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The co-owner of an Oak Glen apple farm is asking one court to hold off on making a decision and a second court to take another look in two separate but similar cases filed against several Southern California school districts over canceled field trips.
On Thursday, March 31, James Riley of Riley’s Farm asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at his 2018 lawsuit against the Claremont Unified School District and district officials whom he says banned school-sponsored trips to his establishment after he made controversial social media posts. The farm offers history re-enactments for school children.
A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court last month affirmed part and reversed part of a U.S. District Court judge’s 2020 dismissal of Riley’s lawsuit. The appellate court said while Riley couldn’t sue Claremont school officials for money, the district possibly could not forbid schools from going to the farm.
On Thursday, Riley filed a petition for a rehearing before the three-judge panel or the full appellate court, saying the panel’s decision “overlooks material points of law” and does not address a conflict with other court decisions including the Supreme Court.
A separate but similar 2020 lawsuit brought by the farm against officials from several school districts was paused by a District Court judge until the outcome of the appeal in the Claremont case was determined.
After the March 17 appeals court ruling, the defendants in Azusa, Bonita, Burbank, Corona-Norco, Culver City, Monrovia, Rialto, San Bernardino City and Walnut Valley school districts requested the stay to be lifted and the case be dismissed.
On Saturday, April 2, Riley asked the court in that case the stay be kept in place “pending resolution of the Petition and further proceedings on the Claremont appeal.”
On Wednesday, both cases were awaiting judges’ rulings on the matters.
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By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state troopers on Wednesday to begin stopping and inspecting commercial vehicles coming across the U.S-Mexico border and said bus charters would be offered to take migrants to Washington, D.C., in a dig at President Joe Biden and Congress.
Texas officials also said they would begin “increased military activity” on the southern border and install razor wire at some low-water along the river to deter migrants from crossing.
The new directives amount to the “unprecedented actions” that Abbott promised in response to the Biden administration winding down a public health law – now set to expire in May – that has limited asylum-seekers in the name of preventing the spread of COVID-19. When that happens, it is expected to draw potentially thousands more migrants to the southern border.
Flanked by Texas troopers in the border city of Weslaco, Abbott acknowledged that additional inspections of commercial vehicles near the U.S. ports of entry will “dramatically slow” vehicle traffic coming into the county.
But the latest orders further push the limits of a multibillion-dollar Texas border security mission that the two-term Republican governor, who is running for reelection in November, has made the cornerstone of his administration. Already, Texas has deployed thousands of troopers and National Guard members, installed new border barrier and arrested thousands of migrants on trespassing charges.
Still, the efforts do not go far enough for some former Trump administration officials, who are pressing Abbott to declare an “invasion” and give state law enforcement sweeping new authority to turn back migrants – essentially bestowing enforcement powers that have been a federal responsibility.
That concept is legally dubious, nearly unprecedented and would almost certainly face swift court challenges, according to some constitutional experts.
Abbott, who is up for reelection in November and is already installing more border barrier and allowing troopers to arrest migrants on trespassing charges, did not say Wednesday whether he supports such a proposal. He said more actions would be announced next week.
Border Patrol officials say they are planning for as many as 18,000 arrivals daily once the health policy, known as the Title 42 authority, expires in May. Last week, about 7,100 migrants were coming a day to the southern U.S. border.
But the way former Trump immigration officials see it, Texas and Arizona can pick up where the federal government leaves off once the policy ends. Their plan involves a novel interpretation of the U.S. Constitution to have the National Guard or state police forcibly send migrants to Mexico, without regard to immigration laws and law enforcement procedures. Border enforcement has always been a federal responsibility, and in Texas, state leaders have not been pushing for such a move.
Tom Homan, the former acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, said at a border security conference in San Antonio last week he had spoken with Abbott about the idea.
“We’ve had discussions with his attorneys in his office, ‘Is there a way to use this clause within the Constitution where it talks about invasion?’” Homan said during the Border Security Expo.
Homan said those talks took place about three months ago, and on Tuesday described the governor’s office as “noncommittal but willing to listen.”
In Arizona, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has also been under pressure within his party to declare that the state is being invaded and use extraordinary powers normally reserved for war. But Ducey, who is term-limited and not on the ballot in 2022, has not embraced the theory and has avoided commenting directly on it.
Driving the effort on the right is the Center for Renewing America, a conservative policy think tank led by former Trump administration officials. It includes Ken Cuccinelli, an immigration hard-liner and former Homeland Security official under Trump. He argued that states are entitled to defend themselves from immediate danger or invasion, as it is defined by the “invasion clause,” under the “states self-defense clause.”
Cuccinelli said in practice, he envisions the plan would look similar to the enforcement of Title 42, which circumvented U.S. obligations under American law and international treaty to provide asylum. He said he has not spoken with Abbott and said the governor’s current sweeping border mission, known as Operation Lone Star, has put little dent in the number of people crossing the border. The mission has also drawn criticism from Guard members over long deployments and little to do, and some arrests have appeared to have no connection to border security.
“Until you are actually returning people to Mexico, what you are doing will have no effect,” Cuccinelli said.
Emily Berman, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Houston, said the “invasion clause” cited by proponents is tucked into a broader constitutional assurance that the U.S. must defend states from invasion and domestic violence. Additionally, she said, the “state self-defense clause” says states cannot engage in warlike actions or foreign policy unless invaded.
Berman said she hasn’t seen the constitutional clauses used since the 1990s, when the courts ruled that they did not have jurisdiction to decide what qualified an invasion, but believed that one could only be done by another governmental entity.
For example, Berman said, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia can be qualified as one because it is an outside government breaching another country’s boundaries with the use of military force.
“Just because the state says that it is an invasion that doesn’t necessarily make it so, it is not clear to me what additional legal authority that conveys on them,” Berman said, adding that state officials can enforce state laws, but the line is drawn at what the federal law allows.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat whose district includes the Texas border, has criticized the Biden administration over border security and ending Title 42. But he does not support states trying to use new powers that would let them “do whatever they want.”
“I think it should be more of a partnership instead of saying, ‘Federal government, we don’t think you’re doing enough, and why don’t we go ahead and do our own border security?’” he said.
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Coronado is a corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Associated Press reporter Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix and Nomaan Merchant in Washington contributed to this report.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Five players can go to No. 1 in the world by winning the Masters. Another can complete the career Grand Slam with a green jacket. Such is the depth of talent these days in golf on the eve of the first major of the year.
And such is the power of five words at 10:34 a.m. Thursday that are sure to overshadow everything else on the opening day of the 86th Masters.
“Fore, please. Tiger Woods driving.”
Those words from the first tee at Augusta National haven’t been uttered since Nov. 15, 2020, the last time Woods played — and walked — in a tournament.
For all its youth — the top seven players in the world are 30 or younger — golf still isn’t ready to let go of its past, especially when that past is Woods and there was every reason to wonder if he would ever compete at this level again.
Along with images of Woods slipping on any of his five green jackets are those of his crumpled SUV at the bottom of a hill in Rolling Hills Estates from his harrowing crash 14 months ago that left him confined to a hospital bed for three months.
In December, when he rode a cart to compete in a 36-hole event with his son, and Matt Kuchar suggested his swing was PGA Tour-ready, Woods smiled and said, “No, no, no, no. I totally disagree. I’m not at that level. I can’t compete against these guys right now. No.”
And then on Tuesday, he said he was going to play and added a short time later, “I don’t show up to an event unless I think I can win it.”
“It’s just truly amazing. I don’t even know how else to say it,” Masters Chairman Fred Ridley said Wednesday. “I would have probably taken some pretty high odds a few months ago, even a few weeks ago, whether or not he would be here.
“But when you think about it, it really shouldn’t surprise us. He is one of the most determined, dedicated athletes that I have ever seen in my life.”
Woods is back — again — and the 90 other players at Augusta National feel like nothing more than an afterthought until scores are posted.
“Tiger takes a lot of attention away from all of us, which I think is a good thing for us,” said Scottie Scheffler, making his debut as the No. 1 player in the world. “He’s used to being in the spotlight. Tiger is the needle for professional golf.”
Tigermania has been in full force ever since the gates opened Monday morning, and the gallery filled every inch behind the ropes for the nine holes he played with Justin Thomas and Fred Couples. It was like that again Wednesday, when the trio played the back nine, beating the rain.
On the par-5 second hole, Louis Oosthuizen had a fairway metal in hand as he tried to reach the green.
Only about 150 people lingered behind to watch. On the third fairway, the caddie for Joaquin Niemann was walking the course to check yardages when someone suggested he should enjoy such a quiet day. Gary Matthews turned and smile.
Woods is grouped with Oosthuizen and Niemann for the opening two rounds. On the other side of the course, both sides of the 15th fairway were lined with spectators to watch Woods take two shots with his fairway metal to reach the green. They followed him in. Practice tickets are only for one day. Catch him while you can.
“Tiger is Tiger,” Couples said. “He’s not like a lot of us, where I’ve been injured even at age 35 and I go play just to play. He’s not going to do that. He’s won so many times, and he’s just not a guy to go do something mediocre. He’ll compete, and he’ll be ready to roll.”
Rain interrupted the final day of practice after about three hours and cleared up in time for the start of the Par 3 Tournament, the first time that was held since 2019 because of the pandemic. Storms halted this edition of the Par 3.
And then the curtain rises on the Masters which has rarely held so much intrigue.
Scheffler is the new No. 1 in a world of golf so balanced at the top that Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay and Cameron Smith have a mathematical chance to replace him.
This is different from other years in which only a few of golf’s best players have anything to show for it.
Scheffler is the only player who has won this year while ranked among the top 10. Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas have gone more than a year without winning,
Rory McIlroy is not on that list, though he can claim something far greater. The Masters is all that keeps him from becoming the sixth player to have won all four majors.
“I know if I play well, I’ll give myself chances to win this golf tournament,” McIlroy said. He gets off to a late start, the final tee time of the opening round at 2:03 p.m.
Woods will be long gone by then, and that’s when everyone will have a sense of how he can perform, walking and playing and keeping score for the first time in 508 days.
His concern is more about walking on a right leg that still has plates and rods and screws than making solid contact and holing a few putts.
“It’s up to me to endure the pain and all that, but I felt like I could still do this,” Woods said. “I don’t know how many more years I can do this.”
However many, everyone will be watching, now more than ever.
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Ask Angi: Popular Eco-Friendly Updates
(41NBC/WMGT) — We all want to be more environmentally friendly, but it can be hard to know where to start, especially when it comes to our homes. Mallory Micetich, a home care expert at Angi, is here to give us her top tips for eco-friendly home projects.
“One key to sustainability when updating your home is using what you already have.” said Micetich “Reusing and repurposing existing materials in your home not only can save the planet – it also can save you money. Before starting a new project, look around your home and take an assessment, what materials can be reused or upcycled. For example, an old dresser from the bedroom can be turned into a unique vintage bathroom sink base.”
You can also update existing parts of your home for a fresh look without creating waste by reusing materials you already have. Instead of replacing your cabinets altogether, try giving them a fresh coat of paint. If your fabric couch is wearing out, first try giving it a deep clean and depilling the fabric. You’d be surprised how new your existing items can look when given a little TLC.
“Water conservation projects are another great place to start when making your home more eco-friendly,” said Micetich “Not only will you save water, but could also also lower your bills at the same time. A lot of people assume conserving water simply means taking shorter showers and using fewer sprinklers outside, and while these help, there are also some home projects, both indoor and outdoor, that will make a lasting impact on your home’s water usage. One thing I have done in my home is replacing my shower head with a low flow model.”
There are plenty of projects to help conserve water in your home. Outside, you can plant native and drought-resistant plants that require less water, or switch to water-conserving lawn care practices, like collecting rainwater to water your plants or upgrading your irrigation system. Inside, consider switching to low-flow toilets and faucets, which decrease water flow by 30%. Also regularly check for leaks around your home, which can waste water and cause property damage. If you suspect a leak, call your plumber to scope out the situation.
“Energy-conservation projects are another easy way to make your home more eco-friendly,” said Micetich “One way to save energy in your home is to improve your insulation. Up to 40% of a home’s heat loss comes from poor insulation, so this project can make a dramatic difference. If your home has poor insulation, try adding more eco-friendly products, like wool or soybean foam insulation into your walls, roof or windows.”
Like water-conservation projects, energy-conservation projects help the environment and lower your monthly bills at the same time. When you think of energy conservation, you may immediately think of large projects like adding solar panels on top of your roof. While this is a great project to take on if you have a larger budget, there are also more budget-friendly options.
“One simple DIY project is replacing old lighting and appliances for energy-efficient ones,” said Micetich “Look for appliances with Energy Star certifications and opt for LED bulbs for all your lights. If you have a project in mind and are looking for ways to make it more eco-friendly, talk to a few pros in your area for their advice. Ask what steps they take to make their projects eco-friendly or request they use environmentally friendly products wherever possible.”
Do you have questions about your home projects? Tweet them using #AskingAngi and you may get some tips in an upcoming segment!
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(41NBC/WMGT) — We all want to be more environmentally friendly, but it can be hard to know where to start, especially when it comes to our homes. Mallory Micetich, a home care expert at Angi, is here to give us her top tips for eco-friendly home projects.
“One key to sustainability when updating your home is using what you already have.” said Micetich “Reusing and repurposing existing materials in your home not only can save the planet – it also can save you money. Before starting a new project, look around your home and take an assessment, what materials can be reused or upcycled. For example, an old dresser from the bedroom can be turned into a unique vintage bathroom sink base.”
You can also update existing parts of your home for a fresh look without creating waste by reusing materials you already have. Instead of replacing your cabinets altogether, try giving them a fresh coat of paint. If your fabric couch is wearing out, first try giving it a deep clean and depilling the fabric. You’d be surprised how new your existing items can look when given a little TLC.
“Water conservation projects are another great place to start when making your home more eco-friendly,” said Micetich “Not only will you save water, but could also also lower your bills at the same time. A lot of people assume conserving water simply means taking shorter showers and using fewer sprinklers outside, and while these help, there are also some home projects, both indoor and outdoor, that will make a lasting impact on your home’s water usage. One thing I have done in my home is replacing my shower head with a low flow model.”
There are plenty of projects to help conserve water in your home. Outside, you can plant native and drought-resistant plants that require less water, or switch to water-conserving lawn care practices, like collecting rainwater to water your plants or upgrading your irrigation system. Inside, consider switching to low-flow toilets and faucets, which decrease water flow by 30%. Also regularly check for leaks around your home, which can waste water and cause property damage. If you suspect a leak, call your plumber to scope out the situation.
“Energy-conservation projects are another easy way to make your home more eco-friendly,” said Micetich “One way to save energy in your home is to improve your insulation. Up to 40% of a home’s heat loss comes from poor insulation, so this project can make a dramatic difference. If your home has poor insulation, try adding more eco-friendly products, like wool or soybean foam insulation into your walls, roof or windows.”
Like water-conservation projects, energy-conservation projects help the environment and lower your monthly bills at the same time. When you think of energy conservation, you may immediately think of large projects like adding solar panels on top of your roof. While this is a great project to take on if you have a larger budget, there are also more budget-friendly options.
“One simple DIY project is replacing old lighting and appliances for energy-efficient ones,” said Micetich “Look for appliances with Energy Star certifications and opt for LED bulbs for all your lights. If you have a project in mind and are looking for ways to make it more eco-friendly, talk to a few pros in your area for their advice. Ask what steps they take to make their projects eco-friendly or request they use environmentally friendly products wherever possible.”
Do you have questions about your home projects? Tweet them using #AskingAngi and you may get some tips in an upcoming segment!
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Boil water advisory in Jeffersonville for 72 hours
JEFFERSONVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The citizens of Jeffersonville are being warned to boil water before consuming it for the next 3 days.
According to a social media post from the City of Jeffersonville, the city lost water pressure during a power outage, the power is back on and the water pressure is picking back up, but authorities are asking that in order to protect the public, all citizens boil city water prior to use for drinking, cooking, or preparing baby food.
They say the water should be boiled for at least one minute after reaching a rolling boil, and that citizens should continue boiling water until they’re notified by the City that the quality of water in the system is safe for human consumption again. The post says that this process should be finished in a 72 hour period, in order to give samples enough time to process and show results.
After these tests have been taken, the city says that the public will be notified.
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Boil water advisory in Jeffersonville for 72 hours
JEFFERSONVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The citizens of Jeffersonville are being warned to boil water before consuming it for the next 3 days.
According to a social media post from the City of Jeffersonville, the city lost water pressure during a power outage, the power is back on and the water pressure is picking back up, but authorities are asking that in order to protect the public, all citizens boil city water prior to use for drinking, cooking, or preparing baby food.
They say the water should be boiled for at least one minute after reaching a rolling boil, and that citizens should continue boiling water until they’re notified by the City that the quality of water in the system is safe for human consumption again. The post says that this process should be finished in a 72 hour period, in order to give samples enough time to process and show results.
After these tests have been taken, the city says that the public will be notified.
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Mayor Lester Miller declares State of Emergency in Macon-Bibb County
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Mayor Lester Miller has declared a State of Emergency for Macon-Bibb County in response to Middle Georgia suffering substantial damage due to multiple lines of storms.
According to the release from Macon-Bibb, the State of Emergency that’s been declared is dated to start Tuesday, April 5th, after strong winds, rain, lightning, and more brought damage to the area.
Emergency Management Agency Director Spencer Hawkins has began operations under the Local Emergency Operation Plan. The assistance of Governor Brian Kemp and the State of Georgia is being requested in managing emergency situations and bringing more resources to the community.
This comes as Macon-Bibb County remains under a Tornado Watch until 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6th, as well as a River Flood Warning until 1:00 p.m. on April 10th, 2022.
Miller had this to say concerning the declaration:
“We want to get our neighbors the help they need immediately … Tuesday’s events should be a reminder to everyone to have a plan in case of any emergency. We’re not out of the woods yet.”
Stay with 41NBC for more news and weather updates.
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Mayor Lester Miller declares State of Emergency in Macon-Bibb County
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Mayor Lester Miller has declared a State of Emergency for Macon-Bibb County in response to Middle Georgia suffering substantial damage due to multiple lines of storms.
According to the release from Macon-Bibb, the State of Emergency that’s been declared is dated to start Tuesday, April 5th, after strong winds, rain, lightning, and more brought damage to the area.
Emergency Management Agency Director Spencer Hawkins has began operations under the Local Emergency Operation Plan. The assistance of Governor Brian Kemp and the State of Georgia is being requested in managing emergency situations and bringing more resources to the community.
This comes as Macon-Bibb County remains under a Tornado Watch until 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6th, as well as a River Flood Warning until 1:00 p.m. on April 10th, 2022.
Miller had this to say concerning the declaration:
“We want to get our neighbors the help they need immediately … Tuesday’s events should be a reminder to everyone to have a plan in case of any emergency. We’re not out of the woods yet.”
Stay with 41NBC for more news and weather updates.
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Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.
In a decision that split the court 5-4, the justices agreed to halt a lower court judge’s order throwing out the rule. The high court’s action does not interfere with the Biden administration’s plan to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The Trump-era rule will remain in effect in the meantime.
The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented. The court’s other conservative justices, including three nominated by President Donald Trump, voted to reinstate the rule.
Writing for the dissenters, Justice Elena Kagan said the group of states and industry associations that had asked for the lower court’s ruling to be put on hold had not shown the extraordinary circumstances necessary to grant that request.
Kagan said the group had failed to demonstrate their harm if the judge’s decision were left in place. She said the group had not identified a “single project that a State has obstructed” in the months since the judge’s decision and had twice delayed making a request, indicating it was not urgent.
Kagan said the court’s majority had gone “astray” in granting the emergency petition and was misusing the process for dealing with such requests. That process is sometimes called the court’s “shadow docket” because the court provides a decision quickly without the full briefing and argument. The liberal justices have recently been critical of its use.
As is typical, the justices in the majority did not explain their reasoning.
Kagan wrote that her colleagues’ decision “renders the Court’s emergency docket not for emergencies at all.”
The Biden administration had told the justices in a court filing that it agreed that the U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup lacked the authority to throw out the rule without first determining that it was invalid. But the administration had urged the court not to reinstate the rule, saying that in the months since the Alsup’s ruling, officials have adapted to the change, reverting to regulations in place for decades. Another change would “cause substantial disruption and disserve the public interest,” the administration said.
Alsup was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton.
EPA spokesman Tim Carroll said in an email that the agency is reviewing the Supreme Court’s order as well as “moving forward with rulemaking to restore state and Tribal authority to protect water resources that are essential to public health, ecosystems, and economic opportunity.”
The section of federal law at issue in the case is Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. For decades, it had been the rule that a federal agency could not issue a license or permit to conduct any activity that could result in any discharge into navigable waters unless the affected state or tribe certified that the discharge was complied with the Clean Water Act and state law, or waived certification.
The Trump administration in 2020 curtailed that review power after complaints from Republicans in Congress and the fossil fuel industry that state officials had used the permitting process to stop new energy projects. The Trump administration said its actions would advance then-President Donald Trump’s goal to fast-track energy projects such as oil and natural gas pipelines.
States, Native American Tribes and environmental groups sued. Several mostly Republican-led states, a national trade association representing the oil and gas industry and others have intervened in the case to defend the Trump-era rule. The states involved in the case are: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, West Virginia, Wyoming and Texas.
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Associated Press reporter Matthew Daly in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Yakima’s city budget is changing from a one- to two-year process, the Yakima City Council decided Tuesday.
The first biennial budget will be developed for 2023-24. City Finance Director Jennifer Ferrer-Santa Ines said biennial budgeting uses staff time more efficiently and improves long-range planning efforts.
“Since the timeline is extended from one year to two, budgeting can be better coordinated with capital improvements, fleet management changes, or other major expenditures,” she said in a memo to the council.
The budget will still be reviewed throughout the year. It can be modified as necessary once per quarter, and any changes would be up to the council to approve, according to the memo. A mid-biennium review and modification period will also take place from September to December during the first year of the budget, replacing the annual budget process of that year, the memo said.
“The purpose of this review is to ‘tune up’ the budget or make larger changes if needed to adjust for unforeseen changes in revenues or expenditures,” Ferrer-Santa Ines said.
Quarterly financial updates and monthly treasury and disbursement reports will continue, the memo said.
The item was approved as part of the consent agenda.
Some other Eastern Washington cities, including Kennewick, Walla Walla and Pasco, use a biennial budgeting process, according to the Municipal Research and Services Center.
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Woman celebrates 108th birthday, shares her secret to longevity
GLOBE, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) – Carmen Slough celebrated her 108th birthday this week with friends and family.
She was born in Douglas, Arizona, but has lived in the Globe-Miami area her entire life and is well-known. Slough owned a clothing store in downtown Globe for 49 years.
“We didn’t have paved streets,” Slough told AZFamily, remembering the early days of Globe. “There was still a few people who got around on horseback.”
Slough lived through the Spanish Flu when she was just 4 years old, but she remembers it like it was yesterday.
“I was old enough to know that something was wrong,” she said. “There was a lot of people in the area that did pass away from the flu at that time.”
At the age of 106, another virus — this time COVID-19 — turned her world upside down.
Slough admits it affected her, saying, “The isolation was really, really bad for me because I was used to being a part of the community.”
Slough’s late husband was a WWI veteran, and her siblings fought in WWII.
“I remember the people that we lost and the valor of our local boys that served overseas,” said Slough.
Her 86-year-old son, Bob, relies on his mom’s recollection and calls her “a wonder.”
Slough says staying active is the secret to longevity.
“I don’t believe in just sitting down and giving up, I believe in going out in the sunshine, picking weeds, and working in the garden,” Slough said.
She has a little brother, the only surviving sibling in her family of nine, who’s 98 years old.
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Industry Veterans Join Build-out of Indirect Sales Division
BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Approved Energy, a leading provider of energy products and services headquartered in New York City, announces the launch of a dedicated Indirect sales organization. The new structure is built to deliver best-in-class channel sales operations and support to brokers, aggregators and consultants across Approved's expanding service footprint. The Company has added industry veterans who will develop and accelerate its channel sales capabilities.
Fulfilling the role of VP, Indirect Sales, Bill Moul brings 20 years of retail energy sales and management experience, with an emphasis on organizational design, leadership and growth. Joining Approved Energy from his role as Managing Director of SFE Energy's C&I business, Bill was active in management and business development positions at other energy services companies including USG&E, APG&E and Gateway Energy Services.
Filling key Channel Sales Manager positions are commodity veterans Peter Sharp and Ryan Finnucan, each with deep experience and relationships across PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE and ERCOT. Sharp contributes over a decade of indirect sales experience at APG&E, USG&E and SFE, while Finnucan brings 12 years of service at firms such as First Energy, Constellation, and SFE. Their combined depth of knowledge and expertise will help to accelerate Approved Energy's existing capabilities to the forefront of the competitive energy landscape.
"Approved Energy is excited to add Bill, Peter and Ryan to our growing energy services business," stated Chris Fazio, Executive Vice President at the Approved Companies. "As we capitalize on nearly a century of service to our broad and diverse customer base, Approved Energy will rely on professionals like Bill and his team, who are recognized for their track record of success and passion for the business."
Approved Energy is a division of Approved Companies, the leading provider of energy products and services in the NYC metro area for over 90 years. With a product suite offering fuel oil, natural gas, electricity, mechanical services and renewable products to thousands of customer, Approved is committed to a plan of growth, innovation and diversification of its energy services to all customer classes.
Contact: Niraj Parikh, Chief Operating Officer
nparikh@approvedenergy.com
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ASUR Announces Total Passenger Traffic for March 2022
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Compared to March 2019, passenger traffic increased by 41.0% in Colombia, 9.3% in Mexico and 11.8% in Puerto Rico
MEXICO CITY, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: ASR; BMV: ASUR), ASUR, a leading international airport group with operations in Mexico, the U.S. and Colombia, today announced that passenger traffic for March 2022 reached a total of 5.7 million passengers, 15.6% above the levels reported in March 2019, reflecting a continued gradual recovery in travel demand.
Compared to March 2019, passenger traffic increased by 41.0% in Colombia, 9.3% in Mexico and 11.8% in Puerto Rico. Passenger traffic growth in Mexico and Colombia was driven by a recovery in both domestic and international traffic, while international traffic in Puerto Rico remained weak.
This announcement reflects comparisons between the periods March 1 through March 31, 2022, March 1 through March 31, 2021 and March 1 through March 31, 2019. Transit and general aviation passengers are excluded from traffic measures in Mexico and Colombia.
About ASUR
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is a leading international airport operator with a portfolio of concessions to operate, maintain and develop 16 airports in the Americas. This comprises nine airports in southeast Mexico, including Cancun Airport, the most important tourist destination in Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America, and six airports in northern Colombia, including Medellin international airport (Rio Negro), the second busiest in Colombia. ASUR is also a 60% JV partner in Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC, operator of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport serving the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan. San Juan's Airport is the island's primary gateway for international and mainland-US destinations and was the first, and currently the only major airport in the US to have successfully completed a public–private partnership under the FAA Pilot Program. Headquartered in Mexico, ASUR is listed both on the Mexican Bolsa, where it trades under the symbol ASUR, and on the NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol ASR. One ADS represents ten (10) series B shares. For more information, visit www.asur.com.mx.
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A new factory will be up and running by September of this year to continue the production of high-quality cabins, park models, and cottages.
OCEAN CITY, Md., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Popular high-quality cabin manufacturer, Great Outdoor Cottages, has begun the construction of a state-of-the-art facility in the Georgetown, DE Business Park to keep up with a large increase in demand. Founded by Ocean City, Md.-based outdoor hospitality specialist Blue Water, along with Mike Scheid and John Longino, Great Outdoor Cottages currently has over 60 employees and a management team with over 185 years of combined experience in park model construction.
Great Outdoor Cottages will be moving from its temporary facility in Millsboro, DE to the new factory as soon as construction has been completed. While the current facility proved to be adequate for producing the companies' initial units, sales had to be cut off at 171 units due to overwhelming demand and production space limitations. Of those units, 35 have already been completed and delivered, with the first ones delivered to a third-party campground in North Carolina in January 2022.
The new manufacturing facility will be constructed in partnership with the Sussex County Government with a final size of 50,000 sq ft. It will be dedicated to constructing cottages and will serve areas east of the Mississippi from Maine to Georgia. The cottages themselves will be constructed using top-of-the-line building materials and technology to ensure they are great investments for the properties that purchase them. This includes industry-unique smart foam insulation, smart siding, superior quality metal roofing, and synthetic exterior looks that give the cottages a coastal and natural feel. The cottages will be able to sleep six people comfortably and will include plenty of storage, a full kitchen, a walk-in shower along with a full bathroom, and a back porch.
"Our motto is to build the nicest and strongest park models in the industry." Said Todd Burbage, CEO of Blue Water, and lead investor of Great Outdoor Cottages. "This means we won't cut corners while using innovative building techniques to create great cottages with cool space-saving amenities and exciting features."
To learn more about Great Outdoor Cottages and their products, visit https://www.greatoutdoorcottages.com/
About Great Outdoor Cottages:
Great Outdoor Cottages is a team of developers, investors, and adventurers with over 185 years of combined park model construction experience. Great Outdoor Cottages was formed to design and build innovative and high-quality cabins, park models, and cottages for the campground and resort industries.
Blue Water Involvement:
Blue Water founded the Great Outdoor Cottages park model/cabin manufacturing company along with Mike Scheid (COO of GOC) and John Longino (CFO of GOC). Mike oversees the day-to-day design and production of innovative and high-quality products in the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, while John manages all financial, human capital, and administrative operations and helps guide the company's strategic vision for the future.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Medicines Corporation (NASDAQ: BPMC), a precision therapy company focused on genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy, today announced that, effective on April 1, 2022, the Compensation Committee of Blueprint Medicines' Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock options to purchase an aggregate of 13,337 shares of its common stock and an aggregate of 6,665 restricted stock units (RSUs) to thirteen new employees under Blueprint Medicines' 2020 Inducement Plan.
The 2020 Inducement Plan is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously an employee or non-employee director of Blueprint Medicines, as an inducement material to such individual's entering into employment with Blueprint Medicines, pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules.
The options have an exercise price of $65.40 per share, which is equal to the closing price of Blueprint Medicines' common stock on April 1, 2022. Each option will vest as to 25% of the shares underlying such option on the first anniversary of the grant date and as to an additional 1/48th of the shares underlying the option monthly thereafter, in each case, subject to each such employee's continued employment on each vesting date. Each RSU will vest as to 25% of the shares underlying the RSU award on the first anniversary of the grant date and as to an additional 25% of the shares underlying the RSU award annually thereafter, subject to each such employee's continued employment on each vesting date. The options and RSUs are subject to the terms and conditions of Blueprint Medicines' 2020 Inducement Plan, and the terms and conditions of the stock option and RSU agreement covering the grant.
About Blueprint Medicines
Blueprint Medicines is a global precision therapy company that invents life-changing therapies for people with cancer and blood disorders. Applying an approach that is both precise and agile, we create medicines that selectively target genetic drivers, with the goal of staying one step ahead across stages of disease. Since 2011, we have leveraged our research platform, including expertise in molecular targeting and world-class drug design capabilities, to rapidly and reproducibly translate science into a broad pipeline of precision therapies. Today, we are delivering approved medicines directly to patients in the United States and Europe, and we are globally advancing multiple programs for systemic mastocytosis, lung cancer and other genomically defined cancers, and cancer immunotherapy. For more information, visit www.BlueprintMedicines.com and follow us on Twitter (@BlueprintMeds) and LinkedIn.
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Above-ground work on the KC Streetcar extension is finally underway.
Now that underground utility work is nearly finished on Main Street, KC Streetcar workers broke ground Wednesday on construction of the system’s new route from Union Station to UMKC.
In a ceremony at Main Street at Pershing Road, Kansas City leaders said it will take a little more than two years to install the 3.5 miles of rail and infrastructure.
“For UMKC, this extension is not just a game changer, it is a life changer,” said UMKC Chancellor Mauli Agrawal.
Agrawal said the additional line of streetcar will increase students’ mobility, giving them access to other parts of the city and the ability to travel to work or internships. But Agrawal also said the extension will increase the school’s visibility to the community.
“For reasons ranging from fuel economy to climate change, to equal opportunity for all, public mass transport is the future,” Agrawal said.
Bill Yord, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority’s utility project manager, said that laying the rail segments will create fewer traffic diversions and detours on Main Street than the last few years of underground work.
But drivers should still expect cones and barriers.
“It won’t look as chaotic,” Yord said. “It’ll be a little bit less scattered and a little bit more coordinated.”
Officials said construction of the rails will take place one segment at a time, and crews will only work on one side of the road at a time. North-to-south traffic will continue to flow along Main Street during construction.
KC Streetcar estimates the construction of the rail, poles, wires and other components will be completed in late 2024. They anticipate to start ferrying riders sometime in 2025.
Zack Brown, who lives in the nearby Western Auto building, was one of several people to sign sections of rail as part of the groundbreaking ceremony. He said he was already a fan of Kansas City’s bus and streetcar system, and was looking forward to completion of the extension..
“It makes a really good transit spine for the whole city to be from the River Market all the way down to 51st Street,” Brown says.
Brown said he rides the bus regularly but he likes the reliability of the streetcar, and looks forward to the new route.
“It opens your options for places to take it,” he said. “Just the connections off of that is what I’m imagining. It can go anywhere from a single line and branch off of that.”
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When it comes to Midwestern "culture," residents like to point out what states in the region have in common.
The co-founder of social media's Midwest vs. Everybody, who prefers to remain anonymous, sees it as "a melting pot of different influences from people that have moved and come and gone and shared experiences." Calling Iowa home, he sees the audience for his content as one that's as much rural as Midwestern.
For illustrator Kevin Necessary, who's based in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the major hallmarks of Midwestern culture is its "politeness." He attributes that partly to the slower pace of life in the Midwest and its sense of community.
Necessary also says "we don't want to hurt people's feelings " and cites the habit of "minding your own business."
But for Black author L.L. McKinney, the existence of people of color in the Midwest "just gets completely tossed out as if we don't exist."
Based in Johnson County, Kansas, she says that the niceness associated with the Midwest can be polite without accomplishing anything, leaving Black people to defend their very right to exist. As McKinney puts it, "nice is not always kind."
- Elle McKinney, author who writes under the pen name L.L. McKinney
- Kevin Necessary, illustrator for the newsletter Midwesterner
- Bill, pseudonym for co-founder of social media's Midwest vs. Everybody
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Canadian-owned and operated restaurant franchise and DonerNorth to elevate and expand Edo Japan's brand to new customers
TORONTO, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DonerNorth today announced it has been selected by Edo Japan (Edo) as its creative Agency of Record (AOR) after a competitive pitch process. As Edo's new creative AOR, DonerNorth will be responsible for enhancing the brand's identity, as the quick-service restaurant (QSR) franchise accelerates its cross-Canada expansion plan at a rate of approximately 25 new restaurants per year. This is the first competitive pitch win for DonerNorth since it was newly formed in December 2021, following the merger of creative agency UNION with shopper marketing agency 6Degrees.
Building upon its successes in Canada's diverse markets, including openings in British Columbia and northern Ontario in 2021, Edo will work with DonerNorth to further establish the brand as a household name as it expands into new regional markets.
"Edo Japan is an incredible brand that many people haven't heard of – yet" says Catherine Marcolin, President of DonerNorth. "We are honoured to help introduce them to more of Canada through our unique approach to creating big, unifying ideas that are designed to connect and convert consumers from the start."
"We are looking forward to partnering with DonerNorth as we progress into this new chapter of growth at Edo," says Jessica Pellow, Vice President, Marketing at Edo Japan. "We are proud of our accomplishments as a franchise over our 43-year history and believe this partnership will help us bring our great story to new customers while solidifying Edo's position as a leader in the QSR industry."
Edo Japan has experienced consistent success expanding into new Canadian markets in recent years, including openings in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario in 2021. With the pandemic driving exponential growth in their online and delivery sales, Edo sought a partner that could make a splash with audiences not only in new markets, but also in the digital space.
"Our omnichannel approach to serving customers makes it easy for them to order a meal, find a restaurant or see our menu – from wherever they are," says Pellow. "DonerNorth demonstrated a true understanding of customer insights, localized marketing strategy and our overall brand vision. We will work with DonerNorth to deepen our connection with customers by making the Edo brand stand out across all channels."
"We're thrilled that Edo Japan has connected with our way of mining strategic and consumer insights," says Marcolin. "They're also great people, with a professional culture we admire, so we're looking forward to developing our partnership and making great work together."
Prior to this win, both UNION and 6Degrees had individually racked up a series of recent new business, including WSIB, Arterra Wines, and Cadillac Fairview.
DonerNorth's first project for Edo Japan is expected to launch later this year.
About DonerNorth
DonerNorth is (www.donernorth.com) is Stagwell's unique creative commerce offering in Canada and part of the Doner Partners Network of agencies including Veritas, Meat & Produce, Doner and most recently, Dyversity Communications. Based in Toronto and Montreal, the agency crafts insightful, award-winning big ideas that engage and convert by blending brand advertising, digital and shopper marketing. In today's connected world, DonerNorth is modeled on how people actually fall in love with and buy brands in real life. It's what a modern full-service agency should be. For more information, visit donernorth.ca.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 10,000+ specialists in 20+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
About Edo Japan
Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Edo Japan serves Japanese-inspired teppanyaki-style meals made fresh and by hand with a signature teriyaki sauce. First opened in 1979 at Southcentre Mall in Calgary, the Canadian-owned and operated franchise has grown to more than 160 restaurants in suburban shopping centres and food courts across Canada. With its reputation for high-quality ingredients, freshly prepared meals, friendly staff and convenient ordering options with My Edo App, Edo Japan has quickly become a popular option in the quick-service restaurant industry and serves more than 10 million meals annually. For more information, visit edojapan.com.
For more information, please contact:
Bora Caglayan
Doner Partners Network
647-920-2201
caglayan@veritasinc.com
Alisha Samnani
Director, Brand Marketing & PR
Edo Japan
P: 403-554-9757
E: alisha@edojapan.com
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Fidelis Animal Health, Inc. is the new name of Fidelis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., under which it will be developing and commercializing products that utilize its proprietary extended-release technology as well as seeking to expand into other animal welfare solutions.
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. , April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelis Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce that the company will now be known as Fidelis Animal Health, a name which aligns more closely with the company's focus on developing products that deliver innovative veterinary solutions.
"At this time, we are in an excellent position to realize the immense potential of our extended-release technology to address key areas of unmet need in veterinary medicine. Making this corporate focus clearer to our customers was the impetus driving the name change," said Michael Wells, Chairman and CEO. "Our ultimate vision is to branch out into additional areas of animal welfare beyond our portfolio of therapeutic solutions, so having 'Animal Health' as part of our name just makes good business sense."
The company's initial product offering, Ethiqa XR®, is an innovative formulation of buprenorphine indicated for the control of post-procedural pain in mice and rats. The product uses Fidelis Animal Health's patented extended-release technology to provide up to 72 hours of clinical analgesia with one injection. Since its launch in 2020, Ethiqa XR is currently being used in laboratories at over 200 institutions across the country, including those at the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, many of the country's elite academic institutions, and several government research branches.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
For Rats and Mice:
Only administer Ethiqa XR by subcutaneous injection. Ethiqa XR is not intended for intravenous, intra-arterial, intrathecal, intramuscular, or intra-peritoneal injection. Do not use on mice or rats with pre-existing respiratory deficiencies. Do not keep rats on wood chip-type bedding after administration of Ethiqa XR. Use caution with concomitant administration of Ethiqa XR with drugs that cause respiratory depression.
For Humans:
Ethiqa XR should only be administered by a veterinarian or laboratory staff trained in the handling of potent opioids. Protective clothing is recommended to avoid direct contact with human skin or mucus membranes which could result in absorption of buprenorphine and adverse reactions. Not for use in humans. For more information, consult the Prescribing Information including the Boxed Warning.
About Fidelis Animal Health: Fidelis Animal Health is a commercial stage company offering exceptional expertise in the acquisition, development, and marketing of unique pharmaceutical formulations. The company is committed to leading the industry with quality-driven therapeutics and additional innovations for all animals, small and large.
In addition to Ethiqa XR, Fidelis Animal Health has an extensive pipeline utilizing its innovative drug delivery technology and is currently developing an extended-release buprenorphine formulation for companion animals and an extended-release NSAID for rodents and other small animals.
For more information, please visit www.FidelisAH.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Gold Royalty Corp. ("Gold Royalty" or the "Company") (NYSE: GROY) is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced transaction with Monarch Mining Corporation ("Monarch"). Pursuant to the transaction, Gold Royalty provided C$4.5 million in additional royalty financing to Monarch in exchange for increasing the size of the Company's existing royalties and provided an additional C$1 million in financing to Monarch by participating in its marketed private placement.
The expanded royalties include:
- Increased Per Tonne Royalty ("PTR"): The existing C$2.50 PTR on material from the Beaufor Mine through the Beacon Mill will be increased to C$3.75/t on material from the Beaufor Mine and C$1.25/t on material from the McKenzie Break, Croinor Gold, and Swanson properties.
- Increased Net Smelter Return ("NSR") Royalties: The existing 2.50% NSR royalties on Monarch's McKenzie Break, Croinor Gold, and Swanson properties will be increased to a 2.75% NSR over the properties.
- Buyback Elimination: Monarch's existing 1.25% NSR royalty buyback rights on the McKenzie Break, Croinor Gold, and Swanson properties will be extinguished.
- Pre-emptive Rights: Gold Royalty will retain pre-emptive rights on any future PTR's on the Beacon Mill and will retain a right of first refusal on the creation of any additional NSR properties over the McKenzie Break, Croinor Gold, and Swanson properties.
Pursuant to the private placement, Gold Royalty acquired 1,666,667 units of Monarch at a price of C$0.60 per unit. Each unit is comprised of one common share of Monarch and one warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to acquire an additional share for C$0.95 for a period of 60 months from the date of issuance thereof.
About Gold Royalty Corp.
Gold Royalty Corp. is a gold-focused royalty company offering creative financing solutions to the metals and mining industry. Its mission is to acquire royalties, streams and similar interests at varying stages of the mine life cycle to build a balanced portfolio offering near, medium and longer-term attractive returns for its investors. Gold Royalty's diversified portfolio currently consists primarily of net smelter return royalties on gold properties located in the Americas.
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Elotek Will Now Provide Full Sales Representation of the Leader in Force Measurement's Products in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and all of Nevada
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Interface, the leader in force measurement solutions, has announced the expansion of territory coverage by Elotek Systems, a professional, highly-technical marketing organization structured to sell solutions in sensor, data acquisition, instrumentation, OEM, and telemetry markets. Elotek will now offer Interface's extensive catalog of the industry's most accurate and reliable sensors and instrumentation to customers in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and all Nevada.
For several years, Elotek Systems has represented Interface products and services in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, and most of Nevada. The expanded partnership increases the territorial coverage throughout the western regions of the U.S.
"Elotek is excited to add Interface force measurement solutions to the line of products we represent in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Nevada," said Mike Elovitz, president and CEO, Elotek Systems. "With Interface, we are enhancing our offering in these states by bringing a complete line of precision load cells, load pins, torque transducers, multi-axis sensors, instrumentation and more. We have a staff of 19 team members ready to help resolve measurement issues and provide precision quality products."
Elotek Systems, Inc. was founded in 1981. They have decades of experience selling a variety of engineering, manufacturing, and test solutions. Servicing both the engineers and purchasing managers, the organization provides technical assistance and demonstrations of the most complex products.
Elotek's customer base includes organizations across in aerospace and defense, industrial, medical, OEM, R&D, test & measurement labs, universities, and energy markets.
"Elotek Systems is an outstanding sales partner and has our complete confidence in its ability to serve Interface customers in these additional regions," said Brian Peters, vice president of sales, Interface. "We look forward to working in close collaboration to support our existing customers and growing our market share in these areas with those that benefit from utilizing the industry's best in quality and accurate sensor solutions."
To learn more about Interface, our global sales network, growing line of force measurement solutions, please visit https://www.interfaceforce.com/.
About Interface, Inc.
Interface is the world's trusted leader in technology, design, and manufacturing of force measurement solutions. Our clients include a "who's who" of the aerospace, automotive and vehicle, medical device, energy, industrial manufacturing, test and measurement industries. Interface engineers around the world are empowered to create high-level tools and solutions that deliver consistent, high-quality performance. These products include load cells, torque transducers, multi-axis sensors, wireless telemetry, instrumentation, and calibration equipment. Interface, Inc., was founded in 1968 and is a U.S.-based woman-owned technology manufacturing company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please visit https://www.interfaceforce.com.
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Kenneth Ackerman, 86, of Ackley, passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at his home in Ackley. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 8, at the Washington Reformed Church with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from 5-7 p.m. at the Sietsema Funeral Home in Ackley.
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Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Members of the Fort Meade Community came together to for a to sign the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month proclamation and support survivors of sexual assault April 1, 2022.
Numerous events are on post scheduled throughout the month to educate the community about sexual assault, to build awareness, and to create the culture to eliminate sexual assault.
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CHICAGO, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Next College Student Athlete (NCSA), the world's largest and most successful college athletic recruiting network, has been named the Official Recruiting Partner of USA Softball, the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States.
As USA Softball's recruiting partner, NCSA will provide recruiting education to student-athletes and families attending USA Softball events and host exclusive online webinars for USA Softball members.
Athletes ages 13 and over will have the option to create a free NCSA profile when registering for USA Softball events while gaining access to NCSA's online tools and recruiting network of over 2,500 collegiate softball coaches across the U.S.
In an effort to help create equal opportunity for all student-athletes to pursue their sport at the college level, the partnership will allow USA Softball to select up to 25 athletes to receive NCSA's All In Award. The All In Award is given to deserving student-athletes who demonstrate financial need, a strong desire to play collegiate athletics, and a commitment to leverage their athletic talent to improve their life.
Each All In Award recipient receives NCSA's most comprehensive recruiting membership at no cost, providing highly-personalized support and guidance to ensure they have the best opportunity to find a college that is the right fit for them.
"The NCSA partnership is a great opportunity for the youth teams that play USA Softball," said Women's National Team/University of Washington Head Coach, Heather Tarr. "The NCSA platform is a prominent way for athletes to gain the knowledge and tools needed to elevate their chances of playing softball at the most elite level. I can't wait to see the success that this opportunity will bring to our USA Softball athletes, coaches, and parents."
"Representing over 120,000 teams and more than 2 million members, there is no bigger player in the game than USA Softball," said NCSA President Lisa Strasman. "NCSA's partnerships with National Governing Bodies are some of our most important relationships, and we're thrilled to partner with USA Softball to help their athletes and coaches find success in recruiting."
Additionally, USA Softball will integrate NCSA recruiting software, Coach Packet by NCSA, into its events. Coaches attending USA Softball events will be able to access to the latest rosters, player data, schedules, and custom evaluation metrics digitally through Coach Packet's dedicated universal iOS app.
All USA Softball national level teams will also receive NCSA's team recruiting platform, Team Edition. Team Edition allows coaches to track and guide their athletes' college recruitment process with easy-to-use software.
USA Softball is the eleventh National Governing Body to name NCSA its official recruiting partner. USA Hockey, USA Baseball, US Lacrosse, USA Field Hockey, USA Track and Field, USA Volleyball, USA Wrestling, USA Water Polo, US Youth Soccer, and USA Triathlon all work with NCSA to support their members with recruiting education and guidance.
Founded in 2000 to help educate student-athletes and their families on the college athletic recruiting process, NCSA today works with families, club, high school, and college coaches to helps hundreds of thousands of student-athletes find their best college fit.
ABOUT USA SOFTBALL
USA Softball (USAS) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla., and is designated as the National Governing Body (NGB) of Softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.
One of the nation's largest sports organizations, USAS sanctions competition through a network of Local Associations, which includes all 50 states and select metro associations. USAS is dedicated to providing people of all ages the opportunity to play the game they love at a variety of levels by offering recreational, league, tournament, and competitive play for fast pitch, slow pitch, and modified pitch. USAS annually conducts thousands of tournaments throughout the country including over 100 National Championships. The USAS umpire program is among the nation's largest and is widely known as the best-trained umpires in the game.
As the NGB for the sport of softball, USAS is responsible for training, equipping, and promoting the six USA Softball National Teams that compete in events such as the Olympics, Pan American Games, World Championships, and other international and domestic events. For more information on USAS, including its founding and history as the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA), please visit, www.USASoftball.com.
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Next College Student Athlete (NCSA) is the world's largest and most successful collegiate athletic recruiting network.
NCSA leverages proprietary technology and data with professional expertise and personal relationships to connect tens of thousands of college-bound student-athletes to more than 35,000 college coaches nationwide across 37 sports each year.
NCSA is a subsidiary of IMG Academy, one of the world's largest and most advanced multi-sport training and educational institutions.
Learn more about NCSA at www.ncsasports.org.
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Trees are perhaps the single most important piece of an urban environment. They provide everything from energy-saving shade to food. But trees can also produce problems, from the Emerald Ash Borer, which has devastated many towns and cities across Iowa – Eldora and Iowa Falls included – to roots infiltrating sewer lines and disrupting sidewalks.
Many cities have gone as far as eliminating ash trees entirely and even prohibiting the planting of all trees in the city right-of-way between the sidewalk and street. Iowa Falls requires a permit to plant what are called “street trees” in the right-of-way area.
“Over the last 10 years, I’ve seen a growing resistance to street tree planting,” said DNR District Forester Joe Herring. “There are moratoriums in many towns stopping any tree planting, I think mainly due to the cost of removal and perceived conflicts with underground utilities and sidewalks. There’s some validity to all of that, and neighbors and overhead wires, so we have to be careful and smart about it. I just don’t like the one-size-fits-all approach of no more tree planting.”
Herring said the benefits of trees in urban areas are numerous.
“An easy sell right off the bat is energy conservation – shade decreases air conditioning in the summertime and can help in the winter as a windbreak,” he said. “Maybe not as tangible are aesthetics and property values. A nice green shaded neighborhood, the home values are going to be higher than without.”
Trees also provide enjoyment of nature, improve air quality, sequester carbon and provide a certain amount of flood control
“The roots of a tree are always slurping up ground water to feed,” Herring said. “Over the course of one summer, there’s thousands of gallons of water taken out of the soil and that makes more capacity for storm water to infiltrate. There’s defined benefits on storm water mitigation.”
Studies have shown socioeconomic effects in an urban area rife with trees. That includes slower drivers, less crime, and shoppers staying longer and spending more at stores in landscaped business districts.
“There’s a lot of cool things like that,” Herring said. “And a lot of things people don’t associate with urban trees.”
Herring said a wide variety of trees is ideal to avoid things like disease and insects. But it all depends on what the property owner is looking for.
“The first thing is knowing if you need a tree to stay small because of the landscape, or if you want a big shade tree,” Herring said. “ISU Extension has a long list of 60 or 70 varieties of trees and they’re all good across Iowa. From there, it’s about doing research and finding the right one for you.”
Herring said two of the most important things to consider when planting a tree are city codes and the tree itself. A call to 811 – Iowa One Call – is also important to locate underground infrastructure like gas and sewer lines. Iowa Falls does not permit planting within five lateral feet of supply or sewer lines.
While 811 will find underground service lines, Herring said it is also important to choose a tree that will not grow into existing overhead wires.
Once those three initial steps are taken, Herring said there is a process to properly plant a tree. It begins with a hole. Herring suggested removing the sod about twice to three-times wider than the root mass. Otherwise, the grass can compete with the tree’s root system for moisture.
“The most common mistake I see is planting the tree too deep,” he said. “That causes problems with the roots not getting enough oxygen. Roots actually stay close to the surface. People think they go straight down, but 80 percent of the roots stay in the top 18 inches of soil because they need to connect with the atmosphere.”
If the tree comes in a planter, Herring suggests slicing the pot several times vertically if the tree is difficult to remove. Once removed, look at the roots. If they are tangled up or have taken the shape of the planter, they will need to be adjusted.
“In the perfect scenario, you really don’t have to mess with the roots at all,” Herring said. “But sometimes you get a tree where the roots got pot bound. If they look like a ball of spaghetti, you can take a cutting tool and just tease them apart. You want the roots pointing outward like the spokes of a wheel so they can start growing sideways.”
Herring said there is no need to add anything, other than maybe a little water, before filling the hole in with the loose dirt.
“The philosophy is that a tree has to grow to be a big tree, so the compost or whatever you dump in there will be great for a couple years but at some point that tree is going to have to grow out into the native soil and make it on its own,” Herring said. “Basically, you can’t make up for crappy soil by adding some compost at planting, you have to pick a tree that’s going to tolerate that crappy soil.”
The most important thing when filling the hole is to eliminate air pockets.
“Air pockets are bad and that’s another reason I say to get rid of the overlaying sod,” Herring said. “If you backfill around the tree with the sod, the grass will die and decompose and create an air pocket. The roots need soil right up against them. That’s all you want. A gentle sprinkle of water and tamping the soil will help eliminate the holes.”
Herring said that adding a couple inches of mulch to replace the sod is also an important step. The mulch will prevent getting too close to the tree with a mower or string trimmers. It’s also a way to retain moisture. He said it’s important to keep the mulching up for the first five years.
Lastly, Herring said it’s vital to water the tree from the base outward. He said to keep checking the soil. If it feels moist, there is no need to add water. But, he noted, watering is key through at least the first year depending on the tree and conditions.
“If you’re in a drought like the last couple years, you should really water about once a week,” he said. “It’ll vary a little depending on ground conditions and dryness. The rule of thumb is about one inch per week – about a five-gallon bucket – every time you water it.”
The best time to do all of this is the spring.
“April and May are great months to plant a tree,” Herring said. “We usually get reliable rainfall, temperatures are gentle, and it lets those roots get off to a good start. You’re not planting a tree as much as you’re planting a root system. They need to be allowed time to settle in.”
Herring said it’s more important now than ever to plant trees wherever possible in an urban area. Especially as trees die out from age or disease and are removed. As trees are removed, a city can become less scenic.
“It’s really at a critical juncture,” Herring said. “Are we going to continue to plant trees and put them out there for the next generations? So many people focus on these big mature trees and think, ‘Well, I’ll never see these new trees get big.’ We have to flip that script. Do it for the next family that lives in that house or that neighborhood.”
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Through the cold and windy days of late Colorado winter, the Fort Carson Fire Department partnered with the 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to proactively control fires on Fort Carson, Colo. In March, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 52nd Bde. Eng. Bn. dug through mud and frozen ground to improve over four miles of fire access roads in the Ft, Carson training area.
Fire access roads are wide dirt roads which allow the Ft. Carson Fire Dept. brush trucks to quickly navigate the training area in case of an emergency.
Anticipating the upcoming dry, hot summer months, the department realized that many of the existing fire access roads were unusable due to erosion or overgrowth. The Ft. Carson Fire Dept. recruited the unique engineering capabilities of the 52nd Bde. Eng. Bn. to repair the roads.
3rd Platoon, Alpha Co., is an engineer support platoon in the battalion, and is typically combat support focused. They are trained in using their heavy machinery on a battlefield to build obstacles or fighting positions so the transition to support the fire department was a natural fit.
While road maintenance was outside the ordinary for 3rd Platoon, it presented an excellent training opportunity. The platoon’s horizontal construction engineers used their grader, high mobility engineer excavator, and bulldozers in occasionally unfamiliar ways while working on the access roads.
“It was good training. I learned a lot and got hands on with the dozer,” said Pvt. First Class Gabriel Collins, a member of the platoon.
March is only the beginning of a sustained partnership between the Ft. Carson Fire Dept. and the 52nd Bde. Eng. Bn. that is expected to last through July. Ft. Carson Fire Dept. Deputy Chief Mitch Van Dyke has prepared an ambitious plan to prepare Fort Carson’s training area for the high-risk summer months.
Bravo Company, 52nd Bde. Eng. Bn., takes over the fire prevention mission in April and hopes to build on Alpha Company’s success.
The 52nd Bde. Eng. Battalion’s partnership with Ft. Carson Fire Dept. strengthens ties between the installation and 4th Infantry Division assets, provides unique training to soldiers in the 52nd Bde. Eng. Bn., and makes Fort Carson a safer place.
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The AGWSR Cougar girls may have opened their season with losses to Sumner-Fredericksburg and Waterloo Columbus Tuesday in Waterloo, but head coach Stacy Drake is hopeful.
Drake’s squad, rife with new varsity faces, shot a team 247. S-F carded a 189 to take the triangular, with WC second with a 224. The Cougars did have a trip of top-10 finishes with Taryn Day shooting a 57 for sixth. Avery Lafrenz finished eighth with a 58 and Brianna Kruger 10th with a 61. Gabby Kruger rounded out AGWSR board with a 71, good for 14th place.
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The AGWSR Cougar girls opened their season with wins in the shot put and distance medley among their 10 top-three finishes at Tuesday’s Spartan Early Bird in Grundy Center. They placed fifth as a team. The AGWSR boys, running in their second meet of the season and without big point-getter Cale Culver, finished sixth with no wins but five top-three medals.
Abby Veld led the individual charge for both teams. The 2021 State qualifier won the shot put with a new school record throw of 38-feet 10.25-inches, bettering Jess McDowell’s mark by a quarter-inch. Veld also took second in the discus.
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Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/SH Defender Presley Mulford battles with Hudson's Savannah Schneider for control of the ball during the Cadets' home opener on Tuesday. The 11th-ranked (Class 1A) Pirates won the contest, 2-0.
Twenty-four hours after the Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/SH put up video game numbers during their season opening win in Hampton, the team could not find the goal versus the 11th-ranked team in Class 1A.
Hosting a good Hudson squad, the Cadets were able to possess the ball more, but could not crack the defensive code of the Pirates in a 2-0 home setback.
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BORDENTOWN, N.J., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Princeton NuEnergy, Inc. ("PNE", the Company), an emerging growth company primarily engaged in the regeneration of Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB) material, today announced that the Company had successfully exhibited at the 39th Annual International Battery Seminar & Exhibit, the industry's premier event showcasing the state of the art of worldwide energy storage technology developments for consumer, automotive, military, and industrial applications.
Attendees include battery technologists from key OEMs, leading cell manufacturers, and the entire advanced battery ecosystem globally and online. As Recycling LIBs is an essential step in addressing stringent environmental regulations and resource conservation, the PNE team presented and discussed its first-in-class technologies listed as Novel Plasma Based Direct Li-ion Battery Recycling at the event.
As part of the Seminar's Global Supply Chain for Battery Raw Materials track, the Founder and CEO of PNE, Dr. Chao Yan, presented "Direct Plasma Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries." PNE has developed a novel, low-cost, and organic-free direct battery recycling technology for recycling and regenerating used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) from electric vehicles (EVs), portable electronics, and other energy storage devices. This direct recycling technology will accelerate the electrification of transportation by increasing the commercial viability of EVs, reducing battery cost, and providing a steady supply of battery material to the manufacturing process.
PNE's mission is in alignment with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL) goals of delivering more clean energy, creating new jobs, and lowering costs for American families and workers by guiding the Nation towards a 100% carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero economy by 2050.
PNE will exhibit as the premier sponsor at the 40th Annual International Battery Seminar and Exhibit in 2023.
About Princeton NuEnergy
Princeton NuEnergy delivers innovative and sustainable energy and environmental solutions. The Company's current focus is on closed-loop lithium-ion battery recycling and low-cost production of active cathode materials, and ultimately enabling significant reduction in carbon emissions. For more information visit www.pnecycle.com.
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The second pair of games against a top-10 rated Kirkwood Community College was similar to the first.
Ellsworth Community College tallied just five hits against the No. 9 Eagles and fell 16-1 and 8-0 on Tuesday in Cedar Rapids. With the recent wins, KCC swept the series and improved to 21-9 overall (9-3 in the ICCAC). The Panthers fell to 10-14 overall and 4-4 in conference play.
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South Hardin freshman Braxton Lu made his varsity tennis debut with a 10-5 loss at the No. 2 singles slot. The Tigers fell 9-0 to the visiting Spartans.
The South Hardin boys hit the court for the first time in less than ideal conditions.
With heavy rains on their way, the Tigers and Grundy Center got the cold match in just in time. While the Spartans won every contested bout (9-0), there was plenty to build off for the meets to come.
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The rains held off just long enough Tuesday for the defending Class 1A State champion AGWSR Cougars to open their title defense. It was a good one, with a win over Waterloo Columbus and Sumner-Fredericksburg. The icing on the cake was a win by senior Daniel Stahl.
The Cougars shot a team 170 at Gates Park in Waterloo, seven better than the host Sailors. S-F shot a 219. Stahl shot a one-over 37, beating WC’s Jackson Mudd by four strokes. Eli Brandt and Bo Gerbracht also impressed, finishing third and fourth after carding a 42 and 44 respectively.
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In a nutshell:
- Officials will use monetary policy tools at an “appropriate time” and consider other measures to boost consumption, according to the readout from a meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday. Separately, the central bank published a draft outline for a stability fund to provide support to troubled financial firms.
When the State Council conveys policy information its a done deal. Here is the link for more detail.
Given the lockdown of Shanghai and a rampant gain in COVID-19 cases further policy support is not surprising.
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Canada's environment ministry statement via Reuters headlines:
- says developing guidance to ensure all new oil and gas projects will demonstrate "best in class" low emissions performance
- says all new oil and gas projects will have to show they can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
By 2050 gives 'em a little breathing space at least.
CAD continued to lose ground after the FOMC minutes (against the USD at least):
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Crash involving semi closes I-94 after sand spilled across roadway
CHICAGO - Illinois State Police responded to a three-unit vehicle crash that involved a truck tractor semi-trailer Wednesday morning.
According to ISP, the crash occurred at about 10:37 a.m. on Interstate 94 northbound at 95th Street.
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Sand spilled from the semi onto the roadway, causing the roadway to be shut down.
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Dog attack: 3-year-old girl gets 180 stitches after suffering bite wounds on face, arms, stomach
HEMET, Calif. - A 3-year-old girl had to get 180 stitches after she was attacked by a dog in unincorporated Hemet over the weekend and suffered bite wounds to her face, arms and stomach, the Riverside County Department of Animal Services reported Wednesday.
The attack was reported at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the 41000 block of Mayberry Avenue, a neighborhood east of Hemet.
The 3-year-old girl was transported to an area hospital and later to the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Ultimately, she received 180 stitches on her face and additional stitches in her hip area. She has since been released from the hospital.
According to Animal Services, the dog, a 2-year-old male pit bull mix, was believed to have been tethered at the time of the incident.
Animal Services seized the 2-year-old pit bull mix after it attacked a 3-year-old girl in Hemet over the weekend. (Credit: Riverside County Department of Animal Services)
"We are uncertain how she wandered into the backyard and if she was unattended, but we’re convinced that this dog would have killed her if it had not been tethered," Animal Services Lt. Lesley Huennekens said. "It’s horrible what happened to this girl."
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The house and property is believed to be used as a day care center, Lt. Huennekens said, and this was believed to be the girl’s second visit to the site.
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Officer Mike McGee described the dog as powerful and aggressive as Animal Services responded to seize the dog. McGee had the dog on a control stick, but the dog still managed to lunge at one of his legs, and, fortunately, only managed to get his pants, he said.
The dog is currently in a protective custody kennel at the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley.
Animal Services will hold the dog for 10 days, pending a request from the owner to protest the seizure.
Additional details were not immediately available.
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Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy named interim police chief of Willow Springs
WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. - Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy has been named the interim police chief of suburban Willow Springs.
The village confirmed this information to FOX 32 Wednesday afternoon.
A press conference will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. to provide more information.
McCarthy spent decades with the New York Police Department, including a stint as the NYPD's chief of crime control strategies, which oversaw the city’s crime trends.
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He was at the helm of the Chicago Police Department from 2011 to 2015.
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Man found fatally shot in the head in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood
CHICAGO - A man was found fatally shot in the head Wednesday morning.
The victim was found in the 7800 block of South Sangamon Street.
At about 10:49 a.m., officers responded to a person shot, and discovered a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his head.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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Maryland man sentenced for raping men after breaking into Capitol Hill homes
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A Maryland man has been sentenced to 39 years in prison for breaking into multiple homes in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of D.C., binding and gagging male victims and raping them, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and DC Police on Wednesday.
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Bryant Webster, 38, of Suitland, Maryland, pleaded guilty in July 2019 for a series of home invasions carried out over a 50-day period in 2016 in which he sexually assaulted three men. According to the government’s evidence, the attacks took place from mid-August to October 2016.
In the first assault, Webster entered a residence in a Capitol Hill neighborhood and photographed himself sexually abusing a man who was unconscious.
Less than two weeks later, at about 6 a.m. on Aug. 28, 2016, Webster entered an apartment in the same neighborhood without permission.
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The victim was awakened to find Webster, a stranger, standing in the doorway of his bedroom, dressed all in black, holding a handgun with a red laser sight. He bound the victim’s hands and feet with duct tape, gaged him by putting a T-shirt in his mouth and raped him repeatedly while threatening to kill him.
The third attack also took place in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, at about 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2016. Webster crept into a home and was again armed with a handgun with a laser sight and also had a backpack filled with knives, gloves, screwdrivers, duct tape, a hammer, binoculars and condoms.
He similarly used duct tape to bind the victim, gagged him with a T-shirt and raped him. The victim managed to alert a roommate who entered the home during the rape, a struggle ensued, and the victim called 911.
Police arrested Webster at the scene. He has been in custody ever since.
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In addition to his prison sentence, Webster is also required to register as a sex offender for life.
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Missing Indiana couple heading to Arizona found; husband dead, wife alive
RENO, Nev. - An Indiana couple missing for about a week has been found in a remote mountain area of southern Nevada, but the husband was dead and the wife was taken to a hospital, a sheriff’s official said.
Ronnie Barker, 72, and Beverly Barker, 69, were found with their car late Tuesday afternoon in the Silver Peak area of Esmeralda County, Mineral County Undersheriff Bill Ferguson said in an email.
Rescue personnel from Mineral County, one of several counties involved in the search, located the couple, and a military helicopter airlifted the woman to a Reno hospital, Ferguson said.
Family members who reported the Barkers missing have said on numerous social media posts they left on a cross-country trip last month and were expected to return this week to their home in Indianapolis. They said the couple departed Albany, Oregon, on March 27 and planned to meet with friends in Tucson, Arizona, on March 29.
The couple had been towing their car with an RV that officials said earlier Tuesday had been found stuck in a ditch.
Silver Peak is 177 miles (285 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas.
Ferguson said the volunteer searchers found the couple and their car in forested mountains about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the RV, and it wasn’t clear why or how the Bakers ended up where they did.
"It was just one bad decision after another," he said. "I’m not sure what took them off course. They got the motor home stuck and then unfortunately they got the car stuck."
Ferguson said the couple had video that indicated they were in the Silver Peak area since March 27, but he said he didn’t have information on when Ronnie Barker died or the cause of his death.
Beverly Barker melted snow for water and the car provided shelter from temperatures that dipped into the 30s (1.1 below zero C) at night, he said. "She would get out and go for little walks."
She was in good condition, but authorities opted because of rough roads in the area to have her airlifted to a Reno hospital to be checked out, Ferguson said.
Travis Peters, a nephew of the couple, told KVVU-TV in Las Vegas that Ronnie Barker’s death was a blow to the family.
"Ronnie no longer being alive in this family is a hole, and its never going to be filled … he’s just a bigger-than-life personality," Peters said.
Peters said it was unclear what happened to the couple.
"Thank God that Beverly is alive, because she will be able to fill in those blanks that we don’t know. Why did they go up the mountain? What happened?" Peters said. "She’s going to be able to tell us."
Ronnie and Beverly Barker (Credit: Nye County Sheriff's Office)
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What are the lyrics to the hymn ‘Be Thou My Vision’?
Did you know the origins of the popular hymn 'Be Thou My Vision' are Irish and date back to the sixth century? Here are its well known lyrics
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Who wrote the hymn ‘Be Thou My Vision’?
Irish in origin the hymn ‘Be Thou My Vision’ is based on the poem ‘Rop tú mo Baile’, believed to have been written by the sixth-century poet St. Dallán Forgaill. It has been translated into modern Irish many times but It was first translated into English in 1905 by Mary Byrne
However it is Eleanor Hull 1912’s version, or rather we should say versions, that are most popular today One is the version that is used in Irish and Scottish hymnals, which fits the metre 10.10.10.10, while the other is most commonly used in English books (such as the New English Hymnal) fits the metre 10.11.11.11. Since 1919 it has been commonly sung to an Irish folk tune, “Slane’
We named ‘Be thou my vision’ one of the greatest hymns of all time
What are the lyrics to the hymn ‘Be Thou My Vision’?
English version of ‘Be Thou My Vision’
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tow’r:
Raise Thou me heav’nward, O Pow’r of my pow’r.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
High King of Heaven, my victory won,
May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heav’n’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
Scottish and Irish versions of ‘Be Thou My Vision’
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Be all else but naught to me, save that Thou art;
Be Thou my best thought in the day and the night,
Both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
Be Thou ever with me, and I with Thee, Lord;
Be Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son;
Be Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Be Thou my Breastplate, my Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my whole Armor, be Thou my true Might;
Be Thou my soul’s Shelter, be Thou my strong Tow’r,
O raise Thou me heav’nward, great Pow’r of my pow’r.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise;
Be Thou mine inheritance, now and always;
Be Thou and Thou only the first in my heart,
O high King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven, Thou heaven’s bright Sun,
O grant me its joys, after vict’ry is won;
Great Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be Thou my vision, O Ruler of all.
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ATLANTA (WTXL) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Wednesday declared a state of emergency by signing executive order for the state following storms that impacted the state Tuesday.
Several counties across Georgia, including in the southwestern portion of the state, were believed to have been impacted by tornadoes.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that one person died and another person was injured in Bryan County due to the line of storms that swept across state.
The state of emergency is set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on April 15.
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Formula E, the world's top electric vehicle racing series, returns to the track this weekend with a pair of races in Rome.
The global series is slowly gaining a foothold in the U.S., which hosted a race in nearly every season since Formula E's inception.
This year, the series added its first American-born driver: Oliver Askew. The Florida native came up racing karts as an eight-year-old before switching to cars in his late teens.
"When I first got into the karting, it was more of a father-son hobby," Askew said. "It wasn't until I was 14 or 15 years old that I began to realize I'm getting old quickly, and growing up quickly, and I need to decide what's more important, the schooling or pursuing motorsports."
Askew, now 25, left high school to pursue a career in racing, a move he called a "leap of faith."
It's led to plenty of success.
He won the 2019 Indy Lights series, one of the top development series for race car drivers, which paved the way for his IndyCar debut in 2020.
His move to Formula E this year marks the first time he is racing electric vehicles professionally.
"I just feel like this car suits me and suits my driving style," Askew said. "I'm not saying one is better than the other, or I enjoy one over the other. It's just a different approach and a different fulfillment."
Changing attitudes toward electric vehicles
Formula E's arrival represents a broader shift in attitude toward electric vehicles.
"This technology needed to be pushed and needed to be advanced," said Julia Palle, the sustainability director of Formula E. "The technology around electrification was really the focus."
The competition within Formula E helped spur electric vehicle development over the past decade.
Race day vehicles, which had a top speed of 140 miles per hour from 2014 to 2018, will have a top speed of 200 miles per hour beginning in 2023.
Palle said the gap between consumer electric vehicles and Formula E vehicles is smaller than in other racing series, enabling manufacturers to apply lessons from the race track to the production line.
"Jaguar, from the couple of seasons they were involved, used some of their learnings to develop the I-PACE," Palle said. "That's a car that you and I, if we want to, can go buy tomorrow."
Formula E is also unique for its focus on sustainability, a word which is written into the racing series' mission statement.
Research shows the race cars' carbon footprint accounts for less than one percent of pollution associated with Formula E.
Palle said Formula E leadership is focused on improving sustainability for three main car components.
- Tires. Formula E cars use one tire under all conditions. They are made from recycled material and designed to be recycled when they've outlived their usefulness.
- Batteries. Palle said Formula E partnered with Belgium-based Umicore on a battery recycling program. Over ninety percent of metals, and over sixty percent of lithium, is recovered from every battery.
- Chassis. The carbon fiber from the chassis is recycled using technology once used to recycle rockets and planes. A collection box is available at each race for teams to recycle their broken parts. "It's popular," Palle noted, "especially when there are crashes during tests and races."
A long road ahead
Formula E could get some competition in the near future.
In mid-March, NASCAR's chief operating officer, Steve O'Donnell, said the American stock car racing series is "exploring some opportunities around an exhibition series in" the electric vehicle space, citing interest from manufacturers like Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota.
"It's important for us to explore that space," O'Donnell said. "I think there's a lot of interest from our current partners to be part of that."
"As I understand it, the primary mover is the noise," said Sridhar Lakshmanan, an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a leading voice in the world of vehicle innovation. "They felt that electric vehicle racing would allow them to move racing into the heart of population centers, closer to where people live."
Lakshmanan said one of the biggest challenges in any electric vehicle racing series is making up the power gap with internal combustion counterparts.
The current land-speed record for an electric vehicle is 353 miles per hour, set by Team Vesco Racing in November 2021.
The scorching speed is not quite as fast as the world record speed for an internal combustion engine: 448.7 miles per hour, set by Danny Campbell in 2019.
"The biggest problem they face today is speed," Lakshmanan said. "There are ways to torque motors that can potentially reach those speeds, provided you have batteries with reasonable size that can drive those motors. But that's where the rub is."
Lakshmanan, like Palle, believes competition can spur development in the electric vehicle space, particularly for batteries, but also in the areas of braking, speed, safety and life-cycle cost.
"As people push the boundaries of how fast they can go, how much charge they can store, and how light they are," Lakshmanan said, "performance is going to drive electric vehicles, in some ways, parallel to how performance vehicles drove internal combustion engines."
Fueling development
Racing and automotive innovation have gone hand in hand since the turn of the 20th century, when a young Henry Ford won a "Sweepstakes" race to help fund his fledgling vehicle venture.
Ford's two-cylinder engine traveled at the blistering top speed of seventy-two miles per hour.
"A nobody, some guy from Michigan, manages to pull out a victory in the race," said Matt Anderson, curator at The Henry Ford, an automotive museum in suburban Detroit. "It sets him on the way to ultimately founding the Ford Motor Company in 1903."
A few years later, the first Indianapolis 500 would be the site of another major innovation: The rearview mirror.
Ray Harroun attached rearview mirrors to his car. It's believed to be the first rearview mirror ever used. Harroun's competitors "had the driver, and then had a riding mechanic," Anderson said. "That person would be responsible for operating the car, but also as a pair of eyes in the back of the driver's head to look for other cars coming up behind them."
Harroun won the race.
His rivals were so angry that they put rules in place requiring the use of a riding mechanic.
To Anderson, it's one of many anecdotes that embody the competitive spirit of auto racing.
"You're not going to win a race unless you're willing to explore new ideas and try new things in order to innovate," Anderson said. "There's a strict rule book, but people are always testing the limits of those rules, and seeing how far they can push something."
He believes electric vehicle racing is a natural evolution of the sport.
"We're going to see things like lighter batteries, more efficient motors," Anderson said. "One way or another, electric racing is going to become a thing. It's just going to be necessary. The technology in our production cars is going to move toward electricity, and you can't have a racing series that appears to be behind the times of the cars we're driving out on the street."
Need for speed
Askew, the 25-year-old driver seeking his first Formula E victory in Rome, said the acceleration of a Formula E car would "completely blow people away."
"It does have a lot of low-end torque, and it's very suitable for the street tracks that we go to," Askew said.
For him, the future of Formula E is mostly background noise. His focus is on winning races.
Often, that means thinking less.
"I'm at my best in the car when I'm not thinking at all," Askew said. "When I'm in the zone, as a lot of sports figures call it, and letting my natural body and my instincts take over. My success comes from being in that place."
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The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol has put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000.
Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to gather evidence of Russian atrocities and braces for what could become a climactic battle for control of the country's industrial east.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “The fate of our land and of our people is being decided. We know what we are fighting for. And we will do everything to win.”
The people of Donbas were ordered to evacuate immediately to avoid an impending Russian attack.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, “Later, people will come under fire.” Vereshchuk said, “and we won’t be able to do anything to help them.”
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The Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has moved up it's planned date to decide on possible sanctions against Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at this year's Oscars ceremony.
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"I am calling a board meeting for this Friday morning, April 8, at 9:00 am PT, rather than the previously scheduled April 18 meeting, to address possible sanctions for Will Smith in response to his actions during the Oscars broadcast on March 27," Academy president David Rubin stated in a letter obtained by CNN Wednesday.
"The April 18 date was set in accordance with California law and our Standards of Conduct because our agenda included possible suspension or expulsion of Mr. Smith from membership," the letter reads. "We were required to provide Mr. Smith notice 15 days prior to the board meeting at which such action might be taken, and also give him the opportunity to provide the board a written statement no less than five days prior to that meeting.
According to the letter, in light of Smith resigning from the Academy last Friday, "suspension or expulsion are no longer a possibility and the legally prescribed timetable no longer applies."
"It is in the best interest of all involved for this to be handled in a timely fashion," Rubin wrote.
Smith slapped Rock after the comic and actor made a joke from the Oscars stage about Jada Pinkett Smith's close-cropped hair.
"Jada I love you, 'G.I. Jane 2,' can't wait to see it," Rock said while presenting the award for best documentary.
Smith then walked on stage, struck Rock, walked back to his seat and yelled at the comic to "Keep my wife's name out of your f***ing mouth!"
Not long after, Smith won the best actor Oscar for his role in the film "King Richard."
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Watching an ad in which former President Donald Trump promoted Covid-19 vaccines was linked to increased vaccinations in US counties with low immunization rates, according to a new study. The study was released Monday as a working paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research that has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Researchers created a 27-second ad designed to serve as a public service announcement from Trump encouraging people to get vaccinated. Through a randomized control trial, the ad was featured on different YouTube channels across more than 1,000 counties with populations of less than 1 million and in which more than half of the population was still unvaccinated.
When compared to counties that did not receive the ads, those that did receive the ads had more than 100 additional vaccinations on average. In total, treatment counties received an estimated 104,036 more vaccines than control counties. The analysis also found that for every 1,000 more ads presented, there were nearly nine additional vaccinations, on average, per county.
However, the ad's effect waned with increasing strength of Trump's base. Researchers found that in counties where more than than 70% of voters supported Trump, the ads did not change vaccine uptake.
Studies have shown that Covid-19 vaccination rates often differ across party lines. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that in October 2021, when the ad campaign took place, 90% of Democrats reported being vaccinated compared to 61% of Republicans.
Marc Hetherington, an author of the study and professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was conducting surveys to assess people's attitudes towards the pandemic when it first hit the US in 2020.
"What we started to realize at that point is this is turning into a highly politicized pandemic of all things," he said. "Public health people are probably not used to coming up with solutions to health problems that are politicized."
Overall, the researchers spent $100,000 in ads that reached 6 million viewers, costing about $1 per additional vaccine received. The ad campaign ran from October 14, 2021 to October 31, 2021, after Trump was no longer in office. The ad was featured on a diverse array of YouTube channels, including NBC News, Fox News and Saturday Night Live.
"We found in our survey work that unvaccinated Republicans ... had more confidence in Donald Trump than even their own family doctor when it came to providing advice about vaccines," Hetherington said.
The ad opens with a segment from a Fox 13 News Utah anchor who says, "Donald Trump is urging all Americans to get the Covid-19 vaccine."
A Trump interview on Fox News follows: "I would. I would recommend it. And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly," he says about the vaccine in the ad. The ad also features a quote from Ivanka Trump with a photograph of her receiving the vaccine.
The ad also linked to a full interview between Trump and Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo from March 16, 2021 -- a clip of which was featured in the ad.
Due to the algorithms used by YouTube's advertising platform, Google Ads, the researchers could not control exactly who received the ads within the treatment counties. Not all counties that were assigned as treatment counties received the ads, though the analysis was based on whether they were intended to receive the treatment.
Hetherington said he hopes the results of this study can be used to influence public health campaigns, especially as more health issues become politicized. Paralleling coronavirus vaccine trends, flu vaccine uptake has recently become partisan -- a change that was not observed prior to the pandemic.
"This politicization of the Covid vaccine is leaking over into people's attitudes about vaccines more generally," Hetherington said. "For public health professionals, they're going to probably need to take politics into account, not just about the Covid vaccine, but about other vaccines in the future."
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128-Room Springhill Suites by Marriott Hotel Coming to Downtown High Point
HIGH POINT, N.C. – Apr. 1, 2022 – Patrick Chapin, president and CEO of Business High Point - Chamber of Commerce (BHP), announced today that a new Springhill Suites by Marriott is coming to downtown High Point. Construction on the Marriott owned and operated hotel is slated to begin in the third quarter of 2022, and will continue the evolution of downtown High Point into a vital business and community hub buzzing with year-round activity.
Located at 401 West English Rd.– adjacent to the Congdon Yards campus– the 128-suite hotel will encompass a historic building that was once part of the Adams-Millis hosiery mill, as well as a newly constructed tower building, straying from the traditional Springhill Suites prototype. The hotel will also house two Super Suites (1,000 sf, 2 baths and full kitchen) and two large landscaped patios with fire pits.
“Being adjacent to Congdon Yards, in effect becoming part of our campus, is wonderful. But more importantly, our city is going to have a much needed, custom hotel to serve visitors and guests from around the world,” said Chapin.
The new Springhill Suites will bring traffic and jobs to the area, as well as serve as a testament to High Point’s foundation in furniture design. In addition to the inclusion and renovation of the Adams-Millis property, the hotel will feature interior design work from local interior design firm, Barbour Spangle.
This exciting step forward in the ongoing revitalization of downtown is being funded by Benchmade Ventures, a development and investment group Charlotte, N.C.
Benchmade Ventures also recently developed the Fairfield by Marriott Morganton Historic Downtown, in Morganton, NC.
“This project presents a unique set of challenges from a development standpoint, which is right up our alley,” said Michael Kren, one of two Managing Partners of Benchmade Ventures. “We have had quite a lot of experience with adaptive reuse projects and enjoy the opportunity to create a space that combines new construction that meets the expectations of the modern-day consumer with historic architecture that speaks to the history of High Point.”
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About Business High Point, Inc.: Business High Point – Chamber of Commerce initiates, inspires and accelerates the kind of change that propels its members to success and its community to prominence. This mission is accomplished through the three areas of focus: Chamber of Commerce, Strategic Initiatives, and Transformational Change. Established in 2015, Business High Point – Chamber of Commerce is the merged entity of the High Point Chamber of Commerce and the High Point Partners. To learn more about BHP Chamber please visit www.bhpchamber.org. To discover how BHP Chamber can help your business, please contact Iris Boswell, Membership Director at iris@bhpchamber.org
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Brandi Silver never thought she’d be making pins and cards with funny phrases and that celebrated pop cultural icons via Pin & Proper.
In fact, Silver never even wanted her own business.
She was looking for one pin to honor her father’s memory. When she couldn’t find it, she decided to make it.
“My dad passed away in 2015, and I needed to keep busy. I had started collecting enamel pins from all over the Internet. At this time I was looking for a Tupac pin. I am a major fan, and the song “Keep Your Head Up” was playing on the way to my dad’s service. I felt like it was a message,” Silver explained. “I was finding pins that said they were Tupac but it was actually Nate Dogg. Random, weird stuff but people were buying them.”
Born in Charlotte, but claiming Rocky Mount as home, Silver graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Design. For the last 15 plus years, she’s been working in the apparel industry and has held positions at Kontoor, VF Corporation, and Hanesbrands.
She decided to do some research and realized that with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and the right manufacturer, she could create exactly what she was looking for.
“That’s pretty much what I’ve done in my career in fashion. Working with companies overseas, manufacturers, sketching, sending stuff off with specs and measurements,” Silver said. “So I decided to take the leap and make my own pin the way that I wanted and that’s how the business started. I didn’t want a business. I was just collecting pins. The minimum order was 100 pins but what was I going to do with 99 pins? I just wanted one.”
She ended up creating an Etsy page to, as she describes it, “toss the rest of the pins up there and call it a day.”
That was in 2017. When the now 38-year-old just needed a creative outlet.
“I wanted a pin that I couldn’t find so I decided to create it myself,” she said.
Fast forward five years, the need to fulfill her “one” request has grown into a full-blown Etsy Shop, Pin & Proper by Brandi Silver, and has garnered the attention of national box stores, such as Target, and national media outlets like BuzzFeed and PopSugar. With pins and cards featuring everyone from Nipsey Hussle, Fran Drescher, Beyonce, Prince to The Golden Girls, Silver has made her mark and captured the culture in the past few years.
“I didn’t expect 5 years later for this to be a thing. I didn’t really expect anybody to really buy a pin,” Silver said. “I felt like collecting pins was something a small group of people did. I didn’t think it would be as big as it is but I’m very grateful that it is.”
Grateful, indeed.
In August 2019, Silver’s job was eliminated. She applied for jobs all over the country, even willing to relocate as far away as California, but received no replies. One day a discouraged Silver received a message from a former coworker to let her know that she and her works were featured on the pop culture website PopSugar.
“One of my Lizzo coaster sets was featured and I had no clue,” she said. “It had probably been up there for a couple of weeks at that point. The coasters had sold out but I didn’t know it was because it had been featured on PopSugar.”
While Silver was excited about the success, she didn’t put too much weight into the feature. She actually prepared herself for the worst. Still unemployed, running out of unemployment and now with the world shutting down due to the pandemic, she chalked up the “loss” of her business to COVID.
“I just thought ‘well, there goes my business.’ People don’t have jobs right now and we don’t know what’s going on. Nobody’s going to buy a pin or buy a card,” Silver said. “They’re using their little extra money towards food, gas, and keeping the lights on.”
Instead, the exact opposite happened. Pin & Proper had its biggest and best year yet in 2020. Silver’s creative outlet-turned-business garnered so much business it caught the attention of folks at the national retailer, Target. She received a message from them in January asking if she was interested in the store’s virtual 2021 Black History Month Showcase.
Silver initially thought she was being pranked.
“Target is my favorite store ever. I’m in there constantly and they know me at all three of the Targets here in Greensboro,” she said. “I asked her to confirm she was from Target. She had a target email address but people prank and scam all day long. I asked her how did she know me and she went on to say we’ve been discussing your business and so on.”
After having the representative send her links and information, Silver decided that the outreach was indeed legit and continued to hear them out. She said she was shocked that someone from Target had found her on Etsy and decided to reach out.
“It was myself and one other Aggie that was up there at the same time. The store offers a lot of leadership and entrepreneurship programs throughout the year to help people get into Target or just help with their business in general,” Silver said of her experience. “I still can’t believe that someone from Target reached out to me.”
While unemployed during 2020, Silver was able to put her all into her business. Since she started working again in March 2021, she’s had to slow things down a bit.
“Business is still great but now it’s limited to nights and weekends. I am packing and shipping at the post office. It’s just me so I don’t really travel much because I have to get these orders out. If I go somewhere, like a vacation, I have to come back to shipping orders,” she said.
In the past five years, Pin & Proper’s collection includes pins, cards, keychains, buttons, stickers, mugs, coasters, and even a throw pillow or two.
Silver has always been crafty, often making handmade greeting cards for friends and loved ones when she could find the time. A growing need to focus on work and life forced her to slowly cut down on the time that she would commit to that talent. However, once that one pin was up, she started to think that perhaps she could add some cards, as well. Her biggest sellers are Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day cards.
“I would hand-make greeting cards for friends and family and then would sell them in packs around the holidays,” she said. “If I gave them a birthday card, anniversary card, or whatever, friends and family would ask ‘did you make this?’ That’s always a question.”
Silver said that began realizing that some people are just “card people.”
“I have a sorority sister that has kept every card that she’s gotten in her life. There are people like that. I’m not like that but there are people out there like that,” she said.
With a few tweaks.
“Instead of hand making them, do the artwork and have them printed. Nothing customizable but I try to come up with quirky cards,” she said. “They would either be in stock or they wouldn’t, and people like them.”
For someone who designs and is creative all day, the pins and cards give Silver an opportunity to express her creativity her way. A fan of R&B and Hip-Hop music, pop culture, and classic television shows, Silver’s quick wit, deck of puns, and mental jukebox of song lyrics comes across in her creations.
“I don’t have handcuffs, where at work I do. We have costs, we only do this amount of styles or this isn’t our customer. There were always guidelines,” she said. “If I walk into Hallmark, nine times out of 10, I’m not going to see a Tupac card or a Mary J. Blige ‘What’s the 411?’ card. I try to create things that I don’t think are necessarily represented as much.”
In the Pin & Proper world, Silver gets an opportunity to pretty much do whatever she wants.
“Ideas just come through. I get a lot of ideas being in the apparel industry, I love colors and picking colors. I can do my own thing at my own pace, which I love. If it sells, it sells. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”
Silver credits a huge part of her success to her Etsy site. She said that branched out at one point, paying for a website for six months and “didn’t get one hit.”
“Etsy has been great to me. There are people there just looking for things. They don’t have to know me, know what Pin & Proper is or anything about Greensboro,” she said. “They just have to type in a word, and if it’s something that I have, it will pop up.”
A business model that has paid off for Silver time and time again, causing her to be labeled a 5-star seller on the platform.
“I’ve sold to people out of the country and within the country. Ninety percent of the people who buy from me, I have no clue who they are,” she said. “If you can make it, somebody is going to buy it. It may not be 100,000 people, but you can find the group of people that want it.”
No matter how much success Silver achieves with her business, it still surprises her that anyone recognizes her and her brand.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m this person that’s just doing my own little thing. So when people reach out, I ask, ‘how do you even know me? I am still just a plain Jane, working 9 to 5, and I do this on the side. I still have a little Etsy page, and I’m still the same ol’ Brandi. But, you know, things are getting bigger for me.”
To shop with Pin & Proper visit:
Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/PAPERbyBrandi
Facebook and Instagram: PinAndProperByBrandi
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HPU Students Gain Real-World Experience at the High Point Furniture Market
HPU interior design students created their own designs and are landing internships through these opportunities.
HIGH POINT, N.C., April 6, 2022 – High Point University students learned from industry professionals at the spring High Point Market, one of the largest home furnishing industry trade shows in the world, from April 2-6.
The biannual event attracts industry leaders from across the globe who hire students, providing experiential learning opportunities to network and work alongside professionals during the five-day event.
This is the first time HPU junior Alexis Haas has worked at the event with DesignMaster Furniture, which focuses on interior design for dining spaces.
“I’ve always wanted to work market and gain that real-world experience while in college,” said Haas, an interior design major from Pottstown, Pennsylvania. “This has been a fun experience learning more about dining chairs, what the trends are and how to communicate with clients. I’m interested in working market again after meeting so many people and networking to navigate my future in the industry.”
For sophomore Anastasia Avlonitis, this is her second time at the biannual event, and she’s taking every opportunity to grow. This spring she’s working with the company Regina Andrew by helping clients with orders, shadowing her supervisor and taking interested buyers around the showroom.
“I really enjoy the sales aspect of working market,” said Avlonitis, an interior design student from West Chester County, New York. “I get to use my creative thoughts within sales and help customers when making decisions on what kind of finishes or products they want. I am extremely grateful to have an opportunity like this. One of the reasons I chose to go to HPU for interior design is because of these great networking opportunities. I was able to meet many designers and store owners and exchange business cards.”
Abigail Peterson has created a strong relationship with Baker McGuire in downtown High Point after working two markets, holding a part-time job and now preparing for a summer internship with the company. She credits working at the High Point Market as one of the reasons she landed the upcoming internship.
“I’ve been able to network with a lot of global designers, which has allowed me to make different connections in the furniture industry,” said Peterson, an interior design major from Stillwater, Minnesota. “My mentor at Baker McGuire has introduced me to a lot of different people in the company, and that opened the door to different opportunities.”
Industry professionals can tell HPU students are professional, willing to learn and excited to engage with clients.
“It’s a great community to have HPU students work with us and learn the brand,” said Arika Lowther, creative director for DesignMaster Furniture. “I think the partnership with HPU and the High Point Market is a great program to have students over here and learn the product, especially if this is what they want to do moving forward. It’s a great steppingstone for students.”
HPU students made their mark at this spring’s furniture market in different ways, such as designing portions of a showroom. Jae Burdett, a junior interior design major from Fayetteville, North Carolina, interned at Alden Parkes at the fall market. This spring, she helped showcase a new collection and be a part of their “Musical Chair.” She designed their new chair that debuted at the market by choosing different fabrics, finishes and materials that represent the company and her design.
“Since my freshman year, I’ve been immersed within the industry and work for a plethora of companies that have allowed for me to see all of the possibilities I have with my major,” said Burdett. “I never knew that it would lead me to designing my own chair. I am beyond honored and excited to not only have a support system from successful professionals in the industry, but to be able to create and continue creating pieces and spaces that reflect me.”
Her chair was raffled on April 2 with the proceeds going toward a design scholarship at HPU.
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The North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) and the MFA in Creative Writing Program at UNC-Greensboro will present its 2022 Spring Conference on Saturday, April 23 in the UNCG Moore Humanities and Research Administration (MHRA) Building, 1111 Spring Garden St., in Greensboro, and the Curry Auditorium located next door. The event is open to anyone interested in the creative writing process, be it fiction, non-fiction, books and novels, screenplays, and/or poetry. Registration for the on-site conference is $100 (members) and $150 (non-members); registration for the on-line conference is $75 (members) and $125 (non-members), and registration ends at noon, April 18.
This marks the first time that the NCWN has offered screenwriting programs and scholarships, especially for screenwriters at the Spring Conference. This is also the first in-person Spring Conference since April 2019.
This year’s Spring Conference faculty includes Michele T. Berger, a noted professor, writer, and poet who is currently a trustee on the board of the NCWN and President-Elect of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association; Belle Boggs, author of such works as The Gulf: A Novel, On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, and Mattaponi Queen: Stories, and a professor of English and director of the MFA program at NC State University; Charmaine Cadeau, professor of English at High Point University and an advisor for Apogee Magazine, whose latest book, Skytale, was handmade with the support of JackPine Press; Jamie Chambliss, a graduate of Wake Forest University with a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and currently an agent with Folio Literary Management; Mary M. Dalton, a professor of Communication at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses emphasizing critical media studies and screenwriting; Stuart Dischell, author of such works as Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, and Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, as well as the forthcoming The Lookout Man; Joy Goodwin, Emmy-winning writer and producer (Black Nativity, May in the Summer, and the upcoming Mabel, and chair of the graduate screenwriting program at the UNCSA School of the Arts in Winston-Salem; Caleb Johnson, who teaches writing at Appalachian State University and author of the acclaimed novel Treeborne; Charlie Lovett, playwright and host of the podcast Inside the Writer’s Studio, and New York Times best-selling author of The Bookmans Tale, Escaping Dreamland, and other novels; Travis Mulhauser, author of the acclaimed novel Sweetgirl and Greetings from Cutler County: A Novella and Stories, who received his MFA in fiction from UNC-Greensboro; Laura Mullen, also a teacher at Wake Forest University and a noted poet whose recent works have been featured in Fence, Together in a Sudden Strangeness, and Bettering American Poetry; Duncan Murrell, who directed the writing program at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, is a contributing editor at Harpers Magazine and The Oxford American, and the founder (with fellow Algonquin Books alum Chuck Adams) of CraftBook Editorial; Derek Palacio, whose works include The Mortifications, How to Shake the Other Man, and the short story “Sugercane,” who teaches in the MFA program at UNC Greensboro; Philadelphia native Maegan Poland, who teaches creative writing and composition at Drexel University and whose collection of short stories, What Makes You Think You’re Awake?, which was published last year by Blair Press and selected by Carmen Maria Machado to win the Bakwin Award; Rachel Priest, assistant editor at The Bitter Southerner and formerly a writer and editor at The Red & Black’s culture desk; writer and book designer Meg Reid, who holds an MFA in non-fiction from UNC-Wilmington and the director of Hub City Press in Spartanburg, SC; novelist poet, and musician Steven Sherrill, whose works include The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break and Joy, PA; Julia Ridley Smith, who teaches fiction writing at UNC Chapel Hill, where she is the 2021-’22 Kenan Visiting Writer, whose memoir The Sum of Trifles was published by University of Georgia Press last year; and Carole Boston Weatherford, who made her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995 and whose books have received three Caldecott Honors, two NAACP Image Awards, an SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, to name a few.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit Spring Conference 2022 (Greensbor https://www.ncwriters.org/index.php/programs-and-services/conferences/12593-sc22o) (ncwriters.org).
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Writer/director Rachel Carey’s award-winning feature debut, Deadly Cuts, is a colorful, good-natured black comedy, a “chick flick” and an underdog story — although it’s not entirely surprising how it all turns out.
Set in the working-class town of Piglinstown — insert your own joke here, because the characters do it early and often — this fluffy Irish confection details the goings-on at Deadly Cuts, the resident beauty salon, owned and operated by Michelle (Angeline Ball). The members of the staff are eager to participate in the annual Ahh Hair competition, which recognizes the top hair salon in the United Kingdom, but Michelle — who has a history with the competition — isn’t necessarily stoked. Indeed, she’d rather not participate at all.
There are, however, hurdles to overcome. The first is Deano (Ian Lloyd Anderson), a thug in a white tracksuit who demands protection money from local merchants but tends to terrorize them anyway. The other is Darren Flynn (Aidan McArdle), an obnoxiously officious local politico — replete with bad comb over — whose response to Deano’s threats is to close all businesses in the neighborhood, starting with Deadly Cuts, and sell the property to a big developer.
The first hurdle is overcome when Deano barrels into the salon and begins assaulting Michelle and the girls. This proves to be a fatal error for Deano, both figuratively and literally. With Deano gone, Flynn only accelerates his plans to close Deadly Cuts, so their only hope is to win the Ahh Hair competition.
With its cheeky humor and salty (but amusing) language, Deadly Cuts is something of a big-screen sitcom. The personal lives of the characters are only sketchily depicted, but the performances give it a big boost.
First and foremost is Ball, fondly remembered for her debut as teen dream Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker’s 1991 classic The Commitments. Like many actors in that cast, Ball continued her career primarily in the United Kingdom, winning some awards along the way. This is her largest feature role in some time, and she delivers on all counts, conjuring up wistful girlishness and cynical churlishness. She’s vulnerable yet resilient, and particularly adept at playing mother hen to her quirky, eccentric co-workers (Ericka Roe, Shauna Higgins, and newcomer Lauren Larkin, all great fun).
Anderson, so loathsome as the volatile ex-husband in Phyllida Lloyd’s award-winning 2020 drama Herself, continues his string of unlikable screen characters as the dim but diabolical Deano. Victoria Smurfit turns up as Michelle’s old Ahh Hair nemesis, Pippa, and Louis Lovett has a merry old time as D’Logan Doyle, the sort of self-absorbed celebrity hairstylist who comes with his own introductory, and incredibly self-indulgent, rap number. The world of hairstyling belongs to D’Logan Doyle’s, and don’t you forget it — because he sure won’t let you.
The black-comedy elements could have been darker and sharper (no pun intended), but as an unabashed crowd-pleaser, Deadly Cuts offers a frothy, pleasant diversion. It moves along at a nice pace, and even if the outcome of the competition is never in doubt, there’s a sassy sweetness to the proceedings that’s hard to resist.
— Deadly Cuts is available on iTunes, Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft, Rakuten, Sky Store, Amazon, Volta, and IFI@Home.
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RIVERRUN ANNOUNCES 2022 FILM LINEUP
‘The Rose Maker’ and ‘We Feed People’ to Open and ‘A Love Song’ to Close,
Women Spanning Cinematic History to be Honored with Awards
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (APRIL 5, 2022) – The 2022 RiverRun International Film Festival will take place April 21-30 and will offer both traditional in-person and virtual screenings. The festival features 174 films representing 33 countries culled from a pool of nearly 1,700 submitted films.
Venues will include Bailey Park, Crossnore Communities for Children, Hanesbrands Theatre, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Marketplace Cinemas, SECCA, and UNCSA in Winston-Salem, and RED Cinemas in Greensboro.
Tickets are on sale to members April 5-7 and to the general public on April 8. The complete schedule and all ticketing is available online at riverrunfilm.com.
Honorees this year highlight women spanning the history of film and include Master of Cinema Award recipients Karen Allen, Gigi Perreau, Hayley Mills, Kristi Zea, and Karmic Release Ltd. Spark Awards for 2022 will go to Natalie Bullock Brown and Iman Zawahry.
Opening night will feature both THE ROSE MAKER, telling the story of Eve (Catherine Frot), an artisanal rose grower struggling to stay afloat until her assistant comes up with a unique solution; and WE FEED PEOPLE, which spotlights chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen’s evolution from being a scrappy group of volunteers to becoming one of the most highly regarded humanitarian aid organizations in the disaster relief sector.
The 2022 closing night film will be A LOVE SONG, a tale of two childhood sweethearts (Dale Dickey and Wes Studi), now both widowed, who share a night by a lake in the mountains. Reuniting after 40 years, the pair share childhood memories, make small talk, and shelter together from loneliness.
"From all of the available films this year, we are presenting what we believe to be one of the finest programs RiverRun has ever offered,” said RiverRun’s Executive Director Rob Davis. “From French comedies to Mexican narrative and documentary offerings, a Hungarian film noir, and a woman’s quest to become the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest, our international offerings truly encompass the global community of narrative and documentary filmmaking.”
We also have assembled a diverse selection of films from around the U.S. and across North Carolina. Our documentaries range from the recording of an album in Nashville’s famed RCA Studio B to the challenges of preserving and protecting New Jersey’s Passaic River. On the narrative front, our films include a tense thriller set in a Georgia bank, an estranged family coming together on their Montana ranch, and a Muslim American rom com about a group of sisters in Queens.”
The festival will also feature a number of free offerings this year, several wonderful panel opportunities, Family Night screenings at Bailey Park and Crossnore Communities for Children, Saturday Morning Cartoons, as well as our 11th annual Pitch Fest competition.
Information about these and all other events available at riverrunfilm.com.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Big names. Big talents. Big films. RiverRun’s Special Screenings offer audiences a chance to catch an early glimpse of films destined for the multiplex.
OPENING NIGHT #1
THE ROSE MAKER
Director: Pierre Pinaud
FRANCE / 2021 / 95 MIN. / FRENCH / NARRATIVE
Presented by PNC
Artisanal horticulturist Eve Vernet (Catherine Frot) honors her father’s legacy by continuing the family business. But Eve’s approach struggles to compete with the mass market production of her corporate rivals. With the business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation, Eve’s trusted secretary, Vera, makes a last-ditch effort to turn things around by hiring three new employees from a prison rehabilitation program behind Eve’s back. In a desperate attempt to save the business, the new team comes up with a perilous plan in this colorful and touching comedy about growing new creations in mature soil.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 21 / 7:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
APRIL 22 / 2:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT #2
WE FEED PEOPLE
Director: Ron Howard
USA / 2022 / 89 MIN. / ENGLISH/SPANISH / DOCUMENTARY
Presented by PNC
Marketing Partner: Guilford College Bryan Series
From acclaimed director Ron Howard, this riveting documentary spotlights renowned chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen’s incredible mission and evolution over 12 years from being a scrappy group of grassroots volunteers to becoming one of the most highly regarded humanitarian aid organizations in the disaster relief sector.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 21 / 7:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 25 / 5:30PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 22-24
CENTERPIECE SCREENING
FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN
Director: Daniel Raim
USA / 2022 / 88 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by The Tanger Center & Temple Emanuel of Winston-Salem
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael called “the most powerful movie musical ever made.” Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this epic documentary captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director’s chair and in Jewison’s heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage, never-before-seen stills, and original interviews.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 27 / 5:30PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 28–30
CLOSING NIGHT
A LOVE SONG
Director: Max Walker-Silverman
USA / 2021 / 81 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Presented by PNC
This whimsical Sundance standout stars Dale Dickey and Wes Studi as two estranged childhood sweethearts who are both now widowed. Through decidedly sparse correspondence they end up meeting up for one memorable night at campsite number seven in the middle of nowhere in Colorado, by a lake in the mountains. In this debut feature from Max Walker-Silverman, we witness a film that is both naturalistic and oddly surreal at the same time, while featuring terrific performances from well-known actors Dickey and Studi.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 30 / 7:30PM / UNCSA – MAIN THEATR
18½
Director: Dan Mirvish
USA / 2021 / 87 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Jamie Huss & Gregg Jamback
Set in 1974, this dramatic/comedic thriller supposes that a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon’s tapes. The film features many notable actors and the voice of Bruce Campbell as Nixon himself.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 22 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23–25
892
Director: Abi Damaris Corbin
USA / 2022 / 95 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
A Marine war veteran (John Boyega) faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life. Facing the prospect of becoming homeless and not having the money to take care of himself, never mind his young daughter, he takes his anger to the limits at a local bank. Based on the true story from 2017, this emotional gut punch of a film won a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and features Connie Britton as well as Michael K.Williams in his final screen role.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 7:30PM / UNCSA – MAIN THEATRE
LINOLEUM
Director: Colin West
USA / 2022 / 101 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Amy Guzik & Christopher Holmes and Lia & Ned Erickson
When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality. Fresh from its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March, this fascinating comedy features performances from Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Tony Shaloub, and Michael Ian Black.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 27 / 8:00PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
APRIL 29 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
LOST ILLUSIONS
Director: Xavier Giannoli
FRANCE / 2022 / 150 MIN. / FRENCH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Hendrick Bryant Nerhood & Sanders LLP and EXP Realty
In this incredible winner of seven César awards, Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th-century France. He has great hopes and wants to forge his destiny. He leaves the family printing house in his native province to try his luck in Paris on the arm of his patroness of the arts. Quickly left to fend for himself in this fabulous town, the young man will discover what goes on behind the scenes in this world devoted to the law of profit and pretense. A comedy where everything can be bought or sold, literary success like the press, politics like sentiments, reputations like souls.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 26 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 28 / 1:30PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE
Director: Kate Tsang
USA / 2021 / 81 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Amy Guzik & Christopher Holmes
This ’21 Sundance hit features a story about a teenage delinquent (Miya Cech) who befriends a surly magician (Rhea Perlman) who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A quirky coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief, and finding hope in the darkest moments.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 25 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
MONTANA STORY
Directors: Scott McGehee & David Siegel
USA / 2022 / 114 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by EXP Realty
From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew, The Deep End) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop. The fates of their ailing, unscrupulous father and a beloved old horse hang in the balance.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 25 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
THE SPEECH
Director: Laurent Tirard
FRANCE/BELGIUM / 2020 / 87 MIN. / FRENCH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by EXP Realty
This comedic film, a 2020 Cannes Official Selection, directed by Laurent Tirard follows 35-year-old Adrien at a disastrous family dinner rife with old grudges, and an over-excited soon to be brother-in-law. To make matters worse, Adrien has texted his ex, in an attempt to reconnect, and hasn’t heard back yet. A story that explores male heartbreak through awkward and hilarious moments, this is a film that anyone who’s ever been in a relationship or had a family meal can relate to. Based on a novel by Fabrice Caro, The Speech gives viewers a seat at this hilariously awkward table.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 30 / 4:30PM / UNCSA - MAIN THEATRE
RE: VISION INDEPENDENT COMPETITION
Emerging talents. Representing some of the very best independent films of the year, the six films in this section are eligible for jury prizes and the Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Audience Award.
DISFLUENCY
Director: Anna Baumgarten
USA / 2020 / 96 MIN. / ENGLISH
After failing her final college class, Jane returns home to her family's lake house for the summer. While trying to plan her next move and navigate her life after moving back home, she begins to come to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year thanks to the help of her friends and family.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 26 / 7:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 27 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
THE FALCONER
Directors: Seanne Winslow & Adam Sjöberg
OMAN/USA / 2021 / 100 MIN. / ENGLISH/ARABIC
Inspired by true events, two best friends—Tariq, an Omani teenager, and Cai, a privileged Westerner—conspire to steal animals from the zoo and sell them on the black market to raise money for Tariq’s sister’s divorce from an abusive marriage. They are forced to wrestle with morally complex choices that reveal the vast distance between their worlds.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 5:00PM / SECCA
APRIL 25 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 26-28
I CAN FEEL YOU WALKING
Director: Rachel Lambert
USA / 2021 / 84 MIN. / ENGLISH
Shannon can only use one arm. Who knows what happened to the one in a splint. Well, she knows, but she’s not telling. Kevin is a sleepwalker. He’s awake alright, walking right through the day, not sure when it starts and stops and starts again. These two broken people are neighbors in a duplex, shuffling and sleeping through their broken lives, yards apart, walking the same floor of the same house with a wall running through it. Until the night they collide.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 26 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 27 / 6:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 28-30
THE NOISE OF ENGINES
Director: Philippe Grégoire
CANADA/ICELAND / 2021 / 79 MIN. / FRENCH
Alexandre is a young firearms instructor in the midst of an internal investigation that diagnoses him with a sexual addiction and forces him on compulsory leave for 10 days. Upon arrival in Quebec for a surprise visit with his mother, the police inform him of a disturbing situation: A number of sexually explicit cartoons were found on the door of the local church, and Alexandre’s face is the only one recognizable in the drawings.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 27 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 30 / 4:00PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
WAKE UP, LEONARD
Director: Kat Mills Martin
USA / 2021 / 73 MIN. / ENGLISH
Part comedy, part self-help nightmare, Wake Up, Leonard follows one man’s quest for wellness while failing miserably to stay on his vibe. This is the story of a broken-hearted seeker with a tenuous grasp on his mental health, but an admirable faith in the Universe. Will Leonard learn how to not only love his higher self, but his lower self too? This improvised feature film was shot during the pandemic and explores themes of mental wellness, queer love, and self-acceptance.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 28 / 7:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 29 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
YOU RESEMBLE ME
Director: Dina Amer
USA/FRANCE / 2021 / 90 MIN. / ARABIC/FRENCH
Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story (based on true events) about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 29 / 8:30PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
APRIL 30 / 1:00PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Compelling stories told with innovative style. RiverRun helps audiences see the world through the eyes of others by showcasing some of the year’s best real-life stories. The six films in the Documentary Competition are eligible for jury prizes and the RiverRun Audience Award.
ANONYMOUS SISTER
Director: Jamie Boyle
USA / 2021 / 93 MIN. / ENGLISH
Over the course of three decades, Jamie uses her camera to document life. When her loved ones succumb to unexplained illnesses, she turns to the camera for refuge and ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the worst man-made epidemic in United States history. Anonymous Sister is a personal exposé of one family’s fall into opioid addiction, offering a poignant and timely study of what it means to suffer, to survive, and to celebrate life, in all of its beauty and pain.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 4:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 25 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 26-28
ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES
Director: Alysa Nahmias
USA / 2021 / 84 MIN. / ENGLISH
While locked up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art. He smuggles out each panel with the help of fellow artists, only seeing the mural in totality upon coming home. As Jesse’s work captures the art world’s attention, he struggles to adjust to life outside. Leaning into his own identity as a convicted felon and celebrated artist, Jesse turns the spotlight on people still in prison, asking us to question surface representations, recognize overlooked beauty, and celebrate the transcendent power of art to connect us and elevate the human spirit.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 29 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 30 / 5:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
A DECENT HOME
Director: Sara Terry
USA / 2021 / 86 MIN. / ENGLISH
Sponsored by Fader RE
A Decent Home addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can’t afford housing anywhere else. They are fighting for their homes—and their communities—as private equity firms and wealthy investors buy up parks, making sky-high returns on their investments while squeezing every last penny out of the mobile homeowners who must pay rent for the land they live on. Viewers are made privy to the hijacking of the American Dream but also witness the inspiring efforts of the growing group of mobile homeowners who are rising up to take it back.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 23 / 6:30PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
FIRE OF LOVE
Director: Sara Dosa
USA/CANADA / 2022 / 93 MIN. / FRENCH/ENGLISH
Sponsored by Karen McHugh, Susan Von Cannon & Franklyn Millman
Fire of Love is an unexpected love story of two intrepid French scientists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: seeking to understand the mystery of volcanoes by capturing the most spectacular imagery ever recorded. The two shot hundreds of hours of footage and thousands of photographs, risking their lives to get as close to the thrill of the fire as humanly possible. This incredibly beautiful and inventive film playfully interprets the Kraffts’ story and images they left behind, resulting in a collaged archival adventure through themes of love, time, the implacable unknown, and the meaning of human existence amid the vastness of our planet’s most awesome force.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 26 / 8:00PM / SECCA
APRIL 28 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
OUTTA THE MUCK
Directors: Ira McKinley & Bhawin Suchak
USA / 2022 / 80 MIN. / ENGLISH
Family, football, and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, FL. We take a journey back home with filmmaker Ira McKinley to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, the film presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 27 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
APRIL 28 / 5:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Director: Iliana Sosa
USA/MEXICO / 2022 / 72 MIN. / SPANISH/ENGLISH
At the age of 89, Julián takes one last bus ride to El Paso, TX, to visit his daughters and their children—a lengthy trip he has made without fail every month for decades. After returning to rural Mexico, he quietly starts building a house in the empty lot next to his home. Over several years, director Iliana Sosa films her grandfather’s work, gently sifting through Julián’s previously unspoken memories brought up by the construction project and revealing both the daily pragmatism and poetry of his life. Her quietly beautiful film unfolds as a love letter to her grandfather, as well as an intimate and insightful exploration of her own relationship with him and his homeland.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 7:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 25 / 3:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 26-28
FOCUS
Festival favorites too good to miss. RiverRun’s Focus sidebar offers an eclectic mix of films from emerging talents, RiverRun alums, and veteran filmmakers alike. The films in this section are all eligible for the RiverRun Audience Award.
AMERICANISH
Director: Iman K. Zawahry
USA / 2021 / 91 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton, LLC
This Festival favorite, set in Jackson Heights, Queens, follows career-driven sisters Maryan and Sam and their newly immigrated cousin Ameera who all must navigate the sometimes conflicting demands of romance, culture, work, and family. Americanish delves into the complexity of trying to both honor and break from cultural traditions while balancing personal values and career goals in a society that does not always accommodate both. The film is directed by our 2022 Spark Award honoree Iman K. Zawahry.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 7:00PM / UNCSA - MAIN THEATRE
APRIL 28 / 8:00PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
AMERICAN RIVER
Director: Scott Morris
USA / 2021 / 86 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Great Outdoor Provision Co. & Kilpatrick Stockton
Marketing Partner: Yadkin Riverkeeper
This documentary film follows Mary Bruno and guide Carl Alderson on a four-day, 80-mile adventure down the Passaic River in New Jersey, from its pristine source in a wildlife refuge to its toxic mouth in Newark Bay. Along the way, the filmmakers engage residents, historians, and advocates in candid conversations. How did the Passaic become one of the most contaminated rivers in America? Can it be saved? And what does the future hold for our precious natural resources? The Passaic is an archetype for thousands of rivers across America facing similar reckonings.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 27 / 8:00PM / KILPATRICK, TOWNSEND & STOCKTON
APRIL 28 / 5:30PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
DEALING WITH DAD
Director: Tom Huang
USA / 2022 / 105 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Margaret Chang (Ally Maki) is rocked from her perfect alpha-mom-corporate-manager life when she has to go back to her hometown to deal with her overbearing Dad (Dana Lee). Since she can’t deal with her parents by herself, she drags along her older, sad-sack brother to help her. When they arrive at their childhood home, they discover that their mom, who is equally overbearing, and their youngest, angry comic book nerd brother are happy with the situation... As it turns out, their dad is much more pleasant when depressed. While struggling over taking care of their dad, they reconnect as a family by bickering and reminiscing about the bad times with dad, discovering that their familial bond is stronger than they ever realized.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 7:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 26 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
FREE RENTY: LANIER V. HARVARD
Director: David Grubin
USA / 2021 / 95 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
This incredibly poignant documentary film tells the story of Tamara Lanier, an African American woman determined to force Harvard University to cede ownership of daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. The images are emblematic of the inhumanity of slavery, the racist science that supported it, and the white supremacy that continues to infect our society today. The film focuses on Lanier, following her lawsuit and the growing activism around it, and also features Attorney Benjamin Crump and author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 29 / 7:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
HOCKEYLAND
Director: Tommy Haines
USA / 2021 / 108 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Home of the Carolina Thunderbirds
In Minnesota’s unforgiving North Country, a tradition of grit has been forged in the mines and on the ice. But the times they are a changin’. Pressed between yesterday’s definition of masculinity and new notions of manhood, senior boys in rival communities—one emerging dynasty, one with a fabled past—skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore. In America’s far reaches, a portrait of young men in transition.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 22 / 8:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23-25
THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO
Director: Steven Pressman
USA / 2022 / 71 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by John C. Larson and Mike & Michelle Leonard
Marketing Partner: Preservation Greensboro
When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all its possessions. The Levys of Monticello is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century—far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. The remarkable story of the Levy family also intersects with the rise of antisemitism that runs throughout the course of American history.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 25 / 5:30PM / SECCA
APRIL 27 / 5:30PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 28-30
LIGHT ATTACHING TO A GIRL
Director: Laina Barakat
USA/ICELAND / 2022 / 62 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
PREMIERE SCREENING
Clare is finally 18 and ready to embrace the newfound independence that comes with it. Her family on the other hand, isn’t quite ready to let go of the little girl she used to be. Feeling trapped, and struggling to find herself at home, Clare embarks on a 2,500-mile journey to Iceland. On the way, memories of the past, grief, and freedom collide because, for the first time, she is able to make her own decisions.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 30 / 4:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
LITTLE SATCHMO
Director: John Alexander
USA / 2021 / 61 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Stephanie Nelson
To the world, Louis Armstrong is iconic—a symbol of musical genius, unparalleled success, and unassailable character. To Sharon, he was simply dad. Armstrong’s wholesome, non-threatening image preserved his singular career as a black performer with unfettered access to a white man’s world. Yet he was more than a caricature; he had desires, he had longings, and in private, he held tightly to the things he loved. Perhaps closest to his heart was a child whom he hid from the world: a daughter sworn to a life of secrecy until now.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
APRIL 23 / 7:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
MIJA
Director: Isabel Castro
USA / 2022 / 85 MIN. / ENGLISH/SPANISH / DOCUMENTARY
This remarkable debut documentary feature film from Isabel Castro follows Doris Muñoz, a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a necessity.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
NEON HEART
Director: Lucas Estevan Soares
BRAZIL / 2021 / 99 MIN. / PORTUGUESE / NARRATIVE
Fernando works with his father in their singing telegram service car, called Neon Heart. On board a customized car, they are hired to perform live messages. After a performance that ends tragically, Fernando’s life changes completely, and he starts a mind-blowing journey in the name of love.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 28 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
NORTHERN SHADE
Director: Christopher Rucinski
USA / 2022 / 95 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Justin McLaughlin, a disenchanted Army vet working a menial job and attempting to avoid his past, is forced to emerge from isolation when his younger brother is recruited by an extremist militia. Working with a private investigator named Frankie, Justin will have to decide how much of his past in the Army he’s willing to bring back to the surface to extract his brother from the clutches of the paramilitary conman Billy.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 29 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
RIVERRUN ARTS
Art on Film. Part of our year-round curatorial programming, the RiverRun Arts banner encompasses any film that highlights the importance of art in our world. From the written word to huge exhibitions and events, art plays a vital role in our daily lives, and we want to highlight these incredible artists in the Festival and all year long.
BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
USA / 2021 / 85 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by OUT at the Movies
Director Jeffrey Schwarz returns with another glittering, stranger-than-fiction documentary of 1950s Hollywood. When screen icon Gloria Swanson realizes that her famous role in Sunset Boulevard might very well be her last, she turns to Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley—two young songwriters and same-sex romantic partners—to adapt the film into a Broadway musical. Drawn together in Palm Springs, the three find themselves caught in a love triangle all too strangely similar to the storyline of the play itself. What follows is not what you expect.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 25 / 8:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 26-28
CASABLANCA BEATS
Director: Nabil Ayouch
FRANCE/MOROCCO / 2021 / 101 MIN. / ARABIC / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Tiffany Jones & Martin Sledge and Robert Sledge
Director Nabil Ayouch drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip-hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through the arts. Mixing intimate yet high-stakes drama with infectious musical sequences, the film transports audiences to a lively and contemporary Casablanca, far from the clichés about the Arab world.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 8:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
IMPERFECT
Directors: Regan Linton & Brian Malone
USA / 2021 / 78 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Marketing Partner: Little Theatre of W-S
This is a story of artists…who live and perform with the uniqueness of disability and have historically been denied their place in the spotlight. This personal film follows a company of actors with a range of disabilities as they attempt an unprecedented version of Kander, Ebb, and Fosse’s beloved musical Chicago. Capturing the raw, honest stories of the actors inside the production process and outside the theater in their everyday lives, Imperfect reveals a rare behind-the-scenes look at talented artists who push to succeed as professional performers, no matter the obstacles.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 28 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
LEFTOVER FEELINGS: A STUDIO B REVIVAL
Director: Ted Roach & Lagan Sebert
USA / 2021 / 72 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Mock Orange Bikes & The Reeves Theater
John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas teamed up during the pandemic to record their album “Leftover Feelings” in RCA’s fabled Studio B. Walking in the footsteps of Elvis, Dolly, and Waylon, John and Jerry attempt to revive and capture the magical sounds of this historic space. Featuring commentary along the journey from Lyle Lovett, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and more, this film spotlights the legacy of Music City’s most significant studio through the lens of two godfathers of Americana music.
This film will be preceded by
SISTERS: THE FIRST LADIES OF BLUEGRASS
Director: Joseph T. Spence
USA / 24 MIN.
A short music documentary that follows the all-female, bluegrass supergroup, The First Ladies of Bluegrass, to the 46th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. They are joined by Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile, Jewel, and Bonnie Payne.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 5:00PM / SECCA
APRIL 26 / 2:30PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
GLOBAL CURRENTS
A cinema passport around the world. Film can take audiences to places they have never been before and teach them about the wide world outside our doors. These films are from all over the globe and show wide-ranging stories you might never see anywhere else.
DOS ESTACIONES
Director: Juan Pablo González
MEXICO / 2022 / 98 MIN. / SPANISH / NARRATIVE
In the bucolic hills of the Jalisco Highlands of Mexico sits the agave fields of Dos Estaciones, a once majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat. At the helm of the factory is the iron-willed businesswoman María García (stunningly played by Teresa Sánchez) refusing to allow the impending loss of her legacy as foreign corporations dominate her industry.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 23 / 1:00PM / UNCSA – MAIN THEATRE
GIRL PICTURE
Director: Alli Haapasalo
FINLAND / 2022 / 100 MIN. / FINNISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by OUT at the Movies
This winner of the World Cinema Dramatic category at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival follows Mimmi, Emma, and Rönkkö, girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. Over three consecutive Fridays, two of them experience the earth moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
APRIL 26 / 8:00PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
OLIVER AND THE POOL
Director: Arcadi Palerm-Artis
MEXICO / 2021 / 100 MIN. / SPANISH / NARRATIVE
Oliver sets the urn that contains his father’s ashes on the table next to the poolside chaise lounge. His father died during a family dinner, just after his parents announced that they were getting divorced. Oliver, a 13-year-old only child, installs himself on the chaise lounge and decides that he will stay right there. From that very spot he continues his life—mourning, observing, learning to forgive, and falling in love.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 27 / 5:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 28–30
TALL TALES
Director: Attila Szász
HUNGARY / 2021 / 112 MIN. / HUNGARIAN / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Denise Gunter
1945, Hungary. Shortly after the end of World War II, when chaos and insecurity reign supreme in the country, a con man tries to take advantage of such confused times. Forced to flee Budapest, he’s given shelter in the woods by a mysterious woman and his son. Still trying to confront his demons, he soon finds himself in a passionate love affair with the woman whose husband is about to return home from the front. Winner of numerous awards from festivals around the world, this modern film noir will have you on the edge of your seat.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 23 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Preserving cinematic history. Every year we like to highlight archival films throughout the Festival. Whether for our free community screenings or partnered with film historians and/or our Master of Cinema guests, these films are a great way to see archival films again on the big screen.
ANGEL FACE
Director: Otto Preminger
USA / 1953 / 91 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Marketing Partner: Bookmarks
This classic film noir follows the beautiful Diane Tremayne (Jean Simmons) who is a sophisticated, wealthy young woman with a dark side she manages to conceal behind her appearance and her good manners. But can she fool Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum), the man she’s pursuing?This film is screening as a part of our highlight of the film noir genre.
Special Guest: Foster Hirsch, film historian and author of Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would be King. Book sales and signing.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 29 / 5:30 PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
MARRIED TO THE MOB
Director: Jonathan Demme
USA / 1988 / 104 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Our 2022 Master of Cinema, Kristi Zea, has a distinguished career in production design, directing, and producing. Zea was the production designer on this hilarious comedy from 1988 starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine with a strong supporting cast. A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed—if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her!
Special Guest: Kristi Zea in an on-stage conversation and award presentation prior to the screening.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 26 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Director: John Schlesinger
USA / 1969 / 113 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Susie & Dale Pollock
Marketing Partner: Bookmarks
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads to the Big Apple. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and he soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two form a rough alliance, and together they kick-start Joe's hustling career just as Ratso's health begins to deteriorate. Special Guest: Glenn Frankel, author of Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.
Book sales and signing.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 29 / 7:30PM / UNCSA - MAIN THEATRE
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Director: Steven Spielberg
USA / 1981 / 115 MIN. / ENGLISH/GERMAN/HEBREW/SPANISH/ARABIC/NEPALI / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by The Merchants in the West End
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. Featuring our Master of Cinema, Karen Allen, this classic adventure film was released in 1981 and was the highest grossing film that year. It won five Academy Awards and spawned the Indiana Jones franchise. The film was selected for the National Film Archive in 1999 and is considered one of the top films of all time.
Special Guest: Karen Allen in an on-stage conversation and award presentation prior to the screening.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 27 / 8:00PM / SECCA
SHADOW ON THE WALL
Director: Pat Jackson
USA / 1950 / 84 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIV
Sponsored by EXP Realty
Part of our highlight on the film noir genre, this classic features Master of Cinema Honoree Gigi Perreau as a child who witnesses a murder, but enters a state of shock rendering her unable to identify the killer. Will a round of innovative therapy under the direction of her psychiatrist, played by Nancy Davis Reagan, enable her to make an identification before the wrong man is executed for the crime?
Special Guest: Gigi Perreau in an on-stage conversation prior to both screenings and an award presentation on April 22.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 7:00PM / UNCSA - MAIN THEATRE
APRIL 25 / 8:00PM / RED CINEMAS
THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS
Director: Ida Lupino
USA / 1966 / 112 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by ROAR
Master of Cinema Honoree Hayley Mills stars in this delightful comedy about two mischievous students who turn a convent school upside down with their pranks. Mills plays Mary Clancy, who, along with her best friend Rachel Devery (June Harding), succeeds in driving Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) to distraction with an endless number of practical jokes in a film described as “habit-forming entertainment!
Special Guest: Hayley Mills in an on-stage conversation and award presentation prior to the screening. Book sales and signing of Forever Young, the new memoir from Hayley Mills.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 28 / 8:00PM / SECCA
WALLOWITCH & ROSS: THIS MOMENT
Director: Richard Morris
USA / 1999 / 77 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Marketing Partner: OUT at the Movies
In this documentary film by our Master of Cinema Honoree Karmic Release Ltd, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Academy Award, audiences are introduced to John Wallowitch, a star of New York cabaret and his partner Bertram Ross, Martha Graham's lead dancer for 20 years. Together they formed the unforgettable cabaret duo "Wallowitch and Ross." A hidden gem of queer cinema recently preserved in the Academy Archives, you'll want to return to this magical little world time and time again.
Special Guests: Roberta Morris-Purdee, Richard Morris, and Taylor Purdee in an on-stage conversation and award presentation following the screening
In-Person Screening: APRIL 30 / 1:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
BACK 50 SPOTLIGHT: WHAT’S UP, DOC?
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
USA / 1972 / 96 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Sponsored by Salemtowne
Highlighting our sponsor Salemtowne's 50th Anniversary, we chose this hilarious comedy from director Peter Bogdanovich,also celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! Starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal and Madeline Kahn, among other notables, this screwball comedy follows an accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags, which leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 4:30PM / UNCSA MAIN THEATRE
CAROLINA STORIES
Home grown stories. This section features films that focus on stories made in or about our great Carolina region.
AFTER SHERMAN
Director: Jon-Sesrie Goff
USA / 2022 / 88 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Having just world premiered at the True/False Film Festival in March, this beautifully layered and expressionistic film is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The director’s exploration of coastal South Carolina as a site of African American pride and racial trauma through Gullah cultural retention and land preservation is interrupted by the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 25 / 7:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
FRED CHAPPELL: I AM ONE OF YOU FOREVER
Director: Michael Frierson
USA / 2022 / 60 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Marketing Partner: Bookmarks
Fred Chappell is one of the most important Southern writers you’ve probably never heard of. He grew up on a farm in the Great Smoky Mountains. His early life was marked by the struggle between the old ways of Appalachia that lingered due to the region’s isolation, and the new ways of modern industry. In his hometown of Canton, NC, a mill town dominated by the Champion Paper and Fiber Company, Fred read pulp magazines as a kid and wrote science fiction as a teenager. He went on to start one of the nation’s first graduate creative writing programs, and later in his life won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, an award he shares with Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, and e.e.cummings.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 4:30PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
APRIL 26 / 5:30PM / RED CINEMAS GREENSBORO
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
HEALTHY HOPE
Directors: Cathy L. McLaughlin & Dan J. McLaughlin
USA / 2022 / 55 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Muscadine Grapes grow natively in the South, especially in North Carolina. After attending a Dean’s Forum at Wake Forest University, which received a $20 million-dollar anonymous grant for more research, we’re finding out vital information about these amazing plants—that the Muscadine grape has some very powerful nutrients that can help heal the human body. Other universities are also looking into the grape’s ability to slow and stop cancer growth and help reduce fatigue.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 30 / 2:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 30 - MAY 2
METAMORPHOSIS
Directors: Cashavelly Morrison & Edward Taveras
USA / 2021 / 69 MIN. / ENGLISH / EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE
In this avant-garde, experimental feature film, artist Cashavelly Morrison creates a long form music video set to her new album of the same name. The film follows a woman in crisis who leaves her life of luxury for the wilderness, where a mysterious man leads her to unexpected revelations. Made primarily by UNCSA alums and shot in Winston-Salem and around North Carolina, this film has garnered numerous awards from Festivals around the world.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
ROSEBUD LANE
Director: John Richard Lacy
USA / 2022 / 105 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
Shot entirely in Brevard and Hendersonville, NC and featuring a mostly North Carolina crew, this heartwarming feature film follows a Hollywood filmmaker who attempts to connect with his young son for the first time and the result leaves a small mountain town shattered.
This film is preceded by . . .
SPIRIT OF THE CINEMA
Director: Zack Fox
USA / 22 MIN.
A family-owned movie theater struggles with letting go of the past and switching from 35mm film to digital cinema to keep the theater open. A love letter to 35mm film, movies, and theaters... filmed in North Wilkesboro, NC at the Historic Liberty Theater and in Winston-Salem, NC.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 26 / 5:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
STAY PRAYED UP
Directors: D.L. Anderson & Matt Durning
USA / 2021 / 74 MIN. / ENGLISH / DOCUMENTARY
Sponsored by Jane and T.M. Craven
The only thing mightier than Lena Mae Perry’s electrifying voice is her faith. She’s spent the last 50 years sharing and sharpening both as the steadfast bandleader of The Branchettes, a legendary North Carolina gospel group that has packed churches throughout the South and lifted weary hearts as far away as Ireland. Stay Prayed Up is a spirited celebration, inviting audiences into “Mother” Perry’s close-knit community as the 82-year-old strives to extend The Branchettes’ sacred song ministry ever forward.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 7:30PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
WHERE’S ROSE
Director: John Mathis
USA / 2021 / 84 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
When a little girl is found after going missing, only her older brother (Ty Simpkins) recognizes the evil force that has returned in her place. This psychological, social horror film was made primarily by all UNCSA alums and was filmed during the pandemic in Winston-Salem, NC.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 28 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 29 - MAY 1
THE YURT
Director: Zachary Coker
USA / 2022 / 45 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
From RiverRun and UNCSA alum Zach Coker, this film follows Jack, who after breaking up with his fiancé leaves city life seeking a connection with nature to heal his heart. Jack finds something different and bizarre when he meets tantric guru Kali, a spiritual leader offering him a new path. Through unique spiritual practices, she uncovers his past trauma and helps him discover his true self. Where does our need to belong end?
In-Person Screening: APRIL 24 / 8:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
FILMS WITH CLASS
Teaching through film. RiverRun recognizes the unique and critical role arts education plays in reaching students in and outside the classroom. Through our free education program, Films With Class, we present screenings of carefully selected documentaries during the school year and at the Festival each spring. In 2020–21, the program hosted 50 free virtual screenings to almost 2,500 K–12 and college students.
PASANG: IN THE SHADOW OF EVEREST
Director: Nancy Svendsen
USA/FRANCE/NEPAL / 2022 / 71 MIN. / ENGLISH/FRENCH/NEPALI / DOCUMENTARY
This fascinating documentary chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa’s tragic and inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang’s dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself. Her determined pursuit of Everest plays out within the context of her nation’s quest for democracy and the emergence of the commercial climbing industry.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 8:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
APRIL 27 / 6:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23-25
FILMS WITH CLASS SHORTS PROGRAM – MIDDLE SCHOOL
This collection of short films shows the great films we get each year for young audiences. Made up of five short films, both animated and documentary, this program was specifically curated for middle school-aged students for the RiverRun Films With Class program.
Runtime: 63 MIN.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 29 / 4:00PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23-2
THE EXTINCTION OF UP
Director: Randy Boyum
USA / 5 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
In the near future, when people only recognize each other by their shoes, two boys discuss weird things that are happening in their lives, including a sibling’s accidental weight gain, and a great-grandfather’s bizarre revelations about the past.
GENERATION IMPACT: THE CODER
Director: Samantha Knowles
USA / 7 MIN. / DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built Photo Patch, a mobile app to help kids send photos and letters to parents who are incarcerated, inspired by her own experience. Jay Jay and her dad ended up founding Unlock Academy, a school that teaches coding and provides mentoring to enable young people of color to have careers in STEM fields. This is a true story of drive, hope, and ingenuity.
GET WHAT YOU GIVE
Director: Lucas Pruitt
USA / 19 MIN. / DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Carter Schutte is a young motocross racing prodigy with his eyes set on one goal, a Loretta Lynn’s MX National Championship title. With dreams this ambitious, the whole family must work toward this goal together. This short documentary follows Carter’s journey as he works toward the highest achievement in amateur motocross. Student – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
JUNIOR
Director: AJ Wilhelm
HAITI / 11 MIN. / DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Gifted as a teenager, Jérôme “Junior” Simeon was recruited by top Haitian roots music group “Racine Mapou de Azor” and spent 20 years touring the world. When the lead singer of his band dies unexpectedly, Junior’s high-profile career comes to a shocking halt, and he suddenly faces an uncertain future for himself and his legacy.
OUR FUTURE, OUR FIGHT
Director: Beth Murphy
USA / 21 MIN. / DOCUMENTARY SHORT
We all know Greta, but it’s time to get to know the other young activists leading the climate justice movement! Our Future, Our Fight is an upbeat, fun, fact-filled documentary that brings audiences into the exciting world of teens leading the climate action movement.
FILMS WITH CLASS SHORTS PROGRAM – ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This collection of animated shorts shows the variety of fun films we get each year for our young audiences. Made up of nine films, this program was curated for elementary-aged students for the RiverRun Films With Class program.
Runtime: 56 MIN.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 28 / 4:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
CINEMA REX
Directors: Mayan Engelman & Eliran Peled
ISRAEL / 8 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
Jerusalem in 1938 was a divided city. At the “Cinema Rex,” a Jewish boy and an Arab girl form a soulful friendship based on one mutual language—the language of cinema.
COOL FOR YOU
Director: Sherene Strausberg
USA / 3 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
Cool For You is an animated film based on the book of the same title, which explains global warming to children in a friendly way. Incorporating different characters and families, animals, and plants, children are introduced to CO2, and positive, easy ways to improve our impact on the earth.
THE FARMER AND THE LIGHTNING STORM
Director: Danielle Browne
USA/COLOMBIA / 5 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
Burdened by frustration and fear, the Goddess of Lightning cannot find meaning in what she does and suppresses her abilities. Can a nearby Farmer help Lightning regain confidence in her powers, and by extension, in herself?
GOOD BOY CERBERUS
Director: MK Singleton
USA / 6 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
When Cerberus, a three-headed puppy, ends up on the lord of the underworld’s doorstep, he goes through guard dog training to become useful to his new master. Will he remain a cute and loving puppy, or end up the monster that he was born to be? Student – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
MUNDANCE
Directors: Abby Davenport & Aiden Winter-Deely
USA / 5 MIN. / ANIMATED SHOR
Maria is tired of her mundane office job and wishes her life were like a musical. Student – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
MY PET VENUS
Director: Ariel Paxton
USA / 3 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
A sweet story about Arya, who goes to a public garden with her mom and buys a Venus Fly Trap. After taking the plant home she takes care of it improperly, treating it like a pet. Student – Savannah College of Art & Design
PIVOT
Director: Ana Gusson
CANADA / 7 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
Growing up isn’t easy, and it’s no exception for 12-year-old Ashley, whose mom has her own ideas about who Ashley should be. Finding herself in an impossible situation, Ashley must decide whether to wear a dress she hates or find the courage to stand up for herself and fight the inner monster that is holding her back.
STEREOTYPE
Directors: Nahyun & Dahyun Beak
USA / 11 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
The war has settled down, but a conflict is still escalating.
SYMFAUNIC
Directors: Erin Bergin & Darby Kate Snyder
USA / 8 MIN. / ANIMATED SHORT
A young faun challenges the harmony of her forest glade when her new taste in music clashes with her brother’s teachings. Student – University of Central Florida
SHORTS BLOCKS
NARRATIVE SHORTS PROGRAM ONE
100 MIN.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 1:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 26 / 5:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
BACKYARD CAMPING
Director: Mor Hanay
ISRAEL / 15 MIN.
A couple dealing with a marriage crisis is forced to cooperate when an intruder breaks into their house. Student – Sapir College
HEARTLESS
Director: Haukur Björgvinsson
ICELAND / 15 MIN.
Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love, but they live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years. As their final day together approaches, they grapple with the nightmare of being torn apart and facing life with another partner.
HUMMINGBIRD
Director: Lindsey E. Gary
USA / 15 MIN.
Over one disorienting evening, Rosa discovers that her daughter has developed unusual abilities that threaten the harmony of her perfect family and the world at large.
PHLEGM
Director: Jan-David Bolt
SWITZERLAND / 6 MIN.
Oscar is late. In the surrounding skyscrapers hands are shaken and contracts are signed. That’s the last thing he needs right now. Where do these damned snails come from? Student – Zurich University of the Arts
SUPERFAN
Directors: Karina Lomelin Ripper & Marc Ripper
USA / 15 MIN.
A middle-school sleepover becomes the frontlines of a doomed friendship when a celebrity vacation sweepstakes tests the boundaries of fantasy, privacy, and a young girl’s heart.
THE WARZINIEK’S FILE
Director: Pierre J. Secondi
FRANCE / 19 MIN.
Paul Warziniek—citizen 4.815.162.342—is living a happy life. One day, he receives a parking ticket. The only problem is: he doesn’t own a car. Paul then decides to go to the Prefecture to settle what seems to be a simple administrative formality.
WRITTEN BY
Directors: Callie Marie Bloem & Christopher J. Ewing
USA / 15 MIN.
Kenzie, a 20-something Angeleno, discovers during a totally boring and routine general checkup that she is fictional. And even worse, that she was written by a dude. This revelation knocks Kenzie’s world catastrophically off axis as she begins to question everything.
NARRATIVE SHORTS PROGRAM TWO
104 MIN.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 7:00PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
APRIL 28 / 5:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
CUPIDS
Director: Zoey Martinson
USA / 10 MIN.
What is the most important thing on the last day of school before summer break? Well, if you’re Mia, Natalie, and Jabari, you frantically search for a date for Ms. Cheryl, the most beloved bus driver of all time! As they race against time before their stop, these eight-year-olds burst into action to find a match-up with the people that have made the biggest impact on their lives. From the Bodega man with “all the meats” to their principal, nobody is off limits for a possible courtship.
HALLELUJAH
Director: Victor Gabriel
USA / 14 MIN.
After being stuck with the guardianship of their annoying bookworm nephew, two brothers in Compton, CA must decide if they are willing to take on the responsibility of being caretakers.
HARRY THE HAMSTER
Director: Lewis Reeves
UK / 7 MIN.
A young boy’s day out to see his grandad and his grandad’s beloved pet, Harry the Hamster, suddenly sours as a dramatic death and an unexpected revelation occurs.
MINYAN DUTY
Director: Ivan Kander
USA / 14 MIN.
Hoping to say Kaddish after their mother’s death, Leah and Ariel find themselves one person short of making a Minyan—the quorum of 10 Jewish adults required for evening prayer service. As a result, they turn to an unconventional solution.
MOOSE TRACKS
Director: Ayanna McKnight
USA / 13 MIN.
On the night after his wife’s funeral, a newly widowed father must help his teenage daughter when she gets her first period. Student - University of Southern California
NOT THE 80s
Director: Marleen Valien
GERMANY / 17 MIN.
Two people, one restaurant, some preconceptions, and a bit of fish. Student - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
SISTERS
Director: Jess Brunetto
USA / 17 MIN.
Sisters is a short dramedy that follows two estranged siblings approaching their mother’s death. Andy, a selfish and failed actress with a drinking problem, returns home and is confronted by Emily, her uptight older sister who’s put her life on hold in order to provide home care for their ailing mother.
THIS IS HE
Director: Thea Duncan Brooks
USA / 12 MIN.
Two brothers discover each other's existence when their father passes. Student - Brooklyn College
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM ONE
108 MIN.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 5:00PM / SECCA
APRIL 26 / 3:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE - $6
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23-25
ALMEDA
Director: Paul Hairston
USA / 14 MIN.
On September 8, 2020, the Almeda Fire tore through Southern Oregon and burned more than 2,800 structures. Many belonged to tightly knit immigrant mobile home communities, some generations old.
LAST DAYS OF AUGUST
Directors: Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck & Robert Machoian
USA / 13 MIN.
Using the photo book aesthetic, this experimental documentary explores prairie towns in Nebraska meditating on the longing for permanence, on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema, and asking the question: do miracles really happen?
MEMORY LANES
Director: Brian Gersten
USA / 12 MIN.
A short, archival documentary about the history of bowling in America and the history of America in bowling. The film interweaves our established perception of this innocuous all-American game with the pervasiveness of cultural racism, sexism, and violence by showcasing nearly 100 years of archival bowling footage from newsreels, instructional films, commercials, home movies, and mainstream films and television.
NUISANCE BEAR
Directors: Gabriela Osio Vanden & Jack Weisman
CANADA / 14 MIN.
Churchill, Manitoba in Canada is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We’ve seen the majestic images and classic wildlife series captured here—but what do these bears see of us? Through a shift in perspective, Nuisance Bear reveals an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom the bears must navigate during their annual migration.
THE PANOLA PROJECT
Directors: Rachael DeCruz & Jeremy S. Levine
USA / 17 MIN.
This uplifting short film highlights the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, AL safe from COVID-19. A chronicle of how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.
STRANGER AT THE GATE
Director: Joshua Seftel
USA / 29 MIN.
U.S. Marine Richard “Mac” McKinney had planned to return home to Muncie, IN as a hero—in an American flag-draped coffin. But that didn’t happen. Instead, after 25 years of service, he returns alive and filled with an all-consuming rage. Still fueled by his desire to die for his country, he plans to bomb the local mosque. But when he comes face to face with the community of Afghan refugees and others of Muslim faith that he seeks to kill, his plan takes an unexpected turn.
ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (WHAT THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT)
Director: Brit Hensel / Associate Producer: Keli Gonzales
USA / 9 MIN.
Filmed on the Qualla Boundary and Cherokee Nation, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) explores expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world, brought to life through a story told by an elder and first language speaker. ᎤᏕᏲᏅ circles the intersection of tradition, language, land, and a commitment to maintaining balance. This film was created in collaboration with independent artists from both the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM TWO
96 MIN.
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 4:00PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
APRIL 30 / 5:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
FREEDOM SWIMMER
Director: Olivia Martin-McGuire
UK / 15 MIN.
The story of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong, which parallels his granddaughter’s own quest for a new freedom.
HIS NAME WAS CARGO
Director: Marco Signoretti
ITALY / 17 MIN.
Italy, late 1960s. Two strangers arrive in a village in the South: the first one has a movie camera, the second one has a gun. Crossing that wasteland, the two will have an unexpected opportunity to change the course of history.
HOLDING MOSES
Director: Rivkah Beth Medow
USA / 17 MIN.
Randi wanted pregnancy, birth, a family—not dreams typically associated with a butch, queer woman. But Randi was a dancer interested in expanding the natural rhythms of her body. When Moses was born profoundly disabled, her world shrank to the size of her infant son. She pulsed between shock and shame, tormented with worry about her son’s pain and future life.
MEMORY
Director: Nerea Barros
SPAIN / 15 MIN.
The Aral Sea measured 68,000 square km. Millions of people depended on it. Moynaq, once a prosperous town that lived off tourism and the fishing industry, is now a poor village in northern Uzbekistan where each day is more difficult. This lyrical documentary explains the legacy between a grandfather and his granddaughter. He continues to dream of the sea; she was born in a desert.
THE SENTENCE OF MICHAEL THOMPSON
Directors: Haley Elizabeth Anderson & Kyle Thrash
USA / 25 MIN.
Michael Thompson is the longest serving non-violent offender in the history of Michigan, and he is finally up for clemency. In 1994, he was arrested for selling three pounds of marijuana to a close friend turned police informant and was sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison and has been there ever since. After 25 years, three appeals, and two denied applications for clemency, it seems like Michael may finally have a chance at freedom.
UNSPOKEN
Director: William Armstrong
BOTSWANA/DENMARK / 7 MIN.
A beautiful, short film centered around contemporary choreographer Paul Lightfoot losing his father during the pandemic. Not permitted into the hospital to say goodbye, he began working with a dancer remotely to create a performance that processes the emotions he and many have shared worldwide. The result is a look behind the curtain into the process of a modern master interpreting loss into physical form—and a powerful beacon of hope to carry us through uncertain times.
ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM ONE
93 MIN.
Sponsored by Zaloo’s Canoes
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 24 / 3:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 29 / 5:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 25-27
7 LBS 8 OZ
Director: Yoo Lee
USA / 7 MIN.
When a young mother moves into 8th Street, Jersey City, NJ, she learns about the value of the community and how her own perception determines her own experiences.
DEATH AND THE WINEMAKER
Director: Victor Jaquier
SWITZERLAND / 19 MIN.
A young winemaker devotes himself to creating the best wine in the world to win the hand of his beloved Mathilde. He creates a wine so exquisite that even Death demands to taste it. As he learns the awful truth about Mathilde’s fate, he captures Death in a barrel, ignoring the consequences on the natural order of things.
DREAM THAT I HAD
Director: Evelyn Lee
USA / 4 MIN.
An animated interview from Dave Sardy about his rise to becoming a rock 'n' roll producer.
HOME SWEET HOME
Director: Lauren Carr
USA / 2 MIN.
A young gingerbread couple is searching for their dream home on a hit TV show, but the experience threatens both their relationship and their lives. Student - Ringing College of Art & Design
INVISIBLE MONSTERS AND TOMATO SOUP
Directors: Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte & Meghan McDonough
USA / 5 MIN.
One batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, individuals around the world began reporting more vivid dreams. We interviewed over 20 people from five continents and found a handful of themes common to their dreams during the pandemic.
MISTRAL
Director: Nico Bonomolo
ITALY / 10 MIN.
A man goes to work and sees a boat for sale. He dreams of leaving his life behind. He leaves, and the dream gives way to memory; the mistral forces him to a makeshift landing. A woman, another story, a new beginning? As in an Escher drawing, everything starts again where it seemed to have ended.
MEMENTO MORI
Director: Paul O’Flanagan
IRELAND / 9 MIN.
A storm brews over Victorian Dublin as post-mortem photographer Mr. Huxley returns to his hallowed practice within the gloomy townhouse in which he resides. His latest subject is a recently deceased young woman, whose presence conjures the demons of Huxley’s character—compelling him to confront the narcissistic life he has chosen to lead.
MORE THAN I REMEMBER
Director: Amy Bench
USA / 14 MIN.
One night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters, Mugeni finds herself completely alone. From there, she sets out on a remarkable solo journey across the globe, determined to reunite with her lost loved ones and lift up the Banyamulenge people.
MY GRANDMOTHER IS AN EGG
Director: Wu-Ching Chang
TAIWAN/UK / 8 MIN.
As a child, my grandmother was given to another family to be raised and taught all her traditional roles as a future wife to their son. Through representing the unjust tradition in the long past, the film aims to reflect women’s oppression and struggles for freedom. Student - Royal College of Art
PEEK-A-BOOM
Directors: Maya Zankoul & Toni Yammine
LEBANON / 5 MIN.
Surrounded by her loving family on her birthday, an event occurs that shapes Mira’s life forever.
PROSOPAGNOSIA
Director: Steven Fraser
UK / 10 MIN.
Prosopagnosia uses expressive animation to investigate intimacy, communication, and memory. Prosopagnosia means face blindness and to understand this neurodiverse behavior, the contents of a memory box are intricately explored.
ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM TWO
90 MINSponsored by Zaloo’s Canoes
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 25 / 5:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE
APRIL 30 / 1:30PM / UNCSA - MAIN THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 26-28
AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT
Director: Lachlan Pendragon
AUSTRALIA / 11 MIN.
When a young telemarketer is confronted by a mysterious talking ostrich, he learns that the universe is stop motion animation. He must put aside his dwindling toaster sales and focus on convincing his colleagues of his terrifying discovery. It's scary business living in a stop motion world, where your faces come off and a giant hand controls your every move. Student - Griffith Film School
FIVE CENTS
Director: Aaron Hughes
USA / 5 MIN.
A consumer finds himself in over his head after a string of purchases go out of control. Drawn by hand on thousands of market data pages from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times with ink, white-out, gouache paint, gold leaf, and other materials.
FRYDENLUND HAIR PARLOR
Director: Hanne Berkaak
NORWAY/BELGIUM / 14 MIN.
A WW2 story focusing on hair, not heroes. Five siblings and their hair parlor offer women of the small Norwegian town Narvik a sense of normality in the midst of madness and despair.
LOOP
Director: Pablo Polledri
SPAIN/ARGENTINA / 8 MIN.
In this society, each human being repeats the same action over and over again. In this society, each human being repeats the same action over and over again. In this society, each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
MIA
Director: Ryoichi Mori
JAPAN / 13 MIN.
Judy, who is now old and living in an institution, suddenly feels different when she sees her husband Nick, who visits her every day. She tries to remember something.
OBJECT OF LIFE
Director: Jack Parry
AUSTRALIA / 3 MIN.
The Object of Life is a joyful marriage of music and motion. Every push, every gesture, every pulse, synchronized, resonating, and connected with the powerful music of Fanfare Ciocărlia, finding meaning through the intoxicating dance of absurd pointlessness. Student – Deakin University
PADDY
Director: Haoran Zhou
CHINA / 15 MIN.
Is there always an answer up there? To find his favorite toy, a little scarecrow starts on an adventure. Along the way, he encounters a lot of strange sights: a lost paradise, a tide of immigration, an assembly line, a parade…
THERE YOU ARE
Director: Rui Huang
USA / 6 MIN.
After the death of her mom, Su feels estranged from her father. In honoring their traditional family camping trip on his birthday, she hopes to reconnect with him. But when her father cancels it in deference to his new girlfriend, Su is forced to deal with her unresolved grief. Student – University of Southern California
UNFORGOTTEN
Director: Sujin Kim
REPUBLIC OF KOREA/USA / 8 MIN.
During World War II, numerous girls and women were lured by fake promises to the Comfort Stations around the world where they were forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. Half a century later, the surviving victims in South Korea decided to give their testimonies to the world
YALLAH!
Directors: Cécile Adant, Renaud de Saint Albin, Candice Behague, Nayla Nassar, Edouard Pitula & Anaïs Sassatelli
FRANCE / 7 MIN.
Beirut, 1982. As Nicolas prepares to flee his hometown, torn apart by an endless civil war, he crosses the path of Naji, a reckless teenager determined to go to the swimming pool. Trying to protect the young man, Nicolas finds himself pulled into a surreal race against war, all for the mere freedom of going swimming. Student – Rubika
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS
67 MIN.
Appropriate for Ages 8+
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 10:00AM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE - FREE
APRIL 30 / 10:00AM / HANESBRANDS THEATRE - FREEVirtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
Sponsored by ABC45 and Forsyth Family Dental
AURORA
Director: Jo Meuris
USA/CANADA / 5 MIN.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who fell in love with a beautiful horse named Aurora...Expressively animated in a drawing-style that evokes children’s drawings and the texture of storybook illustrations, Aurora is a bittersweet story about love, friendship, and growing up.
BY THE BOOK
Directors: Shreya Devarakonda & Daniela PortillaUSA / 3 MIN.
In a world of books, a scientifically driven father is met with the sudden challenge of raising a child he struggles to relate to. Student – Ringling College of Art and Design
CAT AND MOTH
Director: India Barnardo
UK/CANADA / 7 MIN.
A fluffy white cat wants nothing more than to find the most comfortable spot in the universe, but little does she know someone else has their eye on it too. This animated short took 10 years with a worldwide crew of over 90 people to come to life.
DUET
Director: Yadid Hirschtritt Licht
USA / 5 MIN.
Duet is an animated short film that explores the persistence of love, the transcendence of music, and the heartache of losing a loved one. Student – DePaul University
I’M NOT AFRAID!
Director: Marita Mayer
GERMANY / 7 MIN.
A film for the little ones about fear and courage and the discovery that there are many things you don’t have to fear if you understand what they are. North American Premiere
ITCHY THE CAMEL: RAKES
Directors: Anders Beer & PH Dallaire
CANADA / 2 MIN.
Itchy is a simple-minded but charismatic camel whose itchy hump is a constant distraction. As he absent-mindedly wanders through the desert, he discovers a pile of rakes...the perfect solution to his perpetual itch!
LEGEND OF THE CLAW
Director: Shailyn Farmer
USA / 2 MIN.
A little girl fights to keep a plushie from the grasp of an evil, greedy claw machine. Student – Ringling College of Art and Design
THE PARK BENCH
Director: Rob Edwards
USA / 4 MIN.
A young girl named Bella finds herself needing a distraction from the difficulties at home. Then, one day, she discovers an injured duck while sitting in the park and decides to bring him home to care for him.
PEACH!
Director: Christina Su
USA / 4 MIN.
A young monkey looks forward to eating a giant juicy peach, but an itchy panda makes it a challenging task. Student – Savannah College of Art and Design
SHIFT
Director: Cam Swartz
USA / 6 MIN.
When a simple boulder’s peaceful existence is interrupted by the presence of a rowdy bird, he finds himself forced to make a choice between his own stability and the lives of others. Student – Savannah College of Art and Design
SPACE RACE
Director: Shane Dioneda
USA / 6 MIN.
Two competing astronauts race to claim the moon for themselves. Student – Columbia College Chicago
TODDLER TALKS
Director: Diana Reichenbach
USA / 4 MIN.
A sweet, animated short based on audio recordings of a toddler-aged boy named Henry. The film is animated in a way that mimics the development of language and emotions—which aren’t always clear and articulated at first.
TOIL AND TROUBLE
Director: Kira Davis
UK / 4 MIN.
Curiosity gets the better of a fumbling witch-in-training and she finds herself in over her head with an out-of-control potion she must fix before her master returns home. Student – The Arts University of Bournemouth
TOP OF THE SHELF
Director: Kevin Leal
USA / 8 MIN.
After a lifetime of putting away books, an old librarian must face the challenge of placing the very last book at the top of a 10,000-foot-tall shelf. Student – Savannah College of Art and Design
LATE NIGHT SHORTS
105 MIN.
In-Person Screening: APRIL 23 / 10:00PM / HANESBRANDS THEATRVirtual Screening Window: APRIL 28-30
THE CLEARING
Director: Daniel Hope
UK / 13 MIN.
In a desperate battle with his ballooning ego, Bill struggles in vain to re-woo Deb with his below-par outdoor skills and, quite frankly, shocking behavior, until their last-ditch camping trip takes a VERY sinister turn. Student – National Film and Television School
MAN OR TREE
Directors: Varun Raman & Tom Hancock
UK / 4 MIN.
In the wilderness, a tree begins to question whether it may actually be a man tripping on hallucinogens.
MANTIS CLUB
Director: Yalian Li
USA / 17 MIN.
In a world where females devour males during sex, Zack, a 17-year-old virgin, is asked on his first date. Student – University of Southern California
PLANTASTIC!
Director: Emily Gold
USA / 10 MIN.
This trippy, dark comedy follows an over-eager houseplant enthusiast whose plant-sitting stint forces us to explore the question: What would our leafy friends say if they could talk?
SKIN & BONE
Director: Eli Powers
USA / 17 MIN
RiverRun Alum Eli Powers (Holy Moses) has again teamed up with actress Amanda Seyfried to present a psychological thriller about a drifter who begins to have haunting visions after taking a job on a secluded farm.
S.O.S.
Director: Sarah Hafner
FRANCE / 11 MIN.
Pollution, global warming, overpopulation. For Jean-Claude and Maddy, there is only one solution: to leave the earth and ask for help from extraterrestrials. But when a little green man comes along to save them, things don’t quite go as planned
THANK YOU FOR NOTHING
Director: Thomas Desimone
USA / 12 MIN.
While suffering from a severe anxiety attack, a young woman attempts to escape the hellish landscape of her mind.
TREATS
Director: Graham Bowlin
USA / 17 MIN.
A married couple working to overcome a rough patch goes out to the desert to focus on each other. When a masked maniac breaks into their home on Halloween night, they’re forced to put aside their differences and come together to defeat him.
VACUUM
Director: Ace Norton
USA / 4 MIN.
A human vacuum snorts a never-ending line of cocaine during a vapid party in the Hollywood Hills. Less Than Zero meets Hansel and Gretel. A satire about Los Angeles as a…VACUUM.
NORTH CAROLINA SHORTS PROGRAM ONE: DOCUMENTARIES
110 MIN.
Sponsored by Nelson Mullins
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 3:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE - $6
APRIL 29 / 5:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 23-2
ALCHEMY
Director: Bridget Fitzgerald
USA / 23 MIN.
Alchemytells the story of glassblower and social entrepreneur, Rebeccah Byer, as she navigates her grief at the loss of her brother from ALS and creates a glass studio for youth. The Olio is a place of healing and growth for Rebeccah and her apprentices. Audiences witness this transformative power through one of the apprentices, Lucy McGinnis, who struggles with being a young trans person in North Carolina. Student – Wake Forest University
BILL BLAINE “A WALK AROUND THE HOUSE”
Director: Jakub Blank
USA / 12 MIN.
This short documentary is a quiet reflection on the nature of art and those who make it. Bill Blaine is a painter in the twilight of his life, reflecting on a career that spans more than half a century. Blaine’s talent is on display throughout the film, yet his quiet observations about his work and himself as an artist are laced with vulnerable pragmatism—he seems hesitant to assign too much value to either and touches on the many insecurities true artists wrestle with.
DAMASCUS
Director: Ethan Denning
USA / 6 MIN.
Working in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, blacksmith Tommy Carroll completes a decade-long project: a blade of Damascus steel forged beneath a solar eclipse. Heat treating the blade beneath the full moon, Tommy must come to terms with the permanence of his work. Student – University of Southern California
FATHER, CAN’T YOU SEE I’M BURNING?
Director: Grant Conversano
USA / 13 MIN.
Filmmaker Grant Conversano interrogates the medium of the family photo, and what it means to be photographed as a child by one’s father while exploring intergenerational trauma, grief, and addiction.
MOTHER(S) & SON
Director: Kiersten Houser
USA / 10 MIN.
A filmmaker (Kiersten Houser, RiverRun 2021 Pitch Fest Winner) captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. Consequently, she discovers her own fear and insecurity surrounding the adventures of parenthood—all while completing the adoption process for her non-biological son, as required by heteronormative state law. Premiere Screening – Student – University of North Carolina Wilmington
SMILE LITTLE LADYBUG
Director: Laura Asherman
USA / 17 MIN.
This short documentary centers a Holocaust survivor who unintentionally inspires his daughter and granddaughter to become clowns. The film follows three generations of this wacky and inspiring family from Nazi Germany to Jim Crow Alabama to modern-day Atlanta. Student – Duke University
THE UNCOMMON GARDEN
Director: Olympia Stone
USA / 20 MIN.
Creating a hidden garden was not Dan Krebill’s life plan until fate intervened. The result is a lush and layered paradise with hundreds of plants and trees (and even a stone dragon!)—a collaboration with artisans that changed both a landscape and a community
WILD HEART
Director: Hope Davison
USA / 9 MIN.
Radical acceptance of one’s most authentic self means both struggle and healing for Marcus Johns, aka La Reine Divine, who inspires and encourages LGBTQIA+ youth to be and love who they are. Student – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NORTH CAROLINA SHORTS PROGRAM TWO: NARRATIVES
91 MIN
Sponsored by Nelson Mullins
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 22 / 7:30PM / REYNOLDS PLACE THEATRE
APRIL 29 / 8:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 22-24
ALMOST A JINGLE
Director: Bishen Sen
USA / 15 MIN.
A struggling jingle writer befriends a nurse after a failed suicide attempt.
ALONE TOGETHER
Director: Zoe Chen
USA / 4 MIN.
In this short, animated film, a couple sit in their apartment in silence, after a fight, and battle their own anxiety within themselves. Student – Savannah College of Art & Design
BIRDS, BEES, AND THREES
Directors: Paige Hullett & Margaux Calla Susi
USA / 12 MIN.
Julia’s trusted triplet support group leader expresses the importance of teaching their children about sex by the age of eight, comically following Julia and Andy and their triplet daughters as they all attempt to digest their embarrassment, shock, and confusion after “the talk.”
DEEPWATER SPONGER
Director: Connor Ryan
USA / 17 MIN.
In an alternate 1927 destroyed by pollution, a diver ventures into the Earth’s mysterious ocean to find its last cache of fresh water and save humankind. His treacherous descent brings him face to face with untold horrors, forcing him to decide how much he’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of the mission. Student – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
JAZMIN
Director: Jo Hatcher
USA / 13 MIN.
After the disappearance of her younger sister, Jamila finds herself in an unknown world. While searching for her sister, she not only stumbles upon magic within the world but ultimately within herself. Student – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
THE MOURNER
Directors: Daniel Mercer & Matthew Vermilyea
USA / 18 MIN
Lonnie Walker finds lonely work as a professional mourner at sparsely attended funerals. But when he meets the granddaughter of the recently deceased, he sees an opportunity to set his life on a new path.
SHADOWBOXING
Director: Zander Heiselman
USA / 12 MIN.
Fighting in an underground MMA league, a talented, young fighter named Miles and his coercive father have dreams of being the best in the sport. After Miles believes he’s accidentally killed one of his opponents, he struggles to confront his father who is pressuring him to continue fighting while neglecting his emotions. Student – University of North Carolina School of the Arts
NORTH CAROLINA SHORTS PROGRAM THREE: WINSTON STORIES
108 MIN.
Sponsored by Nelson Mullins
In-Person Screening: APRIL 23 / 2:00PM / SECCA
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 24-26
DRAWN: CONCEPT & CRAFT
Directors: Jon Pfundstein & Philip Pledger
USA / 29 MIN.
In September 2020, after six months of closures due to COVID-19, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC re-opened its galleries with a new exhibition. With more than 250 works by more than 70 artists from around the world, the exhibition asked a fascinating question: What does drawing mean to you?
HOME STRETCH
Director: Diana Greene
USA / 34 MIN.
This film, produced by The Center for the Study of Economic Mobility at WSSU, showcases the struggles and successes for low-income families seeking homeownership. Filmed in Forsyth County, NC, ranked 3rd from the bottom in the country in economic mobility, it chronicles the journeys of two inspiring families as they navigate a county program guiding them towards home ownership. Using archival footage, expert interviews, and original economic research, the film investigates potential “win-win” policy solutions to narrowing the historic Black-white wealth gap in the U.S.
MIGHTY GIRLS: RISING IN WINSTON-SALEM
Directors: Laura Hart McKinny, John H. McKinny & Ashley Miller
USA / 34 MIN.
This poignant documentary tells the story of two Winston-Salem teenage girls raised in poverty as they pursue their dreams of being an engineer and a police officer, in their complicated, sometimes unsafe world. They are helped along the way by their friends at LEAD Girls of NC.
A STORY ABOUT FOOD (AND EVERYTHING BUT)
Director: William Zimmerman
USA / 11 MIN.
As a life-long native of Winston-Salem, Michael Banner's been around long enough to see many changes. What began as a means to feed his family evolved into an epic quest to return fresh, healthy produce and a sense of self-resilience to the Black neighborhoods of East Winston, N.C. While this is a story about food, it's also a story about everything but food.
THE GREAT OUTDOORS SHORTS PROGRAM
103 MIN
Sponsored by Great Outdoor Provision Co. & Mayor Allen Joines
In-Person Screenings: APRIL 23 / 12:30PM / UNCSA - GOLD THEATRE
Virtual Screening Window: APRIL 27-29
BREAKING TRAIL
Director: Jesse Roesler
USA / 30 MIN.
Emily Ford sets out with Diggins, a borrowed Alaskan Husky sled dog, to become the first woman and person of color to thru-hike the 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail in winter. As the 69-day journey through subzero temperatures tests her physical and mental endurance, Emily and her canine protector develop an unbreakable bond as they embrace the unexpected kindness of strangers and discover they’ve become figureheads in the movement to make the outdoors more accessible for everyone.
GHOST OF THE TOWERS
Director: Michael Blake
USA/CHILE / 24 MIN
For National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski, Expedition Biologist Celeste Silva-García, and Chilean guide Eduardo Minte Hess, nature is where their minds are clearest, their senses most elevated. With the help of trackers, this fast-paced, eight-day expedition to the Torres Del Paine region of southern Chile is to seek and document the legendary and elusive puma.
THE LAST LAST HIKE
Director: Céline François
USA / 20 MIN.
83-year-old Nimblewill Nomad is about to become the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. His trek began on Flagg Mountain in Alabama, the true southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Throughout his odyssey, he meets hikers along the way and shares the magic of Flagg Mountain, where he has been the caretaker for the past three years. With more than two decades and 50,000 miles of hiking experience behind him, will this really be his last last hike
NARROWS
Director: Patrick Blum
USA / 8 MIN.
An action-packed short documentary based on a world-renowned whitewater kayak race held every year in Saluda, NC.
WAITING FOR WAVES
Director: Jacob Zaoutis
USA / 21 MIN.
A look inside the raw world of New England east-coast surfing through the eyes of three men who have dedicated their lives to the ocean.
RIVERRUN AT RED CINEMAS
Collaboration. Thanks to a partnership with RED Cinemas, an upscale movie theater in Greensboro, RiverRun is further expanding its reach in the Triad! We are screening multiple films, from different sections of our program, in an effort to allow more people to experience all that RiverRun has to offer.
Sponsored by Downtown Greensboro
RED CINEMAS SCREENINGS
WE FEED PEOPLE
(Listed under Special Presentations)
APRIL 25 / 5:30PM
SHADOW ON THE WALL
(Listed under From the Archives)
APRIL 25 / 8:00PM
FRED CHAPPELL: I AM ONE OF YOU FOREVER
(Listed under Carolina Stories)
APRIL 26 / 5:30PM
GIRL PICTURE
(Listed under Global Currents)
APRIL 26 / 8:00PM
THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO
(Listed under Focus)
APRIL 27 / 5:30PM
LINOLEUM
(Listed under Special Presentations)
APRIL 27 / 8:00PM
AMERICAN RIVER
(Listed under Focus)
APRIL 28 / 5:30PM
AMERICANISH
(Listed under Focus)
APRIL 28 / 8:00PM
FREE FAMILY FILMS
All events listed below are FREE and open to the public!
RiverRun has put together another fantastic line-up of free events for audiences of all ages for our annual Family Day! Beginning with our Saturday Morning Cartoons and ending with a screening under the stars, we hope to have you all join in the fun!
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS
Each year, RiverRun presents our own version of Saturday Morning Cartoons to our young audiences. We search high and low for the best new animated shorts that we think will appeal to both children and adults alike. This year, we have a wide array of films encompassing many different interesting animation techniques and stories. Our Saturday Morning Cartoons truly have a little something for all ages! Runtime: 67 min.
Sponsored by ABC45 and Forsyth Family Dental
APRIL 23 / 9:30AM - DOORS OPEN
10:00AM – FILMS BEGIN
HANESBRANDS THEATRE – FREE
MARKETPLACE SCREENING
FLY ME TO THE MOON
Director: Ben Stassen
USA/BELGIUM / 2008 / 84 MIN. / ENGLISH
Sponsored by Forsyth Family Dental
The year is 1969 and three young houseflies are looking for adventure and hatch a plan to stowaway aboard Apollo 11 in homemade space suits. In doing so, they become the first insects ever to journey into space . . . but this is no ordinary thrill ride!
Special guest: Producer Gina Gallo and Gigi Perreau
APRIL 23 / 3:00PM / MARKETPLACE CINEMAS – FREE
OUTDOOR EVENING SCREENINGS
APRIL 23 / 6:30 DOORS OPEN – FILM WILL BEGIN AT 8:00 OR WHEN DARK / CROSSNORE FARM - 1001 REYNOLDA DRIVE – FREE
JETSONS: THE MOVIE
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna & Iwao Takamoto
USA/PHILLIPINES/TAIWAN/CHINA / 1990 / 82 MIN. / ENGLISH
Sponsored by ABC45, Forsyth Family Dental and Mast General Store
In the film version of the very successful animated series The Jetsons, patriarch George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when his boss, Mr. Spacely, promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet. We are screening this animated gem because if you do the math, it shows that George Jetson was born in the year 2022 so we just had to celebrate!
Screening sponsored by Jane & Redge Hanes, Mast General Store and ABC45
SECOND FAMILY NIGHT SCREENING
Sponsored by Mast General Store and ABC45
THE PARENT TRAP
Director: David Swift
USA / 1961 / 129 MIN. / ENGLISH
Sponsored by ABC45, Forsyth Family Dental and Mast General Store
In this classic family film, our Master of Cinema Hayley Mills plays estranged twin sisters Sharon and Susan Evers, who accidentally meet for the first time at summer camp and then concoct a scheme to get their divorced parents back together. So let's all get together to see Hayley at Bailey!
APRIL 29 / 6:30 DOORS OPEN – FILM WILL BEGIN AT 8:00 OR WHEN DARK / BAILEY PARK - 445 PATTERSON AVE. – FREE
PANELS / GALA / EVENTS
Closing Night Gala
The Atrium in Wake Forest Biotech Place, 575 Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem
Open to filmmakers, VIP badge holders, and the public: Toast another
amazing Festival! Join us for our Closing Night Gala at the Atrium in Wake
Forest Biotech Place as we wrap up RiverRun 2022! This event will feature
live music by The Radio Sparks, catering by Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Stella &
Foothills beer, wine from NC wineries, and Cheerwine and Coca-Cola soft drinks.
RiverRun Rendezvous
Downtown Winston-Salem
Open to everyone: Want a place to go unwind and have a drink after a full day of film screenings? Stop by one of these excellent downtown Winston-Salem bars for a craft beer or specialty cocktail! Follow our social media or theirs for daily specials!
Fair Witness
290 4 th St., W-S
Foothills Brewing
638 W. 4 th St., W-S
Fiddlin’ Fish
772 Trade St., W-S
Radar Brewing Company
216 E. 9 th St., W-S
PANELS
*All panels are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise specified*
A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT: MEXICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN FILMS TODAY
Mexican and Mexican American cinema is currently being transformed by a number of women filmmakers working in both the documentary and narrative sectors of the industry. As Oscar Lopez wrote in 2021 in The New York Times, “After decades of struggling for the recognition long granted to their male peers, female filmmakers in Mexico are setting the industry ablaze.” RiverRun is pleased that this year’s festival includes Ilana Coleman’s narrative, Dos estaciones, and Iliana Sosa’s documentary, What We Leave Behind. These talented filmmakers join us to discuss the impact of women filmmakers telling Mexican and Mexican American stories and how new markets are affording them greater opportunities.
Friday, April 22, 5:00 PM, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Hanesbrands Theatre
Special Guests: Ilana Coleman, Iliana Sosa
11TH ANNUAL PITCH FEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
Join us for our annual competition where student documentary filmmakers pitch their ideas to a panel of jurors, who provide feedback and award cash prizes to the first and second place winners. Schools participating this year include Elon University, High Point University, Spelman College, St. Augustine’s College, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Wake Forest USaturday, April 23, 2:00 PM, Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Hanesbrands Theatre.
SOME THINGS ABOUT THE THING ABOUT PAM
With the popularity of Dateline NBC and other true-crime shows, it is not surprising one of the profiled cases would prompt a series. From its Dateline-type narrations to its intense characterizations, The Thing About Pam was one of the most anticipated television programs of the spring season. Join us for a discussion with cast members on a range of topics including returning to work during a pandemic, portraying actual people on screen, the “Pam Cam” showing lead character Renee Zellweger’s viewpoints on certain happenings in the case, and the career opportunities afforded by the limited-edition series.
Saturday, April 23, 3:00 PM, UNCSA Gold Theatre
Special Guests: Sean Bridgers, Drew Scheid and Suanne Spoke
INDIGENOUS FILMMAKING
Join Eve LaFountain, an Indigenous filmmaker, for a discussion of the evolution of Native American filmmaking and new opportunities emerging for Indigenous artists. The discussion will also highlight how the streaming model has broadened the audience for Native American films. LaFountain is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Jewish multimedia artist and educator based in New Mexico and Los Angeles. Her work investigates her mixed heritage, history, feminism, ghosts, and magic through lens-based media and installation art.
Sunday, April 24, 1:00 PM, UNCSA Gold Theatre
Special Guest: Eve LaFountain
CAREER SUSTAINABILITY IN A CHANGING FILM AND TELEVISION LANDSCAPE
While many individuals beginning a career in film and television look toward the high-profile, above-the-line careers like directing, writing, and acting, there are a myriad of career possibilities in the industry. The advent of streaming and new film and television outlets has seen an expansion of career opportunities in below-the-line careers not even imagined a decade ago. Join our panel for a discussion about the advent of new career opportunities and how these options can provide career satisfaction and sustainability in a rapidly evolving industry.
Saturday, April 30, 2:00 PM, Milton Rhodes Center Reynolds Place Theatre
Special Guests: Natalie Bullock Brown, Eric Johnson, Andrew Harrison Brown
Natalie Bullock Brown will receive RiverRun’s Spark Award prior to the Panel Discussion
RIVERRUN TICKETS & INFO: As was the case in 2021, all RiverRun ticketing and virtual film screening will be done through our online system, Elevent.
The box office for all pre-festival sales will be through the riverrunfilm.com website’s film schedule or on individual film pages. During the festival, tickets can be purchased through the riverrunfilm.com website as well as at the screening venue beginning one hour before a particular film’s showtime.
It is recommended that tickets be purchased in advance as many screenings will sell out. However, day-of tickets may be purchased, if there are any available.
SPONSORS
The sponsors of the 2022 RiverRun International Film Festival help sustain the organization's mission to foster a greater appreciation of cinema and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures, and perspectives of our world through regular interaction with great films and filmmakers. Festival sponsors include:
Title Sponsor – UNCSA
Presenting Sponsors – Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, City of Winston-Salem, Millennium Fund
Marquee Sponsors – Forsyth County, Kilpatrick Townsend Attorneys at Law, Nelson Mullins, North Carolina Arts Council. PNC, Womble Bond Dickinson
ABOUT RIVERRUN
The RiverRun International Film Festival is a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the role of cinema as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints. Founded in 1998, RiverRun is a competitive event that annually showcases new films from both established and emerging filmmakers around the world. Each spring, RiverRun screens new narrative, documentary, short, student and animated films, offering both audience and jury prizes in competition categories
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PICK OF THE WEEK
THE FINAL OPTION (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): It’s back to the good old days of those jingoistic, right-wing, action blow-outs in the 1983 feature debut of director Ian Sharp. Originally titled Who Dares Wins and produced by Euan Lloyd (of The Wild Geese fame), it was acquired for U.S. distribution by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, reportedly at the recommendation of board member Alexander Haig (!).
Inspired by the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London, the film details the exploits of the Special Air Service (SAS), the British Army’s crack commando unit, led by Capt. Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins in his feature debut). Skellen is ordered to infiltrate a militant anti-nuclear protest group (?) headed by fierce femme fatale Frankie Leith (Judy Davis), which is planning a raid on the U.S. Ambassador’s residence with Secretary of State Arthur Currie (Richard Widmark) in attendance during a formal dinner.
It’s all very polished and slick, if overlong and a bit on the talky side. Collins (who was considered for 007 around this time) is macho and tough, Davis – who seems to be channeling an unhinged Vanessa Redgrave at her most militant – is nothing if not entertaining, and you haven’t lived until you see her anti-nuclear protest cabaret number (!). The always-welcome Widmark enjoys some sharp banter with Davis, and it’s nice to have such established pros as Robert Webber, Edward Woodward, Kenneth Griffith, Ingrid Pitt, Paul Freeman, Patrick Allen, Norman Rodway, and Tony Doyle on hand to keep things moving.
A big box-office hit in its native Britain, this tanked critically and financially stateside before finding an audience on cable television. Forget about political correctness, this is pure popcorn entertainment for action junkies. The special-edition DVD ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentary, theatrical trailers, and more. Rated R. **½
ALSO AVAILABLE
99.9 (Cult Epics/CAV Distributing): A DVD/Blu-ray combo ($34.95 retail) of writer/director Agusti Villaronga’s award-winning 1997 chiller starring Maria Barranco as the host of a radio show devoted to psychic phenomena who traces the footsteps of an ex-lover who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a small Spanish village. Surreal, well-made and well-acted by Barranco, but slow-moving -- although it rebounds nicely during an exciting climax. In Spanish with English subtitles, bonus features include retrospective interview, behind-the-scenes featurette, and trailers. **½
DIRTY O’NEIL (Code Red/Kino Lorber): The Blu-ray bow ($29.95 retail) of the 1974 B-movie co-directed by writer/producer Leon Capetanos and first-timer Lewis Teague, starring Morgan Paull in the title role of a small-town cop and ladies man pitted against thugs that terrorize his town. Former Playboy Playmates Jean Manson and Liv Lindenland also appear in this uneven mash-up of action and comedy. Rated R. *½
“EDGAR G. ULMER SCI-FI COLLECTION” (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The title tells all in this Blu-ray triple feature ($39.95 retail) of low-budget science-fiction features directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-’72): The Man from Planet X (1951) starring Robert Clarke and Margaret Field (Sally’s real-life mother), The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) starring Marguerite Chapman (in her final feature) and Douglas Kennedy, and Beyond the Time Barrier (also ’60), starring Clarke (who also produced) and Darlene Tompkins (in her feature debut).
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): Jason Reitman, son of the late producer Ivan Reitman, assumes the directing and co-screenwriting reins of this long-awaited, PG-13-rated follow-up to the blockbuster ‘80s comedies, with Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bokeem Woodbine, and Paul Rudd joined by franchise regulars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts, as they contend with paranormal phenomena directly related to the earlier hauntings in New York City, available on DVD ($30.99 retail), DVD/Blu-ray combo ($38.99 retail), and 4K Ultra HD combo ($45.99 retail), each replete with bonus features.
GIVE OR TAKE (Breaking Glass Pictures): The award-winning feature debut of writer/producer/director Paul Riccio and writer/producer James Effros is a bittersweet comedy/drama in which Effros returns to his boyhood home on Cape Cod to settle his late father’s estate – and to come to terms with his father’s longtime partner (the terrific Norbert Leo Butz). Occasionally long-winded but undeniably affecting and sensitively played by an appealing cast that also includes Joanne Tucker, Louis Cancelmi, Annapurna Siriam, and Cheri Oteri, the latter providing comic relief as an incessantly chipper realtor, available on DVD ($24.99 retail). ***
“LIES AND DECEIT: FIVE FILMS BY CLAUDE CHABROL” (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment Group): A self-explanatory, limited-edition Blu-ray selection ($99.95 retail) of films made by legendary French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), who was widely hailed as “The French Hitchcock”: The award-winning 1985 thriller Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), starring Jean Poiret and Stephane Audran (Chabrol’s ex-wife), based on Dominique Roulet’s novel Une mort en trop); Inspector Lavardin (1986), starring Poiret in the title role; the 1991 adaptation of Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary (rated PG-13), which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design and stars Isabelle Huppert in the title role; 1992’s Betty, based on Georges Simenon, starring Marie Trintignant (in the title role) and Audran; and 1994’s Torment (L’enfer), based on the screenplay from Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film (titled Inferno), starring Emmanuelle Beart and Francois Cluzet. In French with English subtitles, bonus features include audio commentaries, retrospective and vintage interviews, collectible 80-page book, theatrical trailers, and more.
THE LONG NIGHT (Well Go USA Entertainment): Director Rich Ragsdale’s R-rated shocker (originally titled The Coven) stars “scream queen” Scout Taylor-Compton and Nolan Gerard Funk as a young couple who run afoul of a latter-day Satanic cult in South Carolina, with genre stalwarts Deborah Kara Unger and Jeff Fahey on hand, available on DVD ($19.99 retail) and Blu-ray ($29.98 retail), each boasting bonus features including audio commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and Ragsdale’s 2019 short film The Loop.
LOOPER (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): A 10th-anniversary 4K Ultra HD combo ($30.99 retail) of writer/director Rian Johnson’s nifty, award-winning 2012 sci-fi thriller, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (also an executive producer) as a futuristic assassin who is himself targeted for extermination by his future self (Bruce Willis). Convoluted at times, but undeniably entertaining and engrossing, with Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Noah Segan, Garret Dillahunt, and Jeff Daniels rounding out a solid cast. Bonus features include audio commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, animated trailer, and more. Rated R. ***
MIRANDA VEIL (Indican Pictures): Writer/director Levin Garbisch’s award-winning, pseudo-black comedy stars Zach Steffey as an aspiring serial killer who carefully selects the title character (Annabel Barrett) as his first victim, only to discover that she can’t be killed – which propels them on an existential road trip of self-discovery. Slow going at the outset, this picks up in the second half, with distinct echoes of Richard Kelly’s 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. Steffey’s a little too clean-cut to be entirely convincing, but Barrett plays her role with conviction, available on DVD ($24.99 retail). **
MURPHY’S LAW (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Of the many Charles Bronson vehicles directed by veteran J. Lee Thompson for the Golan/Globus duo at Cannon Films, this 1986 cop thriller is among the better ones (relatively speaking), as Bronson’s booze-soaked, burned-out L.A. cop is framed for the murder of his stripper wife (Angel Tompkins) by crossbow-wielding psychopath Carrie Snodgress, forcing him to team up with tough-talking car thief Kathleen Wilhoite to clear his name. Good use of locations and Bronson’s prickly chemistry with scene-stealer Wilhoite go a long way, with Robert F. Lyons, Lawrence Tierney, James Luisi, Richard Romanus, Bill Henderson, and Janet MacLachlan on hand. Wilhoite even croons the title tune over the end credits. Yours truly saw this three times (!) in the theater, but that’s a story for another time. The special-edition Blu-ray ($29.95 retail) includes audio commentary, retrospective interview with Lyons, theatrical trailer, and radio spots. Rated R. **
ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES (Kino Classics): Filmmaker Mark Rappaport’s award-winning, speculative 1992 pseudo-documentary explores the screen career of actor Rock Hudson by interspersing clips from his films that hinted, even obliquely, at his homosexuality with Eric Farr (in his only feature) playing Hudson as narrator. Gimmicky but thoughtful and even contemplative, available on DVD ($29.95 retail), which includes four short films directed by Rappaport. ***
SAINT-NARCISSE (The Film Movement): Screenwriter/director Bruce LaBruce’s award-winning psycho-sexual odyssey showcases Felix-Antoine Duval in a dual role, as a man with an uncontrollable fetish for himself who embarks on a twisted, highly stylized, potentially redemptive odyssey when he learns he has a twin brother, now ensconced in a remote, morally corrupt monastery. Tania Kontoyanni plays the boys’ mysterious mother and Alexandra Petrachuck her equally enigmatic companion. Not for all tastes but certainly original, with echoes of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Peter Greenaway, Nicolas Roeg, and Ari Aster throughout. In English and French with English subtitles, available on DVD ($24.95 retail), replete with bonus features including audio commentary and deleted scenes. **½
SCREAM (Spyglass Entertainment/Paramount Home Entertainment): The Radio Silence duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett co-directed this long-gestating, R-rated follow-up to the popular ‘90s slasher franchise, with Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Marley Shelton, and Skeet Ulrich reprising their earlier roles as the latest incarnation of the knife-wielding “Ghostface” killer (again voiced by Roger L. Jackson) goes on a rampage in Woodsboro, with Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Heather Matarazzo, and Jack Quaid caught up in the fray, available on DVD ($25.99 retail), Blu-ray ($31.99 retail), and 4K Ultra HD ($34.99 retail), the latter pair boasting bonus features.
(Copyright 2022, Mark Burger)
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I was wrong.
On my first visit to Cille and Scoe, my wife and I left, politely, without ordering. The restaurant was packed. It was noisy, and the only seats available were high chairs at a counter looking into the kitchen, making conversation with friends difficult to impossible. If we had stayed, we would have been able to observe the kitchen personnel at work, and we would have recognized early what we realized later: they are producing some of the best food I have had in years in any restaurant, at any price.
The name Cille and Scoe pays tribute to Lucille and Roscoe Reaves, grandparents of Sean Reaves, chef and co-owner along with his wife, Tara. They taught him “to cultivate produce from seed to final dish and how to appreciate every step along the way.” Their concept seeks “to breathe new life into old stereotypes of southern food.” [Quotations from the restaurant website.] Sean was head chef at Southern Roots and has also cooked at Green Valley Grill, 1618 Midtown, and Liberty Oak.
Tara is a former teacher, who, like most teachers (me included), also had a second job, in her case in front-of-the-house restaurant positions. Her family owns Rolling Meadow Farm in Browns Summit, where some vegetables are sourced. Ingredients here are sourced locally to the extent possible, with a goal of 90 percent. A chalkboard lists current suppliers.
They call their concept “Southern redefined.”
Shrimp and Grits exemplifies Southern traditions. Here, six deveined jumbos, cooked perfectly tender, flank three fried grits cake triangles, with fried Neese’s sausage scattered alongside. Arugula leaves lend color as well as flavor. All this is surrounded by a creamy pan sauce that incorporates flavors, especially from the sausage. We asked our server for a soup spoon. She thought we were kidding. No. In the absence of a spoon, I would have scandalized my wife by licking the plate.
Southern redefined? How about Southern refined?
Popcorn Cauliflower is a novel idea, expertly executed. Bite-sized pieces of the vegetable are lightly fried, yielding excellent crisp texture and flavor in their own right. An anchovy cream dipping sauce produces just a hint of anchovy flavor within a tart context, further enhanced with pecorino cheese and truffle oil. Rich, complex, and most enjoyable.
Several salads go quite beyond the lettuce out of a bag that characterizes so many salads in area restaurants. The Balanced One, for example, is constructed with arugula, decorated with shaved Manchego cheese interspersed with pea shoots and pine nuts, dressed in a honey Dijon. Spring Colors mixes fresh green peas with asparagus, feta cheese, and shaved radish — colorful and flavorful, a function to some extent of a fresh basil vinaigrette.
Elevated Fish Sticks, one of five menu entrées, sustains the theme of refinement. Flounder is cut into strips, fried crisp, the white meat still tender. These rest in a bright green pea purée, which adds a sweetish vegetable influence. A Texas Pete remoulade sauce is dabbed around the plate, yielding an abstract design that also tastes great. Mountain and Stream is a trout dish, the fish sourced from the North Carolina mountains, flavored with Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, ground almonds, and fresh sage. It is wrapped in bacon, surrounded by a tomato-tarragon reduction.
Slow and Low describes the cooking process the kitchen employs for short ribs. This is presented as a block, with two large slices of beef alternating with au gratin potatoes, all ladled with dark brown pan gravy. The meat is fork-tender, its depth of flavor rarely matched. The potatoes constitute a perfect pairing. Crisp fried tobacco onions complete this masterpiece.
Braising of the Lamb is a whimsical title for a lushly flavored dish. The slow cooking technique infuses the meat with added flavorings from cumin and chili powder in addition to rendering it tender, then it is pulled into shreds, its pan juices added to the plate, surrounded with chickpeas, turnips, carrots, and white beans, with further complexity from a lemon-garlic reduction.
Chops Don’t Lie reveals the true flavor of a large veal chop, the exterior slightly charred, presented over risotto and sharpened with a jalapeno-leek vinaigrette. The treatment allows the primary flavor to stand in the forefront, but yields a pleasant aftertaste.
My wife remarked that she would order This Pasta again, even if it did not include bites of filet mignon. The first flavor impact is from soft-cooked onions, followed by recognition that this is fresh pasta. The steak pieces bear no gristle or fat, no trimming necessary, just bite and enjoy. A red wine pan sauce with black truffle infusion rounds out another most enjoyable dish.
LTOP is an acronym for Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, and Pickle, denoting the menu’s hamburger. This is a major league burger, based on a large, deeply flavored, seared patty, hosted on a lightly toasted brioche bun. Spring mix lettuces again raise the level of sophistication. White cheddar cheese is melted over the meat. This comes with hand-cut French fries — some crisp, some a little soft, all tasting of real potato.
Chicken in Dumplings is constructed by wrapping tender, pulled chicken in a homemade pasta sheet, sort of like enchiladas in appearance, mostly like something our grandmothers would have aspired to in flavor. Pan gravy is redolent of the fowl — a little salty for my taste, but still excellent.
Side vegetables may be necessary in order to get your greens. Root Vegetable julienne provides al dente sliced green and red cabbage, plus carrots and onions. Shaved Brussels sprouts are very lightly cooked, allowing appropriate texture to remain intact. The natural flavor of the vegetable is clearly evident, as opposed to the obliteration that characterizes most area treatments of this personal favorite.
I have often complained about vegetable boredom in the Triad. Cille and Scoe resolves all my issues!
A pair of striking photos of Roscoe and Lucille Reaves looks down from a brick wall as you enter. They have reason to be proud of their namesake. This column is no longer assigning numerical ratings, but if I were to apply the standards I developed over 40 years of restaurant reviewing, Cille and Scoe would get 4 Stars for food — placing it in elite company, indeed.
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Greensboro Non-Profit Hosts 5th Annual “ACOBE” Community Festival
GREENSBORO – ACE, A Collective of Excellence, is bringing its 5th annual community service festival ACOBE, A Celebration of Black Excellence, to the Greensboro Cultural Center from April 29, 2022 to May 1, 2022. ACOBE is a conscious demonstration of community and a festival of LOVE, where souls are united to celebrate the beauty of Blackness! ACOBE gathers creative content from members of the Black community, our allies, and supporters to create a collage of unity. We encourage participants to illuminate the beauty of Black life, and in doing so to explore their own humanity.
This free festival will be centered around Unity and will include live performances, professional development, dance and art workshops, youth activities, and more. In the continued tradition of ACOBE Fest, the ACOBE Community Choir, a mass choir of middle and high school students, staff and community members from diverse races and backgrounds, will be the final display of Unity on May 1st at 5 pm.
Donation tickets are available for those that can give at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/308354455477. The money raised will go towards the infrastructure and programming for ACE, such as ACOBE, CHROMATICA, and more.
ACOBE Fest 2021 was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and attracted over 300 virtual attendees worldwide. “One of the greatest challenges educators face is helping students understand what it means to be human and express their talents and creativity in ways that honor the humanity in others. We invite all people to participate in the annual ACOBE event to experience what genuine love looks like through various expressions of art and culture within and among Black communities in America.” Jordan Lee, ACE president and CEO
Partnerships with Creative Greensboro enabled ACOBE to occupy the Greensboro Cultural Center for the three-day in-person event, a first in the festival’s history. Creative Greensboro provides support for, ensures access to, and drives awareness of Greensboro’s creative community as the City’s office for arts and culture.
Elsewhere Museum is elated to support ACE as its fiscal sponsor. Elsewhere works to develop and promote art, education, and community advancement. All gifts made to ACE through Elsewhere are tax-deductible and can be found at https://elsewhere.kindful.com/?campaign=1191327
For more information about the festival schedule and to buy donation tickets, visit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acobefest
About ACE, A Collective of Excellence: ACE (A Collective of Excellence) is a non-profit Multicultural Praxis Space dedicated to cultivating growth mindsets through the access point of cultural identity and celebration. In this space, we encourage dialogue and interactions that stretch our experience and conceptual understanding of issues and perspective from across cultures, ages, races, gender identities, and socio-economic statuses. By engaging with our “differences'' we explore each other’s humanity and, in the process, affirm our own. ACE is the parent organization that houses ACOBE.
About ACOBE, A Celebration of Black Excellence: The ACOBE Fest will be displayed as an in-person collaborative showcase of black excellence and a professional development opportunity for creatives, educators, and community members. ACOBE Fest aims to provide a space for all people to participate in celebrating black music, art, and culture –past, present, and future. This festival of love will provide an opportunity for our community to unite in the celebration of culture that spans multiple mediums, genres, and continents. The ACOBE Fest organizers are a team of educators that believe that learning and understanding love is a life-long experience and we are all students on this journey.
“We aim to transform fixed mindsets through the expression of kindness and the celebration of various cultures and perspectives.” - Jordan Lee, ACOBE Executive Producer & Devereaux Nash, ACOBE Creative Director
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Bartender:
Priscilla Lemus
Bar:
I formally worked at Santa Fe Mexican Grill but just started at Electric Tequila.
Age:
22
Where are you from?
I am a Latina who was born in Houston, Texas and moved to North Carolina at such a young age.
How long have you been bartending?
I have been a bartender for 2 year at a Mexican restaurant, Santa Fe Mexican Grill.
How did you become a bartender?
At the time that I applied to be a bartender, I was working as a nursing assistant. I was looking forward to learning how to make drinks just for fun, so I applied at Santa Fe and luckily they welcomed me in without any experience and I was thankful for the opportunity they gave me to grow with them. I am still in the process of learning but I loved that I can make money while learning something that interest me.
What do you enjoy about bartending?
Growing up I was a shy person and, of course, when I was working at the hospital you always have to act professional at all times. But when I started working at the bar for the first time, I felt like I could be myself and I could express myself however I wanted and I noticed that most of my customers liked my personality, and for the first time I felt accepted the way I was. Also while bartending, I was making good money and I loved that because I could help my family and at same time I could spoil myself and pay for my school. It made me very independent and I loved that I did not have to depend on any guy to buy me anything because I could afford what I wanted.
What’s your favorite drink to make?
If you like grapefruits you should try Cantaritos. It’s a very popular and delicious cocktail originally from Mexico.
What’s your favorite drink to drink?
I usually drink tequila straight, Don Julio añejo. I also really like Palomas/Cantaritos.
What would you recommend as an after-dinner drink?
After dinner I recommend you to try a Mudslide cocktail. It’s a very tasty dessert. Think of it as a milkshake that would give you a buzz at the same time. I know, sounds delicious.
What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen while bartending?
One night, while I was working on my normal weekend shift, it was busy as usual and I had been working all day nonstop. While I was running around the bar trying to give every customer my individual attention, I did not noticed one of my tables had left without paying! So that night I had to take money out of my tips to pay for that check. I think it’s crazy how people can really do that to us bartenders because we get paid less then minimum and we work hard for the tips that costumer give us. I believe people don’t ever know what we go through till they work as a server.
What’s the best tip you’ve ever gotten?
One night me and my coworker, that I was working with at that time, both left home with a $600 dollar tip. It was a long day at work but it was so worth it after the day was done and we both split the money evenly, and seeing that our hard work really paid off.
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ASHEBORO
Four Saints Brewing
218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722
Thursdays: Taproom Trivia
Fridays: Music Bingo
Apr 9: Love & Valor
Apr 16: 80’s Unleashed
Apr 23: Corey Hunt and the Wise
May 1: Randolph Jazz Band
May 7: Tim Wolf
May 14: Caeland Garner
May 15: Honky Tonk Jam w/ Mark Dillon & Friends
May 21: Creatio
CHARLOTTE
Bojangles Coliseum
2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600
Apr 8: Brian Regan
Apr 9: No Remorse Comedy Tour
Apr 15: Harlem Globetrotters
Apr 15: Tim Dillon
Apr 16: For King & Country
Apr 21: Theresa Caputo
Apr 26: Jason Bonham
Apr 28: Zach Williams
Apr 29: David Spade
May 1: No Cap Comedy Tour
May 6: KEM & Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds
May 8: Ricardo Arjona
May 15: Kountry Wayne
May 29: Dean Cole
June 1: Bonnie Raitt
CMCU Amphitheatre
former Uptown Amphitheatre
820 Hamilton St | 704.549.5555
Apr 20: Modest Mouse
May 3: Khruangbin
May 16: Leon Bridges
May 22: Parway Drive
Jun 5: Barenaked Ladies
Jun 8: Russ
The Fillmore
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970
Apr 6: Mammoth WVH & Dirty Honey
Apr 7: The Far Side (Imani, Fatlip, & Slimkid3)
Apr 7: Black Tiger Sex Machine
Apr 8: Chris Renzema
Apr 9: Wizard Fest
Apr 10: Jerry Cantrell
Apr 12: JOHNNYSWIM
Apr 13: Mt. Joy
Apr 14: Badflower
Apr 14: Yacht Rock Revue 2022
Apr 15: Grits & Biscuits
Apr 16: Lucki
Apr 19: Latto 777 Tour
Apr 21: Band Camino
Apr 21: Saba
Apr 22: Big K.R.I.T.
Apr 22: Two Feet
Apr 23: Arch Enemy & Behemoth
Apr 23: Todrick Hall
Apr 24: Yeat
Apr 26: Trinity of Terror Tour
Apr 27: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Apr 28: Indigo Girls
PNC Music Pavilion
707 Pavilion Blvd | 704.549.1292
Apr 30: Jimmy Buffet
May 8: AJR - The OK Orchestra Tour
May 12: Tim McGraw
May 24: Foo Fighters
May 29: Nick Cannon
Spectrum Center
333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000
www.spectrumcentercharlotte.com
Apr 8: Bon Jovi
Apr 11: John Mayer
Apr 28: Journey
May 4: Casting Crowns, Hillsong Worship, We The Kingdom
May 8: Mount Westmore
May 18: J Balvin
CLEMMONS
Village Square Tap House
6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330
www.vstaphouse.com | www.facebook.com/vstaphouse
Apr 7: JVC
Apr 8: Kwik Fixx ROcks
Apr 9: Jill Goodson
Apr 15: Decades
Aor 16: Zack Brock & The Good Intentions
Apr 21: Corky Jams
Apr 22: Lasater Union
Apr 23: Billy Creason Band
Apr 28: Joey Whitaker
Apr 30: Soundkraft
May 5: JVC and Anna Mertson
May 13: Whiskey Mic
Jun 2: JVC w/ Stewart Coley
DURHAM
Carolina Theatre
309 W Morgan St | 919.560.3030
Apr 8: Vir Das’ Manic Man
Apr 9: Kountry Wayne
Apr 14: Steve Hackett
Apr 16: Tommy Emmanuel
Apr 21: Little Feat
Apr 22: Three Dog Night
Apr 29: Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular
May 1: The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
May 3: Melissa Etheridge
May 5: Beth Hart
May 6: The Steeldrivers
May 7: Rissi Palmer
May 7: Stay Prayed Up
May 11: Joe Jackson
May 14: Leonid & Friends
DPAC
123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787
Apr 6: 2CELLOS
Apr 7: Letterkenny Live
Apr 8: Brit Floyd
Apr 9: Brian Regan
Apr 13: Postmodern Jukebox
Apr 14: Trey Kennedy
Apr 16-17: Chris Rock
Apr 26: Gladys Knight
Apr 27: Hannah Gadsby
May 11: Triangle Rising Stars
May 12: Get The Led Out
May 17-Jun 5: HAMILTON
Jun 7: Bonnie Raitt
ELKIN
Reeves Theater
129 W Main St | 336.258.8240
Fourth Thursdays: Old-Time Jam
Apr 8: Ward Davis
Apr 9: Tinsley Ellis
Apr 15: Luke Mears Band
Apr 22: The Malpass Brothers
Apr 23: Todd Snider
May 6: Phatt City
May 13: Bill & The Belles
May 27: Jeff Little Trio
May 28: Reeves House Band
Jun 3: Paul Thorn
GREENSBORO
Arizona Pete’s
2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889
Apr 9: Dragonforce w/ Battle Beast & Seven Spires
Apr 26: Escape The Fate
w/ The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Violent New Breed
May 24: After The Burial & Thy Art Is Murder w/ Currents & Brand Of Sacrifice
Barn Dinner Theatre
120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211
Apr 9-May 7: Crowns
Mar 14-Jun 25: Groovin’
Jul 8-Aug 6: Soul Sistas
Baxter’s Tavern
536 Farragut St | 336.808.5837
Apr 9: Company A
Apr 10: Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot
Apr 15: Low Down Dirty Heathens
Apr 24: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band
Apr 29: The Stallions
Apr 30: Big Bump & The Stun Gunz
Jun 4: Southern Sounds Band
Jul 2: High Fidelity
Jul 3: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blyes Band
Jul 10: The Pink Slips
Jul 15: Spindle 45
Jul 16: Killing Fiction
Carolina Theatre
310 S. Greene Street | 336.333.2605
Apr 9: Gregory Amos
Apr 15: Lightnin’ Wells
Apr 15: A Purple Rain Experience
Apr 22-23: Bus Stop in The Crown
May 1: ABBAFAB
May 4: Future Fund 10
May 8: Always... Patsy Cline
May 15: Dori Freeman
May 19: Chelcie Lynn
Comedy Zone
1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034
Apr 8-9: Sherman Golden
Apr 15-16: Tanyalee Davis w/ Shelly Belly
Apr 22-24: Anthony Rodia
Apr 29-30: Tyler Chronicles
May 5: Shayne Smith
Common Grounds
602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.388
www.facebook.com/CommonGroundsGreensboro
Apr 12: MG Bailey
Cone Denim
117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646
Apr 7: Key Glock
Mar 19: Steel Panther
Flat Iron
221 Summit Ave | 336.501.3967
Apr 8: Ed E. Ruger w/ Ty Bru, Mr. Rozzi, Kush Tha Rapper
Apr 9: Sam Fribush
Apr 14: Megan Jean
Apr 15: Kenny George Band w/ Seth Williams
Apr 16: Royal Jelly
Apr 21: Lord Nelson
Apr 22: Angie Aparo
Apr 28: Saphron
Apr 29: Glory Fires, Totally Slow, Sugar Meat
Apr 29: Lee Brains + The Glory Fires w/ Suzanne
Apr 30: Hustle Souls
Apr 30: Joe Troop
May 5: Jack Marion & Pearl Snap Prophets
May 8: Jeff Plankenhorn and Scrappy Jud
May 14: Royal Jelly
Greensboro Coliseum
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
Apr 9: Katt Williams
Apr 8: Harlem Globetrotters
Apr 19: Elton John
Apr 20: Stars On Ice
May 3: Shinedown
May 21: Banda MS
May 27: Erykah Badu & Friends
Jun 8: Tomlin
Jun 11: Keith Sweat, Monica, Tevin Campbell, Tamar Braxton, Silk
Little Brother Brewing
348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678
www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbrew
Apr 8: Real Jazz
Apr 9: David Childers
Apr 15: Elora Dash
Apr 16: Chris and Bonnie Reed
Apr 22: Alan Peterson
Apr 23: Jake Eddy
Apr 29: Good Watts
Piedmont Hall
2411 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
May 21: Asking Alexandria w/ Atreyu
South End Brewing Co.
117B W Lewis St | 336.285.6406
Tuesdays: Trivia Night
Apr 16: Jon Ward Beyle Band
Apr 22: Cory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band
May 12: Tony & Katy
May 19: Decades
Jun 4: Jon Ward Beyle Band
Steven Tanger Center
300 N Elm Street | 336.333.6500
Apr 6-24: HAMILTON
Apr 26: José Andrés
Apr 30: Get The Led Out
May 7: A String Spectacular
May 10: Steven Martin
The Idiot Box Comedy Club
503 N. Greene St | 336.274.2699
Apr 9: Neil Hoover
Apr 16: Lucas Gumbrecht
Apr 23: JJ Curry
Apr 30: Pedro Gonzalez
May 21: Mo Alexander
White Oak Ampitheatre
1921 W Gate City Blvd | 336.373.7400
May 25: The Smashing Pumpkins
Jun 18: Crowder
HIGH POINT
After Hours Tavern
1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113
www.facebook.com/AfterHoursTavernHighPoint
Jul 9: Living Temptation
Goofy Foot Taproom
2762 NC-68 #109 | 336.307.2567
May 28: Michael Chaney Music
Ham’s Palladium
5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434
Apr 9: 90 Proof Punch
Apr 16: After Party
Apr 23: Sprockett
Apr 30: Shugga Daddies
High Point Theatre
220 E Commerce Ave | 336.883.3401
Apr 9: The Rick Webb Family w/ Tim Lovelace
Apr 10: Me, Myself, & Shirley
Apr 29: Viva Mexico! Viva America!
May 6-8: Cinderella
May 13-14: Celtic Legends
May 15: Raleigh Ringers
Sweet Old Bill’s
1232 N Main St | 336.807.1476
Apr 7: Matt Walsh
Apr 14: Turpentine Shine Trio
JAMESTOWN
The Deck
118 E Main St | 336.207.1999
Apr 7: Bradley Steele
Apr 8: Gipsy Danger
Apr 16: Radio Revolver
Apr 22: Jill Goodson
Apr 23: UBU Band
Apr 29: The Plaids
Apr 30: Simerson Hill
KERNERSVILLE
Breathe Cocktail Lounge
221 N Main St. | 336.497.4822
www.facebook.com/BreatheCocktailLounge
Wednesdays: Karaoke
Fridays: DJ
Apr 7: Brother Pearl
Apr 8: DJ Mike Lawson
Apr 9: DJ Mike Lawson
Apr 12: William Nesmith
Apr 14: Ciera & Patrick
Apr 15: DJ Mike Lawson
Apr 16: DJ Mike Lawson
Apr 22: DJ Mike Lawson
Kernersville Brewing Company
221 N Main St. | 336.816.7283
Thursdays: Trivia
May 22: Brews-A-Palooza
Jun 11: Taylor Mason
LEWISVILLE
Old Nick’s Pub
191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059
Fridays: Karaoke
Apr 9: Lasater Union
Apr 23: Spindle 45
Jun 18: Carolina Pines
LIBERTY
The Liberty Showcase Theater
101 S. Fayetteville St | 336.622.3844
Apr 8: Sammy Kershaw
OAK RIDGE
Bistro 150
2205 Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.6359
Apr 8: Barefoot Modern Acoustic
Apr 9: Decades Duo
Apr 15: Two for the Road
Apr 16: Kris Ferris
Apr 22: Tony and Katy
Apr 29: Limited Engagement
Apr 30: Renae Paige
RALEIGH
CCU Music Park at Walnut Creek
3801 Rock Quarry Rd | 919.821.4111
Apr 23: Jimmy Buffet
May 20: Foo Fithers
May 21: Tim McGraw
Lincoln Theatre
126 E. Cabarrus St | 919.831.6400
Apr 8: Runaway Gin
Apr 9: Steamroom Etiquette
Apr 10: Chris Renzema w/ Antoine Bradford
Apr 14-15: Futurebirds w/ Illiterate Light
Apr 16: Idlewood South: A tribute to the Allman Brothers Band
Apr 19: Cody Canada and the Departed w/ Them Dirty Roses
Apr 20: Twiddle
Apr 21: Digital Roses Tour; Big K.R.I.T. w/ Price/Elhae
Apr 23: Arson Daily w/ Mo Lowda & The Humble
Apr 24: Stick Men
Apr 25: Wage War
Apr 29: Spring In Tha Carolinas
Apr 30: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Red Hat Amphitheater
500 S McDowell St | 919.996.8800
May 7: AJR
Jun 16: Cody Johnson
Jul 16: Barenaked Ladies
PNC Arena
1400 Edwards Mill Rd | 919.861.2300
Apr 9: Bon Jovi
May 16: Casting Crowns, Hillsong Worship, We The Kingdom
Mar 22: John Mulaney
Jul 23: Shawn Mendes w/ Dermot Kennedy
Jul 31: Rage Against The Machine
WINSTON-SALEM
Bull’s Tavern
408 West 4th St | 336.331.3431
Wednesdays: Karaoke
Apr 9: Supper Break
Apr 15: Souljam Trio
Apr 16: Jukebox Rehab
Apr 29: The Kind Thieves
Apr 30: Scene Kid Saturday
May 20: Sun Dried Vibes
May 28: Pure Fiyah
Jul 2: Viva La Muerte
Earl’s
121 West 9th Street | 336.448.0018
Apr 8: Anna Leigh Band
Apr 9: Bully Creason & Damn Fi Know
Apr 15: Jesse Ray Carter
Apr 16: Megan Doss Band
Apr 22: Mighty Fairlanes
Apr 23: Michael Corner & The Fugitives
Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company
772 Trade St | 336.999.8945
Apr 8: Jessie Dunks
Apr 15: Chuck Mountain
May 12: Jessie Dunks
May 27: Camel City Blues
Foothills Brewing
638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348
Apr 13: Carolina Clay
Apr 20: Folkknot
Apr 27: Sam Robinson
Midway Music Hall
11141 Old US Hwy 52, Suite 10 | 336.793.4218
www.facebook.com/midwaymusichallandeventcenter
Mondays: Line Dancing w/ Denise
Apr 8: Sidekix
Apr 9: Jimmy Shirley Jr
Apr 10: DJ Steve Carter
Apr 23: Red Dirt Revival
Apr 29: Brett Tolley and Friends
Apr 30: Sprockett
Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall
137 West St | 336.201.5182
www.muddycreekcafeandmusichall.com
Thursdays: Open Mic Night
w/ Country Dan Collins
May 14: The Muddy Creek Players
The Ramkat
170 W 9th St | 336.754.9714
Apr 6: Henhouse Prowlers
Apr 7: 1970s Film Stock, Condado, RUGG
Apr 8: The Wormholes, Lofield, The Sun God
Apr 9: Travis Williams Group, Chi Sharpe
Apr 13: The Ghost of Paul Revere, Daniel Rodriguez
Apr 16: Clay Howard & The Silver Alerts, Killing Gophers
Apr 21: The Veldt, Candy Coffins, The Mystery Plan
Apr 22: Cedric Burnside
Apr 23: River Whyless, Alexa Rose
Apr 29: Daniel Donato, withdrew
May 3: Orquesta Akokan
May 5: Mauve Angeles, Earl
May 7: Tribute to Chris Garges
May 12: Spirit System, Irata, Petrov
Winston-Salem Fairground
421 W 27th St | 336.727.2236
May 19-20: Classic Country Concert
Jun 17: Classic Country COncert
Wise Man Brewing
826 Angelo Bros Ave | 336.725.0008
Thursdays: Music Bingo
Apr 8: Souljam 80’s Night
Apr 9: Zinc
May 7: Pure Fiyah Reggae Band
Jul 16: Love & Valor
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The infamous Ziggy’s concert venue returns, bringing “roots, rock, reggae” to a huge outdoor stage, as part of the COHAB campus in High Point.
Officially known as “Ziggy’s.Space,” the enterprise has been affectionately dubbed “Ziggy’s 3.0” by marketing and bar manager, Greg Gerald. And while the club officially opened on April 1, he’s not fooling around.
“Just be nice,” Gerald said of his philosophy, invoking a questionably-intentional Road House reference. “And make sure the beer is cold,” he added, espousing an outlook honed over the years behind various bars — including the second incarnation of Ziggy’s (or “Ziggy’s 2.0”), which he credits with launching his career.
“I feel like I spent every day in that building, from 2011 to 2016,” Gerald said of the space now occupied by the Ramkat (at the corner of Ninth and Trade St. in Winston-Salem). “I remember plenty of hard work, and I made so many new friends and saw too many great bands to count.”
He also remembers his first experience with Ziggy’s itself (much like any Triad-raised music lover, millennial and older) happening as a teenager at the “OG’’ Winston-Salem location on Baity Street. “I loved going there in high school,” he said, recounting memories of watching Slipknot and Deftones grace the patchwork stage. This writer recalls a more punk flair: Misfits, NOFX, Less Than Jake; and local loves like Englewood Ska Quartet, in the den that operated from the late-1980s through the fall of 2007.
Gerald hopes to recapture some of that experience. “We want to make the area a fun and safe place where people of all ages can come help us share our love of live music,” he said, turning to Ziggy’s new chapter, anchoring nearly 45,000 ft. of the COHAB compound, a showroom-arthouse-event space hybrid on the grounds of the historic former Melrose Hosiery Mill No. 1 in High Point’s West End.
The venue itself is outdoors, situated in the courtyard of a furniture showroom — with an opening to coincide with the Spring Furniture Market — appropriate for the city known as the “Furniture Capital of the World” and befitting a new era for both Ziggy’s and High Point, in general.
Longtime Ziggy’s owner, Jay Stephens, leads the cadre of folks in the “Ziggy’s Family,” who hope to bring “plenty of new faces” to the city. A more intimate, 150-seat nightclub component adjacent to the courtyard (think “Pulp” to Asheville’s “Orange Peel”) is planned for 2023.
But first, Ziggy’s.Space starts off big: with a 1,500-capacity outdoor stage that will operate rain or shine, thanks to large tents and pre-planned logistics. “You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can’t predict the weather,” Gerald said, with a nod to Outkast, and memories of outdoor shows Ziggy’s 2.0 hosted for artists like Snoop Dog, Jamey Johnson, and Blackberry Smoke — the last of which makes their Ziggy’s return with a show on April 22.
“Jay has 30 years and too many shows to mention,” Gerald reiterated of the experience behind the operation. “We’ve developed great relationships through the years with music agencies,” he added, with particular excitement at hosting Daughtry on May 11. Edwin McCain plays April 21. Puddle of Mudd is coming May 20.
Old friends and cover series will celebrate the opening, with the Winston-based Dave Matthews tribute duo, Watchtower, playing a free show every Tuesday in April. The slated “Dead in the Garden” series brings deadhead delights to Wednesday nights; with Long Strange Deal on April 6 and Deelin’ Dead on April 13. Cosmic Charlie will host a special 420-edition show on April 20, and Josh Daniel will appear on May 4.
The Tree of Forgiveness Band, a John Prine tribute (featuring members from Time Sawyer, Big Daddy Love, Mood Cultivation Project, Camel City Yacht Club, Reeves House Band, and Heavy Peace) play April 9. The Camel City Yacht Club will return in earnest (with Couldn’t Be Happiers) on April 29.
A full spring schedule is available online. Gerald is goaling for 70 shows through October — the plan is to build “a fun place for lovers of music,” he said. “I’ve always thought it to be very important to make sure you keep lots of new faces coming through the gates.” And at Ziggy’s.Space, he’ll use a bus to help them there.
“The idea is to work with local promoters and friends to coordinate key pickup and drop-off locations,” he explained of the Ziggy’s.Space Shuttle, a graffitied school bus at their disposal. Details are still in the works, but they’re partnering with Prime Parking Incorporated to offer free shuttle and valet.
At the end of the day, “I want an environment where everyone feels welcome,” Gerald said, looking ahead, “and to just keep doing bigger and bigger shows for the great people of the Triad. I’ve been here my whole life, and I don’t plan on going anywhere.”
“It’s great watching my musician friends turn into stars,” he added. “Come see us.”
Pull up a chair (or a barstool), Ziggy’s.Space is now open at 1547 West English Road in High Point.
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It’s been just one month since Triad International Ballet launched its community outreach program in East Winston-Salem, and the number of students has increased, to almost 20.
Geneviève Basu, a soloist with Triad Ballet, and Natalya Davison, Triad Ballet’s artistic director, will teach the initial classes at the Winston Lake Family YMCA, located at 901 Waterworks Road in Winston-Salem. They will be joined periodically by other senior members of the company.
Recently, Basu worked with a group of joyful young girls one evening, guiding their nascent steps into art. “Visualize that you’re sitting on a cloud. Dance is movement through space and time,” she said. We are visible representations of the music. It requires a lot of movement and mobility, right?”
The hope and excitement could be felt in the room.
Triad International Ballet, a new professional ballet company serving the Triad, is offering ballet classes to elementary and high school students. The ballet company has teamed up with The Center for the Study of Economic Mobility (CSEM) at Winston-Salem State University, My Brothers’ and Sisters’ Keeper in Winston-Salem, and the Guiding Institute for Developmental Education (GIDE) to offer classes for girls and boys.
On the first night of classes, Velma Terry brought several girls to the class and even joined in some of the lessons with them. “We have the wonderful opportunity to give back to these children,” said Terry, the GIDE site coordinator and director of the D.I.V.A.S Parenting Program. “And there is love, a unity that you see. So we pray that this will reach the community and this will grow into a beautiful outreach for the community.”
Alexia Maas, the executive director of Triad Ballet, is convinced there is an abundance of talent in East Winston-Salem and was determined from the outset that this initiative would find it. Already, from the first few classes held, she said she and Basu have spotted quite a few high-potential students and are exploring ways to develop them further — both through the classes at Winston Lake Y and possibly bringing the classes, on occasion, to the company’s main studio in Greensboro to work alongside other gifted students.
CSEM shares that view as it stresses “making the invisible visible.” City leaders emphasize the arts as an economic driver downtown, but there is just as much talent in East Winston. And the arts are transformative, bringing comfort, bridging gaps, and building unity.
As part of its initiative in East Winston, Triad Ballet is also planning ways to bring its ballet performances to a wider audience in Winston-Salem to generate interest in their work and bring the arts to people who otherwise might not be able to experience it. The company also plans to extend its outreach to Senior Citizens, including those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. One idea being explored is for Triad Ballet to do in-person and video performances at some of Winston-Salem’s nursing homes.
“We want to bring joy to the hearts of both our Senior Citizens and the youth of the community, and, as we’ve said before, we’re not just here to perform once a year and leave. We want to become an integral part of the community,” Maas said. “To live, love, laugh and cry with you and, maybe one day, feel a mutual sense of pride when we watch one of our hopefuls take to the stage as a professional ballet dancer. How magical that would be!”
For now, evidenced by the class at the Winston Lake Y, the initiative is off to a fine start.
To learn more about this initiative, go to www.triadinternationalballet.org.
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Do you like to walk? Run? Are you a cyclist? If so, Jamestown may soon have a sweeter cup of tea for you.
The new Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee held its first meeting March 30. It is composed of runners, cyclists, regular citizens and representatives from GTCC and NCDOT. Toole Design, of Raleigh, also is working with the Town to refine the wants and needs. The purpose is to propose ways Jamestown can better serve residents.
Long known as a walking community, new sidewalks are in future plans. Cyclists could enjoy bike lanes throughout the town as well.
“This is your plan, not NCDOT’s,” said Alex Rotenberry, a planner with the NCDOT Integrated Mobility Division, “We’re very pleased to be funding it and other projects around the state.”
Jamestown has received $50,000 in funds for the project, with the Town paying 10 percent of that amount.
NCDOT engineers will be involved in the work of the committee.
Many committee members remarked how much they enjoyed the greenway for both walking and cycling.
There are many needs in the town, however. Cyclist Wid Painter would like to see more bicycle lock stands around town. Alison Greeson would like the sidewalks planned for Oakdale Road to be done and bike lanes added. Dan McDaniel would like to see a lower speed limit on Guilford Road and more safety features at crosswalks.
Mitchell Johnson, GTCC’s vice president of operations and facilities, said that residents of Millis and Main apartments walk through the GTCC campus to get to the East Main Street sidewalk that ends at Vickery Chapel Road. He said that sidewalk should connect to the area around the apartments and the Jamestown Parkway/Gate City Boulevard area.
The busiest areas needing attention are the East Fork/Guilford roads intersection, downtown business district and the greenway crossing on East Fork Road.
The new plan would update the 2010 Pedestrian Plan, this time adding an emphasis on bicycles.
“[Since that plan is already in place,] this plan is not like starting from scratch,” said Henry Cohen, of Toole Design.
Toole Design has looked at the needs of the town. There are 70 miles of streets in Jamestown but only 15 percent have sidewalks and less than one percent have sidewalks on both sides of the streets. There are 41 miles of streets, including those in the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, under NCDOT jurisdiction. Those have speed limits of 35-45 mph. The remaining 29 miles are local streets with a 25 mph speed limit.
Slightly more than half, 56 percent, of residents live within a five-minute, or one-quarter mile walk of a sidewalk. For those needing public transit, 52 percent live within one mile of a stop, which equated to a 10-minute bike ride or 20-minute walk.
Citizen involvement is crucial to the success of the plan. To that end, the committee plans two open houses to discuss needs as well as a pop-up event in town. The first open house will be a drop-in session April 25. The time will be announced later. There will also be an online survey in the future.
From the 2010 Town of Jamestown Comprehensive Pedestrian Transportation Plan: Vision for Pedestrian Transportation in 2030
In the year 2030 the Town of Jamestown will have a pedestrian transportation system that is safe, welcoming and accessible. Greenway connectivity to neighboring Greensboro and High Point encourage walking for exercise and travel. Jamestown’s downtown is aesthetic and welcoming, with wide sidewalks, on-street parking, outdoor dining and beautiful tree-lined streetscapes. Major truck traffic uses alternative routes around Jamestown enhancing the Main Street walking environment. Trail and sidewalk circuits connect downtown shops and stores with parks, rivers, community centers, medical facilities, residential areas, the elementary, middle and high school, Guilford Technical Community College and the YMCA. All major and minor roadways and bridges have pedestrian and bicycle access making it easy to get around by walking or bicycling.
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There could be some changes made at the Jamestown Town Hall if approved in the 2022-23 budget. Not only would there be physical changes to the layout of the building, but a new organizational chart would be implemented as well.
The Council and staff discussed several items at their March 25 budget retreat.
Renovations
Listed as “must do” items in the proposed Capital Improvement Program are improvements to the Ragsdale Civic Center and construction of new offices in the Town Hall.
“We would start with the Civic Center and make it more professional,” said Town Manager Matthew Johnson. He added that plans include updating the heating and cooling system and audio/video system. The Town Council would permanently move to the Civic Center for meetings.
Not all councilmembers were totally on board with the proposed changes.
Martha Wolfe wants the Civic Center to remain multi-purpose, where groups can rent the space, pointing out there is a kitchen in the Civic Center.
“[Renovations] would take away a meeting space,” Wolfe said. “The Civic Center and Town Hall is the hub of the town. That’s where everything happens.”
She added that the plan would separate citizens from the Town Hall.
Johnson said civic groups currently meet at the clubhouse at Jamestown Park. He hinted that the fire station could be renovated to include meeting space. He was not in favor of opening up the Council Chambers for groups to rent.
The renovation plan calls for moving several offices, including the clerk and town manager, who would be in new office space in the former Council Chambers. A staff conference room would be created off that area.
The current Town Hall was constructed in 1967 and has seen only one major renovation since that time.
Staff organization
The renovations are necessary to accommodate the increasing need for more staff for the town. Current staff members are already overworked and with the potential of a large growth when D.R. Horton develops the former Johnson Farm area, additional staff will be needed.
“We wanted to look out five to 10 years to see where we might have issues,” Johnson said. “We can’t provide the level of service we’re trying to provide with the limited staff we have.
“It’s clear we don’t have a lot of depth.”
He noted that garbage collection truck has only one full-time and one part-time worker.
Many employees are basically working more than one position in the town and it’s beginning to show with burnout.
“The seams are showing,” said Councilmember John Capes.
Within the past year, an additional staff member was added to both the Planning and Finance departments. One of those people is actually sitting at a desk in a hallway.
The Finance Department would be split into two offices, one handling human resources and the other utilities and collections.
With Johnson’s appointment as town manager, there is an opening for a planning technician in the Planning Department.
He noted the need for an internal project coordinator to help oversee the Horton development, along with an assistant director of public services.
“The most pressing needs are an HR analyst and utility business manager,” Johnson said. One current position would be split into two positions as the current employee retires.
Recycling and solid waste
One of the goals of the 2021 Strategic Plan was to “evaluate the effectiveness of the current solid waste collection and recycling services.” With that in mind, the Town is looking to change the present recycling company at the end of the current contract August 2023.
“We are looking at bringing recycling in-house and moving to a solid waste can,” Johnson said, noting the trucks would have to be retrofitted to be able to pick up the cans. “We are considering moving to once a week garbage pickup, but recycling would stay the same with once a week pick up.
“Our level of service would still be far superior [to other towns].”
Trash would still be picked up two days a week, but in separate areas of the town.
The Town currently picks up an average of 20 tons of garbage per week and is at capacity.
“The guys struggle to get it all picked up,” Johnson said.
He noted that after 100 houses are constructed, D.R. Horton has offered, in the development agreement, to pay for another garbage truck to service that area.
“I just want to make sure we continue to provide excellent service and be able to provide it in an equitable manner and one that is fiscally responsible,” Johnson said. “I think that moving to this would provide a much higher level of service.”
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The Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Veterans Day are well known occasions recognized each year by the greater Jamestown community with ceremonies at Wrenn Miller Park. Maybe not as well known, but just as significant however, is the observance of Vietnam Veterans Day on March 29.
President Richard Nixon proclaimed the first Vietnam Veterans Day in 1974, choosing March 29 because it was the day the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam for good. President Barack Obama later signed a proclamation declaring a holiday be observed on March 29 from 2012-2025 to honor veterans from the Vietnam War. President Donald Trump made the holiday official through the “Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017.”
March 29 is now included in the list of patriotic occasions for which the Jamestown Veterans Committee sponsors a special flag raising at the park. Approximately 50 people attended this year.
Members of the committee, Chair Josh Fields, Bruce Dillon, Dana Hughes, James Alan Bowie, Rick Clapp, Wray
Hodgin and Gerald Peek were present for the ceremony. (Active committee members unable to attend were Art Wise, Bob Harvey and Jerry Odenwelder.)
They were joined by members of the DAR Rachel Caldwell Chapter Debby Beach, Cherie Coble, Molly Coble, Kathy Fair, Bette Franken, Alison Huber, Karen Linnane, Deborah Owens, Jane Thomas and Carol Townsend, who served as co-sponsors of the Vietnam Veterans flag-raising and wreath-laying program.
Following the presentation of Colors by the Ragsdale High School Air Force Jr. ROTC, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Boling led the Star-Spangled Banner and Jamestown Mayor Lynn Montgomery read a proclamation acknowledging Vietnam Veterans from North Carolina. Thomas gave a history of Vietnam Veterans Day.
Huber, a DAR member and executive director of the Triad Honor Flights, explained the program, which takes veterans 65 and older for a one-day round trip visit to war memorials in Washington, D.C. Huber was unfamiliar with Honor Flights until she drove to Washington, D.C. to surprise her father, Jay DeWitt, on his Flight of Honor trip from Cincinnati, with Alison’s brother serving as his guardian. She joined the Rotarians and four years later has instigated the return of the Honor Flights.
“Alison did a great job talking about the flights,” Peek said. “She stayed until about noon answering questions. I’m sure she got several veterans’ attention and probably will have several sign up for future trips.”
Huber collects stars cut out of flags that were properly disposed of and gives them to veterans with a verbal thank you for his or her service to our country. DAR members gave away many of these stars at the ceremony along with a written message that read, “I am part of our American Flag that has flown over the USA. I can no longer fly. The sun and wind caused me to become tattered and torn. Please carry me as a reminder that you are not forgotten.”
Peek later shared thoughts about the conflict in an email.
“To me one of the most overlooked stats of Vietnam was the number of valor awards for bravery under fire,” he said. “There were 301 total Medals of Honor among all branches of service. There were more than 1,700 Distinguished Service Crosses and Navy Crosses awarded and the number of Silver Stars and Bronze Stars were out of sight.
“My personal belief is that an equal number of all of the honors deserved to be awarded but there were no witnesses to their bravery. Often recipients of these awards would say they had seen others do more than they and received nothing.”
Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Ware, U.S. Army, was the highest-ranking casualty of the conflict. He had been awarded the Medal of Honor in WWII and was killed in action Sept. 8, 1968. The youngest to die was Pvt. Dan Bullock, USMC, a young African American who died in combat June 7, 1969, at the age of 15. He was born in Goldsboro, N.C., and is buried there.
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PTI Run on the Runway Presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation and Bethany Medical raises $130,000+ for Hunger Charities
Piedmont Triad, NC – The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority’s Run on the Runway, which was held on Saturday, March 26th, has raised more than $130,000 for the Piedmont Triad’s hunger charities.
More than 1300 runners turned out to support the event, which included a 5K run, a 10K run, a mile run/walk, a 5K Walk to Win Against Hunger, and a kids’ dash. More than 60 sponsors donated cash and in-kind services to help make the event a success.
Proceeds from the 12th annual PTI 5K/10k Run on the Runway will go to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, Greensboro Urban Ministry, and Open Door Ministries of High Point. These organizations provide food assistance to Triad residents.
The Lenny Peters Foundation and Bethany Medical were the presenting sponsors for the event. The Airport Authority Employees were Diamond Sponsors, and High Point University, Honda Aircraft Company, HAECO Americas, NAI Piedmont Triad, Blue Ridge Companies, and Ziehl-Abegg were all Platinum sponsors.
Media Partners were WGHP Fox 8, Rock 92, and WKZL.
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You can’t run away from your problems, but are you willing to fake an entire persona to hide?
The story of two friends traveling to a rural town in Georgia after one of them is having some marital troubles leads to lies, a bogus language, and laughs in Camel City Playhouse’s upcoming performance of Larry Sue’s The Foreigner. The play runs from Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. with matinee shows on Saturday, April 9th, and Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. Camel City Playhouse is located at 110 W. 7th Street in Winston-Salem.
“The Foreigner is a screwball comedy. Charlie Baker, our main character, agrees to accompany his friend, Froggy LeSueur on a fishing trip after he has some marital problems. When they arrive at a rural town in the south, Charlie wants to remain under the radar and creates a fake persona of a foreigner that doesn’t speak English. Word spreads soon of Charlie’s exotic nature and soon everyone who steps foot in the lodge reveals their secrets and diabolical plans in front of him,” said Carl Nubile, co-director. “His profession is a proofreader for a science fiction magazine, so he is a rather dull character who has to develop a personality in order to come up with this nonsense language so no one will understand him. In the process, the townspeople try to teach him English.”
Nubile mentions that The Foreigner is his “first big directorial debut” and that he has been an actor for most of his theatrical career. He is co-directing the play with seasoned director Pam McHone Barrans. “Pam is excellent at blocking and overall execution while my strength is delving into the depths of the characters, and seeking specific emotions and motives behind certain actions,” Nubile said. “Some of the best directors have been on stage, and as we get older, we direct the way we like to see things. We want to treat the actors the way we would have liked to be treated if we were doing this show.”
The play was initially slated to be performed in late January but was postponed until April after an outbreak of the Omicron variant. That doesn’t hamper the enthusiasm that the actors and actresses carry for the play. Hampton Rowe, who plays Charlie, is said that the role is a lot more challenging than one would think. The Raleigh native spent five years in Los Angeles after graduating with a bachelor’s in fine arts before settling in Winston-Salem to work in the local theatre scene.
“This play, like its name, has been a foreign experience — anything but traditional, and a fun production at that. I was lucky enough to be cast as Charlie, the foreigner himself, which is a lot more challenging than one would think since he is sort of creating his character as the story goes, being present in his reaction. The most ironic part is that he wants to be a nobody but gets invested in everything around him,” said Hampton Rowe. “I had actually seen this show about 15 years ago and thought it was hilarious.”
Similar to Rowe, his co-star Maryl Wilson, a Wisconsin native who plays Betty Meeks, found her home in Winston-Salem after a 20-year hiatus from the stage to raise her children.
“I was fortunate enough to be welcomed into the Camel City family, and receive the part of Betty Meeks, who is the resort lodge owner, and mother to all her guests. She is a widow in her 80’s that maintains a sarcastically sweet nature,” Wilson said. “This is my first time playing a character again. I played this role back in college, so to have the chance to reprise the role in a completely different space with a completely different cast, even directors who are coming at it from a different angle, has been so much fun. You think as an actor, who has done a performance, which you would remember specific details and how you went about certain actions, but you can’t. You have to be open to trying the character in a new way. “
Wilson said the show is for everyone.
“It’s a show you attend when you just want to laugh and have a good time. The people are relatable and a little unusual since it takes place in the south but was written by someone who wasn’t from the south, so it is interesting to see his take on the southern persona.”
In the theatre realm, drama is considered easy, while comedy is categorized as hard since the only thing you don’t have in rehearsal is an audience to know where all the laughs are.
“What makes comedy so special is that it is a collaborative effort, much more so than any other genre. If one can carry a comedy, they have succeeded as a playwright, director, or actor,” Wilson said.
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A High Point community organization no longer wants to preserve the name of a demolished public housing complex and the man it was named after.
Until recently, the group Daniel Brooks Keepers of the Name opposed calling a new mixed-income housing complex “Legacy Ridge.” The group’s Change.org petition collected 490 signatures requesting that Laurel Street Residential, the Charlotte-based developer planning new units at the intersection of West Avenue and Henley Street, name that property after educator and Methodist minister Rev. Daniel Brooks.
Brooks, who was born in 1837 and died in 1933, was one of High Point’s respected Black elders and served multiple terms as a commissioner for city schools. In 1910, he negotiated the land sale that would become William Penn High School. Eight years after his death, the Black-only public housing built by the city at 1410 West Avenue was christened Daniel Brooks Homes. Those homes were demolished in 2019 to make way for a new development.
Rev. Angela Roberson, pastor of Congregational United Church of Christ, told YES! Weekly that the organization canceled its petition upon learning that Brooks, born a freedman of color in Cleveland County, voluntarily enlisted in the Confederate Army.
Roberson said that, until the end of last week, she believed he was drafted.
“We decided to pull our petition,” said Roberson on Friday. “The family narrative is that he was conscripted, but the History Museum informs us that he volunteered.”
Roberson said that, with this revelation, support for the petition has stalled in her community.
“The High Point Museum said they got a lot of questions about Daniel Brooks in light of our efforts, and that he volunteered. I don’t want to get in a public fight about why he did it. Who knows what narrative he had or was encountering in Cleveland County where he was born? But in light of all that’s transpired, particularly since Charlottesville, this is not going to go over.”
Brooks was born into a settlement of wealthy Cleveland County landowners. At least, that’s the date given in “Negro elder has been preaching gospel over half a century and is still at it,” a 1925 High Point Enterprise article by Sara Alderman, which describes its subject thusly:
“Elder Daniel Brooks, colored pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was not a slave, but he was living in the days of war and misunderstanding between the states. He saw High Point in its infancy, born in 1837 in Cleveland County, enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 20, went into the ministry after the war, and spent a great part of his years of service in the church in this city.”
If Brooks were born in 1837, he would have been 20 in 1857. The Confederate Army was formed in 1861. This inconsistency could not be addressed in any historical document by press time.
Professional and amateur historians debate how many Black men actually “fought for the Confederacy,” with disagreement extending to what that phrase means. This controversy is the subject of historian Kevin M. Levin’s Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, published by the University of Chapel Hill Press. In it, Levin argues that “Black Confederates” invariably fall into two categories: a few thousand slaves pressed into service, and a much smaller number of Black freedmen who enlisted.
Individual slaves either accompanied their masters in the field or were rented as mass labor. On the rare occasion they were given weapons, they faced being shot by the white men behind them if they didn’t fire at the ones in front of them. While white troops faced the same penalty for not firing on the enemy, they were rarely if ever threatened until they refused. Temporarily armed slaves often had Confederate guns pointed as they were ordered to aim at Union troops.
Black freedmen could and did enlist, but were rarely given weapons.
“I didn’t use a gun the whole time,” the 1925 article quoted Brooks as saying. “Some of the time I cooked for the officers.” He also described working road construction behind the lines.
The article described Brooks being furloughed, then called back into service and sent to Wilmington to build more roads for the Confederate Army, for which he was paid a flat sum of $22, the amount slave owners were given for making slaves do the same work. He worked on crews building Fort Fisher, before moving inland to what the article describes as “the last skirmish in North Carolina,” cutting trees for makeshift bridges to aid the retreat of Johnston’s forces from Sherman’s inexorable advance.
The article describes Brooks as leaving the Confederate Army on May 28, 1865. It does not describe where or when he joined the ministry but states his first pastorate was in Oxford, NC, and that he “then spent one year a few miles south of Greensboro” before moving to High Point.
The article ends by quoting Brooks: “I never had an education so I made sure my children would get one.”
According to the High Point Museum, in 1940, the City of High Point received a 1.7 million dollar loan from the U.S. Housing Administration. That subdivision of the Department of the Interior was created by the Housing Act of 1937 as part of the New Deal, to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction.
The purpose of the loan was to clear slums and construct 450 standardized modern apartments. The 250-unit Clara Cox Homes, located on the present site of Park Terrace Apartments near East Russell Avenue, was white-only. Daniel Brooks Homes, built near Penn-Griffin School for the Arts, was for African-Americans.
In 2001, Daniel Brooks Homes were listed for possible inclusion on the Register of Historic Places. Instead, it fell further into disrepair, resulting in the relocation of over 200 families when it was demolished in 2019.
The High Point Housing Authority website states under its “Future Development” tab that “HPHA received approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to demolish and dispose of the primary site at the Daniel Brooks Homes community,” and that this, “along with the previously approved $6.5 Housing Bond that the HPHA has secured from the City of High Point, will allow for the construction of new affordable housing on the site.”
The city’s fiscal year 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan, published June 15, 2020, stated that HPHA “will replace these units with 264 tax credit units in a three-phase development.”
On Feb. 12, 2022, a staff report in the High Point Enterprise reported a “new affordable housing development on the site of the former Daniel Brooks Homes complex will be called Legacy Ridge” and that “the first phase of the new community will consist of 100 units that will be targeted for rental to family households who earn up to 60% of the area median income.”
A week later, Roberson began the petition drive she ended Friday.
When she reached out to YES! Weekly to inform us that the petition was canceled, she emphasized that the organization is not criticizing the man whose name they are no longer lobbying to retain on the upcoming private housing development that was formerly public.
“After the Civil War, two things happened. One, he had a come to Jesus moment and became a preacher, and two, he spent his life trying to educate Black people. In theological language, we call that redemption.”
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Once upon a time, there were only three TV channels to watch, and in the late 1970’s, no show was bigger than “Laverne & Shirley,” a sitcom starring Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall as roommates who worked at a Milwaukee beer factory. The series was a spin-off from a “Happy Days” episode in which Fonzie had arranged for Laverne (Marshall) and Shirley (Williams) to double date with him and Richie (Ron Howard). By its third season, “Laverne & Shirley” was the number one show in the country, and 46 years later, Williams is still performing, and still popular around the globe. This Sunday, Cindy will give two performances of her one-woman show, “Me, Myself, and Shirley,” at High Point Theatre. I caught up with Cindy last week, and we talked about the show and her career.
JL: Do you remember the first time you performed on stage?
CW: Yes, it was in the first grade, and they had a talent show, and I sang “Hickory Dickory Dock,” and I had total stage fright, but I did it.
JL: Do you remember who won the talent show?
CW: No, but I’m sure it was some ne’er-do-well first grader (laughs).
JL: When did you first realize that you wanted to act professionally?
CW: It was in high school. I had wanted to be a nurse, but I didn’t have an academic brain, so I entered a talent show at school, and the drama teacher, Mr. Kulp, said, “If you have an elective, I’d like to offer you a spot this coming semester to be in ‘Play Production’ and skip Drama I and II,” so I did. That’s when I thought I’d like to be able to earn a living from acting. I just loved it so much.
JL: Over the years, various cast and crew members on “Laverne & Shirley” say that they had to work long hours because you and Penny would often do re-writes on the script. What drove you to work so hard on that show?
CW: We had a litmus test, which was if the script made Penny and me laugh out loud. That’s what we were going for, is to make the studio audience laugh out loud, then we figured it would translate to the audience at home. So, if it made us laugh out loud at rehearsal, then we knew it was good to go. When it didn’t, we would re-write it, or try and put things in that made it funny. Once we got the show on its feet and started moving around, we would add things, add lines, and ad lib. The whole cast would.
JL: Even in the late 1970’s, there were certain things you couldn’t do or say on television, thus the reason for you and Penny using the phrase “Vody-O-Doe-Doe,” instead of saying the word sex. If “Laverne & Shirley” were on the air today, would using more graphic language make the show better or funnier?
CW: No, it wouldn’t. When audiences of today laugh at graphic language, they’re usually laughing out of nervousness, not out of joy.
Also, we had a censor back then. He was a born-again Christian and the nicest guy, and he wouldn’t let us get away with anything. That’s how we came up with “Vody-O-Doe-Doe,” which made the audience laugh out loud, because they know what Shirley did. It’s much more fun when everybody is thinking the same thing at the same time. Instead of saying someone is showing pornography, we’d say, “They’re showing dirty pictures,” and the audience would laugh because it’s much more fun. We used innuendo and attitude in a fun-loving way.
JL: Moving from comedy to drama, I went back recently and watched the episode you did on “Law & Order SVU” in which you played an evil woman who was trying to kill her little granddaughter. You also played serious roles in such films as “The Conversation” with Gene Hackman. Do you prefer doing drama over comedy, or wish you had done more?
CW: I’d like to have played more middle of the road parts, but I didn’t have a chance because no one was going to cast me after “Laverne & Shirley.” I remember going up for this big part, and I went in, and the producer said, “I’d love to cast you, but I can’t. You’re just too recognizable as Shirley Feeney.” And it’s the truth, and I understand that. Look, it’s a blessing that I got to play that character and it became so popular with people, so I never regret that.
JL: Do you remember when you first realized you were famous?
CW: I guess it was in the second season we were in New York City and they had asked us to be in the Thanksgiving Day parade, and we were on this float, and we saw all these people push past this barrier and they were running toward us. So we looked behind us to see who it was they were running toward, and we were going to join them (laughs). It must be somebody big. Then all this security came up and we realized it was for us. That was the first time we realized the popularity of the show. Penny and I had this same glitch in our personalities where we thought, “we can’t possibly be the popular girls.” We never took show business seriously, and I think that’s part of the reason that “Laverne & Shirley” kept our feet on the ground.
JL: How did “Me Myself and Shirley” come about?
CW: I had written a book called “Shirley I Jest” and it has all my stories, and wonderful, fun adventures in Hollywood that I was privy to because of “Laverne & Shirley” and other things. So I was doing a play in Kansas City, and I was supposed to go to Florida to do a production of “Nunsense” right after that. But COVID hit, and they closed all the shows down, and I was stuck at home during the lock down. So then Danny Goggin who wrote “Nunsense” said, “Why don’t you write that one-woman show that you always talk about?” In the interim, Danny also introduced me to a producer friend of his, Charles Duggan, so Charles and I wrote “Me Myself and Shirley” during the COVID lock-down.
JL: Is the show just for fans of “Laverne and Shirley,” or can anyone enjoy it?
CW: No, they have to write an essay on “Laverne & Shirley” or they won’t be allowed in the theatre (laughs). No, anyone who wants to laugh out loud should come and see the show.
JL: The road to success hasn’t always been easy for you. You had to wait tables at a pancake house, had all your scenes cut from your first film, but eventually became one of the most famous people in the world. What is it that anyone from any walk of life can learn from your journey?
CW: It can all be accomplished, but you have to always stay yourself. You have to keep your sense of humor. If you get knocked down, you have to get right back up and just keep going. God played a big part for me. I would talk to God and I’d get brave again. You always have to stay brave, and have faith in yourself and in all the beautiful things around you. You’re not always going to be invited to the party, you’re not always going to get the job, and you can’t let that deter you from what you want. If somebody else gets the job, you bless them and say “it wasn’t meant for me.” There was a point where I thought I’d be back to waiting tables, and I was OK with that, and it’s right before I got “Laverne & Shirley.”
JL: I know you get a lot of fan mail, but I wonder if you realize how much pleasure you’ve given to people over the years. There must have been times when someone had just lost a loved one, or lost their job, and they turned the TV on and watched “Laverne & Shirley,” and you had an impact on their lives.
CW: Thanks Jim. Yeah, people still come up to me and say, “You got me through a very bad time in my life, and made me laugh at a really bad time.” I love people, and wanted to comfort them.
JL: So in a way, I guess you did become a nurse.
CW: Yeah, in a way I guess I was a nurse. But doing the show was such a blessing for me and such a privilege.
You can catch “nurse” Cindy at High Point Theatre this Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. A few tickets are still available by calling (336) 887-3001.
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Six National Records Set at YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship in Greensboro
Week-long competition featured 1,280 athletes; two college-bound swimmers recognized for outstanding character and commitment to their communities
CHICAGO (April 4, 2022)— The YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship wrapped up Friday at the Greensboro Aquatics Center in Greensboro, N.C. Since its debut in 1923, this national meet has featured outstanding swimming competition and served as a celebration of achievement by young athletes.
A total of 16 records were broken—six women’s, four men’s, and six YMCA National marks—at the event, which last took place in 2019 (Covid) and this year included swimmers from 170 Ys across 26 states. The Piedmont Family YMCA in Charlottesville (VA) are both Men’s Team Champions and Combined Team Champions, while the Women’s Team Championship goes to the Greater Somerset County YMCA (NJ). The Piedmont Family Y’s Gary Taylor was awarded Coach of the Meet.
High school seniors Sara-Michael Jann of the YMCA of Greater Spartanburg (SC) and Reuben Williams from the Vineland Y (NJ) are the Adolph Kiefer YMCA Youth Character Scholarship Award winners. The recipients each earn $2,500 for the upcoming academic year; Sara-Michael is headed to Gardner Webb University, while Reuben will attend Rider University.
Given annually by YMCA of the USA and the Adolph Kiefer family, the honor recognizes one male and one female for their excellence in academic achievement, demonstration of the YMCA core values and commitment to strengthening their community through participation in the YMCA competitive swimming program. The scholarship resulted from the establishment of the Adolph Kiefer Memorial Fund, made possible by the generosity of the Kiefer Family. Adolph Kiefer is an Olympic Gold Medalist who learned to swim at the Y.
About The Y and YMCA of the USA
YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) is the national resource office for the Y, a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community for almost 175 years. The Y empowers everyone, no matter who they are or where they’re from, by ensuring access to resources, relationships and opportunities for all to learn, grow and thrive. By bringing together people from different backgrounds, perspectives and generations, the Y’s goal is to improve overall health and well-being, ignite youth empowerment and demonstrate the importance of connections in and across 10,000 communities nationwide. Learn more at ymca.org.
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a/perture cinema is proud to present Cinema Beyond the Screen. This exhibit, celebrating local artists, highlights the magic of cinema and the inspiration we are left with after we’ve seen a film in a theatre. Curated by a/perture Executive Director and Curator, Lawren Desai, it features 18 local artists that created new one-of-a-kind art works for purchase celebrating the magic of cinema. “During the month the show is up, we hope guests will consider purchasing their favorite cinematic piece, which not only supports a/perture, but local artists as well,” said Desai. “We want to play our role in uplifting the local arts community by showcasing a diverse group of artists and mediums.” Artists featured in the exhibition are Terry Shupbach-Gordon, Veronica Vale, Shairpins by Sheridan Watkins, Ian Dennis, Caroline Dalholt, Cami Burruss, Leigh Kelly, Leo Rucker, Joey Allen, Virginia Christman, Angela Mendez, Kaitlin Botts, Elizabeth Shanahan, Grant Wilmoth, Lindsay Piper Potter-Figueiredo, Hannah Gaskins Pabon, A.K. Landreth, and Abel Brone-Hammer.
After five months of planning, Cinema Beyond the Screen is on view at the Milton Rhodes Center for Art in the Main Gallery, hosted by Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County. “I had no clue this crazy little idea of mine would come together in this way. These artists really captured how cinema is such a part of our culture and continues to inspire our creativity long after we have seen a film,” says Desai.
The exhibit, which opened March 28th with a gallery reception to celebrate the artists on April 1st, boasts a very diverse collection of art that we are excited to showcase to our community. One of the artists included, A.K. Landreth, says, “When a/perture cinema asked me to be a part of their annual fundraising event, I knew I wanted to bring something abstract to the table! [My] piece represents the connection we experience to film through what everyone involved brings to the table. From the actors, to the directors and the cinematographers, they create something tangible for us viewers to experience and interpret in our own way with our own meaning. Much like abstract art!” We encourage everyone to stop by the exhibit and peruse the art. Proceeds from this exhibit go to the artists and to support a/perture’s annual operations.
a/perture cinema is a non-profit art house cinema in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina with a mission to engage and entertain the community through the art of film by showcasing thought-provoking and inspiring films — films that enrich our lives, engage our minds, promote diversity, and build community. Screening a mix of independent, foreign, documentary, local and festival films in two 80-seat theaters, one 45-seat screening room, and the 22-seat petit a/.
We would like to thank Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County for hosting this exhibit.
Arts Council is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Our goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness and providing support to grow and sustain artistic, cultural and creative offerings throughout our region.
We acknowledge that it takes every voice, every talent, and every story to make our community a great place to live, work, and play. Arts Council is committed to serving as a facilitator, organizer, and promoter of conversations that are authentic, inclusive, and forward-thinking.
There are over 800,000 art experiences taking place in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County annually. To learn more about upcoming arts and culture events happening in our community please visit www.cityofthearts.com.
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Your Own Personal Expert: The One-on-One Pay by the Minute Video Chat App
Imagine this scenario. You’re a college student who’s struggling with algebra. You’re going cross-eyed as your professor expounds on differential equations and linear algebra… and tomorrow it’s non-Euclidean geometry! The professor can assist you – to a degree – but a professor isn’t a private tutor. So, you hop online and you watch a series of videos from theKhan Academy, an awesome service filled with free tutorials and educational videos. You also read up on the subject and even watch a couple of animated videos that try to break it down for you… but there are just two or three things that have you stumped. You wish you could talk to somebody for 5-10 minutes about these particular areas that are giving you a migraine. You don't have the funds for a full-time tutor, and while your classmates are kind – they aren't really able to help. Enter the idea behind a new kind of app that matches experts with knowledge seekers for the cheapest price possible and with the highest amount of convenience available.
The idea behind a tutoring app is exactly what the hypothetical math student above needs. All they have to do is hop on the app and find an expert in the field, then connect with them via a one-on-one smartphone video chat. Begin the consultation, and pay for it by the minute! It might take five or 10 minutes – but by the end of that very personal conversation, the student is now confident in their ability to ace the next exam. And with pricing as low as US$1 per minute, the student might only need to spend as little as US$5. Now take that scenario and expand it beyond the academic and into even the most niche fields imaginable: tantric yoga, bird feeders, cooking, raising goldfish, playing a musical instrument, fixing a machine, using a new type of software, becoming a better DJ, learning social media marketing…the list goes on almost infinitely. This breakthrough in how we learn online is going to be revolutionary for many who are looking for an immediate response to a specific question. Now, there are, of course, already private tutors. That hypothetical math student at the beginning of the article could have gone online and sought out a tutor who perhaps charges US$15 or US$20 an hour, and after spending half the afternoon finding the right person, perhaps they could have also found the answers to their problems, but this app idea is all about getting answers as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
What's more, many questions could be answered by an expert in almost a blink of an eye if the expert could ‘see’ the problem at hand… and with your smartphone camera, this is entirely possible. Show the person the problem and see them immediately ‘get’ your problem. The concept is quite ‘win-win’ as it provides so much choice and flexibility for both seeker and expert. As noted above, the personal online tutor has been and is being done. One-on-one private online coaches, tutors, and even doctors and shrinks are all available. But they aren’t exactly cheap. A direct, one-on-one video chat with an expert (with a pay structure that can be as low as US$1 per minute) is an idea that could benefit hundreds of millions of people around the world to find a quick, specific answer to a nagging problem. How many times have you read a manual or watched a tutorial video and wished you could raise your hand and say, “Excuse me! What about ____?” Well, now you can. The tutoring app is a plethora of experts in your pocket and as the idea grows, so will the number of experts and the fields they cover. Already it's rather extensive, and they have people who can help you with anything from a mechanical engineering problem or – if it happens to be legal in your neck of the woods – help you select the best cannabis strains for whatever ails you.
The concept opens doors and provides incredible new opportunities for online learning and teaching. Chatbots have gotten pretty good of late but they often don't cut it… especially when you're having a hard time even figuring out the vocabulary for expressing your problem. And besides, we're humans. Humans are social creatures and we like interacting with other humans. Being able to look an expert in the eye and know that they are 100% focused on you as you seek a solution is comforting and, in a word, human. We predict this idea spreading quickly around the world and across every imaginable field. Everyone could soon be able to afford a coach, teacher, tutor, instructor, expert… even if only for a few minutes to get answers for a few questions; a game-changing and exciting concept.
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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take an aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that half-point interest rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increase, “could be appropriate” multiple times this year.
At last month's meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off then because of the uncertainties created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago, when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are surging at the fastest pace in four decades, and officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to start raising rates and could be forced to respond so aggressively as to trigger a recession. Indeed, economists at Deutsche Bank predict that the economy will tumble into a recession late next year, noting that the Fed, “finding itself now well behind the curve, has given clear signals that it is shifting to a more aggressive tightening mode.”
The stock market sold off when the minutes were released Wednesday but later recovered most of its losses. Still, the S&P 500 was down nearly 0.8% in afternoon trading after a sharp drop on Tuesday.
Financial markets now expect much steeper rate hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March. Just three weeks ago, the policymakers projected that the Fed's benchmark rate would remain below 2% by the end of this year and 2.8% at the end of 2023, up from its current level below 0.5%.
But Wall Street now forecasts that the Fed's rate will reach 2.6% by year's end, with further rate hikes next year. That would require three half-point increases this year.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. By doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that they envision such sharp increases. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
After the pandemic hammered the economy two years ago, the Fed bought trillions in Treasury and mortgage bonds, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing course, the last time the Fed bought bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now, that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market trends aren't flashing the same warning signals.
The Fed will reduce its balance sheet by allowing some of its Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities to mature without reinvesting the proceeds, which it has done for the past two years.
What kind of impact this will have on interest rates is highly uncertain. Powell said at a news conference after last month's meeting that the reduction in bond holdings would be equivalent to another rate hike. Economists estimate that reducing the Fed's balance sheet by $1 trillion a year would be equal to anywhere from one to three additional quarter-point increases in the Fed's benchmark short-term rate.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who preceded Powell as Fed chair, suggested during a congressional hearing Wednesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would likely keep escalating inflation in the coming months.
“The sanctions we’ve placed on Russia are pushing up the price of energy," Yellen said. “When energy prices are going up, the price of wheat and corn that Russia and Ukraine produce are going up, and metals that play an important industrial role are going up.”
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Cash App has become a popular way for people to send money, invest in the stock market and buy cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
But recent reports say there is a data breach impacting millions of its customers. Google Trends data also shows people are searching for information about the reported Cash App breach.
THE QUESTION
Was Cash App affected by a data breach?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, Cash App was affected by a data breach that impacted U.S. customers who used Cash App’s investing services.
WHAT WE FOUND
Block, Inc., the company that owns Cash App, filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 4 about a data breach impacting millions of users.
The filing says Block “recently determined” that a former employee downloaded Cash App Investing reports that contained some customer information on Dec. 10, 2021. Though the employee had “regular access to these reports as part of their past job responsibilities,” they accessed the reports without permission after their employment ended.
The data breach impacted current and former U.S. customers who used Cash App’s investing services, according to the SEC filing. Other Cash App products and features apart from stock activity were not impacted by the breach.
Cash App Investing is contacting approximately 8.2 million people to provide them with information about the breach, the filing says.
So what data may have been compromised?
The reports included customers’ full names and brokerage account numbers, which are the unique numbers associated with a customer’s stock activity on Cash App Investing. For some customers, the reports also included portfolio value, holdings and/or stock trading activity for one trading day, the SEC filing and a Cash App spokesperson confirm.
Usernames and passwords, Social Security numbers, date of birth, payment card information, addresses or bank information were not included in the reports. The reports also didn’t include security codes, access codes, or passwords used to access Cash App accounts.
In a statement to VERIFY, a Cash App spokesperson said the company values customer trust and is “committed to the security of customers’ information.”
Cash App launched an investigation with the help of a forensics firm, according to the spokesperson and SEC filing. Cash App has also notified law enforcement of the breach.
“In addition, we continue to review and strengthen administrative and technical safeguards to protect information,” the Cash App spokesperson said.
More from VERIFY: Yes, you do have to pay taxes on cryptocurrency
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — We're just a few hours away now from the 2022 Masters Tournament and the biggest storyline is obviously Tiger Woods.
Just 14 months after what was a catastrophic leg injury suffered in a car accident in Los Angeles, Tiger Woods plans to tee it up at Augusta National on Thursday morning.
Longtime golf writer and golf author Bob Harig joined the Locked On Today podcast on Wednesday for a special episode, to get his insight ahead of golf's most iconic tournament.
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Harig said the fact that Tiger Woods is set to play on Thursday still defies all logic and belief.
"It’s still hard to wrap your head around the idea that Tiger is playing in the Masters and Phil Mickelson is not," Harig said. "As recently as six weeks ago, Tiger was really downplaying the idea of his comeback, talking like it was going to be awhile…But now we’re talking about a golf course that’s one of the toughest walks in golf. We’re not talking about any flat golf course that might be hard enough to deal with.”
After the scandal a little over a decade ago that rocked Tiger Woods as a figure, he made his return to tournament golf at Augusta. Why does Tiger feel so safe and comfortable here?
“It was puzzling then, it’s puzzling now. It’s not the place you come back to without any sort of seasoning. You want to ease your way into it, chip off some of the rust and get used to being inside the ropes again…I think it’s clear that he loves the place, he wants to be here. This is the 25th anniversary of his first Masters win in 1997. It’s because it’s the Masters that he made the effort. He’s won here five times, he’s contended six or seven other times. Going forward, it’s going to be one of the places he truly has a chance to win still.”
What are reasonable expectations for Tiger?
“I think a reasonable expectation is to make the cut," Harig said. "It’s only 91 players, the field is smaller than most tournaments. There’s 15-20 players who are probably not competitive at this level. That knocks the field down to 70-75 guys and the top 50 and ties make it. He doesn’t have to beat that many guys to make the cut…Can he contend? We’re getting into territory that defies belief there, but of course I didn’t think he would be here. What do I know?”
No Phil Mickelson at Augusta
One name that is not in Augusta this week and very notably, is Phil Mickelson. Mickelson won the 2021 PGA Championship, becoming the oldest major champion in golf history.
Over the past year, there’s been heavy rumblings about a potential rival golf league and there’s been one that Greg Norman is the commissioner of, back by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, working to throw huge sums at players to sign on and essentially guaranteed money in tournaments.
This led players including Phil Mickelson wondering why there’s not more guaranteed money for TOUR players. And he spoke out about it. But, in the process, Mickelson made controversial statements about the Saudi-backed aspect about it and disparaging remarks about the PGA Tour. Now, Mickelson hasn’t played in two months and hasn’t spoken publicly since February.
Locked On Today host Peter Bukowski asked Harig, is there 3% or 5% of Tiger Woods that is relishing the fact that Phil Mickelson isn’t here?
“Probably. Maybe more, maybe 10%. I don’t think Tiger wishes any ill-will on Phil Mickelson, I think they’re past that point," Harig said. "I think Tiger was genuinely happy for him when he won the PGA Championship last summer. But the issues that are hurting Phil right now, Tiger’s clearly on the other side of. If you could give him truth serum, I would say Tiger is very upset with what Phil was doing and he doesn’t agree with it and he might even be defiant about it. Tiger clearly took the side of the PGA Tour in that flap and Phil was looking out for other possibilities, very lucrative ones, and in the process it got him in a lot of trouble.”
What does it take to have success at the Masters?
“The biggest stat to look at in this tournament is greens in regulation," Harig said. "It usually doesn’t relate in a regular tournament. A guy might hit 10 greens a day or 9 but of those he makes a bunch of birdies. It doesn’t work quite as well here. If you’re missing a lot of greens, you’re going to make some bogeys. So hit a lot of greens, get some birdies, make out with par when you can. If you can hit the par 5’s in two and get some easy two-putt birdies, now you’re saying something. Tiger mastered that pretty well in 2019.”
Who has the best shot this week?
The field this week is obviously one of the best in the world and it features a number of top players who have contended but not yet won this year. That includes Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Patrick Cantlay, Brooks Koepka and others.
“I think a lot of them have a shot and it’s pretty wide open. We seemingly have a lot of parity right now," Harig said. "Jon Rahm was No. 1 two weeks ago and he hasn’t won since the U.S. Open. Scottie Scheffler just won three tournaments in seven weeks to move to No. 1…Collin Morikawa won a major last year, hasn’t won this year. Patrick Cantlay was the FedEx Cup champion and hasn’t won yet this year. I happen to like Justin Thomas, who also hasn’t won yet this year. He’s a great ball-striker, hits a lot of greens. The weather isn’t going to be great, more rain and then Thursday and Friday it cools off a bit, it’s going to be cold on Saturday. I think he’s a guy that can handle that.”
What about Rory?
It's been a storyline for years how Rory McIlroy needs just a Masters win to complete the iconic major grand slam, but he hasn't been able to do it. Why is that and what needs to happen for him this week?
“Rory McIlroy is a guy we haven’t even mentioned yet, who should be in contention,' Harig said. "But he hasn’t hit enough greens here over the years. He’s almost been too aggressive. He needs to dial that back, take his pars and get his birdies where he can get them. Those pins tempt him and when you’re missing the greens, you’re really agonizing to make a par.”
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SPOKANE, Wash. — With construction and road closures in full swing at Thor and Freya, an influx of drivers are turning to the Altamont Loop as a thoroughfare. The increased traffic is frustrating neighbors, who have noticed dangerous speeds along their neighborhood roads.
One issue is the three split intersections at the beginning of Altamont Loop which force drivers to veer into oncoming traffic in order to make the turn.
The second issue neighbors consistently see is drivers speeding along North Altamont Blvd. Patrick McKann, who lives along North Altamont said he deals with the issues every day.
"I have to take a wide narrow turn to get into my driveway, and I've had people pass me and honk. I'm not the only one. This happens all up and down this street. It's a mile long that's completely unregulated," McKann said.
Neighbors created a group to bring attention to the speeders four years ago. Since they have been in contact with the city and independent traffic engineers to find potential solutions.
McKann said they are hopeful for any change, including speed bumps, stop signs, roundabouts, or one-way roads. But the city has not implemented any speed control or pedestrian safety measures.
An independent study conducted in 2019 concluded approximately 1,200 cars use North Altamont Blvd daily. McKann said half of those cars are speeding.
"Our nine-year-old daughter's aunt lives up the street, and we're afraid to let her go walk and see her, because we know how crazy some of these drivers are," McKann said.
Since the city started construction on Thor and Freya, McKann says he's seen the volume of cars using North Altamont Blvd triple. McKann started a petition to bring attention to the increase in traffic and speeders. That petition has almost 150 signatures.
KREM 2 asked the City of Spokane why this neighborhood hasn't seen any change over the years.
City spokesperson Kirstin Davis said based on their most recent speed and traffic count, "while volumes increased between 2019 and 2021, they remain within typical residential volumes."
Davis also said the speed and traffic count found the average speed of drivers around the Altamont Loop is less than the posted 25 miles per hour speed limit.
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Callie Kyhl has joined the law firm of Walker Jones PC, which has offices in Warrenton and Washington, Va.
Kyhl’s concentration is personal injury and medical malpractice.
She is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia. Kyhl earned her law degree at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. She received her bachelor's degree in international affairs from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
Kyhl is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, Fauquier County Bar Association and the Virginia Trail Lawyers Association.
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The Sacramento mass shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others was a gang-related clash that involved at least five people exchanging gunfire, cops said on Wednesday.
“As detectives learn more about the shootings, it is increasingly clear that gang violence is at the center of this tragedy,” Sacramento Police Department said in a statement.
“While we cannot at this time elaborate on the precise gang affiliation of individuals involved, gangs and gang violence are inseparable from the events that drove these shootings.”
At least two groups of men were involved in the shootout, but cops said there may be more shooters identified as the investigation proceeds.
The shootout broke out early Sunday on a street as bars were closing for the night – and may have involved people shooting from a car, reports said. More than 100 shots were fired during the carnage.
Smiley Martin, 27, one of several men arrested in the shooting so far, had posed with a handgun in a Facebook Live video hours before the deadly clash. Martin, whose brother was also arrested related to the shooting, had been released more than 5 years early from a 10-year-prison sentence last year even though prosecutors warned he “has little regard for human life and the law.”
Martin is facing a charge for possessing a machine gun while his brother Dandrae Martin, 26, is facing a weapons charge. Daviyonne Dawson, 31, who was listed as a gang member in court charges, is facing a charge after he was seen with a gun after the incident.
None of the three men arrested have been charged with homicide.
Police say a community evidence portal has received almost 200 pieces of photo and video evidence.
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M-Pesa eyes high-value loans offering after Safaricom split
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By Patrick Alushula
| Apr 7th 2022 | 3 min read
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Safaricom wants M-Pesa to start issuing high-value lending such as car loans if the proposal to split the mobile money platform from the telecommunication business is passed.
The telco says separation will leave Safaricom under the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) while M-Pesa will be regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), allowing it to deepen its financial services.
“What may happen is maybe if we took M-Pesa out of Safaricom and it was regulated by the CBK, we could then apply to the CBK to offer more services that are not necessarily telecommunication services,” said Safaricom Chairman Michael Joseph in an interview with The Standard.
“It could be financial services. We could lend you money to buy a car, we can’t do it today. So there is opportunity to give more range of services to choose from.”
The plan could enable Safaricom, which rolled out M-Pesa in March 2007, to take financial services competition much closer to the doorsteps of banks, which had initially resisted the launch of the Safaricom platform.
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M-Pesa started as a service for sending and receiving money before diversifying into payment of goods and services, and later into offering small loans via its Fuliza overdraft product.
The telco also runs M-Shwari and KCB M-Pesa in partnership with NCBA and KCB respectively, with the arrangement allowing them to share revenues.
Safaricom had initially resisted calls to split its telecommunications business from that of mobile money when the debate about dominance came up. But with growing Fuliza service that is now averaging Sh1.3 billion overdrafts a day, and plans to roll out Fuliza for businesses, a CBK licence could clear hurdles such as caps on the maximum money it can lend.
Safaricom wants to tap into over 400,000 businesses currently using the Lipa na M-Pesa service to offer the overdraft facility for working capital needs such as boosting stock.
Currently, the amount M-Pesa customers can send in a day or hold in their digital wallets is capped at Sh300,000 with the maximum per transaction capped at Sh150,000.
The same limit of Sh300,00 also applies to Pochi la Biashara, a product that allows customers who own informal businesses such as food vendors, kiosk owners, boda-boda operators and second-hand clothes dealers to receive and separate business funds from personal cash on their M-Pesa number.
CBK, under anti-money laundering regulations, does not allow a registered M-Pesa user to send more than Sh35,000 to unregistered users. Such caps have seen Safaricom also set the Fuliza limit at Sh70,000, meaning that even customers with high-value transactions and good repayment history cannot borrow more.
Getting a CBK licence can help the telco beat these caps and take competition to the doorsteps of digital lenders, microfinance banks and commercial banks.
An additional 700,000 customers joined Fuliza service in the financial year ended March last year to send the total number of daily active users to 1.7 million.
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Albert Pujols and his wife Deidre Pujols have decided to call it quits after more than 20 years of marriage. Albert released a statement about the decision.
“I’ve been asked a lot of questions over the past few days regarding what’s been going on at home and sadly, after 22 years of marriage, I have made the decision to file for divorce from my wife, Deidre,” Pujpols wrote in a statement. “I realize this is not the most opportune time with Opening Day approaching and other family events that have recently taken place. These situations are never easy and isn’t something that just happened overnight. As a devout Christian, this is an outcome that I never wanted to see happen. For many long days and nights, I prayed, asking the Lord for His guidance. I am thankful for the five beautiful children that we brought into this world and remain committed to raising them in a loving and safe environment. I ask that you please respect our privacy and the privacy of our five children during this time.”
Last week, Deidre Pujols revealed she was seeking surgery for a brain tumor that was discovered last fall. Her surgery fell on the same day her husband opened spring training in Jupiter, Florida with the St. Louis Cardinals. He reportedly told ESPN he wouldn’t be in attendance if the situation was life-threatening.
Albert recently signed a $2.5 million contract to return with the Cardinals.
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Socialite and reality TV starBlac Chyna isn’t new to the tabloids. She finds herself yet again embroiled in social media drama. This time it involves parenting troubles with her children’s respective fathers Rob Kardashian and Tyga.
In now-deleted tweets, Chyna addressed privileges she has had to give up as an alleged single mother without child support.
“I had to give up 3 of my cars…my reasons…morals, beliefs, being a single mother, no support I’m a MAMA.” She said in the tweets, “Single no support and child support.”
Kardashian responded in the comments to the post The Shade Room shared claiming he’s the primary caregiver of their daughter Dream.
“I pay 37K a year for my daughter’s school,” Kardashian wrote. “I handle every single medical expense. I pay for all her extracurricular activities. I have my daughter from Tuesday-Saturday. Why would I pay child support lol?”
Tyga also chimed in addressing Chyna’s request for child support is ridiculous
“I pay 40K a year for my son's school & he lives w/me mon-sat. Why would I pay child support lol.”
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18-Year-Old High Schooler Caught Lying About Getting Out of a DUI
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is fighting back by releasing bodycam video showing what actually happened.
An 18-year-old high school student from Colorado was caught in a lie while bragging that she got out of a DUI.
Skyler Fluss posted a video on social media claiming she was pulled over for drunk driving and even failed a breathalyzer test, but avoided repercussions by talking her way out of it.
“I was like, 'I just got out of a really bad relationship. It was really toxic, and he dumped me,’” Fluss said.
Fluss claims the cop then asked her out.
“I blew a 3.8 and he let me off with a f******* warning and gave me his number and said we should meet for coffee or lunch,” Fluss said.
The teen also posted a video she says was from earlier in the night that shows her chugging tequila and goofing around.
Now the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is fighting back by releasing bodycam video showing what really happened during the stop.
Deputy Tyler Stahl told Fluss he pulled her over because she was weaving in traffic.
“I was coming from my friend's house. I actually just got dumped, so I was crying, and I’m really sorry,” Fluss said.
“Were you on your phone and stuff too?" Stahl said.
"I was trying to call and get a hold of him because my heart—,” Fluss said.
“I’m just concerned that you were weaving because of alcohol, but if you were on your phone. Have you been drinking or anything tonight?” Stahl said.
Fluss replied no.
The deputy checked her license and registration, and when he returned a few minutes later, he told Fluss she was free to go.
"Sounds like you're having a rough night so I'm not going to add to that by writing you a ticket or anything, OK?" Stahl said.
Contrary to the teen's claims, there was no breathalyzer, and he definitely did not ask her out.
Stahl tells Inside Edition he “couldn’t believe” Fluss made the claims in the video posted online. “I'm glad I was sitting down when I got the phone call," he said.
Without the bodycam footage, Stahl says it would have been a "he said, she said," and "would not have been good right away."
Fluss says if the embarrassing video is proof of anything, it's that she still has a lot of growing up to do.
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Even before COVID-19, only about 20% of Black third-graders in the city of St. Louis were reading on or above grade level, according to who when?. This disparity [if we use disparity we have to show white rate] in literacy levels is hardly confined to the city. It is representative of a pervasive issue throughout the region.
The disruptions to learning that COVID-19 brought, according to the Black Education Research Collective at Columbia University, have made the situation worse. In a July 2021 report, it found that around 45% of Black educator respondents were “extremely” concerned about the academic progress of Black students in the wake of COVID-19, and a little more than 30% of respondents felt that the mental health and wellness of Black students was “extremely impacted.”
Research has well established that literacy is critical to students’ ability to thrive. Youth literacy is a strong predictor of later success: A student who can’t read at grade level by third grade is four times less likely to graduate by age 19 than a child who does read proficiently by that time, according to an edweek.com study.
And if students fail to meet minimum literacy requirements in the third grade – which 75% of Black St. Louis students and 35% of white St. Louis students don't meet – they run the risk of being held back a year in school until they do. Known as a reading retention law, this statute in Missouri (and many other states) incentivizes schools to hold back the children who don’t pass third grade reading assessments–such as the majority of the Black children in the city of St. Louis.
Local leaders such as Julius B. Anthony, founder of St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature, are on a mission to change that landscape and make literacy education in St. Louis work for Black kids.
“The reality is that Black children weren’t doing well prior to the pandemic,” Anthony said. “And so it makes perfect sense that what was a cold prior to the pandemic has turned into a severe flu as a result of the pandemic. And so, our issue continues to be a severe one, a nefarious one, and as we look at Black children this isn’t new for us.”
Anthony added that mainstream narratives often blame Black kids themselves for lagging behind in literacy, when in reality the problem is structural, and “it’s the adults’ responsibility to fix.” He described experiences in classrooms where students don’t see themselves represented as “traumatic.”
“The learning to read process must be a joyful one…for many children, it is a traumatic experience,” Anthony said. “This whole idea of rendering children invisible…that they don’t see themselves through the learning process, that's traumatic. That’s an adult issue. That’s not a child’s issue.”
The strategies for getting that literature to children, though, have had to adapt even as COVID exacerbates disparities in children’s literacy. Sheila Oliveri of Ready Readers, a nonprofit that has been sending volunteers into area schools and daycares to get preschool-age children more engaged in reading and to distribute reading materials in low-income areas since 1997, said the organization’s way of accomplishing that work has evolved throughout the pandemic.
When COVID-19 first came to the area, Oliveri said, Ready Readers went remote, finding its way into daycares and preschools through Zoom and Google Meet, doing read-alouds more or less as usual – just on big screens in front of classrooms full of criss-cross-applesauce kids, rather than sitting among them. This strategy, however, didn’t work for the youngest children Ready Readers serves.
“It’s a little bit ridiculous to expect a 3 year old, certainly a 2 year old, even a 4 year old to be able to focus on a screen and, and have a sense of reality about that,” Oliveri said.
“They don’t know what’s real and what’s make-believe…they’re used to watching a screen and being a passive observer.” The kids found it too difficult to focus on the screen and understand that it was a person there talking to them through the screen rather than a TV show.
To compensate, Ready Readers has been sending more books into schools, along with instructional material to help parents help their kids engage with the books. Surprisingly, this meant that more children could engage with the reading material Ready Readers provides.
“We jumped from having, say, 85 classes of 2 year olds to having 250 classes of 2 year olds,” Oliveri said. They also branched out from reading to other skills that may help children with literacy by helping them understand a confusing and often traumatizing world – and teaching them new ways to articulate and process their responses to that world.
“Why do kids exhibit inappropriate behavior? Mostly because they don't have the communication skills to tell people what they need, then they get frustrated, and then they act out to get attention,” Oliveri said.
“We need to start naming these emotions for kids and giving them books to read that talk about it. And then we need to play games with kids, where they can explore these emotions.”
Ready Readers has started working with teachers to explore trauma-informed practices, yoga for kids, and other ways to help children deal with stress–so they can then move on to the critical business of literacy. The St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature, Anthony said, are embracing a similar strategy–and encouraging parents, teachers and community members to think more broadly about literacy in order to make it more accessible. So are organizations such as the region-wide Turn the Page STL, which is partnering with local libraries and districts to provide access to books, virtual learning, games and other activities to children in high-poverty areas even while they aren’t in school.
After all, as Anthony explained, literacy goes far beyond books and beyond the classroom walls. “It’s theater, it’s graphic novels, it’s digital interactions…it’s the way we walk, it’s the way we talk.” That means that many paths beyond teaching A B Cs and how to recognize phonemes might be useful in helping kids learn literacy.
“Literacy is all around us. If music is the pathway, use it. If speaking, if oral tradition is the pathway, use it.”
Whatever pathways are used, though, one thing is clear to Anthony: we must do better.
“The research says that you must be a reader at the end of third grade in order to have a successful experience in school, and to have a thriving adult life,” he said. “If that is true…then we've got to do better by black children.”
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Before Vanishing, Ciera Breland Said Husband Would Be Responsible 'If Anything Happens to Me,' Cousin Says
Ciera Breland, a lawyer and mother of a 5-month-old, has disappeared, and her family says her husband was abusive and she planned to leave him.
One of many things that make no sense in the disappearance of Ciera Breland is her husband's statement to Indiana police that he last saw her on Feb. 25, when she left their home on foot at 10 p.m. wearing shorts and a tank top.
It was the dead of winter and temperatures were in the 20s, according to AccuWeather records. She left behind her wallet, her car keys, her cell phones and her identification, police said.
She also left behind her 5-month-old son, to whom she was devoted, her family said.
But Xavier Breland Jr., 37, did not report his 31-year-old wife missing until a day later, police said. She was also a well-respected lawyer in the area.
Ciera Breland has not been seen in more than a month. Her family is devastated, saying she had planned to leave her husband, whom they said was physically and emotionally abusive. Breland threatened several times to kill her, and had regularly attacked her, Ciera's cousin, Shelby Campbell, told Inside Edition Digital.
"He had shoved her into things. He would throw things at her when she was pregnant and when she was holding the baby. He hit her in the face with a gun. He bashed her head into a window while they were driving. He threatened to kill her and screamed at her," Campbell said.
Breland is the sole person of interest in his wife's disappearance, police have said. No one has been charged in Ciera's disappearance.
He is currently being held without bail in Coweta County, Georgia, on charges of aggravated stalking, violating a protection order, and sending harassing communication to his his ex-wife, according to court records. He has two children, ages 6 and 10, with the Georgia woman.
Xavier Breland Jr.'s Alleged History of Violence Extends to His Ex-Wife, Authorities Say
Breland was arrested in Indiana after reporting Ciera missing, and extradited to Georgia based on an arrest warrant issued Feb. 24, when Breland failed to appear for an arraignment in the stalking case, according to online records. He had previously pleaded not guilty to those charges.
One of the allegations involving his ex-wife is that he placed a tracking device inside a stuffed animal he gave to the couple's daughter, and made harassing phone calls to the woman despite a court order banning him from communicating with her, authorities said.
His court-appointed defense attorney has not responded to several requests for comment from Inside Edition Digital.
The FBI has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Ciera's whereabouts. Police in Carmel, Indiana, where the couple lived, are working with police in Johns Creek, Georgia, where the couple had visited their families before Ciera disappeared.
"Breland’s husband reported her missing on February 26th to the Carmel Police Department in Indiana. However, there is no evidence that Breland ever returned home after the family’s trip to Georgia," the FBI said in its reward announcement. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is also assisting in the case.
Campbell said her family now believes that Ciera never made it out of Georgia. The last confirmed sighting of her was Feb. 24, in surveillance video showing her standing outside her mother-in-law's suburban Atlanta home, authorities said.
"We all told her to leave him," Campbell said. "We didn't like what we were seeing. She's very smart. She never put up with anything from anyone. We all told her she had a safe place to go."
Ciera Breland Suffered at Her Husband's Hands Before She Vanished, Her Family Says
Ciera's parents and Campbell said Ciera had planned to leave her husband of about one year during the couple's trip to Georgia. She had been secretly saving money, Campbell said, and was going to move in with her family. She had not told Xavier, Campbell said.
"She had no intentions of going back to Indiana," Campbell said.
The couple had moved about a year ago to Indiana, where Xavier's father lived, Campbell said. Ciera had legally assisted Xavier in his dispute with his ex-wife, according to online court records. The legal battle became heated in Georgia, and the newly married Xavier and Ciera decided to head north to get away from the turmoil and turn over a new leaf, Campbell said.
Ciera got a job in an Indiana law firm. And Campbell, who said she and her cousin were best friends, began getting texts that disturbed her.
In August, Campbell said Ciera texted her, saying her husband "is nuts. If anything happens to me then he is responsible." Ciera also had a burner phone, besides her personal cell and her work cellphone, which she kept in case she needed to call for help, Campbell said. "I'm really scared and idk what to do," Ciera texted to her cousin, using an abbreviation for "I don't know," Campbell said.
Campbell said she has turned her cellphone, which contained Ciera's texts and videos she sent to document her husband's alleged abuse, over to investigators. "The police are keeping a lot to themselves. He has threatened to kill her multiple times and throw her in a lake somewhere. We don't have any information about where she may be."
Authorities have said they will release additional information as it becomes available, and there have been no updates issued in recent weeks.
Ciera's fateful trip to Georgia began when she and Xavier loaded their baby and their big dog into Ciera's 2017 white Volkswagen Tiguan and made the 11-hour drive south. Ciera arrived at her parent's house on Feb. 19, according to her family. She stayed the night, visiting with relatives who hadn't seen her since she moved to Indiana.
"She had told all of us she was moving back to Georgia, her cousin said.
Ciera's mother, Kelly Locklair, said her daughter was planning to come home and find a new job. “She said, ‘Mom, I'm coming. You know, we're gonna say we're gonna visit with you guys and his mom. But I'm never going back to Indiana,’” the mom told NBC's "Dateline" last month.
She had also told her parents that her husband's abusive behavior was getting worse, and she was getting a divorce.
“We were having about a month, maybe two months of discussions amongst the two of us that she was coming home, permanently. She was leaving him. She was getting a divorce,” Kelly Locklair told a local station last week.
But the parents never heard from Ciera again after she left their home on Feb. 20, saying she was going to her mother-in-law's to pick up Jaxson, her son, and would be back, the family said.
Campbell said one of the last texts she received from her cousin said, "I'm at Xavier's mom's house, he won't give me Jaxson so I'm waiting to get him so I can leave," Campbell said.
The next information about Ciera came six days after she left her parents' home. On Feb. 26, the Carmel police in Indiana phoned to say she had been reported missing by her husband. Campbell said the family was shocked. They thought Ciera was still in Georgia, though she hadn't answered their texts in recent days, which was very unusual for her, Campbell said.
"What's completely baffling," Campbell said, "is that he didn't call anyone to check on her ... He didn't reach out to anyone. He didn't make us aware at all."
Ciera's father, Nick Locklair, told WSB-TV in Atlanta last week that after speaking with Carmel police, he called his daughter's cellphone and her husband answered.
“I said, ‘Xavier, tell me the truth. What’s going on? Ciera told me if anything happened to her, that you were responsible for it, so just tell me the truth.’ And he told me to go to hell and hung up.”
From the Beginning, Xavier Breland's Actions Concerned Ciera's Family
Campbell said her cousin met Xavier Breland on Tinder.
"It was extremely quick. They met in October 2020 and they were married six months later. And she already knew she was pregnant," her cousin said.
Trouble began quickly as well, Campbell said. Xavier became increasingly aggressive and jealous, the cousin said. Ciera was alarmed, and tried to end the relationship, but later said she loved him and wanted to hold her new family together.
"He would always come back, saying 'I'm so sorry. I promise I will be better. It's just that I love you so much. I can't live without you. Please give me another chance,'" Campbell said.
After Xavier was arrested on the stalking charge and extradited to Georgia, he participated in a video court hearing two weeks ago before a Fulton County judge in an ongoing civil custody dispute involving the children he had with his ex-wife.
The mother was seeking to terminate all contact between Xavier and the two children, including virtual video visits, saying the father was a danger to his children. Judge Alex Manning viewed in court a video of a previous visit between Xavier and the children, in which he tells the boy and girl that their stepmother has been kidnapped and won't return. The children became visibly upset, the judge said.
“What I saw in that video was heartbreaking, it’s heartbreaking,” said Judge Manning. “This little girl falls apart in two minutes (into) uncontrollably sobbing.
“It goes from she’s missing to she’s kidnapped,” the judge said, explaining what she heard Breland say to his children. The video was not played for the full court.
“This conversation seems to escalate to now, ‘Nope she’s been kidnapped, do you know what that means, she’s never coming back,’ and I don’t know how you know that, but you seem to know she’s never coming back and it’s just traumatizing these children over and over and over again,” Manning said to Breland, CBS46 reported.
The father's attorney issued a statement to CBS46, which misspelled the missing woman's first name: "The spouse is always the first person the police look at in a disappearance but in this case Mr. Breland had nothing to do with Cierra’s disappearance. Mr. Breland is devastated by her disappearance which he reported to the police, and if he wasn’t incarcerated on an unrelated matter he would be helping to look for Cierra."
Manning granted the mother's request to end contact between the children and their father, according to local reports.
Fearing the Worst, Ciera Breland's Family Focuses on Getting Justice
Campbell said she has no hope that her cousin will ever come home. Campbell has pushed away her feelings of grief until she knows exactly what happened to the woman whose void grows bigger by the day.
"I talked to her all the time. We were extremely close. I can't imagine her coming back. Knowing her, and how she is with her son, she wouldn't stay away an hour, let alone a month."
But allowing her thoughts to go beyond that is just not something Campbell can do right now.
"It's just not something that's really sunk in. It's just such a disconnect. I'm just waiting for her to call me so I can say, 'Oh, my God, you would not believe what is going on here,'" she said.
Then reality intrudes.
"We don't have any answers and there's nothing we can do about it," Campbell said. "It's so frustrating not to have any options."
Anyone with information surrounding the case is asked to call Corporal Rozier with the Johns Creek Police Department at 678-372-8046, the Carmel Police Department at (317) 571-2580, Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS (8477), the Georgia Bureau of Investigation tip line at 1-800-597-TIPS(8477) or the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).
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Former President Barack Obama joined President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday at The White House to celebrate the 12-year anniversary of his successful Affordable Care Act [ACA], known as “Obamacare.”
Obama received a standing ovation when he entered the East Room and then said, "It is good to be back at the White House."
Obama said passage of his historic health care bill "an example of why you run for office in the first place."
"We're not supposed to do this just to occupy a seat or to hang on to power. We're supposed to do this because it's making a difference in the lives of the people who sent us here.”
Biden announced a change to the ACA to allow more people eligibility for premium tax credits. Families would receive tax credits if the cost of their coverage exceeds more than 10 percent of their incomes.
“Let's be honest, the Affordable Care Act has been called a lot of things, but Obamacare is the most fitting," Biden said.
"Once today's proposed rule is finalized, starting next year, working families in America will get the help they need to afford full family coverage, with this change, it's estimated that 200,000 presently uninsured Americans are going to gain coverage. Nearly one million Americans will see their coverage become more affordable."
On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.
According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data, about 50 million Americans were without health insurance when the ACA became law.
In its most recent statistics, the Department of Health and Human Services revealed that a record 31 million Americans have health coverage through Obamacare.
The 2021 report revealed drastic reductions in uninsurance rates in every state since the law’s coverage expansions took effect.
“The Affordable Care Act has not only led to enhanced insurance coverage and dramatically reduced uninsured rates – but it’s lowered barriers to care, reduced people’s medical debt burdens, reduced out-of-pocket spending for a lot of people who had pre-existing conditions prior to the Affordable Care Act’s reforms,” Dr. Sara Collins of the Commonwealth Fund, testified this month during a House Oversight Reform Committee.
“So, this has been a substantial change – both for coverage rates and improving people’s financial security,” Collins stated.
“Four out of five Americans can find quality coverage for under $10 a month, and families are saving an average of $2,400 on their annual premiums — $200 in savings every month back to families.”
According to a Biden administration fact sheet:
-The Administration has lowered costs and increased enrollment to a record high of 14.5 million Americans—including nearly 6 million who newly gained coverage.
-With the addition of Missouri and Oklahoma, two states that expanded Medicaid last year, nearly 19 million low-income Americans are enrolled in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion coverage, adding up to a record nearly 80 million children, pregnant women, seniors, people with disabilities, and other low-income Americans covered by Medicaid.”
-Current regulations define employer-based health insurance as ‘affordable’ if the coverage solely for the employee, and not for family members, is affordable, making family members ineligible for a premium tax credit even though they need it to afford high-quality coverage through the Marketplace.”
Labeled the “family glitch,” it affects about 5 million people who can’t use the premium tax credit to purchase an affordable, high-quality Marketplace plan.
Biden’s proposal reportedly would require some time before taking effect, thus the goal is for it to begin in January 2023.
Administration officials said more than 14.5 million people purchased ACA marketplace plans this winter.
That number included 6 million who purchased health insurance for the first time.
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Conservative Radio DJ Says She Was Fired Over Tweet About Kamala Harris's Brown Suit
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently," Amber Athey tweeted. The conservative radio host claims she was talking about the color of Harris's suit.
A radio personality says she was fired for tweeting about the suit Vice President Kamala Harris wore at the State of the Union.
“I felt obligated to go public to tell people about what happened to me, because I thought it was so unfair,” Amber Athey said.
It started when Harris wore a tailored brown suit at last month's event. Athey, a conservative commentator, was not a fan of the look.
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently," she tweeted.
Athey says it was just a joke, but some denounced the tweet as racist.
“The UPS slogan use to be 'What can brown do for you?' and it was a reference to their uniform, not their skin color,” Athey said.
“I think it would be a good idea for people to consider giving conservatives the benefit of the doubt,” the radio host continued.
Eight days later, the radio station was bombarded with emails calling for Athey to be fired, which gained steam after she also spoke out about transgender kids.
“I was told in a phone call that the tweet about Kamala at the State of the Union was considered racist and that it had violated their social media policy,” Athey said.
Harris wore a similar-colored suit Tuesday when former President Barack Obama returned to the White House for the first time in five years.
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AILSA CHANG, HOST:
Just over a year ago, golfer Tiger Woods was severely injured in a single-car crash near Los Angeles. On Thursday, he plans to return to major tournament golf at the Masters. As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, it's the latest dramatic comeback for the 15-time major champion.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Tiger Woods showed up at Augusta National Golf Course this past weekend, and that clatter coming from Georgia was the sound of golf reporters deleting their pre-Masters stories because there was only one story now. Nearly 14 months after doctors considered amputating his right leg, Woods was seriously mulling another go at the green jacket awarded annually to the Masters winner. Tuesday - his decision.
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TIGER WOODS: Well, as of right now, I feel like I am going to play - as of right now.
GOLDMAN: During practice rounds Sunday and Monday, Woods limped on a right leg filled with rods, plates and screws. But he told reporters he wasn't in Augusta just with a happy-to-be-here attitude.
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WOODS: You guys know me better than that. I don't show up to an event unless I think I can win it.
GOLDMAN: That attitude carried Woods to one of his most dramatic tournament victories - the 2019 Masters, his first major championship since 2008, and one that came a couple of years after spinal fusion surgery. His comebacks from many surgeries and injuries are part of his legend, right along with the 15 major titles, a record-tying 82 PGA tournament wins, and, of course, the scandal with his multiple marital infidelities. Now this chapter, one that will prompt golf fans around the world to tune in and watch Woods' gait as he navigates the long and undulating Augusta golf course as much as they marvel at his powerful swing. It's his focus, too.
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WOODS: I don't have to worry about the ball striking or the game of golf. It's actually just those hills out here. That's going to be the challenge, and that's going to be a challenge of a major marathon.
GOLDMAN: If anyone can meet the challenge, it's Woods, so says fellow pro Brooks Koepka, who noted - in his sometimes-cranky way - the significance of Woods' return to golf.
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BROOKS KOEPKA: I mean, we need him. The game needs him. Everybody needs him. The fans need him - all that stuff.
GOLDMAN: All that stuff is about to transform staid Augusta into a madhouse - well, as mad a place can be that bans running around the course - because Tiger's back. And for the entire world of sports, not just golf, that means pay attention. There could be more magic, even with all the rods, plates and screws.
Tom Goldman, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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You may have heard that a new variant of COVID-19, BA.2, has begun to surge in other parts of the world and here in the U.S. Over the past year and a half, American surges have typically followed surges in Europe, including the Delta and Omicron variants. The approximately 5.2 million cases of COVID reported in Europe during the last weeks of March could be a warning signal for us.
However, as opposed to the previous outbreaks, Americans are slightly more prepared. Many Americans have been vaccinated, boosted, and many possess natural immunity from a past infection with COVID.
Home tests are also available and there are plenty of vaccines ready for willing individuals. But at the same time, many places have eased restrictions and there are people who still refuse to be vaccinated. Places of business are again allowing patrons to enter without masks. Masks are optional in many schools, flights are full, and airports are seeing traffic at pre-pandemic levels. Such conditions have the potential to cause a spike in the number of confirmed cases.
Though I do not believe we are headed for a massive shut-down, I do believe that large COVID spikes could again cause unexpected disruptions. So, what can we do to prepare for this next phase of COVID?
In my opinion, the first low-hanging fruit would be to get immunized with one of the COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccine has been proven to decrease hospitalizations and death. The vaccine is readily available at most local pharmacies and is free. Receiving the COVID-19 booster would also add additional protection. Sadly, less than 70% of Americans over the age of 65 have had their first booster.
Secondly, just because masks are optional in most places, does not mean that you are obligated to be maskless. Mask fatigue is real, and I empathize with everyone who wishes to be completely done wearing them. Shall I remind everyone, however, that wearing masks helped keep our schools and businesses open? A moment of inconvenience compares poorly to a lifetime of good health and peace of mind.
During this moment of relative COVID-19 stillness, it is important to make sure we are prepared when a spike occurs. Now is the time to review your mask inventory. Do you have enough quality masks available? Surgical, N95, and KN95 are the types of masks that have been shown to be most effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. These masks are readily available now as compared to the beginning of the pandemic. Make sure you have a supply at home. No hoarding please. Let us not revisit the tissue and paper towel situations of 2020.
Lastly, if this new variant does cause another outbreak, we must exercise good judgment such as consistently wearing masks, social distancing, and increasing our hand washing routines. These skills should lie deep in the recesses of our brains. We must also consider altering our behavior if necessary. During an outbreak, having large crowds at family gatherings is probably not the wisest idea.
Our entanglement with the COVID-19 virus is not over and may be with us for some time. Learning to live with the virus and pivot, when necessary, will be crucial to our ability to control it in the future.
Denise Hooks-Anderson, M.D., is SLUCare Family Medicine interim assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion and associate professor.yourhealthmatters@stlamerican.com
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Hunter Biden's Secret Service Detail in Malibu Costs $30,000 Per Month
Malibu is one of the hottest markets in the world, according to “Million Dollar Listing's” Josh Altman.
There were a lot of complaints over how much taxpayers paid for Secret Service agents to protect Donald Trump's adult children. In just one month, the cost was more than $140,000.
Now there are similar questions about Hunter Biden after the president's son chose to live in one of the most expensive zip codes in America.
Hunter Biden is shelling out $20,000 per month to rent a home in Malibu, California.
For the Secret Service to provide round-the-clock protection, agents have to set up their Hunter Biden command post there as well, which is costing taxpayers $30,000 per month.
“Hunter Biden moved into the most exclusive, most expensive neighborhood in Malibu, and he made no efforts to try to work with the Secret Service,” government affairs expert Craig Holman said.
Hunter lives there with his wife, Melissa, and their 2-year-old son.
Malibu is one of the hottest markets in the world, according to “Million Dollar Listing's” Josh Altman.
“I am sure from the outside, from people who are not local to Los Angeles, not in real estate, those are big numbers, of course. But that, in my opinion, is entry level in Malibu. You couldn’t find anything cheaper if you tried,” Altman said.
Some properties in the area rent for between $75,000 and $150,000 per month.
“If the Secret Service needs to be within a very specific, close distance to this person, that’s what they’re going to pay. It’s not like they had other options for $5,000 or $10,000,” Altman said.
Meanwhile, a federal grand jury continues to look into Hunter Biden's international business dealings. He denies any wrongdoing.
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Meat Substitute 'Air Chicken' Made Through Fermentation Process Expected to Hit Shelves Soon
Physicist Lisa Dyson has created Air Protein in an effort to combat climate change and provide meatless food options.
A new meat substitute created through fermentation is expected to hit the shelves next year, according to CBS News.
Air Protein, developed by physicist Lisa Dyson, uses a process similar to making yogurt to create the meat-like substitute. Instead of using microbes that eat milk and sugar, they eat oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
"You start out with cultures," Dyson, the founder and CEO of Air Protein, told CBS News.
"Then you feed it elements of the air and it grows and grows and grows just like that yogurt culture. You dry that and you get to a protein-rich flour."
According to the outlet, Air Protein’s concept was inspired by NASA. The organization explored in the 1960s and 70s ways to reutilize the carbon dioxide astronauts exhaled by turning it into food, and Dyson is building off of that technology in an effort to fight climate change.
"The food industry today produces more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. What's going to happen when we have 10 billion people?" she told CBS News.
According to the outlet, the industry of meat substitution has become more competitive as companies try to improve on taste. Air Chicken, one of Air Protein’s products, has its release pending approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Red States Have Higher Murder Rates Than Blue States, According to New Study
A new study says that eight out of 10 states with the highest murder rates all voted for Trump.
States controlled by Republicans have higher murder rates than blue states, according to a new study by Third Way, a center-left public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C.
While Republicans have focused on big-city crime as a crucial midterm election platform, Third Way released a survey of state murder rates from 2020, the latest year available for such statistics.
The study says that the six states with the highest per-capita murder rates all voted for Donald Trump in 2020, as did eight of the top 10 states.
"Mississippi had the highest homicide rate at 20.50 murders per 100,000 residents, followed by Louisiana at 15.79, Kentucky at 14.32, Alabama at 14.2, and Missouri at 14. The national average was 6.5 per 100,000 residents, but the top five states had rates more than twice that high," the survey said.
South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia, Arkansas, and Tennessee completed the list. New Mexico and Georgia were the only states to vote for Joe Biden, the study said.
"The increase in murders is not a liberal cities problem but a national problem," the survey concluded.
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If you're a West Coaster, you can score a rock bottom flight to Hawai’i right now.
Alaska Airlines is running a flash sale on flights to the Hawaiian Islands, but the deal expires at midnight Pacific Time on April 7.
Just after Hawai‘i scrapped all of its pandemic-era restrictions on March 26, Alaska Airlines has launched a flash sale with tickets to the island paradise for as little as $89 one-way. However, you’ll have to act fast to score a cheaper flight to the Aloha State. The deal expires at 11:59 p.m. PT on April 7.
Some of Alaska Airlines’ current best deals to Hawai‘i include:
It’s important to note that there are some restrictions. To get the deal, the flight (both there and back) must be on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday between April 25 and June 16, 2022. The advertised fare is only applicable to nonstop flights, which is why all the touted cities are on the West Coast (most other flights to Hawai‘i from the mainland require a layover).
The prices are also for Alaska’s Saver fare, the airline’s most restricted class of service. Saver seats are at the back of the plane, and guests with those tickets are last to board (meaning overhead bin access may be limited). Tickets can’t be changed or refunded after the 24-hour cancellation policy window has elapsed. Similarly, Elite members (with Alaska Airlines and its Oneworld partners, like American Airlines) don’t receive benefits like preferred seating or potential upgrades with Saver fares. However, the Main fares are only $40 more during the sale and offer seat selection, flight modifications, and Elite perks such as complimentary upgrades to Premium and Business Class.
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What Happened to Cassie Carli? Family Seeks Answers in Death of Florida Woman Found Buried in a Barn
Cassie Carli was last seen dropping off her 4-year-old daughter with her ex-boyfriend, who was charged with tampering with evidence in the case. Carli's sister tells Inside Edition a chilling fear Carli shared with her before her disappearance.
The family of Cassie Carli is searching for answers after the missing Florida mom was found dead in Alabama.
Carli shared custody of her 4-year-old daughter, Saylor, with her ex-boyfriend Marcus Spanevelo.
She was last seen making a routine custody drop-off, but instead of heading to her normal location, they met in a nearby restaurant parking lot about a mile from her house in Navarre Beach.
Carli's dad got suspicious when she did not return home quickly. Her car was later found in a remote area with her purse still inside.
When asked if Carli ever expressed concern over the custody handoffs, her younger sister Raeann said, “She was for a little bit, but she had tried to make the proper steps. That is why the original exchange location was in Walmart parking lot."
After Carli's disappearance, her father received several text messages that seemed out of the ordinary. She said she was having trouble with her phone and car and staying over at her ex's.
“We knew right away that was not Cassie,” Raeann said.
Raeann also says that there were “red flags” from the beginning of her sister’s relationship with Spanevelo.
“Even six months into the pregnancy is when his true colors started to shine,” Raeann said.
Friends and family searched for the missing mom for more than a week. Sadly, she was found buried in a shallow grave inside a barn, about 300 miles from where she was last seen.
Police were able to identify her from a tattoo on her foot. It was a matching tattoo she shared with her sister.
Now, Marcus Spanevelo has been arrested for tampering with evidence, but not murder.
Cassie had shared a chilling premonition with her family about her ex.
“If anything ever happens to me, he did it,” Raeann said.
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Next Step Homeless Services' Fort Smith relocation tabled for third time
The Fort Smith Board of Directors voted 4-2 Tuesday night to table for the third time the Next Step Homeless Services’ plan to relocate out of the downtown area.
The decision followed the city planning commission voting 8-1 to approve the rezoning request needed for the March 8 relocation.
After a three-month push to move to 1400 South U Street that ended with Next Step withdrawing its appeal at the board of directors meeting in February, the organization renewed its efforts to relocate with eyes set on 815 South 6th St.
At the new location, Next Step plans to build a new facility for its offices, along with a 30-unit non-congregate housing community.
During the planning commission meeting in March, the commissioners amended their motion to omit the homeless shelter land use and, instead, add a homeless shelter non-congregate housing land use.
This change disallowed the building of a day shelter, allowed for the non-congregate housing Next Step plans to build and requires Next Step to come before the planning commission with any changes in order to receive conditional use approval, similar to the process the commission has with the nearby Hope Campus, a separate homeless service.
Other changes included requirements for fencing around the property, except for the entrance on South I Street.
During the board of directors meeting, the board was presented with the amended project booklet.
Director Lavon Morton made a motion to table the decision, citing concerns from local businesses near 815 South 6 St., some of whom did not speak at the prior planning commission meeting.
Morton recommended having a study session to allow these businesses, along with the police department and Hope Campus, to have input. He added that business owners had spoken at neighborhood meetings at this site; however, these meetings are not recorded.
"I just think that we need … the same level of scrutiny that we gave on U Street and the same level of third-party input on what we’re considering and how we approach this because it is a really long-term and important decision,” Morton said.
Director Robyn Dawson pushed back against the motion to table. She argued that Next Step had been delayed long enough and had adapted to city and neighborhood concerns over the past three months.
"They have jumped through every hoop that the city has put out there,” Dawson said. “They’ve met every requirement … I think we owe it to them to make a decision since they have done exactly what we asked them to do.”
She later added that there is not a place in Fort Smith where Next Step could relocate “where there’s not going to be some type of resistance.”
Morton agreed with Dawson’s points that Next Step has adapted to concerns from the city and from neighbors, but he continued to stress the importance of having input from other affected parties at the new location.
Director Neal Martin recommended that the board hold a future study session on the issue of homelessness across the city, separate from the session requested by Morton.
"I think it’s something that we need to discuss as a board, and not just necessarily discussing Next Step or Hope (Campus), but we do need police, we do need mental health professionals and those kinds of things to talk about it because it does seem like we are seeing … more of this in our area, more tent camps and more of those things,” Martin said.
While stating that Next Step’s plan would not contribute to already existing issues in the area, Morton said that the city needs to propose solutions and show support for businesses as well.
Dawson said that Next Step’s relocation would not contribute to issues in the area and those issues should be addressed separately, allowing the nonprofit to move forward with its relocation.
Echoing Dawson, Director Jarred Rego encouraged the board to make a decision rather than tabling, saying the board should “not place … an arbitrary delay” on Next Step “in an era of rising costs, difficult labor challenges and workers and everything else.”
Morton, Martin, Settle and Catsavis voted to table. Dawson and Rego voted against. Director André Good was absent.
Town hall meeting
In the town hall meeting following the regular one, local business owners shared their concerns about Next Step’s relocation and safety issues in the area.
John Clayton, owner of Clayton’s Consulting & Welding located at 600 Wheeler Ave., and Kim Craig, speaking on behalf of the Craig Box Corporation located at 420 South I St., reiterated concerns they had shared with the planning commission on March 8.
Clayton said a traffic study needs to be done of the South 6th Street area because of the dangers posed to pedestrians by semi-trucks and the lack of sidewalks.
“Someone’s going to get run over,” he said.
Clayton also shared statistics he requested from the city about emergency calls to Riverview Hope Campus, located at 301 South E St., about 0.3 miles from the proposed site on South 6th Street. He said that in 2021, there were 563 police calls, 442 EMS calls and over 250 fire department calls to the campus, so many that they “quit counting.”
The day after the board of directors meeting, Phil Christensen, fire chief, said that Clayton’s statements regarding the fire department were inaccurate. In 2021, the fire department responded to 301 South E St. 208 times.
At the board of directors meeting, Clayton described the needles, trash and debris he has seen around his business and said the lack of pedestrian safety was “a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
“I hope y’all can find a way to fix all this,” Clayton said. “I do not have the solution tonight … I wish I did, but I know when good men do nothing, evil prevails, and evil’s prevailing here.”
Kim Craig said her family-owned business across the street from the proposed site experienced a fire about a month ago in a warehouse filled with “over five million square feet of cardboard sheets and paper” valued at about $500,000.
Prior to the fire, Craig said her husband saw a woman with a bottle of lighter fluid interacting with a police officer as the woman was walking toward the business.
“I can’t say she did it. There’s no proof,” Craig said, but she added that it was determined to be arson and materials were left at the site.
The day after the board of directors meeting, Aric Mitchell, police department public information officer, said that an officer was dispatched to Craig Box Corporation Feb. 17 in reference to a criminal mischief report.
According to a Feb. 17 Fort Smith Police offense report, an officer spoke with business owner John Craig. Craig said he was told that the fire department was at his business that morning due to a fire, but the fire was put out by the rain. Both Craig and the officer examined the “very minor damage” to the building from a piece of wood around a bay door and “black char maybe a foot wide and maybe 20 feet high.”
According to the report, “John (Craig) stated he doesn't know if the storm or if someone tried to start the building on fire,” and that he was “told that a female with a mohawk has been causing problems in the area and had a can of lighter fluid with her but that was on Tuesday (Feb. 15).” The business did not have security camera footage because the hard drive had been damaged.
Phil Christensen, fire chief, said that the fire department had no record of arson and did not receive a call for a fire at the Craig Box Corporation, 420 South I St. in February.
During the board of directors meeting, Kim Craig also said she was not notified about the neighborhood meeting Next Step held at the South 6th Street property, repeating concerns voiced by multiple residents about written notification to property owners within 300 feet of a potential development, as required by city ordinance.
Next Step’s response
Following the meeting and the town hall, Sharon Chapman, executive director of Next Step Homeless Services, responded to the board’s decision to table the relocation and the concerns of local businesses.
“From our agency’s standpoint, we’re very frustrated that our zoning, which had been passed by the planning commission 8-1 … has been looped into this issue with Hope Campus and the businesses, when it has absolutely nothing to do with us,” Chapman said. “… Our program plan of what we are trying to do will actually be helpful with some of the people in camps. We won’t have any walking traffic because we’re not going to have a day room there.”
“We are hopeful that in the end, this will all work out and our zoning will be passed,” Chapman said. “We’ve done everything we’ve been asked to do, but we’re not sure why our zoning is being held up because of another agency and problems a business has.”
She said that Hope Campus, city leadership, the police department and businesses should have a meeting to discuss safety concerns already present in the area.
Hope Campus has not returned a request for comment.
Chapman also added that Fort Smith homeless agencies have seen an increase in people experiencing homelessness in the area.
“Just (with) the point-in-time count, there’s probably about 100 more people than there were last year, but that is a really rough estimate of the number of people on one particular night,” Chapman said.
What’s next?
The city has not set a date for the board of directors' study session on the Next Step relocation.
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Arkansas basketball adds twin Rhode Island transfers Makhi and Makhel Mitchell
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas basketball has added centers Makhi and Makhel Mitchell. The twin brothers entered the transfer portal after spending their sophomore year at Rhode Island. The pair began their careers at Maryland.
Both shot over 50% from the field at Rhode Island this season. Makhi, who is 6-foot-9, led the Rams with 7.9 rebounds per game and was No. 2 behind his brother with 9.9 points per game. Makhel, 6-10, averaged a team-best 10.9 points and 2.4 blocked shots per game. The Rams were fourth in the country in blocks.
At Maryland, Makhi appeared in 12 games and made five starts. He averaged 3.0 points and 3.3 rebounds in 9.3 minutes per game. Makhel appeared in 10 games as a reserve for the Terrapins, averaging 1.0 point and 1.3 rebounds in 6.8 minutes per game.
Makhi was a 4-star recruit and the No. 2 player in Washington, D.C., according to 247Sports at Woodrow Wilson. Makhel was a 3-star recruit and the No. 3 player in the state.
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The Mitchells are the second and third players coach Eric Musselman has added out of the transfer portal since the season ended, joining former Missouri big Trevon Brazile. With starting forward Jaylin Williams possibly returning despite entering the NBA Draft and the addition of Brazile, Makhi and Makhel join a strong group of Arkansas bigs.
Musselman has recruited twins out of the portal before. While he was at Nevada, Musselman landed Caleb and Cody Martin from NC State. Cody was selected in the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, and Caleb went on to join him after going undrafted. Caleb now plays for the Miami Heat.
The Razorbacks' No. 2-ranked recruiting class includes six high school players. The addition of the Mitchell twins means Arkansas now has nine new players joining the roster.
Arkansas can have 13 players on scholarship at a time, and with players aging out, turning pro and entering the transfer portal, the Mitchells occupy the last two roster spots currently available. If more players transfer out or if Williams decides not to return for his junior season, Arkansas could have more room.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks. You can email her at clong@swtimes.com or follow her on Twitter @christinalong00.
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Some of the world’s biggest automakers are still struggling with parts shortages but that hasn’t stopped Tesla (TSLA) from delivering a record number of vehicles in Q1.
The EV leader delivered 310,000 units in the quarter, amounting to a 68% year-over-year increase, and coming in roughly in line with consensus expectations. Broken down, Model 3+Y deliveries hit 295,324, with Model S+X units accounting for 14,724 deliveries. Total production for Q1 came in at 305,407, slightly below 4Q21’s 305,800 units.
With fears the recent Covid lockdowns in China and the ongoing disruptions to the supply chain would take a bigger toll, Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner is “impressed with Tesla’s operational execution in the face of large industry supply-chain challenges, and with its pricing power which could enable it to more than offset steep raw materials pressure.”
The performance also sets Tesla apart from other leading automakers such as General Motors and Toyota, where the lack of key components were behind recent sales drops.
By taking advantage of its long-term contracts, robust purchasing power, and being able to “diversify” its battery chemistry to keep the use of expensive inputs to a minimum, Rosner thinks the company is “well positioned to deal with current macro challenges.”
What’s more, with the Berlin and Texas factories up and running and further adding to Tesla’s production abilities, Rosner continues to expect “strong” Tesla volumes this year.
“The 1.24m+ unit annualized production achieved in 1Q22 represents a solid start to 2022,” Rosner summed up, while also noting that this should keep the company “on track” to deliver ~1.5 million units in 2022.
To this end, Rosner maintains a Buy rating on Tesla shares, backed by a $1,200 price target. Should the figure be met, investors are looking at upside of ~15% from current levels. (To watch Rosner’s track record, click here)
According to the rest of the Street, however, the shares are currently trading above their fair value; going by the average price target of $1,015 and change, the stock will stay rang-bound in the coming months. (See Tesla stock forecast on TipRanks)
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analyst. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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Starting April 5, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is allowing its customers to cancel their depositary receipts in Russian companies, Reuters reported citing sources.
Banks issue depositary receipts as certificates of shares in a foreign company that is listed on a local stock exchange.
The move comes a month after the London Stock Exchange (LSE) stopped trading in the depositary receipts of Russian firms, following a sharp decline in prices due to sanctions imposed on Russia by the U.S.
JPMorgan follows New York-based BNY Mellon (NYSE: BK) in restarting cancellations of depositary receipts in Russian enterprises.
Wall Street’s Take
On April 5, Piper Sandler (NYSE: PIPR) analyst Jeff Harte maintained a Buy rating on JPMorgan but reduced the price target to $165 from $187 (23.7% upside potential).
Harte has lowered the Q1 earnings estimates for the banking sector “to reflect capital markets-related revenue headwinds amid an increase in macro uncertainty and market volatility since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.”
Overall, the stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys, six Holds and one Sell. JPM’s average price target of $172.06 implies 29% upside potential. Shares have lost 20.1% over the past six months.
Blogger Opinions
TipRanks data shows that financial blogger opinions are 89% Bullish on JPMorgan, compared to the sector average of 69%.
Conclusion
Investors have the right to cancel their depositary receipts. However, banks banned cancellations after the Russian central bank imposed a ban on foreigners from selling shares in Russian companies. Depositary receipt issuers can restart cancellations now as the ban has been lifted. The move comes as a huge positive for investors who can liquidate their frozen holdings.
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What Aurora police chief's ouster means for Colorado
The firing of Aurora police chief Vanessa Wilson is a setback for police reform advocates who see Aurora as a test case for broader change statewide.
Driving the news: Aurora City Manager Jim Twombly recently ousted Wilson without cause after 20 months in the job, the Aurora Sentinel reports.
- He offered no specifics for her termination, but the decision followed rising pressure from conservatives who hold a majority on Aurora city council. The police department had also resisted changes in its policing methods.
Flashback: Aurora agreed to a first-of-its-kind consent decree last September with the attorney general's office to end its practice of racially biased policing and excessive force.
What they're saying: "The city's action shows that restoring public trust and holding police officers accountable still is not a priority for our community," said state Sen. Rhonda Fields (D-Aurora).
- "This termination was deeply flawed, and I hope the city reconsiders this shameful and disruptive decision."
What to watch: Attorney General Phil Weiser told Axios Denver in a statement that "regardless of who the police chief is, the city has an obligation to implement the requirements of the consent decree. We look forward to continuing that important work."
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