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Love and death in New Jersey

by Brian Clarey

We lost PaPa the first time more than 10 years ago, when dementia and alcoholism conspired to rob the man of his final

act in a good, long life.

So by the time we truly lost him, just a few days shy of his 98th birthday, most of us had already mourned for his soul.

I traveled to New Jersey by plane, train and automobile, joining those of us who were left to bury him in a plot in Rockaway, purchased long ago. There he would join my grandmother and her parents in a small hillside cemetery filled with gravestones bearing Italian names.

He outlived his six brothers and sisters, including an identical twin, Carmelo, who died almost 50 years ago, when I was in the fourth grade. I remember my PaPa bringing me to the mausoleum where his brother was interred shortly afterwards, the only time I ever saw him cry.

In PaPa’s eulogy, delivered in the same Morristown church where he was baptized and attended mass his whole life, my Uncle Tom referred to his “underprivileged upbringing.” He was the son of immigrants, Pellegrino and Brigida Pagano,

a less-than kid who worked his way to an Ivy League education and a thriving dental practice through the Depression, a world war and an era of discrimination against Italian Americans. His admission to Springbrook Country Club in the 1950s was scandalous, no matter that he was a professional and a war veteran.

PaPa went to Germany as an army dentist at the end of World War II, fell quickly under Gen. George Patton’s command and went to Dachau shortly after it was liberated, bringing home stories of the piles of jewelry, human hair and baby shoes that he saw, as well as an enormous Nazi flag plundered from a stadium after US occupation began.

My uncle, a former school superintendent, quietly donated the flag to a traveling Holocaust museum, but he keeps the stories intact.

Over penne Bolognese and chicken piccata at Portofino’s in Morristown, one of PaPa’s haunts, those of us who were left traded these stories like shared artifacts, some unearthed for the first time.

“I wish I asked more questions,” my mother said from the back seat.

We digested it all in the ride back to my aunt’s house near Princeton, our moment of closure for the man we loved and who loved us in return.

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My opponent and I, we may both be attorneys, but that’s where the similarities end.

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CITY LIFE Nov. 2 - 5

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY Living Landscapes @ Old Salem Visitor Center (W-S), 7 p.m.

Old Salem Museums & Gardens and Forsyth Audubon Society host author Doug Tallamy, a professor of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, in the James A. Gray Jr. Auditorium. Tallamy describes how to design garden habitats with native plants to better support local wildlife like birds, bees and butterflies. Sip on organic wine from Carolina Heritage Vineyards and Foothills beer during the book signing and reception, featuring food with native plants like elderberry, sunflower, persimmons and pawpaw. Learn more at oldsalem.org.

Panel discussion @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO), 7 p.m.

Weatherspoon Director Nancy Doll moderates a discussion entitled “Feminism and Gay Women’s Lives” in conjunction with the exhibition Louise Fishman: A Retrospective. Developer and former educator Dawn Chaney; retired English professor Sydney Gingrow; and Addison Ore, former executive director Triad Health Project and a former freelance columnist for the News & Record, join in conversation about the professional and personal obstacles gay women face. Learn more at weatherspoon.uncg.edu.

FRIDAY Día de los Muertos Festival @ Central Library & LeBauer Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

Casa Azul celebrates Día de los Muertos, a traditional Mexican holiday honoring the dead. The festival begins in the Nussbaum Room of the Central Library, where attendees explore colorfully decorated, traditional ofrendas (“offerings”) on exhibit. Local artists created ofrendas to honor deceased loved ones, community members or significant public figures. At 7 p.m., cultural performances commence in LeBauer Park. Learn more at casaazulgreensboro.org.

Let Justice Sing Down music festival @ First Baptist Church on Fifth (W-S), 7 p.m.

Wake Forest School of Divinity, several local congregations and the Hymn Society

host a two-day music festival called Congregational Songs of Our Times, uniting choirs, clergy and laity in the Winston-Salem area around issues of social justice through worship. Friday evening kicks off with the theme “From Racism to Grace+ism: Through Spirituals, Hymns and Songs of Social Justice” with James Abbington, D’Walla Simmons-Burke, and the Winston-Salem State University Singing Rams. The festival continues Saturday at 9 a.m. Learn more at divinity.wfu.edu.

Now, Voyager screening @ SECCA (WS), 7:30 p.m.

RiverRun International Film Festival presents filmmaker Monika Henreid, the daughter of Paul Henreid, a director and actor blacklisted during the McCarthy era who is best known for his roles as raconteur Victor Laszlo in Casablanca and as Jerry Durrance in Now, Voyager. She discusses her father’s career with film professor Dale Pollock before the screening of the 1942 film. Learn more and find tickets at secca. org.

Foxture album release @ ARTivity on the Green (W-S), 8 p.m.

Take a break from the gallery hop on Trade Street to support Winston-Salem indie rock band Foxture as they debut their newest EP, Eden. Trip-pop artist Animalweapon of Raleigh joins them for the free outdoor show. Find the event on Facebook.

Ghost Tour @ High Point Station (HP), 9 p.m.

Ethereal Crack presents Forgotten High Point: The High Point Ghost Tour highlighting mysteries of a haunted bridge, the ghosts of High Point University and the haunted City Hall. Tours run hourly from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Learn more and find tickets at eventbrite.com.

SATURDAY Local Author Book Festival @ High Point Public Library (HP), 11 a.m.

More than 10 local authors converge in the Morgan Community Room and Lobby to tell readers about their works, which will be for sale. Authors writing fiction, nonfiction, spirituality and life-coaching will attend and a free book-writing and publishing workshop begins at 1 p.m. Learn more at highpointnc.gov.

Glenwood Fall Festival @ corner of Glenwood Avenue & Grove Street (GSO), 2 p.m.

The Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association and the Grove Street People’s Market present an afternoon festival featuring local food, face-painting, crafts, games and a petting zoo offering pony rides. Ask all your gardening questions during a pruning workshop, peruse the bookshelves aboard the Boomerang Bookshop bus and explore Tiny Houses Greensboro’s prototype tiny house on site.

Find the event on Facebook.

Diwali celebration @ Niel Bolton Home & Garden Building (W-S), 5 p.m.

The Indian Association of Carolinas presents a celebration of Diwali, a traditional celebration of lights, at the Winston-Salem Fair Ground. Enjoy a multi-course dinner and delicious snacks and dance to a live DJ before a firework show. A variety of cultural performances begin at 6 p.m. Learn more at indianac.org.

Full moon celebration @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 7 p.m.

Meet underneath Janet Echelman’s “Where We Met” sculpture for an evening of storytelling from local leaders, dancing and live music from Fredd Reyes. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Find the event on Facebook.

SUNDAY Triad VegFest @ Greensboro Farmers

Curb Market (GSO), 11 a.m.

This all-vegan festival offers education about adopting a vegan diet and lifestyle with cooking demonstrations and access to a marketplace of vegan clothing, cosmetics, baked goods and meat substitutes.

Purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win vegan gift baskets. Learn more at triadvegfest.org.

Chili Cookoff @ Porch Kitchen and

Cantina (W-S), 3 p.m.

Winston-Salem’s five local breweries — Fiddlin’ Fish, Foothills, Hoots, Small Batch and Wise Man — face off in a chili-cooking contest at the Porch Cantina. Attendees sample and vote on each brewery’s chili.

The finished product must incorporate one of the brewery’s beers. While the cooks are at work, sip on some beer and enjoy yard games and live music out back. Find the event on Facebook.

Planetarium show @ Guilford College Cline Observatory (GSO), 7 p.m.

Professor Don Smith gives a presentation on nebulae — interstellar clusters of dust and gases where stars form and which mark their demise — in the Bryan Jr. Planetarium during an observatory open house.

Weather permitting, Smith will point out examples of nebulae in the night sky. Find the event on Facebook.

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By Lauren Barber

2. Chili & cornbread A meat-free take on a cold-weather classic. Combine your choice of two beans, yellow onion, carrots, bell or poblano peppers, jalapeños, green onion, garlic, chili powder, cumin and black pepper. Supplement with quinoa or a meat substitute to diversify texture and add protein. Spice up your cornbread with extra jalapeño pepper or bring along some rosemary for a savory twist. Jiffy corn-muffin mix is your friend. Cover the skillet and monitor closely so the bottom doesn’t burn, especially if you’re working with a cast-iron skillet on open flame.

4. Grilled vegetables Wrap any seasoned vegetables in tinfoil and rotate in the fire every two or three minutes for a total of about 10 minutes. Corn on the cob is a popular choice, but this dish is another opportunity to finish off any unused veggies and seasoning; zucchini squash, peppers, green beans, carrots, asparagus, potatoes and onions cut long-ways are excellent options.

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3. Veggie egg scramble Pasteurized eggs will keep fresh for a remarkably long time, especially in cooler weather or if you elect to “glamp” or have access to a cooler. This scramble is

perfect for tossing in leftover vegetables and those broccoli stalks you avoided. Wrap it up in extra tortillas and add shredded cheese or hot sauce to elevate your game.

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1. Sweet-potato burritos These bundles of joy will warm your hands before filling your stomach. Suggested ingredients include: sweet potatoes (substitute with a winter squash if you’d like), black beans, red onion, bell peppers, jalapeño or habanero peppers, broccoli, mushrooms, a copious dose of garlic, cilantro, cumin and black pepper. As with each recipe on this list, pre-mixing spices and preparing vegetables to store in Tupperware beforehand can save you time and space; peeling garlic in the wilderness is no fun and if you’re relying on your fire, time can be of the essence. If you’re relatively new to camping, prepare what you think you’ll need, then double that amount. Go ahead and watch a quick YouTube tutorial on proper wrapping techniques to prevent spillage around the fire.

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How the two Americas view sexual harassment

by Jordan Green

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“You think he’s going to make America great?” she asked her grandson, priming him for the moment. She liked the way Trump made liberals mad, the woman told me, but she hoped he wouldn’t cut Medicare and food assistance, programs she relied upon to care for her grandson since his mother is struggling with addiction.

I played coy with my own political beliefs and we settled into a friendly banter, discovering that we had at least one mutual friend. She told me she had hung out with a lot of musicians.

The woman volunteered that she lost friends over the political fallout after the “Access Hollywood” tape came out.

“My friend said, ‘How can you support him?’ she recounted. “I said, ‘I’ve heard you say from the stage, ‘I want to F her.’ Name me one man or woman who hasn’t felt that way about someone of the opposite sex at one time or another. That’s how we are!”

Sexual assault and misogyny are a plague that transcends political ideology; no group holds a monopoly. But the conversation made me wonder if conservatives have revised their standards on sexual harassment to accommodate their support for Trump. And we might well also ask whether progressives’ disgust towards Trump has finally forced them to own up to their own failings when it comes to the mistreatment of women.

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tor Alyssa Milano on Oct. 15, the #MeToo hashtag swept across social media, empowering women with the evidence that they are not alone in experience sexual harassment, and shaming men with the recognition of our complicity.

Yet I wonder if this reckoning has only established a new consensus about the repugnance of sexual harassment within the progressive silo. I’m not for a minute going to claim that conservatives don’t care about sexual harassment, but it’s hard not to draw comparisons between Weinstein and Trump, both overbearing and chauvinistic white men who wielded their power as industry titans to bend other human beings to their will. Weinstein, a liberal powerbroker who almost singlehandedly determined who could succeed in Hollywood and donated lavishly to Democratic candidates, was fired by his own company three days after the New York Times exposé went to print.

Trump, a conservative real-estate mogul and media star, withstood multiple accusations of groping women during the presidential campaign, and even after the “Access Hollywood” tape revealed him bragging about grabbing women by their genitals, he was elected president.

Two days after the Weinstein story broke, I interviewed a grandmother who described herself as an “avid Trump supporter.” She was standing in the rain in Greensboro’s Irving Park neighborhood with her grandson waiting to get a glimpse of the president as he arrived for a political fundraiser.

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Almost every aspect of American cultural and political life is now framed by separate news media ecosystems that determine reality for the consumption of mutually alienated tribes. The fragmentation holds true for how Americans understand extremist violence, and it will surely control how Americans make sense of the federal indictments handed down to three Trump associates this week. To an extent, the competing information ecosystems also shape views on sexual assault.

It’s been fascinating to observe the shift in public discourse over sexual assault in the aftermath of revelations reported largely by the New York Times and the New Yorker that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein serially abused multiple women, allegedly up to and including rape, while employees and friends looked the other way. Even though Weinstein’s behavior was an open secret for years, the revelations somehow creating a tipping point for a consensus to finally emerge among women and men alike that sexual harassment, catcalling, groping and lewd comments are not acceptable under any circumstances.

New revelations have followed, spreading beyond the movie industry. Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi has been implicated in sexual harassment claims — ironically by his own authorship — dating back from his time in Russia.

NBC severed its contract with journalist Mark Halperin on Monday, following revelations that he harassed a at least a dozen women. Meanwhile, following the prompting of ac-

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City council contest for District 3 flips script on race and politics

by Jordan Green

Justin Outling made history in 2015 as the first African American elected to represent District 3. Two years later, Craig Martin — a white progressive — is challenging him from the left.

Appointed to fill the unexpired term of Zack Matheny in the summer of 2015, Justin Outling made history later that year by becoming the first AfricanAmerican elected to represent District 3, which has the highest percentage of white voters.

Outling finds himself seeking re-election to a second term as part of a bloc of incumbents that coalesced into a centerleft team beginning around 2011. Like other incumbents in the three majoritywhite districts, Outling is defending his seat against a more left-leaning challenger.

Craig Martin, a Guilford County public defender, faces an uphill challenge based on the results of the Oct. 10 primary, where he took 21.8 percent of the vote compared to Outling’s commanding majority of 69.1 percent. Martin’s campaign has received a boost from endorsements by the Triad Labor Council and Guilford County Association of Educators, while Outling has received the coveted endorsements of the city’s police and firefighter associations.

“My opponent and I, we may both be attorneys, but that’s where the similarities end,” Martin told voters during a candidate forum hosted by the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress before the primary. “I could have chosen to be a corporate attorney and defend corporations, but I wanted to do more. I wanted to help people. So that is why I chose to become a public defender.”

Outling didn’t shy away from the “corporate attorney” tag in his introduction.

“I work at a law firm called Brooks Pierce,” he said. “I’m essentially a problem solver representing corporations and professionals dealing with their trickiest problems.”

Outling heaped scorn on Martin’s portrayal of his legal work as a public service, including volunteering as a legal observer and participating in a “know

your rights” training at UNCG. “I get paid every day to use my legal training,” Outling said. “That legal training is not my entree into community service.

What is, is my history of serving this community.”

Before he joined city council, Outling noted that he had been active with SynerG, an organization that works to attract and retain young professionals, and that he chaired the Minimum Housing Standards Commission.

On a recent Saturday, Outling wended through a crowd at the Morehead Trailhead as well-wishers clapped his shoulder and offered encouragement.

As a volunteer for the JORDAN GREEN Craig Martin, a candidate for the District 3 seat on Greensboro City Council, Run 4 the Downtown canvasses in a neighborhood north of Country Park on a recent Saturday.

Greenway, he shared the stage with UNCG for our community to be successful we ceived a polite hearing from white voters Chancellor Frank Gilliam and called out need to have a vibrant downtown,” he but a more enthusiastic reception with the names of the top finishers. said. blacks in the district.

Before emceeing the award ceremony, While Outling spent the day making “Given the New York Times coverOutling sat on the deck at Morehead appearances in the center city, includage and issues with police body-worn Foundry and exulted about the rapid ing the Elsewhere artist collaborative’s camera video, a lot of [white] people are growth of downtown, expressing parannual extravaganza, Martin focused on interested, if not personally affected,” ticular appreciation for the greenway, residential neighborhoods along BattleMartin said. which he called “transformational” and ground Avenue. Working off a voter list “It’s been more welcomed in [the “a rousing success.” obtained from the board of elections, black] community because they personThe trailhead and foundry, a complex Martin has been contacting people who ally have experience with the police, so of restaurants that also includes a bakery voted in the last city council election in they come to it with a different perspecand a bar, is part of Outling’s district, 2015, but did not vote in the Oct. 10 tive than their well-off white neighbors,” which covers most of downtown, but primary. he added. the vast majority of voters live outside “I’m focusing on the precincts that I Outling said the main difference of downtown, from the exclusive Irving did the best in so I can get people to talk between the two candidates is that while Park neighborhood to suburban commuto their neighbors,” he said. He found his opponent talks about values, he gets nities clustered around a series of lakes about five voters on his list in a neighresults. at the north end of the city. Outling said borhood to the north of Country Park, “I, like many of you, was very fruswhether they come downtown or not, but discovered to his chagrin that several trated that the Greensboro Police Demost of his constituents are happy with lived in apartment complexes that propartment was the first police department city council’s investment in downtown, hibited soliciting, so at 3 p.m. he decided to be outfitted with body-worn cameras, including the greenway, the planned to go home and work the phones for rest yet a grand total of just about zero footTanger Performing Arts Center and a of the day. age had been released,” Outling told parking garage to support a new hotel.

Martin said his focus on systemic voters at the Greensboro Neighborhood “They overwhelmingly recognize that racism and police accountability has reCongress forum, recalling the time when

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he joined city council in the summer of in Greensboro 2015. “So, I along with others made it a and employs mission to try to figure out how we could 3,500 people release as much body-worn camera footlocally. Outling age as possible. made the mo“While Greensboro was releasing tion to set aside video, in Charlotte they were not taking the RFP, which proactive measures; there was a [policepassed 6-3. When involved] shooting, [and] they had riots council took a in the streets that resulted in the death of vote a month a citizen in Charlotte,” he added. later to award to Martin has argued on the campaign the contract to trail that the city’s policy on police bodyUnited Healthworn video — which was mooted by a care following the state law shortly after it was approved revelation that — was nothing to brag about. He chalhis law firm had lenged voters to try to find a difference represented the between the policy authored by Outling healthcare comand the state law that replaced it. The pany, Outling city’s policy “still had presumption that recused himself the body-worn camera footage would citing a conflict be private and not open to the public,” of interest. Both Martin said. “And that is exactly what’s Outling and City wrong with our current law around Attorney Tom body-worn camera video, and that was Carruthers deexactly what’s wrong with Greensboro’s clined to answer body-worn camera policy.” a question from Martin also said members of the Councilwoman Justin Outling (left), who is seeking his second term representing District 3, announced current council shouldn’t congratulate Sharon Hightwinners of the Downtown Greenway Run on Oct. 28. themselves for releasing video of an ower about why infamous incident last year in which a Outling had been allowed to vote on the police officer subjected Dejuan Yourse to matter previously. excessive force.

Addressing voters at the Greensboro Martin argues in response that council Neighborhood Congress forum, Martin members voted to release the police said, “While I’m on council I can guarbody-camera video more because of antee you that each and every decision I public pressure than due to their own take will be to the benefit of the people initiative. of Greensboro, not corporations like Outling says he will continue to work United Healthcare. I will never use or with state Rep. John Faircloth, the abuse my power to benefit corporations author of the state law, to loosen restricat the expense of taxpayer dollars.” tions on public access to police bodyResponding to his opponent’s critiworn video, while Martin cism during an interview says the city should at Morehead Foundry, provide assistance to help While Craig Martin Outling said he followed citizens access the video the city attorney’s advice canvassed the through the courts. about whether he should north side, Justin Martin has also atvote or not, and that he tempted to draw a voted to prevent the conOutling volundistinction between tract from going to Cigna teered at a charity because he was concerned himself and his opponent by highlighting a vote about the integrity of run downtown. to set aside a request for the award process. He proposals that would have suggested that Martin’s awarded a city contract for medical criticism amounts to a distraction from plan administrative services to Cigna the real issues of the campaign.

Health Insurance. A consultant found “Politics is so interesting,” Outling that Cigna’s proposal would have saved said. “I focus on getting results.” the city $650,000 per year compared to rival United Healthcare, which is based

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Guilford Dems condemn Facebook post making light of prison rape

by Jordan Green

Scott Jones, a candidate for state House, earned the condemnation of the local party and many of his fellow Democrats for a Facebook post advocating that a black high school student be raped in prison, but Jones says his account was hacked.

Scott Jones has twice run as the Democratic Party nominee for the state House District 59 seat. You could surmise from the “I stand for the flag; I kneel at the cross” customization on a recent Facebook profile that his cultural attitudes are at least a couple clicks to the right of most of his fellow Democrats on cultural issues, but 18 words in a recent status update display an insensitivity about the school-to-prison pipeline, racial disparities and sexual assault that was too much for local party leaders.

Following a trigger warning for sexual assault and racism, the Guilford County Democratic Party posted a status update on Oct. 27 that denounced Jones’ post without mentioning him by name.

Facebook page and making comments on other peoples post along with my own [sic].”

Jones’ hacking claim is undercut by his response to a comment challenging his statement. Another Facebook user, Greg Woods, wrote, “Really?

You want a minor to be raped in jail? Disgusting!” Woods said Jones replied, “I don’t believe that is what I said but if you want to assume or twist it that’s up to you.”

Early on Oct. 28, Jones suggested the controversy was a function of a dispute between him and local party officials, and hinted that he was the victim of an intra-party sabotage effort.

“I’ve recently questioned the COURTESY PHOTO Scott Jones entered politics with a Republican challenge against Sheriff BJ Guilford County Democratic Barnes, and then ran for state House as a Democrat in 2014 and 2016.

“It has come to our attention that Party and the new officers and someone running for state office as a suggests party leaders aren’t buying it. in 2018. “I had been contemplating shared my concerns with ofDemocrat recently posted a joke about whether I would run a third campaign ficers of the state Democratic Party,” prison rape on his personal Facebook “It also occurs to us that the object in an otherwise gerrymandered district Jones said on Facebook.

“I will add that page,” the statement reads. “It was an th of this joke is a young black man who is in which no Democrat could ever win,” on October 5 an attempt was made extremely distasteful thing to say, and legally considered a minor,” the DemoJones wrote on his campaign page. “In by a page admin from my 2014 camthe GCDP wants to make it very clear cratic Party statement reads. “As the light of recent events, I am even more paign whom attempted to that while this person may progressive party, it is incumbent upon dedicated to running for public office in delete my campaign page!

‘To joke about rape anytime identify as a Democrat, us to recognize and call out the racism 2018 than ever before!”

A Democrat Mr. Woods is disgusting, but we find it there is no place for anyone inherent in this post. Black men — reespecially insensitive given screen-shot the post that was who makes light of such gardless of age — have been the target In another post minutes later, Jones the Weinstein scandal.’ hacked and sent it to a local traumatic violence in our of state-sanctioned violence since the continued to deny responsibility for editor of a small paper in party.” dawn of the country, and this ‘joke’ is a the offending original post, adding that an attempt to stir trouble. He along with The post on Jones’ personal Facebook modern manifestation of that violence. people can decide for themselves what to over 40 people have been deleted and page, which appeared the day before, The Democratic Party of Guilford believe. blocked. I don’t have time waste on silly included an article share from a News County wants no part of it or anyone games.”

“Hello, I’d like to start by saying as a & Record story about a black student at who would perpetuate it. To joke about Jones challenged Republican Jon father and husband I could never, nor Southeast Guilford High School who is rape anytime is disgusting, but we find it Hardister in the largely rural state House would I ever condone rape,” he wrote. charged with felony assault for his role especially insensitive given the [Harvey] District 59 in 2014 and 2016, garner“I would like to add that you should all in a school fight. The post was accomWeinstein Scandal and the #MeToo ing 36.3 percent and 39.7 percent of change your password periodically and panied by the comment: “I hope he gets campaign that has received widespread the vote respectively. In his first foray use caution when using your cellular dea nice big boyfriend in jail and he gets a media coverage. This Democrat should into electoral politics, Jones challenged vice on a public connection. I’ve seen the little something from behind.” The post have known better, and we will do evBJ Barnes in the 2010 Republican warning come up when I log on with my was published on a setting so that only erything in our power as the local party primary for Guilford County sheriff laptop at a coffee shop but never gave it Jones’ Facebook friends could see it. leadership to hold our candidates to a and he ran against Pat McCrory in the a second thought. Please protect yourResponding to an inquiry from Triad higher standard.”

2012 Republican primary for governor, selves from hackers. I don’t know who or City Beat, Jones wrote in a Facebook before switching his voter registration to On Sunday morning, after sustainwhy someone would hack my account. message: “Good afternoon, thank you Democrat. ing a barrage of criticism from fellow I can’t apologize for something I knew for bringing this to my attention. I have Democrats on Facebook, Jones reafnothing about so I’m not going to. You reset my password and security settings.

Despite Jones’ disavowal to TCB, the firmed plans to runs for the state House will just have to decide for yourselves.”

It appears that someone has hacked my Guilford County Dems’ denunciation

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OPINION

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Citizen Green

Our state’s illegal districts have been in effect for almost seven years — four election cycles, during which time federal courts and three-judge panels have repeatedly pointed out that there is something unAmerican about the way we elect our lawmakers.

There are 2.6 million registered Democrats in the state, compared to 2.1 million Republicans. But our General Assembly leans heavily towards the right: 74 of 120 House seats and 35 of 50 in the Senate.

Even factoring in 2.1 million unaffiliated voters, the fastest-growing segment as both sides become disillusioned with their parties, simple math suggests that votes coming from the right carry more weight than those from the left — a violation of the “one-personone-vote” principal under the Simple math suggests that votes Equal Proteccoming from the right carry more tion Clause of weight than those from the left. the Fourteenth Amendment.

An emphasis in the General Assembly on “traditional” values — demonstrated in moves like HB 2, the attempt to delegitimize same-sex marriages, a play by the Senate that would have taken away Greensboro’s right to draw its own city council districts, or the 2015 law that redistributed sales tax from cities to rural parts of our urban counties — also seems out of balance.

Consider this: Of the 10.2 million people who live in North Carolina, almost 60 percent live in the three largest metro areas of Charlotte, the Triangle and the Triad. And just about everyone who doesn’t live in our cities is entirely dependent on the economies generated therein. Even farmers are reliant on the people they have to feed.

That doesn’t mean rural neighbors don’t have skin in the game; it means that the state of North Carolina is a plurality, with myriad concerns and responsibilities that are best addressed when removed as far from party politics as possible. Politics are the enemy of policy.

We applaud a federal judge’s decision to appoint an independent redistricting specialist — Stanford University Law School professor Nathan Persily — to remake our districts into a mirror rather than a lantern.

On Monday, Republican leaders filed an objection to the court’s latest action against our state’s illegal districts. Their chosen tactic is ad hominem: accusations that Persily is himself a partisan agent who would corrupt the process.

If they can drag this out until February, when candidate filings for the 2018 election begin, they will have accomplished their goal, yet again subverting democracy.

There’s only a tiny kernel of truth to the hoax.

The Oct. 26 tweet from Laguna Beach Antifa displays a photoThe Revolutionary Communist Party front group Refuse graph of an effeminate trans perFascism is launching a coordinated protest in 18 American son with piercings, facial hair and cities — though none in North Carolina to date — under thick glasses gripping an assault the banner, “This Nightmare Must End: the Trump/Pence rifle, along with the tag: “I’m ready Regime Must Go!” To be absolutely clear, Refuse Fascism for #November4th #Nov4ItBeand the Revolutionary Communist Party are not antifa, and

by Jordan Green gins.” nowhere on the group’s website is there any mention of The likes and retweets by other supposed antifa outfits buying weapons or engaging in any kind of violence.

— the word is short for “anti-fascist” and refers to a cohort People in the right-wing patriot militia, or 3 Percent of militant leftists who often wear masks to maintain movement, also appear to be taking the threat seriously. anonymity while engaging in street combat with white Prominent figures in the movement like Francis Marion, supremacists — at improbable locations like Beverly Hills, a leader of American Freedom Keepers, frequently post Nantucket, Wall Street and the Hamptons provides a clue Facebook Live videos where they can respond in real time that this probably isn’t serious. to comments from followers. Marion’s most recent video, A retweet of an article about “antifa parody accounts” which received 6,500 views and 213 shares, was mainly confirms the joke, and incredibly, Laguna Beach Antifa redevoted to what people should expect on Nov. 4. sponds to a query from another Twitter user about whether Here’s a sampling of comments by Marion’s followers. the profile is a Russian bot: “Yes I am.”

Carmen McPhee Jones: “Judge Jeanine Pirro posted And yet, many on the far-right are convinced that today the cities on antifa’s list for Nov. 4th protests & my city “antifa” is planning to launch a civil war on Nov. 4, which, if is on it. What is the honest threat to us?” you’re paying attention, is this Saturday.

Trina Thompson Janson: “I’m locked and loaded just in KrisAnne Hall, a right-wing radio host and former Florida case!!” prosecutor with 19,000 Twitter followers — among them Cornell Maile: “If you are locked and loaded be ready to North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis — tweeted on Oct. 22: kill and possibly die, just be ready.” “#Antifa & intellectual toddlers better keep their violence The American Freedom Keepers leader responded, in liberal cities — country folk know how to deal w infant “We’ve heard threats all the way from throwing urine-filled tantrums #CivilWar2017.” balloons at you to gunning you down if you have an AmeriYou can bet Laguna Beach Antifa retweeted Hall, can flag on your car or a Trump sticker.” He added, “Is there responding, “No one can stop us. #CivilWar2017 #Nov4Ita chance that there’s gonna be major violence on Nov. 4 Begins.” and following? Yeah, absolutely. I would say 100 percent The hoax about an antifa-instigated civil war beginning there’s going to be violence somewhere.”

Later, the discussion turned to whether people in cars on Nov. 4 appears to have originated with two different have the right to run over protesters. sources, both dated Sept. 29 — a story on Carmen McPhee Jones: “So if I run over far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ A right-wing them, what happens?”

Infowars site entitled “Antifa plans ‘civil war’ to hoax could instiGina Minkeye Jackson: “We are allowed to overthrow the government” and a YouTube gate violence. plow them down.” video labeled “Sheriff deputy speaks about Tracy Slater: “Hit the speed bump and planned Nov 4th antifa event.” keep it moving.”

“On their website they [antifa] are callMarion cautioned his followers against such talk. ing for an open civil war that they will start here in the “If you run them over, they’re gonna get hurt,” he said.

United States in November,” says a young man who may “Avoid using terms like ‘plow them down’ and ‘speed or may not be an actual law enforcement officer. “They are bump.’” fundraising for weapons. Training. Ammunition. Supplies.

He continued, “I tell ya, I would hate for them to come They’re not hiding this. They are openly fundraising so they back and pull up a Facebook post of anyone in that situacan get the stuff together to attack — and this is verbatim tion, and have a prosecuting attorney say, ‘See here’s where what they’re going to do. They will start off by attacking it said, ‘We’re allowed to run ’em over.” police officers, first responders, anybody that’s in uniform.

And after they have disrupted that enough in the nation We live in dangerous times when major blocs of the and us first responders are literally going everywhere trying American population live in separation information ecosysto resolve things they will then go after the citizens and tems. The far-right media may be a digital hall of mirrors, the government and all of that. So if you’re white, you’re a but unfortunately the potential for violence is very real.

Trump supporter, you’re a Nazi to them, and it will be open Please be safe on Saturday. game on you.”

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CULTURE The case for free school lunch (and breakfast)

by Eric Ginsburg

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ost things that show up in my newsfeeds are utterly depressing or incredibly frivolous, enough so that I stopped checking Facebook as regularly or leaving it open as a tab in my browser. But this headline was different.

“A Philando Castile Memorial Fund Has Wiped Out All Student Lunch Debt in St. Paul,” the headline from Splinter News’ Rafi Schwartz blared.

You know Castile’s name first because he was killed by a police officer, but he worked in nutrition services at a Montessori school in St. Paul, where students loved him and he often helped them pay for lunches, according to multiple news reports. And the Philando Feeds the Children Fund, set up in his honor, just raised more than $70,000 to cover the costs of lunch debt there for the rest of the school year.

It’s pretty incredible, if you think about it: Help families who are struggling to afford their kids’ lunches, help underfunded public schools in the process and continue the legacy of a man who would’ve wanted to do the same thing. I won’t recount the data about how important nourishment is for learning and childhood wellbeing — that’s well documented, but it should also be obvious.

Why not do it here?

ERIC GINSBURG Just over 4,000 families owe Guilford County Schools (above) money for student breakfast and lunch.

In Guilford County, just over 4,000 families currently owe the public school system money for breakfasts admit they cannot afford to pay for lunch.”

There are considerably more public school students in and lunches served at school, Guilford Let that sink in for a moment.

Guilford County than Forsyth — 72,000 versus 54,000, respecCounty Schools spokesperson Nora tively, according to both school systems’ websites. But for In an area that continually ranks highly for food insecurity, Shoptaw said in response to a Triad where we talk a lot about food deserts and food access, taking the past several years the poverty rate in Winston-Salem has City Beat inquiry last week. The school been a few clicks higher than in Greensboro, suggesting that on student lunch and breakfast debt seems like a glaringly system — which covers Greensboro and obvious and urgently necessary step. families in Forsyth are likely in a similar boat.

High Point, as well as the rest of the Creating a pool to clear these families’ school food bills isn’t What if we, as the Triad, decided this situation was unaccounty — serves ceptable? a long-term solution to our remarkably high (and possibly ris32,000 breaking) poverty rates, either. That will take a much more foundaCollectively paying off the breakfasts and 44,500 fast and lunch debt of families in our tional rupture in business as usual.

Families in Guilford County collunches daily.

But this strikes me as a clear and relatively easy way to two counties wouldn’t exactly allevilectively owe the school system And as of Oct. ate the problem; money would need give direct assistance to kids in need, and by extension their 26, the 4,040 about $30,000 for student meals. families and the school system. It would be voluntary, giving to be raised again the following year, families that nobody a reason to object, and it would be pretty immediate, and yes, some parents who could afLet’s help them cover the costs. owe on their ford to pay might stop after realizing rather than the lethargic (yet imminently important) process balances are in of building a lasting fix. And this would also serve the purpose that community members would pick the hole $29,359 up the tab. of drawing attention to the issue and giving people an opporShoptaw said. tunity to plug in, hopefully making it easier to push for deeper Systemic change is better. Starting That number fluctuates throughout this school year, lunch is free for all 1.1 million New York City conversations and action. the year, of course, making the $30,000 I’m confident we could raise $30,000, as well as a similar public school students, the New York Times reported back in or so a moving target that will probably amount to cover Forsyth County. I’ll throw in the first $100, September. Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Detroit had already fall some by the end of the school year pioneered the approach, according to the article, in part beand offer free advertising to the cause in these pages. as families pay off what they owe.

Who’s with me? cause “some students would prefer to go hungry rather than

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CULTURE Rayland Baxter and the show for strangers

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second LP Imaginary Man in 2014, he said in the official press release that his sophomore effort was “an audible record of my journey down the bright blue river of imagination. It is a multi-colored dream of song, a sonic bird bath if you may,” and this is precisely the dreamy, folk-infused style of his music.”

After his performance at the Millennium Center on Oct. 25, Baxter stood on the back patio of the club, smoking a cigarette alone. The tall, skinny musician looked around smiling, just taking in the moment.

“Each town is so different,” Baxter said. “Sometimes it’s the tiny ones that have the wildest crowds. Then we come to a city and no one has any idea who we are. Just how it goes.”

Baxter’s music holds fast to a classic bluesy, folk sound, while incorporating moments of Americana and psychedelic elements into his songs; his smooth voice SPENCER KM Rayland Baxter surprises the crowd with his opening set at the Millennium BROWN adds an airy, dreamy nature to Center in downtown Winston-Salem. the music, carrying the listener into “Every single one of them have turned into fiery beasts for the the compelling world Baxter has created. live show. I appreciate the evolution of a song, from bedroom “I want people to feel good when they to big stage.” listen to my songs,” Baxter said. “I want Although Baxter has toured nearly nonstop in the past Recipes fRom the old city of them to be as happy as I am when I write three years, he is still struggling to find his foothold in the them.” music world. Glide Magazine stated: “With [Imaginary] Man, As he smoked and talked with a few Baxter feels poised for an onslaught of attention from all people, a fan came up to Baxter, quesangles, including the mainstream.” And yet, the fight to have tioning him about his music heard remains. the dark nature of “The van broke down again on the way To find music and tour dates, here,” his closing song for Baxter said, laughing. “We’re off to visit raylandbaxter.com. the night, “79 Shiny Raleigh tomorrow, we’re just hoping she Revolvers,” a track can hold up another day. We say that every that will be on his day though.” forthcoming album.

For the last song of his set, Baxter’s drummer and keyboard“If you found it sad or dark, then that’s ist left the stage, leaving him alone under the dimmed lights. just how you perceived it,” Baxter said, He closed out with the moving, darkly powerful “79 Shiny taking a more serious guise. “If you listen Revolvers,” which examines a person’s place in the world, to the words and really hear the music, amid the deluge and sadness of recent violent shootings. The you might feel different. I can’t tell you crowd’s mood shifted from wild enjoyment to awe. how to feel about it, but I know I didn’t Still moments before the headliner took the stage for the write it to be a sad song.” night, another fan came up to Baxter after his set.

When he performs, Baxter allows his “I bought tickets for Greensky,” he said. “Didn’t know who songs to grow and shift. Where the strucyou were, but now, there’s almost no point in sticking around. ture of the songs maintain the scaffolding Nothing can top what you just did in there.”

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he crowd trickled out onto the dim-lit patio behind the Millennium Center for fresh air, faces held frozen in a look of both confusion and wonder. Pockets of smokers huddled together in the night, pondering what they had just seen. As the vast majority of concert-goers purchased their tickets to see headlining band Greensky Bluegrass, their fandom suddenly shifted to the unlisted opening act, Rayland Baxter.

“I had no idea who that was,” one attendee said, summing up the resounding confession among those at the show, “but now, I’m absolutely a fan.”

Son of pedal-steel player Bucky Baxter, who has appeared on Bob Dylan, Steve Earle and REM records, Rayland Baxter was raised in the musical hub of Nashville and began performing in 2010, making a leap into the music scene when he was featured on country singer Caitlin Rose’s song “Shanghai Cigarettes.” Soon the younger Baxter released his debut album Feathers & Fishhooks in 2012 after signing with ATO Records, which garnered him much critical praise.

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CULTURE A party to transport you elsewhere

By Lauren Barber

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ermaids and “Handmaid’s Tale” characters partied alongside khaki-clad arts patrons at Elsewhere Museum, a former thrift shop turned into a thriving cultural hub, which hosted its annual fundraising extravaganza the evening of Oct. 28.

As Elsewhere is decidedly unlike most art museums, the hours-long celebration defied stereotypes about how fundraisers should look. The evening also marked one of few times a year the public can access all three floors of the downtown Greensboro space without paying for a guided tour. Events commenced on the ground floor but as the night progressed, the second and third floors opened up for increasingly bizarre experiences.

Emena Santiago, 31, most appreciated enactments from martial artists associated with the Greensboro Academy of Martial Arts and a brief show from Scrapmettle actors who performed monologues about the experiences of queer black people in both contemporary and 19th Century contexts.

“As a person of color, seeing that expression of art was really cool because you don’t often see it,” Santiago said.

“Events touching on queer people of color is personally important to me.”

A former production intern and house curator said that Elsewhere’s fundraising event, in particular, succeeds in welcoming people from seemingly disparate parts of the community into the same space, yet centers the most marginalized.

“Elsewhere reconciles older, wealthy people who want to support the alternative arts with young queer, [people of color] communities that are the most important thing happening in the arts,” said 23-year-old Jessie Vogel. “It calls together people from different walks of life to this space for one night and makes them focus on all these things like a tarot reader or a synthesizer musician or people who work with model trains. I think that this place is leveraging its attention to look at these communities.”

Of those predominantly-white arts supporters, Santiago said, “They’re interested in getting to know who their neighbors are and who’s in their community and I think that’s super important if

Bartenders served specialty cocktails with herbal-infused vodka at Elsewhere’s fundraising extravaganza on Oct. 28.

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you’re going to be supporting the arts in any way. You have to read Margaret Read MacDonald’s Old One Eye from a highbacked chair with assistance of only a dim lamp, adults know your neighbors and who you’re standing for.” rocked back and forth on twin-sized beds arranged to serve as Santiago also found the interactive nature of the museum refreshing. couches, gleefully cooperating with cues to participate in the “I dug in a garden for five minutes and dug up an artifact telling of the haunting tale. from things around the museum and received a free drink,” “They gave me a handful of books — mostly kids’ books — and the reaction of people to the kids’ stories has been priceshe said. “This wasn’t just a party where I was walking around handing people money and less,” said Burke, who is also tickets; I was part of the Learn more about Elsewhere at goelsewhere.org. an actor. “It’s an art I guess folks don’t encounter often installation. It’s such a free environment to be able to once they leave their parents’ explore, and there’s somelaps. A lady came in here and thing to see everywhere, which is one of the best things about sat back and said, ‘I haven’t been read to in years.’ It’s been wonderful.”

Elsewhere.”

Across the hall, the sound of spray cans led to a tiny aeroUpstairs, Michael Burke, a host for local NPR-affiliated radio station WFDD, read chilling stories embodying a fabricated sol-filled room where representatives from Concept Salon, a character, “SINter Claus.” He topped off a traditional Santa four-month-old endeavor on Battleground Avenue, offered costume with devilish horns glued to his forehead. As Burke free hairstyling. Many left the room with glittering locks while

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called to mind the hookah-smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. In a trippy sideshow, a “mad scientist” experimented with a shallow bowl filled with a color-dyed mixture of mineral oil and rubbing alcohol that sat atop a projector. A smaller glass plate placed on top set the liquid in motion so that swirls of color appeared on the wall.

Though the crowd thinned out as the clock approached midnight, a DJ orchestrated a late-night dance party on the first floor, allowing a few dozen party-goers to keep energy circulating through the space. But the point of Elsewhere’s extravaganza wasn’t to simply orchestrate a frenetic carnival of sorts; it was to draw us just far enough out of our comfort zones to learn something new about ourselves, and about each other.

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others opted for glow-in-the-dark or bold color spray-on dye.

“Hair and makeup is an art form, too, and we’re trying to be more involved in the community and do things maybe other salons wouldn’t,” salon owner Ashlyn Noto said.

Herbal-infused cocktails in hand, attendees mingled in rooms as diverse as themselves — from casino-lit enclaves to jovial, childlike spaces — and it was impossible not to find one that suited a particular mood.

The mostly-eerie third floor, though, featured unnerving synthesizer music that creeped through the doorway opposite from where shell and tarotcard readers connected with curious partygoers. Projected clips from postapocalyptic films ran on loop on a central wall. The scene of young men puffing rings of smoke from vaporizers

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