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SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2019 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 38

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WOODS OF TERROR

Publisher CHARLES A. WOMACK III

MCLAURIN opened the Woods of Terror at 5601 N. Church in Greensboro in 1991.

It seems safe to say that the popular Halloween attraction has become his life’s work. It’s certainly his year-round job. “I’ve been doing it full-time for 12 or 13 years now, and I put 90% of my profits back into it. When I’m not running the show [which he also performs in as character called Bone Daddy, along with his big yellow python, Spawn], he’s working on the next one.

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Once again, the temperature belies the calendar, but we know cooler temperatures are just around the corner and I thought what better time to arm you with some recipes for a warm, DELICIOUS SOUP. One from myself, one is my mama’s veggie beef, one from my friend, Ericca who’s food always looks and is incredible and two recipes from favorite chefs.

10 The “50+ Artists Community” founder Bobby Craddock is inviting everyone in the Triad to attend the third free three-day 50+ ART SHOW and Sale with artists aged 50 young and beyond on Sept. 27-29 at Bell Campus at 2400 Summit Avenue in Greensboro.

11 At the RiverRun International Film Festival, they’re not fiddling around. Well, actually, they are – as Winston-Salem’s premier film festival will screen the award-winning documentary feature FIDDLIN’ Wednesday, Sept.

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ment of the epic big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 best seller.

18 On Sept. 11, the City of Greensboro’s attorneys filed their SECOND APPEAL of the gag order that prevents from discussing the police body camera videos of Zared Jones’ 2016 arrest.

19 VOTER SUPPRESSION has been an ugly part of the American fabric for our entire history. Slavery, of course, was the ultimate method of suppressing votes, but it was just one example among many. Long-standing misogynistic societal norms, for example, kept women in the home and away from the polls for more than 300 years after Jamestown was settled.

26 JOHN VANDERSLICE is way into hip-hop. To know that fact will give listeners a little insight into the roots of the dramatic experimentation and sonic abstraction on Vanderslice’s most recent record, The Cedars, released earlier this year.

27 THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES, the latest HBO show from the folks who brought Kenny Powers to life, is set around a Charleston mega-church empire, starring John Goodman as the patriarchal pastor...

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DISTRIBUTION JANICE GANTT KARRIGAN MUNRO We at YES! Weekly realize that the interest of our readers goes well beyond the boundaries of the Piedmont Triad. Therefore we are dedicated to informing and entertaining with thought-provoking, debate-spurring, in-depth investigative news stories and features of local, national and international scope, and opinion grounded in reason, as well as providing the most comprehensive entertainment and arts coverage in the Triad. YES! Weekly welcomes submissions of all kinds. Efforts will be made to return those with a self-addressed stamped envelope; however YES! Weekly assumes no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. YES! Weekly is published every Wednesday by Womack Newspapers, Inc. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. First copy is free, all additional copies are $1.00. Copyright 2019 Womack Newspapers, Inc.

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

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FRI 20 INK & ARMS EXPO WHAT: The 2019 Expo will feature over tattoo artists from around the globe, pew pew dealers, exhibitors, including a variety of gear, clothing, and novelty vendors. Show attendees will have the opportunity to get tattooed, converse with pew pew enthusiast, participate in seminars and demonstrations, enjoy sideshow performances, and participate in the Ink and Arms Tattoo Contest during the weekend festivities.

WHEN: Inkandarms.com for schedule.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro.

MORE: $15-40 tickets.

FRI 20 STORM BOXCAR AREA 51 PARTY WHAT: Details If you can’t make it to Area 51, then we’ve got the next best thing! Make your way to Boxcar’s main bar on Friday, September 20th from 9pm-1am to storm Boxcar for some paranormal fun, including DJ MrlmReady, spinning live techno & house hits, fun, alien-themed cocktails & more!

WHEN: 9 p.m. -1 a.m.

WHERE: Boxcar Bar + Arcade.

120 W Lewis St, Greensboro.

MORE: Free entry.

INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE SATURDAY

SAT 21 2019 INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE FOOD AND MUSIC FESTIVAL WHAT: Corpening Plaza will showcase the international backgrounds and heritage of Winston-Salem’s local residents. Featuring global cuisine, entertainment by cultural organizations, international crafts for purchase, and education about our international community, International Village is a trip around the world in one park!

WHEN: Noon - 7 p.m.

WHERE: Corpening Plaza.

231 1st St W, Winston-Salem.

MORE: cityofws.com for more information.

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JOYMONGERS OKTOBERFEST COAST TO CURB SEAFOOD CELEBRATION WHAT: Join us to celebrate the first day of the traditional German Oktoberfest on September 21st! We will be releasing our annual traditional Oktoberfest style beer at the event. The LoFi park will be open and we will have food trucks and live music throughout the day!

WHEN: Noon to midnight.

WHERE: Blank Center, 123 Oak Street, Winston-Salem MORE: Free entry.

WHAT: Celebrate North Carolina’s bounty from the sea and land at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market’s (GFM) very first Coast to Curb Seafood Celebration fundraiser featuring NC shrimp, oysters and crabs. This “Sea to Table” event will raise vital funds for the Market’s food security programs.

WHEN: 4 - 7 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Farmers Curb Market.

501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro.

MORE: $35 tickets per plate. Tickets for the cash bar can be purchased for $5 the day of.

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WINSTON-SALEM FASHION WEEK

BY KATIE MURAWSKI

Nikita Wallace, the founder of Winston-Salem Fashion Week, said this year’s event would be much different from prior years because of expansion and new partnerships. Wallace said the festivities would kick off on Friday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. at the Winston Cup Museum, 1355 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. The headliner partner, Champion, will present three emerging artists at 7 p.m. for the Bailey Power Plant Coal Pit Urban Street Designer Showcase, located at 445 Patterson Ave. Wallace said there are 13 designers this year and over 80 models. WSFW is also partnering with SECCA, which just opened a Fashion in Winston-Salem exhibit on Sept. 12 that will run until Oct. 6. Although the opening night reception is on Friday, there is an access center panel discussion happening on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 486 Patterson Ave. Ste. 21, starting at 6 p.m. The LEAD Girls of N.C. will be presenting their looks from their six-week fashion program at the opening night reception as well.

“I am really excited about partnering with SECCA as well as Champion coming on and just being the headliner,” Wallace said. “I really wanted to do an Urban Street Style category, and we are very excited to do that this year and highlight young designers who are into street style.”

Wallace said the City of WinstonSalem and its representatives are very supportive of WSFW. Mayor Allen Joines, Councilwoman D.D. Adams, and Councilwoman Annette Scippio are among some of the local celebrities that will appear at WSFW this weekend.

“I am excited to see that the city is embracing it and are more open and receptive to the wonderful possibilities fashion could bring to the city,” Wallace said. “Showing the fashion aspect of each [individual], I think it has made a big impact, and I see a bigger impact as we go.”

Wallace said some of the designers presenting work are Nannette Davis, who works with various metals and focuses on statement pieces. Wallace

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said Davis just returned from showing her work at New York Fashion Week, and one piece, in particular, stuck out to Wallace.

“She has this one piece where it drips down her back like a waterfall; it cascades down the back; she makes these by hand using metal pieces,” Wallace said. “Just the little sneak peeks that I have seen are phenomenal,” Wallace added, noting the other designers’ works.

Other designers include Swynette Stone, who presently has her unique hat design on display at SECCA; 16-year-old Ariona Brewster, who will be presenting her first full collection; and DoGoodArtist Iris Cole returning and collaborating with Carol Reeve on a collection called “SHEtali.”

“We have already established that we have great visual and performing arts here, and just think about fashion in the midst,” Wallace said. “I think it is carrying out the City of Arts and Innovation initiative. I see it impacting college students that are graduating. Instead of leaving the city, I think it will be an opportunity to create jobs so that they can stay. It is also an opportunity for the City of Winston-Salem to become a tourist destination.”

On Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. at Corpening Plaza, located at 231 1st St. W., WSFW will be present at the International Village Food and Music Festival.

Then on Saturday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m., is the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Designer Showcase, located at 575 Patterson Ave. On Sunday, WSFW will come to a close with the retail and boutique showcase starting at 5:30 p.m. at the same location.

Sponsors for WSFW include JCPenny, Winston-Salem Chamber, SECCA, Dewey’s Bakery, Champion, Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, Once Logix, Winston Cup Museum Special Events Center, Royalty Marketing, HanesBrands Inc., Goodwill of Northwest North Carolina, Hanes Mall and YES! Weekly.

For more information, visit www. wsfashionweek.com/. !

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nce again, the temperature belies the calendar, but we know cooler temperatures are just around the corner. So, what better time to arm you Kristi Maier with some recipes @triadfoodies for a warm, delicious soup? One recipe is from myself; one is Contributor from my mama; two are from my favorite chefs; and one is from my friend, Ericca, whose food is always incredible. These easy soups are perfect for a chilly night and will leave you with a full, warm belly and leftovers!

Zuppa Toscana Recipe by Kristi Maier

Creamy Tomato and Herb Soup

This popular soup from Olive Garden is made even better at home. You can modify to make it less spicy with mild sausage.

(I love SausageWorks sausage from Lowes Foods in this soup, and sometimes get a blend of their garlicky Vampire Slayer with Hot Italian.)

This soup has been our pre-Halloween tradition for years and years. It is perfect on cold, dreary nights, and especially stuffy nose days.

Ingredients 1-2 pounds of hot Italian sausage (links or ground; ground is easier, but links are more true to the original) Two cloves of garlic, finely chopped (or equivalent garlic powder) 1 teaspoon of minced onion Four to five medium-sized Russet potatoes, roughly cut into bite-size pieces or sliced thin 4 cups of kale chopped in bite-size pieces 4 cups of chicken broth or stock ½-1 cup of heavy cream, milk or halfand-half (depending on how creamy you want it) ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes Salt and pepper to taste In a Dutch oven or large pot, brown the sausage. If you use links, take them out, let them cool a bit, then slice at ½-inch thickness. They may come out of their casings a bit doing this, but that’s OK. Add

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garlic, dried onion and potatoes to the pot, so they soak up some of the rendered juices from the sausage. Add kale, stock, salt, pepper and pepper flakes, then bring to a boil. At this point, if you want to add milk, do so. If you are adding cream, add it after the potatoes are nearly tender.

Don’t boil the heavy cream too hard, or it could curdle, but it won’t affect the taste if it does. Soup is ready after about 30 minutes (but tastes better when cooked longer). Serve with warm crusty bread.

Creamy Tomato and Herb Soup Recipe by Chef Harrison Littell Ingredients 2 pounds of chopped fresh tomatoes Two 64-ounce cans San Marzano tomatoes with juice 3 cups of onion, chopped Eight cloves of garlic, chopped 1 cup of chives 1 cup of packed basil leaves 1 cup of red wine ¼ cup of extra virgin olive oil ½ pound of butter 4 cups of heavy cream 4 cups of milk Salt and pepper to taste 3 cups of vegetable stock (optional if you don’t want it thick) Sautée onions and garlic in oil for five minutes until tender, and starting to caramelize. Deglaze the pan with red wine.

Add tomatoes and simmer for 15 minutes.

Add creams, butter, chives, salt and pepper. Simmer for 15-20 minutes then bring up to a boil. Add basil and blend. Serve with bread, or better yet, a grilled cheese.

Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe by Sara Vestal, from “Favorites From Our Table” This is my mom’s vegetable soup, which is a tried-and-true recipe for a lot of folks.

I definitely wanted to share it because it’s super easy, adaptable and delicious. It’s a great vegetarian option, too.

Ingredients ½-1 pound of ground beef Two 15-ounce cans of Veg-All or 4 cups of frozen soup vegetables Two 15-ounce cans of tomato sauce 2-4 cups of water Three dashes of A-1 Steak Sauce or similar steak sauce Garlic powder to taste

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Onion powder to taste 3-4 dashes of Texas Pete 1 teaspoon of sugar ¼ teaspoon of salt Pepper to taste Cooking oil In a pot, heat a small amount of oil.

Crumble and brown the ground beef. Add remaining ingredients and bring to a light boil. You can add any number of herbs, seasonings or spices here. Check for taste and enjoy! (If you’re interested in purchasing Sara Vestal’s cookbook, Favorites From Our Table, visit triadfoodies.com.)

Galician White Bean Soup Recipe by Chef Jay Pierce Ingredients 1 pound of dried Cannellini beans 1½ tablespoon of canola oil 1½ teaspoon of chopped garlic 2 quarts of chicken stock 1-inch sprig fresh rosemary 1 tablespoon of Kosher salt 3 tablespoons of canola oil 3 cups of diced yellow onions 2 tablespoons of chopped garlic 3 tablespoons of chopped rosemary One bay leaf ½ teaspoon of Kosher salt ¼ teaspoon of ground white pepper 1 pound of kale, destemmed, washed, dried, roughly chopped ½ pound of Merguez sausage, rendered Note: Merguez is a spicy lamb sausage that can be found at many farmers markets.

Soak beans in water overnight. Discard water before using. Heat canola oil in a large pot over medium heat, and add garlic and cook until soft for two to three minutes. Add drained beans, chicken stock, rosemary and salt. Bring to a simmer and cook for 40-45 minutes until beans are al dente. If the beans are too dry, you may need to add more water.

Remove from heat and discard rosemary sprig. In another pot, heat canola oil over medium-high heat, add onions and garlic.

Cook until onions are translucent (five to seven minutes). Add previously cooked beans, bay leaf, chopped rosemary and chicken stock. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and cook for 30 minutes.Stir kale and Merguez into the soup, and simmer until the kale is wilted. (This recipe makes one gallon.)

Creamy Herb and Mushroom Soup Recipe and photo (at right) by Ericca Smith My friend Ericca always shares the most amazing recipes, and this creamy mushroom soup is a standout.

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Ingredients 1 pound of cremini (Baby Bella) mushrooms, sliced One box of beef stock (32-ounces) 1-1 ½ stick of sweet cream butter One sweet onion, chopped Four garlic cloves, chopped 2 cups of cooking sherry 1 cup parsley, chopped Five sprigs of thyme, bundled Five sprigs of rosemary, bundled Two fresh bay leaves 1 ½ cup of heavy cream 4 cups of milk Extra virgin olive oil Salt and fresh cracked pepper Note: Use a Dutch oven or heavybottomed pot. This is how you will achieve great caramelization on the mushrooms, and get those lovely brown bits that you’ll eventually scrape off the bottom. Cooking the mushrooms is the most important step! The same rich flavor may not be achieved otherwise.

Prepare them in batches to ensure that each mushroom is browned the way it deserves.

Warm your pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat, add a good drizzle of olive oil and the first 4 tablespoons of butter. Add in as many mushrooms as you can fit in a single layer. After five minutes, generously add salt and pepper. Cook them on each side until each one is caramelized, around 10 minutes per side. Use tongs to flip each mushroom to the opposing side. Add as much butter and olive oil as needed to keep them sautéing in their happy butter/EVOO pool. Remove the mushrooms from the pot as they are done caramelizing and set aside.

Add a good drizzle of EVOO to the pot.

Sautée onion with the rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, and a generous amount of salt and pepper for about five minutes. Add garlic and cook for a couple more minutes.

Place the mushrooms back into the pot with the onion, garlic and four more tablespoons of butter. Pour in 2 cups of sherry wine to deglaze the pot. Scrape brown bits off the bottom as much as you can. Once reduced by half, pour in the box of beef stock, heavy cream, milk and chopped parsley.

Simmer the soup as little or as long as you’d like (an hour is recommended).

Add in additional milk if it starts to thicken too much. Discard the herb bundles and taste for seasoning. !

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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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‘And Still We Create’: 50+ art show and sale

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he “50+ Artists Community” founder Bobby Craddock is inviting everyone in the Triad to attend the free, three-day 50+ Art Show and Sale on Terry Rader Sept. 27-29 at Bell Campus, 2400 Summit Ave. in GreensContributor boro. The “And Still We Create” show will feature works by over 30 artists ages 50 years young and beyond, as well as paintings, ceramics, metal, mixed-media and fiber art. The opening reception is on Friday evening from 5-9 p.m. with food and wine. Artists showcases are on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

Last year, Craddock said he came up with the idea of “The 50+ Project” to connect artists through creative projects. He has been networking and providing information and resources to artists since then, as well as creating an exhibition platform for artists 50 years and beyond.

“What is paramount to me with this show is pulling this all together for this group of artists,” Craddock said. “It’s hard to get into galleries when you don’t have an established name. People in this age group are relevant, and they have ideas

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to bring to the light. I want to give them a reason to continue to create and to be proud to have their stuff on the wall.” He said they had over 200 people attend the first show’s opening night last September, even during Hurricane Florence. From the two previous shows, over $5,000 of artwork has sold for the participating artists.

This show will include “Giving Trees,” which are bottle tree sculptures made by artist Howard Bemus and sponsored by Hugh’s Metal Works, LLC, to raise funds for the Greensboro chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The 50+ Art Show and Sale sold over $1,000 of these giving trees in the prior two shows. A unique addition to this show features writer and author Jennifer Spallone who will read from her newly published book and provide signed books for sale.

The 50+ Art Show and Sale is also featuring a “show-within-a-show.” A contest encouraged the artists to pay their show fees early to win one whole wall for their solo show, and this year’s winning artist is painter Kim Bower. There will be another “common ground wall” this year with 25 8-inch-by-8-inch original works of art for $50 each. It is an original collaboration between the 50+ Artists group.

Craddock is a painter, fiber artist and jewelry designer, who will feature one of his 8-foot-tall paintings in the show. He has a studio at Bell Campus Creative Aging Network- North Carolina that sponsors the space for the 50+ Art Show & Sale

and other creative arts programming. Lia Miller is the executive director of CAN-NC. He said the building has three community rooms that they plan to turn into a gallery for the upcoming show.

Craddock said “And Still We Create” is based on the premise that “we’re all human beings first” and that each artist is going through some life changes.

“Life propels us to create, or it stops us in our tracks, but all in all, we continue to create,” he said. “That spirit is in these artists, despite what they are dealing with, they can release fear, anger and beauty. The artwork is an indelible part of everyone.”

The show is sponsored by Penland Frame Shop, Lucky Fish Gallery, Benessere Animal Hospital, Scrambled, Summerfield Roofing Services, 50+ Artists Community, CAN-NC. Craddock said he came up with “The 50+ Idea” which umbrellas the 50+ Artists Community and the 50+ Art Show and Sale after the need for a 50+ art forum conversation had come up many times.

Craddock hopes the group will collaborate through workshops, think-tanks,

informal talks, expos, demos, artistic collaborations and gentle activism through art and artisan events. He said the group also enjoys the “Second-Sunday Potluck Series” with a guest speaker/artist that provides information and fosters friendships and conversations that inspire collaboration.

In the last one and a half years, a diverse group has grown to include over 118 active and inactive emerging and experienced artists. !

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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And Still We Create, artists reception: Fri., Sept. 27, 5-9 p.m., Showcase: Sat., Sept. 28, noon-5 p.m., Sun., Sept. 29, noon-5 p.m., Bell Campus (former Bell House), 2400 Summit Ave., Greensboro, Second-Sunday Potluck Series, Oct. 12, 4:30-6:30 p.m., 2400 Summit Ave., Greensboro Contact Bobby Craddock, via email at 50plusartistscommunity@gmail.com, or on Facebook.

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RiverRun gets into rhythm with Fiddlin’ At the RiverRun International Film Festival, they’re not fiddling around.

Well, actually, they are. Winston-Salem’s premier film festival will screen the awardwinning documentary feature Fiddlin’ on Mark Burger Wednesday, Sept.

25 at The Ramkat in Winston-Salem, and Contributor on Friday, Oct. 4 at the Reeves Theater in Elkin.

The film offers an in-depth, to say nothing of melodious, exploration of the Old Fiddler’s Convention, which has been held in Galax, Virginia, since 1935 and has become the largest gathering of its kind. Musicians congregate each August to perform and to share their love of music with the masses.

The film marks the feature debut of writer/producer/director Julie Simone and her sister, writer/producer Vicki Vlasic, and marked something of a homecoming for them. They grew up in Virginia, just a few miles from Galax, so they have a personal appreciation and understanding of its history and legacy.

“Our parents took us to this annual event every summer as we grew up to expose us to the music and traditions,” Vlasic said. “As children, the only musicians we saw playing were adults. When we went back years later as adults ourselves, the tables had turned, and there were hundreds of young kids carrying around instruments instead of cellphones, hanging out and jamming with people 50-60 years older. Seeing that was the biggest inspiration and real motivation to make this documentary. We started filming at the 80th anniversary in 2015 and began our festival tour in 2018.”

Vlasic and the film’s sound recordist, Winston-Salem resident Tom Hauser, are among the special guests scheduled to attend both screenings to discuss the production, the festival and to entertain questions from the audience.

In addition to critical acclaim, Fiddlin’ has also cleaned up on the festival circuit, winning awards from the East Lansing Film Festival (Best Feature Film), the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (Overall Audience Favorite), the Knoxville Film Festival (Audience Favorite – Documentary), the Macon Film Festival (Best Documentary), and the Virginia Film Festival (Commonwealth Award for Best WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Feature Film), to name just a few.

“We could not be happier with the reception the film has received … we kind of became this ‘little film that could,’” Vlasic said. “But, I have to say that while winning Best Documentary a couple of times was really gratifying, having the audiences respond so enthusiastically in so many different parts of the country made it all worthwhile. The whole process of getting this film made was quite a journey, and we learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way, but I can’t say that seeing how things have turned out that we would have done much differently.”

According to RiverRun executive director Rob Davis, “the film is an old-time and bluegrass music documentary that takes place at the world’s oldest Fiddler’s Convention in the Appalachian Mountains.

With multi-generations jamming together, we will be witness to some off-the-charts pickin’ and fiddlin’ during this film. Fiddlin’ is a joyous celebration of Americana.”

“I hope that when people see this film, it will open their eyes to so many things,” Vlasic said. “Not only do I hope viewers will have an appreciation for the music, but that they will also see that the people in this part of the country are not the negative stereotypes so often presented by the media.

They are eloquent, charming, authentic, talented, intelligent and inspirational. On a simpler note, I hope that audiences leave the theater with a smile on their faces after seeing this joyful and uplifting film.”

The 2020 RiverRun International Film Festival will take place March 26 - April 5 with screenings in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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The RiverRun International Film Festival’s special screenings of Fiddlin’ will take place 7:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 25 at The Ramkat, 170 W. 9th St., Winston-Salem, and 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 4 at the Reeves Theater, 129 W. Main St., Elkin. Tickets at The Ramkat are $12 and are available online at www.theramkat.com/ or at the door. Tickets at the Reeves Theater are $12 (general admission) and $6 (senior citizens and students) and are available online at www.reevestheater.com/ or at the door. For more information about this or other RiverRun events, call (336) 724-1502 or visit the official website, www.riverrunfilm.com/

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irector Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman return for more mayhem with It Chapter Two, the second – and, one assumes,

concluding – installment of the epic bigscreen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 bestseller.

Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story reunites the grown-up members of the Losers Club, who return to their home-town of Derry to vanquish the supernatural clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) once and for all. Those telltale red balloons are floating skyward, a sure sign that Pennywise is back on the prowl.

Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean play the adult Losers, while Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Wyatt Oleff reprise their roles as the younger characters infrequent – and frequently unnecessary – flashbacks.

It Chapter Two hits the ground running, and it continues to run, and run, and run some more – ultimately adding up to a running time of 170 minutes. To cover absolutely everything in King’s novel tends to impede, rather than enhance, the film’s overall impact. This is not a film that would have suffered – and very possibly been improved, or at least sharpened – with more judicious editing. It’s not a bad film, and actually holds together better than the first, but getting to the point does not seem to be on the agenda.

That said, there is a palpably nightmarish atmosphere to the proceedings, which is to be expected, and the special effects

on display are first-rate. But when one character remarks that it’s a bad idea to split up, it’s not an inaccurate observation. As each character faces his or her traumatic past, the other characters remain offscreen for lengthy periods of time. As a result, the better-known actors – Chastain, McAvoy and Hader – tend to fare better simply because they’re more recognizable. There’s also a funny cameo

by King himself, in which he manages to keep a straight face – if just barely.

In addition, Pennywise’s appearances, although memorable, grow more sporadic as the narrative lumbers forward. By the time the final battle royale commences between Pennywise and the Losers Club deep beneath Derry, it can’t help but be a little anti-climactic and is more apt to be exhausted than exhilarated. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2019, Mark Burger.

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Greensboro College Theatre presents Babes in Hollywood

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reensboro College Theatre opens its 2019-2020 season with Babes in Hollywood: The Music of Garland & Rooney, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Sept. 27-28, and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 28-29, in Annie Sellars Jordan Parlor Theatre in Main Building on campus.

All tickets are $10 and may be reserved by calling (336)272-7102, ext. 5242, or by emailingtickets@greensboro.edu.

Adapted by David Grapes and directed by associate professor Wm. Perry MorganHall, with choreography by assistant professor Ashley Hyers, Babes in Hollywood salutes the legendary musical careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

You’ll thrill to such American classics as “Over the Rainbow,” “You Made me Love You,” “Easter Parade,” “But Not for Me,” “The Man Who Got Away,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Where or When,” “Born in a Trunk,” “Yankee Doodle Boy,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Strike up the Band,” and many more!

Let the cast of four talented singer/ dancers take you on a magical journey from the sound stages of Hollywood to the stages of Broadway. Babes in Hollywood is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Greensboro College’s Department of Theatre seeks to provide a strong foundation in theatre while allowing the student

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to emphasize in a particular area such as directing, acting, or arts administration.

The coursework is integrated with the production work to provide a better understanding of the many facets of the theatre. Required participation on stage or backstage on all theatre productions allows the techniques and theories that are examined in the classroom and the laboratory to be tested in a performance setting.

For more information on the program, contact David Schram at (336) 272-7102, ext. 5243, or email schramd@greensboro. edu.

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and four Master’s degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features an 17-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.greensboro. edu. !

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[BARTENDERS OF THE WEEK | BY NATALIE GARCIA] Check out videos on our Facebook!

BARTENDER: Jennifer Russell BAR: Goofy Foot Taproom and Brewery AGE: 25 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Greensboro HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? 1.5 years HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I used to coach my boss’ younger daughter in soccer. He reached out when he decided to open the taproom and asked if I would have any interest in making the tap handles and flight paddles, the rest is history.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? I enjoy meeting new people and learning about the beer-making process.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? We only serve wine and beer, but I love to pour a nice cold one!

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Melinda Frye Toney, 44, of Oak Hill, West Virginia, was charged with wanton endangerment on Aug. 22 for brandishing a pistol in the parking Chuck Shepherd lot of the New Life Apostolic Church on May 11. It seems Melinda, wife of Pastor Earl Toney, and Lori Haywood, 29, wife of Youth Pastor David Haywood, had an ongoing conflict, according to a police spokesman. Fayette County Sheriff ’s Detective Kevin Willis told the RegisterHerald of Beckley, West Virginia, that the “straw that broke the camel’s back” was an argument over a T-shirt Lori Haywood wore to a church event. The two couples met at the church that day to try to hash out the wives’ differences, but, said Willis, “(I)t just made it worse, I think.” Melinda Toney left the meeting and went to her car, where she retrieved her firearm. When Pastor Earl moved to stop his wife, the gun discharged. Det. Willis confirmed that Melinda Toney had a concealed weapon permit.

SERVING THE PUBLIC

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Any Sour beer or Flanders.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? A great after-dinner drink is a stout or a porter.

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? Some insane dance moves.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? $50

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The Sharonville, Ohio, police department found a way to turn a resident’s misconceptions about marijuana laws in Hamilton County into a teaching moment on Sept. 3. The department posted on its Facebook page a recording of a call received on Aug. 25 from “Mr. Marilyn Manson,” who complained that “two Sharonville cops ... stole my f-ing weed last night.” The angry man insisted that anything “under 100 grams is cool, right?” but was, in fact, wrong. (It is legal to possess up to 100 grams of marijuana in the city of Cincinnati, but that law does not cover the entire county — including Sharonville.) The officers who confiscated the weed were arresting the man’s wife, whom he identified as Marilyn Manson during the call, when they found the contraband in her purse. In a second call to police, the caller also complained that the officers had taken his carryout order from Red Lobster. “It was a fresh meal of Cajun f-ing pasta!” he ranted. Fox19 reported that a police supervisor later met with the man to clarify the laws about marijuana and explain what had happened to his dinner.

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A Texas motorcyclist with the memorable nickname “Baby Jesus” taunted

Blue Mound police on Aug. 10 as they tried to pull him over. Police posted dashcam video of Jesus Sebastian Gomez doing wheelies and standing on his motorcycle while weaving in and out of traffic, eventually getting away from officers. Fox News reported that witnesses viewing the video helped identify the rider, and police issued a statement urging Gomez to turn himself in. “(Y)ou need to come speak with us regarding this incident or we can come to you. (We could have a come to ‘Baby Jesus’ meeting),” they offered. Gomez surrendered to the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office on Sept. 4 and was charged with evading arrest.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Rep. Raul Ruiz, 47, a California Democrat representing the 36th Congressional District, may face an unusual opponent in the November 2020 election: GOP candidate Raul Ruiz, 57, a construction contractor. “I want to give the citizens another option,” challenger Ruiz told Politico. “I’ll say this. I had the name first.”

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

Gary Lambe, 54, made the job of the Toronto (Canada) Police Service easier on Aug. 23 when he allegedly made a photocopy of his face during a break-in at a commercial property there. Police said the suspect “ate some food items” and created the picture of his face — which he left behind. Fox News reported that police eventually arrested Lambe, who was already in custody for an unrelated incident, and charged him with breaking and entering and failing to comply with probation.

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Yusuke Taniguchi, 34, a shopping mall clerk in Koto City, Japan, was arrested earlier this year for using his superpower — a photographic memory — for apparent evil. According to police, Taniguchi was able to memorize more than 1,300 numbers from credit cards as people used them at his shop register, SoraNews reported. He admitted to investigators that he would remember the name, card number, expiration date and security code, then write the information down as the customer walked away, later using the accounts to make online purchases of items he would then sell. Police, who tracked him to his address by using orders for two expensive handbags, found a notebook with hundreds of accounts listed. !

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Woods of Terror is Eddie McLaurin’s heartfelt Haunt

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Ian McDowell

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ddie McLaurin remembers the time a cop punched a performer at Woods of Terror.

“We don’t tolerate customers hitting our actors, not even when the customer is an off-duty Asheboro police officer. My kids bust their butts to put on a great haunted house, and I

look out for them.”

While the off-duty officer wasn’t there working security, an off-duty Guilford County sheriff was. “He went up to the cop and said ‘you ain’t in Asheboro now, boy,’ and threw him right out.”

McLaurin opened the Woods of Terror at 5601 N. Church in Greensboro in 1991.

It seems safe to say that the popular Halloween attraction has become his life’s work. It’s certainly his year-round job.

“I’ve been doing it full-time for 12 or 13 years now, and I put 90% of my profits back into it,” McLaurin said.

When he’s not running the show as his character Bone Daddy along with his big yellow python, Spawn, he’s working on the next one.

“I’ve been wanting to do an insane asylum, and it’s been almost a two-year process so far, and won’t open until September of 2020. The spot where it will be was originally nothing but a gulley and maybe 30 trees, so first there was all the groundwork, cutting, clearing and leveling, filling in that gulley with 500 Bobcat loads of dirt, and building a retaining wall.”

Next, he had to build the structure, complete with code-approved electric work, and “distress” it, meaning paint or otherwise make the sturdy and safe new building look old and run-down. Then it was time to decorate the set.

“Traveled up through Virginia, down to South Carolina, and to the tip of Georgia, buying old medical equipment, gurneys, all kinds of stuff you would see in an insane asylum,” he said. “That stuff is very hard to find, and when you do find it, it’s expensive.”

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to shave their heads. It’s going to be a big level of commitment; if you want to act in the asylum, you have to shave your head.

That will just take them to the next step, and create a tighter bond from what those kids had to do to be in this attraction.”

For almost three decades, McLaurin has been running what’s known in his trade as a Haunt (aka a Haunted Attraction). In my own childhood, they were mostly rickety carnival attractions, the interiors of which rarely delivered on the gory, garish promises of their painted plywood ballyhoo.

Decades later, larger attractions sprouted across the country in the woods outside of city lights, glowing in the darkness like sinister spectral mushrooms in graveyard soil.

One ancestor of the modern Haunt was Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (“The Theater of the Great Puppet”), which despite its name, used live actors and was a tiny Parisian venue specializing in gory plays. Another was Marie Tussaud, a refugee who made wax sculptures of the French Revolution’s victims, and in 1835, she opened a London museum where the most popular attraction was the Chamber of Horrors, displaying a working guillotine and famous murderers.

The first actual haunted attraction

was the Orton and Spooner Ghost House, which opened in 1915 in Liphook, England, and is now part of the Hollycombe Steam Collection. Like later carnival haunted houses, both the walk-in variety and “dark rides,” it relied on dangling skeletons and figures behind mirrors or in glass cases that suddenly lit up, usually accompanied by a horn and a blast of air.

In the ‘50s through the early ‘70s, second-run cinemas held Halloween and Friday the 13th shows, which included not only horror films but performers dressed as monsters emerging from behind the screen (or curtains) and “attacking” the audience.

Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion opened in 1969, its expensive animatronics inspiring big year-round Haunts in major cities and theme parks. Perhaps more influential were Halloween Haunted Houses held by the Jaycees for charity. In high school, I performed in one, wearing a mask borrowed from my neighbor Tom Savini (the future special makeup effects maestro who would create Jason), and carrying my boa constrictor Rocky Balboa the way McLaurin carries his much bigger python (sadly for teenaged me, no girls wanted to pose with Rocky the way thousands have with Spawn).

Jaycee Haunted Houses proved such dependable fundraisers that Bloomington chapter head Tom Hilligoss wrote a manual and formed the “Haunted House Company” to help other chapters. The first haunted house expert, Hilligoss traveled and gave seminars on constructing houses, training actors and applying makeup. Inevitably, others started doing the same thing for profit. Today, it’s a $300 million industry, with 2,500 haunted attractions, most in the U.S. I asked McLaurin if, when he was a kid, he’d been as fond of even the cheapest carnie spook show as I’d been. Surprisingly, he said no.

“I lived a pretty sheltered life, a Christian-based life, where I didn’t watch a lot of horror movies and didn’t even listen to much secular music. I do remember going to one at the Greensboro Science Center when I was 7 or 8, and then again when I was 13.”

So, how did he get his start in the Haunt trade?

He said he just sort of fell into it as a young man when he and a couple of friends went on a lark to a local Haunt, in which another friend was acting.

“We thought that was pretty cool,” he said. “Later, my friend who acted in it said he worked four weeks and only made $50.

When I asked him what the guy who hired him made, he said $18,000. I was working minimum wage when it was $5.25, and after taxes, I wasn’t making but $15,000 in a year. So, I thought, let’s do that, and I said, ‘come work for me, and I’ll pay you a hundred bucks.’”

From there, it just grew. “About 10 years in, I found out about something called Transworld’s Halloween & Attractions Show, which was then in Rosemont, Illinois, now in St. Louis. It was about 10 times the size of the Greensboro Coliseum.

I went there and met a couple and asked one what he did for a living. He said, ‘I do Halloween.’ I said, no, I mean year-round like I do heating and air. He said, ‘I just do Halloween.’ And I knew I had to figure out how he did that.”

For the next couple of seasons, McLaurin would only open Woods of Terror on Friday and Saturday nights.

“Almost every Sunday morning, I’d fly out and see somebody else’s Haunt, whether in Niles, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; The Headless Horseman in New York, or the Bates Motel in Philly. I learned from what they were doing and from what they weren’t doing, and my attendance quickly

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grew, increasing by 2,500 people a year.

In 10 years, I had Woods of Terror at such a good level where I could just work on it full-time.”

He started out with nine actors. Now he hires 100 every year, and about 75 more staff, plus security. I asked him about last year’s total attendance.

“I don’t have an exact count, because we have so many people with comp passes and stuff, but we’re doing over 36,000.”

He said that, despite being hit hard by Hurricane Michael and multiple severe thunderstorms, last year was his best attendance ever.

“We probably still had our best year by a hundred people. Without the storm, and then all that rain, we probably would have had a thousand more. The year before, on the Friday night nearest Halloween, we made $115,000 that one night. But last year, we were only able to open for about an hour on that Friday. I made about $3,000 and then closed, it was just pouring down rain so hard.”

The year Eddie opened, he had 184 customers, his entire season, at $2 each.

“Now, Saturday night tickets are $32, some Sundays and Thursdays are $20,” he said. “I like dynamic pricing; I wish more people knew we did that. I don’t ever want it to be the cast that people can’t afford my show, and I think if I keep it a $20 price point, they can. Of course, that’s on a Thursday or a Sunday night, and you have to check my schedule. On Saturdays, when we’re pushing 4,500-5,000 people, I make it $32 because I am trying to get people to come on other nights.”

I asked Eddie what he thinks makes Woods of Terror, the first Haunt to open in Guilford County, stand out from any of the others that came after. He said it was a combination of the length of his show, the quality of his sets, design and his actors.

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“Some of my sets, they could be in movies,” he said. “Screamline Studios, professionals out of Ohio, they come in and help me with those. I collect stuff from flea markets and antique dealers, often for years, and sometimes put 5,000 pieces for one set. I then build the structure and put on a base coat of paint, and then these guys, a husband and wife team with two other friends, they come in and make every piece look 30 or 40 years old, so it ends up looking amazing. You could probably live in two of my houses; they’re so well built.”

But he said that, as proud as he was of his sets, and of running a 50-minute show when so many of his competitors’ shows only last 30 minutes or less, his greatest advantage was his actors, which he credited to their trainer, Allen Hopps.

“That man is bar none the best actortrainer I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.

“Costs us about $3,000 to get him here from Texas, what with plane tickets and

hotel, rental car, feeding him, but we’ve had him here for five years straight. The kids just take to him so well, and he teaches them so much so fast, I just don’t think other haunted houses can get the level of training he provides. It’s like having Picasso training you how to paint; it’s just incredible how good this guy is. He’s so popular, and people are trying to book him two years in advance. I’ve actually put down my deposit for the next two years.

I told Alan, ‘as long as you’re willing to travel, you’re going to be here every year.’”

He said he expects to always rely on live performance.

“Some of those animatronics can be $10,000 and up, but even if I could afford all them things, I’d still be an actor-driven haunt, because that’s what I want to be, and I think that’s what sets us apart. I think if I bought a bunch of animatronics, the quality of my show would drop. I like it more live performance and less theme park.”

And then there’s the location.

“As the city grows and gets more urban, to come out here to the county on a farm and go to a haunted house, just the atmosphere out here alone is a draw, without even looking at the actors,” he said. “You can’t duplicate that artificially.”

I asked him to name something that some parks do that he doesn’t like. He said his pet peeve are those attractions that advertise themselves with digital imagery that doesn’t represent what their zombies, madmen and monsters actually look like.

“People will use these digital images and promote their haunted houses, and I’m like this is not at your haunt,” he said.

“When I put something out, the character you see is at my haunt, and you will see him. Use the characters that are at your haunt, and don’t lie to the people. If you see one of my videos, it was stuff actually filmed here. We show you what you’re gonna see.”

Speaking of videos, there’s an excellent 14-minute documentary about Eddie and his attraction on YouTube. Titled “Woods of Terror: Eddie H. McLaurin An American Original,” it’s the work of Winston-based journalist Chad Nance, recently the onscreen narrator of The Devil You Know, the Viceland series about the Forsyth County serial killer Pazuzu Algarad.

It gives a real feel for both Eddie and his Haunt. !

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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Greensboro asks N.C. Supreme Court to lift gag order On Sept. 11, the City of Greensboro’s attorneys filed their second appeal of the gag order that prevents from discussing the police body camera videos of Zared Jones’ 2016 arrest.

Ian McDowell In December 2017, the city filed two Contributor petitions for the release of that footage to the mayor and council.In January 2018, the trial court granted the petition, but with restrictions, including a broad one against discussing the footage the public.

In January 2018, the trial court granted petitions but placed restrictions on the Greensboro City Council, including a broad one against discussing the footage with the public in March of that year.

On Aug. 6, Court of Appeals ruled “gag order does not violate the City’s First Amendment rights” and that it “does not impermissibly infringe on the city council’s ability to perform its official duties,” adding that “the city council members have no right to the information in the first place, as the court “could have denied the request to the view the body-cam footage altogether.”

Under North Carolina’s police body-worn camera statute § 132-1.4., enacted in 2016, police bodycam footage is not a public re-

cord, and a city council or county board of commissioners first have to get permission from a Superior Court judge to review the footage. The judge has broad discretion to place stipulations on the request.

Page two of the appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court describes the gag order: “. . . the superior court found the City to have shown a compelling need for access and released the footage to the City Council. But, purporting to exercise its ‘discretion’ under the statute, the court also issued a gag order preventing the Council members from discussing what they learned from the footage with their constituents, at all, forever. “ That appeal identifies several key issues, including “accusations of police misconduct” and the constitutional right to regulate “the internal government and the police,” as well that of “the people’s representatives to speak on precisely those issues.”

Page 27 includes two sentences address broad aspects of the case, one stating that where police bodycams “were designed to provide answers for the public,” the opinion from the Court of Appeals “has simply created more questions.”

Another states that “Elected officials have not only the right to speak but also an obligation to do so.”

This passage on page nine speaks to the concern, expressed by the mayor and others, that the gag order puts them at risk if they even watch the footage (as they’re allowed to do), as they might unintentionally divulge what they’ve seen. It also

refers to Bray’s censure of attorney Holt for describing alleged police misconduct in his email to the city council.

(The entire document can be read in the online version of this story on yesweekly. com.)

Excerpts follow.

Page 15: Council members made the decision not to watch the footage while subject to the gag order, to avoid a situation in which they had a duty to speak to the public and yet would be held in criminal contempt if they did so. Now, with the law established by the Court of Appeals opinion (granting the trial court unfettered discretion to issue a gag order without appropriate First Amendment analysis), the Council remains gagged and cannot address an issue of ongoing public important.

Page 17: This discretion afforded by the Court of Appeals also gives insufficient weight to the interests of . . . the people of the State of North Carolina, who “have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof.” N.C. Const. art. I, § 3. Restrictions on an elected official’s ability to perform her duties implicate the interests of two distinct parties: the official herself and the people, with their attendant right “to be meaningfully represented by their elected officials.” Citizens in this State have a right to demand that their elected representatives be equipped to talk about issues of public concern such as police conduct.

Page 20: Unless the Court of Appeals opinion is vacated, a superior court judge will be able to impose a content-based,

prior restraint on speech without satisfying strict scrutiny—in fact, without applying the First Amendment at all. The implications of this decision are severe.

The appeal drew praise from one longtime critic of the city and its policies and police, retired attorney Lewis Pitts, who called it “a legal masterpiece extolling democratic self-government” that, in appropriate constitutional terms, “bashes both Judge Bray and the Court of Appeals for essentially undertaking no First Amendment analysis when the entire case is about the linkage of the First Amendment rights of council and the people and how those rights are fundamental to democratic self-government.”

Pitts also commented this excerpt from page nine: “The City’s fears of criminal sanctions were well-founded. After the Court of Appeals issued its decision, the trial court began disciplinary proceedings against an attorney who represented some of the arrestees from the incident, because the attorney had emailed other authorized viewers his impression of what the footage shows.”

Pitts said this passage was relevant to what he called “the highly improper action of Judge Bray when she initiated disciplinary charges against civil rights attorney Graham Holt.” !

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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A new kind of voter suppression Voter suppression has been an ugly part of the American fabric for our entire history. Slavery, of course, was the ultimate method of suppressing votes, but it was just one example among Jim Longworth many. Long-standing misogynistic societal norms, for example, Longworth kept women in the at Large home and away from the polls for more than 300 years after Jamestown was settled. And let’s not forget that our Founding Fathers, many of whom married into wealth, also intended to keep non-land-holding, white males out of the loop when it came to voting. Theoretically, the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 (which gave every citizen the right to vote), was supposed to end all forms of voter suppression, but Jim Crow got around that by implementing poll taxes and literacy tests as a means

of disenfranchising poor whites, former slaves and Native Americans.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were supposed to end voter suppression of AfricanAmericans once and for all, but it didn’t end voter intimidation, including the kind where white thugs would stand outside the polls and look imposing. It also didn’t foresee the extent to which racist politicians would gerrymander districts to dilute the black vote and, thus, limit the number of minorities who could be elected to state and federal offices. In recent years, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have been particularly brazen in their attempts to suppress the black vote, including eliminating polling sites, reducing the number of early voting days, and supporting a photo voter ID. Earlier this month, the North Carolina legislature was ordered to once again re-draw our state’s legislative districts in a way that would not unfairly dilute Democrats and minorities from voting, so, at the very least, our judicial system is attempting to provide relief for disenfranchised voters. But now a whole new kind of voter

suppression has reared its ugly head, and it has the potential to affect a wider population than any political maneuver we’ve ever seen before. As of last week, the Republican Party in at least four states (South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas) announced they would suspend their 2020 presidential primaries and caucuses. Why? So that party officials can meet behind closed doors and award all of their convention delegates to Donald Trump. This despicable strategy prevents Republican challengers from getting on the ballot because there will be no ballot for them to get on. Moreover, these GOP officials are not in the least bit timid about admitting their motive. As far back as last December, South Carolina Party Chair Drew McKissick told the Washington Examiner that he would cancel the state’s 2020 primary if President Trump should face a serious challenge from a member of his own party.

As I noted in a previous column, canceling primaries is not a new concept, but it is only supposed to be done when there is an incumbent President with no intraparty challengers. The South Carolina

Democratic Party, for example, canceled their primaries in 1996 and 2012 when no other Democratic candidate emerged to challenge Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for a second term. In contrast, McKissick and his Republican counterparts in other states are preventing declared Republican candidates from being able to even compete with Trump. Concurrently, they are also effectively suppressing the votes of their own people, and that is one for the history books.

To date, three legitimate Republican challengers have announced their candidacy, and, given the seriousness of this situation, those candidates must now join with voters in the offending states to involve legal counsel and the ACLU in proving that the Republican party is engaged in systematic voter suppression. Absent that, it’s possible we could see the cancellation of Republican primaries in all 50 states, and if that happens, Trump will have a coronation instead of a convention. !

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John Vanderslice keeps it weird

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To know that fact will give listeners a little insight into the roots of the dramatic experimentation and sonic abstracJohn Adamian tion on Vanderslice’s @johnradamian most recent record, The Cedars, released earlier this year. The Contributor singer-songwriter and producer/engineer is famous in the world of indie-rock for helping to make some much-loved records by artists such as Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, the Mountain Goats and many others. Vanderslice, who will be playing a living-room concert in Winston-Salem this week, is known for his work at Tiny Telephone, the studio he started in San Francisco in 1997 and has been running since then. But a lot of upheaval in his life has altered the contours of his routines recently. Among the changes, Vanderslice moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles not long ago, partially uprooting himself from the scene that he was a part of and helped to nurture for years. I spoke to Vanderslice by phone last week from his home in Southern California, after he’d returned from a run, which is something he’s fairly passionate and even obsessive about.

Just to be clear, The Cedars isn’t a hip-hop record. Vanderslice doesn’t rap, and the beats, if you’d call them that, are pretty far from being insistent. The record, his eleventh, opens with “Utah and the Sky Over Utah,” a song that doesn’t really adhere to easy-to-pin-down song form in terms of repeating choruses, bridges, etc. The song begins with a melody that tumbles downward before inching its way back up, with an out-of-nowhere guitar chord rumbling through the mix, before everything stops abruptly. Jarring contrasts, extreme dynamic shifts, textures that go from scratched and blurred to up-close and delicate, sounds that shiver and stutter — those are some of Vanderslice’s modes.

It’s not dub, because it’s not fixated on a groove. It’s not ambient music, because Vanderslice sings and gets very abrasive at times. But there’s something in common with both of those genres.

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the component parts murky and unstable.

Fans of artists like Chad VanGaalen and the Dirty Projectors will appreciate what Vanderslice has done. A spare offbeat piano pattern gets set against ticking percussion, with warped keyboards and spectral echoes swelling up unexpectedly.

And in a nod to hip-hop records, Vanderslice uses instrumental interludes as a kind of sonic palate-cleanser.

“It’s a faint nod,” he said. “It’s a respectful hat top. It’s not overt.”

Vanderslice said that he and his collaborators — Rob Shelton and James Riotto, who share writing, production and engineering credits with Vanderslice on the record — spent a lot of time on those little wordless snippets, thinking of them as a way of providing what he calls “emotional distance” between the songs.

Lyric-centric songs can sometimes overwhelm the music, Vanderslice said.

“There’s so much voice information, and you have to find a way out of that,” he added.

Avoiding the pitfalls of musical cliche led Vanderslice to other aesthetic choices on the album, too.

“The new record is so deconstructed,” he said.

If a song might lend itself to having a hooky chorus that you could anticipate popping up at a particular time,

Vanderslice and his collaborators would sometimes hammer it back into a more unpredictable contour.

“You want the structure to be weird,” Vanderslice said. “When you have a telegraphed section coming up, it’s terrible.”

This is a man who’s helped make hundreds and hundreds of records. He’s sat and thought about the appeal of music and how a good song works on our heads.

The aesthetic decisions relate to supply-and-demand, tension-and-release or chaos-and-order. A catchy snippet of a song becomes less meaningful if a listener can hear it coming from a mile away, or if it gets driven into the ground by relentless repetition, but most listeners need some hint of structure in order to navigate the musical landscape. Choosing to withhold some of those big satisfying simple pleasures is another way of making people want to hear a song again. It’s a classic tenet of show business: leave them wanting more. If a listener expects the payoff of hearing the hook-like chorus again but doesn’t get it, that can make a song that much more infectious.

But Vanderslice’s songs didn’t start out deconstructed. He builds them up from a scrap of a melody or a lyrical line recorded on a voice memo, then he tinkers with an acoustic guitar, adding accompaniment, riffs and chords. He said he writes songs

“in a really banal way” and then encourages his collaborators to be brutal in the editorial process, killing his darlings, chucking overboard anything that isn’t completely interesting.

Then they would “completely rebuild” the songs, using tape loops, analog synths, sequencers and other studio techniques.

The songs get assembled that way for the recording. Now, when Vanderslice takes the show on the road for his solo performances, the songs get reverseengineered back into their germinal state, to where he can perform them with just a guitar as he sings.

“I really believe in playing solo, and I believe in being super stripped-down,” he said.

In either setting, it’s fairly clear that the songs emerged from a period of turmoil and hardship. Vanderslice’s mother passed away about two years ago, and he wrote many of the songs while grieving over that loss.

“She was my first fan, she was my most stable and supportive friend,” Vanderslice said. “The good thing is that we’re supposed to outlive our parents.” As we talked, he seemed to find some way of putting the shock of grief in perspective.

“It’s also really banal, billions of people have gone through this.” And yet, as he pointed out, that understanding didn’t make it any easier to tackle mourning.

Adding to that, Vanderslice was facing the prospect of leaving his long-time home in San Francisco behind for new terrain.

It all added up to what he calls a mental health crisis. Vanderslice had essentially decided to stop writing songs after his 2013 album Dagger Beach. But making his own music ended up being something that sustained him.

“The thing that really mattered afterward was the feeling of accomplishment,” Vanderslice said. !

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The righteous Alternative Champs The Righteous Gemstones, the latest HBO show from the folks who brought Kenny Powers to life, is set around a Charleston megachurch empire, starring John Goodman as the patriarchal Katei Cranford pastor, Eli Gemstone, with creator Danny McBride and Adam Contributor Devine as sons Jesse and Kelvin.

The Gemstones get help spreading the song of salvation thanks to Tears of David, the Gemstone Salvation Center Church Band: also known around these parts as the Alternative Champs (or ‘the Champs’ amongst friends).

When not blasting tunes about Cherie Berry, elevator queen of North Carolina, or pursuing their quest of “a never-ending tour of Charlotte,” the Champs have been spending time writing a new record and making an appearance on the new HBO comedy.

Guitarist Rick Randall, the Winstoner amongst the group, rocks a keytar for the show. “We’ve written inappropriate gospel songs and have performed dressed as angels before, but never pretended to be a church band,” he said of their prior experience. For the show, the group features an extra member: Rough House Pictures co-founder, Jody Hill, on guitar. “We had to teach him our songs just before each shot,” Randall said, “otherwise, most of our scenes are us playing, or sitting on stage reacting to sermons.”

The show may be the Champs’ first time as a church band, but it’s not their first tango with the UNCSA bawdy boys in Rough House Pictures, the team behind Carolinabased comedies Eastbound and Down, Vice Principals, and the most recent Halloween reboot, now filming in Wilmington.

“We wrote songs for the Halloween (2018) movie and Gemstones was their next project,” Randall mused on how the Champs came into the role. “And I guess since we’re known for putting on nutty shows where we dress up like everything— from tennis players to cult members—they figured we’d have no trouble being a mega-church band.”

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but then it gets translated to another person, and so on,” he added, “sometimes it takes a few rounds before you actually figure out what they want.” But Randall welcomed the challenge.

“Early on, show executives were still trying to figure out what kind of music they were going for, and told us to check out old PTL Club songs from the 1970s,” Randall noted of the Champs sonic inspiration behind Tears of David, initially taking cues from the excess-evangelical-era of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. “But later, they sort of zeroed in on more modern Christian, wanna-be-hipster music,” he added.

Ultimately, the Champs pulled together a catalog of around 20 songs. “Each one is different,” Randall said. Gospel, boy bands, U2—no genre went unturned. “After the dust settled, we ended up with about six-to-eight making it in the show, not including the commercial jingle we wrote for advertising.”

As for acting chops, “we just pretended to perform, mostly, it wasn’t really acting,” Randall insisted, noting the small background nature of their role. But even small parts carry big responsibilities. “It’s weird at first,” he admitted, “being afraid you’re going to wreck a scene, and John Goodman is going to hate you for it.”

But the Champs settled in. “We did a trippy laser intro number during the Easter sermon that was pretty cool,” Randall recalled. “I play this fancy keytar with little light-up buttons and laser lights beaming overhead.”

“But the most fun scene during filming was one where they shot us pretending to

set up our equipment,” he added, “I was totally goofing off thinking it was a practice take—smelling all the microphones and doing other dumb stuff and then they yelled, ‘Cut! Ok, we got it.’”

Randall hopes that scene makes the final cut. As far as the final product goes, the Champs are just regular members of the audience. “Our bigger scenes don’t happen until episode six or seven,” Randall noted, “I’ve been watching it like everybody else.”

Local viewing parties helped celebrate the series premiere back in August. One with Randall at Monstercade in WinstonSalem, and the other, with Champs’

drummer, Dave Massi, and singer, Mike Mitschele, at the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte.

“It’s pretty funny to think of a few million people watching you and hearing your songs,” Randall said. “Hopefully, we don’t look like too big of dorks,” he added. “But, also, maybe that’s the point.”

Righteous.

Episode six of the Righteous Gemstones airs Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO. !

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I have to go visit my mom, who’s in the hospital in another state.

She’s really ill. Her boyfriend told me she’s lost a lot of weight and it might Amy Alkon be shocking to see her initially. I want Advice to be strong for her, Goddess but I’m a big crier. I cry on every phone call, and it’s awful.

How do I show up for her and not let my feelings overwhelm me so she is not sad or worried about me and can concentrate on getting better? — Emotional When you’re visiting a friend or loved one who’s seriously ill, it’s nice to show up bearing gifts — like flowers, magazines, and a paper bag you can hyperventilate into.

It’s scary seeing someone you care about all small and frail in a hospital bed. And this is your mom who’s really ill. If something happens to her, it’s not like you can just run out and pick up another one at Costco.

Even so, the level of fear you experience when you see her is something you could have some control over. Neuroscience studies find that novel experiences are the most emotionally powerful, having the most intense effect on us.

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that people quickly become acclimated to both positive and negative changes in their lives. Accordingly, seeing your mom for the first time will have the most gutpunchability.

To dial down the intensity of your reaction when you first see her, you could ask her boyfriend to take some video of her and send it to you. He should ask your mom first, of course, so it won’t violate her privacy, and perhaps cast what he’s doing as sending you a hello. If she balks at letting him, he could then tell her the real deal: that it’s to emotionally prepare you for seeing her.

The other major player in how you react to your mom’s condition is empathy.

Neuroscientists Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer note that empathy involves our observing or even just imagining what another person is feeling and having that trigger the same sort of feeling in us. They give the example of hearing that a friend is sad because her grandmother is dying: “Our first reaction would be empathy, which means we would share the feeling of sadness and thereby know what our friend is going through.”

This initial bolt of empathy rises up automatically. But once you experience it, Klimecki and Singer explain, there’s a fork in the road, which is to say you can go one of two ways with your empathy: into unhealthy empathic distress or healthy empathic concern.

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practically. Think Warrior Nurse instead of Drama Queen.

One of the kindest things you can do for a very sick person is make their life boringly normal. Distract them from their illness by watching their favorite streamed show with them, playing Scrabble, losing $6 million to them in gin rummy, telling them the latest gossip about the slutty neighbor.

Really, your just being there is huge.

And once you leave, you can start sending her cards a few days a week. This will help keep you from falling into the swamp of me-focused pointless distress, and it’ll be comforting for her. Ultimately, it’s feeling loved — not laughter — that’s “the best medicine.” I’m guessing that’s why hospitals instituted visiting hours instead of replacing the IV bag on the pole with a foul-mouthed parrot in a tiny bandanna squawking insults at passerby. !

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“feeling with” a person (feeling and feeling and feeling) without doing anything to try to change their situation. In time, we get overwhelmed by the distress we’re experiencing at their distress. This often leads to what Klimecki and Singer call “withdrawal behavior”: our trying to escape our uncomfortable emotions by ducking out and leaving the other person alone with their suffering.

Empathic concern, on the other hand, is an other-focused response. It starts with our experiencing that initial bolt of “feeling with” a person who’s suffering, but then we shift into “feeling for” — as in “What can I do FOR you?” Empathic concern is basically empathy with an action plan, motivating us to try to make things better for another person.

The important takeaway for you is that you don’t have to let your feelings run the show, dragging you boohooingly along behind them. You can instead control your feelings by shifting from me-driven empathy, empathic distress, to mom-centered empathic concern. In practice, this simply takes redirecting your focus from how sad you are to how helpful you can be — emotionally and

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