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REV. NELSON JOHNSON REFLECTS ON THE GREENSBORO MASSACRE

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When Klansmen and Nazis opened fire at Greensboro’s Morningside Homes, the first thought of Bennett College student body president Sandi Smith seemed to be getting children to safety. But it would have been her last thought because seconds later, she was shot between the eyes. Smith was one of four members of the Communist Workers Party killed during a 1979 attack now known as the GREENSBORO MASSACRE. A fifth anti-racism protestor (who was not a communist) would die in the hospital.

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Winston-Salem has been waiting for months, and now BOBBY BOY BAKESHOP has opened in the Buena Vista area in the building that used to house the iconic Fabian’s. After Bill Smith’s untimely death a few years ago, the restaurant sat empty, and people wondered what would become of the space. Then, a culinary couple moved in.

10 Halloween is also the opening day of the Art Alliance of Greensboro’s 15th annual fall STUDENTS ART SHOW & SALE from 10-6 p.m. (Wearing costumes is optional but encouraged.) Twenty-five adult students will show over 100 pieces of their pottery and other fine artwork until Nov. 2.

11 Affable, avuncular, handsome, talented. I wish I were describing myself, but those adjectives apply to ROBERT FORSTER, who died Oct. 11 at the age of 78. I’ve said it many times: Robert Forster was the nicest, coolest “celebrity” I’ve ever encountered.

12 Ten years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but ZOMBIELAND: Double Tap picks up the decade-long slack quite nicely and smoothly. As in the first film, Double YES! WEEKLY

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Tap has the chemistry of its cast to carry it over the rough patches, benefiting immeasurably from goodwill on both sides of the camera.

18 Halloween may be upon us, but these eerie, haunting mannequin heads are not holiday-inspired. They are repurposed and created by Noelle Lynch, who calls them “THE LADIES,” and says they “scare the crap out of people!”

19 Over the past few months, PUBLIC DISCOURSE in America has been hijacked by talk of impeachment and scandal.

That’s why when 13th district Congressman Ted Budd and 6th district Congressman Mark Walker agreed to sit down for a halfhour discussion, we focused on a number of issues that have taken a back seat to partisan politics.

21 M.C. Taylor, who performs and records under the name HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, has done all kinds of collaborative musical projects — working with a rotating cast of side musicians, bluegrass string players, horn-sections, back-up singers, appearing on epic tribute albums, getting dub-style remixes and more...

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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.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-4816494. guilford_greensboro-yes-weekly_P-5709_Y-5500GA.indd 1

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

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THUR 31 BOXCAR HALLOWEEN BASH WHAT: Details Join us in the main bar for a wicked fun Halloween celebration. Catch DJ WaWa spinning live from 9pm-1am and compete for prizes in our Halloween Costume Contest. Categories include Best Overall, Scariest and Best Group Costumes!

Also enjoy featured, themed cocktails & other drink specials.

WHEN: 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.

WHERE: Boxcar Bar + Arcade.

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WHAT: Come join us for our grand opening!

We are opening early to celebrate the opening of Centric Brands. Come try one of our twelve beers on draft along with full kitchen service. Music by The Good Watts from 3-5 pm. We will have games and giveaways.

WHEN: Noon to midnight.

WHERE: SouthEnd Brewing Co. 117 W Lewis St, Greensboro.

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WHAT: Join us for a one of a kind Halloween event just for adults (21+). Food and adult beverages will be sold from some of your favorite vendors. We will also have a hayride that takes you around the Country Park Loop, Pumpkin Bowling, Stranger Things inspired photo booth, Pumpkin Pong, classic carnival games, costume contest, reverse trick or treating (bring a non-perishable food to donate), and more!

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WHAT: Come and bring your whole family to the 9th event, the Boricua Fall Fest 2019 at Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company.

Around every corner, you’ll find a celebration of life, a vibrant cultural experience, food for the soul, and a captivating rhythm. Come and enjoy the live salsa music. For those dancing enthusiasts looking for a great place to move their whole body like no one is watching, the lawn at Gibbs Hundred is the place to be at this Saturday!

WHEN: 1-8 p.m.

WHERE: Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company. 504 State Street, Greensboro.

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WHAT: Join us at Cohab Space for High Points first pride! Entirely organized by volunteers and lgbt+ youth in High Point NC. This event is open to the public and all ages are welcome. We will have live performances, food trucks, vendors and local artists! We couldn’t be prouder to make this happen in our city, come celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with us! November 2nd 4-10pm WHEN: 4-10 p.m.

WHERE: COHAB. 1547 West English Road, High Point.

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[SPOTLIGHT] NDB2 ART SHOW

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NDB2, artist PC$O’s show examining depression in the black community, will be held Friday, Nov. 1, 6 to 9 p.m., at a private location in Winston-Salem. That the venue is not disclosed until ticket purchase has symbolic significance.

“Our homes are where black people experience depression most. I wanted to turn that setting into a beautiful experience to represent how I handled my own.”

Depression remains stigmatized in the black community. PC$O wants to help break that code of silence.

“We tend to hide it out of fear of appearing weak,” she wrote in an email.

“We conceal, ignore, or simply refuse to acknowledge depression because we don’t want to be judged, lack funds for proper help or simply don’t realize we’re going through it. NBD2 is my first solo show in two years and my first time creating one that not only features art but an experience. I’ve stepped out of my box to expand past my use of acrylic.”

I asked her about her own experience with depression.

“I had a job that tore my mental health to pieces. When I quit to become a fulltime artist, I didn’t expect the depression to continue while doing what I love. I fell into a dark place because I was struggling to make ends meet, and I often questioned whether I’m even good enough to pursue art.”

It wasn’t until she researched depression that she realized “it wasn’t just sadness” that the artist was able to work through it. Doing so, she discovered this wasn’t a unique experience.

“Many people I knew experienced it but didn’t know what it was. I think it’s because we aren’t knowledgeable about it, don’t want to accept it, or don’t want to worry with it. I honestly think my ancestors went through depression and didn’t have a clue about what they were going WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

through. They were forced to be strong and work through it, which I believe has been passed down to my generation and generations to come.”

This led her to this show, which she realized she wanted to be as much an experience as an exhibition.

“I’ll be incorporating many aspects of art that I have never tried before, such as a video installation. I’ll also be working with different materials to create mixedmedium pieces. It makes me anxious because I’m used to just sticking to paint, but I also feel it’s necessary for me to push past my comfort zone. One piece will include molds used to make gold teeth.”

Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, PC$O moved to Albertson, North Carolina, when she was 16. “I fell in love with art in the second grade when I painted my rendition of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” “My favorite artist is Basquiat, who I believe presented extremely raw paintings.”

She remained in Winston-Salem after graduating from WSSU. Her work has been exhibited at the African-American Atelier in Greensboro, Raleigh’s Dreamville Festival, Winston’s Delta Arts Center, American Airlines in Dallas, and Pancakes in Booze in Charlotte and Miami. She’s participated in Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Baltimore.

I asked her about the painting “Dom,” an image of which accompanies this article, and which will be featured in her show. “I painted this piece as a representation of the black woman. Often times, black women are deemed aggressive, but this piece displays the subtle black woman. The gold within this piece, as well as the other pieces, represents the ability that we have as black women and men to shine despite our struggles.”

Tickets for NBD2 are available via Eventbrite. !

Bright Star

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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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instonSalem has been waiting for months, and now Bobby Boy Bakeshop has opened in the Buena Vista area in the building that used to house the iconic Kristi Maier Fabian’s. @triadfoodies After Bill Smith’s untimely death a few years ago, Contributor the restaurant sat empty, and people wondered what would become of the space. Then, a culinary couple moved in.

John Bobby, formerly executive chef of A Noble Grill, and pastry chef Lucia Bobby announced that they had taken over the space along with another tenant and began working their magic.

Now, 1100 Reynolda Rd. is nothing like its former self. Where Fabian’s was purposefully dark and intimate to add to the mystique of the experience, Bobby Boy is bright and light, as its name implies. It is simple and refined; white and natural tones of blue and wood make its interior look lovely. The bakery is designed to be grab-and-go, but the inclination is there to linger.

As soon as you lay eyes on the space, you’ll have already forgotten what it used to look like, and what a transformation.

The kitchen moved to an exterior wall with windows, so you can see the magic happen.

When I spoke with John Bobby at their soft opening, he said it was bittersweet transforming such a memorable location.

Lucia Bobby, who never had a chance to eat at Fabian’s, said when they branched out on their own, they decided to really go for the big change.

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needed some love, and we knew it was going to be our new home. It was a wild ride and a huge learning experience.”

John, who’s an award-winning acclaimed chef, made his name at Noble’s, and Lucia has worked with him on numerous occasions in restaurants and competitions after they graduated culinary school together.

Working in Charlotte and finally the Triad, both have been rising in the ranks.

Lucia has worked at the famed Amelie’s in Charlotte as well as the Ritz Carlton before landing in the Triad. There are few in the area that can match her pastry technique. Her flair for simple, artistic and perfectly balanced desserts is unmatched as far as I’m concerned, and I’m excited to see what she can do when she’s able to unleash her full creative potential.

To see what I’m talking about, just look in the pastry case at Bobby Boy—glistening, flaky, glossy and chocolatey. If you’re a sugar freak, you’ll be in heaven.

“We’ll keep all kinds of pastries here, and we will listen to guests to learn what is popular and what we may change,” Lucia said, “We’ll keep the classics like eclairs and Napoleons. But we’ll also feature fun flavors like our Yuzu curd tart (a bright yellow citrus beauty). A mirror glaze is fun, and I just love to see the kids’ faces when they see their reflection in a dessert. That’s exactly what we’re here for.”

John will be focusing on baking his own

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bread, fresh for the public daily at 1 p.m. until they’re sold out. There will be naturally leavened sourdough, spelt wheatseed, and lately, he’s been experimenting with a dark chocolate loaf because he has a love for anything fermented.

You can enjoy a cup of local coffee or cappuccino provided by Magic Beans Coffee as well as sodas and tea. Sharing the space is Caviste Wine Shop, which has moved from its Robinhood location.

Some high bar seating and community tables are among the seating options. Its U-shaped bar invites conversations and observations, and you might be inclined to have a Chenin Blanc with your pastry.

The Bobbys have worked together with Caviste on wine dinners in the past, and plan on doing more in the new space together.

Lucia said though she and her husband have worked together in various aspects in the past, starting a business together has been an interesting process.

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we think differently,” she said. “I’ve dealt with a more corporate structure and he in independent restaurants. So despite our different viewpoints, we like working together, and we each bring a different perspective.”

Both chefs agree that the reception they received was heartwarming.

“It’s been so great,” Lucia said. “Nothing but positive, happy people—you couldn’t ask for a better soft and grand opening week. It’s everything we hoped for.” !

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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along with the artists getting to ask each other about their techniques.

Busch, who has been with AAOG for about 10 years, said that this is the only fundraiser of the year and the only time when students collectively show and sell their works. She said that the AAOG is a nonprofit with a fine art and pottery studio, and its funding comes from classes. AAOG was formed in 1998 and evolved out of the City Arts program that continues to support AAOG. AAOG’s tagline is “Come for the class, stay for the community,” and Busch said that it is true to what happens when people come in to take an eight-week session of classes and end up there for years. She said it is an expected result that artists receive and report that they don’t want to leave even when they have their own studios, they say they enjoy returning to learn more and be with this family of fellow artists The school offers a variety of adult classes including pottery, oil painting, watercolor, drawing and sculpture. The AAOG also offers youth classes for pottery, homeschool drawing and painting for both youth and teens. Busch said the AAOG receives a modest percentage of sales from the students’ works and a few of the local instructors will also donate their work to be raffled off. Those proceeds will go toward the programming and scholarship funds featuring paintings by Mavis Liggett, Jack Stratton and pottery by Patrick Rowe and studio manager Peter Strafaci.

Busch said that the AAOG’s instructors are accomplished in their personal works and some have a Master’s degree in ceramics. She said that they are presently transitioning to new instructors and the list to date includes Stratton, drawing and watercolor; Mavis Liggett, oil painting; Kelly Taylor, drawing and painting; Mike Northuis, painting; Tom Edgerton, portrait painting; Jim Barnhill, sculpture; and Patrick Rowe, pottery.

MADE 4 THE HOLIDAYS Strafaci, Benjamin Sunday, November 10, 2019 — 11am - 4pm Winslow, Deik Pierce, Susan Come see the area’s largest local holiday show and favorite shopping O’Leary, and LT Hoisington tradition. See a wide variety of handcrafted and curated products.

All products are locally made. Proceeds go directly to the artists, which helps all teach adult pottery. to keep dollars in the community while supporting talented artists across Tracy Raxter teaches youth North Carolina. General admission is free starting at 11am with an option to pottery, and just recently, purchase early access with Early Bird Tickets and begin shopping at 10am.

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alloween is also the opening day of the Art Alliance of Greensboro’s 15th annual fall Students Art Show & Sale from 10-6 p.m. (Wearing Terry Rader costumes is optional but encouraged.)

Twenty-five adult Contributor students will show over 100 pieces of their pottery and other fine artwork until Nov. 2. On the First Friday evening of Nov. 1 from 6-9 p.m., the reception will be free and open to the public with refreshments and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages said AAOG director Liz Busch. Busch invites everyone to come meet some of the artists as well as the AAOG’s staff and board members, have a glass of wine, shop and eat.

On the same Friday evening from 5-8 p.m., there will be a Raku fire right outside in LeBauer Park. Busch said that it is very dramatic to get to see the combustibles of cedar chips catch fire, and when the work goes inside the kiln, it comes out glowing red-hot.

Busch said that the show and sale are an amazing collection of art. The majority of the work is pottery of varying styles and levels of expertise in one room lined with tables layered with art. Some of the students have been with the AAOG for over 10 years, and this annual event is student-led and organized. Busch said it is a good experience for the students to get a feel for “doing the work, selling the work and admiring each other’s work”

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Pottery by Melissa Poillot-Micca, photo courtesy of AAOG tors can be found at www.artalliancegso. org/about-us/instructor-biographies/.)

Art Alliance classes are held in the Greensboro Cultural Center in Studio 127 and 129. Adult class sessions are for eight weeks and youth sessions are six weeks. Busch said they have six sessions each year with nine pottery and nine fine-arts classes for adults, plus six youth classes. The classes are consecutive with one beginning as soon as one ends. The classes remain the same except for the addition of a new class. She said that registration is required and begins the third week of November, and sessions begin at the first of the year.

“I used to do silk and fabric painting,” Busch said of her own artistic abilities.

“When I think about the privilege of being in this location at the Greensboro Cultural Center downtown—to get to be around these instructors and see them

push and be pushed to get such satisfaction out of their journey—this part-time job allows me to be in what I love, the arts scene in our Greensboro community.

It’s been a great part of my life being on the cusp of new things, taking some chances, introducing new programs and the possibilities that are there.” !

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

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Robert Forster (1941-2019): Farewell, friend Affable, avuncular, handsome, talented.

I wish I were describing myself, but those adjectives apply to Robert Forster, who died Oct. 11 at the age of 78. I’ve said it many times: Robert Forster was Mark Burger the nicest, coolest “celebrity” I’ve ever Contributor encountered.

The first time was at the 1997 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, where he was starring in a delirious black comedy/film noir called American Perfekt, which filmmaker Paul Chart had written expressly for him. This was before Jackie Brown brought Forster an Oscar nomination and renewed visibility.

(Incidentally, I was one of the first people to call Forster when the nominations were announced.)

“For 30 years, Bob Forster was a friend, mentor, co-conspirator, fellow artist, and the older, wiser brother you always wanted,” Chart said. “The guy could do anything – and always with such style, grace and self-deprecating humor. The best thing you could do was just watch him and learn and hope to grow up to be a bit like him.”

Cinematographer Richard Clabaugh, who worked with Forster on American Yakuza (1993), remembered him as “a terrific guy, a terrific actor and a total professional.”

The University of North Carolina School of Arts School of Filmmaking faculty member Dale Pollock called Forster “a great charac-

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ter actor,” and was particularly moved by his performance in last year’s drama What They Had. Rob Davis, executive director of the RiverRun International Film Festival, previously worked with the Fort Lauderdale festival. “Robert Forster was a terrific actor who never failed to turn in an impeccable performance. In addition to being a fine actor, he was also an incredibly kind and generous individual.

During my time with the Fort Lauderdale festival, we hosted him as a guest more than once, and he was one of the nicest and most gracious human beings I have ever worked with.”

Kevin Thomas, during his 50-year stint as a film critic with the Los Angeles Times, has seen his share of stars rise and fall, but Robert Forster was an exception. “He never quite hit leadingman super-stardom, but he never seemed to stop working. He kept coming back!”

In 2010, my college roommate Dean Galanis worked on an independent film called The Bannen Way. When he told me Robert Forster was in the cast, I said: “You’re going to love him.” Upon hearing of Forster’s death, Galanis wrote, “He was absolutely one of the coolest, nicest, most down-to-earth actors I’ve ever met. He was such a cool dude and a true gentleman.

And of course, one hell of an actor.”

Over the years, I’d leave Forster mes-

sages on his answering machine, usually about the latest film of his that I’d seen.

Sometimes, he’d consent to interviews on the spur of the moment. When the troubled sci-fi saga Supernova (2000) limped into theaters after considerable post-production tinkering, he talked with me about it for an article—ditto when Haskell Wexler’s ground-breaking Medium Cool (1969) was released on DVD. When I saw The Descendants (2011), I called simply to leave a message of congratulations. To my surprise, he picked up.

Momentarily flustered, I congratulated him effusively on the film, then said, “Do you have 10 minutes for a quick interview?”

“I’m on my way out in a little while, but sure.” (www.yesweekly.com/Actor-parexcellence-Robert-Forster-discusses-TheDescendants-a17250/) In 1998, I attended a press junket for Robert Altman’s comedy Cookie’s Fortune in Los Angeles and brought my friend Matt Holly. (I told people he was a “freelance journalist,” but actually, he was my ride!)

We didn’t get to meet Forster during that visit, but Holly did – that night at the Cookie’s Fortune premiere party in the House of Blues. Forster wasn’t in the film; he just happened to be there.

The never-bashful Holly walked right up to him. “You’re Bob Forster!”

“I am,” he replied. “Who are you?”

“I’m a big fan and an actor, and I know Mark Burger.”

“Well, Matt, that’s good enough for me.”

In 2006, during a visit to Los Angeles – where Matt and I would also meet Glenn Ford (yes, the Glenn Ford) – we arranged with Chart to have lunch with Forster at his favorite Tinseltown hang-out, the Silver Spoon. Not only was it Forster’s 65th birthday, but we were also joined by daughter Kate Forster and her toddler son Jack.

Many laughs were had, not the least of which was when Jack got a little restless, as 2-year-olds are wont to do. “Another actor in the family?” I joked.

Forster laughed, then took Jack into his lap and – what do you know? – Jack quieted right down. Grandpa had the magic.

Did he ever, in spades.

“This is a new role for you,” I said.

He smiled. “It is, and I’m really enjoying it.

It’s the best role ever, being grandpa.”

Despite Forster’s protests, Holly and I insisted on picking up the check. As I leaned over to ask how we should divide it, Holly took it. “I’ve got this.”

“All of it?”

“Absolutely,” he said.

When I told Forster that in my apartment hangs a poster for The Delta Force (1986) that he’d autographed, he deadpanned: “I’m very sorry to hear that, Mark.”

I’m not. I’m not sorry at all.

Robert Forster was a great guy and a great actor. !

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en years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but Zombieland: Double Tap picks up the decadelong slack quite nicely and smoothly.

Mark Burger As in the first film, Double Tap has the Contributor chemistry of its cast to carry it over the rough patches, benefiting immeasurably from goodwill on both sides of the camera. It’s a good sequel to a good movie. The wait was worth it.

Director Ruben Fleischer’s back at the helm, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wenick are back on-board (joined

by Dave Callahan), and the principal quartet encores: Woody Harrelson (Tallahassee), Jesse Eisenberg (Columbus), Emma Stone (Wichita), and Abigail Breslin (Little Rock). They’re still alive, they’re still together, and they’re still killing zombies by the score.

Remarkably, everyone looks almost exactly the same, with the exception of Breslin, who has of course, grown up in the intervening years. The zombies are nastier and fouler than ever, and the film certainly doesn’t skimp on blood and gore for the horror faithful.

The story opens with our fearsome foursome taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and settling into a form of familial domesticity. But it’s Little Rock who’s restless and wants to see the world, so she and Wichita set off on their own, eventually pursued by Tallahassee and Columbus.

That’s about it for the story, but that’s hardly a drawback. Like its predecessor, Zombieland: Double Tap is rife with pop-culture references and in-jokes, even referencing itself from time to time.

There are some slow patches in the midsection, but it culminates in an enjoyable slam-bang climax at Babylon, the hippie haven where Little Rock has ended up with Berkeley (Avan Jogia), a guitarstrumming, pot-smoking pacifist who woos her by playing such songs as “Free Bird” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” which he

claims to have written himself.

There are some new faces this time around, including Rosario Dawson’s Nevada, a potential love interest for Tallahassee, Luke Wilson’s Albuquerque and Thomas Middleditch’s Flagstaff, who are mirror images of Tallahassee and Columbus, and – best of all – Zoey Deutch’s Madison, a bubble-headed blonde who’s managed to survive the zombie apocalypse by hiding in a freezer all this time.

Double Tap continues the tradition of naming its characters after the cities they hail from.

Deutch brings the biggest boost of extra energy to the proceedings, and provides ample opportunity for Stone to display some wonderful slow-burn sarcasm. Bill Murray, whose unexpected cameo in the first film was one of its highlights, makes a return appearance here at the fade-out. That’s less a spoiler than a warning not to leave during the end credits. !

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rankenstein is the next presentation in The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Cinematic HD Screening series. The screening is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31, in Hanesbrands Theatre at The Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem. The stage production of Frankenstein was captured live on the National Theatre stage in London and is appropriately being screened here in Winston-Salem on Halloween.

All screenings in this NT Live series are in Hanesbrands Theatre and use The Arts Council’s new, state-of-the-art Digital Cinema Projector.

Mary Shelley’s novel of more than 200 years ago first told the story of Frankenstein, and since it has fascinated and enthralled audiences of both stage and screen. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Boris Karloff immortalized the character in his screen performance, and it has become a classic of the “horror” genre. But the story is more complex and speaks to scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cogni-

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After the Frankenstein showing on Oct. 31, the 2019-2020 Cinematic HD Screenings series includes Hamlet (Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.), All about Eve (Sunday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m.), All My Sons (Sunday, Feb. 2 at 2 p.m.), Present Laughter (Sunday, April 5 at 2 p.m.), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sunday, May 10 at 2 p.m.), and Fleabag (Sunday, May 31 at 2 p.m.). National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts performances via satellite of their productions and other theatres to cinemas and arts centers around the world.

Tickets are on sale at (336) 747-1414 or www.hanesbrandstheatre.com.

Winston-Salem, known as a City of Arts and Innovation, and Forsyth County have a robust arts community that enriches the lives of area residents every day and accounts in large part for the recognition they continue to receive as a great place to live, learn, work and play. Forsyth County’s nonprofit arts industry supports 5,559 full time equivalent jobs; accounts for more than $129 million in resident household income, and generates more than $14.8 million in local and state tax revenues. !

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Fans of fright this Halloween may want to travel to Summertown, Tennessee, to see if they can become the first visitor to make it all the way through the haunted house experience Chuck Shepherd called McKamey Manor. The rewards are compelling — along with notoriety, a person who completes the tour will receive $20,000. But the demands are great, too: Along with bringing a bag of dog food for owner Russ McKamey’s dogs, you need to be at least 21 years old, watch a twohour video of other contestants failing, complete a sports physical with a doctor’s letter, pass a background check, bring proof of medical insurance, sign a 40-page waiver and pass a drug test. WFLA reports McKamey doesn’t allow cursing during the visit; if you utter a curse word, he’ll subtract money from the $20,000 prize.

But don’t despair: McKamey does have a “safe” phrase for those who want to bail out: “You really don’t want to do this.”

You’re right. We don’t.

RECENT ALARMING HEADLINE

The San Diego Humane Society was summoned to a convenience store parking lot in Del Mar, California, on Oct. 8 after law enforcement officers responded to calls of concern about a van parked there, near one of San Diego’s toniest neighborhoods. Officers found a woman living in the van with more than 300 pet rats. Humane Society Capt. Danee Cook told The San Diego Union-Tribune, “This was not a cruelty case. This was a relinquishment.” The unidentified owner said she had started with two pet rats, but the situation had gotten out of control, and she agreed to surrender all of them, many of which were juveniles or pregnant. Officers spent several days tearing the van apart and recovered 320 animals, about half of which were put up for adoption. Meanwhile, the woman has found a place to live with the help of a GoFundMe page.

THE NAME GAME

You probably thought Tupac Shakur died in 1996 in Las Vegas. Little did you suspect there’s ANOTHER Tupac A. Shakur walking the streets — or pacing the jail cells — of Washington County,

Tennessee. Shakur, 40, was arrested Oct. 19 after he threatened Johnson City police officers with a knife, Fox News reported. Police were able to wrestle Shakur to the ground; they also found a syringe and bags of methamphetamine and charged him with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and simple possession of meth and unlawful drug paraphernalia. It is unclear whether Shakur’s name was his from birth or whether he changed it to match the rapper’s.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

Andrew Blackwell, 25, has his sights set on a particular home in Salt Lake City, Utah, and apparently will stop at nothing to make it his own. Since late August, Blackwell, a neighbor of the property, has been repeatedly entering the home, according to court papers, even after being told by police that he does not have authority to do so. He has been doing work around the house, including removing trees and shrubbery, installing new locks and telling other neighbors he had bought the house. Blackwell told police he offered the elderly owner of the home, who lives elsewhere, $90,000 for her property, which has a market value of $363,000. Court documents state that after the owner refused the offer, he told her he would “forge any document needed to get the property from her,” according to KUTV. Finally on Oct. 18, police issued a warrant for Blackwell’s arrest, on charges of burglary, forgery, stalking, theft, three counts of criminal trespassing and criminal mischief.

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On-air reporter Angel Cardenas with KMAX TV in Sacramento, California, was fired on Oct. 21 after a bizarre incident at the Sacramento International Auto Show the day before. During a broadcast before the show opened, Cardenas climbed on at least two of the privately owned show cars and dinged another when he opened a door against it. “No one is out here to tell me which car I can’t go in ... so I’m just gonna live on the wild side,” he told viewers before posing atop a Ford Thunderbird. “I feel like a kid in a candy store,” he said, according to Fox News. The producer of the auto show contacted the general manager of the TV station and was told Cardenas had been terminated.

OVERREACTION

Truck driver Cesar Schmitz of Eneas Marques, Brazil, was just trying to make his wife happy when he launched an effort to rid their backyard of cockroaches.

“She ... begged me to destroy their nest under the ground once and for all,” Schmitz, 48, explained. After chemicals failed to do the job, The Daily Mail reported, Schmitz decided setting fire to the hole would work, so on Oct. 18, he poured a capful of gasoline into the hole and tossed in a lighted match. After a couple of misfires, caught on his home’s security camera, a match landed, and Schmitz and his dogs are seen ducking for cover as the resulting explosion sends turf and lawn furniture flying through the air. The gasoline itself had ignited but it had also set off the highly combustible methane from the bugs’ venom that had accumulated in an air pocket under the grass. “I wish I’d thought this through,” Schmitz said. He admitted it made a huge mess, but said, ultimately, his scheme was a success: The cockroaches are gone.

WAIT, WHAT?

Twenty-year-old Cody Christopher Meader of St. Petersburg, Florida, entered a Pinellas Park Target store on Oct. 22, where he sought a large Olaf stuffed doll from the Disney movie “Frozen,” the Smoking Gun reported. Meader placed the doll on the floor and climbed on to have his way with poor Olaf, according to the criminal complaint. After finishing, he returned the character to the shelf and proceeded to the toy department, where he “selected a large unicorn stuffed animal” and repeated his offensive behavior. Meader was detained in the store and later charged with criminal mischief. Meader’s father told police that his son “def has a history of this type of behavior.” Meader posted bond and was released from custody.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

A quick-thinking employee of a Boost Mobile store in Philadelphia helped police catch a thief on Oct. 22. According to CBS3, the employee was in the store alone when a 19-year-old man entered, pulled a gun and demanded money. “Can you wait a few minutes?” the employee responded. “I give you money. I have another employee outside and he took the key but after that I give you,” he explained. The robber agreed, and the employee left the store, locking the door from the outside and trapping the criminal inside until a SWAT team arrived. The frustrated suspect shot his gun through the glass door, but no one was hurt. !

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hen Klansmen and Nazis opened fire at Greensboro’s Morningside Homes, the first thought of Bennett College student body president Sandi Smith seemed Ian McDowell to be getting children to safety. But it would have been her Contributor last thought because seconds later, she was shot between the eyes. Smith was one of four members of the Communist Workers Party killed during a 1979 attack now known as the Greensboro Massacre. A fifth anti-racism protestor (who was not a communist) would die in the hospital.

While the Greensboro Massacre was described for years in local media as a “shootout” among Communist Workers Party marchers, a caravan of KKK and American Nazi Party members, the historical consensus is that it was an act of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. One of the key findings of the 2006 Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report, was that “The [Greensboro Police Department] showed a stunning lack of curiosity in planning for the safety of the event,” and that the massacre probably would not have happened if the GPD had done their job.

While the commission stopped short of accusing the GPD of actively conspiring with the white supremacists, pages three and four of the report’s overall conclusion and recommendations indicated there was “strong evidence that members of the police department allowed their negative feelings toward Communists in general, and outspoken black activist and Workers’ Viewpoint Organization/CWP leader Nelson Johnson in particular, to color the perception of the threat posed by these groups. At the same time, we find that the GPD also exhibited a clear pattern of underestimating the risks posed by the KKK, which amounted to a careless disregard for the safety of the marchers and the residents of the Morningside neighborhood where the rally took place.”

In the conclusion of the report, commissioners also found that “both the GPD and key city managers deliberately misled the public” in order “to shift the responsiYES! WEEKLY

bility away from the police department.”

The report called this “an unfortunate pattern of official City response” that “appeared more concerned with protecting the city’s image and clamping down on citizen protest . . . than with meeting the needs of its most vulnerable citizens and helping the community process the event and heal.”

Unsurprisingly to both his admirers and detractors, Rev. Nelson Johnson has an even stronger view of the GPD’s culpability. In a recent interview at the Beloved Community Center, Johnson told YES! Weekly that the men who killed three of his friends and the young woman he considered family belonged to “a North American death squad facilitated by the Greensboro police.”

The following description of the massacre is derived from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro digital collections online article “The Greensboro Massacre”

by Rebecca Boger, Cat McDowell and David Gwynn, and “Sequence of events on November 3, 1979,” in chapter seven of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report.

In October 1979, the Communist Workers Party, which had been attempting to organize workers in Greensboro’s textile mills, announced a march to the Greensboro city hall from Morningside Homes, a low-income black community where many mill workers lived. In his application for a parade permit, CWP member and longtime Greensboro activist Johnson described the assembly point and route of the rally, which was given the title “Death to the Klan.”

The KKK had already been planning revenge for an earlier confrontation with the CWP in China Grove, where nobody was injured, but anti-Klan demonstrators burned the Confederate flag. The white supremacists were made aware of the planned Greensboro march from GPD informant Eddie Dawson, a longtime KKK member who, on the morning of the massacre, drove the pickup truck that led the KKK and Nazi caravan.

Dawson alerted the GPD that the Klan was planning violence at the upcoming march. The GPD did not pass on this warning to the marchers. Some in the department considered Johnson “dangerous,” due to Johnson’s involvement in the 1969 Dudley High/A&T State University protest that led to the Siege of A&T. Two days before the massacre, Dawson

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obtained a copy of the parade permit from the GPD and shared it with Klan and American Nazi Party members, alerting the white supremacists to where the rally would begin.

On the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, GPD Sergeant W. D. Comer warned officers of a potential confrontation between Klansmen and CWP members. That same morning, Detective Jerry Cooper received a call from Eddie Dawson informing him that Klansmen and Nazis were assembling at a Klansman’s home on Randleman Road. Cooper and police photographer J. T. Matthews were sent to photograph the caravan. They followed it toward Morningside Homes, and rather than attempting to halt the caravan, they pulled back and parked some blocks away. No GPD patrol cars were dispatched to the scene.

At 11:20 a.m., Cooper radioed GPD command that “nine or ten cars” of Nazis and Klansmen appeared to have arrived “at the parade formation point” and, even from that distance, could be heard

“driving through and heckling.” Again, no patrol cars were dispatched to the scene.

The white supremacists and marchers heckled each other, and some marchers beat on a caravan car with picket signs.

The first shots were fired from the lead car in the caravan. Some Klansmen and Nazis exited their cars and began fighting marchers, while others ran to the ninth car in their caravan and grabbed rifles from its trunk.

As Nazis and Klansmen fired on demonstrators, Smith and Claire Butler rushed a group of children to hide on the porch of the Morningside Homes community center. When Smith looked out to check for other children, she was shot and killed.

CWP members Jim Waller and Cesar Cauce engaged in a physical fight with several Klansmen and Nazis. When fired on, Waller ran for cover but was fatally shot in the back. Cesar Cauce was struck from behind with a club, then killed by a bullet through the back of his neck Other marchers took cover behind adjacent cars and a news van. Bill Sampson returned KKK fire with a pistol but was shot in the heart. Standing in the intersection, pediatrician Michael Nathan was shot twice in the head. When CWP member Jim Wrenn ran to pull Nathan to safety, Wrenn was shot nine times.

The encounter lasted 18 seconds and ended with Smith, Waller, Cauce and Sampson dead at the scene. The critically wounded Michael Nathan and Jim Wrenn were taken to the hospital, along with CWP member Paul Bermanzohn, who underwent brain surgery that saved his life, but left him with permanent paralysis on his left side. Wrenn also had brain surgery and was put on life support, but survived.

Nathan died two days later.

Nine other protestors and one Klansman were also injured. Among the wounded was Nelson Johnson. In a 2017 FOX 8 report in the wake of Charlottesville, Johnson displayed the scar on his arm from the knife blade that passed through it.

On Nov. 4, warrants were issued for Klansmen and Nazis identified in eyewitness testimony and news footage. Charged with murder were David Matthews, Jerry Smith, Jack Fowler, Harold Flowers and Billy Joe Franklin.

On June 16, jury selection began. According to Elizabeth Wheaton’s Codename Greenkill: The 1979 Greensboro Killings, 94 African-Americans were in the jury pool.

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Seventy-eight were dismissed for cause.

The defense then ruled out the remaining sixteen, creating an all-white jury that included a virulently anti-communist Cuban exile. All the defendants were acquitted on the grounds of self-defense.

“The trial ended up being not about what actually happened,” said Johnson in last week’s interview, “but about the alleged evils of communism. The Cambodian genocide was fresh in the news, and the DA allowed the defense to present us as the moral equivalent of Pol Pot. Our refusal to take part in this farce was why we were accused of blowing the trial. But we had nothing to offer that the police didn’t know, and the only reason we would have been put on the stand was so that the defense could badger us over the question of communism. This was admitted by the Klan’s lawyers who took part in the Truth and Reconciliation process, where they stated they would have ‘ate us up’ if we’d taken the stand.”

The killers were also acquitted in a 1984 Federal criminal civil rights trial, in which the defense successfully argued that the Klansmen and Nazis did not attack the marchers out of racial hatred, but out of anti-communist fervor.

In a successful 1985 civil suit, a Christie Institute legal team led by Lewis Pitts and Daniel Sheehan of Greensboro, Durham attorney Carolyn McAllaster and Flint Taylor of the People’s Law Office of Chicago won the only liability to result from the massacre. Two Klansmen, three Nazis, two Greensboro police officers, and a police informant were found liable for the wrongful death of non-CWP demonstrator Dr. Michael Nathan, and for injuries to survivors Paul Bermanzohn and Tom Clark.

“About 15 years after that trial, a man came by this office and told me that he was the only black person on that jury,” Johnson said. “He said that the white members of the jury did not want to find anybody liable, but that he insisted the evidence is overwhelming and said he wasn’t leaving until somebody was found guilty. He said he felt a lot more should have happened, but that was the compromise that they reached.”

Johnson said before the massacre, he would have never believed that the KKK would dare come into a black neighborhood and shoot people in broad daylight-not in the 1970s, and not in the presence of the police.

“But of course, the police weren’t there,” he continued. “They knew in advance that the Klan was coming, knew that they were armed, saw the weapons in their car, drove behind this caravan of Klansmen and Nazis who had a trunk full of concealed weapons, and didn’t stop WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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them, didn’t call for any help, and stepped away from the march and took pictures.

It wasn’t a shootout, it was the murder of five wonderful people, and it’s now clear to me that the Greensboro Police were up to their necks in it.”

So were, Johnson alleged, the ATF and the FBI. “As early as March 1979, those agencies had taped Klansman Roland Wayne Woods saying he ‘planned to kill some niggers.’ Those were his words.”

Johnson said this was discovered during depositions in the 1985 civil suit. “The police were not the smartest crooks in the world because they put all this in their file, so we were able to depose them, and that’s why we know what we know. When this happened on Nov. 3, we had none of this information.”

I asked Johnson to help put human faces on the five murdered demonstrators and labor organizers, whom he called “some of the best individuals that it has been my pleasure to know and to work with.”

Johnson described his friend Jim Waller,

a former Duke professor who co-founded the Carolina Brown Lung Association and left his medical practice to organize textile workers, as a humble and soft-spoken man. “He was a pediatrician who took care of my two daughters, and he worked in the Cone Mills plant at night on second shift and actually went to people’s homes and took care of their children.”

Johnson said he didn’t know Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Durham’s Lincoln Community Health Center, as well as he knew the others. “He was there as the physician for the march. We had some older people there, and Michael had his little medical kit, and he was there to help them or anyone else who needed it. I think he was there to try to go to someone who was shot when he was in the open and shot flush in the face.”

William Sampson, a Harvard Divinity School graduate and medical student active in civil rights, worked at the Cone Mills White Oak plant. “He had done a heck of a job of building up the union there, becoming the lead organizer at the largest denim

producing factory in the world.”

Johnson also praised the dedication of Cesar Cauce, a Cuban immigrant who graduated magna cum laude from Duke, worked in the anti-war movement and was the brother of Ana Mari Cauce, the current president of the University of Washington.

“He had organized non-academic workers at Duke and workers at chicken factories. When the shooting began, I saw him just standing there with a stick in his hand, as he’d been about to put a sign on it. The next time I saw him, he was slumped on the ground after being shot through the heart.”

Then there was Sandi Smith.

“Sandi lived with my family while she was at Bennett College, where she became the student government president.

My children called her Auntie Sandi, and I called her sister. She was a bold young woman, but a very pleasant one, never afraid to take a stand, and always challenging those around her to do the same.

You couldn’t be elected an SGA president at Bennet without being a pretty good person. She died getting my children to safety.”

“All of these were good people, but they were also good organizers.”

Johnson said that’s what he believes got them killed, their dedication to organizing the textile mills, and the workers they were attracting.

“There were two textile mills in Virginia that we were working in. One was in Martinsville, and the other was in Danville, and workers were coming from both of those. Workers were also coming from Haw River halfway between Goldsboro and Durham. People were coming from Durham, some of whom worked at Duke.

We had worked with the sanitation workers in Rocky Mount, and many of them were coming. That’s what the GPD wanted to stop.”

“I had been active in Greensboro organizing in the black community for about 13 years before ’79, and we had won some victories, and built good relationships with the NAAC and the ministers who had helped us win those victories. So now we had black and white workers coming from the textile mills and beginning to merge with the historically black community, which had a real grassroots base called the Greensboro Poor People’s Organization. That was linked to the middle-class black community. That was the target; the massacre was meant to arrest that movement.” !

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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Artist gives ‘The Ladies’ a makeover Halloween may be upon us, but these eerie, haunting mannequin heads are not holiday-inspired.

They are repurposed and created by Noelle Lynch, who calls them “The Ladies,” and says they “scare Terry Rader the crap out of people!”

“The Ladies” are Contributor and continue to be Lynch’s way of expressing herself in a three-dimensional art form.

Lynch, a Virginia native, is a visual artist and writer who spends part of her time in Winston-Salem visiting her fiancé’s family. Lynch said she started out with a pen, ink and oil pastels. Then, she expanded creatively after getting her own space.

She said that while working in Chicago, her coworker had a neighbor that used to hide the “grubby and unadorned” mannequin heads in the trash can outside of his house to scare her coworker when he got home off of work at 5 a.m. So, she said he started stealing the mannequin heads and gifting them to her.

Lynch described how she began having fun with the heads and named the first one “The First Lady,” which would never leave her side. Her tools include soldering irons, blowtorches, box-cutters, nails, hammers, wire and paint. Being a former chef, Lynch said she is used to working with her hands and picking up things that are hot. Presently, she doesn’t have a studio but works on “The Ladies” outside in a courtyard where she lives.

Before that, she lived in an older threebedroom house and worked out of one of the bedrooms with the window raised.

“It’s such an intense process when you’re working on one, you have to be aware of what the head is made of, and you must have a properly ventilated area,” she said.

If you want to create your own mannequin heads, Lynch said there are lots of places you can go to find the little heads being disposed of by beauticians in training. The heads could also be found for cheap online.

“I call them Lil’ Orphan Annies,” she said of the mannequin heads.

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them. She said folks could hollow out a plastic head and make a Jack-o-lantern, or a “manic-o-lantern” as her partner Hart Fowler, an independent journalist who collaborates with her on some of her fiction work, affectionately calls them.

Lynch said she prefers to use Styrofoam heads covered in rubber. She uses blowtorches because the rubber coating is “much more resilient than you would think.” She heats the wire with the blowtorch to soften it and then drives it into the rubber. She said that her fingertips still hurt just thinking about peeling back the rubber for the “The First Lady,” whose skull is sliced open in the back and sewn shut with metal wire. She said it took a lot of meticulous wirework, making stitches to sew up the mouth, plus hours and hours to peel back the rubber by hand.

The four ladies are “African Princess,” that she said had “nails that were very hard to drive in;” “The First Lady,” which is Lynch’s most beloved; “Met-al,” which she said is covered in gauze and painted to “look like a cast;” and the “Flower Girl,” which has the back of her neck ripped off. Lynch said they each take a form on their own because she likes “good symmetry for my girls.”

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about “The Ladies” is that they proudly hold their heads high and never hold their heads down.

“It’s very therapeutic,” Lynch said. “I’ve been through quite a bit in my life. It’s pretty zen and requires focus as you very much can hurt yourself badly using the kind of tools I do.”

Out of 25 heads to date, some of “The Ladies” have been sold; some have been commissioned, and there are some that Lynch is not ready to let go of yet. And there is no doubt there will be more to come.

“If someone commissions me for a

head, I ask them to give me the feeling of what they want, but I can’t say how it will turn out,” she said. “Please don’t ask me for a color scheme. I’m going to work in red and black mostly.”

Going forward, Lynch is actively working on dividing time between her writing, visual art, podcasting and recording.

She is presently writing a fiction novel and has quite a few fiction pieces in the works. She is open to talking to galleries and for representation opportunities.

“When we first moved into our new apartment, we placed the heads all around, with some looking out a picturesized window as well as some placed around our home,” Fowler said. “The ones facing outward offer a sense of voodoo-like protection, and we get good laughs about what the neighbors might think.” !

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

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Budd, Walker to appear on Triad Today Over the past few months, public discourse in America has been hijacked by talk of impeachment and scandal.

That’s why when 13th district Congressman Ted Budd and 6th district CongressJim Longworth man Mark Walker agreed to sit down for a half-hour Longworth discussion, we foat Large cused on a number of issues that have taken a back seat to partisan politics. On Oct. 9, while on break from their duties in D.C., Budd and Walker stopped by the studio to tape a special edition of Triad Today, which will air this weekend. The following are excerpts from our unrehearsed conversation.

GUN VIOLENCE Jim: Just since the two of you appeared on this program in March, there

what it’s been historically, and that’s what it should be in the future.

Walker: The State legislature should be able to draw those lines because they are the representatives of the people of that state.

CAMPAIGN DONATIONS Jim: Both of you and many other elected officials have been touched in some way by the case involving former Congressman Robin Hayes. What do you do with campaign donations which you later discover to be tainted in some way?

Budd: In cases like that, the best practice is to give the money to a charity, and let them benefit from that, and just distance yourself from it.

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Budd: There are a couple of bills I’ve co-sponsored, one of which is the TAPS Act. It trains law enforcement personnel to make behavioral threat assessments and to look for problems before they happen.

Walker: We’ve passed multiple pieces of legislation, including the Stop School Violence Act. We’ve also got the Fix/ Nix Act that cleans up some of the background checks. And, just recently, in Guilford and Rockingham counties, we saw a $500,000 grant go to protecting schools.

SECURING ELECTIONS Jim: Are you doing anything to secure our 2020 elections?

Budd: One bill that’s already passed the Senate is the Deter Act, and it would deport anyone who is a non-U.S. citizen who’s here trying to infiltrate or overturn our elections. There are also other measures related to “Blockchain” security, which is the future in terms of preventing cyber hacking.

Walker: We’ve designated $380 million back to the electoral commission system to make sure that older voting machines are not vulnerable like maybe they have been in the past.

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Walker: The maximum somebody can give to both campaigns is $5,800. With the gentleman involved in that case, we gave the money to charity.

HEALTHCARE Jim: It doesn’t seem as though we have a cohesive healthcare plan. So where do we stand?

Budd: One of the things I’ve done is introduce the Flex Act, which codifies some of the administration’s efforts to allow associations to offer healthcare plans to small businesses.

Walker: Obamacare is still the law of the land, but evidently it isn’t good enough. The bottom line for me, is it about choice for the individual? Or, is it about more control? If it’s about more choice, then let’s go down that path as opposed to more government involvement.

During the half-hour discussion, Budd and Walker also talked about how to curb illegal immigration, what kinds of legislation they are proposing to strengthen education and workforce development, and whether we’d be better off without the Electoral College. I also asked them if they were afraid to criticize Donald Trump for fear that he would campaign against their re-election. This special edition of Triad Today airs Saturday at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45, and Sunday at 11 a.m. on MY48. !

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.C. Taylor, who performs and records under the name Hiss Golden Messenger, has done all kinds of collaborative musical projects — working with a rotating cast John Adamian of side musicians, @adamianjohn bluegrass string players, horn-sections, back-up singers, apContributor pearing on epic tribute albums, getting dub-style remixes and more — but he’s never done anything quite like this. Before this portion of his career, Taylor fronted a harcore band and an indie rock band, but he’s never performed his songs with the lush backing of members of a symphony orchestra. Admittedly, it’s not the kind of opportunity that presents itself to every songwriter with an acoustic guitar. Hiss Golden Messenger will perform at the Ramkat in Winston-Salem on Sat., Nov 2, as a part of the Symphony Unbound series created by the Winston-Salem Symphony as a way of taking classical music out of the concert hall and teaming up with contemporary artists.

I spoke to Taylor last week by phone from his home in Durham.

“I have never done a show like this,” Taylor said. “The bulk of the work is really on the symphony. They have their written parts. And I’m playing the songs the way I always do. But we talked a lot about what songs would lend themselves to this setting. I’m very excited to see what this feels like.”

However it might feel for Taylor, it’s bound to be interesting and somewhat novel for most of the club-goers and Hiss Golden Messenger fans. It’s a safe bet that no one will have been to a rock club and gotten to hear the jazzy and angular modernism of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale,” which is what the orchestral players will perform before Hiss Golden Messenger takes the stage.

If there’s a loose connection to be made between Stravinsky and Taylor, it might be that both have drawn on aspects of folk tradition, picking snippets and themes and running with them in their own work.

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documenting folk musicians for the state.

That experience probably gave Taylor a deep insight into the interplay between African-American, Anglo-European, Latin American and other musical traditions.

But in terms of the structural connections of themes, melodies and styles, his work documenting folk performers also showed Taylor things about the manner in which individual musicians can live with the material, the songs and the sound, in an organic and real fashion.

“I got to see the way that people could exist with music in a small and personal way,” he.

Music and songs sustain people, the stories and melodies are durable and comforting. Timeless truths and life lessons can get embedded in simple-sounding tunes. Taylor’s songs tap into that. They feel familiar, like something new fashioned of old things. Gospel, old time, country, roots, soul, and folk all bump up against each other on Hiss Golden Messenger albums. The recordings can bring to mind Van Morrison, the Band, Kris Kristofferson, or JJ Cale. There’s a warmth, a home-spun grit and grain, and a slightly mystic wisdom, all delivered with confidence and restraint.

As the story goes, Taylor recorded the initial batch of what became Hiss Golden Messenger songs while sitting up late at his kitchen table, trying not to wake his wife and young child as they slept. He was making music in that small and personal way that he had seen. The songs had

elemental features of the natural world, characters finding redemption in strange places, bits of scriptural language, and familiar details of the American landscape.

Taylor has an almost Jimmy Webb-like knack for folding in the ear-catching names of cities and rivers from around the South. Gulfport, Biloxi, Pittsboro, the Nantahala, and the Haw, all show up in his songs.

“I do love a good place name,” he said.

Those geographical details, the Biblical references, and the wealth of characters in Taylor’s songs all impart a slight Southern-fiction quality. The hypnotic song “Jesus Shot Me In The Head,” from 2012’s Poor Moon, seems to toggle between stories of Jesus in the Holy Land and tales of someone else’s excess, drinking and shooting pool in Tulsa.

Hiss Golden Messenger has put out 11 studio records in as many years, the most recent being Terms of Surrender, released this fall. Over the course of that stretch Taylor has moved away a little from the overt references to the bible. He has said that he approached those allusions, almost from a folkloric perspective, as a way of plugging into a body of stories, characters and situations, that even nonbelievers might be familiar with. But once people began to expect that from him, he shifted gears. He wanted to find a new way of achieving the same ends.

Taylor told me that he thought literature, compelling stories, and captivating turns of phrase work the same whether

they’re in a Homeric epic of a Barry Hannah novel.

“I think there’s kind of a permanent human language that has existed for ever and exists to this day,” Taylor said.

The search for direction and inspiration and a spiritual compass has always been present in Taylor’s lyrics. “I Need A Teacher,” the first track off of the most recent album, has lines about finding “beauty in the broken American moment,” with nudges to not be jaded, because it spoils the way we carry ourselves and radiate our spirits out into the world. Another song, “Bright Direction,” focuses on keeping oneself pointed toward the things that matter, not getting bogged down in the past, perhaps. “Backwards won’t get me to my destination,” he sings.

When I suggest that over the course of his career Taylor’s music, themes and delivery have gotten less menacing, he offers a gentle reframing of my perspective.

“To me, the darkness has grown more complex,” he said. !

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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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 oct 31: Roosevelt Collier, Marvelous Funkshun nov 2: Symphony unbound: his golden Messenger 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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207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com

WiSE Man BREWing

826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008 oct 30: turpentine Shine nov 8: Souljam nov 16: Emma’s lounge dec 4: CBh

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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.boplex.com

cmcu amphithEatrE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com

thE FillmorE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com oct 31: liquid Stranger nov 2: thievery corporation nov 3: jidenna nov 4: hobo johnson & the lovemakers nov 5: the neighbourhood nov 8: ganja White night nov 9: big K.r.i.t. nov 16: gravity nov 17: conan gray nov 19: highly Suspect

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com

pnc muSic pavilion 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com

nov 15: Sullivan King nov 19: Waterparks nov 20: the menzingers

durham

carolina thEatrE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org nov 1-2: Sojam 2019 nov 14: mary chapin carpenter & Shawn colvin nov 15: tanya tucker

dpac

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com oct 30: Kevin gates w/ YK osiris, rod Wave & Sdot Fresh nov 12: third Eye blind nov 13: rEo Speedwagon nov 16: Kansas nov 18: the last Waltz tour ft.

Warren haynes, jamey johnson, lukas nelson, john medeski, don Was & more nov 20: the doobi brothers

greensboro

grEEnSboro coliSEum 1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com nov 2: bad bunny nov 15: casting crowns, hillsong Worship, & Elevation Worship nov 16: banda mS

piEdmont hall

2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400 www.greensborocoliseum.com nov 2: Elvis costello

WhitE oaK ampithEatrE

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

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high point thEatrE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com nov 1: lee rocker nov 3: vienna boys choir nov 12: uS army concert band & Soldiers’ chorus nov 16: a brother’s revival

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 nov 3: Slayer w/ primus, ministry, and phil anselmo & the illegals nov 8: the black Keys nov 19: the 1975 nov 20: trans-Siberian orchestra

Winston-salem

WinSton-SalEm Fairground 421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com

carolina thEatrE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com nov 1: the voodoo orchestra 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

SpEctrum cEntEr

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com nov 1: mercyme w/ crowder & micah tyler nov 6: Elton john nov 20: jonas brothers

thE undErground

820 Hamilton St, Charlotte | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorenc.com oct 30: cavetown oct 31: Scotty Sire w/ toddy Smith ft. bruce Wiegner & chris bloom nov 1: clairo nov 2: nile nov 4: hammerfall nov 5: alejandro aranda is Scarypoolparty nov 9: Shoreline mafia nov 10: the hu nov 14: Kim petras

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BAR: Boxcar Bar + Arcade (Greensboro) AGE: 43 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? West Deptford, NJ HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? About six months.

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I started as a bar back, and after a while, I became eager to learn how to make drinks, so on slow nights during the week, I asked a lot of questions, and I had a few amazing bartenders teach me. And around six months ago, Kristen Mantz gave me a chance, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it since.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? Easily the people I have learned from and the people I get a chance to work with every night.

I’ve never worked with such a great group of people; they don’t mind answering all my questions, even on busy nights.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? Anything new, being so new at this, I really enjoy learning how to make new drinks.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Sycamore Psychedelic Flow WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Any drink when you are around family and

friends. I’m simple; my go-to is an IPA or occasionally a shot of whiskey or scotch.

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I’m a single man in my 30s, and I don’t want a relationship right now. I keep meeting women online who say they only want something casual.

Amy Alkon Then, on the first or second date, it Advice becomes obvious Goddess that they want a relationship, not just fun and sex. What’s with the bait and switch? — Annoyed Nothing like arriving for your reservation at a steak house only to be told, “We’re out of a few things tonight — everything made of cow. But good news!

We’ve still got carrot kebabs, cauliflower schnitzel, and kelp stroganoff!”

Women who bait and switch like this — revealing their relationshippy intentions between the appetizers and the end of date two — are reflecting what evolutionary psychologists David Buss and

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David Schmitt call men’s and women’s conflicting “sexual strategies.” These are best summed up as “happily ever after” for women versus “hookupily ever after” for men.

These differences in sexual strategy trace to differences in “obligatory parental investment.” This refers to how a man can bolt after sex — “Thanks, but I’ll pass on doing the dad thing!” — while a woman can get pregnant and stuck with a kid to drag around and feed.

Accordingly, Buss and Schmitt explain that women typically benefit most from a “long-term sexual strategy,” vetting men to see whether they’d commit, meaning stick around to invest in any children that might come out of sex.

Men, however, benefit most (that is, leave more descendants carrying their genes) from a “short-term sexual strategy” — having casual sex with a variety of hot-erellas.

This doesn’t mean that men never want to commit or that women never want to hook up. They do this when circumstances make it in their best interest.

But because men and women coevolved, they are at least subconsciously aware

of each other’s intentions and shade the truth to put themselves in the most “marketable” light. So, men often act more interested in commitment than they actually are (in hopes of getting sex) and women often act less interested, in hopes of ensnaring Harry Hookup and turning him into Harry the Husband.

It probably makes sense to err on the side of assuming a woman will want commitment, whether she knows or articulates that or not. Opt for my “cheap, short, and local” advice for first and second dates: Meet for happy hour drinks or coffee for an hour or two, max.

You still might get women who said they just want casual fun going gooey on you at the end of date two. At least you won’t have shelled out for filet mignon and fine wine only to hear the no-stringsattached sex version of “First 100 callers get a free TV!” ... “Oh, sorry, sir...you’re caller 101.”

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My girlfriends are all writing out their visions for a partner, as if they’ve met him already (“Thank you, universe, for bringing me this man...”). They claim they’ve

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gotten boyfriends because of it. Is this just New Age crap, or is there something to writing down what you want? — Boyfriend-Seeking This apparently is a thing, women writing a letter about the man of their dreams and then feeling like they ordered online from the universe: “My man’s on his way. Just waiting for the tracking number!”

Once they get a boyfriend, the belief that their letter writing made it happen comes out of a common cognitive bias — a hiccup in rational thinking — called the “illusion of control.” This term, coined by psychologist Ellen Langer, describes people’s tendency to believe they have control over outcomes that they obviously do not. An example of this is gamblers blowing on dice — and not because the dice have complained bitterly that they are freezing to death and left their tiny square cardigans at home.

Ironically, the fact that it’s irrational to do this doesn’t mean it’s unhelpful. Research by psychologists Michael I. Norton and Francesca Gino finds that a ritual, a “symbolic activity” a person performs in hopes of making something happen, tends to increase their “feelings of control” over situations in which outcomes are uncertain. This, in turn, decreases the stress they feel.

In other words, it’s possible that the ceremonial act of writing a “Dear Santa” letter to the universe could make a woman more appealing to men by calming her down and getting her to act less crazy and desperate. It’s like putting in an order at a restaurant. You have faith your dinner is coming; you don’t stalk the waiter on Instagram and text him 30 times, alternating pictures of your boobs with plaintive questions and abuse: “Is the chef okay? ... Are you on a smoke break? ... I bet you gave my steak to a prettier girl. ... You’re a terrible waiter. ... I hate you.” !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2019 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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