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Nestled inside a business park at 1908 Fairfax Rd. in Greensboro, is a wee shop that brings an authentic TASTE OF SCOTLAND to Greensboro. Scottish Gourmet USA was founded by Anne E. Robinson and debuted in 2005 in New Jersey and the business just moved to Greensboro in April 2017.

12 FOOD WITH COMPANY is a hospitality firm based in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by Anthony Moriarty and Marquis Butler that create immersive experiences in restaurants and bars. The goal of Food With Company is to create these experiences in the North Carolina vicinity and then to eventually branch out to other states and cities.

13 Despite the loss of tax incentives for film production in North Carolina, there remains a passionate contingent of filmmakers and film fans determined to prove that there is still a voice – and a place – for independent filmmaking here in the Tar Heel State. ZACK FOX, the organizer of the Marketplace Cinemas WinstonSalem (MPCWS) Short Film Gala, is one of them.

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Do you suffer from anxiety, insomnia, agoraphobia, fear of death, social awkwardness and nightmares? Throw in a slightly warped sense of humor, a taste for rock riffage and a weird thing for horse jokes, and you might be a prime candidate for listening to SWARTZWELDER, a Greensboro-based trio that mines angst in their songs.

18 With such titles as Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! and the masterful Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, writer-director Richard Linklater has spent the majority of his career focusing on the experiences of the young and the restless. LAST FLAG FLYING leaps so far in the opposite direction that it’s almost startling to see his name appear in the credits.

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by Yadkin Riverkeeper, is a traveling multimedia exhibit that connects audiences with the Yadkin River, the region’s primary water source, through dance, photography, and video. Photographer Christine Rucker who lives on the Yadkin River, photographed dancers as they improvised to the river’s diverse landscapes.

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WHAT: The North Carolina Brass Band celebrates the opening of the Christmas holiday season with a performance of holiday favorites. Christmas music in a variety of styles, a concert for folks of all ages. The NCBB will get you into the spirit of the holidays! Ring in the season with the sounds of brass!

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Dana Auditorium.

5800 W. Friendly Avenue, Greensboro.

MORE: $5-20 tickets.

WHAT: Chris Wiles, Triad native comedian, is bringing 20 years of comedy success Home for the Holidays at the Comedy Zone in Greensboro. Wiles fast-paced, face-making, story-telling, kinetic, stand-up comic style has established him as one of the hottest comics to rise from the Triad area. After extensive comedy tours at sea, Wiles looks forward to bringing it Home for the Holidays.

WHEN: 8 p.m. | 10 p.m. - Fri and Sat WHERE: The Comedy Zone Greensboro.

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WHAT: Enjoy one-stop shopping with 65 talented artisans and crafters from throughout North Carolina and find the perfect gift for everyone on your holiday shopping list! Holiday music, a raffle, bake sale, the Candy Cane Coffee Bar and the Reindeer Cafe add festive flair. Free admission.

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WHERE: St. Thomas More Catholic Church.

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WHAT: This is it! Who will take home the 2017 Home Team Championship win!?! Will it be the Elm St. Nightmares or the Mad Dollies? This will be the final bout of the season. It will also be a double-header with the Fresh Meat Mashup after the championship bout! The Greensboro Coliseum Fieldhouse is the place.

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WHAT: Kick off your holiday season with the Town of Pleasant Garden 38th annual Christmas Parade and Tree-lighting Ceremony. For the grand finale, meet Santa at his workshop located at the Pleasant Garden Fire Department. Stay for the food, games, entertainment and free kids bicycle raffles. Canned food donations accepted.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] GREENSBORO BALLET

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

Greensboro Ballet started in 1963 as the Civic Ballet Theatre, which was a small community performance company. In 1995, the name was changed to Greensboro Ballet and professional dancers were hired. Today, Greensboro Ballet is a nonprofit organization consisting of a performing company and a school of dance.

Coming up this holiday season, is the annual performance of “The Nutcracker” at The Carolina Theatre on Dec. 9 and 10 at 3 p.m., Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. , Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. and the “Gala Nutcracker” performance on Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and the event following the performance at 9:30 p.m. Jennifer Gentry, Greensboro Ballet’s marketing director wrote in an email that “The Nutcracker” has been a holiday tradition in the Triad for over 35 years.

She wrote that attending the “Gala Nutcracker” is a chance to see world-class professional ballet dancers from New York City Ballet. The guest Sugar Plum Fairy for that performance is a former Greensboro Ballet student, Megan LeCrone “Megan began her training at age 4 at GB, going on to UNCSA at age 14 and then to the School of American Ballet (most prestigious dance school in America),” Gentry wrote in an email. “Megan has also recently joined Greensboro Ballet as a board member and as an advisor. We are thrilled to have Megan back to perform in the Triad where she grew up and her mother still resides!”

Gentry said this year’s “Nutcracker” is significant because this is the first year

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Greensboro Ballet will have Laura Dorn, an African American dancer, performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy for the Dec. 9 and 10 performances.

“Dancers of all ethnicities have performed as Cavalier, the main character Clara and other lead roles including the Snow King and Queen,” Gentry wrote in the email. “But it just happens that this year we have an extremely talented and beautiful young dancer, also a student at UNCG, performing as our Sugar Plum Fairy.”

“Greensboro Ballet’s is very much community oriented,” Gentry wrote in an email. “Meaning that our performers are from the Greater Greensboro area and we often have guest performers from the community.”

This has included former Greensboro Ballet student Emily Bryd (from Fox8), Tanya Rivera (from WFMY-News 2), former mayor Keith Holliday and his wife, who perform as guests during the party scene.

“Our production also usually has quite a bit of humor in it,” Gentry wrote. “We take classical ballet training very seriously, but we don’t take ourselves very seriously at all.”

Tickets are available to purchase at the Carolina Theatre box office. For more information visit Greensboro Ballet’s website, http://www.greensboroballet.org/ the-school-of-greensboro-ballet. !

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A GRADE SEPARATED CROSSING AT THE FRANKLIN BOULEVARD AND NORFOLK SOUTHERN “H” LINE RAILROAD CROSSING (722959A) AND CLOSURE OF THE O’FERRELL STREET RAILROAD CROSSING (722961B) IN GREENSBORO, GUILFORD COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. P-5709 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project for construction of a grade separated crossing at the Franklin Boulevard and Norfolk Southern “H” Line railroad crossing (722959A) and closure of the O’Ferrell Street railroad crossing (722961B) in Greensboro. Grade separation means construction of a bridge of one mode of transport over the other, eliminating a crossing at the same level.

The meeting will take place on Monday, December 4, 2017 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Gateway Education Center, Purple Pod Multipurpose Room located at 3205 Wendover Avenue East in Greensboro.

The purpose of this project is to remove existing at-grade railroad crossings and provide safety improvements along the Raleigh to Charlotte rail corridor. By providing access to safer crossings, the project will reduce train and vehicle conflicts.

The public may attend at any time during the above mentioned hours.

NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. The opportunity to submit written comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by December 19, 2017. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings.

For additional information, contact Anamika Laad, NCDOT Senior Rail Project Development Engineer by mail: 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, by phone: (919) 707-4705, or via email: alaad@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Caitlyn Ridge, P.E., Environmental Analysis Unit via e-mail at ceridge1@ncdot. gov or by phone (919) 707-6091 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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The Scottish invasion of Greensboro just in time for the holidays

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estled inside a business park at 1908 Fairfax Rd., is a wee shop that brings an authentic taste of Scotland to Greensboro. Scottish Gourmet USA was Katie Murawski founded by Anne E. Robinson in 2005 in New Jersey, and the Editor business just moved to Greensboro in April 2017. Robinson said she moved to Greensboro to be closer to customers. She chose North Carolina as her new headquarters because she had more customers here than in any other state, which she said has to do with the history of North Carolina and Scottish immigration. On Nov. 16, Scottish Gourmet USA held a grand opening at the Greensboro location.

When Robinson was courting her now-husband, Andrew Hamilton (who she describes as “a kilt-wearing, scotchdrinking, Scottish chef and hotelier from Inverness”), she was living in New York, and he was living in Scotland. After meeting at a trade show in New York, Robinson accepted his invitation to visit his homeland and kept going back. Every time she returned, Robinson had brought more and more food stuffed in her suitcase. One of those items, in particular, was her favorite honey, which was Struan Heather Honey.

“It is very different from regular honey,” she said. “It is kind of like the difference between coffee and espresso; it is just sort of stronger and richer.”

Robinson said bringing back the food was the inspiration for starting Scottish Gourmet USA. Robinson said she realized that there was nobody in America selling authentic Scottish food. But Robinson did not rush right into the business venture until she took an extensive two-week eating tour of Scotland.

“We literally drove around Scotland and went to every fancy food store that there was,” Robinson said. “We found lots of lovely, small companies that made delicious jams, jellies, sauces, honey, shortbread and cheese. I mailed the first catalog in August 2005.”

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thought she was going to be selling exclusively to foodies.

“But what it turned into was people with connections to Scotland,” she said.

“Either expats who grew up in Scotland or England and came to the United States or who had roots, or had been the Scotland and fallen in love with something. But it all revolved around Scotland than around food.”

Scottish Gourmet offers mainly food products consisting of Scottish meats such as Scottish-style back bacon, puddings (oatmeal mixed with pork) and bridies. Flown in straight from Scotland, Robinson also offers authentic Scottish seafood options such as smoked salmon, smoked kippers and smoked haddock and Scottish cheeses such as gouda from Connage, Ardmore, Auld Reekie and Heb-

ridean Blue. Scottish Gourmet also carries Scottish comfort foods and sweets such as Cock-a-leekie soup mix, tins of whiskey fudge, whiskey cake, Edinburgh rock, shortbread cookies and Scottish tablets.

Even though the food is what got Robinson in this business, she sells quite a bit of Scottish novelty items. Some of these items include Christmas tree ornaments, coffee mugs and dish towels donned with the Scottish thistle (the national flower) and clan cloots (cloot is Scottish for cloth, and on each cloth has the corresponding clan badge).

Haggis was the unlikely best-seller that Robinson added two years after starting the business and is still the product with the most demand. What exactly is Haggis? Traditionally, Robinson said, it is the “pluck” of the sheep or the stuff that

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comes out of the center of the sheep.

“Imagine you are a tenant farmer,” she said. “And you raise sheep on the landowner’s land, you would have to pay your rent, and you might pay it with a lamb.

You’d have to slaughter the lamb, and you might keep the stuff out of the center of the sheep, and the rest of the meat would go to the landowner or laird. The wife would take the pluck (the heart, the lungs and the liver) and grind it up and add oatmeal, spices and broths. Then she would cook it in the sheep’s stomach because they would never have had a pot. They needed something strong to cook it over the fire.

And that is what Haggis is, traditionally.”

Robinson said it is no longer cooked in the sheep’s stomach and in America, you are not allowed to have the sheep lungs cooked into it because of tuberculosis.

Scottish Gourmet’s Haggis is not made with the traditional ingredients because without the lungs, there is not enough meat from the liver and the heart is considered a very rare delicacy, she said.

Instead, Scottish Gourmet’s Haggis is made from lamb breast, onion, oatmeal, spices and some beef liver to add a texture and gamey flavor.

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spends Dec. 15 through Jan. 15 making all the Haggis because of all the Scottish holidays that are coming up.

Starting it off on Nov. 30 is St. Andrew’s Day, a holiday celebrated to honor the patron saint of Scotland.

“St. Andrew’s Day is more of a holiday outside of Scotland than in Scotland, and it celebrates Scottish culture,” Robinson said. “And the contributions of Scots to the world.”

The Scottish new year is called Hogmanay, and it is celebrated right at midnight on New Year’s day and on Jan. 25 is Burns Supper. This holiday honors and celebrates the beloved poet and “the Scottish Bard” Robert Burns, who was born on Jan. 25, 1759. !

“It should be crumbly and slightly peppery,” Robinson said. “It tastes more like a lamb burger with some oatmeal in it more than anything.”

Robinson said Haggis is her best-selling item that she would never have expected.

She sells Haggis from one to five pounds and either in a natural casing, plastic casing or a tray.

“I made the first batch of Haggis in 2007- 10 years ago and I never in my wildest dreams thought it was going to be the biggest selling product of the company,” she said. “But it is.”

Robinson said a French pate maker in New Jersey is responsible for making all of the Haggis she supplies and has been making it for 10 years. Robinson said he

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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For more information about this wee shop and to stock up on some Haggis, visit Scottish Gourmet USA’s website https://www.scottishgourmetusa. com/ or call (877) 814- 3663.

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ood With Company is a hospitality firm based in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by Anthony Moriarty and Marquis Butler. Food With Company creates Katie Murawski immersive experiences in restaurants and bars. The goal of Editor Food With Company is to create these experiences in the North Carolina vicinity and then eventually branch out to other states and cities.

On Dec. 1 from 6 p.m. until 2 a.m. Food With Company is taking over Greensboro’s newest cocktail bar, Smith & Edge, located at 422 N. Edgeworth St., with a How The Grinch Stole Christmas theme in an event they like to call “You’re a Mean One.” This event is a part of their Story Time installment, where the experience is based on well-known and nostalgic children’s stories. Tickets for “You’re a Mean One” are available online or at the door for $10.

Moriarty is the event director of Food With Company, and he said this is the fourth year in the business. Moriarty said they had turned a barn in Liberty into a lake house extravaganza and a coffee shop into a reggae cafe. But this is the first time they are coming to downtown Greensboro for an immersive experience.

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“I am always looking for places that are somewhere like you wouldn’t expect,” Moriarty said. “We usually don’t let locations go [ahead of time],” he said. “Everything we do is a day before, and then you know where we are at. This is the first time that we are letting a location go just to support Smith & Edge, which is a local bar that just opened [on Oct. 4].”

Moriarty said the more unconventional location the better, which is why they have ended up in barns and coffee shops.

Since the Grinch is a well-known and beloved movie by many, and since it will be making its rounds to television sets everywhere soon, Moriarty said the Grinchthemed experience is perfect for the time year and the space at Smith & Edge.

“Every year at Christmas that is something that everybody has inside of their childhood and also, it is adult-themed,” Moriarty said. “The Grinch, to me, is more adult than Charlie Brown. Since we are edgy, it would make sense that we go after an edgy story.”

Don’t walk into Smith & Edge on Dec. 1 and expect to hear “Fahoo Fores Dahoo Dores,” or see the likeness of Whoville, though. This pop-up experience has decided to go in a different direction, and more specifically all the way up to Mount Crumpit and inside the Grinch’s lair itself.

To fully recreate the inside of the Grinch’s quarters, Moriarty said decorators went inside thrift shops around town and collected items that look like they would belong in a junkyard.

“You could either mimic Whoville or the Grinch’s home,” Moriarty said. “We were like ‘oh, we are going into the Grinch’s home.’ Don’t expect the singing and happiness, it is going to be more like ‘dun, dun, dun.’ If you like go inside Smith & Edge, it fits, it is more dark and things like that.

That is another reason why we picked it.”

The last event Food With Company hosted, they only had 30 minutes to get everything decorated and put together, Moriarty said. This event is different though, he said, because it is smaller and they will have more time to decorate since the bar opens at 5 p.m.

“Usually we are doing something from like 600 to 3,000 people, this time we are just aiming for 100,” Moriarty said. “Our aspect is to do the best we can for those 100 people because, after 100, we feel no reason to push it. We will even close the doors at 100 [people].”

Within two days of launching the Facebook event, Moriarty said there are almost 200 people already interested in going.

Along with games, spots to take memorable photos and prizes, there will also be a special drink menu that carries along with the Grinchmas theme. The featured cocktail is Smith & Edge manager Tanner Alberty’s personal favorite called The Mr. Grin-inch, which consists of Mezcal Vida, green Chartreuse, lime juice, a dash orange bitters and a dash of habanero bitters. Other Christmas cocktail creations include the Cindy Lou Who (bourbonbased), Means A Little Bit More (Gin-

based), Shoes Were Too Tight (Midori and Cointreau-based) and the Whoville (essentially a Manhattan by another name).

Alberty describes Smith & Edge having a more “laid-back environment than your general dive bar.”

‘I want everyone to enjoy themselves,” Alberty said. “I think it is going to be a really great time.”

This is not the only time you’ll see Food With Company downtown. Following the success of You’re a Mean One, they plan on having three more installments, all in different places with different themes.

Moriarty said the next story time will be more fan-curated, and the public will have a lot more say in what the theme is and what will be offered. Moriarty said Food With Company is also working on other installments that are still in the works called “Brunch Not Lunch,” which is based off movies instead of books, Food Museum and a dessert bar (which is more exclusive and secretive), Moriarty said to be on the lookout. !

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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‘Tis the season for a short-film festival Despite the loss of tax incentives for film production in North Carolina, there remains a passionate contingent of filmmakers and film fans determined to prove that there is still a voice – and a place Mark Burger – for independent filmmaking in the Tar Contributing Heel State.

Zack Fox, the columnist organizer of the Marketplace Cinemas Winston-Salem Short Film Gala, is one of them. The third annual gala will take place Sunday at the Marketplace Cinemas in Winston-Salem, and Fox notes with good humor that “you could say the third time’s the charm.”

A photographer and videographer based in Winston-Salem whose credits include Dan Sellers’ feature documentary Sammie the Comic Book Man, and the award-winning Civil War short Our War, Fox designed the annual gala as a showcase for filmmakers from North Carolina and the surrounding region. Initially, however, that wasn’t entirely clear to the filmmakers who submitted their films the first two years.

“Our first gala, we didn’t charge a dime for submissions and got over 670 from all over the globe – (but) by not charging, people simply didn’t read the rules regarding what our gala was about, and just submitted,” Fox recalls. “For the second gala we charged $1 for early admissions, $2.50 for on-time submissions, and $5 for late submissions – and still got over 300 films, again from all over the globe.”

It may have been flattering and encouraging for a new festival to receive so many submissions, but it was also overwhelming.

“This year we received 100 submissions – charging $2.50 for early admissions, $5 for on-time, and $7.50 for late,” Fox said.

“But by increasing the prices by just a dollar, people actually started to read the rules and understand what our gala was.

‘John Doe’ from Vancouver didn’t enter, because John Doe read the rules and realized he probably wouldn’t get in. We made it crystal clear that we wanted local or closely-filmed – South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia – films, and that’s what we got this year. By increasing the submission prices we got what we were looking for … and made our jobs easier!

Our event is for the unsung talent of North Carolina.”

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This year’s gala boasts 14 films, with 12 qualifying finalists. Of that dozen, eight were filmed in North Carolina. Filmmaker Carl T. Rogers, whose Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Annabel Lee was a previous gala first-place award winner, returns this year with his latest film, the Southern Gothic shocker Murky Water. Previous gala filmmakers Sellers and Andrew Huggins are back this year, Sellers with Midnight Shift and Huggins with There Could Be Nothing After This, and comedian Brian T. Shirley returns to screen Bengleton Socks, the pilot for his sketch-comedy series, and add some stand-up revelry to the proceedings.

“We’re very excited for Midnight Shift to be a part of Marketplace’s gala,” Sellers said. “This is Zack’s third year organizing this festival and it has become a great event for local filmmakers to get together, see each other’s films, and connect in person.”

Other shorts on the schedule include Wings (the debut of UNCSA School of Filmmaking student Aidan Millroy), The Last AirBnB, Geek Story, Brothers, Apart, Inside, For Love, and the aforementioned Our War. In addition, the Davie County Community Band will provide live musical accompaniment for the rare 1910 silent short Frankenstein, the very first screen adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, produced by no less than Thomas Edison, which for decades was thought to be a lost film.

With anticipation growing for the latest Star Wars extravaganza – The Last Jedi – the gala will also present Fox’s own short Cinema One: A Popcorn Adventure, a Rogue One fan film produced by the Marketplace Cinemas staff, which was shown during the theater’s run of Star Wars: Rogue One earlier this year.

“The newest and most interesting thing I noticed this year judging the shorts is that North Carolina filmmakers mostly produce horror films,” Fox said. “I don’t exactly know why, but every year I’m amazed at how many horror shorts are

made here. More and more horror each year, it seems!”

Another important aspect of the gala is to bring together independent filmmakers, to celebrate their accomplishments, encourage their talents, and perhaps foster new collaborations and friendships.

Last year’s gala very nearly sold out, and Fox hopes that this year’s event will do even better, and next year’s event even better than this year’s.

“North Carolina filmmakers are still passionate and getting their movies made,” he said, “but it sadly shows more and more with each gala that the budgets and

talent are simply going to Georgia, Los Angeles, etc … but we are lucky: We find the gems of North Carolina.”

“Zack is a talented and skilled filmmaker in his own right, so it’s very fitting he hosts the gala,” Sellers said. “I’ve met filmmakers at the first year’s festival that I’ve worked with since and are still friends with.

“I would like to encourage all film lovers to come to this festival, not just filmmakers,” he adds. “I would also very much like to encourage anyone who’s considering getting into filmmaking to come and meet with the filmmakers who will be on hand.” !

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The third annual MPCWS Short Film Social Gala will be held 6:30 pm Sunday at the Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Parkway, WinstonSalem. Tickets are $2.50 (at the door) and $3 (in advance). Seating is limited. For advance tickets or more information, call 336.725.4646 or visit http://mpcws.com/. You can also find MPCWS on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MarketPlace250Cinemas/.

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Greensboro’s Swartzwelder prepare new EP

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o you suffer from anxiety, insomnia, agoraphobia, fear of death, social awkwardness and nightmares?

Throw in a slightly warped sense of huJohn Adamian mor, a taste for rock @johnradamian riffage and a weird thing for horse jokes, and you might be a Contributor prime candidate for listening to Swartzwelder, a Greensboro-based trio that mines angst in their songs. They play the Monstercade in Winston-Salem on Dec. 9.

Swartzwelder will probably make you laugh, chuckle, snort, or smirk — or whatever your preferred mode of registering humor may be. But knee-slapping isn’t their main focus. They’re into comedy, but they’re not a comedy-rock band in the style of Tenacious D or Steel Panther.

I spoke with two members of the band by phone last week in advance of their forthcoming show. The band takes their name from John Swartzwelder, a legend among comedy fans, who has written the most number of episodes of The Simpsons and worked on other highly regarded shows as well.

“We like to add a little humor to our existential dread,” drummer Alex Milstein said.

That might explain it.

The band plays heavy-leaning rock, with

lumbering bass lines, muscular drumming, intricate little moments of Thin Lizzy-ish harmonized guitar solos, southernrock-worthy riffs, and odd, math-rocky ornamental tidbits. Swartzwelder is not big on repeated choruses or standard song form, preferring instead to wedge in lopsided flourishes, unexpected accents or counter-intuitive chord changes to keep things interesting. They do that all without ever sounding jarringly disjointed or stitched together for whiplash effect. The songs are cemented by singer and guitarist Max Miller’s wry, deadpan style, which sometimes brings to mind bands like Cake, where a minimally emoted vocal clarity adds weight to the delivery. Some of the lyrics split the difference between therapy session and stand-up routine.

“I want to be semi-serious,” Miller said.

Miller, who grew up in Winston-Salem,

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said that some of his formative musical experiences involved playing highly patterned doom-metal in his friend’s basement in high school, and that might be why he often avoids repetition now.

One of the songs on their 2016 release Hobby Horse is called “All Brown Rainbow” (song titles are one of their strong suits).

After a multi-part instrumental opening section, Miller kicks in with the line: “I only started feeling depressed when I started taking myself seriously, but the things in life that matter are so small, it’s easy to forget they’re there at all.”

That mix of slightly pathological, selfdeprecation coupled with giddy nihilism is pure Swartzwelder. There’s the suggestion that life’s meaning is so small that one could easily fail to see it. That may not be everyone’s idea of a good laugh, but it’s funny. The line won’t be everybody’s idea of an obvious song lyric, either, sprawling out as it does. But that, too, is one of Swartzwelder’s tricks, piling on a tumble of words where others might opt for minimalist brevity.

Both Miller and Milstein studied journalism in school. The whole business of cutting words to fit a limited space, tinkering with verbs or rearranging sections to speed them along, those are skills they’re familiar with.

But Miller and Milstein started playing music together when they were both students at University of North Carolina Asheville and graduated in 2014. The two then moved to Philadelphia for a time, played and recorded as a duo there, and then came back to North Carolina, moving to Greensboro, where Milstein grew up, in 2015. The two added their bassist and friend Jesse Akman to the lineup. The trio, all in their mid-20s, has recently finished recording a new EP, their second, in Char-

lotte, hoping to release it in early 2018.

If you pay attention to Swartzwelder’s titles, you’ll notice that there many horse references that pop up. They have some kind of equine obsession. There’s “Horse Nap” and the related “Do You Believe Horses Can Have Nightmares?” and then there’s the epically named “You Can Lead A Horse To Water (But You Can Go Fuck Yourself).” (That song — a sarcastic ragerant about entitled jerks who lack compassion and self-awareness — isn’t, in fact, about horses.) Milstein said the sub-theme arose from their fascination with a vaguely absurd T.V. commercial for a peanut butter snack that involved a horse.

The horse in that advertisement doesn’t make complete sense, just like some of the horse references in Swartzwelder tunes.

But then, if you sit with them for a bit, they start to add up. There’s a stoic cowboy veneer to some of this music. The tone has more in common with the rider trying to keep his cool and not get thrown from bucking and kicking animal than with the frantic gestures of the rodeo clowns.

Still, if clowns and distractions are sometimes the only way to prevent a fallen rider from getting trampled in the chaos, maybe Swartzwelder can relate, metaphorically.

Milstein said the band’s aesthetic and humor is basically a coping mechanism for garden-variety anxiety and mortal fears.

“It’s almost like [life is] too scary, so we need to make fun of it so that we don’t think about how scary it is,” he said.

Swartzwelder’s record ends with a peculiar expression of endurance. On “Afraid of the Dark” Miller sings, “I no longer fear that which seeks to harm me from the shadows.” (It doesn’t sound at all as selfpitying as it looks on paper.) Like many of their songs, it has a possible double meaning. It’s nice that the singer isn’t plagued by fear anymore, but the lyric also seems to suggest that, yes, there are things trying to damage us in the dark. Maybe it’s better to laugh it off. !

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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ith such titles as Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! and the masterful Before Sunrise/ Sunset/Midnight trilogy, writer-director Richard Linklater has spent the majority of his career focusing on the experiences of the young and the restless. Last Flag Flying ( ) leaps so far in the opposite direction that it’s almost startling to see his name appear in the credits. In this picture, the central characters are more likely to carry AARP cards rather than the fake IDs required of past Linklater protagonists.

Last Flag Flying will certainly stir memories of the 1973 Jack Nicholson vehicle The Last Detail, and that’s no accident. Both films are based on novels by Darryl Ponicsan, and the author himself co-scripted this new picture alongside Linklater. Set in 2003, it focuses on Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell), a Vietnam War veteran whose only child has just been killed in the Iraq War. Before traveling to claim the body, he asks two fellow grunts he hasn’t seen in approximately 30 years to accompany him on his road trip. Both Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston), now a coarse bar owner, and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), long a respected reverend, say yes.

What follows is a journey that hits most of the expected beats, with Richard loosening his holy collar, Sal exhibiting flashes of restraint and sensitivity, and Doc coming to grips with the death of his son.

All three actors are predictably excellent, with further notable turns by J. Quinton Johnson as Charlie Washington, a young Marine assigned to accompany the three men as they make burial arrangements for Doc’s son, and the great Cicely Tyson (looking fabulous at 92) as Mrs. Hightower, the grandmother of a soldier whose death in Vietnam remains a troubling link between the trio.

Indeed, the characters’ memories of Vietnam commingle easily with the film’s Junior-Bush-league setting. Doc, Sal and Richard all love their country but hate the ever-changing governments that perennially view young Americans as expendable fodder, and the three men can’t help but chuckle as they hear Washington (who served with Doc’s son in Baghdad) repeat the gung-ho speeches they themselves heard 30 years earlier. Last Flag Flying is proudly pro-soldier and anti-war, and while those imbeciles whining about the NFL player protests lack the mental capability to understand the difference, real American patriots will grasp it at once. !

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Dance For The River PHOTO BY CHRISTINE RUCKER

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ance For The River, presented

by Yadkin Riverkeeper, is a traveling multimedia exhibit that connects audiences with the Yadkin River, the region’s primary water source, through dance, photography, and video. Photographer Christine Rucker who lives on the Yadkin River, photographed dancers as they improvised to the river’s diverse landscapes. The exhibit will be on display at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC, from February 8 through March 11. The exhibit opening is part of Yadkin Riverkeeper’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, February 8, from 5:30PM to 7:30PM that includes a dance performance by UNC School of the Arts dancers. Tickets to the exhibit, opening and annual meeting are free. For more information, visit YadkinRiverkeeper.org.

SECCA is located at 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem, NC. Rucker and dancers traveled to some of the most pristine stretches of water and to some of the most environmentally sensitive sites throughout the watershed, creating a one-of-a-kind series of images that interpret the river in new ways.

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Helen Simoneau Danse, UNC School of the Arts’ School of Dance, Yadkin Arts Council, and the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute. Sponsors for the program include Yadkin Riverkeeper, Wells Fargo, the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Foundation, Yadkin Arts Council and Wake Forest University Humanities Institute.

The photographs will travel to cultural centers along the river in 2018. A piece from Dance For The River is currently on display as part of the Public Art Project at the Benton Convention Center in WinstonSalem. The exhibit appeared at The Yadkin Cultural Arts Center in Fall 2017. SECCA is the Forsyth County host in spring 2018.

The exhibit moves to Lexington in Summer 2018 and Salisbury in Fall 2018. An educational performance will take place for schools in each area. The performance, choreographed by students at UNC School of the Arts School of Dance School brings the images in the exhibit to life.

Phoebe Zerwick, the director of journalism at Wake Forest University, co-produced the video and the exhibit.

The program is a collaborative effort between Christine Rucker Photography, Phoebe Zerwick, Helen Simoneau Danse, UNC School of the Arts’ School of Dance, Yadkin Arts Council, Yadkin Riverkeeper and Wake Forest University Humanities Institute. The project was made possible with support from the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, Wells Fargo, Yadkin Riverkeeper and the John W. & Anna Hanes Foundation. !

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A family in Vero Beach, Florida, were rudely awakened early on Nov. 11 when Jacob Johnson Futch, 31, climbed onto their roof to, as he later told authorities, carry out a meeting with an agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency. WPTV reported the family didn’t know Futch and called Indian River Sheriff ’s deputies to say that someone was stomping on their roof, yelling and howling. When asked, Futch admitted injecting methamphetamines earlier that morning. He was charged with trespassing and held in the Indian River County jail.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS

An unnamed man in Frankfurt, Germany, called police 20 years ago to report

his Volkswagen Passat missing, believing it had been stolen. In November, the car was found just where the driver had left it, according to Metro News — in a parking garage that is now scheduled to be demolished. Police drove the 76-year-old to the garage to be reunited with his car, which is unfit to drive, before sending it off to the scrap heap.

FLYING SOLO

Office workers at Cambridge Research Park in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, feared the worst as they rushed outside on Nov. 13 after watching a hot air balloon crash into a fence in their parking lot. Strangely, no one was in the basket of the balloon, although the gas canister was still running. Eyewitness Jack Langley told Metro News: “Either they had bailed out and jumped out before crashing or the balloon escaped from its mooring lines.”

Cambridgeshire Police later discovered the balloon had taken off when the pilot got out of the basket to secure it to the ground.

CRIME REPORT

In the wee hours of Nov. 5, before the McDonald’s in Columbia, Maryland, had opened, a woman reached through the drive-thru window and tried to pour herself a soda, but she couldn’t reach the dispenser. The Associated Press reports that, rather than driving down the road to a 24-hour restaurant, she can be seen on surveillance video squeezing herself through the drive-thru window, pouring herself a soda and collecting a box full of unidentified items before taking off. The thief remains at large.

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Indian computer coder Suyash Dixit braved perilous terrorist-infested territory and drove six hours in early November to plant his flag and declare himself king in the last remaining unclaimed habitable place on Earth — Bir Tawil, a border area between Sudan and Egypt. “I am the king!

This is no joke, I own a country now! Time to write an email to U.N.,” he told The Telegraph. King Dixit has also created a website for his new nation, where he is encouraging people to apply for citizenship. However, Anthony Arend, an international law and politics scholar, scolds that “under international law, only states can assert sovereignty over territory.” !

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kitchens have industrial-grade ovens, several stoves, and if you’re lucky, a stainless-steel Hobart floor mixer, Jennifer Zeleski equipped for whipping cake batter and Contributor tossing cookie dough.

Its mere existence to a baker is equivalent to that of a tractor to a farmer, especially when large quantities of butter, sugar and flour need to be folded together into hundreds of homogeneous recipes.

That specific mixer was the protagonist in baker Naomi Gingerich’s vivid dream back in April. She recognized it to be just like the one from her childhood in her family’s kitchen. Her mother used it to make dozens of loaves of bread and pounds of pie crust for her father’s local market route.

As the dream started to illuminate past the mixer, she recognized a room in her house, turning into what looked like a home bakery office. The mixer was surrounded by shelves on the walls stacked with baking supplies, and before Naomi could see any further, she woke up.

For the entire week beforehand, Naomi had been praying for an idea for another stream of income. After leaving her job earlier this year, she was relying solely on her husband’s salary as an independent insurance adjuster and knew there had to be something she could get her hands into.

Naomi and her husband, along with two daughters and one son, are originally from a small town outside Canton, Ohio, where Naomi was raised in the Mennonite culture. She grew up under the elbows of her mother and father, learning the daily chores of the family farm, but especially getting acquainted in the kitchen with inherited Amish recipes.

In 2007, the Gingerich family moved to Winston-Salem, and in the following decade, her children have grown into their careers and homes elsewhere.

Naomi’s oldest daughter, Natalie, moved back to Winston-Salem with no immediate career plans. Both Natalie and Naomi hoped there was something they could do to spend time with one another to potentially earn income while sticking to

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Naomi Gingerich laughing as she hands one of her pastries to a patron on Oct. 13 at Cobblestone Market. their values and abilities.

It became apparent to Naomi in recent months that one of her hobbies had become more than just an outlet for her creativity. Her successful food blog, The Cooks in the Kitchen, with over 4,100 followers on Instagram, includes stories about her childhood in the Amish community and heritage recipes that have a modern twist.

With her extensive cooking knowledge and desire for a new purpose, she envisioned the idea of selling her homemade baked goods rather than offering the classic recipes for readers to make themselves.

That’s when the dream occurred, and she confessed the clarity of it to some of her friends, solidifying the plan of opening her own pop-up bakery.

“I just kind of casually said, ‘What if I started a bakery, ha ha ha!’ almost laughing,” Naomi explained. “I have a friend in Ohio who owns two restaurants, and she started out with a home bakery. She said ‘you know, that’s not really funny. That could be very possible for you to do.’”

Her friend was persistent. “What do you

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do every day?” she asked. Naomi responded, “I bake every day.” “Think about that.

Maybe that’s an idea from God,” the friend told her. Naomi allowed herself to imagine it, letting each thought and doubt mix into a recipe for success, but she knew her initial doubts would have to be addressed.

Naomi sat down with Gwen Roach, a local friend, and owner of Winstead Farms, who sells her products at the Cobblestone Farmers Market in downtown WinstonSalem. It was Naomi’s ideal location to start a pop-up bakery in the community, and she hoped Roach could offer some insight as to how to get started.

Naomi expressed her ideas and doubts to Roach, who ultimately gave her the truth and opportunity she needed. “You’re overcomplicating it,” Roach said. She explained to Naomi that she had solid ideas for her products, but the only thing she had to worry about was finding a kitchen.

Roach was able to connect her with Margaret Norfleet-Neff, the owner of the Cobblestone Farmers Market, who just happened to have a recently-vacant commercial kitchen. So Naomi and Natalie

packed up some fresh-baked products and headed to meet with Norfleet-Neff, who, in turn, loved the samples and offered to rent out her kitchen to them.

Just like that, Naomi’s dream evolved into Lavender and Honey Kitchen, a local pop-up bakery owned and operated by the mother-daughter duo.

“Within like two weeks time, we applied for our LLC (Limited Liability Company), we moved into Margaret’s kitchen and we got our inspection by the state,” Naomi said. “I kid you not, it was like everything fell into place.”

Naomi and Natalie’s first debut at the Cobblestone Farmers Market was June 17, 2017. After they completely sold out of their products, they knew they were off to a good start. They have sold out of all of their products ever since. “Seventy-five percent of our stuff sells in the first hour,” Naomi said.

They kept their momentum going by bringing their products to the New Philly Farmers Market, held at a local Moravian church through the month of July, and the Wednesday Cobblestone Market held by

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the Forsyth County Department of Health.

Their customers, newfound and returning, rave about their treats regardless of their pop-up location. Susie Van der Glas bought 10 of the bee pollen protein balls from their Oct. 13 Cobblestone stand and admitted to sharing them with her son and his girlfriend. “They’re fantastic,” Van der Glas said. “It’s organic, it’s natural. All their stuff is really decorated and beautiful, and that pulls me to them.”

Their exposure allowed them to develop a diverse customer base and rely on their key values: local ingredients and creative products. As they talked to customers about ingredients, recipes and community, they realized there were plenty of qualities that set them apart.

“Probably the biggest thing is that we use North Carolina milled flour,” Naomi said. “We use it in all of our products, and I’m not aware of any other bakers in the area that do. I feel like we pay attention to details like that.”

They have baked everything from curried vegetable hand pies to a chocolate rhubarb cake with beet juice buttercream icing. All featuring local ingredients and constantly pushing the envelope on creativity and classic recipes. “I just want to awaken the palettes of Winston-Salem a little bit and be surprising with the flavors that we use,” Natalie said.

Both Naomi and Natalie confess that the success of the business has relied on balance, especially of their personalities.

“I would like to think we complement each other. Natalie is good at quality control, and I keep us on the schedule,” Naomi said. “I say that I would be the driving force in the baking. But I think she is the driving force in the vision-casting.”

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sometimes trying, actually makes for a very well-rounded business because we’re coming from these different points of view,” Natalie explained. “I don’t know if I could work this hard for someone else.

I think I can only do what we’re doing because it’s our name and our baby, and it’s worth it.”

Their balance of qualities has taken them beyond their farmer’s market clientele, now expanding to sell their products at Let It Go Produce in Winston-Salem, as well as Sweet Aromaz, a local coffee, tea and flower shop.

Naomi and Natalie have been thinking about what comes next ever since they surpassed their original goals for a new vehicle, moving out of their old home into downtown Winston-Salem, and building a bigger following in just six months. “Now I’m raising my hopes a little higher and dreaming a little bigger,” Naomi said. “We hope to have a storefront by spring 2018, but that could happen sooner too.”

Their ideal location for their own storefront would be in the same area that has helped them become so successful in their short journey. “The thing about Winston that’s so nice is that really small businesses are so supportive of each other,” Natalie said. “I’ve lived in places where everyone is trying to one-up the other, and it’s really nasty competition. Here everybody lifts each other up and wants each other to succeed.”

With several locations supporting and selling their products, tested recipes and high levels of determination, the Gingerich ladies are hardly stopping now.

To make up for the Cobblestone Farmer’s market ending on Nov. 18, they are taking orders for holiday gatherings and personal cravings. The menu can be found on their website (www.lavenderandhoneykitchen.com) with anything from bourbon pecan pie to chocolate ginger molasses cookies.

Their intentions hardly fall short of simply offering baked goods and having their own storefront. They ultimately hope to bring their passion for humanitarian service to their community as well. “We’re both really passionate about humanitarian things and also helping out,” Natalie said. “It’s on our radar of how we can connect or how we can use this to kind of fuel that side of us.”

But for now, Naomi is trusting God’s divine timing. “It just felt right, that it was just the season for me to develop it,” Naomi said. “I think that the picture is bigger than what we can see.” !

JENN 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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Ed Asner’s strong constitution Some years ago I moderated a panel discussion featuring a number of television’s biggest stars.

The event took place just prior to election day, so I began by asking, “Is it OK for actors to be openly Jim Longworth involved in and vocal about politics?” A Contributor tinge of unease came over their faces. You would have thought I had asked them to disrobe. They, like many performers, worried that taking a political stand could alienate half of their viewers, or even derail their career.

Ed Asner knows what it means to pay a price for taking a stand. By 1982 Asner had seven Emmys under his belt, many of which were won portraying newsman Lou Grant in two different television series (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant”). He was one of the most popular and successful actors in Hollywood, and “Lou Grant”, then in its fifth season, was still in Nielsen’s top ten. But Asner made

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one fatal mistake. No, he didn’t sexually harass his co-workers, or sell illegal drugs, or violate underage boys. Instead, his “crime” was to speak out against the Reagan administration’s Central America policy, and help send humanitarian aid to Nicaraguan civilians under attack by U.S. backed Contras. Suddenly CBS canceled “Lou Grant”, and Asner was effectively blackballed from headlining his own network series. But Asner never stopped working, and today at age 88, he is still one of the most sought-after actors in America, and still one of the most politically active.

I first met Asner in 2010 while he was shooting a film in High Point, and took time out to visit the Triad Today studio to tape an extended interview (which is archived on www.jimlongworth.net ). We recently spoke by phone about his new book, “The Grouchy Historian: An Old Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs”, which he co-authored with T.V. scribe Ed Weinberger. The book clears up common misperceptions about our great document (it never mentions one man one vote), and about the men who framed it (many were Deists, not Christians), while taking jabs

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at modern-day politicians and pundits who routinely misrepresent the Constitution in order to advance their own agenda.

Longworth: Why did you write the book? And why now?

Asner: Well, both Ed Weinberger and I were commiserating with each other on how unhappy we were with the right wing constantly claiming the Constitution was theirs, and Ed Asner with Jim Longworth we decided that some counteron Triad Today. thrust should occur.

Longworth: What’s worse, right wing nuts who abuse the Constitution, or a President who hasn’t read it?

Asner: (laughs) What’s the difference? help them have a better understanding of He’s a pip. Trump is a P.T. Barnum like I’ve the Constitution, and of the issues facing never witnessed in my life. There’s a sucker us today? born every minute, and I think he’s corAsner: Our problem in this country is ralled most of them. that those folks don’t read, and Betsy Longworth: Should the 25th AmendDeVos is not helping them. If we could lead a mass education policy in this country, ment, which allows for a President to be getting people to read what they should removed from office due to incapacitabe reading, then we might get such books tion, be interpreted to include “mental” as mine popularly read. incapacitation?

Longworth: Do you ever regret being Asner: I’ll probably be jumped on from politically active, and getting “Lou Grant” every quarter for saying this, but it’s an canceled? inexact science. You can get one expert Asner: I second guess on it all the time. to testify to one’s sanity, and you can get My great regret is that a show with ideas another expert to say that the same man was removed from T.V., and I don’t think is looney tunes. we’ve had a show with ideas to take its Longworth: In the section of your book place since. The causes we covered on titled, “Asner’s Articles”, you advocate for “Lou Grant” are still untreated, and that’s free healthcare. Will America ever get a the guilt I carry. But I don’t relive my past Medicare For All system like the one Bernie beyond that.

Sanders advocates?

Longworth: Like me, you’re an Asner: Why is Canada’s achievement so Independent, but what has to happen impossible for us? Why? They have singlefor Democrats to take back control of payer, and they do so well, but we can’t Congress and the White House? seem to guide our policies that way.

Asner: Getting off their asses, for one Longworth: The week before your book thing. If some preacher could come along was released, 59 people were murdered at and show Democrats the suffering caused a concert in Las Vegas by a man with over

by Republican policies, then I think that a dozen assault rifles. Since then, another preacher could affect a large following.

26 people were killed in similar fashion Longworth: So what would it take for while attending church services in Texas. you to stop being grouchy?

Can we have effective gun control, and still Asner: I think that avuncular is very preserve the spirit of the 2nd Amendment? attractive, and I like filling those shoes.

Asner: Yes, there’s a way if you put the I don’t want to stop being grouchy, and emphasis on the “militia” (police and milimind your own Goddamn business! tary) being well armed, and not individu(both laugh). als. I am shocked and disgusted that after “The Grouchy Historian” is available in that Las Vegas incident, that nobody in bookstores and from Amazon.com. !

Congress has talked about gun control.

Longworth: Let’s be realistic. Right wingers are not going to buy your book.

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of “Triad Today,” airing Asner: They’ll borrow it (both laugh). on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Longworth: So then as an old Lefty, Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15). how do you ever reach the far Right, and

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REIGN OF TERRIER

I know humans are typically your subject, but this is a relationship question, so I hope you’ll consider answering it. I have a new puppy (an 8-pound terrier mutt). I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilet-trained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room (in a small dog cage). She cries all night.

It’s heartbreaking. Please help! — Sleepless In Dogtown We call dogs “man’s best friend” and treat them just like our human best friends — if at 11 p.m. you say to your BFF, “Wow — wouldja look at the time,” gently remove her beer from her hand, and usher her to her cage in your laundry room.

Crate training, recommended by vets, breeders, and the American Kennel Club, involves confining a dog to a “den” — a cage or gated-off area — with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember. However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment — as a sort of Doggy San Quentin — but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored hand-knotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggyhuman coevolution. Anthrozoologist John W.S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us. Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them — and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies — of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies — “well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that your picking up your car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!” Bradshaw’s advice in “Dog Sense”: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.”

Next: Pick up keys. Go out door. Come right back in. Praise dog. Next: Go out for increasingly longer intervals — and “go back a stage” (timewise) if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you: You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps (uh, snores like a cirrhotic old wino) on my pillow, resting her tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she had her

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bathroom business under control, I went through the crying-at-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered something about dogs: They have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed; maybe near bed would do. I snagged a big see-through plastic container (maybe 4 feet long and 3 feet high) that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad. She turned around three times, curled up, and went to sleep — after giving me a look I’m pretty sure said, “Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman and chase the neighbors’ bratty children with a sharpened Nylabone.”

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I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do.

What’s going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed. — Disturbed “Release the hounds!” does lose some of its punch when it’s followed by “...as soon as you can unzip them from their polka-dot stroller.”

Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses. However, you’re right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think “Field of Dreams”: “If you build it...” and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired, and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggybuggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly signal.”

This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price — which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real. An example of this is conspicuous waste — signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men!

— though not, you know, ‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.” !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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[HOROSCOPES] [LEO (July 23 to August 22) Kudos on getting the well-deserved Lion’s share of the rewards for a job well-done. Now you can take a breather from your workaday duties and spend time with your family.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) An old friend gives confusing signals.

Best advice: Don’t assume that things will necessarily work themselves out. Ask questions and demand straight answers.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) You enjoy a quick spurt of renewed energy just in time to meet that upcoming deadline. A potentially romantic situation looms. How it develops will be up to you.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A new relationship needs time to develop.

Be careful not to let your emotions flood your natural sense of caution. Meanwhile, check out that new job offer.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Watch out for distractions that could cause delays and leave you running twice as fast to finish your work by the 15th.

Then go ahead and have fun.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Start preparing now to make sure you get the credit you’re due for all that effort you put in to get that project off the ground. A new challenge emerges after the 15th.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You might prefer to work on current tasks on your own. But be open to a potentially useful suggestion from someone who admires you and wants to help.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You’re still charging full steam ahead on the job — and that’s fine. But take time to share the joy of preparing for the upcoming holidays with folks you love.

[SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Avoid rushing full gallop into that volunteer project without knowing what’s expected of you. Take things a step at a time as you begin to find your way.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A former detractor resists joining your ranks just yet.

Give him or her time to learn more about what you’re doing. Meanwhile, devote more time to friends and family.

[CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Good news: You should begin to feel more comfortable expressing your emotions. This will go a long way in helping you with that personal situation.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be careful not to be goaded into a tiff by someone who might be looking for a fight. Remain cool as you make your exit. Be assured that others will rally to your support. © 2017 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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* It was 20th-century French journalist, poet, aristocrat and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery — best known for his novella “The Little Prince” — who made the following sage observation: “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” * Eggplants weren’t always the deep purple color we know today; originally, the vegetables were white. The color, paired with the ovoid shape, is how the eggplant got its name. * Those who study such things say that paternity leave can have significant domestic impacts. Research shows that men who take a few weeks of leave when they have an addition to their family spend more time on domestic chores and taking care of the kids than men who don’t. They cook more, and they’re even 50 percent

more likely to do laundry. The most interesting finding, though, is the fact that these changes are long-term; the effect tends to last the rest of a man’s life. * The first wristwatch was made by an English clockmaker in 1571. Described as “a wristlet in which there was a clocke,” the watch was presented as a gift to Queen Elizabeth I. * If you’re like the average human, you have about 615 hairs for every square centimeter of your skin.

Thought for the Day: “A man said to the universe: ‘Sir I exist!’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.’” — Stephen Crane © 2017 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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