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You’re probably in your kitchen and getting your goods ready for all the festivities that are still to come. But maybe, just maybe you’re still at a loss for what to make for your upcoming get-together. You’re probably thinking, a FEW RECIPES from triadfoodies in YES! Weekly would be just the thing.

16 Raquel “Rocky” Spencer, 11, and Derrick Carter, 13, are co-hosts of Greensboro’s own THE ROCKY AND DERRICK SHOW. 17 GET OUT, the debut feature of writer/ director Jordan Peele... was selected as the best film of 2017 by the voters of the Southeastern Film Critics Association...

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Saturday – the Pennsylvania National Horse Show awaits. PARKER PEACOCK begins her day, sliding into her Tailored Sportsman pants, dipping her arms into a Kathryn Lily jacket and placing a Samshield helmet on her head.

20 Singer-songwriter and one-time Winston-Salem native LEAH SHAW has the benefit of being able to think on both sides of certain large-ish divides. Shaw was raised in Winston-Salem, but she’s been liv-

ing in New York City since 2011. She’s written poignantly about having a connection to the Carolinas.

26 STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI likely won’t be dismissed with similar charges, even if one sizable chunk feels like a rehash of The Empire Strikes Back. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, The Last Jedi is very much its own entity, exploring new routes as it teases out themes that have always been present in the Skywalker saga.

32 You’ve seen ‘em on college campuses and on practically every corner downtown.

The first ride is free, then it’s just a dollar to hop on. LIMEBIKES appeared almost out of nowhere and now they are ubiquitous around the Greensboro area.

33 According to a recent poll, 61 percent of all Americans believe DONALD TRUMP should be impeached if he is proven guilty of sexual misconduct. But if he is removed from office, it probably won’t be because of his behavior toward women. It will more likely be due to his behavior in general.

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

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THE NUTCRACKER FRIDAY

A CHRISTMAS CAROL WEDNESDAY

CAMEL CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA THURSDAY THUR 21 CAMEL CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT WHAT: Camel City Jazz Orchestra celebrates the season with big band favorites.

Our annual holiday concert will feature Winston-Salems own jazz orchestra, fronted by vocalist Diana Tuffin. This year, we offer your choice of two separately ticketed concerts: an early show at 5:30 PM and a late show at 8 PM. A cash bar will be available and, as always, concert guests will enjoy holiday cookies and other goodies.

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. | 8 p.m.

WHERE: SECCA. 750 Marguerite Dr., Winston-Salem.

MORE: $10-$25 admission.

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THIRD THURSDAY FEAT.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

WHAT: Third Thursday concerts cost $5 per person, and tickets may be purchased at the door on the night of the event or in advance online at the link below. Based out of Greensboro, Titus Gant is a local jazz artist who not only performs all across the triad with his quartet, but is also a music educator at the same time.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Centennial Station Arts Center.

121 S. Centennial Street, High Point.

MORE: $5 admission.

WHAT: Adapted by Preston Lane, Ebenezer Scrooges last chance is one night and three spirits. Its a life-changing ride through past, present and future as he learns what it means to be human. Triad Stage brings Dickens’ classic story to life in a dazzling production brimming with bold acting, daring design and spine-tingling special effects. Returning for the 5th year to The Hanesbrands Theatre.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Triad Stage at Hanesbrands Theater. 209 Spruce Street, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $10-$50 tickets.

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HIGH POINT BALLET’S: THE NUTCRACKER

COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE WHAT: Two free ticket vouchers for donors! Join Community Blood Center of the Carolinas in bringing joy to children this holiday season through its 13th annual Puppies for Patients program. All donors who give blood or platelets now through Dec. 31 will sign a gift tag that will then be attached to a stuffed toy puppy.

WHEN: 12 p.m.

WHERE: The Grand Theatre 12.

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MORE: Free event.

WHAT: High Point Ballet celebrates 30 years of presenting The Nutcracker, a family holiday tradition since 1987. Choreography is by Gary Taylor. Sets by Howard Jones.

Special Guest Artist, David Ward as Cavalier, formerly with BalletMet. WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

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Renu Energy Solutions was founded by president and CEO Jay Radcliffe in 2010 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Renu now has an office in Jamestown (located at 115 E. Main St., Suite E) to better serve the communities in the Triad.

Marketing manager Hannah Wiegard said 2010 was around the time where solar energy became an affordable resource for homeowners and businesses.

“We found that it was just the perfect time to be a part of the solar revolution in the Carolinas,” Wiegard said.

Wiegard said Renu Energy primarily offers photovoltaic (which means uses the sun’s energy to produce power) electric systems for homes and business.

“So, it’s solar panels made up of solar cells,” Wiegard said. “The principle is really simple: the sun shines every day, and we can harness that free fuel and free energy resource to power homes and businesses.

Instead of taking all of the energy we need from the grid, we can actually generate our own power with solar panels on our roofs (or grounds).”

Wiegard wanted to clarify that solar customers stay connected to the grid, but use their solar power first. She said this is the basic way that solar saves money on monthly bills. Though they are not the only solar energy provider in the Triad, Wiegard said Renu prides itself in the approach it takes with educating potential clients about solar energy. Wiegard said

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Renu Energy has performed “hundreds and hundreds” of installations “within about a two-hour radius of Charlotte” since they have been founded.

“Our activity in the Triad is picking up,” Wiegard said. “We just want folks to know that we are available to provide this service.”

Wiegard said there is no better time than now to go solar. She said the best well-kept secret of Renu Energy is how much the technology has improved and in-turn, brought the cost down recently.

Wiegard said good candidates for solar energy are the buildings whose roof faces the closest South. However, Wiegard said the best way to find out if you are a good candidate for solar energy is to have an assessment done by Renu’s solar technology professionals.

“We are a company with a pretty manageable size with 25 employees,” she said, “and every one of us is dedicated to seeing solar expanse, helping customers produce their own power and purchase a resource that is going to serve them well for decades.”

Wiegard said there are special incentives given to those who choose to go solar, namely a 30 percent federal tax credit for homeowners and businesses. Wiegard said all consultations are free and those interested in the Triad should visit Will Grant, the main solar energy consultant, in Jamestown. !

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an you believe that we’re only five days away from Christmas?

You’re probably in your kitchen and getting your goods ready for all the Kristi Maier festivities that are @triadfoodies still to come. But maybe, just maybe you’re still at a loss Contributor for what to make for your upcoming gettogether. You’re probably thinking, a few recipes from triadfoodies in YES! Weekly would be just the thing.

Well, we got you. I’ve dove into my heirlooms and reached out to a couple of chefs for family recipes that are sure to please. These recipes don’t take too much time and all are definitely delicious.

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Red Velvet Cake This is the real thing, baby. This gorgeous cake just screams Christmas and it’s so moist, wonderful and colorful. *Note: Nothing gets me going like someone who tries to tell others that a Red Velvet Cake is a chocolate cake. Nope, it is not. It doesn’t have much cocoa at all. The cocoa is necessary with vinegar and buttermilk to create a chemical reaction for texture as well as the unmistakable flavor that makes a true Red Velvet. I’ve made this every year I can remember as it is always demanded at our family Christmas gatherings (and sometimes for birthday cakes).

Ingredients: 1 cup (2 sticks) butter 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp vinegar (I used white distilled) 1 tbsp cocoa 1 cup buttermilk 2 tsp pure vanilla 2 ounces red food coloring Grease and flour two round cake pans.

Sift flour, soda and salt and set aside.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, incorporating one at a time. Make a paste with the cocoa and vinegar and add to Red Velvet Cake

Eggnog the batter. Add flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk. Add vanilla and coloring and mix well. Pour into cake pans. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 30 minutes or until the tester comes out clean. Allow for cooling before frosting the cake.

Cream Cheese Frosting 8 oz Cream Cheese 1 stick butter 1 box powdered sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Mix the cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar (you may not need the whole amount—I never do), add vanilla and whip until fluffy. Spread on the cooled cakes and decorate how you wish.

Full disclosure. The red velvet pictured is by Jenni Field, author of the blog, PastryChefOnline.com. Feel free to try her recipe, which is nearly identical, except for the light and fluffy Ermine frosting featured on her website.

Eggnog

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monk fruit sweetener (which is how we do it at home). You can make it Paleo by subbing a non-dairy milk. You will want to double this recipe for a larger group. If you add rum or bourbon, it will keep in the fridge for a while. We like our eggnog warm but it’s so delicious cold as well. You don’t even have to cook the cream or heat the eggs at all, but if you’re concerned about raw eggs, this is the way to do it. This recipe serves four to six people.

Ingredients: 6 large egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar or sweetener 1 cup heavy cream (light cream is also great) 2 cups milk or a non-dairy alternative of choice (we inverted our cream to nondairy ratio) 1/2 -1 tsp ground nutmeg (fresh is best) pinch of salt 4-8 shots of bourbon or rum. We used Outer Banks Distilling Kill Devil Rum with Pecans & Honey 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste Ground cinnamon or cinnamon stick for garnish In a saucepan, heat the cream, milk, vanilla, salt and nutmeg until just under

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Pecan Pineapple Cheese Ball a simmer. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks until foamy. Add a little of the milk mixture to the egg mixture, tempering them (so they won’t cook in the milk), whisking constantly. Keep adding the egg mixture a little at a time until blended well and creamy. Add the rum or bourbon now or at serving time, one to two shots per person, depending on taste. Serve warm or chill (it will thicken). Top with whipped cream and/or grated nutmeg, cinnamon. *For even thicker eggnog, use the whites! Just whip them up separately with some sugar until very soft peaks form. Fold into the mixture. I’ve never done it this way because I think it’s thick enough, but there are many recipes that incorporate them.

Pecan Pineapple Cheese Ball

You know this cheese ball. It’s about as old school as it gets. You can totally serve this as a dip, just don’t roll it into a ball. Take it out of the fridge about 30 minutes prior to serving and serve with a simple cracker. For added flavor, season the pecans in salt and butter and roast for a few minutes.

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Ingredients: 2 8 oz packages cream cheese 1 8 oz can crushed pineapple 1/2 cup green pepper, finely chopped 2 cups chopped pecans (1 cup to be set aside) 1 tbsp minced onion 1 tsp seasoned salt 2 tbsp Parsley flakes (fresh is best but dried is okay too) Mix all the ingredients except parsley and the one cup of nuts together. Refrigerate in the bowl for two hours before forming into a ball. Mix the pecans and parsley together. Roll cheese mixture into a ball and roll in the pecan mixture. Allow to sit out for a short period before serving.

We asked local chefs to share with us some favorite family dishes that are great for sharing around the table.

Tim Grandinetti’s Grandmother’s Chicken Cacciatore with Potato Gnocchi Grandinetti, who’s the owner and chef of Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar; Quanto Basta Italian Eatery and Wine Bar; and Jasper’s Southern Homestead Kitchen (at Sander’s Ridge Winery) has had the busiest of years. He just published his first book, Soulful Harvest, where you’ll

find this recipe in the “Winter” chapter.

He says, “It’s an Italian family tradition, hand-crafted, soul-satisfying deliciousness during the colder days of the holiday season.”

Cacciatore Ingredients: Whole Chicken, cut into 8 pieces 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 4 tbsp + 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) (added in later) 2 tbsp butter 1 onion, small dice 2 red bell peppers, small dice 5 cloves garlic, minced 2 cups mushrooms, cut in half 1/2 tsp thyme 1/4 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp salt red chile flakes to taste 3/4 cup dry white wine 1 can (28 oz) whole or diced tomatoes Parsley Parmesan for garnish Prep: Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Salt and pepper both sides of chicken pieces.

Dredge chicken in flour. Heat skillet to medium-high and add oil and butter.

Place chicken skin side down in the pan.

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the fat in the pan and discard. Add additional EVOO. Add onions, peppers, garlic and mushrooms then stir around about four to five minutes. Add thyme, paprika, salt, pepper and chili flakes. Pour in wine and tomatoes, stir to combine. Add chicken back into the pan. Place the lid on the pot and put into the oven for 45 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat to 375. Cook for an additional 15 minutes.

Gnocchi Ingredients: 2 lbs potatoes, baked and slightly cooled 1/2 lb all-purpose flour 1/4 cup eggs, beaten 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Nutmeg, freshly grated, two passes over the grater.

Prep: Push potatoes through a ricer or grate. Sprinkle with flour and gently incorporate by hand. Transfer to a mixer with paddle attachment. Beat together eggs and oil and add to potato mixture, then season with salt and black pepper. Rest for 15-20 minutes.

Shape into small dumplings. Each in salted simmering water, allow to float 1 minute then remove and toss in melted butter.

B. Christopher’s American Steakhouse Corn Creme Brûlée We enjoyed this luscious side dish when we visited Chef Chris Russell’s fine steakhouse for our anniversary. It looks just like creme brûlée but it’s a savory dish, and it’s amazing. This recipe serves six.

Ingredients: 1/2 quart heavy cream 6 whole eggs 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup fresh shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese 3-4 ears of corn, sweet if you can get it. Or 8-12 oz of frozen corn (you’ll want about 2 oz per serving) Salt & Pepper to taste Garlic to taste Prep: Here, Chris roasts the ears on the grill to give it a smoky flavor, but you don’t have to do it. You can boil it or use the frozen corn. Mix all ingredients together in one big bowl. It’ll be almost glue-like consistency.

Pour in individual ramekins or serving dishes.

Bake in a water bath (to prevent scalding) at 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Once removed from oven, sprinkle with raw or granulated sugar and torch it.

Enjoy, and Happy Holidays! !

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hot and recorded from the HQ Greensboro building is a talk show with two cousins that give folks like Jimmy Fallon and Kelly Ripa a run for their money. The Katie Murawski duo has not made it to public access just Editor yet, but they have a start on Youtube.

Raquel “Rocky” Spencer, 11, and Derrick Carter, 13, are co-hosts of Greensboro’s own The Rocky and Derrick Show.

According to the website, the show is an “interview video podcast program from a kids (sic) point of view.” Their subjects include people who have been making an impact in the Greensboro community.

According to their Youtube page, The Rocky and Derrick Show joined Youtube on March 31 and now has 813 subscribers, 8,063 views, and almost 30 interviews.

The show is not just a two-person gig; It is a whole family affair. The Rocky and Derrick Show is written, directed and filmed by Derrick’s 15-year-old brother Christopher Carter Jr., co-produced by their uncle Robert Green and Derrick’s father Christopher Carter Sr. From time to time there is special guest host 5-yearold Tiyonna Spencer (Rocky’s sister) and former camera operator and now special guest star 10-year-old Tasean Spencer (Rocky’s brother).

The Rocky and Derrick Show came to be because of two converging ideas. The first being the show began as a project

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for Christopher Carter Jr., said Robert Green, a co-producer to the show (and the children’s uncle). Green said Carter Jr., inspired by superhero movies, wrote three scripts of different projects he wanted to do. Green supported and decided to help make Carter Jr.’s ideas a reality.

“We started videotaping, and they came over to my house,” Green said. “We said, ‘what would it be like if we started a show?’ And then ‘what would the show be named?’ and they said ‘The Derrick and Rocky Show,’ and Rocky said ‘no, The Rocky and Derrick Show’ and they said yes that sounds just fine.’”

The second idea that led to the creation of the show came from Rocky and Derrick filming various “challenges” and put-

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ting them on Youtube. Derrick said these challenges ranged from dares to taste challenges, such as a baby food challenge.

Green has a background in filmmaking in Camden, New Jersey, and he was inspired to produce this show because of someone he knew in the television industry whose goal was to help children learn the ropes of cinematography, writing and directing. Green said when he was 15 years old he took a summer job with that man and learned so much from that experience. He decided to pay it forward and help his nieces and nephews produce their show.

To find subjects to interview, Carter Sr. said he looks on the internet and social media to find people in the area. “I look on Youtube, Facebook, the internet to see who is doing what in Greensboro,” Carter Sr. said. “If they are doing something that I think is really productive, I contact them through Facebook or email to see if they would agree to an interview.”

Back in October, YES! Weekly’s advertising manager Katharine Osborne Watts and I were interviewed for The Rocky and Derrick Show, and you can watch it on Youtube by searching “The Rocky and Derrick Show YES! Weekly Interview.” When asked about their favorite interview so far, the kids all had their own opinions. Rocky said her top three favorites were a taste challenge she did with her friends Frankie and Tori, an interview with local jewelry

maker Erica Vogel and the interview with YES! Weekly. Carter Jr. and Tasean said their favorite interview was with the gospel rapper The One Keon, while Tiyonna’s favorite was the baby food challenge with Frankie and Tori. Green said this show as well as the practice the children get from working the switchboard at church, is making them useful in all different areas of communication. Green said both he and Carter Sr. let the children try what they want to try and encourage them to try new things.

“They get exposed to so many different things,” Green said. “That is what makes them change so often because they are getting a lot of perspectives. They have been around artists, actors, all different types of motivational people, so they see a lot of different perspectives.”

Soon, The Rocky and Derrick Show hope to raise enough funds to travel to Philadelphia to SOUL records and interview the owner of the record company. They also plan on touring The International Civil Rights Center & Museum as well as the Greensboro History Museum.

Acting silly with family and friends on camera is not the most fun part of the show for these aspiring entertainers.

“Learning from people and what they do,” Derrick said. “It is like job searching almost.”

Carter Sr. loves spending time with his sons while co-producing and editing and he said he wished he had this opportunity when he was younger.

“What I like about it, is not right now,” Green said. “It is what is to come later.

When somebody learns something when they are young, it affects their life when they get older. They may not do the same thing, but they will have less fear for new and different things.”

To find out more about The Rocky and Derrick Show, or if you are interested in being interviewed visit their website, www. rockyandderrickshow.networkloungetech. com or visit them on Facebook (@ rocky. derrick.56), Instagram (@rockyderrick3508), Twitter (@rocky_derrick) and watch them on their Youtube channel. !

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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Get Out gets in with SEFCA Get Out, the debut feature of writer/director Jordan Peele, which combined satirical social allegory with sci-fi horror trappings and became a surprise critical darling and an even more Mark Burger surprising early-year box-office blockContributing buster, was selected as the best film of columnist 2017 by the voters of the Southeastern Film Critics Association, with Peele also winning for Best Original Screenplay.

Gary Oldman won Best Actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s World War II drama Darkest Hour, with James Franco the runner-up for his turn as Tommy Wiseau, the unorthodox auteur whose independent feature The Room (2003) became an international cult sensation, in The Disaster Artist, which Franco also directed and co-produced.

Sally Hawkins, who scored earlier this year in the title role of Maudie (playing the artist Maud Lewis), was named Best

Actress for her eloquent turn as the lonely but compassionate mute Elisa Esposito in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, with Frances McDormand the runner-up for playing the grieving, seething Mildred in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The Shape of Water also won the Best Director prize for Del Toro, with Christopher Nolan the runner-up for the World War II epic Dunkirk. Sam Rockwell of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won Supporting Actor, with Willem Dafoe the runner-up for The Florida Project. Three Billboards … was also selected as Best Ensemble, with Steven Spielberg’s factbased Pentagon Papers drama The Post the runner-up.

For Supporting Actor, a pair of tough mothers duked it out, with Laurie Metcalf winning for Lady Bird and Allison Janney the runner-up for I, Tonya. Lady Bird was the Original Screenplay runner-up for first-time writer/director Greta Gerwig.

For Adapted Screenplay, James Ivory won for Call Me by Your Name, based on Andre Acimon’s novel, and the runner-up was Mudbound, which Virgil Williams and director Dee Rees adapted from Hillary Jordan’s novel. Hoyte Van Hoytema won

Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s Vincent van Gogh drama Loving Vincent the runner-up. The Wyatt Award, named for the late critic Gene Wyatt and given to the film that best exemplifies the spirit of the South, went to Mudbound, with The Florida Project the runner-up.

Best Cinematography for Dunkirk, with Roger Deakins the runner-up for Blade Runner 2049.

Jane, writer/director Brett Morgan’s chronicle of the life and work of scientist Jane Goodall, was named Best Documentary, with the Agnes Varda/JR collaboration Faces Places named the runner-up.

Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father won Best Foreign-Language Film, with writer/editor/director Ruben Ostlund’s The Square the runner-up.

The splashy Disney/Pixar extravaganza Coco earned the Mouse House top honors as Best Animated Film, with

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He’s tough and incorruptible, but also contemplative and tight-lipped.

Here, as McGuire investigates a bizarre murder case, circumstances force him to delve into his past as a Vietnam veteran and prisoner of war at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. In other words: This time, it’s personal. To divulge much more would spoil the twists and turns that follow, as this suspenseful but thoughtful yarn unspools satisfyingly. Koller has cooked up another winner.

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Holding onto the reins as a nationally ranked pony jumper Bleat, bleat. 5:30 a.m. Bleat, bleat.

Saturday – the Pennsylvania National Horse Show awaits.

Parker Peacock begins her day, sliding into her Tailored Sportsman pants, dipping her arms Jessica Clifford into a Kathryn Lily jacket and placing a Samshield helmet on Contributor her head. The final touch to her attire: her late grandmother’s gambling card tucked into her riding pant’s pocket.

“It’s a lifestyle, not just a hobby,” Ashley Peacock said about her 9-year-old daughter, who ranks first in the North Carolina Hunter Jumper Association and 15th in the small pony division by the United States Equestrian Federation.

Before competing, crowds of young girls under the age of 12 primp their ponies – cleaning, manicuring and braiding the long hair of their athletic duo. As the day goes on, the crowd becomes a claustrophobic mass of various competitions, with instructors telling their riders to warm up their horses and ponies before they show.

Parker begins to concentrate, retracing the memorized course. Oxer, vertical, combination – the names of jumps arranging in her head. Her face is emotionless. She has competed since she was 4 years old.

She has been riding since before she could walk.

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Parker Peacock and her pony, Glen Haven Astoria. Peacock ranks first in the North Carolina Hunter Jumper Association.

Glen Haven Astoria, her 8-year-old Palomino pony that grew up as her companion on her family farm. Parker knows which angle Glen Haven Astoria should jump at and the way she likes to ride.

As she rides the maze of the course, she reminds herself “you’ve gotta get it right, or otherwise you don’t score,” says many judges and her grandfather, Bill Erickson.

Parker counts her strides: one, two, three, four, five – jump. One, two, three, four, five – jump. In tandem, the pair makes it over barriers between 2.3 and 2.6 feet.

Parker’s dad, Jeff Peacock, her brother Finley, her mom and grandfather sit in the stands and watch nervously as their confident girl competes. Her mother religiously wants her daughter “to have a good experience and come out with a smile.”

When her round is over, she awaits results. Parker congratulates her pony with gentle pets of praise. “You can have your best day, and your horse can have its best day or worst day,” Ashley Peacock said.

“You are only 50 percent of it.” And Parker knows. Her competitive mind wants to win, but her youthful facial features stay reserved, rethinking the positives and the negatives in both her and her pony’s dual-effort.

When the riders and their ponies are called, Parker does not place. “You are going to lose probably more than you are going to win,” Erickson said.

Before the end, another award is given.

“Parker Peacock” is called by the judges – she has won the Emerson Bird Award, as a test of her knowledge in horsemanship.

Her second win of the same award.

Congratulatory acts spread among the riders, adorning winners and finalists with handshakes and hugs. But, Parker is motivated to get back to her family’s farm outside of Winston-Salem to practice more.

Back home at Peacock Acres, Parker rides her current pony – Glen Haven Astoria – while testing out the pony she will replace it within a year. Though Parker knows she will soon be too big for her current companion and athlete, she is “traumatized” to lease or sell the pony to a new rider.

Two hours a day she is outside on her ponies, practicing her jumps. “A lot of kids might go home with their friends on the weekends,” Ashley Peacock said. “[Parker] comes straight from school and comes and rides.”

As a former rider herself, Ashley

Peacock plays instructor as Parker’s own trainer. She is never afraid to tell her daughter to get off the horse when she is not riding it correctly, as Erickson has witnessed. “You can ruin a horse if you don’t train it properly,” he said.

With experience, confidence and positivity, mom and daughter work together.

Though Ashley Peacock does not find the time to strap her own riding boots on, she loves watching Parker. “If I can give her another ride, I would do that,” she said.

Recently, Parker is preparing herself to place at other nationally ranked horse shows next year.

Parker dreams to ride in college, but as for now, she is just going to keep competing in higher levels of USEF. Parker’s alarm will bleat on an early morning next February – only a few months before the uneasy day she will replace her present pony. She will wake up and attend Ocala HITS in Florida. Parker will brush and braid Glen Haven Astoria’s mane, competing with her partner for almost the last time. !

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inger-songwriter and one-time WinstonSalem native Leah Shaw has the benefit of being able to think on both sides of certain large-ish divides.

Shaw was raised in John Adamian Winston-Salem, but @johnradamian she’s been living in New York City since 2011. She’s written Contributor poignantly about having a connection to the Carolinas. She’s also written about committing to living the striving artistic life in Brooklyn. Shaw is classically trained; she plays bassoon and has a performance degree. But she’s also a folk singer, writing acoustic music and singing about experience and emotion. She was raised in the church, but she’s not much of a church-goer these days. Straddling

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these different spheres, being able to see a little into and understand worlds that sometimes seem at odds — that’s something that makes Shaw approachable.

“I have a little bit of a dual identity,” said Shaw, who spoke to me by phone from New York on Sunday.

Shaw will perform at Winston-Salem’s Muddy Creek Music Hall on Dec. 23. The concert will benefit the Amani Children’s Foundation, a charity that is close to Shaw. Shortly after Shaw’s mother, Rebecca, died in 2016, following a long struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the children’s foundation gave her a special honor. Rebecca Shaw had been active in working with orphans in Kenya, and the organization paid tribute to her commitment to naming the next orphan they took in after her.

As one would imagine, the death of her mother has weighed on Shaw and shaped some of the recent songs she’s written.

“A lot of the songs are about losing her, or about losing a sense of security,” Shaw said. For those who lose loved ones, simply finding the strength to grieve and go on, and the mystery of how one keeps having energy and inspiration when it seems like there’s no reserve of such powers, those are frequent surprises.

Shaw, 32, had lived in the area for a time, after college, when her mother was

first diagnosed. And she’d helped tend to her mother, staying home with her four days out of the week, as her condition slowly worsened. Shaw’s decision to move to New York was based, in part, on the sense that it was what her mother would want her to do.

As her mother’s condition worsened, Shaw says she not only became friends with her mother in a new way, but she also grew confident that her father and the network of other helping out didn’t need the young Shaw to stay in town and be a nurse to her mother.

After earning her performance degree from James Madison University in Virginia, Shaw had come home and, while spending time with her mother, had also worked at RayLen Vineyards in Mocksville. While there she’d helped launch a series of Friday evening music events. During this period Shaw was branching out from her musical training.

“I just got burnt out on all the classical music,” she said.

Drawing on her church music background, her experience playing piano, practicing guitar and growing more interested in the classics of popular and folk music, Shaw started learning more covers and writing her own material. She released a few EPs at around the time she was working in the vineyard.

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“I love playing by ear,” she said. “I did a lot of church music by ear, and I loved it, and it was very improvisational.”

One can hear Shaw’s comfort with building harmonies intuitively and letting melodies unfold organically on songs like “I Went To War,” which has dreamy, bubbly, minimalist arpeggiations at its heart. But Shaw is just as comfortable constructing songs built on folk-style strumming. She can float her sweet and clear voice over a mellow acoustic backdrop, sustaining notes and adding expressive ruffles.

The live events at the vineyard helped nudge her to the stage again. But she still wasn’t entirely comfortable there.

As she’s said, when she moved to New York City, she struggled with stage fright.

In workmanlike fashion, Shaw decided that to battle her nerves in front of a crowd, she’s simply de-sensitize herself by routine exposure, and so she started becoming a regular on the open-mic circuit in the city.

“I wasn’t used to being out front,” Shaw said.

This led to another of the twists of her career. While making her way to open mics, she’d routinely get out her guitar and practice on the subway or waiting for a train. Often people would toss bills or coins into her case. Soon she realized that busking for the busy pedestrians in New York was more profitable, rewarding and fruitful than making the rounds of openmic nights.

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outward, classically trained and folk-y, she’s also made something of being a displaced Southerner in the Northeast.

She won a 2014 singer-songwriter competition put on by Our State Magazine for the song “Carolina I’m Home,” about a musician who finds the big city to be a little off-putting. (It’s not exactly written from Shaw’s perspective, but it’s a sentiment she understands.) It’s a small irony that Shaw was already pretty much a New Yorker at that point. For the flip side of the coin, one can listen to her songs “Brooklyn” or “Up in New York,” songs about the rootlessness, flux, and excitement that come with being anonymous in the metropolis.

Shaw isn’t intimidated by new challenges. She’s enrolled in a masters program in media scoring, where she’s working with filmmakers and directors, learning aspects of studio engineering and also learning to collaborate in using music to help tell stories.

Finding new modes of work, new collaborators, and new techniques is all just a way of keeping busy and improving, says Shaw, bringing new tools to her singing and songwriting. But Shaw is less concerned with achieving any technical mastery or cultivating structural sophistication than with learning ways to help with expression.

“I’m more worried about it being honest when I put it out there,” she said. !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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ASHEBORO

FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Dec 23: Chris Hedrick Dec 30: Bear Stevens Jan 5: Open mic w/Wolfie Calhoun Jan 6: Josh Marlowe Jan 19: Shiloh Hill Jan 20: Graymatter Jan 21: The Randolph Jazz Band

CLEMMONS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Dec 21: Elliot Humphries Dec 29: Whiskey Mic Jan 5: Whiskey Mic Jan 26: Whiskey Mic

DANBURY

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

GREENSBORO

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Dec 22: 1-2-3 Friday Feb 10: August Burns Red

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Dec 22: DJ Dan the Player Dec 23: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

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BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Jan 5: Ms. Mary & The Boys Jan 6: Stephen Freeman: Elvis Tribute Jan 7: Ms. Mary & The Boys

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Dec 22: Leather and Lace Dec 29: James Vincent Carroll Jan 5: Chad Barnard Jan 12: James Vincent Carroll Jan 19: Mix Tape Jan 26: Leather and Lace

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Dec 22: Ward Davis w/ Jason Springs Dec 23: The Dickens Dec 26: Brice St. Dec 30: Outer Glow & Lowborn w/ Resist, Fear The United Dec 31: NYE PArty w/ House Of Fools, Old Heavy Hands, Garrett Clemmons Jan 5: Viva La Muerte w/ The Wright Avenue Jan 12: Sunny Ledfurd w/ The Get Right Band Jan 17: The Grass Is Dead Jan 27: Consider The Source, Groove Fetish Jan 31: Crown The Empire, Dear Desolate, The Second After, Til We Ignite Feb 1: Little Miss Nasty - Rock & Roll Burlesque w/ Gina & The Eastern Block Feb 2: Perpetual Groove

BUCKHEAD SALOON

1720 Battleground Ave | 336.272.9884 buckheadsaloongreensboro.com

[WARD DAVIS] December 22 - The Blind Tiger

CHURCHILL’S ON ELM

213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Jan 13: Sahara Reggae Band Jan 20: Jack Long Old School Jam

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Dec 21: Live Thursdays

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Dec 22: J. Bliss Dec 23: J. Bliss Dec 31: NYE Show Jan 5: Rich Guzzi Jan 6: Rich Guzzi Jan 17: HodgeTwins Jan 19: Bruce Bruce

COMMON GROUNDS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Jan 19: Swingin’ Hammers

CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Jan 27: Colt Ford Feb 9: Lalah Hathaway Feb 17: Jon Langston

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GREENE STREET CLUB

113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 Dec 30: E.O.Y. Masquerade Party

HAM’S GATE CITY

3017 Gate City Blvd | 336.851.4800 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 22: Sahara Dec 29: Evin Gibson

HAM’S NEW GARDEN

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Dec 22: Joey Whitaker Dec 29: Mean Gene

SOMEWHERE ELSE TAVERN

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Dec 29: Desired Redemption, What Happened Yesterday, Crimson Soil, Unhenged, Aside Oceans, The Antecedants, Falling Through April Dec 30: Murder Maiden Jan 27: Greg Moore Feb 24: Murder Maiden

SPEAKEASY TAVERN

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

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thE idiot box comEdY club

2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com dec 22: Kenyon Adamcik and Friends dec 29: Eddie ifft dec 31: NYE comedy bash Jan 1: improv 101 Jan 8: Aj Schraeder

high point

AFtEr hourS tAvErN 1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net dec 22: Karaoke - dJ dance

hAm’S pAllAdium 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com dec 22: Kwik Fixx dec 23: Southern Eyes dec 29: brothers pearl dec 30: lasater union

jamestown

thE dEcK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com dec 22: Jody lee petty band dec 29: the clanky lincolns dec 30: disaster recovery band dec 31: NYE bash w/ brothers pearl

kernersville

dANcE hAll dAzE

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com dec 22: Ambush dec 23: Silverhawk dec 29: the delmonicos dec 30: the delmonicos dec 31: crimson rose

brEAthE cocKtAil louNgE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge dec 31: NYE party

lewisville

old NicK’S pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com dec 21: Acoustic music w/ Jeremy & zach dec 22: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins dec 23: dance party w/dJ holly manus dec 29: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins dec 31: New Year’s Eve party w/the pop guns Jan 5: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins

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Jan 6: leather & lace Jan 11: Acoustic music with couldn’t be happiers Jan 12: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins Jan 13: Exit 180 Jan 19: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins Jan 20: chasin Fame Jan 26: Karaoke w dJ tyler perkins Jan 27: dante’s roadhouse

oak ridge

Jp looNEY’S

2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys dec 21: trivia

randleman

ridEr’S iN thE couNtrY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net

winston-salem

SEcoNd & grEEN

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com Apr 28: perpetual groove & marvelous Funkshun

thE gArAgE

110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws dec 22: Friday Night music club dec 31: the Final Show: the genuine, tyler Nail, victoria victoria, gunnar Nagle, and companyon

JohNNY & JuNE’S SAlooN

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com dec 23: tim Elliott dec 31: NYE party w/ upchurch the redneck, demun Jones, dJ cliffy d Jan 6: Sabin Sharpe Jan 13: Steve Jessup & honky tonk outlaws Jan 27: the lAcS

mAc & NElli’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com dec 22: Stephen henson, James vincent carroll dec 28: darrell hoots dec 31: NYE party w/ Southern Eyes

millENNium cENtEr

101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com dec 31: NYE gala w/ beathouse productions

milNEr’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com dec 24: live Jazz dec 31: live Jazz

muddY crEEK cAFE & muSic hAll

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 dec 21: open mic w/ country dan collins dec 22: michael Anderson christmas concert dec 23: leah Shaw dec 28: open mic w/ country dan collins dec 29: carolina crossing dec 30: June rise Jan 5: Jack williams Jan 6l carson mac Jan 6: taylor vaden

bull’S tAvErN

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern dec 21: return of the dead: grateful dead tribute dec 22: Southern Eyes dec 23: brother’s pearl dec 28: Jim moody and Friends dec 30: groove Food dec 31: Fruit Smoothie trio Jan 19: gipsy danger

cb’S tAvErN

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 dec 21: david connolly dec 31: rockin’ New Years

FiNNigAN’S wAKE

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Jan 3: bedlam boys

FoothillS brEwiNg

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com dec 20: Sassagrass dec 23: lisa redding Saint dec 24: Sunday Jazz dec 27: greg wilson and Second wind dec 30: the Jangling Sparrows dec 31: Sunday Jazz Jan 3: the maggie valley band Jan 7: Sunday Jazz Jan 14: Sunday Jazz

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CARY

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

CHARLOTTE

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com

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 22: Snails Dec 30: Hippie Sabotage Dec 31: JJ Grey & Mofro Jan 13: Badfish Jan 14: Plies Jan 19: Enrage Against The Machine Jan 20: Jackyl Jan 20: Rebelution

Jan 26: NGHTMRE Jan 27: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Jan 28: Starset Jan 30: NF Jan 31: Keys N Krates Jan 31: Killswitch Engage & Anthrax Feb 2: Big Head Todd & The Monsters Feb 2: Kacht Rock Revue Feb 8: Excision Feb 9: Big Gigantic Feb 10: AJR Feb 10: George Clinton & Parliament Feb 13: Less Than Jake Feb 13: Fetty Wap Feb 16: Trial By Fire Feb 16: Tonight Alive & Silverstein Feb 17: The Marshall Tucker Band Feb 17: Drezo Feb 20: Of Mice and Men Feb 22: Molotov Feb 22: Emancipator Ensemble Feb 23: Who’s Bad Feb 23: Mako Feb 25: Awolnation

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

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OVENS AUDITORIUM

GREENSBORO COLISEUM

TWC ARENA

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Feb 11: Robert Plant & the Sensational 333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Jan 21: Winter Jam Jan 30: Lana Del Ray Feb 9: Andrea Bocelli Feb 10: Kid Rock

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Jan 11: Travis Tritt Jan 25: William Bell, Bobby Rush, & Don Bryant Feb 2: Aimee Mann Feb 10: Arlo Guthrie Feb 12: Marillion Feb 13: The Langston Hughes Project Feb 15: Earls of Leicester Feb 16: Trey Anastasio Feb 18: Four Resplendent Gems

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Jamestown Grand Opening!

Please visit us at our brand new location!

115 East Main St. Suite E Jamestown NC 27282

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Feb 7: The Temptations & The Four Tops Feb 10: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Feb 17: Diana Krall

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE 310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Jan 23: Neko Case Feb 1: The Wailin’ Jennys Feb 8: Art Garfunkel

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Feb 2: Rhythms of Triumph Feb 24: Winter Jam

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 20: John Sebastian & David Grisman Jan 27: American Spiritual Ensemble Feb 1: Golden Gates Feb 3: Kit & the Kats Feb 14: Emile Pandolfi w/ Dana Russell Feb 16: Al Stewart

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 Dec 31: The Avett Brothers

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Back in full Force growth, the excellent effects that serve rather than dominate, and the poignant moments that tie back to past entries (a particular scene that employs a snippet of vintage footage is nothing less than glorious), it’s easy to imagine true believers’ emotions hitting hyperdrive as they anticipate the concluding chapter that’s landing on December 20, 2019.

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hen Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted exactly two years ago, its detractors groused that it was a timid and lazy movie insofar as it never deviated much from the template established by the original Star Wars back in 1977. I would counter that this isn’t exactly true — while it did borrow plenty of plot points from George Lucas’ first baby, it did so in imaginative and exciting ways — but never mind. Star Wars: The Last Jedi ( ) likely won’t be dismissed with similar charges, even if one sizable chunk feels like a rehash of The Empire Strikes Back. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, The Last Jedi is very much its own entity, exploring new routes as it teases out themes that have always been present in the Skywalker saga. It’s a bold and challenging work — exactly what we would expect from the auteur of Brick and Looper. In the debit column, it’s also a tad bloated, and it contains an almost risible number of false endings — admittedly not

as many as the 42 or so that closed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but enough to draw attention.

The last thing anyone would want in a review of a new Star Wars movie is spoilers, so let’s tread carefully, shall we? As we saw at the end of The Force Awakens, new Jedi on the block Rey (Daisy Ridley) has finally made contact with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who’s been hiding out on an island populated by Porgs (this movie’s equivalent of those infernal Ewoks,

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though thankfully employed only sparingly). Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy, General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is doing her best to keep the Resistance from being crushed by the First Order. In other story strands, the bravery exhibited

by Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) is weighed against his recklessness; Finn (John Boyega) finds a new friend in maintenance worker Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran); and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) continues to fret and fume and throw tantrums with the best of them.

Actually, the character arc given to Kylo Ren is an excellent one marking him as one of this entry’s most intriguing players.

Yet the greatest appeal is in watching Hamill and Fisher again explore and expand upon their iconic roles. Fisher delivers a commanding performance in both senses of the word, and knowing that her tragic death means this will be her final appearance further lends the proceedings a somber and bittersweet tone. As for Hamill, this might represent his finest work in the 40-year-old franchise. Johnson allows the character of Luke Skywalker to evolve in some startling and unexpected ways, and Hamill is with him every step of the way, contributing a turn that’s weighty and wonderful.

At 152 minutes, The Last Jedi is the longest of the nine Star Wars films to date — it’s also the only one where the length is felt (that riveting Trade Federation chat that opens The Phantom Menace, though...). While all the scenes involving younglings should have been deep-sixed, the rest of the bloat can be forgiven, since it simply meant Johnson wanted to make sure fans were saturated and satisfied. Yet there aren’t many vignettes that couldn’t have benefited from a judicious trim here or there.

Still, this is a minor quibble when placed against the magnitude of the movie.

Between its acute attention to character

Beauty and the Beast meet The Creature from the Black Lagoon in The Shape of Water ( ), an unusual love story that emerges as writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s best English-language movie to date.

Del Toro, whose Spanish-language efforts (particularly Pan’s Labyrinth) remain more deeply satisfying than his Hollywood output, has crafted (along with co-scripter Vanessa Taylor) a sensual and often surreal drama in which a mute cleaning woman named Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) finds romance in an unexpected place.

Working alongside her best friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer) at a research facility in 1960s Baltimore, Elisa is naturally curious when government operative Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) arrives on the property with a water-filled tank in tow. Elisa soon discovers that Strickland has brought an amphibious humanoid to the facility, a highly intelligent creature he fished out of the Amazon. While Strickland abhors his nautical discovery and wants it destroyed, Dr. Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), a scientist with a clouded past, wants to study it. For her part, Elisa just wants to become friends with a being whose silence and outsider status pegs him as a kindred spirit.

If The Shape of Water never quite breaks out of the confines of what’s basically (to quote B&B) a tale as old as time, it’s still an artfully executed diversion further strengthened by an excellent central performance by Hawkins and stellar supporting turns by Stuhlbarg (also memorable in this season’s Call Me By Your Name) and Shannon. As for the “Amphibian Man,” he’s played by Doug Jones — no, not the Doug Jones who humiliated accused perverts Roy Moore and Donald Trump in Alabama nor the Dougie Jones made famous in the latest Twin Peaks season, though either would have been fascinating. This is the Doug Jones who’s best known for playing critters in such works as Pan’s Labyrinth, Mimic and the Hellboy twofer. He’s basically del Toro’s own Andy Serkis, and the director is lucky to have him. !

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Fun Home opens January at Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance PHOTOS BY JENNY L. VIARS DANCING LEMUR PHOTOGRAPHY

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very once in a while a Broadway musical comes along that surprises, moves and excites audiences in ways only a truly landmark musical can. The “groundbreaking,” “life-affirming” and “exquisite” new musical Fun Home was the event of the Broadway season, receiving raves from critics and audiences alike, winning five 2015 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and making history along the way. Now, Fun Home makes its way to the intimate Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance stage!

Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home introduces us to Alison at three different ages as she explores and unravels the many mysteries of her childhood. A refreshingly honest musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes, “Fun Home is extraordinary, a rare beauty.” (New York Times) Recommended for Mature Audiences.

Book and lyrics written by Obie Awardwinning playwright Lisa Kron, score composed by Tony Award-nominated Jeanine Tesori, based on the graphic novel

by Alison Bechdel.

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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Sun: 11:35 AM, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35 Mon: 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Tue - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Downsizing (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:30 AM, 2:25, 5:20, 8:15, 11:10 Sun: 11:30 AM, 2:25, 5:20, 8:15 Mon: 2:25, 5:20, 8:15 Tue - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:25, 5:20, 8:15 THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Sun: 11:35 AM, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25 ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (R) LUXURY SEATING Mon: 2:35, 5:30, 8:25 Tue - Thu: 11:40 AM, 2:35, 5:30, 8:25 FATHER FIGURES (R) Fri & Sat: 11:45 AM, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sun: 11:45 AM, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35 Mon: 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Tue - Thu: 11:45 AM, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 PITCH PERFECT 3 (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25, 11:40 Sun: 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05 Mon: 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 Tue - Thu: 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 THE SHAPE OF WATER (R) Fri & Sat: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 Mon: 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Tue - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 DARKEST HOUR (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 11:50 AM, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 11:00

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Sun: 11:50 AM, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10 Mon: 2:40, 5:25, 8:10 Tue - Thu: 11:50 AM, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10 TIGER ZINDA HAI (NR) Hindi Fri & Sat: 11:30 AM, 2:35, 8:45, 11:45 Sun: 11:30 AM, 2:35 Mon: 2:35, 5:40, 8:45 Tue - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:35, 5:40, 8:45 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Fri & Sat: 11:55 AM, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sun: 11:55 AM, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Mon: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Tue - Thu: 11:55 AM, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 8:45, 11:35 Mon - Thu: 8:45 PM JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE 3D (PG-13) Fri - Sun: 12:20, 6:05 Mon: 6:05 PM Tue - Thu: 12:20, 6:05 FERDINAND (PG) Fri & Sat: 11:40 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30, 11:50 Sun: 11:40 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Mon: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Tue - Thu: 11:40 AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES (R) Fri & Sat: 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35, 11:50 Sun: 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:15 Mon: 2:45, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35 Tue - Thu: 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35 DADDY’S HOME 2 (PG-13) Fri - Sun: 4:45 PM MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (PG-13) Fri - Sun: 2:10, 7:20

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THE DISASTER ARTIST (R) Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sun: 11:15 AM, 2:00, 4:45 Mon: 6:30, 9:00 Tue & Wed: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Thu: 6:30, 9:00 THE SHAPE OF WATER (R) Fri: 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Sat: 10:00 AM, 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Sun: 11:30 AM, 2:15, 5:00 Mon: 6:00, 8:45 Tue & Wed: 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Thu: 6:00, 8:45 DARKEST HOUR (PG-13) Fri: 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 Sat: 9:30 AM, 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 Sun: 11:00 AM, 1:45, 4:30 Mon: 5:30, 8:15 Tue & Wed: 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 Thu: 5:30, 8:15 LADY BIRD (R) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15 Mon: 6:15, 8:30 Tue & Wed: 3:45, 6:15, 8:30 Thu: 6:15, 8:30

311 W 4th Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336.722.8148

Directed by Jamie Lawson, Musically Directed by David Lane, Choreographed

by Heather Levinson, Starring Gray Smith, Amber Engel, Alora Engel, Cassie Maggs, Heather Levinson, Bella Hart-Peck, Paul Thomas Gunter, Brandon Lloyd Hicks, Christian Harmston, and Mary Upchurch.

WHEN: Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018 at 2 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018 at 2 p.m.

WHERE: Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance 1047 Northwest Blvd HOW MUCH: $16-$18 TIX & MORE INFO: https://m.bpt.me/event/3178617

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS A Tesla showroom in South Salt Lake, Utah, was the nexus of four different arrests on Nov. 24, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, in Chuck Shepherd which at least two of the suspects claimed to be part of the Tesla “family.” (The car company is named after inventor Nikola Tesla, not a family owner.) In the first arrest, a Tesla pulled up behind a Utah Highway Patrol car at a stoplight, and the officer noticed that Driver No. 1 was acting “suspicious.” When the officer pulled him over, the 24-year-old driver said a man he hardly knew gave him the car and keys to three other Teslas. When the officer and driver returned to the showroom, it had been burglarized, but Driver No. 1 explained that the burglary had occurred before he got to the dealership, so he felt he was allowed to take the vehicle and keys. Area officers were alerted, and 31-year-old Driver No. 2 led troopers on a short chase, until his Tesla’s battery died.

Later, Driver No. 3, 19, was pulled over in West Valley, and finally Driver No. 4, a 27-year-old woman, was stopped at a liquor store and told police a man named Tesla had given her the car. “We are still trying to sort this out,” said South Salt Lake Police spokesman Gary Keller. “We actually have two people claiming their name is Tesla and a family member died and left them these cars. It’s one of those cases where you just have to scratch your head and say, ‘Really?’”

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE

— Arielle Bonnici, 26, of Huntington, New York, responsibly arrived at the Northport Police Department and Village Justice Court on Dec. 4 to answer a summons issued in May for possession of marijuana. But before she could even park her car, Bonnici, who was on her phone, attracted the attention of officers by cutting off an unmarked police vehicle and wheeling into the spot reserved for the chief of police. The Long-Islander News reported that when officers approached the car and Bonnici rolled down her window, a cloud of marijuana smoke poured out, and she was promptly arrested for possession again, along with getting a ticket for using

her cellphone while driving. She was able to kill two buds, er, birds, with one stone and appear before the court for both charges.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENT

Popeye’s preferred diet of spinach to pump up his biceps had to be healthier than what a Russian man has been injecting. Kirill Tereshin, 21, from Pyatigorsk in southwestern Russia, concocts a dangerous muscle-enhancing solution of olive oil, lidocaine and benzyl alcohol and injects it into his arm muscles, resulting in “bazooka” arms that doctors say may become paralyzed or even have to be amputated. Tereshin has so far used 6 liters of the fluid, and his biceps measure 23 inches, but he plans to continue injecting until they reach 27 inches. “I would like to get more than 1 million subscribers on Instagram and to stop working,” Tereshin told the Daily Mail. He’s considering an offer to become a porn star. “I love to be recognizable.”

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

It was all fun and games until a drunk, naked man and his (also naked) companion crashed into a tree near La Grande, Washington, on Nov. 22. Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Brooke Bova told The Olympian that the couple were engaging in intercourse when the driver missed a curve and left the highway. The woman was hospitalized with broken bones, but her 3-month-old child was unhurt in the backseat. The driver, who has three prior DUI convictions, was charged with felony driving under the influence, vehicular assault and endangering a child.

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Male residents of Ringaskiddy in Ireland have at least one compelling reason to set down roots there: According to local lore, the nearby Pfizer plant, where Viagra is produced, emits “love fumes” that give men free erections. “One whiff and you’re stiff,” bartender Debbie O’Grady told The Times of London. Pfizer, however, disputes the tales, with a spokesperson saying: “Our manufacturing processes have always been highly sophisticated as well as highly regulated.” Still, locals speak of a baby boom after the plant opened in 1998, and men apparently regularly gather near the facility to inhale the fumes.

ANIMAL ANTICS

stealing pacifiers. Scott Rogers and his wife noticed that binkies were disappearing, but it wasn’t until Dovey started vomiting and losing weight in early December that they tracked down the lost items.

KFOR-TV reports that Dr. Chris Rispoli of Gentle Care Animal Hospital took an X-ray of Dovey’s stomach and saw what he thought were seven to nine pacifiers.

But when Rispoli opened up Dovey to remove them, he found 21 binkies. Turns out, Dovey was taking the pacifiers off the kitchen counter. “We’ve had corn cobs and socks and panties and things like that, but never 21 binkies,” noted Rispoli.

THE VOICES IN OUR HEADS

In Parkland, Washington, state troopers and Pierce County Sheriffs officers responded to a call on Nov. 25 about a man who had stopped his SUV in the middle of an intersection and was waving around an AK-47 and screaming about “lizard people.” The 54-year-old Eatonville man obeyed when officers ordered him to lie on the ground, but resisted being handcuffed until officers tased him. He told them he had “snorted methamphetamine to lose weight” and that President Donald Trump had called his home to warn him that the lizard people were coming and his family members were already being held hostage by the “alpha dragon,” according to The News Tribune. “The lizard people are real,” he told police, explaining that he wanted to attract attention so that his “story could be documented for history.”

YIKES!

Claudell Curry, 82, and his wife, Odell Marie, 83, heard a loud crashing noise as they watched TV in their San Bernardino, California, home on the evening of Dec. 10. Imagine their surprise when it was NOT Santa Claus, but instead a block of ice the size of a car engine, which had torn through their roof and landed on their bed. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said about a similar incident in November that the ice might have dropped off a passenger airliner, having formed after a leak in the galley. Neither of the Currys was hurt, but “We shiver every time we think we could have been in bed,” Claudell told The San Bernardino Sun. !

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ou may have heard of Krampus, the Germanic Christmas demon who brings naughty children something worse than coal.

Santa’s monstrous Ian McDowell enforcer immigrated from Teutonic Contributing folklore to American pop culture in 2004. columnist That’s when viewers of the Cartoon Network met the hairy merry man-goat in a special holiday episode of the popular “Adult Swim” cartoon The Venture Brothers (think The Hardy Boys meet Jonny Quest on acid).

Since then, the horned horror has appeared on The Colbert Report and in the 2015 comedy-horror film Krampus. Several big cities have begun hosting American versions of the traditional Austrian Krampuslauf (Krampus run). These are something like New York’s SantaCon, only with shaggy monsters mock-threatening giggling children rather than leering redsuited drunks vomiting on the sidewalk (no offense to our fun and harmless local SantaCons; my disdain is only for the notorious East Village douchefest New Yorkers have come to despise).

In recent years, the Triad has been treated to Krampus-themed burlesque shows by companies like Vaudeville After Dark, often starring a literally horny Gavin Glass, aka Stage Slave Gavin, the rare male star on the Southern g-string (or in Gavin’s case, thong) circuit. I’ve read Krampusthemed poetry at Tate Street Coffee, accompanied by my friend Scott Rogers in a repurposed Donnie Darko bunny suit, wrapped in chains and wearing make-up and horns instead of the mask.

But Krampus is not the only creepy Christmas tradition, oh ho-ho-no!

Ever wonder why Edward Pola and George Wyle’s 1963 song “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” immortalized by crooner Andy Williams on his first Christmas album, references “scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long ago?” That’s because Christmas, rather than Halloween, was once the time for ghost stories. In the land of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, merry and scary went together like bangers and mash.

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Krampus parade on the JohannesBrahms-Promenade Austria 2012 courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

New Year, but in much of Europe, as in the northern United States, white Christmases are common. Although textual evidence suggests that Jesus was born in summer or early fall, the early Church chose late December for both symbolic and practical reasons. Symbolic because it was the darkest part of the year and thus a fitting prelude to renewal and salvation, practical because it marked the Winter Solstice and the Church co-opted pagan holidays.

“A sad tale’s best for winter,” says precocious young Prince Mamillius in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, threatening to tell his mother Hermione “one of sprites and goblins.” Here “sad” assumes a somewhat broader meaning than it does today, as Mamillius wants to make his mom shudder, not cry. She laughingly calls his bluff, daring him “do your best / To fright me with your sprites,” but before the poor kid can say more than “There was a man / Dwelt by a churchyard,” his insane father King Leontes barges in, accuses Hermione of infidelity and their son of being a bastard, and throws the boy into prison, where he dies offstage.

Despite this, the play’s last two acts are comical, with a happy ending.

A century later, those sprites and goblins were explicitly associated not just

Mari Lwyd courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. with “the bleak midwinter,” but Christmastide, the 12 days between Dec. 25 and Jan. 5.

In 1734, the London publisher Fenwick printed Round about our Coal Fire, or, Christmas Entertainments, Together with some Curious Memoirs of Old Father Christmas; Shewing what Hospitality was in Former Times. Attributed to “Dick Merryman,” (which now sounds like someone’s Twitter handle), the pamphlet’s first page promised “Raw-heads, Bloodybones, Buggybrows and such like Horrible Bodies” as part of its Yuletide merriment One can only imagine what fundamentalists upset at the “Satanic influence” of Harry Potter would make of such “Christ-

mas Entertainments” as the chapter titled “Of Spectres, Ghosts and Apparitions: the Great Convenience arising from them; and how to make them.” But for many churchgoing Christians of “Former Times,” that stuff was as seasonal as a fruitcake, if less horrifying.

By the late 19th century, Christmas ghost stories were an English and American fireside tradition. The most famous is the novella by Charles Dickens originally titled A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas. Those who know Scrooge mainly from Mr. Magoo or the Muppets may be unaware just how grim and harrowing his Yuletide journey to redemptive joy truly is, both in Dickens’

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Vaudeville After Dark’s “Stage Slave” Gavin Glass dressed as Krampus. text and in such faithful adaptations as the classic 1951 film with Alastair Sim, the 1971 ABC cartoon by the brilliant animator Richard Williams, or the excellent 1984 T.V. movie with George C. Scott. But there are even grimmer 19th Century Christmas ghost stories, one of which, “The SignalMan,” is also by Dickens.

Grimmer still are those by Montague Rhodes James, sometimes mistakenly called the master of the Victorian English ghost story. That claim is wrong only because James published his classic first collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904, three years after Queen Victoria’s death. He originally read his elegantly gruesome and still horrific tales aloud at Christmas Eve gatherings of his friends and students at King’s College, Cambridge, and then to the boys at Eton, as during his lifetime he was Provost at both institutions.

In the 1970s, the BBC dramatized five stories by James (along with Dickens’ “The Signal-Man”) for their annual program A Ghost Story for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, 1989, an adaptation of Susan Hill’s grim and ghostly novel The Woman in Black was broadcast by the BBC’s commercial rival ITV and proved extremely popular. In recent years, the BBC has revived their A Ghost Story for WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Christmas broadcast, most notably with 2014’s The Tractate Middoth, adapted by Sherlock co-creator and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss from a typically grisly M. R. James story.

Creepy Yule traditions are not just an English thing. We Celts, who gave the world Halloween, can get seriously spooky at Christmas, too. Consider the quaint Welsh custom of the Mari Llwyd, which is pronounced something like “Marie Loo-Id” and either means “Grey Mare” or according to some scholars, obscurely references the Virgin Mary (to any Sassenach claiming this shows Celts don’t fully understand their own languages, this proud Scot says “shut yer geggie!”).

The Mari Llwyd is a horse’s skull with beads in its eye sockets, decorated with ribbons and bells, and carried on a pole under a sheet. A child’s Christmas in Wales can include a visit from a spectral Death Horse accompanied by rowdy lads in jester’s caps singing satirical and often drunken songs until his or her parents bribe them with food and ale to go away.

Things are no better (or from my admittedly macabre and irreverent point of view, just as delightful) across the Channel. Père Noël, France’s version of Father Christmas, is accompanied in some Northern and Eastern provinces by Père

Fouettard (Whip Father). Formerly a murderous butcher whose dismembered victims were miraculously reassembled and reanimated in a traditional miracle associated with Saint Nicholas (who depending upon the region may or may not be the same personage as Père Noël), Père Fouettard was sentenced to become Père Noël’s enforcer, punishing bad children with floggings.

You may have noticed the carrot or stick theme. Good children receive gifts, but bad ones are lucky if they’re only beaten.

In Iceland, you either get a new suit or are devoured by the gigantic Yule Cat, as mothers sew nice kids new outfits on Christmas Eve, but brats become chow for the big kitty preying on children in old clothes.

The grisliest variant may be Perchta.

Like Krampus, this former goddess is known in Alpine regions, where her hairy servants are sometimes confused with Saint Nicholas’s horned familiar. Perchta, who can appear as either beautiful or horrific, rewards good children with silver coins, but slits bad ones open and stuffs them with straw.

My favorite (although less grisly) variant of this tradition made it not only to 19th century America but possibly to the Triad, as the “Dutch” (German) settlers who came down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania brought Belznickle to Winston-Salem. While the Belznickle seen today at Old Salem is sometimes called the Moravian Santa Claus, in many Pennsylvania Dutch settlements, there was a female variant also known as the Christmas Woman.

In parts of rural 19th century Pennsylvania and Indiana, a Dutch farmer might sneak out to the barn before daylight on Christmas Day, put on one of his wife’s old dresses, smear his face with soot, wear an old mop as a wig, and come back to greet his children. The Christmas Woman carried both a bag of gifts and a birch switch.

Scattering the former on the floor, “she” would declaim “this is for being good!” in a high falsetto voice, then shout “and this for being bad!” while lightly whipping the kids as they scrambled to snatch their presents.

That’s right, on Christmas morning, you got whipped by your father in drag.

And modern kids think they have it rough when they have to kiss their drunken uncle or that mustached great-aunt who smells like cheese.

A different tradition still practiced in North Carolina, if only in the Outer Banks, resembles Mari Llwyd more than Belznickle or Krampus. But in the Hatteras village of Rodanthe, the skull atop the sheeted figure is bovine rather than equine.

Like Ireland and the Scottish Highlands,

Rodanthe celebrates Old Christmas or “Little Christmas” on Jan. 6, the traditional Feast of the Epiphany. There is a big oyster roast and, in past decades, a marksmanship competition with .22 rifles, as well as the infamous Christmas Brawl (more on that below). There’s music and dancing at the community center, then the annual appearance of Old Buck, two people under a spotted sheet or cow skin holding up a bull’s skull on a pole.

While the tradition is said to commemorate a real wild bull that roamed the island over a century ago, its similarities to Mari Lwyd or the English Hob-Horse suggest an older origin. Some even claim Old Buck is a variant of the Horned God of the Celtic “Old Religion.” Shades of the classic horror film The Wicker Man (no, not the one with Nicholas Cage, the good 1970s original with Christopher Lee).

Oh, and about that Christmas brawl. In the early 1970s, my father read about the traditional Old Christmas celebration at Rodanthe and told me that we were going to go there the next January. It was one of many things Dad promised that never happened, but one summer, when visiting my great-uncle Olan’s Greensboro poultry farm at Friendly and Holden, I told him about it.

“Don’t do that, Ian-Keith,” said Olan, who treated my first and middle names as if hyphenated. “Not unless your dang fool red-headed daddy wants you and him beat up.” He explained that the “heathen village” celebrated Jan. 6 with a mass drunken fistfight, cautioning that “outsiders get hit first.” An unsigned staff article in the Jan. 4, 2012 issue of the Outer Banks Sentinel titled “And now it is time for Old Christmas celebrations” suggests this pugilistic tradition was dying out when Olan told me that story and gone by 1980.

Please don’t get in a Christmas fistfight, no matter how awful some of your relatives are, but it’s easy and fun to celebrate several of the less violent traditions I’ve described. Tell a ghost story by candlelight or read one in bed with only a small night light illuminating the pages. Read one in e-book form on your tablet with all the lights out, or watch one of 1970s episodes of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas on YouTube. Book a downtown ghost tour (they offer them year-round) at carolinahistoryandhaunts.com. Go to a Christmas party in horns and a furry suit (costumes are much cheaper this time of year than at Halloween). Or visit Rodanthe on Jan. 6 and see Old Buck. !

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Oh, the places you can go on a LimeBike You’ve seen ‘em on college campuses and practically every corner downtown.

The first ride is free, and then it’s just a dollar to hop on.

LimeBikes appeared almost out of nowhere, and now Billy Ingram they are ubiquitous around the GreensContributing boro area.

The California columnist founders of LimeBike, Toby Sun and Brad Bao, possess a lifelong passion for biking. Observing the international rise of bike-share in Asia, they set wheels a’spinning to come up with a smarter bike-share concept tailored to our catchas-catch-can lifestyle. Succeeding where others failed, they devised a system wherein the bicycles don’t need to be picked up and dropped off at a central docking station. Cruise to your destination, lower a kickstand, done.

“Not only was LimeBike the first dockless bike-share company, Greensboro was the first city in America to get it,” said Matt Phillips, who oversees the operation locally. “It was partially because of contact made by University of North Carolina Greensboro; they had been looking into a bike-share program. Also because Greensboro ticked a lot of the boxes — it’s a burgeoning metro area, it doesn’t have the 120 miles of Greenway that Raleigh has, but we’re getting there.

It’s the perfect location to figure it all out; we got to learn a lot from the process over the first months.”

What’s that oft-repeated canard about New York City? If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere? Practically speaking, that’s almost never true.

Greensboro being chosen for LimeBike’s rollout shouldn’t be of surprise to anyone.

When cable television was first introduced in the late-1960s, Greensboro was one of a handful of markets chosen to test the radical concept of pay T.V. Thinking being, if the plan flourishes in a bedroom community like this, it can be adopted anywhere. Founded in January of 2017, receiving a first round of funding only a few months later, LimeBike put its mettle to the pedals on UNCG’s campus this past June. Despite launching during summer break ridership ticked steadily upward, increasing greatly once fall semester got underway.

In August the franchise went city-

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wide. Phillips notes, “Ever since it’s been wonderful. It’s been adopted amazingly.”

LimeBike’s gamble on a spin of the wheel paid off, so they expanded their tire print in the state, partnering with North Carolina State University for the benefit their students, then putting the program in motion in both Durham and Charlotte.

Today, spokes are spinning in over 32 markets and counting.

“Our bikes are designed by us in-house in California,” Phillips said. “The technology and everything else is pretty much proprietary.” Not allowed to name names, “They are manufactured by the same factories that make the biggest, highest quality name brands you can think of.”

The aluminum frames are lightweight, designed to be durable, “Of course, we do have an operational team that works daily to ensure proper placement and maintenance, to make sure they’re well taken care of.”

File this under the category ‘Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ — LimeBikes have been retrieved from woods, creek beds, a second story dormitory ledge, high up in a tree, they’ve even been set afire. Phillips is not terribly concerned over the occasional nutters under the impression they’re creating street art, ”We hope people will treat them like they are theirs,” Phillips said. “They kinda belong to the community, so we want people to take ownership in them, take pride in them, and treat them as if it were their own bike because in a way they are. We want everybody to benefit as well.”

From their nerve center in Andy Zimmerman’s latest restoration project, Studio 503 on East Washington, Phillip’s squad will be devoting extra effort maintaining their cycles this winter to adapt for inclement weather, a commitment to constant innovation so that everything stays in tip-top shape.

Counterintuitive as it seems, one bike shop owner informed me that the proliferation of LimeBikes has actually increased sales for him. Phillips knows first hand how true this is, “I’ve been in the bike industry for eight years here, so I’ve been doing this for a long time. I’m pretty close with some of the owners here in town; I pretty much know all of them.”

He made the rounds early on, making sure bicycle vendors were in the loop from the start because Phillips believes, “It’s going to be great for the entire bike industry locally. [Users are] going to go out and buy a helmet, buy nutrition, and like it so much they’ll go out and get their own bike. I’ve seen exactly that. It’s been very beneficial for local businesses.” !

BILLY INGRAM is the author of 5 books including Hamburger², (mostly) about Greensboro. He is working on a memoir of his time as one of the ‘New York Yankees of Motion Picture Advertising.’

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Time for Trump to go According to a recent poll, 61 percent of all Americans believe Donald Trump should be impeached if he is proven guilty of sexual misconduct.

But if he is removed from office, it probJim Longworth ably won’t be because of his behavior toward women. It will more Contributor likely be due to his behavior in general.

I first wrote about Donald Trump’s erratic behavior in August of 2016. In that column I cited a number of incidents that many people found disturbing, among them: his mocking of a disabled reporter; his suggestion that Meghan Kelly couldn’t effectively moderate a debate because she might be on her menstrual cycle; his berating of a Muslim Gold Star family who had lost a son in combat; his referring to a Black man at one of his rallies as “My African American”; his saying that the world would be a safer place if more countries had nuclear weapons; and, his suggesting to a crowd of supporters that if Hillary was elected, they might consider taking a shot at her. Unfortunately, the lunacy and insensitivity didn’t abate after Trump was elected.

Since taking office, Mr. Trump has

obsessed with the results of his election, claiming that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for the 3 million illegals who cast ballots for Hillary.

His claim has since been disproven, yet he chooses to ignore the facts. He even ignores his own words. Last year he admitted to and apologized for the language he used on the “Access Hollywood” tape, but now he says the recording is not authentic. Last month he used an ethnic slur while staging a photo op with a group of Navajo war heroes, and after Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called for him to resign over his alleged sexual misdeeds, Trump responded by implying that she is a prostitute. He has also alienated just about every one of our allies, including the British, who took great offense at Trump’s retweeting of anti-Muslim footage from a fascist group that has been denounced by the British government. Stephen Doughty, a member of Parliament, said, “Trump is either a racist, incompetent, unthinking, or all three.”

It’s hard to explain Donald Trump’s inability to understand the consequences of his words or the difference between reality and fantasy. Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said of Trump, “He wanders between the real world, and the world of Donald Trump.” Iconic investigative journalist Carl Bernstein said of Trump’s tweets, “What we see is a road map of his

mind, and it’s a very disturbing road map.”

And David Gergen, former advisor to four Presidents, commented, “Trump is living in his own reality.” Those assessments of President Trump are consistent with the warnings about candidate Trump, which were issued last year by scores of highly respected individuals, including 50 former national security officials and Cabinet officers. In an open letter last Summer, the group wrote that if Trump was elected, he would be the most reckless President in our history. Former CIA director Michael Morell went even further, saying Trump, “may well pose a threat to our national security, and would be a dangerous Commander in Chief.”

And last year’s Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee William Weld, who had served in the Department of Justice, said of Trump, “He has a screw loose.”

But perhaps the most telling criticisms have come from a group of respected mental health professionals who recently published a compilation of their observations in a book titled, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, in which they diagnose the President as having a variety of behavioral problems including Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Tony Schwartz, who assisted with the book, and who co-authored Trump’s 1987 bio, “The Art of the Deal”, told CNN recently that “He [Trump] doesn’t have a conscious, and he doesn’t have an internal

moral arbiter.” Translation? Trump isn’t fit for office. Editors at the New York Daily News agree. Following Trump’s retweeting of the anti Muslim video, the Daily News published an editorial titled, “Donald Trump is a Mad Man”, and wrote, “After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of Americans have long suspected: the President is profoundly unstable. He is mad.

He is, by any honest layman’s definition, mentally unwell.” Following his sexist tweet to Sen. Gillibrand, Trump was also blasted by the editors at USA Today who wrote, “Donald Trump is unfit to clean the toilets at Obama’s Presidential library.”

Trump should do the right thing and resign, but he won’t. And, so long as Republicans control Congress, impeachment for any reason is unlikely. That’s why the least painful alternative would be for Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office due to mental incapacitation.

Schwartz recently told CNN that Trump acts like “a 9-year-old child”. If that’s the case, then let’s get him out of the White House, and give him a chance to grow up in his own house. !

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

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I saw this gorgeous girl at the coffeehouse at the mall two months ago. It was totally love at first sight. I keep hanging out there hoping to see her again. Am I nuts, or does love at first sight really exist? — Smitten

It’s so special when a man tells a woman he’s deeply in love with her — except when her response is “Excuse me, but have we met?”

Love at first sight sounds so romantic.

There are those couples who claim they had it — causing mass nausea at dinner parties when they look into each other’s eyes and announce, “From the moment we saw each other, we just KNEW.” Uh, or did they? A Swiss psychology grad student, Florian Zsok, ran some experiments to see what love at first sight is actually made of.

Zsok and his colleagues were looking for the three elements that psychologist Robert Sternberg theorizes interact to produce love: intimacy, commitment, and passion (made up of physical arousal, desire, excitement, and longing). They surveyed participants online and in a lab setting — asking them how they felt about people in photographs — and in three dating events, getting their reactions to people they’d just met. Of the 396 participants, love at first sight “was indicated 49

times by 32 different individuals.” (That rare and wonderful lightning struck twice or maybe three times for some.) And here’s a shocker: “None of the instances of (love at first sight) was reciprocal.”

Not surprisingly, none of the participants who said they’d felt love at first sight had the elements of intimacy or commitment as part of their experience.

The one element they did have? Passion — in the form of “physical attraction.”

Basically, the researchers empirically confirmed what some of us intuitively understand: “Love at first sight” is just a classier way of expressing the sentiment yelled from passing cars: “Hey, miniskirt! You’re late for your visit to My Penis Avenue!”

As for couples who insist they had love at first sight, the researchers believe they could be retrospectively repainting their first meeting to make their relationship feel more special. The reality: “We just knew” is “we just got lucky” (stated in a way that makes frustrated single people long to commit hara-kiri with the nearest shrimp fork).

Reminding yourself that you just have the plain old hots for this girl is probably the best way for you to do what needs to be done — shift to some other activity (Masturbate! Play video games!) when the impulse strikes to stake out Coffeeland. Getting stuck on a total stranger this way probably makes it impossible to behave normally in their presence — or want to look closely enough to see who they really are. As alluring a concept as love at first sight is, in practice it tends to work out best with inanimate objects — a painting or an antique chair (something that doesn’t make big wet smacking

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Meanwhile, back in humanland, research in cognitive neuroscience (by Michael Gazzaniga, among others) and in social science finds that we humans aren’t the highly rational independent thinkers we like to believe we are.

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adapted to solve hunter-gatherer mating and survival problems. This 10-millionyear-old psychology, still driving us right now, today, is often a mismatch with our modern environment. Take our sugar lust, for example. This made sense in an ancestral environment, where eating a couple of berries might have helped prevent malnutrition. Today, however, we can drive to Costco and have some guy load a pallet of doughnuts into our SUV while we burn .0003 of a calorie watching him.

Understanding the origins of our motivation is not “evolutionary overkill” but our best shot for possibly controlling our behavior — or at least forgiving ourselves when we fail miserably. As my First Amendment lawyer friend Ken White (@Popehat) tweeted about S’mores Girl Scout Cookies: “I thought they were kind of meh at first but by the third box I ate in the garage they were growing on me.” !

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