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OCTOBER 11-17, 2017 VOLUME 13, NUMBER 41
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LIVING ART
Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III publisher@yesweekly.com
Art takes many forms in Greensboro and can make anyone feel a certain type of way. One medium that is unique to the area, reaches out and touches you... literally. Unbeknownst to many, the Triad is home to LIVING ARTS AMERICA, which is the biggest bodypainting competition in North America.
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EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors KRISTI MAIER JOHN ADAMIAN MARK BURGER RICH LEWIS BILLY INGRAM JESSICA CLIFFORD IAN MCDOWELL DAVID WILLARD PRODUCTION Graphic Designers ALEX ELDRIDGE designer@yesweekly.com AUSTIN KINDLEY artdirector@yesweekly.com
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Over the last six years, Greensboro’s food scene has blossomed into wonderful,” said TASTE CAROLINA Gourmet Food Tours guide Jessica Harris as she led us down Elm Street. Between restaurant stops, she spoke informatively and entertainingly of landmarks ranging from the Jefferson Standard building to the site of a 1920s brothel. 10 Some local comic book fans are frustrated because they can’t yet read Catwoman’s answer to BATMAN’s recent marriage proposal. The Dark Knight first met his feline frenemy in June 1940. The third of the four stories in the 54-page (and 10 cents) Batman #1, he and Robin captured the beautiful jewel thief the Cat, as she was first known. 11 ANNE BANCROFT (1931-2005) was unquestionably one of the most acclaimed actors of her time, winning an Academy Award, two Emmys, two Golden Globes and countless other accolades. It would almost be surprising that there hasn’t been a comprehensive biography written about her, except for the fact that she was famously private. OCTOBER 11-17, 2017
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Rock ‘n’ roll can save your soul. If it’s not a religion, it’s at least a viable organizing principle or a mode of being. Dan McGee, the singer and songwriter and frontman behind Chapel Hill’s SPIDER BAGS, embraces a kind of rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. 19 What if you took all those 1970s disaster movies and rolled them into one big PARODY? What if you turned that parody into a musical featuring some of the best-known songs of the ‘70s? 20 Let’s slice through the studio hype and fanboy hyperventilation and immediately answer the pressing question on everyone’s mind. Is BLADE RUNNER 2049, the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner, a masterpiece like its predecessor? 24 Haunted buildings are generally old, sometimes historic and always the scene of a tragic event. Coincidentally, The Salem Tavern in Winston-Salem—a structure that is over 200 years old— has these same things in common. Over the two centuries, the tavern has had its share of stories and accounts of unexplained...
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