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SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS IN SANCTUARY

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The holiday season is supposed to be a time where families get together and celebrate the year with each other. However, one family in Asheboro is missing a key MATRIARCHAL figure from the dinner table: their grandmother, mother and wife.

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When SANDERS RIDGE WINERY announced that Chef Tim Grandinetti would be taking over the restaurant on its property, there was a flurry of excitement. The location had seen a few chefs come and go with a few different iterations and though the feedback was often positive, it was hard for them to make a go of it.

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Guilford College’s own WILLIAM PIZIO and his first book, Preparing Yourself To Succeed In College. Pizio has been teaching for 23 years. According to his website, he was once a New York State Trooper who got his Ph.D. in criminal justice 11 At Mad Ones Films, they’re not clowning around. Well … OK, maybe they are. But they’re also knocking ‘em dead. Clowns, that is. Hot on the heels of the blockbuster Stephen King adaptation It... KILLING GIGGLES is the short-film precursor to Buterin’s maiden feature, Kill Giggles, which is currently in pre-production.

12 When one thinks of sample-based music, psychedelia isn’t the first thing that automatically comes to mind. But

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DJ, producer, podcaster and performer AL LOVER, the stage name of Alex Gundlach, has been using samples in his wildly trippy exploration-minded music for years now.

Lover grew up in Asheville and got his start making hip-hop while plugged into the skater scene.

18 The latest effort from the team of writer-director Alexander Payne and writer Jim Taylor (the Oscar-winning scribes behind Sideways), DOWNSIZING initially feels like a gimmick more than a movie.

19 This beautiful story is told through dance, poetry, and live music and is specially designed for babies and toddlers. RAISE THE MOON is “Theatre for the Very Young” and recommended for ages 0-5 and caregivers.

24 After establishing herself, for over a quarter of a century, as the faithful HOT DOG LADY who, downtown Greensboro regulars came to rely on for red hots and a smile, Katie Darnley planned on tip-toeing out of town with little notice or fanfare.

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WHAT: Eddie Ifft has been called one of the most underrated comics in America by the Onion and has proudly told jokes around the world to sold-out crowds in over 15 countries. Most recently Eddie is co-host of one of the most successful podcasts in the comedy world called Talkin Sh*t.

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WHAT: The Denim and Diamonds New Year’s Eve Party is back! Join the High Point Arts Council on Dec. 31 from 7-10 p.m. at the Centennial Station Arts Center to ring in the New Year (at a reasonable hour) with live music, food, and lots of dancing. This year, the High Point Arts Council is excited to have Vinyl Rewind perform their renditions of top hits from the 1960s!

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hen Sanders Ridge Winery announced that Chef Tim Grandinetti would be taking over the restaurant on its property, there was a flurry Kristi Maier of excitement. The location had seen a @triadfoodies few chefs come and go with a few differContributor ent iterations and though the feedback was often positive, it was hard for them to make a go of it. The thought is now that if anyone can do it, it would be Grandinetti. He’s already a partner and executive chef at the renowned Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar and two locations of Quanto Basta: Italian Eatery & Wine Bar. After the announcement, Grandinetti and the owners of Sanders Ridge wanted to make it clear that the new Jasper’s Southern Farmstead Restaurant would be

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I thought we might be able to enjoy a Saturday brunch, but they’re not quite there yet, so the menu featured the same sandwiches offered on the call-ahead menu as well as chicken fried chicken, fixins and a burger. Since we had a large group, I got to snap a few shots of various menu items. And though I do believe my cousins, aunt and uncle love me; no one offered me a taste, so I’ll just take their word for it when they say it was delish.

I decided to go all out and order the Chicken Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and a Side (which in this case was grilled zucchini and yellow squash).

A couple of my family members ordered this; it was the only entree offered that afternoon. The chicken was a boneless breast and was lightly crispy and perfectly cooked. Mashed potatoes were on the rustic side with skin on, and the gravy served on the side in a small ramekin. No complaints here as it was a solid, tasty, homey dish; but I probably would’ve liked my gravy a bit warmer. Considering there were 15 of us and the restaurant was 2/3 full, I’ll give the kitchen a pass on it.

The only other thing I noticed is that my portion of chicken was smaller than my cousin’s or my sister’s and though the portion size was just right for me, someone else might think it was small for the $17.95 price. I still thought it was a winner (and Grandinetti’s people are really good at

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fried chicken). This dish was the item that was most ordered, and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

My cousin’s girlfriend ordered the special Kobe burger of the day: the Black & Bleu. And man, did it look and smell incredible, it was huge and served with piping hot fries. I have to say, some of us had burger envy, as her report was glowing.

The Turkey and Cheddar enjoyed by my uncle is pretty straightforward, with carved turkey breast, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and roasted garlic mayonnaise on a brioche kaiser roll. He is a man of few words, but he did say he liked it.

I just love the egg salad at Spring House, and you could tell the inspiration is there with Jasper’s Dijon Egg Salad with fresh farm eggs, dijon mustard, mayo, minced onion, celery, and scallion. It is served with lettuce and Roma tomato on multi-grain bread.

Come to think of it, no one ordered the Ham and Swiss on the menu, but if that’s your jam, it’s served with a volcanic mustard aioli on marble rye bread. That, to me, sounds like the perfect picnic sandwich on a pretty day at the winery.

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tree. The kids get a very sizable portion, and my two children could easily share an order.

If you’re inclined, the gourmet brown bag luncheon menu also includes a salumi and cheese knosh with Tuscan ham, capicola, mortadella and a selection of Italian cheeses. When I visit any winery, it’s my favorite way to eat and pretty much one of my favorite ways to eat any day. For the vegetarian, there’s also fresh veggies and hummus.

All this was a regular Saturday lunch menu, but owner Cindy Shore said the day not to miss is Sunday Brunch. The menu is to die for with simple choices like eggs and breakfast potatoes, Blue Plate Specials like omelets, pancake plates or benedicts, and a big Low Country Farmstead Breakfast. But also, get this, a white chocolate bread pudding “French toast.” If breakfast isn’t for you, or it’s a bit later, you can order gourmet sandwiches like griddled Monte Cristo and Grilled Herb Chicken Grinder. Other standouts include the Chicken and Waffles and the Charred Steak and Mushroom Toast. For salads, there’s Jasper’s Salad with deviled eggs, spicy bacon bits, and a Chicken Fried Oysters BLT Salad. Not bad for Yadkin County. Plus there’s wine tasting aplenty, and that’s never bad news. I’ll be happy to

go back and review brunch there one day, all in the name of the greater good!

Chef Jared Tipton leads the kitchen, and the menu is crafted around the produce grown on Sanders Ridge Organic Farm.

Truly a farm to table eatery that is cozy and rustic. Although Jasper’s is closed until mid-January for staff vacation, they will have two seatings on New Year’s Eve, and the winery tasting room will be open. For details about the New Year’s Eve and its menu as well as upcoming special events, visit www.sandersridge.com.

We think if folks in Yadkin and the surrounding counties will give this restaurant a try, it can be very successful. It’s not a long drive at all from Winston-Salem, just 20 minutes or so outside of town and a few miles off U.S. Highway 421. !

KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Guilford College professor publishes book about succeeding in college

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ho do you get when you cross a criminal justice professor and an author? Guilford College’s own William Pizio and his first book, “Preparing Yourself To Succeed In College.”

Pizio has been teaching Katie Murawski for 23 years. According to his website, he was once a New York State Trooper Editor who got his Ph.D. in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany, and he recently obtained a Master’s degree in cybersecurity from Utica College. He has taught at Guilford College for 19 years and was made the director of the graduate criminal justice program. According to the website, he now “qualifies for the label, ‘aging hippie.’”

Pizio first got the idea to write the book when he was asked to start teaching first-year seminar classes.

“So I did that,” Pizio said. “Then I did another one and another one and found out that I really, really loved it.

You meet [first-year students], and you get to watch them and help them and push them and build them.

Then they end up walking across the stage at the end, and so I just love doing that.”

Guilford College noticed how much Pizio enjoyed teaching the first-year seminars, so the administration asked him to be the director of the program. He did that for a year but had to return to his department because of a death of a colleague. After returning to his regular post in 2015, Pizio started writing the book. Since then, the book was published on Nov. 29 of this year.

“I just saw a need for this kind of book, from my perspective as a professor,” he said. “It is really so much about making informed choices about what you do and learning how to do things smarter, whether [students

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A photo of Dr. William Pizio teaching a group of Guilford College students. are] looking or in college.”

On the back of the book, Pizio admits that he was a “terrible college student” his first two years.

It goes on to state that high school juniors and seniors who are planning on attending college must “take charge and invest” in their future now to be a successful college student in the future. The back of the book also states that it will give first-year students the guidance they need to thrive and succeed.

Pizio said the book elaborates on how to choose the best college suited to a person’s needs and it will provide tools for efficiency and effectiveness with academics. He said there is a chapter dedicated to students with learning disabilities and there is even a chapter for parents to read and get a better understanding what their young adult is preparing for in college.

Pizio said the book is for two audiences: the first audience being the high school sophomore, junior or senior who plans on attending college.

“It helps them choose smartly, number one,” he said. “And number two, have them make the choices rather than the parents. A thing from the book is ‘it is not your parent’s education, it is yours.’ My extent of teaching is, half is I am teaching content, and the other half is teaching accountability and how to be an adult.”

The second audience, Pizio said, is the first-year person (in college) who want to gain academic and administrative skills to become more efficient with their academics.

“There are a good amount of books out there on how to get into college,” he said. “There are a good amount of books out there on how to succeed. Few, very few are written from a professor’s perspective and none take both getting in, and the skills to survive your first year.”

Pizio said that first-year students, as well as future college students, have abilities they are not even utilizing. With his book, he tries to tap into those abilities and explain, from a professor’s point of view, so that students can enjoy college and not be weighed down by inefficiency.

The book has 211 pages and can be purchased for $17.99 (plus $3.99 shipping costs) through his website, www.williampizio.com/shop. In addition to the book, Pizio also offers private consultations. For one hour, the cost is $35, and for five hours, the cost is $150. Pizio said he also plans to make rounds at local high schools to talk about his book. For more information, visit his website. !

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

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Killing Giggles: It’s a mad, mad, mad ones world At Mad Ones Films, they’re not clowning around.

Well … OK, maybe they are.

But they’re also knocking ‘em dead.

Clowns, that is.

Hot on the heels of the blockbuster SteMark Burger phen King adaptation It, but seasoned Contributing with the manic merriment and columnist cinematic creativity of filmmaker Jaysen P. Buterin & Company, Killing Giggles is the short-film precursor to Buterin’s maiden feature, Kill Giggles, which is currently in pre-production.

The teaser trailer for Killing Giggles can now be viewed on YouTube (by searching “Killing Giggles proof of concept teaser trailer”), and the actual short will have its world premiere at the MystiCon Independent Film Festival in Roanoke, Virginia, in February.

The film stars Michael Ray Williams (a long-time Buterin friend) in the pivotal role Tommy dos Santos, your basic psychopathic serial killer with a vicious vendetta against clowns. In this case, clowns aren’t the monsters, they’re the victims – and Tommy won’t stop slashing, sawing, or slaying until he confronts the mysterious clown king known as “Giggles.” As the Mad Ones Films press release notes, “While all the world may love a clown, no one ever said it had to be alive.”

According to a promotional video, (that he made with editor/cinematographer/ producer Jesse H. Knight) “I’ve been terrified of clowns for many, many moons now,” Buterin admits.

It wasn’t so much Stephen King’s best-seller It – “although the literary incarnation of Pennywise was very scary to me” – or the 1990 mini-series, or this year’s blockbuster feature (to which the sequel will be released in 2019). It wasn’t Insane Clown Posse, it wasn’t the 1988 cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space (which Buterin has never seen), and it certainly wasn’t the 1992 schlock shocker Dr. Giggles, which failed miserably in trying to launch another horror franchise.

No, it was the clown marionette that terrorized young Oliver Robins in the 1982 blockbuster Poltergeist. “That unhinged me,” he said. “Everything became unglued – including myself. I blame it all on Poltergeist.”

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Exorcist (1973) and Halloween (1978) as his favorite horror films and fans will no doubt remember that Michael Myers (Will Sandin) was dressed as a clown when he killed his sister in the opening sequence of Halloween.

Given the worldwide rash of clown sightings that preceded the release of the big-screen It by remarkable (and perfectly timed) coincidence, it’s clear that clowns are on people’s minds, “and I’ll completely cash in on that,” Buterin quips.

Now, being the auteur behind such popular short films as A Killer Christmas Carol (2011), Between Hell and a Hard Place (2014), and the three-part The Gospel According to Booze, Bullets & Hot Pink Jesus series, it’s safe to assume Buterin will bring his irreverent sensibilities to the project.

“It’s an entire movie about killing clowns, so most certainly!” he confirms.

“As an ill-advised, self-administered dose of psychotherapy to get over my own fear of clowns, there’s little loony bits of me dripping down all the walls. Just the opening first few minutes alone is one of the weirdest things I have written, as I’m not sure ‘kinky kooky clown sex scene’ should ever be on any screenwriter’s bucket list – but there it is, and oh, does it shine on screen!”

The Killing Giggles short was filmed in Winston-Salem in May. “It was really important to deliver an accurate sense of what we’re planning to accomplish, which can be difficult when we haven’t actually filmed anything yet,” Buterin said. “We were lucky to have the same cast and much of the same crew for the short film

as we will for the feature, so what was captured on film turned out absolutely bloody brilliant. I think it’s going to give festival audiences an off-the-wall horror hint of the movie magic to come, and hopefully, leave them wanting more. I am beyond incredibly pleased with Killing Giggles and I cannot wait to get the chance to do it all over again on a much bigger, better and bloodier scale!”

To that end, Buterin is throwing everything he’s got into Kill Giggles, including “quasi-biographical” characters, events and bits of dialogue he’s experienced or said. Along with “light-hearted levity,”mayhem and murder, Hitchcock homages, a clown death montage and,

with the grace of the film gods, a celebrity cameo or two.

“Shockingly enough, the graphic nudity and profanity aren’t anywhere near as rampant as it maybe should for a horror movie,” he said. “I’ve certainly strayed a bit from the topless taco-bar roots of my Hot Pink Jesus days, but I think Kill Giggles is going to excite, delight, and probably perplex the hell out of some people.”

For all the gory details, visit www. madonesfilms.com/ or visit the official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ SendInTheClownsToDie. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2017, Mark Burger.

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DJ Al Lover explores hypnotic realms using samples of psychedelic music

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hen one thinks of samplebased music, psychedelia isn’t the first thing that automatically comes to mind.

But DJ, producer, podcaster and performer Al Lover, the stage name of Alex Gundlach, has been using samples in his

wildly trippy exploration-minded music for years now. Lover grew up in Asheville and got his start making hip-hop while plugged into the skater scene.

“I used to rap, and then I started producing,” Lover said. Lover plays a show at Winston-Salem’s Monstercade on Dec. 28. “Having the punk influence, I started looking for bands to sample that were more in that vein.”

After Asheville, Lover lived in San Francisco for a time, where he met many up-and-coming artists in a psych-garage-

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revival scene that was burgeoning at the time. Going to shows as a fan, Lover would approach artists like Ty Segall or members of White Fence or Thee Oh Sees. Lover would ask these artists if they’d mind if he used pieces of their recordings as source material for his music.

“It was always ‘Yeah, please, sample our music,’” Lover said of how the contemporary artists responded to his requests. “Here, take the record for free. Do what you want with it.” Hip-hop artists turned sampling into an art form, taking

snippets of old songs, pop hits, obscure nuggets, funk grooves, drum breaks, horn riffs, vocal hooks, grunts, guitar lines, untraceable oddities and most things imaginable. And repurposed the scraps as the groundwork for rapping and the scratchy percussive accents of turntablism. Creative producers would dig through record crates to unearth the unexpected tidbits for backing tracks. Samples of vintage psychedelic music weren’t unheard of, but they were probably much less common than classic soul, funk and rock. For

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whatever reason, sample-based artists tend to prefer exploring the sounds of the past to lifting pieces of contemporary music. Maybe it’s the same thing that drives many symphony orchestras to play music from the 18th and 19th centuries to music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Lover’s approach to sampling might have more in common with German experimental artists like Kraftwerk, Cluster and Can than with American hip-hop innovators like A Tribe Called Quest or Wu-Tang Clan. Still, Lover’s work has been referential and allusive from the beginning. If the Beastie Boys were pointing their most obsessive fans to artists they sampled like Trouble Funk and Idris Muhammad, Lover’s music and iconography refer to a slightly different set of influences. His logo riffs on the classic of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. He’s made a recording that’s a combination tribute to German krautrockers, Neu! and New York electroart-punks Suicide. Some of his song titles refer to like-minded provocateurs (and sometimes collaborators) such as Genesis P-Orridge and Brian Jonestown Massacre. In another gesture of homage, Lover tipped his hat to Captain Beefheart, a giant of psychedelic music, by making a song-by-song tribute to Beefheart’s first

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full-length record, “Safe As Milk.” Lover’s version is called “Safe As Milk Replica,” playing on another legendary Beefheart title. Lover’s tribute has plenty of twang, washes of overdrive and hazy drones. It’s psychedelic garage rock that’s stitched together from pre-existing fragments.

Some people view digital technology as the antithesis of traditional music making, but Lover has an insightful way

of linking the music-making ways of the past and the present.

“I kind of see sampling as the weird digital-realm version of the oral tradition,” he said. “The songs were there for however long ago, but with every generation, they become augmented. It shifts and morphs and has its own flow.”

Lover’s projects might draw on aspects of dub, ambient, electronica and industrial music, but he views the psychedelic designation as the defining one.

“If you think about psychedelic music — it’s basically just experimentation,” Lover said.

Lover has 22 releases available on Bandcamp. At 36, Lover now lives in Austin, Texas, where he’s involved with the Levitation Festival, an annual psychedelic-music blowout. Lover has made remixes spotlighting artists featured at the festival, and his podcast, “Elevated Transmissions,” often dives into the currents of contemporary psychedelic music.

For his live sets, Lover mostly does musical exploration in real time on stage with a handful of sound-manipulating tools and gadgets.

“I’ll take loops of some of my already made tracks, and then I’ll just improvise on the fly,” Lover said. “Sometimes I’ll have some analog synths and drum ma-

chines on stage. Basically, I’ll have loops and effects, delays and echoes and filters, beat-repeat functions and internal loop functions and then I’ll just play around with it. I like the idea of repetition and where it can take people, trying to find that perfect place where it just locks with the mindset of the audience.”

Lover’s recordings sometimes bring to mind the dub experimentation of African Headcharge, with powerful hypnotic grooves and disjointed textures that get aggressively disassembled using effects, processing, and editing. The patterns might make you bob your head, or they might stop you dead in your tracks, transfixed and immobilized.

“It’s not dance music,” Lover said. “It’s music for going into a place of internal exploration.” !

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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he latest effort from the team of writer-director Alexander Payne and writer Jim Taylor (the Oscar-winning scribes behind Sideways), Downsizing ( ) initially feels like a gimmick more than a movie. The downsizing in the title is meant to be taken literally — as overpopulation threatens to irreparably damage the planet, a brilliant scientist (Rolf Lassgård) invents a way to shrink people. This discovery spurs thousands of ordinary citizens to allow themselves to be miniaturized, all in an effort to preserve Earth’s natural resources, reduce rampant pollution, and other environmentally friendly innovations.

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Downsizing continues in an almost lackadaisical fashion, but then something remarkable and transformative happens: Hong Chau shows up. The Thai actress (most recently seen on HBO’s Big Little Lies) plays Ngoc Lan Tran, a Vietnamese activist who was shrunk against her will and now serves as a maid for rich people.

Chau’s performance is superb — second only to Willem Dafoe’s emoting in The Florida Project as 2017’s best — and she roots the movie in emotions that heretofore had largely been missing.

Eventually, Downsizing heads off in yet another direction, but it scarcely matters.

Chau’s towering turn guarantees that viewers will follow the picture wherever it elects to venture.

No one was exactly clamoring for a sequel to 1995’s Jumanji, yet here comes Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ( ) — and the holiday season just became a bit brighter.

Arguably even more engaging than its predecessor, this one finds four disparate high school students discovering the magical game (which has reconfigured itself from a board game into a video cartridge) and being thrust into its dimensions. The clever hook is that these four kids have been placed into the bodies of adult avatars (played by Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan) yet

retain their teenage personalities.

The result is enjoyable and undemanding entertainment, with the plot just sturdy enough to hold the weight of the stars’ irresistible characterizations.

As a writer, Aaron Sorkin has been such an important and enduring fixture on the film and TV fronts (Oscar for The Social Network, Emmys for The West Wing) that it’s a wonder he waited this long before making his directorial debut. Then again, perhaps he was just biding his time waiting for the right project: Why soil his reputation on a Paul Blart: Mall Cop sequel when something better could be right around the corner?

In this case, that “something better” is Molly’s Game ( ), with Sorkin not only directing but also penning this adaptation of Molly Bloom’s exhaustively titled book Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker. As Molly, a former skier whose legendary poker games made her an FBI target, Jessica Chastain delivers a typically brainy and impassioned performance, with Idris Elba offering solid support as the lawyer who elects to take her case.

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Ocean Bound Exhibit Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) Jan. 20 – May 6 Did you know that everyone lives in a watershed and everyone’s actions affect our ocean? In this interactive exhibit, you can pilot a giant “submersible” from mountain stream to the ocean, encounter more than 65 aquatic species and ecosystems, and guide “water” safely through a hazardous maze! Discover how otters made a comeback and spot the polluters!

Learn to be a Watershed Warrior! Included with museum admission and free for Kaleideum members. Kaleideum North, 400 W Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem.

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Children’s China Exhibit Kaleideum Downtown (formerly Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem) Jan. 27 – April 23 Take an overseas adventure without leaving your hometown when Kaleideum Downtown hosts Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character, and Confucius.

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Peppercorn Theatre Songs and Stories Kaleideum Downtown (formerly Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem) Jan. 11, 9:30 a.m.

Peppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum’s Teaching Artists will share songs, stories, and activities designed for babies, toddlers, and their caregivers to play and grow together. Enjoy live music, hands-on props, and puppets! These classes repeat (changing with the seasons), so you and your child can learn the songs and sing at home! Included with admission and free for Kaleideum members. Kaleideum Downtown, 390 S Liberty Street, Winston-Salem. (336) 723-9111.

Story Dance: Waiting Kaleideum Downtown (formerly Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem) Jan. 14, 2 p.m.

Join Edge Performing Arts as we discover the joy of patience and the beauty of everyday life in Waiting, a Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor book, by Kevin Henkes. Participants will learn some basic ballet movements and use those steps to choreograph a dance to illustrate the book. A perfect introduction to dance and a fun way to integrate movement and literacy! Included with admission and free for Kaleideum members. Kaleideum Downtown, 390 S Liberty Street, Winston-Salem. (336) 723-9111.

Children’s China Grand Opening Kaleideum Downtown (formerly Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem) Jan. 27, 10:30 a.m.–Noon Join Friends of Peppercorn and the Winston-Salem Symphony as we explore the Sounds of China. A short presentation of an exciting children’s book, Summoning the Phoenix by Emily Jiang, explores poems and prose about Chinese musical instruments. Interact with our Instrument Petting Zoo to see and hear the different instruments of the Chinese orchestra, as well as the traditional Western orchestra.

Included with admission and free for Kaleideum members. Kaleideum Downtown, 390 S Liberty Street, Winston-Salem.

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] ALL-AMERICAN WEIRDOS

Two American tourists, Joseph Dasilva, 38, and Travis Dasilva, 36, of San Diego, were arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov. 28 and detained Chuck Shepherd in an immigration detention center after they posted a “butt-selfie” on Instagram, taken in front of the Buddhist temple Wat Arun, or Temple of the Dawn.

The pair’s Instagram account, traveling_ butts, showcased their hindquarters at tourist sites around the world, but it was deleted shortly after the arrests. District police chief Jaruphat Thongkomol told Reuters that the two would also be fined for a similar photo at a different temple.

BUT WHY?

In Birmingham, England, renowned 53-year-old surgeon Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty on Dec. 13 to branding his initials onto human livers using an argon beam during transplant surgeries. A colleague first noticed the initials “S.B.” in 2013 on an organ during a follow-up surgery, which sparked an investigation, the Guardian reported. Bramhall resigned in 2014 and acknowledged that marking his patients’ livers had been a mistake. But former patient Tracy Scriven of Dyrham, Wiltshire, told the Birmingham Mail that he should be reinstated. “Is it really that bad? I wouldn’t have cared if he did it to me. The man saved my life.”

INEPT SANTA MOVES

Jesse Berube, 32, of Rocklin, California, tried using a favorite trick of Old St. Nick — but he got stuck in the chimney of a Citrus Heights business he was trying to rob on Dec. 13 and had to call police for

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help. ABC News reported that Sacramento firefighters responded and used special equipment to free Berube, who now faces one count of burglary. Citrus Heights police said Berube “does not have the same skills as the real deal.”

sexual organ where it is supposed to be” and “the penis on the back ... has been surgically removed.” The newborn was not traumatized by the surgery and is already at home with his parents, the doctor said.

THE CHECK’S IN THE MAIL

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Lorette Taylor of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, responsible for meting out her family’s inheritance after her father’s death sent a bank draft last February to her brother, Louis Paul Hebert, for $846,648.46 via UPS. Hebert waited at his local UPS store for the check to arrive — but nothing came in. “I came back in the evening. Nothing shows up,” he told the CBC. UPS could trace the package only to its distribution center north of Toronto, so along with an apology for Hebert’s inconvenience, UPS refunded the $32 shipping fee. Taylor’s bank, TD Canada Trust, initially assured her the check would be canceled, but two days later refused to issue a new draft until Taylor signed an indemnity agreement making her and her heirs liable for life should the original check be cashed. Not only that, the bank then asked her to put up collateral against the new bank draft, but that request was later recalled.

Finally, 10 months after the whole ordeal began, the bank released the money, and Hebert, at press time in December, was making the 273-mile drive to pick up the check in person.

AWESOME!

An unnamed newborn boy underwent surgery at the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics in Baku, Azerbaijan, to remove a small remainder of a parasitic twin that had attached itself to the baby’s back: a penis. Gunduz Agayev, head of the institute’s neonatology department, reported to Metro News in December that the baby “has a normal

British model Chloe Hammond, 27, also known as Chloe Rebelle, succumbed to a fit of road rage on March 19 when Julie Holloway, 56, tapped on her car window to ask her to stop using her phone while driving in traffic in London. Metro News reports that Hammond responded by parking her Audi TT and then “came out of nowhere” toward Holloway, kicking her in the stomach, grabbing Holloway’s hair and biting off a piece of her ear.

Holloway, bloodied and disturbed, didn’t realize part of her ear was missing until someone “picked it up off the floor.” In October, Hammond was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent in Southwark Crown Court, and on Dec. 18, a judge sentenced her to five years in jail.

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Don’t you ever just want to get away?

An unnamed man in Catherine Way, Batheaston, England, started digging a “very deep” hole in his yard weeks ago, but caused a neighborhood disruption when he climbed into the hole on Dec. 12 and refused to come out. Neighbor Dominic Denny told the Bath Chronicle that “it started at about 4 a.m. ... when there was a lot of shouting and screaming coming from the house opposite me. The young man’s family was outside trying to get him back in the house.” Emergency responders from a variety of services converged on the scene, even bringing a crane to lower into the hole to retrieve the man. A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset police later reported that the incident was resolved and “the man got out of the hole of his own accord.”

SPECIAL DELIVERY!

An employee at a TCBY yogurt shop in Matthews, North Carolina, got a surprise while opening three packages delivered to the store — filled with $220,000 worth of marijuana. Upon further investigation, the store told WSOC-TV, the packages had been delivered mistakenly and were meant for a P.O. Box at the postal store next door. While the origin of the packages is still unknown, the drugs and the recipient’s information have been turned over to police, who report that no arrests have been made.

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QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENT

The Mirror reports that a flight attendant with Urumqi Air in China has been suspended after a co-worker captured her on video eating from in-flight meals meant for passengers. In the video, a line of open meals is on a shelf in front of the female attendant, who samples from at least two of them with a spoon.

The airline said in a statement that the meals were leftovers not handed out to passengers, and it was launching a full investigation.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS

Israel Perez Rangel, 38, of Santa Ana, California, raised suspicions begging for money at a service station to put gas in the 2015 Ferrari 458 Spider he was driving on Nov. 1. The $300,000 car was in rough shape, according to the Los Angeles Times, with cracked fins, emblems torn from the body and vomit caked on the side. When Santa Ana police arrived, Rangel ran away, but he was caught nearby hiding in bushes. Car owner Susan Friedman of Laguna Beach had left the Ferrari at a Costa Mesa service center in October, where it was stolen, and surveillance video confirmed it was Rangel who nicked the hot rod. Luckily for Friedman, her insurance company cut her a check and she replaced the Ferrari with a 2018 Lamborghini Huracan. “I love it,” she said.

WAIT, WHAT?

Visitors to South Korea for the Winter Olympics may want to make a side trip to Haesindang Park near the coastal town of Sinnam. The park, also known as Penis Park, opened to the public in 2007 and was dedicated to the memory of a virgin bride-to-be left behind by her fisherman fiance. Locals told the Mirror that after being abandoned, the bride was swept out to sea and drowned, causing fish to leave the area. Now her spirit can only be soothed by the sight of male genitalia.

The park features nearly 300 erect phallus statues, and about 12,000 visitors take in the titillating sights each year, most of them women. !

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Spending the holidays in sanctuary: Local grandmother fears deportation, pleads to stay

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he holiday season is supposed to be a time where families get together and celebrate the year with each other. However, one family in Asheboro is missing a key Katie Murawski matriarchal figure from the dinner table: their grandEditor mother, mother and wife.

According to a press release sent out by Andrew Willis Garcés, an organizer with The American Friends Service Committee, Juana Luz Tobar Ortega celebrated Christmas “from the confines of the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro,” where she stays in a room that was converted from a nursery.

Ortega took sanctuary there May 31 of this year to prevent separation from her family after receiving her final order of deportation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to the release, she was the first of four immigrants seeking sanctuary at various North Carolina congregations.

Garcés wrote in an email that AFSC is 100 years old and has been working to support immigrant communities in the Triad for several decades.

“We give know-your-rights and family safety plan presentations for undocumented immigrants in trailer parks, schools and at businesses; help them defend themselves from attacks by ICE, accompany them to court particularly when we suspect they may be picked up

by ICE, and are sponsoring a group of Triad DACA recipients to fight for a DACA solution that also helps other undocumented people.”

According to the release, Ortega arrived in Asheboro, North Carolina, after “fleeing threats of violence in Guatemala.” She has worked at San-Gar Enterprises in High Point for eight years. After being forced to leave her job, she has spent the last several months sewing pillows and cushions at the church in “exchange for donations to help her family replace the income she lost.”

The release states that she is active in her son’s high school and her local church.

Her husband received U.S. citizenship

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From left: Carlos Jr. (son), Carlos Sr. (husband), Yeimy (daughter), Jackie (daughter), Bridget (granddaughter), Juana, Lesvi (daughter). before their marriage, and she has two younger children (a 22-year-old daughter, 16-year-old son) who are citizens and two older daughters (who are DACA recipients) and two 10-year-old granddaughters.

I sat down with Ortega and her translator, Nikki Marin Baena (who also volunteers with The American Friends Service Committee) at St. Barnabas on Dec. 21 to talk about how it feels to spend the

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holidays away from her home.

Ortega said everything changed on April 20, at her Immigration appointment when she was told to leave the country by May 31. She said she also received an ankle bracelet that day that she still has now.

“I felt like my whole world was collapsing on top of me,” Ortega said through translation via Baena. “To think that I would be separated from my family, that I would have to leave my children, that

I would have to leave my home, that I would have to leave everything.”

Ortega said she and her family started to pray that God would open a door. She said receiving help from The American Friends Service Committee was a huge blessing because they helped her seek sanctuary at St. Barnabas to stay close to her family.

“It is not easy to have to leave my home,” Ortega said. “It is not easy not to

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From left: Juana Luz Tobar Ortega and translator/AFSC volunteer Nikki Marin Baena.

Signs outside of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro. be able to go outside; it is not easy to have to leave my job, all of that is very difficult this is not comfortable to be in sanctuary.

It is not convenient or comfortable. But it is the only choice that I have if I want to be with my family.”

When asked why ICE sent her a final order of deportation, Ortega said she was arrested in 2011 after she did not follow through with another deportation order.

“But then they let me go and what they did was they gave me a yearly immigration appointment when I had to go check in at the immigration office in Charlotte,” she said. “From 2012 until this past year, 2017, they gave me a work permit because my husband is a U.S. citizen.”

When asked what she’d be doing for the upcoming holidays, she said her family would be visiting her at the church.

“My family spends nearly every weekend here, so they’ll come here, but it is going to be difficult,” she said. “It is hard not to be able to leave and to basically be locked up here not to be able to go shopping or do the things that I normally did.

Things I normally used to do this time of year, I can’t do them. That is very difficult.”

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in the U.S. She made it clear that she is not going to leave.

According to the press release, and multiple releases sent out by Garcés earlier this year, Ortega’s family has been reaching out to Sen. Thom Tillis pleading that she will be able to stay with her family in the U.S. “What we are asking the senator for is for the senator to present me to immigration officers so that immigration officials might hear my case and so that I might get an opportunity to just stay here with my family,” Ortega said.

Ortega said she came to the U.S. in 1992 fleeing the civil war in Guatemala.

“The guerrilla wanted me to join their forces, and they told me that I would be killed, that they would kill me if I didn’t join,” she said. “So that was the reason I had to leave my country and come to the U.S.” Baena said she has volunteered with various immigrant groups for several years and Ortega’s situation is not just a problem for her and her family. She said lots of families are going to get put in this difficult situation. She said people are making the really difficult and inconvenient decision to seek sanctuary because

they have no other choice.

Baena said it comes down to the question of “Do I leave and go back to a potentially dangerous situation or do I seek sanctuary, which is also pretty difficult and not a super convenient way to live?”

“And one thing that we do not really talk about very much is that it is our country’s policies that have created those situations of violence in Latin America,” Baena said.

“I feel like we somehow do this magical thinking around immigration where we totally separate U.S. economic policies in Latin America from the fact that people then migrate here looking for refuge from violence which then creates the situations for families like Juana’s where they have to make really tough decisions.”

Rev. Randall Keeney is the minister that presides over St. Barnabas. He said Ortega is a “wonderful and gracious woman.”

“We pray every day that ICE will respond graciously to her and that she will be able to go home soon,” Keeney said.

As Christmas rolled by and as New Year’s approaches, Ortega has not lost her faith and remains optimistic. She’d like for people to know that she has a family that needs her and that she needs to be with them.

“I have faith that something good will happen soon,” Ortega said. “I have faith that something good will happen in this coming year. I have faith that any day now I’ll receive some good news.”

Ortega said she relies on her faith very much to get her through the days.

“I depend on my beliefs because it’s faith in God that gets us through. And it is God watching over us that gets us through anything.” *Editor’s note: I sent an email to Sen. Thom Tillis via his website on Dec. 21 asking him what it would take for him to hear Ortega’s pleas to stay. However, as of Dec. 26, I have not received any email regarding an answer to that question (probably due to the Christmas holiday). I did receive confirmation that the comment had been submitted and “that we read each letter and e-mail and will do our utmost to get you a timely response addressing your thoughts and concerns.” !

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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The disappearance of downtown Greensboro’s hot dog lady

fter establishing herself, for over a quarter of a century, as the faithful Hot Dog Lady who, downtown Greensboro regulars came to rely Billy Ingram on for red hots and a smile, Katie Darnley Contributing planned on tiptoeing out of town columnist with little notice or fanfare. To allow that would belie her beloved status.

Equinox, George K’s, Southern Lights, Pie Works, Saltmarsh Willie’s, Fran’s Front Porch — all popular eateries attracting the hoi polloi when Katie first positioned her stainless steel hot dog cart in the Governmental Plaza courtyard.

“When I met my husband, Fred, he had a hot dog cart in Louisville, Kentucky,” she said. After moving to Greensboro, “We decided to see if we could do anything here with it.”

Serving the public with relish, she was unknowingly carrying on a long-standing tradition; as hot dogs and downtown Greensboro go together like moose and squirrel. In the 1930s, restaurants on the corner of South Elm and McGee competed for which diner prepared the tastiest frankfurters — that’s how that intersection became known as ‘Hamburger Square’ (go figure!). Guilford Soda Shop, a canteen situated in the lobby of the Guilford Building for 60 years, was renowned for serving the finest hot dogs the Gate City has ever known. After being gone for two decades, folks still rave about them.

As for the actual year Darnley first put her wheels down downtown, “I feel like one of my licenses says 1992,” she guessed. “I’m not exactly sure anymore, I’ve lost track of time.”

During that period, Greene Street served as a hub for city buses, and Darnley said it was the perfect spot. “The buses arrived there, the courthouse was there, everything was there.”

When The Depot was renovated and expanded to accommodate bus service in 2003, Darnley decided to split up and have two carts.

“At first they were hesitant to let

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Top: Katie Darnley posing with her new R.V. that she plans to take to Wilmington and live.

Bottom: Governmental Plaza, the last spot where Darnley will be selling hot dogs during the first week of January 2018.

anybody sell hot dogs up there, but we persevered,” Darnley said.

From the beginning her chili was made fresh every day by her husband Fred; at some point, she added sausage dogs and fresh squeezed lemonade.

Darnley’s very presence has rescued many on-the-go lawyers and law enforcement personnel who otherwise wouldn’t have time to stop somewhere to knosh. She said she is still a bit amazed when someone, “Comes up and

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says, ‘I used to come up here with my grandfather when I was 6, and now I have kids of my own.’”

“When we started, Woolworth’s was still Woolworth’s,” Darnley said. “My children would come downtown, and there was this homeless gentleman who was very nice, he actually kept my kids.

They’d call him Uncle Joe, and he would take them to Woolworth’s, get them something to eat, then bring them back.

It’s funny how you get to know people.”

Almost 20 years ago, Darnley took on an assistant, Grady Riddle. He was 16-years old at the time and was dating one of her daughters. “It was kind of like, ‘You want some work?’ He’s been my go-to guy; he helps me with everything.”

Riddle has been lunch-wagoning ever since, with breaks that included tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marine Corp.

From his vantage point at The Depot, Riddle has seen his share of craziness.

“A naked man attacked the hot dog stand once,” he said. “He was wearing nothing but tennis shoes and a hat. It freaked me out; this naked guy’s yelling ‘It ain’t Christmas!’”

Darnley, too, has witnessed disturbing events.

“The craziest thing that ever happened was a friend of Grady’s got knifed in front of the hot dog stand, that was not good.”

Situated next to BB&T, she’d even grown accustomed to the numerous armed holdups taking place within steps of her stand.

“In the last couple of months there was a bank robbery where apparently the guy went right past me, but I had no way to know,” she said.

Fear not, nitrate lovers, as long as there’s demand, Riddle will invariably be perched at the intersection of February One Place and Greene Street while his associates service commuter traffic at The Depot. He’ll be running things now, and everything will be the same. “I’ll just be doing this without Katie for the first time,” Riddle said.

Their base of operations, located behind Schiffman’s, is a former welding shop dating back to the Roaring ‘20s that withstood devastating 1980s Davie Street infernos. However, it is unlikely to survive the current parking deck boondoggle. Until then, Riddle plans on sharing the facilities with other vendors.

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small way, help ease the burden of the less fortunate.

“I turn down so many hungry people every day, I just can’t afford to feed everybody,” he said. “I saw a posting on Facebook where a pizza shop in Chicago was allowing customers to pre-purchase food for the needy. I just took that idea, so that if someone pre-purchases a hot dog when a person comes by later in the day that has no money, I can say I have a hot dog I can give you now.”

Besides on-site customers who participate, he’s also raising awareness through social media and has given away 400 meals in the first week.

“I just got a pretty sizable donation, so I plan to find a location where there’s a concentration of homeless people, then I can feed them all at once,” he said.

Darnley’s happily unconcerned about the future, for now, she said. “Maybe more hot dogs with a question mark? In a year or two, I might do some festivals and things like that but not day-to-day, Monday through Friday.”

What’ll she miss the most? “My customers. Sometimes I don’t even know their names, but I definitely know faces,” she said. “I have a lady who will call me up and say, ‘Are you there?’ I know what she wants so I can have it ready for her.

There are a lot of people who’ve known me forever, and I’ve seen them forever, so I’ll miss them.”

However, Darnley won’t miss Greensboro’s weather. “The wind is bad, rain is bad, cold is bad,” she said. “You can do cold when it’s sunny. If it’s not pouring, you can do rain as long as it’s warm out.

You just can’t do wind and rain.”

As for saying goodbye, “I really haven’t told many people, I found it difficult,” she said. The Friday before Christmas, Darnley and her husband bought an R.V. and plan to hit the road for Wilmington to start a new life. “My children and grandchildren are there, and I miss them terribly,” she said. “I needed to make some sort of change, discover new horizons, so to speak.”

Greensboro’s Hot Dog Lady to generations of downtown denizens plans on slinging dogs at Governmental Plaza for a few days during the first week of the new year, a final curtain call if you will.

This will be an opportunity for everyone to catch up with her because, frankly speaking, Greensboro will miss her dearly. !

Grady Riddle, Darnley’s assistant. Riddle plans on taking over after Darnley leaves and he plans to help feed the homeless through hot dog sales.

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I’m a woman, and I recently made a new professional connection — a man who’s excited about my work. We’re planning on doing a big important Amy Alkon project together. I’m worried that he’s Advice interested in me Goddess romantically (based on a few things he’s said). I’m not interested in him in that way. What’s the right thing to say to get that across? — All Business It’s tempting to get everything out in the open right away: “I’ve run the numbers on your chances of having sex with me, and they’re pretty close to the odds of your being crushed to death by a middle-aged dentist falling out of the sky.”

Informing a guy pronto that you aren’t romantically interested in him — though in somewhat kinder language — would be the right thing to do if he were just some persistent Tinder date you wanted to unload forever. But you’re hoping to have a continuing business relationship with this guy. So even if it were wildly obvious that

he has the hots for you, the last thing you should do is mention that particular elephant in the room (not even while you’re pole-vaulting over steaming mountain ranges of elephant dung).

Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker points out that “most social interaction” involves some conflicting goals — for example, when only one of two people is interested in ending the evening in the tool shed/sex dungeon. (Yes, sometimes the nightcap is a rubber hood.)

Pinker explains that “indirect speech” — not saying exactly what you think or want — is a way two people can maintain their relationship as it is (even when both suspect or are pretty sure that their desired outcomes are in sharp conflict).

The sometimes tiny measure of ambiguity — uncertainty about another person’s goals — that is fostered by indirect speech does a big job. It allows the person who wants something the other doesn’t to save face, enabling the two to preserve their common ground.

So, your refraining from telling the guy that you aren’t interested (in so many words) allows him to cling to the egopreserving possibility that you might be. If he goes direct on you — tells you he wants to sex up your business relationship — that’s when you likewise get explicit: Tell him straight out that you want to keep things strictly professional. However, this

may not be necessary if you act in ways that say “just business!” Avoid going flirty in communicating with him, and schedule meetings for the utterly unsexiest times and places possible. Nobody ends up doing the walk of shame because they had seconds on biscotti and one too many double espressos.

SIMPER FI

There’s always been an attraction between this guy and me. I’ve been thinking of testing the waters with him romantically, but he recently mentioned that he freaks out when women cry. He says he just has no idea what to do. Well, I’m an emotional person — generally happy but also a big crier. Are we a bad match, or could I teach him to soothe me? — Waterworks Most men are comfortable dealing with any leaky item — as long as it can be fixed with an adjustable wrench and a Phillips screwdriver.

If there’s a decoder ring for human emotion, it’s the female brain. Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that men, generally speaking, just aren’t as good as women at what’s called “theory of mind” — the ability to “infer what other people might be thinking or intending.” He explains that women, from childhood on, tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven to identify others’ “emotions

and thoughts, and to respond with the appropriate emotions” (say, by hugging a teary-eyed person instead of treating them like a statue weeping blood).

In contrast with female “empathizers,” Baron-Cohen describes men as the “systematizers” of the species. This is a fancy way of saying they’re engineering-focused — driven, from a young age, to identify how inanimate stuff works and “derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system.” However, these are “reliable” rules, like the law of gravity — “What goes up must come down” — nothing helpful for fathoming what the girlfriend’s got swirling around in her head when she suddenly goes all funeralface.

Typically, women believe “If he loved me, he’d figure it out.” Um, no. Not here in realityland. Assume most heterosexual men are sucky at emotional tea leaf reading. When you’re in boohooville (or on your way), tell a man what you’re feeling and how he could help — for example, by just listening and rubbing your back. In time, this may help him avoid reacting to the welling of that very first tear by diving behind the couch and yelling, “Incoming!

One o’clock! Alpha team, flank left!” !

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[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) An unfair decision creates unnecessary problems. But avoid anger and move carefully as you work this out. Expect to get support from an unlikely source.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Although your keen Bull’s eyes usually can discern what’s fact from what’s faux, that upcoming decision will need really solid data before you can risk a commitment.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Although your intuition will help you make some tough choices in the first half of the month, you’ll need more facts to back up your actions later on.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A fuzzy financial vista persists until midmonth, when things begin to clear up. You’ll also gain a better perspective on how to handle those pesky personal problems.

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