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Chef Tim Grandinetti can now add cookbook author to his list of culinary achievements. The award-winning chef just launched SOULFUL HARVEST, which is a collection of signature recipes, techniques and culinary reflections...

10 Forty-nine years ago, director George Romero and co-writer Richard Russo created the modern flesh-eating zombie, even though the ghouls of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD weren’t called that Creolederived word.

11 The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ongoing series of “RiverRun Retro” events will continue Nov. 3 with a special screening of the 1942 classic NOW, VOYAGER at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem.

11 On Nov. 2, TEDWOMEN 2017 will be live streamed from New Orleans for women in the Triad to watch and discuss together.

12 Chapel Hill-based musician John Harrison performs and records under the name JPHONO1. In a 21st century kind of digital-native spin on the whole bandname game, jphono1 is, as you might

guess, a part of Harrison’s first email address. It has an anonymous username feel to it.

19 Veterans Day is coming up soon! To remember the history of our nation and the soldiers who have served for the freedom of our country, the High Point Arts Council will be presenting Star-Spangled Girls at the Centennial Station Arts Center.

20 The advance promotional material for THE SNOWMAN, the new film based on the international bestselling novel by Jo Nesbø...

24 Time traveling is still not scientifically possible, but ELSEWHERE MUSEUM will come close to it on Oct 28.

The three-floor thrift shop turned museum, will hold their ninth annual fundraiser extravaganza, this time with the theme “The Big Bang.”

25 Back in the day, I joined the BOY SCOUTS because I was a boy. My sister joined the Girl Scouts because she was a girl. There was nothing ambiguous or confusing about our choices, nor should there have been. It was just part of the natural order of things.

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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY

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WHAT: Stephen Gordon is a renowned jazz pianist and drummer and has made friends with Stephen Riley, a tenor saxophone jazz heavyweight. The two have a mutual friend, John Ray, who is a progressive/futurist jazz bassist living in Winston-Salem, and has invited the two to meet at the Garage for an impromptu performance. The music will be progressive jazz with heavy improvisation, and will be a treat for any jazz enthusiast lucky enough to make this concert.

WHEN: 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Garage.

110 West 7th Street, Winston-Salem.

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WHAT: The Barbecue Festival is held in Uptown Lexington, North Carolina. A 10-block stretch of Main Street is closed to traffic. Over 300 exhibitors sell everything from handmade crafts to homemade fudge.

The Annual Barbecue Festival has been recognized nationally and statewide for its excellence. The event has been named a Top 10 Food Festival in America, a Top 20 Southeast Event, and has won many other awards.

WHEN: 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Uptown Lexington.

Lexington, NC. MORE: Free entry.

WHAT: The way Corey Smith sees it, he owes a debt to his fans. And it’s one he is determined to repay with his 10th album, While the Gettin’ Is Good. As the new album title suggests, he’s ready to make a determined grab at country’s brass ring while the gettin’ is good. With Keith Stegall and Sugar Hill Records behind him, the gettin’ has never been better. As the perseverant Corey is fond of saying, ‘There is more than one way to skin a cat in country music.’

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Cone Denim Entertainment Center. 117 South Elm Street, Greensboro.

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WHAT: The Beer & Fear Bash is the biggest and wildest Halloween-themed party in the Carolinas! Explore all of the 12 uniquely themed bar and party areas while enjoying multiple live bands, a dozen D.J.’s, aerial acrobatic performances, live dancers and so much more!

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: The Castle Presents.

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MORE: $34-$80 tickets. Costumes REQUIRED. No costume = NO ENTRY. 21+ event.

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WHAT: Intriguing, haunting, seductive. all describe Gary Taylor’s original tale of DRACULA, a season favorite. Based on the classic tale, but with a contemporary twist.

DRACULA is told from the viewpoint of the vampire himself, focusing on his undying and timeless love for Mina. Featuring suspense and surprises, audience members will be on the edge of their seats from the moment the curtain rises. DRACULA is definitely a story that moves.

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Hanesbrands Theatre.

209 N. Spruce Street, Winston-Salem.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT

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In North Carolina, about 36,800 people are living with HIV or AIDS, of those, an estimated 3,400 are unaware they are living with the disease, reported North Carolina Public Health and Human Services. Since 1986, Triad Health Project, a nonprofit location at 801 Summit Ave. in Greensboro, has been trying to close this gap through education, prevention and care.

“People don’t get into care because of stigma around [HIV/AIDS],” said Paula Barger, the development director for Triad Health Project. “We want people to be, not fearful, but vigilant – get tested and know their status.”

Today, the nonprofit uses two levels of free case management assistance, serving a total of 550 people each year. The first level is regular case management services, while the second level provides medical case management, helping by educating about HIV medication, finding housing and stopping addiction.

They also serve patients with free, confidential testing, where they will receive results in just two weeks.

On Nov. 18, the Triad Health Project’s annual fundraiser kicks off. Though in the past it was known as the Winter Walk

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for AIDS, this year the name is changed to Ron Johnson Red Ribbon Run & AIDS Walk. The run will begin at Joymongers, with registration lasting from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. After the walk and the 5K, join everyone at LoFi Park for food and beverages.

“Even though it’s a really sensitive topic, it is made to be a family event,” Barger said.

Leading up to this event will be a revealing of four panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and movie showing. The Memorial Quilt is 54 ½ tons with 49,000 panels, honoring people that have died from HIV and AIDS. They will be on display at the Greensboro History Museum from Nov. 16 to 19.

Also, leading up to the main event will be two screenings of “The Last One: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt” on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 18 at 11 a.m. The documentary, made in 2015, retells the story of the creation of the quilt.

Both events leading up to the Ron Johnson Red Ribbon Run & AIDS Walk are free and open to the public. For more information about the Triad Health Project, visit their website at triadhealthproject.com. !

NC Clean Path 2025 is a groundbreaking strategy to slow climate change, create jobs and reduce power bills by quickly replacing fossil fuels with local solar power and battery storage.

Join us to discuss putting this plan into action across North Carolina: Friday, November 3rd at 7:00 p.m.

An evening with Bill Powers, P.E., author of NC Clean Path 2025 Music by Alex Weiss & Different Drum The Friday Center 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill Free and open to the public

Learn more and take action at nccleanpath2025.org Building People Power for Climate & Energy Justice PHOTO BY PAULA BARGER

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hef Tim Grandinetti can now add cookbook author to his list of culinary achievements. The award-winning chef just launched Soulful Harvest, Kristi Maier which is a collec@triadfoodies tion of signature recipes, techniques and culinary reflecContributor tions of the fourthgeneration culinarian and the “house” in which he resides, the Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar in Winston-Salem.

It’s a good thing the chef has boundless energy. In addition to the Spring House, Grandinetti is also a partner at Quanto Basta Italian Eatery & Wine Bar (in Winston-Salem and Bermuda Run), Maple Chase Country Club and he just jumped on board by taking over the restaurant space at Sander’s Ridge Winery with Jasper’s Southern Farmstead Restaurant.

To hear Grandinetti tell it, penning a cookbook is a logical step in his culinary journey, “Soulful Harvest is part-cookbook, part-culinary memoir.” He began gathering recipes nearly 10 years ago.

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“After cooking for our guests at Spring House for over five years, and immersing our culinary culture into that historic place, the time felt right to finally put my many inspirations into a cookbook to share with others,” he said.

It’s a celebration of the Spring House’s history as much as Grandinetti’s curated recipes. The century-old mansion that houses the restaurant is formerly known as the Bahnson House, one of the last remaining homes on what was commonly called “Millionaire’s Row” in downtown Winston-Salem. Grandinetti and business partners, Lynn Murphy and Lynnette Matthews-Murphy, helped transform the residence into the comfortable, upscale, award-winning restaurant that it is today.

(Fun fact: The Library Bar at Spring House once served as the offices for the Forsyth County Library, which also now stands tall and anew in its right, just across the street.)

It took months of photography, writing, editing and production meetings, but finally, his team at Spring House dressed up and gathered together to celebrate at a truly Southern cocktail party for the photos that would be the first chapter of the book.

“The idea was to bring the reader into the Spring House and know who we were and what we are,” he said. “We had a party with everything you see in the first chapter.”

Guests at the book launch last week enjoyed much of the same kind of Southern cocktail party seen in the first chapter. Greeted upon arrival with freshly mulled apple cider, we each received a copy of the book, which Grandinetti signed later.

Then we enjoyed southern fares such as pickled shrimp; deviled eggs with spicy honey bacon bits; cornbread biscuits filled with andouille sausage and peppers; okra fritters; roasted shishito peppers; barbecue hand pies and Winston-Salem Comeback Sauce. It was a vibrant, cozy, noshfest which highlighted the tastes of autumn and Southern cooking. The hand pies and the Comeback Sauce would be the worth the book purchase alone.

Following the “Southern Cocktail Party,” the chapters in Soulful Harvest reflect Spring House’s own seasonal philosophy, ”Winter,” “Spring,” “Summer” and “Fall.”

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“My hope is that my story and the dishes we include in Soulful Harvest will ignite and encourage home cooks as well as up-and-coming chefs searching to expand their culinary knowledge,” Grandinetti said.

You can see Grandinetti in action, not only at the Spring House but also in recently launched series of Soulful Harvest cooking classes and dinners based on the cookbook (more details on the restaurant’s website and social media).

“This cookbook reflects who we are at Spring House,” he said. “We love having people here, to gather and break bread together.”

Here’s a quick recipe from the book to tempt your taste buds. Comeback Sauce is delicious with the Soulful Harvest Hushpuppies mentioned in the “Southern Cocktail Party” chapter or with fries, tater tots, burgers and with chicken.

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Winston-Salem Comeback Sauce 2 large garlic cloves 1 large onion, roughly chopped 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup chili sauce 1/2 cup ketchup 2 teaspoons Texas Pete Hot Sauce 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/8 teaspoon smoked paprika Preparation: Put all ingredients in a blender and blend them together. Taste and adjust seasonings. Reserve in the refrigerator.

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KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Modern Robot puts new life into the Living Dead

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orty-nine years ago, director George Romero and co-writer Richard Russo created the modern flesh-eating zombie, even though the ghouls of Night of the Living Dead Ian McDowell weren’t called that Creole-derived word.

Contributing But as soon as they shambled into pop columnist culture, they fell out of copyright. That lapse has allowed Greensboro musician Ben Singer to re-imagine Romero’s film like Romero re-imagined zombies, and to riff on (not rip off) another creator’s work, just as Romero did.

Romero acknowledged that the main inspiration for his film was not Haitian folklore, but Richard Matheson’s classic novel I Am Legend, in which civilization is destroyed by a plague of scientificallycreated vampires. In interviews, Romero called Night of the Living Dead his version of I Am Legend. Now Singer has re-imagined Romero’s reimagining of Matheson.

Copyright concerns made Romero portray his living dead as flesh-eaters rather than blood-drinkers, but they still came back to bite him. In 1968, United States law required a proper notice on copyrighted work. Romero’s original production company displayed such a notice under the titles of the gory and initially hard-to-sell film they called Night of the Flesh-Eaters. When the Walter Reed Organization acquired it, they changed the title to Night of the Living Dead but left out the copyright notice. This lapse put their hugely successful release in the public domain.

Now Singer and his group, Modern Robot, are performing a shortened version of the iconic zombie movie from which Singer has removed the original score. That music was never actually “original,” being stock “library tracks” from T.V. shows and films like Ben Casey and Teenagers from Outer Space. This allows the musicians to accompany it with Singer’s new score.

Singer recently wrote in an email that he only saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time five years ago.

“Modern Robot was an improv group then, and my drummer Kyle suggested it as movie to work with.” Singer said that he “quickly chopped it to perform like a

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silent film” and that he “skimmed over the story parts and didn’t give it much consideration as a movie.”

Singer didn’t think about it again until two years ago when he was performing with F. W. Murnau’s silent Faust at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was, he said, an “overwhelming” experience, as well as a very challenging one and he was hooked.

Looking at a list of public domain movies, he saw that Night of the Living Dead would have its 50th anniversary in 2018.

Going back and watching it as a film, he had a different reaction than his original one.

“I loved that it was so straight-forward, logical, and bare in a way that felt documentary,” he said.

While he didn’t think everything about the original film was great, “some of it is, especially Duane Jones’ acting.”

This time, he took the editing more seriously, rather than just selecting scenes for their imagery. On the fringe circuit, most shows are an hour long, so it needed to be shortened, but he approached it thematically.

“I found that I could cut some of the cheesy parts and not-as-good acting and come out with something more focused and serious,” he said.

Because cutting music sometimes

meant cutting sound effects, he took the bare effects from other parts of the film and modified and inserted them into the scenes.

His new music was no longer improvised.

“I wrote a film score to perform on guitar, and like I had with Faust, hired some wonderful drummers to play the show in each different fringe,” he said.

On Oct. 28, Modern Robot Presents Night of the Living Dead will be performed at the Producer’s Club Sonnet Theater, located at 358 W. 44th St. in New York City, as part of the three-day FearNYC horror film festival. Singer admits to having

some fear himself. The festival includes new horror movies from indie filmmakers, classics, and a special tribute to Romero.

“Because this is a film event, I’ll be playing the whole movie, which I’m quite nervous about.” But, he said, he’s also hugely excited to be doing it for “such a concentrated audience of horror fans, even though some might see what I’ve done as a kind of heresy.”

With luck, they won’t eat him alive. !

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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RiverRun Retro salutes legendary leading man Paul Henreid The RiverRun International Film Festival’s ongoing series of “RiverRun Retro” events will continue Nov. 3 with a special screening of the 1942 classic Now, Voyager at the Southeastern Center Mark Burger for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem.

Contributing On Nov. 4, there will also be a special columnist screening of Hollow Triumph (1948) at RED Cinemas in Greensboro.

The star of both films is the legendary Paul Henreid (1908-1992) and the special guest for both screenings is his daughter, Monika Henreid, who will discuss her father’s life, career and answer questions from audience members.

The romantic drama Now, Voyager is (along with Casablanca), perhaps Paul Henreid’s most beloved film. Based on Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel, the story focuses on a dowdy spinster (Bette Davis) who blossoms under the care of a sympathetic therapist (Claude Rains)

and unexpectedly finds romance with a dashing – but married – man (Henreid).

Davis herself considered Now, Voyager a personal favorite, and the film earned an Academy Award for Max Steiner’s score and nominations for Best Actress (Bette Davis) and Best Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper).

Dale Pollock, former dean of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking and a current faculty member, will moderate the postscreening discussion with Monika Henreid.

After his Warner Bros. contract ended, Henreid opted to take more control over his career by becoming an independent producer (and later a director). Hollow Triumph, based on a Murray Forbes novel and also released as The Scar and The Man Who Murdered Himself, marked Henreid’s producing debut. In the film, he plays a criminal who impersonates the psychologist he has murdered, only to fall in love with the doctor’s secretary (Joan Bennett), leading to a fateful denouement.

Rob Davis, the executive director of the RiverRun festival, will moderate the postscreening discussion with Monika Henreid.

Her visit to the Piedmont Triad follows

in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which Donat won the Oscar for Best Actor. His many credits include In Our Time and Between Two Worlds (both 1944), Deception (1946), Rope of Sand (1948), Stolen Face (1952) and Deep in My Heart (1954). His final screen appearance was in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977).

The 20th annual RiverRun International Film Festival is scheduled for April 19 to 29, 2018. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2017, Mark Burger.

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her appearance at the Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in Key Largo, Florida, and precedes her trip to Morocco for the 75thanniversary celebration of Casablanca.

Born in Austria, Paul Henreid made his Hollywood debut opposite Robert Donat

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Now, Voyager will be screened 7:30 pm, Nov. 3 at SECCA (750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem).

Tickets are $15 (general admission) and $10 (students with valid ID). For advance tickets or more information, call 336.724.1502 or visit the official RiverRun website: http://riverrunfilm.com/. Hollow Triumph will be screened 5 pm, Nov. 4 at RED Cinemas (1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro).

Tickets are $12 (general admission). For advance tickets or more information, call 336.230.1620 or visit the official RED Cinemas website: http:// www.redcinemas.com/.

TEDxGreensboro to stream conference for Triad women On Nov. 2, TEDWomen 2017 will be live streamed from New Orleans for women in the Triad to watch and discuss together. According to the press release, the live stream will Katie Murawski be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Joint Editor School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, located at 2907 E. Gate City Blvd. Eight prominent Greensboro women leaders will host a lunch table discussion and view the conference with each other. Ticket prices range from $22 to $37.50 and registration for the event is still open to the public. Denny Kelly, a TEDWomen volunteer speculates that 150 to 200 Triad women will be participating. According to the press release, the theme of the TEDWomen conference is bridges-- “We build them, we cross them, and sometimes we even burn them.”

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may select a lunch table with one of the eight hosts: Sharon Contreras, superintendent of Guilford County Schools; Abby Donnelly, leadership and retirement planning consultant for Leadership Legacy Group; Mona Edwards, executive coach and consultant of LIFT Coaching and Consulting; Laura Way, president and CEO at Green Hill; Jacqueline McCracken Wall, executive director of Junior Achievement of the Triad; Cecelia Thompson, executive director of Action Greensboro; Christy Soper, entrepreneur/founder of Suncierge Travel Services; Susan Shumaker, CEO of Cone Health Foundation; Kim Record, University of North Carolina Greensboro’s athletic director, chair and a member of the NCAA Division I

Competition Oversight Committee; Ursula Dudley Oglesby, president/CEO or DudleyQ; Susan Ladd, opinion columnist at the News & Record; Robin Hager, associate executive director and director of Women to Work, and Women’s Resource Center; and Jacquie Gilliam, a philanthropy consultant, co-chair Greensboro Cultural Arts Master Plan Task Force and board member at ArtsGreensboro, Weatherspoon Arts Foundation, Eastern Music Festival and United Way. Way said she is proud to be apart of the group of “impressive” women hosting the different tables. She plans on talking about the work she does at Green Hill and as well as the importance of inclusion in Greensboro.

“Women are really powerful if they set their minds to doing something,” Way said.

“Women can change the world, and they certainly can change their community, but everyone needs access and opportunity. It takes actually thinking about what that means.”

Soper said she is excited about hosting a discussion table at the event to see some of her friends and make new ones.

“I think that every opportunity we have to get like-minded women together to meet each other and to connect and support each other is absolutely something we should embrace,” she said.

During the event, TEDxGreensboro team will announce the theme for the live TEDxGreensboro event scheduled for March 22, 2018. To sign up for this event, visit the website, www.TEDxGreensboro. com !

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

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Chapel Hill’s jphono1 to play On Pop of the World

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hapel Hillbased musician John Harrison performs and records under the name jphono1. In a 21st century kind of digitalnative spin on the John Adamian whole band-name @johnradamian game, jphono1 is, as you might guess, a part of Harrison’s Contributor first email address.

It has an anonymous username feel to it. Harrison, who is also into typography, graphic design and screen printing, said he likes the name as much for the way it looks as for anything the letters might mean or suggest. “I make visual art and stuff too,” Harrison said. “To me, the word ‘phono’ looked interesting, with all the Os and the O-shape in the P.” Jphono1 plays at Greensboro’s On Pop of the World studio on Oct. 27. Harrison will be joined by his three-piece band.

Harrison, 44, said he remembers at the time looking at an old stereo receiver when selecting his email name and seeing the numbered phono outputs, and that caught his eye. Harrison grew up in Matthews, just outside of Charlotte, before spending some time in Wilmington and eventually settling in the Chapel Hill area about 20 years ago. He’s played in bands since he was in high school; some, like the Comas, of which he was a member, had national success. When it came time for Harrison to make his own solo project, he wanted a name that didn’t feel encumbered by implications and weighty meaning.

“When I first started thinking about my own music, without a band, I didn’t even know what kind of music I was gonna do,” Harrison said. “So I wanted something that didn’t really conjure up too many premeditated situations.”

The kind of music that Harrison ended up making under the jphono1 name is fittingly enigmatic, not over-eager to ingratiate itself, willing to wander around in a pleasing atmospheric haze and to shift gears in surprising ways if need be. There are buzzing open-tuned acoustic guitars and drones, and a sort of cloudy sonic fog that drifts through the songs.

Some artists -- and some people -- work hard to be likable, to be relatable and connect to others. Others figure that if there’s

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going to be a meaningful interaction or a bond, there’s not much one can do to force it. You can’t manufacture chemistry.

Harrison has evolved toward the latter perspective.

“I started to feel more like, here’s my thing, and it’s out there, and if you stumble upon it, maybe it’s going to be a little more interesting than me beating you over the head with it,” Harrison said.

Harrison isn’t a beat-you-over-the-

head kind of guy. On the cover of his most recent jphono1 record, Time in the Chevron, he’s sporting a big lumber-jack beard and smoking a pipe. He presents the look -- part sailor, part French intellectual -- of someone way more inclined to ruminative pondering than to sharp, clinical precision. (“I do smoke a pipe,” he said. In case anyone thought it was just a style prop.)

This album is the first jphono1 release that finds Harrison in a band setting, as

opposed to playing all the instruments himself. The first song on the record, “Codes,” contains the repeated lines “We never tried to crack your codes, we just let everything go.” The next song, “Feedback Is Strange,” opens with the line “Slipping through the light on your floor, what I feel, I can’t say.” Lurking in these songs is the idea that getting to the bottom of things, or articulating a definitive perspective, is possibly a mistaken goal. Harrison seems

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to be saying ‘Why pin the butterfly to the wall as a specimen when you can stand back and watch it fly around?’

If most traditional songwriters present their lyrics as the centerpiece of their songs, with musical ideas discretely placed behind the words, in a supporting, background mode, Harrison sort of tips the balance in the other direction, with many of his songs seeming to revolve, in a way, around the slippery, sometimes, raga-ish guitar lines. “Castles,” another song on the last record, waits about two minutes into its twangy riff before the vocals come in.

“I put a similar weight to all of it,” Harrison said. “I try, I guess, to have something to express, but I don’t feel it’s expressed any different from the way I’m playing guitar.”

Harrison has a fondness for music that cycles back around on itself, blossoming in an organic fashion. The subject of sitting back and taking in life’s contours is one that recurs as well.

“I feel like I write about the same three or four things in a million different ways:

just being present and being aware of how temporary everything is,” Harrison said.

A few of the earlier jphono1 recordings don’t have vocals. One can hear traces of early, Atom Heart Mother-era Pink Floyd or, more recently, Steve Gunn or Kurt Vile on some of these songs. Liquid slide guitars, rippling echoes, high notes plinked on a piano, phantom noises, and layered vocals all contribute to the atmosphere.

Or, in other cases, programmed beats and keyboards drift into acoustic guitar settings.

To my ears, Harrison’s music -- and his whole style -- seems to be partly invested in keeping people guessing, making the case that searching is as good as finding.

“I’m a big proponent of the mystery because that’s what I like about stuff,” he said.

Harrison said he and his band have mostly completed a new record, one that should be out in early 2018. It’s likely to be his most electric-sounding effort yet.

Even so, Harrison said most of the material is hatched, in its initial stage, on the

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acoustic guitar, which he turns to as a kind of comforting daily habit -- a little like his pipe -- even if he’s not explicitly intending to concoct any songs on it at any given moment.

“I do play my guitar every day,” he said.

“It relaxes me and calms me.”

See jphono1 along with Paper Machetes,

Bryan Toney Trio and the Ringos at On Pop of the World studios in Greensboro, on Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7. !

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ASHEBORO

FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Oct 27: Chris Hedrick Oct 28: Matt Walsh Nov 4: Turpentine Shine Nov 11: Darlin’ Darlin’ and Handsome Animals Nov 18: Olivia Rudeen Nov 22: AB Hill Nov 25: High Cotton Dec 1: Wolfie Calhoun Dec 2: Matt Walsh Dec 8: RD & Co.

CLEMMONS

VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Oct 26: Sam Foster Oct 27: Whiskey Mic Nov 3: Whiskey Mic Nov 17: Whiskey Mic Nov 18: Jukebox Revolver Dec 1: Whiskey mic

DANBURY

GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Oct 27: Skip Staples Oct 28: Be The Moon Dec 16: Jim Avett

GREENSBORO

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Oct 25: GWAR Oct 27: 1-2-3 Friday Nov 26: Fit For A King & In Hearts Wake, Like Moths to Flames, Phinehas Nov 27: Hatebreed, Dying Fetus, Code Orange, Twitching Tongues Dec 3: Cannibal Corpse, Power Trip, Gatecreeper

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Oct 27: DJ Dan the Player Oct 28: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE 120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Nov 4: Ms. Mary & The Boys

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Oct 27: Leather and Lace Oct 28: Darryl and Dave Nov 3: Leather and Lace Nov 10: Mix Tape Nov 17: Tom Warren Nov 24: Leather and Lace Dec 1: Brittany Davis

BIG PURPLE

812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728 Nov 24: Wyatt Espalin

[killwhitneydead] Oct 28 - The Blind Tiger

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Oct 25: The Movement, New Kingston, Roots of a Rebellion Oct 26: The Spill Canvas, Chase Huglin, The Second After, MKNLY Oct 26: Doctor P, Cookie Monsta, Warez Oct 27: Quix w/ Ludge, Dubboro, Mister, Vide Oct 28: killwhitneydead, Violent Life Violent Death, Get Rude Oct 29: Cosmic Charlie

Free Scree ning of Chasing Trane:

The John Coltrane Documentary Thursday, October 26th FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Doors Open @ 6:30pm / Film Starts @ 7pm CENTENNIAL STATION ARTS CENTER 121 S. Centennial St, High Point, NC programs@highpointarts.org / 336.889.2787 ext 26

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Nov 1: Mom jeans, Prince Daddy &The Hyena, Kississippi, Pictures of Vernon Nov 2: Shwayze Nov 3: The Patrick Rock Band with The Josh Kin & Them Nov 4: Carbon Leaf Nov 5: Red Not Chili Peppers w/ Broken Record Nov 7: Girlpool w/ Palm, Lala Lala Nov 8: A Light Divided, The Scars Heal In Time, Raimee Nov 9: Jesse Royal Nov 11: Abbey Road: Beatles Tribute

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Nov 13: Scale The Summit, Angel Vivaldi, Andy James Nov 15: The Billyfolks w/ Giant Red Panda Nov 18: mewithoutYou, Pianos Become The Teeth Nov 21: UNCG Sapphires Fall 2017 Concert Nov 22: Dr. Bacon, Travers Brothership, Arson Daily Nov 24: Ne Obliviscaris, Allegaeon Nov 26: Ghostemane, Chxpo, Nedarb, Wavy Jone$, Cedric James Dec 1: Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties, Steady Hands, Chase Huglin, Norwegian Arms Dec 8: Suicide Silence, Upon a Burning Body, Slaughter To Prevail, Prison, Discoveries Dec 12: Wage War, Oceans Ate Alaska, Gideon, Loathe, Varials

BUCkHEAD SALOON

1720 Battleground Ave | 336.272.9884 buckheadsaloongreensboro.com

CHURCHiLL’S ON ELm

213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Nov 11: Sahara Reggae Band Nov 18: Jack Long Old School Jam

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THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Oct 26: Live Thursdays

COmEDY zONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Oct 27: Dean Napolitano Oct 28: Dean Napolitano Nov 2: Aries Spears Nov 3: Aries Spears Nov 4: Aries Spears Nov 5: Aries Spears Nov 9: kountry Wayne Nov 10: kountry Wayne Nov 11: kountry Wayne Nov 12: kountry Wayne Nov 17: The Tennessee Tramp (Janet Williams) Nov 18: The Tennessee Tramp (Janet Williams) Nov 24: Darren DS Sanders Nov 25: Darren DS Sanders Dec 1: Chris Wiles - Home For The Holidays - A Toys For Tots Event Dec 2: Chris Wiles - Home For The Holidays - A Toys For Tots Event Dec 8: Julie Scoggins Dec 9: Julie Scoggins Dec 15: B.T. Dec 16: B.T.

COmmON GROUNDS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Nov 10: Tow’rs Jan 19: Swingin’ Hammers

CONE DENim

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Oct 28: Corey Smith Nov 2: Jim Breuer Nov 4: iration Nov 5: Blue October Nov 10: Hinder w/ Josh Todd & The Conflict Nov 11: Yngwie malmsteen Nov 17: Parmalee Nov 29: Clutch

GREENE STREET CLUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 Nov 4: African Royalty

HAm’S GATE CiTY

3017 Gate City Blvd | 336.851.4800 hamsrestaurants.com Oct 27: Sahara

HAm’S NEW GARDEN

SOmEWHERE ELSE TAVERN

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Nov 4: Will Easter Nov 10: The midnight Echo Nov 18: Big Dirty Ride Nov 25: murder maiden

SPEAkEASY TAVERN

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

THE iDiOT BOx COmEDY CLUB

2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Oct 26: Dash kwiatkowski & David Tveite Oct 27: Ultimate Comic Challenge x

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1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Oct 27: Freddy Atkins Band

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bluE bourbon jack’S

1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks

ham’S palladium 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com oct 27: jukebox revolver oct 28: Where’s Eddie

jamestown

thE dEck

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com oct 27: the plaids oct 28: crossing avery and halloween costume contest nov 3: Second Glance nov 4: brothers pearl nov 10: corey luetjen’s traveling blues band nov 11: Soul central nov 17: radio revolver nov 18: jody lee petty band nov 24: the dickens

kernersville

dancE hall dazE

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com oct 27: crimson rose oct 28: dirt road revolution & halloween party

brEathE cocktail lounGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge oct 27: Freddie Fred Fridays

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old nick’S pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com oct 27: karaoke w dj tyler perkins oct 28: pop Guns- halloween party nov 2: acoustic music with/ian michie nov 4: karaoke w dj tyler perkins nov 10: big daddy mojo nov 11: karaoke w dj tyler perkins

oak ridge

jp loonEY’S

2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys oct 26: trivia

randleman

ridEr’S in thE countrY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net oct 28: Fair Warning and huckleberry Shyne

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SEcond & GrEEn

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com oct 27: dj a-Vegas halloween party

bull’S taVErn

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern

cb’S taVErn

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 nov 11: 1 Year anniversary: phase band

FinniGan’S WakE

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake nov 3: Souljam nov 10: dj hEk YEh

FoothillS brEWinG 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com oct 25: the ruckus oct 28: Southern Eyes oct 29: Sunday jazz nov 5: Sunday jazz

thE GaraGE

110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws oct 28: king buffalo nov 3: Finks, the kneads, north Elementary nov 15: demon Eye & lords of mace nov 18: irata, mega colossus, night Sweats

johnnY & junE’S Saloon

2105 Peters Creek Pkwy | 336.724.0546 johnnynjunes.com oct 28: halloween party w/ hedtrip & brothers pearl nov 4: chip perry band nov 10: mo pitney w/ red dirt revival

mac & nElli’S

4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com

millEnnium cEntEr 101 West 5th Street | 336.723.3700 MCenterevents.com oct 25: Greensky bluegrass

milnEr’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com oct 22: live jazz oct 29: live jazz

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muddY crEEk caFE

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 oct 26: open mic w/ country dan collins oct 28: usual Suspects nov 2: open mic w/ country dan collins nov 3: chief’s choice nov 5: phillip craft nov 9: open mic w/ country dan collins nov 12: rob price nov 16: open mic w/ country dan collins nov 18: carson mac

muddY crEEk muSic hall

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 oct 26: marvelous Funkshun oct 27: underhill rose oct 28: john mccutcheon nov 2: dangermuffin w/ Scott moss band nov 4: rain check nov 9: old Salt union nov 10: Sarah Siskind nov 11: Snyder Family band nov 16: antigone rising nov 18: dark Water rising nov 19: dom Flemmons nov 25: big ron hunter nov 30: corin raymond and jonathan byrd, the pickup cowboy

thE quiEt pint

1420 W 1st St | 336.893.6881 thequietpint.com

tEE timE SportS & SpiritS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010

VillaGE taVErn

2000 Griffith Rd | 336.760.8686 villagetavern.com

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com

CHARLOTTE

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Oct 27: Nick Cannon presents Wild ‘N Out Dec 14: 2017 K-LOVE Christmas Tour

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Oct 26: Aaron Lewis & Blackberry Smoke

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Oct 25: New Found Glory Oct 26: High Valley, Ashley McBryde, & Adam Doleac

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EVERYDAY: $2 domestic bottles & $3 import bottles & well drinks TUE: $1.50 domestics & $1 off liquor WED: $3.50 well drinks & $2.50 import bottles THU: $1.50 domestics

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Oct 27: Fall2017 Tour Oct 27: Portugal. The Man Oct 28: Highly Suspect Oct 29: Trivium & Arch Enemy Oct 31: San Holo Nov 2: RL Grime Nov 3: Bebe Rexha & Marc E Bassy Nov 3: Johnnyswim Nov 5: Tribal Seeds Nov 6: Bon Iver w/ Aero Flynn Nov 7: Him Nov 8: Deorro Nov 9: Brujeria w/ Voodoo Glow Skulls, & Piñata Protest Nov 10: The Sweet Spot Nov 10: Saint Motel Nov 11: Slushii Nov 12: Hoodie Allen Nov 14: Whitechapel Nov 14: Circa Survive & Thrice Nov 15: J.I.D. + Earthgang Nov 16: The Shins Nov 16: Haley Reinhart Nov 17: The Original Wailers Nov 18: Michael Tracy Nov 19: Walk The Moon Nov 21: The Front Bottoms Nov 25: Bear Grillz Nov 25: Seether Nov 28: Bleachers, J Roddy Walson, & The Business Nov 29: X Ambasadors Nov 30: $uicideboy$ Dec 3: Lil Pump Dec 4: Waterparks Dec 5: Chevelle Dec 6: Molotov Dec 8: Rumours Dec 10: The Revivalists Dec 22: Snails Dec 30: Hippie Sabotage Dec 31: JJ Grey & Mofro

PNC MUSIC PAVILION 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Oct 28: Evanescence Nov 16: Brit Floyd Nov 21: Kirk Frankly & Ledisi

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Nov 4: Fall Out Boys Nov 8: Imagine Dragons Nov 16: Jay-Z Nov 28: Dead & Company Dec 2: The Great Xscape Tour Dec 7: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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DURHAM

CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Oct 27: Dwight Yoakam Nov 2: Amos Lee Nov 9: Randy Newman Nov 13: Irma Thomas, The Blind Boys of Alabama, & The Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet Nov 15: Squeeze Nov 16: Judy Collins Nov 17: The Mavericks Nov 24: The Motown Experience Dec 1: The Lynn Grissett Quintet Dec 2: David Crosby & Friends Dec 3: Robert Earl Keen Dec 6: The Mountain Goats

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Oct 27: Jeezy w/ Juvenile Nov 9: Straight No Chaser Nov 11: Tori Amos Nov 12: John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring Nov 18: The O’Jays w/ The Dramatics Nov 26: The Brian Setzer Orchestra Dec 5: 98 Degrees

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Oct 28: The Spirit of the Carolina Nov 1: Boney James Dec 8: Camel City Takeover 2

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com Dec 10: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec 14: Casting Crowns & for King & Country

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Nov 4: Mojo & the Bayou Gypsies Nov 9: Terry Barber Dec 2: The Gibson Brothers

RALEIGH

CCU MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK

3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com

PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Oct 28: Charlie Wilson w/ Anthony Hamilton & La’Porsha Renae Dec 3: Xscape Dec 13: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec 31: The Avett Brothers WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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Oct 27 - Nov 2

Tickets on sale for Star-Spangled Girls Veterans Day is coming up soon! To remember the history of our nation and the soldiers who have served for the freedom of our country, the High Point Arts Council will be presenting Star-Spangled Girls at the Centennial Station Arts Center at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 12. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $15 for veterans. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.highpointarts.org/events.

A production of the Touring Theatre of North Carolina, Star-Spangled Girls features a review built from diaries, letters, interviews, telegrams, journals, and posters by and about the women who served the United States in WWII. The cast for Star-Spangled Girls features five actresses who portray WACs, WAVEs, Army Nurses,

and Red Cross volunteers as they share memories about enlistment, basic training, service at home and abroad, love, and segregation. In addition to providing audience members a glimpse into the conversations of women during WWII, Star-Spangled Girls also features songs that were prevalent during the war time.

Tickets to this performance may be bought in advance online at www.

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he advance promotional material for The Snowman ( ), the new film based on the international bestselling novel by Jo Nesbø, states that a serial killer in Norway strikes “on the first snow of winter” and the detectives on the case have to solve the case “before the next snowfall.” A clear timetable, a clear pattern — sounds fine. Only, in the actual film, this simple bit of intel is never made clear; instead, it’s only mentioned that the killer strikes whenever the snow falls. Whenever the snow falls? In Norway? In winter?

At that rapid pace, wouldn’t Norwegians soon become as extinct as dinosaurs?

At any rate, this narrative incoherence is the norm in The Snowman, a muddled thriller that appears to have been edited by a blind man wildly swinging an ax. Of course, that’s not the case — shockingly, the credited editors are two absolute masters, three-time Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull) and one-time Oscar winner Claire Simpson (Platoon).

One can only assume they did the best they could with the material presented before him — a deduction strengthened by director Tomas Alfredson’s after-thefact comments that an abbreviated shooting schedule prevented him from filming up to 15% of the script.

Fifteen percent is an awful lot of narrative to lose, and we can only be thankful that many of our favorite films weren’t similarly affected. How did the rebels gain possession of the Death Star blueprints?

I don’t know; I guess it was in that 15%.

Why is Rick Deckard still alive at the end of Blade Runner, when Roy Batty clearly had the upper hand? Beats me; must have been in that 15%. And did they end up saving Private Ryan? I refer you to that missing 15 percent.

But I digress. The Snowman stars Michael Fassbender as a detective who is pitched as Oslo’s greatest sleuth but, until the film’s final act, seems only slightly more competent than Inspector Clouseau.

The man’s name is Harry Hole — I understand that in Nesbø’s book, it’s made clear that it’s pronounced “holy,” but everyone in the movie speaks it as it’s spelled, making one wonder why Harry Hole didn’t try to break into porn like Dirk Diggler or even Bucky Larson. Perhaps it’s because Harry’s too busy trying to find out who’s going around killing various local women.

Harry and his colleague, Katrine Bratt (Rebecca Ferguson), determine that the

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killer is targeting women who he believes have behaved immorally, whether via an affair or an abortion or what-have-you.

Since there are no hypocritical Republican politicians from the United States visiting Norway during the times of these murders, Harry and Katrine are forced to set their sights on local suspects.

As a mystery, The Snowman proves to be an utter failure. The identity of the assailant becomes glaringly obvious halfway through the film, but even being armed with this knowledge doesn’t help much in understanding his motivations or mindset. Worse, the picture is so choppy and underdeveloped that it’s nearimpossible to place all the events from the killing spree (which takes place over the course of a decade) in chronological order and have them make sense. Even with Alfredson’s claim that 15 percent of the story wasn’t filmed, there were obviously other cuts to the material — this is supported by the film’s trailer, which contains so much different material from the finished product that it might as well be the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok or Boo 2!

A Madea Halloween.

Although set in Norway, the British actors all speak in their normal accents, which is fine. But what’s up with the American actors? J.K. Simmons, appearing as a powerful Norwegian businessman, adopts a strange accent that’s

unfamiliar to anyone residing on Planet Earth — forced to identify, I’d say he sounds like a drunk trying to impersonate both Frances McDormand’s clipped cadence in Fargo and Colin Firth’s elegant speechifying in, well, anything. As a boozy detective, Val Kilmer is even more indecipherable — his slurring recalls the stories of Marlon Brando’s audition for The Godfather, when he stuffed cotton in his cheeks and mumbled his dialogue. (And on a side note, was Kilmer dubbed? His voice never sounds like it’s escaping from his mouth; instead, it seems to be hanging somewhere up in the rafters.)

On the plus side, Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion Beebe (Memoirs of a Geisha) does an exceptional job of capturing the frozen desolateness of this wintry landscape, and even during the risible climactic confrontation between Harry and the killer, his shot selections are impressive enough to (almost) distract from the silliness at hand. As for Fassbender, he does what he can within the rigid confines of the standard movie detective.

But while Nesbø wrote a number of novels featuring Harry Hole, the actor probably shouldn’t count on reprising the role in future films. Given the disappointment of The Snowman, this looks to be a Hole-inone, with no further escapades likely to materialize on screen.

A TRUE-LIFE TALE of heroism is the inspiration for Only the Brave ( ), a competent if conventional drama that centers on a team of elite Arizona firefighters known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

As is often the case with these types of films, hagiography takes center stage, meaning that, aside from a few individuals painted with extra brush strokes (Josh Brolin’s gruff leader, Miles Teller’s troubled newbie), none of the firefighters are given much in the way of individualism. The domestic scenes that are introduced in an effort to provide additional shadings are fairly standard, with the only deviation from the norm arriving courtesy of Jennifer Connelly — as Brolin’s wife, she’s allowed to do more than just stand by her man (usually the default position in these films; see Kate Hudson in Deepwater Horizon and Holliday Grainger in The Finest Hours).

Director Joseph Kosinski, whose previous credits were the sci-fi duds TRON: Legacy and Oblivion, effectively captures the horror of the raging fires, while scripters Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer (working from Sean Flynn’s GQ article “No Exit”) offer some interesting behind-the-scenes facts regarding the firefighting business.

But who gets the blame for that wince-inducing CGI bear, repeatedly seen in fantasy sequences hurtling through the woods like an ursine Human Torch? !

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face is halfcoated in skeleton makeup and a perfect red and black mohawk line his head. A new checkbook and Jessica Clifford pen nestled in his lap. Walkie-talkies yammer in the Intern background – his cell phone lights up.

People pass by, and they need to talk to him.

This is a day in the life of Eddie McLaurin.

McLaurin, also known as Bone Daddy, is the owner of Greensboro’s award-winning haunted attraction, Woods of Terror.

Before the conception of Woods of Terror 26 years ago, McLaurin’s great, great grandfather, Eddie Howie McMillan, was a priest who exorcised spirits and bound them to the area.

Today, the spirits are still seen by McLaurin and his attraction’s employees.

The owner said some of the spirits move things around when no one is there, making the haunt, he said, a historical spot.

Woods of Terror continues this legacy of thrill with nearly 175 employees made up of security guards, parking lot assistance, various actors and ticket sellers. However, most employees do not provide one service to McLaurin but usually double as something else.

“If you were to see backstage, you would be like ‘oh my God, does this go on every night?’” McLaurin answers, “And it is every night.”

Five quality control employees need to walk around the haunt, making sure actors are in their locations, taking breaks and their makeup is still painted on entirely. McLaurin said there are consistent problems that need solving.

“It’s like charging hell with a water pistol,” McLaurin said. “Basically, it is organized chaos.”

Colleen Siler, the makeup director, agrees, “It’s like chaos, crazy and fun all at once.” She added, “It’s constant go, go, go – a lot of pressure, but it’s a blast.”

Workers start out making minimum wage and receive a 25-cent raise every year they stay at the haunt. Many employees have been coming back for several years.

At the beginning of her employment, Maria Cordoba-Sanchez did not seem to fit the makeup artist role. However, years of practice has allowed her to graduate

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into one of the three head makeup artists.

“I help make sure that everyone is in their makeup, that what they [other makeup artists] are doing is not believable because obviously no one goes in there thinking ‘I’m going to see a person with some brain hanging out of their head,’” Cordoba-Sanchez said. “But that [the makeup] looks good and that they don’t go overkill with the blood.”

Other stories comparable to this happened at the haunt, in which employees grow into skills they may not have originally had.

“One year we had a guy that actually my girlfriend wanted to cut,” McLaurin said. “But, I said ‘no, let’s give him a chance and see what we can do’ – last year he got the best actor.”

Unlike many part-time jobs, people interviewing as actors for the Woods of Terror must show they can follow orders and perform improvisation.

Each interview is videotaped and then shown to McLaurin, who makes the final decision on casting.

About eight years ago, McLaurin created a book of 100 characters. Every character has a page that answers 20 questions, including their name, why they are there,

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where they are from, three potential lines for dialogue if they kill, chase, or play and more. These pages are then given to the actor that is playing the part.

McLaurin also performs exit surveys on his actors to find out what the three most asked questions are about their character.

The following year, this is included in the character biography and given to a new actor.

However, not every actor fits the part or job they are given.

“We’re a family, and we’re going to find out what’s in you that’s good,” McLaurin said. “Once we find that – that’s what we are going to get out of you.”

On the night of a planned show, it takes actors a total of an hour and a half to get their costumes and makeup ready. Though, depending on the night and a number of makeup artists, preparing actors can vary.

However, there is one character that stays the same, even with a long process to prepare.

McLaurin has taken on the role of Bone Daddy for nearly eight consecutive years after he wanted a change from playing Brandon Lee’s The Crow character during the first 12 years of the haunt.

Every night he dons a motorcycle jacket, half-painted skull face, a red and black mohawk. To complete his persona, an albino Burmese python is draped across his shoulders.

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life – the good side’s always fighting the bad side. This is my good fighting my bad.”

The most time-consuming part of the costume is the hair, with Siler taking 30 minutes to gel McLaurin’s hair into place before the big show.

“When I started doing Eddie’s hair it was this tall,” Siler said while holding her fingers about 3 inches apart. “It will probably be 14 to 16 inches by the time we’re done.”

The 10-foot, 40-pound pet snake, named Spawn, is one of the most intriguing parts for haunt-goers.

“She’s never bit anyone; she’s not going to,” he said.

The owner believes he will continue to be Bone Daddy.

“After 50,000 pictures over the last seven or eight years, I guess it is going to stick,” McLaurin said.

Besides playing the part of Bone Daddy, McLaurin makes all decisions and helps construct the attractions.

The haunt takes an entire year of work for it to provide the punch it delivers, with McLaurin spending January to March on planning and all the warmer months gutting and replacing older and unsafe attractions.

Three people, including himself, a full-time carpenter and another full-time employee, work on the construction and cleaning side. Trees need to be cut, and leaves are always needing to be raked.

The work does not end when tours begin. Instead, McLaurin is constantly

correcting problems until Woods of Terror closes for the year.

Though it varies, McLaurin usually spends 9/10 of his gross revenue back toward Woods of Terror.

Issues arise some years, impacting his spending. Since approximately 90 percent of his attractions are constructed from wood, it is pertinent to keep everything dry and free of mold.

“I’ve had some bad times, but I pulled through it,” McLaurin said referring to years when rainfall was higher than normal.

Throughout the year he also tours other haunts and attends conferences, but what he mostly realizes from those is what he does not want to replicate or recreate for his attraction.

However, what tells him the most about Woods of Terror’s success is watching people come out of his string of attractions.

“A lot of times I stand back and watch people go through my show and go ‘that worked exactly how I thought,’ or ‘that didn’t work good,’” he said.

Knowing what works best is essential for McLaurin. Making his customer’s happy through annual updates and additions is his constant goal.

The owner knows his prices have gone up, but he hopes his customers feel his set of attractions are worth it.

“People think it’s about money, and it’s not about money,” he said. “If I made all

the money in the world and my customers were mad and upset – that wouldn’t be happiness.”

McLaurin makes the event a community affair. He tries to meet new and returning customers midway to ask them how they are doing.

The multiple roles he plays makes him believe the haunted attraction business is not for everyone.

“I would say one out of 100,000 people are cut out for this,” McLaurin said. “It is a tough business.”

Yet, McLaurin himself loves his job, adding “this is what I want to be doing.”

Whether if his phone is ringing, he is signing a check or answering an employee’s question – he finds the time.

Underneath the makeup, the snake, and the leather jacket, many would think McLaurin’s life is still a literal haunt. !

JESSICA CLIFFORD is an intern reporter. She is a senior at UNCG, majoring in Communication Studies and minoring in English.

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Elsewhere’s annual fundraiser prepares for a big bang Time traveling is still not scientifically possible, but Elsewhere Museum will come close to it on Oct 28.

The three-floor thrift shop turned museum, will hold their ninth annual Jessica Clifford fundraiser extravaganza, this time with Intern the theme “The Big Bang.” Each floor will be a new layer of time, starting with the prehistoric era and ending with the future.

“We thought we could do a lot with that, not only speaking to time, but also speaking to noises and sounds – making a big bang essentially,” said Guido Villalba Portel, the communication’s curator of Elsewhere Museum.

Though the fundraiser dates back to 2009, the location’s history begins with the former owners – the Gray family.

Originally, the Gray family owned a storefront across the street, but in 1939, they moved into a bigger building. The shop mostly sold furniture and upholstery until after World War II, when they began selling army surplus.

In 1955, Joe Gray, Sylvia Gray’s husband, died unexpectedly. Sylvia was forced to run the store and raise three children by herself. In the 1970s, the store’s merchandise expanded, eventually packing the space with books, clothing, knick-knacks, toys, fabric and most things imaginable.

After Sylvia died, her grandson, George Scheer, turned the shop into a nonprofit in 2003. Only two years later, Elsewhere established an artist residency program for people across the globe to live and work, finding inspiration from Sylvia’s collection.

The money raised by the annual fundraiser flows back into the museum to cover curatorial and documentation support as well as the building’s rent.

“We are supplying a lot of things to the artists, and I think that speaks a lot about the value of art production – how it’s either glorified or not valued at all – there’s no in-between, especially in small cities like Greensboro,” Villalba Portel said.

The party is more than a way to help fund the museum throughout the year.

“The fundraiser is a big way to not only have a big party and try to get some funds but also as a way to celebrate Elsewhere and the season that we com-

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pleted,” they said. “[The party] has a way to bring community together.”

Every year the fundraiser’s theme changes and this year is no different. After last year’s festival, themed ‘Revolve,’ which had a 50-foot Ferris wheel outside and pole dancers inside, it seems hard to beat the previous year’s expectations.

However, Villalba Portel believes otherwise, “It gets better and better,” they said.

“We always try to top last year’s party.”

Scheer, the co-founder and executive director, agrees, “If Elsewhere knows anything it is how to throw a party.”

As it did last year, this year’s partygoers will be welcomed before they enter the museum. A cave man will be pushing “the wheel,” with a fire pit blazing to his side.

Though, uncharacteristic for the prehistoric era, an inflatable bouncy house will also be situated outside.

When entering the museum, guests will see several prehistoric ages such as the forming of the earth with a gravity and sun installation as well as a dinosaur and ice age zone.

Guests can then make their way to the second floor, which spans all the decades between the middle ages to the 1960s.

Villalba Portel said modern components would be staged, with a model train installation giving remembrance for Amtrack being the first train to go through

a city and not around one. With this, will be a focus on the industrial revolution, through a yarn spinning performance by Gate City Yarns.

The third floor will represent the present and future.

“We are going to be speaking to the end of the world and what that might look like, especially with not only the current social-political climate but also to the knowledge it can be a little scary,” Villalba Portel said.

This floor will have a video game station, donated by Lost Ark in Greensboro.

Tarot by Sky will also return this year to read people’s future.

Besides these three floors of entertainment, other performances will take place throughout the night including shows by the lead singer of No One Mind, Alvin Shavers, marching bands like Cakalak Thunder and a 30-minute play by Scrap Metal Theater Company.

Select groups and people will roam the museum, showing off their talents such as Refining Vaping Company, who will airbend, the Greensboro Martial Arts Academy, the Greensboro Fencers Club and the Ancient Combat Enthusiast School.

A disco dance party will take place as well, with D.J. Flash Car spinning the music.

However, with the party taking place on

Halloween weekend, the hosts welcome guests to wear their costumes. Partygoers that want a costume and do not have one can be styled by Concept Salon, who will have a whole wardrobe and makeup station at the fundraiser.

With entertainment also comes various drink and food options.

A mood ring cocktail will be served on the third floor. “That cocktail is all about theatrics; it’s like once you pour it into the glass – it changes colors,” Villalba Portel said.

Fifty flavors of infused vodka shots will be up for the taking, with some having flavors as bazaar as prickly pear cactus, taro root, lemongrass and mustard.

Various food options will be prepared in-house by The Next Supper and Cast Irony.

“It’s just going to be the wildest party,” Villalba Portel said.

Take part in the extravaganza, and find yourself in a new dimension. !

JESSICA CLIFFORD is an intern reporter. She is a senior at UNCG, majoring in Communication Studies and minoring in English.

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Back in the day, I joined the Boy Scouts because I was a boy. My sister joined the Girl Scouts because she was a girl. There was nothing ambiguous or confusing about our choices, nor should Jim Longworth there have been.

It was just part of Contributor the natural order of things. Earlier this month, however, Boy Scouts of America upset the natural order of things. BSA underwent a sex change by deciding to recruit girls into their ranks.

The move left liberals and conservatives alike scratching their heads, and it put me in mind of something Gomer Pyle once said, “What a dumb thing! What a dumb thing to do!”

The national Girl Scout office had a more visceral reaction and said, “The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire. Instead of addressing systematic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement and deficient programming, BSA’s senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls.”

The sexual assault portion of that statement refers to a landmark 2010 court case in which the Oregon Supreme Court ordered BSA to release their long-hidden, so-called “perversion files”, containing more than 14,500 documents which detailed complaints of predatory abuse dating back to 1959. For over five decades, BSA had refused to tell police about sexual assaults by scout leaders and, even worse, had systematically guaranteed those offenders that the organization wouldn’t go public if they would just resign and move on. Thus BSA’s cover-up enabled sexual predators to relocate and re-offend somewhere else. The abuse was farreaching and, according to a 2012 report by the Greensboro News & Record’s Amanda Lehmert, included seven predatory scout leaders in the Triad, along with specifics of their crimes dating back to 1967.

But BSA’s transgressions aren’t the primary argument for why girls should not join their ranks. In an exclusive interview with Lane Cook, CEO of Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont told me, “I hope girls will continue to choose Girl Scouts because we are the girl experts, and are WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

dedicated to ensuring that girls are able to take advantage of a program tailored specifically to their unique developmental needs, not one tailored for boys and adapted for girls.”

And those developmental needs and differences to which Cook referred, are significant, as I learned back in 1993 while producing a documentary about the value of single-sex educational institutions. I interviewed a number of highly successful women, all of whom had either attended or managed an all-female school. What they told me was eye-opening.

Anne Marie Whittemore, then part of the legal team defending VMI’s right to stay all male, and now a partner in McGuire Woods, told me, “Educators generally seem to believe that girls perform better in a supportive type of environment.” Cynthia Tyson, then President of Mary Baldwin College, added, “Women increase in their self-esteem in a singlesex institution, and that leads to higher achievement for them when they go out into the world of work.” And attorney Anita Blair commented, “In my all-girl high school, a girl was president of the senior class. A girl was editor of the school newspaper. A girl was captain of every team, and we learned by being in an allfemale environment, that women can do anything.”

Now, nearly 25 years later, those same developmental differences and needs remain the same.

“Girls thrive in an all-girl, girl-led environment such as Girl Scouts, where they can take center stage, and where the constant message is that nothing can stand in their way,” Cook said. “In Girl Scouts, girls can try new things, take risks, and take on challenging roles. Our girls follow their passions without worrying about what their male peers may think about them.

Girls succeed in positions that otherwise might go to their male counterparts in a co-ed environment.”

Clearly, Girl Scouts offers a nurturing experience for their members, but is that going to be enough to stand up against what could be an aggressive campaign by BSA to recruit girls? Lane Cook believes that it is.

“Girl Scouts’ central focus, unlike that of BSA, has always been one of serving girls in an all-girl, girl-led, and girl-friendly environment, to create a safe space for them to learn, lead, and thrive. Only the Girl Scouts has more than 100 years of experi-

ence helping girls tap into their leadership potential by reinforcing and extending their skills in a supportive, encouraging environment, in which they feel safe to just be themselves.”

In all fairness, boys just need to be themselves too, and the best way to accommodate the developmental needs of both genders is to maintain and sustain two distinctly different scouting organiza-

tions. Kudos to the Girl Scouts for standing their ground. Thumbs down to the Boy Scouts for pulling a stunt to shore up membership. Sorry, BSA, there’s no badge awarded for disingenuous social engineering. It just has no merit. !

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An older male friend keeps paying for me — buying me meals and clothes.

Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic Amy Alkon interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, Advice and he’s highly sucGoddess cessful. We’re basically BFFs, talking and laughing every day. He occasionally jokes that I should be “giving up the sugar to the sugar daddy,” but I roll my eyes and say, “Hush!” I think he’s teasing me, but could he be playing the long game? — Worried Welcome to the “never say never” school of hope. My Chinese crested, Aida, is also enrolled — hoping with all her tiny purse-doggy might that rare metal-eating termites will make the kitchen table leg collapse, causing her to be caught in a brief but intense hailstorm of bacon.

There are some asymmetries between men and women in the effort required to get some action out of the opposite sex. Some men will engineer elaborate plots to try to wear a woman’s “nuh-uh, never gonna happen” into a “maybe just this once.” A woman, on the other hand, doesn’t have to plot. Assuming she’s reasonably attractive, she can probably just make extended eye contact with a man while eating a banana.

This difference reflects what evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains as men’s and women’s conflicting evolutionary goals. It’s in a man’s evolutionary interest to, as they say, shoot and scoot (possibly passing on his genes without putting out any further time, energy, or resources). However, because women can end up all “baby on board,” they evolved to look for emotional commitment and the ability and willingness to “provide.” (A woman’s psychological bottom line: “Can this wild man be turned into a minivan purchaser with a dad bod?”)

Buss notes that these sex differences in evolved mating psychology show up in the different ways men and women try to deceive each other. Scammy men tend to exaggerate their “resources” (probably a sizable chunk of the Ferrari rental business) in hopes of suckering the ladies into the sack. Scammy women, on the other hand, tend to feign “willingness to have sex in order to secure nonsexual resources” — as in, “Sorry, Bob. I had my knees welded shut recently. I guess I forgot to mention that. But thanks for the $300 dinner!”

In your situation, however, nobody’s deceiving anybody. You’ve repeatedly made clear that there will be no sexcapades. He’s got an amusing dining companion and a dear friend. When we care about people, we do nice things for them — offer them a bite of our sandwich or our disposable income.

Sure, he’s probably still clinging to wisps of hope. But in time, he should accept that if the day comes when you

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I’m a 28-year-old guy, and I read your column on how men and women are clueless about who’s supposed to pay and when. I’ve had dates be insulted when I wouldn’t take their money and others insulted when I did. Is there an optimal strategy for the first few dates? — Lost Meet the flexible feminist. She can do an hour and a half straight on why we need to “smash the patriarchy,” but when the check comes, she reaches in her purse and pulls out a tube of lip gloss.

As I pointed out in that column you mention, sociologist Janet Lever and her colleagues find one striking commonality between men and women: intense confusion about who should pay and when. For example, nearly 60 percent of women said they “always” offer to help pay, even on the first date. Meanwhile, 39 percent of women wish men would reject their offer to pay — but 40 percent

say it bothers them when men don’t accept their money. Argh, huh?

Because female emotions evolved to push women to feel bad when they’re with a man who shows no signs of being a “provider,” I think it’s wise for a guy to pick up the tab on the first few dates.

The researchers concur, explaining that “men who fail to pay risk being viewed as lacking economic resources or as being uninterested, unchivalrous, or — worse yet — cheap.”

That said, your investment should be more symbolic than substantial, and you keep it that way by following my threepoint advice for the first few dates: Make them cheap, short, and local. This means, for example, getting to know a woman over happy-hour drinks — as opposed to the kind poured by a sommelier (flanked by his two assistants) who comes to your table right after the team of loan officers helps you finalize your paperwork. !

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