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This year’s RIVERRUN FESTIVAL, which ran April 17-25, welcomed almost 12,000 attendees at various screenings and events in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, as RiverRun boasted a total of 178 ﬁlms — features and shorts — representing 47 di erent countries.

4 There’s an ongoing debate over how and when votes are tabulated in states like California and Florida, but they can’t hold a candle to YES! Weekly , and the egregious election fraud involved with “ TRIAD’S BEST.”

5 What would summer be without a new Steven Spielberg movie? Given the overall quality of his latest sci-fi epic “ DISCLOSURE DAY,” a lot less interesting.

7 SIMPLY THAI has two locations — in Elon, which opened in 2009, and in Jamestown, which opened in 2017. I visited the Jamestown property. The interior is fairly small, the waitstaff especially friendly and welcoming, yielding a familiar feel even on first impression.

8 This weekend, Winston-Salem and High Point will hold city-sponsored JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS in their downtowns. Juneteenth was created by African Americans celebrating the end of slavery.

11 Another historic event is coming to Winston-Salem’s Bowman Gray Stadium: TRACE ADKINS 30th Anniversary Tour. The concert, which will also include special guest Aaron Tippin, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14.

12 THE CROWN, located at 318 S. Elm St. in Greensboro, is the newest social spot in downtown after having gone through more than $150,000 renovation. The venue is listed as a 30-plus preferred destination and Royal said he wanted to make sure the crowd has a place to go and enjoy themselves.

When Mi-

chael Morin was hired as the executive director of the RiverRun International Film Festival late last year, most components of the 28th annual event — including its selection of ﬁlms — were already in place, courtesy of last year’s interim executive directors, Mary Dossinger and current RiverRun program director Ti any Jones.

Some might consider this a drawback or a handicap for a “RiverRun newcomer,” but Morin — formerly the producer for the Slamdance Film Festival — didn’t see it that way. To him, it o ered a unique opportunity to see an established film festival in action, to observe the sta and volunteers as they put the finishing touches on what would be his first RiverRun as executive director.

“The programmers shined,” Morin said. “Mary and Ti any did a superb job. The biggest takeaway was getting to actively witness how the operation worked — to see it in action. I was able to put a few little imprints on it, and I felt good about that.”

Those imprints included the selection of filmmaker Marie Jamora, whom he’d known from his Slamdance days, as an Emerging Master, and the introduction of the “LIMITLESS: Stories Without Restraint” program, which is devoted to filmmakers with disabilities making films about people with disabilities. As

Reﬂections on RiverRun

it turned out, “LIMITLESS” was one of the most talked-about and celebrated components of the 2026 festival — and will most deﬁnitely be back for 2027.

This year’s festival, which ran April 17-25, welcomed almost 12,000 attendees at various screenings and events in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, as RiverRun boasted a total of 178 ﬁlms — features and shorts — representing 47 di erent countries.

It was important to Morin to “make sure that I was taking the time to meet the ﬁlmmakers, to understand them, and to thank them for coming, to witness the meaningful conversations between so many people at so many events, and how the community comes out to the festival. I’d talk to people who had seen 10 or 12 or 14 ﬁlms — already! — and I could sense that dedication. I was really impressed.”

As for RiverRun’s “Films with Class” program, “it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” he laughed. “The screenings were absolutely packed, and it was so cool to see kids standing on chairs and

screaming and laughing at the animated ﬁlms — some of which weren’t even in English — was really special. All these moments are something you cherish. You can see that connection, you can feel it … and it’s nice, and it’s reassuring that RiverRun has a whole community standing behind it.”

Last month, “MovieMaker” Magazine selected RiverRun as one of the “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2026,” with Morin quoted in the article that the

festival will grow “boldly and vibrantly in the years ahead.”

“If I’ve learned anything, it’s that what will make us succeed is the diversity of ideas, that whatever we do is represented by many voices,” he said.

If there’s one word that describes his experience in his ﬁrst year as RiverRun executive director, Morin smiled: “Fantastic!”

In conclusion, “it’s not really ‘my’ film festival or ‘our’ film festival,” Morin said. “It’s the community’s film festival. That’s the way it has to be, and that’s the way it should be.”

The 29th annual RiverRun International Film Festival will take place April 16-24, 2027. For more information, call 336-724-1502 or visit the o cial RiverRun website: https://riverrunﬁlm.com/. !

Mark Burger

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Michael Morin

BY JIM LONGWORTH

There’s an ongoing debate over how and when votes are tabulated in states like California and Florida, but they can’t hold a candle to YES! Weekly, and the egregious election fraud involved with “Triad’s Best.” In fact, problems with this annual list of so-called “bests” are numerous, among them: misleading categories, corruption, and prejudice. I’ll begin with the selection of categories.

The winners in many categories seem to be at odds with the category itself. For example, “Best Romantic Dinner” was awarded to Machete, which is a weapon used by drug lords to hack up patrons who don’t pay. Now that’s what I call romantic.

State Employees’ Credit Union won both “Best Bank” and “Best Credit Union,” but that’s contradictory. SECU can’t be the best bank, otherwise their name would be State Employees’ Bank.

Triad’s Best is rigged!

“Best Frozen Yogurt” went to Sweet Frog. I’ve eaten frog legs before, but I do not want frogs in my yogurt, even if it means getting extra protein.

“Best Morning Radio Show” was won by Two Guys Named Chris. The problem is there’s only ONE guy named Chris on the show. That constitutes false advertising, so if Sweet Frog is an advertiser, I’d ask for a refund.

Then there’s “Best Place to Eat After Midnight.” The winner in this category is Neighbors, but I ask you, when is the last time you knocked on a neighbor’s door at 2 a.m. and asked for something to eat? You’re either lost, drunk, or running from someone with a machete.

Now for the corruption. Triad’s Best features approximately one thousand categories, and 98% of them were won by a place called Lockwood Tavern. Best salad? Lockwood Tavern. Best sandwiches? Lockwood Tavern. Best Country Cooking? Lockwood Tavern. Best Bloody Mary? Lockwood Tavern. Best Fried

Chicken? Lockwood Tavern. Best Lunch? You guessed it — Lockwood Tavern. The only category not won by Lockwood Tavern was Best Frozen Yogurt, and on that, they were probably cheated. Ask yourself: How did Lockwood Tavern win every category? Just follow the money. I have it on good authority that YES! Weekly Editor Chanel Davis is the major stockholder in Lockwood Tavern. Last year, Lockwood Tavern was hardly mentioned in Triad’s Best, so Chanel must have bought up the stock a few months ago. I also heard that Chanel just bought a yacht and named it “Lockwood.”

Confusing categories and insider trading are bad enough, but the worst crime committed by Triad’s Best involves a clear case of prejudice. For the past 21 years, I have asked to have a category included that would honor “Best Local Public Affairs TV Show,” and “Best Host of a Local Public A airs TV Show,” however, my requests have continued to fall on deaf ears. Years ago, YES! Weekly Publisher Charles

Womack explained that he couldn’t include those categories because “Triad Today” is the only local public a airs TV show in the Triad, and I am the only host of that show. Said Womack, “You can’t have a category with only one entry.” Pretty lame reasoning if you ask me. I don’t know what our editor has against me unless it’s because I exposed her insider trading deal with Lockwood Tavern. Nevertheless, this is a clear case of prejudice against an elderly white man with no friends and no stock options. Anyway, despite my protests, I doubt that my categories will make it into next year’s Triad’s Best, and I suppose it’s just as well. If they added a category for best local public a airs TV show, Lockwood Tavern would probably beat me. I’m so depressed, I could eat a quart of frog yogurt. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of Triad Today, airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV and streaming on WFMY+.

‘Disclosure Day’: Spielberg scores again

BY MARK BURGER

What would summer be without a new Steven Spielberg movie?

Given the overall quality of his latest sci-ﬁ epic “Disclosure Day,” a lot less interesting.

Working once more with such regular collaborators as screenwriter David Koepp, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and composer John Williams, Spielberg — who also wrote the original storyline — again addresses the issue of extra-terrestrials in our midst, set against the backdrop of a contemporary world teetering on the brink of nuclear war, with Russia and the United States again at loggerheads.

as Scanlon is to suppress it.

The principal characters are Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), a TV meteorologist in Kansas City, who suddenly and inexplicably becomes fluent in various dialects, not all of them human. The other is Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), a computer expert previously employed by Wardex, a top-secret, high-tech government consortium that has kept the lid on extra-terrestrial evidence for decades … at least until Daniel fled with computer files detailing said evidence.

Margaret and Daniel find themselves on an inevitable collision course, and the film could easily have tied the two characters together in a more succinct fashion, although Spielberg is able to drum up significant tension until they finally do meet up, where it turns out they have a significant connection from the past.

Both Margaret and Daniel are being pursued by rival factions, the ﬁrst led by Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), the imperious head of Wardex, and the other by Hugo Wakeﬁeld (Colman Domingo), a scientist formerly in Scanlon’s employ, as determined to disclose the evidence

The film is rife with nifty ideas, although some may seem familiar to genre aficionados, not necessarily because Spielberg employed similar ideas in his previous work, but because countless filmmakers inspired by Spielberg have o ered variations on the same themes. “Disclosure Day” is not as novel as it might have been, particularly had Spielberg made it 10 or even 20 years ago, but it still o ers ample food for thought. That said, the characters aren’t overpowered by the concepts — or the execution. Blunt has rarely been better, and O’Connor makes for an unlikely but appealing action hero. O ering solid support are Eve Hewson as Daniel’s girlfriend Jane, who unexpectedly becomes a pawn in the pursuit, and Wyatt Russell as Margaret’s befuddled boyfriend Jackson, who unfortunately gets left behind early despite providing levity to the proceedings.

Firth and Domingo only share one major dialogue scene together, but it’s among the ﬁlm’s highlights, as they coolly debate the social, political, and even theological ramiﬁcations of alien disclosure. In that sequence, they deliver a master class in acting.

In the end, however, the undisputed star of the show is Steven Spielberg, again proving his mastery of the medium in e ortless, unforced fashion. Per expectations, the e ects work is top-notch, and the momentum rarely ﬂags. “Disclosure Day” is a class act in the summer movie sweepstakes, hardly unexpected given the ﬁlmmaker who made it. Spielberg knows his stu , and here it is on display for all the world to see. !

“THE LOST MAN” (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of writer/producer Robert Alan Aurther’s only directorial feature, a 1969 adaptation of F.L. Green’s 1945 novel “Odd Man Out” (later the basis for Carol Reed’s classic 1947 ﬁlm) updated to the late 1960s, starring Sidney Poitier as a disillusioned veteran who commits a payroll robbery in Philadelphia to support the Black Revolutionary Movement but is wounded and goes on the lam, with friends and foes closing in around him. Poitier is always worth watching, and this was clearly an attempt to expand his range into edgier material, but this tries a little too hard to be “meaningful” and occasionally comes across as pretentious. Still, there’s a funky score by Quincy Jones, a sympathetic turn by Joanna Shimkus (who later married Poitier), and early screen roles for Paul Winﬁeld, Al Freeman Jr., Michael Tolan, Richard Dysart, Vonetta McGee, David Steinberg, and Beverly Todd. Bonus features include audio commentaries and theatrical trailer. Rated PG-13.

“A MAN COULD GET KILLED” (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of a flimsy 1966 espionage comedy based on screenwriter David E. Walker’s 1956 novel “Diamonds for Moscow” (retitled “Diamonds for Danger” in America), starring James Garner as an American banker mistaken for a secret agent on the trail of diamond smugglers in Lisbon, backed by Melina Mercouri, Tony Franciosa, Sandra Dee, Robert Coote, Roland Culver, Gregoire Aslan, Cecil Parker, Martin Benson, and Niall MacGinnis. The cast disliked original director Cli Owen, so he was replaced by reliable Ronald Neame, but only the collective charm of the cast keeps this afloat. Dee, whose last film under contract to Universal this was, disliked the experience, while Garner and Franciosa’s onscreen brawl wasn’t so much scripted as genuine. All told, a missed opportunity, although the song “Strangers in the Night” won a Golden Globe and has since become a classic. Bonus features include audio commentaries and theatrical trailer.

“THE MOHICAN” (Distrib Films/Icarus Films Home Video): Writer/director Frederic Farrucci’s award-winning 2024 drama stars Alexis Manenti as the last coastal goat herder in Corsica, whose

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BY MARK BURGER

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK: “A LITTLE PRAYER” (Music Box Films)

The third directorial outing for Winston-Salem’s esteemed playwright Angus MacLachlan is, like his other works, populated by well-drawn characters dealing with everyday issues in empathetic fashion — set right here in Winston-Salem.

David Strathairn, impeccable as always, portrays Bill, a local businessman and military veteran who lives with wife Venida (Celia Weston) on a property adjacent to the home of son David (Will Pullen), likewise a veteran, and David’s wife Tammy (Jane Levy).

Bill begins to sense tension in David and Tammy’s

relationship, but when he confronts him, he gets the brush-o . Then Bill and Venida are unexpectedly saddled with the arrival of daughter Patti (Anna Camp), who’s been having martial problems of her own, and the household is thrown into more chaos.

With careful, low-key conﬁdence, MacLachlan establishes the characters and their dilemmas in believable fashion, even if Pullen’s David remains rather elusive. Strathairn e ortlessly embodies Bill as a compassionate but not always observant patriarch, while Weston (a MacLachlan regular) bids fair to steal the ﬁlm with a focused turn as Venida, who knows far more than she lets on. Levy is winsome and winning as the wronged Tammy, while Camp brings humor and humanity to the neurotic Patti, adding a bit of comic relief to the proceedings.

The narrative culminates with a heartfelt talk between Bill and Tammy, set against the backdrop of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and then … ends abruptly. Just when it seems as if “A Little Prayer” is going to deliver its knockout punch, the credits roll. It’s the only major misstep in a sincere and heartfelt ﬁlm. It doesn’t negate all the attributes that have preceded it, but it’s vaguely unsatisfying all the same.

The ﬁlm was shot in 2023 and was acquired for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, but when the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike shortly thereafter it became lost in limbo until Music Box Films (wisely) picked it up. Not surprisingly, “A Little Prayer” was a hot ticket at the 2025 RiverRun International Film Festival and was warmly received on its home turf, winning the Audience Choice Award.

Both the DVD ($29.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($34.95 retail) include audio commentary, featurette, panel discussion, and theatrical trailer. Rated R.

refusal to sell his land to the local maﬁa makes him a marked man — and an underground internet folk hero. Beautifully photographed on location by cinematographer Jeanne Lapoirie, Manenti is a stoic but appealing everyman hero and lovely Mara Taquin stalwart as his girlfriend, this has both punch and power — as well as some relevant observations about integrity. In French with English subtitles, available on DVD ($26.98 retail), replete with trailers.

“ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES” (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment Group): Fresh from his Oscar-winning triumph in “Dances With Wolves” (1990), Kevin Costner reunited

it remains watchable, if hardly inspired. The Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated Bryan Adams song “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” was inescapable in the day, and the ﬁlm was the second highest-grossing ﬁlm of 1991. Bonus features include audio commentaries, collectible booklet, poster and artcards, retrospective and vintage documentaries, theatrical trailers and TV spots, and more. Rated PG-13.

“SCREAM 7” (Paramount Home Entertainment): After a salary dispute precluded her involvement in the last sequel, leading lady Neve Campbell returns to the popular horror franchise in this R-rated installment directed and co-written by series creator Kevin Williamson, in which she desperately tries to protect her young daughter (Isabel May) from becoming the next victim of the Ghostface Killer, who’s up to his (or her) old tricks again, with series veterans Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Mason Gooding returning (in one form or another), joined by Anna Camp, Mckenna Grace, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Celeste O’Connor, and Joel McHale this time around, available on DVD ($19.99 retail), Blu-ray ($25.99 retail), and 4K Ultra HD combo ($31.99 retail), each replete with behind-the-scenes featurettes, music video, deleted scenes, and more.

with long-time friend and collaborator/ director Kevin Reynolds for this clunky but award-winning 1991 blockbuster in which Costner’s Robin of Locksley returns to Sherwood Forest to do battle with the wicked Sheri of Nottingham (scenestealer Alan Rickman) and free the oppressed, with Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (as Maid Marian), Christian Slater, Michael Wincott, Nick Brimble, Brian Blessed, Geraldine McEwan, Michael McShane, and an unbilled Sean Connery (as Richard the Lionheart) in support. The action scenes are ﬁne, the dialogue is hokey (Rickman reportedly rewrote much of his), and Costner’s attempt at an English accent is lamentable at best, yet for all its faults

“THE TIES THAT BIND US” (Distrib Films/Icarus Films Home Video): Based on Alice Ferney’s 2020 novel “L’Intimaté,” director/co-screenwriter Carine Tardieu’s award-winning 2024 adaptation (originally titled “L’Attachement”) stars Valerie Bruni Tedeschi as a feminist bookseller who becomes emotionally involved with grief-stricken neighbor Pio Marmai following the death of his wife during childbirth and his young son (newcomer César Botti), with Vimola Pans as a pediatrician who becomes attracted to Marmai and Marie-Christine Barrault as Tedeschi’s mother. Thanks to uniformly ﬁne acting (particularly Tedeschi), this nimbly avoids soap-opera territory by presenting believable, sometimes ﬂawed, characters in credible situations. In French with English subtitles, available on DVD ($26.98 retail), replete with trailers. !

See MARK BURGER ’s reviews of current movies.

Chow Down with John Batchelor at Simply Thai

BY JOHN BATCHELOR

Simply Thai has two locations — in Elon, which opened in 2009, and in Jamestown, which opened in 2017. I visited the Jamestown property. The interior is fairly small, the waitsta especially friendly and welcoming, yielding a familiar feel even on ﬁrst impression. The website shows photos of the owners and provides ﬁrst names, along with a bit of background. Their mother owned and operated the equivalent of a food truck in California. (I received no response to calls and messages when I attempted to gather more information.)

The Appetizer Sampler is a great way to get acquainted here. It provides three portions each of Shrimp in a Blanket, Vegetable Spring Rolls, Dumplings, Money Bags, and Crispy Tofu. (Given our party of four, an accommodating server and kitchen added another portion for a small charge.) The shrimp, spring rolls, dumplings, and tofu are delightfully crisp and clean-tasting (no grease). Money Bags are fried purses containing ground pork — especially tasty. Three sauces lend color as well as enhanced ﬂavor.

You assemble Lettuce Wraps yourself, at the table. Peel away single leaves from a half head of chilled iceberg lettuce, then spoon in ground chicken. These are delicious!

Companion Courtney ordered from the sushi menu on our ﬁrst visit. The Tiger Uppercut Roll encloses tempura shrimp, cucumbers, crab salad, avocado, and smoked salmon, decorated with tempura crunch, laced with spicy mayonnaise and eel sauce. It’s another clear winner. I especially liked the texture provided by the tempura treatment.

Pineapple Chicken surrounds fried chicken breast with sweet pineapple chunks and a sauce made by simmering the pineapple and juices. It’s both sweet and tangy at the same time. Sliced zucchini and broccoli frame the presentation in green.

I got adventurous by ordering Pompano. This is one of my favorite fish, seldom seen on Triad menus. In this preparation, you get a whole fish, pan-roasted, yielding pu y-white flesh and pure flavor, decorated with thin spring onion slices, further enhanced with lemongrass, Thai herbs, and garlic chili sauce. Al dente broccoli, green

and mussels, plus some calamari and a few tofu chunks. A bit of sliced carrot and red cabbage primarily lends color.

Other noodle dishes, as well as curries, o er the same additional proteins.

beans, snow peas, carrot slices, zucchini, and bok choy complete the presentation. This requires a bit of e ort and precision to extract the ﬂesh from the bones, but it’s worth the di culty.

My wife ordered Salmon prepared with ginger, bell peppers, and onions, sharpened with garlic chili sauce. The fish is ladled with a brown ginger sauce. It’s tender and flu y in texture, simple and fresh in flavor, rendered more complex through the sauce. The same elaborate vegetable assembly is included, along with rice, in both cases. My personal preference is brown rice, for the nutty flavor as well as the nutrition. White and fried are also available.

Chiang Mai Beef is stir-fried, caramelized, with onions. That’s very well done, which suits these thin strips well. They emerge with rich ﬂavor from the treatment, a little on the ﬁrm side. Stir-fried green beans show dark streaks from the heat. They’re great. The kitchen might consider o ering them as a starter by themselves.

I love the aroma and ﬂavor of fresh basil, especially Thai basil. This kitchen combines strips of basil with sliced, vibrantly colored red, green, and yellow bell peppers, sautéed onion strips, and Thai spices. Our party tried this preparation with tofu for a vegetarian entree. Bite-sized chunks are lightly fried, producing a mild, crisp result.

Pad Thai is constructed from Thai noodles, stir-fried with egg and green onions, combined with tangy tamarind sauce and ground peanuts. The ﬂavors are wonderful with no other additions, but you can add tofu, chicken, pork, steak, duck, shrimp, or with mixed seafoods. We chose the latter and found mostly shrimp

Our server recommended duck with Panang Curry. She said she serves a lot of duck to many regular customers. The host broth is based on coconut milk, plus peanut sauce and onions, plus zucchini, carrot slices, and sweet peas. I found the duck flavor pleasant enough, but with more gristle and fat than I would prefer, in pretty firm meat. I loved the curry flavor, though. I just think I’ll get pork next time.

We tried one dessert — Fried Ice Cream. The kitchen slices pound cake — di erent ﬂavors on di erent occasions, all made in-house — then wraps it around an ice cream center and deep fries the assembly, ﬁnally lacing it with chocolate sauce at serving. Flavor and texture are great, although letting it sit awhile for the ice cream to soften will improve the overall e ect when I get it again. And there will be more visits here. Simply Thai is going to be my go-to place on Wednesday nights (half price wine)! !

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.

WANNA go?

Simply Thai 122 E. Main Street Jamestown, NC 27282 336-875-5555 mysimplythai.com

Hours: Lunch- 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, Dinner- 5-9 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 5-9:30 Friday & Saturday

Appetizers: $5-$17, Salads: $4-$6

Soups: $10-$16, Sushi and Sashimi: $5-$24

Entrees: $21-$39, Desserts: $7-$12

Most recent visit: May 29

Thai Basil with Tofu

Panang Curry with Duck

Salmon Ginger Appetizer Sampler Platter

Pompano Lemongrass

Juneteenth celebrations: Bringing the city out

This weekend, WinstonSalem and High Point will hold city-sponsored Juneteenth celebrations in their downtowns.

Winston-Salem’s events include the city-funded festival held June 20, 12-7 p.m., at Bailey Park and Biotech Place, with free parking and shuttles at the Fourth Street Church Parking Deck (455 N. Church St.).

There will be a food truck alley, an art exhibit commemorating 250 years of African American history, and a tribute to the 100th anniversary of SafeBus, the ﬁrst and largest Black-owned transportation company in the United States, founded in Winston-Salem in 1926. Live music will be performed from three stages, culminating with headliner Who’s Bad, billed as “one of the world’s premier Michael Jackson tribute acts,” taking the Bailey Park Main Stage at 6:30 p.m.

High Point’s Juneteenth celebration, co-hosted and sponsored in collaboration with the Carl Chavis YMCA and the Black Farmers’ Market, will be held from 12 to 7 p.m. in the Mendenhall Transportation Center on June 21. Entertainment includes headliner Sybil, DJ Tito, and line dancing with Chrystal.

But for the ﬁrst time in ﬁve years, there will be no Juneteenth festival in Greensboro’s LeBauer Park.

Instead, the sixth annual Juneteenth GSO Fest will be held in Barber Park, at 1500 Barber Park Drive o East Gate City Blvd. And this year, organizers say they received no city funding.

Princess Howell Johnson, the dancer, educator and community organizer who brought together a team of Black artists and activists to launch the Juneteenth GSO Fest in 2021, said her collective was unable to reach an agreement with the city to hold this year’s festival downtown.

“Which is concerning, but we’re also happy to be in an historically Black community, and ironically where the ﬁrst festivals were celebrated by the Fortune family decades ago.”

In 1996, Patricia Fortune and her organization, Ujamaa Merchants United, Inc., launched Greensboro’s ﬁrst citywide Juneteenth festival, laying the groundwork for more recent ones organized by Johnson and future city council member April Parker.

Winston-Salem’s ﬁrst city-sanctioned Juneteenth celebration was held in 2004, High Point’s in 2021.

Juneteenth was created by African Americans celebrating the end of slavery. While freedom did not come with the defeat of the Confederacy, Juneteenth is widely considered the Black U.S. Independence Day. The name is a portmanteau of June 19, the date in 1865 when Lincoln ordered the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation.

That order was posted in Galveston after Federal troops returned Texas to the Union. It initially only applied to the Lone Star State, founded by white plantation owners who rebelled against Mexico’s ban on slavery, just as they later seceded to keep Black Americans in bondage.

One hundred and 65 days after troops freed 183,000 Black Texans, the 13th Amendment o cially abolished slavery (except as a judicial punishment, a loophole that gave rise to forced prison labor).

Black southerners observed Juneteenth for decades after the Galveston proclamation, but celebrations ended with the rise

of Jim Crow, especially after 1915, when such gatherings attracted violence from the revived Ku Klux Klan. But Juneteenth never died out. During the Great Migration, ﬁve million Black people took the celebration north.

In July 2020, Greensboro City Council unanimously voted to make Juneteenth a paid holiday for all municipal employees. Two months later, so did Winston-Salem City Council. High Point councilmembers never voted on the issue, but in June 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, creating the ﬁrst new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983.

In 2022, when extensive city-sanctioned and funded Juneteenth festivities were held throughout downtown Greensboro, community organizer April Parker told YES! Weekly that “July 4th is not my holiday; Black people were still enslaved in 1776.” Parker, who worked with District 1’s Sharon Hightower to create the city holiday, was elected as District 3 representative last year.

Before that, Parker founded the Greens-

boro Black Food Truck Festival, which ran from 2021 until 2025 was held in LeBauer Park. This year, it will be at 501 Yanceyville St. near the site of the Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market.

According to Johnson, this is the ﬁrst year Juneteenth GSO Fest has received no funding from the city.

“In 2021, I started a collective called Juneteenth Greensboro and the Juneteenth GSO Fest was a series of events led by a group of Black leaders. The events took place at various locations, so that the festival was accessible throughout Greensboro: Douglas Park, LeBauer Park for the Black Food Truck Festival curated by April Parker, Khalif Event Center, Carolina Theater for SiStars of Juneteenth, and Van Dyke Performing Arts Center for the Arts Legacy Awards.”

The 2021 fest was funded by Johnson’s Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet. “We received a $3,000 grant from the Arts Council of Greater Greensboro to do a Juneteenth Festival in 2020, but then Covid happened, so we waited until 2021 and sought out partners to join us. Our budget was $9,000 that year. We were awarded a 4-year American Rescue Plan Act grant by the city. The total was $60,000, dispersed $15,000 annually for 4 years. I also raised additional funding through sponsorship.”

“In 2025, April Parker left our collective to run the Black Food Truck Festival independently. We established the Juneteenth Family Fest to replace the signature event. It was in LeBauer with over 4,000 in attendance. We did Gospel Superfest at Barber Park and Arts Legacy Awards at the Van Dyke Performance Center. This was our last year of city funding.”

In 2026, she restructured Juneteenth Greensboro and hired project manager Virginia Holmes. “We are focused on our signature event, which is the Juneteenth Family Fest, and we partnered

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Juneteenth Celebration Band, Austin, 1900

Juneteenth celebrants in Austin in 1900.

Juneteenth Parade, Richmond, 1905

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with ThriveShift, who will do a 5K. We will be at Barber Park June 20 and will have a brunch June 27 at DreamSpace (that’s the name of our event center and dance studios). These are our two main events. Major funders include Lincoln Financial, Cone Health, and EmergeOrtho.”

Johnson expressed disappointment at being unable to use LeBauer Park this year.

“Because we had internal change, the city decided to try to support multiple Juneteenth organizations by just listing

them together in an online calendar. We were forced to ﬁnd a new location after spending six months being told to wait for LeBauer Park.”

Johnson is disappointed by what she calls “the silence” of current municipal leadership. “Support for Juneteenth left with Sharon Hightower, it seems. But we’re hoping everyone will come out to Barber Park!”

At-Large City Council Representative Irving Allen responded to Johnson’s concerns with the following statement.

“I know that there were changes in who organized the event and some sponsorship that may have impacted the situation. I’m willing to speak with Princess about getting things solidiﬁed for next year. It’s important that the city continues to commit to the Black organizations that have been involved in making Juneteenth one of our best events we’ve had in past years. I look forward to doing so.”

A full listing of Greensboro’s Juneteenth events can be found on the city website. These include the Black Food Truck Festi-

val, held from 4 to 9 p.m. on June 19 at 501 Yanceyville St., and the Juneteenth GSO Family Fest on Saturday, June 20 from 1 to 9 p.m. in Barber Park. https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/ departments/parks-recreation/specialevents/juneteenth !

IAN MCDOWELL is an award-winning author and journalist whose book “I Ain’t Resisting: the City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith” was published in September of 2023 by Scuppernong Editions.

Juneteenth 2025 Festival in Winston-Salem.

Previous Juneteenth Festival in Lebaur Park, Greensboro.

ATrace Adkins 30th Anniversary Tour coming to Bowman Gray Stadium

nother historic event is coming to Winston-Salem’s Bowman Gray Stadium: Trace Adkins 30th Anniversary Tour. The concert, which will also include special guest Aaron Tippin, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14. The Adkins concert is believed to be the ﬁrst major concert at Winston-Salem’s Bowman Gray Stadium since July 27, 1984, when Patti LaBelle performed there.

Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, June 12 at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster or Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

Parking for the event will be $20 and is available for purchase in advance on Ticketmaster.com.

“Signiﬁcant upgrades have been made to Bowman Gray Stadium in the last few years to better accommodate football games, racing, and special events such as the return of the NASCAR Cup Series. With the improvements in place, it is beﬁtting that concerts also return to the stadium,” Public Assembly Facilities & Venue Manager Robert Mulhearn said. “We’re looking forward to welcoming two amazing country music singers, Trace Adkins and Aaron Tippin, to Bowman Gray this summer.”

The city has aligned with NASCAR sta at Bowman Gray Stadium to ensure a successful weekend and is o ering a bundle ticket so that fans can attend both the concert and race the same weekend. “We are excited to partner with this event and see the continued growth at Bowman Gray Stadium in the community,” Austin Shuford, general manager of Bowman Gray Stadium Racing, said.

Mulhearn and Shuford said crews will begin work immediately following the concert to prepare Bowman Gray Stadium for racing the following day on Saturday, Aug. 15, and Winston-Salem State University football on Sept. 5.

About Trace Adkins

Over the course of his three-decade reign in Country music, multiplatinum hitmaker Adkins has emerged as a full-ﬂedged icon whose reach spans far beyond the genre’s borders. A multi-award-winning singer and actor who scored 40 hit singles on Country radio, the Louisiana native is commemorating the 30th anniversary of his trailblazing debut album “Dreamin’ Out Loud,” a 1996 LP that delivered his number one “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing” and “Every Light In The House” (a top ﬁve entry on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart).

With 12 million albums sold to date, Adkins enjoyed a featured spot on Blake Shelton’s Friends & Heroes Tour with his own What Color’s Your Wild Tour (a hot-ticket headliner unnamed for his hard-driving anthem released in early 2025) and is embarking on a 30th Anniversary headline run in 2026. For the latest entry in a celebrated ﬁlmography including acclaimed movies like “Deep Water Horizon” and a recurring role on the blockbuster sitcom “King of the Hill.”

Also, a devoted philanthropist with a deep-rooted passion for giving back to the military community, Adkins has helped raise millions of dollars to support injured post-9/11 veterans as part of his work with the Wounded Warrior Project. He has received a multitude of honors for his humanitarian work, including the National Defense Industrial Association’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Award. A true American legend whose powerhouse catalog includes 14 studio albums, Adkins continues to embody the ﬁery spirit of traditional Country while moving the genre forward with his everevolving sound.

More information about Trace Adkins is available at traceadkins.com.

About Aaron Tippin

Tippin is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Initially a songwriter for Acu -Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, “You’ve Got to Stand for Something” became a popular anthem for American soldiers ﬁghting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neo traditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American

working class. Tippin has released a total of 11 studio albums and five compilation albums, with six gold certifications and one platinum certification among them. In addition, he has charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three number one songs. !

Crown brings new life comes to downtown Greensboro

Curtis Royal is on a mission to bring business back to downtown Greensboro. During a year where many businesses are closing downtown or opting for di erent locations, Royal is eyeing Elm Street for two di erent businesses.

The Crown, located at 318 S. Elm St. in Greensboro, is the newest social spot in downtown after having gone through more than $150,000 renovation. The venue is listed as a 30-plus preferred destination and Royal said he wanted to make sure the crowd has a place to go and enjoy themselves.

“People are catering toward the 21 and up crowd, so I wanted to get away from that. I call it a destination for the mature crowd,” Royal said. “It’s more relaxed, more laid back, and a more social venue.”

Royal said he would describe the space as a gathering place for networking, hanging with friends and family, and an overall intimate space. He came up with the concept after traveling and bouncing at di erent places.

The Crown o ers Karaoke Night on Thursday, R&B Fridays, Social Saturdays, and Sunday Funday After Dark.

“Most people do Sunday Day Parties. It’s basically a party on Sunday to wind down the weekend,” he said.

Royal said he’s received nothing but good feedback about the venue.

“I’ve received great feedback on how it looks, the sta , and the drinks,” he said.

During a time where businesses are ﬂeeing from downtown, Royal said, “this was the only place that I could see me doing this type of venue.”

“I think it’s probably the safest place to do it. I’ve always liked a challenge. When others are going away from something, I might go to it because the way I view it could make things work,” Royal explained. “You have to be able to evolve and change with time and, you know, be able to work with the cards you’re dealt. So that’s how I’ve always done things. So, you know, what people might think about downtown, I’m going to think the opposite. I don’t see problems, I see opportunity. You just got to be able to adjust.”

He said that he wants Triad residents to know that the space was put together for the community.

“My whole goal was to make people think that they weren’t in Greensboro,” Royal said. “Everyone was running to Charlotte or Raleigh. So I ﬁgured I would

bring a piece of that here, so we don’t always have to run down the road to these places and spend all of this money. We can do it here, in Greensboro.”

He would like to extend that sense of community outside of The Crown.

“I’m open to any type of community things because the community is what keeps me open,” Royal said. “I want to get involved with what’s going on with the homeless population down here. I want to ﬁgure out a way to help them. They just need assistance.”

Royal also plans to utilize the space at what used to be ‘Cille & ‘Scoe, located at 312 S. Elm St. in July. It will be a restaurant-style sports bar called Sideline Social. He said that the say that downtown

lacked a sports bar, so he wanted to add one to the area.

“It will be an upscale sports bar. You can eat and catch sporting events, and then transition to The Crown at nighttime.”

Royal, a Dallas Cowboy fan, is excited about the plans that he has for the upcoming sports bar.

“When you see it, it’s going to blow your mind. I’m basically going to build a football stadium in the bar.”

He said the bar is going to be an actual scoreboard and the ﬂoor will look like a turf football ﬁeld, complete with goal posts.

“I plan to be in downtown for the long haul and I’m hoping everyone will come out and enjoy,” Royal said. !

CHANEL DAVIS is the editor of YES! Weekly and graduated from N.C. A&T S.U. in 2011 with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She’s worked at daily and weekly newspapers in the Triad region.

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[SALOME’S STARS]

Week of June 22, 2026

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