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Yakov Smirnoff envisions a world where sadness and tears are replaced with love and laughter.

Fans who loved the comedy of the Russian born entertainer throughout his expansive 40-year career on television, the silver screen and Broadway can experience the hilarity once more as they enjoy Yakov’s insightful and laughter-filled philosophies on love, relationships and the differences between men and women in Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships.

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Born the youngest of 13 children into a musical family, Greensboro native Billy “Crash” Craddock has experienced phenomenal world-wide success with nine #1 singles, countless top ten charted singles, performed at the grand Old Opry, and toured to sell-out crowds. Developing a large and very dedicated fan base over the years, he considers his followers as family, and they flock to every concert in support of their “mega-star.”

Experience a memorable trip down memory lane as Craddock performs such greatest hits as Knock Three Times, Rub It In, Ruby Baby, Ain’t Nothin’ Shakin’, Still Thinkin’ ‘Bout You, and many more.

BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET The Sauce Boss TUESDAY, MAY 7 - 7:30PM

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Legendary performer (as chronicled in Jimmy Buffett’s 1999 hit “I Will Play for Gumbo”), Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton, brings his Florida slide guitar blues, his gumbo, and his own hot sauce to every multi-sensory performance. A show within a show, he includes a culinary demonstration throughout the musical program, with some of the audience members stirring, then everyone sampling the large pot of gumbo that has been prepared on stage. Blues, Cajun, rock and country, plus gumbo, seamlessly combine for a whole new genre!

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MAD AT MILES Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Keeping in mind the recent and explosive R. Kelly interview, and the long list of allegations brought to light against other prominent male artists, now more than ever, the question of whether art can be appreciated while being mutually exclusive from its creator is controversial, complex and widely-discussed. THE TOURING THEATRE OF NORTH CAROLINA is bringing back a production that marinates on that question and shakes up the discourse involving sensitive topics such as racism, sexism, sexual assault and domestic violence.

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You may have been AROUND THE BLOCK a time or two trying to get to where you’re going in downtown Winston-Salem with the construction of Business 40. However, business owners and restaurants are trying to make the best of the situation.

10 Dance Project’s The School at City Arts is proud to sponsor their third annual DANCE MARATHON at the Van Dyke Performance Space and LeBauer Park in Greensboro on March 30...

11 Last Tuesday, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem was the place to be, as the RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL hosted the launch party for its annual festival, which takes place April 4-14.

12 Despite nods in the direction of such worthy endeavors as Attack the Block and District 9, CAPTIVE STATE is basically a World War II picture reconfigured for a scifi crowd...

13 High Point Community Theatre’s YouthStage presents INTO THE WOODS JR., a young performer’s edition of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s groundbreaking musical fairytale.

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Last month, the SPLC issued its annual “YEAR IN HATE AND EXTREMISM” report, in which the number of hate groups in the United States (now estimated at 1,020) is said to be at a 20-year high.

18 In “And Then There Were (N-One),” the last story in SARAH PINSKER’s debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, a narrator named Sarah Pinsker attends SarahCon, an interdimensional convention of alternate-reality Sarah Pinskers.

Standing in line, she hears another Sarah say aloud something she just thought.

19 “For a few fleeting moments,” they say, “KUDZU WISH is back.” Those moments will commence in a two-day affair with an official release show at the Crown on March 22, and an afternoon “afterparty” with Thunderlip on March 23 at On Pop of the World Studies.

20 TODD SNIDER has been thinking a little bit about television lately. The Tennessee-based singer-songwriter and famed storyteller is known for singing about, among other things, beer runs, overzealous police, the music of other singers, living on the road...

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WHAT: Details Last year, 3500 people joined us in the rain for our March for Our Lives. Our team hopes to see you in LeBauer Park at 2:00pm on March 23, 2019. Meet us to listen to live music and speeches and to once again say, Never Again.

WHEN: 2-5 p.m.

WHERE: LeBauer Park.

208 N Davie St, Greensboro.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: The Old Town Beerun is an institution in Greensboro, and has been a Greensboro institution since it was first held in 2001. Participants have the option to run the original Beerun and tackle 5 fun but challenging miles through and around UNCG, or to run/walk the Fun Frolic through campus. Either way you get to finish the day with good music and Great beers.

WHEN: 3 p.m.

WHERE: Old Town Draught House.

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UNKNOWN HINSON WHAT: Stuart Daniel Baker, better known by his stage name, Unknown Hinson, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, comedian, actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as the voice of Early Cuyler on the Adult Swim animated series Squidbillies.

WHEN: 9 p.m.

WHERE: The Blind Tiger.

1819 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro.

MORE: $15 tickets.

MONSTERCADE 2ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND WHAT: DeIt’s Monstercade’s 2nd Year Anniversary Hullabaloo! Hosted by the Elevated Weirdo Game Show with a live performance by Bolmongani & The Hard Eight. Aftermath DJ set by Ray Dombi. Be there or be LAME! WHEN: 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.

WHERE: Monstercade.

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MORE: $7 entry. Ages 21+.

SUN 24 MAD HATTER TEA WHAT: We invite you and your family to our Mad Hatter Tea at the O.Henry Hotel where we bring the story of Alice in Wonderland to life. After storytime in the lobby of the O.Henry, make your way through the rabbit hole for a tea party in Wonderland.

Alice, the Queen of Hearts, and the Mad Hatter will make their way around “wonderland” as you enjoy special treats, crafts and community seating within whimsically decorated surroundings.

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Lucky’s Skate Shop & Lounge is located 2216 Patterson St. in Greensboro and has been open for the past six months. On March 22, the shop would celebrate its grand opening with music by RetroHixz, Jimmy, Condado, Dollhands, and Rowdy Leaf. General manager Danny Andersen said the store’s grand opening would be from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and that there is an $8 cover charge for the show. (The show is all ages, but attendees must present a valid ID.) Andersen said Lucky’s sells skater merchandise including a variety of skate brands, roller skates, decks, wheels, clothing and shoes. He said this side of Greensboro needed a lounge and skate shop because he said there aren’t many places for skaters to hang out or shop.

Andersen said Lucky’s is a great place for skaters to just “kick back and hang out in an inexpensive environment.” The lounge only serves beer right now, but Andersen said their warehouse space is perfect for live music and having food trucks for customers to enjoy while they shop or hang.

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by Life’s Question, Shackled, War by Other Means, and Charm at 8 p.m. with a cover charge of $5 before 8 p.m. and $10 after the music starts. This is an all-ages event, but attendees must present a valid ID. Andersen said Lucky’s is excited to kick off their grand opening. He said Lucky’s appeals to the skaters but that everyone in the community is welcome to come out.

“We want this to be the booming spot for a lot of our students here,” he said.

“If you look at skaters, they are from all walks of life. That is what it is all about; we want to bring people in. We want this to be a spot [to be a destination] that bands talk about when they are touring.”

Andersen said for students to keep a look out for fliers and freebies at local skate parks and on the campuses of UNCG and NC A&T. For information, drop by or give Lucky’s a call at (336) 676-4483.

Lucky’s Skate Shop and Lounge is open Monday through Wednesday, from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and on Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. !

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With the closure and weather over the past two months already causing issues, Priest said most of his customers’ issues revolve around the unknowns, such as the rolling closures of the utility companies and the city closing off various blocks, making it more difficult to get around on top of a fussy detour. “This past week’s closures of 5th, Spring and 4 1/2th Streets have made for multiple frustrating detours while trying to patronize Coffee Park at Central Library. Those that live West of the Biz 40 closure have a much easier drive than those East of the closure.”

Priest said he’s thankful for his longterm customers who’ve been intentional about patronS izing his business since YER M Broad Street’s bridge S closed in October.

Dana Moody, who owns West End Coffeehouse along with her husband, Jimi, said the Broad Street Bridge shutdown had affected them the most. She said it’s not as bad as some have experienced, but it’s noticeable.

“We’ve definitely noticed a drop in our West Salem folks. Traffic is also heavier at our intersection with the 40 shut down, so I’ve had several people comment on how much harder it is to park along the street on 4th Street or in front of the shop on Broad,” Moody said. “We’ve had to reduce some of what we offer like baked goods, drinks, Gelato to save on operating costs. We’ve also reduced our hours, and we’re no longer open on Sunday.”

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“We continue to be incredibly grateful for the support and confidence of our guests. We strive to offer daily features, seasonally-inspired menus and culinary events that encourage guests to seek out the Spring House, despite roadway obstacles.”

Grandinetti also gives kudos to the NCDOT for sticking to a schedule, which is keeping him optimistic.

However, not everyone has been feeling such optimism, and many of those businesses are on a different side of the detour.

Tommy Priest, who owns the Coffee Park Airstream, is one owner who’s hoping for better days.

“Our sales have A been 40 percent off D compared to the same period last year. It’s frightening, disconcerting and has created a trickle-down impact.”

The downturn has prevented him from addressing repairs and upgrades to equipment, and “has contributed an immeasurable amount of stress across our baristas and family.”

Coffee Park has trimmed operating hours but increased the number of food truck lunch days to drive additional traffic. Priest said they’re working on business relationships with realtors and arts organizations to improve customer frequency and awareness. If you check out the Coffee Park Air Stream Facebook

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ou may have been around the block a time or two trying to get to where you’re going in downtown WinstonSalem with the construction of BusiKristi Maier ness 40. However, @triadfoodies business owners and restaurants are trying to make the Contributor best of the situation.

What hasn’t helped a cumbersome entry into the downtown district—a cold and seemingly endless, wet winter. (We all just saw the sun a few days in a row for the first time in weeks.)

Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership launched a significant television, print and social media campaign to increase awareness and remind customers that downtown is still open for business with slogans like “Downtown Winston-Salem, Worth A Detour,” and “Find It Here.”

Mission Pizza Napoletana’s Peyton Smith said his end of town hadn’t been so negatively affected by the closure of Business 40, though his restaurant is less affected by it location-wise.

“With the arts district and its quality projects underway, it’s bringing new attention to North Trade Street. It’s easier to get to North Trade via U.S. 52 and Cherry/University.” Smith said he feels bolstered by their growing reputation so business is up and that’s good news for him and his neighbors.

Down the street, Chef Mark Grohman, owner of Meridian, said so far, it’s business as usual, and he won’t know for sure if he’ll be affected. “We’ll see when they take down the Cherry Street and Marshall Street bridges.”

Yep…Those are coming down too.

Just like eating local is “intentional,” deciding to take the detour into downtown Winston-Salem is as equally deliberate. It’s never been as easy dining

“We’ve taken the time to start to build up our pie business. Our customers have been very responsive, and that part of the business is growing. The sell-out of pies on ‘National Pie Day’ [March 14] is a good indication of that.”

Travis Myers, Chef at Willow’s Bistro, South of Business 40, said that at first, it was hard, but business is picking back up.

“People are starting to find their way around. I’ve noticed that Biz40 to Peters Creek to downtown has gotten extremely packed over the last month. At first, people didn’t take this path. But every morning, more and more are taking this route.”

That’s good news even though Myers said that road is now getting a little backed up. He said local media outlets are helping them get the message out as things get back to normal with traffic and nicer weather.

“Our message is the same. It’s not just us, but all of downtown. So please remember us all.” Moody agreed.

But what’s a business to do? For one, local business and restaurant supporters have to be as intentional as possible about their shopping and dining choices. It’s no different from choosing to eat local any other day.

“I’ve told anyone who wants to help downtown businesses to become a fan and promote what you love.

It’s pretty simple and easy to do,” Moody said.

Like, comment or share Facebook or Instagram posts of businesses that you support.

Facebook and Instagram have those pesky algorithms that make posts less noticeable from accounts that get less engagement.

“Don’t just tell people about places you like, take them there. Make plans to meet for lunch and introduce them to someone new. Take a picture and tag your friends,” Moody said. !

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

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ance Project’s The School at City Arts is proud to sponsor their third annual Dance Marathon at the Van Dyke Performance Space and LeBauer Park in Greensboro

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on March 30 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Everyone is invited to watch or participate in a full day of classes, performances, prize drawings, dance relays and more, said Dance Project’s communications and development assistant Grace Stamper.

Dance Project’s executive director Lauren Joyner said that this yearly dance marathon gives them a chance to raise awareness for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit

school of dance. Their goal this year is to raise $10,000 to help support The School at City Arts’ 2019 classes and programming to continue their mission to make dance as accessible as possible to everyone in the community.

Joyner said that the dance marathon has a suggested donation of $10 per hour to dance, and includes classes and performances throughout the day, but they don’t turn anyone away as they feel it is important to build a community around dance. Joyner said that while approximately 300 people are expected to attend throughout the day, there is usually a solid group of 30 people and students who spend the entire day having fun.

For the marathon, Stamper said that participants could sign up online to challenge the staff with headstands and dance moves or create their own team.

She said that teams are asked to raise $500 through sponsorships via businesses, family, friends, schools and even those not on a team may participate in the fundraising by donating directly online to support a specific team.

The Dance Project’s dance marathon classes are intergenerational and openlevel. Stamper said that the morning classes are most popular for ages 3-7.

Dancers are welcome to join in a morning warm-up with breakfast followed by open dance time.

Morning dance classes include Intergenerational Creative Dance Class and an Irish Dance Class with Dylan Reddish.

Morning performances will include Mel and Victoria Paterline, Dance Project Junior and Teen Performance Companies, and more.

Joyner said that one of the most exciting parts of the day is the dance battle class and that she encourages participants to bring their inner warrior to LeBauer Park where afternoon classes will be held (or in The Van Dyke Performance Space if it rains) after lunch.

This year’s Dance Marathon will also include a Capoeira class taught by Rose Sunila. Joyner said despite the martial arts aspect, this class is open to everyone of all skill levels. The Spartan G’s will also perform in the afternoon with Katherine Damman, and Dom Sebastian from The BBoy Ballet will host a Lipsync Battle.

The evening will include pizza and a high-energy dance party with performances from the Burlington Academy of Dance & Arts, Dance Project’s Junior and Teen Performance Companies, Lauryn

Eckman, and The BBoy Ballet before the grand finale.

“The most magical part of the dance marathon day is to see our community come together with all ages, all races, and all dance levels with all classes open to everyone while we get to encourage and cultivate dance by training dancers, educating and brewing up creativity,” Joyner said. “I continue to be inspired by our city’s Greensboro Cultural Arts Master Plan.”

This year’s Dance Marathon sponsors include Sinfield Technologies; GSO Cultural Center; GSO Downtown Parks, Inc.; the Van Dyke Performance Space; and Downtown GSO, Inc. along with several local merchants who provided food and prizes for the drawings.

Joyner also teaches dance and credits her mentor Jan Van Dyke, who founded the Dance Project in North Carolina in the early 1980s while teaching at UNCG, as a force and a pioneer for modern dance in North Carolina. Joyner said since her passing four years ago, it is a joy and an honor to carry on her legacy.

Joyner said that Dance Project strives to keep their dance class prices below market cost, offer scholarships to students, conduct outreach projects, continue to partner with Doris Henderson’s Newcomers School, and is beginning to coordinate their 29th season of the NC Dance Festival.

“Dance Project’s The School at City Arts is a great way for students to release energy and express themselves outside of their school and home.

Parents can come and observe classes, too,” Stamper said. “Our April 1-6 Parent’s Observation Week is a good time to visit and see what our classes look like.

We always keep our blinds open, so the classes are always visible. We also recently started offering online deals and promotions for our adult level classes within the last few months.” !

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The reel deal: RiverRun at 21 Last Tuesday, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem was the place to be, as the RiverRun International Film Festival hosted the launch party for its annual festival, which takes place April 4-14.

Mayor Allen Joines, RiverRun executive director Rob Davis, and Diana Mark Burger Greene, the chair of RiverRun’s board of directors, all gave introductory remarks to the enthusiastic masses Contributor gathered for this yearly celebration of cinema the world over – held right here in the Triad.

This year’s festival is bursting at the cinematic seams, with 172 films scheduled, consisting of 71 feature films and 101 short films from 47 different countries. “Each of these films is reflective of our mission to engage our audiences in an exploration of new and divergent cultures and perspectives through the art of film,” Davis noted in the festival’s official press release.

“We believe in pushing boundaries, highlighting new cinematic forms, and providing a platform for filmmakers to connect directly with their audiences and have important conversations about our world and the human experience,” added Mary Dossinger, RiverRun’s program manager.

Although the press release indicated the festival had received over 1,500 submissions, the number was actually closer to 1,700 – “and we’re still getting calls,” Davis said.

Indeed, RiverRun is likely still getting inquiries as you read this. “We’re thrilled that people want to be in RiverRun … [and] so pleased that we are part of this rich community.”

“I’m very honored to be a witness to a great organization,” said Greene, calling the festival “a finely honed machine. The staff is small, but they’re mighty,” she praised, earning them a (deserved) round of applause.

Recently, Joines noted, RiverRun was named by USA Today as one of the 10 most exciting film festivals in the country, and by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the top 50 festivals worldwide. RiverRun, Joines said, “works to help bring our community together in so many ways.

Movies do a lot for our community.”

Opening night is April 4, and once again the festival boasts two opening-night offerings: Producer/director

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Jason Winer’s romantic comedy Ode to Joy (at SECCA), starring Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Melissa Rauch, and UNCSA graduate Jake Lacy. As well as producer/director Tom Donahue’s documentary feature This Changes Everything (at Hanesbrands Theatre), which explores gender disparity and sexism in Hollywood, with Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain and executive producer Geena Davis among the luminaries interviewed.

The closing-night film is the award-winning documentary feature Bathtubs Over Broadway (Sunday, April 14 at Hanesbrands Theatre). The film follows comedy writer Steve Young (20-time Emmy nominee for “Late Show With David Letterman”) as he embarks on a quixotic quest to locate vintage recordings marked “for internal use only,” which featured odd musical numbers and shows devoted to products and corporations not traditionally associated with musicals, including Xerox, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, and many others.

The Master of Cinema award will be presented to three screen legends: The husband-and-wife duo of Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, and producer/former studio executive Mike Medavoy. To honor Prentiss, there will be a screening of the 1964 Howard Hawks screwball comedy

Man’s Favorite Sport (5 p.m. April 10 at Hanesbrands Theatre); to honor Benjamin, there will be a screening of the classic 1975 Neil Simon adaptation of The Sunshine Boys (8 p.m. April 10 at Hanesbrands Theatre), after which they will receive their awards.

Medavoy will be honored with a screening of the Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull (12:30 p.m. April 14 at UNCSA Main Theatre). Medavoy was the senior vicepresident of production at United Artists during the film’s production.

United Artists is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019, and to mark this milestone RiverRun is the first film festival to commemorate its centennial. In addition to Raging Bull, there will be a special screening of the 1915 Mary Pickford silent Little Annie Rooney (April 6 at UNCSA Main Theatre). In addition to being one of the first female film superstars, Pickford was one of the founders of United Artists, and this film has undergone a 4K digital restoration by the Mary Pickford Foundation.

The enduring legacy of United Artists is also represented by screenings of the Oscar-winning Marty (April 7 at UNCSA Gold Theatre), with special guest Fred Mann (son of director Delbert Mann); Robert Wise’s hardhitting 1959 crime thriller Odds Against Tomorrow (April 6 at UNCSA Babcock Theatre), with special guests David Belafonte (son of producer/star Harry Belafonte) and noted author and film historian Foster Hirsch; the initial 1962 James Bond outing Dr. No (April 12 at UNCSA Main Theatre), and the Oscar-winning 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night (April 13 at UNCSA Main Theatre).

This year marks the festival’s 21st anniversary and the 16th since it made the Eastward expansion from Brevard to Winston-Salem.

Davis concluded his remarks with good humor, joking that the festival “had crossed an important milestone” turning 21. “Enjoy the festival,” he quipped, “but, please, enjoy it responsibly!” !

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Alien nation Nazis and humans repping the two sides of the French flip: resistance fighters and collaborators.

Indeed, while the word “Vichy” never comes up, “collaborators” is rightfully applied to those people who dutifully serve the extra-terrestrials rather than fight them. As for the aliens, the collaborators call them “legislators” while the dissidents call them “roaches,” even if their physical appearance more resembles a sea urchin, or a porcupine, or John Travolta’s pre-combed hair in the animated sequence that opens Grease.

Captive State begins with so much scrolling text that audiences will be forgiven for thinking they’re back on their couches at home cracking open a hardcover book. Once these viewers are transported back to the multiplex, they’re introduced to seemingly more characters than was found in the entire 57 seasons of the T.V. soap opera Guiding Light. Chief among these is William Mulligan (John Goodman), a Chicago cop tasked with tracking down dissidents; Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Sanders, the teenage Chiron in Moonlight), a young man who repeatedly finds himself in the middle of sticky situations; Gabriel’s older brother Rafe (Jonathan Majors), a key figure in the resistance movement; and Jane Doe (Vera Farmiga), a prostitute with a portrait of a Trojan horse in her living room.

That painting is actually more of a spoiler than writer-director Rupert Wyatt probably intended, since its presence points toward the twist that will pop out of the cake in the last act (it also doesn’t help that a likable performer has been cast in a significant “heavy” role, thereby also spoiling the surprise). But Captive State has problems from start to finish. Its only true narrative innovation is that the aliens have dismantled all cutting-edge technology on the order of computers and cell phones, requiring humans to again rely on landlines and (woo-hoo!) print newspapers.

Otherwise, everything else about the film suffers from its murky presentation, particularly in terms of threadbare characterizations as well as a fussy and disjointed plotline. While everything does come together by the end, it scarcely matters since the picture’s pacing is draggy and the players reduced to rigid chess pieces.

“Take Back The Planet” blared the tagline for Battlefield Earth, another film about enslaved humans combatting

nefarious alien invaders. Captive State certainly isn’t awful like that ill-advised atrocity, but neither is it likely to inspire anyone to hoist the pitchfork and join the good fight.

Here’s the thing about filmmakers who set out to shock audiences: If the gasps fail to materialize, and there’s nothing else behind those gasps, then it’s a pretty meaningless viewing experience.

Gaspar Noe is an auteur who frequently lives and dies by the shock, and among his past credits is 2002’s Irreversible, a brutal and ugly picture that prompted plenty of walkouts at both Cannes and Sundance. Real-life couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel starred as a blissfully happy couple whose lives are utterly destroyed after she’s raped and left in a coma and he sets out to kill her assailant. Irreversible shocked me to the core, but because the story was presented in backward-chronological order (not unlike Memento), it proved to be a thought-provoking drama that registered as more than just a gimmick.

The structure not only allowed for “what if?” reflections but also musings on the very nature of time, the frightening randomness of the little moment-bymoment choices we make, and whether our destinies are indeed laid out for us or whether our fates are constantly in our own hands. I never, ever, ever want to see Irreversible again, but I can’t deny its power to startle and even move me.

With Climax ( ), Noe is back with another hyperactive assault on our senses, but in this instance, it feels as if the emperor no longer has any clothes. A largely improvisational piece (the script was reportedly only five pages in length), it centers on the members of a French dance troupe who gather to practice and

party in an abandoned building, only for everyone to turn into raving lunatics after someone spikes the sangria with LSD. Make that almost everyone — a Middle Eastern man doesn’t drink alcohol, so he’s suspected of being the spiker and is subsequently thrown out into the freezing cold to die, and a pregnant woman doesn’t drink for obvious reasons, so she then becomes the accused and gets repeatedly kicked in the belly. And then there are some who drink the sangria but don’t become quite as bloodthirsty as the others —among these would be Selva (Sofia Boutella), the dance choreographer who spends much of the time weeping at the inhumanity surrounding her.

Clearly, Noe means for Climax to disturb viewers, but it’s ultimately as shocking as a fifth grader making armpit noises. If the director’s nihilistic message is that the world is a horrible place and human beings are just the worst — well, that’s hardly a revelatory stance, and it’s one that’s already pummeling us in real life via each successive day’s round of headline news.

There’s one pre-LSD sequence that’s absolutely stunning, and it’s when the troupe performs a full-out dance number that’s simply staggering to behold. It’s so beautifully staged and so full of life and energy that I wished the movie had turned into Fame: Part 2 and provided more of such ecstasy. But this sequence also points out one of the picture’s limitations. Aside from Boutella (Atomic Blonde, The Mummy, Star Trek Beyond), there are few professional actors in this movie since Noe chose to cast actual dancers. That works for the dance sequences but for little else — even with subtitles, it’s clear that many of these folks aren’t trained to emote, and the early scenes in which they’re required to improvise their own dialogue are painful, with banal discussions that don’t exactly endear them to viewers.

Ultimately, Climax is too predictable in its supposedly horrific reveals to catch us off-guard. There’s the manager’s little boy, so of course, something truly awful will happen to him. There’s a brother and sister among the troupe, so of course, an incestuous tryst will be attempted postingestion. Like a bad disco song, Climax soon becomes numbing and repetitious, and after it finally ends, the only course of action is to let out a deep sigh and hope that the next offering on the playlist provides a catchier beat. !

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noose was found hanging at a Boeing factory in North Charleston. A New York City youth was arrested for drawing Nazi swastikas on the school playground.

Jim Longworth A white nationalist Longworth Coast Guardsman at Large was arrested just before he was able to carry out a mass terrorist attack, and another white nationalist murdered 49 Islamic worshippers inside a New Zealand mosque. All this, and we’re not even three months into 2019. If a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center is any indication, the next nine months could be just as bad.

Last month, the SPLC issued its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report, in which the number of hate groups in the United States (now estimated at 1,020) is said to be at a 20-year high. Heidi Beirich, director of the civil rights organization, blames the sharp rise on divisive, hate-filled rhetoric and policies from Donald Trump. In

a statement released to the media, Beirich said, “The numbers tell a striking story – that this President is not simply a polarizing figure, but a radicalizing one.”

But where does polarizing end and radicalizing begin? On the campaign trail, Trump suggested that NRA members with guns could take care of Hillary. He also referred to Mexicans as murderers and rapists. Later, as president, he sought to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, and told his supporters “Islam hates us.” And, just two days before the New Zealand massacre, Trump told Breitbart News that liberals who disagree with his political agenda better watch out. “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of Bikers for Trump. I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they (liberals) go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”

Let’s be clear. Donald Trump has never told anyone to draw swastikas or hang nooses, and he hasn’t ordered anyone to go out and massacre a church full of innocent people. On the other hand, if Beirich’s conclusion is accurate, then the president bears some responsibility when unstable individuals heed his words and then act upon

them. For example, in his nearly 80-page manifesto, the man charged with the New Zealand massacre cited Trump’s rhetoric as an inspiration for his attack on Muslims.

Still, after news of the attack reached Trump, he denied that white nationalism is a rising threat. “I think it’s a small group of people who have very serious problems,” said the president when asked to comment on the attack. First, white nationalists are not a small group of people, and second, if you think they have problems, then why throw fuel on the fire with hateful tweets and speeches? Why not allocate government resources to prevent and combat the growing threat of terrorism by white nationalists? Why defend some of the Nazis at Charlottesville as “fine people?”

The answers to those questions may lead us to conclude that Trump is a racist, but more probably he is just afraid of losing his mostly white base.

In the musical South Pacific, there is a song whose lyrics include a possible explanation for how someone comes to identify as a white nationalist.

“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear.

You’ve got to be taught from year to year.

It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear.

You’ve got to be carefully taught.”

The implication is that children learn to hate from their parents, but as those children grow older, they can also learn to hate from the words of influential public figures.

During the 2008 Presidential campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain, Trump kept claiming that Obama was born in Kenya. Later, a woman who had bought into Trump’s racist rhetoric stood up at a McCain town hall, and said, “I can’t trust Obama. He’s an Arab.” McCain could have nodded or smiled in tacit agreement. He could have worked the crowd up into a frenzied chant of “Send him back!

Send him back!” Instead, McCain took the microphone from the woman and said, “No, ma’am. No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man and citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with.”

That’s how a real leader is supposed to sound. That’s how a real leader uses words to stand up to his base to defuse and denounce hate speech. That’s how a real leader inspires us to do our best, instead of inspiring others to do their worst. !

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ver the past two years, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have brought the conversation of sexual assault to the mainstream via Katie Murawski social media, and powerful men (especially within the arts Editor and entertainment industry) have been feeling the backlash.

Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Keeping in mind the recent and explosive R. Kelly interview, and the long list of allegations brought to light against other prominent male artists, now more than ever, the question of whether art can be appreciated while being mutually exclusive from its creator is controversial, complex and widely-discussed. The Touring Theatre of North Carolina is bringing back a production that marinates on that question and shakes up the discourse involving sensitive topics such as racism, sexism, sexual assault and domestic violence.

Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth opens March 28 and runs through March 31 at Triad Stage’s Upstage Cabaret, located at 232 S. Elm St. in Greensboro. Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth was written by Atlantabased writer and activist Pearl Cleage, and is a collection of eight essays that serves, according to the press release, as a “workbook for black women struggling to survive in a society that is racist and sexist.”

Touring Theatre of NC’s executive director and theatre arts professor at North Carolina A&T State University Donna Baldwin-Bradby directed and helped adapt the essays for a play at Triad Stage back in 2009.

“I never heard of Mad At Miles until one of my students did a monologue from it called ‘Why I Write,’” Bradby said. “That is how I first got introduced to the book of essays.”

Bradby said that Touring Theatre of NC was founded by Brenda Schleunes about 37 years ago.

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Todnee Jeffries, Asha Duniani, Xulee, and Tennille Foust is that we celebrate the ongoing human search for dignity across lines of ethnicity, gender, economic status, religion, and age.”

Bradby describes Touring Theatre as “bold,” and “not afraid to have a conversation,” which she said is perfect for producing Mad At Miles.

“For us, [Mad At Miles] fits perfect with Touring Theatre because we do the performance of literature,” Bradby said.

“We take essays, short stories, letters, journal entries, any type of literature and we stage it.”

Bradby explained that there is a certain level of risk-taking when it comes to adapting literature for the stage.

“None of the problems are fixed; so when a playwright writes a play, they write it to be staged,” she said. “With adapting literature, the writer did not write it to be staged so, the language is more colorful, and there is more of a narrative to it, depending on the style of the writer. You got to bring that to life.”

Bradby said Cleage wrote Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth in 1990 because she found out that jazz legend Miles Davis was abusive in his relation-

ship with Cicely Tyson. Bradby said when Cleage wrote the essays, she was trying to express her hurt, disappointment, and outrage to her beloved and revered icon.

Out of the eight essays in the collection, Bradby said the play only stages five of them: “Why I Write,” which Bradby said is about why Cleage writes about sexual assault and domestic violence; “In The Time Before The Men Came,” which she said, focuses on Amazonian women and their sisterhood until a man comes along; “Mad At Miles,” which Bradby said is about Cleage’s complicated feelings regarding Davis’ music and how he treated women; “The Facts of Life/Basic Training,” which Bradby said are two separate pieces combined into one that outlines the warning signs of abuse; and the play ends on a lighter note with “Good Brother Blues.”

“I remember one review that said, Mad At Miles is not man-bashing, it is love,” Bradby said. “The last essay is ‘Good Brother Blues,’ and it is about how we are looking for a good brother. Maybe we haven’t said that; we haven’t said to men this is what we need and this is what we are looking for. Maybe we need to clarify what we are looking for.”

She said the show is ultimately about love and even though it is called “A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth,” the stories are universal and appropriate for any race.

“It is these powerful stories that are sending us to love each other,” she said.

“There are pieces of it that are poignant and moving. They talk about getting past it and understanding better so that we can move on as women and men together because that is how it is supposed to be.”

Bradby said that the show shares facts and statistics while also being a bit interactive as well. (For instance, there is a scene where condoms are thrown to the audience.) She said there are parts that are funny and silly along with parts that are more serious and somber.

“I’ve always gotten weird reactions, people have come up in tears to tell me things about their lives,” Bradby said.

“That is when I realize that I have to have resources at the show and I got to have people ready to talk and help people.”

She said that NC A&T Counseling Services would be present with resources to help and listen after each show.

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Bradby said she hand-picked these women “because there is a discipline to their work and they have strong views about the subject matter.”

Bradby said she loves working with these “fearless women.”

“I can honestly say that I have matured in the piece,” said Jeffries who is not new to the script. “You have to have your mind set on what the message is. Every single essay and everything we do has a message. Once you connect to that message, being able to relay it comes easy.”

“The environment is very nice for me as I was raised around a lot of women,” said Duniani, who is new to the script and production. “Being in this show, being the youngest, having to come in and go just as hard as my elders, it is definitely a learning experience.”

“I still learn something every time we read it,” said Foust, who has been a part of this play since its inception. “I am teaching black American theatre, so we read [the script] in class. And the students gave me a whole other perspective that I have not even thought about. I am growing and learning every time we read it. My objectives I have now are different than they were back then.”

“For me, I am a victim of abuse,” said Xulee, who is also revisiting the script.

“My mom was a victim of abuse; it is a cycle. All I’ve ever known is, if you are in a relationship with a man, you are going to get abused. Whether it be psychological, emotional, mental or physical. I just recently, as an adult, experienced the psychological aspect of it. And when we were reading Mad At Miles again for the first time, I was like ‘why didn’t I read this again and remind myself of all of the things that Pearl had already told me?!’”

Foust believes the show is important to black women especially because it shifts the narrative and challenges a mindset that is part of the problem.

“The psychological hang-up of the black woman starts with the fact that she thinks that ‘I have to have a man to be secure,’” Foust said. “That is the whole point of Mad At Miles: we, as women, feel we have to endure the BS and everything that comes along with it just to feel like a whole woman. Those days have come and gone, and that is the story that needs to be told. ” All five women agree that the question, “is it possible to separate the art from the artist?” is complex and nuanced.

“To me, if I am spending time with your work, money with your work, it is hard to separate your work,” Bradby said.

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“Because I think with artists, there is a certain amount of you in your work. I think that is why we get so hurt and confused because your works speak to me, it moves me, it makes me feel something, it empowers me, but then this same person is doing these despicable things to people.”

This makes Bradby question the authenticity of problematic artists.

“Is your work really genuine, or are you just faking the front for the money and prestige?” she asked. “How can you create the music that you make, Miles, R. Kelly, the movies you write, Woody Allen, how can you do those things and you are telling stories about women for women, but then you are abusing us? To me, there is a strong connection between their work and personal life.”

Duniani said people can still like the art, but she argued that people can’t ignore that “the person is their art.”

“There is a part of them that is always in their art,” she said. “Without them, there would be no art. As actors, yeah, we are acting as different people, but it is ultimately us.”

Jeffries agreed and argued that there is

no separation between the art and artist because it “defeats the purpose of why you enjoyed it in the first place.”

“Just like in Mad At Miles, [Cleage] was having a serious conflict of [Davis] being a woman-beater, and her being an activist and her loving his music. That is a hard decision to try to make,” Jeffries said. “It is like a bad relationship; it becomes toxic.

So, it is hard to say, ‘oh I can separate the art from the artist,’ [because] the art is the artist... There were things that [R. Kelly] was saying within his music that was directed to those women that age, so you can’t say you can separate it because you can’t.”

Bradby said that Mad At Miles centralizes the conversation around sexual assault and domestic violence, and it creates community. “ I believe when an audience comes into a room and sits to see any show, they’re creating a new community of people from different walks of life and experiences,” Bradby said. “It forces them in this hour to spend time together with the same subject matter.”

The women stressed the importance of everyone coming to see the show, but

more specifically, the importance of men seeing the play. They believe it will provide them with insight and put women’s struggles into perspective.

“All men need to come see it, especially young men and identify what we are saying in play,” Duniani said. “People think that abuse is this big thing that you can identify, like ‘oh he’s beating on her, it is abuse.’ But like no, there are different types of abuse. It is really important that everyone come see it.”

Bradby said she never imagined she would be doing this play 10 years later in 2019.

“I did,” Jeffries interjected. “It is that powerful...It changed me.” !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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Sarah Pinsker’s dazzling debut includes infinite Sarah Pinskers

Ian McDowell

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In “And Then There Were (N-One),” the last story in Sarah Pinsker’s debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, a narrator named Sarah Pinsker attends SarahCon, an interdimensional convention of alternate-reality Sarah Pinskers.

Standing in line, she hears another Sarah say aloud something

she just thought.

“I looked her over. The invitation said ‘be yourself.’ We both wore jeans and Wonder Woman T-shirts, hers with a graphic from the ‘70s T.V. show and mine from the 2005 Gina Torres movie.”

As the story’s title, which riffs on Agatha Christie, suggests, it’s a murder mystery.

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea was published this month by Small Beer Press, founded in 2000 by Gavin Grant and UNCG graduate Kelly Link. In 2001, Small Beer published Link’s nowclassic Stranger Things Happen. With this new collection by another award-winning and hard-to-categorize writer, Small Beer continues its nearly two-decades-old tradition of quirky, original and literate science fiction and fantasy.

In an email, I asked Pinsker how “And Then There Were (N-One)” came to be written. Her answer was delightful enough to quote in full.

“I went on a writing retreat in spring 2016. Somebody brought a bag of marshmallow Peeps, which ended up open on a plate, and kind of dry and gross, so we were building random Peep formations with them. There were 11 for a while, and then at some point, there were 10, and by then the whiskey had come out, and we staged a dramatic Twitter retelling of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, killing off one peep at a time according to the novel. I woke up the next morning with the title “And Then There Were (N-One)” in my head. If you have an equation with (N-1), it means there were a number of something and then one less, and I started thinking about a multiverse convention all of iterations of one person, and the questions that would arise if one was found dead.”

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Whedon when his awful script leaked. She and Anna Boden rewrote it from scratch.”

When interviewed by Uncanny magazine, Pinsker said her narrator was originally named Daria in homage to MTV cartoon character. I asked why she changed it.

“She felt like a placeholder; the story didn’t really work until I made the horrible realization that I had to use myself as a character to make it work.”

Pinsker’s stories almost always feature intriguing titles and resonant last lines.

I asked her about another story I loved, “And We Were Left Darkling,” which takes its title from a line in King Lear not as well known as the one about flies and wanton boys, but which should be: “So out went the candle and we were left darkling.”

“I love stories where the title helps unlock part of the story,” she answered.

“I was trying to come up with something that spoke to the character’s situation and the danger inherent and remembered that line. The line before it is ‘for you know, nuncle, the hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it’s had it head bit off by it young.’”

As for Pinsker’s facility with memorable final lines, the collection’s title story ends with what may be my favorite of the last decade.

“My final lines and images often come to me very early in the process,” she wrote.

“Rarely first, but occasionally not long after I’ve written the first lines. Sometimes I’m wrong about where a story ends, but it gives me something to write toward, even

if the target shifts a bit. I don’t necessarily need to hold the whole story in my head, but that target helps keep me focused.”

Pinsker is also a singer-songwriter and has released three albums. I asked her being a musician has helped her as a writer.

“On a prose level, songwriting has taught me a ton about word choice. When you only have three verses and a chorus to convey a message, you have to write with precision, and I try to carry that into fiction. It helps with the rhythms of words and sentences, too.”

Pinsker will be at Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 30. She will perform her music as well as read and take questions from the audience. Her story “And Then There Were (N-One)” can be read online at uncannymagazine.com !

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

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Kudzu Wish comes true “For a few fleeting moments,” they say, “Kudzu Wish is back.”

Those moments will commence in a two-day affair with an official release show at the Crown in Greensboro on March 22, and an afternoon Katei Cranford “afterparty” with Thunderlip on March 23 at On Pop of the Contributor World Studies.

Their return reads like a page from local rock lore: lost recordings were found, a new record is made. A beloved band, never thought to be seen again, arises for one last show.

“A show wasn’t planned when we got the recordings remixed,” explained guitarist Eric Mann, who found the studio files on a CD in his closet.

“The original idea was for us to make better versions for ourselves,” he said, “but we all thought they sounded fantastic, so we wanted an official release.”

“We agreed playing a reunion show felt right,” Mann added. Though, the plans didn’t stop at a show.

“We wanted to set up an all-ages spot on Saturday for people to hang with music,” Mann explained of the OPOTW party, a family-friendly shindig geared-toward folks with kids or people who don’t party late.

“Having played a few Hopscotch day parties, I’ve realized late-night shows have their drawbacks,” he said. “Sometimes day events bring unique, special experiences.”

Plus, it’s an opportunity to keep the celebrations flowing through the weekend.

And a Kudzu Wish reunion is indeed cause for celebration.

Few Greensboro bands held the early ‘00s esteem of the Guilford College indie group. Elder Triad millennials swap show stories like merit badges. Kudzu Wish tattoos aren’t uncommon in College Hill circles.

The group parted amicable ways in 2005 but rejoined for a notorious ruckus show at Two Art Chicks in 2007, and a heartfelt Often Awesome celebration for bassist Tim Lafollette in 2009 as he transitioned through his journey with ALS. His passing in 2011 sent shockwaves through the Greensboro music community. The WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

remaining members feel he would have supported the release.

The buzz around Kudzu Wish caught Mann by surprise. “I didn’t really expect this much local attention,” he said humbly. “But listening back and relearning songs we songs we wrote so many years ago, I’m pretty proud of the material we released as guys in our early 20s.“ A couple kids and projects later, Mann has kept up the pace with his Hyper Enough booking project, and bands Basement life and Toothsome, the bassist of which, Ry Eshelman, will be filling in for the release show.

As a band, Kudzu Wish is still working with the Ernest Jenning record company.

They’re still in pursuit of melting faces and still exploring connections. As for the release itself: it’s a time for celebration, community and connectivity.

Openers at the release include Old Heavy Hands and Totally Slow, who arose from the ashes of Decoration Ghost, which featured members of Kudzu Wish. “We’re all connected,” Mann posted in the event.

Those connections carry into the following day with Thunderlip.

“We used to play a bunch of shows them back in the day in Wilmington,” Mann noted of the coastal rocker’s connection. “They played our final show in 2005 at Greene Street,” he added.

The Saturday show lined up some serendipitous timing. “They happened to be playing in Raleigh the same night,” Mann explained. “I messaged Chuck, their singer, and asked if they’d come jump over to Greensboro to play a set beforehand. And they were into the idea.”

OPOTW is prime for a BYOB backyard situation. Thunderlip is just the right kind of gruff to make an afternoon interesting.

Tack on the kid-friendly situation, and it sounds like one special Saturday afternoon--even if Mann can’t yet comment on whatever musical surprise wishes the Kudzu Wish dudes are looking to fulfill.

Surprises or not, one thing’s for Kudzu Wish comes true for Greensboro one last time.

The release show is at the Crown (310 S. Greene St.) on March 22, with an all-ages “after party” the following afternoon with Thunderlip and special guests at OPOTW Studios (1333 Grove St.) in Glenwood. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a mixtape radio show of bands playing NC, 5-7pm on WUAG 103.1fm.

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odd Snider has been thinking a little bit about television lately. The Tennessee-based singer-songwriter and famed storyteller is known for singJohn Adamian ing about, among @johnradamian other things, beer runs, overzealous police, the music of Contributor other singers, living on the road, the embarrassing futility of chasing trends, the thrill of excess, and the general absurdity of the way life unfolds these days. Snider is a folky-entertainer-stoner-troubadour.

He makes it look like he’s a babbling baked dude with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica, rambling off the cuff. But there’s a lot of pondering that goes into his routine.

Snider just released a new record, The Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3, which is, in fact, the first volume of a batch of recordings he made at Johnny Cash’s rustic studio site outside of Nashville. The record, his 18th since 1994, features guest appearances by artists like Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires. It’s part of Snider’s ongoing toggling between projects that draw on a freeform jam-band aesthetic or a rowdy bar-band vibe, and then back to the folk-singer routine that is Snider’s default setting. Snider, who plays a solo show at the Ramkat in Winston-Salem this week, is definitely back in folk-mode here. He’s tapped into a spirit of protest and outrage that’s nicely leavened by his wit and sense of the ridiculous.

I spoke with Snider by phone from New York City last week where he was scheduled to play a show. One of the first singles from the new record, a song called “Talking Reality Television Blues,” is a perfect Snider-ian blend of word-crammed insight, far-out perspective and comedy.

It’s a classic talking blues, in the fashion of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, but it races through the history of television and our obsession with it. The song, which swirls together Milton Berle, Michael Jackson, MTV’s The Real World, alternative facts and Donald Trump (“an old man with a comb-over”), is about how reality T.V. has essentially colonized reality. The formulation goes something like this: if video killed the radio star, then reality T.V. YES! WEEKLY

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killed reality. It’s a grim equation, one that suggests we’re living in some flickering post-real zombie-world afterlife.

In our conversation, I mention to Snider, 52, that he seems to have a view that everything has gone to hell and fallen to pieces, but at the same time many of his songs suggest that this is how the world has always stumbled along, not quite making any sense, but not quite imploding either. Snider makes a T.V. metaphor in response: “It’s like there are two specific shows that come on, and I watch both of them,” he said.

It takes me a second to realize that he’s not talking about actual television shows, just about different ways of framing the story of what’s going on around us.

Television pops up briefly in another song on the new record. The song, “Just Like Overnight,” is a wistful rumination on the double nature of time — about how things seem to both take forever, to never change, and then also, conversely, to completely get transformed in the blink of an eye.

“Hell, I remember when you used to have to walk all the way over just to turn the channel on that goddamn T.V.,” goes one line. The song is more nostalgic-sad than cranky, on the whole, but Snider de-

scribes his current mindset with another T.V. reference.

“I am definitely moving into a Fred Sanford phase,” Snider said. (If you’re under 35, look it up.)

Another track on the new album, a song called “The Blues on Banjo,” is a raw skeletal country blues played on banjo, with Snider howling out a swooping worddrunk paranoid rant about profiteering by the military-industrial complex. It’s seemingly bleak, with a bit about how easy it is to see that there’s little hope for any portion of our civilization, and then Snider and his vocal guests transform the tune into a jubilant gospel-tinged shout about how politicians, devoid of any ideas, are “sending out their thoughts and their prayers” in response to gun violence.

Elsewhere Snider points to greed and the profit motive as being at the heart of our current troubles. “If peace paid, we’d have it made by now,” he sings on “Framed.”

The Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3 also includes a few songs about music-makers, singers, Nashville characters, and people trying to make sense of celebrity culture.

It’s classic Snider terrain. One song involves a dream about Loretta Lynn dancing with Johnny Cash. Another is an ode to

Cowboy Jack Clement. Another is about a guy who was one of Elvis’s roadies.

The state of the world and the country seem to be weighing on Snider. His inclination is to chuckle and shake his head about hypocrisy, stupidity and heartlessness. But sometimes there’s strong venom underneath Snider’s glassy-eyed good nature.

“When you allow some good men to die for your freedom, only later to recall them as having fought for your flag … that’s some bullshit,” he sings on “A Timeless Response to Current Events.”

His comedic bent and his slightly apocalyptic perspective come from the same place.

“Humor always felt like a natural part of doom to me — especially chaos and loss,” Snider said. !

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

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ALONG GALLIMORE DAIRY ROAD FROM N.C. 68 (EASTCHESTER DRIVE) TO SOUTH OF AIRPARK ROAD IN GUILFORD COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-4015A The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed improvements along Gallimore Dairy Road (S.R. 1556) from N.C. 68 (Eastchester Drive) to just south of Airpark Road in Guilford County.

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The meeting will be held Thursday, March 21 from 5-7 p.m. at The Church on 68 located at 300 N.C. 68 S. in Greensboro. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

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WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? After dinner I recommend starting with an Amaro based drink. Amaro helps aid in digestion and soothes your stomach.

Negroni or Boulevardier are my go tos.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? The craziest thing I have ever seen was at my first volume bar job. The bar was full and we had shut off the door, going one in, one out.

There was a literal mob of college students trying to get in with our door guy physically holding the mob back with his arms stretched wide blocking the entryway.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? The biggest tip I’ve ever received was after selling a gentleman a pour of a $100 whiskey. He liked it so much he bought me a pour of the same whiskey to drink when I finished my shift.

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[HOROSCOPES]

LEO (July 23 to August 22) A recently revitalized relationship might not be quite what the Big Cat expected. But give yourself more time to deal with the changes. A little flexibility can go a long way. Good luck.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A major change could prompt more adjustments. Some of them might be difficult to deal with at first. But hang in there, and before you know it, you’ll be coasting to your next goal.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your sense of justice prompts you to speak out against an unfair situation, even if you seem to be the only one who feels that way. But you soon learn that many others agree with you.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Creating a fuss is not usually your style. But that doesn’t mean you should tolerate an illmannered attitude. Speak up for yourself, and you’ll earn the respect of others.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) You might have a few loose ends to tie up before you can stamp your project as complete. But once that’s done, you might want to celebrate with someone special in your life.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Disappointment darkens the Goat’s mood.

But close friends rally to pull you through with words of encouragement. Use their confidence in you to rebuild your own self-esteem.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18)

An upcoming decision might be more difficult with inaccurate information. Best to recheck the data you have at hand right now to be sure it won’t mislead you later.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) An offer you previously turned down might no longer be available. But if you do some checking around, you could find something else that would suit you just fine.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes isn’t easy for you.

But if you do it, you’ll gain a better perspective of what you need to do to achieve your goals.

Be open to new ideas.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) There are still some problems you might have to deal with before moving on to your next project.

It’s a good idea to accept help from those who share your objectives.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) It’s time to recognize the difference between those who are truly concerned for you and those who simply plan to use your good nature to their advantage. New ideas become increasingly attractive.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Depending on a promise made becoming a promise kept could be more than a mite unwise at this time.

It’s best to proceed on your own rather than wait for aid that might never arrive. ! © 2019 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

BETWEEN A SQUAWK AND A HARD PLACE

I’m a 32-year-old gay man, and my boyfriend of three years sometimes vents to his friends about our relationship. I feel a little betrayed by this — like my privacy’s being violated. Why can’t he figure things out on his own — without bringing in a jury? — Disturbed

Amy Alkon

Advice Goddess

A few years back, a woman with a grudge against my assistant called me to try to get me to fire her: “She talks trash about you!” Me: “Everybody talks trash about their boss!”

The truth is, we all do a lot of grousing to others about people in our lives — our romantic partner, our business partner, our criminal conspirator. That’s actually a healthy thing, though it runs contrary to what emotion researcher Bernard Rime calls the “Lone Ranger individualist perspective of adult emotional regulation.” This, Rime explains, is the mythic view (held even by many psychologists) that healthy adult processing of emotions involves a sort of “rugged individualism” — meaning being “self-contained, independent, and selfreliant.”

In fact, Rime notes, emotion seems to have evolved to be not just an internal, solo process but a “fundamentally interdependent process.” Research by the late social psychologist Stanley Schachter, Rime, and others suggests that experiences that give rise to emotion in us motivate us to seek out others — to share the experiences and our feelings.

Rime explains that our emotions — especially painful ones — can be overwhelming to us. Experiencing emotion “is a dense and diffuse experience in need of cognitive articulation”; that is, it needs to be hashed out and understood. “By using language and by addressing others, individuals ‘unfold’ the emotional material” so they can understand and manage it and maybe gain objectivity and insight.

Understanding how driven we are to share our experiences might help you stop feeling like your boyfriend’s betraying secrets and instead see it as his seeking a sounding board. There’s a good chance that this serves to improve your relationship — sometimes by confirming that he has a legit issue to discuss with you and try to resolve.

Of course, we’re all prone to latch on to crazy and ride it like a pony. We need someone to talk sense into us — like to convince us that the jail time isn’t worth it, despite our partner’s disgusting, depraved indifference to all that’s good and right. Yes, I’m talking about atrocities like opening food packages from the middle (“Hello...are you a rodent?!”), vacuuming in weird, random lines (like a serial killer!), and setting the alarm an hour early and then hitting snooze five times (surely an underappreciated cause of homicide).

FAIRY BAIL ROMANCE

I’m a 66-year-old man. I got married in my mid-20s. I was totally faithful, but my wife left me after 10 years (I think for another woman). I was with the next woman for 20 years. Again, I was faithful, but she left me, too. Is being faithful overrated? I thought it was the way to secure a relationship. — Failed Relationships Keeping a marriage together by being faithful is important — but it’s also a step above keeping a marriage together by not

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being dead. (Note that the marriage ceremony has a little more text to it than “Keep it in your pants, mkay?”)

Still, it isn’t a surprise that you’d go, “Wait...faithful to the first one, faithful to the next one; must’ve been why these relationships tanked!” This leap you’re making probably comes out of how uncomfortable our minds are with uncertainty (stemming from ambiguous situations, unanswered questions, and other mental untidiness).

According to research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a mechanism in our brain’s left hemisphere that he calls “the interpreter” steps in to fill in the blanks, to save us from the cognitive chaos by coming up with an explanation. Unfortunately, it’s like the world’s sloppiest detective. It quickly scans for any patterns or vaguely plausible meanings and then just goes with them — creating a narrative that seems to make sense of our experience (and never mind the tedious snore of weighing whether it actually does).

Accordingly, though it’s easier on the ego to see your being faithful as some sort of common denominator, a more productive take would be accepting that relationships end and considering whether there’s anything you might have done better, both in picking partners and in being one.

You might also reconsider the notion that you had “failed relationships.” The reality

is, partners change and grow apart. They come to want conflicting things (like a wife perhaps wanting a wife of her own). Or they just get bored with each other. As I see it, a 10- or 20-year relationship is a feat to celebrate — not only making a relationship work for a whole lot of years but refraining from bludgeoning your mate for the horrible, psyche-scraping sounds they make when they chew. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www. advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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