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The biggest takeaway from this year’s Greensboro Fashion Week, for me, was the realization that kids — and not just mine — take a long time to get dressed. Unfortunately, I had that epiphany a short second after I had introduced a children’s line of clothing, preparing the audience for their entry on the runway. When I slipped backstage, I saw that all the kids were still climbing into their fashionable little outfits, that I was gonna have to go back out there, cut the music and kill some time. Brutal, man. But that’s the way it goes with live entertainment, and those moments with the kids, who walked the runway both Friday and Saturday night, were among my highlights this year as emcee. The gig has other perks, too. I got a couple free suits, one of them shiny as a chromed-out Zippo with lapels that could slice a tomato. In spending so much time around attractive young people I reached the upper limits of my ability to suck in my stomach, which stands at five hours, not including intermittent breaks backstage. But my finest moment came from the runway and crowds at Blandwood Mansion and the downtown Marriott, in the car with my daughter who needed a new dress for the Friday night show while my wife, who would normally oversee an operation like this, had to work. “I’ve never been dress shopping before,” I told my 10-yearold. She paused on this, then said, “Neither have I.” Her other dresses were gifts or hand-me-downs, she explained. She had never chosen one for herself. She doesn’t wear dresses very often, my little girl. On school days she’s limited to SMOD; she prefers pajama pants and denim on her down time. At the store we moved through the junior misses selection, looking for that age-appropriate sweet spot: nothing too girlish, no bows or frills, but not something so sophisticated she’d look like a 4-foot-tall torch singer. She took four into the dressing room with her and emerged a reasonable time later with just one. She explained to me later that because she’d never been dress shopping before, she didn’t know she was supposed to come out and model each one. She broke it out for the fashion show that night: a sleeveless black party dress with a flared skirt and an iconic silhouette, paired with ballet slippers and a subtly bejeweled cap she got last year. And everywhere she went, people talked about the look. See photos from Greensboro Fashion Week at greensborofashionweek.com.
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CITY LIFE September 23 – 29 WEDNESDAY
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Voices for a Stronger Guilford @ Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7:30 p.m. Leonard Pitts Jr. and Star Parker write two very different syndicated columns. Watch them discuss the topic of Dreams Deferred: The Untapped Potential of Our Young Black Males. Visit Greensboro.com for more details.
Best of the School of Filmmaking Fall Screening @ UNCSA (W-S), 7:30 p.m. The School of Filmmaking screens 90 minutes of the best short films from their 2014-15 school year. Find more information at uncsa.edu. Triad Stand Down @ Westover Church (GSO), 8 a.m. Haircuts, hot meals and substance abuse services are a few of the things that volunteers from around the Triad are providing for veterans. You can find more information at ncvetslegal.org.
Zumba with Christy Hill @ Center City Park (GSO), 6 p.m. Christy Hill leads the public in Zumba, for free. You can find more at centercitypark.org. Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus @ Centenary United Methodist Church (W-S), 7 p.m. In 2014 the world was focused on the people of Kiev, Ukraine during their bitter political revolution. Now you can watch the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on their U.S. tour as they raise funds for widows and orphans. More information at centenary-ws.org.
THURSDAY
Show of Hands @ Morehead Park Greenway Access (GSO), 5:30 p.m. Show of Hands introduces young adult voters to their city’s candidates, registers them to vote and showcases five very different music groups. There’s going to be craft beer and other surprises. Visit synergy.org for more details. Art + Dialogue exhibit opening @ Greensboro College (GSO), 6 p.m. The A + D collaborative project promises a more tangible understanding of racial tension in America, with juried art exhibit inaugurating the series. You can find more information at Greenhill.org.
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Sustainability Film & Discussion Series @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO), 6:30 p.m. Find out why the electric car never really made the splash it was meant to make. Who Killed the Electric Car? is the film of this Sustainable Film & Discussion Series. Find times and more information at weatherspoon.uncg. edu.
Africa Unplugged w/ Batuque de Terreiro @ Blind Tiger (GSO), 10 p.m. The funky and danceable six-piece Africa Unplugged plays with Afro-Brazilian band Batuque de Terreiro at the Blind Tiger. Find ticket prices and times at theblindtiger.com.
SATURDAY
Community Festival @ UNCSA (W-S), 10:30 a.m. The people at UNCSA want to give a big thanks to everyone in the community by hosting the Community Festival with live music and all kinds of food and entertainment. Find more information at uncsa. edu.
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Fiesta 2015 @ Downtown (W-S),noon. The Hispanic League hosts their annual fundraising festival that includes lots of Latin cuisine as well as a beer and margarita garden. More information at hispanicleague.org Tate Street Festival @ Tate Street (GSO) 1 p.m. The annual Tate Street Festival is back with lots of great food vendors. Find the Tate Street Festival page on Facebook for updates and details.
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Inside the Artist’s Process @ Cultural Arts Center (GSO), 2 p.m. Find out what’s going through the mind of a choreographer, what a dance rehearsal is like and what it means to be a dance artist with Amy Beasley and the Van Dyke Dance Group. They perform as a part of the 25th NC Dance Festival. Find the group page on Facebook by searching “Get to know the NC Dance Festival: Inside the Artist’s Process.”
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Gate City runway Looking like a winner I hope the city finds a way to bring a festival to downtown Greensboro annually after the National Folk Festival moves on in two years [“Folking in Greensboro”; by Brian Clarey; Sept. 16, 2015]. I danced to Trouble Funk on Saturday night (Don’t touch that stereo!) at the Dance Pavilion and the diversity and culture of all Greensboro people were represented, everyone having a ball. Amazing weekend! With lots of volunteerism and enthusiasm we can all make an annual downtown festival a permanent tradition, so that the good vibes, warm feelings and fun continue to bring us together. Awindyhill, via triad-city-beat.com Bernie and Trump get real Nobody’s perfect. [“Citizen Green: Disharmony among the party faithful on the hustings”; by Jordan Green; Aug. 5, 2015] But while Obama has a pretty turn of speech and can make all kinds of things believable, and then cave when the going gets tough (up to the midterm elections), Bernie has been saying what he means on economic justice, voting against trade agreements and promoting equality for women, gays and, yes, minorities for a long, long time. While Hillary is bogged down in email, Bernie is pretty clear where his aims lie and what his beliefs are, and backs some of them up with realistic solutions. Not racially sensitive, excuse me, at least he saw the problem and moved on it in a straightforward manner. Trump says what he believes too, but without even believable solutions. When asked what about so and so, his answer is “I’ll beat them up and make them pay me damages,” or some such. It’s fairly clear that with both their numbers rising the American people have been feeling “lied to, cheated on and treated like dirt” (from an old country song whose title I do not recall). Sanders and Trump both speak their minds. Sanders has more smarts and Trump has more money. Brooke Neale, via triad-city-beat.com
Greensboro Fashion Week ran over three nights in the downtown district, bringing high couture to the Gate City.
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5 noteworthy things started in the Triad by Daniel Wirtheim 1. The hit song “Dedicated to the One I Love” This song has been a huge hit for three bands and the band that wrote called the Triad home. The “5” Royales from Winston-Salem — guitarist Lowman Pauling and producer Ralph Bass get songwriting credits — recorded this song in 1957. In 1961 the Shirelles reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 chart for their rendition. But the most famous version was by the Mamas & The Papas. That version went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. 2. Vick’s VapoRub My grandmother would have loved Lunsford Richardson. As a youngster, we would always be given a dose of menthol vapor to fix any type of ailment we might have, even a bee sting. For us, the scent of menthol was something like the fragrance of incense in a shrine dedicated towards healing deities. Richardson, the man behind those smells, sold his first batch in Greensboro in 1894. Since then, Vick’s VapoRub sells in three different continents and has a ton of other product lines. 3. The Sit-In Movement If you didn’t know this one you might have more important
things to read than a listicle. But yes, on Feb. 1, 1960 four NC A&T University students sat down at Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro and sent huge shockwaves throughout the nation and world, even inspiring anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. 4. Texas Pete As a hot sauce, Texas Pete is pretty mild. But that’s okay, because a sauce doesn’t have to burn your lips off. It’s the third most important brand of hot sauce in the states, and there’s a bottle at pretty much every diner now, but the first bottle of Texas Pete was born here, in Winston-Salem. The inventor was originally going to call it “Mexican Joe,” but decided he wanted a name that was more “American.” 5. Goody’s Powder Arguably one of the most useful inventions made in the Triad, Goody’s Powder has been fighting migraines for 83 years. It was made in conjunction with the Herpelscheimer Clinic in Austria, but manufactured in Winston-Salem where it still is today.
Brian Clarey: Guilford College. Call me a purist, but I base my opinion on the best Triad college football team on the record in question, which right now belongs to the Fighting Quakers at 3-0. Wake Forest gets an honorable mention for going 2-1 with what is the biggest program in the region, as do the A&T Aggies, also 2-1. They get a shout-out for beating Shaw University in their home opener 61-7. But I’ve got to go with the undefeated Quakers.
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be no more deaths. Readers can scan a row of 13 headshots along the bottom of the page that chronicle the suicide toll, and track the faces with the narrative. This is one of the heartbreaking aspects of the story: Even after they rallied at the six funeral, the deaths continued. Phillips reports on efforts by the Veterans Administration to improve suicide intervention, and shows how services fall short of the mark through the frustrations of the marines in the 2/7. But mostly, the story focuses on the Marines’ efforts to help each other. Relationships are the basis of most good stories. What comes across in this story is the fierce determination of these men to protect each other, even as life remains tenuous for each one. There’s no epiphany at the end, but the conclusion — poignant without being sentimental — is a model every aspiring reporter should study for writing a strong kicker.
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Marine Regiment dominates the front page above the fold, and then jumps to a three-page spread illustrated with vivid photographs of the service members in civilian life. I couldn’t put it down. Known by its members as “the forgotten battalion,” the 2/7 deployed to a remote area of Helmand Province in 2008 as part of a war that not many people back home were thinking about in that presidential election year. If anything, Afghanistan was known as the war Obama was committed to waging, while vowing to get out of Iraq. Phillips carries readers from the brutal firefights and carnage that both haunted the marines and forged a lasting bond among them, then quickly picks up the story of how they struggled to adjust to civilian life. One by one, members of the battalion plagued by nightmares and depression began taking their own lives. After the seventh suicide, the marines converged at a funeral and made a pact to reach out and support each other so there would
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by Jordan Green Dave Phillips is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He hardly needs my endorsement. Still, his piece about a Marine Corps unit plagued by suicide after service members returned from combat duty in Afghanistan that ran in the Sunday New York Times caught my attention. Every once in awhile a story comes out that reminds me why I entered the profession and provides a model for the caliber of journalism I aspire to. It’s usually, but not always, long-form writing. The stakes are high with any story longer than 1,500 words: Sometimes longer stories about important topics can be tedious to read — dense with policy jargon or crammed full of aimlessly sentimental anecdotes. More often than I’d like to admit, I realize I am forcing myself to muddle through long stories out of a sense of obligation rather than appetite. It helps to have good material to begin with. Phillips’ story about the Second Battalion, Seventh
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Jordan Green: Yeesh. I’ve gotta make a sad admission here: I really don’t care about college football, or any kind of football for that matter. I did write a feature story about Aggie homecoming in 2006, though, including a memorable experience tailgating at the game, so I guess I have to go with NC A&T University. Aggie Pride!
out Wake Forest (third place with 5 percent), which received as much as NC A&T University and Winston-Salem State University combined. But Greensboro College bloomed late, driving fans into the proverbial voting booth to pull away with 66 percent of the vote (compared to 24 percent for Guilford). Now that’s Pride.
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tailgate for any of these teams, save for Guilford’s Soup Bowl rival Greensboro College, though I have a feeling that Winston-Salem State, Wake Forest or A&T would be the most fun.
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NEWS
Forsyth lawmaker and former healthcare exec sells Medicaid reform by Jordan Green
One of the House Republicans’ lead negotiators on Medicaid, previously aligned with the old paradigm, takes up the banner of reform. Rep. Donny Lambeth was back home in Winston-Salem on Monday for a luncheon at a Golden Corral that drew a crowd heavy with Republican elected officials, including the county sheriff, four school board members and a county commissioner, along with rank-andfile conservative activists in the party. Lambeth can take credit for a legislative achievement that is rare for a second-term state lawmaker: He was one of two lead negotiators for the House Republicans on a bill to privatize Medicaid that is expected to receive Gov. Pat McCrory’s signature today. “I think this is one of those legacy bills that will save the state money for years and years down the line,” Lambeth told the group. “If it doesn’t save us 10 percent I would be very, very surprised. It’s possible that it could save us 20 to 25 percent.” Lambeth’s professional background heavily qualified him for the job of lead negotiator for the House Republicans, along with Rep. Nelson Dollar of Wake County. Lambeth retired from Baptist Hospital in 2012 as president of Lexington Medical Center and David Hospital. Years of cost overruns by North Carolina’s Medicaid program, a government health insurance program that serves the poor, elderly and disabled, have long frustrated state lawmakers. Lambeth said some years the $14 billion program ran $2 billion short, forcing lawmakers to scramble to pull together extra funding. Interest in reforming the program emerged about five years ago from a desire to achieve better budget predictability. House Republicans had traditionally supported the current structure, a fee-for-service arrangement known as the medical home model, while their counterparts in the Senate were pushing for the state to contract out the service to one or more private insurers that would assume risk for cost overruns.
The McCrory administration, with former Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos as its point person, initially took an interest in privatizing Medicaid, but backed off last year in the face of objections from hospitals. The new bill, which Lambeth said negotiators from the House and Senate had been working out line for line since December, came as a surprise to many. Despite coming in over budget year after year — or being under being chronically underfunded, in the view of some — North Carolina’s Medicaid program received recognition for saving the state money by helping patients obtain preventive care. Community Care of North Carolina, the nonprofit that coordinates care for Medicaid pa- Rep. Donny Lambeth (standing) listens to a question from a constituent, JORDAN GREEN as Sheriff Bill Schatzman (back corner) looks on. tients, received the Healthcare Leadership Council’s Wellness his talk at Golden Corral, Lambeth constituents, Lambeth was talking up Frontiers Award during a cereindicated he shared the view that the the merits of the new plan rather than mony at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Sacurrent model has saved the state monemphasizing the advantages of the old lem in April 2013. The recognition was ey. He said it was clear that the House one. based in part on an analysis commisand Senate were never going to agree “Basically, the risk of the care will be sioned by the state Division of Medical on every detail, characterizing the plan shifted over to the providers,” Lambeth Assistance that found that the nonprofit that emerged from negotiations as a said. “They will manage populations. saved the state almost $1 billion over a “hybrid.” Lambeth said patients could And, in my opinion, because I was in four-year period. choose among 10 provider-led entities that business for 40 years, there’s lots of Among those who were on hand and three managed-care organizations, silos in that business. You have hospitals. to tout Community Care of North suggesting the former would be similar You have doctors. You have hospice. Carolina’s accomplishments was US to the arrangement currently in place. You have home care. You have longSen. Richard Burr, a Republican from But a written summary of the term care. And every silo is doing their Winston-Salem. legislation provided by the lawmaker own thing. And they’re all paid based on “North Carolina has long been a makes it clear that the state is switching some type of volume: Admission to the leader in patient-centered healthcare, from a fee-for-service model to capitahospital, more services qualified. This and I’m pleased that a North Carolina tion, in which funds are allocated per shifts it to managed-care organizations program was recognized as a model for patient on an annual basis regardless across those silos. how to improve outcomes for patients of each patient’s utilization of services. “There’s no quality metrics that monand get more value out of our healthThe summary stipulates that the state itors anything that goes on in Medicaid care system,” Burr said. “‘Medical will continue to use the medical home today,” Lambeth added. “Zero. There homes’ promote primary care and premodel to control costs during a fourwill be quality metrics. There will be vention while reducing overcrowding in year transition, but once the capitation access metrics [to] make sure they’re asemergency rooms and preventable hosmodel is fully operational, Community sessing the right level of care, and there pital readmissions. Raising the efficiency Care of North Carolina’s contract with will be some financial reward metrics. and quality of healthcare delivery is a the state will expire. So if the providers do this correctly they win for both patients and taxpayers.” Speaking before his conservative will actually be able to be rewarded.” Asked about the recognition after
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Mayoral challengers jockey to survive a primary by Eric Ginsburg
In a candidate forum organized by the League of Women Voters, three mayoral contenders, including incumbent Nancy Vaughan, outlined why they would be the best one for the job. Nobody who is paying attention could confuse the three candidates vying to be the next mayor of Greensboro. Nancy Vaughan, the one-term incumbent with a long history of service on city council beginning in the ’90s, is emphasizing whenever she can how smoothly the current city council runs. Like other incumbent candidates this season, she talks regularly about how council addresses numerous important issues such as food insecurity rather than being bogged down in fruitless debates about minutia. Things that might have been controversial with previous city councils — such as the approval of a historical marker for the Greensboro Massacre — haven’t tripped them up, she said, and her leadership deserves some of the credit. Sal Leone, a police officer who has run unsuccessfully for state House and Greensboro City Council in the past, repeatedly stated at a candidate forum organized by the League of Women Voters last week that he will offer something different. Repeating the mantra, “Talk is cheap; it’s time for action,” Leone echoed past criticisms of the mayor and council that the city isn’t doing enough to support economic development in the eastern part of the city. The city is continuing a trend of focusing too much on downtown, he said, to the detriment of east Greensboro, which he suggested should have been selected as the site for a new performing arts center and a hotel. At 27, political newcomer Devin King is the youngest candidate in the race. He didn’t take much time to introduce himself at the forum, instead diving into thanking God, military personnel and first responders before stating that he’s
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running because of the city’s poverty rate, taxes and the need for a mayor who doesn’t come to work late and leave early, though he didn’t attack Vaughan by name. King put his name in to run during the final moments of filing this summer, and at the time he billed himself as a populist. The Cleveland native moved here from Michigan in 2010, he said, and he loves how much culture Greensboro boasts. But he and his wife are “everyday citizens” who are hardworking, on food stamps and who can’t afford daycare for their son. “There are so many things we could do in a short amount of time to turn this city around,” King said at the time, explaining that he thinks the city could do much more to bring manufacturing jobs back, implement job-training programs and support existing small businesses. In the forum, he provided few specific examples of how he would go about accomplishing such things, though he restated the need for simplified job-training programs. During a question about dealing with municipal solid waste, King said he’s already been in touch with a company that can burn trash and turn it into electricity. But he added that he wouldn’t share the name of the
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company because he doesn’t want to give away his idea. King spent a significant portion of his time assailing the mayor directly and indirectly, at one point eliciting gasps from the crowd and at another, drawing the mayor into a brief back and forth about her position on food deserts. The crowd murmured most when he addressed an audience question about how to keep the International Civil Rights Center & Museum viable. King proposed moving the contents of the museum to the existing city-run Greensboro Historical Museum several blocks away and using the former Woolworth’s building where the sit-in movement began for a more profitable enterprise. Something else there would “liven up the property,” he said, adding that only negatives have come from the city’s financial investment in the museum. Leone took a different approach, saying that the city and press have been far too hard on the museum and arguing that there is a double standard for the museum and the city-run Greensboro Coliseum. “The coliseum loses money every year and nobody talks about that,” Leone said, adding that “the museum needs private dollars” to survive.
King for mayor. Voters who live in District 3 in the central-northern portion of the city will also vote in a district primary, choosing among Justin Outling, Kurt Collins and Michael Picarelli. In both races, the lowest
Audience members frequently nodded to concur with Vaughan’s responses and expressed the most support when she talked about funding more green spaces and parks as a way to encourage infill development and stunt sprawl. In addition to singing the praises of council’s accomplishments during the current two-year term, Vaughan spelled out several ideas for the future such as additional green space and a bond referendum to support more affordable housing in the city. It would be a shock to any experienced observer of Greensboro’s elections if Mayor Nancy Vaughan didn’t easily clear the Oct. 6 primary hurdle — the real question is whether Leone or King will prevail as her challenger for the November general election. Leone appears to be positioning himself as a tempered counter to Vaughan’s leadership, while at the forum, King’s rhetoric suggested he believes the dissatisfaction with the mayor and council runs much deeper. But with a quieter election season than normal and low anticipated turnout, either challenger will need a huge surge of grassroots enthusiasm to make any kind of dent in the mayor’s name recognition and support.
polling candidate will be eliminated while the other two contenders advance to the Nov. 3 general election. The district races, the at-large contest and the mayor’s race will all appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.
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Embattled human relations director has many fans by Jordan Green
Those who have worked with High Point Human Relations Director Al Heggins say she made impressive accomplishments in a variety of arenas. But her involvement in mentoring students in challenging white privilege and facilitating uncomfortable conversations about police accountability might have been too effective for some members of city council.
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to work. “Something went wrong in the office, so whoever we were expecting from the When a Bhutanese refugee distraught mental health [field] we were not able to over a chronic health problem and get,” Bhandari said. “I emailed her, but mounting financial troubles took his I did not get a response. I’m still trying own life in High Point, a young commuto get in touch with her.” nity leader named Dev Bhandari took Ralph Rodland, a substance abuse the man’s widow to meet Al Heggins, treatment provider and member of the the human relations director for the city volunteer human relations commisof High Point. sion, said Heggins and her staff had Bhandari, who owns the Himalayan already printed posters for a High Point Bazaar store on South Main Street Immigration and Refugee Information and serves as vice chair of the Society Summit. Free food, a fashion show and for Bhutanese in High Point, recalled opportunities for cross-cultural exthat Heggins responded positively change were all part of to his community’s the plan. plight. When Bhandari “There was actually “We never wanted broached the idea of the disruption where she calling a community to be a city where was removed from the meeting to address the building,” Rodland said. people said, ‘That problem of depression, “Very soon after there Heggins promised to would never happen was to be a public event locate a mental-health here.’ We wanted to with [the refugee] comprofessional to attend. munity. That did not be proactive.” The meeting wound occur as a result of she up being postponed – Ralph Rodland and Tony both being because people in the separated from the city. Bhutanese community We were not provided were distracted by responding to the access to the computers so we couldn’t earthquake in Nepal, where many had handle it ourselves.” previously lived in refugee camps. The turmoil in City Hall has also In late June, Bhandari started working disrupted a series of panel discussions on rescheduling the community meetco-hosted by the High Point Human ing. Around that time, City Manager Relations Department and the YWCA Greg Demko placed Heggins on paid called “Front Porch Conversations,” leave, after she said she feared for her said Paul Siceloff, a former chair of the life because of racial tensions and instihuman relations commission. Siceloff tutional racism in the city. Since then, said he went to the YWCA to attend a she has been suspended without pay, panel discussion about federal discrimiand has returned to work for a second nation law on Sept. 17 but the YWCA’s time. Heggins has a federal discrimiexecutive director told him the event nation complaint pending against the had been canceled because the city had city, and her lawyer has said the city been responsible for lining up the speakmanager is looking for a pretext to fire ers. Siceloff said he contacted Heggins, her. Tony Lowe, a program director in and she told him she had been ordered the department, was also temporarily to cancel the event. placed on leave, but has now returned Former and current commissioners
and others interviewed for this story lauded Heggins, who was hired by the city in August 2004, for her expertise, initiative and energy in addressing a host of challenges in the community. “I couldn’t be a bigger fan of Al Heggins,” Rodland said. “She has provided exemplary leadership, ever since I’ve been involved with human relations commission, which is over two years ago. She has a mastery in what the department is supposed to be engaged with, and has always provided exemplary support to the human relations commission.” Heggins’ outreach to immigrant and refugee communities in High Point was part of the reason she was one of 10 people selected as a “Champion of Change by the White House in 2013. The White House citation credits Heggins with initiating three programs to implement her vision for an equitable and inclusive community: affirmative fair housing, the High Point Student Human Relations Commission and the civic engagement project. “Al’s department later applied and was selected by UNC’s Institute for the Study of the Americas and Latino Migration Project for the Building Integrated Communities initiative,” the citation reads. “BIC’s best practices and research-based approach aligned perfectly with her vision. Supported by BIC, human relations convened a series of community focus groups comprised of immigrants and non-immigrants, culminating in a 16-point strategic plan to seamlessly integrate its culturally diverse residents. The launch of this plan added two working committees under the city’s human relations commission (the interfaith affairs committee and the international advisory committee) and sparked a partnership with the national Welcoming Cities and Counties initiative.” One of Heggins accomplishments was persuading High Point City Council to pass a local fair housing ordinance in 2007 that empowered staff to investigate and mediate housing discrimination complaints. “We worked really hard to bring
that to High Point,” said Paul Siceloff, a former chair of the human relations commission. “It happened while I was on the commission. It was a big deal. We had to push to get it in place.” The current city council voted during a special meeting earlier this month to scale back the city’s involvement in fair housing enforcement. Heggins’ work training high school students to be leaders might be her most important contribution, Rodland indicated. “The gem of the human relations commission is the work of the student human relations commission,” he said. “Navigating one school would be something, but she has been working with several schools to train the students. She got them to a point where student commissioners were selected to be presenters at the White Privilege Conference. This is a national conference where the students were presenting alongside PhDs. They were talking about institutional racism and systemic barriers. These kids gave us so much inspiration. It’s what we’re supposed to be doing with our young people — instilling them with a sense of social responsibility.” Heggins’ effectiveness and dedication to her job appear to have gotten her in trouble when they challenged the city’s power structure — namely the police department and members of city council. Rodland emphasized that Heggins did not initiate the “Black and Blue” conversations about police-community relations. “That came from the human relations commission in response to looking at a country where that is popping up in all sorts of cites,” Rodland said. “We never wanted to be a city where people said, ‘That would never happen here.’ We wanted to be proactive. “The whole campaign that says Al was trying to run fiat and have her own way could not be further from the truth,” Rodland added. “There was nothing that occurred without our consultation and coming out of conversations that have occurred in the community.”
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As our state government systematically lays our public school system to waste by starving it of resources and diverting some of what’s left to a privatized charter school system, Guilford County gets a much-needed lift from a nonprofit out of upstate New York. Say Yes to Education is a great idea: a nonprofit that, one community at a time, creates a fund intended to help the students of that area pay for college. Guilford County was accepted into the program last week after amassing $32.5 million of the $70 million necessary to start a fund. Early money came from individuals — some of whom wished to remain anonymous — philanthropic foundations and private corporations. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Across the Triad and the rest of the state, students have been grapping with the high cost of tuition — the UNC System has seen two tuition increases since 2011. And there are not enough advanced-degree holders in the county to fill some of the new jobs being created there, particularly in nanotechnology and aerospace. Though there are seven colleges and universities Until working people are in Guilford County as paid enough to send their well as a law school and a kids to college like they community college, just did just a couple genera third of its residents ations ago, Say Yes is a have advanced degrees, necessary bridge. more than in the rest of the state but significantly below the national average of 40 percent. Say Yes directly addresses that deficit. But more than these immediate benefits, Say Yes to Education acknowledges that the entire community benefits from an educated populace. It emphasizes the importance of education in a state that often seems to marginalize it. It pushes students back towards public education — only Guilford County Schools students are eligible for the grants — at a time when people are turning away from this important resource. And even more, it gives a path to higher education to thousands of kids who otherwise might not be able to attain it. A person with a college degree will — on average over her working life — earn $1 million more than a person without, and each year the price of tuition moves even further out of reach for most of the people in Guilford County, where a year at a state school is equal to 15 percent of its median household income. More than just lip service, Say Yes actually does something to support those kids as they pursue their potential, giving them — and their parents — a gift of hope. And until working people are paid enough to send their kids to college like they did just a couple generations ago, Say Yes is a necessary bridge.
The lobby of the Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center in south Greensboro buzzed with energy and activity early Sunday afternoon as members of the Cakalak Thunder drum corps filtered out of the auditorium after the opening by Jordan Green ceremony of NC Trans Pride, which honored 21 trans women of color who have lost their lives to acts of violence in the United States this year. A young black person — bearded, bespectacled and dressed in a felt suit jacket and pants — gave the lobby a quick visual scan. Then, like a butterfly from a cocoon, whipped off the outer garments, stuffed them into a backpack and emerged in a turquoise tutu. Most of the people in the big hall were between the ages of 15 and 35, a rainbow array of races and ethnicities. To say the group represented a spectrum of gender identifies would be a misnomer considering the mish-mash of body types and physical characteristic, with flourishes of punk, goth, casual athletic and preppy fashions bursting from the room. Chasity Scott, a singer with a big personality, was giving shoutouts to a row of people from an array of agencies and vendors, from testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to personal safety devices. “Some people are too afraid to go over to the tablers,” lead organizer Z Shane Zaldivar told me afterwards. “We want them to at least know they exist. Later, they might find them online.” This was the second annual NC Trans Pride event; the first was also held at Caldcleugh, an arts-oriented recreation center operated by the city of Greensboro near the Smith Homes public housing community. He estimated that 500 people turned this year. “It’s the only trans pride event in North Carolina that’s stand-alone,” he said. “From everything we researched on the internet we could not find another one. We are the first, and consequently, the largest.” Part of the purpose of the gathering was to educate trans allies. “It’s a space that we make it comfortable for allies to ask questions in a respectful way and it’s safe for members of our community to answer without feeling pressured,” Zaldivar said. A common misunderstanding is the notion that trans people choose either to be male or female. Zaldivar mentioned as an example Jacob Tobia, the gender nonconforming keynote speaker at the festival. “When thinking about trans people, folks think we should fit in a box,” Zaldivar said. “They think we go from
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Trans together and gathering strength one gender to another, and that’s it. What they don’t understand is that the binary doesn’t exist. I’m comfortable in a binary, but that’s not the majority. People do that to us all the time. Jacob, for example wears this beautiful, red lipstick with awesome nails, a great fashion sense, but still has a beard. People say, ‘What’s going on? Are you in transition? Are you waiting to make the change?’ ‘No, this is how I feel comfortable.’” NC Trans Pride took place one day after Greensboro Pride, representing the larger lesbian, gay, bi and trans community. The scheduling was intentional so that trans people attending Greensboro Pride could also come to NC Trans Pride. Zaldivar said he’s working to get a trans component incorporated into all pride celebrations across the state. For the foreseeable future, however, he sees a need for a standalone gathering. “Having us in their space and also inviting them to our space can create a lot of healing,” he said. “Right now, the trans community is so marginalized that we still need our own space because we’re not given respect at their event.” Zaldivar and others told me the trans gathering is more political and more revolutionary than the big-tent pride events. “Our pride event is different than GLB pride events,” he said. “We’re taking it back to the roots. Stonewall was a riot. It was led by trans community members. That story gets missed.” Jenn Goodman, who leads a trans support group in Greensboro and helped Zaldivar organize the event, sees the relationship between the two groups as symbiotic. Measured public acceptance of trans people today is similar to how gays were viewed 15 or 20 years ago, she said. “Trans has always been at least technically a part of the whole LGBT puzzle,” Goodman said. “We are already connected to the community that is making things happen. It’s easier for us to organize because the framework is already there.” One person in particular was drinking in the scene at Caldcleugh with evident relish. Mandy Carter, the co-founder of Southerners On New Ground and the National Black Justice Coalition, told me that when she came out in 1965 at the age of 17, there was only one word for people like her — gay. Then, with advocacy and struggle, lesbian, bi and trans were added to the fold. Bitter political fights took place within the movement over whether trans people should be included. That the term “LGBT” is widely used by the mainstream media is a mark of progress, she said, as are the high profiles of Caitlin Jenner and Laverne Cox, the black trans woman in “Orange Is the New Black.” Yet, she added, “we have also seen ever growing numbers of the brutal violence and murders of trans people of color.” There’s still a lot of work to be done.
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according to Guilford County records. Odd indeed. Maybe the clubhouse is still active, but if so it’s horribly underutilized. I don’t have a cent to put towards the venture, or any time to devote to it beyond this column, so I haven’t indulged myself by researching it further. And I probably shouldn’t even bring it up, because it’s so close to the Kingdom of Carroll that the local bigwig killjoy will probably buy it now just to make sure nothing fun happens there. But here goes anyway. What if a bunch of us, and by us I mostly mean you, instigated a massive grassroots-funding campaign to collectively purchase the Odd Fellows Lodge? Maybe there is a pool and a bowling alley that could be salvaged, areas where private bars could be built, a veritable playground for the young and the restless. It would be collectively owned and managed, not too far afield of other such clubs, but it would be in the heart of the city’s downtown. Located near the corner of Greene Street and Battleground Avenue, the Odd Fellows Lodge has to be the strangest piece of architecture in the Gate City’s downtown. It appears more like a former mental institution than a club, partly thanks to its minimal windows. The building is all the more jarring now that headhunting firm Charles Aris moved in and constructed a new headquarters next door. But it’s alluring nonetheless.
Anybody I navigated all Winston-Salem event moving to a calendars that I could possibly find with new place will the aid of Eventbrite, Smitty’s Notes and do research on simply paying attention to flyers posted the potential around the city for special events and location before interest groups. I found that although the big move. Winston-Salem is small, it packs a decent I had done punch. There are a myriad of wineries, and by Megan Vilson a little bit of craft breweries seem to be the latest and research, but of course what persuaded greatest craze of the city and surrounding me to leave the Washington, DC area was area. my husband’s positivity and openness to One thing is for sure: I fully embraced starting fresh in another state. He was in the lack of traffic in Winston-Salem, the the thick of medical school in Winston-Sadowntown skyline, my two new favorite lem and I was on the cusp of figuring it craft-cocktail joints and the fact that we out — should I stay or should I go? adopted the most gracious puppy from But ultimately, I moved and resigned the Forsyth Humane Society. I automatifrom a full-time position with a nonprofit cally compare Winston-Salem to the Disthat I absolutely loved. trict of Columbia, where I Why? All for love, the for eight glorious Her correct use of worked possibility of finding new years, but I realize that this chopsticks gave interests, new people and is comparing apples to ornew places. Change is anges and further hinders Megan away as a inevitable. my outlook on just how transplant. In my own way, I began great it can be here. Each to seek out what Winplace has its own quirks ston-Salem has to offer. My husband is and things that make it unique. very supportive in reassuring me that if Though Winston-Salem lacks in I open up, things will come to me. I am bumper-to-bumper traffic, restaurants and not naturally good at opening myself up bars per square mile, constant protests, to new ventures. I often feel that if it’s transportation malfunctions, and federal not broke, don’t fix it. There was a hint of government closures and delays, it overregret about leaving home, but that soon flows with small-city charm, convenience subsided. and lush, green foliage. But hey! My husband was right — as I One day as I was treating myself to took the time during my stint of unemsushi for lunch, I relished a comment a ployment and transition to reflect, relax, stranger made. The man seated next to wake up naturally in the morning, without me said, “You’re not from here, you are having to battle traffic or aggressive handling those chopsticks like you know people — I felt entirely too happy. At one what you are doing.” point my husband said that I even looked “I am from the DMV,” I replied. happier — well rested. Gee, thanks! But I Proudly. completely understood what he meant. “Ohhh! Yes, I knew you could not be Around the holidays in 2014, about two from around here.” full months of being here in Camel City, We proceeded to talk about sake and or Twin City, as the locals like to call it, I he said the next time I’m in the establishmet a friend at a late-night mixer and we ment, it’s on him. bonded. She would serve as my partnerI will embrace being a Triad transplant in-crime. I exulted over the friendship and fact that my skill with chopsticks is and the sanity it allowed me. I was able to now widely recognized. engage in conversation with someone who was not in medical school — what a relief! A native of Maryland, Megan Vilson I am in no way knocking med school, but currently lives in Winston-Salem with her I am an advocate for anyone to maintain husband and wonderful dogs. In their down your individuality and own interest in any time from work or school they enjoy craft relationship. brews and sightseeing around the Triad.
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The whole school was there — teachers, staff, even the sophomores as well as the entire graduating Class of 1986 at Page High School — and on the stage in front of them all, young Ken Jeong was about to have his first big moment. Greensboro was different in 1986 — there were 100,000 fewer people, and a significantly smaller Asian population. “There were not a lot of Asian kids at Page,” Jeong says by phone from a television studio in New York City, where he’s putting the finishing touches on his new TV series “Dr. Ken.” “We had some Chinese and Taiwanese students in my class, but it wasn’t that many.” He was a senior at the time, though he was just 16 years old, a husky Korean kid who admittedly spent most of his time worrying about getting into a good college. But he was popular in the way brilliant overachievers can be, and drew from a wide circle — he was active in the orchestra and student council, played varsity tennis and competed on the Science Olympiad team, served as president of the Key Club and was named an Outstanding Senior in the 1986 Buccaneer yearbook. Even back then, Ken Jeong had mass appeal. That’s probably why he was nominated for Mr. Buccaneer, Page’s annual male beauty pageant. “I had never performed,” he said. “I was a little chubby kid. And during the swimsuit competition I did, like, a mock bodybuilder pose. “I got a huge laugh,” he remembers. Later he would get a standing ovation when he sang “Three Times a Lady” for the talent portion of the competition, and that sealed the deal. “That,” he says, “was my dynamite moment, if you will.” Others would follow — a win on NBC’s “Big Easy Laff Off,” a plum role in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, The Hangover franchise, a recurring role in the groundbreaking show “Community” and now “Dr. Ken,” which debuts on Oct. 2. But were it not for that formative moment on the stage at Page High, Ken Jeong might still be working as a real doctor instead of playing one on TV.
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His father taught accounting at NC A&T University, and from an early age, education was a priority in the household. At Rankin Elementary in the 1970s, he tested out of second grade — “I really think I just told my dad I was bored, and I took a test and placed out of it,” he said. “I think I was pushed to excel by my parents, and even without the pressure, I internalized it and put a lot of pressure on myself.”
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His success at Page took him to Duke University, where his pursuit of med school met with a small hiccup; He found the drama club. But his father advised him to stick with medicine and pursue comedy on the side. After completing med school at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jeong went to New Orleans to finish his residency at Ochsner Hospital, where another brush with the funny business nearly took him off course again. “The Big Easy Laff Off” was a one-shot TV series that combined the tried-and-true stand-up element of shows like “Evening at the Improv” with a reality TV component that would become more popular in the years to come. Judges included Budd Friedmann, founder of the Improv, and legendary NBC President Brandon Tartikoff. Jeong won with the kind of smart material and self-deprecating humor that would come to define his standup. He took the prize — a trip to LA to perform at the Improv — and set up his medical practice there while honing his act in the clubs. “I think I was gradually introduced to the big cities,” he says. “[New Orleans] obviously has its unique charms, and that was a good segue to big-time LA. I think I was introduced to big cities in an organic way.” He started landing small parts — the first was Dr. Tang on the TV series “The Big Easy” in 1997 — and by the turn of the century found himself in bigger roles, on bigger shows — “MADtv,” “Two and a Half Men,” “The Office,” “Entourage.” He landed a role in 2008’s The Pineapple Express, directed by UNC School of the Arts alumni David Gordon Green, which led to a featured role in “Community” as angry college professor Ben Chang. “‘Community,’” he says. “I think it was one of the best sitcoms in the last 10 years. You can’t get any better than that.” That role overlapped with the premiere of The Hangover, as Asian gangster Mr. Chow. That film would go on to become the most successful adult franchise in box-office history. Jeong couldn’t have known that at the time; he was still practicing medicine in LA. But the opportunities afforded by the exposure from The Hangover lured him away from medicine
and into acting full time. “I miss my patients all the time,” he says. “I still keep in contact with some of them. I don’t miss working holidays and every weekend, but I do miss my patients.” He also didn’t know he was on the cusp of full-blown stardom. Over the next five years he would lend his talent to some of the biggest projects to hit the screen: Despicable Me, “American Dad,” Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Pain & Gain, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, “Bob’s Burgers,” “Glee,” and his continuing work with “Community,” not to mention the Hangover sequels that further increased his profile. He was everywhere. In a beer commercial from 2014 he referred to himself as “That guy from that thing!” “I didn’t have these delusions of grandeur,” he says. “I was pretty happy on my way up, which I think is why I have been working so long. If I was doing medicine full time and doing standup on the side I would be just as happy. “I didn’t quit my day job to become famous,” he continues. “I quit so I could act. I was happy being the doctor in Knocked Up. I remember being on ‘The Office’ second season, one line, completely forgettable. I remember every second of that. I wouldn’t be talking to you if it wasn’t for The Hangover. I wouldn’t have ‘Dr. Ken.’ Everything happened because of The Hangover. It was a beautiful moment in my career and has given me all these wonderful opportunities.” For his return to television, Jeong wanted to make something like the old sitcoms he used to watch when he was a student at Page: multicam, filmed in front of a live studio audience like “Cheers,” drawing on influences that range from David Letterman to Eddie Murphy to Garry Shandling. “Multicam is like putting on a play every week,” he says, “a poorly rehearsed play with a lot of outtakes. That’s what we do on our show. It’s amazing, and my standup instincts are coming
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together with my years of doing dozens of movies, that dovetails nicely into a live audience situation where I’m bringing in elements from my standup. “As a performer, everything is coming full circle” he continues. “It’s pretty beautiful.” He also co-wrote the pilot, co-produces the series and contributes to the story arc. “This has really been such a dream come true because I’m involved in every facet of production,” he says. “It’s just really gratifying.”
Jeong still comes back to Greensboro to visit his parents, who are still in town — he was here for Mother’s Day — and he only missed his 25th reunion at Page because he was filming The Hangover 2. He sent a video to his classmates. “I had a great time at Page, man,” he says. “I was a nerd, but I was a popular nerd. I’m not succeeding to spite anybody. I was a happy kid. I was very blessed. I grew up in an environment at Page that was very supportive. I approach everything I do exactly the same way I did when I was a senior at Page: You chop wood, you carry water, you do the work, you tune out the noise, whether it’s a kegger or whatever.” “We don’t encourage our kids to be doctors,” Jeong says. “They’ll find something they love to do that we haven’t even thought of.”
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he signals are impossible to miss; this is not the same Indian restaurant. When Café Mirchi, a Pakistani and Indian restaurant, opened in the storefront that used to be India Palace on Greensboro’s collegiate Tate Street last week, the visible changes extended beyond the name change. Walls repainted a butterscotch sort of color, replaced light fixtures and a lack of art suggest an effort to brand the space as more upscale, as two-person tables replace the windowfront real estate that buffet carts used to occupy. Café Mirchi opened for dinner only a week ago, with plans to begin serving lunch this Thursday, which its website says will entail a buffet. Its predecessor was known as a cheap lunch spot though it frequently remained half empty. During its tenure India Palace provided a tempting buffet, albeit one with fewer items than its more expensive counterpart at Saffron Indian Cuisine. There isn’t anywhere in the Triad, at least that I can find, advertising itself as a Pakistani restaurant, though no doubt some local Indian restaurants offer dishes from the neighboring nation. Mirchi’s chef, a server told a table nearby a few nights ago, hails from Karachi, Pakistan’s largest ERIC GINSBURG The nihari (above) comes with beef, fresh ginger root, lemon and a gravy sauce and is one of several signature city that is situated on the Arabian Sea not Pakistani dishes at the new restaurant. too far from India’s northwest border. With several stellar existing Indian lemons as a garnish; squeeze both pieces over the dish friend suggested – the entire thing is a window. restaurants already around in town, I wanted to try a for full effect. If Mirchi is aiming for a more upscale, intimate and staple from the chef’s home turf. Our server pointed to My girlfriend and I traded the filling dishes, at first fine-dining oriented feel than India Palace, the owners the nihari, an entrée consisting of tender pieces of beef preferring each other’s before switching back. We need to commit to it; create at least a minimal level served in a mild gravy with thin pieces of ginger root equally endorsed the vegetable samosas sprinkled with of privacy from the street, break up the mostly empty and two lemon rounds. cilantro that we ordered as appetizers, but the palak room with dividers or a half wall and scrap the paper It’s one of six chef specials listed on the menu, and naan — just $3 and stuffed with spinach and herbs — protecting the nicer beige tablecloths. when have you ever seen beef at an Indian restaurant? proved even more enticing. It’s certainly possible to appeal to a fast-turnaround Chicken, goat, lamb, maybe seafood and vegetarian At first blush the menu lacked a vegetarian section, lunch buffet crowd and a more chic dinner-date audimeals to be sure, but not beef. That’s partly due to relibut the meatless dishes are marked by the “farm fresh” ence and make both feel at home. Café Mirchi already gious differences — India is predominantly Hindu while category and are also scattered throughout the list. executes Indian and Pakistani food well – a rarity in Pakistan is overwhelmingly Muslim. We ran into my friend Gwen while we this area – and benefits from prompt service. The The nihari can come with beef or were there. She said she and her date restaurant just needs a final push, and some outgoing Visit Café Mirchi at 413 chicken, our server said, but since the enjoyed the saag paneer and vegetaeaters, to bring it home. menu listed beef, I opted for what I ble biryani dishes — two of the vegeTate Street (GSO) or at hoped would be more traditional. tarian choices — but leaned towards cafe-mirchi.com. Unlike the creamy, orange butter the biryani with its “super fresh mint chicken, which also comes with a and cilantro.” Pick of the Week large bowl of rice, the flavors of the Few people have already discovered Café Mirchi, but Fiesta 2015 @ Downtown (W-S), Saturday nihari’s gravy can be somewhat muted if poured fully the slow rollout of the new restaurant gives its owners The Hispanic League hosts their annual fundraising into the rice bowl. It’s better to add spoonfuls of rice a chance to be more deliberate with their intentions. festival that includes lots of Latin cuisine as well as to the metal serving tray the nihari arrives in, while In the meantime the place feels too big and too open, a beer and margarita garden. More information at the rich butter chicken is only enhanced by the side Gwen and I agreed. Some sort of sheer curtain, maybe hispanicleague.org. The exhibit starts at noon. item and can be poured over it liberally. Don’t treat the something red, would benefit the front wall, my girl-
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CULTURE It can get intimate and weird at Luna Lounge by Jordan Green
or four guys who love music, write songs and faithfully get together to rehearse, being on the tiny stage at Luna Lounge & Tiki Bar with friends and family crowded around the bar is the fulfillment of a dream — one that is continuously evolving like globules of multicolored oil and water between two plates of glass. Well, mostly onstage. More on that later. The band is called SubQ and their sound is deliberately lo-fi, it seems, full of choppy chord progressions, left-field guitar solos and barked vocals. It’s timeless rock and roll that nonetheless falls way outside of the mainstream. It could be garage-psych rock circa 1966, industrial proto-punk from the mid-’70s, or ’80s underground along the lines of Dream Syndicate and Black Flag. For a group of veteran musicians performing officially as SubQ since 2006 but collaborating in various configurations for the better part of two decades, the little bar felt right on a recent Saturday night. Formerly a venue known as Elliott’s Revue, Luna Lounge & Tiki Bar was resurrected about a year ago. With friendly bar staff and beachy décor, it’s exactly what it sounds like, except that red lights give the stage a somewhat hellish feel. The small stage affords the venue a sense of intimacy that comes from close and sometimes unscripted encounters between performers and audience. The four musicians, who share vocal duties — Jeff Mills and Fred Hall on guitars, Ryan Harrison on bass and Shannon Murphy on drums —played ardently, not entirely concerned about whether their product meets customer approval. Sisters Kathy and Rebecca Clark — longtime fixtures on the arts and film scene in the Triad — were soon joined by bass player and Winston music scene luminary Andy “Freakin” Mabe. The trio held down the end of the bar primed for good-natured heckling, if robotic stop-motion dancing counts. Young, well-dressed couples who looked like they might be grad students or tech workers staggered in occasionally, either downing their drinks and moving on to the next stop or sticking around for the party. The stage wasn’t quite big enough to accommodate the band, and Hall actually performed beside it, directly facing the Clark sisters. A music stand holding a setlist augmented with chord progressions gave him the appearance of a librarian or a scientist on the verge of a major breakthrough. With close-cropped hair, Mills had a more athletic countenance, as he lunged into slashing guitar chords. On bass, the bespectacled Harrison had a gentle and pensive look. And with peroxided hair tied back in a ponytail, Murphy looked like a surfer. His drumming both propelled the music and imposed discipline on it. Six songs in, they worked through an original called “In My Dreams” built around chunky bar chords with muted phrasing, followed by a cover of the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle” that sounded like a lost garage classic
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from the Ohio suburbs. Then onto a grungy take on John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” with heavy reverb on Mills’ vocals. After receiving acknowledgement from Mills, Mabe started singing back to the band, responding to Mills’ dour proclamations with Ted Nugent-like yelps. And then during the last song of the set, “Nuh Uh,” Mabe rejoined Mills’ wounded lover kiss-off with a disapproving parent’s “No, no.” In SubQ’s case, the listener’s impression does not necessarily align with the band’s agenda. The charm of the band’s rough edges may in fact be an unintended side effect of their process. I was taken aback when Harrison shared that he and Mills have logged significant miles as fans on the jam-band festival circuit, and that he admires the music of the Grateful Dead and Phish, so much so that Harrison even named his son after Dead bassist Phil Lesh. When I mentioned this later to Murphy, he emphatically told me that he absolutely does not share his bandmates’ love of jam music. He tends more towards the get-in-get-the-job-done-and-get-out school of rock. “No song would ever end if they didn’t have me,” he said when we conferred on the sidewalk after the gig. The influence of Neil Young & Crazy Horse is more readily apparent in the cathartic and gnarled nature of SubQ’s three-chord romps. Or, consider how Nirvana developed their sound through endless hours of jamming, and you start to get the picture. And Hall, who also records under the solo moniker
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CULTURE A&T hosts collection of Calder–designed tapestries by Daniel Wirtheim
oymieco Carter first saw the tapestries when he opened the NC A&T University gallery’s vault five years ago, after becoming the university’s director of the visual arts program. At first he thought they might be African until he saw the signature woven into the bottom of all 14: Calder. Alexander Calder was well known for his mobiles, sculptures of delicately balanced, hanging components — some even call him the originator of the mobile. Calder was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his legacy of enormous mobile structures that were commissioned around the world. Through his research, Roymieco Carter learned that Calder gave the designs to a group of Guatemalan and Nicaraguan weavers after an earthquake devastated Nicaragua. That was in 1972, when Calder’s name was already well known and his works sold for large sums at auction. Since anything with his signature could sell for thousands, Calder’s gift was an economic stimulus package to the people of Guatemala and Nicaragua. French weavers had already been making Calder’s designs into tapestries when Bon Art, the group of Guatemalan women who sewed the tapestries at A&T, made their The handwoven fibers radiate from shapes in Calder’s original design. own edition. The French tapestries, called “Aubussons” after the village from where the weavers originated, use very fine wool There is a copyright mark woven into each of the and a hand-sewn technique that give the tapestries a tapestry’s top left corner, seeming to wink at the pristine look. But it’s the rugged, earthy texture of the immense amount of money that goes to the art trade. Bon Art tapestries that make them so appealing. Carter estimates that some of the tapestries cost close They’re woven from maguey fiber, a durable and to $8,000. It’s a lot but not comparable to the Aubusropey material found in arid climates like Guatemala. sons, which sell for as much as $54,000. But to Carter, Calder’s designs make use of the maguey’s natural the tapestries are less about the money and more beige color as a background for primary colors. This about story of Guatemala. is unlike the Aubussons, which Carter says that the tapestries occasionally use white as a backexpress a folk tradition of the ground. The designs are, for the The Fiber Artisan Tapestries Guatemalan people that he thinks most part, painted in the primary is important to share with the is on display through Sept. colors of red, blue and yellow. public. 27. Visit 17daysgreensboro. Carter said the shapes are pulled “For the 17 Days festival, from nature, some of them identieveryone dug deep to find what org for more information. fiable as zebra stripes, mountains treasures they could share with and a boomerang. the community,“ Carter said, “and The fibers are woven together in bunches that radithese are what we pulled out of the vault.” ate around the shapes and often run into the path of While the Bon Art editions are praised for their another to resemble complex circuitry. For this reason adaptation of one of the world’s most notable artists, the tapestries are best seen up close and in person. The some of the fiber tapestries have been suspect to complex movement of the hand-woven fiber is what scrutiny. makes the Bon Art editions so intriguing compared to The Calder Foundation website indicates some of their earlier French counterparts. the tapestries made as a part of the charitable effort
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GOOD SPORT Guilford’s crimson tide The long-bearded Carter, straw hat always atop his over the two years I attended class there after transenior wide receivhead, seemed happy as ever to see me, and we caught ferring, I never went to a single football game. Never er Adam Smith of up for a bit before he gave me an unsolicited opinion Guilford College even covered one for the sports section when I wrote for the Guilfordian. about the football program. made one of the most insane “We have 19 seniors on the team, and it’s all in sync I guess part of the reason was that I was a commutcatches I’ve ever seen in their now,” Carter said. ing, adult student. Academics came first, especially early-season homecoming Good ol’ Max Carter, in many ways the school’s unsince I wasn’t part of the on-campus, traditional game against the Averett official mascot, always reliable for a quote on almost student body. I was never swept into any ra-ra-ra exUniversity Cougars. by Anthony Harrison any subject. citement on Saturdays, but most of my peers weren’t Senior quarterback Matt But he only stated the obvious truth. either. Pawlowski, who went an Anyway, I’d been through that whole song and dance Seniors Pawlowski and Smith connected the whole impressive 23-for-27 in attempts, hadn’t meant to game, but Pawlowski had other upper-class weaponry in a former life at Appalachian State. complete his pass to Smith. I can’t honestly recall who in wideout Chad Christopher and running back Josh Still, Guilford’s ascendant fervor clearly infected the the intended receiver was; it all happened so fast. The Schow, both of whom tallied touchdowns. community. Attendance skyrocketed to 2,850 fans, ball bounced off the initial receiver and seemingly right Not to be outdone, underclassmen showed up, too. partly due to homecoming — you can’t achieve those into the Averett safety’s hands. But then it bobbled Perhaps most notably, sophomore running back De’Ernumbers just relying on the Guilford bubble. again, and Smith was there to make the play. ic Bell mixed the best attributes of a bull and a bottle One attendee was definitely outside of the bubble: “Our receiver pushed [the Averett safety], and it rocket, powering out of tackles and blasting through Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. Curpopped out of that,” Smith said after the game on holes in the Averett defense. He led the team in ry’s uncle, Cleive Adams, coaches the Cougars. Sept. 19. “I think I reacted quicker than I expected.” rushing with 115 yards and scored the eighth and final Whether or not he enjoyed the game remains unThe weight of the moment was not on his mind. Quaker touchdown with two minutes and 45 seconds sure; the NBA’s reigning MVP couldn’t “All I was thinking was, ‘Catch it left in the third quarter. and hurry up into the end zone,’” Guilford College’s next home be reached for comment. The Quaker defense also ran a clinic on Averett, Of course, students still showed up Smith said. game is against Shenandoah holding them at 14 points for most of the second in force. He didn’t have far to go, since College on Oct. 10 at 1 p.m. quarter, all of the third and most of the fourth. Senior Two sophomores — Max Furbee and the scuffle occurred on the oneVisit guilfordquakers.com linebacker Daytwyn Rascoe, topping Guilford’s defenSam Cohen — epitomized awkward yard line. for more information. sive stats with 12 tackles including four for loss, even Guilford College wit and intelligence Smith’s touchdown reception forced a safety in the third period. in their chants and heckling. — his second of three on the night The final score: 58-21, Guilford, with the Quakers “Our SAT scores are higher!” Furbee and his 34th in his college career — recording a W in another rousing rout. broke the school record. screamed at the players from the Danville, Va. univerThey moved up to the No. 24 slot in Division III ranksity during the first half. The touchdown came at the end of a tremendous ings, and they’re probably not done rising. “They say that in high school, dude,” Cohen said. drive covering 99 yards split over 10 plays, all after a Their crimson tide has not crested yet. “We have a sustainable community!” Furbee shoutsuperb goal-line stop by the Quaker defense after a ed, promptly amending himself. desperate attempt by the Cougars to convert on fourth down. After Smith’s TD and a successful two-point They could also be heard chanting Guilford’s seven Pick of the Week core values: Community, equality, justice, integrity, conversion, the score stood at 35-14 with 35.3 seconds For Marty, not Matty excellence, diversity and — last but not least — stewleft in the first half. Marty Sheets and Robert Stone Memorial Golf Tournament @ ardship. 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From the moment host Andy Samberg stepped onto the set of the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards wearing a no-chance-ofgetting-laid ’70s prom tux and looking like Pee-wee Herman with a makeover, I knew it was going to be a weird night. His jokes flopped more than Heidi Klum’s “Project Runway — Sesame Street Edition” Big Bird-yellow gown. “Mad Men” lead actor winner Jon Hamm and Adrian Brody, with their hobo “It’s five o’clock somewhere” shadows and midnight tuxedos looked like they might take him out in the parking lot and beat the crap out of him afterwards. The gaps in laughter were more prominent than “Orange Is the New Black” supporting actress winner Uzo Aduba’s front teeth and the audience — adorned largely in black — looked like it was in mourning for comedy. You know it’s a sad night for fashion when the accountants for Ernst & Young are the best dressed in the house. You also know there’s something wrong when the words said about Lady Gaga are “understated and elegant.” “Is there a writer’s strike going on that I don’t know about,” I tweeted. “They should really consider hiring writers next year,” fellow scribe Eddie Huffman Facebooked. There was more drama onstage than series winner “Game of Thrones” when comedy lead winner Jeffrey Tambor spoke out — twice — about transgender awareGate City Vineyard is a modern, ness and director Jill Soloway reiterated Christian church that exists to serve the theme like a court jester thrumming the community around us. Our desire home a profound point to the king in her is to help people of all ages and polka dot suit and “I love big shoes” footbackgrounds grow in their wear. (Wait, did Pee-wee Herman have understanding of God. something to do with the Emmys?) Lead actress winner Viola Davis, already At the Vineyard you can come as stepping into the role of Maya Angelou, you are and be yourself. rapped the knuckles of Hollywood for not providing enough powerful roles for black Whatever your thoughts about women. Why she didn’t call out Tyler church, whatever your beliefs Perry for taking them all, I’m still unclear. about God … you are “Bessie” won for best TV movie and more, welcome here. re-crowning Queen Latifah, and Regina King took home an Emmy for miniseries gatecityvineyard.com supporting actress for “American Crime.” Oprah and Gayle must have required 204 S. Westgate Dr., Greensboro sedation — or another order of cheese-
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burgers. Self-described outsider Amy Schumer won variety sketch series for her delightfully irreverent show “Inside Amy Schumer.” “The Daily Show” — once a indie phenom on the talk-show circuit — took home enough trophies to circle retiring host Jon Stewart’s encampment on Mars if Trump is elected president. No primetime spring chickens, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney took home Emmys for best actress comedy for “Veep” and supporting actress for “Mom,” respectively. The cast and crew of “Olive Kitteridge” were onstage more Emmy night than host Samberg. Frances McDormand’s win as lead actress in the role gives new meaning to method acting. Dishevelment is, apparently, the real new black. And Peter Dinklage walked tall to take the win for supporting actor for his work on “Game of Thrones.” Indeed it was the night of the little guys — and that’s terrific — but what was really in the minority during the Emmys was entertainment. Hollywood is notorious for its bouts of taking itself too seriously, chastised — and lauded — for using their celebrity to further political purposes as well as using art as a platform, but what’s really scary is when that’s solely where America and the rest of the world is looking for answers. Or as the “Olive Kitteridge” director yelled out on stage, “This came from a book people!”
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