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CONTENTS Nov. 22-29, 2017

Gary, Glitters

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2 Editor’s Notebook 4 City Life 6 The ‘Salt’ app 7 American Revolution 2 8 Only some people deserve police protection

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City considers $56M outlay for parking decks to support hotels HAWS takes second crack at federal grant to replace housing project

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24 Barstool: Little Brother Brewing opens up corner of Hamburger Square 26 Art: After 17 years, MewithoutYou delivers fresh performance 28 Performance: Lady Bird: Greta Gerwig’s love letter to girls

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She’s standing at the counter next to her pile of chosen wares, the prize piece — a chromed-out, 3-foot sword, bejeweled and hilted

by Brian Clarey in shiny gold — glinting in the afternoon light. She’s on the phone.

“Yeah, I know,” she says. “But Glitters is closing and everything is half off.” She glances again at the sword, wrapped in plastic, resting in an open box.

“If we both do half,” she says, “I think we can do it.”

Behind the counter, Gary Banksey sighs through his moustache and steps outside for a smoke.

Gary still prefers Marlboro reds, from a soft pack if you can believe it. He’s working on one now, in shaky puffs in the open alcove in front of his store on South Elm Street. His eye keeps glancing at the sign in the window, which to him feels a little like a tombstone: “Going out of business sale. Everything 50% off.”

“I want it to say something about my wife, Martha Smith,” Gary says, curling smoke from his nostrils. “She curated this whole place. And she’s the only reason we’re in downtown Greensboro in the first place.”

He pauses. Smokes.

“And I want to thank everybody for patronizing us for 30 years,” he adds.

Glitters began 27 years ago on the corner of South Elm and McGee streets and moved up the block to Washington and Elm, where for a quarter century Gary ran what is sometimes nostalgically referred to as a head shop: posters, T-shirts, sunglasses, chattering teeth and fake vomit, and in the back the accoutrements of marijuana consumption: papers, pipes and tubes — one crafted to resemble a coffee cup, another that looks like a ray gun.

But Glitters always had an artistic sensibility that transcended the incense and Bob Marley posters with pop art, classic statuary and obscure items that you didn’t know you wanted until you saw them: A 5-foot Betty Boop statue, a relief of Ganesh, a set of brass knuckles, a detox kit, a genuine crystal ball, 30 coconut monkeys.

And now it’s over — or will be soon.

Gary hopes to stay open through Christmas, long enough to liquidate a collection that took a generation to compile.

She doesn’t buy the sword.

So Gary snuffs out his Marlboro and ambles back inside, put her discarded items back on the shelves.

Giltters will be open through Christmas, or until everything is sold.

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Nov. 22-29, 2017

CITY LIFE Sept. 21 – 27

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY

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Turkey Strut 5K @ Winston-Salem Fairground, 9 a.m.

Craftsmen’s Christmas Classic Art & Craft Festival @ Greensboro Coliseum (GSO), 9 a.m.

Peruse the work of hundreds of artists and craftspeople from across the country as they offer pottery, jewelry, photography, sculpture, woodworking and specialty foods available for sale. The festival continues through Sunday.

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WrestleCade Weekend @ Benton Convention Center (W-S), 6 p.m.

Free market @ Grove Street People’s Market (GSO), 10 a.m.

Forego frenzied Black Friday shopping for the Really, Really Free Market, a community-wide yard sale-style event where everything is free. Regardless of whether you bring items, stop by to shop from your neighbors’ goods. Find the event on Facebook.

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Join Jones Racing Company to participate in a 5K, or stroller and dog-friendly one-mile fun run. Final run times will go toward state and national records. Portions of entry fees will benefit Second Harvest Food Bank and attendees are asked to bring canned goods. Find the event on Facebook.

Moravian Porter release party @ Foothills Brewing (W-S), noon Experience one of the largest independent wrestling events in the nation through Sunday. More than 100 wrestlers from current and past fame will gather for live wrestling, a taping of the Stevie Ray podcast and much more. Learn more at wrestlecade.com.

A Christmas Carol @ Hanesbrands Theater (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Thanksgiving potluck @ Above Board Skate Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

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Skaters who contribute to a community potluck receive discounts on skating, but all are welcome to join in on the festivities. Above Board provides allergy-friendly options and vegan choices as well. Find the event on Facebook.

Celebrate the annual bottling of Foothills’ Moravian Porter. Enjoy the brew on tap in the brewery’s Kimwell Drive tasting room alongside Moravian cookies supplied

by Dewey’s Bakery. StrEat Provision and Mojito Mobile Kitchen food trucks will be on site. Find the event on Facebook.

Triad Stage brings Preston Lane’s adaption of the Charles Dickens novel to the stage for the holiday season. The classic features Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man with an opportunity for redemption through the visits of three spirits who guide him through his past, present and future.

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Group ride & potluck @ Bur-Mil Park (GSO), 9:30 a.m.

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Muddy Creek Players @ Muddy Creek Music Hall (WS), 8 p.m.

Nutcracker Tea @ O’Henry Hotel (GSO), 3 p.m.

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A Carolina Christmas! @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 2 p.m.

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The Piedmont Fat Tire Society hosts its annual Burn the Turkey group ride, providing riding groups for all skill levels before reconvening at a pavilion for a potluck social. Find the event on Facebook.

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Acoustic blues artist Big Ron Hunter and the folksy Couldn’t Be Happiers join the Muddy Creek Players, an ensemble of eight musicians who combine their original music, covers from the last half-century and current popular music. Find the event on Facebook.

Thanksgiving celebration @ Bookmarks Bookstore (WS), 10 a.m.

The Winston-Salem Symphony kicks off the holiday season with A Carolina Christmas!, featuring traditional and popular holiday music like “White Christmas,” “Sleigh Ride” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Members of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company perform excerpts from poet Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity. Learn more at wssymphony.org.

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Join the Bookmarks’ staff and several guest authors to celebrate the local literary community. New York Times bestselling author Charlie Lovett will wrap in-house purchases while Megan Bryant and Stacy McAnulty present a storytime for children. The rest of the day features events like a late-morning illustration class for older children and afternoon treats from West End Coffeehouse. Learn more at bookmarksnc.org.

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This family-friendly tea time and all its delectable treats are inspired by The Nutcracker. Warm apple cider and hot chocolate will also be available while children decorate ornaments, help chefs make gingerbread houses and enjoy a reading of the story in the company of costumed characters. Learn more at ohenryhotel.com.

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My dream app is finally here.

Salt, a free app, lets you put in your favorite bars and restaurants, adding details about your experience there. That’s not the good part. What’s brilliant about Salt is that it allows you to search items added by friends or accounts like Eater in myriad ways — maybe you want something cheap and open late in your neighborhood, or you’re wondering where to eat Japanese food on your upcoming trip to Asheville, or you’re curious if there are any good new places to drink when you go home to visit family.

Users can add places whether they’ve been or not, saving a location for future reference. In other words, you can actually keep track of places you’d like to check out, and have them geographically oriented on a map. That means you can pull it up and see what’s nearby, look at what specific people recommend, and more.

I always knew I needed something like Salt, but in its absence, I imagined creating a gigantic flow chart to do its job to list my recommendations for where to eat locally.

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by Jordan Green Almost an accident, the narrator-less documentary American Revolution II came about when a group of videographers who mostly made commercials trained their cameras on the mayhem that erupted in August 1968, when the Chicago police rioted against protesters at the Democratic National Convention. But the film, which came out the following year, is not really about the convention.

After the delegates go home, the film crew ventures into the Southside, where the Black Panther Party is organizing, and then across the city to Uptown, another kind of ghetto where Appalachian migrants are fighting the same battles against police brutality, substandard housing and an urban renewal program imposed on them without their participation.

In our current moment of seething discontent, the intersectional themes of race and class in American Revolution II seem all too relevant.

I’ve only seen parts of American Revolution II on YouTube, but two scenes capturing different community meetings, of all things, are some of the most electrifying viewing I’ve ever experienced. I could watch them over and over.

In one, Bobby Lee, a Black Panther organizer — who died earlier this year, incidentally — addresses a skeptical, even hostile white Appalachian audience in Uptown.

Eventually, after much coaxing, he persuades them to talk about their experiences with police brutality, and the grievances come tumbling out. “I’m tired of it,” a white 16-year-old named Roger says. “I’m tired of them coming down the street and kicking my damn head for nothing I ain’t done.”

The second meeting, incredibly, captures a dialogue between a local police commander and the Appalachian migrants. Lee, the Black Panther organizer, asks the poor whites to enumerate their grievances while promising the police commander they’ll keep submitting them in writing until they get some resolution.

Here we learn more about Roger’s run-in with the police. He tells the commander that the cops took him into custody at a friend’s house and hauled him down to the station.

“Two detectives take me out in the hall and try to make me say things that I ain’t,” he says, “and slap me because I won’t say that I ain’t something,” adding that the cops banged his head into a cinderblock wall.

The police commander keeps asking Roger what he did “that precipitated this,” as the crowd becomes increasingly angry.

“I’ll tell the complete story,” Roger says finally. “I was in a homosexual’s house watching his TV, waiting for his cousin to come back. His cousin is 17 years old, happens to be a friend of mine. He’s a homosexual. They come in and try to make me say that I’m a faggot, y’all.”

Intersectionality, indeed.

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Nov. 22-29, 2017

Only some people deserve police protection The allegations are pretty grotesque: two counts of assault on a female, assault by strangulation, battery of an unborn child, habitual misdemeanor assault and being a habitual felon, according to the News & Record.

Those are the charges faced by Dejuan Yourse, a Greensboro man who received a $95,000 settlement after being beat up by then-Officer Travis Cole, a classic example of a “bad cop” who had already cost the city $50,000 in another brutality settlement.

Brian Cheek, a former deputy chief with the Greensboro Police Department, appeared to revel in the news of Yourse facing up to 51 years in prison. In a public Facebook post in the Greater Greensboro Politics group last week, Cheek referred to the Cole incident at Yourse’s mother’s house, writing: “I guess after paying his child support [Yourse] has spent all the money the city gave him. Who knows, maybe he has no place to live and he is scared to attempt to break in his mother’s house again.”

Quick refresher: While investigating an alleged break-in attempt, Cole started physically attacking a seated Yourse seemingly out of nowhere, as shown on police body cam-

era footage released last year. A relatively calm situation escalated rapidly as Cole’s reasonable questioning turned physical. Cole was promoted after the incident, but later quit amid an internal investigation.

Here’s what’s wrong with Cheek’s conflation between the charges Yourse faces from unrelated incidents and the Cole encounter, as outlined by my former Guilford College classmate Casey Thomas on the Facebook thread.

“Is the implication here that because a private citizen is violent towards other people in their lives, police officers should have the right to be violent towards them while not in the act of preventing the private citizen from committing violence?” she asked.

(Cheek didn’t respond, and neither did anyone else directly, despite a massive comment thread.)

Thomas’ point is salient because the Cole assault didn’t occur while investigating an alleged violent crime. Seated on a porch chair and holding a cell phone, Yourse started to get a little agitated by Cole’s questioning, but didn’t in any way suggest a physical or violent confrontation.

Yourse’s hands were visible, and it was daytime.

You shouldn’t have to be a “model citizen” to merit fair treatment from the police. There’s no justifiable reason for an officer to instigate an incident like the Yourse assault in a totally nonviolent context. When police beat people up needlessly, no matter who they’re attacking, it destroys community trust in the department, and local government more broadly.

Simply put: Yourse’s other behavior in no way absolves Cole.

It’s possible that Cheek and other officers — current and retired — would agree with that. But the pattern of maligning victims of police violence and excusing the actions of the most notorious cops suggests otherwise. It’s the department’s job to protect and serve all of us, and to use appropriate force. That’s not too much to ask.

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City considers $56M outlay for parking decks to support hotels

by Jordan Green A plan to spend $56 million in public funds to build two parking decks in downtown Greensboro is raising concerns about corporate welfare and gentrification. City leaders typically justify such projects as a catalyst for private investment that will expand the tax base and provide additional tax revenue, but to date staff has not produced documentation to substantiate the return on investment.

When the new Greensboro City Council gets down to business on Dec. 19, new members will face a vote that could potentially shape the growth trajectory of the central business district for years to come and, critics say, potentially deepen class and racial divides.

The proposals, which were pulled off the agenda on Nov. 14, would allocate $56 million in bond funds for two separate downtown parking decks, one serving a hotel, retail and residential high-rise under construction by developer Roy Carroll, and an office building to be constructed by Lexington-based Carolina Investment Properties, both near the Grasshoppers stadium; and another to serve a new hotel at the corner of South Elm Street and February One Place. The council has already agreed to pay Carroll $2 million for the design of the Eugene Parking Deck.

State law requires city council to make a finding that the projects are “likely to have a significant effect on the revitalization of the city’s central business district” to justify entering “into binding contracts with one or more private developers with respect to acquiring, constructing, owning, or operating a downtown development project comprising of one or more buildings and including both public and private facilities.” The council has already made the finding for the parking deck planned to support Carroll’s project, but not the Elm Street hotel. In the latter case, the finding would be made as part of the resolution approving funds for the deck.

City documents indicate that the private developers are committing to invest at least $49.5 million in the two projects collectively. The two parking decks will provide a total of 1,900 parking spaces, with 445 of them leased at market rate

Roy Carroll’s Bellemeade Village is part of a burst of construction around the Grasshoppers stadium in an area where the city is considering construction of one of two downtown parking decks.

to the developers and their tenants.

Operating expenses and debt service for the two decks is expected to total $4.6 million per year — an amount covered by revenue from fees, existing parking funds and the city’s general fund. The $56 million public outlay will come from the city’s Parking Facilities Bond Fund.

Jake Keys, a city spokesperson, said the city will not need to raise taxes to cover the bond debt.

While voters ousted the two most conservative members of city council — Mike Barber and Tony Wilkins — during the recent election, the loudest voices in opposition to this public investment initiative have come from the left.

Lewis Pitts, a former public-interest lawyer, has been rallying opposition through Democracy Greensboro. In an interview he lambasted the plan to spend public funds on the parking decks as a “giveaway to the crony developers.”

He added, “It’s really a quick test of the new city council with two new

members as to whether they have the potential to bring about the shift to bring about the more transparent viewpoint that Democracy Greensboro advocates for. We’ll quickly see if it’s going to be the same old same old of the narrow few developers setting the agenda.”

Several regional developers stand to profit from the city’s investment. While Carroll, a major developer in Greensboro who is responsible for the CenterPointe high-rise and owns the Rhino Times, has pledged to build a hotel on of the Eugene Parking Deck, Carolina Investment Properties will put up a nearby office building on land currently owned

by F. Cooper Brantley, whose company boasts a relationship with a private equity firm that helps raise capital for “upscale apartment communities.”

The investors behind the planned hotel and renovated Elm Street Center events space at February One Place are Randall Kaplan, the CEO and chairman of the real-estate website

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Listingbook and a former chairman of the UNCG Board of Trustees; George House, a partner with the Brooks Pierce law firm who previously represented the city in an aborted attempt to reopen the White Street Landfill; and Daniel Robinson, a Durham-based foreign investment recruiter.

Mayor Nancy Vaughan talked up the deal in an interview with Triad City Beat, arguing that additional parking allows for the expansion of existing businesses and recruitment of new ones while promoting growth in the tax base. City staff was unable to provide TCB with documentation of any analysis of how much additional tax revenue the new private investment is expected to provide the city.

Vaughan also said the city’s current decks are at daytime capacity.

“That thesis is just a version of trickledown,” Pitts said. “It’s line the pockets of the developers and allow the rich to get richer. And then there’s this theory

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that it will expand the tax base so that we can pay for things like improving our transportation system and paying our employees a decent wage. Those things sound like pie in the sky.” He added that when there are competing needs on the underdeveloped east side, the return on investment from the parking decks “should be rigorously critiqued” and the “documentation should be out for us to look at and evaluate.”

But Vaughan offered a separate rationale for the investment.

“The city has a responsibility downtown to provide parking,” she said.

“So, when somebody opens a business downtown they’re not obligated to provide parking. If you’re going to open a restaurant outside of downtown, you would have to provide your own parking, but in downtown the city is responsible for providing parking.”

Progressive opponents of corporate welfare likely have an uphill battle in persuading council members to oppose the deal. Yvonne Johnson, a veteran council member who received strong support from progressives who participated in Democracy Greensboro’s electoral voting process, said she plans to vote for the project.

“I’m going to support the parking deck because I want to support the growth and businesses in downtown Greensboro,” Johnson said.

While conceding that council members who support public investment in the parking decks are likely acting in good faith, Pitts expressed concern that the initiative appears to dovetail with a trend towards gentrification and racial exclusion.

“There’s a new offense that’s like driving while black; it’s being downtown while being black,” Pitts said. “You can look at the Jose Charles case, with a 15-year-old accosted by the police in Center City Park, and a little after that the Zared Jones case with four young black men being downtown because they wanted to enjoy themselves like everybody else. It’s almost like South Africa during the apartheid years. The statue of Dr. King is moved out of downtown to somewhere else. Then we get noises and rumblings of moving services to homeless people out of downtown. It seems like gentrification is making the center city a downtown only for the wealthy.”

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HAWS takes second crack at federal grant to replace housing project

by Jordan Green The Housing Authority of Winston-Salem is applying for a federal grant that would allow it to tear down the Cleveland Avenue Homes public-housing community and replace it with mixed-income housing.

The Housing Authority of WinstonSalem is taking a second crack at a major federal grant to reshape the Cleveland Avenue area after getting turned down a year ago by the US Department of Housing & Urban Development.

The $30 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant, a successor to previous federal interventions like HOPE VI that are designed to revitalize poor areas, would be used to tear down the Cleveland Avenue Homes and replace the 1950s-era public housing community with mixed-income housing. Under the HOPE VI program, public housing projects in Happy Hills and Kimberley Park were similarly torn down and replaced with mixed-income housing.

“We believe that by tearing down public housing and going back to a different type of housing — not a hundred-percent rental and not a hundred percent concentrated poverty, but true mixedincome, mixed use of some homeownership, and some renters that we’ll begin to attract African Americans and other individuals that want to become firsttime homebuyers, as well as individuals that are employed that will bring some economic leverage that will attract businesses,” Housing Authority CEO Larry Woods said.

The target area, which lies about 1.5 miles to the northeast of the booming Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, is saddled with 57-percent poverty and a median household income that is roughly a third of the average for the city.

Winston-Salem City Council voted unanimously on Monday to sign on as a co-applicant with the Housing Authority and to commit $3 million over a 6-year period for financing commercial development, business façade improvements, streetscaping and other initiatives. The city’s financial commitment helps the Housing Authority score points on its application. The application requires that the city’s financial contribution come from federal Community Development

The Housing Authority of Winston-Salem is seeking a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods grant to demolish the barracks-style Cleveland Avenue Homes.

Block Grant, or CDBG funds. Council members noted that the financial commitment means the city will have less funding available for housing and other community development initiatives in other parts of the city. The $500,000 per year commitment is about a quarter of the city’s annual allocation of CDBG funds, Assistant City Manager Derwick Paige said.

Ironically, the US Department of Housing & Urban Development, or HUD, is requesting a $6 billion reduction in funding for Community Development Block Grants under Secretary Ben Carson.

Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke, whose ward includes the target area, lamented that residents are currently unwilling to patronize the Liberty Street Market, a nearby open-air pavilion, because the surrounding area is so challenged. She added that investment in neighborhood parks from the 2014 bond is also imperiled if the city doesn’t provide support for the transformation plan.

“Let your conscience think about that area if you had to live and sleep or even come and go in that area,” Burke said, “and then people not feeling good that

even the children will have a decent place where they can even play in front of their yards.”

Burke said she’s constantly calling City Manager Lee Garrity and Housing Authority CEO Larry Woods to complain about “strange people coming in there who do not belong there,” which she characterized as “a disgrace and a shame.”

“Until we go in there and provide decent housing and provide a better choice, it will forever be a problem if we do not,” Burke said.

Woods said the grant would help the city address a worsening affordable housing deficit.

“The number of affordable units coming online seems to be very slow,” he said. “Market-rate housing is being built fast. We have plenty of housing for the wealthy. Where does the average individual that just wants to make a living live?”

While Woods wants to see professionals move into the Cleveland Avenue area and inject new buying power, he also wants janitors and security guards to be able to live in the Innovation Quarter to break down the economic segregation

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that divides the city.

Whether the grant brings people with higher incomes into the neighborhood or not, some level of displacement is inevitable. Since before the Housing Authority’s first attempt to land the grant in early 2017, Councilman Derwin Montgomery has insisted that the plan needs to include support for people who are forced to move. Woods has insisted that transitional services are covered in the project.

“One of the things that is on my heart and mind in reference to dealing with individuals — if this grant is awarded — is ensuring that the people who currently reside in the neighborhood and the community because this is a demolishand-build-up type of plan, to ensure that people are cared for properly in the transition of where they have to move,” Montgomery said, “meaning that they have the proper services, they have the proper support, that they have what they need and they’re offered vouchers so that they’re able to move from one place to another, that they’re properly case-managed to truly have a stable moving point from one place to the next.”

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Arts-mageddon

Call it the “Arts-mageddon”: that downward trend in charitable giving towards the arts, reported on last week in Triad City Beat, though arts groups in Forsyth and Guilford have been struggling with it for years.

ArtsGreensboro took its big hit in its 2015-16 fiscal year, a 29 percent drop in gifts to arts organizations after a fundraising goal fell short.

Almost the exact same thing happened to the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County this year, resulting in 28 percent cuts across the board, with a couple exceptions.

It’s tempting, in situations like this, to blame the top of the arts-council food chain, but in truth the buck doesn’t stop there. Neither ArtsGreensboro CEO Tom Philion nor Arts Council President Jim Sparrow, both accomplished fundraisers, own the decline.

A lot of it lands at the feet of our corporations, merged and acquired into soulless entities despite A lot of the their insistence of personhood. Lincoln Financial, acfault lands at cording to its website, gave the feet of our 106 grants totaling $1.8 corporations. million to Greensboro arts, human services, education and economic development concerns. But it’s a thin shadow of what Greensborogrown Jefferson Pilot, acquired by Lincoln in 2006, used to do for the city that nurtured it. Among other accomplishments, JP provided an endowment for the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and once gave Action Greensboro a single grant worth $2.5 million.

Certainly nobody can deny the community contributions of the company built by RJ Reynolds, which through all its various corporate phases always kept a philanthropic mission for its hometown of Winston-Salem. It would be naïve to assume that British American Tobacco, which purchased Reynolds American earlier this year, will honor that grand tradition.

And for these larger trends, there is no real recourse.

Yes, individuals and small businesses can make up some of the gap. We can do it by giving directly to these arts organizations or actually paying for tickets to events, buying local art and actively participating in the legion of things they fund.

But even combined we don’t have the economic muscle of an international tobacco, insurance or textile concern.

Still, in this era of belt-tightening in the Triad arts scene, we all must do our part. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, if we allow our culture to die, then what the hell are we working for?

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Practically swallowed up in the big barber chair at Style Creators, 5-year-old Kaili Miles took a quick draw from her CapriSun juice pouch and made a valiant effort to hold back her tears as stylist Tammy Rankin applied a hissing

by Jordan Green flat-iron to her chin-length bob.

Then, liberated from the barber chair, Kaili acceded to volunteer Kamry Stanford’s invitation to sit on her lap.

Dalya Scott, another volunteer member of the Henry E. Frye Free Law Society at NC A&T University, flipped the pages of Caillou & Rosie’s Doll — a book by Francine Allen that follows the exploits of a toddler who gets into his JORDAN GREEN Dalya Scott reads to 5-year-old Kaili Miles at Style Creators. mother’s makeup and applies it to his sister’s doll — holding the volume up so Kaili could see. times that the organizers thought would provide a natuBefore long, Kaili’s mother came to collect her, and the ral opportunity for working in reading time. Along with two volunteers said goodbye. promoting literacy, the program also aims to promote black “You’ve got to bring your other friends with you next businesses, and Books And Black Youth continuously raises time,” Stanford said. “Bring your whole class.” funds to pay barbers, albeit at a discounted rate, rather The barbershop and hair salon in downtown Greensboro than ask them to donate their services for free. pulsed with black children, black moms, black dads, black To be more inclusive, Hereford said that during the last grandmas and other black adults who love black children couple events Books And Black Youth has expanded to on a recent Saturday. The front section facing towards the included styling. The organizers are conscientious about shop’s display window, normally a repository for a decomtrying to avoid getting in the way of the barbers and stylists missioned vending machine and bicycle, was reactivated or delaying their business. Allen said that so far everyone into a reading room with a handful of children engrossed seems to be happy, although at one point Tammy Rankin in books. Stanford led a train of children into a room at the had to ask a volunteer to vacate one of the barber chairs rear of the shop, where owner Marcques “BarberQ” Tatum for a customer. and two other barbers worked the chairs. Stanford showed Antwan Timmons brought his 4-year-old son, Kalil Wila bookshelf stocked with dozens of titles and let them pick liams, into the barbershop so they could both get a trim. out a couple.

Kalil said he read “a whole lot” of books before his turn in One of the girls thumbed through a photography book the barber chair came, and that he liked “the chicken book” depicting infants of different skin colors. the best. After BarberQ straightened the hairline around “Ewwww,” the girl said.

Kalil’s ears and pulled off the gown, “Those babies are beautiful,” Stanthe child startled at the sound of the ford remonstrated. barber’s blower. Then, when his father To make a donation to Kiera Hereford and Irving Allen, sat down in the chair, Kalil picked up Books And Black Youth, the parents of a 13-week girl, helped the blower and blasted his dad in the found Books And Black Youth in early visit its Facebook page. face.

July with a core group that includes The children are welcome to take four others. Their matching shirts books home with them, and the colriffed on the organization’s acronym: “It’s literature, BABY!” lection stays at the barbershop between events. Titles like Hereford and Allen have been familiar faces at GreensJoJo’s Flying Sidekick by Brian Pinkney and Ndito Runs by boro protests against police brutality over the past couple Laurie Halse Anderson and Anita Van Der Merwe provide years, and promoting literacy is part and parcel of their positive portrayals of black children as protagonists overcommitment to dismantle oppressive systems that result coming challenges. in disproportionate police contact and mass incarceration “Systematically, our kids are targeted differently,” Herexperienced by black people. eford said, “and we want to be intentional with the books “We noticed systemically that reading and writing scores we pick out. We’re aiming for them to be by people of are looked at to determine how many prison beds are built,” color or about people of color.

Hereford said. “To dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline “We want to create a safe space for kids to be welcome we decided to incentivize reading by offering free haircuts.” and see themselves in literature,” she added.

Most barbershops, particularly on Saturdays, have wait

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CULTURE Little Brother Brewing opens up corner of Hamburger Square

by Eric Ginsburg

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he low-key crooning and strumming drifted out the open windows behind the makeshift stage, causing passersby to pause mid-stride and look inside. A couple wandered in; the new corner space downtown is well lit and open enough that it’s easy to size up from across the street.

That hasn’t always been so. For months, people have been peering through the uncovered windows of the former Idiot Box on the corner of South Elm and McGee streets in downtown Greensboro, trying to ascertain what the new space across from Natty Greene’s would look like. A couple weekends ago, the doors swung open, ahead of Little Brother Brewing’s formal launch.

And it seems like the taproom has been full ever since.

When I first walked in on a Friday night, a crush of people stood at the white countertop bar, lazed on a couch and packed a line of skinny high tables along the southern windows. Say what you want about the number of breweries in the city or region; it’s clear that people are still eager to explore new brewpubs.

A friend reported Little Brother being similarly slammed the following Friday, but when I returned on a Thursday, as the two-man band performed at the front by the door, Little Brother felt full without forcing you to bump into people as you made your way to a seat.

Audible but not overbearing, the music allowed for easy conversation and aided the high energy of the bar.

Televisions tuned to college basketball and football — neither in-state games, though — remained silent. Much of the energy comes from the crowd, many of whom are in their forties or older and all of whom appear ready to unwind.

The brewery can feel lively or almost boisterous, in part because Little Brother’s small size lends itself to being more like a crowded house party than a craft beer bar. Other breweries reach that peak during a special event; I’ve seen Joymongers rowdier during UNC’s successful March Madness run earlier this year, while Natty’s was quieter during a Panthers’ playoff win during the epic 2015 season. Not that Little Brother is rowdy or fratty — though there is a pronounced preppy element — it’s more

There are now six breweries in Greensboro, but a packed house on a Thursday and crowded Fridays at Little Brother Brewing suggest locals are still thirsty for more good homegrown beer.

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jovial-in-confined-quarters than anything else. as common locally. Sour fans will love the Harmonious Funk, brewed in collaboration with Charlotte’s Wooden Robot.

This corner used to be dark. Despite the activity in the Idiot Box comedy club, you couldn’t see inside. With a downtown The Simon Saison doesn’t stand out from the pack, but Little Brother has an IPA on the way. largely lacking in sidewalk dining and open-air venues, Little Half pours are 8 ounces (elsewhere it’s generally 6) and Brother is a welcome addition making excellent use of its space. Flinging open the windows likely also helps with the flights are just $7, so it’s easy to explore the breadth of its offerings, at least in the brewery’s early stages. heat that might otherwise build up in the relatively small space, which isn’t walled off from With its other taps, Little Brother features Pig Pounder, Gibb’s Hunthe 4-barrel brew system itself. dred and another Preyer (as well Of the eight beers on tap, Little Visit Little Brother Brewing Tuesas a Bhramani Brewing beer from Brother collaborated on three (with Raleigh), which makes sense; Natty Preyer, Trophy and Wooden Robot) day-Sunday at 348 S. Elm St. (GSO) and brewed one on its own. Those Greene’s is directly across the street, or at littlebrotherbrew.com. four all sit right around 6 percent and Joymongers doesn’t distribute, alcohol, but that’s where the simiso the taproom shows as much local love as reasonably possible. larities end.

There’s wine too, if you’re into that sort of thing, curated Try any of these four, picking based on the type of beer you typically gravitate towards — there’s a dunkelweisse, a saison,

by Rioja. No liquor, though. And Little Brother’s location and size forces it into a unique situation when it comes to food. an amber sour and a stout. Jim’s Lunch, the stout made exclusively by Little Brother, may be the best, followed by the dunWithout space for a kitchen or parking for a food truck, the brewery imports food from Jerusalem Market up the street. kelweisse made alongside Preyer in part because the style isn’t

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But I’ve yet to see anyone eating there, because the kitchen closes at 8:30 p.m., making post-dinner snacks out of the question. There are several bar food options open late nearby, of course, but that may end up being a losing proposition for the brewpub unless they talk an adjacent hot dog vendor into moving up the block.

But, like the bar as a whole, it’s impressive what Little Brother is already pulling off with such close quarters. An extensive food menu compared to most breweries, including customized items.

Collaborations with breweries in three different cities, and already bragging a great winter beer of its own. A fully renovated, high-ceilinged and open space, right in the heart of the city.

Even with Natty Greene’s shifting its focus to Revolution Mill and Gibb’s Hundred announcing its move to State Street, Little Brother is already showing not only that Greensboro can handle and support yet another brewery, but also that most the action is still downtown. As long as they keep putting out good beer, the people will come.

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CULTURE After 17 years, MewithoutYou delivers fresh performance

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ith a massive tour bus idling in the parking lot, a line of ticket holding fans waiting to get in and teams of roadies unloading gear into the club, you could’ve easily developed the impression that some giant rock star was in town. Yet Philadelphia post-hardcore band MewithoutYou still holds onto an unpretentious approach to their music and shows.

The hundreds of fans in attendance piled close to the stage, raving and wild as MewithoutYou took the stage at Greensboro’s Blind Tiger on Nov. 18.

Though the height of their popularity ran primarily in the mid-2000s, their current [A à B] LIFE 15 Year Anniversary Tour has brought about a much-deserved resurgence of the band’s catalogue of music.

Though the opening acts for the night did their due diligence in warming up the crowd, as the soft blue lights shown down on the headliner’s signature wild flowers tied to their mic stands, all reserve was lost and youthful brays of cheering broke through the room.

MewithoutYou made a name for themselves by employing intricately technical guitar riffs with pounding, melodic drums thrashing below the strings, poetic, almost spoken-word lyrics and perhaps one of the most vibrant and eye-catching frontmen in contemporary rock music, Aaron Weiss. And 17 years since the band’s start, they proved just as tight and energetic as ever.

Lyricist and vocalist Aaron Weiss threw himself around the stage, brandishing a bouquet of wildflowers as he sang. The complexity of the band’s lyrics seemed to effortlessly bellow forth from Weiss, even as he leaned down into the outstretched hands of the crowd who

MewithoutYou made a name for themselves by employing intricately technical guitar riffs with pounding, melodic drums thrashing below the strings and poetic, almost spoken-word lyrics.

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themes of a wrestling match of one’s identity and search for lifted him up high over their heads in praise. Though many truth mirror the band’s free-range drumming and overall wildfrontmen deliver a vivacious persona on stage, the pulsing ness on stage. energy that emanated from Weiss seemed to reach even to But even in such wild moments in their songs, the music is the patio in the back of the club, where smokers danced and sang right along with the music in the doorway. Weiss bears steered away from hardcore and metal, instead is elevated into the progressive, melodically driven beats that exist for a certain electricity in his performances, not unlike that of only brief measures before cutting perhaps a raving preacher before a into new directions. Such passages mass of people at a tent revival. give the feeling of chase, as if they Although most of the bands that To listen to MewithoutYou’s music are billed with the group remain are following the pattern of a fleeing or find the band’s tour dates, visit hare. firmly in the camp of hardcore and mewithoutyou.com. punk, MewithoutYou’s ability to This nonstop urgency draws you in, and you’re hooked. Each musimove from beautiful, airy interludes cian, a master of his instrument, to thrashing bursts of driving chomoved and danced around the stage like it was his first show. ruses sets them far apart from most other bands. With Weiss The five musicians on stage looked lost in a world entirely their at the helm, spouting long passages of lyrics and psychotic waves of music exploding in the background, you can’t help own; as if they were bards trying to explain some deep truth.

As the drummer began the beat for “Wolf Am I,” a track but relinquish all attention to the stage.

Religious themes run throughout a lot of the band’s lyrics. from their third album Brother, Sun, Weiss stood at the edge of the stage, his arms shaking and waving hawk-like as the wildAlthough they have been dubbed a Christian band, Aaron flowers he held shed their petals over the crowd. The song’s Weiss said in an interview with Busted Halo magazine that lyrics are packed tightly together, but Weiss sang each word they don’t consider themselves Christian, rather just exploring with sharp definition, as if he was truly sharing part of himself a personal relationship with God. Both Aaron and his brother Michael who plays lead guitar, were raised Sufi Muslim. Such with the crowd reaching up to him.

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CULTURE Lady Bird: Greta Gerwig’s love letter to girls

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omen comprised only 7 percent of directors who worked on the 250 highest-grossing films in 2016, according to a recent report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film; but luckily idiosyncratic actress, screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig is among them.

Gerwig — known for starring in and cowriting Frances Ha (2013) and Mistress America (2015) with her partner Noah Baumbach — released Lady Bird, her debut film as solo director-writer on Nov. 3. The film follows one restless year in the life of 17-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a senior at an all-girls Catholic high school in Gerwig’s hometown of Sacramento, Calif. beginning in 2002. The year is long enough ago to feel distant but not unfamiliar, with wealthy kids packing clunky cell phones and the latest news from the burgeoning war in Iraq consuming television news.

As Lady Bird’s father (Tracy Letts) grapples with job loss and depression, her mother (Laurie Metcalf) tries to hold the family together, working double shifts as a nurse. Metcalf’s embodiment of a formidable yet vulnerable Marion McPherson is brilliant; she strikes impressive balance between bursts of a short temper, passive aggression and warmth. These inner tensions leave audiences to sympathize with her inability to verbalize the anxiety about her daughter’s imminent departure from the nest and the pain of Lady Bird already distancing herself by rejecting her birth name, Christine.

Lady Bird’s self-anointed moniker suggests a desire to fly away to the Northeast, where — according to her — writers live in the woods. The subtle nod to JD Salinger is illustrative of Lady Bird’s wistful yearnings for something unlike her experience in sunny, flat Sacramento, which she not-so-affectionately calls “the Midwest of California.”

But she didn’t necessarily earn the grades to fly so far, and isn’t afraid to cut class to discuss bath- and shower-based masturbation techniques while snacking on stolen communion wafers with her best friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein).

Lady Bird feels absent of the male gaze, but over the course of the film, Lady Bird navigates young love and sexuality with an endearing theater club boyfriend

The film follows one restless year in the life of 17-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a senior at an all-girls Catholic high school in Sacramento, Calif. beginning in 2002.

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formula would have us demonize affluent Jenna (Odeya Rush) Danny (Lucas Hedges) and later Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), who is in a band, refuses to smoke industrially-produced whose skin is as impeccable as her uniform skirt is short, but cigarettes and keeps a copy of Howard Zinn’s People’s History Gerwig isn’t interested in female characters without complex inner lives, and it makes a huge difference. of the United States close.

Notably, the younger actors don’t condescend to their Teen girls, particularly white teen girls, are highly represented in film, but more often as sexual objects, target of ridicule adolescent characters. Comedy is best when characters aren’t or pseudo-protagonists who exist to move the plot or help a in on the joke, after all. Even when theatrical — in the first five minutes of the film, Lady Bird throws herself from a moving male-protagonist on his quest; Lady Bird mirrors our full humanity back to us, and opens audiences car to remove herself from an argument with her mother shortly after they to a grounded account of a workingView Lady Bird at Aperture class experience I saw it in what feels share tears listening to a cassette of The Cinema, 311 W. Fourth Street Grapes of Wrath — each actor comes at like a small town. While Lady Bird is unquestionably paying homage to their role from an emotionally sincere (W-S) or aperturecinema.com.

Gerwig’s hometown of Sacramento, it is place, and the drama captures the intensity of Lady Bird’s angst and fervent also a nuanced love letter to teen girls with acne and the women who raise energy and she tries molding herself to those around her despite her comfort with her scraggly, fading them. The film is no longer than it needs to be and is so deeply rooted in time and place that it succeeds in offering universal neon-red dyed hair, thrift clothes and Mary Jane Doc Martens.

In this and other ways, Gerwig gracefully dodges the trapmeaning. Like many of us on our journey to ourselves, Lady Bird realizes she can’t quite escape the city or the family she pings and clichés of the rose-colored coming-of-age genre comes from and that, maybe, she no longer wants to. as well as the hyper-awareness of Mean Girls. Sure, Lady Bird ditches her dorky best-friend for a more popular circle, but the

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