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SAM YOUNG is no ordinary veterinarian. He has worked with exotic animals from moray eels to tigers. His office buddies include a cage of hissing cockroaches and a tarantula while working as a veterinarian at the Greensboro Science Center.

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THIS IS AMERICA NOW. Buoyed by social media to selfrighteous certainty, even when wrong. A previous caller to 911 earlier in the day was apparently the original source of the hubbub.

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CAROLYN MALACHI delivers candor in her wide-ranging urban and urbane soul music. The stories she tells in her music — about creativity, money and love — aren’t necessarily simple 27 Radiating both grace and power, THE NUTCRACKER is captivating and sure to raise your spirits for the holidays. It’s a beautiful story rich with worldly tradition, mesmerizing movements and a spellbinding score.

30 Rashelle Brooks goes by several noodly names. To those who buy up her signature dish at markets around the Triad, she’s known as THE MAC GOD. 31 For the person who has everything, holiday shopping can be a real chore, but for the movie maven in your life, MEZCO TOYZ offers an eclectic line of licensed collectibles...

32 Food adventurers have a new place to play and it’s getting such great reviews we just had to try it. TAAZA Indian Bistro opened last June in the Bridford Shopping Center near Target.

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15 JIM AVETT WHAT: Join the High Point Arts Council on December 15th at the Centennial Station Arts Center for a special evening of country Christmas tunes with Jim Avett. Tickets for this event are only $5 (plus tax) and the Centennial Stations bar will be open with special on local beer and wine. This event will be for all ages.

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SAM YOUNG-EXTRAORDINARY VETERINARIAN

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Sam Young is no ordinary veterinarian.

He has worked with exotic animals from moray eels to tigers. His office buddies include a cage of hissing cockroaches and a tarantula while working as a veterinarian at the Greensboro Science Center.

Before his job at the Greensboro Science Center, Young owned a mobile exotics practice where he attended to animals like potbelly pigs and koi fish. The job has given him many interesting stories such as saving an emu in Durham.

“I got called out at like midnight,” said Young. “This was an emu that had been attacked by a dog. We had to go out and round up this emu, hand inject it and then reconstruct its esophagus and trachea and neck because it was all torn open.

“We transported the emu in the back of I think it was a Volkswagen, still under anesthesia because you don’t want the emu to wake up in the back of a Volkswagen, to this person’s house in Durham proper and to recover in the backyard so she could keep a closer eye on it and it lives there now in a neighborhood and probably nobody knows that there is an emu in their backyard.”

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After working at the Greensboro Science Center for three years, Young has his share of stories of the animals there.

“Duke, our gibbon...broke his arm while I was out of town for an education meeting in Florida,” said Young. “I got back here and we got him all bandaged up and scheduled a surgery with a veterinary special hospital in Cary. We did all the post-surgical care here and had his bandages changed every two days. Now he swings around like it’s no big deal. He has four plates on this tiny little bone that’s smaller than a pen.”

For Young, what is rewarding about his job is not a hard question to answer.

“Obviously helping the suffering of a particular animal,” he said. “Easing the pain or discomfort they might have or healing a certain disease. It warms the heart for me every day. I love the variety here as well, that’s one of the best things about this job is all the creatures I get to work with.”

For the future, the Greensboro Science Center plans to expand their zoo along with the construction of a new hospital for people like Young to work. !

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CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM SUES NEWS AND RECORD FOR LIBEL

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum and its affiliate non-profits refiled a libel lawsuit against the Greensboro News and Record late last month, bringing back to the surface some of the most contentious news coverage in recent public memory.

The suit, originally filed and dismissed in a 48-hour period last December, resurfaced on Nov. 30 when attorney David M. Dansby Jr. refiled the case in Guilford County Superior Court.

The suit alleges that the News and Record repeatedly misreported facts surrounding the museum’s financial state in late 2014 and mid-2015 during a time when debate of continued public financial support remained Greensboro’s most contentious topic.

The museum recently emerged debtfree from a complex web of corporate structures designed to bring millions of dollars in tax-credit financing to the drive to open and operate a civil right’s museum that pays homage to the Sit In Movement that developed in Greensboro in February 1960. The actions of four NC A&T students to demand equal access to a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Downtown Greensboro is considered the catalyst that launched the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Few reporters covering the topic, and far fewer members of the general public, scratch the surface of understanding historic and New Market Tax Credits that are available to major redevelopment projects.

The lack of specific knowledge caused misinformation to haunt reportage regarding the museum’s finances.

In filing the suit, plaintiffs Sit In Movement LLC, Civil Rights Museum LLC, and board members Hurley Derrickson, Earl Jones, Richard Koritz and Melvin “Skip” Alston allege that the News and Record “conducted a public campaign in the newspaper against the museum and its Board of Directors in which the defendants persistently forecast that the Museum and the Board of Directors efforts would fail (which they did not).”

Prior to an article on Nov. 20, 2014, the suit states that the coverage “although obnoxious and objectionable at least had the saving grace of being Constitutionally protected free speech and free press.”

That changed with the publication, the suit states, of an article with the headline “Museum’s debt close to $26 million” wherein the article comingled millions of dollars in tax-credit financing obligations with actual debt. Opinion editor Allen Johnson, according to court documents,

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repeated the same false statements and Johnson is included as an individual defendant in the suit along with his employer, the News and Record.

The suit alleges defendant knew these statements to be false because museum CEO John Swaine and co-founder Earl Jones explained the tax-credit structures to newspaper staff in recorded and videotaped interviews. Museum staff “explained that they were not debt by any normal understanding of debt, but instead, the money was essentially free and neither principal nor interest were repaid.”

“There was, therefore, no reason to report either a $25.9 million dollar debt or a $26 million debt, particularly without any qualifying language whatsoever and knowing full well that the average newspaper reader would believe that the museum was hopelessly mired in debt and would never climb out,” the suit states.

The newspaper’s coverage depicted the museum leadership as “hopelessly inept,” according to the court filing, “and had cast the museum into an impossible hole when in fact the true story reflected extremely well on the Board of Directors and the leadership.”

The suit also contests depictions of the museum’s visitor statistics. In a Jan. 24, 2015 article the newspaper reported visitation down to 1,958 a month in 2014 when in fact 2014 numbers exceeded 2013, with an average monthly total of 6,000 that year.

A July 29, 2015 article reported the museum lacked a required $1 million operating reserve and owed an internal transaction of $500,000 between tax-credit entities.

“The museum is not and has never been required to maintain a reserve of $1 million,” the suit states. The report also left out a qualifying auditor’s statement regarding the internal transaction “that the money referred to was not required to be repaid ever and balanced out with other money circulating in the tax credit program.”

The suit seeks a jury trial on two counts of libel and one count of unfair and deceptive trade practices, claiming the false statements by the newspaper caused “actual damages in the form of ridicule, humiliation, public contempt, loss of reputation, public hatred and would tend to induce an evil opinion of the Plaintiffs in the minds of people who would hold normal mores.”

The suit requests actual damages in excess of $25,000 (the amount required to file a claim in Superior Court) and for punitive damages since the “libelous statements were made with a reckless disregard for the truth” and requests for retractions on Dec. 29, 2014 and Nov. 6 2015 had been ignored. - Jeff Sykes !

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Area residents provide support for Syrian refugees

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n an overcast and chilly Sunday, Syrian refugees gathered in a conference room at a Holiday Inn close to Piedmont Triad International Airport.

They were attending an event hosted

by The Islamic Center of the Triad (ICT) Refugee Committee.

The afternoon functioned as an orientation for Syrian families resettled in the area.

Speakers from the Greensboro Police Department, the Doris Henderson Newcomers School, and High Point University provided advice on navigating life in America, as well a show of solidarity.

The ICT Refugee Committee assists refugees as they build new lives in the Triad. The committee began informally in 1995 to organize events for families at the mosque. Efforts solidified when Iraqi refugees started arriving in 2008.

Samira Khan, the committee’s outreach officer, said the non-profit organization currently serves around 250 Syrian refugees, including many children.

The goal, Khan shared, is to “support and empower refugees in the Triad.”

Refugees arrive in the United States with 90 days worth of financial resources provided by resettlement agencies. They receive social service benefits, including food stamps.

Even with initial support, Khan pointed out that many needs might be unanticipated and remain unmet. The committee assists by providing material items from car seats, clothes, hygiene products to household appliances.

The effort also offers community support from local Muslims.

Khan said that emotional resources

The Islamic Center of the Triad provides support for Syrian refugees in the area.

are important. Some refugees come to the United States with unrealistic ideas about life in America and may be unprepared for the challenges ahead.

“It is interesting to see,” Khan said. “I work very closely with some of the families. They have high expectations. They have survived. They’ve been through so much, and now they are safe. They are in America. They think that they will have a car, a house, and that life will be all good.

There are so many steps to get there. But they do get there.”

The United States committed to accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.

As of July, 125 families had been resettled in North Carolina.

More refugees arrived in October and November. Communities rushed to accommodate the last wave of resettlement. Some of that support came from volunteer organizations such at ICT’s Refugee Committee.

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supported a “pause” in the resettlement process, a statement that many Democrats criticized.

American-Muslims and Syrian refugees face increased scrutiny during the Trump administration. There are calls to establish a Muslim registry; a claim Trump now denies having made.

During the campaign, Trump also made statements supporting “extreme vetting” for future Syrian refugees, or even a halt in accepting refugees from Syria and Libya. ““We don’t know who they are. They have no documentation and we don’t know what they’re planning,” said Trump.

The vetting process for refugees from Syria is already one of the most stringent. The vetting begins with the United Nations High Committee on Refugees (UNHCR). A second round occurs once refugees are referred to United States based resettlement agencies —a process that involves nine different agencies The process can take eighteen to twenty four months.

The Syrian conflict is one of the most pressing humanitarian crises of this decade.

Approximately 11 million pre-war residents — about half of Syria’s population — have been killed or forced to flee their country. State Department data indicates that 67 percent of Syrian refugees are women and children under 12 years of age.

“No one knows what to expect with the

new President,” said May Zamamiri, a key organizer in ICT’s work with refugees.

Yet, ICT is committed to serving this community, regardless of the political climate.

The Muslim community serves as an important bridge for Syrians to successfully integrate into American life.

American-Muslims provide cultural and religious familiarity for refugees.

One of the biggest challenges in resettlement is the language barrier. Arabic speaking individuals in the community serve as interpreters and mentors.

Zamamiri is one of those mentors.

She is beloved among Syrian families.

The children affectionally refer to her as “aunty.”

She stressed that ICT is there to provide resources and to encourage Syrians to embrace opportunities in America. “It is really hard in the beginning. What we try to do now with the Syrian refugees is let them settle. God knows what they left behind. They struggle a lot,” she said.

She emphasized that ICT’s committee wants refugees to know that they will be okay.

“The most important thing for you is education. If you go with your education, this is your future here,” she tells them.

Subsequent orientations will include encouragement and support to learn English.

Zamamiri, a Palestinian who is an American citizen, knows what it is like to be a political exile. Her family had to leave Palestine to resettle in Kuwait.

After the first Gulf War in 1991, Kuwait expelled Palestinians, thus she was exiled twice.

Zamamiri understands the struggles of starting over, as well as the traumas of war. Syrians, in particularly, are negotiating geopolitics on a massive scale.

“It is not an easy thing. We have to deal with different people,” she said. “They are all the same culture. But you don’t know what they suffered before. Some of them talk about it. Some of them don’t want to talk about it. Some of them left family behind. Their mothers, their fathers. My heart goes out for them.”

For Zamamiri, assisting with Syrian refugees is part of a larger call to serve community. “I don’t care about their nationality or their religion. I care that they are human beings.”

To learn more about ICT’s efforts, or to donate items, email ictrcnc@gmail.com. !

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I Don’t Do Boxes goes into OUTer space

BY ALLISON STALBERG I Don’t Do Boxes, a magazine exploring LGBTQ art and narratives, celebrated its fourth volume, #OUTerspace, at the Elsewhere Museum on Dec. 9.

The magazine always has an OUT worked into each issue’s theme. Before #OUTerspace, IDDB’s also published issues School’s Out, Out Loud and Act Out. “We were really interested in outer space because we’re interested in what space means to the queer community, especially here in North Carolina with HB2 and what designates a safe space,” said Elsewhere Program Intern and IDDB Editor Bailey Roper.

“Is it bathrooms or is it a space where you can look around and see other people who are engaging in a cultural expression? What makes you feel safe in a space and the other worldly idea of outer space and galaxies and feeling queer and alienated.”

The magazine is a part of a project called QueerLab, a youth-run media project.

“Elsewhere Museum hosts a few different education programs, FoodLab and QueerLab are our main focuses,” said Program Curator Emily Ensminger.

“We do a lot of other education things as well like creative retreats and tours but we’ve identified QueerLab as a program that is really in line with our mission and one that we really want to support. I think it’s in its fifth year and every year it just keeps getting stronger and garners more attention.”

The QueerLab Program Coordinator, Guildo Villalba Portel, hopes that the magazine and their group can provide a safe space for queer youth.

“We know that queer youth is a very marginalized population,” Villalba Portel said. “We know that among the youth that are homeless, a huge percent of them are queer. There are a lot of queer and trans suicide rates that have gone up since Trump (was elected).

“We also know that in North Carolina you can be fired just for being queer. So we’re trying to make sure we are taking care of each other through this youth program developed around LGBTQA issues, experiences, while also making a space for queer culture.”

The magazine’s Managing Editor, Babette Cromartie, believes that #OUTerspace is one of the more experimental of their publications.

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I Don’t Do Boxes is a magazine project from QueerLab at Elsewhere Museum. raphy, it’s more openly queer. This one is really collaborative. A lot of different people worked on it and it was just a lot of different perspectives. We came a long way in terms of showing diversity through our zine.”

IDDB Editor Roper loves that #OUTerspace tackles a lot of different issues.

“I feel like we got submissions that really covered a huge spectrum,” Roper said.

“I love that there are submissions from people who identify completely differently. There are people who are talking about gender expression and not being able to define their gender and then people who are talking about a very specific experience or like their first time being intimate and being queer.”

Opening the magazine, readers will find a vast assortment of art forms, including writing, photography and sketches. At the back of the magazine, the staff included resources such as youth organizations, queer centers and emergency contacts their audience can use.

The staff tries to getting all work submitted to IDDB published.

“We try to have it published online if it doesn’t make it into the zine,” said Roper.

“We had to get more selective with some of the visual art like there were some people that submitted nine pieces of art so we can’t take all of those.

“For the most part, anyone who submits we try to get their work out there as long as we feel that it’s not discriminatory or triggering in any way. We did have to do some censoring; we had some photographs that were submitted that contained nudity. So we were able to take some of those that were a little less extreme but did unfortunately have to do some censoring on that just because of our hope to get into high schools.”

With the new copies of IDDB’s laid out at the Elsewhere Museum on Dec. 9, the editorial staff welcomed everyone to come to their volume four party. Party goers helped themselves to rainbow pizza and cake, danced and got to play with glitter, bubbles and rainbow stickers.

For all involved, Elsewhere Museum also played a special role.

“A lot of the editorial team hangs out

with us at other events and they really become a part of this space and I think they generally consider this, outside of QueerLab and I Don’t Do Boxes, a safe space for them to hang out,” said Ensminger.

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“I don’t know if it’s true or not, but Roch Smith Jr. it’s on Facebook” said a caller to Metro 911 Guest Writer Guilford on election day. He was reporting what he described as the “highly illegal” activity of people handing out campaign literature at a polling location. The caller warned the dispatcher that the call was live on “national news feed on Facebook” and that “millions of people are looking at it.” He advised, “You might want to get off the national news by sending somebody down there and cleaning it up.”

This is America now. Buoyed by social media to self-righteous certainty, even when wrong.

A previous caller to 911 earlier in the day was apparently the original source of the hubbub. According to voting records, election day was this guy’s first time voting

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in person. He was handed a voter guide on his way to vote and complained inside to poll workers. Despite those trained professionals telling him that it was not illegal for people to hand out campaign literature outside the polling place, the guy insisted to the 911 dispatcher, “I am well versed in the law” and “standing out their handing out literature is extremely illegal. It’s voter fraud.” So he tweeted, with a picture of the voting guide for good measure, and social media rubes took it from there.

The first caller wanted police to “remove them from the property,” the people he described as “four African-American males, dark skinned.”

The second caller wanted someone to make the people stand “two hundred feet away,” which he said was the law.

North Carolina state law allows people to hand out campaign literature at polling locations no closer than fifty feet to the entrance of the polling place (twenty-five feet in some cases). Not two hundred feet.

Police responded to the first call by driving by and, seeing nothing illegal, carried on. The second call was interdicted by the police watch commander. No police were dispatched and the watch commander

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requested of 911 that these kinds of calls on election day go to him first.

In recent weeks, “fake news” has become a discussion of concern. But as these two 911 callers demonstrate, there is more to what is going on than fabrication.

Deception can only have an effect when individuals incapable of latching on to the truth fall for it.

It is the inability of individuals to discriminate between truth and fiction that is the worry. These 911 callers just knew—with certainty—that what they were seeing was highly illegal. But they weren’t just wrong; one was deluded, believing that his uninformed crusade had the attention of “millions” of people.

We have entered a new and precarious time—a “post-truth” period the Oxford dictionary calls it with its 2016 word of the year. It means that objective facts have lost their influence over emotion and personal belief.

No civilization has survived losing its grip on reality. Neither will America. But we have what should be a good defense.

America was built on a fundamental assumption that truth matters. Born from the reason and science of the Enlightenment, we baked the idea of empirical truth into America right from the beginning: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”

In that way, we are special. We, as a people, acknowledge that truth is knowable and elevated. That gives us an advantage, but it doesn’t give us immunity to extinction if we supplant respect for the truth with a preference for gut feelings.

If we become a people no longer able to evaluate whether or not what we think we know is truthful, we will surely go the way of other civilizations whose delusions led to their demise and possibly do so through a tragic and painful route. See Nazi Germany or ISIS. There are no examples of lasting societies that elevated emotional belief above thinking in their civic deliberations.

If we are going to survive the age of social media, we have to evolve. We have to grasp the need to have some intellectual sophistication and we must individually cultivate it if we lack it. There is no algorithm—no “truth bot”—that is going to save us from having to foster a more discerning way of thinking in this internet age.

An easy first step is to refuse to be saps.

Here is a good question to ask before reacting to or assimilating information, whether on social media or in the news: “Am I being taken as a rube?”

Rubes read that a claim came from a person in a position of authority and take it as truth simply because it comes from an authority. Internet sophisticates pause to see if the claim is serving some self-interest. If an assertion will help the person making it get more money, more power or more influence, if it advances a personal agenda, then it demands to be taken with a grain of salt unless it can be substantiated further. And just because a reporter reports that someone said it, that’s not substantiation. Lazy reporters love to regurgitate what someone said, like a stenographer, without checking out whether or not the claim is true. Accurate (someone really said it) is not the same as truthful (it’s true.).

Rubes read a characterization of some event or document and give it credence either because it’s from a source they’ve trusted in the past or because it “feels” true. Internet sophisticates look for substantiation. If a reporter provides a link to what is being described, that’s a sign the reporter wants you to be as informed as possible and is willing to back up his reporting by inviting you to check it out for yourself.

There is pressure on news organizations from marketing people to strive for “engagement,” the practice of keeping eyeballs on an organization’s screens as long as possible. Hyperlinks away to other websites or documents are contrary to that goal, they take people away and frustrate the marketers—but they are superior journalism. If your news sources are not inviting you to see for yourself with hyperlinks, they are either lazy or have higher priorities than being accountable to you.

Rubes bite their tongue. It is especially true in the South that it is considered rude to cause people embarrassment. That is certainly true in genteel Greensboro where “Bless your heart” is the passive aggressive substitute for, “I think you are full of it.” But people do lie and, when they do, we shouldn’t stand for it. We should name it. Lies are lies and the people who tell them are liars. Liars should not escape the ridicule they deserve. Being “rude” in defense of the truth is not mean.

Beneath all of this is an assumption that we still share some ethical mores.

Maybe we need an ethical restoration before we care about the truth again. But truth is the lifeblood of ideas like liberty, equal justice, honesty and progress. If we value those, we have to accept some personal responsibility for discerning the truth. !

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“We just want to take pride in our Southern heritage,” said Gary Williamson, founder of the Snow Camp based “Southern heritage” organization Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County, or ACTBAC, at a Nov. 26 rally on the steps of Burlington’s Municipal building. “Death to the New Confederacy” chanted protestors on the other side of the police barricade.

Unlike previous rallies by Mr. Williamson’s organization, its members didn’t carry the Confederate Battle Flag or talk about preserving historical monuments; this was supposed to be about “Southern values,” not Confederate iconography. The so-called “Christian Flag” (a red cross in a blue rectangle on a white background) and the original Betsy Ross thirteen stars and stripes were the emblems of the day.

Yet the past was on many minds. “These kids don’t know nothing about their own history” said one burly man bearing the “Don’t tread on me” Gadsden flag as he glared at the protestors calling him names.

Mr. Williamson used the word “heritage” several times throughout the day. When I engaged him, he said “there’s no need for race-baiting” after I tried to discuss what happened in North Carolina during the Civil War. But I hadn’t mentioned slavery, and was thinking of the conflict between two groups of dead white men, the Triad’s small farmers and the Confederate government that Mr. Williamson’s organization was founded to commemorate. “You have what you think your history books say, but I have the heritage in my heart” he said as he turned away.

Back in September, social media buzzed when Mr. Williamson’s organization announced their intention of celebrating that imagined heritage by lining I-40 with Confederate Battle Flags. Their online fundraiser seems to have fizzled out at 23 donors and $1,280, far short of either their $28,000 they claimed necessary to place 23 “very large” flags along the Interstate in 18 counties. In an email he sent me in November, Gary Williamson said he was undiscouraged, explaining that ACTBAC is concentrating on the “Virginia Flaggers” rally being held on Jan. 14 in Lexington, Virginia. This march intended to honor the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and “defend Southern heritage” has sparked controversy for being held the Saturday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “We are working with other organizations from many different states and making plans to celebrate the resting place of Lee and Jackson. Alamance County has had no issues and North Carolina as a whole has not had any attacks on our heritage or history,” Williamson said.

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cent “attacks” on “Southern heritage,” but during the Civil War, many Triad Southerners felt themselves to be under attack, not from Union forces, but from Confederate troops. This is the history that NC “Heritagers” like Mr. Williamson don’t talk about. Consider the story of Mary Owens.

On April 23rd, 1864, a posse of civilians and Confederate soldiers under the command of Colonel Alfred Pike of the Randolph County Home Guard accosted Mary at a spring near her family’s farm on the Moore/Randolph line. Pike was looking for Mary’s husband William, who’d turned “outlier,” or pro-Union guerilla. Incensed by the Confederate Government’s draconian conscription laws, “Captain” Bill Owens took the hatred that so many small farmers towards felt towards the plantation gentry to a militant extreme, and for two years his outliers challenged the governments in Raleigh and Richmond for control of Randolph County.

Pike suspected that Owens, recently wounded in a skirmish with the “Secesh” (as Unionists called Confederate loyalists) was recuperating in a hideout nearby.

When Mary refused to tell him where it was, he struck her until she dropped the infant in her arms. Then he and his men beat her, dragged her across a rocky clearing, and hung her by her thumbs from a tree. When this failed to make her talk, they smashed her fingers between fence posts. Sobbing in agony and threatened with rape, she revealed her injured husband’s hiding place and he was quickly captured and taken to the Asheboro jail. On Sept. 29, the Greensboro Patriot reported that he was transferred from the Randolph County jail to the Chatham one in Pittsboro to await trial. It never happened. The presiding judge, like so many in the Piedmont, had Union sympathies and declined to try the case. On April 15, 1865, a mob dragged Owens from the jail and lynched him.

This is the “heritage” that Neo-Confederates won’t talk about. ACTBAC wants to “take back” a county that in 1861 voted 1,114 to 254 against secession (the only time they were allowed to vote on the subject), and where peace rallies were held in 1864 advocating a return to the Union.

Gary Williamson did not respond to my questions about the Piedmont’s resistance to the Confederacy. On his organization’s Facebook page is a “meme” with the image of the Stars and Bars and this text: “When asked by a Yankee why he fought, the young Southern soldier replied ‘Because you’re down here.” But that’s not what happened in this part of North Carolina.

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said “God bless the Tarheel boys” after a battle in which a North Carolina battalion scolded their retreating Virginia brethren by threatening to stick tar on their heels to make them stand and fight. The myth doesn’t reflect the real attitude of the government for which Lee fought. If either Jefferson Davis had been asked about “the Tarheel boys,” he might have been more likely to use the verb “damn” instead of “bless.” Between 1861 and 1865, many conscript and volunteer troops from North Carolina acted as if they had wings on their heels instead of tar. On battlefields from Virginia to Pennsylvania, they stood fast in the face of heavy losses, but before and after each engagement, deserted by the thousands. It wasn’t that they were afraid to fight, as those who tried to force them into service found out, but because they had no love for the “Glorious Cause” of the planters who exploited them.

This was particularly true in the “Quaker Belt” that included the counties of Randolph, Chatham, Moore, Davidson, Guilford, Forsyth, Davie, Surry, Wilkes, Montgomery, Orange, Alamance, Stokes and Iredell. Despite the peaceful connotations of “Quaker,” CSA troops and Home Guard militiamen enforcing the will of Jefferson Davis’s government in this part of North Carolina were much more likely to shoot at and be shot at by disgruntled Tarheels than Yankees.

Groups like ACTBAC promote a false narrative of Southern Solidarity in the Face of Northern Aggression. In truth, the South suffered its own divisions over the issues of Emancipation, Secession and the role of centralized government. It was a conflict not just between the states but within the states, and nowhere was what the late historian William Auman called “the Civil War inside the Civil War” fought more fiercely than in North Carolina.

North Carolina’s Piedmont was different long before Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter. The small farmers and artisans who came down the Great Wagon Road from the North tended to be Quakers, Moravians and Wesleyans, denominations opposed to slavery. Because of the Quaker Belt’s rocky soil, plantation culture never prevailed. The independent sustenance farmer who owned no slaves was the norm, and his culture and the plantation culture of the coastal plain were increasingly at odds. Heritagers promote antebellum nostalgia about Scarlet O’Hara and Tara, but much of North Carolina’s Quaker Belt saw such big landowners as feudal oppressors.

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An 1862 political cartoon depicting the kind of forced conscription that so enraged the Piedmont’s small farmers, who were often marched off their farms at gunpoint.

delegates to South Carolina’s Secession Convention voted unanimously to do so.

The future Governor Vance had himself been against secession in the months before Fort Sumter. In the waning days of the war, when North Carolinian’s civilians were offering Sherman no resistance as he rolled through the state, Vance wrote that “. . . the great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people.”

One Alabama newspaper called North Carolina delegates to the Confederate States Organization Conference “political hermaphrodites” because they were “sort of so, sort of not so.” Jefferson Davis consistently excluded Tarheels from high ranking political and military appointments, as punishment for the way the majority of the state’s non-slaveholding population had voted against Secession.

Put simply, the Confederacy didn’t trust North Carolina.

This was the problem that Zeb Vance faced when he became our second Confederate governor in September of 1862, one year and five months into the war.

Vance’s Conservative Party crushed the Confederate Party at the polls, and he carried all the Quaker Belt counties and won 89.8 percent of the total vote. Because he enjoyed the support of a region that the CSA regarded as disloyal, he himself was

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John Lewis Johnson (1818 - 1900). This Forsyth county dental surgeon and pharmacist was a leader and founding member of the Heroes of America, aka the Red Strings, a secret society dedicated to the Union cause that arose in 1861 in the “Quaker” counties of Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth, and Guilford, close to Johnson’s home. He served as a liaison between the secret society and the Federal troops occupying New Bern, and convinced many Confederate soldiers to defect to the Union camp there. Photo courtesy of NC State Archives.

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Home Guard units often tortured relatives of Union sympathizers, such as the story of Mary Owens. Her fingers were smashed between fence rails until she revealed her husband’s hiding place in Randolph County in 1864.

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Zebulon Vance (1830-1894), North Carolina’s 37th and 43rd governor, at his first inauguration in 1862, when he became the state’s second Confederate governor. A product of North Carolina’s hill country, he disliked the plantation aristocracy, and in turn was distrusted by Jefferson Davis and the CSA government in Richmond. In 1865, as Sherman rolled through the state without resistance, Vance wrote: “the great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people.”

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under suspicion. One hostile newspaper called him “the Massachusetts candidate.” Needing to prove himself, Vance declared his unqualified support for the war effort, and promised that he would vigorously enforce conscription. True to his word, he went after the resisters and draft dodgers of the Quaker Belt until the last days of the war.

Much of the dissent was in Davidson, Guilford and Alamance counties. Writing to a friend on May 4, 1861, one B. V. Smith complained of little success in attempting to raise a Home Guard unit to combat “traitors” in the Centre Community, the Quaker settlement on the Guilford/ Randolph border. According to Smith, “all but four or five” landowners there were Unionists. On July 31, 1861, J. F. Shaffner, a young member of a 160-man Confederate detachment sent to quell Unionist sentiment in High Point, wrote to “My Dear Miss Carrie” that “It appears that some of the good citizens of our adjoining county Davidson have not forgotten their especial devotion to that great prince of baboons Abe Lincoln” (secessionists regularly described Lincoln in language reminiscent of the invective that some members of the Tea Party use for Barak Obama). On May 6, 1861, Jesse Wheeler, a Unionist from Greensboro, wrote to a friend that “the people in the counties of Guilford, Randolph and the adjoining counties are unshaken in their devotion to the Stars and Stripes.”

Writing to Lt. Governor Henry Toole Clarke on July 18, 1861, J. H. Moore warned that Militant Unionists were organizing in Davidson County in secret meetings held under the United States Flag, where they swore fealty to Lincoln. He claimed that there were more than 500 of them in Davidson County, under the leadership of one John Hilton. Little is known of Hilton, a buggy maker from Thomasville and a founding member of the Heroes of America, a clandestine organization formed in North Carolina with the express purpose of bringing down the Confederacy. The Heroes harbored spies, helped POWs escape, and spirited hounded Unionists and runaway slaves to Free States. Through pamphlets and clandestine meetings, they persuaded Confederate soldiers to desert their units and hid them from the conscription patrols.

On March 7, 1862, Hilton organized a peace rally at the Kennedy School House near Thomasville and proposed a scheme to rescue Yankee captives from the notorious Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina’s even more brutal version of the infamous Andersonville in south-central Georgia. Alerted that the Heroes of America were stockpiling arms and gunpowder for an uprising, Zebulon

Vance’s predecessor Governor Clark sent 300 troops to High Point and ordered the entire 33rd Regiment of North Carolina Troops to converge on the rally. Many were arrested, but Hilton eluded them, fled over the mountains into Tennessee, and enlisted in the Union Navy.

North Carolina’s newspapers rarely reported this kind of dissent for fear of demoralizing the troops. Only later would the Heroes of America be revealed as a complex, secret organization with more than 10,000 sworn members. Its other founders included Dr. John Lewis Johnson, a native Philadelphian who moved to North Carolina as a boy, studied medicine in Lexington, and practiced in Forsyth County. After being forced to enlist in the Confederate Army, he was captured during the Sharpsburg Campaign, and returned south on parole. Under suspicion of treason, he still aided the Heroes by proselytizing for them all over the state.

Another prominent member was Henderson Adams of Davidson County, who served as state senator from 1862 till the end of the war.

Many know that a disproportionate amount of Tarheels enlisted in or were conscripted for the Confederate cause, but remain unaware of just how many fought against it. More Tarheels wore blue uniforms and marched under the Stars and Stripes than did the citizens of any other Southern state. At least 10,000 white and 5,000 black North Carolinians joined Union army units and fought against the Confederacy. And although North Carolina provided two out of every five CSA soldiers, it also accounted for one out or every four deserters, with 23,694 abandoning their units to return home.

Lee himself complained about the state’s desertion rate, and Virginia newspapers mocked the combat willingness of North Carolina troops.

That reluctance was strongest in the Piedmont. In 1861, Davidson had the lowest enlistment rate of any Quaker Belt county, at 9.5 percent, with Guilford next at 11.8 (Statewide, the enlistment rate was 24.3 percent). It wasn’t cowardice, but it wasn’t just principle, either. The Piedmont’s yeoman farmers typically worked their small tracts of land themselves. When they left their farms for the army, or increasingly, were dragged away from those farms by conscription agents, their crops rotted in the field. The single biggest cause of Tarheel resistance to the Confederacy was the draft.

Conscription was a sore point in almost every state on both sides of the bloody conflict, but nowhere in the South was it more resented than in North Carolina. In February 1862, Zebulon Vance’s predecessor Governor Clark instituted

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the statewide draft one month before the Confederate Congress passed its first national conscription act. Clark resigned his office abruptly after one term, and Zeb Vance inherited the problem of conscription. The CSA’s Conscription Act of April 16, 1862, made men 16-35 eligible for the draft. The maximum age was upped to 45 after Gettysburg and to 50 after Jeff Davis’s favorite inept general, Braxton Bragg, was humiliated at Chattanooga. In the Piedmont, eligible men avoided the draft by dressing as women, hacking off their own fingers, and breaking their own toes. Swarthy white men claimed to be part black. The “twenty negro rule,” which allowed exemption to any man with twenty or more slaves, increased the feeling that this was “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”

Vance’s very efforts to help the war led to increased tension with Richmond. The new governor didn’t want his farmers, clothiers, arms makers and doctors used as cannon fodder. He wished to enforce conscription strategically, with exemptions for men he needed at home. Having recently commanded troops himself, he wanted to give North Carolina recruits the right to select the regiment in which they’d serve. Davis seemed to accede to this, and then ignored it. In October 1862, a party of 100 men from a “lukewarm” area of the state arrived in Raleigh to sign up, citing as their inducement the fact that they’d been promised that they could select their regiments. Instead, General Samuel French, the Richmond agent with whom Vance most often butted heads, had them rounded up and parceled out, in Vance’s words (ironic ones considering that it was a fight to preserve slavery) “like chattel property.” Desertions, the very thing Vance had promised to quell, increased exponentially. While the Quaker Belt contained 25 percent of the state’s population, it supplied over 40 percent of the draftees, and that draft was being increasingly resisted.

Jackson Jones, a thirty-year-old Quaker from Davidson County, provided one example of what happened to resisters when the military got a hold of them. He was “bucked down” (hands tied between his knees), stabbed with a bayonet, refused food and water, and had one of his ears cut off. Despite this torture, his brother William testified that “he always spoke his sentiments boldly and openly, no matter who was present,” and finally the army discharged him. Others were even less fortunate, and not all resisters were as pacifist as Jones.

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Protestor Ethan Clauset holding “Honor Confederate Draft Dodgers” sign.

pose in the Richmond Examiner denouncing the “traitorous” region. “There is a strip of country in North Carolina which is largely disloyal. Beginning with Randolph and Guilford, it extends through Davidson, Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin, into Wilkes.”

“A Traveler” recommended that troops be dispatched to “Salem or Winston” to “scour the whole of this disloyal region.”

Secessionists in Randolph County, concerned about the militant activities of the Unionists, organized a Vigilance Committee called the Home Guards at the start of the war to suppress “disloyalty” among blacks and whites. These complaints of disloyalty led the State Legislature to pass the Treason Law on May 11, 1861, prescribing death to anyone professing allegiance to the Union.

At the end of 1862, Zebulon Vance faced what was increasingly looking like an internal civil war. In the Quaker Belt alone, hundreds were deserting. Many joined the draft-dodgers and militant unionists already in hiding. Many of these joined the Heroes of America, flying the Union flag and organizing themselves into militias that took up arms against Confederate and state troops. Even more so than in notorious “Bloody Kansas,” it was neighbor against neighbor.

In William Owens, North Carolina had its own version of Newton Knight, the Mississippi Unionist recently played by Matthew McConaughey in the film The Free State of Jones. Owens may not have shared Knight’s belief in the equality of men, and his story ended less happily, but he opposed the Confederacy just as violently. When the conscription age was

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World of the Triad chant “Death to the New Confederacy.” raised to 50, Owens organized a band of armed guerillas and declared de facto war on the Confederacy. Raiding and scavenging throughout the region, Owens and his band pretty much seized control of Moore and Randolph Counties. Despite writing letters expressing his reluctance to take up arms against North Carolinians, Governor Vance was forced to send troops to the area. The first sweep, launched in the fall of 1862, met with little success, beating the bushes for two months without rounding up more than a handful of dissidents. A second expedition, in February of 1863, fared little better.

In April of 1863, Vance requested regular troops, saying the guerillas could “lick my militia in a fair fight.” The troops were not available until that summer. They entered a region that was a powder keg, the ranks of malcontents having been swelled by the influx of new and even more disillusioned deserters after the horrors of Gettysburg. In a letter to a friend, Vance estimated that there were now at least 1,100 armed and organized “Outliers” in the Moore-Randolph-Chatham- County border area alone. General Robert Hoke began a five month campaign that ranged from Wilkes and Yadkin to Chatham and Moore counties.

To quote local historian Bill Trotter, author of Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina, Vol. 1: The Piedmont, “While Hoke’s men behaved with a degree of restraint . . . the Home Guard Units called out to assist them did not. Instead, they used the proximity of regular Confederate units to settle a lot of old scores.” Farms were burned, property

looted, children beaten and women raped.

Space does not allow proper treatment of many other significant incidents in North Carolina’s “civil war within the Civil War,” such as the brutalities of the Confederate prison at Salisbury, or the North Carolinians of Color who resisted the Confederacy and joined the Union cause. This article’s focus on the resistance of white North Carolinians to the Confederacy is not intended to excuse slavery or diminish the allegiance and contribution of African-Americans to the Northern cause. But their sympathies in the War of Southern Determination to Preserve Slavery, a more accurate label than “The War of Northern Aggression,” are long acknowledged. Even racist fictions like Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind depict many AfricanAmericans siding with the Union (albeit while portraying them as opportunistic predators). What the “Heritage, not Hate” crowd seems less willing to acknowledge is just how many of their own poor white ancestors opposed the cause represented by the Stars and Bars. The story of southern white resistance to the Confederacy needs to be told, not to exculpate the region’s detestable tradition of slavery, but because so many modern southern whites misunderstand the “Heritage” they mythologize.

The author wishes to acknowledge the late historian William T. Auman, whose Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers (McFarland, 2014) is the best book-length treatment of this subject. !

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MCPHERSON’S BAR & GRILL

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The sophisticated soul of Carolyn Malachi

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

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he plain-spoken truth can be startling. Especially in an age when people go out of their way not to hear it. Singer, songwriter and producer Carolyn Malachi delivers candor in her wide-ranging urban and urbane soul music. The stories she tells in her music — about creativity, money and love — aren’t necessarily simple, but there’s a clarity to her declarations that adds force to them, like medicine that’s been distilled to a tincture. This week, Malachi, a Grammy-nominated, Washington D.C.-based performer, is set to release Rise: Story 1, the first installment of what’s envisioned as a three-part series of albums called Rise of the Modern Natural.

Malachi plays the Crown at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro on Thursday, Dec. 15. I spoke to her last week by phone from the Grand Canyon. We spoke about saying things that need to be said, about the im-

portance of creating a dynamic between listeners and performers, about the challenge of fueling your dreams, and about the musical spirit of Washington D.C. and how it shapes Malachi’s sound.

That sound is eclectic, infused with the textures of electronica, the harmonies and phrasing of jazz, a deep sense of groove, a narrative punch drawn from slam poetry and hip-hop, and an overarching soul sophistication. There are touches of Roberta Flack, Sade, Lauryn Hill and Beyonce in Malachi’s music.

Her latest single, “If You Ever Lay A Hand On Me,” is a tough-talking bluesy acoustic declaration of independence.

“I love you, but I’ll kill you if you ever lay a hand on me,” goes the refrain, which brings to mind singers like Nina Simone in its bold statement of romantic authority.

Malachi has said she comes from a long line of independent-minded and articulate women. She’s said that, when she was a kid, her mother would sometimes make Malachi go to her room to write

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stories as a way of focusing and ordering her energies. So, it makes a kind of sense that her next three albums will be a linked collection of narratives.

When I asked her about how those formative story-writing experiences shaped her development as a musician, Malachi said it was about her understanding her place in the world and the role that storytelling serves.

“It’s more relevant to the way I’ve learned the history of my family and the way we passed down history and customs,” she says. “Not just my family, but the whole human race.”

But in order to tell your story, to realize your vision, or to pursue your creative goals, you have to have more than just a talent for putting together words and notes. You need some cash to pay rent, buy food and free up time to allow for whatever artistic work needs doings. As pop themes go, the pursuit of romance, sex and love is a much more popular subject, but Malachi is onto something

when she sings, as she does on a number of songs, about the quest for money.

“I just have never understood why talking about money is so taboo,” says Malachi. “All communities do need economic empowerment. Those conversations are missing from the media landscape.”

Another song released this year, “We Like Money,” states it pretty simply: “We go to work because we gotta get paid,” goes one line. The tune has a perky Caribbean feel, with slow-rolling and crisp percussion moving the rhythm along. The song isn’t about wanting to be wealthy exactly; it’s about the need for money to pay bills, live with dignity, and survive, and how, when that’s a challenge, the creative ways that people endure are worth celebrating.

“You have to not only fuel and fund your dreams, but you also have to fill your stomach,” says Malachi.

Malachi, who is the great-granddaughter of jazz pianist and educator John Malachi, is that somewhat rare artist who

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has worked in high-level corporate jobs.

She knows about what goes on in board rooms and strategic meetings, and she enjoys that world. “I like soaking up the information,” she says.

After having left her office job in 2014, switching to full-time music-making, Malachi has a deep sympathy for “people who are working that nine-to-five grind and are not doing what they feel they should be doing.”

But if Malachi’s songs address the numbing fiscal realities of working people, they also deliver plenty of uplift, hope and inspiration. She sings about seeing one’s mental framework, presence, education and attitude as the keys to creating the conditions we crave. “It’s not a game, it’s a grind, wherever you are, your mind put you there,” she sings on “Free Your Mind,” a single from 2012.

Malachi was nominated for a Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for her 2010 single “Orion,” a dub-tinged song about communing with the cosmos.

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thing that carries through in much of Malachi’s music.

Her working method sometimes consists of Malachi having a lyric and melody, which she’ll record to a click-track, then handing it off to her creative collaborators to complete. This allows for songs that don’t need a ton of extra instrumental embellishment, though assertive and deceptively minimal beats often add to the spare tension of her songs. There’s an element of confidence and trust and how she approaches the whole process.

“I never want to overwhelm the listener with sound,” she says. “As long as I’ve communicated what I intend to get across, the rest of it is really up to the listener. I think the art experience is a twoway process. It’s a conversation.” !

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Carolyn Malachi plays at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15 p.m. at the Crown at Carolina Theatre (310 S. Greene St. Greensboro). Tickets are $10. Call 336333-2605 or visit carolinatheatre.com for more.

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Fr 20 THE BAND OF HEATHENS Sa 21 DAVID ALLAN COE Sa 21 “ELVIS LIVES”

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Dec 31: The Avett Brothers

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Dec 16: Mac Miller Dec 20: Tory Lanez w/ Kranium and VeeCee Dec 31: Drop !t: Ookay Jan 11: Pop Evil Jan 19: Greensky Bluegrass Feb 3: Atmosphere Feb 10: The Fighters Feb 12: Safetysuit

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LJVMJan Coliseum University Pkwy Winston-Salem) Wed 11(2825 Friday Dec. 16 7:30 p.m.

“This first-of-its-kind concert will feature the world-renowned reggae group The Wailers performing with the Piedmont Wind Symphony. The Wailers achieved international fame during their longtime association with Bob Marley. Their music has remained popular through the years and among audiences of all ages. The concert will open with the first half performed by PWS. The Wailers will join the Piedmont Wind Symphony for the second half of the concert and will perform hit songs, “One Love”, “Three Little Birds”, “Could You Be Loved”, “Get Up, Stand Up”, “We’re Jamming” and more.

Tickets are $25, $55, $75, and table seats are $125. Limited table seating available. Family 4 Pack available for the $25 tickets. Buy three $25 tickets and get one $25 ticket free. Buy table seats and Family 4 Pack by calling the Piedmont Wind Symphony office at (336) 722-9328. All other tickets can be bought online or by calling the Ticketmaster Office at 1-800-745-3000.” - via Facebook

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LJVM Coliseum (2825 University Pkwy Winston-Salem) Saturday Dec. 17 7:30 p.m.

“The FOX8/Old Dominion Triad Holiday Concert returns this December to the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem on Saturday, December 17th.

FOX8’s Neill McNeill and Katie Nordeen will once again host this year’s concert.

New this year, the concert will feature revamped formats to include more music, more performers, and an intermission break. The new format promises to make the experience even more fun for attendees of all ages, while maintaining the traditions of more than 25 years of Triad Holiday Concerts.

As always, admission and parking are free with your donation of canned food items to benefit The Salvation Army. Last year’s FOX8/Old Dominion Triad Holiday Concerts raised more than 500,000 cans of food. The FOX8/Old Dominion Triad Holiday Concerts serve as the single largest provider of food for the hungry in the Triad, and help stock the shelves of The Salvation Army for more than half the year.” - via Facebook !

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Continuing its spirited adaptation of the Nativity Story is Triad Stage, this week through Christmas Eve, with its original production of Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity. The play, with on-stage music by Laurelyn Dossett, is a warm-hearted and sometimes comical look at the story of Mary and the birth of Jesus. It begins at the beginning itself, with the creation of Adam and Eve, continues through the Great Flood, and ends with a miracle in a manger. It’s a fictional church that reenacts the entire story for its “congregation,” nestled in the Appalachian Mountains.

Thursday through Sunday, Theatre Alliance continues its holiday production of White Christmas, a musical based on the 1954 film. Including such hits “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano,” and “White Christmas,” the production features two iconic song-and-dance men who follow a sister act to Vermont, then soon discover that the nearlybankrupt lodge in which they are to perform is actually owned by their former commanding general.

Also continuing this week is Community Theatre of Greensboro’s comical holiday favorite: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Running Friday through Sunday, the fun production features a couple that is charged with putting on a church Christmas pageant with a group of inventively awful kids as the cast.

New this week, running Friday through Sunday, is Twin City Stage’s traditional production of Macy’s Yes, Virginia The Musical. The heart-warming tale is based on the true story of an eight-year-old girl who writes the local paper to ask, “Is Santa real?” The editor’s answer is a spirited message that hones the true spirit of the holidays.

Tis also the season for annual productions of The Nutcracker. UNC School of the Arts presents its annual classic this week through Sunday at the Stevens Center, and High Point Ballet will also perform the tale of the magical Russian Christmas Eve Dec. 21-23 at High Point Theatre. !

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ince the 18th century launching of the first ballet school, the Imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia has laid claim to the art, making it a Lenise Willis strict and revered profession—and Contributing rightfully so. And though there are columnist numerous productions that showcase the grace and athleticism of Russian ballet, in America the most iconic is The Nutcracker. This holiday, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts does the art form justice in its entrancing annual production of the classic.

Radiating both grace and power, The Nutcracker is captivating and sure to raise your spirits for the holidays. It’s a beautiful story rich with worldly tradition, mesmerizing movements and a spellbinding score.

In the ballet, originally choreographed in 1892 by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the magic of Christmas Eve comes alive with a Sugar Plum Fairy ruling the Land of Sweets, and a great battle between the Nutcracker, who leads an army of toy soldiers, and the great Mouse King.

UNCSA ’s production of the classic has dazzled audiences for more than 40 years. In fact, for the last two decades it’s resurrected my own love for ballet and the orchestra and has become a heartwarming holiday tradition. Watching the talent that comes from the school of dance is a real treat and I’m always fascinated—without fail—at the incredible feats displayed on stage. The school’s performance is one that commands respect—it’s beautiful, enriching and inspiring. I always leave with a desire to be a part of their world.

This year’s ballet includes two performances (Dec. 14-15) by guest dancers Megan LeCrone, performing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Martin Harvey, performing as the Cavalier Prince.

“Our UNCSA student performers in The Nutcracker are themselves destined to be among the best dancers in the world,” said Susan Jaffe, Dean of Dance. “Megan, an alumna of UNCSA’s high school ballet program, serves as a perfect testament that the brightest ballet stars of the fu-

ture are performing on UNCSA’s stages today.

I’m so proud of Megan’s stunning career.”

LeCrone is a native of Winston-Salem, a UNCSA alumna and a soloist for the New York City Ballet. She made her debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy last year in NYCB’s production of The Nutcracker. Harvey is both a highly accomplished actor and an award-winning former member of London’s Royal Ballet Company.

“As UNCSA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the inaugural production of The Nutcracker, we’re thrilled to continue the tradition of bringing world-class guest artists to our stage,” said Katharine Laidlaw, UNCSA Chief Marketing Officer.

“Megan and Martin are extraordinary dancers who will inspire our students and captivate audiences.”

Besides the amazing display of poise and athleticism, UNCSA’s production is also filled with magical set changes, like the dreamlike growth of the Christmas tree on stage. !

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flourish to the proceedings – sometimes dominantly so. There’s also a certain vague texture that’s certainly in keeping with the genre. Nocturnal Animals isn’t quite as profound or penetrating as it aspires to be, but it makes a valiant stab and boasts more than enough attributes to make it worthwhile and praiseworthy.

Chief among them are the performances, with Gyllenhaal and Adams again delivering affecting work in the leading roles, and Shannon all but stealing the show. Alas, such talents as Jena Malone (wearing an extremely odd outfit), Laura Linney, Michael Sheen and Graham Beckel are only briefly glimpsed – although Linney tears into her one scene as Susan’s haughty mom. Abel Korzeniowski’s score and Seamus McGarvey’s slick cinematography further serve to enhance the film’s surreal, even otherworldly ambiance. !

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The second focuses on the novel, with Gyllenhaal playing protagonist Tony Hastings, whose cross-country move to the West Coast is tragically interrupted by a trio of toughs (Karl Glusman, Robert Aramayo and a particularly nasty Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who abduct and murder his wife and daughter (Isla Fisher and Bamber).

Susan is clearly affected by the novel, and as she reflects on her marriage to Edward (in flashbacks), she is constantly drawn back to the novel, which then details Tony’s efforts to exact retribution on those who have destroyed his life, aided by laconic Texas lawman Bobby Andes (a flawless Michael Shannon), who’s more than willing to bend a few rules on Tony’s behalf.

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Writer/director Jeff Nichols’ fact-based Loving marks another screen triumph for the talented UNCSA School of Filmmaking graduate – a potent dramatization of intolerance and integrity, as experienced by the Virginia couple Richard and Mildred Loving (played beautifully by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga).

The year is 1958, and Richard (white) and Mildred (black) marry in Washington, D.C. – then are jailed shortly thereafter, as interracial marriage is a felon. Essentially they are banished from Virginia, but years later – as the Civil Rights movement gains momentum – they are persuaded to fight the original charge, all the way to the Supreme Court.

The simple dignity that Edgerton and Negga bring to their roles is not to be underestimated in its effectiveness or impact. Richard and Mildred’s genuinely loving relationship isn’t conveyed verbally, nor need it be. Their emotions are powerfully conveyed in glances, touches, and the effortless ease with which the two actors imbue the couple.

There’s the very real sense that Richard and Mildred are navigating uncharted territory, and although they don’t seek to draw attention to themselves – quite the opposite, in fact – their devotion to one another (and their children) is palpable throughout. They simply wanted to be treated with the respect afforded any

married couple.

There’s good supporting work from Nick Kroll as the idealistic attorney who takes the Loving’s case; Bill Camp as their first attorney, whose sympathy only goes so far; Martin Csokas as the steely-eyed sheriff who persecutes them; and Michael Shannon (again collaborating with Nichols) as photographer Grey Villet, whose Life Magazine photograph of the couple brought national attention to their plight – and their life together.

Loving is moving without being manipulative, dignified without being preachy, and forceful in its subtlety. It rings with truth and compassion. !

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Love, loss and redemption Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from writer/director Kenneth Lonergan is an involving, character-driven drama whose collective impact slowly, quietly creeps up on you. With a low-key, occasionally languid approach, Lonergan’s film transcends a potentially soap-opera storyline with humor and, more importantly, humanity.

Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), a quiet, self-effacing custodian eking out a (very) modest living in Boston, receives word that his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died after a long bout with congestive heart failure, which necessitates Lee’s return to their family home in Manchester by the Sea. Lee’s return proves even more emotionally difficult than the circumstances would indicate, for reasons that are divulged later. Much to his surprise, Lee has been granted custody of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges, son of playwright/ filmmaker/UNCSA graduate Peter Hedges) – a responsibility he neither wants nor feels he deserves.

A series of flashbacks, well incorporated into the narrative by Lonergan, divulges the reasons for Lee’s long exodus from

Manchester – which explains and deepens the character. Affleck’s sublime performance is among the actor’s very best, combining a self-effacing (and self-loathing) reticence with periodic outbursts of frustration and rage.

As a playwright, Lonergan occasionally spends too much time with peripheral characters, although never to the detriment of the overall story or the diminishing of the main characters. The wintry New England setting is very much a character, beautifully captured by cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes with a vivid working-class flavor.

Gretchen Mol appears as Patrick’s estranged mother, with Matthew Broderick (who appeared in Lonergan’s fine 2000 directorial debut You Can Count on Me) as her new husband. Michelle Williams, who has far less screentime than her second billing would indicate, nevertheless makes every moment count as Lee’s ex-wife, who has made her own effort to put their past behind her, with only marginally more success than Lee. Chandler exudes warmth and brotherly love as the one person whose faith in Lee never wavered – even if Lee’s own faith in himself did. !

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How Greensboro’s Mac God Feeds the Triad’s Needy

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ashelle Brooks goes by several noodly names.

To those who buy up her signature dish at markets around the Triad, she’s known as the Mac God. The local homeless community calls her the Mac and Cheese Lady. Others know her only through her business, the Mac & Cheese Ministry. On Dec. 3, Brooks added another title: First Place Winner of Charlotte’s CLT’s Macdown macaroni and cheese competition.

It’s an odd list of monikers for someone who hated macaroni and cheese as a child.

“I never liked mac and cheese growing up, so I started playing around with some recipes,” said Brooks.

Brooks took to the kitchen in 2013 as a way to recover from a series of personal struggles.

“My divorce, my health issues; all of these things were going wrong at one time,” said Brooks. “I wanted to do something outside of myself. And cooking has always been therapeutic for me.”

Brooks made it her mission to tweak the classic side dish into something she loved. Her friends and family loved it, too. Their feedback inspired Brooks to share her creation with those who needed it most.

“I started going down to Moore Square in Raleigh, bringing pans and sitting outside and talking to people, making friends. Some of them still reach out to me now,” she said.

News of the Mac and Cheese Lady spread through word of mouth. Strangers began contacting Brooks, asking her to visit local families who didn’t have enough to eat.

“I was working full time, getting my paycheck, making food, and going right downtown,” said Brooks of those early days. “It became something I really loved.”

Brooks found the work so fulfilling that it took up more and more of her time. In 2014, she left her job in corporate communications and moved her family to Greensboro. She saw an opportunity there to turn her passion project into a business, which came to be known as the Mac & Cheese Ministry.

Lovers of Brooks’ gooey creation can now order pans of it through her website and have them delivered to their doors each weekend. She still gets plenty of requests about families in need of a free meal. One day a week is devoted to combing through emails and figuring out how to feed the most people for free, while also keeping paying customers happy.

“Around the first and fifteenth of the month is when folks get paid and get their benefits. In between and toward the end of the month, that’s when I get 15 or so requests at once. I’m not always able to serve everyone, but I serve everyone I can.”

Brooks is now working to secure investors and commercial kitchen space so the Mac & Cheese Ministry can grow. Whether she’s ready or not, her first place win in the CLT’s ‘Macdown’ is sure to add more orders to her plate.

The competition, held at Sugar Creek Brewery, pitted local macaroni and cheese vendors against each other to benefit Project Halo, Charlotte’s no-kill animal sanctuary.

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Rashelle Brooks turned a love of comfort food into a business and outreach ministry.

Winners were decided by ballot, with the Mac & Cheese Ministry coming out ahead by roughly 30 votes.

“It was a lot of fun,” said Brooks. “I met a lot of awesome people from the Charlotte community. It’s great to venture outside of Greensboro and see what people think of the product.”

Brooks’ favorite type of macaroni and cheese – spinach and artichoke – took home the prize, but she also has a growing stockpile of other recipes, including lobster and bacon cheddar. All are in high demand on the delivery circuit, so Brooks has plenty to keep her busy.

At least she has junior assistants. Her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son have worked with her since the project began.

“My daughter helps me with keeping organized and on time, and my son actually loves to cook, so he’s in the kitchen with me,” she said. “I think it’s good for them. They start to understand we’re all not that far from these situations, so help other people while you can.”

Once the Mac & Cheese Ministry gains a permanent location, Brooks plans to continue helping others by using her kitchen to create jobs.

“In the Mac & Cheese Ministry, I come across so many people who are skilled in culinary arts, but they have backgrounds that don’t permit them to get good jobs, or

they’re in a position where no one will give them a chance,” Brooks said.

Another reason for hiring help is to give Brooks more time to engage with the people for whom she started her ministry.

“I love my mac and cheese, but I didn’t start this to be in the kitchen all the time. I started it to be out and about, sharing my story, encouraging people and loving on people,” she said.

Brooks has her eye on several abandoned properties near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she feels her mission and her macaroni will be popular with students. Until the next phase of her business plan unfolds, Brooks says she will keep doing what she can to feed the community. She encourages others to join her by reaching out to those around them.

“There can never be too many people helping the poor,” she said. “There can never be too many people feeding the hungry. There will always be people with us that need help.”

To learn more about the Mac & Cheese Ministry, visit www.mkt.com/macncheeseministry. !

MIA OSBORN is a Greensboro-based freelance writer who hails from Birmingham, Alabama.

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ood adventurers have a new place to play and it’s getting such great reviews we just had to try it. Taaza Indian Bistro opened last June in the Bridford Shopping Center near Target. Taaza is the second restaurant for the owners who already have enjoyed success for the last 12 years under the same name in Burlington.

Here’s the thing, my kids, who don’t eat much, love Indian food. They are quite quick to tell me when they’ve got a craving for it. And I don’t mind it one bit. My hubby and I love it too. I find it strange that so many people haven’t tried Indian cuisine.

The flavors of curry, spices and the sweet heat are quite soothing and homey and to me, more comfort food than mac & cheese.

It’s another thing not to like it…which, being honest, I can’t figure that out either.

Owner Mohan Chinnathambi says business has been steady since their summer opening and that they are quite happy with the new space. Taaza means “fresh”

and the last five months have gone something like, “best Indian food I’ve ever had,” “Reminds me of Bombay,” “Incredible” and “The Most Amazing Buffet.” We had to see for ourselves.

We were the first in the door on a recent Wednesday night. I figured the emptiness meant that we’d just gotten a jump on things. Once seated, you’re greeted with a small platter of papadum, a crispy cracker served with various sauces. We looked at the menu, which was a few pages long and separated into vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. We decided our first course would the Non-Veg Platter which featured an assortment of chicken lollipops, kababs and fritters. A great start, especially if you like your appetizers meaty.

For our entrees, we knew we had to order Tikka Masala with Chicken …it’s the baseline test for most Indian restaurants in my family. And it’s my kids’ favorite.

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never been able to replicate that flavor at home no matter how hard I try. From now on, I’ll leave it to the professionals.

We wanted to try a lamb dish so we ordered from the Charcoal Clay Oven section, the Mughali Seekh Kababs. It’s ground lamb served with onions and it comes out sizzling and smelling amazing. We also love Vindaloo so we ordered it with chicken. Both dishes come with fluffy basmati rice so popular at these restaurants and lentils or veggies. A couple orders of naan bread …we love it so (garlic was the winner), and we thought we were done.

But Mohan decided to help us eat outside our comfort zone and sent out Gobi, a fried cauliflower dish that has a hint of Asian to it ... kind of reminded us of General Tso chicken. It could almost pass for it except it was a bit crispier and lighter in texture. So delicious.

Mohan told me, “We’re trained professionals from Indian culinary school. And we’re the first South Indian restaurant in the Triad specializing in South Indian crepe and curries.” They’re called Dosa on the menu. It is beautiful to see and would be a great starter for a table. The dosa is

meant to be pulled apart and enjoyed in a communal or family style. The one we tried was slightly earthy in flavor and had a very thin layer of lentils spread inside with flecks of cumin throughout with potatoes and lentils for filling. You can order your dosa in a variety of ways, from plain and ready to roll, to butter or ghee, cottage cheese, eggs or potatoes. Mohan suggested for the future or any skeptics, “Try the pancake topped with chopped onions, tomatoes and fresh chilies. It’s called Onion Tomato Chili Oothappam and it’s to die for.”

And then we thought we were done.

Again. But then Mohan sent out a sampling of what they offer for dessert … a pistachio ice cream made in house called Kulfi. The ground pistachios inside this green tinted ice cream gave it an interesting, almost cake like texture. The winner of the dessert sampling was the Gulab Jamun, a deep-fried dumpling served piping hot and soaking in saffron, honey and rosewater syrup, as described by one of our servers. Very decadent, sweet and luscious. We also tried a tiny bite of a coconut cookie and a mango pudding

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that was very pleasing. I’ll have to try the rice pudding next time as it’s one of my favorite treats.

By the time we wrapped up our meal, business had steadily come in and the restaurant was about three-fourths full by the time we left. Always a good sign.

We enjoyed Taaza and I’m looking forward to going back soon to try their lunch buffet. That’s always the very best way to explore if you’re new to Indian cuisine.

It’s actually the best way to go if you have a hard time deciding. The favorites like Tikka, Vindaloo and Tandoori Chicken are most always on a menu as well as rice pudding and a few of the desserts. But sometimes the real way to go is to put yourself at the mercy of your server. Ask them, and they can point you in the direction of putting something on your plate that will delight your senses and tastebuds. And depending on the establishment, and you if can stand the heat, go for “Indian Hot.” I asked Mohan what other inspirations he’d encourage us to try from his menu “You’ll find the typical Chettinad cuisine on our menu. We also do Northern Indian WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

from Moghalai, Punjabi and cuisine from Central India and the Taaza special menu emphasizes the wonder of our cuisine all over the states of India.” He says, “People really enjoy the curries… Cilantro Garlic Chicken, Punjabi Bhuna Ghost with Goat or Lamb, Tandoori Salmon, Lamb Chop Masala, Spicy Prawn Balcho, Karaikudi Varutha Curry, and Chettinad Curry.” I’m very unfamiliar with most Indian cuisine and like to be nudged by people in the know to try things. I am an adventurous eater, but asking the server takes some of the overwhelmingness away.

And that brings us to the exciting notion that Taaza will be an upcoming Chef’s Table in the New Year. We’re thinking late-February where we’ll let Mohan and his cooking team surprise us. Stay tuned to the triadfoodies Facebook page for the announcement. !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) This Mercury retrograde experience occurs in the territory of health, coworkers, tenants, employees, and pets. You may find it very hard to move forward with your diet and exercise program. It is a particularly good time to organize and sort closets, records, and files. Coworkers and employees may be hard to pin down.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Mercury is turning retrograde in the territory that rules children, creative efforts, and love life. Anything on your radar screen that is related to these territories is subject to turnaround, review, deceleration, rethinking for a few weeks. Maybe you’ll want to check out a previous love interest.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) On this Mercury retrograde, the area of focus is related to property, family, and issues of security. You are likely reworking things in one of these territories. Family members may be erratic or hard to pin down, making it difficult to conclude open agendas. Have patience. Mercury turns direct on Jan 8.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) The Mercury retrograde focus is specifically on communications, neighbors, siblings, and others who are in your daily environment. Concentrate as much as possible on clear communications.

Double check what you think you heard.

You may need to consider the needs of your vehicle now. Give it a checkup.

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cember 21) During this week you may be dealing with projects that you thought were long since done. Somehow they crop up again to be corrected or repaired.

“Going back” or “doing over” is not your gig. An Archer always wants to be moving forward to the next thing.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Give attention to the lead paragraph. Mercury is turning retrograde in your sign and will be more likely to affect your daily affairs than many of the other signs. Don’t even try to finalize anything while a retrograding Mercury is with you.

Use the energy to research information and gather resources for better decisions after Jan. 8th.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Memories from your life history may surface for examination at this time. Old friends or acquaintances who return for a short time could be the trigger for this

life review. It is possible you may have a greater than normal need to reflect, to write, and otherwise give attention to your inner self. For that reason circumstances will slow down in your outer life.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You are likely to find yourself thinking a lot about old friends and may want to get in touch with one or two of them. This is a time for nostalgia and reminiscence.

Others are thinking about you, too. You are one who is prone to rest in the background. You rarely make the first move.

But if you want to catch up, pick up the telephone.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You are probably thinking twice about an action that sounded good in the beginning. Mercury, has altered directions in your house of career and life direction. This is really more of a tweaked change than a larger life change. Now is the time to research the best possible choices, but don’t take final action yet until you are sure of the parameters.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your ruling planet is changing directions in the territory which deals with education, publishing, travel, public speaking, the law, and philosophy. Therefore any of these activities are subject to shifts, changes, or sudden deceleration due to lack of decision. Maybe the right solution just is not available yet. Have a sense of humor. You know Mercury is retrograding.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Mercury is retrograding in the territory of taxes, debt, and joint resources. You will likely experience a need to go back and review financial history. Some may be hesitating over whether or not to become sexually involved with a new lover. The answer for that one is to step back for now. Think again in Jan., 2017.

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

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A female friend of mine wanted to get married, but her boyfriend was resistant. He’d been married before, with disastrous results.

He eventually Amy Alkon married her — not because he wanted to be married but Advice because it meant so Goddess much to her. Initially, she felt bad about this. She had to give up her romantic dream of getting married because somebody would want to be tied to her forever. Do men just marry women to make us happy? — Wondering Woman Picture a zookeeper coming in in the morning and going, “Crap — we’ve got a new giraffe. How did he get in here?”

On one level, a man pining for a life in sexual captivity makes about as much sense as a wild animal breaking in to a zoo. Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt note that we humans evolved to choose between two different sexual strategies — short-term and long-term. Women typically benefit more from a “long-term sexual strategy” — a commitment model, i.e., getting men to stick around to invest in their children. Men often benefit more from a “short-term sexual strategy” — a lack-ofcommitment model, i.e., sticking it into a long line of sexfriends. That’s because a man can have sex with thousands of

women and never end up pregnant with something that needs to be fed, clothed, and sent to hipster day care.

Though a man gets more shots to pass on his genes with the short-term “I love a parade!” approach, it’s sometimes more advantageous for him to opt for a longterm strategy. It’s a huge time-, energy-, and resource-suck to perpetually be on the hunt. Also, Buss explains, because “highly desirable women” can hold out for commitment, men can get a much better woman if they’re willing to go for a long-term thing (buying the relationship stroganoff instead of living off the free samples in the supermarket).

Whether to commit generally doesn’t play out in men’s heads in such clear cost-benefit terms — like calculations on whether to go all in on pork futures.

It’s emotion that pushes them toward commitment — loving a woman who happens to insist on a commitment and wanting to make her happy. Economist Robert H. Frank calls love “a solution to the commitment problem.” Mushywushy feelings are what keep you with that special someone — instead of running off the moment somebody who’s objectively a better deal moves in next door or your beloved is tossing their cookies on the side of the road: “Bye, hon...hope somebody nice comes along to hold your hair back!”

So a man’s being willing to officially take his penis off the market — even if he isn’t particularly hot on the idea of marriage — is a really big deal. There are two major reasons you spend the rest of your life with one person: Either you realize

you love them more than you love your freedom or you’re serving a sentence for a string of really bad felonies.

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My wife isn’t smart. She also doesn’t read books or newspapers or know anything about current events or politics.

I knew that when I married her, but we were both kids, and I thought it was kinda sweet and funny. Fifteen years later, it bothers and embarrasses me. I still love her, but I’m depressed by the idea of spending the rest of my life with someone who can’t share some of what I see as life’s basic pleasures. — Hating Myself For Sounding Snobby It’s something of an attraction killer when you look deep into a woman’s eyes — and feel pretty sure you can see clear out the back of her head.

Yes, 15 years ago, you pledged to spend forever with this woman — surely intending to follow through, despite how she probably makes major life decisions by consulting fortune cookies.

The truth is, we can lack foresight when we’re younger. (As late as eighth grade,

I announced to my parents with great gravitas: “Roller-skating is my life!”)

Though you care about her, what you’re missing — being similar in essential areas — is called “assortative mating.” Psychologist Michelle Shiota notes that “studies have repeatedly found that similarity between romantic partners in domains such as socioeconomic status, educational background, age, ethnicity, religion, physical attractiveness, intelligence, attitudes, and values predicts higher levels of marital satisfaction and lower likelihood of separation and divorce.”

Sure, you could focus on what you love about her and try to get your intellectual needs met elsewhere. However, if what makes you feel alive and connected to somebody is engaging intellectually, this might just be a bridge too far — being with someone who believes the Electoral College is where your 18-year-old niece is going next fall to study bioengineering. !

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