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Advanced pop culture: A survey of the tree of rock

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They grow up so fast. “I’ve been thinking about it,” I told my teenage son, so close to adulthood and yet still so much by Brian Clarey a boy. “I think it’s time you started listening to Frank Zappa.” I’m prone to declarations like this, especially when I’ve got all the kids in the car and my carefully curated Pandora streams rolling. It is during these times that I like to dispense what I consider to be my most comprehensive pieces of fatherly wisdom: my exhaustive — and, at times, exhausting — knowledge of the Tree of Rock. In our rides to and from school, to sleepovers and birthday parties, from dates and heavy video-game sessions, I’ve demonstrated how what we call “rock” rose up from the blues and then fragmented into all the things we love. We’ve looked at Brian Setzer’s rockabilly and Dick Dale’s surf guitar, and their connection to Johnny Cash. A David Bowie station helped me explain the British Invasion, glam rock, the importance of Queen and Pink Floyd, and how it all morphed into the big-time 1970s rock-and-roll stew that eventually begat punk rock, which in turn informed ska and grunge. This week

I’ll close that circle by playing them a version of a James Booker song performed by the Clash. I’ve explained to them the concept of Southern rock, that without the Birds there would have been no Tom Petty, and how heavy metal crawled from a soup boiled by Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin. After exhaustingly deconstructing the Clapton/Page/Beck matrix, we landed on Jeff Beck for a bit. My oldest, a guitarist, recognized the intricacies of time and key immediately. “You’re named for him,” I told the kid. And that brought us over into Frank Zappa’s realm of weirdness, concocted from fragments of doo-wop, classical structure and lush horn arrangements — when I was in my twenties I saw George Clinton’s horn section riff on Zappa’s hook from “Cosmik Debris,” which may be the only thing I remember from that show except for the guy in the diaper wailing on guitar. This spring and summer, I hope to move backwards from Parliament, down through the Meters, James Booker and all the way back to Congo Square, and then back up again to jazz, soul and the many branches of hip-hop. But it’s true what they say about kids: There’s never enough time.

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So my issue is even though I believe that these are less offensive than the way it used to be we’re still sending a message to the homeless community that we’re singling you out not really for any defensible Constitutional reason; we’re just singling you out because, the truth is, we just don’t like people panhandling in this city. — Brennan Aberle, in the News, page 8

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Minds 4 Minds’ trivia and gourmet burger fundraiser @ the Public GSO, 6:30 p.m. Craft beer and wine complement gourmet sliders and desserts while teams of six vie for prizes in general knowledge trivia. The evening’s proceeds benefit the Mental Health Association in Greensboro and online registration is required. Learn more and register at mhag.org.

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Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk debuts its new album Insides. Concertgoers can also look forward to performances from O’Brother, a heavy, atmospheric rock band from Atlanta, the Bronzed Chorus and psychedelic rock band Winston-Satan. Learn more at theramkat.com.

Murder on the Nile @ Stained Glass Playhouse (W-S), 8 p.m.

The playhouse reveals its interpretation of Agatha Christie’s 1944 murder mystery play which she based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile. Learn more at stainedglassplayhouse.org.

Bounce-house gallery @ Elsewhere Museum (GSO), 6 p.m.

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Concrete Canvas Mural Fest 2018 @ ARTivity on the Green (W-S), 11 a.m.

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Student film screenings @ UNSCA (W-S), 8 p.m

Elsewhere’s spring interns invite the community to view their work inside an inflatable bouncehouse gallery. Local street drum band Cakalak Thunder performs in an effort to raise money along with Southerners on New Ground to bail black mothers and caretakers out of jail. Find the event on Facebook.

The School of the Arts screens all 10 films created by fourth-year students. Find the event on Facebook.

Slanted Shed food truck will be on site for most of this all-day mural art and music festival. Eleven mural and graffiti artists work in real-time as Triad-based bands Foxture, Speak N’ Eye, Mama, Star Wizard, and Hirshe take the stage. Bless These Sounds Under the City from Charlotte and TYNY from Durham also perform live. Find the event on Facebook.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Hanesbrands Theatre (W-S), 2 p.m.

Catch the National Theatre Live screening of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in the Mississippi Delta plantation home of a wealthy cotton tycoon. Learn more at rhodesartscenter.org.

Earth Girls Music & Arts Festival @ Revolution Mill (GSO), 4 p.m.

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Bike (or trike), skate or rollerblade on the Downtown Greenway to kick off the city’s bike month. Local bike shops can tune-up your ride and children can decorate cookies and receive free helmets, helmet fittings, T-shirts and a safety course in the Kids’ Zone. Find the event on Facebook.

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Little Girl Blue @ Aperture Cinema (W-S), 5 p.m.

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Celebrate womanhood, artistic expression and holistic wellness with a motley assembly of eclectic performers and vendors at this all-woman music festival. Festival-goers can expect dance and spoken word performances, tarot card readings and plant-based food vendors. Find the event on eventbrite.com.

The Barrel Hall is officially open this weekend. They’re opening the garage doors, setting up cornhole and welcoming WristBand, Mason Via and Wurlitzer Prize to the stage. Food trucks El Taco Vaquero and Manna Food Truck and Catering Co. bring the grub. Learn more at joymongersbarrelhall.com. Cubana Havana Nights after-party @ SECCA (W-S), 9 p.m. The art museum celebrates its upcoming exhibition, Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain, after its yearly gala. The sounds of West End Mambo fill the main gallery as attendees take advantage of a cash bar and salsa dancing demonstrations. Learn more at secca.org.

The quintet performs a wide variety of music — from folk to classical, ragtime and jazz — that they use in their early-elementary school programs. They are the subject of A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn. Find the event on Facebook.

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Wheels on the Greenway @ Morehead Park (GSO), 2 p.m.

Bolton Quintet @ Centennial Station (HP), 4 p.m.

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Grand opening party @ Joymongers Barrel Hall (W-S), noon

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Anniversary party @ Preyer Brewing Co. (GSO), noon Preyer’s third anniversary promises live music, outdoor games, a bounce house and the release of new cans and bottles. Bandito Burrito food truck takes the first shift with Baconessence food truck following in the evening. Find the event on Facebook.

Discover the evolution of Eunice Waymon into legendary songstress Nina Simone in this theatrical concert experience. Learn more at aperturecinema.com.

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R. Kelly during the “Mr. Show Biz Presents: The Light it Up Tour” in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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With the rise of T’Challa and the fall of Fat Albert, a white guy like me gets just a tiny glimpse of the seismic change that’s affecting the Black Community in these postObama, Trump-mucked years. Bill Cosby, who led a black pop-culture revolution in the 1980s, is out. Kanye has excommunicated himself. Now the BC is administering some Wakanda-style justice to the troubling problem of R. Kelly. If you know anything about R. Kelly, you know that he’s gross and he has more respect for his dogs than his female romantic partners. If you’ve never heard of him, all you need to know is that, with this guy, there is definitely a pee tape. His list of crimes was articulated by the activist group Time’s Up, comprised of powerful black women such as “Grey’s Anatomy” creator Shonda Rimes and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, and published in the Guardian. Among the charges: He married an actual girl, pop singer Aaliyah, who was 15 at the time. And he was indicted on 21 counts of child pornography. And yet, the group points out, he continues to sell millions of records, largely to the BC. Time’s Up condemned Kelly’s label RCA Records, as well as Ticketmaster, Spotify and Apple Music. They also called out the Greensboro Coliseum — by name! — asking them to cancel his upcoming concert on May 11. The letter, which came out on Monday, was released after R. Kelly was taken off the bill of a “Love Jam” concert in Chicago — his hometown — that transpired over the weekend. Kelly’s explanation, delivered via Instagram, blamed “rumors” for the disinvitation; the most current accusation against him is that he’s formed an abusive sex cult of underaged girls, exposed by Buzzfeed last year, among other reports. Should the city-owned Greensboro Coliseum cancel this concert, which could be one of the last for the degenerate star and has suddenly become a hot commodity? Could they? Would they? And does Time’s Up have enough leverage to #MuteRKelly? I’m just a white guy, but I’d put the odds of a canceled Greensboro concert exactly same as I would the totality of the Black Community abandoning R. Kelly. This ain’t Wakanda.

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Rebecca Green by Lauren Barber

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What drew you to this project? I loved the story — [gun control] is such a hot topic now but it wasn’t in 2010. [The story] was always about the boys’ journey and how they felt alienated, but the issue of guns has become more in the forefront. Brett [Haley] and I went to the same school but not at the same time…. We were connected through alumni and I really loved it and started mentoring him… because he didn’t work with a producer on his first film.

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Rebecca Green is producer of And Then I Go, a dark, coming-of-age drama about a boy named Edwin, friendship, rebellion and the search for belonging. Fellow UNCSA graduate Brett Haley wrote the film’s script as an adaptation of Jim Shepard’s novel Project X. View the film On Demand or Digital HD.

What was the biggest challenge in making the film? Combination of the challenge of a darker subject matter, but you also have a movie where kids are the lead actors. Plus, arthouse dramas are always harder. Back when we started, nobody was interested — nobody. People at the time wanted to stay away from the issue rather than confront it. As more and more shootings were happening, though, more people were interested.

What advice do you have for film students about to graduate? Patience. There were films I made before the films people know of; it doesn’t happen right away for most people. Be patient, determined and work really hard. It’s not an easy profession to go after and a lot of people are trying to do it so the volume of competition is much bigger these days.

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What is it like to bring a film you produced to RiverRun? It’s rewarding and helps give you a grasp of how far you’ve come. To share the film with audiences and to do it in a place where you learned how to do it all is amazing.

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What do you want people to think about when they are leaving the theater? If you can leave the theater and think about the kids in your life with a little more attention and dig a little deeper with them and really get to know them — not just brush off their experiences because they’re kids — that is successful to me. For me, that’s what this movie is about. I hope that people are inspired to either donate to March for our Lives or Moms Demand Action… as they see fit.

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Greensboro’s anti-panhandling ordinance comes under legal fire by Jordan Green A number of people who panhandle in Greensboro are expected to sign on as parties to a lawsuit seeking an injunction against Greensboro’s new aggressive solicitation ordinance.

Homeless advocates let out a cheer after Greensboro City Council repealed the city’s panhandling ordinance based on City Attorney Tom Carruthers’ advice that it was unconstitutional. Twentyfive minutes later they left council chambers significantly more subdued, after that same council voted 6-3 to replace the old ordinance with a new one aimed at curbing aggressive solicitation. Members of the newly formed Homeless Union of Greensboro held a conference call on Tuesday with a battery of lawyers, including representation from the National Law Center on Homeless & Poverty to discuss filing an injunction to suspend the new ordinance. Carruthers told members of city council before their April 24 vote to approve a replacement ordinance that in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, “You cannot have a standalone panhandling ordinance.” He added, “That would be subject to strict scrutiny. It would likely be one that would not survive legal challenge.” Gone is the old requirement that panhandlers undergo a criminal background check. Gone is the requirement that they carry a license. The new ordinance adopted by city council treats panhandling as a form of solicitation, alongside five other distinct categories: “peddling,” “commercial soliciting,” “itinerant merchanting,” “street performing” and “mobile food vending.” The new ordinance includes several activities that seem most likely to apply to poor people requesting monetary assistance. They include specific conduct like intentionally touching, blocking a sidewalk, repeated solicitation, soliciting someone waiting in line at a building and soliciting within 20 feet of an ATM. Another measure describes a type of unlawful conduct that’s potentially more subjective: “Approaching or speaking to someone in such a manner or voice including not limited to using profane or

Eddie Brewer (in red shirt) of the Homeless Union of Greensboro and organizer Marcus Hyde (left) speak during a meeting at the Greensboro Workers Center on Monday.

abusive language as would cause a reasonable person to fear imminent bodily harm or the commission of a criminal act upon his or her person, or upon property in his or her immediate possession, or otherwise be intimidated into giving money or other things of value.” Richard Vaught, who has been homeless for two and a half months, worried aloud after a meeting of the Homeless Union on Monday that a frivolous citizen complaint could easily turn into a misdemeanor.

“Nine out of 10 times they’ll write that ticket,” Vaught said. “You get a nice-looking guy downtown and you get someone who doesn’t look nice and has a criminal record, who do you think they’re going to believe?” Vaught has his reasons for concern about how the Greensboro police will enforce the ordinance. He has a pending complaint filed with the department’s internal affairs division after he says an officer seized his panhandling license after he was caught asking for money in

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a traffic median. As the Homeless Union crafts a legal strategy to defeat the new aggressive solicitation ordinance, city council’s legislative front is already cracking. Councilwoman Sharon Hightower, who voted with the majority on April 24 in favor of the ordinance, told her colleagues on Tuesday she will make a motion on May 15 to reconsider the vote. Hightower said at the time she took the vote on April 24 she had not had the opportunity to talk with people expe-

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lenged for discrimination against people designed to adduce evidence needed in who panhandle.” developing panhandling policies.” Cities, Carruthers said the city’s legal staff she added, need “to sort out real interconsulted with Judith Wegner, a retired ests, not just positions.” dean at the University of North Caro“That means an initial focus needs to lina Law School, while drafting the new be on ‘what conduct’ rather than ‘who,’” ordinance. Carruthers described Wegner she added. “‘What conduct’ can include as “one of the leading national experts” creating objectively determined danon the matter. ger, engaging in intimidation/threats, Carruthers’ comments to city council interfering with reasonable expectations suggested the new solicitation rubric of privacy, interfering with access by is an attempt to stay ahead of constiothers who are navigating within contutional challenges by striking out for gested public spaces, creating objectively uncharted legal territory. determined risk of traffic accidents or Speaking from the floor before the exacerbation of traffic congestion.” vote, Marcus Hyde, a community While city council members contemorganizer who works with the Homeplate the idea of hosting community less Union, warned that various courts dialogues to collect evidence to support have found that buffer zones around the need for regulation, the Homeless ATMs and restrictions on Union is undertaking a repeated solicitation are survey to compile data ‘I do not want to be, on people’s experience unconstitutional. Kennedy asked Carruthers to being cited and arrested and I will not be a explain how Greensboro’s for activity associated with proponent of disnew ordinance is differhomelessness, including ent. panhandling and sleepenfranchisement “Most of the challenges ing in vehicles, in hopes and injustice.’ — have been to ordinances of marshalling their own Sharon Hightower evidence to bring to bear directed to unique conduct: panhandling,” in a potential court chalCarruthers said. “This lenge. new format of regulation of solicitation Brennan Aberle, a public defender is a developing body of law that will who has long challenged the city’s need to be vetted. And it is being treatment of panhandlers, warned city recognized by legal scholars that we are council on April 24 that its new ordifollowing their reasoning. This wasn’t a nance is at risk of being struck down by haphazard ordinance that we created. the courts, and city taxpayers could wind This is in conformity with former Dean up paying the ACLU’s attorney fees. Judith Wegner’s representation.” “My issue looking through this new Wegner gave a presentation entitled panhandling ordinance is a lot of these “Panhandling Regulation After Reed” at things are just crimes,” Aberle said. “Agthe Municipal Attorneys Winter Confergressive behavior is assault. There is all ence at the UNC School of Government kinds of assaults. There’s communicating in Chapel Hill in March 2017, and prothreats. If you approach someone asking vided a model ordinance on soliciting. for money using intimidating threats Wegner warned in a written brief or communicating language, that’s just that there is “a risk that in our currobbery. There is a crime already for rently divided society, anti-panhandling that. So my issue is even though I believe ordinances are really aimed at pushing that these are less offensive than the poor and homeless people out of sight way it used to be we’re still sending a of the public, or criminalizing the status message to the homeless community that of being poor or homeless. Dislike of we’re singling you out not really for any panhandling and panhandlers is not the defensible Constitutional reason; we’re kind of justification courts will uphold as just singling you out because, the truth is, the undergirding of panhandling regulawe just don’t like people panhandling in tions.” this city.” Wegner recommended a guide created by the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing to facilitate “community dialogues

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riencing homelessness who would be affected by the ordinance. “No matter how much research you do, you still need to engage the people it affects — the stakeholders that it impacts,” Hightower said. “And so I don’t want this ordinance to have any unintended consequences. I do not want to be, and I will not be a proponent of disenfranchisement and injustice. So I will be bringing that ordinance back up to change my vote on the aggressive panhandling ordinance.” Hightower’s switch means opponents of the ordinance need to persuade one additional council member to come over to their side to overturn the measure. Chief Wayne Scott confirmed that the police do exercise broad discretion when it comes to panhandling. Scott told city council on April 24 that the police received 721 citizen-initiated calls complaining about solicitation in 2017. Officers were only able to justify criminal citation or arrest for violating the recently mothballed panhandling statute in only 22 instances. Whether the city’s new aggressive solicitation ordinance adheres to the First Amendment or not likely hinges on whether the courts view it as a contentbased restriction. If so, the courts would apply a principle called “strict scrutiny,” which would require the city to show that the ordinance is narrowly tailored to meet a compelling public interest. “The first thing this ordinance is intended to do is to protect personal safety,” Carruthers told city council. “It doesn’t regulate the content of the ask; it is really regulating the ask that is also accompanied with behavior. And it’s a crucial distinction.” Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson, one of three council members who opposed the measure, said that notwithstanding her colleagues’ assurances that the ordinance regulates all types of solicitors, it’s reasonable for panhandlers to presume the city is targeting them directly. Councilwoman Goldie Wells went even further, asserting that the city is “discriminating” by passing the ordinance. Councilwoman Michelle Kennedy, who voted alongside Johnson and Wells to oppose the ordinance, added, “What we’re doing is lumping panhandling in with all other types of solicitation as a way to protect ourselves from being chal-

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Trail through Innovation Quarter mimics New York’s High Line

Three women stroll across the Third Street Bridge on the Long Branch Trail through the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter on Tuesday.

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The Long Branch Trail, which opened last month in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, follows the path of a discontinued rail line.

The RJ Reynolds Building provided the iconic art-deco model for the larger Empire State Building, so it’s only fair that Winston-Salem is stealing the High Line concept — a linear public park made from a reclaimed raised railbed — from New York City. The Long Branch Trail, which spans the 1.7-mile length of Wake Forest Innovation Quarter from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at the north end to Rams Drive in the south, officially opened last month on a discontinued Norfolk-Southern rail line. “On a Winston-Salem scale, this is our version of [the High Line],” said Graydon Pleasants, head of real estate development for the Innovation Quarter.

The Long Branch Trail, named after The paved multi-use trail uses the a vanished African-American neighoriginal rail bridges over Third, Fourth, borhood, runs along the back side of a Fifth and Seventh streets, providing a string of buildings, part of the historic grade separation above the street grid Reynolds tobacco works complex, that that gives strollers, runners and cyclists are now occupied by tech workers and a panoramic view of the downtown graduate students. As the trail runs past skyline. The original rail bridges, one Inmar, 525@Vine, of which dates back Wake Forest University to 1916, still accomKarla Barnes and Mike School of Medicine modate a single rail and Piedmont Leaf line that runs parallel Faurote, of Inmar, conLofts, it has the feel of to the trail from Third duct “meeting walks” a railway platform. Street to 27th Street. True to its purpose, Pleasants said the on the Long Branch the Long Branch Trail NC Department of Trail. connects the InnovaTransportation Rail tion Quarter to the city Division purchased at large. A monument at the northern the rail corridor from Norfolk-Southern, terminus at Martin Luther King Jr. and it could potentially serve as a future Drive announces the path at the traillight-rail or trolley line. head adjacent to the Downtown Health “They’ve been good partners to us,” Plaza, a facility that provides services to he said.

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people from across the city. And at the south end of the trail at Rams Drive, a connector trail developed by the NC Department of Transportation links the Long Branch Trail to Salem Lake Trail. The Long Branch Trail also charts a path through the largely undeveloped south district of the Innovation Quarter, an expanse of fields and ponds wedged between North Patterson Avenue and Highway 52, with the Center for Design Innovation planting an outpost on Rams Drive. The Long Branch Trail will eventually connect to a planned multiuse path running along Business 40 to Baptist Hospital. Karla Barnes and Mike Faurote, who work together in Inmar’s corporate communications division, frequently use the trail for what Barnes calls “meeting walks.” “It clears your head,” Faurote said.

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“It gives to the city another perspective,” Barnes added. “It brings life.” Inmar, a data analytics company that helps optimize operations involving coupons, prescriptions and product returns, maintains a bike rack for its employees. “In the time it takes for lunch, you can bike to Salem Lake and back,” Faurote said. Although the Long Branch Trail is open to the public as part of a pedestrian network that traverses the city, it’s maintained by the Innovation Quarter. Pleasants said the trail was built with funds from multiple sources, including state and federal government, the city of Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University and Wexford Science & Technology, the company that developed the Innovation Quarter. The trail boasts a string of benches, platforms, wide stretches and grassy shoulders that invite social gatherings, post-run stretch-downs and potentially even yoga sessions. Those amenities are inspiring staff to step up their programming, according to a story published on the Innovation Quarter’s storytelling platform, The Hub. “We’re really thinking about programming more holistically,” said Lindsey Schwab, director of community relations for the Innovation Quarter. “It is

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If we’re considering the merits, like they might work. They would do things like, ‘We’ll put this shouldn’t even be a debate. a great magnet program here. Or we are going to really But because we’re talking about focus on literacy. We’re going to start an early college high education — a public good tightly school, which kids would earn college credit in high school. linked to social status — it will be We’re going to improve teacher quality. We’re going to a brutal and merciless debate, rife replace the principal. More testing.’” with scare tactics and misinformaThe second installment of Choice at a Cost ends with a tion. The societal fears that drive quote from Superintendent Beverly Emory about the need by Jordan Green politics around education, housing “to catch students up more quickly” to close the achieveand social services generally pivot on race, religion, immiment gap. “Unless we’re going to return to busing kids all gration status and class. When it comes to public education over,” Emory added, “and I don’t think anybody wants that.” in Forsyth County, the battle lines of defending privilege Busing. It sounds like a dirty word. are drawn mostly along lines of race and class. It evokes ugly memories of white resistance to desegYes, I’m talking about the School Choice assignment regation — most vividly, perhaps, when white parents and plan implemented by Winston-Salem/Forsyth County their children pelted a bus carrying black children to a Schools in 1995. The five candidates for the two open seats desegregated high school with bricks. on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board in Hannah-Jones, a recipient of the 2017 MacArthur urban District 1 unanimously favor ending School Choice “genius grant,” started looking into the data to understand — essentially proposing a second try at the experiment in what might actually be effective in closing the achievement desegregation that held sway from the early gap. 1970s through the mid-1990s. During that “And I find this one thing that really The typical soluperiod, the district bused students across worked, that cut the achievement gap the county so that each school roughly between black and white students by half,” tions will sound mirrored the demographic makeup of the Hannah-Jones told “This American Life” county as a whole. In contrast to the agenda numbingly fahost Ira Glass in 2015. “But it’s the one thing of the District 1 candidates, the four incumthat we are not really talking about, and that miliar to anyone bents and one challenger in the race for very few places are doing anymore.” who’s paid much suburban District 2 either currently support What was it? You got it: integration. School Choice or have historically backed Predictably, the trend lines in Forsyth attention to public the assignment plan. County haven’t budged since 2014, when education. Two pieces of solid journalism from the the Journal challenged education leaders to past five years still hold potent insights reconsider School Choice. for consideration of the future of public Last year, the state announced that eight education in Forsyth County. The Winston-Salem Journal’s elementary schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Choice at a Cost series, published in January 2014, exschool system — the highest of any county in the state — plained why the district’s suburban schools are overcrowded were eligible for takeover by a statewide charter school while urban schools have become underpopulated. system based on low test scores. (In comparison, Durham “Schools in the best neighborhoods and with the best County has five and Guilford County has three.) test scores become overcrowded while others start to Lest anyone think that schools will become more racially wither,” reporter Arika Herron wrote. “Student bodies now and socioeconomically balance based on the changing mirror the notoriously homogenous racial makeup of the demographics of the neighborhoods from which they draw neighborhoods that schools pull their students from.” In their students, consider the findings of a recent study by other words, parents with the resources and motivation the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center. The study found in poor neighborhoods send their children to schools in that the number of Forsyth County residents in neighboroutlying areas with higher test scores, leaving behind the hoods with concentrated poverty more than tripled from students with the highest needs and most disadvantages in 2000 to 2016. The study found that 33,140 Forsyth County urban schools. As reported by the Journal in 2014, of the 15 residents, or 9.1 percent, live in neighborhoods where more elementary schools that saw declines in reading scores on than 40 percent of people are below the federal poverty end-of-grade tests between 1997 and 2012, all but one also line. (For the record, Guilford County has the highest num“became less diverse and more concentrated with lowber of people who live in neighborhoods with concentrated income students.” poverty — 42,056, or 8.3 percent of the overall population.) The typical solutions proposed to address the achieveForsyth County has the highest number of neighborhoods ment gap will sound numbingly familiar to anyone who’s with concentrated poverty — 14 — in the state. paid much attention to public education. Forsyth County is deeply divided (Guilford only slightly Nikole Hannah-Jones, who covered Durham Public less so). 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Lost in the arbitration between was crafted specifically to disenfranGreensboro City Councilmembers and chise panhandlers but uses carefully City Attorney Tom Carruthers at last worded language and legal definitions to week’s meeting was the fundamental achieve the means without itself violatquestion at hand: How can we get rid of ing the law. all these downtown panhandlers without It’s the same tactic state Republicans violating their Constitutional rights? used to draw gerrymanders along racial Let’s not forget that the whole thing lines — eventually thrown out in court — began when Carruthers informed or that President Trump employed in his council that the current ordinance, which attempted Muslim ban. And it’s ironic required city panhandlers to obtain that the ordinance was supported by permits for the purpose, with conditions some of the same councilmembers who that included a valid driver’s license and railed against the Republicans in the a clean criminal record. General Assembly for their actions. Carruthers told counSo now pancil: “You cannot have a handling — along standalone panhandling with tap dancing, Make no mistake: ordinance.” He added, sisters with socks “That would be subject and selling falafel This ordinance was to strict scrutiny. It from a truck — are crafted specifically would likely be one that regulated by the would not survive legal city of Greensboro. to disenfranchise challenge.” Problem solved? Of poor people. And while we’re at it, course not. let’s remind everybody And was there that panhandling is not even a problem to a crime — it is, in fact, begin with? protected speech, falling under what the Greensboro Police Chief Wayne US Supreme Court considers “charitable Scott told council at that meeting his solicitations.” department had received 721 citizenSo council engaged in a game of reinitiated calls about solicitation. Just 22 peal and replace, returning from closed of them resulted in arrest. session with a new ordinance that lumps Panhandling has been around as long panhandling with “peddling,” “commeras there has been currency. And it is not cial soliciting,” “itinerant merchanting,” a crime — it is, in fact, a constant pres“street performing” and “mobile food ence in every American city that cannot vending,” all of which are now subject to be legislated away no matter what regulation, according to the ordinance, Greensboro City Council says. which passed 6-3. Make no mistake: This ordinance

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CULTURE Wicked plants at the Greensboro Science Center

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Visitors first enter “Nightshade Manor,” a room dedicated to a family of 60 species known for branched hairs and thorns, classified as nightshades because of the amnesia-like state some of the plants cause when ingested or otherwise absorbed.

risly realities of the natural world aren’t exactly hidden at the Greensboro Science Center but something downright sinister awaits guests in the museum wing’s newest exhibit, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities. It’s no shock to most that some plants carry toxic potential, but Wicked Plants exposes the seemingly innocent species — the ones we welcome into our homes. And that’s at least partly why the exhibit is set up in a labyrinth of dimly lit, Victorian-styled rooms, which properly amps up the space’s eerie subtext. Visitors first enter “Nightshade Manor,” a room dedicated to a family

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of 60 species known for branched hairs and thorns, clasthe warning signals. It would be easy to spend upwards of sified as nightshades because of the amnesia-like state two hours moseying about, experiencing that innate husome of the plants cause when ingested or otherwise man reverence for and fear of nature. absorbed. Tobacco is among them — nicotine is technically Wicked Plants weaves history, linguistics, chemistry, a neurotoxin, much to the detriment of those generations botany and medicine together for a holistic and, frankly, back who chewed the old cash crop raw only to experience charming education on the subject — there’s even a room cramps, difficulty breathing, seidedicated to psychedelic subzures and, eventually, death. stances, as good for learning as The multiplicity of species for trading experiences. Many Learn more at greensboroscience.org would overwhelm if not for stops stories on the wall harken back at interactive displays that slow to the Romans or further, like down the pace with accessible their experimentation with text to read, knobs to push and henbane for numbing people unpull, and recordings for listening. Whether or not you enjoy dergoing surgery. Yellowed, 19th Century newspaper stories the house-of-horrors trope, inherent value exists in the speak to the popular culture of the time, and the making introduction to basic theories of biological sciences, like of urban legends appear in several spaces, especially in coevolution; some plants and animals evolved ways of the case of aristocratic Anglo women, once known to use warning other creatures they are poisonous, and peering the toxic belladonna in eye drops to dilate their pupils to into a thoroughly vintage cabinet will walk viewers through appear more seductive. (Rumors that the wives of Roman

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Toxic potions find a home in Victorian-era cabinetry throughout the exhibit.

Part of the exhibit involves solving mysteries, like what caused the death of this man.

as Markov struggled to speak and vomited blood for hours before dying in the hospital. Nettles’ lethality doesn’t require human intervention, though — its fine hairs act as hypodermic needles to secrete muscle toxins and acids under the skin, including formic acid, an element of ant and bee venom. Their family name, urticaceae, derives from urticarial, the medical term for intense, painful hives. The onslaught of unnerving side effects is far more

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grotesque than the laundry list for most contemporary prescription medication: delirium unto death, excruciating blisters and boils or, the worst, de facto mummification, which could result from imbibing a poisonous lacquer tea made of Urushi tree sap. Though the Victorian-era feel allows some psychological distancing, Wicked Plants reminds us that nature provided the first medicine. And also, our first poisons.

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Emperor Augustus and Claudius wielded the toxic herb as murder weapons still circulate.) Another unconfirmed — and unlikely — murder weapon is situated in a glass case toward the back left of the exhibit: a tan-colored umbrella allegedly employed to poke the thigh of Georgi Markov, a journalist and defector from communist Bulgaria in 1978, injecting ricin into his bloodstream. The poison, derived from castor bean plants and a major plot point in the show “Breaking Bad,” provoked a fever

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CULTURE 5 years in, Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk finds a new groove by Spencer KM Brown

t’s rare for a debut album to arrive almost five years after a band’s start. Yet, Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk’s latest record Insides has arrived perfectly on time. With only five tracks, Insides clocks in at just over 36 minutes from start to finish, with every second of music perfectly in place. “Not Like the Other Kind,” the opening track, sets the stage for the four songs that follow. Holding true to the dark, eerily melodic landscape of sound the band has come to master, the music begins with a bright, seemingly DANIEL FERGUSO The Dark Tongue Prophets joyful progression. Then, it drops. Minor a dreamy, shoegaze-y side of the band. With quick breaks of Gardner, it was then that Leonard felt the band’s lineup was chords strum through a simple melody, thundering syncopated hits, “Imagination” flows as smoothly, complete. with fat thumps of booming drums yet dreamily, as drifting thoughts. Such turns of sound are “We definitely took the long way around,” Leonard said, laying down the groundwork. Instantly, something that Leonard has been striving for in his music. laughing about the four-month recording process. “As layer crawls on top of layer of sound, un“I want to put my twist on songwriting,” Leonard said. “I try songwriters, we have this idea or vision of a unified record. til, like a sunrise, the track bursts forth to write from deep inside me, so there’s definitely a certain I’ve been trying to do that for a while. And it happened with with a heavy drone. “Not Like the Other ebb and flow to what we write. I wouldn’t have it any other this record. I hope people listen to the whole thing, not just Kind” blends two contrasting ideas — way.” individual songs.” one of light, playfulness, with heavy, “Imagination” moves from drifting, sweeping melodies to a Insides was recorded by Draughon and Gardner, with the modulated undertones that emanate in heavy, technically precise break towards the song’s final notes, final mastering by Matt Tuttle. It dropped digitally on the giant sweeping strokes. Among layers of giving the feeling a slalom ride along a mountain range. band’s website on April 26, but the official album release will guitars, keyboards and percussion, the The heart of the album arbe on Friday at the Ramkat track carries a deeper meaning for lead rives with the track “Man of in Winston-Salem. singer and songwriter Jacob Leonard. the People.” Leonard’s soft The beauty of the record is “I have problems with genres,” Leonvoice finds full breath here, that, though it took Leonard To listen to Insides or purchase the album, visit ard said. “I hate putting labels on things reminiscent of Neil Young several years to arrive here, or boxing them in. And that’s where darkprophettonguelessmonk.bandcamp.com, blended with Father John Insides is fully realized and ‘Not Like the Other Kind’ comes from. or visit theramkat.com to purchase tickets to Misty. “Man of the People” masterfully written album. It’s kind of a statement, in my mind, of the album release show. rests steady, yet drives with It is the sort of album that individuality. Genres, when it comes to a clean melody, all the while arrives from the soul of the music, I just hate it.” lurking behind each verse are artist and gives light to what Where one song might sound fitting slow swells of darker chords. has been forming inside. For many musicians there is often to a specific genre, such as the experiOn their own, each song seems like a contrast to the one this idea of chasing after some perfect thing, but one that will mental, psychedelic tones of “Not Like before it or the one that follows, but Dark Prophet’s vision is never be caught. And though Insides is a strong foot forward the Other Kind,” Dark Prophet shifts only realized with the album as a whole. for the band, Leonard never wishes to stop the chase. the flow and progression, revealing the Dark Prophet started as a solo endeavor by Leonard, with “These songs showed our personality at the time,” Leonard other side of the same coin as the record “Flower of Life,” a six-song EP he recorded himself. Leonard said. “This record is a statement of a moment in time. The smoothly drifts into “Imagination,” the added drummer Dane Walters to the lineup, recording another next one might have a lullaby with only acoustic guitar on. second track. short single in 2015. Leonard then recorded his 22-track album It could be anything. But we will always be progressing and As guitars switch to clean distortion, The Change in 2016 while on board a boat travelling across the changing when it comes to the next one. I think that’s neceslofty melodies linger atop a steady backAtlantic Ocean. But with the addition of guitarist and bassist sary in our songwriting.” beat, and Leonard’s airy voice brings out Jared Draughon of Must Be the Holy Ghost and guitarist Caleb

CULTURE How (and why) to charcuterie in the Triad

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here’s meat, of course: smoked and sliced and sausaged and spiraled. And then there’s cheese, as many kinds as can fit on the plate. Something briny. Something sweet. And maybe some rustic crackers or bread to give the whole thing context. What else do you need? The charcuterie is the feast of kings, the insider’s favorite, the giver of gout, a literal sampling of the finest meats and cheeses in the house, and whatever else the chef wants to throw in, generally served on a board or platter, meant to be shared but it’s okay to order one on your own.

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In Winston-Salem, the downtown Katherine Brasserie holds to the French tradition with its fromage/charcuterie menu. You’ve got to choose between cheese and meat here — the cheese plate holds four different cheeses with a few sweet spreads and bread, while the current Butcher Block is built from saucisson sec (sausage), duck rillettes (sort of like pâté) and Austrian speck (very fancy ham). There’s also a traditional pâté grand-mère plate and a salmon rillette. Vintage Sofa Bar on Burke Street serves a more casual charcuterie that changes daily but often includes house-cured olives and homemade beef jerky that was made in a food truck. And on the west side of Fourth Street, Quanto Basta breaks the charcuterie concept down into the Salumi — with speck, soppresatta (kind of a rustic salami), capicola (a cured ham, this is what Italians on television are referring to when they say “gabbagool”), and mortadella (a pork salami with cubes of fat in it, and much better than it sounds). The cheese plate enjoins the pantheon of Italian cheeses: mozzarella, pecorino, gorgonzola and parmigiana. Sure, it’s the Mediterranean version, but it’s still charcuterie.

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Like all things of culinary importance, charcuterie is French in origin, translating into “cooked meat,” but the Italians have their version, antipasto, and the Germans do it with sausage and mustard. Even Japanese sashimi has elements of the charcuterie plate, minus the “cooked part.” Sure, it sounds fancy, but charcuterie is nothing to be intimidated by. Technically speaking, an Oscar Mayer Lunchable is charcuterie, though we can do much better than that. In the Triad, charcuterie has come to mean a meat and cheese sampler, sometimes ordered early on for the table or as an appetizer, sometimes as an entrée

for a discriminating diner and sometimes alone at the bar. It’s never a bad idea. And these are the places that do it best. White and Wood took over the former Fincastle’s space on South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro with a refined aesthetic. Their curated, rotating charcuterie selection pulls cheeses from around the world; meats often include selections like duck or wild-boar prosciutto and always an array of imported salamis. The plates are customizable and available in different sizes, or let the chef put something together. On the north side of town, Gia has been serving up a charcuterie since its inception. The Smoke & Salt plate changes daily inside the swanky lounge, with items like pickled vegetables and truffled meats. They even have gluten-free crackers. Natty Greene’s Kitchen + Market cures all the meats in house, down to the salami and prosciutto made from local beef and pork. It’s all the same stuff they sell in the market alongside the restaurant. Four Flocks & Larder’s charcuterie plate doesn’t change every day, but it gets fancy with cured quail egg yolk and red-wine mustard. The current incarnation includes imported salami and duck prosciutto.

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