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...if there’s one type of food fare that has left some longing in foodies, it’s ramen.

Delicious, steaming bowls of noodles filled broth with select toppings. Pop up a RAMEN SHOP, and you’ve got our attention.

10 When Greensboro’s SHELF LIFE ART & SUPPLY CO. opened on Oct. 1, 2014, owner and mixed-media artist Cassandra Liuzzo solidified her goal to create a sustainable-based art culture hub to attract new artists and to help keep some of her friends here, who were venturing away.

11 He won’t turn 16 until April, but KALEAB KURTZ is well on his way to becoming a show-biz veteran.

12 Rooted in fact, INCITEMENT marks director Yaron Zilberman’s first feature since the 2012 ensemble drama A Late Quartet and is clearly a project born out of passion, although its tone is methodical and its pacing meticulous.

13 While still a senior at Winston-Salem State University, Democrat DERWIN MONTGOMERY became the youngest person ever elected to Winston-Salem City Council, where he served three terms.

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“This stops right now,” said the Greensboro City Council’s At-Large Representative Michelle Kennedy when a white ABORTION PROTESTER shoved her arm through the window of a car containing a weeping black woman.

19 At the Feb. 16 work session of the Greensboro City Council, several members were skeptical of the Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission’s recommendation of WRITTEN CONSENT for police searches.

20 THE QUARTER ROYS shed a member over the winter, but are looking forward to their first show as a trio with the Pinkerton Raid and Shiloh Hill at the Flat Iron on Feb. 29.

21 YOUR NEIGHBOR could, for all you know, be hunched over her laptop making meticulously crafted post-rock, or editing a track of breathy confessional folk, or futuristic chill hip-hop that samples vintage field recordings of calypso from the Caribbean. There’s no telling.

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WHAT: From the stages of the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway to the stage at UNCG Auditorium, Megastar Soprano Renée Fleming performs as part of the UNC Greensboro Concert and Lecture Series.

Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time. In 2013, President Obama awarded her America’s highest honor for an artist, the National Medal of Arts.

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WHAT: This month’s evening laser show features Led Zeppelin! The amazing Laser Zeppelin laser light show highlights a mix of some of Led Zeppelin’s greatest hits, including “Stairway to Heaven” and “Over the Hills and Far Away.” Tickets are $5 each, and shows last about 45 minutes.

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PREGNANT IN THE PIEDMONT

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Pregnant in the Piedmont is a parenting, baby and pregnancy expo that will be held on Saturday, Feb. 29, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Conference Center, located at 3333 Silas Creek Pkwy. in WinstonSalem.

Becky Hale, the founder of Piedmont Doulas, said that her organization provides “birth and postpartum doula services and childbirth education throughout the Triad.”

“Our hashtag is #YesWeDoula, and that means we doula for any type of birth and any kind of family,” Hale said. “A lot of times, people associate doulas just with natural or unmedicated birth. But we believe that any kind of birth—whether you are planning medicated pain relief or a planned cesarian birth—we believe that all of those births can utilize the support of a doula and we also want the public to know that we are inclusive to any type of family structure.”

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Doulas, she had “a Rolodex of resources.”

“I took that for granted because I thought ‘well, everyone knows about these services,’ but they don’t,” Hale said.

“I wanted people to know that there is so much out there for growing families in the Piedmont. So, this is a way to try to put them together all under one roof in one day that is hopefully really accessible for people.”

This free expo is held annually, and this year is its sixth year.

“It is designed to showcase what the Piedmont has for growing families,” Hale said. “Basically, it is all in one location—under one roof— so that people can access everything easily,” Hale said.

Over 50 vendors will be in attendance, including obstetricians, pediatricians, midwives, pediatric dentists, local nonprofit services, child care agencies, and others.

“Throughout the day, we have what we call ‘Tiny Talk,’ and those are basically mini-workshops,” Hale said. “Those are on

different topics such as vaccines, taking care of your relationship after the baby comes (Lewisville Family Counseling is presenting on that), how to soothe your baby, pain relief in labor (using epidurals, and things like that). Safe sleep is another one of our ‘Tiny Talks.’”

Hale said these mini breakout sessions would be going on throughout the day, and each last about 15 minutes. Hale said there would also be active demonstrations of prenatal yoga, mom/baby yoga, and even a music class for babies and toddlers. These sessions are happening throughout the day and are open to all. Hale said that there would also be activities for children as well as the newly added “Sibling Space.”

“Siblings-to-be will come in, pick up a baby doll, and practice diapering, holding the baby, burping the baby, swaddle the baby, and then they will get a big sibling sticker,” Hale said of the “Sibling Space.”

“We also have face painting and character visits for the kids as well, and we have

a photo prop area with a fun, little red carpet.”

Hale said during the expo, Piedmont Doulas will be collecting donations for Triad Diaper Bank, a nonprofit organization that helps provide diapers to families in need throughout the Triad.

“There are a lot of families that struggle with diapers, and [the Triad Diaper Bank] is a great resource for them to reach out and find diapers for their kids,” she said.

Piedmont Doulas will have flag bags filled with samples, discounts, coupons, and other branded items in a reusable Novant tote bag for the first 100 families that come through the doors. Pregnant in the Piedmont is sponsored by Novant Health, Triad Moms On Main, Spangler Rohlfing, and Lambert Pediatric Dentistry.

For more information, visit the website www.pregnantinthepiedmont.com, Facebook event page, www.facebook. com/piedmontdoulacare/, email emailpregnantinthepiedmont@gmail.com or call (336) 448-4114. !

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f there’s one thing the Triad can be criticized for, it’s late to the game of cuisine’s most trendy dishes.

It was only recently that Winston-Salem even had a burger Kristi Maier presence. Now, @triadfoodies there are more than enough burger joints to choose from.

Contributor Poke? It’s happening. But if there’s one type of food fare that has left some longing in foodies, it’s ramen. Delicious, steaming bowls of noodles filled broth with select toppings. Pop-up a ramen shop, and you’ve got our attention.

Granted, there are a few Thai or Asian Fusion restaurants that sell noodle bowls, but nothing has really made its mark. If ramen isn’t the focus of the menu, it’s just not the same. The following “shops,” mobile or otherwise, can attest that ramen is about technique as much as it is a dish.

THE POP-UPS: White Tiger Noodle Shop at Spring House For a few years now, Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar, has been bringing their “Umami Tsunami” to customers with their in-house ramen pop-up. They claim to be WinstonSalem’s first and original (and best) ramen pop-up shop with a selection of handmade broths and chicken, pork, pork belly, or veggies. Steam buns and other Asian small plates have also been offered. Wednesday, Feb. 26, is the last night for the House’s pop-up. Reservations are recommended if you try to make it last minute.

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Shokunin Ramen A pop-up with a future, Shokunin Ramen, with Chef Josh Trusler is gaining in popularity in Winston-Salem with its monthly pop-ups, most recently at Mission Pizza Napoletana on Trade Street.

Shokunin is translated as an artisan or craftsman, but Trusler said the meaning is much deeper:

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237 Fifth “It really means doing something with passion every day to achieve a perfect end result, and I use the word to show how dedicated we are to the art of making food. I think we’re not too different from a traditional Japanese ramen shop, except we use products made as close to home as possible,” Trusler continued. And the chef added that his noodles are very special.

“I do make noodles by hand the traditional way, which not a lot of ramen producers do.”

Trusler, who worked with a chef from Okinawa to learn tricks of the trade, said they are working on concrete plans to open up a full-fledged ramen shop. But for now, he plans to continue to have pop-ups at MPN even as the weather warms, with the menu reflecting the seasons.

THE SHOPS: 237 Fifth 237 Fifth has been a most talked about, headscratching ramen shop because its name and its look are intentionally nondescript and mysterious. Inside, it’s pretty loud and quite dark, which allows for little picture taking and open only at dinner…usually with a wait. A mere few months ago, the space held the beloved Small Batch Burgers on 5th Street in WinstonSalem, but owner Tim Walker was ready for a change.

“I needed something that I’m really passionate about, and this gives me that outlet.”

Walker said it’s more than just ramen.

“It’s really about the sake and the experience.”

Walker takes pride in his sake menu, which boasts 22 sakes that set him apart from most shops in the state.

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and engage with one another the way restaurants used to be and yes, enjoy ramen. It’s exceeded my expectations.”

The menu is quite small, with three to five ramen and a handful of appetizers. Walker added that, like every ramen shop, his has its own style.

“What’s great about ramen is doing it your own way.”

It’s open Wednesday-Saturday, open until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.

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Tampopo Ramen & Hibachi, Located in the FantaCity Shopping Center in Greensboro, Tampopo offers a variety of broths, including pork, chicken, and plenty of veggie options.

Don Japanese Restaurant Before anyone knew they wanted ramen locally, Don was offering it at their Tate Street location near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Though it’s hard for me to skip the bibimbap at Don, the restaurant offers ramen, Ishigaki (hot stone bowl which includes the bibimbap) and udon.

Don Express, Food Truck Specializing in ramen, but also offering yakisoba and fried rice, you’ll find Don Express making its way to breweries and markets like Buie’s Market in WinstonSalem. You’ll have to follow their Facebook or Instagram pages to keep track of them. !

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

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Local artist ally and supply store sustains Triad art

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hen Greensboro’s Shelf Life Art & Supply Co. opened on Oct. 1, 2014, owner and mixed-media artist Cassandra Liuzzo solidified her goal to create a Terry Rader sustainable-based art culture hub to attract new artists and Contributor to help keep some of her friends here, who were venturing away. She looked at it as an investment in Greensboro’s art community and the surrounding community. From art classes to getting out and networking with other artists and galleries— she lives and breathes art.

Shelf Life Art & Supply Co. extends well beyond the plethora of new and used arts and crafts supplies found on the inside. Liuzzo said she specifically

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specializes in all sorts of donated/or store credited materials to make art. She also offers professional custom framing that includes museum-quality matte and glass options, canvas stretching, shadow boxes, frame moldings, archival and more (see an online list of items framed).

She said that artists may bring in materials they are not going to use and get store credit for supplies they want now so that she can resell their old items at affordable prices to other artists.

Professional artists and hobbyists can come in and share their goals with what they want to do with certain materials, and Liuzzo said that Shelf Life helps brainstorm and explore other materials together. “We enable artists to express their creativity,” she said.

Liuzzo is excited about her art class offerings and said to be sure and sign up early for the “Bob Ross Landscape Oil Painting Workshop” with Julie Belnap as they book fast, and the March classes are already sold out.

Her two ongoing eight-week semester hour-long drawing classes (see dates/ times below) include “Draw & Learn” for grades K-5 with Nina Green on Saturday mornings teach students the foundations of how to draw by breaking down images into easy-to-interpret shapes, lines, and textures, working with graphite, ink, soft pastel, oil pastel, and watercolor.

“Drawing from Life for Teens” (grades 6-9) with Nina Green on Saturday afternoons is considered the next step from Draw & Learn and introduces students to some of the fundamentals of life drawing, working on modeling skills, shading, and the basics of values in addition to introducing perspective and portraiture.

Liuzzo’s Thursday evening two-hour “Figure Drawing for Adults (18+)” provides a timed drawing (instruction-free) practice from a different live model every week, no matter your experience. Students bring their own materials, easels, and drawing boards. Liuzzo draws along with everyone else. She said artists enjoy being in a community with other artists and encourage them to share during the breaks.

Liuzzo studied art education at Appalachian State. She said she had a studio practice in fibers art, her biggest passion, and was constantly using “found materials.” Then people began giving her material scraps once they knew she could use them for her art. She said this freed up her art-making exploration by not having

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Cassandra Liuzzo at Shelf Life Art & Supply Co. to worry about wasting expensive materials or buying more art supplies that she wasn’t sure she’d ever use again.

Liuzzo said she is strongly committed to environmental sustainability, by extending the “shelf life” of products received in her store, and out of the landfill.

She is happy to offer a way to repurpose your glass jars by selling some items in bulk. These presently include Gesso, Mod Podge, school glue and rubber cement, plus she is looking forward to expanding her acrylic bulk offerings. She said she sells a few discontinued items on Etsy, where they have a better chance of being found by people who have been searching all over for them.

Liuzzo said they are accepting supplies for store credit that include paint, ink, drawing supplies paper/pads and more.

She said the supplies that they accept as donations only (no store credit given) include fibers, scrapbooking and office/ school supplies, and the full lists can be found online. She said that they do not accept items left outside after-hours, items too big/heavy for one person to handle, items that are moldy or dirty, and thrift store items (clothing, housewares).

“What I hear from a lot of people is it’s slightly magical here,” Liuzzo said. “Come in with a goal that you’ll find what you’re looking for, and also be surprised by the many hidden gems. You may find even more.” !

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

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The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer March 20-22 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday Hanesbrands Theatre, located at 209 N. Spruce St. in Winston-Salem According to the website, The Normal Heart is set in the early 1980s, and a “hot-tempered activist Ned Weeks joins forces with researcher Dr. Emma Brookner to raise desperately needed funding and awareness for a horrifying – and as-yet-unidentified – disease that’s killing off a very specific group of people: gay men in New York City.”

This play is recommended for ages 18 and up, as it contains intense adult themes and strong language. This play is part of The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem’s Spotlight Series.

On Feb. 29 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, The North Carolina AIDS Action Network and The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will host a community event to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS in North Carolina.

According to a press release, “During the event, local artists will perform songs from the musical Rent, perform scenes and monologues from Angels in America, and perform a scene from the upcoming production of The Normal Heart.” Various speakers will share their experience to help raise awareness of the impact HIV and AIDS have on North Carolinians today. There will also be live music, food, libations and a silent auction to help raise funds. This event is $35 and includes one drink ticket and a ticket voucher for The Normal Heart.

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Kaleab Kurtz steps out of the Shadows into the limelight He won’t turn 16 until April, but Kaleab Kurtz is well on his way to becoming a show-biz veteran.

He’s already completed the short films By Day’s End, Surviving Generation B: Belittled (and its Mark Burger follow-up, Surviving Generation B: Last Role), and Pool Contributor Ghouls, appearing as a cannibal in the post-apocalyptic web series The 31, and an extra on the award-winning Netflix series Stranger Things.

Eager to broaden his horizons, he’s working on the series’ Cycles and Welcome to Starville, has written his first feature-film script, Trever, and wrote and stars in the six-part web series Into the Shadows, the first episode of which recently premiered on YouTube.

Into the Shadows, which was produced

by The Drama Center in Greensboro for Drama Center Pictures, has also been accepted into a number of festivals, including the Lift-Off Sessions @ Pinewood Studios 2020 Festival. Filmed in and around Grimsley High School, the series follows the lives of four friends (Davey Nicoletta, Evan Stoller, Alex McClary, and Kurtz). Like most teens, they talk about girls and sports and having fun, but there’s something on the horizon – something unusual.

The origins of that project began when Kurtz met editor/producer/director Matt Ringrose and producer/cinematographer Christopher Veneris.

“When we met, I thought we were just going to talk about movies,” Kurtz recalled. “Instead, they started asking me if I had any ideas about a short movie or a web series. I was talking about doing something on bullying because that’s an important subject. They liked the idea and started talking about writing a script, making a schedule, setting up casting calls … (and) I thought, ‘All right!

– I hope it’s this easy from now on!’”

As it turned out, yes and no. Prior to production, Kurtz – a die-hard Stranger Things fan – heard the series might be looking for extras. He submitted his name, not expecting to hear back, but then he was contacted. “I thought it was

a joke,” he admitted. “I thought someone was pranking me.”

Once he realized it was legitimate, Kurtz was off to Atlanta, where the series is filmed. The many homages and references to ‘80s-era horror movies resonated with him, even if he didn’t initially realize it. When he resumed work on Into the Shadows, it took on a distinctly Stephen King flavor, becoming a coming-of-age tale that echoed Stand

by Me (1986) or the 1990 mini-series It. “When I was writing it, all of that came into my mind, and I didn’t realize it,” he said. “Later, Matt said, ‘What? You didn’t realize it? Wasn’t it obvious?’”

The ‘80s setting for Stranger Things gave Kurtz a first-hand experience with the look and style of the era, right down to his costume.

“How do you wear short shorts?” he asked rhetorically, laughing. “Were those actually popular in the ‘80s?”

What’s more – or less, as the case may be – is that, although the scene in question took place during a Fourth of July bash, they weren’t shooting in July, but in late autumn.

“It was only supposed to be one day, but it was cold, and it rained, so we had to go again the next day – and it was still cold.”

Working on Stranger Things, even as an extra, offered Kurtz a tremendous learning experience. He listened. He observed.

He soaked it all in. And he found inspiration when members of the cast gave a speech about their audition process.

He even had the proverbial “brush with greatness,” so to speak – when series star David Harbour accidentally stepped on his foot! Laughs Kurtz: “Somehow, I thought, this must be a sign!”

Despite the weather and his attire, Kurtz has nothing but good memories.

“It was a very good experience. It was really fun, and I learned a lot just by watching.”

Indeed, he’s hoping to return for the fourth season. “Maybe someone else will step on my foot,” he joked.

Born in Ethiopia, Kurtz and his two older brothers, Eyoel and Alazar, were adopted by Dr. Christopher Kurtz, director of Youth and Families Ministry/ Church Administrator for Christ Lutheran Church in Greensboro. Eyoel is a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Alazar at North Carolina A&T University. “I’m the only kid at home

now, and it’s peaceful,” he laughed.

When it came time to submit Into the Shadows to film festivals, Kurtz was initially wary of its prospects, but his father encouraged him.

“He said to me ‘All it takes is one festival – just one.’”

That it was selected by Pinewood Studios, one of Great Britain’s most illustrious studios, was indeed a pleasant surprise. “They made some Marvel movies at Pinewood,” Kurtz marveled (no pun intended). “They did the Bond films there, the early Star Wars films …

I was really impressed. I just thought ‘Thank you!’”

The up-and-coming actor/filmmaker admits a fondness for horror, fantasy, and science-fiction, “but most of all, I like things that make you think, where you wonder what’s going to happen next.

Suspense, I like things that are suspenseful.

“I’ve always wanted to act,” he said.

“Even when I was in kindergarten, I liked to make people laugh and smile.”

He admits he’s still learning, but he’s putting what he’s learned to practical use. “I realize I have to do it myself. No one’s going to do it for me. That’s fine because I like doing it. It’s fun, and it’s interesting, and I want to keep on doing it!” !

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The principal character is Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halevi), the Israeli law student Mark Burger who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime minister in 1995, in retaliation for Contributor Rabin’s participation in the 1994 Declaration of Principles, which was designed to cede some Israeli territory to the Palestinians and, it was hoped, to lessen tensions between the two factions. To some, Rabin was a martyr to peace (not unlike Anwar Sadat). To others, he was a traitor to his country and its people – and there’s certainly no doubt which side Amir was on.

Despite the subject matter, Incitement isn’t really a political thriller, nor is it a psychological one. It’s a character study, and Zilberman refrains from sensationalism at every turn. Amir isn’t presented as a drooling, eye-rolling psychopath but, indeed, someone more dangerous – because to all outward appearances, he’s quite normal. It’s only when he begins espousing his political viewpoints that the danger within him becomes evident – although not blatantly. It’s a believable portrayal and, directorial conjecture or not feels very accurate.

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The screenplay, by Ron Leshem and Zilberman, with additional material by Yair Hizmi, follows Amir’s trajectory from idealism to radicalism. As the peace accords commence in Oslo and Israel is rocked by protests and violence, Amir becomes angrier and more frustrated, costing him his relationship with fellow student Nava (Daniella Kertesz), who’s skittish at the outset and becomes more so as his determination consumes him.

A subsequent friendship with Margalit (Sivan Mast) seems a better match, both because she shares Amir’s fervor and, apparently, because she’s attracted to his dangerous side. Amir’s parents (Amitai Yaish and newcomer Anat Ravnitzki) have their own viewpoints, but they’re not as firm in their beliefs as he is.

His mother tells Nava that “We don’t care about ethnicity. We’re all part of ‘Beautiful Israel,’” but quickly changes her tune when Nava beats a hasty retreat.

The film is told entirely from Amir’s viewpoint, and the camera rarely leaves Halevi, who gives a credible performance. It’s as if Zilberman were making the viewer a participant – whether willing or not – in his fateful actions, while Rabin is shown and heard only in sound bytes and news footage. Although the momentum lags occasionally, it continues to move inexorably toward its end; its mounting suspense predicated on one’s knowledge of the inevitable outcome.

If the film can’t entirely explain why Amir did what he did, it can certainly explore how he did it. One of the film’s most effective, even alarming, sequences sees him soliciting opinions from various rabbis, basically asking for their blessing to murder the country’s prime minister. In any case, there’s no shortage of sympathizers to Amir’s “cause,” although most of them don’t really take his threats all that seriously. Would that they had if it would have made any difference.

Again, Zilberman avoids any flashiness. This isn’t Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) or Nixon (1995) or W. (2008) – which isn’t meant to denigrate those films or Stone’s distinctively punchy directorial approach. Incitement plays out like a docu-drama, one whose historical impact remains relevant and timely today, a quarter of a century later.

(In Hebrew with English subtitles) – Incitement opens Friday !

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THE CALL OF THE WILD (PG) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 KNIVES OUT (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:10, 7:20, 10:10 BIRDS OF PREY (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:00, 10:05 THE PHOTOGRAPH (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 SEBERG (R) Fri - Thu: 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 IMPRACTICAL JOKERS (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 DISAPPEARANCE AT CLIFTON HILL Fri - Thu: 2:30, 4:35, 7:20 THE INVISIBLE MAN (R) Fri & Sat: 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:05 Sun - Thu: 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 THE WONDERLAND Fri - Thu: 12:00, 9:30 The Gentlemen (R) Fri - Thu: 12:25, 10:20

BRAHMS: THE BOY II (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:10, 11:20 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:10 DOWNHILL (R) Fri & Sat: 12:20, 9:50, 11:50 Sun - Thu: 12:20, 9:50 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (PG) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25, 11:45 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE (R) Fri & Sat: 12:15, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:15 Sun - Thu: 12:15, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 DOLITTLE (PG) Fri - Thu: 2:35, 5:10, 7:30 1917 (R) Fri & Sat: 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Sun - Thu: 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20 STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 3:30, 7:15 PARASITE (R) Fri - Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 7:00

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that we have to start earlier. One of my first jobs out of college was working at Head Start, and I saw first hand what happens when you invest in early education, and you prepare folks to move into the public school system. We’ve failed so many of our young people because we don’t provide universal Pre-K that prepares everyone on an equitable footing when they start off.

JL: The plight of the homeless is also important to you.

DM: The work I do every day is working with the homeless in our community, and it really shapes my political understanding and how I approach policy, through the lens of equality and justice. I came across a veteran who was dishonorably discharged from the military for behavioral health issues, which were never addressed. I engaged with a senior who had no family support and was solely dependent on his social security check, and because of that, he lost everything. I have contact with families, like the mom and dad who work every day, but because they are only making $7.25 an hour, they’ve been evicted from their home. They show up at our place with everything they own in black trash bags.

JL: Can you help correct those issues as a Congressman, or is it something that can only be addressed locally or at the State level?

DM: The fact is I love the work that I do, but it’s a band-aid because we’re serving as an emergency service to help folks, and we don’t deal with the core structural issues, like ensuring that we have pay equity for folks. $7.25 is not enough.

We need to move the minim wage up to at least $15 an hour. We need to look at social security benefits for our seniors and ensure that the system is stable.

Those kinds of actions get taken up at the federal level.

JL: What is it about your background and experience that will make you an effective Congressman?

DM: I’m the only candidate who has served at both the local and state level. I understand how policy impacts folks on the ground and how it impacts folks at the State level. I’m the only person in this race who has that experience. !

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

The new alignment favors a Democrat, so Republican incumbent Mark Walker declined to seek another term. As a result, two Republicans and five Democrats filed for the open seat, and they will seek their party’s nomination in the March 3 primary.

While still a senior at Winston-Salem State University, Democrat Derwin Montgomery became the youngest person ever elected to Winston-Salem City Council, where he served three terms. He is now completing his first term representing the 72nd district in the North Carolina House. Derwin is also director of Bethesda Center for the homeless in Forsyth County.

Montgomery appeared on Triad Today this past weekend. Here are highlights of our conversation: JL: Why are you running for Congress?

DM: I am in this race because, with all we see happening in Washington, DC, we’ve got to have a voice in the 6th district fighting for everyday folks. That’s who I am, that’s who I have been. And once you get to Washington, if you don’t have an understanding of everyday people before you go there, you’re not going to learn it when you get there.

JL: Once elected, what will be your priority issues?

DM: Folks are very concerned about healthcare, and I’m one who supports us moving toward universal healthcare.

I think the Affordable Care Act was a good step in the right direction, but the fact is, at the time, President Obama put universal healthcare on the table, but Democrats took it off the table because they couldn’t agree on moving forward.

JL: I understand that you’re a big proponent of universal Pre-K. Why? DM: Yeah, because the data is clear

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The Selectboard of Croydon, New Hampshire, ruled unexpectedly on Feb. 18 that it would abolish the town police department and rely instead on the New Hampshire Chuck Shepherd State Police for law enforcement, reported the Valley News. Croydon Police Chief Richard Lee, the sole member of the police department for almost 20 years, told the News he was asked to turn in his equipment, including his uniform, badges and the keys to his police cruiser, so at the meeting’s conclusion, Lee faced the board president and “gave them my uniform shirt. I gave them my turtleneck, I gave them my ballistic vest. ... I sat down in the chair, took off my boots, took off my pants, put those in the chair, and put my boots back on, and walked out the door.” Lee walked about a mile in 26-degree temperatures before his wife picked him up. The Selectboard released a statement saying the decision was “an action based upon value for the cost of the department.” Resident Rick Sampson told reporters, “What kind of a town lets their chief of police walk out in a snowstorm in his underwear?”

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An unnamed 33-year-old woman from Herminie, Pennsylvania, took an unconventional route home after a night out drinking on Feb. 16, according to City of Duquesne police. Driving a Mazda CX-5,

the woman left a tavern and ended up in a rail yard near the Port Perry Railroad Bridge, a narrow span that carries one set of tracks over the Monongahela River. “The vehicle did quite well, considering it is not a locomotive,” noted police, and the driver traveled a significant distance along the bridge before getting stuck. WPIX reported she called 911 for help at about 2:40 a.m., and Norfolk Southern stopped all rail traffic while the car was removed from the tracks.

Police arrested the driver for DUI.

THE PASSING PARADE

Three friends were wrapping up a night of dinner and drinking on Feb. 15 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, when things got “a little out of control,” according to a police report. As the night wore on, Kasey Margaret Westraad, 24, became increasingly amorous toward a resistant female friend, the friend told police, eventually escalating to the point that a naked Westraad pursued the woman outside, punching her several times in the face. Myrtlebeachonline. com reported Westraad was charged with third-degree assault and battery, damage to property and resisting arrest.

THE SMELL TEST

Police in Speyer, Germany, gave chase after they were passed by a car driving at high speed with its lights off on Feb. 14. The suspect, a 26-year-old man, pulled over and ran from the car, leaving a trail of scent that was so distinct officers said they were able to follow it from the car to the man, who was hiding behind a hedge. “Due to the cloud of

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perfume that was detected inside the car and on the man,” police said, “it was possible to identify him as the driver,” the Associated Press reported. His breath didn’t smell so good, though: He was far over the alcohol limit.

WAIT, WHAT?

The woman who attempted to board an airplane with her emotional support peacock made headlines, but in Port St. Lucie, Florida, one man is questioning why his particular support item has been banned from the dialysis center where he takes treatments three times a week.

Nelson Gibson first brought an 8-by10-inch photo of President Donald J. Trump to comfort him as he endured the 3 1/2-hour treatments, then exchanged that for a small cardboard cutout of himself standing next to a Trump photo.

When he next arrived with a life-size cutout of the president, no one complained, Gibson told WPBF, but on Feb. 11, “they told me it was too much and it wasn’t a rally.” “It just feels like bringing something from home to make you comfortable,” Gibson said, noting that others bring items, including one woman who pops bubble wrap during the entire treatment. “That’s very nerve-wracking,” he said. It’s unclear whether Gibson will return to the center for treatments.

EXTREME MEASURES

Tensions are running high in China, where the coronavirus has affected thousands of people and sparked instances of panic-buying. AFP reports that supermarkets have experienced runs on staples such as rice and pasta, but in Hong Kong, a gang of men wielding knives attacked a delivery driver in Mong Kok on Feb. 17, making off with hundreds of rolls of toilet paper worth about $130. Police said the missing rolls were recovered, and two suspects were arrested. Locals seemed baffled, with one woman telling a TV station, “I’d steal face masks, but not toilet roll.”

GOVERNMENT AT WORK

Ontario’s new license plates hit the roads on Feb. 1, sporting a pleasing color of blue with white numbers and letters.

During the day. At night, all that’s visible is a shiny blue rectangle, according to complaints on Twitter — the numbers and letters disappear, which makes them a problem for law enforcement.

“Did anyone consult with police before designing and manufacturing the new Ontario license plates?” wrote Kingston Police Sgt. Steve Koopman. “They’re virtually unreadable at night.” The CBC

reported a government spokesperson saying authorities “are currently looking into this,” but Lisa Thompson, Ontario’s minister of government and consumer services, saw a political angle: “Sticking with the status quo Liberal plate that was peeling and flaking was not an option,” she said. “We absolutely have confidence in our plates.”

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Police in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrested Robert Lee Noye, 52, on Feb. 17 and charged him with first-degree harassment and false imprisonment after his victim told them Noye kidnapped her and forced her to watch the 1977 historical miniseries “Roots” “so she could better understand her racism,” The Gazette reported. He allegedly told her if she did not sit for the entire nine-hour series about slavery, he would “kill her and spread her body parts across Interstate 380 on the way to Chicago.”

ANNALS OF ENTITLEMENT

Seloni Khetarpal, 36, threw a tantrum worthy of the terrible twos on Feb. 13 when she “repeatedly” called 911 to report that her parents had shut off her cellphone, according to court documents. Khetarpal demanded that officers respond to her home in Jackson Township, Ohio, and was warned that she should only call 911 for a legitimate emergency. Several hours later, News5 Cleveland reported, she called back, became “belligerent” and told the dispatcher she thought it was a legitimate issue. She was arrested and charged with disrupting public services.

AWESOME!

Hell, Michigan, is inviting 29 couples to “take the leap” and tie the knot in their fair city on Feb. 29, 2020 (Leap Day), all at no cost, MLive reported. Outside the tiny chapel there, at 2:29 p.m., Reverend Vonn will join the couples in a mass ceremony. “Imagine having only to remember your wedding anniversary every four years,” said the reverend. “There are some couples that are paying officiant and chapel fees to be married in the chapel at different time slots. It is going to be one Helluva Day.” !

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n Feb. 22 at Shiloh Baptist Church in Greensboro, Fred McKoy celebrated his 99th birthday with his friends and family.

Even though McKoy’s Katie Murawski actual birth date is Feb. 26, loads of his friends and family Editor members traveled from all over to come together for his almost centennial, in the church he supervised construction for and had been attending for over 50 years. The Otis L. Hairston Family Life Center was filled with the scent of sweet-smelling soul food and the soothing sounds of the Musician Physician’s saxophone. McKoy’s former students, his children as well as other family members and friends took turns on the microphone talking about McKoy’s eventful life, as he sat humbly in the spotlight, smiling from ear to ear.

McKoy has lived a quite remarkable life as a World War II veteran, brick mason, teacher, landlord and the devoted patriarch of the McKoy family. McKoy was born to a family of nine on Feb. 26, 1921, and was raised in Columbus County.

He started work in construction in the early 1940s, but in order to escape the Great Depression, he went into the United States Army via Fort Bragg right after he turned 21 in 1941. During his service, he fought Japanese troops on the frontlines in China, Myanmar (Burma), India, and in various countries in North Africa as a Sergeant combat engineer in the segregated 77th Engineer Light Ponton Company.

“We were on the front—we were combat engineers building pontoon bridges, footbridges—everything that the Chinese needed, we were fighting with the Chinese,” McKoy said. “They were doing most of the fighting, and we were preparing them. We helped cut the trails so that they would stay ahead the whole time, and they did. I had never seen so many people before then.”

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Regina (left) and Reginald McKoy (right), two of the first African-Americans to attend Gillespie Park Elementary School , pose with their father, Fred (middle), at his birthday party on Feb. 22 was nothing but an old dirt road where the Japanese had run the Chinese out— ran them all the way into India and they were trying to fight their way back the same way they came. That is when the United States and the British joined in, but we stayed there for about two years until the war ended in Germany.”

McKoy served his country during a time his country wasn’t serving him—the Jim Crow.

“With the Great Depression, you just could not get a hold of anything, and you knew that blacks had to be at the bottom,” McKoy said on why he decided to join the armed services. “That was right after the Great Depression, and there wasn’t anything to do around there except go to the C.C. Camp or the army, and I preferred going to the army. The C.C. Camp was a temporary thing where they had you out cutting trees in the woods; it was a special program President Roosevelt had to just give poor people something to do.”

After the war, McKoy went to school at A&T College (now North Carolina A&T State University), and shortly after, he met the love of his life, Luvater Graham.

“I went to school at A&T, she went to school at Winston-Salem State University, and we met riding the bus going down east,” he recalled. “Years later,

we married, and we were together— no separation, even though we probably had a few problems, for 68 years.”

McKoy said his surname came from the family that enslaved his ancestors: the McKoys of Columbus County.

“They are the ones that brought our ancestors over from Africa to work the farms or whatever. So, we came in as slaves through my ancestors, and my grandfather got mixed up somehow or another, and he was half white. He was a very white looking guy; I remember him. I was about 6 or 7 years old when he passed, but I remember him well.”

“On my mother’s side, they had to take the name of their slave master, Rouse.

Then somehow or another, those Siamese twins you see over there were born in our family,” he said, pointing to the vintage photograph of conjoined twins in his home. The conjoined twins—MillieChristine was McKoy’s great, great aunt, who lived until she was 60 years old.

“Millie-Christine was born in slavery in 1851 in July, she was born to Jabez McKoy, who was her master,” said McKoy’s niece, Brenda Troy during his birthday party on Saturday. “As a Siamese Twin, she was no good in the field or in the house because she could not work as a child, but she was stolen at least three different times.

When she was emancipated, she became

independent. She was a very intelligent lady; we say lady because she referred to herself as she, not we. She spoke five different languages, she played piano, guitar, she made all of her clothes, she became very popular as a singer and dancer, believe it or not. She became very wealthy, by today’s standard, she would be a multi-millionaire. But what we are trying to do now in terms her maintaining her memory and her legacy, Reggie McKoy and I are launching out on an effort to get her into the African-American Museum of National History.”

While the McKoy family has made a permanent mark in Columbus County, where Oct. 9 is proclaimed Millie-Christine McKoy Day, Fred McKoy has made a unique and lasting mark on Greensboro and the surrounding areas through his art of brick masonry. In Greensboro, he built the signs on the corner of Pisgah Church Road and Elm Street, he helped lay brick at Hinshaw United Methodist Church on West Gate City Boulevard, and he supervised the construction of Shiloh Baptist Church. He joined Shiloh because he started doing work on the old church building, and he has been a member there since 1953.

“I was a chairperson of the building committee, and we built the existing church over there now,” McKoy said. “I have been around here for quite a while.”

“We walked the halls when it was just concrete,” said Fred’s next to the youngest son, Brian McKoy. “I have seen that church from dirt to now.”

McKoy also built the patio area and circle wall in the back of Grimsley High School, as well as the wall at the entrance of Page High School.

“He did a lot of beautiful, intricate brickwork at [the former] BorenBrick Company on Pleasant Garden Road,” Brian said. “Over the doorway.” He also helped build the Corbett Center gym at A&T, the brickwork at the flagpoles on the corner of Benbow and Sullivan Streets, and he built a brick memorial in front of the A&T Football Stadium.

“Yeah, I have done a lot of work around here because I am old and didn’t sit down,” McKoy said with a laugh. “I have been a hard worker all my life.”

In addition to building in Greensboro, he also owns and manages several rental properties. He also had a hand in a lot of the construction in Burlington, Brian McKoy said, including Walter Williams

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“He has turned out the most black brick masons, contractors than anyone else in the state,” Brian proudly said of his father.

“That was my main thing,” McKoy said.

“I started teaching at Jordan Sellars High School, and I worked there for several years.” (He taught students from both Williams and Cummings High Schools).

“I like that money first,” McKoy said wryly when asked what he liked most about teaching. “I liked it because I was teaching what I liked and knew. I knew bricks from bottom to top; all I had to do was take some education courses.”

In addition to teaching at high schools, he also taught part-time at prisons in Graham and Yanceyville.

“I started off teaching at the prison camp in Graham,” he said. “And then they transferred me over to Yanceyville to a maximum security place, Blanch Prison.

It was nice; you had no problems because you had guards up in those towers looking down...I didn’t have anything to fear there.”

McKoy attributes being apart of integration in Greensboro as the biggest achievement in life. He said during that time, the Ku Klux Klan was very active in Greensboro, and they were present and protesting during the integration process.

“We got by that, and that was a big thing because a lot of black [people] were afraid to take that chance,” McKoy said. “They were afraid of the Klansmen.

I wasn’t afraid, I did have feelings for my kids, but I took care of that with my shotgun.”

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Rita Mich’elle Dingle and Brian McKoy Elementary School on Sept. 3, 1957.

“The Klansmen, they would call here, keep our phone [ringing], we had to change our phone number. I had never been called so many different kinds of [n-word],” he said, bursting into laughter.

“I had been on the frontlines in China, Burma, India, fighting those Japanese, so this wasn’t anything to me,” he said of dealing with the KKK. “I did think about my family, and the harassing calls on my phone. We solved that and changed the phone number, maybe about twice.”

“They attempted to burn a cross [in our yard], but that was not going to happen here without somebody getting killed,” McKoy recalled. “We stood on the front porch with a shotgun. [The police] would come by every night and check on us. But they couldn’t stay out here... you could always call them if you thought about anything—like if they were throwing a bomb, or burning a cross in your yard— you could call the policemen, and they would be out in no time flat.”

“It was quite a time in Greensboro back then, but somebody had to do it,” McKoy said about the decision for his children to integrate into Gillespie. “A lot of black people would call me up on the phone all the time and talk about how I was trying to start something and all of that. I had to fight in North Africa,

and Asia, you know, I wasn’t afraid. I was concerned about my family, too, but I was concerned about the future of the black race. I couldn’t sit down, [when I was] over there fighting for somebody else; I couldn’t. I felt guilty.”

Rita Mich’elle Dingle, a friend of the McKoys, said she met Fred at his usual hangout spot, the McDonald’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Greensboro.

“He happened to be sitting at that table, and he said ‘Hello, would you like to sit down and talk to me for a while,’” Dingle said. “Then I find out that is his hangout spot with his other veteran friends—we joke around and say we are going to rename that McDonald’s McKoy’s.”

Dingle said she was “adopted into the McKoy family” by Fred and his children.

Dingle said she thinks McKoy’s story is one that needs to be told, especially during Black History Month.

“While everything about him is so tremendous to me, I’d like to say, given this Black History Month, what stands out the most is that Mr. McKoy—like most black Americans at that time— preservered through racism, segregation, and Jim Crow in Southeastern North Carolina,” she said. “Then, he went on to successfully serve and fight in WWII in the segregated black army, just to return home to the

USA to fight for the safety of his family, so that his children could go to the school that was closest to their home. It is a real-life story of survival, perseverance, determination, and achievement ‘by any means necessary.’ Through it all, he took the opportunities that his country offered him, worked hard, demanded, and achieved his American dream. And he is still alive to tell the story.”

Dingle describes McKoy as “full of energy and life at 99” and as an “unsung hero” living in Benbow Park.

“I am so enamored by him,” she said.

“For me, he is not just a Greensboro icon; he is an American icon. For me to know him is just such an honor.”

“I have seen a lot of changes,” McKoy reflected. “I never thought I would see a black president, but I am glad I lived to see that. There are a whole lot of things that I have lived to see that I wanted to see that I had read about. We went through so much during WWII, until this country couldn’t stay the same.”

When asked what the younger generation could learn from someone like him, McKoy said: “We need to cut out some of these drugs. It needs to be cut out or minimized, and everything would be pretty good then...I have never bothered with any type of drugs, except a little bit of liquor,” he said with a laugh.

What is McKoy’s secret to longevity?

“I don’t know, I just feel good,” he said.

“I get out, my cook takes me to [McDonald’s] every morning, I stay there and conversate with other elderly guys. We tell lies back and forth. I tell mine, and they tell theirs—we just have a good time.

I’ve got along fine.” !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor-in-chief of YES! Weekly. Her alter egos include The Grimberlyn Reaper, skater/public relations board chair for Greensboro Roller Derby, and Roy Fahrenheit, drag entertainer and selfproclaimed King of Glamp.

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Kennedy, Thurm observe abortion protesters at A Woman’s Choice “This stops right now,” said the Greensboro City Council’s At-Large Representative Michelle Kennedy when a white abortion protester shoved her arm through the window of a car Ian McDowell containing a weeping black woman.

Several Greensboro Contributor Police Department officers watched without interfering until Kennedy caught the attention of their sergeant, at which point, the blonde woman in the pink vest was ordered to step away from the vehicle to which she had been literally clinging.

“If that had been a black man experiencing homelessness, the GPD would have had him facedown and handcuffed in seconds,” said clinic volunteer Kirstin Cassell.

Instead, the protester was allowed to continue trying to divert cars entering A Woman’s Choice, Greensboro’s only remaining abortion provider. Cassell is a patient escort at A Woman’s Choice, which is accessed via a service drive beside Midori Express on Randleman Road. When the incident occurred on Saturday morning, Cassell was showing Greensboro City Council members Kennedy and District 5 Representative Tammi Thurm how protesters attempt to divert patient cars into the restaurant’s parking lot. At last week’s council meeting, Kennedy and Thurm announced they would investigate claims of demonstrators illegally impeding access to the clinic. As previously reported, those allegations were made by three former clinic volunteers speaking to Greensboro’s new police chief at a public forum.

At the protests, pink vests are worn by volunteers and staff from the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center on Fulton Street.

Although it bills itself as a “free clinic,” Greensboro Pregnancy Care is actually a Crisis Pregnancy Center. According to the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, CPCs are faith-based organizations that, under the guise of reproductive counseling, seek to prevent women from having abortions.

“We used to wear pink vests,” said Cassell, who, like the other clinic escorts, was wearing a rainbow one. “Then, protesters YES! WEEKLY

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protest interferes with a person’s right to health care, it has gone too far. Today I saw women being verbally harassed and, worse, at least one woman was physically harassed while trying to access reproductive care. I will do everything in my power to ensure that women in this community can access care without interference.”

“I was both thankful and alarmed at what I witnessed at A Woman’s Choice this morning,” Thurm said. “Thankful for the amazing men and women that volunteer to serve Clinic escorts form human shield while a as escorts to shield protester holds sign patients from the protesters screaming, shouting, and This time there adopted them to confuse patients into harassing them was no permit and entering the Midori parking lot, where they as they enter the no closed lane, but can legally approach them.” clinic. I was also the marchers came She said this is what happened with the terribly alarmed anyway, albeit in car the pink-vested protester clung to and at the way the fewer numbers, thrust her arm inside. patients were agwalking on the “Maybe the officers did not immediately Greensboro City Council members gressively pursued sidewalk rather respond because this was on Midori propTammi Thurm and Michelle Kennedy and misled by the than in the road. erty, and not in the service road they’d protestors passSec. 26-249 of the been told to keep protesters out of,” said ing out misinforGreensboro Code another patient escort, who asked not to mation, intentionally attempting to of Ordinances states that demonstrations be identified. misroute vehicles, and actually inserting are exempt from the city’s special event The space behind the restaurant themselves through the windows of permit requirement provided that “the overlooks the clinic’s parking lots and is vehicles attempting to make their way to special events coordinator is notified at the only area from which a large crowd the clinic’s parking lot. This was nothing least forty-eight (48) hours in advance of of protesters can see and yell at patients short of aggressive solicitation. We have the commencement of the demonstraexiting their cars. Each morning’s protest ordinances against that behavior that we tion.” ends when Midori opens for business, at need to enforce. While the protestors have On Friday afternoon, Mayor Nancy which point the protesters typically eat at a right to free speech, they do not have a Vaughan told YES! Weekly that the the restaurant. right to interfere with a woman’s right to special event coordinator had received The clinic is open seven mornings a obtain health care.” no such notification. When asked week, and on many days, there are only a Kennedy and Thurm became aware of what would happen if these protesfew protesters. But every Saturday, there the issue after a Jan. 22 public forum with tors marched without notifying the city, are dozens, and sometimes hundreds. Last Chief Brian James at the Peeler RecreVaughan said, “That’s an interesting quesSaturday, there were between 80 and ation Center, where former clinic escort tion,” adding that she intended to pursue 100, although both clinic staff and police Forrest Hinton described being slammed the matter with the city manager and anticipated several times that number. into a patient’s car by a protester. But council.

This was because Feb. 22 marked the every current clinic escort interviewed by On Saturday, protesters lining the serfirst Saturday of the “40 Week Journey YES! Weekly said that they did not believe vice road and standing above the clinic’s of Hope” campaign announced by the a greater police presence at the clinic was parking lot shouted that patients could go Charlotte-based organization Love Life, the solution to the problem. to www.abortionpillreversal.com to learn which on every Saturday through No“The main reason I hesitate to call the how to “reverse the abortion pill and save vember will be holding prayer marches at police when protesters harass or threaten your baby.” (According to studies cited by abortion clinics in Greensboro, Charlotte, us,” Cassell said, “is that police presence the Washington Post, this experimental Raleigh and New York City. immediately makes the situation less safe procedure is considered extremely dangerApproximately 600 such marchers for any black or brown escorts or patients ous.) came to the Midori parking lot on Nov. 16, who might be there.” !

After their visit to the protest site, 2019. On that occasion, they had a permit, Kennedy and Thurm gave the following and the GPD closed one lane of Randlestatements to YES! Weekly. man between Meadowview and Midori for IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, “Both the right to protest and the them to walk in. numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of right to health care should be protected “That won’t happen again,” Kennedy nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of in democracy,” Kennedy said. “When said. and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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GCJAC wants written consent, Abuzuaiter has ‘heartburn’ At the Feb. 16 work session of the Greensboro City Council, several members were skeptical of the Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission’s recommendation of written Ian McDowell consent for police searches. Longtime Greensboro Contributor Police Department defender At-Large Representative Marikay Abuzuaiter expressed annoyance at what she characterized as the idea of council becoming “micro-managers” of the police.

GCJAC, as the commission is known, was formed last summer to provide citizen oversight of the GPD. Its nine members are appointed by the city council, and it reports to them and the city manager. The pre-existing Police Community Review Board, PCRB, is now a subcommittee of the GCJAC. GCJAC’s recommended consent policy would require the GPD to get a person’s signature on a form stating there are no negative repercussions for refusing a consent search. A consent search is when the officer has to get permission from the person whose property or person is searched because there is no probable cause for doing so—most consent searches are of automobiles.

GPD policy allows officers to either get verbal consent while a body camera records the interaction or to get a signature giving that consent. However, there is no official notice that the person can refuse that consent, even though the Fourth Amendment states that they can do so in cases without probable cause.

At the work session, Assistant City Manager of Public Safety Trey Davis called it a “myth” that the GPD doesn’t have a written consent policy.

“The reality of GPD’s consent search policy is that it’s either captured by way of the body-worn camera or it is captured by the current written consent form that the department has had since 2015.”

Davis also said that officers are required to document searches via a case report and that officers are required to turn their body-worn cameras on.

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consent form. When GCJAC chair Jaye Webb introduced his committee’s recommendations, he made it clear that the existing consent form needed to be revised and made mandatory, rather than just an alternative to verbal consent recorded on a body camera.

GCJAC’s recommendation was to “prioritize the voluntariness” of the consent and that information about the public’s right to refuse “should appear at the top of the consent form in bold lettering.”

District 3’s Justin Outling asked why GCJAC wanted “to essentially not allow officers to document [searches] through their body-worn cameras and require that they do it through a form.”

“To make sure people understand their rights,” said GCJAC member Tom Phillips.

“You can ask for permission in a variety of ways, and some ways can be very intimidating.”

Although not cited by Phillips, one example of an intimidating request for permission was the 2014 arrest of Juan Antonio Miller, at which Miller was only asked for consent after he was spreadeagled against his care by GPD officer J. H. Harris. In 374 N.C. COA 2016, State v. Miller (2016), the court ruled: “Officer Harris had defendant turned around, facing the rear of the vehicle with his arms and legs spread before he asked for defendant’s consent. This was textbook coercion.”

Phillips told Outling that, “by having that statement on the form that you read to them, you’re telling them what their rights are about searches, as they do with Miranda rights. And everybody is telling the same story, so it isn’t somebody leaning on somebody to get them to . . .”

Outling interrupted that notification of Miranda rights are not given in writing and that handing a person a piece of paper can be “anxiety-provoking,” adding “That’s why, as a lawyer, I tell people not to sign anything they don’t understand.”

Abuzuaiter angrily asked, “Can someone tell me where this came from?”

District 5’s Tammi Thurm started to respond, but Abuzuaiter snapped, “I’m not done yet!” She then denounced what she perceived as the council being asked to “micro-manage” the GPD. “It came from me,” said Thurm when Abuzuaiter finished. “I’ve had constituents come to me to talk about the issue, and Michelle [Kennedy] and I sat down with the former chief of police.”

Thurm said she asked Wayne Scott if citizens were being told they have

the right not to comply with a consent search, and that Scott responded, “No, we don’t say that.” Based on what Scott told her, Thurm said, “We’re only doing half of what I think we should be doing.”

Abuzuaiter replied that the issue “has gotten blown up into this huge thing where the council has to go in and say, ‘Chief, you need to do this,’” then snapped, “Let me finish, please” as Thurm began to respond.

“I’m having a lot of heartburn in trying to tell the chief to change the directive in his department,” Abuzuaiter said.

“Plus, do we have this translated into a hundred and ten languages? There are some people in our immigrant communities who speak English very well, but they don’t read English.”

Nobody from either GCJAC or the city council addressed the racial disparity in police searches at traffic stops (reported in a 2015 New York Times front-page article on “The disproportionate risks of driving while black” in Greensboro) until GPD Chief Brian James brought up that elephant in the room.

Chief James acknowledged in 2019 that, four out of five drivers searched by the GPD were black, even though black residents only make up 41% of the city’s population. “But I also tell you,” James said, “is that there’s disproportionality in where crime is occurring. And so, we’re looking each week at where officers need to be. I’ll tell you, as I’m going around the community and talking to people, a lot of people are saying, ‘We want to see you more in our community because we’re having some crime issues.”

James said that he does not know if a required written consent form “will solve the disparity problem,” but that “long term, it will be problematic, and from an operational standpoint, if I’m having a conversation with a person about getting consent, and I have to go back to get the form and then come back and read it to them, it actually extends the length of the stop.”

Nobody at the meeting mentioned that an analysis of traffic stop and search data posted by the city states, “Following a search during a traffic stop, white drivers were 9% more likely to have contraband found than black drivers.” In other words, black drivers are much more likely to be searched than white drivers but slightly less likely to have contraband in their vehicles.

Nor as it mentioned that, after the Durham City Council passed a written consent policy in 2014, records from

opendatapolicing.com show the number of black drivers stopped by police dropped by 50%.

Thurm and Kennedy spoke in support of GCJAC’s recommendation of written consent and were particularly concerned that people were not aware of their right to say no to a consent search. District 1’s t Sharon Hightower and Mayor Nancy Vaughan said they welcomed further discussion and were keeping their minds open. Along with Abuzuaiter and Outling, District 2’s Goldie Wells spoke against the measure, agreeing with Chief James’ statement that the racial disparity in searches is because there is more crime in black neighborhoods.

Ultimately, the council, police chief, city attorney, and city manager agreed that the GPD and city attorney would select 80 videos of past searches to present to GJAC. That committee and city staff will audit those videos to review how consent searches are conducted.

This will happen after the videos are approved by a judge.

Present at the meeting was Casey Thomas, a founding member of Greensboro Neighbors for Safety, Justice & Well-Being for All— a multiracial community organization advocating that the GPD mandate written consent and deprioritize marijuana.

“It’s always good for GCJAC to have access to videos,” Thomas said. “But I am concerned about how the videos will be selected, who is selecting them, which ones may be left out, and the amount of time it may take to get them approved.

I’m also wondering how many videos is enough to get someone to prioritize black people’s Fourth Amendment rights, and decide that this racial disparity is an issue that requires governance.”

The council member who first asked GCJAC to look into the question of written consent also gave YES! Weekly a statement.

“The citizens of Greensboro have said loudly that they want a police force they can trust,” Thurm wrote in an email.

“I believe that one of the first steps in building that trust is to ensure that our consent search policy is enforced consistently with all citizens.” !

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

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he Quarter Roys shed a member over the winter, but are looking forward to their first show as a trio with the Pinkerton Raid and Shiloh Hill at the Katei Cranford Flat Iron in Greensboro on Feb. 29.

“I’m just really exContributor cited to show people what the Quarter Roys are up to these days,” said drummer Ricky Perez. “We’re trying to play out more as we develop new material, so we can show our fans, and new folk, that we’re still worth listening to as a trio.”

The group recently made their threepiece debut on WUAG’s “Radio Greensboro.” And thus far, trios seem to have more fun. “It still feels like the same band,” Perez said, “but to be honest, it feels so much more fun for whatever reason.”

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might take a bit more practice, but its a goal.”

It’s a group effort. “We’re all contributing to our repertoire as of right now, and we plan on keeping it that way,” said guitarist Nick VanBuskirk of his passion for the group and their style. “I love playing in a band like this because it creates a lot of freedom to just create whatever comes to mind.”

“Going to school for music kind of puts an idea in your head that you’ve gotta play a certain way if you’re gonna play a certain type of music,” VanBuskirk continued, ”and playing with these guys we just kind of write and play what we want without worrying about what it is, so it’s just plain fun.”

In their shift, that material has transitioned from politics to the personal. For Perez, “it seems our music is becoming more about the intricacies of human emotional and moral experience. That’s the direction that our lyrical content is mostly going.”

For them, it’s a step toward maturing within their songwriting. “As far as the sound of the music, with all of us, writing there’s a lot of different directions we’re going in, and that’s not a bad thing,” Perez said. Rock ballads, funk pieces,

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touches of indie, punk and more remain open on the table.

“We don’t like to confine ourselves to a specific sound because we feel it can be limiting,” Perez explained, with a nod to variety and preference for listener-surprises. Their influences vary amongst the likes of Crosby Stills and Nash, Lemon Twigs, Parquet Courts, Post Animal, and Rush; with local favorites being the Dune Sea and Black Haus.

A mix of groups fitting for jazz students in a psychedelic pop-rock band. “For me, I was very excited to play rock ‘n’ roll when we first started,” Perez noted, “and now that I’ve scratched that itch, I get the sense that we’re becoming more open to doing anything genre-wise.”

Remaining grounded in the classics, the Quarter Roys profess a love for the Beatles that shines through their recording goals. ”I personally want to make our records have a quality to them that almost can’t be performed live,” Perez explained. “I want the bass and guitar and drums to mold together in a way that really makes the recording special.”

Their 2017 debut-LP, “If You Think I Should,” was followed in 2019 with “Mr. Cardemone: Chapter 1,” an EP intended to be the first in a four-chapter series. They’ve

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scrapped that particular release-line, but they’ll likely keep the concept. “I love the story you can build with an album,” Perez explained, “but in the age of streaming, people like to digest singles and EPs.” Putting out chapters allows for both experiences. An official release date remains up in the air. “A lot of our time is being spent gathering and recording the new material,” VanBuskirk said. “We’re excited to give people a good idea of what the future will look like now that Nick and Logan and Ricky are building up their songbooks.”

Looking to that future, “the three of us would love nothing more than to do this forever because we love each other and its fun making music together. In one way or another, we’ll always be around,” Perez said. “For the people who’ve been really itching to see us live again, you won’t have to wait much longer,” he added. “Thank you for all the love and patience.” !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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The Quarter Roys will be at the Flat Iron in Greensboro on Feb. 29 with Shiloh Hill and the Pinkerton Raid.

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Local lurking on Bandcamp: Greensboro-based artists churn out oddities Your neighbor could, for all you know, be hunched over her laptop making meticulously crafted postrock, or editing a track of breathy confessional folk, or futuristic chill hip-hop that samples vintage field recordings of calypso from the Caribbean. There’s no telling.

The internet is big enough for every super-niche taste to have John Adamian its own special nook with like@adamianjohn minded people there to egg each other on, or offer insightContributor ful critiques, whether it’s in artistic endeavors, obscure politics, romance or how-to fix-it projects.

You might not be able to find an audience for avant-noise in your small hometown, but there’s a community of listeners and players out there ready to lend an ear to almost anything. A local gig or a receptive slot at the open mic isn’t always easy to find for every type of artist, and there are those who actually prefer to work in solitude.

Some love to labor away at musicmaking but don’t especially want to get up on stage and perform in front of an audience.

Technology has made it more and more feasible for musicians to create without needing to have access to a practice space or a venue to perform. You don’t need musical collaborators or even a traditional “instrument,” so long as you’ve got the digital tools to grab and rearrange sound files. Platforms like Bandcamp and Soundcloud make it easy for artists to make music and share it with listeners from around the world.

Typing in the tag for “Greensboro” in Bandcamp yields interesting results, a sonic snapshot of music made by people in the region.

A quick search by city was how I discovered Chaucerian Myth, the name under which Greensboro musician Andrew Oliver records. Oliver had been a literature student in college, and he took his love of Medieval and Renaissance writing and used it as a jumping-off point for his music, composing elaborate synth compositions that related to the works of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer or Margery Kemp and others. Oliver makes music that gets labeled “dungeon synth,” which covers a broad range of styles, some of which draw on aspects of industrial rock, goth, soundtracks, early music and ambient music.

Chaucerian Myth just released a new album in January, Sir Orfeo, inspired by another work of Middle English literature from the 13th or 14th Century. This one is a variant of the Orpheus story from Greek mythology, a story, incidentally, where music and art is enough to WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

overpower the forces of darkness (but other aspects of human nature do us in), only here Orfeo is a king who goes to rescue his wife who has been taken by a fairy king. Oliver’s music hints toward aspects of baroque style with suggestions of counterpoint and figured-bass style patterns, along with harpsichord and lute-like timbres that signal “early music” to the listener. But elsewhere, like on the second track, “The Tale of Sir Orfeo,” things get surprisingly energetic with almost metal-ish drum programming pulling the sounds out of the distant idealized past. (Oliver has said he’s a big prog fan.) And the final track moves into almost atonal territory with dense, meandering and spooky melodies that bring to mind horror soundtracks.

Still, on the whole. Chaucerian Myth is like computerenabled musical-fantasy time-travel, imagining a misty past stuffed with magic, artistry, royalty, enchanted nature and heroism.

While Oliver is conjuring a musical vision inspired by centuries-old poetry, others are engaged in something more abrasively rooted in the ugly present. The same regional search that gets you to Chaucerian Myth will also bring you to “Democracy Dies in Stupidity,” the new release by Sewer Cult, another project with the “Greensboro” tag. I know nothing about the people making Sewer Cult’s music, but it sounds like a caustic firehose of rage directed at Donald Trump and his fans.

The album cover shows an image of Trump bringing a fork to his open mouth, and on the fork appears to be a turd. The album opens with a track called “The Divider,” which starts out with a processed sample of Trump declaring himself to be “a very stable genius,” after which

a flesh-tearing blast beat kicks into hyperspeed.

True to their name, Sewer Cult have a cloacal fixation, blended in with their aggressive anti-fascist vibe.

There are songs with titles like “Coprophagia” — look it up — and a few on related topics. Another track is called “Toilet of the Vanities.” With the exception of the title track, none of the songs is much longer than 2 minutes, that duration being a sufficient amount of time in which to let loose with a barrage of blistering grindcore growls and howls.

If all that is too organized, chordal, melodic and patterned for your taste, you can also find the new release from Dysphoria (also tagged as a Greensboro-based project), which is filled with sounds that are a little more in the noise/anti-music realm. The release, “God Is A Gateway Drug,” sounds like frying circuitry, or multitracked static, complete with hisses, shrill whistles and harsh, unrelenting grinding sounds. While the intent might be to generate caustic and abrasive frequencies, listened to at length, some of the tracks, like “Swallow,” start to have a white-noise quality. For most of us, there are too many abrupt skittering sonic flare-ups for this to be a recording to listen while relaxing. Fans of Throbbing Gristle and even Fennesz might be open to what’s happening on a Dysphoria recording, though. Most others would find the sounds off-putting, confrontational, and possibly sociopathic.

But that’s the beauty of the digital dynamic: the music’s there if you want to seek it out, and easy enough to ignore if you don’t. For music makers, streaming platforms offer vast openness, possibility, and the perfect mix of virtual anonymity and potential community for any micro-niche or idiosyncratic style. That can only be a good thing if more people feel free and encouraged to make their own music. !

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

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310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Feb 27: unCg Jazz Ensemble Feb 28: Magnolia green Feb 29: leap Year Fantasy Show Mar 5: little River Band Mar 6: The Wailin’ Jennys Mar 6: Front Country Mar 13: Clay howard and the Silver alerts w/ gooseberry Jam

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Feb 28: Darren “DS” Sanders Feb 29: Darren “DS” Sanders Mar 6: ali Siddiq Mar 7: ali Siddiq

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GoofY foot taproom 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 mar 7: parker ford mar 14: Stewart Coley mar 21: Brad hallenbeck mar 28: the williamsons

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com feb 27: Bradley Steele feb 28: Jill Goodson Band feb 29: Soul Central mar 5: robert Smith (Bros. pearl) mar 6: Chip perry Band mar 7: Brothers pearl mar 12: kelsey hurley mar 13: rockit Science mar 14: Jaxon Jill mar 19: karaoke night mar 20: Stereo doll mar 21: the plaids mar 26: Jacob vaughn

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126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400 www.lincolntheatre.com feb 26: peekaboo’s impossible tour feb 27: Scythian w/ Johnathan Byrd feb 28: whiskey foxtrot w/ Jared Stout Band/tyler resch feb 29: aaron hamm and tan Sanders mar 1: michael Smerconish: american life in Columns mar 6: Cash unchained: the ultimate Johnny Cash tribute

mar 7: the vegabonds & night Years mar 13: rapsody mar 14: Brian fallon & the howling mother mar 22: Brent Cobb w/ maddie medley mar 26: tauk w/ Casey and the Comrades mar 27: Jiaani/Sherif fouad/lady london/G Yamazawa/freddy valoy/ ace henderson mar 28: off the ralz apr 1: minnesota w/ Eastghost, thelem, thook apr 3: Cosmic Charlie apr 4: Sidewinder w/ monika James Band, night Shift Band

rEd hat amphithEatEr 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com apr 29: of monsters and men may 8: Jamey Johnson may 9: aJr may 14: louis the Child Jun 2: local natives and foals w/ Cherry Glazerr Jun 7: primus w/ wolfmother, the Sword Jun 14: megadeth and lamb of God Jun 26: melanie martinez Jul 9: for king & Country Jul 18: Barenaked ladies

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EARL’S

121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018 earlsws.com Feb 28: The Grand Ole Uproar Feb 29: Woody Woodworth & The Piners Mar 6: Billy Creason Band Mar 7: Megan Doss Mar 13: Charles Latham & The Borrowed Band Mar 21: Lisa & The Saint Apr 4: Megan Doss Apr 10: Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners

FiDDLin’ FiSH BREWinG COMPAnY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Mar 2: Old Time Jam Mar 6: Camel City Blues Mar 9: Old Time Jam Mar 16: Old Time Jam

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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Feb 26: Mason via & The Hot Trail Mix Feb 29: George Smith Mar 1: Sunday Jazz Mar 4: Ryan Johnson Mar 7: Chasing Daylight Mar 8: Sunday Jazz Mar 11: James Brickey Mar 14: Will Bagley and Friends Mar 15: Sunday Jazz Mar 18: Hazy Ridge Mar 22: Sunday Jazz Mar 25: Hotwax & The Splinters Mar 28: Anne and the Moonlighters

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WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Raleigh

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AGE: 25

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HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? I have been bartending for almost three years.

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I was a volunteer at Triad Stage, and the House Manager and Director of Audience Services at the time recognized my dedication and work ethic and approached me about the position. I was apprehensive at first but also excited about the opportunity. After a brief interview, I agreed to the position and started running the bar eight shows a week that fall with our production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? I enjoy getting to interact with our patrons on a level that is unique to my role at the theater. Patrons will give me their thoughts on the show while it’s happening. It is like seeing your favorite movie or TV show with someone who has not seen it and is experiencing it through their eyes as if it were the first time again.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? My favorite drink to make is a Vodka Cranberry with a twist of lime featuring Greensboro’s own Tiny Cat Vodka distilled by our nearby neighbors at Fainting Goat Spirits. It’s a simple classic that is a crowd favorite, especially when someone asks, “what do you recommend” or “surprise me.”

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? My favorite drink to drink is our 19th Season Signature Cocktail named after our founding Artistic Director Preston Lane. It’s a light and fruity drink made with our very own freshly made strawberrybasil lemonade, Sutlers Gin from Winston-Salem, and Soda.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? For an after-dinner drink, I would recommend a nice chilled glass of Pinot Grigio.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? The craziest thing I have seen while bartending was early one summer, a person in a full clown costume and stilts walking down Elm Street right past Triad Stage. I am sure there was likely a festival or event happening at one of the parks downtown, but it certainly caught my attention as I was pouring a beer for a patron.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? The biggest tip I have gotten was from a corporate event where they had rented out our space and had an open bar. At the end of the night, the CEO tipped me $100 when they paid out the bar tab. The best tip that I think I have gotten from one of our Patron’s was a two-dollar bill on a one-dollar coffee refill. He told me that “a dollar saved is a dollar earned, so here is one for saving and one for spending.” It isn’t every day you see a two-dollar bill anymore, so technically, I guess I earned two dollars that day because I have not spent it.

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I’m a woman who’s fiercely competitive in the business world. I’ve been rewarded for pursuing deals as relentlessly as highly successful men do.

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As a heterosexual woman, pursuing romantic partners as ferociously as you’d pursue a business deal is especially counterproductive. Though we’re living in modern times, we’re stuck with an antique psychological operating system, calibrated to solve ancestral mating and survival problems. This means the psychology driving us is sometimes seriously mismatched with our modern world.

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control, and even if that fails, children won’t die of starvation or be eaten by feral goats because the dude who fathered them “hit it ‘n’ quit it.” Yet, we’ve still got our evolutionary legacy running the show.

In vetting potential sex partners, women evolved to be more quality-conscious — choosier, more “hard to get” — while men evolved to take a more, shall we say, quantity-driven approach: “The more the merrier! Hey, next time, invite your sisters!”

These differences in sexual choosiness emerge from what evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers explains as men’s and women’s differing levels of “parental investment.” The members of a species with the greatest possible costs from having sex — like pregnancy and a screaming kid to feed — evolved to be more selective in mate choice.

Women’s emotions are their parental investment watchdogs, pushing them to make sure a man’s willing and able to stick around and provide resources.

Though some women can take an emotionally Teflon approach to casual sex, anthropologist John Marshall Townsend finds that for many, hooking up comes with some emotional reflux — even when a woman knows a one-nighter is all she wants from a guy. She’ll boot some himbo out of bed only to get all angsty afterward, worrying that the guy she wants nothing more from doesn’t want anything more from her.

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beyond a hookup. But let’s say he’s somebody who would be interested in you.

Because men co-evolved with women, men expect women to be choosy, and they tend to devalue women who just tumble out of the sky into their lap.

The best test for whether a man has real interest in you is seeing whether he’ll lay his ego on the line to ask you out. You aren’t without control in this approach; you can flirt with a guy you’re interested in to signal that you’re open to being pursued by him.

Should things be different? Well, sure, in a more perfect mating universe. But if you want to be successful in this one, you should do what works — which is driven by men’s evolved psychology. Though men will eventually take a selective approach when considering a woman as a long-term partner, many will have sex with anything this side of a pound of liver in the refrigerator (and sometimes that will just have to do). !

age of profiles men and women gave “super likes” to — a function on Tinder as of 2015.

For those uninitiated in Tinder-ese, swiping right “likes” another user, but they will be none the wiser unless they, too, swipe right on you. Swiping up, however, is a “super like,” which triggers an automatic notification to the super-liked person.

(Annoyingly, the researchers didn’t mention or take into account that super likes are generally seen as super uncool — a sign of desperation — leading many Tinderers to note in their profile, “If I super like you, I did it by accident.”)

Neyt and his colleagues found that men super liked 61.9% of women’s profiles, while women super liked only 4.5% of the men’s. Their finding is a pretty dramatic reflection of men’s evolved quantity-overquality default. In short: Stripperliciousness is nice, especially when packaged with kindness, intelligence, and killer cooking skills, but “Same species! Not in jail! Has internet access!” works, too.

So, if you’re reasonably attractive and in a man’s age range, there’s a good chance he’ll go out with you simply because you ask — though he may not be interested

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