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PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES When Maher Said’s friends asked him who he was voting for in the American Presidential election, he said: “I’m going to vote for Donald Trump. He’s going to give me free tickets to go home.” He is the owner of Nazareth, a Middle Eastern restaurant and a wholesale bakery in Greensboro. He calls America “the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.”

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BOXCAR will offer a huge array of craft beers on tap, one that will rival any place in town, while offering row upon row of video games and other activities. The setting has a modern vibe with exposed ductwork and brick interior walls and outstanding video-game inspired art.

11 Hundreds filled the K.R. Williams Auditorium Monday night at Winston-Salem State University to participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. program hosted by WSSU and Wake Forest University.

The theme of this year’s program was “On Common Ground: A Dream Deferred.”

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The City of Greensboro owns over 150 miles of fiber optic INTERNET cables intertwined throughout the City’s neighborhoods that connect traffic lights, traffic cameras and 70 remote facilities such as fire stations and library branches.

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KURT VILE has tapped into something. The Philadelphia-based singer, songwriter and guitarist makes music that is psychedelic and trippy, with rippling echoes, clouds of reverb, almost hidden pads of

organ, phantom backing vocals, hard-to-place buzzes and layers of added percussion from tambourine.

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What these performances have in common is that they’re both the inspired creations of local artists who will be featured in this year’s 15th annual Greensboro FRINGE Festival.

28 Given the wealth of information, dramatization and conjecture surrounding the presidency and assassination of John F. Kennedy, director Pablo Larrain’s drama JACKIE offers a unique and self-explanatory point-of-view — one that has not, until now, been explored in to such an extent as here.

30 JUST MERCY itself is maddening—perhaps one of the most infuriating books in recent memory. The reader joins Stevenson in outrage and incredulity at the willful meanness and the wanton disregard for decency displayed by prosecutors, judges and jailers.

31 HIER’s Summerfield workshop is stocked with raw materials from all around the world, from oak and ash to purpleheart, bloodwood, and African zebrawood. He has a knack for finding the weaknesses in his raw materials and turning them into strengths.

32 If there’s one restaurant that deserves tons of praise and not to be missed in Winston-Salem, it’s Meridian. Chef Mark Grohman is cooking up wonderful Northern Mediterranean dishes while endeavoring to keep it FRESH, organic and local.

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WHAT: LITZ brings together a wide array of musical influences ranging from funk, jam, go-go, soul, electronic and just about everywhere in between. Their sound strides to sonically transport its listeners to another planet free of the stress, struggles, and tribulations of modern day life through the use of funky horn riffs, wah-wah keys, pounding bass, driving/ progressive rhythms and melt your face guitar.

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Winterfest for a fun night of ice skating at LeBauer Park. Bring your student ID to the rental hut from 5:00pm-10:00pm to get a discounted skating pass for $8. Food Truck Taqueria El Azteca will also be there with their taco truck so make sure to come hungry.

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WHERE: LeBauer Park.

208 N. Davie Street, Greensboro.

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Rescue Network for our 3rd Annual Whiskey for Whiskers event! The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 6pm at the new restaurant, The Traveled Farmer (previously The Marshall Free House). Join us for a whiskey tasting, cocktails, hors d’ oeuvres, sports memorabilia and more!

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WHERE: The Traveled Farmer.

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presents Amalgamated Transmutations: Sanctuary and Safekeeping. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, January 19 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Artists Nicole Uzzell, Millicent Greason, and Woodie Anderson will present new work examining spaces where comfort, safety, and authenticity can be found.

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WHAT: The only festival of its kind in the Triad, the 15th Annual Greensboro Fringe will present over 26 new works for the stage showcasing local artists. For more information about shows, show times, and tickets go to www.greensborofringefestival.org WHEN: 8 p.m.

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WhAT: Joe is an Ithaca, NY based songwriter who was named 2016 Folk Alliance International Artist In Residence. Multi-award winning Canadian songwriter David Francey said of Joe, ‘At every festival I hope to find the gift of one artist whose songwriting and performance stand out. Joe was that gift for me this year at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Stunning performance, great songs, and not a word wasted. I LOVE that!’

When: 8 p.m.

WheRe: Muddy Creek Music Hall.

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WhAT: Each year, the friendly folks at Cranberry Tree Farm donate their unsold trees to the Center, and we give them to our animals as a special form of holiday enrichment. They love the strong scent of the pine and scratchy textures! If youve never seen wild animals receiving holiday trees, presents, and toys, dont miss this chance.

When: 12 p.m.

WheRe: Conservators’ Center.

676 E. Hughes Mill Road, Burlington.

MoRe: $24 entry per person. Ages 12 and under $18.

WhAT: Opposite Box presents a theatrical live experience with an over-the-top, psychedelic atmosphere. Dazzling lights, a spectacular cast of characters ranging from belly dancers and fire eaters to live painters and costumed freaks and an organized cacophony of sounds and inspirations harken back to a time when artists were more than still life paintings in the background.

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VIVA LAS VEGAS: ZANNA, DON’T MUSIC REVUE WhAT: Welcome to Heartsville High, WhAT: Viva Las Vegas is this seasons annual musical revue and will feature jazzy tunes and sultry songs accompanied by flashy choreographed dancers. The theatre becomes a nightclub with bar stools, tables, and a cash bar. Sip on your wine as the singers whisk you away to live your Vegas desires and the dancers liven up the party.

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WheRe: Lee Street Theatre.

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set in a world where everyone is gay -- well, almost everyone! The students write a controversial show called Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell about straight people in the military, which becomes the catalyst for a young man and woman to fall in love. Enter Zanna, a magical, musical fairy who, with a wave of his wand, brings true love to one and all!

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WheRe: Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance. 1047 West Northwest Boulevard, Winston-Salem MoRe: $16-$18 tickets.

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Children’s book writer and English Professor at Guilford College, Caroline McAlister, has a new book coming to bookstore shelves on March 21.

The book is a children’s book called John Ronald’s Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien. McAlister was inspired to write the story when Guilford College’s Jan-term program asked if she would be interested in teaching about fantasy writers like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in Oxford, England.

“I started reading everything I could about them and buy them,” said McAlister. “Tolkien has that essay on fairy stories in which he’s...defining fantasy and also justifying it. He’s got this line in there; he said ‘When I was a child, I desired dragons more than anything else.’

“That line just hit me. I knew immediately I could write a children’s book based on that childhood inspiration he had. If you’re writing a novel and you have a main character, the action should be driven by the character’s desires. Having this child who wanted dragons gave me a plot, gave me a place to go.”

McAlister’s book is noteworthy for its historical accuracy. She applied much of the story to what she learned about Tolkien while teaching her students in Oxford.

“I got this idea for a refrain where he’s looking everywhere for dragons but there are none so I could tell each little episode of his life. At school he did this, but there were no dragons, he did this, but there were no dragons.”

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The book was illustrated by Eliza Wheeler.

“She’s amazing,” said McAlister. “That was exciting, seeing someone else interpret your words and see what they did with them visually.”

McAlister is working on an M.F.A. in children’s literature at Hollins University.

For her, writing for children has been a passion.

“I think I was really sick of the way scholars write with all this abstract stuff,” she said. “I wanted to write something concrete. I started when my kids were young and I was reading to them every night. I just had those voices sort of stuck in my head from reading out loud.

I got really excited about the way words and pictures work together.”

For the future, McAlister’s goal is to publish one to two picture books a year.

She is already under contract to write about C.S. Lewis, his brother and their imaginary worlds.

McAlister will do public readings of John Ronald’s Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien. She will read at the Barnes and Noble in the Friendly Center on March 24 at 7 p.m., at Scuppernong Books on March 25, and at Guilford’s Hege Library on April 18 at 7 p.m.

Interested in purchasing her book? You can pre-order it on Amazon.

To learn more about McAlister’s work, you can visit her website at www.carolinemcalisterauthor.com. !

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1618 WINE LOUNGE BECOMES 1618 MIDTOWN

A name is but a name, or is it? It’s a question the proprietors of 1618 Wine Lounge, newly renamed 1618 Midtown, have contemplated for several years. The establishment opened in 2011 in the Irving Park Plaza as a 38-seat lounge and bar, serving artisan cocktails, craft beers and wine.

“In the beginning, we were mainly an after-work spot, with patrons enjoying cocktails through the early evening,” said co-proprietor Nick Wilson.

Through the years, the Wine Lounge evolved into much more than a place to hang out and enjoy a glass of wine and appetizers with friends. With customers’ desires for an expanded menu growing, major renovations began in 2013, adding a 28-seat semi-private dining room to the back of the restaurant and a full kitchen, increasing the restaurant’s capacity to create a wider menu.

“We moved from an eight-item appetizer list to a full menu, offering salads, entrées and full-size desserts,” said Wilson. In 2016, a full-time pastry chef was added, creating innovative sweets like the

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new cranberry pistachio espresso sundae with caramel ice cream.

As 1618 Midtown, the restaurant is now consistent with all 1618 Concepts establishments, which incorporate their physical location as part of their name.

“We have 1618 Seafood Grille, which takes its name from its street address on Friendly Avenue and 1618 Downtown, which reflects its location on South Elm Street,” said Wilson.

The name also reflects the city’s newest borough: Midtown. Both Wilson and Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan thought the moniker appropriate.

“I love that Nick considered adding ‘Midtown’ to such an established food empire,” said Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan. “And I hope all the businesses in this corridor fully embrace their new identity as Midtown.”

Customers visiting the newly renamed establishment will notice a few enhancements. A new menu design makes it easier to review all the offerings, and internal décor, including new lighting, new flooring by local designer Bradshaw Orrell and new seating from local manufacturer Level 4 Designs.

FLYWHEEL LAUNCHES NEW VENTURES CHALLENGE 2017

Flywheel announced the launch of the New Ventures Challenge 2017, the second annual business idea competition that awards up to eight startup business teams the opportunity for an average of $50,000 each in seed funding and months of business development and acceleration.

The challenge is sponsored by Flywheel New Ventures, LLC, an inception stage investment club composed of successful Triad area entrepreneurs who collectively invest in the challenge, the selected companies, as well as the accelerator.

Flywheel recently announced it is moving to the Center for Design Innovation (CDI) in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter where the accelerator will be based. The accelerator will run from June through August, followed by a two-month residency to help the startup teams develop their ideas into investable business models.

“The 2016 Challenge and Accelerator were so successful that almost all of the investors are migrating to this year’s

fund,” said Peter Marsh, Flywheel cofounder and New Venture investor.

New Venture’s role as an inception stage fund means it typically provides the first outside capital for a startup.

Joel Bennett, the director of the New Ventures Accelerator, explains that “New Ventures was the first acceleration program in the Triad to offer pre-seed money to startups. This was the one puzzle piece we needed to really fuel inception stage momentum in the Triad. New Ventures elevated the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Triad to the same playing field as Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham.”

“The big win at the end of the accelerator is for these companies to receive more investment capital, as they create value for the company, investors and community,” says Bennett.

Full details on the challenge, the sponsor and the administrator are available at www.newventuresnc.com. !

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Beer and games to be on tap at Greensboro’s new Boxcar Bar and Arcade

BY RICH LEWIS

nce upon a time, there wasn’t a better way to spend an evening than burning up quarters at the local arcade, hanging out with your friends and having a grand time.

Somewhere along the way, though, we all had to get jobs and arcades were replaced with Xbox and PlayStations or the games were just forgotten altogether. And another piece of our youth faded away.

Except now, you can get that back. And you’re old enough for beer now, too.

Greensboro’s newest hangout, the Boxcar Bar and Arcade, is expected to open within the next two weeks, with a target date of Jan. 25. Located at 120 W. Lewis Street, this is the place you’ve been waiting for.

Boxcar will offer a huge array of craft beers on tap, one that will rival any place in town, while offering row upon row of video games and other activities. The setting has a modern vibe with exposed ductwork and brick interior walls and outstanding video-game inspired art.

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“I came across a bar in Texas a few years back that had an arcade vibe and craft beer on tap,” owner Jerrad Bement said, “and it just worked. I’ve always liked arcade games and I had come from a bar work background.”

He explained it took a couple of years to really build the concept up and get the first location off the ground in Raleigh. As that became a solid success, a second location in Greensboro became a great follow up.

“We’ve got pinball, Skee-Ball, air hockey tables and bubble hockey, along with arcade games, both the classics and modern ones,” Bement continued. “And we are a fullservice bar with beer, liquor and wine. We will be focusing on craft beers and bourbons.”

There will also be an emphasis on local and regional craft brewers and distillers, plus some of the bigger name national craft brewing outfits on tap. They will also carry a range of domestic beers in bottles and cans for those who’d like.

Bement said all of the games will work on a token system, with four tokens per dollar put in. “All of our classic arcade games are just one token apiece, but some of the pinball games can be as much as a dollar to play.”

Classic arcade games on tap at this location will include: Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Galaga, NBA Jam, Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Stargate and others. Pinball aficionados will note that they have The Walking Dead, Ghostbusters Limited Edition, Game of Thrones and the Addams Family (which has been rated as one of the best pinball games in history). The selection is quite extensive and chances are you can find either an old favorite or a new one pretty quickly.

The arcade machines aren’t the multi-game consoles

you find in some places, but actual vintage games and completely new additions. “It’s tough to get some of these and we find them any way we can, from E-bay to Craig’s List to people contacting us,” Bement said. “I just flew to St. Louis recently to talk to a guy who was selling an entire arcade. And it takes a lot to make arrangements to get these shipped.”

Luckily, Bement keeps some aces on staff who are experienced in maintaining the machines and keeping everything running well.

Boxcar Bar and Arcade will be hosting game tournaments on a regular basis, mainly as pop-up events, allowing people to compete in air hockey, Skee-Ball, pinball and even console gaming like Mario Kart. Contestants can win prizes like gift cards to Boxcar or local restaurants, T-shirts and other items.

Beyond the beer and games, Boxcar makes a serious commitment to giving back to the community, Bement said. Wednesday evenings are their Drink For A Cause nights and 15 percent of the sales on that day will go to a select local charity.

There’s about 9600 square feet of space in the building, meaning there’s plenty of room for the bar, tables and chairs even with all the games in place. It really has been built as a place to hang out and have a few drinks with friends. There’s a large patio out front and plans are being made to have live music performances out there.

Once open, Boxcar Bar and Arcade will be open seven days a week, 365 days a year, Bement said. Weekdays will be 4 pm until 1 am, and weekends from noon until 2 am as plans are now. They will not be serving food on premises, but food trucks will be on hand and patrons are welcome to order deliveries in.

While the place is a bar, it is still an arcade, and Bement said they are fine with bringing the family down so that Mom and Dad can have a beer and have fun with the kids on the games. Those under 21 are welcome with a parent or guardian on site until 9 pm. !

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Hughley looks at King’s legacy at annual WFU/WSSU celebration

BY CHANEL R. DAVIS Hundreds filled the K.R. Williams Auditorium Monday night at Winston-Salem State University to participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. program hosted

by WSSU and Wake Forest University. The theme of this year’s program was “On Common Ground: A Dream Deferred.”

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century. As a Baptist Minister, he was able to use Christian social ethics and the New Testament concept of love heavily in his writings and speeches. It’s also because his intellectualism that he was able to weave in eastern spiritual traditions, Gandhi’s political writings, Buddhism’s notion of the interconnectedness of all the things and ancient Greek philosophy,” said Dr. Elwood Robinson, WSSU Chancellor. “As we celebrate this national holiday, we are called to honor Dr. King’s legacy by working towards the freedom and equality that is a part of America. Let us move forward together inspired by his message and dedicated to his dream.”

Comedian, political commentator, radio show host and actor D.L. Hughley gave the keynote address.

The standup comedian has been a part of the “Black and Brown Comedy Get Down” tour, has served on his own CNN talk show “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News,” hosts the morning show on WRKS-FM, is a weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated radio show “The Tom Joyner Morning Show’ and has release his latest book “Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years” which recently made the New York Times Bestseller list.

Through his trademark comedy, he addressed the current political climate and the state of people of color in America saying that if King came back today it would be familiar to him compared to eight years ago.

“I think that Martin Luther King inspired us to be here now. I know that he inspired me to be able to speak a truth, whether that’s popular or not,” Hughley said.

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fear and silence won that day.”

He addressed the meetings that President-elect Donald Trump has been having with many African-American celebrities, saying that everyone should be open to discussion.

“I don’t think it’s wrong to have meetings. I think it’s wrong to not know why you’re there. I think the premise is wrong.

I think that athletes and entertainers have a story to tell but I don’t think that we should be the voices of African-Americans,” he said. “I think if the Presidentelect was serious about changing situations for African-Americans, instead of lobbying entertainers and performers, he would look to the current president as a standard.”

Hughley said that in order to make this country better we have to understand the value of education.

“We have to understand what it means and what it can do,” he said. “I think that Martin Luther King showed us what we could be and that we could be everything that we aspire to be. I think that we’re in the situation that we are in right now because we forgot. I think that we’ve forgotten where we came from because we stopped listening to the stories before us. I’ve never seen so many woke but asleep at the wheel. It’s our participation that matters.”

In his speech, Hughley encouraged others to do what they can to make the world a better place saying that the example of

Dr. King is even more necessary.

“I watch the world because I don’t just want to be a bystander. I don’t encourage you to be a bystander,” he said.

“I encourage you to do the best you can for the people around you for as long as you can. I think the only way we get better is to acknowledge where we have been and to look forward to where we have to go. I hope that we do it together because that’s the only way it works.”

Earlier in the evening there was an invitation-only banquet where students, faculty and staff from both institutions were recognized with the “Building the Dream” award in recognition of their efforts toward improving social justice and building community. Those awards were presented to WFU Professor Derek Hicks, WFU Seniors Rose O’Brien and Cazandra Rebollar, WSSU Professors Dawn N. Tafari and Fran Bates-Oates and WSSU student Dishanda Brown.

“As we prepare to serve in an increasingly global, diverse, polarized and often confusing world, it is up to us to become the kind of people and kind of community that will be known for those eulogy virtues,” said Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University. “Tonight, as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King I hope you will be inspired. I hope you will be moved to act and I hope you will pursue the virtues that we’d all like.” !

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It’s time for Greensboro’s secret internet plans to involve the public

magine if the City of Greensboro decided to take a lane of 45 MPH Wendover Avenue, give it to a private company and allow that company to charge people to drive 65 MPH on it. That would be an outlandish misappropriation of public infrastructure. Yet, Roch Smith Jr. that is a possibility for Greensboro’s publicly-owned fiber optic Internet cables.

Contributor The City of Greensboro owns over 150 miles of fiber optic Internet cables intertwined throughout the City’s neighborhoods that connect traffic lights, traffic cameras and 70 remote facilities such as fire stations and library branches. The City’s use of these cables for official purposes uses but a small fraction of their capacity.

The leftover unused capacity of that cable is referred to as dark fiber. It has the potential to be put to use for the public good or for private gain. One possible use is to allow it to be exploited for private profit, like the imagined toll lane on Wendover Avenue. Another option is to use it to provide city-operated no-fee public Internet service.

Efforts are underway to decide how to utilize Greensboro’s dark fiber, but they have been going on out of public view and without public discussion.

Greensboro has linked up with representatives from Guilford County, High Point and Burlington to form an initiative they are calling TriGig. According to its executive summary, this consortium “seeks to work with Internet service provid-

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ers to make available access to a common pool of assets, services, and infrastructure to support the deployment of gigabit speed broadband throughout our community.”

The assets TriGig proposes making available include Greensboro’s dark fiber. TriGig recently issued a request for proposals seeking vendors to help exploit these public assets. Two companies responded. One remains unidentified, the other, North State Communications of High Point, was chosen as the preferred vendor.

Greensboro is already served by three Internet service providers, two of which offer gigabit Internet speeds— AT&T and North State. As the Triad Business Journal reported: “North State already offers high-speed Internet access in the Triad but stands to profit as the TriGig vendor because the company will be able to expand its network and sell gigabit services to residents, schools and businesses.” (Dec 6, 2016) The TriGig request for proposals was wide ranging, it proposed possibilities from letting for-profit Internet service providers ride along city infrastructure to providing public Wi-Fi in parks. Of concern for the residents of Greensboro is that decisions about how to use these public assets are being made with no public input and with no guidance from elected officials.

It is also not clear why Greensboro would put its assets under the direction of a group that includes other governments. Clearly, Greensboro’s needs, with three Internet service providers in town, differ from those of rural Guilford County. Yet, the TriGig consortium has placed limits on Greensboro’s options by decree.

In its request for proposals, the TriGig consortium declared that none of its participants intended to offer public Internet service. Why not? Why was that option excluded without the people of Greensboro having a say?

Such a service may well be in the interest of the people of Greensboro— maybe that is exactly what the residents of Greensboro would like to see done with Greensboro’s dark fiber, if they were to be asked. Yet that decision has been made for them by representatives of other cities without citizen involvement or knowledge, either directly or through elected representatives.

Why should public assets be deployed, as North State proposes, in the service of a “market driven” pricing model?

Other public assets such as libraries, streets and garbage trucks are deployed for the public good and intentionally are not market driven. Why should public Internet infrastructure be any different and why are the decisions being made without our consent?

It doesn’t help that an incurious City Council is once again taking a hands-off approach or that Greensboro city staff proactively try to keep TriGig’s activities secret.

I asked Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan about the apparent lack of City Council’s involvement in a plan that could put City assets into the hands of a private company for its profit. Specifically, I wondered if Council had allocated any money for the scheme; or had any discussions about ways to provide Internet access to under-served neighborhoods; or had discussed how best to use the city’s dark fiber. She replied that the project was being handled “at the staff level,” but that she would get back to me with answers to my specific questions. She never did.

Multiple requests for an interview with Doug Hanks, Greensboro’s representative on TriGig, were ignored and when I asked Greensboro for North State’s winning response to TriGig’s request for proposals, the request was denied. The City said the document was secret. It wasn’t until after I argued that the City had no legal grounds on which to withhold the document that the City relented.

A knee-jerk response of secrecy is typical of the current Greensboro administration. Time after time its first response is to conceal records, but for something like this— what to do with a public asset—there should be intentional transparency and a proactive effort to involve the public in the decision. This cannot proceed as business as usual, especially when the usual is secrecy.

Greensboro’s dark fiber and supporting infrastructure do not belong to City staff. They are not theirs to secretly appropriate. It is good that City staff have recognized the potential of the City’s underutilized infrastructure, but how to use it is something the community should have a say in.

It is time for the City to let the people decide what to do with the City’s extra Internet capacity before it is committed to purposes to which we did not agree. !

ROCH SMITH Jr. is the creator and curator of Greensboro 101. He can be reached at curator@greensboro101.com.

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[news of the weird] Leading economic indicator

The salary the Golden State Warriors pay to basketball whiz Stephen Curry may be a bargain at $12 million a year, but the ecoChuck Shepherd nomics is weirder about the prices Curry’s fans pay on the street for one of his used mouthguards retrieved from the arena floor after a game. One used, sticky, saliva-encased teeth-protector went for $3,190 at one August auction, and SCP Auctions of California is predicting $25,000 for another, expelled during the NBA championship series last June. ESPN Magazine reported “at least” 35 Twitter accounts dedicated to Curry’s mouthguard.

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In parts of Panama, some men still fight for access to women with the ferocity of rutting male elks. The indigenous Ngabe people mostly keep

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to themselves in rural areas but have surfaced in towns like Volcan, near the Costa Rican border, where in December a reporter witnessed two men fist-fighting to bloody exhaustion on the street in a typical “Mi Lucha” (“my struggle”), with the loser’s wife following the winner home. As the custom loses its cachet, only about a third of the time does the wife now comply, according to the website Narratively. (Bonus: It’s an often-easy “divorce” for the Ngabe — for a fed-up wife to taunt her husband into a losing fight, or for a fed-up husband to pick a fight and take a dive.)

the continuing crisis

— Over a six-year period (the latest measured), drug companies and pharmacies legally distributed 780 million pain pills in West Virginia — averaging to 433 for every man, woman and child.

Though rules require dispensers to investigate “suspicious” overprescribing, little was done, according to a recent Drug Enforcement Administration report obtained by the Gazette-Mail of Charleston — even though half of the pills were supplied by the nation’s “big three”

drugmakers (whose CEOs’ compensation is enriched enormously by pain pill production). Worse, year-by-year the strengths of the pills prescribed increase as users’ tolerance demands. (West Virginia residents disproportionately suffer from unemployment, coal miningrelated disabilities and poor health.)

— University of Kentucky professor Buck Ryan disclosed in December that he had been punished recently (loss of travel funds and a “prestigious” award) by his dean for singing the Beach Boys classic “California Girls” for a lesson comparing American and Chinese cultures — because of the song’s “language of a sexual nature.” The school’s “coordinator” on sexual harassment issues made the ruling, apparently absent student complaints, for Ryan’s lyric change of “Well, East Coast girls are hip” to “Well, Shanghai girls are hip.”

— Because the 2015 San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack that killed 14 and seriously wounded 22 was a “workplace” injury (in that the shooters fired only at fellow employees), any health insurance the victims had was superseded exclusively by coverage under the

state’s “workers’ compensation” system — a system largely designed for typical job injuries, such as back pain and slip-and-falls. Thus, for example, one San Bernardino victim with “hundreds of pieces of shrapnel” still in her body even after multiple surgeries and in constant pain, must nevertheless constantly argue her level of care with a bureaucrat pressured by budgetary issues and forced to massage sets of one-size-fitsall guidelines.

Wait, What?

(1) The Las Vegas Sun reported in December that Nevada slot- and video-machine gamblers left almost $12 million on the floor during 2012 (i.e., winning tickets that remain uncashed for six months, thus reverting to the state), running the five-year total to nearly $35 million. (2) The pre-game injury report for college football’s Dec. 31 Citrus Bowl included two University of Louisville linebackers, Henry Famurewa and James Hearns, who were out of action against Louisiana State because of “gunshot wounds.”

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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT!

Latest in Vending Machines: (1) Passengers awaiting trains in 35 stations in France now find kiosks dispensing short stories to pass the time. A wide range of selections (even poetry!), in suggested reading-time lengths of one, three and five minutes, can be printed out for free. (2) The only U.S. vending machine for champagne is now operational in the 23rd-floor lobby of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las Vegas. Moet and Chandon bubbly can be purchased with $20 tokens sold at the front desk.

NEW WORLD ORDER

Recent Awkward Apps: (1) The Kerastase Hair Coach (a “smart” hairbrush with Wi-Fi, monitoring brush strokes “on three axes” to manage “frizziness, dryness, split ends and breakage”); (2) The still-in-prototype “Kissenger” (with a “meat-colored” rubbery dock for a smartphone that the user can kiss and have the sensation transmitted to a lover’s receiving dock over the internet); (3) The Ozmo smart cup (to “effortlessly” “empower you with a platform for better hydration choices” in your water and coffee consumption — with software for other drinks coming soon!)

(Bonus: Old-school users can also just drink out of it.); (4) The Prophix toothbrush (with a video camera so you catch areas your brushing might have missed); (5) Spartan boxer briefs (stylishly protecting men’s goods from Wi-Fi and cellphone radiation).

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

In December the European Union’s 28 nations reached what members called a historic agreement to thwart terrorists: a ban on private citizens’ possess-

ing semi-automatic weapons — but exempted terrorists’ firearm of choice, the Kalishikov assault weapon. (Finland vetoed inclusion of the AK-47 because of concerns about training its reservists.)

Least Competent Criminals A December post on the Marietta, Georgia, police department’s Facebook page chided a shoplifter still at large who had left his ID and fingerprints (and inadvertently posed for security cameras). The police, noting “how easy” the man had made their job, “begged” him to give them some sort of challenge: “Please at least try to hide.” Suspect Dale Tice was soon in custody.

A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (MARCH 2013)

Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti-Doping Agency to randomly test its “athletes” for

In January, tireless convicted fraudster Kevin Trudeau, who pitched magical remedies for countless ailments on latenight TV for almost 20 years (dodging investigations and lawsuits until the feds caught up with him in 2014) was turned down in what some legal experts believe might be his final judicial appeal. Still, he never gives up. From his cell at a federal prison in Alabama, he continued to solicit funding for appeals via his Facebook fans, promising donors that they could “double” their money.

Also, he said he would soon share “two secrets” that would allow donors to “vibrate frequencies ... to create the life (they) want.”

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(1) Steve Crow of Point Loma, California, near San Diego International Airport, told a reporter he had given up — since no relief had come from the 20,068 complaints he made during 2016 about airport noise. (2) A six-point deer head-butted the owner of a fur company

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BY M.C. ARMSTRONG & NICOLE ZELNIKER Naima, Maher and Moneera Said at Nazareth Bakery and Restaurant in Greensboro.

THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY REFLECTS ON THE COMING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

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hen Maher Said’s friends asked him who he was voting for in the American Presidential election, he said: “I’m going to vote for Donald Trump. He’s going to give me free tickets to go home.”

Said is one of 13 children from Palestine.

He is the owner of Nazareth, a Middle Eastern restaurant and a wholesale bakery in Greensboro. He calls America “the greatest country in the world.” He rocks with laughter as he tells his joke, but he still shakes his head as he leans back in a booth.

“I did not like Hillary Clinton for nothing,” Said said. “This lady made so many mistakes. But Trump? He is like Saudi Arabia. He has no respect for women or foreigners.”

On the night of the Ohio State stabbings, we traveled to Nazareth and met with Hadis Daqiq, a nineteen-year old refugee from Afghanistan. Daqiq wore a black down jacket. We ate lamb sandwiches in one of the other booths and occasionally watched the footage of the

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attack over our shoulders.

“They keep saying it,” Daqiq said. “‘All Muslims are terrorists. All Muslims are terrorists.’ After the election I just wanted to, I don’t know, just go to sleep. I wasn’t depressed but I just didn’t want to do anything. I felt insecure.”

Daqiq remembers the beginning of the wars.

“When the Americans first came they were like our favorite uncles,” said Daqiq.

“They would come down the streets in the tanks and give us candy. I was one of the children running behind the tanks. I loved America.”

Last summer, Daqiq returned to Afghanistan. She remembers walking through a busy dusty street and seeing a malnourished young boy selling used plastic bags to strangers. When asked what she would say to Donald Trump if he were in Nazareth, she says: “I would say put yourself in my shoes and visit Afghanistan and meet that five year old boy who sells the used plastic bags because his father is sick and his mother can’t work. What would you do?

Put yourself in my shoes is what I would say. Am I a terrorist?”

Izzy Mohamed, a member of the Muslim Student Association at the University of North Carolina Greensboro whose family immigrated from North Sudan, says that if Trump were to ever come to her, she knows what she would say, as well.

“Come to Mosque,” said Mohamed.

“Come into my house. Let me show you true Muslim hospitality. Talk to me. We are not terrorists. We are human beings.

I would say read the Qu’ran and I would show him passages where it says that to kill one or to hurt one is to hurt all of humanity. This is not terrorism.”

Daqiq does not wear the hijab. Mohamed does.

“I didn’t wear the hijab for awhile,” she says. “I was living a wild life, straying from God.” Muslim women usually wear the hijab as a sign of modesty. In the Qu’ran, the hijab refers to a literal curtain separating men and women. In places like Aceh, Iran and Saudi Arabia, wearing the hijab is required. Mohamed started wearing hers

immediately after the election.

“I don’t want to be afraid,” said Mohamed “I am proud of who I am.”

Izher Akbhar, the owner of the Madina Market, does not entirely share Daqiq and Mohamed’s skepticism about the new President. He stands behind his cash register.

“I accept it. He has a big mouth,” Akbhar said. “He should control his mouth. But he is against the establishment.”

Akbhar has been watching Trump’s behavior since the election and feels cautiously optimistic.

“Hillary Clinton was the purely bureaucratic woman. If she had been President, she would’ve continued the same policies. Donald Trump—I think he wants to change the policies.”

When asked what, specifically, gives him reason for feeling optimistic, Akbhar points to Trump’s retreat on certain claims from the campaign.

“Whatever he tweet about the Muslims and the Muslim community, he erased. He erased it,” Akbhar said. “It means he is a serious person. I noticed it. These things

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Naima Said and Hadis Daqiq at Nazareth Bakery in Greensboro. Hadis said she would ask Donald Trump to “put yourself in my shoes.” show he will think in a positive way, especially toward the Muslim community.”

Izzy acknowledges that there was a moment when she thought she might be wrong about the new President: “There was the moment of doubt at the convention when he reached out at the LGBT community and I thought, okay, maybe if he can see that they are people, maybe he will treat us as people, too.

Maybe this is good.”

Said’s skepticism is palpable. If it had been up to him and his 17-year-old daughter, Naima, the new President would be Bernie Sanders.

“You see, we are not anti-Semitic,” he said. “We have nothing against Jewish people.”

“I have so many Jewish friends,” Naima said.

Said trusted Sanders. He respected his courage.

“Remember: [Sanders] said why is nobody listening to Palestine?” said Said.

“He is a man who can look at things fairly.

And he’s Jewish. It doesn’t matter who you are. We need a President like that.

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This man was fair. Sometimes you have to get out of the circle and look at things.”

Naima, however, is not as optimistic that Sanders would have made a significant impact.

“It’s not just the President. It’s the government,” Naima said. “Even if Bernie had gotten elected, he couldn’t have done anything. Until the government learns how to cooperate, the President doesn’t mean anything.”

Naima is a senior in high school. She can often be found studying in the booths of Nazareth. Already she claims she can see the impact of the election.

“I’m a high schooler,” she says. “So I’ve experienced ignorance. Kids learn from their parents. I have a lot of Trump supporters from my school, and whatever, that’s you. But it’s our job, as the next generation, to change that.

“We just don’t understand how privileged we are. We are living the life. Donald Trump has lived the life his entire life. He doesn’t understand other people’s lives. I just feel our generation needs to stop, just stop with these racist ideologies.”

Izher Akbhar and Marie Sanda at the Madina Market in Greensboro.

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Izzy Mohamed on Tate Street in Greensboro.

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We at YES! Weekly want to know how we can all come together and change. If the presidential election was a rejection of the establishment, what kinds of policies do the folks in the Muslim community want to see shift in the coming years?

Where does the conversation need to start?

“History goes back before 9/11,” Daqiq says.

Zhihong Chen, a Muslim history professor at Guilford College encourages people to recognize that Islam cannot be treated as a monolith.

“A few Muslims cannot speak for all Muslims,” she says. “There are more than one billion Muslims in the world. Islam is a very diverse religion. The more people understand the diversity of all Muslims, the less they would feel fearful of Muslims.

“The best thing is to get to know a Muslim in person so that Islam is not just an abstract concept.”

Said, whose brother, Mazan, was deported back to Palestine by the Obama administration, is concerned about increasingly aggressive immigration policies. However, like Daqiq, he believes the conversation cannot just start with the post 9/11 world and the war on terror.

“It starts with punishing the people of Palestine for what the Nazis did,” said Said. “Why did we get punished? Why all of these people get taken from their homes? If you don’t solve this, you don’t solve the Middle East. It all goes back to this, not anything else.

“We don’t want to blow things up.

People aren’t like that. We don’t want to hurt people. But you treat people like dogs, and what happens? What happens to a dog when you slap it and slap it again and slap it again? What do you think the dog will do?”

Akbhar, who is from Karachi, Pakistan, rings up a customer with her cell-phone tucked into the left cheek of her hijab. Akbhar says he wants to see Trump intervene in Kashmir, the contested land between Pakistan and India. Chen is deeply concerned about the possibility of a registry.

Naima, returning to immigration, puts the issue in blunt terms because she lives it every day here in America. She misses her Uncle Mazan and doesn’t think it’s fair that he was deported for stealing a recipe book.

“Remember when Obama said anybody who has a felony we are going to ship him back home?” said Naima. “See. That makes our lives harder because we have one less owner here.

“Who has to come in and do more hours? Me. Who has to come in and do more hours? Him,” she said, nodding toward her father. “We can’t take breaks anymore.”

Marie Sanda, a customer at the Madina Market, is frustrated by Trump’s treatment of women. She wears a silver sequined hijab and a black leather coat and as she stands by a display for Aladdin candy, her hands fly in and out of her pockets.

“Without women, he is nobody,” said Sanda. “Women brought him in this life.

He passed from two legs of woman. First, he has a daughter. Second, he has a wife.

He sleeps with a woman every night, with his wife, so because of that, he needs to respect women.”

Sanda came to Greensboro eleven years ago from Niger, the West African country sandwiched between Mali and Chad.

“I think America is number one,” said Sanda. “I have been all over the world.

Paris, everywhere. This country is great and don’t deserve Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn’t have respect for no one.

Muslims, Christians, the whole world.”

Mohamed believes Islam has more respect for women than Trump does.

“Islam values the woman above the man in many ways,” Mohamed said.

“Muhammad’s wife, Khadija, was more successful in life than he was. Who you are is seen in the way you treat the women of your life, your mother and your sister and your wife.”

Daqiq believes we could all stand to learn from the Muslim women she worked with last summer in the schools of Afghanistan.

“You have never met people with such bravery and ethics,” said Daqiq. “It is easier if you are American to not do certain things, but when you have nothing, it is really hard.”

Some people, like Leah Whetten-Goldstein and her mother’s Muslim girlfriend, Arzu Ozoguz, are now worried about their friends and family abroad.

“I don’t think there is going to be a registry,” said Whetten-Goldstein, a student at Guilford College. “I truly don’t think that’s on the top of Trump’s list. As far as policies go, I really don’t see much happening.”

Regardless, Whetten-Goldstein considers many of Trump’s supporters to be just as scary as Trump.

“The fact that Trump said this stuff and got elected president makes other people feel like they can do that,” she said. “Despite if these policies happen or not, the fear is super real.”

In the aftermath of the election, Mohamed is not quite ready to say goodbye to Barack Obama.

“We loved Obama,” said Mohamed.

“All Muslims loved Obama. We had little things like with the deaths from the wars, but, yeah, we loved him.”

In spite of her fears, Chen believes the

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Shoppers at the Madina Market in Greensboro.

Muslim community in the U.S. can make it through a Trump presidency.

“A few years ago I sat in a class taught by a religious studies adjunct,” said Chen.

“She taught a class on Islam in the U.S. and it was a tremendous learning experience for me.

“By the end of that class, as a Muslim, I felt tremendously proud of the actions a number of people in the U.S. have taken to promote diversity, understanding, and interfaith work.”

A young white man in a toboggan and a navy blue down jacket approaches Said as he debates with Naima about whether or not the world can change.

“Assalamu Alaikum,” said the young man, meaning “the peace be upon you.”

“Alaikum Salaam,” said Said, meaning “peace be unto you.”

The two shake hands. Said returns to the debate with his daughter, customers all around under the black and white checkered ceiling eating lamb and rice, hummus and falafel, chicken chops and cookies.

“Actions speak louder than words,” Naima said. “But words lead to action.

Like these kids at my school who are always like build the wall and send the immigrants home and Make America Great Again.”

“Nothing’s going to change,” said Said.

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the end of the day, if you get into politics, you will realize there’s a code. Don’t mess with Israel. Don’t mess with these. Don’t mess with these. There’s a red light for this. A red light for that.”

“Papa,” Naima said. “Things can change, can’t they?”

Naima studies her father’s face.

Said shakes his head and smiles.

Less than a mile down the road, Sanda attends to her customers at a new Greensboro restaurant, Marie’s African Cuisine. Across the street at The Madina Market, Akbhar and his employees sell products from all over the world. They sell Turkish coffee, Pakistani tea and meat they butcher fresh every Friday.

“I am really sincere. I love the USA. I am loyal,” Akbhar said. “When I came here I was in High Point and then Greensboro and very few families were here when I first moved. Now it is a big community here. It means this area, especially Greensboro, it is a growing area. And if the people are coming it means they have got a job or they are doing business and that is how they are surviving with their families.”

In Greensboro, the Muslim community as a whole will continue to be strong.

“It doesn’t matter if you are Sunni or Shia here,” said Daqiq. “Here, we are all together.” !

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BIG pURpLE

812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728

THE BLINd TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Jan 18: LITz Jan 19: Afroman Jan 20: Electric Soul pandemic w/ ElectroChemical Jan 21: pure Fiyah Reggae Band Jan 22: The Blind Spots w/ Laila Nur and The Love Riot Jan 25: Magpie Jan 26: In Her Own Words, Woven Haitus, Hazing, paperback, Cloud Hands

Jan 27: Create feat. Cut Rugs w/ Mister violinix Jan 27: The Lilly Brothers w/ delta Son, Tiffany Ashton Music Jan 28: 6 Years Anniversary with Shmack daniels Feb 1: Travers Brothership w/ Jive Mother Mary Feb 2: College Night feat John Cash & Malfunction Feb 3: The Empire Strikes Brass w/ dr. Bacon Feb 4: Econoclast Crew shows & Hip Hop dads present: Underground Invasion Feb 8: Rumpke Mountain Boys Feb 10: Brothers pearl Feb 15: Twiztid w/ Blaze Ya dead Homie, Boondox, Lex The Hexmaster, The Roc, G Mo Skee Feb 18: dirty dozen Brass Band w/ The Get Right Band Feb 20: The Record Co. Jamestown Revival Feb 22: The Movement w/ Elusive Groove Feb 24: Big Something w/ Aqueous Feb 28: TAUK

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213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Jan 21: Jack Long Old School Jam Feb 11: Sahara Reggae Band Feb 18: Jack Long Old School Jam

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Jan 20: philly plowden Jan 21: philly plowden Jan 27: Kevin Lee Jan 28: Kevin Lee Feb 3: Collin Moulton Feb 4: Collin Moulton Feb 10: James Sibley Feb 11: James Sibley Feb 14: Chris Wiles’ Love & Laughs valentines Show Feb 17: Jodi White Feb 18: Jodi White Feb 24: Shaun Jones Feb 25: Shaun Jones Mar 3: Burpie Mar 4: Burpie Mar 10: Mike Gardner Mar 11: Mike Gardner

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CONE dENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Jan 26: Chippendales 2017: Best.

Night. Ever. Tour Feb 10: 2GNC Comedy All-Stars Mar 4: Appetite For destruction Apr 5: Kehlani Apr 6: Jojo

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113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 greenestreetclub.com Jan 21: dave East Feb 18: Soultriii Ep Release party Mar 16: Riff Raff LIvE Mar 23: #NastyNightOWT - A pretty Nasty Affair

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mcphErSon’S bar & grill

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702 Green Valley Rd | 336.379.0699 printworksbistro.com Jan 18: Evan olsen & Jessica mashburn

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5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Jan 20: nevernauts, pavlove, arson daily, our blue lights Jan 21: birth the wretched, the worshipper, within Echoes, angels among ashes, days to break Jan 27: desired redemption, black wall, Five mile radius, blue Frequency Jan 28: last call messiahs, Jen phipps, Zestrah, them damn bruners Feb 8: nevernauts, hale bopp astronauts, pavlove, black river township Feb 10: Zestrah Feb 25: desired redemption, novarium, nevernauts mar 11: Zestrah mar 18: Snake & the plisskens, the dick richards, Sibannac, nevernauts, grim details, i, atlas

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THE GARAGE

110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Jan 20: Drug Yacht, Cucumbers Jan 21: Scrub Pine, Magpie Feast, & Kyle Caudle Jan 25: Mothers, Finks, and I, Anomaly Mar 3: All Them Witches with Irata Mar 24: Big Thief

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MILNER’S

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Jan 28: Sarah Sophia Feb 2: Open Mic Feb 4: Chief’s Chouce Feb 9: Open Mic Feb 10: Kimberly Sundloff Feb 12: Phillip Craft Feb 16: Open Mic

MUDDY CREEK MUSIC HALL

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Jan 19: The Batteries Jan 20: Joe Crookston Jan 21: Banna Jan 23: Band On The Run starring Denny Laine of Wings Jan 26: Sarah Howell, Jack Benedict, Meryl Angelicola Lee Jan 27: Cashavelly Morrison w/ Grace & Nails Jan 28: Dark Water Rising Feb 3: Violet Bell Feb 4: Hank, Pattie, & The Current Feb 10: CandelFirth Feb 11: Muddy Creek Players w/ Andrea Templon, Martha Bassett Feb 12: The Epiphany Project Feb 16: Sarah Mae Chilton, Dan Dockery, Emily Stewart Feb 17: R.B. Morris Feb 18: Neptune’s Car Feb 19: Albert Lee Feb 23: Redleg Husky Feb 24: Wonderwall The Tribute (The Beatles) Feb 25: Tom Young and Taylor Vaden Feb 26: Across The Blue Ridge w/ Paul Brown

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TEE TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010

VILLAGE TAVERN

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WAYWARD BREWS

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Feb 3: Legends of Southern Hip Hop Mar 11: Casting Crowns

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Apr 28: Lauryn Hill May 6: Bastille

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Jan 18: Rich The Kid Jan 19: Greensky Bluegrass Jan 21: Breaking Benjamin Jan 27: Hey Johnny Park - Foo Fighters Tribute Jan 27: Rumours: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac Jan 28: Bassh Feb 2: Papadosio Feb 3: Grouplove Feb 8: Welshly Arms Feb 8: Tchami Feb 9: Excision Feb 10: The Fighters Feb 10: Jake Miller Feb 11: Nonpoint Feb 12: Safetysuit Feb 17: Dashboard Confessional Feb 21: Us the Duo Feb 22: Louis The Child Feb 23: Less Than Jake & Pepper Feb 24: Cherub & The Floozies Feb 24: Daya Feb 25: Juicy J Mar 2: Sleigh Bells Mar 5: Cold War Kids w/ Middle Kids Mar 6: Overkill Mar 7: Colony House Mar 8: Young the Giant Mar 10: Deafheaven w/ This Will Destory You & Emma Ruth Rundle Mar 11: St Paul & The Broken Bones Mar 12: Bad Suns Mar 17: The Decibel Magazine 2017 Tour Mar 17: Regina Spektor Mar 19: Katatonia Mar 23: Blue October Mar 23: Whiskey Myers Mar 30: The Flaming Lips Apr 6: Kehlani Apr 7: Kari Jobe Apr 15: Dark Star Orchestra Apr 16: Testament Apr 20: Periphery. Sonic Unrest II. Apr 20: Trey Anastasio WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Jan 21: Tim Hawkins Jan 28: Gerald Levert Feb 22: The Piano Guys Feb 24: Nu Soul Revival Tour Mar 6: We Are Here Mar 31: Johnny Mathis

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Feb 19: Winter Jam Mar 9: Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience Apr 17: Red Hot Chili Peppers Apr 28: Neil Diamond May 17: The Weeknd May 21: Lionel Richie & Mariah Carey

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309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Jan 24: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Jan 26: Pat Metheny Jan 28: 10th Annual Wiser A Cappella Jam Feb 7: Al Di Meola Feb 13: The Wood Brothers Feb 16: Keller Williams & Leo Kottke Feb 23: Tommy Emmanuel Mar 1: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Mar 3: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Mar 7: Valerie June Mar 13: Gordon Lightfoot Mar 20: Odessey & Oracle Mar 21-22: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields Mar 23: Black Violin Mar 24: Three Dog Night Apr 28: Rivive Big Band & Christian Scott Apr 29: George Clinton & Terrace Martin

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Here And Gone: Kurt Vile sings of 21st-Century anxieties

BY JOHN ADAMIAN

K

urt Vile has tapped into something. The Philadelphia-based singer, songwriter and guitarist makes music that is psychedelic and trippy, with rippling echoes, clouds of reverb, almost hidden pads of organ, phantom backing vocals, hard-to-place buzzes and layers of added percussion from tambourine. But Vile is also a talented fingerpicker -- one of his first instruments was a banjo -- and he can set up careful rhythmic patterns that draw on old time and bluegrass technique. He leads a rock group that might sound like

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers one minute and Neil Young and Crazy Horse the next. His skillful picking can evoke Bert Jansch or Annie Briggs. Vile’s vocal phrasing and snarl can bring to mind a more sedate Iggy Pop doing spoken word. His songs are a mix of sleepy offthe-cuff goofiness and modern anxiety though.

There are peculiar incongruities to Vile’s music. His sound is deeply chill, and that, along with his hair-in-his-face image, can convey a weed-haze mellowness. But there’s a feeling of uneasiness and distance -- distance from himself and distance from the world -- in Vile’s songs. “I woke up this morning, didn’t

recognize the man in the mirror,” goes a line from “Pretty Pimpin’,” the first song off of b’lieve i’m goin down, Vile’s 2015 full-length record. And later, on “That’s Life, tho (almost hate to say),” he sings, “Ain’t it oh exciting the way one can fake their way through life.” And on “Dust Bunnies,” from the same record, he sings “It’s hard to think with a squashed brain,” and “What’s there to feel but totally whacked.” If the songs weren’t so chill, you might think Vile was having a paranoid breakdown.

Vile and the Violators play the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw on Friday, Jan. 27.

I spoke with Vile recently by phone

from his home in Philadelphia. We talked about his work on his latest material, about recording in Nashville, about keeping busy versus taking time to unwind. I mentioned to Vile that many of his songs seemed to be about a sense of alienation, a feeling of being dislocated from the world which then had the effect of making one feel disconnected from oneself. Making a big leap to politics, to the pervading sense of shock many have about Trump, I said that feeling divorced from the world isn’t unusual these days.

“The way my music is political, is that it’s the result of all kinds of insanity going on in the world,” says Vile.

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he’s slowly moving toward completion at the moment.

“It’s always a balance of the psyche,” says Vile about his work rhythms. “You can sit down and relax too long and it actually makes you feel more crazy than just being busy.”

That idea is central to some of Vile’s music. The piano-based light-pop Randy Newman-ish lilt of “Lost My Head There,” from his most recent record, is about taking frustration or anxiety and turning it into a song. “Did you ever bang on a xylophone that took you everywhere?” he sings on “Too Hard” from 2013’s Wakin On A Pretty Daze. If the theme of music-as-therapy and mentaltransport has shown up a few times, one recent change in Vile’s material is that he’s been writing more on piano. Several songs on b’lieve i’m goin down were built around his piano playing, which is skeletal and cyclical, like his guitar-playing, and he says he’s using the instrument as the starting point for songs as well as a way of thinking through ideas for arrangements now.

“I’m sort of composing on it,” says Vile.

“I’ve got some real pretty trippy melodic orchestral ideas, and it works better on piano. Since I’ve been playing more -piano’s a good tool because it’s all laid

out in front of you. It’s almost like an analog computer.”

He’s hoping to eventually make an upright piano part of his touring arsenal, but the weight makes it impractical at the moment. None of that means that Vile’s live show will be less of a full-bore situation. With drummer Kyle Spence -- from the great pounding glacially slow Athens, Georgia band Harvey Milk -- supplying Bonhamistic beats for the Violators, and with several other talented multi-instrumentalists behind him, Vile’s backing band can turn those acoustic songs into monolithic walls of sonic haze.

“We can have a punk-rock edge at the drop of a hat,” says Vile of the band. “We can be slick, but never too slick. It can fall apart at any moment, in the right kind of way, or the wrong kind of way.” !

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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Kurt Vile and the Violators play the Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, Friday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m., with Luke Roberts. $25, hawriverballroom.com.

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Vile started getting a lot of national attention back in 2009, with the release of his Childish Prodigy LP, his first on Matador Records. The album opened with one of Vile’s strangely comical absurd declarations: “I got a hunchback, big as a humpback whale.” Vile sometimes boasts with a hip-hop swagger, but the subjects of his bragging -- like having a hunchback or being a “puppet to the man” -- often undermine his attitude. Since then he’s released a stream of EPs and records at a healthy pace that sets a contrast to his unhurried appearance. After years of cranking out new records, releasing older projects, preparing new projects and working to push albums out against a tight schedule, Vile says he’s trying to sit back a little more, to let things gestate and see how his perspective shifts.

“I like the idea of taking it slow,” he says.

Vile also played in the band The War On Drugs (whose frontman Adam Granduciel also played in Vile’s backing band, the Violators), and he had WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

guitarist Steve Gunn, a longtime friend a who grew up in the same part of town as Vile, playing in the Violators for a time as well.

Some of Vile’s songs seem to be about the feeling of hiding out in plain sight, getting lost in a crowd, tuning out the world while floating through it. It’s not quite that he sings about getting away from it all, but more that he chronicles the experience of not feeling present even when one is right in the middle of things. “I could be 1000 miles away, but still me,” he sings on “Pretty Pimpin’.”

And the song “Wheelhouse” contains this line: “Sometimes you gotta be alone just to figure things out.” On “Jesus Fever” he sings, “I packed my suitcase with myself, but I’m already gone.”

He was raised with nine other siblings, so maybe Vile’s sense of being at home in a swirl of confusion goes back to his childhood. Despite his claim to taking it easy recently, Vile’s creative energy, his musical work, seems to be the thing that keeps him calm. He says he has a couple different EPs and a full-length record

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Th 19 DWEEZIL ZAPPA “Dweezilla On

The Road” Guitar Masterclass 2:30p

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Had he lived one hundred and fifty Fr 10 NANTUCKET years ago, Bradford Loomis may have Sa 11 BETTER OFF DEAD (Grateful Dead) been riding rail cars out west or sailing Su 12 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE down the Mississippi on a paddle boat. Or Tu 14 THE WERKS/Electric Soul Pandemic maybe he would have claimed his stake Fr 17 ILL DIGITZ & DSCVRY (90’s) in the flat lands of the Midwest. Perhaps Sa 18 PERPETUAL GROOVE he would have plied his hand on a ranch Su 19 KELLY HOLLAND MEMORIAL in Texas.

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Auditorium F r 3 WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib Bradford Loomis marries grit and meloSa 4 LOS LONELY BOYS dy to dig to the roots of American folklore We 8 DAVID BROMBERG and speak of the raw reality of the human Fr 10 THE CLARKS w/Michael Tolcher condition with passion. His stories span Sa 11 BOWIE BALL Trib to DAVID BOWIE several lifetimes of relatable emotions; Su 12 HOLLY BOWLING bitterness & loss, deep longing & regret, Th 16 THE HIP ABDUCTION enduring hope & love, elation & joy.

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en years ago, when more than 30 souls were slain on the campus of Virginia Tech, an artist took notice of their untold story. “But it soon became clear that incident didn’t want to be written about, at least by me,” said awardwinning playwright David Brendan Hopes. Instead, what was born out of the tragedy was a lyrical play, Night Music, about boyhood friends, connections, and the tough decisions Lenise Willis that must be made while coming of age.

Meanwhile, the tale of a 2,000-yearContributing old British Celtic queen inspired two women, from two different columnist continents to find their voice and their strength, and bring to life the stories of ancient and modern warrior women.

Inspiration for beautiful art can come from almost anywhere. What these performances have in common is that they’re both the inspired creations of local artists who will be featured in this year’s 15th annual Greensboro Fringe Festival. And both have something to say.

NIGHT MUSIC, JAN. 19-21

Written as a memory play, similar to the style of The Glass Menagerie, Night Music encapsulates Hopes’ experiences as a young boy.

“My experiences on camping trips as a Boy Scout helped with the particulars of what one is hearing in a forest at night,” Hopes said.

“Essentially, the play begins with two boys talking in their sleeping bags, and grows—organically, I hope—from there.”

It is a comedy with lyrical undertones, he says, in which the characters explain their lives to themselves by looking at certain incidents from the past.

The play is not only being featured in the Fringe Festival, but it also won the 23rd North Carolina New Play Project presented by The Drama Center of City Arts.

QUEEN B, JAN. 26-28

For creators Sarah Beth Nelson and Judith Valerie, it was Queen Boudicca herself, who led a great uprising against the Romans occupying Britain, that introduced the two and put in motion the creation of Queen B, a storytelling performance.

The program opens with the historical story of the queen and transitions into the two storytellers’ personal stories and how Boudicca’s strength thus lives on even 2,000 years later.

Valerie grew up in England and first encountered Boudicca through her statue in London. She was struck by her strong pose, riding a chariot with her whip in hand.

“I had only ever seen women cooking and cleaning, knitting and teaching,” Valerie said. “The queen in the statue looked so powerful and it made me stand up taller.”

In fact, seeing that statue of Queen Boudicca inspired Valerie to defend herself against an abusive parent and end a cycle of family violence.

Meanwhile, Nelson first read about Boudicca during her studies as a Latin major when she took a class translating passages by the Roman historian Tacitus, who told of Boudicca’s rebellion.

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Later on, when Nelson lived in Norwich, United Kingdom with her husband, near where Boudicca was originally from, she became enthralled with her life and wanted to tell her story, but as Boudicca herself so that she could pass on her strong voice.

“Being where Boudicca had been had a deeper effect on me than I realized at first,” Nelson said. That’s why in the program she’s chosen to include her own story, too, about how she found strength in Boudicca’s story at a time when she felt weak.

The two met and shared their stories through the North Carolina Storytelling Guild website, which is where their artistic collaboration began. Valerie says the process of developing this story has helped her gradually heal from the shame and fear survivors often experience.

“Our stories may inspire others to explore avenues of artistic expression within a safe community,” Nelson said. “We hope to help others recover their voices, courage, and sense of dignity.”

It is messages like these that Hopes says makes the fringe festival so vital to the community.

The festival, which was conceptualized by director, actor, dancer and writer Todd Fisher in late 2002, not only gives a free platform for artists to share their vision, but also enhances the community with new and exciting productions.

“Fringe Festivals are vitally important, not the least because they are fun,” Hopes said. “They’re far more important for the community than for the actual participants. They show what comes next, uncover the seeds of new societies before anything is rooted or full grown. When people go to the Fringe in Greensboro they will be seeing, ‘the accepted wisdom of their children.’ They will be seeing the future. The actors and musicians and playwrights will, I know, delight in showing the way.” !

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The 2017 Greensboro Fringe Festival features more than a dozen productions, from dance performances to new plays. The festival runs Jan. 19-Feb. 6. For more information and tickets visit greensborofringefestival.org or call 336549-7431. Performances take place in the Stephen D. Hyers theatre and new Van Dyke Performance Space, both within the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie St. To donate to the festival, which is in a $3,500 deficit, go to the Save the GSO Fringe GoFundMe campaign page.

The 15th annual Greensboro Fringe Festival is finally here and featuring an array of new shows, from a dance performance that explores the concept of healing, to a play about spies, serial killers and saints. Kicking off the festival this weekend, Thursday and Sunday, is the winner of the 23rd North Carolina New Play Project, Night Music, which tells of boyhood friends and the challenges they face as they grow up.

Performances are in the Stephen D. Hyers theatre in the Greensboro Cultural Center.

All performances are a suggested donation of $10. Visit greensborofringefestival.org for a full show schedule.

Festival runs through Feb. 6.

Also new this week is Theatre Alliance’s comedy Zanna Don’t!, which is set in Heartsville High where almost everyone is gay. The captain of the chess team is the big dog on campus and being involved with theatre is cool.

When the students write a controversial show, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a young man and woman end up falling in love. Performances run this Friday through next Sunday, Jan. 29.

Peter Yarrow, known for such early 1960s hits as, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” and “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” will share life stories and perform the Grammy Award-winning music born of social activism at the High Point Theatre Saturday.

Sunday, UNC School of the Arts’ partnership with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center continues with music by Brahms and Faure, performed

by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center members Alessio Bax, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Yura Lee, viola; and Paul Watkins, cello. Performance is in Watson Hall on campus.

Tuesday, Robert Young, UNCSA’s new artist-professor of saxophone, debuts his first solo faculty recital, performing powerful standard and transcribed works. The performance will include the music of Cesar Franck and Chicagobased composer Mischa Zupko.

In other news, The Drama Center Booster Club will host an open discussion with Broadway costume designer Derek Moreno next Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Stephen D. Hyers theatre.

Moreno will discuss his life and work, and the audience will be invited to ask questions. Light refreshments will be provided. Admission is a suggested donation of $10. All proceeds benefit the booster club, a nonprofit that supports the Drama Center of City Arts. !

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Given the wealth of information, dramatization and conjecture surrounding the presidency and assassination of John F. Kennedy, director Pablo Larrain’s drama Jackie offers a Mark Burger unique and self-explanatory point-ofContributing view — one that has not, until now, been columnist explored in to such an extent as here.

Naturally, in playing the title character, Natalie Portman dominates the proceedings. If she doesn’t quite resemble the real Jackie, she is after all playing a character about which many people have preconceived notions. Portman’s Jackie is dignified yet defensive, shaken by the assassination of her husband and trying to find the resolve within herself to carry on, and only too aware of the attention historians then and now will ascribe to her.

Noah Oppenheim’s original screenplay places Jackie in the category of historical speculation, although likely well-founded speculation. These are, after all, historical characters who have been considerably documented over the last 50 years or more, yet they don’t come off as caricatures. Given what we already know, much of Jackie feels right as it unfolds in fascinating fashion.

The film is both highly theatrical, with long stretches of dialogue between Jackie and other characters, and also highly cinematic, with Stephane Fontaine’s cinematography and Mica Levi’s expressive score delving into the realm of the surreal, creating a dazed, dream-like (or even nightmarish) atmosphere that not only reflects Jackie’s inner turmoil but also the collective shock of the nation, or even the world, at large in the days immediately following Jack Kennedy’s assassination. It’s a risky approach to combine two disparate approaches, yet Larrain pulls it off with assurance.

Caspar Phillipson, who strongly resembles JFK, is almost a peripheral figure here,

even in life. He’s there and then he’s not, his presence almost wraith-like above the principal story, which is Jackie’s. Neither Oppenheim’s screenplay or Larrain’s direction are interested in gossip or scandalous conjecture, which is refreshing. (Besides, that approach can be found elsewhere.)

The supporting cast is a good one: John Hurt, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Richard E. Grant, Max Casella (as future LBJ advisor and later MPAA head Jack Valenti), and Beth Grant as a sympathetic Lady Bird Johnson. Peter Sarsgaard plays Robert Kennedy and John Carroll Lynch JFK’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, and in one scene where Sarsgaard’s Bobby explodes in anger, the glare Lynch’s LBJ gives him totally encapsulates the long-standing enmity that existed between the two men.

Yet this is Jackie’s story to tell, in her own words, as written by Oppenheim and delivered with such eloquent conviction

by Portman, and in the end it sheds a fresh light on, and gives a new stature to, Jackie Kennedy. !

Things to Come: Isabelle Huppert as an unmarried woman

Isabelle Huppert, who recently fetched a Golden Globe and is eyeballing an Oscar nomination (remarkably, her first!) for her superb performance in Elle, again demonstrates her effortless excellence in writer/director Mia HansenLove’s domestic drama Things to Come (L’avenir), a film that surely wouldn’t be as watchable as it is without her.

Reportedly inspired in part by HansenLove’s past, Huppert brings her luminous

presence to the role of Nathalie, an author and philosophy lecturer who lives a comfortable life with her husband Heinz (Andre Marcon), himself a scholar, and has two grown children.

Nathalie is preoccupied with her ailing, suicidal mother (Edith Scob), and by her career, which may explain why she’s caught completely unawares when Heinz confesses to an affair – something the children have long known.

Although nicely shot by cinematographer Denis Lenoir and anchored by Huppert, Things to Come is basically details how Nathalie adjusts, with varying degrees of success, to the hits life levels at her. It’s not an uninteresting adjustment, for which you can entirely credit Huppert, but this is essentially a conventional story.

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Hidden Figures: Race and space Hidden Figures, the crowdpleasing adaptation of executive producer Margot Lee Shetterley’s non-fiction bestseller, is set in a very specific period of US history, when the Cold War was at its height, the space race was in full stride, and the Civil Rights issue was on the rise.

At this time, the very notion that women of color would ascend the hierarchy of NASA would seem as absurd as, well, putting a man on the moon.

Yet that’s the story told here, focusing on Katherine Goble (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), three black women working for NASA on the Mercury Project in 1962. Having come this far in their careers is all the more remarkable due to the racism and sexism at the time, which was essentially taken for granted — even by the NASA brain trust.

Admittedly, the eventual outcome of the story isn’t a surprise for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of NASA’s history, but Hidden Figures – a title with dual, and obvious, meanings -- remains grounded (so to speak) in reality even when it celebrates the expanse of the human imagination, again, in more ways than one.

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Henson, Spencer and Monae all register strongly as the pivotal trio, with able support provided by Jim Stafford (who provides a little antagonism), Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Olek Krupa, Glen Powell (as a most affable John Glenn), and particularly Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, the hard-boiled head of the Space Task Group, who realizes that if man is to reach the moon, his team must work together as one, blind to all biases. Having played Jim Garrison in JFK (1991) and Kenny O’Donnell in Thirteen Days (2000), Costner almost seems to embody the early 1960s on the big screen.

Hidden Figures is the cinematic equivalent of a history lesson, albeit an uplifting one. The film informs as well as entertains. Admittedly, this is such foolproof material that it would take a filmmaker of considerable incompetence to blow it, but director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent), who penned the screenplay with Allison Schroeder, does it justice, offering both a reminder of and a tribute to what was accomplished, and some of the people behind the scenes who accomplished it. !

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Looking for mercy in an age of rage

BY BRIAN LAMPKIN A Review of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson (Speigel & Grau, $16.00). ryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy was first published in 2014, but it probably was his 2012 TED Talk “We need to talk about an injustice” that first brought him significant national attention (though I suppose winning a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995 might also qualify as significant attention). Some three million views later, Stevenson has become a kind of moral center for exposing the travesty of the American incarceration system. And happily for Greensboro, he’ll be here on Feb. 21 as part of Guilford College’s Bryan Series.

Just Mercy itself is maddening—perhaps one of the most infuriating books in recent memory. The reader joins Stevenson in outrage and incredulity at the willful meanness and the wanton disregard for decency displayed by prosecutors, judges and jailers. Innocence is not really the prime determination of the future for

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many of the accused in this book—racism, expediency and careerism often trump expected norms of innocence and guilt in determining sentencing.

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the Equal Justice Initiative in 1994 in Montgomery, Alabama, and much of the material in the book is taken from EJI cases. The central story in Just Mercy is the case of Walter McMillian. In 1989 McMillian was sentenced to die in the Alabama electric chair and despite his obvious innocence he spends six years in prison before Stevenson helps to get him released. Honest mistakes happen, of course (I think of Jennifer Thompson’s and Ronald Cotton’s story in Picking Cotton, where Thompson misidentifies Cotton as her rapist then spends years trying to correct her mistake and now works tirelessly to prevent witness error), but this case is filled with blatant callousness about human life and justice.

But Stevenson’s work isn’t simply about freeing the innocent. He tackles a much larger societal issue: mercy. To his credit, Stevenson describes the crimes of several of his clients in detail, and sometimes these crimes resulted in serious harm or death. Still Stevenson demands we look at the person and his life circumstances, but more importantly he demands we look at ourselves. Do we really want to sentence 16-year-old boys to die in adult prison? Do we really want to kill the mentally ill? What does it do to our society to allow these merciless sentences to continue?

I suppose Just Mercy suggests that the American criminal justice system has lost its ability to care at the level required for a civil society. But there’s plenty of evidence that the present-day extremism of American incarceration rates is rooted in the history of American racism. However cruel

Stevenson finds our current situation, he also knows that this cruelty has long been part of the black experience in this country.

The victories Stevenson and the EJI have had are often countered with botched executions, excruciating solitary confinement and absurd false convictions.

One of the marvels of the book is Stevenson’s reserve of energy and optimism. He expresses admiration for Czech leader Vaclav Havel and his belief that what the people needed in the struggle for independence was hope: “Not that pie in the sky, not a preference for optimism over pessimism, but rather ‘an orientation of the spirit.’ The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power.

That kind of hope makes us strong.”

Despite the brutality on display in Just Mercy, Stevenson’s conviction and call to action make this an inspiring book. He includes a note at the book’s end about how to help the more than two million incarcerated people in the United States (check out the Equal Justice Initiative website at www.eji.org). In preparation for Stevenson’s visit to the Triad, WFDD and Scuppernong Books, in conjunction with the Bryan Series, will hold two book club sessions on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 2:00 and 4:00 pm. Also, on Feb. 7 Saundra Westervelt (author of Life After the Death Penalty) will lead a discussion on Just Mercy at 7:00 pm at Scuppernong.

Bryan Stevenson’s Bryan Series appearance is on February 21 at 7:30 pm at the Greensboro Coliseum. !

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Chance encounter helps woodworker reach national audience 1642 Spring Garden St., GSO

BY MIA OSBORN Bill Hier, owner of Red Dog Wood Works, is in the business of highlighting imperfections. He creates practical wooden items like custom-sized boxes and vases. But even the simplest pieces feature elegant lines and an attention to detail that elevate them beyond the everyday.

Hier’s Summerfield workshop is stocked with raw materials from all around the world, from oak and ash to purpleheart, bloodwood, and African zebrawood. He has a knack for finding the weaknesses in his raw materials and turning them into strengths. He’ll often build a project to showcase a knot or inclusion in the wood that most crafters would hide. He uses only clear varnish, so the natural character of the wood takes center stage.

“This is the type of work I find the most beautiful,” said Hier, gesturing to the cutting boards stacked on his workstation.

He often uses eight or more species of hardwood in a single board for eye-popping contrast.

The quality of Hier’s work speaks to his carpentry experience, but until recently, Hier’s passion for woodworking was confined to hobby projects and occasional odd jobs. It took change of circumstances for him to consider woodworking as a career.

2016 was a tumultuous year for many, and Hier was no exception. He underwent wrist and spinal surgeries that made the heavy lifting required for his home repair business untenable. Meanwhile Hier’s wife, Greta, followed her job from their home state of Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Hier organized the sale of their old house and the move to the new one.

From that whirlwind of activity, Red Dog Wood Works was born. Hier spent the past 25 years doing carpentry projects for himself and friends, gathering equipment along the way. He never thought of expanding his hobby into a business until it became clear that his previous career couldn’t travel with him to North Carolina.

“The team I worked with, they weren’t moving with me. I couldn’t start a two decade business overnight,” said Hier. “So I said, ‘I’ve always loved wood work. Now I’m going to make it happen.’”

Hier designed a workshop beside his new house in Summerfield to serve as the business’ base of operations. The name Red Dog was inspired by the Hier’s dog and unofficial business mascot, Watson.

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Red Dog Wood Works owner Bill Hier with celebrity chef Vivian Howard at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro. many new independent businesses. Chief among his struggles was getting noticed in the digital age.

“The internet marketing aspect is definitely the most difficult,” Hier explained.

“My last business was service oriented.

But this is selling a product, so the internet is key.”

Fortunately, Hier found his new state was home to a thriving support network for small businesses.

He took classes from Greensboro’s “Lady Bizness,” Chisa D. Pennix-Brown, to get his marketing presence off the ground.

The Creative Exchange provided social media services. Membership at The Forge Makerspace gave him access to the laser cutter that made Red Dog’s precision cut coasters and Christmas ornaments possible.

Hier cites the nonprofit small business advocacy group Triad Local First as among the most helpful influences on his business. Through them, he made contacts that secured him consignment deals with local vendors. His work is now carried by All Pets Considered, Hudson’s Hill, Dolce Dimora, and Irving Park Art & Frame.

The holidays also brought Hier a gift in the form of a celebrity client. Vivian Howard, chef, and Peabody Award winning co-creator of the PBS show A Chef’s Life, was signing copies of her new book at Scuppernong Books when Hier happened by. He was carrying samples of his work around downtown to drum up business from local bar and restaurant owners when he spotted the Chef’s Life food truck across the street.

“My wife loves Vivian Howard. She watches her show all the time and if she’s

watching, I’m watching,” said Hier.

As it turned out, the truck was only serving people who had pre-registered for the packed book signing. Disappointed, Hier snapped a photo to send his wife, and went on his way.

“An hour later, I’m talking to someone in one of the other bars and my phone goes off,” said Hier. “It’s my wife, saying she would really love a signed copy of the book!”

Hier rushed back to Scuppernong to find that the crowd was gone, along with all of Howard’s books. But after he explained his situation, a sympathetic manager let him purchase the display copy.

When Hier brought the book to Howard for one last signature, he was still carrying an armload of wood work samples. His unusual gear sparked a conversation with Howard, who was looking for a local crafter to make gift boxes to ship products from her online store. Hier has built Howard’s shipping products ever since.

Howard’s fans might be more interested in their delivery of savory sauces than the packaging, but the Red Dog Wood Works logo is still featured on every box sent out. Hier says the exposure has already led to a bump in sales, as well as more commissions from Howard for items like a cookbook holder and a hostess stand for her Kinston restaurants.

Like the products it creates, Red Dog Wood Works isn’t flawless. But that makes it all the more interesting. Hier plans to expand in the coming year, and he’s glad to be in an area that encourages that growth.

“There’s a lot of support for do-it-yourself work and entrepreneurs in Greensboro,” Hier said. “That’s the great thing.” !

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MERIDIAN RESTAURANT

411 South Marshall Street, Winston-Salem If there’s one restaurant that deserves tons of praise and not to be missed in Winston-Salem, it’s Meridian. Chef Mark Grohman is cooking up wonderful Northern Mediterranean dishes while endeavoring to keep it fresh, organic and local. Sausage? Well, he’ll do that himself.

Pasta? All him. And I don’t know anyone who can make pasta out of pig intestines, but Grohman can. One of my favorite items on the ever changing menu is Elk. If you can get it, you definitely should.

Other than elk, Meridian might be one of my favorite places for steak in the Triad.

And the cocktails at Meridian are superb.

Coming soon, Meridian’s Fourth Annual Collaborative Offal Dinner, where the

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BISTRO B adventurous foodie can enjoy all the parts of the animal in fun and approachable ways. If you do not fear the liver of a duck, tongue of beef, pork belly and pig’s feet, this dinner is for you! Heck, if you fear it, try it, and you’ll have a whole new appreciation for the term ‘waste not, want not’.

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126 South Main Street, Kernersville Located in the heart of the Triad, Kernersville is bustling with a charming downtown. In the shops on the square on Main Street, you’ll find one of my favorite restaurants….Ev. Ah. The deliciousness that comes from Bistro B launched my blog and continues to be a go-to spot. Owner and chef Tim Bocholis has expanded his restaurant to at least twice its size. The menu, featuring many Spanish and Greek dishes, celebrating his ancestry and travels, is quite expansive.

FULL KEE It can be a bit overwhelming. Just take it item by item and have your server offer up suggestions. Ours? Beef Carpaccio (the best I’ve ever had). Lamb Empanadas.

White Salad (featuring romaine, hearts of palm, bacon-wrapped dates and marcona almonds), and any one of Chef B’s P.E.I. Mussels. There’s always a great wine feature that accompanies an impressive wine list. Please note: On busy nights, it’s often the chef doing the cooking with very limited kitchen staff. This may result in a longer than intended ticket time on cooked items. Do as the Europeans do.

Enjoy your date, your friends, your family, the music, the ambiance and don’t get in a rush. The quality of food is worth the wait.

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221 North Main Street, Kernersville While you’re in KVegas…head up Main

Street and stop at the new speakeasy located above Eclection, a boutique that showcases area artisans. As my husband said, “Kernersville’s growin’ up!” Membership is five dollars for a year. Lots of loungey seating is available with chic and industrial elements, tables, a menu of small plates and delicious drinks by popular mixologist, John Vavryshko IV. It’s communal and laid back and we’ll definitely be back. Visit soon and you still may be able to enjoy downtown’s Christmas Blinkies even.

FULL KEE GOURMET CHINESE RESTAURANT

3793 Samet Drive, High Point The best Chinese in the Triad. Hands down. Full Kee is the place where we discovered our children like Asian food. No, they love Asian food. We don’t get there often enough and we and you should

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GIA, DRINK, EAT, LISTEN change that. Full Kee is beautiful inside and the food is just incredible. Perfect spring rolls, flavorful friend rice and colorful dishes prepared by Owner George Yu, who was practically famous in Washington, D.C. before he and his family moved to High Point with designs on bringing authentic Chinese to his new home. They do take-out too. But it’s just so pretty inside that you may decide to dine in.

GIA, DRINK, EAT, LISTEN

1941 New Garden Road, Greensboro Arguably one of the sexiest restaurants in town, Gia has a fun and open atmosphere with cool seating, large windows, great lighting, live music and a lively bar. It is awesome with friends and even better

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BISTRO B for a date night. The menu is relatively small, with a weekly chef’s menu and a staple menu where the favorites reside.

The food is mostly tapas style and we especially love the meat and cheese boards and the flat breads. You may enjoy sitting near the kitchen with a bird’s eye view of the culinary happenings. My hubby and I like to mix it up. High seating in the dining space or bar seating to chat it up with the talented mixologists. When we’re with friends we love to sit alongside the windows facing New Garden Road to enjoy the casual camaraderie with cocktails. The food is mostly tapas style and we especially love the meat and cheese boards and the flat breads.

KITCHEN ROSELLI

105 Main Street, East Bend The gnocchi. The gnocchi. Go to Kitchen Roselli and order the gnocchi. They are pillowy soft, the size of an old silver dollar.

They are so fluffy and light that you worry the delicate tomato sauce might destroy them. But they hold up well. These gnocchi will make you happy to be alive.

And if you aren’t already thrilled enough when your supper is complete, you will be even more ecstatic to have Laura’s Cream Puff. You will be glad you ordered it upon sitting because they have limited supply and you will not want to miss out on this beautiful creme filled pastry with rich dark chocolate ganache covering it.

We highly recommend that at least one

person orders the gnocchi and another get whatever David Roselli’s special is or possibly the chicken or veal parmigiana.

We’ve never had a bad meal here. The service is terrific. The ambiance is old school Italian restaurant with old-fashioned tablecloths and decorative lighting. New next door, the OtherSide, which offers Thursday-Saturday day & night vintage shopping, coffee, craft cocktails, wine, beer, a small bites and burger menu and a TV for sports. You can eat-in, drive-thru or take advantage of curb pick-up. The OtherSide is available for parties and gettogethers too. !

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A: If you don’t count the weekend party bartending stints in college, in 2012, Andrew Deming and I decided it was time to open a brewery in Asheboro. Working the taproom is one of the jobs I get to do as owner of Four Saints Brewing Company.

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) For the next month much of your attention will be on “others” in your life. Partnerships of any type are generally favored by this arrangement, because you will be searching for the “fair” solution in any dilemma. It is a good time to seek consultation from professionals if you need it.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is a good time to communicate with your partner. It is very important that you set the Critic aside and engage in a conversation about feelings, even if you think it is about things. For example, if this person did not do something that was expected, avoid the blame game. Ask what was happening on the interior that kept him/her from completing the plan.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your work and daily routine are given a boost at this time. You are more able to fend off the Inner Critic who is always lurking behind you. It lies, by the way.

Co-workers are amiable and cooperative.

If you have a fluctuating income, it will improve this week.

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[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Give special attention to the lead paragraph this week. It appears that your struggle may be financial at this time.

Make the effort to look, but if you don’t see a resource on your radar screen right now, give it a break until the last few days of the month. Life becomes a little easier at that time.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) It may be hard to move forward this week, due to challenges concerning property, equipment, health, or family issues. Your reflexes and normal muscle control are out of sync right now, so use special caution and listen to your body. If it says “don’t,” then pay attention and stop immediately. Take a deep breath and then concentrate on what you are doing.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) At this time you may become aware of how your self-talk interferes with your forward motion. Give careful attention to the lead paragraph. The challenger is your Inner Critic. This is not a good time to accomplish a major task or to go after what you want. Rest on it for another couple of weeks.

making it unclear if he is telling the truth.

Check out the sources and ask other people who may know something about the situation. Don’t accept anything of importance at face value.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) This is not a time to challenge the powers that be. They are bigger than you right now. Later it may not be important, anyway, because you are on your way out.

Give careful attention to your car and also to any machinery you may be handling.

Equipment breakdowns are possible. Your reflexes are off. Use caution in the world of the physical during this period.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Mars, your ruling planet, is in a tiff with Saturn.

This is much like pushing the accelerator to the floor while the other foot is on the break. It is a challenge to make anything happen. Your reflexes may be affected by the stress. Use care with your body and also with mechanical equipment.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Activities that involve higher education, publishing, travel and/or legal interests are favored. People at a distance will be helpful. This may be via conference calling or the Internet. Relationships in general are smoother. This is a good time to enjoy your friendships and be social.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You may need to concentrate in order to avoid critics, whether they are internal or external.

Instead of blame, use the discipline to tackle a project that requires concentration. Avoid contracts and business negotiations right now because misunderstandings may develop.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Although you may wish it, this is not the best of times to communicate with your partner. There is interference due to circumstances or someone’s intractable frame of mind. Save your piece for a better time later. You’ll know when to initiate the subject.

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WOOD I LIE TO YOU?

My girlfriend found a certain little blue pill in my jeans pocket, and her feelings were hurt. I explained that I’m as into her as ever; I just need a little extra help because I’m getting older. However, she’s taking this personally. How do I reassure her? — Rhymes With Niagara

Amy Alkon

Advice Goddess

Back in seventh grade, erections were easy to get — especially when you were standing in front of the class giving your oral report on Harriet Tubman.

A penis is generally at its peppiest when a man’s in his teens and 20s (before genes and/or years of bad living narrow the arteries from superhighways to single-file footpaths). That’s because erections are blood flow-powered — ultimately, anyway. They start in the brain in response to a thought or something from the environment — like being touched or seeing the hot neighbor bending over in yoga pants.

Nitric oxide gets released and starts a chemical reaction that relaxes smooth muscle in the penis, allowing blood vessels to dilate: “Open up! Party time!” Then, sex researcher Dr. Robert Kolodny explains, “an increased amount of blood flows into the penis, where it is trapped in three spongy cylinders that run the length of the organ. The resulting fluid pressure is what causes the penis to increase in size ... and to become rigid.”

There’s an elastic fibrous membrane — the tunica albuginea — that keeps the blood in the penis. And this thing being leaky — kind of like a submarine hatch with a bad seal — is just one of the things (along with narrowed arteries, anxiety, smoking, and diabetes, among others) that can cause a penis to stay floppy or get wilty.

Using a pharmaceutical erection helper is basically like calling in a plumber when the shower pressure isn’t what it used to be. It doesn’t make a man the least bit more attracted to a woman or more into sex than he’d otherwise be. It just relaxes the smooth muscle and increases blood flow, making the, um, cadet more likely to report for duty.

Explain all of this to your girlfriend. Then tell her how beautiful and sexy you find her, and tell her again. And keep telling her — with regularity. Men don’t quite understand how much this means to a woman. When a woman believes her man finds her attractive, it helps her feel loved and secure. That reassurance — combined with being clued in on the mechanics of the manpart — should help your girlfriend understand that there’s no reason to take your pill popping personally. The pipes just need a little help; it isn’t the penis version of “Groundhog Day” — with the little feller peeking out, deciding the landscape is hopeless, and going back into hiding.

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— even if, at 77, everything on you is stiff but the one part you’d like to be.

That’s what you need to convey. But don’t sit there in the bright lights of the diner and be all, “Let’s talk about my penis...” Wait till there’s a makeout moment, and after you kiss a bit, pause the action. In telling her, consider that you set the tone for whether your situation is some shameful thing or “just one of those things.”

Humor tends to express the latter pretty well — like “I have a pet name for my penis.

It’s Rip Van Winkle, because he’s been out cold since the Bush administration.” !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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times hard to make out the words on those ginormous highway signs unless I let my Leader Dog take the wheel.

Lucky for me, nobody snickers that I’m less of a woman because I have less-thanperfect eyesight. And it’s pretty stupid that we attach that baggage to the aging penis.

We don’t expect a 1939 Studebaker to drive like a 2016 BMW. (And hey...where’s the backup camera on this thing?!)

To say you aren’t alone is something of an understatement. In reviewing survey data from men 75 or older, UCLA urology professor Christopher Saigal found that 77.5 percent reported experiencing some degree of erectile dysfunction — the inability to “get and keep an erection adequate for satisfactory intercourse.” And 47.5 percent have a complete inability to achieve liftoff. (P.S. This isn’t exactly a secret to women who date 70-something men.)

Unfortunately, the reality for aging penises goes poorly with the ridiculous belief many people have that intercourse is the only “real” sex. However, sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein observes that ultimately, “what most people say they want from sex is some combination of pleasure and closeness.” You can give that to a woman

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