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It’s safe to say that we could all use a good laugh, and if laughter is the best medicine, it’s perfect timing that the N.C. COMEDY FEST returns to The Idiot Box Comedy Club, 503 N. Greene St., Greensboro, and other venues. 4 “THE WEIGHT,” which marks the auspicious feature debut of director Padraic McKinley, is a gutsy tale of greed and survival in the tradition of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), set during the Great Depression. 6 There are places known for certain things. New Orleans has jazz. Nashville has country music. Detroit has Motown. And Greensboro, apparently, has a suspiciously high number of people who can inspire a story before an author’s coffee gets cold. 7 I once asked the Rev. Jesse Jackson years ago if voter apathy was the biggest threat to our democracy. “No,” he said. “The biggest threat is VOTER SUPPRESSION.” 8 At a time when rumors of both VOTER FRAUD AND VOTER SUPPRESSION are flying in the U.S., Reynolda House Museum of American Art has rolled out a substantial collection of photos that heightened public awareness of those same issues in the 1960s and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. 11 THE ’BORO SESSIONS will present An Afternoon with David Childers & Friends on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, from 2 to 4 p.m. at 816-A S. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro. 12 Dram & Draught at 300 W. Gate City Blvd. in Greensboro has been purchased by its former managing director, Lentz Ison, who has renamed it AMITY. The rebranding honors Ison’s longtime friend and business partner, Rolando “Rolo” Pettigrew, who died in 2021 but will remain the literal face of the building.
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t’s safe to say that we could all use a good laugh, and if laughter is the best medicine, it’s perfect timing that the N.C. Comedy Fest Mark Burger returns to The Idiot Box Comedy Club, 503 Contributor N. Greene St., Greensboro, and other venues. Ticket prices range from $8 to $20. For a complete schedule of performances and events, or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.
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According to Jennie Stencel, the owner of The Idiot Box Comedy Club in Greensboro and creator/executive producer of the fest, “The North Carolina Festival is one of the largest comedy fests in the country and brings talent to the area that is so exciting to see! Every year we have returning comedians that are crowd favorites, and we are able to book new comedians as well. It’s a great date night! A great ‘friend outing!’ Heck, come alone — it’s too fun to miss!” The festival, which was first presented in 2018, is a combination of stand-up comedy, improvisation, sketch comedy, and always a few surprises. It’s a little bit of everything, and each year seems to get bigger and better, showcasing a combination of festival veterans and newcomers to add variety. Given the nature of some of the comedy, these shows are recommended for ages 21 and over. In addition to The Idiot Box Comedy Club, the festival will present events at Next Door Beer Bar and Bottle Shop, 505 N. Greene St., Greensboro (7:30 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday); The Brewer’s Kettle, 308 E. Mountain St., Kernersville (7:30 p.m., Wednesday); and The Crown at the Carolina, 310 S. Greene St., Greensboro (8:30 p.m., Saturday). The festival will also return for two shows — 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday — at Marketplace Cinemas, 2095 Peters WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem. Having hosted the Wreak Havoc Film Festival last weekend, it will again be WinstonSalem’s host venue for the Comedy Fest this weekend. “I’ve known Jennie Stencil for years [and] she’s always a fun powerhouse to be around,” said Zack Fox, Marketplace Cinemas general manager. “We started hosting comedy shows at our cinema at the tail end of the COVID reopening, when there weren’t many movies coming to cinemas at the time. They were an instant hit and immediately proved that people wanted to go out and do something together again. “Since then, we’ve joined the comedy festival and hosted many stand-alone stand-up shows at the cinema,” he continued. “Our audiences have loved them and always asking when the next comedy show is. Many people have come to watch a movie and a stand-up show the same day!” “Marketplace Cinemas has been a wonderful partner for many years,” Stencil said. “We absolutely love how many different businesses get involved to laugh, and how we have return guests every festival.” “Jennie works incredibly hard to bring a robust group of comedians to town — comedians from all over the U.S.!” Fox said. “She tirelessly plans with and auditions them, so she knows they have what it takes to make people laugh.”
These days, a lot of people could use just that — laughter. “Misery loves comedy,” Fox observed. “Comedy is such a critical part of our society these days. We need to laugh. We need to turn off our devices and watch someone in person. Come out to the North Carolina Comedy Fest — not just at our cinema but all around the Piedmont Triad. The energy of a roaring crowd; you can’t get that on Instagram reels!” “The festival actually started as a way to help connect with outside comedians,” Stencil said. “It turned into a way for comics to grow fanbases and audiences to find new comedians they love. Now it’s such a cool event so many look forward to that I can’t imagine not running it every year! “You’ve just gotta laugh — every day as much as you can,” she observed. “The Idiot Box is a place to get away from all the bad news out there
and have some fun.” Audiences in the Piedmont Triad have been having fun at The Idiot Box for more than two decades, and they keep coming back for more. “The Idiot Box turns 23 this year,” Stencil said. “We have grown our improv teams to 50 people, and we have stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy most nights of the week. We run workshops and auditions frequently to bring in more people who are looking to perform.” ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies. © 2026, Mark Burger.
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The Weight,” which marks the auspicious feature debut of director Padraic McKinley, is a gutsy tale of greed and Mark Burger survival in the tradition of “The TreaContributor sure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), set during the Great Depression. Ethan Hawke, eyes brimming with suppressed anguish, plays Samuel Murphy, an unemployed widower whose bad luck gets worse when he gets into a scuffle with cops, landing him in a labor camp and his young daughter Penny (Avy Berry) in a home as a ward of the state. Murphy is determined not to cause any more trouble, but the length of his sentence will extend beyond the deadline when Penny will be eligible for adoption. He’s looking for a small miracle, and it comes unexpectedly. J.J. Clancy (Russell Crowe), the glowering, baseball-loving warden, offers Murphy an immediate pardon and release should he embark on a perilous — and surreptitious — mission alongside fellow inmates Rankin (Austin Amelio), Singh (Avi Nash), and Olsen (Lucas Lynggaard Tonnessen). They are to report to mining foreman Taggert (Alec Newman), who wants to pilfer the mine’s gold stash before it is appropriated by the U.S. government. The prisoners are to transport the gold across the wilderness and get it safely into Taggert’s hands. To ensure their complete cooperation, gun-toting guards Amis (Sam Hazeldine) and Letender (George Burgess) are assigned to accompany them. Shortly into their four-day trek, they are joined by Anna (Julia Jones), a Native American woman, whose presence shakes things up a bit, but not for Murphy, who has only one thing on his mind — to be reunited with Penny. SEPTEMBER 23-29, 2026
They must contend with the elements, the treacherous terrain, possible thievery by outside parties, and (very) possible thievery by inside ones. This makes for a rugged, suspenseful journey fraught with danger and suspicion. “The Weight” is a good, solid film, and an exhausting one. Viewers are as likely to be as worn out as the characters by fade-out, which is tribute to its blunt impact. The film doesn’t pull any punches, and the violence is vicious and visceral, although never arbitrary or exploitative. These are hard men (and women) in hard times, and each will need to tap into an inner reserve of courage to survive. Not surprisingly, some won’t. Understandably, there aren’t many laughs in “The Weight,” but there are brittle touches of ironic humor. The actors all do good work, although Hawke is clearly the engine. Jones registers strongly as the pensive yet perceptive Anna, and despite limited screen time, Crowe is clearly enjoying himself in a deliciously ambiguous role. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies. © 2026, Mark Burger.
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Is there something in the Greensboro water? SUBMITTED BY RONAN KELLY
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here are places known for certain things. New Orleans has jazz. Nashville has country music. Detroit has Motown. And Greensboro, apparently, has a suspiciously high number of people who can inspire a story before an author’s coffee gets cold. I didn’t discover this through serious literary research. I stumbled upon it while going to yard sales with my daughter, whose family lives in Greensboro. On one of those excursions, I spotted a copy of “Country Cured: Reflections from the Heart,” by Carolina newspaperman Jerry Bledsoe. I picked it up, started reading, and found myself fascinated by something deceptively simple. Bledsoe could look at something completely ordinary — a person, a place, an animal, an old memory — and somehow make you care about it. That got me thinking about O. Henry. And then I made the mistake of thinking some more. Does Greensboro have a particular affection for storytellers? Or does the city simply have an unusual knack for putting stories in front of people who are paying attention? I’m talking about the little stories — not books that require you to remember 47 characters, three generations, and which cousin married the dentist. The stories that sneak up on you. The ones that say, “Give me five minutes, and I’ll show you something about being human.” Consider the evidence. William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, was born in Greensboro in 1862 and became one of America’s most celebrated short-story writers. He had a knack for turning ordinary people, problems, and bad decisions into stories that made readers laugh, wince, and then say, “Wait. I didn’t see that coming.” In “The Gift of the Magi,” a struggling couple sacrifice their most treasured possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts. In “The Ransom of Red Chief,” kidnappers find their captive so unbearable they pay his father to take him back. And in “The Last Leaf,” an aging artist paints a leaf that restores a sick woman’s will to live. The surprises are what we remember first. But the generosity, exasperation, and
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tenderness are what make them matter. Then there is Bledsoe. In “Country Cured,” he wrote about an “impossible goat” — the kind of stubborn, peculiar creature most of us might complain about and leave at that. Bledsoe stayed long enough, at least on the page, to make the goat worth knowing. He gave people that same attention. An elderly woman walking down a dirt road emerged, in his telling, as a fierce, independent grandmother who wasn’t too proud to hitchhike into town to run her errands. What might have been a passing glimpse became a portrait. Then there’s Jim Dodson, founding editor of Greensboro’s O. Henry Magazine, whose “Simple Life” essays demonstrate that a story doesn’t require a dramatic event. A garden, a lawn mower, a dog, a childhood memory — or even a shave — can provide an opening. In “Man in the Mirror,” his father’s morning shaving ritual becomes a lesson in kindness — and, when Dodson gives him a final shave, an act of love. Years later, taking up the ritual himself, Dodson finds a way to carry that lesson into his own mornings. These writers aren’t all doing the same thing. Fiction, newspaper columns, and personal essays have different obligations. But they share an instinct: look closely enough at an ordinary life, and it may stop looking ordinary. The more examples I found, the less I wondered whether Greensboro produces writers, and the more I wondered whether it produces noticers. Without quite realizing it, I had started noticing a few things myself. A street hustler setting up a game of three-card monte on South Elm. A bookseller on Spring Garden Street looking like he was hiding something. A group of older men playing wiffle ball at Country Park with the seriousness of a World Series. None of these things was a story. Not yet. But each contained a question. Who was going to get fooled? What might the bookseller know? What, besides the score, mattered so much about that game? Eventually, I started writing to see what I could make of those possibilities. Visits with my daughter and grandchildren brought me to Greensboro frequently. Between family gatherings, I had time to
explore and write. I started making pilgrimages to local O. Henry landmarks, hoping something might rub off. I remember standing downtown near the O. Henry statue at North Elm and Bellemeade, imagining what Porter might have noticed if he were walking those streets today. With his notebook and pencil, he looked ready to get something down before it escaped him. I found myself looking past the statue toward the people who might have interested him. People short of money. People in love. People making decisions they will regret. People trying to do something decent and accidentally making things worse. I started capturing ideas however I could. Sometimes I typed on my laptop. Sometimes I scribbled on a notepad or a torn scrap of paper. When there was no paper, I would pull a Sharpie out of my pocket and jot the idea directly onto my palm. What started as an exercise in paying attention eventually turned into my book, “Flashing O. Henry: 62 Original Flash Fiction Tales of Wit, Wonder, Wordplay, and Surprise.” A couple of those stories even began beside Greensboro’s lakes. Maybe there is something in the Greensboro water, after all! While hiking the Palmetto Trail near Lake Brandt, I watched a girl and a goose. The goose had taken a liking to the girl — and apparently wasn’t interested in sharing her. That became “Lovebirds,” in which a gosling imprints on a teenage girl and grows so possessive that it terrorizes her boyfriends. Her father eventually recognizes the advantages of having this particular chaperone. At a trailhead near Lake Townsend, I encountered a guide dog with its owner. Watching them together suggested a question: What if a blind man gained his sight, only to discover that the dog who had guided him was beginning to lose hers? That became “Through the Eyes of Another.” The encounters supplied the starting points, not the plots. The girl and the goose didn’t owe me a comedy. The man and his dog weren’t there to deliver a poignant ending. That part was my job: to imagine what might happen next, and give
the reader a reason to care. Why flash fiction? Partly self-defense. When I read a book in bed, I fall asleep fast. The next night, I start the chapter again. Eventually, I realized I was spending more time rereading beginnings than finding out what happened. So I wrote stories I might finish before losing consciousness. A character has to arrive quickly. Something has to happen. And the ending can’t take its time getting there. Brevity doesn’t excuse a writer from making something happen. It just leaves fewer places to hide when nothing does. My growing fascination with O. Henry eventually took me beyond Greensboro — to Austin, for the annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships. I wasn’t there to compete. I found a place to sit on a picnic blanket and settled in to listen. That was my first mistake. I had managed to put the blanket directly over a mound of fire ants. This is not the kind of literary inspiration you put on your résumé. There I was, at a celebration of O. Henry, surrounded by people making elaborate jokes with words, when several hundred considerably less literary creatures decided to make jokes with my ankles. I discovered that fire ants are remarkably efficient editors. They don’t waste words. They don’t provide background. They don’t establish character. They simply get to the point. I jumped up and brushed myself off. Somewhere between the irritation and the absurdity, it occurred to me that this was exactly the sort of thing O. Henry might have appreciated. A man travels hundreds of miles to celebrate a master of surprise. He sits down. The surprise finds him. Maybe that was the Greensboro lesson, too. You don’t always have to go looking for a story. Sometimes you just have to pay attention to where you sit. ! RONAN KELLYlives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and visits Greensboro frequently to see his daughter and grandchildren. A veteran of more than three decades in advertising, he is the author of “Flashing O. Henry: 62 Original Flash Fiction Tales of Wit, Wonder, Wordplay, and Surprise,” available on Amazon.
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once asked the Rev. Jesse Jackson years ago if voter apathy was the biggest threat to our democracy. “No,” he said. “The biggest threat is voter suppression.” Jim Longworth Unfortunately, Jackson’s assessment has become Longworth all too real. In some at Large states, minorities are purged from the voter rolls because they didn’t cast a ballot in a previous election. In other states, the number of early voting days and polling places has been reduced. In North Carolina, if you vote early and then die before Election Day, your vote doesn’t count. Leading up to the 2020 election, the Postmaster General scrapped hundreds of sorting machines and forced postal workers to leave bags of mail undelivered because overtime had been slashed. Add to that the ongoing practice of gerrymandering, which all but assures the election of White candidates, and you can understand why people of color are concerned about this year’s midterm elections. One of them is Keith Grandberry, but instead of just complaining about voter suppression, he’s taking steps to combat it. Grandberry is the former CEO of the Winston-Salem Urban League, and now Founder of Helping Hands Consultants and president of B&G Creative Strategies. On the global front, Keith has worked with leaders in underdeveloped nations to create new industries, build libraries and hospitals. Back home, he’s passionate about voter education, so he travels throughout a nine-state area to spearhead voter registration drives. The reason is simple. “The power of your voice is your vote,” says Grandberry. Keith has been a regular panelist on my “Triad Today” Roundtable for more than 20 years, and over time we’ve had numerous discussions about his tireless efforts to encourage everyone to exercise their vote. JL: It seems like you’re on some sort of personal crusade. KG: I am. One day about six years ago, my daughter Shayla and I had a discussion about the systemic racism that this country was dealing with. Shayla said WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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that she and her friends make their voices heard by protesting. I certainly never discouraged her from protesting at rallies and marches, but I told her that the most powerful form of protest is voting. JL: But traditional protests can, themselves, lead to reform, right? KG: Absolutely. We all know about the marches that John Lewis participated in at great risk to his own safety, and those protests paved the way for passage of the Civil Rights Act. I have also worked closely with Winnie Mandela on some economic development projects, and she spoke to me of the protests that led to the end of Apartheid, and the election of her husband as president. Those protests gave Black people a voice in their government. But here in America we already have the right to vote, and the right to participate in government. The problem is we don’t exercise that vote as we should. JL: You’re referring to what happened in 2016. KG: Yes. Blacks turned out in large numbers to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Yet, many of those same people didn’t show up at the polls in 2016, and that, in large part, led to an era of unprecedented voter suppression. JL: You mentioned the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was enacted by President Lyndon Johnson. I’ve heard that one of your favorite quotes came from LBJ. KG: Yeah, after he signed the Voting Rights Act, Johnson said, “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men just because they are different from other men.” JL: That’s inspiring, but do today’s Black youth get it? Do they even have an appreciation for folks who came before them? KG: We have to remind them, and that brings me back to my daughter. I tell her
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all the time about the achievements of my heroes and mentors, like Mr. Bob Brown, who single-handedly created the Minority Business Enterprise program while he served in the Nixon administration. Like Vivian Burke, who helped me establish an employment assistance center when I headed up the Urban League. Like Maya Angelou, who advocated for women’s health issues, and for whom I was able to have a Triad-area hospital
named after. Like Sylvia Sprinkle Hamlin, whom I worked with to set up a scholarship program for students at the School of the Arts. And like Congressman John Lewis, who hosted a meeting between me and Deputy President Baleka Mbete of South Africa to discuss voting and civic engagement. These were all strong individuals who made a difference, and young people can make a difference too, just by voting. The power of your voice is your vote. Over the past few months, Keith has traveled extensively to urge folks young and old alike to register to vote and then to show up on election day. This weekend, Keith will be my sole guest on a special edition of “Triad Today” in which we’ll discuss a wide range of issues. “Triad Today” airs Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on abc45, Sundays at 11 a.m. on MY48, and streams on WFMY+. ! 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) and streaming on WFMY+.
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t a time when rumors of both voter fraud and voter suppression are flying in the U.S., Reynolda House Museum of American Art has rolled out a substantial collection of photos that heightened public awareness of those same issues in the 1960s and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. “Flash Point: The Civil Rights Photography of Danny Lyon” opened last week and will run through Jan. 3 in the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem. “We had no idea when we were planning the exhibition that voting would be under threat as much as it has been,” says Phil Archer, co-curator of the show and the Betsy Main Babcock deputy director for the museum. The show debuts more than 50 photographs promised to Wake Forest University by James and Wendy Agah, the parents of a current WFU student and a recent alum. It is the largest single SEPTEMBER 23-29, 2026
gift of photographs in Wake’s history. “It’s a great gift,” Archer says. “No other collection of photography in town is this big and this deep.” Lyon was 21 when he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as its official photographer in the early 1960s. Instead of simply documenting the Civil Rights Movement from the sidelines, Lyon, who is white, embedded himself in the action — marching, protesting, and living alongside the young activists whose work he photographed. His images capture both the violence and the humanity of the movement, offering an intimate look at the people who risked their lives to challenge injustice and advance the cause of civil rights. “Part of the real benefit of this show is that while people were able to see in the news the police dogs attacking, fire hoses knocking protesters down, and protesters getting clubbed,” Archer says. “They weren’t seeing how organized and concerted and intentional SNCC was. It was a full organization.” WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
“It was a balancing act,” he continues. “But these were America’s kids: Black, white, North, South, Jewish, Protestant. And I think that’s probably what finally slowed people down long enough to get them to see what was really happening.” Ashley Givens, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art at Wake, cocurated the show with Archer. “It’s just that SNCC was so incredibly effective with this kind Co-curators Ashley Givens and Phil Archer of multi-pronged approach: the in-person protest, the writing, In the exhibition, there is a photo of and then having people like Danny as a woman leaning in so close to Dylan’s official photographers to document it, guitar that her ear is almost on the to share these images with the wider strings. She is Dr. Bernice Johnson public and to compel the wider public.” Reagon, who became a legendary civil Among the wider audience that the rights activist, scholar, and singer. She movement appealed to were some of co-founded the Freedom Singers in 1962 the biggest show business stars of the and went on to found the renowned era. all-female African American a cappella Next week, Oct. 1-4, Reynolda will ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in present “Chimes of Freedom: Folk Sing1973. ers and Fellow Travelers,” contemporary The exhibition is full of these kinds of interpretations of music associated with connections and allows a comprehenHarry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, and other sive understanding of the civil rights performers connected to the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Lyon movement. Mipso frontman Joseph elevated the organizers, planners, oraTerrell will perform Dylan songs, and Ostors, scribes, and publicists in a complex car- and Grammy-nominated musician national network of youthful patriots Joshuah Brian Campbell will interpret engaged in direct, non-violent action. Belafonte. For their own sake — and the nation’s Archer explains that Belafonte was — they courageously pursued a course the leading donor for SNCC. In 1964, charted by Dr. Martin Luther King: “The James Forman, SNCC’s executive way of nonviolence leads to redemption secretary, told Belafonte that they had and the creation of the beloved comenough money to operate for only 72 munity.” hours before they would have to fold. “Flash Point” is presented in conjunc“Belafonte himself took $70,000 to tion with “Art & Democracy,” currently Greenwood, Miss., where Emmett Till on view in the Historic House in comhad been lynched [in 1955] and where memoration of America’s 250-year the Ku Klux Klan were running things,” history. Archer says. “Belafonte couldn’t wire the A number of Flash Point!-adjacent money at that point. And he couldn’t events are coming up at Reynolda. ask a young person to take it down, For tickets and more information, visit because it was so risky. So he asked his www.reynolda.org, email hello@reynbest childhood friend, Sidney Poitier, olda.org, or call 336-758-5150. and they went under dark of night.” Oct. 1-4: Chimes of Freedom: “Folk When the two saw lights in the Singers and Fellow Travelers” — live woods, they found a phone and called performance. Ticketed. Attorney General Robert Kennedy to ask Oct. 10: Community Day: Picturif that was their federal protection. The ing Freedom — 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. reply came back that, no, it was not Celebrate self-expression and empowthe feds, it was the Klan and the sheriff erment. Free. waiting to arrest them for any traffic Oct. 25: Reynolda on the House — violations. 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Enjoy the exhibiDylan and Pete Seeger would later tions “Flash Point: The Civil Rights go to Greenwood where they sang to Photography of Danny Lyon and Art & sharecroppers out in cotton fields and to Democracy.” Free. ! SNCC members. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductee David Childers will perform with longtime collaborator David Niblock, with Irish singer-songwriter Dylan Walshe opening the concert. album at Childers’s house, “The Satan, You’re a Liars,” released in 2025. The two plan to release a follow-up album next year. Childers and Partridge shared a publicist, and she connected the two. “She thought we were kindred spirits, which we very much are,” Childers says. “She hooked me up with him, and I’m glad she did, because it’s been a really good collaboration.” Childers and Niblock have performed together for approximately a decade. Their duo performances place Childers’s songs and distinctive voice at the center, supported by Niblock’s acoustic guitar playing. Opening artist Dylan Walshe was born and raised in County Dublin, Ireland, and is now based in western North Carolina. His work draws from Irish folk music, blues, country, and American roots traditions. A veteran touring performer, Walshe has shared stages with artists including Flogging Molly, the White Buffalo, and the Mahones, and he has recorded with James Fearnley of the Pogues. Childers and Walshe are friends who have performed together multiple times. They have an unusual connection: Walshe and Childers’s son, Robert, were born on the same day.
“Same day, same year,” Childers says. “Just thousands of miles apart.” The Irish singer’s full name is Dylan Robert Walsh, making for another striking transatlantic connection. “We almost named Robert ‘Dylan,’” Childers says. “We named him Robert David instead.” The concert will bring together three seasoned musicians for an intimate afternoon centered on original songs, storytelling, and acoustic performance. ! THE ’BORO SESSIONS presents intimate live performances by regional, national, and international songwriters and musicians. The concert series connects Greensboro audiences with accomplished artists in seated listening-room environments designed to keep the focus on the music.
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Draught at 300 W. Gate City Blvd. in Greensboro has been purchased by its former managing director, Lentz Ison, who has renamed it Amity. The rebranding honors Ison’s
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longtime friend and business partner, Rolando “Rolo” Pettigrew, who died in 2021 but will remain the literal face of the building. “He became a big part of the Greensboro bar community and helped open Dram & Draught Greensboro with me in 2018,” said Ison. “There are still people who come in who knew him, worked with him, or have a story about him. His portrait is still a mural on the side of the building, and that’s not going anywhere.” Ison shared the following memories of the man with whom he opened the Greensboro Dram & Draught in 2018. “Rolo was one of those people that people loved being around. He was incredibly talented behind a bar, but more than anything, he was generous with what he knew and wanted the people around him to do well. We were friends, roommates for a while, and eventually coworkers. We spent a lot of time talking about bars, restaurants, music, food, and things we wanted to build someday.” Rolo was 38 when he passed away in 2021. “We lost him while we were in Puerto Rico doing guest bartending shifts. He was one of my closest friends. I think about him all the time, and I know he’d want us to keep creating things, taking chances and having fun doing it.” Ison had about 15 years of experience in opening and managing bars and restaurants when he and Pettigrew joined the
Dram & Draught team. “Dram was still pretty small in 2018, so it was a great fit. I could bring that experience into a company that was ready to grow. There were two locations when I came on board, and I eventually became managing director as we grew to seven locations across North Carolina. I had my hands in pretty much everything along the way: openings, teams, menus, purchasing, inventory, budgets, events, and operations.” But Greensboro always remained home. “After spending years driving around the state thinking about multiple locations, I’m really happy to put that experience into one place here. And this time, it’s mine. I’ve spent most of my adult life opening, operating, and growing businesses for other people. I learned a ton doing that, and eventually you want to see what you can build when it’s yours.” The bar’s new name, Amity, also honors the man whose face will remain on its wall. “Amity means friendship, and it’s actually the name Rolo and I chose years ago for a bar we wanted to open together. We had gotten pretty serious about it. We were looking at spaces and had secured the website. Then COVID happened, and those plans got put on hold. We lost Rolo in 2021, and life went in a different direction. So when I had the opportunity to own the Greensboro bar that we helped open together, calling it Amity felt right.”
But the name signifies new friends as well as old ones. “Rolo will always be part of the story, but I also love what the name means for the bar. You meet people here, bring friends, make new ones, and get to know the people behind the bar. That’s Amity.” Ison emphasized that he is focused on continuity and community, and is not trying to establish a new identity for the bar at the expense of those who made it what it is. “I don’t want to change things just so we can say everything is new. We already have a great team, a great patio, a ridiculous amount of spirits on the wall, and a building people know. We’re a smaller team now, which gives us a lot more freedom to create together. If Anna, Jo or Ty comes in tomorrow with a great drink idea, we don’t need to wait for the next seasonal menu. We can work on it, taste it and, if we love it, put it on. I want the menu to change because we’re inspired, not because the calendar says it’s time.” He said that, along with the new signage and entrance, there will be some new furniture and artwork, but that it’s an organic process, not a sudden metamorphosis. “I also want to do more events and collaborations with other bars, restaurants, artists and businesses around Greensboro. But mostly, I want us to have fun making Amity better. I think guests feel that.” WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Pettigrew and Ison in 2019 Ison knows that these are challenging times for the hospitality industry, but he intends to do more than just ride them out. “You can be busy and still not be running a good business. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that. You have to know your costs, stay on top of inventory and purchasing, schedule well, and make good decisions about where the money goes. Doing that gives you room to take care of your team, keep improving the bar, and still give people a good value. Then you have to give people a reason to come back. That might be a great cocktail, an event, the music, or just having someone behind the bar remember your name and what you drink.” He also knows that he can’t do it alone. “I’m lucky to have an experienced team, and now I get to be here working alongside them every day. Run the business well, take care of your people, and give people a good experience. That’s really it.” He also thanked former owners Kevin Barrett and Drew Schenck. “I’ve been here since this location opened and know the building, business, and team. So it wasn’t me seeing a bar for sale and deciding to buy it. It came from conversations with Kevin and Drew about what I wanted to do here. They knew how WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
much I cared and how many ideas I had, and worked with me to figure out how to make the purchase happen. I’m really grateful to them for that.” One of his ideas was to capitalize on its location. “The corner we’re on is almost an island of its own, which I’ve always thought we could activate more. Events, collaborations, outdoor space, just more happening around that corner. That’s something I’m really interested in, but it’s not necessarily what Dram & Draught is in the business of doing.” He said that this is just the beginning of what he hopes to do in Greensboro. “I’m already working on the idea of a hifi listening room with a record store, bar, and food, and I have other things I’d like to build here over time. We’re just trying to make the place a little better every day for whenever someone wants to come in, enjoy a pour, or have a great cocktail. We’re planning the grand opening celebration for November, but you definitely don’t have to wait until then.” ! 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.
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