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Keeping With a Theme or: Getting From Here to SOB40

13 Thursday Jun 2019

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I made a video today to help people who are having trouble getting to the businesses just south of Business 40 or Salem Parkway or whatever you want to call it. The businesses, as I’ve said all week long, are in need of help. You can give that to them. This video is just three of the many, many, many ways to get from the north side to the south side of Biz 40 or what we call SOB40. The quality was a lot better before I posted it… I don’t know what happened there.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Well [sic] the last day of Repeat Offenders is in the books. I want to thank all my customers/friends for your support over the past 2 1/2 years.” – Repeat Offenders in WSNC (SOB40)

The Net Work or: Shop Local

12 Wednesday Jun 2019

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On The Less Desirables Network this week, we’ve talked a lot about local business. Some talk was about the loss of local business and some was about the promotion of small local business. It’s been a touchy few weeks for local business in Winston-Salem. We’ve lost several businesses, some to Business 40’s closure, some for other reasons. The reasons don’t really matter now that they’re gone, as much as the fact that they are gone.

I have been involved in a few conversations in the last bit about how to combat the loss of more. We did that on The Man Who Ate the Town, The Beer Dads and of course, The Less Desirables. Listen to the eps to hear more about small business in WSNC. Click on the link of each.

Folks, support your local businesses, especially those that are downtown.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Well, every dollar, every single dollar is like a vote. So when you’re leaving your house with your credit cards, your cash, really make a conscious effort to think about where you’re going to spend those dollars. There’s a lot of things that you can buy here in this town that are going to feed a local family.” – Mary Haglund

A Third Piggyback or: Winston-Salem Monthly

11 Wednesday Jul 2018

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So, here we are, three days in a row that I’ve had a piggyback-worthy post from The Man Who Ate the Town. But, I am proud of the fact that I was featured in an article from Michael Breedlove for Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine about being “The Man Who Ate the Town.”

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©Winston-Salem Monthly (Sinclair?)

Because I can be verbose, and it’s already been said the best it could in the article, I’m going to post those here so you can read them for yourself if you’re so inclined, Dear Reader.

The article is HERE.
The TMWATT post is HERE.

Thanks to Michael Breedlove and all the folks over at Winston-Salem Monthly!

Until tomorrow, which may or may not be about food…
Scorp out!

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“How Tim Beeman turned a love of food into a food-media empire.” – Winston-Salem Monthly (Breedlove)

She’s Gotta Have It or: RiverRun and Run and Run

17 Friday Apr 2015

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Although there were two films shown last night as”openers” today is the first day of the 17th Annual RiverRun International Film Festival. The Less Desirables are media sponsors of the event and if you come to the films or parties or anything else that has to do with the festival, look for me. I may be at that event. I’ll warn you, I won’t be at every event, but you should be at every one you can be.

Last night, Fresh Dressed played at the HanesBrands Theater and Reality played atlogo-230x43-px SECCA.  Other outlets for the films this year are UNCSA Ace Theatre Complex and a/perture Cinema (Official Movie Sponsor of The Less Desirables).  For the closer on April 26, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino and directed by David Gordon Green, will play at UNCSA Main.

There will be Narrative Features, Documentaries, Altered States (new directions in American cinema), films from the past, Films with Class and the one that I hope to catch a few films from, Spotlight on Black Filmmakers: 1971-1991.  This category will feature films such as Boyz N the Hood, Daughters of the Dust, Hollywood Shuffle, Killer of Sheep, The Horse, She’s Gotta Have It (a Spike Lee Joint) and the 1971 version of Shaft, he’s one bad motha … you get the idea. I think it’s awesome that they’re showing those films.  I have seen most of them but never on the big screen. That would be awesome. All in all, it’s 165 films, 91 shorts, 74 features from 35 countries. That’s a shload of films.

RiverRun is also is an Academy qualifying festival for Documentary Shorts and Animated Shorts. This means that submissions in these categories are judged and the winners are eligible to be Oscar nominees.  So you may be able to see some of those films that when you watch the Oscars go, when would I have seen that!?  I know I’ve been guilty of saying that before.

So, RiverRun is running from April 16-April 26. The box office is located at the Stevens Center (405 W 4th Street). There are several ways to purchase tickets for RiverRun outside of the box office.  To find out more about these plans and such, check out the website.  Have fun, enjoy the festivities and enjoy some great films!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!!

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“We’re scouring the world, each year, to find the best new films of all stripes to show our audiences.” – Andrew Rodgers, Executive Director of RiverRun International Film Festival on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Now