TCB June 7, 2017 — The Lie & Kill Club

Greensboro / Winston-Salem / High Point

THE LIE & KILL

CLUB Frank Snipes, the Triad’s first crime lord, amassed an illicit fortune before the revenuers caught up to him.

PAGE 12

June 7 – 13, 2017

triad-city-beat.com

FREE

June 7 – 13, 2017

chamber crawl Join us for the

3rd Annual EMF Chamber Crawl

Saturday, June 17 | 1-5 pm • Downtown Greensboro

An afternoon of musical, culinary and cultural adventures. FREE 1:00 pm 1:20 pm 1:40 pm 2:00 pm 2:20 pm 2:40 pm 3:00 pm 3:20 pm 3:40 pm 4:00 pm 5:00 pm

UNCG Steel Band at Koshary Drew Hays Quartet at Blue Denim Railyard Quartet at Triad Stage Consensus at Scuppernong Books Collapps at Jerusalem Market on Elm Drew Hays Quartet at Liberty Oak Railyard Quartet at The Worx Consensus at Ambleside Art Gallery UNCG Steel Band at The Bearded Goat Collapps at Elsewhere Finale at Gibb’s Hundred

Venues:

Drew Hays Quartet “Swinging Saxophone Jazz Combo” Railyard String Quartet “Classical for the Masses” Consensus “Classical Guitar” Collapss “Contemporary and Experimental Music” Koshary Mediterranean Restaurant | 200 South Elm Street Liberty Oak | 100 West Washington Street Scuppernong Books | 304 South Elm Street Triad Stage | 232 South Elm Street The Worx Restaurant | 106 Barnhardt Street

Thanks to our sponsors:

Ambleside Art Gallery | 528 South Elm Street The Bearded Goat | 116 East Lewis Street Blue Denim Restaurant | 217 South Elm Street Elsewhere | 606 South Elm Street Gibb’s Hundred Brewery Company | 117 West Lewis Street Jerusalem Market on Elm | 310 South Elm Street

UNCG Steel Band “Trinidadian Roots & Warm Caribbean Melodies”

2

EASTERNMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG

Vanessa Ferguson comes home We parked in the YMCA down below and walked up the hill — gnarly with slow-moving cars but bereft of foot traffic — to see

by Brian Clarey Vanessa Ferguson play in the hillside amphitheater at Barber Park, a spot that on that afternoon seemed built expressly for this purpose.

It was my wife who first pointed Ferguson out to me years ago, though I’d like to think I would have spotted her eventually on my own. She sang backup that night at Churchill’s, behind Jeremy Johnson, an R&B dynamo who graced downtown Greensboro’s stages in the days when people still called it the Medaloni District.

“You should interview her,” my wife said.

And so I did.

It was November 2006, and Ferguson, then a sophomore at NC A&T University, played a role in SolcetFre, the project put together by Johnson and William Trice.

But she also gigged that year with the Collective at Renaissance Jazz Café over on Greene Street, held a featured role in A&T’s Black Nativity and won the school’s Omega Idol competition with her version

of “Never Gonna Let You Go.” Now here she was, back from her stint on “The Voice” with a short set for the hometown crowd stacked with the people who knew her long before Alicia Keyes ever did.

I don’t know if the crowd appreciated the quick joint by Ferguson’s fiancé Ken Fuller, aka Mr. Rozzi, with longtime collaborators Ed E. Ruger and Ty Bru, as a rare shot from the old Iconoclast Crew, or the connection with the other performers, R’mone Entonio and Nishah Dimeo, that runs through every iteration of Boston’s House of Jazz.

But I know they had a good time, because we all did.

I like Vanessa when she spins out torch songs like glowing, flowing lava, when she adds subtle phrasing and texture to a line in a way no one else can. I like it when she plays bass. And I like it when she gets political.

Two songs in she busted out an original piece, “Cries to the Heavens,” a lament with soaring vocals, spoken word and rap, dedicated to the women behind the young black men being slaughtered on our nation’s streets. By the end of it, she was in tears.

rattle + hum

We’ll change your oil, not your radio station.

Automotive

894 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101

336.293.7312 • #wsnc rattleandhumautomotive.com

Playing June 10 – May 11

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Grand Prix Gauntlet!

12 pm Sunday, May 11th. $5 Entry! $100 CASH PRIZE!

brian@triad-city-beat.com

PUBLISHER EMERITUS Allen Broach allen@triad-city-beat.com

EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR Eric Ginsburg eric@triad-city-beat.com

SENIOR EDITOR Jordan Green

1451 S. Elm-Eugene St. Box 24, Greensboro, NC 27406 Office: 336-256-9320 jorge@triad-city-beat.com

SALES SALES/DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST Regina Curry regina@triad-city-beat.com

SALES EXECUTIVE Cheryl Green cheryl@triad-city-beat.com

He’s one of the Triad’s BEST! 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 9th. Tickets $10

Board Game Night

7 p.m. Friday, June 10th. More than 100 BOARD GAMES -- FREE TO PLAY!

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Great cartoons! Free admission! 10 a.m. & 12 p.m. Every Saturday!

TV CLUB: Twin Peaks 9 p.m. Sunday June 11th. Free admission with drink purchase!

TV CLUB: American Gods 9 p.m. Sunday, June 11th. Free admission with drink purchase!

Beer! Wine! Amazing Coffee!

2134 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro geeksboro.com •

336-355-7180

Carolyn de Berry Kat Bodrie Spencer KM Brown

EDITORIAL INTERNS Lauren Barber & Eric Hairston intern@triad-city-beat.com

TCB IN A FLASH DAILY @ triad-city-beat.com

2134 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro idiotboxers.com • 336-274-2699

L’ITALIANO

Jelisa Castrodale Matt Jones Joel Sronce

Cover illustration of butcher, bootlegger and crime lord Frank Snipes by Jorge Maturino

OTHER SHOWS Open Mic 8:30 p.m. Thurs., June 8th. $5 tickets!

Friday Night Improv Jam! Anyone Can Join In! 10 p.m. Friday, June 9th. $8 tickets!

Family Improv 4 p.m. Sat., June 10th. $6 Tickets!

Saturday Night Improv 8:30 p.m. & 10 pm. Sat., June 10th. $10 tickets!

Monday Night Roast Battle 8:30 p.m. Mon., June 10th. $5 tickets Discount tickets available @ Ibcomedy.yapsody.com

PIZZERIA

CONTRIBUTORS

jordan@triad-city-beat.com

First copy is free, all additional copies are $1.00. ©2017 Beat Media Inc.

Friday Night Standup Presents

--OTHER EVENTS & SCREENINGS--

According to members of this club who were questioned this morning, the purpose of this ‘Lie and Kill’ club has been to take whatever they could and kill anyone interfering with them. As evidence, the state introduced Paul Livengood, supposedly the recorder of the society, using a Bowie knife dipped in blood as pen and ink and making his records on white skulls.

— From the June 27, 1920 Winston-Salem Journal, quoted in this week’s cover story beginning on page 12.

ART ART DIRECTOR Jorge Maturino

Playing June 8 – 10 Kenyon Adamcik LIVE!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

BUSINESS PUBLISHER/EXECUTIVE EDITOR Brian Clarey

triad-city-beat.com

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Large 1-topping pizza

11

$

99 Good through 6/13/17

Monday – Thursday

Order online at pizzerialitaliano.net

219 S Elm Street, Greensboro • 336

WE !

DELIVER 274 4810

3

June 7 – 13, 2017

SPREADING JOY ONE PINT AT A TIME

CITY LIFE June 7 – 13

by Eric Hairston

WEDNESDAY Dining For Friends @ Crafted restaurant (GSO), 11a.m.

Dine at the Crafted: The Art of the Taco and a percentage of food sales will benefit Triad Health Project, a nonprofit that provides support for individuals and their loved ones living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. For more information, visit triadhealthproject.com.

Monday Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz 7:30 Tuesday Live music with Piedmont Old Time Society Old Time music and Bluegrass 7:30 Wednesday Live music with J Timber and Joel Henry with special guests 8:30

Thursday Beer and baseball Friday, Saturday, Sunday BEER joymongers.com | 336-763-5255 576 N. Eugene St. | Greensboro

Chance the Rapper @ Greensboro Coliseum (GSO), 8 p.m.

Grammy Award-winning artist Chance the Rapper performs live. Tickets are still available. For more information, visit greensborocoliseum.com.

THURSDAY Music Maker Blues Review @ Delta Arts Center (W-S), 6 p.m.

This live event features blues from Albert White, James Norwood and more.

There will also be food trucks and a raffle. For more information, visit deltaartscenter.org.

Jane Green book signing @ Reynolda Manor Branch Library (W-S), 12:30 p.m.

New York Times bestselling author Jane Green signs books and reads from her newly released novel The Sunshine Sisters. For more information, visit bookmarksnc.org.

Get Out discussion group @ Elsewhere Art Museum (GSO), 7 p.m.

Join an in-depth discussion about the film Get Out, dissecting the film’s societal implications about race and power in America. Limited space available.

For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

FRIDAY Alice In Wonderland Jr. @ Community Theatre Of Greensboro (GSO), 7 p.m.

The Community Theatre presents an adaption of the classic animated Disney film featuring new songs from the live-action film. For more information, visit ctgso.org.

SATURDAY Art -O- Mat Swap Meet @ SECCA (W-S), 1 p.m.

Here’s your opportunity to meet the artists who contribute to Art-O-Mat machines across the country. There will be live music, food trucks and other refreshments available. For more information, visit secca.org.

4

Red Head Express @ Centennial Station (HP), 7 p.m.

An evening of music from the four sisters who make up Red Head Express, a band that pairs harmonies with banjo and fiddle. Guests will also enjoy a meal by Plain & Fancy Caterers included in the ticketed price. For more information, visit highpointarts.org.

by Jordan Green

What would you say to people who want to try the bike share, but are harboring some selfdoubt?

Between the signs at the stations and the instructions on the app, you can get most of the information you need, and if worse comes to worst the customer service line seems to answer most people’s questions.

For people who aren’t used to riding bikes downtown, you don’t have to ride too far. You can ride four or five blocks to a destination, and you don’t have to work up a sweat. Then, if you want to try going a little further, you can.

JERUSALEM

Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad

DINE IN TO GO

CaTErING markET plaCE “You Will Be Pleased”

310 South Elm Street • Greensboro, NC 27401 336.279.7025 | Mon-Sat 11am-9pm | www.jerusalemarket.com

Triaditude Adjustment

If you don’t have a smart phone, can you still use the service?

You need a computer to sign up. Somewhere along the way you need a computer or a smart phone. You can use texting to unlock the bike once you’re signed up.

Culture

Recipes fRom the old city of

Cover Story

Considering that the program is accessed through a phone app, what happens if your phone dies?

If your phone should die, you can lock up your bike.

Then, when you charge your phone, you’ll call Zagster.

They can credit you that time after you locked up your bike.

[The author confirms through experience that the company’s customer service is willing to make this accommodation.]

They want people to trust the system. We want happy customers. The traditional system is there’s a kiosk where you pay. Sometimes those break down. At least with the cell phone, everyone has their own phone.

JORDAN GREEN Matthew Burczyk, WinstonSalem’s bicycle & pedestrian coordinator.

Opinion

As an assistant city manager, Denise Turner Roth was considered part of the reboot of the Greensboro City Manager’s Office under Rashad Young. As both an assistant city manager and then as city manager when Young resigned, Roth was considered a skilled administrator by both conservative and progressive council members, although police reform advocates regarded her defense of the department with frustration.

And her appointment by President Obama to head the General Services Administration in Washington was roundly celebrated by locals. Yet the end of her tenure hasn’t worked out so well.

Following the 2016 election, many journalists wondered how she would handle the conflict of interest presented by the businessman leasing federal property for Trump International Hotel in Washington while Trump was in transition to become the president of the United States. Carefully weighing her options, Roth chose to do… nothing during her final days at General Service Administration before joining Parsons Brinckerhoff, a firm that does business with… the federal government.

“It’s a shame Ms. Roth didn’t exert her extensive influence to make Mr. Trump follow his legal obligations before she entered what seems like a marriage of convenience,” the New York Times editorial board opined last month. “(The president faces a lawsuit claiming that the tab from his foreign guests at the hotel violates the Constitution’s emoluments clause.)”

Roth’s statement to the Washington Post in response to the controversy can only be considered a deflection.

“From my perspective, divesting would have been the right move,” she said. “We shouldn’t have this question that we’re in about whether he’s a leaseholder while he’s the president and whether there is a clause affecting him. But those are his concerns.”

Stephen Schooner, a law professor at George Washington University who is advising the owners of the Cork Wine Bar in a lawsuit against the president, was not kind in his assessment of Roth.

“She demonstrated a unique level of cowardice and self-preservation instead of focusing on the interests of the nation,” Schooner told the Post. “We have seen through the process that GSA was far more interested in being hyper-technical than making any effort to do the right thing.

“What is the difference between Denise Roth and Sally Yates?”

Schooner added. “One did the right thing and was applauded by right-thinking people for putting the country above her own self interests.”

Why isn’t the bike-share service free?

It all comes down to finances. Besides my time and the city’s time, the city of Winston-Salem isn’t putting any money into this. The National Cycling Center is really doing this. They identified the sponsors. It’s usually not a city paying for a program.

In New York, it’s CitiBank, and they have CitiBikes.

Here, Flow and the National Cycling Center are the title sponsors. The [user] fees aren’t meant to recoup the costs. The fees only account — if you’re doing well, you’ll get 20 percent back. Linking it to your credit card, that’s to make sure the bike doesn’t disappear. The annual fee of $30 is probably the cheapest in the country. The Cycling Center won’t be able to make a lot of money. It’s not unique to Winston; bike-shares across the country operate that way.

News

Denise Turner Roth

Up Front

by Jordan Green Winston-Salem’s new bike-share service launched in late May, as Triad City Beat previously reported.

Matthew Burczyk, the city of Winston-Salem’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, answers a few questions about the project.

triad-city-beat.com

Four questions for Matthew Burczyk

5

June 7 – 13, 2017

NEWS

Recent deaths call attention to medical care in Forsyth jail

by Jordan Green

Triaditude Adjustment

Shot in the Triad

Crossword

Sportsball

Culture

Cover Story

Opinion

News

Up Front

Activists in Winston-Salem say medical deaths in the Forsyth County lockup are avoidable.

6

Highlighting the medical-related deaths of two black men in the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center last month, about 20 people chanted, “Indict, convict, no more killer cops or jails,” and, “Money for jobs and education, not mass incarceration.”

Then, as dark clouds burst overhead on Monday evening, the protesters took cover under remnant parking deck at Merschel Plaza in downtown Winston-Salem.

“Mr. Stephen Patterson went to jail because this system criminalizes poverty,” said Effrainguan Muhammad, the Winston-Salem representative for the Nation of Islam. “He went to jail for child support. His child will never get support now. It’s real when we say black and brown lives matter. But under this system they clearly don’t matter.”

Stephen Antwan Patterson, 41, died in the jail on May 26. The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating Patterson’s death at the request of Sheriff Bill Schatzman and District Attorney Jim O’Neill. The state agency is also investigating the May 2 death of 39-year-old Deshawn Lamont Coley.

Tony Ndege, a local activist who organized the “No More Jail Deaths” rally and march, said Coley complained several times to staff at the jail about his asthma.

“When I talked to his wife, she told me that she expressed concern to the jail about his asthma,” Ndege said. “His mother called the jail extremely concerned about 48 hours before his death about his asthma.”

Cheryl Golden attended the rally to support her daughter, Yolanda Dillard, who is currently being held in the jail on multiple counts of failure to appear. “[The jail staff] gave her the wrong medication,” Golden said in an interview. “They gave her a medication that makes her hallucinate.”

Dillard was scheduled to appear in Forsyth County Superior Court on a misdemeanor larceny charge and felony

About 20 people protest the recent deaths of two black men in the Forsyth County jail at a demonstration on Monday evening.

probation violation.

“They tried to do a cover-up,” Golden said. “The system is screwed up.

They didn’t bring her to court. I felt like they didn’t bring her because they didn’t want us to see her condition. The judge ordered a doctor to see her in jail.”

Muhammad said the medical treatment received by inmates at the jail represents a troubling pattern.

“We are concerned because family members and community say they reached out about the condition of both Stephen Patterson and Deshawn Coley,” he said. “And now Ms. Golden, the mother of Yolanda Dillard, is pleading for her child’s health. It seems as if these pleas are unanswered. That’s very troubling.”

Forsyth County Sheriff Chief Deputy Brad Stanley said the SBI investigation addressing potentially criminal issues related to Patterson and Coley’s deaths, while the professional standards division of the sheriff’s office is undertaking an administrative review.

The state Division of Health Service Regulation-Construction Section also conducted an inspection of the jail in response to Coley’s death. Roger McCoy, chief of the construction section, informed Sheriff Schatzman in a May 17 letter that the “inspection found no deficiencies whereby no corrective action is necessary.”

Correct Care Solutions, a private medical provider based in Tennessee

JORDAN GREEN

that holds the contract for medical care at the jail, is a defendant in two local lawsuits filed on behalf of former inmates. A medical examiner ruled that the death of Dino Vann Nixon, who is white, in the jail in August 2013 resulted from withdrawal from benzodiazepine.

Correct Care Solutions and Sheriff Schatzman, who are defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Nixon’s wife, dispute the finding. The suit alleges that medical staff refused to provide Nixon with Xanax, the brand-name for the anti-anxiety medication benzodiazepine.

Jennifer McCormack, a pregnant woman who had recently detoxed from opioids, experienced a heart attack in the Forsyth County jail in September 2014. She went into a coma and died at Baptist Hospital a couple days later after her family made the decision to take her off life support. A medical examiner found that McCormack’s heart attack was caused by dehydration. A wrongful death lawsuit filed by McCormack’s estate against Correct Care Solutions alleges that McCormack was unable to take medication prescribed for opioid withdrawal because of nausea, and that she received only one dose of Zofran, an anti-nausea medication during her stay at the jail.

“Jennifer’s dehydration would have been identified, treated and her death prevented had defendants reacted to her steadily deteriorating mental and phys-

ical condition and provided the most basic medical assessment and care such as basic laboratory blood tests,” McCormack’s lawyers wrote in a motion filed earlier this year.

Correct Care Solutions has denied any wrongdoing in the matter.

McCormack’s lawyers are seeking contracts between Correct Care Solutions and off-site medical providers, as the case moves toward trial in March 2018. Correct Care Solutions has characterized that and other requests for documentation by the plaintiffs as “burdensome.”

“One of the allegations in this case is that CCS was motivated to minimize offsite patient care in order to reduce costs,” McCormack’s lawyers wrote.

“Accordingly, contracts between CCS and off-site providers are discoverable because plaintiff is entitled to determine whether such contracts contain any restrictions or limiting language.” A registered nurse and nurse practitioner formerly employed by Correct Care Solutions are also defendants in the suit.

Chief Deputy Stanley said Correct Care Solutions is conducting a separate investigation in response to the deaths of Deshawn Coley and Stephen Antwan Patterson focusing on medical aspects. Court documents in the Nixon lawsuit indicate that the investigations conducted by the healthcare company after an inmate’s death are secret.

“The Continuous Quality Improvement Committee was formed and adopted by CCS’ governing body and medical staff for the sole purpose of peer review to evaluate the quality of medical care and for the purpose of improving future performance,” wrote Dawn Ducote, a Correct Care Solutions executive an April 2017 affidavit filed in the Nixon suit in response to a request by the plaintiffs for records.

“These documents are not otherwise available as public record and are held strictly confidential by myself as the committee’s program director,” Ducote wrote.

Patty McQuillan, the spokesperson for the State Bureau of Investigation, said the state agency did not receive

do we want? Healthcare…. What do we want? The truth.” When they reached the Third Street side of the jail, the protesters chanted, “We love you,” as inmates watched from the windows.

“If you’re going to incarcerate people, at least give

them dignity and treat them like human beings,” said Alexx Andersen, one of the protesters. “Most of them are in there on minor charges. It’s not fair for them to lose their lives for something so avoidable.”

triad-city-beat.com Up Front News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

requests from local officials to investigate the deaths of Nixon and McCormack. Chief Deputy Stanley did not directly respond to a question about why the agency did not request SBI investigations in the prior incidents, while turning it back to the present.

“I think part of that is that we want to ensure that the community [feels comfortable] in regard to our policies are followed,” Stanley said. “What better way to have that than have a third party come in and review that?”

Correct Care Solutions also holds the contract for inmate health services at the detention centers operated in Greensboro and High Point by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. Ellin Schott, who was jailed for panhandling, died in the Guilford County Jail in Greensboro in August 2015 as a result of “complications from prolonged seizure activity,” according to Medical Examiner Jacqueline Perkins.

Perkins wrote that Schott told staff at the jail “that she had seizures, nerve damage and was disabled,” and that the staff was aware that Schott took two anti-seizure medications, Keppra and Gabapentin. Perkins wrote that on the second day of her confinement — after Schott was observed shaking and trembling under her blanket — she told a nurse that she was on medication, and that the nurse responded that he would need to talk to a doctor and all he could give her in the meantime was Tylenol.

Jerry Hufton, a registered nurse, brought a sign to the “No More Jail Deaths” rally that read “Correct Care Solutions = Negligent Care.”

“Our jail currently has medical positions that are open,” Hufton said. “Any for-profit medical company is going to have a high ratio of clients to nurses. They could not have adequate care.

“A lot of times the nurses get thrown under the bus,” Hufton added. “I don’t blame the nurses.”

Chief Deputy Stanley emphasized that the recent deaths at the jail are related to medical care.

“From all indications, there’s the concern of medical care,” he said. “When the final findings of the autopsy come in as well as the jail inspector and the review from the medical provider Correct Care come in… from the law enforcement perspective, it’s unfortunate that it occurred in the Forsyth County Detention Center.”

After people voiced their concern about inmates’ medical treatment at the gathering under the parking deck at Merschel Park, the participants, including members of the Nation of Islam and the Sanctuary City Coalition of Winston-Salem, agreed to march through the rain and take their grievances to the jail.

They briefly marched into the reception area of the jail, chanting, “Justice for Yolanda Dillard,” and then quickly left the building.

About five deputies appeared at the entrance of the jail and one informed the demonstrators that they were welcome to protest on the sidewalk but not allowed inside the facility. The protesters marched around the jail, chanting, “What do we want? Justice…. What

7

June 7 – 13, 2017 Up Front News Opinion

by Lauren Barber

Equity replaces equality and emphasis on challenging gentrification displaces cracking down on housing code violations as progressive electoral platform takes shape.

In the wake of Bernie Sanders’ concession to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary and disillusionment with national electoral activism, motivated Greensboro residents shifted focus to local politics and formed Democracy Greensboro. On June 3, more than 120 community members convened for a summit, further deliberating the group’s platform.

Steering committee members facilitated working groups on four areas of concern: criminal and civil justice; economic justice; environmental justice; and social justice.

“I felt very strongly that we shouldn’t start with just selecting candidates,” said the Rev. Nelson Johnson, the executive director of the Beloved Community Center and pastor at Faith Community Church. “I thought we should start by figuring out how to unite our

Triaditude Adjustment

Shot in the Triad

Crossword

Sportsball

Culture

Cover Story

Democracy Greensboro converges to refine platform

8

2921-D Battleground Ave. • Greensboro

thehubltd.com • 336-545-6535

Community members discuss platform revisions in the economic justice working group at Democracy Greensboro’s June 3 summit.

community. To me, the priority was developing a way to both build unity and clarity around what the community really wants; that is the basis on which a community can or cannot support a candidate.”

Throughout the summit, participants pushed for more intentional language in the platform. “Equity,” for instance, will replace “equality” because — as one attendee explained — although both are strategies for fairness, equity takes disparate vulnerabilities and needs into account when writing policy whereas equality prescribes one-size-fits-all solutions. Participants also agreed that demands should center the language of fundamental human rights like shelter, healthcare and education.

“When we’re talking about social justice, we’re talking about collective decisions, transparency and expansive participatory budgets,” activist April Parker said. “These things are at the root of collective democratic process.”

Parker, a librarian and organizer with Black Lives Matter Gate City, and other participants in the dialogue aim to reallocate Greensboro’s economic resources to sustain community-determined solutions.

“Right now, when you think about social justice in Greensboro, a lot of it looks like the nonprofit-industrial complex and not [funding] what communities are doing to survive,” she said.

Participants are also interested in addressing environmental racism; expanding public transportation; and resisting the disproportionate surveillance of communities of color.

No matter the issue or differences in priorities, community members agreed that the platform should offer policy suggestions to pressure elected officials to sign on to substantive action rather than simply issue blanket statements of support.

“You can say whatever you want to city council, but unless you have the power to compel them to act, you’re just saying it,” Johnson said. “The power is in a united people; power doesn’t need to beg.”

Volunteers will amass and present participants’ suggestions to a nine-person synthesizing committee charged with drafting the group’s new platform.

While some advocated for brevity, others wanted to discard bullet pointstyle lists entirely. It is clear, however, that updates will be more specific and expansive in scope.

For example, some community participants pushed back on a handful of platform positions focused on housing conditions, arguing that criminalizing landlords would not serve marginalized communities as well as policies rooted in a conversation about gentrification; city council should prioritize community input when deciding the future of

LAUREN BARBER

vacant buildings, some said. Previous calls for increased police accountability manifested in proposing an independent citizen oversight committee and launching independent investigations into past and future law enforcement abuses.

Democracy Greensboro will share the revised version with the public and encourage additional input on June 22 at 7 p.m. at a location to be determined.

The Rev. Johnson wants to offer training for people to go door to door in the run-up to the election. He believes young people will be decisive to Democracy Greensboro’s success.

“There has to be a process that earns the respect of young people and… orients both young and old people toward the things that are important [to them],” he said. “Electoral politics has been essentially used against young people, and until there is a sense that it can be used for their interests — and they can see that — I think the work is helping to create a mechanism that will work for them and helping them to see and join it.”

Though enthusiastic, Johnson and other leaders anticipate that broadening community input will introduce new difficulties.

“The work of democracy remains challenging, but it’s work that we can and must do together. The talking time continues, but the walking time must begin,” he said.

Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword

* Ads must be used by the end of July. Minimum two-ad buy. Not applicable for political advertising. No back-page ads.

Opinion

$600 full-page ads June–July*

Fire up your business this sumer with a brandnew, shiny, full-page ad!

News

MUST GO!

Up Front

EVERYTHING

triad-city-beat.com

Summer Sale!

Call Regina Curry at 336.613.7387 Brian Clarey at 336.681.0704

to place your ad today!

Shot in the Triad

or

Triaditude Adjustment

9

June 7 – 13, 2017 Up Front News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

10

OPINION

EDITORIAL

We demand a fair election Our state representatives in the state Senate and House in 28 districts benefited from unconstitutional district lines to win an illegal election. This is undisputed fact, settled by a three-judge panel in August 2016.

The Supreme Court affirmed that decision on Monday.

As a state, we also suffer from corrupted Congressional districts, as declared by the US Supreme Court last month.

The issue of these bogus districts has been bouncing around the courts since they were drawn in 2011. And though a few stray wisps of litigation remain in the judicial system, we say enough is enough: It is time to knock it off.

It has been years, and several election cycles, that these corrupt districts have been in play. False representatives have been elected to these districts, have written bills and voted on others that have become laws we all must follow, regardless of the illegitimacy of their authors.

This is not a new problem in the Old North State. Since 1980, the federal government has been forced to intervene in our districting process more than 40 times. That is more than once a year.

The Republicans who currently control the state General Assembly and the Democrats who came before them must all wear the stink of this shame, this most undemocratic and un-American scheme to deprive voters — and taxpayers — of true representation.

Shame.

In light of the US Supreme Court findings, and taking into account the state’s long history of voter disenfranchisement, we demand better.

We demand a nonpartisan redistricting commission to draw our districts free of political bias. The one floated this session by House Whip Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) — and referred to committee back in February — will do.

Hardister, whose District 59 was named specifically by the three-judge panel as an illegally gerrymandered district, cannot be accused of bias here.

We demand a new election for those contested state House and Senate districts, and we demand it this year. We have suffered long enough under a manipulated legislature, a disenfranchised electorate and a marginalization of the majority.

And we demand new Congressional districts for our seats in Washington.

It makes no sense that we have just three Democrats in our Congressional delegation and 10 Republicans when registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in North Carolina by more than half a million —even if you throw in Libertarians.

Recycle this paper.

CITIZEN GREEN

For veterans who have considered suicide As the warrior class becomes an ever-smaller share of the population since the advent of the all-volunteer military in the 1970s, the struggles of

by Jordan Green veterans are likely to become increasingly remote to a large segment of the American population.

All the more striking then to consider this pair of statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs: Veterans make up 7 percent of the American population, but account for 20 percent of suicides.

Jeremy Knapp, a retired Navy cryptologist who volunteers with the American Legion, talked about coping with post-traumatic stress disorder during a forum hosted by the Mental Health Association of Forsyth County at the Old Salem Visitors Center last week.

“I’m talking to you from the position of a veteran that isn’t better, but that’s okay,” said Knapp, who sat next to his wife on the panel, along with a peer support specialist and licensed clinical social worker from the VA Medical Center in Salisbury.

With glasses and a light beard, Knapp’s thoughtfulness fuses with an intensity that can be intimidating while displaying a naked sense of vulnerability. Although he’s never had a problem with alcohol or drugs, Knapp said, “I have a lot of passive self-harm behavior.” Knapp, who experienced a traumatic brain injury during his military service, said he wants other veterans to recognize the tendency in themselves and head it off before it manifests as a suicide attempt.

“Passive self-harm can take a lot of forms,” Knapp said. “It could be: ‘Well, I’ll just drive a little faster. What if you get hurt? No big deal.’ A thought of looking at the car on the side of the road rolling over the hill. You’re not contemplating suicide. These are just random thoughts that you’re having.

“Scientists will say that the brain develops in the early twenties,” Knapp said. “A lot of people see combat at 18- or 19-year-olds….

With the high-tech world of the military, now we can press a button or a remote control with a video game and a plane flying 500 miles away you take away people you’ve never seen. That haunts you. How do you deal with that?”

When he left the military and went to work in the civilian world, Knapp said initially he

excelled despite his disability and adopted an outward persona as a fun-loving guy. His wife Heather, a nurse, concurred. “Everything was really good,” she said. “We lived a great life.”

About a year after they moved to Winston-Salem for family health reasons, Heather said she noticed some changes in her husband.

“I didn’t know if it was us,” she said. “We’d been married about eight years at that point.

One day Jeremy came to me, and he said, ‘I’m leaving.’ That was really hard. I didn’t know what was going on. A couple days later he came back and said, ‘I’ve got some stuff I’ve got to deal with.’ It was hard for him to tell me these things. It was hard for him to deal with, so he went back to the VA on his own.”

Heather turned to the employee assistance program at the hospital where she works and lucked into talking to someone with a military background who understood what her husband was going through. He referred her to a counselor who specialized in PTSD. “Through my experiences with her, he spoke to me more and opened up,” Heather said.

“That was really a great thing, and it’s great that there are civilian doctors that specialize in PTSD and help spouses. I’ve learned so much about what could happen and secondary PTSD. I learned the best thing is to just be supportive, be there. Gentle prodding. Don’t force it. Be a listening ear. Be a hug. Sometimes that’s all he needs is a hug, or to hold my hand.”

Something as simple as a gunlock — available free of charge, with no questions asked from the VA — can make the difference between tragedy and staying safe for a veteran’s family.

“With that, we’re not saying that veterans who have issues can’t have guns,” Jeremy Knapp said. “I have issues, as I’ve mentioned.

When my symptoms are bad, I get rid of ’em.

It’s the easiest way not to have a problem.

They’re material things. I can go buy another one of ’em. I’ve done it. Your life or the life of another that you may take in a bit of confusion or simply not being safe, it’s not worth a material item.

“I get a question from veterans one on one: ‘I’m afraid to go get help because I’m afraid they’re going to take away my guns,’” Knapp added. “That’s actually a myth. A judge has to make that decision. Just because you go to the VA and you see a counselor… and you seek help, that’s actually a positive step. I want to dispel that myth. Go get the help.”

triad-city-beat.com

AR s KAVA BYerba Mate, CBD , ao tom, Cac Kava, Kra

Up Front News

Open

s, Noon 365 Day Ages 18

and up

sboro

, Green ge Place

han

9596

919-408

kravekava.com •

Cover Story

202 Exc

.

to 2 a.m

Opinion

Lost in Glenwood While Bulent [Bediz] has done many things I do not agree with, the bigger question to me at this point is what is going to happen to single family housing in Glenwood [“Glenwood investor faces mass foreclosure near UNCG development”; by Jordan Green; June 2, 2017]? Are we destined to have multi-unit apartment buildings built where single-family homes once stood? UNCG has already demolished 80 houses to make way for their development in our neighborhood which they originally said was going to be housing for [juniors and seniors] (which turned out not to be true). I would

caution my Glenwood neighbors to be careful what they wish for.

I would rather see Bulent’s houses fixed up and inhabited than demolished. The city claims they would prefer restoration over demolition but their actions speak louder than their words. If not for the neighborhood association, Ms. Cooper’s house would have been demolished. It was one of only a handful that were able to be saved. Also I find it irresponsible for the author to have spoken to only Ms. Cooper for their article who has lived in Glenwood less than a year and who by choice bought a house next to Bulent’s house, which was in bad shape.

She knew what she was buying.

Nancy Lenk, via triad-city-beat. com

Krave Greensboro Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

11

June 7 – 13, 2017

The Lie and Kill Club

Frank Snipes, the Triad’s first crime lord, amassed a criminal fortune before the revenuers caught up to him.

Cover Story

by Brian Clarey, photos courtesy of Digital Forsyth

12

W

hen J. Frank Snipes of Kernersville finally left this mortal coil on May 7, 1921, the news made the front pages of papers as far away as Raleigh and Salisbury.

That sort of notoriety was not often bestowed on a local butcher, which Snipes was, even at the turn of the century when cities had more personal connections with the men who supplied them with fresh meat for their tables.

But Snipes was much more than a simple neighborhood butcher. He was also Winston-Salem’s first crime lord, trucking in stolen merchandise, robbery, price-fixing, influence-peddling, gambling, violence and, eventually, whiskey. From his butcher shop on Trade Street and the family farm compound in Kernersville, Snipes and his gang — which included both white and black members from neighboring towns and the city, and at least three of his five sons — built a criminal empire that was alluded to but not exhaustingly documented in the newspapers of the day.

Still North Carolina newspaper ran hundreds of articles about the Frank Snipes and his exploits in the years between 1884 and his death in 1920.

North Carolina in the 1880s benefited from a bounty of daily and weekly newspapers in every community. Even small towns had morning and evening editions, and cities like Winston-Salem, at the time one of the most prosperous in the South, had several.

But there wasn’t much local news, which is probably why a Feb. 7, 1884 edition of the People’s Press in Winston-Salem ran a story about a boy bitten by a “mad dog” that made the papers from Wilmington to Wadesboro, all variations on the original piece of copy, which indicated that the boy, a young Frank Snipes, would seek treatment from a magic stone.

“The family at once became alarmed and sent the

ILLUSTRATION BY JORGE MATURINO

lad to the famous Pointer mad stone in Person County,” reported the Winston-Salem Sentinel. “The stone is about the size of a butter bean, they say, of a dark color, and $100 is the fee charged for each patient.”

It’s the very first press Snipes ever got in a string of

newspaper reports that paint him as both a violent criminal and stalwart citizen.

Even in his short obit, after detailing his arrests, prison time and pending court cases against him, the Greensboro Daily News wrote: “He was big-heatred [sic] and was

As the 1800s came to a close, Snipes’ newspaper trail picks up with the sort of dispatches one might expect about a man in his line of work: a story about a threelegged pig birthed on his farm, another about a calf that, Snipes discovered after he split open its head, had two brains. And there was a story every time one of his cows escaped, events which were covered in newspapers back then.

Tucked among them are clues that foreshadowed the sort of enterprise he built.

In July 1888, Winston-Salem’s Western Sentinel carried a story of a horse that had been worked to death in the summer sun. The horse’s owner: Frank Snipes.

“His other two horses are sick,” the item read, “and their illness was brought about in like manner.”

In September 1890, the Union Republican of Winston-Salem included a small item about a pair of stolen oxen found on the Snipes property.

Snipes, who said he bought them from an anonymous “negro,” returned the oxen and, according to the piece, “put out after the darkey and overtook him near Old Town and recovered the money, $20.”

In November 1893, Winston-Salem’s Progressive Farmer reported that one of Snipes’ employees, a butcher by the name of George Hobbs, had gone missing with $100 in his pockets.

In September 1905, his son, Frank Jr., then 16, was shot in a sign-painter’s office on Fourth Street by a man named John Bradford.

“Young Bradford deeply regrets the accident,” reported the Western Sentinel.

And in March 1908, Snipes Sr. faced trial for assault on Eugene Albea at the downtown market. The Twin-City Daily Sentinel called it “the most important case” of the day.

“Mr. Snipes stated that he and Mr. Albea got into a dispute and he struck him two or three times with his open hand. Snipes was fined $5.”

By the time the first decade of the new century had ticked off, J. Frank Snipes had risen to prominence in the city of Winston, which was still three years away from merging with the neighboring town of Salem.

In 1909 he bought a 20-acre hillside lot at the old Belo Pond property when the city shut down the waterworks there, and another six-acre plot that included the pump

woman named Mollie Hayes testified to the coroner that Charlie had told her he planned to kill Webster, and had shown her the gun he wanted to use to carry out the deed. A pistol owned by Charlie had been pawned in Greensboro earlier in the month and then had been reclaimed by its owner the day before the murder. And when police arrested Charlie, he had a pocket full of bullets.

When the time came to mount Charlie’s defense, witnesses like Ware and Hayes stumbled under cross-examination. A succession of alibis presented by hack drivers, pawnbrokers and other acquaintances put Charlie in a café on Seventh and Trade at the time of the murder. Frank Snipes testified that his son was home in bed by 11 p.m. Journal coverage falls off the day Winston Police Chief JA Thomas {left) was suspended for five days after allowing Frank Snipes’ sons to walk free, but was reinstated by Mayor the judge charged the jury, suggesting that Oscar Eaton (right), whom Grimes helped get elected.

Charlie was acquitted.

A few more items of interest appear in house, spending almost $15,000 — which is more than the news: the arrest of Will Hammond, a black man who $380,000 in 2017 dollars. Frank Jr. started playing baseworked for Snipes, for breaking into the home of the manball. The butcher shop prospered. In April 1910 Frank Sr. ager of Kress department store; an employee suffered a purchased a pair of record-setting steer from PH Hanes fractured skull on the property of the new slaughterhouse that yielded more than 2,000 pounds of meat. at the old waterworks; Snipes himself found a pearl in an Snipes’ affluence was further indicated by a December oyster at the Star Café and sold it for $70; his youngest 1909 Western Sentinel story about a young man who had son “accidentally” shot the family’s African-American been arrested for passing checks in town with Snipes’ cook, Mary Hicks. name forged on them.

In February 1912, Snipes testified to the city board of Another interesting thing happened around this time, aldermen denying the existence of a “meat trust” that had one that would have great effect on his life: On May 26, developed in the city, monopolizing vendor spaces at the 1908, 12 years ahead of the rest of the country, North Carcity market and colluding to inflate prices. olina enacted prohibition, making it the first state in the And Frank Jr. and Charlie had started betting on baseSouth to ban alcohol. ball games.

As it would do in the rest of the nation after the 18th Amendment passed in 1919, the classification of alcohol In 1911, the city’s team, the Winston-Salem Twins, had as contraband created fantastic criminal opportunities for won the Carolina Association on the strength of pitcher men like Snipes, who didn’t necessarily feel bound by the Josh Swindell, who finished the year 29-8. And though constraints of law.

Swindell had been called up to the majors before the next As later events would relate, Snipes had his operation season, 1912 began swimmingly, with strong play from a and the city of Winston pretty well sewn up. But a series rookie outfielder out of Guilford College named Luke of bungles by his oldest sons, Frank Jr. and his younger “Tiny” Stuart, though they finished in second place that brother Charlie, cast unwanted light on his operation, year. starting with Charlie Snipes’ murder trial that began in In 1913, the Twins would go on to win the pennant in April 1910. the newly formed North Carolina State League. But not before a couple of their players got caught up with the Snipes gang.

Old newspapers cannot fully contextualize the relaIn 1910, Jennie Webster owned what was likely a brothel tionship between Stuart and Charlie Snipes, but they near North Trade Street. No one saw Charlie Snipes kill can pinpoint their first public skirmish, which happened Webster, who was described in the Winston-Salem Journal at Prince Albert Park on July 25, 1913, after the ballgame headline as a “negro woman” who had been shot through against the Durham Bulls. The Western Sentinel picked up the temple at close range in her home, but there was the story the following Monday: ample reason for suspicion.

“The trouble started after the ball game last Friday Charlie had become known as a drinker, gambler and afternoon when Charles Snipes and Catcher Smith and frequenter of brothels in the booming, industrial city.

Outfielder Stuart, of the local baseball club, had a fist A neighbor, Daisy Ware, had seen Charlie break into fight, in which Snipes came out second best.”

Webster’s house the day of the murder and heard two The beating set young Snipes, drunk and brandishing a pistol shots coming from the house shortly afterward. A knife, out raving in the street, where he was apprehended

triad-city-beat.com

noted for his loyalty to his friends. It is said that he never turned away any poor man or woman who applied to him for assistance, whether they were deserving or not.”

13

June 7 – 13, 2017 Cover Story

14

by two police officers who then brought him to the corner county roads.” of Eighth and Liberty streets and… let him go. Meanwhile, He got out in July 1914, and was promptly arrested the ballplayers Smith and Stuart were charged with simple again three weeks later for possession of a keg of whiskey. assault.

The case was heard by Mayor Eaton himself, who in the Later that night, Charlie went looking for the ballplayers end imposed a $6,000 bond and a promise to stay out of at the Webster Hotel armed with a Winchester rifle. the whiskey business.

Police Chief James A. Thomas intercepted Charlie perThis might seem like a slap on the wrist, but the $6,000 sonally, along with an officer named Byrd, one of the cops — and the promise — would come into play very soon. who had let Charlie loose earlier in the day. As Byrd and One year later, Snipes and his Charlie and Bruce the chief calmed Charlie down, Frank Jr. showed up and dragged Charles Holloman from his buggy on a Thursday began an argument with Byrd, which ended with Frank Jr. afternoon. When Constable Frank Martin tried to serve slapping the police officer right in front of the chief. him a summons on that assault on North Trade Street, Still, no one arrested the Snipes brothers at this point; an argument ensued. Snipes later went to the constable’s they got into a buggy and went home. house with an armload of rocks; the constable held him In the meantime, the city buzzed with the news. The at gunpoint until the police took Snipes into custody. In Journal reported: “While at first the affair was apparently municipal court, again presided over by Mayor Eaton, only a personal matter between the baseball players and Snipes was fined $15.

Charles Snipes, it rapidly became an affair in which generSnipes bought the farm in Kernersville from CB Watson al interest rapidly passed from mouth to mouth and open in January 1915. By October the property had attracted charges were made by citizens that the officers feared to the attention of federal revenuers as an illegal moonshine arrest Charles Snipes for political reasons.” operation. And Snipes would learn that his influence in The board of aldermen held an emergency meeting Winston-Salem did not extend to the federal government. to suspend Chief Thomas On Oct. 18, federal Deputy and Officer Byrd, and name CF Neelley visited the KernSergeant JT Thompson acting ersville farm. Afterward he said chief. Finally, the brothers came Snipes and his men had surback to the Webster with their rounded him, disarmed him and father. And while Frank Sr. was threatened to kill him before signing a bond for his boy in offering a “good-sized” bribe to the hotel lobby, another fight return to Greensboro. ensued in which Frank Jr. went Nine days later, Neelley after Stuart, drawing a gun on raided Snipes’ Trade Street the ballplayer. residence with a squad of law It happened on a Friday enforcement officers from Snipes’ meat stand at the Winston City Market, around 1890. night. By Monday the Snipes Greensboro, Mt. Airy, Rowan boys got a trial in municipal County and Lexington, with just court and were sentenced to time on a road gang: six two members of the city police, including Chief Thomas. months for Charlie and four for Frank Jr. They appealed After battering the door and finding their man inside, the verdict to Superior Court, which suspended their hiding in a locked wardrobe with a pistol in his hands, sentences. Charlie missed the first court date in October Snipes was jailed under a $10,000 bond. But after the due to rheumatism, according to the Sentinel. The next, in purchase of the farm and now on the hook for the $6,000 January 1914, was never reported on. The Journal issued bond from back in July, Snipes had cash-flow problems a follow-up in October 1914, describing various dismissals and had to wait in jail until his trial, unlike his sons, who and suspended sentences for the brothers. promptly disappeared. Without their father’s guidance, By the end of July 1913, Mayor Oscar Eaton, elected they surrendered a week later. that year as the favored candidate of Frank Snipes Sr., had The trial began in Greensboro on Dec. 13, 1915. It took reinstated Chief Thomas, who had let the Snipes boys go 20 minutes of deliberation for a jury to convict Snipes with a warning, and suspended the acting chief, Thompand two of his sons on Dec. 15. For his role as leader, son, for five days.

Snipes Sr. was sentenced to six years in a federal prison in And while his sons walked free, Frank Snipes’ legal Atlanta. Somehow, Snipes and his sons posted $12,000 problems had just begun. and were able to leave jail on an appeal. But before the appeals court could hear the case, Snipes was arrested again in March by the Rockingham County sheriff, with more than 100 gallons of liquor in a car.

The Greensboro Daily News carried the story of Snipes’ With that case hanging in the air and his sentence first prison sentence on Dec. 10, 1913: reduced, miraculously, to three years, Snipes headed off “Frank Snipes, a well known white citizen, a resident to prison in Atlanta in April 1916. of Winston-Salem for many years, was tried in municipal court this morning on the charge of retailing liquor, and was sentenced to serve a term of eight months on the

Even with the malevolent patriarch behind bars, the family business continued. Frank Jr. was in municipal court twice for violating alcohol laws before his father got home from Atlanta in late 1918. And just a few weeks after his release, Frank Sr. made the news again for ambushing a crew of revenuers who were about to raid his farm, shooting one of them in the leg before absconding with his gang.

While awaiting federal sentencing for this new crime in September 1919, Snipes was sentenced to another 15 months with a road crew in Superior Court for a separate incident: a car chase with a motorcycle cop on Trade Street, ending in a wreck. Snipes and an associate escaped the police at gunpoint.

And before that sentence could be enforced, in October federal agents seized another 45 gallons of whiskey from the Snipes farm in Kernersville. The noose was beginning to tighten.

It climaxed on Nov. 26, 1919, when Frank Snipes Sr. tried to kill a cop.

It happened in front of the city barn on Trade Street.

Snipes had been drinking, and began arguing with two city police.

The next day’s Journal reported: “Snipes had been drinking, it is said, and his wrath seemed directed against the uniform the men wore rather than against the men themselves, neither of whom, on account of their short period of service, had ever taken part in the arrest of Frank Snipes or his son.”

In the melee, the police reported, Snipes accidentally shot himself with his 32-230 special, through the right breast.

In December, Snipes, still recovering from a gunshot, accepted a plea deal that amounted to a fine while promising never to drink alcohol again.

From the Journal: “Judge Harriman, after [being] told of Snipes’ determination to refrain from drinking whiskey in the future, spoke of knowing the defendant for many years, and said that Frank Snipes, sober, was an entirely different man from Frank Snipes under the influence of whiskey.”

The felling blow for the notorious outlaw came not from the federal authorities, who had him for holding enormous amounts of liquor and for shooting one of their officers, nor from the municipal and superior courts, who up to this point had been largely ineffective in bringing the man to justice, nor even from the bullet that came, supposedly, from his own gun.

Snipes’ last hand was dealt by inept members of his of his crew, which had always been a problem.

In May 1920, a thief named Mack Bass confessed to a string of robberies in Winston-Salem, Lexington, Thomasville, Welcome and Statesville, alleging that his gang was in the practice of selling their stolen goods to Snipes, who buried the booty on his property.

On June 27,1920, the Journal reported on the discovery of the “Lie and Kill Club,” the criminal enterprise of which

triad-city-beat.com

Snipes acted as leader, through court proceedings.

“According to members of this club who were questioned this morning,” the Journal reported, “the purpose of this ‘Lie and Kill’ club has been to take whatever they could and kill anyone interfering with them.

“As evidence,” the story continued, “the state introduced Paul Livengood, supposedly the recorder of the society, using a Bowie knife dipped in blood as pen and ink and making his records on white skulls.”

Snipes was arrested again in Winston-Salem that September after stolen property was discovered buried in his yard.

That same month, one of his associates, Russell Tuggle, was apprehended Charles Snipes eventually went into the legitimate end of in Union Cross, and two the family business, opening a butcher shop on East Fifth escaped convicts, Dennis Street in the 1920s.

Lovelace and Frank Bass, were captured at the Snipes farm.

An April 1921 raid on the AFTERWORD Snipes farm by the Forsyth The funeral got a short notice in the following day’s County Sheriff’s Office yielded Journal; a simple announcement indicating the burial about 25 gallons of whiskey, in Woodland Cemetery. placed in the woods just beyond In April 1922, the Atlantic Coast Realty Company the property line. They seized auctioned off his property, netting about $85,000. the booze and made no arrests, Many of his lots near Trade Street, the Journal but clearly they were onto the reported, were “bought by colored people who intend Snipes gang. The jig was up. to erect nice homes in the near future.” The 105-acre Awaiting federal sentencing, farm in Kernersville was partitioned into 10 tracts and under sanction from a city govsold off as well, much of it bought by Jiggs and Co., ernment on which his influence which intended to build a hunting lodge. was beginning to wane, his gang Frank Snipes Jr. made his last newspaper appearbeing rounded up in twos and ance in October 1922, arrested for trying to buy a pint threes, still smarting from a of whiskey on the street. Charles Snipes, who lost his gunshot wound taken in a tussle young wife to pneumonia in 1917, opened a butcher with police, J. Frank Snipes did shop on the corner of East Fifth Street and Cleveland perhaps the only thing that was Avenue in 1922 and seemed to live a relatively quiet left for him to do. life after that. Bruce was murdered by his own wife, He died, peacefully in his Annie, in Statesville in 1924. His skeleton was found in home on May 7, 1921. He was a well near their property.

58 years old. The headline of the obit in the Raleigh News & Observer read: “Dead man redeems past, living a useful life.”

Take charge of your mind, body and spirit Test pH balance, allergies, hormones Balance diet, lifestyle and emotions Create a personalized health and nutrition plan

(336) 456-4743

3723 West Market Street, Unit–B, Greensboro, NC 27403 jillclarey3@gmail.com www.thenaturalpathwithjillclarey.com

Gate City Vineyard is a modern, Christian church that exists to serve the community around us. Our desire is to help people of all ages and backgrounds grow in their understanding of God. At the Vineyard you can come as you are and be yourself.

Whatever your thoughts about church, whatever your beliefs about God … you are welcome here.

gatecityvineyard.com

336.323.1288 204 S. Westgate Dr., Greensboro

15

June 7 – 13, 2017 Up Front News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

16

CULTURE In Winston-Salem, ramen comes on a plate

by Eric Ginsburg

I

walked into Ise Japanese restaurant with a plan, and it was going pretty well until our entrées arrived.

I’d done some research, and as far as I could tell, Ise is the only Japanese restaurant serving ramen in Winston-Salem. There are more than enough spots to choose from, and even though I ticked through the menus at 10 other venues in town — finding “Spaghetti Pad Thai” at Tokyo Shapiro and Norwegian salmon at Arigato — I couldn’t find ramen anywhere else.

Ramen is plentiful in major US cities; it’s been popular in this country for years, with restaurants offering a variety of the different styles of the Japanese soup, particularly shoyu-based versions and the occasional pork-based tonkatsu. On a trip to New York last week, I made a point of dipping into Ippudo, contentedly savoring the ramen for my first meal of the trip.

Ramen is popular enough that you can find it at a small handful of restaurants in Greensboro. A ramen pop-up at

the highly regarded Spring House in Winston-Salem sold out rapidly. I gave it the thumbs up, and I’ll keep ordering it at Don Japanese and Sushi Republic in the Gate City, but none of it compared to bowls I’ve had in Austin or New York.

Plus, Spring House’s stint was temporary, and there are questions to unpack about white chefs glomming onto a fashionable food trend from Japan. So, having located ramen on the menu at Ise, I showed up to try it.

My friend Cade came along, and despite toying with the idea of ordering one of the half-million other menu items, he settled on the salmon ramen, stating that a bowl of hot soup would be a welcome reprieve from the dreary downpour outside. Not seeing pork, I picked steak over chicken, shrimp, scallop The ramen with hibachi steak at Ise isn’t much more than noodles on a plate, ERIC GINSBURG or vegetarian. calling to mind lo mein more than popular ramen soup bowls.

We started our meals out modestly, me with the wasabi shumai — “Hibachi ramen,” with a note reading “(stir fried egg noodle)” tiny meat and veggie-filled dumplings with a gradual yet slight beneath it. If you want soup, look further down on the page wasabi heat — and Cade with a roll of sushi with six pieces. at the udon and soba options. Hell, there’s even pho on the He later told me he’d give it high marks, but I was so filled menu. with anticipation that I didn’t even note what kind of roll he’d Once home, I did some more research. Searches for “hibachi picked. ramen” didn’t turn up much, but the more I read, the more I But when our ramen dish arrived, I questioned our waiter. realized how complex and diverse ramen really is. In the same “This is the ramen?” I asked.

Lucky Peach piece, I read about Tokyo abura soba, a brothless “Yep!” she answered, oblivious to my confusion. ramen with boiled noodles.

The ramen looked more like lo mein noodles topped with “This seemingly postmodern snack actually dates back to hibachi. Served on a plate, both of our entrees came without the mid-’50s, when a series of shops located in the suburbs any sort of broth. I didn’t understand. west of Tokyo began serving soupless bowls,” it reads, adding There are many kinds of ramen in Japan, with different rethat some places have started adding more toppings including gions or cities known for particular styles. I knew about tsukeraw egg, fried noodles, lard and mayo. men, where “undressed tsukemen noodles are dipped into an That’s not what I ate at Ise, and neither is something else accompanying bowl of fishy, barely diluted broth before slurpsimilar I found — hiyashi-chūka, a chilled ramen dish served ing,” as a pretty authoritative ramen guide in the venerable on a plate with a vinegary soy dressing and toppings like ham, Lucky Peach puts it. You don’t have to watch documentaries tomato and cucumber. dedicated to ramen or go to Japan to be peripherally aware of My deeper dive even yielded another Japanese restaurant this dipping — and decidedly less soupy — in Winston-Salem serving ramen. Sakura, approach; it’s on display in the latest season over on South Stratford Drive, sells three of Aziz Ansari’s hit “Master of None.” varieties. Like Ise’s options, these too are Visit Ise Japanese at But this was different. Ise’s ramen didn’t listed as stir-fried egg noodles and provide 2213 Cloverdale Ave. or have broth of any kind to speak of, instead no reference to a sauce or broth. And here, appearing more pedestrian, like the kind of 121 Stark St. (W-S) or at too, hibachi is explicitly mentioned. plate you’d be served at any run-of-the-mill, My dinner proved to be a humbling exsushi.myesalon.com mostly forgettable Japanese hole in the wall perience, reminding me just how intricate, around here. complicated, diverse and unpredictable That’s the problem with walking into a food culture can be. Just because Ise is dorestaurant with a plan, or assuming you know what you’re ing it differently than I expected doesn’t make their approach talking about when it comes to someone else’s food traditions wrong, just different — I was in the wrong for my assumption. or culture.

But I’m still looking for a favorite local bowl of ramen, and Ise’s menu makes no reference to soup or broth with its I’ll likely order sushi or udon next time I’m at Ise. ramens. Instead, the selections appear under the heading

Up Front

(336) 723-7239

breakfastofcourse.com

News Opinion

Potent Potables is standout in Jamestown, a short drive from Greensboro or High Point.

KAT BODRIE

Cover Story

Every Tuesday is Trivia from 8 to 10 $40 gift certificate prize!

Culture

THURSDAY

Peach Milkshake IPA release FRIDAY

Chicharrones Pairing Flight SUNDAY

Pints and Pilates - free at 11

Shot in the Triad

Potent Potables offers wine and beer on tap at KAT BODRIE the bar as well as a great bottle selection.

Crossword

preyerbrewing.com

Sportsball

Pick of the Week Cobblestone Farmers Market @ Old Salem (W-S), Saturday, 8 a.m.

A Saturday tradition in Winston-Salem, the farmer’s market hosts local farmers with fresh produce, meats, jellies and other items. For more information, visit cobblestonefarmersmarket.com.

Triaditude Adjustment

ou never forget where you found your favorite beer. For me, it’s Potent Potables in Jamestown, a stone’s throw from Greensboro and High Point and down the street from my other employer, GTCC. Drive down Main Street on any given afternoon, and across the street from River Twist and Blue Moon Oyster Bar, you’ll likely see

by Kat Bodrie people hanging out on Potent Potables’ patio under green awnings, drinking wine or beer and eating from a nearby food truck.

The small brick storefront belies the large interior, which is cozy with dark wood, low black ceilings that don’t feel claustrophobic and designs on light covers that dim the fluorescents.

Groups can sit at a couple tables up front, but walk beyond the wine and beer aisles as the hardwood creaking underfoot and you’ll find the bar in back. Half a dozen stools face the flatscreen; several high-tops provide other seating. Although visitors typically take to the TV, their cell phones or their friends, board games stand at the ready on nearby shelves.

I’m no wine connoisseur, but the selection in the pour-it-yourself machine seems decent, with a variety of styles and no run-of-themill brands. Same goes for the wine aisle, although California vintages are more common than others.

But Potent Potables is known for craft beer. Every time I’ve dropped by since January, the menu has been different, and the store’s handful of taps carry breweries I haven’t heard of before, like Alesmith out of San Diego.

Some local breweries make appearances, too; I recently had a double IPA from Wise Man in Winston-Salem that I haven’t seen at the brewhouse, and an India Pale Lager from Four Saints in Asheboro rotated through a few months ago.

The bottle selection alone is worth the trip though, and many people stop by just to take something home. Some are seasonal, like the elusive Big Bad Baptist imperial stout from Epic Brewing in Salt Lake City, which I’d only read about prior. In January, I found a 22-ounce bottle of Yeti whiskey barrel-aged imperial stout from Denver’s Great Divide Brewing, my favorite beer I’ve ever tried. It’s a good idea to snag something when you see it since there’s no guarantee it will be there next time.

A few brands dominate the shelves: Cascade Brewing from Portland, Ore., Grimm from Brooklyn and Fullsteam out of Durham.

Wicked Weed also had a significant presence until recently; it’s been relegated to the “pre-AB InBev” display near the bar since its sellVisit Potent Potables out to the Big Beer powerhouse. at 115 E. Main St. (JT) or Popular styles include saisons, lambics, Trappist ales and mead, find it on Facebook. but the inventory is so extensive, you may want to ask one of the knowledgeable staff members — like local Girls Pint Out co-founder Carmen Allred — for recommendations.

Since 2012, Potent Potables has cultivated a following among local employees out for post-work drinks and local residents, including a run club that meets on Thursdays. Though located one of the Triad bedroom communities, this bar and bottleshop is well worth the short trip.

Kat loves red wine, Milan Kundera, and the Shins. She wears scarves at katbodrie.com.

triad-city-beat.com

Y

Find your next favorite at Potent Potables

17

June 7 – 13, 2017 Up Front News Opinion

P

erhaps one of the hardest things for bands to accomplish is making a sophomore album; what’s more, a good sophomore album.

There’s an old cliché that says: You have a lifetime to write your first record, but only a year or two for the second.

A second LP becomes a test for bands trying to make it in the tumultuous music business. All eyes are suddenly held on every little thing a band does at that point, ready to either discover yet another flash in the pan or “one-album-wonder,” or to realize a band has held up their end of the deal. And Junior Astronomers’ second LP proves grace under pressure.

It’s fitting that the opening track “Body Language Pt. 2” opens with the lyrics, “I didn’t know how things would go.” It is a line that sets the scene for the 10 songs that follow. Body Language, which will be released on Friday, is the band’s realization of how their “home” has changed. Frontman Terrance Richard’s driving force behind the LP is like a breakup with his hometown

Sportsball

Culture

Cover Story

CULTURE Junior Astronomers set sights higher with Body Language

by Spencer KM Brown

All Showtimes @ 9:00pm Crossword

6/7 Karaoke with Michael Ray Hansen 6/8 Test Pattern Presents: A Night with

Peter Spivak

6/9 Jami JAM Benefit for Dancing

Shot in the Triad

Classrooms of Winston Salem ft.

Foxture & Beach Casino

6/10 Jami Jam Benefit Day 2 6/11 Jarvaland, Elements of Gravity,

Cave of Swimmers

Triaditude Adjustment

6/13 Lara Americo, Knives of Spain,

18

MAMA

701 N Trade Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101

(336)955-1888

of Charlotte.

“It’s something like how when you’re in a relationship with someone for so many years and one day you just realize everything is different,” Richard said. “The chemistry between you is off. Nothing has changed exactly, but everything is just different.”

Such tenuous feelings first came to mind after the band returned to their homes after touring for their debut LP Dead Nostalgia. Holding firm to the classic idea of a travelling band seeing the country for the first time and coming home to see that everything — or at least their perspective — has changed, Richard used these themes as the underlining emotions behind Body NICKI ROHLOFF Junior Astronomers’ new LP Body Language drops on Friday.

Language.

The album drives with blistering pace. The drums fit were ready to be on a record.” neatly in the pocket, yet carry all the other instruments into a While Body Language has a punk-like resolve to its tone, harder, more rock-and-roll realm. Layered on top of this firm the band proved prudent in their patience. After putting out foundation are the guitars. Neatly crafted melodies stretch five EPs and a debut LP, the band earned interest from Refresh one on top of the other, bringing a woven sound similar to Records, landing them a deal for the long-awaited second fullDire Straits blended with Local Natives. But perhaps the most length album. remarkable thing about the album is Richard’s vocals. On a “We recorded Dead Nostalgia is a living room with one of first listen, you might simply overlook the subtle nuances and our good friends producing it,” Richard said. “And so going ride the wave that the music carries you on. But below the into the studio for this one was just an amazing experience.” flash, there’s a dark yearning in his voice; a wildness within Calling in the skilled ear of Mike Pepe (who’s worked with that screams in a youthful bray of introspective searching and, Taking Back Sunday and Modern Chemistry) to produce the perhaps, wanderlust. record, Body Language was recorded in famed producer Mitch Most songs remain just under three minutes, adding to a Easter’s acclaimed Fidelitorium studios in Kernersville. strange urgency that the music creates. With the voice and “It was different because Mike really pushed us on this one, poetic vision with Richard’s bard-like qualities at the lead, the he really made it all so much more professional,” Richard said. notions of a tortured soul stuck in a relationship — a relation“Where before we might have just been happy with a take, ship with a hometown — seep through, painting a layered Mike would come into the booth and say, ‘That was really image of the overarching idea of body language. But just as good guys, I like the direction, but it can be better.’ When we these on-the-nose writing subjects and images seem old hat, would get frustrated and angry with ourselves and all the rest, the artistry begins to shine through; while a first listen of the Mike would just be there to keep us focused and keep pushing album provides only a fraction of the experience, what’s weavus.” ing the foundation lies under the surface, slowly coming into The album lends itself to a more marketable sensibility, a focus, like a developing photograph. somewhat watered-down version of a post-punk, indie revival “Honestly, it was one of the easier records to write,” Richard that takes few risks. Where a moment could arise for a breaksaid. “It all just came out so naturally. And most of these out of some new moment in modern music, the songs only songs we’ve been playing for a few years and so we knew they play it safe, trapping themselves in a form of palatable, boring

Pick of the Week Rhiannon Giddens @ Carolina Theatre (GSO), Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

The Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops performs live.

For more information, visit carolinatheatre.com.

radio songs.

But even though the fast-paced, firecracker form with which these tracks unleash through the stereo might at first seem simply another band playing to a form, Body Language gets trapped in your head, each song earning its place on repeat.

F

triad-city-beat.com

CULTURE Yawning dog mural wins, embodies High Point

Up Front News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

by Lauren Barber irst place-winner Brian Lewis’ rendering of a yawning dog ambling about town in lace-up shoes might be the most tongue-in-cheek statement about High Point of the night.

On June 1 — years after local artists began to form grassroots artists’ alliances —Theatre Art Galleries held an opening reception for Urban Expressions, an exhibit that reimagines public spaces in High Point. The gallery identified blank facades around High Point, snapped digital photos and invited local artists to Photoshop their mural ideas on those sites — 34 mural designs from 21 artists, any of which could be commissioned.

What feels like a watershed moment for community-supported efforts to rejuvenate the city’s urban spaces excites Brian Davis, an artist who moved to High Point from Lexington more than a decade ago.

“If I’m going to live in a place,” he said. “I’m gonna contribute, and this is what I’ve got to contribute.”

Davis benefited from artist Tammy McDowell’s and the Southwest Renewal Foundation’s support.

“I think it jumped off when I painted the tree frog on the French Interiors building,” he said. “That was in response to a time three or four years ago when an urban planner [Andres Duany] was brought into the city to assess what he thought we could do as far as establishing a stronger identity here. In the spirit of that, I presented the [frog] mural…. Now I really have a vision for where it can go and I think I’ve captured enough of the heart of the people around that their influence has helped me to really fit in.”

The 512 Collective, a teaching studio and gallery on Washington Street, is a vibrant hub for artists in High Point. McDowell played a part in reclaiming a crack house in the historic neighborhood, previously the LAUREN BARBER Tammy McDowell and the 512 Collective’s incoming intern, Brandon “Milky” Owen, discuss one center of black commerce during the first half of the of his entries in the mural design exhibit.

20th Century. ity of its own and grows organically.” neighborhood, we want to go across the Throughout the opening reception, attendees fixated Some may regard Expressions as the natural culmination street. The neighborhoods across from on a design by the collective’s incoming intern, Brandon of a years-long movement to reclaim and beautify neglected [the 512 Collective], there’s three or “Milky” Owen: a two-headed hairless cat donning a red plaid spaces in High Point, but few in the arts community — Mcfour city blocks with apartments that’ve sweater on a matte black background. Other imagined murals Dowell least of all — expected this day to come. It seems the been boarded-up and abandoned for ranged from clever oddities to colorful and optimistic visions tide is turning, though; McDowell 40, 50 years. So [the artists are] gonna of High Point’s future. said that city council, wealthy donors paint them at their own expense. We reDavis hopes that reestablishing and other community members are alize it’s not permanent but for the time High Point’s reputation as a cultural Urban Expressions is open at the finally taking notice of undervalued being, they’re a beautiful thing.” center will encourage more businessTheater Art Galleries at 220 E. local artists, and that positive comes to invest in the city.

Commerce Ave. (HP) through munity feedback after years of work “I hope one day to have tourism is deeply rewarding.

Aug. 4. Visit tagart.org for more industry based solely on public art: “It fills my heart,” said McDowell. murals, sculptures, interactive art, information.

“It means we’ve made our mark in Pick of the Week landscape design and everything in our hometown [and] I’m incredibly that arena,” Davis said. “We’ve been proud of all that we’ve accomplished. talking about that for years and are World Oceans Day @ Greensboro The next step for us is national: We’re fixin’ to get national making steps in that direction.”

Science Center (GSO), Saturday 10 recognition with a mural that Brian [Davis] and I designed for Davis said the idea is also practical. a.m.

Washington Street as part of the project.”

“It’s probably the easiest thing you can do to change an atCelebrate World Oceans Day with McDowell and other artists remain primarily focused on mosphere, to put a coat of paint on something,” he said. “The activities such as creating conservaserving long-ignored neighborhoods in High Point. impact is far-reaching. One [mural] spawns another and — all tion-inspired crafts using yarn and “To me, ‘no trespassing’ just means ‘don’t get caught,” of a sudden — you’ve got this groundswell of pride in your area bottle caps. For more information, she said. “Once we finish up the two or three houses in our where you want to do and see more and it takes on a personalvisit greensboroscience.org.

19

June 7 – 13, 2017 Up Front News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

20

SPORTSBALL

The Gate City Outlaws find family in football

T

he Gate City Outlaws quarterback required little in-game guidance from the coach, scoring touchdowns through the air and on the ground during a Sunday showdown in Garner, NC. A dominating 28-0 victory

by Joel Sronce secured the Outlaws’ 6-3 record heading into the playoffs, and it added a final notch to an impressive regular season for their captain and oldest player.

Plus, she’s the only mother on the team.

Jasmine McNeil, 31, is nearing the end of her second season in a sport she played only as a child, when there were a lot less rules and a lot more boys. But she decided to join the Gate City Outlaws, one of 10 teams that comprise the North Carolina Women’s Flag Football League, in part to support two important people in her life.

“My son’s the water boy,” McNeil said laughing during a warmup practice at the Academy at Lincoln in Greensboro before the drive to Garner on Sunday. “He thinks it’s awesome; he loves to go see me play, plus it gives us extra time together.”

McNeil said she plays not only to show her son what it means to be dedicated, but to teach him how life, like the game, comes with ups and downs.

While she’s the one who leads her son by instruction and example, McNeil has the inverse relationship with her god-brother, Octavius “Juce” James Jr., who serves as the team’s coach.

“Juce, being a young cat, he’s out here trying to do something positive for us,” McNeil explained, including that she always has much to learn from her coach and younger god-brother.

“And he’s out trying to turn us young women into killing machines,” she added with a smile.

James Jr., 24, moved to Greensboro from Jacksonville, NC in 2015. He came to the Gate City with a desire to coach a men’s tackle football team, but his unexpect-

ed role at the helm of an all-women’s squad has provided a fulfilling opportunity to spread his knowledge and love of the game.

“It means a lot coming from my perspective,” James Jr. said, looking on as McNeil designed routes for her receivers during the morning’s warmup. “They started out knowing little about the game, but they really enjoy it. It’s an active, healthy alternative for having fun. They love to go out there and rough somebody up.”

(Not long after, one of his players smacked him on the top of his head on her COURTESY PHOTO way onto the practice field Gate City Outlaws quarterback Jasmine McNeil gains yards on the ground. at Lincoln.)

Though tackling isn’t the physical danger they would have faced through the allowed in the league, there’s still plenty of contact. sport’s violent contact proved too Like its male-dominated countermuch. part, players face off on the line, But Wise, who wrestled in high The Gate City Outlaws colliding with one another as the school, continues to resist concenter snaps the ball. They crash in hold open tryouts in forming to what those around her the split-second contact — dueling July. To follow what’s to expect. purposes of pursuit and denial — “There’s a societal standard: but unlike the men they bear no come with this women’s ‘Women don’t play these sports,’” protective pads. flag football team, visit Wise said. “This is a way to go For James Jr., as well as the against the grain.”

Outlaws themselves, the games gatecityoutlaws.com.

As is often the case with sports, are no joke. Though each team has the relationships between teamonly eight players on the field at mates — here as players in a sport normally only one time — compared to the traditional 11 — James Jr.’s acceptable for men — lead to strong camaraderie. approach doesn’t waver.

For Bradford, the logic is simple: “We’ve got a family “My system is more complex,” he explained. “Other bond. The better bond, the better team.” teams water it down. They’ve got plays like ‘Jolly McNeil agreed: “We are family oriented. I call them Rancher’ or ‘Gummy bear’ all my little sisters.” or something. We go: 32Though her son and god-brother first inspired this wide, I-formation, counter, quarterback to lead the team, now it’s her sisters sweep. And my players who’ve got her back. For the second consecutive seaknow it all.” son, McNeil has been nominated as league MVP. Though becoming faThe Outlaws play next in the league tournament, miliar with different plays claiming the No. 3 seed in a 10-team, single-eliminaand formations has been a tion competition on June 25. learning process for most players, some already understood the game pretty Pick of the Week well when they first joined the Outlaws. Alex Bradford said she’d always been a Lady Warcats vs. Lady Dragons @ Piedmont Inbig football person, and ternational University (W-S), Saturday, 2 p.m. even helped coach her little Winston-Salem’s only professional development brother’s team when he basketball team takes on the Lady Dragons for was growing up. Bradford a mid-season home game at the small Christian and her teammate Rachael school. For more information on the Women’s Wise both thought about Blue-Chip Basketball League team, visit ladywarplaying football for their cats.com. high school teams, though

by Matt Jones

Run off, as copies Compadre from way back Diplomat’s forte Kickoff need The haves and the have-___ Pointer on a laptop “Shallow ___” (Jack Black movie) The dance of talk show employees?

More than -er Aim high Not-so-sharp sort “The Crying Game” actor Crystal-lined stones Ovine moms

Sportsball Crossword Shot in the Triad Triaditude Adjustment

©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

Culture

Hard news at no cost to you, and no matter the cost to us.

Cover Story

Answers from previous publication.

Opinion

Down 1 Displace 2 Gem mined in Australia 3 Monty Python alum Eric 4 Place setting?

5 Automaton of Jewish folklore 6 Biceps’ place 7 SMS exchange 8 Shrek talks about being one a lot 9 Chestnut-hued horses 10 Original “The Late Late Show” host Tom 11 Award for “Five Easy Pieces” actress Black?

12 Monetary unit of Switzerland 13 Unit of social hierarchy

18 God of the Nile 24 Canned goods closet 26 Inhaled stuff 27 ___ Bator (Mongolia’s capital) 28 Maker of the Saturn game system 29 Weighty river triangle?

31 Type of bar with pickled beets 32 In the center of 36 Battery terminal, briefly 37 Suffix similar to “-speak” 39 President’s refusal 40 Suffix for movie theaters 43 Common campaign promise 46 Talk too much 50 It may be also called a “murse” 53 One of their recent ads features “an investor invested in vests” 54 Different 55 Tenant’s document 56 Almost ready for the Tooth Fairy 58 Parcels of land 61 “Ed Sullivan Show” character ___ Gigio 62 Racetrack trouble 64 Winter forecast 65 Eye rakishly 66 Breaks down 69 “Able was I ___ I saw Elba”

News

52 54 57 59 60 63 67 68 70 71 72 73 74 75

Up Front

Across 1 Be furious 5 Everglades beasts 11 Letters on a bucket 14 High hair 15 Home state of the Decemberists 16 Former Fighting Irish coach Parseghian 17 A look inside Mr. Gladwell?

19 Dorm supervisors, briefly 20 “The magic word” 21 Do bar duty 22 “The Two Towers” creature 23 Like a cooked noodle 25 Medium capacity event?

27 “Yeah!” singer 30 Busy ___ bee 33 Song with the lyric “she really shows you all she can” 34 Author Harper 35 By title, though not really 38 “Let me know” letters 41 ___ Khan 42 It shows the order of songs a band will play 44 Disney Store collectible 45 Force based on waves?

47 Top-of-the-line 48 Took a course?

49 Orangey tuber 51 Gridiron units, for short

triad-city-beat.com

‘NATO Allies’ phonetically speaking, anyway...

TRUTH IS POWER

CROSSWORD

21

June 7 – 13, 2017

South Elm Street, Greensboro

Triaditude Adjustment

Shot in the Triad

Crossword

Sportsball

Culture

Cover Story

Opinion

News

Up Front

SHOT IN THE TRIAD

22

Billy and Richard.

PHOTO BY CAROLYN DE BERRY

The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship... connect your business to success.

336-379-5001

www.nussbaumcfe.com

E

How to stop being a fake outdoorsy person

News Opinion Cover Story Culture Sportsball Crossword

in a sudden late-spring snowstorm. He was in shorts and a tank top, completely unprepared for the conditions and told authorities that he was only doing the hike because of a local pizza restaurant’s free pie promotion. (That part I can respect. I’d drink the water out of a koi pond if there was free food involved.) But, with that in mind, I rolled up a parka and crammed it into my backpack, too.

We were on the road earJELISA ly on Sunday because it was Cows pretend to be interested in hikers as they pass by on the Rock CASTRODALE almost a two-hour drive to Castle Gorge Trail. the Rocky Knob trailhead, the road. We mumbled our excuse me’s as we walked just south of Floyd, Va. We pulled into a gravel parkthrough everyone’s outstretched almost-Instagrams, ing lot near a well-maintained campground, parking passing a bored looking man in shower shoes who across from a sign that somewhat ominously reminded balanced a cigarette on his bottom lip while he framed us that we were in Bear Country. We double-knotted the treetops on his Samsung screen. our boots, took pictures of the trail map and started For the last mile, we walked from wooden trail into the woods. marker to trail marker as we passed through an imposThe first three miles of the Rock Castle Gorge Trail sibly green pasture, weaving between sad-eyed dairy are a steady, steep downhill, dropping almost 1,000 cows that mostly ignored us. Between the low-hangfeet in elevation. When I wasn’t staring at the toes of ing clouds, the vivid greens of the fields and those my boots, trying not to trip over the sharp rocks that screensaver-worthy views, it would’ve been believable looked like one of Kevin McCallister’s booby traps, it to think that we’d hiked to some remote Swiss village was easy to get lost in the stillness of everything. We (except you don’t pass concrete pigs painted with Conwere completely enveloped by the forest and the only federate flags on a drive through rural Switzerland). sounds were the occasional trickle of a waterfall, the After more than five hours on the trail, we finalbubbling of the Rock Castle Creek and the satisfying ly stumbled back into the parking lot, immediately crunch of our boots on the trail. swapped our boots for flip-flops and chugged hot botAfter reaching the bottom of the gorge, we had to tles of water that we’d left in the floorboards. It was climb back up, which meant several hours of exhausonly one day, so I’m still not that backpacker I picture tion (due to the terrain, we averaged about two miles in my head, but I do have some ideas, for later. per hour), but we were rewarded with some unbelievable views of the gorge and the countryside beyond Jelisa Castrodale is a freelance writer who lives in it. The trail ran parallel to the Blue Ridge Parkway Winston-Salem. She enjoys pizza, obscure power-pop in places and, at one point, we stumbled out of the records and will probably die alone. Follow her on Twitter woods and onto an overlook that was accessible from @gordonshumway.

Up Front

very few months, I’ll walk into Great Outdoor Provision Company, prompted by the occasional thought that I should become an outdoorsy person, that I should become someone who enjoys woolen socks and long

by Jelisa Castrodale hikes and eating freeze-dried food out of a foil pouch. I’ll slowly walk across the wooden floors, clicking the display headlamps on and off and wondering whether I’m allowed to test the firestarters in the store.

“No, I’m just looking,” I’ll tell an earnest looking employee wearing ripstop clothing. “I’m just getting some ideas for later.”

And that’s all it ever is: an idea. I’m not good at being outdoors and know little to nothing about nature other than what I learned from movies, like the one where Liam Neeson punches a wolf, the one where James Franco had to saw off his own forearm or The Blair Witch Project. I get lost regularly, even when using Google Maps, and the only survival skill I have is the ability to use a public bathroom without allowing my skin to touch a single solid surface. So obviously I was surprised when some friends asked if I wanted to go on an 11-mile hike last weekend — and obviously I was all in.

(I’m not exaggerating about my worthlessness. On a drive back from the coast several years ago, I made a comment about the especially vivid sunset that night.

“That’s not the sun,” my then-boyfriend said. “That’s a Golden Corral sign.”)

ANYWAY, I decided that this hike was my chance to become the backpacker I knew I could be and that,

by Sunday night, I would either be in a print ad for REI or on a stretcher, explaining to a paramedic why I thought it would be a good idea to try to face-swap with a copperhead.

I spent an hour the night before trying to pull some gear together, dragging a pair of boots and my daypack out of the very back of the closet. In my other job, I’d just written about a guy who had to be rescued from a 9,301-foot mountain in Arizona after getting caught

triad-city-beat.com

TRIADITUDE ADJUSTMENT

Shot in the Triad onpopstudios.com • 336.383.9332 • 1333 Grove St, Greensboro

Triaditude Adjustment

Wednesday, June 7: Richard Lloyd (Television) & Peter Holsapple (the DBs) Thursday, June 8: Totally Slow, Junior Astronomers, Cold Fronts Saturday, June 10: Instant Regrets (GSO) with Drunk on the Reg (RAL), Temperance League (CHA) Friday, July 7: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

23

CUT CABLE THE

The ultimate all-included offer.

Switch to DIRECTV and lock in your TV price at $50/month for 2 years when you have AT&T Wireless!

50

$

00 MO .

plus taxes for 24 months w/24-mo. TV agmt & qualifying AT&T Wireless*

INCLUDES: SELECT™ All-Included Package – Over 145 Channels Monthly fees for a Genie® HD DVR and 3 add’l receivers

PLUS: ‡

ALL DIRECTV OFFERS REQUIRE 24-MONTH AGMT. ADD’L FEES APPLY.

*New approved residential DIRECTV customers only (equipment lease req’d). Reqs qual. AT&T wireless phone during 2nd year.

Credit card req’d (except MA & PA). Pro-rated ETF fee (up to $480 and Equipment Non-Return fees apply.

Ask me how to Bundle and save. CALL TODAY! IV SUPPORT HOLDINGS LLC

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.