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On ‘getting the word out’

by Brian Clarey

UP FRONT

11 Commentariot

3 Editor’s Notebook 4 City Life 5 ‘Game of Thrones’ 5 The Democratic Party is abandoning its backbone

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6 ICE agents and minor charges pose threat to undocumented families

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10 Editorial: A half-measure on gerrymandering 10 Citizen Green: Grand juries

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20 More than 25 countries represented at Greensboro’s International Soccer Tournament

12 Payday

CULTURE

16 Food: Greensboro’s 8 best brunches 17 Barstool: Natty Greene’s Kitchen + Market opens in Revolution Mill 18 Music: A fond farewell at Tim Poovey’s last concert 19 Art: Bookbinding, comics and anarchy at Greensboro’s ’Zine Fest

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21 Jonesin’ Crossword

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It happens every week: a cheery note in my inbox, or a pop-up Facebook message, or a text — each one imploring us to do the one thing we do best: Let people know about their business or event or promotion or service.

They ask us to run their press releases as if they were actual articles penned by actual journalists — a clear violation of the ethical guidelines for our profession. They ask us for a “little write-up,” which I find belittling to all the years of education and experience we’ve devoted to this industry. They ask for “sponsorship,” which generally means free ads — sometimes for events with million-dollar budgets — offering as compensation “exposure,” which is the bane of the true creative class, a false currency particularly for operations like this one in which exposure is our one and only product. Sometimes they dangle a few dollars in return for favorable stories, which, some of them say, they would be happy to write themselves.

I don’t really blame them. Newspapers were made to get the word out. It’s the whole point of the enterprise. And in this market in which we operate, I’m hard-pressed to We exist for our readers, think of a publicawithout whom there would tion that does not do at least one of be no point to anything we these things. For do. We won’t trick them or some of them, sell them out. We just won’t. it is their entire We’d rather close. business model.

But that’s not how it works in our shop.

At Triad City Beat — a newspaper created by journalists fed up with the corrupt state of the media in our cities — content drives advertising and never the other way around. It is our founding principle, the bulwark against insidious commercial interests that have as much interest in the ethics of our chosen profession as they do in watching the grass grow.

I tell them all the same thing: We don’t do that.

There is a cost in this stance, to be sure, in large and small amounts of money and, I believe, in reputation; a lot of people think I’m a jerk because of it.

But still I hold the line.

Because TCB exists for its readers, without whom there would be no point to anything we do. We won’t try to trick them or sell them out. We just won’t. We’d rather close.

And they, in turn, know that every story we publish is an actual story and not a commercial.

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August 3 – 9, 2017

CITY LIFE August 3 – 9

by Eric Hairston

THURSDAY Hands on History tour @ Benton Convention Center (W-S), 9:30 a.m.

This African-American history tour in Old Salem features a culinary demonstration of historic African-American cooking. Participants will also be able to participate in gourd painting and visit St. Philips Heritage Center, the site of the longest standing African-American church in North Carolina. For more information, visit triadculturalarts.org.

Late night jazz @ Delta Arts Center (W-S), 10 p.m.

The Delta Arts Center hosts a night of jazz accompanied by good food. Diana Tuffin & Company will hold down the stage. The menu consists of Southern favorites such as fried fish, mac & cheese and more Beer and wine will also be available for purchase. For more information, visit deltaartscenter.org.

FRIDAY African dancing and drumming @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

Students from Brown Recreation Center and the surrounding communities perform traditional dances and rhythms from West Africa. For more information, visit danceproject.org.

First Friday @ Downtown (W-S, GSO), 6 p.m.

Dozens of artists, food trucks, live music and plenty of open art galleries fill up this monthly culture event in the Triad’s two largest cities. For more information, find the Facebook event pages.

EnVision @ Merschel Plaza (W-S), 7 p.m.

Winston-Salem hosts EnVision, a cover band with a variety of musical styles, as they perform hits from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. For more information, visit envisionnc.com/the-band.

Outdoor salsa dancing @ Four Flocks & Larder (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Come out and enjoy a free salsa class taught by Messina Dance Company, then dance the night away to salsa, bachata and kizomba music on the patio. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

SATURDAY Family day @ Foothills Brewing Tasting Room (W-S), 11 a.m.

This event benefits families at the Ronald McDonald House and includes a yoga class taught by Rock Water Yoga. There will be face-painting and a caricature artist. Food trucks will be serving up lunch, too. Guests are encouraged to bring individually wrapped snacks for families at the Ronald McDonald House. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Total Metal Meltdown @ Shiners (GSO), 2 p.m.

The second annual metal fest features acts from across the state. Avalon Rising, ManSlaughter, Thundering Herd and other well-known groups will grace the stage. Performances start 4 p.m. and event merchandise will be on hand for purchase. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Iced tea workshop @ Chad’s Chi Blending Room (W-S), 4 p.m.

Come learn how to create and infuse iced tea at home. Participants will have the opportunity sample various teas as well. For more information, visit chadschai.com.

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The Poetry Café @ Barber Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

Presented by the Levitt AMP Greensboro Music Series, this event showcases poet, educator and entertainer Josephus III. Beverages will available for purchase from Preyer Brewing and Grove Winery & Vineyards. Food trucks will be available as well]. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

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‘Game of Thrones’

by Eric Hairston

to life. Their complexity and their individual paths are more intriguing than following more typical protagonist-centered series with a primary driving story rather than dueling and interwoven plotlines.

My favorite is Tyrion Lannister, who comes from the often conniving House Lannister. He’s funny, spouting hilarious and often inappropriate one-liners throughout the series. Despite being a part of the wealthiest and most powerful house in Westeros, Tyrion is still seen as unworthy because he’s a dwarf.

In a series where lead characters die constantly, his longevity is due to his ability to talk his way out of almost every situation. The guy’s been blown up, almost hurled into oblivion, and narrowly escaped execution repeatedly, which sometimes would’ve come at the hands of his own family. He’s had the deck stacked against him since birth, which is part of the reason you couldn’t ask for a better character.

They should change the show to “Game of Tyrion.”

“Game of Thrones” is the type of show that you have to sit and watch all through — there’s no jumping in midstream. If you haven’t seen it, start with Season One to catch up on what’s happening in Westeros; you won’t be disappointed.

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On Sunday nights, I have a ritual that usually involves procrastinating about deadlines and completing homework at the last minute. But for the past few weeks, that homework and those deadlines were put off because my favorite series of all time — “Game of Thrones” — began its seventh season.

“Game of Thrones” has been a longtime favorite of mine, with “The Walking Dead” ranking second.

I have always been interested in fantasy epics. I remember as I child I would pretend that I was a king and I’d make adventures out of the most mundane tasks. Maybe that is why I love “GOT” so much. It has everything: dragons, magic, giants and a little nudity, if that’s what you’re into.

“Game of Thrones,” or just “Thrones,” as some people call it, already had a huge following before it was adapted into a television series. The five-book series was written by George RR Martin, and even though I’ve never read a book in its entirety, I still can’t stop watching the series. It’s even led me to put traveling to Iceland, Spain and Croatia — some of the places where the show is filmed — on my bucket list.

But the characters are what really bring the world

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The Democratic Party is abandoning its backbone

by Lauren Barber

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away women’s bodily sovereignty.

Pro-choice women — especially low-income women of color — are the backbone of the Democratic Party. Taking their grassroots organizing, money and votes for granted is a fool’s errand, especially when abortion rights are far from safeguarded.

Over the last decade, red states introduced hundreds of statutes limiting access to reproductive health options, most notably by burdening existing clinics with medically unnecessary requirements that forced them to shut down. Mike Pence, notorious as governor of Indiana for anti-abortion policies, currently exercises a tie-breaking Senate vote and is a heartbeat away from the presidency.

This is no academic or strategic exercise; the Democrats are playing with women’s bodies like bargaining chips in a game they are destined to lose.

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possible. Sure. But Democrats didn’t lose in 2016 because of a white, working-class bloc; most of Trump’s voters were not working class. Democrats lost because of racism and xenophobia. Courting those mythical voters with the assumption that a softer stance on abortion will sway them won’t magically turn red districts blue.

Yet, it is curious that the hard-fought right to a ubiquitous, safe medical procedure that offers women autonomy over their bodies and their futures is the first thing Dems are willing to throw under the bus only a year after including the repeal of the Hyde Amendment as a cornerstone of the 2016 platform. To say this reversal alienates the party’s base puts it gently.

But after all, reproductive health — including abortion — is a women’s issue: perpetually debatable and dismissible, always “getting in the way.” Basic reasoning and math suggest that this is a dangerous electoral strategy, one that would very realistically open the doors to legislating

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In an interview with the Hill on Monday, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said that the party will not withhold financial support to anti-choice candidates saying, “There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates. As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America.”

Luján’s announcement came after several top Democrats slowly but surely hinted they no longer care to unequivocally protect abortion rights. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed that Democrats are in less internal contention about abortion, telling the Washington Post in May that it is “fading as an issue.”

Four months ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wielded the “big tent” argument on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” suggesting that in order to reclaim a majority in the House, Democrats would need as broad an appeal as

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Discretionary arrests pose threat to undocumented families

by Jordan Green

Despite promising to not target immigrants, Winston-Salem police officers made a handful of discretionary arrests in the first five months of 2017 involving traffic violations committed by undocumented people who are prohibited by state law from obtaining driver’s licenses.

Dulce Karina Peralta, a 22-year-old Winston-Salem resident, was driving a 2004 Hyundai station wagon on Reynolds Park Road not long before midnight on Jan. 29 when a Winston-Salem police officer pulled her over for a broken taillight.

The infraction would typically result in a verbal warning or a written citation, but, likely due to the fact that Peralta was not carrying a driver’s license, Officer ST Johnson exercised the discretion to arrest her and book her in the Forsyth County jail. As a penalty for driving a car with a broken taillight and not having a driver’s license, Peralta was one of 53 people who landed there in the first five months of 2017 and wound up being deported after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement flagged them for removal.

A Triad City Beat analysis of court records for 35 undocumented inmates at the jail who were claimed by ICE for deportation revealed five cases like Peralta’s, where defendants wound up in jail for traffic violations or minor infractions. The remainder of the charges were evenly divided between felonies ranging from human trafficking and cocaine possession to indecent liberties with a child; driving while intoxicated; and other misdemeanors, ranging from

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COURTESY OF ICE Over the first five months of 2017, the Forsyth County jail held 104 undocumented people arrested by ICE under a federal contract. An additional 53 undocumented immigrants who wound up being deported entered the jail on local criminal charges during the same period.

domestic violence charges to drug paraphernalia.

The Winston-Salem Police Department accounted for 71.4 percent of these arrests of undocumented persons handed over to ICE, with the Kernersville Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, State Highway Patrol and state Division of Motor Vehicles filling out the remainder. One of the felonies — brought by the DMV — involved a 21-year-old Senegalese man and Winston-Salem resident of four years, Papa Alioune Diagne, who was charged with identity theft for possessing a fake Social Security card. (TCB was unable to locate information about local charges for the remaining 13 individuals identified by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office as being held on pending

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criminal charges and subsequently turned over to ICE.) Neither the number of people funneled through the jail to ICE nor the breakdown of offenses is especially surprising, but arrests for traffic offenses have prompted acute anxiety within the immigrant community and drawn particular scrutiny among advocates.

FaithAction International House has been working with several law enforcement agencies across the state, including the Winston-Salem police, for four years on an ID program to provide undocumented people and others with identification in an attempt to build trust between immigrants and the police. One purpose of the program is to provide undocumented people with ID so that police don’t have to

take them into custody for minor traffic offenses like driving with expired tags or speeding, which would ordinarily be handled through a written citation or verbal warning.

“Part of what we’re attempting to do is have law enforcement understand there are many people who are hard-working and contribute to our community and simply cannot under state law obtain a driver’s license,” said David Fraccaro, FaithAction’s executive director. “What are they supposed to do? Otherwise, it’s not going to work or going to school. A lot of people have to take that risk every day. This wouldn’t be happening if we had a more empathetic state law and federal immigration reform. That would make our roads safer. I hate that anyone is a victim of the inaction that’s happening at the state and federal level.”

Soon after the election of Donald Trump, a coalition of activists began lobbying Winston-Salem City Council to declare itself a sanctuary city — a status that would have directly violated state law and fly in the face of a Trump executive order. As a compromise, Councilman Dan Besse proposed a “Welcoming City” resolution, which declared in a proposed draft: “The city of Winston-Salem recognizes that our whole community is safer when victims and witnesses of domestic violence or criminal activity feel safe in contacting our police for assistance without fear, regardless of their immigration status.”

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balked at supporting it under the threat of punitive legislation from state lawmakers. In response to council members anxious to reassure their constituents about the city’s role in immigration enforcement, police Chief Barry Rountree drafted a memo dated Jan. 30 declaring: “Members of the WSPD do not ask immigration status, initiate immigration roundups or gather immigration status information during the course of providing law enforcement services.”

Fraccaro characterized the Winston-Salem police as “one of the more hesitant departments in how they talk about their relationship to the ID card.”

Lt. DL Anthony, a field commander with responsibility for patrol on the east side and part of the west side of the city, confirmed that officers have the discretion to take traffic offenders into custody if they aren’t carrying identification. He said the FaithAction ID is one form of

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identification officers look at, but they typically want to see additional documentation.

“It’s something we look at, but without something to support that document it raises suspicion,” Anthony said.

“Some further identification like a bill with their name and address on it may give credence to that card. But with just the card itself the officer may need to do a little more digging.

“If that person can’t prove to the officer that makes the stop who they are, then I would encourage the officer to make the arrest because if they produce a name and we can’t link it to that person, it might be the name of some other person,” Anthony added. “That other person’s license gets suspended because they don’t know they’ve been issued a citation.”

Will Cox, an activist with the Sanctuary City Coalition of Winston-Salem, said that because of ongoing dialogue between clergy members and the police about immigration, he would expect

officers to understand the consequences of taking an undocumented person into custody.

“It’s really an outrage to have local law Jeovany Argueta Garcia enforcement saying, ‘We’re not targeting folks’ — they’re saying, ‘We’re only going after bad actors,’” Cox said. “If you look at this, the bad actor is anyone who’s complicit with any type of targeting of the immigrant community. Law enforcement is the spear tip. That’s where the choice has to be made.” *** Although felony and misdemeanor cases make up the bulk of local charges that put undocumented people in the pipeline for deportation, observers say they have seen ICE move more aggres-

sively to claim custody of immigrant detainees since Trump’s inauguration.

“Since early this year, things have ramped up,” said Alan Doorasami Sr., an attorney who practices both immigration and criminal law with the Law Office of Alan Doorasami Sr. in Winston-Salem.

One of Doorasami’s clients, a young woman who came to the United States at the age of 2 and holds Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, was arrested shortly after her 18th birthday in June and charged with stealing a stick of lipstick from Walmart. Doorasami said the young woman’s friend, a US citizen, pleaded guilty to stealing cosmetics, but his client denies taking part in the theft. In June, before she had a chance to appear in court, Doorasami said, she was taken into custody by ICE and transferred to the Stewart Detention Center in south Georgia.

“This is an extremely serious issue,” Doorasami said. “One, she denies it.

Two, she wasn’t even given a chance to

go to court and tell her story. Plus, she’s a DACA recipient; she has a right to live here. That particular case is a deep concern. That’s what the public needs to know about.”

Many of the people in the undocumented community facing local charges in Forsyth County would have been in jeopardy of deportation even before Trump was elected.

“ICE is picking up people for very simple offenses,” Doorasami said. “DUI and domestic violence — they are way up on the ladder.” He added that people charged with those offenses were considered priorities for removal by ICE “long before Trump was elected.”

Antonio Mejia Zarate, 32, was arrested for DWI by a Winston-Salem police officer after his 2006 Dodge pickup was involved in an accident near Jonestown Road and Still Point Drive at 9:15 a.m. on June 21, 2016, according to court records. The arresting officer noted there was a child in the vehicle, and charged with Zarate with the most serious level

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needs to know this is happening. ICE is coming for our families.”

The American Friends Service Committee is raising money to cover the families’ expenses, estimated to be more than $1,500 per month for rent, utilities and food. The Rev. Julie Peeples said in a statement distributed by the committee: “As people of faith, we hope community members will support these families, and will give generously so that they can get through this difficult time.”

Peeples’ church, Congregational UCC in Greensboro, is providing sanctuary for Minerva Garcia, an undocumented woman from Winston-Salem who is defying a deportation order from ICE. Advocates have come to recognize a desperate reality for undocumented families attempting to support themselves while minimizing exposure to ICE and local law enforcement. David Fraccaro, the executive director of FaithAction, said his organization counsels clients to fix any broken taillights, refrain from speeding and carpool, if possible.

“We’re working on three fronts,” he said. “We’re working to support families who come to us because a family member is charged with a DWI or domestic violence. But we also try to counsel them to avoid at all costs breaking the law in the first place because the consequences can be catastrophic. If you have a broken taillight, you’ll want to get that fixed immediately. At the same time, as much as possible, we want people to be able to live lives of dignity and joy. It’s a really tough balance to strike.”

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*** While the Forsyth County jail marks the beginning the journey for some undocumented residents of Winston-Salem and the surrounding area, for others the jail is a transit point. The sheriff’s office contracts with the US Marshals Service to house up to 50 male and five female inmates in the jail, to be reimbursed $70 per day. The contract also allows ICE and the US Bureau of Prisons to lease the beds. From January through May, 104 undocumented people in federal custody passed through the jail — almost twice the number of undocumented people held on local charges.

Albright said he knows little about the federal inmates at the jail, including where they come from and where they go, but local advocates have said many undocumented people housed at the jail are ultimately transferred to Stewart Detention Center, a for-profit facility operated for ICE by CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, in Stewart, Ga. The current population of detainees in federal custody held in Forsyth County includes three men who were arrested by ICE agents outside San Miguel Market on Yanceyville Street in Greensboro at 6 a.m. on July 25 while they were on their way to jobs with a local construction contractor. They are Adrian Balderas Plata, 40; Raul Ortiz Garnica, 21; and Jeovany Argueta-Garcia, 39.

One of the men leaves behind a wife who is 9 months pregnant. “I don’t know what we’ll do if my husband can’t be here for our child’s birth,” said Guadalupe Jocelin Cruz Lopez, a former Southern Guilford High School student and the wife of Garnica. “But everyone

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DWI. Zarate completed a 40-hour class and earned a certificate of completion from Life Changes Counseling Short-Term DWI Alcohol & Drug Treatment on Feb. 17.

Cris Liendo, a counselor with Life Changes, gave Zarate a glowing review in a letter to the court.

“While attending treatment, Mr. Zarate actively participated and applied the information discussed during our sessions,” Liendo wrote. “This client was very punctual, responsible and honest about his situation. He did excellent the entire time he was attending our program.”

Zarate pleaded guilty on Feb. 22, and Judge Lawrence Fine sentenced him to 30 days in jail with supervised probation of 18 months. Five weeks later, Judge Fine signed a modification of probation, noting, “Defendant has been picked up

by ICE on 3-24-17. Verified by letter from ICE agent. Defendant has been moved to South Carolina.”

Once undocumented immigrants booked into the jail are flagged by a national database, ICE has the opportunity to take custody of them and file a detainer — a voluntary request for the jail to hold them.

“I hate those ICE detainers,” said Lonnie Albright, the assistant county attorney assigned to the sheriff’s office, led by Sheriff Bill Schatzman.

“Agencies are getting sued all the time,” Albright added. “If that person is here a couple hours and bonds out, we have no legal basis to hold them.”

Albright said he recalled at least one undocumented inmate in the past six months who bonded out of jail, only to encounter ICE agents waiting in court when he made his first appearance.

“Being here undocumented — that is not in and of itself a crime,” Albright said. “Those who were deported and come back — that is a federal crime and the sheriff will enforce the law. The sheriff is not out to do a roundup, no sir.”

Arrests by Forsyth County sheriff’s deputies — including two DWIs and one misdemeanor involving a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a woman — accounted for only three of the 53 local charges that landed undocumented people in jail in the first five months of 2017.

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A half-measure on gerrymandering They came, they heard, they folded.

Last week in Greensboro, our state’s illegal districts that have been in place since 2011 got their final day in court in front of a judicial panel charged with cleaning up this mess.

One might think that, because our state government has been operating for six years under districts that a three-judge panel called “unconstitutional,” that selfsame three-judge panel would be inclined to do something about it.

The judges clearly saw through the Republican’s delay-and-deflect gambit — the opinion read, in part: “We agree… that the General Assembly already has had ample time to enact a remedial redistricting plan.

We also agree that constitutionally adequate districts should be enacted as quickly as possible to protect the rights of North Carolina citizens and to minimize any chilling effect on political participation attributable to the continued absence of a districting plan in the face of a finding of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.”

They forged a solution the first time they heard the case a year ago: Draw new districts immediately.

When the leaders of the NC General Assembly did not follow this ruling, the judges reconvened in November 2016 and ordered new districts by March 2017.

Instead of doing that, leadership bought more time by taking the case to the US Supreme Court, which upheld the ruling by the lower court.

The final hearing, held last week in Greensboro, was supposed to rectify this wrong, this corruption of democracy. Common sense indicated that the new districts could be implemented for this year’s election, still several months away.

Instead, after issuing this harshly worded opinion, the ruling itself amounts to little more than a shrug.

Oh, we’ll have new districts, which need to be drawn

by Sept. 1, with a 2-week period to file objections.

But these districts will not have elections until 2018, meaning these illegally elected House and Senate members will just be representing different people than they were beforehand, which will have absolutely zero effect on the way they vote and the laws they propose.

No accountability. No punishment. No consequences for the architects of this subversion and the people it benefited. No recourse for the people represented by legislators they did not elect.

Behind the condemnation in their language, the three-judge panel, the last backstop against tyranny, have given yet another gift to those who have subverted our state government.

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Grand juries wielded as a political cudgel The grand jury, a little known and poorly understood institution in the American legal system, has held a contradictory reputation as both a secret inquisition and “bulwark against oppression” over the course of its uneven, 850-year

by Jordan Green history.

Although widely believed to have originated with a decree from King Henry II in England in 1166, the grand jury as an institution of justice and political power is woven into American history. And while the Supreme Court has venerated the grand jury as “a primary security to the innocent against hasty, malicious and oppressive prosecution,” the history of the institution suggests it’s more often been used as a political cudgel.

A secret body of 16-23 citizens, a grand jury typically reviews evidence presented by a prosecutor to determine if a criminal indictment is warranted. Grand juries are supposed to provide a layer of citizen oversight to prevent overzealous prosecution, but in practice jurors only see the evidence that prosecutors want them to see and rarely stand in the way of criminal indictment.

Another function of the grand jury is investigative. Prosecutors may subpoena witnesses and compel testimony, often in exchange for immunity — also in secret proceedings. As Gerald D. Robin, a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven, has written, “Investigative grand juries are specifically convened for the purpose of uncovering widespread and systematic criminal activity, or crimes in high places, with which the ordinary processes of law enforcement are unable to cope and would not otherwise come to light.”

In the current political climate of eroding trust in democratic norms and institutions, it’s worth noting that both radicals and the politically powerful are challenging the legitimacy of the legal system. President Trump, who hinted during the campaign that he might not accept the result of the election if it didn’t come out in his favor, has recently explored the possibility of pardoning himself and has conspicuously disparaged his attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia collusion investigation, raising widespread speculation that he might fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation.

Meanwhile, Katie Yow, a social worker and avowed anarchist, appeared before a federal grand jury in Greensboro on Monday and refused to testify. Yow’s support committee later disclosed that an assistant US attorney informed her that the government will ask the court to hold her in civil contempt. The government has historically used civil contempt as a means to jail grand jury resisters, including members of the Puerto Rican independence movement in recent decades.

Yow has said that the subject of the grand jury investiga-

tion is the firebombing of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough three weeks before the 2016 election. Yow said in a prepared statement that federal prosecutors have “indicated that they are interested in ‘other people’ and ‘other events.’

“I don’t know anything relevant to a criminal investigation of the alleged events at the GOP headquarters,” she said.

“The broad nature of the government’s interest in other information makes clear the way that this and other grand juries are used as fishing expeditions to attempt to coerce testimony on First Amendment-protected information.

This is one of the many ways grand juries are used to repress social movements, and one of many reasons why we resist them.”

Grand juries have also been used to investigate the politically powerful. While President Trump has so far avoided being called before any grand juries during his tumultuous first six months in office, President Clinton was famously called to testify as part of the Monica Lewinsky affair in the late 1990s. And in only the last six months, revelations have emerged that federal prosecutors have used grand jury subpoenas to probe Hillary Clinton’s emails, and compel testimony from associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The use of the grand jury as a tool of the state for destroying political opponents crescendoed during the Nixon era.

“The blatant use of the grand jury for harassment of political activists and intelligence gathering reached its height under the Nixon Justice Department,” civil liberties lawyer Michael Deutsch wrote in a 1984 paper. “Between 1970-73, over 100 grand juries were convened in 84 cities; they subpoenaed over 1,000 activists. A special session of the Justice Department Internal Security Division, which coordinated the various grand jury inquisitions, victimized all sectors of the anti-Vietnam war movement.”

Dating back to the Colonial Era when grand juries provided a local buffer against the distant authority of the crown, the system has always been political.

A footnote to Gerald D. Robin’s essay provides the most illuminating snapshot of the institution’s place in American life.

“Colonial grand juries also found that they could use their powers offensively,” Robin wrote. “British soldiers who were stationed here often found themselves the subject of grand jury presentments. During the war, grand juries supported the American cause by returning presentments against those who joined the British army or gave information to the enemy. The American leaders also found that grand juries could be an effective propaganda tool. In the months following the Declaration of Independence, many grand juries adopted resolutions denouncing the king and urging all Americans to support the ‘War for Freedom.’”

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Bad faith hashtag Thank you! [“Triaditude Adjustment: Can we stop with this #GoodwillDateNight thing?”; by Jelisa Castrodale; July 20, 2017] Equally distasteful, was the fact that any criticism of the idea was met with derision and labeled as hatred.

I’ve seen children get made fun of at school for wearing “Goodwill.” I do have to say though that the idea has inspired me to occasionally use the money my husband and I would spend on a “date night” to buy some new clothes for some kids who might not otherwise ever have anything new. Won’t be posting when we do it or telling who we donated to, either. Just between us and yes, Jesus. No fake identities, either. I love and actually like my husband. His regular identity is exciting enough for me. Any roleplaying is private. I’ll leave the public pretend play to my eight year old.

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After Trump When Donald goes away (impeachment, disgrace, natural death — the guy’s 70 and doesn’t give a crap what he puts down his gullet), we’ll still manage to have an airport, an elementary school or maybe even an aircraft carrier named after the dude [“Citizen Green: The only thing scarier than Trump is the political vacuum when he goes down”; by Jordan Green; July 27, 2017]. Whichever way he goes the alt-right types will have a narrative that covers all possible outcomes, that is, all the negative ones. It’ll be up to the people who voted for Trump in 2016 to decide whether they believe the narrative. How else can Trump’s saga end but badly? Everything since his election has been stageprops for an epic fail. As Trump kills programs left and right that are actually helping them, his 2016 voters will decide whether to believe in the alt-right’s Fallen Hero narrative. What’s the precedent for a Trump re-write? Just look at how a whole region managed to rebrand a four-year slaughter and its total, absolute defeat into a matter about states’ rights and white heritage. Ultimately, the alt-right has proven no good coming up with programs and policies that do more than enrich the clowns voters put in power because good governance doesn’t provide the kinds of story-endings the alt-right can imagine. Alt-righters are much better in defeat, spinning yarns about betrayal, disloyalty, and the like. They, like Donald (sorry, no more “The Donald”) keep talking about his election victory because that’s all they have to show. Donald Jr., Ivanka and the rest of his following are grabbing what they can until the last Tweet.

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Beer is pretty popular Clearly your taste buds are different from mine, my friend [“Unpopular Opinion: Beer sucks”; by Eric Hairston; July 27, 2017]. Beer is always my first choice. And I’m obviously not alone.

I’ve never tasted a dirty wet sock that’s been left out in the sun to dry, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t taste like beer. You’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but I think you’ve overreached with that analogy.

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August 3 – 9, 2017

The Triad’s 2017 city payrolls, from brass to bottom

Cover Story

by Jordan Green

Police misconduct might be grabbing headlines across the country and locally, but city council members in Greensboro and Winston-Salem moved by separate concerns about hemorrhaging officers voted to raise pay, effectively putting the two cities in a continuous race.

And while both cities are pursuing goals to raise minimum wage for their employees to $15 (equivalent to $31,200 per year) by 2020, one fact remains unchanged in the Triad’s salary race: The most highly compensated employee is Greensboro Coliseum Director Matt Brown, who earns $288,445.

Entertainment facilities Coliseum Director Matt Brown, Greensboro — $288,445 Deputy Coliseum Director Scott E. Johnson, Greensboro — $137,480 Theatre Director David S. Briggs, High Point — $102,985 Fair Director David L. Sparks, Winston-Salem — $98,544 Executive

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Winston-Salem officials lead their Greensboro and High Point counterparts in pay for top administrative jobs. The notable exception is Greensboro Coliseum Director Matt Brown, whose role as an economic rainmaker earns him $288,445 — 46.9 percent higher than Winston-Salem City Manager Lee Garrity, who is the second highest paid official in the Triad.

Garrity and Winston-Salem City Attorney Angela Carmon out-earn their counterparts in Greensboro and High Point despite foregoing raises this year.

The pay comparison isn’t exactly apples to apples: Winston-Salem implemented merit raises mandated in the 2017-2018 budget in July, while merit raises for Greensboro employees go into effect on Dec. 1. In High Point, merit raises apply on the anniversary of the employee’s hire date, although Human Resources Director Angela Kirkwood said she would like to transition to an all-at-the-same-time arrangement next year.

Despite the uneven implementation of merit raises across the three cities, top officials in the Twin City still led their counterparts in highly compensated leadership positions in police, fire and IT, even using Winston-Salem’s pre-implementation numbers. Paul Norby, the planning director for Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, outpaces Suzanna Smotherman in Greensboro and Lee Burnette in High Point in pay by virtue of his dual responsibility for the city and county. Ritchie Brooks, whose position as community development director evolved from an assistant city manager position in Winston-Salem, also earns significantly more than his counterparts in Greensboro and High Point.

In lower-profile departments like parks and recreation, transportation, human resources, budget, public affairs and city clerk, Greensboro and High Point employees split the top-earning positions.

City Manager Lee Garrity, Winston-Salem — $196,406 City Manager Jim Westmoreland, Greensboro — $194,260 Assistant City Manager Greg Turner, Winston-Salem — $192,461 Assistant City Manager Derwick L. Paige, Winston-Salem — $191,212 City Manager Greg Demko, High Point — $190,002 Deputy City Manager Randy McCaslin, High Point — $173,717 Assistant City Manager Randy Hemann, High Point — $149,612 Assistant City Manager David Parrish, Greensboro — $147,589 Assistant City Manager Christian A. Wilson, Greensboro — $141,600 Assistant City Manager Barbara H. Headen, Greensboro — $141,179 Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe, Winston-Salem — $133,725 Business Inclusion & Advancement Director Evan Raleigh, Winston-Salem — $107,635

Planning Planning & Development Services Director Paul Norby, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $183,545 (from $178,199) Director Lee Burnette, High Point — $139,052 Director Suzanna Smotherman, Greensboro — $121,242 Assistant Director Margaret Bessette, Winston-Salem — $86,219 Legal City Attorney Angela Carmon, Winston-Salem — $174,239 City Attorney Tom Carruthers, Greensboro — $173,800 City Attorney JoAnne Carlyle, High Point — $162,259 Assistant City Attorney Al Andrews, Winston-Salem — $123,342 Deputy City Attorney Terri Jones, Greensboro — $115,971 Police Attorney Brian T. Beasley, High Point

Community development Director Ritchie Brooks, Winston-Salem — $173,816 Director Michael McNair, High Point — $122,585 Senior Project Supervisor Mellin L. Parker, Winston-Salem — $110,508 Community Planning Manager Cynthia Blue, Greensboro — $84,312 Police Chief Barry D. Rountree, Winston-Salem — $162,779 Chief Wayne Scott, Greensboro — $153,424 Chief Kenneth Shultz, High Point — $143,110 Assistant Chief Wilson S. Weaver II, Winston-Salem — $114,740 Assistant Chief Scott G. Bricker, Winston-Salem — $107,402 Assistant Chief Larry Casterline, High Point — $107,155 Deputy Chief James Hinson, Greensboro — $104,965 Assistant Chief Kenneth M. Steele, High Point — $103,447 Deputy Chief Brian L. James, Greensboro — $102,492 Assistant Chief Catrina A. Thompson, Winston-Salem — $100,411 Deputy Chief Joel T. Cranford, Greensboro — $99,360 Deputy Chief Mike Richey, Greensboro — $99,360

Fire Chief Trey Mayo, Winston-Salem — $153,862 Chief Marion T. Reid, High Point — $144,629 Chief Bobby Nugent, Greensboro — $143,044 Deputy Chief Richard T. Wright, High Point — $114,629 Assistant Chief Robert S. Owens, Winston-Salem — $106,867 Assistant Chief Michael Levins, High Point — $105,785 Deputy Chief Ronald M. Swails, Greensboro — $103,597 Deputy Chief Graham J. Robinson III, Greensboro — $103,597 Assistant Chief Harry J. Brown Jr., Winston-Salem — $100,114 Division Chief Sandy L. Shepherd, Winston-Salem — $97,836 Assistant Chief William H. Lentz, Greensboro — $93,460 Battalion Chief Frederick D. Gethers, Winston-Salem — $91,502 Fire Marshal Timothy R. Henshaw, Greensboro — $91,000 Assistant Chief Dwayne S. Church, Greensboro — $90,418 Assistant Chief Franklin L. Stowe, Winston-Salem — $87,953 Assistant Chief Anthony T. Byrum, Winston-Salem — 87,783 Assistant Chief Brad A. Smith, Greensboro — $86,346 Assistant Chief Patrick A. Henley, Greensboro — $86,346 Assistant Chief Brent P. Gerald, Greensboro — $86,346 Assistant Chief Craig B. Smith, Greensboro — $86,346 Assistant Chief James K. Boggs, Greensboro — $86,346 Information technology Chief Information Officer Thomas L. Kureczka, Winston-Salem — $152,982 Director Steven Lingerfelt, High Point — $133,642 Project Administrator Thomas E. Spencer, High Point — $126,033 Chief Information Officer Jane Nickles, Greensboro — $125,120 Applications Development Manager James R. Gheen, High Point — $123,731 Senior Manager Chryste A. Hofer, Greensboro — $120,744 Information Systems Project Coordinator Terry L. Nichols Jr. — $113,804 Infrastructure Services Coordinator Todd A. Porter — $107,160 Systems Analyst David L. Britton, High Point — $107,058 Public Safety Information Systems Manager, Winston-Salem — $103,235 Information Systems Project Manager Randy W. Pressley, Winston-Salem — $102,125 Operations Manager Ivan L. Spencer, High Point — $102,097 Application and Database Coordinator Nancy L. Brown, Winston-Salem — $100,562 Economic development (High Point) Director Loren Hill — $151,894 Administrator Sandra V. Dunbeck — $103,334 Finance Chief Financial Officer Lisa M. Saunders, Winston-Salem — $147,111 Director Rick Lusk, Greensboro — $143,184 Director Jeff Moore, High Point — $135,701 Financial Services Senior Manager Marlene Druga, Greensboro — $126,438 Administrative Services Senior Manager Chris S. Payne, Greensboro — $111,392 Accounting Manager Anita B. Wilson, Greensboro — $103,753

Electric utilities (High Point) Director Garey Edwards — $146,713 Engineering Manager DA Averill — $122,079 Senior Engineer Philip L. Hiatt — $100,722

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— $109,240 Deputy City Attorney Jim Dickens, Greensboro — $108,170 Public Safety Attorney Lori P. Sykes, Winston-Salem — $105,445 Deputy City Attorney John P. Roseboro, Greensboro — $102,449 Assistant City Attorney Jerry Kontos, Winston-Salem — $97,321 Assistant City Attorney Polly D. Sizemore, Greensboro — $96,418 Assistant City Attorney Jennifer P. Schneier, Greensboro — $90,418 Assistant City Attorney Andrea D. Harrell, Greensboro — $90,418 Assistant City Attorney William A. Kelly, Greensboro — $90,418 Assistant City Attorney Rosetta Davidson, Greensboro — $90,418 Assistant City Attorney Maria E. Guthold, Winston-Salem — $86,946 Assistant City Attorney John R. Lawson, Winston-Salem — $74,043 Assistant City Attorney Takeisha R. Redd, Winston-Salem — $73,129

Public works Field Operations Director Dale Wyrick, Greensboro — $141,809 Director Terry L. Houk, High Point — $141,662 Water Resources Director Steven D. Drew, Greensboro — $141,655 Engineering & Inspections Director Kenny K. McDowell III, Greensboro — $135,853 City Engineer Robert J. Prestwood, Winston-Salem — $132,065 Sanitation Director Johnnie F. Taylor, Winston-Salem — $126,826 Engineering Services Director Brian K. Pugh, High Point — $124,580 City-County Utilities Director Courtney L. Driver, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County — $123,158 Property & Facilities Management Director James T. Mitchell, Winston-Salem — $122,446 Facility Services Director Timothy M. McKinney, High Point — $118,918 Assistant Director Robby D. Stone, High Point — $115,482 Water Resources Senior Manager Mike M. Borchers, Greensboro — $111,515 Solid Waste Administrator Janis D. McHargue, Winston-Salem — $110,981 Solid Waste Engineering Supervisor Edward L. Gibson III, Winston-Salem — $110,724 Solid Waste Senior Manager Chris R. Marriott, Greensboro — $109,029 Water Resources Senior Manager Kristine W. Williams, Greensboro — $107,192 Deputy Utilities Director Damon C. Dequenne, Winston-Salem — $105,164 Facilities Manager Darrell W. Shumate, Greensboro — $105,096 Stormwater Director Keith D. Huff, Winston-Salem — $104,697 Wastewater Plant Superintendent James F. Crump, Winston-Salem — $103,389 Street Maintenance Operations Manager Mike A. Mabe, Greensboro — $102,548 Assistant Director Derrick Q. Boone, High Point — $102,195 City-County Purchasing Director Jerry L. Bates, Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County — $100,769 Solid Waste Collection Manager Sheldon D. Smith, Greensboro — $100,245 Human resources Director Connie Hammond, Greensboro — $136,578 Director Carmen Caruth, Winston-Salem — $134,727 Director Angela Kirkwood, High Point — $130,320 Senior Manager Joe Marro, Greensboro — $122,333 FLSA/EEO/ER/LD Senior Manager Jamiah K. Waterman, Greensboro — $121,265 Credit Union Manager Jerry A. Wise, Greensboro — $112,745 Total Compensation Manager Joan J. Blackburn, Greensboro — $106,102 Senior Human Resources Analyst Sherri M. Gaither, Winston-Salem — $100,480

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Increasing pay for police and fire doesn’t please everyone

Pay for police officers and, to a lesser extent, firefighters, is a perennial topic of municipal budget discussions. Public safety, or, more importantly, the perception of public safety is critical to attracting investment and encouraging population growth — a preoccupation for city council members intent on expanding their respective cities’ tax bases.

Police and fire consume the largest share of the budget and employ the largest number of employees, making them an effective voting bloc, so politicians tend to be sensitive towards their needs. City leaders tend to worry about police morale in particular out of concern that officers will perform less effectively if they’re not happy on the job. In a national climate in which continued scrutiny of police-involved shootings of black men is said to be undermining morale, pay is one lever at the disposal of city council to signal support. Thankfully, Greensboro has not experienced a fatal police-involved shooting since 2014, but sustained anger over the past 12 months about the Dejuan Yourse and Jose Charles cases has put the department on the defensive. While citizens were calling for police accountability, Greensboro City Council members led by at-large Councilman Mike Barber pushed for a 7.5 percent raise for all sworn police and fire employees — beyond the 5 percent increase initially proposed by City Manager Jim Westmoreland.

The extra boost by the majority touched off a vigorous debate about whether city leaders place the same value on other employees, including custodians and sanitation operators who earn less than the $15-perhour wage floor that the city has pledged to set by 2020.

District 1 Councilwoman Sharon Hightower prefaced her vote against the budget on June 20 with an anecdote about returning from a late-night meeting and discovering city workers toiling over a storm sewer in front of her house.

“In the middle of my cul-de-sac at 10 at night was stormwater [staff] with the sewer open and a camera down the line because my neighbor had a backup,” Hightower said. “10 at night they were working just like it was 8 in the day. They deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect and given the same amount Transportation

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Director Mark V. McDonald, High Point — $135,701 Director Adam Fischer, Greensboro — $122,631 Director Toneq’ M. McCullough, Winston-Salem — $116,033 Deputy Director Connie K. James, Winston-Salem — $107,218

of pay as all employees. Anybody ever ask what the turnover rate is in field ops? Anybody know? That’s a lot of work. It’s hard work. And we need to show value in that just as we do on the public safety side.”

District 4 Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann defended the differential treatment, noting that the 7.5-percent pay raise for sworn police and fire employees was a market rate adjustment to make the city competitive with comparable municipalities. Hourly employees who earn less than $15 per hour are in a different category, she said.

“In order to get our hourly employees to the $15 level, you just can’t do that, you just can’t do that in one jump,” she said. “It really — you have to look at it incrementally, and that’s really what we’re doing.”

The involvement of Black Lives Matter and its white supporters in the budget discussion this year introduced an element rarely heard in city budget debates — whether accountability should factor in pay decisions.

“So I have to ask, how much time and energy have you spent talking about this proposed pay raise in comparison to the time and energy you spent researching and educating yourselves on police efficacy and accountability?” said Rachel Wielselquist of Anti-Racist White Folks Serving Black Lives Matter Gate City during the budget hearing. “You jump at the chance to raise the police dollar, but your priority is clearly not with other city employees whom you guaranteed this $15 minimum wage but not until 2020.

“I will just get to the point, which is the police do not need more money,” Wielselquist added. “More money did not prevent the murder of Charleena Lyles on Sunday in Seattle, and more money would not have prevented the murder of Philando Castille last year.

You should look into practices that work for effective policing, decrease the size of the department, increase standards for recruitment, and demilitarize the department.”

While Greensboro currently ranks behind Winston-Salem and High Point in starting pay for both police officers and firefighters, the 7.5 percent market rate adjustment implemented over the next three months is likely to dramatically close the gap or even put Greensboro ahead.

Parks and recreation Director Phillip L. Tillery, High Point — $114,970 Director William L. Royston, Winston-Salem — $99,940 Senior Manager Nasha S. McCray, Greensboro — $88,698

At-large Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter argued the majority’s case that current pay rates for police and firefighters puts Greensboro at a competitive disadvantage.

“We are losing good firefighters to our surrounding municipalities,” she said. “You can also relate that to the police department as well. If you think about it, we spent $40- to $50,000 training a fire department personnel and a police department personnel. Now, when we invested that money into the training of someone who is here to protect, whether it’s a fire or car wreck or something that needs to be attended to immediately, we have invested that as a city. Right now, there are other municipalities who are taking what we have trained and giving them more money — taking our employees. So that is the way that I believe I can say that I am comfortable with this…. If you take our peer cities we’ve got a lot of catching up to do in a lot of different areas….”

It’s an argument that city council members in Winston-Salem — the closest city with a population above 200,000 — would find familiar because they’ve been making it for years.

A consultant hired by the city found that entry-level pay rates for 118 positions in police, labor, trades and crafts fields lag 8.0 percent — or “woefully,” as City Manager Lee Garrity put it — behind the market.

“Just for the record, most police officers over the next six months will receive a total of 6 percent in adjustments,” Garrity said.

The budget approved by Winston-Salem City Council raises the minimum wage from $11 to $11.25 per hour, although Garrity said most employees, including sanitation laborers, will earn at least $12.56. The minimum wage in Greensboro was raised to currently set at $13.

Winston-Salem City Council also unanimously voted to implement a military pay incentive program.

“I believe that we are losing out in our recruitment efforts for well-qualified potential police officers — in part, not in whole — but in part because some of the nearby jurisdictions like Greensboro and High Point are offering this incentive,” Southwest Ward Councilman Dan Besse said, “and we end up being not competitive with them for well-qualified candidates.”

Workforce development (Greensboro/High Point/Guilford) Director Lillian Plummer — $127,133 Budget Director Larry M. Davis, Greensboro — $125,172 Director Eric Olmedo, High Point — $122,574 Director Patrice Y. Toney, Winston-Salem — $101,730

Libraries Director Brigitte H. Blanton, Greensboro — $120,467 Director Mary M. Sizemore, High Point — $113,449 Emergency services Guilford Metro Communications Director Melanie A. Neal, Greensboro — $118,014

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Human relations Director Wanda Allen-Abraha, Winston-Salem — $117,283 Director Love Crossling, Greensboro — $105,722 Manager Fanta Z. Dorley, High Point — $62,741 Customer services (High Point) Director Troy R. Martin Jr. — $113,647 Marketing/public affairs Communications Director Carla Banks, Greensboro — $112,346 Communications & Public Engagement Director Jeron Hollis, High Point — $111,642 Marketing & Communications Director Ed McNeal, Winston-Salem — $107,287 Fleet services (High Point) Director Gary L. Smith — $110,433 City clerk/secretary City Clerk Betsey Richardson, Greensboro — $105,071 City Clerk Lisa B. Vierling, High Point — $85,900 City Secretary Melanie M. Johnson, Winston-Salem — $66,465 Legislative Office of the Mayor Director Linda J. Barnes, Winston-Salem — $100,753 Museums Greensboro Historical Museum Carol G. Hart — $75,543 High Point Museum Director Edith W. Brady — $55,892

Starting salaries Note: The city of Winston-Salem implemented merit increases ranging from 1.5 to 3 percent to eligible employees in mid-July, while merit increases of 3 percent go into effect for city of Greensboro employees on Dec. 1. Meanwhile, the city of High Point issues merit increases on the anniversary of each employee’s hire date. The city of Greensboro plans to incrementally implement a 7.5 percent pay increase for sworn police and fire employees through Dec. 1, and the city of Winston-Salem plans to issue a 2 percent public safety supplemental pay adjustment on Jan. 1.

Firefighter High Point — $35,888 Winston-Salem — $33,696 Greensboro — $33,483 Police officer High Point — $37,683 Winston-Salem — $37,590 Greensboro — $35,556 Crime scene High Point (crime scene technician) — $35,888 Winston-Salem (crime scene technician) — $34,030 Greensboro (crime scene investigator) — $33,918

Custodian Greensboro — $26,000 Winston-Salem — $23,400 High Point — $22,031 Laborer Winston-Salem — $25,038 High Point — $24,290 Sanitation operator (garbage truck driver) Winston-Salem — $32,820 High Point — $29,526 Greensboro — $27,687 Sanitation laborer High Point — $25,505 Winston-Salem — $23,400 Landfill High Point (landfill mechanic) — $31,002 Winston-Salem (landfill mechanic) — $30,613 Greensboro (landfill tech) — 27,687 Meter reader Winston-Salem — $28,666 Greensboro — $26,000 High Point — $24,290 Parking attendant Greensboro — $26,000 Winston-Salem — $23,400 High Point — $23,134

Rec center director/supervisor High Point — $41,545 Winston-Salem — $35,117 Greensboro — $32,292 Grillroom attendant High Point — $20,983 Planner Greensboro — $41,939 High Point — $41,546 Winston-Salem — $40,620 Code enforcement officer High Point — $39,566 Winston-Salem (field zoning inspector) — $37,733 Greensboro — $36,292 Groundskeeper High Point — $24,290 Librarian High Point — $39,566 Greensboro — $36,392 Dead animal control worker Winston-Salem — $26,791

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CULTURE The 8 best places for brunch in Greensboro

by Eric Ginsburg

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t used to be that I could list Greensboro’s brunch options on one hand — and I wasn’t particularly excited about most of those, either.

But that’s changed. The breakfast-lunch fusion meal has proved that it has staying power beyond most food trends, and local restaurants have finally caught on. Some of them are producing really excellent and interesting items, too.

The Classic Yes, it’s an Irish pub, but I’m adamant that M’Couls Public House serves the best shrimp & grits in the Gate City.

Other restaurants may serve them creamier, cheesier, spicier or offer more inventive takes on the dish, but if you’re looking for the comfort classic, M’Couls wins, hands down. The perfectly seasoned, pop-in-your-mouth large shrimp raise the bar for any crustacean entrees around, and the grits are also unparalleled.

I’ve never had anything I didn’t like at M’Couls, and with an expanded brunch drink list, there’s even more incentive to drop by. But honestly my favorite part is the perfectly fluffy and buttered biscuits.

The Bucket List When friends visit from out of state, I take them to Dame’s Chicken & Waffles. Sure, I’ve had pretty sublime chicken & waffles as far away as Boston, but Dame’s is a must-have experience of Southern food, with a thick mac & cheese side to match. My favorite is the Orange Speckled Chabo, as it comes, but there are cutlet and wing options, various spreads and a couple kinds of waffles including sweet potato.

If you’ve never been to Dame’s, don’t tell anyone. Just make plans to go, be open to a short wait and don’t expect to physically exert yourself too much soon after.

The Healthy Helping If I’m in the mood for something that isn’t going to weigh me down, Iron Hen is my first stop. The smoked salmon omelet with goat cheese used to be my go-to, and the country ham Benedict is pretty tasty, but the toasted quinoa plate or the Gorilla Grains granola might just inspire you to take a jog on

the nearby greenway trail.

Broke & Bougie Print Works Bistro — the tony digs at the Proximity Hotel — might seem like a rich man’s game. But the brunch menu is shockingly affordable: nothing crazy, but it’s on par with any others on the list. Bring a friend or date and split the challah French toast and smoked salmon Benedict (both a respectable $11) for a variety of tastes that will leave you feeling like royalty without shelling out. It’s a steal, really.

Take it up a notch with the seasonal watermelon salad with crumbled feta, fig balsamic glaze and mint.

Regular Bougie Speaking of hotel restaurants, sister venue Green Valley Grill at the O. Henry Hotel serves a deeply satisfying smoked salmon pizzette — basically a pizza/flatbread hybrid with fresh tomatoes, green onions and dill cream cheese topped with capers and a sunny-side up egg. It’s $14, but for that price you also get to sit in the semi-enclosed, lush patio, which feels like a brief escape from the city.

Nurture your true bougie side with the $12 avocado toast, which includes a portabella mushroom to give it a little heft and texture.

The Early Riser I can’t bring myself to get out of bed early on the weekend, even if I’m awake. That’s ERIC GINSBURG The shrimp & grits at M’Coul’s is the best around, and the why I’ve (embarrassingly) only been to the biscuits are incredible. early Saturday morning brunch at Sticks & Stones once, despite reveling in the delisummer succotash, blueberry lavender French toast, crab cake ciousness of everything I tried on the relatively Spartan and and bacon BLT and a brisket Benedict with caramelized onion straightforward menu. Like its pizzas, Sticks’ brunch items are and pico de gallo. prepared with more intentionality and care than most.

There’s more, of course, and the menu is always changing — I about died when I tried the chicken confit and waffles with The Long Wait poached watermelon, feta, peach habanero sauce and basil — I loved my last trip to Scrambled. While I wish that Josebut this should be enough to make your mouth water. Tessa is phine’s hadn’t closed (and that Scrambled just opened elseworth the drive. where), Scrambled is the kind of restaurant designed to capitalize on the brunch crowd — with an expansive menu that includes six kinds of Benedicts, fantastic gravy and memorable scrambles and omelets served in skillets — but it’s almost a victim of its own success. I don’t even bother to show up on weekends at this restaurant that shares a parking lot with the original Hops Burger Bar, going instead for weekday lunches, but Scrambled still belongs on any brunch list.

Next Level It’s a drive, unless you’re already on the northwest end of Battleground Avenue, but allow me to list several of the menu items at Tessa Farm to Fork: fried oyster Benedict with

There are other great brunch options in Greensboro, of course — shouts to the Mexican eggs (with a biscuit) at Smith Street Diner, Lindley Park Filling Station’s chorizo & egg burrito and the menu at LaRue, in particular — but most other brunch menus are really just uninspired-yet-tasty breakfast or generally mediocre, bland or forgettable. Sorry not sorry.

There are one or two spots or key dishes I likely overlooked — I haven’t hit Traveled Farmer yet, or the pricey smoked salmon pizza at Wolfgang Puck Kitchen & Bar with dill cream, chives and friggin’ caviar. But these are easily my Top 8. At least for now.

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t may have taken a while, but Revolution Mill — one of the old textile mills in Greensboro — finally has new life, due in no small part to beer.

by Kat Bodrie Joining Urban Grinders and pizzeria Cugino Forno in the massive complex — which also houses apartments, offices, studio spaces and art and history exhibits — Natty Greene’s Kitchen + Market opened July 25 to a crowd clamoring for tasty bites and beers that Natty’s doesn’t serve in its downtown brewpub.

The old brick mill building still has tall, paned windows, allowing lots of sun and a view of the Yanceyville Street traffic from the nearly 20-seat bar. Big oak beams maintain their antique glamour, and ceilings soar at least two stories above, exposing ductwork and metallic venting.

It’s like a big, fancy farmhouse, a perfect marriage with the butcher/baker/brewer theme.

The market — which is set off by its own KAT BODRIE The upstairs mezzanine bar provides patrons with a more intimate, pub-like setting. door accessible from outside — sells cheese, meat, bottles of Natty’s beer, and “pretty much anything we sell in our kitchen, only biggest appeal — even more than natural light filtering uncooked,” according to one staff from high-up windows — is the member. leather and faux-leather chairs and Next door, the kitchen’s in full couches that make you never want Visit Natty Greene’s swing, and the menu is completely to leave. different from the downtown pub’s.

Kitchen + Market at 2003 This cozy, quieter atmosphere I’m talking sloppy Joes, brisket, Yanceyville St. (GSO) or could very well be the next cool porkbelly sandwiches, shrimp pofind it on Facebook. spot to drink in town, unless the boys, smoked salmon, cuts of lamb, deck, opening in September, overduck, porchetta — and to top it off, shadows it. three different kinds of prime-cut Either way, Natty’s really should’ve added “bar” to steaks. the name “Kitchen + Market.”

Some of the suds are the same: standards like Buckshot amber, Wildflower witbier and Southern Session IPA. But there are excellent choices the brewKat loves red wine, Milan Kundera and the Shins. She pub doesn’t have, like Mighty Citra oatmeal pale ale, wears scarves at katbodrie.com. perfect for someone who likes Shocktop, and the Old Town Brown ale with added cacao and raspberries, which is a little sweet and adventurous. And you don’t need a $30 steak to enjoy the Center Cut porter, my personal favorite.

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The bustle downstairs comes from the kitchen, dineYoung Professionals Civitan of Greensboro hosts Greensboro, NC 27401 in seating, charcuterie station and flatscreens above the fourth annual Beer Olympics. Teams will comthe bar. But a much more chill loft area lies up a metal pete in drinking games and other activities. Transstaircase — the “mezzanine,” as it’s called. Patrons can portation, food and — you guessed it — beer will be wander up to the seven-seat bar, which offers all of the provided for this event. For more information, visit same booze and food options as downstairs. The lack orders@cheesecakesbyalex.com the Facebook event page. of TVs makes it more authentically pub-like, but the

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CULTURE A fond farewell at Tim Poovey’s last concert

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he Black Lodge was empty and Tim Poovey stood by the doorway smoking a cigarette, talking with the bar’s only customer who sat outside. The evening settled behind the brick tobacco chimneys across the street. The dull sound of cars and sirens echoed among the buildings, and Poovey stood calm and quiet, as if on a payday afternoon. He had only a halfhour left on his shift, his last working in Winston-Salem. Behind the bar inside lay his guitar, and as the next bartender came in, he grabbed the black case and walked off with the simple announcement: “I’m officially unemployed.”

Test Pattern on Trade Street, a few blocks away in downtown, was crowded well before the show started. Friends and fans gathered to celebrate Poovey’s last performance before his move back to Brooklyn to record his second album.

And although Test Pattern has been a friend to Poovey, often hosting his concerts, it’s also a fitting choice for his last show for another reason.

When the bar was Elliott’s Review, Poovey performed with his old band Autopassion for their last show on the very same stage. But time and life have brought Poovey back full-circle, guiding him to depart from his hometown once more.

“I moved back earlier this year because I loved this girl,” Poovey said. “My band had just broken up in New York, I wasn’t really working, and I just knew I had to come and be with her.”

Though their relationship proved tumultuous, ultimately coming to an end, it was this love that sparked Poovey to write his upcoming solo record You Are My Sunshine, which he hopes to release early next year.

“I wanted to write a great record about love,” Poovey said. “I had it all worked out in my head and it was going to be just happy and beautiful, but

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Raised in Winston-Salem, Tim Poovey began his life in music shortly after his parents bought him his first guitar when he was 13.

“I practiced constantly, played along to records,” he said. “The first band I was in, we were called Screwballs.

We played our first show at Pablo’s, which is closed now.

But then I got into metal and that became my life. I was seeing the things those guys were playing, the technical skill, and I had to try it. Playing in metal bands [is] what really taught me how to play guitar. Everything’s so fast and precise. If you can play metal, you can play just about everything.”

Poovey traveled and moved around North Carolina during high school and just after.

In the early 2000s, Poovey played lead guitar in the postrock band Autopassion, and eventually moved to New York with his bandmates. After only five months of playing there, the band broke up, giving Poovey the freedom to JEREMY BALDERSON Tim Poovey’s second album You Are My Sunshine is set to be released in early 2018. begin writing his own material. gentle, cigarette-smoothed voice, there is a hypnotic element “Songwriting shouldn’t to Poovey’s writing, poetry in his lyrics that enraptured the sound like you’re trying to tell someone something; it audience in the fullness of the moment. shouldn’t be forced. It has to come effortlessly,” Poovey said.

They surrounded the stage, bodies forced to stand along the “I think what I’ve found after playing for so long isn’t simramp and on the platform behind the stage just to see it go ply writing catchy or sellable songs or any of that. I’m most down. interested in timelessness now. Writing songs that are still The songs that will be on his upcoming record show a matumeaningful years from now. The words are the most importrity in Poovey’s musical talents. Similar to that ant part of music to me.” of Neil Young, the structure of his songs blend With a promise of playing a few songs off warm tones with melodies that become stuck his new album, Poovey was among the crowd To learn more about in your head for days afterward. as it roared for Drag Sounds, who opened As Poovey toured around the country, faced Tim Poovey’s music, the July 29 show. With garage-rock tone and death’s grip as he battled with alcoholism and simplicity, Drag Sounds’ captivating perforvisit timpoovey. experienced love and friendship, there has mance brought to mind a blend of the Strokes bandcamp.com always been music. and Velvet Underground. But as if the band “Playing music has been the through-line in themselves were more interested in hearing my life,” Poovey said. “I’ve always been chasing Tim Poovey, they kept their set short, clearing it and always will. Every few months I come to a new point. It’s the stage quickly for the headliner. like a snake shedding its skin. I’ll never be satisfied as a songAnd with a few bottles of Beck’s by his worn-out Vans, writer. I never want to be. I want to keep searching for where Poovey took the stage in his calm, thoughtful manner. music will take me next.”

The din of voices and chatter ceased as he began. All eyes watched with reverence as he performed his art. With his

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he high-ceilinged hallways of an old textile mill — a relic of Greensboro’s industrial past — simultaneously buzzed with chatter about seizing the means of production and basked in quiet contemplation as established and soon-to-be ’zinesters and fans from across the state gathered in Revolution Mill on Sunday afternoon for the city’s second ’Zine (pronounced “zeen”) Fest.

Before event-goers entered a large, bustling room where ’zine-makers, comic artists, writers and other creatives supervised tables with their works, they walked through a long corridor decorated with an enchanting “library” of ’zines suspended in mid-air from strings.

Circulating the space, attendees viewed everything from Atiya Batts’ feminine yet horror-inspired surrealist prints of young women and the cat-filled, personal comics of couple Caroline Smith and Scott Hensell of Monk and Monstieur Comics.

John Neal, a local bookseller, sponsored materials for workshops like Piedmont Print Co-op’s printmaking class and “How-to-Zine” with Tristin Miller, the festival’s organizer. Two pristine glass walls enclosed open-concept meeting spaces where attendees like Nick Hatcher and Rebecca Silber made their first forays into LAUREN BARBER Zachary Janda (left) and Carissa Fast peruse a library of ’zines suspended in midair during ‘Zine Fest in the art of ’zine-making.

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On the road from their hometown Raleigh to Greensboro, Hatcher and Silber seminated in the public, it became decentralized… and now other way to create this but to include resolved to co-found a ’zine; they’ll call it “Genuinely Messy.” the many have the means to produce things. Since it’s a DIY our art.”

Silber, who studies art history at Goucher College in Baltimore, movement, ’zines are an amazing way for anyone who has the Art Asylum perhaps captures one makes a habit of observing people as they observe art. She ability to speak or write to get their words in front of people.” of the event’s major takeaways: that said she’s drawn to the craft because, unlike paintings in a muGerald Ward, who is self-taught, showcased that accessi’zines are an inherently intimate form of seum, “the way people interact with ’zines is far more personbility during two bookbinding workshops: one introducing art, concurrently personal and comal…[and they’re] an interesting, mobile and cheaply-produced three- and five-hole pamphlet stich-binding and the other on munal and that just when it seems our way for art to be translated to our everyday environment.” four-hole Japanese stab-binding. The process requires only perspectives are nowhere to be found, “Anything DIY is really powerful,” Silber continued. “To be a few small materials: paper, cover stock, an awl, scissors, a we might stumble upon pocket-sized able to make things in-and-of yourself and not having to rely blunt needle, thread, two binder clips and a bone folder. Ward assurances that we aren’t alone. so much on buying things” is also a political act, she said. took to the craft as a therapeutic outlet for PTSD after return’Zines are somewhat novel to Hatcher but he said the poliing from a tour of duty. tics of the form captured his interest.

Artists with the Durham Artists Movement — a libera“My understanding is ’zines are initially created as tion-focused art collective that centers marginalized artists mini-magazines that aren’t printable or sellable mainstream, — understand the link between ’zine-making and healing.

Pick of the Week and because of that they lend to alternative politics,” Hatcher Rahima Rahi explained that Art Asylum is the collective’s artsaid. “Capital is largely removed from the equation, so that filled project that provides an alternative process for those Art-o-Mat workshop @ SECCA (Wremoves a lot of power structures that exist in the normal struggling with mental illness to create advance directives S), Aug. 8, 6 p.m. printing and publishing industry.” concerning how they would like to be cared for in the event of Art-o-Mat artist Sharon Hardin Mary Beth Shrom shares Hatcher’s ideological motivation. a crisis. The toolkit takes the basic form of a ’zine but necessiinstructs guests on watercolor paintShe curates ’zines with anarchist and anti-authoritarian tates more collaboration with its owner than most. ing.

Participants create their own perspectives as a co-owner of Firestorm Books, a cooperative“Creating these directives needs to be something that peoArt-o-Mat pieces on blocks with waly-owned radical bookstore in Asheville. ple struggling with mental health feel supported in the protercolors using organic imagery. All “Historically, the means of producing and promoting media cess of creating,” Rahi said. “Even when talking about things materials will be provided.

For more was often in the hands of the few and the powerful,” Shrom that are difficult for us, we can be creative…[and] artists information, visit secca.org. said. “Once copy machines and the internet became disstruggle a lot in the world than we live in. We didn’t know any

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International Soccer Tournament united 25 countries

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y 8 a.m. on July 29, players from the Newcomers School team had arrived at Hester Park an hour ahead of their kickoff against the Montagnard Highlanders. At least three of the Newcomers players — alum of Greensboro’s

by Joel Sronce magnet school for first-year immigrants and refugees — had finished a 9-hour shift at a chicken-processing plant after 1 a.m. that morning.

The same players would have to leave Greensboro’s International Soccer Tournament before their final game of the day, returning to their homes to be ready for the 75-minute carpool to the plant and another 9-hour shift starting at 5 p.m. With not enough substitutes for their final match, their coach Michael Amend donned a jersey and joined them on the field.

Later that morning, Omar Alhamwi remained standing while most of his teammates sat or stretched out, resting at halftime in the shade of young trees at Hester Park. He spoke in Arabic to the other players — most of whom came from Syria, like him, or from Saudi Arabia or Iraq — gesticulating, clapping and motivating. Alhamwi, a former professional player in Syria and Jordan, fled his home country and came to the A Montagnard Highlander charges the ball upfield.

United States alone. At Hester Park nine months later, he was now surrounded by a more familiar community. migrant communities around Greensboro. After estabBut Omar Soccer Stars were trailing the Pumas NC FC lishing the purpose and structure of the tournament, 1-0, and he wasn’t ready to see his team drop their first the organizers brought their idea to Austin Homan, the contest. athletics superintendent for Greensboro’s Parks & Rec The manager for the International Stars of GreensDepartment, as well as to the monthly International boro — a team with a core of African players — rearAdvisory Committee meetings. Rather than become a ranged his weekend work schedule as a truck driver competition based on prize money, the International to ensure his team was prepared accordingly. Many Soccer Tournament endeavored to bring the diversity others did the same. of Greensboro together through sport. [Disclaimer: Sacrifices permitted the tournament, emotions ran The author participated in some of those meetings as high, and the level of competition challenged every an advocate for the tournament and its participants.] player. But the purpose of the event elevated the conEach team played three games on July tests above a conventional tournament.

29, as two matches took place simultaneIn such circumstances, soccer is a part The Sudanese ously from 9 a.m. until about 6 p.m. The of culture, a builder of community; the 4 teams advanced to third-place and American Soccer Top sacrifices were necessary. first-place finals on Sunday morning.

Eight teams representing different Federation will The championship saw the Montagnard countries or continents — Mexico, Sudan, Highlanders face off against the Hawks, hold its national the Montagnard people of Vietnam, an excellent match between teams with Nepal, two African all-stars teams, the tournament in different advantages and styles of play.

Newcomers School and Omar Soccer The unbelievable quickness of the MonGreensboro on Stars — came together for a tournament tagnard players matched the greater size that celebrated the entire refugee and Sept. 2 and 3. and strength of the Hawks, making for a immigrant population of the Triad. Across fair fight. the eight teams, more than 25 different Less than three minutes into the concountries were represented. test, a foul in the Montagnard box led to a successful “Today the winner is going to be the city of Greenspenalty kick and early Hawks goal. The teams battled boro, the international community, and soccer,” through the rest of the half as both benches and the Moussa Issifou told the crowd of players and spectaspectators on the sidelines howled their guidance, tors before the tournament began on July 29. Issifou inspiration and criticism across many languages. is one of the tournament’s organizers and a coach for Near the end of the first half, a beautiful far-post the Hawks, an African team with a nucleus of Togolese shot at breakneck speed tied the game for the Highplayers. landers. The entire squad except the goalie rushed to The International Soccer Tournament — a two-day the scorer downfield, putting their arms around him in competition among eight teams — was a labor of love gratitude and congratulations. One more Highlanders for many soccer organizers of different refugee and im-

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goal at the very end of the first half and another in the second period led to a 3-1 Montagnard victory.

In the ceremony following the championship match, Homan and the organizers thanked the teams, sponsors and spectators. Greensboro City Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter placed first-, second- and thirdplace medals around the necks of the members of the Top 3 teams. As the Sudanese American Soccer Team was honored for third place, several older Sudanese men in the crowd began a syncopated clapping and cheering celebration.

“I hope we continue the efforts we have been doing,” said Narayan Khadka, a soccer organizer for the Nepali community, at the finals ceremony.

Speaking to the teams, sponsors, parks & rec staff and Abuzuaiter, Khadka finished: “I hope you support us all the way.”

As the ceremony ended and everyone began to make their ways home, players took team photos together.

Then groups of players across different teams — many of them strangers, some old friends — asked for photos with one another, extending their arms once again in gratitude and congratulations.

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of waiting, while the ice caps melted and a dozen animals evolved, he produced two black-and-white copies. “That’ll be 50 cents,” he said. I threw a dollar on the counter and we were out the door before he’d finished telling us that he needed exact change.

We legged it back down the street, pausing so security could examine my toothbrush bristles again, and handed over our already sweaty paper tickets.

We’d just settled in our seats in the very top balcony when the lights dimmed and my lungs inflated for the first time in 20 minutes. Needless to say, the show was incredible and it far exceeded my already ridiculous expectations for it.

At intermission, the woman beside me told no one in particular that she hoped Hamilton didn’t die in the second act. “I’ll be heartbroken,” she said, wringing her hands. I didn’t know how to give her the bad news.

But I thought about her the other night, hoping that she was in some other bookstore, carrying a couple of massive biographies around, too.

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forward, listening to a man in a NetJets hat who was either bragging or complaining about how much he’d paid for tickets.

“We bought these seats a year ago,” he said. “It better be worth it.” (That attitude is problematic on so many levels, because no one should ever decide the value of art based on what it cost you to experience it — but what do you expect from a man with a NetJets hat and a pair of pinky rings?)

Anyway, since we were heading straight to the airport after the inevitable standing ovation, we had all of our stuff in our backpacks. That meant there were four-dozen things that the security staff could pull out and slowly scrutinize, like they were appraising my bra for an appearance on “Antiques Roadshow.” We anxiously looked at our watches as a man in a polyester vest shook my makeup bag beside his left ear. When we reached the ticket taker and were just a few feet from finally being in the room where it happened (“The room where it happened, the room where it happened”), he shook his head. “I can’t take e-tickets,” he said.

“You’ll have to go to the ticket office.”

We ran to the opposite wall and I passed my phone to another man in another vest. “Who’s Daphne?” he asked, reading the original purchaser’s name off my tickets.

I shrugged.

“I can’t take this,” he said, as my intestines fell out of my body. “I need a paper ticket.”

“But... I can’t...paper,” I said, making no complete sense.

“There’s a FedEx on the eighth floor of the Marriot Marquis,” he said, pointing toward the door, and toward the hotel, which was at the end of the block. It was 10 minutes until showtime.

“I AM NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT!” I said, grabbing my phone back and running down a sticky, crowded sidewalk toward the hotel. We literally skidded across its slick tile floors, mashing the elevator’s up button with both hands and simultaneously hissing, “Comeoncomeoncomeon,” as each floor lit up on the display.

We ran into the FedEx and I hurriedly shook one of the computer terminals to life, trying to log into my StubHub account as quickly as possible. There was one employee in the store and, either because of or despite the fact that he probably sees this same scenario two-dozen times a day, he was zero percent willing to help. Hamilton and his country might be young, scrappy and hungry, but this dude was none of those things.

“Our internet is down,” he said, slowly stretching out the syllables as the rest of my internal organs shut down.

He told me I could email the tickets to him from my phone and he could print them in the back. I pressed “send” and he moved toward the printer at the same speed that Neptune circles the sun. After 17,000 years

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was at Bookmarks in downtown Winston-Salem a few nights ago, lovingly running my fingers down the spines of freshly shelved hardback books and trying to decide which biography of Alexander Hamilton I wanted to take home with me.

by Jelisa Castrodale The two candidates were War of Two, an in-depth analysis of why he and Aaron Burr hated each other, or the cleverly named Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernaw’s meaty, 832-page biography that is bigger than the average newborn.

I never expected to swoon over one of the founding fathers (although John Jay could rock the s*** out of a receding hairline) but, because I am a woman in her early thirties (shh, just go with it), I am legally required to be obsessed with Hamilton right now. I understand that, if I am ever stopped by a police officer, I will be taken into custody if I am not singing “The Schuyler Sisters” in my car. That’s fine. I’ll own it, because Hamilton the Musical is extraordinary and its composer — playwright and title-character originator Lin-Manuel Miranda — is a once-a-generation genius.

And if you recently heard a high-pitched squealing sound in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, one that caused your oven clock to reset itself and your dogs to throw themselves against the walls, it was me, right after I got tickets to see the show in New York City.

A friend and I were in the city for one night, and we’d all but given up on our chances of scoring seats.

There’s a daily 46-ticket lottery, but we had a better chance of being named White House communications director than we did of winning, despite the fact that we registered and obsessively checked our emails until Gmail itself said, “Give it a rest, nerds.”

As the 2 p.m. matinee approached, we headed toward the Richard Rodgers Theatre just in case, fighting our way through crowds of people standing on Times Square sidewalks, taking pictures of an oversized Olive Garden. We were constantly looking at StubHub and other reselling sites, but most seats were still selling for stacks (and stacks and stacks) of Hamiltons, Jacksons and Franklins. But then the prices started falling — and everyone else with their fingers hovering over their own refresh buttons noticed. It took several attempts, but we somehow found two tickets at just over face value. (And if we had been murdered and thrown into the dumpsters behind the Disney Store, it would be because we told someone that our Hamilton tickets were almost face value.)

After elbowing at least 100 people who were Snapchatting an American Eagle billboard and another 50 who wanted to give us their mix CDs, we made it to the theater. It was 20 minutes before the show, and the line already stretched down the sidewalk and swung around the side of the building. We inched

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UNIVERSITY CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S

South Pacific

in partnership with Triad Stage

Opens Sept. 17, 2017

Rhiannon Giddens UNCG Founders Day

8pm, Oct. 5, 2017 UNCG Auditorium

Photo: Tanya Rosen-Jones

The Juilliard String Quartet 8pm, Oct. 27, 2017 UNCG Auditorium Photo: Simon Powls

Limón Dance Company 8pm, Jan. 19, 2018 UNCG Auditorium

Dancer: Mark Willis

Colson Whitehead

Photo: Beatriz Schiller

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author 125th Anniversary Lecture

8pm, Feb. 8, 2018 School of Music Recital Hall Photo: Madeline Whitehead

plus, introducing the 2017-18 UC/LS Artist-in-Residence:

Lynn Harrell, cellist

8pm, Mar. 17, 2018 School of Music Recital Hall

for more information, visit:

Season subscriptions and single tickets available 8/1!

ucls.uncg.edu

336.272.0160