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WINSTON-SALEM is a shining example of why it is important to have a good education to fall back on in times of need.

11 Public transportation in Greensboro is about to get a lot greener, not to mention quieter. Plans are moving ahead to replace the city’s fleet of diesel fueled buses with battery powered ELECTRIC MODELS, with the first three electric models scheduled to hit the streets in early 2018.

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If DEEP ROOTS Market Cooperative were the proverbial cat with nine lives, one might say it has four down, five still in reserve.

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30 Greensboro’s Barrett Stanley has created a very impressive indy COMIC BOOK. Now he wants to show other would-be creators how. Come to Scuppernong Books at 7pm on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and he will.

31 Come Sunday, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the 89TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, it should probably take about two or three minutes before the first joke is lobbed at the current resident of the White House – and it probably won’t be the last.

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WHAT: Members of the Taylor II company, in residence at UNCSA, will join School of Dance students in the ebullient Esplanade, one of Paul Taylors most popular works.

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CURTIS RICE-SEVEN STEPS TO REBUILD

BY ALLISON STALBERG

Author Curtis Rice is spreading motivation through his book, Rebuild.

“It’s seven steps to build a better you,” said Rice. “Step one is laying a strong foundation because no matter how much you try to rebuild, if the foundation isn’t strong, eventually a couple years down the road your life will crumble because you didn’t deal with the pain of your past.”

In Rebuild, Rice writes about how to better yourself. His book focuses on steps such as seeing the vision of what you want to become, of making an inner circle of supportive friends and examining yourself to get rid of bad habits.

Rebuild was born from experience. The idea for the book started in 2012 when Rice’s younger brother got into a car accident.

“When I got to the hospital, when I walked into the door, it felt like depression sunk in on me,” said Rice. “It’s because that’s the same hospital that my mother died in when I was 10. It’s the same hospital that my father died in when I was 17, he was murdered, shot 10 times. All of that just sunk in all at the same time.

“He (my brother) made it through and was in the nursing home for the next four years of his life. It was a struggle send-

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ing him to a nursing home because he was young; he was 25 when the accident happened. I was still struggling with my parents dying when I was at a young age.

I just remember sitting on the couch and prayed and asked God to help me. That’s were Rebuild was born from. I just give seven steps that I rebuild from, that help me overcome all those dark moments.”

Rice loves the feedback he has gotten since his book was published in January.

“Long testimonials like ‘I’m in the rebuilding stage and I needed to hear this’ and ‘I feel like giving up on life and your book has helped me.’ That’s the most rewarding part, writing and I’m able to help someone else walk through their dark moments and their dark days.”

For the future, Rice plans to always motivate people. He currently works as a Pastor at Capstone Church.

While Rice faced the challenge of opening doors of his past by writing the book, he also felt that the book brought him healing.

“I’m able to wake up the next morning and say ‘Hey Curtis, today is a good day to rebuild.’”

Learn more about Rice and his book at www.curtisrice.org and www.rebuildwithcurtis.com !

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RIVERRUN ANNOUNCES FREE FAMILY SCREENINGS AND EVENTS RIVERRUN 2017 FAMILY DAY, APRIL 1st RiverRun has put together a fantastic line-up of free events for audiences of all ages for RiverRun Family Day. Beginning with their popular Saturday Morning Cartoons program and ending with a screening under the stars, families and guests of all ages are encouraged to join the fun.

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS Sponsored by Salem Smiles Orthodontics April 1 / Hanesbrands Theatre RATING: FM - For children ages 8 and up 9:00am – Kids’ art activity with SECCA 10:00am – Films Begin Each year RiverRun presents our own version of Saturday Morning Cartoons to our young audiences. We search high and low for the best new animated shorts that we think will appeal to both children and parents alike. This year we have a wide array of films encompassing many different interesting animation techniques and stories. Our Saturday Morning Cartoons truly

have a little something for all ages! Come early and join our friends from SECCA for hands-on interactive art-making activities from 9 - 9:45 AM before the show.

Peppercorn Theatre at RiverRun Saturday, April 1st at 1:00 pm at Hanesbrands Theatre Peppercorn Theatre will present the short stage play before the screening of the animated short “Stick Man.” “WHAT GOES UP ...”

A short play for ages 4 & up Two architects are at it again to find out who can build the sturdiest structure!

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“STICK MAN” Screening Directors Jeroen Jaspaert and Daniel Snaddon UK / 2015 / 27 MIN. / ENGLISH RATING: Stick Man (voiced by Martin Freeman, a.k.a. Dr. Watson on BBC’s “Sherlock”)

lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their three stick children. Join Stick Man on his incredible adventure across the seasons as he runs from a playful dog, gets thrown in a river, escapes from a swan’s nest and even ends up on top of a fire and other adventures along the way, finally encountering Santa (voiced by Hugh Bonneville aka Lord Grantham of “Downton Abbey”). Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?

OUTDOOR SCREENING – “WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY” Sponsored by Mast General Store April 1 / Bailey Park Opens at 6: 30 p.m., film begins at 8 p.m. (or sunset) Director: Mel Stuart USA / 1971 / 100 MIN / ENGLISH RATING: G Enjoy a free outdoor screening of the beloved 1971 Gene Wilder film. The event will feature food trucks, Hoots Beer Company and Dewey’s Ice Cream. A limited number of chocolate bars from Twin City

Hive will be given out, five of which will contain a “Golden Ticket!” Golden Ticket holders will receive fun prizes!

Description: Willy Wonka, the world famous candy maker, suddenly announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka Chocolate. Young Charlie wants to find a Golden Ticket more than anything in the world. Charlie and his beloved Grandpa Joe, join four other children and their parents to visit Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Five go in and only one will emerge the winner. Will it be Charlie?

ADDITIONAL FREE FAMILY FUN AT RIVERRUN: SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS Sponsored by Salem Smiles Orthodontics April 8 / Hanesbrands Theatre RATING: FM - For children ages 8 and up 9:00am – Peppercorn Theatre at RiverRun presents “The Prop Shop Pop Up” 10:00am – Films Begin !

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Wake Forest Innovation Quarter looking toward busy 2017

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inston-Salem is a shining example of why it is important to have a good education to fall back on

in times of need.

A bit over two decades ago, textiles were bidding farewell to the WinstonSalem scene and tobacco as a business was going into its long, steady decline.

Small cities around the country with similar losses have withered away and become just shells of their previous selves.

But in Winston-Salem, the city dug in and started reinventing itself – creating new industries, promoting entrepreneurship, developing its art scene and most importantly, leveraging the educational resources on hand to chart a path to a better day.

Wake Forest University was at the forefront of that charge and their longstanding relationships with both the Reynolds family and Reynolds corporate assets would create one of the cornerstones of the city’s rebirth, the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Since the first work more than 20 years ago, the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter has converted old Reynolds properties into a high tech entrepreneurial hub for the city while melding history and new ideas into opportunities. As office spaces were developed, companies began flocking to the area bringing research, technology and marketing jobs (among others to the area). The project has continued to grow and grow and grow.

This year, the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter may have one of its busiest growth spurts so far.

“We’ve had a good start to the year,” WF Innovation Quarter President Dr. Eric Tomlinson said. “Wake Downtown has moved 18 new undergrad courses here and that will mean hundreds of students and faculty will be coming here each day eventually.”

These courses will center on biomedical sciences and engineering and will make use of the Reynolds Tobacco Co. 60 Series building.

Tomlinson was quick to point out that while the WF Innovation Quarter does feature Wake Forest in its name, partnerships with Winston-Salem State University and Forsyth Technical Com-

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Wake Forest students ride the shuttle to the new Wake Downtown classrooms and labs on the first day of classes on Jan. 10. munity College have been cornerstones of the development. In addition, the overall success of the project had been greatly influenced and assisted by the City of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.

Dr. Tomlinson also said the Bailey Power Plant property within the Quarter would be seeing major activity this year. Approximately two thirds of the large facility will be redeveloped by Wexford Science and Technology, a realty company that focuses on bio-medical clients and properties.

“We’re right on track to begin work on the main structure beginning in December of 2017,” Dr. Tomlinson said. “The project will bring together office, retail and entertainment spaces suited for small company presences and larger enterprises.”

Projects like this one and the overall WF Innovation Quarter are an opportunity for corporate America to participate alongside of the innovation level grassroots entrepreneurs, benefitting interests both big and small, Dr. Tomlinson explained.

Residential spaces are a big part of the WF Innovation Quarter project as well.

Not only can adding residential facilities provide housing for some of the workers, it can also provide real time customers and patrons to the support businesses springing up within the project and those growing in its shade.

This summer, Dr. Tomlinson said, the 757 Patterson project will finish, unveiling 115 luxury apartments in the 700 block of Patterson Avenue right in the heart of the quarter. This will be joined in the coming months by a very large, more affordable living set of apartments.

Called the Link Apartments, Tomlinson said the project is being done by Grubb Properties and will feature a 343-apartment complex designed to meet the growing demand for affordable housing downtown. The apartments will be built around a dedicated parking deck that should house upwards of 900 spots for residents’ automobiles, addressing a need that would have to be met to make downtown living more hospitable and economical. The parking deck should be completed in 2017 and the projected completion of the apartments is scheduled for 2019.

Another amenity to the WF Innovation Quarter will be the completion of two sections of the Greenway Trail this June, opening up bicycling and walking opportunities for the area.

Venture Café Winston-Salem will also debut this year for the WF Innovation Quarter. Beginning this spring, the Venture Café will begin hosting weekly events aimed at providing entrepreneurs and innovators with links to experienced business and research developers. Dr. Tomlinson explained the events will focus on entrepreneurial development and participants can learn about building businesses, handling finances and a host of other subjects. Winston-Salem will only be the fifth city in the world to host a Venture Café (others are located in Cambridge, UK; St. Louis; Miami, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.) !

RICH LEWIS is a father, husband, writer and cook who makes his home in Greensboro, NC.

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BY MIA OSBORNE Public transportation in Greensboro is about to get a lot greener, not to mention quieter. Plans are moving ahead to replace the city’s fleet of diesel fueled buses with battery powered electric models, with the first three electric models scheduled to hit the streets in early 2018.

The city’s switch to electric made the news in December 2016, when Duke Energy awarded the Greensboro Department of Transportation (GDOT) a $450,000 grant for the purchase of a rapid charging station for the electric buses. The charging station, which will be installed at the J. Douglas Gaylon Depot on East Washington Street, will be able to fully charge a bus battery in seven to 10 minutes.

GDOT Director Adam Fischer said the city is ready to finalize the order of the charging station as well as the first three electric buses, but that the results won’t be immediate.

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The wait is due to the made-to-order nature of electric vehicles.

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Electric buses cost significantly more than buses powered by diesel, so the city will use $4.5 million in voter approved transportation bonds from last November’s ballot to help ease the transition to electric buses.

“We’re getting ready to place the order for three electric buses now,” said Fischer.

Greensboro’s current fleet of buses contains 47 diesel models and 11 hybrids, which alternate between diesel and electric engines. The hybrid buses were introduced in 2011, as a way for the city to reduce fuel emissions and save money on diesel costs.

Fischer said that while the hybrid models have helped somewhat, electric buses have since proven to be even more cost effective.

“Overall maintenance and operations costs of the electric buses pan out to be better over the long haul. Hybrid buses save us some on fuel, but not as much as we’d anticipated,” said Fischer.

Electric buses pose no fuel costs or emissions, and they also present fewer mechanical problems (another unexpected drawback of the hybrid buses).

“There’s still a pretty major maintenance routine that you have to go through with hybrid buses,” said Fischer. “You still have to change the oil; there are various transmission issues that go on. The electric bus motor system is much simpler. We’re anticipating much less maintenance cost with the electric vehicles.”

A 2016 study conducted by Columbia University found that on average, an electric bus needs $39,000 less upkeep than

a diesel bus each year. So over the average 12-year lifespan of each electric bus, the city can expect to save around $468,000 compared to diesel.

A fleet made up entirely of electric buses could also represent health care savings for city residents. The same Columbia University study found that the reduced air pollution caused by introducing just one electric bus would save residents of New York City roughly $100,000 per year in health care costs. That number would likely be lower in a small city like Greensboro, where air pollution related illness is less of a problem. But the savings are still nothing to sneeze at (or rather, cough at).

Greensboro’s switch to electric buses is just one part of a state and nationwide shift away from fossil fueled vehicles. The 2016 GDOT grant for the charging station is linked to Duke Energy’s Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Project. The project aims to make North Carolina more environmentally friendly by installing 200 electric vehicle-charging stations around the state for use by passenger vehicles. There are already nearly 800 such charging stations around North Carolina, but the Duke Energy project represents a 30 percent increase in stations statewide.

With electric vehicles gaining ground in both the public and personal spheres, it looks like Greensboro’s transportation and environmental policies will keep rolling toward the future. !

MIA OSBORN is a Greensboro-based freelance writer who hails from Birmingham, Alabama.

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f Deep Roots Market Cooperative were the proverbial cat with nine lives, one might say it has four down, five still in reserve. It survived Joel Landau a financial crisis in 1982, another in 1991, again in 2002, Contributor and a tight situation over the past year. Now, as Deep Roots approaches its 41st anniversary celebration next month, this communityowned business is looking towards a midlife resurgence.

My YES! Weekly editor, knowing that I’m actively involved with Deep Roots, asked me to provide an update on what’s going on at the Co-Op. Disclosure: I was elected to the Deep Roots Board of Directors last May, and became Board President last month. I was also General Manager from 1982-1989, 1991-1994, and 2006-2013.

Deep Roots is a community-owned business with thousands of Owners.

Whereas most businesses focus solely on the bottom line of financial profit, Deep Roots historically has been a “triple bottom line” business. This means that it focuses not only on financial profit, but also on its impact on people and on the environment.

You certainly have to at least break even moneywise to stay in business, but that has never been the sole concern of this Cooperative. As an example, even though retail space is at a premium in the relatively small grocery store, nonetheless space was set aside for a Community Room. This room is available for groups to use at no charge.

Hopefully people who use the room do some shopping while they’re at the store, but they aren’t required to do so. Even if they do, it still wouldn’t make up for the financial volume that could be generated by converting the room to retail space. That’s okay because providing community services is part of how Deep Roots determines its success as a business.

When Deep Roots moved to its current location it was known that finances would be tight. This goes back to its financial crisis of 2002 that used up all the cash accumulated over the preceding years. The crisis also incurred substantial debt. The Co-Op’s subsequent financial recovery was then interrupted by the Great Recession. As a result the move to the current location had

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Back to the roots to be negotiated with little cash on hand.

This required unusually large amounts of debt to be taken on to finance the move.

So what was known would be a tight situation became critical when sales faltered at the new location. There’s not space for a full review of all that’s occurred, but here’s a summary of what’s happened during recent months: DEPARTURE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER. In October, the Board of Directors and the General Manager (GM) of two years agreed to a separation.

My personal view is that the GM, despite a long successful grocery career as a department manager, was unable to meet the additional challenges of being a GM. RESIGNATION OF 5 DIRECTORS. At the November Board meeting, five of the nine Directors announced their resignations effective December 31. This reflected a split that had developed as to how best to move ahead. Since Deep Roots bylaws prioritize Board decisions by consensus, this split made it difficult to move forward with the unity required of Board actions. The outgoing Directors decided to step aside to allow the remaining Directors the opportunity to chart direction.

BOARD REORGANIZATION. The remaining Directors called a special meeting that took place Jan. 9 for the purpose of electing new officers. They also made appointments to some of the open seats. Two were purposely left open for the Co-Op Owners to vote on at this May’s Annual Owners Meeting.

HIRING AN INTERIM GENERAL MANAGER. The Board hired Nicole Villano as Interim General Manager (IGM), effective February 1. Ms. Villano has extensive managerial-level natural foods grocery experience. She has natural leadership skills. Most importantly, she is excellent at, and delights in, customer service. The Board feels fortunate to have her in place.

THE NATIONAL COOPERATIVE GROCER. The National Cooperative Grocer (NCG) is an association of U.S. retail grocery co-ops.

NCG represents almost $2 billion in annual retail sales. It has negotiated key contracts on behalf of its member co-ops. These deals are far more beneficial than what the individual co-ops could negotiate on their own. They allow Deep Roots to be

price competitive with the other natural food outlets in town. NCG has been fully supportive of Deep Roots during this difficult transition time. They’ve provided on-site consultants to help guide and support different aspects of store operations as the departed GM left many areas needing immediate attention.

LANDLORDS. The Co-Op’s landlords, North Eugene Partners, have been fully supportive of Deep Roots efforts and have helped out in different ways. Thanks Vernon, Bob, and George!

THE DOWNTOWN GREENWAY. The 4.1 mile Greenway being built around downtown will replace the sidewalk directly in front of Deep Roots. When completed it will provide a lovely upgrade to the streetscape. It will also provide a ready connection by foot and bike to many nearby neighborhoods. Construction has been underway in front of the store since November and is scheduled to end midMarch. Unfortunately, even though there is always clear access in and out of the parking lot, the street work in front of the store has significantly decreased sales putting an additional strain on finances. But the end is in sight and we look forward to the Greenway gracing our sidewalk.

PRODUCT POLICY. The sad truth about food production in the U.S. is that the vast majority of products on supermarket shelves contain at least one item known to contribute to obesity, diabetes, hyperactivity, intestinal problems, heart disease, or any of a host of other ills. Historically, Deep Roots’ mission has been to promote health and avoid questionable ingredients. Last

Spring the General Manager and Board concluded that market conditions required an adjustment to this business strategy. While the focus remained on natural and organic, “conventional” products were added to the product mix. This change is now under review. The Board has begun planning a series of meetings with Deep Roots Owners to get their input on product preferences and overall store direction. At the same time, Management will be conducting surveys with existing customers as well as people in the surrounding neighborhoods to find out what products, if any, they would likely buy if Deep Roots stocked them. It’s worth noting that the Co-Op has been a leader in various areas. To the best of my knowledge it was the first grocery store in town to: stock organically grown produce; host a Farmers Market in its parking lot; install a bulk water machine where customers could reuse their own containers and get purified water for gallons on the dollar; offer a bonus to employees who commute to work by foot, bike, bus, or carpool; discontinue offering plastic bags at the checkout counter; prioritize and emphasize buying locallymade produce and other products; do presentations before City Council about the importance to our economy of supporting our local businesses; successfully petition two different Mayors to proclaim an “Eat Local Month”.

In other words, Deep Roots hasn’t been one to follow the herd. Stay tuned to see what these changing times bring. !

JOEL LANDAU’s column appears the 4th Wednesday of each month.

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— In Portland, Oregon, in January, Ashley Glawe, 17, a committed “goth” character with tattoos, piercings and earlobe holes (“gauges”) was, she said, “hanging out” with Bart, her pet python, when he climbed into one of the lobes.

She couldn’t get him out, nor could firefighters, but with lubrication, hospital emergency workers did (thus avoiding an inevitable split lobe if Bart had kept squeezing his way through).

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GOVERNMENT ACTION

Legislators in Iowa and Florida recently advanced bills giving women who receive legal abortions up to 10 years (or longer, in Iowa) to sue the doctor if the abortion winds up causing them “emotional distress.” (Doctors in all states are already liable, of course, for actual “negligence” in their practice.) In the Iowa version (which the Des Moines Register reported would likely face amendments), even a signed consent form by the patient would not immunize the doctor (but might mitigate the amount of damages awarded).

GREAT ART!

German art collector Rik Reinking paid the equivalent of about $138,000 in 2008 for a resplendent, complex drawing by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, but it was one created in ink on the skin of (the stillalive) tattoo parlor manager Tim Steiner — to be delivered only upon Steiner’s death, when his skin will be displayed in Reinking’s collection. (The deal also requires that, in the meantime, Steiner personally showcase his back at galleries three times a year, and BBC News recently caught his latest appearance.)

MORE THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT

Higher Math: The first robots to have survived journeys close to the “core” of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan (which melted down in a 2011 earthquake) returned a reading of 530 “sieverts” per hour. (Some scientists label just 4 Sieverts an hour fatal to half the people exposed to it.) Since the robots stopped short of the actual nuclear fuel, and since they only visited one of the three cores, the true danger of Fukushima remains unknown. (On a more optimistic note, scientists in February said they have developed a computer chip that would survive on the surface of Venus for 21 days, eclipsing the old record of two hours — long enough to send back meaningful data, including the temperature. The current estimated temperature is 878 degrees Fahrenheit.)

PRIESTS GONE BAD

— Prominent Tallahassee, Florida, pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, a community leader who ministers to the homeless and downtrodden, was rescued by police on Jan. 17, naked and hiding behind a fence after making a run for it when the husband of his mistress found the two in

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bed. The husband, screaming, “I’m gonna kill him,” ran for his handgun, and the mistress summoned police, but by Jan. 30, all involved had declined to press charges.

Simmons, married with a son, is highly regarded for good deeds such as running a “cold night” shelter.

— The decidedly uncelibate Catholic priest Don Andrea Contin, 48, of Padua, Italy, was accused by three women in December of having as many as 30 different lovers over the years, organizing “orgies” on church property, visiting a “swingers’” resort in France several times, making pornographic home videos of his trysts, “encouraging” one woman to have sex with a horse and “always” carrying a briefcase full of vibrators, sex toys and bondage equipment. Contin has not yet been charged with a crime but, said a Catholic official, is “finished” as a priest.

(Bonus: The boxes for his home videos were labeled by the names of Popes.)

at his tablet computer. Ayers, of Florence, New Jersey, was free at the time, pending sentencing in another New Jersey court on earlier counts of distributing child porn.

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Photographer Owens Daniels is building a successful body of work in the WinstonSalem area, capturing iconic musicians such as bassist Matt Kendrick, shown here in a portrait session for the photographer’s “Birth of the Cool” collection.

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S H A D O W L A N D SOUL SNATCHING WITH OWENS DANIELS

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BY ED BUMGARDNER In the not-so black-and-white world of photographer Owens Daniels, the fabled doors of perception literally and figuratively lurk within a nondescript warehouse where he conjures his photographic hoodoo.

Or “soul snatching,” as Daniels calls it.

There is no business sign, no visible address plate, no formal marking of any sort to indicate to visitors that they are within country miles of a photography studio - or much of anything else, for that matter.

The industrial location seems lifted from a Mafia movie - a grim, isolated, seemingly abandoned place to take care of business, to disappear ... or “get disappeared.”

Daniels arrives as the sun begins its daily descent. The feeling of displacement intensifies as he silently slips inside the dark building, then re-emerges to lead visitors into the warehouse.

Step through the door ...

What the ...

The mind reels as preconception and reality collide.

The building’s vast interior stretches into a shadowland of dark corners, mountainous clutter and dim lighting.

Everywhere one looks, the lump disarray of the room’s hoarder decor seems to bear witness to a life discarded.

An abandoned car sits covered in dust and detritus. Containers of noxious chemicals and inks are everywhere.

Makeshift shelves blend into a maze of display cases, stained sofas, shaky chairs, industrial machinery and strewn auto parts. The jumble is accentuated by colorful piles of various custom-designed T-shirts - the only concrete evidence that the space also doubles as a functioning screen-printing business.

The incongruity of it all quickly shifts from disoriented disbelief to bizarre fascination.

“It’s kind of a crazy studio,” said Matt Kendrick, a renowned Triad jazz bassist and music educator who has been definitively (and stunningly) photographed

by Daniels. “But I thought, ‘OK, this looks cool.

“I could discern an artist vibe.”

Carefully walk to the back of the building, hang a left, look toward the beckoning light, and walk into a side room ...

It is akin to stepping through a portal in which a visitor’s public demeanor - one’s outward personal and protective armor is slyly stripped of artifice to reveal one’s true essence.

The door of perception has opened.

Reality has been altered. The soul is ready to be snatched and documented for posterity.

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Daniels captured guitarist Rob Slater of Luxuriant Sedans during a recent session for a CD cover.

Welcome to the photo studio of Owens Daniels.

This is where the magic happens.

“When I take portraits of people, I want to see who they really are, not who they present themselves to be,” Daniels said.

“Creative people, especially musicians, are fascinating. I have managed to figure out how to make them comfortable as I begin to draw out who they are from what they are.”

Daniels accomplishes this transmogrification through a process of isolation, acclimation, skill and seduction.

When shooting musicians, each subject is instructed to bring his or her instrument.

He or she is placed in front of a huge black backdrop.

Daniels begins to chat as he sets up the shot.

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mood. Daniels disappears - he shoots hidden, some 30-feet away - and the transformation begins as the musician, alone in total privacy, reacts to and interacts with his or her muse.

The outside world disappears. Minutes feel like seconds.

Man and muse mate, shamelessly, and create magic through manipulation of soul, light and image.

“Leaving a musician alone with his instrument is crucial,” Daniels said. “A musician’s DNA is all over their instrument. There is nothing in life that is closer to them than their instruments.

“This powerful bond, this intimacy with their instruments, is what allows them to find creative solace in the company of strangers.

“The way I think about it, the musicians are more of a prop to the instruments than the other way around.”

Rob Slater, a Triad guitarist, was recently photographed by Daniels. He said that he has never been comfortable in front of

Percussionist Hashim Saleh “The Last Poet” taken from the photographer’s collection, “Birth of the Cool”.

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Daniels shot the Luxuriant Sedans during the band’s recent CD release party for their second album, Double Parked at the Garage in Winston-Salem.

the camera, but that he found the process of being photographed by Daniels to be as enlightening as it was mind-boggling.

“Looking at photos of myself is like climbing out of my car to look at body damage after being rear-ended,” Slater said. “But the genius of Owens is how he manages to draw what he needs through his lens without the interference of selfconsciousness.

“I was completely unaware of being manipulated and being taken completely outside myself.

“It was like a session with a good shrink.”

Daniels said that it was a collection of his portraits of veteran Triad musicians, curated in a 2014 show titled “Birth of the Cool,” that finally enabled him to grab the full attention of the Triad arts community.

The collection is dominated by stunningly evocative black-and-white images (Daniels’ preferred medium) offset by a handful of striking color prints.

Each portrait emphasizes and celebrates Daniels’ remarkably individualized use of shadow and light. All are undeniable in their purity, as assertive and bold

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as they are expressive and personal.

Every image offers fresh revelation.

Each portrait is undeniable, even shocking, in Daniels’ ability to capture, convey and celebrate the soul and spirit of each musician and the music he or she makes.

Daniels sees the “Birth of the Cool” show as his creative and professional turning point.

“I tend to think conceptually,” he said.

“That show, at least to me, was where I finally realized what I was trying to say and do. It really was the point that I became ‘Owens Daniels.’

“I had been in shows previous to that, but I was still looking for who I was. It was that show that really exposed what makes my work original to me.”

Daniels, 58, grew up middle-class in Richmond, Va., one of six children. His father was a gifted brick mason, and his mother was the secretary to the Secretary of Education in Virginia.

“We were all encouraged to be creative as we grew up, despite not always having a lot of obvious black role models in the arts at that time,” Daniels said. “I grew up in the era of Jet magazine and Ebo-

ny magazine, and I fell in love with the photography in those magazines.

“You have to remember that back then, you just didn’t see a lot of photographs of black people, and to my delight, there was nothing but black people in those magazines.

“It really inspired me. I loved the way we looked in those photographs. It made me proud.”

Daniels enlisted in the Army while in his late teens. It was during his training as a cartographer that he was given his first camera - a Canon, which he still uses on occasion - and learned the fundamentals of photography.

Interest creeped toward obsession.

“When I was in the service I found this photo book - The Black Photography Annual of 1973,” he said. “The book was filled with nothing but black-and-white photographs by some of the greatest Negro photographers of the time.

“I never went anywhere without that book. It cast a spell on me. When I left the service, that book left with me, and I am never without it to this day.”

Daniels went to school for a time - Vir-

ginia State University and Central Texas College - got married and, in 2005, came to North Carolina to start working as a Food Service Director.

He rose through the ranks. He was making good money. Life should have been good.

It wasn’t.

“I began to hate my job,” Daniels said.

“Something inside of me was not right. I began to feel depressed. One day I arrived at work and spent 45 minutes sitting in my car in the parking lot. I had an anxiety attack.

“I realized the only thing that made me really happy was taking photographs. So I quit my job in 2008, got divorced and got serious. I totally immersed myself in photography.

“I put it all on the line.”

Daniels joined photography groups and clubs. He apprenticed with photographers he met and admired. He even took a job at Olan Mills where he spent several years learning the finer points of portraiture.

“You would be surprised at what you learn when you have just 10 minutes to take a great photo,” Daniels said. “That

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Model Emma Jackson shown as part of the photographer’s “Brown Paper Bag” collection currently on exhibit at AFAS Unleashed Arts Gallery.

was the beginning of me learning to look inside the person whose picture I was taking, not just at the person.

“You learn that there are no strangers.”

Daniels tried his hand at still-life photography, nature photography - he even dabbled in shooting nudes (which he did not like). He kept returning to taking pictures of everyday people, walking the streets in search of interesting faces to photograph.

“Street portraiture made me excited,” Daniels said. “I started riding the bus to Raleigh or Charlotte. I would get off and walk around, taking pictures of people that fascinated me in some way, never spending more than 30 seconds on a portrait.

“When someone I respected would tell me my composition was boring - which happened - I would freak out, then listen to what they had to say and integrate that alongside my own style. And when someone told me I was good, I kept it in perspective, even though it made me feel good.

“This was my path, and I soon became aware that I was growing.”

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The depth and reach of Daniels’ curated works and projects is beginning to cast a long shadow.

His style as a photographer has developed into something highly individualized and instantly recognizable to anyone even casually familiar with his work.

Some of his work - such as his collection of photographs from a Black Lives Matter march, the John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival or his photographs of the protests that accompanied the recent Presidential Inauguration - blur the worlds between art and photo-journalism in often electrifying ways.

But his more pointed, conceptual collections - the mixed-media America Wants; the HB2-themed American Gothic or his most recent show, the wellreceived Brown Paper Bag - emphasize Daniels deep-rooted desire to cut to the heart of what troubles American society through explorations of race, ageism, sexuality, class, homelessness, privilege and politics.

As a strong black man, Daniels has seen many of these problems up close and personal, and he feels it is duty to

Owens Daniels shown in a self-portrait. “I have always known who I was. I want my work to follow in the footsteps of the great Negro photographers who understood and showed the world who we were as a race of individuals, and how we really looked and lived.”

confront these issues in a way that makes people feel.

They might laugh. They might cry.

They might gasp at the beauty of an image or sentiments.

They might recoil at the ugliness of a harsh truth.

The might see someone they know.

They might see themselves.

The main thing, Daniels said, is that people think.

“Owens is tireless in his push to advance and make things happen, and I think he has seen a tremendous push forward in the last six months,” said Corey Madden, the Executive Director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Daniels has spent the past year working with The Kenan Institute, which is devoted to encouraging the development of knowledge and the way artists, organizations and communities approach creative challenges.

“He has embraced this opportunity,” Madden said. “He believes every person has a story and a voice, and he has used diversity to explore these issues and chal-

lenges in a manner that is dramatic and emotional.”

To that end, Daniels said that he is finally comfortable with who and what he is - even if the politically correct world has not caught up with him.

“Too often, matters of race and identity are filtered through the evolution of white people,” he said. “My aim is to help preserve our broad culture and my culture. In my lifetime, I began life as a Negro. Then I was told I was a black man. Now, I am a person of color.”

“I have always known who I was. I want my work to follow in the footsteps of the great Negro photographers who understood and showed the world who we were as a race of individuals, and how we really looked and lived.

“So I am a Negro photographer.” He paused “But my work is for everyone.” !

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RIvER RIdGE TAPHOUSE 1480 River Ridge Dr | 336.712.1883 riverridgetaphouse.com Feb 23: Seth Williams Feb 24: Southern Eyes Mar 3: Exit 180 Mar 10: Southern Eyes

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Mar 17: Big daddy Mojo Mar 24: Nine Lives Apr 7: Pop Guns!

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ARIzONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Feb 24: 1-2-3 Friday Mar 3: 1-2-3 Friday

ARTISTIkA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Feb 24: dJ dan the Player Feb 25: dJ Paco and dJ dan the Player

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Feb 22: The Movement w/ Elusive Groove Feb 23: Sightlow w/ Antihero, Freaky, Spunge Feb 24: Big Something w/ Aqueous Feb 25: Big Something Feb 26: The Sweet Lillies, Seth Williams, Lauren Light Feb 28: TAUk Mar 3: Patterns Mar 4: Cosmic Charlie Mar 6: Bit Bigade plays Castlevania Mar 8: The Barons Mar 10: Justin Fulp Mar 11: Cash’d Out - Tribute to Johnny Cash Mar 13: Badfish, A Tribute To Sublime Mar 16: Pato Banton Mar 17: The Mantras Mar 18: Melvin Seals & The JGB Mar 31: John 5 and The Creatures

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1720 Battleground Ave | 336.272.9884 buckheadsaloongreensboro.com Fe 24: Back@ya Feb 26: Bad Romeo

CHURCHILL’S ON ELM

213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Mar 11: Sahara Reggae Band Mar 18: Jack Long Old School Jam

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Feb 23: dC Carter Mar 2: Jim Mayberry Mar 9: Bradley Steele Mar 16: Jon Montgomery(Norlina)

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THE GREEN BEAN

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JohnnY & JunE’S Saloon

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Mar 1: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Mar 3: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Mar 7: Valerie June Mar 13: Gordon Lightfoot Mar 17: Robert Earl Keen Mar 20: Odessey & Oracle Mar 21-22: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields Mar 23: Black Violin

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220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Feb 25: Manhattan Transfer & Take 6 Mar 31: The HillBenders

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1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Mar 10: Casting Crowns w/ Danny Gokey & Unspoken Mar 19: Stevie Nicks w/ Pretenders

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Mesmerizer Records keeps it mystical

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

M

aybe 18th Century Scottish philosopher/ economist Adam Smith’s famous concept of the “invisible hand” was a mystical, occult thing. The idea helped explain the cold mechanics of capital, labor, profit and business, giving it a poetic flourish.

The author of “The Wealth of Nations” envisioned an unseen force that moves markets and balances supply and demand, keeping prices and resources and work all dancing together in the name of commerce guided by everyone’s own selfinterest. Smith probably wasn’t thinking of pagan energies or mystic symbolism, but who knows. The people behind Mesmerizer Records, a recently opened record and bookstore that also hosts live shows and other events, are down with the occult mysteries, and they’re prepared

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to inject a little ancient ritualistic oomph into their business. You might think you’re just handing over some cash for a sweet David Bowie album, but they view it as more than that.

Amanda Lindsey is part of the team of creative business people who launched Mesmerizer Records, which sells both new and used vinyl, on the corner of E. 4th St. and Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, on the spot of where Camel City Tattoo Shop was before moving up the street, around the block from Krankies Coffee, and a few doors down from the where Reanimator Records had been operating until late last year. Mesmerizer is also linked -- spiritually -- to The Black Lodge, an excellent small bar next door, with a pronounced occult vibe, part ritual lair, part shrine to the dead of the music/art/ culture pantheon, part gypsy wagon, part hipster bar that seems to always play only the best music.

Lindsey, 35, originally from New Hampshire, is a musician and songwriter and sometime grad-student in the field of archeology. She’s a relative newcomer to Winston-Salem, having moved here in late summer of 2015, after falling in love with the city following some shows that her Chapel Hill band did here.

“I did not want to leave WinstonSalem,” says Lindsey. “It was my favorite show I’ve ever played in my life.”

Now she lives in Kernersville, working by day at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Studios, and coming into town to run the record shop, which is an afternoon and evening affair at the moment. The idea for Mesmerizer Records took shape in April of last year, when Lindsey and her friend Blake Tesh, a musician and bartender at the Black Lodge, took a trip to New Orleans to see The Cure.

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nistic anarchy, what you might call the safe and sanctioned release of unstable energies, was something that struck them about New Orleans and the culture of Bacchic festivities there.

“You don’t need to be controlled,” he says.

There’s a do-as-thou-wilt vibe to the enterprise. And Tesh sees The

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Black Lodge and Mesmerizer Records as businesses that are as much about atmosphere as they are about objects or drinks.

“Both places are in the business of creating an experience for someone,” he says.

Lindsey says that she sees a connection between archeology and record buying.

“The more I think about it, the more I realize that this is incredibly archeological,” says Lindsey. “I have that feeling when I look for records, for books – it’s like treasure-hunting. The field of archeology that I’m really interested in is objects, and how people keep them and discard them.”

Of course, over the last 20 years people have tossed out old ways of playing music and embraced streaming and digital technology, which leave little or no physical trail to rummage through. So the pendulum swing back to vinyl records and cassettes is something that makes sense to Lindsey, from a psychological perspective. The music industry might be dying, but people still love music and they often long for something that represents that.

“It seems like if they do want something, they want this beautiful thing, like a record,” says Lindsey. “They want something that’s tied into sensorial experiences. You can smell it and touch it.”

The 750-square-foot space at Mesmerizer could make you think of a sort of midden mound from the late 20th century, with compact layers of history there to be explored, only it’s alphabetized and aggressively curated so customers don’t have to do all of the digging and sifting.

Votive candles and fragrant smudge stick give the place a rich olfactory signal, a kind of bottom-end smell -- not the standard musty waterlogged funkiness of many record shops.

The location -- as one focal point of Winston-Salem’s renegade arts and culture scene, with a history of creative performance, living, exhibit and shopping spaces -- is meaningful to Tesh and Lindsey.

“We’re trying to hold on to an innovative spirit that was started on this block two decades ago,” says Tesh. “Music and performance and art is something that needs to stay on this block.”

In that spirit, the venue has already hosted a number of noteworthy and energetic events -- a grand opening to coincide with the winter solstice, a yoga event to mark the new year, a potluck, dance and microtonal electronic music, and a sweaty and packed rock show. As students of ancient history know, many of our signature holidays were appropriated from or grafted on to key festivities in the pagan world; spring fertility imagWWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

ery morphed into the Easter bunny; winter solstice rituals became the Christmas tree, pagan temples became the sites of early Christian churches. In the spirit of tipping the hat to the ancients, Mesmerizer will take part in a multi-venue love-a-thon event that will blend pagan, Christian and candy-and-card-selling capitalist/secular festival traditions.

A Valentine’s festival at Delurk Gallery (a few blocks away at 207 W. 6th St.) with a performance by Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk and Darsombra was followed by a Lupercalia Love Parade. Lupercalia, in case you’ve never been much of classicist, is the ancient Roman festival, which was marked by public nudity and revelry as part of a purification ritual.

The Winston-Salem Lupercalia parade was a little more low-key, with revelers following a trail of heart-shaped balloons leading to Mesmerizer, where Judy Barnes performed to close the night.

Shows are free at Mesmerizer, in part because the expense of having someone tend the door and monitor comings and goings is too much for the space and the crowds, but also because Tesh and Lindsey want people to be able to come to the events, even if they don’t have a ton of cash to spend. Donations are collected, and those can be significant for performers. And if people don’t have to pay $10 to get in at the door, maybe they’ll be more likely to buy that Cure record or book of Borges short stories. The pair sees any money coming into their business as something that infuses the network of businesses and enterprises that all feed off of each other’s success. It’s a microeconomy situation.

“I think money is a form of energy,” says Lindsey, “and you should spend it on things you believe in.”

As much as commerce has been distilled down to a this-for-that logic for many of us, there are businesses that have a philosophy and a communitybuilding ethos, a spirit of pooling people’s buying power to drive something that goes beyond simple profit. The people at Mesmerizer take their mystic principles seriously, and it doesn’t appear to be some sort of superficial occult dabbling.

They mean it.

“We’re all volunteers here, essentially,” says Tesh. “We’re trying to raise a consciousness level. It’s bigger than money.” !

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MARVELOUS FUNKSHUN/ PERPETUAL GROOVE

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Th 23 LOUIS THE CHILD

w/Imad Royal / Manila Killa 7p

Fr 24 THE LACS w/Almost Kings 8p Sa 25 LAST BAND STANDING 6:30p w/After Party feat: INDECISION Sa 25 CHERUB/FLOOZIES @ THE RITZ Su 26 JOE HERO (Foo Fighters Tribute) w/Amuse (Muse Tribute) 6:30p MARCH

T h 2 JAZZ IS PHSH 7:30p F r 3 WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib Sa 4 LOS LONELY BOYS w/ Sugar Dirt & Sand 7p

Su 5 We 8 Fr 10 Sa 11 Su 12 Th 16

AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE 6p DAVID BROMBERG w.Austin Shaw THE CLARKS w/Michael Tolcher BOWIE BALL Trib to DAVID BOWIE HOLLY BOWLING THE HIP ABDUCTION

Fr 17 Sa 18 Su 19 We 22 Th 23 Fr 24

VANESSA CARLTON w/Tristen 7p GLOWRAGE “Carnival of Color” 8p RODI FEST: Moderna/DirtyRemnatz RISING APPALACHIA 7p HIPPIE SABOTAGE REVEREND HORTON HEAT

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w/The Get Right Band 8p

w/Unknown Hinson / BirdCloud + WHISKEY MYERS w/Steel Woods LOX w/Uncle Murda 7p

BLUE OCTOBER “GRATEFUL BALL” THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS/ THE JEFF AUSTIN BAND 7:30p Fr 31 THE BREAKFAST CLUB Sa Su Th Su

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PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG JONNY LANG w/Quinn Sullivan 7p Y&T 8p CODY JINKS w/Ward Davis+ THE MANTRAS DANGERMUFFIN Album Release SPRINTER METALFEST MOTHERS FINEST 7p REAL ESTATE w/Frankie Cosmos MAYDAY PARADE

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The Millennium Center (101 W. 5th St. Winston-Salem) Friday Feb. 24 8-11 p.m.

“Marvelous Funkshun, or “The Funkshun,” as fans like to call them, released their first album Live at Ziggy’s in February 2016, and we’re glad it found its way into the Jamwich rotation. The band’s sound is a captivating, strangely danceable fusion of southern rock and jam sounds, mixing a little funk in there, too. The steel lap guitar paired with improvisational jams and psychedelic sounds makes for a party on the scale of a Widespread Panic show.

Though the album is only five songs, they average in around 10 minutes, giving you a great feeling of their live flow and transporting you to Ziggy’s, right there with the band. The show that was recorded was actually their set from a day they played with Ballyhoo and Snoop Dogg. “We were really just trying to play to a crowd that probably was not really there to see us. The philosophy was just to keep it funky, but still be ourselves.” Sam Robinson says that “it wasn’t originally supposed to be an album actually,” and it just happened to be recorded by his friend Sean Grogan when mixing for the show that night. They liked it and had it run through analog gear and mixed.

“Everything is exactly how it was played, no edits.”

The first song, “Liquor Store,” gives you a taste of their bluesy side but throw you a curveball with a funky bassline. This is where we get our first taste of their sound, before launching into what is my favorite track, “Hear My Train a Comin.’” The beginning builds in a harmonizing riff, building into a triumphant release of an instrumental jam and blistering guitar solos.

Marvelous Funkshun’s style can be unpredictable, and the 14 minute “Hear My Train a Comin’” took the tone way down into a slow-tempo blues exploration. “ The similarities to the Sacred Steel tradition made “Hear My Train” a perfect choice,” Sam Robinson says of the track. “Rest My Bones” takes no time in giving us a beat to dance to in this feel-good blues rock tune.

They end the album with their funkiest song of all, “Shaky Ground.” “Shaky Ground is always fun to dance to,” says Sam. The track does in fact induce involuntary head-bobbing and toe-tapping, so be warned. It’s a great way to go out with a bang, but leaves us wanting more.

Thankfully for us, you can listen to the album on Spotify or buy it on iTunes now.“ - Sam Robinson

The Lacs Sat Feb 25

@ The Ritz

Indecision Sat Feb 25

Who’s Bad Fri Mar 3

Sat Mar 4

Los Lonely Boys

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David Bromberg

THE MOVEMENT W/ELUSIVE GROOVE

The Blind Tiger (1819 Spring Garden St. Greensboro) Wednesday Feb. 22 9 p.m.

“The Movement’s sixth studio album, GOLDEN, was released April 8, 2016, on Rootfire Cooperative. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart.

Formed in 2004 by a trio of Sublime and Pixies fans, Joshua Swain, Jordan Miller, and John Ruff, aka DJ Riggles, launched The Movement with their “alternative reggae” debut album, ON YOUR FEET. In 2008, the group met Chris DiBeneditto, a Philadelphia-based producer who had worked with like-minded acts such as Slightly Stoopid and G. Love & Special

Sauce. Relocating to Philadelphia, they recorded SET SAIL at DiBeneditto’s Philadelphonic Studios. The Movement expanded with the addition of Jason “Smiles” Schmidt on bass and Gary Jackson on drums. In 2012, Miller left the group, and the trio, now fronted by Swain, released their fourth album SIDE BY SIDE, debuting at #2 on the Billboard Reggae Chart. In 2014 The Movement released BENEATH THE PALMS, a surprise acoustic album as a free gift to their fans. Shortly thereafter they began working on what would become their finest album to date, GOLDEN. Keyboardist Ross Bogan joined the group full time in Spring 2016.”

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The oven mitts are off in The Barn Dinner Theatre’s The Kitchen Witches

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hen two become one isn’t always a good thing, especially when it’s two competitive chefs who are forced to co-host a cooking show. In The Barn Dinner Theatre’s The Kitchen Witches, two put-out cooks air their dirty laundry on the air as Lenise Willis they vie for the spotlight.

First of all, if you’ve never Contributing made it down to Stage Coach Trail for dinner and a show then columnist you’re missing out. Actually, quite a few people know to visit The Barn Dinner Theatre for a spirited evening, and yet it could still be considered one of Greensboro’s best kept secrets, somewhat tucked away from the downtown arts community. But this past weekend I was reminded not only of how fun their shows are, but how dedicated and passionate the staff are to its community.

The whole way through, from my entry to the door to meeting my dedicated waiter, to listening to the pre-show announcements, I felt cared for.

The staff truly thinks through the entire dining and theatre experience to make sure a good time is had by all. Not only were the wait staff incredibly respectful, attentive and accommodating, but the producer and general manager, Ric Gutierrez himself, hones the BDT’s friendly spirit in his announcements, too.

Now I realize it’s a bit ridiculous to include the pre-show announcements in a theatre review, but in this case I had to. I greatly respected how much time Gutierrez took to get to know his audience, calling out every birthday, anniversary and celebration in the crowd. And one might think that it would have gotten old or boring and had a “get on with the show” moment, but Gutierrez’s natural humor and warm demeanor erected quite the opposite. In fact, by the end of the announcements, I felt a part of the audience—like we were in something together. And that’s a hard feeling to come by these days.

Now on to The Kitchen Witches. As its core it’s a pretty simple and silly comedy about two older women who had a falling out over a man long ago. Since then, their long-time friendship has turned into a bitter rivalry that comes to an ugly head on live air.

After both of their cooking shows are cancelled, their producer sees an opportunity to bring them both back in the spotlight, but together in a Jerry Springer type fashion. What ensues is a slew of hilarious and very dirty cuts at one another.

Overall, the show was a blast. I laughed and smiled throughout and it was just a great break from a busy week. Susan Jones and April J’Callahan Marshall, who play “the kitchen witches” had a wonderful chemistry and added their own twists of WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

hilarious gestures to their already funny lines.

There were a few more tongue-tied moments in the dialogue than I would have expected in a nearly finished run, but the mood at The Barn is so light that I hardly noticed. I can’t stress enough the fullness of the experience there and I would definitely recommend a visit.

It’s just a casual, light-hearted way to end the week and share a robust laugh.

There’s only one weekend of performances left for The Kitchen Witches, but that doesn’t mean you’ll have to miss out on BDT’s warm spirit and convivial evening. Up next to continue its 53rd season is the comedy, BINGO! The Winning Musical, which runs March 3-31. The hilarious musical features long-time friends and bingo pals Vern, Honey and Patsy, who brave a terrible storm to make it to the annual celebration of the birth of bingo. But when the storm knocks out the power to the Bingo Hall, Patsy and Honey are reminded of the ominous night 15 years ago that began in the same way, but that led to an evening of mishaps and schemes.

This show is a perfect fit for BDT since the audience will get to participate and actually play bingo during the performance. !

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The Barn Dinner Theatre, located at 120 Stage Coach Trail, Greensboro, presents The Kitchen Witches this week through Sunday and BINGO! The Winning Musical March 3-31. Tickets are $43-$48 and include a buffet dinner. For tickets and more information call 336-292-2211 or visit barndinner.com.

by Lenise Willis North Carolina A&T State University celebrates Black History month this week with an inspiring concert on the life and experiences of forgotten African-American composers, including music from the Antebellum Period through the Civil Rights Movement and modern times. Famed violinist Tami Hughes will perform compositions she’s collected in “Legacy: Violin Music of African Composers,” a visual concert of her album, as part of the school’s Lyceum Series, which is dedicated to bringing the most provocative, culturally diverse programs to the university campus and surrounding community.

If you’re looking for a little less thought provocation, Theatre Alliance continues its electric production of Rock of Ages this week through Sunday. The rock concert includes the hits from such 80s rock bands as Pat Benatar, Journey, Poison and Bon Jovi.

Another fun production continuing its runs this week is Barn Dinner Theatre’s The Kitchen Witches, in which two competitive TV hosts are paired together for a dramatic cooking show that likens to Martha Stewart combined with Jerry Springer. Productions run this week through Sunday.

Wednesday through Friday UNC Greensboro presents Antigone by Sophocles with translation by Don Taylor. Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, and Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes. Performances are in Taylor Theatre.

The Greensboro College Department of Music presents its annual Winter Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus.

Admission is free and open to the public.

In other news, Triad Stage announced its 17th season Monday night, so stay tuned on what to expect from the professional theatre. One sneak peek is that next spring it will be performing a scandalous thriller, The Passion of Teresa Rae King, which I’m particularly excited about. Before then though, check out their grand musical, South Pacific, coming in September and the comedy Buyer & Cellar in October. !

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LEGO Batman : The Dark Knight cometh

Given the success of The LEGO Movie (2014), which exceeded all critical and financial expectations, followups were inevitable, and the first such spin-off is The LEGO Batman Movie, which Mark Burger pulls out all the stops and encomContributing passes seemingly every character in columnist the DC Comics Universe – all of them presented in LEGO form, naturally.

Will Arnett reprises his voice-over role to terrific effect, growling and snarling his way through the character of The Dark Knight, the tireless Gotham City crimefighter who prefers solitude. Another successful exploit is rewarded with lobster thermidor (reheated in a microwave oven) and, perhaps, a screening of Jerry Maguire

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(1996), followed by some impromptu jamming on his electric guitar.

A battalion of screenwriters (Seth GrahameSmith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern and John Whittington) have fashioned an inspired send-up of Batman and superhero trappings in general, gleefully tossing out a barrage of in-jokes and puns that come so fast and furious they may sail right over the heads of children but will doubtless please, and impress, the DC faithful. (Even Adam West gets his due.)

For all the mockery and self-mockery, The LEGO Batman Movie clearly understands the character, in some instances better than previous live-action Batman movies. The film opens at such a high pitch that it occasionally struggles to maintain that breakneck pace, and grows a little repetitious, but its giddy spirit and splashy presentation are positively infectious. Resistance truly is futile.

Other notables lending their vocal skills to trademark (and trademarked) characters are Zach Galifianakis as the Joker, whose ongoing relationship with Batman is initially one-sided (The Joker hates Batman, Batman couldn’t care less about the Joker), Michael Cera as a zealously eager Robin, Rosario Dawson as tough, practical police commissioner Barbara Gordon, and Ralph Fiennes (an inspired choice) as Batman’s faithful butler Alfred.

Hector Elizondo, Conan O’Brien, Mariah Carey, Jenny Slate, Zoe Kravitz, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Eddie Izzard, Jemaine Clement, Eddie Izzard, Seth Green, director Chris McKay and Billy Dee Williams can also be heard (from time to time), and Bat-fans will doubtless recall that Williams played Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s first Batman (1989) but denied the opportunity to play Two-Face later. Here, even after almost 30 years, that situation has been rectified. !

Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro a potent history Raoul Peck’s fiery, Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro is not a biography of the renowned writer, poet and social activist James Baldwin (1924-’87) in the strictest or conventional sense of the term, yet it is told in Baldwin’s own words, and narrated Samuel L. Jackson – an inspired and excellent choice.

Peck uses Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House (begun in 1979) as the springboard for this chronicle of racism in America, as well as scores of notes, letters and correspondence that Baldwin wrote throughout his life.

There are some biographical asides to Baldwin’s own life, but primarily I Am Not Your Negro offers Baldwin’s perspective, shaped and molded by events – the majority more tragic than triumphant – as he recalls such major black figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar

Evers, all slain martyrs in the cause of Civil Rights.

In addition to Baldwin’s eloquence, insight and anger, the film’s vintage newsreel footage, which has been expertly assembled, packs quite a wallop, offering a potent reminder of how far into the 20th century – and beyond – that racism has been a (sad and tragic) factor in American culture. Many of these images are indelibly imprinted in history, for better or – all too often – worse.

Yet toward the end, the filmmakers tend to overstate their case, even when their message has been made and their point put across. The film lays it on just a bit thick, although a valid argument could be made that such repetition pounds the message home, which it undoubtedly does.

– I Am Not Your Negro opens Friday !

Sleepless in Seattle: Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) and Fifty Shades Darker are any indication, the screen trilogy based on P.D. James’ best-selling novels is shaping up to be a tepid trio. Fifty Shades Freed, which was filmed concurrently with Darker, is due for release next Valentine’s Day. Once again, we join star-crossed lovers Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), the heavy-breathing, hot-and-bothered duo introduced in the earlier film. “Last time was different,” Anastasia announces, but don’t you believe it. (Actually, she doesn’t sound convinced, either.)

The widely reported contretemps between executive producer James and the first film’s director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, have seen the reins passed to James Foley, who also directed Freed, but there’s little discernible difference. Stylishly shot by cinematographer John Schwartzman, the screenplay slavishly follows the novel, perhaps because screenwriter Niall Leonard is married to James in real life.

There’s the vague undercurrent of innocence corrupted (in Anastasia’s case) and corruption possibly redeemed (in Christian’s), but beyond the smoldering

glances and rounds of kinky sex these vapid characters aren’t particularly interesting, although Dornan and Johnson are attractive, whether clothed or otherwise.

Dornan’s a little less reptilian this time around, and even manages to imbue a measure of sly humor into such eye-rolling dialogue as “Calm really isn’t my forte.”

To be fair, Fifty Shades Darker is no worse than Fifty Shades of Grey, but it’s not any better, either. There’s little character development, less character involvement, and nary a surprise to be found.

Marcia Gay Harden, Rita Ora, Eloise Mumford, Max Martini, Luke Grimes, Victor Rasuk and Andrew Airlie reprise their roles from the first film, but are essentially wasted. Likewise, series newcomers Bella Heathcote (as Christian’s unstable former “submissive”), Eric Johnson (as Anastasia’s patently predatory new boss), and Kim Basinger (as a “family friend” of the Greys) have little to do after being summarily introduced, although it’s strongly hinted at that they’ll be back for the finale.

One can only wait, breathless with anticipation. !

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Local comics creator wants to show you how to do it

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reensboro’s Barrett Stanley has created a very impressive indy comic book. Now he wants to show other wouldbe creators how. Come to Scuppernong Books at 7pm on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and he will.

“I’m not sure if I should call this event a proper workshop,” he says. “I think it will be more of an introduction to the process of making a comic. I’m testing the waters here and want to gauge the interest level.

It’s something I’ll bring up in the talk and see if there are people who’d be interested. People don’t really need to bring anything in particular unless they want to jot down some notes.”

Barrett’s Heartbreak Quadrant, currently on sale at Scuppernong Books and Acme Comics, is a quirky characteroriented sci-fi adventure that somewhat resembles a more intimate and feminist version of Joss Whedon’s cult TV series Firefly crossed with the work of the great European Heavy Metal comics artists Jean

“Moebius” Giraud and Enki Bilal.

It’s about the raffish exploits of Ida and Kumi, two young women who make their living buying, selling, and trading artifacts from planet Earth, which was destroyed 20 years earlier.

They travel the galaxy in the Red Grapefruit, a salvaged alien ship, always seeking the big score that would let them settle down and live comfortably in the Charm Quadrant.

Unfortunately, their days are filled with doublecrossing clients, technological disasters, and sub-standard replicated nachos. In their first adventure, they run afoul of a former business associate and his mysterious enforcer, who are determined to take Kumi and melt her down for her unusual DNA. “The first issue is a sort of ‘pilot episode’ and is about 60 pages - it gives you a pretty good introduction to the characters and

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plot, With this workshop, I plan to give the attendees a first-hand look at how I went about creating Heartbreak Quadrant, from the initial concept and preliminary sketches to the finished product.”

Barrett is the first to admit that creating it wasn’t easy, especially as he did it without a traditional publisher, financing it through a modest but successful Kickstarter campaign. “I’m the writer, artist, and letterer, so it’s kind of a one-man show. The first issue took about three years, all told, which sounds ridiculous, but working full time and having a family didn’t leave me with very much time to work on it on any given day. I would generally spend a few hours on it each night, but there were definitely days when I just couldn’t get to it. It was a painfully slow process, but I tried to focus on my short-term goals and deadlines.

During the drawing and inking process, I was trying to get one page done each week. Sometimes I missed the deadline, but not often.”

I ask him if he wrote a complete script before he started to draw it. “In the beginning, I was scripting pretty thoroughly, but not very far in advance. I knew the outline of the plot, but I didn’t sit down and script the whole issue at the outset. By the halfway point, I’d stopped scripting the dialogue completely and was just laying out the pages with thumbnails and a basic idea of what was being said in each panel in mind. It actually worked really well for me and in following that plan with the second issue.”

I ask how much he had completed when his Kickstarter began. “The issue was 95% finished before I started the campaign.

I was paranoid about completing it on time, plus I wanted to post a large portion of the issue for potential backers to see.

At that point I felt confident I could finish it quickly if the Kickstarter was funded.”

That campaign took place in the Fall of 2016. “It ran for a month and I had a very positive experience working with Kickstarter. They selected Heartbreak Quadrant as a staff pick and even chose it as the ‘Project of the Day’ across the entire site one day. Their support really helped boost my fundraising, and the project passed its funding goal by almost a thousand dollars. I’m planning to launch

another campaign for the second issue this year.”

Barrett is 40 and lives in Greensboro with his wife of 17 years and their 8-yearold daughter. A graduate of Grimsley High School, he studied art at Appalachian State University and has dabbled in a number of media, including fine art, graphic design and sculpture.

“I’ve worked in a lot of different media, from painting to printmaking to pottery to tattoo to illustration. I grew up reading comic books, spending Saturday mornings at Acme Comics back when it was a dark, cigarette-smoke-filled little shop downtown. Back then, it was mostly superhero titles. By the early 90s, I was starting to lose my taste for comics, and to be honest, mainstream comics were going through a pretty bad patch during that time. I was away from comics for a good long while, but then a few years ago a couple of friends started introducing me to some current comics and creators, and my interest came back pretty quickly. The Prophet series by Brandon Graham, Old City Blues by Giannis Milonogiannis, Copra

by Michel Fiffe, plus artists like Ashley Wood and Frank Quietly were all inspiring, plus I discovered European comic artists like Moebius, Enki Bilal, and François Schuiten. I started buying old copies of Heavy Metal from the 70s and 80s and found a lot of amazing gems in there. My work draws influence from those oldschool visuals, but with a more modern sensibility behind it.”

While he was putting the first issue together, Barrett was a Department Head at a local grocery store, but since then has begun working for himself. “Nowadays I’m basically doing comics and art full time, along with taking care of my awesome daughter. People in Greensboro have been really supportive. If I were to point to one person who’s thrown a ton of support my way (aside from my wife, that is), it would probably be Jermaine from Acme Comics. He has promoted the book pretty relentlessly and has given me opportunities to participate in events at the shop, and has just been a great resource as I try to get myself out there. That said, I truly appreciate everyone who’s helped me along on this journey.” !

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You can check out more pages from his story at heartbreakquadrant.tumblr.com. His “Pre-Workshop” at Scuppernong Books at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 is free and open to the public.

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Oscar race reaches home stretch Come Sunday, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the 89th annual Academy Awards live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, it should probably take about two or three minutes before the first joke is lobbed at Mark Burger the current resident of the White House Contributing – and it probably won’t be the last. columnist Be that as it may, it’ll probably be another long evening in La La Land, and with a record-trying 14 nominations it’s starting to look a lot like La La Land (the film) will dance away with Best Picture … and probably a few more Oscars. We’ll see how the evening proceeds ...

BEST PICTURE Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight.

Good films all, but narrow it down to the traditional five nominees and you’d probably end up with Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight. La La Land is definitely a “feel-good” movie, a charming and bittersweet valentine to Hollywood. The others could be classified as “important” films, either based on a true story or addressing such issues as family turmoil, grief, sexual identity, and redemption. Moonlight or Fences could surprise, but La La Land seems a la-la lock.

BEST DIRECTOR Arrival (Denis Villeneuve), Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson), La La Land (Damien Chazelle), Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins).

The Academy’s been itching to recognize Villeneuve, and Academy voters looked past Mel Gibson’s stormy personal life and recognized his directorial proficiency. Lonergan, an esteemed playwright, has a better shot being recognized for his screenplay than his direction. Thus, it boils down to the two newcomers in the bunch.

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it’s really up for grabs, although Chazelle might have a slight edge because of the plethora of nominations. One thing’s for sure: Neither will have any trouble getting their next projects off the ground.

BEST ACTOR Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea; Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge; Ryan Gosling, La La Land; Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic; Denzel Washington, Fences.

Despite his own bout with bad publicity, Affleck seemed a shoo-in for his careerbest turn as a grief-stricken blue-collar loner in Manchester by the Sea, but Washington (a two-time Oscar winner) has come on strong of late. Garfield and Mortensen are long-shots, but Gosling could surprise. He’s proven his comedic and dramatic chops, and now he’s singing and dancing – quite nicely, thank you very much.

Traditionally, it would be the other way around: Funnymen and singers would more often be recognized when they transitioned to drama (think Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity, Red Buttons in Sayonara or Fred Astaire’s nomination for The Towering Inferno). I interviewed Affleck years ago (for Drowning Mona – no Oscar nominations there!), and one can’t overlook the fact that he has progressed and grown as an actor, and he’s made his name primarily in the independent realm. The recent infusion of younger (and, yes, more diverse) voters generally come from that realm, too – which gives him an edge. Maybe.

son, Portman – and she looks to ride the La La Land tide, but again the addition of more international Academy voters could swing it to Huppert. For her it would very much be in recognition of her career as well as her excellent performance. Don’t be surprised.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mahershala Ali, Moonlight; Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water; Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea; Dev Patel, Lion; Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals.

Shannon is a great actor and a very cool guy (as anyone who met him at RiverRun a few years back can attest), and hopefully his time will come. Bridges earned his first Oscar nomination 45 years ago (for The Last Picture Show), has proven himself a durable and versatile actor, and is much-loved in Hollywood (and himself a Hollywood legacy). Despite his overdue win for Crazy Heart (2008) – as much for his career as the performance – he could surprise here. Patel and Hedges (who took a sabbatical from the UNCSA School of Drama to make Manchester) are talented young actors.

But, let’s face it, Ali’s performance in Moonlight blows everyone away. When he exits the narrative, a piece of the film’s heart goes with him, and if only they explained what happened to his character …

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Viola Davis, Fences; Naomie Harris, Moonlight; Nicole Kidman, Lion; Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures; Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea. Kidman (a Best Actress winner for The Hours), Spencer (a Supporting Actress winner for The Help) and Williams (a fourtime nominee) all give fine performances, but it’s between Harris and Davis. Harris, who filmed her Moonlight scenes over a three-day period (playing her character at three different ages), enjoys the sort of small but meaty role that earlier won Oscars for Beatrice Straight (Network) and Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love) – she makes every second onscreen count.

But in the case of Viola Davis, enjoying her third nomination (the most ever for a black actress), there’s the unmistakable sense that her time has come and that this is her year. !

BEST ACTRESS Isabelle Huppert, Elle; Ruth Negga, Loving; Natalie Portman, Jackie; Emma Stone, La La Land; Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins.

Think of it: Meryl Streep made her screen debut 40 years ago (in Julia), and this is her record-breaking 20th nomination … and she’s the underdog! Portman, who deservedly won Best Actress for the otherwise overrated Black Swan (2010), appeared an early front-runner but seems to have faded. Negga, superb as Mildred Loving in the otherwise overlooked Loving, is a potential surprise, but the front-runners are clearly Huppert, among the most acclaimed actresses in the world (this is only her first Oscar nomination!), and Stone. Hollywood loves to crown a new queen – Jennifer Lawrence, Brie LarFEBRUARY 22-28, 2017

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hen you walk through the doors of SidWill’s Café in Jamestown you’re greeted with the smell of good food followed by a warm reception from the staff. The small café gives you the feeling of sitting in your grandma’s kitchen waiting on a plate of her famous meatloaf.

The business, which is located on Main Street behind the The Deck in Jamestown, has a constant chime from the bell on the door as the flow of customers come through for lunch, dinner or special orders Monday through Friday beginning at 11 a.m. and Saturday at noon.

Owners William Wyatt and Sidney Young began the business as a subsidiary catering business to Wyatt’s then Libby Hill Franchise.

Wyatt worked for Libby Hill for 28 years, with 15 of those years as a Libby Hill franchisee in Danville, Va. and Madison.

When Wyatt exited the Libby Hill business in 2012 and Young retired in 2014, they

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decided to crank the catering aspect back up but add a café as well. Opening the café’s doors in June 2014, they couldn’t have imagined that they’d be where they are now.

“The café was to originally help keep the catering business afloat. After about eight months, the café really took off and gained its legs. It has actually helped grow the catering aspect of the business,” Wyatt said. “SidWill’s is comfort food. It certainly has a southern flair but I wouldn’t consider it soul food. We feed a very diverse group of people here. The place is kind of eclectic in its look but people from every background and ethnicity eat here, comfortably.”

The café is a dream come true for both partners.

According to Wyatt, he always envisioned his own place and this café fits his dream of being able to cook, prep and talk to his customers at the same time in a very intimate environment.

“I can do that here until it gets busy.

Then my focus is on production,” he said.

“I get to share with folks that come in

whether it’s about what’s going on in the economy, daily or just what’s going on in their lives.”

For Young, it’s all about the food. He loves to cook and jokes that if this wasn’t an option he’d have to join a health club.

When asked how he comes up with his menu choices he explains that he simply thinks about what he would want to eat.

“We wanted to come up with something that would appeal to everyone including people who wanted to get away from the drive-thru but not spend all that time in the kitchen. SidWill’s means that they don’t have to cook,” Young said. “I cook pretty much anything but we were looking around and there weren’t many places for you to go for comfort food and there was no place in Jamestown. We decided to start there and see if there was a market there and it was.”

Besides offering its top sellers like beef and turkey meatloaf, macaroni and cheese or collard greens, the café offers job opportunities to those in need. Their employees may come from work programs, be retirees, teenagers or someone

just looking for a second chance.

“We’ve always viewed this as a ministry so we’ve found the opportunity to find some people who are committed to learning. They don’t have to have all the skills. Someone who may have started off washing dishes may now work on the line,” Wyatt said.

He said that there are two requirements that they ask of employees: that they have a great attitude and that they work hard.

“The majority of folks we’ve hired, we look at their strengths and go from there.

We make it work if they are willing to,” Wyatt said. “Our goal is to grow them as far as we can here and then move them in another direction. We want them to take the skill sets that they learn here, put them on their resume so it can catapult them to the top of whatever field they want to go to.”

Young agrees, saying that he teaches the staff standard kitchen skills and safety that are of a higher standard than the health departments.

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SidWill’s partners William Wyatt and Sidney Young. to both of us was that we provide jobs for the community. It feels good to know that you’re bringing something to the community that the community finds valuable,” Young said. “When they move on to a better position it makes you feel proud. We don’t want to see them go but as they develop on to something bigger we become their biggest cheerleader.”

In its third year of business, Wyatt and Young have done what most startups don’t get a chance to do – hit the black.

“Unfortunately, for startups that aren’t franchisees, only 10 percent of them make it through the first year and only one percent make it through the first five years,” Wyatt said. “We feel blessed that we’re two and half years and going strong.”

He said that after eight months in the business they weren’t hitting the numbers they needed to be successful and weren’t taking a salary. After already agreeing with his wife that he would walk away if after a year if the business didn’t show a profit, Wyatt was looking at bringing in someone to take his place.

“In that ninth month, a lot of good things began happening for us. We picked up a lot of catering events and did a program on Fox 8 for Recipe Wednesday,” Wyatt said. “By the time our first year came around we were in the black and moving in the right direction. For the last year and a half things have just continued to grow at an incredible pace.”

A lot of that success has come from word of mouth.

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that someone told me was if you’re good in Jamestown people will tell everybody.

If you’re not good in Jamestown people will tell everybody,” Wyatt said, laughing.

“People that like this place love this place.

It’s hard to find but people are determined to find it. Once they do, they send friends, relatives and they come back. On my menu, there’s a saying that says ‘It’s the anointing that makes the difference’ and we certainly believe that. We feel like there’s a special anointing in this place and we want to provide a great dining experience and want folks to feel better after coming in here.”

Although Young isn’t on any of them, he credits social media with their success as well.

“Folks who are on social media spread the word for us. The response has been amazing,” he said.

The men hope to have an operational food truck within the next year and a second location strictly for catering in the next 18 to 24 months, allowing them to do parades, homecomings, races and lunch to local businesses.

“Jamestown has become a stopping place within itself for folks who come through. Some of the best things are hidden gems. That’s what we are,” Wyatt said.

For more information visit www.SidWills.com or call (336)-454-0021. !

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[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your ability to concentrate upon projects that require management of details is strong. Organizing files, closets and cabinets will clear the clutter from your mind. The new wrinkle in your life occurs through your partnership(s). That may be business or personal.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Venus, the ancient goddess of love and financial resources, will turn retrograde in your partnership house. You and your partner have need of increased space between you. It does not matter who initiates the idea for a breathing space.

It comes from a joint need. This does not mean anything about love, so don’t misinterpret and create trouble where there is not.

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[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Please read the lead paragraph carefully.

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Maybe this has happened just recently.

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It is designed to help you decide if the relationship(s) are for you.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is an excellent time to pursue any activity that requires your mental concentration. Contracts and written communications, along with short distance travel, have go signals.

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I’m a 28-year-old guy in a corporate job. I’m out there trying to meet women and date (or hook up), but I’m not doing so well. In Amy Alkon college, I was able to hook up and get girlfriends pretty Advice easily, and I haven’t Goddess put on 100 pounds or anything. I’ve noticed that three of my male co-workers (at my same level at work) are getting lots of girls. All three are in major debt from buying clothes and leasing cars they really can’t afford. Is being on the road to bankruptcy really what it takes to impress the ladies? — Living Within My Means Candlelight all over your apartment is really romantic — unless you’re using it because they’ve cut your power off again.

When women finally start looking to settle down and make a life with a man, the last thing they want is some creditcard-surfing spenditarian who gets his exercise running from collection agents.

However, despite this, women can also be like blue jays on shiny objects — especially shiny objects with, say, Audi emblems — and men’s “mate competition” through spendy-spend-spending reflects that.

Research on men and women ages 18 to 45 by evolutionary social psychologist Daniel Kruger found that men who had

run up credit card debt were more likely to have multiple sex partners than their more sensibly spending bros. (Women’s debt level didn’t have any meaningful effect on their sexual body count.)

Again — rather obviously — women aren’t all “I’m looking for a man who’ll eventually have to crowdfund our children’s dental bills.” However, looking at Kruger’s findings, another evolutionary psychologist, Glenn Geher, speculates that men’s overspending “may act as a false signal of wealth, and although it is a false signal” (of the ability to provide resources for a woman and any children) “sometimes this deception is effective.”

As for why that might be, just as a guy doesn’t get to ask a woman whether her genes or steel-belted Spanx are the force behind her supermodel abs, a woman won’t be poring over a guy’s credit report at the bar. She’ll just paw admiringly at the cashmere hoodie he took out two loans and sold his twin brother into slavery to buy.

This isn’t to say you need to go into the red to get girls. It’s ultimately a bad strategy for any guy who wants more than a string of flings. However, what would probably lead more women to give you a chance are the first-glance trappings of success — beautiful shoes, designer eyeglass frames, that fab cashmere sweater, and maybe a really nice soft leather jacket.

The thing is, you can get these items simply by shopping shrewdly — like at end-of-year sales or on eBay. They’ll surely cost more than the duds you’d otherwise buy, but consider them invest-

ments to get you in the door. Remember, even women who want a boyfriend who’s fiscally responsible are likely to be impressed by that sweater that took four years combing a Mongolian goat to make. And let’s say some woman’s just looking for a hookup. It’s all good; she won’t know you long enough to discover that although you do drive a brand-new “alternative-fuel” vehicle, it isn’t a Tesla; it’s a Schwinn.

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I love my girlfriend and try to be good to her. However, her folks came to visit, and she thinks I was rude because I seemed uninterested and was on my phone the whole time. I told her that I think her parents are boring. I was just being honest. She got really mad. Am I supposed to lie about being entertained by her parents? — The Boyfriend There comes an age when other children’s parents shouldn’t have to hire monkeys and birthday clowns.

Twenty-some years ago, in the hospital maternity ward, your girlfriend’s mom and dad heard the wonderful news — and

it wasn’t, “It’s an iPhone!” So, when her folks are visiting, there’s a reasonable expectation that, yes, you would redirect your attention from “Words With Friends” to words with parents.

Surely, this is not news to you — or really anyone whose brain has not been relocated to a jar. So you might ask yourself whether this ignore-athon of yours reflects some subconscious desire to sabotage your way out of the relationship.

If that’s not the case, consider something the late German social psychologist Erich Fromm pointed out: “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling — it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.” In other words, loving someone is something you do. Tragically, this acting lovingly business may sometimes require you to put your entertainment needs second — even if the only way to survive the crushing tedium of being with your girlfriend’s folks is to spend the evening secretly pacing the floater in your right eye. !

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