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My late father loved the work of award-winning University of North Carolina Greensboro alumna Kelly Cherry, whose newest poetry collection BEHOLDER’S EYE was published August 18 by Groundhog Press. I told her how much one of her most acclaimed works, the 1997 poem “Alzheimer’s,” meant to him and me, and how, even as his memory and awareness dwindled in his last year...

9 On Sept. 5, RED Cinemas in Greensboro will present the world premiere of the dramatic family musical FIND MY WAY – THE MUSICAL, which was filmed on location throughout the Piedmont Triad area and boasts a fresh-faced cast of up-and-coming talent from the region, both in front of and behind the cameras.

10 MATTHEW ARMSTRONG has a broad view of American culture — of American poetry and literature, music and history. It sweeps far back into the past and pulses with electric jolts through the present moment.

17 Phoenix Reading Series Presents STEPHANIE WATTS, to be held 7-9 p.m. on Sept. 7 in the Plato S. Wilson Com-

merce Building Ballroom. Open to the public. Tickets not required. Stephanie Powell Watts won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence...

18 Pattinson’s latest effort in this vein is GOOD TIME, a striking drama directed by sibling filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie. With Josh co-scripting with Ronald Bronstein and Benny co-starring with Pattinson, the brothers certainly have their DNA all over this project...

24 For many of us, the year is halfway over. For Greensboro and Winston-Salem’s TRIAD STAGE, however, late September is just the beginning. With its 17th season to date, this 2017-2018 production season is sure to be anything but boring, with plays and musicals ranging from locally written to award-winning American classics.

25 THE JOHN COLTRANE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL has announced the winners of its Student Essay Contest ahead of its upcoming concert on Sept. 2 through 3 at Oak Hollow Festival Park, located at 1841 Eastchester Dr in High Point.

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

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WHAT: This years TMF will feature three days of festival activities including performances from several artists, a songwriter competition, VIP events, food trucks, and more. AMPD Expo is in its second year and runs parallel to the Triad Music Festival.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Downtown Winston-Salem.

4th Street, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $0-$47 depending on date and ticket type. http://www.rhodesartscenter. org/triad-music-festival/

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

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Lee Street Theatre.

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MORE: $15 tickets.

WHAT: Confronting our deepest fears, Churchills extraordinary play depicts a chilling world where everyone is at war and not even the birds in the trees or the river below can be trusted. This hour-long, futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusted.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Annie Sellars Jordan Parlor Theatre, Main Building, Greensboro College.

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MORE: $10 tickets.

WHAT: Roy Book Binder has earned his stripes. The Book, traveled with The Reverend Gary Davis in the 60s, Re-discovered Pink Anderson and revived his career in the 70s and has been included in The Blues Whos Who & The Big Book of Blues. Roy has appeared on TNNs Nasheville Now 30 times with many of Country Musics bigest legends.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem.

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SAT 2 - SUN 3 JOHN COLTRANE JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL WHAT: Two-day music festival honoring the life and legacy of jazz saxophone icon and High Point, NC native son John Coltrane featuring globally renowned jazz and blues recording artists. Sponsored by the Friends of John Coltrane the festival also features the presentation of new instruments to the winners of the student essay contest and a performances by the Coltrane All Star Band.

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The Greensboro Ice House opened THE in the fall of 1997, and has since been offering skating programs for hockey skating, figure skating and recreational skating for the general public.

The Ice House is open seven days a week from 5 a.m. until midnight.

Chuck Burch is the general manager of the Ice House and grew up playing ice hockey and working at the ice rink in Raleigh. While attending North Carolina State University, Burch got a job at an ice rink and has stayed with it. Burch has been the general manager at the Greensboro Ice House for 12 years now.

Through his tenure as general manager and being involved in the ice skating rink business, Burch said much has changed over the years. He said things have changed in the sense that it is more kids playing sports in general and playing more sports, they are also playing a more variety of sports. Burch said the Ice House accommodates both sportsminded people as well as people who like to skate for fun.

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boro Youth Hockey Association. The association manages the Learn To Skate classes, as well as the house league hockey program or recreation hockey.

The other youth hockey organization is the Triad Hockey Alliance, which is a joint venture with youth hockey in both Greensboro and Winston-Salem. They organize and manage the travel hockey programs. The Summit Figure Skating Club, manages and offer programs for local figure skaters at the Ice House.

“Skating is great exercise, it is fun and an outing an entire family can do, learn and have fun together,” Burch said.

“It is a great way to spend afternoon and evening with family and if there is something like you like doing, we have other things to offer like learning to skate or having a birthday party or coming to summer camp or eventually becoming a figure skater or hockey player.”

To learn more, visit the Ice House’s website and click on schedule tab for general public skating times. The schedules are posted every month. On weekends, it costs $11 (including skate rental), and on weekdays it costs $7 (including skate rentals). !

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UNCG alumna, poet releases new poetry collection

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y late father loved the work of awardwinning University of North Carolina Greensboro alumna Kelly Cherry, whose newest poetry collection Beholder’s Eye was published August 18 by Groundhog Press. I told her how much one of her most acclaimed works, the 1997 poem “Alzheimer’s,” meant to him and me, and how, even as his memory and awareness dwindled in his last year, he would read it aloud with his FM radio voice slurred by strokes.

She was touched to hear of his love for her poem about her own father.

“He developed Alzheimer’s at the start of one year and died at the end of that year,” she wrote in an email.

“My mother wrote me that she was living with a strange man, because her husband had been smart and this man wasn’t. Dying is terribly hard, isn’t it?”

The daughter of musicians, Cherry was born in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and Chesterfield County, Virginia. She studied philosophy at the University of Virginia as a Du Pont Fellow and earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from UNCG. As the winner of too many awards to list here, she has published over 25 books including novels, collections of short stories, Kelly Cherry’s publicity portrait.

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poems, essays and two translations of classical drama.

From 2010 to 2012, she was the Poet Laureate of Virginia, the state where she now resides.

Cherry said in the UNCG writing program circa 1960s, when she studied with my former professor Fred Chappell, (who in the one photo I’ve seen from that time looks brooding and dangerous, rather than the impish and avuncular man I’ve known for decades) she wrote that she used to think he tried to model himself after Robert Mitchum. “Fred was pretty new to the job,” she wrote. “He reminded me and my parents of my brother.”

She recalls the first class she had with him as being difficult.

“Afterwards, I’d go to the women’s restroom, where I sat on the floor and wept and regained composure, and then I’d race to the Pickwick [now Walker’s] to listen to every word he said,” Cherry wrote.

Both Chappell and his former colleague David Slavitt have been her lodestones from what felt like forever to her. She has learned from both of them and still learns from them even today.

“The second class I had with Fred was not so tough,” she wrote. “Both he and David had amazing minds. Other poets around then included Richard Dillard, Henry Taylor, George Garrett and Monty Joynes. These three were not part of UNCG, but would turn up, for a reading, maybe, or just to hang. Eudora Welty read there.”

When I interviewed Fred Chappell last February, he expressed keen admiration for Cherry’s work. Another person he recommended that work to was Okla Elliott, who passed away last March at the age of 39. In his

preface to his 2011 interview with her for Inside Higher Ed, Elliott wondered if Cherry would be even better known if she wasn’t such a polymath. He speculated that if she only wrote poetry or fiction or essays, rather than all three, her star would be even brighter; as the critical establishment has trouble properly assessing those they can’t pigeonhole.

Thinking of that, I asked her how she feels about other writers who resist labels. Does she try to categorize them, or exult in their liberation from boundaries? She wrote that she rarely categorizes anyone.

“Lots of people work across formal boundaries. Poetry now resembles prose,” Cherry wrote. “On the other hand, I categorize my own work. I think that poetry, fiction and nonfiction are different ways of looking at the world. Or maybe I should say seeing the world. In general, I think the poem is the thing itself, fiction is a conversation with characters, and nonfiction must be truth.”

Close on the heels of her new poetry collection Beholder’s Eye, she has another book due out in October.

“Temporium: Before the Beginning to After the End: Fictions is a collection of flash fiction and short-short stories,” she wrote. “I started writing little pieces at UNCG. I’d show them to Fred, he’d show them to Peter Taylor, and then they’d come back to me. I think only one of those appears in this book, but I idly went on writing them, and a couple of years ago I realized that I was close to having a book. I’m not planning to do another, but it was a whole lot of fun to write them and I hope people will have fun reading them.” !

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Locally produced musical drama to premiere in Greensboro

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“I wanted to create a new story with new music that today’s youth could relate to,” he said. “I’m very pleased with the film’s message and music. The actors are so believable and so passionate, we are excited to see how many people embrace them at the premiere. They brought the entire story to life. The singing, the dancing, even the moments that make you want to cry – you simply fall in love with them.”

Save The Arts has much more in store for the future. Each year the organization recognizes painters, sculptors, architects and photographers with its annual Save The Arts awards. Not resting on its laurels, Save The Arts is currently working on the 2018 awards presentation and is currently in pre-production on another feature, Rooster. The organization’s motto speaks for itself – and speaks volumes: “Capture the mind, you save the body!” !

On Sept. 5, RED Cinemas in Greensboro will present the world premiere of the dramatic family musical Find My Way – The Musical, which was filmed on location throughout the Piedmont Triad area and boasts a fresh-faced cast of up-and-coming talent from the region, both in front of and

behind the cameras.

There will be a red carpet event beginning at 6:30 p.m., preceding the Inaugural 7:30 p.m. screening, with members of the cast and crew on hand for the festivities.

Scheduled to attend are 50 children from Save The Arts’ Kids on Film Program, who are featured in the film – both as actors and members of the production team. They will walk the red carpet, greet audience members, pose for photographs and sign autographs. In addition, CD soundtracks from the film will be available for purchase. There will also be an 8:30 p.m. screening of Find My Way – The Musical.

This coming-of-age parable stars Alyssa Jordan and Lindsey Draper as sisters whose mother (Tara Jamelle Jones) loses custody of them due to her substance abuse. For the siblings, this is the beginning of a perilous, yet rewarding journey in which they discover opportunities for a brighter and more hopeful future--in ways they never could have expected.

A co-production of Save The Arts Films and FlowerChild Productions, Find My Way – The Musical is only the latest in a series of features filmed in and around the region, following the teen drama It Takes

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a Village, the contemporary romantic comedy Love’s Hue and the romantic drama Twisted Love – all of which premiered last year and all of which explore issues confronting people today.

Songwriter-turned-filmmaker Rasheem Kilo Pugh established the Greensboro-based non-profit Save The Arts as a resource for teaching young people about film production, and to celebrate and foster their creativity. Pugh won a Grammy Award for Lauryn Hill’s 1998 debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and a sub-

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sequent nomination for Emily King’s 2007 debut studio album East Side Story.

Fondly nicknamed “Mr. Save The Arts,” Pugh produced Find My Way – the Musical and co-directed with Morgan Jones. He was inspired to make this film after seeing the big-budget, big-screen remake of Annie (2017). But he said he also wanted to make a film that was more realistic and more resonant – less a splashy extravaganza than a character-driven drama, albeit as a musical –that would have broad appeal and a positive message.

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Find My Way — The Musical will premiere Tuesday, Sept. 5 at RED Cinemas, 1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. premiere screening are $12. Tickets for the 8:30 pm screening are $10. For advance tickets or more information, call 336.230.1620 or visit the RED Cinemas website: http://www.redcinemas.com/, or you can contact Save the Arts Films at 973.477.5708 or visit the official website: http://www.savetheartsfilms.com/.

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Made in America: Greensboro band sings about love, anger in the age of Trump

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atthew Armstrong has a broad view of American culture — of American poetry and literature, music and history.

It sweeps far back into the past and John Adamian pulses with electric @johnradamian jolts through the present moment. In conversation, ArmContributor strong, who writes songs and sings for the Greensboro band Viva La Muerte, might make a connection between the Grateful Dead and Beat poets or between the energy of Walt Whitman and frightening chaos of Donald Trump.

Armstrong writes songs that aim to tap into both the simple, mundane pleasures and the ecstatic, wide-eyed mystic vision of America as a place of raw, unrefined possibility and sometimes lurid spectacle.

Viva La Muerte just released their second record, The Eyes of Men, this summer.

It’s an album of songs about romance, the mysteries of music and alarm over the state of the country. The record’s cover art features an image of an upside-down American flag (a signal of distress) embedded with a swirl of eyes, including those of both the band members and Donald Trump. Some of the songs conjure what Armstrong calls “a general dystopian vibe,” one that feels particularly of-the-moment.

I spoke with Armstrong by phone last week. The band recently did some shows in New York City, and they were preparing for other live dates this fall to help promote the record. This record, like their first, 2013’s All the Birds, was made with the help of a $10,000 Kickstarter campaign funded by fans.

Viva La Muerte does a lot of morphing and genre blending. The band is a quintet at its core, but it can bulk up to a sevenpiece with the addition of banjo and other flourishes if the performance space allows. A listener might not stop to think that there are elements of rock — the driving beat, elements of folk or country, a bit of mandolin or pedal steel and a low, dark, almost ominous tone to the vocals can bring to mind artists like Leonard Cohen.

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Viva La Muerte: a band inspired partly by a fondness for the Grateful Dead.

Armstrong sometimes describes the band’s music as psychedelic Americana.

It’s a tag that the 40-year-old who teaches writing and American literature at Guilford College and University North Carolina Greensboro, said has to do with an organic eclecticism and a relationship to an ever-shifting center of gravity.

Some might associate the term “psychedelic” with a surface freakiness, funhouse mirror effects, a general far-outness, but Viva La Muerte isn’t about trippy explorations and freeform weirdness. For Armstrong and his bandmates, the idea is as much about getting up close to the nature of things, so that one’s dialed-in perspective starts almost to distort what you’re seeing — the line between this and that might get lost.

“I think of the psychedelic as this space where categories blur, where categories dissolve,” Armstrong said.

The band initially took shape in 2005 when Armstrong and a colleague started

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talking about their fondness for the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground, and how both bands had had earlier incarnations called the Warlocks.

The Dead and the VU might represent different poles of American music to some — an expansive West Coast vision on the one hand and a modernist, raw arty DIY proto-punk version on the other.

“We thought of our music regarding a continuum of American literature,” Armstrong said.

That’s a line of reasoning that might strike some as high-minded, but it wasn’t alien to the awards committee of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which gave the honor to Bob Dylan in 2016. There were many academics — even Dylan-loving academics — who weren’t thrilled when the songwriter received the literature prize, but Armstrong wasn’t among those wringing their hands over the award. He was all for it.

“Often times we don’t like when writers

like Dylan, [Grateful Dead songwriter] Robert Hunter and Leonard Cohen get taught in our literature courses, but I think we should because that’s where people go to get their poetry,” Armstrong said. “You put a beat under these guys, and suddenly they get banished from the canon, but I think a lot of their work deserves attention.”

Armstrong and Viva La Muerte’s commitment to mixing things up also means a willingness to counterbalance weighty subjects such as creeping autocracy and the surveillance state, with the relatively simple pleasures of a love song or a sound that transports the listener.

“If our music’s about anything, it’s about trying to capture, on a given night or a given album, the full range of emotion,” Armstrong said. “When I go to a show, I’d kind of like to be taken through the emotions I feel every day, and some of them are basic and animalistic, and some of them are the kind of things you only experience if you live a certain number of years and read a certain number of books.”

But Viva La Muerte is about more than just responding to current events. The first song on The Eyes of Men is “Time to Play,” a song about recognizing and embracing the love and joy that surrounds us.

Elsewhere, on “About Love,” Armstrong sings: “I wanna dream about love/It’s the only thing worth dreaming of.” It’s not all politics and rage.

“Some of these songs were written before the Trump phenomenon,” Armstrong said.

Still, the political landscape of 2017 has a lot to do with the scope and tone of the album.

“We’re not wild about the cult of nationalism and the cult of masculinity that seems to be sweeping the country,” Armstrong said.

Among the songs that appear to signal a connection to the Trump era, there is “Tom Waits Basement,” which opens with the question: “If crazy’s on top, what’s down below?”

Viva La Muerte will be playing at Scuppernong Books at 8 p.m. on Sept. 15 with David Gans. !

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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BIG PURPLE

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1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Aug 30: Electronic Soul Pandemic with Hypnotic Conquest Sep 1: Michael Franti & Spearhead Sep 2: Dub-Boro: Album Release Party w/ Stitchy C, Ty Bru, MTTS, Mr. Rozzi, Kanvas Musik, Mischief Records, Low Key Famous, Trill A.G., Black Rain, Nick B Sep 6: Of Montreal, Showtime Goma, Nancy Feast Sep 8: Bear With Me Sep 9: OSMR w/ Norlina, Morgan Keene

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CHARLOTTE

Nov 16: Haley Reinhart Dec 4: Waterparks Dec 6: Molotov

PNC MUSIC PAVILION

former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Sep 20: 2Cellos Oct 26: Aaron Lewis & Blackberry Smoke

707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com Sep 8: Brad Paisley Sep 10: Ruff Ryders w/ Fat Joe Sep 15: Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ Sep 27: Kings of Leon Sep 28: Jack Johnson Sep 29: Alison Krauss & David Gray Oct 5: Zac Brown Band

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DPAC

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HPU Piano Competition: Funded by Tickets not required. The Department of the Randall Thomas Johnson Trust, to be Music celebrates the 40th anniversary of held 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 9 in the Pauthe Voyager spacecraft’s Golden Record line Theatre of Hayworth Fine Arts Center. with a performance of selections from Open to the public. Tickets not required. the disc. In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft The High Point University Piano Comlaunched carrying a gold-plated phonopetition is a national competition open graph record with images and sounds that to pianists ages 15 to 25. It brings three portray the diversity of life and culture on finalists, selected by the HPU piano faculty earth. The concert features music by Bach, from a pool of submissions, to campus to Beethoven, Stravinsky, Chuck Berry, Louis compete for cash prizes. A panel of guest Armstrong, Blind Willie Johnson, and folk judges select first, second and third place music from around the world. during the competition.

Building Foodway Bridges in the A Conversation with Kevin Ashton Nuevo New South, to be held at 4 p.m. on and Nido R. Qubein, to be held 9 a.m.

Sept. 21 in the Plato S. Wilson Commerce to 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 12 in the Pauline Building Ballroom. Open to the public.

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t took a few years, but once the silly fanboy snickering subsided, Kristen Stewart was able to move on from the Twilight series and reclaim her title as an accomplished actress with such credits as Camp X-Ray, Personal Shopper and particularly Clouds of Sils Maria (for which she became the first American actress to ever win France’s Oscar equivalent, the Cesar Award). While it’s unclear whether Taylor Lautner will enjoy a similar renaissance — his recent efforts have consisted of dopey thrillers and Adam Sandler stinkbombs — Stewart’s other Twilight stud, Robert Pattinson, appears to be on the right path with his selection of interesting roles in various indie flicks.

Pattinson’s latest effort in this vein is Good Time ( ), a striking drama directed by sibling filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie. With Josh co-scripting with Ronald Bronstein and Benny co-starring with Pattinson, the brothers certainly have their DNA all over this project, and while their previous pictures are known only to the most dedicated cineastes, this

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Good Time finds RPatz and BSaf respectively starring as Connie Nikas and his younger brother Nick. Connie is a small-time hustler and crook while Nick is mentally impaired, and while Connie loves his bro, he doesn’t always do what’s best for him. Case in point: Connie elects to rob a bank and decides that his slowwitted sibling would make an excellent accomplice. Instead, Nick ends up getting arrested following the heist, and Connie must figure out a way to spring him from jail.

What follows is one of those allnight-long odysseys that’s taxing for the characters but weirdly fascinating for the viewer (think Martin Scorsese’s After Hours or even Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle). Connie Nikas isn’t likable in the least, but there is a sliver of redemption in his single-minded devotion to his brother.

Yet what makes Connie such a compelling character is that he’s completely delusional about his own abilities and intelligence. Here’s a man who thinks he’s smart, but situation after situation proves that he’s anything but. This is amusing enough, but then the second half introduces a new character in the form of Ray (Buddy Duress), another petty criminal. If anything, Ray is even thicker than Connie, and their scenes together are among the movie’s best. It’s like Dumb and Dumber — only better and better.

Sparse in its visual style yet weighty with its themes, In This Corner of the World ( ) is a Japanese animated feature that largely concerns itself with the bombing of Hiroshima toward the end of World War II. Like many other anime

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features, this one isn’t exactly for the kids, with a PG-13 rating to allow parents to debate whether it’s a proper viewing option for their offspring. Then again, it can’t be any more detrimental to young minds than something like The Emoji Movie, in which characters named Poop and Poop Jr. run around chanting, “We’re number two!”

There is a split-second shot of an anthropomorphic alligator, but that’s about it for flights of fancy in In This Corner of the World. The story centers on Suzu (voiced by Rena Nounen), an artist and self-described daydreamer who, at the age of 18, marries a young man named Shusaku (Yoshimasa Hosoya) and moves from her home in Hiroshima to his family’s residence in nearby Kure. She more than pulls her weight with the other members of the household, and she particularly bonds with her niece Harumi (Natsuki Inaba). But the war, which initially seems so far away, soon takes its toll in the

form of limited food rations and strafing American airplanes. All the while, dates occasionally pop up on the screen to show that we’re inexorably moving closer and closer to August 6, 1945.

Although there are a few moments of Suzu admiring her nation’s weapons of mass destruction (particularly a pair of imposing battleships), In this Corner of the World keeps nationalism on the back burner, preferring instead to examine the effects of war on ordinary citizens. If there are any politics in the picture, it’s of the personal sort, with Suzu doing her best to be accepted by her new husband and the rest of his family. Indeed, the first portion of the film, focusing more on domestic issues, doesn’t completely hint at the grimness that will take over during the second half. But it’s nevertheless a constant in the story, hiding in the margins before making its presence known as strikingly as a mushroom cloud in the sky. !

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Sandwiches are one of our favorite “street foods.” Grab a sandwich, with a half salad or soup and you’ve got yourself a balanced, nourishing meal on the go. Few things are as quick and satisfying as a Kristi Maier bowl of hot soup and @triadfoodie a thick sandwich.

For this edition, of “What Do The Chefs Contributor Eat?”, we asked some of our local chefs to tell us their favorites.

We’re going to start out of the gate here with the restaurant that was THE most recommended by our chefs for sandwiches, Banh Mi Saigon Sandwiches and Bakery located at 3808 High Point Rd. in Greensboro. This little shop on Gate City Boulevard, received so many praises for its sandwiches and bread.

Chef Jay Pierce of The Traveled Farmer was the first to tout Saigon’s praises.

“Saigon Sandwiches, It doesn’t mat-

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Chefs and their favorite sammies ter which one you get,” he said. “The bread is baked there, so delicate and crisp. Ask for extra veggies.”

Chef Chris Blackburn, owner of Scrambled Southern Diner and Lindley Park Filling Station, said, “They’re so delicious and cheap. I usually get three.

The bread is made in house, and it goes everywhere when eating it. The #1, #2 and #7. Pate and double meat, and the shredded pork skin (#5). Also the BBQ Beef is really good.”

Chef Caleb Smallwood of Tessa Farm to Fork said it’s also his favorite sandwich spot. “The Banh Mi, Curry Chicken or Pork Plate,” he said. “You should always have jalapeño fish sauce aioli. The cucumber and carrot and are absolutely delicious and the bread is always on point.”

I can attest. That bread is so crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside it’s just hard to explain. There’s a texture and taste explosion that is incomparable.

Chef Travis Myers of Willow’s Bistro seemed to have a difficult time pinning it down to one sandwich, but they all sounded good, so we decided to let you hear him out.

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“At West End Cafe [located at 926 W. Fourth St. in Winston-Salem], I get one of two different things,” Myers said. “Either the barbeque grilled chicken sandwich that I build myself or my wife and I debate over who is getting the Hot Pastrami Reuben.”

But Myers said he’s got a few other delicious suggestions. “When we go to Silo, (located at Reynolda Village in Winston-Salem) we always get Our Cuban (prosciutto, pulled jerk pork, provolone, pico de gallo)—it’s fantastic!”

He added, “Or we may get the Southerner (pulled rotisserie and pimento cheese, bacon, sprouts), Beefy Boy (roast beef, provolone, marinated onion, gorgonzola) or Pesto Chicken.(pulled chicken, pesto, bacon). We love a good panini.”

Chef Stuart Ford, Wild Willie’s Weiner Wagon & More is in the same West End camp as Myers. “I love the Hot Pastrami at West End Cafe,” he said of his favorite sandwich.

Speaking of Pastrami…

Chef Jeff Bacon, Providence Restaurant and Triad Community Kitchen heads to O’Brien’s Deli (with two locations in Winston-Salem) for his favorite sandwich.

“My favorite sandwich is the pastrami with slaw, called The Rachel,” he said.

It’s a variation of a Reuben with pastrami instead of brisket and slaw instead

Jack’s Corner Chicken souvlaki

Lemon-garlic marinated chicken on pita wrap with cucumber sauce, lettuce, and tomato.

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of kraut. I don’t see this specifically on the menu but from what I can tell, they have no problem making it for you when you ask.

Chef Mark Grohman of Meridian Restaurant doesn’t have to go far for his favorite sandwich. He just heads across the street to Di Lisio’s Italian Restaurant located at 301 Brookstown Ave., in Winston-Salem.

“I get the Cheesesteak,” he said. “It’s convenient and one of the best in town.”

Chef Kris Fuller from Crafted the Art of the Taco/Crafted the Art of Street Food said, “My favorite sandwich in town is the chicken souvlaki gyro from Jack’s Corner [located at 1601 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro]. It packs a ton of flavor with such simple ingredients.”

Fuller said for a straightforward, no fuss deli style sandwich, “I’m a fan of going to First Carolina Delicatessen or their sister restaurant, Lox, Stock and Bage [located at 2439 Battleground Avenue, Greensboro],” Fuller said. ”My go-to there is a build your own smoked turkey, bacon, cream cheese and cherry peppers on a bialy roll, and if I’m in a casual-bar-food kind of mood, I hit up Old Town Draught House [ located at 1205 Spring Garden St., in Greensboro] for their Chicken Philly.

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Di Lisio’s - Traditional Cheesesteak and Tony’s Cheesesteak Napoli I like to add a little kick by having them toss the chicken in their buffalo sauce.”

If you’re on the far east side of the Triad, you’ll need to take Chef John Wilson, from Sofie’s Cork and Ale’s suggestion because the sandwich he recommends

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“My favorite sandwich is the Duck Bacon Turkey Club,” Wilson said. ”It has Weaver Street Market Bakery sourdough,

deli-sliced turkey, house-smoked duck bacon mayo. lettuce and tomato.” *Author’s note, there’s still time to squeeze out a bit more fun from Saxapahaw where they do events on the weekend with live music by the river. !

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Triad Stage’s ambitious 2017-2018 schedule

Jessica Clifford

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For many of us, the year is halfway over.

For Greensboro and Winston-Salem’s Triad Stage, however, late September is just the beginning. With its 17th season to date, this 2017-2018 production season is sure to be anything but boring, with plays and musicals ranging from locally written to award-winning

American classics.

“From the sheer joy and power of Rodgers and Hammerstein to the provocative and powerful drama of Paula Vogel,” said Preston Lane, the artistic director and 15-year-veteran at Triad Stage. “We want to make theater that makes you laugh, makes you think and makes you talk about it.”

According to the media release, Triad Stage has a line-up of eight local productions, with half of the shows taking place the Pyrle Theater and half at the Hanesbrands Theatre. Both theaters will tackle various genres including classical musicals, comedies and dramas.

This season was met with some controversy after the theater reduced their usual show-count. “We were sometimes producing shows that we didn’t actually have an artistic reason for producing,” Lane said. “We were only doing them to fill the quota demand by our calendar.”

However, the change in Triad Stage’s calendar was not a bad move for the directors, Lane said, instead it gave most of them a break to collect new creative energies.

This upcoming season kicks off on Sept.

17, with the 60-year-old Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, South Pacific, the largest production ever produced at the Triad Stage.

This Rodger and Hammerstein musical takes place at a layover station on an island in the South Pacific as WWII ravages on, forcing marines and navy sailors to await their call to the front lines.

During the wait, young romance blossoms between a lieutenant and army nurse. “[South Pacific is] a real story about real people, “ Lane said. “[It shows] a pivotal moment in our history. It is a celebration of young life and imminent death, making it so interesting.”

Though Lane has worked on a production of South Pacific in the past, Lane

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said he still worries at night about how the production will fit on stage, but he remains hopeful for its success.

No matter his fears, Lane is excited to bring this musical to Greensboro considering the recent political upheaval. “The musical is an attack on closed-mindedness and racism,” Lane said. He went on to say it is a musical with a much-needed message after the riots in Charlottesville.

Rodgers and Hammerstein began a revolution of the American theater industry with South Pacific, and since its creation, it has spoken timelessly and relevantly. The musical is in collaboration with University of North Carolina Greensboro’s 2017-2018 Concert and Lecture Series and will run from Sept. 17 to Oct. 18, at the Pyrle Theater.

While the less serious and comedic play, Buyer & Seller by Jonathan Tolins will be at Winston-Salem’s Hanesbrands Theatre. This play features Alex More, an unsuccessful 30-something actor who lands a job at a shopping mall in the basement of a Hollywood actress’ mansion.

More continues to live his life, aspiring to be a renowned actor, when suddenly he meets the actress that owns the estate.

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This 2013 Drama Desk Award-Winning show runs from Oct. 11 to 22.

Other American classics will be performed, including two of Lane’s favorite productions – Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.

A Raisin in the Sun will take place at Greensboro’s Pyrle Theater starting Jan. 28 and run until Feb. 18. This play is about an underprivileged family living on the Southside of Chicago, awaiting the life insurance check that will help each family member to fulfill personal dreams.

While Lena, the mother, wants a beautiful house in a safe neighborhood, her daughter dreams of applying to medical school, and her son wants to own a liquor store. A Raisin in the Sun captures the struggle to reach the American Dream while fighting the racial tensions and economic challenges of living in one of America’s most impoverished urban areas.

After A Raisin in the Sun, Hanesbrands Theatre will present Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town. This three-act-play is set in the small town of Grover’s Corners, in which the residents live average lives, working regular jobs in the early 1900s.

Our Town is a tribute to the everyday American trying to find happiness in their lives. This play will be running from Feb. 14 to 25, 2018.

Besides these American favorites, seasonal shows will be performed including Lane’s Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity and the fifth anniversary of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, both directed

by Lane. Common to Triad Stage, the Pyrle Theater will also present a new play

by Preston Lane, entitled The Passion of Teresa Rae King premiering April 29, 2018.

Lane noted that the Triad Stage is continuing their engaging pre-show activities including food and mingling. “[Triad Stage] wants to become part of the community dialogue,” Lane said. “By allowing people to meet fresh faces that have similar theatrical interests.”

With the most ambitious and highly anticipated season ahead, it is best to try a three-play pass at both Greensboro’s Pyrle Theater and Winston-Salem’s Hanesbrands Theatre for $45 or a six-play pass for $63. As 2017 carries on for most us, it is best to take time for a play or musical at the Triad Stage. !

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Jazz festival gives back to aspiring Triad musicians

2016 Essay Contest Winners, with Dean Sink, Mickey Truck Body President and CEO, Kenny G. and Board Members of Friends of John Coltrane, Inc. Essay Winners: Ben Coffee, Jordan Moore, Radford Stanton Rogers, Eliezer Montanez, Nicholas Frye, Alijah Tibbs, Haley Ingram, Jaedyn Turner, Walker Shaeffer, Julian Ortega, Zakya Wall, Josh Brailsford, Hannah Woodbury, Michelle White and Kyrah Lymas.

At a time when students are faced with the results of budget cuts to the art and music programs in many school systems, a select group of students in the Triad area will receive new equipment Chanel R. Davis that is guaranteed to fill their lives with joy and music.

Contributor The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival has announced the winners of its Student Essay Contest ahead of its upcoming concert on Sept. 2 through 3 at Oak Hollow Festival Park, located at 1841 Eastchester Dr., in High Point. Contest winners will be presented with their new instruments on stage during the festival. The contest, spearheaded by the Friends of John Coltrane Inc., connects the influential jazz musician and his legacy to a community he lived in and to a community of young people seeking to continue their journey into music education.

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ting good reactions about how these kids instruments are changing lives. Instead of kids being out in the streets, they’re practicing or joining outside organizations like church, bands or the Coltrane Youth Workshop.”

Middle and high school students in Alamance, Guilford and Forsyth counties can compete for prizes of brand new instruments of their choosing by entering the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival Essay Contest and submitting a 150 to 250-word essay explaining what music and jazz means to their lives, musical aspirations, affinities and needs.

This year, 17 students have been selected to receive an instrument. To date, there have been over 50 instruments awarded to aspiring students at a retail value of more than $75,000. The brandnew instruments are presented to middle and high school students by one of the festival headliners, who encourages them and gives them advice to for developing a career in music. Prizes are made possible by Bill Banks, Joe Williams and KHS America Inc., an instrument manufacturer and local sponsors.

Julian Ortega, 14, wrote about how music has impacted him and will receive a trumpet at Sunday’s event. Ortega plans to use his trumpet at school, camp and church.

The ninth grader said he heard some of his classmates at Penn-Griffin School of the Arts talk about the opportunity and

decided to give it a shot himself.

“Music has gotten me through the difficult parts of my life whether it be with my family, school, grades or friends,” he said. “Being able to play gave me the courage to move on and do something about the problem. It gave me a way to express myself.”

When 17-year-old Kyrah Lymas received the news that she had won a tenor saxophone, she was at the Queen City Battle of the Bands scouting for potential colleges.

The Northeast Guilford High School senior is currently in the marching and jazz bands in schools and is looking to continue the practice in college where she’ll major in music performance.

“Music has really given me opportunities that I wouldn’t have dreamed of. Getting into music really wrote my ticket for everything I want to do and everywhere I want to go,” Kyrah said. “Getting this instrument is a great and amazing opportunity that some people aren’t allowed to get. It’s a once and a lifetime opportunity. I just want to thank the people for giving this opportunity for kids interested to music.

It’s amazing what they are doing.”

Her mother, Yolanda Townes-Lymas, agrees and said that out of all three of her children, Kyrah has always been shy and soft-spoken until she found music. Now Townes-Lymas said her daughter spends countless hours playing throughout the house.

“I’m proud of her and her hard work.

She’s really dedicated,” Townes-Lymas said. “Music has changed her and made her more outspoken. Music has inspired her and built up her self-esteem. This speaks volumes to where she’s come from and where she’s going.”

Williams hopes this is just the beginning and to reach students in needs all over the state. He said he’s received calls from other parts of the state asking if they can participate and what a wonderful program it is.

“As the festival grows and we get more donations and sponsors, we would love to be that vehicle where band leaders can come to us for new instruments and to be able to provide workshops that they can send their bands to,” Williams said. “We want to be that organization to further musical education far beyond just giving one child an instrument. Our goal is to outfit music departments across the state.”

The two-day festival will be hosted by Dyana Williams and will be packed with the some of the largest names in the jazz and blues genres. On Saturday, there will be performances by the Coltrane Jazz Youth Workshop participants, Matthew Whitaker, Robert Randolph, Eddie Palmieri, Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright.

On Sunday, there will be performances by the Gate City Divas’, Special EFX, Spyro Gyra, Alexis Morrast, and the duo Joey Calderazzo and Branford Marsalis.

For more information or tickets, visit www.coltranejazzfest.com. !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) This is an exceptionally loaded week for the Lions.

Among other activities, you are called upon to be a warrior on behalf of those you perceive as underdogs. Activities involving social media or the internet are swift and require focused attention. This is a time in which you must look at financial realities. Someone may be deceiving you related to shared expenses.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Mercury, your planetary ruler, is changing directions, virtually in front of your face. Something you previously decided is on the front burner again. Don’t allow yourself to be forced into a decision for two weeks. The issue can go either way and you don’t yet have all the facts.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) For any number of reasons, circumstances may leave you out of the social loop this week. It’s possible that you do not feel well. Astrologically this is a time for selfreflection and not self-condemnation.

Having a quiet week is appropriate at this time. Don’t turn this into a negative belief about yourself. Enjoy the time to be still and enjoy the quiet.

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[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) It will be important now to use firmness about your boundaries. This is likely to be particularly so related to your career and life direction interests. You are called to be of assistance to your partner and others you encounter. Though the temptation may be in front of you, don’t cross ethical boundaries.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) This is a strongly positive week in which your faith in yourself and all humankind is supported and nurtured by the people and circumstances in your path. Hopefully you are aware of a type of joy that is beyond mundane experiences of life. One caution: keep one foot on the ground. The earth has its rules also. It is easy to believe what you wish now.

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[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) It may be that you are the object of advances or an attraction from someone

that you prefer to avoid. It serves as a great lesson of tact and diplomacy. Make an effort to be honest about where you are in the situation, rather than talking about “you.” Maybe this is a time when you would simply rather be alone.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) There are vampires loose in the world and the Fish tends to attract them. If you have matured a bit, you probably have begun to smell them when they enter your vicinity. Those who have not will be learning a lesson soon. It’s a required course for this sign. Save some energy for yourself. Don’t take over someone else’s problem.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) After what seems an aeon, you have a happy development that is the result of your personal effort and creativity. There may also be a green light in relation to a lover, a child or a domestic animal. At the end of the week your attention turns to beginning a work project that involves many details.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Necessary expenses (those not of the “fun” type) may develop this week. If not that, you could be just having a little blue mood. It is one of those times when we become aware that our loved ones can never know or understand fully what is inside of us. This is an existential dilemma that everyone encounters now and then.

It will pass quickly.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) As Mercury, your planetary avatar, changes directions, you may be confronted with angry words you have previously spoken. Now is the time to own up and make amends if you have hurt someone’s feelings with careless speech. It is possible that anger was not originally intended. Now you must clear it up.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your inner warrior is urging you to take care of an underdog or rescue someone. While we are on the tipping point of the Mercury change, this may not be a great idea.

Perhaps you should give this underdog a chance to see if s(he) can resolve the problem. Occasionally when you see a problem you take over before it is needed.

Let it simmer for a couple of weeks.

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KNIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

When my husband comes home from a stressful day at work, he likes to play shoot-’em-up games on his phone. He says it relaxes him. I’d like to connect and talk Amy Alkon before he goes into his mental man cave.

Advice Also, when he’s into Goddess a game, it’s annoying even to ask what he wants for dinner.

Your advice? — Gaming Widow A stressed-out woman wants to talk about her feelings; a stressed-out man wants to gun down 87 slobbering zombies on his phone in hopes that his feelings get bored with him and go away.

It turns out that in dealing with emotional stress, men and women have some different neurochemical overlords.

If men’s had a name, it would be The Earl of Overkill, which is to say men tend to react neurochemically to social stress as they would to being chased through the woods by a maniac with a crossbow.

First, there’s a surge of epinephrine and norepinephrine, neuromessengers (aka neurotransmitters) that are the bandleaders of the brain’s “fight or flight” reaction. These kick off survival-promoting changes in the body, like the heart beating faster, the release of the energymobilizing stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, and blood coursing to the

arms and legs (all the better to punch or run!).

Meanwhile, systems not needed to fight back or scram — like digestion and higher reasoning — get powered down.

Yep. That’s right. Higher reasoning goes all lights out; nobody’s home. So trying to “connect and talk” with a stressed-out man is like trying to have an existential debate with a vacant warehouse.

It’s even worse from the man’s end. He’s gotten chemically and otherwise physiologically mobilized to bolt or do battle.

But when there’s no crossbow-wielding dude to run from — just a bunch of social stress — there’s no use for all of these bodily resources that have been mustered up.

Psychologist John Gottman calls the effect from this “flooding,” explaining that men feel very physically uncomfortable and get extremely frustrated that their access to the brain’s departments of insight and witty bits is blocked. Not surprisingly, what makes them feel better is mentally checking out until these uncomfortable feelings go away — uh, in lieu of access to a zookeeper’s tranq gun to shoot themselves in the thigh.

Unfortunately, the thing that makes men feel better is in direct conflict with what works for women. Psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women’s reaction to emotional stress is mediated by oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that facilitates emotional bonding. This leads to what she calls a “tend and befriend” response: self-soothing through caring for and emotionally engaging with others.

In other words, women tend to deal with

emotional stress monsters by gabbing them down to size.

But, good news. You can have what you need if you just wait for your husband to have what he needs: time to calm down and reset so his brain’s higher reasoning center is no longer in “Hello, my name is Cinderblock!” mode. Decide together how much time that needs to be — half an hour, maybe? After that, he should put down the flamethrower and “advance to the next level”: spoken-word communication, and not just the sort where you ask him, “Is that ‘mmmph’ to steak or ‘mmmph’ you just ended World War III and saved the galaxy from Nazi zombies?”

LITTLE PHOTOSHOP OF HALOS

Though the guy I broke up with recently was, ultimately, a pothead with zero ambition, I can’t stop thinking about all the sweet moments. This feels better in the moment but just keeps me pining. How can I have a more balanced mental picture? — Selective Nostalgia

We’ve got tons of information back in storage in our long-term memory (picture rows of shelves and old steel file cabinets going on for, like, forever). However, we can only bring out and reflect on a few pieces of information at a time — probably four, according to memory researcher Nelson Cowan. Predictably, we gravitate to memories of ourselves as, say, a beloved partner who made smart choices — as opposed to one who jumped in without looking and then upcycled the growing pile of red flags into dog beds to sell on Etsy.

You need a virtual drone cam to help you see the whole landscape at once, and it’s called “an index card.” On it, list all the bummer stuff about your ex that you need to keep in mind. Maybe save a photo of it on your phone. This should help you keep those pesky upsides in perspective, like how he was always so attentive to detail — if that’s what you’d call smoking tons of pot and spending several hours monitoring the hair on his left arm. !

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.

Nostalgia is like crime-scene cleanup for your head: “My, what lovely new tiles.

You’d hardly know there was once a triple murder in this kitchen.”

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