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22 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT & ‘AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLING’ “TONIGHT’S UNUSUAL; nobody’s called me the C-word yet,” said Ciara Kelley, who took the noirish black and white photo on this issue’s cover. Thirty minutes later, I observed her being called that four-letter epithet seven times in rapid succession by a man who stuck out his tongue, smacked his lips and thrust his hips at her on the corner of Elm and Lewis in downtown Greensboro.

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The first time I walked by TACO MAMA, the new taco bar located at 2168 Lawndale Dr. in Greensboro, the line was out the door. It spilled onto the sidewalk and into the parking lot as people passed menus down the line.

10 In the Dominican Republic, breakfast fills you up until nightfall and lunch holds you till the next breakfast. A staple of both is Los Tres Golpes... Several families were feasting on that when I entered LA PALMA CARIBBEAN FOOD AND CATERING ...

11 In the film version of THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, adapted from Dawidoff ’s book by screenwriter Robert Rodat, Paul Rudd deftly balances his rakish screen persona with more dramatic shadings in the pivotal role of Berg, who utilized some of the strategies learned in baseball to contribute to the war effort.

12 ROZALIND MACPHAIL will be passing through several cities in North Carolina this month, performing live soundtrack music for a number of short films as a part of her “From the River to the Ocean” project...

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19 Disney is known for making countless magic moments through film, music and animation. The Community Theatre of Greensboro did well to continue the Disney spirit with its production of “THE LITTLE MERMAID.” 25 Last year TRUDY WADE went on a crusade to extract her pound of flesh from the Greensboro News & Record, High Point Enterprise, Jamestown News and Carolina Peacemaker, by introducing legislation that would allow Guilford County to publish legal notices on its own website, rather than having to do so in actual newspapers.

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FRI 22 DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID WHAT: This fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including Under the Sea, Kiss the Girl and Part of Your World. Ariel, King Triton’s youngest mermaid daughter, wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above, bargaining with the evil sea witch, Ursula, to trade her tail for legs. But the bargain is not what it seems. This G-rated show is sure to be a family favorite at the Carolina Theatre!

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[SPOTLIGHT] AB HILL

BY KATIE MURAWSKI Asheboro-based vocalist AB Hill just released her debut EP called Pieces last month. She said that she named the EP Pieces because each song represents a “piece” of her life and the artist she has evolved into. The contemporary rhythm and blues vocalist Aimee Brooke Hamrick started out as a country music singer but followed her blues roots into the genre of R&B. Her “eclectic set of influences” ranges from Patsy Cline, JoJo, Banks and Grammy-nominated Ari Hest, whom she most recently shared the stage with. But it wasn’t her first time in the limelight.

Hamrick wrote in an email that when she was 11 years old, she was a finalist in the “Apollo Kids” segment on Showtime at the Apollo. “[Pieces] is my very first EP,” said the 30-year-old vocalist in an interview at the beginning of June. “I recorded a lot when I was younger, but never released anything.

So this is pretty big, pretty special to me.”

Pieces consist of five of her original songs, including the single “Relationship Goals,” which was co-written and produced by Hamrick’s fiance Maurice Hill (aka UrBoyReese).

“It’s just kind of little pieces of me,” she said about the theme of the EP. “A lot of the songs on there, you know, obviously I wrote them, but they have to do

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or touch on little pieces of my life. I even have my kids on one of the songs, they are featured on last song, “Dream Chaser.”

So, I just thought with it being my very first project that I am going to release, you know I really want to show the versatile side that I have.”

Hamrick said her favorite song on the EP is “MerryGo Round.”

“It is a deeper song and I am just really proud of it,” she said. “From beginning to end I was just really proud of my writing on that one. Writing is not a very easy thing for people to do and that was another thing with this. Putting my music out there for the world to hear is nerveracking because you don’t know how they are going to take it.”

As for AB Hill’s future projects, she said she plans on doing more concept EPs or albums. For the time being, she is working on new material as well as starting to perform at various venues around the Triad. Coming up, AB Hill will be performing at Shiners in Greensboro (435 Dolley Madison Rd. Ste. M) on July 7 for the free concert and food drive Music for Meals 5.

Pieces is available on all the major music streaming platforms and physical copies are for sale on AB Hill’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter pages (@abhillmusic). !

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by Taco Mama, the new taco bar located at 2168 Lawndale Dr. in Greensboro, the line was out the door. It Jennifer Zeleski spilled onto the sidewalk and into the parking lot as people Contributor passed menus down the line. It wasn’t Taco Tuesday, which should be celebrated accordingly, it was a Saturday night when any normal resident of Greensboro would have expected the crowd to have been surrounding Hops Burger Bar. That’s when I knew Taco Mama was making a name for itself.

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long before the North Carolina summer weather came back around.

But hot summer weather is the perfect time for tacos, and celebrating after a long Monday of sunny, 98-degree weather seemed like just the right time to try out Taco Mama and all it had to offer.

The interior style in the new restaurant is eccentric yet still classy. Filled with old-school artwork, accompanied by large-scale paintings and an extensive, colorful menu, there’s even an old bicycle, wrapped in decorative lights hanging from the wall. The Edison light bulbs draped from the exposed-wooden ceiling creates its hipster vibe.

I was guided toward the register to place my order but was too overwhelmed by all of the options to make a choice in a timely manner. This wasn’t like ordering at the Mexican grocery store when you can just ask for your tacos “all the way.”

This needed to be strategically planned.

Peyton, my boyfriend, and I have had our fair share of tacos, and this wasn’t our first rodeo, but we still took our time picking exactly what we thought were unique

to this location, that we likely couldn’t find elsewhere.

With so many options, how could one go wrong with anything on the menu?

Luckily, it is divided into build-yourown, for the picky eater and the baskets, which are unique creations already tailored with enticing flavor and ingredient combinations. The build-your-own offers the option of two tacos, a burrito, a burrito bowl, quesadilla or nachos. All of which get a choice of meat, anything from chicken to sushi-grade Ahi tuna, and as many free toppings as you can list.

There were so many options, I knew I was going to have to refrain from getting every free topping. Cilantro lime rice, pico de gallo, Sriracha slaw and red chile butter sauce were among the choices.

And before you ask, yes, even guacamole as a topping is free. But instead of going the more custom route, I felt a little more adventurous and decided to choose two mix-and-match tacos from the preplanned taco choices.

Under pressure of hunger and feeling like living on the edge, I settled on ‘The Mayor,’ which featured marinated chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, creamy cilantro pesto and queso fresco. OK, so that was my safe choice. The more adventurous was the “Alabama Redneck,” which was filled with roasted pulled pork, ancho chile slaw, pickles, and Mama’s chipotle barbecue sauce. Peyton, who always takes his adventurous palette a step further, decided on “The Sizzler,” filled with grilled steak tenderloin, grilled onions,

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avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, red chile butter sauce and queso fresco. He also chose the “Justice is Served,” which came with flounder (he chose fried), ancho chile slaw, avocado, tomatoes and roasted poblano tartar.

On top of our two tacos each, the baskets came with chips and salsa, and the choice of one side. Peyton ordered the guacamole after seeing the written claims of “best guacamole” on the wall, and I knew I couldn’t give up the opportunity to try the Mexican mac and cheese.

Also tempted by the colorful chalkboard devoted solely to margaritas, a frozen pomegranate margarita ended up in the midst of the order, with (hopefully) extra salt.

We hardly got to reconsider what was on our tacos by the time our order made it to the table, and we were overwhelmed in

an instant by the sheer amount of food.

All four tacos were of decent size with grilled flour tortillas and stuffed with ingredients. Both trays were also filled with freshly made chips, a cup of salsa and both of our chosen sides. The 16-ounce margarita came with a freshly-sliced lime wedge and a deep magenta color.

I decided on digging into the “Alabama Redneck” first. I never imagined eating a taco with the word “redneck” in the name. Within the first bite, I could tell the barbecue was tender and would give North Carolina barbecue a run for its money. The ancho chile slaw was not spicy but gave the taco a good crunch, and the barbecue sauce didn’t have the overwhelming, smoky flavor that many others do.

As an avid pickle hater, I was shocked that I didn’t mind its presence, and found

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that the vinegar added another layer of flavor that was refreshing rather than overwhelming.

After learning Southern tradition over the years, I knew I had to pair the barbecue taco with the mac and cheese, and I wasn’t disappointed. I could easily tell it was baked, judging by the mix of creamy and chewy cheese throughout, and it reminded me of picnics with Mom’s mac and cheese, taking extra and stealing the crunchy top layer when others weren’t looking. I’m still guilty of that, but this mac and cheese side was all mine, and it was delicious.

The second taco, “The Mayor,” was a little more typical, and after having the “Alabama Redneck,” it was hard to live up to the initial expectations. But the chicken was shredded and tender, and it is exactly what someone would want as an unas-

suming chicken taco. Still a solid choice, but not my favorite.

Peyton started with the “Justice is Served,” which he described as delicious, crisp and well-seasoned. The fish taste was mild, not overwhelming, and he found that none of the flavors on the taco were offensive, but all created a great combination. Despite the flavors, nothing could keep him from trying what he referred to as an array of “expensive and authentic” hot sauces, all of which vary in spice and flavor. His second, “The Sizzler” had tender steak, and he noted that the grilled onions cooked with it made him reminiscent of a Philly cheesesteak. Needless to say, he couldn’t choose a favorite.

The chips were too good not to mention.

Light and crispy with just a sprinkle of salt, but delicate. The chips paired well with the mild salsa and Peyton’s guacamole. We made it a point to have some throughout bites of our tacos, but we filled up pretty quickly and the guacamole lacked the tomatoes and jalapeños we were looking for.

Sipping the margarita made me forget about the heat of summer, and it had an addicting flavor. The pomegranate was sweet and complex, and the triple sec and tequila weren’t noticeable. Although it is important to note that one margarita was $9, the same price as a meal, it was very filling. I crossed my fingers that maybe they’ll offer half-sizes one day, but until then, Taco Tuesdays can be celebrated with half-off their “mi casa” and skinny margaritas.

The experience was so pleasant, I can hardly wait to go back to try a customized burrito bowl and a watermelon margarita.

At $30 for two, we left feeling full, satisfied and eager to return.

For now, I’ll take some of Taco Mama’s advice: Take a pitcher, it will last longer. !

JENN ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly.

She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.

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La Palma dominates your taste buds with Dominican goodness In the Dominican Republic, breakfast fills you up until nightfall and lunch holds you till the next breakfast. A staple of both is Los Tres Golpes (the three strikes); fried salami, fried egg, and fried Ian McDowell cheese served with boiled plantains and pickled onions.

Contributor Several families were feasting on that when I entered La Palma Caribbean Food and Catering at 4623 W. Gate City Boulevard around noon last Friday.

I’d come to the delightful family-run fonda (small informal restaurant) at Sedgefield Crossing Shopping Center for the $5.99 lasagna that several Yelp reviews called the best cheap meal in Greensboro. It may well be; the carry-out of this Caribbean variant on an Italian staple was wonderful when I ate it a day later, but my first meal was the bacalao.

I chose the Friday lunch special out of curiosity. The smiling woman who rang me up, Albiana Johnson, explained it was made with salt cod, something I’ve never been able to make taste as good as this proved to be.

Part of the secret is preparing the preserved fish, said Aaron Ali Mustafa, who sat down with me after I asked to speak to the chef. “You have to soak it and soak it, draining the water every 20 minutes.” Then comes the simmering. “In my country, you see a lot of bacalao, with a lot of different kinds of fish,” explained his mother Biana Guerrero, the restaurant’s owner. “We cook

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it with garlic, onions, vinegar, salsa and potatoes.”

It was neither salty nor soggy, but so delicately delicious the salt cod tasted fresh.

La Palma is a family affair, with Johnson running the front of the house and Mustafa and their mother working the small kitchen directly behind the counter, where Guerrero’s husband Alberto Mustafa serving as a prep cook (in the Dominican Republic, as in much of Hispanic America, a married woman often retains her family name).

I asked Guerrero and her son the secret of the lasagna I’d read raves about. “It’s a family recipe,” he said. “My mom’s sister, she made lasagna one Christmas, and everybody just thought it was so good.”

Guerrero laughed and nodded. “She make it with no cheese!”

Aaron Mustafa continued: “Mama said to her sister, how do you not put cheese in it, and my aunt showed her the recipe; it was with heavy cream, and our family seasonings, but achieved a cheese-like consistency.” The recipe uses no tomatoes or salsa, “just ground beef or shredded chicken and our seasonings and that cream sauce.” He explained that they do top it with cheese at the end of the cooking process, but it’s not mixed into the sauce. “My family loved it, and our friends and neighbors all said it was good enough to sell, so we did.”

I asked him what else newcomers to

From left: Alberto Mustafa, Albiana Johnson, Biana Guerrero and Aaron Mustafa Dominican cuisine should try.

“Definitely the chimi,” he said. This is a sandwich of ground beef topped with cabbage and sautéed onions. “You can find it anywhere on every street corner in the Dominican Republic.” His mother nodded enthusiastically. “It’s like hamburgers there!”

Aaron Mustafa also recommended the side dish mangú, “boiled plantains which we smash with butter and garlic, with pickled onions on top.” And the mofongo, “which is plantains mashed up with whatever protein you want, and mofongo sauce over it.” His mother reminded him not to forget the La Palma sandwich, served between two fried plantains rather than bread. And the pastelitos, which are pastries like empanadas, filled with ground beef, chicken or cheese.

Guerrero was born in La Romana on the Dominican Republic’s Caribbean coast.

In 1990, she and her husband moved to

Providence, Rhode Island, where they lived for 13 years. But the family had gotten tired of Rhode Island winters, and eventually moved to Greensboro as part of what Aaron Mustafa called “the Spanish wave that blossomed after 2008.”

In 2014, he finished culinary school at Johnson & Wales University (his diploma is proudly displayed on the wall). “I talking about a restaurant with my mom, just coming up with a bunch of ideas.” He said they were influenced by other Dominican restaurants in New York and Rhode Island.

“We came up here wanting to do it that style. Come in, there’s always food cooking at the front counter that you can have right away, but a menu, too, if you have time to sit down.” He stressed the freshness of the ingredients. “We don’t have anything in the cooler that was bought last week.” !

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n a Major League career that spanned 15 years, Morris “Moe” Berg (1902-’70) was a competent, if unremarkable baseball player. Yet Berg’s story didn’t really begin until after he left the game when he became an operative for the Office of Secret Services during World War II – a fascinating transition recounted in Nicholas Dawidoff ’s 1994 Mark Burger best-seller “The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg.”

In the film version of The Catcher Contributing Was a Spy ( ), adapted from columnist Dawidoff ’s book by screenwriter Robert Rodat, Paul Rudd deftly balances his rakish screen persona with more dramatic shadings in the pivotal role of Berg, who utilized some of the strategies learned in baseball to contribute to the war effort.

An assiduous, even obsessive, reader and researcher, Berg spoke several languages and devoted as much time to outside pursuits, whatever they would be, as playing baseball. When war breaks out, he personally offers his services to Bill “Wild Bill” Donovan (Jeff Daniels), the head of the OSS, culminating in a perilous assignment to assassinate German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong), who may or may not be colluding with the Nazis.

Called “an unusual man” to his face by Donovan, Berg smiles enigmatically (a Rudd specialty under these circumstances) and doesn’t argue. Nor does the story dispute this observation. Being Jewish, he always felt like an outsider – whether on or off the playing field – and Rodat’s screenplay hints at other secrets in Berg’s carefully organized, and very carefully concealed life.

He has a long-suffering girlfriend in Estella (Sienna Miller), to whom he professes his love and devotion, but she is rapidly (and understandably) wearying of his unexplained – and always solitary – trips abroad. It’s a thankless character in many ways, but Estella’s presence provides some respite from the cloak-and-dagger elements of the plot, as well as providing Berg with a love interest and a possible source of romantic salvation.

The Catcher Was a Spy is an engrossing and entertaining yarn, revisiting a World War II setting for the first time since Saving Private Ryan 20 years ago and directed by Ben Lewin, whose bestknown feature was the acclaimed, and very different, comedy/ drama The Sessions (2011).

The period detail is well captured in the production design by Luciana Arrighi and the cinematography by Andrij Parekh, which occasionally – and undoubtedly intentionally -- echoes the noirish ambiance of The Third Man (1948), much as Howard Shore’s moody score occasionally echoes Bernard Herrmann. If you’re going to borrow, borrow from the best.

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in this movie works on its own terms and within its limited narrative focus.

The supporting roles are given heft by the caliber of actors playing them, even in smaller roles: Paul Giamatti, Guy Pearce, Tom Wilkinson, Giancarlo Giannini, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shea Whigham and Connie Nielsen. Daniels brings brisk authority to the no-nonsense Donovan, and Strong makes the most of limited onscreen time as Heisenberg, a character perhaps as complex as Berg’s. The scenes they share crackle with an unspoken yet likeminded tension. !

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lutist and filmmaker Rozalind MacPhail has led a nomadic life. She’s lived, among other places, on both the Eastern and Western edges of Canada in St. John Adamian John’s, Newfound@johnradamian land, Victoria, British Columbia. Over the years, she’s fallen in Contributor love with a handful of other places she’s lived and traveled to. As a film scorer, she’s been able to translate that deep feeling for a place into music, playing flute-based scores that are both melodic and rhythmic, using looping technology to set up drones, patterns and harmonies.

MacPhail has also deepened her connection with North Carolina in recent years, having come to the beaches in the Carolinas when she was a kid, she returned to Wilmington a few years ago to take part in an artists’ residency affiliated with the Cucalorus Film Festival there.

MacPhail will be passing through several cities in North Carolina this month, performing live soundtrack music for a number of short films as a part of her “From the River to the Ocean” project, which got local and visiting filmmakers at Cucalorus to contribute short films

inspired by their own connections to Wilmington. She’ll be at Monstercade in Winston-Salem on June 21, and at The Code Gallery in Greensboro on June 23.

The films range from the experimental to the straight-forward. North Carolinabased filmmakers Matt Malloy (an emcee at the festival), Mariah Dunn Kramer (a film studies professor at the University of

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North Carolina Wilmington), Josh Caine (a video artist and music producer) and Matt Gossett (a video artist) all brought different perspectives to the project. So, too, did international contributors Mandi Edwards (from England), Shona Thomson (from Scotland) and MacPhail herself.

Thomson used archival footage shot in Wilmington in the 1940s, film originally intended to promote the city. Gossett shot his own VHS footage around Wilmington and then manipulated the material using analog effects, creating a glitchy, rhythmic abstraction. Dunn Kramer made a documentary about the local effort to prolong state-issued tax incentives for the film industry as a means of spurring the economy there. The films are markedly different, but beyond the thematic link to Wilmington, there’s the unifying feature of MacPhail’s music in each of them.

“The films are being projected while I perform the music live,” said MacPhail of the show she’s bringing to the area. “I’m live film scoring.”

To do that, she uses flute, a bed of electronics, field recordings, voice, prerecorded guitar and an omnichord, which is a sort of electric autoharp. The looping technology dramatically alters the role that the flute can play, and MacPhail makes the most of that freedom by pushing the instrument into different places.

“That layering of sound is so mesmerizing,” MacPhail said. “But texture, color and groove is everything.”

The bursts of breath required to play the flute can sound both like singing and like percussive blasts, and when those airy and sometimes shrill accents get turned into repetitive patterns through looping, the result can even take on the quality of beatboxing.

“I love creating funky, ugly sounds that have to do with grooves on the flute,” MacPhail said.

But, for every challenging bit of texture and every piece of body-moving rhythm, MacPhail also does other work to create deep, soothing flute music. As it happens, some of this meditative music is equally rooted in a sense of place and time, like her soundtrack work. In 2017, MacPhail released a record called Sunset Sunrise, which was created after she woke up before dawn every morning in February and improvised on her flute as the sun rose in St. John’s. Earlier this year, MacPhail

released a record of music made to accompany yoga instruction.

Both of those more atmospheric projects relate to MacPhail’s desire to make music that might, in some small way, serve to heal people.

“I was really really upset about what I was seeing in the world,” said MacPhail, mentioning the 2016 election in the U.S. as one source of concern and one which seemed to stir up a lot of fear in people.

“I thought to myself, ‘There’s got to be something I can do to help make the world a better place.’ I decided that I was going to create some meditation music that people could use to help cope with some stress.”

MacPhail, 43, studied classical flute and spent most of the first part of her career focused in that realm, but in her 30s she decided she wanted to write her own songs. That decision has taken her out of concert halls and allowed her to bring her music to unorthodox venues like screening rooms, rock clubs and galleries. While a resonant and venerable theater space has its charms for a performer, MacPhail finds any live-music experience to be rewarding.

“I just love inspiring people. To me, any venue is a place where that can happen,” she said.

“Concert halls are great, but there’s some magic that sometimes happens in the bars as well. It’s just neat to take people on a journey.”

MacPhail is making art that draws attention to how we document our own experience. Her performances highlight the meaning behind recording and archiving.

Sharing the work with an audience seems like a logical culmination.

“It’s very contemplative,” MacPhail said, “and they reflect a lot on their own lives and how they’re capturing their own memories.” !

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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Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk crosses the great divide Music in the Triad can be a many splintered thing.

Sonically speaking, the space between the Triad’s two major cities feels far-wider than the 30 or so miles that make up the geographic realKatei Cranford ity. Winston bands often pocket around Contributing Winston. Greensboro bands pocket columnist around Greensboro.

Occasionally, more often these days, they’ll cross paths for a truly Triad bill.

A case in point can be found in WinstonSalem experimental rock band, Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk. They’re hitting the road this week to support their new album, with a closing show that crosses the “great Triad divide“ on Sunday at OPOTW Studios in Greensboro.

At its core, according to their Facebook, “DPTM is the creative outlet for singersongwriter Jacob Leonard.” These days, the lineup has grown to include Dane Walters on drums with Caleb Gardner and Jared Draughon on guitar and bass.

The upcoming OPOTW show isn’t the first instance of Triad mingling. For their album release show, DPTM recently hosted Greensboro’s most melodic noiseboys, The Bronzed Chorus.

Flash to a few weeks later, the album, Insides, is out in the world and DPTM is outward bound and have tapped Virginia’s Sunndrug as tourmates for a handful of shows around North Carolina and Virginia. It all starts Thursday night at the Milestone in Charlotte.

“I would have to say that for me, a lot of local acts inspire me to continue being a musician. Like 1970s Film Stock, we know he’s married and then we see him put on a badass rock show,” Gardner told The Arrival Magazine.

1970s Film Stock is the solo-project from Winston-Salem pedal-fuzzer, Eddie Garcia, who himself recently crossed the Triad divide for a show at OPOTW, and interviewed DPTM about their latest release for WFDD. In the interview, Leonard touches on the evolution from solo endeavors how the band blossomed soundscapes that otherwise may have gone unexplored.

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songs, to make it upfront and clear. So I did. And I think it’s really working out for the best.”

Their latest release is a reflection of their solidified formation. As Leonard said in an interview with The Arrival Magazine, “It was time for us to release a record that represents us as a band. We had a twopiece record before that. So we needed something representative as to what we are [now].”

For Leonard, the new record is “about inspiring one another. That’s what we do for each other. And it’s, even more, to say that when we see a local band at a bar, it’s our goal to inspire them to go further.

And hopefully, they do the same to us.”

While promoting an album is a practical aspect of touring, there is something especially inspirational in hitting the road with band buds to create and share experiences with entirely new audiences.

Regarding the upcoming run, Sunndrug’s Chris Raines said: “We’re very excited to be back on the road with our friends in DPTM.” Beyond personal connections, both bands align thematically over heavy tones and issues surrounding self-reflection.

It’s been a few years since DPTM last played Greensboro, they’ve run the small gamut of what was then the dominant independent show-spaces: New York Pizza and Hellraiser Haus. For the upcoming show, they’ll sample Greensboro’s newest outlet for underground music: OPOTW Studios, a solid DIY event space in the Glenwood neighborhood.

Representing the Greensboro element will be Hulk Homeless, the self-proclaimed “Jesus of the Wild.” Homeless is the alter-ego of Matt Goshow, who blends a variety of genres into a wild hip-hop set.

Each city in the Triad holds its own blend of talent. We’re best when we mix,

especially looking toward the future of music communities.

“In all seriousness, we always look to the future people,” Leonard told The Arrival Magazine. “We try to keep a progressive mindset and image in order to be good inspiration and role models for the future musicians and future people of our planet.”

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present on Sunday with DPTM, Sunndrug, and Hulk Homeless at OPOTW Studios located at 1333 Grove St. in Greensboro. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a GSO rock-n-roller and allaround Triad music nerd. She chats up tunes and towns as hostess of Mostly Local Monday, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week. You can catch her on WUAG 103.1FM every Monday from 5-7pm or via live stream at www.wuag.net.

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he vigorous embrace of mediocrity above all else grips a 21st-century America that has become too lazy to think for itself (as witnessed by the ascendancy of FOX News and reality T.V.), and writerdirector Brad Bird smartly worked this national tragedy into an animated superhero tale that was, well, pretty incredible.

Released in 2004, the Pixar gem The Incredibles focused on a family of superheroes whose members consisted of dad Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), mom Helen/Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), daughter Violet (Sarah Vowell), son Dash (Spencer Fox), and baby JackJack.

The Parrs were presented as the modern American family that was expected to conform to the societal status quo (i.e., blend with the bland) rather than champion its own uniqueness. The domestic conflicts triggered by the clan’s suburban ennui gave way to an acceptance of each person’s individuality and, consequently, an ability to pool their resources as both crime fighters and family members.

That’s pretty heady material for what’s ostensibly a kid flick, but, as Pixar has proven time and again, the company’s greatest works provide relevance and resonance for adults as well. Yet when it comes to the sequels, only the Toy Story follow-ups offer comparable gravitas.

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that still provided the entertainment value but eased the brakes on anything more substantial. Surprisingly, that’s the case with Incredibles 2 ( ) as well. In this outing, arriving a full 14 years after the Oscar-winning original, superheroes are still outlawed and not allowed to engage in feats of derring-do.

The philanthropic Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) hopes to change that, and he and his sister Evelyn (Catherine Keener) elect to showcase Elastigirl performing amazing deeds in an effort to sway the public into again supporting superheroes.

(Hunter returns to handle vocal duties, as do all of the primary players except Fox, who’s been replaced by Huck Milner as the voice of Dash.)

While Helen is running around the world performing good deeds, a grouchy and exhausted Bob remains at home looking after the kids. It’s only when a villain known as the Screenslaver gets the upper hand on Elastigirl that Bob and the rest of the brood — with assists from Frozone (returning Samuel L. Jackson) and, of course, the invaluable designer Edna Mode (Bird himself) — must get involved in the fray.

Full of energy and imagination (if a tad overlong), Incredibles 2 is a guaranteed good time at the movies and certain to be one of the summer’s biggest hits. But while it frequently feints in the direction of something more meaningful, it usually backs away and merely lathers on more thrills.

That’s not exactly a debit, but anyone

expecting the complexity of its predecessor might be left wanting.

As before, the most satisfying element in the picture is the Parr family itself.

The plot thread involving Jack-Jack and his seemingly infinite number of powers devours too much screen time (plus, what fun is a seemingly invincible superhero?), but the attention accorded to the other four family members is once again lovely, with Bob, Helen, Violet and Dash all retaining their standings among Pixar’s very best characters. Forget that Marvel gang: On screen, they’re the true Fantastic Four.

HAWKEYE WAS noticeably MIA in Avengers: Infinity War, but you can catch his alter ego Jeremy Renner in Tag ( ), a hit-and-miss comedy with, perhaps surprisingly, more hits than misses.

The most startling trivial pursuit regarding this film is that it’s based on a true story, one that was featured in a Wall Street Journal article back in 2013 (“It Takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being ‘It,’” by Russell Adams).

The feature was about 10 men who have spent the last few decades taking one month out of every year (February) to play a game of tag, in which the final person tagged during that month has to be “It” for an entire year until the next cycle.

Naturally, attempting to focus on 10 individuals would turn the film version into, well, basically an Avengers movie, so the decision was made to downsize to five guys and one very enthusiastic wife.

The plot centers around the fact

that one player, the suave Jerry Pierce (Renner), has never once been tagged in all the decades of playing. Thus, the other four gents — game-obsessed Hogie (Ed Helms), corporate smoothie Bob (Jon Hamm), wry Sable (Hannibal Buress) and irresponsible Chilli (Jake Johnson) — have long been determined to nail Jerry. They feel that this is finally the year, as Jerry is getting married and the others — including Hogie’s exuberant wife Anna (Isla Fisher) — believe he might be distracted enough to let down his guard. Fat chance.

Too many comedies these days include a character who’s basically an idiot and allowed to utter supposedly shocking declarations (thanks a lot, Zach Galifianakis) — these guys are never as funny as intended, and that’s again the case here with Johnson’s tiresome Chilli.

Yet, Hamm again demonstrates sly comedy chops, Buress is gifted most of the best lines, and Fisher is always a delightful dervish.

The real story is primarily one of friendship, but in this filmic version, the emphasis is naturally on rude pranks and crude one-liners. That’s perfectly fine — the movie is often very funny when it’s going for the throat — but it does render the sentimental final act soggy and not particularly convincing (and the dire fate of one character is brought up and then abandoned in a haste to a happy ending).

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The Community Theatre of Greensboro conjures Disney magic with ‘The Little Mermaid’

BY OMAR OBREGON-CUEBAS

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isney is known for making countless magic moments through film, music and animation. The Community Theatre of Greensboro did well to continue the Disney spirit with its production of “The Little Mermaid.” Bringing the Hans Christian Andersen classic to life in the historic Carolina Theatre was an experience unlike any other.

“The Little Mermaid” begins with the appearance of the iconic Disney mermaid princess Ariel (portrayed by Cassandra Clare). She sits upon a rock alone on the stage with a set design made to emulate the vastness of the open sea. The musical is about the tribulations that young Ariel goes through to connect with her human love Prince Eric (Brian Ford).

She faces pushback from her society and especially from her human-hating father King Triton (Rod Speight). Through Ariel’s nefarious aunt Ursula (Rachel Phillips Sommers) she becomes human but at the cost of her voice. The classic tale of love, crossing cultural boundaries, magic and understanding is animated through a lively musical performance.

The quality of both stage and vocal performances was at a high level for a community theatre. In particular, the vocal performances of both Ariel and Sebastian (Trevor Neal) were definitely the highlights of the show. Every time Ariel was center stage, there was a strong command of her role and performance. Sebastian, for me, was the standout character of the musical because his costume was enough to woo and capture the audiences’ attention. His singing, dancing and movement as a crab all added to my adoration of this character.

Another outstanding performance was from the antagonist, Ursula. Sommers’

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performance as the evil aunty was met with fervent applause each time she appeared and ended her songs.

The song “Under the Sea” was a marvel of set design, choreography, and, of course, Sebastian’s time to shine. During the runtime of the song, the stage exploded with a kaleidoscopic range of colors and movement. Sebastian led the song with his strongest vocal performance. I was reminded why “Under The Sea” is one of the most classic and iconic Disney songs.

From Ursula’s minions wearing wheels on their shoes and lights on their costumes to the ever-present waves on the stage, the set design was always stunning and innovative. Costume designer Stephanie Evans, choreographer Anne Norman and set designer Michael Vance deserve special mention for the wonderful part they played in this production. Director Mitchel Sommers, who appears as the lively French Chef Louis, deserves praise for directing such a large production at this high of a level. Furthermore, the musical director and conductor Garrett Saake also deserves praise for the performance of the orchestra, which never seemed to skip a beat.

Overall, this production of “The Little Mermaid” is one that rolled back the years for me and made me reminiscent of my childhood. Within the seats of the majestic Carolina Theatre, I once again felt the excitement that a child does when discovering Disney magic. Both my 7-year-old brother and I were left with feelings of awe and satisfaction. I would recommend this show for people of all ages.

If you want to see the show for yourself, tickets for June 22 at 7 p.m., June 23 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and June 24 at 2 p.m. are available for purchase by calling the Carolina Theatre box office (310 S. Greene St.) at (336) 333-2605 or visiting in-person from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. !

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The High Point Arts Council is excited to announce our 2018 summer outdoor oncert series Arts Splash. This year’s series features eight concerts splashed all over town in various locations with different genres to better ensure a greater representation of the arts and to make the arts easily accessible to everyone in our community.

June 24

Betsayda Machado Venezuelan Tambor

July 15

Lakota John & Kin Acoustic Blues

High Point University Amphitheater

High Point City Lake Park

July 8

Dori Freeman Country

Chatham Rabbits Folk/Bluegrass

Oak Hollow Festival Park

July 22

High Point Museum & Historical Park

July 29

Boulevards Funk/ Hip-Hop

Washington Terrace Park

August 5

August 12

West End Mambo Latin

Mendenhall Transportation Terminal

Titus Gant Quartet Jazz

High Point Library Plaza

FREE Arts Splash Concerts are held Sundays from 6:00–7:30 p.m.

Concert-goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic dinners.

No alcoholic beverages are permitted at any of the concert locations. If there is a threat of rain, call 336-889-ARTS after 4:00 p.m. on Sunday to get the latest update about the concert.

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Visitors to Merlion Park in Singapore on June 8 were startled to see Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump enjoying a casual walkabout, hand-in-hand. On closer inspection, Chuck Shepherd however, they would have seen the two men were Howard X, a Kim impersonator, and Dennis Alan, a Trump impersonator, who traveled to Singapore in advance of the June 12 summit meeting between the two real leaders. Janette Warokka of Indonesia was fooled: “It’s so shocking for me. I don’t know why those two famous guys come here,” she told the Associated Press. Airport officials were less amused when Kim’s doppelganger, whose real name is Lee Howard Ho Wun, arrived at Changi Airport. Wun said police officers searched his bags and detained him for two hours before releasing him with stern warnings to stay away from the summit. Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said Wun was interviewed for about 45 minutes.

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If you’ve ordered a Quarter Pounder recently and specified “no cheese,” you may be interested in a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on May 8 by Cynthia Kissner of Broward County, Florida, and Leonard Werner of Miami-Dade. According to the Miami Herald, the two are angry that they’ve been paying for cheese even though they ordered their sandwiches without it. The lawsuit contends “customers ... continue to be overcharged for these products, by being forced to pay for two slices of cheese, which they do not want, order or receive.” Also, Kissner and Werner “have suffered injury as a result of their purchases because they were overcharged” and “McDonald’s is being unjustly enriched by these practices.”

While attorney Andrew Lavin admits the mobile app ordering option does offer a Quarter Pounder without cheese, he notes in-store customers have no such choice.

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Charlotte Fox, 61, an accomplished mountain climber who summited Mount Everest in 1996, met an unlikely death May 24 when she fell down the hardwood stairs at her home in Telluride, Colorado. Fox was part of the infamous 1996 Mount Everest expedition chron-

icled in “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer, when eight climbers died. Friends called her fall “shocking,” according to The Aspen Times. Climbing partner Andrea Cutter said of the news, “It made me think, ‘Jeez, it’s just so wrong.’” San Miguel County Coroner Emil Sante said officials “have no reason to believe that it was suspicious at all.”

ARMED AND CLUMSY

Things got wild on June 2 at Mile High Spirits and Distillery in Denver when an unnamed off-duty FBI agent accidentally shot patron Tom Reddington, 24, in the lower leg. According to the Denver Post, the agent was dancing and did a backflip, which caused his firearm to come out of its holster and fall to the floor. When he bent to pick up the gun, it discharged.

“I heard a loud bang,” Reddington said, “and I thought some idiot set off a firecracker. All of a sudden, from the knee down became completely red, and that’s when it clicked in my head, ‘Oh, I’ve been shot.’” A man at the bar applied a tourniquet to Reddington’s leg. The FBI agent was taken to Denver police headquarters and released to an FBI supervisor. Mile High Spirits has promised “complimentary drinks forever” to Reddington.

SWEET REVENGE

In a bid to unseat his boss, Bon Homme County, South Dakota, Deputy Sheriff Mark Maggs thrashed Sheriff Lenny Gramkow in the June 5 Republican primary by a vote of 878 to 331. So Sheriff Gramkow didn’t waste any time: Less than a minute after the polls closed, he fired Maggs, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported. “As of this moment you are no longer an employee of Bon Homme County,” Maggs’ termination notice read.

Maggs, a 31-year-old father of four, will not become sheriff until January, but he is confident the county commission “will stand with my family ... and insure that my family will not be left hanging without an income or insurance,” Maggs said. “We’re going to be fine.”

JUST SAY NO

On June 2, as two Jackson County, Oregon, sheriff ’s deputies waited for a tow truck to remove a 2003 Toyota Camry from the side of a road, 23-year-old Anthony J. Clark, of Grants Pass, walked up to the car and told the deputies he was going to steal it. He then got into the car and drove off, leading officers on a 40mile chase through Ashland, Talent and Phoenix, Oregon, crashing into fences and driving the wrong way on several roads. When officers finally stopped the

car, The Oregonian reported, Clark ran into a mobile home park, where he was arrested trying to steal another car. The deputies reported Clark admitted taking LSD and said he thought he was inside a real-life version of the “Grand Theft Auto” video game. Among other charges, Clark was accused of driving under the influence of intoxicants and seconddegree criminal mischief.

YOU THINK YOUR JOB IS BAD?

Car salesman Brett Bland in League City, Texas, finally had enough and filed a lawsuit in May against his employer, AutoNation Acura Gulf Freeway, and Jeremy Pratt, a co-worker. Pratt, the suit alleges, engaged in “constant taunting ... making extremely crass, vulgar and rude comments” and “reinforced dominance over his subordinates by regularly entering their enclosed offices, intentionally passing gas and then laughing,” as well as “pinching and touching his male subordinates’ nipples.” KPRC-TV reported Pratt was fired after sending a text to everyone at the dealership alleging Bland was a sex offender (which he is not). After the firing, however, Bland’s lawsuit alleges, AutoNation allowed Pratt to “loiter at the dealership” and continue harassing employees, and Bland was threatened with termination if he didn’t sell eight vehicles a month. Bland seeks damages and court costs.

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— In Beihai, South China, an unnamed 51-year-old man had been experiencing nonstop nosebleeds for 10 days when his wife told him she saw something “peek” out of his nose. In June, Metro News reported, the man went to Beihai People’s Hospital, where Dr. Liu Xiongguang removed a slithery, several-inches-long leech from his nostril as a nurse filmed the procedure. The doctor said the leech might have entered the patient’s nose as he swam in a river.

— In a gross twist on road rage, Henry George Weaver, 69, of New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, ended an argument with another man June 8 by defecating on him. According to Lehigh Valley Live, Pennsylvania state police reported that “the accused and the victim got into a road-rage argument, leading the accused to defecate on the victim,” but they did not disclose what started the argument.

Weaver was charged with harassment. !

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Photos of South Elm Street and the alley off Elm Street at night in downtown Greensboro

Sexual misconduct and ‘aggressive panhandling’

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Tonight’s unusual; nobody’s called me the C-word yet,” said Ciara Kelley, who took the noirish black and white photo on this issue’s Ian McDowell cover.

Thirty minutes later, I observed her Contributor being called that four-letter epithet seven times in rapid succession by a man who stuck out his tongue, smacked his lips and thrust his hips at her on the corner of Elm and Lewis in downtown Greensboro. Her verbal assailant was white and graying, had a tangled beard, and carried a duffel bag in which I observed him rummaging through while leaning against several storefronts. At Kelley’s request, I YES! WEEKLY

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did not interview the man. The idea was for me to follow her within earshot but not interact with anyone who harassed her. I didn’t see him panhandling, but when I later showed his photo to Cora Stevens, who works on McGee Street, she claimed to have seen him panhandling on Elm. Jakub Pucilowski, owner of Café Europa, also claimed the man was a panhandler. “He’s done it outside my restaurant,” Pucilowski said.

Kelley’s moody photos of South Elm Street after dark aren’t meant to depict this encounter I witnessed in fading amber sunlight on the corner of Elm and Lewis around 8 p.m. on Friday, June 8. But they illustrate a woman’s subjective fears when walking downtown. Both Kelley and Stevens said that most men who verbally abuse them on the street ask them for money first, and that daily harassment increased after the repeal of Greensboro’s Chapter 20, the ordinance that formerly made it unlawful to engage in certain

behaviors while soliciting aid.

Before the April 24 action by the City Council, panhandlers were prohibited from intentionally touching anyone they asked for money without that person’s consent, intentionally blocking their path, following them, using profane or abusive language, continuing to request money after receiving a negative response, coming within three feet before receiving a positive response, and panhandling between sunset and sunrise. Kelley and Stevens claimed to experience all those things. So have over a dozen other women working for or owning downtown businesses, including the one who first contacted YES! Weekly to complain that “aggressive panhandling” is particularly aggressive toward her gender.

That woman is Jenn Graf, owner of Vintage to Vogue boutique now located at 530 S. Elm Street, who suggested I interview her employee Kelley and several young women who intern there.

“I am a bleeding heart and I do want to help people,” Graf told me when we spoke at her store. “I’ve given homeless people clothing and hired them to clean the back parking lot of my previous space at the corner of Friendly and Davie.” She said her problem is not with the homeless or those who have fallen on hard times, but “the select few who’ve made a career out of swindling or intimidating money from people. It’s a shakedown; if I don’t help them out, they get angry and try to scare customers away.”

Graf, who resides as well as works downtown, and has previously lived in New York and London, claimed that panhandling in downtown Greensboro is “far more abusive and intrusive” than anything she experienced in those cities. She expressed concern over what she characterized as the city council’s “prioritizing a panhandler’s rights over those of us who live and work here.”

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myself,” she said. “I have a neighbor who’s already trying to get out of his lease. Until you’re on this side of the door, you don’t understand the effect it has on businesses.”

The neighbor Graf referred to declined to be quoted on this issue, but several other business owners were more forthcoming, with Alex Amoroso of Cheesecakes by Alex, Easa Hanhan of Jerusalem Market and Alexa Wilde of Antlers and Astronauts expressing their concerns.

Hanhan said he definitely favors new legislation to curb aggressive panhandling.

“Right now, there’s nothing to keep them from doing that, and some of them get really abusive, particularly towards women.”

It is that alleged abuse, and the direct experience of it on the street, that most concerns Stevens, who now works as a waitress at M’Coul’s and until recently worked at an Elm Street restaurant where she claimed that the man in the photo I showed her had panhandled.

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told me. “Just as soon as I hit downtown, it gets intense. Every single day.” She said that, while some have tried to frame the debate over “aggressive panhandling” as a conflict between wealthy business interests and the homeless, “it’s us workingclass women caught in-between, as we just try to get to that work without being called names or grabbed.”

She said that both she and Galeano have come to know many panhandlers.

“Chris can easily say ‘no, dude, I don’t have any money,’ and they leave him alone right away. But me, they follow, and keep asking, and asking and asking and asking. I don’t know if they think it’s because women have a more nurturing nature, are more likely to be intimidated, or what.” She said it doesn’t end if she gives them money. “Any time I do that, they treat it like an invitation to ask my phone number and touch me.” Galeano agreed. “Fortunately, I was with her the time this one guy tried to grab her in front in Longshanks.”

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numbers when walking from their workplace to Cheesecakes by Alex at 315 S. Elm on a Friday evening as “running the gauntlet.” They said that ignoring such requests usually resulted in insults, but politely declining only intensified them, with Kelley’s shaved head and Williams’ race as targets of invective. “Panhandlers often call Ciara a bald-headed bitch,” said Bergstedt. “And they kept demanding what I was doing with those white girls,” added Williams.

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the story of how a woman was allegedly approached after dark in a parking deck by an alleged panhandler who cornered her between her car and a wall and said “I just got out of prison for murder” before demanding money. The first officer to tell me this story claimed the woman was described as “shaking with fear” by a colleague. Indeed, every single person who told this story claimed to have recently heard it from a member of the GPD. Bicycle officer Darren Harmon is not someone I’ve witnessed (or heard of) spreading the story, but when I asked him, he acknowledged having heard it from multiple officers in the last couple of weeks. On June 11, GPD interim public information officer Ronald Glenn wrote in

an email that, “I am still trying to locate a record of this incident in our system, but without more specific information it will be difficult to locate.”

Former Greensboro reporter Joe Killian told me that “this exact story was going around years ago” when he worked for the News & Record. “I was never able to run down any person who actually experienced it, and my memory is that this anecdote floated around each time the panhandling debate heated up or the ordinances were changed.”

The last such change was the April 24 repeal, which happened after city attorney Tom Carruthers advised that the old ordinance was vulnerable to the sort of first amendment lawsuit that recently struck down similar ordinances elsewhere.

Debate continues as to what, if anything, will replace it.

One person who believes all such ordinances are both unconstitutional and immoral is Marcus Hyde, an organizer for the Homeless Union of Greensboro, a recently formed group made up of people experiencing homelessness and their advocates. I asked Hyde if he believed the sort of verbal abuse and vulgar gestures I’d witnessed being directed at Kelley should be criminalized. He sent me a statement via Facebook messenger that, with his permission, is reproduced below.

“I don’t get to make up laws that lower the bar for arrest just so I can stop the KKK from coming downtown. The courts have said that you can’t limit speech just because you don’t like it. So if the Klan can come downtown and repetitively say angry things I wish they didn’t say, and if they can cuss while doing it and if they can get close to me and scream obscenities in a threatening way -- if all of that is acceptable under the first amendment -- then there’s no chance in hell that tying vulgar language or any of the other aspects of the proposed ordinance to solicitation will pass constitutional muster. People have a first amendment right to ask others for help, and no matter how much the rich and powerful hate it, there is no constitutional right to not be uncomfortable by seeing someone else’s poverty.”

Hyde acknowledged that laws can and should address “actual harassment and assault,” but emphasized his conviction that “lowering the bar to make cussing illegal” is extremely dangerous. “The Homeless Union of Greensboro would rather focus on things that actually address the reason why people beg rather than turn the police into an etiquette task force, as was suggested by the police chief when he testified at council that, without a panhandling law, he wouldn’t have any reason to arrest some of the people his

officers arrest because they aren’t committing actual crimes.”

Melba Lipscomb, a Greensboro resident who, in her words, is at the moment, “experiencing homelessness,” has written columns on the subject for the Homeless Union of Greensboro and spoken before the Greensboro City Council. Lipscomb described herself in a phone conversation as being “afraid to panhandle,” despite her impoverished circumstances and the lack of any current law against engaging in that activity. “I’m afraid of being approached by the police. Because I am female and black.”

She told me that she opposes any ordinance against “aggressive panhandling” for the same reasons that Hyde does. “If somebody is approached and threatened, there are already laws on the books that cover that. The men who do that are a small minority. It’s like getting catcalls from men working on a building. Women get that regularly and often choose to ignore it and walk on, but if they feel threatened, they need to dial 911. I would encourage them to do it.”

Steve Mitchell, co-owner of Scuppernong Books at 304 S. Elm, does not share some other business owners desire for an ordinance against “aggressive panhandling.” “One question is who gets to decide who and what is aggressive and how you actually police these things, but the larger issue for me seems to that people just want the homeless to vanish, that they don’t want to see them, don’t want them around, and that doesn’t seem like a very reasonable response, so I’m not sure what is expected when our policies are to make homeless people disappear.”

His partner Brian Lampkin agreed, adding that he fears the debate may obscure “the way we’ve abdicated our entire mental health system to the streets.”

Lampkin also made a statement that Lipscomb and Hyde would probably agree with. “Homelessness is hardest on the homeless; just that simple starting place clarifies a lot.”

But he also said he’s sympathetic to the concerns of both his own female employees and other women working downtown.

“There’s a lot of complications, for sure, including personal safety. It’s just tricky, as somewhat able-bodied men like me tend to make statements about personal safety that maybe we shouldn’t be making, so I won’t. If women feel unsafe, they feel unsafe, there’s no way around that.

You can pretend it’s just their suburban sensibilities, but it’s not.” !

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

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Trudy Wade’s ‘enemies’ are fighting back Last week President Trump announced that the news media are America’s biggest enemy. Thus far, however, Trump has only attacked his enemies with words.

Not so with former President Richard Jim Longworth Nixon who actually compiled a written Longworth list of enemies, and planned to punish at Large them with IRS audits and other forms of government harassment. Fortunately, his IRS commissioner refused to issue the vengeful audits, and Nixon had to settle for just cursing about his media enemies in private. The truth is, there have always been thin-skinned politicians who complain about negative coverage from the Fourth Estate, but, so far, freedom of the press has prevailed as a pillar of our society. After all, this is America, and no elected official is supposed to use his influence to ruin the lives of those who disagree with him.

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No elected official is supposed to disrupt commerce or threaten the financial health of a news outlet just because it didn’t endorse her candidacy. Apparently, Sen. Trudy Wade didn’t get that memo.

Last year she went on a crusade to extract her pound of flesh from the Greensboro News & Record, High Point Enterprise, Jamestown News and Carolina Peacemaker, by introducing legislation that would allow Guilford County to publish legal notices on its own website, rather than having to do so in actual newspapers. Wade maintains that she is only trying to save the county money and that she wasn’t trying to single out local newspapers who have been critical of her. Yet, strangely enough, her bill didn’t pertain to the other 99 counties in our state. It only focused on the county that was home to news outlets who hadn’t endorsed her candidacies. She has also suggested that her bill is just a pilot program, but North Carolina is a diverse state, and any legitimate pilot program should include data collected from several carefully selected localities based upon population, geography, income levels, and a number of media outlets.

Sen. Wade can try and justify targeting Guilford County but try as she will, it is painfully obvious to the rest of us that she used her power and influence for payback. And this isn’t the first time she has thrown her political weight around. In 2015, she introduced a bill in the General Assembly that would have eliminated at-large representatives in Greensboro. Why? We can only assume it was because she wanted to weed out some of the Democrats on the council.

It was an unprecedented move, and one that former Gov. Pat McCrory called “legislative overreach.” In the end, Greensboro City Council survived Wade’s power play, but she was emboldened enough by the exercise to try her hand again two years later when she successfully engineered passage of the newspaper revenge bill.

For a while, it looked as though Wade’s so-called pilot program would go

looking at October before the first round of motions are heard,” Orr told me. That means a verdict won’t be reached until next summer, and then the losing party would most likely file an appeal. Meanwhile, everyone loses. The newspapers stand to lose substantial ad revenues until they can prevail in court, and taxpayers lose because we are footing the bill (directly or indirectly) for the Attorney General or General Assembly appointed attorneys to try the case.

Only Trudy Wade escapes unscathed, even though she’s the one who opened this can of revenge-oriented worms in the first place.

There is only one way to send Wade the message that it is wrong to use her office to punish those with whom she disagrees, and that is to turn her out of office this November.

When that happens, I look forward to a free local press giving her defeat the full coverage it deserves. !

unchallenged, but last week, the four aforementioned Guilford-based newspapers announced they were filing a lawsuit against the General Assembly and Guilford County on the basis that the discriminatory bill violates a general statute of the state Constitution. The statute requires that legal notices be published in newspapers circulating generally within the community affected by whatever action is being advertised. Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr is one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, and in his complaint said that his clients, “as members of the press, were specifically singled out for prior press coverage and editorials published by some or all of the plaintiffs involving certain acts by elected officials from Guilford County.”

Translation, “certain elected officials” means Trudy Wade.

The legal battle will be costly and lengthy. Orr said, the state has 30 days to answer the complaint, and can then ask for an extension. The state will also probably move to dismiss, then the case has to make its way onto the busy Wake County trial docket. “Realistically, we could be

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) A sudden attack of shyness for the usually loquacious Lion could be a sign that deep down you’re not sure enough about what (or whom) you had planned to talk up in public.

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[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your time is devoted to career demands through much of the week. But Venus, who rules your sign, might be planning how (and with whom) you’ll spend your weekend.

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AMBIVALENCE ACTUALLY My boyfriend of two years read my diary and found out that I had expressed feelings for another guy while we were together. I never acted on them (and I Amy Alkon wouldn’t have), and I probably shouldn’t Advice have told the guy Goddess I liked him. But my boyfriend shouldn’t have been reading my diary! He broke up with me, saying he wouldn’t be able to forgive me. Now he wants to come back. What should I do?

I don’t feel that I can trust him now. — Disturbed Having regular sex with you does not give another person the right to rake through your diary like it’s the $1 bin at Goodwill.

Your boyfriend probably equated your approaching this other guy with an attempt to cheat, but it sounds like it was something different — a sort of preliminary investigation into whether you had any chance with that guy. It turns out that we have a sort of inner auditing department that gets triggered to calculate whether “the one!!!” should maybe be that other one.

Accordingly, research by evolutionary psychologists Joshua Duntley and David Buss and their colleagues suggests that we evolved to cultivate romantic understudies — backup mates whom we can

quickly slot in as partners if our partner, say, dies or ditches us or their “mate value” suddenly takes a dive.

What else might trigger going for — or at least testing the waters with — a backup mate? Well, though you didn’t have sex with this other guy, it seems instructive to look at why women tend to have affairs. Research by the late psychologist Shirley Glass finds that women view seeking love and emotional intimacy as the most compelling justification for cheating. (Seventy-seven percent of women surveyed saw this as a compelling reason to have an affair, compared with only 43 percent of the men. Men were more likely to see sexual excitement as a compelling justification to stray — with 75 percent of the men, versus 53 percent of the women, giving that reason.)

As for whether you should take your boyfriend back, the question is: What was missing that led you to try to trade up, and is it still missing? We’re prone (per what’s called the “sunk cost fallacy”) to want to keep putting time and energy into things we’ve already put time and energy into, but the way to judge whether something’s actually worthwhile is to assess how well it’s likely to pay off in the future.

If you feel (and act) more certain about your partner, he is less likely to have mate-guarding impulses triggered (like the temptation to snoop). However, if you do get back together with this guy, privacy rules need to be spelled out — and followed. (Presumably, your daily journal entries start with “Dear Diary,” not “To Whom It May Concern.”)

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My husband and I were visiting friends, and he started walking around their house flossing his teeth. I told him this is not okay, but I couldn’t really tell him why. Could you please explain why it’s not appropriate to go around flossing so I can tell him and get him to stop?! — Embarrassed What’s next, margaritas and oral surgery on the deck?

Locking doors didn’t get added to bathrooms as some sort of design quirk (like shutters that don’t shut on those aluminum siding “Tudor” houses in suburbia). Most of the behaviors we perform in bathrooms aren’t all that audiencefriendly — which is surely why we don’t see Netflix specials like “Mr. Jones Takes a Poo.” Though that activity, like flossing, has health benefits, the rest of us don’t need to bear witness. In fact, we’re grossed out if we have to — and we seem to have evolved to feel that way.

Evolutionary psychologist Joshua M. Tybur, who researches disgust, explains that our capacity for getting grossed out seems to help us avoid disease-causing microorganisms, which could put a crimp

in our being able to survive and pass on our genes. Disgust basically acts as a psychological “Keep Out!” sign when we encounter things that could infect us, like bodily fluids, spoiled foods, insects, rodents, and dead bodies.

Whether disgust is likely to be triggered is actually the perfect guideline for whether some behavior is a no-go in public. As I put it in my science-based manners book, “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” “consider how pathogens are spread from person to person. If whatever behavior you’re contemplating could cause some bit of something — a piece of chewed food or some bodily icky — to go airborne, it’s bathroom behavior.” Explain this to your husband. Ideally, if he has some news to share with your friends, it isn’t something along the lines of “Oh, my bad — a speck of cilantro from last week’s sandwich just hit your light fixture.” !

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