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Piedmont Wind Symphony
to give free concert
The Piedmont Wind Symphony, under the direction
of Robert Sinton. will open its 21st Season with its annu
al Labor Day Concert at the Children's Museum of
Winston- Salem. .WS. Liberty St., on Monday, Sept. 6 at
Simon
o pjn. Admission is tree.
This year's concert - "Music
To Eat Popcom By!"- features
music from popular films.
Directed by Simon and Jeff
Whitsett. concert highlights will
include medleys such as "Chillers
& Thrillers," "Disney at the
Oscars," "Grease." "James Bond
Suite." John Williams' "Fantasy
of Right." "Mission Impossible,"
"Pink Panther" and the Theme
from "Shaft." Children are invit
ed to dress up as their favorite
movie characters and walk the red carpet.
Attendees should bring lawn chain, and a picnic for
on evening of movie-going musical fun for the entire fam
ily. Food w ill also be available for purchase from a vari
ety of local vendors. The rain date for the concert is
Saturday. Sept 1 1 .
For more information about this event, call
336.722.9328; the Children's Museum at 336.723.9111;
or visit www.piedmontwindsymphony.com or
ww w.childrensmuseumofws .org .
Mobile black history museum
will visit Guilford College
Sankofa. the African American Museum on Wheels,
will return to Guilford College Sept. 1 and 2. The exhib
it will he open in Stemberger Auditorium, located in
Founders Hall, from 4-9 p.m. on Sept. 1 and 10 a.m.- 5
p.m. on Sept 2. It is free and open to the public, and
group tours are available. Tours last 30-45 minutes.
The exhibit, created by Angela Jennings, includes
artifacts, photographs and art pieces that emphasize the
importance of African American history up to the pres
ent. highlighting the "King Cotton" era. the Negro
Baseball league, the Tuskegee Airmen and African
American inventors. Jennings also presents stories and
dramatizations about the people featured in the exhibit.
"Sankofa" is a Ghanian term meaning "use the wisdom
of the past to build the future." Jennings has traveled
throughout the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
West Africa and Europe to find pieces for the exhibit
She created the museum in 1995 after discovering that
her nephew, an honor student, knew little about African
American culture.
For more information, visit www.guilford.edu or
contact Guilford's Office of Multicultural Education at
336-316-2433.
NEA Chair will take part
in Arts Center opening
Rocco Landesman. chairman of the National
Endowment for the Arts, will be in Winston-Salem for
the opening of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts,
Sept. 10-12.
Landesman was selected to head the Endowment by
President Barrack Obama. Prior to joining the NEA. he
was a Broadway theater producer. Landesman will arrive
in Winston-Salem on Sept. 10; he will be the guest of
honor at a luncheon for arts, cultural, civic, business.
education and political leaders.
From 2 - 3:30 p.m.. he will
host a town hall meeting on
'How Arts and Innovation
Impact Communities" at
Performance Place on the cam
pus of the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts. A
panel of artists, arts patrons, and
entertainment figures will partic
ipate. The public is invited.
Because of limited parking on
the UNCSA campus, shuttles
iMndesman
will run from the Gateway YWCA beginning at 1:30
p.m.. Some reserved parking will he available for peo
ple with special needs.
That evening, l^andesman will Join hundreds of other
guests at the "Light Up the Arts" Gala Opening of the
Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts and attend a concert
at the Stevens Center by legendary vocalist Tony
Bennett He will take part in a ribbon cutting for The
Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning.
For a complete schedule of the more than 100 arts
and cultural activities offerings, visit
CityOfTheArts.com/opening.
Evans arrested for driving drunk
I.OS ANGELES (AP> - Grammy-winning singer
F aith Evans has been arrested after being stopped at a
drunk driving checkpoint in the Los Angeles area.
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the LAFD says the 37-year
old Evans was arrested
Saturday night near Marina
del Rey on suspicion of mis
demeanor drunken driving.
He says Evans was held for a
few hours and released on
bail Sunday morning Her car
was impounded
The R&B singer is the
widow of rapper Christopher
Wallace, also known as the
Notorious B.I.G. She won a
Grammy in 1998 for the song
"I'll Be Missing You." A real
ity series chronicling Evans' life is reportedly in pro
duction. and a new^lhum is scheduled for release in
October.
Actress Rowell to
speak at Bennett
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Actress Victoria Rowell will be the next person to take to the podium as part of Bennett
College's 2010-11 Lift Every Voice Speaker Series.
She will deliver her on
Thursday, Sept. 9 at 1 1 a.m. in
Bennett's Annie Merner Pfeiffer
Chapel. The event is free and open
to the public.
Rowell is best known for her
role as Drucilla Winters on CBS's
highly-rated daytime drama "The
Young and the Restless." She also
co-starred in the CBS hit prirne^
time television series "Diagnosis
Murder," with Dick Van Dyke for
eight seasons. Off screen, a former
product of the foster care system,
Rowell has become a powerful
advocate for foster care. She is
also now a New York Times
Bestselling author. She is currently
on a nationwide tour to promoting
her novel, "Secrets of a Soap
Opera Diva " Her memoir, "The
Women Who Raised Me" received
the African American Literary
Award and an NAACP Image
Award for Outstanding Literary
Work/Debut Author
Rowell, who was recently
appointed to the advisory board of
Princeton University's African
American Studies Department,
received the Ford Foundation
scholarship to the Cambridge
School of Ballet when she was
eight. She flourished as a dancer
before accepting modeling assign
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Victoria Ron ell is an actress and author.
ments. She graced the pages of magazines like Seventeen and Mademoiselle before audi
tioning for her first television role.
President Julianne Malveaux started the Lift Every Voice Speaker Series to bring peo
ple to the college who uplift and inspire. The series has brought notable figures like lyanla
Van^ant. Ed Gordon and Nikki Giovanni.
Area photographer
needs your votes
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Photographer Roxanne Lovett of States ville has been named a category finalist in the 2010
Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest with National Geographic. The Grand Pri/e Winner will
receive a trip to the Greek Isles and will see his or her photo appear in the pages of National
Geographic magazine in an ad for Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries.
Roxanne Lovett's entry.
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Ultimate Photo Contest,
which launched in April,
has named two finalists in
each of its six thematic cat
egories: animals/wildlife,
nature. travel, peo
ple/cultures, weather and
action/energy.
Lovett's photo was
selected as a finalist in the
people/cultures category.
She took the photo of a uni
formed man atop a moving
horse, at a Civil War battle
reenactment event. Lovett's
photo stood out as one of
the best representations of
the theme, said Jim
Richardson, National
Geographic photographer and judge for the Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest.
"There is in the lean of the horse and the lean of the soldier a unity of action and a harmo
ny of purpose." said Richardson. "The scene is graced by just enough background to suggest
a greater tableau, of events larger than life and part of our history, but it is that graceful cant
caught in the moment that is beguiling."
Prom now through Sept. 15. the public can go to www.nationalgeographic.com/lithium to
view the gallery of Category Pinalist photos and to select their favorite in each category. If
Lovett receives the most votes in her category, she will be among six Category Winners vying
for the title of Grand Prize Winner, to be determined by Richardson and announced on or
about Nov. 4.
Harold Dow
Longtime
newsman
Dow dies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK ? Emmy-winning
CBS News correspondent Harold
Dow, who helped shape the documen
tary program "48 Hours" and covered
the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and
the Sept. 1 1 attacks, has died. He was
62.
Dow died suddenly Saturday
morning in New Jersey, network
spokeswoman Louise Bashi said. It
was reported earlier this week that he
had an asthma attack while driving
He lived in Upper Saddle River. N.J
Dow had been a correspondent for
"48 Hours" since 1990. His nearly 40
years with the network also included
reporting for "CBS Evening News
with Dan Rather" and "CBS News
Sunday Morning."
A "48 Hours" report on runaways
earned him a George Foster Peabody
Award. He also won five Emmys, for
work including coverage of the 1988
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie. Scotland, and of American
troops' movement into Bosnia in
1996
"Insatiably curious, he was happi
est when he was on the road deep into
a story," Susan Zirinsky, executive
producer of "48 Hours Mystery." said
in a statement. "It was his humanity,
which was felt by everyone he
encountered, even in his toughest
interviews, that truly defined the
greatness of his work. He was the
most selfless man 1 have known."
Dow landed an exclusive inter
view with kidnapping victim Hearst
in December 1976, and he had the
first network interview with O.J.
Simpson following the 1994 killing of
his ex-wife He barely escaped one of
the falling twin towers on Sept. 11,
2001, the network said.
Dow was a contributor to "48
Hours on Crack Street," the 1986 doc
umentary that led to the creation of
the weekly "48 Hours." Before that,
he had been a co-anchor on "CBS
News Nightwatch" and a correspon
dent and reporter at the CBS News
Los Angeles bureau. He started his
career with the network as a broadcast
associate in 1972.
As a co-anchor and talk-show host
for KETV in Omaha, Neb., he was the
first African-American television
reporter in that city.
Dow is survived by three children,
Joelle. Danica and David, along with
his wife, Kathy.
Peace event will
take place Saturday
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Japanese lanterns are a uni
versal symbol of peace.
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Lanterns of Hope, which
celebrates the city's racial
diversity while promoting
peace and understanding,
will take place in the heart of
the city's Arts District this
year
The event will happen on
Saturday, Aug. 28 from 7-9
p.m in conjunction with the
popular Summer on Trade
outdoor concert scries.
Brother Joscephus and the
Love Revival Revolution
Orchestra will perform live
throughout the evening The
1 1 -piece gospel hand hails
from New Orleans.
Children's games and crc
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Exploring Washington
The Raleigh-based V.( . Museum of History will allow visitors
to "Discover the Real George Washington" when it opens an
exhibit on the nation's first president on Sept. 10. Nearly 100
original objects associated with Washington - including the
only surviving complete set of his famous dentures - are fea
tured. The exhibition will be on view through Jan. 21, 2011.
For more information, go to ncmuseumofhistory.org.