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22 GRIPES ABOUT PIPES Every resident of COLLEGE HILL I talked with praised the men doing the work. Although, I heard multiple complaints about not only the way in which residents were being informed (or not) by the city of when streets would be closed. Recently, I posted a comment on www.

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WICKED TACO has finally opened its doors in High Point. It took little self-convincing to get to the door of the taco joint.

Based on the line and packed dining room, it didn’t take much for others either. After taunting the High Point community with construction updates, taco pictures, and a menu release throughout the summer, the time had finally come to grab a bite.

10 Friendships are formed throughout life if we are lucky. Three women were lucky enough to form a friendship and sisterhood through their collaboration and ART. 11 October marks LGBTQ+ History Month, and the OUT AT THE MOVIES International LGBT Film Festival is making some history of its own, as it kicks off its fifth annual event on Oct. 5 in Winston-Salem.

With 24 films, this is the biggest and most star-studded OUT at the Movies festival to date.

12 SUNWATCHERS don’t play protest music, strictly speaking. The quartet, based out of New York City, make instrumental music. But they make furious, ecstatic, wide-ranging music that is filled with the spirit of uprising, resistance and rage.

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In the literary timeline, the source material for the new kid-flick THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS existed long before Harry Potter received a letter offering him a chance to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But on the cinematic timeline, this adaptation of John Bellairs’ 1973 children’s novel arrives long after the magic has largely dissipated from such enterprises.

24 The replacement of Tate Street’s Indian and Thai restaurants with ones serving yet more pizza, subs and wings, described in my January 2017 article “From Desolation Row to Pizzaville,” drastically reduced the variety of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro-area foodscape. However, now there’s TACO BAO...

25 The on-going controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett KAVANAUGH and statistics professor Christine Blasey Ford, Ph.D., has brought to the fore a number of issues. For starters, it’s about alleged sexual misconduct, and when it’s appropriate for a victim to come forward.

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DIXIE CLASSIC FAIR WHAT: From Sept 28 - Oct 7 you can fill your belly with delicious eats, win a ribbon in one of our creative competitions, try one of our rollicking rides and have the time of your life at one of our shows! No matter what you’re into the 2018 Dixie Classic Fair is guaranteed to be your beacon to fun.

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regarded as one of the premier events in the Triad since launching in 2015. Winston Salem Fashion Week is a multicultural community event that provides an opportunity for local designers, emerging designers, artists and professionals in the apparel industry (as well as sponsoring business owners and partners) to showcase their collections and talents.

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[SPOTLIGHT] THE COLLECTION

BY ANGELICA GRADY

Local band The Collection is back on the road and have a new album releasing in November. David Wimbish, the frontman of the group, grew up in Waxhaw, a small town just South of Charlotte. It was there that he met a couple of the original band members. A few years later, they all relocated to Greensboro and lived in the Glenwood area, where they soon connected to other musicians who shared their same passions. Wimbish and the group decided to “bring these songs to life,” and thus, The Collection formed.

The Collection’s style of music has been described in many ways. “I’ve heard people call it many things but probably the closest thing is Chamber Folk-Pop,” Wimbish said. The Collection’s live shows are loud like a rock show, with folk music at its heart. The band’s sound consists of orchestral instruments along with string and brass instruments as well. In the early days, The Collection performed with as many as 15 to 18 band members on tour with many instruments. “Now, it’s kind of fun because there are less people, but each person in the band plays three or four instruments. So during the shows, people are usually switching off instruments a lot.”

The Collection began touring in 2014 during summer vacation. However, it wasn’t until the debut of their first fulllength album when the band decided to start touring seriously. With over 15 band members, traveling was difficult for the group. Eventually, the band reduced to seven members that would tour regularly. Several more band members left

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the group after the 2017 second album release, leaving Wimbish to wonder about the future of the band. This bump in the road did not stop Wimbish and the band’s determination to keep going.

He continued to work on a new record, and new band members were added, making six members now in The Collection. Since then, The Collection has been successful in their musical journey. Their last tour was in the Midwest and West Coast this past spring, and now they have started a new tour for this fall.

“We feel really lucky to have people who listen to our music all over the country and all over the world,” Wimbish said.

The Collection hopes to keep putting out music that’s honest and can “speak to the human experience, struggle and hope.” One of the most important goals for the band “is to really try to play shows that are more diverse with more diverse bands.” The Collection has some members identify as LGBTQ+, so they feel passionate about being able to give space or support for that community. “We feel passionate about trying to make space for voices that have not been given a voice, especially in our country lately.”

Be sure to check out The Collection’s newest album “Entropy” debuting Nov. 3 at The Ramkat in Winston-Salem. Local artists Cashavelly Morrison and The Genuine will be joining The Collection for their album release party. Tickets range from $7.75 to $10 and can be purchased via Etix, www.etix.com/ticket/p/6309699/ the-collection-the-genuine-cashavellymorrison-winstonsalem-the-ramkat. !

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icked Taco has finally opened its doors in High Point. It took little self-convincing to get to the door of the taco joint. Based on the line and packed dining room, Jennifer Zeleski it didn’t take much for others either.

After taunting the Contributor High Point community with construction updates, taco pictures, and a menu release throughout the summer, the time had finally come to grab a bite. The restaurant is set up assemblyline style, much like other competitors in the area. It was easy to note that the meat options were impressive, and the toppings and sides were abundant.

You have the chance to “build your own” if you dare, but the menu is loaded with taco creations that are hard to pass up, with catchy – if not a bit odd – names and flavor combinations.

As it turns out, all of the combination meals are about the same price, but the Wicked-style combo comes with one 7-inch taco, the street-style comes with two 3-inch tacos and the “two Wickedstyle” comes with two 7-inch tacos. Each combo comes with a side: chipotle cream corn, borracho beans or Spanish rice, or another for an upcharge, as well as a fountain drink.

I was a little disappointed to have chosen the street-style tacos, considering their size, and knew I would come to regret it if the tacos were as good as they looked.

Luckily with the taco combos, you can mix and match any taco option on the menu, regardless of meat or toppings.

The Wolfie, a roasted chicken taco with Wicked sauce, red bliss potato, Mexican slaw, and Hatch chile queso was my first choice. The toppings made it stand out as unique to the location, and it was worth getting to try potatoes on a taco for the first time. Just one modification: I skipped the queso since my boyfriend, Peyton, who couldn’t pass up a chance for tasty tacos, decided to get it as a side, and I prefer it with chips rather than overwhelming a small taco anyways.

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to the toppings consisting of roasted chicken, grilled pineapple, guacamole, pico de gallo and jack cheese. Peyton, who had the smarter order of the two when it came to sizes, chose the two Wicked-style tacos. To switch it up, he chose two that could not be more different on the taco spectrum.

The Wicked One, which included beef brisket, Wicked sauce, onions, chipotle cream corn, jack cheese; and the Endless Summer, the only vegetarian taco, which held chili poblano, corn, onion, mushroom,

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mozzarella, frijoles, habanero sauce and microgreens.

There were several other beef options, as well as pork and seafood, including crunchy breaded Alaskan Pollock, and quarto tostada breaded shrimp. The two that really stood out, although might not be the choice of many, were the breakfast tacos that are sold all day. The “Moo Eats Two” had farm-fresh eggs, Applewood bacon, red bliss potato and jack cheese.

The “Juan in a Million” also had eggs, roasted chicken, Applewood bacon, bell peppers, onion, habanero sauce and Hatch chile queso.

So if you’re looking for a wake-up call in taco form, you’ll have to wait until they open at 11 a.m., but it might just be worth skipping brunch. Peyton and I made sure to get every taste of the “salsa temple” which included six options of salsa, as well as fresh lime and lemon slices, and an array of hot sauces typically found at a local taco spot.

The standouts were the cranberry salsa and pineapple salsa, with the cranberry as the real star. It surprised us both with its sweet, tart and smoky flavor, whereas the pineapple was just sweet but bright and a great twist on more traditional salsas.

Once we refrained ourselves from overdoing it on the chips and salsa, it was on to our tacos. Once again, I was reminded of my own failure in ordering the street-sized tacos. I may be a small human being, but the tacos were only about four bites each.

And if you were lucky, all of the toppings didn’t fall out at once.

But the flavor combinations? Great and noteworthy. The Wolfie was good from the first bite, with a soft and fresh tortilla and a few larger pieces of the roasted chicken.

It’s not shredded, so it wasn’t dry and still

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had flavor. The Mexican slaw, although I couldn’t identify what it consisted of, made the taco have a slight freshness and crunch that it needed in combination with the potatoes. Speaking of the red blisses, they weren’t all that noticeable but could be filling on a larger taco. If the taco had been drenched in queso, I am not sure that I would have enjoyed it as much,

so consider opting out if you don’t enjoy cheese sauce. However, the side of queso paired with the chips was quite addicting for Peyton, and I had to agree that it was creamy, sweet and savory.

Disclaimer: It’s not bright orange, the texture is smooth with every scoop, and the 2-ounce side portion was more than enough for two people.

My second taco, the Psycho-Billy Cadillac, didn’t have the same flavor dynamic as the Wolfie, and I had hoped for more from the grilled pineapple. I made up for it by topping it with some of the pineapple salsa, which took it to another level. Guacamole on a taco is always a bit of a struggle to maintain, but it was nice to have another flavor to pair with the chicken.

The guacamole as a side, at 2 ounces, was also more than enough for two people to share and was loaded with chunky avocado, tomato, onion and corn. It could have used some more lime juice and salt, but it was better than other guacamole I’ve mistakenly ordered.

Peyton’s vegetarian Endless Summer was a delicious option that held up to both of our standards. The texture was great, the corn added a savory flavor that paired well with the chile poblano, and there were even the diced mushrooms that made an appearance. We hadn’t considered mushrooms on a taco before, but Peyton enjoyed their presence and didn’t miss the absence of meat or protein.

However, the beef brisket on The Wicked One was the real winner. Peyton found the brisket to be flavorful and tender, unlike traditional ground beef tacos

that can be less appealing. The brisket offered a barbecued, smoky flavor and great texture. We both found that the Wicked sauce wasn’t really noticeable, but we would be interested in knowing its ingredients.

The prices were slightly higher than those in the area, but affordable for a weekday lunch as long as you order per your appetite level.

Peyton and I are both hoping the homemade horchata, and agua fresca will be available soon, but until then, margaritas, bottled Mexican sodas, and beer can all be swapped for a fountain drink (some include an upcharge).

Grab a side of chips, a few napkins, and some hungry friends. You can toast some tacos and play cornhole outside, all while wishing summer wouldn’t fade away just yet. !

JENNIFER ZELESKI is a student contributor to YES! Weekly. She is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications at High Point University.

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Collaboration brings Tales of Southern Gothic to Greensboro

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riendships are formed throughout life if we are lucky. Three women were lucky enough to form a friendship and sisterhood through their collaboration and art.

In 2016, Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival was held in Winston-Salem. The festival was a showcase of creative women in the area to demonstrate their talents and skills in a woman-supported environment.

The festival was a success, but for many more reasons than just attendance. The festival brought women from numerous creative disciplines and created bonds in the process. One such bond was formed between three local artists, and little did they know at that moment, the “Ruby Sisters” would be formed.

Tammy Baldwin-Willard, Ginger Bryant and Carrie Lilly all took the leap of faith to show their work and be a part of the Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival, and it was there in those moments of courage in showing their souls through their art that their

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friendship was born. Now two years later, they already have two collective shows under their belt, and on Sept. 29, they will present their third show in Greensboro at The Loaded Grape. The title of the show is “Tales of Southern Gothic,” and if the Ruby Sisters have their way, it’s show that will be talked about.

“We were just talking and bouncing around ideas,” Lilly said. “We wanted to do something a little dark, since all three of us have an affinity for the darker side of things, and it shows in our work. I’ve always been fascinated with everything Southern Gothic. It’s wickedly dark, but can also be beautiful, and is quintessentially Southern. We all kind of leaned toward that theme, then Tammy took it a step further and compared it to the current state of our society. We realized we could do so much with this theme, and we ran with it.”

The show will feature three artists with three distinct styles. Lilly’s photographic artistry will be on display, and the theme really seems to be a perfect fit for her style.

“I would describe my photography as dramatic, evocative, and story-telling, or at least, that’s how I like to think of it,” she said. “It’s a little on the dark side, meaning that I post process with deep, undersaturated tones, rich blacks and shadows. I came to this style from years of experimentation with different techniques, both in-camera and in editing the images afterward. I’ve found a style that best expresses my vision.”

Baldwin-Willard’s work will also be on display. The artist has experimented with her work and has recently included alcohol inks in her repertoire.

“My art style, it’s tough for me to try to reconcile what I do as a defined style,” Baldwin-Willard said. “As I explore and experiment more, I find myself creating chaos of color and then searching for the calm in it. Once I have that calm or pattern, I try to offer the viewer something concrete that they can relate to and understand. Sometimes I go about it with a defined end-result, and sometimes I just let it all evolve organically. It really is based on my emotional state in that moment of creating.”

Baldwin-Willard said the Ruby Sisters are naturally drawn to the Southern Gothic genre. She said her art would grapple with the modern South and the current political climate.

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The Ruby Sisters from left: Ginger Bryant, Tammy Baldwin-Willard and Carrie Lilly are unresolved,” she said. “From my space of privilege, I took it for granted most of my life that we were moving toward more inclusion, opportunity, and unity for all.

Instead, it feels like stereotypes of the South are being reinforced-while things are better than the Antebellum South-we are still struggling with prejudices, classes and political corruption that benefits the affluent. I feel like I hit a time warp. Things can’t keep being glossed over. So, I make my doodles and wrestle with this stuff myself.”

Bryant is an artist from Boone whose inspiration comes from the world around her. “I’ve always created art; it’s in my soul,” she said. “I love painting landscapes, trees, flowers, and creatures of fur and feather. I enjoy trying new techniques and playing with new mediums. Tales of Southern Gothic is not their first collabora-

tion, and it will most assuredly not be the last. These three artists found each other’s talents at The Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival, but in the end, they found a lot more. In a time when women need to support and lift each other, these three artists are taking it to the next level and pushing each other to do more and dare to display it for all to see. After all, isn’t that what sisters do? !

DAVID WILLARD is married to Tammy Baldwin-Willard.

He is a freelance writer in Winston-Salem and has written for Forsyth Woman Magazine, Forsyth Family Magazine, Winston-Salem Monthly.

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Thriving at five: OUT at the Movies film festival celebrates a milestone October marks LGBTQ+ History Month, and the OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Festival is making some history of its own, as it kicks off its fifth annual event on Oct. 5 in Winston-Salem.

Mark Burger With 24 films, this is the biggest and most star-studded Contributor OUT at the Movies festival to date.

For Rex Welton, who co-founded the OUT at the Movies screening series and is now director of both the series and the festival, this is as much the culmination of hard work as it is a dream come true. “It is very gratifying to me that what started as a ‘one-off ’ screening of Latter Days in 2003 became a thriving series, [then] a festival,” Welton said. “Now we are about to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the series and the fifth of our festival.”

Screenings will take place at A/perture Cinemas (311 W. Fourth St.) and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking (1533 S. Main St.) in the Babcock, Gold and Main Theatres at the ACE Exhibition Complex.

There will be parties and receptions at various downtown hotspots.

The festival caps off what has been one of the most successful years in the screening series’ history. Screenings of The Fabulous Allan Carr, Rebels on Pointe, The Cakemaker, Tucked, and A Million Happy Nows proved extremely popular with audiences.

This year’s OUT at the Movies will welcome back some festival favorites

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including award-winning playwright and filmmaker Del Shores (Sordid Lives), who will perform his one-man show Six Characters in Search of a Play at 2 p.m. on Oct. 7 at Theatre Alliance (1047 Northwest Blvd.). Actor Wes Ramsay (“CSI: Miami,” “Charmed,” “General Hospital”), who made his screen debut in Latter Days, will receive the festival’s very first “INSPIRE” Award following an encore screening of the film at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 in the UNCSA Main Theatre.

The festival will open with a 7:30 p.m. screening of You Should Meet My Son 2!, the follow-up to the award-winning 2010 comedy, at the UNCSA Main Theatre.

Filmmaker Keith Hartman and actors Emory Duncan and Tyler Richmeier are scheduled to attend, followed by the opening-night reception at Jeffrey Adams on Fourth (321 W. Fourth St.).

Welton admitted he knew going in that building a festival from the ground up would take considerable time and work, and he wasn’t necessarily 100 percent certain it would be a success.

“To be honest, I wasn’t sure,” he said.

“Our film series, OUT at the Movies, was about to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2013 when I began to consider a festival to commemorate 10 years. It was a huge jump going from a monthly series to a three-day festival.”

Yet even from the get-go, there were very encouraging signs. Welton said the support of UNCSA, RiverRun International Film Festival and the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County was the key to the first year’s success.

“The biggest hurdle was securing sponsors the very first year,” Welton said. “RiverRun sponsored OUT at the Movies for an Arts Council Innovative Project Grant.

We applied and received it. The next

year, BB&T stepped up to the plate as our presenting sponsor, and I knew that our festival’s future was bright. This year, our newest sponsors include American Airlines, PepsiCo and Twin City Hive.”

Both the series and the festival have proven popular beyond the borders of the Piedmont Triad and North Carolina, attracting filmmakers and audiences from far and wide.

“This year – including the actors, directors, producers, and documentary subjects joining us in Winston-Salem – the festival will generate over 100 hotel nights,” Welton said. “Already, I know of audience members from Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and Louisville coming to enjoy our screenings, the Q&As, Del Shores’s one-man show, and parties.”

That kind of success does not go unnoticed. Welton said OUT at the Movies has a reputation industry-wide for its hospitality, quality, programming and customer service.

“Several years ago, we were screening Baby Steps on opening night – the same night it was screening at a larger and longer-running festival in Cincinnati,” Welton said. “The lead actor and director, Barney Cheng, and his co-star Michael Adam Hamilton chose to accept the invitation to join us in Winston-Salem. I told them how happy we were to have them in Winston-Salem and asked Barney why he chose to come to our festival instead of the larger one. He had been told by his friend, writer/producer/director J.C. Cal-

ciano (The 10 Year Plan), that if he ever got a chance to attend the OUT at the Movies International LGBT Film Fest that he should jump at the opportunity.”

For Welton and the OUT team, that did not go unnoticed either. “We always have had an incredible hands-on board and a dedicated, talented group of volunteers,” he said. “We have enjoyed widespread support from the city, our sponsors and donors, and our audience members.”

Following the opening-night screening, the festival will announce the formation of an OUT at the Movies scholarship for a deserving student at the UNCSA School of Filmmaking, exemplifying its dedication to the filmmakers of tomorrow and the art of cinema.

“We want to continue offering our filmmakers, sponsors, and audience members one of the best experiences of any festival in the country,” Welton said. !

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2018, Mark Burger.

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The alarming, expansive sound of Sunwatchers

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unwatchers don’t play protest music, strictly speaking.

The quartet, based out of New York City, make instrumental music. But they make furious, ecJohn Adamian static, wide-ranging @johnradamian music that is filled with the spirit of uprising, resistance and Contributor rage. Their songs might not be about the extrajudicial killings committed by the United States government using unmanned drones, but they want you to know they’re pissed about it. (The full title of their combustive and hypnotic studio record released earlier this year is “Sunwatchers Stand In Solidarity With the Dispossessed, Impoverished and Embattled People of the World.”) They don’t think that sitting back and being quietly

entertaining or quietly entertained is the right response to the political predicament we face in America — and in the world — today. And so, Sunwatchers make a hellacious racket. Their music is equal parts free jazz, krautrock, avantmetal, and meditative boogie. They howl, keen and wail, but they also groove and shred.

The band, which plays Monstercade in Winston-Salem on Saturday, Sept.

29, has ties to the Triad. Guitarist Jim McHugh lived and went to college in Greensboro for a time. (The band also includes Peter Kerlin on bass, Jeff Tobias on sax and keyboards, and Jason Robira on drums.) McHugh spoke with me by phone last week while running errands in Brooklyn.

The band is about to release a new collaborative project with Greensboro music legend and fellow politically minded omnivore Eugene Chadbourne, in which Sunwatchers essentially back Chadbourne on a series of songs by the Minutemen, Doug Sahm and one by semi-obscure and

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semi-legendary Greensboro-born artist/ composer/philosopher Henry Flynt.

While mashing together pieces of rapid-fire SoCal punk (the Minutemen), Texas soul-garage rock (Sahm), and outsider-minimalist experimentalism (Flynt) might sound like a Frankenstein experiment, that kind of radical — and very American — eclecticism is central to what Chadbourne has been doing on his recordings for over 40 years.

Since he was a teenager, McHugh has seen Chadbourne perform live. And McHugh said that Chadbourne’s manic all-inclusive approach has been a palateexpanding catalyst.

“We’ve always been all over the map, geographically and musically,” said McHugh, alluding to Sunwatchers’ roots, which jump and weave from North Carolina to Athens, Georgia and up to New York.

Protest music generally uses words to sing out against injustice, to draw attention to the plight of the dispossessed, to give voice to those suffering at the hands of oppressive governments or those plowed under by systems that exploit the poor, minorities, or those who are denied access to the mechanisms of power. Bob Dylan, Fela Kuti, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Pussy Riot, Public Enemy, the Last Poets, Buffy St. Marie and Ani DiFranco might have all been making different types of protest music, but their efforts were linked by the use of verbal artistry to focus to the issues at hand.

Sunwatchers create a sound that can, at different times, bring to mind the Lounge Lizards, Can, John Zorn, Albert Ayler, and the garage rock from Southeast Asia. (McHugh routinely plays an electric phin, a lute from Thailand.) One might hear the reference to free jazz and assume that Sunwatchers just cut loose in every direction, but that’s not really their style. They balance order and chaos, structure and freedom. Many of their songs have pretty, melodic parts that repeat while the band swells and then recedes. (They’ve been known to perform a version of Schumann’s “Eusebius.”)

McHugh’s guitar tone frequently has a shrill bite to it or an abrasive distortion that makes the instrument sound almost abstract. McHugh and Tobias might sync up to make lacerating machine-like patterns played in unison, or the band might smolder along with a head-nodding drone.

They like to employ what McHugh refers to as “mesmeric, brutal repetition.”

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can enact a kind of structural, metabolic change on a body, and/or on a mind.

Sunwatchers make music with the belief that music — played cranked up, with brain-grabbing power — can actually change things.

The members of Sunwatchers all matured as musicians playing in punk bands.

That experience cemented a belief in the importance of achieving a sense of catharsis, a powerful release, particularly in their live shows.

“If I’m not greasy and exhausted after we play, then we didn’t do it right,” McHugh said.

They obviously have a healthy sense of humor, history, and absurdity, as can be glimpsed in their newly launched self-released series of outtakes and oddities, called The Basement Apes, with a choice titular hat-tip to Dylan’s famously fruitful and shambolic 1967 collaboration with the Band in Saugerties, New York.

To always be creating and releasing music is the goal that McHugh and his Sunwatchers bandmates have.

The band’s sense of urgency relates to the political philosophy that underpins what they do. McHugh said that he and his bandmates share the belief that we’re living through a crisis right now. And he’s quick to point out that their sense of emergency predated the election of Donald Trump, whom McHugh calls a fascist.

“We live in a society that’s anti-human, that fosters competitive greed and murderous intent,” McHugh said. (The band issued a lengthy mission statement with the new record, mapping out their wish “to espouse equality for the dispossessed and an end to our current exploitative ways of being.” They also donate proceeds from their record sales to organizations devoted to abolishing prisons.)

The music is the music. It’s made with the intensity, intelligence, and openmindedness that also come through in what the band says about what they do.

Sunwatchers could make potent music without any clear agenda, but they’ve said they wouldn’t feel right with that ambiguity.

“We’re just making the music that we want to make and attaching our intentionality in a really direct way.” !

JOHN ADAMIAN lives in Winston-Salem, and his writing has appeared in Wired, The Believer, Relix, Arthur, Modern Farmer, the Hartford Courant and numerous other publications.

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A Clockwork Lemon: What hath Roth wrought? is any indication of what to expect from future Amblin wannabes, then we’re all in trouble, as it isn’t Back to the Future as much as it’s bleak for the future.

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n the literary timeline, the source material for the new kid-flick The House with a Clock in Its Walls ( ) existed long before Harry Potter received a letter offering him a chance to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But on the cinematic timeline, this adaptation of John Bellairs’ 1973 children’s novel arrives long after the magic has largely dissipated from such enterprises.

While the celluloid version of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them offered enough invention and energy to bode well for the upcoming follow-up, everything in Clock moves at the pace of, well, a clock winding down. It’s both toolittle-too-late and been-there-done-that.

Set in 1955, the movie centers on Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro), a young boy who’s sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents are killed in a car crash. Jonathan’s home is a cluttered mansion once owned by the late Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan), an evil

warlock who left a ticking clock hidden somewhere on the premises. Jonathan, who’s also revealed to be a warlock (albeit a good one), knows that the clock represents something malevolent, so he and Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), his next-door neighbor and fellow sorcerer, spend much of their time frantically searching for it. Wowed by everything he’s witnessing, Lewis decides that he would like to become a warlock as well.

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Best known for Cabin Fever and Hostel, Eli Roth has spent 2018 trying to reinvent himself as a filmmaker who can tackle other genres in addition to horror. He started the year with the needless Death Wish remake and now returns with a PG-rated family film that’s somehow even more dreary and repetitive than that R-rated effort. For a movie about fantastic beasts and where to find them, The House with a Clock in Its Walls offers little in the way of wonder and imagination. The incessant CGI maintains a constant chokehold on most other aspects of the film as if Roth felt that today’s kids can only respond to a nonstop barrage of sound and fury and busy effects. The doll army is admittedly creepy — one can easily picture them as Pennywise’s minions — but a little of the canine-like chair, the belching pumpkins, and the perpetually defecating topiary griffin go a long way. Even the sight of Black’s head on an infant’s body runs a distant second to the more accomplished trick of placing Ryan Reynolds’ noggin on an itty bitty body in the recent Deadpool 2.

After Goosebumps, Black doubtless seemed like a sound choice for this project, and he’s perfectly suited for his role as a voluble man whose surface cheeriness masks his inner frustrations and fears. But Blanchett never quite comes into her own in what’s ultimately a rather blasé role, and while the idea of having Black and Blanchett constantly hurling affectionate insults at each other sounds delightful, their barbs rarely extend beyond tiresome variations of “You’re ugly” and “You’re fat.”

Clearly, Universal Pictures and Roth are trying to pay homage to the Amblin films made by Steven Spielberg and cohorts back in the 1980s — the studio’s press release even states that the film is “in the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places.” But if this soulless slog

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, Life Itself ( ) is the sort of sprawling, multigenerational saga meant to make audiences laugh, cry, and nod approvingly at moments they might recognize from their own roller coaster lives. Unfortunately, a deep sigh and a dismissive shrug will be all that many folks will be able to muster.

The word out of the Toronto Film Festival was that this was a disaster on the order of the Hindenburg or the Titanic, and most of the reviews thus far have supported that narrative. That strikes me as overkill — if nothing else, Fogelman has at least attempted to make something personal and intimate, a welcome respite from such common and mechanical entertainment as The House with a Clock in Its Walls. It’s just a shame his reach exceeds his grasp.

Broken up into chapters, the film initially follows Will Dempsey (Oscar Isaac) as he explains to a psychiatrist (Annette Bening) how the departure of his wife Abby (Olivia Wilde) has totally destroyed him. Later chapters deal with a wealthy landowner (Antonio Banderas) in Spain, the loving couple who live on his property (Laia Costa and Sergio Peris-Mencheta), and, back in the U.S., a surly teenager (Olivia Cooke) dealing with the tragedies that life has constantly shoved in her face.

The thrust of the film is how the literary device of the “unreliable narrator” applies since life is unreliable because it always throws us curveballs every step of the way.

It’s a shame Fogelman didn’t apply this theory to the actual crafting of his screenplay, since it’s never less than an absolute certainty that all the pieces of the film will snap neatly — and predictably, and sometimes ridiculously — into place by the final fade-out.

On the plus side, the performances are exemplary, particularly those from Isaac and Costa. One’s mileage will vary, however, on Fogelman’s insistence on using pop-culture references to an excessive degree. Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind receives most of the lip service, but there are also copious nods to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. There’s even a recreation of the latter’s adrenaline-shot-to-the-heart scene — unfortunately, it’s not potent enough to bring the rest of the film back to life. !

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And Then There Were None captivates the audience at Triad Stage

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f you are invited to a stranger’s house on an island under the pretense of a lavish dinner party, it is probably best not to go. (Duh!) I have never read Katie Murawski Agatha Christie’s mystery novel “And Then There Were Editor None,” and besides that one Family Guy episode that parodied the plot, I have never seen the play.

So, I had only a faint idea of what it was about. When I stepped into Triad Stage on Sunday night, I was not prepared for the next two and a half hours. If you are like me and have never read the book or know “who done it,” you absolutely can’t miss this show’s extended run, happening now until Oct. 7.

And Then There Were None is set in the 1930s off the coast of Devon, England, and follows 10 not-so-innocent guests who innocently accept a mysterious invitation from someone named U.N. Owens. When the guests arrive, they find that their host would not be joining them, and that is when things turn grim. After a loud recording echoes through the house and puts them on trial, it reveals the true reason why they were all gathered: They have all been responsible for murders.

Broken up in three acts with two 10-minute intermissions, the show was expertly executed and left the audience biting their nails.

Instantly, I was drawn to the set, which is typical when I go to take my seat for a show at Triad Stage. Protruding into the audience, the giant structure (that would portray the room where the play would take place) had sheer curtains wrapped around it. Inside the sheer curtains, there was a living room with a couch, a mini bar, various chairs, a cup holder/cigarette ashtray, a bearskin rug and of course, 10 soldiers figurines, placed precariously on a mantle above a fireplace. The most impressionable part of this show was the set that was immersive. You almost WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

forget where you are as you watch and in the background, hear seagulls chirping, rain falling, thunder/lightning crashing and even gunshots—all while you feel a cool breeze. Adding to the immersive set, the actors never miss a beat. Each performer completely commits to their role and convey the mood of tension and uneasiness with finesse. In my opinion, Mari Vial-Golden (Vera Claythorne) and Phil McGlaston (Sir Lawrence Wargrave) stole the show with their scene.

One part of the play during Sunday’s performance (without giving too much away), there is a moment of darkness and a single gunshot. Everything moves so quickly in the scene, that when the gunshot happened, every single person in the theatre (including myself) gasped and even felt a brief moment of panic. It was like the audience who saw L’Arrivée d’un Train for the first time in the theater, shocking and terrifying. A few people let out a nervous laugh after being spooked by the loud “pop,” but the uneasy feeling lingered in the air as the play went on.

Looking around and even unintentionally eavesdropping on the folks sitting behind me, the only thing people were talking about was the mystery. It is as if we all collectively unplugged and figuratively put our heads together to try to solve an almost 80-year-old puzzle. While I don’t condone any talking during plays, it was inspiring and wholesome to hear the folks behind me get so engulfed in a story that they simply couldn’t wait to talk about it until intermission.

As usual, my experience at Triad Stage was exciting, fulfilling, and I can’t wait to return for the next play. And Then There Were None is the perfect precursor for October and the Halloween season, so don’t miss it.

Performances start at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; and 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturdays. Tickets are available by phone, in person or online at www. triadstage.org/tickets. !

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

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A naked man opened the door to firefighters responding to a house fire in Niceville, Florida, on Aug. 27 and said “I’m sorry” before closing the door in their Chuck Shepherd faces. James Cunningham, 53, later admitted to police he’d had two liters of

vodka and had smoked marijuana before trying to bake cookies on his George Foreman grill, reported WPLG Local 10. The experiment went wrong when the grill and cookies caught fire, so he covered them with a dry towel, which also caught fire.

Firefighters said if he’d been in the house any longer, he could have died from smoke inhalation.

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Djuan Lewis, 23, landed a new job at Benada Aluminum Products in Sanford,

Florida, on Aug. 30, a Thursday. On Sunday morning, his boss fired him. WFTV reported that following his dismissal, Lewis waited for his boss for two hours outside the business, then chased him and his girlfriend for a mile and a half, shooting at their car and hitting the rear bumper, trunk and right rear tire. Neither the supervisor nor his girlfriend was hurt. Sanford police arrested Lewis and changed him with attempted murder.

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENT

School resource officer and part-time police officer Maryssa Boskoski, 32, was called into a classroom at Liberty Preparatory School in Smithville, Ohio, on Aug. 30 to help rouse a sleeping student who could not be awakened by the teacher or even the principal. When Boskoski arrived, The Washington Post reported, her solution was to unholster her Taser, remove the firing cartridge and pull the trigger, causing an electric buzz that woke the student and shocked the school community. Smithville Police Chief Howard Funk placed Boskoski on unpaid leave and told WEWS news station Boskoski had been disciplined a month earlier, also for a Taser-related incident. An investigation was ongoing.

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At Kirby High School in Memphis, Tennessee, things are quiet as a mouse ... or a rat. Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dorsey Hopson told the Memphis Commercial Appeal he’s looking for a temporary home for Kirby’s 800 students after closing the school Sept. 5 due to a rat infestation. The problem started in midAugust, when district personnel uncovered a rat’s nest during a renovation project.

Eighty rats were trapped at the school and poison was set out. When students returned after Labor Day, poisoned rats began dying within the school’s walls and the stench became overwhelming. Calling the situation an “unavoidable act of nature,” Hopson said he expects students to return in early November.

FAMILY VALUES

Patricia Ann Hill, 69, of White Hall, Arkansas, called 911 on July 28 to report she had shot her husband, Frank, 65. But she had a motive: Patricia told Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators she had previously disagreed with her husband’s purchase of a pornography channel on Dish Network, and she canceled the channel, telling Frank that if he reordered it, he’d have to leave. That day, reported the Pine Bluff Commercial, the Dish bill arrived, revealing that the channel had been re-added, so Patricia confronted Frank in his “man cave” and told him to go. When

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he refused, Patricia fetched a .22-caliber pistol from the house and shot him twice, killing him. Hill was charged with capital murder and held without bond in the Jefferson County adult detention center.

BRIGHT IDEA

It’s one way to get a ride to lunch: Knox County (Kentucky) Sheriff’s deputies responded on Aug. 24 to a home in Corbin, where Kenneth Ray Couch, 35, had reportedly stolen a handgun. As they searched for Couch, they learned he had been transported to the hospital in an ambulance after staging a heart attack at nearby Dixon’s market. When police arrived at Baptist Health Corbin, WYMT reported, they found Couch in the cafeteria, which had apparently been his goal all along.

Couch was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary and falsely reporting an incident.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

Taiheem M. McKay, 23, of Riverhead, New York, made it easy for Suffolk County officials to track him down after suspecting him of breaking into 10 different homes over the course of seven months, stealing cash, jewelry and designer accessories.

According to Newsday, the Suffolk County Department of Probation traced McKay to the burglary locations through his GPS ankle monitor, which he was wearing as a result of a February 2017 second-degree reckless endangerment conviction. McKay has additional pending indictments in other burglaries.

THE PASSING PARADE

Known for his blond mullet and numerous social media rants, zoo owner Joe Exotic (real name: Joseph MaldonadoPassage) of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has been cooling his heels in a Florida jail since his arrest Sept. 7 for allegedly attempting to hire two people in late 2017 to kill an unnamed woman. According to the Orlando Sentinel, one of those “killers” was an undercover FBI agent, and Exotic was indicted on federal murder-for-hire charges. It all started “many, many years” ago, said Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, who claims to be the “unnamed woman” Exotic was hoping to off. She said Exotic has threatened her repeatedly and posted online a video of himself shooting an effigy of Baskin in the head.

Tangentially, Exotic was also a candidate in a three-way Libertarian primary run for governor in Oklahoma this summer. He finished third. !

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hree weeks ago, I watched Teodoro Miranda, Juan Romero and Alberto Hernandez lower a thick white block-long tube into the pit they’d Ian McDowell dug in front of 120 S. Mendenhall St. in Greensboro’s historic Contributor College Hill. Sitting on my friend Tom Abrams’ brick steps, I dripped with perspiration, but the faces of the men working in the bright hot, muggy August sunlight didn’t glisten.

Embarrassed by how I sweated even in the shade, I admired the competence with which they performed the kind of hard but extremely technical manual labor I’ve never done unless one counts the summer I got community service and my supervisor violated regulations by teaching the college boy to use a jackhammer.

Decades after that bruising experience, I watched this crew do something requiring far more skill. As Miranda directed from above, Romero climbed down and balanced like a log-roller on the high-density polyethylene they were inserting inside the 90-year-old terracotta, while Hernandez operated the Front Shovel Excavator that pushed the new lining through the old sewer pipe like a catheter in a vein.

Putting down my notepad, I walked onto the sunbaked asphalt to talk to the men whose names I wanted to learn before I took photos of their work. They were extremely gracious, and after Miranda handed me his business card, Romero and Hernandez showed me their IDs so I could spell their names correctly. Classes have started at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and College Hill was full of students. When several young women in short skirts strode past, the men smiled and nodded back at the one who said “Hola!,” but didn’t stare after her or even glance at the others. Their demeanor was in marked contrast to the typical gringo hardhat crew. From further down South Mendenhall came the sound of other crews at work. My neighborhood had been full of holes, heavy equipment, gravel, dirt, pipes, dust, smoke, leaking water and “STREET CLOSED” signs for months.

Two days before, their supervisor, Larry Kirby of KRG Utilities Inc., explained what they’d be doing and invited me to YES! WEEKLY

photograph the process. KRG is one of several contractors hired by the City of Greensboro to rehabilitate College Hill’s nearly century-old sewers. Elsewhere, other contractors worked on the neighborhood’s water, much of which now flowed through temporary pipes running along the gutters.

Two things that KRG specializes in are pipe bursting and slip lining. The former is a method of replacing buried pipelines without digging a trench their full length.

Launching and receiving pits, such as the one outside 120 S. Mendenhall, are used instead. More cost-effective, expedient, less disruptive and quieter than trenching, the pipe bursting process is preferred for urban areas.

Slip lining is a method for trenchless rehabilitation of existing pipelines, in which a smaller high-density polyethylene (HDPE) carrier pipe is butt-fused (shut up, Beavis) together and inserted into an existing host pipeline. Using workforce and machinery, the new liner pipe is either pulled or pushed into place. (The technical terms in the previous descriptions come from my conversation with Kirby, but I had to refer to Wikipedia and the KRG website to understand them.)

“What we’ve got to do is lay out the existing services,” Kirby told me. “Then we do an activity report showing exactly where the service is for each house. Then we start digging and then comes the slip lining through the existing pipe. That’s what we’re fixing to do here once we’ve got the road closed.”

The week before, his crew installed a 450-foot-long slip line on my own block of Mendenhall, inserting the 7-inch new plastic pipe inside the old 8-inch clay one, then reconnecting 11 services. “This week, we’re going to run this all the way to Market Street.” He said he hoped that would

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be done in the next couple of weeks.

“Then a water crew comes in behind us.

Because they’ve got it to get it all done, all the cuts in the road before the resurfacing crew comes.”

I asked him about the deteriorating condition of the original terracotta pipes, which had been installed in the very early 20th century. He said that many of the places where the old piping had been joined together were compromised. “That old terracotta would last practically forever if it wasn’t for the roots of the trees creeping into it trying to find water.”

Every resident of College Hill I talked with praised the men doing the work.

Although, I heard multiple complaints about not only the way in which residents were being informed (or not) by the city of when streets would be closed. Recently, I posted a comment on www.NextDoor. com, asking my neighbors for quotes.

College Hill resident Stephanie Jobe said the workers had been very professional but expressed her frustration “that the city has been only reactionary with information.” She wrote that, only after several weeks of complaints on the Next Door College Hill site, did she find a tag on her door with what she described as “very vague” information. She wrote that neighborhood association vice president David Arneke “has managed to occasionally get updates out of them,” but that he only got responses after multiple questions were asked on social media. “I don’t think the city is communicating between the contractors as much as I would hope.

Some of the closures between them have turned the neighborhood into a veritable maze. Especially with the construction traffic on campus, that had to negotiate paths with the city, it just seems like chaos.”

The same day, neighborhood resident Denise Ross replied to my post with more compliments for the actual workers.

“They were more than helpful guiding us in and out if our driveway that was blocked for many days. Having moved from Atlanta (home of many sinkholes due to ancient infrastructure) I am so happy this work has and is being done. Inconvenient? Yes, but not as inconvenient as seeing your car or house in the bottom of a hole.”

College Hill Neighborhood Association treasurer Arlen Nicolls told me a similar story when I interviewed her on the street in late August. “If they have to move their equipment, they’re glad to do it, and if they must block off residences, like when they had to partially block off our driveway, they’ll readily stop what they’re doing and come help get you out or do what they need to do.” She said the thought the crews were working expeditiously, “very WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

carefully but also as quickly as they can, and they are accommodating and helpful when they need to modify things on the ground to help us as residents, visitors, and students.”

The day before I interviewed Kirby, I encountered Arneke walking his dog.

“It was pretty disruptive for about a month last winter, and then six weeks of summer,” he told me, especially after a hole was dug in front of his driveway.

“There were times during the day when we couldn’t get in or out. But as much as a problem as it was when it was going on, it’s something that needed to be done.”

His furry companion offered no comment but growled at the sight, sound, and smell of the equipment being used to dig a hole at the intersection of Spring Garden and Mendenhall.

I’ve lived on South Mendenhall for several decades. The fact I don’t own a car means that the ongoing work has been less of an inconvenience to me than many of my neighbors, aside from those mornings when I woke at 7:30 a.m. to the sound of the drill breaking up the asphalt in front of my apartment and then two large and alarmed cats demanded reassurance by trying to sit on my head.

However, that’s not what inspired me to write this article.

Instead, it was the recommendation by one local business owner that “you need to write about this – they did a bunch of work fixing those pipes months ago, but the work failed, and now they’re back doing it all over again.” Subsequent investigation suggests that’s not the case, although I can certainly understand how it’s seemed that way.

“I know it’s a mess out there right now, and it does look like we’re redoing stuff that we already did earlier this year, but

trust me, we’re not,” said professional engineer and engineering supervisor of the city’s Capital Improvements program Jay Guffey, when invited to address the Aug. 27 meeting of the College Hill Neighborhood Association.

Guffey explained that sewer and water repairs are being done at the same time “so we can get the paving done at once, instead of the sewer line gets put in and they pave it, then come back a month later to work on the water line, tearing it up and then repaving it again.” He explained that work on the water lines could only be done during the summer months.

“We have these exposed pipes bypassing the water while we’re working on the lines, and if that froze over and the pipes burst, we’ll have a big mess.” But he said the sewer work can be done year-round.

“To put it bluntly, poop don’t freeze.” He added that “water and sewer are typically very close to each other, so you’ll see holes that may look like we’re doing something right on top of what we did before.”

“This is a huge project,” said neighborhood association board member Dan Curry in response to Guffey. “It’s going to have very long-term positive impacts on the neighborhood, and I particularly like that you’re trying to do it all at one time, even though that’s why it’s so involved and messy.” Curry explained that the city would normally “spread this stuff out over two or three or four years, but we’re trying to get it all done basically in one swoop, and I really appreciate that. I know there’s going to be lots of concerns, as well have with, with some of the difficulties, but I think it’s a great asset they’re putting into our neighborhood.”

Several present at the meeting complained of lack of transparency on the city’s part, with Guffey listening patiently

and intently but not always being able to give an answer that satisfied the person complaining “I wonder if contractors could do a better job of communicating back and forth with you,” said James Keith, the association president. Guffey promised he’d look into improving that. Keith repeated the complaint made by many that the door hangers being left on residences weren’t very specific except when notifying when water was going to temporarily cut off, “about which they’ve been great.” But he said that earlier and more specific notifications about street closings were needed.

Keith also said that “the neighborhood is a pass-through for thousands of other people a day, and they quite frankly, don’t give a damn. The communication necessity is even stronger here.” Guffey acknowledged that not having grown up here, he hadn’t realized how heavy student traffic was in the neighborhood, or how many buildings contained multiple residences.

On Sept. 14, Guffey posted a message to Next Door College Hill thanking everyone who’d attended the meeting for their input, and listing the work scheduled for the next couple of weeks, although he acknowledged that the then-upcoming Hurricane Florence might alter those plans. On Sept. 20, I called him and asked how much the rainfall had affected the ongoing rehabilitation.

He said that contractors had been delayed by only one day. “They did have some potholes that they had to re-pack the asphalting around, due to the water having loosened it, but we didn’t have a lot of impact from Florence, other than one down day.”

He explained that the work on Walker should be over by the end of October.

“Work on Mendenhall will probably end two weeks after that, then we have College Place to do, and then there’s the sewer line that comes out of Jackson and goes into Spring Garden, that’s going to be further into the winter time. Our plan is to be out of College Hill by the end of the year.”

Guffey also repeated something that he said multiple times during the neighborhood association meeting when he’d urged anyone with any questions to call him at (336) 373-7779 or email him at jay. guffey@greebsboro-nc.gov.

“Anybody with any questions about the rehab work, please give me a call and I’ll be glad to talk.” !

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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Taco Bao improves the UNCG foodscape The replacement of Tate Street’s Indian and Thai restaurants with ones serving yet more pizza, subs and wings, described in my January 2017 article “From Desolation Row to PizIan McDowell zaville,” drastically reduced the variety of the University of Contributor North Carolina at Greensboro-area foodscape. However, now there’s Taco Bao, a 10-minute walk from Tate Street (two minutes further than Yum Yum) via Spring Garden and the tunnel that runs from the South end of Forest Street to the campus police station on Gate City Boulevard.

This won’t matter to a couple of my College Hill neighbors, who regularly run for miles yet inexplicably refuse to stroll to Tate Street, much less a few blocks Southwest, but it’s good news for those of us who’d rather walk than drive. And area pedestrians are not the only ones to benefit from Taco Bao’s location, which is very accessible and has plenty of parking.

The little Asian/Latin fusion restaurant (which also has hibachi, Chinese and Korean entrées) is in the Spartan Village complex at 1101 W. Gate City Blvd. where that street meets Glenwood. It opened last fall, then temporarily closed this summer while owners Ling Zhou and her husband Ken Huang visited Huang’s parents in Taiwan (Ling is from China).

In August, it reopened with an expanded menu that’s brought more student foot traffic, but non-students may not realize how much parking is available.

They also may not realize how tasty the food is in a building owned by UNCG, which has inexplicably given it only a small sign invisible from the street (it’s beside Pita Delite). I say that as someone not enamored of the “taco bao” concept, which replaces a tortilla with the split steamed dumpling. I love a traditional Chinese bao with a savory or sweet filling, but despite my love of Mexican cuisine, I’ve temporarily burned out on anything resembling a taco.

I recently talked to Ling about the changes she and her husband made before reopening. Along with hibachi/ teriyaki vegetables, tofu, chicken, shrimp and beef, they’ve added poke bowls (the Hawaiian word is pronounced POYES! WEEKLY

keh). While these traditionally include marinated raw tuna served over rice, Ling makes them with cooked eel or salmon, imitation crab meat, tofu, chicken, steak or tempura shrimp. To one of those ingredients is added furikake (a Japanese seasoning made from dried fish and seaweed flakes), edamame, seaweed salad, guacamole, sweet corn, cucumber and masago (the roe of the capelin fish, salmon’s smaller relative). The restaurant still serves its titular taco bao with meat, tofu or black beans garnished with red cabbage, pickled cucumber, scallion, and carrot. They also have regular tortilla tacos.

For my money, and I usually spend $7 to $10, the best entrées are the kimchi fried noodles, the eel rice bowl, the beef scallion pancake, the Thai-style chicken and the wonderful kimchi beef tofu soup, which is worth every bit of its $10 and is good for two or three meals. Stick to bao, tacos, wings, or rice bowls; you can get a very filling meal for $3.50 to $5.50. They also make excellent boba tea.

But wait, there’s more! Ling no long displays the “secret” authentic Chinese menu several reviewers listed last year (“it confused students too much”), but it’s all still available, and is listed on a Chinese-language social network. If you don’t have that app (which won’t do you any good if you don’t read Chinese), simply ask Ling what she can make for you that day. She’ll whip out her phone and show you a variety of options, and they’ve always been good. I don’t recommend doing this during the weekday lunch rush if students are lined up at the counter, but it’s a great choice otherwise.

Ling told me that she’s still trying to get UNCG to make her a larger sign that can be seen from the street, but she’s added a window banner with “Taco Bao” on it. And she said to be sure to mention the parking lot. “If they turn onto Glenwood, it’s the first right, the big lot there.

Spaces 1-88 are for all our customers.”

Before 6 p.m. on weekdays, those spaces are metered, but bring in the receipt and Ling will take the parking charge off the price of anything you order. “We welcome everybody, so please come see us!”

Taco Bao is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. English language menu, hours and more can be found at tacobaogreensboro.com. !

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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Kavanaugh versus Ford The on-going controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and statistics professor Christine Blasey Ford, Ph.D., has brought to the fore a number of issues. For starters, it’s about alleged Jim Longworth sexual misconduct, and when it’s apLongworth propriate for a victim to come forward. It’s at Large about alcoholism and the effects that drinking can have on one’s behavior and memory. It’s about politics, as GOP Senators tried to rush through Kavanaugh’s appointment, just in case the Democrats should take over both chambers after November. It’s about protecting the President who, with Kavanaugh on the high court, would likely never have to answer a subpoena or be indicted for anything. It’s about keeping women like Dr. Ford in their place, the same way an all-white male

committee did with Anita Hill in 1991.

It’s about women’s rights because Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court could spell doom for Roe v. Wade. It’s also about the rise of #MeToo, and how that movement tends to automatically believe alleged female victims even absent of any proof. However, more than anything, it’s a story about entitlement. While the media was quick to harken back to Anita Hill for a comparative narrative, they should have been looking at why Ford allegedly found herself at the mercy of Kavanaugh to begin with.

Just as Ted Kennedy felt entitled to lie about leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die in a stream, and Bill Clinton felt entitled to lie about his relationship with Monica Lewinski, 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh might have felt entitled when he allegedly threw 15-year-old Christine Blasey onto a bed, held her down, attempted to undress her and nearly suffocated her as she tried to scream for help. In his book, “Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk,” Mark Judge (who was a witness to the Ford incident, but said he can’t recall it), writes that Georgetown Prep was a hotbed of drunken parties. In

fact, in his account of those prep school days, Judge wrote of a classmate named “Bart O’Cavanaugh,” who often got drunk and once threw up in a friend’s car. So perhaps Bret Kavanaugh felt entitled to lie about his involvement with Blasey Ford 36 years ago. After all, it was Kavanaugh who, in 2015, told a group of students, “What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep, and that’s a good thing for all of us.”

However, even if Kavanaugh did what Ford alleges, some apologists say that no one should be judged for what he did as a teenager. I disagree, for the simple reason that what we do as a teen informs whom we become as an adult, and that brings me back to entitlement. Some men do whatever they want because they don’t have to be held accountable. That’s why if you’re looking for a parallel storyline to the Kavanaugh/Ford saga, don’t focus on Anita Hill. Just look at Mitt Romney.

As a high school senior Mitt had a sense of disdain for homosexuals and nonconformists. So much so, one night he and four of his preppy buddies spotted a gay student with long hair and Mitt became

enraged, saying, “He can’t look like that.”

Mitt and his gang proceeded to grab the gay boy, hold him down, and shave off his hair. When this story surfaced during the 2012 Presidential campaign, Romney’s buddies came forward and apologized for the assault, while Mitt who led the attack, issued a statement, which said, “Governor Romney has no memory of participating in this incident.” As with the Kavanaugh/Ford incident, many people chalked up Romney’s assault as a youthful indiscretion.

I’m sorry, but cutting off a gay boy’s hair or holding a teenage girl against her will, are not youthful indiscretions. One is a hate crime, and the other is kidnapping.

If we learn nothing else from the Kavanaugh/Ford saga, it should be that character matters, and, going forward, we should be assured that the character of both accuser and accused are thoroughly vetted before we appoint or reject someone for high office. The American people are entitled to no less. !

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[LEO (July 23 to August 22) Expect recognition for your efforts in getting a project into operation. Besides the more practical rewards, your Lion’s heart will be warmed by the admiration of your colleagues.

[AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Changing a decision might disappoint some people, but the important thing is that you be honest with yourself. Don’t go ahead with anything you have doubts about.

[VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Set aside time to rid yourself of clutter that might well be drawing down your creative energies. Consider asking someone to help you decide what stays and what goes.

[PISCES (February 19 to March 20) There could be some fallout from an emotional confrontation that you really should deal with before moving on. Best to start fresh with a clean, clear slate.

[LIBRA (September 23 to October 22)

A colleague could make a request that might place you in an awkward position with co-workers. Best advice: Share your concerns with an associate you can trust.

[SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your energy levels are way up, allowing you to take on the added challenge of a task you’ve been hoping to secure.

Expect this move to lead to an important opportunity.

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December 21) Your continuing sense of confidence in what you’ve set out to do gives encouragement to others. Expect to see more people asking to add their efforts to yours.

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ary 19) You might think it would be best to reject a suggestion that others insist would be unworkable. But you might be surprised by what you find if you give it a chance.

[ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your Aries charm helps persuade others to listen to your proposal. But it’s still a long way from acceptance, unless you can stand up to the tough questions that are set to follow.

[TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Plan to share a weekend getaway from all the pressures of your hectic workaday world with a very special someone. You could be pleasantly surprised at what develops.

[GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your keen insight once again helps you handle a challenging situation with a clearer perception of what it’s really all about.

What you learn helps you make a difficult decision.

[CANCER (June 21 to July 22) If you want to steer clear of getting involved in a new family dispute, say so. Your stand might cause hurt feelings for some, but overall, you’ll be respected for your honesty. © 2018 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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* Here’s a smart idea: Some fitness centers are now using the energy clients expend on its exercise bikes to help power the building’s lighting. * According to not one, but two studies conducted on the subject, those who have a ring finger that is longer than their index finger tend to be better athletes. * If you drive a white automobile, you have a lot of company. There are more white cars in the United States than any other color.

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I’ve been flirting with two guys all year. I feel a connection and chemistry with both, but neither’s asked me out yet. This weekend, I’m attending Amy Alkon a going-away party of a grad student Advice we all know, and I’m Goddess nervous that they’ll both show up and ask me out. (There’s also a third guy who seems interested.)

What should I do? I wouldn’t want to be one of somebody’s many options. — Feeling Unfair The first few dates are the free trial period of romantic relationships. Think of it like accepting a sample of lox spread at Costco. You’re seeing how you like it; you aren’t committing to buy a salmon hatchery.

It sounds like you instead see a date as a Wile E. Coyote-style trapdoor dropping you into a relationship. You and the guy have sex for the first time, and assuming he doesn’t fake his death afterward or ditch a burner phone he’s been texting you from, you two become a thing — right on track to sign up for those cute side-by-side burial plots.

The problem is, this is like getting into a relationship with the first stranger who sits down on the bus next to you.

You’re skipping an essential step — the “see who the guy is and decide” part.

Even when the guy isn’t just some Tinder rando — even when you’ve known him for a while — you need to see who he is as a boyfriend and how you work as a couple.

Also, making matters worse, if you’re like many women, sex can act as a sort of executioner for your objectivity, leading you to feel emotionally attached to the man you’ve just slept with. Psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss speculate that this may come out of the orgasmdriven release of oxytocin, a hormone that has been associated with emotional bonding. (In men, testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer, blocking oxytocin so it can’t get to its receptor.)

To keep sex from drugging away your objectivity, try something: unsexy broaddaylight dates with various guys for just a few hours each. Yes, various guys. It’s not only okay to date more than one guy initially; it’s ideal. (A man with rivals is a man who has to try harder.)

Meanwhile, your having options should curb any tendency you might have to go all needypants on a guy who, say, doesn’t text you right back — even if his competition’s texts are more preventive distraction than romantic ideal: “What are u wearing? Also, are u good w/Excel?” Or “I know u like fashion. Here’s my penis in a beret.”

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is still kind of emotional about it. We’ll make plans to go out, but she always cancels at the last minute, claiming that she’s “still a mess” and adding, “Hope you understand!” Should I just keep texting with her and see where things lead? — Limbo Think about the guys women get stuck on — those they can’t get to text them back, not those who put out lighted signs visible from space: “iPhone’s always on!

Call 24/7! Pick me! Yaaay! Over here!”

Consider FOMO — fear of missing out — or, in scientist-speak, the “scarcity principle.” That’s psychologist Robert Cialdini’s term for how the less available something is the more valuable (and desirable) we perceive it to be. This is not because it actually becomes more valuable but because scarcity triggers a motivational state — a state of “grab it or lose it!”...”don’t let it get away!”

Contrast that with how available you are — to a woman who doesn’t seem ready for a relationship but is up for the emotional perks that come with. So she sucks up the consoling texted attention she gets from you but ducks out of any

in-person get-togethers that could eventually lead to your trying to, well, console her with your penis.

Consider shutting off the therapy spigot and making yourself scarce until she’s ready to date. Tell her you want to take a timeout from texting and give her a little time to heal ‘n’ deal and then go on a date. Pick a night — about a month from now — and ask her to put it on her calendar, explaining that it’s fine if she needs to reschedule if she still doesn’t feel ready.

Putting it on the calendar makes it tangible — but putting it in the future, with an option to push it forward, takes the pressure off. And your disappearing for a while is probably your best shot at shifting your, um, zoological category — to potential “animal in bed” from emotional support animal in the Hello Kitty diaper for the plane. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2018 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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