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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

CONTENTS

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The fastest hands in Greensboro

by Brian Clarey

UP FRONT 3 4 5 5

Editor’s Notebook City Life IJMW: The early rock show List: Jose Charles statements

NEWS

6 Brazilian ordered deported 8 Doubling transit fares

OPINION

10 Editorial: Police videos are always in the public interest 10 Citizen Green: Rural resistance,

or ‘red’ doesn’t only mean GOP 11 Commentariat

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12 Ranked 2017 commencement speakers

CULTURE

16 Food: Losing to Denver 17 Barstool: Local distilleries bring home gold 18 Music: Titus Gant Quartet at the Crown 19 Art: Charles Williams deserves his own exhibit

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20 A Wake Forest golf at the NCAA regionals

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21 Jonesin’ Crossword

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22 North Liberty Street, Winston-Salem

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23 T he beauty, frustration and pretension of art

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

You live your whole life afraid immigration’s going to knock on your door. Your whole life is looking over your shoulder, living a scared life. It’s very hard because I know I did something wrong — I overstayed my visa. Everything I do is to give something to my family. I want to stay here.

— Nestor Marchi, a 59-year-old Greensboro aviation worker who has lived in the United States since 1994 but has been ordered by ICE to return to Brazil.

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When I slide into a barstool at Stumble Stilskin’s and order a soda water with maybe a little lemon or lime in it, Chris Flathers snorts and shakes his head.

“It’s just so unlike you,” he says.

It’s been a while, but back in the day Flathers bore witness to many of my finest accomplishments in the field of inebriation. Flathers was there in the Rhinoceros Club when owner John Horshok drank me under the table in 2006. Horshok — may he rest in peace — put away at least 30 Miller Lites poured over ice before I lost count. And I was at the Rhino on a Thursday night in 2001 to see Flathers hold back a crowd of at least 100 all by himself, running the long length of the tilted bar under that row of slow-waving fans, changing his own kegs, filling his own ice and washing his own glasses until he gave up and went to plastic.

Flathers had the fastest hands in downtown Greensboro — in my estimation the best bartender in town when a thing like that meant very much to me.

He and Trevor Austin opened Stumble’s during the second renaissance of downtown Greensboro — or maybe it was the third? — back in 2004. They doubled the footprint and added the kitchen in 2009.

“Things were changing,” Flathers says.

You can drink a beer in a bookstore now, and craft brewers sell directly to their fans. Bar tabs are way down compared to the last decade, Flathers says, and nobody pays with cash anymore. He hasn’t had live music in the bar for as long as he can remember — “I do all DJs here,” he says. The guys never get dressed up to go out anymore, he says. And people are always looking at their phones instead of doing the sort of drinking for which a bar like Stumble’s was designed.

The bar is still built for speed: two full wells at either end with domestic bottles in a beer box up front and the good stuff in low refrigerators below the back bar. They run as many drafts as they can possibly handle, and there’s a separate cooler just for tequila.

“You gotta do that now,” he says.

It’s afternoon, and he’s got a couple drinkers at the bar, maybe a few more at the tables. It’s nothing like the after-work crowd at the Rhino, which back in the day was something akin to a white-collar bacchanal. But back then everybody wanted to drink and there weren’t that many places downtown where we could do it.

These days we have the opposite problem.

But in a crowded downtown market, Flathers is holding his own. He’s not as fast as he used to be. But he’s still got pretty good hands.

CORRECTION

Last week’s Editor’s Notebook incorrectly identified the owners of Mesmerizer Records and the Black Lodge Bar. Mesmerizer Records is owned by Amanda Lindsey and the Black Lodge is owned by Marty Rogers. TCB regrets the errors.

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CITY LIFE May 10 – 16

by Eric Hairston

WEDNESDAY SynerG on Tap @ Bearded Goat (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

A networking event for young professionals is being held in downtown Greensboro. Affiliated with Action Greensboro, SynerG is a nonprofit for the under-40 set that promotes the creation of opportunities through networking, diversity and inclusion. More information can be found on the Facebook event page.

WEDNESDAY @ 5:00

ArtsGreensboro announces lineup for the Levitt AMP Greensboro free summer concert series.

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IPA and Oreo Pairing Flight SUNDAY

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THURSDAY Flower school @ Old Salem (W-S), 6:30 p.m.

Enjoy an evening of instruction led by floral stylist Amy Lynne .

Flowers from the gardens of Old Salem as well as other items will be provided for creations. Participants will be able to take home their arrangements and will receive a Winston-Salem Flower School apron, garden clippers and a garden bucket. Refreshments will be provided.

Visit oldsalem.org for pricing and other details

SATURDAY Carolina Brewsfest Half Marathon & 5K and Craft Beer Festival @ Mendenhall Transportation Terminal (HP), 8:30 a.m.

Enjoy craft beers from around the state and participate in the half marathon or 5K race. There will be food trucks and music to round out the event.

Participants receive a signature T-shirt from the race as well as medals for the finishers. Winners receive admission to the beer festival and two craft brews for those of legal age. The race starts at 8:30 a.m. and the beer festival opens at 1 p.m. Tickets and information available at carolinabrewsfest.com.

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Brandy Clark & Charlie Worsham @ the Blind Tiger (GSO), 7 p.m.

Brandy Clark won the 2014 CMA Song of the Year, and has been nominated for six Grammys and best female vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 2015. Charlie Worsham is coming off the heels of his highly anticipated sophomore album Beginning of Things. The album already has a following, with NPR touting it as “a strong statement that country aimed at the center can be deeply intelligent, beautifully crafted and meaningful.” Tickets and information at theblindtiger.com.

Recital for Every Campus a Refuge @ Guilford College (GSO), 7 p.m.

This benefit recital features music from mezzo soprano Sarah Love Taylor and Radha Upton on piano, performing pieces inspired by immigrants and refugees. The event will feature the stories of people who passed through Ellis Island from 1905 to 1929, collected from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. Every Campus a Refuge at Guilford calls on every college and university to host one refugee family and assist them with resettlement. The event is free but donations are requested. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Downtown design workshop @ Chatham Building (W-S), 11:30 a.m.

The design workshop will help generate ideas to improve the design of downtown Winston-Salem and influence civic engagement. Participants will engage in various brainstorming exercises during the 90-minute workshop. The president of the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership, Jason Thiel will participate in the discussion. More info on the Facebook event page.

Hop Fest 2017 @ Tracks Bazaar (GSO), 5 p.m.

This annual festival includes craft beers from breweries all over North Carolina and dozens of local vendors, a pop-up flea market, live music and graphic art Attendees will also enjoy dozens of food trucks. Tickets and information at thehopfest.com.

SUNDAY Randal Bays and John Coyne @ Hush Speakeasy (GSO), 7 p.m.

Randal Bays is a self-taught musician who has been playing fiddle and guitar for more than 30 years. He also plays the traditional styles of County Claire and County Galway in Ireland. According to Fiddler magazine, Bays “is among the best Irish Isle fiddlers of his generation.” John Coyne, a bouzouki player, is also with a catalog of traditional and non-traditional songs. For tickets and other info, visit baysfiddle.brownpapertickets.com.

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Cover Story

by Jordan Green

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Tony Wilkins (District 5)

Mike Barber (at-large) Barber didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment.

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Sharon Hightower (District 1) Via phone: “I disagree with the city manager. I disagree

Jamal Fox (District 2) Via phone: “I’m not saying nothing on the case at this current moment.”

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Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson Via phone: “There could have been in one instance better discretion; other than that the police did act fine….

What I mean by that is there are rules where it’s legal to do something, but it may be that a better decision could have been made.”

with the statement [made by Vaughan, Abuzuaiter, Outling and Hoffmann]…. I think we could have arrived at a different place, a different resolution. I think we had an opportunity for a win-win.

“We’ve got to as leaders stop just grouping everything in one box. We’ve got to do a better job. I’m just disappointed in the decision that was made, and I don’t agree with the mayor and them. I’m a different thinker.

In this particular incident I would have liked to see us be more considerate of all inJORDAN GREEN volved.” (Hightower declined Jose Charles (center) at during a recent Greensboro City Council meeting. to comment on where the incident fell on a spectrum Via text: “I will continue to not comment on anything of appropriate police response to not appropriate.) related to viewing the video.”

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5 city council statements on Jose Charles incident (+ 1 non-response) The mayor + 3 on council The labyrinthine chain of events in the saga of Jose Charles, a 15-year-old child, who was criminally charged after an altercation with Greensboro police during last year’s Fourth of July festivities, is too complicated to fit in this space, but visit triad-city-beat.com for the backstory.

After protesters took over a city council meeting and council members reviewed police video of the incident, council members had various statements on whether they backed the police and the city manager in the incident.

Mayor Nancy Vaughan — joined by council members Marikay Abuzuaiter (at-large), Justin Outling (District 3) and Nancy Hoffman (District 4) — said in a statement prepared by City Attorney Tom Carruthers: “Though we cannot comment on the specifics of this incident, we do recognize and support our manager’s decision and his support for the Greensboro Police Department’s initial determination in this matter.”

Opinion

It’s time for the real rock rooms to follow suit.

I’m talking to you, Blind Tiger, the Garage, Millennium Center, Cone Denim Entertainment Center and everywhere else in the Triad that we rely on to bring us the kind of quality live music that’s too big for the coffeeshops but not big enough for the coliseum or the Joel.

Just this weekend my wife and I caught a small piece of a fantastic set

by Rinaldi Flying Circus at Test Pattern.

We would have loved to stay for the whole thing, but it was approaching midnight and we were exhausted. Drop that same show at 7 p.m. and we’ll stay for the whole thing.

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The best part is that the early show starts at 6 or 7 p.m.

I love it because old farts like me simply cannot stay awake and alert to see a band that starts playing at 11 p.m. and runs on well past 1 a.m. — even if we take afternoon naps.

But the 6 p.m. show allows grown folks to come by after work, have a few drinks and a genuine cultural experience and be home in bed by 10 p.m., which works even on a school night.

A few local spots have already latched onto this trend: On Pop of the World in Greensboro and Heyday Guitars in Winston-Salem are booking occasional early gigs that have the added bonus of being family-friendly. Event spaces like bookstores and coffee shops are also getting in on the action.

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One of my favorite New Orleans music clubs, d.b.a., holds down a spot on Frenchmen Street in a part of the city known as the Fauborg Marigny, which used to be strictly for locals but now has been discovered by the tourists. And it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the two.

Anyway, d.b.a hosts some of the better New Orleans bands, with a wide variety of styles and genres, and it’s also the kind of place where you could see Stevie Wonder jump onstage and start playing with the band, which actually happened during Jazz Fest in 2011. Yes, there’s a YouTube of it and yes, you should check it out.

I think the best thing d.b.a does is run two shows a night, with two different acts and two different cover charges.

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Check-in with ICE results in order to leave country after 20 years

by Jordan Green

A 59-year-old aviation worker who has lived in Greensboro for two decades since overstaying a visa is suddenly ordered to leave the country after reporting to ICE in March.

Nestor Marchi, a 59-year-old aviation worker in Greensboro, likely doesn’t fit anyone’s idea of the “bad hombres” then-candidate Donald Trump spoke of during the third presidential debate last October, when he said, “One of my first acts will be to get all of the drug lords, all of the bad ones — we have some bad, bad people in this country that have to go out.”

An aviation worker in his native Brazil since the age of 17, Marchi came with his wife to Miami in 1994 in the hopes of giving their son a better life, and overstayed a 6-month visa. The aviation industry in southeast Florida was encountering trouble, and in 1996 Marchi leapt at an opportunity to take a job at Timco, a company in Greensboro that was expanding and paying good wages.

Acquired by Haeco in 2014, Timco specialized in maintenance, repair and overhaul of commercial aircraft.

Marchi was apprehended in a 2004 immigration raid, which put him out of work for a couple years and plunged him into health troubles. But he struck a deal with the US Department of Homeland Security to assist the government in investigations into fraud, waste and abuse in the aviation industry in exchange for a work permit. He dutifully showed up for regular check-ins at the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in Charlotte, at first every 30 days and eventually once a year. Aside from overstaying his visa in 1994, Marchi has maintained a nearly spotless record. A check of North Carolina criminal offenses reveals only two traffic violations — a conviction for an expired tag in Guilford County in 2004 and speeding ticket in Rowan County the following year.

Marchi, who suffers from congestive heart failure and diabetes, continued to work to support his family until March 10 when he reported to ICE for his annual check-in. Instead of renewing his work permit, the agency ordered

Nestor Marchi (right), who has worked for more than two decades in the Greensboro aviation industry, with his son, Andy, a firefighter.

Marchi to come back on May 31 with proof that he’d purchased an airline ticket to Brazil and to leave the country

by June 15.

President Trump’s immigration policy, outlined in a Jan. 25 executive order entitled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” expanded enforcement priorities to include a wide range of undocumented immigrants, including people even suspected of criminal activity and people who “have engaged in fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency.” By not making particular undocumented people an enforcement priority, the executive order essentially made everyone a priority.

Despite the policy change, ICE has continued to tout its role in deporting criminal aliens. The agency publicized a 5-day enforcement action in southeast Texas last month resulting in 95 arrests involving undocumented people with convictions for homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and drug possession; 13 were for immigration violations. Patrick Contreras, the field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Houston, declared, “Public safety remains a top priority for ICE.” In contrast, Nestor Marchi’s impending return to Brazil suggests a broadening of the category of people swept up in ICE’s enforcement efforts as the Trump administration attempts to

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accelerate deportations to meet a loudly proclaimed campaign promise.

“This administration is not going after ‘bad hombres,’” said Jeremy McKinney, a Greensboro immigration lawyer who assisted Marchi in filing a humanitarian appeal. “They’re conducting this quiet and very easy enforcement action taking in non-criminals who voluntarily appear at the immigration office…. The question is one of public policy. We have finite officers and finite planes. This is a matter of priority for the Trump administration. The promise that I heard is that he was going after criminals. Under no one’s definition of criminal would Nestor be included.”

Contemplating his all-but-certain expulsion from the United States at his son’s house on the north side of Greensboro, Nestor Marchi reflected on two decades in the shadows, working hard to support his family but attempting as much as possible to remain invisible.

“You live your whole life afraid immigration’s going to knock on your door,” he said. “Your whole life is looking over your shoulder, living a scared life. It’s very hard because I know I did something wrong — I overstayed my visa.

Everything I do is to give something to my family. I want to stay here.”

All the same, he looks at his decision to come to the United States with satisfaction, considering that his son, Andy, is serving the community as a Greensboro firefighter.

Through his earnings, Nestor was able to pay his son’s $1,500 annual tuition at GTCC. Although Andy has lived in Greensboro since he was 7 years old, his family paid the international rate so he could attend community college. Now 30, Andy obtained Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, allowing him to join the Greensboro Fire Department, where he serves on the hazardous-materials team.

“That’s why I came to the States,” Nestor Marchi said. “It paid off. I have a son doing something I’m very proud of. I came here not to send money to anywhere, but to give my family a better life.”

After the 2004 immigration raid, Marchi was out of work for about a year and a half. He said he lost everything, including his house and his car, and his health declined. In 2006, he developed congestive heart failure, leading to diabetes, and now relies on a cocktail of medications to maintain his health. If he’s forced to return to Brazil, Marchi said, he would have to wait for eight months just to get an appointment to see a doctor.

“He’s fighting to be alive,” Rose Snead, Marchi’s friend, said. “Every three or four months, he goes to Florida to be treated. If he goes to Brazil, it’s a death sentence.”

As a firefighter, Andy Marchi is often the first person on the scene when someone is experiencing a health emergency.

“I might have to perform CPR,” he said. “I see a lot of people with the same thing as my dad. It might be that someone who’s taking meds runs out and their health deteriorates. I’m happy that the fire department gave me the training to help these people. It stinks that I can help someone who I have no idea who they are, but I can’t do anything for my dad.”

Beyond overstaying his visa, in all other ways Andy Marchi said his father taught him honesty by example. He recalled that when he turned 18 he received offers for sham marriages, which would have put him on track to become a US citizen. Had he done so, he might now be in a position to sponsor his fa-

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here — I paid for it, but I was able to stay alive.”

Marchi is aware that many people in the United States, particularly those who backed President Trump’s election, feel strongly that the nation’s immigration laws need to be enforced, even if they might applaud his work ethic and sympathize with his health challenges.

“If you have any humanity, [recognize that] it’s case by case,” Marchi said.

“I always obey the law and do everything right. I plead with you: Please look at the other side. Some of us can be useful for the nation. Give some of us a chance to stay here.”

Some immigrants in Marchi’s situation might go underground to avoid deportation. That’s not his way.

“I need a miracle,” Marchi said. “I want to do everything right. My son becoming an American citizen, I want to be able to come back to see my grandchildren. If I need to go on June 15, I’ll go on June 15. My whole life I’m trying to be as honest as I can.”

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ther’s application for citizenship and his father wouldn’t be facing an expulsion order. But he waited to find the woman he truly loved, and they got married five months ago. Andy could potentially sponsor his father in three years, but by then it may be too late.

“Three years is what would be needed for me to become a citizen to help him apply for citizenship,” Andy Marchi said. “We’re just closing the door. He needs help…. It’s not like he doesn’t have a gateway to get legalized. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”

Despite his past difficulties and dismal prospects of unemployment and unaddressed health needs in Brazil, Nestor Marchi said he’s grateful for his time in the United States. He always paid taxes with a false Social Security number to normalize his status as much as possible, but never was able to draw Social Security or Medicare benefits. Yet in a way he believes he benefited from the system he paid his taxes into.

“It’s unbelievable how good this country is to us,” Marchi said reflecting on the time when his health declined.

“Because of the advances of medicine

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Winston-Salem moves towards doubling fares for disabled riders

by Jordan Green

Winston-Salem City Council members move towards a fare hike on public-transit riders with disabilities, but delay a decision on regulating needle exchanges.

Winston-Salem moved a step closer on Monday to raising fares on users of the city’s paratransit service, which provides door-to-door service to people with disabilities as a supplement to the fixed-route bus system.

The Winston-Salem Transit Authority’s board of directors has recommended a fare increase for Trans-Aid, the city’s paratransit service, from 50 cents to $1 while eliminating a free service for Medicaid recipients. Implementation of the changes requires final approval of city council as part of its annual budget vote, which takes place in June.

“I hope people are not viewing this conversation as an attempt to balance the budget on the backs of our paratransit riders, because it’s clearly not,” said Councilman Jeff MacIntosh, a Democrat who represents the Northwest Ward, during a meeting of the finance committee of city council. “What we’re trying to do is provide a disincentive for what is the most expensive and fastest growing segment of our public [transit] system.”

A handful of advocates assailed the proposed fare changes as inconsistent with the city’s “poverty thought force” sponsored by Mayor Allen Joines and unfair in light of the city’s track record of subsidizing downtown development through financial incentives.

“I know 50 cents don’t seem like a lot to some people,” said Phillip Carter.

“But it’s a whole lot when you have to go to a food pantry, when you don’t have no job, or when you feeding a grandchild. That’s a lot when you have to buy medicine. These riders are on dialysis. They have medical issues.”

Council members who are leaning towards approving the fare hike and advocates for the poor opposed to the changes agree that the potential revenue generated from raising fares is insignificant as a proportion of the city’s annual budget.

Councilman Dan Besse, a Democrat who represents the Southwest Ward holds a reputation as a longtime transit

A paratransit user who is blind meets the Trans-Aid bus at her home in Winston-Salem.

advocate, argued that cost containment of paratransit is essential if the city is going to improve its fixed-route service, which is also largely used by lower-income people. He also said expansion of fixed-route service to make it more convenient would allow some disabled people to use it instead of paratransit.

“I’m pushing the council this year to spend more on fixed-route,” Besse said after the meeting. “If we don’t get a handle on growth of cost in TransAid, which for most of the [eligible] population is a free service, that growth element will explode in a way that it will eat the system.”

Chief among the enhancements Besse said he wants to see for the fixed-route system would be increasing frequency from one hour to 30 minutes in the highest demand routes, and restoring evening, weekend and Sunday service in areas that lost it when the transit authority implemented a new routeand-schedule system on Jan. 2.

“As a matter of political reality, I’m not going to be able to get support to make these changes if I can’t rebalance where the ridership goes,” Besse said.

Besse and other council members said Winston-Salem and Greensboro are the only cities in the state where riders pay less for paratransit than fixed-route service. Besse said 22 percent of Winston-Salem’s transit budget is consumed by paratransit, which serves about 5 percent of the overall ridership. He said the operational cost of paratransit in Winston-Salem in 2016 was $17 per ride, compared to about $4 per ride for

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fixed-route service.

Besse looks to Durham as a model for where he wants Winston-Salem to go. With 6.2 million rides in 2015, Besse said the ridership of Durham, a city with a slightly larger population, is roughly two and half times larger than in Winston-Salem. Durham charges $2 per ride for its paratransit service, and Besse argued that the quality of the city’s fixed-route service likely makes it convenient and attractive for a segment of the disabled population.

The model Besse doesn’t want to emulate is Greensboro, where he said the paratransit service SCAT eats up 33 percent of the overall transit budget while serving 6 percent of the ridership.

With a larger population than Durham, Greensboro provided only 4.2 million rides in 2015. Undercutting Besse’s argument, Greensboro improved the quality of its service by increasing frequency across the system from 60 to 30 minutes 10 years ago; the councilman acknowledged that Greensboro and Winston-Salem’s sprawling geography might also account for the two cities having less robust ridership than the more compact Durham.

Also on Monday, the public safety committee discussed a proposal to introduce regulations on needle exchanges, but lacking a consensus on how to move forward the committee pushed off the decision to its next meeting in June.

At the request of council, city staff has put together a range of alternatives, from limiting needle exchanges by excluding them from residential zoning to

regulating the service through a special use permit, which would require applicants to spend $1,000 in fees. Either option would significantly hamper the Twin City Harm Reduction Collective, currently the sole needle exchange operating in the city.

“I do not have a strong timetable on all of this,” said Councilman John Larson, a Democrat who represents the South Ward. “We have one facility that is operating currently; it happens to be in my ward. I know they have made efforts to embrace the community around them. I know that they work on a shoestring budget. I know that originally there were some rough spots going in, and a lot of that is being worked out I’m sure while we speak. However, my concern long term is that in the years ahead in other neighborhoods and in the city as a whole, where do we want to place that? I’m asking my colleagues on council, I’m asking the citizens: What kind of placement are we most comfortable with?... It’s still a moving target.”

The committee heard contrasting views on the matter.

Kate McFarland, who serves on the board of the West Salem Neighborhood Association and who lives next door to Green Street Church, said she doesn’t trust the Twin City Harm Reduction Collective.

“At this point I feel like the needle exchange should not be allowed to operate ever within a residential community,” she said. “However, if we are going to allow that, there needs to be some process by which they are forced into a relationship with neighbors.”

Colin Miller, who operates the needle exchange, responded that he and his fiancé have attended three out of the last five meetings of the neighborhood association, presented data and shared their phone numbers so they can respond to questions.

“I’m wondering why we couldn’t look for some sort of solution — I’d be willing to work on such a solution — that would not sort of put the burden of proof on the organizations that are trying to save lives and have roundly been shown that they are very successful and have little to no impact on the community,” he said.

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Police videos are always in the public interest The law’s intent is clear: “An act to provide that recordings made by law enforcement agencies are not public records….”

It’s nonsense, of course — just about every minute of taxpayer-supported police time should be public record, particularly when agents interact with the people who pay their salaries. But it is the law of the land in North Carolina… for now…. And so we deal with it.

But how we deal with it changes from place to place.

In Greensboro, the body-camera footage from the Jose Charles incident remains under wraps even though there is considerable disagreement about the the event captured in the video. The city council and the Greensboro Police Department’s internal investigation have both determined that the officer accused of assaulting Charles acted within the parameters of his job — and that Charles should be charged with assault on an officer. But the police community review board, comprised of citizens, disagreed with that finding. Three of them have resigned amid the controversy. Activists took over a council meeting just last week over the issue, driving the body back to its offices before eight people were arrested for civil disobedience nearby.

Council and the GPD are going to extraordinary lengths to keep the public from seeing this interaction between the officer and the 15-year-old Charles, especially considering the unrest this secrecy is causing.

Conversely, the city of Winston-Salem recognized immediately the importance of releasing body-camera footage from a city motorcycle cop during a recent traffic stop. It’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison — cell-phone video from a citizen had already gone viral, and City Attorney Angela Carmon argued that the context the body-cam footage provided was necessary to fully understand the event. The video did indeed show that the cop had apparently acted properly.

That’s the way it should be: When the public deems it necessary to review a case, the body-camera footage should exonerate the cop every time. But here in the real world, we’d settle for 75 percent. Any less, and we should all be terrified.

Last year, before the state law went into effect, GPD and city council released two separate pieces of body-camera video to the public — one that seemed to show an officer had acted properly and another where an officer apparently had not. Both are still up for debate depending who you ask.

But as we’ve seen in Winston-Salem, the law is not intended to be shield against the eyes of the public.

Greensboro would do well to remember that.

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Rural resistance, or ‘red’ doesn’t only mean GOP

The notion that cities are Although the anarchist-oriented Redneck Revolt is oases of liberalism in deserts probably an unknown quantity to most of Triad City of rural conservatism is widely Beat’s readers in urban Greensboro and Winston-Sashared and backed up by voting lem, their ideological foes on the extreme right already data. dismiss them with disdain. A trolling comment from an The numbers from the last internet user identified as “Mickey Knoxxx” is typical of presidential election bear the the reductionist portrayal of the leftist attempting to

by Jordan Green binary out: Urban Guilford and organize rural communities.

Forsyth counties broke for Hillary “‘Militant leftists’ means goofy college kids from out Clinton by 58 percent and 53 percent respectively, while of state,” the user commented under a story about the the surrounding counties supported Donald Trump by anti-Klan march. “Y’all aren’t even Southern, GTFO.” percentages ranging from 54.6 to 78.9. More than three Both are crude characterizations that are largely quarters of voters in Randolph County, where I went on untrue.

May 6 to report on a protest against the Ku Klux Klan, Mitch Maden (the last name is a pseudonym assumed supported Trump. for security purposes) lives and maintains a small sustainScrape away red/blue electoral maps and the party able agriculture operation in rural Davidson County and registration of elected officials from city council up to supplements their income working for a social service the General Assembly, and you’ll discover the picture agency in Greensboro. Ben Jones, another member of is not quite so cleanly drawn. Having grown up in rural Silver Valley Redneck Revolt — which anchored the rally Kentucky protesting everything from my favorite English — works at an auto auction and is enrolled in the brewing teacher’s homophobia to nuclear proliferation, I’ve always program at Randolph Community College. known there are plenty of progressives in rural America, It’s certainly true that the rural organizers of the May 6 along with plenty of racism, homophobia anti-Klan rally drew on relationships with and misogyny. Just as the inverse is true allies in urban communities for support, Scrape away red/ in the cities, there are many rural probut calling them “out-of-state” and not blue electoral gressives who are out-voted and unrep“Southern” is simply inaccurate. Ruann resented on their government councils, Elbassyouni, a political science student at maps, and you’ll and many on both sides of the political UNC-Charlotte who grew up in Randiscover the spectrum who feel so alienated by the dolph County and whose family still lives two political parties that they don’t vote. there, pitched in to help plan the event. picture is not so Despite advertising a rally and “cross So did Rann Bar-On, an Israeli-Americlearly drawn. lighting at dark” on its website weeks can antifascist who works as a teacher in in advance, the Caswell County-based Durham. Bar-On, whose grandmother Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan died in the Holocaust and whose grandwere nowhere to be seen on May 6. That shouldn’t have father fought in the resistance against the Nazis, helped come as a surprise considering that the website clearly mobilize members of the Industrial Workers of the World indicated the white supremacists would gather on private to turn out for the event. property. But Aimee Pippin, who organized a Unity Walk The political left in rural North Carolina isn’t limited to counter the Klan, said many locals were convinced to the militant, class-based posture of organizers like that the KKK intended to show up in downtown AsheMaden who view solidarity with immigrants, Muslims and boro.

LGBTQ people as an essential part of a fight against Bystanders who watched about a 100 people — all capitalism. Steve Woolford, who lives in a Catholic dressed in matching red bandannas led by a group called Worker communal house in rural Chatham County, carRedneck Revolt, march through the heart of downtown ried a sign reading “No one should live in terror” at the Asheboro — might have been confused by what they anti-Klan march in Asheboro. witnessed. At the end of the march, when an anti-Klan The Catholic Worker movement was founded by the protester went over to speak to a small group standing late Dorothy Day, an anarchist and pacifist who is under beside a man waving a Confederate flag, one woman consideration for sainthood by the church. heatedly denied any white supremacist sympathies.

“I’m here as a privileged white guy who has many peo“I just came out here with my nephew because he had ple in my life who feel terrorized by the Klan,” Woolford never been to a protest, and I wanted him to see firsttold me. “I know people who have trouble sleeping at hand,” she spat. “Now I see what kind of people you are.” night. They don’t know whether the rhetoric is all talk It wasn’t immediately clear whether she had expected or whether they are actually going to commit acts of to find the Klan or their left-wing opponents. violence.”

Prediction of violence, with swears Somebody is going to get hurt [“Militant anti-Klan protesters march through downtown Asheboro” by Jordan Green, May 6, 2017]. This s*** can’t continue much longer without somebody getting shot. F*** antifa for starting this and f*** anyone who rises to their bait. Only way this bulls*** ends without violence is if we starve these basement-dwelling neckbeards larping as revolutionaries of the attention they so desperately crave.

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ston-Salem’s proposed ‘welcoming city’ resolution”; by Jordan Green; May 3, 2017]. Why all the sudden? Obama deported over a million his first year. I will leave Winston-Salem if this becomes a sanctuary city. We can welcome anyone who wants to come here, but we have to make them follow the law. I just wonder what you would say to Kate Steinle’s family.

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The 2017 Triad College Commencement Speaker Face-Off

High Point University students were treated to words of encouragement from CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer at this year’s commencement, the most recognizable speaker of the year in the Triad.

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ollege commencement is serious business these days, a chance for a school to showcase its clout by attracting a big name to inspire its graduates — and, if the name is big enough, stories in the daily newspaper and the evening news.

Over the years at the 11 institutions for higher learning in the Triad we’ve had vice presidents and first ladies, world-class

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athletes and national figures in media and politics, and also Stephen Colbert, who spoke at Wake Forest University in 2015.

But this year’s is perhaps the most impressive list of commencement speakers we’ve seen in the Triad this century.

And what fun is a list unless it’s ranked?

I weighed the relative fame and levels of accomplishment for the speakers, and how they tied into the overall missions of the universities, taking into consideration each school’s trend in commencement speakers over the years.

Some schools keep better records than others for this sort of thing. Some schools don’t play the game, opting for successful alumni or local figures rather than spend the big bucks on a famous name. The idea, though, has always been to send off the graduates with some words of wisdom and inspiration.

As for me, I remember that the journalist Cokie Roberts spoke at my college graduation. But I can’t for the life of me remember what she said.

HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY

Wolf Blitzer

Bio: A high-profile television personality, Blitzer gained prominence covering the first Gulf War for CNN. He has also worked the Tel Aviv bureau for Reuters, the White House Press Corps, wrote a New York Times Book of the Year — 1986’s Territory of Lies, about an American charged with spying for Israel — and was one of the first Western reporters invited to view KGB headquarters in Moscow. He currently hosts “The Situation Room” on CNN. Ever heard of him? Yes Appropriateness: HPU has sometimes been criticized for valuing style over substance, which combined with university President Nido Qubein’s penchant for creating “wow moments” makes this TV talking head a near-perfect pairing.

Shorthand: The guy from CNN Past speakers: Condoleezza Rice (former secretary of state, 2016), Tom Brokaw (broadcast journalist, 2015), Colin Powell (retired diplomat and general, 2014), Steve Wozniak (tech entrepreneur, 2013), Laura

What he talked about: Blitzer spoke on May 6, emphasizing the role perseverance played in his life and career, and the importance of hard work and “showing up.”

Margot Lee Shetterly

Shorthand: Author of Hidden Figures

Past speakers: Gov. Beverly Perdue (2009), former NC governor Jim Hunt (2004), Nido Qubein (motivational speaker and eventual president of High Point University, 2003), Erskine Bowles (political figure, 2000), Fred Chappell (former NC poet laureate, 1999), Art Buchwald (newspaper columnist, 1967, 1997), Maya Angelou (poet and author, 1986), Lesley Stahl (broadcast journalist, 1986), Charles Kuralt (journalist, 1973), Sen. George McGovern (1969) Bio: Shetterly’s first book, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, pays tribute to the black, female mathematicians who crunched the numbers that created NASA. A film of the same name came out in December 2016 and was nominated for three Oscars, among dozens of other accolades. It has so far grossed more than $228 million.

Ever heard of her? Maybe not, but you’ve probably heard of the book, and you better be aware of the movie.

2. N C A&T UNIVERSITY

Laila Ali

Appropriateness: Shetterly is a big get for UNCG, but the school is known for neither mathematics nor aerospace, though they do have a fine creative writing program. She didn’t go to UNCG and she’s not from around here. So it’s a push.

Shorthand: Muhammad Ali’s daughter Past speakers: First Lady Michelle Obama (2012), US Rep. John Lewis (2015), Donna Brazile (author and political analyst, 2014)

What she’ll talk about: Here’s hoping that on May 12, Shetterly, who is black, will address aspects of racism, science and, maybe, economics — before she began her writing career, Shetterly was an investment banker for JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch.

Bio: Laila Ali won her first world boxing title in 2002 and amass a perfect 24-0 career — with 21 wins by knockout. She finished in 2007 with a TKO of South African fighter Gwendolyn O’Neil, and now is the founder of a “lifestyle brand” that incorporates her roles in fitness and health, media, business and professional sports. She has appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” “Chopped” and other shows and movies, and is a past president of the Women’s Sports Foundation.

4. WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY

Bakari Sellers

Shorthand: Former South Carolina politician, current CNN talking head Past speakers: Melissa Harris-Perry (journalist, 2016), Common (rapper, 2015), Michael Eric Dyson (author and educator, 2012), Stephen A. Smith (sports journalist, 2011)

Ever heard of her? Probably Appropriateness: Ali has created a brand around her interests, accomplishments and personality. But she exhibits little of the political activism for which A&T — and her father — are well known.

What she’ll talk about: On Saturday, Ali will certainly talk about her father and her own

3. UNCG

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career in the ring and out of it. And it’s a safe bet she will hit upon one of several eternal commencement themes. Probably the importance of giving back.

Bio: At 22, Sellers became the youngest member of the South Carolina General Assembly and the youngest

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African-American elected official in the country in 2006.

In 2014, he lost his bid for lieutenant governor of South Carolina. His father is Cleveland Sellers, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who was the only person convicted for the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, when three protesters were killed by state troopers. He served seven months in prison and was pardoned in 1993.

Ever heard of him? Maybe not yet, but this guy could be president someday.

Appropriateness: Spot on. Sellers went to Morehouse, another HBCU, for his undergraduate degree, and he’s got a law degree from the University of South Carolina.

He’s a featured political analyst on CNN, in high demand on the lecture circuit and is considered to be a rising star

5. SALEM COLLEGE

Susan Goldberg

Shorthand: First female editor in chief of National Geographic

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Past speakers: Erika James (dean of Emory University Goizueta Business School, 2016), Freda Lewis-Hall (Pfizer CEO, 2015) Bio: The former editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer has done time at the San Jose Mercury News, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as well as Bloomberg News. In her time at NatGeo beginning in 2015, the magazine has won three National Magazine Awards and been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for its 2016 piece on gender. She is still editor in chief of the monthly magazine, as well as editorial director of National Geographic Partners.

Ever heard of her: Probably not, unless you’re in media. But you know her work.

7. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Jon Meacham

Shorthand: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

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Past speakers: Stephen Colbert (TV host, 2015), Jill Abramson (former executive editor of the New York Times, 2014), Insar K. Nooye (PepsiCo CEO, 2011), Kenneth Chenault (American Express CEO, 2010), Vice President Joe Biden (2009), Arnold Palmer (professional golfer, 2005), Colin Powell (2004), Michael Bloomberg (businessman and former mayor of New York City, 2003), Sen. John McCain (2002), Barbara Bush (former first lady, 2001), Tom Clancy (author, 1992), Garry Trudeau (creator of Doonesbury, 1996), Maya Angelou (1985), Bill Moyers (journalist, 1984, 1970), Rep. Gerald Ford (1972), Walter Lippman (newspaper columnist, 1926)

Appropriateness: Having one of the most successful women in publishing speak at the country’s oldest school for women makes sense, though Goldberg herself went to Michigan State. This is certainly a badass graduation speaker, and kudos to Salem for booking her.

What she’ll talk about: If she’s smart — and she undoubtedly is — on May 20 Goldberg will mine her magazine’s reporting on gender to speak to the Salem students about an issue that is currently affecting their campus.

in the Democratic Party.

What he’ll talk about: When Sellers speaks on May 19, he should explain the connection between his father’s activism and his own role as an elected official.

6. UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Nancy Seruto

Shorthand: A Disney Imagineer Past speakers: David LaChappelle (photgrapher/director, 2015), Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences President Cheryl Isaac Boone (2015), Angus MacLachlan/Peter Bogdanovich (directors, 2010), Kristin Chenowith (actor, 2009), Danny Elfman (composer, 2007), Forrest Whitaker (actor, 2004), Mandy Patinkin (actor, 2001), Debbie Allen (actor and choreographer, 1992) Bio: Seruto runs all Disney theme parks and attractions around the world, and was the driving force behind the new Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Shanghai Disney.

Ever heard of her: Not likely. But you’ve heard of Disney.

Appropriateness: There’s no bigger name in entertainment than Disney, though Seruto is more associated with the parks than the films.

What she spoke about: On May 6, Seruto told graduates about her own troubled career path, urging students to remain brave and confident in the face of fear.

Bio: Meacham has authored definitive works — and bestsellers — on George HW Bush, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the latter of which won him a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is currently working on a piece about James and Dolley Madison. He’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians, a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and the University of the South and a former executive editor at Random House.

Ever heard of him: A solid maybe.

Appropriateness: Meacham is a fantastic boilerplate pick for any university, though his ties to Vandy and Sewanee make him well suited to address the Deacon crowd. Still, compared to this year’s crop and Wake’s roster of past speakers, he drops to the back of the list.

What he’ll talk about: It almost doesn’t matter — it will be brilliant and fascinating.

commencement address at Gettysburg College.

US Rep. Alma Adams

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Robert J. Grey Jr.

Bio: Rep. Adams worked her way from a seat on the Greensboro School Board, before it merged with Guilford County, to Greensboro City Council and then a NC house district before winning the Congressional district previously represented by Mel Watt, whose career followed a similar trajectory. She is currently chair of the North Carolina Black Legislative Caucus.

Ever heard of her: Yes, if you live around here.

Past speakers: In recent years, Bennett commencement speakers have general been past and present university presidents, though last year they had a financial advisor. And this year former Bennett President Johnetta Coles will be delivering the

9. GUILFORD COLLEGE

Patricia Timmons-Goodson

What she talked about: On May 6, Adams spoke about the importance of HBCUs to the graduating students from the country’s oldest private college for black women.

North Carolina from Florence, SC to attend UNC-Chapel Hill, worked for the Census Bureau and as an assistant district attorney before attaining her first judgeship in district court in 1984.

Gov. Mike Easley appointed her to the state Supreme Court in January 2006; later that year she retained the seat in an election. She left the bench in 2012, and was appointed by President Obama to the US Commission on Civil Rights in 2016.

Ever heard of her: Depends. How many state Supreme Court justices can you name?

Shorthand: First African-American female justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Past speakers: Rev. William J. Barber II (activist, 2016), Jeff Thigpen (Guilford County Register of Deeds, 2013) Bio: Timmons-Goodson came to

Ever heard of him?: Nope.

Unless you’re a lawyer, in which case it’s a maybe.

Appropriateness: Though Adams herself is an Aggie and not a Bennett Belle, she was an art professor at Bennett for 40 years. That makes her a natural — if somewhat uninspired — pick.

Shorthand: Local congresswoman

Appropriateness: Though Guilford’s graduation speakers have been historically lackluster — when Managing Editor Eric Ginsburg graduated in 2010, the speaker was the CEO of Tupperware, who had dropped out of the school — Timmons-Goodson has a tough act to follow. But her civil rights background should appeal to the graduates.

What she’ll talk about: On Friday, Timmons-Godson would do well to tap into the social-justice currents that run through Guilford and its students, with perhaps some practical advice on how to make a difference in Trump’s America.

Bio: Grey was the second African American to head the ABA, with which he’s been involved since 1998. In addition to his law practice, for a time he chaired the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Board. Since 2010 he has been on the board of the Legal Services Corporation, the country’s largest provider of legal assistance to the poor.

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Appropriateness: Sure.

As far as attorneys go, Grey boasts a pretty interesting résumé. But he’s not exactly a standout among the Triad’s commencement speakers this season.

Shorthand: Former president of the American Bar Association Past speakers: David Gergen (political analyst, 2009), Sen. Kay Hagan (2010), Sen. Richard Burr (2011), Attorney General and future Gov. Roy Cooper (2015)

What he’ll talk about: At the Elon Law commencement on May 20, Grey might encourage some of these newly-minted lawyers to use their powers and privileges to help the less fortunate.

11. GREENSBORO COLLEGE

Lynette Tannis

Shorthand: An alum who teaches at Harvard Past speakers: Joey Cheek (Olympic speed-skater, 2012), Navy Cmdr. Porter Halyburton (former POW, 2011), Elizabeth Dole (former senator, 2007) Bio: Tannis (Class of ’95) earned a master’s and a doctorate in education at Harvard by 2013. Her work centers on juvenile justice education, and her 2014 book Educating Incarcerated Youth established her as a national authority on the subject.

Ever heard of her: No. Appropriateness: Definitely — she’s a graduate who parlayed her Greensboro College degree into a position at the top of her field.

What she’ll talk about: On Saturday, Tannis is sure to talk about her experiences with kids in jail and the challenges they face. Perhaps she will issue a challenge to her fellow Greensboro College grads to go out and make a difference. We hope so.

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CULTURE Taking stock of what our food scene still lacks

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enver isn’t, generally speaking, considered a foodie capital.

But from my very first meal in the mile-high city last weekend — at a sort of dingy-looking taco place on the outskirts of the city — I couldn’t stop noticing things that the Triad is lacking.

Soon after I landed and made my way to a childhood friend’s doorstep, we hopped in his car and shot over to Federal Boulevard, a stretch of road where the storefronts alternate between pho joints and taco shops that instantly reminded me of Gate City Boulevard.

We almost changed course for a hole in the wall offering first-rate soup dumplings — something I haven’t found in the Triad — but the spot was closed, so we steered into the rather inauspicious empty parking lot of Carnitas Estilo Michoacan #1.

We tried several tacos, both preferring the barbacoa, but what impressed me most my friend overlooked entirely: a small stand in the dining area where you can add toppings to your tacos, from salsas to veggies like radish slices.

That’s a given at places like this in Denver, my friend told me. And I’ve seen it myself in several places in Durham. But never in the Triad, despite the simple beauty and obvious appeal of the system.

The next morning I grabbed a light breakfast at the Denver Central Market, but was tempted to order the shakshuka, a tomato and egg dish I’ve only heard about by following the Jewish Food Society on Instagram. I regret not ordering it because you can’t find one in a restaurant here. But I was holding out for lunch, when I’d head to a vegetarian restaurant called City, O’ City and order the breakfast arepas.

Damn, they were satisfying. Sure, there are plenty of vegetarian dishes throughout local restaurants in the Triad, but are we really cool with Boba House being the only explicitly veg spot? I’m calling BS. That night we hit up a pool party with water too cold for swimming and an open bar. We chowed on $2 tacos from a pop-up stand that a woman ran in the corner with — you guessed it — a small DIY toppings bar.

The next morning, significantly exhausted and somewhat hungover after a DJ set in the basement of an art mu-

seum featuring a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit upstairs, my friend and I rolled up to a Jewish deli. I’d return to Rosenberg’s again the next morning, not satiated after eating the sesame bagel with Scottish smoked salmon, tomato, onion and capers.

I’m glad that Greensboro and Winston-Salem each have decent bagel places to call their own — locally I’m partial to New Garden Bagels — but it doesn’t compare to the full-on Jewish deli experience.

While at Rosenberg’s I also tried New Jersey’s famous Taylor ham for the first time, and again mourned the Triad’s dearth of options. Once home, I checked the offerings at O’Brien’s in Winston-Salem and Euro Deli Mart and Giacomo’s in Greensboro to no avail.

We walked next door for fresh baguettes from the neighboring French deli called Rolling Pin. At least here I could be thankful for the somewhat comparable Atelier on Trade in Winston-Salem, but Greensboro’s got nothing that comes close.

At this point, you might be sick of me regaling you with stories of things that Denver has but the Triad lacks. But the thing is, Denver is no holy grail of diverse or exciting food culture. Yes, I ate great all weekend. But many of the things I enjoyed are standard in big American cities, and the Triad is a big enough market to support them.

Take, for example, the Truffle Cheese Shop, where we snagged several provisions for a picnic in the park including a little wild boar and some intensely delicious speck (think prosciutto). I walked into a cheesemonger in the tiny town of Great Barrington, Mass. almost a decade ago and couldn’t believe that a town Our Parisian-style picnic featured fresh baguettes, various cheeses ERIC GINSBURG that small could support such a specialized and a selection of meat including speck (bottom left) and wild boar. business. If it can succeed there, then it’s not just Denver we’re lagging behind. chili peppers and was house fermented, I knew I wasn’t just I’m not asking for a place like the Truffle Cheese Shop where inventing these differences for a reason to gripe. you can buy “octopus in olive oil” or caviar. A modest cheese I didn’t come here to heap praises on Denver while tearing store that’s not a part of a grocery store chain would be just down my chosen hometown and beat up on the Triad’s other fine. cities. There’s plenty here to celebrate, and more than enough We passed by other restaurant concepts that I know exist in in Denver to lament (including a weed-themed sandwich North Carolina too, like a conveyor-belt sushi place. My friend shop near my friend’s apartment that doesn’t actually serve pointed out a Chinese place that he said isn’t anything special, anything belonging to the cannabis family). But I believe in except that it offers scoops of whatever you want for just tough love for our local food scene, and the fact that Denver $1.50. It reminded me of the Chinese buffet I worshipped as a is far from being the nation’s shining city on a hill only makes kid, and the absence of any halfway decent stand-in anywhere matters worse. in the Piedmont.

All of the blame doesn’t belong to restaurateurs or other Maybe I was looking for deficits, for things to whine about. people working in the food industry — after all, Greensboro The pizza place we stopped at that serves $5 pizzas after 10 failed to support Jaribu with its vegan Jamaican food or the p.m. is the same as Brixx with it’s BOGO $10 pizzas after 10 meatless Zizi’s, and Winston-Salem let me down by allowing p.m., right? Sure, if Brixx was somehow comparable in quality the Honey Pot to close. If we don’t support diversity in our to Mission Pizza without the price jump. When our server told local food scene, our talents will give up or move away. us that the hot sauce in front of us was made from Bolivian I really don’t think I’m asking for that much.

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t’s pretty incredible, really, that two mas; the distillery opened last September. local distilleries brought home gold “Being six months old, we weren’t expecting after the recent San Francisco World much, so we’re incredibly stoked it ranked as high as it did,” he said.

Spirits Competition.

At the Denver International Spirits CompetiSutler’s Spirit of Winston-Salem and tion in March, Emulsion won silver, and Fainting Fainting Goat Spirits of Greensboro both won a gold medal for their gins, Goat’s Tiny Cat vodka won gold. Norman is awaitwhich have already garnered significant ing results from the New York International Spirby Kat Bodrie its Competition, at which point the distillery will local appeal. officially announce its awards on social media.

Sutler’s owner Scot Sanborn is thrilled.

Fresh from Asheville Cocktail Week, Sanborn “This is a big deal because it takes us to another level,” he said. “We’re not just another good local or North Carolina gin. said the gold medal that Sutler’s gin won generatWe’re now a good [nationally known] gin and can compete on ed “a bit of buzz” among bartenders and others. an international level.”

The gin, a “unique hybrid between American dry and London gin,” has been on the market The competition, now in its 17th year, is one of the largest for a little more than two years. It incorporates, and most prestigious in the spirits industry. This year saw 2,100 entrants — the most in the event’s history — with many, among other things, coriander, dill, Angelica root, lemon peel and bitter orange peel, giving if not all, spirits categories represented. it a more citrusy flavor and making it distinct Unlike some other competitions, which offer a “pay-to-play from Emulsion. The recent win won’t change thing where you pay [a certain amount of money] to get a the award-winning design of the black ceramic medal,” Sanborn said, the San Francisco competition is “truly bottle, although the distillery is planning to put a legitimate.” Judging is blind, and judges include restaurant hang tag on the bottle neck to inform consumers owners, bartenders, booze writers and other industry profesof the prize. sionals. Each rates the spirits on a 100-point scale.

The gin is SutTo win gold, a spirit must earn ler’s only product an average score of 90-100 from The award-winning gins are sold at currently on the the judges in that category. SpirKAT BODRIE Fainting Goat Spirits’ Emulsion gin of market, and Faintits that earn at least 90 points Greensboro and Sutler’s gin of Winston-Salem won gold most Triad ABC stores. Visit Sutler’s in the recent San Francisco World Spirits Competition. ing Goat has so far from each judge win double gold.

Spirit at sutlersspiritco.com or 840 released only its gin According to the competition’s Mill Works St. (W-S) and Fainting Goat Pick of the Week and vodka. website, a product that wins gold Spirits at faintinggoatspirits.com or 115 But both distilleries are work“is near the pinnacle of achieveMother’s Day brunch @ Di Lisio’s ing on other spirits. Fainting ment. [It] sets the standard for W. Lewis St. (GSO).

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he warm, mellow lights held him in an aureole, glowing and shining down at centerstage, as his fingers danced along the brassy keys. The tips of the drummer’s sticks bounced in a classic swing pattern on the cymbals, faster and faster, a smile creeping across the faces of the three musicians as Titus Gant glided into a solo.

The Crown, an upper-room venue above the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, held a mood that felt like being transported to the past. The audience sipped on cocktails and snapped fingers between the musicians’ solos at circular tables gathered close around the stage, lacking only the noxious haze of cigarette smoke from the old jazz clubs of the Beat Generation. And the normal distance between performer and audience was killed as the first set ended and Gant stepped off stage and walked among the crowd. Shaking hands and talking with those in attendance, the beloved musician showed a humble and meek side as he spoke with fans and

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thanked each one individually for coming out to the show.

“I just like connecting with the people,” Gant said. “They come out to see me and so I want to meet them.”

Titus Gant, leader of the jazz quartet, has local ties from studying for his post-graduate music degree at NC Central University under the guidance of renowned jazz musicians Brian Horton, Joey Calderazzo and Branford Marsalis.

The quartet comprises Titus Gant on saxophone, Drorester Alexander on piano, Lawrence Peoples on bass and Charles Pinckney on drums.

This show marks Gant’s initial effort for a regular showcase of jazz music in Greensboro.

“I want this to be a monthly event,” Gant said. “The more people that come out, the lower the ticket prices become. There is a lack of jazz in the community and I believe there is a need and want for it.”

Gant’s music recalls moments of instrumental expertise known mostly for such legends as John Coltrane and Art Blakely. But while his own talents remain among the upper echelon of jazz artists in the Triad, Gant had a special surprise ready for the audience at the Crown.

SPENCER KM BROWN Titus Gant grooves into a solo at the Crown in Greensboro.

As the quartet’s drummer, and Gant himself, cleared the stage, “This next piece was inspired by James 1, 2 and 3,” Gant three of Gant’s private students shyly made their way towards announced to the crowd. “Look them up.” the front. Two performed on the saxophone and one held To finish off the show, Gant laid into an intimate and nearly down the beat on drums in the background. The audience gave religious experience in his performance, playing a solo that an elated applause at the sudden change of cast for the show, earned him a bray of elated applause. recognizing what Gant was promoting. The students strugWhile Gant’s vision for local jazz is vast and hopeful, it will gled at first, barely audible, playing as gently as possible. He take a great recognition from Triad audiences to make the encouraged and showcased each one, engaging in a call-andvision come to life. Perhaps hopeful jazz enthusiasts will proresponse jam session in which each student’s melodic riposte mote the concept, but it may take a rebirth of wonder for an grew louder and more confident, culminating with a cresceneveryday ticket-buyer to concede to the movement. do into a mini solo for each student. Gant’s aim is to promote the jazz scene; he is encouraging the tradition in his students Pick of the Week while also spreading his vision to his audience.

The show featured two sets by Gant’s quartet; the first set featuring the group’s solos and original music. The only Brandy Clark & Charlie Worsham @ Blind Tiger (GSO), trouble with the genre in the Triad music scene is that there is Friday, 7 p.m. no focus on jazz in the community, making cover songs nearly Brandy Clark won the 2014 CMA Song of the Year, and obsolete unless a ticket buyer is well-versed in the history. has been nominated for six Grammys and best female That’s precisely what Gant aims to correct with his monthly vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 2015. Charlie jazz concerts.

Worsham is coming off the heels of his highly anticipated In a style such as Coltrane, Gant augmented the perforsophomore album Beginning of Things. Tickets and informance with a nod towards his own personal message. mation at theblindtiger.com.

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by Eric Ginsburg harles Williams deserves his own exhibit.

You don’t need any background to find Williams’ two series on display at the Weatherspoon Art Museum visually arresting. In the two first-floor rooms displaying the work of graduating MFA students of UNCG, Williams’ pieces stand out even among other compelling works. But once you know the backstory, it becomes obvious that Williams is a first-rate intellectual artist.

On Tuesday at noon, Williams and a half-dozen other graduating students presented impressive works, many of which tap into an explicit social consciousness. Each artist took a turn briefly introducing their art to a small cohort of friends, classmates and teachers. The exhibit includes an installation and video from Sherill Roland, who wore an orange prison jumpsuit to class and school functions for a year as part of his celebrated and wonderfully provocative Jumpsuit Project that illuminates the personal cost of incarceration.

Several apparel-themed pieces by Joyce Watkins King call attention to the costs of fast fashion, including an 80-pound, “Game of Thrones”-esque garment she assembled from thousands of gold keys. Caroline Bugby’s “Silver Dredger” spills forth from the back of one of the rooms, and is worth sitting ERIC GINSBURG Charles Williams’ series I Am is visually compelling even if you don’t know the personal in front of to fully take in. Indeed, each graduating student and political history that influenced it. presents a unique, worthwhile concept that becomes all the more apparent when listening to them talk. Julia Caston, Kate most like gasoline, and you could lose yourself in the tumult of loaded benefactor who recognize the Gordon and Codey Gallas — the other students in the exhibit the waves. Williams explained that the pieces were meant to skill of Williams’ work — he just found — have much to be proud of, contributing alluring compomirror the idea of buoys demarcating the segregated Chicago out that the North Carolina Museum nents to the display. beach, an incident he learned about while researching police of Art is buying some of his other work.

But Charles Williams should get his violence and riots.

They’ll pick it up Thursday, he said. And own exhibit.

The waves are unsettling to stare into, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, His two series currently on display which is intentional. Williams would Ga. will feature I Am and the Untitled UNCG’s 2017 MFA Thesis Exboth tap into “Red Summer,” better anxiously wade waist-deep into the series in 2018, kicking off a tour. hibition is on display at the known as the Chicago Race Riot of ocean in South Carolina — where he’s If you don’t know about Sherill 1919. Williams teases out the history of Weatherspoon Art Museum from — to take photos for the series, then Roland’s work, you aren’t paying much the conflict’s origins, which began in quickly leave the water for the safety of at 500 Tate St. (GSO) until attention. You could be forgiven for not a segregated swimming area. A black the shore.

Besides the obvious parallels knowing about Charles Williams, but May 21. Visit weatherspoon. teenager drowned after being hit with a to race and the role of water in the 1919 you will assuredly regret missing the opuncg.edu for more info. stone, touching off broader unrest. riot, water is also a unifying aspect of our portunity to see his thesis work before In the self-portraiture series I Am, shared humanity, Williams said, noting May 21. He is going places, and some Williams poses shirtless, sporting green that we’re mostly made of water. The day you’ll want to brag that you saw goggles and red floaties around his roiling waves spill from one square to the next as the darkness him back when. muscular biceps. He can’t swim, he admitted during his artist of the first few fades towards gray, and Williams said he’ll talk, but it’s on his bucket list. In the oil paintings, he leans in eventually add more to the series that run the spectrum tofrom the left for a side profile, faces the camera and leans his wards whiteness. head back looking skyward for a right side profile in the third.

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n Sunday, a week before his team’s NCAA regional in Austin, Wake Forest University men’s golf coach Jerry Haas played a round with his son.

“He’s a good player,” Haas said, adding some hereditary explanation: “You can’t get but

so far off the track.”

A father’s pride in his son aside, it’s hard to argue with the Deacons’ head coach: Golf runs deep in the Haas family, and Wake Forest does, too.

Jerry Haas was a four-time All-American at WFU before graduating in 1985 and embarking on a professional career that included several years on the PGA Tour. Jerry’s brother Jay previously led the Deacons to consecutive NCAA championships in the 1970s, and his son Bill — Jerry’s nephew — played at Wake from 2001 to 2004, receiving two National Player of the Year honors.

But according to the current Deacs’ coach, heredity alone didn’t get the members of the Haas family to their titles and accolades.

“It’s not like all of a sudden you have a good grip because your uncle’s a good player,” Jerry Haas said.

“You’ve got to put the work in.”

Haas’ career as a player and his 20 years as head Dianne Dailey (left) has coached Wake Forest’s women’s golf coach at Wake Forest have brought him the proficiency needed to rebuild the Deacons into a perennial But her family led her into the game, too. contender for conference and national titles, including “Growing up, I wanted to do something, but I aged three Top 10 finishes at the NCAA championships. out of swimming,” Dailey said in a phone interview “I can relate to these guys,” Haas explained, discussfrom Athens, Ga., where her team began the NCAA ing the peaks and valleys his players endure. “I know regional on Monday. “[And] I never could find tennis it’s not easy, I know what they’re going through… [As players.” a coach] you have different relationships with different But Dailey did caddie for her father, and she quickly kids. Some are struggling, but that’s got hooked on the game after she okay: When you start playing well first played. again it makes you feel that much Both the women’s and In nearly three decades as the head better.” men’s teams aim for a coach at Wake, Dailey’s teams have This year, Haas’ team enters the won four ACC championships. Dailey Austin regional ranked No. 10 nation- Top 6 finish that would has been selected as the ACC Coach ally after a third-place finish in the advance them to the of the Year four times, the LPGA ACC championship. Paul McBride and Coach of the Year once, and was inWill Zalatoris, both in their junior NCAA championships ducted to the National Golf Coaches years, finished in the individual Top 5. in late May in Sugar Association’s Hall of Fame in 2001.

Even with this year’s tournament Still, the position has required a lot Grove, Ill. run incomplete, Haas anticipates from her. greater success next season. A regu“The support was mainly for the lar lineup of two juniors, two sophomen’s program when I first got here,” Dailey explained. mores and a freshman means the coach doesn’t expect “But we have a lot of support now… because we’ve to lose any of his top players, and a great recruiting been so successful…. We’ve basically been ranked in class is on its way in. the Top 20 in the NCAA for the past 20 years.”

The coach explained that his team set a Wake Forest Whether it’s the support or the facilities, Dailey conrecord for most total wins based on the modern siders golf to be a major sport at Wake Forest. scoring method, and next year he intends to break the “People know Wake for its golf program,” she said. record again.

“Both [women’s and men’s teams] have done very, Dianne Dailey — the women’s golf coach at Wake very well. [Golf] is one of the most successful sports Forest for 29 years — can’t claim the same clan of golf programs that we’ve had. We have such nice facilities greats as her counterpart coaching the men’s team.

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Though the women’s golf program has gained support, this year’s team has had to face other challenges.

“We’ve had more injuries this year than ever, I can tell you that,” Dailey said. “We’ve had a really difficult time this semester fielding a team.”

Two of the Deacons suffered tendonitis, while another pulled a muscle in her ribs and a fourth had a hand injury, the coach explained.

But Dailey has a team of five strong golfers on the course this week in a regional that ends after press time. Jennifer Kupcho — Wake Forest’s 2016-17 Female Athlete of the Year — led the Deacons into the tournament, entering the contest on a WFU-record streak of nine consecutive rounds of par or better.

As their respective teams swing into regionals, Haas and Dailey seek their first NCAA championships — a title that has eluded both coaches in nearly 50 combined years of pursuit.

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count on tickets — I feel like I barely understand it.

What I do know is that there’s nothing that is both more inspiring and more devastating than spending a full day immersing yourself in other people’s brilliance. Sometimes it can make you wonder if you’re not using your own potential to the fullest or it makes you consider whether you have some hidden talent for expressionism or oils or just pronouncing chiaroscuro the right way on the first try.

But then you walk into another room and are confronted by the cotton-fluffy clouds of a lesser-known Magritte or Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th Century hellscapes or the perfect asymmetry of an Alexander Calder mobile and you think, There’s no way. Even the smallest pieces — like a pair of Guggenheim’s earrings, impossibly painted by Yves Tanguy — can make you feel like you’re not worthy of lifting them to your own eye level.

Maybe that’s a good thing, in some hard-to-explain way, to be overwhelmed by something beautiful and leave hoping that you’ll be able to inspire that feeling in someone else, whether it’s because you found your own artistic eye, you found the right words at the right time or because you know some solid REM album cuts.

Back in that restaurant, the man was still waiting for his answer. The uncomfortable silence was interrupted by a waiter placing impossible tangles of ink-blackened pasta in front of them. The man immediately wound a giant forkful and shoved it into his mouth.

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give you an overdose of Tintoretto and Titian, and force you to lock eyes with so many Virgin Marys that you’ll feel profoundly guilty about the package of Big League Chew you stole in the fourth grade.

(As an aside, my father’s side of the family has traced its lineage to the 13th Century, and I’m a direct descendant of Titian. This fact is usually met with an unenthusiastic, “Oh, really?” and a reminder that no, it doesn’t give me permission to touch the canvases.)

From there, I went to the Guggenheim Collection, which is Italy’s most-visited modern art museum. It averages 1,500 guests each day, and that day I think they were all there at once. I saw the upper right corners of Kandinsky, Bacon and Rothko from behind the same stranger’s shampoo-scented head and am 100 percent sure that I ruined one woman’s repeated attempts to get a selfie with one of Lucio Fontana’s slashed canvases.

After that, I took the overpriced ferry to the nearby island of Guidecca for a new exhibition of UNCSA alum David LaChapelle’s photos. (You know his work even if you think you don’t, possibly because he once staged an elaborate Christmas card photo for the Kardashians, which prompted an endless number of thinkpieces debating whether they were in on the joke.)

That was, admittedly, too much art for one day, especially if you’re not exactly an art scholar. I learned about Man Ray from an REM song and — other than knowing that my family tree doesn’t give me a dis-

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It had to be Lee Miller,” the man said, leaning back in his chair. “It had to be. She’s the only photographer who would’ve thought to pose a subject like that.” The woman sitting across from him nodded almost imperceptibly,

by Jelisa Castrodale snapping a grissini stick in half and quietly chewing it down to her fingertips.

He took this as a cue to keep going, so he did: For several uninterrupted minutes, he shared his theories of why he thought Miller was the uncredited lenswoman behind this particular photograph of art collector Peggy Guggenheim, before launching into another sleep-inducing monologue about why Miller’s lover — surrealist photographer Man Ray — was overrated. The woman finished the rest of the bread basket before he punctuated his unasked-for lecture by plunging his nose into his wine glass, swirling its contents in a way that you rarely see outside of YouTube tutorials on How to Be a Dick.

They were well dressed, with the kind of coordinating tans and cable knits that made them look like Blaine and Andie, several decades after their Pretty in Pink prom night.

“I’ve presented my case and have asked you a question,” he said, swallowing. “And you haven’t given your answer.”

She spoke directly into a piece of panini duri, and two thoughts immediately smashed together in my temporal lobe: First, I’m glad I’m not married, and next, It might be impossible to talk about art without sounding like an asshole. I mention this as an observation and an apology, because I’m about to talk about art, too.

That couple and I were sitting uncomfortably close to each other in a restaurant in Venice, Italy a few days ago, and the tiled floors, harsh acoustics and their “Hey, We’re Americans!” volume settings made it impossible not to hear every word. They’d apparently been to the Guggenheim Museum that day — as had I — so he’d hijacked the dinners of everyone within earshot so he could share his Deep Thoughts about a black-and-white photo of the late collector.

It’s almost understandable: Venice seems to be made entirely of art museums, exhibitions and galleries. (And pigeons. At any time, you could be carried off by pink-eyed birds which smelled last night’s breadsticks on your breath).

On that day alone, I’d legit seen eight centuries’ worth of art, starting with fat-cheeked baby Jesuses (Jesii?) and arrow-studded St. Sebastians at the Gallerie dell’Accademia. That gallery will

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844-734-2374 Reqs AT&T postpaid svc on elig. plan (excl. Lifeline & Residential Wireless) on a smartphone or phone (excl. Wireless Home Phone). Svcs: Svc addresses must match. To be elig. for 2nd-yr price guarantee both services must remain active & in good standing during 2nd year. Price Guarantee: TV pkg only. After 24 mos. Or loss of eligibility, then-prevailing monthly rate for All-Included TV Pkg applies, unless customer calls to cancel/change service prior to the end of 24 mos. Price excludes taxes, equipment upgrades/add-ons and other chrgs. Some offers may not be available through all channels and in select areas. See att.com/directv. DIRECTV SVC TERMS: Subject to Equipment Lease & Customer Agreements. Must maintain a min. base TV pkg of $29.99/mo. Add’l Fees & Terms: $19.95 Handling & Delivery fee may apply. Programming, pricing, terms and conditions subject to change at any time. Visit directv.com/legal or call for details. ‡PREMIUM MOVIES OFFER: After 3 mos., then-prevailing rate for all four (4) premium movie pkgs applies (currently $53.99/mo.) unless canceled or changed by customer prior to end of the promotional period. Expires 7/15/17. ©2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All Rights Reserved. AT&T, Globe logo, DIRECTV, and all other DIRECTV marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.