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Carolina Brass' holiday
concert at Reynolda House
Reynolda House Museum of American Ait will
present Carolina Brass in concert on Saturday, Dec. 20
at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. This concert of seasonal
favorites has be&me a holiday tradition for music
lovers and families in the Triad.
Formed in 1997, Carolina Brass performs a wide
range of music, including Medieval and Renaissance
selection^ and contemporary. Big Band, and Pops.
They infuse their performances with virtuosity and
humor, engaging the audience in the process.
Members include Timothy Hudson and Dennis de
Jong on trumpet, Robert Campbell on horn, David
Wulfeck on trombone. Matt Ransom on tuba, and
John R. Beck on percussion. The ensemble performs
regularly in classical recitals and master classes, with
education an important part of their mission. The
group's recordings include a popular holiday CD.
Admission is $15, $10 for members and students.
For information, call 336-758-5150. Advance ticket
purchase is recommended.
Stylist Boston getting show
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Style guru Lloyd Boston
is getting a new show on the Fine Living Network
(rLN).
On "Closet Cases,"
Boston will lend practical
fashion advice to the
wardrobe-challenged,
helping both men and
women revitalize their
closets to help them redis
cover their most stylish
selves. The series will
premiere nationwide on
Monday, April 13, 2009 at
10 p.m. ET and will air
regularly Mondays at 10
p.m. on FLN, which is
available in 50 million sub
scriber homes, is dedicated
to providing topical, time
ly and fast-paced lifestyle
Photo by Jack Paiter/FLN
Lloyd Boston
related content ior success-anven inaiviauais in ine
categories of home, shopping and entertainment.
Boston has been offering fashion advice and tips
for the past decade to millions through his books -
"Before You Put That On," "Make Over Your Man"
and "Men of Color" - and his countless television
appearances on shows such as "Oprah," "The View"
and NBC's "Today."
Belafonte auctioning MLK speech
NEW YORK (AP) - An original handwritten out
line for Martin Luther King Jr.'s first speech con
demning the Vietnam War owned by his friend Harry
Belafonte is going on the auction block today (Dec.
11).
Sotheby's will offer the document for sale today
along with two others: the scribbled notes for a speech
King planned todeliver in Memphis, Tenn., three days
after he was assassinated and a letter of condolence
from President Lyndon B. Johnson to King's widow.
The auction house put the overall pre-sale estimate
for the three documents at $750,000 to $1.13 million,
with the Vietnam speech valued at $500,000 to
$800,000.
Belafonte, a singer and actor, was an early disciple
of King and his host on King's visits to New York dat
ing from the mid-1950s.
In a telephone interview, Belafonte said he was
putting his documents up for sale because "I am at the
end of my life ? I will be 82 shortly ? and there are
a lot of causes I believe in for which resources are not
available, and there is a need to redistribute those
resources."
Selby Kiffer, a senior manuscripts curator at
Sotheby's, said the anti-war speech possibly ranks in
importance with King's most famous papers: his "I
Have a Dream" speech, "Letter from a Birmingham
Jail" and a draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance
address.
Kiffer and Elizabeth Muller, a Sotheby's expert on
manuscripts who in 2006 discovered a printed version
of the jail letter, said the Belafonte papers were previ
ously unknown to King archivists.
Some 10,000 King documents that his family had
planned to auction at Sotheby's in 2006 were bought
for $32 million by the city of Atlanta and are housed
at King's alma mater, Morehouse College. Another
King collection is at Boston University.
Ghanaian beauty is
named the 'Face of Africa'
(GIN/NNPA) -This year's prized "Face of Africa"
award goes to the stunning 15
year-old Kate Tachie-Menson
of Ghana. The competition
was held in Sun City, South
Africa on Nov. 29.
The very first Face of
Africa winner and now global
model icon and business
woman, Oluchi Onweagba
Orlandi, announced the award
of a modeling contract valued
at $50,000 with Oluchi 's
OModel Africa agency.
Tachie-Menson
M-Net (originally an
abbreviation for Electronic Media Network) is a sub
scription-funded television channel in South Africa
established in 1986 by a consortium of newspapei
companies.
Today, M-Net boasts an array of general entertain
ment and niche channels and broadcasts to over 1 .23
million subscribers in 41 countries across Africa.
'Gumbo' show has something for all
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Everyone's artistic tastes are
sure to be satisfied at the upcom
ing "Gumbo Show."
The live variety show is the
brainchild of UC Support
Services, an arts-centered, grass
roots group run by several young,
talented African-American
artists.
The Saturday, Dec. 20
"Gumbo Show" will be held at
Krankies Coffee & Lounge (for
merly The Werehouse), 211 E.
Third St. It will feature live music
(everything from Hip Hop to
alternative), spoken word,
dancers and steppers and visuals
artists, who will create works
amid all the action. There will
also be an Open Mic so that local
talents can express themselves.
Next week's event will be the
first but not the last "Gumbo
Show." Organizers want to make
it a monthly event, an avenue to
bring together local artists and
those who love and admire art in
all forms.
UC Photo
UC artists Othneil Dobson, Derek Stallings and Derrick Monk with Darryl Hunt, second from
left). The artists created this mural depicting Hunt.
The event, which will start at
9 p.m., is free; however, pieces of
art by UC artists will be auctioned
to raise funds for the group's ther
apeutic art workshops for local
youths and a proposed "Come
Unity Mural Project."
For more on the show , go. to
www.myspace .com/ucgumbosho
w or
www.ucsupportservices .com .
The unique art of
Carlos Amorales on
display at SECCA
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT _
The work of celebrated Mexican artist Carlos Amorales has come
to SECCA.
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (or SECCA) began
showing Amorales's "Rorschach Test Animation" yesterday. The
video work of art will be shown through Dec. 19. After that, SECCA
will show1 two other pieces by the artist - "Faces" (Dec. 20 - 28) and
"Mammal" (Dec. 31 - Jan. 4).
Over the
last decade,
Amorales has
developed a
unique visual
vocabulary in
'mediums rang
ing from draw
ing and instal
lation to per
formance and
animation. He
fuses 0 Latin
mythologies
and urban folk
lore with per
sonal experi
ence and digi
tal technolo
gies to create a
An image from "Manimal."
fluid world where familiar images are capable of invoicing anxiety,
wonder and fear.
Amorales's worlds are inhabited by shadows of humans, birds,
animals, and insects that live and move in ambiguous, but invariably
severe surroundings. In these dark, fluid fantasies, the metamorphosis
of humans into animals and of animals into humans speaks to a civi
lization that is simultaneously progressing and regressing.
"Amorales uses beautiful, brooding black & white animations to
confront views of the world that remain black and white," said
SECCA Curator Steven Matijcio. "He opens new perspectives by
translating historical legends into the contemporary landscape."
The SECCA show is part of the larger video program
"Psychedelic," curated by Matijcio. All works by Carlos Amorales are
shown courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery (New
York/Paris/London).
Admission to SECCA, located at 750 Marguerite Drive, is free.
File Photo
The Bahnson House on Spring Street.
West End Tour will
visit historic mansions
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Tours of some of the most
beautiful, breath-taking homes
in the historic West End will
be conducted this weekend.
The Historic West End
Holiday Tour on Sunday, Dec.
14, will begin at the Bahnson
House at Spring and Fifth <
Streets at noon. The entire
tour, which includes several
properties, will wrap up at 5
p.m.
The West bnd is one or the
earliest neighborhoods in
Winston-Salem. The area was
designed in the 1 890s as a
"streetcar suburb." Today, the
area boasts many stately
homes that date back nearly a
century. Businesses and apart
ment complexes also call the
West End home.
The Bahnson House was
built on the former site of
tobacco baron RJ. Reynolds'
tennis courts. It is one of only
two historic houses still stand
ing on what was famously
known as "Millionaires' Row,"
along Fifth Street. There will
be more than a dozen stops in
all, including ones at:
?The Rufus E. and Stella
Johnson House (150 Piedmont
Avenue), which is now owned
by Peggy and Jackson Smith.
Built in 1912, the house fea
tures elements of the late
Victorian and Colonial
Revival periods.
?The Julius J. & Lula
Gentry House (661 N. Spring
Street), which is currently used
-by The Fellowship Home, a
substance abuse rehab pro
gram for men. Designed by
prominent local architect G.
Gilbert Humphreys in 1917,
me massive iwo-siory oncK
building is an eclectic combi
nation of the Craftsman and
Colonial Revival styles.
The Tour, which is being
sponsored by Leonard Ryden
Burr Realtors, will also feature
a Powerpoint presentation
about famed local black brick
maker George Black, whose
bricks were used to build
many historic properties in
Winston-Salem.
Tickets are $12 in advance
and $15 at the door (these tick
ets will be available at the
Bahnson House. For more
information, go to
www.historicwestend.org or
wwwpreservehistoricforsyth .o
rg/westendtour.
Film created by UNCSA talent makes 'Best of' list
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The honors keep coming for
"Shotgun Stories," a film made
largely through the talents of
people affiliated with University
of North Carolina School of the
Arts (UNCSA).
Legendary film critic Roger
Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times
has named the movie one of the
"best films of 2008." Ebert
recently listed his top 20 films of
2008 - alphabetically - on his
Web site, rogerebert.com. The
list included "Shotgun Stories,"
which is written and directed by
Jeff Nichols, who graduated
from the UNCSA School of
Filmmaking in 2001. The movie
was produced by David Gordon
Green, who graduated from the
UNCSA film school in 1998, and
former film school faculty mem
ber Lisa Muskat.
"You'll have to search for it,
I but (it's) worth it," said Ebert.
"Written and directed by Jeff
Nichols, it avoids the obvious
and shows a deep understanding
of the lives and minds of ordi
nary young people in a skirmish
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A scene from the film, "Shotgun Stories."
of the class war. The
dialogue rings true, the
camera is deeply
observant."
The film features
UNCSA School of
Drama alumni Michael
Abbott Jr., Travis
Smith, and Cosmo
Pfeil, all of the Class of
2000; as well as
School of Filmmaking
grad Doug Ligon,
Class of 2001. Pfeil
was also the first assis
tant director.
UNCSA School of
Filmmaking graduates
also composed much
of the crew, including
Adam Stone, director
of photography;
Steven Gonzales, edi
tor; Pa6l Skidmore ,
UPM (unit production
manager) and associ
ate producer; Stephen Olsen,
gaffer; Ryan Nelson, key grip;
and Brian Sides and David
Briggs, grips.
"Shotgun Stories" premiered
at the Berlin Film Festival in
February 2007 and went on to
play at die London, Chicago and
Tribeca international film festi
vals in 2007. It won the New
American Cinema Grand Jury
Prize at the 2007 Seattle Film
Festival, the Narrative Feature
Jury Prize at the 2007 Austin
Film Festival, and the Fipresci
Prize at the 2007 Viennale Film
Festival. It also was a John
Cassavetes Award nominee for
Best Picture at the 2007 Film
Independent's Spirit Awards.
The film tracks a feud that
erupts between two sets of half
brothers following the death of
their father. Set against the cotton
fields and back roads of south
east Arkansas, these brothers dis
cover the lengths to which each
will go to protect their family.
For more information, visit
www shot guns t or ies .com .