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MICHAEL MICKIEWICZ, the owner and store manager of Ace Hardware in Kernersville, has a goal to get his business active in the community.

10 The COLLEGE HILL neighborhood of Greensboro could soon be receiving a layout change as the city looks to make the area more pedestrian-friendly.

11 GREENSBORO MASSACRE survivor Signe Waller recounted the facts, emotions and events of Nov. 9, 1979, when she and other members of the Communist Workers Party were gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan during an anti-Klan march.

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For 80 years, the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) of the Piedmont Triad has worked to build a more diverse and inclusive COMMUNITY with opportunities for all of us, not just some of us.

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GREENSBORO FEST is an ultra-local music festival celebrating independent music from Greensboro, with a few acts from slightly farther afield.

27 Back again is our very own Sarah Barnhardt with her show DEEP DISH PIZZAZZ: Chicago Style Comedy, featuring The Comedy Dance Collective with an opening act by Winston-Salem’s Bunker Dog Improv.

30 We all know there should have been NCAA TOURNAMENT basketball games in Greensboro this month. Instead, Greenville, South Carolina hosted a regional weekend and Greensboro lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue 31 When the 19th annual RIVERRUN International Film Festival opens next week, the contingent of visiting filmmakers will include some fresh faces and some familiar faces.

32 When the sweet tooth hits, there is almost no denying it. ... this SWEET LIST helps navigate you through the land of pastries, chocolate, cakes and confections.

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WHAT: Florida Georgia Line to bring the Dig Your Roots 2017 Tour with Dustin Lynch & Chris Lane to Greensboro Coliseum.

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WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex - Arena. 1921 West Gate City Blvd Greensboro MORE: $30-$75 tickets.

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ART, AND FOOD DRIVE WHAT: Davidson County LGBT Pride Foundation is Proud to announce our 1st Big food drive of the year. Outreach Ministry of Welcome & Upper Room Ministry of Southmont are our pantries this year.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Edward C Smith Civic Center.

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HARLEM PLENTY OF TIME GLOBETROTTERS WHAT: Plenty of Time is the story of WHAT: The Harlem Globetrotters are legendary worldwide, synonymous with one-of-a-kind family entertainment and great basketball skills for the past 90 years. Throughout their history, the Original Harlem Globetrotters have showcased their iconic talents in 122 countries and territories on six continents.

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two unlikely lovers, a spoiled rich debutante and a Black Panther. It is 1968. Corey and Christina meet in Oak Bluffs a black section of Marthas Vineyard. Christina is 17 years old and from an upper class family. Corey is 22 and a member of the Black Panther Party.

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WhaT: The Triads Largest Home & Garden Event is back! The Southern Ideal Home Show is the Triads premier home & garden event where homeowners can shop, compare and find solutions from hundreds of experts on their home and garden needs.

Show features include a celebrity appearance from American Pickers Danielle Colby.

When: 10 a.m.

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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 story time in the lobby of the O.Henry, make your way through the rabbit hole for a tea party in Wonderland.

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You will enjoy everything from local desserts to down home BBQ while you meet the chefs, owners and artisans who create it all.

We begin our tour at Jeffery Adams on 4th and wind our way through the arts district.

When: 1:30 p.m.

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321 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem.

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WhaT: The annual multi-artist extravaganza—one of the world’s leading first quarter tours—Winter Jam 2017 is set to showcase 10 of Christian music’s best and brightest artists: multi Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Crowder; Top 40 hitmaker and Grammy-nominee Britt Nicole and many more.

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MICHAEL MICKIEWICZ-HELPFUL HARDWARE MAN

BY ALLISON STALBERG

Michael Mickiewicz, the owner and store manager of Ace Hardware in Kernersville, has a goal to get his business active in the community.

His Ace Hardware store is two and a half year old business known for its top-notch customer service.

The sense for hardware and business has been a prominent factor in Mickiewicz’s career and family.

“My dad is a building contractor, my brother is in architectural restoration and I was in scenic carpentry for the theater for many years,” said Mickiewicz.

“My dad happened upon an Ace Hardware store in Charlotte, North Carolina. He fell in love with the idea of opening a hardware store with his sons.

My brother wasn’t too interested and I was. That’s how it kind of came to be.”

After living in Greensboro for seven years, Mickiewicz decided to set up shop in Kernersville.

“I like small towns,” he said. “I’ve always grown up in small towns.”

Mickiewicz makes sure that Ace Hardware’s customer service is top-notch.

“We tend to be as helpful as we can be,” he said.

“At a lot of the big box stores, people get turned off because they feel like they aren’t getting help.

Here you are getting help from us right when you come through the door. Just a simple greeting and

what can we help you find today.”

Mickiewicz’s favorite moments in the business are always when the store is involved with the community such as having a shopping center awareness day, having customer appreciation days and even just having Girl Scouts selling by their storefront.

“My plans for the future are to really get actively involved in the community,” said Mickiewicz.

“We’ve started getting more involved with the Chamber of Commerce. I’ve looked personally into getting more involved with the theater department, the Theater of Kernersville. We want to be actively involved in the Spring Folly this year.

“Just the more and more we can get actively involved in the community, being the hardware store that helps, that’s what we want to see first and foremost.”

Ace Hardware’s next customer appreciation day will be on April 8. There will be free hotdogs.

The store’s address is 1537 Union Cross Road in Kernersville.

To learn more, visit them on Facebook at www. facebook.com/AceHardwareofKernersville. !

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TANGER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS GROUNDBREAKING SET FOR APRIL 26 Organizers for the Steven B. Tanger Center for the Performing Arts announced today that the formal groundbreaking will take place on Wednesday, April 26 at noon. The Center is located at One Abe Brenner Place on a site bounded by North Elm and East Lindsay Streets and Summit Avenue. The public is encouraged to attend. It will be followed by a community celebration in LeBauer Park hosted by the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

When completed, the Tanger Center will be a 3000-seat multipurpose performance venue, expected to host over 150 events a year. National touring shows, such as Broadway productions, popular music concerts, comedy tours and all types of family entertainment will be among the opportunities available for area residents. In addition, regional and local productions will be able to showcase their work in a state of the art performance space, including the Guilford College Bryan Series and the Greensboro

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Planning for the Tanger Center first took shape in 2012 when the Community Foundation convened an unprecedented 82-person task force to examine what type of performance space was needed to meet a diverse range of community needs.

The task force included community members, local businesses, and arts groups, as well as top performing arts consulting firms and performing arts center promoters. In addition, the Community Foundation sponsored public design workshops and meetings as part of the process.

Based on the input and direction from the task force and the public, the Community Foundation then helped spearhead a campaign to raise $38.5 million in private funding to match the City’s investment of $39.6 million to build the Tanger Center.

“From the very first stages of this open and transparent process, there has been a tremendous outpouring of support and hard work to bring this project to the citizens of Greensboro,” said Walker Sanders, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. “I want to thank all of those who have given their time, money and expertise during this process,

and I also want to commend the City of Greensboro coliseum director and his staff for their extraordinary efforts on behalf of everyone involved on behalf of the entire community. Those efforts will result in a world class venue we can be proud of and that will serve the community well for many years to come.”

SPRING 2017 “KEEP IT LOCAL” ART HOME SHOW SET FOR APRIL 29 The FREE Twice-Annual Leanne Pizio’s “Keep It Local” Art Show continues into its 20th year with familiar and new artists exhibiting since 1997. The Fall Keep It Local Show is scheduled for Sat., April 29 at Stealing Crow Farm from 10am – 4pm at 2409 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, NC. The Rain Date is Sunday, April 30 at the same time and location. Parking is available on site for free and there will be live music from 11pm -3pm. This year’s showcase focuses on over 20 local visual artists in a variety of media in an exciting, festival-style setting supporting the “Buy Local” philosophy. Works will be for sale in a variety of media: pottery, jewelry, fiber, sculpture, painting, mixed media and

other original works.

The Stealing Crow Farm’s donkeys and special local guest llamas will make a surprise appearance!! Bring your camera or cell phone for pictures with your family and friends.

Founder, Organizer and local potter Leanne Pizio highlights, “We’ve been so lucky to have such support from the entire triad community. The show has grown more than I could have envisioned when it all started and it’s all due to that support of local artists.”

The event includes a popular and unusual way to support our local food banks: the Art Hunt takes place between 11am-2pm (or until artworks run out) by requesting a donation for One Step Further. Basic participation rules are similar to an Easter Egg Hunt: small pieces of artwork are hidden within a roped-off area of the yard; people who donate either 6 cans of food or $5 are allowed to go into the area to find one piece of artwork. In 2016, over 500 pounds of food were raised for the local food bank. This spring event’s proceeds will support One Step Further; to learn about their mission: www.onestepfurther.com. !

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City seeks input on College Hill transportation layout

BY ERIC WALLACE

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he College Hill neighborhood of Greensboro could soon be receiving a layout change as the city looks to make the area more pedestrian-friendly.

The city issued a request for proposals earlier this month for a firm to study potential concepts for improving aspects of the neighborhood layout, including signage, intersection and pedestrian improvements. The city’s timeline calls for a firm to be selected by the end of May. Concerns have been raised about traffic conditions in the neighborhood, including reckless driving and speeding, making it unsafe for pedestrians and bikers. The College Hill Neighborhood Association partnered with the Greensboro Planning Department and local citizens in order to create a 2015 plan that would seek to make the historic neighborhood more attractive. A 2016 plan added onto the 2015 plan to make the neighborhood layout more aesthetically pleasing. This new plan builds off of those previous recommendations.

The neighborhood, designed in the late 19th century, has grown rapidly and doing something about the increasing amount of traffic is the focus of the project.

“Our pedestrian-centric neighborhood has too many cars running through overcrowded streets and off-kilter intersections, often recklessly and too fast,” David Arneke, vice-president of the College Hill

Neighborhood Association, wrote in a recent neighborhood newsletter.

“The College Hill Historic District and surrounding properties have experienced an increase in the number of residential housing units while a number of neighborhood streets have been closed, disconnected, or re-routed,” explains the introductory paragraph of the plan. “These events have coincided with perceived increases in traffic volumes and speeds on certain streets.”

The plan calls for measures to improve traffic conditions by carrying out initial and possibly temporary “tactical treatments to alter street, intersection, and/or sidewalk configurations, for the purpose of slowing traffic, improving safety, and/or enhancing the experience of pedestrians, bicyclists, and other road users,” according to a draft of the plan. It also “may include but are not limited to new paint striping, artistic installations, bollards and landscaping features, street furniture, and signage.”

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After these temporary measures go into effect, city officials will monitor which changes worked and which could be improved upon. The plan also heavily relies on the feedback from residents.

Once determining which changes were successful, the plan’s developers will look to design a more permanent series of traffic and sidewalk alterations.

City officials will determine the effectiveness of the changes by monitoring “motor vehicle speed and traffic volume data, on-street parking usage data, bicycle and pedestrian traffic data, traffic law compliance rate data, comparison of posted speed limits to street design speeds, suitability of street geometry, traffic conflict points, and resident feedback.”

In the initial stages of the plan, city officials will observe key intersections and roads in order to monitor traffic patterns, speeds, pedestrian activity and what times the roads are most crowded.

After determining traffic conditions, the plan will involve constructing a specific series of steps to outline where and how roads and sidewalks will be altered.

The plan will call for “conceptual drawings to illustrate possible design solutions for the priority intersections and street segments along with recommendations for neighborhood signage and branding upgrades to create a cohesive neighborhood street upgrade program. An on-site public workshop in which residents and City staff can vet multiple possible design solutions quickly may be considered.

Said concepts shall be developed in close coordination with City staff, to ensure general acceptability to all relevant departments.”

The city is also seeking a consulting firm that could help develop a more specific strategy to change the layout.

The street design and traffic concerns were mentioned in the 2015 plan as a major point of concern for residents:

“Parking and the impact of buses moving through narrow streets were some of the most talked about issues in the neighborhood survey, summits, and conversations with neighbors,” it states.

“Residents stated a desire for the character of interior streets in College Hill to be returned to that of safe, neighborhood streets designed for people, rather than thoroughfares designed for high speed, high volume motor vehicle traffic.”

The 2015 plan is also a glimpse as to what future changes may be in store for the community and the emphasis of importance they place on walkability: “Respondents stated that one of the things they enjoy most and want to preserve within College Hill is the walkable, diverse atmosphere. Stemming from this point is the strong desire by residents for a neighborhood-scale grocery store and a broader mix of pedestrian-oriented retail development, thereby avoiding the need for significant additional parking.”

The plan’s text also calls for preserving the historic buildings, creating affordable housing and reducing crime.

The 2016 plan is similar in nature and goes even further by laying out steps that can be taken: “Residents in College Hill have expressed a strong desire to begin projects that will enhance pedestrian safety and signal motorists that College Hill is a special residential district where slower speeds are expected. Crosswalk painting and traffic circles are the highest priority projects to consider, but other upgrades, such as lane shifts, speed humps and speed tables are all elements to be studied.”

“Lane shifts and small traffic circles are possible project ideas to calm traffic and create stronger neighborhood identity,” it goes on to state.

It estimates that the traffic upgrades may cost as much as $35,000 total over several years.

College Hill is one of Greensboro’s oldest neighborhoods and the first to gain historic status. The area encompasses landmarks such as Greensboro College, Greensboro’s first fire house, the former Wafco Mill factory and is not far from UNC-Greensboro. The community is home to about 1,565 residents in 757 households as of 2013 according to demographic data listed in the 2015 plan. !

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Remembering the Greensboro Massacre

BY ALLISON STALBERG Greensboro Massacre survivor Signe Waller recounted the facts, emotions and events of Nov. 9, 1979, when she and other members of the Communist Workers Party were gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan during an anti-Klan march.

Her March 11 presentation at the Elsewhere Museum, “We Weren’t Radical Enough,” shared video footage, eye-witness testimonies and deep discussion of activism today.

The presentation began with Waller remembering the activists who were murdered: Sandra Smith, Dr. Michael Nathan, William Evan Sampson, Dr. Jim Waller and Cesar Cauce. She talked about their lives as well as their deaths.

“On Nov. the 3rd she (Sandra Smith) was there looking after the children,” said Signe. “When shots were fired, she ran forward to help the children and someone slammed her on the head with a stick. Her comrades dragged her away to safety behind a building. She poked her head out to make sure the children had gotten to safety and when she did she was shot right between the eyes.”

Jim Waller, Signe’s husband, was elected as president of a local textile workers union and was shot in the back during the massacre.

What all the victims had in common was being organizers and leaders.

“That is why they were singled out to be killed,” said Signe. “Not because they were Marxist. If you’re a theoretical Marxist, you can spout philosophy everywhere and it doesn’t matter. It’s not the label; it’s what you’re doing.

“You’re a threat if you’re uniting workers, black and white. It’s wasn’t good for the mills when we created a sense of comradeship and solidarity among the working class. That is the rational for why this happened.”

On the day of the massacre, the communist workers party had their anti-Klan demonstration with signs that read, “Death to the Klan.” A caravan of nine cars loaded with armed KKK members pulled through the rally. After some protestors hit the cars with sticks, Klan members came out with loaded guns and started shooting.

The Greensboro Police Department did not intervene when the massacre occurred. However evidence has proven that the police were aware of both the protest and that it was going to clash with the KKK. “I can’t say it enough,” said Signe. “The most important thing about Nov. 3rd, 1979 was the absence of police. Later there was an independent commission looking at this and their findings. They said the single most important condition for the loss of life on Nov. 3rd was the absence of police.”

According to The Prism, the GPD gave Edward Dawson, a Klansman-turned police informant, the details of the march’s route. For Signe and other survivors of the massacre, the lack of police was too suspicious when their department was well-informed that two groups that hated each other were going to collide.

“How do you explain that?” asked Signe. “Police were aware that the Klan and Nazi’s were angry and seeking revenge for a militant demonstration against the Klan. Despite what they knew, by the morning of Nov. 3rd they were sent to an early lunch and the only reason that there were some Klansmen and Nazi’s arrested that day was that there were some Klan and Nazi stragglers that didn’t get out in time. By that time there were a couple police officers on the scene, but the police did not follow the fleeing cars.”

Signe and her fellow survivors such as Joyce Johnson and Reverend Nelson Johnson believe that another central piece of the Greensboro Massacre was fear.

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Plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit leave the federal building in Winston-Salem following an unprecedented court victory in which two Greensboro police officers were found jointly liable for a wrongful death in the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. Pictured from left to right are Dr. Marty Nathan (widowed Nov. 3rd), Nelson Johnson, (wounded Nov. 3rd), Dale Sampson (widowed Nov. 3rd), and Signe Waller (widowed Nov. 3rd.) Waller gave a presentation on the legacy of the Greensboro Massacre recently at Elsewhere Museum.

“I want to reflect about fear,” said Joyce Johnson. “There is much fear being bred right now. You can feel it inside of yourself....

It is based on fear and a sense of protecting oneself. It’s that dynamic that’s been taken to great heights in our country that in my opinion is the basis for something like this happening.”

For Joyce, the solution to this condition is to love others. She said that those who passed away in the Greensboro Massacre were people who were equipped with a love and concern for others.

“All five of them were dear friends,” she said. “Sandy Smith was my best friend. I was the matron of honor at her wedding. One of the most difficult things I ever had to do was to call her mom and say ‘Sandy’s dead.’ Jim had love and concern about others. That’s what led him to medicine. As he realized that medicine was necessary but not sufficient, he then did other things.”

Joyce left a message for others in the room.

“See what you can do in this period. You have a chance because people are seeing more now than they have seen but don’t quite know what to do. You have a decision to make. I can promise you if you take that step, it’ll make a difference for you, your mothers and fathers and certainly a difference for your children and grandchildren. Fear is there, but the opposite of fear is love. Not just a love of yourself, but it’s really in loving others that you love yourself. It’ll equip you to do things that you never thought you could do.”

To learn more about the Greensboro Massacre and its aftermath, visit www.greensborotrc.org. !

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We’ve been here before: This time, let’s choose compassion

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or 80 years, the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) of the Piedmont Triad has worked to build a more diverse and inclusive community with opportunities for all of us, not just some of us. Our core beliefs include

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promoting acceptance and opposing discrimination. We envision a community that is compassionate and just for all who live here. Our commitment to compassion is not limited by a person’s ethnicity or religion. It is not limited by immigration status.

As a community, it is vital that we treat our neighbors – all our neighbors – fairly and with compassion. That we give them the same respect and consideration we want for ourselves.

Because of NCCJ’s work with youth, we are always thinking about the messages we send our children. Children are not born thinking of their peers or classmates as “other.” They are not born knowing hate. Hate is something they learn from the adults and role models in their lives.

As adults and role models, when we talk about implementing policies to

discriminate based on ethnicity and religion, or policies to prevent refugees and immigrants from entering our country or force those already living here to leave, regardless of how we feel about such policies we should remember we are talking about people. And labels like “immigrant” or “refugee” do have a way of obscuring the fact that we are talking about people.

About children. About families. About our neighbors.

When our community talks about these discriminatory policies, whether we agree or disagree with them, we must remember they will have real and harmful effects on children and families right here in our community, not in some faraway place.

Whether we deem the consequences of those laws and policies justifiable or not, we should never ignore or disregard the people whose lives they will forever

change.

UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians estimates that more than 60,000 of our neighbors here in Guilford County are immigrants and their children. Among these neighbors are both documented and undocumented people, as well as war victims who came here seeking refuge.

Like the rest of us, they are trying to build a brighter future for themselves and their families.

We have been here before. In our past, Americans have often singled out a group of “other” people based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or some other characteristic. We singled them out because something about them made us feel threatened. Singling those “other” groups out may make us feel safer at first.

But once we begin separating people it can be difficult to stop. What begins as a registry can become a gold star pinned on a jacket. It can become families separated and lives destroyed.

When we as a people have chosen to disregard the humanity of some “other” group, it has led to the worst chapters in American history. The notion that people with dark skin were inferior led us to subject Black Americans to three centuries of forced labor, then another century of oppressive Jim Crow laws. The idea that Catholics were inferior to Protestants led to decades of poor treatment for Irish and Italian Americans, who were often denied jobs and other opportunities. During World War II, dehumanizing stereotypes about Japanese Americans led us to force them into prison-like internment camps.

Each of these periods in our history began with a series of small, everyday choices made by ordinary people. The choice to look the other way when we saw fellow humans being disrespected and treated unjustly. The choice not to speak up.

Today, each of us is faced with an opportunity: the chance to make such choices now, in our own time. The chance to choose a better path. We can take the first step down that path by refusing to see our neighbors as anything less than our equals.

Our children are watching. They are listening and they are learning. They are looking to us to teach them the important things: to be kind and compassionate, to stand up for what is right, and to love their neighbors. It’s up to us to lead the way. !

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— “I tried the $5,000 hamburger, and it was absolutely worth it,” wrote the apparently straight-faced CNBC reviewer Robert Frank in February, describing his meal at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay restaurant Fleur. (The burger included Waygu beef, foie gras and truffles, and was served with a similarly inexplicably priced wine.)

Other recent consumer challenges: an $18 cup of coffee at Brooklyn’s Extraction Lab; a $100 bottle of Norwegian iceberg water (Svalbardi.com); a $2,000 pizza at New York City’s Industry Kitchen (caviar, truffles, gold flakes); and a $25,000 taco at the Grand Velas Los Cabos resort in Mexico (caviar, brie, Kobe beef, langoustine lobster, rare tequila — and once again with the gold flakes).

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Anglers fighting to preserve choice spots on the fishing pier on Sebastian Inlet, north of Vero Beach, Florida, have taken to tossing lead weights and other items at “competitors,” especially those who approach the pier to fish directly from their boats. Such territory marking by the “piersters” includes, according to a February report in Florida Today, perhaps a version of classic mammal behavior, like strategic urination and hurling their feces at the waterborne invaders.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION

— Illinois has problems: a $130 billion unfunded pension crisis, 19 months without a budget, the lowest credit rating and highest property taxes in the country, and the murder rate in Chicago. However, at least the state house of representatives is not standing by idly. In February, it moved to designate October 2017 as Zombie Preparedness Month (basically, adding “zombie invasion” to the list of mobilizations for any natural disaster and urging residents to stockpile food and supplies for up to 72 hours).

— Lawyers for former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. have convinced federal officials that his bipolar disorder was “caused” by the stress of being a congressman and thus that he is entitled to “total disability” worker compensation for an “on-the-job” injury — and thus to about $100,000 a year, tax-free, according to a February Chicago Tribune report. (Jackson, 51, also receives Social Security disability payments.) Lawyers said his disorder (often attributed to genetic factors) surfaced during an investigation into Jackson’s looting of his campaign treasury for luxury goods and vacations (charges eventually settled with a guilty plea). Jackson dated his onset to June 2012, meaning that his

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— A councilman in Overtornea, Sweden, introduced a bill (a “motion”) that workers be given paid “sex breaks” during the business day in order to improve wellbeing and, thus, job performance. The primary beneficiaries would be married, fertile couples, but all workers would receive the benefit. And employers, said Councillor Per-Erik Muskos, would have to “trust” their employees because some surely would “cheat” (by not having sex!).

— Not Clever Enough: Daniel Crowninshield, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court in Sacramento in 2016 to illegally manufacturing assault weapons that had no serial numbers — despite efforts to circumvent the law by claiming that his customers actually “made” their own weapons using his equipment. Crowninshield (known as “Dr-Death” online), an expert machinist, would take a “blank” metal casting and, using special equipment and computer programs, create the firing mechanism for a numberless AR-15 — provided the customer presses a button to start the process. “Pressing the button,” Crowninshield figured, made the customer the creator, not a buyer or transferee of

the gun, and thus exempt from federal law. In February, Judge Troy Nunley, unimpressed, sentenced Crowninshield to three years and five months in prison.

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“Life’s full of peaks and valleys, man,” Californian Georgiy Karpekin told a reporter, but Jan. 18 seemed all valley. Karpekin has both a pickup truck and a car, and as he was leaving Sacramento City College that day during violent storms, a falling tree crushed the truck. When he got home, he learned that the same storm had taken down another tree — on top of his car. (Karpekin, insured and uninjured, called himself “the luckiest guy.”)

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Miami defense lawyer Stephen Gutierrez caused quite a spectacle on March 8 when, representing a man accused of arson, he rose to address jurors, and his pants appeared to catch fire. He insisted afterward that a malfunctioning ecigarette caused smoke to billow from his pocket, but observers had a field day with metaphors and “stunt” theories.

— Despite an exaggerated, widely read headline in London’s Daily Mail, the recent

death of a 50-year-old man in Japan was indeed pornography-related. The man was a hoarder of porn magazines, living alone with an unimaginably large collection, and when he suffered a fatal heart attack sometime early this year, he collapsed atop the piles, where his body was found in February. (The Daily Mail headline had him “crushed” to death under a six-ton stack, but the Mail conceded below the headline that he might have just fallen.)

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Chengdu, China, barber Liu Deyuan, 53, still provides traditional “eye-shaving,” in which he holds the lid open and runs a razor across its inner surface. Then, using a thin metal rod with a round tip, he gently massages the inside of each lid.

Liu told Chengdu Business Daily in April (2013) that he had never had an accident (though the reporter balked at volunteering for him), and a highly satisfied customer reported afterward that his eyes felt “moist” (surely the easiest part of the story to accept) and his vision “clearer.” !

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Damien Wilkins and his NBA experience have been the cornerstone as the Swarm built a team in its first season.

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“Thisssss Issssss” “Swarm!”

Brian “B Daht” McLaughlin stands at center court, starting the call and response chant the Greensboro Swarm have embraced in their inaugural season in the NBA D-League.

Everyone is standing – all fans of the Swarm must do so, McLaughlin says, until they score their first basket. The fans oblige and finally take a seat when Mike Tobey opens up the scoring for the Swarm with 11:11 to go in the first quarter.

It’s Saturday, March 4th, and professional basketball is being played in Greensboro.

The Grand Rapids Drive flew into town to play the Swarm, the NBA-D League affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, at the Fieldhouse in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Swarm come into the night with a record of 13-26. They know they won’t make the NBA D-League playoffs as the season winds down, but on this Friday night, they still play hard.

The starting five for Greensboro is guard Cat Barber, guard Rasheed Suliamon, forward Archie Goodwin, forward Cheick Diallo and Tobey, the center.

If some of these names look familiar, they should – Barber, Suliamon and Tobey once ruled the ACC. Although it feels like forever ago, Tobey and Suliamon faced off once in an ACC Championship game in Greensboro. Tobey’s Cavaliers beat Suliamon’s Blue Devils, 72-63, to win the 2014 ACC Championship. Tobey had eight points and four rebounds in 18 minutes of play, while Suliamon scored two points and grabbed five boards in 23 minutes.

All that, or the fact that Goodwin was a five-star and 15th rated recruit in the ESPN 100 for his class, 2012, or the fact that Diallo was a McDonald’s AllAmerican too but played 7.5 minutes per

game and averaged 3.0 points at Kansas before declaring for the NBA Draft... all that doesn’t matter right now. They are here tonight in the D-League and they are going to play hard because Swarm head coach Noel Gillespie insists upon it.

Gillespie stands during the game, wearing brown shoes, grey slacks, a blue shirt, a dark grey coat and a multicolored tie that brought the whole look together. He walks the sideline like a veteran, but he’s a rookie, developing in his first-year as a head coach just like the rest of his team.

He watches his team jump out to a 19-8 lead after a Diallo jump shot with 7:47 left in the first quarter. The lead keeps growing, all the way to 29-15 after Damien Wilkins’ hits a pull up jumper.

The Swarm are hustling, playing how Gillespie likes them to and maybe how they haven’t played enough this season.

With 3:04 left, Barber, with his cat-like reflexes, steals a long Grand Rapid’s pass in a crazy transition sequence.

“Way to hustle,” someone shouts from the crowd.

At the end of the first quarter, the Swarm leads 33-22. Wilkins, off the bench, has nine points in almost six minutes of action. He led the team in points during the first quarter. Leading, on and off-thecourt, is a role Wilkins has grown accustomed to this season.

At the Swarm’s season-opening media day on Tuesday, November 1st, by far the biggest crowd of reporters surrounded Damien Wilkins.

Wilkins played nine years in the NBA, including four years in Seattle before the team moved to Oklahoma City. Wilkins went undrafted but spent five years with the Supersonics/Thunder franchise. He never started more than 31 games in one season in his career. Three times – in the 2006-07, 07-08 and 09-10 seasons – Wilkins started that same number of games.

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IS SWARM PHOTOS BY TODD TURNER There were highlights and lowlights and everything in between. On November 17, 2007, Wilkins scored 41 points to help the Supersonics earn a 126-123 over the Atlanta Hawks. Some no-name rookie just 10 games into his first NBA season hit the game winning shot. Anybody know how Kevin Durant’s career turned out after that shot?

Wilkins last played in the league in the 2012-13 season for the Philadelphia 76ers.

He bounced around professional basketball after that, playing overseas and with other D-League teams. He even earned a bronze medal at the 2015 Toronto Pan Am games playing for the US National team.

The Swarm signed Wilkins back in October as one of the building blocks of their new team. Remember, the Swarm didn’t exist last season. They’ve built a basketball team out of nothing, thanks in large part to Wilkins.

One of Gillespie’s priorities as a coach has been establishing a professional culture in season one.

“One player who I really attribute that to is Damien Wilkins, who’s been our leader and our veteran and been an NBA guy,” Gillespie said.

Wilkins is happy to share and be that veteran the younger guys in the locker room can look up to.

“A lot of guys gravitate towards my experience and leadership, and I’m always welcome, open to share that, because there’s probably some things I could learn from them as well,” he said The Swarm have experienced a lot of roster turnover this season, a given due to the nature of the D-League. Aaron Harrison and Christian Wood were sent back and forth from the big-league club in Charlotte to Greensboro to get playing time. Mike Tobey was called up to Charlotte for two ten-day contracts. Xavier Munford was the team’s point guard the first half of the season but then signed another deal overseas.

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12.6 points, five rebounds and 3.5 assists in the 2016-17 season. He’s played in 39 games, started in 29 and been there through it all for some of his younger teammates.

“I just try the best I can to share my experiences with guys on the team, just to keep guys encouraged and guys mentally and physically ready to play as best I can and share some of the knowledge that I’ve gained throughout my experience,” Wilkins said.

“And then, show and let them know not to take it all too seriously. Try to enjoy it as much as we can. Have as much fun as we can. I think that’s the biggest thing that they’ve taken away from me, and the biggest thing that I can share.”

The Swarm start the second you quarter the way usually don’t want to start a quarter.

The Drive’s Jordan Crawford drains a three-pointer 17 seconds into the second period, cutting the Swarm’s lead down to eight.

After Wilkins hits a free throw to extend the Swarm’s lead back to 13 with 9:26 left in the second quarter, Cat Barber subs in for Archie Goodwin. Extending a hand to help him up off the ground at midcourt as he checks in is his old N.C. State teammate, Lorenzo Brown, who is playing for Grand Rapids tonight.

Greensboro may be a professional basketball town now, but the team still has its ACC roots. In January, when Barber was playing for Delaware and the 87ers came to Greensboro, the Swarm sold over 300 group tickets, mostly Wolfpack fans wanting to see their old point guard.

Then, the Swarm traded for Barber after

Brian “B Daht” McLaughlin hypes up the crowd during Swarm home games in the new field house at the Coliseum Complex.

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Munford left. In the crowd Friday night was a homemade sign by a fan that read “Thank you Cat Barber.” The youngster, clad in Wolfpack attire, wasn’t thanking him for his time with the Swarm.

Shonn Miller’s turnaround hook shot extends the Swarm’s lead to 19 points with 6:42 left in the second quarter, the largest the lead would be all night.

While the lead dwindled as the quarter went along, Greensboro still found a way to end the quarter with a bang. With 5.9 seconds left, the Rapid’s Crawford misses a short jump shot. Archie Goodwin, showcasing a bit of that McDonalds All-American talent, grabs the rebound and drives the length of the court. He hit a driving layup with .9 seconds left in the half, and even earns an and-one and a trip to the foul line, which he converts.

The Swarm enter the locker room with a 65-50 lead. As the team jogs off the court, Cheick Diallo threw his big arm around Rasheed Suliamon.

Onto the court walks breast cancer survivors, all clad in pink.

Something unique to the NBA D-League is the opportunity to do themed jersey nights. A franchise can have a night where they design special jerseys and then auction them off after the game to raise money for a charity.

For example, on Friday, January 6th, the Delaware 87ers hosted the Erie Bayhawks on Star Wars night. The 87ers wore special R2-D2 themed jerseys that were auctioned off to benefit Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.

“One of the things that we know about this game of basketball is that it’s a connector,” Michele Wolfert, director of partnerships with the Swarm, said.

“And one of the unique things about the D-League is the opportunity to have jersey partners, where through our team and our brand, we can connect a corporate partner to a non-profit through this special jersey night.”

On Friday, March 4th, the Swarm connected one of their corporate partners, Allegacy Federal Credit Union, with Susan G. Komen Northwest North Carolina.

The Swarm wore special pink jerseys against Grand Rapids. It wasn’t a straight pink jersey, but a pinkish camouflage blend that looked good.

They featured the team name “Swarm” across the top, the white team numbers in the middle and the Allegacy logo on the bottom. The NBA D-League logo was tucked into the top right hand corner of the front of the jersey. Greensboro even wore matching pink shorts, creating a pink on pink look for a good cause.

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The jerseys were auctioned off during the game. The themed jersey nights are an example of the communion between the business and basketball operations of the Swarm. The benefit all went to a good cause, too.

In a halftime ceremony, the Swarm welcomed breast cancer survivors onto the court along with Cathy Pace, the chief executive officer at Allegacy, and Diana Parrish, the executive director of Susan G. Komen Northwest NC. Everyone loved the pink jerseys.

“I love the pink jerseys, love the pink jerseys,” Pace said. “I actually found out when Chrystal [Parnell], who is in charge of our PR, said, ‘You are going to be getting a pink jersey tonight out on center court.’ I said, ‘Do I get to put it on when I’m out there?’ She said no, it’s going to be framed. We’ll take it back to our organization and we will feature it very, very proudly.”

Grand Rapids jumps out on a quick 4-0 run to begin the second half, cutting the Swarm’s lead to 11.

Later in the third quarter, Damien Wilkins commits a charge and the Swarm take a full timeout. During the break, there is a dance contest between two young girls on center court. Players in both huddles can’t help but take a peek as the little one dances to “Juju on that Beat.”

The Drive cut the lead to nine five different times in the quarter. Each time, though, the Swarm push it back to double digits. Greensboro ends the quarter with a 4-0 run of their own. The buzzer sounds and the Swarm hold a 90-75 lead with the same 15-point lead that they had entering the half.

At this point, Greensboro has four players in double digits for scoring. Mike Tobey, the Charlotte call-up, leads the way with 18 points on 8-12 shooting from the field.

For a long time, Steve Swetoha was a one-man operation.

A veteran of the professional sports universe, Swetoha was hired in October of 2015 to lead the Swarm as team president. The team didn’t start playing until a year later and was a start-up. Swetoha had to oversee the whole operation from the ground up.

For a while, he spent time in Charlotte, working with the Hornets organization to get everything up and running. The Hornets were instrumental in the smooth transition that has occurred the past two years from idea to fully functioning D-League franchise.

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“It takes people to be successful,” Swetoha said. “We really took our time and deliberately made sure that each hire was going to make a huge impact on our culture and driving results.”

Under Swetoha’s leadership, the Swarm hired staff on both the business and basketball side and even did the simple stuff like finding office space and getting wi-fi. The facility was one of the major challenges for the Swarm, because it came down to the wire whether the building would be ready on opening night or not. But the building, a fieldhouse next to the Greensboro Coliseum, was ready and everything went off smoothly that first night.

In each step of the process of building a basketball franchise, Swetoha emphasized embracing the Greensboro community. The basketball players and staff in Greensboro do community outreach events.

“It’s in everyone’s DNA to give back,” Swetoha said.

Greensboro has returned the favor, offering friendly and growing crowds and embracing their new professional sports franchise. One of the challenges for the Swarm in year one is explaining and introducing their product to the basketballcrazed yet new market in Greensboro.

“The positive response [from] those that supported us in season one and wanting to come back in season two has been overwhelming,” Wolfert, the Swarm’s director of partnerships, said. “I think that’s just a credit to the entire team, front WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

office and basketball ops in that people want to be a part of this season two.”

In that second season, the Swarm hope to do more work with corporate sponsors and nonprofits to create more themed jersey nights. They also want to stay affordable and as a family-friendly experience. But an emphasis in reaching out with the Greensboro community is still a priority that won’t go away.

“There’s still more to do, but [after] the first year, I’m pleasantly surprised with the results and the interactions and the involvement and the impact in the community,” Swetoha said.

After two Perry Ellis free throws with 10:01 left in the fourth quarter that pushed Greensboro’s lead to 94-77, it looks like the Swarm were on their way to an easy home victory. But then Jordan Crawford took over.

Two nights later, on March 6th, Crawford will be in Utah playing for the New Orleans Pelicans on a 10-day NBA contract. He’ll score 19 points on 8-15 shooting from the field in his first game back in the NBA. But none of that matters on March 4 in Greensboro -- tonight, he’s just getting buckets.

He leads the Drive on a 14-2 run. In the blink of an eye, the Swarm saw their lead dwindle to five with 7:15 left in the fourth quarter. If Greensboro wanted a win this night, they were going to have to fight for it.

Greensboro pushes back with a 7-0 run of its own. Grand Rapids punches back to cut the lead to six, then four, then two after Crawford hit a pull-up jumper with 4:24 left in the fourth quarter. Crawford looked tired as the game came to a close, but he just kept finding a way to score.

The Swarm call a 20 second timeout with 59 seconds left in the game and with a five-point lead. On the ensuing possession, Greensboro commits an eightsecond backcourt violation, giving the ball back to the Drive.

Jordon Crawford had the ball at the top of the key, the clock ticking underneath a minute to go. He accepts a screen and got Cheick Diallo to switch onto him on defense. Crawford fiddles with Diallo and fires, missing his three-point attempt. The Drive’s Chris Anderson got the rebound, though, and kicks it back to Crawford for another three-point attempt. It just misses but Anderson got another offensive rebound. Lorenzo Brown reset his team’s offense as the clock hit 30 seconds.

Brown made a spin move and got fouls with 26 seconds to go. He misses his first attempt but makes his second. The Drive were forced to foul, and the Swarm executed to secure the victory, their 14th of the season.

After the game, the Fieldhouse was still alive with energy.

At center court, Swarm players presented their game-worn pink jerseys to

the fans that bought them. The fans and player were brought out to center court for a photo op and as a thank-you for supporting the fight against breast cancer.

Team president Steve Swetoha is all smiles. He’s pleased that 2,137 came out to watch tonight’s game. More importantly, he’s pleased his team raised $4,029 for Susan G. Komen Northwest North Carolina thanks to sales from the jersey auction.

Coach Noel Gillespie sits in his office in the back of the Fieldhouse, content with tonight’s victory. The defensive toughness he’s been craving was there tonight, and he loves how that toughness manifested itself in the Drive shooting just 41.3 percent from the field.

All the Swarm’s players made a lap around the court, taking time to sign autographs with fans that stayed for the post-game session. It’s as if this sort of thing is in their DNA. Cat Barber took pictures with every kid, especially those wearing red, that wanted one. Veteran Damien Wilkins cheerily led the way around the court.

There were children with UNC, N.C. State, Duke shirts on, representing the varied allegiances for other teams throughout the state. But, as seen in the smiles of the little kids as they interacted with the big professional basketball players, some new Greensboro Swarm fans were made this Friday night.

This is Swarm. !

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ARTISTIkA NIGHT CLUB

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BIG PURPLE

812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728 Mar 31: Emily Scott Robinson May 5: Hannah Thomas May 25: dave Cecil Band

THE BLINd TIGER

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BUCkHEAd SALOON

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CHURCHILL’S ON ELM

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COMEdY zONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Mar 24: dave Landau Mar 25: dave Landau Mar 31: Ryan davis & James Hodge Apr 1: Ryan davis & James Hodge Apr 7: Chris Barnes Apr 8: Chris Barnes Apr 14: Mark klein Apr 15: Mark klein

Apr 21: J. Bliss Apr 22: J. Bliss Apr 28: Bodacious Apr 29: Bodacious May 5: Jody kerns May 6: Jody kerns May 11: Julie Scoggins May 12: Jerry Farber May 19: Spanky Brown May 20: Spanky Brown

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620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Mar 25: Big Bump and The Stun guns Apr 1: Elusive groove Apr 8: The Fairlanes Apr 14: gipsy danger Apr 22: jim Mayberry Apr 28: dana & Evan May 6: dj hek Yeh May 13: cc3 May 17: patrick rock May 27: Abe reid and The Spike drivers

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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Mar 22: Fireside collective Mar 25: cc3 Mar 26: Sunday jazz Mar 29: hazy ridge Bluegrass Band Apr 1: The Fustics Apr 2: Sunday jazz

BURLINGTON

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110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Mar 24: Big Thief, palehound Mar 25: valence, drunk in A dumpster, no Anger control, drat The luck Apr 1: Foxture, drugstore ghost, lebaron Apr 13: The duskwhales, Mama, Speak n’ Eye

hickorY TAvErn

206 Harvey St | 336.760.0362 thehickorytavern.com Mar 22: Music Trivia Mar 23: Acoustic w/Mike Bustin Mar 24: james vincent carroll Mar 25: Megan doss

johnnY & junE’S SAloon

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com Mar 24: Them dirty roses Mar 31: daniel johnson Apr 1: Black glass

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101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com Mar 24: james McMurtry Apr 14: Satisfaction rolling Stones Tribute jun 11: Shovels and ropes

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5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Mar 23: old Salt union, jenni lyn gardner Mar 24: leyla Mccalla Mar 25: ralph Stanley ii & The clinch Mountain Boys, circus #9 Mar 26: The page Turners Mar 30: jack Broadbent w/ Big ron hunter Mar 31: dom Flemons

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THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Mar 22: Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets Mar 22: Minus The Bear Mar 23: Blue October Mar 23: Whiskey Myers Mar 24: The Lox Mar 24: Reason Define Mar 25: Grits and Biscuits Mar 26: Matisyahu Mar 30: The Flaming Lips Mar 31: The Dan Band Apr 1: Thursday Apr 1: Cousin Stizz Apr 6: Kehlani Apr 6: Leela James & Daley Apr 7: Kari Jobe Apr 7: Chief Keef Apr 8: The Machine: Tribute to Pink Floyd Apr 9: Marsha Ambrosius & Eric Benet Apr 12: Gogol Bordello Apr 13: Reik Apr 14: Mike Posner Apr 14: Big Sean Apr 15: Dark Star Orchestra Apr 16: Testament Apr 20: Periphery. Sonic Unrest II. Apr 20: Trey Anastasio Apr 21: Adventure Club Apr 22: A Tribute to Coldplay & Bright Lights - Matchbox 20 Tribute Apr 22: STS9 Apr 23: Steel Panther

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Mar 25: Back 2 The 80s Mar 31: Johnny Mathis Apr 6: Anne Lamott Apr 7: Mika Singh Apr 15: Rocktopia

TWC ARENA

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DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Mar 23: Celtic Woman Mar 28: Steve Miller Band Apr 1: Earth, Wind & Fire Apr 23: Brit Floyd

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CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Mar 23: Seven Davis Jr. Mar 31: The Earls of Leicester Apr 5: Dark Star Orchestra Apr 18: Home Free Apr 20: Ben Folds

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RALEIGH

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A Greensboro Fest reboot: Three days of music to showcase the scope of local talent

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

M

usic festivals have been multiplying lately. Sort of like craft breweries.

And, as with beer connoisseurs, many music fans like to know the global scene — to be hip to what’s hoppy in Belgium or Scotland, but they also want to stay up on what’s happening nearby and around the corner. As the weather warms, the northern hemisphere prepares for what will basically be six months of concentrated live music events, organized around a theme, around a style, around eclectic good taste, around a place, whatever.

Of course, there’s live music all year round, but the festival season is a chance to focus and distill. The big national festivals — Bonnaroo, Coachella, Sasquatch, Pitchfork, etc. — pull artists from all over the world, making events that

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are also massive tourist attractions. That allows other smaller, more humble, local festivals to operate in a very different musical ecosystem. Tiny, regional festivals can highlight music from a given area, gathering the best local music to showcase what’s happening in a smaller radius.

Greensboro Fest is an ultra-local music festival celebrating independent music from Greensboro, with a few acts from slightly farther afield. The festival went dormant for a while. The 2013 iteration of the event was the most recent one. But a group of Greensboro musicians, fans, club people and scene boosters have gotten together to revive the festival, which will take place for three days in April. The 2017 Greensboro Festival runs Thursday, April 20 through Saturday, April 22. As of this writing, 26 bands are scheduled to play at eight venues around town.

While music festivals might appear to be proliferating on one level, they’re also

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having their day in the sun and then vanishing, too. Take Winston-Salem’s Phuzz Fest, the planners of which announced that the NC-centric festival wouldn’t have a 2017 iteration. And note, also, that the 2017 incarnation of the National Folk Festival, which will run Sept. 8 through the 10th, will be the last of the festival’s three-year run in Greensboro, before it moves on to another location. State and federal arts funding are never a sure thing — see the current president’s proposed budget cuts to drive home the point — and municipal buy-in isn’t always guaranteed either. And even for those festivals, like Greensboro Festival, that function below the radar of that mainframe arts-and-culture infrastructure, just having the organizational oomph to get creative people together and agree on a set of dates and a location can be a massive challenge.

I spoke to local musician Ben Braxton recently about the reanimated Greensboro Festival. Baxton says the effort was spearheaded by fellow local musician Joe Garrigan, who’s hosted a number of Cover Explosions featuring local musicians all covering the songs of one specific artist or songwriter, with the proceeds generally going to charity.

“We contacted a lot of bands,” says Braxton, “we contacted a lot of people.”

Work on reviving the festival started back in September.

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of unifies all the bands, and honestly we all think that’s kind of important,” says Braxton, who has two projects that will be performing during the festival.

The venues include On Pop of the World Studios, Common Grounds, New York Pizza, Urban Grinders, Westerwood Tavern, Geeksboro, The Crown at the Carolina Theatre, and other locations. Many of the daytime performances will be free, and some of the nighttime shows will have a small cover charge.

Among the bands featured are LeBaron, Menthol, Modern Robot, Instant Regrets, S.E. Ward, Totally Slow, Ebon Strike, Torch Runner, Night Sweats, Vaughn Aed, Corporate Fandango, Cucumbers, Dumpster, the Kneads and another dozen or so acts.

The lineup ranges pretty wide. There’s controlled shoegaze-y psych rock, abrasive punk, hypnotic acoustic music, proggy post rock, shrapnel-spitting hardcore, haunting indie folk, black metal, avant ambient atmospherics, arty garage rock, hyper-energetic ska, lurching noise rock, scuzz jams, and a lot more. If you needed convincing that the Greensboro music scene is eclectic, dipping into sounds that tip the sonic and stylistic hat to every decade of the last 50 years, this is a good horizon-scanning view of the music percolating up from around the area.

“The genres are all over the map,” says Braxton. “This is a big advertisement for Greensboro to come and look at what we’ve got — all together, mixed up.”

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Wed Mar 22

[CHOICE BEATS] Upcoming shows you should check out

MERLEFEST ANNOUNCES SATURDAY LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PLANS

www.lincolntheatre.com MARCH

We 22 RISING APPALACHIA w/Arouna Diarra

Th 23 HIPPIE SABOTAGE

7:30p

Fr 24 REVEREND HORTON HEAT

w/Unknown Hinson / BirdCloud /The Goddamn Gallows 7p Sa 25 WHISKEY MYERS w/Steel Woods Su 26 “FILTHY AMERICA. IT’S BEAUTIFUL TOUR” LOX w/Uncle Murda 7p

We 29 BLUE OCTOBER

w/Mathew Mayfield 7p

Th 30 “GRATEFUL BALL” THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS/ THE JEFF AUSTIN BAND 7:30p Fr 31 PULSE: Electronic Dance Party 1 2 6 7 8

APRIL

RUNAWAY GIN 8p SUPER DUPER KYLE/Cousin Stizz PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW BARCODE SILENT PARTY HERE FOR THE WHYL 10p

Northsiderocky/Nance/DJ doubleJ

Su 9 BOWLING FOR SOUP

7p

w/Runaway Kids / Direct Hit

We 12 OAK CITY PRESENTS: SPRING MADNESS Fr 14 THE BREAKFAST CLUB

6:30p

w/The Jason Adamo Band

Sa 15 PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG Tu Fr Sa Th

18 21 22 27

w/Psylo Joe 8p

DOUG STANHOPE 7p JONNY LANG w/Quinn Sullivan 7p Y&T 8p CODY JINKS

w/Ward Davis / Colter Wall Fr 28 THE MANTRAS w/Dr. Bacon 8p Sa 29 DANGERMUFFIN Album Release

Sa 6 Su 7 Fr 12 Sa 13 Mo 15 We 17 Th 25 3 - 3 3-16 6-23

MAY

SPRINTER METALFEST LIVE/DEAD ‘69 GREENSKY BLUEGRASS @RITZ MOTHERS FINEST 7p REAL ESTATE w/Frankie Cosmos MAYDAY PARADE FRANZ FERDINAND DELTA RAE @ CATS CRADLE TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS OLD 97’s

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America’s top roots music festival MerleFest, presented by Window World and slated for April 27-30, 2017, is pleased to announce the return of two well-known, innovative Saturday night events for late night festival revelers.

Thu Mar 23

7p

w/Kur & Mt. Crushmore

Sa Su Th Fr Sa

Rising Appalachia

The Midnight Jam is one of MerleFest’s most cherished traditions. A host band and a slew of powerful guest artists delight festivalgoers into the early morning hours with unique musical collaborations that create unforgettable MerleFest It is also the festival’s one-ofFriMoments.

Mar 24 a-kind event where fans have come to expect the unexpected.

Hippie Sabotage

For MerleFest 2017, North Carolina’s own Mipso will host the Midnight Jam, bringing its progressive bluegrass roots and indie-Americana sound back to MerleFest. The Midnight Jam is presented by renowned roots music website The Bluegrass Situation and will take place at the Walker Center starting at midnight; a separate ticket is required and available for purchase by four-day, three-day and Saturday ticket holders. Other artists confirmed to play the Midnight Jam this year include Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo, Peter Rowan, Bryan Sutton, 10 String Symphony, Sierra Hull and more!

“Many years ago, Tony Rice and a few others came up with the concept and started the Midnight Jam,” remembers Steve Johnson, MerleFest artist relations manager. “From there the Midnight Jam has become a highlight of the MerleFest weekend, bringing together unique configurations and surprising ensembles of musicians gathered at the festival.

You never know who may walk out from behind the curtain to take the stage on Saturday night in the Walker Center! For 2017, we are extremely excited to have a MerleFest favorite, Mipso, serving as the host band.”

Reverend Horton Heat

Whisky Myers Sat Mar 25

Wed Mar 29

Blue October The Travelin’ McCourys

Mipso Chapel Hill’s indie-Americana quartet Mipso – Jacob Sharp (mandolin, vocals), Wood Robinson (bass, vocals), Joseph Terrell (guitar, vocals) and Libby Rodenbough (fiddle, vocals) – is influenced by the contradiction of its progressive home and the surrounding rural southern landscapes. Currently celebrating the release of its fourth album, “Coming Down the Mountain” (April 7, 2017), Mipso ventures

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MIPSO further than ever from its string band pedigree to discover a broader Americana where classic folk-rock and modern alt-country sounds mingle easily with Appalachian tradition. Adding pedal steel, drums, banjo and keyboards to the intimate four-part harmonies and powerful acoustic meld, Mipso’s music is lush and forward moving, with lyrics that sear and salve in turn. Hailed as “hewing surprisingly close to gospel and folk while still sounding modern and secular” (Acoustic Guitar) and recently recognized by Rolling Stone as a favorite 2016 festival performance, Mipso brings a distinctly unique sound – full of wistful beauty, hopeful undercurrents and panoramic soundscapes.

Mipso’s third album release, 2015’s “Old Time Reverie” (2015), shot up the Billboard charts, landing at No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart and in the Top 25 of the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

The album was named among the Best Records of the Year by The Guardian for the band’s “aptitude for stunning harmonies” and for its “lush and moving songs.” Mipso’s earlier albums were “long, long, gone” (2012) and “Dark Holler Pop” (2013).

Another much-loved, late-night tradition at MerleFest is the lively and loud Saturday Night Dance, which takes place right before the Midnight Jam on the Dance Stage. Nashville-based, rootspop band Front Country will host the dance. With its brand-new album, “Other Love Songs,” already garnering critical praise, Front Country is poised to break out nationally. The band’s high-energy blend of soaring vocals and groundbreaking bluegrass-inspired picking will be hard to resist on the dance floor. This year at MerleFest will be especially meaningful for lead singer Melody Walker; she returns as a performer after winning MerleFest’s Chris Austin Songwriting Contest in 2013 for her song “Black Grace.”

Front Country Don’t ask members of Front Country what kind of music they play. Just listen.

What started as a group of friends playing bluegrass in San Francisco’s Mission District has morphed into a touring powerhouse of song and sound, transcending their humble string band roots. Front Country’s dynamic instrumental textures take flight with grace and gravitas while rooted in the relentlessly soulful vocals of lead singer/songwriter Melody Walker.

Along with mandolinist Adam Roszkiewicz, guitarist Jacob Groopman, violinist Leif Karlstrom and bassist Jeremy Darrow, this quintet has been called passionately intoxicating and orchestral, and Melody’s bluesy vocals have been described as rafter-shaking.

Mobile App Ready for Download: MerleFest has unveiled the 2017 MerleFest mobile app, now available for download. The MerleFest mobile app is offered at no charge to users and features the MerleFest lineup and stage schedules, artist biographies, map, announcements, social media links and more. The app allows users to plan for their entire MerleFest experience. Users who currently have the MerleFest mobile app will receive a prompt on their phones to download the 2017 version of the app.

The app is compatible with Android and iOS platforms. A bonus for MerleFest fans: once downloaded, the app will be fully functional without having connection to phone service.

Tickets for MerleFest 2017 are on sale now and may be purchased at MerleFest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. An advance ticket discount runs through April 26, 2017. Gate pricing begins on the first day of the festival. !

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Deep Dish Comedy turns dancing on its head

by Lenise Willis

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veryone likes showing off. A mere glance at social media and it’s clear that people love coming off as prettier, smarter and simply better than their Lenise Willis peers. Don’t worry; it’s not shameful. It’s Contributing natural. It’s also hard work. So, if you want columnist to appear elevated and brag about going to see a dance performance, but don’t actually want to attend a mature, thought-provoking production, then The Comedy Dance Collective is for you.

Back again is our very own Sarah Barnhardt with her show Deep Dish Pizzazz: Chicago Style Comedy, featuring The Comedy Dance Collective with an opening act by Winston-Salem’s Bunker Dog Improv. The Comedy Dance Collective is made up of former, and “almost dancers” who celebrate movement-based comedy with innovation, creativity and just plain goofiness. Members include Sarah Barnhardt, Jean Bonavita, Holly Gombita, Justin Kimball, Teresa Leahey, Zachary Madison and Michael Silver.

Barnhardt, a former Winston-Salem resident and host for the Winston-Salem Dash (2010-2012), performed her first Deep Dish Pizzazz! at the Hanesbrands Center last year. It featured her solo show “This Is The Worst” and performances by the Tim & Micah Project.

Barnhardt says that this year’s show is completely different.

“Deep Dish Pizzazz plans to feature a different Chicago comedy show with each production,” she says. “This year, DDP is featuring The Comedy Dance Collective.

We’re a mix of dancers who like comedy and comedians who like to dance.”

Put simply, Barnhardt explains that “dance comedy,” is just, “dancing, with the intention being to make the audience laugh.” And that’s exactly what they plan to do. “The audience should expect their face to hurt from smiling,” she added.

The group was created after a performance in a sketch comedy show where Barnhardt and fellow comedian Jean Bonavita tucked their arms in their shirt sleeves and began pretending to be T-Rexes dancing to Dirty Dancing’s “Time Of My Life.” The bit was such a hit that WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Back again is our very own Sarah Barnhardt with her show Deep Dish Pizzazz: Chicago Style Comedy, featuring The Comedy Dance Collective with an opening act by Winston-Salem’s Bunker Dog Improv.

they decided to form an entire comedy group that honed physical comedy. The group debuted at the 2016 Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival and has received rave reviews from its community and inner circle. According to Barnhardt, one audience member exclaimed, “I don’t like dance, but I loved that” after seeing their show twice.

Barnhardt, a graduate of the Second City Training Center’s Writing Program, Conservatory and Music Program, studied at The Annoyance and The Playground and has performed at the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival and NC Comedy Arts Festival.

Her career in comedy began with her love of musical theatre and being cast in comedic roles. After falling in love with Ellen DeGeneres’ stand-up comedy her junior year in college, she was inspired do a semester-long independent study on the psychology of humor. As her final project, she wrote and performed a 35-minute one-woman stand-up comedy show.

She enjoyed it so much that she continued to do stand-up comedy and eventually began emceeing events and improvising. It was when she moved to Chicago in 2013 that she officially began studying comedy at the Second City Training Center.

“I love to make people laugh,” Barnhardt said.

Locals may recognize Barnhardt for her role as June Sanders in Twin City Stage’s Smoke On The Mountain trilogy. !

LENISE WILLIS, a graduate from UNC Chapel Hill’s journalism school, has experience in acting and ballet, and has been covering live performances since 2010.

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Deep Dish Pizzazz: Chicago Style Comedy performs at Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $25. Show runs about 1.5 hours with no intermission. For tickets and more information visit rhodesartscenter.org or call 336.747.1414.

If you’re looking for dinner and a show...and a game of bingo, check out Barn Dinner Theatre’s production of Bingo, The Winning Musical, which highlights three best friends and bingo fanatics. The audience will even play their own game on bingo within the show. Production runs this week through March 31.

Wednesday through Sunday, UNC Greensboro presents Go, Dog, Go!, a play based on the popular picture book

by P.D. Eastman, at the Taylor Theatre on campus. It’s a fun production that features dogs of all colors and sizes.

Friday through April 2, Theatre Alliance of Winston-Salem will highlight the life of a musical legend in its production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway.

Tickets are already sold out for this weekend and are going fast for next weekend. The play follows the singer and songwriter’s rise from his beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to the height of his career at the Grand Ole Opry and his eventual self-destruction at 29. Audiences will enjoy such songs as, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Move It on Over” and “Hey, Good Lookin’.”

New this Saturday, High Point Theatre will host three famed comedians: Vince Morris, BT and Billy D. Washington, each of which you may recognize from some of their popular specials on HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime or other networks.

Next week, celebrate Easter early with The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem’s family friendly musical, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which opens March 31.

Also coming soon is Open Space Café Theatre’s production of the dual romantic comedy and drama Stop Kiss, in which two women kiss in a public park and are transformed by the violent attack that follows. Production runs March 30-April 9.

In other news, The City’s Drama Center Pictures will hold its inaugural Shorts for the Screen Contest, a screenplay competition. The winner’s short screenplay will be turned into a film by Drama Center Pictures. Anyone 13 years old or older who is a North Carolina resident or a member of Drama Center Pictures may enter the competition. The deadline to enter is May 22. For more information, contact Todd Fisher at 336-373-2974. !

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Once upon a time ... the character of Le Fou (Josh whom she eventually tames and Gad) is ostensibly gay, but in then loves. He first imprisons her this context it simply means he father Maurice (Kevin Kline) for comes off as the quintessential plucking a rose from one of his fop, the film’s resident comic trees, then allows Belle to take relief. Luke Evans, as Belle’s his place. would-be suitor Gaston, is so The screenplay, by Stephen dashing and charismatic (even Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopowhen he turns evil) that it would lous, follows the well-known have been interesting had he tale closely, and Bill Condon, Mark Burger played the Beast. having directed Dreamgirls It’s difficult not to compare (2006), knows how to mount a this version with the earlier one, grand-scale musical.

Contributing which was the first animated The star-studded cast brings columnist feature to earn an Oscar nomizeal and panache to their nation for Best Picture and is roles, including Ian McKelwidely considered one of Disney’s all-time len (“Cogsworth”), Ewan McGregor greats, yet this film stands on its own (“Lumiere”), Stanley Tucci (“Cadenza”), merits, chief among them a dazzling array Emma Thompson (“Mrs. Potts”), Audra of CGI visual effects that occasionally McDonald (“Madame de Garderode”), overwhelm the story, but Condon keeps Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Plumette”) and the action moving, which is of paramount newcomer Nathan Mack (“Chip”), who importance in a film like this. He’s deterprovide the voices for “objects” that tend mined to give the audience its money’s the Beast and his castle, having likewise worth. ! been cursed.

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Experiment in terror At Belko Industries, where the motto is “business without boundaries,” it’s not just another day at the office. Indeed, for most of them, it will be their last day alive. At the company’s headquarters, located just outside Bogota, Colombia, an unseen voice (Gregg Henry’s) informs the employees that they are to kill each other until only one is left at day’s end.

Thus begins The Belko Experiment, writer/producer James Gunn’s homage to the savage 2000 Japanese thriller Battle Royale. With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 due in May, Gunn handed the directorial reins to Greg McLean, whose 2005 feature debut Wolf Creek was a cult hit (although not for this critic).

In quick succession, the building is shuttered, trapping everyone inside.

The phones are cut off, cell reception is compromised, and armed guards are waiting outside to take a shot at anyone who manages to get out. If that weren’t enough, the employees have been given surgical implants (ostensibly for security reasons) that have a nasty tendency to explode.

Given that many, if not all, of the characters are expendable, the film boasts

a very capable ensemble cast including Michael Rooker (who has a great death scene), John C. McGinley, Josh Brener, Rusty Schwimmer, Stephen T. Blackeheart, Brent Sexton, Melonie Diaz, Adria Arjona, James Earl, Sean Gunn (James’ younger brother), and John A. Gallagher Jr., whose mid-level manager Mike Milch tries with very limited success – to be the voice of reason. The ageless Tony Goldwyn is especially good as Belko COO Barry Norris, whose initially calm, cool resolve soon gives way to uncontrolled rage.

The Belko Experiment is a gimmick movie, but on those terms it works well enough to likely make it a cult classic. In addition to the violence, which is convincingly rendered and convincingly gruesome (the squeamish are hereby forewarned), there’s quite a bit of black comedy, much of it blunt and all of it bloody. !

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A DOG’S PURPOSE (PG) – 1:30 BEAUTY & THE BEAST 2D (PG) – 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 BEAUTY & THE BEAST 3D (PG) – 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 BEFORE I FALL (PG-13) – 9:55 BELKO EXPERIMENT (R) – 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 CHIPS (R) – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 FIFTY SHADES DARKER (R) – 9:55 FIST FIGHT (R) – 12:15, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 GET OUT (R) – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 HIDDEN FIGURES (PG) – 4:00 JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2 (R) – 7:00 KONG SKULL ISLAND (PG-13) – 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 10:00 KONG SKULL ISLAND (PG-13) – 12:00, 9:00 LEGO BATMAN MOVIE 2D (PG) – 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30 LIFE (R) – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 LOGAN (R) – 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 POWER RANGERS (PG-13) – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 RED TURTLE – 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 SPLIT (PG-13) – 12:15, 2:55, 9:55 THE SHACK (PG-13) – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

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LOGAN (R) Fri & Sat: 11:35 AM, 2:30, 5:25, 8:20, 11:15 Sun - Thu: 11:35 AM, 2:30, 5:25, 8:20 THE SHACK (PG-13) Fri - Sun: 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Mon: 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Tue - Thu: 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 GET OUT (R) Fri & Sat: 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI (MA VIE DE COURGETTE) (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 1:50, 3:35, 5:20 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 1:50, 3:35, 5:20, 7:05, 9:00 FIFTY SHADES DARKER (R) Fri - Thu: 11:30 AM, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (R) Fri - Thu: 11:40 AM, 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25, 11:35 Sun - Thu: 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 THE BOSS BABY (PG) Thu: 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 GHOST IN THE SHELL (PG-13) Thu: 7:00, 9:35 THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Thu: 7:00, 9:40

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The history of madness in North Carolina

BY BRIAN LAMPKIN Reviews of: Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town, by Art Chansky (UNC Press, 2017) & The Road to Madness: How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball, by J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts. (UNC Press, 2017)

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e all know there should have been NCAA tournament basketball games in Greensboro this month.

Instead, Greenville, South Carolina hosted a regional weekend and Greensboro lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, and perhaps the very designation of “tournament town” itself as the ACC also contemplates other locations for its tournament.

We also all know who to blame: the geniuses of bigotry behind the HB2 legislation. Neither the ACC nor the NCAA will land in Greensboro--or anywhere else in

North Carolina--until HB2 is repealed (the ACC tournament was scheduled for Brooklyn this year regardless of HB2, but the conference has made clear that it won’t be back until the transgenderphobic law disappears.).

Obviously, discrimination against the LGBTQ community is not the first discrimination this state has embraced and not the first time that discrimination has intersected with college basketball. In 1966, no African-American basketball player had ever played for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. Coach Dean Smith and New York City playground legend Charlie Scott where about to change that fact. Art Chansky’s book, Game Changers, documents Scott’s difficult decision-making process and includes his final high school years spent at an all-black school in Laurinburg.

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Dean Smith with Charlie Scott. to some of the great NYC players of the era--including perhaps the most legendary of all: Earl “The Goat” Manigault (who had the apocryphally-reported 50 inch vertical leap). The intrigue around the recruiting of Scott to UNC has some cloak and dagger details and Lefty Driesell and Davidson College developed permanent grudges against Dean Smith as he pulled Scott away from the Wildcats lair.

But the real story of Chansky’s work revolves around the “transformation” of a Southern college town. How does a town that thinks of itself as progressive respond to the revelation that the reality does not match the perception? Chansky documents the racism and segregation of Chapel Hill in the 1960s and doesn’t shy away from depicting the viciousness of some of the populace--including a restaurant owner who locked in sit-in protestors and then poured bleach and other toxic substances over their heads. Chapel Hill residents who think rosily of the oasis of their town would benefit from the historical reexamination Chansky provides.

Apparently the title makers at UNC Press had transformation on their minds.

The transformation in The Road to Madness is less compelling and less convincing.

But it is a much better book on college basketball. The authors, Randy Roberts (who wrote the excellent book on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Blood Brothers,) and J. Samuel Walker, make the case that the 1973-74 season marked the end of a dynasty (it did) and the awakening of the NCAA tourney as a major cultural force.

The fact that the Final Four took place

in Greensboro makes it an even more interesting proposition.

North Carolina State won that year’s tournament and thus ended UCLA’s seven-year run. David Thompson, Tommy Burleson and Monte Towe became Wolfpack legends, but the ’74 season could have been the most boring in memory and the behemoth of March Madness would still have inevitably risen.

There are a spate of sports books (and general history books) that argue for a particular year as the single pivot point in history.

All of them argue too adamantly for the speculation of their thesis (I think the most egregious of these books is Greil Marcus’s Like A Rolling Stone, which argues for one song as the transformational moment in history.). The one thing that is clear from the cover of this book is that 1974 marked the peak year of the full mustache as the height of male fashion. It’s a transformation we’re all glad to see wane.

Still, the actual sports writing in The Road to Madness is so good. It is difficult to convey the drama and immediacy of a great basketball game, and Roberts and Walker do an admirable job of bringing the important details to the page. The reliving of NC State’s holy upset of UCLA is told in vivid, minute-by-minute exegesis that withholds the right information until the right moment.

And maybe the game did transform the Gate City. “For the city of Greensboro, the state of North Carolina, and the South as a region, hosting the 1974 NCAA championship tournament was a rare and greatly valued privilege,” the authors argue. We’ve squandered the privilege. “Greensboro was not an obvious or natural choice,” they continue, but it became the center of the basketball world because there was “an almost fanatical interest in college basketball.”

The authors also suggest that the civil rights sit-in movement and Greensboro’s role in racial justice movements gave the NCAA committee reason to believe that this city could effectively host a multiracial event. It will take a similar movement to convince the outside world that Greensboro does not hold with the bigotry of the state legislation. If we want another tournament, we might need another transformational movement against discrimination. !

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RiverRun from two perspectives play there forever,” he says. “It’s When the 19th annual Rivergot a great reputation amongst Run International Film Festival filmmakers. I’ve heard nothing opens next week, the contingent but great things about RiverRun. of visiting filmmakers will inIn fact, two of my filmmaker clude some fresh faces and some friends – Adam Roffman and familiar faces. Among the latter Matthew Millan, both fantastic are Stanlet Nelson, recipient of filmmakers and great people – the Master of Cinema award at will be attending this year, so the the 2015 festival, with his latest event will be a happy reunion.” documentary, Tell Them We Mark Burger Brown’s narrative feature, Are Rising: The Story of Black The Other Kids, which will be College and Universities, and Celia Weston, a graduate of both Contributing screened at a/perture cinemas April 3, 4 and 5, has already Salem College and the UNCSA columnist made waves on the festival School of Drama, who will recircuit, earning the Grand Jury ceive a Master of Cinema award Award at the Florida Film Festival, Best and who appears in In the Radiant City, Feature at the Charlotte Film Festival, opposite fellow UNCSA graduate William Best Narrative Feature at both the New Abbott Jr. and produced by UNCSA graduJersey and New Orleans film ate Jeff Nichols, who received the Emergfestivals, the Storytellers ing Master award at the 2013 festival.

Award at the Destiny City Another RiverRun veteran is Brian Film Festival, the Special Jury Gersten, whose short film Caviar Dreams Award for Truth in Storytelling will be shown as part of the NC Shorts at the River’s Edge InternaProgram Two, screening at SECCA April 2 tional Film Festival, the Indie and at Hanesbrands Theatre April 7. GerSpirit Award at the Naples Instein’s documentary short The Hollerin’ ternational Film Festival, and Contest at Spivey’s Corner was screened at the Audience Award for Best last year’s festival, and in 2015 he was a Feature at the San Francisco juror for the short documentaries.

Independent Film Festival, “I’ve felt very lucky to be a part of the as well as strong reviews in festival in recent years,” he says. “When I Variety and the San Francisco Chronicle. was asked to be a juror it was a real honor.

The film follows a group of small-town I was fairly new to filmmaking at the teenagers fast approaching graduation time – I had just started an MFA program from high school. Brown collaborated in documentary film at Wake Forest – so I closely with his young ensemble cast felt somewhat out of my league amongst (Savannah Bailey, Hunter Gilmore, Abby far more experienced and successful film Stewart, Sienna Lampi, Kai Kellerman, professionals who were on the juries. But Isaac Sanchez, Natasha Lombardi and Joe that’s what made it such a memorable McGee) to create a relevant portrait of and unique experience. I was afforded the opportunity to watch and judge some of the best short documentaries that year, and it gave me some real insights in terms of understanding the characteristics of a world-class documentary film. In that regard, it certainly helped me with my own work and inspired me to put a lot more thought into my films.

“From the perspective of a filmmaker, to ultimately see your own work get screened at RiverRun is incredibly gratifying, and validating, and rewarding because the festival is just so well programmed and so well-attended. They really bring in some of the best films and filmmakers around, and I think WinstonSalem does a great job of rallying around the festival, so I just feel so fortunate to be a part of it all.”

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youth in transition told completely from their individual and collective perspectives. Some are trying to find themselves, others to lose themselves. Nowhere is that more evident than in the climactic graduation scene, where the camera passes from character to character as “Pomp and Circumstance” plays. For some, it feels like a beginning. For others, it feels like the end. (“Very true,” notes Brown.)

“To me, the typical high-school movie seems more about other movies than about life,” he says. “I guess I wanted to make a film that reflected something of my own high-school experience, (and) I wanted to make something that honestly reflected the lives and concerns of teenagers today. The actors in The Other Kids weren’t simply performing a predetermined script; they co-write the film using raw materials from their own lives.

“Having made both fiction films and documentaries, I wanted to figure out a way to make a narrative film that had the rhythm and feel of a documentary – something that looked and felt real,” he states.

“In the typical high-school movie, all the supposed ‘teenagers’ are played by actors in their 20s and 30s, which for me totally undermines any sense of reality. I wanted to avoid this at all costs. These kids weren’t just actors giving life to some predetermined idea I had, they were full collaborators in the process. If the film works at all, it is because of the kids themselves and everything they brought to it.”

“I think everyone who comes to RiverRun – whether you’re a juror, a new filmmaker, a veteran filmmaker, or just an audience member – they’re all so passionate and devoted to film,” observes Gersten. “It’s an inspiring group of people to be around, and it makes it such a positive and wonderful festival atmosphere.

One of the things I like about RiverRun is how reliable it is. I know I can count on a variety of things each year: Amazing films, remarkably hospitable staff and volunteers, great parties and events, and just a friendly and supportive filmmaking community.©“I think at other festivals around the country I could easily feel out of place or out of my element, but I think the staff, the volunteers, the community and the other filmmakers make you feel right at home. It’s been a real treat to keep coming back each year.” !

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hen the sweet tooth hits, there is almost no denying it. Why should you, after all we only live once, right?

We’ve conjured up some faves of our family and friends and hope that when your craving calls out to you, this sweet list helps navigate you through the land of pastries, chocolate, cakes and confections.

We are going on experience and advice only and the list is in no particular order…

WINSTON-SALEM Deweys (262 S. Stratford Rd): The icon…the king. Before there was anybody there was Dewey’s and Krispy Kreme. And quite simply, If you grew up here, these treats are what you grew up with and still enjoy today. Moravian cookies, Moravian sugar cake and though Dewey’s makes it all, it’s the cake squares that keep us coming back. Specifically, the pink lemonade.

And if that’s not enough, now they add that cake to ice cream.

West End Coffeehouse/Twin City Gelato (390 North Broad Street) If what you are craving is a brownie as big as your head, this is the place to sink right in. They’ll warm the brownie for you even. You’ll also find a small selection of desserts and flavorful house-made gelato.

And we’re told to expect a new menu and new extended hours soon.

Tart Sweets (848 West 5th Street): Located in the historic Rosenbacher House, Tart Sweets is completely charming and is famous for custom cakes and desserts. But don’t miss Chelsea Tart’s beautiful macarons that come in a terrific assortment of colors and flavors. And Tart Sweets recently started offering your favorite guilty pleasure raw cookie dough that’s safe to eat. There’s a whole bar of Dolci Dough. Ice cream doughwiches, and scoops, are available now on Friday and Saturday until they run out. Jars are available all week.

Twin City Hive (301 Brookstown Avenue): TCH has been getting back into the chocolate game and the desserts are on point as well. Co-owner Terry Miller bakes the goods and the charming coffee shop and lounge can satisfy you with an after dinner dessert like layer cakes, poundcake, or cookies until 8:00pm weekdays and until 9:00pm on Friday and Saturday.

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Atelier Bakery On Trade (533 North Trade Street) Where do we begin? There’s just none like Pastry Chef Pablo del Valle’s Frenchinspired pastries. Pain au chocolate, French “Churro” (think an cinnamon/sugar croissant), fruit patisseries, lemon tarts, brownies flecked with gold leaf….it’s a truly decadent, step-into Paris experience.

But for now, Atelier closes at 7:00pm so your craving may need to be catered to earlier in the day. But it’s so good when you take it home. And can we just suggest the Canelé?

Black Mountain Chocolate (732 Trade Street NW) Chocolate made every day right here in their own factory. We highly recommend any of the delicious chocolate tarts you might find in the case, macarons and any new, fun bars that Pastry Chef Tirra Cowan is creating. You’re sure to find a sweet chocolate treat with great texture that totally hits the spot. And if nothing else, take home one of the amazing chocolate bars. You can enjoy it slowly by doing your best to eat it over the course of a couple of days.

Camino Bakery (310 West Fourth Street): This remains the queen of the bakeries around here based on longevity and busyness. Along with the daily assortment of fresh breads, Camino has awesome sweet treats like cheesecake, cookies and specialty cakes and tortes. And the fact that they stay open later than anybody else helps tremendously when your craving comes at the most inconvenient time of 9:17pm. Camino has another location in the Brookstown area at 300 S. Marshall Street that acts as the main kitchen, but closes earlier than the flagship store.

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COMING SOON… (NEWS WITHIN THE LIST!) The Humble Bee Shoppe (1003 Brookstown Avenue): Coming in April to the space behind Mozelle’s, owner Brittany McGee plans to fill a niche….focusing on cookies, but in a whole new way. “People think, oh it’s just a cookie and don’t give a cookie the credit that it is due. I take a different approach and play with different flavor profiles like savory and sweet and really interesting combinations. The cookie has so much potential and hasn’t been tapped into in the Triad area.” McGee also says she plans on a menu of macarons, scones, specialty cakes, pies, galettes

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Christina’s Dessertery (1483 River Ridge Drive, Clemmons): Gorgeous wedding and occasion cakes to be sure, but if you just need a yummy little cupcake or slice of cake in the middle of the day on the west side of Forsyth County, they can hook you up.

GREENSBORO The Baker and the Bean (433 Spring Street, Morehead Foundry): You can order custom cakes here as well and you’ll see a nice selection of cakes available by the slice, macarons, cupcakes and ice cream.

There’s not a whole lot of seating but the spot is right next door to burgers and finer dining so it’s a great choice after your meal and if you feel like staying late, you make your way to the back of the bakery, where the speakeasy, Hush, is tucked away and waiting.

Cake and All Things Yummy (103 E. Mountain Street, Kernersville): Monstersize cupcakes and lovely custom cakes can be found here in the center of it all, K-Vegas. We like to get a few cupcakes between us and share them because they are so big. We highly recommend the coconut pineapple. It’s divine. The shop has recently expanded and is now open until 9pm on Saturday, which is so welcome in this town.

Cheesecakes By Alex (315 South Elm Street ): This little shop downtown has become somewhat of an icon. The choices of cheesecake flavors made with milk and cream from a local dairy can be daunting but my absolute favorite is the Creme Brûlée cheesecake. It’s like the best vanilla cheesecake ever, with a crunchy, caramelized top. Luckily the space has grown to accommodate its loyal following. And Chef Alex Amoroso sells other things. I’m told they’re fabulous …the macarons, whoopie pies and Blue Velvet Cake come to mind.

But if the sweet tooth demands cheesecake, there’s just no better in the area.

Amoros’s Bakery (5824 Samet Drive, High Point): Ralph Amoroso has certainly created a name for himself and his bakery in the Palladium Shopping Center as you just enter High Point. Cookies, cupcakes, cakes and more. This is one of the few bakeries that offer a plethora of choices, including cannoli…which they fill upon order. Dreamy. And folks in the Gate City can now enjoy Amoroso’s in the Guilford College area as well. Both locations are open until 9pm.

Again, after asking around, these sweet shops are what comes tops on the list. If there is a complaint at all in this, it may be that hardly any bakery stays open late, with the exception of Cheesecakes by Alex and Camino Bakery. And since our area is growing by leaps and bounds when it comes to food, one can only hope that an exclusively dessert eatery (say resembling Asheville’s French Broad Chocolate Lounge) that also stays open late, is just around the corner. It would kill it. !

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[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is an incredibly busy week with aspects to your sign coming from everywhere! Surprise shifts and changes will be coming out of the woodwork. Beware of an authority figure who may try to undermine you. Think carefully about what is truly important to you now in your life. Don’t allow old habits or rules from the past to make your decision for you.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Mars, the Warrior planet, is in your sign. You may find that you anger more easily. This started near March 9 and will be relieved after April 21. Take good care of yourself.

No risky or potentially harmful activities.

Your subconscious mind is trying to give you a message. Pay attention to “coincidences”, and remember your dreams. If you have experienced abuse in the past, memories may surface for resolution.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Information has been flying your way thick and fast.

A surprise concerning a friend or a family member might have you reeling. This is a good week to let yourself be quiet while you absorb the changes that have come your way. If you feel on edge, transfer that energy to physical exercise.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This continues to be a period in which you should give yourself every opportunity to be out and about in the social world. New people who come into your life during this time may become teachers or guides on your next path. Give thought to what you need from your closest relationships for a few weeks and then talk it over later after Venus goes direct.

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Travel and connecting to others may feel healing to you now. Allow those you encounter the opportunity to teach you something. You may literally be experiencing education this

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[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) You may be the recipient of a flood of information. It is unsettling and hard to process.

However, it is not a good idea to share any of it with others right now, because you don’t know what is fact or fiction. Recognize that you may manifest your thoughts, both positive and negative, into reality.

Avoid brooding.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Partners and significant others may seem to move into retreat mode. If it is not “out there”, it may be inside. You may need to retreat into the quiet and have fewer people in your daily activities. Clientele may diminish for a while. It is not permanent, so don’t worry about yourself. Examine what you really need from those who are in your life daily and prepare to ask for it.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) This is going to be a challenging week.

Read the lead paragraph and take very good care of yourself. Machines, tools, and kitchen knives can be weapons if not handled with care. It is possible that your partner or lover may be of assistance if you get into a tight place. Beware of obsessive thinking about something you cannot change. That just uses your energy.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Circumstances on the romantic front are favorable with one who shares intellectual interests. Activities involving teaching/learning are favored, along with good aspects for travel. Stretch your mind and open it for new perspectives.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Stressors related to home, hearth and family members may be an irritation to you this week. If someone disagrees with you, don’t run them over with the tank. Open your mind and listen for the kernel of truth.

Follow the advice in the lead paragraph and take care not to attempt more than your body can do.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) It will be a challenge to accomplish forward motion this week. Do what you can and let it go for another time. You may experience problems with broken equipment that distracts your time and energy.

Some weeks are like that. Be patient with yourself.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your mind needs a break from tedium. Give it a break with a delicious novel, art work, and music. Pisces worries about everybody and particularly this country, given present circumstances. You do not have to be “on duty” at all times. This is a good week for a break.

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I’m a 27-year-old guy, and I’m not very funny. I know women like a guy with a sense of humor, so I was interested in these “Flirt Cards” that I saw on Amy Alkon Kickstarter. Each card has a funny Advice message, and you Goddess write your number on the back and give the card to a woman you’d like to meet. Good idea or bad for breaking the ice? — Single Dude Using a pre-printed card to hit on the ladies makes a powerful statement: “I’m looking for a kind woman to nurse me back to masculinity.”

Asking a woman out isn’t just a way to get a date; it’s a form of display. Consider that women look for men to show courage. (The courage to unwrap a pack of cards doesn’t count.) And mutely handing a woman some other guy’s humor on a card is actually worse than using no humor at all — save for extenuating circumstances, like if it were the Middle Ages and you’d had your tongue cut out for unseemly behavior with the earl’s livestock (again).

Consider evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller’s “mating mind” hypothesis — the notion that “our minds evolved not just as survival machines, but as courtship machines.” Miller explains that the mind acts as a “fitness indicator” — a

sort of advertising agency for a person’s genetic quality (among other things).

Humor is a reliable (hard-to-fake) sign of genetic quality — reflecting high intelligence, creative problem-solving ability, and a lack of mutations that would handicap brain function.

But it isn’t just any old humor that women find attractive. Any guy can memorize a joke. Accordingly, in a study of the pickup lines men use on women, psychologists Christopher Bale and Rory Morrison “distinguish wit (spontaneous jokes that fit the context exactly, are genuinely funny, and require intelligence) from mere humor (the pre-planned jokes and one-liners which ... do not demonstrate intelligence).”

Anthropologist Gil Greengross, who studies humor and laughter from an evolutionary perspective, suggests that even a guy who’s lame at humor should at least take a run at being funny: “The risk of not even trying to make women laugh may result in losing a mating opportunity.” I disagree — though only in part. If you’re unfunny, trying to force the funny is like bragging, “Hey! I’m low in social intelligence!”

However, you shouldn’t let being unfunny stop you from hitting on a woman. What you can do is be spontaneously and courageously genuine. Just put yourself out there and say hello to her and acknowledge and even laugh at any awkwardness on your part. This isn’t to say you should give up entirely on using pre-printed notes. Save them for special occasions — those when your message to a woman is something like “Stay calm and put all the money in the bag.”

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My girlfriend’s father is a famous actor, and I’m on my way up. I worry that if things go wrong in our relationship, he could put a big kibosh on my career. I guess because of this, I find myself putting up with more stuff than I might normally. I wonder whether our relationship will suffer because of my secret worries about her dad. — Marked Man There’s doing the right thing, and then there’s doing the right thing for the right reasons. Ideally, you refrain from shoplifting because it’s wrong to steal, not because they show videos of shoplifters on the news sometimes and your nose always looks so big on security camera footage.

It turns out that there are two fundamental motivations for all life-forms — from microbes to men. They are “approach” (going toward good, helpful, survival-promoting things) and “avoidance” (moving away from bad, dangerous, deadly things). Research by social psychologist Shelly Gable suggests that romantic relationships are happier when they’re driven by approach rather than

avoidance motives.

So, say your girlfriend asks that you put food-encrusted plates in the dishwasher instead of leaving them out for the archeologists to find. An approach motivation means doing as she asks because you’re striving for a positive outcome — like making her feel loved — instead of trying to avoid a negative one, like having your fate in showbiz patterned after that first guy in a horror movie who gets curious about the weird growling in the basement.

The research suggests that you can happy up your relationship by reframing why you do things — shifting to an “I just wanna make her happy” motivation. To do that, set aside your career fears and just try to be fair — to both of you. The relationship may fizzle out. Even so, if you don’t do anything horrible to Daddy’s little girl, there’ll be no reason for him to see to it that you look back on a lifetime of iconic roles — like “White Guy With Umbrella” and “Bystander No. 5.” !

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