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If you’re looking for fresh seafood in Greensboro, all you need to know are two words: SKRIMP SHACK. And no, you didn’t read that wrong.

10 From the first Honor Card in 1988, “Not Forgotten,” to this year’s “ALMOST HOME,” Mangum continues to paint works of art to support the homeless and needy in memory of Saavedra.

11 For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, Winston-Salem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT AT THE MOVIES will present an encore screening of the award-winning drama Evening Shadows, at a/perture cinemas on Dec. 11.

12 BURDETT, who has been making records steadily since his 2005 debut The Weight of Words, did end up writing that train song and putting it on his 2017 album Refuge, his seventh record. It’s a song called “Pennies on the Tracks,” but it’s not your standard railway song.

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played there yet,” Brown said. The evening felt akin to a sort of Casual Curious crowd reunion... “ 19 A sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET first and foremost expands upon the relationship between the overgrown kid Ralph (again voiced by John C. Reilly), who toils as the antagonist in the arcade game FixIt Felix Jr., and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman)...

24 On Nov. 20, the Greensboro City Council voted to allow “stand-up electronic SCOOTERS” on streets with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. But don’t go looking for one just yet.

25 “Downtown Greensboro belongs to all of us,” wrote Michelle Kennedy in a Facebook message to me on Monday. “From local small business owners to people experiencing homelessness and everyone in between.” That, she explained, is why she’s enthusiastic about GIVESBORO, a collaborative effort by downtown Greensboro merchants raising money...

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THE W BAR AND BISTRO

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Whitney Gunter took over the downtown Greensboro restaurant, The W Bar and Bistro, as owner back in 2017. Coming from Charlotte, she was initially looking for a hookah lounge-type of space to start up in the Triad. However, someone told her about a spot whose owner was looking to get out of the business. Once she saw the space, she fell in love with the location, and still had that “chill quality” she was looking for.

Gunter already loved the décor and was easily able to add her flare, such as the green ivy wall behind the bar. “I wanted a chill place where people could come, and I feel like that’s what we got,” she said of The W’s overall vibe.

Gunter and her staff decided to play around with the menu for the first six months to test out different dishes customers would like.

“Once we found out those items that we thought were key to downtown, that’s the ones we put on the menu,” she said.

The W has a distinctly Southern-style of cuisine with brunch items such as chicken and waffles and lunch items such as shrimp baskets. The W is open for lunch Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and opens again for dinner from 5 p.m. to midnight. On Friday and Saturday, it is open from noon to 2 a.m. and on Sunday from noon to midnight. With so many businesses being downtown, the people who work there are always looking for a place to get great food on their lunch breaks. Gunter said The W had become that perfect place for so many downtown employees because of its quick service and convenience. She said the restaurant gets many takeout

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The W is not only a restaurant but also a venue, as it has a second level where live bands and DJs perform, and functions as a space for private parties. There is also a balcony with a view of downtown Greensboro for the guests’ enjoyment. With the weekend being the busiest, Gunter said The W makes sure to make the dining experience fun and affordable with karaoke nights and deals such as $20 bottomless mimosas on Saturdays.

“It really has that ambiance of a chill spot where you can come on a date, but you also can just come with your friends and hang out,” Gunter said.

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Greensboro catches a Skrimp Shack

f you’re looking for fresh seafood in Greensboro, all you need to know are two words: Skrimp Shack. And no, you didn’t read that wrong.

The ‘skrimp’ come Jennifer Zeleski tossed in a basket, tucked into tacos or piled high on Po’ boy Contributor sandwiches. You can also catch whiting, flounder, haddock, catfish and more at the restaurant that claims to be the “home of the fattest fish sandwich.”

It is not a shack, but rather at the corner of a strip mall, located at 815 W. Gate City Blvd. and wasn’t hard to find with a line spilling out the door. My boyfriend Peyton and I eagerly waited to get a glimpse inside.

Each table had a bottle of malt vinegar, Texas Pete hot sauce and a large shaker of Old Bay seasoning, and gave us a good indication of what we would find on the menu: a mix of Southernstyle with fried seafood and fish plates, sandwiches and sides, and even a section dedicated as “enough to feed the family.”

We knew we had to try the shrimp, but how would we be able to decide what else we wanted to indulge in?

Kids meal combos, chicken sandwiches (for those who avoid sea creatures in their diets) and a list of sides that you hope for at your next church picnic: collards, macaroni and cheese, hush puppies, green beans, coleslaw and more.

After a dizzying amount of combination ideas, and a few exchanged comments with other customers, we made our choices. I picked the crab cake from the daily special menu, knowing it might be my last chance to snatch one depending on availability, with a side of macaroni and cheese, and an order of 10 shrimp for Peyton and me to share. He chose the tilapia sandwich, which came with 3/4 pound of fish on a sesame seed bun, and a side of fried okra.

It wasn’t a long wait as we watched dozens of Styrofoam containers loaded with fish come out the door, or land in the hands of eager, hungry customers.

I knew we were in for a treat when I read the disclaimer on the wall: Eating our food may lead to an addiction. We are not responsible for any sudden cravings, urges, or your car seemingly driving here on its own.

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Our food arrived in several baskets, but the one that got the most glory was the tilapia sandwich. Peyton and I exchanged glances of disbelief at its size, which he observed as “bigger than five fast-food fish sandwiches combined,” and “the biggest fish sandwich I’ve ever seen.” It was then that we decided to share it.

The fish was light and fresh and had no indications of being frozen. It was tender, evenly breaded, and paired well with tartar sauce, malt vinegar, or fresh lemon-depending on your preference. The sesame seed bun tied it all together, being soft and pillowy, but still strong enough to hold (most of) the weight of the sandwich.

If you plan on ordering one of the “fattest fish sandwiches,” plan to share it with a friend, family member or significant other, even if you’re starving when you arrive.

You won’t regret it, and you’ll be able to split the roughly $10 combo that comes with a side and drink.

The fried okra was a first for me, which can come as a shock for anyone who knows that I grew up in North Carolina for a majority of my life. However, having avoided it for so long, I knew I had to give it a chance, and this was a good time to do so. In small, bite-sized portions, the okra had a crisp breading around every inch and held a distant savory vegetable flavor with each try. I came to enjoy it after some initial hesitation. Peyton popped them back with enjoyment, and I savored a few and decided it might not be the first side item I would choose next time around.

After fighting my plastic fork with Peyton’s, I moved on to my crab cake. It was about the size of my palm, breaded and deep-fried. Having experienced one of the most highly-acclaimed Baltimore crab cakes just a few weeks before, I knew this one couldn’t be held up to quite the same standard, but it held its own. Not too

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2018 oily or greasy from the fryer, the crab had a great savory yet sweet flavor and was not packed or oversized with filling rather than crabmeat. It had the melt-in-yourmouth texture that you look for in a great crab cake and was easily one of the best I’ve tried in the Piedmont Triad. There wasn’t a single crumb left once it was gone. The price might seem a bit steep at $8, but when you consider the $15 ones at the coast, the massive amounts of fillers and lack of seasoning, this one is a great deal, and definitely worth a try.

My macaroni and cheese, as always, was highly anticipated. It was stovetop macaroni and cheese without the dense, cheesy texture that had a white, creamy sauce free from clumps or a baked-style topping. It had a good saltiness with every bite and is my personal favorite to pair with a crab cake, regardless of where you’re having one. If you’re missing the breadcrumb crunch or added seasoning, sprinkle some Old Bay on top. (Trust me, you won’t regret it.)

Last but surely not least, was the shrimp itself. Fried, crisp and ready to be

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drenched in cocktail sauce (if that’s your forte), it gained the affectionate name at our table as “skrimp snack.” To my surprise, the tails had been removed, and you could pop each one into your mouth with a satisfying crunch and overall fresh flavor. Peyton and I tend to avoid shrimp, but this was delicious and well worth the try.

The portions of food are large compared to the prices, which are just under the average of a local lunch, and it would be a great stop to share a plate, dinner or sandwich, with a glass of sweet tea.

Maybe you only treat yourself to fresh seafood during your summer trips to the coast, or you avoid “inland” seafood at all costs, but Skrimp Shack might just allow you to cave into your crustacean cravings without packing up the beach chairs and sunscreen. !

JENNIFER ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.

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Helping the homeless one painting at a time

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n 1987, when Bill Mangum befriended Mike Saavedra, who was homeless at the time, he bought him breakfast, listened to his story and took him to the Greensboro UrTerry Rader ban Ministry (GUM) shelter. Mangum gave Saavedra his Contributor card and asked him to call in a couple of days and let him know how he was doing. Upon learning that Saavedra had a mental illness, Mangum became his caretaker and friend up until Saavedra’s sudden death at age 54 in 1991. Mangum said this encounter and ongoing friendship with Saavedra inspired him to donate a painting for the GUM Honor Card every year for the next 31 years.

“This is one of the defining pieces of my life, by participating in it, it puts things into perspective for me,” Mangum said.

(A video made by GUM on YouTube about Mangum and his Honor Cards can be viewed at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mVHe-RYccS4) From the first Honor Card in 1988, “Not Forgotten,” to this year’s “Almost Home,” Mangum continues to paint works of art to support the homeless and needy in memory of Saavedra. He said it took him three attempts to personify this year’s Honor Card, which conveys a subtle message of homelessness and is in line with GUM’s mission.

“GUM is a stellar example in outreach, great talent and professional people,” Mangum said. “Sometimes it takes just

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Bill Mangum’s painting “Almost Home.” Photo by William Mangum Studio one more little hand of assistance for everything to fall into place, so these people get all the way home. As I’ve traveled across our state to visit other participating agencies, I have found more people with caring hearts in the Greensboro community.”

During the holiday season, people who donate a minimum of $5 will receive a card, much like a Christmas card, to send to a loved one informing them a donation to GUM has been made in their honor. All proceeds go directly to GUM with production expenses underwritten by Mangum, an anonymous donor and The Wells Fargo Foundation. In the last 16 months, 12 other urban ministry agencies across the state have been added and are still growing. Mangum also produces larger artist prints of these honor card paintings that are suitable for framing.

Last year, the Honor Card Program raised $311,000, going beyond GUM’s 30th-anniversary goal of $300,000. Over $ 7 million has been raised, and executive director of GUM Rev. Myron Wilkins said they hope to do even better this year. In their efforts to help home 1,500 single adults and 50 families a year, GUM counts

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on fundraisers, food drives, other donations and events especially during the holiday season in November and December, which brings in one-half of GUM’s donations each year.

Mangum continues having breakfast with the homeless every week at GUM. He volunteers, serves breakfast and shares encouraging words with our homeless neighbors.

Wilkins said GUM exists to help people be self-sufficient and recover from life’s unexpected challenges. “Many of our Weaver House residents get up and go to work or job training every day. They may be dealing with job loss or healthcare costs coupled with making poor choices with money.”

He said that the needs surpass donations and that the price of services increase this time of year, with heating bills rising and more people seeking winter shelter. Those in need may visit GUM’s food pantry up to five times in a 12-month period and will not leave empty-handed.

Over 1,600 individuals volunteered last year, and Wilkins said they could use 1020 more volunteers now.

“Greensboro is a very generous and prosperous community,” Wilkins said.

“With great prosperity comes a great disparity between the ones who have and the ones who are locked into a cycle of poverty. It’s a complex web.”

Wilkins makes presentations to help educate and raise awareness for homelessness. He mostly wants people to understand that the people GUM serves are in crisis and if the person standing on the street corner thinks that is their only option, GUM wants to give them another option.

“At GUM, we become that relational connection if someone wants a better future,” he said. “Some feel like they have failed and all they can do is focus on

survival. The best thing we can give them is hope that they can begin a new chapter in their lives.”

He said that it’s hard for some to ask for help and be on the receiving end of kindness. He said it’s important that they do not feel judged and to let them know they are not a burden.

“People have a hard time accepting the reality,” Wilkins said. “It’s human nature to avoid things that are unpleasant. People experiencing poverty and homelessness presents a concept that is unimaginable.

It challenges us to accept a reality, and we in Greensboro have in our hands and in our hearts the possibility to transform people who want a different life.”

To help the homeless, Wilkins encourages visiting GUM’s website and printing out a Caring Card (www.greensborour-

banministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CaringCards.pdf) to give

to someone in need of a free meal and a place to go for help.

“Another thing you can do is to go to a dollar store and buy toothpaste, a toothbrush, toiletry items, and dry socks and give them that with the card,” Wilkins said. “If you open your heart with compassion, you’ll have the discretion to respond and do what is in your heart. Sometimes you may decide to give money and sometimes you may not. If you want to know about them, ask them. They will give you their back story.” !

TERRY RADER is a writer, poet, songwriter, herbalist and flower essences practitioner who works in Wellness & Community Outreach at Deep Roots Market Co-op, formerly an ad agency creative director, branding strategist, Earth Harmony columnist, a storyteller on a mission to raise awareness for creative people, grassroots causes, sustainability and underground happenings in our community.

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An encore for Evening Shadows at A/perture For the next installment in its ongoing screening series, WinstonSalem’s International LGBT Film Festival OUT at the Movies will present an encore screening of the award-winning Mark Burger drama Evening Shadows, at A/perture Cinemas on Dec. 11.

Contributor The film, which was the closing-night selection for the fifth annual OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Festival, held in October, receiving both an honorable mention from the jury as best narrative and the Best Performance in a Supporting Role for Mona Ambegaonkar.

Both Ambegaonkar and the film’s producer, Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali, are scheduled to attend the screening and participate in a Q&A session afterward.

There will then be a reception honoring them at Canteen Market & Bistro (411 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem).

Rex Welton, the festival and series co-founder and director said, “Ali was in Winston-Salem for the festival and fell in love with our city. When he found out that Mona wanted to travel from India to the U.S. for several screenings, he decided to bring the film and Mona to three cities: Boston, New York, and Winston-Salem! I am really proud that Winston-Salem was selected.”

Directed and co-scripted by Sridhar Rangayan, and set in present-day Mumbai, the

film focuses on Vasudha (Ambegaonkar), a middle-aged matriarch who learns that her beloved son Kartik (Devansh Doshi) is gay and romantically involved with Aman (Arpit Chaudhary).

Not only is Vasudha concerned about the potential consequences in so traditional and repressive a society, but also by the reaction of her husband Damodar (Ananth Mahadevan) should he find out.

The story is based on producer Ali’s own experiences as a young gay man in India and marks his producing debut. “The film is a universal coming-out story,” he observed. “It is the story of every queer man, who is either lucky to have or wants to have a loving relationship with their mother. Every person is able to draw references to the onscreen moments, whether it was the heterosexual couple from Western India who had to go through caste-ism; or the homosexual couple from the Ukraine who identified with the long-distance calls, motherly stares, and fatherly opposition; or the single gay person from Canada whose mother was identical to the onscreen portrayal. Everyone was able to draw parallels to their own life events. It is a story inspired by the lives of every queer person who has undergone the journey of coming out to their parents.”

Despite some dramatic concessions, “I am pleased with the labor of love,” Ali said. “And when it is so well received by the audience – eight awards and counting, 10 accolades and counting, 46 film festivals and counting – it is a feeling beyond words. We constantly get asked over social media as to when we will be releasing the movie to the public at large. We are humbled by the interest and eagerness.”

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Mona Ambegaonkar, right, with Devansh Doshi.

Evening Shadows also won the People’s Choice Award as Best Feature Film at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival, the Independent Vision Award (Interfaith Discernment Award) and a nomination for the jury award as Best Feature Film from the Kansas International Film Festival, the jury award as Best Men’s Feature from the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Courage Award for Best Narrative Feature from Out Here Now: the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, the audience award as Best Drama Feature from the Out on Film Atlanta festival, and the jury prize (Free to Be Me) from the Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam (Pink Filmdays Amsterdam) LGBT Film Festival.

Ali was so pleased by the reception at last month’s festival that he wanted to bring the film back for a second screening.

“It is all because of Rex Welton and his amazing Southern hospitality,” he said.

“Out at the Movies was very well orchestrated and implemented. I personally had a great time at the festival. Rex had mentioned during our conversations that

he would be willing to host the cast if the situation may arise. As the plans for my actress’ impending U.S. visit to attend festivals and Boston were being worked out, it was the perfect opportunity, and Rex was more than willing to arrange the screening!”

Looking back on the widespread acclaim his maiden feature has earned, Ali is happy to share the credit. “I simply consider myself to be the one who signed the check,” he said. “All kudos belongs to the amazing, experienced, capable, and award-winning director and his team. My world-renowned director, Sridhar Rangayan, is a multiaward winning, seasoned personality with many movies under his able belt. And with such an incredible person running the show, I did none of the heavy lifting. The years of planning, workshops, rehearsals, casting, editing, etc. – was all done by the team.”

He also looks forward to what the future holds. “This is just the start of my filmindustry journey,” he said. “There are miles to go before I sleep.” !

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here are a lot of great railroad songs out there — “Wabash Cannonball,” “Casey Jones,” “The City of New Orleans,” “Hey, Porter,” “Crazy Train” John Adamian and on and on — but @johnradamian singer/songwriter Aaron Burdett didn’t really want to try Contributor writing another one, even though he grew up in Saluda, a small town known for its perch atop the Saluda Grade, the steepest stretch of mainline railway line in the United States.

“The trains ran when I was a kid,” said Burdett, who spoke to me by phone last week as he drove by car Westward back up into the mountains. “And so there was always that nostalgia thing, but I always thought it was super-dorky to write a train song, so I avoided it.”

Burdett plays the Ramkat in WinstonSalem on Saturday, Dec. 1, with his acoustic trio on a bill with Town Mountain.

Burdett, who has been making records steadily since his 2005 debut The Weight of Words, did end up writing that train song and putting it on his 2017 album Refuge, his seventh record. It’s a song called “Pennies on the Tracks,” but it’s not your standard railway song. It’s not a retro fantasy about the golden days before the ascendancy of the automobile, and it’s not quite a transportation disaster song. It’s got hardship baked into it, the suffering of the laborers who worked to clear the land, dig, crush the stone and lay the track. Burdett sings about the exploitation of the workers who risked — and in some cases lost — their lives to complete that feat of construction and engineering.

“Pennies on the Tracks” is, in some ways, a little like Gordon Lightfoot’s “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” a song that captures the generally unsung backbreaking toil that goes into taming the wilderness, putting the human stamp of transport, commerce and recreational sightseeing onto a landscape that is still ultimately bigger and stronger than us.

“One wrong move and we’ll all be torn apart,” sings Burdett in the voice of someone driving the Carolina Special, a luxury train that ran through from Ohio, through YES! WEEKLY

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If “Pennies on the Tracks” is a slight change of course from Burdett’s other material, a detour into historical storytelling, where many of his songs seem to be set closer to a recognizable present, what it has in common with a lot of Burdett’s songs is a sympathetic eye on the plight of working people. Burdett often sings about how the need to hold a job, to pay bills, to feed families and have stuff can run the risk of ruining everything, either by jeopardizing one’s health, by requiring time away from loved ones or by chewing away at a person’s sense of themselves.

“It’s A Living,” the second track on Refuge, chronicles someone wryly doing the math on their soulless day job at an office, and the hours it consumes of their life. “It’s good to have the bills paid, but it’s a precious trade, spending half of my time on something I don’t like, to pay for the half I do,” Burdett sings.

Another tune that might be a little closer to autobiographical for Burdett is “Rock and Roll.” It too explores the peculiar ironies and the bittersweet blur of being a performer, “a bluegrass picker hiding behind a Telecaster,” on the road, on stage, on a quest for some elusive glory, always suspicious that the whole game might be rigged or just a traveling circus in the end.

The indignities of the working world, the prospect of burnt bridges, romances that have faded and died, too much drinking, and what we generally call “poor choices,” these are fairly standard themes for country music. And Burdett walks that line, between George Jones and James Taylor, with a connection to artists like John Prine and even Jimmy Buffett. Sadness and dead-end scenarios show up in Burdett’s songs, but he’s got a sly sense of humor, and a dash of soul gets snuck in behind the ache of the pedal steel guitar. Sometimes there’s careful fingerpicking on an acoustic; sometimes he strums starkly on a Fender with some tremolo. Sometimes there’s a backbeat, a band and a fiddle, and sometimes it’s more of a folky setting. His tenor is clear and expressive, strong but also relaxed.

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His song “Another Nail in the Coffin,” also off Refuge, captures that sad/ funny comic/self-destructive perspective of someone who’s basically given up a little bit after a lover has left. It’s about a dude in a drive-thru in the wee hours waiting for another burger, sipping cheap whiskey and telling himself it doesn’t much matter how things fell apart. “Don’t waste your time thinking ‘bout what you coulda done differently, just drive another nail in the coffin, get that lid on tight,” he sings.

And after the characters who come unspooled, throw in the towel a bit too energetically, or who shoot themselves in the foot with a kind of sullen male inaction, on “Last Refuge” Burdett sings out about

redemption and remaining anchored, a love song about someone who can pull a wanderer back to where they need to be.

As a songwriter and performer, Burdett said he wants the songs to be real, to be entertaining and to be good. But he also wants them to be varied, both sonically and thematically.

“They’re all about life,” he said, “at some point, somebody’s life, whether I’ve observed it or made it up.”

See Aaron Burdett’s Acoustic Trio at the Ramkat on Saturday, Dec. 1. theramkat. com. !

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

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Touring home for the holidays Around this time of year, bars and bills are filled with familiar faces. Expats come home, and their bands setup show dates to kill two holiday birds with one sweet visitor’s stone.

Katei Cranford Breathers, based out of Atlanta, and Contributing Little War from PhilaBreathers at Boxcar with delphia, are two such columnist T. Lee Gunselman on left acts with their own shows at Boxcar.

Breathers played on Black Friday with efforts and continue to push us to make Tide Eyes and Young Jungle, while Little better new stuff,” he added.

War will happen on Nov. 28 with Essex Little War, a band of Philadelphian Muro and Instant Regrets. punks with both fans and former residents Breathers’ squirrely frontman, T. Lee in their ranks, agreed.

Gunselman spent his college years in the “Coming back to play Greensboro is alWUAG Presents show circles, often as part ways super exciting,” said the group about of his dream pop group Casual Curious. their upcoming show at Boxcar on Nov. 28.

“For those who know me. Well. I’m from Bassist, Mike Nardone, ended-up calling here,” he bantered sardonically during Greensboro home for a few of years after Breathers’ Boxcar set. falling in love with the Triad on tour as a Former Casual Curious bandmate, Pat teenager. ”The scene is so, and there’s a Brown, who heads the one-man Greensreal sense of community in smaller towns borian synth-band Tide Eyes, brought more than larger ones,” Nardone said.

Breathers to Boxcar for a post-Thanksgiv“Everyone knows everyone, which helps ing party. support artists.”

Brown’s a busy man these days promot“Little War is our outlet to express our ing his new record, Waveformer, and is distaste for how society has tainted what slated to christen the Geeksboro Battleit means to be human,” said Nardone, a pub as a show space on Nov. 30 with a pseudo-surly gent equal parts combative “Winter Rock Show,” alongside Velvet and cuddly.

Devils and Hot Mess.

“Racism, sexism, hyper-consumerism— For Tide Eyes, it’s a labor of love. Brown not openly discussing mental health— considers the album to be “an autobiothese are barriers and social divides,” he graphical expression of fears and joys of insisted. “There is no growth when you raising a baby and being in a very serious build barriers.” committed relationship for the first time.”

Little War strives to build community As for the show, “Lee and I felt Boxcar in whoever’s hometown they may be. For would be a unique setting since neither them, “selfishness and seclusion should of us had played there yet,” Brown said.

The evening felt akin to a sort of Casual Curious crowd reunion.

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not be celebrated.” So it’s no surprise they find something special in playing in a town once called home, filled with friends who feel like family.

With that mindset, they built their Greensboro showbill to include local loves Instant Regrets, and Essex Muro, a hardcore punk group from Raleigh featuring members with Triad roots.

“Greensboro has a real energy about its shows, so it’s nice to come home,” said Jeff Bechtel, bassist for Essex Muro, who moved-out of Greensboro around the time Nardone moved-in.

“Venues and DIY spots change, but the spirit doesn’t,” Bechtel added.

Boxcar wasn’t around when the expats in Breathers, Essex Muro or Little War were residents; and the Geeksboro Battlepub hosting shows is a brand-new concept for everyone, locals and visitors alike.

Greensboro is very much a college town in that people come, and people go—

people come and go again. That rhythm is part of our charm.

That charm carries into having great bands who stick around to make new albums, open new spaces, and ensure the Triad remains a place worth touring home to.

As the final weeks wind down in 2018, there’s a taste of both local and imported flavor on the sonic horizon.

Old friends will host a punk show with Little War, Essex Muro, and Instant Regrets at Boxcar (120 W. Lewis St) on Nov. 28.

Meanwhile, solid locals hope to slay an inaugural rock show at Geeksboro Battlepub (2618 Lawndale Dr.) with Tide Eyes, Velvet Devils, and Hot Mess on Nov. 30. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who enjoys seeing her friends come home for the holidays and the shows that happen as a result. She also hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radioshow that runs like a mixtape of bands playing NC the following week, 5-7pm on WUAG 103.1fm.

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

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CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com

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CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Dec 10: Lucina Williams w/ Charles Lloyd & The Marvels ft. Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Eric Harland, & Reuben Rogers Dec 14: Delta Rae Dec 15: Daniel D. & Eric Stanley Dec 17: Jewel w/ Atz Lee & Nikos Kilcher Dec 18: Daughtry Jan 11: Gregory All Isakov Jan 27: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Dec 1: Chris Young w/ Dan + Shay, Morgan Evans, & Dee Jay Silver Dec 12: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Jan 6: Justin Timberlake Jan 27: Cher Jan 28: Metallica

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THE FILLMORE

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GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Dec 9: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec 20: Ozuna Dec 31: Bassnectar

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HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 30: The Manhattan Transfer Dec 1: Peter Noone Dec 4: John Berry Jan 27: Christian Howes

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alph may have saved the arcade game six years ago, but now Ralph Breaks the Internet ( ) in the latest animated adventure featuring the lovable lug with more brawn than brains.

A sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet first and foremost expands upon the relationship between the overgrown kid Ralph (again voiced by John C. Reilly), who toils as the antagonist in the arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr., and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), the star of the racing game Sugar Rush and, as it’s revealed late in the first picture, a bona fide princess. Now best friends, Ralph and Vanellope are put to the test when an attempted good deed on Ralph’s part results in the steering wheel control on the Sugar Rush game being irreparably damaged.

All seems lost for Vanellope and the other game denizens until Ralph learns of something called “wi-fi” – or, as he pronounces it, “wifey.” Wi-fi leads to a magical land called the Internet, which in turn leads to a place called eBay, which in turn leads to the possible acquisition of the only known Sugar Rush replacement steering wheel in existence. So off Ralph and Vanellope go, whisked onto the Internet and into a land of viral videos, eagerto-accommodate search engines, and, of course, mean-spirited user comments.

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There’s no shortage of imagination on tap in Ralph Breaks the Internet, and while the film doesn’t quite reach the bar set by its predecessor, it’s propulsive enough to build up enough goodwill long before it reaches its rocky third act. For that, thank the five writers who know how to make the most out of their online milieu.

Product placement in cinema is generally frowned upon, but how could one make a movie about the internet and not include shout-outs to Amazon, Wikipedia and IMDb (to name but three of the logos occasionally popping up in the background)? And the name-dropping doesn’t end with the corporations — since this is a Disney picture, expect cameos from all manner of characters stationed under the Mouse House. Some are fleeting (Baymax), some are superfluous (oh, hi, C-3PO), some are poignant (R.I.P. Stan Lee), and some are clever (“I am Groot”).

There’s even a bit in which Princess Vanellope meets the other Disney princesses for a lengthy chat – it’s easily the best sequence in the entire film.

The emotional content — and conflict — arrives when Vanellope befriends a hardcore racer named Shank (Gal Gadot), leading Ralph to worry that his BFF will abandon him to join forces with her new gal pal in a dangerous game known as Slaughter Race. While the bond between Ralph and Vanellope represents the heart of the film, it’s eventually played out in

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a manner that feels too familiar even by the dictates of the standard Disney life lessons. It also leads to a protracted, Kong-size climax that fails to match the innovation seen throughout the rest of the picture.

After all, when Al Gore’s name is the subject of clever wordplay, a visual grotesquerie is inspired by Total Recall, and a gross-out gag is successfully lifted from the Monty Python playbook, it’s clear that there’s a children’s movie that has its game on.

The full title of the handy guide that aided African-American travelers during the Jim Crow era is The Negro Motorist Green Book. But since that would make for an unlikely marquee moniker, the name of the movie is simply Green Book ( ).

The guidebook — a compendium of hotels, restaurants and the like that were safe for blacks journeying through this country — is referenced so sparingly throughout the picture that it almost qualifies as a Hitchcockian MacGuffin, no more interesting to the audience than the uranium-filled bottles in Notorious or the airplane-engine schematics in The 39 Steps. Instead, it’s the human dimension that drives this factually based movie with as much purpose and dedication as Tony Vallelonga drives Don Shirley through the Deep South.

A racist New York bouncer, Tony (Viggo Mortensen) is hired to serve as chauffeur to Shirley (Moonlight Oscar winner Mahershala Ali), a Jamaican classical pianist who bravely embarks on a tour that takes him through the more dangerous and openly prejudiced areas of the country in the early 1960s. As they spend ample time in each other’s company, Tony learns to accept his employer’s differences, thus allowing him to grow as a human being.

Yes, it’s yet another movie in which the raison d’etre of a black character is merely to allow a white man to feel better about himself – note how the film (co-written

by Tony’s son, Nick Vallelonga) completely adopts the POV of its Caucasian protagonist, with Shirley’s background only called upon when a monologue is required from Ali. Yet within that predictable context, Green Book is an accomplished and engaging picture, with director Peter Farrelly (best known for creating such raunchy comedies as There’s Something About Mary and Kingpin with his brother Bobby) easily commingling soft laughs and hardhitting drama.

The picture’s greatest strength rests in the dynamic performances by Mortensen and Ali, both of whom add enough interesting shadings to turn what could have been a simplistic black-and-white tale into something incorporating no less than fifty shades of gray. !

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hristmas with the Embers will be held on Monday Dec. 3, 7 p.m. at Randleman Elementary School Auditorium.

100 Swaim St., Randleman. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Hosted by the chamber and platinum partners the Brown Insurance Group and Randolph County TDA – Heart of North Carolina and sponsored by these local businesses : Rheem, Nelson Alarms, Judy Routh Hayes, Realtor, Randleman Enrichment, J D Lanier Electric, Inc, PIP Printing, Sir Pizza of Randleman, Ameriprise Financial – Colleen Downey Mitchell, and Randleman Mayor, Bucky Jernigan.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at Freeman’s Florist & Gifts at 101 N. Main St. in Randleman, Leigh at Sir Pizza in Randleman, Gene at Randleman Police Department, Tim at PIP Printing in the North Gate Plaza in Asheboro, and from any board members or by calling or emailing the chamber at (336)495-1100 and chamber43@northstate.net. Tickets are $15 each in advance or $20 at the door. You may also bring non perishable food items that will be donated to Randleman area food pantries.

The Embers are North Carolina’s Official Musical Ambassadors and Bluewater Recordings Artist. They will bring their seasonal holiday show “Christmas with the Embers” to Randleman again having preformed here numerous times. “Christmas with the Embers” is a delightful and engaging experience that will leave you with that wistful warm and cozy Christmas feeling through theatre and song. Superlative costume changes and

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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:30, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 THE FRONT RUNNER (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 2:20, 7:25 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (PG-13) LUXURY SEATING Fri & Sat: 12:00, 2:55, 5:50, 8:45, 11:40 Sun - Thu: 12:00, 2:55, 5:50, 8:45 NOBODY’S FOOL (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 4:55, 10:05 GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN (PG) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:10 PM CREED II (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:00, 2:45, 5:35, 8:25, 11:15 Sun - Thu: 12:00, 2:45, 5:35, 8:25 GREEN BOOK (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:55, 5:45, 8:35, 11:25 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:55, 5:45, 8:35 ROBIN HOOD (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 INSTANT FAMILY (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:20, 3:00, 5:35, 8:20, 11:10 Sun - Thu: 12:20, 3:00, 5:35, 8:20 WIDOWS (R) Fri & Sat: 12:05, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:20 Sun - Thu: 12:05, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH (PG) Fri - Thu: 12:10, 2:10, 4:10, 6:10, 8:10, 10:10 OVERLORD (R) Fri - Thu: 3:30 PM

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BOY ERASED (R) Fri - Thu: 2:25, 7:20, 9:55 THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (PG) Fri - Thu: 12:15, 5:00 MID90S (R) Fri - Thu: 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 6:15, 8:15, 10:15 BEAUTIFUL BOY (R) Fri - Thu: 4:45, 9:50 THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 12:10, 2:25, 7:30 WILDLIFE (PG-13) Fri & Sat: 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15, 11:30 Sun - Thu: 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15

BOY ERASED (R) Fri: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sat & Sun: 10:30 AM, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Mon: 5:30, 8:00, Tue: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Wed: 5:30, 8:00, Thu: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 SUSPIRIA (R) Fri & Sat: 8:45 PM Sun: 7:45 PM Mon - Thu: 8:30 PM BORDER (GRÄNS) (R) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 Mon: 6:45, 9:15, Tue: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Wed: 6:45, 9:15 Thu: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (R) Fri: 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 Sat & Sun: 10:15 AM, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 Mon: 6:30, 9:00, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed: 6:30, 9:00 Thu: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 FREE SOLO (PG-13) Fri: 3:00, 6:15 Sat: 10:00 AM, 12:30, 3:00, 6:15 Sun: 2:00, 5:15, Mon: 6:00 PM Tue: 3:30, 6:00, Wed: 6:00 PM Thu: 3:30, 6:00

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theatrical props will keep you intrigued along with original presentations of your favorite Christmas classics and Embers originals sure to set deep in your heart.

2014 inductees into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, the Ember’s feature Craig Woolard.

This year’s show brings the true meaning of Christmas through moving inspirational pieces and classic holiday sing alongs. They continue their top quality showmanship as the show takes you through a full range of emotions ranging from surprise and joy to laughter and tears. Be sure and bring a friend or two, even make it a company outing – you will enjoy the evening. The venue features sloped flooring, padded seats and raised stage where there are no bad views.

Following the show, The Embers will bid you a holiday farewell in the lobby where you can get an autograph, pictures and cd’s. The 90-minute show, without an intermission, is a fundraiser for the Randleman Chamber of Commerce. !

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The historic Chattaway restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a welcoming place, but it was the scene of a lot of unexpected late-night activity Chuck Shepherd in early November, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Surveillance video of a Nov. 6 break-in captured an intruder who “spent over an hour just milling around going room to room and eating and drinking,” said manager Amanda Kitto. In the process, he stole chicken wings and beer, along with computer equipment and cash tips. In the midst of their investigation, police were surprised to find yet another nocturnal visitor on tape from the night before: A man riding a bicycle cruised up to the restaurant and slipped in a back gate. After emptying a storage shed of all its contents, he went into the restaurant bathroom and emerged completely naked. Next he can be seen at a restaurant picnic table, digging into the meal he brought with him: Maruchan Instant Lunch ramen noodles. But Kitto said he was so tidy staff wouldn’t have even known he was there had police not been investigating the later incident.

“We still don’t know where his pants are,” said server Chad Pearson. Officers identified the man, who is homeless, but the restaurant declined to press charges because he caused no real harm. Police are still looking for the other man.

LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES

Pastor John Lindell of the James River Church in Ozark, Missouri, took the opportunity presented by Halloween to compose a paranormal-themed sermon that warned against fortune-telling, Wicca — and yoga. According to the Springfield News-Leader, Lindell told parishioners on Oct. 28 that yoga positions were “created with demonic intent to open you up to demonic power because Hinduism is demonic.” He went on: “To say the positions of yoga are no more than exercise are (sic) tantamount to saying water baptism is just aqua aerobics.” Local yoga instructors were not amused, especially when fewer people started showing up to their classes.

Instructor Amanda Davis said the pastor doesn’t have a thorough understanding of the practice. “Yoga doesn’t prescribe (sic) to any religion, and I don’t think people understand that, so they get false ideas about it,” she said. “It’s ignorant.”

GIRL FIGHT!

A lawsuit filed in federal court in Dallas on Nov. 9 seeks up to $1 million in damages and accuses American Airlines flight attendant Laura Powers, 56, of assault and battery on her co-worker Kathy Ida Wolfe during an in-flight brawl in June 2016. In her suit, Wolfe claims Powers “maliciously dug her fingernails into my arm, and slammed the door of a beverage cart on my arm,” and also “grabbed my scarf, choking me, and dragged me in the aisle and in front of the passengers.” The Dallas Morning News reported Wolfe also said she alerted the captain and other flight attendants about the behavior, but American took no action

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“to ensure my safety.” In response to the suit, originally filed in Tarrant County, the airline and Powers both said they are “not liable because (Wolfe) caused or contributed to cause the harm for which recovery of damages is sought.”

COMPELLING EXPLANATION

Christopher Greyshock, 57, of West Milford, New Jersey, used the old disappointed football fan excuse to explain how things went wrong after he was involved in a traffic accident in Wayne on Nov. 11 that injured two people: “I drank too much because the Jets suck.” According to News12, as first responders were attending to the injured, Greyshock staggered toward them smelling of alcohol.

A field sobriety test confirmed Greyshock was inebriated, and he was arrested. On the front seat of his car were a bottle of bourbon and marijuana. Buddy, there’s always next year.

COMPULSIONS

David Rush of Boise, Idaho, has found a unique way to score his 15 minutes of fame. On Nov. 13, at the public library in Oak Brook, Illinois, Rush set his mind to achieving a new Guinness record for eating sweet corn kernels within three minutes with a toothpick. Rush, who holds 40 Guinness records, succeeded on his third try, downing 241 kernels. “It’s a ridiculous talent to have,” Rush admitted to the Chicago Tribune. “I practiced skewering a lot to prepare along with the size of the plate, spreading out the corn and best toothpicks to use.” Rush told the Tribune he got involved in breaking records to promote science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM), saying a lot of kids don’t feel confident about STEM subjects. “If you believe you can get better at something and work hard at it, you can get better at anything,” he explained.

MY GENERATION

Hasbro has determined that the buying hotels and houses aspect of Monopoly doesn’t much appeal to millennials, who “can’t afford it anyway.” So just in time for Christmas, the company has released a new version of its classic game, Monopoly for Millennials, in which players, whose game pieces include an emoji and a vintage camera, gather experiences rather than property. On the box, Rich Uncle Pennybags holds a takeout coffee and wears ear buds and a “participation” medal that reads, “If you had fun, you won!” USA Today reported the game’s experiences include “Thrift Shop” and “Farmers Market,” along with

dining at a vegan bistro and attending a music festival. But make sure you Uber home: There is still a “Go to Jail” space on the board.

INEXPLICABLE

Police in Youngstown, Ohio, received an unusual call late on the morning of Nov. 14, according to WFMJ TV. A resident of the city’s South Side called 911 to report that four men appeared to be stealing the sidewalk along Ridge Avenue. Police arrived to find parts of the sidewalk were indeed missing, and following a tip from a neighbor, they soon caught up with four men driving a truck hauling six flagstone slabs. Thomas Clark, Andre Eggleston, Levar Riley and D’Vaille Williams were charged with theft.

BRIGHT IDEAS

— The Zolotoy Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia, is more than a mile long and opened in 2012, but three years later, inspectors banned pedestrians from crossing it because the walkways were too narrow to be safe. United Press International reports the ban didn’t stop four pedestrians on Nov. 8, who attempted to cross the vehicle-only bridge wearing a yellow cardboard bus costume to disguise themselves. Police weren’t buying it, though, and pulled them over.

— Like many recently untethered people, Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler, 43, wanted to celebrate her divorce with a party, so on Nov. 10, she hosted about 40 people at her father’s farm near Lacoste, Texas, about 25 miles west of San Antonio. The big bang of the party wasn’t the music or the food, though, according to the San Antonio Star-Telegram. Santleben-Stiteler wanted to burn her wedding dress, which “represented a lie,” she said, and not just burn it, blow it up. Her dad and brother-in-law attached exploding targets to the dress, and to really take things up a notch, also rigged it with 20 pounds of Tannerite, the same explosive used in the targets. “We have a friend who is a bomb tech, and he kept saying, ‘That’s really a lot,’” the un-bride’s sister told the newspaper. Shooting from 200 yards away, Santleben-Stiteler hit her target on the first shot. “The explosion was huge,” she said. Residents of Medina County heard and felt the explosion as far away as 15 miles. “It was liberating pulling that trigger,” Santleben-Stiteler said. “It was closure for all of us.” !

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The Wherehouse Renaissance: The art hotel preserves history, evolves and hosts its first art mart

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nside of Winston-Salem’s Krankies and behind a bright red door, that is intentionally hard to find, is the red stairway that leads to The Wherehouse Art Hotel.

Katie Murawski “That is by design because one of the coolest parts about Editor it is the sense of discovery,” said the owner/operator and curator Haydee Thompson of the Wherehouse’s hidden entrance.

The Wherehouse isn’t a typical Airbnb, and it is probably the most unique one found in this area. On the second weekend in December, The Wherehouse will open its doors to the public for an art mart that showcases local artists from Winston-Salem as well as artists from North Carolina.

Located at 211 E. Third St., adjacent to the Innovation Quarter and on the railroad tracks, The Wherehouse building, which used to be a meat packaging plant built in the early 1900s, is steeped in history. But it was what happened within those walls that left a lasting legacy in Winston-Salem’s art scene that continues to evolve still today.

The Wherehouse began with five musicians/“pioneers” looking for a place to play their loud music and escape noise ordinances in the suburbs. Krankies cofounder and developer John Bryan was one of those pioneers who leased the building in his 20s and has since renovated it multiple times.

“Luckily, this building has an incredible owner that wants something special here, and he always has,” Thompson said.

Over time, the space evolved and became known as The Wherehouse.

(It was also known as P.S. 211 and The Werehouse.) A group of about 20 artists formed The Wherehouse Artist Collective and inhabited the building in the early 2000s.

(A documentary series on YouTube called “Invisible States” shows a glimpse of this intentional community era and follows the collective as they travel the country in their “Grease Bus,” which was a 1971 GMC Charter Bus that ran on vegetable oil.)

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“When we first moved here, our neighborhood was completely abandoned,” recalled Thompson of her time as a co-founder in the artist collective. “For a solid decade, we were the cultural hub of Winston-Salem.”

With an ever-changing city and its rising rent rates, the collective eventually fizzled out. Thompson stuck around Winston-Salem and helped usher in another evolution of The Wherehouse.

“I think the Wherehouse Art Hotel is a direct response to the cultural deficit,” Thompson said. “When cities start to thrive in one way, they may lose a bit of history and soul and what sparked it in the first place. I consider us (artists) as the first responders to a dying tobacco town. I just wasn’t ready to let that go quite yet.”

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of preserving its history, reputation, and helping fellow artists sell and show their works without gouging the price.

“The Airbnb is for anybody and everyone, and we do get people from all over the world,” Thompson said of The Wherehouse Art Hotel. “We have a 90 percent occupancy rate, which gladly can afford us to be able to give back to the artists.”

Thompson’s assistant Tessa Everton said art galleries typically take 50 percent of commissions from art sold in their venue, but The Wherehouse only takes 20 percent. Thompson is also able to close down the hotel on exhibitions’ opening nights, musical performances, fundraising benefits and sometimes artist residencies.

“We only ask of the artists that stay here for a piece of their art,” Thompson said of residencies. “One for us to keep and one for us to sell.”

The Wherehouse has three (and soon to

be four) bedrooms available for booking: the green room, the studio loft, and the gallery room. (The lobby and the entire Wherehouse is also available to book on Airbnb.) The Wherehouse is filled with art that’s for sale. Each room is decorated with artwork and equipped with a view of downtown.

“We do get so much feedback and reaction to this space; I think they just feel [its history] oozing out of this building,” Everton said.

There’s no doubt that The Wherehouse and its community has influenced others to do their own thing and keep the creative and innovative spirit alive in the city. Winston-Salem institutions such as Camino Bakery, Hoots, Monstercade, Krankies and so many others all have ties to The Wherehouse.

“The things that make Winston great, that we love about Winston, a lot of them originated from out of this building or from a community that was involved with this building and culture,” Everton said.

To help artists sell their artwork and get exposure, The Wherehouse’s gallery room includes a bed and doubles as an exhibition/installation space for artists.

From now until Dec. 31, the gallery room is showing Nicole Uzzell’s “Indoor Picnic: Paper and Uninvited Guests.” (As seen on the cover of this issue, the art installation features palm-sized ants welded together and coated in a paper material lined up and marching in a circle on the wall of the room.)

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“The gallery room, whenever there is an art installation, and anytime there is a booking for that room, that artist gets a part of the commission of that booking,” Everton said.

Staying true to the mission of keeping The Wherehouse a cultural hub and advocating for artists, The Wherehouse will be holding its first-ever art mart on Dec. 8 (from noon to 6 p.m.) and Dec. 9 (from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.). The art mart will feature works from over 30 vendors all local to North Carolina with a focus on fine art. Some vendors include familiar names such as Liz Simmons, Jody Erickson, Andrew Fansler, Molly Grace, Nate Barchus, Anthony Lowe, Em Jackson, and Sean McNamara. In addition, there will be live music performances from Andy Freakin’ Mabe (a co-founder of The Wherehouse Artist Collective), Joe Blevins, Tim Poovey, Alex Bond of Animal Protein, Nate Lee, Snüzz, Amy Fitzgerald (Damiyana), Will Everton, and Oakley Hall’s Rachel Cox. “It is a bi-annual mart, so we are going to do another one in the spring or summer, probably summer,” said Everton, who is also a curator of The Wherehouse Art Mart. “It had been something that I had been thinking about before I started working with Haydee. I have always been in the flea market community, and I just loved that culture and art community.”

“It is the hotel version of an Art-o-Mat,” Thompson said describing art mart.

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can have a one-stop shopping experience. Thompson said what sets The Wherehouse Art Mart apart from other art marts and craft fairs is that it is highly curated and mainly focused on fine art.

Despite that focus, Thompson said that there would be a variety of different mediums represented.

“We believe in functional art and recycled art, and considerate art as well, but the vision originally was just to be fine art,” Everton said. “But we do have some fashion designers, jewelry makers, and even a toy maker. So there is some eclectic art thrown in there, and it is not just visual art.”

Thompson assured that the art at the art mart would be affordable because The Wherehouse will not be taking any commissions, meaning 100 percent of the profits go directly to the artists. Everton said the overall mission of the hotel and the art mart is to “be a voice for the artists, but also support to the artists.”

She said by not taking commission it

keeps the art affordable to the public while also giving the artist all the profits from their works.

“A big part of this too is, it is great art and it it is affordable,” Thompson said.

“We are trying to also take the stigma out of ‘oh it is not any good if it is not expensive,’ or only a certain demographic can take a piece home with them. This is an art mart for everyone.”

“We believe that art is for the people and it brings beauty to our daily lives, especially if you are paying attention,” Everton added. “We just want to broaden that and share what we get to experience regularly to an audience that never has before.”

Everton said the entry fee for the art mart is $5 per person, which covers the costs of the hotel shutting down for three days, as well as the decorations and refreshments.

As for the future of The Wherehouse Art Hotel and its art marts, Thompson said the sky is the limit. She is in the

process of finishing another room for Airbnb and once that is done, she plans to start focusing on art sales, hosting offsite performances and producing shows.

“When I think of Wherehouse Art Hotel, I don’t think of physical hotel itself, I think of the website selling all over the country, which is what happens when guests come in from Texas or Washington,” she said. “All the sudden, this local piece of art gets going all over everywhere. Using that methodology, we see how we can expand our inventory of artists, and make a business out of it.”

Both Thompson and Everton agree that they would like to see The Wherehouse branch out and diversify its art collection and exhibitions.

“Our mission is not just geared toward local art,” Everton said. “We do want to give back to this community and support the artists that started out here with us.

We want to branch it out to where we are just showing great art to Winston-Salem so that people can be exposed to that.”

“And have our artists being inspired by other people’s art as well. A lot of times it can be very insular locally,” Thompson added. “We love local art, but it would also be great to infuse artists from regionally and internationally so they can see our local artists and have conversations and be mutually inspired. So that is kind of the dream, but we are starting local and building off of there.”

For more information about The Wherehouse Art Mart or to book a night in the art hotel, visit the website www. wherehousearthotel.com/. !

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

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Greensboro legalizes e-scooters *Editor’s note: This article initially appeared online on Nov. 21 (www.yesweekly. com/greensboro-legalizes-e-scooters/).

On Nov. 20, the Greensboro City Council voted to allow “stand-up Ian McDowell electronic scooters” on streets with Contributor a speed limit of 35 mph or less. But don’t go looking for one just yet.

Until permits are issued, Greensboro remains as described in my Nov. 5 article “Bye, bye Birdie,” (www.yesweekly. com/bye-bye-birdie/) with both Bird and Lime scooters prohibited on all public streets and sidewalks. That’s also the situation in Winston-Salem, where on Monday night the city’s public safety committee voted 3-1 in favor of a similar ban.

The revisions to chapter 16 of the Greensboro code of ordinances allow “standup electronic scooters” in bike lanes and on public streets with a speed limit of 35 mph or less, but prohibit them on all sidewalks and parking decks.

They also make it unlawful to operate a scooter-share rental program “without first obtaining a permit from the Director of Transportation and paying the proper fees.”

Chris Spencer, engineering division manager of the Greensboro department of transportation, described a pilot program that would set the permit fee at $500 plus $50 per scooter, while requiring local operations, a 24-hour customer service contact number and the reporting of usage and crash data to the city.

Spencer said that his department expects “to issue permits for 2-3 operators” (meaning companies renting the scooters, so potentially, Bird, Lime and one other) and that each permitted operator would be required to maintain a minimum of 50 scooters and a maximum of 200 (before they were removed following the city attorney’s directive of Nov. 2, Bird maintained 450 scooters in Greensboro and Lime maintained 130).

Applications for participation in the Pilot Standup Electric Scooter Share Program will be accepted through Dec. 14, and should be addressed to chris.spencer@greensboro-nc.gov. The revised ordinance, the scooter share permit requirements, and a draft of a sample permit can be found at this city of Greensboro YES! WEEKLY

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shortened link (https://goo.gl/L9CLw3).

The motion-based unanimously, but not without vigorous discussion.

District 1’s Sharon Hightower and Mayor Nancy Vaughan expressed concerns about scooter visibility after dark. As described

by Spencer, permit requirements state that scooters cannot be operated between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Vaughan pointed out that night fell at different times during the year and noted that the dark coloring of Bird scooters makes them potentially more dangerous than Lime ones.

At-large representative Marikay Abuzuaiter criticized Bird for introducing their scooters to Greensboro streets without requesting permission. She also stressed public safety concerns. “I know people who’ve had wrecks and been too embarrassed to report them. We’ve all heard of, or seen on social media, people racing down this street or going the wrong way down that street.” She stressed the need for insurance and accountability and dismissed the allegedly computer-generated pro-Bird emails she said the city council had been receiving.

District 5’s Tammi Thurm was more positive, saying “obviously the people have spoken” and (referring to Spencers’s statistic that, in Greensboro, 4,018 “unique riders” had used Lime scooters and 7,800 had used Bird) “the number speaks for itself.” She said that, like Abuzuaiter, she had problems with Bird’s business model and lack of communication and with the identical mass emails the city council received. But calling the scooters “the future,” she said, “I think we need to learn to live with them and embrace them.”

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come from Austin, Texas, to address the city council, thanked them and city staff for the work they’d done to craft the operations and regulations. He stressed that his company’s scooters are transportation devices, “not toys,” and cited Greensboro students as choosing Bird “because they know the challenges of parking.”

He said that “as someone who does government partnerships,” the Bird business model “is not my idea of how I would introduce myself to you guys.” But he speculated that, if Bird had come to the city council without introducing their product to Greensboro’s citizens first, and said “that people are going to love it and use it,” he might have been greeted with laughter and skepticism. “It is sometimes necessary to prove that the concept will actually work.”

Addressing safety concerns, he described the “two weeks of safety programs” that Bird had recently conducted in Charlotte. He also addressed concerns about Bird scooters blocking sidewalks by stating that Bird was rolling out a “community mode” on its app, which will allow subscribers to report improperly parked Birds, with violators potentially “being banned from the service.” He also said that the company was introducing larger lights and more reflective materials to its scooters in the very near future.

Abuzuaiter took exception to his supposition that the city might not have allowed the scooters if they’d not already been introduced, citing the example of their competitor. “Surely you knew that we already had an agreement in place with Lime.” She suggested that, when dealing with other cities in the future, Bird should follow Lime’s practice of negotiat-

ing an agreement first, citing the recent examples of Bird scooters being removed from Asheville and Winston-Salem “because there was no agreement in place.”

But she stated that she would vote for the ordinance.

District 3’s Justin Outling expressed sympathy for Bird, saying that, as an attorney, he’d sometimes had to “work with some bad facts” and had received “a public flogging” for it. He then went on to state that the ordinance was not about Bird, but “about regulating a newly emerging mode of transportation,” which he compared to the introduction of the automobile.

Outling objected to the proposed permitting regulation that would limit the hours in which scooters could be used, saying “I don’t think that’s workable” and “I don’t see a rationale for treating electronic scooters differently from other modes of transportation,” such as bicycles.

Matt Phillips, Lime’s Greensboro operations and logistics manager, briefly addressed the city council and received a much warmer reception than his competitor, particularly after saying that Greensboro had been his company’s very first market. “We feel we have been good community partners from the very beginning; we have our business license, we have our team on the ground that operates every single day, and we have worked very hard from day one to make sure we do not put a burden on the city.” Both Outling and Vaughan praised the way Lime had worked with the city.

Outling then proposed that the city adopt the ordinance, “but first strike the provision [mandating] when electric scooters can be operated.” He then motioned to interim city attorney Jim Hoffman and suggested that “maybe [the removal of that requirement] doesn’t have to be done by the city council, since that is part of the permit process, not the ordinance.”

“So,” Vaughan asked, “adopt the ordinance as is, with direction on the permit?” Outling agreed, and the ordinance was passed. Vaughan concluded the discussion on the issue by saying that she suspected Winston-Salem would be paying close attention to Greensboro’s example. !

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

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‘Givesboro’ gives to the IRC “Downtown Greensboro belongs to all of us,” wrote Michelle Kennedy in a Facebook message to me on Monday.

“From local small business owners to people experiencing homelessness and Ian McDowell everyone in between.”

Contributor That, she explained, is why she’s enthusiastic about Givesboro, a collaborative effort by downtown Greensboro merchants raising money for the Interactive Resource Center. Kennedy is executive director of the IRC, which the nonprofit’s homepage (www.interactiveresourcecenter.org/) describes as “Guilford County’s only day resource center for people currently facing, experiencing or coming out of homelessness.” She is also an at-large representative on the Greensboro City Council.

“The local businesses participating in Givesboro are working in collaboration with the IRC in the fight to end homelessness,” Kennedy wrote. “We share the belief that when we work together as a community to address complex social issues, the more likely we are to find solutions.”

Luck Davidson, executive director of Triad Local First (www.triadlocalfirst.com/), a Greensboro-based nonprofit membership organization aimed at supporting local businesses, told me on Sunday that she’s impressed by how quickly and smoothly Givesboro came together. “I think in all my time working with nonprofits and watching how folks help each other, I’ve never seen an idea come get organized as quickly as this one has.

I think it’s a totally unique effort.”

The brainchild of Davidson and business owners Jenn Graf (Vintage to Vogue Boutique), Jessika Olsen (Sonder Mind and Body and Well Café & Juice Bar), Jake Ngo (White and Wood) and Alexa Terry Wilde (Antlers and Astronauts), Givesboro brings together over 30 downtown businesses to raise money for the IRC. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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Customer Patrick Horne shows Givesboro card to Chez Genesse service manager Annette Pittman for discount on lunch “We were all thinking of something good to do over the holiday season,” said Olsen when I met with her, Davidson and Graf on Sunday, “and we decided it would be wonderful if a bunch of businesses came together and voted to select a nonprofit to raise money for.”

Davidson said that many people don’t realize just how much small independent businesses give to nonprofits and charitable organizations. “It’s usually more than big corporations do locally.” She stressed that “some of the people working 24/7 are mom-n-pops with fewer than three employees, and they care about the community, and it’s such a great thing to see.” As, she said, is “these small businesses agreeing on something and pulling it together so quickly, and deciding to share with an organization that’s in their neighborhood and really does help folks and saves

lives.” Along with praising Kennedy and the IRC, Davidson called her Givesboro partner Graf “a great leader,” adding that “everybody who was around her at the beginning really pitched in and did a lot of work.”

The other women also effusively praised the IRC. “I think it’s a great organization,” Olsen said. “I remember how Michelle Kennedy worked so hard to help people during that horrible snowstorm last year.” Graf agreed, adding that “the IRC really stepped up during the hurricane. Giving to people who’ve fallen on hard times is important because we’re all one step away from being there. The IRC is taking care of our neighbors, and I’m really excited that they’re the nonprofit we’re working with on this project.”

To participate in Givesboro and raise money for the IRC, shoppers can buy a discount card for $10 at the following businesses: Antlers and Astronauts, Aspen Boutique, Just Be, Little Brothers Brew, Meraki, Sonder Mind and Body, Vintage to Vogue Boutique, Vivid Interiors and White and Wood.

The card can be used between now and Dec. 31 for a discount at over 30

downtown businesses. The discount varies per business but ranges from 10 to 25 percent off. Many of those businesses also have Givesboro donation jars or are participating in additional fundraisers.

The following businesses will be accepting the discount card: 1618 Downtown, Antlers and Astronauts, Artisans’ Treehouse, Aspen Boutique, B. Christopher, Bearded Goat, Biltmore Hotel, Blue Denim, Boho Salon, Crafted, Crooked Tail, Downtown Bicycle Works, GIA, Green Bean, Hudson Hill, Jerusalem Market, Just Be, Lao, La Rue, Little Brothers Brew, Meraki Handmade, On Point Barbershop, Realigned, Rock’s Hair Shop, Sonder Mind and Body, Southside Diner, Tailor’s Rack, Terra Blue, Undercurrent, Vintage to Vogue Boutique, Vivid Interiors, W on Elm, White and Wood, and Zeto Wine and Cheese Shop.

In her Facebook message to me, Kennedy wrote that “the visibility this campaign provides through local businesses increases awareness of homeless issues in Greensboro and money raised will assist those most vulnerable among us.

Not to mention, all money spent in a local business and as part of this campaign helps contribute to our local economy.”

More information on Givesboro can be found at www.givesboro.org. !

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

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I’m a 28-year-old guy with an amazing girlfriend. She gets upset and sometimes cries, and I never know how to soothe her. I’m afraid to say the wrong Amy Alkon thing, so I don’t say anything at all. Of Advice course, she then gets Goddess more upset, thinking I don’t care. But I do care, and I want her to know. — Tongue-Tied When things get emotionally fraught in a relationship, it’s tempting to wish for a simpler existence — like being a dog so all that’s expected of you is 1. Don’t pee on the rug. 2. Sit still while the girlfriend dresses you up as a bee.

In fact, if you’re like a lot of men, a female partner’s tears are liquid kryptonite, causing you to pretty much lose consciousness while appearing to be totally awake and ambulatory. Women may not entirely get this — or the extent of it — because of some sex differences in emotion processing.

Generally speaking, putting it in collegiate terms, the female mind majors in psychology; the male mind majors in physics — though individual male and female minds vary, of course. Research by psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that women tend to be the “empathizers”

of the species, driven (from childhood on) to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion.” Men, on the other hand, tend to be “systematizers” — driven to understand the inner workings of the blender.

The good news is, there’s a secret — even for the most emotionally inarticulate man — for comforting an upset woman: You don’t have to be Shakespeare; just don’t go all shutupspeare. For example, last week, when I was bummed about something — to the point of tears — I was on the phone with my boyfriend, and he said the sweetest thing: “I’m bad at this” (meaning knowing what to say) “but I want to help you feel better.”

This made me feel loved — and better.

Also, it was kind of sexy. (Showing vulnerability, contrary to what many believe, is a sign not of weakness but of strength — suggesting you have enough social and emotional capital not to act all superhero all the time.)

As an emergency measure — if even the words about not having the right words fail you — you can communicate your desire to comfort her with a hug, hair stroking, and other loving gestures. Again, just be sure to make some kind of effort to soothe her (lest she add feeling emotionally abandoned by her boyfriend to her boohoo list). Ideally, when your girlfriend suddenly wants to try some new positions, they aren’t things like standing on the base of the fireplace as she’s screaming at you to say something already.

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My husband’s parents asked to be in the delivery room while I’m giving birth, and he said yes — without asking me. Now he doesn’t want to tell them otherwise, which is weird because he isn’t usually lacking in assertiveness. I get along fine with my inlaws, but I don’t want them in there with me. — Horrified Mom-To-Be There are those men who understand what it’s like to give birth — those who’ve passed a kidney stone the size of a decorative lawn boulder out a slim fleshy tube normally meant for urine.

You are not doing a one-woman show in the delivery room; you are the lead character in a medical procedure — one that can involve pooping while pushing, horror movie-esque blood spatter, and impressive strings of screamed profanity (interspersed with tender maternal utterances like “GET THIS DEMONSPAWN OUT OF ME!”).

Sociologist Erving Goffman pointed out that we all engage in constant “impression management,” editing our behavior to control how others see us. (Choosing how much of our selves to make public is

a big part of this.) Goffman explains that losing control — not being able to present our desired image — is deeply disturbing to us, leading to feelings of shame and compensatory strategies to clean up the damage. (Never looking your father-inlaw in the eye again sound good to you?)

You say your husband generally isn’t lacking in assertiveness. Chances are, in the wake of his saying yes instead of “Gotta check with my wife,” he would feel bad about going back on it. (Maybe part of his impression management is coming off as a man of his word.) But back on his word he must go, because it’s your choice whether you make your private parts public parts. Not surprisingly, you feel you put your best foot forward with your feet in shoes under the dinner table — not in stirrups while the in-laws go sightseeing with the iPhone up the, um, Grand Canyon: “Look, Ralph...there’s a little fist coming out! Quick! Get a shot for our Instagram!” !

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