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ROBERT DE NIRO DEBUNKS A LOCAL LEGEND “Bob says he was never fired,” wrote ROBERT DE NIRO’s publicist after I queried him about the longstanding rumor that the Oscar-winning actor was terminated from the Barn Dinner Theater in 1967.

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Matt Pleasants, the head chef at EARL’S and former owner of the everpopular Bahtmobile, is serving up Southernstyle bar food and full plates at the new location found in the former E.G. Forrest warehouse, which offers an atmosphere as comforting as the menu.

10 OSMG president and CEO Frank Vagnone described the fair as a “palette cleanser” for coming out of the holiday season. He said the WINTER FAIR provides opportunities for a full spectrum of all ages of a family.

11 ROMA, which also recently received Golden Globe nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay (also Curaron) and Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, was acquired for distribution by Netflix but also released to theaters to qualify for awards consideration.

12 It makes a certain kind of moody, poetic sense that one of the friendships at the core of the Raleigh band MORNING BELLS was formed over the passing mention of Peter Murphy. Someone overheard a stranger discussing an upcoming show by the dark and suave Bauhaus frontman. Soon YES! WEEKLY

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Ric Denton and Laura Weislo were talking.

This was back in the ‘90s.

17 One of our neighbors, BENNETT COLLEGE, could use a hand right about now. That’s because the clock is running out on Bennett, which must raise $5 million dollars by Feb. 1, in order to regain their accreditation from SACS, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

18 Set during the kickoff of the 18th century, this historical seriocomedy unfolds in the court of QUEEN ANNE (Colman), a sickly ruler who would rather spend time with her pet rabbits than deal with pesky politics or the fog of war that envelops England’s ongoing battle with France.

24 A Winston-Salem woman has taken her passion for wig building and created a system to help those who have lost their hair due to medical conditions. If you’re a big fan of Saturday Night Live, Spiderman 3, or Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, then you have more than likely seen her works. CHRISTAL SCHANES is an Emmy-award winning wig and hair artist and a professor...

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WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY WED 19-22 HIGH POINT BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER & LAND OF SWEETS WHAT: Swirling with heroic toy soldiers, sword-fighting mice, and glittering Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the joyful, dream-inspired story of The Nutcracker is beautifully presented by the High Point Ballet company.

WHEN: Nutcracker scheduled nightly Dec. 19-21 at 7:30 pm. Land of the Sweets, designed specifically for younger audiences, will be performed Dec. 22 at 11 am and 2 pm.

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THUR 20 OZUNA WHAT: Ozuna´s highly anticipated #AuraUSAtour2018 will reach more than 30 cities in the United States. It features an extravagant use of smoke, pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art lights and LED screens. Taking advantage of his ample repertoire of hits from his maiden album “Odisea”, exciting collaborations with world renowned artists and fresh material from his latest album “Aura”, the beloved artist entertains his loyal fans singing a plethora of hit songs.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

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WHERE: Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden. 1105 Hobbs Rd, Greensboro.

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WHAT: Come party with us before the holiday craziness begins! Whip out your grandmas ugliest sweater, come drink some beer, enjoy some great food from GT Fusion Food Truck, and celebrate all the great things from this year!

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SAT 22 RED JUNE WHAT: Red June is a powerful acoustic trio from Asheville, North Carolina performing beautifully distilled original American music. The band is known for a dynamic, yet refined sound that features striking three-part harmonies, tasteful instrumental work, and honest, soulful songwriting that seamlessly blends bluegrass, old-time, country and American roots music.

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WHERE: Muddy Creek Cafe and Music Hall.

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AN INVITATION FROM NORTH CAROLINA’S COAST

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The holidays are a special time for families in North Carolina to gather and look ahead to the New Year with anticipation and enthusiasm. It’s also a time when we reflect on the past year including memorable highlights and challenges.

As North Carolinians we have much to be thankful for, but many of our families, neighbors and communities in the paths of Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael were severely impacted this fall.

Collectively, we say thank you to so many of you for your support.

North Carolinians are resilient. From the beautiful coastline in the East to the towering mountains in the West, North Carolinians are known for strong comebacks and moving forward. As leaders of the travel industry along the coast, we want to assure you that significant progress has been made to make sure visitors can return to the coastal places they love.

Our out-of-state visitors are special guests to us all, but many of them who heard the national news during the storms are unaware of how far we’ve come since. We’ve learned from recent research conducted by Visit North Carolina that only 14 percent of potential out-ofstate visitors believe North Carolina’s coast is back to normal. Even some North Carolinians are unaware of how far we’ve come. In most instances, our hotels, vacation rentals, attractions, recreational outfitters, restaurants, retail shops, golf

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courses and more are already welcoming visitors back, and others will certainly be back to normal in time for the popular spring and summer travel seasons.

We recognize many North Carolinians dedicate a portion of their time together during the holidays to begin planning family vacations for the coming year. The tourism economy is vital to our region, our citizens and the quality of life we all cherish. The speed of our recovery is largely dependent on the pace with which travelers return to visit our communities throughout the state.

We encourage you to plan a visit to North Carolina’s beautiful and distinctive barrier island coastline to enjoy what many families make an annual tradition.

And with our state’s rich diversity of landscapes, history, culture and activities, please consider exploring North Carolina first for all your leisure travel.

We look forward to welcoming you soon. !

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Whether they’re the first to grab the jalapeño poppers, the one to order JeFFnnifer Zeleski wings, or the friend who just has to have a mound of mozContributor zarella sticks, there is always something to snack on at the table.

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at 121 W. 9th St. in Winston-Salem, I knew it was time to find a few new favorites.

Matt Pleasants, the head chef at Earl’s and former owner of the ever-popular Bahtmobile, is serving up Southernstyle bar food and full plates at the new location found in the former E.G. Forrest warehouse, which offers an atmosphere as comforting as the menu.

Tin-can candles are found on tables, with rustic, Edison-style light bulbs in each fixture, casting a warm and cozy glow around the large space, culminating with two trees, wrapped in lights at the ends of a long wooden table, fit for groups sharing a meal, or those looking to lean into a relaxing night after work.

Pair that with an order of Hatch chile

pimento cheese, Cheetos-flavored pork rinds or a fried bologna sandwich, and you’ll feel as if you’ve found yourself in a modern, yet old-school restaurant on the outskirts of Nashville.

After just a few days off from the hell that is college exam season, my boyfriend Peyton and I decided a celebratory meal was in order. Earl’s had just what we were looking for, offering fried chicken sandwiches, fresh salads, “snacks” and even vegetarian options such as the falafel sandwich and the roasted vegetable pie.

We don’t make too much of a habit indulging in our favorite bar-style snacks often, and we diverge slightly with our preferences. He’ll take a plate of pizza bites, whereas I’ll reach for the tortilla

chips. However, we do agree on one in particular — Tater Tots.

Tater Tots are a sacred food for me.

They don’t need to be messed with, especially when they have the crunchy golden exterior and a heavy dusting of salt, the kind that makes you crave another sip of your weekend drink of choice. But the Tater Tot nachos stuck out on the menu, topped with bacon, ranch, queso, scallions and pickled jalapeños. Were these going to break my ideal “naked” Tater Tot snack?

As usual, it was tough to make our final decisions on what else we would share.

We decided to give one of the chicken sandwiches a shot, especially since the quality of a restaurant’s fried chicken

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can be the determining factor if the joint deserves the “Southern” name and a potential claim to fame. We chose to split the Winston Hot Chicken to take it a step further than the original “EFC,” Earl’s Fried Chicken Sandwich. The spicy sibling sandwich comes topped with creamy slaw, pickles, mayo and Earl’s dry hot rub.

As if we were attempting to balance out the rest of the meal with something moderately healthy, we ordered the crispy Brussels sprouts. Before you gag on the nearest spoon, hear me out — I wasn’t 100 percent set on the idea either, having been disappointed and a little repulsed by the seemingly harmless, yet most bullied vegetable of them all.

It’s important to note that seating is first come, first served, and we were lucky to get a table that overlooked much of the space, which somehow captured the essence of being outdoors, with all of the benefits of heat, electricity and beer on draft. Also, orders are taken at the counter and brought to the tables similar to many lunch places, which could make the foodto-table operation efficient or disastrous, depending on the attentiveness of the staff and the volume of the visitor base in Earl’s future. I look forward to seeing how they handle it since our food came out promptly, but just a little less warm than one might expect.

The Tater Tots arrived with all of their topping glory. Peyton’s immediate response to the tots was, “This is exactly what I wanted.” I, on the other hand, was cautiously convinced. I thoroughly enjoyed the pickled jalapeños, which added a vinegary spice and addicting flavor, but the ranch and queso were underwhelming. The ranch gave the tots a creaminess that they needed, similar to adding sour cream to your average tortilla nachos, but the queso could have been replaced with just a heavier dusting of salt on the tots themselves. Regardless, these tots

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convinced me that toppings should not be ignored or denied, and “nachos” aren’t limited to tortilla chips. The freshlychopped scallions were a great bonus, offering a freshness to cut the weight of the dish, and pairing well with the occasional crumbles of bacon. The plate could have easily been too greasy, but there wasn’t a drop of too much oil or an ingredient that seemed off in the combination. I found myself diving into the middle rather than my common habit of picking around the less-covered outside of the plate. The only real disappointment was the amount of

the tots, considering their $10 price tag and only being enough for two people to share, whereas bar snacks tend to come as a portion enough for a table of a few.

Next up was the Winston Hot Chicken sandwich, which came with a large, tender piece of fried dark-meat Joyce Farms chicken on a soft potato bun. It was easy to split (although, beware of getting a little messy with the slaw), and absolutely worth ordering. Within the first bite, you could tell the difference in quality thanks to the locally-sourced meat and combination of spices within the Earl’s hot dry rub.

Be warned, it has a smoky, sweet flavor upon the first bite, but the burn lingers if it isn’t paired with the creamy slaw. The slaw was the perfect topping to a spicy, Southern-style sandwich. The pickles hadn’t soaked on the bun for too long, and we were sad to see it all go once it disappeared.

The final star was none other than the Brussels sprouts. I normally hate when people say, “But if I make them, I bet you’ll love them,” or some version of, “But you just haven’t tried mine yet.” I don’t want to do the same to you, but they really are worth a try. Roasted until blackened, topped with a sweet and vinegary chowchow (a regionally-influenced pickled relish made out of a variety of vegetables), and shredded parmesan. These aren’t just the snack to order for the vegetarian

in a friend group; these are the real deal.

The Brussels sprouts have the delicious blackened flavor that reminded me of a charcoal grill, and the chow-chow was refreshing with every bite. I wished the parmesan would have added a bit more saltiness, but they were truly done better than expected, and we found ourselves cleaning the remaining bites left on the small metal tray.

Earl’s is exactly the type of place Winston-Salem needs. The atmosphere makes you want to sink into a comfortable spot and stick around to try one of their signature cocktails, an array of their hand-picked whiskey or a beer on draft, and relax as bluegrass and soft rock play over the speakers throughout the night.

Look out for upcoming open mic night Mondays, live music over the weekends and even more coming up from Earl’s.

Cheers! !

JENNIFER ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.

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Old Salem Museums & Gardens to hold first Winter Fair after Christmas

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hat do you do the day after Christmas when you’ve had your fill of shopping malls, and everyone is tired of being stuck inside watching T.V.?

Old Salem Museums Terry Rader & Gardens will have its first-ever Winter Fair, with something Contributor for everyone to enjoy for four days from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. This interactive fair encourages attendees to step back in time where things were simpler and when making functional art was an everyday affair.

OSMG president and CEO Frank Vagnone described the fair as a “palate cleanser” for coming out of the holiday season. He said the Winter Fair provides opportunities for a full spectrum of all ages of a family.

Attendees can enjoy free daily explorations of children’s toy making, paper chain garlands, quill pen writing, quilt making and more. Watch live demo chainsaw art with Mountain Mike and go on architectural walking tours of interpretive environments, including Salem Waterworks and the new geothermal system at the Boys’ School. Experience hands-on, fee-based workshops that include pottery (slip trail decorating), redwork (19th-century embroidery), organ and keyboard ramble, silver bells, broom making and more.

For those who love to listen and learn, there are master lecture classes, an informal clavichord and piano concert at the Boys’ School, the 1798 Tannenberg organ concert at the Single Brothers House, as well as roaming folk musicians, and informal fiddle and banjo tunes from Northwest North Carolina.

Wake the Parson, an acoustic tradition folk trio with hammered dulcimer, cello and guitar will have your toes tapping.

“Music is a significant part of the Winter Fair,” said OSMG president’s office liaison Karen Walter. “Normally, we feature brass bands, choral singing and organ concerts.

For the fair, we are expanding our music boundaries to include the folk music that surrounded the town of Salem.”

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Vagnone and his staff along with the board of directors have been making a lot of big changes in the last two years.

He heralds his more-inclusive, visitorcentered museum paradigm to the Triad from his experience handling all five boroughs in New York, introducing a whole new total immersion experience in Old Salem.

“Traditional [historical] museum visits are like going to a friend’s house for dinner, and they keep you in the hallway on the other side of a rope after asking you not to touch anything while they tell you about the wonderful dinner they have prepared, but never invite you to sit down and eat,” Vagnone said. “With an understanding of successful international museum trends, we created a new vision of what Old Salem could be.”

In the past two years, Vagnone said they have completely reinterpreted all of the buildings. The chains and ropes have been taken down. At The Vogler House, 14 chairs surround a quilting table where participants can sit and sew the quilts that are donated to nonprofits.

He said that everyone, including middle school boys, have enjoyed this tactile experience and once in the midst of it, an interpreter can share the history of quiltmaking more inclusively.

Vagnone said that most people don’t realize that Old Salem’s Museum of Early

Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is an internationally recognized museum of the highest caliber of pre-Civil War, Southern decorative arts collections.

This year’s fair will include collections brought out of storage with some curious pieces that have never been on exhibit before.

As a young girl, I used to go to Old Salem every Saturday morning with my best friend when her mother left for work very early. We got to experience pre-dawn freshly baked cookies and sugar cake right out of the oven.

I’ll always remember the glowing coals and warmth of that beehive brick oven and the sweet-smelling tasty treats it produced.

Vagnone said that is the kind of personal experience they are bringing back with the Old Salem Winter Fair.

Up until two years ago, the coals had already gone cold by 9:30 a.m., but now, the beehive brick oven is fired at 10 a.m. every week so you not only get close enough to see it and smell it, you can feel the warmth of the oven on your face. You can help make the cookies and come back later and purchase baked goods to take home. There is a second beehive brick oven outside the Miksch House where Sister Hillary demonstrates how Sister Henrietta Miksch baked the gingerbread she sold for 30 years.

Vagnone hopes the Old Salem Winter Fair takes off in its pilot year and five years from now, it will be the thing-to-do after Christmas.

“I think it will catch on once people realize it’s more than just an event and they get to be a part of the show instead of just observing it,” he said. “It’s a showcase of history that communicates tactile fun and is immersive and engaging so that they walk away with an experience to remember and share.” !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer/editorial/ content/copy, poet and songwriter, certified herbalist and flower essences practitioner and pet/house sitter, formerly an ad agency creative director, copywriter, branding strategist and Earth Harmony columnist, a storyteller on a mission to raise awareness for creative people, grassroots, sustainability, holistic wellness and underground happenings in our community.

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Roma scores with SEFCA Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical drama Roma, which follows a year in the life of a Mexican family during the early 1970s, as seen through the eyes of the family’s maid (newcomer Mark Burger Yalitza Aparicio), was voted Best Film of 2018 by the memContributor bers of the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA), with Cuarón winning Best Director and Best Cinematography, and the film also cited as Best Foreign-Language Film.

Roma, which also recently received Golden Globe nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay (also Cuarón) and Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language, was acquired for distribution by Netflix but also released to theaters to qualify for awards consideration. Cuarón, who became the first Hispanic and Mexican to win the Academy Award as Best Director (for 2013’s Gravity) has called Roma the “most essential movie” of his career.

Ethan Hawke was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a conflicted smalltown clergyman in writer/director Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, with Schrader the runner-up in the Original Screenplay category, bested only by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for The Favourite.

That film, a satirical historical spectacle directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, also shined in SEFCA’s 2018 voting, with Olivia Colman winning Best Actress as an ailing but manipulative Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz as the runner-up for Best Supporting Actress. The Favourite was also voted Best Ensemble and Robbie Ryan as the runner-up for Best Cinematography.

Christian Bale was runner-up as Best Actor for his turn as former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in writer/producer/director Adam McKay’s political satire Vice, and Lady Gaga runner-up in the Best Actress sweepstakes for her highly-acclaimed screen debut in A Star is Born, for which co-star Bradley Cooper was runner-up as Best Director (making his own acclaimed debut in that capacity).

Richard E. Grant won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an irresponsible con man and pseudo-sidekick to Melissa McCarthy’s author-cum-forger Lee Israel in the fact-based comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?, with Mahershala Ali the runner-up for his turn as the proud piano virtuoso Dr. Lee Shirley in Green Book.

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Regina King was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an impassioned mother in If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from James Baldwin’s best-seller by writer/producer/director Barry Jenkins (of Moonlight fame).

For Best Ensemble, the runner-up was actually runners-up, as Vice and Black Panther tied in that category. Best Adapted Screenplay went to Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman, with Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty’s script the runner-up for Can You Ever Forgive Me? Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville’s chronicle of the life and times of Fred Rogers – the much beloved host of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” – won Best Documentary, while Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s RBG – a chronicle of the life − A Star is Born and times of Supreme Court justice Ruth − Black KkKlansman Bader Ginsberg (herself an iconic figure) – − Vice was the runner-up. − If Beale Street Could Talk Wes Anderson’s star-studded comedy/ − Green Book fantasy/political satire Isle of Dogs won − First Reformed Best Animated Film, with the recently − Leave No Trace released Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, scored runner-up honors. Hirokazu Each year, the SEFCA awards are voted Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) was runner-up as Best Foreign-Language Film. The Wyatt Award for the Spirit of the South, named for the late critic Gene Wyatt and bestowed upon the film that, as the name of the PAINT CENTER award implies, best captures the spirit of the South, MENTION THIS AD & RECEIVE 10% OFF! was won by director Ethan Hawke’s musical biography Blaze, with Green Book the runner-up.

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t makes a certain kind of moody, poetic sense that one of the friendships at the core of the Raleigh band Morning Bells was formed over the passing mention John Adamian of Peter Murphy. @johnradamian Someone overheard a stranger discussing an upcoming Contributor show by the dark and suave Bauhaus frontman. Soon Ric Denton and Laura Weislo were talking. This was back in the ‘90s. A shared fondness for those gloomy proto-goth sensibilities signaled deeper aesthetic and temperamental connections. They’ve been friends for over 20 years now. When asked two years ago by one of his co-workers about forming a band, Denton, who was at that point 44 or so, and had never performed in a group, decided to see if Weislo, a veteran bassist of several Triangle area bands (including Mitch Easter’s Shalini), would like to enlist.

In that special x-degrees-of-separation logic that theoretically links almost every musician to almost every other musician, Weislo asked frequent collaborator Emory Ball, who’d played in Snatches of Pink, among others, if he’d like to contribute guitar. Ball and Weislo asked Peele

Wimberley, who’d played drums in the Connells, but who also works as a recording engineer and producer, and who now plays keyboards with Morning Bells.

Special credit has to be given to Morning Bells drummer Bryan Fransman, who initially asked Denton if he’d like to front a band, after having only heard him sing some karaoke. “I was like, he’s got an awesome voice, how is it he’s not doing

something with it?” said Fransman of his effort to get Denton involved in the project.

Making the move to front a band in your 40s is fairly bold, particularly if you’ve never stood before an expectant crowd.

Or written a song. Those are not talents that everyone has.

But Denton has what sounds like a naturally rich and expressive tenor, a

comfort and confidence with vocal phrasing, a warm half-spoken delivery, and a talent for teasing out melodies. He has a mix of maturity in having lived a bit of life, an openness and candor about revealing emotions and a beginner’s energy.

Denton said he doesn’t think he was ready in his 20s to do what he’s doing musically now.

“I think for me to be an effective singer

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and songwriter, I needed experience to pull from,” he said. “I needed something to say. I needed stories to tell.“ The combination of seasoned experience and genuine newness is one of the appealing things about Morning Bells.

The quintet has released three songs on its Bandcamp page, and they’re closing in on the one-year anniversary of their first live show. Morning Bells play their first Winston-Salem show on Dec. 21 at Monstercade. I spoke with four of the five band members by phone last week.

Listen to “Through the Dark,” one of the band’s three released singles. There are

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chiming bell-like keyboard sounds, bright rippling guitar lines, and subdued, workmanlike playing from the rhythm section.

You might think of Head On The Door-era Cure in the vaguely “Asian” mode of the music. Echo and the Bunnymen might come to mind, too, with that enigmatic mix of brittle and somber. And Denton’s singing might prompt a comparison to the suavity of ‘80s Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry.

Morning Bells harken back to a pregrunge age when brooding emotion, dark poetry and melodicism weren’t necessarily coupled with simmering rage,

chest-pounding volume or abrasive sonic textures.

Darkness is a recurring feature in Morning Bells songs. Not a metaphorical or sonic darkness, but the absence of light, as a condition, night, limited vision.

“Through the Dark” involves nighttime drives, trying to return to a now-remote love. Another song, “Ghost,” is partly about a kind of conjuring, at night, an effort to give voice to a spirit, the struggle and responsibility to get a story right.

The songs feel like love songs, but they’re love songs about regret and loss and separation. They’re dark love songs

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that are haunted by solitude and isolation.

An unreleased song, “The Truth Is,” explores the ways that resentment can hobble us: “dragging bodies too long dead.”

The song “I Belong With You” is about long-form heartache, about making an interpersonal calculating error, losing someone and watching them build another relationship while you spend your life longing for them. It’s romantic, but it’s tragic, too.

As a lyricist, Denton dove into the challenge of telling stories and revealing candid truths as a way of connecting with others.

Some songwriters adopt a stance of strength, defiance and indifference, a pose that is easy for many listeners to embrace as a fantasy of an ideal imperturbability.

But others — like Morrissey of the Smiths or Robert Smith of the Cure, say — view a delicate sensitivity as a more meaningful reflection of our predicament in the world.

“I do believe there’s a great power in vulnerability,” Denton said. !

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Dec 21: Casey Noel Dec 22: The Rightly So Dec 28: Emma Lee Dec 29: Cara Shauble Jan 2: Contentment Is Wealth Jan 4: Wolfie Calhoun Jan 5: Chris Hedrick Jan 11: High Cotton Jan 12: Earliene Jan 18: Bear Stevens Jan 19: Andrew Rohlk Jan 25: William Nesmith Jan 26: JB Boxter Feb 1: Wolfie Calhoun Feb 6: Contentment Is Wealth Feb 8: Couldn’t Be Happiers

CLEMMONS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Dec 20: James Vincent Carroll Dec 21: DJ Bald-E Dec 28: DJ Bald-E Dec 29: Clanky Lincolns Dec 31: Motorvader Jan 4: Gypsy Danger Jan 5: Under The Gun Jan 12: Exit 180 Jan 18: DJ Bald-E Jan 19: Smash Hat Jan 25: DJ Bald-E

DANBURY

GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com

ELKIN

REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Dec 21: Songs of the Season Dec 22: Time Sawyer’s Holiday Spectacular Dec 29: Tommy Jackson & Carlost Tolbert Dec 31: Reeves House Band Jan 4: The Steel Wheels Jan 5: Vivian Leva & Riler Calcagno Jan 11: Knockout Mouse with Luke Mears Jan 18: Travis Meadows YES! WEEKLY

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[THE DICKENS] December 22 - The Blind Tiger Jan 19: Tellico Jan 25: Tatiana Hargreaves & Allison de Groot Feb 16: Occidental Gyspsy

GREENSBORO

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Dec 21: 1-2-3 Friday Dec 31: New Year’s Eve Party

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Dec 21: DJ Dan the Player Dec 22: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Jan 5: Timeless Soul Band Jan 12: Stephen Freeman: Happy Birthday Elvis Jan 26: Ms. Mary & The Boys Feb 14: Timeless Soul Band Feb 16-Mar 16: Motherhood: The Musical

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Dec 21: Starstruck acoustic duo Dec 22: Geoff Clapp/ Charlie Hunter Duo Dec 28: Chad Barnard Jan 4: Brittany Davis Jan 11: Tom Warren Jan 18: Craig Baldwin Jan 25: Starstruck

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Dec 20: Ward Davis Dec 21: Create. Dirty Monkey - Rise Of The Octopeel Tour Dec 22: The Dickens Dec 25: Christmas Jam feat. Justin Able’s Heap Hop Dec 26: Brice St Dec 28: House Of Fools w/ Far-Less Dec 29-31: Lucid Dreams 2018 feat.

Brightside, Digital Ethos, ill Gates, Jansten, Stylust, The Widdler Dec 31: New Years Eve w/ The Mantras and special guest The Wright Ave Jan 4: Leadsboro - The Triad’s Premier Lead Guitar Competition Jan 5: Enrage Against The Machine w/ Smash Hat Jan 6: Wristband Jan 18: Bobaflex w/ Prowess, Scars, Remain, & more Jan 19: The Breakfast Club Jan 25: Soapbox Arson reunion show w/ Something Clever, Trailer Park Orchestra, & Through All This Time Jan 26: Carter Winter w/ Dylan McCray Jan 31: Gaelic Storm Feb 1: The John Kadlecik Band Feb 6: Fade To Black: A Metallica Tribute Feb 7: Parmalee w/ Kasey Tyndall Feb 8: Sevendust w/ Tremonti, Cane Hill, Lullwater, Kirra Feb 9: Cosmic Charlie

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Dec 20: Live Thursdays

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Dec 21: Mike Mello Dec 22: Mike Mello Dec 28: Shaun Jones Dec 29: Chris Wile’s Family Friendly Comedy Show Dec 29: Shaun Jones Dec 31: New Year’s Eve Party Jan 24: Hodgetwins Feb 5: T.J. Miller

COMMON GROUNDS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Dec 29: DJ StoneSoup Jan 11: Andrew Kasab Feb 2: Andrew Kasab

CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Dec 31: New Year’s Eve 80’s Bash w/ Trial By Fire & Rock Machine Jan 10: Riley Green Jan 17: Badfish: Sublime Tribute Jan 26: Young Dolph Mar 15: Ben Rector Apr 9: Cradle of Filth w/ Wdnesday 13 and Raven Black Apr 10: Chris D’Elia Apr 13: Walker Hayes w/ Filmore

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greene street club

113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 Jan 25: The Invasion of City Girls

ham’s new garden

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 21: Lasater Union Dec 28: CHH Band

LEVENELEVEN BREWING

1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Dec 19: Daniel Ayers Dec 26: Bigdumbhick Jan 2: Sam Bailey Jan 9: Jamie Anderson and Gavin Douglas Jan 16: Alex Culbreth Jan 23: Bobbie Needham Jan 30: Josh Watson Feb 6: John Stevens Feb 13: William Nesmith Feb 20: Doug Baker Feb 27: Tony Low

Listen Speakeasy 433 Spring Garden St

LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Dec 20: Zach Smith & Sam Craven Duo Dec 22: Craig Baldwin Dec 23: AM Rodeo Jan 3: David Childers Quartet

RODY’S tavern

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com

somewhere else tavern

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern

Speakeasy Tavern

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

the idiot box comedy club

502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Dec 21: Dusty Cagle and DeJahzh Hedrick Dec 28: Kenyon Adamcik and Maddie Wiener Dec 31: New Year’s Fun/Show and Countdown Jan 4: 30 First Jokes Of The New Year Jan 5: Standup 101 Jan 11: NC’s Funniest

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the W BISTRO & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown Dec 20: Karaoke Dec 21: Live DJ Dec 22: Live DJ

high point

after hours tavern

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Dec 21: Fogle Brothers Acoustic Dec 29: Fair Warning Dec 31: New Years w/ Soc Monkee

GOOFY FOOT TAPROOM 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 Jan 12: Tyler Long

ham’s palladium 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 21: Tyler Millard Band Dec 22: Where’s Eddie?

Dec 28: The Dickens Dec 29: Rockit Science Dec 31: Radio Revolver

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the deck

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Dec 21: Spare Change/Ugly Sweater Dec 22: Stereo Doll/Ugly Sweater Dec 28: Hip Pocket Dec 29: Heads Up Penny Dec 31: Brothers Pearl NYE Bash Jan 4: The Dickens Jan 5: Megan Doss Band

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dance hall daze

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Dec 21: Silverhawk Dec 22: Crossfire Dec 28: The Delmonicos Dec 29: Crimson Rose

BReathe Cocktail Lounge

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge Dec 22: DJ Mike Lawson Dec 29: DJ Mike Lawson

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old nick’s pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Dec 22: Mystery Hillbillies Dec 28: Karaoke

Dec 29: Star Struck Dec 31: Buster Smackit - New Year’s Eve Party Jan 12: Big Bump Jan 19: Dante’s Roadhouse Jan 26: Unchained

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Coach’s Neighborhood Grill

1033 Randolph St. Suite 26 | 336.313.8944 coachsneighborhoodgrill.com

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Second & green

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com Jan 7: Pit Stops For Hope

bull’s tavern

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Dec 28: Souljam

BURKE STREET PUB 1110 Burke St | 336.750.0097 burkestreetpub.com

CB’s Tavern

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Dec 21: Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Dec 31: The Blue Genes Jan 12: Pat Adkins Dance Party

fiDDLIN’ FISH BREWING COMPANY

772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Dec 20: The Grand Ole Uproar Jan 7: Old Time Jam Jan 11: David Childers Jan 14: Old Time Jam Jan 17: Lisa Saint Jan 18: Souljam Jan 21: Old Time Jam Jan 28: Old Time Jam Feb 1: Circus Mutt

finnigan’s wake

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake

foothills brewing 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Dec 12: Redleg Husky Dec 15: Thirsty Horses Dec 19: Swannanoa Dec 22: Alecia B. and The Now Dec 23: Sunday Jazz Dec 26: The Local Boys

johnny & June’s saloon

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com

MAc & Nelli’s

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Dec 20: Jukebox Rehab Dec 21: Eddie Clayton & Will Jones Dec 22: Music & Egg Nog Dec 27: Darrell Hoots Dec 28: Jukebox Revolver Dec 29: Brothers Pearl Dec 31: New Year’s Eve Bash

MIllEnnium Center 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com

milner’s

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Dec 23: Live Jazz Dec 30: Live Jazz

muddy creek Cafe & MUSIC HALL

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Dec 21: Angie Aparo Dec 22: Red June Dec 23: Celtic Christmas w/ CandelFirth Dec 28: Carolina Crossing EP Release Show Dec 29: June Rise Dec 31: Soul Purpose Band Jan 5: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters Jan 6: Mean Mary “And The Beat Goes On” Concert Series Jan 10: Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys Jan 11: Goodfellers Jan 12: The Get Right Band Jan 17: Albert Lee Jan 18: Albert Lee Jan 19: Sarah Siskind w/ BEth Wood

The RAmkat

170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Dec 20: Camel City Jazz Dec 20: John Ray Trio (Gas Hill Sessions) Dec 21: Songs of Light and Wonder: Laurelyn Dossett, Riley Baugus, Scott Manring & DeShawn Hickman Dec 22: The Evening w/ Jump, Little Children & The New Oblivion Quartet Dec 31: New Years Eve w/ The Plaids

WISE MAN BREWING

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 Dec 19: Blake Christiana of Yarn: Unplugged Dec 26: Doug Davis Duo December 19-25, 2018 YES! WEEKLY

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com

CHARLOTTE

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Dec 30: The Avett Brothers

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Dec 28: Moon Taxi Dec 29: JOYRYDE Dec 31: Chew Jan 5: Face 2 Face - Tribute to Billy Joel & Elton John Jan 5: Chicago Rewired & Reo Survivor

Jan 10: Lake Street Dive w/ Mikaela Davis Jan 11: Enrage Against The Machine Jan 12: Listen Local Series Jan 12: Cherub Jan 15: Silverstein Jan 16: The Amity Affliction & Senses Fail Jan 17: Jesse McCartney Jan 18: Scotty McCreery Jan 19: Badfish Jan 19: B.simone Jan 20: Dave East Jan 21: Comethazine Jan 25: Space Jesus Jan 26: Greensky Bluegrass Jan 26: Pop Evil Jan 27: Young Dolph Jan 30: Locash Feb 4: Kongos Feb 8: Walk The Moon Feb 9: Bryce Vine Feb 10: Yung Gravy Feb 12: St. Paul & The Broken Bones Feb 19: Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals Feb 20: Alan Walker Feb 22: Mike Stud Feb 22: Who’s Bad

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PNC MUSIC PAVILION 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Jan 8: Justin Timberlake

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Jan 11: Gregory All Isakov Jan 27: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Feb 9: The Fab Four Feb 15: Susana Baca Feb 21: Johnny Cash at San Quentin: Johnny Folsom 4 & Friends Feb 28: Aaron Lewis

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Jan 19: Chris Thile Jan 31: Toni Braxton Feb 1: Mandolin Orange Feb 20: Alan Parsons Feb 21: The Piano Guys Feb 22 & 23: Rock of Ages

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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Jan 12: The Glenn Miller Orchestra Jan 12: Dr. Bacon w/ Viva La Muerte Jan 19: NuBlue & Sideline Jan 20: The Drifters, The Platters, & Cornell Gunter’s Coasters Jan 22: Postmodern Jukebox Feb 1: Arlo Guthrie Feb 1: Vagabond Saints’ Society Feb 3: Chatham Rabbits Feb 7: Drew & Ellie Holcomb Feb 16: Seth Walker

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Dec 20: Ozuna Dec 31: Bassnectar

Feb 2: Luke Combs Feb 23: Winter Jam

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Jan 27: Christian Howes Feb 14: Branford Marsalis Quartet

RALEIGH

CCU MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com

PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Jan 6: Justin Timberlake Jan 27: Cher Jan 28: Metallica

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Foundations should rescue Bennett The Piedmont Triad is replete with agencies, organizations, churches, and businesses, who routinely help those in need.

We have food banks, homeless shelters, crisis centers, and free clinics. Our taxes go to help neighbors Jim Longworth who lose their home to a natural disaster, Longworth and to those who lose their job through at Large no fault of their own.

We choose to lend a hand when necessary because that’s what communities do, and we do it without asking for collateral. One of our neighbors, Bennett College, could use a hand right about now. That’s because the clock is running out on Bennett, which must raise $5 million dollars by February, in order to regain their accreditation from SACS, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

I won’t go off on a tangent about SACS, but suffice to say that organizations

like that can’t always see the forest for the trees. Bennett College is and always has been academically sound, and has contributed greatly to the community and to the nation. Earlier this year, I was reminded by Rev. Jesse Jackson that it was Bennett women who sustained the Greensboro lunch counter protest in 1960.

Without them, the movement for equal access might have died. Bennett has also strengthened our nation by turning out strong women leaders. On those two counts alone, I’d say Bennett has plenty of collateral and plenty of credibility, and that’s why we owe it to Bennett, and to ourselves to keep the doors open at 900 E. Washington St. I know what you’re thinking. Hey Jim, why can’t Bennett alum come up with the $5 million? First of all, Bennett’s alumni base is small, and second, unlike most every other college in America, Bennett doesn’t have a cash-cow athletic program and a bunch of millionaire football boosters who can raise funds for a stadium expansion in a few hours. Money doesn’t grow on trees at Bennett because they’re not in the money business; they’re in the learning and leadership business. SACS doesn’t care about that

because they have a cookie-cutter formula for how much money a college should have on hand, and to hell with what that college means and has meant to its students, to the community at large, and to the nation.

I’d like to think that, given time, individuals and groups in our area would send in enough donations to bail Bennett out. But time is what Bennett doesn’t have.

So what’s the solution? At the risk of sounding like a Pollyanna, I believe the best

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by SACS. Black History Month is just around the corner. So is the 59th anniversary of the lunch counter sit-in. Let’s mark those commemorations by supporting Bennett College, and contributing to the legacy of the young women who answered the call when America needed them. We all owe Bennett a debt of gratitude that’s worth a lot more than $5 million. It’s payback time, folks. !

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he Favourite ( ) is basically All About Eve with corsets, with Rachel Weisz starring as Bette Davis’ Margo Channing, Emma Stone cast as Anne Baxter’s Eve Harrington, and Olivia Colman appearing as the Sarah Siddons Award.

Set during the kickoff of the 18th century, this historical seriocomedy unfolds in the court of Queen Anne (Colman), a sickly ruler who would rather spend time with her pet rabbits than deal with pesky politics or the fog of war that envelops England’s ongoing battle with France.

For such matters of state, Anne relies on Sarah Churchill (Weisz), who’s not only the ruler’s confidante but also her lover.

But there’s a palace uprising of sorts with the arrival of Abigail Hill (Stone), a former lady of high society who, through no fault of her own, has now fallen on hard times.

Abigail appears to be all sunshine and light as she joins the royal staff as a maid, but it’s not long before Sarah becomes aware of her Machiavellian maneuverings.

Those expecting a staid and stuffy period drama will be taken aback by the outrageousness that The Favourite displays not only in word but in deed.

With all manner of shady characters flitting around in the background (Nicholas Hoult, the young Beast in the X-Men films, is a hoot as the supercilious landowner Robert Harley), the picture isn’t lacking for intrigue, and the exceptional screenplay

by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara is filled with dialogue that cuts like daggers.

Colman is aptly pathetic as the grasping queen, Stone uses her kewpie-doll mannerisms to chilling advantage, and Weisz is typically superb as she embraces all sides of her richly textured character. Indeed, it’s Weisz’s Sarah who ultimately reveals that The Favourite is as much of a poignant love story as it is a historical drama or acerbic comedy.

Could the ending be stronger? Certainly. In fact, this seems to be a recurring problem with director Yorgos Lanthimos and the English-language films he helms (previously, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer). I do suspect that repeated viewings might allow its abruptness to feel more in line with the rest of the swerves found in this dazzling drama — at any rate, 120 seconds hardly erase the splendors of the other 120 minutes. The Favourite is one of the best films of 2018, and it’s a sure favorite — excuse me, favourite — as we head further into award season.

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The moldy adage “You won’t believe your eyes” takes on new life in the wake of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ( ), which is pretty good as a superhero saga but absolutely phenomenal as an animated feature.

Employing animation in ways not usually found on the big screen – but definitely found inside the margins of an actual comic book – this latest Marvel adventure comes on the heels of the live-action hit Spider-Man: Homecoming and, like that film, assists in erasing the memories of those disappointing SpiderHipster films starring Andrew Garfield as a GQ-approved web-slinger. Of course, it doesn’t erase memories of Sam Raimi’s trilogy starring Tobey Maguire – but how could it, when several moments are direct homages to events that occurred in those pictures?

The tributes don’t end there, as even the popular T.V. toon series from the late 1960s gets a shout-out. And the late Stan Lee? Yup, he’s here, too, and let’s honor what might be (depending on Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel rumors) his final appearance in a superhero flick.

The principal Spider-Man in this film is Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), but he’s not the only web-slinger on display. Peter Parker (Chris Pine) also shows up, at least until he’s killed by the Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) as the latter dabbles with a machine that opens up portals to other dimensions. It’s through this device that Morales’ world is flooded with other Spidey variations. Chief among them is another Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) — this one older, more cynical, and sporting a pot belly — but also joining the fray are Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld), the 1930s-era Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), Peni Parker (Kimiko

Glenn) and her mechanical SP//dr, and the diminutive Peter Porker / Spider-Ham (John Mulaney). Together, they must pool their resources to combat not only the Kingpin but also Doctor Octopus (Kathryn Hahn) and other colorfully garbed villains.

To say that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is packed with incident is an understatement, but scripters Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman do a fine job of delineating all the overlapping universes and shared storylines and allowing every character at least one moment to stand out (Johnson’s alternate Parker is an especially vivid character). The personal drama is more boilerplate than the humorous interludes, but, at any rate, the story here isn’t the real story here. Instead, it’s the look of the film, which meshes together all sorts of styles: comic book paneling (including thought bubbles), anime, intentional pixilation, black and white, even Looney Tunes riffs (“Wait, is he allowed to say that?”).

Ample praise was rightly directed at the unique visual slant of the likes of The Incredibles and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, but the phantasmagoric look of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will doubtless ensnare more than just filmgoers. It’s the sort of cutting-edge graphics that will inspire aspiring animators ready to produce something they hope will similarly be deemed amazing.

The title might be borrowed from Shakespeare, but the aesthetic is pure Miyazaki.

Based on the first in a series of Young Adult novels by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines ( ) is yet another film set in a post-apocalyptic future wherein food and water are scarce, the strong prey on the weak, and Mennen Speed Sticks

and other hygienic niceties have doubtless long ceased to exist. The largest cities have been placed on wheels and roam the wastelands, devouring smaller towns (i.e., integrating the citizenry into their own but stealing all of their resources). London is the largest of such burgs practicing what is known as “Municipal Darwinism,” and its chief architect is Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving), who of course is soon revealed to be a murderous opportunist.

It’s up to the bitter Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) and the naïve Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) to bring him down, although they have plenty of allies — chief among them is a rebel leader known as Anna Fang (singer Jihae) and Valentine’s own daughter (Leila George).

The plot is both daft and derivative (there’s even a Vader-friendly “No, I am your father” moment), and the commonplace young adult elements end up overtaking the welcome “WTF” moments by the end. But because this comes from Peter Jackson (here in producing and scripting modes) and many other folks involved with The Lord of the Rings, the world-building is spectacular and almost makes this worth the price of admission.

Steampunk is the driving style here, and this might be the first live-action movie to successfully mimic the design of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated epics. Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky loom large, and while there’s no catbus co-opted from My Neighbor Totoro, there is a camouflaged vehicle that scurries along like a metallic caterpillar.

Like its setting, Mortal Engines ultimately becomes too cluttered for its own good, and the final showdown feels endless. But there are some compensations among the characters. Tom makes for a bland protagonist, but Hester’s backstory provides her with some interesting shadings. And then there’s Shrike (Stephen Lang), an intriguing figure who is two parts Terminator, one part Grinch. Like the good Arnie T-800, he’s Hester’s former protector. Like the bad Arnie T-800, he becomes her hunter. And like the Dr. Seuss grouch, he’s noticeably lacking a heart. Of course, there’s eventually a scene where his non-existent heart somehow ends up growing “three sizes that day.”

To quote from another Shakespearean work, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” But since it’s a movie being played upon a screen, I merely take such nonsense in stride. !

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tudents from the High Point Community Theatre in Archdale and Community Theatre of Greensboro in Greensboro, will be traveling to the 2019 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival happening Jan. 18 through Jan. 20, 2019, at the Cobb Galleria Convention Center in Atlanta.

In advance of the festival, High Point Community Theatre will preview its 2019 JTF adjudication presentation for friends and family at Fairfield United Methodist Church in High Point on Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be canned food/dry goods, and all collections will be given to Open Door Ministries in High Point.

At the 2019 Junior Theater Festival, there will be 136 groups, representing 28 states, South Korea, New Zealand and the U.K. and approximately 7,000 attendees at the 2019 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta.

The Junior Theater Festival is a monumental celebration of student-driven musical theatre. It’s a time when the best of Broadway and the people who are shaping the future of the arts come together in the spirit of fellowship.

Simply put, it’s when kids who love theatre get to spend time with thousands of others who care as passionately about this art form. And big Broadway movers and shakers attend too.

At the festival the High Point Community Theatre students will present selections from Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach JR. for adjudication, while Community Theatre of Greensboro will present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR. They’ll take part in workshops and enjoy

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performances by Broadway stars and their Broadway peers. In addition, The Community Theatre of Greensboro students will join Australian students from Adelaide Youth Theater to present selections from Sister Act JR. at the New Works showcase and will join students from 13 other educational musical theater groups in presenting an opening number from Oliver JR. The event is an evening of student-run performances, which showcase upcoming releases from Music Theatre International’s Broadway Junior library of titles.

High Point Community Theatre High Point Community Theatre is a volunteer-based arts organization dedicated to providing community involvement opportunities, inspiring appreciation for dramatic arts, and educating the next generation. Its 2019 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta team is comprised of 34 students ages 10-18. Auditions for The Troupe were held in August and rehearsals began in September.

The Community Theatre of Greensboro Founded in 1949, the Community Theatre of Greensboro is the oldest arts organization in Guilford County. The organization works to bring its diverse community together to learn about, experience, and celebrate the joys of theatre. Its goal is to help everyone in its community share in the excitement of participating in theatre—as actors, backstage crew, or audience members. Community Theatre of Greensboro cherishes diversity, and non-traditional casting is a priority. !

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] GIVING UP THE GHOST

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In January, Amanda Sparrow Large, 46, of Belfast, Ireland, stretched the May-December union to new lengths when she wed a 300-year-old ghost of a Haitian pirate.

“I wanted the big

traditional wedding with the white dress.

It was very important to me,” she told the Irish Mirror. Large said that “Jack,” who was executed for thieving on the high seas, became known to her one night in 2014, when she felt the energy of a spirit next to her while lying in bed. Large has worked as a Jack Sparrow (of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies) impersonator, and she believes her job opened the door for her spirit-husband to reach out to her. Alas, the Mirror reported on Dec. 8, things didn’t

work out for the odd couple: “I will explain all in due course,” Large wrote on social media, “but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality.

It’s not something to mess with.”

SCROOGE VISITED BY GHOST OF LUNCHES PAST

The Cranston (Rhode Island) School District is taking its response to delinquent school lunch accounts up a notch, reported WJAR TV on Dec. 6. District COO Raymond Votto Jr. sent a letter to parents notifying them that a collection agency will be contacting those with lunch overdrafts starting on Jan. 2 and noted that the current deficit is almost $46,000. “The district lunch program cannot continue to lose revenue,” Votto wrote. The letter specified that students will continue to receive food regardless of whether their account is in arrears. Families with unpaid charges of more than $20 will be notified by mail, which the district called a softer approach.

THE LITIGIOUS SOCIETY

When Stephen Keys boarded a SkyWest flight in Reno, Nevada, on Sept. 9, he settled into his first-class seat and reached to buckle his seat belt. But when he raised the right armrest for better access, his right pinky finger became lodged in a small hole under the armrest, according to the lawsuit he filed against American Airlines and SkyWest on Dec. 5. Keys tried repeatedly to remove his finger but could not, and it remained stuck for nearly an hour until the flight landed and airline mechanics disassembled the armrest, reported City News Service. “The spring mechanism ... applied intense pressure to the plaintiff’s finger, immediately inflicting injury, swelling and pain,” the lawsuit read.

“Dozens of passengers became aware of Mr. Keys’ perilous condition, causing his dire situation to become a humiliating public spectacle.” What’s more, the injury left Mr. Keys unable to drive and play with his children, causing severe emotional distress, according to the lawsuit. SkyWest, citing ongoing litigation, would not comment on the suit.

SWEET REVENGE

Ted Pelkey of Westford, Vermont, has been battling the Westford Development Review Board for months over his proposal to erect a building on his property for his truck repair and monofilament recycling business. But he told WCAX News that the city keeps putting up barriers to the development, so Pelkey has instead installed a message to the board and the people of Westford: a giant sculpture of

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a fist with the middle finger raised. “It’s very big. Everybody got the message,” said Fairfax resident Carol Jordan. Pelkey, who spent $4,000 on the public rebuke, said he hopes the citizens of Westford will take a “really long look at the people who are running their town.” In the meantime, the select board told WCAX that because the sculpture is considered public art, they can take no action against it.

BROMANCE

Anthony Akers, 38, and the Richland (Washington) Police Department embarked on an amusing meet-cute of law and fugitive on Nov. 28 when the department posted a wanted photo of Akers on its Facebook page. Five hours after the posting, National Public Radio reported, Akers responded with: “Calm down, i’m going to turn myself in.” When Akers was a no-show, the department messaged him the next day: “Hey Anthony! We haven’t seen you yet.” Officers even offered him a ride. But Akers couldn’t be bothered: “Thank you, tying up a couple loose ends since i will probably be in there for a month.” He promised to surrender within 48 hours. When the weekend passed without any sign of Akers, officers wrote: “Is it us? We waited but you didn’t show.”

To which Akers replied: “Dear RPD, it’s not you, it’s me. I obviously have commitment issues. ... P.S. You’re beautiful.” Finally, on Dec. 4, Akers arrived at the Richland police station, posting a selfie with the caption: “Thank you RPD for letting me do this on my own.” Aww, ain’t love grand?

AROUND THE BEND

Science teacher Margaret Gieszinger, 52, at University Preparatory High School in Visalia, California, was captured on video chopping off students’ hair with scissors on Dec. 5, while loudly, and incorrectly, singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The Visalia Times-Delta described the video showing Gieszinger starting with a male student seated in a chair at the front of the room as she cuts portions of his hair and tosses them behind her. When she moved on to a female student, other teenagers started screaming and ran out of the classroom. Lilli Gates, one of Gieszinger’s students, told the Times-Delta the teacher “is a loving and kind lady. She is usually all smiles and laughs. This is not the Miss G. we know and love.” After Gieszinger’s arrest on suspicion of felony child endangerment, the district notified parents that she would not be returning to the classroom. !

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Bob says he was never fired,” wrote Robert De Niro’s publicist after I queried him about the longstanding rumor that the Oscar-winning actor Ian McDowell was terminated from the Barn Dinner Theater in 1967.

Contributor The story, circulated in Triad theatrical circles for decades, made its way into the 2011 Los Angeles Times article “The Rise and Fall of Dinner Theater,” which stated the actor “reportedly was canned midshow during a production.” This unsubstantiated claim also appears in the Wikipedia entry on dinner theaters, with the parenthetical notation “citation needed.”

The oldest continuously operated dinner theater in the United States, the Barn opened at 120 Stage Coach Trail in 1964, the second of a one-time chain of 27 venues that stretched from New York to Texas. Ric Gutierrez, the Barn’s general manager since 1996, wrote in an email that he was told by the Barn’s former owner Roy Conley Jones, who died in 1997, that the actor was fired in the middle of a performance because he refused to wait tables. In the Barn’s first decade, cast members were often expected to do that before the “Magic Stage” (so-named for its hydraulic system) descended from the ceiling, and the play began.

A February 2017 Barn press release tells a slightly different version, explaining that the “chain of Barns were union houses back then, under the Actors’ Equity Association, and employed some of the finest Equity Actors from New York, including two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro.”

It also mentioned the rumor “that Mr. De Niro was fired three weeks into his contract because of a ‘conflict of interest’ between him and the director.”

The future Oscar-winner was mostly unknown in 1967 when an ad in the Wednesday, April 24 issue of the Greensboro Daily News proclaimed that “TchinTchin,” an “adult comedy with New York Cast” was opening on the Barn’s Magic Stage. The play, written in French by François Billetdoux and translated into English by Sidney Michaels, had opened on Broadway in 1963 and closed the next YES! WEEKLY

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Robert De Niro Jr. in 1977 year. It originally starred Anthony Quinn as Italian construction worker Caesario Grimaldi and Margaret Leighton as the aristocratic Englishwoman he attempts to seduce. Robert De Niro, who played Caesario in Greensboro, was never in the New York cast.

While the future star had been acting in his native city since the early 1960s, Shawn Levy’s excellent and thoroughly documented De Niro: A Life makes it clear he worked far off-Broadway and, until he came to Greensboro, was rarely paid. His contract with the Barn for $35 a week, plus $3 a day in expenses and living space at the theater, may have been his most lucrative up to that point. His only credited film roles had been in The Wedding Party and Encounter.

The former, a 1963 micro-budget comedy with De Niro in a supporting role, remained unreleased until 1969. Levy reported that De Niro was paid $50 for the entire shoot. The latter, a now-lost drama starring De Niro and Dyanne Thorne (who later embodied the title character in the

notorious Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS), was never released and De Niro was never paid.

Such experiences may have made his Barn salary appealing, but many struggling actors would have still welcomed the tips from waiting tables, and while Levy’s biography doesn’t address the rumor of his firing for refusing to do that, it still casts some doubt. Levy reported that the actor enjoyed his time in Greensboro.

“We’d serve the desserts,” Levy quotes De Niro as saying, “and then go upstairs to prepare for the play, and then the stage would drop, and we’d perform. I liked it.”

He also liked doing local publicity. Ric Gutierrez was kind enough to send me an audio recording of an interview that Burlington’s WBAG did with the actor while he was performing here. It’s a fascinating bit of local history, despite interviewer Fran Campbell’s habit of interrupting her subject.

Campbell begins by praising De Niro’s performance in “Tchin-Tchin” and asks him about The Wedding Party, which

he says is being prepared for release at Cannes. When she asks about his plans, he says that he’ll be in “Tchin-Tchin” until “the 20th of this month, and then will be taking it on tour to Charlotte.” (According to Levy’s biography, the play De Niro actually performed in Charlotte in the summer of 1967 was William Goodheart’s “Generation,” in which “he stole the show in the role of a kooky obstetrician helping a hippie-ish young couple navigate the wife’s first pregnancy.”)

The following exchange then occurs: Campbell: Do you know after that? Do you have anything lined up?

De Niro: I’m working on a film script which I’m trying to complete, which I’d like to direct once I get . . .

Campbell: [interrupting] I was just wondering if, in all the different facets of the theater, if you’d ever done any directing or writing.

De Niro: Not yet. A little writing, this film script I’m doing, but that’s it.

Campbell: What might that be about?

Can you tell us some more?

De Niro: Basically, it’s about someone who. . . the progression of someone … I’m very interested in the assassination, in the Kennedy assassination . . ..

Campbell: [speaking over him] Oh, I see De Niro: . . . something about along those lines, right, and . . .

Campbell: [speaking over him] Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

De Niro: . . . psychological development into why someone would do, you know, what Oswald was su- [it sounds like he was going to say “supposed”] Campbell: [Speaking over him] Oh, I see, uh-huh. Robert, thank you so very much, and we’ve enjoyed it immensely.

And with that, she cuts off the man whom many would later call the greatest American actor of his generation.

However, in 1967, the most famous Robert De Niro in America was not the actor but his father, a respected artist, who by the mid-60s, had several paintings and drawings in the collection of UNCG’s Weatherspoon Gallery. But that wasn’t the senior De Niro’s only North Carolina connection.

In 1939, at the suggestion of his mentor Hans Hofmann, a pivotal figure in abstract expressionism, the 17-year-old Robert Henry De Niro applied to Black Mountain College, the experimental arts school near Asheville, which such noted painters as Willem De Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg (along with Buckminster

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Robert De Niro Jr. and De Niro Sr. Fuller, Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg) attended and/or taught at between the school’s founding in 1933 and its closure (for lack of funds) in 1957.

Although one of the youngest painters at the school, De Niro was lauded by art department head Josef Albers, but despite this praise, De Niro found Albers’ cool and rigorous (one might say stereotypically German) aesthetic uncongenial.

“One day I just walked out,” he would later tell New York Daily News reporter Sidney Fields, “with only $5 on me.”

He returned to his mentor Hofmann’s school in New York, and to summer sessions in the bohemian artist colony Provincetown at the Northern tip of Cape Cod. There, when he was 20 and she 27, he met his future wife, the American painter and poet Virginia Admiral.

Admiral, who’d also studied with Hans Hofmann, was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League and a protégée of the not-yet-notorious writer of erotica Anaïs Nin, for whom Admiral would type 60 volumes of Nin’s scandalous diaries that were published decades later.

Admiral’s art would be included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, but in those days, times were hard, and she and her future husband earned extra cash by writing pornography that Nin sold to a private collector for a dollar a page.

De Niro, who would later call the smut “very hard work,” soon went back to earning extra money at a fish cannery, but Admiral apparently found it more fun, although Nin criticized her early efforts for being “too satiric.” They still had to take on such odd jobs when their son Robert WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Anthony De Niro Jr. was born in 1943.

“Like Father, Not Like Son,” a short uncredited article in the “Not Strictly News” section of the 05/18/1967 Greensboro Daily Record, describes the not-yet-famous Robert De Niro’s trip to see his father’s painting of actress Greta Garbo, which belonged to UNCG but was on loan to Burlington Industries. It’s worth quoting in its entirety, especially since the PDF available online is barely legible (I had to track it down on microfiche at the Greensboro Public Library to read all of it). Particularly amusing is his claim that “beats” and “hippies” (or as one might say now hipsters) are ruining New York’s East Village. [Note: italics are used to indicate the text of the original article].

Robert De Niro Jr., who is appearing in the Barn Dinner Theater’s production of “Tchin-Tchin,” was like most teenagers when he was growing up. He wanted to be just about anything except a painter. That was what his mother and father were, so it just didn’t appeal to him.

When he was 15, because he did possess some of his parents’ talents, he was offered an art scholarship. For a couple of months, he tried it, then dropped out. Now he is a little sad about it.

He said so yesterday after visiting his father’s painting of Greta Garbo in Burlington Industries Executive Wing. It seems that Burlington bought the picture as a gift for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Benefactors can borrow their gifts so that is what the painting, for the moment, is not in Weatherspoon’s gallery where it belongs. Robert looked as if he were greeting an old friend when he saw the painting.

It was a bit of ‘home away from home’ for him.

UNCG chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. with Robert De Niro Sr.’s painting of Greta Garbo He grew up in Greenwich Village in New York City when the elements were mostly Irish and Italian. He says, “I don’t make that scene anymore.” The changes in recent years have cased [sic] many of the Village residents to turn into what Robert calls, “East Village.” The “beats” and the “hippies” are not his kind of people.

His father is 43 and of Italian and Irish descent and his mother is Dutch and French. The mixture has made Robert a lover of sounds. Many times, he takes a tape recorder with him when he knows he will bump into a good accent.

His background and his interest in accents made him a great choice for the role of the rather crude but lovable Italian, Caesario Grimaldi, in “Tchin-Tchin.” He seems to become this loud-mouth Italian on stage but off-stage he speaks in a gentle, soft accent. No trace of his stage character can be detected.

Somehow Robert thinks it’s right for

North Carolina to own a De Niro painting.

His father was a student at Black Mountain College near Montreat in his young days, where his artist ambitions gained impetus. Now his son’s talents are gaining a polish here.

If you happen to have a lush southern accent and see a handsome young man following you, don’t be afraid. He’s just Robert De Niro accent collecting.

“Greta Garbo as Anna Christie,” the painting Robert De Niro Jr. visited in 1967, is in the permanent collection of Weatherspoon Art Museum, along with several other works by Robert De Niro Sr. It now hangs in the living room of the residence of UNCG chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Heads held high: UNCSA professor and her class make wigs for those with medically related hair loss A Winston-Salem woman has taken her passion for wig building and created a system to help those who have lost their hair due to medical conditions.

If you’re a big fan of Saturday Night Katie Murawski Live, Spiderman 3, or Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, then Editor you have more than likely seen her works.

Christal Schanes is an Emmy-award winning wig and hair artist and a professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Schanes owns CHRISTALine Studios and FEATHERlight Wigs & Services, which donates 20 percent of proceeds from every wig to the WIGwell initiative. Schanes said anything she does through her company, 20 percent goes back to WIGwell.

WIGwell provides custom wigs to patients with medically related hair loss through a course at UNCSA that Schanes set up and partnered with Novant Health Derrick L. Davis Cancer Center.

“Everybody deals with the same emotions when you are talking about hair loss in a medically related way,” Schanes said.

“So to be able to give clients a custom wig that is an extremely realistic quality is really the crux of it for me.”

Schanes said she came back to work at UNCSA after her SNL days and got in touch with a woman she had built a medical wig for before she moved to New York.

“She had been working at the Derrick L. Davis Cancer Center with Novant Health, and I had this brainstorm of wanting to be able to provide a class for my students in the wig and makeup department at UNCSA on medical wig building,” Schanes said. “I had at least five students I was mentoring on the side (that wasn’t for class credit), to be able to help them build medical wigs. They all had either a friend or family member going through cancer that they wanted to be able to provide a wig for. Building medical wigs on the side of all the entertainment excitement, is something that has always spoken to me.

In my wanting to be able to provide more medical wigs for people, the one issue was the price point.”

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nated hair and is hand-tied entirely by her students. “Within the WIGwell wellness experience, in the first consultation, I’ll bring in a client and talk with them about shaving their head so I can then take their hair if they haven’t lost it yet, for a medical wig build and then immediately before they leave, I’ll set them up with a temporary wig,” Schanes said. She said wig building could take about 125 hours and would cost about $5,000.

“The majority of the cost is materials-hair in general, but also labor,” she said.

“It is extremely expensive.”

In addition to expensive treatment such as radiation and chemo, she said, purchasing a $5,000 wig is out of the question for some people.

“Through the classroom experience, I felt like that might be my way,” she said. “If I were able to create a relationship with Novant Health and the Derrick L Davis Cancer Center to where I could utilize their clients as my models in order to facilitate the education side of things here in the classroom, I’d also be able to benefit the clients.”

In spring 2016, she got a grant and started the medical wig building class at UNCSA, which is now going into its fourth class this coming semester. Since then, there have been about 57 free wigs made for clients who couldn’t afford one otherwise.

“I teach them my design, and help them with all the consultations,” Schanes said. “Each one of the clients is paired up with one of my student wig builders, so it is a one-to-one ratio, and the class has

Christal Schanes, Emmy-winning hair/wig artist and UNCSA professor been consistent in holding 12-14 students enrolling in each spring term.”

Schanes said that after she goes over the syllabus, she talks to the students about “what to expect” when working with a client such as side effects, the treatment they are undergoing, and proper procedure, such as sanitation when a client comes in for a fitting.

“I’ve always wanted to provide the wigs for free, but I just don’t have the financial means,” she said. “So finding a path to make this happen has been extremely rewarding.”

Schanes said inexpensive wigs that are synthetic would always get judgmental looks from people. By providing “extremely realistic, full, custom wigs with every hair hand-tied,” to patients, she said it helps them look more like themselves again.

“So then they can really continue to live their life and focus on their treatment,” she said. “Most of the clients that I have seen in providing the free custom wigs, they are still working full-time and only taking time off when they have treatment administered. It is very rare that I find clients that take a year off, or six months off, it is just not a reality for most people.”

One of Schanes’s clients, Kathy Vaspory, said she has been going through chemo for four years and started losing her hair two years ago. Her granddaughter, Grace, was diagnosed with trichotillomania, which the Mayo Clinic describes as “a mental disorder that involves recurrent, irresistible urges to pull out hair from your scalp, eyebrows or other areas of your body, despite trying to stop.”

Vaspory said Schanes reached out to her while helping Grace, (who later became Schanes’s student for a year) and set her up with a temporary wig while Schanes started the process of making one.

“Losing your hair is devastating,” Vaspory said. “It is like losing an arm; it is apart of you, it identifies you. I was feeling very bad losing my hair, but the temporary wig helped. It was similar to my hairstyle and coloring. But when Christal called me in and gave me the wig that was fit especially for me. It was amazing. It was like my hair. The wig fit so perfectly, and people did not even know I was wearing a wig. Even when I would go in for my chemo treatments.”

Vaspory said her wig gives her confidence and has made her feel whole again. She said she had been back several times for adjustments and for styling.

“Anytime I need anything, I just call Christal, and she works it out and sets everything new again,” Vaspory said. “She is such a wonderful person, and this- I call it a ministry- because it is so helpful to people who are going through this. It is bad enough going through cancer and

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Cancer patient and WIGwell client Kathy Vaspory and her granddaughter Grace, who was also Christal Schanes’s former student chemo, but when you lose your hair, it is devastating. [WIGwell] just kind of resets everything so you can have a positive outlook. And I am really thankful for Christal’s services.”

Vaspory said Schanes had touched her family in such a positive way.

“Christal incorporated some of [my grandchildren’s] hair in my wig, which has made my wig very special,” she said.

“Just knowing that when I wear my wig, I’ve got a part of my grandchildren in there too. And that they see a need to donating to this cause. She has touched this family in a marvelous way; we are all very supportive of Christal.”

Schanes said she has realized through the class experience that she is limited.

For instance, she can only provide as many free custom medical wigs as she has students to enroll in the class.

“I am talking to donors and also companies so that I can create longevity through other people who want to see this mission succeed,” she said.

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donations in a temporary fund called the WIGwell Fund.

“So anyone that who would like to make a tax-deductible donation can write a check to the Winston-Salem Foundation and in the memo line of the check they would write WIGwell Fund,” Schanes said.

She said any donation helps, and she is looking for any kind of sponsorship to help sustain WIGwell longterm.

Monetary donations benefit not only clients but also the students who work hard on making the wigs. Schanes said she would like to retain as many students as she can on an employment basis.

“Start-up costs, operational costs, facility up-fits and most importantly, particularly right now, is my personnel,” Schanes said. “I am doing this all on my own right now, and it is a lot for one person to take on, being that I have a full-time job. Doing this all on the side, it is 120 hours a week, and I have three small kids at home.”

Schanes realizes not everyone can afford to give. The most important material of a wig--human hair-- can be expensive, so she also accepts hair donations. She said white hair and virgin hair (hair that has not been chemically altered) is scarce

and in high demand. Schanes said she accepts all types of hair: all textures, chemically treated and even colored hair. She said to donate, the hair must be bound and at least 3 inches or more in length.

“I’m realizing very quickly that people with textured hair don’t feel as though they have an opportunity to donate and I just want to say plainly that I take all hair donations,” Schanes said. “Straight, curly, kinky, and any color.”

Schanes recently launched a fundraising campaign on Dec. 11 called The Wacky Wig Challenge and is seeking out participants. The Wacky Wig Challenge is set up through the platform Pixgift.com, with a large photo of Grace and Vaspory divided up into smaller tiles. Each tile is $20, and participants can select however many tiles they would like. A photo of participants with a wig, or “anything on your head with purpose,” is then uploaded in that space.

“I want this to go viral. If it goes viral, that many more people will learn about this mission,” she said. “The idea is to share smiles through the whole campaign, and generate interest.”

She said the money raised through this campaign would go toward supporting wig materials and labor costs to ventilate hair into the wigs, but it will not cover the overhead costs.

Vaspory said The Wacky Wig Challenge is a worthy cause and a simple way to help others.

“I have talked with my hairstylist, and he has given me hair from some of his clients so that I can give it to Christal and people that I work with has given me some of their hair,” she said. “I encourage everybody to participate in this challenge to raise money and awareness of what she is doing.”

“I feel like it’s something that needs to be provided as a service to the loved ones we have in the community and broader, in the world that deals with something as horrible as cancer, trichotillomania, or alopecia. It is not going away anytime soon, but we can help,” Schanes said.

“We can make it more palatable, so

these clients can then truly focus on their treatment and trying to get back to their day-to-day life.”

Looking to the future, Schanes has secured a physical space for CHRISTALine Studios at 1001 S. Marshall St., and she plans on opening in January 2019. In the spring, she is planning a special comedy benefit featuring a celebrity host.

“I have been so incredibly impressed with all that Winston has going on to be able to support the arts, nonprofits, women-owned businesses-- it has been incredible,” she said of the community’s support. “I went through the Winston-Salem creative startup accelerator with CCL last year. Through those channels, I have been learning a lot more of these connections and how supportive everyone is of new entrepreneurs.”

Vaspory would like for people who have been diagnosed with cancer or have lost their hair to know that there is still hope and life. She hopes that her cancer won’t be wasted and that she can use it as encouragement to other people.

“Cancer does not have to be the end,” she said. “It may beat some of us in the end, but through the process and with the Lord’s help--I give a lot of credit to my savior who has blessed me and given me strength and allowed me to have a positive outlook through cancer-- it doesn’t have to defeat or devastate you. There is hope, and there is life with cancer. This is just a small part of what Christal does, giving that hope and encouragement and that life. You can keep being useful and be an encouragement to other people through the cancer process.”

For more information about CHRISTALine Studios, WIGwell and FEATHERlight Wigs & Services, visit the website, www.christalinestudios.com/. To take The Wacky Wig Challenge, visit www. pixgift.com/user/live_campaign. php?uidfpub=ODE=. !

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

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AGE: Freshly 31 as of December 9th WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Greensboro, North Carolina HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 2 Years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I used to book alot of local music shows across the state, which I’ve recently also started back up. Everything from metal to pop punk, national and local. Eventually you’re around bars so much you learn the trade without even realizing it. Honestly, I wish I would’ve started bartending sooner! I worked at another bar for a bit until Roger (owner of Shiners and long-time close friend) and I got together about working at Shiners. It’s been such an amazing experience being there. If you’ve never been, come see me!

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? People. I love being able to be there for someone, or hear something new and informative (no, the Kardashians don’t count as informative, sorry y’all), or to just be that person that can brighten someone’s day by just being who you are. A bartender is like a friend and a psychiatrist all in one! No, but seriously, walking into Shiners is a great feeling, and that’s another reason I love bartending is who I work for. Roger has been a close friend of mine for years and being able to give it my all everyday for a bar that I am deeply attached to is a great feeling. We have a great environment at Shiners as well. Everything from Karaoke to No Pants Parties, Dance (EDM) nights, Fetish Nights, Burlesque, Charity Fundraisers, Trivia Nights, Pool League, and much much more. Who you work for, where you work and who you work with really effects how much you care about what you do, and I love it!

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? The Astro Pop Shot. It was the first layered shot I really began making well when I first started. It’s Stoli Blueberry, mix sour, shake over ice into a shooter, then

WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Queen’s Juice WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? Well, if you go on Worldstar... No, no, just kidding, kind of. Back when I was at Cooper’s there was a massive fight that broke out. I saw two big dudes who were okay earlier in the day, but apparently become crazy Bros by night, went insane on one of our employees.

The brawl gets going and then one of the owners tries to get between these two massive dudes. She ends up getting knocked over a chair and then her daughter and I are seen in the video parting the red sea of people to get her up and out of the way. As far as recently goes, one Sunday I was headed into work when I walked in and thought “Man, it smells like shit in here.” After I asked one of my floor guys what was up, they literally responded with “Yeah...Someone shit themselves, all the way down there.” Granted it didn’t take long for everything to be cleaned and what not. But I’m telling you...it was gross. Super gross.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? $180, all because of a man who I put in their place for being rude. He kept snapping at me and my co-bartender...Literally snapping, every time he wanted a drink...So I told the other bartender to ignore it next time. Well, he gets to the point of almost leaning over the counter when he snaps at me when I walked by.

I had a 13 inch hand fan near me which I then “clacked” as hard as I could and said “Are you finished? Sit down and stop snapping at us and maybe you’ll get service.”

The whole bar clapped, and he sat down...which was surprising. He didn’t snap anymore, instead he closed out, leaving a $180 tip. He’s come to see us somewhat regularly now and he’s never snapped again!

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[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Your creative aspect is strong. Not only does it help you accomplish your goals, but it also inspires others. This could lead to a potentially rewarding collaboration opportunity.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A personal situation you thought was resolved resurfaces, thanks to a possibly well-intentioned move that went awry.

Deal with it as soon as possible. Accept the help of a trusted friend.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Be careful about making major decisions when you’re not really committed to them. And resist any pressure to do otherwise. Better to delay action until all doubts are resolved.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) That goal you set way back when is finally in sight. Maintain your focus on achieving it, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted by unimportant demands for your attention.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might be busier than you had expected right now. But between the socializing rounds and the workplace tasks, there are opportunities for special moments with that certain someone.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A temperamental flare-up creates negative feelings that need to be dealt with immediately. But things once again go well after the apologies are made and hurt feelings are soothed.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your creative approach leads to a quickerthan-expected solution to a workplace problem. Now you can devote more time to that proposal you hope to introduce by midmonth.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) An early impulsive act causes confusion. But all is smoothed over once explanations are made. Expect a friend or family member to ask for your kind and always wise advice.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Technological glitches create problems early on.

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I get very lonely around the holidays.

My family is just my parents, and they’re far away. I don’t have a boyfriend right now. I have Amy Alkon many friends and good people in my Advice life, but instead Goddess of hanging out with them, I find myself isolating.

So...it seems my treatment for loneliness is loneliness and then feeling sorry for myself that I’m home alone. Help! — Pity Party Animal Each of us gets into the holiday spirit in our own special way. Some of us build gingerbread houses; some of us build gingerbread psychiatric hospitals.

To understand how you can long for human connection and (ugh!) long to avoid it at the very same time, it helps to understand the mechanics of loneliness — the pain we feel when we’re disconnected from others. Like other emotions, loneliness is “adaptive,” meaning it has a function. It most likely evolved to motivate ancestral humans to behave in ways that would help them survive and mate.

(Survival in the harsh ancestral environment would have been strongly connected with social bonds, and mating without a partner tends to be a bust for those of us who are not aphids or slime mold.)

The problem is, our psychology is

complex, and work orders laid out for us by different emotional adaptations — different functional feelings — sometimes conflict. For example, the sadness that comes with loneliness is also motivating — only it can motivate you to lie facedown on the couch.

This probably seems anything but useful, but psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that the slowing down in energy that’s a partner to sadness gives us time to examine our behavior, figure out whether we might do better with different tactics, and, if so, change our MO. It is important to take stock like this — to a point. But if you remind yourself of the evolved job of emotions, you’ll see that it’s sometimes in your interest to override them. In short, you can do your sadness homework without making your loneliness worse by spending your entire holiday mumbling into the throw pillows.

Tell your besties that you could use some cheering up, and give yourself an emotional work assignment: going to a minimum of three parties over the holidays where groups of your friends will be in attendance. Keep in mind — while you’re lifting what feels like your 3,000-pound arm to apply mascara before going to some shindig — that we’re bad at predicting what will make us happy or unhappy. Chances are, once you’re at the party, you’ll catch a buzz from the eggnog, get laughing with your friends, and accidentally slack off on your fashionable nihilism — your muttering that it’s all nothingness and you’re alone in the universe except for your unpaid debts.

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I’m a 32-year-old guy with a really great female friend. We talk on the phone, grab food, etc. She even kept me company in the hospital after I got into a motorcycle accident. I’ve started falling for her, and I want to ask her out, but I’m afraid of losing her friendship. — Conflicted It’s just a bit of a twist on the friendship ring. You’d like to give her a friendship penis.

Risk researchers find that decisionmaking in the face of uncertainty — when we can’t be sure of what the outcome will be — is really hard for us. However, by plugging in all the information we have, positive and negative, we can make an educated prediction about how things are likely to turn out — and whether we can afford the loss if our effort is a bust.

For example, if you have only one friend and if you’re pretty sure you could never make another — say, because you live on one of those tiny desert islands in a New Yorker cartoon — you might decide it’d be too costly for you to risk saying something. And if, on a scale from 1 to 10, your friend is a 9.2 and you’re more on

the bridge troll end of the spectrum (in both looks and career prospects), your chances of romance with her might be pretty slim. (“Shrek” is not a documentary.)

If, after weighing the pros and cons, you decide to ask this woman out, you could simply say, “I’d like to take you on a date. Would you be interested in that?”

Yes, it’s possible that doing this would tank your friendship, but chances are, you’d just act a little weird around her for a while. Then again, if you said nothing and constantly agonized over wanting her, you might also end up acting all weird — in ways that would make continuing your friendship impossible. (Okay, so she’s not into you, but maybe if you send her yet another love poem written in your own blood...) !

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