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Cornell scientists and others say the US fracked gas boom has become a leading driver of global heat records since 2014.

Stopping the super-potent methane spewing – from fracked wells to power plants – is crucial to averting runaway climate chaos.

Low-wealth communities and people of color are least responsible for global warming pollution but are suffering disproportionately.

Duke Energy and the Koch brothers are driving the fracking boom and suppressing public debate.

Now is the time: Help slow climate change and advance clean energy!

Join our campaign calling for a statewide ban on the import and use of fracked gas.

1. Get your organization, business or civic leaders to sign the Emergency Methane Action resolution to Governor Roy Cooper at ncwarn.org/ema.

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Winston-Salem resident, CAROL ROAN, will turn 86 years old in August. “There seems to be an age,” she says, “when you suddenly become wise and inspirational instead of invisible. For me, that age was 84.” She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress in a short film at Cannes, and she continued publishing her written work.

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Fresh Starts and Full Plates marked a milestone for PROVIDENCE RESTAURANT & CATERING but the event last Sunday also marked giant leaps for hundreds of people whose lives have changed by being a part of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina’s Triad Community Kitchen.

10 FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB (FNMC) hit the Winston-Salem music scene in early 2017, and it’s quickly grown from one man’s passion project into a team effort that could aid many groups within the Triad, from nonprofits to students to musicians at large.

11 Among the summer blockbuster hopefuls roaring into multiplexes this summer, Disney/Pixar aims to reap a fair share of box-office bucks from CARS 3, the third (thus far) in the popular big-screen trilogy, and the studio is hitting the road nationwide to promote its latest animated extravaganza with Cars 3: Road to the Races.

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Jack Bouboushian sometimes does a funny thing when he’s working on music with his bandmates in the psychedelic post-punk avant-blurt Chicago outfit CROWN LARKS. Bouboushian will occasionally write out parts for new material and then, when getting together with the band to rehearse, he’ll only show them portions of what he’s come up with.

19 I recently spoke with poet and fiction writer Fred Chappell about Ben Matthews and his Greensboro institution. “All bookstores should be eccentric,” said Fred, “and THE BROWSERY was the most so, particularly because of the clientele. And then you have Ben himself, the good shepherd of all us aardvarks.”

20 There are a lot of people in positions of influence and power who do not know what they are doing. Whether they are simply in over their heads or are trying to put something over on people, they are faking.

In other words, there is a lot of BULLSHIT in this world masquerading as competence and authority.

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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY

TRAVIS TRITT THURSDAY WINSTON-SALEM DASH THURSDAY

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TRAVIS TRITT

WINSTON-SALEM DASH

WHAT: Travis Tritt and his full band are the first of multiple artists to visit the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds as part of the 2017 Classic Country Concert Series. More than 25 years after Travis Tritt launched his music career, the Grammy award-winning artist continues to sell-out shows, top sales charts and stay true and relevant to Country music fans across the globe.

WHEN: 6 p.m.

WHERE: Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex. 411 Deacon Blvd Winston-Salem.

MORE: $20-$150 tickets.

WHAT: The Dash play at beautiful BB&T Ballpark in downtown Winston-Salem. The Dash offer the best family-friendly entertainment in the Triad! You can view Your Home Teams 2017 schedule and purchase your tickets at milb.com.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: BB&T Ballpark.

951 Ballpark Way, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $8-$16 tickets.

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FRI 12

BOOK SIGNING FRIDAY

FRI 12

ART OF MURDER: A DARK AND MYSTERIOUS COMEDY

JOHN FRANCIS TRUMP BOOK SIGNING

WHAT: Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, is patiently waiting for his art dealer to arrive. When the visit doesn’t go as planned, Jack lays out his intentions for retribution to his wife Annie. Will Jack carry out the plan? Will Annie help him? Or is something else going on?

WHEN: 6 p.m.

WHERE: The Barn Dinner Theatre.

120 Stage Coach Trail, Greensboro.

MORE: $43-$63 tickets.

WHAT: Author John Francis Trump signing his new book, Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State. The event will also be a panel discussion about the state of craft distilling here in North Carolina, and the hardships and benefits of starting a craft distillery. Representatives from distilleries in the book will be present for the panel, along with some samples of their spirits.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Scuppernong Books.

304 South Elm St., Greensboro.

MORE: Free entry.

SAT 13 MAYFEST WHAT: MayFest is a street festival sponsored yearly by the Pilot Mountain Civic Club to raise funds for local agencies, schools, fire departments, Toys for Tots, Pilot Mountain Outreach, and many others that help make our community better. Downtown is closed off to normal traffic for at least 130 spaces for arts and crafts. There are at least 20 food vendors. There is one area for the kids with inflatables. Musical bands will be playing most of the day at the Bandstand area.

WHEN: All day WHERE: Downtown Pilot Mountain.

MORE: Free entry.

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SAT 13 PICKIN’ IN THE PARK BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL WhAT: Pickin In the Park is FREE to the public and is held in a beautiful, family friendly setting at Hagan Stone Park in Pleasant Garden, NC. Each festival features great national, regional and local bands, instrument workshops, food and craft vendors on the grounds.

When: 10 a.m.

WheRe: Hagan-Stone Park.

5920 Hagan-Stone Park Road, Pleasant Garden.

MoRe: Free entry.

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WhAT: It’s that time again for our annual Drag Queen Car Wash.

Get your car washed, and support Pride Winston Salem $10.00 suggested donation.

When: 11 a.m.

WheRe: Washington Perk.

228 W Acadia Ave, Winston-Salem.

MoRe: $10 suggested donation.

WhAT: At Hopfest, guests enjoy more than just beer. Born from a vision of revitalizing tired spaces in growing cities, Hopfest brings together exceptional craft beer, a solid selection of food trucks, local vendors, artisans, and makers in a pop-up flea market, and marvelous musicians. A one-of-a-kind festival right in Greensboro’s backyard. Featuring Marley Marl, Craig G, DJ JS1, Beatbox House, Meres One, Sloke One, Patch Whisky, Spud and Jerms.

When: 5 p.m.

WheRe: The Tracks.

302 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro.

MoRe: $10-$35 tickets.

SAT 13 ANNE-CLAIRE NIVER QUARTET WhAT: On select Saturdays, you can enjoy vintage craft cocktails and delightful tapas garnished with an eclectic array of jazz artists performing in the styles of contemporary jazz with no cover charge! This week’s featured artist is Anne-Claire Niver Quartet.

When: 6:30 p.m.

WheRe: Proximity Hotel.

704 Green Valley Road, Greensboro.

MoRe: Free entry.

Tue 16 HAYMARKET RIOT WhAT: Songwriters and musicians Charlotte Whitted and Jon Epstein from the band HayMarket Riot will present their experiences collaborating with people experiencing homelessness in the Triad in a an effort to raise awareness of the experiences of the homeless and contribute to local philanthropic efforts. This presentation is brought to you by the Nashville Songwriters Association Piedmont Triad North Carolina chapter.

When: 6:45 p.m.

WheRe: Salem Music.

601 S Broad St, Winston-Salem.

MoRe: www.nashvillesongwriters.com

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Fresh Starts and Full Plates with Triad Community Kitchen

resh Starts and Full Plates marked a milestone for Providence Restaurant & Catering but the event last Sunday also marked giant leaps for hundreds of people whose lives have changed by being a part of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina’s Triad

Community Kitchen.

Nearly 200 supporters, sponsors and community leaders joined the gala to celebrate Triad Community Kitchen’s ten year anniversary and Providence is an extension of that organization. It was an inaugural stand-alone fundraising event “celebrating ten years of changing lives one recipe at a time.”

Triad Community Kitchen, or TCK, has always been about fresh starts. The culinary training program is designed to help unemployed and underemployed individuals reach a goal of sustainable employment, particularly through the hospitality industry. In October 2015, Providence opened as a real world training ground for TCK graduates to be a part

(Left) Alumna Chef Janis Karanthas (Right) Co-chairs Linda Sullivan, Nan Griswold, CEO Clyde Ferguson, co-chair Ginger Hauser of the “learning continuum” and earn a living wage.

The fundraiser also marked another opportunity for Providence to show its interpretation of Farm to Fork regional cuisine and to celebrate over 600 alumni as well as members and supporters of the organization, along with farmers and contributors, like other local chefs, restaurants and businesses.

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Guests enjoyed a cocktail hour with silent auction and eventually moved to a ballroom where several farm-sponsored food stations were set up for service while the Wally West Little Big Band played old standards. Emcee for the evening was former WXII anchor Cameron Kent and the guests got to hear from leaders and alumni whose lives have been made the better since graduating from TCK. Founding Director and TCK Executive Chef Jeff Bacon said it was the perfect way to celebrate how far Second Harvest Food Bank has come and how they may continue to serve. Bacon brought the TCK concept, one which he had seen run successfully in other parts of the country, to Second Harvest Food Bank of NWNC ten years ago. He knew there was a need here and said he had to make it happen.

Bacon says he’s proud of the impact it has had on others. “Technical skills are only part of the equation. You can teach a person how to dice or make a sauce or roast a chicken properly, but that doesn’t mean you will be successful in life or in the workplace. There’s so much more to it than that. There’s the family element here, the life skills, being coachable in a team environment, to believe in yourself. It’s amazing when you haven’t been encouraged in so long, what a little

encouragement will do. That’s what TCK and Providence do, they give people that culture of encouragement.”

Clyde Ferguson, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of NWNC thanked supporters for helping them celebrate these milestones. “Our food bank’s mission is to provide food and hope to our neighbors who have far too little of both. While we simultaneously work with the people we serve and other fine organizations to help people change their life circumstances so that tomorrow, they won’t need help with those needs.”

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counties receive more than 40 million pounds of food from Second Harvest Food Bank of NWNC. It’s all privately funded with donations (monetary and food) and contributions from citizens and organizations.

Ferguson added, “In a biblical sense, we essentially are teaching these folks in need how to fish, so they can become self-sufficient in their lives.”

Bacon says there are so many success stories of people who’d practically given up hope, but who’ve now gone on to positions of Executive Chef or Employee of the Year after leaving the TCK culinary program. One example is Vanessa Lanier, one of TCK’ s first graduates, who’s now Executive Chef at Providence. And Lanier, who’s originally from Barcelona, Spain, also spoke to the guests Sunday about her journey ten years ago, suddenly finding herself in a failed marriage with no job and no hope. “I went online to find a plane ticket to go home. And by the grace of God, I saw this ad for TCK and Chef Jeff Bacon’s name and I wrote an email to him. I went through school and through my internship, and I knew I could turn this around and be an example for my girls.”

Years later, after successful stints in the restaurant industry and in country clubs, Lanier returned to TCK and now holds her current position. “Who knew that little ol’ me, from another country, who couldn’t drive a car when I got here, that because of the kindness and compassion that was given to me, that I’d be able to buy my own home, purchase my own car and more importantly, became WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

an example to my young daughters.” Lanier says she strives to be an extension of what was given to her. “It is by providence that I’m here to extend that compassion and kindness and I must pay forward to the people who come to this kitchen. It has been an honor and privilege and it has changed by life.”

Guests were able to view posters with the testimony of other TCK graduates from years past, like Alex Galvis, who’s now the sous chef at The Lenox Hotel in Boston, or Terrell Anistead, who’s now a line cook at Winston-Salem’s popular Willow’s Bistro. Others like, Amber Castillo, have gone on to management positions at area restaurants. Each graduate has his or her own story to tell about how their lives were transformed with the Triad Community Kitchen.

As Lanier said in her comments, while quite possibly stealing a few hearts, “We have to remind ourselves that even when we lift one person, we truly, truly are lifting humanity.” !

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

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Every meal purchased supports Triad Community Kitchen. For more information about Triad Community Kitchen or Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, visit hungernwnc.org.

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riday Night Music Club (FNMC) hit the Winston-Salem music scene in early 2017, and it’s quickly grown from one man’s passion project into a team effort that could aid many groups within the Triad, from nonprofits to students to musicians at large. Considering FNMC’s potential impact, it’s lucky that Doug Davis found time to create it.

“I have way too many projects,” Davis laughed. “My music life tends to be pretty schizophrenic.”

In addition to running his recording studio, Flytrap Music Productions, the Winston-Salem resident plays in at least five bands, as well as writing and performing original songs. Now Davis has added FNMC to his roster. The monthly gigs combine singers and musicians who would not otherwise get the chance to play together into wildly different shows from month to month.

“My idea, from a musical standpoint, is that I don’t want to throw three bands on a bill and call it a benefit,” said Davis.

“We’re trying to program something every month that people have never seen before and probably won’t see again.”

Proceeds from each show’s ticket sales benefit a new local nonprofit each month.

Giving back has been a constant goal of FNMC ever since Davis first envisioned it as something of a one man show.

“I’ve always loved being part of that downtown bar scene, but I found myself at a point where I didn’t really have an excuse for being there,” Davis said. “I realized I wasn’t doing it for the money. So I thought, this might be something I could do for charity.”

The original plan was for Davis to play these charity shows himself, but his wife encouraged him to think bigger by mining contacts from his other projects, including Doug Davis & the Solid Citizens, The Plaids, and the Vagabond Saints Society.

The last group also creates one-time themed shows that Davis staffs with musicians from his Rolodex. Davis wanted FNMC to be different, so he flipped the script by asking musicians what they really wanted to play.

“Friday Night Music Club is a little more guerrilla in nature,” said Davis. “So I can go to people and say, ‘I can give you six or seven songs in front of a pretty big crowd.

What’s your dream project?’ Cover, original, whatever it is that makes somebody’s

strange idea of a good time, we can do that.”

FNMC has so far kept a low profile, but a string of good experiences has Davis actively promoting May’s show. “Winston Covers Winston” will feature community musicians covering songs written by other community musicians, including Drat the Luck, Gulley, The Hitchcock Fugitives, Clay Howard & the Threadbare Trio, Will Jones, Corky McClellan, Ken Mickey, and Jeff Wall.

Previous FNMC shows were held at Bull’s Tavern, but this month the setting will change to The Garage. Davis is eager to reach a wider audience by playing in different settings.

“Danielle Bull has been very supportive of this idea,” said Davis. “We’ll continue to do lots of things there, but the goal is to move around. We don’t want to use same venue and target same demographic every time.”

June’s FNMC will be performed outdoors as part of a street festival, and will feature all original music. Later in the year, FNMC will tackle something Davis has wanted to try for a while: a band lottery in which musicians of all stripes volunteer to have their names randomly selected to create a one shot band.

“We throw a lot of names in a hat and that self-created band can do anything they want with their 30 minutes,” said Davis. “They could get together and write songs, they could cover a bunch of Frank Zappa songs, whatever they want to do.”

Davis hopes this emphasis on new partnerships and new material will inspire

emerging local musicians and possibly generate some fresh bands, all while collecting cash to be donated to Triad charities.

“Winston Covers Winston” will benefit the nonprofit Authoring Action, which empowers teens through arts and leadership workshops. Revenue from the show will go to fund a scholarship for one creative local student.

“That’s the kind of thing I’m interested in getting involved with. I know we won’t be able to contribute $10,000 for an endowment, but for now, $600 or $700 can be very useful to a local nonprofit,” said Davis.

As the audience grows and more people come on board to help, FNMC is developing a life of its own, which suits Davis just fine.

“I would love for this to become a self sustaining thing that’s bigger than me,” he said. “Every show we do, people talk to me about getting involved on different levels, whether musically or working with nonprofits or handling administrative stuff. I love the idea that this could develop into a real community project.” !

MIA OSBORN is a Greensboro-based freelance writer who hails from Birmingham, Alabama.

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The next Friday Night Music Club will take place on May 19 at The Garage, 110 W. 7th St., WinstonSalem. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7 at the door.

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Among the summer blockbuster hopefuls roaring into multiplexes this summer, Disney/Pixar aims to reap a fair share of box-office bucks from Cars 3, the third (thus far) in the popular bigscreen trilogy, and the studio is hitting the road nationwide to promote its latest animated extravaganza with Cars 3:

Road to the Races.

This special event, which is free and open to the public (of all ages), will come to the Mack Trucks Brand & Product Line track in Greensboro on May 18. There will be free giveaways, special activities, a sneak peak at the upcoming film, and likely a few surprises along the way.

There will be life-sized models of the most popular Cars (including principal speedster Lightning McQueen) that you can pose for pictures with. Alamo Rent A Car will present a street art booth featuring a giant coloring mural featuring the stars of Cars 3 and offer a collectible color pencil-pack souvenir, Coppertone is sponsoring a racing pit crew encouraging fans to participate in tire-changing activities and photo-sharing opportunities, Crest Toothpaste and Oral-B offer fans the chance to create a digital Cars 3 postcard and get Cars-themed oral products, Dole will supply delicious fruit and vegetable smoothies and recipes inspired by the WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

film, Mattel Toys has designed a special interactive play area with new play sets featuring animated locations from the film, as well as a display of die-cast model racers from the sport’s illustrious history.

Attendees will also be treated to a special preview of Cars 3 in the “Cinetransformer” Mobile Movie Theater. Additionally, the sports national youth program NASCAR Acceleration Nation will reveal the science behind NASCAR racing, and elements from the NASCAR Hall of Fame offer a fun and informative glimpse into the history of NASCAR racing.

The original Cars (released in 2006), which marked Paul Newman’s final screen performance (and his biggest box-office hit), earned Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Song (“Our Town”), won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and grossed over $450 million worldwide. The inevitable sequel, released in 2011, was the first Pixar film not to receive a single Oscar nomination, but grossed over $560 million worldwide. Then came the animated Disney Channel series “CarToons.”

On June 16, Cars 3 opens in theaters nationwide. Once again, Owen Wilson provides the voice of veteran race-car Light-

ning McQueen, whose reign as champ comes to an end at the hands – and wheels – of a hot-shot new rival, Jackson Storm (voiced by Armie Hammer). Clearly, a high-speed comeback is in order!

Cars 3 reunites much of the voice-over talent from the earlier installments, including Bonnie Hunt, Richard “Cheech” Marin, Larry the Cable Guy, Jenifer Lewis, Paul Dooley, Tony Shalhoub, Katherine Helmond and Pixar perennial John Ratzenberger, joined this time by Nathan Fillion, Kerry Washington, Cristina Alonzo, Margo Martindale and Chris Cooper. A veritable “Who’s Who” of professional racers also contribute: Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, Chase Elliott, Kyle Petty and reallife dad Richard … and, you just might hear Paul Newman, too.

The films marks the feature directorial debut of Brian Fee, who’d been a storyboard artist on the earlier two films.

Thus far, the Cars 3: Road to the Races tour has visited such cities as Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami Dallas, Denver, Charlotte and Los Angeles, and will conclude in California at Sonoma Raceway June 24-25. The life-size character cars will also be prominent on the red carpet for the film’s world premiere Saturday, June 10. !

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The Disney/Pixar Cars 3: Road to the Races event will take place 12 pm-5 pm Thursday, May 18 at Mack Trucks Brand & Product Line, 7900 National Service Road, Greensboro. Admission is free. For more information, visit the official website: http:// movies.disney.com/cars-3-tour.

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The fruitful anarchy of Crown Larks

BY JOHN ADAMIAN

PHOTOS BY GREG STEPHEN REIGH

ack Bouboushian sometimes does a funny thing when he’s working on music with his bandmates in the psychedelic post-punk avant-blurt Chicago outfit Crown Larks. Bouboushian will occasionally write out parts for new material and then, when getting together with the band to rehearse, he’ll only show them portions of what he’s come up with. He has a taste for flying blind.

It’s a little like the Surrealist parlor game known as Exquisite Corpse, where one person draws a portion of a figure -- a head or a torso, say -- and then, with the paper folded so that the first part can’t be seen, someone else draws the next portion, making for a sort of disjointed composition, where one part fits together with the next, but maybe in a jarring way.

With the Crown Larks songs, Bouboushian’s bandmates get to hear a part of what the vocalist and guitarist came up with, but maybe he’ll leave out the bass groove or the beat, in hopes that bass player

“Controlled chaos” is a big part of the aesthetic.

Listening to Population, the band’s new full-length, which just came out at the start of this month, one can hear the control and one can hear the chaos.

Matt Puhr or drummer Bill Miller will think of something more interesting.

“We’re trying to generate ideas,” says Bouboushian of the process. It’s less about meticulously realizing some vision that he or any one member of the band has, and more about group creativity.

“Our music lives or dies on having five or six ideas happening at once,” says Bouboushian.

That gives you an indication of the vibe.

If you don’t like the thought of five or six -- possibly competing -- things happening at the same time in music, you might find Crown Larks to be a little dense, spastic and off-putting. But if a tangled mesh presents intriguing textures and possibilities to your mind and ears, then Crown Larks will keep you occupied.

(Crown Larks play The Garage in Winston-Salem on Wednesday, May 17 at 9 p.m., with Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk and Knives of Spain.)

This is a band that can pivot from freak-folk to krautrock to free jazz to psychedelic trippiness and lurching post-punk funk. Crown Larks released their debut EP, Catalytic Conversion, in 2013 and a full-length, Blood Dancer, in 2015. Odd meters, jagged

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metrical fragments that displace one’s sense of where a phrase starts or stops, overlapping patterns of differing length that only line up after a prolonged stretch, thick clouds of echo, Morse Code organ signals, braided guitar lines, hypnotic drones, chime-like harmonics, hissing circuitry. Sonic Youth, Sun Ra, Saccharine Trust, Can and the Doors all come to mind at different times when listening to Crown Larks.

The idea of music-making as a community-based activity with revolutionary potential is built into the philosophy of Crown Larks. Bouboushian, 31, and his bandmates cite the fertile history of DIY music in Chicago as an ongoing source of inspiration. In the ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond, the jazz-leaning Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) tied together radical politics, radical music and community. The city is also home to many notable small, independent labels, like Touch & Go, that helped foster the alternative and indie rock scene that helped bands like Nirvana emerge on the national radar in the ‘90s.

Bouboushian and fellow Crown Larks partner Lorraine Bailey, a multi-instrumentalist, started the band after returning to Chicago, where they had met during college, and living in a space that allowed for music-making that was uninhibited by concerns about volume.

“It was one of the first times in my life when I was able to play as loud as I want whenever I wanted to,” says Bouboushian.

The freedom to make noise is related to the freedom to work with other musicians and artists in an open setting, to see what comes of it.

“From the start, that was sort of the idea, to play with as many people as possible,” says Bouboushian.

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ness to the equation, Bouboushian says he and Bailey have sought out collaborators through online spaces like Craigslist, which is how they teamed up with Miller, the band’s drummer. Bouboushian speaks of “having a vague purpose in mind, but being open to chance,” both in terms of the actual music, and with regard to the organizing principles of how the band collaborates.

“The music is part of a larger cultural scene that’s trying to develop, that’s trying to be free of commercial constraints,” he says.

An exciting sense of potential can emerge as a project gets started, and one wants to nurture that spark for as long as possible.

“A lot of the time, the most fun and the most positive energy you feel is right when an idea develops,” says Bouboushian. “I tried to maintain that kind of energy and anarchy.”

He refers to it as “positive chaos,” of trying not to be constrained by “preconceived notions.” The end result might be a simmering broth with agonized vocals in spots, with bass and drums punching out pointed accents of tumbling triplets and abrupt stops, like on “Circus Luvv” from the new record. It’s a kind of musical freedom that can be unsettling.

“We’re not gonna be weirdos because we’re just committed to that idea,” says Bouboushian. “We’re just gonna be ourselves, but it turns out it is pretty weird to just be yourself.” !

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

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The Browsery: A beloved bookstore’s final chapter

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recently spoke with poet and fiction writer Fred Chappell about Ben Matthews and his Greensboro institution. “All bookstores should be eccentric,” said Fred, “and the Browsery was the most so, particularly because of the clientele. And then you have Ben himself, the good shepherd of all us aardvarks.”

Soon, probably in July, the crown prince of caustic bibliophilia will be closing his doors, although he intends to sell as many used books as he can before then. When I posted about Ben’s sale on Facebook, some expressed surprise he’s still open.

Ben attributes that misconception to his 2003 move from his old location at 504 Elm Street to his present space at 516 Elm. “The Greensboro paper had a big headline on the first page of the local sections, The Browsery Turns a Page, and folks thought we were closing rather than moving. We’ve never had the traffic we had at the old place. Every so often over the past fourteen years, somebody wanders in and acts surprised we’re still here. Soon we won’t be.

Once the payment is made, we’ll have sixty days to vacate. It’s been a good run.”

It has indeed. Ben was born in Fort Valley, Georgia, and came to UNCG in 1967, two years after they first admitted men.

“I wanted to study with Dr. Joseph Bryant, the Chairman of the English Department, with whom I’d taken Freshman English at Sewanee. But he left for Syracuse, and then my father was murdered and I had to drop out. I always kept thinking I would get back to school but somehow I never did. A shame I didn’t -- it would have only been two or three more years and thousands of dollars wasted.”

Before Greensboro, Ben had managed a retail bookstand and newsstand in Georgia. In April of 1976, he opened the first Browsery at 547 South Mendenhall, where Firehouse Grocery is now. “I came here and couldn’t find a damn bookstore, not for miles around. Finally found the Book Corner in Durham. They arranged by publisher.

Used books. By publisher. I cussed that man out and never went back. His name was Marley. I’ve always said that if I wrote my memoirs of bookselling, I’d paraphrase Dickens and say ‘To begin with: Marley was still alive.’”

Greensboro was different in those days.

“Adult bookstores were a big thing. I used to have people call and say, do you have adult books? I would reply, but of course!

It took a while to realize they were making an inquiry I wasn’t answering. Many times

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late in the evening I would have squirrely fellows in coats and ties and hats browse the shelves, looking like they thought they might get contaminated if they touched anything. That was the vice squad looking for pornography.”

A few years later, he had a second location downtown. “By about 1984, I opened on 504-506 Elm. The Mendenhall location closed around 2000. Maybe earlier. It got to the point where I couldn’t operate everything. But I’ve never sold as many books or had as much fun as when I was in College Hill. There was friendliness and a casualness about that that was just perfect.”

Ben seems disinclined to name the most valuable collectibles that have passed through his stores over the years. “I’ve not sought treasures, but I’ve found a few. One was a book called Tactics of Calvary, a 1793 NC imprint with folding charts showing the movements of military horse corps.” I ask him if he still has it. “Lordy no, it paid for many, many lunches. One of the things I most enjoyed finding was a true first edition of Catcher in the Rye, which I sold when it was worth about a thousand.” Now he reckons it would go for twenty times that.

“The treasures to me are not the things that are monetarily valuable, but that meant something personally, like finding a signed Robert Frost first printing, or a Robert Penn Warren or Randall Jarrell.

Those just went to my house and never came out.”

Ben has thought of retirement before.

“I dreamed of turning sixty and doing a limited printing of the Benjy sections of The Sound in the Fury with differently colored text to indicate different time levels, as Faulkner had talked about doing,

instead of italics. But a few years ago, the Folio Society did that and it’s $350 and I can’t even afford the damned thing. I’m 77, so I’ve gone 12 years beyond what would have been retirement age, and Jill Faulkner Summers, whose permission I would have needed, has died. And Cleanth Brooks

whom I wanted to write a preface for it, he’s died, too.”

So what does the future hold? “The obvious,” says Ben, with a typically mordant chuckle. “But before then, I’m not going to beg on the street. I will do some selling, I guess, on the internet. And I have a booth at Golden Antiques and Treasures on 341 Ram Loop off 220 North in Stokesdale. When I was young, I wanted to become a bookseller, and now it looks like I’ve become a bookkeeper. One of the great joys of having been in business is that college kids used to come in on dates.

Over the years I’ve seen them come in and marry and become parents and seen what joys they can bring forth in the way of wonderfully educated children. There is no business you can go into in which you will meet a finer caliber of client.”

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Learn to recognize phonies

BY ROCH SMITH JR. There is something that took me a while to notice and even longer to believe.

There are a lot of people in positions of influence and power who do not know what they are doing. Whether they are in over their heads or are trying to put something over on people, they are faking. In other words, there is a lot of bullshit in this world masquerading as competence and authority.

The better you can distinguish between phonies and competent people, the better you can avoid demoralizing letdowns.

Here are some of the ways I’ve noticed that pretenders and fakers control people.

Fear Some things should be feared. The consequences of harming another person; the consequences of smoking cigarettes.

Some fears are legitimate primal warnings against real harm to your body or psyche. But one of the favorite tactics of bullshitters is to stoke needless fear. It diverts attention from their shortcomings.

The chance of you being attacked by a terrorist is truly small. You have a far greater chance of being killed by a heart attack. So if you live in fear of terrorism while you ignore your doctor’s warning to stop eating corn-dogs, you have your fear response backward. You have been manipulated.

Fakers will often play upon intangible fears too. Fear of being ostracized and fear of ‘failure’ are the kinds of intangible fears fakers love to stoke to keep people from acting on their own thoughts and

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motives. Fear of these kinds of things is hardly ever a good reason for an autonomous person to make a decision about anything.

“Credentials” Someone who graduates from medical school can put M.D. after her name.

Someone who tacks an abbreviation on to her name after attending a one-day seminar is an overcompensating bullshitter. Don’t assume a string of letters after someone’s name makes her an authority on anything unless you know it represents real accomplishment.

If your local TV news introduces an “expert” as having a “background in psychology,” you should wonder why she was not described as a psychologist. Is it because her “background in psychology” really only means that she took a psychology class in college and she is no more of an expert than you are? Pay attention. Think.

Hype Superlatives are words that describe something as extreme or unsurpassed.

They can describe things that can be measured, like “tallest” or “fastest”, or they can describe subjective intangibles, like “first-rate” and “supreme”. Fakers like to hype things with superlatives because they sound fantastic but usually are void of real meaning.

Greensboro City Council member Justin Outling is fond of saying that the city’s now-defunct policy on public access to police body camera video was the “first in the state.” It was a terrible policy of secrecy. It betrayed the promises made

by the chief of police that these cameras would be for “transparency and increased public accountability.”

With no benefits to tout, the only way to say something positive about the city’s policy is with an irrelevant superlative: “It was the first.” That sounds impressive— first is good, right?—but it is meaningless in describing the substance of the bad policy itself. It is like bragging about being the first to hit yourself in the head with a hammer.

President Trump is a master at this linguistic trickery. He promises things that will be “beautiful,” “fabulous,” “superb” and so on (believe him). But when it comes to substance, he avoids it. That is because he is faking. What succeeds for the Huckster in Chief is to use inspiring but frivolous hyperbole to avoid the facts, whether or not he even grasps them.

If you are shopping for a truck and all you are interested in is outward appearances, then ambiguous descriptions like “fabulous” and “gorgeous” may influence you. On the other hand, if you are looking for a truck that can get something done, then you need to look under the hood.

You want to know about real things like horsepower, torque and payload. You want measurable meaty details. You want meaning, not hype. A salesman who avoids providing meaningful information by telling you instead how his truck is “marvelous,” “top-of-the-line” and “superior” is full of it.

If someone is laying a bunch of hype on you, ask yourself why he is not giving you meaningful information instead—better yet, ask him. This applies if someone is selling you a truck or health care reform. If he will not describe for you the substance of the thing, you are being played for a sucker.

like the Dalai Lama on Xanax. Someone who is void of any emotion is as untrustworthy as the maniac. Trust your gut. If someone’s demeanor seems unusual, ask yourself if their behavior is a genuine attempt to help you understand their thinking or if they are trying to evoke some kind of response in you instead.

Contrived temperament Competent and wise people tend to have a certain steady demeanor—a grounding in confidence. Their behavior helps people understand their ideas. Fakers contrive exaggerated behavior in order to provoke a response. It is as if the more bombastic they are, the less people will notice what they are lacking. It is easy to be loud instead of competent. A bullying and boisterous demeanor is a facade used to get a reaction and hide shortcomings.

Some fakers, especially those groomed by a climb through bureaucracies, where rowdy behavior stands out, will go in the opposite direction. They hide incompetence by putting on an air of superiority, exuding extreme calm and coming across

The upshot You might ask, isn’t this advice a prescription for permanent cynicism? Not at all. Being disillusioned over and over again by misplaced trust is a path to crushed optimism. A healthy skepticism allows one to quickly dispatch time-wasters and avoid the muck and mire of charlatans. It is the best way to keep optimism alive.

None of this is to suggest one should have a blanket mistrust of authorities either. Trusting competent people can be enriching, allowing you to reap the rewards of knowledge and guidance from qualified mentors, teachers, experts and respectable leaders. Just learn to separate them from the bullshit artists. !

Appropriating Society has it signs, symbols and ceremonies that are shortcuts to convey quick meaning. The handshake: trust. The suit and tie: seriousness. A robe: piety.

One of the easiest ways for fakers to fool people is to adopt popular symbols and rituals.

No construction contract has been awarded for the downtown Greensboro Tanger Performing Arts Center. That did not stop backers who went ahead with a “groundbreaking” ceremony a couple of weeks ago anyway. People in power suits and armed with gilded shovels turned over store-bought dirt in a specially constructed sandbox. It was not to commemorate the beginning of construction. It was a photo-op to persuade nervous patrons not to abandon their pledges of financial support. Brian Clarey of Triad City Beat hit the nail on the head when he wrote that the charade “Symbolized nothing so much as the participants’ willingness to commit a farce.”

Symbols and ceremonies, whether they are lapel pins or groundbreakings, carry only the meaning we are willing to read into them. They are not guarantees of the competence of the person deploying them. Don’t put your trust in someone just because he wears the right symbol or observes the right rituals without some other evidence of his capabilities. It is too easy for charlatans to exploit these.

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inston-Salem resident, Carol Roan, will turn 86 years old in August.

“There seems to be an age,” she says, “when you suddenly become wise and inspirational instead of invisible. For me, that age was 84.”

She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress in a short film at Cannes, and she continued publishing her written work.

May is Older Americans Month. This year, the theme is Age Out Loud. Carol is doing exactly that in hopes that older adults will be a lot louder when it comes to living.

She demonstrates that aging doesn’t equate to erasure. If anything, getting older offers freedom to tell new stories.

Carol, by the way, has a lifetime of stories.

For one, she should be dead by now.

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She was supposed to die thirty years ago. In her mid 50s, Carol was diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare and incurable autoimmune liver disorder.

The doctor told her that she had seven years to live. He explained how each remaining year would become more debilitating.

Carol experienced two weeks of shock where she “couldn’t read street signs and directional signals.” She told her three adult children. She got her papers in order.

Carol mentally prepared to die.

An experimental medical trial saved her life. Every day, she takes a pill that has bought her more time. A lot more time.

If you ask Carol about her reclamation, she might not mention the pill at all. She will tell you that creativity -- singing, writing, and later, dancing – saved her more than once.

She will explain that if more old people

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had the chance to be creative, they would feel less old.

Not arts-and-crafts creative. “I don’t appreciate attempts to give old people crafty things to do and call that creative.

I don’t like to see the arts used that way.

It makes both the people and the art too small,” she says.

“Old people” are her words. Not mine.

At her age, she’s earned the right to have strong opinions. That’s one of the benefits of being in your 80s, she shares.

You can say whatever the hell you want.

At that point, “you’ve already met a bunch of assholes,” she reminds me.

Carol’s voice booms around the room.

She’s standing in her doorway to show me just how loud her voice becomes when she unleashes.

She became a professional singer at age 18. Carol won a full post-grad scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the second woman ever to sing at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.

She holds a B.M. in vocal pedagogy and a M.M. in vocal performance.

Singing empowered her to eventually leave a two-decade long abusive marriage. She started over in her 40s, and as a single mother, teaching voice lessons.

There was a time Carol was the go-to voice coach for Philadelphia rock bands.

Carol shifted gears and received a M.S. in Business Policy from Columbia University Graduate School of Business (at 50, she was the oldest woman in the class).

She helped establish a software company.

Carol worked as an independent consultant for a while.

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didn’t. Carol didn’t want to wait around any longer. She started writing.

In 2006, she received a fellowship to summer writing program in Russia where she studied with author Gina Ochsner.

Carol was in her early seventies at the time. She wasn’t a MFA student, yet author Margaret Atwood, the fellowship judge, had read her work and deemed her worthy of the course.

Carol felt guilty for taking a slot from a younger writer.

“I would go around telling everyone I was 72 years old, whether they wanted to hear it or not,” she remembers.

Carol realized that she was internalizing ageism by assuming that she had no right to be there. Yet, her stories mattered.

Carol’s age gave her an advantage: with so much life on her bones, she had a lot to say.

She returned with an idea about an anthology featuring aged writers. With most literary journals from university programs with young MFA students on staff, there weren’t many publications giving space to older voices.

Carol served as the President of Winston Salem Writers. Before that, she was the President of Poets and Writers in New Jersey. Her work includes co-editing Out In Silence, a publication for child-abuse survivors, as well as several published short stories, and non-fiction books.

When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers Over 50 came out in 2011.

The anthology, dreamt up in Russia and edited by Carol and Vicky Lettmann, was met with praise and became required reading in a graduate course at California State University, Long Beach.

Carol has done a few things during her life. She still teaches voice and public speaking out of her West End apartment.

She continues to write, to sing, and to thrive.

At 84 years old, she started something completely unexpected.

In 2016, Wake Forest University hosted the first Aging Re-imagined Symposium (2017’s symposium was held last week).

Carol had submitted an abstract for a paper on how we can all sing, no matter the age.

“I wasn’t an academic. I wasn’t anyone important,” she says. Carol was surprised when her paper was accepted. She was now in an unexpected conversation with researchers, including neuroscientists, to speak about how creativity has kept her healthy.

That is where Carol met Wake Forest University’s Director of Dance, Christina Tsoules Soriano.

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Christina had helped with pilot studies regarding dance classes for aging adults with Parkinson’s. Through the experience, she realized that participants responded better to improvisation rather than memorization of movement.

She now works with Dr. Christina Hugenschmidt, a neuroscientist at WFU’s School of Medicine’s Sticht Center on Aging, on a Blue Cross Blue Shield funded study. The eight-week program looked at improvisational movement intervention for aging adults with mild cognitive impairment.

After her experiences with the pilot studies, Christina had the idea of bringing multidisciplinary researchers together, as well as others in the community, to talk about aging.

“I started to spend time with older adults in an artistic practice, and you realize that scientists aren’t talking to artists as much as we should be around these ideas,” she shares.

The symposium created space to bring demographers, academics, artists, and community members together because “we want to be living longer better. We want to have more people who can address some of the issues where resources aren’t all there. It’s not all up to government people, or scientists, to address some of these challenges around aging.”

She explains that one of the biggest stigmas around getting older is that people believe that they stop learning once they reach a certain age.

Research, Christina says, proves otherwise. “What I love about dance, and specifically improvisational dance, is that assumptions gets turned upside down.

Everyone is capable of generating movement. Everyone is capable of creatively responding to a prompt that asks you to respond with your body.”

Christina says this work has impacted her in unexpected ways.

“I learn so much from older adults in terms of what is the essence and core of movement. It is so raw and so clear in older adult communities.”

Carol’s presentation at the symposium offered another type of clarity: she spoke about the scientific evidence that humans sang before we spoke.

“Our vocal mechanism is set up to sing,” Carol insists. Therefore, there’s no reason why people should stop singing at any age.

Carol is adamant when she says this: “There is no physical reason for creativity to end.”

She is living proof. In 2016, Carol made her acting debut as a blind grandmother in a short independent film emerged out of Greensboro’s 48 Hour Film Project.

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“I don’t appreciate attempts to give old people crafty things to do and call that creative. I don’t like to see the arts used that way. It makes both the people and the art too small.”

Roan is involved in a program at Wake Forest University that studies improvisational movement intervention for aging adults with mild cognitive impairment.

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Short Film Project. The piece made it to the actual Cannes Film Festival where Carol received a Best Supporting Actress nomination.

Other things started happening, too.

Christina invited Carol to join a community dance class that had developed out of the Parkinson’s project. The class, held once a week, is free and open for older adults, including healthy agers.

“I’m a klutz,” Carol warned her, sharing decades old jokes about her well-documented clumsiness.

However, Carol had recently began to feel off-balance when she walked, and had started to use a cane. This scared her.

A sidewalk stumble for someone her age could break a hip.

Carol needed a way to “convene with the body,” as Christina refers to the dance class experience.

“What is so beautiful about people like Carol, and there are other similar spirited people in the class, that she often goes to a different place in the class. She closes her eyes and she will move,” Christina says.

“Carol isn’t looking to see if it looks like me. She’s not looking to see if she looks like the people around her or how it measures up. She is having an authentic movement experience and it becomes contagious. I really believe someone like Carol relies on this in her week in a way to feel authentically human.”

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pate in a public dance performance, the Goldberg Project, based on the Goldberg Variations by Bach.

The dance would be performed at Wake Forest University. The dancers would be intergenerational and professional, and some would come from Christina’s community classes.

“I can’t,” Carol thought.

Christina insisted.

“I was really interested in having an intergenerational dance experience,” Christina said. “One, as a choreographer, I really wanted to move into that space as a creative challenge. Also, because part of combating some of the stigma around aging is having younger generations spend more time with older people.

If you do that in a dance studio, then that becomes a really ripe and generous space to have a meaningful exchange.”

Carol was not going to be part of that meaningful exchange. She was insecure.

She was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to remember the choreography. She was, most certainly, not a dancer.

“I felt that I had no right to be there,” Carol reveals.

But, she decided to do it. She showed up for rehearsals. She remembered the moves. She got on stage and performed with professional dancers, with children, including Christina’s daughter.

Last August, Carol took the stage with fellow dancers at Wake Forest University.

Salem College later hosted a performance.

She was paid for her work.

“Imagine, at 84 years old, to become a professional dancer!” Carol says.

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“You are not at the beginning of the end,” Roan said.

“You can be at the beginning.”

The possibilities are endless, she reminds me.

Carol was born in 1931 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She will tell you that she has metaphorically died many times. There were years of childhood abuse by her parents. Later came the gaslighting husband who diminished Carol to the point that she lost her voice, literally, until she reclaimed it and saved her life.

Then, the actual death sentence arrived during her 50s.

She admits that her younger self was “in no emotional condition to be talked to.” But if 20-year-old Carol would have listened, 85-year-old Carol would have said not to worry about being perfect.

She would have told her 70-year-old self: there’s more ahead than you can imagine.

Carol now knows a few things for sure.

She knows there are no absolutes. The really important stuff in life turns out to be a paradox. Some truths, like creativity, are often inexplicable but always accessible.

“We think of creativity as a gift,” Carol points out. “I’ve heard people complain about not having a creative bone in their body. Well, duh, you do because creativity is inherent.”

She says that the language around aging equates getting old with losing brain cells.

That’s just wrong. She insists “every experience that you have either creates a new pathway or strengthens new pathways in the brain.”

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Christina’s research suggests this to be true, and she hopes current and future studies will yield significant data that dancing is essential to healthy aging.

By the year 2040, almost a quarter of Americans will be 65+. This will influence everything from retirement planning, health care, to local social services. It will impact how cities are redesigned to function, and will change the language we use to talk about getting older.

There is no reason for that to mean a cessation of joy, of experience.

For Carol, joy is to write, sing, dance, and create a way through the aging process.

She knows that becoming an old person isn’t a final chapter in a life story. It isn’t a reason to give up.

“You are not at the beginning of the end,” she offers. “You can be at the beginning.”

To learn more about Carol Roan and her vast work, visit carolroan.com Christina Soriano will offer an improvisational dance class this summer through Wake Forest University Lifelong Learner’s Program. http://lifelongwake.wfu.edu/ terms/summer-2017/. For more info about her community classes in Winston, email sorianct@wfu.edu !

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I’m a woman in my 30s. I love parties and talking to people, and thank God, because I attend networking events for work. My boyfriend, on the other hand, is an introvert, hates talking to strangers, and loathes “shindigs.”

How do we balance my longing to go to parties with his desire to stay home? —

Taking an introvert to a party can be a challenge. On the other hand, if it’s a Fourth of July party, you know where to find him: hiding in the bathtub with the dogs.

I actually have personal experience in this area. Like you, I’m an extrovert — which is to say, a party host’s worry isn’t that I won’t have anyone to talk to; it’s that I’ll tackle three people and waterboard them with sangria till they tell me their life story.

Also like you, I have a boyfriend who’s an introvert. For him, attending a party is like being shoved into an open grave teeming with live cockroaches — though, compassionately, it also includes an open bar.

This isn’t to say introverts are dys-

[LEO (July 23 to August 22) You are in a reasonably good place with yourself at this time. Your heart and mind are flowing together. You have no conflict between your feelings and your thoughts about those feelings. This is a time for reflection on important subjects. You can make good decisions now.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Finally! The details fall into place that allow you to integrate old traditions with new technology or ideas. There is even agreement with family members to try the fresh slant to long standing habits.

Maybe there will be a shift in plans for the traditional family reunion this summer.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Activities involving the law, the internet, contracts, people from a distance, and travel are favored. You have the opportunity to act as the conduit to help others find their paths now. Use your intuition and spiritual values for best results.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A lover’s words or behavior may be confusing. Ask questions before you leap to conclusions. Keep track of valuables.

A theft is possible. If you are in need of assistance, it would be wise to ask the

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functional. They’re not. They’re differently functional. Brain imaging research by cognitive scientist Debra L. Johnson and her colleagues found that in introverts, sensory input from experience led to more blood flow in the brain (amounting to more stimulation). The path it took was longer and twistier than in extroverts and had a different destination: frontal areas we use for inward thinking like planning, remembering, and problem-solving. So, introverts live it up, too; they just do it on the inside.

Extroverts’ brain scans revealed a more direct path for stimuli — with blood flowing straight to rear areas of the brain used for sensory processing, like listening and touching. They also have less overall blood flow — translating (in combination with a different neurochemical response) to a need for more social hoo-ha to feel “fed.”

Sometimes, you’ll really want your boyfriend there with you at a party — for support, because you enjoy his company, or maybe just to show him off (kind of like a Louis Vuitton handbag with a penis).

But understanding that “shindigs” give his brain a beating, consider whether you could sometimes take a friend. When he accompanies you, maybe set a time limit and be understanding if he and the dog retreat to the den.

Sure, mingling makes you feel better, but pushing an introvert to do it is akin to forcing an extrovert to spend an entire week

with only the cat and a fern. Before long, they’re on with the cable company. Tech support: “What seems to be the problem?”

Extrovert: “I’m lonely! Talk to me! Have you ever been arrested? And do you think I should go gluten-free?”

RUBBIN HOOD

I grabbed my boyfriend’s phone to look something up, and I found a Google search for local massage places that offer “happy endings.” He says that he and his friends were just goofing off. Am I an idiot to believe him? — Disturbed His “goofing off” is reminiscent of the “but I was just curious!” web searches that juries hear about — stuff like “Does arsenic have a flavor?” “How much antifreeze does it take to kill a 226.5-pound man?” and “Who’s got the lowest prices on shovels and tarps?”

Sure, it’s POSSIBLE that your boyfriend is telling the truth — that he and his buddies were searching out massage parlors RIGHT NEARBY! just for a giggle. To determine how likely it actually is, consider that people don’t behave randomly. We’re each driven by a varying combo of personality traits — habitual patterns of thinking, emotion, and behavior that are relatively consistent over time and across situations.

For example, an introvert will not suddenly become a party animal (unless we’re talk-

[HOROSCOPES] right person for help. Even if no one is available, you have an open path to your sense of the spirit. Call upon it with positive results.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) You may be seeing the daylight of success in a long-term project of self-definition. Details and information fall together to show you the truth of your path. This is a time in which many things go your way. Relationships of all types are favored. If high-tech solutions can help you, go for it!

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You are likely to happen into a solution soon that will fill in the puzzle and offer you a solution to nagging problems.

Although you have been somewhat isolated, events of the next couple of weeks will help you understand the purpose for it. You have been waiting for a “right” time and situation to develop.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) This is an excellent time to pursue any activity that requires your mental concentration. Contracts and written communi-

cations, along with short distance travel, have go signals. There may be a new vehicle in your future, particularly if you have been watching for the right one.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) This is a powerful time to consider your spiritual purposes. It is all too easy for the maya, the things of the world, to overwhelm every waking minute, leaving no time for the higher goals. If you notice fatigue, disappointment, or depression at this time, stop. Any of these represent a message to be still and listen for the Voice deep within your soul.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a week in which your physical cycle is “off”.

Don’t press your body beyond what it wants to do, just because it could do the same thing last week. Pay special attention to your temporary boundaries right now and by next week things will return to your personal normal.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) A wound, whether emotional or physical, is due for healing now. Be alert for spiritual messages that may come through any

ing the taxidermied kind that’s stuck into the “fall leaves” centerpiece).

Research by evolutionary psychologists David Buss and Todd Shackelford found three personality traits that are strong “predictors of susceptibility to infidelity.”

One is narcissism — being self-absorbed, admiration-seeking, empathy-deficient, and prone to scheming userhoood. Being low on “conscientiousness” is another — reflected in being disorganized, unreliable, and lazy, and lacking self-control. Last, there’s “psychoticism,” which, despite its Bates Motel-like moniker, reflects a con artist-like exploitativeness, impulsivity, and lack of inhibition — not necessarily exhibiting those things while going all stabby on some lady enjoying a shower.

Consider whether your boyfriend’s “just Googling for kicks!” claim is odd and uncharacteristic or whether it’s part of a pattern reflecting one or more of the lovely cocktail of traits above. Patterns of behavior predict future patterns of behavior — for example, trying to get you to believe that he only goes to strip clubs for the music and that he really was just working late with his boss, Mr. Camerino, who seems to have developed quite a thing for body glitter.

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com. source. Give attention to dreams, or unusual messages from strangers or others in your life. Journaling could be helpful.

Therapy may bring healing insight.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Information about your career or life direction may seem blurry or confusing. Don’t respond negatively to that yet. Wait for verification. What you hear may never happen. See the lead paragraph because it is especially prominent for you this week. You likely will find the key to mix new technology or ideas with the norm in your life.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You have probably been dealing with a decision concerning property or family issues. You have spent a few weeks in this process and now you have arrived at a conclusion. If it is a purchase or a sale, you have the cosmic green light. Whatever the decision, you have made a good choice for everyone concerned.

Are you interested in a personal horoscope?

Vivian Carol may be reached at (704) 366-3777 for private psychotherapy or astrology appointments.

There is a fee for services.

Website: http//www.horoscopesbyvivian.com

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