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Hand-carried straight from Mosul, Iraq, “The FORBIDDEN ART Exhibit,” will be shared in the United States for the first time on Sept. 17 for one night only.

The exhibition is curated by Restore Iraq, the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit American brand of Strategic Development for Relief and Education (SDRE), according to a video on its website.

EDITORIAL Editor KATIE MURAWSKI katie@yesweekly.com Contributors IAN MCDOWELL JOHN BATCHELOR JOHN ADAMIAN

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1618 MIDTOWN occupies a middle space, both figuratively and geographically, in the 1618 culinary empire. 1618 Seafood Grille was the initial entry at the upper end of the market, from managing partner Nick Wilson and chef-partner George Neal.

10 “We want the whole Greensboro community to come out for food, beer, music, shopping and fun,” said Mark Gibb about the upcoming STATE STREET FESTIVAL...

12 The RiverRun International Film Festival and the Greensboro 48 HOUR FILM Project have reunited to bring “The Best of the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project” to Marketplace Cinemas in Winston-Salem on Thursday, Sept. 12.

14 Cult status seems assured for READY OR NOT, a pitch-black comedy about a wedded bliss that goes amiss shortly after vows are exchanged. It’s a family tradition, and it’s a matter of life or death – literally.

22 In a relatively short amount in Greensboro’s drag scene, one queen is dreaming big and has had her share of success through the art of drag. MRZ. IVY CARTER has lived in Greensboro for 11 YES! WEEKLY

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years but was born and raised in Japan as a “military brat.”

23 BOOKMARKS 15th annual Festival of Books and Authors will be held in downtown Winston-Salem from Thursday, September 5 through Sunday, Sept. 8. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

23 Each year, over 1.5 million SHELTER ANIMALS are euthanized nationwide, and North Carolina is, unfortunately, among the leading States who contribute to that statistic.

24 The singer KIRAN AHLUWALIA is a global citizen. That’s how she describes herself, and her music reflects that reality, drawing on traditions from West African, the Indian subcontinent, Europe, American jazz, western pop styles and beyond.

26 It seems like summer goes by in the blink of an eye. And without missing a beat, the pools close, the grills go out, and since 2010, the swan song begins with the HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL taking over downtown Raleigh.

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

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121ST ANNUAL CENTRAL CAROLINA FAIR THURSDAY THUR 5-8

THUR 5-15

FRIDAY FRI 6-8

2019 FESTIVAL OF BOOKS & AUTHORS

121ST ANNUAL CENTRAL CAROLINA FAIR

NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL

WHAT: This year’s celebration of reading and writing will include a free Keynote Event, Bookmarks’ 15th Birthday Party, a free Saturday street festival, a Children’s Author Pancake Breakfast, Graphic Novel Workshops, Book Trivia with authors, a Brunch & Parapalooza, plus dozens more panel discussions, workshops, signing events, and storytimes.

WHERE: Bookmarks.

634 W. 4th St. #110, Winston-Salem.

MORE: Schedule and information at bookmarksnc.org/festival19

WHAT: The 121st annual Central Carolina Fair will once again light up the sky around the Greensboro Coliseum Complex this fall.

Featuring spectacular rides, carnival food and games, musical entertainment and attractions for all ages, the Central Carolina Fair will begin Friday, September 6 and run through Sunday, September 15.

WHEN: Schedule at greensborocoliseum.com WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro.

MORE: $6 admission.

Unlimited ride bands $27.

WHAT: The North Carolina Folk Festival now presented by TowneBank - North Carolina is a FREE outdoor celebration of cultural roots and heritage that features performances and demonstrations by over 300 musicians, dancers, and craftspeople. 3 days, 5+ stages, 300 artists, and no tickets needed!

WHEN: Fri 5-10pm. | Sat 11:30am-10:15pm | Sun 11:30am - 5:45pm WHERE: North Carolina Folk Festival.

200 N. Davie St., Greensboro.

MORE: Free event.

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THE B-52’S

WHAT: Join us for Music in the Park! We will feature King-Queen Haitian Cuisine Food Truck, Bandito Burrito Food Truck, Sunset Slush of High Point, Cakes by B’s Blue House Bakery and Four Saints Brewing Company from Asheboro. Music by .U.B.U The Band. Come and enjoy a night in Jamestown!

WHEN: 6-10 p.m.

WHERE: Town of Jamestown, NC. 301 E. Main St., Jamestown.

MORE: Free event.

WHAT: THE B-52s with special guests OMD and Berlin will play White Oak Amphitheatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex on Friday September 6. Selling over 20 million albums worldwide, The B-52s—Fred Schneider [vocals], Kate Pierson [vocals], Cindy Wilson [vocals], and Keith Strickland [guitar, drums, keys, programming]— have quietly impacted alternative music, fashion, and culture over the course of four-plus decades.

WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro.

MORE: $24.50-72 tickets.

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[SPOTLIGHT] SOBRIETY PARTY

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In honor of National Recovery Month, Chemistry Nightclub will be opening its doors on a Monday night for its first-ever Sobriety Party. On Sept. 9 from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m., Chemistry will strip their shelves of alcohol and open to welcome those who are in recovery for a night of entertainment without serving alcohol.

There will be male and female Go-Go dancers as well as drag entertainment by Tia Chanella, Anjelica Dust, and Ivy Carter at 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. There is a $5 donation cover that will benefit Greensboro Recovery Runners, a group of about 10-15 active runners (with a Facebook group following of 150) who help each other stay clean by running together.

“I want to give back to people that get sober, but they don’t have the means to get back on their feet,” said Jake Markley the co-host and founder of Greensboro Recovery Runners. “The money will go toward giving them gas money to get to job interviews and things like that.”

“I think substance abuse is more so prevalent in the LGBTQ community, highlighting the trans community even more so just because of the line of work trans people tend to have to take,” said owner Drew Wofford, on why hosting the Sobriety Party at Chemistry is significant.

Wofford was open with his past drug use and said that Chemistry was a “drug den” when it first opened. “It is something I am not ashamed to talk about because I am proud of how much we have cleaned it up.”

This month, Wofford said he would be celebrating two years of sobriety from alcohol and drugs.

“I have been clean and sober for almost five years,” Markley said. “I was terrified of getting sober because I thought I wouldn’t have fun anymore, but I still have a ton of fun.”

Markley said the Sobriety Party would give people who don’t feel like they can come out on a weekend night and be around others drinking alcohol access to drag shows and entertainment.

“If anything, it will show people in recovery that you can still go to a nightclub, you can still go out and be social, and it will show others that there are quite a few of people out there in recovery,” Wofford said. “There are people here, talk to us if you feel like you have a problem using WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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Fan Appreciation Weekend, Sept 13th, 14th & 15th, Fireworks, Giveaways and More! drugs, or feel like you are drinking too much. We have plenty of resources we can connect you with. You don’t have to be a recluse; you have options.”

The event is for those 18 years and up and will feature punch, sodas, energy drinks, sparkling juice, and bartenders coming up with “mocktails;” the price range for drinks is $3 to $5. Markley said there would not be any nonalcoholic beer for sale because “it looks and tastes like beer, so it might be a trigger for some people.”

“I don’t think drinks are a big part of the party anyway-- just the atmosphere, space, and events are what bring people out,” Wofford said. “It is not like it is really costing me anything to open Monday, and I am not worried about making any money for this event. “ “I really haven’t heard of this happening anywhere,” Markley said. “It is really a bold move.”

Looking ahead, Wofford said he is open to hosting a sobriety night quarterly and that the next one could be on Dec. 30 as a “Sober New Year’s Eve Party.”

“If one person comes through here that is an accomplishment, and even if it is just us, it is still an accomplishment,” Markley said.

Intoxicated patrons will be denied entry.

For more information, check Chemistry’s Facebook page. !

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BY JOHN BATCHELOR | john.e.batchelor@gmail.com Overall: Food: Casual, familiar dishes, conceived and prepared with imagination and skill Ambience: Long bar fills up shortly after work hours; lots of familiar interaction Service: Well-versed, well-paced.

Value: Daily bar specials add to the equation.

Ratings range from Not Recommended or Acceptable to one (satisfactory), two (good), three (very good), four (excellent) or five (truly exceptional) stars.

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618 Midtown occupies a middle space, both figuratively and geographically, in the 1618 culinary empire. 1618 Seafood Grille was the initial entry at the upper end of the market, from managing partner Nick Wilson and chef-partner George Neal. 1618 Downtown, the third installment, holds forth from the requisite central location.

The midtown property is relatively casual in look and feel. A long bar (where food is also served), helmed by Max Barwick, fills up not long after work hours with what appears to be a pretty regular crowd. Bottle displays, as well as the cocktail menu, are quite impressive.

Elevated seating occupies the rear, with a banquette and chairs of conventional height upfront. I perceived a lot of interaction between guests and staff, who often seem to know each other.

Stacy Land is the general manager and a certified sommelier that curates the wine list. That list, international in scope, is quite extensive, especially for a place this size. On the one hand, there are lots of opportunities for adventure here. On the other hand, few selections are likely to be familiar to most patrons, so this is a “trust me” list.

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By the glass selections can be sampled (gratis), however, and small, medium, and full-sized pours are available. My wife and I liked everything we tried, so I concluded that Ms. Land could indeed be trusted- a compliment I seldom pay to sommeliers.

This is, however, much more than a bar with food. Lots of places serve similar dishes, but 1618 Midtown tends to use better, fresher ingredients, prepared with more imagination and higher skill levels.

Tacos migrated out of Mexican restaurants a generation ago. Here, the Hot Chicken version is crisp and flavorful, fowl flavor upfront, augmented by sweetish honey aioli and vegetables pickled in rice wine vinegar, whole grain mustard and garlic. The Fish Taco used Mahi the night we tried it (fish varies according to what is available fresh). A chili pepper aioli, all hosted in Romaine lettuce, with a black bean and corn salsa rounds things out.

I predict yet another government investigation, this time focusing on Dirty South Nachos, based on their obviously addictive nature. Moist, fresh, pulled chicken is tossed in homemade barbecue sauce of fire-roasted Poblano peppers, tomatoes, onions and chipotle peppers, joined by diced shallots and tomatoes. A chipotle laced cheddar cheese sauce adds intensity, best sampled with crisp fried wonton chips.

Fried collards (friends who don’t like collards will delve into these with gusto) top the assembly.

Although Mussels are listed in the starter section of the menu, my wife ordered them as an entrée. We found an ample serving, sharable as a first course, plenty for a main.

They tasted fresh, bathed in beer, shallots, bacon and garlic served with pretzel bread, which does a great job of soaking up the broth.

Trying to be good on at least one visit, we started with a Brie and Berries Salad.

The brie bears a light crust, fried quick and crisp, so the cheese is softened. Raspberries, along with orange slices, burst with complementary flavor, while roasted

Dirty South Nachos

Grilled Shrimp and Scallops

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pistachios lend crunch. A dark cherry Champagne vinaigrette dresses the mixed lettuces. I wouldn’t consider this dietetic, but it sure tastes good. Can we deduct calories for good intentions?

I experienced one misgiving when we ventured into the entrées. The Bacon Wrapped Rainbow Trout is a whole fish, split and deboned, the center filled with sage pecan pesto. I don’t like to eat fish skin, and the way this is presented makes for awkward eating. I had to cut a piece away, pull the skin off, then eat the flesh.

On balance, it is worth the effort, especially given the enhancement from bacon and roasted tomato sauce. This is presented over grits, with slivered zucchini, squash and carrots on the side.

At first glance, the Ramen Braised Short Ribs seemed to be missing the expected ramen noodles. Our server explained that the ribs are braised in ramen broth, hence the title, but placed over risotto. The meat is tender in that unique way that long, slow simmering produces, exuding rich depth of flavor, supplemented by cilantro-curry rice and pickled vegetables. Fried pork rings scattered on top lend visual impact as well as crunch and flavor of their own.

The Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin is lean and firm, yet still tender to the bite.

With excellent pork flavor emerging from a pleasant crust that’s laced with strawberry balsamic syrup. Bacon braised collard greens, obviously fresh, are the perfect vegetable match. Two wedges of cornbread, one placed vertically, establish the angular presentation. They contain pieces of sweet potato, a brilliant concoction.

We ordered Tomato Penne Pesto Pasta with Shrimp, which turned out to be deveined and tender, well-matched to the flavors of the host ingredients. Grilled Shrimp and Scallops, a more elaborate dish, are placed in smoky tasso ham cream sauce, flanked by grilled asparagus and a crisp fried gouda cheese potato cake: another excellent conception and polished execution.

The Rock Shrimp BLT is the most casual entrée on the menu, but it’s a winner in its own right. The shrimp are not overcooked, their flavor marries well with both bacon and tomato, and the host French bread, made from scratch in house, is noteworthy as well. Homemade potato chips are crisp and dry (that’s a compliment, as in not greasy), but they need a little something else for proper effect. A bit of blue cheese dressing does the trick!

Desserts from pastry chef Cherish Cronin are available in single portions or in combinations. I regret that weight restrictions prevented me from trying any, but that condition will be ameliorated on a future visit when less of me will allow more of them. Steven “Rooster” Jones is chef and a Greensboro native who grew up with the restaurant business in McPherson’s Bar and Grill, owned by his father. He attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington before entering professional kitchens, where he eventually worked his way up to executive chef at Liberty Oak before moving over to the 1618 family in March 2018.

This is the quintessential 3-Star (Very Good) restaurant. Everything is enjoyable, you pay reasonable prices, and you feel like you’re visiting family and friends. !

JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com

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We want the whole Greensboro community to come out for food, beer, music, shopping and fun,” said Mark Gibb about the upcoming State Street Ian McDowell Festival, which will be celebrated from 2 to 7 p.m. on Contributor Saturday, Sept. 14 in the historic retail district bounded by 2101 N. Elm St. and 2101 N. Church St. “We want them to see everything State Street has been and is becoming again.”

In 2017, Gibb relocated Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company from Lewis Street downtown to 504 State St. Soon after the move, his new neighbors told him stories of the street festivals once held in the former mill village, and how those annual celebrations dwindled in the 1960s, were revived in the 1980s, but died out again by the end of the 20th century.

Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company is working with Dancing Dogs Yoga Greensboro, State Street Jewelers, and Wonderland Bookshop to bring the festival back. Sponsoring businesses include A to Zen Massage, Yoga & Wellness; Alliance Properties; Amy Heywood Art; Be Kind Kids; Cafe Pasta; eBike Central; Kara Cox Interiors; Nailed It DIY Studio; Second to Nature Boutique; Shenanigans; and Triad Local First.

“We really like the vibe of State Street,” said Amy Lamb, who with her sister Beth Berger owns Wonderland Bookshop at 409 State St. “We really like the sense of community,” added Berger, comparing its feel to that of a European village.

Catering to children and young adults, Wonderland is carrying on the tradition of the late lamented B. Dolphin Ltd., which Mimi Levin opened in 1983 at 211-A State St. (now the site of State Street Jewelers), and where the Pulitzernominated writer Kelly Link worked in the early 1990s.

“We’re thrilled to be filling the emptiness since that beloved Greensboro institution closed,” Lamb said. “Customers whose parents took them there are now bringing their children and grandchildren here.”

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The oldest business on the strip is Café Pasta, opened by restaurateurs Ray and Joe Essa in 1984. That was the year after developers John Harmon and Lynn White revitalized several blocks of the street into a boutique shopping district with brick sidewalks and French-styled buildings sporting striped canvas awnings.

With this makeover, State Street became the choice lunch and dinner district for nearby Irving Park, and now-gone specialty shops such as Mark Holder Jeweler and Pewter Place brought customers from as far away as Danville.

“Since 9/11, we’ve had to cater to the economy,” Café Pasta’s Ray Essa told the News & Record in 2012. “[That] kind of weeded out mom-and-pops, [which] need to keep creative to stay in business.”

That same year, Alliance Commercial Properties began a new wave of redevelopment, transforming it into a mixture of retail and office space.

The changes since its 1980s revitalization are not the first time State Street has been utterly transformed.

“I’ve seen it change so many different ways over the years,” said Tavane Taylor, owner of Eclectic by Nature at 414 State St. Taylor’s shop, which specializes in earth spirituality products and has been at three earlier locations in the neighborhood, now occupies a historic former house, one of the first 20th-century urban residences built on what had previously been farmland.

“Before the mills came, this area was a pig farm,” Taylor said. “Then it was a mill village, and this house, one of the first ones built, was where people in the other houses came to pay rent.”

From before the first world war until after the second, it was McAdoo Heights, a residential and commercial district for workers at Cone’s Revolution, White Oak and Proximity plants.

Many guidebooks and other sources over the years have described “the Heights” as “the town within the city,”

although nobody seems to know who it was named after. (A cursory Googling finds articles and blogs suggesting different candidates, each with comments from readers claiming it was called McAdoo Heights well before whatever McAdoo the article suggested as its founder moved here.)

An A&P grocery store was built at 401 State St. in 1931 and closed in 1949. That same year, the Star Theater, a 300-seat second-run movie house specializing in double-features and B-Westerns, opened at 501 State St. It closed in 1958, but reopened in 1969 as an adults-only establishment, signaling the street’s transformation into a red-light district.

In Greensboro, as across the nation, retail shopping was moving away from

downtowns, even this mini-downtown two miles away from the main one.

Friendly Center was built in 1957 and Four Seasons Mall in 1974. While its neighboring businesses moved or closed, the Star thrived in the 1970s, adding a second screen by the end of the decade, but closed in 1983, as the adults-only entertainment industry transitioned to home video.

Taylor said that the various businesses preceding hers in the former mill house reflect just a few of the changes the street has undergone.

“This was a beauty parlor back in the day, and then My Secret Garden for 20 years. And then there was that period of time where this was where all the Irving Park ladies would lunch. Then this was where Kneaded Energy was established, and they were here for a long time before moving.”

Calling State Street “this fabulous hodgepodge,” Taylor described it as a mixture of “a little bit of Santa Monica, a little bit of downtown Savannah, and a little New England village. I’ve seen it change in so many different ways over the years, and it just always seems to reinvent itself and bounce back. It’s one of Greensboro’s hidden gems.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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RiverRun showcases Greensboro 48HFP shorts The RiverRun International Film Festival and the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project have reunited to bring “The Best of the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project” to Marketplace Cinemas in Mark Burger Winston-Salem on Thursday, Sept. 12.

This year’s Contributor Greensboro 48HFP, which took place June 23-25, saw a total of 34 teams participating. Each filmmaking team had to conceive, shoot, edit, and submit their short film within the 48-hour time frame, and each film had to include a specific character (a writer named Nathan or Nancy Thomas), a specific prop (a wallet), and a specific line of dialogue (“Aren’t you precious?”).

The first-place winner, Constant Companion (produced by Bottom Shelf Films), and the second-place winner, Dark Corners of Your Mind (produced by Outcast Films), are among the 14 films selected for this presentation, which will be preceded by an introduction from Iris Carter, producer of the Greensboro 48HFP. “I am always amazed at the quality of these short films produced in such a brief time span, and we are delighted to share some of the best films with our WinstonSalem audiences for the third consecutive year,” said Rob Davis, RiverRun executive director. “We take great pride at RiverRun in supporting and showcasing our local filmmakers both during our annual festival and year-round through programs like the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project.”

“The Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project has been going strong for 16 years, and in the 10 years I’ve been city producer, I have never been disappointed with the enthusiasm and creativity of the

Bottom Shelf Films production team filmmakers that participate,” Carter said.

“It’s fun to see teams come back every year and watch them grow in their filmmaking skills. Our audience has watched several families grow in number and kids literally grow up on screen over the years.

Other people have met, formed teams, and then divided to create new teams while still remaining supportive of each other.”

This marks the third year that RiverRun has been a local sponsor of the

Greensboro 48HFP, offering 2020 festival fee waivers and an official RiverRun “swag” bag to the first- and secondplace winners.

“I am thrilled with how RiverRun supports the Greensboro 48HFP,” Carter said. “To have such a close relationship with the staff and have an international event give an opportunity for local filmmakers to be part of their programming is an invaluable gift.

“Our film community is a true commu-

nity made up of professionals, amateurs, seasoned participants, new faces, students, and retirees. In the same way, the line-up of films in the ‘Best of’ program seems to reflect the same diversity. Film is about storytelling. Teams have come up with fantastic stories that caught the judges’ eyes and told these stories in true cinematic fashion. They are funny, silly, moving, and philosophical.” !

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“The Best of the Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project” will be screened at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters Creek Pkwy, WinstonSalem. Tickets are $3. For more information, call Marketplace Cinemas (336) 725-4646 or the RiverRun International Film Festival (336) 724-1502.

The official RiverRun website is www.riverrunfilm. com/, and the official Greensboro 48HFP website is www.48hourfilm.com/en/greensboro-nc.

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ult status seems assured for Ready or Not, a pitch-black comedy about a wedded bliss that goes amiss shortly after vows are exchanged.

Mark Burger It’s a family tradition, and it’s a matter of Contributor life or death – literally.

The bride is Grace (Samara Weaving), and the groom is Alex (Mark O’Brien), the latter descended from a wildly wealthy family whose fortune was made creating board games with, perhaps, a little supernatural assistance. It’s a long-standing tradition that whoever marries into the Le Domas family must play a game on the wedding night. Good-natured Grace agrees, only to have the bad luck to draw hide and seek.

The rules are simple: She must hide somewhere in the house, which is certainly enormous enough, and the family must find her. And if they do, they must kill her – lest their souls be damned. The Guy Busick/Ryan Murphy script, their first feature, isn’t too clear on this point.

Some family members, like scowling Aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni), are raring to go, and it’s only appropriate that her weapon of choice is a battleax. Others, like Alex’s dissipated brother Daniel (Adam Brody), are ashamedly reluctant. His and Alex’s parents, Tony and Becky (Henry Czerny and Andie MacDowell, respectively), are of the opinion the family that slays together stays together. (A silly pun, to be sure, but not inappropriate in this context.)

Thus begins Grace’s fight for survival, which gets a little easier when her more eager pursuers begin offing servants – and even each other -- by mistake. As for handsome hubby Alex, he’s appropriately torn between his new bride and his family, but he’ll come around in the end. To which side cannot be revealed, of course.

As nerves fray and tempers fly, things get more and more violent. Yet as bloodied and battered as the cast gets, the actors all look as if they’re having a blast, and their zeal is rather infectious. There’s a little social commentary here, and more than a little satire, but Ready or Not opts for the lowest-common-denominator approach.

The film, co-directed by Matt BettinelliOlpin and Tyler Gillett (of the Radio Silence filmmaking collective), certainly looks good, with stylish cinematography by Brett Jutkiewicz and Andrew M. Stearn’s impressive production design (his feature debut).

By the third act, the story basically jettisons all nuance and logic, barreling toward its finale with reckless abandon. It’s a little disappointing that the filmmakers would fall back on a tried-and-true blood-andguts formula, but at least they don’t allow the momentum to flag. Ready or Not may be silly, but it’s never dull – and there’s nary a wasted moment. !

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Telepathic Motion: Michael Mwenso and Michela Lerman on the movement of performance Mwenso and the Shakes take the stage.

Like a parade, they file on, squeezing every member on stage. They find their places. Vocalists get situated behind their microphones. The drummer sits behind the drum set and the pianist shifts to find a comfortable spot on the bench. The bassist and guitarist ready their strings.

And Michela Lerman steps onto a panel of wood.

When the music starts, so does she— tapping, arms following the momentum of each spin and turn she makes. Microphones, aimed at her tap board, pick up the sound as it melds with the beat of drums, saxophones, and voices, as she becomes an instrument of visual and rhythmic fusion.

It’s rare that a tap dancer is part of a band, but Mwenso and the Shakes aren’t afraid to be different. The improvisational jazz style that influences Mwenso and the Shakes’ sound came naturally to Michela, who met bandleader Michael Mwenso in New York City’s jazz scene. He had no hesitation about Michela being a part of the Shakes.

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aspects from that classical musical theatre era.”

While there have been occasions that the Shakes have planned moves on stage, the majority of their dancing is unplanned, including Michela’s tap. She shifts between tap dancing as an instrument—adding rhythmic flavor to their arrangements—and as a tap dancer—like a solo, showcasing her ability on the board. She watches Michael for the signal to switch between the two.

“It’s telepathic between us at this point,” she said.

But, while on tour, they don’t always find people who share their connection.

“[The hardest part is] trying to convince [sound] people that the sound of what I’m doing is actually important in the whole thing and [that] I’m not just up there dancing,” Michela said. “It’s actually an audible thing that needs to be heard—just like a percussionist, a drum, or something like that.”

Dance plays a critical role in the performance experience that Mwenso and the Shakes strive toward. From adding unique rhythmic elements through the inclusion of tap dance, the visual of band members swaying, moving, and grooving is not only an expression of enjoyment but a signal for their audience.

“I think it’s very powerful when people see us naturally dance on stage because it lets people see that you can dance with the music,” Mwenso said, “and that’s a very important part [—] the synergy between us on stage […] and how we dance with each other.”

Movement is a core pillar of Mwenso and the Shakes’ winning formula. They lean into every note, rock with every beat, and shake their way across the stage and into the hearts of their audiences to make each performance feel united and inviting.

They realize that performance isn’t only about how well you can play the music.

“Movement is the other 50 percent, you know?” Mwenso said. “It’s to show the people that this is real and this can happen.”

Mwenso and the Shakes will be performing at this year’s North Carolina Folk Festival from Sept. 6–8.

To learn more about the N.C. Folk Festival performers, please visit ncfolkfest. com. And keep up with more news on our Facebook page (facebook.com/NCFolkFestival), Twitter (twitter.com/NCFolkFestival) and Instagram (instagram.com/ ncfolkfestival). !

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.– Greensboro Roller Derby (GSORD) will host the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) International Playoffs at the WinstonSalem Fairgrounds and Annex from Sept. 6-8. To celebrate and commemorate this exciting event, the league is also installing and painting a mural in the Midway of the Fairgrounds & Annex.

“The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is proud to have Greensboro Roller Derby’s mural at the Fairgrounds,” said D.J. Hargrave, the event and branding manager for the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds & Annex. “Our city embraces art and the significance it has on people’s lives.

Not only is the mural eye-catching and well-designed, but it also spreads a message of positivity for those that come in contact with it.”

The mural is designed around the theme of “Roller Derby Can Change The World.” The mural will celebrate those who make the sport happen, including skaters, non-skating officials, referees, volunteers, and fans. “We are so excited to be able to bring such high-level roller derby to the Triad,” said GSORD PR/ Marketing co-director Reneé Russell (aka Nay Slayer). “We were brainstorming ways to leave our roller derby mark on Winston-Salem, and the idea of the mural was born! The WFTDA and the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds were both in love with the idea as well, and have been so supportive with the entire project.”

One of the more unique aspects of the mural is that both participants and attendees of the Playoffs are invited to contribute to the mural and leave their mark to spread the “derby love.”

“The first thing that needs to happen in order for roller derby to change the world is for the folks in the Triad community to support their local roller derby league,” said PR/Marketing co-director Katie Murawski (aka the Grimberlyn Reaper). “GSORD is here, and we have been here for almost 10 years now. The mural is perfectly fitting for the City of Arts and Innovation, and we want it to act as a beacon for all aspiring women and gender non-conforming athletes.”

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course of three days at the WFTDA International Playoffs, and the first, second, and third place winners will advance to the Championship tournament held in Montreal, Canada, in November. Competing for those coveted three spots in the Championships are international teams from France, England, Finland, Germany, and Argentina; as well as, National teams from California, Texas, Illinois, and Georgia.

“The WFTDA is looking forward to our 2019 International Playoffs in WinstonSalem,” said the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association executive director, Erica Vanstone. “As the governing body for an inclusive sport, the WFTDA supports the efforts of state and local agencies such as Equality NC, who aided Gov. Cooper’s actions to eradicate discriminatory practices like conversion therapy in North Carolina. It’s not just important for us to host inclusive events; the WFTDA is also committed to supporting safer, more inclusive communities. This mural we are leaving behind is an important symbol of this and will be created by members of our community joining us at this event.

We proudly stand alongside Greensboro Roller Derby and others fighting for the rights of marginalized groups in North Carolina.”

Tickets for the WFTDA International Playoffs are on sale now at www.wftda. com/winston-salem. Prices for each day are $25, and the three-day passes are $65. Persons age 11-64 are general admission, and ages 10 and under are free but must have a ticket assigned to them for capacity reasons. Pick up the child’s ticket at the box office upon initial entry. Student and senior discounts are available at the door only with valid ID. Discount evening tickets: www.groupon. com/deals/gl-women-s-flat-trackderby-association-2019-internationalplayoffs-winston-salem-nc-1 !

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IN HOLLYWOOD (R) LUXURY SEATING Fri - Thu: 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW (PG-13) (LUXURY SEATING) Fri - Thu: 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 IT CHAPTER 2 (R) Fri & Sat: 1:10, 2:20, 4:40, 5:50, 8:10, 9:20, 11:40 Sun - Thu: 1:10, 2:20, 4:40, 5:50, 8:10, 9:20 SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE (NR) Fri - Thu: 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 OFFICIAL SECRETS (R) Fri - Thu: 1:15, 7:20 VITA & VIRGINIA (NR) Fri - Thu: 3:55, 9:55 ANGEL HAS FALLEN (R) Fri - Thu: 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 9:55 READY OR NOT (R) Fri & Sat: 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 11:55 Sun - Thu: 2:30, 4:45, 7:05 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED (PG-13) Fri - Thu: 2:55, 5:05, 7:25 GOOD BOYS (R) Fri & Sat: 12:55, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40, 11:50 Sun - Thu: 12:55, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40

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Jacob Pina, 20, of Westport, Massachusetts, can’t explain his physical oddity, but that’s not stopping him from firmly grasping his 15 minutes of fame. Pina, recently dubbed “Thumb Boy,” unveiled his

unusually long (5 inches) right thumb on the TikTok app on Aug. 24, reported Metro News. “There’s no reason it’s so big just an anomaly,” Pina posted. “I feel great about it. It’s always great to be different and embrace your own essence.”

Pina has gained 145,000 followers on the app — and he’s never lost a thumb war.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE

The Botox RN MD Spa in Sugar Land, Texas, was the scene of a breaking-and-

entering caught on camera on Aug. 23, but police are still looking for the slim, youthful-looking culprit. Surveillance video shows a woman testing the locked doors of the spa that evening, the Associated Press reported, then returning in a Mercedes SUV with a battery-powered grinding saw. After cutting through the clinic’s front door, she took an undisclosed amount of anti-aging products and drove away.

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A day of fishing on Lake Champlain became more memorable than most when Debbie Geddes of Plattsburgh, New York, reeled in a trout worthy of a social media storm: It had two mouths.

Geddes and her husband were fishing in mid-August when the unusual catch took the bait, WPTZ reported. Geddes’ co-worker Adam Facteau posted pictures to Facebook and said he’s heard many theories about what caused the fish’s deformity — including that it’s an offspring of the lake’s famed monster, Champy.

Geddes threw the trout back after snapping some photos.

CUTENESS OVERLOAD

About a dozen service dogs in Ontario, Canada, took in a performance of “Billy Elliot: The Musical” in August as part of their training through the K-9 Country Inn Working Service Dogs organization.

When the actors took their curtain call, nary a whimper or a quiet woof could be heard — music to the ears of head trainer Laura MacKenzie. During such a performance, dogs are trained to sit under the seat or at their handler’s feet, but MacKenzie told CNN that a few of the dogs peeked over the seats to see the action on stage. Dogs are also exposed to subways, zoos and crowded fairs during their training.

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Firefighters near Estacada, Oregon, rescued a woman on Aug. 20 who had been trapped in a septic tank on her rural property, possibly for two or three days. The unidentified woman, who lives alone, couldn’t alert neighbors of her predicament because they live out of shouting range. Her daughter found her after becoming concerned when she was unable to reach her mother for four days. Firefighters told KATU that work appeared to be being done on the tank — a hole had been dug exposing the tank, which had a rusted 2-by-2-foot hole in its lid. The woman had apparently fallen through the hole and was lying in sewage, with her face just above the

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surface, when rescuers got to her. They did not see any visible injuries on her, but she was transported to a hospital in Portland.

CRIME REPORT

— Nicholas Redmond, 32, of Philadelphia, had a productive August as an employee of Macy’s at the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania. Not because he sold a lot of merchandise, but because, according to police, he told them he stole about $12,000 in cash from the retailer.

His run came to a halt on Aug. 25 when a security system alerted police to an intruder in the store. Around 4:30 a.m., authorities found Redmond hiding in the first-floor ceiling, clutching $7,000. Upper Merion Township police Lt. Brendan Brazunas told WPVI his officers “were very shocked ... they just couldn’t believe somebody had gone up to that length to hide from them.” Redmond was arraigned and held in jail, failing to post a $10,000 cash bond.

— A Pennsylvania state appellate court has ruled against Stephen Kirchner, who was convicted in a lower court for disorderly conduct in 2018 for pointing his finger like a gun at a neighbor. In June of that year, KDKA reported, Kirchner was walking past a neighbor’s home in Manor, Pennsylvania, when the neighbor made an obscene gesture with his hand. Kirchner responded by making a shooting gun gesture with his own hand.

A witness called 911, and the unnamed neighbor told police he felt “extremely threatened.” Kirchner argued that his gesture was not a hazard, but the appeals court disagreed.

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In Hudson, Florida, Pasco County deputies arrested 46-year-old Keith Mounts on a felony aggravated assault charge after he allegedly threatened an unnamed man with a machete. A sheriff ’s office spokesperson said the two men were at the victim’s home on Aug. 24 when Mounts used the bathroom and “didn’t flush, and when the victim called him on it, the suspect threatened” to “chop” him, according to Newsweek. The arrest report said officers found the machete in the yard, and Mounts told them he was using it to defend himself, but he couldn’t say from what. He did provide a written statement saying simply, “S**t happened.” Touche! !

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andcarried straight from Mosul, Iraq, “The Forbidden Art Exhibit” will be shared in the United States for the first time on Sept. 17 for one night Terry Rader only. The exhibition is curated by Restore Iraq, the 501 (c)(3) Contributor nonprofit American brand of Strategic Development for Relief and Education (SDRE), according to a video on its website. The exhibition is open to the public from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Barn in Winston-Salem’s Reynolda Village. Attendees can experience the heart of eight artists across four mediums.

There will be wine, hors d’oeuvres and a live auction of once forbidden works of art acquired through a partnership with Mosul University’s Fine Arts Department, where all of the artists were either students or professors. According to the website, this fundraising event will help restore the dreams of orphans and their families through art therapy and other work in Mosul. The fundraiser is $75, and the dress code is cocktail attire.

Out-of-state bidders may purchase one of just a few remote tickets online before Sept. 10 for $25 and receive an art brochure before the event. Event volunteers will call each remote bidder when the bidding starts and stay on the phone as they bid against those at the auction.

Neil Broere, programs director of Restore Iraq and his wife, Lindsey, grew up in High Point and Thomasville. Lindsey, Neil, and their four children are part of a team that has lived and worked in Iraq for six years.

David Popovici and Fabian Grech were the original founders and are still active with the work they started in 2013. When the Broeres first connected with this work, they said it was very challenging, and they didn’t think Iraq was where they would make their home. After visiting, finishing school and returning to see the damage done by ISIS, “We saw the need to be the light in a dark place,” Neil said. “We knew we wanted to go back and [we] moved there in January 2016. We believe that there is evil in the world not so much because bad men continue to do bad things, but because good men do nothing.”

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“The Bird and the Boat” by Muhammad Dhanoon Alzubaidi “ISIS,” and the “Middle East” inspire fear in some from the Western world. He said the fear “paralyzes good people from making an impact in a part of the world that desperately needs it.”

“If it isn’t fear that stops the impact a person can have, it’s the commitment many have to build their own kingdom,” he added. “These kingdom builders are desperately needed in places where the lives of others are crumbling.”

Neil said one of Restore Iraq’s programs serves “fatherless children born from women who were raped” and “widows who find themselves in impossible situations.” He said these women in Mosul have a difficult time rebuilding and need outside help and guidance.

“We do this by providing the essentials (such as food and clothing), all the while empowering them with skills and training that will also allow them to contribute to

their community,” Neil said. “Our goal is to raise $25,000 to fund our work with the widows and the women who are caring for orphans who have lost both of their parents. If we had unlimited sources, we’d help thousands more in need.”

Creating art in ISIS-controlled Mosul was forbidden from June 2014 until the official declaration of victory was proclaimed on July 17, 2017.

“The Forbidden Art Exhibit” features artists who hid in their basements and closets for three years to reclaim their creativity through drawing, painting and sculpting during a time when they could have been tortured and killed.

“It’s pretty fascinating to learn that there was an art department at Mosul [University] before ISIS took over and turned a house of creativity into a house of destruction to build bombs and make bullets,” Neil said. “Afterward, the artists

came back and replaced the bombs and bullets with brushes and easels.”

The first piece that the Broeres saw and knew they had to have for the exhibit was

by Ahmed al Jalili, a fourth-year student at Mosul University. Neil said his self-portrait “The Palette” was painted on the same palette he painted on for those three years and expressed his sadness wearing the traditional ISIS-enforced clothing and full beard.

Zubaida, the only female artist in the group, has three paintings: one of a young girl from a refugee camp, one of an older man from a refugee camp and one of her mother.

“When we first discovered this sweet, gentle and young artist to be so amazingly talented, her Van Gogh-like painting jumped out at us,” he added.

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“Sadness,” “Exodus,” “Joy,” and “Motion by Dr. Qais Ibrahim Mustafa his wife, who works in the fine arts department. Neil said she told them, without asking her husband, “I want to give you his paintings for free because I want to help you.”

Muhammad Nahad sculpted “Woman Holding the Scarf,” which Neil said came from “a place of the forbidden to an opening of artistic expression that best represents what these artists have created.”

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the sculpture department at Mosul University School of Fine Arts. He extracted large metal nails from ancient doors that were blown up and secretly melted, bent and shaped the nails into sculptures in his basement. His four pieces are called “Sadness,” “Exodus,” “Joy,” and “Motion.”

“Artists not creating is like not breathing, you just can’t not do it,” Mustafa said to Neil. “It’s who we are.”

Neil said Omer Qais, the marble sculptor of “The Teardrop,” worked silently along-

side his father to create a massive 20-foot tall sculpture, which now resides in the center of Mosul’s city square.

Painter and collage artist Muhammad Dhanoon Alzubaidi’s work has been shown all around the globe. Neil said two paintings of “The Bird and the Boat” depict a young boy holding a paper boat on a stick to express the wants of the children and their creative desires to give hope to their dreams.

Neil said that the sculptor, Zeko, is a champion bodybuilder and “a big, strong man who works with iron and swinging hammers, but speaks with a humble gentleness.” His sculpture depicts a small child’s hand reaching out to a larger, adult hand representing one generation pulling up another, but it will not be represented in the auction.

“We are still trying to figure out what to do with this piece,” Neil said. “Zeko is an amazing artist who did this very quickly, but he didn’t have time to fully execute this sculpture, so it isn’t as high a standard of quality as the rest of the work to be bidded on.”

Those interested in sponsoring The Forbidden Art Exhibition may choose from a Silver, Gold, Platinum or Signature sponsorship level for a multiple-ticket package that includes exposure to a socially-engaged audience along with other amenities, which may be viewed and purchased online.

Neil said volunteers are still needed to serve Iraqi orphans by working at the exhibit, and that volunteers will receive free admission.

“We intend to do all that we can to rebuild, replant and redeem all that has been destroyed on both sides of the Tigris River,” he said. “Iraq needs your help more than ever before, and I am inviting you to partner with any one of our projects, including The Widow’s Storehouse located on the Westside. We adopted 29 widows and 40 orphans to show them that they weren’t alone, and they were loved in our nine-week pilot program.”

Neil said that the project is now moving into phase two and that the organization has a long-term vision of having its own orphanage called “Restoration Village” that will meet the needs of children, and help empower small business to rebuild projects and get back to work.

“Our Youth Center on the Eastside, which wasn’t destroyed as much as the Westside, teaches nutritional and physical fitness along with emotional wellbeing and healing,” Neil said. “Instead of letting emotions turn into anger that is justifiable from losing their family, we teach them how to forgive and move forward.”

The exhibit will also fund afterschool art therapy classes for 35 orphans.

“We don’t just put paintbrushes in their hands; the overall vision is to love these kids well, whether with food and clothing or by walking them through the process of grieving and to identify and nurture the gift within them,” he added. “The overall vision for the event is to be a bridge for the restoration in Iraq and the Middle East to those in the West. If this is happening in a place like Mosul, it can happen in WinstonSalem. A healing redemption can happen anywhere with love.” !

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

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The Greensboro queen slaying the scene: Mrz. Ivy Carter In a relatively short amount of time in Greensboro’s drag scene, one queen is dreaming big and has had her share of success through the art of drag.

Mrz. Ivy Carter has lived in Greensboro Katie Murawski for 11 years but was born and raised in Editor Japan as a “military brat.”

Carter has been doing drag for two years, despite thinking she wouldn’t do it.

“I have a lot of friends and a lot of legendary queens I have seen always told me that I would be a drag queen,” Carter said.

“And I was like, ‘No I will not, that will never happen.’ I J-setted a lot [which is a type of dance], and I liked to vogue. I started watching how all the queens interacted with people and smiled in their faces, and I decided that I was going to try it out. My [drag] mother, [Miss Charlotte Gay Pride 2019] Giselle Cassidy Carter, is the one that helped me out, got me started and pushed me out of the door.”

Mrz. Ivy Carter can be described as a “spirited and uplifting person who enjoys herself and loves everything about herself.”

She “keeps it real and keeps everyone on their toes.”

“She is just an enjoyable and fun person to be around,” Carter said. “She is not there for herself; she is there for the community.”

Carter hosts the popular drag showcase Ivy’s School of Shade on Thursday nights at Chemistry Nightclub.

“You gotta throw shade sometimes and keep the queens in line,” she joked. “It is something I opened up for the new queens coming in trying to make a name for themselves. And show them that it is OK to come out and be yourself. But at the same time, if they really want to take this route and be an entertainer, there are things they have to progress in and learn.”

Her School of Shade is also Chemistry’s college night, so the theme is on-point.

“Since it is college night, why not it be a school of shade and be about everyone coming together and be themselves?”

Carter said. “And of course, I am Mother of the UNCG Spartans, so they all come and look up to me, and I help them any way I can. Just the same way I was helped.”

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2019 readers poll, she was voted as the Triad’s Best Karaoke DJ and her School of Shade was a runner-up for the Triad’s Best LGBTQ Night Out or Event.

“I was kind of shocked about it, to be honest,” she said. “I was not expecting it.”

Other than hosting a wildly successful drag night at Chemistry, Carter made an appearance on the Netflix original series Insatiable.

“I went and did an audition for it, and a few other queens did as well,” she said.

“But they saw me, and I stood out the most for them. Then the agency people contacted me and said, ‘they’d love to have you, would you take it?’ I wasn’t looking at that route, but I was like, why not? You only live life once. I didn’t know it was going to be on Netflix until after the fact.”

Which made it even more exciting, she added.

“I don’t talk about it much; I am not trying to throw off that I have been on Netflix because I am not the type of person,” Carter said. “ I really just keep it low-key and quiet. And the people that watch it notice. I have gone places before, and people are like, ‘I notice you from somewhere,’ and I try to play with their heads a bit before I tell them.”

After her appearance on Netflix, she said a few doors of opportunity are cracking open for her.

“I am just waiting to hear the definite answer before I open my mouth,” she said.

I asked if those opportunities are in the realm of a certain well-known and beloved Emmy-award winning drag reality show.

“I can’t really say anything,” Carter said.

(But she assured that yours truly and the readers of YES! Weekly would be the first to know when she can announce it publically.)

Since Carter has been all over, I asked her what she thinks about Greensboro’s drag scene.

“Let’s be real, in other cities, it is a lot

more fun,” she admitted. “And the only reason I say that is because there are more clubs and all the bars actually get along with one another. They are not trying to fight with each other...Everyone is open and gets along and goes to different spots.” She said that the Triad and Greensboro should be expanding the drag scene, and opening up doors for everyone- not keeping it all the same, because “people get so tired of the same thing.”

With all art, there is always a challenge for novices. The most challenging aspect of drag for Carter was doing her own makeup.

“I could never do my face. It was very hard at first for me. I looked crazy, and as I look back on pictures I am like, ‘Y’all made me go out looking like this? Y’all are no friends at all,” she giggled. “You know, you have to learn at some point and get it together.”

Carter said her drag mother would do her makeup for her when she first started.

Then one day, her mother gave her some tough love.

“Then my mama got on to me and was like, ‘Alright, now you are letting all these people do your face, but you have to start doing it by yourself. If you want to make a name for yourself, you will have to bring it. If you are going to be my child, you are going to bring it.’ She said, ‘I believe in you, I know you have it, it’s there. Work it out.’”

Carter said as she was cleaning one day, she saw her makeup bag and just started practicing and experimenting. She has her technique down now, but “Mama got some issues still, too,” she joked and admitted that she still struggles with painting on eyebrows.

(Which in my opinion, is a tough art to master within itself.)

Carter is presently competing in Legends Nightclub Drag Race in Raleigh. She said she won the first challenge “bring it as feathers and flowers” and “bring it in all red,” and was very excited about her wins.

Carter said the competition is every first Tuesday of the month.

“It is just like RuPaul’s Drag Race; they do it just like that,” she said. “We have challenges, and we have to bring it.”

Speaking of RuPaul’s Drag Race, I asked Carter what her favorite episodes and queens were.

“It is sad that I hang out with all these RuPaul girls and I meet them and perform with them,” she said, “I have seen a few [episodes], but I haven’t watched the full seasons yet. I just watch bits and pieces.”

“They are all amazing,” she said of the RuPaul queens. She named Shangela and Jaidynn Diore Fierce as two of her all-time favorites to kiki with.

“I plan on going next year,” Carter said when I asked if she ever thought about auditioning for RuPaul’s Drag Race. “I got to get my sewing down because that is the only thing that is stopping me. But there are a few queens that went on there that didn’t know how to sew, and they made it pretty far. So if they can do it, so can I. But I am still going to practice my sewing. My personality, I am not worried about, the only thing is sewing.”

She said she also got an email from America’s Got Talent inviting her to come on that show.

“I am not ready to take that leap just yet,” she said. “There are still some flaws and things I need to work on.”

She said that going on RuPaul’s Drag Race could help her work on those flaws.

“And it would just be a dream for to have somebody from Greensboro, North Carolina, to be on there,” Carter said. “Pray for me, mama.”

The best advice Carter has for aspiring drag performers is to “love yourself and be yourself.”

“If you don’t love yourself, like RuPaul says, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?” Carter said. “Just always be yourself, always keep it 100, and just go out there and do you. Stay focused on what you are going after. If you stay focused, you will succeed to that level. If you put your mind to it, it can happen. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t make it because you can...And remember that mama always loves you and if you need help with anything, you know how to reach me.”

See Mrz. Ivy Carter at Chemistry Nightclub on Thursday nights and at Chemistry’s Sobriety Party on Sept. 9. !

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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Bookmarks Festival of Books Forsyth Humane Society and Authors celebrates 15 is saving lives years in Winston-Salem Bookmarks 15th annual Festival of Books and Authors will be held in downtown Winston-Salem from Thursday, Sept.

5 through Sunday, Sept. 8. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Ian McDowell Friday and Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Contributor Over 50 authors will be in attendance, and events include panels, exhibitors, readings and signings.

On Saturday, there will be a free familyfriendly street festival on Spruce Street, Poplar Street and Holly Avenue, in and around Bookmarks Bookstore, the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Footnote and Calvary Moravian Church. All Saturday readings and panel discussions are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Free Saturday events at Calvary Moravian Sanctuary include a 10:30 a.m. panel on gun violence in America with Dave Cullen (Parkland: Birth of a Movement and Columbine) and Andy Parker (For Allison: the Murder of a Young Journalist); an 11:45 a.m. conversation about historical fiction with Téa Obreht (The Tiger’s Wife and Inland), Michael Parker (Prairie Fever) and Mary Doria Russell (The Women of the Copper Country); a 12:45 p.m. true crime discussion with Billy Jensen (Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders); and a 3 p.m. cookbook discussion with food writer and chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan (Just Peachy), featuring samples from Dewey’s.

Young adult events at Hanesbrands Theatre begin on Saturday with an 11 a.m. panel on Monsters, Magic and Warrior Women with Cinda Williams China (Deathcaster), Dhonielle Clayton (The Everlasting Rose), Victoria Schwab (The Monsters of Verity) and Megan Shepherd (Midnight Beauties). There are also free events that day at Bookmarks, Footnote, WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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There will be food trucks and food vendors, including Angie’s Italian Ice, Kona Ice, King Queen #1 Haitian Cuisine, Mike & Mike’s Italian Ice, Mr. Mongolian, Porterhouse Burger Truck, Will & Pop’s, and Wired Café Coffee Bus. The keynote opening event of the festival is a free talk by Casey Cep at Hanesbrands Theatre at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Cep will discuss, read from and sign her book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, about how the author of To Kill a Mocking Bird, who had previously helped her friend Truman Capote research In Cold Blood, became obsessed with the true-crime case of a rural Southern preacher accused of murdering five members of his family for the insurance money.

Ticketed events include a free talk and sampling with Belinda Smith-Sullivan at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Dewey’s Bakery, where Sullivan will share her knowledge about peaches, their varieties and histories, and how to grow as well as cook them.

Events that require purchase of tickets include Bookmarks’ 15th birthday celebration at the Ramkat at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, a children’s author pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. on Saturday at Foothills Brewpub, graphic novel workshops at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at Sawtooth School for Visual Art with Cece Bell and Galle Galligan (these are two separate workshops), and Festival Brunch with Parapalooza at 11 a.m. at Footnote on Sunday.

Tickets for events that require them can be purchased by calling 1-800-8383006 or visiting www.bookmarksnc. org. The organizers expect them all to be gone before the first day of the Festival.

Other information, including a complete schedule of all events, can be found at that site. !

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.

Each year, over 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized nationwide, and North Carolina is, unfortunately, among the leading states who contribute to that statistic.

In fact, according to Jim Longworth a recent report by the North Carolina Department Longworth of Agriculture and at Large Consumer Services, public animal shelters in our state euthanized over 71,000 cats and dogs in 2018 alone. The good news is that one Triad area agency is making great strides in significantly reducing the number of euthanized pets. Just last week, the Forsyth Humane Society received national recognition and a cash award from Best Friends Animal Society, for having increased its save rate from 28% to 81%.

Much of the Humane Society’s progress has occurred since becoming a contract partner with Forsyth County last year. At that time, FHS assumed responsibility for managing the intake, care and disposition of cats and dogs at two shelters, which can accommodate a total of 300 animals.

I spoke with executive director Sarah Williamson about the Humane Society’s success, and where we go from here.

JL: How have you been able to improve the save-rate so quickly, and so significantly?

SW: It’s because of our two differencemaking programs: Foster Care and Transfer. Our community has really stepped up and opened their homes to foster animals. On any given month, we have between 300 and 500 animals in foster care. We also partner with about 50 breed-specific rescue organizations, and we transfer animals to them that fit their programs. We also routinely transport animals to “no-kill” shelters in Northern states who are seeking rescue animals.

These programs open up kennel space in our shelters, making room for the next animal that comes to us.

JL: What role has the Humane Society Board and your staff played in the success of the agency?

SW: We could not perform this mission without the support of our volunteers, our donors, everyone who adopts, everyone who fosters, and everyone who donates supplies. We have a hardworking, dedicated staff and Board that makes it all come together.

JL: Other than caring for animals and facilitating adoptions, what other services does Forsyth Humane Society offer?

SW: We offer subsidies that help people afford spay or neuter surgeries for their pets. We help fund about 200 of these important surgeries each year.

We also manage a pet food pantry in partnership with five faith-based organizations, which help people in need to be able to keep their pets at home.

JL: Forsyth Humane Society was one of only eight agencies recognized nationally by Best Friends for your high saverate, but they also awarded you $16,000.

How will that money be used?

SW: In addition to the Best Friends grant, we also received a $16,000 grant from the James G. Hanes Foundation, and together those funds will enable us to purchase a new vehicle with which we can safely and comfortably continue our life-saving transports to rescue organizations and no-kill shelters.

JL: I realize that you can never achieve a 100% save-rate because of animals who come to you having been severely injured or with terminal illnesses; however, you have said that your goal is to reach 90% by 2023. What will it take to reach that goal?

SW: The last stretch, closing the gap between an 81% save-rate and a 90% save-rate, will be hard. The gains will be smaller and harder-won. We will need to increase our community’s capacity and commitment to spay and neuter feral cats, and at the same time, work on saving animals with difficult behavioral and medical issues. It will take the support of our entire community to continue to save even more lives.

To inquire about adoption, make a donation, or purchase tickets to this year’s Furr Ball, visit www.forsythhumane.org !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

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he singer Kiran Ahluwalia is a global citizen. That’s how she describes herself, and her music reflects that reality, drawing on traditions from John Adamian West African, the @johnradamian Indian subcontinent, Europe, American jazz, Western pop Contributor styles and beyond.

Ahluwalia is an Indian-Canadian living in New York City, and I spoke with her by phone briefly last week. Ahluwalia and her band will perform at the North Carolina Folk Festival in Greensboro this week.

Listening to recorded music has always been a way of experiencing the world — the sounds of other places, other people, other aesthetics, other traditions. Even back in the early days of 78s in the 1920s, styles from the Mississippi Delta or the Carolina Piedmont or the urban jumble of Chicago could get dispersed around the world. Musicians from remote pockets of Greece who had come to New York could document rare and ancient repertoires, preserving them for future centuries. Record companies had scouts in places like Yemen or West Africa or the mountains of the American South, tapping into markets they hardly knew existed.

Music has also been a way of connecting with home for people who have emigrated or been displaced. Ahluwalia said that when, as a child, she moved with her family from India to Canada, listening to Punjabi folk music, Bollywood soundtracks or Hindustani classical music was a way of staying attached to her past.

“When I came to Canada, it was quite lonely for me, and what I knew from India was Indian music,” she said. “And so Indian music never left me, because it was such a crutch.”

Ahluwalia said that when she would attend Indian concerts with her parents, she would routinely be the only young person there. She was listening to Western pop, but she retained a love for Indian music.

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and ghazals (a classic form of love poetry that also gets rendered in song).

“That is a launching pad for me as a composer,” Ahluwalia said. But she’s quick to point out that she’s more of a synthesist than a traditionalist. She writes her own songs and incorporates lots of other elements into the music. You can hear bits of flamenco, R&B, soul, rock, jazz, desert blues and afropop in her songs.

(She’s recorded a song with the legendary Tuareg group Tinariwen, who will be playing in Winston-Salem at the Ramkat on Sept. 17.)

When Ahluwalia said she’s a global citizen, she means it, both in terms of the scope of her musical influences, and in the themes that she addresses in her songs.

Her most recent album, 7 Billion, is very clearly one with a worldwide perspective.

The record gets its title from the rough estimate of the human population. And the song “Saat” is named for the Urdu for the number seven.

“The song is about the cultural intolerance amongst the seven billion of us,” Ahluwalia said. “There’s seven billion ways of doing things. There’s no one right way.”

The translation of one verse goes like this: “Seven billion winding paths/Each with its own peculiar questions/Infinite answers, infinite answers/All spectacular.”

Current events and a sense of global

turmoil found their way into Ahluwalia’s writing process.

“That was very much inspired by the discord and disharmony in the world today,” she said.

Another song, “Haafa,” flows out of Ahluwalia’s frustration with the gatekeepers of organized religion. People claiming to own access to the divine have soured the experience of many individuals longing to have a spiritual connection with the cosmos, the lyrics suggest. “The song is about lamenting the loss of a direct relationship with god,” she said. That loss means that people are deprived of a chance to be aware of themselves, to explore deep questions about themselves and about their place in the universe.

The final song on the album is called “We Sinful Women.” For the lyrics, Ahluwalia took the words written by the Pakistani feminist Urdu poet Kishwar Naheed and set them to music. It was partly a response, on Ahluwalia’s part, to the rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign in the U.S. “This was soon after Trump was calling strong women ‘nasty women,’” Ahluwalia said.

The song includes lines that translate to, “It is we sinful women who come out raising the banner of truth against the barricades of lies on the highways/who find stories of persecution piled on each

threshold/who find that tongues which could speak have been severed.”

As Ahluwalia said, “unfortunately the poem is still relevant.”

The song churns with a hypnotic funk drone that sounds akin to the protestcentric afrobeat of Fela Kuti, with sizzling organ blasts, percolating tabla rhythms and jazzy guitar lines from Ahluwalia’s collaborator and partner Rez Abbasi.

Making resistance, human rights, poetry, feminism, global awareness and justice all part of the mesh of the music is something that Ahluwalia and her band do with ease.

In that regard, the language barrier isn’t something that prevents the message and the emotion from coming across.

“If you don’t understand the language, don’t worry,” she said, “we’re entertaining everybody.” !

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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Triad connections at Hopscotch 10 It seems like summer goes by in the blink of an eye. And without missing a beat, the pools close, the grills go out, and since 2010, the swan song begins with the Hopscotch Music Festival taking over downtown Raleigh.

Though the festival lies square in the Triangle, the Triad pokes through. For 2019, Greensboro’s Katei Cranford Mourning Cloak and No Whammy, from Winston-Salem, act as Triad hosts on the Hopscotch bill proper.

Contributor Mourning Cloak features Kris Hilbert, the Greensboro recording wizard behind Legitimate Business, and members of Torch Runner, Graf Orlock, and Braveyoung. They’ll kick things off with a doomy funeral bang as the first official festival act at Kings on Thursday night, on a bill curated

by Solar Halos.

No Whammy will reign-in the Winston crew with their set on Saturday night at Neptune’s. The instrumental “surf/spazz” trio is the latest endeavor from Anthony Petrovic. They’ll open what will be a weird can of worms of a bill, ushering a wave of experimental noise cresting throughout the underground venue.

Beyond the scope of ticketed Hopscotch is the weekend of free parties and day shows which weave throughout downtown Raleigh. There’s freedom and delight in the day party disco, where Triad-connected bands shine, all for free (and often catered,) with no festival wristbands necessary.

1970s Film Stock kicks off a Thursday party at the Night Rider, as the pseudo-theater-group Magician’s Hand Practice presents: “A Day at Jordan Lake,” which looks to be a hoot—or as Eddie Garcia calls it, “a doozy.”

With actors, projections, and a bill packed with faces familiar to Triad folks, who needs to dip festival toes when you can dive right in?

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1970s Film Stock at Hopscotch 2018 MHP looks to lend their assistance with a party that’s “an installation, an experience, a submersion in the murk,” with the visual department featuring projection work from Greensboro expat Jeff Bechtel and his “B.L.E.W.” VHS wizardry. Bechtel carries B.L.E.W. to the audio realm with his corresponding punk project, Huffer—a mostly Raleigh outfit with a touch of Greensboro from guitarist Brad Morton—who’ll play the “Hopscotch Hangover Ain’t Over” party, closing the weekend on Sunday night at Slim’s.

Beyond the Night Rider party, B.L.E.W. will light up the Outpost on Saturday for a show benefiting the Women’s Center of Wake County. Presented by Rebel Run and Raleigh Rum, the tiki venue will be taking donations of sanitary and personal needs items.

Also on the Outpost bill is William Kelly, a new endeavor from Kelly Fahey, who shed his Echo Courts skin to get more comfortable in a countrified outfit.

The project will make its actual debut a couple days before, on Thursday, at the Wicked Witch. Presented by Tiger Bomb Promo and To Be Heard Booking, the bill also features Winston-Salem ambient act Foxture, now making mathy waves as a four piece.

Harrison Ford Mustang adds Triad flavor to the “Potluck Rock ‘n’ Roll Pizza Party” Thursday at Slim’s.

Tasty Triad treats continue with Toothsome on Friday for the “the Rising Tide” party at Transfer Co. Food Hall.

Presented in partnership with WakeUP Wake County

and We Claim Raleigh, the show will feature mayoral candidates amongst the festivities. Further mingling politics and music, The Muslims are back in the United States after playing Kanalrock in Norway, and have two day party slots, each providing fans a chance to “headbang for a good cause.” First on Thursday at Imurj for Girls Rock N.C., followed by a set on Friday as part of the “To the Front” party at Ruby Deluxe, benefitting N.C. Resists and Siembra.

On Saturday, Stevie will spread sweet lo-fi femme throughout the “Both Kinds Radio” party at Person Street Bar, presented by Nice Price, Jr., with donations accepted for Planned Parenthood.

Celebrating the full 10 years of Hopscotch, Churchkey Records and the Layabout will again join forces with Slim’s, as they’ve done each year, for their “¡Que Viva!” party complete with rock ‘n’ roll and Bojangles biscuits on Friday, with Drag Sounds on the bill as a soundtrack for fuzzed-out Greensboro memories, and those of Hopscotch 2019 in the making.

Good causes. Good tunes. Goodbye, summer. The 10th anniversary of the Hopscotch Music Festival starts Thursday with Triad connections throughout the weekend. Hope to see ya there! !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who’s been Hopscotchin’ since it all started in 2010, and hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show that runs like a mixtape of bands touring NC, 5-7p.m. on WUAG 103,1fm.

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Sep 15: The Randolph Jazz Band Sep 20: Emma Lee Sep 27: Casey Noel Oct 4: Condor Hill

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VILLAGE SQUARE TAP HOUSE

6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Sep 5: James Vincent Carroll Sep 6: DJ Bald-E Sep 7: Hedtrip Sep 13: Whiskey Mic Sep 17: The Hold Up Sep 20: DJ Bald-E Sep 21: Red Dirt Revival Sep 27: DJ Bald-E Sep 28: Big Daddy Mojo

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GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE

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1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com

REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Sep 6: Emerging Artist Spotlight Sep 7: The Martha Bassett Show Our Band Sep 13: Jacon Joliff Band Sep 14: Luke Mears Band Sep 20: Tim O’Brien Band Sep 28: Mickey Galyean & Cullen’s Bridge Oct 5: The Martha Bassett Show James Maddock Oct 12: Darrell Scott Oct 18: The Celverlys Nov 2: The Martha Bassett Show Sam Baker

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Sep 6: 1-2-3 Friday 523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Sep 6: DJ Dan the Player Sep 7: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Sep 13: The Legacy - A Motown Revue Sep 26: Ms. Mary & The Boys Oct 5: Sing Hallelujah!

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Dec 6: Dave Moran

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com

Sep 5: Northlane & Erra w/ Currents & Crystal Lake Sep 6: Nikki Hill Sep 7: Reggae Night w/ Sahara Reggae Band & DJ Stretch Sep 8: PJ Sin Suela Sep 10: Cold - The Broken Human Tour Sep 12: Struggle Jennings Sep 13: Create. Ft. Jantsen, DMVU, Potions, Futexture, Bromosapien, Konglo & More Sep 14: Purple Masquerade - A Tribute To Prince Sep 18: Soulfly - Blood On The Streets Tour Sep 20: The Connells Sep 21: Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown Sep 27: Jordan Hollywood w/ Ed E Ruger & Friends Sep 28: Lowborn w/ special guest Companyon, A Light Divided, & More Oct 1: SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque Oct 2: The Kitchen Dwellers w/ Highstrung Bluegrass Band Oct 4: Trial By Fire - A Tribute to Journey

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CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605 carolinatheatre.com Sep 25: Adam Ant: Friend or Foe Sep 27: Jon Shain Sep 29: Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra October 2: Miranda Sings - Who Wants My Kid? Oct 4: UNCG Jazz Ensembles I and II Oct 6: Amythyst Kiah Oct 11: Heather Mae Oct 16: Ernest Turner Trio Oct 18: The Earls of Leicester Oct 18: Grant Maloy Smith Oct 19: The Wood Brothers

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Sep 5: Live Thursdays

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Sep 6: Drew Thomas Sep 7: Drew Thomas Sep 10: Trevor Wallace Sep 11: Giggles & Dranks Sep 12: The Corey Holcomb 5150 Show Sep 13: Mark Klein Sep 14: Mark Klein Sep 19: Pauly Shore Sep 20: Tone-X Sep 21: Tone-X Sep 27: Julie Scoggins Sep 28: Julie Scoggins Oct 2: Doug Stanhope Oct 4: Hailey Boyle Oct 5: Hailey Boyle Oct 11: Tim Young Oct 12: Tim Young Oct 18: Cee-Jay Oct 19: Cee-Jay Nov 1: Chris Wiles Nov 2: Chris Wiles

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11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388 Sep 7: Tian Garcia and Morgan McPherson Sep 18: Andrew Kasab

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GREENE STREET CLUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111

LEVENELEVEN BREWING

1111 Coliseum Blvd | 336.265.8600 Sep 4: Jamie Anderson Sep 6: Blind-Dog and Pistol Rose Sep 7: Comedy Showcase w/ Dusty Cagle Sep 11: Arcus Hyatt and Stephen Sunshine Sep 14: Chris McIvor Sep 18: Tony Low & Alice Osborne Sep 21: Rodney Allen Brady w/ Arcus Hyatt Sep 28: BigDumbHick Oct 2: Kirby Heard and Mike Robbian

LITTLE BROTHER BREWING

348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Sep 6: Craig Baldwin Sep 7: Ham Jam Sep 8: Viva La Muerte Sep 14: Seph Custer Oct 4: William Hinson Oct 27: Good Morning Bedlam

RODY’S TAVERN

5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Sep 7: Dan Moran

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502 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com Sep 6: Ultimate Comic Challenge Sep 12: Hillary Begley

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Oct 12: The Shelter Band Oct 18: Music Bingo/karaoke Oct 19: Blue City Bombers Oct 25: Music Bingo/karaoke Oct 26: halloween Party w/ The Pop Guns nov 1: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 2: 60 Watt Combo nov 8: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 9: Exit 180 nov 15: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 16: Lasater union nov 22: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 23: Andrew Millsaps Band nov 29: Music Bingo/karaoke nov 30: Gypsy danger

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101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844 TheLibertyShowcase.com Sep 7: Charlie Thomas & the drifters Oct 12: The Malpass Brothers w/ Garrett newton Band Oct 19: Shenandoah 30th Anniversary Tour w/ Marty Raybon Oct 26: Wayne Taylor’s Great American Country Band nov 2: Eric & The Chill Tones nov 8: Sammy kershaw nov 16: Seldom Scene nov 22: The Bellamy Brothers

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408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Sep 5: Pierce Edens Sep 6: Groove Fetish Sep 7: Gulley Sep 12: GuttaTrees, Soul Rebel Sep 13: Jukebox Rehab Sep 14: The Lilly Brothers Sep 19: Whiskey Foxtrot Sep 20: Akita Sep 21: Brothers Pearl Sep 26: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band Sep 27: C2 & The Brothers Reed Sep 28: Jack of diamonds Oct 3: Bird dog Jubilee Oct 4: Balkun Brothers Oct 5: TerraBAnG Oct 11: BadCameo Oct 12: The hooplas

FiddLin’ FiSh BREWinG COMPAnY 772 Trade St | 336.999.8945 fiddlinfish.com Sep 9: Old Time Jam Sep 13: Cody Woody Sep 16: Old Time Jam Sep 20: Camel City Blues

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638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Sep 7: The Clanky Lincolns Sep 8: Sunday Jazz Sep 14: Will Bagley and Friends Sep 15: Sunday Jazz Sep 18: David Via Sep 21: Pythagrass Sep 22: Sunday Jazz Sep 25: Ryan Eversole Sep 29: Sunday Jazz

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4926 Country Club Rd | 336.529.6230 macandnellisws.com Nov 15: Whiskey Mic

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630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Sep 8: Live Jazz

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5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Sep 4: Gretchen Peters Sep 6: The Plank Road Ramblers Sep 7: Muddy Creel Players w/ Sarah Potenza & Michael “B String” Bennett Sep 8: Dee White Sep 8: Richard Smith & JD Wilson

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170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714 Sep 5: Crenshaw Pentecostal, The Hollow Roots Sep 6: Bookmarks 15th Birthday Party Sep 7: Whiskey Foxtrot, Preacher Stone, Will Easter & The Nomads Sep 14: Runaway Gin Sep 16: Moodswing Monday w/ Martha Bassett Sep 17: Tinariwen, Lonnie Holley Sep 19: Chuck Dale Smith Trio Sep 20: The Plaids Sep 26: STIG, Unaka Prong, Medicated Sunfish Sep 28: William Bell, June Rise Sep 29: The Way Down Wanderers Oct 3: David Childers Quartet, Blue Cactus

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former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Sep 4: NGHTMRE + SLANDER, Seven Lions, & The Glitch Mob Sep 15: Lizzo Sep 19: Kacey Musgraves Sep 20: NF Sep 25: Dropkick Murphys & Clutch Sep 27: Rainbow Kitten Surprise Sep 29: GRiZ Sep 29: The Head and the Heart

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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.livenation.com Sep 5: Aaron Lewis Sep 6: Flying Lotus in 3D Sep 7: Leoni Torres Sep 8: In This Moment Sep 11: Angels & Airwaves Sep 12: Daniel Caesar Sep 13: Banks Sep 30: K.Flay

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2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.boplex.com Sep 9: Paul Anka Sep 14: KC & The Sunshine Band Sep 21: Travis Tritt Sep 27: Lucinda Williams & her band Buick 6

PNC MUSIC PAVILION 707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292 www.livenation.com Sep 5: Hootie & The Blowfish Sep 12: Jason Aldean Sep 20: Kid Rock

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333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com Sep 7: Chris Brown Sep 25: Guns N’ Roses Sep 27: Old Dominion Sep 29: Phil Collins

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820 Hamilton St, Charlotte | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorenc.com Sep 7: Avatar Country Sep 8: Sonata Arctica Sep 12: Polo G Sep 14: Wilder Woods Sep 15: Quando Rondo Sep 16: The Aquabats Sep 17: Cat Power Sep 20: Starset Sep 22: Hoodi Allen Sep 24: Scarlxrd Sep 25: grandson Sep 26: half alive Sep 27: Wage war Sep 30: K.Flay

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309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Sep 6: Three Dog Night Sep 7: Leo Dan En Concierto Sep 22: The Mavericks Sep 26: Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band Sep 29: The Righteous Brothers: Billy Medley & Bucky Heard

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123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Sep 7: Indigo Girls Sep 10: Buddy Guy Sep 13: Charlie Wilson Sep 21: Harry Connick, Jr.

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310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Sep 22: The Allman Betts Band Sep 25: Adam Ant Sep 27: Jon Shain

WHITE OAK AMPITHEATRE

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HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Sep 22: Andes Manta

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3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.831.6400 www.livenation.com Sep 13: Jason Aldean Sep 14: Peter Frampton Sep 15: Outlaw Music Festival Sep 16: Game Of Thrones Live Concert Experience Sep 19: Meek Mill & Future

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800 www.redhatamphitheater.com Sep 3: The Raconteurs Sep 6-7: Hopscotch Sep 13: Lizzo Sep 17: NGHTMRE + SLANDER Sep 21: NF Sep 24: Dropkick Murphys Sep 27-28: Internation Bluegrass Music Association

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1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Sep 6: Chris Brown Sep 30: Carrie Underwood

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WINSTON-SALEM FAIRGROUND 421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236 www.wsfairgrounds.com

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My father just got diagnosed with cancer. Most people have been extremely supportive, but two girlfriends I texted about this haven’t responded Amy Alkon at all. Is it really that hard to say “I’m Advice so sorry”? Should I Goddess use this opportunity to do a little friend house cleaning and demote certain “friends” to acquaintance status, knowing now that I can’t count on them? — Too Harsh?

At least when you yell into the Grand Canyon, you get back more than the blinking cursor of nothingness.

Ideally, your friends’ responsiveness should not compare unfavorably to a giant hole — especially not when you’re all “Yoohoo...I’m kinda devastated about my dad!” But before you decide to “demote” friends, there are a couple

of things to consider: “evolutionary mismatch” and our reliance on technology to get messages across flawlessly.

Evolutionary mismatch, a theory originated by evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, refers to how we modern humans are driven by an antique psychological operating system largely calibrated for the world of our human ancestors 2 1/2 million to 10,000 years ago. This means, for example, that important triggers for others to take action that were there in the ancestral environment aren’t always present in our modern one.

Take expressions of sadness: Bodily expressions of sadness like tears or having all the spring in your step of a curbside couch are basically street corner sign spinners advertising our psychological state. When people see those behaviors, feelings of empathy automatically arise, motivating them to reach out with a hug or, at the very least, a mumbled kind word.

Expressions of sadness via smartphone text — in words on a tiny screen — lack the visual elements, the bodily signals, that evolved to trigger empathy. Also consider that many people think not

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It’s also possible they missed your text. We rely on technology to keep us informed, and we forget how busy we are and that texts sometimes don’t go through or somebody hits their phone funny and a new text turns into an already read one (meaning the notification dot goes away).

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