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Former French chef hops into new business FRIDA’S

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2019-20 Season High Point Ballet: The Nutcracker December 19-22, 2019 High Point Ballet: Land of the Sweets December 21, 2019

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Kelly Swanson: Who Highjacked My Fairy Tale?

January 17, 2020 “Anything Can Talk!” starring David Pendleton January 26, 2020 We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring Damien Sneed February 4, 2020

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The America I Grew Up In Tour

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Christmas Songs & Stories with John Berry

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019 7:00 PM

Steve Dorff: I Wrote That One Too… A Life in Songwriting from Willie to Whitney February 14, 2020 Barbra Lica Quintet February 15, 2020 NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players: I’ve Got A Little Twist February 20, 2020

Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Celebrating Dave Brubeck’s Centennial February 21, 2020 Georgia On My Mind: Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles March 12, 2020 Angelina Ballerina: The Musical March 17, 2020 Sons of Mystro March 20, 2020 Croce Plays Croce March 21, 2020 An Evening with Bollywood Boulevard March 31, 2020 Jump, Jive & Wail featuring The Jive Aces April 4, 2020 An Evening with Jen Kober May 1, 2020 Raleigh Ringers May 3, 2020

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NOVEMBER 6-12, 2019 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 45

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FROM FROG LEGS TO FROG EGGS

Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III publisher@yesweekly.com

First met TREY BELL when he was chef and proprietor of LaRue at its original Greene Street location in downtown Greensboro, where he cooked wonderful cuisses de grenouilles. Trey, whom I refer to by his first name because he’s become a friend, is no longer a restaurateur. Now he works with smaller and more fortunate amphibians than the bullfrogs whose legs he used to brine, soak in buttermilk, dredge in seasoned flour and pan-fry in brown butter.

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EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors IAN MCDOWELL JOHN BATCHELOR JOHN ADAMIAN KATEI CRANFORD TERRY RADER MARK BURGER JIM LONGWORTH DELANEY GERAGHTY PRODUCTION Graphic Designers ALEX FARMER designer@yesweekly.com AUSTIN KINDLEY artdirector@yesweekly.com

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Frida’s name honors Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known for her folk art style. I timed this review to coincide with an exhibition of her work at the North Carolina Museum of Art (running from late October through Jan. 19- see ncartmuseum.org). I have noted several Mexican restaurants named after her. This FRIDA’S in Kernersville, owned by Josue Flores, is not affiliated with any other.

10 Greensboro’s second-annual HOLIDAY SHOWCASE is mixing things up this year for the Center for Visual Artists’ yearend fundraiser.

11 This year marks the 60th birthday of one of television’s most popular, acclaimed series, Rod Serling’s THE TWILIGHT ZONE...

12 At first glance, BLACK AND BLUE appears to be a standard-issue urban shoot-’em-up, but screenwriter Peter A. Dowling and director Deon Taylor incorporate some topicality to the proceedings that bear a bit more examination that it might seemingly warrant.

18 THE RINALDIS will host the “Big November Chill” festival on Nov. 9 at the Dirt Farm in Greensboro. Part house show, YES! WEEKLY

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part vendor fair, part canned-food drive, the event will feature performers, vendors and a massage therapist, all in the name of chilling-out, connecting artists and collecting food before the hustle of the holidays hit.

19 The Dalai Lama might have said it with more eloquence, but it was Rocky Balboa in the movie, Creed, who said it best, “You can’t learn anything when you’re talking.” That bit of wisdom should be inscribed on a large plaque at the entrance to every hearing room in the NATION’S CAPITOL. 20 The Cimorelli sisters are content-generating machines. They’re a band, simply called CIMORELLI. The six siblings who grew up in Northern California also blog on their website. They have a book, Believe In You, which just came out in October. It’s the same title as their most recent single. They do a podcast, too. And they have merch, of course.

21 ELVIS COSTELLO and the Imposters made good on their request for faith as the “Just Trust” tour rolled through the Greensboro Coliseum’s Piedmont Hall on Nov. 2.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO GRADE SEPARATE FRANKLIN BOULEVARD AND CLOSURE OF O’FERRELL STREET RAIL CROSSING AND PROPOSAL TO EXTEND NACO ROAD FROM O’FERRELL STREET TO U.S. 70 (BURLINGTON ROAD) WITH RAIL GRADE SEPARATIONS AT WARD ROAD AND WAGONER BEND ROAD AND THE CLOSURE OF MAXFIELD ROAD AND BUCHANAN CHURCH ROAD RAIL CROSSINGS IN GREENSBORO

STIP PROJECT NOS. P-5709 / Y-5500GA The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes project P-5709 to grade separate Franklin Boulevard and closure of O’Ferrell Street rail crossing. A grade separation means using a bridge to separate intersecting roads and/or railroads. Project Y-5500GA proposes to extend Naco Road from O’Ferrell Street to U.S. 70 (Burlington Road) with rail grade separations at Ward Road and Wagoner Bend Road, and closure of rail crossings at Maxfield Road and Buchanan Church Road in Greensboro. The purpose of the project is to remove existing atgrade railroad crossings, provide safety improvements, and improve passenger and freight rail operations along the Piedmont Corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte.

A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21 at Genesis Baptist Church, 2812 E. Bessemer Ave. in Greensboro.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings or the project website: https://Publicinput.com/Franklin-naco-Greensboro The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made.

NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done by phone, email, or mail by Dec. 5, 2019.

For additional information, please contact: For P-5709- NCDOT Senior Rail Project Engineer Anamika Laad, at 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, (919) 707-4705 or alaad@ncdot.gov, or for Y-5500GANCDOT Project Development Engineer Consultant Matthew Potter, PE, at 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, (919) 707-4738, or mwpotter@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 Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, (919) 707-6069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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REYNOLDA HOUSE PARTY SATURDAY

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SALEM SATURDAYS THIS AUTUMN

WHAT: Got talent? Bring it to Boxcar Bar + Barcade in Greensboro on Wednesday.

Signups from 9-9:30pm and performances go from 9:30pm-Midnight. Each artist may perform one or two pieces, up to 10 minutes. All musical genres welcome, but no full bands (ie: drum kits) due to time constraints. We welcome comedy and spoken word in addition to music. Event hosted by Jordan Brown.

WHEN: 9 p.m.

WHERE: Boxcar Bar + Arcade.

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MORE: Free event.

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WHAT: Grab the kids and head to the NEW Old Salem for an all-day (or twoday) experience. Start the day off at the Cobblestone/Old Salem Farmers Market, spend some family, quality-time with us exploring all of the history, take one of our popular “Hands-On-Workshops”, stroll Main Street, enjoy a boxed picnic in Salem Square, and do a bit of early Holiday shopping in our fabulous stores.

WHEN: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

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MORE: $27 tickets. $13 student tickets.

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WHAT: It’s the magical “house” party you’ve always wanted to attend.

Don pinstripes and vintage fringe for this 1920s Gatsbyesque gathering inspired by “Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration.” Your ticket to a decadent evening includes dinner, cocktails, jazz, and dancing. Cocktail attire.

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: Reynolda House Museum of American Art. 2250 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem.

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ANGELO’S HOLIDAY ARTISAN MARKET

MAD DOLLIES VS BATTLEGROUND BETTIES

WHAT: Angelo’s Artisan Market is a pop up craft fair that features over 40 local and regional vendors selling handmade arts & crafts, antiques , repurposed, vintage, and food items! This will be our third annual Holiday Market! Free Entry & Parking!

WHEN: 12-5 p.m.

WHERE: Wise Man Brewing.

826 Angelo Brothers Ave., Winston-Salem.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: It’s our last home team bout before the Home Team Championship! The Mad Dollies take on the Battleground Betties!

First whistle is at 7 p.m. Since the First Responders keep our community running smoothly behind the scenes, we wanted to show our gratitude for those behind the scenes folks within our derby community.

We are hosting our First Responders Appreciation Bout Sunday, Nov. 10.

WHEN: 7-9 p.m.

WHERE: Skate South.

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TROMPLOY PRESENTS: ALICE IN WINSTONLAND

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Back in April, Winston-Salem went down the proverbial rabbit hole with Debi Cable’s 3D blacklight Wonderland at the ART-C Theatre. From Nov. 21-29, there will be another chance to go down the rabbit hole, but this time, this interactive art installation will have a distinctly WinstonSalem twist. (Think Meow Wolf, but in the City of Arts and Innovation.)

Tromploy, a for-profit arts venture based in Winston-Salem, will start hosting a pop-up, interactive art exhibition once a month, with the first of these installations being “Alice in Winstonland,” from Nov. 21-29. This pop-up interactive art exhibit will be conceptualized and rendered by local/regional artists, who will have about two weeks to put together the entire installation. Like Cable’s 3D blacklight experience, this installation will have an Alice in Wonderland theme, but “Wonderland” will look a lot like WinstonSalem. The installation will be in the heart of downtown, at 418 Marshall St. North #100, in a 3,500 square-foot space.

According to the press release, “Tromploy is an immersive entertainment and artist platform that creates, curates and facilitates interactive art,” and “an immersive entertainment company that inspires creativity in the community in collaboration with global visionaries, innovators, artists and technologists.”

In 2018, Keets Taylor founded Tromploy to promote interactive art experiences in Winston-Salem. Taylor said that Cable’s installation was a “prototype to show people what we had in mind.” Taylor said Alice in Winstonland is also sort of a prototype for future pop-up installations. Working on the construction of the installation are local and regional artists: Nevets WYNOCEROS, XOSK, Megz, Christine Toole and Carlos Bocanegra.

“This one will have a whole lot of shrink wrap,” said Tromploy’s creative director

Steven Darling, describing the exhibit.

“It is going to be Alice in Wonderlandthemed, and there will be [paper-mâché] mushrooms, a ball pit, and a slide that enters you into the rabbit hole (the other part of the installation).”

Darling said that most of the materials used to construct the exhibit are recycled materials, such as YES! Weekly newspapers, which will be repurposed into the paper-mâché mushrooms. (Darling said there would be a “special” mushroom that will have the YES! Weekly logo on it, and to look for the shroom that has a bite taken out of it.)

“Keets had a concept and idea, and she started to run with it,” added Darling, explaining how the installation came to be. “We cross-pollinated because I was actively pursuing in Winston-Salem and Greensboro an interactive space.

So, instead of making competition, we partnered.”

“This group is a new addition to [Tromploy],” Taylor added. “We are expecting a really good collaboration.”

In addition to the immersive installation, Darling said there would also be live music, DJs, live body painting and other entertainment, which will be announced in next week’s issue of YES! Weekly, along with other details about this installation.

The Alice in Winstonland installation will take approximately 45 minutes to one hour or more (depending on how adventurous you are or how much fun you want to have, Darling said) and will be open from 1 to 10 p.m. during the weekdays.

On Friday and Saturday, it will be open longer with special events happening from 9 p.m. to midnight. The ticket cost for Alice in Winstonland is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and military, $8 for ages 8-17, and children ages 7 and under are free. !

PHOTO FROM DEBI CABLE’S 3D BLACKLIGHT WONDERLAND EXHBITION

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Chow down with John Batchelor at Frida’s Mexican Kitchen

BY JOHN BATCHELOR | john.e.batchelor@gmail.com Overall: Food: The usual Mexican dishes are at least as good as other places, and there are a few items here that elevate Frida’s above the rest.

Ambience: Modern, upscale building Service: Pleasant and earnest, but not well coordinated.

Value: Moderate to low prices, relative to the Triad market.

Ratings range from Not Recommended or Acceptable to one (satisfactory), two (good), three (very good), four (excellent) or five (truly exceptional) stars.

Most recent visit: Oct. 24

Queso Fundido

Street Tacos Camarones al Mojo de Ajo

Chicken Quesadilla, Chile Relleno, Enchilada

ner from the competition, and we liked their mojito, too. Guacamole seemed like a good way to start our first meal.

The staff at Frida’s prepares it tableside, scooping out the avocado interior and mashing it, then blending it with onions, tomatoes, cilantro and fresh-squeezed lime juice. You can customize the preparation as you taste. We liked a little more lime than usual.

I have never met a Mexican sausage I didn’t like. So another starter, Queso Fundido- ground chorizo sausage blended with mushrooms and melted Mexican

cheese- turned out to be especially gratifying. This is really rich, and like everything else at Frida’s, the portion size is ample. Plan to share and maybe take some home, too. (I often keep a cooler with ice in my car when I go out to eat, to hold leftovers.)

That ground sausage also makes an appearance in an entrée, Fajitas Vallartastrips of steak and chicken, served sizzling on an iron platter, along with onions, plus red and green peppers. Absent the sausage, this would be at least as good as any fajita rendition I have had in other

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rida’s name honors Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known for her folk art style. I timed this review to coincide with an exhibition of her work at the North Carolina Museum of Art (running from late October through Jan. 19- see ncartmuseum.org). I have noted several Mexican restaurants named after her. This Frida’s in Kernersville, owned by Josue Flores, is not affiliated with any other.

The look is upscale, a stucco-clad structure of the recent vintage. The interior is decorated with reproductions of Frida Kahlo’s art, along with posters advertising selected aspects of the restaurant’s bar service or menu.

I first became acquainted with Frida’s during the YES! Weekly Triad Margarita Wars. My wife and I evaluated margaritas from 16 restaurants (see my blog for a photo of the lineup). Tastings were

anonymous- each drink, delivered by YES! personnel, bore only a number. First impressions generated five finalists. We asked for seconds on each of those, in order to ensure freshness. That round identified two that clearly earned top rank status, and further research, in more depth, enabled us to name a winner. We learned that we had chosen the margarita from Frida’s. (Note: We did not consume all of these drinks, and I was not impaired to drive!)

We found the margarita served in the restaurant to be just as good as the win-

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Fajitas Vallarta

Mexican restaurants. But the sausage flavor elevates it above the crowd. Certain entrées seem mandatory in Mexican restaurants, based on their familiarity with American audiences.

Street Tacos come in three versionsbeef, chicken and shrimp. The beef is cubed, not ground, which gives it more flavor. The chicken and shrimp both taste pleasantly fresh. Diced onions and cilantro add impact. Enchiladas Banderas is a combination that provided three corn tortillas, one filled with pulled chicken (which I usually prefer over grilled in most Mexican restaurants), another with ground beef and the other with melted Mexican cheese. Three sauces- a spicy tomato, a white cheese and salsa verdego well with either of the enchiladas; one isn’t necessarily intended to match a specific enchilada.

Another combination dinner allowed us to explore Chicken Quesadilla, Chile Relleno and another Beef Enchilada. The chicken is moist, tender and flavorful. In the Chile Relleno, the flavor of the chile pepper blends well with cheese- queso, I think. Pescado San Jose places two thin slices of mahi-mahi, plus mushrooms and large, deveined shrimp, in a thick, rich cheese sauce, over mashed potatoes.

(Rice is also available.) Both plates of seafood had been cooked just right. The quantity of mashed potatoes could have served two. I ate the seafood but brought most of the sauce and potatoes home for another night. A few leaves of spinach added a bit of color as well as nutrition, but I would have preferred more.

Camarones al Mojo de Ajo places large shrimp, sautéed in garlic butter with onions and red bell peppers, plus pieces of avocado, over rice. It’s a colorful, flavorful dish; the shrimp were not overcooked and their flavor married well with the avocado. I especially liked this. Chile Verde, however, turned out to be my favorite entrée. Chunks of tender pork are cooked

in “green sauce,” which bears a mild vinegar-pepper flavor. I have not seen this elsewhere. It’s a real winner.

Rice and black beans come with most entrées. Servers are earnest, deliveries prompt. But they are not able to provide information about ingredients or how food is prepared. And no matter how our orders were conveyed, personnel don’t seem to be accustomed to dining by multiple courses. Specified appetizers sometimes came out of the kitchen after entrées or at the same time. If you want separate courses, I would suggest ordering your drinks and appetizers first, then placing entrée orders after the first course has arrived. Check backs usually occurred as soon as deliveries had been completed, before we had time to actually taste the food.

On balance, though, I liked Frida’s, and I would return. There are a few things here that make it worth a drive, either from Greensboro or Winston-Salem, especially since Kernersville is so conveniently located between the two. (Take Business 40 from Greensboro, not the bypass.) !

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JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com.

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Frida’s Mexican Kitchen, 550 Pineview Dr. in Kernersville, (336) 497-5097. www.fridasmexicankitchen.com, Frida’s is open Monday-Thursday from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m., on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Appetizers: $5.50-$8.50 | Salads: $5.99-$10.99 | Soups: $6.25 | Entrées: $8.99-$25 | Desserts: $6-$7

NOVEMBER MENU Appetizers

Fried Oyster Bruschetta · Crab Cakes · Sexy Sals Blue Crab Fondue · Miso Poblano Shrimp Toast NOLA Style Shrimp · Friend Green Tomatoes Calamario & Jalapeño · Mussels or Clams · Ceviche

Oysters

Raw, Steamed, Roasted or Grilled Going Coastal Rockefeller · Bacon & Blue · Fried Oysters

Soups

Soup of the Day · Charleston She Crab Soup

Sides

Fries · Asparagus · Plantains · Rappini · Braised Greens Stone-Ground Grits · Low Country Brussel Sprouts Garlic Whipped Mashed Potatoes

Salads

Caesar · Artisan · Arugula · Cobb · Sixty-South Salmon, Sirloin Grilled Shrimp, Oysters, Crabcakes, Grilled Chicken

Entrees

Salt & Pepper Catfish · Pineapple Soy Glazed Chicken Blackened Spiced Grilled Grouper · Potato Crusted Seabass Sixty-Souther Sustainable Grille Salmon · Cast Iron Trout Sesame Seared Tuna · NOLA Style Shrimp · Shrimp & Grits Grilled 10oz CAB Center Cut Filet · Grilled 12oz CAB Ribeye

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reensboro’s secondannual Holiday Showcase is mixing things up this year for the Center for Visual Artists’ year-end fundraiser.

Everyone is invited Terry Rader to this free exhibition that includes two parties from 6-9 Contributor p.m. on Nov. 21 for the preview party and again that First Friday, Dec. 6. The show and sale will be up from Nov. 19-Dec. 31, except during its holiday closings on Nov.28-29 and Dec. 23-27.

CVA gallery director Devon McKnight said that they are doing things a little differently this year in the ongoing efforts to support local artists and fundraise.

She said that for the preview party, they are “creating good vibes” by working with soft, low lighting for the overall gallery.

She said the light will be illuminating the works instead of everyone’s faces to make it more comfortable to socialize.

This exhibit will have more room to appreciate the pieces shown, meet the artists and shop locally for holiday gifts, while enjoying food and beverages. Their silent auction on this night will feature the work of artists in the show who have donated about 10-15 pieces to support CVA’s fundraiser. Visitors can take pictures in the photo booth and have the opportunity to pull quick prints of an image they get to paint themselves from CVA’s printing press.

McKnight said that they want to make it more casual for everyone by creating a “low-chill atmosphere that feels like more of a lounge.” She said she enjoys creating a custom Spotify playlist for each event.

“I feel like if you sit with the art, you vibe with it more,” McKnight said. “We are trying to create more of a connection.”

On the first Friday, Dec. 6, they will be serving warm seasonal drinks, and some of the artists will be doing demos to show their techniques, and McKnight said they would also have crafts for the kids to make and take home.

McKnight said there would be 40 artists selling their fine art paintings, photography, pottery, ceramic sculptures, jewelry, soaps, bags, greeting cards and more.

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pho Design, uses her jewelry of pressed flowers and moths between glass to promote the protection of wildflowers and pollinators, and uses part of the sales of her work to buy seeds to replant wildflowers.

Linda Spitsen paints very large wildflowers, and McKnight said her work just blew them away when they first saw it.

She said she could not emphasize how colorful Spitsen’s paintings are and how they just make you happy.

Brett McDonough of Wild Rumpus Ceramic Arts will be there with his well-known creature-adorned vessels.

Returning to CVA is Caitlyn Whisenant of Greensboro. McKnight said Whisenant has “really amazing resin jewelry and mobiles everyone loved last year,” adding that Whisenant may have been their top seller.

Beth Shaffer of Greensboro makes metal robots out of old coffee pots, wind chimes from forks and spoons and yard displays that McKnight said are done most intriguingly.

In a separate exhibit, David Wasserboehr, O’Henry Magazine’s recently featured artist, will show his photos as part of CVA’s outreach program. McKnight said the CVA collaborates with the magazine, which gives them a poster-size print of the artist’s story for each exhibit.

CVA, like all nonprofits, always needs volunteers. McKnight said they also reach out to their showcase artists and ask them to promote the event and volunteer at least three hours. They can also donate a bottle of wine or snacks for the two events, or even to donate a piece of their work for the silent auction.

“With the winter shows and the holiday season, people are spending more money,” McKnight said. “We, as a community art space, are promoting buying local art.

If you want your community to be vibrant and cultured, support your local artists, so they don’t move away. Conversations have been made to hopefully meet all needs of the spectrum. Artists are hungry and want to make money, so they tell us

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CVA Holiday Invitational 2018

they are creating all sorts of things to sell for the holidays.”

CVA provides studio workspaces and exhibition opportunities for local artists, educational classes opportunities for children and adults, summer art camps, and outreach programs in local schools.

The gallery is located on the second floor of the Cultural Arts Center between the African-American Atelier and the Native American Gallery, and across the hall from Green Hill Gallery. !

TERRY RADER is a freelance writer, poet, singer/songwriter, wellness herbalist, flower essences practitioner and owner of Paws n’ Peace o’ Mind cat/dog/housesitting.

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A big-screen return to The Twilight Zone This year marks the 60th birthday of one of television’s most popular, acclaimed series, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, and to commemorate this landmark Fathom Events has partnered Mark Burger with CBS Entertainment to bring six classic episodes to Contributor the big screen – in glorious black-andwhite, no less.

On Nov. 14, these episodes, specially curated for this event by CBS and digitally restored, will be screened in more than 600 theaters nationwide, including four located in the Triad: The Cinemark Brassfield 10, The Grand 12 – Four Seasons Station, and Regal Greensboro Grande Stadium 16, and The Grand 18 WinstonSalem IMAX. The Twilight Zone premiered Oct. 2, 1959, notched 156 episodes during its fiveseason run (1959-’64), won a 1963 Golden Globe for Serling as Best T.V. Producer/ Director, and earned eight Emmy nominations, with Serling winning in 1961 and 1962 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama.

From its legendary (and oft-imitated) theme music to its tantalizing tales of fantasy and the macabre – often steeped in irony and marked by devastating denouements – The Twilight Zone endures as television anthology at its finest and for many its most frightening.

The series has rarely been out of syndication, earning new generations of fans over the years. Its popularity has sustained so strongly that it became the basis for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and small-screen resurrections in 1985, 2002, and most recently this year, with Jordan Peele as host. Simply put, The Twilight Zone will not die.

Fans of the series will no doubt be familiar with the six episodes being presented: “Walking Distance” (original airdate: Oct. 30, 1959) stars Gig Young as a Madison Avenue executive who returns to the small town where he grew up and unexpectedly encountered his 11-year-old self and his parents, forcing him to confront not only his past but his present.

“Time Enough at Last” (original airdate: Nov. 20, 1959) starring Burgess Meredith as a mild-mannered bank teller whose greatest passion is reading. By a strange twist of fate, he discovers he has all the time in the world to indulge his passion.

“The Invaders” (original airdate: Jan. 27, 1961) stars Agnes Moorehead as an elderly woman battling for her life when her isolated farmhouse is invaded by a flying saucer. (This may well be my personal favorite episode of The Twilight Zone.)

“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” (original airdate: March 4, 1960), featuring Claude Akins and Barry Atwater, is set in a bucolic suburban neighborhood that comes unglued when the residents fear they are being invaded by aliens … or are they?

“Eye of the Beholder” (original airdate: Nov. 11, 1960) stars Maxine Stewart as a woman desperate to look like everyone

else, having undergone a series of unsuccessful surgeries in the past. Her 11th operation will be her last and will determine her fate.

“To Serve Man” (original airdate: March 2, 1962) stars Lloyd Bochner as a cryptologist who begins to suspect something is amiss when seemingly benevolent aliens arrive on Earth, offering to share their knowledge of how to eradicate disease and hunger with mankind.

In addition to the six episodes, the presentation includes Remembering Rod Serling, a documentary short tracing the life and career of this remarkable man, whose legacy endures in The Twilight Zone and beyond.

“The incredible mind of Rod Serling led to some of the most indelible moments ever created for television, and selecting these episodes was both a great pleasure and a responsibility we took seriously, knowing how much the series means to generations of fans,” said Ken Ross, executive vice-president and general manager of CBS Home Entertainment.

“The Twilight Zone has inspired many filmmakers and storytellers, so it is a great

honor to be able to bring these classic stories to the big screen, and to offer such an incisive look into the man who created them,” added Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt. !

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t first glance, Black and Blue appears to be a standard-issue urban shoot-’em-up, but screenwriter Peter A. Dowling Mark Burger and director Deon Taylor incorporate Contributor some topicality to the proceedings that bear a bit more examination that it might seemingly warrant.

Alicia West (Naomie Harris) is a rookie cop in New Orleans. She grew up there, then joined the Army and saw action in Afghanistan. Now she’s back home and trying to do her part for the community, but as she is advised early on, the badge makes her an outsider. It’s not about black. It’s not about white. It’s about blue, and she’s blue. She may be there to help, but some residents don’t want her

help. They don’t trust the police. They don’t want her, or her blue brethren, around – at all.

On what seems a routine patrol, Alicia fulfills the cinematic hero’s dilemma of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as she witnesses a corrupt narcotics detective (lean, mean Frank Grillo) and other officers killing three drug dealers in cold blood. When they see Alicia, they try to kill her, too – but she barely manages to escape, and she’s recorded the crime on her body camera.

Thus begins an intense, if not altogether unpredictable, odyssey for Alicia. Not only is she accused of committing the murders, but the corrupt cops are crafty enough to pin the blame on her, assuming that the resident coterie of neighborhood gangsters, including neighborhood drug czar Darius (Mike Colter), whose nephew was one of the victims, will get her if they don’t.

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of fast-talking tough-guy roles in the Fast and the Furious and Transformers franchises, this is a more subdued, reflective characterization for Gibson, and he pulls it off nicely. Mouse doesn’t want to be a hero. He doesn’t even want to be involved, but circumstances – and his innate sense of justice – compel him to heroism.

The flip side is Grillo’s Terry Malloy, and it’s interesting to note that the character’s name is the same as the blue-collar hero played by Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954). Malloy is as much a product of the urban environment as Alicia, but serving and protecting the populace is not high on his agenda.

If the criminals want to kill each other, fine, he’ll even do his part to encourage that. Malloy is not a likable character, but he is a believable one.

Heavy on foreshadowing and blunt in symbolism, Black and Blue exploits its topicality in ways that manage not to be insulting to the viewer’s intelligence.

This is clearly an action film designed to entertain, but Dowling’s screenplay also has some nuance and depth. Not all the white characters are bad, not all the black characters are good – and, in some instances, they undergo a measure of moral redemption.

The mean streets of New Orleans have rarely looked meaner, courtesy ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti, and

the actors bring conviction to what could have been stock roles. In addition to Harris, Gibson, Grillo and Colter, all of whom acquit themselves well, there’s nice work from Reid Scott, Beau Knapp and James Moses Black in support.

The third act tends to go on a bit, but Black and Blue not only delivers the action it promises but a little bit extra – and that little bit extra goes a long way toward making this, if not a film of importance, then a film that brushes against some interesting topics that confront today’s society. !

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aleideum will offer another installment of its popular Kaleideum After Dark series for adults on Friday, Nov. 8 from 6-10 p.m. at Kaleideum North. Participants can explore the museum, including the recently-opened Toy Time exhibition, watch laser shows in the Planetarium and, beginning at 7 p.m., take part in a science trivia contest. Categories will include “Science in the News,” “Pop Culture Science,” “Famous Scientists” and more. Winners will choose from prizes including tickets to future Kaleideum events, gift cards, books and items from the museum’s gift shop.

Trivia teams are limited to six people.

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for dinner purchases (including vegetarian options), and Foothills Brewing will host a cash bar selling drinks and desserts.

Rock laser shows will run in the Planetarium throughout the night: 6:30 p.m. - Sci-Fi 8:30 p.m. - 80s Nostalgia (featuring Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Van Halen and YES) 9:15 p.m. - Stormy Weather (featuring The Beatles, CCR, The Doors, and R.E.M.) Advance tickets are available at www. kaleideum.org for $10 per person. Tickets will also be available at the door for $12 per person.

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Mothers Lounge, a company catering to new mothers, has conceived some awkward conversations for women on the receiving end of a recent marketing campaign. The Chuck Shepherd company sent out maternity congratulations cards signed by “Jenny B” that included gift cards and coupons for products attractive to pregnant women. The problem is, as the BBC reported, many of the recipients aren’t pregnant. A woman in Memphis, Tennessee, tweeted: “Who the hell is Jenny B and why did she send me $245 in gift cards to my childhood home congratulating me on my pregnancy?! This is literally how my mother thought she was finding out that I was pregnant. I’m calling the FBI.” Another woman’s mother was “immediately so excited and freaked out ... I had to quickly tell her I am not in fact pregnant.” Mothers Lounge spokesman Scott Anderson explained that a third-party marketing company provided the mailing list.

Sounds like a false-positive to us.

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Faith the one-legged mallard duck, of Gardner, Maine, will soon have more than one leg to stand on, thanks to Loni Hamner. Faith lost her leg in a fox attack last year but has been making do, Hamner told the Bangor Daily News: “She has taught herself how to stand and balance on that one leg,

PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE

Convicted bank robber and career criminal Michael Jauernik, 71, received a sentence of more than 12 years in prison in Germany on Oct. 7, but managed to stall his incarceration by delivering a five-day-long closing statement that included anecdotes about his career in crime and details about his fitness routine. Twenty hours into the soliloquy, the judge finally cut him off, saying she wished she had done so earlier in light of his “excessive digressions,” The Guardian reported. Jauernik, who wore sunglasses throughout his trial, told the court, “I am more intelligent and clever than any employee of the criminal police agency, that much is sure.”

IT’S HARD TO FIND GOOD HELP

After six years of litigation, six men were found guilty of attempted murder in late October in Guangxi, China, for participating in a chain of subcontracted murder-for-hire plots that never resulted in a death. Businessman Tan Youhui started the chain by hiring a hit man to “take out” a rival identified only as Mr. Wei, reported the BBC. That hit man then subcontracted a second hit man to do the dirty deed. Hit man No. 2 subcontracted with hit man No. 3, who then reached out to hit man No. 4. After getting the nod from No. 4, hit man No. 5, Ling Xiansi, decided on a different scheme: He contacted the target, Mr. Wei, and proposed they fake the murder and take the cash, which by this point amounted to 100,000 yen. Wei agreed, then reported the case to the police. Tan and the five hitmen will serve sentences ranging from 31 months to five years.

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LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

Miguel Angel Reyes-Avila, 23, of Half Moon Bay, California, waited patiently until his neighbors took their dog for a walk on Oct. 6, then pounced, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff ’s Office.

The San Jose Mercury News reports Reyes-Avila then allegedly entered their home through an open window and lifted about $4,000 worth of jewelry, plus the keys to their 2009 Mitsubishi.

When the neighbors returned home and found their car gone, they called police, who asked neighborhood folks to share their security footage. Most helpful was the video from Reyes-Avila’s own home, provided by another resident who was happy to help law enforcement. The camera caught a suspect driving away in the car, and sheriff ’s office spokesperson Rosemerry Blankswade said officers recognized Reyes-Avila from earlier incidents and arrested him on Oct. 10 on charges of felony burglary and grand theft auto.

PRECOCIOUS PET

Archie, a French bulldog/Boston terrier mix who lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his human, Dee Borkowski, is in the doghouse after a fiery event on Oct. 16. As Borkowski watched Archie via her home security camera, he contentedly lounged on the couch, chewing on a cigarette lighter. Suddenly, United Press International reported, the lighter ignited, and her couch burst into flames.

Borkowski called the fire department, and the 10-month-old puppy escaped unhurt, although her apartment suffered thousands of dollars of damage.

Borkowski has changed Archie’s Instagram handle to “Archie the Arsonist.”

UNCONVENTIONAL SPORTS

Housekeepers from The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas took first place in the Las Vegas Housekeeping Olympics on Oct. 23, beating out second- and third-place teams from The Mirage and Circus Circus, United Press International reported. The competition, which took place at the Mandalay Bay resort, included bed-making contests, vacuum races and a toilet paper toss. Mandalay Bay President Chuck Bowling said the Olympics are a way of celebrating overlooked workers in the hospitality industry.

PEOPLE WITH ISSUES

Residents of the Oakland neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas, called police just after midnight on Oct. 27 to report that someone was driving construction equipment around the area. The Topeka

Capital Journal reported that when officers arrived, they found 46-year-old Shane Dee Funk behind the wheel of a loader, a piece of heavy equipment, driving it through yards and streets and damaging property. Police Capt. Colleen Stuart said Funk refused to stop for officers, and “numerous residences in the loader’s path were evacuated for safety purposes.” When Funk turned the loader toward police, they fired nonlethal bean bag pellets at him to disable him.

Funk was treated at a hospital, then booked into the Shawnee County Jail on charges of felony theft, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault to a law enforcement officer and fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement.

COMPELLING EXPLANATION

An unnamed resident of the Wilson Lane apartments in Elkins, West Virginia, told police she left her home for a few minutes on Oct. 18, returning a short time later to find a neighbor, Ronald L. Thorne Jr., 52, “standing in her apartment eating her lasagna from the refrigerator.”

He went on to tell her he “just wanted to talk and maybe more,” and then he returned to his own apartment, carrying the lasagna and one of her forks, according to the police report. The InterMountain reports the woman also told Randolph County Sheriff ’s officers that her home had been ransacked and $20 was missing from her purse. When officers confronted Thorne, he told them he “had been sleepwalking and had woke up standing in his neighbor’s apartment,” the complaint stated. The officers also noticed a pan of lasagna on his table, and Thorne told them “she could have it back.” Thorne was arrested and charged with burglary; as he was being processed, a $20 bill was found in his wallet.

SMOOTH REACTION

In Shelbyville, Kentucky, on Oct. 28, a female customer picking up her food at a KFC drive-thru became angry when she realized she didn’t have a fork and a napkin, witnesses told WLKY, so she pulled out a gun and shot out the drivethru window. KFC released a statement expressing gratitude that no one was shot, and Charlene Witt, the manager of the Subway restaurant across the street, is using the incident as a teaching moment in her own store: “If someone comes in irate, just give them what they want. ... !

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From frog legs to frog eggs: Former French chef hops into new business

first met Trey Bell when he was chef and proprietor of LaRue at its original Greene Street location in downtown Greensboro, where he cooked wonderful cuisses de greIan McDowell nouilles.

Trey, whom I refer Contributor to by his first name because he’s become a friend, is no longer a restaurateur. Now he works with smaller and more fortunate amphibians than the bullfrogs whose legs he used to brine, soak in buttermilk, dredge in seasoned flour and pan-fry in brown butter.

These are the gorgeous Dendrobatidae or poison dart frogs he breeds and builds habitats with the Charlotte-based startup FrogDaddy.

While the common name suggests a creature more deadly than delectable, note the proper descriptor is “poison” rather than “venom.” Unlike the Gaboon and Rhino vipers that Trey’s uncle breeds in South Carolina (where the trade in “hot” species is legal), these animals can’t kill you. At least not in captivity, where they feed on different arthropods than the ones from which they derive their toxicity in the wild.

I asked him about the appeal of owning

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poison dart frogs, and he said he gets that question a lot.

“It’s kind of like how everybody used to have at least one friend with salt-water fish. Dart frog terrariums are becoming the 21st-century salt-water tank. It’s cheaper and easier to maintain a spectacular showpiece for your home, and with the plants that are an essential part of it, you have a whole ecosystem that can be immaculately landscaped.”

Trey had been a reptile (and other exotic animals) hobbyist since childhood, and in adulthood, he began to specialize in habitats.

“I was breeding other animals, and if my enclosures looked better than those of the guy next to me, and we had the same animals, mine sold better. So, I started building habitats for arboreal vipers, such as African bush vipers and eyelash vipers, naturalistic vivariums with live plants, and beautiful animals comfortable and healthy in them.”

He’d learned to safely keep dangerous reptiles, although he’s not dealt in “hot herps” since he moved from South Carolina to North Carolina. (He will be helping a local educational facility acquire and house one of the world’s deadliest snakes, but that’s something we can’t talk about in more detail until the facility is ready to announce it.)

When he was a kid in the Columbia,

South Carolina, suburb of Irmo, Trey spent his summers helping his uncle Randy McKnight catch local snakes and breed exotic ones. These days, McKnight specializes in Gaboon, Rhino and Gabino vipers, as well as Gila monsters (the venomous lizards, despite their name, are actually far less aggressive and dangerous than the vipers). Back then, his menagerie was more varied.

“His bread and butter were Burmese pythons, boa constrictors and green tree pythons. On the ‘hot’ side, he had cobras and was one of the first to sell Gaboons. He would take me snake hunting on weekends, and we would catch copperheads and rattlesnakes, as well as harmless rat snakes and kingsnakes.”

In some ways, Trey’s outings with his uncle remind me of mine with my dad, who would take me snake hunting at Pope Air Force Base Park and Lake Rim in Fayetteville. But we never touched venomous species, and when I started acquiring more exotic reptiles from ToteEm-In Zoo outside of Wilmington, they were ones I could safely handle, even the 8-foot boa I bought with my allowance when I was 9 years old.

I asked Trey if the fact that he grew up breeding and displaying his reptiles, rather than lugging them around as pets as I did, was why he’s gravitated to creatures better admired behind glass than held, even though they can’t hurt you.

“That’s a great question, and one I’d never thought about before, but I think you may be right.”

Trey has mastered skills rarely found in the same person. For one thing, he was a jock.

“I was tall; I was fast; I could jump.

My coach looked at 6-foot, 135 [pound]me and asked if I could do a backflip.

When I did, he said, ‘okay, you’re a pole vaulter.’ I started in the eighth grade, and by 10th grade, I was a state champion and made the national team.”

Junior year, he made a world team.

“In 2000, I competed in Debrecen in Hungary, at the Youth World Championships, took 13th in the world, was No. 1 U.S. finisher, earning a scholarship to University of South Carolina.”

He began his restaurant career before that when he was 14.

“If you’re employed somewhere in walking distance, you can work 10 hours a week, although we fudged on that. I started busing tables at Zorba’s; then, they put me on salads and pizzas.”

He also began cleaning the kitchen off the clock. “They’d let me cook whatever I wanted. My boss, Jimmy, said I could have anything on the menu except for the fillet, so I bargained to be allowed to cook one.

I’d been watching a lot of Alton Brown on Good Eats, and wanted to dry age it.

It became kind of a science experiment in the fridge, this 6-inch cut of ribeye, wrapped in cheesecloth. I was still busing, not even in the kitchen yet.”

He aged it for 28 days.

“My boss Jimmy got very intrigued, and when it was done, it became this really huge deal. I got that piece out and trimmed off the pellicle, that little beef jerky layer that forms on the outside of dry-aged beef, and cut it into steaks and cooked it, and my boss said ‘you don’t bus anymore,’ and put me in the kitchen. That’s where this whole lovely life started.”

So why did Trey quit the profession he started over 20 years ago?

“After 15 years in the kitchen, then eight working at the executive chef level, stress and sheer time took their toll. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun, an industry I’ll always love, but let’s just say that getting out was what my life needed, especially to maintain a marriage.”

Trey lives in Greensboro with his wife Cheryl, 100-pound Dogo Argentino (a form of mastiff originally bred for hunting boar) Gus, and cat Giga, who loves to be slung across her dad’s shoulders while he cooks. (Like many who previously considered themselves strictly dog people, Trey just had to find the right feline.)

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testing his innovative new design, and is hatching a clutch of leaf-tailed gecko eggs.

I asked him about FrogDaddy, which besides frogs and their food and habitats, sells terrarium plants and mourning geckos.

“So, we focus on Dendrobates mainly, and the Oophaga pumilio that is the poster child of dart frogs,” Trey said. “We have at least 200 terrariums, with at least a pair of frogs in each. We build slide-front euro-tanks (meaning European style). I prefer a sliding front to one that swings open. When they slide, you don’t kill frogs.

With the ones that swing open, they can jump out when you open it, and things can happen when you close it.”

Asked to describe a representative life cycle, he chose Adelphobates galactonotus, a species endemic to the rainforest of the Brazilian Amazon basin, but which FrogDaddy is trying to end the wild capture of via breeding populations.

“Typically, they lay five to seven eggs every seven to 10 days in eight or nine months of the year. Within a couple of weeks, you have tadpoles swimming in their own cups. Once they’re taking food, you can either house them in a group or keep them separated.”

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just accept food, and if you can keep cannibalism to a minimum, the babies that hop out of those tanks are significantly larger than tadpoles raised solo. You get these stronger survivor animals that are rock solid when they come out.”

He said some species could take longer, but most mature in a year to 14 months.

Their reproductive cycle begins with maturity. Some species can remain fecund and produce young for over 20 years.

He stressed that dart frogs are not tree frogs, which only live for about six years. “Dart frogs are mostly terrestrial rather than arboreal. And hunt and mate during the day. My wife would kill me if they sang at night like tree frogs do.”

How did he get started with FrogDaddy?

“I’d been in Greensboro a while, and had been reading about FrogDaddy founder Alex Menke online. When I found out he’s in Charlotte, where he’s a professor at Queen’s College, I reached out to him. Then I noticed him running four tables by himself at a show, with a lot of animals. So, I helped. I’m part of FrogDaddy now. We just signed a lease on a 10,000-square-foot warehouse outside of Charlotte.”

Menke confirmed this in a Sunday night phone conversation.

“Trey is operating as an independent

contractor, but he is also pretty much the main core of our research and development, and a lot of our innovation, building certain structures and developing certain materials.”

Both Menke and Trey called the terrarium that Trey has been perfecting a potential game-changer, one without the pitfalls and unnecessary complexity that doomed the much-hyped Biopod, the “smart terrarium” that was supposed to revolutionize the industry in 2015. Menke called the Biopod, which his company had nothing to do with, “a very cool idea, but the software kept failing, and it took forever to set up, with you having to watch a 30-minute instruction video.”

The instructional video for Trey’s terrariums only lasts five minutes.

“It’s not overly expensive and is very easy to assemble,” Menke said. “It doesn’t require special tools or a special skillset, with no half-hour tutorial. It’s lightweight, can be shipped flat and can be customized before you ever receive it.”

Menke founded FrogDaddy in 2016, but William Newell, his business partner and a college professor, has been breeding dart frogs for 20 years, and exotic animals for 30.

“Bill came on the team about four months ago,” Menke said. “Last year, when it was just me, we barely had anything and barely did anything. This year, we’ve done a ton. And that’s because we have people like Trey involved in it.

We are so blessed to have such immense knowledge and skillsets. I have a Master’s in ecology, and Bill has his doctorate, but Trey is this extremely jack of all trades, very gifted in a variety of things. He’s done unprecedented

things for us, and he’s very valued.”

Trey explained how he came up with his idea for an innovative habitat.

“I have a membership at the Forge, where they have a laser cutter, and I have access to that and know how to use it, and I’d been having this design bouncing around in my head for a few years now. I finally sat down with a designer, and we put pen to paper, and he wrote it up for me. So, we stuck this piece of acrylic in there, and 15 minutes later, there it was laser cut. What has been rolling around in my head, which we think is gamechanging, is about to be kickstarted.

We’re still going through testing. I want to make sure I’m accounting for the hygroscopic properties of acrylic, with the high humidity, but so far, we’re over two months without a failure of our test model.”

He said it isn’t just for dart frogs, but any exotic reptile or amphibian, and that one of its most significant advantages is that it’s cheap to ship since it’s packaged flat and the customer constructs it.

“Something that would usually cost $60 to ship, I’m shipping for $7, and all the person has to do is put it together after watching a very concise YouTube video. There’s no Ikea-level of frustration.

Because it’s cut on a laser, you can dry fit it; everything locks in. I can take one from flat to dry-fit in about five minutes with painter’s tape. Then it’s another five minutes or so to apply the liquid adhesive, which creates a chemical weld. We think this is game-changing.” !

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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The Rinaldis fire up a ‘Big November Chill’ The Rinaldis will host the Big November Chill festival on Nov. 9 at the Dirt Farm in Greensboro.

Part house show, part vendor fair, part canned-food drive, the event will feature performers, vendors Katei Cranford and a massage therapist, all in the name of chilling-out, Contributor connecting artists and collecting food before the hustle of the holidays hit.

“My hope is for this to be a very chill and inclusive get together for artists and friends to network and just enjoy each other’s company and gifts,” said organizer and performer Stacey Rinaldi.

Officially a full Rinaldi endeavor, this particular event is “very much a Stacey project.” The family band is known for bigtop events, usually ring-led by Joe Rinaldi (who headed the Jabberwalk concert and comedy series at the Carolina Theatre in 2016).

“This is the first time I’ve produced a show on my own, and definitely the first time we’ve mixed with local vendors,” she explained of the event, which will be the last for the group in 2019. “We do this thing where we get really motivated, get a lot done, and then crash right before the holidays and never want to see each other again until next year.”

They’ll be taking time to write and record, reflective of their latest sonic direction. “It’s a little less loungey,” Rinaldi noted, “a little more raw, with me yelling.”

And Stacey Rinaldi isn’t scared to yell.

“I’ve become more outspoken, androgynous and witchy every year—and I won’t stop until I’m as loud and blunt and as queer as possible,” she insisted. “These are my life goals,” she said with a warning for attendees to be respectful (lest they face the wrath of her megaphone).

Rinaldi sees the Big Chill as a chance to make good on that pursuit. “This event isn’t exclusive or themed; I’m just eager to immerse myself into more art created by femme and LGBTQ artists. I want to listen and learn more,” she noted of her inspiration and vendor preference.

“Women, people of color and those of the queer community have been shushed and hidden and kept in the corners and on the sidelines for a long, long time.” She’s not charging vendor fees; the money spent by attendees goes directly to the artists.

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ists are the realest, funniest, strongest, smartest, craftiest, most authentic people I know,” so their selection as vendors and performers came naturally.

“I’m just at a point where if there’s no women, or gay people, or people of color, or non-gender conforming humans in a project—or on a show lineup—I just want to shake those responsible, and shout: ‘What are you even doing?!’”

As for performers, Rinaldi hopes to create points of connection and community by booking bands she’s yet to play with, including Greensboro songwriter Ashley Virginia, Charlotte rockers Pullover, and “hometown hero” Matty Sheets and the Nervy Bees, who Rinaldi considers an “angel and friend to all, who’s never not making music and I love him for it.”

That love extends to Triad artists in general. “They work so hard behind the scenes just to get to the stage,” Rinaldi noted, “spending hours at day jobs and then melting their brains to find the time and energy to also pursue and promote their passion, and bare their souls.” Her hope for the Big Chill is to present an opportunity for folks to “just be cool and present and listen and check out the gifts these makers have to offer.”

“These are the original artists of your lifetime,” Rinaldi insisted, “don’t miss them and don’t underestimate them.”

Vendors include Rinaldi’s own Party Muffin line of upcycled gifts. Vintage outlets include Holy Water Vintage, Rainbowland Vintage, Reaper Vintage, and Trenzie Palz. There will be handmade goods from artists James Bee, Katelyn Kelly, Gypsy Lounge, Tambra Parsons, and Angelina Rodriguez.

Visual artist Jay Squid will also be live painting during the event.

Admission involves a donation of canned goods for the Urban Ministry, and a suggested $5 for bands. “Dress appropriately for the weather,” Rinaldi cautioned of the outdoors event. “This is very much a backyard, garage sale aesthetic,” she added. “Bring a chair if you think you may need one.”

A part house-show, part food drive, part vendor fair sounds like a solid way to roll

into November and the impending holiday season: a time for thanks and gathering and goodwill, before losing your mind with eggnog. In the name of just that, the Rinaldis present the Big November Chill on Nov. 9 at the Dirt Farm (near Elam and Spring Garden) in Greensboro. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1 FM.

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Congressional hearings aren’t really hearings The Dalai Lama might have said it with more eloquence, but it was Rocky Balboa in the movie, Creed, who said it best, “You can’t learn anything when you’re talking.” That bit of wisdom should Jim Longworth be inscribed on a large plaque at the entrance to every Longworth hearing room in the at Large nation’s Capitol.

According to the website www.govinfo. gov, a Congressional hearing is a meeting of a select committee to obtain information.

Yet, when it comes to public hearings where cameras are rolling, collecting information takes a back seat to political grandstanding. Instead of asking concise questions designed to elicit information, most Congressmen and Senators use their allotted time to make speeches and badger witnesses. Last week, Ken Cuccinelli, President Trump’s acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, was summoned to Congress for a hearing about the administration’s policy of denying illegal immigrants with serious medical conditions the right to remain in the United States for treatment. Cuccinelli, the former Republican Attorney General of Virginia, is known for his homophobic views and blind loyalty to the GOP, but no one should be subjected to the kinds of attacks he endured at the hands of Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Shultz, you recall, is the woman who came under fire for using her position at the DNC to give Hillary an unfair advantage over Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primaries. Here’s an excerpt from her exchange with Cuccinelli.

DWS: You and Mr. Trump don’t want anyone who looks or talks differently from Caucasians to be allowed into this country.

KC: That’s false.

DWS: Please don’t interrupt…You will pursue this heinous, white supremacist ideology at all costs.

KC: That’s defamatory.

DWS: There’s nothing defamatory about it.

Again, I’m no fan of the narrow-minded Cuccinelli, but Shultz’s calling him a xenophobe and a white supremacist was inappropriate. Unfortunately, this kind of grandstanding by Shultz is all too common, and both political parties are guilty.

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refers to these made-for-T.V. hearings as “Kabuki Theatre, a stage-managed chance for members of Congress to play to their constituent audience and sound articulate, tough, or compassionate depending on the political climate. This is the primary reason why most hearings feature long and complicated questions that are more like miniature campaign speeches and a regurgitation of the party’s talking points.”

We’ve seen this “Kabuki Theatre” play out time and again over the past 10 years, including with Republican hypocrites like Mike Pompeo grilling Hillary at the Benghazi hearings, and Lindsay Graham screaming at other members while attempting to discredit Christine Blasey Ford at the Kavanaugh hearings. And then there’s wildman Jim Jordan, who went off on Michael Cohen during the Mueller hearings. Sadly, our elected officials are allowed to lie about, defame and accuse witnesses without fear of retribution or legal consequence. Not so for us regular folks. If we lie at a Congressional hearing, it’s a federal crime, which could land us in jail alongside Felicity Huffman and Aunt Becky. Not only that, but neither a witness nor a committee member can even call out another member for lying. It’s a pretty good double standard for Congressmen, kind of like when the government shuts down, and elected officials still get paid while common civil servants are SOL. But perhaps the worst part of these televised hearings is that when Congressmen spew unfounded and false information (what Kellyanne Conway calls “alternative facts”), millions of people accept their lies as the truth, and that can lead to an uninformed and misinformed electorate.

Or, as playwright George Bernard Shaw put it, “Beware of false knowledge: It is more dangerous than ignorance.”

Republican Congressmen have been complaining of late that the House impeachment hearings are unfair because they have been held in private, which is yet another alternative fact because Republicans have been included in every hearing.

Ironically, that hollow complaint and the grandstanding that goes on during televised hearings, do nothing but strengthen the case for closed-door hearings, where members of Congress actually ask questions instead of making political speeches.

It bears repeating, “You can’t learn anything when you’re talking.” !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

Bright Star

A New Musical by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell

Nov. 14-16 at 7:30pm Nov. 17 at 2:00pm Hayworth Fine Arts Center, Pauline Theatre at High Point University For ticketS call 336-841-4673 or online at www.highpoint.edu/theatre

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Close harmonies: Cimorelli Sisters bring their uplifting pop to Greensboro

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he Cimorelli sisters are content-generating machines. They’re a band, simply called Cimorelli. The six siblings who grew up in Northern CaliforJohn Adamian nia also blog on their @adamianjohn website. They have a book, Believe In You, which just came out Contributor in October. It’s the same title as their most recent single. They do a podcast, too. And they have merch, of course.

Cimorelli brings their show to the region when they play Flat Iron in Greensboro on Nov 10. I spoke to Katherine Cimorelli, the second oldest member of the group, last week about their career, their philosophy about making music and entertainment that empowers young women and the ways they navigate the complex mix of family ties and mass media.

“We are YouTubers first,” said Katherine when I ask her by phone about how they divide their time between writing songs, practicing music, thinking up video concepts, managing their social media and the other obligations of their work. Katherine is also engaged to be married, so the idea of having a life outside of their careers and outside of their tight-knit family is something that all of the sisters are juggling.

The Cimorellis grew up in a musical family. Their mom had an advanced degree in music, led a choir at church and taught all the kids. The children were home-schooled, which gave them time to explore their talents, and time to grow entirely comfortable working with each other.

“Our mom is a musician,” Katherine said. “She taught us all to sing and play the piano when we were really little kids.

She taught us all to sing in harmony.

That was kind of her thing.”

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other instruments.

They had drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals covered. The girls and one of their brothers eventually formed a group to play classic rock and pop. They took acting and dance classes to round out their skills.

In what has become more and more of a standard career trajectory, they uploaded videos of themselves doing covers of pop tunes to YouTube and eventually caught enough people’s attention that record labels took an interest.

“We got discovered by a major record label,” Katherine said. “We thought, ‘This is our shot.’ We signed with Universal and moved down to LA in 2010. We were there for five years, working in the pop world. And we absolutely hated it.”

But when a member of Cimorelli said they hate something, they tend to follow it up with a little positive mental jujitsu.

They’re not the kind of people who go around with oppressive negative vibes.

“We’re grateful to the people we worked with,” Katherine said. “We definitely learned a lot.”

(The band eventually left the label and moved from Los Angeles to Nashville.)

One of the things they learned seems to have been not to compromise your standards or your values. And, independent of their record-label dealings, perhaps, they’ve learned not to let needy and manipulative people drain you or steer you in the wrong direction. All these lessons come in handy since Cimorelli, in addition to the music-making, also dish out a lot of practical advice and straighttalk uplift to their fans.

“We are role models first, positive role models for girls,” Katherine said. And they view that as an honored responsibility. “My sisters and I, we get thousands and thousands of messages on social media from all over the world, and they’re particularly from young girls.”

That flood of communication on social media is part of what led the Cimorelli sisters to write a book. They figured that since they were spending hours and

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hours answering questions, they might make it more efficient by simply distilling all of their hottest topics into book form.

That same sense of responsibility shapes the way that Cimorelli approaches songwriting: they want the messages in their lyrics to be the right ones.

“Everything that we put out in terms of music content is extremely carefully thought out,” Katherine said.

In their songs, you can hear Cimorelli address themes that reinforce one’s sense of self-worth, help cultivate a positive body image, and generally encourage people to maintain hope. You might think that such a formula could add up to relentless good cheer. But Cimorelli fold in a helping of contrasting darkness, to keep things realistic and also to drive home one of their core messages, which is that extremes of feeling — low lows and deep depressions — sometimes make it possible for people to have intense highs and brilliant flashes of euphoric optimism, a rush of positive vibes.

“We’ve gone through a lot in our lives, and they’ve gone through a lot in their lives,” said Katherine of the group’s fans.

“We wanted to give them something that isn’t going to ignore that there is darkness, but isn’t going to glorify it.”

Some of the songs, like “Minefield” and “To Be A Human,” off the group’s most recent EP, I Love You, or Whatever. have a spoken-word poetry-slam quality, which gives them some immediacy and urgency.

Many of the songs point back to an

idea that they hit on in the title track from their 2017 album Sad Girls Club. The song’s refrain includes the line “The sad girls are the ones who feel alive.” It’s a perspective that allows people to live with their sadness or lulls, and instead of panicking about getting rid of a particular emotion, it encourages young people to view those extremes as part of what might be the healthy flux of a rich, full-spectrum, interior life. Cimorelli does a nice job of balancing the wholesome positivity with a more bold attitude. A big part of their first podcast is devoted to stressing the idea that young women don’t owe anyone — particularly the other young people who might be attracted to them — anything. One of the sisters jokingly compares those receiving their unvarnished advice to being “hit over the head with the sizzling frying pan of truth.” Cimorelli will almost certainly be doling out some stinging life lessons along with their mix of bubble-gummy pop and Broadway-tinged emotional balladry when they perform in the area this week. !

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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Just trust Elvis Costello Elvis Costello and the Imposters made good on their request for faith as the “Just Trust” tour rolled through the Greensboro Coliseum’s Piedmont Hall on Nov. 2.

“Good evening, Katei Cranford everybody,” Costello greeted the crowd, before clarifying, Contributor “good evening, friends.”

An artist who’s been known to tease and flirt and—especially—tell lovely stories, Costello kicked things off in proper racenteur fashion; beginning with “Strict Time,” “Club Land,” and “Green Shirt,” interwoven with tales of England in the 1970s of Leeds Polytechnique, “everything ending at 9:45 p.m.,” and the bore of eating night porter sandwiches.

Costello likened the brand-new Piedmont Hall to a palace (a room big enough for Gov. Roy Cooper to have been in attendance, largely unnoticed), stoking the flames of memory from his first U.S. tour with the Attractions in 1978. He recalled the comparative decadence they found in Howard Johnsons and roadside motels, and the love of an Arizona cab driver cut-short over a spat whether to play Freddy Fender or Pink Floyd on the radio.

“It was the end of the romance,” Costello lamented before kicking into “Accidents Will Happen,” a product of the ill-fated courtship. He acknowledged changing times throughout his career with jokes about tracking devices and incendiary inspiration as the band slid into “No Hiding Place,” followed by “Watch Your Step” and “Lover’s Walk.”

A switch to “Radio” turned the topic from spurred love to popular rebellion, before the crowd became a chorus during “Less Than Zero”—the collective cries of “hey” echoed around the huge space, a reaction not lost on the man on stage.

“I don’t take requests,” Costello teased.

“This is all really a mind-reading act.

I just know what you wanna hear,” he added.

Earlier motel memories foreshadowed the performance of “Motel Matches,” which rolled into a medley from “Uncomplicated” into “Shotgun.”

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ist/vocalist Davey Faragher, and singers Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee. “I’d like to leave with a slow and spiritual number,” Costello told the audience after a round of thanks.

Spiritual indeed, Costello was brilliantly dressed in a tailored violet suit, topped with a hat—white and wide—like a renegade revival preacher. Gospel and hot-jazz found their place amongst his repertoire, particularly during two tracks from an upcoming stage-musical: “A Face In the Crowd” (which shares source material with the 1957 film of the same name, starring Andy Griffith).

“It’s a lot like the Sound of Music, but with less Nazis,” Costello explained.

Not to be pigeon-holed in one style, or side of the stage, the big band “pill-popping hillbilly” portion of the show was preceded by a tripped-out rendition of “Watching the Detectives,” with Costello’s solos steeped in deep hues before the stage went momentarily dark.

Lights returned with Costello at the piano. “Is it too late to announce my candidacy?” he said, toying the audience, fingers on the keys for “Blood and Hot Sauce,” a Dixieland diddy.

The crowd continued cheering the “hip hip hooray” chorus line as Costello returned to the guitar, center-stage, regaling his backstory about pairing with

Carole King for “Burnt Sugar is So Bitter.”

“High Fidelity” and “King Horse” amped the crowd to “Pump It Up,” which unleashed rapid-fire into high tempo hits “Heart of the City” and “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.”

And then quiet. Soft notes of “Alison” dropped the tone to whispered catcalls from the audience. Extended, breathy, longer and winding, it was a slow jam rendition for the couples-skate crowd. If it were the 1990s, a sea of lighters would have sparked. Instead, swells of lovers hugged and swayed as “Alison” evolved into “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me“ to end the night.

It turns out, the “Just Trust” tour name isn’t the play-on-words fans have been speculating. Clever as ever, Costello

started the show with two tracks from the 1981 album Trust (released the same year Costello first played North Carolina) ending with a total of four for the Greensboro show. Fans have counted nine songs off Trust on tour thus far.

Costello notoriously switches up setlists, so the future remains unwritten as to if he’ll hit every tack by tour’s end.

The theme instead nods to the mastery of catalog curation, providing a setlist for audience delight. Put simply, the tour looks to answer “many pressing questions, such as, ‘Will they play my favorite song?’ or ‘Are they going to frighten the horses with a lot of excellent songs that are rarely performed?’”

No horses were spooked during the show, but otherwise, Costello delivered— with a joke about psychic powers to boot. Though he’s less likely a mindreader, and more an artist who understands their work—-and the whims of his audience.

A certain kind of magic still lingers in Costello’s 40-year career. And though faith can be hard to foster, this tour proves when it comes to performing, we can still trust Elvis Costello and the Imposters. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report on WUAG 103.1 FM. NOVEMBER 6-12, 2019

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Nov 8: Cory Luetjen & the Traveling Blues Band Nov 9: RD & Co. Nov 15: Emma Lee Nov 16: The Funky Confusion Band Nov 17: The Randolph Jazz Band Nov 22: Casey Noel Nov 23: Matt Walsh Nov 27: Matt Walsh Nov 29: Chris Hedrick Dec 6: Condor Hill Dec 7: Tyler Millard

CLEMMONS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Nov 8: Whiskey Mic Nov 15: DJ Bald-E Nov 16: Jaxon Jill

DANBURY

GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com

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REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Nov 8: Sierra Hull Nov 9: LoneHollow Nov 15: Town Mountain Nov 16: Will Jones Nov 22: Legacy Motown Revue Nov 23: EmiSunshine Nov 29: Reeves House Band plays the Rolling Stones Nov 30: The Kruger Brothers

GREENSBORO

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Nov 8: 1-2-3 Friday

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Nov 8: DJ Dan the Player Nov 9: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Sep 20: Sing Hallelujah!

Dec 7: A Carolina Christmas

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Nov 8: Gerry Stanek Nov 15: Craig Baldwin Nov 22: Dana Bearror Nov 23: Almost Vintage Nov 29: Kathy And Jeff Brooks Dec 6: Dave Moran

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Nov 6: The Devil Wears Prada w/ Norma Jean, Gideon Nov 7: The Eric Gales Band

Nov 8: Radio Romance Nov 9: Ed E. Ruger Nov 12: Rings Of Saturn w/ Enterprise Earth, Angelmaker, Brand of Sacrifice Nov 14: DSA Presents Rap 4 Lyfe Showcase Nov 16: Moonshine Bandits w/ Sarah Ross Nov 19: Bayside w/ Sincere Engineer Nov 20: John 5 and The Creatures w/ Jared James Nichols and Reverend Jack

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Nov 8: Both Sides: A Tribute To Joni Mitchell Nov 15: Lula Wiles Nov 29: Seth Walker Nov 30: A Motown Christmas

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Nov 7: Live Thursdays

Sunday November 10 at 2pm www.hanesbrandstheatre.org

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com nov 7: Giggles & dranks nov 8: Ronnie Bullard nov 9: Ronnie Bullard nov 14: Tim “Big 44” Loulies nov 15: Shaun Jones nov 16: Shaun Jones nov 19: Leanne morgan nov 21: TuRae nov 22: daddazz & melissa mc nov 23: Patrick Garrity nov 29: J. Bliss nov 30: J. Bliss dec 6: dean napolitano dec 7: dean napolitano

common GRoundS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388 nov 2: Andrew Kasab nov 8: Arthur Buezo dec 11: Andrew Kasab

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117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com nov 16: Jon Langston nov 19: Static-X nov 22: Hardy nov 29: Lil Tjay dec 19: Eli Young Band

GREEnE STREET cLuB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

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1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com

LEVEnELEVEn BREwInG 1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 nov 8: cool Beans nov 9: Tony Low nov 16: Rod Brady and Eck mccandliss nov 21: marcus Horth nov 27: doug Baker nov 30: Laura Jane Vincent dec 11: Tony Low and Alice osborn dec 14: Pete Pawsey

LITTLE BRoTHER BREwInG

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 nov 8: courtney Puckett feat. carrie webster nov 29: Higher Education dec 14: Billingsley

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502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com nov 22: ultimate comic challenge Semifinals nov 23: Judah Friedlander dec 7: Family Friendly Improv

THE w BISTRo & BAR 324 Elm St | 336.763.4091 @thewdowntown nov 8: Karaoke nov 9: Live dJ nov 10: Live dJ

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GooFY FooT TAPRoom 2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567 nov 9: Tyler millard nov 16: casey noel nov 23: John Emil nov 30: Steward coley dec 7: Jim mayberry dec 14: Stewart coley dec 21: william nesmith

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118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com nov 7: Robert Smith nov 8: Soul central nov 9: The Plaids nov 10: Tcu Reunion nov 14: Kelsy Hurley nov 15: Big Time nov 16: Stereo doll nov 21: cory Luetjen

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191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com nov 8: Music bingo/karaoke nov 9: Exit 180 nov 15: Music bingo/karaoke nov 16: lasater union

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408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern nov 7: Erin & the wildfire nov 14: Airshow nov 21: Guttatrees nov 23: Electric Jelly Funk nov 27: Smashat nov 29: Souljam

Fiddlin’ FiSh brEwinG coMPAnY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com nov 9: brother oliver nov 11: old time Jam nov 16: the Gb’s nov 18: old time Jam nov 23: wristband nov 25: old time Jam

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5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 nov 7: Andrew Finn Magill and dave curley nov 8: Frankie Gavin w/ tommy Mccarthy & louise costello nov 9: nu-blu nov 17: John Mccutcheon nov 21: downtown Abby & the Echoes nov 22: Amanda Anne Platt & the honeycutters nov 23: chris Jones and the night drivers nov 24: Jim Avett nov 30: rain check, walter holton, dan dockery, big ron hunter dec 1: wayne henderson and Presley barker dec 6: the williamson brothers

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 nov 7: the big damn blues revolution tour nov 8: blue dogs, Peter holsapple combo nov 14: lee & Susan terry nov 18: Martha bassett nov 21: Sylvia rose novak band, chris rattie & the new rebels nov 23: Scythian dec 6: Southern culture on the Skids, balderdash ltd.

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707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Nov 7: Gordon Lightfoot Nov 8: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell Nov 14: The End of America Nov 15: Lula Wiles Nov 16: Gooseberry Jam Nov 29: Seth Walker Nov 30: A Motown Christmas

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OVENS AUDITORIUM

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THE UNDERGROUND

820 Hamilton St, Charlotte | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorenc.com Nov 9: Shoreline Mafia Nov 10: The Hu Nov 14: Kim Petras Nov 15: Sullivan King Nov 19: Waterparks Nov 20: The Menzingers Nov 21: Ice Nine Kills Nov 23: Freddie Gibbs Nov 24: Dave East Nov 25: La Dispute Nov 30: Xavier Omar

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HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 12: US Army Concert Band & Soldiers’ Chorus Nov 16: A Brother’s Revival Nov 23: Lee Ritenour Nov 24: John Berry

RALEIGH

CCU MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK

Jamestown Presbyterian Church 1804 Guilford College Rd, Jamestown, NC

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RED HAT AMPHITHEATER

Lunch and snacks available, 11am-1pm

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PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Nov 8: The Black Keys Nov 19: The 1975 Nov 20: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Nov 22: Ariana Grande Nov 24: Tool w/ Killing Joke

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THE RID CARPET

I’m a 30-something gay guy. When I moved to a new city five years ago, I knew nobody except two female co-workers, who became my first friends. I have since Amy Alkon met wonderful, talented, artistic Advice people who are more my style. I no Goddess longer work with these ladies, and I’m just not interested in hanging out with them anymore. When they call to get together, I keep saying I’m busy, but they’re not getting the picture. How do I break up with them without being mean?

— Trapped When you break up with a romantic partner, there are comforting cliches you can trot out, like “It’s not you; it’s me,” “You deserve better,” and “We can still be friends.” When you break up with a friend, where do you go with that? “We can still be people who hide behind mall kiosks so they don’t have to speak to each other”?

It helps to understand the underpinnings of friendship. We like to think of ourselves as rational and discerning people with very good taste, and naturally, we believe this shapes our choice of friends. In fact, personality psychologist Mitja Back and his colleagues find that a major driver of whom we’re friends with

is “mere proximity” — living on the same block, working together, or, in Back’s study, being randomly assigned seats next to each other in a college class.

Location, location, location! Really special, huh?

Still, maybe you feel a little guilty about exiling these ladies from your life, because you used them to have some somebodies around when you knew nobody. However, they hung out with you willingly. It’s not like you were some odious character they were forced to go to brunch with at gunpoint.

The kindest approach, of course, is to keep distancing yourself and hope they get the message or just give up on trying to get together. You do say that the “take the hint!” approach hasn’t been working.

But are their calls and texts so screechingly bothersome that it’s worth it to go all rip-the-Band-Aid-off? If you decide it is, you could say, “You guys have been so kind to me, and I’ve enjoyed our times together, but I’ve gone through some personal changes, and I don’t think we’re such a great match anymore.”

Be prepared: They may press you to tell them more. For maximum kindness, stick to this sort of vague statement. Don’t go all truthful on them: They were human placeholders, the sidewalk furniture of friends, like curbside chairs you dragged home so you wouldn’t have to ask your dates, “Hey, wanna stand in my living room and watch Netflix?”

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Each time, I tell myself I can make things different. How do I stop doing this? — Broken Picker Your problem isn’t being attracted to guys who turn out to be messed up.

It’s going forward with them after you discover that. It’s like seeing the sign “Shark-Infested Waters” and then saying to yourself, “They probably just say that so the lifeguards don’t have so much work. And I mean, do I really need my arms? Both arms?”

Research by psychologist Roy Baumeister on self-regulation — professorese for self-control — finds that it has four components: standards, motivation to meet those standards, self-monitoring to make sure you’re doing that, and the will to control urges to do what you know you shouldn’t be doing.

You probably believe you have standards, but chances are you haven’t thought them out to the point that you can tick off what they are. Not having a solid grasp on them means you can’t

monitor whether you’re following them and take action if you aren’t. Now’s the time to change that. Write down a list of your standards: your must-haves for a guy you’re with, the qualities you can’t do without.

When you’re interested in a guy, don’t just hope he hits the marks; ask questions that draw out the sort of man he is and also look at his behavior. If he falls short of your standards, make yourself move on. Yes, make yourself. This will be hardest the first time and if you really like a particular guy. Eventually, it’ll become easier to weed out the guys with issues, though you may need to work on your own before you’re comfortable with guys who’d make you happy. Should you find yourself jonesing for a project, opt for something safe, like gluing elbow macaroni all over your car, as opposed to being like the storm chaser dude who’s all surprised when he gets blown into the next state and impaled by rebar. !

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