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DECEMBER 6-12, 2017 VOLUME 13, NUMBER 49

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5500 Adams Farm Lane Suite 204 Greensboro, NC 27407 Office 336-316-1231 Fax 336-316-1930 Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III publisher@yesweekly.com

The California Gold Rush can be used as a metaphor for the pilgrimage to Hollywood, California, for young and aspiring entertainers. Many will go in pursuit, but only few will strike gold. One High Point woman had her fill after moving to Hollywood at a young age to pursue her dream in show business. Now she is driven to clear her name from a project she feels EXPLOITED her and tarnished her reputation.

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Foodie fans and locavores…you know I look forward to this every year. For years, my family has created GIFT BASKETS full of our favorite things that we’ve discovered throughout the year. I dare say that here at YES! Weekly, we might be making a tradition of it...

12 Actor and writer GREG SESTERO is often greeted with “Oh hi, Mark” by fans of The Room. That’s a reference to the infamous scene in which star Tommy Wiseau, who also wrote, produced and directed the 2003 cult film, melodramatically shouts “It’s bullshit, I did not hit her, I did nooot!”

13 Spirits were high Sunday night as local filmmakers, and film fans gathered at the Marketplace Cinemas WinstonSalem for the third annual MPCWS SHORT FILM GALA. Although this year’s attendance didn’t match last year’s near sell-out, “we are here and we have brought the best line-up yet,” announced event organizer Zack Fox...

14 MERLEFEST organizers this week announced some big additions to the 2018 lineup of the legendary, eclectic-leaning bluegrass-folk-Americana-and-beyond

music festival. Elephant Revival, Rhiannon Giddens, Rodney Crowell and Shinyribs are new names added to the impressive list of performers.

18 ...it’s all smooth sailing, as COCO proves to be another top-shelf effort from the Pixar factory. The fanciful story centers on Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a young Mexican boy who yearns to become a celebrated musician like his idol, the late singing star Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).

24 Nestled on the back roads of Burlington is home to more than 70 wildlife residents that represents different species from around the globe. The goal of the CONSERVATORS CENTER, according to a pamphlet, is reconnecting and educating people of the Triad and surrounding areas about the animals that share the planet.

25 Even the catchiest of melodies can be ignored without lyrics to compliment it. Greensboro act, THE BRONZED CHORUS, have faced these obstacles for over a decade, yet have overcome them in order to become one of the Triad’s most promising groups.

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

be there JOHN COWAN w/ BROOKE & DARIN ALDRIDGE THURSDAY THUR 7

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JOHN COWAN WITH BROOKE & DARIN ALDRIDGE

MCLAURIN FARMS LIGHT SHOW

WHAT: The Blue Ridge Music Center and ArtsGreensboro have partnered to present a concert featuring progressive bluegrass bass player and vocalist John Cowan with the talented husband and wife traditional bluegrass duo of Brooke & Darin Aldridge and their band. Cowan is a true innovator as he applies his powerful pipes to genres from country, bluegrass, jazz, and rock-and-roll.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Van Dyke Performance Space.

200 N. Davie St., Greensboro.

MORE: $25-30 tickets.

WHAT: This years drive-through display will feature more than 800,000 lights, bringing to life reindeer, elves, Christmas trees, and characters from the Land of Misfit Toys. As a special treat, children can have their photo taken with Santa, and there’ll be hot chocolate and apple cider for Mom and Dad. Seasonal music will accompany the light show.

WHEN: 6 - 9 p.m.

WHERE: McLaurin Farms.

5601 N. Church St., Greensboro.

MORE: $5 admission.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL SATURDAY

MCLAURIN FARMS LIGHT SHOW FRIDAY

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FIDDLE & BOW SOCIETY:

HASEE CIACCIO, SAM GLEAVES, TYLER HUGHES, EMILY MANN WHAT: String band musicians Hasee Ciaccio, Sam Gleaves, Tyler Hughes and Emily Mann will perform Winter Jubilee: Music and Memories from the Mountain South, a show of old time country music, dance and storytelling with a holiday theme. Winter Jubilee is the first exciting collaboration and tour for these four talented musicians and singers.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

5455 Bethania Road, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $16-18 tickets.

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THE NUTCRACKER

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

WHAT: Experience the lush score, vivid staging and extraordinary performances that have made UNCSAs The Nutcracker a holiday tradition. Hailed as nothing short of perfection by Classical Voice of North Carolina, the production is a feast for the eyes and ears from start to finish, lauds the Winston-Salem Journal.

WHEN: 2 p.m.

WHERE: Stevens Center at UNC School of the Arts. 405 West Fourth Street, WinstonSalem.

MORE: $24-85 tickets.

WHAT: 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, A Christmas Carol is a ghostly tale of Yuletide cheer.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Triad Stage at Hanesbrands Theater. 209 Spruce Street North, WinstonSalem.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] TRIAD LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

BY CHARLES WOMACK

Daniel McCoy and Jeff Collie are two little brothers who after years of missing each other, finally connected to create a special drinking establishment in honor of those younger siblings.

Little Brother Brewing, located at 348 S. Elm St., in Greensboro opened Nov. 2 to a lot of rousing cheers, great reviews and fully capturing that “little brother spirit.”

“It’s funny, our paths crossed so many times in our lives, but we just became friends a few years ago,” McCoy said. “[Collie] went to High Point Central and I went to Ragsdale, so we played sports against each other. Then he went to Carolina, and I went to Carolina, and we lived on the same street for a long time and didn’t even know each other.”

As luck would have it, the wives of the pair were out with friends drinking wine one night, and McCoy’s wife heard Collie’s wife mentioning that her husband was looking to open a brewery.

“My wife told me, and I immediately got on the phone and reached out and asked what are you doing, planning and stuff and told him I’d like to be involved,” McCoy said. “We both wanted something small, with a lot going on, live music, etc.

That was April 2016.”

The seed was planted, and the pair started talking more and getting to know each other.

“I was out of town and heard that the Idiot Box spot had come open and Jeff called me and said he put our name in and if that I didn’t want to move forward he understood,” McCoy said. “I said no way, that’s an awesome location, and we got the lease, and we are very happy with where we are.”

After securing the lease in October of 2016, they started construction in April of 2017 and opened for business in November.

“Turnout has been strong, and we have been really busy,” Collie said. “People are giving us great comments. We do want to be very experimental and try a bit of everything.“ So far, Little Brother Brewing’s brewmaster Steven Monahan has created an IPA, a Hefferveisen and a stout. Collie said there would be some favorites that will stay and then they will change things up with creative ingredients.

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VS. brother spirit,” McCoy said. “Competing against the bigger kids, having less, trying to keep up even though you may not have the resources of huge companies. We are going for the microbrew environment, home-brewing feel.”

Collie himself has been a home brewer for the past decade and loved the science, the detail and the spirit of the industry.

When asked how they would like to best sum up the way they would like their business to be known, McCoy said he wants it to be the heart of the area.

“A place that gives backs and works well with others in the neighborhood,” he said.

“Fun for all ages.”

Collie added, “Our tagline is craft your own story. We are building the establishment a lot around storytelling. With our beers, we try to be inspired by stories.

Have heart behind everything we do.

Their facebook page, @littlebrotherbrew states, “We’re a small brewery with a unique take. We make great beer utilizing creative ingredients – but that’s not our only focus. We also give amateur homebrewers a studio and a stage to share their craft with the community. We love showcasing hidden talent whether homebrewer or local artisan. This adds flavor by helping us inject a distinctive story into every pour.”

Check the webpage for live music announcements at www.littlebrotherbrew. com, or give them a call at (336) 5109678. !

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Triadfoodies gift guide of gloriousness delicious 2017 edition

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oodie fans and locavores… you know I look forward to this every year. For years, my family has created gift baskets full of our Kristi Maier favorite things that @triadfoodies we’ve discovered throughout the year.

I dare say that here Contributor at YES! Weekly, we might be making a tradition of it, as long as they’ll have me. So here’s the Second Annual Triadfoodies Gift Guide of Glorious Deliciousness. Once again we’re going to give our basket (or bag) full of goodies to a lucky winner. These “favorite things” make perfect stocking stuffers or gifts on their own. My criteria: It must be fabulous, and it must be local. We have such talented makers in our area that they deserve to be supported and loved.

Another important aspect of these faves is that they are relatively easy to find. We can’t have you going all over town looking for these items. In most cases, you’ll be able to find these items at a locally owned shop near you.

Shall we begin the Holiday Magic?

Brewmaster’s Malt Mustard We loved Al Wolf’s mustard when we featured its whole crunchy mustard seed, grainy goodness for our Super Bowl spread feature last January. Since then, we have not been without it. It’s the perfect German mustard made by a German brewmaster, with simple ingredients.

The mustard, made with malted barley, is robust and thick and perfect for brats, hot dogs, smoked sausage, sandwiches, pork-- you name it. We like that Al, who came to his new country searching for the American dream, found it right here in the Triad of North Carolina as the brewmaster for Red Oak Brewing. You get bonus local supporter points if you pair Malt Mustard with a Red Oak Lager and Lowe’s Foods SausageWorks Sausage, particularly anything with Texas Pete in it. You can find Malt Mustard at Lowe’s Foods and Whole Foods or buy online at brewmastersmalt. com.

Sutler’s Spirits Gin True to form, we must always include a North Carolina spirit when it comes to our gift guide. We’ve never been without Sutler’s Gin since discovering it a few years ago. As a matter of fact, the bottle is so good looking that we just keep it out on display in our bar cart. The science that goes into distilling a quality spirit is one thing, but the art that goes into Sutler’s is on another level altogether. Owner Scot Sanborn has introduced flavors into his award-winning gin that set it apart from any other. It’s really great on the rocks, where you can really appreciate the botanicals. But I also love it with lemonade and a splash of soda. Plan a visit in the near future to Sutler’s distillery in Winston-Salem. You’ll get a lesson in flavor profiles and appreciation that you never expected. Sutler’s is always holding super fun workshops and tours are available.

Find your Sutler’s at any North Carolina ABC store or your limited bottle amount on site at Sutlers. sutlersspiritco.com

Little Black Dressing Company It Takes 3 to Tango I know you know that quandary when you can’t decide which salad dressing you want. Do I want ranch? Thousand island?

Bleu cheese? What if you could have all three dressings whipped into one? That’s LBD’s It Takes 3 to Tango for you. You get a little of all three of these popular salad toppings. It’s just an amazing marriage of flavors and perfect for the indecisive type.

The only thing is, I’ve decided that it’s one of the few salad dressings I actually want anymore. It is magic on a wedge salad or a Cobb or as a veggie dip. LBD Company is based in High Point and has some other interesting looking dressings, but honestly, I can’t stay away from 3 to Tango. You can find it in the refrigerated dressings section at local grocery markets as well as Lowe’s Foods and Harris Teeter. littleblackdressingco.com

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Fool’s Gold Honey (Colony Urban Farm Store) If you love honey, you’ll love Colony Urban Farm’s Honey Bar. A honey bar with honey on tap. Honey in jars. Honey!

Honey! Honey! It’s paradise for honeylovers and Winnie the Pooh too.

Just a few days before press time, Colony announced that they’re branding their honey as Fool’s Gold Honey Co. My favorite in the Colony line-up is the Bourbon-infused honey. You get a little essence of bourbon with their wonderful local honey, from bees they raise right here in the Triad. Colony threw in a Southern Wildflower and Lavender-infused because …well, because of Christmas!

The choices for honey at Colony are endless. “Because eating honey is a very good thing to do,” as Winnie the Pooh notably once said. There are some exciting things about to happen in the West End in Winston-Salem and these little bees at Colony are in the mix of it, so stay tuned for some fun buzz from these folks.

You can find Colony Urban Farm and Fool’s Gold Honey at their new location (opening soon) at 529 West End Blvd. in Winston-Salem. foolsgoldhoneyco.com Batistini Farms Vanishing Grape White Balsamic Okay, okay, we know we’re not growing local olives or Modena grapes here.

But Clemmons couple, Cindy and Tom Sephton, are getting us as close to the local experience as possible. About three years ago, the Sephtons began importing 100 percent Toscano extra virgin organic olive oil and balsamic vinegar from the heritage La Batistina farm in Tuscany. So, you get the real thing, and you’re supporting a local business at the same time.

We love the clean taste, look and finish of the Vanishing Grape. Paired with a little olive oil on a spinach salad, drizzled with cheese, or you can’t ever go wrong with crusty bread. You can find Batistini Farms Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegar at Whole Foods, Wine Merchants in Winston-Salem and online at b-farms.com.

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ctor and writer Greg Sestero is often greeted with “Oh hi, Mark” by fans of The Room. That’s a reference to the infamous scene in which star Tommy Ian McDowell Wiseau, who also wrote, produced and Contributing directed the 2003 cult film, melodracolumnist matically shouts “It’s bullshit, I did not hit her, I did nooot!” Immediately after Wiseau’s hapless protagonist delivers this anguished denial in his unidentifiable accent, he spots his best friend (and his fiancé’s secret lover) Sestero and utters that hilariously nonchalant and cheerful greeting.

Sestero wrote about his long relation-

ship with the eccentric and enigmatic Wiseau in his 2013 memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which he co-authored with Tom Bissell. That award-winning nonfiction book is the basis for James Franco’s The Disaster Artist.

In Franco’s film, opening in the Triad this week, the director and star plays Wiseau, and his brother Dave Franco plays Sestero.

But it’s another new movie that’s bringing Sestero back to Greensboro’s eclectic nerd-haven Geeksboro Coffee and Beverage Company, where he’s previously enthralled fans by joining them in impromptu readings of scenes from The Room. Having squeezed the tangy and refreshing lemonade of critical and commercial success from what could have been the biggest cinematic lemon of anyone’s career, Sestero reunites with the bizarrely unforgettable Wiseau in Best F(r)iends. Produced and written by Sestero, who also co-stars, the quirky and

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very personal project has its premiere at Geeksboro on Dec. 12, with Sestero in attendance for Q&A with the audience.

I recently asked Sestero what it was like to work with Tommy Wiseau again, especially on a film that reflected Sestero’s vision rather than Wiseau’s.

“For many years, I never thought I would, nor did I really want to,” he wrote in an email, calling the experience of making The Room and its immediate fallout “overwhelming” and adding “Tommy has a very particular way of doing things that aren’t open to much collaboration.”

But then he viewed a rough cut of The Disaster Artist, and suddenly saw both Wiseau in a different light. “I realized that no one had given Tommy a chance to shine as an actor,” he wrote. “And that’s all he has ever truly wanted.” Wiseau, who’d first met Sestero in a Los Angeles acting class in 1998, made The Room because nobody else would cast him.

“Having always found Tommy to be a fascinating person,” Sestero wrote, “I’ve long thought that, in the right role, he could be engaging and carry a narrative.”

So Sestero wrote an “LA noir story” about a peculiar mortician (Wiseau, of course) who enlists a homeless drifter (Sestero) in a bizarre business partnership, the details of which are best kept a surprise, but which involve latex masks of dead celebrities and stolen gold teeth.

Inspired by a 2003 road trip with Wiseau “in which Tommy thought I was plotting to kill him,” Sestero came up with

a basic concept in four days and, not without trepidation, pitched it to his mercurial intended star. “Surprisingly, he said yes. I don’t know how it all came together, but after almost six months of production, we actually completed a new feature film called Best F(r)iends.”

This time around, the experience of working with Wiseau was very different.

“He was very open to collaboration and worked hard on each scene, doing as many takes as needed,” he wrote. “I’m happy to say Tommy really delivers in his role and shows a whole different level of performance than he did in The Room.”

In The Disaster Artist, Sestero described himself as having become as close to Tommy Wiseau as anyone has managed.

He admitted that the man remained enigmatic. I asked him if that was still the case.

“Tommy and I have now been friends for 20 years, so it’s been a fascinating ride,” he wrote, saying one of the great things about both Wiseau and The Room is that both are ultimately mysteries.

“Despite knowing Tommy for as long as I have, there’s still so many questions, and a lot of those are better left unknown.”

But he concluded, on an optimistic note, their two decades of knowing each other have “helped me appreciate Tommy much more and see that there is perhaps a method to his madness.” !

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Short films shine at Winston-Salem gala Spirits were high Sunday night as local filmmakers, and film fans gathered at the Marketplace Cinemas WinstonSalem for the third annual MPCWS Short Film Gala.

Although this Mark Burger year’s attendance didn’t match last Contributing year’s near sell-out, “we are here, and columnist we have brought the best line-up yet,” announced event organizer Zack Fox in his introductory remarks. Judging by audience enthusiasm, his last sentiment wasn’t mere hype.

There were 14 short films at this year’s event, including a special screening of the Thomas Edisonproduced 1910 silent short Frankenstein, boasting by live musical accompaniment from the Davie County Community Band.

There were 12 films eligible for awards consideration.

The first-prize winner was Wings, a droll meditation on life and death as seen through the eyes of a curious young girl. The film marks the debut of writer/editor/director Aidan Millroy, a second-year student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. It is not, however, his student film, but rather a project he and some friends shot over a few days. In his introduction to the film, Millroy described Wings as “kinda funny, kinda sad, and a little out there!”

Upon receiving his framed first-place certificate, he admitted that he was not expecting to win, but he appreciates it.

“I was really pleased by the audience response,” Millroy said later while accepting congratulations from fellow filmmakers and guests. “That was great, but this [award] is really nice, too – and very unexpected, as I said.”

The second-prize winner was Ademir Gogic’s Apart, which wasn’t even filmed in the United States, much less North Carolina, but which added a stylish international flavor to the gala. The third-place winner was Kevin Murray’s quirky fantasy For Love.

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short Annabel Lee won the top prize at the first MPCWS gala, was back with Murky Water, a brooding Southern Gothic in the spirit of Flannery O’Connor. The film was his senior thesis project at Florida State University but befitting the gala was steeped in Southern flavor, albeit of a dark sort.

“I’m very pleased to have my films come here three years in a row,” he said. “It’s so important to support these venues for North Carolina films.”

A long-time fan of the horror and fantasy genres, he’s already mapping out his next short film – and it won’t be a musical (“I don’t think so,” he smiled). Although Murky Water didn’t win an award, Jacobs was pleased by the audience response.

“I like to keep audiences on the edge of their seats with mood and atmosphere,” he said. “I’m not into blood and guts.”

Several of the filmmakers on hand participated in more than one film, including Sammie Cassell (Midnight Shift and Cinema One: A Popcorn Adventure), Tom Gore (Midnight Shift and The Last Airbnb), and Fox himself (Cinema One and Our War). As Fox is also the gala organizer, does this create a conflict of interest during awards consideration?

“It hasn’t come up,” he said. “There’s nothing in the rules that say a film I was involved with couldn’t win … I suppose if someone complained we’d look into it, but that hasn’t happened.” (Cinema One was not in competition.)

Incidentally, Fox is hard at work on another Star Wars fan short to commemorate the opening of the next installment, The Last Jedi. Like Cinema One, it will be screened before The Last Jedi when it plays Marketplace Cinemas – and like Cinema One will be screened at next year’s MPCWS Short Film Gala.

Gore bears a passing resemblance to Zach Galifianakis, so much so that he’s occasionally been mistaken for the popular actor/comedian. “I’d rather be mistaken for someone I think is talented than someone who isn’t,” he quipped.

In Dan Sellers’ found-footage chiller Midnight Shift, Gore plays the pivotal role of a police officer – even though his face is never seen in the film. In The Last AirBnB, he plays the unflappable proprietor of a vaguely foreboding small-town bed-

and-breakfast who, if he doesn’t have skeletons in his closet, has at least one body there.

Gore’s next project is based on Stephen King’s short story Beachworld, which appeared in the 1985 anthology Skeleton Crew.

The famed author has periodically granted rights to his stories to independent filmmakers, most famously to Frank Darabont, whose first film was the 30-minute short The Woman in the Room (1983), based on King’s short story. Darabont would go on to direct the feature versions of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Green Mile (1999), among the most acclaimed King stories ever brought to the screen.

When asked why he would make a film that precluded financial reward (as per the agreement with King), it’s yours truly who made the observation: “Because Stephen King films get attention,” to which Gore nodded and pointed in my direction: “What he said.”

There is, of course, an element of competition to the MPCWS Short Film Gala, but it pales next to the spirit of collabo-

ration and celebration that the event is primarily designed for.

Filmmaker Ken Comito (Witching Hour) and his wife Melanie, co-founders of the Triad Film Collaborative and Brain Juice Productions (brainjuiceproductions.com), are tireless proponents of independent filmmaking in the region, doing their part to support and bring together local filmmakers, many of whom are friends – and some first encountered at previous galas.

“We either know them ,or have worked with them or if we don’t know them, we know of them and know someone they’ve worked with,” he said. “So there’s a nice circular environment. That’s the important thing.” !

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bicoastal acoustic Americana trio the Devil Makes Three; North Carolina’s own Balsam Range, a bluegrass quintet from Haywood County; Tennessee gospel quartet the McCrary Sisters; singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale, whose songs have been recorded by George Strait, Elvis Costello, Blake Shelton, the Dixie Chicks and many others; venerable gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama and others were part of the announcement as well.

The 2018 festival will be the 31st annual Wilkesboro event, which was founded to honor the life of guitarist Merle Watson, son of guitarist Doc Watson, both of whom were bluegrass and folk legends.

Elephant Revival, among that list of new names on the bill, are an eclectic ensemble engaged in cross-cultural fusion drawing on strands of gypsy, Celtic and American folk traditions. On any given song the Colorado-based, multi-instrumentalist quintet might deploy brass, West African percussion, washboard, pedal steel, a variety of guitars, fiddle, cello, banjo, mandolin and tight vocal harmonies. The band’s border-jumping musical openness nicely reflects the spirit of the festival.

“For over 30 years, one of the major factors that has built and sustained MerleFest has been the quality of the artists and performances that our guests see over the four-day festival,” festival director Ted

Hagaman said in a press release. “People truly feel that the festival is a great value and that is why music fans and families return year after year. We feel that the 2018 lineup again reflects the diversity and quality of performers and we look forward to another successful festival in April.”

Separately, Giddens, Crowell and Shinyribs also admirably demonstrate the ways that American music has synthesized — generally more successfully than our civic life seems to — so many of this vast country’s tributary streams.

Giddens, of course, is from the area (she was born in Greensboro) and has made a career excavating, among other things, the ways that African-American and African-derived traditions have infused with musical styles such as bluegrass. She has performed with the Grammy-award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, as a part of the all-star Dylan interpreters, the New Basement Tapes, and on her folk-gospel-protest-infused solo records.

Crowell is a country artist with ties to some pivotal figures in country music: he worked with Emmylou Harris for a time, was married to Rosanne Cash, and has had songs recorded by Alan Jackson, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and numerous others.

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a bit of Butthole Surfers and 13th Floor Elevators, to name two other bands from the Lone Star State capital that blended psychedelia and barroom raucousness in varying ratios. Shinyribs thread a little swamp funk into the wide-eyed vibe.

But let’s go back to that other name on the 2018 MerleFest bill: Kris Kristofferson. OK, yeah, everybody knows “Me and Bobby McGee.” It’s a classic, and justly so.

It yields new colors in many of the dozens of covers that artists have done it over the decades. Kristofferson would be famous if he had only written that single song. He’s revered, though, for his dozens and dozens of country standards, a list of classics that puts him in league with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan or — depending on how you slice and dice the Great American Songbook — George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer. When music writers David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren assembled their excellent 2003 book Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles, the pair chose a song written by Kristofferson, “Help Me Make It Through The Night” (as recorded by Sammi Smith) as the peak achievement in country music singles.

They also included numerous other Kristofferson-penned tunes (in addition to his work as a performer and producer) on their big list.

If you were making an informal tally of monumental songs that Kristofferson had written, it might start like this: “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “For the Good

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Times,” “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again),” “The Taker,” “Best of All Possible Worlds,” “Epitaph,” and so on. Independent of his illustrious songwriting career, Kristofferson has had a noteworthy life as an actor and activist. Before any of that, he was a Rhodes scholar in England. It’s hard to imagine, but Kristofferson, once he decided to pursue music, was evidently working as a janitor at the studio in Nashville in 1965 when Dylan and came to Music City to record Blonde on Blonde.

This is all just to say that legends like Kristofferson, 81, will be converging on Wilkesboro in April of next year. MerleFest is always worth attending, but the 2018 lineup could be one for the scrapbook.

With the holidays around the bend, tickets for the festival might make a special gift for any music fanatics in your life.

Tickets for next year’s festival may be purchased at www.MerleFest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. MerleFest offers a three-tiered pricing structure and encourages fans to take advantage of the extended early bird discount. Early Bird Tier 1 tickets may be purchased from Nov. 14 to Feb. 18, 2018; Early Bird Tier 2 tickets from Feb. 19 to April 25. Tickets will be sold using Tier 3 pricing at the gate during the festival. !

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Mexican jumping scenes: Coco is a lively toon triumph

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iewers who elect to see the animated feature Coco ( ) have my full blessing to arrive approximately 30 or 35 minutes after the announced show time.

That way, they can miss the 15 or so minutes of trailers for mostly awful-looking efforts like Duck Duck Goose and Sherlock Gnomes and, more importantly, avoid the painful Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, the preceding short that runs a punishing 22 minutes.

After that, it’s all smooth sailing, as Coco proves to be another top-shelf effort from the Pixar factory. The fanciful story centers on Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a young Mexican boy who yearns to become a celebrated musician like his idol, the late singing star Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt). That’s quite the challenge, though, since his entire family hates music and has prohibited anyone within its ranks from picking up a guitar or a microphone ever again. (The disdain traces back generations, to when Miguel’s great-great-grandmother was abandoned by her husband, who left to pursue his musical career.) Undeterred, Miguel goes against his family’s wishes, DECEMBER 6-12, 2017

a decision that, through supernatural means, catapults him into the Land of the Dead. There, he not only has to contend with a hard-luck layabout named Hector (Gael García Bernal) but also with his deceased ancestors, all of whom also forbid him from becoming a musician.

Coco opens by following the traditional toon template of a person following their dreams against all odds, but once Miguel reaches the Land of the Dead, the movie deepens in satisfying and even unexpected ways. Interpersonal relationships take some surprising turns, and the story’s metaphysical slant (particularly the notion that a person doesn’t truly disappear until no one remembers they ever existed) lends the proceedings a haunting and ruminative air. All of this is played out with Pixar’s usual attention to engaging characters (dumb dogs are always a reliable addition, and here we get Dante, a street hound with a tongue longer than that of Kiss’s Gene Simmons) and cutting-edge animation that is ofttimes jaw-dropping.

In a year in which American animated efforts took a hit with the dreary likes of The Emoji Movie and Despicable Me 3, Coco easily outpaces the competition by continuously hitting all the right notes. !

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Preston Lane and Laurelyn Dossett return to Beautiful Star

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riad Stage comes home again for the holidays with Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity. This seasonal celebration has become a Triad tradition, and one of Triad Stage’s most popular hits of all time.

Opening Night is Friday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at The Pylre Theater in downtown Greensboro.

Founding Artistic Director and playwright Preston Lane return to direct the show this year, which will include new sets, staging, and costumes. Laurelyn Dossett, who wrote the original music and played in the show for the first time last year, will once again lead The Beautiful Star Band in this holiday musical that starts with Genesis and goes all the way to the Nativity, spinning a holiday story with down-home laughter, toe-tappin’ music and a tug at the heartstrings. She’ll be joined by acclaimed musicians Riley Baugus (Brother Wolf) and Faye Petree (Snow Queen, Beautiful Star).

“One of the most thrilling opportunities I have discovered as an artist making my home in the Triad is the remarkably rewarding collaboration with Laurelyn Dossett,” Lane said. “For more than a decade now we have been bringing our separate art forms and our distinct vision to a thrilling re-imagination of the way music, theater, region and storytelling can interact. We both have grown so much artistically from our way of working together. Beautiful Star was the second play we collaborated on and it remains one of our favorites. In writing the play I tried to imagine a perfect church that one might stumble into on a bleak December evening and have your heart warmed by the welcome and love of a congregation intent on celebrating their faith. The play could not exist without the music. From ‘Be Not Afraid’ to ‘Beautiful Star’ and ‘Stable Shed’, Laurelyn created songs that feel as old as the mountains and as filled with love as the congregation who sings them.”

“One of the things I love most about my work with Laurelyn is seeing her become aware of her power as a theatrical storyteller,” Lane said. “Whenever she becomes a singing character in one

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of the plays, I’m so deeply moved by the talent of her composition and the power of her performance. As she steps into the Beautiful Star Band for the first time ever, I think we can guarantee this will be the best production ever.”

The returning cast includes Carroll Michael Johnson and Cinny Strickland as Reverend Roy and Vestina Ledbetter, Bryant Carroll as Franklin Duncan, and Lawrence Evans as Vernon Sparks. Appearing for the first time at Triad Stage are Jillian Louis and Matthew McGloin.

UNCG BFA student Nick Relos is returning, as are local child actors Emma-Claire Frances Johnson and Lauren Redding.

New child actors Davari Moyd and McLane Kaley will join them.

Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity was written and is being directed

by Artistic Director Preston Lane. The creative team for this production includes music director Laurelyn Dossett, scenic designer Robin Vest, costume designer Deb Bell, lighting designer Dominic Abbenante, and sound designer Derek Graham. Christine Morris is the vocal coach, Denise Gabriel is the movement coach, Cindi Rush is the casting director, and the stage manager is Michelle Lauren Tuite.

More information on the production can be found online at www.triadstage.org/ holidays.

Performance and special event information All performances are at Triad Stage at The Pyrle Theater, located at 232 South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina (between Market and Washington Streets).

Discounted Preview performances are available Dec. 5 through 7. Opening Night is Friday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Pay-What-You-Can performances are Tuesday, Dec. 5 and Wednesday, Dec.6, at 7:30 p.m. The full schedule of performances can be found online atwww. triadstage.org/holidays.

Triad Stage will also partner with Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwestern NC to collect food donations at the theater throughout the production for distribution throughout the region. !

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US

Chengdu, China, street barber Xiong Gaowu offers a most unusual service at his roadside location in Sichuan province. For $12, Xiong will scrap Chuck Shepherd the inside of his customers’ eyelids using a straight razor, according to Reuters.

Xiong suggests being “gentle, very, very gentle” when performing eyelid shaving, or “blade wash eyes,” as the technique is known in Mandarin. A Chengdu ophthalmologist, Qu Chao, says shaving may unblock moisturizing sebaceous glands along the rim of the eyelid, leading to a more comfortable and refreshed feeling.

“If he can properly sterilize the tools that he uses, I can see there is still a space for this technique to survive,” Qu added.

UNCONTAINED EXCITEMENT

Traffic slowed to a crawl on I-95 in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Nov. 21 as President Trump’s motorcade arrived for the Thanksgiving holiday. Author and

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sportswriter Jeff Pearlman was among the delayed drivers, but things turned weird when “these people (kept) getting out of the car dancing,” he posted in a Twitter video. WPTV reported that Pearlman recorded the people two cars in front of him emerging from their car and twerking on the highway, then jumping and dancing around enthusiastically before getting back in the vehicle.

COMPULSION

A 35-year-old Indian man employed a unique method for dealing with his depression: swallowing metal. Maksud Khan was rushed to surgery at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India, after developing severe abdominal pains, according to Metro News. An endoscopy showed that Khan had “coins, nails and nut-bolts in his stomach,” said Dr. Priyank Sharma, who led the surgical team. In late November, surgeons removed 263 coins, 100 nails and other metal items, including razor blades and dog chains, from Khan’s stomach. His family had no idea he had been ingesting metal, and Khan promised doctors he would never eat metal again.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

— In Iowa, autumn is breeding season

for deer, when the animals can get a little wacky and try to cross roadways. It’s also the time of year when the Iowa Department of Transportation begins fielding questions from drivers asking why deer crossing signs aren’t erected at safer spots for deer to cross. “This sign isn’t intended to tell deer where to cross,” the Iowa DOT helpfully posted on its Facebook page on Oct. 24, according to the Des Moines Register. “It’s for drivers to be alert that deer have been in this area in the past.” State Farm Insurance reports that Iowa drivers have the fourth-highest likelihood in the U.S. of hitting a deer. Coincidence?

— Rocky, an enterprising 7-month-old border collie in Devon, England, took the command “bring the sheep home” a little too literally in early November when he herded nine sheep into his owner’s kitchen. “I was in the kitchen and heard a noise,” Rocky’s owner, Rosalyn Edwards, told the BBC. “I turned around and the sheep were just standing there. It was funny at the time, but then there was quite a lot of wee, poo and mud everywhere.” The sheep stood around for a few minutes, then allowed themselves to be shown out the front door.

IRONY

As elder members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, gathered on Nov. 16 to discuss the recent church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of those present asked if anyone had brought a gun to church.

One man spoke up and said he carries a gun everywhere, reported WATE-TV, and produced the gun, emptying the chambers before passing the weapon around.

When the owner got the gun back, he replaced the magazine and recharged the chamber — accidentally squeezing the trigger and shooting himself in the hand and his wife in the abdomen. Both victims were taken by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

LAST WISHES

On Oct. 10, Richard Lussi, 76, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, succumbed to heart disease. But before he died, he made sure his family knew there was one thing he wanted to take with him: a cheesesteak from Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia. “No onions because they’ll come back to haunt me!” Lussi told his family. So the day before Lussi’s funeral, his son, John, grandson, Dominic, and two friends drove to Philly, where they ate cheesesteaks and bought two extra for Lussi’s casket. John told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the funeral director advised not putting the sandwiches in the coffin

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until after the viewing, “because people would take them.” Pat’s owner Frank Olivieri Jr. said he was flattered and proud that his cheesesteaks were held “so dear” by someone. “Maybe it’s a bribe for St. Peter,” he added.

IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD

Lisa Cramps moved into a new home in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England, this fall and quickly discovered a mysterious manhole cover in her backyard. Rather than ignore it, Cramps dug up the cover and unearthed a World War II-era bunker underneath. Neighbors informed Cramps that the shelter pre-dates her house and originally had two stories, with the upper level partially above ground. “It’s very exciting to find this in our garden,” Cramps told Metro News. “I love Second World War history, and my mission now is to find out exactly why it’s here.”

UNDIGNIFIED DEATH

Linda Bringman, 64, of the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, died on Nov. 27 after being found unresponsive three days earlier with her head stuck between two posts of a wrought iron fence.

Paramedics were called around noon that day to a PNC Bank branch where the fence was located, and Bringman was taken to the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Chicago Police could not provide an explanation for her being stuck in the fence, but they did not believe criminal activity was involved.

INEXPLICABLE

Ja Du of Tampa, Florida, was born a white male named Adam Wheeler.

Today, he is not only transsexual, but also considers himself transracial, saying he identifies as a Filipino. “Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” Du told WTSP-TV in November. Du even drives a motorized rickshaw called a Tuk Tuk, a vehicle used for public transportation in the Philippines (but which Filipinos call “trisikels”).

However, some Filipino-Americans are less than welcoming, claiming that Du has overlooked centuries of their people’s struggle. “To say you are that race is both unrealistic and problematic,” said Jackie Fernandez, a Filipino-American journalist. She believes Du has crossed a line between “cultural appreciation and appropriation.” !

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Lights! Camera! Reaction: Kelly Vanryan’s new documentary vows to set her record straight

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he California Gold Rush can be used as a metaphor for the pilgrimage to Hollywood, California, for young and aspiring entertainers.

Many will go in purKatie Murawski suit, but only few will strike gold. One High Editor Point woman had her fill after moving to Hollywood at a young age to pursue her dream in show business. Now, she is driven to clear her name from a project she feels exploited her and tarnished her reputation. In doing this, she is making her autobiographical documentary film to follow-up and show where the first documentary film she was in left off.

Kelly Vanryan (a name given to her by a producer who said she looked like a Southern Belle) is an actor and an aspiring filmmaker from Thomasville, North Carolina. Vanryan said she is transgender and has been since she was 6 years old.

At 12 years old, Vanryan said she fully transitioned from male to female.

“I know 6 sounds like a very young age for someone to understand,” she said.

“But I have always been an advanced child.”

Vanryan grew up with a “hard-working and single” mother who was supportive but, “like any other mother, she was accepting but just confused,” Vanryan said.

Even though her mother did not quite understand, she never shunned Vanryan for being who she was. Vanryan was put in private school because her mother thought that would be the safest environment for her.

Vanryan said she graduated Brittain Academy in High Point at 14 years old with honors. By the age of 15, Vanryan said she was working at her former school as a teacher’s aide. She worked there until one fateful day at a shopping mall in High Point. There, Vanryan said she was physically assaulted to the point where her jaw was broken and wired shut for six months.

She said she was assaulted because she was transgender.

“That kind of just rocked my world, of course,” she said. “I had never dealt with the stigma. I was in private school, my mother was accepting in my eyes. So

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Kelly Vanryan, with her eyes glued to the camera, poses for shoots. The first and third photo from the left were courtesy of photographer Peter Loft. The middle picture was courtesy of Kelly Vanryan and producer Pam Ewings. when that happened to me I pretty much was like ‘OK, I need to leave.’ But I was a child at 15 1/2 years old with, I think I had only like $2,000 in the bank.”

Having her jaw wired shut, and being unable to speak much for six months all because of someone else’s hate, did not discourage Vanryan but rather inspired her. She said as a “spiritual and godly” person who believes everything happens for a reason, and she said this incident turned out to be beautiful in the end.

Vanryan said she grew up with T.V. and was always obsessed with Hollywood and movie stars. That is why at 15 years old, after healing from her broken jaw, she told her mom that she was packing up and moving to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a movie star.

Vanryan said her and her childhood best friend (who was 23 at the time) sold all of their belongings and bought a one-way Greyhound ticket from North Carolina to California. Vanryan and her friend arrived about 10 minutes from Skid Row, an area in downtown Los Angeles where all the homeless people reside.

“We traveled 26 states in eight days,” she said. “We got to Hollywood, and it was not green, and it was not glamorous and it was not beautiful. It was dirty and very scary.”

The two got a hotel and stayed there until they found housing. During this time, Vanryan had just turned 16 and said it was hard for her to get a job. She said

it was especially hard for how young she was and how no one took her seriously.

After spending eight months in Los Angeles, Vanryan said her friend became a drug addict. Vanryan said her friend offered her some, but she declined and immediately knew that all of their rent and bill money was gone. Vanryan said she told her friend to go home after that.

Now, alone in Los Angeles at 16 years old and still determined to make it, Vanryan said she started escorting to make money. She then took to “The Boulevard,” or Santa Monica Boulevard where, she said, is a side street for prostitution.

“I started meeting all these guys with fetishes,” she said. “The first night I didn’t even have to have sex. I was just being; I guess a mistress and a dominatrix, in a way. So that is what I did. My first night I came home with $15,000 in cash. That paid my bills right there.”

She said being that young and making that much money all at once, started getting addictive. She said she went out the next night and the next night and it turned into about six months of doing it every day. During that time, she said she made $75,000 to $100,000.

“I knew girls that would get shot, killed, stabbed, robbed. Nothing bad happened to me,” she said. “Thank God.” Once she had some money to get some fillers (such as Botox) and dyed her hair from brown to blonde, she got auditions.

She admitted that during this time was

when she started dabbling in cocaine, ecstasy and meth. Vanryan said to pay for her habit she did some commercials for fabric softeners, local clothing modeling, promotional modeling and more local and low-budget shoots. But her biggest break, which is what ultimately broke her in the end, was a documentary film about her and starring her titled Kelly.

After seeing an ad on Craigslist for a role in a documentary about girls who come to Hollywood to be a movie star, Vanryan felt this was meant to be.

“When I walked in he said ‘where are you from?’” Vanryan said. “I said I was from North Carolina, and he said ‘you are the girl.’”

Vanryan said the filmmaker, James Stenson, was from the United Kingdom and according to his website, “Stenson made his directorial film debut in 2011 with Kelly, an award-winning documentary feature about a transgender prostitute living and working in Hollywood. Kelly premiered at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was an official selection at the Kansas City Film Fest and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.” Kelly ended up being the winner of the Best Drama Documentary Feature at the Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival, and also the winner of the Spirit Award at the Los Angeles Awareness Film Festival. The next day after the interview, Vanryan said she went to sign the contracts for her big break. Vanryan

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Pam Ewing filming Kelly Vanryan infront of wardrobe.

From left: Kelly Vanryan and producer Pam Ewing

said she was still under the age of 18 when she signed the four-year contract, and she was using drugs.

“Me being an arrogant child, I was like ‘oh this is my break, I am signing a contract,’” Vanryan said. “The contract did not include money, the only thing it included was private cars, they would pay your bills, but you had gotten no cash in hand. It just paid for everything that was involved in the movie. The cameras were big, and I thought this was going to make me a movie star, so I signed it, but at the time I was on drugs.”

Vanryan said for the first year and a half, filming was glamorous. This time was during the height of reality T.V. and The Kardashians, which she said started filming the same year. Vanryan said the crew would knock on her door at noon every day no matter if she felt like filming or not.

“So after about a year and a half of filming,” she said. “Everyday all day, you can imagine, putting on a personality for the camera, you eventually start to break.”

Vanryan said when she started falling apart, the show had to go on because they could not back out after paying her bills upfront for four years. At this time, Vanryan said she was still escorting and also in a physically abusive relationship with a man. When she turned 18, Vanryan traveled back to High Point to see her mother and the camera crew followed.

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Vanryan did not stay long in North Carolina before she returned to Los Angeles, back to her life of drugs, filming and partying. Shortly after, Vanryan was arrested in a Craigslist sting for escorting and then she said she spun out with drugs. All while the cameras were still rolling.

“I wanted the camera so much, but I could not get away from it,” she said.

When Vanryan was 20 years old, she went back home to North Carolina and left the camera crew behind. After six months of being at home, Vanryan got a call from Stenson who wanted her to see the final product before it was submitted to Slamdance Film Festival.

“I got maybe 10 minutes into it and I just like couldn’t breathe,” she said. “I couldn’t believe how beautiful I was and what I had subjected myself to. I got through maybe half of the documentary and stopped it. They were asking if I was OK and I said ‘no, it is a lie. It was all a lie.’”

After a year of being sober, and having her film be selected for the final screening of Slamdance, Vanryan said she felt robbed of her five minutes of fame that she said would have been worth it all for her in the end.

“They wouldn’t let me walk the carpet,” she said. “I did not get a Q&A; I did not get a red carpet, I didn’t get to feel that. But I told people I got my Hollywood fill.”

Meanwhile, critics raved about the film.

The Hollywood Reporter said Vanryan was akin to Andy Warhol, while Hammer to

Kelly Vanryan posing for another fashion shoot.

Photo courtesy of Kelly Vanryan.

Nail.com said the film was about “molding an identity.”

After two years of being sober, Vanryan could not seem to clear her name from Kelly. She then consulted a lawyer and found out that she was incompetent to sign a contract when she was only 16 years old and under the influence of drugs.

“I filed a section eight class lawsuit against Good Tricks productions, which is the production that I declared that I founded because the whole work that they ever made was based off of my film,” she said. “They work because of my film, and I can say that comfortably because I am a partial owner in it now.”

She sued but did not get enough to be comfortable, but enough for her to invest in another film, her very own film. Vanryan said she then had to get a job.

“So I started scrubbing floors [at 21 years old] I went from a star living in Beverly Hills making $250,000 a year to scrubbing floors for $7.25,” she said. “I did that for two years. I became humble. I was in a nursing facility with the elderly, and I shared my stories with them. I think that God put me there, that is where my faith came back.”

Now, while working at a retail store in High Point, Vanryan is making her own documentary film that she hopes will clear her name and show her life after addiction. She recently won a local media award on Nov. 18 from the CTCC foundation for using media to educate people

about being transgender and addiction.

She has now focused her attention on her home state, and she wants to use her story as a platform for other transgender North Carolinians.

“I am going to always fight for North Carolinians,” she said. “I want people to know they can transition and still be here because a lot of times we want to leave here.”

As far as her movie goes, Vanryan said she would need at least another year to get it together. Upon completion, she plans on showing Kelly and her new film back-to-back to give viewers the full story.

“I actually own the rights to [Kelly],” she said. “So I pulled it off everywhere, the only thing you can see is a trailer. No one will ever see [Kelly] until I premiere this new movie.”

The new film will start with the last two minutes of the first film and then show where she is now. Vanryan said she plans to show the films at a/perture cinema and resubmit it to Slamdance Film Festival.

“Life is about falling down and getting back up,” she said. “If you don’t fall, you don’t know how to get up.” !

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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Lions, tigers and bearcats... Oh my!

Nestled on the back roads of Burlington is a home to more than 70 wildlife residents that represent different species from around the globe. The goal of the Conservators Center, according to Katie Murawski a pamphlet, is reconnecting and educatEditor ing people of the Triad and surrounding areas about the animals that share our planet. At the Conservators Center, you can see wolves, tigers, leopards, New Guinea singing dogs, servals, caracals, jungle cats, binturongs and many others.

The Conservators Center was founded in 1999 and according to the website, “Douglas Evans and Mindy Stinner founded the Center as an educational nonprofit dedicated to providing a specialized home for select carnivore species.” In 2004, according to the website, the center accepted 14 jungle cats rescued from “unacceptable living conditions,” and that grew the population in a matter of months to over 30 cats at the center. Guided tours started in 2007 and today there is much more offered by the Conservators Center.

Volunteers and employees of the center all agree that it is not just a place to visit, but rather, it is a place that stays with you after you leave--it’s a place you can’t walk away from and forget.

“The passion that is exuded from animal people,” Joy Courson, general manager of the center said. “Whether you are actually at a facility like this or not, that passion that comes with those who believe in the animal industry is a much different passion than that of people who just like animals.”

Courson began volunteering with the center back in 2009 and spent the last eight years as a volunteer accountant.

Now, as the general manager, she said her passion for animals at the center came with a “soul-sucking bungee cord” that she could not escape. Kevin Robinson, a guide, and volunteer for the center said he visited once for a weekend and then got hooked.

“I worked in downtown D.C., I worked in the city,” Robinson said. “I would leave after work on Friday at 7 p.m. and drive down here, volunteer all day Saturday and most of the day Sunday and I would drive back home Sunday night exhausted yet happy.”

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Freya Tiger (Panthera tigris) walking around in the snow.

Photo by and courtesy of Kevin Robinson, www.abitofawesome.com Courson said she invites and encourages residents from the Triad area to come and see the animals in person and learn more about them so that they can better understand them and become an advocate for their conservation.

“When you see them,” she said. “It kind of clicks for you to understand that these animals are here because they are losing their homes in the wild and we can’t protect them in the wild if we don’t start educating here.”

Robinson said the Triad is the area that the center is closest to, but it is also the area that the center sees the least number of visitors from. Robinson said he wishes to see more people from the Triad visit since it is so close. “We get people that visit from the other side of Fayetteville,” he said. “It is rare for us to get people from Greensboro.”

Jordan McNeill, a teacher that volunteers as a tour guide for school groups said the Asheboro Zoo and the Greensboro Science Center could be reasons why not many people from the Triad to visit the Conservators Center.

“I think we exist in a different niche than those places,” she said. “The opportunities we have here to give a guided tour, where we are the educators- it is not up to the teachers to design this field trip to

be what they want it to be. They can just sit back and take a little bit of a break. Our tour guides are giving them information that is correlates with their curriculum, and that is appropriate for their grade level.”

McNeill said thanks to a grant of $75,000 from the museum in Raleigh; the Conservators Center has been able to expand their educational program. The center offers Adventure Tours (described on the pamphlet as a “wonderful introduction” to the park), Treats and Toys tours (where guides present residents with treats and scents), Twilight Tours (available from April to September), Whiskers and Tails tours ( for younger children up to 7 years old) and other premium experiences (that includes seeing the lions “oofing,” or collectively roaring).

“Places like this are necessary because there are animals in captivities and there are fewer and fewer places in the wild for these animals to live,” Robinson said.

“What is going to happen when these tiny, little populations of lions collapse and go away? What is going to happen to the lions? They will be gone, gone forever.”

For the holidays, the center hosts Winter in the Wild, in which participants can learn how each species experiences winter and what the center does, according to the

website, “to ensure everyone stays happy, healthy, and warm.” Throughout the park will also be glittering holiday lights as decorations, from November throughout December and there is a Christmas tree toss in January. Cranberry Tree Farm donates their unsold Christmas trees each year to the center and they “toss” the trees into the enclosures for the animals as an enrichment. Robinson said the animals enjoy the scent of pine and the feel of the scratchy texture. The tree toss this year is scheduled for Jan. 6 and 20 from 11:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. According to the website, the tree toss is a self-guided tour that is $26 per adult and $20 per child under 12 years old. Winter in the Wild for the family is formatted for all ages and lasts for one hour. Winter in the Wild for adults (ages 13 and up) last one to one and half hour depending on participation.

The costs for Winter in the Wild ranges from $16 to $20. For more information about the Conservators Center, visit the website, www.conservatorscenter.org or see it for yourself at 676 E. Hughes Mill Rd. in Burlington. !

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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Local record review: Yearling EP by The Bronzed Chorus While instrumental music has maintained popularity for centuries, this millennium has not been as kind. Without a singer as the primary focus, instrumental music often challenges modern Sam Haw listeners beyond their comfort level.

Contributor Even the catchiest of melodies is ignored without lyrics to complement it.

Greensboro act, The Bronzed Chorus, have faced these obstacles for over a decade, yet have overcome them to become one of the Triad’s most promising groups.

On Oct. 27, The Bronzed Chorus released a new EP, titled “Yearling.” Featured are two new tracks, “I am the Ram” and “45 Horses,” as well as remixes by Treee City, .darklove, Quilla and Rocky Rosga.

“Yearling” serves as a satisfying follow up to last year’s full-length album, “Summering.”

Formed in 2005, The Bronzed Chorus consists of Adam Joyce on guitar and Hunter Allen on drums, with both of them playing synthesizers. The duo’s experimental sound blends electronic and post-rock influences into energetic sonic landscapes, reminiscent of old video games.

“I just love tones and tonalities,” Joyce said. “That’s our thing, finding the right, weird sound that we’ve never heard before. It’s just like any of the old ‘70s or ‘80s prog-rock bands that are into the gear.”

These progressive rock influences shine through in the newest compositions.

The two tracks, structured with valleys and peaks, each takes the listener on a journey. To arrange in this manner, the duo has to be meticulous in their songwriting process.

“We write naturally,” Joyce said. “We’ll sit and play together, run through some parts, try to feel it out. Hunter has to listen a lot before he wants to settle in on a drum part. He always wants to do something different with the drums.”

This is apparent on the opening track, “I am the Ram.” After a short introduction of the main motif, Allen rapidly beats his drums, later smoothing out into a laidback groove. The song’s energy is driven by Allen’s drumming, allowing for moments of tranquility as well as an excellent build up to a climax.

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with similar ideas. The synths build into a wall of sound until a jarring drop occurs midway through the track. The drums re-enter and take the song in a completely new, and more aggressive direction.

With another album just released a little over a year ago, the band could’ve spent more time working on another full length. Instead, they chose the shorter format, which shows off their progress without oversaturating their discography.

“I think we just wanted to get that old record off our chest a little bit,” Joyce said.

“We’re always trying to work our way up with gear and the experience. Just make it better every time.”

The additional remixes on the record show the adaptability of the two tracks, as well as the remix artist’s ability to reinterpret a piece.

“We just wanted to do something different for the digital side of the release, offer a little something extra, since we’re only doing two songs,” Joyce said.

Durham producer, Treee City, transforms “I am the Ram” into an airy, laid-back beat that kicks it up a notch with hip-hop drums and percussive tapping. Previous Greensboro resident, .darklove, gave “45 Horses” a dub-inspired remix, creating a more tropical mood than the original.

Quilla, also a Greensboro resident, takes a more upbeat approach on “I am the Ram” turn it into the danciest form of the track on the EP. The only remix that falls flat is Rocky Rosga’s, who happens to be the only out of state producer on the record. Rosga takes fewer risks than the others, making only minor changes to the original composition. The sonic pallet of the original

is swapped, sure, but some structural, rhythmic, or chordal changes could have made for a much more effective re-interpretation.

To celebrate the release of “Yearling,” The Bronzed Chorus performed in Greens-

boro at On Pop Of The World Studios on Oct. 28, alongside Quilla, Night Idea and Irata.

Randy Seals, owner of On Pop Of The World, praised the release party as one of his favorite shows of the year.

“It was a magical explosion of energy,” Seals said.

Before the show at On Pop, the duo spent the better part of October on tour, making stops in Richmond, Virginia; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; and Raleigh, North Carolina, for the State Fair.

“The tour ended up going pretty great,” Joyce said. “I got sick for a while, which kind of put the band on the back burner for a minute. But we’re trying to tour a lot more. Last year we did 32 dates, touring to the midwest and back.”

The full digital copy of “Yearling” is available on the duo’s Bandcamp page for $6. A 7-inch vinyl copy of the first two tracks is available for $5 through Gigantic Noise, a Chicago based record label. !

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I’ve been living with my high-school sweetheart (from 20 years ago) for two blissful years.

However, he’s still married to his ex (though they’ve Amy Alkon been separated for 10 years). Every Advice dollar he has goes Goddess into the business he’s building or child support, so I’m paying all the bills. I want to get married and start a family, but beyond his not being divorced, he doesn’t want to marry again or have children...at this time. He says this could change in the future. — Clock’s Ticking You know you can count on him to “put a ring on it” — when he sets his beer down without a coaster on your vintage lacquered Donghia side table.

It actually isn’t surprising that you’ve managed to maintain hope — even as your loverman stops just short of tackling you at weddings to keep you from catching the bouquet. Brain imaging studies by anthropologist Helen Fisher and her colleagues find that our love for another person is not merely a feeling. In fact, as she put it in a talk, love is “a motivation system; it’s a drive; it’s part of the reward system of the brain.”

Fisher further explains in her book “Why We Love”: “When a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the brain

increase their work, pumping out more of this natural stimulant to energize the brain, focus attention, and drive the pursuer to strive even harder to acquire a reward.” (Welcome to the factory where “Only him!” gets made.)

In reality, there are probably a number of love-worthy aspiring Mr. Minivans out there. However, you’re blind to this because getting your boyfriend to hubby up (and daddy up) has become a goal, energizing the human motivational system and all of its neurochemical enablers.

Psychologically, the more momentum you gain in pursuing something the less interest you have in exploring whether it even makes sense. Physiologically, surging dopamine and other neurochemicals basically become punks giving rational thought a beat-down so you can keep mindlessly chasing your goal.

To drag rational thought into the mix, pause the misty mental footage of this guy someday “putting a ring on it” and put some numbers on your chances — Vegas bookie-style. Things to factor: How likely is he to come around on the marriage thing? Babies? And if there’s a chance he’d agree to make some, how likely is it to happen before your ovaries put out the “Sorry, We’re Closed” sign?

Express the odds in percentages — as in, “He’s X percent likely to do Y” — basing your guesses on his prior behavior, values, etc. Lay out the percentages visually, by drawing a pie chart. This is helpful because we’re bad at understanding odds expressed in abstractions — vague ideas like “He might marry me!” We’re better when the odds are represented in concrete ways — ways we can pick up

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My boyfriend recently ended things, saying he wasn’t ready to be tied down. His mother adores me and keeps calling and saying he loves me and to just be patient.

Should I be talking to her at all? Is this normal behavior for a 32-year-old man’s mom? — Confused Stalkers usually want to date you or chain you to a radiator in their basement, not force you to choose between the calla lilies and the “Winter Blessings” wedding centerpiece.

Though his mom’s busybodying is weirding you out, it’s actually an example of a common dynamic that evolutionary psychologists call “parent-offspring conflict.” Not surprisingly, parents and children often have competing interests.

In fact, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains that parent-offspring conflict

starts in the womb. For instance, momsto-be sometimes get gestational diabetes when their little hog of a fetus puts out a hormone to mess with the mom’s blood glucose — allowing him to suck up not only his share of nutrients but a bunch of his mother’s share, too.

What’s in Mommy Meddlingest’s interest? A nice, emotionally stable woman, just the ticket to her becoming a grandma — sooner rather than later — and not just to newborns that bark. But what’s in Sonny Boy’s interest? Well, maybe an endless string of sexfriends.

If his mom’s calls make you uncomfortable, set boundaries — kindly! (Say you appreciate her efforts but prefer that she stop intervening.) Ironically, it’s parents keeping lovers apart that tends to bring them together (the “Romeo and Juliet effect”) — as opposed to the tack his mom’s taking: Yes, someone’s rented the apartment directly across from yours, and they’re waving at you. Wait — is that...? !

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