in the modern world, just as

George R. R. Martin reacted against J. R. R. Tolkien’s heroic and high-minded trilogy of noble characters striving against evil.

“I think you nailed it,” Soule wrote.

“Ryan Browne and I had two goals when developing Curse Words beyond just telling a good story with great art: do something that worked with our respective senses of humor, that would let us just have a blast riffing off each other and making each other laugh; and do something fun. The world is at stake in Curse Words, for sure, but it’s done in an

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“And it was good to me, but I’m much happier telling stories. Thank god enough people seem to be interested in what I write that I get to keep doing it. I like to say that the law gave me discipline, and the ability to see something through no matter how long it takes. Law is full of tedious projects and tasks that culminate in, ideally, a well-crafted argument or brief. Writing fiction is sort of the same.

You do your research, you write a story over a long period of time, then you polish it, and then you’re done. Lawyering/comic writing . . . basically the same gig.”

It looks to be a great weekend for comics fans. I asked Joe Scott, co-owner of Geeksboro Coffeehouse and Cinema, why he thinks this city has become such a comic book nexus. “Greensboro is home to no less than four comic book stores -- three of which are owner operated,” Scott said. “That three different groups of people put up their own money and sacrifice huge chunks of their lives in the name of locally-owned comics retail says something about our city, and comics creators can sense that.” !

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.

enjoyable way - we’re covering a story that has some pretty dark elements with a layer of rich, funny frosting. You should be able to pick up an issue of Curse Words and just have a blast - and then keep thinking about what you read for a while. I think we’ve done a pretty good job getting there.”

I also asked if the series reflects his interest in Asian language and culture, which he’d studied at Columbia along with law. He said he used that more in his run on Marvel’s Daredevil, which also drew on his legal training.

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or not, Curse Words has drawn more from the other non-English language I speak, French. There are a number of French characters, including an anthropomorphic version of the Eiffel Tower that speaks in sort of a mix between broken English and French as it wanders the world looking for meaning and love. Curse Words is that kind of book.”

Readers may be wondering what led someone who’s practiced Immigration and Corporate Law to comics, even if it’s a good background for writing the alteregos of Daredevil and She-Hulk, attorneys Matt Murdock and Jennifer Walters, who are known as the two best lawyers in Marvel Comics.

“The law is wonderful,” Soule wrote.

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[HOROSCOPES]

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) The Full Moon eclipse on August 7, 2017, occurs in the sector of partnerships and clientele. It is time to illuminate and define your relationships, whether business or personal.

Attend to those who rattle chains and complain. Strike a more equal balance between or among you.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) In July I wrote that you are called to protect something or someone. You are the keeper of the flame for now, which means to hold up the spirit and show “the way”.

It is a sacred duty for the present. Now you are called further to verbalize your care, whether that is in speech or writing.

Do not hesitate to answer the summons.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your open-hearted generosity may lead you to bite off more than you can chew this week. There may be more people at the table than you have plates to serve. Do not worry about what people will think. They are aware you’ve almost exceeded your limit of tasks to handle. It will all work out.

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Listen to the Guardian, who speaks to you from the inside. This is a time in which your Guardian will protect you. It is sometimes hard to pick it out from the voice of Ego. If the Voice is flattering you, set it aside. That is not the true Guardian.

The true Guardian offers wisdom, not criticism or flattery.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) If you have been channeling your energy into a project that has positive value for many you may be receiving recognition and applause now.

Others are recognizing the value of your efforts. For many, this time frame represents improvements in a job situation or beneficial changes in job conditions.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You may feel compelled to raise your flag and promote your plans now.

Do some self-searching ahead of time to find your own motive. If it is for the good of all, you will gain support from others.

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Your product or idea is not yet ready for exposure.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) The Full Moon Eclipse occurs in your sign on Aug. 7, 2017. It is possible that you will reveal information that has been hiding in the dark. You may feel compelled to do so for the sake of equality. Check the lead paragraph for more information.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) The Sun is in an uncomfortable aspect to Neptune, your ruling planet. You may not be feeling well. If so, lighten up on your exercise routine and get some extra rest.

Stay out of the hot Sun. You or someone else may be guilting you. Ignore that voice. You don’t have to prove anything to pay for your existence.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Uranus, the god of change and surprise, turns retrograde in your sign this week. This suggests that you may be backing away from a previous direction, opting out instead of opting in. This planet of individuation has one more year of traveling with you before it changes signs. If you are headed for a significant change in life direction, you will probably accomplish it next spring.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Don’t allow fear and pessimism to interfere with your pleasure in life. If something is nagging at you, take a clear and direct look at it. Is there really anything there, or have you invented your own worry? The blues may be your companion for a couple of days over the weekend, but the cloudy time is short.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) An issue has arisen that brings forth your need to protect home, hearth, and family.

The temptation to overspend is strong.

Consider what would be fun and interesting that doesn’t require a big expenditure.

The most important gift is your care and love.

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

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

LEWD SKYWALKER

A guy friend of 20 years and I once fooled around years ago. Though he has a girlfriend, he keeps throwing sexual remarks into our conversations, Amy Alkon sending inappropriate texts, and asking Advice me to send naked Goddess photos. I wouldn’t be interested even if he were single, and I’ve been giving subtle hints, like “ha-ha...gotta go,” right after he says something provocative, but it isn’t working. How do I politely get him to stop without ruining a very long friendship? — Upset As a means of communication, hinting to a man is like having a heartfelt conversation with your salad.

This isn’t to say men are dumb. They just aren’t emotional cryptographers. Social psychologist Judith A. Hall finds that women are generally far better at spotting and interpreting nonverbal messages (from, say, facial expressions and body language, including that female specialty, the pout).

Women tend to use their own ability for decoding unspoken stuff as the standard for what they expect from men. So, for example, the longer a man takes to notice that his girlfriend is pouting (perhaps about what was initially some minor to-do) the darker things get — with hate

glares and maybe some cabinet-slamming...and then, the grand finale: “Hey, heartless! Time for a monthlong reunion with your first sex partner, aka your right hand!”

There’s also a major sex difference in how males and females speak. A body of research finds that from childhood on, males tend to be direct: “Gimme my truck, butthead!” Females tend to be indirect (couching what they want in hints and polite and even apologetic language): “Um, sorry, but I think that’s my Barbie.”

Psychologist Joyce Benenson points out that these conversational sex differences line right up with evolved sex differences in our, uh, job descriptions. Men evolved to be the warrior-protectors of the species. This is not done with coy hints: “Oh, Genghis, you look so much more tan and handsome while invading our neighbors to the north.”

Women’s mealy-mouthing, on the other hand, dovetails with a need to avoid physical confrontation, which could leave them unable to have children or to care for the ones they’ve already had. However, in women’s self-protectively not quite saying what they mean, they trade off being understood — especially by men.

Making matters worse, research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss on the “sexual overperception bias” in men suggests that the male mind evolved to be a bit dense to a woman’s signals that she isn’t interested. Basically, men seem evolutionarily predisposed to make errors in judgment in whether to pursue or keep pursuing a woman — erring in whichever way would be least costly to their mating interests. So, for example, you

might eventually forgive this guy for all the tacky come-ons, but his genes won’t if they miss that vagina-shaped bus into future generations.

In other words, in giving this guy “subtle hints,” you aren’t being polite; you’re being wildly ineffective. Yank off the marshmallow fluff and tell him: “I need you to kill all the sex talk. Immediately. And yes, this includes requests for naked selfies.” (Be prepared to need to repeat yourself.) If he really is a friend, he’ll continue being one.

He might even become a better one — the sort you can call anytime, day or night, from the coldest place on the globe, and he’ll say, “I’ll be there with the sled dogs pronto,” not, “Text me a shot of your boobs before you die of hypothermia!”

EAU GAG ME

I love how my boyfriend smells, but I hate his new cologne. The smell literally makes me queasy. Is it even my place to ask him to stop wearing it? How do I tell him I don’t like it without it being mean? — Plagued Try to focus on the positive: You find him extremely jumpable whenever he isn’t wearing a $185 bottle of what it would

smell like if sewage and verbena had a baby.

Unfortunately, it seems that his cologne and your immune system are poorly matched. Biologist August Hammerli and his colleagues find that a person’s fragrance preferences correlate with their particular set of infectious intruder-tracking genes, called the “major histocompatibility complex.” So, in not liking your boyfriend’s cologne, it isn’t that you think he’s an idiot with bad taste; it’s that your...I dunno, great-great-grandma got it on with some hot peasant with the “verbena smells like dead, rotting chickens” gene.

The science is your way in: “Sadly, your cologne does not play well with my genes...” Cushion the blow with something sweet, like, “I know you love it, and I wish I loved it, too.” Suggest you shop together for a new cologne for him (ideally something that makes you want to get naked, and not just down to your World War II gas mask). !

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

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