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Parker Lewis Can’t Lose

By: Journal Staff | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: July 02, 2009

Thursday, July 2

HOLY ROLLERS:
Greensboro’s Eastern Music Festival is a big deal for classical music fans, but the festival’s other offerings — rock, blues, bluegrass and alternative — are fun, too. EMF’s Fringe series starts this week with a free show and party starting at 6:30 p.m. at Natty Greene’s Pub and Brewing Co., 345 S. Elm St., Greensboro. Holy Ghost Tent Revival (raucous, twangy, danceable — think Squirrel Nut Zippers) will provide the tunes. EMF Fringe continues through July (you’ll have to pay for most of the other shows). For a schedule and ticket prices, visit www.easternmusicfestival, or call 877-833-6753.

Saturday, July 4

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US:
Celebrate Old Glory with Old Salem. The museums and gardens will host old-fashioned fun from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with tavern games, a choral performance in the Single Brothers house, patriotic fraktur paintings and a reading of the Declaration of Independence.
There will also be fire drills, and though there will be no fire, one hopes, kids young and old are welcome to help pump and play in the spray.
Fourth of July activities are included in tickets to the museums and gardens — $17 for adults and $10 for children ages 6 to 16. Kids under 13 who bring in two cans of food to give to Second Harvest Food Bank get in free. Call 721-7350.

BOOM, BOOM:
OK, so everyone knows the real highlight of July 4 is making as much noise as possible. Cover your ears and head to Tanglewood Park in Clemmons for the 9:30 p.m. fireworks display.
The park’s steeplechase grounds will open at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking. Cost is $5 a car, $10 per bus or motor coach.

Tuesday, July 7

LUCKY NUMBER 13:
Two photogenic government agents investigating bizarre cases and bumping heads with things that go bump in the night? No, it’s not an X-Files revival, at least not officially. Warehouse 13 follows the cases of two secret service agents who are reassigned to a warehouse that stores and tracks down strange artifacts, relics and doodads. Pete (Eddie McClintock) is a seat-of-his-pants wisecracker, and Myka (Joanne Kelly) is uptight and highly organized. Did we mention this wasn’t an X-Files revival? Saul Rubinek and CCH Pounder also star. The show debuts with a two-hour premiere at 9 p.m. Tuesday, the day the SciFi Channel officially rebrands itself as “SyFy.”

Out Now

SYNCHRONIZE SWATCHES!
The 1990s cult series Parker Lewis Can’t Lose is finally coming to DVD. Corin Nemec (center) stars in the title role as a smooth-talking, energetic high-school con artist who forever butts heads with his uptight principal. Any similarities to Ferris Bueller are strictly coincidental. Cough cough. The Complete First Season boxed set includes 26 episodes, several with commentary, and a retrospective documentary. And what is Nemec up to nowadays? Why, he’s fighting humanoid piranha monster thingies, at least according to the horror film Sea Beast, also new in stores this week as part of the campy “Maneater Series” of DVD releases.