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They call it the other white meat but I call it delicious. This month I’ve been working with the #GotToBeNC Department of Agriculture division, some local bloggers and recipe developers as we visit our local farmers markets to challenge ourselves to get the MAIN INGREDIENTS to cook a complete meal for the family. 10 An accomplished aviator as well as journalist, author and T.V. personality, MAYCAY BEELER has logged over 4,300 flight hours, and spends most days in the air as Chief Flight Instructor for the Triad Aviation Academy at PTI Airport. She’s also written the Amazon bestseller Buccaneer: The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed, Adventurer, Drug Smuggler and Pilot Extraordinaire. 11 Oct. 25 will be a night to remember, as Best of RIFFTRAX Live: Night of the Living Dead lurches back to the silver screen in more than 700 cinemas throughout the nation, including Cinemark’s Brassfield Cinema 10 (2101 New Garden Road) and Regal’s Greensboro Grande Cinema 16 (3205 Northline Ave.) 12 TIME is an experimental electronic performance duo that blends performance

art, dance and devotion from Florida. I spoke to the pair, Michael and Madhava Collins, both 32, who are a married couple, by phone last week during their recent tour stop outside of Boston, Massachusetts. 19 This October Triad’s UpStage Cabaret will be transformed into an intimate and immersive theatre space where patrons will be transported to the most outlandish corners for TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ fertile imagination. 20 The poster for THE FOREIGNER shows Jackie Chan standing alone in a scene of carnage, with the tagline intoning that one should “Never Push A Good Man Too Far.” Such a promotional angle suggests that Chan will employ his considerable martial arts skills to take down various evildoers 24 WILLIAM H. LUTTERLOH lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked in the steamboat business. He spent several summers vacationing in Salem and had befriended many of the town’s residents. When he fell ill in the summer of 1875, Lutterloh decided to return to Salem in an effort to renew his health.

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BUYER & CELLAR FRIDAY FRI 20 BUYER & CELLAR WHAT: By Jonathan Tolins Alex More, a not-so-successful actor somewhere north of 30, finds himself in the basement of one of Hollywoods biggest icons. Hired to operate the shopping mall complete with stores and a food court in the basement of one of the houses on the stars estate, Alex spends most of his days alone dusting and dreaming until one day a bell rings, a door opens and hes standing toe-to-toe with the celebrity herself. WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Triad Stage. 209 Spruce Street, Winton-Salem. MORE: $10-50 tickets.

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MISSISSIPPI BORN AND BRED 26TH ANNUAL CORNSHUCKING FROLIC WHAT: Set in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1966, “Mississippi Born and Bred” written and directed by Dr. Darius Williams, is a coming of age memory play. Against the historical backdrop of segregation, Jim Crow laws, civil rights activism and the trauma of lynching in the Deep South, the drama tells the story of a 14-year-old black girl named Mook as she struggles on her journey to empowered black womanhood. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Paul Robeson Theatre. 1601 East Market Street, Greensboro. MORE: $6-7 tickets.

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WHAT: On Sat., Oct. 21 from noon to 5pm, YES! Weekly premier our first Annual Triad Margarita Wars. Attendees will enjoy an unforgettable fall day of tasting some of the Triad’s best concocted margaritas from area restaurants battling it out to be voted as The Triad’s Best Margarita. There will be up to 20 area restaurants on site with each serving one signature margarita and ticket holders will vote on their favorite. WHEN: 12 p.m. WHERE: The Worx Parking Lot. 106 Barnhardt St., Greensboro. MORE: $25-40 tickets.

WHAT: Live music will be featured in the Stage and Beer Garden area that will include the closure of S. Elm Street between MLK and Lewis Streets. Local venues and restaurants have been encouraged to participate in the festivities and there will also be craft beer and food trucks available for those enjoying the festival environment. WHEN: 4 - 9 p.m. WHERE: South End District. 500 Block of South Elm Street, Greensboro. MORE: Free entry.

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BY JESSICA CLIFFORD Fat Tuesday is a national and international franchise that began in New Orleans and spread to over 50 locations. The location in downtown Greensboro opened in late July of 2017 and is one of the largest location with 5,000 square-feet both inside and outside, which duals as a daiquiri bar and restaurant. The three co-owners, Wrenchel Stokes, Carlos Rodgers and Timothy “T.J.” Strickland, “always had a love affair with this building,” but it was “years in the making” before they could officially open Fat Tuesday. “We can’t put ourselves quite in a box,” Strickland said. “We are not quite a bar; we are not quite a restaurant.” Entering the bar, there is a line of daiquiri drink machines, some flavors are added for special events, while others such as the strongest drink, the 190, are a constant part of their wide variety of flavors. Though Fat Tuesday does not have any weekly drink specials yet, the co-owners said specials will make an appearance soon. However, the venue does have weekly music nights. Every Friday night there is live music and every Saturday a D.J. performs at the location. The venue also contains a restaurant

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tucked behind the daiquiri bar, featuring American cuisine. Select favorites by the owners include the sliders, the newly added chicken tenders and basket of chaos fries containing a mix of sweet potato, crinkle, steak and waffle fries. Fat Tuesday also has upcoming events. On Oct. 21, the bar and restaurant will celebrate the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s homecoming with a party, while also participating in YES! Weekly’s Triad Margarita Wars on the same day. Then on Nov. 18, they will have an Aggie-Eagle Field Weekend for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s biggest rivalry football match. While trying to describe Fat Tuesday, the co-owners said, “To understand it, you have to come down and experience it.” “We try to create the feeling that everybody’s welcome,” Strickland said. “The great thing about this place is that when you get in here you get lost for time, you can be here for hours.” For more information about the venue’s upcoming events and specials follow their Instagram and Snapchat @fattuesdaygso and Facebook @Fattuesdaygso. !

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Triadfoodies recipe: Carolina poutine with pulled pork

hey call it the other white meat but I call it delicious. This month I’ve been working with the #GotToBeNC Department of Agriculture division, some Kristi Maier local bloggers and @triadfoodie recipe developers as we visit our local farmers markets and Contributor challenge ourselves to get the main ingredients to cook a complete meal for the family. I love shopping at the farmers market and just mosey-ing along to see what’s fresh and in season. One thing that’s always in season is meat. Many people forget about the great chicken, pork and beef products at the farmers market. Yes, it can be a bit pricier, but I’ve really found that pork is one of the most affordable and I can stretch my dollar a bit farther when buying larger cuts. On the day I last ventured out to the farmers market, the fair was in town so the Winston-Salem market didn’t look like it’s usual self. I have shopped with Mill River Farm in Mount Airy before, so I happily purchased my pork butt and sweet potatoes from husband and wife farmers, Steve Murphy and Kim Eyer. Eyer and Murphy have an abundant farm and they sell pork products such as bacon, pork belly, pork butt and loin, chicken, grass-fed beef and eggs. Their farm is open for visits on Wednesdays. Or you can find them at the market on Saturdays, where you can speak to them directly and find out more about how they raise their animals and grow produce. Like I said before, locally raised meat can be a bit pricier, but there’s something wonderful about knowing where your meat came from and how it’s been raised. The couple also sells a large variety of produce products such as lettuce, kale, peas, beets, sweet potatoes, broccoli, brussels sprouts and cabbage. Eyer said this season has been a good one. “We had a late frost that was was hard on the fruit for some locals,” she said. “But the vegetable season was great with rain at the right times and not too dry.” You can also find Mill River Farm’s products at Let it Grow Produce.

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When I did my shopping, I found the perfect ingredients to make what I’m calling a Carolina Poutine. Poutine is typically french fries and cheese curds with a rich brown gravy and is truly a guilty pleasure. My recipe is a take on that with pulled pork, North Carolina sweet potatoes, Ashe County cheese curds and a smoky Carolina barbecue sauce. Carolina Poutine Serves two to four 2-4 Sweet Potatoes (one per person), preferably local Pulled Pork (from a 2-3 pound butt or shoulder) Cheese Curds Barbeque Sauce of your choice (I used a blend of chipotle sauce with some Eastern North Carolina sauce I had on hand) Oil Salt and Pepper Paprika (optional) To prepare the pork: Give it a good, liberal rub of your choice of seasoning plus plenty of salt and pepper. If you’re able, grill the pork on all sides. I don’t have a smoker, so I let my grill and my slow cooker do the work for me. Get it good and browned on all sides, then place in the slow cooker with about 1 1/2 cups of water or chicken broth (beer or a mixture of barbeque sauce and water is fine too, you just want a flavorful liquid). Cook on low for four to six hours. Once tender and falling apart, remove from cooker and shred it. Cut the sweet potatoes into fry-sized sticks. Coat with oil and sprinkle WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

with smoked paprika (optional), salt and pepper. Bake at 400-degrees until lightly browned and crispy for about 30 minutes. Just before you remove the fries from the oven, heat up the sauce. I simply used my favorite Eastern North Carolina style sauce and added some smoky chipotles to it. You will want that sauce to be piping hot so that it can melt the cheese curds as it hits them. On a platter or pan, place the crispy sweet potato fries in a heaping pile. Top with shredded pork, cheese curds and drizzle the sauce over the top. The sauce should be hot enough to start melting the cheese curds. If not, it’s okay to place it under the broiler until they appear to be just melting. Garnish with chopped green onions and enjoy! This delicious and fun recipe is simply a guide. If you can slow cook your meat on a smoker, so much the better. As I said before, I don’t have a smoker but I do have the grill and a slow cooker. I get a really good crust by grilling on high, though I keep an eye on it as the fat and any sugar on the outside can cause it to light up. You can also bypass the slow cooker and modify by cooking on a low heat in the oven for 2 1/2-3 hours. The sauce is also up to you. A mole would be amazing with

those sweet potatoes. Play around with your flavors and have fun! If you have trouble finding cheese curds from Ashe County, I have seen other makers (orange and white cheddar) in the cheese monger’s case at neighborhood grocery stores. The Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Market, Cobblestone and Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, Wine Merchants, Ronnie’s and the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market are all great places to find local beef, pork and poultry as well as lamb and venison and you can find locally-made boutique cheeses as well. Be sure to check out these pork recipes

as well, all developed by my squad featuring North Carolina pork. Mustard & Molasses Marinated NC Pork Chops www.heidibillottofood.com Polish Sausage with Apples Onions and Butternut Squash www.pastrychefonline.com North Carolina Pork & Five Pepper StirFry from www.lifeofaginger.com Tacos al Pastor www.hispanicmama. com ! KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Flying high with Buccaneer author MayCay Beeler

ayCay Beeler still hosts Aviation Update on WFMY News 2 but has come a long way since 1985, when the station brought her to Greensboro to replace Sandra Hughes Ian McDowell at PM Magazine. An accomplished Contributing aviator as well as journalist, author columnist and T.V. personality, Beeler has logged over 4,300 flight hours and spends most days in the air as Chief Flight Instructor for the Triad Aviation Academy at PTI Airport. She’s also written the Amazon bestseller Buccaneer: The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed, Adventurer, Drug Smuggler and Pilot Extraordinaire. “Not bad for an old fly gal,” said the woman who looks more fly than old. Beeler wrote Buccaneer both with and about the flamboyant renegade flyer and Medellin Cartel associate, having become close friends with Reed before his death in 2009. She met him when he was still serving his 23-year term for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and operating a criminal enterprise. “I contacted Jack Reed in prison as part of my research on a documentary I was producing about Norman’s Cay in the Bahamas,” she wrote in an email. From 1978 to 1982, Norman’s Cay was the center of the world’s largest drug smuggling operation and a tropical hideaway for Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. Jack Reed flew drug runs for Lehder, who handled transport and distribution, while Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar handled production and supply. Reed was also Lehder’s best friend and, Beeler believes, received a heavy sentence primarily in retribution for refusing to testify against him. Beeler wrote that Reed refused to talk to anybody until she gained his confidence. “Jack’s infamous story had never been given to any other journalist.” She wrote that she came to know him exceptionally well. “He disclosed his deepest secrets to me, with previously untold info about his unconventional adventurous and hedonistic lifestyle, as well as details about the drug smuggling operation.” When asked how they became so close, she wrote that it was “a gut feeling” that began with “the shared bond between

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the outlaw pilot, and the lawful fly girl.” Beeler called Reed “a true adventurer, hedonist, lover and non-violent offender with an edgy yet tender soul” who “lived an unconventional, provocative and storied life.” Beeler was born in the D.C. Metropolitan area and grew up in the Baltimore suburbs. From a very early age, she wrote in an email, she “enjoyed writing, acting, a love for the wild blue yonder, and a strong desire to an astronaut.” After graduating from the University of Kentucky in her

early 20s, she appeared in T.V. commercials as spokeswoman and on-camera talent. “In my very first T.V. commercial,” she wrote. “I was the Lexington Dodge girl, pitching cars in a cowgirl outfit.” Following that, she was hired to appear in many more T.V. commercials “thanks to various advertising agencies noticing me and liking my personality.” A colleague suggested that she audition for PM Magazine as co-host for the nationally syndicated weeknight T.V. show with local hosts in major cities. “I was hired and it changed my life,” she wrote. “Gifting me with the opportunity to travel the world.” In the following decades, Beeler worked in various T.V. markets in all on-camera roles in News and Programming, including news anchor, weather anchor, reporter, and T.V. host. All of these positions entailed writing news and features. “Buccaneer is my first true crime book,” she wrote. “But I previously wrote hundreds of features and news stories for network affiliate television and have also been published in dozens of magazines.” I asked this FAA Certified Flight Instructor how she first earned her wings. “General Aviation Manufacturers Association contacted selected T.V. Personali-

ties around the nation with the opportunity to learn to fly for free through First Solo, in exchange for documenting the training on T.V. and sharing the progress in T.V. features with viewers,” she wrote. She accepted the challenge, but admitted that she was “initially scared to death.” Soon, she “got bit by the aviation bug and fell in love with flying.” She wrote that over 30 years later, she is still smitten. She’s flown with retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager and Voyager pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, competed in a transcontinental air race, jumped with the U.S. Navy Seals, flown mock air combat over Southern California and holds a world record for piloting the Questair Venture Aircraft, a high-speed experimental kit plane developed and test flown in Greensboro. Clearly, for this “old fly gal,” the sky is still the limit. To learn more about how she continues to push against the horizon, read her book, which is available Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Wal-Mart, and check out her website at www.maycaybeeler. com. ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Rifftrax scares up Halloween fun with Night Of The Living Dead For the last several years, “RiffTrax Live” has been applying its patented brand of mirth and mockery to any number of popular big-screen extravaganzas – be it Anaconda (1997), Santa Claus Conquers Mark Burger the Martians (1964), Edward D. Wood Jr.’s Contributing immortal Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) columnist and even the recent Syfy Sharknado series – but for the Halloween season, RiffTrax’s tenacious trio have reached back into the past to resurrect one of their most popular events. Oct. 25 will be a night to remember, as Best of Rifftrax Live: Night of the Living Dead lurches back to the silver screen in more than 700 cinemas throughout the nation, including Cinemark’s Brassfield Cinema 10 (2101 New Garden Road) and Regal’s Greensboro Grande Cinema 16 (3205 Northline Ave.) in Greensboro and Southern Theatres’ Grand 18 WinstonSalem IMAX (5601 University Parkway). “Night of the Living Dead is one of our most popular RiffTrax titles to date,” explains Kymberli Frueh, Fathom Events vice president of programming. “We’re excited to be able to bring it back to theaters for Halloween. Mike, Kevin and Bill always put on a hysterical night of entertainment, and this zombie cult classic doesn’t disappoint.” The Rifftrax Night of the Living Dead screening was the 11th title broadcast to cinemas since Fathom Events and Rifftrax first partnered in 2009, and proved so popular that they’ve decided to exhume it for one more showing, as master “Riffmeisters” Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett offer an ongoing, irreverent commentary on George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic. “I think people will enjoy our loving take on George Romero’s classic,” Nelson said. “It’s a rare privilege – and a heck of a lot of fun – to take on a movie that literally invented to genre.” Indeed it was. Romero’s low-budget debut feature set the standard by which all subsequent zombie movies are judged. At the time of its release, some critics were dismissive – Vincent Canby of The New York Times devoted three small WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

paragraphs to it in his negative review – but others, including Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, recognized the film’s sociological subtext and its inexorable power. Night of the Living Dead became one of the first midnight movies and an early cult classic among film fans and is now regarded as a bona fide classic – with a 96 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It played theatrically well into the 1980s and spawned a spate of like-minded, gut-munching shockers – including several made by Romero himself: Dawn of the Dead (1979), Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005), to name a few. For 11 years, Nelson, Murphy and Corbett were part of the core team that brought to life the cult series “Mystery Science Theatre 3000,” in which the crew of the Satellite of Love – stranded in outer space – was forced to watch transmissions of the worst movies ever made on Earth, which they commented upon with ribald wit and addle-brained insight. Not only did “MST3K” amass a sizable worldwide following, but it also drew attention to scores of movies best forgotten and in some cases revived interest in them as potential cult classics. During its lengthy run, the series earned two Emmy nominations (both times for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Variety or Music Program), and in 1993 received the prestigious Peabody Award. With the cancellation of “MST3K” in 1999, after 197 episodes and even a feature film released in 1995, the series continues to live on in syndication and on home-video, as well as in the hearts and minds of its fervent fans worldwide. A few years later, Nelson reunited with Murphy and Corbett to continue the tradition with “RiffTrax,” a series of downloads presented in the same style as the earlier series, with running commentary. These were followed by a series of live events that proved so popular that the “RiffTrax”

The Best of RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead screening event will also include a special acknowledgment to filmmaker Romero, who died in July at age 77, but whose cinematic legacy is certainly assured. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2017, Mark Burger.

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Florida duo fuse spirituality, performance art and dance music in Winston-Salem

ime is an experimental electronic performance duo that blends performance art, dance and devotion from Florida. I spoke to the pair, Michael and John Adamian Madhava Collins, @johnradamian both 32, who are a married couple, by phone last week Contributor during their recent tour stop outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Time plays at Test Pattern in Winston-Salem on Friday, Oct. 20. Their music and touring lifestyle are informed and shaped on some level by their spiritual practice as Hare Krishna devotees. But this music doesn’t sound like the voiceand-cymbals chanting of Hare Krishnas that you may have seen or heard in London or New York, or in movies. The music of Time has pulsing mechanistic beats, arpeggiating retro synth sounds, whooshing echos and reverb. It sounds more like something you’d hear in a sci-fi movie than in an ashram. One can hear connections to the B-52s in the male-female vocal interplay, to the Eurythmics and the Ministry in the vaguely robotic overtones and even to Bollywood soundtracks, in the

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Time, bringing a touch of Hare Krishna to the dancefloor. blend of a Hindu cosmology and dancefloor aesthetics. If you’ve ever heard the music of American singer Krishna Das, who performs Hindu devotional vocal music known as kirtan, you might put Time on a distant part of the same spectrum that includes Das’s recordings. There are bands from the past, pre-internet-era bands, that accidentally chose names that would just get swept into the

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flow of digital data, bands with names like Country or Audience, which ended up being almost unsearchable unless you knew more about the artists. Time, which had its first show in early 2016, has done something similar. Search for the terms “time,” “band,” “Florida,” and you’re likely to get a bunch of generic event listings. You might also find yourself poring over back issues of a prominent newsweekly by that name.

It wasn’t that the band wanted to avoid being tracked down by interested potential listeners or to be verbally camouflaged in the digital underbrush. Instead, Time co-founder Michael Collins said that as they were trying to think of a name for their project he found that so many names had been used already. “In this day and age, it feels like everything is taken,” he said. “What can you do that’s even original? But sometimes when you simplify and take on these grand monolithic principles, it can really work. Time is this overarching thing, this thing that defines our whole existence, but we really have no idea of how it even works. We were just totally captured by the mysticism of that, the beauty and almost the absurdity of our relationship to it. We really wanted to define our band by this searching, wanting to search out answers to big questions.” Michael was raised an Episcopalian, but he said he got exposed to the Krishna consciousness movement after reading the writings of Carlos Castenada or “The Autobiography of a Yogi,” eventually taking an interest in meditation. Madhava was raised Catholic. “I found myself getting into yoga, getting into the chanting,” she said. Chanting and meditating and being a practicing Hare Krishna has helped her connect her religious upbringing with her present spiritual pursuits. “Now I see the

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unity, everyone is taking different paths to the divine,” she said. Aside from their almost unsearchable name, that idea of getting lost -- whether it be in the immensity of the cosmos, the idea of oneness, the transcendent experience of the eternal, or the ecstatic letting-go of the dance floor -- is central to the music of Time. “What people really seek on the dance floor is this suspension of time, this temporary utopia, where one forgets the every day,” Michael Collins said. “They’re seeking a place of non-time.” Their music is also about time in the literal sense. One of their songs is called “Time I Am,” and it is inspired, in part, by a scene in the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu scripture, in which Lord Krishna, the supreme manifestation or personality of the Godhead, says “Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds.” Destruction being a fundamental aspect of creation in this cosmology. “Sometimes songs are prayers that we’ve adapted,” Madhava Collins said of the range of their material, some of which is more secular. She points out that -- across traditions, music has been used as a spiritual tool. “So many people use this art form to channel their deepest emotions and their attempt to connect to the divine.” The duo’s music isn’t intended as some sort of aid to relaxation. It’s more likely to excite the heart rate, though the idea of ecstatic communion through music is not something that’s foreign to their spiritual practice. Michael and Madhava Collins are both practicing Hare Krishnas, which can be at odds with the lifestyle often associated with the venues where they generally perform music. Devotees avoid intoxicants. They eat a vegetarian diet. They are encouraged to wake up early in the morning in order to begin their chanting and meditation (of which chanting is a form). Another one of the duo’s songs is called “Let Go,” which seems to be about the profound spiritual renunciation inherent to many forms of devotion. “We’re practically straight edge,” said Michael Collins, who was a founding member of the indie-electronic band Prince Rama, which also had a connection to the Hare Krishna spiritual practice in its music. If being in late-night rock clubs doesn’t necessarily lend itself to being a practicing early-rising Hare Krishna, there are other aspects of the music scene that do fit in with the Collins’ spiritual goals. “I like connecting with people,” Madhava Collins said. “Part of our practice is about community.” Lots of Western performers have chanted the name of Hare Krishna, either WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

as an act of spiritual devotion or as a winking form of cultural appropriation or allusion. George Harrison did it. Twin City post-punks Husker Du did it. Gospel great Marion Williams did it. Pop star Boy George did it. A version of the chant was included in the hippie musical “Hair.” Time is on what they call the Infinity Tour, which makes a kind of sense in a number of ways. One might have to do with the seemingly infinite nature of time itself, and the unending stretches of past-present-future. The other is more mundane and it relates to the fact that they are touring for a very, very long stretch. Most bands will view a six-week string of shows to be pretty epic, with late nights in clubs, days driving in a van, and the prospect of road food and crashing on couches to be taxing. Time’s Infinity Tour is almost three months long, but their spiritual practice, relative asceticism, and their connection to Krishna devotees around the country, with vegetarian meals and quiet places to sleep, may make it more feasible. The tour has its own figure-8, Mobius continuity to it, having started in mid-August in Gainesville, Florida, it will end there again, or loop back to its beginning if you will, on Halloween at the close of this month. If the spiritual underpinnings and the temporal/chronic themes give listeners a lot to take in with Time, their visual/performance element is not insignificant. “I’ve realized that the more of someone’s senses that you can engage, the more they can connect with what’s going on,” Madhava Collins said. “We want to appeal to more senses. We sometimes do fog.” They’ve worked with artists and graphic designers to craft space-aged reflective reality-distorting headsets for previous tours. Their album art is definitely evocative of an early ‘80s video arcade vibe, part Asteroids, part Tron, retro fractiles and topographic grids. There are costumes and glitter as well. They have a stage worthy of a Sun Ra show for this tour. “It’s a half-dome structure that we sort of fit in, underneath and in front of,” she said. “We point lasers at it and they reflect and refract in crazy ways. It’s definitely a spectacle.” ! 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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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Oct 20: Reed Turchi Oct 21: Brother Oliver Oct 22: Matt Walsh Nov 4: Turpentine Shine

CLEMMONS

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6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Oct 19: Emma Lee Oct 20: DJ AVegas Oct 21: Lucky 17 Oct 26: Sam Foster Oct 27: Whiskey Mic Nov 3: Whiskey Mic Nov 18: Jukebox Revolver

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GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE 1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Oct 21: Alicia B. and the Now Oct 28: Be The Moon

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ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Oct 20: 1-2-3 Friday Oct 22: Insane Clown Posse: The Great Milenko Tour Oct 24: Dope, (HED) P.E. Oct 25: GWAR Nov 26: Fit For A King & In Hearts Wake, Like Moths to Flames, Phinehas Nov 27: Hatebreed, Dying Fetus, Code Orange, Twitching Tongues Dec 3: Cannibal Corpse, Power Trip, Gatecreeper

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ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Oct 20: DJ Dan the Player Oct 21: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE

CHURCHILL’S ON ELM

213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Oct 21: Jack Long Old School Jam

THE CORNER BAR

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 Nov 4: Ms. Mary & The Boys

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Oct 19: Live Thursdays

BEERTHIRTY

COMEDY ZONE

505 N. Greene St Oct 20: Patrick Rock Oct 27: Leather and Lace Oct 28: Darryl and Dave

BIG PURPLE

812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728 Nov 24: Wyatt Espalin

THE BLIND TIGER

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Oct 20: Shaun Jones Oct 21: Shaun Jones Oct 27: Dean Napolitano Oct 28: Dean Napolitano Nov 2: Aries Spears Nov 3: Aries Spears Nov 10: J. Bliss Nov 11: J. Bliss

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Oct 18: Four Years Strong, Seaway, Like Pacific, Grayscale, Life Lessons Oct 19: Twiztid w/ Moonshine Bandits, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Whitney Peyton, Andrew W Boss, Trilogy Oct 23: Red and 10 Years w/ Otherwise Oct 24: Lords Of Acid, Combichrist, Christian Death, En Esch, Wiccid Oct 25: The Movement, New Kingston, Roots of a Rebellion Oct 26: The Spill Canvas, Chase Huglin, The Second After, MKNLY OCt 26: Doctor P, Cookie Monsta, Warez Oct 28: killwhitneydead, Violent Life Violent Death, Get Rude Oct 29: Cosmic Charlie Nov 4: Carbon Leaf

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113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 Nov 4: African Royalty

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CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Oct 21: Dylan Scott Oct 24: Andy Mineo Oct 28: Corey Smith Nov 2: Jim Breuer Nov 4: Iration Nov 10: Hinder w/ Josh Todd & The Conflict Nov 11: Yngwie Malmsteen Nov 17: Parmalee Nov 29: Clutch

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VILLAGE TAVERN

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AFTER HOURS TAVERN

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com Oct 20: Audioclypse Oct 27: Freddy Atkins Band

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1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net Oct 20: Karaoke - DJ Dance

BLUE BOURBON JACK’S

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Nov 4: Will Easter Nov 18: Big Dirty Ride Nov 25: Murder Maiden

1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks Oct 20: Lee Travis

CLADDAGH RESTAURANT & PUB

130 E Parris Ave | 336.841.0521 thecladdaghrestaurantandpub.com

SPEAKEASY TAVERN

1706 Battleground Ave | 336.378.0006

THE IDIOT BOX COMEDY CLUB

2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com

HAM’S PALLADIUM 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com Oct 20: Brothers Pearl Oct 21: Jane Doe Oct 27: Jukebox Revolver Oct 28: Where’s Eddie

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THE DECK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com Oct 20: Soul Central Oct 21: Jaxon Jill Oct 27: The Plaids Oct 28: Crossing Avery and Halloween Costume contest

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DANCE HALL DAZE

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com Oct 20: The Delmonicos Oct 21: Skyryder & Potluck Oct 27: Crimson Rose Oct 28: Dirt Road Revolution & Halloween Party

BREATHE COCKTAIL LOUNGE

221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822 facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge Oct 20: Freddie Fred Fridays

LEWISVILLE

OLD NICK’S PUB

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com Oct 19: TBD- Acoustic Music Oct 20: Karaoke w DJ Tyler Perkins Oct 27: Karaoke w DJ Tyler Perkins Oct 28: Pop Guns- Halloween Party

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2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys Oct 19: Trivia

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RIDER’S IN THE COUNTRY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net Oct 28: Fair Warning and Huckleberry Shyne

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SECOND & GREEN

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com

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THE GARAGE

408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431 facebook.com/bulls-tavern Oct 21: Brothers Pearl

CB’S TAVERN

3870 Bethania Station Rd | 336.815.1664 Nov 11: 1 Year Anniversary: Phase Band

FINNIGAN’S WAKE

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake Oct 21: The Mulligans Nov 3: Souljam Nov 10: DJ HEK YEH

110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws Oct 28: King Buffalo Nov 3: Finks, The Kneads, North Elementary Nov 15: Demon Eye & Lords of Mace Nov 18: Irata, Mega Colossus, Night Sweats Nov 24: Possum Jenkins’ Dec 8: Native Harrow & Retro Candy

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FOOTHILLS BREWING

638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com Oct 18: Hazy Ridge Bluegrass Band Oct 21: Violet Bell Oct 22: Sunday Jazz Oct 25: The Ruckus Oct 28: Southern Eyes Oct 29: Sunday Jazz Nov 5: Sunday Jazz

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630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com Oct 22: Live Jazz Oct 29: Live Jazz

MUDDY CREEK CAFE

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Oct 19: Open Mic w/ Country Dan Collins Oct 20: Couldn’t Be Happiers Oct 21: Chad Barnard Oct 22: Ash & Chief Oct 26: Open Mic w/ Country Dan Collins Oct 28: Usual Suspects Nov 2: Open Mic w/ Country Dan Collins Nov 3: Chief’s Choice Nov 5: Phillip Craft Nov 9: Open Mic w/ Country Dan Collins Nov 12: Rob Price Nov 16: Open Mic w/ Country Dan Collins Nov 18: Carson Mac

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 Oct 19: Roanoke/His & Hers Oct 20: Jim Lauderdale Oct 21: Urban Soil Oct 26: Marvelous Funkshun Oct 27: Underhill Rose Oct 28: John McCutcheon Nov 2: Dangermuffin w/ Scott Moss Band Nov 4: Rain Check Nov 9: Old Salt Union Nov 10: Sarah Siskind Nov 11: Snyder Family Band Nov 16: Antigone Rising Nov 18: Dark Water Rising Nov 19: Dom Flemmons Nov 25: Big Ron Hunter

THE QUIET PINT

1420 W 1st St | 336.893.6881 thequietpint.com

TEE TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010

VILLAGE TAVERN

2000 Griffith Rd | 336.760.8686 villagetavern.com

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BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 Regency Pkwy | 919.462.2025 www.boothamphitheatre.com Oct 21: Carolina Uprising Oct 22: Chris Tomlin

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BOJANGLES COLISEUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Oct 27: Nick Cannon presents Wild ‘N Out

CMCU AMPHITHEATRE former Uptown Amphitheatre 820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555 www.livenation.com Oct 26: Aaron Lewis & Blackberry Smoke

THE FILLMORE

1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Oct 18: Daley Oct 19: Lecrae Oct 20: Appetite for Destruction Oct 21: Theory of a Deadman Oct 21: Marsha Ambrosius & Bilal Oct 22: Spoon Oct 24: Krewella Oct 24: Mondo Cozmo Oct 25: New Found Glory Oct 26: High Valley, Ashley McBryde, & Adam Doleac Oct 27: Fall2017 Tour Oct 27: Portugal. The Man Oct 28: Highly Suspect Oct 29: Trivium & Arch Enemy Oct 31: San Holo Nov 2: RL Grime Nov 3: Bebe Rexha & Marc E Bassy Nov 3: Johnnyswim Nov 5: Tribal Seeds Nov 6: Bon Iver w/ Aero Flynn Nov 7: Him Nov 8: Deorro Nov 9: Brujeria w/ Voodoo Glow Skulls, & Piñata Protest Nov 10: The Sweet Spot Nov 10: Saint Motel Nov 11: Slushii Nov 12: Hoodie Allen Nov 14: Whitechapel Nov 14: Circa Survive & Thrice Nov 15: J.I.D. + Earthgang Nov 16: The Shins Nov 16: Haley Reinhart Nov 17: The Original Wailers Nov 18: Michael Tracy Nov 19: Walk The Moon Nov 21: The Front Bottoms Nov 25: Bear Grillz Nov 25: Seether Nov 28: Bleachers, J Roddy Walson, & The Business Nov 29: X Ambasadors Nov 30: $uicideboy$ Dec 3: Lil Pump Dec 4: Waterparks OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

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OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Oct 18: Old Crow Medicine Show Oct 28: Evanescence Nov 16: Brit Floyd Nov 21: Kirk Frankly & Ledisi

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Nov 4: Fall Out Boys Nov 8: Imagine Dragons Nov 16: Jay-Z Nov 28: Dead & Company

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CAROLINA THEATRE

309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Oct 20: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas Oct 21: John Brown Big Band w/ Nicholas Payton Oct 27: Dwight Yoakam Nov 2: Amos Lee Nov 9: Randy Newman Nov 13: Irma Thomas, The Blind Boys of Alabama, & The Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet Nov 15: Squeeze Nov 16: Judy Collins Nov 17: The Mavericks Nov 24: The Motown Experience Dec 1: The Lynn Grissett Quintet Dec 2: David Crosby & Friends Dec 3: Robert Earl Keen

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Oct 24: Michael McDonald w/ Marc Cohn Oct 27: Jeezy w/ Juvenile Nov 9: Straight No Chaser Nov 11: Tori Amos Nov 12: John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring Nov 18: The O’Jays w/ The Dramatics Nov 26: The Brian Setzer Orchestra

GREENSBORO

CAROLINA THEATRE

310 S Greene St | 336.333.2605 www.carolinatheatre.com Oct 28: The Spirit of the Carolina Nov 1: Boney James

HIGH POINT

HIGH POINT THEATRE

220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401 www.highpointtheatre.com Oct 20: Los Lobos Nov 4: Mojo & the Bayou Gypsies Nov 9: Terry Barber Dec 2: The Gibson Brothers

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PNC ARENA

1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300 www.thepncarena.com Oct 28: Charlie Wilson w/ Anthony Hamilton & La’Porsha Renae Dec 3: Xscape WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

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South African theatre troupe returns with daring staging to two short Tennessee Williams plays

fter the sell-out success of Desire Under the Elms at Triads’ UpStage Cabaret in 2016, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Triad Stage, Abrahamse & Meyer Productions in association with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival join forces to bring Greensboro theatre lovers an unforgettable evening of two short outrageous and hilarious plays by Tennessee Williams presented under the collective title Two by Tenn.

This October Triad’s UpStage Cabaret will be transformed into an intimate and immersive theatre space where patrons will be transported to the most outlandish corners for Tennessee Williams’ fertile imagination. The first play on the bill will be Tennessee Williams’ side-splitting comedy A Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot. Set in a desolate St. Louis juke-joint in the late 1930s two ageing good-time girls, well-upholstered Bessie and horsefaced Flora, hope to meet up with the Sons of Mars before the night is done. The Huffington Post called the production “excellent” and “fantastically exciting”, when Abrahamse & Meyer premiered Parrot in the USA last year at the 2016 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival. The unique feature of this production is that Bessie and Flora are played by two outrageous life-size puppets representing Dame Elizabeth Taylor [Bessie] and Joan Crawford [Flora], assisted by the vocal and puppeteering talents of award-winning Dean Balie and Marcel Meyer. After intermission patrons experience one of Williams’ most bizarre late plays, The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. LeMonde. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Set in a rooftop garret above Mme LeMonde’s London Rooming House, babyfaced Mint unable to use his legs, swings from hooks attached to the ceiling. Mint is taunted by LeMonde, who withholds his meals and he’s sexually abused on a regular basis by one of Madame’s many male spawn. Hall, an old school chum from Scrotum-on-Swansea, drops in for tea and shows no interest in Mint’s suffering. Two by Tenn played to sold out houses and unanimous critical acclaim in Cape Town earlier this year with the press lauding the production as “an immersive site responsive theatre experience not to be missed.” Acclaimed both at home and in the USA for their landmark productions, Abrahamse & Meyer Productions have garnered numerous local and international awards and nominations for their innovative stagings of Williams classics like Sweet Bird of Youth, Kingdom of Earth, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, One Arm, Stairs to the Roof and The Day on Which A Man Dies. Two by Tenn will première at the UpStage Cabaret, Triad Stage, 232 South Elm St. in Greensboro on Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. and have additional performances at 8 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 21 and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 21. Because of the exclusive nature of this event only a limited number of seats are available so booking is essential. To book please call: 336-2720160. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for UNCG students. Warning: The Remarkable RoomingHouse of Mme Le Monde contains some strong language, violence and simulated sex that might upset sensitive viewers. !

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FACES, PLACES (VISAGES, VILLAGES) (PG) Fri: 3:00, 5:30 Sat: 10:00 AM, 3:00, 5:30 Sun: 10:00 AM, 5:30 Mon: 6:00 PM,Tue: 3:30, 6:00 Wed: 6:00 PM LOVING VINCENT (PG-13) Fri: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun: 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 Mon: 6:15, 8:45, Tue: 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Wed & Thu: 6:15, 8:45 LUCKY Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sun: 11:15 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 Mon: 6:30, 9:00, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed: 6:30, 9:00 Thu: 6:30, 9:15 BATTLE OF THE SEXES (PG-13) Fri: 8:00 PM Sat & Sun: 12:30, 8:00 Mon - Wed: 8:30 PM Thu: 9:00 PM VICTORIA & ABDUL (PG-13) Fri: 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sat & Sun: 10:30 AM, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Mon: 5:30, 8:00 Tue: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Wed & Thu: 5:30, 8:00 HAPPY CHRISTMAS (JOYEUX NOEL) (PG-13) Sun: 3:00 PM The Last Wave (PG) Sat: 9:30 AM

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BY MATT BRUNSON

he primary poster for The Foreigner ( ) shows Jackie Chan standing alone in a scene of carnage, with the tagline intoning that one should “Never Push A Good Man Too Far.” Such a promotional angle suggests that Chan will employ his considerable martial arts skills to take down various evildoers a la Taken or Death Wish. This is accurate — to a point. But look at the poster more closely and it becomes clear that this isn’t a solo vehicle for Chan, not with Pierce Brosnan sharing above-the-title billing. As for the movie itself, it’s far from a straightforward action romp — instead, it’s a knotty political thriller involving a terrorist outfit with possible IRA ties embarking on a series of bombings. The scene of mass destruction that opens the picture ends up killing the college-age daughter of Quan (Chan), a restaurateur who had already lost his wife and other daughters to senseless violence long ago. A devastated Quan wants to

make sure those responsible are punished, and so he begins harassing Liam Hennessy (Brosnan), a former IRA member who now works with the British government. Quan is convinced that Hennessy knows the

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identities of the terrorists — for his part, Hennessy must track down these murderers while also assigning his subordinates to deal with a surprisingly efficient Quan. It’s interesting to see Chan stripped of the cheeky charisma that has floated most of his career, even if the movie doesn’t give him much to do beyond scowling, grimacing and occasionally throwing a punch. Chan often feels like a visitor in his own film, since the majority concerns itself with the maneuverings and machinations of Brosnan’s character to appease those wanting answers and those seeking power. The script attempts some plot pirouettes that don’t always flow gracefully, and one’s tolerance regarding the wholesale slaughter of innocents in disposable entertainment may understandably be more pronounced than ever. Yet overall, The Foreigner proves to be a respectable example of a thinking person’s action flick. Groundhog Day gets run through the

grinder in Happy Death Day ( ), a horror yarn that derives a fair amount of mileage out of its canny premise. Set on a college campus, Happy Death Day centers on Tree (Jessica Rothe), a sorority girl who gets murdered on her birthday. But death isn’t the end for Tree — like Bill Murray’s weatherman, she wakes up again on the same day, and she soon realizes that she will keep dying (and keep repeating the day) until she identifies her killer. After the excellent Edge of Tomorrow, any movie sporting a similar premise is bound to look anemic, and Happy Death Day certainly doesn’t hold up to much post-viewing scrutiny. But as it unfolds, it’s entertaining enough, bolstered by at least one clever fake-out, a strong central performance by Rothe, and the striking employment of a cherubic mask that — if the movie’s a hit — might end up being sported by numerous wise guys come All Hallows’ Eve. !

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The Triad’s highest and lowest restaurant sanitation ratings *Editor’s note: The intention of this article is to inform our readers of the lowest and highest sanitation ratings in the Triad. This article was not intended to endorse the restaurants with a high sanitation rating or discredit the restaurants that have a low sanitation rating. My most terrifying Halloween Ian McDowell was spent in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill infirmary with Contributing a gruesome case of food poisoning. This happened after foolishly failing columnist to notice the sanitation rating on the grease-splattered wall of a gyro joint on Franklin Street. Student Legal Services later assisted in the early stages of litigation, but over Thanksgiving break, the restaurant burned down and its owners moved out of state. Word on Franklin Street was that the grease that regularly splattered the establishment’s back wall had finally ignited it. Since then, I’ve always looked for the Public Health Inspection rating, and so should you. The score of 78 that the North Carolina Department of Public Health gave that Franklin Street grease palace, a number I can recall because it was also the grade on my Sociology final, would now be accompanied by a big bold “C,” the scarlet letter of sanitation ratings. Such letters did not become part of state-mandated restaurant grades until 1995, when the first such system was enacted by South Carolina, with North Carolina and Tennessee following suit. Under North Carolina law, any establishment that prepares and serves drink or food to the public for pay is subject to inspection by the Environmental Health Section within the Division of Public Health, which is part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Every food service establishment in Guilford and Forsyth counties receives an unannounced, on-site inspection one to four times a year. The inspection ensures that the establishment is meeting food safety requirements. The inspector records any observed violations during the inspection. Each violation is associated with a range of points depending on the type and extent of the violation and the risk it poses to the public. At the end of the inspection, the points are added together for an inspection score. A numerical scoring system on a 100-point scale is used with points deducted for each violation. As one might expect, a score of 90-100 points is an “A,” 80-89 points a “B” and 70-79 points is a “C.” Anything below 70 points results in the

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HIGHEST RESTAURANT SANITATION RATINGS FOR GUILFORD COUNTY Grade

Last Inspection

Restaurant or Other Food Service Establishment

100

9/25

Bella Luna, 2205 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge

100

6/5

Hungry Howie’s 625, 5710 Gate City Blvd, Greensboro

100

2/16

Mythos Grill, 3900 West Market St, Greensboro

99.5

10/4

Subway #65376, 5635 Riverdale Road, Jamestown

99.5

9/27

Sidwill’s Café & Catering, 116 E. Main Street, Jamestown

99.5

9/15

Penny’s Restaurant, 727 W. Main Street, Jamestown

99.5

8/7

Mikhael’s Café and Catering, 4214 Beechwood Dr #109, Greensboro

99.5

8/3

Jamestown Park Grill, 7041 East Fork Road, Jamestown

99.5

7/7

New York China Restaurant, 7605-H NC HWY 68 North, Oak Ridge

8/17

Cincy’s Downtown, 15 E February 1 Place, Greensboro

LOWEST RESTAURANT SANITATION RATINGS FOR GUILFORD COUNTY Grade

Last Inspection

Restaurant or Other Food Service Establishment

80.5

8/21

China King Super Buffet, 1112 Eastchester, High Point

2/7/2017

Drury Inn & Suites, 3220 W. Gate City Blvd, Greensboro

8/18

Ichiban Grill & Supreme Buffet, 3020 W. Gate City Blvd, Greensboro

6/28

The Worx, 108 Barnhardt St, Greensboro

90.5

9/19

Holiday Inn Express Hotel Suites Breakfast, 3111 Cedar Park Road, Greensboro

90.5

8/29

Chopstix, 1320 Lees Chapel, Greensboro

90.5

8/10

New One Wok, 707 College Road, Greensboro

9/18

#1 Chinese Restaurant, 1125 E Lexington, High Point

8/14

Best Pizza (Rome Italian Garden Market Pizza), 5211 W Market, Greensboro

7/14

Kyoto Express, 3361 Battleground, Greensboro

HIGHEST RESTAURANT SANITATION RATINGS FOR FORSYTH COUNTY Grade

Last Inspection

Restaurant or other Food Service Establishment

100

8/30

Billy Bob’s Silver Diner, 1650 Hanes Mall Blvd, Winston-Salem

10/03

Barberitos Southwestern Grille, 220 Market View Drive, Kernersville

9/14

The Flour Box Tea Room and Café, 137 West Street Old Salem, Winston-Salem

8/15

Honky Tonk Smokehouse, 145 Jonestown Rd, Winston-Salem

8/14

Tanglewood Clubhouse Grill, 4061 Tanglewood Rd, Clemmons

8/14

Frank’s Restaurant, 8191 Broad Street, Rural Hall

98.5

10/5

Ruby Tuesday #4947, 6412 Sessions Court, Clemmons

98.5

9/21

Biscuitville #129, 6405 Session Court, Clemmons

98.5

9/20

The Tavern in Old Salem, 736 South Main Street, Winston-Salem

10/11

The Greek Grill, 1520 Lewisville Clemmons Rd, Clemmons

LOWEST RESTAURANT SANITATION RATINGS FOR FORSYTH COUNTY Grade

Last Inspection

Restaurant or other Food Service Establishment

80.5

9/14

New China Buffet, 5723 N. University Pkwy, Winston-Salem

81.5

10/2

No 1 Chinese Restaurant, 2820 University Pkwy Winston-Salem

10/9

McDonald’s #7030, 195 Akron Drive, Winston-Salem

10/9

Zito’s Pizzeria and Grill, 3030 Healy Drive, Winston-Salem

8/28

Pizza Hut #2841, 2721 Peters Creek Pkwy, Winston-Salem

8/28

Twin Peaks, 1915 Hampton Inn Court, Winston-Salem

10/10

Simply Soul Restaurant, 4339 South Main St, Winston-Salem

10/2

Jimmy the Greek, 2806 University Pkwy, Winston-Salem

9/18

Sagebrush Steakhouse #527, 566 Arbor Hill Road, Kernersville

8/21

China Express, 3055 Waughton Street, Winston-Salem

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immediate revocation of the establishment’s permit, and its operations must cease until all issues are corrected. Once an establishment is inspected and receives a grade, its permit is required to be posted in conspicuous view of all diners. With that in mind, here follows an examination of restaurant sanitation ratings in the databases maintained by the Guilford and Forsyth County Departments of Public Health. The Guilford County database includes 1,146 restaurants, 32 food stands and 63 food trucks, as well as sanitation ratings for a variety of establishments and facilities outside the scope of this article, including commercial lodgings, school cafeterias, and tattoo parlors. Similarly, the Forsyth database covers 779 restaurants, 246 food stands and 17 food trucks. This data can be accessed via the following URLs, reduced using Google’s URL Shortener. Guilford: goo.gl/VS29gE Forsyth: goo.gl/eaZTTW The databases can only be sorted by letter grade, date, restaurant name, city name or zip code; the site doesn’t allow a viewer to sort, for instance, all the grades or any subset of them in descending order, with either the lowest or the highest first. This isn’t a problem when determining the lowest-rated restaurants, as only one Guilford County establishment and 11 Forsyth County establishments received a “C” in the last five years. Even all the “B” ratings over that period of time, 182 for Forsyth and 46 for Guilford, can be browsed in a couple of hours. Sorting the “A”s is more difficult, as 1,120 Guilford County restaurants received a rating between 90 and 100 on their most recent inspect, with the figure being 735 for Forsyth. Therefore, while it was relatively simple to determine the lowest-rated restaurants, there was a lot more data to sort through for the highest-rated ones. Yes! Weekly apologizes for any restaurants that may have been in the highest percentile but was unintentionally left out here because their last inspection occurred before August. It should also be noted that the cut-off for this article was midnight on Oct. 13, and it does not reflect any grades posted to the website after that time, regardless of when the inspection occurred. The online version of this article will be updated to reflect any corrections received. With that caveat in mind, here are the top 10 restaurants for Guilford County. The following three restaurants received “perfect scores” of 100 on their last inspection: Bella Luna, 2205 Oak Ridge Rd., Oak Ridge. Hungry Howie’s Pizza #625, 5710 Gate City Blvd., Greensboro. Mythos Grill, 4900 West Market St., Greensboro. It should be noted that Hungry Howie’s #625 has received 100 on five of its six inspections since September 2014. Mythos Grill has received three scores of 100, one of 99.5 and one of 99 since 2015. Bella Luna’s inspection of Sept. 25 was its first. Six Guilford County restaurants received scores of 99.5, with all their most recent inspections occurring since July of this year. Jamestown Park Grill, 7041 East Fork Rd., Jamestown. Mikhael’s Café and Catering, 4214 Beechwood Dr., Greensboro. New York China Restaurant, 7605-H, NC HWY 68, North Oak Ridge. Penny’s Restaurant, 727 W. Main St., Jamestown. Sidwill’s Café & Catering, 116 E. Main Street, Jamestown. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

Subway #65376, 5635 Riverdale Rd., Jamestown. The top 10 is rounded out by Cincy’s Downtown at 115 E. February 1 Place in Greensboro, which received a 98. Dozens of other Guilford County restaurants received an identical store, but Cincy’s was the most recent to do so. A special honorable mention might be made of Elizabeth’s Pizza at 1218 Bridford Parkway in Greensboro, which received a 97.5 on Aug. 15, but 100 on its previous six inspections. Note that Greensboro took four of the top spots, Jamestown took four and Oak Ridge two, with High Point nowhere to be seen (it will be better represented in the bottom 10 rankings). Forsyth County makes for an interesting comparison. Looking at the stats, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Forsyth County Department of Health employs much tougher graders, as only one restaurant received a perfect score. That was Billy Bob’s Silver Diner at 1650 Hanes Mall Boulevard in Winston-Salem. No Forsyth restaurant received a 99.5 in the past few months (as opposed to the six in Guilford County), but the following five all received scores of 99: Flour Box Tea Room and Café, 137 West St., Old Salem, Winston-Salem. Frank’s Restaurant, 8191 Broad St., Rural Hall. Honky Tonk Smokehouse, 145 Jonestown Rd., Winston-Salem. Tanglewood Clubhouse Grill, 4061 Tanglewood Rd., Clemmons. The following three restaurants all received 98.5 on their latest inspections. Note the presence of a Biscuitville location; that company has the highest overall ratings of any chain in the Triad aside from Starbuck’s. Biscuitville #129, 6405 Sessions Court, Clemmons. Ruby Tuesday #4947, 6412 Sessions Court, Clemmons. The Tavern in Old Salem, 736 South Main Street, Winston-Salem. The Greek Grill at 1520 Lewisville Clemmons Road in Clemmons rounds out this Top 10 with a score of 98. It was chosen over the other Forsyth County restaurants with that grade due to receiving it the most recently, when it was inspected on Oct. 10. Now for the other end of the scale. Reflecting the apparent tendency of Guilford County restaurants to receive higher scores than Forsyth’s, Guilford’s bottom 10 actually includes eight restaurants with a grade of “A.” Three received a score of 91. These were # 1 Chinese Restaurant at 1125 E. Lexington in High Point, Rome Italian Garden Market Pizza at 5211 W. Market in Greensboro and Kyoto Express at 3361 Battleground in Greensboro. Three other Greensboro restaurants received a rating of 90.5. Those were Holiday Inn Express Hotel Suites Breakfast at 3111 Cedar Park Road, Chopstix at 1320 Lees Chapel and New One Wok at 707 College Road. The following two establishments received a grade of 90: Ichiban Grill & Supreme Buffet at 3020 W. Gate City Blvd. and The Worx at 108 Barnhardt St., both in Greensboro. It should be noted that a grade this low is anomalous for Ichiban, which has received an average grade of 96 over its five-year history and was given a 95 on June 21. Only two establishments, one not actually a restaurant although the Public Health Department includes it in that category, received a “B” rating. Drury Inn & Suites at 3220 W. Gate City Blvd. in Greensboro received

the higher of these two rankings, earning an 89 on Feb. 7. This rating was only for the food service afforded to its guests, and it more recently received a 96 in the Lodging category on Sept. 26. The lowest-rated restaurant in Guilford County (and tied for lowest in this article), was China King Super Buffet at 1112 Eastchester in High Point. This establishment received an 80.5 on Aug. 21. It has received a “B” on every inspection this year, earning 86 on June 12 and 82.5 on May 4. As the overall tendency may have suggested, Forsyth County lowest scores skewed lower than Guilford’s. Where Guilford had only two establishments with a “B” rating on their last inspections, Forsyth had five, all occurring in the last two months. New China Buffet on 5723 University Parkway is highest of the bottom 10, having received a grade of 91 on Oct. 11. Before getting to those Forsyth County restaurants that received a grade lower than 90, there are the four with that number, the lowest “A” rating. One, Sagebrush Steakhouse #527 at 566 Arbor Hill Road, is in Kernersville, and three are in Winston-Salem. The Winston establishments are Simply Soul Restaurant at 4339 South Main Street, Jimmy the Greek at 2806 University Parkway, and China Express at 3055 Waughton Street. The highest of Forsyth County’s “B” ratings is Twin Peaks at 1915 Hampton Inn Court in Winston, which received an 88 on Aug. 28. Two Winston-Salem pizza parlors got an 87, with Zito’s Pizzeria and Grill at 3030 Healy Drive receiving that grade on Oct. 9 and Pizza Hut # 2841 at 2721 Peters Creek Parkway receiving it on Aug. 28. With its rating of 86 on Oct. 9, McDonald’s #7030 at 195 Akron Drive in Winston-Salem has the lowest grade of any corporate chain restaurant in the Triad and the second lowest for any Forsyth county restaurant (the Yelp reviews for that location are also extremely low, many citing its alleged lack of cleanliness). From there to the bottom slot is a considerable drop. Number 1 Chinese Restaurant on 2820 University Parkway in Winston received an 81.5 on Oct. 2. For the lowest-rated establishments in either county, their current grades are bit anomalous. Number 1 Chinese Restaurant has also received two other “B” ratings in 2017 and has an average rating of 86.6 over the last four years. High Point’s New China Buffet, the lowest rated restaurant in either county at 80.5, has an average of 85.5 over its last 10 inspections. Yet these are no more typical of the overall sanitation ratings for Chinese restaurants than the low ratings for the above Zito’s and Pizza Hut locations are of pizza chains. Most of the Triad’s Asian restaurants consistently score in the high 90s. Buffets, with their large size and sheer variety of food that must be maintained for hours at a time at mandated temperatures, do present special challenges, but many local establishments meet them. For instance, while it didn’t quite make the top 10, the popular Super China Buffet at 2103 Pyramids Village in Greensboro received a 96.5 on Aug. 10 and has consistently been rated in the high 90s, as have the Triad’s most popular Indian buffets. The actual rating is what diners should be wary of, not any particular type of restaurant. ! 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. OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

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Salem’s spirited tavern: Part two

Frances Benjamin Johnston photographed the Salem Tavern in 1936. Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. BY JENNIFER BEAN BOWER William H. Lutterloh lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked in the steamboat business. He spent several summers vacationing in Salem and had befriended many of the town’s residents. When he fell ill in the summer of 1875, Lutterloh decided to return to Salem in an effort to renew his health. The reason behind his decision is unknown, but it may have been based on guidebook descriptions that boasted the town’s healthy climate, as well as its prized mineral spring. Albert P. Hurt, a steamboat captain from Fayetteville, tried to dissuade his friend from traveling. He believed Lutterloh was too feeble to attempt the trip and that to do so would further endanger his health. But Lutterloh would not listen to reason and boarded a train despite the admonishment. Soon after, Hurt caught up with the

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locomotive and accompanied Lutterloh to Salem. The two men reached their destination around the third week of June. When they entered the Salem Hotel, Lutterloh was so disoriented that he was unable to write his name in the register. John F. Shaffner, a Salem physician, arrived at the scene, gave him a sedative and diagnosed his condition—according to his deposition—as “softening of the brain.” Lutterloh remained at the hotel where Hurt and a servant named Anderson Smith took care of him. For a few days, it seemed as if Lutterloh was improving. But on July 1, his health took a turn for the worse and within three days his mind had become deranged. Lutterloh’s words and actions were irrational, as he expressed an urgent need to travel to High Point, North Carolina. Then, on July 5, at 4 a.m., Lutterloh vanished from his room.

Modern-day photograph of the Salem Tavern. Courtesy of Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

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Detail of Lutterloh’s signature in the 1874 Salem Hotel register. Collection of Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Smith felt sure that Lutterloh had left the building in an attempt to reach High Point and began to search for him at once. He looked out the window to see if Lutterloh was out on the lawn, but to his horror, his eyes beheld a body lying prostrate on the pavement below. Lutterloh was dead. The coroner and a jury of men were called to the scene where they reviewed the evidence and reported the cause of death. Hurt, Smith and Shaffner were duly sworn and asked to give an account of Lutterloh’s physical and mental state. They were also asked to recount the events of July 5. Their depositions, which appeared on July 8, 1875, in the People’s Press article “Sad and Fatal Accident,” stated: Hurt, being duly sworn, deposed as follows: “Sometimes I thought his mind was improving, but he would soon relapse into a delirious state so that he hardly had any WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

rational moments…I remained with him until about ten o’clock last night and saw to it that the servant, Anderson, gave him the sedative prescribed by Dr. Shaffner. Went to my room… returned a few hours later…found him composed and left him. Anderson came and informed me of his tragic end. I have no doubt as to his death being caused by falling from the window whilst out of his mind.” Smith, the servant, being duly sworn, deposed: “I staid [sic] with Mr. Lutterloh…last night. It was the first time… it was thought necessary for any one [sic] to remain with him. He was very restless all night and his whole talk was about wanting to start to High Point; would jump wildly in bed and want to go, and once took hold of his trunk and started off with it; but on being spoken to, would become quiet.” Shaffner’s duly sworn states that he had been attending Mr. Lutterloh for about

William H. Lutterloh (1827-1875) was buried at Cross Creek Cemetery No. 1 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The date on his headstone incorrectly reads July 4. Photograph by Larry T. Bower, Jr. two weeks. “He came here in a disorganized state of mind…In the condition he was in yesterday it is not probable he would have lived long... In his weak condition he could not bear much and the fall from the window no doubt immediately caused his death. Upon post-mortem examination, there are some bruises upon the left leg and left arm, and a contusion upon the right side of the head; no fracture upon any part of the body. The fall itself would hardly have destroyed his life, but for his weak and prostrate condition...” On July 6, Lutterloh’s body was transported to Fayetteville and interred in Cross Creek Cemetery No. 1. Lutterloh’s death cast a sad gloom over the entire town of Salem where all mourned his “sad and tragic end” and regretted the loss of their summertime friend. It has since been said that a face can sometimes be seen in one of the historic

building’s windows. Is it the spirit of William H. Lutterloh, or do the glass panes—with their distorted ripples and lines—create illusions that trick one’s mind into seeing something that is not there? It is something only you can decide. One thing is certain, the Salem Tavern— also referred to as the Salem Hotel—was a place of great happiness and sorrow. Although four men—not counting the unnamed traveler—suffered and died at or near the building, their spirits—through the telling of their stories—will always be present in Salem. ! JENNIFER BEAN BOWER is an award-winning writer, native Tar Heel and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While working as the associate curator of photographic collections at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Bower researched local tragedies and composed the book Winston & Salem: Tales of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem. OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

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for himself. Unfortunately for David Dunbar Buick, who incorporated the company in 1903, that wasn’t the case. In less than a year, the company was sold. Buick stayed on as a manager and worked on engine development, but only for two more years. When he left his namesake company in 1906, he sold his one remaining share of Buick for $100,000. That was a rather hefty sum at the time, but he lost it all in a series of unsuccessful ventures. At the time of his death in early 1929, he was virtually penniless. * It’s been reported that a shaved guinea pig bears a remarkable resemblance to a tiny hippopotamus. Thought for the Day: “Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.” — Eric Hoffer © 2017 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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I am a 32-yearold woman who has never been in a relationship with a man I’m actually attracted to. The men I’ve ended up with really pursued me, Amy Alkon and they were all smart, funny, and Advice kind, so I thought it Goddess was shallow not to date them because I wasn’t that into their looks. Depressingly, each time, I eventually found myself repulsed by the guy and eyeing other men. Of course, that brought things to an end. How important is physical attraction in a relationship? — Lukewarmed When you’ve got a position to fill — in your life or the workplace — it’s important to bring in somebody who meets the essential requirements. So when the overheating thingy on the nuclear reactor needs fixing, you put out a call for a certified nuclear mechanic; you don’t just go “Okay, whatever” when the nicest mariachi band roadie comes in looking for work. Of course, sexual attraction isn’t everything. But without it, you and another person are best suited for a relationship like “friends,” “neighbors,” or “people who give each other a friendly wave in the carport.” Experimental psychologist Gurit Birnbaum finds evidence from across social psychology and evolutionary psychology that the “sexual system” (sexual desire) and the “attachment system” (emotional bond-

ing) work together. In fact, she explains, it seems sexual desire “has been ‘exploited’ by evolutionary processes” to promote enduring emotional bonds between partners. Basically, evolution bribes romantic partners with nooky so they’ll stay together and care for their kids, improving the chances that the little buggers survive to pass on their genes. It’s important to find somebody you have serious hots for from the start, because maintaining a sex crush on your partner is actually vital throughout the relationship stages. Birnbaum explains that sexual desire motivates partners to keep “investing resources” in each other and the relationship — beyond sexytime. Additionally, after the initial hottity-hots die down, still wanting to get it on with your partner seems to provide a “buffer” for poor communication skills and lessthan-desirable personality traits, such as emotional instability. (“Whoa, that mood swing nearly gave me a concussion!”) So, no, you wouldn’t be “shallow” to date only men you’re attracted to. You’d be doing the wise (and kind) thing: keeping yourself from yet another doomed relationship with some nice but meh guy where the sweet nothings you whisper are along the lines of “Please don’t touch me unless it’s medically necessary.”

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There are relaxation tapes that repeat a word or statement to help you go to sleep, but “I hate you...I hate you...I hope you fall in a manhole and drown in the sewer” isn’t one I’ve seen in the catalog. Psychologists call what you’ve been doing “ruminating” — a form of over-think that involves obsessively replaying events, problems, or feelings. The term comes from a yicky place — a cow’s rumen, a stomach area where it partially digests food, only to throw it up so it can rechew the food again. Yum, huh? The late psychologist Susan NolenHoeksema found that rumination can lead to depression — probably because it’s like being on a hamster wheel of hopelessness. However, the hopelessness comes not from reflecting on your feelings or problems but from doing it pointlessly — that is, rerunning those events and feelings and generating only frown lines, not insight. Healthy reflection on the past involves making it mean something for the future — turning the unfortunate events of, say, an ill-advised relationship into a guide

for a wiser course in your next one. So, for example, when you find yourself venting about this guy, stop and turn the lens on yourself. Take responsibility for how you might have seen or done things differently. That’s different from blaming yourself. By telling yourself “In the future, I have to take a closer look at this or that,” you are protecting yourself instead of pointlessly raging — which is basically the emotional version of having three transients squatting in your attic. To get off the beddy-bye rage train (think: “The Little Engine That Should Shut Up Already”), just keep redirecting your thoughts to the positive — people and things in your life you’re grateful for and ideas for moving forward. Sure, guys you date will probably ask why you and your ex broke up, but a few words should suffice. Nobody wants to see you cast a glance at the clock and pull a huge parchment scroll from your purse. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2017 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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