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Quinceno and Hernandez launched X CARET in 2017 with a vision to create an upscale Mexican restaurant dedicated to providing a different cultural experience. The partners named the restaurant after a water park located in Cancun, Mexico...

10 High Point Community Theatre will perform, ‘CABARET’ in three evening shows at 7:30 p.m. on February, 27, 28 and 29 and at 2 p.m. on March 1 at the High Point Theatre.

11 The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in WinstonSalem prizes its TEACHERS as much as its students, and late last month announced six faculty members who would receive Excellence in Teaching awards for 2019-’20.

12 Appropriately timed for a Valentine’s Day release, THE PHOTOGRAPH is much in the Nicholas Sparks spirit, which for some makes it irresistible and for others, eminently resistible.

13 BUDDY! The Buddy Holly Story opened this past weekend to sold-out shows at the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance. A smiling, happy and packed-in audience clapped and sang along for a super-

sweet Valentine’s rock ‘n’ roll blast from the past!

18 Summerfield Farms, located at 3203 Pleasant Ridge Rd., is inviting everyone to get a taste of JK Made elderberry syrup shots along with some hot cider toddies at the ELDERBERRY Fireside Friday, a kid and dog-friendly, free event with music by Caleb Zeigler outside The Market on Feb. 21, Friday evening from 5-8 p.m.

19 “We will protect any protester’s first amendment right to speak freely,” new Greensboro police chief Brian James recently told YES! Weekly, “but to IMPEDE a patient going to an abortion clinic or any medical facility is not legal and not right.”

20 Calling dark hearts and dance fiends: SEGRETO beckons lost souls to Soul Relief Records on Feb. 22. An experience brought to life by Lee Budkey, aka DJ Eight Four, Segreto will celebrate the shadows with choice tunes and live painting by Dane Walters.

21 Somewhere on an interstate in the United States, a guy is driving a van loaded with hundreds of pounds of gongs, bells, chimes and other metallic instruments. The guy is MIKE TAMBURO.

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WHAT: The sons of Gregg Allman (Devon Allman) and Dickey Betts (Duane Betts) have joined forces to form The Allman Betts Band. The group kicked off their first World Tour in March 2019 and sold out 12 of their first 18 shows. Their performances feature new music, songs from their solo projects, and classic Allman Brothers and Gregg Allman tunes in honor of the 50th Anniversary of The Allman Brothers Band.

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: The Carolina Theatre.

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MORE: $25-45 tickets.

WHAT: Can’t make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras weekend? We’ve partnered with Southern Comfort 80 & Nola Brewing Company to bring you the next best thing! Score Mardi Gras masks, beads and other swag while supplies last. Catch DJ Cohiba spinning live in the main bar from 9pm-1am. Drink specials and other festive fun on deck.

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SLIPPERY WHEN WET: BON JOVI TRIBUTE WHAT: Slippery When Wet – The Ultimate Bon Jovi Tribute was formed in 2003 by Jason Morey after answering many inquiries of “Are you Jon Bon Jovi?”. Most notably comedian Dave Chappelle invited Jason backstage following one of his comedy shows thinking that he was the New Jersey icon. It was then that Jason knew he had to take advantage of the resemblance WHEN: 8-11:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Blind Tiger.

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WHAT: Thanks to their die-hard, loyal fan base and their younger generation offspring, TESLA continues to tour to sold-out crowds around the world. Celebrating 30+ years of kick ass Rock ‘n’ Roll gives their audience a musical journey that keeps the loyal fans coming back and has newcomers realizing, “Wow, I didn’t know they did that song!

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Piedmont Hall.

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WHAT: After more than 50 active years of hit song making and international album sales well into the multi-millions, it’s safe to say that esteemed singer-songwriter and musician Gordon Lightfoot resides with some very exclusive company atop the list of all-time greats. His song catalog is incredibly vast and includes such immortals as “Early Morning Rain,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway,” and “Sundown,” to name a few.

WHEN: 7:30-9:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Carolina Theatre.

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Throughout much of our history, Triad area residents have been represented by at least two Congressmen.

But now, thanks to various court rulings and legislative maneuverings, Greensboro, High Point, and WinstonSalem will all fall into the newly formed 6th district, as well as all of Guilford County and much of Forsyth.

The new alignment favors a Democrat, so Republican incumbent Mark Walker declined to seek another term.

As a result, two Republicans and five Democrats filed for the open seat, and they will seek their party’s nomination in the March 3 primary.

Democrat Kathy Manning is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan Law School.

She was a partner in a Greensboro Law Firm for 15 years before starting her own business, and she has been a tireless community servant for the past 30 years, working on bringing jobs to the area, and school readiness programs for disadvantaged kids. Most recently, she helped spearhead the effort to build the new Tanger Center for the Performing Arts.

This is Kathy’s second run for Congress, having been defeated by Ted Budd two years ago in what was then the 13th district. Manning appeared on Triad Today this past weekend. Here are highlights of our conversation: JL: Why are you running for Congress?

KM: Well I took on a tough race in 2018 because I was so deeply worried about the future of this country, and I wish I could say all of the issues I was worried about, from healthcare, prescription drug prices, to the environment, to gun violence, to women’s reproductive rights, to jobs, and high-quality education for all of our kids, I wish all of those things had been solved, but they haven’t. Things have actually gotten worse.

JL: Trump’s proposed budget contains cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and Food Stamps. Your thoughts?

KM: I think it’s ironic that he gave a State of the Union address that was so misleading, and made it seem like he was really good for the country, but his budget shows what he is really all about, and it’s going to be devastating for people all across this district, and all across the country.

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I have worked as an immigration attorney, and I’ve worked on all kinds of projects to make our community better. I have a proven track record of leadership and of being able to bring people together to get tough things done. Those are the leadership qualities I want to take to Washington so that I can get things done for the people of this district. !

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nly a couple hours before our meeting, Juan Quinceno, co-owner of X Caret Mexican Grill & Cantina, needed to reschedule because the restaurant— located at 202 W. 4th St. in downtown Winston-Salem— was tagged with graffiti the night before. Quinceno was personally cleaning up the building exterior before lunch kicked off. Like most small business owners, Quinceno wears many hats. He is routinely onsite to host, serve, bus tables, bartend, or clean up.

Quinceno emigrated to the United States from Columbia, South America when he was 8 years old. Quinceno’s first job was at Chick-fil-A, and he said the popular brand’s commitment to customer service was intriguing. So, he quickly rose up through the ranks to become a shift leader, and ultimately spent three years working at the restaurant. Always wanting to grow, Quinceno decided to leave Chick-fil-A, opting to pursue a career at Truliant Federal Credit Union. He said he started out in a call center, which led to a position in the consumer-lending department where he assisted members with credit cards as well as auto and mortgage loans. Quinceno believes “everybody should work at a bank at some point in life” to learn how to save,

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manage credit, and not make poor financial decisions. But it would be Quinceno’s return to food service that would make a lasting impact on his life.

Quinceno said he was attending West Forsyth High School when he met X Caret co-owner, Rigo Hernandez. Hernandez’s father, Manuel Hernandez, started Monte

De Rey – a Mexican restaurant with locations in Winston-Salem, Clemmons, and Walkertown.

Rigo Hernandez was born in the United States, but returned to his father’s homeland in Guadalajara, Mexico, to be raised by his grandmother. After falling in with the wrong crowd when he was 15

years old, his father moved him back to the states, where he started working in the family’s restaurant. Quinceno was in need of extra money and picked up a serving job at Monte De Rey, and during this period, he and Hernandez grew inspired to open their own restaurant.

So with the guidance and financial support of Hernandez’s father, Quinceno and Hernandez launched X Caret in 2017 with a vision to create an upscale Mexican restaurant dedicated to providing a different cultural experience. The partners named the restaurant after a water park located in Cancun, Mexico, and it’s decorated with art and furniture sourced directly from the country.

Working at Monte De Rey brought back memories of his grandmother’s cooking, but Hernandez missed the authenticity of his grandmother’s recipes.

“Burritos are not too popular in Mexico, and lots of people there don’t eat them, so I wanted to change people’s idea of Mexican food,” Hernandez said. “I express myself in the food.”

Quinceno’s passion for people and service makes him perfect for focusing on the front of house operations, and he genuinely enjoys pleasing customers.

“I’ve always wanted to be the boss, but I also want to make a real difference,” Quinceno said.

Manuel Hernandez often reminds

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Arleth, a new waitress, remarked, “Juan and Rigo are great to work for; they are chill, funny, and always willing to help.”

X Caret’s menu feature items offered at other Mexican restaurants such as tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and fajitas – but they spotlight dishes closely aligned with their cultures, such as Mole Poblano and Birria Chilaquiles.

Hernandez trains cooks to care about the food presentation, “everything doesn’t have to be fast and cheesy,” Quinceno said. “People eat first with their eyes.”

Hernandez prepared three items to sample during my visit: Birria de Res ($12.99) – Steamed marinated beef with different types of chili peppers and spices, served with a fresh tortilla, rice, cilantro, onions, and lime. In Mexico, often goat meat is substituted for beef.

Mole Poblano with Chicken ($11.99)– A traditional dish served in Mexico that requires over 22 ingredients to prepare, comes with rice, sesame, onions, fresh jalapeno, lemon juice, and tortillas.

Rigo’s Tostada ($8.99) – One deepfried tortilla topped with queso, steak, a sunny side up egg, pico de gallo, and avocado, served with a side of fries.

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I was unimpressed with the food during my initial visit to X Caret once it opened, so I wanted to know what they did to significantly improve the food quality and flavor profile.

“We never took complaints personal— it’s just feedback, so we listened carefully and worked to get the restaurant to the next stage,” Quinceno said.

The young partners are not done yet; they recently shook up downtown when they agreed to lease the former Side Bar space in the 400-block of West 4th Street. Quinceno and Hernandez are opening a tequila and mescal bar named La Ch.ngada, which undoubtedly earned them social media fame and attention.

The bar is set to open in early March and will offer a unique drink menu with craft cocktails driven by Mexican culture.

Hernandez’s sister, Manali Hernandez, will supervise the bar while Quinceno and Hernandez concentrate on managing operations. A graduate from UNCG, Manali started working at Monte De Rey when she was 13 years old, and now she works at X Caret.“We have already been successful with delivering a new experience, and we definitely will deliver again,” Manali Hernandez said proudly. !

ALGENON CASH is a nationally recognized speaker and the managing director of Wharton Gladden & Company, an investment banking firm. Reach him at acash@algenoncash.com

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igh Point Community Theatre will perform Cabaret in three evening shows at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, 28 and 29 and at 2 p.m. on March Terry Rader 1 at the High Point Theatre (recommended for ages 14 Contributor and up, as it contains adult language and situations). The show runs for approximately 2½ hours with a 15-minute intermission, said HPCT director/music director Mike Lasley.

“Welcome to the infamous Kit Kat Klub, where the Emcee, Sally Bowles, and a raucous ensemble take the stage nightly to tantalize the crowd – to leave their troubles outside… Come hear some of the most memorable songs in theatre history,” the HPCT website states.

Lasley said that Cabaret is a well-written show that people don’t do very often, perhaps due to its mature content. But he insisted that this show is very relevant to the times because the tragic storyline is set in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi regime. Lasley said the cast had worked hard to find a balance in how they each deal with the oppressive history and still make it fun enough to be entertaining.

Lasley said they would be performing the most recent Cabaret, the 1998 revival that also includes songs from the 1972 movie.

“I have an amazing cast of 28 people and team,” Lasley said. “They’re everything I’ve hoped for to get this show off of the ground.” He said that Sammy Leigh Campbell, who plays Helga (a Kit Kat Klub girl), did all of the make-up design and that Eric Gagliardo and Holly Davis had been “working their butts off” designing the costumes. Lasley said this production is unusual for them because they are also putting the band on stage.

Lasley said that the Emcee played by the “fearless” Curtis Myrick, has an openended role in how he covers both overarching political and social commentary.

“He threads through the entire show as an evil trickster presence,” Lasley said.

The Emcee could be perceived as a malevolent presence because he shows up in several places he shouldn’t be. For instance, during the song, “It Couldn’t Please Me More” (aka “the pineapple YES! WEEKLY

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HPCT Cabaret Kit Kat Klub song”) starring Mickey Hyland and Caitlin Rose, the Emcee shows up holding a pineapple and later hides his identity in a trench coat.

Sally Bowles (Ashley Pearson) is a tough, bubbly, over-the-top flippant personality, and “you have to decide if you really like her or not when she deals with pregnancy and abortion decisions,” Lasley remarked. Lasley said that Pearson is a powerhouse singer and dancer in her performances of “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama,” “Maybe This Time,” “Mein Herr,” and more.

Lasley said the story part of the show goes to the role of the American novelist, Clifford Bradshaw (played by Wilson Mericle), who comes to Germany to find inspiration. Lasley said Bradshaw’s character drives much of the emotional content when he gets tied up with the frivolous Sally Bowles. Thus, the play ends with him leaving Germany during a big, dramatic finale.

Lasley said he had seen this show, most of any show, and it never crossed his mind that he would be directing it someday due to his focus on becoming a professional percussionist. Since 2008, Lasley has taught as an adjunct percussion instructor

at A&T State University. He began music directing 10 years ago with Oklahoma! at City Arts. He has spent five years at HPCT (as well as directing four years of their A Christmas Carol musicals) and had served as a board member for three years.

Lasley said with so much theatre in the Triad, it’s easy to miss these smaller companies. He said people tend to think that the HPCT is a part of the High Point Theatre, but they only rent the space from them. With the theatre seating 875 people, they rarely use the full space due to the cost of renting it. With lighting, sound, security, and rights to the show, each production runs about $20,000$25,000.

“Cabaret is such an important show because of its continued relevance,” Lasley said. “It’s entertaining, and it has so much heart, and the actors are 100% emotionally invested in telling this important story that they find so relevant, and you can see their photos [in costume] and personal comments to my questions on HPCT’s Facebook page. I love learning about the motivation behind the cast. I love directing, it’s a very collaborative process and a lot of hard work, but it is very rewarding.”

Lasley said he is excited to introduce the

new “VIP On-Stage Packages” that go on sale Feb. 18. Twelve VIPs (six couples per show) will get to sit on the stage and be interactive for a cost of $90 per couple.

This includes being escorted in by an actor with a glass of wine, and a second glass at intermission along with a cheese tray on top of being entered into two contests to receive either a $200 gift card or an Xbox and be photographed with the cast. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer/editorial/content/ copy, creative consultant/branding strategist, communications outreach messenger, poet and emerging singer/songwriter.

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Located at 232 S Elm St. 2 Wolves and a Lamb By: Preston Lane Feb. 2- Feb. 23 Show times: Tuesdays-Thursdays, Sundays 7:30 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays 8 p.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

According to the website, “Let your voice be heard. The local elections in Hawboro, N.C., pit old friends against each other, and special interests rule. There are no bystanders here.

Immerse yourself in the rush of the campaign and become a participant as you vote in the election and decide the end of the story.” From the artistic director: “In our Hawboro project, all of us at Triad Stage are trying to create on ongoing dialogue on issues facing the Piedmont Triad. These handmade experiences are crafted especially for you. And this time, we want to make you honorary citizens of Hawboro. I started working on this play last year as a literary fellow at The Montalvo Arts Center, challenging myself to make a way for everyone— liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between—to be a part of Hawboro’s future.”

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Buddy! A Buddy Holly Story Written by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinso Music and Lyrics by Various Artists Feb.14 – March 1 Show times: 8 p.m. on WednesdaySaturday, 2 p.m. on Sundays According to the website, “Buddy Holly is revived! THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY tells the true story of Buddy’s meteoric rise to fame, from the moment in 1957 when ‘That’ll Be The Day’ hit the airwaves until his tragic death less than two years later on “The Day The Music Died”. The show features over 20 of buddy holly’s greatest hits including ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Everyday’, ‘Oh Boy’, ‘Not Fade Away’, ‘Rave On’ And ‘Raining In My Heart’, plus Ritchie Valens’ ‘La Bamba’ and the big bopper’s ‘Chantilly Lace’.

The incredible legacy of the young man with glasses, whose musical career spanned an all-too-brief period during the golden days of rock & roll, continues to live on in BUDDY.” !

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UNCSA teachers honored for excellence The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem prizes its teachers as much as its students, and late last month announced six faculty members who would Mark Burger receive Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2019-2020. “UNCSA Contributor educators are passionate about translating their expertise and talents into creating the conditions that best encourage the full growth of young artists in their chosen discipline,” stated Karin Peterson, interim provost of UNCSA. “These faculty elevate teaching to an art form. We are profoundly grateful for the was in which they bring artistry, dedication, and deep care to their work in our studios and classrooms every day.

We celebrate their achievements and the successes of their students.”

Some 26 years ago, the multi-campus University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors decided to establish a series of awards that reinforced teaching as the principal responsibility and focus of its 17 constituent institutions. At UNCSA, full-time faculty members are nominated by colleagues and current and former students in their respective disciplines.

“There is nothing more gratifying for a teacher than seeing students grow and develop,” Peterson said. “These faculty [members] have been nominated by enthusiastic students and peers who deeply respect their work. Our institution thrives because of the talents and devotion of all of our faculty, and we thank these [award winners] for their contributions to teaching excellence.”

The six recipients of 2019-2020 Excellence in Teaching Awards are: Tadeu Coelho (School of Music), Janna Levin (Division of Liberal Arts), Krisha Marcano (School of Drama), Joanne Moore (School of Filmmaking), Wade Wilson (School of Design & Production), and Abigail Yager (School of Dance).

Coelho, who joined the School of Music faculty in 2002, previously taught at the University of Iowa, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Campinas (Brazil). As a performer, he released nine solo CDS and performed over 1,000 times throughout the world. No stranger to the UNCSA Excellence in Teaching Award, he received that and the Board of Governors

Excellence in Teaching Award in 20132014.

Levin, who joined the UNCSA faculty in 2008, earned her bachelor of science in geology with honors from Bates College, a Master of Science in geosciences from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Ph.D. in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, as well as previously teaching at Wake Forest University and Duke University.

Marcano, who joined the UNCSA faculty in 2016, holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in entrepreneurship from Kenney College. After spending six years dancing in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and The Martha Graham Dance Company, she spent nearly 20 years on Broadway in such hits as Disney’s Aida, Fosse, Motown, a revival of Sweet Charity, and she originated the role of “Squeak” in the original, Tony Awardwinning 2005 musical production of The Color Purple. In 2016, she inaugurated The Artistry Center Network to aid performers with artistic and entrepreneurial wellness.

Moore became a visiting faculty member at the School of Filmmaking in 2015 and a full-time faculty member two years later. Having earned a BA in political science from the University of CalforniaRiverside and a JD from the University of California at Los Angeles, she opted to try her hand in Hollywood and produced the award-winning 1994 satire Swimming With Sharks. She was president of Dustin Hoffman’s company, Punch Productions, and worked on the award-winning Showtime drama The Devil’s Arithmetic (1999) and the award-winning romantic drama A Walk on the Moon (1999), which marked the feature directorial debut of actor Tony Goldwyn.

Wilson joined the sound design department at the School of Design & Production in January 2019, after having taught film editing and sound design at the

School of Filmmaking since 2008. Having earned an Associate in Arts in liberal arts from West Los Angeles College, he’s worked as a sound designer and editor in both film (Shrek, The Perfect Storm, Madagascar, Elf, Mystic River) and television (The Simpsons, Futurama), and has received five Golden Reel Award nominations from the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild.

Wilson previously chaired the film editing and sound design department and was the assistant dean of post-production for the School of Filmmaking, as well as serving as chair of the UNCSA faculty council and appointed by the provost as director of interdisciplinary studies for the campus.

This marks Yager’s eighth year at UNCSA, including two years as assistant dean of contemporary dance. She earned a BA in compositional studies (theory and practice) from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA in dance from Hollins University. She previously taught at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Ohio State University, and the Korean National University of Arts. From 1995-2002, she danced professionally with the Trisha Brown Company in New York City and has subsequently directed reconstructions of Brown’s works here and abroad.

One award winner’s name will be submitted to the Board of Governors as a recipient of a system-wide teaching award, which includes a stipend of $12,500 and a commemorative bronze medallion. The recipient of the Board of Governors Award will be announced following the board’s meeting this month and honored at the UNCSA commencement ceremonies in May. The official UNCSA website is www. uncsa.edu/. !

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With attractive leads in LaKeith Stanfield and Issa Rae and a gently appealing rhythm-andblues soundtrack, there’s no doubt that love is in the air. He plays Michael Block, a reporter doing a feature story on the recently deceased photographer, Christina Eames (Chanté Adams), whose work is to be showcased in an exhibition in New York City. Naturally, he meets her daughter, Mae

(Rae), who happens to be curating the exhibition.

Michael’s getting over a long-term relationship, Mae’s still mourning her mother.

Guess what happens?

Yes, it happens, but in an extremely low-key manner. The overall dynamic of the film is almost muted, and the narrative strangely patchy, as if some pivotal scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. The Photograph doesn’t pack much of a punch.

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tary fashion. Michael and Mae are there to fall in love, and although they talk about themselves (a lot), one doesn’t get a great sense of where they come from or, more importantly, what drives them.

As the narrative shifts back and forth in time, depicting Christina’s early life in New Orleans and her decision to move to New York City, The Photograph becomes more fragmented, as opposed to coalescing.

Executive producer/writer/director Stella Meghie is unable to satisfactorily tie the parallel strands of the storyline together.

The story follows a predictable path to a predictable conclusion, with few surprises along the way.

Having proven his versatility with two fine and varied, supporting performances in last year’s Knives Out and Uncut Gems, Stanfield deservedly graduates to leadingman status here, and he’s ideal, to say nothing of a handsome, leading man. Rae is equally easy on the eyes but sometimes appears distracted, which may be her way of conveying Mae’s grief and insecurity.

Lil Rel Howery and Kelvin Harrison Jr. add some levity to the proceedings as Michael’s brother and co-worker, respectively, and it’s good to have Rob Morgan and Courtney B. Vance on hand, even if they’re mostly required to provide exposition.

One of the nicer aspects in The Photograph is that every character is likable. There is no antagonist, no villain.

The closest might be Chelsea Peretti as Michael’s brassy boss, but underneath her wisecracks beats a heart of gold or Marsha Stephanie Blake as Christina’s boozesoaked mother (seen in flashbacks), but hers is also a sympathetic, if deeply troubled, character.

The Photograph is a nice movie, undoubtedly made with nice intentions, but at best, it’s merely competent— not a bad film, just a bland one. !

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THE CALL OF THE WILD (PG) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 OLYMPIC DREAMS (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 1:10, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35, 9:40, 11:45 Sun - Thu: 1:10, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35, 9:40 KNIVES OUT (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 BRAHMS: THE BOY II (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:10, 11:20 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:10 DOWNHILL (R) Fri & Sat: 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05, 11:10 Sun - Thu: 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:05 LOVE AAJ KAL (NR) Fri: 3:15, 9:30 Sat: 9:30 PM Sun: 3:15, 9:30 Mon: 12:00, 3:15, 6:15, 9:30 Tue: 12:00, 3:15 Wed & Thu: 12:00, 3:15, 6:15, 9:30 PARASITE (R) Fri - Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 7:10, 10:05

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Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story opened this past weekend to sold-out shows at the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance. A smiling, happy and packed-in audience clapped and sang along for a superTerry Rader sweet Valentine’s rock ‘n’ roll blast from the past!

Contributor Songs included over 20 of Buddy Holly’s greatest hits such as “That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Everyday,” “Oh Boy,” “Not Fade Away,” “Rave On,” plus Ritchie Valens’s “La Bamba” and the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace.”

WSTA director Jamie Lawson had to yell above the crowd already singing along to the ‘50s tunes piped through the sound system before the show even started with an excitement that was truly palpable.

Lawson yelled, “Are you ready to rock?

‘Cause we sure are!” He announced they had just opened the third week of shows from Feb. 28 through March 1 for the twohour (15-minute intermission) musical.

Act I had Hipockets Duncan (Troy Hurst) on KDAV Radio Studio in Lubbock, Texas, announcing The Hayriders singing before Buddy Holly (Gray Smith) and The Crickets, Joe Maudlin on bass (Steve Robinson), Jerry Allison on drums (John C. Smith) singing, “Flower of My Heart.”

Holly, frustrated with playing country music, changes his tune and yells out, “Are ya’ ready to rock ‘n’ roll?” He proceeded to set the stage on fire, fiercely stirring up the crowd with his high-energy singing, dancing and strumming while getting Duncan riled up and yelling, “What the hell are you playing?” Duncan continued to huff and hurl warnings at Holly until Holly exclaims he didn’t want to be a country singer.

Later, we learned how a new contract with Decca Recording Studios and Decca Producer (Carl Nubile) cost him his band.

The crowd cracked up over Allison’s request to change the song “Cindy Lou” to “Peggy Sue” and when Vi Petty (Katy Carroll) prompted by Norman Petty (Carl Nubile) broke bad on the piano, the songs took on a whole new rockabilly magic, and radio announcers spread the news.

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2020 Buddy! cast with Jamie Lawson, WSTA director five weeks later as their fame began to spin out of control. When Holly was going on tour with The Big Bopper (Troy Hurst) and Ritchie Valens (Omar Sosa), Elena Maria (who is pregnant) asks him not to go, because of a dream. Holly wrote a sweet song for his wife, called “True Love Ways,” and sang it to her before he left.

One highlight for me was when Buddy Holly and The Crickets got booked to play the Apollo in Harlem, New York. They had a hard act to follow after Marlena Madison (Brianna Witherspoon) wowed the audience and personally gave me goosebumps with her powerhouse presence and voice. The joint started jumping as Madison was joined by Tyrone Jones (Braxton Allen) in belting out the strongest, most soulful duet of “Shout” you could ever imagine. They simply drove the crowd wild as we clapped and sang along!

The second act opened with Jack Daw and the Snowbirds. Big Bopper came on like a big, bright, light bulb and got the crowd going with is famous “Hellooooooo, Baaaaaaabaay!” Most Theatre Alliance fans know that once you plug Smith in,

he just goes on and on, and playing Holly was no exception. Smith had the crowd howling at his tango-like dancing sprints across the stage, with his infectious joy and a grin that lit up the night. Valens was keeping up his incredible voice, and some pretty amazing pelvis thrusts made for a super-theatrical performance.

The final Clear Lake Concert in Iowa and song “Rave On” was wildly intense!

The back-up singers of four guys on the left and four gals on the right were also busting some fun moves. It shocked us all when the music abruptly stopped along with all movement on the stage with the announcement of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), Ritchie Valens and, Roger Peterson (the pilot). This tragedy would later be dubbed “The Day the Music Died.”

The audience thought the show was over, but by golly, Holly brought it all up again and again in a grand finale with the audience on their feet dancing, clapping, singing along with squeals of delight to yet a third encore.

The nine professional musicians who

had been playing the songs behind the curtain on stage got a lot of love from the audience once revealed in Act II, especially when Holly announced Tommy Jackson (of the Reeves Theatre) who did a “little Jerry Lee-like explosion” on the piano he had been playing all night.

Lawson drew a great round of applause in announcing the special 2020-2021 WSTA season reveal on March 23 at 7 p.m.

This fundraiser (details TBA) will help make WSTA’s summer 2021 moving goal.

Lawson thanked everyone in advance for their support of the “Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance Capital Homecoming Campaign” and asked everyone to please keep voting for WSTA every single day through April 30 for “The Triad’s Best” by YES! Weekly in their 37th year of operating with all-volunteers.

“It’s so much fun to have this energy show after show,” Lawson said. “If you see one musical this year, let it be this one!” !

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A well-meaning neighbor’s attempt to save his friend from a dog attack went south on Feb. 5 in Adams, Massachusetts.

Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Chuck Shepherd Harrington told the Associated Press the neighbor heard yelling shortly after noon and discovered his friend being attacked by his own dog and his girlfriend’s dog. The good Samaritan returned to his apartment, got the crossbow he used for hunting and fired it up a stairwell at one of the dogs.

But the bolt glanced off the dog and went through the door into the apartment where it struck and killed the victim. Harrington said the dogs had a history of aggression and were usually kept in separate kennels.

She described the man as “very distraught” and did not expect criminal charges to be filed. Officers responding to the scene shot both dogs.

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needed directions on Feb. 8 and flashed his headlights at a Marion County Sheriff’s squad car to ask for help, the Ocala Star-Banner reported. Deputy Calvin Batts obliged, but during the conversation, he noticed Zamora smelled like alcohol and was unsteady on his feet, according to the arrest report. Zamora then resisted Batts’ request to take a breath test, saying, “You didn’t pull me over. I pulled you over,” and told the officer he is “legally disabled,” which would account for his instability. However, it wouldn’t explain the bag of white powder found in Zamora’s shirt pocket, which field-tested positive for cocaine, according to the report. Batts also reported finding a two-thirds-full bottle of Canadian whiskey and a 15-year-old passenger in the vehicle.

Zamora was arrested and charged with DUI and possession of cocaine.

SWEET REVENGE

Housepainter Dean Reeves of Bolsover, England, came to a slow realization that his client, Terry Taylor, was never going to pay him the rest of what he says he is owed for painting Taylor’s building. So in January, Reeves took his complaint public and painted a graffiti message on the building’s exterior: “Want your house painting? Don’t

be like Terry. Pay the bill! Now you will!”

According to Oddity Central, Reeves said Taylor “changed the job, kept asking me to do extra work. ... He kept saying, ‘I’ll pay you tomorrow,’ but tomorrow never came.” For his part, Taylor denies Reeves’ accusations and is threatening to press criminal charges.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION

— The Washington, D.C., Metro has spent five years and $3.8 million building two still-unfinished bike racks at two of its stations, WJLA reported on Feb. 12. The original budget for the two covered racks, which each will house 92 bikes, was $600,000 apiece. “Quality control issues with contractors can take time to sort out,” the Metro said in a statement, “but Metro determined it was important to get the project done right rather than get it done quickly.” It hopes the projects, first set to be completed in December of 2015, will be finished in the next few months.

— Giovanni Palmiero, 101, has been living in the United Kingdom since 1966, so logically, he applied to remain there after Brexit.

Alarmingly, the Home Office demanded that Palmiero’s parents confirm his identity and accompany him to an office in north London to make his application. Dimitri Scarlato, a

volunteer helping Palmiero, immediately realized the computer had read his birth year as 2019 instead of 1919. “I phoned the Home Office and it took two calls and a half an hour for them to understand,” Scarlato told The Guardian. Palmiero has been married to his 92-year-old wife, Lucia, for 75 years. They will be able to remain in the U.K.

CLEVER

An unnamed 47-year-old Italian woman convicted of fraud in 2017 in Sicily has been on the run since then, The Guardian reported, eluding authorities by hiding in convents.

The woman moved to the northern regions of Italy and phoned convents pretending to be a sister “looking for help and claiming she was severely ill,” investigators said.

As she moved from convent to convent, she changed her identity, duping nuns who trusted her and thought her to be kind. Finally, a Benedictine nun grew suspicious and phoned police, telling them her stories were “full of contradictions.” Authorities verified her identity and arrested her. She now faces further charges of claiming false identity. !

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y the end of his first month, new Greensboro Police Chief Brian L. James may have spent more time talking directly to the public than Ian McDowell his controversial predecessor Wayne Scott did in Scott’s Contributor embattled five years as Greensboro’s top cop. And where Scott instructed his public information officer to refuse interview requests from YES! Weekly, James responded quickly and personally.

“Each administration is different,” said James on a rainy morning two weeks ago.

“It’s not to say that what I’m doing is better, but I want to put an emphasis on being open and having conversations.”

James said that he hopes the Greensboro Police Department and its critics can find common ground without demonizing each other or closing lines of communication.

“Even if we don’t agree, we can still come to the table and talk about it— if we can move closer to agreement, even if not complete agreement, that’s still progress. If we don’t, that’s a lose/lose for everybody.”

That’s why he’s scheduled so many public forums. These began in his old neighborhood at Peeler Recreation Center on Jan. 22— 11 days before he was officially chief. In YouTube videos of that evening, Chief James can be seen responding to such longtime GPD critics as retired civil rights attorney Lewis Pitts Jr. and the Rev. Nelson Johnson. The exchange with Pitts got testy, but while Johnson spoke of Greensboro’s “long, long history of police abuse of power,” he said, “I respect and perceive you as an honorable person,” which are very different descriptors than Johnson has used for James’s predecessor.

Since then, James has held public forums at the Barber and Lindley Recreation Centers. Upcoming ones are scheduled for Brown Recreation Center on Feb. 20, Glenn McNairy Branch Library on Feb. 25, Leonard Recreation Center on Feb. 27, and the Central Library on March 5. On March 10, James will return to the Peeler Center where he used to swim and play basketball, and he’ll be at Griffin Recreation Center on March 12. Each meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is expected to end around 8 YES! WEEKLY

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p.m. Those seeking information about the community meetings can call the Greensboro Police Department Office of Community Engagement at (336) 373-2636 or email the public information officer at Ronald.Glenn@greensboro-nc.gov.

“What I want is an open dialogue where we learn what people are most concerned about,” Chief James said. “Whether crime, police service, or any other issue they would like to address. If it’s not something we can handle directly, then we’ll reach out to other city departments or partners that might help to alleviate whatever the problem is.”

On Jan. 22, James called his greatest challenge communication, a statement with which Nelson Johnson, who said he’d been told the same thing by the first chair of the human relations commission in 1966, expressed qualified disagreement.

In his Feb. 6 conversation with YES! Weekly, Chief James continued to stress communication.

“I still believe that’s my biggest challenge. I want to see what we can do to bridge gaps and find out what folks are most concerned about. Hopefully, with these meetings, we can draw some people out and identify those problems.”

When the public information officer escorted me to the police station conference room where the interview took place, he warned that Chief James would be unable to speak about matters under litigation and wanted to focus on “going forward.”

“Matters under litigation” include the fatal hogtying of Marcus Deon Smith by eight GPD officers at the 2018 North Carolina Folk Festival, and the 2016 arrest of Zared Jones, the police body camera footage of which the city council still can’t talk about, due to a judge’s order.

Chief James did, however, address the issue of Officer Samuel Alvarez being assigned to security detail at the Jan. 7 city council meeting, something several council members and public speakers objected to.

“It is difficult to determine what someone is going to say at council meetings,” James said. “People can come up and talk about the bus system, or something dealing with the police department, so it’s hard to know what the subject will be. I would say that we wouldn’t purposefully create an uncomfortable situation for the officer or for the public. I think that we have to look at that on a case by case basis. If it seems like it might not be a good idea to have an officer on a particular assignment, we’ll evaluate that. But, at the same time, any officer could work anywhere in the

New Greensboro Police Chief Brian L. James professional headshot city, so it’s hard to say that, if you don’t like a particular officer, that you’ll never encounter that officer.”

I told the chief that, for months now, public speakers had been naming Alvarez at town hall meetings in defiance of the mayor’s new rules against criticizing specific city employees (an unenforceable regulation that one council member told me “has been quietly dropped”), so the objection to his presence seemed predictable.

“We try to get it right each time, and if we see we could have made a better decision, we will certainly take that into consideration and try to do something different the next time.”

As previously reported, at the Jan. 22 meeting at Peeler, Forrest Hinton and Kiera Hereford, as well as moderator Gene Blackmon, told the chief that volunteer patient escorts at A Woman’s Choice on Randleman Road were being harassed and sometimes assaulted by antiabortion protesters. Hinton, Hereford and Blackmon alleged that GPD officers had

been unresponsive to escort complaints and seemed more sympathetic to the protesters.

I asked James if he’d followed up with any of the three since then. He replied that he’d recommended that Hereford and Hinton speak to his executive officer Captain James Moore, who was at the forum to log public complaints and comment. When contacted by YES! Weekly afterward, both Hinton and Hereford acknowledged not doing so, as they’d had to leave the meeting early.

But what about moderator Gene Blackmon, who spoke up in support of the claims, and whom James actually knows?

“I haven’t talked to Gene about it, but I think we’ve got a good relationship. He’s got my number, and I have not heard from him since that night. I’ve been a little busy since then, but we did go back and look and see what we could find. The other two individuals did not log any comments with my XO.” I told him that, while I’d not witnessed any assaults, I’d repeatedly seen protest-

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Photo of Chief James after being interviewed by Ian McDowell ers from Greensboro Pregnancy Care, the faith-based center on Fulton Street that advocates against abortion, step into the service road and impede patient cars, in a seeming attempt to direct them to a parking lot where more protesters could approach them, rather than the lot beside the clinic that protesters can’t legally enter.

“If there’s anyone impeding another person going to the clinic to get services, please call us. It’s not legal; it’s not right.

We will protect any protester’s first amendment right to speak freely, but to impede another person from going to the abortion clinic or any medical facility, if they’re impeding the flow of that traffic, we will certainly step in and address it. I would like to make people know that we don’t condone that behavior, and if we are made aware of it, we are going to address it.”

James said that he would like to hear from people who’ve witnessed such incidents at the clinic. “I’m easy to find.

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373-2085] or email me [Brian.James@ greensboro-nc.gov]. If it’s a complaint about the police I’ll refer them to our professional standards section so they can look into it. If it’s a criminal matter, I may refer them to criminal investigations. If there’s an issue around the clinic, we want to address that.”

I asked Chief James about statements made on Jan. 22 by Bishop Manwell Grady of the Potter’s House Ministries of North Carolina about the case of Paulickia Hairston, whom Bishop Grady said was a member of his choir. On July 6, 2019, Hairston was shot in the head by a GDP officer who alleged she had accelerated her car at him. Hairston, who survived, was arrested for assault after being released from the hospital.

Bishop Grady told James that neither Hairston nor her attorney had been allowed to view the body camera footage of the incident. James, who that night appeared shocked by Grady’s claim, told me that he’d not been subsequently able to verify it.

“As I said that night, if you were in a police video, by law, you have a right to see that video, and we’ll certainly show it to you. I checked with professional standards, and they had not been contacted by that young lady or by a legal representative to watch the video. So that invitation is still open. If she or her legal representative or attorney would like to see the video, we’ll certainly show it to her.

We just need to hear from her. Viewing a video of an incident that you were a part of is not something that requires a court order. We’ve allowed it many times.”

Chief James was born in Greensboro 49 years ago and grew up on the Northeast side of town, where his mother still lives.

He graduated from Page High School and received a BA from A&T and an MA from Pfeiffer University, both in Business Administration. He’s also a graduate of the Administrative Officer’s Management Program at North Carolina State University, the PERF Senior Management Institute for Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy.

He joined the GPD in 1996 as a member of the 72nd PBIC, then served as a corporal and sergeant before being promoted to supervisor of the crash investigation traffic enforcement team in 2002. In 2004, he was promoted to lieutenant and executive officer to the chief of police, and later served as executive officer to the criminal investigation division. Promoted to captain in 2009, he served as patrol operations commander and commanding officer of the training division. In 2011, he became the commanding officer of the central patrol division and then commanding officer of the resource management division.

As police chief, he will earn $150,000 a year with an annual executive allowance of $4,320.

He also serves as chair of the United Way’s African-American Leadership cabinet, board chair of the Malachi House and vice-chair of Guilford Child Development.

I asked him how he’d seen Greensboro change over the years.

“It’s certainly grown, especially if you look at the loop that’s being put in now. I remember when that was all woods, and Walmart on Wendover was a two-lane road with woods on both sides.”

He said that Greensboro’s growing diversity is even more important “So many different nationalities and ethnicities have made their homes here, so we’ve had to learn and grow. As a city and specifically as a police department, we’re serving a very different population from when I was a kid. This definitely affects how we deliver services to the community.”

He thinks that the growth is good.

“We’re probably right on the cusp of 300,000 residents now, and hopefully, we can be part of making this a community where everybody can live and thrive.

That’s what I’m hoping for.”

James has three children, ages 26, 18 and 15. I closed by asking him about his personal concerns as the father of two teenagers.

“Making sure they receive a great education and that they have an opportunity to fulfill their dreams through employment and other endeavors, and making sure that they are aware of their entire community,” James said. “I want them to be aware of the different people that live here, including so many that are not as fortunate as they are, and I want them to have the heart to reach back and help those that need some help. And they are! We’ve instilled tremendous values in them, and I’m very happy about that.” !

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

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‘Elderberry Fireside Friday’ serves up healthy shots Summerfield Farms, located at 3203 Pleasant Ridge Rd., is inviting everyone to get a taste of JK Made elderberry syrup shots along with some hot cider toddies at “Elderberry Fireside Friday,” a kid and dog-friendly, free event with music by Caleb Zeigler outside The Market on Feb. 21 from 5-8 p.m.

Complimentary JK Made Elderberry Terry Rader Syrup (alcohol-free) shots will be served at the outdoor bar, plus elderberry cocktails will be available for Contributor purchase. Beer, wine, food and snacks will also be available for sale inside the store, said Kristen Berlin and Jessica Draper, co-owners of JK Made. A year ago, Draper and Berlin began making their local homemade elderberry syrup with a single mason jar. They celebrated their first anniversary on Feb. 4, and are now making 3,000 ounces (and counting) per week.

Berlin said that this Friday event kicks off two giveaway drawings from Feb. 21-28. Each time a customer makes any purchase inside The Market, they are automatically entered in one of two drawings to win a 32-ounce bottle of JK Made Elderberry Syrup or a one-night stay at one of the farm’s bungalows. Purchasing any size bottle of their syrup automatically enters you in both drawings.

When Berlin welcomed Draper into the neighborhood in 2018, she said they became fast friends, as did each of their two kids. Draper said that about four years before, she had been looking into more natural remedies, and she had stumbled upon elderberry syrup. She said when she learned how it boosted the immune system, she began taking some and giving it to her family. Draper said that when Berlin’s family got sick, she took some Kristen Berlin and Jessica Draper of JK Made elderberry syrup over and said, “Please try this, it really works.”

Berlin said at the time, her son was mother-approved,” and when they began trying different already on three different allergy medications, and she said recipes, they would line their four kids up to try each one. she wanted to try something else. Berlin said that after one Once they got four thumbs-up, they knew they had their week on the syrup, “he could breathe, and he got better, formula, and they have their children to thank for what and once he began taking elderberry syrup regularly, he no has been said to “taste like Christmas in your mouth.” JK longer needed any of the other medications.”

Made’s elderberry syrup contains flavorful and organic Berlin said she became a believer, and that this is the ginger, cinnamon and cloves, minus the apple cider vinegar first year her whole family hasn’t gotten a flu shot. found in other elderberry syrups.

Draper said that it was very important to them not to Draper said she takes three servings a day, and she never add sugars, so they sweetened their elderberry syrup with travels without it. She packs a supply of 3-ounce bottles local raw honey sourced from L&B Apiaries of Greensboro. in a carry-on soft cooler when she flies because “it always (Draper and Berlin said to never give raw honey to children needs to be refrigerated due to not having preservatives ages 1 year and younger.) and is best to be used within 90 days once opened.”

She said they endeavored to keep the ingredients Berlin said their kids take it two times a day and ask for simple, and after extensive elderberry research, they it when classmates are sick. She said they have found that learned that some of the better tasting ones come from it “helps you get better faster from colds and flu and gives a European tree that they source organically from “a very you your daily antioxidants.” reputable United States herb company.”

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to sell it to their friends and neighbors who really liked it.

With no money to buy supplies, they had to sell some to make more until they grew from making it in their kitchen to “The City Kitch, LLC” in Charlotte. Draper and Berlin said they would move their operation to the community kitchen that is opening in Greensboro this spring. They said they are also planning to expand their line of skin-care products they started this past spring: brightening toner pads, face wash, moisturizing body crème and goat milk soap— each infused with natural jasmine, grapefruit or sandalwood.

They also have a beard balm and other elderberry creations that haven’t been announced yet.

Berlin said that JK Made has products in 16 stores, and Triad retailers include The Market at Summerfield Farms (and online store), The Bodega on 313 S. Greene St. in Greensboro, Gate City Growlers on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro and Common Grounds at Walker and Elam Avenue in Greensboro.

“We work very well together, and it’s a good thing as we sometimes work from sun-up to sun-down,” Draper said.

“We still make time for our families, though, that’s the most important thing to us,” Berlin said. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer/editorial/content/copy, creative consultant/branding strategist, communications outreach messenger, poet, and emerging singer/songwriter.

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Protesters impede access to Greensboro’s only abortion provider “We will protect any protester’s first amendment right to speak freely,” new Greensboro police chief Brian James recently told YES! Weekly, “but to impede a patient going to an abortion Ian McDowell clinic or any medical facility is not legal and not right.”

Contributor Chief James was speaking about a recurring issue at (or more accurately, just outside of) A Woman’s Choice on Randleman Road.

Greensboro’s only remaining abortion provider, A Woman’s Choice also offers birth control, HIV/STI testing, and adoption and parenting counseling services.

In a video shot in November 2019 by a volunteer from A Woman’s Choice, a protester steps into the service road to the clinic and attempts to stop a patient’s vehicle, a behavior this reporter has witnessed on repeated occasions, and which Chief James described as illegal.

As previously reported, patients arriving at A Woman’s Choice must run a gauntlet of protesters, particularly on Saturday mornings, from three main groups.

One is from the Charlotte-based organization Love Life, which targeted A Woman’s Choice for its “Week 40” campaign, which brought hundreds of protesters to Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh on Saturdays for 10 months.

That campaign ended on Nov. 16, 2019, when around 600 protesters gathered at Destiny Christian Center and marched 530 yards down Randleman Road, one lane of which had been blocked off for them by the Greensboro Police Department, to the Midori Express parking lot, where they joined with the local protesters who gather there every Saturday morning.

Love Life’s “40 Week Journey of Hope” 2020 campaign begins on Saturday, Feb. 22, when the organization claims it will again bring hundreds of “prayer marchers” to Greensboro. (As of this writing, no permit has been requested, but permits for protest marches, unlike those for parades, can be applied for up to 48 hours before the event.)

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“street preachers.” One representative of this contingent is Chris Pantalone, who, in a video interview, told this reporter that “Catholics aren’t Christians,” and Greensboro’s black churches “preach a false gospel.”

A third group, more numerous than the “street preachers,” shows up almost every day A Woman’s Choice is open.

This contingent consists of staff and volunteers from Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center at 625 Fulton St. The center’s name comes up in a Google search for local abortion services, but it is actually a faith-based, anti-abortion organization.

Although the center’s van advertises “free ultrasounds” in the Midori Express parking lot every Saturday, they do not meet North Carolina’s legal requirements. While state law mandates that every abortion patient receive an ultrasound, the procedure must be done by the abortion provider.

The video cited above begins with the protester standing beside the Care Center’s ultrasound van, then stepping into the service road when she sees an approaching car. She is wearing a pink vest, as this writer has observed many of the protesters from the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center doing. Patient escorts for A Woman’s Choice told YES! Weekly that their own volunteer organization, Greensboro Clinic Escorts, used to wear pink vests until the protesters started adopting that uniform. This, the escorts alleged, was an attempt to confuse patients into thinking the protesters were clinic volunteers.

These behaviors were described to Chief James by activists Forrest Hinton and Kiera Hereford, as well as moderator Gene Blackmon (like Hinton and Hereford, a former clinic escort), during a Jan. 22 community forum at Peeler Recreation Center.

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who was in the first row, told YES! Weekly on Feb. 14 that this was the first she’d heard of this issue, and that she was deeply concerned by it. On Feb. 15, Vaughan, who was on a GPD ride-along in East Greensboro, stopped by the protest multiple times, driving down the access road and observing the protesters from Greensboro Pregnancy Care. On Sunday, the Mayor gave YES! the following statement: “I observed what was going on in the parking lot last Saturday, and am concerned about what might happen at the much larger gathering on the 22nd. I

Protester in pink vest impedes traffic think this is a public safety issue and will be continuing to talk to the police this coming week.”

To avoid further disruption for patients, the mayor said she did not ask the officer to park so that she could get out and speak to the escorts at the scene. One veteran escort, who has been doing it for three years, said that she wished she could have spoken to Mayor Vaughan, although she agreed with the mayor’s decision not to stop and possibly create further commotion. The escort also said this was her last day volunteering at the clinic, due to her upcoming move to another state.

“White protesters have frequently made comments targeting me as a black mother,” she told YES! Weekly. “Asking if I would have killed my black baby the same way I’m telling these black women to. I have to be mindful of what’s in my car or on my social media after some of them had a conversation a few years ago with a teacher from my daughter’s school about my work. Protestors have very few boundaries, and they constantly remind the parents that escort that they don’t respect or value children despite their narrative that children are sacred and matter.”

She alleged that protesters regularly yell “horrible things” at patients, clinic support staff, and volunteers, who are accompanied by children. “One of the street preachers once suggested over his bullhorn that him taking a machete to a child that was in the parking lot was the equivalent of what was happening inside the clinic.”

Although veteran escorts move away or get tired of the stress, new recruits arrive every week. One who’s been doing it for some months now is Michael Usey, the Senior Pastor at College Park Baptist Church. Usey told YES! Weekly, that last Saturday’s protest was fairly subdued, “probably because it was so cold and because they were gearing up for next weekend,” but that the previous Saturday had been “very conflictual.”

When asked what happened, Usey said: “the Pregnancy Care protesters put their sign advertising free ultrasounds out in the road, further impeding traffic and attempting to divert patients into the Midori parking lot where their van was parked.”

Usey said that, although escorts did not engage with the protesters, they stood directly in front of the sign, blocking it so that patients would not be diverted. “A protester then shoved one of the escorts from behind.”

Usey put YES! in touch with the escort, who asked not to be named, but gave the following account of the incident.

“Another volunteer and I stood in front of the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center’s sign because it was on the road instead of being off to the side. Signage in the roadway is illegal since it is blocking traffic.”

The escort said that, once she and another escort stood in front of the sign, “we were verbally harassed by two of the Love Life protesters, saying things like ‘you two are just full of evil.’ The male protester even said, ‘I don’t care if the sign is illegal.’ Then a third protester, a woman wearing the pink vest of the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center, came up behind me and pushed my back, saying ‘move from in front of the sign please.’ She said this two more times while continuing to keep a firm hand on my back. We stood our ground and didn’t respond verbally or physically. The protesters eventually moved their sign.”

Representatives of Greensboro Clinic Escorts told YES! Weekly that the group would be recruiting new volunteers for the upcoming protests and those interested can apply by emailing gsoclinicescorts@ gmail.com. !

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

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alling dark hearts and dance fiends: Segreto invites lost souls to Soul Relief Records on Feb. 22.

An experience brought to life by Katei Cranford Lee Budkey, aka DJ Eighty Four, Segreto will celebrate the Contributor shadows with choice tunes and live painting by Dane Walters. A graphic designer by trade, Budkey has been an event DJ on both coasts. He has opened for Dâm Funk and Questlove, and he was a DJ for DMC (of Run-DMC). Segreto marks a departure from the electro and house mashups of his Westerwood dance parties or the Latin heat of his Tacos and Turntables gatherings. Basically, he’s looking to goth it up.

“I remember the first time I heard Depeche Mode’s ‘People Are People,’ I was maybe 6, and something about it stuck with me,” Budkey said of his more macabre music preferences. He lists favorite artists among the likes of The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Smiths, Sisters Of Mercy, Ministry, and She Wants Revenge. “Even though I sprinkle a few of these artists in my normal sets, I wanted an outlet where I can play all of them, and feature new artists that are carrying the torch,” Budkey explained. “Plus, with this style of music, I realized that I could really run wild creatively with the aesthetic.”

Pulling from the darker side, the idea for Segreto was born during an unofficial Spirit System afterparty at the Black Lodge in 2016.

“It was the same type of music and feel, but I didn’t call it Segreto at the time,” Budkey said.

In April of 2019, the shadows aligned for the first official Segreto at Monstercade.

“It’s an event and an experience,” he noted, “I don’t think it’s a new direction for me as a DJ, but I think it’s satisfying a creative hunger I’ve had.”

At the base, it’s a goth dance party. But Budkey hopes to develop aspects that transcend the dancefloor.

“I’m trying to theme it with a secret society-feel and aesthetic,” he explained.

“But one that welcomes all.”

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core to the event and incorporated visually through the Segreto snake and key emblem.

“The Snake and Key are the main components of the symbol,” Budkey explained. The snake for shedding the skin into new beginnings, “It’s a creative outlet for me that I can really try to push my boundaries with each event and evolve it,” he said. The key symbolizes the link between the quarterly events (with dates scheduled at Monstercade in April, June and September) and an idea that will be incorporated into future Segreto sessions.

“I’m planning to do treasure hunts where I hide gift certificates for local businesses, trinkets and Segreto merch, but the clues will be revealed via social media,” Budkey explained. “With the clues, you can ‘unlock’ the locations of where things are hidden.

Thus the key in the logo.”

Treasures and trinkets may weave into a more complicated Segreto of the future.

For the upcoming event, Budkey is keeping the accompaniment simple with a live painting session. “With Segreto, I want to try to add different elements to please all of the senses,” Budkey explained of adding visual components. “Dane Walters’s style of art is a perfect compliment to my

soundtrack.” Budkey’s regular spot as a DJ every second and fourth Thursday at 6th and Vine has acquainted him with the neighboring Delurk Gallery, of which Walters is one of the founders.

“I knew Dane from Derlurk, and became a fan of his art over the years,” Budkey said.

The two have paired before, with Walters providing imagery for the Segreto Halloween event at Underdog Records.

Beyond Segreto, Budkey’s work as DJ Eighty Four continues. He also spins select Saturdays at Bar Piña in Winston-Salem and hosts the “Saturday Night Dance Party” at Westerwood every last Saturday of the month in Greensboro. Tacos and Turntables, which Budkey co-founded with

DJSK in 2011, will kick off its 2020 season at Hoots in Winston-Salem on March 9 and run the second Monday of each month throughout the year. DJs serve the tunes, and partner with record vendors, while Taqueria Luciano’s food truck brings tacos.

It’s tasty in more than one sense. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bandings touring N.C. the following week, 5:30-7 p.m. on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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Good vibrations: Mike Tamburo generates a lot of sound from gongs Somewhere on an interstate in the United States, a guy is driving a van loaded with hundreds of pounds of gongs, bells, chimes and other metallic instruments, and that guy is Mike Tamburo. The van has been Tamburo’s home, more or less, for the past three years. He’s been doing over 100 performances a year, traveling from town to town, lugging his heavy John Adamian metal gear of 50 instruments and @adamianjohn generating some intense, hypnotic vibrations wherever he goes.

Tamburo was a part of the duo Contributor Crown of Eternity, but the relationship at the heart of that group didn’t hold together, and so he’s taken his solo show on the road.

In January, he released a new record, Michael Tamburo Plays Metal. The title is potentially humorous, especially for those who might be approaching the music without any advance knowledge of what Tamburo is up to. He’s playing metal, for sure. But he’s playing metal, the material, as opposed to metal, the genre. There are no distorted guitars or howling vocals or pummeling double-kick barrages. And yet, there is a spiritual similarity, somewhere between Tamburo’s deeply meditative and transfixing music and some variants of heavy metal. Fans of artists like Sunn O))) and Earth might find this resonant, long-form sonic-massage music to be akin to the glacial metabolism of doom.

One of the points of this music, it seems to me, is to slow down the listener’s sense of time, to prolong their attention span, and also to make the physical reality of vibrating sound waves almost palpable. In that regard, Tamburo’s music is connected to the “deep listening” practices of Pauline Oliveros, or to the lulling atmospherics of Brian Eno’s ambient music. If the normal “song” lasts for three or four minutes, Tamburo makes recordings that unfold over the course of 10 to 20 minutes. They reorient the mind in the same way deep breathing can reorient the lungs and heart, and ultimately the brain. You pace yourself in a whole different way when engaging with this music.

If you’ve ever sat by the surging roar of the ocean and found the enveloping sound of the waves to capture your attention, or if you’ve ever listened closely to the layered surround-sound of insects at night during the summer, or perhaps to the hum and drone of tires on concrete or the blasting force of a jet engine, then you’ve probably been open to the kind of cocoon-like sonic environment that Tamburo creates with his gongs.

I spoke with Tamburo last week by phone from the road.

He performs at the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center on Saturday.

Tamburo grew up in Pittsburgh, and he developed an interest in gongs and drones through his exposure to Indonesian gamelan, which he heard as a teenager there. Coming of age in a kind of eclectic punk/DIY scene, an artistically curious young person could find themselves thrown into a variety of musical worlds.

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next night we would go see a punk rock band. I’m just an avid music fan.”

Tamburo also plays and records using the hammer dulcimer, an instrument whose metal strings, resonance, and thrum share something with the gongs he so fond of. He’s recorded experimental albums with loops and electronics, guitars and other instruments as well.

If you spend time with Plays Metal, you’ll hear some familiar patterns, the slow articulation of the first five notes of a minor scale, the periodic low-end throb of a root note, and other bits of repeating intervals, but the trembling metal creates a sort of glow and hum that washes over everything, and the tempos get so slow, creating a trapped-in-amber feel. It’s a little like the sonic equivalent of watching a lava lamp churn in graceful blops and blorps. It’s organic, but not exactly regular or predictable.

In a way, Tamburo’s gong recordings and performances are different from other music. They’re a kind of sound that is made to be listened to, but not necessarily to be listened to in the same way that one listens to other music. One of Tamburo’s first encounters with gongs was in a yoga studio, which is now a setting where he regularly performs.

The type of audiences that come to hear gongs often approach the experience as an extension of mindfulness practices or of meditation, yoga and other types of mindbody pursuits.

“People who are interested in consciousness seem to be the people who are interested in my music,” Tamburo said.

“There’s a culture of really listening over time. It’s very different from listening to a song and melodic progression.

With the gong, there are these slight tonal variations that seem to pull consciousness in. It seems to create some kind of space where a lot of visualization happens. You’re listening to something in the way that you listen to music, and so the brain is looking for patterns. It tricks the brain.”

Tamburo is keen to explore the physicality of sound, both in terms of the materials that vibrate to generate the sound waves, and how those vibrations, in something like a gong, don’t happen in the same way at every spot on

the gong. When a gong is struck, it’s vibrating in a number of different ways and intensities, and each one of those different vibrations is potentially making its own different sound— all of which radiate out from the gong into the more or less single tone that we hear. But close listening reveals that single sound to one made up of many component parts.

For this reason, Tamburo prefers not to use amplification when he performs, since a microphone only captures something like a snapshot of one localized set of frequencies emanating from a gong. (He said the recordings of his gongs are like a different medium altogether.) The same is true of recorded music in general -- that it represents a limited slice of the sound generated in a live music setting -- but somehow or other, music with an intense vibrational component, like a large chorus, a drum ensemble, a brass band, or the sound of gongs, can drive home how vitally different the two are. Listening to a recording is to experiencing live music what seeing a picture of a sunset is to being outside during a beautiful sunset and feeling the warmth on your skin.

In addition to his performances, Tamburo also does workshops designed to encourage non-musicians and beginners to engage with making music, to find a connection with the vibrations generated by the instruments.

Expect a calming and relaxing environment in which to bask in the glowing sound waves that Tamburo coaxes from the gongs.

“It attracts people to be still and to listen,” he said. !

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

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THE SOCIOPATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE

I discovered that the guy I’m dating has a girlfriend he’s cheating on. In fact, she confronted us, which was awful.

I’ve had a history Amy Alkon of guys cheating on me, and I want to Advice end the pattern.

Goddess Unfortunately, I’m not attracted to a lot of guys I go out with, and I’m really attracted to this guy.

—Chemistry Being really attracted to somebody is the go-to excuse for shrugging off a potential partner’s shady behavior — pretty much anything this side of “Well, sure, several of his neighbors are wintering in Ziploc in his basement freezer.”

It helps that attraction seems like some mysterious and magical force.

It’s actually not. Who we’re attracted to — which people, with which features — is prearranged by our biological robot overlord, aka evolution, via genetic code written into each of us. It’s part of evolution’s scheme for building better babies — giving our genes the best shot at being passed on to future generations.

We see this in research by neuropsychologist Bruno Laeng that suggests we are attracted to potential partners who look like us — though not too much like us. Laeng found that people were most attracted to individuals who share about

22% of their facial features (as opposed to 11% or 33%, the other percentages tested). Other research by social-personality psychologists R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks likewise hit the 22% mark.

Laeng explains that this balancing of “similarity and dissimilarity” (which we do subconsciously) helps us avoid “inbreeding with close relatives,” like siblings or first cousins. Inbreeding increases the chances that both partners would have the same nasty recessive genes for a disorder or disease. “Recessive” genes are true to label when they are paired with a dominant gene: They recede...slumping into the background, unemployed, inactive. But when two recessive genes for a condition are paired (like when close relatives with the same recessive gene make a baby), these genes become active — and so does the disorder or the disease.

As for you, the features you happen to be attracted to come in the package of a guy who cheats on his girlfriend. This reflects bad character. Assuming you didn’t go out into Datingland all, “I’ve just gotta find a sexy sociopath,” reflecting on the evolutionary nuts and bolts of attraction might help you stop using it as an excuse and give the shove to Mr. Morally At Leisure.

To avoid again letting the hots for some himbo blind you to his undesirable qualities, make a short checklist — what I call “man minimums,” the qualities you can’t do without in a man — and put character at the top of your list. When a man shows you he comes up short on your “must haves,” cut off contact and move on.

Ideally, if you’re screaming in bed, it isn’t because the girlfriend of the guy you’re with just burst through the door brandishing a missile launcher.

HALVING IT ALL

I’m a 20-something gay man dating someone who makes much more money than I do. He picks up the tab on most dates, and while he seems okay with this, it makes me uncomfortable. I pay here and there, but I can’t afford much beyond lunch or lattes. Does our financial inequality mean a relationship between us is doomed? —Barely Scraping By Chances are the guy doesn’t think you’re hoofing it up to the Coinstar clutching a baggie of change because you feel the nickels and dimes between your couch cushions could do with a little sun.

What matters is how fair a relationship feels. Fair doesn’t mean everything’s exactly 50-50, as in, he puts in 50 cents; you put in 50 cents. It means you each seem equally invested — equally motivated to make sacrifices to benefit the other — as opposed to one of you pulling the cashwagon, plow-style, while the

other just hops on, puts his feet up, and enjoys the ride.

When there are imbalances — when one partner puts in a lot and gets comparatively little in return — it isn’t just the more giving person who gets socked with the feelbad. Social psychologist Elaine Hatfield finds that partners who are “over-benefited” — who fail to put in their fair share of the relationship effort — “may experience pity, guilt, and shame,” while those who feel “under-benefited” for their contributions can experience “anger, sadness, and resentment.”

The way to avoid either of these emotional crap carnivals is to voice your concerns. This should start a conversation that sets you two on track to be loving, equally contributing partners in the way you’re each most able — taking into account that your best bet for making a lot of money in the near future is probably counterfeiting hundred-dollar bills on your inkjet printer. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2020 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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