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THE SALEM PHOTOGRAPHER A & THE SIAMESE TWINS B Pioneer photographer Henry Lineback makes history in the 1870s

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THE SALEM PHOTOGRAPHER & THE SIAMESE TWINS

Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III publisher@yesweekly.com EDITORIAL Editor JEFF SYKES jeff@yesweekly.com Contributors KRISTI MAIER JOHN ADAMIAN RICH LEWIS STEVE MITCHELL BILLY INGRAM ALLISON STALBERG IAN MCDOWELL DEONNA KELLI SAYED

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Physicians from the prestigious institution had passed through Salem the day before. They were on their way to Mount Airy, North Carolina, to examine the dead bodies of Eng and Chang Bunker—the original SIAMESE TWINS. The doctors had arranged for a photographer to meet them in Mount Airy, but received word he was unable to make the trip. For that reason, they approached HENRY LINEBACK, asked if he would make the journey and offered him a fair amount of money to do so.

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KEITH BUCKNER was the kid who drew throughout his life, but he did not start his art career in earnest until attending college at UNCG. 10 In the latest effort to bring change to DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO, local developer Andy Zimmerman has taken an

unused old building, refurbished it and created a new workplace for some of Greensboro’s business leaders.

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Americans are right to demand that the people in our government ACT ETHICALLY. Our indignation is righteous when public people lie to us. We expect a respect for the truth and the rule of law.

13 If you’re into the Triad beer scene you should check out the area’s NEWEST BREWERY TOUR. 13 A Winston-Salem start-up has taken the boxed meal DELIVERY GAME to a local level that can now serve as an impact to the food insecure.

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24 MIGHTIER THAN ME started, basically, because four of the five players were taking an ensemble class at GTCC, where students audition and usually rehearse cover tunes, culminating in an end-of-semester performance.

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No icon better represents the power of women more than Rosie Riveter, proclaiming, “We can do it!” And this Veteran’s Day, The Touring Theatre of North Carolina screams “Yes, they did!” in its production about WOMEN STEPPING UP during World War II. 30 WESTERWOOD TAVERN is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, November 12th for the College Hill Childcare Co-0p.

31 A few months back, a front-page article in the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure section about film preservation and restoration noted that the days of “GARAGE FINDS” are fast coming to a close.

32 CHEF VIVIAN HOWARD has had quite the adventure the

last decade. After leaving New York to open up a restaurant in one of the poorest communities in the state, if not country, she’s turned her dream into a household name.

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GEORGE WINSTON POTTERY WHAT: George primarily performs three

WHAT: A unique acoustic jazz ensemble comprised of string instruments and vocals are the feature of this Second Friday Event.

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styles of music; melodic folk piano, New Orleans R&B piano, and stride piano. He also incorporates a few pieces on solo guitar and solo harmonica into his live performances.

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WHERE: The High Point Theater.

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Sample from over 100 different beers, enjoy live music, and eat some delicious food. This is a 21 and over event.

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WhAT: Reminisce about the trendsetting decade with some of the most iconic, indelible names in rap, hip hop and R&B including Salt-N-Pepa, Vanilla Ice, Kid N Play, All-4-One, Coolio and Young MC. Audiences can expect to hear chart-topping hits like Lets Talk About Sex, Shoop, Ice, Ice Baby, Gangstas Paradise, I Swear, and Bust a Move When: 7 p.m.

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12 TAB BENOIT WhAT: Tab Benoit is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana in May 1985.

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WhAT: Greensboro Farmers Curb Market will host an eclectic wonderland of locally produced culinary treats, fine art, fiber art, pottery, jewelery, bath & body treatments, and so much more! Bandito Burrito and Zeko’s will be on site.

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KEITH BUCKNER-PROCESS OF DISCOVERY

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Keith Buckner was the kid who drew throughout his life, but he did not start his art career in earnest until attending college at UNCG. Now retired from working in IT at UNCG’s library, Buckner has painted and played music for about 40 years. After all those years, he still finds excitement and challenges. He still loves the process of creation.

“The process of discovery and the fact that you lose yourself so completely when you’re working,” he said. “You forget your worries and everything goes away, you’re just totally working. It’s Zen-like.”

When it comes to painting, Bucker likes to work from nature because he enjoys the outdoors.

“Landscapes, still-life and figures,” he said. “Sometimes they get a little more abstract, sometimes a little more real.”

He still finds challenges in making his dreams and ideas come to fruition.

“It always takes a zig-zag,” said Buckner.

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“You start out one way and it takes you in another direction, sort of like life.”

Buckner plays string instruments such as the guitar, banjo, fiddle and upright bass. He plays in bands local to Greensboro such as The Minor Swing Band and Alley Rabbits.

“I’m self-taught,” said Buckner. “Musically, I started really young. I started playing professionally when I was 12-14 years old. I am ear-trained in music.”

Buckner loves making connections with his artwork.

“I think a real highlight for me is when someone buys the work and you make a connection with that person,” he said.

“They kind of have a little piece of you that they look at every day.”

In his retirement, Buckner plays to keep playing music and making art.

Interested in his art? Check out his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ KeithBucknerArt. !

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CROSS CAMPUS COLLABORATION NETS N.C. A&T $7.5 MILLION CONTRACT

The Division of Research and Economic Development (DORED) at North Carolina A&T State University in conjunction with Lead Principal Investigator Dr. Cameron Seay, in the College of Science and Technology, has secured a federal contract through the U.S. Department of Labor.

The five-year contract, with a value of $7.5 million, will be utilized to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related fields. The contract will focus specifically on information technology as it relates to talent development for mainframe computers, on which the global economy depends.

The term “mainframe computer” is usually associated with the IBM Corporation. With the advent and wide availability of micro-computing in the 1980s and beyond, mainframes were targeted for extinction because of their immense size and cost. While smaller computers with tremendous power have indeed revolutionized information technology, the heaviest input/output functions such as transaction processing, airline reservations and cellular signal routing are still left to the heavy lifters: mainframe computers. Although these big workhorses still play a vital role in the technology spectrum, the United States is facing a looming problem: the employees who have understood and serviced mainframes since the 1980s are retiring at a staggering rate.

“It’s true,” explains Seay. “Over the last 40 years, the lion’s share of IT talent has been attracted to the microcomputing sector, leaving mainframes comparatively untouched and unstudied. Most universities stripped mainframe technology from their curriculum long ago, which is why we’re facing a talent vacuum today. Fortunately, N.C. A&T has retained a robust and growing technology education and training program in this area, and we’re ready to step up for the Department of Labor, the corporate entities, and indeed the world economy which relies so heavily on this important technology.”

This contract has been named The LEAD-IT Project, which stands for Leadership, Empowerment, Apprenticeship, and Diversity in Information Technology. The five-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, will involve seven N.C. A&T faculty, including Drs. Gina Bullock, Maya Corneille, Loury Floyd, Karen Jackson, Anna Lee, Evelyn Sowells and Seay.

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GREENSBORO SWARM REVEAL OFFICIAL TEAM MASCOT

The Greensboro Swarm, the NBA Development League affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, unveiled the team’s official mascot yesterday during an open house at the newly renovated Fieldhouse. Sergeant Swarm joined the team on the court prior to the start of the day’s activities, which included a full-team scrimmage, dunk contest and prizes and autographs for fans.

“We are proud to introduce our team mascot, Sergeant Swarm, to basketball fans across the Triad as we prepare for our upcoming inaugural season,” said Swarm President Steve Swetoha. “A fun and enthusiastic mascot is a key element when it comes to creating a dynamic game-night environment and engaging our fans on and off the court. Sergeant Swarm personifies the excitement this community has for basketball and we know he will make the Fieldhouse an even livelier setting on game days.”

Sergeant Swarm embodies the Greensboro Swarm’s identity in that he is an energetic, super-hero like figure who is ready to defend the home court in a city passionate about basketball. Designed in the Swarm’s color scheme of purple and teal, he is of athletic build and wears the team’s white home uniform. The jersey number he wears, double zero, resembles two hive cells. His helmet is accented with white wings shaped like the state of North Carolina with the teal star representing the city of Greensboro’s geographic location. Always on the front lines to support the team, his teal shield is built in the shape of a hive cell with a purple border and is highlighted in the center by the Swarm’s secondary logo, the letters “GS” above the classic basketball and stinger design. To complete his uniform and ensure agility, Sergeant Swarm marches in Jordan Brand basketball shoes. His commanding presence is intended to lead the fans to cheer the team on to victory.

In addition to being an engaging part of every Swarm home game, Sergeant Swarm will make frequent appearances throughout the Greensboro community over the course of the season. The Swarm will tip off their inaugural season at home on November 12 when they host the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. All of the team’s 24 home games will be played at the newly renovated Fieldhouse at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. For more information and pictures of the open house and Fieldhouse and mascot reveal, visit gsoswarm. com. !

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n the latest effort to bring change to Downtown Greensboro, local developer Andy Zimmerman has taken an unused old building, refurbished it and created a new workplace for some of Greensboro’s business leaders. The newly redone property started with unveiling events this past weekend and will host four different businesses within it.

“The place was originally built in 1892 and we bought it in August of last year,” Zimmerman said. He partnered with his cousin David Zimmerman on this project. Previously the building had been owned by Rhynes Antiques, LLC and had fallen into disuse.

“This was a learning experience for us when it was all said and done,” Zimmerman said with a laugh when asked about the work that went into the transformation. “There was a lot of pain and suffering but there’s nothing much like it now in Greensboro.”

While the building got its start as a furniture store before the turn of the previous century, it had changed hands numerous times and housed a number of different businesses over the years. Zimmerman said the wear and tear found in the building wasn’t as bad as one could expect but it was still well over 100 years old and in need of serious updating.

“The latest use of the building before we got it was storing antiques,” he continued. “The freight elevator in one corner of the building was completely out of service. Basically, the place had been here untouched for 20-25 years except for some minor repairs.”

While there is the old adage that “they don’t make them like they used to” and the building had good bones to work with, there was still a laundry list of things to do.

“All of the joists in the building had to either be replaced or sistered (reinforced by adding boards or steel to the original) to make it sound,” Zimmerman said.

“And while we wanted to keep as much of the flooring as

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Andy Zimmerman and team recently remodeled 532 S. Elm Street, which will be home to four companies.

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RLF Communications will relocate their offices to the top floor of 532 S. Elm St. we could, most of it had to go.”

The project investment, including the purchase and renovation work, came to just over $2 million altogether, he explained.

“We were able to apply for and receive historical property tax credits,” Zimmerman said, “but that also meant that historical preservation standards had to be met. Without that, (the project) couldn’t have been done – the costs would have just exceeded any reasonable return on the investment.”

The construction work inside the building was done by DH Griffin Construction, a local company that has a lot of experience in renovation projects in downtown Greensboro.

Zimmerman himself has quite a bit of experience in the Downtown Greensboro regeneration movement. Working particularly in the South End of the downtown area, he has brought several properties along Lewis Street back into use and given homes to some very modern businesses, including Gibbs Hundred Brewing, The Forge, HQ Greensboro and the Greensboro Distilling Co. “Everyone has made a leap of faith coming to the South End with their businesses,” he said. “I was attracted to the bones of this building, but we’re amazed at the faith our tenants have put on the resurgence of the south Downtown area.”

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Greensboro. The group also does fundraising, manages entertainment events in the downtown area and oversees the Municipal Services District tax. Founded in 1997, the organization is active in business recruitment and development, collects and provides demographic data, oversees public safety and parking downtown and actively works to promote and advertise Greensboro, among other activities.

DGI will share the first floor of the building with Bloom, a floral arrangement and cut flowers shop owned by Karen Willette, a local restaurateur who also owns and operates W on Elm, another popular spot in Downtown Greensboro. The location may also offer fresh, local produce to customers based on seasonal availability, Zimmerman said. He said the new business was an outgrowth from the success W on Elm has seen from their event catering business (which often uses a lot of specialty floral arrangements) as well as the restaurant itself.

The second and third floors of the building will be used by two separate business service companies. One floor will host RLF Communications, a local strategic communications company that pairs with clients to develop marketing, branding and public relations work. The other floor will be home to Emisare, a relationship branding firm that helps develop identities and advertising for products and companies through public relations and media work. The two companies will also share a rooftop deck area for meetings.

The mixed clientele of the building will certainly suit Zimmerman’s other properties in the area. Right next door is Gibbs Hundred Brewing Co., a local brewery

and pub housed in another Zimmerman property, alongside The Forge, a shared makerspace that offers members workshop areas and equipment for making things both high and low tech, whether they be artistic works or engineering marvels. Other nearby Zimmerman property developments include the Boxcar Barcade,

which will be opening this December.

“I think we’ve got a great mix going in down here,” Zimmerman said, speaking to the variety. He agreed that the variety of uses would offer the best sustainability to the area’s future growth. “It’s been kind of planned that way as we’ve come along.” !

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Greensboro Council’s problems with truth continue

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he deadline for this column was the afternoon of election day. If Hillary Clinton has lost, it will be in no small part because people did not trust her. If she won, it will have been with what I suspect were plenty of people holding their noses Roch Smith Jr. and choosing policy over honesty.

Americans are right to demand that the people in our government Contributor act ethically. Our indignation is righteous when public people lie to us. We expect a respect for the truth and the rule of law. An honest answer to the question “Did you clean your server?” is not “What? Like with a cloth?” That is a contemptuous answer that should make any red blooded American angry.

In the same category is the devious answer to a straight question given by the City of Greensboro Attorney Tom Carruthers at a city council meeting last month. Upon reconvening from a closed session—no public or press allowed—Councilmember Sharon Hightower implied that city council had take a vote in private. Under state law, it is against the law for public bodies to keep votes secret.

As the public clamored for answers with shouts from the floor, Mayor Nancy Vaughan asked of Carruthers: “The question is whether or not the vote is public.”

Carruthers, with grave sincerity, replied: “I don’t consider what was taken a vote, I consider it was a consensus of council. We don’t take votes in closed session.”

That turned out to be a lie.

I and the News & Record asked for the minutes and audio recording of the closed meeting. After two weeks and pressure from the North Carolina Press Association, they were released.

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The records revealed that city council, in Carruthers’ presence and contrary to his adamant insistence, had taken two votes in that closed session. These were not informal, “What does the group think?” kind of questions. They were not a measure of consensus. These were formal votes where motions were made and seconded, with the mayor asking “All in favor?” and each council member casting a vote.

Mere moments after these votes, Carruthers answered the direct question of whether or not the results of the votes were public with “We don’t take votes in closed session.” (Find this article online at www.yesweekly.com for video of the proceedings.)

Even though Carruthers’ public dissembling is quite serious, more troubling still is the complicity of the Greensboro City Council. Whatever confused notion Carruthers may have about his responsibilities and loyalties, it is city council that is supposed to be looking out for the interests of we, the people. Insulating their deliberations from public scrutiny, voting in secret and then sitting quietly while they watched the city attorney lie for them is not in the service of the public interest.

To her credit, Mayor Nancy Vaughan did not, like her colleagues, cower behind the mendacious cover the city attorney had offered up to keep council’s inappropriate actions secret and she did reveal the results of one of the votes—in an exasperated huff. It was hard to tell if she was angry at the public for putting her on the spot or with Carruthers for giving an answer she knew to be false.

Still, Vaughan, like all of her experienced colleagues should have known better than to even have had the discussion in closed session or to take secret votes. The topic of the secret votes was whether or not to allow council members to look at the details of an internal police investigation. That was not a proper subject for a closed meeting to begin with.

As Susan Ladd of the News & Record observed, “That meeting does not in any way conform to the criteria for a closed session.” Ladd also wondered, “What else have they improperly discussed that should have been aired before the public they serve?” That’s a good question.

I’ve made an information request for records of all votes council has taken in closed sessions this year. I’ll keep you posted.

In the mean time, our remedy is to demand better from our elected officials. In addition to Carruthers, there were two other attorneys in the closed session, District 3 representative Justin Outling and at-large member Mike Barber. Barber was even responsible for making one of the motions council voted on in secret. What was he thinking? His motion got a second from Marikay Abuzuaiter who, after multiple terms on council should know better. They all should have known better.

Under North Carolina open meetings law, there are very strict and limited reasons why a public body can meet in private. Avoiding the public discomfort of discussing prickly subjects is not one of them and watching council repeatedly acquiesce to Barber’s motions for five-minute recesses when public deliberations get heated casts doubt on the extent to which this council understands the meanings of transparency and accountability. Hiding contentious disagreement may serve to protect the image of council, but it does not serve the public interest in knowing how our representatives are representing us.

It was especially disheartening to hear Outling defend the secrecy of the closed meeting as necessary to protect “attorney-client” privilege. As North Carolina local government law expert David M. Lawrence has written, when it comes to public bodies meeting in private, the attorney-client protection extends to “legal advice only.”

It does not, Lawrence explains, “extend to all conversations the client might wish remain confidential.”

Outling knows that the deliberations and subsequent votes made by council were not about legal advice. He should have been advocating for the closed session to end while it was underway instead of trying to keep its details secret after the fact. Meeting behind closed doors to, among other things, get the advice of an attorney does not provide blanket secrecy to all discussions that occur there. As the legal professionals on council, it would be nice to see Barber and Outling using their professional knowledge to argue and push for greater transparency instead of working, as they do, for greater obfuscation.

State statutes provide little remedy for violations of the open meetings laws. A court can declare an action taken in an illegally closed meeting null and void, but there is no penalty to the offending officials. The only remedy is at the ballot box. For those of us concerned about integrity in government, we should not lose sight of the fact that the accountability we can most affect is at the local level. We can, and should, insist that Greensboro City Council shape up—or be prepared to ship them out in 2017’s election. !

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

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On the local beer scene with Tap Hopper Tours If you’re into the Triad beer scene you should check out the area’s newest brewery tour. I went on a Saturday last month and met up with the owners, A Review by Patrick Sanecki and Niels Larsen. The tour Natalie Garcia gathered at World of Beer in Greensboro Contributor and we rode in an air-conditioned bus stocked with snacks and drinks.

Sanecki and Larsen have more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry. The duo came up with the Tap Hopper Tours concept in late 2014 while touring craft breweries in Jacksonville, Florida.

During the tour we had our choice of chips, pretzels and other packaged snacks.

Everyone had their own cooler stocked with water. You’re also allowed to bring beer or other purchased drinks onto the bus from the various stops.

As soon as we took off the owners talked about the brewing experience, and introduced us to the different locations. They welcome questions and conversation about beer flows freely.

Our first stop was Greensboro’s long established brewery, Natty Greene’s, at their High Point Road location where they provided tastings including my personal favorite, Wildflower Wit. The warehouse is massive, supplying not only the Triad but the rest of the south as well.

From there we went to the newly opened family-owned Fainting Goat Distillery to try out their liquors, including gin and vodka. It’s smaller but the open layout had an urban feel to it, located in the middle of Downtown Greensboro. They’re passionate about the process and being Greensboro’s only distillery.

The final stop on the tour was Pig Pounder Brewery on Battleground. They have a cool, quirky bar area and the owner was super knowledgeable, he reminded me of a mad scientist wanting to invent different concoctions and always experimenting with the latest in beer making. We started with the tastings spanning light to dark beer, then they took us into the brewery explaining more about the process of selecting the hops and the different types of beer.

Besides the beer, one of the best parts of the entire experience was the people you meet on the tour. It was awesome to ride along on the bus sipping on beer and getting to know one another. It was also very informative. I had no idea about the process behind brewing; not only did they teach us a lot but they shared everything in a fun way. By the end the entire bus felt like longtime friends.

The fee includes transportation, a wealth of knowledge about the beer and liquor process, and seemingly endless tastings, all which make for a worthwhile and unique Saturday afternoon. !

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The roots of a new Thanksgiving tradition

BY KRISTI MAIER | @triadfoodies A Winston-Salem start-up has taken the boxed meal delivery game to a local level that can now serve as an impact to the food insecure.

Middle of the Root is a non-profit organization that provides meal kits filled with locally sourced ingredients from neighboring farms that can feed a family of two or four.

The mission: Connecting communities through food.

Putting it as simply as possible: Middle of the Root is a meal kit delivery service (think Hello Fresh, Blue Apron) but with a local twist. It’s locally owned and operated. Subscribers get a meal, with local, farm fresh products and recipe to go along with them to help prepare that meal.

Founder Ashley Jobe says, “The hope is one day soon, with enough subscribers, we will be able to complete an impact project after each cycle that addresses food insecurity; for instance community gardens, cooking classes and other projects for our underserved communities.”

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The boxed meal kits are called “Meal Kits With Meaning.” It’s part of an overreaching goal of helping the needy in Forsyth County, which has one of the largest food insecure populations in the country. Proceeds from the sale of those boxed kits will allow Middle of the Root to provide those same local, farm fresh foods at low or no cost to our food insecure neighbors. It’s a pretty great concept.

And YES! Weekly will have a full story in Chow on this mission when we get a little closer to spring.

Here’s what is happening now with Middle of the Root and how it is providing an impact for those in need this Thanksgiving, all the while supporting local farmers. For the next 10 days, you can be one of 75 people to purchase a Thanksgiving turkey for your family (or as a gift).

“Every third turkey sold will provide a family in Forsyth County with a Thanksgiving meal,” Jobe said. “Middle of the Root has partnered with five different organizations and asked them to reach out to five local families they work with.

Those families will receive an entire

meal this Thanksgiving, all in the spirit of giving.” So, MoR has 75 turkeys to sell to customers and 25 families will receive meals from the sale of those turkeys.

Jobe says the spirit of giving is continuing in other ways as well. “We have also been contacted by Family Video and they are matching every turkey we sell with another. So the giving aspect has just been taken to another level. We will be giving 25 full Thanksgiving meals and then 70 additional turkeys to places like churches, soup kitchens and organizations that have large community dinners feeding populations of underserved or homeless.”

The turkeys are fresh, locally raised from Joyce Farms. The turkeys customers purchase will be delivered November 21-23 by volunteers. There’s still time to order your turkey at MiddleoftheRoot.org. Prices vary and deliveries will take place within a 30-mile radius.

Middle of the Root has a few stops along the way to share its message and you can learn more on their website but also at Forsyth Woman’s Girls Night Out, which is being held at Muddy Creek Cafe,

Wednesday November 9 from 5:00-8:00 pm.

Meal Kits With Meaning will be offered again come Spring 2017 featuring local produce, meat and cheese and other artisan products that are in season along with the impact initiative.

For more information and to purchase a Thanksgiving turkey, visit middleoftheroot.org. !

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Kids as young as 6 who live on a cliff top in China's Atule'er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb Chuck Shepherd down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a report carried

by CNN, that a sturdy steel ladder was being built to aid the 400 villagers after breathtaking photographs of them making the treacherous commute surfaced on the internet earlier this year [http://cnn. it/2f2PCon] [CNN, 10-26-2016].

round uP the usual susPeCts ("youth Pastors")

Sentenced to six years in prison for sex with teenage girls (September): former Youth Pastor David Hayman, 38 (Hackensack, New Jersey). Sentenced to six months in jail for sending inappropriate texts to teenage boys (August): former Youth Pastor Brian Burchfield (Shawnee,

Oklahoma). Charged and awaiting trial for impregnating a 15-year-old girl (October): Youth Pastor Wesley Blackburn, 35 (New Paris, Pennsylvania). Sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl (September): former Youth Pastor Brian Mitchell, 31 (North Olmsted, Ohio). Charged and awaiting trial for luring teenagers into prostitution (October): Youth Pastor Ron Cooper, 52 (Miami). Sentenced to 90 days in jail as part of a sex assault case involving a 13-year-old girl (September): former Youth Pastor Christopher Hutchinson, 37 (Parker, Colorado).

an "ant" Version of hell

Researchers in Poland reported in August the "survival" of a colony of ants that wandered unsuspectingly into an old nuclear weapon bunker and became trapped. When researchers first noticed in 2013, they assumed the ants would soon die, either freezing or starving to death, but, returning in 2015 and 2016, they found the population stable. Their only guess: New ants were falling into the bunker, "replacing" the dead ones. Thus, ants condemned to the bunker slowly starve, freezing, in total darkness, until newly

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her son, now 8 years old, was born there: Ywlyox Luva.

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM

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Jackson County, Michigan, judge John McBain briefly gained notoriety in October when a Michigan news site released courtroom video of a December 2015 hearing in which McBain felt the need to throw off his robe, leap from the bench and tackle defendant Jacob Larson, who was resisting the one court officer on hand to restrain him. Yelling "Tase his ass right now," McBain is shown holding on until help arrived — with Larson perhaps undermining his earlier courtroom statements claiming it was his girlfriend, and not he, who was the aggressor in alleged stalking incidents.

NAMES IN FLORIDA NEWS

Arrested in October and charged with kidnapping a 4-year-old girl in Lakeland: a truck driver, Mr. Wild West Hogs.

Arrested in West Palm Beach in August and charged with trespassing at a Publix supermarket (and screaming at employees), Mr. Vladimir Putin. And in August, at the dedication of a new unit at Tampa General Hospital's pediatric center, longtime satisfied patients attended, including Maria Luva, who told guests

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In 1921, researchers for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife stated categorically in a journal that "the one predatory animal" inspiring practically nothing "good" is the mountain lion, but recent research in the journal Conservation Letters credits the animal for saving the lives of many motorists by killing deer, thus tempering the current annual number (20,000) of driver-deer collisions.

Even killing deer, mountain lions still trail pussycats as predators; researchers in Nature Communications in 2013 estimated that "free-ranging (U.S.) domestic cats" kill at least 1.4 billion birds and 6.9 billion small mammals annually.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS

On the way to the police station in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 19, after being arrested for, among other things, being a felon in possession of a gun, Raymond Brooks, 25, asked an officer (apparently in all seriousness) whether, after he got booked at the station, he could have his gun back. (The police report did not specify whether the officer said yes or no.)

RECURRING THEMES

— Sovereigns! The director of the Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, facing foreclosure of her home by Firstbank Puerto Rico, decided she was not really "Chenzira Davis-Kahina" but actually "Royal Daughter Sat Yah" of the "Natural Sovereign Indigenous Nation of ... Smai Tawi Ta-Neter-Awe," and she and her equally befuddlingly named husband have sued the bank for $190 million in federal court (and begun the flood of incomprehensible paperwork). The couple's law of "Maat" conveniently holds that attempts by federal marshals to seize their property would double the damages to $380 million.

— "Emotional Support" Animals: Daniel, age 4 — and a duck — accompanied a woman in her 20s in October on a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Asheville, outfitted in a Captain America diaper and red shoes to protect its feet, occasionally (if inadvisedly) giving the woman a peck on the mouth. Reporting the event was author Mark Essig, who has written favorably about pigs but admitted he'd never before been on a flight with "companion poultry" and mused whether Daniel, gazing out a window, experienced an "ancestral" yearning to fly.

— The Art of Smuggling: At press time, Leston Lawrence, 35, an employee of the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, was awaiting a court decision on charges that he stole $140,000 worth of thick gold coins ("pucks") that, over time, were taken from the mint in his rectum. The mint's "highest security measures" never turned up a puck on or in Lawrence; he was arrested after the mint investigated a tip that he had sold an unusual number of them for someone of his pay grade.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION

Mayor Paul Antonio of Toowoomba, Australia (pop. 100,000), admitted he had picked an uphill fight, but still has recently been handing out cards to men on the street asking them to help the city (in unspecified ways) become completely free of pornography. Though the city has several tax-paying sex businesses (even a strip club and a brothel), Antonio's message (augmented by public confessions of men burdened by their porn habits) is directed at the internet's ease of access to images of male "dominance and power" over females. !

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THE SALEM PHOTOGRAPHER A & THE SIAMESE TWINS B Pioneer photographer Henry Lineback makes history in the 1870’s

By Jennifer Bean Bower

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t was January 31, 1874, and the grey skies of winter shrouded the town of Salem, North Carolina. On Main Street, a wagon sat in front of Henry Lineback’s photography studio waiting to be loaded. Frigid air and intermittent pellets of ice kept most residents inside, but Lineback had been “called into service” by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and would have to brave the bitter weather to fulfill his task.

Physicians from the prestigious institution had passed through Salem the day before. They were on their way to Mount Airy, North Carolina, to examine the dead bodies of Eng and Chang Bunker—the original Siamese twins. The doctors had arranged for a photographer to meet them in Mount Airy, but received word he was unable to make the trip. For that reason, they approached Lineback, asked if he would make the journey and offered him a fair amount of money to do so.

Curiosity, a desire to serve the medical community, or the chance to earn extra income, prompted Lineback to say yes.

The men were no doubt relieved he had accepted their proposal, but likely knew little about him or his photography skills.

A Pioneer Photographer Henry Alexander Lineback was photographed by Charles L. Marston in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1866.

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Born in Salem, North Carolina, in 1839, Henry Alexander Lineback made his debut the same year as photography. He attended the Salem Boys’ School and at the completion of his studies chose to learn

the trade of a cabinetmaker. Although he excelled in his chosen vocation, it did not hold his interest. Photography, on the other hand, did.

Lineback’s uncle introduced photography to Salem in 1843 and later opened a studio in his home. It was there Lineback first experimented with photography and developed a love for the art. In 1860, he acquired his uncle’s photography equipment and operated the studio on a parttime basis.

When the Civil War began, Lineback was rejected for service due to an undocumented disability or illness. As a result, he remained in Salem, continued to work as a cabinetmaker and waited for an opportunity to further his study of photography.

Throughout the war, Lineback made and sold photograph cases. Created of wood and leather, the hinged boxes protected photographs and allowed them to be displayed. As a skilled cabinetmaker, Lineback probably found the cases easy to make. And, as documented in the June 6, 1862, edition of the People’s Press newspaper, he indeed found them profitable.

A NEW ENTERPRISE.—We had the pleasure of examining, a few days since, a lot of Daguerreotype Cases, manufactured by our young friend, Henry Lineback, of this place. The cases are neatly and durably made, and finished in good style. The best recommendation we can give is, that he can scarcely supply the demand, always having orders ahead.

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Henry Alexander Lineback photographed Main Street in Salem during the 1860s.

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Henry Alexander Lineback captured this view of his house and photography studio, c. 1870.

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When the war was over, Lineback left Salem and traveled to Pennsylvania where he studied various photographic processes. The dates and duration of his trip are unknown, but he was documented in Philadelphia in 1866, when his likeness was captured at the studio of Charles L. Marston. It is believed that Marston was one of the photographers under which he trained.

The next year, Lineback returned home and asked permission of the Salem Congregations Board of Trustees to construct a photography studio on the north end of his father’s house, which was located on Main Street. The Board agreed and construction began. At its completion, the studio received a favorable review in the February 26, 1869, edition of the People’s Press. The announcement read: Lineback’s New Photograph Gallery.

Our young friend, Mr. Henry Lineback, has for some time occupied his new Photograph Gallery, on Main Street, one door below the Bank. Mr. Lineback has had considerable experience and devotes his whole attention to the beautiful art of copying the “human face divine.” His pictures compare favorably with any we have

seen. The rooms are neatly arranged, and the public will find every convenience to be met with in a well-appointed establishment. Those that are comely will of course get a handsome picture, and even those who are particularly hard-featured, need not stand back, as the instruments are warranted not to crack.

Lineback’s studio thrived and he was soon in need of an assistant—particularly one that could tint portraits. A young woman named Susan Elizabeth James met the requirements and was hired prior to August 1870.

Taking portraits was Lineback’s main source of income, but his time with the camera was not limited to the studio.

In fact, he often carted his equipment around town—and into other communities—where he captured views of people, places, and events. Because his out of doors photographs were so exceptional, they were frequently exhibited and sold.

Lineback received patronage from near and far but probably never imagined that on a cold day in 1874, a team of men from The College of Physicians of Philadelphia would ask him to take post-mortem photographs of Eng and Chang Bunker.

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At Left: Eng with son Patrick Henry (left) and Chang with son Albert, c. 1865. | Middle: Eng (left) and Chang Bunker, c. 1865. | Right: Sarah (left) and Adelaide Bunker, c. 1865.

The deceased men were famous and Lineback was aware of their conjoined state. He was also mindful of their passing, as the People’s Press ran the lengthy article, “DEATH OF THE SIAMESE TWINS,” on January 22, 1874. “the greatest curiosities of nature ever known” Eng and Chang Bunker were born in Siam—now Thailand—on May 11, 1811. The twins were connected at the sternum by a narrow, flexible band of cartilage, but they were not debilitated by it. At an early age they learned to synchronize their movements, which allowed them to run, play, and participate in most childhood activities.

A Scottish merchant named Robert Hunter met the twins in 1824, and knew right away the public would pay to view them. He desired to take the boys to America and put them on display, but his request was denied. Years later, Hunter partnered with Abel Coffin, a sea captain from Massachusetts, and asked again.

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Chang boarded the ship Sachem and set sail for Boston in 1829. Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace, in their book The Two, said the twins could not have known “that they were also sailing into legend.”

Newspapers across the country published stories of Eng and Chang’s arrival to America. Words such as “monsters” and “freaks” were occasionally used to describe them. Their advertisements, however, were void of sideshow lingo, as the brothers were resolved to present themselves in a dignified manner. A notice that appeared in the September 18, 1829, edition of The Evening Post read: WONDERFULL [sic] NATURAL CURIOSITY—The SIAMESE TWIN BROTHERS will be exhibited at the Grand Saloon, Masonic Hall, every day (Sundays excepted) from 9 till 2 in the morning, and from 6 to 9 in the evening...They are connected to each other by an elastic ligament at the extremity of the breast-bone, about 5 inches in length and 3 in breadth, are remarkably intelligent, of very lively disposition, and are parfectly [sic] contented with their close connexion [sic].They have been pronounced by the first medical men to be the greatest curiosities of nature ever

known. Ladies may be assured that there is nothing the least exceptionable in the exhibition, and that many of the first respectability have already visited them.

Admittance 50 cents—children half price.

During an “exhibition,” Eng and Chang gave lectures, walked around on stage and engaged in activities such as badminton. Doctors were often in attendance and frequently examined the twins’ connecting ligament. The question that perplexed the medical community was whether or not the two could be safely separated.

The general consensus was no.

After several months in New York, the twins departed for England and embarked on a fourteen-month tour. The young men who once sold duck eggs to support their family, had become world travelers and international celebrities. As a matter of fact, Eng and Chang were so famous that the term “Siamese Twins” became synonymous with conjoined twins.

When the brothers turned twenty-one in 1832, they were no longer bound to their manager. This occurrence gave them the freedom to determine their own schedule, assist with promotion, and maintain a larger share of their profits. After tour-

ing the Eastern United States, Cuba and Western Europe, the twins returned to New York and showcased themselves at Peale’s Museum. Advertisements for the establishment revealed other “interesting” exhibitions that could be seen in addition to the “Siamese Twins.” They included “Major Stevens, the American Dwarf” and a “living ANACONDA SERPENT, of Bengal.”

At Peale’s Museum the brothers met and befriended Doctor James Calloway of Wilkesboro, North Carolina. When the Doctor learned that Eng and Chang enjoyed outdoor sports, particularly hunting and fishing, he invited them to his home. The twins accepted his request and arrived in Wilkesboro in 1839. That year, the two made Wilkes County their home, began using the surname “Bunker” and became naturalized citizens of the United States—the first Asians to do so.

During the course of their exhibitions, the twins amassed a “comfortable fortune.” In 1840, the brothers purchased 150-acres in the Traphill community of Wilkes County. They became farmers and courted two young sisters. Their pursuit of Sarah and Adelaide Yates, however, was met with opposition. By all accounts, NOVEMBER 9-15, 2016

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The grave of Eng and Chang Bunker at White Plains Baptist Church.

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Eng and Chang were “considered excellent businessmen and good citizens.” Yet, when it came to courtship, the women’s parents—David and Nancy Yates—were not pleased with their daughters’ choices.

Eng and Chang were disheartened, but Sarah and Adelaide were not. They were determined to marry the brothers despite their parent’s objections. When David and Nancy discovered that their daughters planned to elope, they changed their minds and allowed them to be wed.

On April 13, 1843, Eng married Sarah and Chang married Adelaide. Their marriages were fruitful, as Sarah bore twelve children and Adelaide had ten.

Years later, the twins purchased a large tract of land in the White Plains community of Surry County. There, they built two homes. According to the Surry Arts Council, Eng and Chang “split their time between the two families with a rigidly followed system of three days in one house followed by three days in the other.”

Each was the master of his own home.

The twins’ families and farms prospered until the Civil War. At its end, Eng and Chang were financially strained. Determined to regain what they had lost, the two—often in the company of family— returned to a world of tours and exhibitions.

But their return to the spotlight did not last. In 1870, on the way home from Liverpool, England, Chang suffered a stroke.

From that point on, Chang’s health continued to decline, and on Monday, January 12, 1874, he endured coughing spells and chest pain. Doctor William Hollingsworth, a physician from Mount Airy, attended Chang and diagnosed his condition as bronchitis. Eng was unaffected by the illness.

As the days passed, Chang found it harder to breathe and sleep. The pains in his chest increased and a chill latched hold of his body. In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 17, Eng awoke but Chang did not. Upon seeing his dead brother, Eng cried out “I am going!”

Family members rushed to their loved ones while one of the children hurried to retrieve Doctor Hollingsworth. The twins had long decided that if one should die, the ligament would be cut to give the other a chance at life. By the time the doctor arrived, Eng was dead and there was no longer a reason to separate them. At the age of 62, the “Siamese Twins” were no more. “They had come into this world as one,” said Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace, and “they departed…as one.”

In life, Eng and Chang were an oddity that could be viewed for a price. In death, they risked being taken from the ground and sold to the highest bidder. Because of this fear, Sarah and Adelaide buried their husbands in the cellar of Eng’s house.

“Photo…Contribution To Surgery” When Doctor William Pancoast of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia learned of Eng and Chang’s death, he asked Sarah and Adelaide’s permission to embalm and examine the bodies. Doctor Hollingsworth thought the idea to be a good one and persuaded the women to say yes.

Doctor Pancoast, along with Doctors Harrison Allen and Thomas Andrews, began their journey south. They arrived in Salem, North Carolina, on January 30, 1874, where they secured the photographic services of Henry Lineback and enjoyed a short rest. Afterward, they continued onward toward Mount Airy and arrived the next day.

In Salem, Lineback and Augustus Fogle—a “famous stage driver”—loaded a wagon with glass plates, chemicals, a hefty camera, and other photographic supplies. Once filled, it was remarked that the wagon held “enough baggage to serve the needs of a trans-continental voyage.”

Around noon on Saturday, Jan. 31, two horses were hitched to the overburdened wagon and Lineback and Fogle departed Salem. Treacherous elements and fragile cargo forced Fogle to drive the team at a slow and steady pace. An account of the men’s “perilous journey,” was published by the Twin-City Sentinel on October 24, 1925. The article, “PHOTO BY H. A. [LINEBACK] CONTRIBUTION TO SURGERY,” revealed: …The weather was extremely cold, and the two men had a decidedly unpleasant trip. They carried what was believed to be an abundant supply of coats and wraps, including heavy rubber raincoats, but before they reached their destination, the apparel had proved sadly insufficient…The night was exceedingly dark, and cold beyond description, the road offered difficult traveling, and slow progress was made...

In addition to the physical discomforts of the trip, there were surely emotional vexations as well. Lineback knew the twins had been in the grave for fifteen days and that no preservative had been used. What would he see? What would he smell? What if his supplies did not survive the trip? A million questions must have plagued his mind.

On Sunday, February 1, Lineback and Fogle reached Mount Airy. After a brief respite, they accompanied the physicians to Eng’s house. The doctors discussed their intentions with the widows and then exhumed the bodies of Eng and Chang.

The uncovering was detailed in the article “THE LAST OF CHANG AND ENG,” which ran in the February 12, 1874, edition of the People’s Press. It said:

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PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE WIDMAN 2009 FOR THE MÜTTER MUSEUM OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN PHILADELPHIA

COURTESY OF THE SURRY ARTS COUNCIL, MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA “Eng-Chang” lithograph by P. A. Mesier & Company, 1839.

In the midst of a deep silence, and with great solemnity, the earth was then removed… and the coffin was exposed… and after being placed in a proper position the cover was taken off. All the members of the commission and several others present bent eagerly over the coffin, the first sensation they experienced being a cadaveric odor, which…was not at all repulsive…The features of Chang were partially discolored, those of Eng being natural… they seemed to be in a very good state of preservation…

After the bodies were disrobed, Lineback began to work. He took full-length photographs of the twins and then focused on the ligament. The photography session took longer than expected, as the interior of the house was quite dim.

According to reports, Lineback’s photographs did not provide clear images and only one could be deemed successful.

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a similar circumstance. The structure of the ligament was more complicated than they had imagined and the home did not provide facilities necessary for an autopsy.

They therefore decided that the bodies should be taken to The College of Physicians in Philadelphia for an appropriate and adequate examination.

On Monday, February 2, Lineback, Fogle, the doctors, and the bodies of Eng and Chang, left Mount Airy and headed to Salem. It was said that the procession of men, wagons, and coffin, gave the appearance of a “funeral procession” and “attracted the attention of people all along the route.” By Tuesday afternoon, the “cortège” had arrived in Salem. Lineback and Fogle—who were no doubt glad to be home—unpacked their wagon, as the physicians continued their trek north.

When the bodies of Eng and Chang arrived in Philadelphia, an autopsy was performed in The Mütter Museum. The examination, according to the Museum, “revealed that the band connecting the twins included portions of the peritoneal cavities of each twin and that their livers

Death cast of Eng and Chang Bunker at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. were joined by a thin strip of liver tissue.”

As to the question of whether or not Eng and Chang could have been safely separated, the answer was no. The twins would have died from blood loss.

When the physicians completed their examination, the bodies of Eng and Chang were returned to Sarah and Adelaide. Following their burial at Chang’s house, the twins were not disturbed again until 1917, when they were reinterred at the White Plains Baptist Church cemetery in Mount Airy.

Lineback continued to operate his photography studio long after the trip to Surry County. In 1876, he married his assistant and together they had two children—Lucy and Robert Frederick. By 1889, Lineback had moved his entire operation to the corner of Fifth and Liberty streets in Winston. He worked at that location until 1922, when he retired at the age of eightythree. A notice of his death was printed in the December 31, 1932, edition of the Twin-City Sentinel and said “Outstanding in his recollection and one of his fondest stories during his declining years was his

experience in making post-mortem photographs of Eng and Chang Bunker.”

A photographer from Salem became connected to the Siamese twins on a cold winter day in 1874. During his life, Henry Alexander Lineback was known as the man who braved hazardous conditions to take photographs of two famous men.

In regard to those images, it is unknown whether any survive. An archivist at the Mütter Museum believes it is likely but cannot be sure.

Lineback’s legacy, however, is not related to the Siamese twins. Instead, it is a large collection of extraordinary photographs that he took in Salem and Winston from the 1860s to the 1920s.

Those photographs provide a visual record for which “the city of Winston-Salem is indebted.”

In memory of Henry Alexander Lineback 1839-1932; and Eng and Chang Bunker 1811-1874. !

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1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Nov 11: CC3 Nov 18: Exit 180 Nov 25: Jukebox Revolver

MCphERSON’S BAR & GRIll

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1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Nov 12: Out Of The Cellar - Ratt Tribute | Mister Sister - Twisted Sister Tribute Nov 12: Southbound 49 Nov 18: New Soul Revival dec 2: Chasin’ Skirt Band dec 3: Rock Machine

BlUE BOURBON JACk’S

1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks Nov 12: Torn Corners Nov 24: heads Up penny dec 23: heads Up penny

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130 E Parris Ave | 336.841.0521 thecladdaghrestaurantandpub.com

hAM’S pAllAdIUM 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com

lIBERTY BREWERY

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Nov 11: Stereo doll Nov 12: Jaxon Jill Nov 17: Go Go Bang Nov 18: Men In Black Nov 19: Brothers Pearl Nov 25: the dickens Nov 26: Soul central

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209 W 6th St | 336.725.5577 6thandvine.com Nov 11: vel Indica Nov 12: Johnny Bing trio Nov 18: Suitcase Nov 19: dJSk Nov 25: Eddie & Will Nov 26: Suitcase

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408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Nov 11: Wavy train Nov 12: Brothers Pearl Nov 18: Soul Jam Nov 19: Stereo doll

FINNIGaN’S WakE

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Nov 11: Elusive Groove Nov 12: Big Bump & the Stun Guns Nov 19: cc3 Nov 26: hazy Ridge Bluegrass Band

FoothIllS BREWING

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Nov 16: hazy Ridge Bluegrass Band Nov 19: Woodie and the String Pullers

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110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Nov 10: cashavelly Morrison, the Pinkerton Raid, Grace & Nails dec 9: lacy Jags, Spirit System, 1970’s Film Stock

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Music is business: GTCC band Mightier Than Me releases record shaped by the school’s entertainment technology program

BY JOHN ADAMIAN | @johnradamian

W

es Frank Norman hasn’t always gotten the best advice about being a musician. As a teenager, after approaching an older gentleman who he knew played some guitar, the older player asked: “Do you have any weed or liquor?” To which Norman said “No.” And which the older guy answered with: “Well, come back when you do.”

Teacher-student relationships aren’t what they used to be. Without getting too into that little adventure, it all turned out okay. Norman learned to play guitar. And, now 31, as a student in Guilford Technical Community College’s entertainment technology program, he has connected with some more helpful guidance on pursuing a career in music, and he’s met a group of fellow musicians on the same track. Norman plays guitar in Mightier Than Me, a band that was formed by students in the program. The band is releasing an EP on Dec. 2, with a concert at the school’s High Point campus on the same day.

Some bands are formed from circles of like-minded friends, some are formed by a shared interest in a certain style, others take shape when players connect online seeking to fill spots for a new project.

Mightier Than Me started, basically, because four of the five players were taking an ensemble class at GTCC, where stu-

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dents audition and usually rehearse cover tunes, culminating in an end-of-semester performance.

“Without the school, we really wouldn’t

have ever been a band,” says Norman.

“We probably wouldn’t have met each other.”

The band coalesced, in part, because one of the ensemble members, singer Randy Williams, rather than suggesting a cover song by one of his favorite bands, offered up an original tune that he’d written for the class to perform. That caught people’s attention. Bassist Robert Seawell was part of that initial core group.

There were a few personnel changes.

Drummer Charlie Fuson, who was the sole non-GTCC member, had played music with Norman for years, and so he signed on with the project as well. One keyboard player left the area, and keyboardist/ vocalist Alison Veitch joined the band. The band has existed for a year basically.

Most new bands stumble through learning the rudiments of the music business. Booking shows, making recordings, marketing yourself, selling merch, dealing with live sound and lights, handling legal questions about songwriting and copyright issues -- none of these skills are necessarily intuitive, and lots of talented

musicians have had their careers hobbled by a faulty grasp of the practical side of the business. The advent of streaming music services has further complicated the music business, with many artists struggling to piece together an income from the fractional payments given out by companies like Spotify and Pandora. It’s not hard to find musicians who are very pessimistic about the state of the music industry. But Norman and his peers have been studying the mechanics of the business. They’ve worked with industry insiders like Thomas Johnson, who chairs the creative and performing arts department and directs the entertainment technology program at GTCC. Johnson worked closely with the band, producing their recording, helping to pair other students interested in aspects like sound engineering, music business management and lighting, with Mightier Than Me so that the students could all benefit from each other’s growing knowledge of their chosen field.

“We’ve tried to morph ourselves into being more of a community where the students/artists can go and meet like-

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minded people, where everyone can come in and do something cool,” says Johnson.

For Norman and Mightier Than Me, pursuing a music career in the 21st century is markedly different from the dreams of stardom that may have motivated previous generations of aspiring musicians.

“Recording your album and throwing it out there and hoping a major label picks it up and you’re going to be a rock star, that isn’t going to happen anymore,” says Norman. “What they teach at school is the artist aspect of it. You can do this yourself and make a living from it, without major label support.”

That means learning how to register your songs with ASCAP, BMI or other performance-rights organizations that keep tabs on royalties for songs that get played on the radio or performed or broadcast in other contexts. It’s an arcane and somewhat labor-intensive end of the business, usually the work of an entertainment lawyer or a management team, submitting paperwork about setlists and venue names, etc., but royalties, which are often miniscule, can add up to significant sums if one’s songs get played hundreds or thousands of times.

Norman says that because of his and the band’s work keeping that end of the business in order, which they learned at

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GTCC, he receives quarterly royalty checks of a couple hundred dollars as a songwriter. It’s not enough to survive on, but it helps.

Still, all the business smarts in the world won’t really help if you don’t have songs that connect with people. Mightier Than Me sound very much like a band steeped in the radio hits of the ‘90s --

R.E.M., Everclear, the Gin Blossoms, Green Day, etc. It’s not retro, but it’s classic guitar rock, a little sensitivity balanced with a little muscle. You can hear the care and attention given to the recording, with layered vocal harmonies and production touches. At a time when most bands would be hoping to crank out a demo recording from their practice space, Mightier

Than Me got to make a studio album, with guidance from a pro like Johnson, who’s worked with artists like Porno For Pyros, Mike Watt and Rancid.

For Norman, this experience has given him optimism about the possibility of surviving in the field of music. The guitarist describes his formative experience as a teenager in Asheboro, as “rednecks drinking moonshine and playing Lynyrd Skynyrd.” Playing in bands through his teens and twenties was fun, but the money wasn’t really coming.

“Two years ago I was homeless,” he says. “I lived in a shed.”

Actively making songs, making records, and pursuing a clear goal of promoting an album through social media and live shows is something that seems viable to Norman. If other musicians are talking about the death of the business, Norman is more of an optimistic cheerleader.

“The biggest thing I’ve learned from GTCC is that the music industry is not dying,” says Norman, “it’s being reborn.” !

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go?

Mightier Than Me play Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. at the GTCC Center for Creative and Performing Art Theater, 901 S Main St. High Point, ($5 - $15), highpointtheatre.com/EventsGTCC.asp

University Performing Arts Series presents: NEW YORK POLYPHONY, vocal ensemble

LYNN HARRELL, cellist

Sat, Dec. 3 8:00pm

Fri, Nov. 11 8:00pm

UNCG School of Music Recital Hall

First Presbyterian Church, Downtown GSO Scan this QR code with your smartphone to purchase tickets for UPAS performances.

You can also go to upas.uncg.edu or call 336-272-0160.

for more information, visit:

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Upcoming shows you should check out

Compiled by Alex Eldridge

CHARLOTTE

BOJANGLES COLISEUM www.lincolntheatre.com NOVEMBER

Th 10 TAB BENOIT w/Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos / Dead 27’s 7p

Tab Benoit Sat Nov 12

Fr 11 BOULEVARDS

THE FILLMORE

w/TOW3RS / Hotline 8p Sa 12 MOON TAXI w/ELEL Tu 15 THE MEDITATIONS w/Pure Fiyah

Th 17 STICK FIGURE

7p

w/ The Movement / Oogee Waves Fr 18 THE BREAKFAST CLUB (80’s) 8p w/Dirty White Girls (Foreigner) Sa 19 THE MANTRAS w/Urban Soil ELM / Psylo Joe

Sa 20 JON BELLION (SOLD OUT) We 23 SEVEN LIONS Fr 25 CAPITAL CITY REGGAE FEST!

w/Ras Medy/Crucial Fiya/Africa King

Su 27 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE DECEMBER

T h 1 JGBCB (Jerry Garcia Band Tribute) F r 2 THE BLACK LILLIES 8p w/Elise Davis

Sa 3 DOPAPOD

w/Pigeons Playing Pingpong F r 9 THE SHAKEDOWN (Van Morrison) Sa 10 SHOOT TO THRILL w/ Dixie Dust (Female AC/DC) / Mirror 7

Su 11 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE Tu 13 JASON BOLAN & SHOOTER JENNINGS We 14 THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS & TURKUAZ Fr 16 GFW Presents: BARELY ALIVE Sa 17 YARN & DUNE DOGS Su 18 DELTA RAE w/Penny & Sparrow Sa 31 BIG SOMETHING JANUARY

Sa 7 WINTER METAL FEST Th 12 THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Fr 13 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience

Albums I, II, III w/Mojo Rising 7:30p Sa 14 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience Albums IV, Houses, Presence, Physical Graffiti

Sa 21 DAVID ALLAN COE 3 - 3 WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib 3 - 4 LOS LONELY BOYS w/Sugar Dirt & Sand

3 - 2 4 REVEREND HORTON HEAT 4 - 2 2 Y&T

Adv. Tickets @Lincolntheatre.com & Schoolkids Records All Shows All Ages

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Nov 11: Charlotte Music Festival ft.

Keith Sweat, Mint Condition, K-Ci & JoJo, & Avant

Moon Taxi

GABRIELA LA FOLEY WITH DERRICK KIRKMAN

Doodad Farm (4701 Land Rd. Greensboro) Thursday Nov. 10 6:30-9:30 p.m.

“We happened to catch Gabiela la Foley performing recently and just HAD to pull her in for a show at Doodad Farm! Based in England, she’s currently doing a tour of North Carolina, cheering up us Yankees with her ukulele and her sunny disposition.

She’s a blast! We know this is short notice, but we don’t know when or if Gabby will be back in the area, and we want to share this British treasure with everyone!

Gabriela la Foley has a huge repertoire of great, classic songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and she plays them with joyous perfection. Many of these songs will have you singing along, and some you maybe haven’t heard. Regardless, she’ll put a smile on your face.

Derrick Kirkman, who will open the show, is a singer-songwriter based in Climax, NC. His haunting songs tell stories, some true, some not so true, but all spellbinding and performed with passion.

POTLUCK: No obligation to participate, but if you want to bring a dish to share, please do. Let’s show Gabby how we Carolinians cook! We’ll provide the plates, cups, utensils, etc. You’re welcome to bring beverages of your choice whether you do the potluck or not.

DONATIONS: We’re asking folks to donate $8-$10 for this show. As always at Doodad Farm, every cent of your donations goes straight to the musicians.

THIS SHOW IS IN THE FARMHOUSE, so it will happen rain or shine. We can only seat about 70 people, so please only sign up as “GOING” if you’re pretty sure you’re serious. If you change your mind, please change your status to reflect it.” - via Facebook

Fri Nov 11

Boulevards

Thu Nov 17

Stick Figure

JAZZ AT PIEDMONT MUSIC CENTER

Piedmont Music Center (212 N. Broad St. Winston-Salem) Friday Nov. 11 6:30-9 p.m.

“We are extremely happy to announce that Chris Murrell will be the featured vocalist on Friday November 11th in this second installment of “Jazz @ Piedmont Music Center”. A unique acoustic jazz ensemble comprised of string instruments and vocals are the feature of this Second Friday Event. The musicians are Reggie Buie (piano), Wiley Porter (guitar) and Paul Foster (double bass). Follow the link to see and hear Chris on YouTube https://youtu.be/6-pUjjwI8lI . This event begins with a Wine Tasting provided by Carolina Vineyards & Hops and complimentary hors d’oeuvres starting at 6:30 before the concert. Winston Salem’s own Chris Murrell seems to travel at the speed of light, traversing the globe non-stop since 1991. His career reads like one huge highlight reel; winning a Grammy® with the World Famous Count Basie Orchestra (1997), gracing the stages of every major concert hall, festival and club in the world - multiple times! Audiences with royalty and heads of state were frequent and well received. Few singers are as extensively traveled as Chris and you definitely enjoy hearing his truly unique voice in this cozy, and intimate setting!” - via Facebook !

Fri Nov 18

Breakfast Club

Sat Nov 19

The Mantras

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Nov 9: Reel Big Fish Nov 9: Fitz & The Tantrums Nov 11: Anderson East Nov 11: Ingrid Michaelson Nov 12: Drive-By Truckers Nov 13: PartyNextDoor & Jeremih Nov 15: Evanescence Nov 16: Kat Country Jam Nov 16: Russ

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Nov 18: Straight No Chaser

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Nov 10: Stevie Nicks

DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Nov 10: Eric Johnson

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Nov 9: Vince Gill Nov 13: Pretenders Nov 18: The Temptations & The Four Tops

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE 310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Nov 11: Joe Pug

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 11: George Winston

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by Lenise Willis Friday through Nov. 20, The Drama Center of City Arts presents the musical comedy, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” in the Stephen D. Hyers Theater in the Greensboro Cultural Center. The show, which is a series of vignettes on love and relationships, explores the toils of dating, falling in love, getting married, having children, and growing old together. The funny and thought-provoking production includes spirited songs and observations we all can identify with.

Also new this week is Theatre Alliance’s production of Sunset Boulevard, a drama about a former silent movie star whose glory has faded with the introduction of “talkies.”

This week through Sunday, Community Theatre of Greensboro continues its lively production of Sister Act: The Musical, a musical comedy that uses fun dance numbers and gospel music to tell the story of a woman hiding in a convent.

Monday through next Sunday, Nov. 14-20, Studio 1 in Burlington will perform The Miracle Worker in partnership with UNCG’s Professions in Deafness Program and members of the Deaf Community. The “shadowed production” is a beautiful art form where the interpreters are incorporated into the action on the stage, allowing everyone to enjoy the full experience.

“In a traditionally interpreted event, the deaf community must ‘ping pong’ between the interpreters and the event,” said Bobbi Croy of Studio 1. “In a shadowed production, everyone is able to immerse themselves in the experience because the action and interpretation is all happening on stage. The actors and interpreters work together to create the characters and action and to tell the story in an unforgettable way. It is a unique experience for all audience members.”

Studio 1 is now at their new location in Suite 540, Holly Hill Mall (309 Huffman Mill Road, Burlington, NC - behind La Cocina).

Still ongoing is Barn Dinner Theatre’s high-energy musical revue: Love Machine The Musical, which highlights the soulful Motown hits of the 60s and 70s. The production runs this weekend through Nov. 22.

Coming soon next week, Nov. 17-20, is Bennett College’s Little Theatre’s production of What, which examines the personal side of the Black Lives Matter movement. !

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Women of WWII celebrated in Veteran’s Day production

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o icon better represents the power of women more than Rosie Riveter, proclaiming, “We can do it!” And this Veteran’s Day, The Touring Theatre of North Carolina screams “Yes, they did!” in its production about women stepping up during World War II. Inspired by archived letters, diaries, wartime posters and more, Star-Spangled Lenise Willis Girls highlights the women of WWII, from army nurses and pilots to Red Cross Contributing volunteers as they share their memories of enlistment, basic training, service at home columnist and abroad, love and segregation.

The performance is made up entirely of wartime songs and characters recounting their experiences, which were gathered from oral interviews, letters, journals, telegrams and recruitment posters that are in the Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical Collection at Jackson Library, UNC Greensboro.

“It was great fun organizing these materials into a show that pays tribute to these unsung heroines,” said Brenda P. Schleunes, producing artistic director of Touring Theatre of North Carolina.

“Unlike other wars, WWII was, for these women, all about patriotism and adventure--and even though some had very difficult and poignant experiences, one could say that they had fun. In many ways they were like college girls who are finally away from home.”

“The war offered the promise of opportunity, adventure, leadership, education and even romance. And it delivered.”

The production is organized into sections: recruitment, enlistment, basic training, service at home, service in Europe and service in the Pacific, all punctuated with the music of WWII. “It was amazing how well the songs matched what the women were experiencing,” Schleunes added.

Schleunes said that adapting and compiling the documents into a fluid production was like fitting together a jigsaw puzzle.

“It is amazing what women did in the war,” said Kay Thomas, actor and production coordinator. “Not only did they work on the home-front, but they were involved in many more aspects. They were nurses and pilots. These were ordinary women who did extraordinary things, especially for their time.”

Each of the five actresses performs as a different character in each section of the play. “The documents were woven together to create these conglomerate characters,” Thomas said. “Everything we say is from actual letters and interviews.”

Thomas performs as three women, including a musician who trained to be a nurse specifically to serve in the war. She meets and falls in love with a young man named Joe. “I loved reading the letters; it’s a sweet love story,” she said.

The production was inspired by a research project that began in 1998, when Betty Carter, the founder of the Women Veterans Historical Project, was the university archivist.

“In doing some research I realized that we had no information on the history of the women who came to Woman’s College (now UNCG) on the GI Bill after WWII,” Carter said. “After doing a bit more research, I found very little historical information was avail-

able on any women who served in the military in WWII. And that is how the project began.”

The goal was to provide a research collection that would recognize the women and what they did. Carter worked to uncover oral histories and documents covering all branches--WAC, WAVES, WASP, SPARs, USMC, Army and Navy Nurse Corps, US Air Corps, and Red Cross.

“I strongly believe that the role of women in any endeavor is often overlooked or ignored--and this was certainly true when it came to these women. Just recently, the family of a WASP had to fight to have her ashes interred at Arlington--the Secretary of the Army did not think she ranked as military.”

By creating this research collection, Carter hoped writers, students and researchers would use the collected material to write their books, college papers, newspaper and magazine articles and plays, which is how Star Spangled-Girls was born. “(The play) saves history and it recognizes the women,” Carter said. “I admire these women so much. When I see the play I can hear the actual woman saying the words. I learned to know and admire them.” !

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flicks The Marvel movie universe enjoys a fun and entertaining expansion with Doctor Strange, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role of a brilliant, idiosyncratic neurosurgeon Mark Burger desperate to regain his acumen after Contributing surviving a near-fatal car wreck. columnist To this end, Stephen Strange – yes, his name really is Strange – journeys to Nepal, where the requisite ingredients of a superhero movie kick in.

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(Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Wong (Benedict Wong). Even though Strange is the titular hero, Ejiofor and Wong manage to elevate their roles above mere sidekicks.

Strange immediately proves adept at hocus-pocus, which allows director/ screenwriter Scott Derrickson to cruise through the obligatory origin-movie expo-

sition with speed and clarity.

The resident villain is Mads Mikkelsen’s Kaecilius, once a student of the Ancient One’s and now bent on altering time and space to suit his own nefarious ends.

Mikkelsen too gets a fair amount of screen time to establish his character and, perhaps more importantly, have some fun.

There’s not much for Rachel McAdams to do, playing Strange’s colleague and former (and likely future) romantic interest, but she’s a good sport. Michael Stahlberg, also playing a Strange colleague, and Benjamin Bratt barely register. Still, it doesn’t hurt an actor’s career to be affiliated with a big-buck franchise.

There is, of course, the obligatory cameo by Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee (here glimpsed on a bus), as well as endcredit bits that hint at future adventures to come. If that weren’t enough, the end credits also announce “Doctor Strange will return” – and you can bet he’ll be interacting with other Marvel heroes. !

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For those who possibly feared that it might end up like The Smurfs or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Trolls is a sweet surprise, an eager-to-please animated feature that does just that – for audiences of all ages.

Inspired by the popular line of dolls created by Thomas Dam, the film’s storyline is simplicity itself. Years before, the perennially happy and cheerful Trolls fled their captors, the dreaded Bergen, a miserable and misshapen beings convinced true happiness can only be attained by eating Trolls.

Now, the wicked Bergen “Chef” (voiced

by Christine Baranski) has found their hiding place and whisked several away to certain digestion, inspiring Princess Poppy

(voiced by Anna Kendrick) and reluctant hero Branch (voiced by Justin Timberlake) to embark on a desperate rescue mission.

As plots go, Trolls’ is less important than the impish, bubbly sensibilities in which it’s conveyed, which also incorporates nice messages about loyalty, friendship and encouragement without sacrificing the comedy.

Kids will enjoy the colorful, splashy animation (even better in 3-D) and upbeat musical numbers, while their elders will enjoy the jokes and pop-culture references (including a classic bit on Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Silence”). Director Mike Mitchell (of Shrek Forever After and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked) and co-director Walt Dohrn (making his

feature debut) and keep things light, energetic and constantly on the move – all the better to keep the intended audience from getting restless.

There’s also an enthusiastic and formidable voice-over cast, with fun contributions from Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, Gwen Stefani, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and especially Baranski, having a high old time voicing what is essentially the film’s resident Cruella deVil. Trolls has been expertly assembled and promoted to appeal to the widest possible audience, and it would be no surprise if we’re seeing more Trolls on the big screen in the near future. !

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Appearances deceptive in The Handmaiden

Based on Sarah Waters’ 2002 best-seller Fingersmith, Park Chanwook’s The Handmaiden (originally titled Ahgaasi) finds the acclaimed filmmaker in an expansive yet intimate, and frequently self-indulgent mood.

That said, the proceedings – divided into three chapters – demand a degree of selfindulgence on the part of its maker(s), as the story itself indulges in various dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, twists throughout. It’s both a grand facade and a grand charade, set against the backdrop of Japan’s occupation of Korea in the first half of the twentieth century.

Kim Tae-ri plays Sook-hee, a deceptively demure and waif-like con artist who becomes the handmaiden to Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee), an elegant young heiress who, like so many of the wealthy and affluent, seems to float through life in a dreamy daze, uncaring of the political and social turmoil simmering around her. It is here that Park indulges in stylish satire of upper-crust decadence with a basis in history.

The film’s second chapter offers much

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of the same information as the first, although from a different perspective that doesn’t so much clarify things as further complicate them, as well as changing (in some cases greatly) the motivations of the characters. It’s also kinkier, more intense, and succeeds in throwing the viewer off-balance – as well as interested enough to see what happens next.

The third chapter ties things together, in mostly satisfying fashion, with Sookhee and Hideko taking their relationship, which is not at all what it initially seemed, to its ultimate conclusion, as well as taking Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo), initially seeming to be the master manipulator, to his ultimate conclusion – which offers a vivid reminder that, yes, Park is the man who directed Oldboy (2003). Pushing the envelope is nothing new to him. Indeed, he seems to savor it, as The Handmaiden succeeds in demonstrating. It’s not a perfect film but it’s a fabulous curio.

(In Japanese and Korean with English subtitles) The Handmaiden opens Friday !

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Westerwood Tavern raises funds for Childcare Co-Op

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esterwood Tavern is hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, November 12th for the College Hill

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The 35-year-old Co-Op is moving to the Westerwood neighborhood. The relocation to 504 Guilford Ave. is slated for January 2017 and comes after the Co-Op was forced to vacate from their previous Lindley Park location this past March.

“We had been in that building for almost 10 years,” says Sara Rosenblatt, a Co-Op parent and fundraiser.

Over the past several months, parents researched sites and solicited funds for the move before deciding on the Westerwood location.

The majority of Americans spend 10-25 percent of their income on childcare costs, according to 2016 survey from Care.com.

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the operational side of their day care, nor do they have personal relationships with those taking care of their children.

Co-Ops, however, offer a different experience.

“The parent body is the governing agency,” shares April Forsbrey, a Co-Op parent. “And, the teachers see their kids as their own. We can drop our kids off and not give it a second thought. I’ve never wondered what is happening with my kids at Co-Op.” “We also allow cloth diapering,” Forsbrey points out, “And that is something that was important to me.”

Snacks are vegetarian and usually organic, and the day includes lots of outdoor time.

“We structure most of our learning through play,” Rosenblatt adds. “We take our models from things that are researched-based, but I tell parents who are looking at us not to expect the cookie cutter model.”

The Co-Op brings in yoga and music teachers, for example.

Katie Southerland, the Co-Op’s Executive Director, says that College Hill Childcare “has lower ratios and smaller groups.”

Families that choose co-op day care “usually want to be involved in their children’s education.”

One requirement is that families donate two hours of time a week, either as a teaching assistant, working the front desk, or “doing what needs to be done,” Rosenblatt explains.

The pairing between a neighborhood bar and a childcare facility may seem odd, but it fits with Westerwood’s role as a unique neighborhood bar.

It’s a drinking establishment that routinely gives back to the community.

The tavern has hosted fundraisers for various local charities and non-profits, including the Triad Health Project.

The idea of approaching the tavern

came to Rosenblatt because she noticed the various Art on Tap fundraisers held at Westerwood in support of the Center for Visual Artists.

“When I knew that we were seriously looking at leasing next door, it was a natural fit,” Rosenblatt said.

Mike Bosco, the owner of Westerwood Tavern, feels that partnering with his new neighbor for a fundraiser makes sense.

“Westerwood wanted to help them with the transition to the new day care facility,” he said. “We would like to see them get settled before the holidays so they can enjoy that time of year without the cost of the new facility weighing on them.”

Besides, parents deserve some down time.

“The Co-Op offers date night,” says Southerland, “so that parents can get together. People are looking for a community more than anything else.”

Forsbrey said that Jan. 2 is their safe date for opening, “but we’d like to be together for the holidays,” she says, hoping funds come through to open the doors prior to the end of the year.

The project seeks $35,000 towards upfit and for securing teacher salaries. They are also soliciting potential families who feel the Co-Op represents their values.

The new facility will offer day care for children from six weeks, and after school care for children through the 5th grade.

The Westerwood Tavern fundraiser is family friendly, from 3 pm – 8 pm with live folk music. The event will have a food truck and a raffle for a mountain getaway.

“Then put your babies to bed,” Rosenblatt suggests, “and come back for the dance party.” !

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Quest for film A few months back, a front-page article in the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure section about film preservation and restoration noted that the days of “garage finds” are fast coming to a close.

Mark Burger “Garage finds” is a common term used Contributing for the unexpected discovery of old film columnist reels containing rare or unseen film footage. It is through these serendipitous discoveries that some films have enjoyed full (or fuller) restorations or reconstructions.

Having toured the UNCSA School of Filmmaking’s Moving Image Archives and talked extensively with senior curator David Spencer, I’ve seen some of those garage finds in person – dented, rusty film canisters that contain rare film prints. In 2012, I wrote a YES! Weekly cover story about exactly that subject.

The UNCSA Moving Image Archives is easily in the top 10 film collections in the entire United States, and it has benefited from garage finds over the years. When Vinegar Syndrome released last year a special-edition DVD/Blu-ray of the 1973 film Catch My Soul, a rock opera based on Shakespeare’s Othello and the only feature film directed by actor Patrick McGoohan, some of the elements were provided by the Moving Image Archives.

Author Phil Hall, whose books include The History of Independent Cinema and The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time, has now written In Search of Lost Films, a selfexplanatory examination of films lost, films found (or portions thereof), and even a few myths that continue to fascinate – and sometimes frustrate – film completists.

Published by BearManor Media, the 206-page book ($19.95 retail in paperback, $29.95 retail in hardcover) is written in a clear, concise and informative fashion.

Some of the “mysteries” he addresses are fairly common knowledge among cineastes, such as the climactic pie-fight in Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) which was excised shortly before release – some say because of the JFK assassination, others because the scene simply didn’t work.

There’s the matter of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), in which all references to the Frankenstein Monster (Bela Lugosi) able to speak but blind were deleted, thereby rendering the performance awkward and clumsy.

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footage in both films, but evidently it’s lost … or, perhaps, mouldering away somewhere in a garage or warehouse or barn.

But there are the more obscure curiosities, such as Orson Welles’ Moby Dick – Rehearsed (1955), an attempt to produce Herman Melville’s classic sea-faring tale on a bare stage, as performed by a traveling theatrical troupe. Welles staged the play in London then attempted to produce it as a film. Knowing that John Huston was preparing his own big-budget screen adaptation – in which, ironically, Welles would play Father Mapple – Welles attempted to sell it to television.

The cast included such future luminaries as McGoogan, Christopher Lee and Joan Plowright, with Welles playing Captain Ahab, but it’s not certain whether the film was even finished, much less if any footage remains – or if there was any footage to begin with.

Even Alfred Hitchcock, arguably the most acclaimed director of the twentieth century, has a lost film in his name. In 1926, with Austrian financing, he directed The Mountain Eagle, a melodrama set in rural Kentucky (!). The film, which Hitchcock later called “awful,” was released in the United States in 1927. Since then, except for a few photographs, no more has ever been heard – or seen – of The Mountain Eagle.

In some cases, such as the supposed “spider pit footage” from the original King Kong (1933), Hall is able to dispel the myth that it was ever meant to be in the finished film.

As it turns out, it was silent test footage designed to assure RKO executives that the filmmakers could handle such an elaborate, effect-laden production.

Of course, some mysteries remain, and Hall delves as far into them as possible, only to admit there is no conclusive evidence, only hints and rumors. There’s always the chance that missing footage or even an entire missing film could still be discovered somewhere, but film fans will just have to wait and hope.

It might have been nice had Hall included some photos in the book. Some, of course, would have been impossible to find, but a still from The Mountain Eagle or even from the King Kong test footage (images from which can easily be found on-line) would have been welcome, intriguing, and would have enhanced interest somewhat.

Nevertheless, In Search of Lost Films is an easy, breezy, sometimes thought-provoking read – a must for film buffs.

For more information about In Search of Lost Films and other BearManor publications, visit the official website: bearmanormedia.com !

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Celebrating Chef Vivian Howard and exalting the farmer

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hef Vivian Howard has had quite the adventure the last decade. After leaving New York to open up a restaurant in one of the poorest communities in the state, if not country, she’s turned her dream into a household name. And she’s turned into the darling of PBS. Her show, A Chef’s Life is a huge hit and a winner of the Peabody Award. And Howard has become an author. All the while championing our state and her beloved Eastern North Carolina and the farmers who feed us. If there’s anyone who embraces “Love thy farmer,” it’s Chef Vivian Howard.

Howard and her husband, Ben Knight, own Chef & the Farmer in Kinston and the show chronicles her life as a restaurant owner and celebrates the ingredients and heritage of Eastern North Carolina. That has parlayed into a book deal. Howard has been on a book tour for the past few weeks stopping in cities all across the region to promote her book, “Deep Run

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Vivian Howard, above left, came through the Triad much to our foodie’s delight.

Roots.” It’s a collection of stories and recipes from her “corner of the South,” in Deep Run, North Carolina. It reads much like her beloved show, weaving stories from the area, taking an ingredient at a time and bringing it into the kitchen where it deserves to be celebrated. You can hear her voice, with her charming southern drawl in each and every page.

The book is a beast. A beautiful one. It’s 563 pages thick and filled with Howard reminiscing about her childhood, her memories of desperately trying to get out of Eastern NC, her reluctant return and her rise to success in a way she never fathomed. And there are some 200 recipes as well.

Howard’s visit to the Triad last week was a huge indicator of what this homegrown chef means to North Carolina. More than 250 people attended her sold-out event at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro. More than 460 contributors the following night attended Reynolda House Museum of Art’s annual fundraising gala… a private affair sold out months in advance with a multi-course dinner inspired and prepared by Howard and a culinary team. On Saturday, 275 more people attended “A Morning with Vivian Howard” for brunch and book reading and a chance to have her sign a copy of the book.

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stalked her to get some photographs and I edged my way in to a snap as well.

For a split second, while this glowing, unassuming celebrity was filling her plate with fruit salad, mini-biscuits from her cookbook and pumpkin muffins, I introduced myself (we follow each other on Twitter). I followed her to her table and inserted my interview question. And she graciously accommodated me while her daughter, Flo, hung on her like she was a baby tree. Such is the life of a mommy (she and Ben have twins Flo and Theo) and someone who’s been thrust into the spotlight.

Howard says she started out her career wanting to be a food writer. She began working in restaurants in New York as a way to learn what goes on behind the scenes. But it’s there she honed her skills under the tutelage of Chef Scott Barton.

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She and Ben started making and selling soup on their days off. Finally she moved back down south as her family invested in her restaurant, which was envisioned as a fine dining establishment in an area that is known for BBQ and…for being impoverished. As she and Ben made Chef and the Farmer a success, opening another, more casual restaurant next door called The Boiler Room, she still saw herself as a storyteller. That’s how the show came about in the first place. And she says the opportunity to write a book was like a dream.

“My publisher gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted to do, so that was a very positive experience and I’ve since learned that it’s not always the case,” Howard said. “What I didn’t understand was that writing a book also meant promoting it and that has been interesting… as well as taxing.”

But Howard adds that it’s also been very rewarding to see the excitement of the show’s fans while she’s on tour.

“People who watch the show…it’s different than a typical cooking show….people are rooting for me and feel invested in the stories so it’s a great feeling.”

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Carolina at the helm of a now popular restaurant. She also read from two chapters of “Deep Run Roots.”

Howard’s visit was also a part of Reynolda Museum of Art’s seasonal installation, “Grant Wood and the American Farm.” The campaign asks, “What is your farm story?” Howard told the audience, “I was ashamed of growing up on a farm and being back woods, saying over yonder and I’m fixin’ to and I reckon.” Howard attended Salem Academy for a period of time, where she says, “I realized that my classmates were southern, but I was country and with that knowledge, my shame grew.” She then set off on numerous adventures and finally returned to her roots. “The irony is that, now…I am incredibly proud to have come from a farming background and that my parents, who still say over yonder and fixin’ to are some of the smartest, resourceful people I’ve ever met.”

Allison Perkins, Executive Director of Reynolda House and Associate Provost of Reynolda House and Gardens, says Howard’s restaurant, her celebration of farmers and North Carolina ingredients made a perfect fit for the fundraising gala.

The topic tied in naturally with the Grant Wood exhibit and the partnership with Bookmarks.

“We desperately wanted to weave her into a weekend of events and tie it into Grant Wood,” Perkins said. “But more than that, Reynolda was also a farm. This harnesses the history and legacy of Reynolda, which is on the eve of celebrating its Centennial.”

The gala featured local farms from the Triad as well as the rest of nation and featured dishes in Howard’s book.

“We really wanted to honor farmers. We unfortunately undervalue our farmer, who grows our food and the event was really about lifting them up and a way to honor the farm as well as share with our donors and supporters what’s to come in 2017,” Perkins added.

Howard says she applauds Reynolda for exalting the American farm. “It’s not something that’s often done. It’s very easy to overlook. The folks who grow our food don’t often have a voice in our culture. It’s something I’m trying to do on “A Chef’s Life” and Reynolda is doing the same here.” !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) This week is about finding healing on either the physical or emotional levels. You may be the healer or the healee. It is possible that alternative medicine may play a role. If a friendship or a more significant relationship needs mending, now is the time to do so. The willingness to open your heart and mind to give and to receive is yours at this time.

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[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your focus shifts to matters of home, hearth, and family. Events of the past may float up in your mind for reflection. If this occurs, ask yourself what you learned from the former experience. It probably would help you now. Family concerns may occupy your attention. It is a good time to open important discussions with those most important to you.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You have favorable aspects related to home, property and family matters.

You may have a desire to improve the appearance of the environment around you, whether at home or at work. You may be attracted to activities that allow you to play or work with your favorite colors.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your focus shifts at this time to matters of home, property, and family.

Through the next 6 weeks you may be handling heavy work around your home, and/or making repairs to your property.

Sometimes this transit interferes with your reflexes, so take care with ladders, kitchen knives, and the car.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Mercury moves very quickly through your sign over the next 3 weeks. During this period there likely will be greater emphasis on communications, errands, and other short distance travels.

Your mind will be quick and your attitude persuasive. New projects begun at the end of this month will probably not be finished before mid-January.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You are caught in a Mars/Saturn trap for the present. Saturn keeps you in the background and unable to climb out of your hole. It is like the brakes of a car.

Mars, which is the personification of the accelerator is straining to pull you out. At present Saturn is too heavy to drag into the light of day. Time will be of great help. Later you can arise from the hole.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) It is a real challenge to make any moves forward at this time. Unless you are sharpening your skills, you might as well let it go for a few weeks. It is possible that machinery may break down, illustrating the “stop” signal. Just wait for a while.

Try not to let it get to you.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You may be tending to your own or another’s healing on either the physical or emotional level. The emotional wound is old and is tied to a previous sense of abandonment that once occurred in your life. Somehow that old ache is being soothed at this time and you feel less alone in the world.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your attention naturally shifts toward plans for the future and finding ways to meet your goals. The probability is high that you will be leading or joining activities that call for cooperation from one or more groups of people for the next few weeks.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) For the next 3.5 weeks your attention is focused in the areas of travel, education, publishing, teaching, the law and the Internet.

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[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your mind has been truly busy in recent weeks.

If you have not yet resolved an issue, set it aside while you take a break. Even a short time away can help your mental nerve endings synapse more easily. Clear the cobwebs from old, non-working solutions so that a fresh perspective can emerge.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The Full Moon in Taurus occurs on Nov. 14th. These days that approach it are probably very busy and social. Don’t forget to chant 3 times & dance 3 circles, while holding pockets, purse or wallet open. “Moon, Moon, Beautiful Moon, Fill it up, Fill it up, Fill it up soon.”

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Your response to “Torn” really missed the mark. She is the 35-year-old woman whose friends and family think her 43-year-old boyfriend is lazy and not good enough for her and will end up living off her. She has a full-time job with benefits, while he works part time and saves up when he wants to buy something. She says he supports her emotionally: “He...has my back to an unreasonable degree.” Yet, you contend that his lack of ambition may lead her to resent him. My advice to her: “If the relationship works for both of you, enjoy it. Nurture it. Keep the outside influences outside. And for crying out loud, woman, pull up your big-girl Underoos and tell your friends and family to take a deep breath and say a prayer to Saint Eff You.” — Better Idea Your advice — that “Torn” should just flip the bird at all of her boyfriend’s detractors — is the perfect solution for any woman who has a number of smelly, unsightly friends and family members cluttering up her life. I offer a similar redo of decluttering queen Marie “KonMari” Kondo’s advice that we should go through all our stuff and see what brings joy. Yawn.

The AlkonMari method: “Strike a match and run.”

But, wait, you say. He supports her emotionally. That, you insist, should be enough. Should be. And though it’s reasonable to prefer that it would be, the late Albert Ellis, co-founder of cognitive-behavioral therapy, explained that “should” involves the irrational demand that the world manifest itself in an idealized way — the way it SHOULD be. This keeps us from dealing with it as it is. For example, I should be writing this response to you in a villa in the south of France with servants, a helipad, and a moat. But here in the real world, unless I start moonlighting as a drug lord, I will continue writing from the cute shack in LA that I share with my dog and several million termites.

Likewise, in that magical land where children’s dentists send glitter instead of a bill, the perfect husband could be a sweet man who splits his time between a lowstress part-time job and chillaxing on the couch with a doob. But women evolved to have emotional mechanisms pushing them to seek men who are willing and able “providers,” and a man’s ambition is a cue for that. Women can’t just yell at their genes, “Hey, it’s 2016, and I’m the VP of a successful startup!” As anthropologist Donald Symons explains, changing any “complex adaptation,” like those

driving mating psychology, takes “hundreds or thousands of generations.” This is why — as I explained to “Torn” — research finds that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting him, making those marriages more likely to end in divorce.

Should “Torn” stay or go? That actually isn’t for you or me to say, because our values aren’t her values and what works for us may not work for her. That’s why I suggested she mull over the potential issues — over time — and make an informed decision about whether to go all in with her Laid-Back Larry. Yeah, I know — love should “conquer all.” And yes, in a perfect world, we could respond to utility company disconnect notices with a sweet note: “Please don’t shut my lights off!

XOXO!”

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I’m a 32-year-old lesbian and an aspiring fiction writer. I use my life in my work, but my girlfriend gets mad when she shows up in it. I think she’s being unfair. Isn’t anything I experience fair game? — Storyteller There she is crying, and you’re rubbing her back, all “Baby, that’s terrible.” And then you duck out of the room and dictate everything you can remember into your phone.

Um, no. Think of the details of your girlfriend’s life like some stranger’s lunch.

The fact that their cheeseburger is within your reach doesn’t mean you get to grab it and be all “Mine! Yummeee!” As Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren explained in an 1890 Harvard Law Review article on privacy, unless somebody is a public figure, they have a right to privacy, meaning the right to control who gets to know what about their persona and private life.

You cross the line from fiction writer to privacy invader when a character is recognizable as a particular person. It isn’t that you can’t use anything at all from another person’s life. Publishing expert Jane Friedman says you can create a composite character “with traits and characteristics culled from several people.” In other words, steal from the many instead of “the one.” Remember, it’s called an “intimate relationship” because it’s supposed to be between two people — not two people and the 8,423 others one of them gave their novel away to on Goodreads. !

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