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It is hard to fathom these days that the word “computer” once meant a person rather than a machine. What is even harder to fathom is how during the 1960s, when race and gender tensions were in and out of the news, the black women mathematicians responsible for computing the complex trajectories that would put America’s first astronauts into orbit were HIDDEN FROM THE HEADLINES.

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At the end of August, Chef Trey Bell of LaRue Elm opened RUE-BAR, a cocktail bar “dedicated to serving expertly crafted classic and original cocktails,” according to the press release. Rue-Bar is located at 318 S. Elm St. and is exactly a 12-minute walk from LaRue straight down the street.

10 On Sept. 3, 1991, a deep fat fryer exploded at the Imperial Chicken Processing Plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, starting an INFERNO in the shoddily-constructed maze-like facility that had never received a safety inspection despite three previous fires in its 11-year history.

11 A/perture Cinema’s ongoing “Looking @ Art Cinema” screening series takes on a darker, more fearful hue next month, with a pair of big-screen chillers most appropriate for the HALLOWEEN SEASON. 12 ”What’s the use in heirlooms if they only gather dust?” Philip Pledger, the singer and songwriter for the WinstonSalem band ESTRANGERS, asks on “The Champ,” off of Gilded Palms, the group’s second full-length record, which comes out Sept. 29. Estrangers play dreamy

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psychedelic pop drenched in retro organ sounds and bright, reverby guitars. That question about heirlooms could relate to the music of the past.

19 A couple’s quiet afternoon at the beach takes an interesting twist when they are joined by unexpected guests in SEASCAPE. 20 If Kingsman: The Secret Service turned out to be the biggest cinematic surprise of 2015, THEN KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE might turn out to be the biggest celluloid disappointment of 2017.

It’s certainly the most depressing. And infuriating.

24 Sometimes we do not know our passion until we are half way through our lives. For public and commission artist, GINA FRANCO, that is exactly what happened.

25 Out of 127 applicants, COLLABORATIVE COTTAGE GROVE in Greensboro is one of 19 recipients of the Build Health Challenge Grant, which supports community collaboratives in areas that are experiencing health disparities.

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

be there MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY THURSDAY THUR 28 TRIAD MEGA CAREER EVENT WHAT: 1 Day, 2 Locations. Greensboro Coliseum and LJVM Coliseum. Free admission & Parking. Dozens of employers will be here, so dress to impress and bring your resume.

We’re just getting started.

WHEN: 10 a.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex Arena. 1921 West Gate City Blvd Greensboro.

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AUTHOR VISIT: MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY

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WHAT: Meet Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of the New York Times bestselling book and inspiration for the blockbuster movie Hidden Figures. She is also the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor to recover the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers at NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Dana Auditorium - Guilford College. 5800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro.

MORE: Free entry.

WHAT: The world is at war, and on an island in the South Pacific the U.S. has created a military stopover for young men on their way to the front lines of battle. But love is also in the air. Emotions run high as a Midwestern nurse and a young lieutenant each navigate the treacherous waters of unfamiliar cultures and new romances.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Triad Stage at the Pyrle.

232 S. Elm Street, Greensboro.

MORE: $10-$50 tickets.

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OTIS & WAWA’S WINE & WHISKEY BAR CRAWL WHAT: The Bar Crawl hours are 12:30pm - 7pm. Come out and enjoy the 2nd year of this unique event! Each Bar will have a special drink recipe for each of the whiskeys! A portion of our proceeds will go towards a local non-profit organization. Crawl includes: 5 bars, event T-shirt, and 6 tasting tickets to go along with happy hour specials!

WHEN: 12:30 - 7 p.m.

WHERE: Downtown Greensboro.

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SAT 30 OKTOBERFEST 2017 WHAT: Greensboro is 4,500 miles from Munich, Germany, but on Saturday night, Triad residents will get their own taste of German culture. Join the Triad German Club, Painted Plate Catering, The Elm Street Center, The Event Guys and Downtown Greensboro - as we bring the best of German food, music, dancing, and BEER. This year’s bands include EuroMutts and Alpen Echos.

WHEN: 5 p.m.

WHERE: The Elm Street Center.

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MORE: $10-$12 tickets. Children 14 and under get free admission.

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[BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT] ALSPALOOZA

BY JESSICA CLIFFORD Mary Luper was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at the age of 53, after learning the disease is part of her family genetics.

“I have decided to make ALS my job rather than my disease,” Luper said in a recent press release for her second upcoming ALSpalooza Music Festival. “Hence, I am spending every waking minute I have trying to raise awareness, advocate and raise money towards a cure.”

After being diagnosed, Luper met with a lot of people with ALS – many younger than herself.

She knew that she had to spend time helping those young and diagnosed people.

Originally, the music festival came about as an idea when Luper’s family wished there was a fun and casual way to raise money for the disease.

Luper, youthful at heart, enjoys music, wine, beer, games and prizes and believed others would as well. “I appreciate what I can do, and not what I can’t,” Luper said, placing light-hearted entertainment at the top of her priority list.

Last year, ALSpalooza raised $4,100 for the ALS Association North Carolina Chapter, with a crowd of just over 200 people.

This year, Luper hopes the festival is bigger and better. The fully funded event is made possible through donations.

Performers at the upcoming festival include GrayMatter, Lemon Sparks and the Sam Frazier Band, with other events occurring such as a cornhole tournament and a silent auction giving away handmade croqueted and knitted items, multiple peices of furniture, a romance and a Ralph Lauren basket as well as art.

Several food trucks and wine and beer will be served. As it did the previous year, all proceeds will be donated to the ALS Association North Carolina Chapter.

The first 150 tickets sold guarantee chairs and tables to sit closer to the stage, with those buying the tickets first getting front row seating.

To purchase your tickets for chairs and a table go to www.webnc.alsa.org/goto/alspalooza while regular tickets that cost $10 per person are on sale at the door. Those that do not purchase a chair and table, must provide their own seating.

“I have to have purpose for what I have left,” Luper said. “I got to help [other ALS patients] if I can.”

Show up and support Luper, her family and those diagnosed with ALS. The event takes place at the Grove in Gibsonville on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 6-11 p.m. !

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As nations fought, men chose to share a moment of peace, celebrating their humanity in the worst of tragedies.

This new opera, recounting the spontaneous Christmas truce of the First World War, has traveled the globe, and now makes its North Carolina premiere.

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t the end of August, Chef Trey Bell of LaRue Elm opened Rue-Bar, a cocktail bar “dedicated to serving expertly crafted classic and original Katie Murawski cocktails,” according to the press release.

Editor Rue-Bar is located at 318 S. Elm St. and is exactly a 12-minute walk from LaRue straight down the street. According to the press release, “In keeping with Bell’s style at LaRue Elm, Rue-Bar will bring a scientific approach to bartending, employing new techniques and technologies to produce delicious, time-honored and innovative cocktails.”

Collaborating with Bell is beverage manager Greg Schammel. Schammel is not alone behind the bar though. He said something that Rue-Bar is doing differently from other bars in the area is spotlighting different local bartenders.

Schammel said on Thursdays he and Bell invite local bartenders to showcase their talents by curating their own cocktail lists and working at Rue-Bar for the night.

“They pump it up on social media so that it drives business here as well as their places of employment,” Schammel said.

All of the guest bartenders are apart of the Triad Beverage Alliance which is spearheaded by Schammel. The alliance exists for camaraderie purposes and educational purposes, Schammel said.

The press release states that Schammel borrows from Bell in the kitchen and uses a chamber vacuum sealer and centrifuge for his infusions as well as a food dehydra-

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Chef Trey Bell toasting with his favorite cocktail at Rue-Bar, the “Trés Carré”.

Beverage manager Greg Schammel.

tor for garnishes, dust and fruit leathers.

“Rue-Bar is a natural extension of our work at LaRue Elm,” explained Bell in the press release. “Having a dedicated bar will give Greg and our team the freedom to explore even more, and contribute to Greensboro’s food and beverage culture in an additional way.”

Some of Rue-Bar’s cocktails include homages to classic drinks with barrel-

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aged Negroni and their take on a Ramos Gin Fizz, called “Sanborn & Nolan,” which according to the press release, creates foam in a new way, using an iSi Whipping Siphon. Another one of their cocktail specialties inlcludes grapefruit and rosemary-infused vodka topped with sparkling wine and smoked sugar and is called “All That Glitters Is Gold.” Then their “Little Trouble” is a Mezcal cocktail

that is shaken and served up, with salt air as the garnish. According to the press release, Rue-Bar will also offer cocktails on draft, enabling them to serve well-crafted cocktails quickly, as well as a selection of wines by the glass and bottle, and beers in cans and bottles. Aside from specialty cocktails, drinks range from $5 to $10.

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sweetness to it. The presentation of the cocktail is as attractive as its taste. The drink is beautifully layered with the dark whiskey on the bottom and a cabernet sauvignon floater on top. It is garnished with perfect circles of lemon slices and a light foam on top. This would be my go-to cocktail when visiting Rue-Bar.

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“Trés Carré” “Rinse” glass with Pernod first (Rinse means to pour some of the licorice liqueur into the glass and let it sit while mixing the drink so that the flavors are absorbed into the glass) Cut lemon twist (save for later) Add in bitters first Bulleit Rye Hennessey Brandy & Benedictine (B&B) Stir (to dilute the mixture of alcohol) Now, to play with fire… ( don’t try this at home kids-or, intoxicated adults!)

of drinks that you can order off Rue-Bar’s secret menu. I was treated to a sampling at the bar and was allowed to try three “off-the-menu” specialties Rue-Bar has to offer.

“64 Methodists” Gin Aperol Lime juice Simple syrup Shake, add egg whites Top with Havana & Hide bitters Schammel said using egg whites is his second favorite cocktail ingredient, behind ginger. “[Egg whites] change the pallet feel,” he said. “To volumize the drink, it is a really cool way to do that without adding different flavors because egg white does not impart any if much flavor at all.” The egg whites, something I am not familiar with at all in cocktails, added so much more volume and depth to the drink’s texture. While they had no taste, the egg whites definitely complemented the gin WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

and played well off the acidity of the lime juice. But, the Havana & Hide bitters really tied the drink together in a smoky bow. It was delicious and hearty. This drink was named after and is a homage to the first church in Greensboro. According to the historic landmarker right outside of RueBar, this site was formerly the Methodist church led by Peter Doub that had 64 members. “Since we are here in the heart of historical downtown Greensboro, why not pay homage to it?”

“New York-Style Sour” Whiskey Cabernet Sauvignon floater Lemon Vanilla-infused honey This cocktail was definitely something extraordinarily different and a delicious surprise. The New York-Style Sour combined two types of alcohol that I sometimes have trouble drinking alone: red wine and whiskey. The taste of the alcohol was rich and savory, while the lemon and vanilla-infused honey added a light,

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Take the aforementioned lemon twist and hold it above the glass and with a lit match (or lighter). Heat up the edge of the twist “until the flame starts to dance,” Schammel said. Lighting the rind brings out the oil in the lemon rind. Squeeze the ends of the rind together (while lit) in half. Wait for the flicker of the flame to die out and then rub the twist on all of the edges of the glass. Use the rind to garnish.

This drink is named after Bell and is a play off of a Vieux Carré, (or ‘old square’ in English), which is a Rye and Cognac cocktail originating from New Orleans in the 1930s. This is Bell’s favorite drink because he said “it is all booze.” The Trés Carré (or ‘very square’ in English) is far from what its name translates to in English. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. I would describe this cocktail as Great Gatsbyesque-- in the sense that it makes you want to keep the party going with every sip you take. Spoiler alert, it is very strong, so sip responsibly and slowly. The smoky flavor of the lemon twist and Pernod rinse definitely adds the “party” to this cocktail.

Rue-Bar is open Wednesdays through Saturdays at 5 p.m. Walk-ins are encouraged and canine friends, are welcomed. To reserve a private room call, 336-252-2254.

Follow Rue-Bar on Instagram @ruebargso and on Facebook at Rue-Bar. Follow Bell and his sister restaurant, LaRue Elm, on Instagram and Twitter at @larue.gso, and on Facebook at LaRue Elm Restaurant. !

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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3, 1991, a deep fat fryer exploded at the Imperial Chicken Processing Plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, starting an inferno in the Ian McDowell shoddily-constructed maze-like facility that had never Contributor received a safety inspection despite three previous fires in its 11-year history. The hydrocarboncharged fumes from burning soybean oil, chicken fat and melting roof insulation disabled victims in seconds.

Twenty-five of the plant’s 90 workers (many of them African-American single mothers) died. Fifty-four survivors suffered severe burns, blindness, respiratory disease, neurological damage and post-traumatic stress disorder.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill alumnus and Temple University history professor Bryant Simon’s just-published The Hamlet Fire: a Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Food and Cheap Lives examines that horrible day 26 years ago and its continuing aftermath. I asked Simon about the worst industrial disaster in North Carolina history.

Simon said he read the 1991 coverage in the Raleigh News and Record while com-

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pleting his Ph.D. in History at UNC-CH. “It was great and thorough reporting, and it stayed with me.” A few years later, the LA Times ran a story praising the economic vitality of the New South.

“I wrote a letter to the Times suggesting that the deaths in Hamlet were just as much a story of the New South as the glitter of the region’s bustling urban centers,” Simon said.

Simon said he started researching that story in 2011 after a conversation with a graduate student. “As I told him about the Hamlet fire, I kept thinking that I should write about it.”

Simon began with the connection

between the disaster and the cheap food made by the Imperial plant.

“I researched the history of chicken and the broiler industry, and then turned to Hamlet, and the role of the town and its history in the drama,” Simon said.

He made his first research trip to North Carolina in 2011, while also “talking to experts in chicken production, worker safety, rural economic development, industrial recruitment, labor organizing, PTSD and trauma and North Carolina history.”

I asked him if Washington’s current craze for deregulation makes the project he began during the Obama administration even more relevant today.

“We’ve been down this road before,” he replied, calling the Hamlet fire a product of policies embraced by 1970s Republicans and Democrats when the economic slowdown caused business leaders to decry regulation. “We need to recognize that when we relax standards and don’t enforce laws on the books, people suffer.”

He said he is troubled by recent bipartisan enthusiasm for deregulation and market solutions, as well as how both parties call business leaders the country’s foremost economic problem-solvers,

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which he fears may result in more disasters in the future.

I said that what happened in Hamlet reminds me of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 Manhattan garment workers in 1911. He replied that at least the historic New York tragedy caused political leaders to see the need for regulation, unions and workplace reforms, while Hamlet “did not fundamentally change the conversation.” He said that regulations continue to be discredited as costly threats to business and jobs.

“That’s what happened after the collapse of a building in Philadelphia a couple of years ago,” Simon said. “And is what’s happening now with the EPA and other agencies under the Trump administration.”

He concluded by alleging that race and class also affected the disaster and its aftermath, noting that three-quarters of Imperial workers were African Americans, whose lives, he said, “didn’t always seem to matter to elected officials.”

Consider, Simon said, the case of Emmett Roe, the owner of Imperial Food Processing. On Sept. 15, 1992, Roe, who had personally ordered the plant’s doors to be locked from the outside, pleaded guilty to 25 counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Simon alleged that, when Roe’s lawyer met with the local District Attorney, the latter scoffed at the evidence against the man he was supposed to prosecute.

Roe’s lawyer, Simon said, later claimed the D.A. called the victims “just a bunch of low-down black people,” and within days the prosecution and defense struck a deal.

“Emmett Roe’s son Brad (who managed the factory) and the superintendent of the plant got off entirely,” and while Roe received a 20-year sentence, “he was out in a little over four years.” !

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For Halloween, a pair of scares — with yours truly as host A/perture Cinema’s ongoing “Looking @ Art Cinema” screening series takes on a darker, more fearful hue next month, with a pair of bigscreen chillers most appropriate for the Halloween season.

Mark Burger The two-film series, “Looking at the Contributing Art of Fear,” opens Oct. 7 with Roman columnist Polanski’s The Tenant (1976), followed by Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) on Oct. 21. Audiences will see the film, enjoy coffee and pastries from Camino Bakery, and have the chance to win a DVD collection – either the “Phantasm 5 Movie DVD Series” or the first season of HBO’s award-winning horror anthology Tales from the Crypt.

The host for the event, who personally selected the films, is none other than yours truly – a two-time winner of the North Carolina Press Association award for criticism, the host of BurgerVideo.com and a die-hard devotee of all things cinematic.

When I was approached by Lawren Desai, the curator of A/perture Cinema, about this, I was both flattered, intrigued and not a little challenged. I wanted to select films that were originally released on the art-house circuit, which significantly thins the field, particularly for the 1970s, when both films were released.

In many ways, the decade was a renaissance for the genre. Horror films became “respectable,” as it were – particularly once major studios started making them (think The Exorcist or The Omen, or even The Other and The Mephisto Waltz!). Many of the independent classics (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, The Last House on the Left) were widely seen on the drive-in/grindhouse circuit.

Both Roman Polanski and Peter Weir are acknowledged as master filmmakers, yet The Tenant and The Last Wave are among their more obscure films. Both directors have their roots in genre cinema, Polanski having made the thrillers Knife in the Water (1962), Repulsion (1965) and, most famously, Rosemary’s Baby (1968).

Interestingly, he plays the title role in The Tenant, and the only other film he directed himself in was The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). He hasn’t directed himself since The Tenant.

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Weir, whose reputation rests on such acclaimed films as Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Truman Show (1997), had earlier made the exploitation black comedy The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), which has a cult following, and Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – a film I briefly considered instead of The Last Wave.

Both films are set in a recognizably contemporary environment. The Tenant takes place in Paris, where a mild-mannered clerk named Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment whose previous tenant attempted suicide. Polanski’s predilection for menace and paranoia, leavened with his trademark dark humor, is very much in evidence. Beautifully shot by Sven Nykvist and scored by Philippe Sarde, the film’s superb cast includes Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Jo Van Fleet, Claude Dauphin, and the indomitable Shelley Winters as the Concierge.

In The Last Wave (1977), Richard Chamberlain (first-rate) plays David Burton, an Australian attorney tapped to defend a group of Aborigines accused of murder.

The strange circumstances of the case, and Burton’s increasing fascination with tribal culture, coincides with an unexplained rash of natural disasters rocking the continent, which seem to portend some imminent catastrophe.

In both films, the main character’s perception of reality comes undone.

Rational thought no longer applies when confronted with circumstances beyond their psychological foundation.

I could go on, but I’ll save it for the discussions! !

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

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For advance tickets or more information, call 336.722.8148 or visit the official A/perture website: aperturecinema.com

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Winston-Salem’s Estrangers release a new record

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What’s the use in heirlooms if they only gather dust?”

Philip Pledger, the singer and songwriter for the Winston-Salem band Estrangers, asks on John Adamian “The Champ,” off of @johnradamian Gilded Palms, the group’s second fulllength record, which Contributor comes out Sept.

29. Estrangers play dreamy psychedelic pop drenched in retro organ sounds and bright, reverby guitars.

That question about heirlooms could relate to the music of the past. Estrangers sound like a band engaged in the process of dusting off some old artifacts and putting them to good use in the moment.

Psychedelic pop sometimes evokes idealized visions of sunny California and stretches of blissful, almost dizzy, chilledout ease. However, Pledger is a very busy man, a slightly type-A character multitasking in 21st century America, making kaleidoscopic music with swirling patterns and touches of ‘60s nostalgia.

Pledger works full-time as a graphic designer, and also runs Phuzz Records, the label releasing Estrangers’ album as well as music from other artists. Pledger, 30, was the guy who helped put together the impressive Phuzz Phest, which ran for five years in a row in downtown WinstonSalem, bringing acts from around the state, the country and the world to play over a packed weekend of shows. Pledger also books events at The Garage and elsewhere under the banner of Phuzz Records.

Pledger is also involved, along with local and regional sponsors, in some of the logistics behind the upcoming Pine State Holiday festival, a one-day event taking place at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem on Saturday, Oct. 14, with a mix of national and local acts on two stages as well as food trucks, yoga classes and workshops.

Pledger said over the phone that part of the idea behind the festival is about “just encouraging people to lose themselves a little bit.”

The music of Estrangers contains a similar invitation to get pleasantly lost.

The new album was recorded mostly at the Fidelitorium studio in Kernersville, vocal tracks were added at a home studio

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in Winston-Salem. There are a lot of ways to get lost listening to a recording.

The process of assembling a record, with multiple guitar tracks, amp settings, textures, different effects on vocals, potential keyboard flourishes, panning options and other studio touches, can create its own thicket of possibilities for bands and producers to navigate putting the finishing touches on a project. Pledger said that he spent a long time — possibly exasperating his bandmates — trying to select the right combination of variables. “I’m sure I drove my bandmates slightly insane during the process,” he said. “But I’m happy to finally take my hands off the wheel.”

Listen to a track like “Green Stars” for a sense of how the sonic setting of a song can create its own trail of breadcrumbs for a listener. One can understand how Pledger and his collaborators got pulled in by the possibilities. There’s an insistent fuzzed-out riff, a crude pounding beat with maracas and big tom sounds, and a washes of atmospheric keyboards — searchlight signals in the fog — before Pledger’s vocals explode onto the foreground, and then, towards the end of the song, the whole mix sounds as if it gets submerged in wads of cotton for a few moments. It’s nicely weird.

“We wanted to make an interesting record,” Pledger said. “It is pop music. It’s

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pop rock. It has more production going on than a garage-rock band.”

A song like “Dahlia,” which is a lovely little under-one-minute Mellotron-soaked interlude with acoustic guitar, can spur comparisons to early Pink Floyd. While “Eastern Flower” is a bit more driving, with something close to a surf-rock vibe.

There are moments where Estrangers can summon the sweet paisley tumble of ‘60s bands like the Zombies, Moby Grape or the Left Banke. The beefed-up bottom end sometimes brings to mind flashes of the trippy alt-rock of U2’s 1991 record Achtung Baby. Connections to more recent neo-psychedelic acts such as the Coral, the short-lived but excellent All-Night Radio and Ariel Pink are evoked as well.

One can get a little chin-stroke-y in contemplating what it means to make psychedelic music in 2017. Is it a 50-year return of the Summer of Love? Are there similar forces of cultural upheaval now driving people to seek a kind of hazy cheer? Is it that the country’s politically going to hell again? Are new recreational drugs blowing people’s minds? Or is it just a matter of taste?

“I like all kinds of music,” Pledger said.

“But there’s definitely something about ‘60s and ‘70s rock that I think was a pretty special moment in time, especially in contrast to music culture now,

which is in such a weird spot.”

Pledger said the band “isn’t super democratic,” in that he writes the songs and sort of has much of the final say about how the tunes get arranged and conceived. Still, the other members shape the sound quite a bit. Keyboardist David-Todd Murray also mixed the record. Drummer Drew Braden engineered the recording of the vocals and other added tracks. Guitarist Thomas Dalholt and bassist Joshua Ling contribute with backing that’s both unobtrusive and sturdy.

Lyrically, Pledger said he was going for a kind of arid, sun-baked atmosphere, thinking of the songs as something closer to short stories than first-person journal entries.

“I try to be visual and visceral,” he said.

“Really a lot of the songs are basically fiction, crafting totally fake narratives, almost like fantasy. I wanted it more to be almost like a mood piece. Some of the songs take place in the desert, at least in my mind’s eye.”

Estrangers release Gilded Palms on Sept. 29 on Phuzz Records. !

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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couple’s quiet afternoon at the beach takes an interesting twist when they are joined by unexpected guests in Seascape. High Point University Theatre will present the play by American playwright Edward Albee at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5-7 and Oct. 9-11 in the Empty Space Theatre.

A limited number of complimentary tickets are available for the general public by visiting www.highpoint. edu/theatre or contacting the HPU Campus Concierge at 336-8414636.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play features Equity guest actors and HPU adjunct professors Emily Emerson as “Nancy” and Michael Huie as “Charlie,” as well as sophomore Christine Watt as “Sarah” and senior Patrick Kinsella-McClelland as “Leslie.” The play is directed by Ed Simpson, chair and professor of theatre.

“Seascape is among the great works by Edward Albee, who passed away less than a year ago,” says Simpson. “It’s a funny, heart-warming, thoughtful and powerful play about marriage, life, death and change. It also provides our student actors with the opportunity to work alongside and learn from seasoned professional actors.”

On a deserted stretch of beach, a middle-aged couple, played by Emerson and Huie, relax after a picnic lunch as they talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches; he naps.

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Seascape is the first in a series of exciting productions included in the 2017-18 season lineup. This fall, the Department of Theatre and Dance will also perform a Fall Dance Concert on Oct. 27 and 28, and the musical “Cabaret” on Nov. 16-19.

HPU’s theatre program is recognized nationally and produces alumni who are active professionals in the business. HPU was named the No. 1 “underrated” theatre college in the Mid-Atlantic Region and one of the Top 10 B.A. Theatre Programs for 2016-17 by OnStage. !

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f Kingsman: The Secret Service turned out to be the biggest cinematic surprise of 2015, then Kingsman: The Golden Circle ( ) might turn out to be the biggest celluloid disappointment of 2017. It’s certainly the most depressing and infuriating.

Hitting stateside theaters in February of ’15, Kingsman: The Secret Service proved to be an utter delight — a brainy, brawny, spy-game endeavor packed with memorable characters and nifty plot pirouettes.

A sequel was guaranteed, but while Kingsman: The Golden Circle is bigger, it most assuredly isn’t better. Such a precipitous drop in quality would suggest that other hands assembled this follow-up, but that shockingly isn’t the case; instead, this one finds writer-director Matthew Vaughn and co-scripter Jane Goldman again at the controls.

Kingsman agents Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) are back, this time using their smarts to attempt to foil the nefarious plans of Poppy

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(Julianne Moore, sorry to say), a drug kingpin who’s basically a cross between a ruthless CEO and June Cleaver. Not unlike SPECTRE in the Daniel Craig 007 entries, Poppy has managed to cripple the entire Kingsman operation, thereby forcing the dapper Brits to seek help from their American counterparts. These would be the Statesman, whose members include head honcho Champ (Jeff Bridges), bad boy Tequila (Channing Tatum), mousy Ginger (Halle Berry) and cocky Whiskey (Pedro Pascal).

Serving up an American counterpart to the veddy British Kingsman sounds like a great idea that can’t miss, but with the possible exception of Tatum (who, despite the prominent billing, is barely in this thing), these characters prove to be so underdeveloped and uninteresting that it becomes clear they were added not out of inspiration but out of a scheme to garner more merchandising tie-ins on this side of the Atlantic.

Given his top billing and prominence in the ads, it’s no spoiler to reveal that Colin Firth is back, even though his character

Kingsman: The Golden Circle of Harry Hart was apparently killed in the first picture. But Harry is so ill-utilized in this new film that it barely seems like it was worth the effort to bring him back. As for the fates of select other characters — well, I want to avoid any giveaways, but let’s just say that this enterprise has the taint of Hicks and Newt about it. These bits are jarring, disruptive, ill-advised and more than a little distasteful.

To be clear, there are bright moments to be found throughout Kingsman: The Golden Circle, including the appearance of Elton John as himself. But even Elton’s participation eventually suffers from overkill, a condition endemic of the entire project. Clever moments from the first film are restaged here, to diminishing returns. The employment of CGI is suffocating, from the snarling mechanical dogs (is this an unofficial sequel to C.H.O.M.P.S.?) to fembots that seem to be distant cousins of the ones from the 70s debacle Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

And while Kingsman: The Secret Service managed to tame its mean-spiritedness with its empathy toward its characters, no such failsafes are in place here, resulting in a motion picture that’s often as ugly as it is excessive.

IN THE MANNER of the classic Hoop Dreams, director Jonathan Olshefski’s Quest ( ) looks at the triumphs and travails of a lower-class black family over the course of several years.

And like many other documentaries (The

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Queen of Versailles springs to mind), it’s a nonfiction piece that began as one sort of project before the real world shaped it into something different.

Quest, screening as part of the Charlotte Film Festival, was initially conceived as a look at the neighborhood music studio created by Christopher “Quest” Rainey, who lives in North Philly with his wife Christine’a “Ma Quest” Rainey and their bright daughter Patricia “PJ” Rainey.

Filmed over the course of approximately a decade, this powerful and poignant picture moves well beyond its original niche to examine a family that eventually has to contend with the tragic specter of violence as it directly impacts them and ensures that nothing will ever quite be the same again. Other characters — family members, neighbors, supportive cops — float in and out of the narrative, but the focus is never far removed from the formidable trio at its center.

Quest primarily unfolds throughout the Obama years — indeed, the elections occasionally pop up in the story — but with the dawning of Trump’s AmeriKKKa (the tyrant even pops up briefly, imploring African-Americans to vote for him), its importance as a document of the marginalized and the victimized looms larger than ever.

(Quest will be shown at 7:15pm Friday, Sept. 29, at Ayrsley. For more information, go to www.charlottefilmfestival.org.) !

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One City, One Book celebrates black women putting white men in space

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t is hard to fathom these days that the word “computer” once meant a person rather than a machine. What is even harder to fathom is how during the 1960s, when race Ian McDowell and gender tensions were in and out of Contributor the news, the black women mathematicians responsible for computing the complex trajectories that would put America’s first astronauts into orbit were hidden from the headlines.

Earlier this year, staff and patrons of the Greensboro Public Library selected Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” for the 2017 One City, One Book program. Shetterly, author of that critically-acclaimed bestselling history of the human computers whose calculations put astronaut John Glenn safely into his historic 1962 orbit, will speak at Guilford College’s Dana Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept.

28. She will also speak at Guilford Technical Community College’s Koury Auditorium at the Jamestown campus at noon that same day; both events are free and open to the public.

Published in September of 2016 to much advance publicity, “Hidden Figures” follows the lives and careers of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. These mathematicians faced discrimination while working at The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and then The National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the early years of the Space Program. The book also follows Christine Darden, the mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer who was the first African-American woman promoted into the Senior Executive Service for her research into supersonic flight and sonic booms.

The book was optioned by Hollywood before publication, and the film adaptation, released in December of 2016, starred Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson, respectively. The Monroeborn Darden (omitted from the movie to compress its timeline to the length of a

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Mary Jackson, the first black female NASA engineer. commercially-viable theatrical release) is not the book’s only North Carolina connection.

Katherine G. Moore, the daughter of Johnson, lives in Greensboro and is an alumna of Bennett College, where she was active in the 1960s sit-ins and delivered this year’s commencement address. The book’s author hails from a neighboring state. As the daughter of a NASA research scientist Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many other African-Americans with relatives working for the Space Program. Her moment of epiphany came in 2010 where she and her husband had been living in Mexico as content marketers and editorial consultants to the tourism industry. But while on a visit to her family home, her father began telling the couple about some of his female colleagues at the historic Langley Research Center, NASA’s first field research center.

“My husband said it was a great story

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he’d never heard before,” Shetterly told me in a recent phone conversation. “And I realized a lot of other people had never heard it, either.”

Deciding to change that, she worked on the project for six years, conducting her first interview in 2010 and turning in the final draft to her publisher William Morrow in July of 2016. Her agent began shopping the book to publishers in the summer of 2013 and closed the deal with Morrow in the spring of 2014.

“People were interested and curious from the start,” she told me. “They kept asking why they’d never heard this story before.”

She explained that her book was a voyage of discovery, one which she learned more and more about the community in which she’d grown up.

“It was a way of dealing with that without me being in the story,” she said. “Over the course of time, I learned a lot about people I knew as a child and teenager, and

also things that had previously happened in my hometown, from World War II or even before that.”

Although not unusually long for a substantial project, six years still represented a considerable amount of time and effort.

She told me that she’d never doubted that she would finish the book, but called “the question of how and when” a real learning curve. She said her husband made rounding that curve easier. When they met, he was finishing his first book “The Americano,” a biography of William Morgan, the United States citizen who became a commandant (major) in Castro’s Cuban revolution. This gave her an up-close view of what it took to research and write a nonfiction book. She said having observed that process was very useful when it came time for her to write her own, and that she was hugely grateful, “I had this amazing support and sounding board in-house.”

I asked her how it felt in 2015 when President Obama awarded the Presiden-

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Katherine Johnson receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

Author Margot Lee Shetterly.

tial Medal of Freedom to then 97-yearold Katherine Johnson, one of the main figures in her book.

“It was wonderful,” she said and called the honor very well-deserved. She added that Johnson’s long-due recognition for her pioneering work wasn’t the only wonderful thing about the occasion. “It also provided us with the opportunity to see the work that women mathematicians did as a group.”

She added that on Sept. 22, a new lab at NASA Langley in Hampton, Virginia, would be officially named the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility.

She said she looked forward to seeing and personally congratulating Johnson at the ceremony.

“She just turned 99 years old, and is doing great,” she said.

I asked Shetterly about her ongoing work with the Human-Computer Project, which she calls a “virtual museum” dedicated to the work of the female mathematicians who helped America’s aeronautics and space programs.

“One of the things of the things that surprised me about my original research,” she said, “was how many women of all ethnicities were involved in the space program.” She called the Human-Computer Project one of the results of that discovery and said it is dedicated to documenting all the women involved.

“Not just human computers, but government contractors and engineers,” she said. “It’s really an attempt to take a historical look at women in computing.”

This past April Shetterly was the commencement speaker at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she told students to “dream big, have courage.” She also spoke of how UNCG alumna

Virginia Tucker became one of the first members of the human-computer pool at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now Langley Research Center) in 1935, and by the early 1940s was the head computer, managing hundreds of women in computing sections across the laboratory. Another historically important figure, long-hidden by the media’s concentration on the white men who rocketed into orbit, was NASA’s first black female engineer Mary Jackson. Jackson’s story is among those told in Shetterly’s book and its 2017 film adaptation, where she is played by Janelle Monáe.

I asked Shetterly about her words of encouragement for students in what sometimes feels like dark and anxious times.

“The world seems to be in a difficult time,” she replied, “but it’s always a difficult time. It’s important to not just have courage, but to help others.”

She said Jackson was an exemplar of that, “not just for her talents, but her career as an individual. She’s a great role model for people going out into the world today.”

She also said that she’s excited to return to Greensboro’s One City, One Book.

“It’s great to have “Hidden Figures” chosen as a subject for this,” she said. “It’s wonderful to see continued momentum and interest in the book. I’m excited to come back to Greensboro and talk to people who have such great enthusiasm for it.”

One person who feels that enthusiasm is Beth Sheffield, programming and readers advisory specialist at Greensboro Public Library, who sat down with me to talk about the Greensboro One City, One Book program.

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One City, One Book is the generic name for a variety of programs across the U.S. that expand upon the idea of a book discussion club in an attempt to get everyone in the same city or metropolitan area to read and discuss the same book. The first known program, “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book,” began in 1998 by Nancy Pearl at Seattle Public Library’s Washington Center for the Book. Other cities followed, and the Library of Congress lists nearly 500 such programs across the nation.

Sheffield told me that she expects this to be Greensboro’s most successful One City, One Book yet.

“We started in 2002 with Ernest Gaines’s “A Lesson Before Dying” and we’ve just had phenomenal community response with it,” Sheffield said. Since its local inauguration, she said that the program, which occurs every two years, has “brought a lot of new partners to the table,” and “Hidden Figures” is bringing even more.

“It is just such a great book to discuss because it empowers people,” Sheffield said. “Not just by talking about the women in the space program and about how people overcome adversity, but it also empowerment through education.”

She said that the book clubs she partners with via the library had expressed an unparalleled enthusiasm for this year’s selection. “With this project, we have over 50 book clubs that have signed on to read and discuss this book, and we’ll have plenty of community discussions with at the branches with facilitators.”

She called the book perfect for sparking “a thoughtful conversation, whether with your neighbor or someone you don’t know,” adding that it’s a particularly good way to get to know others in one’s com-

munity.

She explained that she first read “Hidden Figures” very early in the process of choosing the 2017 selection. “The way we choose our books is that we actually have a committee that gets together and takes suggestions from the community.”

These suggestions are taken from the end of one project to the beginning of the next, and then the committee winnows down the selections to a shorter list. “This year we chose four books and actually had the community vote on our choice, and they picked ‘Hidden Figures,’” she said.

A self-described “science geek,” Sheffield said she was delighted with the final vote, especially in light of how author Shetterly wove the early history of NACA and NASA in with the Civil Rights Movement.

“It’s also really interesting because it speaks to the hidden in our community,” she said, explaining that it that relates “to how people have these amazing lives and do these amazing, incredible things, and yet they say they’re just doing their jobs, which is what these women whose calculations made the space program possible did.”

While Shetterly’s appearance at Guilford College’s Dana Auditorium at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 28, is the centerpiece of this year’s One City, One Book, the program continues through early November with a wide variety of events celebrating science, women, the space program, the civil rights movement and the “hidden figures” in our society. The two-part “She Blinded Me with Science” series celebrating four African-American women in new generation STEM careers will take place at the Vance H. Chavis branch from 3 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 1 and at the McNairy branch at 7 p.m. on Nov. 2. The film series “Outer Space Vixens” will show such 1950s sci-fi films such as Queen of Outer Space and Devil Girl from Mars at various branches and times through October.

Other events include, but are not limited to, rocketry demonstrations and astronomical lectures. On Nov. 12, there will a “Swing on the Stars” semi-formal party and dance from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Central Library, featuring music from the Piedmont Swing Society.

For more information and the full schedule of program events (far too extensive to list here), follow @ocob.gso on Facebook or @GSOLibrary on Twitter or call the central Greensboro Public Library at (336) 373-2471. !

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 public artist paints the Triad Sometimes we do not realize our passion until later on in life. For public and commission artist, Gina Franco, that is exactly what happened.

Franco, the artist who just painted a Jessica Clifford mural last weekend on one of the walls the YES! Weekly ofIntern fice, always knew she enjoyed drawing but she never considered turning her interest into a career.

“I didn’t think you could make money with art, so I just pushed it away,” Franco said, remembering she felt this way while attending Guilford College’s business school.

While taking classes, she needed to take an art class as a general education requirement, which became her first art course. She instantly fell in love.

Before Franco’s mother died, she did not have the time to make art because

she was taking of her mother and her son.

Six years ago, she included art as a major focus in her life.

Since then, she has found which styles of art she likes best. “I like to do murals because I like the scale. I love to work big,” France said, while also adding that many people get to see the work she does when it is done in a large public place.

Her work can be seen around Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

One mural is located upstairs in the Center for Visual Arts in downtown Greensboro. This piece features a pattern of colorful crayons. For Franco, the most exciting part of this commissioned project is when families take pictures of their children in front of her mural and send them to her.

Another one of Franco’s murals is located at Westerwood Tavern in Greensboro.

To create this mural, Franco pulled the design from parts of the community so it could celebrate the neighborhood where the tavern is located.

Though Franco loves her work and is always recognized by her simple patterned murals, her favorite and most sentimental

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Gina Franco poses in front of her mural she recently painted at the YES! Weekly office on Adams Farm Lane. piece is at the International Resource Center. “The most important one to me was the [mural] at the IRC because I also experienced homelessness, so I had a connection to that,” Franco said. “That one is the most personal.” This mural features a pattern of doors – “to represent homes and housing.” The piece is supposed to bring awareness to human right involved in healthy and safe housing.

YES! Weekly’s publisher Charles Womack took notice to Franco’s work on social media and wanted her to paint an entire wall in the office. “I pulled things from what I felt like YES! Weekly is always involved in,” Franco said. The bright-colored and geometrically animated mural consists of music, food trucks, baseball, social media, films, golf and a burger.

The mural took eight and a half hours to complete, with no breaks. “I like to go until it’s done,” Franco said. Though Franco tends to use spray paint as her medium, the YES! Weekly mural is solely acrylic paint.

Franco insists that artists need to work for free first, especially those making public art because she said people only commissioned artists with a portfolio of their work. Franco offers some advice to aspiring artists looking to get their name out there.

“You have to be your own number one fan before you convince others to be your

number one fan,” Franco said.

“I wish I could tell people to quit their jobs and put their heart and soul into it, and it will work out, but that’s not really true.”

Franco has a few upcoming events, where she will be painting live.

On Sept. 30, Franco will be at Art on Tap in Center City Park. This festival consists of interactive art spaces, a beer garden, live music, food trucks and events for people of all ages.

She will also be featured as the monthly artist for October at Wiseman Brewing in Winston-Salem. On Oct. 6, Franco will be performing a bar-takeover, installing her artwork around the insides of the brewery.

Franco works at Guilford County Schools, while her commissioned art is a second income. However, she hopes one day she can turn her art into a full-time career.

“I’d rather be doing this than anything in the world,” Franco said.

Her outlook on art has changed since she has taken it more seriously. “There is always a way to make money in art,” Franco said.

Check out more of Franco’s work on her Instagram account @ginaelizabethfranco, and message her for pricing on a commissioned mural or installation. !

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Greensboro grassroots group wins national health bill grant Out of 127 applicants, Collaborative Cottage Grove in Greensboro is one of 19 recipients of the Build Health Challenge Grant, which supports community collaboratives in areas that are Jessica Clifford experiencing health disparities. The collaborative will Intern receive $250,000 from the grant, with their partner – the Cone Health System – matching the grant, making it a total of $500,000. The grant will provide funding for organized teams working on projects towards healthier housing, environmental training, food access and more in the Cottage Grove community.

“We are working on developing an electronic referral system to link families with asthma to educational housing assessments along with other resource agencies,” said Josie Williams, the Greensboro Housing Coalition’s project team coordinator. Cottage Grove is a community on the eastern side of Greensboro; prior to the 1950s, it was located across from the city’s junkyard. Since then, the area has deteriorated and become inundated with substandard apartments at low renting costs. Williams said a few years ago refugee settlement agencies suggested immigrants live in this community, creating a diverse population.

The 2010 census recorded 20 percent of households in the community live in poverty, with 40 percent of the residents being foreign-born. The area’s diversity is found in the languages spoken there as well – 53 percent of the Cottage Grove community speak another language other than English.

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Left: Mark Smith Epidemiologist with Guilford County Dept of Health, Brett Byerly Executive Director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition, Josie Williams and Kathy Colville in D.C. at the BUILD Health kick off.

Collaborative Cottage Grove consists of 10 partnerships, including Greensboro Housing Coalition, which advocates for the residents living in the community’s substandard apartments by pushing for change in the landlord’s malpractices.

“We sat down with the owners almost a year ago to say how can we help and bring resources to fix this place up,” said Brett Byerly, the executive director of Greensboro’s Housing Coalition. “They didn’t really want to work with us.”

With issues ranging from unrepaired plumbing, leaking roofs, bugs and rodents, sewage leaks, broken air conditioning and heating units, the community is swelling with damages through years of unkept property.

“When you have a child that lives in an apartment full of cockroaches they’re breathing all that mess in and all the moisture, you can’t help but be in the hospital,” Byerly said.

One resident recently had a faucet issue in which water was flowing from three places – the faucet itself, through a hole in the side of the faucet’s arm and underneath the sink.

“We are working with people who through the winter don’t have heat, that’s no fault of their own, that’s because the

landlord won’t fix the heat,” Williams said.

“We are working with people who have sewage in their apartment for weeks, that’s no fault of their own that’s about the plumbing not being fixed by the landlord.”

Overwhelming problems caused the city last month to place a forced order of repair on the Avalon Trace apartments, located in the Cottage Grove community.

The landowner has 90 days to repair the issues or the city will enforce a lien, making the city responsible for fixing the problems if no action is taken. However, issues surpass the living conditions. Williams said the owner complains about the residents being $800 to $1,000 behind on rent, yet when the Greensboro Housing Coalition looked through resident’s banking records they found residents were either not behind at all or only a minimum of $100 behind on their rent.

“One of our [Health Outreach Team and Greensboro Housing Coalition staffers] sat down with a resident and went back for months just to trace every time that they paid,” Williams said. “What we found out was that rent was paid on time but was deposited late and then [the landlords] were charging late fees.”

Though the landowner attempted

to sell the property three or four times, Byerly said no agreement was made.

Greensboro Housing Coalition is always looking for desirable landowners to take the property over and make the necessary changes needed in the Cottage Grove community. Community assistance guides the push towards fair and healthy housing.

“When residents stand up for themselves, residents are heard,” Byerly said.

Many people have already shared stories of their residency at the apartments in Cottage Grove. For some, they have lived in the community for 25, even 55 years.

“As we move forward, my goal and the goal of this partnership is to continue to make the resident’s voice a priority,” Williams said.

The collaborative is becoming a catalyst. Other neighborhoods suffering from housing disparities, such as the residents in the Glenwood neighborhood, are watching the changes being made in Cottage Grove and want to see changes for themselves as well. A few attended and participated in the Sept. 16 Collaborative Cottage Grove meeting, sharing their ideas and concerns.

“You can be young, old, rich or poor, your housing should be your safe place to go,” Williams said.“It doesn’t matter what age you are, the heart of the matter is everyone feels that is their safe haven and when that is affected in a negative way it impacts you.”

Large steps are being made to improve Cottage Grove, and Williams made it known the current efforts will bring forth a healthier community. !

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

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