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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK Mine is a secular ministry of the casual variety, though indeed I have been shepherding the flock, such as it is, for almost 20 years. It by Brian Clarey predates common usage of the internet, although these days a ministry like mine can be obtained, for free, in as little time it takes to fill out an online form. I got mine the old-fashioned way: through a classified ad in the back of a magazine. At the time, in 1998, I thought I might use it to perform marriages, a nice little side hustle down in New Orleans. And I thought it would be hilarious to perform a wedding in the early daylight hours from behind the bar I tended back then. My friend Atom and I both signed up, and each plunked down an $80 money order for a minister’s kit. “So you did it for the jokes?” my 14-year-old son asked when I dug my minister’s kit from the depths of a cabinet. “Sort of,” I said. “I also thought it might mean that I wouldn’t have to pay taxes. But that’s not how it works.”
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My certificate of ordination, which is signed by a bishop from the “church” though I have yet to fill out the other fields indicating my name and the date, describes me as a minister. But for another $5 I could have been a monsignor, an archbishop, a rabbi, an Apostle of Humility or any one of a couple dozen that came on a sheet with the kit. Other favorites: magus, revelator, metropolitan. In hindsight, I really should have spent the five bucks. Though I am but a mere minister — and my flock is really more of a figurative thing than any actual people — I am qualified to act as an officiant at weddings in the state of North Carolina. And so it was that I spent Saturday on the shores of Belews Creek conducting the nuptials of my niece, Amy, and her partner, Murph. It was a pretty easy gig. Murph wrote the script and insisted I stick to it, with no allowance for the sort of witty banter that really used to slay the drunks at the bar. And afterwards, everybody kept calling me “Reverend.” Though that’s not my official title. That would have cost another five bucks.
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During the downturn, there were 15 or 20 of Bulent’s properties that went into foreclosure. He managed to come out with about half of them. He was the master of coming up with money to come out of trouble. I don’t know where he gets his funds. He was buying them back for less than what he owed on them. He would buy a house and start renovations, and then stop and buy another house.
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Jenny Marshall plans to run as a Democrat for the 5th Congressional District.
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What do Democrats need to do differently in light of the beating the party took in the 2016 election? We need to stand up and take a firm stance about policy and procedures that do not help families. We need to take a firm stance about labor and education — I should say public education. For a long time we have taken groups of people for granted. I think Trump’s messaging — while he was saying “make America great again,” what people really wanted to hear was, “I will be
How would you balance representing urban Winston-Salem with the rural western end of the district? People in communities aren’t too much different from each other. They all want to provide a stable and secure household for their family…. If you walk into urban Winston-Salem, they’re going to say the same thing: “I don’t make enough money. My wages are low. They cut my hours.” In suburban areas, they say, “The only work I can find is contract labor, and it’s not secure.” If you go into rural areas they don’t make enough money. There aren’t stable jobs…. People can’t make it on $7.25 an hour. It’s just not reasonable. Harvard did a study that said that if you’re living in Forsyth County you need to make $12 an hour to make it as a single person. And if you have a child, you need to make $22 an hour. No wonder people are struggling.
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What makes you a good candidate for the office? I work in an urban part of Winston-Salem, I live in a suburban area, and I’m from a very rural community. I feel at home in all three aspects. I’ve been a business owner. I’ve been an employee of a not-for-profit. I’m an educator. I have a good grasp of where people are, what their needs are. I’m good at listening to people and I’ll be able to take that to Washington.
your champion, and I will not let you down.” Democrats need to say, “We’re going to stand up for labor, for public education. We’re going to stand up for working families. We’re going to stand up for the disenfranchised and for equal access to the ballot box.” Sometimes the things we really need to talk about are the things we leave on the table — standing up for working people.
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Jenny Marshall, a teacher with Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools, has announced plans to run as a Democrat for the 5th Congressional District seat currently held by Republican Virginia Foxx, which comes up for reelection in 2018. Winston-Salem City Councilwoman DD Adams also plans to run in the Democratic primary for the seat.
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Because the food-truck rodeo as it’s practiced here in the Triad is perhaps the worst setting to enjoy the wonderful bounty available from the windows of our corps of mobile chefs. You know why: The crowds, which force wait times for food that rivals even the least organized of brick-and-mortar restaurants. The menus, which for large festivals lean towards more pedestrian items that can be bought, stored and assembled on the fly. The people, who sometimes act as if they’ve never seen a goddamn crepe before. So I will pass on your food-truck rodeo, thank you. Unless, that is, the trucks themselves compete against each other in some sort of, you know, rodeo. Until then, I’ll be at the taco truck in my neighborhood.
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Listen: I have no problem with food trucks. I have been eating food off trucks and street carts since I was young enough to wear saddle shoes and short pants. It’s even accurate to say that I love food trucks — and not just for the food, which often ventures into the type of culinary topography I love to explore and is almost always affordable, but also for the concept, which allows operators to take their restaurants to where the hungry people are. I visit my neighborhood taco truck as often as circumstances allow. And I will throw out a standing offer to any food truck in Greensboro: Come park in the Nussbaum Center parking lot on Tuesdays while we are on deadline and it should be worth your while. But don’t ask me to go to a food-truck rodeo. Just don’t.
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Glenwood investor faces mass foreclosure near UNCG development by Jordan Green
Dozens of properties in Glenwood — a Greensboro neighborhood renowned for affordability, ethnic diversity and proximity to UNCG — are under foreclosure because of tax delinquency. Bulent Bediz, the owner of the properties, has been a thorn in his neighbors’ side, but they fear that things could get worse. In the mind of Bulent Bediz, he’s a humble visionary motivated by a love of Glenwood whose plan to revitalize the neighborhood was sabotaged by feckless city staffers and betrayed by UNCG administrators as the university undertook a dramatic expansion south of Gate City Boulevard. But Bediz’s neighbors see a negligent property owner who has allowed his houses to fall into disrepair while dragging down the value of their homes, someone who suddenly halts repairs and buys up new properties, while facing mounting costs from city code violations and delinquent taxes. Maddened by the seeming inexplicability of his actions, many of the neighbors wish Bediz would just go away, but now that his entire remaining portfolio of 35 properties is under foreclosure they also worry about the uncertainty of what comes next. Meanwhile, Bediz is vowing that he will be vindicated through a complex, multi-part lawsuit against the city and says he’ll find a way to hang on to the properties. “My name has been dragged out in the gutter,” said Bediz, a portrait artist-turned rental housing provider who started buying properties in Glenwood in the mid-1990s. “Everybody has been saying I’m a capitalist. Making money is far from my ideal. I started this thing with truly altruistic ideals. I saw what a jewel this neighborhood was. I saw how it was being downgraded and brought into ruin by the city’s neglect.” Kristin Cooper, who moved to Glenwood in early 2016 with her husband, almost immediately butted heads with Bediz over driveway access. The house she and her husband bought on Haywood Street is next door to one of Bediz’s properties. She said she had to bring in an exterminator on a monthly basis because of wasps from Bediz’s
Some of the 35 properties owned by Bulent Bediz that are in foreclosure also have pending demolition orders.
vacant house next door. The house, on a property subject to numerous code violations by the city, was recently demolished. “He’s singularly the biggest blight we have,” Cooper said. “He single-handedly has changed a single block into a wasteland. “Why do we have to suffer — those of us who pay our taxes and get up every morning and bust our butts and go to work to pay our mortgages and maintain our properties?” she asked. “We in the neighborhood have to suffer. We’re at his mercy, which is enraging.” A map of foreclosures initiated by the Guilford County Tax Department for delinquencies shows a solid mass of red dots representing active foreclosures at the north end of Glenwood. In contrast, the map shows only one tax delinquency foreclosure in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood to the west and none in Warnersville to the east. Virtually all of the Glenwood properties under foreclosure because of tax delinquency are owned by Bediz or Nellie J Jones LLC, a company he controls. An analysis by Triad City Beat found that Bediz owes $28,923 in tax arrears on the 35 properties in his portfolio, which is
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cumulatively valued at $1.2 million. Of the $28,923 tax bill, $10,909 is due to attorney fees imposed by the county. “We have turned everything over to an outside contract attorney,” Assistant Tax Collector Jim Roland said. “They are proceeding with a mortgage-style foreclosure. We sent several parcels to them in March. We sent the remainder in April.” Considering the time required for the lawyer to conduct a title search to uncover any liens and judgments against the properties, serve papers on Bediz, advertise the sale in the newspaper and hold hearings, Roland said it’s likely to be at least six months before the properties are sold, and it could take years. Bediz reacted with surprise when informed by TCB that 35 properties — his entire portfolio — were in active foreclosure. “That many?” he said. “I wasn’t aware of that. I need to check into that.” After digressing into his grievances against the city and UNCG, Bediz indicated that he expects to ride out the foreclosure challenge. “I’m not denying that I owe the taxes,” he said. “I’ll find a way to reason
with [the county]. They are not going to foreclosure right now. There’s a certain process that’s being followed.” Bediz will have the opportunity, like anybody else, to bid on the properties, and Bediz has bought his own properties out of foreclosure before. If no one bids on the properties, the city of Greensboro will assume control through an inter-local agreement and have the opportunity to resell them at fair market value. With the exception of a commercial building at the north end of Lexington Avenue, Bediz’s 35 properties are all single-family homes or vacant lots. Eighty percent of the properties are zoned RM-12, a multi-family classification that allows for 12 units per acre. Many of the properties, which are contiguous, flank the back side of the Spartan Village development that has sprung up along Gate City Boulevard over the past five years. Jeff Sovich, a senior planner with the city of Greensboro, said although single-family homes predominate in the area, the multi-family zoning classification has been in place since at least 1992 and reflects “the level of residential density that was in place at that time” with a significant number of the houses being subdivided into apartments. Sovich confirmed that a developer could potentially buy several of Bediz’s properties out of foreclosure, combine lots and build apartments. Cooper indicated she was surprised to learn that the houses on Haywood Street, including her own, are already classified as multifamily, and could be converted into apartments without a rezoning. “Over my dead body,” she said. “I will fight that with everything I have. If any developer thinks they can come in and build apartments, we’re going to fight them tooth and nail.” Whatever happens to Bediz’s properties, his neighbors are bracing for a blow to their home values. They’ve already seen the prequel to this movie. By 2007, Bediz had assembled 70 properties in Glenwood, while harboring a vision of creating a mixed-use de-
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went into foreclosure,” Driver said. “He managed to come out with about half of them. He was the master of coming up with money to come out of trouble. I don’t know where he gets his funds. He was buying them back for less than what he owed on them. He would buy a house and start renovations, and then stop and buy another house.” Discussing Bediz’s business decisions with him can feel like stumbling blindfolded through a labyrinth of prevarications or misunderstandings. When asked why he has continued to buy houses when he can’t afford to pay taxes and make repairs to what he already owned, Bediz said he didn’t purchase the houses, but rather obtained them through a swap with UNCG. “The only way I could get any funding to fix up the houses was to invest in cars,” he said. “The banks would not let me use my houses as collateral.” He acquired 55 junk cars with the intention of hiring a mechanic to fix them up for resale, but he said an arrangement to lease a garage free of charge from UNCG fell through. He ended parking the cars behind his rental houses, which led to complaints from neighbors and a drawn-out code enforcement battle with the city. To this day, he said, he hasn’t sold a single car. Despite Bediz’s initial claim that he hasn’t purchased any additional property since his 2008 bankruptcy, tax records for 23 properties acquired since De-
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velopment integrating retail, residential, office and institutional uses that would be connected to a walkable neighborhood of historic, single-family homes. “As the parameters of the project grew, however, I had two major interrelated failings, on my part: inability to acknowledge the necessity to adjust to this change in scope and delegate responsibility to others, and the other was my inability to raise sufficient working capital,” Bediz wrote in a 2008 piece of writing. By the middle of 2007, he wrote, the project was beginning to look like “a house of cards,” and in 2008 he was forced to declare bankruptcy. Meanwhile, as the recession hit, UNCG took advantage of low interest rates and falling property values to leap across Lee Street (now Gate City Boulevard) and expand into the north side of Glenwood. “I don’t know if people realize this, but every time Bulent loses 10 properties, all the property values in the area go down,” said Michael Driver, a realtor who represents sellers in Glenwood and owns three rental properties in the neighborhood. “All the houses are in disrepair, and they go for rock-bottom prices.” Yet rather than cut his losses, Bediz instead seems intent on doubling down on his misfortunes. “During the downturn, there were 15 or 20 of Bulent’s properties that
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cember 2009 indicate that at least seven were acquired through cash transactions with unrelated individuals, or in one case through a bank foreclosure. Nine transactions involved properties previously held by Bediz that he purchased out of foreclosure, two were acquired from his son, David, and one came from Capital Facilities Foundation, a company set up by UNCG. When confronted with the evidence of his post-2008 property purchases, Bediz said, “I borrowed money. I have a lot of friends who see how I’ve been screwed. Without their help, I wouldn’t be on my feet.” As justification for the expenditures, he said, “I was after properties that I could turn into income-producing properties…. If I can show in my asset column I have these properties, I will be able to go to the bank to get money.” The city of Greensboro has attempted to play matchmaker between Bediz and a potential buyer. “A number of those properties have orders to demolish,” said Cynthia Blue, the city’s manager of housing services. “They’re on a list of distressed properties that we send out to investors or investor groups. We have heard from a number of them that Mr. Bediz is not interested in selling.” Bediz said he met a couple weeks ago with Dawn Chaney, an investor with substantial rental holdings in Greensboro. Even though he’s “in a really tight spot,” Bediz said he couldn’t agree to the price Chaney offered him. “People see I have these houses under demolition orders,” he said. “They are offering me nothing. I cannot sell these houses and stand on my feet.”
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Modeled on Renaissance Community Cooperative in Greensboro, organizers of SHARE in Winston-Salem are undertaking an ambitious plan to open a cooperative grocery on Peters Creek Parkway in the fall of 2018. Plans for a cooperative grocery to address food scarcity in Winston-Salem took a step forward this week as consultants from Minnesota launched a feasibility study to determine whether the community can support the venture. SHARE, which stands for “Supplying Honest and Respectful Engagement,” held an open house at its temporary office in the West Gary Williams (left) and Willard Bass want to Salem Shopping Center on April bring a cooperative grocery to Winston-Salem. 29, next door to the retail space the hub and spoke for that, identifying earmarked for the future store. where food can come from and where And on Monday, Dakota Worldwide, we can serve this food in the community a Minneapolis-based market research and distribute the food in the communifirm, commenced a feasibility study with ty, particularly in communities of need.” funds from a $21,800 seed grant from Williams and the Rev. Willard Bass, the city of Winston-Salem. Part of the the founding partner, have already met grant will also finance a plan for develwith representatives of Triad Buying oping a governance structure. Co-op, a Winston-Salem-based organiThe organizers are moving on an zation that sources local dairy, produce aggressive timetable, with plans to open and bread, and could potentially act as the store in the fall of 2018. SHARE is a supplier for the planned retail store. closely modeled after the Renaissance Williams and Bass envision SHARE Community Cooperative, which opened as a retail extension of Triad Buying in northeast Greensboro last NovemCo-op that could leverage the latber after five years of planning. The ter entity’s buying power to achieve two men behind SHARE hope that by efficiencies of scale and pass on cost studying the model in the neighboring savings to consumers. The proposed city, they can accelerate progress on the location — on a commercial corridor Winston-Salem store. more than a half mile south of BB&T “We are determined not to reinvent Ballpark and sandwiched between the the wheel,” said Gary Williams, the West Salem and Ardmore neighborproject coordinator. “We want to be
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the co-op runs between $2.3 million and $2.5 million. They plan to launch a membership drive in about six months, with a goal of raising $750,000. The remainder of the funding will likely have to come from governmental sources and foundations, they said. The goal is for the cooperative to eventually pay for itself. “It will be self-sustaining,” Williams said. “It will be profitable. It will earn a profit, and it will be reinvested back into the Winston-Salem community.” Yet to be determined are logistical considerations like how much of dayto-day operations will be handled by paid staff versus volunteers. Williams and Bass said they’re at the beginning stages of a “customer discovery process” to determine what local residents want from a cooperative grocery. From early conversations, so far they’ve heard that affordability, healthy offerings and wide selection are important. “It will require knocking on some doors,” Bass said. “We want some people identified as community advocates going to door to door. We’re also looking for liaisons. These will be people from the community that we’ll recruit to serve as spokespersons for the community.” Williams added, “We’ve gotten very favorable feedback. We’re in the process of creating a more formal process of community-based participatory research. We’re going to ask: What are the needs of the community? What would you like to see the response to that need look like? This whole thing is very collaborative.”
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Another one bites the dust In what’s become something of a recurring theme in these late chapters of the GOP takeover in North Carolina, the US Supreme Court on Monday rejected another controversial proposal out of Raleigh. As turns out, you can’t just draw a line around black people and call it a Congressional district. The Supremes upheld a decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has been whacking down our legislature’s illegal laws like they’re poorly hit ping-pong balls since 2010, the year the GOP gained majority for the first time in literally a hundred years. We’ve seen so many laws overturned since then it’s become commonplace, but this one is interesting. For one, Justice Clarence Thomas sided with the liberal side of the court in the 5-3 decision. And the issue at hand is more nuanced than the illegal laws that came before. At issue were the 12th and 1st districts, held by Rep. Alma Adams and Rep. GK Butterfield respectively. District 1 holds the eastern side of the Virginia border, a cluster of blue counties in the presidential election map. Like District 12, which once ran from Charlotte all the way up to Winston-Salem along Interstate 85, scooping up every African-American neighborhood along the way, it’s a majority-minority district. This distinction is at the heart of the Republican argument: These districts were originally created along racial lines, so what’s the problem with packing even more black people into them? It’s enough to satisfy the true believers who make up the party’s base, but really it’s the most sinister sort of jiu jitsu, a cynical move that violates the letter of the law by hairs while completely obliterating the spirit of it. Majority-minority districts were created in North Carolina when our state, due to decades of well documented and egregious voting-rights violations perpetrated against African-Americans by the General Assembly, was forced to create a pathway for black people to get elected. The difference between the provisions of the Voting Rights Act and the Republican gerrymander is the difference between opening a door and building a wall.
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Remembering fallen comrades in the Pacific theater
by Jordan Green
The names of the comrades lost in battle, mainly fellow pilots, have slipped from his memory over the years. “I often wonder if this is a subliminal effort to erase all of this,” Anthony Lynch mused. “I think you tend to stay off the things that were disturbing or unpleasant. And that’s probably for
“These poor guys they took off the farms of Iowa and Idaho, I don’t know how the hell they managed,” he added. “A lot of them didn’t.” If a pilot went off course he might run out of fuel before he was able to return to the carrier. That would necessitate the grim secondary task of search-and-rescue. “Those of us who got back had to go out and look for them,” Lynch said. “When you’re looking for a little, red raft in the Pacific, that’s pretty hopeless. Of course, what choice do you have? We had to try to save them if we could.” There’s not a hint of braggadocio in Lynch’s account. “Little things are what make the difference between making it and not making it,” he said. “Luck plays an enormous role, I think.” Compared to today’s all-volunteer military, which is a tiny fraction of the population, service was almost automatic for Lynch’s generation. Thirteen out of 15 boys in his 8th grade graduating class went on to become pilots. Lynch’s brother in law, a fighter pilot in the Eighth Air Force, shot down five German Luftwaffe planes. His sister’s roommate in college would marry an executive officer with the USS Tang submarine, which made it into Tokyo Bay and obtained photographs of the city to use as propaganda to demoralize the enemy. A
the best.” The 93-year-old resident of the Arbor Acres assisted-living community in Winston-Salem recalls his service as a Navy pilot in World War II with a decidedly unfussy sense of equanimity. It wasn’t really a choice to enlist on the day after his 18th birthday, which came a week after the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service carried out a devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. And during his combat duty in the Pacific he never took it for granted that he would come back alive. That he did he largely chalks up to luck. When President Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, hastening the close of the war, the pilots were among the first to be discharged because of the expense of their combined officer and flight pay. Lynch was eager to enroll in college under the GI Bill, but he had about two months free before the start of classes. “What I did was to visit the parents of the guys that we had lost that I knew the best,” Lynch said. “Just to sit with them and talk about what he was doing and what we thought of him. I was really impressed. I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble, but they were glad to see me. That was my form of grieving, just sharing it with them.” Lynch spent the war carrying out bombing raids on Japanese-occupied islands (to soften them up in advance of the Marine assaults) and searching for US B-29s that went down in the Pacific returning from bombing runs to Tokyo. Lynch’s plane was equipped with neither radio nor radar, which meant that the only way to carry out a bombing raid and get back to JORDAN GREEN Anthony Lynch served as a Navy pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II. the aircraft carrier was to regularly consult his compass and keep charts while flying. Meanwhile, the wind might bump the plane to the side, and the friend was shot down while bombing Axis-occupied oil fields carrier moved simultaneously. Lynch wound up relying on his in Romania and had to walk to Allied-controlled territory, experience sailing as a child in the Long Island Sound to learn trading religious medals for food along the way. how to assess the wind and waves for accurate navigation. Although Lynch had been interested in flying since child“Once I began to comprehend aerial navigation I didn’t hood, he said the military held no appeal to him up to the time think I was going to make it,” he recalled. “I still think it was of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. “That Sunday morning changed everything,” he said. “It felt that early experience of sailing that was invaluable. Quite a few of the pilots didn’t make it. In great measure, most of natural [to sign up]. It really did. Everybody around me was them were excellent pilots. They hadn’t had the experience doing the same thing.” around the water that I had.
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Salad Days More than 20 great salads from across the Triad
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Order the Ahi Tuna Salad at Willow’s Bistro (W-S) medium rare, and enjoy the pineapple that comes along with it.
But sooner or later, even those who seem to have an almost physical aversion to raw vegetables get a craving for something cold and fresh. A salad is always a good call — choosing one over a cheeseburger for lunch pays dividends during the afternoon’s lull at work, when the meat-eaters start to doze. And when you have a salad for lunch, you can eat whatever you want for the rest of the day.
Ahi Tuna Bowl @ Bandito Bodega, banditobodega.com (GSO)
In the Triad, the salad days run from early spring to the end of the summer, when the greens are at their freshest and new crops of vegetables break at the farmers markets every week. Our list is by no means extensive — there are thousands of salads to choose from in the Triad. We eschewed chain restaurants for this project, sticking to local restaurants and chefs who arrange their greens in ways both traditional and trendy. And we surely left some favorites out. Let us know what we missed at triad-city-beat.com.
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Arugula & Fried Goat Cheese Salad @ Jeffrey Adams, jeffreyadamsws.com (W-S) Ingredients: Arugula, fried goat cheese, pickled red onions, candied cashews, mandarin orange, dried cranberries Between arugula, candied cashews and fruit, this salad will satisfy a sweet tooth. It’s served with three lightly fried spheres of goat cheese and pairs nicely with their pomegranate blueberry dressing. If you’re looking for a savory option, the wedge salad features bacon, tomato, egg and onion rings with blue cheese crumbles. Enjoy either on Jeffrey Adam’s sidewalk patio this summer. — LB
Arugula and Grilled Endive @ 1618 Downtown, 1618downtown.com (GSO)
The Ahi Tuna Bowl from Bandito Bodega tastes as good as it looks.
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Ingredients: Sticky rice, miso spinach, pickled ginger, salted radish, Gochujang, Kewpie, nori, bonito (fish) and sesame The Bandito Burrito food truck now has a brick & mortar near Hungry Howie’s and Mad Hatter on West Friendly Avenue. You can read a full article about Bandito Bodega on the TCB website, but when it comes to salads, head straight for the Ahi Tuna Bowl. Like many of the menu items here, this salad is Asian inspired. At $12, it costs more than most local salads, but it delivers much more, too. The freshness and combination of flavors make it well worth it. Though it might stray more from the definition of a salad we’re using here, you could also order one of Bandito’s more Mexican-adjacent burritos in a bowl and call it a salad. But if you’re going to cheat and get a burrito, try the General Tso Burrito with fried spicy Sichuan chicken, sushi rice, crispy wontons, broccoli and lemongrass cabbage slaw. There are also first-rate tacos with Thai peanut sauce and Korean soy glaze here, and I’ve been wanting to try the kimchi fried rice balls app. Don’t order anything else if you’re getting the Ahi Tuna Bowl unless you want to share or take home leftovers though, because it’s a force to be reckoned with. — EG
Ingredients: Feta cheese, charred-corn and peanut chutney, shaved carrots and ginger dressing It’s the corn-peanut chutney that makes this one more than just a brief introduction to the main course. Or maybe it’s the grilled endive, that most noble of greens, able to withstand the wilting heat of the grill, if even for just a minute. Either way, it’s the most interesting salad on the downtown menu right now. — BC
The Arugula Salad @ Mission Pizza Napoletana, missionpizzanapoletana.com (W-S)
Sometimes simple salads are the best.
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Ingredients: Arugula, shaved Pecorino Romano cheese, olive oil, lemon juice, black pepper It’s the simplest of things, just five ingredients of the most basic variety, the sort of thing you might throw together from what’s left in your refrigerator or pantry. But it might never come out like this: a near perfect balance of oil and astringency with the lift of lemon and the bite of black pepper, bound together with delicate yet pungent laces of hard cheese. It’s a minimalist’s special, something for the purist or the diner who means it when they say they really want “something simple.” — BC
Baby Kale and Crispy Prosciutto Salad @ River Birch Lodge, riverbirchlodge.com (W-S)
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Ingredients: Baby kale with dried currants, pine nuts, goat cheese and crispy prosciutto with a honey-sherry vinaigrette The décor of River Birch Lodge made feesl like I an unfamiliar land, like dining in a mountain lodge at a ski resort, a welcome departure from the chain restaurants. The Baby Kale and Cripy Prosciutto Salad here is visually striking, but the crispy prosciutto is what makes this salad stand out. The slight flavor notes from the goat cheese and a touch of sweetness from the honey-sherry vinaigrette fill out the dish nicely. — EH
The Ensalada del Mar @ Café Europa, europabarandcafe.com (GSO) Ingredients: Blackened salmon or tuna with roasted peppers, onion, cucumber, new potatoes and hard-boiled eggs atop mixed greens with a choice of dressing Pro tip: I go for the sushi-grade tuna, seared but rare, and skip the cucumbers. Wait staff will recommend a balsamic vinaigrette, which is thick and wonderful, but I prefer to take this one without dressing because the other accoutrements do a fine job binding the whole thing together. This has become the only thing I order at Café Europa. — BC
Eggplant Panzanella @ Mozzarella Fellas, mozzarellafellas.com (W-S) Ingredients: Roasted eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, roasted bell peppers, sweet basil, balsamic glaze This vegetable medley with basil and balsamic glaze is a simple twist on a classic Italian dish. — LB
Foule @ Jerusalem Market, jerusalemmarket.com (GSO)
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Ingredients: Chickpeas, fava beans, garlic, lemon juice, hot pepper, extra virgin olive oil Jerusalem Market takes foule, a classic Middle Eastern comfort food, and repositions it as a refreshing cold salad. The beloved restaurant, with a flagship operation near Sedgefield and a newer downtown location, combines dips and salads on one menu. Most of the options are blended and feature healthy doses of lemon, garlic and olive oil, including hummus (made from chickpeas), tabbouleh (cracked wheat), baba ghanouj (eggplant) and new potatoes. — JG
Fried Goat Cheese Salad @ Liberty Oak, libertyoakrestaurant.com (GSO) Ingredients: Sesame-crusted, lemon-infused herbed Goat Lady cheese rounds, organic greens, brandy-soaked dried cherries, walnuts, fresh herb vinaigrette Liberty Oak’s lunch menu offers an array of options, but the Fried Goat Cheese Salad featuring rounds of local product from the renowned Goat Lady Dairy is only served at dinnertime. Strong on seafood, the restaurant provides grilled salmon and grilled tuna steak options all day. The Oriental Salad, also served all day, features grilled skewers of beef tenderloin or marinated tofu on sesame noodles and mixed greens with a fantastic vinaigrette made from basil, cilantro, mint and lime. While the combination of ingredients sounds brilliant, the salad’s name leaves something to be desired, and maybe someone should leave the owners a copy of Edward Said’s seminal 1978 work, Orientalism, which skewered stereotypical, essentializing and patronizing attitudes towards Asia and the Middle East. — JG
Fried Rappahannock Oysters @ Willows Bistro, goodvibeshospitality.com/willowbistro (W-S) Ingredients: Arugula, micro saltwort, pancetta, butternut squash and roasted seeds, charred croutons, pickled shallots, apple cider vinaigrette You need not be an oyster enthusiast to fall in love with this dish. The bistro’s kitchen receives fresh North Carolina coast oysters every two days and, alongside slightly candied pancetta, sweet arugula balances their savory saltiness. This dish arrives pre-tossed with a simple apple cider vinaigrette. If you’re not feeling quite so adventurous, order your tuna medium rare on the Ahi Tuna & Pineapple Salad. — LB
Fried oysters, anyone?
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Fried Oyster Salad @ Bernardin’s, bernardinsfinedining.com (W-S) Ingredients: Arugula, mascarpone, tomato & bacon pinenut vinaigrette An Italian cream cheese accompanies these fried oysters on a bed of arugula, topped with a creative vinaigrette. Bernardin’s is more of a fancy dinner place than a quick lunch stop, and this salad pairs well with the restaurant’s personality. — LB
Holly Grove Goat Cheese Salad @ the Iron Hen, freshlocalgoodfoodgroup.com (GSO) Ingredients: Crispy goat cheese, pickled beets, oven-roasted sweet potatoes, mixed greens and red-wine tarragon vinaigrette. Iron Hen is a favorite among those looking for lighter or healthier fare, whether it’s the Gorilla Grains Granola bowl with soymilk and fresh blueberries or the vegan Whole Grain Hash with quinoa, black-eyed peas, braised greens, sweet potato and tofu. I’m partial to the Hopping John Cajun Shrimp for dinner or the smoked salmon omelet with green onions and goat cheese for breakfast. But if you’re looking for a lighter lunch, try the Holly Grove Goat Cheese Salad, with its crispy orbs of goat cheese, or the Sliced Pear Salad with blue cheese, caramelized pecans and bacon. There’s a separate smoked salmon salad option with dill, cucumber, radish, peppered bacon and mixed greens as well as a salad plate with red delicious chicken salad, fresh fruit and house-made farmer’s cheese. If none of those strikes you, consider the Buffalo Chicken Salad or the Baby Spinach Salad (with chicken skewers, marinated cukes, roasted red peppers and feta) at sister restaurant Four Flocks & Larder. — EG
Ingredients: Organic greens, sprouts, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, toasted pumpkin & flax seeds with a roasted shallot & herb vinaigrette. This Lindley Park pizza place is known for its array of delicious options, including three specialty salads. The combination of mushrooms, chèvre and honeyed walnuts in the
Dance All Night makes for a delicious snack, but it’s hard to beat the vegetable medley in the Peaceful Valley. Keep an eye out for specials, and enjoy and entree-sized salad on the restaurant’s patio. — EG
Spring Superfood Salad @ Traveled Farmer, traveledfarmer.com (GSO)
A Scotch egg on the side really brings the Spring Superfood Salad full circle.
Ingredients: Baby spring lettuce, quinoa, asparagus, almonds, strawberries and ginger-carrot vinaigrette The Spring Superfood Salad, best enjoyed on the patio on a lazy afternoon after the lunch rush, makes a charming first impression through a balanced interplay of crunch — a layer of almond slices and quinoa on top — and loamy asparagus at the foundation. The asparagus is cooked to perfection, soft but firm, and served room temperature. Thin slices of strawberry — advertised as North Carolina raised — do their part to liven the ensemble, while fresh baby lettuce lightly doused in vinaigrette complete this nutrient-packed,
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gluten-free salad. The Spring Superfood Salad isn’t terribly filling, but it’s affordable enough that you can easily augment it with a small plate. I went with a Scotch egg, which if you think about it, is like adding a protein to a vegetarian salad for an upcharge. And the Massey Creek egg comes on a bed of baby kale, with radish slices and carrot slivers, so it’s like getting more salad. The soft yolk pairs perfectly with the fried mixture of bread crumbs and the Giacamo’s sausage encasing the egg. — JG
Strawberry Salad @ Tessa Farm to Fork, tessagreensboro.com (GSO) Ingredients: Field greens, asparagus, goat cheese, avocado, pecan and strawberry vinaigrette I’m pretty certain this is the same salad that head chef Caleb Smallwood brought into the office in Mason jars when he was an intern at Triad City Beat. He was conducting market research for a salad-to-go concept before he landed at Tessa — I still have the fork because he never
retrieved it. That salad was a revelation — it was zesty, fresh and surprisingly filling. Whether I’m right to link Smallwood’s experiment with this menu item, the combination of ingredients — most notably goat cheese, avocado and pecan — in the Strawberry Salad has my attention. — JG
Strawberry Salad @ Blue Denim, bluedenimgso.com (GSO) Ingredients: Strawberries, goat cheese, spiced pecans, and red onion over kale and spinach, with a balsamic vinaigrette The symbiotic relationship between strawberries and balsamic vinegar mixes it up beautifully with dark greens and
goat cheese. It’s tough not to eat the spiced pecans before diving in. The chopped salad — trendy! — would do when the berries are out of season. — BC
CLASSICS Wedge salad: The classic steakhouse wedge salad consists of a magnificent cleave of iceberg lettuce, with bleu cheese and bacon. Variations in the Triad abound, both in and out of the steakhouse. GSO: Tap Room, Lucky 32, Four Flocks & Larder, Pastabilities, Harper’s Restaurant, Darryl’s WoodFired Grill, Iron Hen, the Tap Room, Ruth’s Chris Steak House W-S: Village Tavern, Bernardin’s, Graze, Jeffrey Adams, Diamondback Grill, the Porch, Spring House Restaurant, Bleu HP: AP’s Southern Kitchen, Steak Street, Gianno’s, Austin’s
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Caesar salad: In the old days the waiter used to make this one tableside, with Romaine lettuce, anchovy paste, coddled egg and croutons that benefit from a bath in the dressing. These days they are everywhere, but they are not all created equally. Here are some favorites: GSO: Elizabeth’s Pizza, Elm Street Grill, Four Flocks & Larder, Pastabilities, Harper’s Restaurant, Ruth’s Chris Steak House W-S: Sweet Potatoes, River Birch Lodge, Di Lisio’s Italian Restaurant, the Carving Board, Milner’s American Southern HP: Chop House Grille, M. Stephen’s, Austin’s, AP’s Southern Kitchen, Steak Street Cobb salad: Like most salads, a Cobb comes with greens, bacon, tomato and cheese. What makes a Cobb special are the boiled eggs, capers and avocado. GSO: Traveled Farmer, Southern Lights Bistro, the Tap Room, Café Pasta W-S: Foothill’s Brewpub, Local 27101, Bernardin’s, Diamondback Grill HP: Blue Zucchini, Main Street Grill Salad Nicoise: At its most basic, this French classic consists simply of greens, anchovies or tuna, potatoes, green beans, olives and boiled eggs. GSO: Liberty Oak, LaRue Elm W-S: Pane e Vino HP: Emerywood Fine Foods Greek salad: Kalamata olives, feta cheese, cucumbers and peppers are required in any traditional Greek salad, with hints of lemon and oregano. GSO: Sarah’s Kabob Shop, Mythos Grill, the Pavilion, Jack’s Corner Diner, Nazareth Bread Co. Smith Street Diner, Fisher’s Grille, Acropolis W-S: Athena Greek Taverna, George’s Grecian Corner, the Carving Board, Hutch & Harris HP: Peppermill Café, Mad Greek Grill, Gianno’s, Jimmy the Greek, Salem Kitchen
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Tropical Chicken @ Village Juice Co., villiagejuicecompany.com (W-S)
Tuna Steak Salad @ Hops Burger Bar, hopsburgerbar.com (GSO) Ingredients: Grilled yellowfin tuna with mango relish, mandarin oranges, wontons, cucumber, radishes, wasabi, aioli, mixed greens and soy-ginger vinaigrette. Beloved for its burgers, Hops also offers four fresh salads on its menu — not counting any rotating specials. They’re all well done, but the only one that’s particularly striking is the Tuna Steak Salad, with its mango relish, wontons, and of course, the grilled tuna. You can trust anything coming out of the kitchen at Hops, be it the mushroom cauliflower veggie burger, the bison meat, or one of the salads. If you don’t feel like tuna, try the simple salad or house salad but add the Crabby Patty, which includes not only a fried crab cake but also a mango, onion & jalapeño salsa. — EG
Twisted Chicken Salad @ Fishbones, fishbonesonline.net (GSO)
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Ingredients: Organic Romaine and spinach, chicken, seasonal fruit (mango or peaches), pistachio, organic cilantro and pistachio-dusted goat cheese medallions with cilantro-lime ginger or sriracha dressing Village Juice Co. is known for its locally sourced organic ingredients, which is most likely why every bite of this salad is delicious. The combination of the cilantro-ginger and the sweetness of mango paired with the goat cheese made for a truly enjoyable experience. The restaurant offers a variety of other health-conscious and trendy items as well, including smoothie bowls. — EH
Ingredients: Fried chicken tenders in spicy chili garlic honey sauce, house salad with scallion lemongrass dressing and crispy noodles. It’s probably kind of ridiculous that I don’t order a salad with seafood at a place called Fishbones. You can get the house or Caesar with ahi tuna steak or wild salmon (either can come grilled or blackened), or with jumbo shrimp if you’d prefer. But the three primary salads at Fishbones — cattycorner to Sticks & Stones and under the same ownership — aren’t seafood oriented. Last time I went, my friend Maia ordered the SOB Chicken Salad sans meat, enjoying the Southwestern-style salad that comes in a fried tortilla bowl. And the Thai Beef Salad that comes with a creamy peanut dressing sounds pretty good, too. But my favorite salad in the Triad, and the only one I order consistently as an entrée, is Fishbones’ Twisted Chicken Salad. Maybe that isn’t surprising, considering the main craving I harbored during eight years as a vegetarian was for chicken tenders. But it’s the sauces that set this large salad apart, thanks to the sweet and spicy sauce on the chicken strips and the lemongrass dressing on the veggies. The “noodles” — which are more like miniscule breadsticks — provide a nice crunch to the salad, making it all the more satisfying. Yes, there are more complex and unique salads on this list. But the Twisted Chicken is still my favorite. — EG
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edges of the room, nearly full before the music began. And without a great wall of noise or flashing lights, Johnson strummed into a gritty, blues riff, backed by a simple yet driving beat held down by Sprague. There was something primal in it. The music was stripped down to the bare, lean-muscled force that compels legs to twitch and heads to bounce. It was the dark, smooth guitar riffs and surf-rock beats, and that’s all that was needed to get the crowd dancing. The duo contains a heavy wall of sound while using only the bare minimum of equipment. Both members of Wahyas have played with other bands in many different forms, but somehow have come to know that perhaps, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. “It’s gone under many incarnations,” drummer Lindsey Sprague said. “It began as a four piece, then a three piece. Bass players and guitarists came and went and then it was just the two of us. And I think this works the best so far.” SPENCER KM BROWN Josh Johnson (left) and Lindsey Sprague of Wahyas open the show at Wahyas are based in GreensOn Pop of the World. boro, comprising guitarist Joshua Johnson of the Spinns ing fingertips, sending the room into a head-banging bray of and Paint Fumes, and former Daddy Issues guitarist Lindsey applause as the crowd grew lost in the music. Sprague on drums. Self-described as “Johnny and June with a Paralyzer, friends and touring partners of Bad Spell, headlittle less church,” the couple brings a whiskey smooth tone lined the night, bringing a gothic crunch of heavy punk with of gritty, blues, lo-fi rock to the stage. Johnson’s vocals blend them to the stage. And with wild vocals, thrashing drums and a wild gospel tone with a vintage pop sound similar to that of tight-knit melodies, the night came into full bloom. early White Stripes. Most clubs lack in booking and band selection, but this is The show on May 17 was already amped-up and raucous where Randy Seals of On Pop of the World excels. It is truly after Wahyas opening set. Touring headliners for the night a gift to see such structurally differing bands share the stage comprised Atlanta garage-rock bands Paralyzer and Bad Spell. and somehow fit together, making the larger picture of a night Garage and punk trio Bad Spell laid down a blistering set of of music work. tunes that took the show to another level of energy. DrumWhile the headlining bands brought with them a force of mer Pietro Digennaro’s tightly woven beats blended with the moving garage-rock, it was Wahyas’ opening set that was wild riffs of Bryan Malone’s guitar in sounds that call back to ringing in ears even long after they cleared the stage. A guitar, the golden age of rock music. Solos called forth from danctwo drums and a perfect blend of Johnson’s vocals with the attractive, subtle harmonies of Sprague’s voice augmenting it, Pick of the Week Wahyas proved that less is often more. It only takes a simple beat to get a crowd dancing, and Johnson and Sprague’s projGears & Guitars @ Bailey Park (W-S) Friday, 1 p.m. ect shows simplicity in a time of complex, electronic, popular The Gears and Guitars Festival is a four-day concert music. Less is more, and the Wahyas are the torchbearers for a series concert that kicks off Friday with performances by new wave of simplicity. country music artists Eric Dodd, Muscadine Bloodline and Corey Smith. For tickets and additional info, visit gearsandguitarsfest.com.
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by Lauren Barber t’s the same way every time: The espresso beans are ground, transferred to the portafilter and tamped. The barista affixed the group head to the machine’s body and heated water cascaded through the metallic filter basket. Chestnut-brown, caffeine-riddled liquid dripped into the shot glass. Meanwhile, steady hands guided a pitcher around the steam wand, introducing air and then steam to the cold milk. On a typical night, this process culminates in a transaction between customer and establishment, but on Sunday evening the ritual played part in a celebration of community. “Coffee has a really good culture,” said Chris Wallace of Cornelius. “It’s not one shop competing against the other. You can have one shop here and one on the end of the block and everybody gets along fine.” Krankies Coffee’s bracket-style, latte-art throwdown in Winston-Salem on Sunday evening placed this communal dynamic on full display. Baristas from area coffee shops converged to exhibit their skills in head-to-head competition on the espresso machine behind Krankies’ countertop. Wallace, the competition’s reigning champion, returned to defend his title for this second iteration of the throwdown. You won’t find him behind the counter of any of your favorite cafés, though; Wallace practices at home. “I owned a bakery in Cornelius and started doing coffee and fell in love with it,” he said. Ian Killea — the event’s 29-year-old masterRunner-up Noah Zenger and Chris Wallace bump fists following Wallace’s victory. mind from Winston-Salem and lead barista at Krankies — hosted the tournament with frenetic As latte artists submitted their steamed milk and espresso and playful energy, documenting the night’s unfolding while creations to the evening’s three judges, audience members galvanizing audience members and sporting a vibrant, shimfeverishly crowded around the table to find a clear vantage mering blazer. point, snapping photographs with smartphones and whisper“I’ve been a barista for nearly 10 years and it’s so much ing their predictions as to which artist would triumph. Other fun,” he said afterwards. “When I step out of it, I want to help throwdown attendees preferred to hang back and munched organize and host a fun event for people who are doing the on loaded fries from Krankies’ kitchen while Savannah same job as me to come out and build our community of local Tuttle held down the bar, preparing libations to an upbeat baristas. I see it happening all over the nation. [Winston-Sasoundtrack of indie and jazz-laced rock. lem] is such an in-between small town that it’s hard for it to Among ubiquitous heart and tulip compositions, a few take off sometimes.” artists experimented with more imaginative floral designs Earlier this year more than 16 people entered the bracketed such as cacti. The spotlight revealed finer details of the craft: competition, but Sunday’s installment featured only eight pounding the pitcher on the counter to disperse any bubbles competitors. Considering diminished turnout, Killea decided and the subtle finesse required to pour milk at just the right to spice things up, daring contestants to show off their craft height and angle. in increasingly small cups with each round. What began as “It’s becoming a commonplace thing for building coffee a latte-pour competition became a cortado, then macchiacommunity amongst other people who are interested in the to-pour showdown in the final round. same kind of thing,” Killea said. “[Baristas] do this all day at “The latte art throwdown has been a thing in the coffee work and want to show off their skills. It takes time to learn community for at least 15 years,” said Killea. “The most familhow to do it well so once you do it’s addictive and it’s all you iar format is a TNT, which is a Thursday Night Throwdown that want to do.” started at Octane Coffee in Atlanta. They went so far as to In the final round, Wallace faced Noah Zenger, a current have a scoreboard at their café.” barista at Krankies. Though humble in comparison, Sunday’s matchup gathered Two of three judges’ hands pointed to the petite and more than 40 community members on a drearily rainy night. perfectly symmetrical heart Wallace delicately planted in a
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ll at once the gym exploded; players and coaches of both teams leapt from their seats and stormed onto the basketball court, as did some onlookers from the bleachers and sidelines. They howled, grabbing by Joel Sronce friends around the shoulder with one hand and simultaneously filming the frenzy with the other. Some rushed for the exits, briefly dipping out of sight only to be dragged back in a few seconds later, hands covering the awe and elation on their faces. Greensboro native Theo Pinson, six weeks after winning a national championship at UNC, reveled among them. Sudden and spontaneous, the crowd at the Josh Level Classic reacted to Ian Steere’s posterizing windmill dunk with undeniable kinship — unanimous in their celebration, thrilled in their disbelief. The dunk’s victim beamed as bright as anyone. That one whirling moment and the entire May 20 evening at Greensboro’s Dudley High School illuminated the goals of community, celebration and even catharsis — aspirations of those who created the annual basketball game. It was just what Josh Level would have wanted. On Feb. 19, 2013, the New Garden Friends School varsity basketball team played a road game against Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem.
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Walking over to his team’s huddle in the second half, junior Josh Level collapsed. A few hours later, he died at Baptist Hospital. Examiners found that Level had myocarditis, a viral infection causing inflammation of the heart muscle. For his senior project at New Garden Friends School the following year, Level’s close friend Kanayo ObiRapu Jr. founded the Josh Level Classic, an annual memorial basketball game that features some of the most talented high school players in the state and around the country. This year, nearly all of the players have received Division I scholarship offers, and the lineups included three UNC signees as well as players committed to NC State and NC A&T. Proceeds from the games go toward developing the Josh Level Foundation, a nonprofit working to provide high-school gymnasiums with automated external defibrillators, which may have been able to save Level’s life. The foundation also supports anti-bullying campaigns — an important issue for the late teenage basketball player. “Josh’s whole spirit was against name-calling and putting people down,” Obi-Rapu Jr. said in an interview before the May 20 game, recalling Level’s relationship with his sister, who has Down syndrome. “He’d be the first to tell anyone: ‘You’re not gonna make fun of people.’” Before the game began, the players mingled in a room near the gym, greeting each other, eating Chickfil-A, taking pictures and changing into either gray or purple uniforms. Whether or not the players had known Level before his death, the event generated a strong camaraderie between them. PJ Hairston — a former player at Dudley High School, UNC and in the NBA — coached the gray team during this year’s Classic. For him, as well as for the majority of the evening’s players, he said, it’s all about his friend Josh Level.
“These players do it for him,” Hairston remarked. “They play as hard as Josh would have.” Though the evening honored someone who has passed away, players, coaches and spectators conjured a raucous, joyful energy. If the beat of the ball, the squeak of the shoes and the rattle of the rim formed the percussion of a players’ jazz funeral, the crowd was their second line — dancing, shouting, cheering, and through other cathartic expression celebrating the life of Josh Level. The high schoolers displayed unbelievable talent — mesmerizing dunks, impossible passes, humbling blocks. The boundary between player and spectator didn’t command the same adherence as a more formal game, and fans could often spot certain attendees — particularly Theo Pinson, who claimed a seat with the gray squad— occasionally bounding out nearly to the free-throw line to hearten or heckle players on either team. The camaraderie that the evening created didn’t end with the final buzzer — though the intense contest ultimately came to a 125-123 conclusion. “Seeing everybody come together — it’s a big deal,” Pinson said smiling as he looked around the court full of people after the game, thrilled to know that the legacy of Josh Level lives on. For a couple of other spectators, their presence at the event wasn’t just in memory of Level, but for the manifestation of Level’s life in someone else. Kenny Williams and Seventh Woods, teammates of Pinson’s in Chapel Hill, came to the Gate City with their fellow Tar Heel. For Williams, the reason he made the trip could be summed up in a word: “Theo.” Knowing what Level and the memorial game meant to Pinson was enough for two of his teammates to join him on the trip down Interstate 40 to Greensboro. For the Classic’s organizers — including Level’s family, Obi-Rapu Jr., Hairston and many others — the annual event and its context of community become ways to celebrate Josh Level’s life through playing, cheering and otherwise celebrating something that the young man loved so dearly. For a couple of hours each year, the convivial power of sport helps to make their pain endurable.
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